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>Second: Militarization of the police is much more a result of the recent terrorist attacks and surplus equipment and military training from the Iraq / Afghanistan wars than anything having to do with the cold war.

The thing I don't get about the "militarization" of police is that:

1. Police responses to mass civil disturbances is probably less militarized today than it has ever been in the history of the United States. See: Philly police dropping actual bombs on citizens, all of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, George Washington himself sending several regiments of the newly-formed US Army to pacify tax protestors, and everything in between.

2. Everywhere that keeps records going back several decades has seen police shootings decrease. In New York City in particular both shootings and deaths have decreased at a rate that exceeds the drop in crime and are the lowest they've ever been-- and NYPD is one of the most "militarized" police forces in the US (so I've been told).

In 1972, NYPD fired 2,510 shots during 994 incidents, injuring 145 subjects and killing 66.

In 2017, NYPD fired 52 shots during 242 incidents, injuring 9 subjects and killing 10.

3. Surplus military equipment has always been given to police forces. Some police forces used to have belt-fed machine guns and hand grenades in their armories.

A libertarian publication, Reason, used to maintain a meticulously-curated list of SWAT raids, with handy-dandy links to purchase their publications on the downward spiral of American society and the trampling of the rights of every citizen at the hands of the militarized police, which they terminated around 2012 when their own graphs showed incidents of police brutality falling off a cliff.

Today, the most police forces have to report every time they strike, tase, or shoot, a subject.

Back in "the good old days" when police "weren't militarized" they just sprayed bullets at people, dumped the corpses at the morgue, and went out for a drink.

One hundred years ago, during the May Day Riots and Red Summer of 1919 the police used the actual, literal, military (including WWI tanks) to kill protestors (mainly socialists and African Americans).

When were the police (and the overall response to civil unrest by authorities) LESS militarized than they are today?
On a related note, it was reported mere days ago that Trump personally promised Xi US government silence on Hong Kong during trade negotiations:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/politics/trump-xi-hong-kong-p...
It's fascinating to look at what this technology (not perfect, but definitely Goodenough) has accomplished. And it is also crazy to think that it was almost more of a discovery, than an invention.

Does this mean that the next breakthrough is hiding in plain sight, waiting for someone to put the perfect cocktail of raw materials together? I have no bg in chemistry, but the thought of being part of making a next-level battery sounds very exciting.
The deployment itself worked flawlessly :-)
FWIW, if you've worked with Mithril, I would think it would be fairly easy to start picking up React.

I have a list of suggested resources for learning React here:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/12/blogged-answers-le...
> The NBA is hugely popular there, don't they risk annoying huge chunks of their own population by taking it off the air?

That is a mistake. Many hyper-nationalists already called a broad ban on NBA, and so far even the fans need to claim they will give up their interests for their love of the country.

And it is probably that way already. If no further response from NBA satisfying China's official account on this matter, the ban will extend into regular season and NO ONE will question it.

It is grassroot nationalistic parade, the CCP is merely riding it, and even they need to do this carefully.
I bet reoccurring service fees are accounting for an increasing proportion of spending to the average American. The traditional electricity, water, phone, cable, and internet services have largely increased in costs while also expanding to include house cleaning and sub services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Spotify, Patreon, Adobe, Dropbox, Curiosity Stream, etc. And that's not even including other sub services that offer physical goods at inflated prices over retail (butcherbox, stitchfix, wanc, birchbox).

There's just so much shit to subscribe to anymore.

Edit: I forgot, digital-only video games and movie rentals too.
This is similar to the work done in winapi [1], com-imp[2] and my own tangential work on porting VST3 [3] to Rust [4]

I'm really glad MS is doing this. What needs to be a bit clearer to me is how they maintain ABI compatibility under the hood of MSVC for COM interfaces (which uses the vtable layout of an inherited class) and how that's compatible with MinGW/GCC stacks on Windows, mostly what can break it. I got stuck porting VST3 with multiple inheritance, and it was a headache trying to reverse engineer the appropriate struct layouts for COM implementations.

