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Systems that accomplish the same goals already exist in the US, but typically not through official channels. For instance, because of the first amendment, you can't block web sites or censor media in the US. The workaround here is a system much more complex than the Great Firewall of China, and involves ownership and connections with media outlets, influence of editors by said owners and also by threatening to withhold access to key officials, propaganda campaigns, smearing of anti-establishment figures and narratives, planting journalists, internet sock puppet accounts, forum manipulation, AI algorithms for closed-loop influence and sentiment analysis, and social media filter bubbles. In the US, the idea is to achieve the same effect as censorship while convincing the public that they arrived at the desired conclusion themselves.
It didn't happen to every game, but compare, for instance, the US and Japan releases for Contra 3 or Contra: Hard Corps.
This is definitely true. The gameboy does have memory mapped cartridges to deal with, but they don't hook quite so deeply into the system; they're much more straightforward to implement, and for simpler games you can ignore the mapper entirely.

The NES is a different beast; nametables _alone_ will give an early NES author headaches, and they're incredibly important to get right, otherwise games won't be able to scroll properly. Even simpler games like Mario and Metroid rely on basic nametable support being there. In this case I think it's the limitations of the NES itself that led to the mappers doing so much more externally; game authors had no other choice if they wanted to pull off advanced tricks. This trend continued with the Super Nintendo; remember the SuperFX chip? It almost turns the Super Nintendo into a dumb terminal at that point, generating entire screens worth of graphics in the gamepak directly.
Have you tried not using R#? The only reason I ask is that a lot of its utility now exists in Visual Studio.

R# actually overwrites many default VS key bindings and provides the same functionality, just with a different UI. So people are like "hey look what I can do!", when in actuality they could have done the same thing without R#.

Also, it's a resource hog. I've only met a handful of people who contest this - and they are long time users, who haven't gone without resharper recently (full uninstall) for a meaningful period of time.
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> Spam and a harassment is a problem.

To the extent that's true, they aren't problems that require viewpoint censorship to combat.
More like it just made clear some shortcomings that needed to be fixed.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#introduction

Only difference in docs is 1/2 the write throughput per GB on SSDs. Latency is probably the real issue though. Kind of annoying that neither pricing or performance is even mentioned. Pricing is at a "promo" price of .24 a GB for SSD and .08 for standard.
The government can, however force it's members to abide by certain regulations. That includes Trump.
Portability meaning here moving data, not copying or sharing data.
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is there a similar thing with python too ?
Provo (BYU), Anne Arbor (University of Michigan), Gainesville (University of Florida), Boulder (University of Colorado), and Tempe (Arizona State University) are each homes to mega-college campuses and student populations. Whole 'nother story.
My girlfriend is a former US government employee and she's afraid of term limits because then the power will shift to the non-elected bureaucrats who know the system ("Oh, don't worry! I've worked for the previous five Congresscritters before you. Here's what you do ... ")
Please look up what the Republicans were saying about Hillary Clinton's private email server.

For years.

And years.
Please do not put "Show HN" on blog posts. This is in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
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It doesn't really work like that either.

You can buy iPhones and take them apart, so you have the logic board. Do you know how to install Ubuntu on it?

Without the logic behind why the board was designed that way, it's going to be non-trivial to reverse engineer what's going on.

Think of it as a .exe file. Cracking software isn't a trivial task. Cracking hardware is harder.
The US has fluctuated between conglomerates being in vogue and not. GE being one of the last surviving conglomerates and on it's way out. You can chalk this up to a variety of reasons including: tax policy, activist shareholders, etc. Many of the Japanese companies you mention don't have the same pressures to break up.

This article talks a bit about the conglomerate break-ups of the 70s, which includes a great graph showing the rise and fall of such:

article: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/disrupting-management-co...

graph: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cbi-research-portal-uploads/2018/05...
> The entropy is the expected number of bits when this allocation is done using the incorrect distribution

Is there any source that would derive and/or explain this more in-depth? I've been trying to develop an intuition for this, but haven't come across a good explanation.
> afaik there isn't a way to make statements in a manner that will reach all citizens.

I don't think Clinton and all the presidents before him had trouble making statements without the use of Twitter.
So can twitter ban me from using their services or viewing tweets? If we declare twitter the same as a DMV window, it greatly complicates the public/private division.

