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> Needs a (2008)...

Maybe the differences in the 2016 election were more of style than substance.

Both candidates pointed the finger at powerful (but opposing) foreign-policy enemies (China and Russia). Both made statements in line with interventionist foreign policies. Both lacked any substantial policies to change course on deficit-financed spending. Both said little to nothing about the appropriateness of domestic surveillance. Neither had anything remarkable to say about promoting freedom of the press.

Of course there were some visible policy differences. For example: who to tax and who to let into the country.

And then there were the abundant stylistic difference.

Getting back to the game/analogy presented in the article's video, maybe the differences we saw were more about what color to paint your hot-dog stand and what resemblance if any your logo bears to those used by boogeymen from the past. It had less to do with the quality of the ingredients or prices.
On every 55% average exam I've had, there would still be 1 or two students with near perfect scores. A bell curve is better to grade vs. one where you let everyone get an 85-90% and chop off the tail to the right of your curve. An ochem prof's job isn't to make you into a walking ochem textbook, it's to challenge you to think about problem solving using what you've learned from studying ochem, it should be hard. It really doesn't matter if you got a 55% anyway if the curve puts you at a B.
I think of such virtualization as "rolling back by rolling forward". I can just deploy whatever version I want, when I want. If I don't like what's there, I can deploy a different version that happens to be an earlier version.

Docker by itself isn't enough. But Docker in concert with Kubernetes (or Openshift, in my world) is very, very powerful.
The Gestapo was born of rivalry between the SS and the SA. The Gestapo WAS the police arm of the SS, just as the SD was a part of the SS.
Roger McNamee is not an idiot. Among his many accomplishments, he was an early Facebook backer.[a] He would not be recommending a shutdown of social media platforms without giving serious thought to the matter. Among the things he said, this passage stands out for me:

> [Social medial platforms] are the products of an American business culture with few rules, where misbehaviour seldom results in punishment. Smart people take what they can get and tell themselves they earned it. They feel entitled. Consequences are someone else's problem.

At the end of the day, though, the most effective path to reform would be to shut down the platforms at least temporarily. ... Any country can go first. The platforms have left you no choice. The time has come to call their bluff.

Companies with responsible business models will emerge overnight to fill the void.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McNamee
Chat on YouTube is incredibly important. Maybe you don't see value in it, but it's integral to the community feel of the site.
These people sell barely-regulated supplements such as this extremely normal "hydrogen water": https://shop.momsacrossamerica.com/collections/health-soluti...

> An additional benefit is that H2 Elite generates an electron-rich potential (-ORP) in the water (you can measure it!). This rare property is uniquely found in fresh, raw living foods and juices, mothers milk and many of the world’s healing waters.

And this extremely safe "Restore". https://shop.momsacrossamerica.com/collections/health-soluti...

What's in it? "it is a carbon-rich, alkaline liquid, with lignite-derived trace organics and essential trace amino acids". Mmm, lignite-derived organics. I think this is just water.
That's a strong allegation. Why do you believe it?
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Don't forget the filter bubble. This is probably one of the most harmful aspects of modern media consumption.
In my experience (in the mid-90s), Greek pipes weren't even built to handle an above-the-median #2. And while a wastepaper bin was standard-issue adjacent to tourist-frequented toilets, a decent plunger was not.

Which seems odd, given how cheap plungers are in comparison to service employees.
"But we want to democratize the internet and give people a voice"

There is a huge difference between "freedom of speech" and "freedom to others attention". The core rot in facebook is not that it allows people to say whatever they want, its that facebook promotes and amplifies what people says algorithmically in ways that are harmful. There are plenty of restrictions on "free speech" as implemented in the US, adding restrictions around algorithmic ranking based on engagement metrics should be an easy pill for the legal system to swallow.
I agree with McNamee's message, but he's grandstanding a bit too much here relative to his actual intentions.

1. I had the opportunity to hear him speak at Stanford in April and I asked him straight up why he isn't calling for Zuckerberg to resign given all his critiques of the company's policies and leadership. His answer was, "he's my friend". I don't know, that seems like a weak response from someone making regular headlines while building a personal brand as an anti-Facebook crusader.

2. He also still holds Facebook shares, which he acknowledges makes him "not the best messenger" [direct quote] for his FB morality play. His justification for holding on to his shares is [paraphrasing his words] "if I sold my shares I would be profiting immensely from Facebook while I criticize them, which would be weird." This is just such a bad argument. If he was really concerned about Facebook money being "dirty" he could simply donate it to any number of charities. Problem solved.

