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> For a city such as SF, that's wrong --this isn't Chicago, for as much as I dislike some of the supes, politically.

I didn't get this. What differentiates SF from Chicago? Both are big metropolitan cities with lots of business in them. Inevitably both will be plagued by the kinds of politics and problems that this type of shared situation brings...
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Nokia and Ericsson make non-Chinese 5G base stations.

The rest of the document still looks crazy though.
There's as well a cultural factor that, IMO, affects design as well. This factor is the obsession of the Japanese to show that "they are working hard" and the culture of sacrifice. Everything in the company culture is based on that. People staying until really late at work without actually doing anything productive, meetings scheduled on Saturday just because, etc.

That makes that, when they present a design, it has to look like they worked really hard in the design. That's why there is always so much information.

To the eyes of an executive who has no idea of design (most of them) a minimalist design would look like if the designer was lazy and didn't work hard enough.

Of course, I am exaggerating.... But not a lot.

Source: Working as a Web Developer in Japanese companies in Japan since 5 years ago.
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Well, sort of.

Java and Javascript use 2-byte strings in memory, yet both can represent an emoji just fine. (They do so via a hack that uses multiple indices in a String to represent a single character. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of how much this sucks, check out the MDN pages for charCodeAt vs codePointAt ...)

Modern languages like Go just represent strings as UTF8 in memory. This has lots of advantages:

- Most strings are mostly 1-byte-per-character, saving memory

- Full Unicode support.

- Faster IO, since you don't have to re-encode UTF8 strings to/from the network or disk.

MySQL did something weird and enormously stupid with its `utf8` encoding. It supports up-to-3-byte-per-character UTF8. This is idiosyncratic, nobody else does this. It supports some emoji
and some Chinese characters but not others.

Fortunately, you don't have to worry about it or learn about it. When using MySQL, just always use utf8mb4 ; never use utf8.
pretty hipster... does anyone use visual studio code???

I want a python and other languages live subscription API and the ability to offer that API access to my customers of https://bitbank.nz (cryptocurrency forecasting service), i don't really see what the selling point of firebase cloud functions is yet.
Burn em :D

That aside. Did these people who brought up Bitcoin thought that the story of Satoshi Nakomoto is even remotely believable? No one seems to be interested in finding out who really is behind all these. We rather have vague stories. It isn't easy to hide like this unless they come from those who are pulling the strings. The hype and bubble certainly reminds us of other such scams (non-internet variety) which popups up at regular intervals.
iOS didn't get native apps until almost a year after the iPhone was announced.

Obviously the apps Apple shipped on the original iPhone were native apps.

Even before the official App Store was announced, developers reversed engineered their way to native apps.

It wasn’t a good look for Apple: it could create native apps but 3rd party developers couldn’t, especially game developers.

HTML5 wasn’t nearly as capable 10+ years ago as it is today and developers let it be known that wasn’t tenable.

Apparently allowing 3rd party native apps was the right thing to do.
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You say "presumably you can", but according to David Gerard, there is no evidence that anyone has redeemed Tether. Only people presuming that they could if they wanted to, or people who heard of someone who heard of someone who did it.

The surprising fact is that people do buy and sell on exchanges that have no access to real money.

Trading Tether for USD on Kraken is different, and is the topic of this thread. Given that Tether cannot be redeemed, its price is free to fall as soon as traders on Kraken lose faith -- which, given that Tether has essentially failed an audit, may be happening.
> Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are more like a public squares rather than restaurants or stores.

Are they? Let's see the most important difference:

Is a public square privately owned? No. It is owned by the community, usually the council.

Is a restaurant privately owned? Yes. The proprietor has the option to evict people at will, as long as they do not discriminate against minorities in the process.

Do hate speech laws apply in a public place? Yes. If someone states racist things in public, they may be put in prison for hate speech.

Do hate speech laws apply in a private place? It depends on if this space is open to the public, and on the event being held. Generally, yes.

Is the owner allowed to evict any member at will from a public square? It depends. If the person is being harmful towards others, they may be removed from the square and detained, and sometimes even charged a crime.

Is the owner allowed to evict any member at will from a private square? Yes, as long as they do not discriminate against minorities when doing so.

