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What I've wanted for Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning, and if Obama would have done it before leaving office, it would have earned him infinite respect:

Try them, possibly even find them guilty of something, but also award them with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

What these people have done is probably illegal, but it is unquestionably about the most American, patriotic act you could commit. Speaking out against perceived tyranny with no regard for your own wellbeing, is an incredible act.

It makes me profoundly sad how the world (or at least my world, mostly far left, liberal, educated, etc.) has turned so hard against Julian Assange. He's a hero in every sense of the word.
Please mention what feeds you consume and why.
Commonly used loop syntax is replete with syntax that breaks "op args ...":

when <condition> do
for <var> in <list>
for <var0> = <init0> then <step0> and
for <var1> = <init1> then <step1>
collecting <expr> into <var>

The normal macros that don't have a flat argument structure, but shove everything into lists are keeping with the idea of leveraging the nesting so that the construct is "parsed on arrival" (POA?) into the macro. All that remains is to access its structure.
> Philosophical systems of ethics have always seemed to me like elaborate rationalizations for what we all know to be right and wrong innately. Since most of us possess this faculty with or without philosophy, the formalization is just self-flattery.

The evidence for this claim is scant: the Ancient Greeks (and not-so-ancient Western Europeans) extolled the virtues of various forms of slavery, all of which we find morally reprehensible today. Moral views of abortion, homosexuality, and blasphemy have all undergone complete reversals in the last 150 years. Intuitionism alone can't account for these changes.

> Do you think healers sought to do harm before Hippocrates came around and that the mere phrase "do no harm" ushered in a new era of helpful medicine?

Hippocrates formalized and systematized what was otherwise a naggling feeling. Just because doctors happened to perform in a morally acceptable fashion pre-oath does not mean that the system prescribed by the oath is redundant -- it serves to establish why certain procedures are right and wrong, when a doctor might be punished or blamed, and so forth.
yes, because harassment due to alex jones is so very entertaining...
I was specifically referring to his playing dumb about Palantir during that testimony.

I agree that his pretending to be unfamiliar with shadow profiles was one of the more egregious lies presented to congress, though.
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Happy to answer any questions (I worked on Cirq).

There are already lots of great open source frameworks and languages (qiskit, pyquil, q#, among many others). A few things we've tried to do which we think are important for near term algorithms:
* Data structures (Circuit, Moment, Operation) with nice control on building and optimizing circuits. Supports device specific constraints.
* Qubits tied to a variety of spatial layouts.
* Timing control through the Schedule data structure.
* Runtime values supplied to circuits parameterized by symbols. One of the few classical operations supported by current hardware.
As support for his claim that Assange is "essentially imprisoned for eight years," Greenwald's opinion piece (I wouldn't call it a news article) also links to a 2011 Telegraph article about Assange's then-current stay in an opulent manor while fighting extradition to Sweden to face sex charges.

Greenwald seems to have a thing for peppering his writings with links to sources that fail to support his claims. I guess he thinks spurious links make his screeds seem more credible.
> Computers don't think; they use math at the basis of their logic, unless they have bugs the outcome always should be the same;

Computers are quite capable of executing stochastic algorithms. And neurons can be considered as analog logic units too.

> meanwhile human brain uses chemistry and biological tissue to process.

Yes, and... ?
> When I read philosophy at Oxford in the early 1980s there wasn’t a lot of talk about consciousness.

Is it really necessary to put your prestigious alma mater in the first line?
And no change in the 2017 edition.
this is the funniest thing about the story of nms to me. the marketing department did their job too well. if i did nms marketing i would be really pissed that i completely knocked it out of the park and launched this indie title from a new studio to AAA levels of hype, only to be branded as misleading scum.
> Their size leads to amplification of issues beyond reasonable response. The keyboard issues for example are way overblown.

I have a MacBook pro next to me that is on its fourth keyboard.
Glenn Greenwald isn’t a reporter? I’m sure that’s news to him
I don't get this. No one complains about lockhead or boeing.
Before I read this article, I was unaware of the struggles of Skyhook vis a vis Google's own geolocation service.

Google really, really, really disliked the idea of an OEM installing Skyhook and setting it as the default location service on their devices.

Ultimately, Skyhook sued and won a settlement from Google. IMHO, pretty ugly behavior from Google.

https://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/internal-emails-reveal-g...

https://www.geek.com/mobile/google-emails-reveal-anti-compet...

More interestingly Google internally recognized that Skyhook's ability to locate the user's device may have been superior when Google's Steve Lee wrote, in an internal Google email:

Skyhook's accuracy is better than ours

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-skyhook-emails-2011-5#...
How about nominally imprisoned absent fair treatment upon extradition?
A UK judge ruled last February[0] that the arrest warrant for Assange will remain active on grounds of his contempt of the court despite Sweden dropping the case. I don't think it is unreasonable to assert that Assange will wind up doing time in a UK prison for his contempt of their courts.

