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Alas I fear it is serious. I’m almost lost for words.
huh?

"MoneyGram will pilot the use of XRP, the native digital asset of the XRP Ledger, in payment flows through xRapid, Ripple's solution for on-demand liquidity."

http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1054088
> I guess I just assume that radio is just for the elderly.

My unwittingly inflammatory comment was justifiably (it turns out) downvoted as my assumption turns out to be quite incorrect.

I looked up some stats (just free ones) and indeed, radio listenership turns out to be quite high (mid 90% of age band) pretty uniformly across age bands (which Nielson calles "millenial" "Gen X" and "boomer"). This is not the case of TV, which has noticeably higher penetration in boomers compared to younger demographic groups. These are WAU numbers so some groups may spend a higher percentage of time listening, but I couldn't find that data.

I am quite surprised to learn this.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/demographics-and-audiences/h...

https://www.marketingcharts.com/demographics-and-audiences/m...
There's alot of evidence that he disparity between schools and lack of equality in opportunity are the problem. This article is trying to address this.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/repor...
This seemed very promising, protobuffers to automated typescript over gRPC.

https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web
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No. You are incorrect.

Let us say that we have a computer system so complicated that it is capable of mimicking a human being with perfect accuracy. You would probably say that that computer is not a being that has consciousness, because it is merely doing calculations to replicate behavior. Problem is, you could easily say the same about any given human being. There is, quite literally, no way to tell the difference through objective measurement.

We can measure responses to stimuli, we can determine the complexity of a system, but we have no way of determining if a system experiences anything or is simply running a program, and we never will.
I miss progressive enhancement, when/why did it die.
Probably because it is a pretty unknown and niche game (?) that won't grab most peoples attention. I don't think that makes the hobby (gaming) strange though. I wouldn't play most games for minutes, yet people spend years in them.
Wasn't that after M$ bought them? (I might be wrong, just asking)
Even with this, if they're ISOs they'll transfer to NSOs after 90 days. This probably didn't matter before, but the new tax law in the US increases where AMT kicks in from around 120k to 500k.

This means that ISOs can probably be exercised tax free, but NSOs require you to pay taxes on the spread from strike to the fair market valuation.

If your strike price is low enough you may be able to save and afford to exercise the ISOs, the NSOs will probably be too expensive with the tax burden.

There's also a 10yr expiration on options anyway so it's possible that you could lose them even if you're waiting for an IPO while holding unexercised NSOs.
Aircraft bands use AM rather than FM because of the FM capture effect. When there is a double transmission with FM, the receiver will lock on to one signal and exclude the other. With AM, you will hear both as well as, possibly, a heterodyne tone if the carriers aren't exactly the same frequency which is much preferable.

FM demodulators can't really demodulate AM signals. AM demodulation can demodulate FM by tuning a bit off the carrier frequency thanks to the fall-off of the filters but the quality isn't great.
30% reduction in transaction cost if you use XRP over other currencies.
Got it, makes sense.

Whoa, thanks for calling out my biases O_O

> lax IP laws aren't actually that lax

I thought one of the big initiatives for the TPP was to enforce US IP in Asia?
What are some must read Science Fiction books?
It wasn't kicked down the can for many years, because it wasn't known!

It was a quietly authorized program Bush signed off on & that the DoJ authorized & no one knew anything more about. Congress didn't know any more than we did about it until Wired began writing up the program in 2012, a full decade after it began, talking about the massive massive data warehouse in Utah that the NSA was building with details provided by William Binney.

And it wasn't until Snowden's 2013 leaks that the government really had to admit to what it was doing, had to fess up to the STELLAR WIND program, & that forced the creation of a more "regulated" system, supposedly protected by the as-we've-seen rubber-stamping FISA court.

The government has been unable to regulate or consider this program, because it's been concealed & shadowy for a long long time, and could well have remained that way.

Now Congress actually has some responsibility to the American people, and sadly, in spite of unbelievable stonewalling & unwillingness to disclose how many Americans, how many emails it sweeps up[1], in spite of terrifying provisions like "abouts" collection, Congress is somehow deciding that drastically expanding the program's scope & using it for non-terrorism purposes is OK. Congress is insane, completely derelict from duty.

I don't really disagree. Bush, Obama, and Trump are all kicking this can down the road. But for Congress too to be soo willing to kick this down the road is really a shock. And you're exactly right. When FBI Director Christopher Wray gets up and says- encryption is a problem- he's far far less credible & we have far less chance to meet him part way, when the government seems so happy giving itself such unlimited unaccountable spy powers. Math is the only defense we have against this catastrophic, out of control authoritarianism, and we're not very liable to abandon or dismantle that shelter, when the US government seems unwilling to develop even an iota of restraint.

