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I feel at some point tax payers should be allowed to select where their money goes, in a broad sense (military, education, arts, infrastructure), but allowing a portion to go a mixed-use fund for government flexibility.
Manning jailed forever. Assange self imposed home arrest for last few years, probably will be jailed forever in US soon.

Can't really blame Snowden for staying in the one place on earth US can't buy or blackmail.
I'm not sure if this comment is supposed to be satire or not?

Boring Co is using a second-hand sewer tunnel boring machine. This isn't the future of tunneling, it's quite literally the distant past.

Modern mass transit uses bigger tunnels because bigger tunnels means more throughput. It's generally cheaper to dig two (parallel) big tunnels than a dozen smaller ones, since the fixed costs are such a large part of the expense.

This is the part that Elon doesn't understand: it's not all about opex. Capex matters to, and for infrastructure projects, capex dominates opex. (For example, if he hadn't wasted a billion on the dreadnought, i.e., capex, Tesla wouldn't be in the doldrums right now unable to fund its basic operating activities, i.e., opex.)
Any Australians have particular concern about their fellow citizen?
Yes, it feels like it would be a fairly straightforward econ model actually. If the combined price for all the platforms gets too high and the user experience too terrible, then it's an easy flip to piracy. I get that all these publishing companies are trying to get as close to that line as possible, but as they're (naturally) all interested in maximizing their own profits rather than thinking about the collective industry profit, I don't doubt we'll cross that line before too long
They are probably including their self in the question they pose. Why do you think that the individual who suggests an idea has to perfectly embody it, else be a hypocrite?
Why does U.S. law have any jurisdiction over a foreign national?
You do understand what an extradition treaty is, right?
> There are lots of people in the US that believe strongly in the rule of law.

>And that it applies to foreign citizens who have – quite sensibly – never set foot on your soil?

Of course it does. That's like saying a foreign terrorist can't be charged for an act of terrorism because they're not a U.S. citizen. Furthermore, because Assange is a foreign national, 1st Amendment protections do not apply in this situation.
Journalists just dumb down whatever press releases are on the newswire that day and then head down to the pub.

There was some golden age that is always a generation ago where journalists did great things, but, they weren't journalists, they were whistleblowers that happened to work for the media.

If you work for the corporate media then this 'golden age' journalism is just not possible. You would be sacked if you wrote the truth or went further than the press releases on the newswire for content.
Read it as "See: international relations [with the rest of the world] regarding [the subject of] Taiwan"
Not of any of the lurid claims made by the Ecuadorian government. The fact that the Ecuadorian government has shown itself willing to release videos of Assange that they consider embarrassing (like him exercising), without that video actually substantiating any of their salacious claims, suggests that those claims are false.
That's the reason they gave, but the reality is probably that it's no longer politically expedient to keep him.
JavaScript uses double. Though its precision is more than enough to support 32 bits. Actually it supports 53 bits for integers, then it gets imprecise.
I find it weird that there’s serious consideration to rebuilding it as it was, trying to effectively erase the fire from the building’s historical record.

What’s present-day to us will become history to future generations.
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The average cost of healthcare is more than his yearly expenses.

Here's a hint, pithy books written by those born into wealth about how the poor just don't have discipline aren't generally worth the paper they're printed on.
what do you during your breaks? This I think is the greatest pitfall for me. Get up and walk around? I usually find that I just want to go back to work once I let my mind wander.
"their people" ... Assange is not an American citizen nor has he ever resided in the U.S. How does U.S. law even apply to him?
The idea of extraterritorial jurisdiction has existed for centuries with piracy laws being some of the earliest examples. Most countries have enshrined the idea into their laws in some manner especially when it concerns laws in which the victim is the nation itself. Many countries go way beyond what the US has. For instance France claims the right to prosecute anyone for any crime committed against a French national regardless of where the crime was committed.
This is actually great in so many aspects for companies.
GitHub could even change the way companies handle open-source development (in the same way Uber changed taxi market).

Instead of hiring (and keeping) full-time developer (and paying insurance, taxes, etc.) company can abuse this system and 'convince' employee that they can continue working for their project as a contract-free open-source developer and get same 'salary' (or more when this project become successful).

In such case they will be able to fire him (or replace with 'cheaper' one) and no one will be able to complain.
I'm sure it can happen in some countries with weak labour rights.