As you can see, the attribute you have brought up does not matter. Facebook has the legal right to remove people for speech, as long as it does not discriminate against minorities in the process.
This seems self-evidently true. How much does it cost to produce a gnat?
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It doesn't actually allow this though right because it doesn't remove the things that kept this from happening before the Internet: language, differing customs, differing lived experiences, etc.

It doesn't allow anyone to reach anyone. You have very little chance of reaching people who spend time in non-English online communities (assuming you only know English). Those people have very little ability to reach you.

Furthermore, everyone is able to reach everyone, technically, but there is still a cost to doing so which everyone cannot bear.

It takes time (and for many, lost wages) to join multiple social networks and forums and write on all of them or to start a blog or to report news. And there is a certain class of people in the world who have that time and a certain class which don't.

The internet has always been a glitzed up version of our world, just with a lot more anonymity (which, many would argue has been a tragedy).
kids in my experience don't think about dismal employment opportunities. maybe late high schoolers but even though.
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Hey all,

I work with a small non-profit (~10 people) and we'd like an assessment done on our online presence (Wordpress, Roundcube email, Google Docs, Mailchimp, Twitter, Facebook) to ensure that it cannot be hijacked or destroyed.

While, I have a programming background, I'd like a professional's take on how vulnerable we are to, for instance, ransomware or hijacking.

Are there any companies that specialize in security assessments of small organizations?

Alternatively, know of any good pen-testing checklists that cover 80% of what a professional would test?
>I'd be interested to see if you could force yourself into getting beta wave activity in the brain by just listening to beta frequencies -- almost as if to tune yourself manually.

Does it actually carry over? From what I understand about the speech recognition, our brain must be doing some equivalent of the Fourier transform fairly early in the pipeline (i.e. instead of a beta-wave, our brain will just get a more or less constant signal that this part of the audible spectrum is currently active).
What do you mean by that? Pilot-wave and many-worlds have EXACTLY the same predictions as the Copenhagen interpretation. It's the same theory, in the sense that the same mathematical equations, expressed differently.
> not multi-billion unicorns like FB and Google.

FB and Google were not multi-billion unicorns when they started.

In your previous comment you said it was not entirely worthless but now you are saying such comments are worthless. Atleast make up your mind.
Quite easy:

select * from unitType where info->>'$.maxSqft' > ?

If you want it to be indexed for production use, that's also pretty easy:

alter table unitType add column maxSqft float as info->>'$.maxSqft'
alter table unitType add key(maxSqft)
...
select * from unitType where maxSqft > ?
The only fully honest answer to this question: it is not understood.

A good chunk of physicists (not all) would agree that the current understanding is unsatisfactory, but it's unclear whether now is the "right time" to research that question. It is unclear whether we have the experimental tools to probe the consequences of the different models, and whether different approaches produce different predictions in some testable scenario.

Of course, there is an active field of research probing this and related questions. Different physicists in there have different ideas, depending on how they interpret quantum mechanics. (See other responses in the thread for a sampling of those). But there is no satisfactory agreed-upon textbook answer.

Personally, I find the some aspects of the decoherence perspective appealing.
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It also didn't come with any way to upend the traditional barriers to connectedness: language, differing cultures, differing lived experiences, etc. So it shouldn't be surprising that that connectedness didn't actually fundamentally change much about the real world.
Yes, I agree. And I wonder what a hybrid with Tinfoil Chat might look like. That is, using opto-isolators to make some device-qubes read-only.
I'm posting this comment using FF 56 also. I don't agree with the decisions they made. I think that the old extension mechanism is fine; add-ons should be able to integrate deeply into browser internals.
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Dakuten(what you call “dots over letters”) are used to modify the way consonants are pronounced, not for emphasis, e.g to turn the character for “Ka”(カ) into “Ga”(ガ).

And the usage of katakana in the way the parent describes isn’t “tiring.” It follows almost the exact same pattern as words are italicized in English, where a word or phrase is represented differently from the surrounding text. Less common/standardized, but not tiring.

EDIT:

My bad on the bouten/dakuten confusion. Apologies.
His wife forces him to be silent - which is actual abusive behaviour.
I use Slack at work as a requirement. I tried going into its video chat feature and it said that it's not supported on Firefox, please use Chrome.

