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There's no need for punishment but pedagogy.

Since there is still a lot of moving part regarding RGPD, the CNIL is just laying the foundation for futur cases.
I don't fully accept your premise, but if granting some leeway to people with less than scrupulous ideals is what it takes to get rid of legislation that could have severe consequences for the freedom of speech then I'd be in favour.

I don't accept that this means condoning any action those people might take.
Any reason to use this over Wireshark/tshark + Lua?
Thanks, finally got around to reading it!

> In explaining the results, Koga says that the plasma treatment speeds up the cell cycle so that the plant and seeds grow faster overall, with reactive oxygen species playing a key role in the effects.

Very cool! :)

> Nevertheless, Edward Bormashenko, professor of chemical engineering and biotechnology at Ariel University in Israel, says the situation was “more complicated than these results might indicate.” Pointing to his own team’s plasma research using seeds of lentils, beans, and wheat, he says: “There is no general approach available yet that can be applied to different kinds of seeds. Much depends on the types of seeds used, the conditions under which they geminate, and other factors.”

That is really cool, but I immediately have a follow-up question: given that plants also rely on a healthy soil ecosystem, which means symbiotic bacteria, and that this plasma treatment definitely will kill any trace bacteria on the skins of these cells, has it been explored if this has any effect?

Kind of like how you read all these stories of how the increase in C-sections results in a loss of transfer of healthy symbiotic bacteria from the mother to the child.
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In fact, due to browser execution model, it’s not impractical - it’s impossible - it can mutate any moment.
There may be moral reasons in favor of accepting a job that requires unethical behavior so that you can perform it poorly, so as to sabotage the progress.

An actual example is of Oskar Schindler (if I recall correctly) whose munition factories in Germany produced faulty munitions during World War II.
I'm wondering if we can't start micropayments today: Create an ad provider which bids together with all the others, but in your name (and you give them some money).

If you pay enough via that ad provider, it will claim the ad space on that page for you and leave it empty or puts some todolist or whatever you want there. Ask a monthly fee of a euro for computer costs.

As this is the raison d'aitre of this pseudo ad company, all its GDPR troubles are resolved at once. If it gains traction, publishers can use it as a preferred ad provider and resolve their GDPR troubles too.

Only question: Who would want to pay for this. It might prove people prefer ads to micropayments.
Many of the recent breakthroughs seem to apply quite widely. Cancer may be 100 types, but they carry similarities, namely that human cells stop following the "multicellular organism rules" and go wild, while also tricking the rest of the body into letting them.
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I realized afterwards that I had meant nationality but that wouldn't be quite accurate either - unless you count former ones like "was once a part of the USSR". And even that would probably be pushing it.
And many times more people who were not aware at all...
de Putron is resident in Guernsey and the holding company is in the British Virgin Islands, from where donations to UK political parties are illegal. Also, there is the question of bribery. From when de Putron's sister-in-law became an MP to when she became a minister, de Putron gave the Conservative Party around 800,000 pounds (this is a lot of money in UK politics). Leadsom's responses to press questions have been evasive. This is all enough to justify a police investigation. Bribery of the UK government is a far more serious crime than nicking some quant signals.
It's expensive, but not unreasonable given the quality of the parts used. Their cheapest bike is 2500 euros, or 1600 on sale at the moment. If you were to buy all of parts separately, other than the frame and fork, it would be about 1000 euros.
You are confusing the EU with its predecessors such as the EEG.
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> pattern matching, logical inference and post-hoc justification.

I think humans do way more than that. As the saying goes, "the easiest person to fool is yourself." Humans are able to lie to themselves to the point that they don't realize they are lying to themselves. They're able to create realities that no one else sees but themselves.
>I know it does. That's why we are well and truly screwed. But to be honest it's the only thing I can think of that would give us even a fighting chance

Agreed. We either have to kill 90%+ of the population or get a similar amount to agree to sterilize themselves.

I am NOT saying we need to start kicking down doors and shooting people or tranq darting them and snip-snip-snipping but unless an alien peacekeeping armada fills our skies with their ships and starts handing out free fusion plants and food replicators and machines to pull the carbon dioxide out of the air that manufactures inert carbon ingots... we're truly screwed.

Tech types are entirely too optimistic, they think just because we will need to figure something out that we will.