My problem is that he seems to be profiting from playing both sides of the Facebook game simultaneously. Just pick a side already.
It's not a question of whether or not they can be shut down, it's whether or not they _should_. I'm in the US and am generally of the mind that the power of government should be limited as much as is reasonable in order to protect people's freedoms in the future. There is a very real danger in proposing one-off 'fixes' for every ill you see in the world as it sets a precedent which can be abused down the road.

By your definition numerous media outlets could just be shut down entirely. Is that really a good thing? Do we trust the government to decide which information is and is not acceptible for us to consume? I certainly don't.
That's incorrect and a different issue. I'll address it, too, though. The first are systems made to NSA's Type 1 abd TEMPEST certifications. They have requirements for RNG's, assuring implementations, failing safe, side channel mitigation, etc. NSA puts them through rigorous pentesting. If NSA cant hack it, then it gets approved to protect Defense assets. There's strong controls on handling the hardware and key systems. Feel free to try to buy NSA's Inline Media Encryptor or General Dynamics Type 1 encryptors. They'll tell you that you can't buy it. Go try. Ask them for a HAIPE implementation while you're at it. I hope you prove me wrong.

Far as export, I looked into that in 2014. I found that only a few things, like mass market and ecommerce, got reclassified. High-assurance systems (EAL6/7) they couldnt hack were still munitions. So were custom crypto and some other things. People got fooled: NSA reclassified just the stuff they'd be able to hack anyway. Big progress but not what people thought.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/the_return_of...

They tried to pull more crap about a year after I wrote that:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2925339/us-proposes-ti...

I don't know what current state of affairs is. I assume they've set it up where they can deny selectively if they feel the need to. So far, most "security" products are too insecure for them to need to do that.
Ayyyy.

Succinct summary of a timeless story.
Is this news from 2002?
Sellers can get de-listed from Amazon with enough poor reviews. For low-ish value items, they may offer a free replacement to avoid bad seller feedback. Leave feedback and wait a few days for them to contact you.
I don't know much about this area. What about "x ∈ ℕ ∧ x > 2 ∧ x < 5 ∧ x % 2 = 0 implies x = 4." can't be expressed in common languages? Don't lots of solver systems have support for sets, and deriving facts from statements about them?
maybe free-fall? A bunch of them on a ferris-wheel like gizmo (but maybe more oblong up and down), some "active" while falling and others "inactive" while returning to the top?
Not OP but it's not strong allegation at all. Just go to the "Moms Across America" website. They are blatantly anti-vaccine and anti-science.
When it’s a no-tools manual process? Unlikely.
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Would love to hear community's feedback about it.
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What's wrong about being popular among prison inmates?!
This isn't helpful. I don't like use of pesticides and I think there's a reasonable controversy to be had about the dangers of Glyphosate.

But the environmental impact of meat production is so enormous desastrous, we should welcome every possible alternative. Whatever the Glyphosate (and GMO) concerns are, they are tiny in comparison.
Why not?

Theres no reason why you couldn't do a 4 field crop rotation in one field.

Market gardens quite often have rows of different crops right next to each other.

If you're talking properly mixed up, 3 sisters planting did OK for Native North Americans. And many gardeners will sowing a row of radishes in with your parsnip rows because they germinate so slowly.

And that's without getting into forest gardening and permaculture.
Huawei happened.

Downloading from: https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com/

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If you always pin, you have history to tell you which versions were good. If you mostly don't, you have to start disassembling a bunch of old images just to figure out what they were built from.
Indeed, I think going forward we will see high-level languages that paper over the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous functions. However for Rust specifically, the performance implications you note are of particular concern, while the remark "it seems like the question of whether it's a subroutine or a coroutine shouldn't be something the programmer needs to worry about" is debatable when considering languages that aim to sit at the same level of the stack as C.
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Would like to know what are the best options for healthcare when working for yourself in California. How much should I expect to pay?
While I agree about not wanting nuclear waste, a sea level rise of one meter within 20 years is way above the general scientific prediction. In the last 17 years the rise was pretty stable at 3.3mm per year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
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Isn't it ironic that he isn't pining down the docker version?
I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
What diet are they following? For how long? How is the adherence measured? Who has commissioned the study?

If you compare something like "the food pyramid" diet, but with less calories to surgery I have no doubt the surgery will keep more people at lighter weight after five years. However that doesn't seem like a fair comparison. For one the usual diet that gets pushed to fat people isn't a good diet to being with. Next one requires much more dedication than the other, meaning if you are going through a surgery to alter your body so you can't eat as much, then obviously the adherence will be higher.

