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While I empathize with your situation, do you not seem to realize that the vast majority of men won't help other men in the way you want help either. Unless they're getting something they value in return. That's the key. When you ask for help, you have to provide the helper with the promise of something they want. Else why should they bother?
The question of API copyrightability seems to have been a big failure of the legislation-and-precedent system.

The theory is that instead of the legislature trying to think through all the corner cases ahead of time, they pass a somewhat vaguer act and leave the courts to sort out some test cases; then in a reasonable amount of time clarity is supposed to emerge.

But it's been 40 years since the world decided that it would "protect" computer programs as if they were literary works, and 30 years since most people thought that the question of API copyrightability was settled, and it turns out that we never got clarity at all.

Having judges trying to determine the question by deciding whether APIs are analogous to chapter titles or plot points in Harry Potter books is just ridiculous.
Should Uber Test Driver go to jail? She was on camera looking down at her phone at the moment of accident.
> Also - why isn't the US govt. helping to fund something like this?

I'm guessing that the religious nuts that have issues with 'controversial' government involvements in other contraceptives is likely to blame, or at least the threat of pressure from them would keep the government away. The government funding something like this would cause a lot of noise from them.
They certainly averted disaster, didn't they.
Is the ratchet a good design strategy for software updates (e.g. Chrome, Mac OS)?
>I agree, there is nothing intelligent about an ABS system, and nobody is labeling it as intelligent.

Artificial intelligence is intelligence, just made artificially instead of organically. You clearly have no understanding of the term so you should probably shut up.
Southern states are the most predominately black states in the country. Are you sure you want to bring this up?
Or the iPad mini;
I'm not sure how that's relevant, if anything since the crux of the issue seems to be the "stealing" of the API the fact that there are incompatibilities should be in Google's favour? It's a bit odd to claim that somebody stole your API while at the same time complaining that they did not steal it well enough.
Were you able to determine if the car is capable of being manually driven as well? Or is it self-driving only?

I chuckled a bit trying to imagine a situation where the SDC logic would conclude that it was necessary to floor the accelerator up to 124MPH.
There is one thing about Peterson that makes this interpretation a bit more difficult. For most of his career, the guy was a relatively obscure but respected academic, not making an effort to reach a broader audience with his message except through a well liked course for undergraduates at the University of Toronto. He had strong convictions and a clear message, and there was certainly a current of conservative political belief, but his launch into fame was largely happenstance. He took issue with a new Canadian law that he considers an attack on free speech, and this came at a time when conservative media feels its job is to emblazon this kind of viewpoint.

He has done a good job surfing the wave of fame for sure. In my opinion the core of it is not about fame though, the core is a message he's promoted for decades and that he truly thinks is correct, and helpful to people.
The turn based gameplay, square tile floor design, randomized levels and loot, fantasy medieval world of sword and sorcery remind me of an earlier 1990s game called Castle of the Winds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_the_Winds
They are not overrated.

Static type systems are tremendously useful for preventing a common class of programming errors, not to mention they enable reliable refactoring of complex codebases.
I think this idea, at least in the exact form as described in the PDF, was scrapped later due to addition to randomly generated items. Having expansion packs which add more items does not make a lot of sense in that context.
Just because you worked on something doesn't mean you get a perpetual government enforced monopoly on it.
I notice that when I hit a bump on my bicycle I don't feel a force in my hands and conciously deduce that this must have been caused by the bicycle's tire hitting something. It seems more like I just feel it in my wheel.
There is zero observable lag on the iPad Pro. I use it daily. I do wonder about the 9.7" iPad though, as it doesn't have a 120Hz display.
Yep. It's a bull market right now.
There's a difference between using an API and reimplementing one. Nobody's saying that you can get in copyright trouble for using an API. And to my knowledge, Go(lang) doesn't have the "embed in an electronic device" restriction that Java had.

If you tried to create a different implementation of Go that used the same API, whether you could get in trouble depends on Google's license. And then, if the license is against you, whether you do get in trouble would be at Google's discretion.

Note well: IANAL. Also, I'm still hoping that this "copyrighting the API" will be overturned at the Supreme Court, in which case this whole conversation is moot.
> So... they only fund science because they care about how investment in science improves our lives?

I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion from what I wrote. I wrote the opposite. Many Republicans are seemingly interested in funding NASA only because of misunderstood economics and logical fallacies.