[1] https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs/blob/0.3/src/macros.rs

[2] https://github.com/Connicpu/com-impl

[3] https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk

[4] https://github.com/m-hilgendorf/cli-host (sorry for the messy code, it was a weekend of hacking away trying to host a VST3 in pure Rust)
I agree with what you said. And the point of my previous post is trying to say that I'm not posting on Weibo and I'm not censored, yet I still have the similar sentiment that people who do post on Weibo have, tho not as extreme.
The key to widespread adoption of crop photography is to lower the cost. You need an ag drone to take off at sunset, visit a list of fields and return at sunset.

To be successful you need to avoid other planes. There have been startups here in Michigan that have had the technology and been able to demonstrate it for fifteen years. The holdup has been getting governmental approval and it looks like UPS has crossed that barrier.
I doubt they've changed that much from their days in Room 641A copying literally every bit that passed over AT&T's network. They could take the contents of everything that isn't encrypted going over the wire in real time then and I don't expect they've backed off since.
I dont think who the person in charge is matters that much. The conglomerate of powerfull people in china have allowed Xi to rise into power because he would serve their interests. Same when Hu was in power. In a mature political system, transition of interests and percieved optimal policy changes who the man in power is, not the other way around.
I hope this site is not fishing for passwords ...
Define “real”. If I replaced your spreadsheet with a bunch of Python scripts, vastly improving your productivity, and you paid me for it, did something “real” get created in the process?
Out of curiosity, what makes Guile take up so much space?

I considered using Guile as the scripting/extension language in some of our tools, but I couldn't get over the large size and the number of additional dependencies it introduced.

There's a certain irony to the idea that Guile was designed to be a TCL killer, and wound up being larger and harder to deploy.
See my other comment, but my suspicion is that Blizzard itself is not making these decisions, but rather it’s the Chinese company that has licensed Blizzard’s IP for use in China.

However, even if my theory is correct, I suppose one could argue that Blizzard is complicit by choosing profits over terminating the business arrangement, but, maybe that’s legally challenging.

I don’t know the real story, but I think the situation is a lot more complicated than it appears.
If Blizzard has lost control of their official account on Weibo, they should say so through other channels. They could clear this up instantly using their official Twitter account.

They've given no indication they've changed their mind on this matter, so it seems kind of premature to assume someone else has taken control over their account. The Weibo statement is consistent with their public position.

If they want to show fans that their stance on this matter has changed, they should unban Blitzchung, give him back his prize money, and rehire the interviewers they fired.
1% of 1'500'000'000 is 15 million people
That "study" says "which languages you probably should not learn as a first programming language".

Sure there might not be a whole lot of Elm jobs out there. But if there is one and you feel like learning Elm, what does it matter?

Also, since you talk about good programmers, surely a potential employer won't list it as negative that you've been able to switch technologies during your career? To me that's a strength rather than a weakness.
Yes, but dividends aren't going to provide you with a 7% return, and most people that can afford to plan for retirement on the basis of 7% returns can't afford to do so on the basis of ~3-4% you might expect from dividends.
We’re confident our v2 architecture can. Current costs are between $10-15 per trial. Future posts will go into detail around how it works.
Europe already had a continent with water, life, food, resources, ecosystems, and everything they needed. Wouldn't it have been a hell of a lot easier to stay there rather than sailing off over the horizon?
There's the potential of a lot more money to be made exploiting new frontiers. Europeans already had all that stuff in Europe and it didn't slow anybody down to the colonies.
Given the progress on climate agreements in the last years: yes
Quality-wise SC2 was a huge disappointment for many of us.

"At this point, as had been hinted in the last two games, StarCraft’s story has morphed from “war between nuanced characters with their own motives and feelings” to “good heroes vs. evil demons,” which is a real shame."

https://kotaku.com/starcraft-ii-legacy-of-the-void-the-kotak...
>"Oh, sorry, player base, we didn't mean to support a totalitarian regime that slaughtered innocents and suppresses free speech. Have a cool skin!"

