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Criminals think seven, no, seventy times before doing anything that could possibly upset japan national on Japanese soil.

This is how it is that safe.

Or, the criminals are organized and have connections and unspoken agreements with the authorities, existing in a kind of truce.

(EDIT: In essence, the seven to seventy times thinking over has been enshrined and institutionalized.)
It is amazing how much infrastructure and technology is in place for a process that is proving incompatible with reality (both in terms of capability of the tech, and economics of the commodities).

Of particular interest was the bit on plastic bags (edit: which are largely considered “contamination” in the USA) - the worker complained that they put them into a dedicated stream to bale and sell, “but no one is buying them”.

Economics wrote the truth on the wall for these “recyclable” materials back in 2015 (or before). The world is just now catching up to the reality that reducing is the only real way to improve the situation we’re in - recycling should be a last resort.
IE 6 rightfully deserved this. However, the modern policy of supporting only the latest browsers can also be too extreme.

Web browsers have gotten to be MUCH more resource intensive than the IE6 days. Try loading any "modern" site on a "modern" browser on a netbook. (Or any computer with an Atom processor).

While its "compatibility" has waned, I really appreciate Opera 12 for its performance on humble machines. No modern browser seems to match its resource usage.
The insurance payouts for a breach could go to the affected users or to the government, I don't think it would matter much. The important part is that companies need to pay to retain user data. The insurance would have to be mandatory for large companies.
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The government gets to fix a price doesn't mean the drug company has to make it (or exist), right? So presumably the price would be set at some point where there is still a profit to be made.
I think the first indication was when he refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Or perhaps he had a Huawei phone.
This chip could be key to the future of AI
There is another thread about a Code of Ethics for developers. This is an interesting case study. In many ways what they did was unethical but the result was probably positive overall. How do you deal with that? Ethics is hard and very dependent on the details of the situation.
For those that would like to hear a mind blowing discussion about climate (and the earth in general), watch all of the podcasts with Joe Rogan, Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock.

They are three hours each and I promise you will learn many things that give perspective on the repeat arguments and confusion about the climate. There are many other podcasts with these gentlemen, but here are three to start with.

Joe Rogan and Randall Carlson #606 (3 hours) [1]

Joe Rogan, Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson #725 [2]

Joe Rogan, Randall Carlson #1284 [3]

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[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejwCGdUV8

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFlAFo78xoQ
It's only $40/month, though. $40 to avoid (up to) 260 phone calls seems like a bargain. Sure, most phone calls are quick, but it's also an interruption to at least one worker, who might have to ask a
customer to hold, or interrupt cleaning/restocking. I wouldn't be surprised if $1 per avoided call was a reasonable price to pay for a busy restaurant.
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I’ve been building a really useful qa bot and search engine as part of my CS master’s thesis, with the intention of helping you automatically extend your study and learning process to your laptop. The system answers questions, asks you about progress, and has a pretty good internal search across notes, files, emails.

Is there anything like this out there? Preferable open source and extensible?

It’s almost like a high level operating system for learning and work!
I can't imagine the politics of figuring out what kind of food to serve. In the U.S., Democrats would add quinoa vegetable stew when they came into power, and the Republicans would proudly ban it and replace it with cheesy beef and mac. The Republicans would ban imported food, the Democrats would ban GMOs. The Democrats would mandate a complete vegetarian option, the Republicans would counter by mandating a minimum of 50g of protein per meal, including breakfast and lunch. Republicans would race-bait over ethnic food, and some tone-deaf centrist Democrat would propose "American" names for "foreign" food, like "chips and cheese" instead of "nachos," to make things less "confusing" for those salt-of-the-earth flyover morons, thus offending both sides, which is the closest thing to unity we ever experience.

Maybe having this to fight about would distract some of our stupidity from real policy questions. That could be a win.

> Unlike in Homer’s Odyssey, there will be no massacre if people stay longer than they should or have more free refills than is calculated to be ideal.

This is funny but also grossly unfair to Odysseus and Telemachus.
I believe you are thinking of light helium (helium-3), not heavy hydrogen. Everything I've read about mining on the moon mentions it.

Heavy hydrogen, deuterium, is (relatively) abundant on earth and can be harvested from seawater. Heavier hydrogen, tritium, is quite rare, on earth its produced by bombarding lithium. It has a half life of 12 years so it wouldn't be accumulate to useful amounts on the moon. It does decay into helium-3 which is stable, that's why it does accumulate.

