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>The danger to killing online advertising is that it creates a world where the only people who can afford to publish are those with other interests - plutocrats, politicians, churches - and who will inevitably bankroll news only to further political ends.

You say that as if server space is super expensive, but it isn't, certainly not compared to other forms of media. It's entirely possible to publish to the web without being an elite, people and businesses did it for years before advertising on the web became a thing.
He is a schizo autistic programmer who is convinced God told him to make an OS, so he is working on it constantly for 15 years, doing nothing else (it kind of resembles Noah's Ark). He used to livestream regularly on Youtube and became popular on technology boards on 4chan, 8chan etc., for his rants about God and "CIA niggers" and generally "being a living meme". Some people there genuinely like him and even bought him that drum set he wanted, but others (given *chans reputation) just liked to screw with him to induce more rants. But he is really suffering from mental illness and should got professional treatment.
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'natural' usually comes with fiber, which makes it's digestion completely different.
I think this lawsuit is a sign that Google's management miscalculated. The last thing they wanted was for this issue to drag on. They don't want to be on the front lines of the culture war. They want to build great things and make piles of money.
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This can be true, since KGB has a track record of creating underground organizations to be able to lead and control anti-soviet movements.
For example, in 1921 they created "Monarchical Organization of Russia" to gather all anti-soviet agents around it and hence were able to control all European communist opposition at that time.

This is described in a book "KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev" by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Gordievsky, a former KGB officer.
They also disproportionately benefit the poor. The poor are disproportionately affected by obesity related diseases.

https://theconversation.com/rejection-of-sugar-tax-is-based-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
It follows the same design ideas of Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, Mesa/Cedar, Lillith, Oberon, JavaOS, ....

The idea being that the isolation can be achieved via the language type system, instead of extra hardware.
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Sin taxes taxed proportionately based on income, although impractical, would help.

Semi-related: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
This was 3 months ago. Apparently he lives happy in his van.
It's absolutely needed in the sense that «without it the web wouldn't exist», something else would be there, with the same security issues or worse.

Remember when the web allowed no video playback ? Flash was everywhere ! And Flash was non-standard and closed-source, maintained by a single company without competition. The current state of the web is a massive improvement compared to what it was 10 years ago, especially on the security side.

If you want to create a webmail (or any other web platform) that needs no JavaScript, go ahead. I doubt you'll be successful competing against people using JavaScript, but if the demand for a JavaScript-free web experience is big enough, you could live happily in that niche.
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It could have a lot to do with CEO's doing all sorts of similar things while getting away scott-free.
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Key idea: it's possible to design a "patch" (a small portion of an image) that is extremely salient to a neural network, which can fool the network into misclassifying the overall larger image. This "patch" can be printed out as a real-life sticker. See Figure 1 on page 2.
> The ad-based web economy had produced the current publishing dystopia in the first place and prevents the development of a sane business model.

Ah, the 'better business model' argument! A curious specimen, men often speak its name, but rarely agree how it looks or its habitat. Is it a donation model? Wait, no, that doesn't work. A paywall? Ah, but you want content for free. Philanthropist support? Oh, you don't like the conflict of interest. Micropayments? I suppose you have some cunning way of mitigating the transaction costs, without computationally expensive solutions like bitcoin.

Here's my proposition: post a model that is known to work, known to scale, for general purpose content, and you will have a startup on your hands. Otherwise - I ask you to withdraw your comment.
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Gasoline tax is based on quantity in the USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_Sta...

It makes sense because gas usage is very correlated with road wear, so people who drive heavier vehicles pay a proportionate share of the road maintenance costs.
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This. You bet that Disney will do everything it can (and maybe some illegal crap as well) to convince everyone Mickey needs to be protected for the next gazillion years.
AFAIK, Tarn and Zach Adams also (Dwarf Fortress).
> These taxes currently only drive purchases out of your jurisdiction

Or you can use it as an employment generation exercise by setting up checkpoints at state borders to avoid import from other states, applying a higher tax on fuel locally and making it illegal to bring more fuel into the state than you go out with. A few states in India have successfully implemented the first part for alcohol for instance, and I guess other countries should have the same. Even US has differing gun laws across states, so whatever mechanism is used to enforce those can be extended to enforce this
It’s nice not having to deal with languages other than English.

In Portuguese, which I’ve worked with, you develop other tricks, like replacing à, á, â or ã with a. But, in order to do this, you still need to find out the encoding used before you can create the “ASCII” equivalent.

