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> A 9th circuit judge (inarguably a left leaning court) has stated in a lawsuit involving Google (YouTube) and PragerU (far from alt-right), that claiming YouTube acts in a neutral way is "puffery" (yes that's a legal term).

No they didn't. The judge wrote that YouTube's marketing statements about hosting a diversity of videos and "giving people a voice" can't be used by the plaintiff to bring a false advertising claim when youtube takes down a video.

The judgement is saying that statements that are obviously "puffery" can't be used as the basis for false advertising, not that claiming YouTube "acts in a neutral way" is inherently "puffery":

> None of the statements about YouTube’s viewpoint neutrality identified by Plaintiff resembles the kinds of “quantifiable” statements about the “specific or absolute characteristics of a product” that are actionable under the Lanham Act. Newcal Indus., 513 F.3d at 1053. Rather, the statements are vague representations about how YouTube is generally “committed to fostering a community where everyone’s voice can be heard” and providing “opportunities” for people from all over to share their diverse “point[s] of view.” Compl. ¶¶ 3, 28.

> The statements do not say anything specific about YouTube’s “mission” to “give people a voice,” and make no concrete and measurable guarantees or representations about the “opportunities” made available for people to express themselves “no matter where they are from or what their age or point of view.” Id. ¶ 28.

> As a result, the Court concludes that these statements are neither “[]likely to induce consumer reliance,” Newcal Indus., 513 F.3d at 1053, nor “capable of being proved false,” Coastal Abstract, 173 F.3d at 731, and are therefore non-actionable puffery under the Lanham Act.
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Henry george explained it in san francisco in the late 1800's: any productivity gains will be captured by the landlords as long as the people are taxed for their work and the land is not taxed for the productivity gains.

California is the most anti-georgist place ever: if you work in SF, you pay sales taxes that go to fund Bart that makes your own rent more expensive. State income tax has the same effect, the very own official economists of the state say it. And then you have property taxes benefits and mortgage benefits for landlords!
Yes, indeed.

But what's problematic is that most users are clueless. And that browsers by default send all that data. To prevent that, you must (at least somewhat) know what you're doing, tweak settings, install add-ons, etc.

It'd be cool if browsers protected users' privacy, by default.
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Hyundai / Kia cracked the USA market and built their own franchise dealer networks not that long ago. So it's clearly possible as long as you're willing to invest enough and eat the losses for a while.
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Ow that is pretty cool! Can we play around with that somewhere?
Json is clearly data.

If awk cannot parse it, perhaps it’s a shortcoming of awk? =)
Partially correct, but not necessarily true. Speaking extremely high level, the model is currently trained to fill in the blank space with something like the most probable options per pixels, based on the training set data. However, it is conceivable that it could be trained to also, say, insert an object into a scene, based on other characteristics found in the scene. Inotherwords, it could be trained to maximize a joint goal, where the second goal involved generating an object.
Dynamic updates. So long as you're not behind carrier NAT you can find your IP number and update a DNS record. Many DNS providers have a specific service for this, e.g. https://dyn.com/dynamic-dns/ (no affiliation, just used them many years ago for this service).

Many ISPs are switching to carrier NAT though and then you can't host as you don't have a routable IP number.
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Then why don't you see them in Europe either?
So a spyware producer had to shutdown a spyware based product because of the GDPR? That's working as intended.

Hopefully it will bite the giants the same way.
Chile’s pretty fascinating because you can buy everything.
So you are implicitly stating that you should not have substantial concern for yourself unless you're the least well off of a society?
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Do you really feel sorry for them? I don't.
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Giants have too much at stake and too many resources at their disposal. Either they will throw tons of resources to fend off the problem or they will take a few bites. As an example, Google's stock was unaffected even after being fined $2.6B last year.
Clever idea
> *Quantum radar...works by sending one of the [entangled] photons to a distant object, while retaining the other member of the pair. Photons in the return signal are checked for telltale signatures of entanglement, allowing photons from the noisy environmental background to be discarded. This can greatly improve the radar signal-to-noise in certain situations."

Why do they need to be entangled? Aren't there other ways of checking if the photons coming back are the ones you sent?
If I currently rent my apartment for ~400€/mo, why wouldn't I increase the rent to 600 or 800€/mo if the people were getting extra 1000€/mo from the government?

Obviously the people might move out to somewhere more remote where the prices where lower, but now they would have to pay for the journey to work place and get whole new social circle and all other things that are involved with moving - expect you are moving to a smaller city/town or at least to worse neighborhood.
Having an oscilloscope is great, and it needn't be thousands.

