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What does Android have to do with wiretaps?
Is there an existing solution in the court system when you're forced to pay the other side's attorneys' fees, to make sure those fees are reasonable?

My uninformed suggestion is to set a statutory rate for contract review, allowing the legislature to revise it every few years, and perhaps tying it to some other government budget or salary in some way (e.g., some multiple of the effective hourly rate of government attorneys or clerks, or some fraction of the government's maximum allowed rate on their own contract review).
Several video creators who got their start on Youtube have branched out to making their own platform, Nebula, if you are interested: https://watchnebula.com/
It works great. With a 1070 as my video card I'm fairly certain the processor is not a bottleneck.
Modern farming practices really help. The cows/pigs are kept far away, and downhill, of the fields growing vegetables. Irrigation water isn't contaminated. Humans are in minimal contact with the crop. Like it or not, epic agribusiness dramatically reduces the risk of cross-contamination between crops/livestocks/peoples.
Haha, I first chuckled at this, and then it dawned upon me that I do plan a week off in July-August, having had 2 weeks off in April. European here, of course.
I'm a westerner now living in Vietnam. I travel around the country quite a bit by motorbike. Through all of the most rural places. I'm currently in the far north having driven up from the south.

People in this country leave all of the bits of meat out in the sun with flies and what not all over it. I've seen cows, chickens and pigs slaughtered on the side of dusty dirty roads. They eat the whole animal... entrails and all.

Most cooking of meat just means it has been boiled in the bowl you're eating it out of. The concept of sanitization here is incomprehensible, it just does not exist. Literally, millions of people live like this... not even because they have to, there is actually a lot of money here... but because they just don't know any better.

Needless to say, I've become vegetarian with eggs. You just can't trust the meat at all. My diet on the road is the same almost every day... fried rice, tofu with tomato, fried eggs, boiled veggies. When I first moved here 3 years ago I would be sick a lot, but now my belly is used to it. Worst is a bit of belly ache.
GenX 4 lyfe :)
That is super!
You mean stop using SMS, switch to WhatsApp.
I have to admit that GNU TeXmacs is buggy.

And I've fixed some of them by myself or with the help of other contributors.

Please report bugs to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=texmacs

And we will fix it as soon as possible.

For the next release: TeXmacs 2.1, we mainly focus on bug fixes.
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agreed, just an observance.
> three-month wiretap that collected 9.1 million text message from 45 individuals

~2210 messages per person per day on average? (~138/day hour) That's either really impressive, or something doesn't add up...
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If there are millions of college kids who all need contract review within the span of a few days in the spring, I would expect the market to adapt in some way. The most likely, I think, is that employers (at least employers within an industry) would settle on some boilerplate contract, and law firms would let you upload a contract to their website, have a script run a diff, and come back "Yes, this is in fact the boilerplate contract, here is our plain-English summary" or "No, here's how it differs, you can retain us at normal rates to explain the diff or you can push back on your employer." (They could charge you a few bucks, or they could just have the cost of reviewing this year's boilerplate contract be paid by the employers, who are incentivized to successfully and legally hire interns.)

The more interesting question is whether if everyone knows there's a non-compete and it's the industry standard, there will be any more effective pushback... now that I think of it, I worry there may be less if contracts get mechanically standardized.
They manage managers. Per every ~8 people, you need some sort of a map/reduce operation. That is a manager. An organization is essentially a giant map-reduce hive mind.

Some managers are there due to them just cruising slowly up the chain.

Management is a really hard problem. There are very very few managers I have met in my entire life that I would work with them again. Some just love the power of ordering people around. Some are just plain assholes.

Seriously, life is too short to be treated like shit.
Shit like this is the reason everyone needs to use E2E encrypted messaging.
9.2M? 145 people over 3 months? That's 9.2M / (145*90) = 700~ texts per PERSON per DAY. That's insane. Even if each text goes to ever other person and is double counted, that is still 17+ texts per day from each person. Are these teenagers? Do drug dealers really send texts to dozens of people at once? We have to be missing something.
Not sure what's yur point
On the other hand it's fairly common to pay people during their garden leave - at least their base salary, if not their bonus.
It’s more along the lines of a discretionary override when strict application of the law would offend the judge’s interpretation of fairness. It used to be the King’s privilege, and later became a judicial power.
> in spite of the government

It's often like that. If you think the government of Trump is responsible for America's progress let's chat. The point is that it is permissive enough.
The West is weak. It surrendered a long time ago. I see no reason to believe it would suddenly grow a will to stand for itself. Trump is but a blip, and he's merely a caricature to begin with.
I guess I wasn't very clear.

