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> What harm do you claim the NSA did to Americans in that time?

The GP did not say "NSA", but "US government". See for example:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
I mostly only see people using pods and almost never see anyone mixing their own juice (besides dense clouds flowing out of the random car on the highway). My guess is that is all related to your friend circle, age, and area. Juul's are INCREDIBLY popular.
China still hasn’t apologized to the world for lying about WMDs in Iraq, dropping nuclear bombs on Japan or mounting right-wing coups around the globe. When will it start behaving more like the US?
In this case you can do what you want to your own body, you can't just sell it to others and cause them harm.
The CIA is so ideologically brainwashed themselves that they end up doing things like this, they often can't see the simple truth right in front of them.
It’s impossible to tell without access to the full trove. He could be releasing things in a way that either minimizes or maximizes damage (or anywhere in between) to the US.

Yes, we can only speculate. I’m not in the intelligence community and those who are aren’t likely to voice things publicly.

The whole situation seems odd. A calculating genius spends months planning what is ostensibly a haphazard plan to wind up in Russia supposedly not by choice? Then Omidyar also in Hawaii and connected to Booz buys up the secrets. Seems odd to me.

If Mr. Omidyar were patriotic maybe he would have bought up the secrets and kept 100% of them private, thus extending the oath of secrecy that military officers all take. Mr. Omidyar has come forward as an agent of the free press, not as a sworn patriotic military officer. Difficult to tell his motivations from the outside yet worthy of speculation.
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This is probably the worst retitle I've seen on HN
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No, mountains are not very tall in Scandinavia, but remember that the treeline in Sweden is generally at about 700 to 1100 meters (ca. 2300 feet to 3600 feet).

The high altitudes at the fells are windy, rocky and cold (and rainy). And the valleys between them full of bugs during the summer.

But it's very pretty there up north.
Honestly, I really wish people would stop basing so many decisions on Polls. There are so many problems with accurately polling people's opinions because generating a truly random dataset is really hard. Unless people have some sort of financial stake in the outcome you're only going to hear what they want to happen instead of what they think will happen.
Which is part of Microsoft.
This recent crisis regarding adulterants/diluents for oil pens reminds me of nothing so much as "jake leg", but in that case the adulterating agent was used to mislead the authorities as to the composition of the product, not the users:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_ginger
The production of food by farmers, ranchers and fishermen is only a small part of the food system. There are all the agribusinesses that provide inputs to the farmers, such as farm machinery, fuel, pesticides, herbicides, etc. After the food is produced there is a system of buyer and wholesalers that acquire the raw materials, processors that fabricate food products, and distributors, wholesalers, retailers, restaurants, etc. that deliver the food to consumers.

Only about 5% of the total cost goes to the farmers, and they are probably only about 5% of the sustainability issue.
To improve this, the broker can throw out the best
performing clients, since they might genuinely
know what they’re doing.

This practice is pervasive in sports betting. It's a common practice to ban winners, especially in the US and UK.

https://augur.net is an Ethereum-based betting market that will help traders/bettors avoid these kinds of malicious practices. Augur v2 is being developed now, you can expect it to be Really Cool by about April 2020. Millions of dollars will be wagered on Augur for the 2020 election.
>Those politicians are not in prison for 'having an idea', they're in there for actively acting against the current Spanish Constitution, against the Spanish Law, and against the regional Catalonian Law as well.

Well, wasn't Mandela in prison for similar things? Acting against the "current law" is not enough in itself to make one's imprisonment just.

Especially if they didn't hurt/kill anyone, but acted politically (spoke, organized, etc), even if the established laws forbids it.

>About free speech, it's a Right with some limits, as any Right. For example, tell me whether in your opinion, thanks to that Right, anyone can 'sing' promoting hate against transsexuals, or promoting to kill Afro-Americans, or to torture children.

It wouldn't be nice, but they should be able to sing those things. For example there are all kinds of e.g. death metal songs that speak of killing people in satanic rituals, torturing virgins, heck even torturing children should be there. Should metal be banned?

More importantly, when there are "some limits" (as opposed to no), it's not just the blatantly clear cases (e.g. don't talk against killing afro-americans) that are problematic, but the gray ones.

One man's freedom fighter's are another man's terrorists for example, so e.g. the Clash singing about Sandinista could be said to "promote terrorism".

Or e.g. "promoting hate towards the Crown". Well, "God save the Queen, she's not a human being, it's a fascist regime" by Sex Pistols, is a mighty fine song.

Or how about interpretation? Someone might write a song about e.g. black crime in their neighborhood, and it could be interpreted as "racism against blacks" if they're not black themselves.

Or they could consider some "democracy bringing war" celebrated in the media and government, as "resource grabbing" attempt. Should they be able to sing about it?

