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Agree. It's standard quadratic medium rectification, and they've dressed it up so much they can't see it. The rectification will be associated with a uniform translation of the sample the sound wave travels through.
You mean something like ipfs cluster?

https://cluster.ipfs.io
> Unicode is to support all scripts. Unicode is meant to make all other text encodings obsolete so the world never has to think about text encodings again

Technically speaking Unicode is not an encoding, but otherwise your point is mostly correct.
Azure Text Analytics says "Happy New Year" has a sentiment of 96% - whatever that means.
It's really hard to put level 3 on a resume though. For example, I had a situation where we built a product from 0 to release in 2 weeks, got revenue and hundreds of buyers by the second month, without any funding. But just writing it that way doesn't make it clear whether it was luck, skill or the effort of colleagues.
Its been a while since I used Debian - need to check that out. In ubuntu currently when you select FDE it partitions things on its own. If you want separate /home you need to create LVM layout by hand before you start the installer an update grub/crypt setup after install is done.
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And if the car had never been invented, we’d bemoan the “health disaster” that is mass transit and how many people and kids it kills.
1. It is great this this information is published. People should know about these crimes. I sincerely hope that all involved with rot in jail (or worse, for all I care). It would be even better if it also would drop the curtain on the people who (so far) remained out of view in all this.

2. What is absent (surprisingly, if you're naive), both in this publication and in general regarding the topic, is the relationship between Russian oligarchs, their rise to power after the collapse of the USSR, and the assistance they got from mostly foreign/US "advisers", "investors" and "businessmen". All of which were eager to at least make as much profit from the chaos, and probably had full blessing of the US government to corrupt Russia as much as they could.

3. Somehow, the foreign individuals who played key roles in creating the Russian "reality" as it exists today, just happen to (mostly) stay out of view in every publication. That some of these individuals are themselves under investigation in Russia, some of which lost much of their "gains" made in Russia, and now some of the most vocal driving factors behind the current anti-Russia rhetoric/hysteria in the USA, can of course be all just coincidence.

4. Looking at the list of supporting organizations on the OCCRP's web site, it would be rather extraordinary if this publication does not have a political bias, since many of these supporters have rather blatantly open political agendas (with some of them at least being suspect of being criminal organizations in their own right).

5. What if this publication is first and foremost a political chess move, in a large scale turf war between competing criminal organizations? All of which are effectively outside the reach of legal scrutiny. I do not claim that this is the case, but it might be worth considering.
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That's natural. Unions and politicians will always act in their best interest. And a HSR project seems to be in their best interest. Unions see it as good jobs, politicians see it as something for their constituents.

Of course this backfires when the NIMBY folks don't want anything built, and those who are okay with the idea want it done cheaper. (So the unions are not going to be happy.) So the project stalls.
That didn't work ... the facebook redirect did though.
Wasn't it more "only affects people having risky promiscuous sex", it's not like HIV is the only transmissible sexual disease.

Ensuring people can adopt a sexually hedonistic lifestyle without caring about protecting themselves or their partners from disease seems pretty low priority to society?

People (in general, based on my observations) only care about anti-vaxxers because of their effect on others. Isn't it the same? A group choose to do something that exposes them to greater risk of disease; society steps in when the impact on others increases.

As a slight aside: Some consider that the reframing, in USA, of HIV as a general problem -- rather than being transmitted primarily amongst promiscuous male homosexuals -- as a great harm.
Could you be clearer about what kind of time frame and locality you're talking about here?

> tram and bus - exploded in range and popularity thanks to the availability of cheap technologies popularized by the car.

A lot of people would argue the opposite, see e.g. the alleged GM "streetcar conspiracy". That was in the postwar timeframe when personal car ownership and transitless suburbs took off.
It's extremely rewarding to read what you've written there, thank you!

It's true. The community is keeping Riak alive, and pushing it forward. The CRDT stuff has not been worked on for a long time, despite there being numerous tabled improvements in that area SINCE 2014. It was neglected by the "new" management that crashed Basho into the ground as being "complicated computer science nonsense". Since then I've been unable to do the CRDT work for Riak I wanted, due to lack of time, and no one willing to pay for it (despite numerous bait-and-switch offers for completing the bigsets work.)

The CRDT work in riak needs:
1. the smaller/more efficient map merging
2. some new types from Sam merging (range reg etc)
3. the bigsets work completing and integrating (this enables delta-CRDTs)
4. big maps (built on the above work)

When it has all that it would be at the place I'd envisioned for it, before everything went super bad at Basho. I work at Joyent now, so can't dedicate any time to taking the CRDT work forward, though I really wish I could. I still have a deep interest in the EC datatypes world.