But what can they do if they are headquartered there?
Quite refreshing to see. Canada’s CRA publishes some crypto guidance, but delicately avoided any discussion about forks and airdrops, which is the only thing that’s unlike any other asset that someone buys and sells that goes up or down in value.

Clarifying the parts that are already clear wasn’t too valuable. Maybe useful for a consumer that thinks “I can trade all day and never pay tax”, but nothing actionable for any accountant.
These are tales of systems which run most of the worlds banking. They are not mine but third party accounts And dont flatter yourself we a have strict no snob policy.
Trump got elected because his opponent was as weak and unpopular as he was, but unlike her he had the benefit of constant TV news coverage for a year and a half leading up to the election.
Hm, maybe I just got lucky, but there were multiple fenced in parks near my apartment in Seattle that allowed dogs to be off leash. In addition my dogs love to run with me in cooler months.

In any case they were pretty satisfied with walks 90% of the time- of course this is going to vary by breed but I absolutely advocate for getting a dog that fits your lifestyle.
How do you arrest the president?[2017]
Facebook/Google are both easily replaceable, that's why they have no intrinsic value they create. I can use Outlook.com or iCloud.com and I have the original social network (or, pickup the phone or write a letter). DuckDuckGo grants me search. Altavista was pretty good too.

I don't prefer all of Apple products, although I do like them all. I use a Thinkpad X1 Extreme for work, and also have a 2019 Samsung Notebook 9 Pen. We do use iPhones in this house. I thought "good" was a light-way of putting. Overall, all things considered I'd go up a notch to "best".

You may have been rattled by me calling Apple "good", but if I have to light a fire on all of these companies except one, I'd leave Apple intact. I could easily and happily use their entire lineup. The Macbooks aren't "that bad". ;) Hardly junk, and even their lowend isn't junk. I like the Macbook Air quite a bit and recommend it often. Quality across the entire line is what I expect from everyone, but it's why Apple is the best. They are even relatively privacy conscious. Even if I'm a best of breed person.

Apple is so dominant in the quality realm that I would say their products are best for everyone. You can't go wrong with a Mac, especially when sorting through all the junk on the market to get to my X1 Extreme and Notebook 9 Pen is honestly, fraught with peril. It requires good judgement and people often fail at that. They will go for the lower-lines because they think they're the "same" as the top of the line, and that's very much not true, outside of Apple.

I would recommend most people just go to the Apple Store. None of it is junk, and you have a store to take it to for repairs if you do have problems. Can't beat it. Better than "good"- best.

If I were dying, I would tell my wife to keep an eye on Consumer Reports, but that she can safely continue to invest in Apple products for the foreseeable future after my death. That's how strong their track record has been. I am one that believes an organization can earn goodwill, not just anger and bad will.
Sadly western governments barely care even if it is opportune
Amazon was built doing just that.
Mangled the text above; it should say “where a sliding tire deforms the surface]”
Or buy them from Brazil. Like they are now since the tariffs happened.
Yes! Most natural materials have a relatively high emissivity at the infrared wavelengths associated with "typical" room / terrestrial temperatures. So in that sense, pretty much any material you might have (except for a highly polished metal that might have low emissivity) is suitable to get some cooling using the radiative cooling effect at night.

The fancier materials work is for two things: 1) selective emission which can allow the radiative cooler to get to a colder temperature than a natural material (many/most of which have relatively uniform emissivity), and 2) high solar reflectance at the same time, which can allow radiative cooling during the day as well.
Voltaire's biographer was a founding father?
Detachable Sessions with Byobu on WSL
That is Amazon's business model.
Which has nothing to do with the objectivly false representation of a completly different statement he made.
Sure. But that's not because of freedom of speech. And I think this is a discussion related to freedom of speech rather than the more subjective and infinitely broad, "Which is better: China or America?"

