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The Commission's Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management, and Trading and Markets (the "Divisions") encourage technological innovations that maintain the status quo, and we have been consulting with entrenched market participants regarding issues presented by new technologies.

We wish to emphasize, however, that subjects must still adhere to our arbitrary mandates and outdated framework when dealing with technological innovations, regardless of whether the securities are within our regulatory purview or using new technologies we don't understand or wish to succeed.

The Commission's recent shakedowns involving AirFox, Paragon, Crypto Asset Management, TokenLot, and EtherDelta's founder, discussed further below, illustrate the importance of doing what we say. Broadly speaking, the issues raised in these actions fall into three categories: (1) selling things without permission; (2) buying things without permission; and (3) trading things without permission
GSA was a physical box you stick in your on-prem data center. It's about as un-Cloud as it gets, and IIRC its deprecation predates Google Cloud as a brand.
In this case I think they meant "dimensional" rather than skeuomorphic. Elementary isn't flat, but that's a selling point in my opinion.
> 1. You're not going to truly release the social value of a monopoly unless you socialize it, either through social control or regulation.

I somewhat disagree. There are some monopolies which become more valuable to society the larger they are due to network effects. One example is Google maps. I suspect the more people use maps, the more accurate their live traffic data will be, which gives every other user more accurate information. Marketplaces are another example of network effects benefitting users - the more buyers and sellers in one marketplace, the easier it becomes for them to find one another.

> 2. IIRC, the main raison d'être for Bell Labs to exist as it did was to convince regulators to not break up AT&T

Interesting, I was going to use Bell Labs as an argument in favor of monopolies producing r&d. It seems like they invented everything!
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Or nothing is stopping you from using things like 1.3 inches, 2.7 miles, .6 gallons. I tend to use the fractions when doing measurements in my head. But if things get too complicated and I have a calculator I switch to decimal.
Even further.. only allow humans to own shares in companys or units in trusts..

this would help prevent things being hidden or manipulated.
So what you're saying is we've got much bigger problems.
Nice clip. I'm sorry that I don't find it compelling for the purpose of answering the question as asked. Maybe you went to a different logic school.
I think consumers don't give Apple enough credit for securing their OS because the other consumer-grade OS we compare it to was such a malware-magnet for decades that we've set our expectations low.

Several of the latest OSX releases have progressively locked down some executables/directories to Ring -1 (requires more than just root/sudo privs). I see it as Apple locking down the OS against potential malware, as I've always been able to work around their changes with some Stack-Overflow-fu.
All of the sneering intellectuals are the ones buying the iPhones and ordering everything through Amazon Prime. How many high-minded Atlantic articles did you read on your iPad Pro today while waiting for your Tesla to charge?

Lenin was right - the intellectual class is parasitic and must be eliminated for true progress.
AT&T discontinued GSM nationwide: https://about.att.com/innovationblog/2g_sunset

T-Mobile is keeping it running until at least 2020: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/att-2g-iot-lifeline

edit: Wikipedia has a pretty solid list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Past_2G_networks
Could you link to some docs on this?
I understand some of what you say, but the point of standard unit is not so that people can choose which unit they like. It's to make sure everyone uses the same ones. If all but a few countries used imperial as their standard measure then I'd go for it. But right now it's the odd one out. Itu mostly survived only thanks to being associated with an economic superpower, so international companies can't afford to ignore it.
Diane was the founder of VMWare, back in the day when virtualization was as shiny and new as containers are today.
Lol, alright buddy. The intellectual class is why we have progress at all. Do feel free to go back to hunting and gathering, though.
What you call silly others might call "fit and finish". Or simply "doing an adequate job".

With a kitchen if there were a few mm difference in height between wall unit cupboards, or wall sockets, it would not affect your use of the kitchen one iota. Yet everyone would likely notice such an amateur and slapdash job and employ a different contractor for their own home. Same with the difference between a table made by assembling a flat pack and something craftsman made.

There's a reason Apple put so much score into the user interface guides and specifications for icons, interface and such.
I don’t work on anything I consider socially harmful, FWIW. Before you ask, I don’t think most people would consider what I do socially harmful either, if they knew what it was.
I generally find them easier to manipulate, which is a frequent use for measuring distance. Honestly, I think the big thing hampering metric adoption is that no one uses decimeters. Kilometers are useful for trip distances, centimeters/millimeters are useful for small/precise measurements, but meters are deeply unuseful (for the same reasons you rarely see things measured in yards).

