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g is 9.8whatever in m/s^2. If you choose inches/week^2 instead you'll get a different constant.

Many fields use geometric mass units 1 gm = G (where G is the grav constant in m/s^2) so you have g = 1 gm/s^2. Then you can drop a lot of constants for calculations.
"People don't care" about things like this until there are consequences. Nobody cares about pollution until it impacts their health or destroys their property. Nobody cares about financial crime until it crashes the economy and costs them their job.

I think we're reaching the point where all these data mining honeypots we've built over the past 20 years are being used in ways that are nefarious enough that people are starting to care.
From the website:

> an application that will delete all your old posts from social media every so often, to help your privacy.

I’m not sure this will help with privacy. If you keep posting, you keep giving Facebook data and helping them build their profile of you. There’s no guarantee deleting old data from your timeline will delete the data Facebook has on you. To help your privacy, you need to stop giving them data (i.e. stop posting).
This is roughly analogous to being asked to testify before a congressional committee in the US. It doesn't matter who you are in the business world: if people at this level of government invite you, you show up.

If you have an extremely good reason not to attend, maybe you can get away with sending sincere apologies and an adequate delegate to appear on your behalf, at least in the short term. Otherwise, while it might not be possible for the committee to compel Zuckerberg to appear before them in person by law, failing to do so would almost certainly have repercussions for Facebook's continued success in the UK.
Sure, but that seems like the opposite. Creating a deadline as a reasonable limit on the amount of work put in is a lot different from demanding the same amount of work in an unreasonable time.
It's pdf2htmlEX:

https://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/
From what the article says, you basically can't be sure, unless you check the hardware. I would advise at least flashing the original firmware that you can get from Ledger themselves.
there is a great thread on this here: https://www.designernews.co/stories/92615-supernova-studio-l...
Problems 1 and 2 exist just as much with scrutineers as they do with a blockchain solution.
This echos almost everything I heard from the people I know in Berlin that have an N26 account.

The glorifying interview with the CTO about there rockstar techstack makes this all kind of silly https://community.risingstack.com/how-n26-built-a-modern-ban...

They go on about idempotency etc. but everyone complains about double or non-existing transactions.
Because even if I didn't like it, I could accept it as an opinion on future human interactions. Once he made it obviously clear that he himself considers it bullshit, while still selling the vision to the masses, I realised the man has no integrity whatsoever.
I'm not the expert, but from what I know

You have a right to learn what data they have about you, with whom they share it and a lot more details
In addition you can opt out of anything you agreed on earlier and
I would be surprised if you can't request deletion if the business has no business reason to store it. (Arguably, a difficult call with Facebook whom's entire raison d'être is to fuck with your privacy).
Select committees can ask anybody they like to appear. Although as far as I understand they don't technically have the power to force private individuals to attend.

See this briefing if you want to delve in the UK's arcane political system http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN062... (pdf)
Wow. “react only when the press or regulators make something an issue, and avoid any changes that would hurt the business of collecting and selling data.”

From:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/opinion/facebook-regul...

The scary part is the cat is already out of the bag if you authorised any app. They could have a wealth of your data that is being sold.
That's his point. It's actually closer to 9.81 than it is to 10.
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If you make up your own units Pi^2 can be close to anything you want.
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Will it? or is this wishful thinking? How would it kill shadow profiles?
Considering that money came out of the fine that their employer paid, I don't see a problem.
There's a nice explanation for this one based on expressing Pi as an infinite continued fraction.
Shit everywhere, no one to help you find anything, etc...

It would fit right in with Amazons style of business then.
In May the GDPR comes into force in the EU.
Kudzu is an invasive species because it out-competes other types of flora. It is not an invasive species purely because of human control. True, humans have helped it affect other species by moving them, but if Kudzu somehow (perhaps a form of geological change happens in thousands of years like a land bridge, or continental shift, or maybe the seeds are simply moved by some migrating population of bird) reached these new ecosystems by it's own means, it would still be an invasive species.

My point is that unless there is some way to restrict which 'biomes' different organisms can inhabit, some invasive species will outcompete others, particularly if some less competitive species are evolved for specific niche environments only found on Earth. This segregation is not likely to happen naturally as it has on earth, and thus the idealistic diversity and preservation that yohann305 was hoping for wouldn't occur without human intervention and control.
Isn't that the gravitational acceleration of the earth?
While the title is framed to get people's input; in the text you proclaim that the issue is not Facebook but the users. So, what you are asking is - I am convinced Facebook did not do anything wrong but prove me otherwise.

