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You're missing the point, though.

Having the freedom to issue unusual punishments can be beneficial when the judge is positively motivated, but the same powers in the hands of a cruel or vindictive judge offer enormous potential for abuse.
English is not your first language, is it?
Thing is that China is nearing point where it has to let creative destruction happen to grow more and it is very hard to achieve under current model.
Situations vary quite a bit.
In both cases they are at the 'back' of the parking lot, so definitely within cart or bag-carrying range.

It doesn't cover everyone yet, there's no way that we're going to have infrastructure to replace 100 years of gasoline infrastructure in a handful of years.

Also you only need to cover those who can't charge at home, which is a lot of people but not all of them.
Yes, I'm not very good with English language. Good but not very much. I must consider help with that. Thanks for pointing to that, Circuits.
The result must be the same. There's good reason to wait until a certain line gets crossed.

There's no rational reason to enter another country and intervene against political repression, when there are no outward effects that introduce tangible problems for non-citizens of the country.

Without invasions, without belligerence, internal repression is not motivation to cross any lines.

As with Iraq, a stupid war just kicks up dust, ruins millions of people, cuts short hundreds of thousands of lives, and pisses off the world.

Sorry. Nothing happens if it stays inside the borders.
Perhaps. I'm only suggesting the total cost of oil be considered, presuming we're doing the same for solar.

p.s. As it contributes to/drives climate change, we might as well include storm damage and such with the cost of oil.
I did read that. Giving a choice is better than not giving a choice, but I think my point still stands: a judge with malevolent creativity can do harm, whether they offer a choice or not. Consider a case where someone purposefully gives a bad alternative, or one that sounds worse to defendants, and later points out "I gave them a choice, they still took the years willingly."
is anybody even using LI as a media platform?
here where i live its mostly HR wonks and indian would-be AWS gurus
The term "debt" is really helpful. It also explains that while you can pay off debts by taking on other debts, there is a good reason why this is illegal (if done with money) in the real world.

Technical debt in your solution is fine. Running a Ponzi scheme in your solution isn't.
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I thought paper was just as bad, if not worse, because it takes more energy to produce. [Here's a random site about it[1], though please note that I've done pretty much nothing to vet the information.

I reuse plastic bags (garbage, traveling w/ liquids, picnics), and if I have a bunch of extras, I take them to the grocery store, where they have a recycling bin for them. I don't know if they actually get recycled (I read that they often end up in the landfill regardless), but there's a chance. I rarely get too many though because most of my shopping is at Costco, which doesn't provide them.

I disagree that a ban here is necessary or useful. I use them quite a bit, so at least for me, I'll be producing "more" waste because I'll need to buy new bags instead. Paper bags aren't as useful (can't hold liquids, are more rigid, break easily), and I always seem to forget my reusable bags.

I wish more stores would follow Costco's lead and reuse those cardboard trays, which are just as useful for carrying groceries to/from the car and are obviously recyclable and biodegradable. Honestly, I prefer them most of the time because they keep things from rolling around, I can carry more in one trip to the house, and it's easier to see where certain things are for organizing later.

What we need isn't a plastic bag ban, but maybe a tax on them based on the cost of cleaning up discarded plastic bags. It costs $0.05-0.15/bag to buy small garbage bags (bathrooms, office, etc), so the tax shouldn't be more than that. Charging for plastic bags seems to work[2], so why not just do that instead of a ban? Those of us who find value in these bags can continue to use them (I love them for dirty diapers, rotten food, and other stuff that shouldn't hang around the house for days), while those who don't can use other bags.

[1] http://www.allaboutbags.ca/papervplastic.html
[2] https://neweconomics.org/2016/09/why-the-plastic-bag-charge-...
I think what the other user responded with is accurate. AFAIK, most popular distros I've looked over seemed to have a 'minimal' option which may even come without a desktop environment so you can simply choose the one you want.

From what I remember, I couldn't find any real differences between Xubuntu and Ubuntu beyond using Xfce and a few variations in bundled apps. It certainly ships with a few less apps than the fully feature packed Ubuntu image, but they do still use "infrastructure provided by Canonical" and I'm not sure what all that entails.
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I was hoping to read that it might also help people like myself who suffer from tinnitus. Sadly, no.