[0] https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/julian-assange-ruling/
Elon didn't start that Twitter spat, but he shouldn't have gotten involved. Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. When a good person gets into it with a troll it's usually the good person who comes out looking worse.
Its time to send that Russian asset to prison.
If you spend 8 years confined to a small space, unable to travel freely due to a well-grounded fear of physical harm, you're most definitely "effectively imprisoned".
The hn link didn't work for me. This one did:https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-epa-and-the-penta...
> And you can stop pretty much anywhere en route

This is speculative and doesn't affect the emotional purchase decision today.

> Plenty of flexibility there.

Perhaps by some objective measure, but, again, that ignores the emotional component.

> but they're getting close already when you consider lifetime costs including fuel and maintenance

That's as may be, but lifetime costs are irrelevant if the barrier to entry (practical or emotional) is too high in the form of purchase cost.

It's not even necessarily irrational to decide to pay what appears to be a higher lifetime cost if ones personal "interest" rate in the TVM calculation exceeds the standard/average one, due to a high opportunity cost or just a high borrowing cost.
For my European country, you can renew at the consulate in San Francisco 1-2 times a year, but the slots sell out as fast as Burning Man. The passport costs ~$200, and I think it's only valid for 5 years, not 10, when you're not a resident.

I have been hit with $150-200 visa fees 2-3 times with my US passport that my European one would have avoided, but in hindsight it was a good deal.
How will we know he won’t get fair treatment upon release until he’s actually released?
Jesus christ... Yeah i’m sure he’s been in the embassy all this time because he definitely isn’t going to get arrested the second he leaves.

And as a south american journalist who focuses a lot on assange i definitely do think greenwald knows more about the ecuadorean government than you. And you’ve already admitted you aren’t equipped to litigate it.
But in the states, white people still get the benefits of slavery and black folks still pay the for the costs. Why should that be allowed?
Redox, then? ;)
I knew a specific sub-field of computer graphics well enough to be a paper reviewer and even then I wasn't initially very good at it. I am not competent to review anything outside of that specific sub-field.
> undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to undergo a particular 15-minute guided exercise

Mindfulness studies based on complete beginners measure only what happens when you are trying to meditate the first time. Usually the first thing you discover is that you suck at being mindful.

If you pick undergraduates who have never been juggling and make them juggle for 15-minutes, you don't learn how juggling affects memory. You might learn how picking up the pins affects memory.
>highly unlikely that Moreno...will obtain a guarantee that the U.K. not extradite Assange to the U.S.

I'm not remotely convinced that Moreno had any capability to obtain such an assurance. By what mechanism can a foreign agent nullify terms of a treaty between two unrelated states, even if the subject were an ecuadorian national?
Word supports ODT.
Ok how about i tell you that if you leave your house you’ll be killed instantly. Are you free to leave whenever? Under your logic yes.
Find someone who likes them, but is generally not too eager to speak about it - these are usually quite knowledgable but also realise the implications of social agenda coming with the use. I would be wary of anyone who is too much of a hippie, in a way. Ask the person of the implications: anyone who’s _just_ positive about the effects is probably a liar.

Find a nice time: for example, leave one-two days after your week-long vacation for a trip. You’ll have a clear mind and will be well-rested, so nothing to remind of a possibly stressful job.

Trip with the person from the first paragraph. One thing that I find is way more highlighted in people who are fond of psychedelics is knowing that people change when they trip and they expect that. So should be not many questions asked.

I would say approach the setting the way you would approach your therapist: personal stuff should remain in Vegas; and it will be a better trip if you can expose yourself.

Also the most imprtant part: don’t expect to feel “better”. It’s a two-sided experience, where it may swing you towards both depressing and incredibly positive. You learn how to manage that, but one thing that psychedelics are not is an escape.
> The brain is a wet computer. Reality is its internal model of the external world informed by imperfect sensory inputs. Consciousness is what thinking feels like.

You're undermining the hard problem of consciousness[1] by ignoring subjectivity of experience. Even if one day we understand everything there is to know about the brain in a materialistic manner, it's not clear that we'll also understand the emergence of subjective experience from it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
Assange is a naturalized citizen of Ecuador[1].

Now the question is whether Ecuadorian law allows to extradite it's own citizens to the UK, and for a minor UK charge of "failure to surrender".

