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Purism already sells 2 Linux-only laptop models and seems to be fine. Smartphones are definitely a different market, but I think they have higher chances than most past attempts. They're actually selling something unique, which already makes it more interesting than e.g. the Ubuntu phones or FirefoxOS phones back then. And because in theory you could run anything that runs on Linux the app support problem isn't quite as extreme.
Mindless babble and whataboutism. I thought this website had more intelligent conversation..

Comparing an over-zealous drug incarnation against a political political concentration camp is just perfect. Every time I visit Europe I encounter similar lazy thinking from aging leftists and teenage anarchists.
There is two things the most extreme environmentalist and nuclear advocators (some which are right-wing) agree on. Lets have a law that makes it illegal to burn fossil fuels to generate electricity. Preferably very soon. The market will solve the question if renewable and battery combination is cheaper than nuclear.

Personally I don't care that much which of the two are cheapest. I want the ban on using fossil fuels and any side that want the ban is an ally. There is a perception however that its really only the nuclear advocates that support such extreme action as a complete ban, as even power grids that has basically reached peak usage of either wind or solar has to rely on natural gas to fill in the gap when neither are producing.

One of the few countries that I know which has a power grid that could be independently removed from fossil fueled energy production in favor of renewable is Norway, and that because the output of hydro and nuclear is very similar.
But if I show you a bunch of made up widgets you never saw before, you’d still be able to guess.
Military Grade iirc referred to the encryption schemes defined in the Rainbow Series in the 80’s and 90’s today it is a buzz word but I’m not sure it was always that undefined.
I cant beleive nobody mentioned Redmine (foss). Its the best tool for that purpose out there that can run hundreeds of projects with thosands of users without a hitch. You can customize it to extreme with plugins to look whatever you like but even clot instance is very capable. Its extremelly stable and secure too. Cant recommend it highly enough.

Gitlab iz alternative too but most of it is complete DevOps platform with lots of opionions you may not want or like many of which are not customizable. Redmine has thousands of plugins and its focus is project management, not necesserally development projects too, you can even use it as service desk for end users.
There must be solid reasons why fracking isn’t at fault.
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When I said high income I meant “above a certain threshold” and that threshold is certainly also affordable for the middle class, at least over here.

In my book these requirements work quite well, the developer I talked to also didn’t complain because there are some tax benefits so he has no incentive to make the flats more expensive.
Where is the CBP/state dept side to this story?
I know that HackerNews isn't reddit, but I couldn't resist.

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Presumably they need to run at a very low throttle to land. My guess is the engine doesn't run well at such a low throttle, and in fact they might have to deliberately make the mix very rich to keep the combustion stable.
in comparison to wind and solar nuclear power

- is more centralized

- is a better target for terrorists

- favors monopolies

- uses fuel which could be used to build bombs? Just speculating, but I guess nobody will be happy if some of that stuff gets into wrong hands.

- produces waste which we need to keep in mind for thousends of years

- has serious PR issues ( is less accepted by society )
Looking forward to mainland enthusiasts' spin on this one.

Another illustration that the only innovation PRC tech brings to the table is new ways to punish people.
Cool! So the 1/e^n factor will bring it to 0, as n goes to infinity, I think?
Options for death are basically either heart attack, cancer or other [0]. Cancer is horrible, but that isn't a very telling example without more detail.

> We can barely build a bridge that lasts for 50 years, but somehow we are going to magically build containment units for waste which last 1,000s?

We've had nuclear power for ~70 years. There is a very high likelihood that if we push on with nuclear power we will either be reprocessing that 'waste' for fuel at some point or it will be inert enough that it doesn't really matter.

The idea that we in 2019 need to take responsibility for the next 15 generations is absurd. Anyone who tried that at any point in the past would have been at best wasting their time; technology has moved too quickly. Our ancestors might as well have worried that by 2019 we'd look back on them with contempt for not leaving us a strategic 10t reserve of bronze for forging our swords and shields.

The biggest risk is that in 60 years they will dig it up and hurl it at their enemies, on purpose, as a dirty bomb.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
> There is huge demand for [home-based classes], especially from white-collar workers with high demands on their free time

I suspect people are overestimating this part of Peloton's market. All the people I know who spin value being a part of the community: the camaraderie of working out with other people, chatting after the class, etc etc. It's more like going to church than going to the cinema.
Flying on such a huge scale is a relatively recent occurrence, very little of it is critical, the world isn't going to end because you can't holiday in Bali.
Migration ease really depends on your use case. I am currently doing the upgrade on a production application, and some changes (dates, navigation/fullscreen) have been a pain.