For general tinkering and exploring I picked up the Digilent Analog Explorer 2 with the Ham Radio bundle[1]. They had a coupon deal where 'hamradioworkbench2018' would unlock a $100 discount. Not sure if that still works. While it is a USB scope (so you are dependent on your PC/Laptop for a display) it includes some other useful bench top tools.

Used scopes in the 100 - 200 Mhz range from the 90's are often pretty inexpensive and can usually be calibrated and repaired. This is especially true of the Tektronix 465 and 475 series which were sold in huge numbers. While not as crisp as a digital scope they work well and can be found (at least in the Bay Area) for $50 - $100. About double that on ebay.

The Rigol folks really pushed the price point hard and their DS1054 and DS1102D series are fairly common and inexpensive at $300 - $500.

Scrounge around HAMFests or surplus liquidators and you can often find a deal if you know what you want.

[1] https://store.digilentinc.com/ham-radio-workbench-bundle/
I think it’s something that should be considered, but it would be useful to provide more than anecdotal support. Are threats of violence really that common? What clear sources are there for that statement?
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I remember getting a call from Dane when we first got DSL from Sonic.net living in Benicia. He wanted to ask if the service was up and running to our satisfaction.

Great company, miss having them as my ISP.
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>> and I really hope some company will notice my plight

Do you have a website? Is your story documented anywhere? It's really powerful.
Thanks for the informative post and link.
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I know livelihood after automation needs to be solved but I'm worried about how a guaranteed fixed income for a large section of young population might be exploited.

If you are 70 and get $1500/mo social security, nobody is going to sell you a $200k Ferrari. But if you are young, there is tremendous incentive for businesses to carve out that $1500/mo into life long revenue streams. Student loans cannot be easily discharged in bankruptcy. Pass a few laws and suddenly, contracts you signed as an 18yr old cannot be discharged through any means. This means an 18yr old could buy a $200k car if they agree to $750/mo for 600 months (50 years) at 4% fixed rate. A little bit of collusion in the insurance industry and suddenly anyone could be liable for $200k damages from healthcare to auto claims. No problem, just pay it off over the next 50-60 years of your life while you live in destitution.

In a Star-Trek post-scarcity world, cars don't cost $200k so this problem doesn't exist. But as long as we live in a world where money exists, I think giving everyone a fixed minimum income will absolutely result in unexpected exploitation on a mass scale. Right now, nobody is going to give an 18yr old with no credit a 200k car because there is no guarantee they can pay it off. They give them 30yr fixed mortgages today because property historically appreciates in value and can be repossessed. But in a post-credit rating world, instead of repossessing a 15yr old car, it is better to just put a lien on 50 yrs of somebody's income, bundle it up, and sell a million of these liens to a bank.
What can you do with dockless rent by the minute hatchbacks on every block? Won't it be congested? Or is it more focused on medium density cities?
"They transplanted from a deceased donor the entire penis"

Is there any research on the statistics of people signing up for organ donation, wealth, death rate etc. to objectively measure if people are ... left to die if the resulting organs are more profitable? A macabre thought indeed.

"It's a real mind-boggling injury to suffer; it is not an easy one to accept," the recipient says. "When I first woke up, I felt finally more normal … [with] a level of confidence as well. Confidence … like finally I'm OK now."

^ this is exactly what worries me on the subjects of sex-change, -transplantation etc. : without even any time to recover, time to repeatedly re-assess the new condition, without anonimity (or rather a pseudonym signed by say the government, so that they can prove they actually underwent such an operation, without giving up their identity) how do we know they tell the truth? how can he already be happy without trying his new dick out? or is he really just being happy about officially having a dick again ? how do we prevent people who are fantasizing about a sex change from deciding something they will come to regret, especially if their only source of information is people who 1) did not provably undergo such an operation 2) are no longer anonymous to be able to speak freely how they feel about it?
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OK, but the ISO-11179 Standard doesn't seem to actually say that. Here's a purported copy of Part 5 -- Naming and identification principles -- of the standard (as linked to from the aforementioned MSDN forum thread:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/Projects/ITSP/Part_5_Naming_...

The word "collective" doesn't show up in the document.

The word "plural" shows up twice, both times in item #a of "Lexical rules":

> a) Nouns are used in singular form only. Verbs (if any) are in the present tense.

> NOTE In Japanese, this rule shall not be applied because of no plural form of nouns and no distinction of verb tense.