Fusion with helium-3 takes place at a much higher temperature than deuterium / tritium (DT) fusion, that makes the confinement problem more difficult than the much more studied DT pathway to fusion power generation. One advantage is the possibility of direct conversion to electricity.

All this is discussed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
Windows and Dell's SupportAssist crapware.
Was struggling with legacy IE6 support-hacks too once while building healthcare webapps. In that field, it was more because hospital IT admins lock everything down and upgrading stuff very much falls under the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra.

We too got fed up with all the IE6-specific hacks we had to maintain. One day on the login page, we added a "IE6 might be a HIPAA violation, please upgrade your system" banner. It was technically true... the browser was well past its end-of-life support and was acquiring a running list of unpatched security holes.

Our analytics showed the remaining holdouts upgraded their systems over the next few months.
> It seems to be completely pie in the sky type of thinking.

Agreed. This is just more of the usual Musk hype. Maybe he will get some geofenced taxi service going in a suburb of Phoenix, where the roads are wide and straight and the weather is always sunny.

> the secret sauce is remote human operator

New startup idea: Instead of paying people to mine WoW gold 14 hours a day, pay them to pilot taxis via a low-latency satellite link. "Hi, I'm 'Joe' from 'The Bronx,' and I will be your taxi driver today."

> If you get one operator to remotely oversee 20 highly autonomous vehicles

This doesn't work, because the situations that require human intervention will also require near-human reaction times. That's not possible for a single human herding 20 cars.
More like all the more reason to source these chips from outside, I would argue
I first tried eating vegetarian to deal with some digestion issues. It made it worse. Especially spinach, broccoli and other high fiber foods. I switched to a 90% carnivore diet and everything cleared up digestion wise, and I also felt much better, healthier, and my skin cleared up. As you say, diet is very individualized.
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Well, different characters behave differently in different novels. How is this like an idea of a circle?
>Is organic farming the answer? No. It tends to use more land for less output

Use of land per unit of output (or vice versa) is not the only important metric though, not by a long chalk. A more holistic approach is needed [1], otherwise it is back to the same as the issues that the OP attempts to address.

[1] An approach that considers equally important things like effects of pesticides, other negative effects of non-organic farming (there are other important ones, and more).
Yeah I did catch on, but my read was that the conclusion of this stunt could drive thinking in a few directions.

One of the more popular directions would be to push for more building, and/or better transit options.

My recommendation was to push for more rational / sanity in the labor market choices: right now, it seems like it’s blasphemous to consider _NOT_ living in SF.

Rather than trying to push for enormous change at all levels, you can just say “nah there are better choices for me to live.”
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> But assets have always been backed by loans of (greater than or) equal value. That’s the point of banks.

Greater or equal face value, not actual value. Tether is basically making the same claim.

> Tether is not a bank.

I never said that Tether was a bank.

> You have no guarantee of being allowed to exchange tether for dollars.

To be pedantic, no such guarantee exists for bank deposits either.

> It’s just... a weird service that doesn’t make sense. Tether doesn’t “work” because tether doesn’t do anything.

Tether obviously does work, it's probably the most stable cryptocurrency out there, despite being run by sketchy people. You can exchange it for other cryptocurrencies and you can exchange cryptocurrencies for ordinary currencies. Absent proper access to ordinary banking, Tether has been a tool for exchanges to perform settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The view that Tether "does nothing" is just uninformed.
That caused so much of a backlash that they released a new BIOS version without that stuff. As was absolutely fair.

Abusing Windows' ability to obtain HW-drivers though UEFI (something which can be used for good) to bundle shit-ware is just absolutely rotten.
Humans also have an unacceptable accident rate. The goal is to far surpass currently-accepted safety standards, and building a 3D model of the world at 10+ HZ can only help with that.
The press article mentioned is this:
https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-ki... news obtained via reader’s tip as was common back then.

Those where indeed interesting times at both TechCrunch and YouTube, but...

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Incredible how everyone is rejoicing with this story.

Enjoy your new Chrome master.
Isn’t what you’re describing is a food court? Like the ones they havr in malls?
This is an exploit in the shitty software that OEMs put on their Windows images. Stuff like this is practically universal (minus Apple), and the fact that Dell hasn't (AFAIK) actively bundled very evil malware with their computers makes them far from the worst offender.
Uh, I think you are the one now stretching. Tether can meet 74% of their liabilities all at once. Where a bank can only meet 3% or 10% of their liabilities all at once. Tether is way more liquid than a bank.
While this is being touted as a smoking gun, calling it a "backdoor" may be reaching:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/huawei_enterprise_r...
Thank you, that's exactly the contrast I'm trying to draw.

