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I don't know Swedish law, but I will guess that like American law, any parliament/house member can introduce basically any bill saying anything. Presumably the bill will not pass if it's terrible and the other members are sane/not-corrupt. So the presence of this bill is unfortunate, but I doubt it would get passed.

The money in politics problem has been increasing in much of the development world, so we have seen corporate interest laws pushed and often passed. The US of course is one of the worst offenders of this, and unfortunately this corporate-government system has been spreading to Europe and Scandinavia.

Fortunately for the world, the current US political circus has finally become so absurd that the global corporate right wing spread has slowed (based on elections in the last year). Maybe it will reverse once thinking populations finally realize the outcomes of the non-public-serving policies that their corrupt politicians have been pushing.

Yes this all sounds a bit dramatic, but there really aren't other adequate words to describe the direction of politics in the last 20-30 years. It really has been a problem of corporate money in politics, and it snuck up on "the people". But eventually the results begin to show, whether by excessive gun violence, increasing financial deficits (think "Kansas/Brownback"), perpetual wars, increasing first world poverty, etc. The absurdity reaches a point where it impacts enough of the comfortable people that they start caring what their politicians are actually doing, and then you start seeing big turnovers and upheavals as we're starting to see in US states now.
The classic 'East Asian growth model' tactic. It's classic because it works, almost every time
This is frankly surprising to me. Didn’t the Pirate Party win seats in the Swedish parliament? What happened to them?
> I lived in mortal fear of the day one of them realised that they could just stop paying me rent, and there's nothing I can do about it whatsoever

That is of course false. It may be a hassle, but you can absolutely to something.

And giving people housing is important, that's why the laws often favor the person renting, not the owner. The laws is a risk you have to take if you want to rent out your place. Price it into your rent. Or just don't live in "mortal fear" by not being a master tenant..
In that case, sorry for the passive-aggressiveness. I'm from Pakistan, and since I know what the n-word is, I assumed it was fairly common knowledge. I was wrong :(
so I guess you are happy about terrorists killing your families for a 'holy sacrifice'?
I thought America was a nation of laws? Not all laws are enforced. If so there would be fewer public shootings and less crime.
I think it applies only to foreigners. http://lawandborder.com/temporary-residence-registration-for...

Normally the hotel does it for you.

After getting an apartment here I didn't register for about a month. I had to spend some time at the registry office to get a warning. They said if it happens again there'll be a fine, and if it happens a third time you presumably have to leave the country.

On your arrival/departure form it also says:

"Aliens who do not lodge at hotels, guesthouses or inns shall, within 24 hours (72 hours in rural areas) of entry, go through accomodation registration at local police station.
The title was promising, but the data, yes definitely seems to be skewed and fairly strange...

I was hoping to find something like actual net worth by age.. you can also just calculate what people probably want to know anyway.. like if I'm X age, how much money should I have saved and how much should I be saving to reach X dollars by ~60 years old.. so I did that math..

Assuming 7% compounding interest -- investing in index funds for example:

To have 5 million in your stock accounts by age 60:

At age 25 you should have $125k, and contribute 25k per year

At age 30 you should have $200k, and contribute 35k per year

At age 35 you should have $300k, and contribute 50k per year

At age 40 you should have $500k, and contribute 70k per year

At age 45 you should have $850k, and contribute 100k per year

At age 50 you should have $1M, and contribute 200k per year

So I guess if you have a house that is worth $1M, then you only need to target $4M to hit that random value I picked, but I think most people would agree that having $5M in the bank would be basically plenty to retire on especially if it keeps growing while you are withdrawing from it..
That's somehow funny. I was involved in a project for standardizing automated border control in Europe. We developed a document simulator [1] that could mimic most security features of physical passports, but faking the electronic part always seemed infeasible because of the electronic signatures involved.

We knew that the distribution of certificates from all countries involved was still an open issue, meaning most readers had an option to simply ignore the signature at all.

But knowing that even the CBP does not bother to check the signatures, would have given all our arguments about the security risks involved an instant credibility boost.

In the most simplest form the thing we implemented was an android app that you could upload any passport to (several images in different spectral ranges) and the smartphone when placed on the scanner would show the scanner whatever it expected (this obviously only work on self-service terminals).