Ok, let's say fusion. Let's say someone got a fusion reactor online TOMORROW and that over the next 6 months they found ways to scale and mass produce it.

Now let's say they can start mass producing everything needed on multiple continents while construction companies set to work building all the facilities needed to replace the 60,000 something power plants on the planet. The construction of the buildings alone would take several decades purely to supply all the needed concrete (which itself creates absurd amounts of carbon dioxide).

So great, we create a solution to our energy problem which would let us drastically reduce our carbon emissions but under realistic conditions it takes us decades to convert fully to that energy, still spewing tens of gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year which would continue to worsen weather conditions, further acidify the oceans, likely lead to crop failures, kill more species that can't handle even modest temperature changes...

Sigh.
Can't Zen1 do 2x 16-byte load ops in one cycle, for 32 bytes per cycle from the L1?
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Be sure you actually know this local farm is real. Lots of stalls at farmer's markets are just buying the same produce as grocery stores and selling it at a higher price while lying about where it came from.

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/far...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/farmers-markets-lies-market...
Exactly. And the fact that CNIL takes this approach, deserves some applause. They could take out bigger guns if they wanted.
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I've talked about this in a few places before... when this subject comes up, I try to talk about it because I think the ethics aspect of software engineering often goes overlooked in our industry. I'll copypasta from the last time I spoke about it.

It's coming up on ten years now since this happened. I was a young, naive software engineer, addicted to the adrenaline rush of solving problems on tight deadlines and not giving much thought to what those solutions were being used for.

The company I was working at suddenly folded, leaving me looking for work. The father of an old friend of mine hit me up, telling me about this new idea he had for a service that doctors' offices would use to contact patients, or for universities to contact their students, all over SMS. For some reason, he was very insistent that it be done over long codes. I didn't understand why at the time and was too naive to press him on this odd requirement. Fuck does it matter if a university texts you from a long code or a short code?

I decided to go for it, and made a prototype of a system that would allow folks to automate sending SMS messages to all their clients (what I was told was the "v1" on which the more interesting features would be layered). He told me he already had some clients, but said they were from "the other side of the tracks."

I will be honest, I was too scared to call him out. I was prepared to take the cowards' path of not asking so I didn't have to know: a fact that still fills me with shame today. It was another guy working there on a separate project who heard him and and pushed for what he meant.

Finally he admitted what the whole thing really was. There were no doctors' offices, no universities lined up. Just porn sites looking to spam people over SMS, with long code numbers so it looked like it was coming from a person and not a business.

I flipped the fuck out, partly at him for decieving me and partly at myself for the fact that I was so willing to not even fucking ask when he said that shady shit.

I told him to fuck this and everything, and walked out the door.

About a week later my friend tried to resurrect the originally proposed business without his dad, and I reluctantly said I would if his dad wasn't involved. But he wasn't in a position to actually keep him out of it, and I walked away for good.

If you are reading this and you are a young software engineer, please do not follow my path. Ask the hard questions. Read the ACM code of ethics and the duties to society that it demands of you. Your job is not just to solve problems: you may be called on to be the one to put your foot down for the sake of ethics, and it is so easy to turn away from that duty when money and comfort are on the side of shutting up and doing as you are told.
What makes you say that ?
Have you ever tried it ? Or
Are you an enlightened master already ?
It would be terribly interesting to hear what some of the brighter minds here think about CS security model.
I disagree. Acts that you do can be powerful and dangerous therefore your acts should be within the law. This includes your speech. If the law inhibits your free speech too much, you should target the law, and not free speech. If you can kill people with your comments, it should be against the law, no question. The tautology you mention, is only when you take the word free literally. The law defines how free you are. You are also not allowed to kill somebody in the freedom paradise of the US.
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Interesting point. I think the transhumanism and mind uploading stuff is in the back of people's heads, but what you say about getting labeled crazy for not focusing on the money might actually support the thesis I was going for, that the AI is already here and we are serving it.

Which, ultimately, is kind of unfalsifiable, since finding a super-intelligent AI if it wants to hide would be a losing battle, which is why I put this up tongue-in-cheek.

