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> It arguably has the influence to swing elections and shape public discourse

This used to be a power that was held only by a small oligopoly of mass media corporations.

> And it has always been the press' job to hold powerful figures and companies accountable to the public.

The question is, "who watches the watchers?".

Prior to the explosion of the internet, the narrative consensus established by the mass media was the truth, as far as most people knew. The voice of Walter Cronkite might have well been the voice of God. The press, itself, was seldom held accountable to the public, save from a few propagandists or, at best, contrarians like Noam Chomsky who usually had some particular ideological axe to grind and some biases of their own. (Chomsky himself was very self-aware about his place in the world at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent)

Now we live in a world where there are a million Noam Chomskys for each Walter Cronkite, and the Cronkites are getting scared. Instead of the seemingly benign and well-hidden biases of the mainstream media, we are bombarded with obvious, radicalized biases from a plethora of outlets, all with varying levels of honesty.

> Facebook has been, especially over the past few years, at best an amoral actor. That has to be news. It has to be.

Facebook built a platform for disseminating media. It's a platform where propaganda can be disseminated to people at a very high level of granularity and precision. It's a platform that lives in a place where national borders have less meaning, enabling bad actors to cross these borders. Facebook talks about making the world more open and connected. It turns out that the world is a terrible place and there were good reasons to be closed off and disconnected from certain parts of it!

The issues discussed above arise because Facebook optimized for easily measured and monetized things like engagement, and discovered some unintended consequences, so now they're being called on to address those consequences. Maybe they and other social media companies should block fake news, or incitements to violence, or political advertising, or female-presenting nipples, or whatever. The problem is, Facebook is a monopoly, and if you have a mass media monopoly acting as the arbiter of truth and social harm, you've just made matters much, much, much worse. This solution also doesn't appease the legacy mass media, which themselves used to be the arbiters of truth, and are loath to relinquish that power to some nerds in San Francisco.
Sure but then you have a chicken/egg problem: pytest isn't the only testing library that does test discovery (standard library unittest does too, among tons of other 3p ones). Does everyone follow pipenv's convention? Do you write a PEP? What's the solution (maybe a pep-like is the right one to be honest), but its not an immediate change, and makes people less likely to use your tool in the interim.

Kenneth used a growth hack.
Maybe. Or maybe they're willing to go to court, make you get a lawyer, drag you through discovery, depose you, set a court date to force you to prep for trial, and then offer to settle at the last minute.

For a large company, that's a small amount of money and a modest amount of time. For the normal employee, it's a lot of unexpected expense, a great deal of stress for months, and the risk of owing a shit-ton of money at the end of it.

If you really think there's no risk to ignoring non-competes, presumably you should be willing to guarantee the legal expenses for someone who wants to try. But my guess is that you won't offer.
The chap who discovered & reported the flaw wrote up his story here: https://rancher.com/blog/2018/2018-12-04-k8s-cve/
Look for laws to be enforced cops need to be aware of them.

Specialists exist both on the government side as say food safty inspectors etc, and the private side as compliance officers. So, rules like this are not obscure for people building factory’s to manufacture cheddar and your local cops are not going to know about this crap they are searching your house for something else.

This actually works really well, as we want food to be safe to eat even if most people are not aware of how long food can be kept at what temperatures. Likewise what safty systems need to be part of nuclear reactors, or the minimum safty factor for bridges.
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Interesting, thank you for the details.
Because the Computers are the property of HK company at that time, so the question is do US has any further rights on what is being done with them.

This being HP computers, it may be possible that they might even have been made in China/HK themselves.

What if it was used second hand computers, aren't their rightful owners free to dispose them at their will without deferment to any trade restrictions sanctioned by the country of their origin.
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I never like to have the car running when I'm not in it. If it's low on oil, or overheating, etc there's nobody watching the gauges.
I think it would pretty easily differentiate between "keys in your pocket" and "keys sitting on bedside table for several hours".
What about the herion addicts that the healthcare system created? I don't think less food is going to solve their problems.
"It seems" is not really a useful starting point in discussions. It is better to actually know the relevant laws & practices.
I have some Hangouts that I use daily over the last 5 years. I am going to be very sad when they shut it down
It's just my speculation, if after a year of a huge number of successfully completed rides without incident, they'll obviously be more confidence in the system.

My point is, the responsible thing for self driving companies to do is maintain safety drivers until confidence increases.
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"Compartmentalization is part of the problem, not the solution."