The problem is that if an individual makes every single choice they can to reduce their CO2 footprint, they still won't make a dent in CO2 emissions. It's effectively pissing in the ocean.

So, you can connect it to status and make people feel good, but you have to go after the big things if you want to actually dent CO2 emissions (this is simply a case of Amdahl's law in reverse).

And the big one is transportation. If you can get every single car and truck onto electricity, you win multiple times. Traffic jams don't convert energy to CO2; electric motors are quite a bit more efficient than internal combustion engines at low speeds with high torque; multiple distributed CO2 sources now become single point sources (at the power plant--much easier to apply technology to).

After that, the next big thing, if I remember correctly, is that you need to switch from AC transmission lines to high-voltage DC transmission lines as the loss is so much better. And a LOT of energy gets lost to simple transmission (also has the advantage that your grids are much easier to interconnect and stabilize).

After those two, then you take a look around and see what the next big 2 or 3 are, and go attack those. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Until you are at CO2 negative.
Boiled in the bowl you eat it from is pretty good sanitation IMO. Great if you can't count on anything to be clean, sterilize at the last step.

There's almost nothing that's unsafe well cooked unless it was rotten to begin with
I was very excited about this until I actually tried it. It is toooo slow. Donno why.
Interesting, for me personally having the expectation I'd eat lunch every day with the team sounds less than ideal
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Yea I came to ask that same question. All I can assume is that’s badly reported and in fact entire cell tower’s messages were being tapped. Which has huge repercussions for privacy. Another thought could be some sort of forwarding service. Regardless these numbers are massive.
I think they do not.
"No Botox, no breast enhancements, anything like that. I made it very clear to everybody who came and their agents. But there were a couple of times when we [agreed to use] somebody and their agents actually made them go out and get breast enhancements. "

Hollywood is vile. "Let us mutilate you because you have a dream that will otherwise die." Yeah they're all adults. It's still vile.
WhatsApp is now owned by Facebook. I still remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... and consider Whatsapp to be now compromised. And don't forget that the app was hacked last May. I'm interested in learning why this is still a recommended application for secure messaging.
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Considering that this means I cannot find employment at all and can’t contribute to open source, I would be somewhat disappointed.
And has not paid off the mortgage.
Looks really nice. For operational-types things, I do wonder if curses UI's are better than web UI's.
TeXmacs is a beautiful piece of software, much better (in my opinion) than TeX. I wrote both my bachelor's and master's thesis in TeXmacs, and used it for years for keeping a research notebook, for homework assignments during undergrad, and for general note taking. I am delighted to hear that it is still being developed. Thank you to the developers for their hard work!
the default SMS message protocol is unencrypted
That article is confusing due to the author being confused himself. Warrantless wiretaps can only be ordered for non-US people living outside the United States believed to have national security relevant communications. These people do not have Fourth Amendment protection.

The ODI's transparency report (the article's only citation, from which I have obtained every fact in this post) says that indeed went up from 129K targets in 2017 to 165k targets in 2018, but the article never mentions that. Instead, it talks about searching the recorded communications of those targets for communications related to US people who aren't being wiretapped themselves.
If you block AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure... that is pretty much the whole internet.
you mean the Brag About My FAANG TC threads?
MSYS2 can do something better than Cygwin.

I'm disappoint to "VM-like" behavior too, so I don't expect they would be totally replaced by WSL.

But this is similar in the other direction. Many applications just rely on such "VM-like" behavior, even though they can be (re)built for Win32 and/or they do not need a real VM for functionality. Note WSL1 can already do something more, e.g. hosting programs as X clients working with VcXsrv. I don't think WSL2 will be necessarily better than WSL1 in many of such cases. (In particular, when I have to reserve VT-x for some other hypervisors, I have no other choice.)
Define 'successful':

- rich?

- famous?

- or would you rather be happy and healthy?

Note that these are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but I know a lot of people and I've yet to see someone that is wealthy or famous that is also really happy but I do know some people that by HN standards would qualify as poor that are super happy, and a good part of that is because they are not chasing the buck or how many people have their autograph.
I think the situation given is that you know the skewed input distribution.
That's simply not true. Many, many people got their start with Microsoft Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic, etc. People still make a living knowing the very reliable Microsoft Excel.
Overfitting typically happens when the number of training samples is small compared to the number of parameters of the model. It especially happens when the input space is high-dimensional.