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6975597/
Aren't most of the cameras in the UK private as well?
Obviously that doesn't mean much but it is different to places like china in that way.
Does this require any of the binary blobs that are in the mainline Linux kernel?
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People romanticize small workplaces. Cliques (e.g. most of the team transferred from a different company), little dictatorships, blurry private-professional life border, etc. - so many ways the things can go wrong and they oftentimes indeed do.
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Whilst there is a lot of hype and speculation I think you are mistaken about there being no real-world applicability. My bank has so many fees and loopholes for sending money even within the EU and they can take days.

I owed a friend some money and I sent him BTC which arrived in a couple of hours with fees that were about 10% of what I pay using the banking system. Real-world applicability and a satisfied user.
Different markets have different requirements. The DHL streetscooters are a massive success and are drawing interest / demand from many companies outside of DHL. They kickstarted this when no major manufacturer was willing / able to provide them a solution. The platform seems to be scalable and will be able to provide bigger hulls as well. And they are somehow battle tested now as not all was smooth sailing after launch - as could be expected. The whole white / brown / yellow van users will be the first to jump on EVs for many reasons. Remember that in Germany the federal administrative court will rule on (partial) bans of diesel vehicles in cities...
And the only thing I remember was that students / people started using to create the longest wave.
An intentional backdoor: no. But an intentional ignorance of a major security vulnerability: extremely likely.

Computer architects have been aware of covert channels for literally decades, from heat signatures, to CPU usage... heck it's even taught in most CS or ECE Master degrees with respect to caching. I wouldn't go as far as saying these two vulnerabilities were "obvious" to most programmers or computer engineers, but they must have been known to many people at the major chip-makers. Someone must have raised it some meeting, probably multiple meetings, and were probably shot down.

So not a conspiracy theory, just lack of proper incentives to keep products secure.
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Love that site!
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If you’re on a phone, here’s an HTML version of the paper: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1802.07740/
It's a false dichotomy, as e.g. the prospering former East Bloc countries who are now part of the EU demonstrate.
Agreed. In the modern app world, it's not enough to have great or useful tech, it has to be branded and communicated properly, not exactly Google's strong points.
It appears that by using a CoW filesystem like Btrfs I can have some of the same advantages of using Nix:

- Parallel installation of multiple OSes sharing the same storage pool

- Snapshot/rollback

How does using Nix compare to using a CoW filesystem such as Btrfs or Zfs?
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This would have been useful if he compared them to virtualenv, which as far as I am aware is still the "standard" way of managing python environments.

I tried virtualenv wrapper a while ago, and that was basically just another set of commands to do the same thing as virtualenv. Having already learned virtualenv command that gave me no real advantage. Are any of these tools mentioned any different?
They didn't have enabled this. People, politicans, dicators was abusing our mentality of protection/privacy. We are not responsible for your politicans, your dicators, that are corrupt and abuse our system. We only support privacy. And US, EU was pushing us to the limit that we had not choice than break our rules. We still not happy with that.

It's not because people abuse of the Tools that the Tools are the problem.

People, should not gain anything from hidden money, it's the base of a system that works. If you don't want people to steal, then don't do class of people, with people so poor that they had not choice than steal.
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They never got into the Swedish parliament, only to the EU parliament.

They did not perform very well in the Swedish elections (less than 1%, 4% is limit to get seats), and after their initial push their momentum seemed to die off.

According to my personal view, a large part why the Pirate Party would not succeed in Sweden was that the party members (not the 'sign up for free on a webpage'-members, but party leaders) and their activists were very different in ideology. Party members were strongly libertarian while activists were more on the left.
Have you compared it today with what it was circa 1995? Yes, it is in tatters.
We wrote a pretty similar (like similar enough its kinda creepy) library[1] a while back and it's really helped speed up our front end dev. I LOVE having params set in data attributes. Makes re-usable modules, like a modal[2]
or autocomplete [3], way easier to implement.

[1] https://github.com/firstandthird/domodule
[2] https://github.com/firstandthird/simple-domodal
[3] https://github.com/firstandthird/complete
That is the real problem with the liberty now. And I think liberty is dead under the pile of fake news generated by various parties interested in any issue. From war on terror to democracy and nuclear weapons the "agents" as you called, generates such a perception that we cannot escape, let alone our psychological biases and national, political and religious affiliations -- Welcome to the age of disinformation
Tesla seems to be the only company nowadays invested in developing an actually good electric vehicles I never understood why the other car companies insist in producing crappy EV products and yet so expensive for what they are worth.

