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Your argument is undermined by a flawed assumption:

> How can the police protect them

The goal of the kind of policing described here is not to protect the population they're harassing members of. It is to harass them to help maintain a racist status quo.

> There isn't an easy balance

This kind of enlightened centrism serves a similar purpose. Don't defend bad practices if you don't support them.
SEC isnt saying that anyone is stealing or embezzling money.

They are saying that there was no registration that would give him the green light to do everything they are accusing him of. The SEC merely wants registration and fine print disclaimers. All the actions they outlined are just rationalizing to the judge why they want jurisdiction under securities laws - where misleading statements without contradictory disclaimers are sanctionable through civil court, instead of the consumer protection framework where blatant marketing lies are okay.

They also need to describe how this was done knowingly, in order to leave room for the DOJ to charge him under criminal securities laws, where ignorance actually is a defense, so they have to prove he was knowingly violating securities laws.

Moving money he collected isnt the issue at all here.
Yeah, nah. This is not going to happen in 24 months. My cynical side tells me this is a panicky grab for positive press after their recent Note 10 smartphone was poorly received by reviewers.
At my UK state school in the 80s, they had a similar policy for musical instruments. They only gave music lessons to those that already were having private lessons (!)
Isn’t there some way you can send it to them? Worst that can happen is they slightly increase the computer’s resale value.
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I agree. Most people don't realize just how big a problem memory was in the early years of computers. People think about how to implement the ALU with various technologies, but memory is where things get sticky.

Core memory was much better than the earlier approaches you described, and is really the only way to go for a pre-DRAM computer. Once core memory came along, the other approaches vanished. The IBM tube computers used dynamically-refreshed capacitors for register storage (called a Havens Delay Unit), but I agree that capacitor memory is a strange choice for main memory since it needs O(N) tubes.
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>"more what you call guidelines, than actual rules"

they can index without scraping. It is enough that other websites have links to you site. So the google bot follows the rules in robots.txt to the letter. "no-index" is the way to stay away from google.
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> BDSM bootloaders

Upvoted for this, lol. I think using a lot of products are essentially becoming a BDSM game nowadays... i.e. It has some broken useless features because of some bullshit due to the marketing department. To improve something, you would need to hack it to bypass some arbitrary restrictions first, and many enjoy this process of hacking...

Those hackers are heros, but it would be the best if some arbitrary problems are not deliberately introduced by the manufacturers in the first place.
Lots of people in this thread claiming that google is slipping, focusing on the wrong metrics, etc. But I agree, google is losing the battle against SEO and its a really hard battle to win. Eventually there will need to be a shift away from search as we know it to win this game.
vardump quoted it in full in his reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20690603
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You've broken the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously with comments like this. We ban accounts that do that. Please do not degrade HN by posting any more like this.

Comments like this poison the commons badly. The overwhelming majority are pure imagination, born out of humans' inability to listen to others with different perspectives from their own. If you have any evidence for the accusations you're making, send it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate, as the guidelines ask. Comments you strongly disagree with are not evidence of anything other than that people in an international forum have very different perspectives.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Makes me curious as to how large tech companies respond to economic or ROL collapses. Do they have anything special in their pocket to protect their operations and employees when something like Argentina or Venezuela or even Crimea happen?
Air conditions are significantly more complex than road conditions, I would guess - wind direction, temperature differentials, air density may all vary and I imagine they could affect flight characteristics.

It's true that you won't encounter pedestrians, and congestion will be much less of a problem initially, but birds are still a major concern.
This specific Feynmann Lecture popped up very recently either here or on lobste.rs. I have since bookmarked the "FLP" series as I really want to come back to it, but I'm curious if there is any significance to why the Algebra lecture in particular was submitted a couple of times. Is it just coincidence, or was it a particularly good one?
You know what's worse than the gas flare offs? Nearly 100% of solar power, of which there is a tremendous amount in Texas in the summer, is going to waste. Most of the wind, of which there's a lot in the plains of west Texas and the hills of central Texas, is also wasted.