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/11/julian-assange...
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It very well may be news to him. He's a bit up his own ass.
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Why couldn't intuitionism account for these changes? We're drastically changed our environment and increased our prosperity over the past few centuries. It would be amazing if our moral intuition were invariant in the face of changing conditions!
There's no way Obama, or any mainstream president, would have done that. He loved the intelligence agencies even more than Bush as it gave the US the same power projection without any of the dirty business being under public scrutiny. The "polite societies" way of do much of the same which was highly criticized in the prior administration. Despite the convenient optics I don't see him being any more liberal on the matter than mainline political angle (which is solidly against Assange / Snowden / etc).

The administration gave them tons of leeway (ie, ignoring the destruction of thousands of tapes of torture in the Thailand black site with zero repercussions for the agents involved) and made the strategic shift of the power/resources from the military towards the IC when he got in office.

He also famously prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other president. Letting Manning go after 7rs in solitary confinement is the closest he got at trying to revise his history on the matter - at the last minute. So I don't see how such an action would make any sense in the context of his 8yrs of actions otherwise (rhetoric is another matter which people seem to value more in politics than action).

Nor is this is not a partisan issue. Both establishment parties are fully in support of doing the IC's bidding.
Religious and philosophical questions aside, consciousness is an extremely interesting subject as a high-level way to learn about the brain inner workings. It's our abstraction for modelling and talking about the focused thinking process, while brain also handles many other complex tasks in the background that we're not usually aware of - but these layers of "thinking" influence each other, so it's all much more complex than just "what thinking feels like".
This resource: Maps.org

https://www.maps.org/resources/responding_to_difficult_psych...

It’s all about mindset and setting.

We could discuss what that entails, but that’s a long conversation. Good attitude, good vibes, safe setting, comfortable and familiar. In your home. In familiar nature. I’d avoid public places and people.

And it’s preferable for the first number of trips to have a safe and understanding “sitter” or “guide” there who is reliable and calm and supportive.

As you get more experienced, you can explore the bounds of set and setting, to push your mind to places for therapeutic purposes.

Psychedelics amplify whatever thoughts or surroundings you’re in. They turn up the volume, so to say, for good or ill.

The bad trips are the most therapeutic. You’re working through repressed thoughts and feelings that otherwise go unnoticed or denied or suppressed as a natural psycho response to pain.

Ridding self deception is the root of all therapy.

When that negativity comes to mind during a trip it’s often uncomfortable as hell. You work through it. You accept it. You embrace it. You see it in the right light, with the right perspective.

What you don’t do is resist thoughts or feelings or experiences. That only causes more problems.

You can’t run from yourself.
Again, if you want to get details read that book. It's validated by statements from Google insiders and more.

The gist is that free wasn't enough. Right around the launch of the iPhone carriers didn't want to buy into anything that they didn't own. So carriers and OEMs got free reign to modify Android as they saw fit, not just get it for free. Which is why Rubin's Sidekick phone was only sold because T-Mobile agreed to rebrand it and sell it. And as far as anybody knew it was made by T-Mobile, not a Danger.
Carriers controlled the industry and it was only the first iPhone that made a dent in that.
In the US that seems to only apply to internships that pay less than minimum wage.

That said, every point in this article applies to full employees only more so.
I have a Dell XPS 15 and to be frank I would advise against it.

Good points:

- Strong hardware

- Looks nice

Bad points:

- M2 SSD requires changing some BIOS preferences to work on Linux

- Nvidia graphics card is a pain on Ubuntu. Do a Google search for nouveau.modeset

- The fans are on most of the time, even during idle. The machine isn't hot either - it just likes to run the fans

- The 1920x1080 screen isn't that great and a "4K" option is quite expensive

- The carbon-fibre looking plastic looks cheap and is a magnet for finger prints. It does not look good and is difficult to clean

- It's not a great machine to move about with. Mine weighs almost 2KG

- No Ethernet port unlike a T470. You need a USB adapter
I wonder if the parent is being a pedant here, and meaning to say: "Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, not simply a reporter."
Boy am I tired of badly done mindfulness studies.
Lesson is make money not freedom lol
He can leave the Ecuadorian embassy any time he chooses, which would immediately lead to him becoming... effectively imprisoned.

Perhaps "effectively under house arrest" describes his situation better.

Also, Ecuador may have no obligation to provide him domicile as such, but it does have a duty to grant asylum to legitimate asylum seekers. Without a way to safely transport him from their embassy to their country, I think there is a logical (if not moral) obligation to provide him domicile in the embassy where he claimed, and was granted, that political asylum.
> Work is dumb and bad for people.

Really? How do you propose to support yourself without working? Or do you just mean work is dumb and bad for you, so you'll live off the work of other people?
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I want to try to reply, but I have the (possibly misguided) feeling that any attempt to penetrate the wall of scathing cynicism you've erected here will be met with just that. I apologize if that's unfair, just hear me out:

Going with the principle of parsimony - consciousness is arguably inefficient. I recommend some Peter Watts for fun sci fi inquiry into what a technically advanced species without consciousness should look like. So why have it?

