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If banks were leaning on current regulatory employees whilst they were still employeed, that sounds like bribery and should be already covered by existing laws.

Remember that there are many banks and that all regulation covers them (although certain bits focus will hit them in different ways). Also, regulation goes out for review before it gets passed. If a certain bank was pushing for regulation to specifically benefit them, others would raise it.

I know of people who worked at the European Securities regulator. Some were seconded from PwC/EY/etc because they get knowledge share. Regulators can learn from people in industry, those in industry learn about the "spirit of the law". With the recent MiFID 2 regulation in Europe, areas were left vague so that the regulators could expand the definition based on whether they thought it was needed.

European financial regulators have moved towards principles[1], over rules, so that they are not constrained when a firm does something that breaches the spirit of the law, but not the letter of the law.

[1] https://www.fca.org.uk/about/principles-good-regulation
Nice. Very thorough article, that touches more concepts of functional programming than just Y like tail recursion.

For someone who never had contact with functional programming, the concept of the Y combinator can seem a bit... strange. But trying to figure out what it is and does can be a real eye opener.
Has there ever been a hurricane that wasn't a 'grave threat' to the area it was forecasted to hit? (hint: no)
I look at static site generators every now and again, and I'm totally overwhelmed at the range. Beyond starting with trying out the popular ones, is there a way to get into this whole thing without losing my way in the rabbit hole?

I say this coming from a traditional PHP + MySQL CMS background of 15 years, the irony of the vast array of PHP + MySQL CMSes is not lost on me.
While I enjoyed the subject matter, I can't help but feel that Y Combinator is to functional programming as AbstractFactoryFactory is to object-oriented programming. My inner geek revels at these abstractions, but my inner engineer and team manager wants something simpler and more robust.
I get what you're saying, but this is a dangerously optimistic view. Does "conflict of interest" mean nothing then? What kind of checks and balances do we have to prevent corruption?

A quick google search for those jailed for the financial crisis reveals a tremendous amount of corruption and this looks to be the tip of the iceberg:
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-b...
It looks like it's made to appear as much like non-ad content as it possibly can while still maintaining plausible deniability on your part.

We stopped advertising on reddit after the rise of the_donald and other white supremacy subs led to our ads being placed next to a lot of bigotry and white supremacist content, even in subreddits you'd generally consider innocuous. The hate groups have spilled over into most subs now.
If the NGOs had come out and said, "we believe Chinese monitoring of citizens threatens civil rights", it wouldn't be a slam-dunk defense for China to jump up and say, "well, we have civil rights! They're just different from yours!" Of course they're different. Them being different is the entire point of the criticism.

We understand that civil rights aren't a binary category, and that different people and different nations guarantee them to different degrees and in different ways. The same is true of free speech.

What NGO is saying is that Europe's definition of free speech, to the extent that it does not block Right to be Forgotten, is not expansive enough.

It is meaningless to talk about whether or not "technically" Europe has free speech, in the same way that it is meaningless to talk about whether or not technically China has a right to privacy. When Americans say that European nations don't have real 1A rights, they're saying that Europe does not guarantee those rights strongly enough, based on an idea that these rights are intrinsic and are protected by the state, not granted or defined by the state.
So many people have zero understanding of mathematical modelling but insist that they're in position to judge research in this area from moral standpoint.

It's The Holy Inquisition, crowdsource edition.
I would think the head-on perspective of the map precludes the gentle down-slope of Gorge St between Hallenstein to Weaver from being displayed. Here I would say the down-slope of Gorge St to be implied by viewing the other incline markers that are presented. Indeed, a contour-map seems to concur this point:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-45.0276901,168.6623366,15.5z/d...
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A more important question is when will the new yorker and the rest of the media fix itself before it breaks democracy.

Seems like the new yorker's ( and most of the media's ) definition of "breaking democracy" is when people vote for candidates the new yorker doesn't like. So petty and immature.

Where were these stories the last 8 years? When obama used social media to win elections, social media was great. Now social media is the worst thing ever?

I pass by the New Yorker sign nearly everyday. I used to be impressed by it. Now it seems like a blight on manhattan. Hopefully, the new yorker is doing a better job of hiring their fact checker.
The only thing I don't like about SSGs is the need to be on a computer that have the right software installed: I use different computers and sometimes I just want to add some link into my website. This leads to too much work for just a link.

I've been interested in [1], that is written in Rust and is available in a single binary. This eases the installation process.

