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Sure -- and in fact, that's what the government appeared to successfully do in 2015-16, initially [0]. The OP's revelation is that at some point, the government's dragnet became ridiculously loose. So whether you believe the government is justified in cracking down on the purported treasonous group, it appears they've become so overzealous and incompetent that they (the gov't) have been easily tricked by their targets.

It's important to note how trivial this "hack". Maybe some shortsighted people will simply think this is a lesson of government incompetence. But other people -- including some gov't supporters quoted in the article -- may realize that this is a symptom of a government that has gone too far.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/03/turkey-co...
The parent said that the chances of that happening are vanishingly small. Your source (and your source's source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6628a1.htm) support that statement:

> The CDC analyzed the murders of women in 18 states from 2003 to 2014, finding a total of 10,018 deaths.

> The overall age-adjusted homicide rate was 2.0 per 100,000 women.

18 states, tens of millions of people, and an inconceivably small number of homicides in reality. The overwhelming majority of women are not murdered by men, but live a long life and die of heart disease, cancer, or other old-age diseases.

Even when you only consider the age range in question - call it 18-64 - the leading causes of death are still unintentional injuries, cancer, heart disease, and suicide: https://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/2014/all-females/index.htm There is a spike in homicides up to a staggering 7% of all deaths for the 15-24 age group, but that's only because young women almost never die, there's little real danger but an awful lot of fear surrounding this topic.
"Nerd" isn't a culture anymore than "geekyness" is a culture. It's a pejorative, an insult intended to shame the person it's applied to by suggesting they are slightly disgusting, socially disagreeable, ugly, uninteresting etc.

When the woman turned up to a social event and said, "why are the men such nerds" and walked away, that wasn't the men's fault or problem actually (unless they wanted to date her). That's her problem: she's the one lobbing insults against an entire group despite not knowing the individuals in question. They do not need to do anything to welcome such a person into their "culture" because she wasn't talking about a culture to begin with.

The story given above, assuming the last "men were at fault" statement is related to the first part, is sadly reflective of all the worst stereotypes of young women. The woman in question decided what career to pursue because she didn't want to be seen as hanging out with uncool people during her studies. Guess what - nerds would be happy to hang out with "non nerds" too, if they came to their events and didn't act all judgey and superior. This is not something unique to women, it's rather, that men seem more willing to either embrace it or tolerate it.

Presumably she is now in a field with fewer "nerds", but quite possibly earning less money than if she'd stuck with CS. Too bad for her.
These are really old scams – it's just that they're now being applied to a different market.
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> According to Oxfam someone in the "bottom 10% on < $2 per day" might very well be wealthier than a recently graduated US doctor from a top medical school if he's taken on student debt. And if that's the case then you have a bad measurement of wealth.

Would income be a better metric? If so, you're not going to see something like (the income of the top n) == (the income of the bottom m %) because it's very hard to quantify the incomes of the poor. And in many ways that is misleading, because you can be on a low income but managing fine and on a high income and not managing at all, just depending on where you live.

> Oxfam is doing the whole inequality debate a great disservice by putting out misleading and underhand data that takes the focus away from the real debate.

They use the term wealth. They're not saying income. On seeing the headline I never had any doubt that wealth was assets less liabilities, because that seems to be the main measure of wealth that is thrown around. Should they instead remain silent on this?
I feel like a lot of people judge Linus by some internal moral compass which just seems pointless to me. If anything is petulant and childish it's trying to control others for not fitting within some arbitrary set of personal rules.

Linus does a good job at maintaining kernel development and often makes sharp technical commentary. By those measures his communication style seems to have been successful and practically helpful so far.
>> Thats's nice, but so do Square Cash, Venmo, Paypal, etc... and they currently do it cheaper.

No they don't. Any one of those services can freeze your money or worse, go into your banking account and reverse transactions. That's not peer-to-peer. There's a centralized governor.
What would change your mind about Bitcoin Cash being a scam?

For me, it would be its value plummeting to near-zero. If no one values it or uses it for anything, I'll be convinced it was a scam. Now, your turn.
This implies that a monopoly is bad.

The government realizes how powerful Google's monopoly is. It's a monopoly on information. And that implies a monopoly on the rest of the world – at least, the part of it that uses Google.

Any litigation would be spearheaded by the government. As long as Google plays ball with the backroom deals, they have nothing to worry about. If the NSA couldn't tap into the data behind their backs, they'll do it clandestinely but with Google's knowledge.

This isn't as far fetched as it sounds. You're right that Google faces a monopoly breakup. But that gives the government all kinds of leverage into their treasure trove of human interaction.
Yes, but there have not been any in the US. (This is likely because of the amount of money Google 'invests' in politicians.)

