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I don't deny that these people do exist. My point was that they—surprisingly!—don't pay the salaries of the devs at these game studios. The whales do. The studios can afford to keep the profit from the whales and lose the profit from the addicted middle-class.

And many of these studios are going this way! Even back when I was at the company I referred to (~2012), they were already building profiling logic into their backend to try to find the people spending "out of their range" and, effectively, stage interventions for them. They don't want these customers. They aren't their core demographic, any more than they're the core demographic of casinos, or than alcoholics are the core demographic of bars. And like a bar, they'd really rather "cut them off."
The report seems to suggest that his decision to drive where he did was baffling, even with the information he had available. All his officers were telling him to do otherwise, multiple times.
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Look at the x-axis of that chart- the peak nighttime load is happening at something like 8:30pm. Even at times of the year the sun is still up by then, it's not going to get you much no matter how you swivel.
I agree with you, but my whole point is that not everyone does.
This is awesome, I love the idea that you can be working on a side project and still get support.
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Every restaurant I’ve been to has cameras, at a minimum around cash drawers.

I’m scary good at spotting cameras though. It’s a weird skill.

In fact, I’m at a fancy restaurant at a yacht club in the Cayman Islands right now and spotted 2 cameras.
Steve Blank has a great presentation on the "Secret History of Silicon Valley" and the military roots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uA2bLrl_9Q
Buying a gun across state borders is already a federal felony. If buying out of state you must use an FFL in your home state as a middle man.

There's also no evidence she did obtain the gun from out of state, so that's a bit of a straw man to begin with.
You can do this without taking over another VT by using ioctl(KDSETMODE, KD_GRAPHICS). This tells fbcon in the kernel to stop drawing console text to /dev/fb.
In a public restroom, if there's a place to set a drink, trash cups will accumulate there. Then someone will have to be paid to clean them up.
A great example is his treatment of Air France 447: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...
The One-Straw Revolution is actually a pretty amazing read[1]. As makers, founders, and people that "want to make the world a better place", there's no better place to start than Fukuoka's treatise on sustainable farming.

[1] http://www.appropedia.org/images/d/d3/Onestraw.pdf
You can measure on metrics such as:

* code performance (speed, CPU, memory, frame drops, network speed, etc)

* hardware cost efficiency

* outage rates

* crash-free rates

* app freeze rates

* error rates

* general developer waiting times such as checkout times, build times, CI waiting times, IDE indexing times, build-run-test cycle times, etc

* Engineer % time in meetings based on calendars

* Amount of employee time spent interacting with bug tracker websites

You can also measure on business metric improvements such as profitability, increased revenues and so on.

These aren't good for measuring the productivity of any specific engineer, but they are great for measuring the productivity of the team / firm as a whole. You can also do projects to explicitly improve these metrics. And since they are numbers, they are far more attractive to managers to look at.
>My landlord has access to my apartment, and I certainly don't expect them to just pop in and take things out that they don't like -- I at least expect some kind of notice.

That is because there are laws preventing them from doing it (both the theft and the entry without notice). And I did live in a state that allows them entry without prior notice. And they did do it. And it didn't bother me because they clearly have the right to do so.

>You can apply this to basically anything in the physical world, like mail.

Again, very clear legislation on this. I believe it is an explicit felony to open other people's (physical) mail.

>Having the capability to access does not equate to having permission to access.

Yes, but sans any legislation, doing stuff on their platform does equate to having permission to access - especially if there is no legal contract (e.g. terms of service, privacy policy, etc) stating otherwise.

I honestly don't get this. In the old days people (including me) ran message boards on this web site. There was no shock when the owner of the message board deleted posts or put filters, etc.
If the actual number is 100000, then 2500 seems fictitious?
I'm 'meh' about it. We're all just mammals, albeit without the good olfactory sense so many others seem to have. It's not like any of us spend a lot of time in there.
The default touch bar was pretty useless to me, mostly because the buttons keep moving around on every app and I never remember what it can do. But a few tweaks and it's useful again:

In System Preferences > Touchbar I manually added all the applications I normally use into the "always show Fn keys" mode, so now the touchbar basically always shows Esc and the Fn keys.

Then, add Apptivate to tie each Fn key to my most used apps (F1 = Finder, F2 = Slack, F3 = Chrome, F4 = Sublime, etc), and I can easily switch among my most used applications. It's not quite touch-typeable like with hardware fn keys, but close enough.

I briefly looked around for a utility but didn't find one, but basically my goal is this: a static touch bar that never changes, which switches to or launches a set of specified apps. Is that possible?
> In earlier days, employees generally would see this as just doing their jobs in developing technology that their employers wanted developed and would not concern themselves about ultimate uses and applications.

