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No, it isn't easy to have (1) without (2). The people telling you that you were wrong in those arguments are correct, and you're still mis-understanding cryptography.

Encryption without identity verification is objectively worse than no encryption at all. The reasons are straightforward:

• Encryption isn't free. Whilst performance has improved, there's no heartbleed without OpenSSL. It adds complexity, it adds a TON of extra work and operational problems like key expiry policies, and in general increases your attack surface.

• We generally feel the complexity is worth it to block MITM attacks. But if you are just handshaking with whatever is answering your packets, you aren't blocking MITM attacks.

The assumption underlying your position is (being generous) that the world is full of passive MITMs who can't also take part in the conversation, so any Diffie-Hellman key exchange will knock them out. But Snowden proved conclusively that this isn't true. Local attackers can do ARP spoofing, packet injection and other tricks and remote attackers are the NSA who also can perform large scale packet injection and active MITM attacks. Where are the passive-only attackers?

If you aren't stopping active MITM, then there don't seem to be any adversaries you are actually stopping, and at that point the additional (potentially hackable) code required and additional work required is just nothing-for-something.
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Very smart to stop. My neighbor mistakenly took out one of the hill bombers last week with his truck. The bicyclist was rushed off to the hospital. At that speed, there is just no room for mistakes or traffic.
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Cyclists tend to break bones at slower speeds. Pro-cyclists racing down mountains will lose a lot of skin in a fall but unless they hit something hard (rock, pole, wall) they don't tend to break bones. At walking speeds, a sideways fall often results in broken collar bones and wrists.

It is all about the angular momentum of the cyclist wrt to the road.
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The bizarre libertarian point of view that you are arguing with says that poor people have the freedom to not be poor, and should be happy to sell all of their earthly possessions so a hero selling $100 bottles of water can be compensated for his bravery.

We all have a moral duty to use our franchise as citizens to keep these points of view out of government.
No but they're pulling funds from the same pot.
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I agree with you. My admittedly snarky/oblique point was that these days it's personally, professionally and politically advantageous to make negative generalisations about males, but not about females. Just pointing out a fashionable double standard, as I see it.
Nice! Next index all public Github repos?
I used cowsay together with fortune-mod extensively!

Cowsay was also useful for getting someones attention in a "wall" message on systems. One-line, they miss. One cow, they never miss!
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The article states:

> The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities inspected the bridge earlier this year and told the RM that it would need to be replaced as it was rotting and dangerous.

> The municipality put out a tender and selected Can-Struct, who had been working on the project for the last four or five weeks.
Look how cleanly the center span has split into six. It must have been made of six precast concrete beams [1] which would have been lifted into place by crane. You don't see any exposed rebar because the deck beams themselves haven't broken.

Shame they fell off when the blue metal pier sank.

[1] http://www.michiecorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/beams-c...
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Check out this project, also from Mozilla's emerging technology team: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
> Equal opportunity doesn't mean equal candidacy.

You're conflating your vernacular interpretation of the popular name of the law with the text of the law itself.

Regardless of how you interpret the phrase "equal opportunity", the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforces the full text of employment discrimination laws, and not just their titles.

> But real-life demographic analysis shows that men are overwhelmingly the qualified demographic for this role.

Are you familiar with the phrase, "Lies, damn lies, and statistics?" I've seen some of these real-life demographic analyses that support this kind of conclusion, and they have an overwhelming tendency to be utter bunk.

> Advertising to that demographic is not against the law

In fact, it's been specifically prohibited in the USA since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
>>nor are the ads hidden from women.

Huh? The ads are shown to only men. So how are they “not hidden” from women?

If I were a woman, I wouldn’t even be aware these ads exist. And if I did, in order to see them I would need to tell Facebook I’m a man. That means to me the ads are pretty damn hidden.
The article states the firefox reality actually supports tts.

Just because people don't like it initially, doesn't mean it can't become a fairly fast input method given enough practice. Here is another example of a keyboard in much the same vein as using a controller, for people with carpal tunnel syndrome: https://orbitouch.com
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> How is someone supposed to prove that in a specific case?

As one example: they could show a specific company that violated its margin constraints as a result of short selling pressure, which resulted in an unplanned margin sell, that forced it to sell assets at firesale prices, that triggered a liquidity spiral resulting in material harm. You could see this in a financial institution with a weak balance sheet that is forced to unwind long/illiquid positions.

(This is why the SEC banned short-selling of financial institutions during the GFC; the ban lasted about three weeks before it expired.)

