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Greenspan has a "long, tortured relationship with Social Security".

"Greenspan famously chaired a bipartisan commission that in 1983 issued recommendations for strengthening Social Security. Those reforms, which President Reagan signed into law in April of that year, made a promise to American workers: your payroll taxes will be increased in order to finance the build up of trust funds, which will secure Social Security benefits when you retire in the 21st Century. The Greenspan Commission's plan has worked even better than imagined, with projections today showing that promised benefits can be paid in full until 2052, according to the Congressional Budget Office."

"Over the past two decades, Greenspan has repeatedly argued that Reagan's "ironclad commitment" should be broken. Year after year, he has said that the benefits promised to future retirees are unaffordable, that the retirement age should be delayed further, and that other ways of reducing benefits should be considered. And yet in 2001, Greenspan endorsed the Bush tax cuts, which mainly benefited the highest income Americans. If made permanent, those tax cuts would amount to more than three times the size of Social Security's projected shortfall over the next 75 years, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In Greenspan's view, the Social Security benefits that his own commission promised to future retirees are not affordable, but tax cuts for the wealthy are."

Quotes are from https://web.archive.org/web/20061008205611/http://www.tcf.or... in 2005.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan#Political_views... : "In March 2005, in reaction to Greenspan's support of President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security, then-Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid attacked Greenspan as "one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington"[5] and criticized him for supporting Bush's 2001 tax cut plan."
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Interesting that the public perception of trust has degraded so much as a seller. I've been a member since 2003 and buy small bits and bobs on there most weeks and go through phases of occasionally selling things maybe a couple of times a year when I need space / money - most recently an old computer and some guitar pedals.

I've only ever had a problem as a seller twice in all those years - one scammer insisting the cheque was in the post and demanding that I send the item immediately (and leaving bad feedback when I didn't) and another reporting the items being faulty despite being (incredibly cheap) untested vintage electronics for spares.

Neither time was I left out of pocket and I'd more than happily sell stuff on there again. But I have heard the horror stories and appreciate that I may have just been incredibly lucky.

That said, a few years back I did trip some kind of threshold and was automatically upgraded to a business account, which means that my "business" (aka home) address now appears prominently on all my listings. Apparently ebay have no way to downgrade it again and have asked me to just create a new account - throwing away 15 years' worth of positive feedback in the process...
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Fair enough. How would you reword the title without using the word "Asian?"
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>Yes. But the press didn't simply publish them in their entirety without comment or context, did they?

Even better - Senator Gravel, doing his job, brought them into Congress .. something that was necessary, because the press was compromised and wasn't doing their job.
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My fathers automower got destroyed when a moose decided to stomp it. Also in southern Sweden.
Yeah with bare mesos I don't have to do any of that, I just accept resource offers and release them when I'm done. The scheduler decides how much it will scale, not mesos.

We like to create a new framework for each instance of the job (so we can track slow runs, trial-run new versions), so we can have anywhere between 0 and 50 similar frameworks all running and vying for 100% of the cluster.

Naturally, we have cluster-level scaling, so we add nodes until we hit our max spend per hour, and then jobs take a bit longer to complete.
So go back to 99% of just taxing the poor (progressive taxes make taxes very low for very low incomes) ? And in the process create an almost absurdly large incentive for the black market to go back to the levels it last existed at centuries ago. Without deductions, owning a house is back to utterly impossible for anyone who doesn't currently own one. At those levels all other laws become ineffective too, as at that point sausages in the supermarket will have the same quality control as illegal drugs have today. Illegal production, dumping, ... all comes with enormous incentives under such a scheme.

Maybe do some research before suggesting something like this.
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How is Vimeo perceived by the dev community? I find them to be pretty amazing.
im vegetarian, but not by choice, i cant say i advocate it nor can i see why people would willingly restrict their diet so much
You need to have a large sum of money because you need to keep your infrastructure intact and maintainable, this is a must. If you cannot issue certs in time, you broke a promise. If you broke a promise, people distrust you.

