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It depends on how the tank is setup and the drainage system it has.

Septic tanks are not closed systems they are open and intended to provide an environment that can produce a bio-reactor while maintaining drainage through the soil.

Many good systems don’t need to be drained other than every few decades in fact good systems would outlast the tank and the filtering substrate it’s built on so when the time comes you need to dig out the tank and the gravel and other filtering particulate it used because that is what has degraded.

The problem with septic tanks is that they don’t scale we’ll have one on a large property in the middle no where that 5 people use and it’s a great solution have a bunch of them and worse over use one in particular and you get a polluting mess.

But septic tanks also don’t solve the other problem with western toilets and that is the amount of water they consume which is simply unfeasible for many developing regions.

TLDR; if the septic tank was installed and sized correctly it will outlast you even without pumping it, but it’s not a solution the reason we don’t use them in cities is because they don’t and can’t scale with urban population densities.
While I agree with you, and have actually thought about this same problem a ton, this seems dangerous to try and change as an individual rather than a fellow government.

Additionally, removing corrupt officials will just create a power vacuum, and oftentimes officials will become corrupt over the course of their term. I forget the political science terminology, but there's this issue where someone will only be able to take over in a dictatorship if they have the backing of many others, who, unsurprisingly, want more out of them than they get from the current official. So the end result is that nearly always, the new official will be more corrupt, particularly in destitute autocracies and oligarchies where the general public's opinions are either irrelevant or uninformed.

So while, yes, the corruption will throw wrenches into all our efforts, is there a solution to it? Or do we just have to throw enough resources to account for the corruption, and hope that an educated society with better infrastructure can start fighting the corruption problem themselves?
In my experience as a cancer survivor, it's all about "staying in the game". Medicine doesn't change as fast as software, but extra months means a chance to access new treatment options as they emerge.
50% is, as very rough ballpark number, your net salary in Germany. Usually it is more than that. Not all of the other 50% is taxes so. It is social security, unemployment insurance, salary taxes and part health care (usually around 15% with your employer paying the same amout directly as well).

And nobody thinks health care is free, just universal. It might seem free as everybody is used to pay part of his salary every months but health care cost is a recurring topic over here.

Availability for emergencies, and ambulances are for emergencies, is by no means bad. There are medevac helicopters placed in a way to minimize response times. And they are covered by your basic insurance.

Availability can be an issue compared to private insurance due to budget constraints in the public model and the fact that doctors and hospitals have to live. Again, emergency services don't suffer from that. Could overall availability be better? Yes. Is availability overall satisfactory? I would say yes as well (point in case, general doctors in the countryside, there are not enough of those for a variety of reasons).
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Septic system lasts for 40 years. But installing a new septic is expensive. $4000 is in the low end
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When dealing with a software bug you have to reproduce the issue before you can definitively "fix" it.
There are tricks around known to solve this, such as building intermediate solutions like what Gates proposes to do.

When you have a serious issue in production that can be fixed with a global variable in 5 minutes or spending a day correctly planning and implementing a fix that routes the data correctly, what do you pick? I'd hope doing the first thing and replacing it with the second.

It's that sort of decision, only people die if you don't move in time.
> I wish the author gave, 30 day free premium trial. A lot people would be willing to spend on the license IMHO.

Well, there's a 30-day money back guarantee.

PS: I just bought it, loving so far.
Since nobody has cited it yet, see Christopher's Alexander "A city is not a tree" [0] for an architect's take on "natural" vs. plannes cities.

[0]: http://worrydream.com/refs/Alexander%20-%20A%20City%20Is%20N...
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You might not see my other comment, but you couldn’t be more wrong. We may not understand qualia, but it is indisputable that qualia provides us with additional data that affects our bahavior. It provides meta-data about those who also experience qualia, which enables at the very least greater predictive powers regarding those who experience qualia, and at best, enables empathetic behavior.
But to be fair, the device is made by Apple and the discussion speaks to how Apple treats its consumers.
Actually, a proper septic tank (according to EU regulations) has to be water-tight and be emptied regularly.
Many beaches on the Mediterranean loose their health pass occasionally due to nearby overbuilding and improper septic tanks.
Really? I had one sort of similar because I took as many cross listed math electives as possible and avoided any software type courses, but even then I learned a lot less analysis, algebra, geometry than a good math student would learn
However, if the system isn't maintained it often needs replaced at a large expense. Most homeowners don't know how to inspect and don't bother to hire someone knowledgeable.