So they can chase two rabbits ($$$ for marketing and $ for developemnt).
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It's a Pirate Bay front-end.
> He's also currently accepting the hospitality of the Russian gov't

That's massaged a bit. if only he'd have had other travel plans to any other non extradition countries (he did), but stopped in an international terminal (for weeks before entering Russia) after diplomatic planes were being force grounded.
The point is not about PayPal, really. The point is demonstrating that people don't care about the EV certificate not being present when they use PayPal to pay for things. Payments is presumably an area where people would most care about security.
Advanced civilizations could be communicating with neutrino beams
He is not being prosecuted for publishing. That’s the game here. They found a “gotcha” to nail him on something else. Al Capone didn’t get charged with being a mobster, but they found a way to get him. Same deal.
Weird that it says Windows is the issue but I'm seeing this on Linux.
> That's like saying a foreign terrorist can't be charged for an act of terrorism because they're not a U.S. citizen.

One man's might-is-right flag-waving US exceptionalism is another man's terrorism.
> Your "fix" makes it so that 1/10 + 2/10 == 3/10, but it still doesn't make it so that 1/3 + 1/3 == 2/3. So how is it actually "precise"?

Fair point! I don't think anyone ever put it quite this way. I mean, I knew that 1/3 cannot be represented in decimal and that decimal, like binary, is imprecise for the exact same reason, but I don't think anyone asked me about the definition of precise and why I think my version of addition fits that definition of precise better :). I think the answer is that, in code, we type in decimal: 0.1+0.2 and not 0b0.1+0b0.10 (if that would even be valid syntax). We work in base 10 most of the time, so we know that operations on 1/3 can not have infinite precision. But that's just something I came up with on the spot, I'm not sure that this is the true reason why it feels more correct.

> It doesn't really matter whether it would make the average website slower, since the average website should not be using floats

Fair enough about floats, but why about arbitrarily large integers? The feature being introduced could have been introduced as 'works out of the box' instead of 'opt in using the n suffix'.

Actually, I just realized it would probably break code that does bit shifts. Maybe that's why bigint is not the default?
Which cloud backup are you using?
The rocket reached 103.57km (100km is considered the edge of space) in altitude to spare anyone from reading this extremely annoying article. The solid fuel based rocket weighed 136kg and at just under 4m in height is impressively small for reaching this altitude. It’s parachutes deployed an it was recovered safely. There.
> The US government can engage in unconstitutional conduct with almost zero oversight by making the illegal conduct classified.

There is oversight, just probably not the kind you want.

There's numerous congressional committees which all have oversight of every aspect of the executive branch if they so choose to ask for it. All of which are elected officials. From the Gang of 8 to the Ways and Means committee. They also leak information to the press like a sieve.

There's an inspector general in many of the agencies which can independently investigate criminal activity within the agency.

There's the FBI and the DOJ which can investigate criminal activities whether they involve classified matter or not.

Then there's the FISA court, which oversees the use of secret government surveillance.

Then as a last resort, there are leakers, which leak information to journalists (e.g. Daniel Ellsburg and the Washington Post)

It's more than likely if the government is doing something shady, word will get out.
I guess you'd have to define truly anonymous

nothing is IMO. it's a function of raising the cost so it becomes too prohibitive for an adversary to track you. the only way to be "truly" anonymous online is not to go online (or to be truly anonymous irl is to stop being alive).
The indictment leaked 5 months before Assange was kicked out of the embassy, 8 months after it was created.

It was, of course, the case that it was a sealed indictment and wasn't supposed to be released at all prior to the individual charged being arrested, but that is kind of a normal thing in our legal system; many of the charges against the individuals prosecuted as a result of the Mueller investigation came in the form of sealed charges, as another prominent instance of the practice.
> Furthermore, because Assange is a foreign national, 1st Amendment protections do not apply in this situation.

Not remotely true, the first amendment protects anyone and everyone from government infringement. All of the bill of rights applies to anyone, citizens or not. Try reading them, they say what the government cannot do, nowhere will you find it saying but only to citizens.
Journalists do try to break encryption on classified documents, and Assange is not being charged with that. The documents were not encrypted and were obtained in cleartext from Manning.
Certain subreddits have changed their "edit" button to "spez" to remind people of this abuse.
> They are not blocked

They are absolutely blocked (with the possible exception of Github).

> refuse to comply with Chinese censorship laws

And Huawei refuses to comply with US economic sanctions laws.

> Not blocked in China ...

The fact that some US companies do business in China is not evidence of anything.

It should be obvious that China denied access to their markets and severely restricted the operations of far more US companies than the US has of Chinese companies.

China's attempt to portray itself as a victim in a trade war is transparent bullshit.
> He sprayed a cleaning solvent on it and started to push the dissolving crystal with his finger as he attempted to dislodge the residue and clean the area.

> About 45 minutes later, Curtis began to feel a little strange. He described it as a weird, tingling sensation. He discovered this was the feeling of the beginnings of an LSD experience or trip.