I hope neither of your examples makes it into an ethical code for software developers, but that doesn't make them bad examples - those are the sorts of things that appear in other fields. If a professional code more detailed than the ACA & IEEE ones were to arise, I'd hope to see more timeless things like "best practices for authentication" (e.g. passwords salted and strongly hashed) or "not unduly exposing personal information" (e.g. don't accept identifying information without SSL).

A lot of professional codes are definitely branding exercises more than standards of behavior. In particular, codes with lots of concrete requirements or specific corporate backers usually aren't much different than becoming an MCSE or Certified Scrum Master. Legal and medical codes are substantially better, but they're also much older and enforced by government-backed licensing cartels. Civil engineering is probably the most recent and broadly accessible field to get a strong code, but the parallels are obvious: engineers own specific projects with known uses, and their errors are directly lethal. Realistically, I don't expect software to see an Iron Ring sort of obligation unless the field's best practices stabilize and errors with real-world harms become common.
Humans don't only have vision.
Humans have an ocular-vestibular system that makes it possible to perform SLAM[1]-like processing; when in motion, your balance and visual input like the parallax effect can help the brain build a mapped 3D volume and determine your position, orientation and velocity and your relation to other objects within that volume.

VSLAM, visual SLAM, which is what you have to employ if relying largely on vision-only, is so far cruder than that.

I'm sure Tesla has some sensor fusion that also employs GPS and short-range radar/ultrasonar to help.

You can get some velocity and positional data through GPS, but it will have quite a lot of latency and is very coarse (at least the commercially accessible part).

SLAM is much, much easier to do with LIDAR since that will give you a point cloud 3D model. With VSLAM, you have to infer the depth data and build it up over time, and it's a much harder problem to solve reliably. OTOH, LIDAR's Achilles heel is, however, heavy rain/sleet/snow. Waymo has shown off using deep learning to filter the bulk of the noise out, but it looks like it's still early days there.

Vision isn't great for sleet/snow either, to be fair.

[1]: simultaneous localization and mapping
> I only remember how to allow root with key auth because I searched for it yesterday.

Well this is a little weird because the default sshd_config file tells you how to do it in the comments. So basically you need to be able to figure out where the sshd config file is.
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We'll see if this proceeds to a criminal investigation. My guess is it won't.

It's amazing it got this far. Leak inquiries almost never discover a culprit (by design) and it's unheard of for a minister to actually get sacked for leaking.
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I like the lawyers being concerned about the possibility they were pushing Chrome. Obviously Google soon decided that wasn’t a problem.

(And now we’re back where we started with Chrome as the new IE.)
Anyone who tried to buy a house in SV in the last 5 years already knows this.

Turns out Chinese are better savers of dollars than Americans and they now want to do something with those dollars. Like buying houses, companies, building structures etc.

Meanwhile, the fed doesn't allow US savers to accumulate wealth outside of speculation by keeping interest rates artificially low
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there is no evidence that the system I'm currently subjected to is any better or worse

There's plenty of evidence in the form of the many people who want to come here, and in the form of the many people who have come here and established successful happy lives. My family history is evidence. Inherent, universal human rights are the right side of history. The history of the world shows this.
> It’s done because value is created at a faster rate than physical dollars.

[citation desperately needed]

I think you're just letting your imagination run wild on how things work and why that makes sense.

> You yourself can create “new money” by making a loan yourself.

No I can't. If I make a loan to myself, there is no new money to circulate. If a bank makes a loan on fractional reserves it is new money than can circulate and that can itself be the basis for new money creation.

> The new money is just the result of value creation.

The new money is the result of fractional reserve lending, period. Whether "value" is created along the way is absolutely not a given.
Based on the salaries of people who comment here, I assume most can retire in about 5-10 years of work.

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With these low volumes the sound move would be to buy chips from someone else. Just like Aston Martin is sourcing engines from third parties. Heck, even Mercedes is using Renault engines and BMW used Peugeot engines in Minis for years. And engines are a core competency of both, BMW and Mercedes. Chips for Tesla, not so much.