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Re: Mossad -- See below (a few sources listed, John Schindler is a good journalist on intel topics.)

I think it's almost certain that Epstein was not connected to US intelligence. Much of what you say above (Clinton/MI6) argues for that.

The U.S. Intelligence Community is lenient about the private habits of high-value agents or informants, but they won’t countenance running sex trafficking rings for minors on American soil, for years. While it’s plausible that Epstein was sharing some information with the FBI—many criminals do so to buy themselves some insurance—it’s implausible that he was mainly working for the Americans.

This is true.

Also, this is a good sum-up

Who are the suspects then? It seems awfully coincidental that Epstein’s best pal and business partner for decades has been Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, the media mogul who died under mysterious circumstances in 1991. Something of a Bond villain turned real life, Maxwell loved the limelight, despite being a swindler and a spy. British counterintelligence assessed that Maxwell was working for the KGB, while pervasive allegations that he was working for Mossad too are equally plausible.

Since the _lines between Russian intelligence, Israeli intelligence and organized crime can get remarkably blurry in practice_, as I’ve explained previously, assessing whom Epstein’s been working for may prove difficult to answer with any precision. But we have a suspect list to start asking questions.

What’s not in doubt is that a sex trafficking ring centered on minors, which involved numerous global VIPs in compromising situations, would be of high interest to quite a few intelligence services. The Epstein saga seems certain to get even more unpleasant and interesting.
From a machine learning model’s perspective they are both turn based. In SC2/Dota case one turn is one frame. There is nothing fundamentally different between these and blind chess apart from the possible moves space being vastly smaller
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This news heading is bad because they include 16 years old teenagers in the statistics. A majority of them are living with their parents, attending high school, and obviously having no income. I'd be more likely to agree with the report if it only includes people who are working, or 24 years old and up.

> In 2013 the corresponding proportion was 39.5%.

It's actually a great improvement. Going from 39.5% down to 28% in a mere 6 years (despite the bad statistics counting 16+ years old).
And constantly compiling and flashing the ESP gets old after a while.
Sure there should be more high density and public transportation. But it's not going to make it like the east coast.

I grew up in San Diego and lived in New York as well as Ft. Worth and I think you don't know what you are talking about.
It did not. But I think that's a HUGE consideration, as is the potential to reduce particulates in the air dramatically.

Here's a link to the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20543605 -- on mobile so I can't figure out how to get the comment URL. If you're interested, just go there and search for my username -- onlyrealcuzzo. I'd love a second set of eyes on it. Not sure the math is right.
I think the OP is saying that most trees you plant now will be dead in 20-200 years and returning their carbon to the atmosphere through natural decay. Trees end up being a temporary solution. A permanent solution basically requires us to bury the carbon back in the ground where we found it in the first place, or in some other form that doesn't decay.
It sounds like a reversal of the language I see in many job ads. While it would generally hurt job applications, it would make sense for someone who has an abundance of job applications as a method for sorting through the possible offers. But doing this after doing a coding exercise doesn't make sense. This sounds like something on a web page aimed at recruiters, not something that should be done after one has invested time into applying.
Bill Gates is not a nice person, but I will believe almost everything before believing that he was raping underaged girls on a secret island.
Is there a good summary somewhere of what miniKANREN is and of the difficulties finding academic support for those of us who work in industry and don't know as much about the tenure system?

(FWIW I tried to help correct the downvotes. I personally believe very very few comments should be in the gray.)
Trees sequester carbon to the extent that they grow. They do very little of both at the beginning of life, they also stop doing both at some point.

There is a maximum rate somewhere in between, in an age that varies by orders of magnitude for different species. It's pretty meaningless to talk about young or old trees without context, except on that general way in that trees get old at some point.
And independent nonprofit organization with a clear mission statement and no ulterior motives. Not Google Employees operating under the oversight of Google management.
> is basically the definition of Java byte code

Except that the slim binaries concept is not based on byte code at all, but more like a Huffman compressed abstract syntax tree. Not only are the binaries smaller, they can potentially be optimised further because no semantic information is lost.

See also this blog post for more details: https://hokstad.com/semantic-dictionary-encoding

Original website on Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20020617132121/http://caesar.ics...
By chronological event data, you mean timeseries data? Dgraph can be used for storing that, though, it's not specifically designed to store data that "flat".

It should work conceptually. At least, for smaller datasets, it should be alright (gigabytes or something), but for bigger datasets (terabytes), I think a specific TS DB would make more sense.

However, you can take the aggregations from there and store that along with relationships into Dgraph. That'd be a perfect fit.
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And "bitching on the internet that men are bad".