So that's where Slack is w.r.t. Firefox; never mind FF derivatives.
I don't see how this is different from pre-Internet where you could have gotten an education from your local library. This fact is even referenced in the popular American film: Good Will Hunting, where a janitor at MIT solves an unsolved mathematical problem and reveals that he learned every academic thing he knows with a library card.
Chicago is well known for its political machine[1]. SF, I guess had Willie Brown do a kind of a tiny lite version, but nothing in comparison to Chicago and the Daleys.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_Chicago
That's not what you said. What you said was

> The crazies finding each other and organizing is entire FB's fault.

If it is entirely Facebook's fault, how come this phenomenon predates Facebook and exists outside of it?
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My experience with Japanese websites:

* All text is embedded. Fat chance ever finding it with a search engine, copying anything, searching within the page, or using Google Translate on it

* Every URL is guaranteed to die. While link rot is pretty common in Western webdev as well, things like SEO have caused some to clamp down on it. And it's no way as bad as it is in Japan, where I'll come back a month later to find the link dead or the whole website has moved and none of the old content exists anymore.

* They still use Flash.

* Navigation is often not as efficient as it can be, with sites often throwing you on a landing page, navbars being confusing, and lack of search

* Images are often low resolution and low quality

Some of the reasons given in the article make sense (for example webfonts being expensive or large in size), but it's really disappointing when you compare it to a Japanese novel or magazine and see that the country is perfectly capable of beautiful work.
Oh cool, so do they actually have "Buy it now with 1-click" on the amazon japan webpage? I'm super curious if they have it or if its actually used by people?
That sounds like any academic institute I’ve come across.
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I've been close to this issue lately. My family owns many rental properties, and most of our income comes from rent. Several months ago I left my home at my wife's request and had a huge dilemma. You see, I had a situation with some storage units last year that helped me to discover that I HATE paying rent. Seeing it from the landlord side for many years has shown me how worthless it is for the tenants... They pay upward of %30 of their income, and next month do it again. It's truly modern slavery.

I hate paying rent so much that I'd rather be homeless than pay someone else rent. I slept in my car, and on the side of the road and thought a lot about this problem. Rent and homelessness are big issues, and I discovered that the real problem is a major stigma in our society against truly affordable or alternate housing.

Housing doesn't need to cost $2k per month. Most people don't need huge houses. Many people could do just fine in MUCH cheaper housing, shared housing, or even non-housing such as sleeping in a car.

Super cheap housing can be a legal problem. In my town, it's illegal to rent a house to more than 3 unrelated people. That's totally insane. If people want to shack up 5 to a room to save money that should be their right. Reducing the stigma against this would essentially reduce housing demand and lower prices across the board.

I'm also working on a project to turn the entire real estate market on it's head... This will also help to solve this housing catastrophy.

I'm confident this housing problem will be seen as one of the most preventable inhumane practices we currently engage in.
>That's actually a pretty strong compliment. One could reverse it and ask, why in America and Europe people are easy swayed by lies in "a catchy headline or a pretty image", instead of demanding actual information about the product?

Makes sense since Japanese culture is risk averse.
>That's actually a pretty strong compliment. One could reverse it and ask, why in America and Europe people are easy swayed by lies in "a catchy headline or a pretty image", instead of demanding actual information about the product?

Maybe because the information is useless when it's too complicated or out of context?

For example, if you look at the spec sheet of an iPhone you might think that it's less capable than a cheap Android phone unless you have very deep understanding of the technology.

In west, companies try to communicate the utility or the feeling that this product will give you and most of the technical information is seen as distraction and only the cheapest, lowest quality companies will bombard the users with that information in a bid to convince you that they offer the same thing for cheaper.

Apple famously doesn't advertise RAM or processor clock speed on iPhones.
You're taking twenty steps forward from "deny immigrants" to "open borders" and also not really replying to anything I mentioned...

I never advocated for open borders. But the immigration system in most countries has been working fine without any need to restrict them except for fear of the populace and a disbelief in the truth of liberal, humanist philosophies.
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This is not true. Doctors do not and must not prescribe Homeopathic stuff in Germany. If it is payed for by the government/healthcare, it has to be proven effective.
I did, it just shows a ticker of AGI lost / gained per second.

