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> That the US almost surely plans on prosecuting Assange because, despite the fact that US law makes it pretty difficult to prosecute Assange and despite the fact that it is extremely unlikely the UK or any EU country would extradite him, there are politicians in the US that really don't like him. OK? And?

He's making the point that the rule of law is very weak when it comes to the items in this bullet point.

In my view, Assange is a hero precisely because he's shown not just some classified information that has revealed many of our leaders to be highly corrupt, but because he's driven them to make fools of themselves in their vigor to destroy him.

Mike Pompeo will go down in history as one of the great villains of our age. His comments on Assange will be used to illustrate his abhorrent views. Those views aren't perceived by most people as abhorrent today for the same reason that the actors on cable news channels are widely respected and considered thought leaders. It's just easier that way.
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His disinformation campaign has done incredible damage to democracies around the world, despite his great ideas and systems.
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I'd imagine those insurance files being insurance against murder, torture, life imprisonment et al more so than being kicked out of political asylum, but I'm just speculating.
We were really lucky to get that done before AIDS. The classic smallpox vaccine is a live-virus vaccine and dangerous to people with compromised immune systems. There's a newer non-replicating vaccine, but that didn't come out until 2014.[1]

[1] http://www.bavarian-nordic.com/pipeline/imvamune.aspx
> metal found in finite supplies

It averages about 25 parts per million in the Earth's crust, a bit more common than lithium at 20 ppm. Gold is 4 parts per billion yet no one seems to be predicting the end of gold supplies.

i suspect that ordinary price signals will drive better utilization, newer chemistries, political will to recycle more, etc.
Maybe a typo, the word you want is piqued:

pique - verb (piques, piquing, piqued)
1 [ with obj. ] arouse (interest or curiosity).
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They exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_of_last_resort
aight, I conflated all in usb3
Where can we see what it's capable of? For now it seems very incapable to me. Much worse than intellij or jedi.
> if, as a private person, you help people reveal State Secrets of the most powerful countries on Earth

Plenty of people are leaking all manner of things to the press every day. If you decide to accept leaks, make lots of money off it, align yourself with Russia and then fail to do any diligence on your sources or redaction of your products, you’re doing more than just leaking.
There were bad people on both sides of slaves and slavers, really? Perhaps you'd feel more comfortable on the Stormfront forums.
Redbox is a much smarter business model. No rental space or employees needed.
Update: temptation got the better of me and I closed my account.
I agree, it really is a disservice for people to lump them all together. Whisleblowing is an important act and it needs to be protected. But there is more to whisleblowing then just revealing secrets. Snowden handled things better than Manning by being more focused in what was revealed and filtering things through journalists. Both of them are worlds better than Assange. Lumping them together will only help turn people with legitimate gripes against Assange against people like Snowden and Manning.
It's a bit more complex than that. The Smallpox vaccine was based on the virus of another species. The Polio virus is based on a weakened human virus - which, unfortunately, sometimes becomes infectious again and that is a problem in its own right. Also, the last pockets of infection are basically in war zones where it's difficult to get the vaccines to. But hopefully you're right - maybe we'll eradicate it in the next few decades.
There are reports in the comments of the kernel extension causing boot failures that require going into recovery mode and deleting the file. I would guess that when the freezer video came out and this gadget became more popular than ever before, somebody disabled the link while the one developer figures out what’s going on.
Adding bad ideas together ironically can create good concepts. Realistic bueracracy story centered on a bueracrat and say story set in heaven both would be boring separately. A harried angelic bueracrat trying to keep up with an endless stream of weird requests from "good people" throughout history, deal with people wanting to meet their ancestors, descendants, and famed figures and keeping them happy when they would get along terribly from differing values or finding out they were condemned to hell? Already a comedy with surprising depth in an elevator pitch.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. That's what happened to Assange. WikiLeaks did some good in the past. Then he became a Russian puppet, and tool of the Trump campaign.
Yes, the scripting and building is all "online" as you put it. There are essentially no barriers to building, all you have to worry about is the primitive limit.
In my case this answered my question:
"Today, distribution can be a thornier question for businesses that deploy software through the Internet, cloud, or a SaaS model. Does allowing users to interact with a software application over the Internet qualify as distribution? For most open source licenses, the answer is no. Indeed, GPLv3 uses the term “convey” rather than “distribute,” precisely to clarify that SaaS use does not trigger any license requirements. But the Affero GPL (AGPL) license is one exception that takes a different approach. AGPL’s requirements (which are the same as GPL) are triggered once software is modified and made available for use and interaction over a network."
I spent many many hours on a MUD called Magrathea back in middle school. I pretty much picked it off a list of MUDs because I was a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide. I loved it and was pretty sad when it went offline. I poked around later and realized a lot of Magrathea was pretty stock ROM mud code, although there were some pretty neat custom areas and a cyborg class that I really enjoyed. I actually got in contact with one of the original developers and got the game database (minus users, of course), but the Internet just doesn't need another Diku MUD, especially one whose userbase dissipated almost 20 years ago.