Note that the EU case is only the first of three EU antitrust cases against Google. They're also about to get hit with (rumored to be even larger) fines for abuses with Android and AdSense.
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No its not like IOUS -- thats just FUD that those big blocker bcash dweebs keep saying.

LN tx's are actually bitcoin tx's. Micro ones! Proper real bitcoin segwittx's! Secured by the network. Its just they are not registered on chain until the payment channel is closed.
Not sure how that would work. You would have to make some transaction on the Ethereum network for other peers to discover you, correct? That kind of makes the barrier to entry a lot harder.

On desktop, it's possible to use mDNS et al, we need something similar for browsers.

Please tell me more how I could use Ethereum for discovery of other peers though, sounds interesting.
> Force goes a long way.

It really doesn't. It only goes as far as your resources. Once they run out, then you can literally no longer enforce your will. When dealing with an amorphous entity with an order of magnitude more resources than you do, then deploying force is a game of whack-a-mole that you can't win. Your only option is to fight a rearguard action trying to stay on top while the new world order emerges.

> "We will jail/execute you if we find out you're using cryptocurrencies" is an option readily available to nation states, and I seriously question the willingness of the "global elite" to risk that sort of penalty.

That is already the operative environment under which much of this wealth was created.
You face a big issue there. Meltdown is a core architecture issue. It will take a long time to make a fix. Add to that the need for a completely new branch predictor (a notoriously hard design issue) and you're talking about a lot of time. Intel and AMD should already have next years designs done (AMD has said as much with Zen 2). You'll most likely be looking at late 2020 to early 2021 before the fixed architecture is thoroughly tested, taped out, and being produced in volume.
For those of us still trying to wrap our heads around the value you described here (btw I do like the level of simplification you've introduced), can you explain how the coin would effectively be used in the cloud-storage protocol you suggested? I'm just not connecting the dots yet.
I've had a little exposure to the game dev industry, and I've rarely met anyone who actually studied game development.

Kind of in the same way that nobody goes to university to study web development. People come from different backgrounds, either academic or self-taught, and end up in web/game dev.

Game dev ends up, I feel, attracting a lot of people who couldn't self-start. i.e. those with no programming or art skills, who then study a huge mix of 2d, 3d, art, programming, sound studio stuff, marketing, corporate finance, and basically everything at the 101/intro level. Kind of become a jack of all trades, master of none. That's great at the higher (10+ years of experience) level, where you're catapulted into a directing role that steers many different departments. (running the factory) But at the entry level it just means you're doing specialised low-level work without having a specialised skill. (putting nuts on bolts).

I'm generalising of course, there's probably a number of excellent programs attracting excellent talent. But I think by and large game dev studies (particularly the pioneer programs around 2006-2014) probably aren't the funnel through which talent flows or is created in the industry.

As for less paid, yeah in general it's typically less paid historically. I'd say it falls within the category of the art industry. Typically that means low median wages and high levels of earnings disparity.
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>Except for first hand experience on a subject, you will never be able to find a source that is inherently trustable

Even first hand experience isn't trustworthy. Our memory is so deeply flawed that I can't even tell with certainty which first-hand experiences I had. Simply presenting "evidence" that you should remember something can cause your brain to make that memory up. And if the experience is genuine and and I try to remember some detail I didn't pay close attention to, my brain will most likely just make it up. So the only reliable way to learn from personal experience is to learn during the experience, but confirmation bias will make me miss most opportunities to learn.

Honestly, it's amazing that we are capable of learning at all.
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I think a great many folks in software development would still have ended up with a software development job even if they were told that CS "wouldn't be their thing"
It is not a challenge, it is by far the most common way to program them.
The problem is you're trying to solve a problem that most Facebook users don't care about. The hurdles to replacing Facebook or Twitter aren't technical, they are social. The killer feature of any social network is people using it.
There are hundreds of coins out there. 99% of them will fail. Even the 1% is a silly investment when compared to physical gold.
It's a feature in your touchpad driver. You should be able to disable it. It's palm rejection to prevent you to move the mouse while typing text.
Not necessarily. Online payment is currently mediated by a few large companies, the largest of them having their headquarters in a single country. There have been cases where these companies made things difficult for certain classes of sellers (for instance, erotica/pornography), or where pressure from that country's government made these companies block all payments to a specific recipient. In these cases I have read about, the person making the payment (and the person receiving the payment) would be breaking no laws.
I always remember when I first started surfing at the age of 10 in the North Sea. I was always sick and off from school with stomach bugs.

