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Also not from the US, I used to think/assume that the deals happening via "plea bargains" were just mildly corrupt fictional plot devices used in police TV series scripts. It took me until reading about Aaron Swartz's case that I realized "wait what, that's an actual thing?". I always assumed that could only happen in TV series because the pressure and amount of leverage against the suspect could only be presented as a "good thing" (which is almost always) if you know that the officers and prosecutors are not only strictly "good guys" but also definitely for sure right in their hunches, which requires trusting the meta-narrative of a police TV series.
>"freedom on paper" is a load of BS

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

- Noam Chomsky
I would question the incentives for an insurance company to reject claims arbitrarily or to not make the process for submitted claims at the very least adequate for two reasons:

1. If you insure a bunch of people against, in short, stuff that can kill them, then it's really in your best financial interests to be making sure that as many of those people as possible are seeing a doctor as regularly as possible (within reason) because that's how you avoid situations where someone makes shitty healthcare decisions for 3 decades then suddenly needs every imaginable treatment for every imaginable ailment that said person, who is obviously not a healthcare professional, would have never seen coming because they weren't regularly attending to their health in a low cost consistent kind of way, instead they just let their health deteriorate until it was an emergency. Which, from my understanding, especially in America, is where the vultures pounce to ensure your insurance companies pays top dollar for critical drugs and treatment.

2. On a purely accounting note, wouldn't this just fuck up your cash flow figures? I mean, if someone needs to get their insurer to pay for something because they don't have another option and they try and claim for that thing, isn't it in your best interest to make sure you pay out the amount at least reasonably quickly because, especially if you're acting in bad faith, their going to eventually break their way through the system to the "submit claim button" through sheer hours of trying, or their going to end up in court because they don't have other options. Then you've suddenly got a massive lump sum payout that probably wasn't in your forecasted expenses. To me, that just sounds like unpredictable silliness.

But then again, I live in a country with free health insurance so I genuinely could be entirely missing the mark here and it could genuinely be more profitable to pinch your pennies as an insurer.
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I saw one exchange charge 0.5 btc to list and support new forks but charge 0.1 btc, if it was an ERC-20 Ethereum token
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This is the most salient point -- Montana has one of the largest, if not the largest, vote-by-mail operations in the US, so ballots were probably cast and posted a few days before the election.
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That's one new can of worms. See, I don't have a lack of faith in cryptography; I have a lack of faith in humans ie. PEBKAC. I believe cryptocurrencies are being and are continuing to be abused by human beings with immense repercussions --some of which we're already seeing, some of which is hidden in plain sight, some of which we're yet to see. From programming errors to deliberate scams to losses of hardware wallets the cryptocurrency world isn't for the faint of heart. Meanwhile, there are more ethical banks. They might not be as popular as the big names heck they might not meet your ethical standards in one way or another but... they are out there. I'd say, check out that solution first.
Maybe this is just me but when I enable that king of options I end up getting the automatism of bypassing them (like typing rm -f everytime if rm has been aliased to rm -i).

I prefer having a way of reverting changes rather than something that gets in the way.
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The visual marker of scope is there and it's massive: indentation.

You can write bad code in every syntax, but when a language carries jokes about being "write-only" and the other has a reputation for being anal about indentation (the single most helpful scope-marker in any syntax), I don't think you can argue about objectivity when discussing readability.

This said, I'd like to see scientific comparisons, which are lacking. Some studies suggest terse languages using more special characters are more readable to experienced programmers than ones with simpler syntax, which seems to match your experience. That might well be true; but when applied to the real world, this still means than only a minority will ever prefer that style over a simpler one. As the number of coders naturally rises, this will only become more and more true over time.
how would one describe Perl 6 type system?

Is it dynamically typed, optionally typed, statically typed?
The amount of Yuan isn't literally infinite but China can print new Yuan a lot faster than Europe can buy it up and, in practice, would absolutely need to in response to extra European demand so as to not suffer from a deflation induced depression.
Well, this way you will have 2 versions of code in the wild, ascii and non-ascii. We will need to memorize both, which makes it harder to learn, and also having 2 versions of syntax that you run into puts unnecessary mental strain on a developer having to switch between contexts. Perl's motto was always "There's more than one way to do it", but IMHO it was also the root of many of its weaknesses. It just makes code more complicated to understand, and this is one way to make it even worse (otherwise I love what they did with Perl6).
Typically, anyone working at an investment firm may be privy to material information, and is banned from investing in any security that that firm has in their universe. Doesn't matter if you actually do the trading.
I have a slight quibble with the first point, though I generally agree. There are public companies out there that simply don't care about Wall St, and are run like they're private. It requires an admittedly rare combination of founder controlled/involved, no need to raise capital, strong business model, and unique culture. Think about Amazon, who have given the capital markets the biggest middle finger of all time, refusing to show a single dollar of profit because they believe the reinvestment opportunities are too great (I would strongly agree).