Still, if it can restore hearing to the deaf, this is a good thing.
It's totally not dead. I've thought for years that IRC is underrated now. I'd much rather participate in an IRC channel than something like, say, Slack. Active channels come and go. Some legacy channels are better than others. Some of them die and people move on to next level, more obscure channels. I just mentioned as an example in a comment above my experience in #python on Freenode which has been overwhelmingly active and positive. You also need to consider when the channel is most active, it's usually gonna be late afternoon and evening in US and European time zones. YMMV.
I just bought a LimeSDR Mini a few days ago and I've realized it's hard to find software that supports it. Which OS/viewing software have you found that works best with it?
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Thanks for the detailed response
Essentially, yes, but the idea here is to create an endless stream but with just 7 pieces, so you restart the sampling after every bag.
For me it was palpitations from 5-HTP. Heart skips a beat, then sudden extreme vertigo and anxiety skyrockets. This happened several times a day.

And magnesium caused a dull, ever-present pressure/ache in the left side of my chest that went mostly away (except when I'm very anxious) after I stopped taking it.
Probably time to use a third party RNG for Javascript then. For example, https://gist.github.com/banksean/300494 or, if you don’t like MT19937 (shameless plug) https://github.com/samboy/rg32hash/blob/master/rg32.js
I find this argument so facile. You can agitate for greater labor rights - I don't see why anyone would be convinced by: "but look how much more shitty these other workers lives are."

Exactly - and managers would do that to tech workers in a second if they could. Let's make the best of our negotiating position while we can.
As odd and degrading as some of these punishments seem nothing is as inhumane and degrading as incarceration. If you haven’t been incarcerated, or volunteered time in a prison, you can’t possibly know how bad it is.
It says it has a wifi chip. So the attack is limited by that distance.

It probably switches on the Keyboard/Mouse Logic as necessary.

But from there you could play an “Open Terminal” and be quite creative. Don’t know if you could send much information back, but I don’t see why it couldn’t have a few gb of flash storage to copy from/to, e.g. occasional screenshots to see what’s there. Or files.
The channels from his screenshot are on Freenode.
I don't see how Hak5 can create exact replicas of Apple Lightning cables with hacking tools embedded in them and NOT have Apples dream litigation team blasting down their doors

It's pretty amazing how technology has gotten so small we can hide a wifi chip and keyboard emulator into the end of a USB port plug.
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I have this USB-C looking like this[0] (not the same one though). The thing is whenever it is plugged into my MacBook Pro, the hub starts to overheat, even when there is nothing connected to it. I once tried plugging it into the MBP adapter and charging my phone through the USB port on it, and it did not heat at all.

I am suspecting it is running some program in the background (a miner maybe). Is there a way I can check if such a program is running?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Purgo-Adapter-2018-2016-Delivery-Thun...
I think that's accurate. People who think "IRC is dead" are probably in the wrong channels and need to invest a little time updating their autojoin list.
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I find it somewhat hypocritical that this article describes Google as a safe haven of dissent and open discussion, while it is pretty unanimous that expressing even slightly right-of-center opinions at Google will have you ostracized and possibly fired.
Not sure I follow your reasoning. Even if YC only does seed and series B, investments in other stages have an impact their investment. YC has incentive to give advice that aligns with their interests.
I can't imagine listening to that style as a regular thing, but I could easily picture that as "alien music" for a movie or atmospheric background. Not 'musical' as I would think of it, but clearly recognizable as music for very different ears or mental structures.
Thanks, nirui. Yes, I must do that I think. Though there are two links already for browsing the groups - in the footer and under hero image where is "Choose your room" line
In my experience it's just that other varieties just taste better. The Cavendish isn't bad, strictly speaking, it's just grown because it ships and stores very well.
I had similar feelings a year ago and wanted to setup a “diet” for my mind; I’d only allow quality information, opinions to enter my mind, not just random stuff.

Firstly, the best way to access/find valuable knowledge is still books. Then, I have Freenode open in background for technical conversations, and also follow some good quality podcasts in non-technical subjects; from history to art.

If I got a question, I either ask in Freenode or ask trustworthy people by e-mail.

No social media. No news websites (except HN).

I’m a lot happier with this set of communication and information channels.
"Health" of a system isn't synonymous with debt. It's what happens when debt isn't respected and becomes bad. Debt is a tool; health is a state. If you carry six months of salary as credit card debt,a financial advisor isn't going to talk about how you're using debt as a tool, they're going to talk about your "financial health".
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> China was always going to annex Hong Kong eventually,

You cannot annex your own territory.
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This is an important point. Being easier to create means faster to market, faster to create new features, easier cross platform, more value for users in less time. Not all apps can be web based but for those that can be, faster dev time has become a competitive requirement.
Yes and no. The browser is making an HTTPS request to the AMP Cache for the document. The document's integrity is ensured by the cryptographic signature of the publisher's origin which the browser verifies. As far as the integrity of the document, this is the same conceptually as the fact that your wifi router is actually serving the document to your browser. The AMP Cache cannot modify the document, and the publisher may choose what to sign or not sign.

