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> I often wonder why my fellow Africans betray us at the behest of the CIA

I'll try to answer this the best I can. First know that it won't be Americans for long, China is picking up whatever the US neglected and doing the same shit. Also realize that this is how empires operate for the longest fucking time.

Literally every page of history is filled with similar methods.

Step 1) Install a puppet, give them huge "aids" or loans to buy guns, bridges, electricity, hospitals.

Step 2) The puppet and empire knows he can never pay the loan back so they ask for their natural resources or other political or military demands.

Step 3) The puppet looks at his palace, harems, horses, jewlerry its all too much to lose. In fact, life is so good for him and his family there's nothing that can possibly get in his way. Oh and his son just graduated from Harvard, must buy him a new lambo.

Step 4) National assets are slowly stripped, the elite enjoy a marvelously rich life from the arbitrage and owns much of the country which they can exchange for continued material pleasures. They look down on their poor countrymen (from which they exploited) who wonder how a leader can sell their country out.

Now what happens if you don't take the bribe and play ball with the empire? You get replaced. Suddenly riots starts to sprout up. Local media 'stumbles' upon huge corruption.

And then it becomes just how badly the puppet keep his place. So much that killing an entire generation of his countrymen do little to deter his weekend getaways to his yacht in Monaco or penthouse in NYC. What else is the alternative?

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Wow. This is a great list. I've seen individual ideas here and there but never put together in a list. This is excellent for exploring these ideas in one shot.
In this city its -6 hours- after the snowfall ends, and people almost wait on the clock to call 311 and get you fined if you don't do it. If you commute away to work, there are possibilities that the timing could be very awkward (unless you like shoveling while its snowing).

Much rather the city use my taxes to do it with proper equipment, like my hometown did... Oh well. Condo ftw.
I see kids (my own and others) using computers in two different ways. Some spend the majority of their time as "consumers". Some spend the majority as "producers". Ad-driven monetization favors consumption, and we see many more hit social apps that are great for consuming but terrible at producing. But there is a whole genre of producer apps out there. My daughter, when she was young, spent hour with Scratch. Scratch is amazing! In high school she spend hours with Sketchup. Even the sim games are good in that you must think ahead and problem solve. There are far too few programs like that. Smartphones are inherently week for content creation. Tablets are better. Desktops are still best. You need space to draw or paint or program.

My personal hope is that 5" screens are a passing fad. We've only had them for a few years, and I am hopeful that we'll only have them for a few more. Then we switch to AR. And again we'll have big screens, and developers will hopefully be inspired to create programs that support creation and exploration and discovery.

So don't blame "digital". Blame the narrow interface channel and the easy money of ad-driven social media. I am of the opinion that those types of apps will not hold the attention of users once we have high-fidelity interfaces. We will be able to blame developers (ourselves) if the programs we create and use aren't up to the potential. How about a virtual wood-working shop? How about space-filling virtual instruments? How about apps to crowd-solve some tough societal problems?

My smartphone is much more engaging than was the TV I grew up with (three channels and bad commercials). I think there will be great creator-geared apps in the future, and great user-created content. We do have to make sure that creators of virtual art and goods can profit from their work. Do that, and people will be eager to fill the vacuum of cyberspace.
Something I keep coming back to in all this is that maybe we should be surprised that it’s even possible to share a CPU between mutually untrusted programs, let alone do it in so many contexts.

How do we stop his entire class of bugs? What is the Rust for CPU design?
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I haven't heard that, either. I have heard that it has anti-inflammatory properties, which could indirectly reduce pain that arises from inflammation, such as arthritis. Here's one article describing it.

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1910028,0...

Your comment is quite brief (as is the one you're responding to, for that matter). Is there something in particular you have in mind?
I am personally of the opinion that China swiftly killing off its cryptocurrency mining industry overnight would be to the great benefit of humanity. The sheer amount of electricity it wastes is an environmental disaster.
They make small trucks to plow the sidewalks. It's what cities that do it use. It's quite efficient.
> We already know that he lied about a PhD

No, he did not lie about this. You are lying about it. His linkedin listed him as having been part of a PhD program and people took it to mean he had a PhD. There is absolutely no evidence he ever intended to mislead anyone about this.

So, please stop spreading lies.

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PS I know because I actually saw the linkedin profile before he edited it. It did not say he had a PhD. It clearly listed that he was in the program for 2 years, which any person reasonably familiar with PhD programs would immediately suspect meant that he had not finished. And indeed, I followed up by looking up what publications he had, and while his name was on a couple of papers he had clearly not published a dissertation. So, to anyone who wasn't deliberately looking to discredit him for malicious or self-interested reasons, as Business Insider's Natasha Tiku almost certainly was, would not have been fooled for a second by his profile nor would they have believed that Damore intended to fool them.