Second, you have to hire a lot of security and network guy to ensure your operation is professionally carried out and will devote to do things seriously. They will make sure that no other people can steal the derivation of your identity. This is very essential because if any hackers intruded your system, they could steal the trust you built for a long time.
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Yeah, what a crappy lock...
There is also a lot of good stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences
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The Global Shipping Program is a really fantastic thing. I've used it both as a buyer and a seller (vintage computers) and now have all sorts of interesting stuff from all over the world. Also no problems at all shipping CRT monitors internationally despite couriers (probably perfectly understandably) refusing to provide insurance on them.
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No, no, no, the comedy tank of the era was the Sherman Tank.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-m-4-sherman-tank-was-he...

Favourite quote: Hence, the Sherman’s grim nickname—Ronson, like the cigarette lighter, because “it lights up the first time, every time.”

Everything was wrong about it and the Russians that got given these on Lend Lease knew that they had been given a death sentence. Aforementioned article just touches the surface, the barrel was too short, the 'tech' for being able to shoot on the move did not work and you needed five of the things to take out one German tank, four as cannon fodder (complete with the guys inside) and one to sneak around the back to get that German tank whilst it was busy taking out the other four.

The 5 Shermans vs 1 Panzer myth is much disputed however where there is smoke there is fire and I would not want to be in one. Plus, by the time that the Americans rocked up to fight WW2 - which was late to the party - the Germans had run out of oil so their tanks were running on recycled coal dust extract rather than the diesel fuel required.

The shoddy design of the Sherman Tank was no matter though, the 'allies' were expected to pay for these useless behemoths after the war so this was the military-industrial-complex and built-in-obsolescence at its finest.

Meanwhile the Soviets had a much more serious war on their hands so their hardware wasn't about making a quick buck. It had to be fit for purpose. The same thinking happens today hence we have toy planes like the F-35 where everyone and his pet congressman is getting a backhander vs. the fit for purpose planes of Russia, as advertised over the skies of Syria and doing much better in the global arms trade.
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Amazing! I found my purchase and the exact amount of BTC I was holding. It's not massive but feels great to get some closure on this.
Given a database and a query, yes, you can understand the execution profile.

What you can't do is start out with a schema and a query and understand the execution profile. Query planners take statistics into account when determining which indexes to use or to fall back to scanning, and can normally only examine a fraction of possible join orders. So you can usually only fully predict the performance profile of simple queries. Databases can run perfectly well one day and fall off a performance cliff the next, when statistics change; doesn't happen often, but it can happen.

More likely, something works perfectly well in test and in the early days, but rapidly becomes untenable as the data grows and superlinear slowdowns emerge.

Thus you need to put run-time monitoring into place, and have a routine process of examining slow-running queries, and fixing things that are slow: rewriting queries, adding indexes, possibly denormalizing data, materializing views, etc. It's an ongoing process in any application that works with lots of data.
So, is there such a site for the transcripts for those videos? I'm old fashioned and read much faster than a human can talk, so I don't see the reason to spend 45 min watching a talking head.
Not any more they don't.
Use of SharedArrayBuffer in timing attacks was widely predicted and there were working examples showing how it could be used to extract information from browsers long before vendors enabled it by default. It's hard to have faith that the people who ignored all those risks won't do so again.

It would be an existential crisis for several of the browser vendors if they can't add things like threads with shared memory to javascript/webassembly. The existence of those organisations is based on the idea of the browser being a replacement for native platforms, and if they can't include basic and vital features like threads then they will always be at a huge disadvantage to native platforms.

Do you think Mozilla will admit the entire browser-as-platform project is flawed and disband the organisation? Or will they push ahead with these new features despite the risks?
Right. Which ones of those leave the signatures on root zone, the .com zone and the cert unaffected and are transparent in any real sense of the word?
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Actually, "React as you imagine pigs reacting." according to this self-published source. According to another source from a decade ago by the very same author and published by Random House, a somewhat longer instruction:

> The guards have to know that every guard has to be what we call a "tough guard" [...] we need you to act a certain way. For the time being, we need you to play the role of "tough guard". We need you to react as you imagine the pigs would. We're trying to set up the stereotype guard – your individual style has been a little too soft.

Not "real prison guards", but "pigs", which latter carried in the 1970s a whole bunch of connotations that the former does not. As does "stereotype guard".
> I haven’t been able to rationalize the difference in “character”

You have to be a little insane, when your inner voice comes up some new idea which will probably end up in failure, the sane guy focusses on the failure and shuts down the inner voice because the risks are high, the insane guy on the other hand focusses on the possibility of success not failure.
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> Luckily I only run software that I trust on boxes where security is an issue.

