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We have ourselves an international trade war concerning satelite spectrum. FCC rejects the idea of "first-come-first-served" and supports mechanism that allow equal spectrum sharing among applicants in the same licensing round. But it can only do so overhead USA. SpaceX competitors, like OneWeb, contend that SpaceX should be forced to subject to ITU Coordination, that currently assigns use of the spectrum based on ITU filling date priority.

This argument will certainly be applied in other countries with less concerned regulators, so we will have a complex patchwork of rules from one country to the next and the satellites will have to switch bands repeatedly in a single orbit. The ability to block a competitor from operating in certain territories has massive commercial and geopolitical implications:

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ITU Coordination. In its Petition to Deny, Telesat observes that international coordination
will be required between the SpaceX system and its own NGSO FSS system. Telesat argues that, at
minimum, any grant to SpaceX should be conditioned upon compliance with this international obligation.
In response, SpaceX argues in support of the Commission’s avoidance of in-line interference regime,
which, it asserts, yields more efficient spectrum sharing results than a regime based solely upon ITU
priority. We recently declined to adopt Telesat’s proposal to tie coordination obligations and licensing
conditions directly to ITU filing dates by awarding priority according to those dates, and accordingly
deny Telesat’s petition in so far as it reiterates Telesat’s ITU filing date priority proposal. We include a
condition requiring SpaceX, like all other NGSO FSS operators, to comply with the spectrum sharing
requirements specified in section 25.261 of the Commission’s rules with respect to any other NGSO
system licensed or granted U.S. market access pursuant to the processing rounds in which SpaceX
participated. We recently adopted changes to section 25.261 that replaced the avoidance of in-line
interference methodology for triggering spectrum division (absent coordination) with a default spectrum
splitting sharing mechanism that is triggered when the change in system noise temperature caused by
interference, or ΔT/T, exceeds a threshold of 6 percent. However, we note that outside the United States
(i.e., when communications to or from the U.S. territory are not involved) the coexistence between
SpaceX’s operations and operations of a system that received a grant for access to the U.S. market are
governed only by the ITU Radio Regulations as well as the regulations of the country where the earth
station is located and are not subject to section 25.261.
Simple demo of Joseph Albers-type experiment of color (redux of the Dress)
And the lower vitamin D levels due to this effort to block UV might be increasing the cancer rate instead of decreasing it.
These studies have been going on since the creation of these violins. I read one where the violinists themselves couldn't tell the difference between a Stradivarius and a new high end model.

I do wonder, pushing aside the fakes, how much of the original wood is in each Strad. After a few centuries, there had to be repairs, hardware updates, new coatings, and so on.
That sounds like you're arguing against the idea of the government having a judicial system... If I steal someone's car, and the police catch me and have proof it's stolen, the justice system can take the car away from me and return it to its rightful owner.

How does that work in a blockchain world? If I stole the car's digital title (via hacking, coercion, etc.) and after getting caught, I refuse to cough up my private key... I can effectively prevent any transaction returning the car to its rightful owner. At that point either the ledger is broken and useless OR you need a judge to be able to force a hard fork, and system is no longer decentralized.

Your second paragraph about having an immutable public record to prevent corruption seems like it could be solved more simply by just having the government continually publish a record of transactions, which anyone can archive or mirror to verify the government never tries to secretly rewrite the past. I.e., a public git repo could solve that, no?
Engineers and experts come up with regulation spec, politicians merely enact it. If your toilet design requires dropping a ton of water from one foot, it will naturally not work without one ton of water. However if the manufacturer would turn on their brain however, they could easily come up with efficient jet design that requires less than 1% of previously needed fuel.
Market can't adapt in many cases, like plastic bags, subprime mortgage, dogs with bank accounts, Windows and Internet Explorer bundles, and on and on and on.
You can have cars with 1.5x better fuel consumption, but 1500x worse emissions. They'll call it "clean emissions".
Yeah, what I was thinking of was that the ability to create an AST from the running image is how the refactoring browser works. I'm not really aware of any Forth analogy, but it's fairly common (in my limited experience) for Forth programmers to hack away in the repl, decompile what they've done and then bung it in the block editor -- so it's kind of a manual version of the same thing. I really wasn't trying to make any profound statement. Just noting something that looked kind of similar :-)
Modern listeners might also be used to modern instruments. Americans actually like Hershey's chocolate. Doesn't make it better than Swiss chocolate.
This methodology is not uncommon. Mail fraud and bribery of foreign officials are prosecuted as "depriving the public of honest services".
> Toilets manufactured today are at least as effective as those created before the regulations

