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People will chime in about how the AF only likes shiny new fast jets, but the issue is not infatuation. The AF has to plan to perform against near peer opponents with good air defense systems, fighters, etc. So they'll usually be force by this into choosing something that is overkill for blowing up huts in Afghanistan. A small turboprop sounds great for low cost flight hours etc, but put it up against any modern AD and it's toast. You can try to mitigate this problem by having a high/low mix, (F15/F16), but that doesn't save you much money, and the AF has seen that the high usually ends up getting whacked for the low, and then ending up with lower performance. The Navy had the same problem with the F-14/F-18 mix. The F-18 was "good enough" for low intensity combat, but is inadequate for many other deployments.
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I tried to intall Ubuntu into root ZFS and it wasn't much of a hassle, just simple howto, everything worked.
Driverless has some benefits, but mind that the driver has a secondary purpose besides steering the vehicle: He is a security contact and brings saftey in different situations. Safety for women travelling at night, safety in case of an accident to handle evacuation etc., safety in case of obstacles on the road, ... automated systems can assist quite a lot, but won't handle all.
Indeed. It's a way to funnel money around. Companies doing self driving cars will get it 90% there, then struggle with the last 10% and eventually funding will dry up as investors lose interest and move on to something with faster returns.
My greatest use thus far with Wireshark was proving that some HTTP requests one of your applications were making actually left the machine and went through our network.

Our Node Proxy was not cooperating and it helped us track down the issues. Nice tool to have in your belt.

Thanks for sharing.
Engineering is absolutely not blue collar, but this has nothing to do with the issue you’re facing. If you found an opportunity to save $40k and they said you shouldn’t care about numbers, then either you have poor management or there’s more to the story that you didn’t share. At the very least competent management should have been able to explain why saving the $40k was the wrong trade off.
I'd say the rate at which accents change here as you move is probably higher than the US due to the smaller size of the British Isles. You can see a few videos like this that demonstrate it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8
Why should they replace buses? What about self driving buses?

What about an automated subway? It's just a box on a track, with the state of all the trains in the track known, self driving would almost be overkill for subways/trams/trains.

It's still public transport. There's no need to hold off the development on both ends.
Sorry, but that explains nothing for me.

OP said: Europeans now sail to Somalia to fish.

Why would Europeans go so South into the Gulf of Arden? Why would Norwegian fishers go South? What's going on? Where's the data? What are the incentives?

Does Somalia have fishing quotas? Is there any anti-overfishing agreement system for that region?
It will be a good outcome that China opens its market more to the world, which is actually to the interests of the Chinese consumers, they already want foreign goods and now it is more affordable and would probably force their domestic companies to up their own game finally to face the competition.
smaller subreddit = less noise
The trouble, as bunnie points out in the article, is that the tariffs apply to things like components, not finished assemblies. So why would I locate a SMD assembly line in the US if my raw materials are higher, when I can also assemble the product overseas and avoid these tariffs?
Yes. It's not "manufacturing software" (if I'm right about it being the factory control system), it's more like glue code tying all of the different bits and bobs of the assembly line together. This kind of system is usually built in ladder logic or function block diagrams rather than as source code, is typically a whole lot of very simple bits side by side, and often needs to be tweaked in realtime during production. It's likely that quite a few people (definitely more than 2-3) have direct access to modify this sort of code and are probably monitoring and fine tuning it continually.

It's not really comparable to your work where you're writing the OS or system code for a safety PLC or something, and you quite rightly have to maintain a very strict process where everything is fully documented and triple-checked so you can prove that it meets your target performance level. All of the stuff that does need that kind of precision is locked away into modules (like the aforementioned safety PLC) which just gets plugged together like Lego by most of the controls team.

(All this is kind of moot, though, because it says that the culprit used a few different logins to make their mischief. Depending on the permissions set for those logins they could have bypassed pretty much any formal workflow, at least temporarily.)
One or two times maybe, repeating the trick a lot of times with multiple people without ringing any bell, seem less probable statistically.
> Then you'd come back from lunch and find the mantrap doors propped open, or someone left a workstation unlocked with root access to something important, or random guests just wandering around. It's a miracle we never were compromised by a disgruntled employee (of which there were many).

Maybe not the most technical solution to this, but one of my previous employers had a workplace culture of setting the desktop background to a rainbow with unicorns if someone left their computer unlocked. Sometimes even teams of two would work together to pwn some of the more alert members, by temporarily keeping them distracted while the other "attacker" did the business.

3 or more fails and the background bumped up to something pretty gross that nobody wanted, simply as a practical matter.

