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I'm actually 100% against the privatization of basic social needs such as police, firefighting, water distribution, prisons, health care, etc.

But... why are you bringing this up?

I never said 1 thing to the contrary.

I never said there wasn't corruption in the private sector. I never said we should get rid of the public sector.

I said I was amazed at the leniency given to public sector employees which is NOT given to private sector employees.

Your post doesn't contradict this.

I never argued about government being bad or good. My argument was more toward being an informed citizen that presses for things that matter. Knowing this double standard exists is important in improving it.

I'm amazed at how many people will put out non sequiturs, strawmans and other sophist mechanisms as soon as something is said against people with boots.
>how much more public speaking experience does one need

Until he stops being a lifeless robot that scares normies?
I think it's a combination of youth and dedication that helps people push through such harsh circumstances. There was a time in my life when I would only sleep for 4 hours a day 2am to 6am and I did this for 2 years. Some good things were that I didn't work during the daytime, only studied, and I had access to very good nutrition. If I look back even I marvel at how this is even possible. But I was very young and super passionate back then. Definitely can't do it at this point in my life.
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That’s good advice but it’s also highly dependent on culture and time. It’s food advice because the English-speaking culture of today values writing that sounds like speech. It may not have been good advice at all for someone writing in 1920s France. And beyond that, it’s really hard to apply this sort of advice to a translation.
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> But imagine I told that riddle where the solution is "the surgeon is the boy's mother". But I kept referring to the surgeon by the "gender neutral" pronoun "he".

In that case you would indeed be deliberately misleading your hearer. Given that you know the gender of the surgeon, and indeed this information is key to your riddle, you would be expected to use a specifically matching pronoun (if any - in practice, of course, the riddle is carefully phrased so as to avoid using a pronoun for the surgeon).

That's not comparable to referring to an unknown person of unspecified gender, where the long-established English convention is to use "he" as a non-gender-specific singular pronoun.
"I had read that qualcomm's trustzone has had software exploits in the past, but I didn't think it would happen again"

Of course it's going to happen again, given the abysmal state of security in QSEE, Qualcom's implementation of Trust Zone. I used to do software/firmware security reviews at Google, and let me tell you that what Gal found at [1] would have never passed my reviews had Qualcomm had a similar internal security process in place. This is one of the many reasons Google realized they couldn't trust vendors, so they rolled out their own security chip Titan M: https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/titan-m-makes-pixel-3... So, if you want a secure phone, buy a Pixel 3 or later.

[1] http://bits-please.blogspot.com/ : there are so many WTF moments, like Qualcomm not revoking trustlets, never sanitizing arguments passed to QSEE syscalls, etc, etc
AFAIK, the data lake is the next step in the evolution of the data warehouse. Instead of storing data in a data mart/data warehouse, the concept of the datalake (as a design pattern) is that you don't schemas (support for unstructured data), better support for auditing and data governance/democratization, and schema (?) evolution
Wow this is gatekeeping if I have ever seen it before. A package manager that tracks all files installed by a distribution of software is an excellent tool, and in no way incompatible with the Unix philosophy.
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Do you know how VMM performance compares to something like KVM2?
You can do >200k USD TC at a FAAMG in London as a senior if you have multiple offers and negotiate. It's fairly rare, and you'll still be earning below what you'd get in the US, but it does happen.
I appreciate the thought TechCrunch put into the image representing ACID-compliant data lakes.
This is exactly how submarines work
Ehh, the Gen-I Prius (MY97-03) was also sold as the Echo with a traditional powertrain, and it looked pretty normal, if a bit homely.

The Gen-II Prius ('04-09) was smoother and looked more uniquely-Prius, but it still had pretty normal headlights and stuff. I think it was the most normal of the bunch.

The Gen-III Prius ('10-14) took the Kammback profile even more seriously but still doesn't look totally alien. Unmistakably Prius, though.

The Gen-IV Prius ('15-present) is where the design went completely off the rails, jarring slashy features on an otherwise-watermelon-seed-shaped car.
Don't have cloud enabled and sharing by default. Also use strip tags software to erase your geolocations from the pictures you take. And if take sensitive pictures (children in your house, sexy time with SO, police doing a crime, etc) definitely move them to an encrypted container and use a wiper too to get rid of them from your normal storage.
You won't know until you try them out. My best advice is to download them all and fire up some virtual machines and get installing. Build each of the systems to meet your needs and see how you feel about the admin process.

