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It's an economic one feeding a political one.

Defining de novo property interests without physical bound inherently creates a vested rentier class interested in the persistence of those properties.

New entrants to a field generally oppose patents. Incumbants generally support them.

I've watched numerous firms (Oracle, Microsoft, Google) transition from one side of this dynamic to the other. It's a tragic inevitability, in the classical Greek sense.

The (further) tragedy of the tech world is that it thinks this is a problem only with, take your pick, software or information-technology subjects. The problems with (and debates over) patents go far further back. Arguably, patents delayed the start of the Industrial Revolution by 25 years, as England awarded extensions to James Watt for his steam engine.

Which may, of course, mean we merely postponed the inevitable global warming by a couple of decades.

The histories of light bulbs, phonograph, telephone, radio, television, and more, are other arguments against patents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/10/the-c...
So surely more frequent releases is a good thing: you're getting security updates quicker.
precursory note: Not an analyst - just read a lot of tobacco industry reports

Over the better part of the last decade, many tobacco stocks are down (BAT, PMI, RT, JT etc,) however most dividends on their common stock are still increasing YoY. Not certain if it's generally above the market average but seems to be more than not.

If you look at long term production rates (sticks shipped) cigarette manufacturing has been dropping YoY for years. But this is because there is a general drop in demand from higher socioeconomic countries generally and as consumers switch to "smokeless" "next-gen" alternatives. My observation is that single sticks are usually sold at a much higher price in those markets (sometimes due to tax and regulation, but mostly due to local market value), whereas they are sold closer to cost of production in lower socioeconomic countries where they target larger volumes per consumer.

It's difficult to paint a picture from the data released in annual reports and market updates around what the transition (sticks -> e-cig consumable units) looks like and is perhaps purposefully obfuscated and will probably remain that way until forced otherwise. As such, relative points of comparison make their day to day activities harder to judge over the last few years but what everyone IS doing is huge amounts of M&A, Research and Capital Expenditure to meet this strategy whilst not raising capital from equity as their share price drops yet maintaining higher dividends. Why? Because they are cash rich.

Much more generally, from a business perspective, what's happening in the tobacco industry is fascinating (and equal parts horrifying depending on your point of view) as these paragons of global supply chain pivot to become consumer electronics companies.
My mother hosted him and I didn´t hear anything out of the ordinary for Stallman...

I mean, you know he´s going to be monothematic about his beliefs, but I heard nothing besides that.
How is it clickbait rather than just a less than precise a description of the material?
In truth, I am not as puzzled as I claimed. However I've found that on HN there is a pathological obsession with giving people and organizations the benefit of the doubt, even when they don't deserve it. Consequently I sometimes understatement matters dramatically instead of saying what I really think.
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Sort of another spin on this I've been tinkering on, but haven't felt quite ready for a full launch yet ... I'm still trying to converge the research models, but this has been a bit difficult.

https://writeup.ai - It has multiple different models in here to select from (including fictions like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and things like legal documents).
> Did anyone ever report this behavior to law enforcement?

It is not illegal to invite (adult) people to have sex with you, orally or in writing, so there is nothing for law enforcement to do.

> Did anyone try to obtain a restraining order against him?

Offering sex to other adults isn't illegal, so there would be no basis for a restraining order.
I don't quite get this statement. Insurance generally doesn't trigger on "if you can't pay", it's so you don't have to pay to begin with. Savings don't play into it, if you have insurance coverage there is no need to save money, it's effectively already paid for.
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I feel like if you have to actively look for it at the bottom of the page, it doesn't really qualify as an "ad" in the sense we're talking about here.
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That's never stopped them before
> Even if everything you're saying is true, the important point is that you and I and Dan Carlin are free to go around saying it.

I'm not so sure about that either. I'd be surprised if the average Chinese person wasn't fairly well aware that they live in a censored world, and that a government that does that might also bend the truth a bit on the evening news. The average American on the other hand, and even the above average judging by most forums I frequent, seem to be under the impression that the US is truly the land of the free, the home of the brave, with a completely free press (not unlike the completely free electoral system), and that what they see and hear in the news is generally trustworthy and comprehensive.

Chinese people may not know the truth, but I'm pretty sure they know it's being hidden from them. People in the West, defenders of the free world, who not only seem unable to see the various pink elephants that are right in front of their eyes, but will attack and condemn anyone who points them out, worry me a lot more than the indoctrinated in plain sight Chinese.

