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The logic is that anyone who does pay makes them a ton of money.
> that Sweden isn't actively pursuing the investigation.

Ecuador started arranging for him to leave the embassy at least five months ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/06/ecuador-says-u...

Why didn't Sweden have an extradition request ready? They had at least five months to prepare one.
Political problems are generally solved by organizing, evaluating, and disseminating information. All of which are technical problems. In fact that's how all problems are solved, and every problem can be political under the right circumstance.
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I mean some people should not work under others. It's not that they are bad people it's just that they are not talented subordinates.
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Here is but one discussion out of the numerous discussions refuting pipenv,

- https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-l...
And current nutjob. Check out his tweets/blogs around the time of the attempted Skripal assassination.

His questioning here is clearly in bad faith. Assange successfully evaded justice on most of his charges in Sweden because they have a statute of limitations. It's not something to celebrate.

The situation with Assange is all public record. Obama DoJ didn't pursue extradition, Trump DoJ did.

Separately to this, Assange was suspected of sexual offences in Sweden, most of which have now expired. Connected to those charges, he committed an offence under the Bail Act in the UK for which he has now been convicted.

Anyone arguing that USA was intending to extradite Assange in 2010 is misinformed or arguing in bad faith. Only Sweden wanted to extradite him in 2010 because they had strong evidence he had committed a sexual offence in their jurisdiction.

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Downvoters - did I get something wrong?
It's almost like there are photos in the article or something.
Rather, from observation, I think most people are used to not understanding what any of their software is doing and to seeing what looks like random, unpredictable, or otherwise weird behavior from it constantly, so Facebook's not unusual from their perspective.
Very expensive, you have to check every single file, every single release, revision and part, you have to censor IP, you have to run everything by lawyers and PR departments etc. That is the way of the commercial enterprise. You could suggest they not do that, but that is likely to bite them in the ass down the road.

No company is sharing their internal versions with the outside world. Making the versions for design, manufacture and internal testing alone is basically a multi-million department's work.

I suppose one of the things a lot of people don't take in to account that what you see as a consumer is just the tip of a very large iceberg behind it. This is the unfortunate way most of the countries that rely heavily on secrets/IP/law to function work. It's mostly a side-effect, because the protection also allows for a good position when dealing with other enterprises. Downside is that consumers suddenly are very much out of their league.
Here's a very cool GitHub repository which uses unsupervised learning (ULMFiT) in the genomics space: https://github.com/kheyer/Genomic-ULMFiT

Very impressive accuracies on hard tasks, and it's open source!
Maybe another article - "This is your code on cpu's", this is your code on a FPGA, this is your code on an ASIC.... that kinda thing, but appreciate not many Hello World and looks folks at the fast fractals in play ASICS or dedicated CPU's, making such comparisons not that easy.

Yes the aspect that the Google affair with their TPU, more flexible, whilst not fully general purpose, I'd call them niche purpose. A decade ago we would of just called them co-processors. Time change, buzzwords change, but 8 bits will still be 8 bits.
This also means speeds of 80MB/s once you fill up the SLC cache which is 2GB or so.
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> 78 10 MW (13,000 hp) pumps that can pump up to 200 tons of water into the Edo River per second.[4]

Wow, I hope the grid can handle the relatively sudden appearance of 780 MW of load. I assume they have some protocol in which why turn on one pump at a time and coordinate with the grid operators.
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They have a much more diversified profit generating portfolio than either Google or Facebook.
This sounds highly implausible, since conda’s number one mode of operation will fully isolate system dependencies into separate environments. It is extremely difficult to misuse conda in a way that would cause this problem, which makes me believe this comment is just trolling.
isn't he?
Allan Savory talks about the use of intensive grazing as a method for combatting desertification in Africa [0]. Herd fertilize while eating grasses that would otherwise fall into senescence and create pockets of erosion.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
>f your goal is to hire the best employees regardless of political leanings, then maintaining an apolitical workplace is a good choice.

My point is that your goals do not trump everyone else's goals just because they're reasonable business goals. There are things in life that are more important than hiring the best employees.
The aQFN package of the particular microcontroller they use would be impossible to do with a soldering iron. You could do it with hot air though.
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So, nothing here prevents "forgetting how to manage a server" like the article describes. This is literally how automations generally works. You are doing something manual. You know how to do it manually. You automate it so you don't have to do it manually. You never do it manually again.