My anecdote is hardly scientific proof but this article certainly supports my thinking that I've now got a stronger stomach than most due to surfing at such a young age in terrible water conditions.

Over a period of a few years it just stopped and I was never ill again (after a surf)...apart from the dreaded and incredibly painful ear infections.
Yes. And tackling vague conceptual problems by introducing a uniform mechanism and syntax leads to overcomplicated designs. That's from my experience using C++ and other languages, at least -- Rust has always intimidated me so I haven't tried it.

Many problems are actually not that hard if we start only with the truly given things. Namely at C level, or even assembler level. For example, I recently had the opportunity to convert a design based on OS threads to one employing userspace threads ("cooperative multithreading"). It was a big success, since the need for synchronisation primitives completely went away, and it was much easier to program than e.g. Javascript -- which requires callback chaining. Any language that can't give as good control as C does needs to build huge infrastructure to support approaches like that (if it at all suits the language's semantics). And strictly, even C is too much abstraction - to support green threads some non-portable parts are needed.
Thanks for the info. Much grateful _/\_
Exactly. A huge amount of excitement about moving away from closed monolithic platforms to distributed protocol operators paid in tokens.

For example, the little guy might be able to make a small income from IPFS/Filecoin that would otherwise be strictly the domain of AWS and other giants.
Then that would more be a aspect of social expectations, no? Perhaps I've read to much malice into the word "systemic bias", as if people were actively working against someone doing the particular thing there is bias against, where it is more a result of social expectations on what is "proper" for each gender.

Again, only speaking from my Danish perspective, but I've never met anyone thinking STEM of all things would not be fit for females, but you probably would get that reaction if you were to say, as a female, that you wanted to become a plumber or similar hands-on jobs.

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Slightly going off-topic: Personally, I think the disparity we see, currently, in STEM et al, is for historical reasons, as younger boys used e.g. computers as an escape from socialising, and thereby grew interested in that particular field. I also think this is why it is sometimes met with a bit of a scuff from some in the tech community, because what was previously viewed as a something nerdy, uncool and with a lot of negative stereotypes attached to it, is all of the sudden the new cool thing, and people that suffered through bullying for being "nerdy" and generally not having the time of their life in younger school life, are now being touted as if they were privileged all along, which very much undermines the struggles they had during their upbringing.

This is mostly guesswork from intuition, since I personally did not have any trouble fitting in, yet even I got the "nerd" remark if I would tell people my interests, so I don't feel I was particularly encouraged or anything into this—in fact, most are probably here despite that.
There used to be a blog titled "Oligopoly Watch" (looks like it's dead now) where they talked about two or more groups of companies dominating various market segments. So yeah, you can have way more than two companies indirectly colluding to fix prices and competition.

I don't know if this is the greatest link, but here's a list of some current oligopolies: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/121514/what-are-som...
I think the author had a little over-the-top reaction of "it’s time to unplug everything, chuck my phone, don a tinfoil hat, and move to the woods." The buzzing and computer-created audio was immediately noticed. I also consider myself very good at noticing sound differences, but I think that's beside the point in this case.
Ironically, Sun might have not had to sell themselves to Oracle, and the world's server's might be running on SPARC chips that are immune to these issues.

Linux is what allowed Intel to get its biggest foothold into the UNIX server market.
Why can't the "Uberproxy" (in Google terms) consume Authentication mechanisms like spiffe[1] certificates and allow access to protected resources via those?

Theres no reason a BeyondCorp architecture needs to make automation or API access harder?

[1] - https://spiffe.io/
So they're going to ask general accounts to rank things for reliability in the era Russian "bot-armies" able to up-rank en-masse?

Suddenly they're going to be able to buy credibility the way they buy likes?

I'm not sure I'm a fan of this. I hope they've gamed that out.
You can't 100% eliminate speeding or child poverty or drugs or car accidents or corruption or gambling or unsafe working conditions or prostitution - but that doesn't stop governments trying for a reduction.
Works for me. Must be getting more traffic than they expected.
Are the costs of the current paradigm any different?
A minor problem with Rust is aesthetics. The syntax might look cryptic at times, and error messages the compiler outputs are not everybody's cup of tea, I'd guess. These are certainly not all that important when you're considering it for the actual benefits of the language, but otherwise that is a little con for me. If you write:

println!("Hello, {what}!", "world");

in your program, the error message you get is 16 lines long. And there seems to be no option to have terser error output.
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>Not doing the right thing for meltdown
would be completely unacceptable.