But hey, that's just me.
Chris Coons, the politician who keeps trying to push this through, is completely corrupt. He’s doing this because his family business (creators of Gore-Tex) is ruthless in their patent enforcement. Which is pretty funny turn for a guy who used to call himself a Marxist.
Not to mention as someone above mentioned, that the guy makes a living selling WP themes.
4 month is not enough, this is a roadmap to be a programmer in long term.
https://www.coderscat.com/to-be-a-programmer
None of the examples you have given is even remotely related to whistleblowing.
Why not? The 5TB of storage is a one time cost for BlackBlaze (ignoring disk failures). If they backup 5TB one time and keep paying $6/month, eventually they will be profitable customer.
"Selling debt" is a euphemism for "selling bonds".
> US on the whole is also fairly poor.

No, its rich but insecure. That's not the name thing as poor, though it can feel like it.
Most people should be concerned about the environmental and economic impact of the attacks.
In a free country established by the principle of self government they are more closely related than anywhere else.
I like most of your message but how do I get to work if I don’t drive and don’t have public transit and live 30 minutes away?
The DoD obviously contracts with tech companies. Historically, I gather, there was lots of ~blind patriotism. For maybe 20 years, the NSA was officially "No Such Agency". That's far less so now, clearly.

Regarding talent, the CIA and NSA clearly recruit in academia. However, I've read that the NSA also draws heavily on enlisted personnel, and trains them in house. Also, I've read that it recruits from the non-white-hat hacker community. But maybe that's dated information.
Bobby Rehkemper and Lindholm are the shit. They caught a dirty prosecutor a few years back on tape: https://whotv.com/2012/02/20/open-records-sonya-heitshusen-l...
6 years ago I was trying to setup GitLab CI. From memory, it was a bad experience since there were missing or incorrect pieces of crucial information. At the end they were figured out but if the status quo is still the same I believe it would not be easy to automate a rebuild.
I'm also in tech and music, though music is not a full time career for me. My personal website starts with a landing page and two links, one for the tech stuff, and the other for the music stuff.

I wrote my site by hand in plain HTML, just over 2 decades ago, have added some content but have not radically changed it. Anything that's more than 1 level deep pulls up a PDF of something or other. Maintenance is via FTP.

It still works on every browser, phone, OS, etc.
Two responses to this (we're recapping a previous thread at this point):

1. Tuitions were much lower when loans first started to be non-dischargeable.

2. The provision to exempt them from bankruptcy was based on concerns that people were already ruthlessly defaulting on them.

As this article notes: the current disposition of college financing is part of a package of policy changes geared at drastically expanding access to college, and that package is generally viewed as being successful on its own terms.
This is easily the best HN comment of 2019. It's also 100% true and completely accurate.
Pentesting works the other way, you need to scope things in, not out. Otherwise you'll get into all sort of legal and ethical issues.
The state space here looks pretty small, it seems to me that with so much training it's just a case of brute-force search. When I think of "tool use" in regards to the intelligence of early humans, I imagine something more like [0] where the state space is enormous and it takes a good deal of reasoning and planning to get to a desired result.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-34JfUrHY
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If someone was accused of murder, would you be so dismissive of the allegation and so worried about abuse?
Yeah. The goog really did assist in breaking up "my links" on all of those old sites. I presume it was just an accident of the company who did "no harm".
This future is a long way off, but I expect we'll see the new paradigm you're taking about take shape as a collection of smart contracts on a cryptocurrency platform.

Then, it will have to compete with the existing ways. If it's worthy of being the new normal, it should be able to compete and win.

I think that means that economic activity on the platform with the sane IP policy would need to be more desirable for both buyers and sellers. It's obvious why sellers would want to avoid using platforms that are either so riddled with bogus IP that they can't operate (like USD), or so bereft of enforcement that they get no credit for originality (like CNY). But an incentive structure that keeps buyers from jumping ship to the latter sort... That's going to take some creativity.

My best shot at it would be this:
Supposing the underlying system is a proof of stake system, perhaps your staking rewards could be reduced or increased based on the extent to which your purchasing habits transferred value to platforms that don't support the desired IP features.

So even though you may pay more for the IP compliant product up front, in the long run the system rewards you for not funding its IP-deviant competitor.

The savvy thing for a buyer to do in such a situation would be to have separate identities on each platform, so you spend your no-rules tokens on no-rules products and you spend your regulated tokens on regulated products, thereby avoiding penalties for being a traitor. Hopefully, the market cap of either economy's token would then hinge on which one functioned better independently of the other: May the economy with the best set of policies win (where winning means attracting the participants from its competition).

