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> It is completely backwards, in fact.

Yes, that's exactly right! If you write out an argument in the form of a single logical proposition and any of the premises are false, then the proposition itself is true.

That's one of the things they beat into your head a lot in Logic 101 since it's rather counterintuitive that a material conditional with a false antecedent is always true. GIGO.

My only nit would be that terminologically one wouldn't normally use the terms "true" or "false" to describe an argument, since if you did, then you'd have to say that all arguments with a false premise are true, and that's just too confusing. So usually one speaks of arguments in terms of validity and soundness instead.

P.S. Another thing that's confusing to Logic 101 students on day 1, is that an argument can be valid and yet the conclusions can still be false.

In math, this usually doesn't come up, since you wouldn't typically have valid proofs in math that started with a false premise.
Curious about this comment. I'm a Mac user and a Charles user. I find it to be a great tool. Why the negativity?
Yes. I'd say 10 years ago it was more common for them to hold the card. These days almost none of them do.
Also if you check the AndroidManifest.xml of TikTok app you'll see they are tracking persistent device identifiers coupled with phone #. Then if you uninstall TikTok you'll still have a bunch of their files in shared space that other Chinese apps can pick up were you to install them, presumably so they can track you even if you uninstall the app.
Reagan too was called a total clown during his first election campaign and in his first term (he's in a good company, so was Lincoln). He was a much better public speaker, I'll give you that, but Trump is almost certainly a better negotiator, just from experience alone. I took some classes on negotiation, and did a bit of that myself, and I routinely see people misinterpret bog standard negotiation plays he does as his "missteps". Literally any book or course on negotiation will walk you through all of the techniques I've seen so far. It's getting tiresome. That's _the standard way_ of doing this shit, literally everyone who has successfully run any kind of business will see these tactics for what they are immediately.

As to "degenerate", that's the label you use when you've lost the rational argument. All I see is a talented businessman with a bit of Aspergers, strong Twitter game, and a profound lack of public speaking skills. None of that disqualifies him from the job he was elected to do.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/05/ronald-reagan-was-onc...
"Roadside Picnic" is a uniquely haunting, very Russian view of the universe.

"What if the aliens came, and not only were we too insignificant to realize we existed, they shit on our planet".
The mechanism is plausible and the preliminary studies seem suggestive, but I read the article and I still can't tell you a workable definition of "processed", nor what the mechanism is beyond "artificial sweeteners screw with satiety" and "junk supermarket food is high in calories". The latter is clearly irrelevant since the studies referenced presumably keep caloric intake constant in an inpatient hospital setting. The former is a result I remember reading about as a teenager literally decades ago. So what is the article pitching?

What is "processing" and how does it contribute to confusing gut-brain signalling? The article lists kinds of food that we all agree are "processed", but I have no idea why I think they're "processed" the same way a dumb ML model might correctly classify something as a cow while having a nonsense mapping from feature space to outcome.

Not trolling. Can someone list a set of specific ingredients or techniques which are constituent of "processing", and how these things are connected to the article's mechanism? I am aware of past mixed research on artificial sweeteners and satiety, but clearly that's both an older finding and a mixed one, so the article is alluding to something more that isn't explained.
I agree with you on the point you're getting at. Really anything that can be potentially logged due to a bug or accessed by a human may as well be considered the same as perpetual, in my opinion.

The difference is I trust Apple enough to turn off Siri on my phone and feel safe nothing is being broadcast online or stored locally for another app to access.

Is this guaranteed? Hell no. I also don't read the source code of every open source program I use (and even if I do I'm aware people exist much smarter than me who can obfuscate their malicious code).

Apple's business strategy, their history of actions, and their security system make me feel confident enough in _assuming_ my voice never reaches their servers and cannot be turned in by an app without explicit permissions. That last bit is also important. Like the Android Facebook background audio "bug", even if it is really a bug, to me it's no different.

Lastly even if Amazon were trustworthy about not listening when they say and not accessing voice data they shouldn't, I don't trust the platform very much. Quick idea, can you create a multi-turn alexa skill that after the first turn pretends Alexa is finished but it is actually actively recording and waiting to fake a response to "Alexa! <do other skill>"? Personally I don't know, don't have the source to check, and I wouldn't really believe any amazon engineer coming in here and saying "It's impossible to exploit". (Even if my 5 minute idea is impossible multiply that times thousands of malicious people spending much longer trying to exploit it)

edit: Don't mean to imply an Apple is impossible to hack or exploit. Just that they take a more active stance and have the history to back it up.
Looks interesting; installed. I toyed around with gps/locator collars(findster) but unfortunately the quality was junky and the battery life was horrible, so I had no faith it would do its job when I needed it.

