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Maybe you didn't carefully read my original post. I'm not claiming the SEC has a perfect record in finding frauds before the hurt anyone (that would be nearly impossible). I am pointing out that getting away with fraud is extremely difficult. Eventually, you'll get caught, the SEC will uncover everything, and you'll be broke forever. From op:

>...avoiding the ire of the SEC is relatively easy if you set your mind to committing fraud without getting caught.

This statement is mostly what I was responding to. Here is a thought experiment. For the sake of this experiment lets say our economy is perfectly competitive. If all an entity had to do to get away with fraud was "set your mind to not getting caught," then every entity that participated in the economy would be committing fraud because it is in their best interest. That sounds wrong, probably because it is. White collar criminals don't plan on getting caught, they do everything they can to get away with their crimes. To me, that qualifies as setting their mind to not getting caught. Well, they get caught anyway.

The companies you bring up (enron, worldcom, madoff) are outliers in the world of securities fraud. they achieved unprecedented levels of success and then failure. Using these cases are counterpoints to an argument that financial crimes are hard to get away with seems silly to me. After all, none of these frauds were successful in the end, instead, people ended up in prison.
Older machines: Thinkpad T42p, Hp/Compaq 6910b, HP 2230s, etc. All of them running Linux, mostly Debian. The 2230s is used as a stationary machine, connected to a monitor and an M1 keyboard.

Why older machines? Because developing on older machines makes sense: if it works well on those, it flies on more modern hardware. Also, the things just keep on working. For heavier workloads I have some servers to offload to so the (by 'modern' standards) relatively anaemic performance of e.g. the Pentium M 1.8GHz in the T42p is not a problem. The screen on the thing is still better than on most 'modern' hardware, as is the keyboard. It still gets around 3.5 hours on a battery charge as well.

The servers are connected to gigabit fibre (a recent addition to our farm here out in the Swedish countryside) so as long as I have a good connection I can access anything as if I'm home on the ranch. Everything goes through a VPN to the router here at home, both laptops as well as phones and tablets, making it possible to use public WiFi without giving up the keys to the kingdom.
Ok can't say if this works for your macbook, but have you tried ndiswrapper? If the windows driver is usable it should work.
I watched about 3/4ths of that conspiracy video for fun and I don't even get it being restricted under "hate speech." There are parts that are obviously either untrue or exaggerations but the whole thesis of the video is "american fascists are behind everything and world war II was invented to be a profitable enterprise for industry captains."
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But it's not. At least not in the countries they mention like China and Thailand.
Sounds like you’re mostly talking about trademark law here
I found out that your reaction mainly rise among intellectuals, which are not the majority.

Also it's only triggered with certain kind of display of confidence (like aggressive confidence, or confidence mixed with poor vocabulary/skill, etc). E.G: the confidence of a humble but strong expert does not trigger the reaction.
[styling note, I had pulled out the statement made in the GP comment and made it italics to emphasize it, in reference to the above comment's question "what this has to do with the parent comment].

So stylism aside, you have correctly surmised my concern that the SEC is looking to move into private markets more aggressively. I think the reason for that is nuanced but having lived through the dot.com bubble and watched how the government responded to that bubble (Sarbanes Oxley anyone?) And the huge losses that are being taken by the large banks as their Unicorns died in this the Unicorn bubble, basically accredited or not investors with lots of capital get mad when they are mislead, and their anger typically results in them getting their "friends" to do something about it. We currently have an integration between banking interest and the administration that is as deep as it has ever been. So there are many contacts both official and unofficial between Wall Street and DC.

There is also the perception of the disproportionate channeling of wealth creation to a smaller number of people through private company 'trading'. Add the antics of Uber and Theranos to the mix and it provides a convenient place for the powers that be to take "logical" and "needed" steps to curb the abuses. Generally resulting in more regulation and more risk on startups.
> it tells you to run certain commands (checkout -b) without telling you what's happening in the background

I guess this is why it is called A Usage-First Guide to Git. You can always dig deeper, but in most cases people just starting out with git want to get things done without their heads exploding first.
Who's choosing which videos are conspiracy theories? For that matter who's choosing which Wikipedia facts are shown with the videos they label as conspiracy? Are there no two contradictory pages on Wikipedia?

