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Stand Blade Runner next to nearly any action, super hero, or "science fiction" movie made after 1999, and Blade Runner wins or ties, every time. For several reasons.

But it's not enough to just be better than the cotton candy fluff of recent movies, since that's not a real competition. It's a solid movie that stands on its own, even despite some quirky flaws in the delivery and editing of the performances.

It's not Rocky Horror Picture Show, where you and your friends have a party, and participate. It's more of a sleepy, quiet time movie like Taxi Driver. Like Taxi Driver, and any other classic movie, it gets better with repeated viewing, as more details tie together.

It's not a mind blowing movie, but for it's time, it dealt with a lot of new themes in extremely subtle ways, without excessive treatment. The future was cast as a recognizable, ordinary reality, taking on a tone that really only draws a cult following, but warrants substantial appreciation.

Movies like this don't get made anymore because risking a budget on cult appreciation doesn't land well in a pitch, especially amid the modern environment of implicit piracy, if it's fair to label shared viewing as such.

Whether it was the first movie to feel vaguely cyberpunk-ish or not, doesn't matter much anymore, but Blade Runner had a deep gravitational pull that influenced visual concepts of the near future well into the late nineties.

Without a sequel, all of the open-ended background trivia that was never elaborated upon, left open a whole universe to imagine, and this is where the cultural resonance ties in. The people who enjoyed the movie were left free to speculate about what really went on in the off world colonies, given the curiousities revealed by film.

I wish more movies were like Blade Runner. It's a rare item. It's not a movie you watch once. It's not a blockbuster. It's not a movie you turn off, when it finds it's way onto your TV, however that manages to happen.
I live and work in China, so I use Aliyun, which is Alibaba's cloud arm, similar to what AWS is for Amazon. Aliyun itself bought 万网 (Net.cn aka HiChina) in 2013, and it's still a bit fractured, but works well enough.

For .com domains, it's ¥55 (~$8.8) per year with ¥20 discount for the first year (surprisingly transparent). One of the great things is the ability to pay ¥676 (~$107) for 10 years and forget about it.

For .cn domains, it's just ¥29 per year (also -¥20 first year), but you need to through the verification procedure to be able to use it, which requires a Chinese citizen or Chinese company credentials.
> By that logic, jacksmith@example.com and johnjsmith@example.com could be delivered to the same mailbox.

They absolutely could. Netflix can't assume they are or they aren't. Which means Netflix is doing the correct thing here. All they can know is that the emails are potentially different and so they should treat them as different emails.
I can't say enough about how much I like according to Pete! Came here hoping someone mentioned him.
Human languages aren’t usually concerned with maximal information density though. Multiple layers of redundancy are often present. Features like noun verb agreement, grammatical gender, pleonasms, and even redundant words (last will and testament, vim and vigor etc) are used in various languages despite the redundancy, to increase clarity.
I bet they're no fools either. But like all media, they are happy to report a narrative that generates views (if private), or fits their goals (if state owned).
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Efficacy (of any specific drug) also varies from person to person.
Growth and inflation are separate concepts. Inflation measures how nominal prices change year to year (price of a pint of milk) while growth measures the increase in aggregate output (total volume of milk produced.)

Our econonomic system is predicated on continual growth but inflation has been incredibly low since the late 1990s in most western economies, 0-2% compared to 10% or more in the 1970s and 80s.
I'll bet seasoned pilots hear "proprietary eight-point safety harness" the way a seasoned systems engineer hears "proprietary military-grade encryption algorithm". Like, can we have the standard actually-works stuff, please ...
Sure, also this is the year of Linux? isn't it?
How did you get the 2nd account in the first place? I'd like to reproduce this.
Exfiltration, correctness, and the race to market
It might be because you've seen so many imitations of its aesthetic at this point that it looks old. When it came out it was shocking in both its violence and its pessimistic vision of the future.
The newspaper is such a pivotal piece of society. It's heartbreaking to go to a photojournalism conference that used to be 400 newspaper photographers, and now there's maybe a handful. Everyone is doing editorial or surviving on grants and corporate work.

I was in journalism school when the industry collapsed. I saw it coming early on and moved to TV work, an industry that I'm seeing make similar mistakes and is taking steps towards its own demise. But TV has a lot more money and will bleed out much slower.

My local paper in unbearable though. So much to the point where if it wasn't for a cops and courts section there wouldn't be much point to it at all.