Our local township has an ordinance where every residential sewage system (10k residents, not sure how many systems that is) has to be pumped out and inspected by a certified sewage hauler. This way, the homeowner knows about and is required to make simple repairs before the entire system fails.
Gender dysphoria was a "disorder" back in the day.

Disorders are defined by the society in which the trait (or "symptoms") arise. In South America, people who hear voices and have visions are recognized as having the potential to become a shaman. Shamans are seen as the protectors and healers of a village-- lauded and respected. In North America they are called schizophrenics. We distrust schizophrenics here and don't really know at all how to "help" them. They don't have a place here.

I have autism and I don't see myself as being disordered. I have trouble sometimes in North America, but any help I need is due to my non-alignment with the culture, not due to myself inherently.

Extroversion could be a disorder in a place like Japan, where personal space, privacy, subtlety, boundaries between strangers, and silence are highly valued. In America extroversion is often a huge advantage.

Nothing is a defect in the right context, just like anything could be in another.
Meanwhile, in Canada: http://wiki.scouts.ca/en/Sexuality

...which goes to show that you can run a chartered organization, even one otherwise substantially similar in content and procedure to BSA, without being discriminatory about it.

Same goes for religious organizations: several Christian denominations allow openly gay ministers. There's nothing about spirituality that requires we discriminate against or hate each other.

IMHO, we can and should expect better of organizations than to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, especially those organizations that purport to model good behavior for youth.
And with viral growth, 10 years? Once 'everybody is doing it' it may not take as much time. How long did it take for cell phones to reach the most remote villages?
To give a bit of context to this discussion: Oracle does not and has never had a bug bounty program. Honestly Oracle does not even play a big role in this. From my experience with reporting VirtualBox bugs to them, they usually handle them rather professionally.

The author must be referring to third-party, vendor-agnostic programs such as the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure (SSD), or the Accenture iDefense VCP (unless he was planning to sell to a non-disclosing entity). Keep in mind that the main purpose of these programs is PR (in the case of SSD) or a specific part of a security product (TippingPoint). I am not surprised that the value of a vulnerability in these scenario varies heavily over time. For example, if your purpose is to write a blog post and highlight your security research, maybe it's not as interesting if you have written another post about the same software recently.

The real question is, what is a business model by which a third party can make money off of vulnerabilities despite reporting to the vendor. This is a tough problem to solve. Maybe it's time to have the users of software contribute financially in some way?
After purchasing you'll get a special text with your email/license key that you copy/paste on an empty editor and it's done.
Well I'm not going to tell you that the way you use a mobile device is wrong, but it is not the way I use my devices. I guess we'll have to see which one of us most people agree with. If people stop downloading apps, we'll stop seeing companies put effort in to them.
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Can someone point me to a more detailed overview of IncludeOS than the brief summary they have on their home page?
Err, sure, I support freedom of choice and opposing evil, but calling someone evil for deciding to send their son to a boy's only summer camp seems a bit extreme to me. Civil society also depends on people being tolerant of those they disagree with and practicing kindness and persuasion when they do disagree. Sure, there are things that we set strict laws against and things we oppose morally whether they are legal or not (e.g. murder, mass murder, oppressive surveillance), but which summer camps you decide to sponsor or go to don't seem to me to be part of that list. Maybe I'm just out of touch with society...
> No third-party apps to install for IPSec VPNs, this is seriously more secure

Just as telnet.exe is available on Windows but ssh isn't, so telnet must be more secure.

It depends on your threat model and also on the tech below.
Are you bullish on Roku?
Those villages were within each persons Dunbar number and had a unified notion of shared interest and tribal identity. I think the argument that we never had privacy or that it is unnatural needs to be put to rest.

Automated facial recognition is explicitly for one interest group to monitor an "other." In most cases, it is a state and its party interests monitoring subjects, or one class monitoring another. It's a weapon and there is nothing benevolent or benign about it.
I wonder if Gates could be a candidate to be president. He might win, although I'm curious about what politics he would be for.

It sounds like he could lean to the left, and I don't think you could call Bill Gates a socialist.
"Get along with" is not the same as "find interesting."
IMO, Julia[1] is Python done right, without all the annoying bits of python, and (much) faster.

Perl is (still) a fantastic language to use when you have complex tasks and don't want to spend more time on boilerplate and specific formalisms of the language, than the problem space. Perl is still (as in has been for many years) the goto language for a number of difficult problems. If your tooling is helping you write in the tool versus helping you solve your problem, you might be using the wrong tool.