I'd also point out the other tension: the US government is placing itself just as much at ends with Europe and the rest of the world as they are the technology world. The EU's Privacy Shield ongoingly takes issue with the US's seemingly ever growing 702 authorization to spy on everyone[2], and the question of revisiting the data-sharing arrangements that make much of it possible keeps coming up.

The US was running on borrowed time as it was. This radical expansion of powers in this new 702 bill are only heightening the silently growing crisis. Congress and the military seem entirely unwilling to strike any kind of balance, seem unwilling to get even basic facts on what the size, scale and impact of the program really are, while increasing it's scope and scale. This is an untennable position, and I thank you for doing a really good job highlighting a lot of the irresolvable tensions the US Government has created for itself with this unaccountable unquestionable seemingly unlimited program.

[1] https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/dont-pass-surv...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/eu-uses-privacy-shield-rev...
Spam filters are indeed better, but I'm receiving some unsolicited messages.

However I use an address only for github and other similar services that then is forwarded to my main one, so it's not a real damage.
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What was the post-Obama efforts to dismantle the wire tapping program that Bush had put in place w/ the perceived powers of the executive? That's a serious question, since I don't really know history behind it.
Well, I have two thoughts about that.

1. Is Damore against "anti-discrimination provisions in law"? I haven't seen anything to suggest he is. He is against specific anti-discrimination policies at Google, certainly, but his objection to them seemed to be on the basis that they wouldn't be effective and would have other negative effects, not that anti-discrimination is undesirable.

2. If we assume Damore is a "classical liberal" (I think he called himself that in the memo), then he could have an entirely non-ironic desire to see the law enforced that is separate from whether or not he thinks any specific law is wise. This may seem silly (and I personally think it is in cases where a law is obviously stupid and unenforceable), but it's not on-its-face ridiculous, unless there's a quote somewhere that shows he really has contempt for the particular laws he's claiming protection from.

I'd bet right now you're not going to find such a quote, since it seems like he's been planning this lawsuit for months before he got fired, just based on what screenshots were in the lawsuit.
IMO, we should only have Federal funding for schools.

Having local, state, and federal involvement in funding adds complexity without providing any net benefit. EX: People move all the time, focusing at the state level concentrates costs while defusing benefits.
Our cellphones are always listening, you could probably get the data right now.
Thank you! Oh, now that you mention it: just a few years ago, web streaming was not possible without using either flash or (maybe?) silverlight or something else because it was not implemented yet. Youtube crashed my pc regulary during the hd4850 end-days due to driver crashes. Node was not even a thing yet, let alone Electron/NWJS....
Advances in personalized medicine can't come soon enough.
For all the talk of Ripple being centralized, they aren't by design, and they have a plan in place to reduce and eventually eliminate that centralization (to a point).

They decided that it would be a good idea to start centralized, then over time wane themselves out of the "validation" of transactions until it's in the hands of a diverse group of validator nodes where no one person has the ability to change things.
> Consciousness will likely one day be considered a some physical process

The only people I know of that might contest that non-human animals are conscious are dualists who attribute consciousness to minds and minds only to human beings.

> it's a mistake to just take some people's word that physicalism can't account for our qualitative perceptions

Physicalism BY DEFINITION cannot account for qualia because the presuppositions of physicalism BY DEFINITION rule out the possibility of accounting for qualia. This is not the same as saying that consciousness or the experience of color is non-physical. It is the same as saying that the metaphysics of physicalism is too inadequate. Sadly, physicalism has become a blindly held dogma by philosophers like Dennett and Rosenberg, leading them to embrace eliminativism (the denial that qualia exist at all). Naturally, this is an evasion, a Procrustean cherrypicking of the evidence to suit the scientistic, physicalist dogma. It is an incoherent position and a non-starter.

The solution is to embrace a richer metaphysics instead of repeating the vacuous claim that we will/may one say have a solution to the problem of qualia while clinging to presuppositions that are false. It can't and won't happen.
I did not know this was called Project Fear. That is fascinating.

Fear has always been in the toolbox for politicians, but it seems to be being used more and more. Xenophobic fear is probably the most loudly-proclaimed one, but there are other types of fear, like the fear for one's safety... which, in the USA, is typically related to xenophobia these days, even if statistically it should not be [0].