Another mechanism would be short selling triggering a bank run, as debtholders & counterparties see a falling share price and think that signals a weakening balance sheet.

It may take hours to calculate but it seems like the kind of thing that academics, journalists, and aggrieved CEOs would have already done the legwork on. A few hours to publish an academic paper or write an article for Bloomberg isn't much investment, after all.

I'm not aware of any even theoretical models about how short-selling hurts non-financial institutions in material ways. Most corporations are primarily debt financed, not equity financed, aren't they? The historical debt-to-equity ratio of the S&P 500 is 1.7, I think.
What does a rich person actually lose (ie. materially how is their life different) when they're taxed at a higher rate?
I'm trying to explain that gender targeting is imprecise.

When I say the hit rate of ads targeting women is 50%, I mean that of the number of people who see ads that were targeted at women, only 50% of them were women. Targeting men works a little bit more consistently, by usually about 10%, but I don't know why.

That's industry-wide. I don't know if Facebook does better or not, but I have no reason to think so. Even if they did, it probably doesn't matter that much.
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That proposition is not so extreme, and people do awful things when set loose from the rules by disaster or war.

There are thousands of stories where death, rape, theft, looting, etc have used by folks in positions of power to get what they want in these situations.

The obvious answer is to have competent government actors who can act quickly and protect human life without a financial incentive and disengage as situations improve.
> Don't be a drunken sailor that aimlessly wanders from one topic to another

This is a pity because new people often have fresh insights.
I accept all of your points. When will the manufacturers and distributors of opiates go to prison? 35,000 people die in the USA alone every year from this poison.
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The underlying problem is politization. You can assume that if some political party wants some something and another political party wants the opposite something, you could find a set of impartial experts that would provide hard data and solve the question. In the real world, there are two sets of experts, holding opposite views and providing contradictory data. Everybody will make a big noise and eventually nobody knows what happened, just that the question got muddied and you aren't so sure about anything anymore.
Is this the age of “Strategic Software” (2017)
If I'm reading that correctly, Segment was (is?) providing some people $8K per month for 3 months to work on open source projects. That's amazing! Here's a link to their 2017 application page: https://open.segment.com/fellowship
Everyone manipulates statistics in their favor, be that to support a claim ("the numbers say that if we do X then Y", guns/less gun deaths, social healthcare/improve quality of life) or to cause outcry ("you can't say X is/are/has Y, the numbers are Z", gender A/higher standard deviation for Q/sexist, monopolies/damaging/biased) regardless of the side of politics you are on in the US.

Statistics are hard and the implications of some result are sometimes not intuitive. People don't care about what a standard deviation is, they just want more standard deviation than the other people over there because that makes them better.
And what is wrong? Suppose I have a position already filled by a woman and now, for the sake of diversity, I need to hire a man to balance the world.

The real problem here is that some people will always cry and rant, regardless of the situation:

- Job ad for women? Sexist! We don't need you to tell us what to do.

- Job ad for men? Sexist! We can do that to!

- Job ad for both? Sexist! You should prioritize women, we are a minority.
A quick Google search brings up this guy. http://members.optusnet.com.au/spacetaxi64/DRIVERS/VINTAGE-R...

People in the Australian Vintage Computer group on Facebook could probably give you some good leads.
a friend of mine worked on the next Lisp-like version of R under Ross Ihaka

Did anything come of this? I seem to remember seeing a paper or article where he proposed doing this, but I’ve never seen an implementation.

Edit: paper I was thinking of is https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Eihaka/downloads/Compstat-...
There's no generalization in this:

> Almost every female engineer I work with writes and communicates in this fashion and I really bloody wish more of my male counterparts

That's just reporting facts about the specific people he happens to work with. It would be generalization if just said "female engineers," without the qualifiers "almost every...I work with."

I guess you could claim that he's implying a generalization, but that's a claim someone could make about any reporting of specific facts.
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How accessible is Tel Aviv for pedestrians? I'm visiting soon and wonder how complicated it will be without a car.
I don't get the point with Java feeling slow because of the slow start time (compared to C++). If I understand correctly Passenger is a server application and this kind of application is typically started rarely and long running, so the start time is a non-issue in most cases.

Another option could have been Swift, what is a more powerful language compared to Go.
From the article:

"As usual these days I drew the slides by hand. It’s way easier/faster, and it’s more fun."
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Same here, not in the tech industry but it is everywhere the same to a certain degree. Now, also ten and something years in, I try to push myself into the direction of NOT looking at the career ladder anymore. Shocking how haed that is actually.