Perl is not for numerics for a number of reasons. Javascript isn't either. Python is ... well ... python. It's the MSBASIC of the 201x years. As my comment above noted, I believe that Julia will quickly replace Python, as it has a saner syntax, trivial library integration, great package/module system (though the 1.0 transition has been bumpy with mass deprecations that could have been handled better), is compiled, has an optional strong type system, works in parallel out of the box (no GIL), ...

edit: included missing reference.

[1] http://julialang.org
Well, once anyway. Then you copy that to every elevator and toaster controller, and voila! It understands your need for unburned toast early in the morning.
Or a fat, annually growing paycheck.
100% agree with you. It's the difference between self-improvement and attempting to squeeze a square peg through a round hole. I can't change the autism any more than I can make myself taller, so why bother?
So which faith should I be loyal to please if I have none? And which universal „spiritual principles“ exist in the world that I could adhere to, except for „whatever my religious leader says“ (of which I don‘t have any)?

There‘s simply no logic in these sentences, which points back again to the boy scouts being a de facto religious organization.
Do you think there's a boon in research that may lead to larger populations responding to immunotherapies ? And if so, should we change protocols to sustain people with incurable tumors just long enough to get a potential treatment ?
There are plenty of applications that used multiple processes.
The incentives aren't there to perform better. Even after all these failures you mentioned, they haven't really been punished in any significant way whatsoever, so why improve?
Probably bodes for worse memory performance for (most) VM hosts and better memory performance for (most) bare metal workloads. I don't think anyone is concerned with many-VM class workloads not having the highest possible memory throughput though and I doubt going to even 16 channels would make a big differences anyways. It'll be somewhat easy to find out if memory bandwidth needs to scale linearly or you hit massive perf losses in the real world though as Intel's competing 2x24core die was announced to have 12 channels.

There was a longstanding rumor that the IO chip was going to have ~512mb of l4 cache. Considering it wasn't announced I'm thinking that turned out to not be true but from a pure performance perspective that is probably more useful than a couple more memory channels (though likely more complicated).
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Most democracies are not even good at funding medical research for dramatic, emotionally immediate diseases like cancer or dementia. One can only imagine the response that tabloids like Bild, the Daily Mail or Fox News would have if any of our countries spent $200m on toilets for the developing world. This is a perfect example of why capitalism works in my opinion, because you have power bases who can independently pursue unfashionable or undramatic ideas without having to pursuade a population of millions to back them in advance.
Can anyone dumb this down for me?
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Douglass Adams! So ahead of his time. I remember the elevator with precognition - so it would know ahead of time which floor to be at, and already be there when you hit the button.

But putting a super-intelligent being in a box that had a lifetime limit of travel over about 1 linear block in a dark tube, made it a bit strange after a while.
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Did you use AWS Amplify?

I had the impression it was like Firebase for quick prototypes (saw someone build a product in only 4h once), but you get CloudFormation templates out of it, which makes it much more flexible in the long run, when you customize more and more.
It speaks to empathy, as already mentioned.
By that time that researcher had already been paid by the company running the SecuriTeam program. Admittedly Oracle did release the patch too early, but this was clearly by accident, since they usually never release security patches outside a Critical Patch Update. Also I believe they did assign CVE-2018-3294 and give credit in the following October CPU.
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Totally agree that there are lots of nice people everywhere. I live in California now and I much prefer the weather, more to do too, and lots of nice people here too. I think you're criteria are a bit different than mine, and you interpret it differently, and that's okay. I'm mainly just pointing out that Texas is actually quite nice for some people and for lots of reasons. If you don't agree or think those reasons aren't important, that's totally fine, but lots of people who live there disagree with you.
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Diagonals can be okay used sparingly, but roundabouts destroy traffic flow the way Americans do them (with lights).
I thought I was paying $10/mo for PS. Still vastly expensive than other professional utilities especially when you need more than PS.
Yup, same in Austria and (as far as I know) the rest of the German-speaking world. In the UK I was a cub and a scout, my sister was a brownie and a guide, both offered very different experiences. Over here everybody gets to be a Pathfinder and the kids all do cool adventurous stuff together.
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That's pretty cool. My question then should be, what JS libraries?
This is because Python 3.5 and earlier used the old non-Unicode Windows API to access the console. This was fixed in Python 3.6:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#whatsnew36-pep52...
> Those tend to be employ maybe two cleaners, one depressed robot and one or two jaded administrators, plus their pot dealer.

You just wrote the plot to The New IT Crowd..
Hillary Clinton swung the election, not 13 Russians.
The difference is that the key was not encrypted with the password.