This, this and this again. We as people are absolutely allowed to be complex, contradicting beings, but it is because of this richness of breadth and depth in our characteristics and beliefs that we ought to consider deeply the consequences of our actions.

Compartmentalization acts effectively in the opposite direction of that.
If they were doing business in Russia and buying Russian-made tech under an agreement that the tech not be sold to Russian-sanctioned countries, and then they sold the tech to those countries in violation of that agreement... That might be a valid comparison.

And if they were in a country that cooperated with Russia to extradite criminals, this exact thing might happen to them.
Yes, exactly. My first lawyer explained it well: "The question isn't whether you'll win. It's whether you can afford to win."
These both signal that Google often wastes its resources through poor planning.

If you have developers working on competing products, you're wasting developer time.

If you inevitably shut down products, you're wasting developer time.

They are the same phenomenon.

The coherent recommendation isn't for more or fewer products, it's for some kind of product strategy.
Negative mass is like playing opposite day. Negative mass is attracted to other negative mass, but because of the inverse acceleration to force relationship of negative mass the end result is that it is pushed away from other negative mass. Negative mass would also repel positive mass, which is straightforward for the positive mass but for the negative mass (again, inverse acceleration) it would end up with an "attractive" motion toward the positive mass.
It's interesting that this happened on the same day Trump and Jinping met, there is a possibility they both knew about this prior to the meeting. On Monday stock market goes up on "improving China relations", on Tuesday the Dow tanks 800 points on "no news". Chances are the sell-off was because some people learned about it on Tuesday.
You can bet this means there will be a high level arrest of a US corporation CEO or the like in China almost immediately - - tit for tat.
If you're a talented engineer, there are a lot better places than Facebook in which to spend your time. Get the monkey off your back.
But other countries might have similar rules too. For example, Russia has sanctions against Ukraine, and Western companies generally ignore them. Also, Russia has Internet control laws and companies like Google are disrespectfully not complying with them.

Also, under Russian laws companies like Google or Facebook must keep Russian users' data in Russia; they are not complying.
Given the spacetime interval between photon creation and destruction is always zero, I'd find it moderately bizarre if there was an antimatter version of them.
Since Sanofi based in France is one of the top 3 pharma companies, along with Roche based in neighbouring Switzerland, I'm guessing the answer will be quite a lot.
What's the summary? Or at least what should be the lede?
- there is nothing you can do with pyproject.toml that you can't with setup.cfg. E.G: you are not forced to use setuptools to use setup.cfg. Any tool supporting pyproject.toml could support setup.cfg as easily, since it's a documented plain text format. It's a political decision.

- there are things you can't do with pyproject.toml you can with setup.cfg. E.G: you can't use pyproject.toml with legacy tools, or with just a fresh python setup. This may change in the future, but would requires a lot of effort because changing setuptools is a very tedious process.

- resources (time, people, money, documentation, public attention, communication, etc) invested in creating and supporting pyproject.toml could be invested in improving setup.cfg and its ecosystem support. E.G: Why does poetry support pyproject.toml and not setup.cfg ? No technical reason. Why does nobody knows this easy way to package python libs ? No technical reason reason either.

So not only the new format brings nothing on the table, but it is also a setback, AND add clutter to a situation that was just begining to be solved. It's not just poor engineering, it's poor manners really.

I've been coding in Python for 15 years. I've lived this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14753678

Stop the pain.
The justification isn't that OP came by the money unfairly, it's that because he has so much he doesn't need it as much as his friends and family need it. "Oh, can I get $20,000 for my business idea? Will you help send your niece to private school instead of state school? I'm paying 25% interest on this credit card debt, can you give me the money to pay it off?" etc etc. Everyone from his parents to that one guy he knew in college will want to solve their "small" money problems with OP's windfall, because to them he'll still be a millionaire and never have to work again. What eventually happens is OP will have to start saying NO to people then they will resent him and it will change the dynamic of their relationship. Or he could just keep his finances to himself and not bring this on himself. I'm not saying he shouldn't be able to help anyone who really needs it. It's just in his best interest to not advertise how much he really has to other people.
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In the US, Congress enjoys the Speech and Debate privilege, meaning pretty much the same. It's even in our (written, unlike the UK) Constitution.
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Also a good reason for state-funded higher education.
Android on production smartphones is hardly equivalent to the open source versions of Android available online...
I think Allo is really cool. A lot of the features it had were pretty incredible.

BUT besides this I had a lot of problems.