1/10th of a meter gets you a lot of the same usability as a foot measurement, but now adding centimeters onto that is more straightforward. A lot easier to calculate for measuring space for furniture, height, etc. . .
What sort of useful information would that even provide? It would just show that the system crashed because of a text. You'd still have to send some sort of contextual information about the text, which itself would carry non-metadata information about the text (ie, components of the text's contents).
I challenge you to make a 1/3 cut in meter length wood using a metric ruler. Must be accurate to 1/128 inch (0.2mm), the tolerance used in fine woodworking.
This is great feedback, and I appreciate your taking the time to write it up.

I definitely try to do this in my blog posts, but I do assume that my readers have been following along for some time, and that they have internalized some of names.

As you noticed, I like to use the full ("formal") name at the start of each post, and then switch to the informal name after that. In fact, I have a shortcode system that makes this fairly easy. The first reference spells out the entire name and is linked; the others use a short name and are not linked.
Because it's all the hassle of linux, with less driver compatibility.

(Note, I don't think linux is much of a hassle, just saying that bsd doesn't really reduce your problems significantly)
Behemoths like Amazon are taking a flamethrower to complexity already. Want practically anything? Just click and the day after tomorrow it magically appears at your door.

Google, Amazon, Apple...they are reducing our IQs by simplifying our lives to the point of stupefaction.
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I mean that really comes back to the "practical units" thing (and that chemists were the ones doing the work) - a kilogram of anything in chemistry is a huge amount, whereas a gram is about right to make "a lot" of something (in synthesis research people get excited about gram-scale synthetic yields).

So it's pretty much chosen to get integer-ish units with common things you work with like carbon - i.e. 1 mole of carbon of is ~12 grams.
Is there some alternative system that you'd prefer?
People have been saying that forever.

Although the amount of resources required to produce $1 of GDP has gone down ~90% in the last century.

Economic growth = figuring out how to do more with less.
Drug causing gonorrhea bacteria to shred own genome is “metal as fuck”
Have you ever used wikidata? It's kind of a shitshow.
You really think academics and critics are responsible for the successes of our society? Lol

How many of your beloved CEOs are dropouts?
Your absolutism is a bit silly. I don't think the Imperial system is good for anything beyond construction or cooking, but there's a reason it excels those areas. And it's exactly because it's more usable by humans in certain contexts (like construction or cooking). 1/3 of a meter should not be an irrational number - how is that "optimized for humans"?

A scalable system that shares the divisibility of the foot would certainly trump both systems.
Have they? Go to Amazon and search, say, for "scissors". Which one would you buy?
AFAIK SQM dates back to Office 2003.
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Nitpick: centimeters are also used often.
I got kicked out for abduction.
This sentiment is as old as religion: it's the good old millenarian instinct. People constantly think the world is on the precipice of something transformational (good or bad).

We'll see. My money is on things chugging along pretty much as they have been. I think this planet can take far more than we can throw at it.

RE: the article - seems like common-sense recommendations but no specifics. We'd all like to see more competition. The question is how to get there with as few side effects as possible. The specifics are the hard part.
What a wonderfully obscure reference.
And what I personally find disturbing is your idea that their view conflicting with yours is somehow an indication that they are obstructing advancement. To me, that seems much more problematic than them favoring the number 12 for common measurements.
Nit: 1/3 of a meter is rational. You're looking for "whole number."
>> Society, economy, biological organisms, climate, cognition, etc are all complex systems

You can't buy any of these from any company, and you definitely can't buy understanding of them.
I can just barely feel the difference of temperature of one degree Celsius. I really don't feel multiplying that by 1.8 will make a big difference in how good a scale it is for humans.
Also, the assumption that everyone wants to share their last name, or that every one has a last name is erroneous. Some people really don't have a last name (esp. the place I am from there are lots of people with just one name). You might want to change the form to just a "Name" or make last name optional. Unless of course you are legally required to not do so.
Latest firefox, created account, logged in, went to '_build_ my profile', received what looks like my profile screen, clicked on 'search' for courses, a gray overlay is put in front of the window, then nothing happens. unfocus and refocus window, gray is gone, but comes back when I hit 'search'. unfocus and refocus, grey is gone, selected 'Interested', tried 'search', same gray overlay. Same thing happens with 'search' from the 'Home' page. Result: cannot 'search', not usable in FF.

Same issue in FF incognito mode.