Lambda is interesting but poorly documented in a lot of places. I think bit rot and time means that a lot of the knowledge on how to actually code / use Lambda has gone away. I spent some time circa 2009 playing and hacking in Lambda, built a few things, but the on-line coding system is extremely frustrating. HellMOO built off LambdaCore and is the only truly successful Lambda-based MOO that I know of, excepting of course LambdaMOO itself.
Yeah, the paper is from 1988. Postgres has evolved a lot since then.
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> Shortly after I connected with an eagle-eyed Pulitzer Prize and Emmy nominated journalist/producer (who perhaps was initially fooled by my impressive credentials to accept my request), I received an angry message from him. “Don’t know who you are,” he wrote, “but neither school you list offers the majors or degrees you claim to have so I’m deleting you from my contacts."

Dying. Nice work.
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What claims did Assange make in regards to the Catalonia situation?
That quote has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation, and it's being overused to the point of making it meaningless.
"Value" is the wrong word, because it implies goodness. It's taken me a while to come around to this viewpoint but I think "undefined behaviour" is unambiguously bad in pretty much every context. I understand why it was originally included in language specs but in modern times, where even the meanest embedded processors are generally 32 bit 2's complement processors with an ALU, we can afford to define the behaviour of the language which we're using.
This is certainly interesting. I had a good friend who owned a business located next to mine years ago who was dyslexic.

I found this out when he left a note on my door that looked like it had been written by 3rd grade kid. I was fairly well stunned by it because I'd never knew anyone who was dyslexic before that and he was very skilled craftsmen and very intelligent and I realized that was a pretty tough challenge for him to deal with.

I think it'd be a great option to offer in my web app preferences.

I did a quick check of my Safari browser's Preferences (v.11.1) and didn't see an option to select a font, but Firefox (v.61.0.1) does, and it allows the user to override a site's fonts. Chrome looks like it does as well, though it's a bit noisy in it's approach.
Here's my take. When you see your duty as a patriot to betray what's been entrusted to you because you think it's the right thing to do, you do it with the notion that you are "taking one for the team". And you pay the price.

What you do may not be proven right within your lifetime, but if you are eventually proven right, you will have earned the respect posthumously.

I don't think we can claim being a patriot is easy or comes free. Often times you have to pay a heavy price.

Of course that's no consolation for Snowden (or Assange).
In my home state, Family Video [0] is still very much alive, and growing. It's one of the traditions when I visit home: we go as a family to pick up a movie or two and some takeout pizza. They're pretty busy, too.

The lackluster and non-competitive broadband access helps keep them alive. "High speed" internet for most of my family back home supports low resolution Netflix, but other streaming is terrible at best (Hulu is unwatchable, for example). HD anything requires DVDs or Bluray.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Video
Unrelated to the (enjoyable) article - How do you feel about the advertisements on this site? More intrusive, less intrusive?

Edit - I ask because instead of the usual advertising model they have 12 partners a year that get custom ads, and there is no other advertising.
Fundamentality
Does the meaning of your comment change in any way if you replace Obama with Trump, or "a sitting president"? I don't believe in the "deep state", but I think all presidents are equally beholden to the intelligence apparatus, and none would dare provoke it.
Linux also had USB 3 draft support before there were even any consumer products on the market. Intel engineers wrote the XHCI driver for Linux, well before developer documentation was available publicly.

It was added to other operating systems as the hardware became more readily available, understandably it took some time. USB 3.0 is not simple to implement.
What advices would you give yourself, if you tried it again in the present time ?

First time product, dosage, aquisition method and protocol ?

Anything to read or other things to know ?
If you were Assange and you were trying to convince Trump Jr to hand over documents to you, would you pretend to be indifferent about the outcome of the election?

Assange wants to help reveal any secret information that will help fix the many problems stemming from secrecy and corruption of governments and institutions. Every one of his actions have supported that mission.

The focus on Assange's alleged political views and his personal life are an attempt to "shoot the messenger". We should really be 99% concerned with the information that was leaked and at most 1% concerned with anything about Assange's personality.
You're saying it was purely the sexual assault, and nothing to do with becoming a puppet of Putin?
I have a hard time accepting the premise that a language is better because you have to hope that it does what you want instead of telling it, and for that reason it has become successful.