But then again, NPR has it's highest ratings ever. So maybe there's some unknown hope still out there. Radio moved towards digital delivery and podcasts, but the newspaper is a far more complex problem. I don't think general society cares about real news anymore. Maybe we just don't have the attention span for what it takes to matter. I don't see a new medium making a difference.
But that is precisely the problem. Because their businesses is failing, they report things that are false but generate page-views and the outraged and less informed eat it up.
The difference is that NTT lost money for years offering wholesale fiber below cost: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.489... (pages 11, 16). It could do that because it has a national near-monopoly in the wholesale space (it get some money from every subscriber, no matter what ISP they use), Japan's economy offers much lower returns than the U.S.'s (making low return infrastructure investments relatively more attractive), and NTT is 1/3 owned by the government (which ordered it to deploy fiber, regardless of profits).
Does anyone really believe this was done by a pro-US entity (or the US itself)? This would only strain relations more than they already are, and I wonder effect this would have in Syria where the US is leaving and Iran/Russia still have a large interest in what happens in the area. It's always interesting to think about the 2nd or 3rd level effects that whoever did this was aiming for
as a Denver native, I completely agree with point 2. The post hasn't produced much quality-original content for quite some time. I can't think of any specific type of coverage where they provide the best available. They're beat on national news by national papers, local news by several of our TV stations, sports by blogs like BSN Denver, and so on. There's nothing right now that makes me say "I think they could turn it around".
Humanizing the Alexa service is a huge sign of our downfall.

Don't let them do this to us.
1. You get what you pay for
2. Lowendtalk has a wide spectrum of offers, OpenVZ, KVM, dedis and more.
False Flag seems a little on the nose here...
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I'm not sure that the administration bringing in John Bolton and making it really clear they want to tear up the Iran deal would necessarily consider it negative to strain relations with Iran.
Glad Anne Wojcicki, CoveredCA and Legal Aid were able to step in and help. There are some specific problems highlighted in the article that could be fixed by software startups:

1) Problem: Difficulty to identify a Doctor for a second opinion.
a) Possible solution: software that allows you to input the medical term (or possibly the medicare code for a disease or combos of diseases?) and find all the second opinion doctors located near you. The software needs things like sort by reputation or reviews, price estimates, speed to get second opinion, time window (with a button to click for life-threatening emergency). Also, why be local? Through telemedicine you could video chat with your second opinion after digitally transferring records.

2) Problem: Too long to transfer medical records 5-10 days instead of 10mins.
a) Possible solution: HIPAA and GDPR compliant digital medical health platform that works with all hospitals. (Very difficult to solve this because of non-standardization.)
b) Secondary solution: Biometric authorization (fingerprint and voiceprint ID or DNA scan) and quick digital download of medical record in plain text. Must complete in less than 10mins even with slower bandwidth.

3) Problem: Didn't have health insurance. Hospital was looking at a potentially very large unpaid bill.
a) Single payer government health insurance is the best solution.
b) SW Tech company solution is quick instant insurance signup with government or charity guarantee for some percentage of bill. The rest of the bill is dumped into CoveredCA or something else. And the patient is enrolled for 1 year after the fact and must pay premiums. ? There are probably better solutions.

4) Problem: Must rely on humans.
a) IBM Watson for disease diagnosis and treatment recommendations combined with additional neural net or machine learning technologies could be used to created automated second opinions. Feed all the raw data into the system to determine the outcomes and probability of recovery for all treatment options.
Have you seen Oracle's patent lawsuit against Google over their misuse of Java in Android? Billions in damages if they win, and recent developments look like it could go that way. Google is already building an OS to replace Android.
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People consume news now more than ever. Google-FB spying duopoly is killing journalism.
I'd be interested to read more on the topic if you have some recommendations?

My suspicion (hypothesis, really) is that CEO compensation is too abstract a concept to actually impact behaviour all that much. It might spark outrage when people think about it intensively, but most people would be more focused on specific, tangible barriers to their economic wellbeing. Examples might include applying for jobs, networking, performance reviews, salary compared to industry average for their role (higher or lower?).