The problem with that there is no way to prove a negative. And you already have the biggest defense - "...but people shared their data willingly".

Still, here's my view on this - Facebook is designed to collect data but it also is designed to keep people engaged so that they share even more. They also make it easy for people looking to collect data.

Their whole business model is around data. So, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a leak showing Facebook specifically courting CA, just like twitter did with RT:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/27/russias-rt-rev...
Agree. What's mostly worrying me is that Ledger's high ranking officials seem to lack basic communication skills for a company selling such critical devices.

You can see that in the author's section of his dealing with Ledger, and if you go to /r/ledgerwallet subrredit you'll be able to see their interaction rubs off as quite a bit condescending to downright insulting[0] considering people have lost money over some issues, shrugging it off as "it's your fault".

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/7tvyar/psa_do...
I think the debate may be leaning towards dynamic.

- The aforementioned keynote highlighting the various reasons Rich chose to make it dynamic.

- CircleCI (one of the major users and propronents of core.typed) dropping it.

- The introduction of spec as an alternative for some of the reasons people use type systems (its certainly not a drop in replacement and doesn't intend to be).

- Spec allowing different kinds of verification not possible with a type system on its own.
This is horrifying. It prioritizes the ease of the library developer's life over the library user's life. That smart-object API is just simply painful to use.

Oddly enough, I (independently) developed a very similar opensource http library with fluent, immutable command objects:

https://github.com/stickfigure/hattery/

Of all the libraries I've built in my life, this is probably the one I enjoy using most. I also don't have any problems maintaining it; I still add features all the time (most recently, preflight and postflight functions) and it's still fun.

The reason it's easy to maintain, I suspect, is mostly two reasons: 1) everything is immutable and 2) there's clean separation between the Request and the Transport.
Thanks. I was thinking the Stripe fees would be the 2.9% + $0.30c, but I was looking at the wrong thing.
It depends. Courts could rule that click through licences don't constitute "informed consent", because let's be honest, people aren't informed about what they're signing.
It's just an additional sales channel ... if they can have a place where a) people can go to physically preview inventory, and b) can go to immediately obtain merchandise when they can't wait for it.

Additionally, it can help to simplify logistics ... if there are more locations where they person can go pick up their package rather than having to deliver it, surely that can be a boon to their operations.
> has no sign of going away due to the constant influx of young people willing to take it

Why is the onus to change the industry on the inexperienced folk (who likely don't know any better) rather than the bosses/leadership who theoretically get paid the big bucks to figure out how to properly run their organizations?
Sure, but when the iPhone came out I'd already been using Palm and PocketPC smartphones for a few years. At the time I thought "any smartphone without the ability to install third party software, send MMS messages, use a GPS radio to locate me accurately, copy and paste, or even change the ringtone is essentially just a feature phone".

Things start out simple, limited, clunky, and expensive. Occasionally they become capable, svelte, commonplace, and affordable after 5 or 10 years of development and refinement.
Facebook's users don't care about its myriad scandals
Before I read this, I also read that improved oxygen saturation has long distance effect on arteries (vasodilatation maybe ?) and probably other parts in your system. So deep breathing might improve oxygen intake thus relax you too.

One thing I realized over time is that my lungs don't open linearly, there's a resistance period after the first second on intake, if I keep sucking air in after 3 seconds my whole chest opens. After that I can feel my lungs full. I also try to keep air in for ~2 seconds, thinking that it might help keeping pressure in deep into all alveolis and cleaning / exchange more oxygen.

All this is Sample of One guess fest. If anybody knows it's useless or could be improved, feel free to reply.
This is pretty inaccurate. The House of Commons refers to the main house of parliament which is made up entirely of elected members of parliament (MPs).

In this case it is a "select committee", which is a cross-party group of MPs which has been appointed to investigate the case. Committees can also invite special outside advisors to help. Select committees are not criminal investigations; their findings are passed to the government for consideration.
Well... It is, after all: Shoot, move, communicate.
Same, incl using the Metalink[0] feature which I really, really like and don’t understand why it’s not more popular.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink
blob storage without associated compute resources is boring.

transfer costs and latency makes it unusable for anything interesting.
Yes, that is a legitimate complaint.

I was only referring to the remark about credit scoring companies which I believe to be wrong
I've never seen so many examples and variations of Jackson Structured Programming!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming
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When he attends it would be only a big favor... I'm betting he will not attend. This is more politics, they are making a bold statement to ask the CEO but it's not his duty to speak to UK officials as a US citizen (no matter what).
Sadly I think it's just that they're young and don't have a lot of responsibilities yet so it's easier to take on the brunt of it.

