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> beat Spacex by two launches

Cute, yes, but they were also not sued by their competitors and forced at the last minute to relocate to a salty small island that caused epic issues for those launches, as SpaceX was by ULA.
> the overlap between important human antibiotics and the widely used animal antibiotics is modest.

The overlap may be modest, but the evidence clearly indicates that the resistances as a result of them do impact important human antibiotics:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194830/

> Increased virginiamycin use in Danish broilers during the mid-1990s correlated with a rise in resistant E. faecium prevalence, from 27% to ∼70% (7). Following the ban, resistance declined to 34% in 2000. Likewise, in Denmark, the 1998 ban on the use of tylosin in swine resulted in a decline in erythromycin (a structurally related macrolide) resistance, from 66% to 30%

> The finding of bacterial cross-resistance between NTAs used in food animals and human drugs was aptly demonstrated with avoparcin (an AGP) and its close relative vancomycin (an important human therapeutic) when vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) emerged as a serious human pathogen. A connecting link between resistance in animals and humans was revealed when Bates et al. found avoparcin- and vancomycin-coresistant enterococci in pigs and small animals from two separate farms. Ribotyping methods showed that some of the patterns from farms and sewage exactly matched those of Enterococcus spp. from the hospital (24). The structures of the two drugs are similar: they are both members of the glycopeptide family
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We are certainly not trying to do that. Our stated goals for this past year, and possibly some of our goals this year, are the direct opposite.
A key insight, that I got from Barbara Oakley's "A Mind for Numbers", was a way to avoid procrastination. The secret was to trick your mind. Don't think, "I have to do two hours of study." Just say to yourself, "I will study for 10 minutes." The mind says, "That's easy, I can do that." Once you are started, you can then keep going.

With this trick, study becomes a habit, something you really miss if you don't do it every day.
Apparently the soil there kind of sucks for heavy construction, so they have to put a bunch of material on top and wait for it to compact before they can start properly building out the facilities.
Or it goes to zero.

I am not against bitcoin. I have a bunch of Bitcoin. But buying bitcoin is strictly a speculative play. It is. It is not an investment: it is not a store of value. Nobody knows know what will happen ten years from.

But whatever happens ten years from now, odds are that it will be very different than what is here now, and odds are that t-bills will be pretty much the same.

Hence, why for long term stability you buy t-bills. If you want more risk, you buy the S&P 500.

For an amount of money that you can afford to lose, and you’re willing to put it into a highly speculative position, that goes into bitcoin.
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Agreed, if galleries had to list their prices it would be better. Although eventually they would just start colluding and we would be in the same place.
Once Blue Origin and SpaceX have rapid-turnaround, their rockets will be able to fly, land, refuel, and fly again within a day or two. It's not just a cost thing. Rapid reusability also increases the launch cadence.
The thing that makes my head hurt is that some of the people described in the article as having been swept up in this dragnet are still authoritarian nationalists.

How having an experience such as this can’t shake your belief that the state is infallible I really can’t comprehend.

It’s almost like Stockholm syndrome.
Also, Bitcoin is 15x more expensive than gold to store securely: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-15-times-more-expensi...

Edit: for large institutional investors in a trust fund
Wish i had your optimism , but tyrants seem to be the norm throughout history.
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Saying that there haven't been any antitrust cases against Google and Facebook is simply inaccurate. Google got popped with a 2.4 billion euro antitrust fine for abusing their search monopoly just last summer (example source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/27/google-brac...).
Of course, art sales are taxable but how much tax can be collected when many transactions are undeclared, item prices of declared sales are not reported correctly for various reasons, thus incorrect amount of tax is assessed? A lot of the activity in this sector is simply undetectable, even to many insiders.
I have to disagree with this assessment. The change was to publish the Weekly content as standalone articles throughout the week rather than wait for the Weekly Edition. The Weekly Editions are still there if you prefer to read LWN once a week. I don't think the quality of the content has suffered as a result.
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They sure as shit can, but they sure as shit don't want to. They could have tackled this 10 years ago but instead they optimized for likes, clicks, traffic, and revenue.
Yes, it's a real problem. Satellites should either be shot to a low enough orbit so they decay soon (5 years or so for small satellites), or then they should have a deorbit mechanism.
Four versions of Ada, named after the year it was released: 83, 95, 2005, and 2012. Each new version adds features on top of the previous.