I would imagine that behavioural economics in academia is probably very specific and attempts to be predictive, whereas behavioural economics in popular journalism is more philosophical and hand-wavy.
I've had my gmail address for 14 years now (to the day actually). There is no way I'd give it up because of some morons.
I found out yesterday that the German government provides a flowchart for developers wanting to calculate income tax
That's probably exactly what I should do.
So it's just a playlist of playlists then? A meta-playlist.
Did you read the article? They didn't report it as pro-US.
Film people hate having non-crew people on set, they get in the way, are a safety risk, and are generally distracting. It's typically intensive work with 12-18 hour workdays, and for all the creativity and artistry it's also a busy industrial environment. People who don't belong or get on with the film crew are generally not made to feel welcome.
a dot looks way less suspicious to a non-technical user. a plus is more jarring, and more likely to incite suspicion.
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Can we just ban Russia from the internet?
Pierrepoint travelled to a America at some point, (not sure whether this was pre, or post WWII) - and was very scathing of their systems in his autobiography. I don't know the numbers, but he certainly hanged a lot of "the Germans at Nuremberg".
How is it at all like building a bank without locks? It jeopardizes users who reuse passwords which has been a security faux pas since passwords. I feel like people dwell on this pattern of hashing passwords to show off that they know what hashing is. In the age of weekly leaks and multi gig dictionaries, assume your password is in a dictionary if not really long, high entropy, and unique to that site. Even the "gotcha" xss someone demonstrated on T-Mobiles site has nothing to do with this. If somebody has every password, they won. If they have your hash table, they still won. Yes, passwords would have to be changed site-wide, but you'd want to do that either way. At least since it's a phone company, they would know how to reach you. It's embarrassing to see another post of developers harassing a social media pr person.
I mean, if I'm being asked to believe that they swung the election to Donald Trump with $100k in Facebook ads and a group about dogs I guess I'd have to believe they're geniuses. But I am pretty skeptical. The evidence for the attribution of DNC hacks seems quite weak too (and at worst it involves the genius maneuver of making public what Hillary Clinton's campaign actually said and thought).
Removing the dots and the pluses is not enough.

Let's say that James Fisher also owns jameshfisher@yahoo.com. Eve finds that jameshfisher@gmail.com has a Netflix account, so she registers a new account with jameshfisher@yahoo.com. The scam proceeds the same way; if James registered for Netflix a while ago, he may not remember whether he registered with his Gmail address or with his Yahoo one (he has some services registered with the one, and some with the other). If he set up forwarding from his Yahoo account to his Gmail one, or if he's using a mail client, he may not even notice that the message went to a different address.

So the solution in this case is for Google to disallow registering jameshfisher@gmail.com if jameshfisher@yahoo.com already exists? Or to display phishing warnings on every email that was sent to a different address (and possibly forwarded)?

Maybe Netflix should simply verify the address upon registration after all.
Worth noting that:

> If your use case creates an unreasonable burden on our infrastructure, we reserve the right to limit your egress traffic and/or ask you to switch to our Legacy pricing plan. Wasabi’s hot cloud storage service is not designed to be used to serve up (for example) web pages at a rate where the downloaded data far exceeds the stored data or any other use case where a small amount of data is served up a large amount of times.

https://wasabi.com/pricing/pricing-faqs/
Netflix probably deliberately ignores this loophole because it boosts subscribers and revenue.

I'd guess 25 million Netflix users use gmail accounts (~20% of 120M).

I'd guess 1 in 100 of those have been victims of this scam.

This would mean 250,000 victims are overpaying a cumulative $30M per year.

Given how popular gmail is, Netflix and others should disallow duplicate account where the only distinction is the dots. They should also force email verification within 30 days of signup.
Not so randomly - they seem to shut down sites that take the CDN freeloading to an extreme - image hotlinks, lots of data with not HTML, that kind of thing. If the entire site is being served via CF, they might not mind. They do have a video service in the works, though, need to see how that pans out.
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Given the USA nearly always operates with secrecy [no matter what agenda or party has traditionally been in power], I'll go with false flag operation. There are a lot of entities that would benefit from this that aren't the USA, like the incumbent government. I'm curious to hear other opinions, especially any that disagree with my initial assumptions.
Who are these people? What is the size of that market?

The fact is that iPhones and iOS dominate the revenue of the mobile market[1]. iPhone users have incredibly high customer satisfaction numbers[2] and are unlikely to switch, so essentially you are competing against Android which is already "open". Seems like an easy way to loose a ton of money to me.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-the-iphone-x-drives-apples...

[2] https://marketrealist.com/2017/06/could-apples-iphone-8-driv...

[3] https://www.imore.com/apple-seeing-record-rate-android-users...
Probably not even false flag, it’d be more subtle. Likely they want to muddle the pot for those trying to accuse Russians.
Read Marx, then come back.
It's funny, saying "email doppelgangers" reminded me that I have the same issue with phones and physical addresses (but not email since I use a unique domain name).

I get multiple snail mail bills for DirecTv to people with different names but my address. One of them apparently didn't pay, so now I'm also getting collections letters addressed to them at my address.

I've also had someone in Oregon use my google voice number at some doctor's clinic, so I was getting voice mail transcriptions about appointments and certain tests that needed to be run.

Turns out lots of people just can't figure out their own unique ids, whether they're email, phone, or home address.
Can you provide a link to the mentioned flowchart as well, please?
The problem is that few people are willing to pay for coverage of their local city council meeting.
Yes, having read the book makes a huge difference. I tried watching the film first, but I failed and stopped watching a short way into it. Then at some point I read the book, which I really enjoyed. I thought I'd give the film a second chance and I'm glad I did because it was brilliant, having read the book.

Strongly recommend treating them as two integral parts of one work of art -- consuming either one and not the other will leave you much less satisfied.