Given that nobody can answer the question of what exactly consciousness is, why it developed, and how we could replicate it, I disagree that the study of consciousness has to be "looking for something more."

If the brain is "a wet computer" (and if you have time I do challenge you to support this statement), why is it seemingly non deterministic? Or is it actually deterministic, and we just don't have the modelling technology to sufficiently grab all the variables? I think I can predict your reaction - "of course it's deterministic! The universe is deterministic, and brains are just a part of the universe!" I think that is the inevitable rational point of view, sure. I'm not saying we need to leave room for a god... I'm saying literally, nobody knows for sure. So why not study these questions?
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Philosophy has done plenty since Wittgenstein. It takes hundreds of years for it to become household knowledge. So of course anyone who doesn't actively study it will feel it hasn't moved much. (Most laymen still don't know Wittgenstein.)

I'll plug my own recent physico-philosophical paper, a 2-page argument that a certain not-too-contrived simulation hypothesis is falsifiable, using an unexpected deus-ex-machina: soft errors :) https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEATO-6.pdf "A type of simulation which some experimental evidence suggests we don't live in"
I reject the premise. Why do we need to accept that there is a difference between "me" and an "automaton"? The whole idea supposes, unnecessarily, that consciousness is real, then demands we explore its nature. It's angels on pinheads!
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Obama unfortunately prosecuted the largest amount of whistleblowers. I doubt he would have done this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowe...
How much time does each CPU core spend running/waiting for L1/L2/L3/DRAM? How often are those stalls due to cross-core contention for the same bit of memory? Which execution units are in use? What's the limiting factor on throughout?

That's what I can think of in the first two minutes, anyhow. It all comes down to the last one.
It's backwards compatible on the device side (you can plug a 3.0 device into a 2.0 port and work at lower speed). But I really doubt that you can use an xHCI controller through EHCI drivers.
I think OP was arguing against the idea that children inherit sins from their ancestors.
Along with this being tremendously sad due to what I perceive to be a service provided for the privacy conscious people of the world (validation that, yes governments were unjustly spying on people in their own country and abroad), it makes me extra frustrated because what a waste of time and money this whole thing was. From the US, Swedish, UK and Ecuador governments.
My parents were forced out of their country and came to the US in 1956. So..?
If you consider a question that you lack the tools to answer “ill defined”, then yes, the world is pretty easy. But perhaps there are sensible questions which you lack the tools to answer. What are we to do about them?
It’s 55% in the US, 32% in Japan, and only 75% in Europe. It doesn’t make any sense to pretend that an iPhone and a low end Chinese burner phone are even remotely in the same category of device. And in other markets Apple only has a minority share because they’d rather protect their unprecedented profit margins than sell something those people can afford.

Those are the most valuable markets and even in those markets startups and developers target iOS first. If you kneecap Android you’re just putting Apple even more in the driver seat than they are today.

I still haven’t heard anyone explain how they think this recent ruling makes anything better. Who is going to benefit from this?
I know, and this is why it would have gained him so much respect in my eyes.

I think it's possible to both recognize the importance of intelligence agencies, and recognize why whistleblowing should be discouraged, but at the same time recognize the patriotism required to do it anyway.

Giving these people the Medal of Freedom, to me, would have been an acknowledgment of that. "Yeah, you shouldn't have done that, but you did it anyway, and you deserve to be recognized for that."

"I disagree with what you're saying, but will defend to the death your right to say it" and all that.
Renting store bought DVDs is legal. There was a big court case about it in the 90s.
I agree that alot of the philosophy about the subject of conciouness is rediculous.

But from scientific standpoint it's pretty fascinating.

If your experience of reality is limited to your senses then what's out there that we can't sense. Dogs have hundreds of times greater sense of smell than us, they have a whole'nother world that were not privy too.

Think of what's potentially out there in reality/physics/the universe that our senses can't access.

I agree how does the wet computer work is a pretty fascinating question. But you have to ask that in tandem to how our sensors work and how physics of our reality works.
What is the quote, coukd you tell me?
Surely, Apple saw these issues in their internal tests. I don't understand how Apple (or any other company that does something similar to this) decides to release the product knowing all of the issues beforehand.
My personal experience is that I got bored with frontend and pushing pixels, and when I tried to switch into infra work I found my incomplete picture of CS made it hard for me to grasp concepts other seem to take for granted. Maybe you don't have to have a CS degree, but even having a survey knowledge of major CS topics will at least give you more confidence.
Anyone want to start a gofundme to smuggle assange out of ecuador? I bet there numerous other south american countries that would take him in.