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It's a trust issue.

Doing your best and working towards safety is one thing. Putting 100% trust to autonomous thing is a different thing. If you know it's 100% safe, than it's rather easy to do. But if it's 98% safe.. It's pretty much gambling. You know it may fail and you have no chance to influence it. Sit back and hope you're not the (un)lucky one.
The first time I used an airblade dryer I thought, "wow, my hands are still wet!"
I always could hear them from the dining room of restaurants even with the bathroom door closed. That's what I always am reminded of when I think of / see them.
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Interesting. I was under the impression that GPS was made available to Civilians by Reagan after the Soviets shot down a South Korean plane that strayed into Soviet airspace. Their tools and training were ineffective at guidance and they got shot down.

Reagan made GPS open to international civilian use because there was literally no other tool that could accurately help planes not get murdered by the Russians, etc.

But now you're suggesting that the older tools were effective enough and should remain in place 30 years after civilian GPS?
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While it's never been a problem for me, I can see that #1 makes a lot of sense.

% python -c pass
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 62, in <module>
import os
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 400, in <module>
import UserDict
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 83, in <module>
import _abcoll
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/_abcoll.py", line 9, in <module>
"""
KeyboardInterrupt

There was some discussion about this at https://bugs.python.org/issue14228 , with strong pushback from some of the core developers.

One of the workarounds was to do:

python -S

to avoid importing the site module, then set your signal handlers, then import site manually. In that case the only output, if caught at the wrong time, will be the message 'KeyboardInterrupt'. This isn't quite what you want, but it's a lot closer.

(Another request for this feature is at https://bugs.python.org/issue24261 .)

If you are still working with Python, and still want this feature, you might contribute to that second thread. The first is rather contentious.
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I'm not sure that applies to everything, though. I'm sure we agree there's a limit.

Joel Spolsky is right when he writes about the 'Law of Leaky Abstractions', but I'm not sure the average CRUD developer needs to know the gory nuts and bolts of his DBMS. Of course they need to know enough to reason effectively about good design, performance, security, etc, and more low-level knowledge is always a good thing.

As an extreme example, PHP programmers don't need to understand branch prediction and caches.
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Because the big players are much bigger in crypto arbitrage than the big players in traditional currency arbitrage, relatively. This combined with the unregulated nature makes abusing your position much easier in crypto.
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> It was this book that persuaded John Walker, founder of Autodesk, to back the Xanadu® project in 1988.

…for four years, before Autodesk gave up:

> […] Come 1992, the “resources of Autodesk” were still funding “talent of the Xanadu team” which had not, as of that date, produced anything remotely like a production prototype—in fact, nothing as impressive as the 88.1x prototype which existed before Autodesk invested in Xanadu. On August 21, 1992 Autodesk decided to pull the plug and give its interest in Xanadu back to the Xanadudes.

(Quoted from footnote linked from this page: https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/chapter2_64.html)
British conservatives have been pushing a porn crackdown for a while. I (as someone on the other side of the Atlantic) believe real identity verification is just a tool to crackdown on porn in general. Everyone knows that if you keep porn records, they'll get out (accidentally, hackers, governments, or all of the above).

On the other hand, the company the British are paying to do this, MindGeek, is not just developing the AgeID checking system. They also run most of the popular Porn websites. And they own many popular Porn production studios.

So this is also a case of an aggressive vertical monopoly corrupting a government into enriching and deepening their extremely profitable monopoly. Now, a private porn distribution company that ALSO makes porn will now have EXCLUSIVE rights to porn related age verification for all UK citizens. They're the Porn Company King of UK, and all other companies now exist on a second, less-government-supported tier.

It also means the UK Government is effectively subsidizing pornography, in a way.
On top of that: isn't the solution for USAF to stop jamming a widely civilian used protocol?
Forcing others to keep using old tools and not realy on newer and better tools just so they can jam it at will seems counterintuitive
No - it's more of an issue that there should two tools under US control, so that if one goes down, life goes on and nobody dies.
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Maybe they're total gibberish, but just for the sake of comparison, I knew a woman who sang in a band that performed "Come Together" (from the Beatles). I remember her saying, "Don't distract me when I'm singing this, because the words make no sense, and I can't remember them if I don't concentrate."
If nothing else, he did coin the term.
> Shouldn't step 2 be "wash carefully with warm water and soap"?

In theory, yes. In practice, lots of people in public restrooms just wet their hands under the faucet, without washing them, and then go immediately to the dryer.