Here the input space has a only one dimension. The model has 10 parameters. There are 8500 samples. So, the author safely assumes that no over-fitting occurs.
So you need access to a uniform RNG to implement this as it takes the human bias and multiplies by a factor and the RNG... so why not just use the uniform RNG?
Ran a fair bit of Windows 95 back in the day, and a bit of 98 before ditching and going all-out Linux. Did weird shit to those systems, had my liberal share of blue screens and reboots and facepalms and shouting at my CRT. Also frequent reinstalls because things inevitably grew crufty and polluted beyond repair. But these were planned and deliberate. I never once had a system die on me.
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No, SMS is unencrypted on all platforms. I think you meant that iOS may sometimes send encrypted messages to other numbers.

But that's not a great solution for a common e2e.
If you can widen the answers the people can give you could first determine the distribution of a larger width (i.e., pick a number from 1 to 100) then map those to the 1-10 distribution based on their frequency.

This is effectively the same as the person proposing sampling tuples.
You do not need access to a uniform RNG for this - he uses more humans to get the redistribution chance.
For an extension of that thought: does being there in the early days of a company justify a disproportionate cut compared to the people who then work for the company for the next thirty years?
>> Warrantless wiretaps can only be ordered for non-US people living outside the United States

Except in the case of voluntary handovers, situations where the communication provider hands over data without the need of a warrant. A cop can purchase the same location or other data any advertiser can.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/police-get-location-data-witho...
A halfway determined teenager probably sends over 700 texts an hour. I wouldn’t be surprised to see rates upwards of 1,000 per hour for some users.

Average character count per text is probably low. Median character count could be something like 3.

That’s all rank speculation on my part. Would be interesting to see actual data on this though!
There are plenty of communities that are based on open affection, join one. They are also based on consent. To share affection with someone, you must obtain consent.

However, don't try to enforce your desire for affection on the rest of society. Join a group which has agreed to it, and do that before trying to start your own so you can learn what works and what doesn't.
I'm sure that's the case in most industries. They know what they buy, sell, who they outsource to etc. Lenovo and Apple know where their laptops were made, which bits and what raw materials or suppliers they used.

All we need is to derive the impact from each step, and some helpful way to present it. For presentation we know approaches that work. So it's really just requiring the carbon/impact accounting - and penalties for fraud. :)

Then we can decide if we're better off, environmentally, buying a Thinkpad, a Macbook, or a Mac Mini with LG monitor. Whether to pass on those out of season lettuces, or should really be concerned about something making more impact. All we can do right now is guess for just about everything.
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Having lived in China for seven years I see no sign that the Chinese have eaten, are eating, or are going to eat America’s lunch. Growth at the technological frontier is about what the best are doing and diffuses from there. I am unaware of any academic field or major industry where the US is not in the top three, hardly surprising given its 5% of global population and 25% of global economic activity. As long as the US has enough strivers and hard workers it can afford plenty of slackers.

The only way for the US’ relative position not to decline with China’s rise involve megadeaths, just as after WWII it’s relative power could only decline.
People who lived it could be forgiven for wanting to forget.

I never had any direct contact with Microsoft code, but was surrounded by people who did.

It should be noted that Windows NT/Vista/XP/7/8/10 are a different lineage, and carry very little code from the 3.1/3.11/95/98/Me codebase, aside from some UI subsystems. There was not much contact between the two groups, and (I was told) a fair bit of bad blood.

If you find somebody claiming that crashes were not, at minimum, a daily event on W95, you may commiserate over their amnesia. Many people ran Windows programs under OS/2, where only the programs would crash, not the OS, and so less often, and they did not need to reinstall the OS.
That is not a wiretap. A wiretap obtains contents of communications.

There is also no evidence that voluntary handovers are increasing.
I am really starting to worry about climate change but not because of sea level rising or other popular reasons. The big issue that no one is talking about is that the world’s densely populated areas closer to equator are having agriculture yields starting diminish due to high temperatures and land becoming more and more dessert like. In places like North America, Europe and even Siberia, the weather is becoming much more pleasant longer parts of the year and farms are appearing on scene where it was unimaginable few centuries ago. The most productive agriculture band is moving more north up leaving massive population it previously helped grow behind. This is certain to create crises we have never seen before.
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There are millions of developers who won't use Windows, and millions who won't use MacOS.