I don't know the most effective way to fight fear-based messages besides very inspiring, positive-oriented messaging.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/2...
Quoting the thread root:

> Computer Science likes to live in proximity to pure mathematics, but it lives between EE and mathematics

which doesn't disagree with "firmly residing in the domain of computer science" - it's merely a question of nobody having factored the right bit of EE into the right bit of math to get the right model.
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No one ever mentions the insane amount of time it takes to sync their chain.. I'd say that is a big stopping point for a lot of people.. I've been trying for weeks to catch up. (Where other wallets sync in a reasonable time)
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The complexity inside an interface should also be considered -- how the components of the 'bus' interact with each other with one connection to the outside world.

If the 'bus' is simple enough to need few colors, then great.

Same goes for the sibling comment regarding a ball of mud. It makes the analysis more complex but you should consider every global variable as connected to every other global in constructing the graph. Balls of mud, in my thinking, then need nearly as many colors as they have globals since every component theoretically interacts with every other. And when I mixed all the water colors as a kid, I was always disappointed to get a muddy color.
IMO the reason social took off is that everyone bought into the idea. That means you want people from all walks of life be a part of it and possibly fund it via the folks who are willing to pay for it: Take strava for example.

The equivalent for regular social sites would be in my mind a service that blocks tracking/user data collection ads etc.
- essentially everything people are worried about for a price. If you don't pay the price, you get the 'basic' model where they make money off you by other means.
I still dream of a day where the compiler largely handles this kind of thing for you. I'm starting to suspect that this day may never come, but it feels like a logical extension of the jit. To have code that self modifies not just itself to run faster, but also the hardware it runs on just seems so cool.

Course, in the context of the larger thread, I can't help but wonder how much more attack surface this would tend to create.
Those numbers confirm the stats, and actually prove GP's point better (that the gov't is mostly medicare/aid, social security, and defense; half being the former, and ~22% being spent on defense), and are similar to numbers from the CBO [0]

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments...
Which from their perspective makes sense, since they want a lock-in. I guess if you have a strong negotiating position you can potentially push things around. Maybe instead of options you get on some kind of a cash clawback plan for the first few years?
We already have that in ARM phone SoCs with big.LITTLE.
Then why is asthma medication less effective on Latino's and African Americans? And why did my friend have to visit 5 doctors and it wasn't until he found the Black doctor that his skin condition (which is common to only African Americans regardless of weight) was properly diagnosed and treated?

I'm not saying weight is not a problem, I come from a black family where unhealthy diets are a tradition (but that leads back to the fact that traditional african american diets come from the slave food which was unhealthy but taken in as cultural meals, much longer discussion there), but that does not mean that taking out weight in this discussion solves all or even most of the issues at hand.

As well using your same logic, why do Asians who typically have a lower BMI than white individuals have higher incidences of Diabetes? It's not one size fits all

https://health.usnews.com/wellness/articles/2016-03-11/asian...
Are online YouTube to MP3 converters just dead?
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Okay, so basically open borders. But do you honestly believe this is a good immigration system other countries should adopt? And if so why don't you think other countries aren't applying this kind of thing?

The fact is this type of immigration policy hurts the poorest and lowest skilled in society. It also means even skilled workers have to compete for jobs when there isn't necessarily any need for their skills.
You have been downvoted because you are not a crypto fanboy.
> The military refuses to answer Congress.

Pedantically the NSA, FBI and CIA are not 'military'

The DIA, NRO and NIMA are.
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and get a static ip or a dyndns account, and forward the port on your router. And then make sure your machine is never down. It's really a time waster for the average dev ofc
I'm just assuming I'm getting hacked by North Korea every time I say yes to it.
From my POV "the locality of the access" making a speed difference is a physics phenomenon.
As somebody else pointed out in the comments, this is a “standard problem” with all systems of “smart contracts”. There’s no equivalent of a Notary Public to assess that your identity is accurate, you’re not being impersonated, you’re not obviously subject to undue duress or coercion, and are not out of your mind. I think that makes this application in particular pretty pointless (if you can get somebody drunk enough to get them into your bed, you can probably cajole them into swiping something on their phone’s screen beforehand).
There’s no reason not to look for quick payouts if you’re fresh out of college and looking to dive into the world of Silicon Valley style startups.

Money today is worth more than money tomorrow, and often the lump sum of money you get at the end of a startup’s liquidity event as an employee is not much greater than someone who earned money through a more traditional route, if you even get it. I know people who chased the startup life for years with nothing to show for it.

A decade later when they finally give up and resign to a more traditional career path, their cohorts who started down that path a decade ago are now impressively far ahead of them in life. I’m talking big houses with long hallways and a baby or two keeping them up at night while they ascend the ranks of a “real” company during the day.