For my more basic needs which is development I chose OpenBSD based on their simple, pragmatic design coupled with tight security practices in coding. Their documentation is excellent and their man pages are easy to grok and can get you 80% of the way to your goal most of the time without resorting to a search engine for help. Their FAQ pages are also full of simple, straightforward information and how-to guides that are very newbie friendly. I'm not an IT expert or unix admin, I do this for fun and as a semi serious hobby. So it's really comforting when you can type 'man networking' and figure out how to assign a static ip to an ethernet interface without having to resort to a search engine.

Hardware support is pretty good and I have it running on an older athlon x4 system, IBM T40 laptop, and my APU2 board from PC Engines (No problem installing to the SD card). Everything just works and I've yet to find a machine that can't properly run OpenBSD.

The rub is the system is more old school unix than "modern" Linux desktop. So don't expect things to be "Linux Gnome desktop easy". But it is by no means difficult to install, configure and use if you are somewhat knowledgeable with the comand line. If this intimidates you, perhaps you could go with a more desktop oriented BSD like TrueOS, a FreeBSD fork and start there. That's how I got familiar with the unix world; start with a hand holding distro and work your way down to the engine rooms ;-)
That doesn’t sound right... what does Stripe have to do with Wordpress? And if Apple Pay is not configured, it’s not going to throw an error, it just won’t show the button.
I think it would take at least another 20 years to have people that are really security expert in most of the big companies!
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I’m assuming the justification was something along the lines of a) enabling a credible consumer of ford’s x, y and z products (from finance, to parts, to logistics, to whatever is tucked underneath the blue oval). B) enabling of a workforce that can provide a number of things back to the blue oval from software to battery pack design, motors, enlarged / shrunk skates to fit a number of non truck needs, and c) blocking strategy to ensure competitors like Nissan, Honda, etc don’t buy them. Electrification is going to be a huge issue now that the domestic US fleet has essentially abandoned cars (which traditionally have anchored a mfr’s cafe average). Once you dump cars for vehicles that get single digits to mid teens in terms of mpg, you’re in kind of a pickle.
> I'll still fly in the damn thing though.
Why?
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Sounds like it's an air submarine. The description of the variable buoyancy sounds pretty much like what a submarine does.
No, but they _do_ have to do with giving money to Lenovo, a company which has shown they don't deserve your money.
Louis Rossman has made great videos ranting about Apple's shitty hardware. I especially appreciate the one about the ribbon cable inside the screen to chassis interface that was a bit too short on the 2016 MBP models and while Apple didn't warranty or recall all the broken machines, they did lengthen that cable in follow-on models.

These laptops run $3000+ Apple should uphold some standards.

My current one is supplied by my company, but I don't think I am buying one for personal use. The 2015 MBP was the pinnacle.

The touch bar is useless fluff, btw. Soldered on SSDs? GTFO!
I don't think a lot of people realize that HR is never there to defend you--its sole purpose is protect the company from legal liability.
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I believe it is about grants. If your research has medical implications, there may be more grants available.
Is there an example that stands out?
Paypal is just another "you pay for convenience" service. Not having to type in your card details for every site means you can impulse buy any time you want.

Another draw of Paypal I remember 5-10 years ago was being able to use money obtained on consumer-to-consumer markets. If you were to use any other p2p service (be it venmo, cashapp, etc) you would be required to have a bank and your money almost certainly will end up hitting your bank account. With Paypal, you can receive money from people then turn around and use that "paypal balance" for many real online storefronts without it showing up in your bank (or without having a bank account at all). Note - this may no longer be true as I believe Paypal has changed how it verifies accounts.

Maybe Stripe should create a paypal-like service for consumers where you can they can pay via "stripe balance" and use a single saved card everywhere.
From now on I definitely will.
Note also that the Spanish Inquisition operated during the Renaissance - early Enlightenment era, not the dark ages.
Of course I would. Do you think my lack of objection somehow shows a moral inconsistency? I think you do -- but that's only true if you project a very rigid and symmetrical concept of moral intuition on to me, which I promise you I don't hold.
Perhaps you meant 'Conspicuous conservation'?

See http://freakonomics.com/2011/04/21/conspicuous-conservation-... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_conservation.
Python 2.7? Also, the new Apache Arrow integration changes the python performance characteristics a lot; I wonder if they are using arrow for their JVM <-> CLR interop, if not that probably would be a good idea.
Scientific studies show that creating a child with your genetic material while systematically denying them any chance to meet you results in poorer outcomes. Children from anonymous donation are at higher risk for drugs, depression, crime, etc.
You do realize that everybody still drives knowing the risk? The driving force behind self-driving cars is convenience, it will never be safety -- especially when the fist $x decades of mass-adopted self-driving cars will be more dangerous than human drivers. If safety was that important and the political capital existed to actually change things then we could make a huge dent with just the things we know right now.
Yeah, I think the Gen 1 is largely overlooked because it was just a repurposed Echo. That might actually be validation of why new technologies adopt unconventional designs.
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This is feels like an elephant in the room when it comes to AI bias. We develop an AI that accurately predicts outcomes and discover it is biased, then instead of asking if maybe this means our current system is deeply biased and needs to be changed, we say, "don't use the AI; keep using the people who might or might not be biased but we don't know because we can't measure it in the way an AI can be measured."

