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Is that a fact though? If that were the case, Mexico, the US's third-largest trading partner and by most measures, a "developing" county, should be vastly more polluted than India, which is the US's 9th-largest trading partner.

The top-ten polluted cities are in India and Pakistan. China doesn't even make the top 20.[1]

Is Pakistan materially contributing to the high living standards of developed countries? It would be a stretch to suggest that.

However, the high standards of living the developed world are absolutely contributing to rising standards of living in the developing world. If it weren't for trade, South Koreans, for example would still be living in mud-brick houses with sewage dumped in the rivers. The HangGang would resemble the Ganges. The idea that high living standards elsewhere degrade living standards in developing countries is not supported by evidence.

Pollution rates tend to decline with the rising of an economy, which would suggest that increasing world trade would ultimately result in less pollution as countries become more developed. So by not "supporting" the high standards of living in the developed world, a country themselves wouldn't be able to progress to a developed state. South Korea, achieved their economic successes starting in the late 1970s when they were definitely not a developed country. They sold heavy industrial goods and then ventured into electronics and cars which gave them the economic activity necessary to become one of the most developed countries in the world. The absolute poverty rate in the 1950s was almost 50%. As of 2001, absolute poverty in Korea was less than 2%. It could be argued that without "enabling the high living standards in the developed world," South Korea would still be dumping raw sewage into rivers.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/which-is-the-worlds-m...
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Maybe somewhat. I think you can offer a simple explanation, but it depends a little on how you have already set up the problem.

Here's the problem setup: So we want to share a secret byte (178) among Alice, Bob, and Carol, so that we need all 3 of them to contribute to it. Three points defines a parabola so we choose two more random bytes: [38, 68], our polynomial is y = 178 + 38x + 68x². We then give Alice the point (1, 284), Bob the point (2, 526), and Carol the point (3, 904).

Now supposing that we have compromised both Bob and Carol's points we know that we have the two equations,

9a + 3b + c = 904
4a + 2b + c = 526

We can then eliminate b to get:

6a - c = 230

which we can rearrange as

c = 6a - 230.

Since `a` cannot be a fraction, we must be able to cut down the number of possibilities for c to just 42 possibilities, {4, 10, 16, 22, 28, ...}, since they must be separated by sixes. I'm not 100% sure but I think this factor grows like n!/(n-k)! for "I have compromised k of n secrets, by what factor have I reduced the search space?"

Here's how modular arithmetic solves this: It turns out that modulo a prime, all fractions are also whole numbers. That is, if I am working modulo the prime 13, I will find that I can divide 7/5 to find 4. Remember what division means, it inverts multiplication: I can find that 5 × 4 = 20 and then that 20 = 13 + 7, so they are at the same place "on the clock". In fact it suffices to just find 1/5 and multiply by 7, so you can find that 1/5 is 8 in the mod-13 ring, 8 × 5 = 40 = 39 + 1. You can also find that 1/6 is 11, so 6 × 11 = 66 = 65 + 1.

The proof that this must be the case is that if you take

[1, 2, ..., p-1].map(x => (x * n) % p)

this list cannot repeat itself: if it did, the resulting `x1 - x2` would divide `p`, by the distributive law of multiplication. It also is confined to only contain the numbers 1 through p-1, and so it must contain all of them exactly once: so if it doesn't repeat itself, it has to have a 1 in there somewhere.

That's kind of a brute force argument so you may want to also mention that there are two efficient ways to find these, one is called the "Extended Euclidean algorithm" (do a GCD computation to find that the GCD=1, but you can take the dividends that you discarded and cleverly assemble them to recover the constants from Bezout's identity, which in this case gives you the modular inverse) and the other is called "Fermat's little theorem" (since a^(p-1) % p == 1 for prime p, raise something to the p-2 power. Using exponentiation by squaring you only need ~log p multiplications that each take no more than ~log p time.
The intent here seems to have been to discover if the dolphin could get high.

The shocking thing is the way that Lilly started with the assumption that dolphins were sentient and worth communicating with, and ended with "It's just a dumb animal, so why should we care how it feels?"

The turning point seems to have been the observation that it didn't start turning cartwheels - metaphorically or otherwise - when dosed up on acid.

Basically he dismissed it when it didn't turn into an acid freak - ignoring the fact that it was demonstrating curiosity, the ability to relate and form attachments, and many human-like elements of language.

All of which were far more convincing as evidence of real sentience, and more worthy of research, than the fact that it failed to trip balls on cue.
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presumably it would foreshadow a regulatory crackdown
Here in Canada, the provincial government of Ontario is dismantling the environmental protection apparatus piece by piece in the name of democracy and pleasing some section of people. We do have a lot more education, so there has to be something else. I think it is all about what is the general population (or some section of it values more). Right now environment is not at the top because something else is.
And what do you intend to do via your Direct Action? No clue in the links you've given.
"Sales are down, anyone have an explanation?"