The only reason Texas isn't producing nearly 100% of its power from renewable sources today is because the oil and gas industry has been coddled and protected and catered to by the state government for decades, at the expense of everyone who isn't employed by the oil and gas industry (which, admittedly, is a lot of people in Texas).
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Routing is much easier when you can basically go from point A to B directly. Coordination would be required to prevent collisions with other vehicles, but evasion in 3D just means changing to an uncontended altitude. I think the extra dimension actually makes it easier.
> Furthermore, burning rice hulls to produce electricity and RHA, generates more energy than required for the overall process.

I don't have access to the paper, but assuming I'm reading that correctly, the notion of burning rice hulls to power the process and thereby source their ash is a fantastic efficiency.
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"except extremely indirectly"

Not really that indirectly, if there weren't scorching temperatures there wouldn't be a need for extra air con. I'm aware though we can't definitively attribute this heat wave to global warming.
Seems like solar power would be perfect for this situation, maximum production at time of greatest use.

And Texas has plenty of land where putting in massive solar plants would do little ecological damage.
> Thats a bit unfair though. Do you think most people will know if their laptop if affected? This is the first I've heard of it and honestly can't remember what year my MBP is.

Laptop will explode and burn without caring if their owner knows about it, so I don't know what "fairness" has to do with it here. It's not unreasonable to have a minimum awareness about your own possessions, we don't have to slip into full blown idiocracy.
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Yes. Even a distant hint of thoughtcrime must be punished.
There's nothing modern about Changi's use of "angel wings" to physically detain passengers moving through customs while they collect biometrics.
HN turned into a website where quoting facts of Wikipedia gets you downvotes. I would have never thought that this site will reach this low.
This made my night and brought back some very dear memories. Thank you.

Paying it forward, here is the original clip so others can get a hit of the sweet sweet nostalgia...

https://youtu.be/BkHCO8f2TWs
Except that there are other laws requiring them to collect certain data, or it may be necessary for the operation of the service, so they can't just not collect it either.
Are we actually disagreeing? This seems to be a case of ambiguous terminology [1]. But either way, what you said here is exactly what governments want:

>>being presented with options like negative interest rates ought to nudge people further together (I think you meant towards) current consumption

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference
The shots in the gallery aren't nearly as impressive, though...
That lies between "silicon" and "electronic grade silicon" in the posted table, as you'd expect.

Rice hulls cost something to produce too, and I bet you need a lot more than a kilo of them to make a kilo of silicon...
One key misrepresentation:

> In the memo, Damore wrote that hiring practices aimed to increase diversity “can effectively lower the bar” at Google.

Damore wrote that Google "...lowered the bar by reducing the false negative rate." Unsurprisingly, almost every news outlet chopped off the last 6 works of the sentence.
> The word "Alpha-Kevin" (combination of Alpha male and the given name), as being representative of a particularly unintelligent young person

Alpha-Kevin is a term I'll have to use more often
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The right question is if Windows Server has a monopoly - and the answer is no. Even in Azure more then 50% of servers run Linux.
I like what this perspective adds, where Central Banks are only reactionary. Yes, Central Banks want to distort the market so that savers are forced to invest if they want to keep their wealth growing.

But adding another dimension to why savers do what they do is fascinating. Time value and life expectancy. Very fascinating. I don't think it explains the last 10 years as an accelerant to suddenly consider this, but it is interesting how it happens to coincide with other monetary policy adjustments.

Its like people stopped trusting the markets and money supply, so central banks reacted to add liquidity to markets. This coincided with people realizing en masse that they can also delay gratisfaction for a rosier economic reality, and Central Banks react to that further by trying to push saved liquidity in the markets.

So far, private persons have barely budged and will rather pay for the privilege of keeping their money.
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How many? I only think of one the Paris agreement that the US has withdrawn from. But that is not a legally binding treaty according to the US officials.

"United States officials to regard the Paris Agreement as an executive agreement rather than a legally binding treaty. This removed the requirement for the United States Congress to ratify the agreement.[13] In April 2016, the United States became a signatory to the Paris Agreement, and accepted it by executive order in September 2016"
Given that the TSA has something like a 5% success rate (according to their own internal measures) at identifying things they’re actively screening, I think the best bet in any event would have been to just try to take the laptop through.
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> I examined the ARM-1's barrel shifter on the die. It takes roughly 10% of the chip so it's a fairly hefty investment.

> Functions like multiply and divide are more useful than barrel shifting, and those were missing too.