This is a false history. In the 1960s the U.S. was full of young people questioning whether they should just do as they were told and be a good, dutiful employee.

Since then there has been a massive campaign to roll back what was called “Vietnam syndrome” — the idea that you should consider the morality of your actions and contributions to society, not mere legality. Hence all the passionate Hollywood WWII dramatizations, the Greatest Generation, etc., portraying war as a tough but noble effort in which we must all unquestioningly sacrifice for the greater good — de-emphasizing much of the horrendous atrocities that have been perpetrated by the U.S. military in Vietnam, Iraq, support for murderous dictatorships in Central America, Indonesia, and so on.

Noam Chomsky has written extensively on this. One essay in particular is called The Backroom Boys — a reference to the chemical engineers at Dow who developed napalm within the relative peace and equanimity of a laboratory.

> Whatever this is, and however it might be defensible in "sending a message" or whatever, it is a sure way to put a company at a competitive disadvantage while accomplishing nothing practically… If it does become that way, a new form of puritanism will hold full sway to the detriment of all.

Whatever your opinion of the anti-war activists of the 1960s, puritans they were not.
There was a lot of EU and NATO forces involved in the Balkans not that long ago
Part of the reason so much stuff comes out of military research is simply that the military has such a huge budget it can spend it on R&D.

There are definitely useful dual use technologies. But there's also a lot of military research that is almost strictly for military. Nuclear weapons research goes beyond the stuff needed for power generation, for example. Money that could have went into research in more stable, safer power generation instead went into how to make nukes small enough to be used by infantry on the battlefield

The military helps a lot by being a huge customer for a lot of this tech, but we can also cut out the middle man and just spend on r&d directly in some cases!

By discussing the morality of weapons research in a world where we already have civilization-ending technology ,we can maybe reorient ourselves to spending directly on progress in more cases. Without needing to have a military application to justify it.

This happened in the past with the neutron bomb, perhaps it can happen again with tech that could be used to help solidify a police state
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I bet neither China, nor Russia, nor the US would allow foreign citizens in foreign countries develop any serious military technology for their armies. Even their own citizens would be checked in detail before being allowed to work on it.

If a technology is not under that kind of scrutiny, chances are its military applications are... far-fetched.
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Very nice description and good results -- although it took a while for me to understand just what impostors were (being unfamiliar with the jargon, but familiar with image-based rendering concepts in my research).

I'm curious, implementation-wise, what would need to be done to do this in a more unstructured way. Rather than having a regular polyhedron and a corresponding texture per polyhedron vertex, it would be interesting to use automatic measures of viewpoint entropy to select a smaller number of views that still adequately describe the object to some level of quality. [0] Rather than it being an octahedron, it would be some other irregular shape of points projected onto a unit sphere, from which a 3D convex hull is computed.

The one issue I can think of is that you'd need a way to quickly determine which triangle of that hull the camera is inside (to get the three surrounding views). Is there a way to do that all in shaders without costly raycasts on the CPU side?

[0] "Automatic View Selection Using Viewpoint Entropy and its
Application to Image-Based Modelling", http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.96....
>It's just "moral", at least if you consider war to be generally amoral.

The military is also responsible for defense and disaster recovery (national guard). There are many technologies created to be resilient and life-saving by the military (ARPANET). Working with on certain military-funded projects is definitely non black-and-white like you imply.
My goodness- built in the sixties, stores several GWh, and has 70% efficiency. Enough of those would solve the curtailment problem altogether.

Not sure how a technology that relies on the availability of titanic quantities of fresh water is going to play out in California, though. :(
Which is why I was specific to western culture. Swastika is Nazi in that realm.
Yes, I wonder if some one should do R&D on whether water is better.
Cough Nimrod Cough La 85 Cough "the Age of the manned Fighter is over" plenty of countries have inefficient r screwed up military procurement.
$247m seems cheap for a brand new experimental supersonic aircraft.
>In The US there seems the trend is if you transport it, you get to data mine it (as long as "it" is digital, and "you" isn't a post service or phone company - not sure about isps).

I may not be 100% correct, but the history of this is related to liability. Telcos don't want to be held liable for crimes committed using their services (e.g. planning a bank robbery over the phone). They do not want the burden of monitoring calls to catch these people. So in exchange for that kind of immunity, they had to give up the right to listen in on calls.

I don't know the legal status for FB and the like, but I imagine it would be similar. As Facebook needs ads for money, they would rather not get that kind of a deal. As they decline immunity, they likely can be held liable for crimes planned on their services. Hence, they need to monitor.

