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Do they consume as much as half the world? If the money is invested, where's the problem? Wealth inequality only matters for the well-being of the poor insofar as it affects consumption inequality. Why not talk about how much more they consume than everyone else instead of how much more wealth they have? Because talking about wealth makes for better rhetoric: wealth is understood as an indicator of social status and Oxfam doesn't think the very rich should have that much social status. It has nothing to do with the economic well-being of the poor.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/07/xxx...
> Antritrust doesn't exist to protect you from competition.

Depends on which antitrust you are talking about. European regulators are generally interested in keeping the market competitive. In the US they give bigger priority to effect on the end user. So in US a single monopoly which does not hike prices is fine whereas in the EU it is not.

This is also why Google was hit in the US over Android and search (they stifled the competition, while giving arguably better experience to the users) and Apple was hit in the US over e-books (they hiked the prices while having a puny market share).

Problem with Android in EU is mostly that without Google services it is not particularly useful as the alternatives are pretty bad. Google Maps has only a few very local competitors for example, DDG local search is pretty terrible and so on.
It's easier to read in a proper email agent, which usually color-code quotation levels, allows quotation collapse, and similar things. But that means you're an old fart reading their email in an actual, dedicated application instead of some webmail :)
We explicitly reach out to willing non-users to try and counteract said bias.
I've yet to encounter anything erected for no reason at all. But there are plenty of projects where rationality didn't have much a role in their choice of creation. Examples like that can usually be tied to a previous dev/engineer wanting to pad their resume with a new project, maybe with a new framework. Or a manager who wanted their team to have more completed work to look better on some miscalculated performance metric. Failing those options - it could be a bored employee who just wanted to make _something_.

That is to say - most people are acting rationally, but their context to an outsider may not appear rational. Maybe there's something to be said for a general relativity of rationality?
Most people tend to dismiss the wide-range manipulation of high-end art as an irrelevant problem that only affects millionaires and a tiny subsection of "commercial artists". A point worth making is that more often than not, it is taxpayers who end up footing the bill when public museums purchase wildly expensive work whose price has been driven up by the processes described in the article.

While museums may get a discount for being important "taste-makers", I can't believe that that makes up for the crazy overvaluation.

This alone should make the case for better regulation as difficult as it must be across international borders.
Well, my FB isn't polluted by news. I don't know why people talk as if they're forced to look at their news feeds, I hardly ever do. I use it for chatting with friends around the world, looking at their pics sometimes, making friends.
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In my experience, Instagram is the closest. But the downside is that it's only images.
PC as in Windows, or Linux/Mac? Big titles like Quake and Unreal were available on PC (meaning x86-32 plus Windows or x86-64 plus Windows in my post though things like Wine have been amazing for me).

There's always been an ample amount of games available on PC. Whether they were boring or not is a matter of opinion (I wouldn't say missing out on say Resident Evil is any issue). I am entirely positive all these games had recent equivalents in their genres. I said recent because else the comparison is too broad. Even Rez is just a newer version of Space Harrier, or compare first Doom or Quake VS last.

Also, some game vendors sign exclusive deals with a console vendor where they initially only release the game for that specific console. Then you have to buy the console, or wait.

So yeah curious what you felt you were missing out on.

Personally, I don't like consoles because I got nothing with this whole Trusted Computing thing. Instead I got a Steam Link for 5 EUR during Black Friday.
I always appreciate Linus' rants. In addition to being somewhat humorous, I usually learn a thing or two from them. It amazes me that people focus on how much of a jerk he's being instead of actually looking at the contents of his emails and learning something.
That seems to me like a rather anglocentric view. How are people who speak Arabic, Hindi, or Greek supposed to use the internet? And believe it or not, not everyone's keyboard allows for easy input of ASCII characters.

Besides, it's too late. There are already non-Latin TLDs out there - in part to support languages with non-Latin alphabets.
As a moral compass that guides our behavior without logic? Doesn't seem too far off...
I'm not completely disagreeing with you, but I often see reporting attempt to speak about something in the context from which it originates. An opinion piece can come later about how unbelievable it is that they do this to begin with.
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Just released the fresh version of this service https://mp3deo.fun where you can convert any audio files with an image to a fully youtube compatible video file. There's a lot of work yet, but I'd like to know what do you think and maybe some suggestions from you. I know that there's another online services like this, but this one is already different through interactivity, and also I'm going to add many features which these one doesn't have!
Apple and Google together have abandoned more tech than Microsoft.
Wow I didn’t think of that but what if a woman wrote the code in that patch? Linus would be making her feel unwelcome.
This again. This comes out every year and is equally misleading each time. Here's an article from 2014 going into exactly why it's misleading http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26613682
I know the approach described in the article is not particularly new [0], but I think it deserves to get more traction than it does (AFAIK).

