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Nah you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Poor people can’t afford homes and in many cases don’t have proper identification even to buy a home. That’s where the whole NINJA subprime thing came in.

But the actual problem was that those loans were being rated AAA when repackaged into a CDO.

From that point forward is where the problem began. Tha is, if they were properly rated ‘08 would not have happened.

The swaps and derivatives that nearly brought down AIG then took that bug in the system(the bad improperly rated mortgages repacackaged is high quality shit) and nearly collapsed the world economy.

There’s nothing wrong with helping poor people buy homes but don’t call those mortgages AAA otherwise you’re basically operating under false information from there on out and should expect unpredictable results.
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Ouch. So the server still accepted the 14-char password, even if the login page didn't allow it?
I don't think a single definition makes any sense now: decades ago you may have had a definition of a 'computer system' that describes every big program. Nowadays there are many sets of requirements depending on context, each set of requirements implies its own constraints on memory management and scheduling so that there is no one description of how a complex program would look like.
While not perfect, you should check out FIPS 140-2 (and the forever in progress FIPS 140-3).
> not ONE of those criminals (with the blood of millions across the globe on their hands, make no mistake) was prosecuted or in any way made to answer for their actions

I found this yesterday and it shows there were many convictions in Europe and North America: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-b...

Here's a direct quote from that page for the U.S.:
"The US: Hundreds of criminal and civil cases brought against people and banks, with over 200 leading to prison sentences"

Do you have alternative evidence that supports none of them were prosecuted?
It's weird how your comment contradict itself.

> I guess you must not be a 6502 programmer, because if you were, your response would be, like, "dude, fuck, that's awesome, holy shit, let me take some notes".

Can't we consider Woz as being a 6502 programmer?
A couple years ago, "crypto" would have been short for cryptography. These days, it can be that or the cryptocurrency madness.

In this case, I thought Moodles meant cryptography. Also, I'm not sure whether you're joking by choosing to understand it as cryptocurrency. Or perhaps you're both talking about cryptocurrencies and I'm the only confused one here...
"Pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan seems, irresponsible to say the least. Certainly surrending the whole country of Afghanistan back to the Taliban would be an incredible blemish, and no citizen of another nation would ever risk their lives to help a nation who so callously discarded those who did the same."

That's the logic I'm sure the US had during the Vietnam War, and it proved to be flawed then. Especially interesting given that less than 50 years later we are improving our diplomatic and even military relationship with Vietnam due to our mutual adversary: China.

"I think the Taliban and Isis and Assad (where the US gets criticized both for not doing enough and doing too much) and Hussein are horrific people and entities."

Curious how Assad gets lumped in with those. In 2010 Syria had one of the highest levels of development in the region (much like Qaddafi's Libya). I've been following the Syrian Civil War from a number of sources since its inception. The level of brutality he employs is pretty moderate for the region, magnitudes lower than ISIS/Taliban (with their mass executions, beheadings, enslavement and rape, etc...) or Saddam Hussein (https://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/ ). As for where do we go from here, you first need to understand the larger strategic implications of WHAT/WHY the US does what it does. For that, see my other response in this thread.
It seems pretty civilised so far, fortunately this isn't Reddit.
thank you both, exactly what i need.
i thought h2 is not persistent, but as i see now, i can use it as a persistent DB too.

Thx!
> Right, so your original claim about properly cleaning up is not the only problem with closures in C.