My actual belief is closer to "we are the neurons in a giant distributed overmind linked with whatever communication technology is available at hand." In this view, we're just gradually offloading the computation from human brains into computers, and it's a continuous process. In short, we're desperately piling our knowledge into this magic cauldron hoping it will figure it all out for us. What's gonna pop out?
as I said elsewhere, I'm not talking about electing anyone into power. I'm talking about not condemning the action when somebody will come along and start strategically taking people in power out (this happened before and will happen again as long as the world stays on this trajectory it's only a question of time). I tend to cheer for the Stauffenberg personalities - even it's illegal. Sorry if that offends so many of you that you have to downvote the fuck out of me.
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From the first line in the article:

> The European Court of Human Rights has ruled a woman convicted by an Austrian court of calling the Prophet Mohammed a paedophile did not have her freedom of speech rights infringed.

Now, I don't particularly like the Daily Mail, but given that you are expressing the exact opposite of the situation described in the article I would expect some sort of argument. It appears you misunderstood the article's title?
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Depends on the airline and the plane. If anything, I would have said there was a trend toward in-flight on-demand programming at no charge. It's increasingly delivered over WiFi but, in my experience, there's usually a screen as well. Admittedly, my experience is mostly limited to United (trending toward on-demand) and JetBlue (just free DirectTV AFAIK).
One way to do it would be that the first time I visit a proper article on guardian.com (not something 5 lines long which would acts as a loss leader), I get told "indepth articles cost 20p. Click to authorise upto £2 (dropdown for ". Then I don't get asked until after I've read 10 in depth articles. The payment site would have to track if I've read that article before to avoid recharging me, but that's fine, I'd agree to that (if I don't agree then I have to pay each time). I could get a monthly statement, and clear my past logs from a trivial interface (wipe this artcile, wipe this site, wipe all older than x days, etc)

I hit "yes" or "no", and don't hear about it until I've read those 20 articles. Something built into my browser could act as the middle man, taking 10% of that fee and sending the rest to the article's creator. Firefox could put in an infrastructure to plug in easilly enough. You could even allow payment via bitcoin to get VCs happy.
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Handing out cash is a bit gauche, isn't it?
Why? Not having to walk across a field saves them time, so they can spend more time harvesting, so they make more money.
It's not ‘clickbait’, it's a headline. It's meant to attract attention and engage the user. See the red top header The Register uses? That's a nod to British tabloid newspaper mastheads going back decades, and The Register likens itself to similar hovels of deplorable journalist talent-waste.

Not everything is some clinically cynical attempt to con the contemporary reader — sometimes such effort is intentionally tongue-in-cheek for a knowing readership.
It’s a shame you’ll miss the festival travelling!

To each his/her own.
Look at their financial reports. Unless by "smaller" you mean 99.5% or more of them, you're inaccurate.

The only news services that would survive this regulation are the public/subsidized ones, pretty much. Maybe that's exactly the goal: eliminate independent press.
The article kind of mixes two ideas "AI alarmism" and superintelligence and rubbishes them a bit but they are different things. I think superintelligence is on the way but good and will allow all sorts of cool things so I'm not that into alarmism but it's a mistake to imply Hawking, Musk et al are fools for planning for it.
It's also easy to spend quite a bit extra on a bike once you have it. You almost always need to replace the saddle and pedals, so that's about $200. You get a bike fit and decide you want to change your handlebars and stem, so there's another $200. A year or two later, you want to upgrade to a set of lighter wheels, and that's $500 or more, easily.
> Yeah, that's a nice fairy tale. It isn't true though. It's criminally untrue.
I can't eat volatile grain, nor hedged grain. I just eat grain. At a price I can afford, today and tomorrow, not bankrupting me in the process.

I think you two are talking about different things. The comment you're responding to is talking about the price discovery and liquidity facilitated through trading. You're (correct me if I'm wrong) talking about how physical commodities are treated as abstractions, which doesn't help e.g. a farmer.

But it does help producers of commodities - they can hedge against (for example) crop failures. And it helps consumers by driving down the price and making the price more predictable. Futures in particular are very helpful for producers.

This is obviously not a perfect process. But I think it's really unfair to call it a fairy tale, or to say that traders are manipulating the price. In an abstract or purely literal sense they are; but in the malicious, legal sense of markets they are not (at least not in the aggregate).