Are their demonitization efforts not working well enough to shut down those who disagree with their viewpoints?
> I pretty much immediately switch to "defense against salesmen" mode

I have the same reaction, which is a result of working in and around sales for years. Before that though I think I was just as susceptible.
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just make a type where doing pointer math and other such use cases are a compiler error?
Yeah, look for a brand reboot after the bankruptcy.
>“It’s more urgent now than ever before to make plastic water bottles a thing of the past.”

Great way to end good research with retarded political statements. What exactly will replace plastic bottles?
Does this logic imply that we can ban Islam because of terrorists? As I understand it, they thought they were bringing about the end times and there was some theory about the 12th Imam or something.

Why or why not?
People like certainty. It's why someone who is 100% reliable is generally perceived as far more valuable than someone who is merely very reliable. People are far happier to follow a leader that has 95% chance of succeeding than someone who has a 75% chance.

Confidence is basically just a word for "projecting one's own certainty". People like certainty, so they favor the person who knows what they're talking about over the person who's not quite sure.

But unfortunately, confidence isn't a perfect signal. Some people actively exploit the general human bias to find certainty to their own advantage by falsely projecting confidence.

This is a topic I find interesting. And to be fair, not everyone who projects false confidence is doing so maliciously, some (it seems to me) simply have a hard time holding things that aren't absolutes in their head and they tend to round certainty on things to 100% or 0%.
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While I mostly agree with you, I used linear VCS systems (mostly Perforce and SVN) for decades, and I still have no idea how they actually work. Git is fairly unique in that it basically forces you to understand how it works in order to use it, which I think is a major failing. I mean, it's nice that you can understand it and that that knowledge means that you can be more effective with it, but I don't think it should be compulsory. Currently it is compulsory for anything but the simplest workflows.
I don't know. Maybe Riffle. Mostly it was the idea of using a custom spread-spectrum channel with strong encryption.

Edit: + covert channels
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Again, point is not just about SEC investigation. I'm pushing back against the notion that getting away with fraud is as simple as setting your mind to it.
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A quote I got from my Harvest timer this morning:

> “The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.”

> – Stephen Hawking
How about lead in old pipes in parts of the city where the water might pass through? Lead seems more dangerous than plastic particles.

Any way to filter lead out with certainty?
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They don't control for age, so their study is worthless. Many of the countries mentioned as "the worst" have ageing populations and lots of emigrants.
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Stainless steel and glass come to mind off the top of my head.

Edit: Also, regarding your choice of words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableism
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KB2952664 WX,
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KB3123862 WX,
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unfortunately Windows unblocks some of these if you mark them to be hidden...
Using “cost center” in the first place was unnecessarily pedantic. And wrong.

According to note 11 in the annual report for 2017 “We have organized our operations into three segments: North America, International, and AWS.”
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Your estimate is sound, but GP was talking about value (money saved) for health insurance companies.
You don't need to "figure out" how much you paid for chicken; it's printed on the receipt. The only thing to "figure out" is "what's the cost per pound if I paid $7 for a 2.3 pound chicken" and maybe you want to do that arithmetic, but for a lot of people, "this chicken cost $7 and I estimate that it will feed me and my partner for maybe 2-3 meals" is the only 'calculation' that needs to happen.

Larger calculations like "how much did I spend last month on groceries" are easily assessed simply by looking at a credit card statement. Being financially responsible does not necessarily entail knowing the exact dollar-to-calorie or dollar-to-weight ratio of every item in your shopping cart.
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The frigging ux305ua! Oh hell no I know what issue you are talking about since I had to bisect the kernel to find it. The bios had non standard vbt handling (to put it mildly) and the newer implementatiin which didn't have defaults set and relied on the hardware simply stopped booting.

Also the keyboard backlight needed dsdt fixed or acpi parameter to work correctly and the touchpad kinda worked randomly (the keys).
It was a great big hack to get everything working and even thought it's a light kinda nice looking laptop I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Additional disclaimer: everything seems to work fine with the newest kernel revision
Security from whom, against what threat?