But that's still just a calculation of how much income tax a particular state / county has...
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The lawyers who make a killing off suing for violations would fire back and claim that those who want a repeal obviously don’t care about public health
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Anyone else feel that a hierarchical 'bytearray' file system isn't really a great base for organizing an operating system? Some limitations are that you have to share everything as 'sequence of bytes', requiring every reader to re-implement the parsing logic, and not everything fits well into a file metaphor, for instance socket style stream IO.
It's becoming quite obvious that Valve has very little interest in making their community in any way "good". Given how badly Steam Greenlight (and now Steam Direct) have gone -- with cheap (to produce, not to purchase) asset flips just dumped on the front page with no real vetting from Valve or the community -- I wouldn't put money on them even giving enough of a toss to notice that they're encouraging children to develop addictive tendencies via online gambling simulators. And if they have noticed it's "not their problem".
It was much worse than Maersk's PR indicated. Their big automated ports, LA, NY, and Rotterdam, were down for most of a week. Maersk operates in about 160 ports, and about 17 were affected by the computer attack.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has a message page for announcements to truckers. They're very real-world: "Gate 6 is closed due to flooding from a broken water main" kind of info. They were saying Maersk was totally down, then only handling inbound refrigerated containers, then inbound only. Later announcements mentioned manual processing, few gates open, long wait times, and suggested delaying shipments. It was about two weeks before they were fully back up and accepting everything, including empties.

LA was down for four days, but Maersk also has a terminal at Long Beach which was unaffected, so they diverted one container ship there. They weren't accepting online orders for a week or two, the tracking system was down, email was down, and they were trying to operate by voice phone only.
Many customers had containers stuck in the container stacks at the port.

Rotterdam's robotic container handling was down for a while, but details are scanty. Most of the problems were apparently with the truck-side systems, the ones which get the right container onto the right truck.

This was a big deal.
I believe GP is talking about boten/wakiten, not dakuten :)

https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/images/misc.png
Okay, but so is NYC, yeah? Why do people think a big city like SF with tons of money in it is immune from the pattern most other big cities with tons of money in them have gone down?
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I believe the mincho font (pretty much the de facto standard of modern kanji) does have italics. They're not used all that often or to the same effect as in English though.

Others have also pointed out the dots which are quite common in formally printed materials. In emails and such, I see people use the 「」 quotation bracings as emphasis from time to time.
I've not read Ferris, but e.g. I consider watching some CS lectures as the part of a recreation and leisure instead of working.
As an aside, I think something many people don't realize is that slaves were not free Africans who were kidnapped and enslaved by westerners. These individuals were enslaved in Africa, often at birth, and then sold by Africans. These individuals were doomed to enslavement for their entire life, one way or the other. Even the article hints towards this fallacy by implying they had only been enslaved for 5 years total.

Slavery to this day still continues in Africa and especially west Africa. Niger was the first West African nation to create a law penalizing slavery [1]. That happened in... 2003. Unsurprisingly there is also still slavery in Niger. So yes, I do think "just" 5 years of slavery, sometime from the 19th century, is an extremely apt phrasing.

Conditions for these slaves are illustrated in the 'Mani v. Niger' entry in that wiki entry. A man purchased a '5th wife' (he's allowed 4 under local Islamic law, and then the 5th is a slave) for $400. She was 12 years old and endured a decade of physical and sexual abuse bearing 4 children before he married and then 'freed' her. But since now she was his wife, he had the right to demand she not be able to leave his house. This made it all the way to their supreme court, where they ruled in favor of the 'husband' - though he was charged with bigamy which carries a 6 month sentence.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Niger
Can you provide some proof for these requests ? I am not able to find the legal requests on internet..
> The synapses can fire up to one billion times per second — several orders of magnitude faster than human neurons — and use one ten-thousandth of the amount of energy used by a biological synapse.

So if this is true, and these chips function as expected, we should be able to simulate a human brain orders of magnitude faster than realtime using with less than 2mW.
Maybe it’s because you (we) are looking for it and not undergoing it ?
Not sure how this contributes to this thread, but I’m nearly 40 years old and have never once tasted an avocado. I was born and raised in California but for some reason I’ve always been repulsed by their appearance.

I’ll realize this is ridiculous and will probably get over this at some point.
It doesn't "start", that has already happened with California prop 65 warnings. They are literally everywhere, just saw one today is a coffeeshop. Maybe they are super-villains trying to kill California population one cup of coffee at the time, but I haven't seen anybody to pay any attention to that sign. In fact, see here: https://www.barefootcoffee.com/pages/prop-65
Nobody I know was ever paying any attention to this. Of course, this one is actually a better warning - most of them do not have any details. The devaluing has already run its course, and it's 100% worthless now.