LSD is extremely potent as far as drugs go. Doses are measured in micrograms. Tylenol doses are measured in hundreds of milligrams. Many prescription drug doses are measured in tens of milligrams. As such, LSD is orders of magnitude more active than the drugs most people have experience with.

At that level of activity, both dermal absorption via solution with cleaning fluid penetrating gloves, and inhalation of particles could be viable routes of entry.

I believe it was Abbie Hoffman who in one book advocated preparing a solution of LSD in DMSO for use as a weapon in demonstrations to pacify police. DMSO readily penetrates skin, so a solution of it containing LSD is plausible as a way to dose it. No idea whether it actually works.
Where are the actual videos and why is a sign in required?
>Again, you can't lose something you never had, and calling it a loss is just wordplay.

Well, you can. We have entire legal systems dedicated to assessing economic harm based on similar hypothetical situations. For e.g. Loss of income due to injury.. loss of earnings due to defamation.. diminished earning capacity due to a handicap, etc, etc. You can't simply say - "it never was or you never had that money". All these things have well established economic and legal histories. I don't know if those are part of your worldview. If you wish to reject them, then be assured that you are well outside of mainstream economic and legal thought.

A loss is simply a reduction. I hope you realize that a positive claim that piracy results in zero loss of revenue, has to be substantiated. At best, you can claim "we don't know" and you might very well be right - we simply don't know exactly what would have happened. But that is not the same as saying - we know nothing. We can piece together a model based on basic economic principles of market value, supply and demand, opportunity cost, etc, etc. and come up with a reasonable analysis.
> I personally do not believe that depth generated purely from deep learning can be used as input to photogrammetry anytime soon.

6d.ai uses depthnets in its mobile photogrammetry pipeline. demo: https://twitter.com/mattmiesnieks/status/1106722396889702406
I think the other comments under you are evidence of something like Poe's Law at work.
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... yes, Sweden's public historical willingness to cooperate extralegally with the US in ways that the UK is not is in fact pretty good evidence of... exactly that situation being capable of occurring.
We're already off to a great start with your post. Thank you for your service.
Any reason you don't go for the 1.4X or 2X teleconverter? Would the loss in shutter speed make it a wash for birds, where I assume that actually matters a lot for birds in flight?
This. As a student I couldn't afford it, but as an adult I would pay for Premier and Photoshop. I don't use them enough to justify the outrageous monthly price to use the two. So instead of getting some money from me now, Adobe will never get any.
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> appeared scam in nature therefore was ignored.

> demanding a PGP key would not be a good way to start off.

Oh dear god...
I don't have the exact number (I had only just signed up as a publisher about a month before they closed it -- maybe someone else can pop in with exact numbers) but I remember it being really low, around 5-7%.

It was low enough that it wasn't really a factor when determining what to price your ad-free pages at (most people went with 1-2 cents per load) -- most people just priced at whatever average your ads were pulling in currently without worrying about the cut, since it was a fraction of a cent.
> Espionage is espionage regardless of what you’re looking for or what you find. Having pure motives doesn’t matter.

The Espionage Act is framed within the confines of the Constitution, including the First Amendment. Being a journalist (i.e. taking an active role in curating and analyzing the materials) has historically mattered to the courts (e.g. around Deep Throat).
Hopefully it will balance out the crazy optimism so many other posters are having over this announcement because they think they'll make money off of it.
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Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
This has been posted several times already
If it's not exposed to the internet no problem.
Not true unfortunately under the GDPR nor it's predecessor, if the notes are publicly available:

Bodil Lindquist v Åklagarkammaren (2003)
Mrs. Lindquist (whose purposes were mostly charitable and religious) published on a private home page personal data about her colleagues, including telephone numbers and information about a coworker’s injured foot and medical leave. This case raised the question if a private home page accessible to only those who have the address is permitted under one of the exclusions (household activity). The European Court of Justice ruled that it is not.
Way back before he holed-up in the Ecuadorian, well before his hero status in some quarters tarnished from the 2016 election, I had this guy pegged as a Russian operative. I'm sure he probably viewed himself as in charge.

The nature of espionage has certainly changed over the decades. We can't allow free-lance operatives (more in line, I think, with his self image) to conduct espionage against us. He's a legitimate target.
I thought it was interesting to highlight the similarities because this community would likely push back much harder if you said the startup scene is inherently flawed like that comment said about content creation.
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I may be misunderstanding something, but, from the Wikipedia article, checking that the Wolfe conditions hold requires calculation of the gradient at the proposed new point as well. If you're going to do that, you may as well move in the direction of the new gradient, no?
Upsides:
Many muture implementations both commercial and opensource (SBCL, LispWorks, Franz Lisp).

