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I actually got in trouble more for leaving a Kindle and a game system in a bag on my last trip than on the previous trip when I accidentally had a utility knife in my bag's pocket.

I was sure I was about to be detained for the knife, but they simply told me I could leave it there or exit the security line and mail it back to my house for a $15 fee. I took that mailer option, walked out of the line unescorted with a knife, filled out a mailing form, put the knife in the bag, and went through security again.

This most recent trip, I checked carefully for knives before heading to SFO. When I entered the line, they were low on bins. I started taking things out and asked if I needed to remove the Kindle and game system. The TSA agent said I could leave them in, so I did. By the time I got to the other end, I was pulled aside and questioned, as they checked for any suspicious residue on the devices. They eventually handed me the devices back and escorted me to the beginning of the line, where I had to go through all over again, this time with the Kindle and game system in a bin.
This is pretty common in intelligence work because admitting what evidence you’ve found can compromise sources.
Good to see Zuck admit loss in a couple of these issues. Now it’s up to the regulators to take the ball to the net.
They subsidize it by charging a rate per piece that is less than a regular stamped mailing, but at a price level that still turns a profit.

It's market segmentation, full price service for those willing to pay it, and a cheaper option for business without enough margins to justify that.
I think a disclosure would be part of it for sure.
"Google DNS: speed up DNS, which improves load times, which improves the overall web experience."

Oh, just stop.

It's even more disappointing to consider that you believe this to be true.
We are traveling down this road. We've implemented Clasp (https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp.git) - an implementation of Common Lisp that interoperates with C++ and uses llvm as the backend. On top of this, we built Cando (https://github.com/drmeister/cando.git) - a computational chemistry programming environment for designing large molecules. The end of our story hasn't been written yet.

Clasp could be used for a lot of other things.
Hi Roman,

Thank you so much.

1) This is on the way. For a first version, this webapp actually wraps nicely in Cordova, and I intend to publish it in the App/Play stores. Alternatively, you will be able to install it as a PWA. Either way, you will be able to compose offline. I think it would also work well in Electron.

2) This is a bit tricky because Pony is more "email compatible" than it is email. Concretely, (i) Each message can only have one recipient. (ii) There is no subject line (iii) You send things by putting them in the Outbox and letting time pass. I've given it some thought and I think there are ways to smooth all this over and adapt it to IMAP, but I think the result might be clumsy.

And there are "philosophical" considerations as well. Pony provides you with a non-instant space to communicate that is separate from the instant everything else. I think combining these two spaces would possibly take something away from the Pony experience?

> The defining features of your service (daily collection / sending)

By the way, while that is a feature, I don't think it's the defining feature. I think the defining feature is providing a space where people can correspond reflectively instead of reactively. When you've got an email client configured some way, you can always unconfigure it. With Pony, there is no way to make it non-instant. So unless you are rushing to make a pickup, there is reason you'd be rushing to hit send when you compose a message, or worried more messages might come and distract you. There are other apps that batch your email, but there are no apps that give you space and freedom to think like Pony.
Yes there is a great opportunity here, and I know that because when I read this article I thought to myself what a wonderful specimen of native advertising this is. Turns out that its not though, its actually a five year old article and PhonepayPlus is a public regulatory body.
He cares more that his advertising database is accurate
But hasn’t someone solved this inefficiency? Hasn’t someone created a marketplace for buyers and sellers of PhD-level data analysis to find each other?
I'm paying the person I received the service from. Me handing someone extra cash is neither unfair nor unethical.

If you feel like Uber is doing something wrong there's a trivial solution. Just pay your driver more.

Sure it doesn't solve Uber's problems, it doesn't change the behavior of anyone else, but it does solve your personal culpability. (If you feel you have such culpability)
I was always amazed how I had to take my laptop out ... but I carried cameras, gaming devices, all sorts of other electronics in bags and nobody cared.
He explains in the article how the file only works with his own hacked version of the HarfBuzz "font engine" (not crazy hacked, so I don't think it counts as cheating, he only increased some sanity check numbers a bit).
That's a very principled position. I'll see you on the other side of security.
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This is why I wear my toe shoes to the airport. While it might seem counterintuitive, I can take them on and off one handed.
The block is a minor inconvenience. I'm okay with it as long as it is a temporary thing.
>> I could easily spend 2 hours instead if uncontrolled

You could easily spend 5-6 hours a day if uncontrolled. You probably did spend that much before without noticing. I was horrified when I turned on Screen Time on my iPhone and iPad.
I was in Honolulu last summer and they let us keep our shoes on and instead had dogs being walked around sniffing our feet.
It's fascinating how the security theatre has gotten so big that now it basically just rolls forward under its own momentum. It's been around long enough that people accept it as normal, it serves no other purpose than to employ the unemployable and fill contractors' coffers, and it seems that no entity is able to stop or dismantle it.
My company was bleeding money so I had to close it down over this past fall. Spent all of my savings and had to start making money asap.