Perhaps you arrived at the conclusion you did by thinking that by default, job creation and decisions based on expected economic outcome are things that "improve our lives"? But that simply isn't true. Jobs for the sake of jobs makes no sense and creates massive waste and inefficiencies in the world.

Republicans chanting "jobs jobs jobs!" are hurting their constituents, not helping them. This is especially true of the current batch of Republican politicians in power, who chanted about bring back the dying and polluting coal jobs for years and years. Those jobs and policies are not helping the people they claim to be.

Back to NASA. Sure, if someone gets a job that helps them out. But the policies in place are not meant to help that person. The policies in place are meant to entrench the Republican in power, for better or worse, and are not made while considering the actual well being of the people who live there.

This is evidenced more clearly in other policies, that keep the poor poor and the uneducated uneducated. The policies implemented by Republican politicians in the name of "jobs" are rarely good for the people who live there.
It's mainly swatting black hole lists and weird delivery errors. It's probably ok for simple use cases or personal use however. Unfortunately I have some unavoidable contacts on Yahoo Mail and Yahoo like to just defer your emails for 6 months with little chance of appeal.
It still means Facebook can no longer legally use that data, at least in the EU.
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> That may be so, but I've never met one or heard from one

You've never heard Barack Obama speak on TV? http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35209628/ns/technology_and_science....

> "For bragging rights?"

1980/1990s Republicans were pro-NASA to the extent that it proved America was the best country in the world. At that time, Democrats were mostly anti-NASA, believing the money could be better spent on other things. Then, both parties underfunded NASA, but Democrats tended to underfund NASA more severely than Republicans. In the mid 2000s, as Republican opposition to global warming and evolution grew, Democrats became more mixed on NASA, as Republican opposition to NASA could be spun as part of a larger "Republicans are anti-science" narrative (a narrative that remains popular today). Simultaneously, Republican concerns about the deficit grew.

Truth be told, the situation is not that different today than in the 80s and 90s. Twenty years ago, neither party funded NASA fully, but the Republicans were slightly more willing. Today, neither party will fund NASA fully, but the Democrats are slightly more willing. There are cynical reasons to think that greater willingness is political in both cases.
Well, yeah, because the law does jackshit to protect people.
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Worth noting to those who haven't read the pitch: the original design for Diablo was turn-based. The hexagonal movement system was causing a huge headache for the programmers, however, and eventually they decided to make it real-time.

The now-defunct Gametrailers did an amazing retrospective on the Diablo series at some point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83bFa9qL8XQ

EDIT: I also thought some of the side illustrations looked familiar. They are taken from some illustrations for the Dictionnaire Infernal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_Infernal#/media/F...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_Infernal#/media/F...
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The crazy "omnibus" spending bill that just passed by a Republican Congress included a $2 Billion increase to NIH and $1.3 Billion increase to NASA.
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us control on corn, means feeding stock is cheaper in the us too, somebody may think its stupid to subsidize corn, but the truth be told is that the us control the world not because the army or the us dollar, its because the food.

Mexico saw that while negotiating the nafta, most of our corn and beans come from the us, we are handcuffed on the table, because in the case of a trade war, the us can impose taxes on most of our products, but the main product we import is food from the us, and we cant tax those higher, because our people need it.

so while the us taxes washing machines from mexico, mexico cant tax the corn.

the same is happening with the trade war trump is driving between the us and china, china cant retalliate taxing pork or corn, because thats what people eats...

kyssinger said it better: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."

so thats the reason the us subsidize farming
Fond memories of this as a kid. I remember after playing it for a while with friends and coming across BoBaFett's trainer and DooM-Gaze's (sic?) trainer enabling god-mode, fast spellcast, maxed stats, Godly Plate of the Whale armor, King's Sword of Haste, dropping elixirs all over town around Deckard Cain, etc. I was legitimately scared at my age to step into the cracks of hell to go after Diablo when they opened behind Pepin's hut. And the Butcher... kept all the lights on for that quest...

As a 10 year old, it was the first "adult" game I played (alongside Leisure Suit Larry). Dropping the turn based style and keeping classes more simplistic was an excellent decision. It's what introduced me to the online world via battle.net and PKing (player killing) was a joy in itself. Clans, online friends, and memories all shortly followed. Loved reading this.

Diablo 1: still better than the 3rd.