Can be very fast.

Less opinionated than Scheme/Racket. Supports FP, imperative, and OOP.

Supports system images where you can hack on running images to avoid downtime. Racket doesn’t support this.

Great debugging from the REPL.

Probably the most advanced exception/error system of any language.

Easy to learn (and powerful) macros.

ANSI standardized.

Powerful object system.

Downsides:
Dynamic typing (some people might not have a problem with this).

No match statements.

Huge and complicated standard. Many unnecessary and unused/dead features.

Inconsistent and not orthogonal in the least. Multiple functions that do the same thing but have different argument orders or inconistent names.

A little low level compared to Racket. This might be a positive if you want C-like performance.

Not the greatest libraries compared to Racket. Documentation is often bad or non-existent.

Hard to learn effectively. Language gives little guidance on how it should be used.
Seems related to the Tesla video-based depth perception work?
That’s why it’s inconvenient. I mean the average cc rate is 20% so every month you can’t pay off the $400 means you’re paying $70 in interest. It sucks but I don’t know how much of a struggle that is.
Odd, simplistic view?
Absolutely - death cult is very apt.
Sponsorships and donations don't work in any substantial way because they are optional.

What might work is "KeepAlive" subscriptions, where companies pay substantive amount of money monthly to keep projects that they depend on alive.

KeepAlive payments are about corporate self interest - ensuring that the projects they depend on aren't abandoned.

The secret to success is naming.

Calling it "KeepAlive" subscriptions conveys the self interest, and connects the potential death of the project to your need for it to be healthy because you've built it into your systems.

Naming payments to open source projects as "Sponsorships" or "Donations" leads to the expected outcome - a trivial trickle of money.

The payment amounts must be predefined and set high too - $200 - $500/month for small businesses $500-$5000 / month for medium and large business. It's critically important not to leave the amount to the "purchaser" - that's when you get payments of $1/month which is what happens on Patreon.
There should be no consequences for carrying out criminal activity across borders due to matters of jurisdiction?

International law is incredibly complicated. It's up to the countries involved to make the decision in addition to whether or not extradition makes sense. You don't have to agree with that but once again- what is your alternative?
I tend to just listen to music on YouTube these days. For the most part, what I want to listen to is available on there, albeit probably not with the consent of the copyright holder.

Does that count as piracy?
Luckily Snapchat isn't in SV so the record of zero unethical behavior in SV remains in tact.
That guy still works at Panera and guess where he worked prior as Sr Director of Security Operations... Equifax!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-gustavison-b020426/
I've been wanting to get into this for a while now. Do you have any groups you'd recommend? Solo study has its limits. :)
Will any of the individuals responsible face direct consequences for their actions? Or, will the cost of their mistakes be borne entirely by shareholders?
They should have deleted their subreddits and move else where after that...
Offtopic, but I’ve been using Emacs for ages and my fingers hurt.

Are vi keybindings better. Can I edit things more quickly?
Yes, it’s not fun. I agree. My point is that the article is not precise to be useful. If the article was about how 40% of Americans go through what you describe, that would make sense.

Right now it includes the scenario you describe as well as “charged it this month, waited to pay it off next month.” How many Americans do either is useful for knowing the extent of impact.
The gold standard here is Daniel Ellsberg who sent the pentagon papers to the Washington Post. Those were the documents that revealed that America had an illegal secret war in Cambodia.

In short, Assange is no Daniel Elssberg.
Claiming that what is a conspiracy theory?
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So, if you can tie this information that you receive from Google to a particular person then wouldn't this violate the spirit of the law? Similar to the way precursor chemicals are illegal or tightly controlled in drug law.
I disagree. We have whistleblower protection for corporate whistleblowers, why not governmental?

Edit: turns out we do, but it has to be actually illegal behavior as opposed to just unethical.
Part of the problem is conceptualizing this as a reference (which, admittedly, it is without optimization).

Instead, this is a borrow which indicates that the callee will not mutate the argument. It makes more sense in this context.
" adding computers to a large proportion of activities and processes makes them less efficient"

Young technophilic me didn't distinguish between digitization and automation. I've since seen this mistake over and over.

Automation is the removal of judgement. Automate before you digitize.

Older technoskeptic me now assumes that whenever a big bang project fails (eg new payroll system for big org), it's because they tried to faithfully reimplement some legacy "processes" dependent on humans, in the form of social cognition and tribal knowledge, sometimes also called "culture".

Also, automate after you digitize. In fact, redesign and reengineer to support automation.
That’s my opinion on Cambridge Analytica as well.
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