In fact, the ANSI C spec even states from your link that "Undefined behavior gives the implementer license not to catch certain program errors that are difficult to diagnose." That's just not an acceptable tradeoff anymore -- in fact I don't know it ever was. That's akin to shipping your org chart because you can't make your program do what everyone agrees it should do. You know, catch programming errors, in this case.
The interface is the data. Have a look at Data Distribution Service or Eve programming (you may have seen them before). They go further than rest in that you can react to changes in the data model (rest is only half a protocol)
While the criticism here seems earned, in my (non-scientific) experience, it seems plausible that mindfulness might have some effect on memory, in the sense that it seems to have the effect (for me!) of disentangling experience and emotion to some degree, and emotion has well-documented effects on memory.
What is the evidence that happened?
There are several meditations teaching that strongly advise to avoid mixing deugs and meditations. Some, like vipassana, even recommand to stop taking any drug prior practice.
I'd argue that Snowden's leaks would have been better sent to Wikileaks. We've seen perhaps 5% of the information, and much of the illegal behavior is likely still going on.

The only hope that US intel agencies have to redeem themselves as working toward the interests of the people and not against them is to be totally transparent about all illegal behavior and to undergo a full audit to stop all of it.
Are there actually pathogens that are resistant against all antibiotics?

I assumed that the problem with multi-resistant pathogens was that the patient may not live long enough to try all antibiotics.
Though note that Rust still has things that are definitely undefined behavior (my favorite: "Transmuting an & to &mut is always UB; No you can't do it; No you're not special" https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/nomicon/transmutes.html ), it's just that someone has to break out the `unsafe` keyword to get it to happen, and that an error as a result of undefined behavior can always be traced back to an `unsafe` block's invariants being violated somehow.
The paper argues that some behaviors being undefined let compilers target the widely varying architectures of the early microcomputer era, while still using a language that remains at least somewhat portable between them.
What choice did carriers have besides accepting Android? The only other licensed OS was Windows Mobile. Being a closed sourced operating system doesn’t preclude OEMs and carriers from installing bloatware - see Windows.

How was Apple, a brand new entrant in the phone market, able to keep carrier crapware off of their phones from day one? The first Android phones came after the iPhone.
H.L. Mencken wasn't really a conservative firebrand, more of an iconoclast. His position then could be likened to that of Trey Parker & Matt Stone today, i.e. shits on everything, liberal and conservative, for the lulz, and occasionally makes some very perceptive social commentary in the process.
Another case of "fixing the problem we created in the mice in the first place". While good for reproducability and analyzing possible root causes it is frustratingly disappointing.

I would really want to see is the process on actual senior lab mice - that would highlight other factors untreated and how transferrable it is to the general case for mice - let alone humans. If open-ended trial mice reach unprecedented ages that would have major implications.
Some UB in C is largely regarded as a bad idea, such as signed overflow.

One reason for that is that it's easy to get rid of it, and guess what, we have a bunch of compiler flags just for that.

That absolutely does not mean that "UB is bad, period".

In fact you praise Rust but only safe Rust has no UB.

Actually, if they do end up putting more and more knowledge about the type system invariants in the optimizer, the rules for UB in unsafe code are going to be more complicated than C (think type-based aliasing on steroids).

Don't get me wrong, it's good design to nicely package these in unsafe code, but if your language can craft pointers and load/store from them, your spec will have to have UB (or boundcheck all loads and stores).
Definitely, but at least when you see unsafe {} you know all bets are off instead of having to assume all bets are off all the time. I do see what you mean though. The transmute thing is pretty funny imo.
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After extreme depression I lost some physical abilities, it came back but not 100%. It's most probably due to damages in my brain (hypoxia, inflamation, whatever). Anyway, since then I'm always wishing for some way to give my brain some fertilizer so I can get skills back. I learned music on my own, I acquired patience, dedication and sensitivity with it, but when your brain is cracked progress is almost inexistant.

Not long ago I found a shop that had CBD eliquids, they gave me a sample (3 strokes). A little bit after my brain was a minuscule amount lighter, but at layers that I never really had a control over (unlike the sensation I get when meditating, I can feel some parts of my brain going off). As usual, may be placebo, but still another thing that cause that itch for a little psychoactive help to regain my previous life quality.
I seem to recall reading that MS only started doing the activation thing in XP because the BSA threatened to throw them out.

Frankly MS has held that it is better, for them, that the public pirate MS software than switch to alternatives.

Also, private usage of MS software is seem by them as a sales pitch towards businesses. It allows MS to argue that potential employees already knows basic operations, so there is less required training for new hires.
> Borg will remain orders of magnitude beyond Kubernetes until Kubernetes is completely rearchitected. It’s not scalability bugs. It’s decisions regarding how the cluster maintains state that hamstring it, and that’s so fundamental to everything it’s not a find/squish loop.