Until you have to 10 years later for whatever reason, and suddenly, you forget. And suddenly you have to look things up.
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No, you're powering it with whatever the grid is using. Which is what invalidates your point. Even coal is cleaner [1] than gas. The grid is continuously getting cleaner, and your diesel only gets dirtier as it gets older.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/electric-...
Probably about as legal as setting up office in a street-side parking space...
There is a whole lot of accounting magic, and forecasting that goes on. They know that they won't get a lot of it, but there are several things they do to "mitigate" their "loss". They get to write it off on their taxes. They'll often sell unpaid debts to 3rd party debt buyers. They'll get some money out of bankruptcy etc.
Yeh, I guess the time gaps are so large that you have to. Still, I guess from time to time one also needs to update their orchestration scripts... Tbh, about the ssh, I know its in /etc, the I hit ssh, tab tab / tab tab, ah there is sshd_config, lets search for "root". I also don't really know by heart.
I'm not defending Ireland, I'm pointing out double standards.
> And yet there are political posts (as well as the other things I mentioned) all the time and they rarely get downvoted to oblivion or flagged.

Survivor bias. You can't downvote an article, but there's lots of them that reach high comment/vote radio or get flagged and you never see them.
I think it's an interesting phenomenon.
How so? Conda is strictly simpler than alternatives, by a solid order of magnitude at least.
Opinions are allowed but that doesn't mean they aren't just opinions.
> In the case of the allegation in Sweden that did fall through the statute of limitation, the accusation was that during the act of consensual sex Julian Assange deliberately split the condom with his fingers, without consent. ... But the split condom given to Swedish police as evidence had none of Assange’s DNA on it – a physical impossibility if he had worn it during sex. And the person making the accusation had previously been expelled from Cuba as working for the CIA.

Interesting, this is the first I heard about the DNA evidence, which is compelling. The prosecutor's dropping of this charge is reasonable given the lack of any DNA present on the sabotaged condom.

Also should mention that Craig Murray is a personal friend of Julian Assange, something his blog readers are well aware of. Murray is the one who testified he personally collected the DNC email leak from a disgruntled DNC employee in Washington DC and hand couriered it across the Atlantic where he handed it over to Assange. This leak origin account contradicts the Russian hacker narrative regarding the DNC email leak.
In a similar vein I'm working on an idea to monetize cemetery plots and crypts in and around San Francisco. They're quiet workplaces with scenic views (lots of flowers and greenery), often centrally located and many are close to coffee shops. With a little cabling/wiring and some temporary structures they would make ideal workplaces.
> rationale for not pursuing the company for the full $700 million dollars lost escapes me

Satellites are usually insured. (Not sure about NASA protocol, though.) If that’s the case, the insurer will sue. Shareholder lawsuits will also, naturally, follow, as will suits from all the other customers.

Agree, though, that it’s shocking nobody is going to jail in relation to a fraud guilty plea.
Give it time. When I meant success, I meant lasting success, not a hit and run. Given what his company is responsible for, I don't see them lasting forever.
One could argue that this is the reason for why it's expensive, to limit the amount of people that can be there. The invisible hand at play.
>They took it; now I use this technique all the time.

I’ve done this once for a $12,000 bill for a few stitches. They refused any deals, until I showed I actually took video of hospital staff promising it wouldn’t be more than $2,000 before treatment, in response they waived the entire bill.

The way you phrase this though...how often are you receiving acute medical treatment?
According to your [2], more than 2 weeks ago, Swedish lawyers started preparing their case to request his extradition. Have there been any updates?
I had two insurance companies when our first kid was born, and the hospital completely botched the filing leading to both companies denying the claims because of late filing and so on (we gave them additional the info they needed a few days after the initial claim was denied — they didn’t refile until nearly a year later).

They tried to come after us for 10s of thousands of dollars in bills.

After much back and forth with insurance companies and the hospital most of it was either discharged or paid for by insurance, they eventually sent us to collections for $1000.

Unfortunately for them, I had been taking detailed notes of conversations, including people I talked to and dates and times, and had gone through itemized bills, noting things like duplicate charges, and multiple times I had been lied to on the phone by the billing department about what paperwork they had filed with the insurance companies and when along with documentary evidence by the insurance companies.

By my reckoning they actually owed me an $800 refund from a check I had sent them earlier to cover a charge that an insurance company later paid.

I said if there isn’t a check in the mail today for $800 and the collections notice retracted, I’m taking all this information and filing in small claims court.

It was taken care of that day.

My kid was already walking by the time the billing was handled for his birth.

It’s so depressing because as a hospital, we have absolutely no complaints about the care. It’s hard to believe that they can be so competent at delivering care and so completely incompetent at billing for it.
My group is heavily involved in swarming technologies at a big old lab you've heard of. We reply to these and other calls for comments, and apart from a few bad actors, this process is pretty clean and sensible.