My thought was that the lack of multiplier/divider can be somewhat compensated by adding a cheaper 8-bit barrel shifter instead. So according to your analysis, apparently even that didn't make economic sense for a 8-bit chip.

Thanks a lot for giving an authoritative assessment, Ken!
In the same way that browsers refuse to do certain things unless coupled with human input (like open a pop-up window, or submit auto-filled form data), they should refuse to send a click event to an element that hasn't been stationary for a short while.

It would need to be defeatable for "game mode" though, for games involving clicking moving targets. Any other edge cases to consider?
Running a diesel generator cheaper than $9/kW.
Flying from point A to point B while avoiding collisions is relatively straightforward. The really hard part is dealing with in-flight emergencies like mechanical failures or sudden weather changes. It's impossible to predict and program for every failure mode which could happen in the real world. A human ATP rated pilot has enough experience to solve problems in real time but current AI technology is incapable of that.
I've recently been thinking about how we often talk academically about the idea of the market being efficient, but not so much about the time frame for that efficiency.

In essence, the market is simply an economic manifestation of evolutionary theory.

But the same way if evolution took place for an organism with rapid mutations and a short life cycle across seasons, you'd potentially have most of the species adapting to cold weather and then suddenly dying off during summer, our short outlooks are probably creating market optimizations that are adaptive in the short term but maladaptive in the long term (as an obvious example, trying to cover up global warming instead of plan around its inevitability).

I keep seeing the market make changes that make sense if the world was going to end in the next five years, and dig itself into a deeper and deeper hole, continually confident in its wisdom.
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I bet it has something to do with the build up to Euler's formula, which is famous for blowing people's minds.
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You put a resource on an open network and don't use any of the standard, recognized methods to indicate don't index, don't share, (nor lock it away with auth).

This is the kind of argument people used to use as they flagrantly violated your copyright by cloning your article on their own site. "You put it on the Internet, so it's free for everyone to copy."

The law says no such thing, at least not in any jurisdiction that I'm familiar with. Contrary to popular belief in some quarters, normal laws do still apply on the Internet.

If you infringe copyright, it's still infringement even if what you copied was freely available on someone else's site.

And if you state something that is misleading and harmful, it might still be defamation, even if what you stated was just an automatically generated snippet that takes a small part of someone else's site and shows it out of context.
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I'd prefer it said:

Steel (from the things Steel is typically made from in 2019 - 80% iron ore, 50% process X, 20% recycled)

That gets tricky, because many industrial processes use large amounts of energy, but only because that energy is effectively 'free' as waste heat from other processes.
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Gas turbine powerplants are easily in the 60% + efficiency band... Coal at 30% is dying out in most of the western world.

Granted every fossil fueled device ever has quoted efficiency with the Lower Heating Value, whereas the HHV is the fairest measure. The difference consists of if you should extract energy from the humidity in the exhaust, and the clear answer is yes.
You're wrong about brains.

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The funny thing is that Kevin is not a very praised name in general either:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StoriesAboutKevin/

“What is a Kevin?

A Kevin is someone who consistently or greatly shows a complete lack of intelligence through incompetence of social and societal norms, or is purposefully antagonistic in their poor decision making. Remember the kid in your class who would constantly get in trouble for really dumb things? He was probably a Kevin. Family members, friends, coworkers, and classmates can all become Kevins.”
One specific thing I think FP distributed-system frameworks could bring is instantaneous, deterministic testing.

e.g. I have N microservices, they communicate via IO (which means slow/brittle tests) but the framework abstracts over that, so I can run the whole system test suite under a second, because all IO (messaging, DB, concurrency) can be replaced with an in-memory implementation.

Interestingly, one could also inject faults to those IO mocks, and test how the system respond to that.

I believe FP is a prerequisite for meeting those goals, because otherwise having impure IO all over the place is hard (if not impossible) to mock out.
What are that kind of decisions based on? This is a repeat of the Samsung Note (?) fiasco, which, as someone else correctly stated, is just going to cause manufacturers not to disclose defects.

What is the actual criterion they used to determine that the device is dangerous? Did they estimate the likelihood of the battery catching fire, or did they just rely on manufacturer information? If it's the former, where can I see the numbers (and compare them with other devices?). If it's the latter, will I be safe forever to bring cheap no-name electronics on planes?
Root has some features that are very unique and powerful.