Fun trivia: coco means coconut; cocô means poo. So, by replacing ô with o, you’re guaranteed a chuckle at some stage.
I’d like to leave this here: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/08/22/damore-jackass

“Now, unleashed from any pretense of evenhandedness or detachment, we get a succinct summary of his argument: the notion that women should, based on merit and talent, constitute a larger percentage of the tech industry is like believing in Santa Claus. A fantasy.

Fuck this guy”

Damore is just an asshole. Fuck that guy.
> stengraphy

steganography
Nobody saw that cumming! >_<
> people and businesses did it for years

The people were hobbyists and the businesses had other projects.

Relying on "interested members of the public" for news is how people like Alex Jones get started.
This is incredibly sad. :(

I haven't got any money to help and I don't even know where I would put it to be helpful.
> but once it got used for presentation too

So everything after HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866)? The STYLE and FONT elements were added in HTML 3.2, but when tables were added to HTML 2 in RFC 1942 they already included presentational attributes. Heck, RFC 1866 already included the IMG element with an ALIGN attribute, as well as typographic elements like HR, BR, B, I and TT (for monospace text).

It sounds like you're being nostalgic about a time that never was, especially for XHTML (which the Semantic Web crowd loves to misremember as being 100% about semantics and not just a hamfisted attempt to make HTML compatible with the W3C's other XML formats).
It wasn't a default option (you were asked to enter into a text field your number of older brothers, older sisters, younger brothers, younger sisters).

He can't cross-reference by gender very well because his audience is overwhelmingly male, to the point where there's probably not a lot of statistical significance in the female audience.

But yes, I think that these data are very open to an "impossibly hungry judges" critique. If birth order effects were so very visible and so very strong, why haven't we noticed them before?
Take my vote for Timecrimes.

Another little movie that I liked very much is "Frequently Asked Question About Time Travels", and the two "Hot Tub Time Machine". OK, the second was really weak, but the leads are hilariously funny...

Last one, I promise, "Time Lapse".
The sugar used in drinks - especially in the US - is far from natural. There's no HFCS in nature.
> Murphy Brown

Great catch. I think Sorkin followed that model in Sports Night, probably trying to emulate MB's feeling of crashing into a busy production room. Can't think of an earlier one though.

I, Claudius also just had a title card, a snake crawling across a mosiac, but it somehow dragged that out for a full thirty seconds according to YouTube, so I'm not sure that really counts.

In film apparently Lucas got in trouble for not crediting the director in his title-only opening for Star Wars, leading him to resign from the guild. The practice became more common though, Clint Eastwood has done title-only openings for everything he's made.

Brief history of the length of opening credits sequences here, with Family Matters as one of the most excessive examples:
https://theweek.com/articles/632836/brief-history-tv-shows-o...

Even that misses Murphy Brown though, so now I'm not sure anyone's thoroughly done the research. Where's Abed when you need him?
The word "sin" implicates that it's all about morality, but there are also real negative externalities associated with these stimulants that are costing society a lot of money. Also, taxes have to come from somewhere, isn't it good to tax things that are (on average) bad for society rather than only good/neutral things (like income)?
Nice about the Bolt. I just feel like Silicon Valley and other cities like LA and Seattle are out of touch with the rest of America, and some sort of bubble of repeating ideas over and over again.

I care about the environment but I also think we have to be practical about it. Newer and newer gas cars are getting cleaner and more efficient. Or maybe someone enjoys off roading in their Jeep. or someone out of state is touring the nation in their Diesel Pusher RV. I just think it's crazy for a city to try to ban people who live in other cities from even being allowed to drive there based on their car. Well by 2030 and the article mentions the mayor, so maybe it will never happen. I just hate that idea. Maybe the tourism or chamber of commerce would step up for that one.

At least with the soda tax you can just drive out of the city and buy it cheaper like the signs they posted mentioned at the store.
The leftovers，though it is TV，but is better than many movies.
We need an equivalent of the hippocratic oath for software engineers: I swear by Hephaestus, the ugly god of crafts, that I shall not use my skills for controlling and tracking ...
Just a quick follow up, the reason I suggest looking at things like gender or birthday frequencies is because they're two bits of social data that have brilliant properties for getting to the bottom of this sort of things.

In practice, gender is immaculately reported and recorded compared to most other variables.

Both gender and birth days have nice reasonableness bounds and statistical properties that can be transparently reasoned about. Deviation from those nice statistical properties not only confirms for you that something is going on in your data, often the way it can deviate gives hints as to the next thread you should start chasing.