The only reference on Wikipedia to the ISO 11179 standard making that recommendation has since been deleted for being unsubstantiated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Data_element_name...

edit: The apparently inaccurate content is talked about on the "Data element name" Talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Data_element_name
That’s not really how this works. Right after a promo you’re not due for another promo. They are dividing a fixed size promo budget pie. So they rank you lower in order to be able to rank someone else higher. There’s no other reason, because it’s impossible to accurately measure engineer’s “performance”, or to even define it in the first place.

At Microsoft, for example, in the olden days at least, managers would keep around a certain percentage of deadwood on the team to give their best people good ratings and meet their firing quota if the need arises.
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We've had pretty good luck with it thus far. Generally, it is a good way to chop off the long tail of "not good enough" and bring the better ones onsite.

As you said, we calibrated our general expectation to what we think is reasonable in 2 hours - so we expect "good enough" code, but not perfect code.
That's what I said. After I picked myself up off the floor from laughing so hard.

But then I goggled it and apparently there is some basis. Ya, I was surprised also.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda...
TLDR; University of Waterloo is investing $2.7M to speed up the process of photon entanglement. One photon will be beamed to the object and the radar response will be checked to see if it was an entangled photon that came back.
I've posted this before: GDPR is good independent of any effects it has on competition.

Governments already have the tools to deal with market dominance: antitrust enforcement. The EC has three antitrust cases against Google. One decision has already been given, and the Android decision will be made sometime within the next few months. The Federal Cartel Office in Germany has opened a probe into Facebook [1][2].

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-data-collection-cou...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-germany/...
I find the EMR markup to be substantial; if I weren't working in a corporation, I would stand up my own spark clusters, e.g. using spark-ec2
Heard of Google?
There's also crowdsourced data via a Google Form they have at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IclsJmHUMWjZCECMKi1I...
Just need the context API for blood... Somehow.
At least in China, it has nothing to do with sonograms or abortions. Chinese doctors are not allowed to tell parents the gender strictly. Female babies are killed after they are born.
Yeah but the rant was in form: "so what, you are inviding users privacy on so many levels that it doesn't matter if login screens know about your location". And I have barely started.
If you had any idea what scientists make in the EU, you'd see

1) why this is happening

2) why this effort won't change a thing

They could, you know, pay competitive wages. Ridiculous suggestion, I know, at this point that'd be a 5x and more (500% and more) raise.
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While Chinese cars will prove to be worthy competitors to American (and European) domestic MFGS --I imagine the threat to Japanese and Korean manufacturers in overseas markets will be very significant, since many of those markets don't have a "domestic brand" they have an affinity to.
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They use encryption in transit and at rest, but not in between.

So, your data is uploaded over TLS or similar, gets decrypted on the server and then is re-encrypted before it's stored on hard drives.

So yeah, this does mean that they have access to your data. Since the at-rest-encryption happens on the server, Google has the encryption key for that somewhere and can at any point decrypt your data.

Presumably not everyone at Google gets your data for reading at home, but that's about as much comfort as you should assume.

The NSA, CIA, FBI can also request Google to decrypt your data and hand it over. They could not do the same, if Google used proper end-to-end-encryption.

There is one point to be made for not using E2EE, which is that you can't offer a "Forgot Password?"-link. If the user forgets their password, you can't decrypt their data either. All you can do is wipe their data and let them start anew.

If you use your cloud only for syncing, that's probably not a problem (for example Firefox Sync does exactly that on a scale of millions), but if you use it as a backup or to preserve hard drive space, it can certainly be.

So, you'll have to decide for yourself, if you think being allowed to forget your password is worth the surveillance and lowered security.

If not, use a different service. Spideroak, SeaFile and Mega.nz are a few that do E2EE.

If you do think so, at least use a service that's not at home in a surveillance state and surveillance company...
I've been running Debian for a long long time, by default I would always prefer installing software from their repositories. If that isn't possible, and a project releases/maintaines their own Debian binary packages I'll try those.

Outside Debian packages I sometimes use docker, and sometimes look at binary installs beneath /opt. (For example I install the latest firefox, arduino studio, and similar "fast moving" things as binary installs.)