Cf. the Assume a Can-Opener fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assume_a_can_opener
Was he really happy? Newton was generally an angry loner who spent a lot of effort demeaning his peers.
The entry for the conjunction fallacy mentions Trump and Pence, so it must be new:

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/conjunct.html
In the ghetto by "El prícipe gitano" https://youtu.be/QrTfYItDDwA
I asked around about that, and the consensus was: 'As far as paying contractors, the answer is probably "not enough", since they generally seem to consider "warm fuzzy feelings from working on the Open Web" to be part of compensation".'
Completely unrelated: the Focke-Wulf 190 was one of the most beautiful aircraft of all time.
Roaming between "regional ubers" might be such a thing, where the day to day business runs centrally within each regional system, but profile access and payment forwarding for roaming is "cryptoed". I don't really see why that would absolutely need a full blockchain though, as there are only so many things you could meaningfully cosign with three parties involved (assuming drivers don't roam). Bbut maybe I missed something that would need getting written into a public blockchain, maybe for establishing the required trust network between providers.

But this would have to come into existence with all the lack of glamour as any dry old industry standard, the whole scenario contains absolutely no room for a starry-eyed "Uber on blockchain!" startup (which are doubtlessly legion).
I don't know, these lyrics make about as much sense to me as most songs written by English speakers.
https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWeb/

https://www.notams.faa.gov/dinsQueryWeb/
Most bubbles are debt driven phenomena. I'm not entirely convinced people are playing the crypto market en masse using debt based instruments (besides the dollar itself, which is our point of reference anyways).
To be honest, although this is a good resource, if I see another comment on the internet using the phrase "that's a fallacy" or "your argument is false" and other pseudo-logical phrases like that, I'm going to... to... drink some water to calm down.

It's just so annoying in the middle of a conversation people suddendly switching to an analysis of the structure of the debate, especially since nine times out of ten they have no idea what they're talking about and just use "fallacy" and "argument" as stop-words (words to end debate).
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Yeah me too.

Then I learned how to use one.

(Which of course is a UX issue, they shouldn't need training)
Very not my field, but for context which hasn't been mentioned here yet: GPS spoofing attacks appear to have become more accessible of late, and to have occurred in the wild (notably on the coast of the Black Sea). And jamming could be relatively easier.

[1] http://gpsworld.com/spoofing-in-the-black-sea-what-really-ha...
but one of the biggest browser is owned by one of the biggest advertisers in the world. you'd expect dive conflict of interest at best, and anticompetitive behaviour at worst, from them.
Maybe 'el principe gitano' does, he is a Spanish folk music singer. He liked Elvis Presley's 'In the ghetto' very much but didn't know a word of English. He sang it anyway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGSgAfJQsic
There are massive network effects, employers only sign up to learn information from other companies, and give up their own information as a condition for the former.

It's a business that bootstraps when you have an existing customer base of related services, dealing with employee and payroll management, credit ratings etc. and mine your existing data for a prototype product good enough until the network effects kick in.

Maybe you could make it bootstrap by making it very cheap or free, so that, even if employers don't usually get anything from you, they still remained enrolled for the rare instance when you deliver something that others lack, so that you can buildup your database in time. But then highly secure, easy to use and long term come at odds with free.
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I run my own outbound mail server for my infra. I couldn't justify paying a 3rd party just to make my mail more deliverable. I understand the cat/mouse game of spam but that should not prevent the rest of the world from running thier own email services.

I also accept inbound mx for some of my personal domains, but I don't currently manage my own mailboxes, the mail gets aliased to my Gmail account.

If at some point I get fed up with this arrangement I can transparently change where the email ends up.
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> The evidence for curses relating to King Tutankhamun is considered to be so meager that Donald B. Redford viewed it as "unadulterated clap trap".[3]

Almost all of the supposedly related deaths definitely didn’t come from the tombs.
It's the same concept of detecting vibrations, but obviously this method is using a camera and processing a video, while the "laser microphone" [0] measures the difference in distance traveled by the laser beam.

It would be interesting to compare the two methods in various scenarios, i.e. through glass.

Obviously the laser method will work at night while the video method will not (probably depends how "dark" it is).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone
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> Simplicity and reproducibility are the hallmarks of an optimal graphic symbol.