The trouble is, we don't have infinite resources to just spawn economic petri dishes like this. Eventually the competing economies will come into conflict over more that just which is more fun to participate in. Eventually they'll start wasting resources on fighting over access to some mineral or whatever. I'm still noodling on fixes for that, but even so, I think that such a system would be no worse than the one we have.
Probably true. There must be a balance somewhere. I also think that general math instruction should include more computation.
To be fair, I find the GitHub documentation to be really well done, it shows links to relevant articles, and tend to give a clear picture.
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Same Dallas County Attorney is taking a dive on my Qui Tam to claw back Apple's brazen $100m property tax abatement vote bribe to the City of Waukee unjustly enriching the city to abate $170m. Tim Cook is a tax crook.
And cars aren't supposed to crash, but you still wear your seatbelt.
I would withhold judgment here without more information. Two different investigators at the NYPD and the FBI have all investigated and have not (yet) brought any charges. Given that the identity of the driver is known, this suggests that none of these investigators found her story credible.
Meanwhile a sitting US President can profit from royalties, remunerations, and emoluments that have resulted, will result or may result from foreigners and diplomats renting hotel rooms and golf courses owned (not divested) by same President and his immediate family.
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Regardless of Kashmir, India's current slowdown appears to be unprecedented. My architect brother contends that the slump in real estate is worse than it was after Demonetization and 2008
The higher the price, the more they value it
Yeah I can't find anything at all about possession of such a tool being illegal by itself. In Oregon, our law is very specific that possessing burglary tools is only illegal when you intend to use them to commit burglary, or know that someone else intends to use them for it.
Maybe I’m harsh, but I’d say a lot of the point is signaling that one is fashionable, in a sense. Meme styles and popularity changes so fast, it’s like a niche sport keeping up with it.

That is, it’s much less about concisely (or arguably lazily) communicating meaning and more about scoring internet points.
I am more concerned about what Facebook, Google, and a bunch of adtech firms are doing.

The private sector surveillance machine is probably more competent and high tech than three letter government agencies (it pays better and gets first pick of the talent pool), is subject to zero oversight, is almost completely lawless, and gathers quite a bit more information.

The NSA at least has to answer to someone and is subject to some law.

If you are concerned about the NSA you should be totally freaked out about Facebook and Google.
You're 100% correct. Having done multiple red teams I would never attempt to break into a building without 1) the CEO on call, 2) a notarized statement of work identifying my and the client's identity, and 3) notarized authorization from the landlord.

If a client refuses any of these then the physical pillar is quite simply off the table.
Rather than focusing on how many views you get, you could think of a personal website as serving two purposes: 1) A place where people who know you can keep up or catch up when they feel like it, or when/if you ping them, and 2) A place where people who just met or became aware of you can get to know you better.

With those two purposes in mind, just write, when you feel like it.
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I just tried to sign up but I got a message that namebase is in closed beta. How can I register?
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Love to hear about the level of corruption in Iowa. Grew up there and left...
Exactly. Police killed an innocent man with no gun and won't even charge the policeman who opened fire.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/15/casey-...

Heck, the state will not even tell the cops name who executed a civilian at his own door.
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> First of all, I believe that everything people do is according to some ethic, or set of criteria that motivates them, so there's no such thing as "unethical."

OK, that's one way to look at it. In that case I mean bad ethics...

> Secondly, it's not charging money because of who they are, it's charging them because of what they have, which is money, which is a desire to have a bug fixed, and which is not expertise in doing so.

That sounds reasonable and is similar to taxing the rich I suppose, but to me it's discrimination on WHO you are.

> Thirdly, charging money like this is not antithetical to free software, and as a matter of fact is promoted by FSF. Here they are dispensing with your argument in the first sentence:

That's their opinion, my opinion is that charging money for open source software (usage, support) usually results in bad incentives for the people controlling the software (more bugs = more money), which is bad for the consumers of the software.

Allow people to contribute money/resources to the project if they want/need, is the best for everyone.

> These companies don't pay taxes anyway.

True, but a whole other issue.
In my experience red team contracts explicitly state what is in-scope. Ambiguity means no.
I'd be really curious as to how closely Snowden's lawyered the book to not include any classified information, with this clause in mind.
I love the idea but it seems like like a long shot to get the network effect working in your favor instead of against you. You mention a bottoms up approach and what happened in Catalonia but that is such a tiny percentage of the population facing problems that most people will hopefully never face. How does this go mainstream? Why should the average person care about a more secure solution to DNS? Most people happily ship their data off to Google and Facebook and are blissfully ignorant about the potential consequences. It seems like you would have to make people care more about internet privacy before something like this would work on a large scale.