The thing I relized that is helping a lot is doing stuff that a) builds on my interests and experience and b) is a intellectual stretch.

Otherwise I run the risk of being bored and running out of patience with the politics around me. Lucky me for now this working out okish to fine sometimes.

Ah, and having colleagues that a fun to work with!
I put it in the catagory kids education. Alexa only supports the kids section in the US right now. I may change that so it can be accessed worldwide.
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I cannot upvote enough your comment (and I am a guy). Computer Engineering and IT are overcrowded with males and male behaviors which hurt the field and drive away a lot of people that are smart and eager to offer but they cannot tolerate the machismo of the field. A sad state of affairs for any profession.

I'm not saying that all males are exhibiting these behaviors but the ones that do are prevalent (and it seems that by doing so they're gaining an edge which makes them successful memes that stick and expand).
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Every industry is different. As far as legal advertising goes, in many states it's heavily regulated (especially Florida); traditional spend still outperforms digital as far as lead quantity.

Depending on the campaign/type of spend, digital advertising tends to convert leads in a range somewhere between 0.02% and 10%. 10% is extraordinarily good. Lead quality largely depends on the type of case, but ROI on the good cases is anywhere from low 5/6-digit auto injury cases which require little effort from a lawyer to hundred-million and even billion dollar judgements/settlements.
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well yeah, I didnt mean it that literally
I second that. My degree project was a 68K-based RTOS kernel with a simple preemptive task scheduler, and the scheduler was one of the easiest and smallest parts of the whole project.
Could be; I'm at work.

Your link works! Many thanks.
Sounds like a good plan. No sure if it helps, but I thought about changing domain as well after a horrible gig (actually two in a row...). Following a short sabbatical / studies break I just changed industry. Turned out I love logistics simply too much to do anything else.

And yeah, there is no need to waste time for a job that is only driving one crazy. Enjoy Asia!
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What do you mean by "don't drink" being based on extremely weak evidence? Do you mean after the pregnancy, or while trying to conceive?

Because the harms of drinking during pregnancy are well known. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a real thing, as are other Fetal Alcohol Spectrum disorders.
The killer feature for Evernote is the web clipper. Any chance of something similar being implemented for Dropbox Paper?
"Name a thing that US ripped from EU?"

How about 46.000 patents, as a start?
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

By the way, Europe is not the same as the EU :-)
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> Now reading this article, it seems being a predominantly export driven economy and having a huge trade surplus with the US, the Chinese don't really have that much leverage.

You shouldn't be basing your opinion on opinion news articles. Just 2 years ago, the nytimes was telling us the world was headed to economic armageddon with no end in sight. Look at us now.

One day the news tells you Trump is going to start ww3 with china and the next you'd think china is weak and have to submit to Trump's demand.

> Both of these thoughts arose from the fact that as a democratic country, the US would have to take into account both short and long term trade prospects.

If that was the case, we wouldn't have the rust belt. We wouldn't have the collapse of detroit. We wouldn't have NAFTA or trade with China. Most americans were never for lopsided trade with china or mexico or even canada. I think foreigners have an idealized view of the US, democracy and how things work.

Trade with china for the last 40 years was basically "wage arbitrage" ( which some might call exploitation of cheap chinese labor ). US corporations moved production to china to use the abundant and cheap labor. The reason why we didn't have tariffs on "chinese" imports is because most "chinese" imports to the US are actually american goods. Or it's a sino-american partnership/company. This is why Trump is getting so much backlash from corporate america. The tariffs hurt american goods.
Great advice for the furniture business...worst possible advice for Evernote. Good luck using screenshots on a website to get someone to pay $8/month for Evernote. The only realistic way to convert someone into a paying customer (at such a high price point) is to get them to use the product heavily.

I would argue basically the opposite. If you're selling sofas at $4500 and your main competitors are giving them away, you're only going to sell to customers that really like your particular sofa. If you sell them at $500, and they're quite a bit better than the ones your competitors are giving away, you might be able to stay in business.
Typically it’s because these companies end up on “the juice” and owe investors some multiple and enough scale to get acquired.

They hire talent with the same growth mindset... not the sustainability mindset. They don’t tend to think, “what moves do I need to make to be around 100 years from now?”, they think “how can I get 20x growth in X time”. Unfortunately now they are thinking “how can I keep my job”.
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I agree - I've worked for a company where there was zero pressure to deliver and an emphasis on quality. This led to endless discussions about minutiae code details and long debates about best practises. We ended up rewriting some parts of the code base because someone suggested it wasn't exemplary even though it was definitely fine.