And you're excusing that behavior from feminists. There's a double standard for you.
I never said all poor people use cigarettes, lotto, alcohol, and weed. But there are tons of studies showing that use of those things is elevated among the poor.

Anyway, the whole point of this thread is that having some buffer money allows you to make more optimal savings choices in the future. It's a cascade effect.

Even $1000 in savings as a buffer would allow you to make better decisions grocery shopping (you can afford to hold off and wait for better deals, etc.) or in the case of this article, have the patience to forego $100 now to get $200 later.
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My understanding is that Exactly Once Processing to Completion" is not the same as "Exactly Once Processing." In the former, any side effect is not committed until the processing has completed, and if you have an externally consistent database then you can have exactly once processing [to completion]. What am I missing?
That sounded a lot like nationwide monopsony power. Compare to "Wal-Mart simply decides what TVs are worth and then tells the manufacturers. If the TV manufacturers don't like it, they can't sell them in Wal-Mart."

Perhaps United Healthcare cannot negotiate as much because it's bound by regulation, there's a large number of drugs that it cannot realistically stop covering, and the drug companies know it?
>This does not seem logical. Two cars emit more C02 than one car. Two leaves will absorb more CO2 than one leaf.

Mature trees grow much, much, slower. The wood is (largely) the captured carbon so once a given species reaches a certain maturity, harvesting it for lumber to be used in construction and planting a several year old tree would be the most optimal.

Some actually want to genetically engineer trees that grow much faster to do this (although faster growth generally means softer woods, but simply drying the wood and storing it in mines would buy you many decades to centuries before the bulk of the carbon was re-released).
"Probability-wise I just mean there's a 2/8 chance that it's one of these pawns"

Unless I misunderstood the concept somehow, your calculation seems to be, as the great GM Finegold would put it, "incorrect!"

How many ways are there to pick 2 pawns out of 8? (8x7)/2, or 28. How many ways are there to pick 2 pawns out of 6? (6x5)/2, or 15.

In other words, there are 28 combinations in total, and only 15 combinations where NEITHER of the 2 crucial pawns is an assassin.

This means the actual probability is (28-15)/28, or 13/28, or about 46% (rather than 25%).

Let's do a sanity check. "Safe" combinations:

ab ac ae ag ah
bc be bg bh
ce cg ch
eg eh
gh

15.

"Unsafe" combinations:

ad af
bd bf
cd cf
de df dg dh
ef
fg fh

13.

Yup, math works out.
You mean temporary rental and transport is a luxury? I suppose so, by some interesting standard...
But then, so is having a TV set, or a smartphone.
I upvoted you because it's easy to forget that, outside the US and a few western countries, most people use Windows (even design professionals). In some of those countries, the price point of Macs make them a non-option. As a result, it's been harder for them to have access to design tools which have often been Mac-only.

Furthermore, with modern Javascript JITs, performance issues are generally not easily summarized as "it's Electron". VSCode is the typical example of an Electron app with good performance.

Performance issues often have to do with specific operations needing to be optimized rather than some general multiplier. At times, it's been faster than Sublime for me, because Sublime happened to do something inefficient (e.g. trying to syntax-highlight a very large log file, whereas VSCode preferred to bail). I'm sure with infinite resources, native apps can be faster than Electron ones, but almost never do application developers have the resources to invest to get that far.

Disclaimer: I work on design tools
I'm sorry, but that first paragraph was hilarious. Hates coding and realizes they don't want to be part of the pool that actually has to work 60+ hours a week... I want to be a team manager! I'd rather tell people to work 60 hours instead of being told to work 60 hours!
Yes and no, but mostly no.

Every person who is a journalist has a bias. But the point of the practice/process of journalism is to mitigate those personal influences.

Just because you're investigating and writing does mean you're a journalist. Maybe you're doing glorified op-ed. Maybe you're being a wannabe reporter. But being a journaliat is a higher level.

If you're not aware of the difference between op-ed, reporter, and journalism then...you're not a journalist. One of the biggest communication problems we have today is that too many assume they understand the definition of journalism (and the processess and ethics on which its built), but they do not. Yet they continue to use the word inappropriately. Others blindly follow. And so on.

Long to short, people use "journalism" like they use "literally"; most of the time in the wrong way at the wrong time.
> Nobody created it

I don't think we can state that as a fact, can we?

I was just watching this discussion here yesterday: https://youtu.be/noj4phMT9OE.

Very interesting points made.
But why throw something away which is not physically broken? I currently use a Mac Mini from 2009 with Debian and I have no complaints... well, except that software keeps getting slower.
Fortunately that supply can increase.