I know before I went into the industry it was at a point where crunch was widely known. Heck, some people bragged about it like a badge of honor/rite of passage.

A lot of it was maturing and realizing that there are more important things in life then giving every waking hour to a company that may throw you out on the door as soon as the title is shipped(or even sooner).

I mentioned it a little further down the thread but I saw 3 different divorces at the last studio I worked at, largely due to spouses just not being there for each other due to the long hours.
"(more than 500€ per Month in incoming transfers or so i think)" it amazes me how ppl make stuff up all the time
I wasn’t claiming that enforcement was strict or consistent. Just that it is patently absurd to say that 38mph in a 35mph isn’t “speeding”. I don’t care what your personal anecdotal experience is, we’re talking about what a court can penalize you on and what is written in the legal code.

And yes, I go over the speed limit plenty of times myself. I remember in HS how my friend was let go even after being caught at +10mph because he told the officer he was late to our calculus study group. Cops, and all human entities, make tons of allowances and exceptions.
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"So you think the majority of the people you are referring to, were using condoms and most of them failed? I think that is unlikely. If it is unlikely then it means the fact they have kids are a reflection of their decision making, self-control, etc."

Which is what you want to believe. You want to believe that it is these people's fault; that they did things wrong, and not that it was an accident that could easily have happened to you. That makes it much easier for you to sit in judgement over them, and for you to justify to yourself that you're better than them, and to deny assistance to them. After all, it was their own fault; they were the ones with poor self control. Why should they get any help?
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So they can same-day-deliver to my house in [not a big city].
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I'm an American but I have never used g in imperial units, I've only ever known it as -9.8m/s^2.
An attack on the supply chain would have to happen at the very last stages when the device is assembled, as the assembler would otherwise notice the added component.
I would even dare to say that the attack on the supply chain you're describing can only be done by the device assembler itself.
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Games are perceived to be date-driven hits. So there is a "magic date" you need to meet -- a major holiday, for instance, or a big industry event like E3 -- or your project is "toast". So you wind up with crunch time, and a lot of quality problems, and ship a bad, buggy product that gets bad reviews (but hey, you shipped by the magic date, so that made it all better, right?)

Crunch time generally happens with consumer products; I've worked on these products practically my whole career, and it will burn you out unless you can find projects with enlightened management. I've also found that getting your own piece done solid, ahead of schedule, only means that you get dragged into the swamps and help out other teams with their issues -- you get to work on the really nasty bugs, the integrations with APIs designed by people too clever for their own damned good, you get to see the real sausage being made.

I argue that shipping a good product late, with a smaller team [the tendency is to add a bunch of staffing to meet deadlines, and we all know how that story ends] will result in better reviews and sales, a team that has better ownership of the product, and much better retention. But try telling that to a Suit whose only skill is to order people around.

[When I wrote my first game cartridge, I gave a detailed schedule of 150 days. It was October and marketing wanted the project to ship by Christmas, which left about two weeks for development. Even a clueless management stack knows that you can't compress work by that much, but it did take some effort to convince the marketroids that they couldn't just have 20 or 30 engineers sit down for a week and write the code. I did burnout hours for several months and finished up within a week of what I'd planned].

I regularly counsel "kids" not to get into the game industry early, and to concentrate on getting wide experience to a bunch of technologies, because game studios need more than just graphics and pretty lights. You can be a hero for doing a provisioning system, or a secure real-time networking layer, or a great storage system, and this stuff is just as necessary and as valuable as those flashy effects on the screen, just not as sexy or visible.
It's important to note that a lot of the failure of Toys R Us has to do with private equity buyout rather than a poor business model. Of course, their business model was flawed, but remember that Toys R Us was bought in 2005, and the toy market was MUCH simpler back then. Amazon was hardly the player it is now. The private equity firm then loaded them up with crippling debt. Move forward a few years, and enter Amazon et al, and market situations shifted drastically. Toys R Us, loaded with debt from the private equity buyout, could not invest in their own infrastructure and improvements. Even if they had the perfect business model to capitalize on, they would have no cash to execute, and regardless, they would be forced to bankruptcy. In this case, they had so much debt that they couldn't escape chapter 11 and had to resort to chapter 7. And so it goes.
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And Econ 101 is extremely simplified, due to being an entry level course. Go beyond the freshman level, and you'll find far more nuanced forces at play.
A very interesting article that is yet another reason to update your phones.