Does that mean you don't visit websites with scripting enabled?
It's usually listed very prominently on the listing page when this is the case. That said, I have no idea why sellers would choose to use this instead of just scheduling things around their vacations.
I’m not so sure that not choosing to produce ARM based chips for the iPhone was such an obvious miss for Intel. Why would they want their business subject to the whims of a single company over which they exert zero control?

Just as an example, a couple of months ago Apple seemingly out of the blue, announced they would no longer be using Intel chips in future laptop models and the markets barely noticed. Were they more reliant on PC sales that would not have been the case.

Perhaps they are way behind AMD with respect to the latest chip designs, but even that is far from proven.

I think this article is attempting to make a company with a very complex history and product lineup sound simple.
You still do, its just given itself a more palatable name..
But there are millions of young males in the US alone who are more careful than millions of young females.

The effects of testosterone are far from as simple as you suggest. It tends to lead to higher competitiveness. This is not quite the same as recklessness.

Meanwhile during normal usage the driver (of whatever gender) is likely to be getting shot at. This will tend to have a larger affect than their gender.
> Let NASA have high zoot.

NASA does really rather well with high reliabilty. The Martian rovers have managed without a service.
Please don't go by the title. It is tongue in cheek but on reading the article will actually clear author's position. He is a supporter/worked on both technologies.

Author's position is that "haters" brought NoSQL down. (Side note - With this usage of "haters" I wonder if "critic" will ever be seen outside a dictionary).And same is happening with Blockchain. Too many critics. NoSQL proponents should help Blockchain because of the shared camaraderie of being a technology which were/are criticized heavily.

The main point of the article, like most in this space, is to re-define the word blockchain. What exactly is it? As per author it is byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication or BFTSMR. But there is not much to be said aside from the fact that "blockchain shouldn't be written off, just yet".

While agree on not writing off blockchain yet, I can't help but ask if blockchain solved BFTSMR - it happened over 9 years ago. And people/companies dint jump in until 1-2 years ago. So most of these people/companies are just following the hype train.
We'll just make another machine that changes the wheel. Surely that will fix the problem.
That's why WebGL is dead (apart copyright/patent issues, IIRC from Apple), there will be no new version. Instead an alternative standard is being development.
Whoever attempts it should try soon because then the people that Stephenson actually modeled his characters after could play the roles in the film/TV series. For instance, one of the characters in the first part of the book is obviously modeled on Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
According to the EEOC (which seems to be the source for this data), Asians include: "All persons having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands."
> CA can expect that its connection to your DNS server is reliable and not tampered

Why? It goes over infrastructure that you nor they control.

It might be worth illustrating what happens here, as it's not immediately clear from common DNS settings or common commands. First, the client asks their local DNS server, the one you get via DHCP or configure (for example 8.8.8.8 which is by definition already outside your network, but for argument's sake let's assume that they're smarter than that and they pick one inside their own network). Let's say this one doesn't have it in cache, so then it has to go out and ask the TLD (let's assume it has the TLD cached).

The TLD, for example `.com`, will say "the name servers for your.example.com can be found at ns.your.example.com" and it gives the IP addresses for those. Now the local resolver at the CA has to go and ask there for your domain. In this final step, if nowhere else, it will have to leave any sort of trusted network and venture into whatever place the user's servers are at. This could be anywhere in the world, with all sorts of intermediate networks.
>the only logical conclusion is that there are no other technologically advanced species in the Milky Way or that we're the first(very unlikely).

Why is this unlikely? The likelihood of intelligent life emerging that gets far enough in their development to try to colonize a galaxy might be so low that it could easily only be once per galaxy or even rarer than that.

Think about how long multicellular life has existed on this planet and yet a very narrow band ended up 'becoming intelligent' and even then it took a long time before industrialization that finally propelled us forward.
It's kind of like the tree that falls in the wood though isn't it? Nobody "heard" Feynman - so it's as though it never happened ...

More seriously though, it's not hard to imagine how someone might recall telling the truth but not having done so.

It's worrying that none of his contemporaries came out in his defence!
I think there's is a limit on how much you can upload per week or per month. 500MB is not a lot of videos.
It was kind of hard to understand what you were describing without reading the Mesos Architecture documentation[0], but I think I get it now. When you say "you" just accept resource offers, you mean the frameworks (in mesos terminology) you're deploying correct?