I turned to uber eats, grubhub, and doordash. None of the companies value the drivers. If anything it feels like the companies are trying to milk the drivers so that the company can profit.

If the drivers are happy the customer will be happy and profits can be made. Raising rates for customers, lowering payouts for contractors is a bad idea short term. Automation of transportation is not close enough to discourage all of your contractors from working.
Wow. Make sure you let us know how the FBI visit went.
At one point, I was travelling with my dad when the "shoes off" policy was relaxed (I think the shoes-off policy was relaxed a couple of weeks/months after the shoe bomber plot, but I can't recall exactly when -- and then it was put back permanently).

"Agent": Sir, I recommend you take your shoes off.

Dad: That's okay. I don't need to take my shoes off.

"Agent": Sir, I'm going to need you to take your shoes off NOW!

In addition to challenging the authority of the Memphis TSA agent, my dad is half Japanese and looks quite a bit less white than I do.
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There's a lot about the pharmaceutical industry that I don't like either but you're not going to persuade anyone by berating them with sneering rhetoric like this.
This is why I’m more nervous in security than I am on the actual plane.
If you think this is bad, you should look at the gig economy in South America and South Asia. It's literally a notch above slavery.
You can load packages into an 18 wheeler for 20 years and you wont really learn much. A new person can come in tomorrow and do the same job pretty much without any learning. When you work as an engineer you constantly have to learn and keep your knowledge up to date on top of that.
Regulation doesn’t necessarily mean complete censorship.

One example that comes to mind is the film and TV rating system.
Unrelated: Wouldn't "they" have worked fine as a pronoun there (and been less distracting)?
Or you listen to podcast
This fellow should follow the police's lead: it's petty crime that is unlikely to get resolved without an uneconomic expenditure of limited time and resources. What is he reasonably hoping to achieve?

Understandably he seems to be personally outraged by his experience, but if he put his emotions aside he'd put it down to experience, make an insurance claim, get his documents and cards reissued and move on.
Your friend sounds like an outlier in these circumstances; the certification is more likely to be of benefit to those fresh to the field, and in the field of child-care (and aged care also), I think some bare minimum requirement of capability is warranted.

Professional training organisations may not have direct experience with the subject matter, but given a good curriculum prepared by someone who DOES have experience, I don't see why they couldn't deliver a reasonable result. I agree that any "Q and A" sessions, or questions along the lines of "What is it really like working as a..." would not be that useful, though.
On a flight within China, my parents were simply required to take a sip from their bottles.
In particular, you might be thinking of Joseph Kennedy, who made his fortune with insider trading and was later made SEC Chairman by FDR, where he outlawed the methods he used to build his own fortune.
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For me I guess it would depend on the kind of hallucinations we’re talking about. If it’s just “reality bending, things seem off” kind of hallucinations that’s one thing, but full blown warped reality akin to an acid trip is another. I’d be cool with the former, but I’m terrified of the latter (which is why I’ve never done any sort of psychedelics).
If I had to guess about the military, it would be a combination of the fact that doing it wrong gets people killed, a constant need to optimize, improve, or respond to changing conditions, and a lack of sophistication to tell the two apart.
Sometimes I wonder if the motivation is to allow petty fraud as an outlet for crime, to keep the people who commit it from doing other less desirable things. Like a stealth welfare.
I did Uber driving a while ago. I just called Uber support and they told me that my pay in the Bay Area is now 68 cents per mile and 29 cents per minute. In November it was 99 cents per mile and 18 cents per minute. I’ve randomly pulled up a ride I gave in November in which I took a guy 3.8 miles taking 17 minutes. Back then I was paid 8.5 and if I did it today I would have been paid 9.1. Shorter trips would of course not fare so well. But short trips suck even with higher pay per mile because short trips rack up dead miles — the unpaid miles between trips.

Before, I prioritized miles. Getting the most miles in the shortest amount of time seemed like the best thing to do although I never sat down and thouroughly worked out what strategy would pay the most. There are lots of subtleties that make the calculation difficult. But with this new pay scheme it might actually pay off to go slowly. This would make rides safer overall but might increase incidences of missing an exit when your fare is lost in instagram.

Maintaining a Toyota Corolla costs roughly 20 cents per mile, especially if you do your own oil changes. And that includes depreciation.

If anyone from Uber happens to read this, I have to say that paying for dead miles would do a lot of good. I would happily give up tips for paid dead miles. Eliminating dead miles would allow drivers to drive anywhere and change the equation in a way that would be very beneficial to Uber overall as a service.