1) It is not privacy oriented. (I still have _enough_ trust to Google that if they explicitly state something as privacy oriented I would believe them. But that's not their business model)

2) No one used it. I have more friends that use Signal than Allo. Even though I liked all the features, those aren't enough to push people over. I feel the only way it would have succeeded is if they completely replaced messenger with allo (I thought that was the plan).

But I hope Signal implements some of these features. Really what was useful is inline google searching. Possibly inline DDG searching?
Why don't they arrest US citizens who sold those US products instead?
This is really strange and shallow thinking of some manufacturers.

I have a 2009 car. It'd NOT start if I don't have my key fob inside the car.
It's my job to create applications and diagnose problems with software, but even though I've used the software in development and testing, I do not understand the experience the same way a daily user understands the experience.

Similarly, doctors and nurses do not have significant experience in being a patient, especially one who isn't around hospitals all day.
I presume that the children of mute mothers tend to turn out fine... but maybe not? Cursory search found nothing.
Sure, public noodle eating may not have a long sentence. But carring a lobster in a plastic bag is a felony: https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dd-7o9xYp7eE&ved=2ahUKEwjuy...

There are enough laws on the books to lock people up at essentially any time if the police care enough to do so.
No Canada is arresting on behalf of US. On the contrary, Huawei is building 5g infra for Canada.

> Violating sanctions is a criminal offense under U.S. and Canadian law.

Just because its legal does not mean there wont be an aggressive reaction[1]. China will probably respond with force. Huawei with market exit. Then there are other actors who would respond in there own way we would never know about. US probably going to take net-hurt from this.

Do you want to hurt US market/USD ? Because thats what use of your justifications will do.

[1] edit: By that I mean non-US actors have not agreed to react aggressively. Legal implies that only US persons have.
The Library of Congress is only 10 terabytes.
Okay, but does this stuff break the weak energy condition? Could we build Krasnikov tubes with it?
Mostly due to the existing for profit system. Not for profits still have to reside within the existing construct of American healthcare and hardly provide any real advantages when they negotiate with for profit entities.
Haskell has erased generics and unboxing for days.
I've had non competes at my last 3 jobs (all in web hosting)

The first, a darling "startup" adored by investors and customers alike sued me twice, sent a process server to my door at 6am on a saturday and tried to call me in for a deposition the afternoon of Christmas eve. They regularly win company culture awards and receive undeserved praise for being a place people can grow. I had a chance to grow from IC to VP and they did everything they could legally do to stop me.

The second, a publicly traded hosting company that has battled negative public perception for years had an EVP handle it wherein he basically said "sounds like you are leaving for a great opportunity. We wish you and your family well and you'll always be 'one of us.'"

The third company voluntarily and without my asking remover the non compete from my separation paperwork.

Non competes are a disaster and always will be. But how companies enforce them is the real culprit.
No, you've got comparative advantage crucially wrong. If country X can produce food a bit cheaper/better than you, but produces shoes much cheaper/better, then you end up growing at least some of your own food and importing shoes from X. https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativead...
Yes, its the "we have so much space that we are doomed" argument.

If they believe the EU is cheating through higher population density, just move your population closer together?
> ... how to build an artificial observer.

Can't be done, not even in principle.

> how to prepare my observer for the dissolution of my own mind and body.

The observer is unaffected by death or birth. If you can give up attachment to the impermanent aspects of your being then death is a change not an ending.

(This is the whole point of human life, everything else is kind of a sideshow. Less than one in a thousand ever even think about this stuff, of those less than one in a thousand will take it seriously and seek. Which is really really sad, because the path, though narrow, is not particularly hard. Avoid BS, seek Truth with persistence and sincerity. Do it every day. Eternal life guaranteed or triple your money back!)
My argument is that the version with a single mutable board would be 100x100=10000 times faster, since you won't need to make a new array for every move
Because the actual crime was the act of selling the tech to Iran.
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Look, I am speaking from personal and anecdotal experience, however its so blindly obvious for myself and coworkers. The amount of dissonance between my beliefs and my actions at work feels like a micro scale version of what life would be like under a surveillance state. The difference in openness between the two large groups of people that have opposing views at work are massive. Both groups have smart people, both groups have good intentions, the ones that are silent are not silent because they hold chauvinist views, they are silent because the other side is actually bigoted.

I wish you could do a study on it, but you can't right now.
That doesn't stop companies from asserting that their non-compete is more broad than it is. Once they do, no other company is going to risk having you work for them while that illegally-broad non-compete is in effect.