Same issue in Safari.

Same issue in Chrome.

How is this working for anyone?

Oh, wait a minute. The screen goes gray, but the search bar still works. Can I add that this is a bizarre user experience? Had I not been convinced that there might actually be something worthwhile behind this weird gray screen, I would've left and never thought about this again. A simple message 'Use the search bar above to search for courses to add to your profile' would have been more effective for me.

I'm having trouble understanding how this would work. I've got a course in my profile, pinged someone else who was interested, and now we're connected and I can send messages to them and I assume vice-versa. Now what?

How does one 'study' with others over the internet? I'd love to see a 2-player Anki or something like that, but that doesn't seem to be the purpose of this site. This just connects people, which is great, but then... The usefulness of the site seems to 'end' precisely where the work of studying begins. If I can already find a 'study buddy' for some MOOC using the discussion boards on the site, then what is this for?

and yeah, how does one _study_ with others using the internet? Maybe that's the more pertinent question. If I knew the answer to that, maybe the other questions would be obvious.
Because it also ensures that your weapon systems are made in this country .
Most of them dropped out from extremely prestigious institutions because they had a business to run. It's not like Bill Gates couldn't hack it at Harvard so he dropped out and started Microsoft.
Exponential growth, feed back loops and side effects are all hard to reason about intuitively.

"Business Dynamics" by Stermer was surprisingly good.

"How we know what is not so" by Thomas Gilovich is a good tonic against arrogance (as is "Uncommon Sense" by Comer).

I really like SystemAntics (John Gall - Good luck finding the original!) about, mostly, how our arrogance fails us when we try to define systems that are complex and include humans...
Where did I say any of that? Because it’s GOOD that drugs are banned? If that’s what qualifies as total control in your world then you live in a pretty small narrow world.
That's a fair point. The average voter in Oklahoma goes to the polls the night after watching Rosanne, drinking their 40, and reveling in the latest anti-abortion ad.
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At least you're funny.
(And, no, I have not downvoted you)
It's also excruciatingly slow to switch keyboard layouts (for me between latin and russian). I moved back to macOS over this since I do it so frequently.
You can present to people, or be present to people. Sales would be much better if it was much more of the latter.
While I agree that in many ways imperial is better than metric in the way that you mention. It is absolutely atrocious when it comes to weight and volume. A gallon is still a base 10 unit of measure of water (10 pounds of water). Then only after that, is it in base 8 rather than maintaining that base 12 consistency.

Then if you look at imperial units of weight, it deviates away from base 12 again. It counts upwards from a pound using base 14 with stone and ton. And then when counting downwards it uses base 16 for a little bit with ounces, followed by out of nowhere throwing in a 1/7000 for a grain unit.

Even ignoring the scientific applications, none of this is easier for visualization purposes than grams or kilograms, nor is it all that useful for volumetric units either with maybe the exception of using cups instead of milliliters for cooking.
My takeaway from this article was mainly about how much competition should be fostered within the system.

One interesting thing about the neoliberal era, it seems, is that the things in it seem to be simultaneously very big and very small.

There are some very big things -- cyberpunk-style megacorps that literally have free rein to make and remake entire markets and populations -- and at the same time very small things -- gig workers, freelancers, contractors, and other kinds of "entrepreneurs" that are out on their own in a dog-eat-dog world of hustle.

I think the question is less about whether we should have more competition, and more about whether this can be done safely. As it stands, you basically have two choices, modeled after the above: to become a cog in a machine (or a machine-in-the-making), or be completely out on your own.

Can something sustainably exist in the middle, and without being consumed by the big thing or becoming the big thing?
I agree, I think for most people that's the main hesitation with Google Cloud. Especially when there are outages, it feels as if Google has very few people working on the product.
Lol. I live in Singapore. But my statement still stands. I would pick any country in Asia over a country in the west. I like Swedish people but the country isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, it’s not somewhere I would want to live.
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> irrational positions such as yours

This is, frankly, insulting. You may disagree about the merits of blhack's arguments, but that doesn't make them illogical or unreasonable.

It would be one thing if you said, "Here's why I think blhack has got it wrong, and why the arguments presented don't hold water." But you just tossed an insult without bothering to refute. Bad form.
Not only is it trivial to just cut at 33.33 or what have you, your argument breaks down at cut it into 1/5s.