IMO, at the time it was released (2014) Riak had ground breaking support for convergent datatypes, since then it has only lost ground. Am I bitter? Yes, a little.

WRT other systems with CRDT support, https://www.antidotedb.eu/ came out of the syncfree research project.
Chistopher Meiklejohn's work is industrial grade, state of the art, actively developed, and highly recommended. https://github.com/lasp-lang
As others have mentioned, REDIS also uses CRDTs for MDC replication, and has CRDT co-inventor Carlos Baquero on the tech board.
This modern reinterpretation of blaming the state for cars being the main mode of transportation in the USA rather than people people choosing cars seems bizarre.

Is there any evidence of this? People buying and wanting to drive cars seems largely consumer driven not derived from state enforcement.
Which sort of mass transit and how many people does it kill, and how many of those are suicides?
Again I'd emphasize one point you made here: "And in practice most all of the offers are difficult or impossible to really compare to each other in practice, so most consumers have to rely mainly on the marketing materials and subjective experiences." This is arguably the single most important factor here. When companies are incapable of meaningfully distinguishing themselves, you're going to trend towards monopoly because there is no way for competitors to offer a compelling argument for their product. They can try to compete on price/performance but in most industries, certainly including telecoms, economy of scale means this is a losing battle.

Let's now imagine Comcast blocks Google due to payment from e.g. Bing. First off it's entirely possible that Comcast could not unblock Google even if they wanted to, since this would undoubtedly be breach of contract with Microsoft. But more importantly, this is something that would be perceived as a actively malicious action by the customer. They see the company is engaging in unreasonable behavior at the behest of third parties that visibly and meaningfully worsens their experience relative to other ISPs. Our critical point from above is no longer true!

This offers an opening for new competitors even if Comcast is able to unblock Google, because of the newfound ability for customers to compare services in practice. Compare this to slow speeds or high prices. These are not going to be seen as actively malicious and so the incumbent monopoly matching a competitor's prices is something that will be seen as a positive for the incumbent monopoly, as opposed to a non-negative.

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So see how barriers to entry are not the fundamental problem here we can go reductio ad absurdum. Imagine we take something with very few barriers to entry - selling burgers. But let's apply so many rules and regulations that burgers become effectively identical -- same meat, same ingredients, same cooking, same standards of quality/freshness, same spices, etc, etc. You'd rapidly trend towards monopoly once again simply because the only way companies could compete would be on price and factors outside of the burger itself. But the biggest burger company would be capable of making burgers cheaper, faster, and more rapidly than anybody else - which means they would 'win', or be able to win if necessary, on every single competitive factor. In essence they become impossible to compete against and in simply trying to ensure high standards, you have created a monopoly.
I did some work in this sector about 10 years ago. We wrote a system to parse these spreadsheets, and convert the various units of measure. At the time, we were processing the data faster than anyone else and used that data to our advantage.

The reason we couldn't mandate our own system was that many facilities are jointly owned, and we only had the primary ownership of a minority of facilities.

Not surprised this hasn't changed !
> On what basis are Germany dominating the vote?

"In the largest survey ever conducted by the European Commission, 80% of around 4.6 million respondents said they favor abolishing the finicky practice of changing the clocks in summer and winter"

"While citizens from all EU member states voted in the poll, around two-thirds of responses came from Germany "

https://qz.com/1375622/eu-citizens-voted-to-abolish-daylight...
I’m really hoping this release will improve the situation with learning RE in universities etc. The free version of IDA is very limiting, and few people use the open source and cheaper alternatives (radare2/cutter, binary ninja, hopper). I’m also hoping I can get that decompiler (or something similar) in cutter at some point, but with the source not yet available we’ll have to wait.
I've never lived in a house or worked in a building that did not have water problems.

And I've lived in $1m+ houses and $100m+ work buildings.

There's no way you'd get me in an underground house. Except maybe in Coober Pedy.
http://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/fear-of-macros...

Which would easily make decades old and still maintained Lisp implementations unmaintainable, since they contain zillions of macros themselves.
Sorry, but what is Apple's videogame logic engine?

When I search the net for "apple videogame logic engine", all I get is multiple instances of more or less the same article.
I didn't know ipfs cluster existed -- thanks for the reference.

I was more thinking of a harbor[0] like cobbling of these technologies together -- harbor combines a bunch of F/OSS tools into one powerful registry solution. Here are a few:

- Distribution for storing images

- Notary for signing

- Clair for static analysis

Based on this I was thinking of was basically Distribution + ipfs cluster + a small management daemon. The daemon is only there to tie the other pieces together and present a unified interface but the bulk of the work can be done with the other pieces.

