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Apparently no one in this thread read the article.
> You saw it too in the last presidential election, where people rallied behind either giant douche or turd sandwich because they would never vote against their team.

I see that as more of a failing of the democratic process than people being tribal. Simply put, if you opposed Trump (or Clinton) your only sensible option was to vote Clinton (or Trump). The sooner we escape this two-party hell the better, but it won't happen any time soon.
Apple Q3 2017:

"The Company posted quarterly revenue of $45.4 billion and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.67. These results compare to revenue of $42.4 billion and earnings per diluted share of $1.42 in the year-ago quarter....

"Apple’s board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.63 per share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on August 17, 2017 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 14, 2017...."

Apple is on its own side, and it is winning. It occasionally allies itself with users, and they mutually benefit from the arrangement. The users, of course, do not release quarterly reports on how happy they are, and don't break that down by any particular company, so we can't compare to see who benefits more.

But Apple also--more rarely--does something hostile to users. I would cite as an example the removal of TRRS connectors from newer iPhones. Clearly, in that, Apple was squarely on its own side, and users that didn't like the change could use a dongle or sod off.
I wonder how much the author earned from this game.
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in terms of metal we have gold, silver, platinum. In cryptocurrencies we have 1000. If cryptocurrencies persist over this current hype, then its still open which of the +1000 ones will be the "gold" and which ones will go to 0.
Yup, I forgot about Asheville.

> proven racist bias

That goes both ways (Charlotte, Greensboro and Fayetteville). I really don't think the Democrats are going to be happy with the outcome of a rebalancing, because the Republicans will still have a huge legislative majority, maybe even more so.
The dictionary in keyboard apps is often crowd sourced, especially sentence predictions. Your own common phrases are made more significant as well. I would assume speech to text systems would do the same. Coherent sentences is very important for the recognition algorithms, and you can often see word corrections happening live as you complete your sentence.
Not that I disagree, but at what level do you establish proportional representation? At the state, county, city/town/municipality, somewhere in between? Currently, I think the boundaries are drawn ad-hoc but loosely defined by population, geography, and demographics that benefit who ever is in charge of the pen.
While DailyKos isn't exactly an unbiased source, I did find the maps shown in their article to help illustrate the issue well.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/27/1579905/-These-t...
The article suggests that facebook is ending chat bots support, thats not the case - Services like https://jumper.ai/ are still alive, its AI assisted chat bot with payments inside messenger.
To be fair, gerrymandering has been practiced by both parties for centuries. But the NC case was particularly egregious.
> then one is forced to admit that we also have generally good security and privacy safeguards.

It's a tremendous conceit of the software community to actually believe these are purely-software problems that can be solved through software. Sure, software goes a long way, but I argue that it's a fool's errand to hope they can or should be solved in software, exclusively. Like - hardware will always be a factor, at least that should be obvious. But also culture/ society/ laws/ etc. have important practical implications. The very fact that we have lots of people scrutinizing these aspects suggests that the state of software security&privacy is really not "crap" (far from perfect, but definitely not "crap").

To you believe that article to be true, one must have a fairly black&white view of the world. 99% (probably much more) of the humans can't really bypass those "crap" security safeguards.... it's good that we have high standards (especially in areas like this), but come on. When in the human history was security(in general) better? What are we comparing it with, to postulate it's "crap"?
> Had you wired that money from Coinbase, you'd still be waiting for it months later.

While this may be the case in some wire transfers into Coinbase/GDAX, this is certainly not the case in all cases. I've made three wire transfers of differing amount within the past three months and in each case the funds were deposited into my Coinbase account within 36 hours. Two close associates of mine have had similar experiences depositing via wire transfer in the mid- and late-December, 2017 time frame.

Granted, I have not deeply investigated all of the "my wire transfer has been pending for multiple [days/weeks/months] and still hasn't been deposited" complaints I've read on Reddit or the Coinbase forums, so it could be that I'm an unusual case vs. the norm.
This is some weapons grade bullshit. "The legislators can pass whatever unconstitutional law they want, so long as the judges are there as a failsafe."