Years ago, I tried to help a friend transition from Windows on a white MacBook to Boot Camp. She didn't tell me that the NTFS partition was using security features. I ignorantly made a DMG of the disk, and tried to restore that as a partition. It wasn't bootable, so I tried again as a virtual machine. Mac OS can mount the DMG, but only read the non-encrypted files. I still think her data is lost, although I keep the DMG on my external drive just in case tools come along one day when I can rescue her data. I was embarrassed at my mistake (don't just image a drive and expect it to work), and now I just tell people to make their own backup.

Local security isn't about protecting yourself from PRISM. On Windows it's about viruses, but those are less common on Macs.

I'd rather have a machine using HFS+ that I can mount R/W on Linux, with root login, with an easy way to set up a local web server. Worrying about hackers when I'm behind NAT just doesn't seem proportional - if they're on the same network, they can probably just walk over and get hardware access. Security is like DRM; it makes life for everyone more difficult, and those who are truly determined will get in anyway.
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>Aggregated data is part of the problem.

Even more so than confirmation bias?

>And even in that small data set, the average IQ trends up as the number of victims trends up. It comes a lot closer to average IQ than the overall number of 86, but it does trend up.

Obviously, duh. It's not because serial killers tend to be of higher IQ, but because serial killers of higher IQ can get uncaught for longer, and thus manage bigger "number of victims".

Correlation != causation and all.
I've started noticing some sneaky math in my local supermarket. When comparing two items, both list the unit price, but they list the price in different units. Example: A 1.4-lb package lists the price per oz, while the 0.8-lb package lists the price per lb. In every case, the intent seems too be an attempt to induce math errors and cause someone to accidentally purchase the package with the higher true unit price.
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Do you seriously propose that stores should sell stainless steel bottles of water?
Welp, apparently I'm probably a bot. Time to go into the bathroom and cut my arm to verify...
There are people who are still in prison over the most ahsurb charges leveled in the heat of the 1980s Satanic Panic. Bogues right wing Christian therapists implanted false memories of satanic ritual abuse in children you have parents who are still in prison over the most bogus charges drovenby flase memory implants.
Vote for legislators in November who promise to ensure that this issue is addressed. Lead poisoning is a real problem in the rustbelt and northeast, and should be addressed asap, ideally at the federal level. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lead-pipes-everywhere_u...
Yes, I’m aware. Are you accusing them of inserting the flaw into AMD’s microprocessor or something? What’s the crime?

It isn’t remotely illegal to find flaws in a company’s products and attempt to profit of the publication by shorting (as long you don’t have any fiduciary obligation or NDA).
Are you saying trademark law would help resolving forks?
> Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda.When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union, the Soviet response would be "What about..." followed by an event in the Western world.
You don't own a stainless steel water bottle? That seems wasteful.
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I have my own garden. I gues meat eaters can raise their own meat?

Why do people think non-meat eaters are always self righteous. Does it offend you so much or cause that much dissonance that it leads to feelings of resentment?
At the point when you have to convert between string types and can no longer easily use much of libc without conversions, why not just use a different language that's already gone much farther in the name of safety, usability or other features?

In other words, if your pseudo-c candidate already suffers from most the interop problems that Rust, D, Nim and Go do, why not just use one of those and at least reap the other benefits they provide?
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http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

> 4. Naughtiness

> Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

> Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.

Too naughty, Sam? I suppose it all depends on whether or not you pull it off. If her oversold, semi-vaporwear tech ultimately panned out, and she ultimately got the Defense Department deals she lied to her investors about having, I could easily see her being held up as another celebrated example of "fake it 'till you make it." (Or until the SEC shuts you down for fraud).
I drink tap water instead because the minerals are not filtered out of it.
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Newtonian forces are a generalization anyway. Do they even apply to objects as large as galaxies?
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"These folks didn't need git tutorials, they needed to be convinced that curation and management of source history was one of their job responsibilities, which was tough because it really wasn't previously, at least not in any meaningful way."