The more automatic stuff that can be caught by the compiler is usually a breeze, though.
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For anything? Does it support maven coordinates to use with maven/ gradle? Does it support docker images as a docker registry? Can it mirror other repos like maven central?
He'll have to pay for damages in addition to the fine...
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A random agent would assume you have a different real account you didn’t reveal.
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Yet the media tend to blame government when such social media activity goes unnoticed until a tragedy happens, like Tashfeen Malik. She, a Pakistani in the USA on a valid visa, had pledged allegiance to ISIS on social media before the San Bernardino massacre. Subsequent policies to inspect social media are the result.
Ok, I don't often comment on web design, but why is there the effect of shining an extremely dim torch at a dark page? I'm finding it very hard to read.
It could protect you against a rootkit.
Around my 30s I was quite overweight ~310lbs/140kg. Had done some stronglifts 5x5 and then decide to incorporate Keto into the mix (later targeted keto + IF). In the course of few years went down to ~230lbs/105kg while my lifts all went up (e.q squats from around 375lbs/170kg --> 460/210kg). At least my personal "gut feeling" is that I gained some muscle mass (my priority was to drop weight/fat).

For the past year, as an experiment, I've eaten carbs "normally" while doing 4x week gym. Few things I've noticed. My gut doesn't feel as good as it did while keto/IF, when you are in Keto and eat a cup of oatmeal ~45min before gym and start lifting you have this insane focus for the heavy 1-3 reps, I can seem to tolerate more better quality volume now compared to while doing keto/IF. But the overall feeling I have outside of the gym while not being in Keto/IF is a bit "sad", so most likely I'll start doing Keto/IF again to feel better. It's funny how insanely sweet strawberries taste while in Keto, and I kinda miss that feeling.
> given all that is happening in the space of facial recognition, I think it would be really valuable for researchers to start looking at it like they would weapons research. Almost entirely nefarious applications.

This is an interesting perspective. Facial recognition is routine among people, and generally not considered nefarious. Rather, it's important to know who people are for a large number of good reasons.

The "facial recognition is inherently evil" point of view probably realizes that it's almost always a bad thing for the government to know who you are. But oddly, ID numbers and birth certificates, which are the normal government equivalent of facial recognition, don't seem to draw similar criticism.
Just call it "Axe Tuesday".
> A friend was telling me that when she thinks of a number, a particular visualization of it automatically comes into her mind. From how she described it, I recall thinking it sounded like an accidental approximation of something like a logarithmic scale

Sounds like spacial-sequence synesthesia. When I think of numbers I see them at specific points on a logarithmic(-ish) scale as well. I don't think it gives me any advantage in mental math / counting / estimating, but I can not disable it and try to experience numbers any other way. I have only learned it's not common in my early adulthood, until then I have just assumed that's the way everyone's mind works.
Great use of all the hot air we have to suffer, more info here:
http://cullinanstudio.com/project/bunhill-2-energy-centre
If you want true freedom, get a Nokia 8110 - I felt a weight off my shoulder using the device. Atleast for the week I've used the device.

Then, life caught on. You can't manage kids' activities, work schedules and your social life without a smartphone these days.
> If you genuinely want to change minds here, then show how nuclear could be rolled out on a global scale starting today cheaper than renewables.

It’s simple: renewables can’t be rolled out on a global scale to cover our current usage, because of the huge variability in production. Modern economies require very predictable production. Nuclear on the other hand is a proven technology that works.
This article doesn't really say anything: what is Aurora OS, how does it compare to existing Free and proprietary solutions, what architectures it supports? How are tablets going to be used (eg. taken along by field data collectors, will they use it exclusively or will people be allowed to input their own data thus providing even greater anonimity)?

Btw, if they are certain Russia has 147 million people, why the need for a census?
A recreation of Colossus, the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer.
In germany, for a while, there was no copyright on books, so authors faced the same problem.

This was largely solved by selling high quality books as the competition only made cheap books. This seems to have largely worked until newspapers got angry that a small percentage of people read the news without paying.
I interpreted the statement "we don't gather their data" as meaning that they don't have access to the data if they can't justify it operationally.