I actually thought gamifying it made it pretty fun, and at least for workstation locking, we were elite. Even today I'm sharp about it. Maybe it could be extended to physical access to areas as well.
No mass transit system makes a profit, at least the last time I talked to someone who was heavily involved in the numbers. They require a subsidy of, what was it, 70%? That doesn’t make it wrong, but it has to be considered.
Depends on how you define "much lower", especially with a major trading partner such as the EU:

U.S. exports to the European Union enjoy an average tariff of just three percent.

Source: https://www.export.gov/article?id=European-union-Import-Tari...

In 2016, according to the World Bank, the average applied U.S. tariff across all products was 1.61%; that was about the same as the average rate of 1.6% for the 28-nation EU

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/22/u-s-tariffs-...

US to EU average import tariffs differ only by ~1.4%, sure the US tariff is (slightly) lower but it's hardly a huge imbalance.

Edit: just picking up from morsch's comment, these are international trade tariff figures which is what Trump is imposing. What countries do internally when it comes to sales or Value Added Tax is a whole different thing; these types of taxes apply to all goods and services sold within that country, regardless of origin (i.e. regardless of whether a pencil is manufactured in the UK or the US, it will still attract a domestic sales/VAT of 17.5% if sold in the UK).
>Public transport is against freedom? I got to say, that is creative

If you manage to filter out actual information from the crass left-leaning garbage that makes up 90% of this completely biased article, you'll see that the core of the story is a actually a fight again raising taxes.

You may or may not agree with the proposition to raise taxes to finance public transportation (which is pretty much impossible to pass judgment on without more local context on how public finances are managed in Nashville), but please, please try to see through the rank propaganda.
> A lot of this boils down to preference.

As everything in our lives, some prefer Linux, some prefer FreeBSD, some OpenBSD, some macOS, etc.

> Systemd has the same problem iproute2 has: a learning curve of an integral part of the OS.

Its not the learning, its just broken and I will not waste my or your time to discuss this again. ;)

> As for snapshots, Windows, macOS, and Nix have that as well.

Can you boot from them and preserve fully working UNMODIFIED system after upgrade? Nope. That is the difference in ZFS Boot Environments.

I also used Mac OS X (it was called that way before it became macOS) and I also liked it, but I feel on FreeBSD more 'at home'.

Regards,
vermaden
I too would very much like to see a browser extension which removes all content from and links to GDPR violators such as them.
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The AF is still running AC-130s, aren't they? Granted, that fills a role where air-superiority is a given, and it is reasonably safe to fly a bus loaded with auto-cannons in lazy circles, blasting the daylights out of anything that moves.
The logos are being provided free of charge to an open source project of the communities choice. I don't really see how that's contradictory, they make no claim of the logos being open source.
> Salmon says wire fraud is among the easiest crimes to prove: everything is done by wire now, so "you show the lie, you show the wire, boom". But it's actually not enough to show a "lie" and then a "wire". Check

> And, aside from that, there's a legal difference between that and wildly extrapolating from realistic revenue forecasts to irrationally high outcomes you merely hope could happen if everything breaks your way.

I have to say, I came away from the article with a very different impression than you. I definitely got the impression from Matt that just being unrealistic about revenue numbers etc is not enough to prove wire fraud. Hell, he even compares Theranos to other startups quite directly.
sigh. You seem to want to read into what I said more than is there, and to have an argument that is entirely unrelated to anything I've ever said throughout the entirety of my 50+ years on this planet. That being the case, you'll have to find another opponent of your political angst to argue with. I simply have no interest.
> consider the current state of the woefully unfunded NYC subway

Everything I've read about the NYC Subway system indicates that it's funded more than adequately, but due to mismanagement, corruption, and cronyism, the funds walk out the door in the pockets of ghost workers.

Assuming the system wasn't awash with grift, is there evidence to suggest that NYC doesn't actually fund it adequately? NYC residents pay well above the national rate in taxes, and presumably those taxes are intended to fund transit. If the money taxed isn't being used to actually maintain the infrastructure, I think it supports OP's argument that the taxes haven't abated but the services being offered for them have.

Without getting into the ideological debate of whether publicly funded projects are good or bad, I think it's fair to assume that most people expect that when taxes are raised to fund transit, that the taxes raised will be used for transit, not to line the pockets of the friends and cohorts of who raised the taxes.
JS is not worse than any other language
Don't forget the fact that guns are okay, and ongoing civil war is a “right”.
"The group’s Nashville victory followed a roller-coaster political campaign, including a sex-and-spending scandal that led to the mayor’s resignation."