Your comment makes no sense. OP stated that your hypothetical problem isn't even a problem if the developer knows what he is doing, and your take from that is that there are more problems?
Come on, cut me a break even though I was not 100% precise with my language! I mean browser exploits in general. Unpatched plugins, XSS, spoofing, etc. If they didn't clean up after themselves you could try to correlate an attack with something in the browsing history and try to evaluate it and add it to a shared blacklist. I am not endorsing that, just speculating that could be the well-meaning (if dumb) explanation for this.
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Personally I'm anti drug use because of how many friends and family members I've seen turn their lives to shit after starting weed etc. I know there's a lot of fine users but so many of my friends turned to weed to cope and then from there went onto harder stuff like crack/cocaine.
And really, I don't support people altering their mind states through the use of recreational drugs, alcohol included. It saddens me to see that no one can see any reason against drug use besides "it locks up black people in prison" because for me at least, that has nothing to do with marijuana legislation at all.
I think that in user space, it is not clear what is an application and what is a subsystem. Is a database a system or an application? I could issue queries to it directly as part of some ad-hoc research, or I could build a production process using it as a component. In one use-case, it's the application, and in the other, it's just a subsystem. And so I think the distinction between kernel-space and user-space is the only one that makes sense. Once you're in user-space, the distinction between systems and applications can no longer be applied to a tool, but only to particular use-cases for that tool.
Here is another idea: concrete blocks on rails plated with solar panels, sometimes stored vertically, sometimes stored horizontally, with rails shaped as an "L", utilizing the most unusable land.

Laws of fluid mechanics will apply then. And the size of the motors will be ginormous.
because we knocked over Iraq without anything resembling a real plan for handling the aftermath

And Libya and Syria...
You don't know what you are missing. Your life could be very different, but since it isn't an option you can't really imagine how.

That isn't to say you would want it over the alternatives if you had it. I personally almost never use amazon. I know people who get something delivered every few days. Different people are different.
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https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

His children dispute the claim, if that helps you, according the the CNN article. The man died in 1999 and it was reported years later.
What is the current disposition of Zestful, have you ultimately found any users?

What technique did you settle on for parsing ingredient lists?

Do you use Zestful yourself, did you retrofit it on to any of your prior project ideas?

Besides validating demand sooner what else would you do differently next time? What project are you doing next? (These are neat)
It's pretty easy to spot fake reviews. The tacticts are pretty obvious. I'd bet basic NLP and pattern-matching would work to catch a huge percentage of fake-reviews if it were something Amazon really cared about doing.

Is the reviewer saying things of substance, how many other reviews have they left and over how many years, how many things have they actually bought on the store and at what dollar amounts, are their other reviews a mix of positive/negative, are the types of products distinct, etc. Score each of these and remove/shadow-ban reviews that don't meet an authenticity metric.

If there are real consequences for getting caught buying fake reviews (e.g. banning from selling or fines), it could really restore some order to the chaos. (Then you get the inverse problem of competitors buying fake reviews trying to get the competition banned or fined. This is second-order to actually removing the fake reviews in the first place though.)
Yeah, I want to know that, also. My understanding is that anything explicitly backed by the government (Fannie Mae) was your standard 30-year mortgage with the normal requirements. The interest-only loans, variable-rate loans, etc. were all originated through the brokers like Countrywide and packaged/sold as securities.
Speculation: Zerodium has an 8.x RCE and burns the 7.x noscript bypass to get users to the new version. Added bonus of publicity.
> Biometric collection is always for specific purpose.

But if you add up all the specific purposes, most/all people are included.
>Exactly. Spend a summer nailing shingles to roofs in 100F weather all day, and then complain to me about how awful an open office is

Both can be awful.

Just because physical labour is physically tiring, it does not follow that mental labour might not be even more stressful.

I worked farm labour in my 20s and those were some of the best jobs I ever had.

Every meal was a banquet and I slept like a log. Potatoes tasted so good, it was as if I was eating ambrosia.

I also believe that the body and the mind need to be worked together.

The disembodied work typically done in offices is unbalanced, and can be very taxing.
>Not really a life or death situation was it?

It very much can be. Look at some of the largest cases of embezzlement/fraud in history where many people's life savings/retirement were completely lost. In the short term, some people commit suicide. In the longer run, they die of poor health because they don't have much money when they're old and sick.

Although I don't know anyone who committed suicide, I do personally know people impacted by what at the time was the largest case of embezzlement in history (back in the 90's). I've seen the impact it has. And I can assure you, shaming a public company is nothing compared to what those people go through. If we had a better hammer to coax the companies to fix these things, I would advocate for it. For now, public shaming is not effective enough an approach.
CCTVs don’t have to be grainy and low-res anymore. Recording 4K video and storing a finite amount of it is getting cheaper every day.
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That's why every pothead in Colorado is such a fukkin genius!
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Disagree: Exploits in the browser bundle would affect stock Firefox or bypass security measure not present in stock. NSA monitors all traffic anyways; they certainly don't ignore normal users.
huh? crack epidemic. Rodney King. Gang violence. NYC crime wave. etc.
Couldn’t malicious sellers circumvent this by sending quality product initially and then swapping it later on?
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You can put a precise number on it. It would cost $20 billion a year to solve homelessness in the United States[1], and something on the order of $30 billion to solve poverty world-wide.