The end result is often not a ban on sales or exports, but rather a sliding scale of licensing regulations, up to a ban on sale to e.g. Iran or China. Do you really want to sell your AI powered surveillance swarm to Iran? No, you don't. You can develop and sell to UK though, because they're the "Good guys".
I think the USA had a ton of political goodwill after WWII that it has since then burned for money and now has very little left. The USA does have a lot of money and weapons, so people fear it politically, but it no longer commands much respect.
The difference is that you'll find specialists in Germany even where land isn't super cheap. I remember really enjoying Stuttgart a few years ago because I hadn't seen any supermarkets. I'm sure there's a Lidl and whatnot but instead we stopped by a green grocer, bakery, and butcher for dinner.

In Berlin I'm not surprised there's a meat furniture store.
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I think that's how it works in UK to, you get arrested first, then charged, if you flee then you're wanted "to face charges", ie the charges will be pressed once you're caught. Does any legal system have a full court case first, then apprehend only those proven guilty? Surely without essential witnesses that's not possible.
I don't understand the push for remote work.

I have been a part of remote teams for over 11 years of my career (16 yrs). I have worked from home more days than I can count. It has enough drawbacks that I'd avoid it at any given opportunity. Here are a few reasons:

- You are not part of the hallway conversations / decision changes / fly by meetings / face-memory / kitchen run ins and every other benefit of having people together. When your level is senior enough, these are very much a deciding factor in whether your last 6 months of work is going to be thrown out or kept relevant.

- Video conferencing is terrible. If you notice a pattern, the conversation is DOMINATED by the side with most power. I have seen very senior engineers (including myself I suppose) have trouble corralling a meeting / participating in a discussion that's going back and forth animatedly when there are other senior folk in one room. When you are junior, there is a high possibility your chances to speak are just perfunctory because almost all relevant points have been made already.

- Yes I have heard and tried the notions of ensuring meeting etiquette. I have also been part of these meetings where there is someone (or everyone) trying to police how the meeting is run (let everyone speak, juniors go first, go in a circle ...). Those have been considerably less productive to put it mildly. (Remember - I am the one who is remote).

- There are always mic-hogs who don't make a ton of points - most of the efficient places weed these out real quick. In a different rant - I hate optimizing for the bad actors that penalize the good actors heavily. Anyway - in this case you are left with few folks with real talking points not being able to convey the whole nuance.

- Essentially this leads to you doing extra work in ensuring at least some folks on the other side are on the same page before the meeting to ensure your points are considered.

So yes - in short remote is bad IMO. Video conferencing pretty much doesn't work since it doesn't capture the full presence and energy of folks. This is going to sound metaphysical, but my real presence is a million times better representation of the full me than my text/video :). It may work when everyone is remote with an individual screen - the usual situations I am in is where there are 2 or 3 conference rooms with people.
Direct partisan advocacy gets rejected swiftly.

It's possible to have an interesting discussion on issues that have a political side, like health care, if you can live within the constraint of avoiding excessive partisanship and focus on the more abstract problem. Health care pricing is actually a great example and I've learned a lot from discussions of it on HN.
> “It’s going to take time,” Zuckerberg said of Facebook’s privacy-focused future. “I’m sure we’re going to keep on unearthing old issues for a while, so it may feel like we’re not making progress at first. But I think that we’ve shown, time and again as a company, that we can do what it takes to evolve and build the products that people want.”

IOW, they'll talk about privacy for a while until everyone stops talking about how evil FB is. Then they'll slowly stop talking about it and work their way back down to where they are now. All the while not actually doing anything at all to change.
If all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail.
Meanwhile in Costa Rica the treatment for even more poisonous snakes would cost zero dollars with zero zero cents (including helicopter or small plane, if required). Here antiofidics are produced by the Universidad de Costa Rica, and every public health center has a reserve of it. Those serums are exported too.
I really can't understand how USA got public health so wrong. Here we pay like 9% of tax over salary and get "ALL the health cover you may need": broken legs, cancer, HIV, transplants... You name it: each and every treatment is free: no deductible, no coverage limits, no contractual exceptions, no preexisting conditions, not even a call to the insurance company before receiving treatment or having to provide your ID.
Sometimes I had thought about applying to a cool techco at USA, then I remember the health system differences and I forget it.
You're assuming the language is inherently symmetrical by focusing on the technical meaning rather than the meaning derived from usage.