"Well, sir, it seems young people today just aren't as enamored with cars as with previous generations."

"Is there anything to be done?"

"Privacy has been in the news a lot lately. What if...I'm just spitballin' here...but what if we made our products even less appealing? Have the CEO rattle off all the shit we know about customers, and then talk about how we're going to MON-OH-TIZE the shit out of those data? I mean, nothing else is working."

"Out-STANDING, Johnson. I see a promotion in your future!"
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For workloads where eventually consistent is okay.

It's harder to get mainframe like uptimes for OLTP simultaneously with mainframe like IOPS.
True for liberal arts. The K-12 education in the U.S puts a lot of emphasis on critical writing and research in liberal arts. I see much less rote learning there. And China's education on liberal arts, especially history and economics, resort to a lot of rote learning.

I feel sorry to say this, but there is really not much rote learning of STEM subjects in Chinese K-12. How can you rote learn when you need deep and intuitive understanding of fundamentals to excel in your math exams? That's what my teachers tried hard to instill in us every day. On the contrary, there's a lot of rote learning in that of the US. The reason is simple: students resort to rote learning because it works, and it works only because the problem sets they deal with are so simple and mechanical. That's not the case in China.
> I use local self-hosted email service.

What are you using? Do you have any advice for setting this up?

I've been using Protonmail for a couple of years, and while I'm generally fairly happy with it, I'd really like to self-host my email in my home. Aside from the technical experience, my understanding is that the US court system sees data stored on your own hardware in your own home very differently than data that you've entrusted to the care of a third party outside your home - the former is protected by the Fourth Amendment while the latter is not.
I know you're describing pathological examples to make your point, but:

> Would you rather have a train that arrives one minute late every single day, for a 0% on-time record

At this point, the operator should just update the schedule to reflect actual travel speed.
there are perceptual hash algorithms overcoming exactly these issues

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing
Something I've grown to appreciate about the film is that poses similar challenging questions in its own way. In hindsight, the film is much more in conversation with the book than it seems at surface level (more than just setting), because the film is dripping with satire and asks dark questions about fascist authoritarianism. I feel like a key to the film is that it is the best, most direct sequel to Robocop, which is also dripping with satire and dark questions of authoritarianism that are often overlooked in pop culture (Robocop's other sequels for instance misplace/misunderstand the satire pretty quickly).
> any reasonable objective metric

Any true objective metric would rank films would likely be uncorrelated with reviews - stuff like frames per second, duration, resolution, etc.

I'm of the opinion that talking about "objective metrics" in a discussion of the quality of films makes zero sense. I don't think there is any meaningful way to say any film is objectively worse than another.

Perhaps it seems I'm being too narrow in my definition of "objective," but i don't think so. I'm using it to mean what the word actually means, instead of using "objectively" to mean "in my opinion, which is better than yours," which is how 'whywhywhywhy used it, as far as I can tel.
I kind of like the model of the turn of the 19th century where you had great geniuses like Tesla who would just get funding to create whatever kind of cool crap they could think of. Are there still any people like that in physics? Legendary scientists/engineers who run there own lab and just make cool stuff?
Who are you to judge another's competence?

By what standard?

Your expectations are yours alone, unless you are tasked by the business to analyze and optimize.
Seconded. Most general advice ("IANYL/TINLA") I've heard from lawyers in Germany about e.g. GDPR boiled down to "1. Don't. 2. If in doubt, see 1." -- it's their job to recommend against taking any risks even if the risks are sometimes necessary. It's your job as a business to assess whether that risk is still worth it.
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you could argue the le is french :D
> It always felt like IBM enterprise stuff that $$$$ heavy are in a world of its own completely disconnected from people who cant think in that much $$$s.

You're not wrong. Licenses for even the most trivial of software cost literal fortunes.

It's just that these systems process billions of software and run millions of lines written decades ago.

The cost is a mere blip.
Right, but like in physical war, even the winning side is expected to have casualties, and those casualties are the price to pay for (hopefully) a better net outcome than not going to war.
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* Tweet a death threat to a random stranger

* Encrypt a random photo and email to the NSA

* Repeatedly admit to random horrible crime types on Twitter.

Am I doing it right? You did say life-ruining.
LOL! I had given OP some credit and assumed that Nextcloud was a full featured competitor like Box. Whoops!
Except for those children that died of it, which you probably didn't see. The plural of anecdote is not data.
When it comes to nonprofits, donations and goodwill are not the same as investments.
I've been in a similar situation and can relate to most of what you've described. In my case, I pointed it out to upper management multiple times but they failed to take action. I left the organization eventually.
> Is there a known metric that shows how profitability increases after a given percentage of harassed workers?