Also add a tiny fee for people who cancel ride after ride looking for the shortest eta. On average a driver wastes 20 cents every time someone does that, probably. So charge 20 cents for cancelling even if it’s immediately. The small group of people who like to treat Uber like an eta slot machine can do so, drivers won’t sit and wait for several minutes to trigger the cancelation fee and the vast majority of riders who don’t do it will only see a small improvement in service quality with no increase in price.
Twizzler is not organic matter is it?
It's slightly complicated, but the smaller caps of "small caps" are the lower case. As Wikipedia says, setting text in small caps is "technically not a case-transformation". In those days it would not be surprising that a system would only have one font.

I don't know about the Silent 700's font, but it looks to me like this probably wasn't a mistaken case of the DRY principle: after all, the TI-99's lower case letters are still stored as separate bitmaps (they are reproduced in an image here: http://electrickeet.com/line-itfont.html).

So it is clear, at least, that they had the storage for lower case, and for whatever reason decided to go with a small caps font. It isn't a result of a simple limitation that they hacked around by scaling bitmaps or something like that. I wouldn't like to speculate about what fraction of users found it odd at the time.
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> It really makes me wonder whether the victims in China will ever get help if even foreigners refuse to admit that people need help.

The only way there’s going to be any let up is if it becomes a major political issue all over the Muslim world, like it’s showing some signs of in Turkey and Malaysia.
This is what happens when you compensate people with authority rather than, you know, money.
It seems every airport has its own different security theatre just to keep us on our toes.

In Newark, I put my backpack in the plastic bin. Vegas, put the bag directly on the conveyor belt. LaGuardia, stack the bins after picking up your items. Vegas, do not stack the bins.
Why not stick them on your back and just peel one off when you need to give one off?
Hilariously enough, that's why it was called a Pentium and not a 586.
Yeah they told me to leave my belt on before going through the metal detector at OAK a few years ago. That worked out about as well as expected. More recently I flew out of JFK T4 a couple times (protip: don't) and on one of these trips all hell broke loose when someone's pet cat escaped. Security theater indeed.
No need of ex-criminality. Youth, inexperience, naivete, desperation will all suffice.

Following the long established model used by couriers, despatch riders etc. It appears to work only temporarily until the real maintenance and depreciation costs become apparent.

Not exactly an ethical base upon which to build - scamming your drivers until they realise it's effectively a scam.
I acknowledged that:

> which is the one that matters for economics
My brother works for uber, He is 54 years old smokes a pack day and has had 2 heart attacks. He drives a Cadillac and pays $500-month for commercial insurance and has a monthly payment for his car. He has TLC plates to work in NYC ( fees apply) he makes about $300 a day works like a dog 12-14 hours a day. All of his friends are the same (uber drivers in NYC) Here you have the typical uber driver who does this for a living as his main gig not some side gig while building a start up or some bullshit side thing. These are the left over drivers from when the yellow cab money / industry dried up in NYC. The job is literally killing him. It's the classic frog in boiling water syndrome. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Maybe it was for TSA Pre-Check
And Solaris zones. But FreeBSD is far more desktop oriented than anything Sun or HP put out (and yes I ran Solaris as a desktop OS for a bit, but still).
It's more because military is a jobs program for unemployables
Israel is a highly pragmatic country, primarily concerned with the survival of the Jews instead of a set of principles. Allowing NSO to be sold to nearby dictatorships like the Saudis would allow the Saudis to more easily defeat their own enemies rather than go after Israel, a sort of dark diplomacy.
I'd say the last 15+ years of air travel has been pretty safe in the US. To say the security has accomplished nothing is a stretch.
Funny you should mention the Iraq WMDs. WMDs were cited as justification to go to war against Iraq, a war that the Bush administration had a variety of political, ideological, strategic and economic reasons for wanting to engage in.

What incentives do de Becker and Bezos have that would cause them to falsely accuse the government of Saudi Arabia? It seems that such an action would be risky to say the least.

Of course, the potential risk doesn't mean that they don't have such reasons (or even that their inference based on whatever data they have is correct), but I am curious as to what you think are the likely explanations.
Do you have time to watch the market? If you want to go with aggressive growth, and $500K you are willing to risk, then options trading. Put $20K per trade and it should double in a year.
hey isn't there some kind of inert (non-conductive) oil you could fill the whole thing with that transfers heat better than air does? if nothing needs to be moving in there then viscosity etc shouldn't matter.

it just shoudn't leech into or out of anything and be chemically inert in the relevant ways. most oils are pretty cheap and probably every little bit matters in this kind of setup. removing components would be pain though. (everything oily).
This is a pretty cynical viewpoint but I agree. It’s clear that TSA doesn’t do much. Someone I know has acidentially brought a pocketknife through security multiple times without it being found. They keep it in my backpack as a regular item and just forgot to take it out.
Principle was the wrong word. I'm not taking an ethical stand -- I just hate this sort of humiliation from authority figures so much that I genuinely can't bring myself to make the rational decision to get Pre Check.
Buy TSA friendly backpack. Problem solved.