Note the business insider article you linked uses these weasel words:

James Damore, the fired Google engineer who wrote the now-infamous memo on diversity at the company, has removed mention of PhD studies in biology from his LinkedIn profile.

The removal comes after Wired writer Nitasha Tiku confirmed with Harvard that Damore has not completed his PhD.

He then goes on to call out the "Right-wing argument" appealing to his credibility because he had a PhD.

If you read carefully, you'll see that they frame as if it was this embarassing thing that they'd shamed him into doing, to encourage lazy, non-critical readers to reach the same conclusion that you did, while using the technically correct words to avoid defamation liability. But, careful analysis of the facts shows that I am correct. He did not lie about the PhD, others either lied on his behalf without his knowledge; or were confused by careless/overly-optimistic reading of the LinkedIn profile.
> How do you feel about laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1964? I think that law continues to serve our society well.

Maybe certain parts of it - yes. But I've read many articles talking about how housing segregation is far worse than it was even before the civil rights act.

The act explicitly cites this problem yet completely failed to address it.

Some acts can have obvious no-debate reenactment. But this deters broad sweeping legislation from being passed, if subsets are not well thought out or are pigeonholed in. Why not pin sections onto acts so you can easily repeat ones with strong data/political support, while ending other less effective parts?

That said, there should no doubt be a dichotomy between human rights and constitutional limitations (which are pre-emptive limitations on legislation) and the general type of policies passed by congress.

My primary focus is on economy law as well. Social law might be more socially evolutionary.
> Damage as in malicious? No. Damage as in co's reporting higher instance usage on cloud services after patching? Yes.

Playing devil's advocate a bit here, but you could also think about it differently. This whole time, faster-but-more-insecure processors were providing everyone with cheaper prices than they would have had otherwise with more secure processors. I feel your notion of "damage" is far weaker than mine.
> English is tought as a second language (or third language in bilingual countries) in most of the world.

In primary schools, commonly?
It's also extremely populist. Since the effect of local politics are...well, localized, people don't notice nearly as much when the mayor screws up in small towns. They just have to wave the "lower rent!" "more construction!" "inclusive!" "think of the children!" flag a bit and people will vote for them no matter what they actually do. Kind of like the federal politics but without the news outlets and Twitter freaking out.

In this particular case, generally renters don't even have to shovel (the landlord does it or hire someone to do it), so most people don't even seem to know its a requirement unless it says in their lease that they have to handle the shoveling. The owner (who does have to handle it) may not be allowed to vote if they don't live near by.
Tiny positive effects are not worth the downsides of most of those. So even if that's somehow true it's okay.
Do you have evidence to the contrary? Because it seems the part you are projecting is the nitpicking, because it is nitpicking to question if Damore thought this information was relevant to his 23,000 women coworkers in his memo criticizing the hiring policies at Google. If he didn't think it was relevant to the women at work, then why would he even include it in his argument about the hiring policy of his coworkers?

You asked for a citation from Damore's memo, and I provided it. Anything you personally feel or think about yourself is anecdotal evidence and not really relevant. If anything, how you personally feel about this new information (that you requested) can be analyzed for confirmation bias.
> As we now know, insiders have been selling Intel stock long before the vulnerabilities became public.

I understand this is just not legal, but otherwise why should they had not (i.e. why exactly is it illegal)? What the rationally logical plan they should have taken? Telling everyone about the vulnerability is irrational - it should be told to those who are supposed to write patches first, keeping the shares when you know they are going down is irrational too.
CPUs tend to have multiple cores these days, would it be possible to assign (in software) all kernal space work to one or more dedicated cores to mitigate some of the risks?
These mitigations feel like a half measure. To quote the Spectre paper:

"Even code that contains no conditional branches can potentially be at risk."

"long-term solutions will require that instruction set architectures be updated to include clear guidance about the security properties of the processor, and CPU implementations will need to be updated to conform."

It seems too early to declare Spectre class attacks mitigated by the mechanisms presented in the OP.
Better drugs/more complex medicines should be possible. Chemical interactions are hard to do on classical computers (operating on 5D+ arrays), true quantum computers should be able to help with those computations.
Metamaterial lenses will solve that problem
Rampant caffeine consumption in high levels is not helping our focus either.
I don't program in JavaScript.

> Anything you can do in wasm you can do in JavaScript, only was can do it faster.

It's faster and more flexible because it can easily be targeted by compilers. That is the problem. This might sound surprising. Allow me use an analogy to explain it.