I do have some other questions, though:

1) Does this infrastructure support BYOD, and if so, what does the provisioning process look like?

2) What permissions do employees have their devices?

3) How are device compromises handled?

[0] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43231.html
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Exactly. I was paying attention to people at the table, to activity, to eating and drinking and socializing. You know, what you do while 'playing a game'.
Never had a problem with battery or a queue that lasted more than a minute or so (either at Carrefour or Auchan, some of the largest ones in Lille).

The manual action doesn't take long because the attendant has little to do, and I don't use the lane where you can pay with cash, but the many others that only take a credit card.
The garbage part is still somewhat beyond my understanding but as I see it he isn't so much talking about the decision to not disable insecure branch prediction by default but rather addressing some very weird behaviour the patches add to kernel entry/exit points. Namely writing to MSRs (Model Specific Registers). This seems non-sensical as the branch predictor shouldn't need screwing with at this stage because the kernel already has retpoline protection. So he is musing there is further ulterior motives here.. perhaps another vulnerability (beyond Meltdown/Spectre) they are getting out ahead of with these very peculiar changes.

He is still ofcourse mad that they don't seem like they want to fix Spectre correctly but that seems tangential to how pissed he is that they are trying to get code merged that clearly does something other than just mitigate Spectre.

Unfortunately this entire thread is derailed with garbage about how Linus talks, rather than the fact he thinks Intel is doing something really fucking dodgy here and we should all try work out what it is.
An educated person can judge the trustworthiness of a source well enough.
As a person whose been there, I can say that it is temporary. Drift for a couple of months, even a couple of years if you can afford to. You will eventually find balance in your life and be much more prepared for the future.

I always thought to myself when I felt bad that it was actually fortunate for me to have lived this kind of extreme burnout earlier in life where I didn't have serious obligations and had time to overcome it.

Now when I think back at the times when I worked crazy hard, I think the root of that problem was my insecurity. I thought if I had good grades, it would lead me to a good university. A good university would lead me to a good job. And a good job would lead me to a good life. It was a pretty hard blow when I realized that the cycle of work never stops. There is always something to do and what I got left with after high school was poor social skills and a massive burnout.

At Uni I stayed away from ambitious people, hanged around with slackers and misfits. I joined a band, became the go-to guy for making party posters/concert posters by leveraging my computer skills. At the same time my grades didn't suffer that much considering I studied considerably less.

I can't buy the tales of self-discipline anymore. If my body is actively fighting me on the work I think I'm supposed to do, I don't do it. I try to organize my work so that I don't lose track of the essentials. If I can't get myself to work more at least I get these covered. Most of the times, the work that I think that needs to be done turns out to be unnecessary.

Unfortunately ambition is a two edged sword: on one side you work yourself to the bone for a period of time exceeding all expectations, but on the other side once you depleted your energy, you can't get yourself to work at all.

That's why after many years of trial and error, I now manage the essential work in my life in org-files. I schedule a maximum of 6-7 essential items for my week. These tasks also include life-obligations such as getting a haircut, sending out job applications, going to the doctor etc. I usually try to do these tasks to avoid drastic outcomes in the future. My org-agenda works like a security rope for me. I cannot foresee my mental state or outside factors affecting my life, but at least I always know the few tasks that absolutely need to be done beforehand to sustain my living.
a lot of people are going to blindly say 'antibiotics used on animals'. that's probably not the case. the ocean has a high salinity as we all know. The same mechanisms that bacteria evolve to deal with that make it ideal for fighting against antibiotics.
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It seems that both sides of the political scene want to control others, it's just one side does it to "maintain order and morals", while the other side does it to "fight hate speech and combat fake news".
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Lots of things become simpler when everything is a layer 4 or 7 service, and protected by SSL, and you're enabled to mandate hardware and software upgrades across your entire device fleet.

Another reuse of this philosophy can be seen in the Istio project, which combines Kubernetes and the Envoy proxy to authenticate and secure communication within a microservice architecture.
I am usually quite slow to imply evil intent. However, having spent many years on the periphery of the high-end art and antiques market I can say without a doubt it is one of the most corrupt and opaque markets you can imagine. It is a chain of concealed influence from top to bottom.