I replaced my toilet with a new model 2 years ago. Was it the best of the best, no, but neither was my old one. Use of any amount of toilet paper with the new one = a mandatory double flush, every single time. Every so often a #1 with no TP will require a double flush as well. Yes I'm serious.
Trump's disapproval ratings are very different to the usual ratings at the start of a presidency, which tend to be higher, and Obama's average rating was higher than Trump's highest ever rating (even Obama's lowest ratings are about the same as that). It is just nonsense to pretend that Trump's ratings are "right in the same range" as Obama.

http://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-...?
It's likely tcl because the origins of sqlite we're an extension of tcl.
Happens. A common mistake today's AI would probably make. But we humans have strong value for the CONTEXT.
We live in a democracy. We pick our representatives. I suspect the East India Company would have not had much success lobbying John Adams, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, ...

The problem is something probably much more insidious. A wide electorate of mostly uninformed voters selecting political representatives is not necessarily going to pick the best representatives. And I'm obviously not just talking about having a reality TV star as president. This deterioration of politicians has been going on each and every election for decades.

We've gone from having politicians who spend their time writing on political theory and philosophy to an era where the only writing they do is having ghost-written self indulgent biographies written for them followed by giving high dollar for-profit speeches in thinly veiled pay-offs making themselves multi millionaires in the process. And I'm also not just talking about Obama there. Paid speeches as a thing began with Gerald Ford. Prior to him presidents actively avoided the activity, considering it exploitative.

Perhaps this comment from one of Podesta's emails [1] from Bill Ivey sums up the situation quite succinctly:

"And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging."

A democracy based on a society where most people are extremely ill informed is going to produce results that are not optimal. You need to either have a well informed population, or restrict voting to those that are. The former is probably impossible, and the latter is also now probably impossible due to the fact that it'd end up similar to gerrymandering - but orders of magnitudes worse. So now we get to see what happens when we set the inmates in charge of the asylum.

[1] - https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599
This isn't meant to be elitist or condescending in any way, but whenever I hear this comment it makes me sad. It makes me sad because it means the commenter has never had a truly good bottle of wine.

Most wine isn't that good actually. There is wide range of price / marketing / effort where the chances of getting a really enjoyable bottle of wine is more luck than anything.

But if you go towards the top of the market, there is a profound difference in quality.

If you ever want to know the truth, go buy a bottle of JL Chave Hermitage (the Syrah). There are some truly legendary vintages of this wine but in my experience you can pick any vintage and be blown away.

You can probably find it for as low as $2XX. I don't want to dox myself here, otherwise I'd offer to pick up the bill if the experience didn't change your mind.

Taste that wine and you'll know. It's an expensive habit and I rarely indulge myself, but "fine wine" is a real, if very rare, thing.
Maybe in very far suburban areas verging on rural. I have seen a number of edge cases where a cable MSO (multi-system operator, basically triple play TV/Internet/Phone) such as Comcast, Shaw or Charter will demand a one time payment of $2,000 to $5,000 to extend service to a house that is on the edge of their current service area.

Those sorts of customers at present usually end up going with a local WISP instead (terrestrial based point-to-multipoint microwave wireless, which can be quite good if implemented right), or something like the consumer grade VSAT systems from hughesnet/viasat. Or maybe a slow but usable very-long-loop-length ADSL2+ connection at only 3.5 Mbps from the ILEC.

But as for places that are solidly in the comcast network, no. Increasing use of feeding small CMTS from 1/10GbE via fiber, and the very high data rate capacity of DOCSIS3.1 as coaxial cable plant segments are broken up into smaller chunks, means that it's feasible for comcast to offer 300 to 900 Mbps service at fairly low costs to large numbers of people in suburban areas. Satellite won't be able to compete with this. And Comcast will be able to come and overbuild their coax with singlemode fiber incrementally to sell either active-ethernet based FTTH or GPON FTTH.
Why not use headphones?
Aren't most examples things where it didn't work? The most famous case is the German "Engima" device from WWII (hardware- and 'software'-based, but cracked and readable for years before the Germans knew because they believed it was both obscure and effective) but it's wholly possible that most schemes were broken eventually. Keeping an obscure system secret is really hard, especially against a motivated attacker.
No blind or double-blind test has ever shown the Strads to be superior, although the tests can be hard on the violinist. The gold standard test had violinists wearing blindfolds and welding masks to be absolute certain they couldn’t see the instruments. Edit: when tested against modern instruments in the $30,000 range, which sounds like a lot but which is .1% the cost of a Strad.
Sounds like a terribly designed machine with bad software. I bought a Korean machine in 2006 and still own it. However, unlike your friend's, mine is a front loader. Immediately I noticed a lower electricity bill because it's using much less hot water. It adds a small amount of water and tumbles the clothes. If the water level in the tub does not go down, the contents are saturated and no more water is needed. We are also using very little soap and softener - we buy soap once a year! We typically fill the scoop for soap halfway up to the first mark, and enough softener to just cover the bottom of the dispenser. I also feel better knowing there is less water and soap being drained into our septic tank.