[0]: https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/wiki/Architecture-Overvie...

[1]: https://github.com/docker/distribution

[2]: https://github.com/theupdateframework/notary

[3]: https://github.com/coreos/clair
I don’t deny that there is more to all of this than most of us see. However, much of your comment leaves me feeling “citation needed”.

What supporting material can you link to?
Who the fuck starts actual work before getting the permits for the future development!?

That makes no sense. Sure maybe they though they can pay the right people and push it through the council by then... but not this time.
I wonder how well eye lens focuses NIR. And if it focuses NIR differently than visible light you'd have to choose between blurry IR green or blurry everything else.
The GP didn't mention humans. Also, the ability to be aware of your surroundings 24/7 pretty much fits the description of "no sleep" to me.
This campaign, which is taking place in several countries, has to be one of the most idiotic I've seen recently.

Stay in school, study hard, make a difference.

You won't achieve anything by hurting yourself and your parents who pay for your education.
> which provides more flexibility than Rust even with NLL

Not detecting issues being more flexible than detecting issues surprises no one. Raw pointers are also "more flexible" than smart pointers let alone borrow-checked references.
Horses and horse drawn transport generated an huge amount of horse poo and was a major health risk also horse riding is dangerous.
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Well put, I second this!
Just spitballing, but I take it you don't participate in many multi-TZ meetings.

1. That's a non problem. If you're in meetings 8h/day the last of your worries would be TZ. Plus, such a time zone difference already exists today between e.g. France and the UK, Portugal and Spain, or for that matter within the US and other countries, and even within US states themselves (see AZ).

2. No it doesn't. What's most problematic when setting appointments actually is when daylight savings changes times. During the switch your regularly scheduled meetings may get messed up, times that worked for an entire remote team might no longer work for a week or two, and mishaps on new meeting schedules are all over the place. See e.g. https://youtu.be/84aWtseb2-4?t=230 to get a sense of how nutty it can get.

3. 4. I'm failing to see how using daylight savings or not makes any difference.
> so horrible I ended up writing about it anonymously for Boing Boing.[1]

That sounds more like a communist prison than a school, I'm not surprised it would result in PTSD.
Yes, there are legal protections for the contents of your (USPS) mail, but I don't think there is much of an expectation of privacy when it comes to information on the outside of your mail (the "metadata").
Unfortunately, even in Haskell Data.Map.Map's monoid instance is left-biased. There is the monoidal-containers package which newtype-wraps Data.Map.Map to have instance Monoid m => Monoid (MonoidalMap k m), which I think is much more sensible.
These subsidies exist because for decades there was no reasonable alternative to owning and occasionally using a car, and no alternative to a community allowing car traffic on their streets. Since everyone is (or wants to be) a driver, and people need to be protected from the externalities created by driving (e.g., look both ways before crossing to avoid injury) you get the current system.

If you look at gas taxes, insurance regulation, and toll policies-- the subsidies aren't going to be rolled back. The unsafe, inefficient, and distant are protected from the consequences of their actions and choices.
Where would that be where there is a better startup scene than the US?
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Altair (based on vega-lite) is a personal favorite. Plotnine is also a good port of ggplot.
Macros are fine - 'creative' use of reader macros can result in something similar to C pre-processor abuse - opening a file and going "what language is this?".
Can comp this. I tend to sleep very badly during the week at times and Saturday is a catch-up day for me, when I usually sleep well into the afternoon.

Having a chance to "reset" during the weekend helps me more mentally than it might help physically. Deep sleep has been described to work as a scrubber of sorts, so longer periods of deep sleep should help with scrubbing all that mental cruft away.

Plus just being able to relax goes a long way, knowing you have to be somewhere by certain time always puts some weight on you that can negatively impact your sleep.
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Yes my local minicab company (in the UK) has a very slick system for handling bookings without an app - you can even book a cab from your last two locations without speaking to the operator.
Gonna try Rust. Seems pretty!
Well you do need to be at least slightly happy to send a Happy New Years message, unless you're sending it in a sortof ironic depressive funk.
Right on. Whenever some other offering enters the market with just slightly lower prices, I'll switch in a jiffy.
And of course it's limited to english, so far from "the internet".

And indeed, Trump has been elected for getting the majority of votes, yet it represents it as a sad day, while I'm pretty sure most voters were happy.
> On what basis are Germany dominating the vote?