With respect, your last paragraph sounds like an oft-repeated narrative about the financial industry which - though it has kernels of truth - does not charitably reflect the full picture. Finance is not an unmitigated good, but comments like yours which present it as an unmitigated bad are also off the mark.
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> they still had the money to spend.

you did claim

> the people that fall into the conversion group are generally wealthy

now you say "yeah okay it sucks ethically", and shift the goal posts to something else entirely, from "wealth" to "they could buy it"? You're playing fast and loose with the exploitation, both financially and mentally, of others.

You can't just ignore the costs of exploitation of people who buy shit they can't afford because their life sucks, and the sheer pollution of minds by advertisement, all the needlessly created "needs", too, because they can't be easily quantified.

> Those people will never have access to micropayment content, because they can't afford it.

So, social services in a country could confirm that a person is actually on welfare. If they are, sites can make certain things free for them, and/or others can donate a small share (10%?) of their micropayments to those who have nothing. That's not a fleshed out suggestion, just the first thing from the top off my head. Allow people to sign up to get a few free articles per month. Before you say it can't be done, show us you thought about it at all. You're also implying that the best or all the essential content would be micropayment content, which is a huge assumption.
But that logic also applies to search in general (in fact, it applies even more there, because Google actually makes money off ads on search but not off news).

I call it greed because news websites have always had the option to exclude themselves from Google if they want to. But they don't, because it's actually a net positive for them. They just want Google's money on top of that.
I heard TV network execs saying they don't let their children watch TV because it's bad
From my usage the "tabs" appear to be more like temporary bookmarks. When you switch between them, the page loads from scratch. So even when using tabs it might be protected against.
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I'm not sure what sites you're visiting but most sites i have attempted to use with JS disabled simply did not function and thought I was a robot. I was then presented with a human verification process that required javascript to run.

But yes I can disable javascript on HN.
Yes. This is so true. This is something we need to teach young software engineers - to try and identify the true business model from the model that the company is claiming to incoming employees. To question what you've been told at face value, and to be brave enough to walk away or put your foot down when you find out you've been had.

I've been there. I often wonder how many others in the industry have.
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A charitable reading of this would be that the grandfather is sharing Voltaire's view: "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
>The way the device was designed, it would have been nearly impossible for anyone but them to activate it because it required a double male extension cord.

I can think of one group of people who would have been able to activate it. I am guessing that they had surprisingly low electricity bills as well.
That is even more of a reason to oppose it in my opinion as an American. The last thing you want to give fascists is a preboxed mechanism for control to say label those who call death camps unconsciousable "hate speech against native citizens". Since they /will/ twist laws every way they can and ignore them against themselves.
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my internal confusion wasn't intentional though
Great post. Is there any resource out there to help non-technical journalists process poorly-formatted FOIA data dumps? (Either a how-to guide, or by directly helping out with ETL pro bono)?
Consequences famously never came for executives in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Our legal system has not kept up with the innovation in the realm of shenanigans perpetrated through a veil of plausible deniability. Corporations are evolving at a rapid pace.
I've never worked on a product that I thought was evil. But I have worked on a product crufty enough that if I had had a chance to inspect the codebase before taking the job, I would have passed. One of my employers had a Java codebase that had been hacked on for fifteen years or so, and had all sorts of weird stuff in it. Working on it was a huge pain.
Long ago I worked in Credit Default Swaps. I was naive and did not understand the concept then. I created many reporting and trading applications over 2 years before realizing. This was 2008. I was shocked later.
Assuming the '_' characters are on the same column for all lines then vim's block visual is quite adequate for the task. If it's not the case then I don't know how multiple-cursor will help, you still need some kind of regex to put the cursors at the right places, don't you?
> Any E2EE service that has a webapp is susceptible to this

But I don't think everybody are making webapps to service data of their E2EE product, isn't it?

The key point is, if the webapp can be compromised by anybody who are in control of the front-end assets, then what's the point of the entire ProtonMail E2EE thing? Especially when you have other solutions like GPG which also is an open protocol?
Cool, so my measly pension is invested in a pension fund (as it has to be, legally). The pension fund managers then buy some exotics, which gives me exposure to the same exotics. then something bad happens, such as 2008, and I lose my future.
Thanks guys, the stringent requirements really worked in my favour there!