How close does someone with the app need to get to the tag before it phones home?(nevermind, FAQ says ~300 ft, which is really good. It seems like if you can see the animal, you can probably get it's beacon id?)

Do you triangulate positions from multiple users, or show a general track of the animal over time?

Are you partnering with big driving orgs (ups, Uber, etc) or parks departments to get more readers on the streets?

What's your revenue model?
Let's please not upvote this. It is _not_ a "standard" go project - it doesn't even have a go.mod. Furthermore, it is in an org called "golang standards", when in reality it and its projects are not standards - they're just some opinions of some programmers.

Let's please not make getting started with golang more confusing to beginners by falsely claiming standards.

Also, see numerous similar complaints in this project's issue tracker: [ex1 https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout/issues/38) [ex2 https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout/issues/38].
Less bizarre than the story we are commenting on. Everyone has a different tolerance for things.
All of tumblr works like that.

Not defending, just contextualizing, and clarifying that NPM didn't make that specific design choice. Obviously, they chose to use tumblr, though.
>>So you're saying that a blanket rule to make contracts that involve selling ones-self into slavery makes sense? Or that there are certain circumstances in which selling oneself into slavery is alright, and so it should be adjudicated by the court on a case by case basis?

If courts rule that selling oneself into slavery is in all circumstances non-consensual, then there's no problem at all with codifying that with a statute. This would never be the case with minimum wage or 'fair' housing laws.

Courts would absolutely find numerous if not almost all instances of such interactions as consensual.

>>How even could someone who is a slave (and therefore likely limited in their movements) petition a court?

The slavery is a private relationship, not one that is relevant to the court. The government doesn't deperson someone just because they enter into a slavery agreement with another party. The court would accept petitions from all legal persons.

>>People sign contracts for more than 10 years all the time (mortgages, as an example). You saying we can just back out of those?

Mortgage contracts govern property, not people. One has a right to give property away. One doesn't have a right to give their future self away.
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That's only a clever strategy if it's a landing page for a product that doesn't exist from a 1-person company that hasn't incorporated yet. /s
> "Medicare for all" does not mean free healthcare. It's paid for by taxes.

I didn't say "free healthcare". I said "government pays 100% of costs". Yes, that means ultimately we all pay them through taxes.

> The concept of "private health insurance" outside of supplemental insurance would not exist under that system.

Under Medicare, "government pays 100% of costs" also means "government is the only provider of health insurance". But my whole point is that you don't need to do that in order for the government to use its negotiating leverage to negotiate better rates; the government can do that even if the rates it's negotiating are with private insurance providers. That's basically what the government does now for Federal employees and elected officials; they aren't on Medicare, they have a selection of private insurance plans that have negotiated rates with the government. My suggestion is to simply extend this to all citizens, so the government can negotiate even better rates since they now have a much larger pool of people to negotiate for.
Most modern keyboard layouts no longer map nicely to ASCII, except for one: Japanese. On the JIS keyboard layout, every single key* with an ASCII symbol flips a single bit when shifted (0x10 for codes < 0x40 and 0x20 for codes >= 0x40). It's called a bit-paired keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard

Interestingly, shift-0 would logically be a space character, and indeed on the JIS layout there is nothing printed above 0 (actually pressing shift-0 doesn't give you a space on modern OSes, it just gives you a 0, but you could map it to a space if you were so inclined).

* except that ¥ is where \ would be in ASCII, because Japanese charsets replaced \ with ¥. On the JIS layout, the \ label is next to _ (0x5f), which means it's filling the empty spot of 0x7f, which is otherwise a nonprintable DEL.
Amazon owns Eero. It would not surprise me to find that when they run an ad on TV, they also promote that product on the Amazon front page for visitors soon after the ad ran who are coming from the region the ad ran in. No listening required.
>This is the result of "free market" idealists at work.

Huh? I can't think of anything less free market then the American medical system!

Ok, maybe defense contracting is less free market. But at least that is paid for out of federal tax money.
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Are we crowdfunding billions these days?
> Statistics from one of my websites running Argo show a 16.73% percent improvement for 32.3% of web traffic routed through Argo.

I don't understand the statistic. Is that the best 32.3%? Is the worst 32.3% 16.73% worse?
You should check out Louis Rossmann's videos on YouTube - he does exactly this.

This one's not on his channel but is a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0S1ku9xvDI
universal healthcare is sort of the equivalent of free food. What if your medical condition is malnourishment?
This will be downvoted since you are patio11, but just to say, you might wish to study the correct use of "e.g." versus "for example".
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Also, in my experience Zenni doesn't necessarily make the polarized lenses to adequate tolerances. I ordered a pair of aviators with polarized lenses and there were such severe pressure points around the rim that it distorted the polarization across almost the entire surface of the lenses. It made the polarization coating basically worthless, and I had to return them to order a non-polarized pair for half the price.
TikTok's developers should be ashamed of themselves.