The initial EU online public vote was dominated by German voters. There were 4.6 Million votes, of which 3 Million came from Germany [1]:

"More than 80 percent of respondents to the largest online survey in EU history are in favor of abolishing changing the clocks in summer and winter, EU sources reported Wednesday. Around 4.6 million people took part in the survey, which ran between July 4 and August 16. Three million of the respondents were from Germany.

And from the EU Commission report [2]:

"It should be noted that the largest amount of responses came from Germany (70% of all replies), which has a statistical influence on the average results."

That said, from section 3.2 of the EU Commission report, Cyprus & Greece were the only two countries where citizens voted to keep daylight saving.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-citizens-feel-times-up-for-changing...

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
man I've been needing this for a while. this is basically what happens to me any time I take a job in the corporate sector and have to heavily constrain myself. it usually ends with me spiraling down into addiction self medicating with whatever helps me manage to function even just 1% better (subjectively speaking of course, i probably just get worse!)

nowadays im trying to just stick to cannabis and nootropics (namely memantine as nmda antagonism also tends to help me function and maintain the neurotypical façadre) though as they tend to get the job done without putting my body and mind in danger. I have a job interview with wpengine coming up so im hoping that maybe this time I can do it right because I don't really have any other options. im essentially going to lose my place to live at the end of the year so I really need to make sure I figure out a healthy way to maintain if I get the job.

im open to advice if anyone has any suggestions, as ive tried to do this alone my entire adult life, and i just can't seem to figure it out. you give me a formal discipline, something I can quantify and study every aspect of and ill have no problems figuring it out, but when it comes to figuring out how to irl properly i am but an inchoate
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That was pretty great. Does anyone have links to tests of FaunaDB write performance?
I think people protesting about this miss the point:

- It is incredibly valuable to know what China wants censored.

- It is the people of China that needs to be empowered to change their laws, outside force from a foreign country will only invite conflict.

(Note that I have no respect for Google because they are a scummy company - not for censoring in China but for spying on people everywhere, regardless of their citizenship).
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>18 men and 18 women

This very much depends on statistical power. If the effect size is big enough, 36 participants can be plenty.

I suspect the effect sizes of sleep deprivation are probably quite large.
Unions do what unions can. It's amazing that NYC MTA uses unionized labor for things that could be easily outsourced/contracted.

This strange example of market failure points to us having insufficient information to understand the real transactions. MTA must get something else too from the unions to abide by their rules. (Allegedly it's Cuomo himself who benefits, thus he pressures the MTA.)
>The operators should be |, &, and -, exactly as for sets, and the behaviour defined with just three rules:

len(a) - len(b) != len(a-b) either.

I'm not really sure why you think that length should be a linear map for dictionaries. Their length is their least interesting property.
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I see that the tin foil hat conspiracy theorists are out in force today, trying sensationalist headlines in an affort to get people to pay for the subscription. Doesn't this violate this website's code of conduct or some such?

Bless the ruined internet where a common plebeian can make nonsensical, unprovable claims like "In the United States, motor vehicles are now the leading killer of children and the top producers of greenhouse gases." Not only is this sensationalist claim impossible to scientifically prove (and prove repeatably, which is the foremost requirement of the scientific method), but a single container supertanker generates as much pollution with just one trip as all the cars in the U. S. in an entire year, but hey!, "details-schmetails"...

And once again, no technology is discussed.
Consumer choices are made in some context. All things equals, I would rather have a car. But if society taxes me out of having a car (which it did), then I would have to sell/scrap my car and find arrangements to live without it. Luckily for me, that was possible.

I would say that pointing out to the laws that transfer car ownership costs to other people is a very important piece of information, even if the complete picture looks more like "Interest groups lobby for regulation that promote car ownership". It's good business for car makers, traffic insurance, health insurance, and the medical industry. It's bad for the pockets of low income people, and generally for everybody's wellbeing. The more concrete data people have about this, the better their chances to improve things...even if I would still consider those chances very slim.
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"Comfort animals" on airplanes, Alex Jones and anti-vaxx are just a couple anecdotal signs of the downfall of a civilization.
Under your desk all day? Not expanding out to your neighbours desk or the walk way?

Obviously you have an unusually docile dog, and unusually roomy office.
> because I just kept my foot constantly depressed on the accelerator, and the car never went above the maximum

You got it, that's what I want.
Seems like a straightforward problem with the solution suggested by the street occupants also being straightforward.

Though I loathe Instagram-tourism, it's existence isn't exceptionally problematic to these places. It's just one factor amongst many.