Also people who result into surgery are usually on their last legs. Doctors won't give you the surgery unless it is your only option. So if you had to loose weight or die in next year, obviously the adherence will be a lot higher than with loose weight or in 10 years you will have to have a surgery.
"(flip divide) 2" can also be written as "(`divide` 2)" – i saw that idiom recently and i'm warming up to it!
It doesn't matter if it's technically correct, from a certain perspective. What matters is that when you say something like that, you come off like a smug mansplaining dudebro who treats anyone who disagrees like they're an idiot.

It's not a science problem, it's a sales problem. And if you want concerned environmentalist-oriented people to come to your side, you do not do it by mocking their stupidity with a ridiculous-sounding "fact". Doesn't matter if that "fact" is true. Is your goal to convince environmentalists to support nuclear power over solar, or to prove how much smarter you are?
People definitely want to close FB for multitudes of reasons beyond being a platform for divisive speech.
I think this is just a matter of familiarity. I've seen highly non-technical users find linux as easy if not easier than windows.

The problems are mainly unsupported hardware and lack of software support. But if you stick with open alternatives then you can do just fine.
Yes! The standard is so senseless that something sensible is hilarious.

In a mad world, a sane man is considered mad.
I think the hard part is finding your questions (you want to ask your mentor). Once you have them, finding answers is pretty easy. The best source may be books, because authors have thought hard about the answers. 2nd blog posts, because those people too had something to say on the topic. If you ask a random person anything you will likely get a random answer. 3rd find an expert on the topic of your question. Finding a mentor first and your questions only then seems backwards.
https://projecteuler.net/

Some problems with solutions in different languages. Each problem leads to the next one.
Most "clever and ultra violent" criminals by far are in fact sociopaths. Sociopathy does correlate with a severe lack in executive function, but the causal mechanism is very likely different from what we see in ADHD - it's probably a sort of "callousness towards oneself" stemming from the sociopath's exceedingly-poor emotional palette, that also leads to their callous behavior and lack of empathy towards others.
> What happens when you need to rebase?

cvs up and submit a new patch?

> When you need to backport

Try to apply my patch on the relevant release branch, and carefully check that it works, or reimplement it, depending on how much changed in the area I'm patching? If it's trivial to apply to a previous release and desirable to do so, the project team is likely to do it without me.

CVS or git or SVN or tarballs or hg all do the same thing for me as an outside contributor: give me a basic tree to start from and send diffs from.
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Yeah, it really helps if you have to do some processing in the stored procedures and it helps with the query speed if properly indexed. I have seen folks put a level number in the table also, but that really depends on what the hierarchy represents.
> From what I've seen, explicit version control does not really work unless there's an organizational force toward timely upgrade.

I agree. But that doesn't contradict what I was saying. I was not saying that explicit version control always works. I was only saying that it is perfectly compatible with "upgrade early, upgrade often", since the post I was responding to claimed the contrary.

Also, if an organization can't reliably accomplish timely explicit upgrades, I doubt it's going to deal very well with unexpected breakage resulting from an automatic upgrade either.
How does it compare to Anki?
Anyone going to dealerships in 2019 is already losing. I made that mistake recently with my wife's car. We went into dealer and I talked to manager. We knew exact model and color we wanted and told him we were there to see it in person and then would get quotes from area dealers... Because he was nice I told him to just give me his absolute best price then and we'd consider it... it was few grand more than I knew I could get so I went the email/quote route. 2 weeks later he won the pricing quote and was 6 grand lower than what he said was his lowest in the showroom. Only shop via email. Ever.
Agreed that they never left, but they were relegated to the sidelines to be smaller bootstrapped communities.
> while scientific and environmental organizations claim "no fewer than 93,000".

that is on the right scale. The Gomel and Mogilev regions of Belarus took the brunt of the fallout, and the cancer rates there is significantly higher. For example, the rate of the breast cancer (the most frequent cancer - normally more than 1 in 10 women would get it during lifetime) is 2x there (so with total 1M+ women living in those 2 regions more than 100K of them would get the breast cancer due to Chernobyl). In general, comparing Belarus cancer rates to Russia, Ukraine, Poland - the surrounding countries with a lot of similarities wrt. environment, ethnicity/DNA, lifestyle/unhealthy habits/etc. - Belarus gets about 10K extra cancer cases per year (with about 50% mortality).
if they moved that way, why they would care about GPL violation?
> any country in the world can summon him

Any country _where Facebook operates_.

If you're operating a business in a country then expect to be beholden to that country's laws.

The internet isn't a get-out-of-jurisdictional-rules-free card.
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I would love if my harshest critic was my friend. In fact, I would support any friend who decided to become a leader among my critics.
Tangentially related is this classic long form piece by Neal Stephenson from a 1996 editon of Wired "chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth". A great bit of recent transoceanic cable history.