Something interesting to consider are client-side site generators. I don't think there's a lot of them, but if you want to write your articles on markdown files on github/vim and update your website with a git push, it's a nice thing to consider. I wrote my own tiny one because it's fun (and it works just right for me), but see [2] and [3] if you're interested in these type of solutions. They work well with Github Pages.

[1]: https://www.getgutenberg.io/

[2]: http://chrisdiana.github.io/cms.js/

[3]: https://huytd.github.io/azeroth-js/
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I always thought windows was the only exe opener

Edit: ah, you fixed the typo ;)
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We have a system that lets legislators manufacture a job specialty for themselves. Out of basically nothing but reactions to serious problems of the past.

While it may generally be done in good faith, it still doesn't seem to avoid a tragedy of the commons. We now are building a system so byzantine that nobody wants to operate without a part of their business working to understand public policy.

Complexity seems to beget more complexity. While this sort of thing may have "always been done", I sometimes fear that with more tools like machine learning, AI, etc, we are going to just simply compound the rate of complexity growth. And thus we end up with specializations that were completely manufactured. It just seems wasteful.
I was half joking, like people talking about programming languages. Legal docs just aren't very user-friendly have pretty large attack surfaces due to language.
Also check out Nikola which has a nice orgmode plugin.
"Speaking Out" against standard practice, and getting the ear of a reporter because your company makes headlines more often. Yay.
The roadster is not orbiting the Earth. You lack understanding of the topic and thus fall victim to fear mongering by clickbait articles. Right now, with little done to protect from debris the chances of Kessler syndrome actually happening are tiny. Also most of the new constellations that are coming up in the following years will be in LEO where atmospheric drag is enough to get them down and burn in the atmosphere on their own within months of them malfunctioning. The problem is in higher orbits in which the amount of space is multiple orders of magnitude bigger and the number of satellites is much smaller as well. Also those higher orbits have little financial incentive for the new space age companies.
The tendency of old media to blame it has more to do with how much it threatens their bottom line than it does how much it's an actual threat to democracy though.

This article being a clear example of that.
While there is a legitimate debate to be had about whether the electoral college is good or not, it is not new, and the Democrats knew about it before the 2016 election (we hope). They surely should have noticed it after the 2000 election. In 2009 they held all the levers of power, and could have chosen to eliminate it via constitutional amendment, but did not. Regardless of your opinion on whether they should have or not, they knew that the electoral college existed, that the Rust Belt would be important, and they chose their candidate and election strategy with full knowledge. It's also the same system that elected Obama, twice, and also Bill Clinton.
Part of the change is 10 free parallel build jobs on Linux, macOS, and Windows for open source projects.
I agree with you, but I was referring to the "beauty" they talk about in the article (which is why I put it in quotes), which is something along the lines of "that that pleases the eye".
The problem, at least back then, was that fun and such “non-essential” things were considered either bourgeois or vulgar. Both of which were looked down upon because they were the opposite of work and progress and the greater good. At least to some in power.
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be discussed or studied, but that knee-jerk reactions to the topic are understandable. It's similar to the german ban on depictions of the nazi party - there are some discussions that can be healthy and useful, but rarely are because of the strong emotions they stoke.
Framework feels like an odd choice of words. I would call it an async web spider library or async web scraping library.

When I hear framework I think client interaction - whether cli, API, or web page.
I’ve tried the Pomodoro technique a few times over the last couple of years and just couldn’t ever get it to stick. Part of my problem is that I have pretty bad anxiety and focus issues, so I really have to force myself into a space that is conducive to being productive.
Yes that's right + free pipeline for OSS project. From: PM for Azure DevOps here (formerly VSTS)
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Well I hope you are correct, and there certainly are some Democratic candidates (e.g. Beto in Texas) that seem to be adjusting. However, I don't think I would agree that the description "professional liars of the far right" fits the New Yorker.
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They are not teams. They are not your team. Stop thinking about them like that. They are parties, representative, politicians. The team they are supposed be on is your team, the citizens of the nation they represent - red or blue, same team, different ideas.
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If you want to understand art since Cezanne, and especially after 1945, you need to understand the modernist idea of the meta-narrative. It works like this -- prior to the loosening up of gesture in painting, the narrative was whatever was depicted. Maybe it was Washington Crossing the Delaware, or Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Pictures told stories directly. Beginning with impressionist painting, and following through to non-objective modernist paint, pictures told a second story -- a meta-narrative. This is the narrative of the events that created the painting. It answers the question -- what is the story of this artwork's creation? This leaves the viewer to deal with things like struggle, imperfection, and arbitrary residue (there are cigarette butts within some Jackson Pollocks). Did you ever visit MoMa and see Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimimis?