Good luck with imperial. And has to be accurate to .02mm. In metric? This is a no brainer
The Dig podcast just posted a fascinating discussion of the roots of neoliberalism talking about the binding of nations in favor of nameless market structures. There is a discussion of Hayek seeing a ideal of people making independent decisions, but essentially bound by market constraints in a way that makes the system operate smoothly. I don't think there was the anticipation of the rollup of large corporate entities in this kind of vision - at least not to the scale that they start pulling on the fabric of the system leading to instability.

https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/39413662/a-history-of-neolibe...
It's true that (for example) a third of a metre isn't expressible accurately in decimetres, but you can always just say (continuing this specific example) "a third of a metre". Nobody will be confused about what you mean.

This is however perhaps a good argument in favour of non-decimal currency.
I first started down the text path, but not being able to "highlight" previous plays and check turned me towards generating graphics instead.
I don't think that's true. You have to screw around with launchctl. The original poster probably has to add the ability for a specific user to ssh to the box in "remote access"
This is a Chinese company we're talking about. I'm not sure how much influence an American judge is going to have.
Every network built on 3GPP protocol stack (including 90's 2G GSM) does that, because it is inherent feature of how GSM signalling protocols work.
This is one of those really tough areas where the problems are so significant and comprehensive that the approach people want to take immediately gets into their worldview and belief system. And no one readily changes their worldview, so its difficult to have productive discussions about such things.

Nevertheless I will state my worldview and hopefully mention a few specifics that might be anchor points for an attempted discussion.

Technology _alone_ cannot solve our societal problems, but I believe that there is great opportunity to address them by better incorporating the right technologies into society.

And I believe that peer-to-peer distributed (and so decentralized) technologies offer quite a lot of promise. Starting with the idea that over-centralization, whether it stems from a more socialist traditional system or a more capitalist traditional system, is one of the main problems, and technologies that are inherently decentralized can address that.

Well, maybe I will just start with a few premises. I would like to suggest that we should re-evaluate all of our societal structures in a technological context. I think that we can usefully think of them all as types of (mostly primitive) technologies.

For example, I suggest that money is in fact a technology. It is probably the most fundamental technology of society. I think that although an over-reliance on traditional money obviously causes problems, the answer is not to simply de-emphasize its use in society, although that can help in certain contexts. I believe that we should upgrade the technology of money and in doing so we can improve the functioning of society.

I also believe that government is another type of fundamental technology for society. It should also have its technology upgraded.

Another idea I have is that there is a fundamental interaction between money and government which we normally refer to as "corruption" with the idea that this is an abnormal state for the relationship. However I believe that the close relation between money and government in their present primitive forms is a core structural element, i.e. corruption is structurally guaranteed.

I realize that convincing people of these views would require quite extensive prose. But it is unlikely that those with different worldviews would be convinced and I am tired of writing this answer so unfortunately I am not going to try right here. However at least I have explained some of my viewpoint.

Anyway, I think that Ethereum and related or similar technologies are moral causes because they allow us the possibility of upgrading core technologies used in society. We can upgrade money with cryptocurrency. We can upgrade government using something like Ethereum-based decentralized autonomous organizations. I think that you need to upgrade money _and_ government at the same time and be sure that your system considers them as closely related so that you can handle "corruption" in a structural way.
By filth, you mean a world where we've gone from 94% destitute in 1820, to 90%+ not destitute in 2015, coinciding with an outrageous boom in population, and the availability of technologies which would have seemed basically like magic to people of the time?

You're welcome, and I'm sorry your friends let you manage to be so miserable in the best time ever for humanity.

The overwhelming majority of those remaining in extreme poverty live in sub-Saharan Africa, if any of the improvements we've seen everywhere else can be extended there, the remaining 8.6% of people living in extreme poverty can escape it.

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/World-...

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/3...
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Even in silocon valley, any non-"art design" business uses windows as the primary machines
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Objective journalism died with the subscription-based business model. Instead of optimizing for long-term reader trust, media has to get maximum eyeballs.

This has always been a problem (TV news was making the shift long before print media) but it's only gotten worse. It became impossible to ignore in 2016, but it was building before that.

I hear that the WSJ is still fairly reliable (if you ignore the opinion columns), and FT as well. But I can't confirm, because I'm part of the problem and I don't pay for news either.
You don't have to share your actual last name. Pseudonyms are fine. I didn't think about the case where someone doesn't have a last name. I might need to do something about that.
Personally I'm amazed that people appear to like the cheap shot I made with the spitting image clip, but hate the formal logic joke.