Oct 2017 - Unveils $5.2bil plan
Mar 2018 - Pleads guilty to felony and resigns; interim mayor (vice mayor appointed)
May 01 2018 - Vote on plan
May 24 2018 - Vote for new mayor (vice mayor wins with 55% of vote)

Yeah, sounds roller-coastery.
Yes, anything that's given as a promotional item is considered income, which is one reason branded events/swag often include the equivalent dollar value.

There is a line you can draw though. If you're making deductions on travel expenses or cost of attending an event, you should probably declare any swag you get at that event as income. If you're not writing off the cost of the event, you probably don't need to worry about it unless you're also getting cash or something extraordinarily valuable.

Same thing with anything you're given for free in exchange for writing a review of it. If a company sends you something and you write a review about it, regardless of if money changes hands, the value of that item is considered taxable income. But if it just shows up at your door unsolicited and you ignore it and the company never gets their review, then it's just an unsolicited gift. And you should probably send it back.

We have a whole file cabinet drawer dedicated to keeping track of "free" stuff we get so we can declare it on our taxes.
I included both directions in my calculation, hence the denominator being (2 * 21km). And for the Underground there are no passing trains or multiple trains unloading at a station, platforms are generally only a few metres longer than the train itself.
The issue with starting small is that there is no network effect - somehow people have to get to the starting or end point.

This can work if you have a city structure with a clear resedential area and some central leisure or work place and there's lot's of commute between, but for many areas the benefit only comes if many people can use a network effect of reaching many areas.
Point of order: the value of their property was already very high and going up when the changes (tech industry, finance, whatever) began happening, what they're fighting to keep going is the growth in that value.
Does anyone know whether there will be an API/SDK for building services on top of it or to integrate it into other platforms/products?
X-COM 2 has the same effect.
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the native executables native-image generates are usually a bit slower than hot-spot JIT'ed code (~10% on average according to one article).

they do need much less RAM and startup time is _a lot_ lower though.

here it is:
"Right now peak performance is a bit worse than HotSpot, but we don’t want to advertise that (and we want to fix it of course)."

http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilation...
Or, if you can spend the cash, there's this most excellent plugin: https://u-he.com/products/satin/

There are other tape saturation plugins, a few even free, but this is the best I have found.
>Tariffs bring in taxes (as opposed to costing the public)

Tariffs are imposing taxes on the very businesses we're supposedly trying to save!
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Another perspective is that you're a starving startup and grab a free logo to get started; if you ever get successful, you won't have forgotten that one logo and its artist that started you off back in the beginning, and then pay them for their contribution.
Or they raise the price. Then they just don't sell as much, leaving you to either consume less food or buy cheaper substitutes (retaliatory pork tariffs should mean cheaper bacon back home, shouldn't they?).

Asked no serious manufacturer ever: "Gee, should I use this minor setback as an excuse to shut my entire operation down or slightly adjust my prices?"

New suppliers may spring up, or existing suppliers may change locales. The economic system is like a stream and tariffs are like a boulder. It'll flow around, under, and over. Sucks if you are splat upon the boulder, though.
Neither you nor I know what the alleged saboteur said.

We only know what Musk said in his email.

Deal with the facts and context available - not what Elon wants you to infer from his implications while retaining plausible deniability.
Didn't even use a throwaway account to make your slightly dissenting opinion, brave.

I see the same things in my area with the light rail that was years late, millions overbudget and still is largely underutilized. I am a proponent of mass transit but not every plan is worth endorsing.
> Sounds like artists and philosophers and academics fall into your category of nerdiness.

I don't think anyone would dispute that. The real problem manifests itself when those drives lead someone to throw themselves into a hollow, relatively uncreative domain (e.g. pushing buttons to achieve virtual rank in someone else's creation).
This subthread is an aside on the term "Latinx" in general, outside the context of this article. I'm specifically responding to the meme described by the GP, which ostensibly was not created in response to this article but to address general usage of the term "Latinx".
Thought someone might find it useful... There is a command line equivalent called tshark. It's great for simple packet processing.

I used it a lot to generate csv files with relevant packet data.
Over the limited options they clearly have.

Show me the person with the freedom to go where they want, do what they want, would choose to wait for the crowded bus rather than some eco-friendly quiet car with air-conditioning and your own driver.
Yeah, remote debugging is possibly the best part of wireshark. If you can generate a pcap file and stream it to your machine, you can view it in wireshark.
I think Web workers can actually do that if you've visited the site once before, even if you can't connect now.
A shut off would be disastrous for everyone involved so I doubt it would ever happen. Worst case scenario, the US would pick apart the EU.

"Hey Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal, free trade if you exit the EU. We'll toss in protection from foreign invasion"
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I mean, I'm sure we could design a fighter that would do the A-10's job better than the A-10. However what the USAF went out to do was design a plane that could replace the A-10, the F-18, etc. etc. all the way through and it's been a disaster from the start.