Obviously it's not perfect, not all data problems will show up there, but in practice it's an extremely low hanging fruit on which to get started, and seeing strong deviations from 50/50 statistical gender splits and predictable day/month/year type distributions should start analytical klaxons going off in your demographic noggin...
In that case I guess they’ll just up the DRM on everything to make actual copyright law irrelevant.
In Australia, it works with tobacco taxes too, particularly because it makes it too expensive for teenagers to take it up and become heavy smokers before they're old enough to understand the consequences.

Research indicates smoking among Australian teenagers declined by about 65-70% in the 15 years to 2014.

[1] http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-1-prevalence/1-...
Yes there is, there's an email embedded in the paragraphs I outlined.

You might think that's not direct evidence, but it's evidence that supports the story in the paragraphs I outlined.

It says explicitly in paragraph 179:
"Upon information and belief, the Google employee was not selected due to the fact that the hiring managers were looking solely for “diverse” individuals, and as a Caucasian male, the Google employee did not help fill their mandatory (and illegal) quotas."

And then "the Google employee’s former director initiated a “Diversity Team Kickoff” with the intent to freeze headcount so that teams could find diversity candidates to help fill the empty roles. Google was specifically looking for women and non-Caucasian individuals to fill these roles."

I think _you_ think that _I_ think this is damning proof and that the case is settled, and I've never claimed that. I just said that there are examples of people being hired because of their diversity status, with supporting evidence.

I'm not saying the evidence is true, or that it's directly related, but it _is_ "supporting evidence".
They discuss is briefly but my understanding is the copyright only protects the work itself. IE the movie steamboat willie could now be freely published by anyone with access to it? But Disney will still own the trademark and be the only entity that can produce new original Mickey Mouse content?
Nope, they copped out and kept the two together but with separate boards.
Saw a guy on the train the other day wearing Atlassian socks (with beige sandals).
testosterone levels have declined in most developed countries when comparing similar age cohorts over time. See the following studies:
from Finland - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23161753.
from USA - https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/196/2598434

it is a bit of a medical mystery because the trend cannot be fully explained by lifestyle factors like weight gain.
I am not skeptical at all. Why? Because they always get away with it. It's not stupidity, just cheekiness and arrogance.
> There is no objective definition of simple.

Oh, I agree with that. What I meant was that "this doesn't mean there can't be objective criteria about what is simple and what is not; or that it's futile to attempt objective definitions of 'this is simple/this is not' ".

"Easiest for me right now", in my experience, only leads to simplicity in trivial cases. Simplicity requires intense thought & explorations, it's never easy (except, again, in trivial circumstances).
Very interesting, thank you! For a while I was running in the 30-60 minute range and my gut was getting more and more irritable over time. Your experience lines up with the research I found - that intense, prolonged or overly frequent exercise can worsen leaky gut / intestinal permeability symptoms, but regular exercise at a relatively low intensity may improve it. This makes me want to try reintroducing running into my routine.

Also very interesting that weight training doesn't trigger any symptoms. Can I ask - how hard do you push during weight training? Are you on a program like StrongLifts 5x5? I was running and then doing weights back-to-back and stopped both after I realised it was making things worse.

I have the same experience as you in terms of biggest improvements - spotting and cutting out trigger foods has been a huge help. I miss a lot of foods, but I like having a stable gut much more than I miss the foods...
Yep I always forget that Lucas made American Grafiti. And didn't knew that this post-apocalypse tube was indeed BART. Indeed I was remembering this part when I recommended the movie.
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Some of the bar plots seem misleading because of the scaling. The monthly one, for example, almost made me believe that January is half as productive as October. The "zero" level is not stated anywhere, but the lowest value is still halfway to the top.

This feels like intentional exaggeration to me. If the lowest value started at the base line, like they do e.g. in currency exchange plots, there would be no doubt about offset. This way, the initial impulse is to compare areas of the bars.
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You're one of the lucky ones. I don't consider the 'fibre' crap they offer, FTTN then vdsl, to be 'fibre', so the comparison you make is misleading. If the UK gov had got 95% FTTH they might have something to be proud of.
Do they use a real smartphone to pass the qrcode screen in web whatsapp?
As explained in other comments[1], being the eldest sibling wasn't the default answer to a question.
Instead, people were asked to enter into a text field their number of older brothers, older sisters, younger brothers, younger sisters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105462
And now there's a sequel! :D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5770864/
I've posted this before, but I'd like to bring it up again for those who are unaware.