Our machine has an extra rinse option - it normally does two rinses anyway - and fills more water on certain cycles ("hand wash.")
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Well, it would be if you did that exact job professionally ;)
Any publicly accessed building in California built before about 1978 will likely have this warning posted somewhere due to lead paint.
ACS and GCI have recently spent a great deal of (partly subsidized) money to build high capacity point to point microwave to reach a number of fly-in type communities:

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2017/03/19/with-federal...

https://www.adn.com/features/business-economy/2017/03/18/for...

The goal for these is to build network bridges to alaskan terrestrial fiber, getting to Fairbanks and/or Anchorage, from where connections are possible into Alaska's subsea fiber cables to WA state and the Seattle area.

Implemented properly this can be significantly faster than satellite, bringing a 1 to 2 Gbps full duplex connection to each town with licensed microwave bands. From the perspective of ACS and GCI and similar operators, it can pay for itself pretty quickly because they can stop paying monthly-recurring geostationary satellite transponder kHz leases.
You've explained that you have a broken toilet, not that regulations made a bad toilet. If your toilet can't even cycle a liquid through enough to even appear clean, you've got other problems.
Right, just like Google has free massages and dry cleaning
Also America's tests:

(2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost

(1985) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solwind
Wow, he Googled it from a company computer. Proof that you don't need to be very smart to become CIO at a public company.
They only need one more seat to change hands on the Supreme Court then they choose a case in the friendliest or most split appeals circuit court. Pretty much anything would be open for interpretation again, it's the Federalist Society dream opportunity.
It is not really portable outside Apple eco-system, just like Objective-C ever was.

The set of libraries and supported OSes is a tiny dot comparable with the Go and Rust.

And they aren't even the most relevant for enterprise servers, Java, .NET, C++ are.

If we start listing the kind of libraries used in distributed applications, database backends, Swift has hardly none of them.

IBM is the only major company playing with Swift on the server and it remains to be seen for how long.
This reminds me of the paw paw (not to be confused with the papaya which Australians call pawpaw) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/15/550985844/th... It's a fruit that seems tropical, a close relative of the custard apple or sitaphal that tastes like a pina colada. Yet it grows natively all over the eastern US. It's so common that in many places it's every third tree in the forest.

I grew up in peak pawpaw country (Cincinnati), got a thorough outdoors education via boy scouts, and never learned about the existence of this incredible plant. Nobody knows about it! The day after I learned about it, I could walk a few feet into the woods in a park in the middle of the city, shake a tree and come out with tropical tasting fruit, and yet people walk by this tree every day oblivious. Mind-boggling.
That's like someone telling you the majority of ingredients that they put into something you're supposed to eat, but not that one ingredient.

It's either their secret super sauce or it's poison.

And I can tell you for free that whatever Reddit has built technologically, does not contain any secret super sauce whatsoever.
The complaint doesn't actually say what search engine he used. Sorry, I probably shouldn't have used "googling" interchangeably with "searching".
That's not necessarily the end of your income. You can make money in various ways.
This seems to be a tree. How does one make a "graph" out of it. I want to link a single node to multiple other nodes without that node being parent.

For example.

Trump <-> Hillary

Trump <-> Ivanka

Hillary <-> Chelsea

Ivanka <-> Chelsea

Needless to say brilliant work
I work in a company with a lot of staff from India (TCS consultants). I can confirm that some of them have a fairly flexible relationship with reality and facts, and it can be incredibly irritating at times. I agree that it is most likely a cultural thing: decorating / distorting facts to achieve goals is looked upon more favorably in some cultures than others, with all the moral hazard and distorted incentives that implies.
It is, however, worth noting that not everyone from India I have met is like that or that one attitude or way of communicating is automatically better than another. Once one learns to parse the code, life gets considerably easier.
I personally don't really agree with regression in this area but more than one automotive engineer has told me that things have gotten to where the exhaust must be cleaner than the air taken in by the engine.
I know it's illegal. The first thing I thought when I heard about Equifax exec selling their stock is "they are playing with fire, this sure looks like illegal insider trading". And I am nobody, and haven't lived in US for that long. CIO of a major corporation surely knows these things better than me. So either he knows a loophole I don't know (completely possible), or he had some hopes that what is illegal for me won't be for him. I am curious as to why he thought that.