Entering the URL directly will make an HTTPS request to the URL's origin server, as it always has. There will be no AMP Cache involved in that request, but it will work just the same.
But think about the starving children in [insert some county here]!

Quite common fallacy and useless misdirection. Article is not about minimum wage work struggles but about a struggle of people with particular skill set in particular environment. Not sure how your inappropriate outburst and lack of focus is relevant here?
GGS has itself been served repeatedly since its publishing, it’s not at all taken seriously.
The thing is, much of this is not about their own conditions. Much of it is about the way the company treats other people, either within or outside the company.

If worker-boss relationships can't be fixed at a company where the workers are economically valuable and highly educated, how can that be propagated downwards to the rest of the economy? Do people actually want it fixed, or are they more afraid of their fellow workers than their abusive boss?
Your attack would need to be targeted since you can’t connect to your cable over-the-internet, only over the wifi interface, limiting you to that range.
Odd how often Verizon's name comes up in these periodic stories about mass mis-routing of internet traffic.
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It doesn't matter where it goes per se, as much as who controls it. Oil (read: the price of) is a weapon. Look what the crash (of the price of crude) did to Venezuela. If energy (read: oil) is essential to your economy then you can't let someone else yo-yo the price at will.

And thus, the first foreign country for POTUS DJT to visit was Saudi Arabia.
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Did you have an embarassingly parallel code (like, "map"), or a code that was ported to supercomputers?

I've worked on supercomputers for years and generally, one could not run code at scale unless it scaled- in terms of parallel performance- and also used the network in a non-trivial way. Supercomputers aren't just speedups for normal codes (I'm pretty sure you know this).

The real issue with modern supercomputers is that basically none of them have decent disk IO. That's what differs between modern Internet/cloud clusters and supercomputers. Cloud clusters emphasize very high connectivity between durable storage and worker nodes. None of the supercomputers have a decent disk IO stack (mostly GPFS and Lustre) and this ends up being no end of pain for applicaiton developers. The only recent improvement in this area was "burst buffers", but that's really just accelerated data staging.
No, they are modified genuine cables.
Thanks a lot! So error on my side. I used a second browser because the newsletter signup was blocked by my adblocker. I must have closed that too fast.

edit: just tested the app, looks awesome
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Same thing that happens to people in New York City who can't afford fast-acting insulin or EpiPen? Your two examples are telling given the current state of pharma business.
How silly, I rode the city bus alone around 9, and this was before cell phones.
What if, instead of replacing the Gros Michel back when it got wiped out, we had been able to replace it with a GMO Gros Michel instead of the Cavendish. Why would a GMO Gros Michel seem more risky than the Cavendish- a completely different varietal, that is almost certainly more unlike the Gros Michel, nutritionally, than a GMO Gros Michel.

We switched the entire planet over from Gros Michel to Cavendish with basically no studies of nutritional impact or whatever, and it was fine. They're both bananas, bananas are basically similar to each other, they taste a bit different but they're fine.

Why be more afraid of a GMO Cavendish than whichever other varietal gets pulled out this time? A GMO Cavendish would be less change.
“The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.” - Camus
> All of those benefits you listed—they are things that any decent society would provide. The fact that Google choosing to be decent is not only so rare, but also contempt-inducing in people who are ground down by other companies is a staggering win for every other company that doesn't want to offer good benefits.

I've been trying to articulate this in this thread, but you've said it far better than I did.
digital - freenode, in person - hackerspaces. try googling hackerspaces in in your town/city. if there aren't any, start your own.
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I meant source for "a lot of this happens through shops that use anonymous cash transactions".

$2 trillion in $10 bodega transactions is 200 billion bodega transactions. Something tells me it's not the silver in the till that's the main problem. Or even the notes.
Did you just compare Google's advertising business to assassination, murder, and war crime?
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Would you mind sharing an overview of your system?
Fair enough, I was perhaps a bit dismissive of that one and should have looked closer. LFSR can certainly be perfectly acceptible PRNGs for this kind of game.

By the way, Doom's random number generator for the game mechanics... not so fantastic [0] :)

[0] https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1....
2007 EfNet #java was an absolutely magical place.

Honestly, I think things started declining when the original jjava bot got wiped :( RIP, jjava.