Source: overbearing nostalgia
I found it to be somewhat basic. The primary language is Java so a lot of the techniques are rooted in the kind of "move the dirt around" refactoring that you get with that language, and indeed covers what became the "refactoring" options in Java IDE's. Its a good overview of the ideas of refactoring, but often ends up creating more code and structure, since its often hard to change things in Java without adding more code.

Javascript has a lot more first-class options other than classes and interfaces, so there might be some more insight.

As far as good programming books, I quite liked Code Complete when I was a younger programmer, and found that Anti-Patterns was helpful in giving me a lot of vocabulary and patterns in recognizing what happens in job-settings, as well as refactoring overviews as a solution to real problems.
That’s what RAID and daily backups are for.
Because no student ever does illegal drugs, so lets take away rights from everyone.
Title of the original article not used because it is especially uninformative/baity, given the gravity of a startup raising $62.1M (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shyp#section-overvie...) suddenly closing.
Asset ownership, actual ownership, is very inefficient. It's not obvious to me why a subscription is inherently worse than an interest bearing loan, hardly a modern invention, which is the traditional means to reduce the inefficiency.

Where there may be an issue is if it increases the efficiency too far. For example, it could make getting a new Lexus every year affordable to more people so more will do it. I can imagine that this will exacerbate excessive consumption rather than reduce it.

Now, in a very real sense this is less elitist than requiring upfront payment so it's not so clear cut, morally speaking.

As to the idea that this is an issue if you lose your job. Sure. If you don't have savings and aren't insuring your payments for your essentials then you could have an issue. But it's not dissimilar to assets, you're just running a more predictable risk.
One extra efficiency to keep in mind: the rocket can be custom-made for each launch to exactly the right size for the payload. If you only have a few standard rocket sizes, launching small payloads is wasteful unless you can bundle them together, which means they have to be on the same orbit (or else carry extra fuel in the satellite to shift orbits).

The metal in a rocket isn't the most expensive part (it has to be well under 5% the weight of fuel). The expensive part is fabrication. So reusability is important iff fabrication is expensive. Reusability also requires adding extra launch weight for landing fuel and struts and guidance fins.

So it's too early to conclude that reusability is mandatory. For heavy repeated lifts to a standard orbit, maybe. For small lifts to custom orbits, maybe not. It all depends on the costs of fabrication.
For programming phones, what language do you like better?
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https://twitter.com/21logician/status/831020059212541956/vid...

Purposefully misrepresents the opinions of those he disagrees with potentially, here. Not to mention how messed up what he is saying is.

https://twitter.com/21logician/status/813901825539788800/vid...

Maybe we should oppress Dawkins, and other atheists. Very hypocritical here.

https://twitter.com/21logician/status/813890243606802432/vid...

You need to be religious to have morals (unless you are Muslim, he hates Muslims...)

There is another video of him stating that women want to be brutally dominated, and that is why women support Islam... can't find the video now though.

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/615e3z/i_am_dr_jordan_...

Frozen was propaganda, in his mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjON3cwjILQ

Women should just have a family, not try to have a career or work.

There are plenty more examples of this kind of behaviour, if you look into him more. But he is quite clearly sexist, and he panders to the alt-right.

Additionally, he is supposed to be a self-help guru, but he gets quite angry and vents on twitter all the time, those two don't quite add up to me.
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No, I realize that. I'm not expecting charity.

The problem I face is that the only thing men want in exchange is basically sex and there is a lot of value that I provide at times that people feel they can just get for free from me and to hell with me. I am very interested in figuring out how to make mutually beneficial exchanges. But you can't try to negotiate such if most business people will only really talk to you in hopes of getting laid.
Isn't that just the subscription model that everyone here decries? That's what JetBrains went to, and people here were calling for their heads.
> Sure, but by the same token, you can't conclude Rust code is never faster than Go/Java/whatever for real-world code on account of some TechEmpower benchmark, as the parent poster was trying to do.

A very good point, and I had overlooked what the parent poster had said!

Rust is clearly part of the top performance category and I would not be surprised if with some work it were to become (momentarily) faster by some small amount than Java, Go, etc. I say "momentarily" here because many of the performance-oriented frameworks and platforms are continuously working on tuning within their stacks, so there is considerable volatility in the specific ordering over time.
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The Tor Browser does do that by default, by the way.
I believe also fonts installed. EFF has a great tool regarding fingerprinting https://panopticlick.eff.org
>And what is factually wrong about that?