Ada 83 has

- arrays,

- records (structs),

- derived types (subtypes carrying the same data as parent type),

- subtypes,

- access types (thick pointers),

- procedures (subprograms executed for their side effects) and functions (subprograms that return values),

- Named parameters

- reference arguments (greatly reducing the amount of pointers you have to deal with)

- Default values for arguments

- overloading by type

- in/out parameters

- private package parts (encapsulation)

- generic packages (kinda like C++ templates)

- exceptions

- tasks (concurrent processes that communicate with message passing)

-----

Ada 95 adds a lot of things that make it easier to do Java-style OOP:

- Record extension (inheritance; subtypes carrying additional data their parent type does not)

- Dynamic dispatch of subtypes

- Abstract types

- Subprogram access types (function pointers)

- Sophisticated package hierarchy (though potentially somewhat unintuitive: child packages extend their parents, parent packages are not umbrellas for children the way they are in Python)

- Protected types (protected objects)

- Modular types (unsigned ints with defined overflow characteristics)

- Unbounded_String (the std::string of Ada, compared to the char[] situation in Ada 83)

-----

In Ada 2005, the greatest addition is probably the Collections packages, which added several common data structures to the standard library:

- Instance.Method(Param) syntax sugar for Object.Method(Instance, Param)

- Interfaces

- Controlled types (RAII)

- Removed silly restrictions on access types

- Keyword "limited" to import only declarations

- Keyword "raise" takes exception message directly

- Pragma Assert

...and this is where I need to get off the train. Anyway, bookmark the Ada 2012 Reference Manual. It has everything in it.

Edit: ...but look what I found! https://www.adacore.com/about-ada/comparison-chart
Part of the job of the launch facility is to keep people safe even when things go very wrong, which happens fairly often with rockets.
How do you know the poor don’t enjoy ugly art?
I write somewhat simple programs and webapps for my job, from time to time. I use Python and its standard library, some modules, and the Bottle Framework. Pulling data from APIs, doing analysis, taking some user input, editing configs, etc.

I hardly ever use classes unless I'm extending a vendor library. I have never used generics. Why are generics such a critical component of a programming language that every thread about Go mentions it? It's an honest question from me.
as far as I understand it miners only bootstrap the system eventually transaction fees run it.
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No they cant.

See, I can make things up too. Furthermore the amount of education necessary to judge the trustworthiness of all potential subjects is not obtainable by an individual, meaning they have to hope the experts they choose to listen to aren't making it up.
Are you arguing that setting up QoS metrics for a search engine index is intrinsically hard in the way that monitoring the safe running of a nuclear power plant or an air traffic control system is not?

I think maintaining a search index is intrinsically hard - much like maintaining a nuclear power plant. I don't think monitoring a search index is though.

I'm also skeptical of the notion that the engineering of the search index has changed fundamentally in the last 5 years. Realistically Google is not under much competitive pressure any more.
Yep, and the majority party decided to waste their chance on unpopular tax cuts rather than use it to keep the lights on.
> but their search engine is extremely useful

In some ways yes, but google's search and advertising monetization algorithms have a direct impact on the success of anything that depends on search ranking or ad monetization.
Any corporate security mechanism requires the devices not to be tampered with...

If anything, BeyondCorp reduces the impact if a device does get compromised.
Experienced Rust programmers usually say the opposite: the borrow checker frees you from thinking about it since the compiler lets you know when you mess up.
more or less... I'm surprised the CPU doesn't already flush caches after speculative execution branches are abandoned
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I'm pretty sure that most people in the US speak English. See "signature strikes": https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-contin...

Quoting from the article:

> So-called “signature strikes”, targeting people whose behavior is assessed to be similar enough to those of terrorists to mark them for death, will continue, according to senior US officials.

> Human-rights groups have long denounced the practice – whose criteria can be as vague as killing “military-aged males” in regions where terrorists operate – as anonymous killing.
Anyone else disappointed by the photos? It's obviously a really gorgeous system, perhaps the most beautiful in the world, but I don't think the pictures do it justice.
I disagree with this point. While the facts about the amount of bitcoin being lost are true, if someone is properly motivated to learn how to do things correctly, and large amounts of money can definitely be motivating, you can be very confident in your security.

So many coins have been lost because people were careless or uninformed, not because the system is fundamentally broken.

Edit: You're free to downvote, but if you can't make a reasonable argument against me it just shows the emotional response you are leaning on. I would be happy to post a wallet address with $10,000 in bitcoin on there, if I am wrong about what I said, surely you'd be able to take the money from me?
Nuclear power is currently extremely expensive, and only operates in countries that provide massive subsidies. Even excluding cleanup, waste storage, security, and insurance. The difficulty in terms of peaking power make it a poor fit for lower cost, but intermittent renewables.

In theory it could be fairly cheap, but no country has pulled it off. France for example provided over 2 billion euros / year in direct subsides along side many indirect subsidies.
Well, I mean, these are not and never have been the main benefits of Bitcoin.

EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes (please check out their purpose, it's not to disagree with people). You guys should go and read the Bitcoin Whitepaper.
>> right to abuse.

Equating harsh even personally offensive language to "abuse" is the biggest disagreement here.

Many people, myself included, prescribe to axiom of "sticks and stones will break my bones but words can never hurt me" I understand that the current generation believes that feels are the most important thing ever...

I reject the idea that a person has the right not be offended, and I reject the idea that words on a linux mailing list are abuse
That said, there's been a religious flamewar over which-is-better-TensorFlow/Keras-or-PyTorch that's dragged down a lot of productive discussion about ML/DL frameworks.
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Actually, they support IIIF which is a great way of sharing collections.

http://iiif.io/

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/custom/iiif/

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/mirador/p15878coll84
The bureaucratic prep for a potential shutdown (including identification of essential personnel and functions that are exempt) usually happens in advance; if you missed the memo and you aren't exempt, the whole “not being allowed to work” thing will catch you up on the key relevant bits for you right quick.

> In German radio news, the US correspondent explained that the weekend should still be fine, with full effects of the shutdown beginning around Monday with the new week

That's just a way of saying most (but not all) non-essential functions run on a normal workweek, so are effectively mostly “shutdown” on the weekend anyway.
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Where are you seeing these kinds of comments? Can you link me to them? I’d like to tell them to cut it out.
You need to have both a US Tax ID number and a bank account in order to buy treasuries. This opens you up to capital controls and nation-state seizure risk from a number of sources.
Going to get popcorn, when it will hit news BTC will drop another 30%.
>Also, Bitcoin is 15x more expensive than gold to store securely: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-15-times-more-expensi....

This is only the case for this particular trust fund. You can secure your coins for free on your own.

edit: downvoted for stating a fact? really?
You don't have to on-shore art. You can keep it as a store of wealth in "Freeports" (logistics hubs within airports around the globe) and not have to pay tax on the purchase or asset in your homeland if you have the required funds sitting outside of your tax base, which in these cases, is quite likely.
They were absolutely the main features of Bitcoin when it first came around.
>If I put my tin foil hat on, it seems quite obvious that 'bad for consumers' is what someone wants you to think, but it isn't entirely true.

Is putting your tinfoil hat on really a good way to get to the truth of any subject?

And you've concluded that because you prefer the current situation the situation faced by society or consumers is the same. And that's really just your opinion.

My opinion, for example, is that Amazon has obviously operated maliciously in numerous examples. Not calling 911 when their employee was suffering from the heat of its facility, leading to his death. Encouraging individuals to sell (generate markets) on the Amazon network then under-cutting or pushing out that small seller when there's revenue to be earned instead by Amazon. Encouraging waste and flippant purchases that are fulfilled in an inefficient and non-evironmentally friendly manner.

Amazon is Walmart, online. And neither organizations present long-term benefits to society, in my opinion.
Yes, the original statement is totally reasonable:

Ultimately, I want a profitable product to be a byproduct of my excellent engineering, not have my engineering be just a means to an end, of getting to a profitable product.

In other words, “I want to work for a company that values engineering excellence.” And the reply is something like, “you don’t understand how business works”? It’s true that an understanding of the concepts in the article will help you recognize a good business so that you don’t go to work for a company started by engineers with no understanding of business themselves, but you don’t want to work for someone that has a knee-jerk reaction to bringing up engineering quality as something important, either.
How would it be considered malice to use your own revenue to sell things cheaper, while maintaining service and product listing quality. Are there any legal or ethical lines being crossed?
Removing freckles should be a crime.
The total cost of the 4 posters in the OP shown there was $80 - these things aren't expensive to build!

I recently moved to a new place and we don't have a dedicated HT space any longer, which is mostly due to lack of use. Our viewing habits have changed and these days I get more value out of a dedicated VR space than we would out of a theater.

Having said that, sound-absorbing panels are useful in all sorts of living spaces and I still intend to hang my existing panels and add a few new ones should the right poster art come along.
> New Zealand isn't capable of putting nuclear warheads on top of one, unlike North Korea.

North Korea couldn't put a warhead on top of this one either. The nominal payload of the Electron is 150kg. While there are nuclear warheads that small (the W80 is in that range), it's very unlikely North Korea has achieved anything close to that level of miniaturization.
I want to create a new LKML account just to reply simply with

> s/cool-aid/kool-aid/

Sometimes I just want to see the world burn.
Or the US dollar defaults. Nobody know what happens ten years from now either. It doesn't matter that the USD have been more secure or that having a central bank have helped stabilize the currency. In the long run, ten year? who knows.