Imagine, if you will, a kind of mega-rich suckers list being worked by a pyramid of scammers: auction houses, super-dealers, agents, professional intermediaries, "experts" with no credentials etc etc...The bait is always the same: high society connections. Usually you will find that the scammers are charming, well connected persons who exist in a kind of demi-monde - friends in high and low places.
> Not everyone has access to t-bills

If you have a bank account and an Internet connection, you can buy yourself a Treasury [1].

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov
The issue is how Intel is handling these problems. If other vendors handle their issues similarly, they may deserve a similar response, though Intel, as the market leader in x86-64, has a special responsibility (and corresponding culpability), as other vendors may have to conform to remain competitive, as the marketplace is capricious in rewarding virtue.
Really? The internet is full of ranting commenters. They all have content of a sort. His don't deserve any more attention just because he's the subject of a hero-worship cult.

Its actually possible to find thoughtful commentary on most any subject, without suffering jerks.
You do have to use Conway's Law to your advantage. At least be very aware of its effects.
A story I heard is that it's very useful for tax cheating. You want to pay someone a lot of money ? "Sell" them high end art cheap. Nobody questions if art suddenly sells for 40% less or more, and then resells after a few years for 4x or 5x it's original amount. Of course, not entirely risk-free.

Same goes for things like some watch brands and a few other things.
Realistically, who else but the "one percent" will own all the robotic automation and AI?
These Oxfam reports always go for the sensationalist headline, but it is utterly meaningless. By their measure, some middle-class family with a mortgage (which implies access to credit markets, jobs, stability and all of the comforts of a healthy economy) is in worse situation than some homeless person and no debt.
The government built and runs the range on which they're testing. SpaceX is free to finish building their launch site in Texas and launch from there in the future. Sometimes government slows down innovation but in terms of both public and commercial space NASA has mostly been a force for speeding up and enabling innovation.
Frankly I won't... I am not selling or promoting anything, I don't need clients or investors, I am not promoting myself and I am not looking for a new job, quite the opposite, I am actually looking for an early retirement, (but I just can't leave the team I am leading behind, so I am postponing very year...)
Adobe is already adopting UWP, with Adobe XD being the first product for the store.

http://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html
Essential reading for all those who say: "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear".
Failed attempt at a ‘technical’ correction.

I think it’s reasonable to say that the highest incarceration rate is the worst rate, regardless of the reasons. Whether it’s due to an excessively harsh system, high rates of damaging criminality, whatever it is, they’re all bad whatever they are. Surely the ideal number of wrongly convicted people, and the ideal number of legitimately convicted people, and the ideal number of criminals that have escaped justice are all as low as possible?

Similarly for abortion and divorce. Even people who believe abortion should be an option would prefer there to be no need for it. Every one of them is a tragedy no matter which side of the debate you’re on. Same for Divorce.
> Imbalanced production rates. The bottleneck of the factory should be the primary focus for improvements.

This game shows this quite well: www.positech.co.uk/productionline/
Linus Torvalds questions Intel microcode patches
I can state the same from your Steam sample.
So you demote FOSS from "important" to "nice" just because it isn't a silver bullet? (which does not exist, anyway)

That doesn't make any sense. This is a strawman argument.

Nobody ever said that FOSS is a silver bullet, not even FSFE, FSF, or Stallman himself.
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Ah, some are blindly hysterical, thankfully others understand. That's a remarkably question-begging and arrogant way of writing. Opinion masquerading very unsuccessfully as fact.
Not at the moment unfortunately. I checked recently.
That sounds fantastic. Do you have any pictures of the finished home theater space? How much did this project run you?
The people who wrote the code, whatever else they may or not be guilty of and whether or not the code should be illegal or not, didn’t put anyone in jail.
> I have done pascal before and I wish to have ADA more easily available

Then you might be interested in https://nim-lang.org/ as a Pascal-like Rust alternative.
Same here.

Every message (including sign-on/-off) creates a node in the DOM tree that never gets removed. That's about 15-20 per second at the moment, so this might cause the eventual crash.
Holy smokes. Those things do matter. Thank you so much for pointing that out.
I doubt that the people involved are stupid, or are trying to punish their opponents because of a lack of education. Better education might lead to more effective attacks, it won't stop them.
Easy: cut their government - bodyguard
Another part that effects the current prison population is the length of sentences. One country might imprison less people but for much longer so the total population at one time might be very high.
If that is true then Linus is a wrong bully. I haven't seen him continuously targeting other people personally to make them look weak. He criticizes other people's bad decision making or bad judgement, not their persona! There is a clear difference here!