Oh my goodness yes. Getting sued? Public relations? Decreased productivity from a hostile work environment? These all affect the bottom line.

Seriously, for the love of all that matters in this universe: Take this notion that any company operates on a moral compass and throw it in the garbage. None of them do. Period. End of story. Some companies are better than others. Some leaders (read: HUMANS) do have a genuine sense of good that they make every attempt to instill into the culture of their organizations. That's amazing. I love to see that.

But this only happens when (1) the organization is already financially solvent and (2) the acts of good will won't cause the company to become financially insolvent. Which means the best companies are MOTIVATED by a moral compass, but they operate on a financial one.

This Google case is especially fucking hilarious, to watch some people in these comments (not you, but others) try to justify Google's actions under the banner of a desire to create a safe workplace. Bullshit. They only enacted these policies after a massive number of their employees walked out on their jobs, the public pressure was mounting, and they let known assholes leave on their own accord with, as you say, a golden parachute. Google is easily the most morally dubious company out there.
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> actually, this sort of criticism and shaming is exactly what causes things to become illegal.

[citation needed]

> meanwhile, market veneration is both economically illiterate and used as ideological cover for massive crimes.

What's economically illiterate is to expect market participants not to exploit the rules that are in place on moral grounds. You can make a moral case against an indefinite number of things done by private enterprise, but you can't maintain negative publicity for all of them. If you don't change the rules, companies only pay lip service, nothing more. That's not ideology, that's not "veneration", that's common sense.
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The TL;DR is:
The court says it's ok to say "no" to accepting a channel. BUT not if it was because of racism.

The trial will focus on whether they can prove it was racism, or some other reason.
To anyone reading this, no a billion people don't shit on the streets of India. India is a young democracy bursting at the seams, education is probably the most important challenge it faces right now and my hope is that it alleviates a lot of these issues.

To your point about plastic bags, many many people are cognizant of the ill-effects of plastic bags in India. Many of my friends actively try to avoid it. It's just that when you're a developing nation or minority everyone talks in blanket statements than nuanced views like "rural India" or "10% of Northern India", it has to be all "Indians shitting on streets". Whereas, some flaw in the developed countries is always attributed to the actual states where there is a problem rather than all of the population.
Worked out fine for Citigroup as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-16/gett-is-s...
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>Imo stock market has just crashed.

Were you alive in 2008?
The root problem is that there are too many idiots in management positions; they can't see through all the bullshit.
Also, there are too many dumb investors; our entire global economy runs on dumb money. Don't waste your time trying to create value;
let other people create the value and focus all your energy on capturing that value.
Linux "won" in the sense that every single one of those devices is special-purpose, and not for general-purpose computing. Linux is helping those that want to lock down computing so that it is consumption-only, which is completely antithetical to the goals of FOSS. Creation happens on the desktop, and right now the desktop is primarily Windows and Mac.
I'm perfectly willing to entertain that notion.

Explain to me how the parent could come to that conclusion by other means?

Consider that this president has consistently used teddy roosevelt tactics to deescelate tensions in areas the cultural elites have deemed impossible (e.g., north Korea, China, Russia, EU, Canada).
I'd prefer to stay anonymous online. However someone I've worked with in the past recently translated this and makes a comparable amount from the residual sales http://www.lulu.com/shop/natan-dubovitsky-and-vladislav-surk...
I'm almost certain it is being manipulated, so glad an actual investigation is happening. Many people have been duped into crypto.
My American relative that was born in the USA and lived there for about 6 weeks finally did their US tax returns a few years ago.

No tax owing and received some hundreds of dollars in refunds from the IRS.

They even corrected a mistake resulting in an even larger refund (forgot to apply for some program).

All because of increasingly draconious laws for non-filers that conveniently ignore that most Americans abroad aren’t millionaires.

Cost: hundreds of US$, data entry and processing.

Benefit to US: ?????
It's their platform, and they should be able to do anything with it.

That's in fact one of the reasons I don't use an iphone and don't develop iphone apps.
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Sanctions that charge per ton of plastic discharged

This means that the owner of the river either
1) Stops plastic entering the river
2) Charges for plastic entering it - passed on to the developed world through higher costs
3) Filters at the mouth of the river

Egypt can invite international organisations to measure the plastic entering the Nile at Aswan and leaving post Cairo. Sudan can do the same with the borders with South Sudan and Ethiopia (from memory), and so on.