Let's assume some new technology was invented to more easily breed cattle for meat production. I completely understand why some people would want that, and develop it. I think breeding and killing cows and bulls just to eat a steak is unethical. So, I would absolutely refuse to work on the technology, and I'd expect the same of everybody that cares about being ethical.

Now, coming back to JavaScript and wasm, it is used to deploy code in a way that takes the control of the software from the users to the developers. The deployed code is unreviewed, unaccounted, unsigned and executed automatically. I consider unsafe in the computing sense. So, I consider code execution on the web unacceptable. Since, wasm makes that easier and more efficient, I'm opposed to it.

On top of that I consider JavaScript a bad language. I'm worried by how much it's pushed as a teaching language.
I'm not disagreeing that "noon" or "midnight" are less confusing, I'm simply saying there shouldn't be any ambiguity about 12AM or 12PM in the first place.

Any potential for confusion results from an ancient decision to designate noon/midnight as 12:00. If they had simply made them 1:00 instead then there'd be no trouble today.
It's been a bad user experience for me - I've run into a fair number of AMP sites that load part of the content but not all of it (some websites, like Know Your Meme, put truncated content + a "read more" button in AMP; some host video or embedded documents or whatever and those don't make it to AMP), so my experience has been that I load the AMP page, scroll a bit, and then end up needing to load the real page.

Also I end up on AMP pages (generally the origin's AMP-reduced pages, not the Google cache thereof) way too often on desktop.

That said, yes, I still lean towards clicking on AMP sites and hoping that it's faster. But that's the irrational part of my brain, and the rational part would be happier with an additional 200-300 ms loading time in exchange for reliability.
3 years later the HP 35 came out for ~ $2300 in today's dollars, was pocket-sized and had trigonometric functions.

[edit] In 1968 the HP 9100A (which was programmable and had trigonometric functions) was $5000, or $35k today.
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I wonder if a similar idea would help with future costs for looking after the aged. Put $20k at birth into a pension account and just let it grow until they retire at 65. If they also put voluntary additional payments into the account as they work it would surely be a decent sum that obviates the need for the government to pay pensions to the retired.
Our pediatrician recommended this when treating a fever. Alternate Tylenol and Motrin, then you can dose every 3 hours instead of every 4.
Which is often the positive effects of restrictions on bureaucracy, such as timeframes and review agencies, creating limits on the size of government directly and indirectly.

The current costs of never-ending legislation and regulation is incredibly underrated IMO:

https://imgur.com/a/zagcH (please excuse the non-log axis, but the point remains)

Pretty much the only limit on the scope and extent of legislation is the constitution, which affect a limited scope of the interests of society. We must as a society demand that the legislation being enacted is demonstrably effective and useful, beyond the era it was enacted.
Here's an old Nautilus article talking about exactly your point about the social element: http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/why-futurism-has-a-cultural-b...
In this case the task named was "get the payload to a specific orbit" and the parameters of that orbit.
I guess taking every branch by default avoids the specter of branch prediction vulnerabilities?

(This is me failing my saving throw vs urge to make terrible nerd jokes.)
To be honest, the more that I've looked into this, the more it seems like a good idea.

It was not presented as a new and fairly dramatically different way of distributing content on the web, it was presented as a way to get around showing the URL in response to pushback from the web community.

I think if this announcement were written differently, I would've come away with a much better impression of the whole thing.
Totally agree with thus one :-)
Well, duh. Rent control causes housing shortages because who wants to be a rent controlled landlord? Well then, housing shortages are reflected in higher housing costs for anyone who can't benefit from having [had for a long time] a rent-controlled apartment.
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There's orders of magnitudes less developers and jobs available for those languages. I'm only not an elixir developer because there's almost zero elixir jobs.
Rent control solves no problems. It only causes problems.

EDIT: But I like the observation that prop 13 is to ownership as rent control is to rent.
The Democrats observed the regular order of the Senate, hosted 5 bipartisan meetings and finished the bill so it could actually be analyzed and read before being passed [1]. The republicans didn't bother with any bipartisan meetings and passed it within the same week of finishing writing it. And they broke the regular order of the senate to do it.

In any case, the two year period between 2009 and 2010 was spent almost entirely on the economy. Which given how strong the Obama-era recovery was, seems to be have been time well spent.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/10/us/republican...
This is just the announcement that they're _going_ to build the spec XD
Yeah, last time I visited my hometown there were British Petroleum and Arco gas stations. They were offering slightly better prices than Pemex.
Your comparison doesn't even work. Some Democratic senators have been weak on net neutrality, but a Democratic administration enacted the common carrier rules we are now losing. That is to say, while the senators were not perfect, the party still made the better choice.