I've not yet come aross a project which is distributed exclusively through "snaps". if I did I might try it, but I suspect I'd look at installation from source/binaries benath /opt/blah instead.
At the time of the switch, I've checked out the options out there. There were other ISP renting out the AT&T line just like Sonic did who were charging $30 for the same DSL plan, and they seemed doing fine. That's the moment I realized Sonic was pricing the DSL that way to drive people to their fiber. But at that point I was tired of the slow DSL and just went with the Comcast cable.
That sounds horrific
How does GDPR affect selling personal data? Once I've given permission for a company to collect my data, can they just sell it to whoever they want? Is there any way to get rid of that data once it's been sold? Is there any way to find out who's bought it?
I used to be much more positive on basic income. A big point here is that basic income could help develop the entire nation. In other words you don't need to live in downtown mega-city to make a living with a basic income. You could live in Bodunk, Utah where $300 gets you a great place. In the big picture you could even have a number of people band together and actually create new towns from the ground up. Imagine you just get 10,000 people working together to build up a new city. If we assume $1000/month income, that's a baseline of $10million a month for development. For low level development that is an enormous amount of money. People could literally build their own new cities from the ground up. And you could certainly entice plenty of engineers, construction workers, and the sort with such plans. Building your own future is enticing for anybody!

But I've become jaded here. There was a recent article about somebody on social security living in their SUV because they couldn't afford the rent in the area they wanted to live in, on their $1400/month social security. And people were empathetic and defended her. If society has become so inertial and entitled that they are unable to move to areas of greater opportunity even when they have every incentive in the world, as well as the means, to do so then a basic income would likely explode in a giant ball of flame. The idea is not to let you have live as you see fit without ever working, but to enable people to have an extremely modest baseline of means and allow them to live as they see fit within their means. Instead we'd likely just see nonstop articles about $x/month in a basic income doesn't provide enough in [insert absurdly high cost of living area], people protesting for more (protests now subsidized by the funds they're complaining about), and other such nonsense. It could work phenomenally if people were willing to make it work, but it could also just implode society if people saw it not as a stipend but as an entitlement to their desires. In our current state, I expect we're far closer to the latter than the former.
Big Tech is more visible precisely because it's big. But everything I have read suggests it is the tip of the iceberg. The majority of businesses are small and fly below the radar, so to speak.
The usual. WaPo/NYTimes both did several stories like this. But keep in mind that one result of suppression of free speech is the lack of clear sources. So anecdotal is sometimes the best we got.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang...
(And make it as easy to keep up to date as WordPress, too. My Mastodon instance needs updating but first I have to stare at a Git client and figure out how to merge all my tweaks with the latest version.)
Changing your volume for your TV is rather stupid (using up/down at least, "set TV to X%" might work well but I love my remote so I always use it). For controlling lights I LOVE alexa. That plus things like daily briefing, weather, alarms, timers, and more make me VERY happy with my amazon units. And this is coming from a huge mac fanboy. Smarthome is where Alexa really shines IMHO.
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Apparently many grocery store chains offer APIs where you would be able to download information on what you bought. Anybody know more on this?
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> virtually no benefit.

> Distributing full fledged programs like this via browsers is simply going to be a shit user experience

These statements are simply FUD. Single click "installation" with no dependency management to virtually every platform out there at near-native speed is a huge benefit. And browsers are already capable of installing desktop menu entries and icons, and running frameless in a way that looks no different from any other native application.
Antitrust enforcement is not sufficient to protect against market consolidation caused by burdensome regulations.

A company that can afford to comply with the regulations can squash competitors who can't without being a monopoly.

And even companies that are declared monopolies benefit from burdensome regulations in the sense that people thinking of starting startups that might compete with them decide not to.
I got a T460 with i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz.

I always research the models online before buying: "<make> <model> <distro>". I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on it at the moment.

The next-day at-home support has been great. They have come to my home and replaced motherboards on the kitchen table with no questions asked.

It has two batteries, which added a little weight, but I rarely think about power outlets any more.

I can't think of anything else, but if you have any specific questions let me know.
I think AR display tech is already where it needs to be for a breakthrough. Problem is input, not output. We need a high bandwidth input device, and voice is never going to be that.
This is true. Huge success leads to a raise and massive expectations, which can be extremely stressful.
Yeah, got me there. I misparsed the Praxis bit as a different host instead of what they were trying to build.
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Emacs has a GUI version with gorgeous fonts, images and everything. Vim also has a gui version, though it's not as good. I think neo-vim has a few gui front ends as well.
Probably due to strict safety and environmental regulations that gets stricter over time.
I didn't know this was controversial in any way, they've been in the Oceania market for some time.

My wife and I own a Chery J3, purchased it new. It came with a 3 year mechanical warranty plus other benefits for like half the price of a Japanese car.

I mean, it's pretty obviously catering for the "budget" market, it is literally the cheapest new car you can buy in the country. But it has suited our needs and we're actually a bit attached to the stupid thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chery