And tons of other things besides.
Yea, there is a special handling of that whole line. More than any other administration - doesn’t seem like much. And the qualifier that we’re talking about 8 makes it seem less important.

However, those 8 people also the qualifier of “combined” where the sum of people charged with espionage until Obama was less than 8 people total, and then he comes in and exceeds that. No one should believe that from 2008-2016 we had some resurgence of traitors to the country. Just people charged as such in most cases for doing the right thing overall.
Yet those shitty flavored "cigars" are still available, as is flavored pipe tobacco.
It has been done before, only with true garbage instead of bugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObcsswhO83I
As if Uber or Lyft even care. They almost certainly foresaw this (who couldn't), which is why they have taken the typical response to government over-regulation -- automation. The end goal is a self driving car, and the resulting concentration of wealth. Once again, we can blame so-called 'progressive' policies for furthering the enriching of the rich and the continued subjugation of the poor and middle classes who are denied yet another income stream.
The guy works for Stripe. I’d say as a company they’re pretty savvy about banking regulations in general, and transaction disputes specifically.
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Yeah, I’m in the second group. I use a diversity of buy and hold strategies (picking individual stocks based on fundamentals or personal brand experience, buying certain sector ETFs, etc). The efficient market hypothesis index ETF promoters think I can’t beat the market, but if they’re right it doesn’t matter, since I make sure to keep my transaction costs low and only use low expense ratio ETFs, and I have a diversified portfolio so I’ll just end up matching the market on average.
I think maybe a few additional details should be mentioned.

1) GTA was originally envisioned as a racing game.[0] You would race against other players in inner-city settings, but this meant you could end up ramming other cars, running over pedestrians, etc. If that happened too many times, cops would pursue you.

2) The cops were supposed to come out and pursue you if you did too many bad things and, as you said, do it "gently". The bug in the cop AI, however, made them insanely aggressive to the point that they would also hit other cars, run over pedestrians, and cause just as much damage as the player in pursuit of pulling them over.

3) The devs thought the "psycho cops" were so hilarious that they didn't just keep them in--they reoriented the entire game around the concept of causing mayhem (rather than racing).

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2011/03/22/race-n-chase-original-gt...
Google and Amazon are in Austin and maybe Dallas, and pay pretty well.
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What was the NRE on that pill or the hundreds (thousands?) that didn't work at all?

OTOH (or the other other hand), I'll bet that you could make a strong argument for stopping new drug development entirely. Simply sell existing drugs for as little as possible. It wouldn't surprise me if most of that research has insanely high marginal cost with little benefit at this point.

I'll bet you'd have a healthier public, on average, if this happened.
The mom test a million times over! When people hear the name, they assume it's about usability (i.e. make something easy that your mom understands it), but it's not - its' the best book on customer development that exists. I recommend it to every startup person I meet.
To me this seems like correlation, but I'm not convinced of causation.
Didn't someone last year do an analysis where they thought Summit (250 PFLOPs) could do a 51% attack on Bitcoin?

My major concern would then be what about Aurora (1ExFLOPs)[1], Frontier (1.5ExFLOPs)[2], and similar computers? If the big draw is to avoid censorship this seems like a big concern. Potentially making us all more vulnerable because someone like China, Russia, or America could decide that they want to spend all those computing resources on an attack. It's not like these machines are a significant portion of the national budget and are really dwarfed by military budgets. We're only talking a few hundred million dollars to build and tens to operate.

I like the idea in principle, but is this worked out?

[0] https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/olcf-resources/compute-systems/sum...

[1] https://aurora.alcf.anl.gov/

[2] https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/
Thanks for this overview! I've been using parts of this flow for a few years, but it's not 100% automated where it could be.

Do you have suggestions for banks that make it easy to implement this workflow?
RSU vs. option is a big difference here too, you can see shifting "signing bonus" into RSU with quicker schedule, but if it's options you can't get out anyway in the short term so they really are oranges vs. apples.
I mean I suppose it’s up to you whether you “recognize” the Universität Konstanz, but it’s a rather large place.

Tell himself is indeed not working in the field anymore—this preprint was submitted to at least one journal as I understand but was not accepted before the grant was up or so and he could no longer keep pushing for publication; instead he went into acoustic signal processing with a friend, and they both started a company called SoundTheory now. Something about trying to maximize the information “punch” of music to your brain makes it sound better or reduces background noise or something.

The paper is still interesting on its own merits though. I mean, it’s interesting to me; of course your mileage may vary.
One huge ethical red flag for Assange and Wikileaks is their view on redacting documents. They published numerous details that a traditional journalistic outlet would never make public include the names of informants. This almost certainly resulted in people being killed.
Is 30 years a lot of time for social change?