Like not patching it at all. Like selling new ARM Chromebooks with no plans to ever patch meltdown in the firmware or kernel. Because that's what Google+Partners is doing with Rockchip Chromebooks AFAICT.
It protects the seller against the fraud of malicious chargeacks. i.e. it provides surety of funds.
This is such a cool project. I'm looking forward to trying this on my old i9300, which is in the list of supported devices.
So are we saying that since nothing is getting fixed in that interim period, that AMD chips suffer much less performance impact due to their lesser exposure to the issue?
I would trust my WireGuard significantly more than any installation of IPsec, if nothing else than because I will almost certainly configure IPsec in a manner that is completely insecure, but not obviously so.
you should edit "some central authorities" in my country for example the central authority inflates the money without shame.
Are you talking about yourself or other people?

My Facebook feed is mostly personal updates about hundreds of people I have met, and it feels like the most democratic media I’ve ever seen. It improved a lot when I unfollowed the handful of people who post junk like sportsball.

Are you assuming the faceless masses are exposed to some unimaginable horror that you aren’t seeing? Or tell us more about the horrors you do see.
As much as I could possibly like this guide, I don't usually visit sites that hack my scrollbar.
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If they are not registered, then what is validating their uniqueness?
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who is this hypothetical poor man who's so bad at managing money that an exact total of the amount he's spending will cause him to overspend ?
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I'd say they do—a Rust user will never encounter a panic from a reasonable library that they're expected to catch.

If hypothetical unreasonable libraries are in scope, they can just open /proc/self/mem for writing (in safe Rust!) and violate memory safety, and that's not an argument that Rust isn't memory safe. So why should hypothetical unreasonable libraries be an argument that Rust has exceptions?
An optical lense is essentially transforming the image into fourier space and back again. The radius of the lense (approx) is a limit to the spacial-frequencies, i.e. some frequencies are clipped off. In the image plane, the signal has been backtransformed - however, some frequencies were lost due to the aperture.

I.e. the fourier transform explains, why apertures limit the resolution of optical devices. It is not only absolute brightness, but fundamentally an information-bottleneck.
+100 awesome for the annotated source. A lot of these demos get released as minified JS which makes it kinda useless to use them as a guide or hack on them.
I guess it depends on how you define "blockchain". If it's a system that involves distributed, untrusted participants and the need for proof-of-work, then I too wonder how useful that ends up being in the general case.
Protocol operators running "full nodes" are paid in tokens for performing the service outlined in the protocol. The protocols are ultimately developer tools for user facing apps. Most of the user facing apps aren't mature enough to be notable, just like the internet wasn't all that exciting in the early 90s.
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My proof is that I didn't buy any Bitcoin.
> These are really old scams – it's just that they're now being applied to a different market

Bitcoin is the Conquistadors landing on the Americas and decimating the natives with foreign diseases.

Mainline markets had pump and dumps. People got wary and regulatory institutions were born to fight the malaise. The regulators were successful. Pump and dumps are largely unheard of in large-cap U.S. equities. With the threat neutered, common memory faded.

Blissfully unaware, investors relinquished the protection of their regulators, cursing them as they shut the door, and wandered out unprotected and unwary. Almost without delay the entire menagerie of foul schemes emerged: pump and dumps, exchange failures, ticker painting, Ponzi schemes, et cetera.
I get your point, but allow me to offer a counterpoint. A game I can play (and win) without concentration or any real mental effort is a dull game. Sure playing the games can be a lot of fun with the right people but then they're fun despite the game and not because of the game. The game itself is just a catalyst for social interaction (which I guess in itself is a perfectly valid scale to judge a game on). However I believe that if it's a great game I should also be able to enjoy playing it in virtual silence against complete strangers.

Ironically I consider Catan a game that is mainly fun because of the social interaction the results from it.

And that seems to me to be a critical threshold to deserve inclusion in the category 'game'.

Is chess a game?
I'm from ScaleFT, thanks for the mention. True that our original focus was in SSH/RDP access, however we've recently introduced Web access as well.

https://www.scaleft.com/blog/how-to-deploy-a-beyondcorp-styl...

I agree with many commenters that it appears transformative, but that's only through the lens of Google. Centralized access controls at Layer 7 through a proxy service that can authenticate and authorize requests, while brokering encrypted sessions isn't that out of reach. Our goal at ScaleFT is to offer as much as a service as we can.

Where things do get tricky, though, is with the access policies and device attestation in a BYOD environment. Admittedly, we have work to do in this regard, but it may not require a full MDM layer. Really, you only need to query device state at a given time to make an authZ decision.

Love to see BeyondCorp get more coverage, and I hope to see further adoption outside of Google.
quite happy my thesis supervisor does not read this really really simplified portrayal.
It's kind of remarkable.