There's an agricultural company called Seaboard Corp that's public. Its's a $5 billion market cap company controlled by the founding family. There are no analysts covering it, they've never once held a conference call, they don't give guidance, etc. The stock is near its all-time high and has returned a staggering 22% annually since 2000. Sure, these are rare, but the market is pretty efficient about this stuff over time.

So it's possible, and I bet it would be possible for In-N-Out as well. But it would probably still be viewed as a hassle, and if no one in the family needs liquidity to buy a super-yacht, or pay a massive divorce settlement, or buy an NBA team, there's no point.
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Google does offer a paid email service through their G Suite product.

It's generally aimed at businesses but the cheaper options are $5 and $10 a month which is comparable to Fastmail.
I came to ask the same question. Have been using 'Blur' [0] extension for the same (After hearing Ghostery is actually by an advertizing company).

[0] : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/donottrackplu...
I'm a recent newcomer to the Bay area. What is the Tsunami situation for places like Mountain View? Places like the GooglePlex are pretty close to the Bay. Is there even any real high ground in the area?? If something happens for real, do sirens sound?
I'm not sure I understand what value DDG is providing exactly.

I use Bing with cookies and JS disabled. DDG on the other hand can't be used with JS disabled.

Before you say that privacy is about cookies and JS has no bearing in it, think that Google for example uses all kinds of JS to gather information about your browser. That's extra datapoints that they gather about you.
The site I linked argues not because unrealized gains occur when something you own goes up in value. But during a fork you are given (access to) something new.
It seems backwards but it's to prevent things like insider trading.

For example, if this Finnish bank were planning to open its own cryptocoin exchange, the employees would have advance knowledge. They could buy or short impacted securities before the announcement/opening.
Yes, we have the blessing of LN and, we're working on creating a non-profit org.
I remember one particular set of pictures with both buses and coaches (and some with neither) on it, and it asked me to click on the buses. It said I'd got it wrong, but presented an almost identical set afterwards, and I included the coaches, but that was also wrong.
nevow.stan uses objects to represent its ast. This isn't the same because it misses the point: objects aren't data in python (or most places, since objects are rarely printable/readable).

Practical Common Lisp demonstrates a spiritual predecessor that works on data from 2003[0]. I'm sure there are much older implementations floating around for CL and Scheme but I don't care to look for them. This is a common idiom in lisps.

[0] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-an-html-generation...
you mean php? :)
Oregon only uses the mail for voting so Montana isn't the largest.
CI is fine and I am happy GitLab is offering it as it makes sense to integrate strongly with source control. But building a web-IDE?

Please don't go down this rabbit hole, GitLab - there will be dragons (in essence you will have to build an OS for the browser). Developers have their beloved editors that work very well for the most part (at least better than their JS counterparts).
Google's "big" client apps (Inbox / Gmail / Calendar) are a mix of Java converted to JS (GWT) and native JS with the Closure library/compiler. I think, anyway.
> It's not a good sign for the US

IMHO this isn't necessarily true. A weaker dollar could mean stronger exports.
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Apologies, the name of the standard issue rifle for the British Army at the time.
Point 1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

Point 2:
There's no country with more money and infrastructure than the US. The only advantage would be more people. And I doubt China has more of the people needed in Biotech research than the US which still attracts the brightest of the world through it's academic system.

So there must be something else. And I think lack of regulation might be a good enough reason. Kind of like how Hollywood boomed after they pirated all the hardware whose patents could only be enforced on the east coast at that time.
Any alternatives for macOS?
Of course it can be used with JS disabled: https://duckduckgo.com/html/
Made it to Silverton just before they closed Red Mountain Pass once. Five feet of new snow at the mountain. It took a day to open, then we had the best skiing of my life. Then I drove back to Boulder in another blizzard. 285 was closed, ten hour drive. Miss that area so much.
Supply chain mistakes are costly and can result in unsaleable stock. There are existing standards (see GS1) but they are full of errors due to disparate systems and varying interpretations of XML messages. Smart contracts have the potential to reduce the cost of goods delivery through shared supply chain management systems, placing less risk on a potential 'new to market' market place or 'direct to consumer' seller. These are both direct challenges to Amazon and eBay.