I wouldn't recommend buying an EV that is not Tesla.
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Bank robbery is a bad example of a financial crime..

But embezzlement, etc... Are often punished harder because these are deliberate crimes, often thought-out by rational people. And these crimes are done by people to who a great responsibility was entrusted.

Most violent crimes, most crimes in fact, are not even remotely thought through. They are extremely impulsive, or unlike to be financially motivated.

Finally, crimes like corruption and embezzlement constitutes serious threats to society. Because they erodes peoples trust in institutions, rule of law, police, etc.

Americans would trust wall street more if there was fewer financial crimes..
*Turbolinks, copy/pasted that for Google and didn't find anything relevant.

Edit: thanks, I found it, I was just pointing out to the typo so other people don't get confused.
I have lived in a rural area most of my live and it's not about limited social interaction - it's the fact that international affairs don't affect us as much as it does people who live in cities. Therefore it's just not as interesting to people here.
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I was wondering the other night whether it is possible to build a nerual net based only on the observable inputs and outputs + possibly incomplete (or complete) list of features of another neural net?

This paper seems to say yes but I'm not sure
As a swede, I am unfortunately not surprised. While we have a surge in violent crimes mainly due to mass immigration this kind of shit gets pushed.

When I was young, explosions and gang criminality were extremely rare and uncommon but today it is unfortunately being more common. I have several friends, including me, that has been the victim of either threats or violence in the recent years but the perpetrators always walks free due to our incompetent police and justice system that doesn't even investigate even the most obvious crimes where the perpetrator is known.

Some examples:

- My uncle was beaten down and had to be in the hospital for tring to stop 3 people from stealing a bike. No further investigation.

- I am/was being threatned several times by a guy, which I reported to the police several times and they haven't even started to look at my case yet (this was several months ago). I am very certain that the preliminary investigation will be canceled.

- Several sexual crimes towards children isn't even being investigated due to "heavy work burden" [1]

The development is really pissing me off and I am even thinking about moving from Sweden since I often times don't feel secure anymore. If this bill gets through it is simply more proof how insane our politicians are. They don't give any reason to believe that they even care the slightest about civilians security, just the image of the country as a whole. This kind of legislation will be used in the same way the drug policies are used, they increase the statistics for the police to make it look like they solve a bunch of crimes when in reality they do not solve most crimes of importance.

[1]: https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
look, i get that you've gotten yourself into a career where you're adjacent to the legal system so you have no ability to critically evaluate anything beyond "it is/isn't legal therefore it is/isn't good" but if you try talking to a young person you might realize the number of independent artists has been exploding every year for a decade and we now have more people creating quality music than ever before in the history of the world (more people per capita than ever before as well, I'd wager). the ability to share and expose others to these new artists faster and easier than ever before is what makes this possible. sorry that no one cares that the big record labels and top 40s that made all their money on CDs are losing ground to distribution methods that aren't utterly unable to adapt to the industry's current landscape
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The child/mythbuster in me wonders what would have if you spun a large disc at this speed and tried to skim it across an ocean
Have you seen the library function cleanSource() and related routines? I use these for excluding files (e.g. by filename extension) from being visible in builds. This might suit your use case too.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/sources.nix
I guess the argument is that piracy is a financial crime.
Which at a certainly scale is absolutely true.

Sweden have historically had very weak laws when it comes to private citizens doing piracy. But that's also very different from a commercial piracy enterprise.
I think you may be missing the more interesting point. Corporations can be seen as non-human intelligences that emerge from the structure of the corporation together with the incentives of is environment.

In that view, the humans inside the corporation are like individuals neurons of a larger brain. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, and its incentives and actions are often not aligned with those of its parts, i.e., the humans.

The brain/neuron analogy is not a perfect description, because in order to function towards is potentially anti-human goals, the corporation must essentially bribe a small number of humans who are critical to its function. But this only goes so far: CEOs and other executives are well compensated, but they are easily replaced if they pose a serious threat to the goals of the corporation.

I think the argument is very compelling that today's AI Doomsday prophets are seriously missing the point, and we're actually already largely being ruled by hostile or at least indifferent non-human intelligences. It's the old sci-fi trope that if an intelligence is too alien, you might not even recognize it as one.
It also means that you can prove to others that you voted the "right" thing. With all its implications.
There will at the very least be nominee directors or other human agents acting on behalf of the corporation somewhere in the chain.