> I mean, he didn't know that you have to keep track of vulnerabilities in the JARs you package into Internet-facing web services

I won't actually blame him for that. I mean, it was his screwup, as a CIO, but one that could happen to everybody, given some bad luck and some routine mistakes everybody could make from time to time. So here I am not surprised how it happened, I may not know the details but I am pretty sure I understand the general gist of how they got there. The trading part is different - here it's an apparent blatant and willful illegal conduct that is in the open and will be caught. Why a smart and successful man does it? I am curious.
I disagree on being 10x harder. Bicycles are the same concept just older. There is a frame (computer case/mobo) and you bolt on compatible parts like brakes, cranks, forks, wheels, etc. (cpu/memory/gpu/psu)

I'm sure if you talk to someone working at a bike shop they could take your comment, flip it, and still have it be accurate:

Two of my friends build PCs from scratch, but they find building a bicycle difficult. I argue that their hobby is ten times more complex than building a bicycle nowadays, as everything is mostly plug-in-play and idiot-proof. Truing your wheel or overhaul a hub is a walk-in-the-park compared to installing the CPU.
If you follow the trend - the language never becomes really popular (generally) unless the most popular platform (even among developers) - Windows - is fully supported. Go never really took off until this happened.
Do you have a source for that? This claim sounds especially far-fetched given that the number of Iranian college students in the US more tripled over that time https://www.iie.org/Research-and-Insights/Open-Doors/Data/In...
Pawpaw is available in every supermarket in Australia, maybe not all year round.

I’ve seen quite a few pawpaw trees in backyards, but it’s defi an under appreciated fruit here too.

Dried sugar dusted pawpaw is flipping amazing.
I think that's more of a cultural issue. Current "classical music" culture generates what I agree is pretty awful music. A lot of art forms end up like that: you have to digress from the norm to be relevant while staying within the lines to be part of the genre, and eventually you end up with garbage. Techno, and really most other modern genres have a lot more creative space left unexplored.

It's just like how it's hard to get too excited about modern art. It can either be derivative and boring or it can be outlandish trash, and nobody's giving awards to derivative and boring, so guess what you're going to see lots of.
Well, if it's at all like wine tasting then I have to suspect a significant group of people can tell the difference. It's just not me.

With wine tasting I agree that 90%+ can't detect most differences, but there are plenty of people who could accurately guess varietals, often regions (because they grow their grapes and make their wine differently), and certainly age (because oak and oxidation have very obvious effects).

Whenever I hear that someone couldn't tell the difference between red wine and died white wine I have to laugh... it's not that I could really tell you what exact type of white some thing was, but that the wine making styles (even fermentation yeast) are so different along with the use of oak and lack of tannins that it's hilarious to make the mistake. On the other hand, cheap bad wine could taste like any damn thing other than (probably) good wine.

Have I blind tasted? Yes, and I couldn't tell you the dollar value of wine between $10-100 because people will charge what the market will bear. However, if you can't taste the difference between a decent Red Burgundy, California Zinfandel, and a Merlot-Cab or between a decent Chablis and a Sav Blanc then you probably just don't care. They smell very different, have different acidity and sugar levels, bitterness, oak vanillins... In a blind test I've seen 8/10 amateurs get every one of 4 wine varietals correct (the others were 2/4) based on a short description, which is well beyond chance.
Transactions aren't "undone". In the event of fraudulent charges to your bank account, they simply eat the cost and comp you. As a result, some portion of the fees that you pay to bank are dedicated to these fraudulent charges.
A lot of it is RTFM. If someone won't read the manual for their lawn mower or car they sure aren't going to bother for their computer.
Construction of the pyaramids?
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So I get that you can Option + Click on the Notifications icon in the upper right to turn on Do Not Disturb... but I love that this does it automatically for you.

And it's free. No brainer. Yes, this app is great.
I'm not sure about musical instruments, but apparently Damascus steel and Roman concrete are superior technologies.
Prop. 65 is stupid, but it is not the judge’s job to evaluate then wisdom of the people in adopting the mandate, it is the judge’s job to apply the law.
It cycles the liquid just fine; it's getting rid of 100% of the bubbles that urinating sometimes creates (typically when it's concentrated, e.g., in the morning) that it has trouble with.
I love both coffee and tea. Both caffeine drinks yet they taste nothing like one another. If it's a drink to have with food it has to be tea. For a waker upper it's coffee. At other times it's a toss up. I'd love to try this cassina be a while before we see it in Europe I'd imagine