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79250?artist_id=4285&l...

It could be a generative work of art -- but wait -- the vertical stripes where the masking tape was peeled away leave small amount of paint bleeding into the stripes. Why? It tells you something about how it was made. Cold geometric forms made with a human touch. Visit the Joseph Albers, Piet Mondrian and Ad Reinhardt paintings and there's arbitrariness and human touch in them all.

So, I would ask you -- what is the meta-narrative of this generative art? What is the story behind it? Does it inspire you? Do you feel like you are looking at art? Or a modern art-themed screensaver?
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Most descriptions of UBI I’ve read so far seem to indicate that the problem would get even worse, as people are free to pursue their interests instead of their boring jobs, and their interests are competitive creative fields like writing, painting, being a YouTube star, etc. Even if survival isn’t tied to success, people will still want views and recognition.
So if I go to the Airport in Atlanta, and in the security line I express the opinion that the TSA is full of shit, and terrorists are just desperate's people's freedom fighters, I won't have to suffer repercussions?

The claimed interpretation of "absolute free speech" helps drive the narrative of "we're better than everyone else", but both quoted concepts are bullshit.
No, not necessarily. I remember a story, featuring Bobby Baldwin iirc, who wanted to raise the stakes so high at a casino that the floor manager had to come in and say no. Bobby (if that's actually him, still unsure), left disappointed, saying "And I thought you had a no-limit table...".
What conspiracy was Fox News part of, in your sentence?

Or did you mean conspiracy theory?
If your friends really want to include you in their event, they will find a way to invite you.

I have a very active social life, and have never been on FB.
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And made in the Tequila region of Jalisco, much like Champagne can only be called that if it comes from the region.
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Haha! How about a hyperspace-capable drone then? Or literally thousands or millions (ya I get the Rebellion is skint but drones can't cost that much) of them, one to every single star system, and then broadcast the plans to every Galactic citizen? It would make for devastating propaganda.
It is not so much about changing the beliefs of a potential voter as modifying their behaviour. In this case giving them enough of a reason to stay at home rather than vote. As the article states:

> During the campaign, Trump used Facebook to raise two
> hundred and eighty million dollars. Just days before
> the election, his team paid for a voter-suppression
> effort on the platform. According to Bloomberg
> Businessweek, it targeted three Democratic
> constituencies—“idealistic white liberals, young women,
> and African Americans”—sending them videos precisely
> tailored to discourage them from turning out for Clinton.
> Theresa Hong, the Trump campaign’s digital-content
> director, later told an interviewer, “Without Facebook
> we wouldn’t have won.”
If memory serves, the primary driver of reduced traffic to Digg 4.0 was the fundamental shift in how their submission mechanism worked, not in a change to their layout. I recall some kind of promotion mechanism where superusers gained some amount of control over their "front page" equivalent.

Also, unlike Digg, Reddit hasn't been bleeding members to another site for some time now, so there's nowhere for Reddit users to go if they become dissatisfied. Does anyone have any ideas about why that is? Reddit is not, fundamentally, a hard product to emulate, and yet I know of no site even remotely as popular nowadays (HN aside, of course). Slashdot, Fark, and sites like those all seem to have mostly been consumed by Reddit. Is it the strong network effects that Reddit has, or does Reddit's moderation system provide a unique way of hosting a community that no one has reproduced?
400 Conejos is a fairly popular and good Mezcal.
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If significant, then it should have effects noticeable in daily life, right? Otherwise you'd have a significant difference that signifies little or nothing.

After almost 20 years of living with a woman 30cm smaller than myself, I can't make a long list of such effects. I easily reach some high shelves that my wife can't, I can see over most parked cars before crossing the street so I have a better view of the traffic, and she can snuggle under the bed cover but I cannot. That's about it. We're an easily noticeable couple and that thing about crossing the street was a big surprise, but if you ask about significant differences I have to say, no, not really.

I'm sure the answer is different in some special contexts, perhaps garment production. But you asked me.
What interested me is the boston global offering two articles before the paywall. Two article limit before you are hooked? Why even bother and why are these smaller publications copying the nyt and expecting similiar results.
Well, you can add Netlify CMS to your statically generated web site. That adds a configurable admin web interface through which you can add or edit your pages without installing the generator on the computer you are currently using.
I would be very cautious citing that paper. They draw some very strong conclusions based on unsupported assumptions and evidence of dubious significance from populations with unusual cultural features.