I guess neither of those is worthy of using either because of this.
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The DB-Engines ranking is here.
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

1. Oracle
2. Mysql
3. MSsql
4. Postgres

And it claims to be up to date. But there is absolutely no way that Oracle is the number 1 most widely used system. They have mysql trailing closely behind but oracle actually gaining momentum. SQLite does not appear to be included.

There is a link to their ranking criteria which includes mentions on twitter, search engine results, and mentions in job sites like indeed and upwork.

I tested out each of the criteria and Oracle was less than one-third the level of mysql in every single criteria. And in most cases, not even close to that high.

So I'm not sure why it is so incorrect. Perhaps Oracle owns the site.
Super, thank you for the detailed answer. I'll be sure to point a couple of companies to your repository, they may be able to contribute in various ways.
One thing that sadly seems to apply is that despite all claims of justice and equality it is really all about power in terms of how societies actually judge and treat people - and children lack power. Society abolished corporal punishment in prisons before we abolished it in schools - how is that for being utterly fucked up?

Not to mention the unidirectionality of aging - once you age out you never have to worry about being subject to the restrictions. If we applied the same standards to minors we would have a maximum voting age because once you get to say 90 your bloc is judged 'statistically not fully capable'.
ya ... I got the math wrong. It is 149 people, not 45.
The amount of information coming to light about Boeing skirting their responsibilities is ridiculous. I've done a lot of reading and I'm an active participant in many Boeing MCAS discussions but I'm still shocked every time new information becomes available. Boeing has really fucked it this time it seems - the question remains, will they be held accountable for the 346 deaths they caused?
How does TeXmacs compare to LaTeX?
When did terminals get clickables?
Alas their green bottle lids are near impossible to twist open.
This is an awesome idea
Some form of encrypted channel, already deployed everywhere and well-understood? Like SSH?
I read once that it is the mark of someone wise to be able to seriously entertain an idea you disagree with and either change your preconception or discard this new idea purely based on its merits. I try and work on being more objective in my ideas and the internet is a big part of this to me. I enjoy reading news sources that I don't agree with politically to get a better idea of what is happening from different perspectives.

Something that worries me is how vocal some people are now about silencing people they disagree with on the internet. De-platforming and such. This seems very regressive to me. I think this is not the right way, if you can't have a civilized debate with someone maybe more research is needed for a fully formed opinion.
Does anyone know the whole story? I thought the IRS just treated the delta between the sale and market value as gift/estate tax.
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“Extended infancy”? Really? Protracted adolescence sure, a giant pointless distraction fine, a diversion from things you value, ok, but infancy? Infants and children do not take time off to find themselves, travel, take a career break or whatever in particular you don’t value about this American (and Western) cultural tendency.

If you don’t want your children to do this what are you going to do about it? Help them get real jobs without going to college? Accelerate their paths into professional jobs by accelerating their academic careers? Because if you don’t do something out of the ordinary you’re going to get pretty much the same results as other people in your position.
One thing I don't get is why the hell so many people's definition of 'good child development' involves setting up dystopias that only a few decades ago would have been panned as heavy handed and unrealistic.
> - This may or may not mean that major distributions binary packages will simply stop being verifiable - it depends on who uses what key server in what chain of trust. We probably won't find out till more bad actors poison more wells

Debian keys come from keyring.debian.org, so ??? I'm guessing that chains of trust from there go through the SKS keyservers. If that's so, Debian updates will likely be hosed at some point. Unless you disable authentication.

I have noticed that Whonix now includes onion links to repositories. So maybe that'd be safe enough without GnuPG authentication. Yes?

Edit: It does look bad for the Debian family:

A recent guide[0] recommends pulling missing repository keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:

> sudo apt update 2>&1 1>/dev/null | sed -ne 's/.NO_PUBKEY //p' | while read key; do if ! [[ ${keys[]} =~ "$key" ]]; then sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys "$key"; keys+=("$key"); fi; done

Just tweak that a hair, and you have a list of all Debian package keys in the keyserver. How long before some jerk hits them with trollwot? I wonder how many millions of Debian family installs could be blocked from updating.

Blame the SKS people, the Debian people, or whatever you like, but this could turn out very painful.

The only bright side, which seemed like a bug until this shit show, is that Debian etc by default don't search for missing keys.

0) https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/06/fix-missing-gpg-key-ap...
iMessage has a backdoor for Apple in the keyserver that a government can compel Apple to use for a wiretap. https://www.lawfareblog.com/iphones-fbi-and-going-dark

The existence of this backdoor (in combination with the fact that iCloud and iMessage are operated by a PRC-controlled business in China) is likely the reason iMessage is not blocked in China.