And what if Trump abandons twitter and decides to join chirper (I made that up, no relationship with anything that might have that name) which is just like twitter but invite only and has an open policy of banning liberals (which a private company is allowed to do), then what does this ruling mean? Does it mean that no government official can make use of any private company that has any level of discrimination against certain users (and by this I mean a legal discrimination, not based on protected class)? What about Trump joining a private club that doesn't let everyone be members?
One of the major Danish news papers is e perimenting with not using Facebook. So far their visitor count is diwn, but by less than they expected and the visitors they get spend more time and more money, so it’s looking like a win win.

Ironically you can still share their articles on Facebook by clicking the big blue Facebook button at the top of an article, but hey it’s a start at least.
Actually, yes. Every single one of those should be recorded, and made available after declassified. All communications of the President are to be recorded for that reason.
Now let her enforce it.
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That's not an example that's a strawman.

An odd thing to say, considering that the two examples have opposing left/right political vectors. I think you are reacting to this discussion as if it were an attack on /r/science. I have nothing in particular against /r/science. It's just that using the name as an example is clearer than saying /r/some-generic-subject-area.

/r/science has rules which are clear and which I linked.

That is a good set of rules, which seem well constructed for the purpose of excluding such bias. /r/science has the particular advantage of being attached to disciplines/fields which have good intellectual hygiene. There are other areas of general interest which have the particular disadvantage of being attached to fields where cronyism and intellectual dishonesty are rampant.

And you can't see how competition for upvote volume at the expense of everything else would lead to plummeting quality?

You couldn't do it with upvote volume. AI isn't yet up to the task. Perhaps moderation is the only solution. (Perhaps metamoderation?) Reddit did luck out with /r/science. Other areas drew the short straw and are highly biased and crony-moderated.
It's going to be interesting/scary to see how the whole system plays out in the coming years and decades. It's obviously quite dystopian, but what if it works (in the sense that the population will overall be happy with it, not just from the view of a authoritarian government of course), there is no blatant corruption and the Chinese people are generally happy with it?

Maybe such technocratic methods of social control will become the norm in many countries? Scary idea for us in the west, but the Chinese model (authoritarian government + free-ish markets) already seems to be a credible competitor to western liberalism, a successful social credit system would be even scarier.
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>Yeah, and now you can't respond to anything he says. You've had your voice taken away. The only way back into the conversation is to create a new Twitter account (in violation of the Twitter TOS).

When Trump uses his phone to talk to some people but doesn't take my call, is my voice taken away?
C++ EH is never zero cost, despite the hype. Herb Sutter just wrote a proposal to redo the semantics in C++ to reduce the cost of it.

DMC++'s EH is not setjmp/longjmp, it is Windows SEH (Structured Exception Handling) based. The 32 bit DOS extender EH is based on my own table-based design.
By that reasoning, this Judge’s ruling must be totally subjective.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/17/fbi-apprehends-troll-for...
The problem with 2-term limits is that the official has more of an incentive to loot as much as he possibly can as soon as his second term begins because he doesn't have to worry about spinning the looting to voters anymore.

However, I do recognize that the looting probably occurs anyway without fear due to the high likelihood of incumbent re-election.
>on commodities for goods producers. //

Can you demonstrate that's true in general for producers of commodities in the third world? I don't doubt it's true for middlemen, or companies relying on producers.

If you can, could you also show what proportion of profits are diverted to hedging vs the proportion lost to reduction of risk exposure for a multinational in, let's say, coffee/chocolate or some other comestible.
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Around the same time was the 3DO spec. It was another attempt at owning the space beneath the TV set.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer
It's the new Soviet internal passport system.
as i understand it second-hand, you can effectively no longer get a federal charter to be a bank if that’s not your sole purpose, because of the high regulatory burden that comes with it.

nordstrom, for example, is/owns a bank (until recently, it seems it’s been sold to charles schwab) but that’s because they got their charter in the 90’s before the regulatory burden became prohibitive (and was grandfathered in).

so i’m not sure tech companies can easily verticalize into banking.
You're right, the pieces are in place to do it. I've just never taken that last step.
No. He can mute them. But they should not be any more inconvenienced than anyone else who follows him.
10 is optimistic IMHO. The popular 80/20 rule is at work here. It's going to take a lot of time to get the rest 20% right. For example, how long it's going to take to solve the driving on the snowy roads?
See also Wondery's Business Wars Nintendo vs Sony podcast series https://wondery.com/shows/business-wars/
You are being downvoted because you are wrong. Blocked users can log out and read to their hearts' content.
So you are saying the judge's ruling is wrong then. Because you can't defend twitter banning someone making them unable to respond to Trump's tweets while saying that people have the right to respond to Trump's tweets.
Ok, then does it apply to the aides to a congressman who are actually handling their twitter feeds who are not themselves writing the laws? Any way you sum it up, either Trump should be able to block people, or nobody should be able to block people.
Hi Ryan! It would be interesting to know your and Product Hunt's take on employee motivation. How do you manage to track it considering the remote setup? Do you have a special programme in place / bonus system? How do you approach it?
> He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs.