IMO, it faces the problem that most crypto projects are running into; it might be good solution, but the problem doesn’t effect the average person enough for it gain mainstream traction.
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One feature that probably doesn't get enough praise is the groups. You can create groups, and nested sub groups within. This helps us a lot to separate projects into smaller groups. Sub groups inherit access and keys from their parent and ancestors.
Looks like there are still a few thousand of them out there that are vulnerable: https://www.shodan.io/report/SsFDWdzh
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Your link includes the following quote:

> To begin with, did Snowden sign “an oath…not to disclose classified information”? He says that he did not, and that does not appear to have been contradicted.
sure, if you want to pay them to do that
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Yep. And it's also a DNS registrar.
I was really hoping we'd get to hear the computer operate
Reading the plaintiff's complaint, it says that she took a Lyft home. She did not know that anything bad happened on the trip until she looked at her account and noticed that what should have been a 3 mile trip had been an 18 mile trip.

She also noticed vaginal pain and bleeding, realized that something bad must have happened during that trip, and went to the police to report kidnapping and rape. A rape kit was administered and the results identified semen of at least two men.

Then:

> 42. The NYPD opened an investigation. As part of that investigation, ALISON was asked to ride along in the back of a police car and retrace the route that was taken the night of her attack in an effort to help her recover a more detailed memory of what happened to her that fateful night.

> 43. As she rode in the back of the police car the night of the reenactment, the horrible memories she had blocked from her mind came flooding back and she remembered the terrifying details of how she was held at gunpoint by the driver, taken across state lines and repeatedly raped in the back of the car by at least two other men.

That kind of reenactment has a very high risk of causing false memories. Is NYPD aware of that, and do they take proper steps to avoid it, or did they make plaintiffs case a lot harder right there?

This might not tank a civil case, where you only need a preponderance of the evidence, but sounds like something that could make a criminal case hopeless since that requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. I wonder if that has anything to do with the apparent lack of progress of the criminal investigation?

Police departments really really need to have experts in human memory on hand, and require that those experts be present when investigators do anything that involves the memory of victims, suspects, and witnesses.
The alternative in most cases is _no documentation at all_. It's not like people would go spend two hours writing up documentation if Slack didn't exist.
So dirty the AG's Chief of Staff Eric Tabor has his sister on the Iowa Court of Appeals Mary Tabor who corruptly fails to recuse herself on his cases. Usually she is impartial, but when Eric gets caught in shenanigans she has went so far as to commit fraud (literally lying about the facts of cases in the appellate record she prosecuted to invent case law) to cover his ass.

Fun fact, Mary's son Ollie works for Nate Silver.
All right, I've added the pricing page. I'll probably add a native contact form too, just got to build it.
The first banner ad was in 1994.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-f...

The first web browser was introduced in 1990.

https://starry.com/blog/inside-the-internet/what-was-the-fir...

Advertising has been a part of the web for almost its entire history.
But how does this solve the problem of Trust on First Use?

Blockchains can safeguard the integrity of the data, but how do we know that painting in the real world corresponds to the token that purports to represent it? How do we know that business on Google really is that business and not a guy in their basement? How does Google or anyone really verify it, whether they are a top-down corporation or a blockchain or a decentralized project like OpenStreetMap?
> This market has been decimated by the floor system.

You mean there has been so much cash around that nobody really needed to get cash via the fed funds market, for quite a while? It does seem like the spread between fed funds and IOER is generally just a few bp, maybe even 1bp sometimes, which I guess is where the "ceiling" you were talking about comes from:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IOER

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
Hmmmm. I don’t really like these quick release cycles
People here are very dismissive of 1, but IMO they are being short sighted. Dictatorships are brittle, their power is extremely secure, up until it isn't. When the communist party rule does end, I think it will happen quicker than people think and catch a lot of people by surprise.

Not willing to stick my neck out with a prediction though.

For 2), I think the answer is yes. Chinas rapid transition from a low to a middle income country was remarkable, but I think the zeitgeist got a bit too excited about it (just as they did with Japan 30 years ago). I don't see any contenders to US economic power in the near future - China will be competing with India, not the US.
False. Some un-armed have been shot. I've had police point guns at me and I'm not shot, same with the folk I was with - mixed racial group, Oakland, CA, c1995, 1997, 2001

E: oh yeah, and I've seen Seattle police draw but not fire on many occasions. Most recently was a few months ago, chasing a dealer up my street and hiding in the stairwell just outside my place.

E2: also, this is not the place for it - like all the other flagged comments
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@ollie
> The violent crime you speak of is male on male.

If you get to use that as an argument, do I get to do the black on black crime thing?
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