Expensive digital assets will always require a mediation fee. You could write your own contract to transfer the assets for free but you would probably want to pay to guarantee that it worked.

Of course, if the digital transaction is of a suitably small value, a direct transfer of assets may be preferred via a self-authored contract. The loser in this case is VISA or whichever payment provider scalps off the top of music/movie/book/... sales currently.

I wasn't trying to specifically cite transactions as being the main target of smart contracts (although they are the most obvious). The example was to show how existing processes of a transactional nature can be recreated with less complexity and therefore utilise less resources. There is an endless list of examples where this holds to some extent.
The section in which obscure companies are using it for trivial tasks?

Sorry if that sounds harsh but in Python, Ruby, even Perl 5 large companies that bet the farm on the language are ten a penny
"The processor should perform as described - anything less is a very nasty surprise waiting for users. Intel could allow users to opt-in to less performant behaviour for security, but bad performance absolutely must be opt-in rather than opt-out."

Take away: it all depends on the users preferences. I am with you, in most cases, it should be about security, but I guess there are legitimate use-cases for the opposite as well.
I like JS even though I'm a strong-types-type. I appreciate its flexibility and the way you can do clever things with it (like this project eg). It has been let down though by what was initially a v poor module system.

This then led to the myriad toolchains/PMs/bundlers/language processors that added a huge amount of grit to what should have been a blindly simple development process. Some shoddy implementations have been allowed to mature far longer than they should have, and we're still trying to recover.

But the base language is fine IMHO.
I was around, but still didn't actually see it. I see people complaining about it more than I actually see the comments themselves. That's why I always ask for concrete examples, and people never actually show them to me.
We are in the infancy of genetic manipulation. A working understanding of CRISPR only developed in the past few years. There were some significant hurdles to getting to that point.

In the coming decades, we shall be programming genes like we program computers. We'll model organisms, formulate changes, simulate the formulated changes, then create the genetic "programs" (really, life forms) using some kind of biological gene expresser.

Right now we're in something akin to the vacuum tube era of computing where you need to be a government or a large corporation to do more than just tinker. As with computers, those barriers to entry will not remain in place for very long.
ha, imho, it reads as a stylistic choice that fits the exasperated tone I think.

But there's a certain logic to that statement too. American cities always had very wide streets, 100 years before the car was invented even. In hindsight, it's hard to rationalize why really, but it seemed to have been because of this obsession for utility and practicality. Those very wide rigid grids were a transport-oriented design choice. To keep the horse shit away, so carts could make U-turns, so you could dump your bathwater in the middle.

The tragedy was that those wide streets were the seed for cars eventually destroying urban cores. When cars were invented, they had the space for them right there. A street that was used for everything (markets, recreation, horses, ...), suddenly became a 4-5 lane highway filled with loud, stinking, dangerous cars. Of course nobody wants to live next to that, it's genuinely awful. It set in motion a vicious cycle of people moving out of the cores and needing more parking-infrastructure to accommodate that commuting.
The Balkan wars were fought over such small details. It could easiliy go badly in Europe at large (again...) and then China would gain from that situation too. Do you think they would be too shy to help some warring faction or other? They tried in Yugoslavia and that was back in the 90s!
Does anybody know if Hetzner charges forex on US debit/credit cards ?
Is nobody here aware of/concerned by DDG ownership's previous endeavors?
While forking as you stated isn't really an issue (if my dog forks Bitcoin, does it really matter?), but it does suggest that people are willing to do it. If we drag out further and further into the year and some of the problems with core Bitcoin aren't resolved, we'll probably see more attempts at forking, and you only need one to cause some chaos.

Each sizable fork adds confusion, though. It might be obvious to you that Bitcoin Cash is not Bitcoin, but new adopters not so much. IN some sense the Bitcoin brand is becoming very diluted.
You can only truly believe this if you have never been an open and active supporter of non-conforming (and threatening to status quo) beliefs or are not black/brown. McCarthyism and antiblackness are still very much built into the functioning system of western nation states.
Workplaces like banks are very sensitive about what you can or can't do. This article is thin on details. Better source:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/nordea-ba...