Pretty sure he can't and if he is, he better be complying with federal records laws or else he'd be living a double standard. You may recall him blasting another, very popular candidate in the 2016 election for using personal email to conduct official business. Using slack / private email / twitter DM's is basically the same damn thing.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Hard to grasp the logic here.
I found the transition from Java to Kotlin painless because Android Studio (Intellij) holds your hand all the way. If at first you're unsure of the syntax, you can just write code in Java and convert to Kotlin.

I agree that the null-safety Java interoperability does not work properly if the Java code is not annotated correctly (or you're parsing JSON) but I'd still prefer to have it than not.

I like Kotlin because:
* If is an expression and it feels so clean
* Functions are first-class (you can pass functions to functions)
* Kotlin is less verbose than Java so there is less to read and write
* You don't have to write "new"
* Constructors are cleaner (you don't have to write (this.a = a)
* The map function (on Android we were stuck on Java 7)
The world's worst satire?
The "Golden Age" usually refers to when the great works were produced; otherwise we'd always simultaneously be in every golden age that ever occurred (barring the works in question being destroyed), making the term kind of meaningless.
You're right, it may not have been proven but based on the amount of coverage and writing on it, there must be some truth behind it. Do you really think these people decided to make it up? And regardless of whether they smuggled the drugs, they knowingly supported the people doing it.

Also, I haven't downvoted you and I'm quite confused by the votes on my original comment. Went straight into the negatives and now it's back up.
In addition to the other comments made here ... Task::Catalyst is right there after Plack and before Template (TT2).

Rather than try to guess at the proper set of modules recommended by a subproject, if there was already a recommendation (ie a Task:: module) we tried to re-use that.
Yes I would imagine certain people would have used the exact same tactic in the cold war when millions of people lived under communism and all the hardships it caused. Now those same people are likely China-defenders.

Whataboutism is just lazy. For example I could criticise a republican politician without it being an endorsement of a democratic one. Stick to the topic at hand - don't bring up a distraction.
I think it is hilarious to say you're concerned about corruption and then complain about the 17th Amendment.

> Winning a majority vote of so many people requires massive funding.

Yeah, well, it's a lot cheaper to buy the votes of a few state legislators, which is why we passed the 17th Amendment in the first place.
the OG http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...

also lookup kullback-leibler divergence
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I sat in a meeting where the VP of marketing was touting the rate of users who viewed the entire YouTube ad for some new ads we put out, as opposed to users skipping the ads. This was a huge success, VP and CEO repeated this great news for a good year.

Almost every ad was below the threshold where YouTube would put up the "skip" option at that time, so users really had no choice but to watch it all. "Success" was guaranteed purely based on the length of the ads.

No effort was made to actually tie anything to sales, money of any sort, except MOAR marketing staff and budget... hiring freeze for tech support and so on...
When I was in Korea, the term "handset" seemed ubiquitous among the English-speaking people I interacted with. This is even stranger because, as I understand it, the Korean term is a transliteration of the English "smartphone", so I don't know where people were getting "handset" from.
>This is his private citizen Twitter account, as far as I'm concerned, and he can do whatever he damn well pleases there.

@realDonaldTrump is his official account, as per whitehouse.gov [1]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20180523194453/https://www.whiteh...
That's like saying "If users were really happy with a website, it wouldn't matter if Google delisted them because the users would just organically go to that site even if it's not in search results"

Subreddits and Reddit are in a symbiotic relationship. Most subreddits depend on the mainpage to deliver them eyeballs. Some subreddits depend on those eyeballs they receive from the mainpage to create good content and PR for Reddit.

Let's be honest, there's wealth of content on Reddit, enough so that users might not miss some content going missing randomly.

<Personal opinion starts here>

However, I personally believe that Reddit should cultivate stronger content than cat memes and animated images. Getting Stephen Hawking to answer questions from the public is, in my opinion (from a site culture and company PR perspective), more valuable than the 1000000th Star Wars prequel meme to appear on the front page.
For a while it was the only C++ compiler for Windows. (I had figured out how to do all the various weird stack frame variations Windows required.) We sold a lot of those :-)
Certainly we need to work on the problem of toxic online communities and cybe bullying, but surely industrialised and coordinated state bullying, censorship and humiliation is at another level?