Theoretically drug companies can close off the entire market or increase supply. They’re prohibited from raising prices in the market. Since marginal cost is so low, I expect that they’ll keep selling st increased volumes.

It’s a bit odd that the US is taking this tack instead of just regulating drug prices domestically. But there’s a lot of odd things in the health system.
(the context here is scroll behavior, not markers)

I too tried their codepens and my immediate reaction was "I hope nobody ever does this."

This definitely feels like one of those Ian Malcolm moments.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

Having the position jump away from where I just put it feels extremely hostile.
You realize every aspect of your reasoning for "Not Mossad" except the Pollard affair also applies to any other foreign intelligence service? Operating independently doesn't explain how he got his initial connections to Wexner, Barr, or Maxwell; let alone his money. And as it happens, at least 2 of the people on that list are Israel-adjacent. Seems like simple deduction to me. If he's foreign it's Mossad, if he's not foreign then hoo boy.
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Why is that a big deal? On average I never take such long holidays.

People forget they aren't _entitled_ to anything except their life and liberty.
Seriously, hostels are the most fun way to visit any first-world country (if you're young, at least). Meet new people every day, with an obvious instant common topic to talk about. Super easy to schedule ad hoc adventures with your fellow hostellers.

As compared to a hotel, which will generally be just like every other hotel in the entire world, and you might as well have just gone to a hotel in your home city. Or the usual tourist traps, where you'll compete with a giant mob of people too busy checking off items on their checklists to chat or adventure.

The only way a non-hostel vacation makes any sense is if your #1 goal is to post selfies to make yourself look rich and successful.
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the au site explodes if you access with js disabled, try https://kotaku.com/how-over-25-people-got-scammed-into-worki...
Even better if you did that voluntarily instead of involuntarily.
From your comment, I’m not sure if you are downplaying the high price of medication in the United States or simply stating a fact, so I’m going to clarify (apologies on my part). Reducing 1.6% of the aggregate healthcare spending isn’t the full picture. That amount is not going to go to reduce the price of over-the-counter Acetaminophen or over-the-counter Ibuprofen: it’s going to go to things like grossly marked-up Epipens and the like.
Even more interesting than the title is what's going on in the other categories surveyed. If you look at the charts half-way down the article, it's pretty clear that there's an increasing partisan divide on positivity ratings for higher education, large corporations, the finance/banking industry, and churches. This seems to echo pretty closely a lot of recent political rhetoric going into the election cycle.
If you look at his further posts, his positions are fabricated worst case scenario. For example he suggests that there is no point in planting trees because you're going to drive there in your SUV and then come home and run your AC. This might be true for some people, but it's not for me as my house doesn't have AC and I don't own an SUV. I car pool or drive a prius to plant trees. Also we're not planting trees in places that are then harvested.

When I see people who are anti-tree planting, I wonder if there is some authoritarian predilections at play and anything that doesn't result in central control or provide some mechanism for rent seeking or corruption is going to get down played.

The reality is that if you go and work with your local land management folks who can give you guidance on the types of trees and where to plant them, then going out and spending a weekend putting fifty trees in the ground, will give you quite a nice reduction for the CO2 emissions necessary to plant them. What's more is trees reproduce on their own. If you get a tree into the ground it will likely produce two additional trees over its lifetime if not more.
Maybe this is just the new way of running a company? Companies that are satisfied with big profits, but don't continually re-invest those profits into R & D and growth are going to eventually get steamrolled by companies that do. We're seeing the same kinds of stuff happening with SpaceX and ULA. The fact that these companies can bankroll this growth for decades using all the modern financial tools available to them is a problem with the system.
Not exactly, but they also don't grow boundless (some do, but that's because the meaning of "growth" and "reproduction" mix, for all practical reasons, they become many trees). The growth rate slows down superexponentially at some point.
I'd love to see a writeup of doing something like this but without any of the balena cloud stuff.
That's great news, now the rest of us can lower our targets and relax a bit.
Or if it's an "Art Installation"
He's not a myth, he was a real person. Some mythology has been built around him, but he really existed and was quite a character.
The start button occupies the corner of a bar that already has to be there. No additional screen space is taken up. And users often autohide that bar.

But more importantly, user control is not at all the same thing as throwing a bunch of useless data at the user. Is it the site? Yes or no.
Placing them in arid caves/mines would lock the carbon up much longer.
What about two income families where each person works at a different employer?
What I cannot understand is how so many who suffer or struggle themselves attack fellow victims of this. Punching sideways or down i disgusting but it seems people are always looking for someone to blame and feel better than. This entire experience made me a misanthrope in large. I cannot every discuss my experience without a large number of attacks. It's comforting in a small way to see its not the majority in an international audience, but the American audience and many interactions are very hostile to someone else's pain.
> An active host, Epstein arranged a dinner in the early 2000s at his Upper East Side townhouse for former President Clinton, a no-show, according to New York magazine.