The primary goal is to communicate something. Simplicity and reproducibility are always secondary to this - and it's difficult to have something simple and reproducible that clearly communicates danger.
As for someone who has the nerve to sing a standard in English without having a clue of the language, and on national TV, this cringefest is hard to beat: El Príncipe Gitano trying his hand at Elvis https://youtu.be/QrTfYItDDwA
There is no need to let robot take such decision. Robot are useful when there is a lot of fast decisions to take.
Soderbergh's Schizopolis has a lot of scenes with fake or, better yet, subtext language. One of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eOLEdTG7Gc
At first I read the title as "hair dryer" and thought the article was about an Internet connected hair dryer that messages your friends to let them know you're drying your hair.
No. "All fascist states were strong states" does not imply "all strong states are fascist."

Trivial counterexample: "All bananas are fruit" does not imply "All fruits are bananas".
I wonder if it's related to the sink over which it's installed? The taps have always worked well in my experience.
There's a tiny sticker on the dryer that shows how to move your hands up and down through the curtain of air. I think over time, the sticker just fades away or something. But with all things UX, once you know exactly how to use, you never look at the 'instructions' again
You're just not putting enough stickers on your children. It takes several layers to safely seal their mouths from poison and fully insulate them from shock.
Yes, I used one once... and never again, just try to locate the water sensor without accidentally triggering the explode the fucking sink all over your face bomb. I think dyson is so obsessed with trying to make use of fast moving air that they can't see it's a bad idea in an environment with bacteria laden water sitting on surfaces.
That Portuguese looks like russian and Spanish is Italian.
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Excellent. Thank you for the belay. Yes, that should have been "million trees" (order 1 tree/m^2 for pine forest; though orchard is order 0.1), and "a person's life" respectively.

Meta: failure mode on both was switching/editing between several candidate examples in place, and not checking that the final edit was consistent. Including a sketch of the calculation is one way to make this less likely.
No, of course not. I was not talking about Bitcoin in particular.

However, some people are buying Ethereum (not Bitcoin) because they think there is value in Blockchain technology.
It’s not well-known in Western Europe, but a lot of what look like racist undertones in the Balkan/Eastern European area, are deep-seated cultural artefacts from centuries of continuous and bloody war with Ottoman invaders.
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let me play the devil's advocate and argue that ad supported content is responsible for somee of the biggest chunk of the internet, and if it hadn't been for such business model, the internet would not have been as amazing as it is today.

sites like 9gag, 4chan or Reddit, or other such sites is where net culture breed. these sites are not going to have the same feel if it had been subscription supported, as large swarves of users who have no money to contribute, but have content and creativity would've been locked out.
Why didn't you delete your account and just deactivated ?
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Maybe not directly, but indirectly? If I have $10m of unrealised gains in the stock market, I can easily borrow $500k against that at near free interest rates to invest that in Bitcoin.

I have a friend who did that, and he has done well. So it's definitely happening.
Yes, if two people are trying to rent the same place at approximately the same time. I don't want to wait two hours to find out that someone attempted to complete a transaction five minutes before I did, and their payment went through first.
That is a very defeatist position.
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Well, so is a bag of chips. That doesn't explain the bad choice of title.
My noise sensitive daughter used to break into tears just looking at them.

However, they are responsible for one of the best memes ever:

https://i.imgur.com/XOjT5px.jpg
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Is it just me or it looks crazy that the Space Cadet keyboard has thumbs up and down? https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Space-cadet_guts.jpg

Looking at the keys below maybe it was for up/down.
I was under the impression browser doesn't send referrer when using https. Was it always like this?
Big providers probably rejected you in the early days because you were an unknown sender back then.
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All dryers should be banned, Dyson or not.

It don't like to be blown in the face with poop smelling stale air that any idiot can figure out would stir up more junk than possibly could be healthy, plus the hands feels jucky afterwards.
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considering the number of people who flush a toilet at work before using it I was just accepting of the fact they didn't mind a face full of germs.

When my work center switched to paper there was a brief period of people complaining about too much paper. the sad part was them, it was the lazy people who would just drop their used paper on the floors between the doors. Our restrooms have a vestibule, about four feet in depth, with doors on both ends. Building services had to add a trash can there. Anyone else run into behavior like that? To explain further, people used the paper from drying their hands to open the doors
In Amazon's defence their billing system is far more complex than Google's, not because Google have done some marvellous job on theirs, but because it is a solid decade younger and hasn't caught up with all the bells and whistles yet.

The price you pay for an instance not only depends on what you've already spent up to that moment in your account, and all accounts attached to the same organization, but also any reservations in those accounts which may /float/ into your account should they not be used in their home account, and crucially, _the price varies according to what you use, and every associated account uses, in the future_.