How much would it cost to filter the discharge of these rivers to withdraw even just half the plastic? Is it even possible?
This looks very nice! I have used Bitbucket and GitLab before which have merge blockers (e.g. user cannot manually merge if tests are failing), but this a welcome next level.

I couldn't find on the website - does the tool support a choice of merge types such as Classic Merge Commit, Squash and Fast Forward Rebase?
Maybe revenue potential versus some other channel in that slot?
> Do this look like Stackoverflow to you?

You're right, it don't.

It ain't, even.
He meant cost bebefit to organizations to implement it. Take HSBC for example, one of largest China/HK bank. They waited until Fatca kicks in, then realized it will be too complicated and expensive to implement, so what do they do? Within 45 days they kick out all us-citizen based accounts off their grid. All gone. Thats how foreign banks “comply” with Fatca. Arguably some politicians say it was actually mean to work this way so us citizens behave nice and just keep their freaking money in us banks. I know of 3 friends who had to sold their hong kong based business because noone there would open them banking account anymore so here it is american politicans screwing over american citizens having business on a foreign land.
Ask HN: How do we track locking on iOS?
My startup is working on a gamified focus timer app, and we need to be able to distinguish between when a user leaves the app and when they lock their phone. This is so their focus timer session will fail if they leave the app but not if they simply lock their phone. We're stuck on this. Any ideas?
> Chris Lattner tried to open source [...] LLVM

LLVM was open source from its beginning: it was Lattner's research project. Apple acqui-hired it/him, and they have a private fork.

I agree that it's pretty remarkable that Swift, which was conceived at Apple, was opened up, however.
The West pays China and SE Asia to make millions of tons of plastic for manufacturing the products we buy. The West sends millions of tons of plastic product "for recycling".

"China and South East Asia is responsible".

You see no contradiction there? I sure as heck do. The West, including my own country and citizens, are just as responsible.

Supply chains try (and fail oftentimes) to ensure child labour is not used. Why not pollution, environmental standards or CO2? It's not like the atmosphere and oceans respect borders.
Seeing z14 at the top of HN makes me really happy :). I actually currently work Z systems as Linux kernel dev. Z processor is a beast and has some great features.
I'd prefer to stay anonymous on this site but I will say there are a lot of French horror /occult stories from the 19th Century that are in the public domain and attract a niche following. For instance, one of the seminal works of demonology, "Dictionnaire Infernal", remains largely untranslated into English.
I think the lede for the article is a better summary: "A US appeals court ruling today said that cable companies do not have a First Amendment right to discriminate against minority-run TV channels."

I first read your tl;dr as, "The companies can refuse channels, but not if those channels are racist."
In most countries internet access is a total monopoly and so unreliable that the service blows out during a championship sports game let alone the entire country using it at once to vote. Meanwhile we have managed to avoid election disputes leading to riots and burning down parliament for 150 years using a simple volunteer run hand counting method with independent observers. I wouldn't be so quick to throw out a century of success for unproven technology from 2008. Maybe if one day we have guaranteed p2p connections avoiding the high priced access control by just 1 or 2 telecom monopolies, and weak standards/protocols that aren't being hacked on a regular basis like LTE.
Safari to be removed from iOS 13 due to child pornography issues because some websites don’t have a filter
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Cleaning up gyres are important, but realize that when one removes trash from a gyre, more is back the next day. Stopping production is the most important first-step.
It sounds like the ruling is quite narrow. First, Charter was looking to dismiss the case. The lower court denied the dismissal and the 9th circuit upheld the denial of the dismissal. That doesn't mean ESN wins the case, it means Comcast doesn't have first amendment grounds to dismiss an anti-discrimination case.

It should also be noted that Charter didn't ask to dismiss the case due to weak evidence. They argued that their first amendment rights bar any claim of discrimination against their editorial decision. The judges wrote that the case "does not seek to regulate the content of Charter's conduct, but only the manner in which it reaches its editorial decisions—which is to say, free of discriminatory intent".

Charter's case for dismissal was weak because they were arguing that their first amendment editorial right meant that no discrimination case could be brought against them. The court rebutted that saying that the case isn't about what they put on their system, but how they decide on it. If they deny all African American owned companies from their system because they don't want African American owned businesses succeeding, that doesn't fall under free speech because it's unrelated to the content - the decision isn't an editorial one, but a discriminatory one.

Whether the evidence of discrimination is weak or not isn't part of this ruling. This ruling is just about whether the first amendment's protection of editorial decisions mean that one can't bring a racial discrimination case even if Charter said, "we won't put any African American owned stations on our system". The ruling seems to be hit the nail on the head: you have editorial rights, but those rights about the content; you're not allowed to deny access because of the race of the person who owns the content.

This wasn't a ruling on the merits of the evidence.
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