So when playing the startup game, the only thing on your mind should be “fast money, fast money, fast money!”. If you like to see businesses that have been around for way longer than 10 years and building strong revenue that most startups can only dream of, don’t look for startups.
You don't believe in equal pay for equal work?

You believe in ageism?
California budget for 2018-19 is a record $132B
All those google products are contained within the Drive client now, and could act exactly like a dropbox folder if the user doesn't do any setup.
Not to take anything away from cetaceans, but this article slights elephants and crows. Both recognize themselves in mirrors, and invent tools.
Pragmatism turned out to be a slippery enough concept that James, a writer with a well-deserved reputation for clarity, had to write a second book about it to address all the misconceptions. His version is all about making explicit the process that we all go through in weighing each new incoming experience or evidence for something against our mountain of collected experiences, which is how we individually decide whether or not something is true. It’s not as simple as “does this agree with what I have experienced before,” since some kinds of new information can radically change our perspective on past events.

The article mentioned that he coined the term “stream of consciousness,” which is so familiar now to us that we can gloss over the depth with which he treated it. For James, the idea of “a thought” was itself an abstraction: if consciousness is a stream then there is no hard separation from a thought that comes before or after the one raises up for examination. He makes mention of a “fringe” surrounding whichever thought has most of our attention, and these fringes are constantly expanding to become the center of our focus, only to be replaced by the next. This came to mind when I was reading about attention models in neural networks, and how accounting for attention improved their functioning for some classes of problems.

If you’re interested in William James, one of the best introductions to his work is not by James himself but by Jacques Barzun, entitled “A Stroll with William James.” Barzun quotes James extensively in it, and ties together the overarching themes of his various works with a deft hand. I may be slightly biased here because my jumping-off point for reading James was Barzun’s “From Dawn to Decadence,” a sprawling work that led me to investigate a number of references, but none turned out to be as rewarding as reading William James, who has become a personal hero.
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Can AI be taught to explain itself?
The thing that protects metadata is onion routing.

It's somewhat understandable why that isn't already used for everything. The latency impact is not small and it's unlikely the network could take the load if everyone actually started using it for everything.

But it's unfortunate it isn't being used more widely for messaging, where neither of those things are major problems.
Yes they are just mitigations. What else you got?

Firewalls aren’t iron clad they just minimize who can get in

There will always be deep, broadly unseen problems; it’s an information availability problem, not a technical one... testing won’t catch some clever edge case a random hacker can come up with because Intel, etc, have to ship, and they ship a design they can produce with information at hand; new deficiencies will be found

And those of us in no position to make chips have to suck that up and accept mitigation’s

So far no one has come up with a perfect model for any task that requires many layers of context and abstractions; physics, medicine... they’re all racing to find the next blocker and move on. Same with chip makers

IMO what needs changing is economics. Information is being hidden and not for security but to protect business models.

The economy could have been hit hard if this was known sooner. And having an economy hingeing on that truth, that theres a bug that could disrupt it we just haven’t found it yet, is economic stability and security through obscurity.
Yes, you are correct. I guess people didn’t get my joke.
I know GDPR is written this way, the question is how it will be enforced? If SO has no operations in the EU, and it's literally just take EUR payments, and the volume is relatively small (or they figure out some offshore processing hack) then they could make the decision to stop processing EUR and give GDPR the middle finger. That's a lot of ifs, but it's not a foregone conclusion that European markets are worth the GDPR headache.
Wrong. They use Ripple's xRapid which utilizes XRP. This is (after cuallix) the second company that uses XRP for money transfer.
I have absolutely never had to wait 30+ seconds for a credit card transaction that used the chip, so I don't agree with your assessment of that amount of time being typical. Generally, for me, I think it takes about 3-5 seconds from the time I confirm the dollar amount to the time the confirmation comes back.
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What you should actually wish it that payment to such publishers would be so easy that you wouldn't need to think about it.
I agree. I still have no idea how to use the latest Skype version without constantly ending up in menus and with options that I weren't looking for.

However, I also completely lack the curiosity to figure it out. I just try to minimize using Skype as much as possible.

It's a vicious circle of wanting to flee and thereby not getting accustomed to it.
True. From what I read, they are working on a way to fix that. It is a major issue at the moment.
I'm not the one trying to use intelligence as a metric for the moral worth of animals.

My argument is that intelligence is a much fuzzier thing than people like to admit. Usually though they're using it as a stand in for "consciousness", or the ability to experience the world as we do.
Technically it should be only under the authority of Congress.
iOS devices aren't only used to browse source files or PDFs. You could be at the very bottom of an extremely long Reddit thread, for example, or some other really long page where it would take multiple swipes to get back to the top.