It seems they are trying to distance Epstein from Bill Clinton. Bill flew to the island a dozen times, Epstein's girlfriend came to Chelsea's wedding... Ah! but Bill didn't show for a dinner once so he wasn't really connected with Epstein that much? If the reporter just left that part out completely it might have worked, but they are trying a little too hard. I bet there is a deeper connection there.

The case, overall is just so strange. The plea deal he got before, his attempted suicide in his cell after(!) filing an appeal to post bail.

Also, he went from stealing checks in the mail https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6962478/parties/united-... to owning private islands, 7500 acre range in New Mexico, apartment in Paris, a Boeing 727, getting a multi-million dollar mansions for $1 as a "gift". It's just unbelievable stuff.
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There is a very very good reason this term was coined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presstitute

Nearly all major corporate news is corporate propaganda.
> Austerity in Spain means that there is no money for hospitals

Sorry where are you getting this information from? I have family in Spain that is expecting to get excellent healthcare from their supplemental health insurance.
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It makes me wonder, is it possible to determine the age of a living person with any accuracy by some kind of physical measurement or biological test?

It seems that birth records and appearance are all we got to go on?
It sounds like the type of expensive art that would be relevant rather in an investment bank than in a public hospital.

A decent non-trivial local artist's painting typically costs around $2000. $65K spent locally could've been a good gift for the local art community.
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Basic economics 101: increased demand will drive up prices. Higher prices will induce new competitors into the market, increasing supply and lowering prices.

That is, of course, how an actual free market works. Healthcare is far from a free market, so instead of embracing the opportunity for growth of the Canadian economy, we get responses like the one above.
On a related note, today's New York Times has an article about the recent fires in California. Near the end the author states that the 2018 Camp Fire released

...an estimated 3.6 million metric tons of greenhouse gases that, as seems to happen at least once every fire season lately, was more than enough to obliterate the progress made by all of California’s climate-change policies in a typical year.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/31/magazine/para...
I'm skeptical.

The oldest man to ever live, Jiroemon Kimura, only lived to 116. Only 7 men have ever lived (confirmed) to 114 or older.

Now here is someone who has the health and wellness of a much younger man, claiming to be the oldest man who's ever lived by 3 years (a huge outlier!). We should have a healthy dose of skepticism of such claims.

Even Jeanne Calment is being re-examined based primarily on how much of an outlier she was at 122 years old, 3.5 years older than the next oldest person ever[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Scepticism_rega...
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Remote dev here.

I'm signed up to CodementorX for over a year now.

I liked the vetting process and the people working there were very nice and helpful.

Never got a project via that platform, but I also only applied actively for projects for a month or so, then I got a book deal and after I wrote that book I got other projects where companies directly contacted me.

The service itself seems to be rather passive, like, you have to search and apply for projects yourself and hope you get one. It's not that they have a bunch of recruiters doing that work for you, which I would prefer.
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Thanks for the kindness. I know there are good people out there. I know even being poor you can have joy. I have moments of it...my cat...photography...a small number of people I love...but its not enough when you can't get off Maslow's bottom rungs.
Many people go to a lot of trouble to perpetrate fraud, look at that guy claiming to have invented bitcoin for example. That is not to say that I believe this site to be fraudulent.

I could not find any information on a course available, could you point me in the right direction? It is a bit odd to me that none of their products are available for purchase from their website (I saw the $99 computer with minimum order of 1000 units but when clicking through I was redirected back to the home page).
It could be (b) -- it's incorrect because there's a deadlock due to incorrect mutex usage here.

It could also be (c) -- it's correct but there's contention or: the mutex is too coarse / there's "too much" work being protected by the mutex.

But I think your point about matching windows is likely the case (this is how wine implements WaitForMultipleObjects maybe?). The fd exhaustion with FUTEX_FD means they need another way.
This is such a ridiculous statement. Increasing density now does not decrease traffic now (or even in the near future). Grocery stores, outdoor recreation, nightlife, and dining are among the things that need to be within walking distance to get people to give up cars. If the office is the only space that anyone desired I'd set up a hammock by my desk and stop paying a mortgage. Increasing density on its own increases traffic and the parking burden.
Yeah as an investor I still really like Apple. They have a TON of cash, billions of highly qualified users that they can easily roll new products/services to (iphone owners), and all the while they're frugal and meticulous about how they use it.

I think the stock will pop once news breaks of another breakthrough product...whether its a car or something else.