But I get the point that there's more to actual bullying than I initially stated, thanks for clarifying that.
This is this company's first launch and as such the company is not known for the general public. Moreover, no Elon Musk-like legend has showed up for RocketLab yet. Therefore, it is pretty comprehensible that this launch has received less coverage.
there was a story of Iranian software developer whose photo-uploading software was used by a porn website, leading the author persecution and capital punishment. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/18/iran-death-sen...
Same thing here. I am looking for a lightweight editor because Spacemacs is heavy for me.
Although I mentioned Java, due to ByteBuffers and Unsafe, it is clearly not the best one of the set of languages that I mentioned.

Others on that list have specific language features for GC free allocation.
The biggest issue in the art market is transparency and it continuously amazes me that governments allow it to go on because at minimum, a lot of tax money is lost. The fact that this sector is so under-regulated enables the opacity, making it a great avenue for money laundering and fraudulent behaviour including forgeries (enabled not just by forgers but some dealers), inaccurate reporting (flawed stats), price manipulation, collusion (at all levels and between individuals and organizations), etc. Buyers often never know whether they just overpaid or underpaid or what the current value for a piece is.
Change is most possible (and has been occurring in fragments) in the primary art market vs secondary (resales, mostly of dead artists).

BTW, for those implying artists benefit the most: galleries often make the bigger share of any sale they're involved in, with commissions ranging anyhere from 50-70% or more. Plus, auction house premiums are often at least 20%, leaving less of profit for seller (after subtracting original purchase price).
IMO the person they were replying to sounded superior.

There will always be a more important issue than the one being discussed. (in the eyes of someone, at least). That's no reason to prevent talking about anything else.
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Thanks for the rundown. Sounds like Ada has a lot of good ideas to steal!
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It's simple, the stack of hacks they produced in the meantime at some point becomes a tall tower prone to fall over.
Sure its nice for everybody to be in it until the end.

I guess I object to a race that ends when somebody steps on a crack seemingly randomly, and the one with the most bling on their vest then wins.

Its the part about 'you have to come up with something to end it'. The theme breaks down then. Makes the game seem unfinished, like they couldn't think of some reasonable way to wind it up so they just gave up.

Pandemic ends when you contain the plague, or it kills everybody. You talk and socialize and cajole until the end, with everybody. There's a well-made game.
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I think this is spot on, but it misses the core reasoning: this approach permits them to look like they're doing something, without actually changing the status quo. In other words, this lets them have their cake and eat it too, because users (and news orgs) can't blame Facebook for the rankings - they're "from the users"!

At least, that's how this news reads from my admittedly-cynical perspective.
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Appears to be hip to bash microservices now. We have some very clear reasons that keep us on the service oriented path.

- scaling based on very disparate resource requirements across our api

- security isolation of critical backend infrastructure

- language requirements and dependency management

- accommodating different skills and groups of skills across our organization
Not only that, but dealers themselves privately bid on pieces they're selling to run up the price, according to Art as an Investment? by Melanie Gerlis.
Nonsense, just make it so that only privileged kernel code can modify this configuration. Tons of CPU configuration parameters already work that way, it's a non-issue.

If for some reason you even want to forbid even privileged code from modifying the config then add an other "lock" bit that forbids subsequent reconfiguration till the next reboot.
Have more ideas.

I come up with more ideas than anybody I know. A tiny fraction are any good. The vast majority of them are half-baked. As soon as you discover a fatal flaw (and if you're anything like me, you will more often than not), tuck the idea away in your mental file cabinet, where your subconscious will toil away for years, changing this and that, until it goes from stupid to brilliant.

I take criticism from others with a grain of salt, but my own criticism I've learned to trust.

Don't feel bad about having bad ideas, or even mostly bad ideas. It's an essential part of the process of coming up with brilliant ideas.
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I don't think microservices are loved by developers so much because they are technically superior but because they allow for quicker/safer decision-making on management level - just like "agile development" imho only helps trainee-devs but shines in providing clear communication strategies between management and developers (read: keeps mgmt off dev's back for at leat 6h a day).

Abstractly spoken, I don't care whether you call f(x) directly, via IPC, RPC or as a microservice. In my preferred programming languages there is not much of a difference anyway.
Cameras seem like such a crude expensive approach to doing this. And there has to be exploitable holes.

Recently was watching a Western movie where a person goes into a shop. The goods are all behind the counter. The person points out what they want, the clerk retrieves it.

Big vending machines with phone interface possibly. Maybe a full shelf as shown in photo behind wire or glass and a robotic arm like the ones seen in Amazon warehouses. That way people can kick the screen and curse when the robotic arm fails to deliver the correct good and no clerks are harmed in the process.
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> a lot of tax money is lost

Art sales are taxable.
Blind recruiting had some unintended consequences http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...