It took the British over 70 years to fully pacify the Hong Kong people, culminating in the ‘67 protests that ended with over 50 dead protesters. Heck, it took well over a hundred years after the Civil War before true civil rights.

Maybe we just need more time before the Chinese change?
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>The sorts of company-to-company contracts where the individual "contractors" are W2 employees of a contracted company are totally unaffected by this legislation.

You must have missed the part of my comment that specifies:

"the firms who get the contract to do the work and *turn around and subcontract the work to you for pennys on the dollar"

>(e.g. Uber might contract with local companies formed solely to employ Uber drivers in that locality, so that Uber doesn't have to deal with all of the complexity of treating all of its drivers as employees.)

Then what is to stop this new employment firm Uber has to contract with to obtain drivers from deciding after they have the infrastructure of drivers in place from cutting Uber out and launching their own ride-share app?

At the end of the day Uber isn't claiming drivers as contractors because of complexity, they are doing it to lower their costs.
This is already true in some locales. NYC’s base price for a pack is $13.

The main issue with this is, like guns and alcohol, localities and states all have differences of opinion, so that ends up not meaning much in practice when someone can just drive over the county line to get their cheaper fix. State and city level whack-a-mole is an intractable problem.
I get stuck in the middle of a lot of non-fiction works. When I started buying more non-fiction because it was 'good for me', this got particularly bad.

In fiction, the conclusion is always at the end of the book. With non-fiction you sometimes know the conclusion by chapter 4. How would you keep going if you knew who the murderer was in chapter 4 of a mystery?

For some non-fiction, authors rely on a lot of repetition, but they don't always make it clear where the next new topic will begin. In a lecture once you get it you can check out. In a video you can skip to the next one. In a book? I don't possess the right coping mechanisms for books, and I wonder if they even exist.

I'm still learning to give myself permission to stop reading a non-fiction book halfway through when I 'get it'. I have a couple shelf-feet of books in my queue because of it. I think I expect there to be some profound observations they've saved until the end, like the little scenes after the credits in movies, and like movies, the random reinforcement keeps me coming back for more.

I've tried a bit of speed reading, skimming, and only reading the first sentence of every paragraph, but it all feels like I'm short-changing myself (and then truly short-changing myself in the process).

Maybe I should just read summaries and skip these books entirely.
It is just a desire for time optimization. I would love to get the same satisfaction that I get from sitting and thinking deeply about every sentence of a complicated or nuanced text, in less time without loss of bandwidth. If I could read good fiction and get the same pleasure from it quicker, that would be great.
Hey. I purchased this some time ago on another website. Absolutely LOVE it.

You're offering this package for $69.99, but you also offer a similarly named package for $48 on ui8.net (where I purchased). Are these the same package, or would I have received more UI cards on the main site? Obviously, would love to have the entire kit.

Keep up the good work!

Edit: I took a closer look. Same name, different sets. One offers 523 cards; the other 600.
I'm not sure if it's the only difference, but according to the wikipedia definition, in a bucket shop there is "no transfer or delivery of the stock or commodities nominally dealt in", which would be one difference from the option market.
On specs this seems to be a mid-low level phone. I'm not sure I see the point of having a phone built to be repairable and last for the long haul if it's not got the specs to see that lifetime through, and as others have noted the lack up updates in prior iterations is troubling.

I also wonder if the repairability will really impact repair costs. Swapping a battery is one thing, but if the phone isn't mass produced in sufficient qualities then getting replacement screens might not be much cheaper. Other repairs seem much less likely to be needed-- battery and screen probably account for a huge majority of repair issues.
I read this as Uber/Lyft will no longer operate out of CA. And many other companies that would be required to take on this burden will leave CA as well. I'm don't see how this will benefit the citizens of CA.
If you tax it high enough, you won't necessarily drive demand down to zero, you'll just drive demand back to illicit sources just like currently illegal drugs.
Yes my personal auto policy explicitly covers Uber. I did need to inform them, but my premiums did not change.

"ridesharing drivers operating on the Uber platform in Ontario can now be covered, at no extra cost. All you have to do is call us in order to update your personal auto policy." -- https://www.belairdirect.com/en/partnerships/uber.html
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> Interactions between particles, waves, fields, etc. are quantized,

Yes.

> which means there is a set of distances at which a given interaction can happen, and a set of distances at which it can't.

... that's not how quantization works. The exact ways in which quantum effects are actually discrete is much subtler than in most popularizations. In fact, sharp effects with distance are more likely to be seen in classical models than in quantum ones because the quantum models often allow for classically forbidden effects to happen with small probability, which decreases as the distances increase. You only really see sharp transitions for "bound states"; for everything else (e.g. scattering experiments) there are wider or narrower peaks of more likely to occur depending on both spatial and other parameters.