Espciallly give the that China has exactly the same problems of toxic communities and bullying anyway. It’s not as if the West has a monopoly on that, so somehow these some sort of balance between the two.
Personally I avoid, and eventually forget, places that don't take credit cards. Also, dealing with huge piles of cash is a huge pain. As a business owner, I'd go cashless if I could just to avoid the overhead of dealing with trips to the bank, getting coins, etc.
As someone with Crohn's disease, I follow a diet specifically designed to alter the microbiome. It is very effective in eliminating symptoms, though it does require very strict adherence, which can be very difficult.

The amazing thing is this diet (The Specific Carbohydrate Diet) has been successfully used by people for several decades. Unfortunately, despite recent progress in terms of scientific studies validating its effectiveness, many gastroenterologists still say that diet has little to no effect on Crohn's disease.

Fortunately, not everyone is in denial, and it is finally starting to gain acceptance in the medical and the research community.
>Not unless the government is the entity doing the banning (or collaborating with Twitter to ban accounts at its request).

But twitter is working with the government in hosting the tweets and thus assumes responsibility to provide a public square, in which case it cannot ban people.

Otherwise government should be banned from using twitter because by picking a private company to put government messages on, the government official (in this case Trump) is picking that company's existing policy (what ever it may be) as a means of banning people, which the government isn't allowed to do.
>Chapman and Muhammad would later get prison sentences of nearly 17 and 120 years, respectively. In interviews, Muhammad, now 45, admitted to selling chemicals but said he did extensive research to remain within the law.

Well either the defense or the prosecution is lying through their teeth here.
> Expanding their offices puts costs on existing city residents. It's all well and good that tens of thousands of new units to house these workers are being built, but those units also require extra infrastructure funding.

Property taxes and permits are designed to raise the funds needed to pay for infrastructure. Amazon pays them. According to the Seattle Times (1):

> Amazon entities that own Seattle property are the largest and fifth-largest individual property tax payers in the city, according to government filings. At the regular rate applicable to the company’s home base in South Lake Union, that would yield a tax bill of roughly $27 million. The company also directly pays state and city business and occupation taxes, which tax the portion of Amazon’s sales attributable to in-state customers.

If new construction or other activities generate costs for the city, then they should tax those activities accordingly, not complain about or discourage the activity. Seattle is capturing significant revenue this way, by its own account (2), and its tax base has been rising faster than population:

> Seattle has captured an outsized share of the region’s growth during the recovery. Seattle has been the focal
point of the region’s growth during the current recovery. This is reflected in taxable retail sales data (the tax base for the retail sales tax), one of the few relatively current measures of economic activity available at both the county and city levels. Over the five-year period 2010 - 2015, taxable retail sales increased by 52% in Seattle, compared to gains of 34% in the remainder of the King and Snohomish Counties, and 30% in the rest of the state, i.e., outside of the two counties (see Figure 4). Most of Seattle’s relative strength is due to a 123% increase in
construction.

> Seattle’s strong rebound from the recession has been supported by the growth of Amazon, other technology
businesses, and business and professional service firms. Employment growth at these businesses, along with the
current popularity of in-city living, has boosted the demand for office space and housing in the city, spurring a construction boom.

(1) https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-paid-250...

(2) https://www.seattle.gov/financedepartment/17adoptedbudget/do...
When drug kingpins + dealers kill off their customers, instead of addicting them to make as much money possible, then it feels like something more dark and ainister is at hand.

Given the history in the USA (i.e., black communities) perhaps American officials are just culling the herd?
If they don't actually own the mortgages that they issue, and instead sell them on the credit markets, then neither big nor small banks overleverage risk.

As I understand it, it doesn't matter if they are Chase, or BECU - most banks don't actually own any of the mortgages they issue.

The problem in 2008 was the fraud, the irrational exuberance, and really dumb investments by the investment branches of a few investment banks. The retail arm of, say, Wells Fargo, which issued a whole bunch of shitty mortgages was fine.

Whether or not you think that investment branches of banks deserve to be bailed out is an exercise for the reader.
The GDPR exists for the EU to help itself to some $billion of the >$1 trillion increase in the value of US tech companies over the last three years. If you live in the real world, and not in the theoretical world of law as written, you don’t have to worry about a thing unless you’ve got a business as profitable as Facebook or as abusive as Unroll.me.