I think that may be true for several other longer adaptations including STALKER (from A Roadside Picnic) and Apocalypse Now (from A Heart of Darkness).
Russian meddling again, playing straw man.
For 2, Denver is a small enough market that it's no surprise that it is not large enough to support a local paper like the New York Times.
Communism in its real original meaning, yes. Not the perversions of later tyrannical dictatorships.
To me, this feels like a move to distract the target(s). If it is so it makes sense for both the US to be responsible (knowing such an obvious reference will be interpreted as originating from someone else. e.g. Russia) and also for its enemies (well, they want to draw attention).

"But sir, everyone will notice", said the operator, hesitating. "Use one of your tricks, I don't care", replied the commander. "Just get it done!".

"Mike, do you still have that script, the one with the American flag?" the first man whispered.
It is interesting that in the message left by hackers [1] American flag is pictured incorrectly: there are too many stars.

[1] https://cdn.i24news.tv/upload/image/9d8a60d8155d08ddbfe86542...
Thugs can only play games for so long before people rise up. Russia is a thug nation and the world has had enough.
I don’t think anyone would actually believe a US-affiliated organization would do this. It’s not their style. (unless you count some pro-US hacker/group doing it for the lulz)

But maybe that’s what they want us to think, and it’s actually counter-counterintelligence to make it look like an independent hacker/group...
Leaving this issue aside for a moment, dealing with massive corruption in the govt requires an opposite approach - monitoring the government. Publicly available data which allows any citizen to lookup the details of the programs running in their locality, apps which allow public audits of quality of service of roads etc.
or maybe it did
I find it interesting that they built this into Facebook rather than just using a third party option. If executives wanted a way to communicate privately and securely, why not use Signal? They helped implement WhatsApp's encryption, so surely the execs would know about it. Or standard PGP encrypted email, or Hushmail, or any of the other dozens of secure messaging services.

Hell I used to do digital forensic cases involving high level executives, half of them didn't even use an email account or any messaging service to begin with. They'd have messages relayed to and from them from assistants who would be their scapegoat: if they did get caught doing something illegal, the assistant would be the only one holding any actual evidence of the act.

The fact that it was built into Facebook makes me think it's less nefarious than this article makes it out to be. Maybe executives heard about the project and just jumped at the chance to be alpha testers? I am absolutely not a fan of Facebook, but this article isn't painting a good picture of what has actually happened and why.
The creator mentions in another post that the service does indeed upload the data to a server for processing. But, in general, it being a web app doesn't mean it uploads your data any more than a locally run application might. A web app can just as well do the processing in the browser without it ever leaving your machine.
But how many of these would apply to DuckDuckGo under Apple? Are you saying that they'd wall it off to "Apple ecosystem users" only? There's no upgradeability or hardware or secrecy here.
As others here have mentioned, there are a few different versions, but that's a vast understatement. There exist seven[1] different versions of this film. The differences range from the removal of Deckard's 13 explanatory narrations to a complete change of the ending.

The real question is, what film called Blade Runner did you see?

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner
Masterful is a bit strong. From the evidence I've seen I would say they are more like opportunists
Classic Russian blunder again.
I couldn't disagree with that at all. I enjoy reading Stephen King books, at times, but there aren't that many of them that have become great films.

Off the top of my head the best King films have been "The Shining", "Misery", "Pet Semetry", "Stand by Me", & "The Shawshank Redemption".

So many more films have been terrible (I've not seen the recent version of "It").
bitcoin payments are next maybe?
Should have hired his wife from the start
When Google and FB control 85% of the digital ad market and the rest goes to all the content creators, the situation is dire not only on the print side but also on the digital side. Without blatant invasion of privacy by GoogleFacebook, regional newspapers and content creators would have a level playing field. But they don't. And that's why newspapers are struggling.
> if I'm being asked to believe that they swung the election to Donald Trump with $100k in Facebook ads and a group about dogs

I'm not sure anyone's asking that. The social media results were not about ads bought. The issue was about accounts pumping specific content which was then reshared by actual voters. (and official news outlets) Those accounts were happily switching between being really interested in US, then French elections, then Brexit, with some middle east commentary in between. There's lots of research about them a few google queries away.
I have forgotten about it until this comment. Prof Gautam Kaul's MOOC was the first course I took on any MOOC. I did not finish it, mainly because it became very mathematical towards the end and I couldn't keep up. The course gave me appreciation for many things in finance, including personal finance. It's not exaggeration to say that that MOOC was a trigger to seek pay rise, contribute more to 401K and few adjustments in personal finances.

A good reminder and greatful to MOOCs and this course.
I missed the MS formats -- sorry! I don't know off the top of my head, but doubt it. libreoffice should though.