Obviously, IANAL.
I just showed this to a friend of mine, who turned very white.

It seems that she's been sending some rather saucy texts, plus a topless photo or two and a few panty shots.

She went straight back to Facebook, though, and really doesn't seem to care that she's feeding the beast..
They could make a reference motherboard (as Intel does for some of its chips).
The pricing is a bit surprising, but I am sure that if you tried to build the full solution you would end up needing a few more pieces than just the rotation lambda and cron.

Would have been nice if there was a 5 secret free tier though. I feel like the sticker shock will dissuade small users when everybody really should be doing secret rotation.
Parent is probably referring to the ozone layer depletion caused by the Concorde and similar high-altitude jets [1].

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/270/5233/70
That's the 'for' argument, made by advertisers. Oh, we're just trying to more effectively let you know about the best deals for all the stuff you need!

The problem is, though, that any form of bargaining (and sales is bargaining) is an information game. The more they know about you, the worse a deal you will get. One recent real example was the advertisers targeting women on their periods. Taking it further, imagine a liquor company finding out that you've just lost a family member and flooding you with ads for alcohol. The more they know about you, the worse you get screwed.
How many secrets do you think you'll have? 400? 4000? We're still within pennies range compared to doing this securely yourself.
We used to have a moral military, we championed the banning of weapons such as gas, bio, nuclear, mines, etc and we established international institutions and protocols to stop their spread. At some point we turned evil and have been destroying the foundations of international cooperation that we built and are building and spreading new categories of weapons without concern or moral debate. We are the bad guys now.

We are starting to see the shape of the AI driven future and it is not pretty. Autonomous drones and other robots and surveillance patrolling systems establishing strict inescapable authoritarian control.

The elite employees at the global AI leader are best suited to see the coming dangers and are sounding the alarm bells. The outlook is bleak but moral engineers are going to be one line of defense in this fight. And I hope they keep doing it.
It does seem unfortunate that such a great collection of information is on such an ephemeral platform. Interesting enough that it doesn't matter much.
> laws aren't necessarily right

And neither is the public.

We once needed a law and show of force against public demonstrators to let black children into schools.
People immediately want to paint these truths as only products of fear.

Yes, fear is a large part of it. But it takes courage to fight against that fear and be responsible for the future of your people (whomever they are). Pretending that there is no evil in the world is cowardice.
What are they right about?

E-mail is already decentralized. Anyone can send and receive an e-mail with only having network access as a barrier, and you only need a typical modern computer to send millions of them.

Mailchimp's value proposition is that by becoming an authority over a chunk of distribution using their brand, anything they send carries a badge of trust since they promise it isn't malicious. Their e-mail templates are a nice bonus, but I don't think that's the only reason some people use them. That mailchimp origin server is a keycard through a bunch of gatekeepers propped up as sentries against spam.

In essence e-mail is totally decentralized and trust is exchanged amongst members of ad-hoc federation of parties with a vested interest of having non-spam email get through the internet on both receiving and sending ends.

Is there a way a blockchain would make this market-based emergent system more efficient?
Mailchimp actually states that list buying is a no go on their platform. They also have a very nice unsubscribe system that they honor - even if the downstream customer doesn't want to.

I'm sorry you've had issues with them. I hope you got a bad rep and they haven't become evil. When I used to do business with them I genuinely felt they wanted to do the right thing.
The genies of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear warfare, as well as genocde, ave been reasonably well re-bottled.

Even Sun Tzu notes that warfare is not total.
That said, Israelis do work with American military contractors to adapt Israeli-American co-developed technologies, often largely developed in Israel with US funding, to the American firms to be sold to other nations.

For example, Raytheon and (I believe) The Iron Dome anti-missile system.
> a) could not reliably capture a one minute flame graph covering the issue, as the onset of it kept fluctuating;
b) capturing a two or three minute flamegraph didn’t help either, and the issue was “drowned” in the normal workload profile. Vadim asked me for help.

One interesting thing here is also the statistical nature of this problem: i.e. there are spikes but their duration are not
exact or known when to start. Here[1] is some reference work done on Neural Spike Trains that seems relevant.

[1]http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~liam/teaching/neurostat-spr12/...
Yes. Fascinating to watch markets form and price discovery happen. For awhile they only cared about people providing free content that would bring in the eyeballs so they could sell those ads. When advertisers got demanding they had to do something.

But I only see a loose connection between that and what happened. This was a woman driven by likes or money (hard to tell which was more important), and attempted to kill because of this.