I have nothing but derision for employees who take part in implementing something so obviously horrible but do not make an attempt to move out of their job or even acknowledge what they are doing wrong.
Eh, I'd design an electronic lock that is operated with a phone app. There'd be nothing visible of it on the surface of the door. There'd be no way to tell what the make/model of the lock was. There'd a flange the full length of the door so you couldn't even tell where the bolt was.
Can be several hundred feet in an open field, YMMV in an urban environment. On the other hand, I don't want to have too big of a radius in town, closer is better.

There's a reason you don't really see dogs wearing GPS collars - even with LTE-M, the experience is still not good and I don't think there's product market fit.

Absolutely - partnering up with Ride shares is on my roadmap, as well as sticking antennas in Drones and I'm filing a patent for automatically dispatching rideshares that can triangulate a missing pet even if there's no other sensors around.
How do you protect yourselves from becoming part of the USA's internet surveillance network? You're exposed to National Security Letters and you lost the case with the Ninth.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ninth-circuit-rules-on-nsl-gag-o...
vBulletin is probably hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Nobody has time to "read the code" before installing it.
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Ah, I think we might have different ways of spending our time.
Yes, as can all opioids (or drugs in general). Biologicals are particularly challenging in this regard as potency can vary wildly. From what I've read, the people who use this regularly try to make very large batches to standardize and then titrate up slowly with every batch. It seems the son in that link was used to taking huge amount of washed seeds and then got an unwashed batch - so in a sad ironic way, the company's attempts to keep people from getting high led to his death.

Definitely risky, and not something I'd ever suggest for recreational purposes. Also important to know that many opiate tests look for non-intoxicating metabolites that are directly available in the poppy, so doctors may overestimate the amount of morphine the individual consumed: leading to overprescription in replacement therapies or overdose treatments, both of which can be dangerous.
i don't even use them at home. i don't know why, but it's still really awkward -- specially when you need to repeat yourself because the device didn't understand you.

you can only say "alexa" or "hey google" so many times until you feel dumb.
Poe's law is going to become so relevant that it's no longer relevant anymore. We live in a post-irony society.
There isn't a difference unless that's outlined in the law or it's interpretation and I don't know how you'd sanely define things to disallow abuse here.
> Chinese person I know absolutely adores Donald Trump because he plays hard ball, whereas they didn't quite know what to think about Obama, who was totally inscrutable from the Chinese perspective

I have read countless well-written articles arguing exactly the opposite, so I find this interesting.
Where I work (in the USA), we have an employer-paid plan. There are no weekly premiums paid by the employees. There's a minimal deductible, around $500-1500 maximum per year.

The employer gets the bills, they pay them. They belong to a cooperative and get negotiated rates, they have a provider network and everything.

Why isn't this more common?
Heathcare costs are part of employee compensation. The tax is on employees.
I tried the Google dork search on Tuesday morning when I saw the Full Disclosure email.

At that time, a lot of servers showed up. All the top ones had been vandalized already.
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I am tempted to add "Every Software is becoming crappy". There will of course be exceptions but I feel general trend seems true.
and don't forget, left pad as a service:

http://left-pad.io/
Do they not get Darjeeling or Assam in Bangladesh?
Yeah...this is unhelpful.

Creating massive "this is how you do it" template repos to show everyone how smart you are is grating. The assumption that everyone needs everything and the kitchen sink and want to use your architecture abstraction is incredibly misguided.

I've used Golang successfully on a few projects and this is completely unparseable.
i used to have a pair of jaybirds x3s -- they have the band between the headphones -- and i moved to the galaxy buds.

after getting used to the galaxy buds, i 100% prefer them. mostly because i sweat a lot when i exercise, and the band of the x3s would "glue" themselves to my neck and would make it really awkward to move my head.
Those papers are about specific low discrepancy sampling patterns, their ease of use, their speed, their flexibility and the scalability of their properties into higher dimensions. Papers written by knowledgeable researchers in 2019 were not used in all the things you listed.

I understand you know what low discrepancy samples are, but equating the very first demonstration that random sampling wasn't ideal for day tracing, to the state of the art that has evolved over three decades of research is ludicrous.

I don't know why you are desperate to be dismissive but it has no basis whatsoever in reality.
This almost fees like the valuation was based upon the probability Facebook might buy them?
Thanks, I’m a Tea Pig drinker, was looking for this comment.
Concretely, what are you suggesting Cloudflare is doing wrong here? What responsible things should they be doing that they aren't?