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
TVs have exponentially lost weight over the last few decades.
Ideally for improving security, they should invest on supporting open source software, hardware and standards. Open Design Principle is much better long term strategy than Security by Obscurity. But for developers in China, there are a lot of obstacles with contributing to open source communities worldwide, so I can see that probably not going to happen.

End of the day, policymakers are more educated with economics than cybersecurity and computer science. They probably still gonna use Microsoft products.
Just curious - what is your country doing to study the issue and come up with solutions? Forest fires are necessary in nature, and at least this is a controlled one with the intent of being studied.
The main actors are definitely A-List and they "make it work" beautifully in English with whatever their native accents happen to be.

If it were a Russian language production with Russian actors, that could also be just fine, but it wouldn't get as much distribution.
In C#, this is defined by the current thread's synchronization context.

If you're writing a console application, the main thread doesn't have one. When an async function wants to resume, it will usually resume on some thread pool's thread. Potentially different one each time. Can be any other thread too, the runtime just resumes running the function on the same thread which completed the await.

But if you're writing a GUI app and launching an async function from its GUI thread, that thread has a current sync.context. When the function will want to resume running or fails, the runtime will resume/raise exception on the same thread where it started. More precisely, the runtime delegates the decision to the sync.context, and the contexts set by GUI frameworks choose to resume on the GUI thread.

This may cause some funny deadlock bugs, but in most cases works surprisingly well in practice.

Also it's easy to implement custom synchronization contexts if needed.
What’s wrong with trailer parks?

It's a big economic disadvantage. Your property depreciates rapidly. Meanwhile, you're still paying rent, and it's easier to get evicted.

What do you propose to replace them with?

How about communities of low cost housing, which allow for lower income people to build equity and which are somehow distinct enough to preclude co-option by well heeled tech employees? Maybe some kind of intentional community with such goals built into its charter?
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Android took a couple of years to be usable, then the rest of the decade to be come unusable.

I have one phone from 2012. Wow ... so easy to do everything.

- no swipe first to unlock the screen: directly to pattern

- input method switching easy and convenient

- settings buried less deeply

- ...
WASM is based off of a specification, so compilers target the spec instead of an individual runtime.
"gRPC is great because most systems just glue one side effect to another side effect, so what's the point of packaging that into REST" – I think a HN comment from a googler

The great thing about Clojure is that you can make holistic systems that are end-to-end immutable and value-centric, which means the side effects can go away, which means gRPC stops making sense and we can start building abstractions instead of procedures!
It's usually the product with the smallest set of features that can show whether there is going to be traction with the offering.
I could be wrong, but I thought the GPL basically said "anyone who has access to the binary must have access to the source code". This is why you're allowed to write a webserver with GPL libraries without having to worry about releasing the code to the users (unless it's AGPL), since the users don't have access to the binary, just the stuff that the binary is producing.

If that were the case, I think they'd be in the clear legally to use Linux as long as they offered to provide the source code to anyone in the military who had access to the binary, which wouldn't be the general public.

That said, just to avoid the headache, I'd probably choose FreeBSD as well if I were in charge of the Chinese military.
Your argument is basically "it's too expensive". There will be more than
enough incentive for someone to develop a cheap, recyclable but robust
plastic that can be used for medical devices.

His argument is more that adding lots of laws will stifle industries and make it much harder for new, inventive products to be created, and that includes life-support systems and the like.

Having a ban will let companies get creative and build equally strong but
recyclable plastics. Nothing is impossible, it's just expensive. And if
we increase the costs on everything then it works to everyone's benefit.

A lot of the plastics that are used today are thermoplastics, because they're easier to build and manipulate- all you have to do is melt little chips and then squeeze them into a shape and you're more or less done. Things like HDPE- what a lot of plastic cutting boards and gallon milk jugs are made of- are really useful and strong in many use cases. Those other use cases are where things like thermoset plastics- think stuff like epoxy- come in handy. There are many applications where nothing else, including metal, will work well, for various reasons.

Having a ban will let companies get creative and build equally strong but recyclable plastics.- you missed one of cr0sh's points- even if everyone only builds slightly different plastics, it's still hard to get a good fully recycled product.

And if we increase the costs on everything then it works to everyone's benefit. I don't think that that's how this works. I'm pretty sure that if we increase the costs of everything, then the overall cost of living goes up and money gets devalued, the only real difference being that the taxing body has more of your money. I don't think that this is a good idea.

Banning some particularly egregious chemicals (such as CFC's, which absolutely destroy the ozone layer) is a good idea. Saying no to a ginormous subset of plastics is a particularly damaging idea.
You need to get this guys wife. She must have hospital coupons at this point.
The Belarus exclusion zone is huge, and sort of keeps growing whenever there is a forest fire and radioactive materials are redistributed.