For reference, Jeff Bezos is currently worth about $20 billion more than the next person on the list of billionaires. This means that he could solve US homelessness himself and still be the richest person in human history. The US military budget increase (which is a ridiculous thing to say given how ridiculously over-funded the US military is already) was $82 billion. You could solve world poverty almost three times over with just how much the budget was increased from 2017. (Note that many Democrats as well as Republicans happily voted for these increases.)

EDIT: Here's the source I found for the above $20 billion-per-year figure[1] -- to be honest I'm not quite convinced (I heard this elsewhere and I incorrectly assumed it was a more solid figure). So I might be repeating misinformation, and I'll stop doing it. I found a figure for solving extreme poverty but it's higher (~$100 billion per year for 20 years)[2]. For the $30 billion figure, a 2008 article claimed that only $30 billion per year is required to restart programs to solve world hunger[2].

The reason why I thought $20 billion per year might be reasonable is because I assumed it would be part of some kind of rehabilitation plan.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/us/homeless-rates-steady-...
[3]: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000853/index.html
You should weigh any advice on its merits.
Just a FYI, literally every meter you get away from the street helps immensely with your exposure, from what we see in the data.

Heavy traffic and stop-and-go at traffic lights are the worst (no surprise), avoid those if possible.
> If Tesla is anti-union... they can just fire people who strike.

I'm not so sure, it seems like they can't in many circumstances:

https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2014/10/can-you-be-fi...
Everybody "conspires to advance their own interests"... that's pretty much the definition of self-interest.

Anyway, the point is just that one doesn't expect companies to be your friend. You expect them to pursue their own interest, and thankfully their interest and your interest overlap quite often - and mutual, voluntary exchange of goods, service, and currency occurs.

Are there things I wish Amazon, for example, did differently? Of course. And the wonderful thing about the free market is that if enough of their customers become unhappy about some issue or other, another company can come along and serve those customers. Of course that might not happen, and that's fine. Nobody is claiming that a free market guarantees that everybody gets exactly what they want.
Well that's an argument between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law it sounds like.
There is a patch for telegraf to support writing to postgres (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/3428).
Grafana 5.3 (currently in beta) has support for filling in previous values for postgres datasource.
If only they had a soft cap and let people trade credits to try to keep emissions under that cap to incentivize sequestration and efficiency innovations.
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More like sensationalism. I don't downvote, but the comment is absolutely ridiculous. Even the absolute worst case scenarios for climate change are not species ending events with current technology. And we have many decades ahead of us yet where can solve the problem with future technology yielding a negligible overall impact.

That said even the mild effects are undesirable and seeing how close we'll come to the worst case scenarios is not really a very smart experiment to be carrying out, but somebody stating climate change is going to kill off humanity is a perfect example of the horseshoe of idiocy that's affecting people as they surround themselves only with agreeable voices. It's how some people today can still try to argue that the climate isn't changing. It relies on echo chambers that all agree to ignore all facts and just go further and further off their respective deep ends.
Are you in the US ? I am in western continental Europe. Which kind of cannabis do you smoke and how much ?
I feel this way, but apply it to the whole country. A vast majority of people who grew up in the mid to late 90s act like cannabis was created by the devil himself. But why? I get that most people dislike it because it's been illegal all their life, so they look down on it. I like to use Red from that 70s show as a good example. Look how much he hated it, he hated it with his entire being. Why though? It never did anything to him, never affected him in a negative way, why does he have such an ingrained pure hatred for it?
> I do not partake of cannabis. This is just a topic that interests me.
Now I understand that the hatred for it in modern politics in large comes from a financial perspective. You get into the whole war on drugs, how it's a talking point for potential candidates, how the funding for it is padding pockets, etc. This hatred goes beyond that though, people despised weed way before it become a common symbol of degeneracy.