“It is widespread practice across the banking industry to restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing,” Kellberg said. “Nordea therefore, like all banks, has the right to set out policies in this area that apply to its staff.”
The idea of crypto taxation (besides forks) is same as stocks. Thus, selling crypto for fiat is same as selling crypto to buy another crypto tax wise.

Taxation in general is not a happy event, but it is consistent in this case.
Not paying taxes on the income you didn't make is borne by society (as I mentioned).

No, its all about the same deal. Ethically anyway.
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Billions of profit out of trillions spent on health care. Insurance company profits are not the real problem with health care costs.
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I use astalavista.box.sk with cookies and JS disabled. I browse using Lynx.
> you should definitely check the output before overwriting stuff

That wouldn't really help in the case of redirecting sed to the same file.

$ echo "a" > test.txt
$ sed s/a/b/ test.txt
b
$ sed s/a/b/ test.txt > test.txt
$ cat test.txt
$
I grew up in the suburbs and was walking to the bus stop by 8, and taking public transit to places by 15. It wasn't especially unsafe, although it would leave you stranded places after 6 in the afternoon.
Yes, so you don't make work-trades to advantage your personal-trades. My employer bars us from certain things like short holding periods and naked puts.
Please elaborate, I'm genuinely not aware of any of their previous endeavours nor who the ownership is.
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This announcement is more than private search; it's all the privacy essentials to search and browse the web -- tracker blocking, upgraded encryption, and private search (with more to come) -- all in one package, available on all major desktop browsers and mobile platforms.

With regards to the search component, we actually offer two Non-JS sites: https://duckduckgo.com/html & https://duckduckgo.com/lite. Also, turning off JS and cookies still doens't prevent a search engine from tracking you, which they can do simply by your IP address.
Nice, works for `/bin/bash` but not `zsh`. Still nice trick.
Oh thanks for that. But don't say "of course" please. Typically the stuff you're looking for should be on the front page, not hidden away in /html.

In any case, I'm still waiting to understand why this is better than using any other search engine with cookies and JS turned off.
Scaleway's "customer support" forums will give you a good grasp of what you're in for if you buy their service.

I'll quote a different customer's opinion (on those forums) that summarizes my experience using their service: "Whenever I've tried to use Scaleway for something serious, I regretted bitterly".

My experience was essentially this: Scaleway advertises that you can have virtual servers with up to 10 150GB SSD volumes, so I signed up and created a virtual server with two 150GB volumes. After several attempts over three days, the server wouldn't start at all; it never actually started.

Scaleway's support told me that "it's because there are no available nodes matching your configuration." and "If our stock is low then there is more chance that the only free nodes are "default" ones, with 200GB available only". The solution, according to their support, would be to "keep trying to start the server until it works".

To add to this, Scaleway started billing me for the (unused) volumes attached to a server that cannot be started because, according to their support, they didn't have the resources to provide it.

So, I certainly didn't feel assured that they are able to provide what is advertised on their website (virtual servers with up to 10 ssd volumes). My key takeaway from this experience was that if you have a platform on Scaleway and you need to add servers to cope with growth/features, they may not have the capacity/stock to provide it. Even if you have only 1 server, which was my case, they may be unable to say when you'll be able to start the server on a physical instance.
I'm not aware of them, no. What are you talking about?
Don't spend your money your way, slave!

(Edit: My boss telling me what I can or cannot do with my money would be a reason for me to immediately start looking for another job. Who the hell do they think they are? I can't believe it, this article must not be telling the whole truth.)
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Indeed. Use >> in preference to > at all times ;)
Self-Loading Rifle. A semi-automatic version of the Belgian FN FAL. Used in the Falklands War by both sides, interestingly.

Could be made to fire fully automatic if you knew the trick but with a 20-round magazine there wasn’t much point!
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Does empathy seem to thrive in smaller, homogeneous communities(ex. Japan, Nordic countries)?
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Why would a website go down during a government shutdown? It actually takes more work to turn it off, doesn't it?
> Consider for example what should happen when grepping /dev/null/

In the solution I gave, same thing as before because I said regular file. That is if you can open /dev/null for reading, which I thought you couldn't.

I think I'd be fine with saying that the infinite loop is the behavior that happens. GNU's grep obviously is doing some janky check which it shouldn't be. Consider what it will do when you get just slightly more clever and it can't determine the input/output types. The one on macOS has arbitrary file size-dependent behavior, which is problematic. Doesn't seem like either of them does a consistent thing.