IMHO, it's like an All-in-One printer. You can have a machine that sucks at a bunch of things, or does one or two things really, really well. Not both.
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Trust me, people forget everything.
> Why is it OK for other countries to levy tariffs against us but not the other way around?

I see this comment a lot, I think Trump also said this, but I wonder what specific tariffs is this talking about?

My country (Netherlands) has a negative trade balance with the US, we buy a lot of software, entertainment and (heavily subsidized) Tesla's from the US. Even the "German" car I drive (a BMW) is manufactured in the US because of US trade demands. Also many international trade laws are heavily influenced by US policies that mostly benefit the US (i.e. IP, drugs).

It seems pretty clear that Trump started this trade war because he didn't like the existing equilibrium. And because he is who he is, other countries must be to blame.

I think US people will have to get used to the idea that maybe the US economy is not competitive and US people have been living above their means for a long time now. There are a lot of things the US can do to improve their competitiveness: education, health, corruption, equality, finance all have real impact on the economic competitiveness of a country and you can't make a mess out of it without it having real consequences.

US companies also will have to learn to deal with the fact that the US no longer is the single biggest economy in the world, and the US can't set the rules unilaterally. Trump is helping a lot weeding out the diplomatic goodwill that the US historically enjoyed.

US business is spoiled with their huge home market and seems to find it very hard to adapt to smaller country's rules. In order to export successfully in a more level world, you have to play it by their rules. If my country want to export flowers to Japan, and they allow them only when sterile and without a grain of sand, and they only like bright colors, then we will make them so.
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OK that seems pretty vile.

Still, one gets the sense that these campaigns succeeded mostly because there was no response to them. This "team" the reporter followed talked to 66 people in one day? The campaign in total raised $1.1M? These are not overwhelming numbers, if the entire Nashville business community and political apparatus had really been united as described in TFA. It seems possible that support was a mile wide and an inch deep. It's easy to give lip service to a popular politician. This charismatic mayor was not around for the long haul, even if her bodyguard had not been the type of cad to kiss and tell. If her scandal had been delayed a year, the measure had passed, the money raised, etc.: then what? What strong constituency existed to keep pushing this project in the right directions over the decade it would take? If those people exist, they should have gone door-to-door a week after these AfP yokels to complain about rich Kansans interfering in our politics to sell us asphalt.
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Some days I wake up and look at HN and see some things that give me hope from the good ol' days (started in 95 on web stuff).

Sincerely...thank you.
> So why not free trade?

Every country involved has industries which won't allow this. For example, all the countries in the G8 have agricultural sectors which will not allow elimination of trade barriers.

So, even if you want "free trade," you start with each country's list of stuff where there is not going to be free trade, and move forward from there.
I take it that knowingly participating in fraud doesn't bother you at all?
> You can have multiple platforms and send trains to each not just separate load/unload platforms.

Sure, but we're talking about subway networks underneath major metropolises, and adding extra tunnels and platforms is basically as expensive as digging a whole new line - when it is even possible due to space or geological constraints.
And XChat had a fork that was distributed for free, meaning few people would actually pay for it. (anecdotal)
So you believe that the US is a victim of protectionism in these countries without having protectionism of it's own? That's a pretty hard position to back with evidence.

For example US farm subsidies are significant and supply management is common in many areas, but the rhetoric around Canadian dairy supply management recently has been amplified far beyond even it's wildest possible impact. And this with a country with extraordinarily balanced trade, if anything probably a deficit. The history of trade between the two countries is littered with spats about US protecting this, Canada protecting that, but on the whole very balanced. Pretending otherwise may make for good politics (i guess that remains to be seen) but it isn't based on evidence or good policy work.
Those older planes can loiter like a teenager at a mall on Saturdays too.
It’s an addiction. Unless the business self-regulates it’s a prime target for regulation. See also - tobacco, alcohol, drugs.
Considering that I gave up smoking, sodas and alcoholic beverages completely...

Smoking is orders of magnitude harder, at least it was for me. But it's doable indeed, millions have done it.

Having a motive, not the same as "motivation", makes a difference indeed.
> "The F-18 was "good enough" for low intensity combat, but is inadequate for many other deployments."

In other words it's been adequate in reality but inadequate in fantasy scenarios.
Yeah, I don't think that's the part that's confusing them.
It works the other way too - people see right wingers attack public transport and assume it's evil without looking into whether it might just be an poor use of tax money.
Then leave, America is a competitive country that probably doesn't suit everyone. With that US passport you have a lot of options to move to.

I don't know why you think its difficult to vote. You register when you get your drivers license and then show up to a voting place and click a button