I've had a very similar experience. IMO, your source control is an essential working tool, like your text editor, and you should be very proficient with it, but plenty of developers that I've met don't share that view.
There is certainly a lot of research about the radicalization process, generally aimed (unsurprisingly) at terrorism rather than isolated murderers. I don’t have a signal succinct citation to point you to, but I am relatively confident that there is good evidence to support the claim that an individual being increasingly surrounded by media espousing a radical or fringe belief is correlated with that individual becoming increasingly radical.

That doesn’t answer your question about justifying censorship, but I think that’s not the best question to ask, since media recommendation algorithms that penalize certain radical subjects is hardly what I would call “censorship.”
Ask HN: What common HN topic do you think is under/overhyped?
Whenever I go on HN i see threads about Rust, Webassembly, Vue, Elm, and other technologies I've never actually seen a human being use in real life. It's very difficult to tell if some of these are actually getting big, or if they just have strong developer communities that like talking about them, or if they're actually just fun tools to tinker with but don't have much professional use.

What do you see on here that you think gets too much or not enough hype?
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> In Germany there are strict regulations if you're writing secure software, especially under the lens of BSI and of the Bundesdruckerei. Softwares which deal with eID are verified and certified with strict rules

just curious, does this extend to dependent libraries as well ?
Can you clarify the percentages for internships? Equivalent annual salary as in, if a student is making $20/hr at a 3-month internship, then their equivalent annual salary would be $20/hr * 40 hr/ week * 52 weeks = $41600, and your payment would be $2912? Or is it just 7% of what they earned over the summer ($9600, and payment would be $672?)
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That's actually sort of what the original story was. I mean, no blockchains, but the battery thing was introduced because the studio didn't like the idea of humans as CPUs.
> If you're going to murder your parents over a conspiracy theory is there any reason to assume you wouldn't murder them for a dozen other reasons?

I'd wager that some will and some won't, and that if you were morbid enough you could probably measure such a thing statistically.

> How justified is censoring a platform for millions of users because of one mentally ill user?

Not only the mentally ill occasionally have absolutely terrible ideas, buy into something stupid, or get occasionally conned. Adding information to videos is also not censorship - at least insofar as I'd define the term, or generally seen it defined, unless perhaps if you're going so far as to try to bury a needle in a haystack - so I'm not sure the question is relevant here unless you're worried about some slippery slope or something.

I'd hesitate to impose censorship, but adding information to pierce the walls of echo chambers - and to let e.g. "the marketplace of ideas" actually work - seems like a great idea to me. Not that any implementation of such a thing won't have it's flaws, mind you.

> Is there any evidence that being exposed to certain ideas "pushes someone over the edge" any more than what they can come up with in their own head or without technological assistance? I've read some stuff about school shootings that suggests media coverage encourages "copycat" attacks.

I feel like you've answered your own question here, but I may be missing something. Isn't what a copycat being exposed to when they read the news about one of these incidents, also ideas? Terrible, terrible ideas? Or are you perhaps asking if any of that stuff you've read rises to the level of evidence instead of clickbait hearsay? I've likely read little more than you have - references to studies that suggest the evidence is there. I don't recall reading about any studies refuting that idea or showing no correlation.
The hypocrisy is that if you tried scraping google results they would block you so fast your head would spin.
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You didn't answer the question: how do you propose stores sell bottled water if not in plastic bottles?
This is exactly the sort of thing why FCC wants to lock down wlan ap/router firmwares. So, while a cool hack indeed, it is also bit unfortunate that it also kinda justifies FCCs position
Good idea. I'm also worried about the increased chance of trolling / false editing that results from Youtube links. But I doubt Wikipedia is ready to or wants to be this involved in collaborating with any for-profit.
> I found out that your reaction mainly rise among intellectuals, which are not the majority.

That very much implies it's not hardwired, though, just that it requires unlearning.
With web assembly you don't have to write a lick of javascript to write a guide in some other language that uses a completely accessible dom tree under the hood, provided your library provides the glue (like the rust library Yew).

There's no reason one couldn't wrote a UI frame work like the ones mentioned by the parent that use the dom under the covers.
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