If it isn't acceptable to use an AI to create biased outcomes how is it acceptable to use people to create the the same outcomes. AI decision making can be examined and tuned in ways that people cannot.
>The most obvious and immediately concerning place that this issue can be manifested is in human diversity.

I swear, when someone starts building autonomous killer robots, the first set of concerned articles will probably be asking whether robots were properly trained to target all genders and races with equal accuracy. This is not a sensible way to approach AI ethics.

>It was recently reported that Amazon had tried building a machine learning system to screen resumés for recruitment. Since Amazon’s current employee base skews male, the examples of ‘successful hires’ also, mechanistically, skewed male and so, therefore, did this system’s selection of resumés.

There is nothing "mechanistic" about this. It depends on how you select sample resumes and how you split them between "good" and "bad" labels.

I worked on a similar thing as an "encouraged" side-project at a certain company. Except I realized from day 1 that using AI on resumes is a bad idea and aimed to show this with data. My model was aiming to detect people who will quit or get fired within first 6 month (with the intent of lowering them in priority for interviews, supposedly). It miraculously achieved 85% accuracy... by figuring out how to detect summer interns.

Framing this problem as "bias" and especially hyper-focusing everyone's attention on diversity aspect of it is extremely irresponsible. (I'm not saying that's what the author is doing, but that's definitely what's being done at large.) Fundamentally, there are significant higher-level problems with using statistical ML models for things like hiring or crime prediction.
Farmed insects, for starters.
And yeah, I used the TrueCrypt as an example because is the most recognizable name in this, but in my particular setup I use VeraCrypt, as pointed by someone else. Wasn't aware that VeraCrypt got so popular. Before VeraCrypt I used Jetico Bestcrypt containers but those weren't public source.
I don’t think Amundsen is comparable. Amundsen is essentially a data catalog that has ambition to get into master data management.

Delta here is adding features more closely associated with RDBMS or MPP data warehouses to the Spark data pipelines with parquet data on object stores big data world.
The Saddest Landscape and Arthur Rubinstein is sad but also emotional. Usually, only listened to once then I'll switch to more mellow playlists.

I'm encouraged by the everyone's recommendations.
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This attitude from Apple most of all is why I threw in the towel and stopped giving them a pass.

Customer with LTV of almost six figures deciding to walk, but they won’t care, and don’t realise their moat is crumbling with everyone like me who decides it’s just a little too expensive and some of the qualities that made up for it in the past are no longer there.
It is the ugliest car I own or have ever owned, and my first car was a Chrysler Lazer.
I'm not sure that's true. You can get used to anything.
I talked to the Rivian Engineer this year and he said it would have Level 3 autonomy.
I flew Providence to Miami for $25 each way last year on Frontier. Even factoring in the cost of parking at the airport and the extra hour of driving time from Boston, I spent less than $100. So, yeah, flying can be super cheap.
So, basically:

1. "healthy" doesn't mean living a long life free of ailments. It means achieving your standard of athletic performance as a hobby.

2. "challenging" doesn't mean difficult. It means doing some research, buying more tempeh at once and maybe freezing it, or just buying a protein supplement.
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Calling this “hypervisor for the cloud” is a bit disingenuous. There is no way it would compete with the existing commercial solutions out there by VMWare/Pivotal, Joyent, and Red Hat. Where is the HA capability? No way to monitor cluster health. No k8s support either. This is just a fork of Qemu.
Like a hot air balloon which becomes heavier than air or lighter than air by regulating temperature in order to ascend or descend? That's fancy tech as of year 1800.
Leniency given government employees that is not given to private sector?

There are certainly old boy networks and corruption in both, but I think your not aware of how serious some of the punishments in the "Encyclopedia of Ethical Lapses" are to an individual.

This looks like a military publication, a letter in your personal file can be career ending and force you out early with no retirement.

Compare that to the private sector:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/magazine/kay-jewelry-sexu...
Strengths of OpenBSD:

* security -- the code is audited and hardened to a greater degree than any other general purpose OS on the planet (embedded safety critical microkernel systems would be the exception)

* routing suite -- one of the most well integrated open source routing suites out there (alternatives include BIRD and free range routing / quagga)

* firewall -- their firewall is flexible, fully featured, and easy to configure. It has been adopted by other BSDs, but development and new features happen in OpenBSD first.