The thing is, good code rarely looks stellar. It looks like code which you understand without much trouble, and usually there's more than one way to make it that way. If you get caught up into the trap of thinking you have deliver something amazing but don't understand what amazing really looks like, you're in for a lot of wasted resources.

After the aforementioned company I worked for a startup, and man was it a joy to actually ship code that affected lives. Sure, the code wasn't always the most polished, but being trusted to find the right balance between technical debt for speed of execution felt great.

Sometimes saying 'things should be done right no matter how long it takes' just means the management is unable to balance technical debt with other objectives.
layers.acceleration.force-enabled overrides "Acceleration blocked by platform" (you should see "Force-enabled by pref" right under it).

But this indeed has nothing to do with video! This is layer compositing.
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In fact, I just installed it on my XUbuntu and I'm trying it out again. It's really good, all the KDE apps are well integrated and it's extremely customizable.
Anyone can buy Cosmopolitan and read ads, but no one can pretend for being someone other on fb/etc. If zuck and alphabet provided options to tune your profile card and live the other live for a while, an argument would be over and ads would not suffer. Default settings rule the world anyway. People could also escape few echo chambers as a side effect.
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> On Monday, a security researcher specialized in finding exposed databases has identified an unsecured MongoDB server that was leaking the personal details of nearly 11 million users.

More accurate title: "Unsecured MongoDB server contains 11M user records"

MongoDB has terrible security defaults but the software itself is not "leaking" anything, this instance has just not been properly configured.

Now I'm not saying MongoDB is blame free, they can certainly make it better, but the blame is at both the user and software.
The US did initially include the European Union in this trade war, but when the EU threatened to respond with a import levies that affected Harley Davidson motorbikes manufactured in a Republican-voting state, the US backed down [1].

Chinese media (and social media particularly) does regularly cover stories about Chinese people outside of China involved in situations such as these, whether it's a high-profile business figure [2], or ordinary Chinese people involved in non-ordinary conflicts. Including the narrative that Chinese people don't get justice or support from local police when they are victims to criminal activity, that's regularly reported in Chinese media.

UK media does the same thing, any disaster always has a mention of how many British citizens are involved, sometimes who they are. And a regular diet of outrage of British tourists coming face-to-face with the legal consequences of their behaviour across the world.

Brexit revelations shows me that China trades using WTO rules with Europe. There does seem to be movement on that front too. [3], [4]

Though, with trade arrangement with WTO rule, it's worth asking why US aren't resolving their dispute within the WTO. We shouldn't glorify bullies, even if they are bullying other bullies.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43926092
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hna-chairman/chinas-hna-c...
[3] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-eu/eu-pushes-china-o...
[4] https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-china-eu-trade-...
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In an increasingly globalised world, the boundaries between cultures will blur.

Cultural appropriation, to me, the impression that the wider world takes something from them, their customs, appearance or whatever else.

I think the more accurate description would be that the wider world simply mixes their own customs with others, integrating the new ones, adopting or changing them.

There are plenty of examples where a culture adopts and integrates something from a minority culture (Döner Kebap in Germany for example) and I don't think it's ultimately harmful.

Ultimately, I would also agree that it's somewhat of a familiar concept to nationalism but with race or culture (though racism and nationalism have rather different meanings so I can't reuse racism in the same context I guess, cultural-nationalism maybe?) and maybe even other human concepts (I can totally imagine at some point people will yell about cultural appropriation from Tumblr or Twitter communities :) )
You can get work from gigster or upwork but you will not make the rate you should be making. They have access to the clients - find your own clients and charge hourly or weekly, 2-3x per hour what you made as an employee. As everyone else has said, use your network. That's the best way to get good work.
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I am not taking away from this feat because that is an amazing speed. Someone having the courage to stay on a bike going nearly 200 mph is incredible. I don’t want to get into the gender aspect of this either. My question is that it seems peculiar to even attempt a speed record under circumstances that are so completely artificial. Trailing a vehicle that blocks the wind? Having to be towed more than half way to the final velocity?

Sure it’s a record, but it isn’t one that reflects any real world scenario. I would be very interested in what the speed record is when someone gets on a very expensive well engineered bike from a stop and under ideal yet still realistic conditions is able to reach x mile/km per hour under human power only. I don’t mean this as snark either it just seems like there are infinite stilted scenarios where we can imagine some “world record” such as “world hang gliding speed record holder exceeds Mach 1 while tethered to supersonic plane”. Maybe I’m answering my own question here when I say maybe it’s about the engineering required to do this safely.