Shame that vendors don't care to support security updates.
Didn't go through it all yet, but its premise seems kind of off: you can't really discuss "types in isolation of the language"!

Just a basic example of two dynamic languages: In Python I can get a lot done and really don't miss types at all. In JS otoh, I feel lost until I pull in TypeScript to tame it, the language makes it even hard to think clearly without types, like, "is that an object or a dict" or "is it a map? from what to what?" etc. For most usual programmer mistakes that would be type errors in typed language, Python still throws a meaningful and debuggable runtime error, whereas JS carries on an breaks much further from the cause of the problems, leaving you to debug WTF after WTF...

And static typing is great, as long as it doesn't require you to type variables and anonymous or small utility functions/methods... eg. it sucks without inference!

Some languages work better with types, some don't gain much from them...
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To put the FB selloff into a market perspective:
-Equifax is only off 13% from its peak after its unprecedented leak of nearly every American and many Canadians' credit info, leaving the population vulnerable to identity theft. The population mostly never agreed to give Equifax this information, but Equifax collects it anyways.

FB is off 8.5% now as a client business failed to adhere to FB users' privacy for data that the users were willingly giving out to FB and the client (but not the third party). Not likely much more downside to the stock on this news imo.
They didn't get wealthy by throwing money at things.
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Two thoughts, to begin.

First, much of East Asia has extremely demanding placement tests for elite high schools (and sometimes lower schools). You might reasonably say that we're only taking students from good high schools around the world, but that's a comment about school quality, not students. As people often point out, Harvard dropouts are almost as successful as Harvard grads - merely getting in represents a powerful filter. So it's plausible that we're taking rich/educated elites worldwide, but in East Asia we've got a talent/skill filter comparable to college admissions being applied in advance.

Second, your point: there's a non-trivial penalty for being a Chinese applicant to a US college, and it's not particularly obvious what impact that has. I suppose it could be that the harsher requirements for acceptance are driving the difference, and we don't have any real evidence on how responsive outcomes are to changing that restriction. (Is there a good breakdown of outcomes for a given group by visa type? That might show whether nation-specific admission rules on some visa types are changing outcomes.)

(The third thought, of course, is "it's a huge multifactorial mess and there's probably not enough data to trust any conclusion we come to".)
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Issue is, a company does that and then parents still search and buy the toy for cheaper on Amazon from their phone.

I have family members who run a small retail store with excellent inventory and service, and they barely scrape by due to people show rooming. They are not in toys, but they simply cannot compete on price, as Amazon, etc sells it cheaper than they can buy from the suppliers.
Actually not a coincidence. The meter was originally defined as the length of a "seconds pendulum" (a pendulum with period two seconds). The half-period of a pendulum of length L is pi * sqrt(L/g). Set L = 1 and solve for g, and you get g = pi^2.

This doesn't work exactly because the meter eventually wasn't defined as the length of the seconds pendulum but rather as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole - which turns out to be a few millimeters longer - but the idea for using something meter-sized as a unit of length came from the seconds pendulum.
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A bit of a plug, but for my senior project, my team is working bringing Patchworks (slide 80) to Atom. It's currently not open source (but will be after completion of the project). We are working with an author of the original paper. http://austinhenley.com/pubs/Henley2014VLHCC_Patchworks.pdf
There is a value to having competition. My guess that if it works out and Nvidia and AMD have it implemented on silicon, then they will push to have those features accessible through a Vulkan interface.

I love open standards as much as the next guy but for something like this where the utility is still an open question, I'd rather than some just makes an implementation for just their technology. The alternative is that your open standard is full of half baked experiments and trimming a standard is a huge pain.
This is important because, for some, the moral dilemma would preclude this treatment.
Yuval Noah Hariri's Sapiens devotes several pages to the extinctions of various prehistoric species in the Americas and Australia, and how they all seem to curiously line up with the first signs of human migration. Only African species evolved around early apes and hominids, and learned to fear their wiles. Our current mass extinction is rivaled by the spear-y wave of death that followed humans' advance out of Africa.
Basically the same effect supporters were asking from NN for telecoms:

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/359499-franken-condemns...

“No one company should have the power to pick and choose which content reaches consumers and which doesn’t,” said Franken. “And Facebook, Google and Amazon, like ISPs, should be neutral in their treatment of the flow of lawful information and commerce on their platform.”

And then one week later, his political career was suddenly over. Politicians got the message loud and clear; Don't F* with Facebook.
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