The problem as I see it is that you can probably "bootstrap" some ownership by using two or more corporations owning shares in each other (you'd have problems with laws relating to controlling stakes, but they probably are not unsurmountable) and make it work in the normal case with enough automation and nominee directors with strict, limited instructions on how to act and how to seek approvals - insist the owner is a recluse who will only interact via a strictly limited app or something.

The problem is likely to be what happens if anyone starts suspecting "nobody is home". There are too many opportunities for people then to take advantage, or take actions that an algorithm will have problems countering. Something as simple as filing a basic lawsuit against the company would likely make it all come tumbling down, because even if the algorithm contains the intelligence to make the right decisions, humans have this annoying tendency to still want things like signatures or want people to appear in person barring legal rights to equal treatment for algorithms.

So such companies may be possible, whether or not technically legal, but may not end up surviving very long. For now.
The first requirement in the article:

> I need to develop against multiple Python versions, including 2.7, various Python 3 versions (3.5 and 3.6, mostly), and PyPy.

The article states that this is an "unusual" setup, but unfortunately it is all too common. The Python 2/3 split has created such a large and sad schism in the development community, has wasted countless developer hours, and has held back the language itself incalculably. A travesty.
I grew up in China. When I was little, there was a time that if a Uyghurs person get on the bus, everybody else on the bus would get off. Even nowadays people tend to get nervous when they see Uyghurs wandering on street.
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I don't know about HN - I'm not sure its users are good targets for manipulation, but I'm starting to see lots of what I suspect is political activity in Reddit and BBC (the comments are trash, but the user activity comes across as very organised)
Your initial complaint is that the publisher should be allowed to make money. What difference does it make to you if someone reads without giving them ad revenue or doesn't read it at all?
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I played enough KSP to know that this sort of thing is somewhere halfway up on the list of "things that you might think go to space but don't".

Hitting the atmosphere after accelerating will probably cause most materials outside of reentry heatshield to immediately melt, ignite and explode without particular order of these events. After turning into a molten blob of lava or a spent heatshield, it would still be nowhere close to orbital velocity and would have to fire an engine that somehow survived A) the heat and B) the intense G-forces involved.

I'll probably file this under "solar freaking roadways" and hope they don't try to fire a human in this.
He runs a risk of going to prison. If you beat someone "within an inch of their life", then you just committed real crime that gets you to real jail and you will have to live your life with real criminal record.
Ethereum has competition. Look at NEO (https://neo.org/).
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> I don't know Swedish law, but I will guess that like American law, any parliament/house member can introduce basically any bill saying anything.

So this "bill" is the result of an investigation started by the government. The investigation concludes (document posted by me elsewhere in this thread (in Swedish)) that it would be appropriate to change the law, and what the "bill" should look like.

Have not found the stage of the bill yet, the suggestion for a bill in the final document of the investigation is what I found so far.

The investigation appears to have been performed by people from various instances; governmental, academic, and industry. Only one person from industry; "Film och TV-branschens Samarbetskommitté", whose role was "sakkunnig"/subject expert.
Or because people see Stalin as Hitler' buddy. Even in ironic way, Putin is nowhere near close to Stalin.
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Yes, specific agendas face a nearly immovable object in the CCP in high-profile issues or examples. This is because the CCP cannot afford to appear movable.

But on a local level it's actually surprisingly responsive. Many an industrial project has been shuttered or aborted during construction due to local opposition. This is especially the case for environmental concerns. But local groups have also successfully forced the national party to reform the local chapter to clean up corruption, or lobbied for freedom to do certain kinds of business. (It's not all democratic, it certainly helps to have wealthy backers for these interests)
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You won't get 5-8 years for stealing money. But many bank robberies kill or severely hurt people. And even where they don't, victims can be traumatised for a long time. Having a gun pointed at you isn't great for your mental health.

Harsh sentences for those cases are not about the money lost by an insurance, it's about the willingness to hurt or kill people for some extra money.
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I think pretty much everyone would "prefer to use the standard library where possible". But try building a modern web app with that. No one uses libraries because they want to, they use b/c they need to.
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Diffusion of responsibility is no responsibility at all.

We need to have a well-funded, well-run, serious effort at preserving digital history.
It's no big wonder if one extrapolates from how many trivial questions you ask
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> What do you consider some reasons then?

Too often users need to use the terminal.
Does virtualenv handle different python versions? My understanding was that it just handled different sets of 3rd party packages.