Point is that Bitcoin is as solid an investment as many other things that are backed by governments.

I am willing to be that crypto will be around much longer than many states and so I am keeping that in mind when I invest.

I only invest long term and crypto like the US stock market is for me long-term winners. I could be wrong but today bitcoin isn't more fragile than many other currencies out there.
Are you forgetting the fact that it went from 2000 to 11000 in a matter of months?
Maybe it will be true again someday... Here's a cool map of mainnet lightning network node: https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/
Had to Google that since I don't play games.;)
As you've hinted at in your last sentence, these things are only contradictions if you look at the Linux community as a single entity, and not a collection of individuals. I doubt a single person could hold both views (at one moment in time, of course people change).
>You make some good points but I think it's incorrect to compare Rust & Go. Rust is a systems programming language. It competes with C/C++ more than other high-level languages. In fact, while Go was originally positioned as a systems language but it ended up attracting people from scripting languages like Python because its performance characteristics put it there. You'd probably never bother building a serious web browser in Go, but you would (& Mozilla is) in Rust.

I'm only comparing Rust and Go where they overlap. For example, Rust webservers versus Go webservers. There are other languages that may overlap different parts of Rust, such as in fact, Ruby and Python.

Go and Rust are both more general than the languages people compare them to. Both have C interop of various levels. Both allow unsafe code that touches memory directly. Both are high performance, relatively low level, and both provide some level of memory safety (though, Go provides much less.) I think they overlap a whole lot more than people think.

>In terms of correctness, I've never heard claims about improving security issues, except in so far as those caused by memory/concurrency - think of it as necessary but not sufficient for security. This "limited" class of bugs is responsible for quite a large number of runtime issues & they can be frustratingly difficult to find/fix (+ be confident that you did actually fix it). It's hard to say how much better things will play out in real-world software development as at some fundamental point there are always unsafe calls which weakens the guarantees Rust can make (but does put an explicit boundary on where you should go looking for bugs).

Well, I personally would claim it helps a lot of security and crash issues. Buffer overflows, use-after-frees, race conditions, and more. Also, most people do not overstate the safety of Rust, but beginners frequently misunderstand it. This is because people often list the benefits without listing the caveats.
Could you reference me? Canada's murder rate is about 1/2 of the NY rate, and about 1/3rd of the US rate, and is about half of its peak 40 years ago. Canada has roughly the same amount of murders as NYS but the latter has 54% (let's say half) the population.

It's true that the rates are rising for a few years in a row, but this is nothing new. If anything, Canada's typical pattern is to see a rise a few years in a row, followed by a stronger drop. [0]

It's also true that gang related offences were part of the recent rise. But let's also note that they entail about 100 of the 600 murders in Canada, 15.5% in the last year for which I can find data. (2016). The vast majority of murders are done not by strangers but by friends or family, not related to gang violence.

[0] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/171122/cg-b001-eng....
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I agree, this is good for bitcoin!
> They maintain order through force, not through economic size.

Force goes a long way.

> If governments had to resort to using muscle to crush Bitcoin, the next cryptocurrency won't be so easy to target.

That's pretty handwavey. "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.
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> I can't make myself outraged about rich people throwing money at each other. If there was no art, they'd find another excuse. It's not like that money would go to saving lives.

What if they're throwing money at each other so that down the line they have the plausible deniability when they, um, "donate" $10m pieces because they need a tax write-off?

What if its manipulated to inflate costs for a very hilarious game of tax evasion? Is that worth any outrage?
In nature, we usually only consider two success metrics: hosts infected and hosts killed. To maximize hosts infected, keeping the host alive and transmitting is very successful, so the most successful examples are those we barely even take note of (common cold, intestinal worms, etc.). To maximize hosts killed, in the physical world you either need a long incubation period where the host stays alive and transmitting (AIDS) or agressive transmission methods that humans have been getting quite good at shutting down (with the exception of transmission by mosquito).

In the world of digital viruses traditional metrics can apply too (Ransomware is measured by hosts "killed", botnets by hosts infected), but those are no longer the only interesting metrics. A virus that spreads within a certain IP block and one month after inception bricks everything it can reach might be regarded as highly successful, despite killing itself in the process.
But this is good for Bitcoin.
It’s already happening.
Docker is an abstraction...
Depending on the data, Google anonymizes the data in 30-180 days (most things are ≤34 days, and 180 is reserved for search).
> What Turkey is doing is terrible but mild in comparison to the drone war.

Turkey does that too, though. It has been using combat drones inside its own borders, Iraq and Syria, and the Turkish Air Force has previous for bombing civilians.
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