This is more like a machine shop owner laying off people because some jobs were moving to Asia and an ex-employee shooting up the offices the next day.

Macro- and micro- economics surely played a part, but the root of the problem was in her head.
This argument is not only extremely lazy but positively representative of that large quagmire of social and communicative zeitgeist that Alan Kay calls "the bell curve of normality".

"It's hard to define things, so why bother at all?" ... "Attempting to circumscribe the affects of your work is difficult, so why have a moral stance at all?" ... dancing through loaded assumptions like "duly elected" and "democracy", finally concluding with a tired crescendo of capitalist "competitive disadvantage".

I would merely counter: if we are the future, then we can't all be lazy sods, especially those of us empowering the greatest systems, information and power structures on the planet. Give a damn, it's your moral duty. Intelligent people recognize this.
Those formats are simply insane. It's well known that some people use decimal fractions of degrees, so why would anyone even consider using a decimal point to separate degrees and minutes?
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Oh, yeah, we just ran into this recently when rolling-out parameter store. For anyone else having this problem, the trick was to use the GetParametersByPath API method (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/APIRefere...) instead of the more flexible DescribeParameters (which has stupidly low, undocumented rate limits).
I thought Perl was the only language that has ' as a valid character in variable names along with the $. Ada allows the quote, too.
1. FYI the article is new but the disaster described happened on October 1, 2015.

2. I was astonished at this:
> "It has been reported that a major merchant ship goes down somewhere in the world every two or three days; most are ships sailing under flags of convenience, with underpaid crews and poor safety records."
I've always found the shit shelf so bizarre, but they seem to be on their way out. On recent trips to Germany it was quite uncommon to see one-- in fact, I don't think I saw one last time at all; I think the last time I saw one was in Vienna.
Funny, the WINE project does this.
The problem is not with blockchain, the problem is that harder one tries to define how decentralization can be made into a self-sustaining reaction (rather than merely a transitional phase from one centralized regime to another), the more the concept evaporates. Blockchains are just the latest attempt to turn the base metal of conflict into the noble gold of cooperation.
Like George Carlin said, "Symbols are for the symbol-minded."
> If Marcus was trying to maximize his ROI on the business investments, he would start with different businesses and more reasonable owners.

That doesn't seem true to me. If a company is relatively well run and still struggling, it will likely be much harder to turn around than one that is struggling simply because it is run extremely poorly...
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Check out Hashicorp Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/ssh/signed-ssh-cert...) for a general product (has lots of the features of AWS Secrets Manager as well), or Netflix BLESS (https://github.com/Netflix/bless) for a very specific tool for just this.
Just because the United States has decided in the past that the only way we are allowed to fund tech R&D is through the military budget doesn't mean that it is the only way it could possibly be done.
How many secrets do you have? Even with thousands this doesn't seem expensive, and if you have 1000's you're probably mature enough to pay a bit.
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Do you use soap along with the water? The variation I'm aware of is using a watering can, your hand, and lots of soap to wash the area and dry it off with toilet paper.

A lot of public toilets in the Middle East will have something similar to a kitchen sink spray attachment mounted on the wall next to the toilet along with a liquid soap dispenser. You can use them in a similar way to the pot you mention.
Does anyone else think this is just erosion in the soil due to heavy rain? That's probably too boring of a story though. I think an earthquake that pulled the land apart that wide would be a major news event.
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I feel like Nestle in particular draws heat for two reasons:

1) They are a global multinational and don't demonstrate much sympathy for local environmental issues

2) They are specifically bottling water, which seems wasteful as a practice in general, adds minimal value, etc.

I can't speak knowledgeably about #1 -- Nestle's track record probably speaks for itself -- but I do wonder about #2.

If a Anheuser Busch or Coca Cola wanted to open a manufacturing plant in Michigan consuming 576,000 gallons a day going to beer or soda, would it garner the same criticism? I feel like while there would still be discussions about rates charged for a public resource, the community at large would view beer or soda as a legitimate product for water, as opposed to bottled water.
I definitely agree with this, however, most people moved away from verbal communication because it's an async process, and it removes any awkwardness from the interaction. Video conferencing is used occasionally. I think text-based communication is here to stay.
More. The restaurant can't just raise prices 15-20%, they have to raise them more. Tipped workers make their money working hours when it's busy, but restaurants have to be open and have staff during hours that are not.

If you give wait staff a normal wage, restaurants have to have more workers on hand when it's less busy and there are more other labor laws regarding wage and hour minimums that they'll lose exemptions from.
Was it maybe a water conservation thing? That was always my best guess. Did seem bizarre. Happy to hear perhaps they've been phased out.
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