The "we try very hard not to be bad" form of mitigation is scary when the company is doing dangerous things without adequate safeguards, but I don't see how you figure Cloudflare is doing that here. Ultimately, when you've done everything you can not to put people at risk and the only remaining risk is that you'll stop being trustworthy, "We try very hard not to be bad" is all you can offer. So what more do you think they should be doing that would meaningfully reduce this risk?
With healthcare, it goes the other way too.

When my kid gets a deep gash, disfiguring an eyebrow or messing with an important finger, I'd be willing to pay extra for a surgeon to sit there with a microscope putting all the little capillaries and nerves back together. I'm offered a staple, or some glue, or maybe a couple stitches. No, I really don't like zig-zag eyebrows and stiff numb fingers.

Anybody know how to get the good treatment?
Being a private platform does not absolve you of social responsibility. When you take on the role of a public forum or place of communication, you also take on some social responsibility, whether you like it or not.

Whether you choose to ignore it with carefully crafted "Community Guidelines"-based legalese or you choose to respect and acknowledge it, it doesn't change the fact that the responsibility exists.
Messages were stored to the device. If you installed and logged into Kik on another device, the chat history would clear.
About the only area I can agree with Trump is in holding China's feet to the flames, and this is a particularly good example. Next up I'd like to see the Great Firewall declared as a trade-barrier and Chinese technology companies frozen out until it comes down.
That paragraph in the article isn't about Unity, it's about the "OpenX SDK" and that is indeed a very shady behavior (I guess it's right that uMatrix completely blocks all access to www.openx.com).
I wonder if Amazon reached out to Bose on this to collaborate.
Solving the problem of care that a person can’t afford is a completely different issue than fixing the problem of routine affordable care being exorbitantly expensive.
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Another incredibly vague investigation. Description of leaked guideline basically amounts to no divisive politics. Guardian yellow peril narrative: "TikTok, is advancing Chinese foreign policy aims abroad through the app". What I see from the guidelines: TikTok is an app designed for kids and No Politics policies make the app friendly for kids, which is preferable to the Youtube radicalization treadmill model. IMO, the internet needs a different standards for children. Sometimes I think 90% of fights online are some variation of anonymous kids screaming at kids, adults screaming adults but is actually a kid with dumb naive hot takes. This is the right policy of kid oriented apps like TikTok and Youtube kids IMO. Not broader social media like twitter, facebook or weibo.

Original allegations by Guardian [1].

>In every case, they are placed in a context designed to make the rules seem general purpose, rather than specific exceptions. A ban on criticism of China’s socialist system, for instance, comes under a general ban of “criticism/attack towards policies, social rules of any country, such as constitutional monarchy, monarchy, parliamentary system, separation of powers, socialism system, etc”.

>Another ban covers “demonisation or distortion of local or other countries’ history such as May 1998 riots of Indonesia, Cambodian genocide, Tiananmen Square incidents”.

>A more general purpose rule bans “highly controversial topics, such as separatism, religion sects conflicts, conflicts between ethnic groups, for instance exaggerating the Islamic sects conflicts, inciting the independence of Northern Ireland, Republic of Chechnya, Tibet and Taiwan and exaggerating the ethnic conflict between black and white”.

TikTok claims these are deprecated guidelines:

>The old guidelines in question are outdated and no longer in use. Today we take localised approaches, including local moderators, local content and moderation policies, local refinement of global policies, and more. We also consult with a number of independent local committees and are working to scale this at a global level, including forming an independent committee of leading industry organisations and experts to continually assess these policies.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
International postal agreements are not an area where you can "move fast and break things"
Are you really browsing without uBlock Origin? Yikes.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
OT but I love the way they showed the noise cancellation feature on that page: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/merch/2019/ONT...
Take a look at some of the European armoured doors, especially those in Italy. The door and frame come as a single piece, where the frame is made from hardened steel. I assume the door is too, but they are covered in some sort of veneer.

There is a basic cylinder lock which needs a 90 degree turn from the key outside, or the knob inside. Then there is the deadbolt mechanism which needs to be turned five or so times, and drives 1/2" steel bolts deep into the frame.

http://is.alicdn.com/img/pb/172/617/299/299617172_794.jpg

(Something like "normal", but this is a cheap Chinese knock off)

A few years ago a neighbour called the police because their son had locked himself in the apartment and they thought he was a suicide risk. They brought in the fire department to break in, but rather than cutting through the door, it was easier for them to cut through the masonry wall. Windows here are typically just as secure with triple glazing and multi-point locking as standard, and this was the third floor.
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Any evidence of this? Some quick googling and I couldn't find anything about about employees with healthcare plans being paid less than employees without them.

If I understand the history of it properly, healthcare was always meant to be an extra incentive from a period where they weren't allowed to pay more. It's never been a tax on employees.
1) I already wear glasses, and I hate earbuds. This product suits me perfectly.

2) Amazon also released earbuds.