Because Google states that it will comply with such orders. That means that they do not lie to you about complying with court orders. They tell you in advance that they will comply with them. This isn't a case of Google saying "we will never give your data to the government" and then walking back on that. That would be lying. But they don't do that, they say

> We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request

(edited for formatting from [1])

So again, what is the lie?

I already explained why 'designing a system so you can't comply with an NSL' is a nonstarter. The design requirements to do that make such a system untenable for most clients, for example most corporate clients need data recovery features that are impossible in a system designed to meet your requirements.

[1]: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Atari and Amiga prices were quite competitive, offering much more than those early expensive PCs.
All kinds of technology that’s less half-baked than Uber’s self-driving cars has redundant, decoupled safety systems.

Might be better for Uber’s data collection to turn this off, but you really can’t argue it was safer. I don’t think we should be killing people because that works better for their business needs.
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When it comes to trade war topic these days, most Western commentators completely miss that a trade war is what China was preparing intensively for the last quarter of a century. They well expected an economic pressure on a scale even bigger than what the West puts on North Korea and banana republics. They totally understood that the West will not play nice with them forever.

There is zero questions about China's economic policy being very strategic, and deliberate. Chinese state conglomerates may look to just littering around the world with money, but analyze it more, and you see a pattern, one that is very much like a game of Go - victory by limiting enemy moves.

They buy ally countries, strategically - they buy resource supplying countries, often with major holds on markets of vital commodities.

Their tech purchases - mostly underappreciated market leaders with industry wide influence. Kuka - the only company you can say to be Tier 1 in robotics, all other competitors combined will not be an equivalent for it. I has almost complete dominance over major heavy industries. Lattice Semi - the one and only FPGA company that can threaten the Xilinx-Altera duopoly. And so on and on and on.

Their domestic tech development - even more so. People talk about China dominating consumer goods manufacturing without realisation that it has even bigger hold of manufacturing machinery industry - manufacturing can't really leave China with Chinese made manufacturing equipment being locked down.

The whole industry you can call "Manufacturing machinery 2.0" is a domestic Chinese development. Biotech - China quietly ate the market for genetic engineering reagents, as well as much for complex organic chemistry. There are megatons of biotech startups in the West, but they all feel that they will eventually have to move to China to have any chance to scale - effectively they are already a Chinese property.

Military allies - well, there things are even more obvious.

Major trade agreements - same. Their idea is to bind any major developing market niche to Chinese economy before the West even realizes its emergence.

Their idea - to make it so that if somebody wants to do anything any much big being impossible without involving a Chinese company or state institution at some part of the process - to make it "You can't do that without China"
How would having the backup in orbit reduce the amount of coverage that an HST-type device could provide?

It seems like having another telescope in orbit could basically be a "hot-spare" for the highest priority tasks while continuing to do lower priory work in the mean time.
> You've never heard Barack Obama speak on TV?

Nope. Not about this anyway.

> http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35209628/ns/technology_and_science.

What's that supposed to mean? It does not show anything like Obama not supporting NASA, or being a Democrat who thinks space isn't a priority, or anything like that. Not sure what point that link is trying to make in this discussion.
A similar thing happened to rubber during WWII when natural rubber resources were compromised. (If anyone is in doubt about the nature of the US relationship with China, consider this news story. [1])

>"When the natural rubber supply from Southeast Asia was cut off at the beginning of World War II, the United States and its allies faced the loss of a strategic material. With U.S. government sponsorship, a consortium of companies involved in rubber research and production united in a unique spirit of technical cooperation and dedication to produce a general purpose synthetic rubber, GR-S (Government Rubber-Styrene), on a commercial scale." [0]

It seems that tech companies and the governments of the world just need to either find more resources and control them. Or find new ways to make batteries with different tech/chemistry. (The second option seems the smartest long term, just like rubber tech)

[0] https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry...

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-s...

Edit: Years ago a client of mine made software for satellites for an unnamed massive defence contractor. They were control systems for satellites that killed other satellites. He was doing this work in the 90s. Late 90s he said the US's biggest enemy was China.
Just the cap or is there something else about it? Can you just take the cap off?
It's growing rapidly in Enterprise IT on all all three fronts IAAS, PAAS, SAAS.
Isn't it only being delayed a year? In the grand scheme of things that isn't much time.
You can kind-of already do that with commit squashing
Technically, you could also break the encryption used in the memo field. But thats bog standard cryptography