Bought mine at BestBuy. Samsonite 5580680. The zipper goes all the way down so the bag is split in 2, a pouch holding your laptop and the other half holds the rest of your stuff. This lets TSA X-Ray equipment inspect your laptop only without cables, cellphone, and gadgets on the way.
Yeah, and very clever: a regulation that serves him well, and one that that's appealing to the government, as well. Surely his people/lobbyists are even using the phrase "win-win" when pitching this idea to Congress. They (Congress) will get to say "we regulated FAANG", and Zuck can claim his virtue prize, to boot.
That and have sensitive discussions while both you and the other person are in the shower together. Also try to use language that requires the other party to have prior knowledge for your statements to make sense.
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How can choosing uber rationally as a driver, and be taken advantage of by uber both be true at the same time?

If a driver chose uber rationally, that means they have considered all their options, and this is their best one. Therefore, uber is not undervaluing their labour, nor is taking advantage (where 'taking advantage' means to trick or coerce through any means to lead to the person to choose uber rather than the proper rational choice).
Don’t be nervous. TSA misses the vast majority of weapons during screening in repeated tests, so it is evident that basically no one wants to commit mass violence on/with planes.
To add to cutting-edge (& open source) scientific applications, Rigetti Computing uses Common Lisp for their quantum optimizing compiler [1] and high-speed quantum simulator [2].

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[2] https://github.com/rigetti/qvm
This computer makes no noise when it starts up. It makes no noise when it shuts down. It makes no noise when it idles. It makes no noise when it’s under heavy load. It makes no noise when it’s reading or writing data.

I've used completely silent computers before --- some laptops --- and actually found the experience rather unsettling --- to me the fans, the soft humming/whining of the CPU voltage regulators, and the grunting of the hard drive all give subtle cues as to what's happening with the system at any given moment. Without them, I have to spend extra effort looking at the indicators (if any) or monitoring apps. The white noise is somewhat comforting too.

There are certainly people who like the silence, but I prefer the extra feedback; I wonder if it's related to how I'll easily get nauseous in a car that's too quiet and has a very soft suspension, but have no problems if I can hear the engine and "feel" the road.
Except ketamine has already been proven safe with low addiction potential.
It was a wicked whipsaw. Hordes of new opiate addicts were created, with more addictive compounds than ever before, at unprecedented levels of availability-- and then their access was yanked away, with seemingly little thought to how addicts would react. Curiously, Fentanyl showed up on the black market in huge amounts around this time... and then users from all walks of life started dropping like flies.

Narcan is saving a lot of lives (although it does little or nothing for addiction itself), and kratom looks like a potentially promising way to help addicts stop/reduce their use of harder stuff (if misguided crusaders don't go and ban that everywhere), but everything's a tradeoff and nuance is important. We've got a ton to work on in this area for a long time.
And what’s more, our society is unwittingly taking the side of corporations and try to push more of it on another 50% of the population, which is already overworked:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286
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Such is the nature of a government that is based on violence. I too object vehemently to it but as another commenter pointed out, you will incur costs if you do, and costs if you don’t.

Minimize the costs to you and just pay them. You only get one life.

In the long run, it will make you more efficient, and hopefully provide you with greater resources to fight them.
I've seen this sort of things in videos of police encounters, too. "I suggest you do X" or "would you mind doing X" is some officers' way of being polite, but it leads to dangerous misunderstandings. When people say no, taking the statement literally, cops see them as trying to start a fight.

I'd love to see law enforcement trained in using basic, declarative sentences: "Sir, regulation X.Y.Z says you have to take your shoes off. Please step aside, do so, and rejoin the line."
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I'm not a Googler so I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure Jetbrains IntelliJ is pretty heavily used at Google considering Bazel has really good support for it and it is the basis for Android Studio... so yea, sounds more like a self-inflicted problem than a real problem.
>"Or more likely, just part of the constantly shifting fabric of pointless theater. I fully expect these new machines are primarily to sell machines, and not to fulfill any other purpose."

Indeed that's the more likely. I recently had a TSA moron tell me that my iPad did not need to come out because "it's not a computer." I explained that it might not be a laptop but it was still very much a computer. You can't make this stuff up.
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