> Therefore, we conclude that both variance and [variance ratio] in mathematics performance vary greatly among countries. Confirming our earlier finding ([21]), we also conclude that [variance ratio] is reproducibly essentially unity for
some [predominantly muslim or low gender equality] countries. These findings are inconsistent
with the greater male variability hypothesis.
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>That judgment allowed European citizens to ask search engines to remove links to “inadequate, irrelevant or ... excessive” content

The critical terms "inadequate", "irrelevant" are dangerously subjective. What's irrelevant to one person may be of great interest to another.
You're right that we need to provide some better comparisons here, but the big reason that I'm excited about making individual components easier to adopt isn't for competition, it's to help people round out what they're missing in a dev tools stack.

There's a lot of shops that are happy with their git hosting provider and their agile planning tool and go looking for a CI/CD tool and may have been turned off by VSTS because it looked like a monolith. Making it clear that you can just use Azure Pipelines without having to use the entire stack was a priority for us, but you're absolutely right that we need to round this out with some better case studies. Thanks for the feedback.
You're absolutely, completely right! In-Q-Tel is publicly owned and controlled by the CIA.

With that said, it's worth knowing that the US government tends to use established systems as vehicles for doing arbitrary things with money. So In-Q-Tel winds up investing money for any government agency that wants to do it.

So while In-Q-Tel spends what is technically always CIA money, it's very possible that it could have come from anywhere in the federal government to serve purposes that might have nothing to do with any of the CIA's goals.
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What approach are you taking to cope with trolls who would vandalize your site?
And even shit that the ADF is not allowed to do, they do anyway because there's almost no chance anyone will find out about it (especially with the new 10-year mandatory minimum punishments for leaking government information) and even if they did find out about it they can always hold an inquiry that provides weak recommendations that nobody ends up following. The whole fucking thing is a farce.
We've been heavy users of the Serverless Framework on AWS for the last 2 years.

In short, its a template generator for the resource management system of your cloud provider of choice (supporting AWS, Azure, Google, and a few others), with some deployment management CLI tools mixed in.

In our case, it generates boilerplate CloudFormation (since we're in AWS most of the time) based on the "common cases" of how Lambda and API Gateway work together - including the necessary IAM and CloudWatch templates, and wraps the AWS CLI with with deployment commands, which we leverage in our CI/CD pipelines.

It's a great way to get started on small, or even medium-sized projects. For larger systems you'll probably need more direct control of your CloudFormation templates.
Eh, not a big fan of this, but if it's a just a rebrand no big deal I guess. But what happens when if the DevOps concept turns out to be a fad? Visual Studio has such a positive and strong brand association among .Net developers it seems a shame to jettison it but I suppose it's necessary as MS is trying to convince other stacks to use the Azure DevOps(VSTS) CI/CD pipelines.
There's so much misinformation on the Common Core that many people don't realize how much of a modest adjustment it was from before. Another way of summarizing the changes made by the Common Core, aside from your note that it focuses more on why, is that it advances the math curriculum by about half a year.
I believe the purpose of Art is to reveal the soul of the Artist. This is why simply copying (or trying to emulate) the work of another artist is not considered art. However, learning to follow the rules set by others is a helpful stepping stone to striking out on your own and breaking those rules.
> If they were actually deficit hawks, they'd have loved Bill Clinton and Obama, and hated Bush and Trump.

You have a subtle bias there. Both Bush and Obama essentially doubled the _debt_.
I appreciate the comparison between the different systems! Especially with the services, which tend to move quickly in terms of changes to performance.
Thank you for the useful insight. I'm not an expert in robotics, far from.

Like you say, machine vision has progressed, but it's still very far from human vision. For one thing, most of the progress is in object classification, so any problem that can't be reformulated as a classification problem is basically out of the question. Then, there's the issue of poor generalisation between classes- for any class of object that we want a system to recognise, we must train the system anew, at great cost- except for pre-training of course (which basically means someone else already did the hard work).
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> He added that management quickly finds reasons to fire employees who tout their efforts to form a union and those who are fired are pushed to sign non-disclosure agreements before receiving their last paycheck.

I’d hope this is just a misunderstanding of the facts or something, because wow that last part’s just horrifying.
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