But yes, IRC channels in those days didn't take kindly to questions from people who didn't bother reading the docs, and imho that was a very good thing. Nobody properly learns by being spoonfed.
1. Run a bouncer - this is a program that will log messages and keep you aware of conversation when you aren't actively connected (really the bouncer stays connected and you just connect to it)

2. Most channels have a time of day when they're alive. That may not be when you're in them.

3. Turn off/Suppress the join/leave messages in busy channels. You'll be happier.
Fair point - I didn't actually click so I didn't see that it was a Github link, I was just reading the comments.
I'd say it's unprovable and that you should just accept that you cannot prove your claim. After all, you don't know every [X] and just this moment a new [X] could've been published, which is better than the one you claim to be the best.

Just change your scope to something provable if you want your claims to be believed by sceptics. For example "[X] is the best that I know." would work.
Trump just blinked this morning on his China tariffs; if that's not a green light for the Chinese military to act on Hong Kong, I don't know what is.
Check out Noisebridge in SF.[1] It and other hackerspaces around the world are full of people tinkering with and making stuff. You only have to stroll around the space to see the fruits of their labor.

[1] - https://www.noisebridge.net/
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It's disappointing that the author didn't take the opportunity to choose language that didn't provide a distinct slant to the article. An objective tone would have been totally achievable and this would've been marked as a fairly good summation of a rather tumultuous few years for the giant.
Serious question: what on earth have supercomputers got to do with this?

My impression is supercomputers exist mainly for incredibly intensive large-scale simulation/calculation that can't be subdivided into parts -- e.g. weather or nuclear explosion simulation.

3D map processing feels like the literal opposite of that -- trivially parallelizable, with a much higher ratio of data/IO to calculation.

Are they running out of tasks for Blue Waters to do, or trying to find a high-profile project to justify it politically or something? I really can't imagine for the life of me why you wouldn't just run this in any enterprise-grade cloud.
Other peoples boxes /joke
It's more like the "one" they keep is also free, and marginally less useful or slightly more irritating to use.

Mobile app stores are a cesspool of terrible ideas and naive people who think if only they give away their time developing free software some company will notice and bless them with a job. The few gems to be found are a stark contrast.
https://www.neowin.net/amp/microsoft-teams-might-be-coming-t...
Riot, Keybase, Freenode, the list goes on...
disclosure: I have been convicted of possession of marijuana in the past. I was given a 4 year sentence, commuted after just 7 months, due to overcrowding and a budget crisis.

people like Cicconetti probably make for a 'feel good' story but seeing this makes me bitter. Judges are elected officials in the US, so the judge you get can be pretty arbitrary. They are allowed to be callous, and impose very harsh sentences, with little or no oversight. They can lie, and be backed entirely by the prosecution.

If I had a judge that imposed 9 years in prison, or 3 weeks of standing in a field wearing a funny hat, I would immediately take prison. I dont know this judge and my appointed attorney for the state isnt exactly knocking it out of the park. Prison comes with formal educational options like finishing a GED or starting college. It has educated psychologists and psychiatrists to seriously help with some offenders major problems; its not just a clever guy in a robe. Finally, prison has work placement assistance and reintegration assistance if needed.

My "feel good" punishment will still come with a criminal conviction. The difference is I will have foregone any semblance of formal restitution in the eyes of my friends, family, or employers.
For licensed ham radio operators, can GNU Radio work with platforms like the FlexRadio transceivers? Can it send PSK-31 or JT65? I see a lot of projects/documentation related to using it for all sorts of wireless communication, but can't find a ton of stuff as it relates to ham radio.
The phrase you can Google is "clickwrap." It's a variation on the old practice of telling buyers they were bound by the terms on the box when they opened the shrinkwrap.

At the level you're asking, yes, it can be binding in most US places. But lots of legal rules apply to unreasonable or surprise contract terms. So "it depends" is about as straight an answer you can get here.
Two points I really enjoyed:

> Not Fixing All the Edge Cases

We’ve all seen bugs that occur so rarely, and fixing requires destroying some part of the original design architecture. The ability to acknowledge these types of bugs as not worth fixing is liberating.

> Err on the side of building too little because you can always build more later. Build things to be easy to throw away and replace;

I find developers tend to really dislike throw away code or temporary solutions knowing they might break in the future. If the quick hack is well documented, written in a very encapsulated and removable way, who cares about removing it later.
Could you go into an Apple store to pay it? I imagine they could at least lend you a phone, but I think you can pay most store and bank issues cards at retail locations.
Yes and no, some of the projects mentioned in the article, like Project Dragonfly, involved developing the kind of censorship tools necessary to prop up dictators like the ones you mentioned.

That’s not whining imo, that’s standing up to exactly the breed of ‘True Evil’ you define here.

We have seen this before in tech: Nazi Germany was probably IBM’s second largest customer at the time. There is a moral imperative to not let something like that happen again.

We should all be disturbed that the executive team at Google felt that Project Dragonfly was appropriate.