It’s used in particle physics today mostly because it allows to do performant out-of-memory, on-disk Data Processing.

With frameworks like Python pandas, you always end up having to manually partition your data if it doesn’t fit in memory.
And of course, it’s C++, so by default the data analysis code is pretty performant.
This makes a difference when you can iterate your analysis in one hour instead of 20.

That being said, when I last worked with it, Root was a scrambled mess with terrible interfaces and way to many fringe features, e.g. around plotting, that are better handled by Python nowadays. It even has a C++ command line!!!

I wrote a blog post back then how I thought it could be fixed:
https://www.konstantinschubert.com/2016/06/18/root8-what-roo...
I think the implementation of signaling and message passing in exec.library is my favorite thing in AmigaOS.
What's missing in this article is the aspect of escapism. The mentioned names Ronny and Mandy were especially popular in East Germany for kids born in the late 70ies, early 80ies. I think many parents picked "exotic" names for their kids in some sense of longing for the places they could never hope to see. Maybe some simple way to be part of a larger world?

I could see the same mechanism in socio-economic disadvantaged parents. Their world is limited by money, not borders, but they still want to be part of the larger world.
This event is massive. We currently track nearby supermassive stars, so there is a chance we can observe a small change of their orbits.
Fair enough, those are good! ;P
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>As for the noise, well this isn't exactly quiet....

I remember listening to Elon Musk dismissing flying cars for this reason.
>That's a very smart move, to position yourself in a safe place and notify dispatch of your intent in the moment.

I completely disagree. It's not up to the driver to choose when and where they comply with law enforcement. Most officers aren't going to find driving for several miles after being pulled over to be reasonable. If he had just pulled over immediately this probably would have just been an expensive ticket and he would have stayed out of jail. I'm not saying that the police response is reasonable, but even going as fast as he was, while that can be justification to arrest someone that's still up to officer discretion and being respectful and clearly not impaired would probably keep you from being arrested.
It's worth pointing out in this context that the US legal concept of fair use is not universal. In fact, unusually for US IP laws, it's actually much more permissive than most other places. The more usual practice is to enumerate specific situations where copying without the copyright holder's consent is still allowed, instead of defining general tests, which is how fair use works. This has been a controversial point, because it's not clear that the US scheme is sufficient to meet its obligations under international treaties.

In answer to your final question, I'm not sure whether this use of snippets in search engine results has been tested in any US courts yet, but the issue of search engines showing enough content from the sites they link to that users never actually go through to the original site is sufficiently controversial that the EU's recently passed copyright directive includes specific provisions aimed at exactly that sort of situation.
> If you need identity data than verify identity. Most companies dont and then they should not store it.

The problem is that there is data which is personally identifying and yet not useful to authenticate the user, and that information may be necessary for the operation of the service.

> This is already the case in banking i dont see a reason why other companies think they shouldnt need to do this.

What banks do is to know the identity of all their users. Requiring sites to do that is the exact opposite of the apparent purpose of this law, so it would be a massive farce if that was the only way to comply with it.
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My understanding is that it is a side effect of WWII. Texas had a large amount of plants needing redundancy. Afterwards, ERCOT's independence allowed the state to bypass a significant amount of FERC oversight and regulation.
Every single thing they do opens them to a giant slew of malpractice claims. By your logic, doctors should simply not do anything, ever.

I also lied for the sake of brevity. In reality I wanted an MRI in order to look for evidence of diverticulitis. They all said I needed to either get a CT scan or get lost. CT scans are more dangerous than MRIs. Doctors can't possibly be exposed to more malpractice risk from a harmless MRI than from a dangerous CT scan.
> The protocol in question is entirely internal.

If no third parties have access to it, this sounds promising for a fix. I suspect that third party keyboards and assistive devices probably talk this protocol though...
Don't forget that his friend had to endure a crazy hot day without AC - and still paid much more than usual for electricity. Most people don't want to gamble on these things.
> I do browse Reddit on my computer more than on iOS, but only because the Reddit mobile webpage is so terrible.

Have your tried Apollo[0]? It's a much better Reddit experience on iPad or iPhone than their official options, whether it's the website or their app.

[0] https://apolloapp.io/
Literally pumping heat or cold around the earth, you're saying? That sounds like it could have a disastrous effect on the seasons at best...
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