Finally at month end, your entire account receives a bulk tiering discount that cannot be calculated until your full usage is known.

If you have 1x t2.medium reservation and there is already a t2.medium machine running in the account, the price displayed would likely be the on-demand price. However, if after starting your new t2.medium you kill the old one, the price _applied_ will likely be the reserved price -- so long as both instances did not use more than 60 minutes runtime in that hour.

You can however, get a reasonable preview of your daily spend with 24 hours lag using Cost Explorer, which I think is more than resonable considering it is a meaningful, comprehensive account view, and not some tiny datum associated with a single item on your bill. For anyone spending serious money with either Amazon or Google, there should be a large upfront modelling step involved before stuff starts to get purchased, no per-item price preview can avoid that.

Meanwhile I wonder if Google's display price reflects sustained use discounts or committed use discounts. Given how underbaked most of Google Cloud is, I suspect (before ever having to look!) the answer to that is a resounding "no".

So the question becomes, would you prefer no information, or information that may be off by in excess of 70%?
I wonder why we didn't go for stronger legal protection for these symbols? Water bottles with the biohazard logo on them and other gratuitous uses reduce how much caution it induces and diminish its value as a symbol.
The best literary treatment of the general idea of attempting to preserve knowledge by creating some sort of priesthood, though not specifically for the purpose of waste warnings, is A Canticle for Leibowitz in my opinion. I highly recommend it.
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I would much rather dry my hands on my shirt or wave them around.
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The Bulgarian state choir isn't a representative of a rich tradition. Most of that music came about in the Communist era when the authorities wanted music that fit the Western norms demanded by socialist realism, but was lightly spiced with aspects of Bulgarian folk music so that it could seem "close to the people". There is a huge difference between that state-created choral genre and real Bulgarian traditional music as heard on archival recordings by ethnographers. Ethnomusicologist Timothy Rice's publications explain some of these differences.
Civilian GPS was also intentionally heavily degraded until 2000. https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/
Ted Nelson has some novel ideas. But I can't help to think that the failure of the mass adoption of his ideas stems from him being too greedy. If he had open sourced the code he wrote for Xanadu, if he had even published specs of a simple Xanadu system free of copyright he could've brought us a better hypertext.

The idea that data should consist of small addressable chunks, with each chunk having relations with other data actually makes a lot of sense.

We are thinking of data linearly, you start from byte 1 to end. Even if you copy the file or make minor changes the OS considers it another file. You make a reference to a movie, a novel etc., if you do not explicitly add the reference no one knows. Then we end up in piles and piles of data we cannot process. We have to rely on proprietary search engines, we have to rely on our browser history and our memory.

And with the latest shiniest web apps that fully render in JS we can't even get addressable future-proof links. Try to access a news page from 10 years ago, most likely the link won't work. Archive.org helps in that regard. But things could've been easier.

We have all these resources at hand, we could implement the idea of transclusion even if it is only limited to our domain. Information-heavy sites such as Wikipedia, C2-wiki etc. would greatly benefit from it.

It's true that we need a new way to look at data. It is not pen and paper anymore, we need to be able to go beyond searching. Even now, most of the world uses plain-old PDF, which is an image of a printable paper. We can use animations, videos, sound, interactivity in our content, but mostly we don't.

Ted Nelson thinks this is caused by the invention of the GUI (or PUI -Parc user interface- as he calls it) in Xerox Parc. They needed to show their managers something they could make sense of. So they created the desktop. Here is your trash-bin, here is your notepad, here are your documents (e.g Postscript/PDF). It is just like your physical desk.

But it is not your physical desk, what you have in front of you is a computer. We teach hours and hours of hand-writing to hour children, but only very few countries teach touch-typing. The old generation either doesn't understand or doesn't want kids to utilize their full potential with computers. Fortunately kids learn on their own, build their own online communities, so there is hope. Any kid that can get his/her hands on Computer Lib/Dream Machines won't be able to believe the idea that computers are only good for showing us an enhanced simulation of a work-desk.
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Sometimes I get an intense desire to punch someone in the face who says proudly "this is the xxx fallacy". Sometimes it's actually really insightful but most of the time they have no clue.
Obligatory reading: https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/.

Xanadu is a story of building castles in the air for thirty years; a project so disconnected from reality and the collaborators so obsessed with perfection that they didn't ship the first version until when the Internet had already reached a critical mass.
> If you're a book editor and the author adds, edits, or removes a section, you need to update the index

But all the page references would be wrong, too, after the author updates the text. That would not happen with a DB index and it's data pointers.