I lived in NC. The senators there that introduced a state constitutional amendment to deny marriage equality all ran in districts where they had no opponent running at all.
When I don't have to wait for the person in front of me to figure out which pack of gum to get, and then find her checkbook... A well trained cashier is faster than me once I get to the front of the line (particularly when I have fresh produce - I don't know which code to type in), but with self checkout I'm generally faster overall just because I don't wait as long in line.
Dr David Perlmutter is a neurologist who pratices "functional medicine" and makes a lot of articles and videos. The articles on his website often refer to scientific literature and you get get a list of articles by doing a search on his site: https://www.drperlmutter.com/?s=vitamin+d

You will see a list of articles what Vitamin D does to prevent and heal diseases.

I am taking 15.000 IU/day and have regular blood tests to make sure it stays below 150. I take a lot of other vitamins and minerals and the nodules in my thyroid went from stage 4 to stage 3.

I went to see 2 doctors and they had different opinions: one said it is better to take 30.000 IU every 2 days for better absorption and the other one said it is better to have a stable level. I prefer a stable level.
Typically if the sending institution or receiving institution maintains a nostro account at the other end of the transaction, they'll process the transfer immediately.
Correct. His mindset or sugguestion is to only buy shares in a company you would wish to own entirely, and forever. Buffett stresses the ownership of the underlying business, rather than securities speculation.
Why should it be necessary to always have to come to a complete stop before yielding to traffic on the intersecting roadway? A stop sign doesn't prevent one from failing to yield to traffic even after coming to a complete stop.
Looking flat but honestly not as bad as I thought it'd be
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It's managed very differently. HEVC and H.264 have "pools" where patent aggressors can join without actually contributing anything useful. So it's about amassing parasitic control, not about technology.

Free codecs work completely the opposite way. It's about removing the barriers of this parasitic control and allowing the codec to be used as widely as possible.

Weapons analogy describes this well. The first case is akin to arms race, where they accumulate weapons to be able to intimidate anyone when they feel like it. The second case is global disarmament.

TL;DR: it's not a technological, but rather political (control) issue.
This http://eloquentjavascript.net/index.html
2008 was an exception - most of Buffett's investments have been in the open market where he was simply the highest bidder at the time.

The problem with a Winklevoss put is likely the credit risk, not the price
I live in NC and have voted twice (last 2 years) and have not been asked for any ID, nor did I see anyone else get asked.
I have looked at such implementations but don’t know you about whatsapp specifically: you will see the notification no matter what. This makes this attack not really an attack. Sure the servers can modify the participant list but everyone will see it and everyone will choose to write to the new group chat willingly.

When someone joins/leaves the group every participant generates and distribute a new key. So as a rogue participant, the keys you’ll receive won’t allow you to decrypt past messages.

PS: this article was posted before the speaker was even done with his talk. This is funny?
> What is the actual gain to society from requiring a cyclist license? Today, without licenses, police can and do hand out moving violations to cyclists.

I could, as someone who doesn't have a driving license, or has never learned to drive, go out on the road with my bicycle and more or less ride whenever and wherever I like.

I don't know what any of the road signs mean and I have no experience or training in hazard perception and collision avoidance. The law doesn't require me to. If I tried to do the same thing in a car I'd be arrested.
The important thing is to allow ranked voting, which would help with the current duopoly in US politics.

And of course drawing lines on a map rarely helps with fairness.
Requiring new participants to have an invitation signed by the administrators private key seems like it would prevent this.
Nate Fick's op-ed is well written but misdiagnoses the problem. Having spent my whole career in cybersecurity, years studying public policy, and prior work at a big four accounting firm, I believe that while legislative action is necessary, it is not sufficient. Let's examine the success of the law Fick hopes to model, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

The Enron fraud, which precipitated SOX, was pretty simple at it's core. Arthur Anderson, Enron's auditor, traded weak accounting oversight for lucrative consulting contracts. In the wake of Enron, all remaining big four accounting firms, except Deloitte sold off their consulting businesses to avoid an appearance of conflict of interest. Since then, they have all either bought or grown their consulting businesses back.

In the six years following SOX, only three CEO's were charged with violating provisions of SOX. A full 60 of the 63 CFO's charged, were charged with violating previously existing legislation (http://ww2.cfo.com/risk-compliance/2007/08/count-em-63-cfos-...).