Can you say more about this? Borgmaster uses Paxos for replicating checkpoint data, and etcd uses Raft for replicating the equivalent data, but these are really just two flavors of the same algorithm. I don't doubt that there are probably more efficient ways that Kubernetes could handle state (I don't claim to be an expert in that area), but I don't think they're approaches that would look any more like Borg than Kubernetes does.

If you're at liberty to do so, could you say what orchestrators the customers you mentioned chose in lieu of Kubernetes? What scale are they running at for a single cluster?

[Disclaimer: I work on Kubernetes/GKE at Google.]
Yes, but your program isn't doing what you think you told it to, which is worse, because the compiler tells you that it will, know what I mean? A false guarantee of safety is kind of the worst.
That is not a counter argument!
If software is optimized for multiple cores then it is optimized for multiple cores. It is not like they tested it on a single core CPU with higher frequency first.
It could be that i9 might even have new instruction set with faster instructions but it should still have the same ones that i7 have as well.
>He also wasn't charged with rape

He couldn't be charged without first being arrested. That's why Sweden issued the EAW.
People, mostly travellers but people in general, often ask where I'm from even though it's pretty obvious I was born in Australia.

I think people just generally like to talk about ancestry, and the people in the room who probably have the most different ancestry probably get the most attention.

Every family in Australia has a story about how they, their parents, or grand parents, or great great grand parents, got here. It's all still quite fresh.
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I don't think they are related.

The Left is generally in favor of socialism of some sort: common ownership of the important stuff.

The Right has two wings: fascists and the sneaky, slippery moralizers known as Liberals.
Liberals are content to wring their hands about minorities while reaping the benefits of very violent, command economies which extract wealth from the poorest (including within the USA). Their obfuscation of the true nature of capitalism and relatively less appalling public statements on minorities helps to keep a lid on things.
Fascism only becomes overtly necessary when capitalism is having a periodic crisis and Liberal lies are not cutting it any more.

So, in short, no, nothing to do with each other.
So what does it mean for Assange to do something that favors one nation's interest over America's? Wikileaks is not meant to benefit "US interests" in the sense of pleasing US leaders.

The entire point of a transparency organization is to reveal information that helps the people of the country understand what their leaders are up to.

If it was revealed, for example, that Trump was a pedophile, the case could be made that US national interest was served by keeping it confidential and letting him carry out his presidential term without suffering (and forcing our nation to suffer) the indignity of having it revealed.

However I think it would be in the best interest of the American people for such information to be leaked so that we could decide how to handle it via the democratic process.

Secrecy has been granted to governments based on trust, and that trust has been widely violated. Assange shows us where our leaders have violated our trust. He's shown the people of other nations how their leaders have violated trust. He's not taking sides for or against any state, he's taking sides for the people of every state against corrupt leaders.
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Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1020727843897118723

> Interesting to see Greenwald’s continued toadying for Julian Assange here. 2/ There are several layers of irony here. Before getting to those let me say that I think it would be a big mistake for the US to try to prosecute him, mainly for precedent and 1st am reasons. But also because we have no interest in validating his martyr complex. 3/ As for the ironies, Assange didn’t seem ‘asylum’ over a threat of US prosecution. He was there to be evade prosecution for rape. The bogeyman of us prosecution was always there to provide a veneer of principle to the more mundane aim of not answering rape charges. 4/ Sweden eventually gave up on that case because they couldn’t get access to Assange. So big picture Assange already one. He leveraged his political celebrity into a get out of jail free card for rape. The other irony is that at that time, Assange hadn’t done anything the 5/ US could charge him with. It was only from his Ecuador refuge that he began actively conspiring against the US and U.K. governments, becoming some sort of tool for the Russian security services. Glenn has another story. But it was clear in 2016 and 2017 ... 6/ that while Ecuador was willing to grant him refuge (albeit from rape prosecution) they did not want him using it to plot against other governments which Ecuador obviously wants to maintain some level of good relations with 7/ As I said, it would be very ill advised for the US to try to extradite or prosecute Assange (at least on the basis of any currently known or suspected evidence). But it would be ironic because only the Trump admin (or rather its appointees) wld even try. 8/ And Assange of course did everything in his power to get Trump elected and help the white nationalities and racist xenophobe groups who were and are his biggest supporters. 9/ It’s never been clear to me whether Assange was always who he turned out to be or was simply a data anarchist radical who went down a racist/authoritarian rabbit hole because of the series of events which unfolded after Wikileaks was formed. 10/ My hunch was always the former. But it barely matters.
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