It's not just cannabis though. This whole ideology can be applied to many topics. Where older people grew up being taught to hate it, while younger generations seem to be more rational and open to understanding that these taboo subjects may not be as bad as society wants you think. Some other topics that fall into this category include abortion, female workers/pay, war.
>Typically the poor don’t cook at home, they subsist on very cheap junk food available at gas stations and similar

Typically they do. Poor people aren't idiots. They know that prepared store food is grossly overpriced compared to a similar meal they assemble themselves and seek to avoid it as much as possible without spending too much time/effort on meal prep. They usually manage to drag themselves to Walmart or the local supermarket every 1-2 weeks. Even if you have to drag your ass to some far away supermarket because it's the only one open after you get home from work and get 3hr of sleep that night you'll still do it because of the huge cost reduction compared to prepared food or whatever your local convenience store has. You'll buy the same bunch of things every time because over time you figure out a bunch of relatively low effort and low cost meals and then stick to them. Lunch or breakfast will probably be the same thing every day and you'll skip the other. They buy gas station sandwiches and junk food more than the rich because when your menu is the same boring things on a 2wk cycle so it's a nice, low mental effort, way to shake things up from time to time.

The home cooked meals poor people eat are just far less balanced than ideal because they're more skewed toward ease of prep and cost than what rich people eat. Instead of a salad they'll bring a PB&J and a few Oreos to work. Something like (microwave) baked potatoes and chicken nuggets, maybe with a vegetable side (or something similarly imbalanced but cheap) will probably be on the menu at least one night a week.

"Food deserts" are a problem but less of a problem than they seem to be because what rich people think poor people should be eating and what poor people think they should be eating are vastly different.
Yeah. Another example: wow, is the leading Pramiracetam research misleading. Probably to justify its cost.
Almost. In the US amazon has invested so much in logistics to pull that off that they are no longer the low price supplier all the time. However because of selection I know I can go to Amazon and find what I'm looking for, and the price is close enough to the best possible price that it isn't worth price shopping.

When I know of someplace else to get something I'll go there instead and normally get a better price. Amazon might get it a day sooner, which is rarely worth it (if I want it sooner I'll pay extra for next day delivery which most places will offer.
No new laws are needed. The credit ratings agencies fraudulently mislabeled loans. This was criminal behavior and was not prosecuted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
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Well, if you're talking about saying the numbers in your head or out loud, remember that 1 second is probably not enough, give you need to breath, have a space between numbers and...
think about saying or thinking of every digit in this number:

127862 in less than one second?
Sooo, just like Google? If these ads become commonplace, savvy users will start to ignore the "first x results" and Amazon will make click/ad money on the the same people that click Google Ads.

While we all wish a competitor (just a click away! /s) would arise to compete, we all know from our experience with Google that lock-in is real.
Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2016/03/23/nixons-d...

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...

The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/richard-ni...

Channel4: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-war-drugs-...

These were all in the first page of Google results with the query 'John Ehrlichman quote drug law'.
This actually makes more sense, I am discovering. Thanks for bringing it up as I just sort of made up mini hedge fund as a term
> NSA monitors all traffic

Source for this claim? I don't doubt they monitor what they can - but the sheer volume of internet traffic makes it unlikely that they are able to monitor everything and instead must target specific things to monitor. They have a lot of money and a lot of smart people, but they don't have wizard magic.
>The contract and permission people agreed to when they willingly installed it and accepted the EULA

I don't know about US contract law, but some jurisdictions require special notice for "unusual" terms.

Just because the EULA was accepted doesn't mean it is fully valid.
> Code tooling should be extremely fractured, bespoke and customized, by its very nature

Why? That sounds like it would make things more expensive and harder to learn.
In the past 30 years, extreme poverty has dropped from ~50% of the world population to ~10%. Maybe we could do better, but it looks like we are on track.

It's worth noting that ending extreme poverty is only part of ending world poverty. We're talking about ensuring people have at least $1.90/day to live on. You get a lot of bang for your buck helping people below that line.