"Black Lives Matter" is a slogan. It means "Black lives also matter." If someone wanted to respond to that by saying "White Lives Matter", they would be egregiously missing the point, no? Creating conflict from something that they presumably don't disagree with? And why would anybody do that?
Hasn't the crime expired?
I always wondered that. I worked at a few places where we ended up with too much space.... seemed wasteful.

You'll want to maybe be a bit careful about who you rent to, but still seems like that would be useful.

Personally I'd be more interested in renting out a small space from a larger company or even campus than one space out of numerous rental spaces where I've got no idea what is going on each day.
That's my point. The value is in the discussion around what's considered ethical, not in the label.

What I would like is for services like this to provide, up-front, a more complete discussion of how they've arrived at their recommendations, and what criteria they consider.
I already showed you and explained how they were wrong. It doesn't matter that it's from 2014 the underlying point is still the same as it has nothing to do with how much has been added but how you measure it to get to those number you are.

You are talking about electricity it's not energy.
You are talking about what % of electricity is produced IN Germany now what it consumes (i.e. imports)
Your number needs to factor in capacity factor (it doesn't)

The point of this discussion is whether Solar can be used for large scale energy consumption. It can't and it isn't and you haven't showed that to be the case for the very reasons I just explained to you.

Sun could be 100% based on the way you present it and it still wouldn't mean that Germany didn't use other types.

Thats the point you seem to be missing here.
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> I haven't seen anything that has convinced me this is true.

Well over a billion daily active users on Facebook don't convince you that people want Facebook?

> I don't consider the dopamine-driven compulsions of its users to be evidence of 'want'.

Oh, you're looking for a semantic argument, possibly diving into the meaning and consequence of the concept of free will (or lack thereof). I ain't got time for that today.
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In the third case it's not you who's been defrauded. You're still just the victim of copyright infringement. You'd be bringing it to the attention of the police because the investor had been defrauded, at which point the police might actually pay attention depending on who the investor is..
Is a BMW in your opinion "worth" the same as a Kia then? A BMW generally has more complex engineering, and a more "luxury" look.

A Kia works exactly the same at driving, so therefore with your logic, it's worth exactly the same.

High-end watches are extraordinarily complex machines, and yes, generally have a "luxury" look which may be un-necessary in your eyes. Though, the market for "incognito" luxury movements within cheap watches is way too small to be sustainable.
This is just plain silly. Every country with a decent R&D program producing weaponizeable tech will have a gov panel interested in understanding whats being developed and what can be exported to whom without violating international arms treaties.
Many cheap knockoff chinese automotive brake pads still contain it. Buy name brand on brakes, for more reasons than that. Its also good if the compound actually stops the car in time.

Living near mountains I witness brake failures (usually fires!) daily, its no joke. Check your pads, change your brake fluid every 3-5 years. Its cheap and can save lives, including your own. No feeling is more heartsinking than the brake pedal going to the floor with no resistance when you need it most.
When my father was in the hospital and had a hard time eating, they told us we couldn't bring in anything and he could only eat food from inside the hospital. I asked his lead doctor if he had any special nutritional needs, and he said no, he just needed to eat anything he could get down. But when we asked if we could bring anything in, they said we had to talk to the nurses and see if it was allowed. I checked with a friend of mine who had privileges at the hospital. He got back to me and said the outside food ban was normal, but enforcing it wasn't. The hospital had a hospitality and vending machine contract that required them to train all the staff in being firm, explicit, and proactive about the no outside food policy.

Of course the vending machine was full of junk food, and the contract was with the same company that controlled the pharmacy. These people need to be put out of business.
The iPhone wasn’t a “big bet”. The mobile phone market was already growing like crazy and everyone saw the writing on the wall that the mp3 market would be consumed by the phone.

The TV set market has long life cycle, negative margins and the main way that TV manufacturers make money in 2019 is by selling user information through the apps.

The router market is minuscule. Most people use routers bundled with their ISP and Apple couldn’t provide the end to end support without also going into the ISP business.
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I don't think there's any equivalent price control on private purchase of tests here, the prices are in the same range, maybe a bit less depending on where you go.
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They've done it in countries to which they are way less "aligned" than the UK [0] and the UK has historically been the US's strongest partner on all things "national security/terrorism".

In that context, I wouldn't really be surprised if it's happened before, tho the blowback potential, if it should become public, would be massive so it will probably be kept under extremely tight wraps.

[0] https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/20-extraordina...
> We formed a task force to redesign it, bringing together people from different disciplines

Pro bono or de Bono?
Did these people express emotions and feelings and share fears, likes, dislikes, loves, and hates?

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