I mean, China's communist elites aren't putting together such an Orwellian monitoring system just to blindly hand it's keys to any civil servant for him to leverage it's power against the elite's interests.
I never really took it as a factual statement on how amazing the used encryption is. I always understood it as just another marketing term for the sales process. It probably sounds very good for a non technical decision maker and everyone who’s technical enough to understand encryption will look at the more detailed information anyway.
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I did mention oil for the engine, glycol, and tires, which are all considered operational costs for a car owner rather than manufacturing. Neither of those are carbon-neutral in that you extract carbon as fossil fuels from the ground and release it into the environment.

We do have manufacturing like the steel and plastic parts of the car, but those are as you say a different matter to the operational costs.
Yeah... This is a purely marketing reason. You're not going to convince people to change that with technical arguments and everyone who cares also knows that the term means zilch.
FWIW, a quick search tells me it's Sailfish OS based.
The captured data is a 3D voxel grid (not a 2.5D image like kinect). In theory it can view behind the objects themselves.

The reproduced image is an orthogonal projection of this 3D grid of pixel. Any projection could have been chosen. For example the camera projection could have been chosen to obtain exactly the same image.
Obligatory mention of PinePhone which

● has a very similar CPU (but at 1.152Ghz instead of 1.5Ghz),

● also runs free software,

● also has hardware kill switches,

● also has USB C with video out

● has less memory (2GB vs 3GB) and

● has a similar screen size and same resolution (720x1440)

● has a 2MP / 5MP front/back cameras (vs 8MP / 13MP w/ LED flash)

● will cost only 150€ (vs $699 - was $599)

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Seems the gist is to "eat your vitamins", which seems like a bad idea to me if you're trying to fight cancers.

Also, "cancer" is a small subset of oncology". Most people probably encounter benign tumors during their life.
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You're arguing semantics when the point is that they likely aren't ask sophisticated as they make themselves look.
I think the EU currently has much worse ambitions for digital spaces that makes the US truly the beacon of the free world again.

I host private services withing the EU because of sensible privacy protections but for anything with public content, I would pick something far, far away.

Some member states already banned and sanctioned people for jokes. There is just one direction from here and it fits neatly into European patterns of past mistakes. There are also monetary interests in sanitizing certain spaces of the net and that is welcome honey for our current political class on any side of the political spectrum.

Nope, the probability of good digital policies from within Europe is pretty low.
> Wouldn't be surprised if they were overstated, so as to keep citizens in check.

This is a little stretching. Most Chinese audience can’t or won’t watch BBC.
Discount Entrepreneurship and the Startup Accelerator
> The BBC willingly plays along and does not even question the capabilities either way.

What should they do? Not run the story? It is of interest, it is scary to a lot of people. It does also warn people wanting to hide from it.

Should no one talk about this technology, or China's current capabilities? Do you think that would be better?
That's how Ubuntu Phone works for all apps.
By calling it Military Grade, it's easier to Ban it...
Then some random CBP agent reads through Facebook posts of his friends and denies him entry.

You can't know whether it's that simple. Note that nobody at The Crimson or the New York Times ever read the social media content in question themselves; they simply repeat his account of it.

If a social media "friend" simply posts something on his/her own wall, that is no reflection on the subject of the examination.

But if the subject himself then Likes or positively comments on such a posting, then it can have relevance.
Military = Safety. There is a reason they didn't choose "Terrorist-Grade encryption"
The King Ranch in Texas used to be the biggest beef producer in the US. At peak, they owned most of four counties in Texas and had operations in Australia and (?) Argentina. They were the primary supplier to McDonalds.

But they cut back. More oil drilling, fewer cattle.
Are you talking about the old version, the beta of the completely rewritten version, or the final release that was released 2 days ago?
OK now how does one bypass cloudflare's captcha when attempting to get a blog page or sth? I m trying to create a link-previewer and this constantly shows up
This is a very good analogy for a concept I've tried to formulate succinctly spur-of-the-moment a few times. I especially like that it captures the reversibility of the trend and the energy cost of doing so. Thanks for sharing.
Is there a version of this one but for recent years? Thanks!
Something related that I've always been curious/uncomfortable about:

Can you count without using a language?

Try this: Clap your hands or tap on something an arbitrary number of times. Can you tell how many times you did it without "saying" one, two, three in your head?

Even if you pay attention to it, it seems impossible to count without language.

At least not a stream of sensory inputs; small clusters of around 10 or fewer things seem easily countable from just looking at a "snapshot."
"Military-Grade Deception" is a legitimate term.
Airports are a part of every country’s critical infrastructure.