Weaknesses of OpenBSD:

performance -- security is valued over optimized code, so the OS will not be as efficient or handle as many connections as a Linux or FreeBSD server could

* lack of ZFS

Compared to OpenBSD, FreeBSD has a slightly worse firewall implementation (originally sourced from OpenBSD), better networking and computing performance, and ZFS.

What type of device are you considering using OpenBSD or FreeBSD for?
Seeing some articulate it makes so much more sense.
Science has trained experts thinking about the data.

If you set a team of scientists to find a way of predicting failure of turbines, they might notice a correlation between Siemens sensors and failure. They would then look for and attempt to prove theories to explain this descrepency. In doing so, they would likly discover that, not only can they not find a causative theory, but the correlation goes away when they control for age.

AI systems stop after the first step, yet somehow are perceived as better than expert humans.
How would a more traditional airship descend, if not by becoming heavier than the air surrounding it?
> So what?

There's currently a powerful, and fairly successful political movement to move much of the power governments have over their citizenry into the hands of private corporations. I don't know what your position on this question is, or even if you have one, but it is meaningful context to include in discussion of this.

Corruption and double-standards inside the government are often cited as a reason for this transfer of power.

I note that when corruption and double-standards happen inside private corporations that have power over them, citizens have even less recourse then they do when it happens inside governments.
A lot of the fume events are reported by Lufthansa [1].

I strongly suspect that that's not because Lufthansa has more fume events than other airlines, but because they are more scrupulous about reporting them. Thus, 5 events per day might not be implausible. It does seem about time to do something about that.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the 787 Dreamliner, but there might be something to the idea of replacing bleed air by a better alternative.

[1] http://avherald.com/h?search_term=fumes&opt=0&dosearch=1&sea...

EDIT: that ^ search originally only included accidents (missing mere incidents)
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Synopsis: Not as dark as we thought, but still dark..lmao
I don't think I would want to stop that.
tl;dr: they had nice jewelry, so it wasn't really dark

I don't understand why people feel the need to whitewash this, aside from a preexisting religious motive or mindlessly being contrary. Civilization went backwards after Rome fell. It took centuries to rediscover and reincorporate those parts of Western culture.

I worry that too many people secretly want to go back to being serfs.
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It’s location plus recordings that’s potentially very useful to someone nefarious or for otherwise violating your privacy.
I would love to see a reasonable explanation for the rapid development of Western Europe. The henge circles all across the world (including the new world) show an advanced mathematics and astronomy for thousands of years before the rise of settler empires say parity ~9000 BC. Jump forward all the way to the late 1800s and despite the glacial pace of social change in Russia they are still designing one of the best rifles and bullets in the world, in use for 100+ years. The success of social organisation must stem from some mixture of accelerated development due to geographic sheltering and island vs mainland conflict- with the island empires (Spain, Portugal, Dutch)proving they don't need to fight landwars if the can control global shipping lanes. The interplay between Japan, China and Korea reminds me of England, France and Germany. Russia plays a role as a cultural glue between these two remote spheres but because of its size proves to be ungovernable. South East Asia gets ignored much like Eastern Europe. Italy, Greece, India, Iran and Egypt great middle civilizations are paralyzed by their ancient past insular and corrupt. Most of Africa, America and Eurasia are mysteries because of contact contamination.

If the answer is a universal religion plus a sea faring civilization gives you world power it still makes me wonder why it took until the late 1400s to kick off. Had the Romans avoided debasing their currency and managed their bureaucracy better couldn't they develop an ocean crossing trireme by the 800s maybe 1000s? So much time has gone by and humans are still just stumbling around unable to organise or understand the emergent forces their complex networks generate. The loss of life due to famine, disease and war in the previous millenium is at a shocking scale of proportionality to the existing populations affected by it. A mistake is being made by not teaching history thoroughly, say 2-3 years of intensive world history for all children. You could introduce a lot of concepts as they emerge in context from religion to agriculture to mathematics, music and politics.
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Your family is not a good/service. You are not simply providing 'material', you are providing an entire legacy.

This is not just philosophical. Scientific studies show that children of anonymous donation are at higher risk of negative outcomes than other groups: https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/06/new-study-shows-spe...

The link with depression is especially troubling given that a history of family depression typically makes a man ineligible to be a sperm donor.
It's where the money's at:

> This work was supported by grants from the NIH (DP2 OD008627 and U01 NS098971-01). E.F.C. is a New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator. This research was also supported by The William K. Bowes Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The New York Stem Cell Foundation and The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation

(Acknowledgements section, p. 498.)
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There's a joke here about C programmers and header files, but I don't have the wit to pull it together.