If the key were properly encrypted (as you describe) the password check could not have been bypassed.
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Very good points, the instability of Julia has put me off in the past, but it sounds like they made much saner decisions in general.
Thanks for trying it out! The possible changes you can make stays the same across different cohorts of people, but the score assigned to the word changes (e.g., 'security' has a higher score for retirees than college students). The pinker the word, the higher the score.

Would it be better if only the top 3-4 options were given for each word?
More like PSD file format. I'd throw PS out of the window if Adobe would start using an open common format but they won't as I said I'll switch.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/80ow6w/im_bill_gates_...

He basically thinks he can accomplish more by not being in the government.
It's valuable because if you know the test well you can have a good guess about how someone answered the questions, which tells quite a bit about them, especially if you know their raw scores.
Maybe "may I have" is more appropriate then. However, this veers into the realm of teachers who respond to "can I go to the toilet?" with "I don't know, can you?".
Nor are they many other places. I've never had an interviewing experience like this in Norway, for instance. We don't have a Google, Facebook, Apple or Microsoft, but we are reasonably ambitious when it comes to creating software and automating tedious and labor-intensive work.
The Napoleonic wars were fought because Napoleon wanted to great a "big blob". He knew times were changing and only big blocks would be able to play an important role in the future.

Most medieval wars were fought over very materialistic concerns. The 100 years war is basically a "dynastic war". Most important wars in the middle ages or the Renaissance were conquest wars that had nothing to do with religion.

And also, Muslims probably hated Cristians just as much.
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There is no such thing as wall piercing bullets.
We don't do them that way. In my area, roundabouts are put in where traffic occasionally bursts from one direction, and where traffic levels are low. Because they quit working once traffic increases, because it can be impossible to get on if there's continuous flow from another direction.

Maybe the lights reported are because the roundabout has outlived its usefulness? A stopgap before ripping it out.
This is what you get with industry consolidations. If there was more fierce competition, AT&T wouldn't dare do this. It's also one of the many reasons why it's bad for an ISP to own content companies and services, too. Draconian censorship of the whole network becomes almost inevitable once that happens.

See Google as another example of company that greatly expanded censorship efforts after it bought and then tried to monetize YouTube, music and movie services, etc. Once "platforms" start serving their own content on the same platform, it's all downhill for the user from that point, as the companies also start using anti-competitive measures against competing services on the same platform (Google downranking Yelp and shopping comparison sites, ISPs banning or throttling certain competing services, etc).
It's not so simple as that. Atheists don't demand people to give up faith, but we try raise critical thinking in people so that their actions are guided by fact and evidence instead of blind adoration and faith. Teaching kids to blindly follow things instead of teaching them to think critically can be very harmful in the long run.
Are you good at business requirements gathering? Environmental architecture? UX design? QA functional and regressional?

Fancy juggling AWS config and costs? Writing user manuals, help desk scripts?

On a scratch-itch OSS project you can ignore those. But when you plan to sell it, things scale quickly. Coding is just one arrow in quivver.
I am amazed by this.

I've also read if a parent gives some home treatment (e.g. a warm cup of milk) to a kid and caringly says that it'll cure his cold, the immunity of the kid actually increases, effectively curing the cold with love.
I don't think it's one or the other rather both. TSMC is definitely starting to lead the foundries but e.g. nobody expects the next gen Qualcomm Snapdragon chip to beat the Apple A12X even though both are coming out of TSMC.

IMO Intel is lagging on both fronts, AMD is catching Intel a bit, ARM is steamrolling year/year perf increases compared to x86, and Apple remains +25% ahead of every other ARM chip.
I also like interviewing and don't feel like I have much on the line either (tech is my full-time side gig). Did you get any surprises?
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Well, looks like everything is functioning as expected. You get the drama that you are obliged to throw money at.
Confused; that argument seems to be endorsing the idea that there was little privacy, then denying it?

And agreed no doubt misused facial recognition will be an issue. Just not a personal-relationship one; it'll be a government one.
> so any visa or legal immigrant of a Schengen member must be accepted to Ireland as well.

This is not true. Only those with a EU country citizenship are fully covered by the free movement rules.
You can read more about it here:
https://ec.europa.eu/immigration/general-information/already... but I will give you a quote: "To move from one EU country to another for more than 90 days, you will need a long-stay visa or a residence permit for that country. If you wish to work, study or join your family in the second country, you may have to fulfil more conditions."

An exception to this are so called Blue card holders, but only those with certain education/ professional experience plus job offer with a salary above a certain level are eligible for such a card.
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