> the world isn't going to end because you can't holiday in Bali

Perhaps not. But the Balinese economy would simply collapse. I’m sure the Balinese economy is of critical importance to the ~4 million people who live there. What you’ve chosen as a contrived example doesn’t even illustrate your point.
In this hypothetical universe, do mailing lists and message boards still exist?
Crime never disappears completely, it just "sublimates" itself and becomes active in new "territories". You could say that the modern industrial society is way more secure and crime-free compared to the Dark Middle Ages, just to give an example, after all you can now pretty safely go from one town to the next 20 kilometers away without fear or getting robbed or worse (in most of the world's places, anyway).

But today, unlike 1000 years ago, we're also a couple of button-pushes away from almost total species annihilation (the effects of a a possible nuclear winter are yet to be determined exactly), to say nothing of the countless genocides perpetrated during the 20th century and into the 21st or about the the two world wars.
This is an example of plea deals ("delação premiada") gone wrong, as these guys keep going by throwing more money.
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I've seen a lot of people refer to their practices as "Industry Standard" when they know what they're doing, and a lot of marketing teams use "Military-Grade".

I don't think this particular hill is one to die on - the public have a perception that the military are amazing at using the latest and greatest technology, so the marketing teams will always continue to use it. Fighting it will be about as effective as fighting clickbait.

Instead, let it guide your own choices. Any sign like this that shows the marketing team wrote the Security Policy page is one where you should absolutely start questioning if they know what they're doing.
This is just selling snake oil. I am not sure but this term is coined by people who are in marketing, who does not really understand the real strength and weakness of a encryption. Like a snake oil salesman they want to use a jargon to create an image in people's mind that they are extremely secure.

But in reality as the article points out AES, RSA and others are all used in military and all are military grade, but all have one or the other drawback if not used carefully. This kind of advertising is generally misleading.

Hopefully if someone challenge such claims in court will be nice. But I believe it will be hard to prove if the statement itself is untrue, its just that it is created with a spirit to deceive or conflate the meaning.
In Germany there's an old idiom of it being the "country of poets and thinkers", and when going back to its origins it wasn't primarily about Goethe and Kant, Germans, being exemplary intellectuals (as it is understood today), but about the lack of copyright enabling cheap reproduction, so just about everybody had poets and thinkers (no matter the nationality) on their bookshelf (when compared to countries with copyright such as Great Britain).

As cheap reproduction is an prerequisite for copyrightable artifacts (don't want to spend too much on creating copies after all), the first high value product in that space is reproduction. Once that infrastructure exists and running it becomes a bottom feeder (everybody can run a printing press), locking in artifacts and thereby recreating scarcity is more lucrative. And that's done through copyright.

Workers (such as the "lots of people in China") rarely enter the picture, it's about who owns the means of production of the highest value goods.

(side note: I'm not a fan of that scheme, but it seems rather inevitable given the incentives)
Oh, you assumed I was Asian. Now I understand your original post.

The areas Asians are disadvantaged in are college admissions and hiring practices. There is an active lawsuit against YouTube for issuing freezes on hiring white and Asian males, on the premise that they needed to hire more people from other racial/ethnic groups. This is simply not something that would happen to another minority group. The people that tend to otherwise fixate on racial identity and collective privilege will typically also conveniently ignore Asians, whose successes in this "white supremacist" nation throw a bit of a wrench in their world view.
Although that would probably need to be higher grade to work. Technically it would be the better name.
Right, and the example is meant to illustrate that. My coursework on signal processing approached it from a mathematical and computational perspective, so I didn't necessarily have an appreciation for its application in a music context. Once I picked up music production and started dealing with filters and EQs and all, though, the relationship then became apparent pretty quickly and certainly helped with understanding how all the effect processing worked.
And yet the server-side part is still closed-source.

Mozilla's manifesto is just marketing now — it's obvious they don't really believe it any more.
If the exact "thought" already existed before consciously running through them, it should not change with the language you use, but I don't believe that is the case, not only talking about yourself in third-person affects your thought, the link between language and thought goes much deeper, even if the specific of it is fairly contentious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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Plus the stakes are high in the military. If encryption fails, missions may be compromised and people die.
The data sets are mostly confined to the US but it's describing a global (developed world anyway) issue. In that sense it seems like cherry picking rather than an honest look at the data trying to find a cause.
I heard phone seizures were common when entering from the western continental route (Kazakhstan, Kyrgiztan).
What happens when you are under constant surveillance?
My prediction: all the latest YC ones, pretty weak products/services
>> Technology moves faster than policies can adapt to them, but old laws and institutions like the police evolved in times when the tools of day could not have been imagined.

Very good point.
To fit on a fan, I think.