--

As a general note, the validity of claims from Mercola should be taken with a large grain of salt. He publicly holds a number of frankly dangerous opinions which he bestows upon anyone who reads his website, and has made many millions of dollars from such claims and tactics.

Among other things:

* Questioning whether HIV is the cause of AIDS, claiming manifestations of AIDS (including opportunistic infections and death) may be the result of "psychological stress" brought on by the belief that HIV is harmful.

* Claims that microwaving food alters its chemistry, despite consensus that microwaving food does not adversely affect nutrient content compared to conventionally prepared food.

* Claiming cancer risks arise from mobile phone radiation, which is pseudoscientific.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola
Excuse my late reply. Not open and free like Edmunds was. I have used Chrome and Unhaggle and both have very rich data sources, but also very rich subscriptions.
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Those systems don't use the buggy aspect of the hardware (memory protection) at all. Instead, all code is run inside a VM which provides memory protection and process isolation - there is no 'native' code at all.

Not using the hardware memory protection provides a ~20% performance boost, which makes up for the ~20% overhead of running everything through VMs.
> Well it IS wierd, because you would assume than that 'eldest child' principle would get at least linearly worse the more kids there are in a family

First. The word is weird.

Second. No, you would not assume that. Why would you assume that? You could also with equal validity assume that something is present in the mother with the first-born that is absent in all the rest. You could also assume the study is hokum and missed something obvious.

Third. This “Single points aren't anti-points to statistical effects.” is _exactly_ why it isn't weird. Even supposing there is some statistically distributed effect you as a single point is a total non-issue. You are not special. Do get back to me if you've three heads or something.

Fourth. To think it is weird suggests you are in fact not as smart as you think you are. :)

Fifth. To continue arguing the point when it has been explained to you why you are wrong is again indicative of not being as smart as you think you are. :) :)
Art in Swedish is "konst" which is the base for the word "konstig" which means, literally, weird or odd. I'm pretty sure there's a reason for that etymology.
I wrote a blog post[0] about the situation in the UK a while ago.

The British broadband system is quite crappy in general, especially so if you're on ADSL, but at least it's not the same as America or Canada which is significantly worse.

Although if you have the money for it I'd recommend springing for Andrews and Arnold (aaisp.net.uk).. or if you're near Stratford I'd recommend Hyperoptic, they were able to sell a very, very, stable symmetric 1G connection using the fibers left behind after the Olympics.

[0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/the-true-state-of-london-broadband

EDIT: Reading my blog post with fresh eyes has shown me that I did not provide my raw data, and I did not elude to the fact that I had been in constant contact with BT trying to get the line fixed. I should have mentioned this as it mirrors TFA's experience with virgin insofar as they were non-responsive and when on-site looked around and did very little with small excuses about access to equipment/cabs.
+1

There's no "sci" in Sunshine's sci-fi. That was massively distracting and not something that could've been saved by the pretty visuals.
Yes, but my point is I think the exploit would be extremely difficult, and any agent capable of doing it would not be too interested in making it available to anyone else. Perhaps I'm naive, but it feels like the kind of thing government agencies would keep in their own armouries.
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The reason for DEL being 0x7f is that it is originally intended as marker for "this character was deleted and should be skipped over" and not as command to delete previous/next character. And you can change any ASCII character into 0x7f by ORing it with with 0x7f, that is, punching all the holes in punched tape (or punchcard, but ASCII usually was not used for them and punching all holes on punchcard is not advisable for mechanical reasons).
The closest thing we offer is prison these days. :(
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was on here like 4 days ago :D
It seems to me he blocked them because he had no solution to offer. He tried to get rid of the traffic any way he could because he had no solution to offer.
Yep. I would prefer if they went with just regular cane sugar instead but I know some drinks do have a version with that now.
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Small relative to other sources of variation. For example, a professional footballer who is used to sea-level will still perform better at a match in La Paz than an average joe who was born in La Paz. Similarly, Similarly, there might be minute differences between people based on birth order, but in most scenarios these would be swamped by all other factors that go to make up someone's personality.

That doesn't make me politically correct, rather it makes me unmotivated to further explore the topic.
Are you suggesting that the effect found could be explainedby first-borns liking the style of the blog rather then the content?
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No, this what a real schizophrenic is. It's a terrible disease that should not be romanticized in any way.
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