Weirdly enough, Mesos resembles a system I was building in my head that I thought could compete with Kubernetes... Taking the resource supplier (agents in mesos-speak) and consumer (frameworks in mesos-speak) paradigm to the extreme.

[0]: https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/architecture/
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Microsoft CEO is Indian. As is Google and Adobe’s. As are Nokia and Global Foundries and Pepsi and MasterCard and Deloitte and SanDisk and and and. Nvidia CEO and founder is Taiwanese.
It’s not like those are small players
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AutoKey https://github.com/autokey/autokey for Linux is pretty similar, though perhaps not as popular and well documented as AutoHotkey. It's simple enough that anyone can use it to make text-expansion macros, but it becomes more powerful if you're proficient with Python.
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Goes without saying, would really appreciate it if at least a few of you awesome folks check it out. The idea is to get as much criticism as possible and iterate/improve before we launch on PH(third week of July

All help/tips are much appreciated :)
Whilst that may indeed be what you were taught, Jared M. Bartels paints a rather different picture of what introductory textbooks have been found to say on this subject.

* http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1475725714568007
I didn't see this story in his book 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)'.

Such a great read, I highly recommend it!
There are many people that believe CNN is a reputable publisher. Even after the Japan fish feeding hoax, fabrications about the contents of the Damore memo, and even denying their own "I'm sure in individual cases" interview with Obama administration re: child seperation this last 24 hours.

Quick edit due to downmods: dear partisan Americans: I don't particularly care for either side of your politics. I'm not saying Fox is any better, and I think Donald Trump's a nasty and very hypocritical individual. But 1 and 3 are easily proven false on video, and 2 is clearly different from the content of the Damore memo, which you can read online. You're lying to yourself if you refuse to believe evidence about CNN fabricating any of these stories.

As @Notradamus says before, giving a quote to a journalist allows them to shape the story. There is no reason to do that: you can self publish and still reach the masses in your own words, without risking someone else cutting video, lying about you, or denying something happened even when they filmed it themselves.
It is near impossible to understand how anyone thinks more than two standard deviations above or below you, and most of the time even a one standard deviation difference is difficult.
If you’re concerned about leaving out major details, then you should probably mention that the Rohignya have been persecuted since at least WWII. When the Buddhists fought along with the Japanese, and and the subsequent post-war Buddhist government declared all Rohingya stateless people and have been persecuting them ever since, until recently when they were all told to leave or be killed.

Sure the conflict has cut both ways, but no reasonable person would expect anybody to just roll over and accept genocide. There’s been some level of Rohingya insurgency since they were all denied citizenship, but nothing that could even come close to being described as an ethnic cleansing, where as the Buddhist activity there is absolutely a full blown genocide.
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>a couple of months ago Apple seemingly out of the blue, announced they would no longer be using Intel chips in future laptop models

Clarification: this was a (likely true) rumor, not an official Apple announcement.
I don't think it is possible to objectively measure merit nor accurately guess who will perform well in next role. However, it is possible to be more accurate or less accurate in measuring either. Meaning, it is possible to be better, even if better does not mean perfect.

I believe that if we spent more time trying to describe merit, overall work culture would become more fair and we would move closer to meritocracy. It could even lead to more effective workplace as incentives would align more with what is actually needed. Right now, it seems to be pretty random too often and based more on impressions then on anything factual.

I have seen multiple times that what was rewarded was not what was needed the most for a project. Or literally people who actually have real results and successfully run project (negotiated requirements/time, made larger estimates, kept it organized, asked for what they needed soon enough, customer happy in the end) talked about as less good then people who run messy projects - because basically messy project seemed to involve heroic effort at times and they had fun war stories.

It is like someone up thread said - the upper you go the more it matters who you are friend with and who you drink beer with - it is not an evil conspiracy, just results of people making impressions based decisions instead of through out ones. Reasonable definition of merit would help - to steer toward people who had shown organizational skill previously.
Of course, if you're working in New Zealand you'll have to obey U.S. laws; the NZ government will violate its own laws to seize your property at the behest of a foreign government without due process of any kind. If you don't believe me, ask Kim Dotcom.

No thank you.
Discriminate is used with multiple definitions; here it's being used as a synonym for "discriminate against".