None of this applies to the Republicans and the EPA, banking regulation etc.
For sports injuries and the like I avoid pain killers because I want to get as much feedback as possible from my body about how the injury is healing.
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Note that the article talks about type checks for the JavaScript code that is being executed by WebKit, not type checks in the implementation of WebKit itself. So there are two different kinds of type checks involved here.
Mountain View only adopted rent control very recently, and only for apartments that existed before 1995.

Not sure if anyone pointed this out, but this problem of labor mobility exists for all of those who own their home as well.
The thing I'm very curious to see is whether Google will permit uploading custom webpackages and whether it will treat them as equivalent to actual Google-blessed AMP webpackages in terms of results page placement. With some rules on the webpackages being small and not referencing too much external stuff, sure, but if I have an actual lightweight web page, I should be able to generate a pretty small webpackage containing my page and its CSS, with no reference to the AMP JS library or anything, and I should be able to send that to anyone who wants to cache/CDN my website.

I'm imagining a world where a static site generator + Let's Encrypt automatically generates these webpackages for you and uploads them to Google, and also DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. And when someone creates an HN or Reddit post, the HN / Reddit server checks to see if there is a webpackage available for that page and if it's not too many kilobytes, and serves that when you click on the link. That seems like it delivers on the original promise/vision of AMP, and also gets entirely out of the vendor lock-in problem that AMP has today and into something genuinely novel and good for the web.
Foveal vision only sees a few degrees of the visual field. Last year's GPU is plenty powerful enough to render the foveal portion in high-res and peripheral at decreasing res. Better headsets with eye tracking are needed.
Actually, it does make more sense to group them. You see that 12 at the beginning of 12:00 and 12:01?

Most kids in the US are taught that 12 PM is noon and 12 AM is midnight in elementary school. Though many understand this by first grade, I have been surprised to encounter native English speaking 40+ year old adults that still do not remember this. "Meet me at lunch at 12 AM!"
Insider Trading is illegal. That’s what he’s being accused of here. He cannot trade on information that is material to the stock price before it is made public. A vulnerability of this magnitude is unquestionable material non-public information. If these trades were the result of his learning about the breach, this is a pretty easy case for the SEC. I really doubt that he executed these trades, as that would be the dumbest thing an executive has done in a while.
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> which by definition hurts whoever they sell to as they are left holding the bag

Of course. The Intel CEO sells stock to investors without telling them that there is a vulnerability that makes the stock worth much less than they think, thus hurting these investors. Sounds intuitive, right?

The investors he sells to had already sent an order to buy to their broker. They were going to buy at the same or worse price anyway, so they aren't harmed by this. Someone else is harmed, but that's the market professionals who, months later, don't get an opportunity to profit off of the news before everyone else. I'm sure economics not being intuitive has something to do with why democracies end up with bad policies all the time.
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The regulators think, quite correctly, that people will generally take the dose on the bottle. If you only allow sales of Ibuprofen in 200mg pills and the bottle says “take two”, that’s what the vast majority of the public will do. If you allow sales of “ultra strength” 2000mg pills, a decent chunk of the population will take 2-4 grams because “ultra” must be better.
We are using pointer poisoning to protect type checks in WebKit itself as well as type checks in the JavaScript code we execute.

We are using index masking in WTF::Vector and WTF::StringImpl, which are used both for JavaScript execution and for lots of other things in WebKit that want a vector or a string.
Of course, the near hits benefit from the plethora of predictions. “Theories” that essentially produce ranges of predictions across many/most possible outcomes contain no information. Not to discredit you. I look for similar trends, but it’s best to be humble about predictions.
Shit. I just rechecked my data, and it appears the "full-head-of-hair" group still had 482cm² of shiny scalp. I need to fire my measurement tech and issue a recall...
> Another feature will strengthen user privacy in open networks through individualized data encryption.

WPA1 can arguably be forgiven a lot of shortcomings given its circumstances, but I never understood why this wasn't in WPA2. I understand that the station can't authenticate the AP in this case, but it still seems like it's strictly better for the traffic to be encrypted. What am I missing?
Is this a joke? Your pivot to corruption is probably the strongest example of whataboutism I've seen on HN in a while. It has absolutely nothing to do with the OPs point, which is that Republicans are overwhelmingly in favour of removing government regulations in preference to big business, and the Democrats are not. (and do you really believe a Republican president would have been easier on Edward Snowden than Obama was?)
It also matters where in Europe you live.
It looks like this will enable doing that, right? The big reason for the AMP top bar is to show the original domain and provide a way to get a link - this proposal has the AMP page running actually under the original domain (as far as the browser UI is concerned; network traffic is still to Google, but the data is signed by the website), so there's no reason for it not to behave just like an actual link to the website, and rely on the browser back button.
Yes, the GFW blocked all google services...