The problems are in the executive and judicial branches. The NYS DFS Cybersecurity Law is a good start, but companies will not change behavior until a case is brought and executives face real risk. Until then, no amount of legislation, Federal or otherwise will be sufficient. In fact, a patchwork of state and Federal regulations that cover some companies according to how they are chartered and which industries they are in (e.g. Healthcare and HIPAA) will only create a race to the bottom, where companies arbitrage regulatory regimes and confusion reigns. This was the state of financial regulation prior to the creation of the SEC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_sky_law).

An interesting historical footnote is that the era of blue sky laws was the early 1900's, which coincided with a period of technological innovation (electrification and the combustion engine), falling demand for labor, and was punctuated by manias and panics. Sound familiar?

It wasn't until after the United States experienced the Great Depression, awoke from it's fever dream and established a body to enforce the recently passed security exchange act, that Wall Street was temporarily cleaned up. Unfortunately, regulatory capture has resulted in modern day financial regulation becoming a competitive advantage for big banks that can afford the lobbying and compliance overhead.
The legislators themselves, as per the oath taken by every legislator in North Carolina, as noted in the NC State Constitution: Article 6, section 7.[1]

Sec. 7. Oath.

Before entering upon the duties of an office, a person elected or appointed to the office shall take and subscribe the following oath:

"I, _______________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of my office as _______________, so help me God."

[1] https://www.ncleg.net/legislation/constitution/article6.html
if this was true, the same would have happened to other dollar denominated assets - but it didn't. So, no, it's specifically gold that lost its value 70% during that period, not dollar gaining value.
That second graph and discussion is really frustrating. The claim is that latencies from 38-50 get shifted down into other buckets, and the the 51+ bucket increases is an artifact of the lower aggregate numbers.

Maybe the data supports this, but there's no way to know looking at the graph. The histogram should be scaled against total counts rather than the subcounts (just zoomed in appropriately for the dataset). As shown, its bad statistics at best, and disingenuous lies at worst
Well in the US, we have a two-party system, so we wouldn't exactly want to apply a solution that's optimal for a multi-party system.
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It's implied that that's generated by the client when it's going through the add member routine (exchanging keys etc).
I recently bought used 55" Sony for relative peanuts, and it was really simple - don't ever connect it to internet.

There is really nothing valuable that Android TV could get from manufacturer these days, only potential issues.

Maybe for me it's easier since I just use it as PC projector and watch content from it, don't have set top box connected to it at all.
And he employs a couple of people to make those sorts of investments for him.They're quite good at at it too. I can't remember their names, but it should be easy to look them up. I think they're mentioned in all the recent annual reports.
Gold, and silver, was nice metals for making durable tokens off back in the day. What made said tokens currency was not the metal, but the stamp.

That said, daily, local, transactions were likely done either using simpler copper tokens or basically a verbal or written IOU.
> if the ID was equally easy to get for all voters

Who in this country is unable to get an ID? More specifically, who in NC is unable to get an ID?
From the court decision [1]:

> But, on the day after the Supreme Court issued Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612 (2013), eliminating preclearance obligations, a leader of the party that newly dominated the legislature (and the party that rarely enjoyed African American support) announced an intention to enact what he characterized as an “omnibus” election law. Before enacting that law, the legislature requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices. Upon receipt of the race data, the General Assembly enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans. In response to claims that intentional racial discrimination animated its action, the State offered only meager justifications. Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist.

That does seem pretty damning when you read their justification

[1] http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/nc-4th.pdf
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So I'll be that person: if it can be enabled in the 58 beta, does that mean it's on track for being included in that or another specific release? Or is it not planned yet?
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Could you please explain succinctly why do you think that Bitcoin is undervalued, why should it produce solid future returns and why do you think it is a good investment for someone with (comparatively) little investable cash?
Portland gets this wrong in every possible way. First, drivers turning right must yield to bikes in the bike lane passing on the right (not unreasonable IMO). However, state law also makes it illegal to pull into the bike lane and establish a position to turn right. Add in pedestrians and it's almost impossible to make a right turn on some roads at rush hour.

For some reason, we seem to have a lot of car/bike/ped conflicts.
Its perfectly fine for two adults + a bit of cargo for immediate use.
Independent non-partisan redistricting commissions solve this problem easily. But only a few states (Washington, California among the bigger ones) are brave enough to go through with it.
> it is not what you would consider perfect.