You can sue but it's so expensive you probably won't and the company knows it.
It's more than a return address though, since those are stateless. It's more like a return context since it can encapsulate state.
I suspect that it is because Java 6 is the oldest (and thus smallest/simplest) version of Java that supports their tooling. Java 6 introduced annotations which makes writing third party tooling a lot easier plus Java 7 changed the sort algorithm. This particular update which used Timsort actually had some subtle issues which were only found through formal verification [1]. Not sure if there were other changes to collections internally/externally though.

[1]: http://www.envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-pyth...
Excellent article!

I've never had a mini-stroke, or at least, not one dramatic enough to act on. There are little lapses in consciousness, especially at times of stress, but whatever. Maybe just some subsystem crashing and rebooting.

But his stuff on LSD matches my experience exactly. For some years, I got into the habit of taking maybe one or two milligrams, just before going to sleep. Usually a little drunk, and very stoned, with a full stomach. So I'd wake up, perhaps 3-4 hours later, in the middle of the peak.

I clearly remember just being the observer. There was no self-talk. No language at all. Just observing. But not observing external reality, because those systems were also hosed. What I was observing, I think, were internal states. Maybe comms traffic among subsystems.

But I really have no clue what I experienced, in any detail, because it was timeless, and memories are timelike. All I remember is being very calm and happy. And the amazing hallucinations, a mix of geometric and periodic (but less so than with peyote) and "organic" and flowing (but less so than Psilocybe spp).

I also remember the process of coming down from peaking. As TFA notes, subsystems came back gradually.
Huh? The diagram in the article shows two men ("Thief 1", "Thief 2") between the fob and the car, with arrows showing communications going from fob to thief to car. According to the first sentence of the Wikipedia MITM article, that's the very definition.
Very cool. Today I learned something about a AXE (Alpha Chi Epsilon chemistry fraternity).
The big one I am aware of is transactional ddl, which I believe got integrated into MySQL 8.
Maybe a little odd but when I was little I called my grandfather Mr. Wu and I never could remember why.
That claim is technically true. There's a lot of good stuff in here—partitioned locks, transaction recovery journals, a realistic expectation of WAN latency and reliability—but page 20 ("Local Autonomy") and page 37 ("NonStop Operation") give clues as to the differences from modern systems.

Rather than build consensus-based high availability into the software, NonStop SQL relies on custom hardware and redundant networks that are designed to never fail. If they do fail, some portion of the data or some types of modifications become unavailable and the operator is expected to intervene and make choices about how to proceed.

They give an example of being unable to run an ALTER TABLE statement because two datacenters that each own a shard of the table are disconnected—the statement can't be run at either datacenter during the partition.

They give other examples where queries return partial results because a specific shard is down. This is potentially a correctness violation if it is not explicit, and it is definitely a loss of availability.

Modern distributed systems are instead designed to maintain almost total levels of availability on constantly failing hardware, and heal themselves immediately and autonomously without losing correctness.
I loved the part about his insistence on paying the bill, going so far as feigning illness to go pay the cashier. I've got drawn up in these bill paying fights, but that's next level.
The solution is to dump money into R&D and figure out how to "scoop" the C02 out of the air and then break it apart into carbon and oxygen. A series of solar powered drones could hopefully do this. This may sound far fetched, but I think global political action before its too late is even more far fetched.

Send the money into DARPA and call it increased defense spending to appease the elephants.
On your first point, yeah I agree, previous comment called it out.

Agree on the last point too.
A different hand-wavy explanation. The places that an electron can be found are described by a wave pattern. If the electron is staying in place around a nucleus, that wave pattern has to be a standing wave that reinforces itself. To reinforce itself it has to wrap around the nucleus an integer number of times.

This explanation doesn't just explain why it doesn't fall in, it also explains why there are discrete shells that it could be found in, corresponding to how many times it wraps around the nucleus. (It doesn't explain why only a finite number can fit in each shell though. Or why bigger shells can have more electron orbitals. Or...well the actual theory has to be good for something!)
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I like and use pipenv, but the lockfile slowness thing is truly a nightmare. It's especially bad in the data science stack. On my fast MBP, I can `pipenv install numpy pandas matplotlib` and then go get lunch, and there's a fairly good chance it won't be done when I get back.
Here’s a lil trick: if you have to, you can access your Facebook messages on mbasic.facebook.com.

(And on to the point, Facebook has also, of course, WhatsApp, which is massive)