The radius really is measuring "over about how much space is this particle spread", and while the exact details of how you define that can give different numbers, they are all measuring interaction widths -- how close something has to be to feel its direct effect. I say direct effect, because obviously the indirect effects such as through the EM field can be felt at great distances.

Note that this measure of spread is distinct from the how the wavefunction of the center of a particle is spread, which in the right states can be highly delocalized, even though the particle hasn't gotten any wider. Electron orbitals, for instance, can have different radii in different states (or topology, as you note, if you pick a cutoff that splits high-density regions in two), but the electron still has the same negligible (usually modeled as zero) radius in comparison to any orbital.
In case of Germany those laws are in effect since 1884, not sure what your favorite translator might make out of [0], but it's been established for a long time and therefore a well respected and valued achievement of the earlier times.

So, obviously since 1884 the society has build this net with their monthly dues. Currently it's around 15% of your loan.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_Sozialversicher...
There are more than a thousand programming languages out there. Why do you need another programming language?

You don't. You need a new paradigm, which is modular flow-based programming. There is nothing to be gained from learning yet another set of syntax rules when computers already do that job better than humans do. It's like trying to design a better running shoe for Usain Bolt with the ultimate objective of speeding up package delivery - a kind of cognitive myopia that misleads people into working at the atomic level over and over in the belief that it will be simpler. In fact, it's one-dimensional (in the sense taht you need to read and type everything out even as you hope around different parts of your code base) and reductionist to the point of becoming a distraction from the actual problem you are trying to solve.

Virtually every project of any substance starts out as a flowchart on a whiteboard or memo pad. The idea of flowcharts and pipelines are ubiquitous in production environments because they reflect the way we interact with the world. You don't start a new job at a new company by cutting a hole in the wall of your home and then building a vehicle from scratch to get to the company's office, you walk through the door and then ride a bicycle/car/bus/train to reach your destination without needing to re-engineer the whole thing from scratch.

Reading and writing are great when you don't know exactly what you want to learn or to say and you need to grope your way to ward it. When you do know, it's generally much easier and more useful to everyone else to use a picture or some sort of schematic diagram. You don't need to be Leonardo Da Vince to draw flowcharts, and thanks to the abundance of storage you don't need an infinite wall of whiteboards or learn origami to nest flowcharts. It's nested structures all the way down. You will get more done and not burn out as fast if you stop forcing yourself into a linear text-based paradigm just because you're used to it.

tl;dr Structure >> syntax
Non-physicist perspective, if I’m out of line, please say so.

It seems silly to expect that the wavefunctuon is “real” just like it is silly to assume that the gravitational field is “real” or inches are “real”. They are mathematical constructions we use to make predictions about what we see. Just because the predictions are good doesn’t make the mathematical formalism real.

As a contrived example, imagine an advanced AI program running on Linux. The AI develops all sorts of models and makes very accurate predictions about what will happen in user space when it calls fopen or pipes data from /dev/urandom. But no matter how well it models the output of /dev/urandom, it will never know that the reason why the data seems random is because the kernel is generating it from a camera pointed at a lava lamp. Even if the AI was smart enough to invent models for the lava lamp and the camera optics, etc, this model wouldn’t be real, it’s still some bits in memory /describing/ what is going on outside of the AIs immediate experience.
... and only at very specific companies.
I am often frustrated how CCP infiltration is not on the political radar of most Western society.

We in HK witness on first hand the determination and capability of CCP to slowly gobble up our society. If CCP would be allowed to sliently infiltrate Western society and political sphere, in 20yrs........
Would you like a ban on freedom of speech with that? It's just one amendment away.
I worry that once WeWork fails, it will discourage other companies/innovators from getting into the realestate sector which desperately needs more innovation and progress.
Both with something cross platform.
Like others, I recommend absolutely every video of this channel. They were eye opening for me about the ways film makers use to make us feel emotions. And when they had nothing else to say, they just stopped instead of pumping out lesser essays, like some others would do (and did).

The only thing coming close in terms of quality for me is Chroma, but it's French so not known at all in the English speaking internet world.
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> He spent 7 years locked in an embassy ...

To avoid criminal charges for things unrelated to his political/journalistic exploits. Plenty of people run when faced with possible jail time, e.g., Roman Polanski.
The amount of regulation of these devices is insane. At their core they have 3 parts; a battery, a heating element, and the juice/carrier. There are a lot of things that could potentially be consumed using these simple devices; nicotine and THC are just the first most popular ones. The fact that the FDA has the authority to regulate tobacco products should never have extended to anything but actual tobacco.
> People need to get over the idea of efficiency and centrally planned.

People need to get over the idea that a free market is the solution to everything?