And that is exactly what I mean by security people giving up. Twenty years ago what I think is perfect was merely the norm. Now WhatsApp is OK and it's just me who doesn't consider it perfect.
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Is there a way to cut a cake between 3 people with this sort of approach? If there's not a way in general, could there be a way with the added assumption that cooperation to screw the 3rd person would be detectable and publicly shamed enough to disincentivize it?
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I think its interesting that they killed it because it was a "cost center" and never even tried to monetize it. I wonder how much it would actually cost if you measured the contractors to the minute and only charged for the tasks that humans needed to perform?
Are you surprised that the legislature creates laws about how the democracy functions? What do you think a constitutional amendment is?
So I saw one discussion where someone pointed out that gerrymandered districts tend to backfire spectacularly. Basically as soon as there is any meaningful shift in population, the districts that were carefully crafted to be safe for a specific party flip overnight with little warning. It's a thing you do to win short term gains, but you can't keep doing it over and over.

It's also a great example of politicians choosing their voters. If we are going for this system, why not just do a state-wide popular vote election and choose the top N people as winners?

Also, gerrymandering seems responsible for the candidates sliding further into extremism. Basically if you run in a freshly created district that you are reasonably sure will go to your party, your real competition isn't the Dem/Rep who is running against you. It's your opponents in the primary. So if you are a Democrat running against a Republican in a close to 50/50 split, you might be compelled to become more centrist to steal some votes. But if you are only concerned about the primaries, you will try to be the Democratiest Democrat ever.
Because 200 years ago, when travel and communication was more difficult, this was a reasonable assumption. The problem is that these systems are resistant to change and thus will always be stuck in the past.
Then it's up to the people to elect different representatives that promise not to do that.

It sounds to me as though you have not fully internalized that gerrymandering – and other associated voter suppression tactics – are precisely designed to thwart the remedy you recommend here.
Problem with the US is the fast food industry. Eliminate that, educate people properly, and you need far less meat to sate the ridiculous demand.
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After owning the S2, S3, S4, a couple of Notes, and a Gear S3 watch, I have concluded that Samsung is incredibly bad at software. If my plan is not to wipe the device and use some OS I want to (like in my pre-Note devices), I'll stay far far away.

For a TV, I got a TCL Roku TV this past Thanksgiving (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y6FSV5Q/). It's been pretty good, because TCL just made the hardware (and is good at it), and the OS is Roku. I've heard complaints about it but (and myself find some features very rigid) but Roku's interface is simple and stable. I haven't had an app or the OS crash on me in a month or so.
That's right, problems occur when people bet more that what they can lose. I'm convinced that's why the regulators don't like crypto-currencies. Not because they will lose their power, like some people seams to believe, but because they don't want a huge number of ruined people when the bubble collapses.
> For people who are young, familiar with technology and largely without any wealth, Bitcoin is much more attractive.

This is a crazy way for young people to think though and the opposite of how they should be thinking. If they don't have much wealth, they certainly shouldn't put it in something so incredibly risky as Bitcoin. They would be really hurt if/when BTC tanks. Someone who's rich wouldn't really notice 10% of their net worth gone.

> It's risky, sure, but to many of us, the entire economy looks just as risky, and with lower growth potential.

The entire economy is definitely not as risky as BTC. The economy doens't see 50% swings in value week-to-week.
Speaking of "The dreadful story of harriet and the matches". There is a wonderful band called the Tiger Lillies who perform a song about this story:

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It's a retelling of the story from the perspective of the cat, who is watching Harriet burning to death. Good healthy black humor :)

If you ever have a chance to see this band play live, they are really weird, obscene, entertaining folks.
Past performance will not necessarily reflect (and should not dictate) future returns :)

Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math, and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies
Maybe. And I could get behind a viewpoint that says, "some things are so dangerous, that a 99.999% job is not good enough". That's definitely true. But that is much less of a rant, and it requires the writer to do the hard work of defining those dangerous things, and arguing the benefits of adding the 4th, 5th, 6th nine against the cost. Saying "everything is crap" makes me just not take the article seriously, because the author only did half of the thinking job (not even half, maybe).
Visit Atlanta, Georgia, or Charlotte, North Carolina, or Phoenix, Arizona before wishing that on your own city.

We made that particular mistake already. You don't need to repeat it.
Why does seeing an ad for an established cryptocurrency signal a crash? Do you think the same thing about tech stocks when you see an ad for a new tech company?