I can safely criticize my country and its officials because I am not a Chinese citizen.
Full screen without having to be a separate window, so cmd+tab works seamlessly. Toggleable transparency.
Coupled with decreasing acreage for a given yield, that might be an ok trade off.
Agreed but on the other hand I’m dying to see the “is this an April’s fool joke?” moments during Q&A.
Who has the power or authority to arrest the President of the US?
that is a shortsighted reading. OP's job could have shifted from e.g. "driving a heavy truck all day for my plate of food" to running a program on a computer which generates only a miniscule fraction of the emissions. As such , the economy overall has become "greener" for equal benefit.
I think they're betting that 13-17 year olds don't care about politics, and there will be plently of Blizzard apologists among older gamers. Western democracies are not very principled these days and people are easily bought. Either way I think gamers can't boycott to save their life.
It’s extremely well demonstrated through cohort studies. Millennials are no more progressive (and may be more conservative) than boomers were at the same age: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-millenn...

Of course, some of the issues change. Gay marriage is rapidly becoming a bipartisan consensus (45% of republicans support it, more than Democrats did 20 years ago). Other issues, like abortion, have not changed. Still others have changed in the opposite direction, like the gun rights: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/o....
I think that goes for everyone with a blog. And make sure that those dates have years! I've lost count of how many blogs only show the month and day of a post. "Mar 3" of 2019? Or is that 2009? I can't tell!
French wine and Italian cheese prices could rise with new US tariffs on EU
You're not including the scale factor in your reasoning.

AWS has (taking your number as correct) 25% margin at immense scale. Hardware is cheap at this scale. unit pricing for power and space is cheap at this scale. But labor cost is enormous at this scale. Even factoring in leverage of automation, at this scale there is just enormous bureaucracy. One guy or just one team just can't "do something". Anything worth doing will have enormous repercussions across many areas and needs to go up and down the chain. Stuff still gets done, because impact is large at this scale.

> 90% wasted ec2 cpu cycles/db requests,

So then, my point is, if you are just using EC2 and egress, AWS is very expensive. You don't need all the big scale engineering they have, to launch an MVP. Of course, you need to be able to hire the type of people that can manage in-house compute, and that may be hard to find these days, at any price. But taking labor shortage out of the calculation, it's vastly better to DIY.

If you are using PaaS features, that's the sweet spot where you get tremendous value out of AWS.

> profit 25% margin. Therefore assuming that AWS is within 15% of doing a half-decent job at controlling costs, that's still max 40% profit margin.

Getting back to this, even if you dispute all of what I've said, your basic math is wrong. 15% short on 25% is 29.4%. (25/.85, not 25+15).
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> The guidance seems mostly in line with expectations,

I'm curious what expectation you feel it met?

I believe it somehow managed to provide absolutely no clarity on any of the difficult questions. And to the extent that one can attempt to apply it literally and conservatively the results are unconscionable (e.g. having to pay income tax many times over on any hardfork-prone cryptocurrency).

The only way that I can see that this met expectations is that those of us that don't own hardfork prone centrally administered assets and diligently sold fork coins ASAP and recording ordinary income for their sale won't be impacted significantly by this. But anyone who didn't do those things is now in a world of confusion.
Is it possible they are trying to sell for the same price but with wildly varying costs of each varietal of coffee? I.E. they want to sell a bag for 15 bucks across the board but some beans cost them far more than others to source?
> Morey is not even an especially notable NBA figure, Twitter doesn't even work in China, it would have been easy to block news of this in China.

NBA fan, who will NOT be renewing league pass, checking in. Morey is considered one of the top NBA GM's of one of the top teams (Rockets) that have a strong Sino-centric fan base because of former Rocket great, Yao Ming. Yao was the first Chinese superstar in the NBA. The Rockets are the 'adopted' team of China.

> Isn't a backlash among the US population over this plainly foreseeable?

I agree - I'm not paying for league pass this year. I did not like the response from the NBA.
I’m pretty sure it’s because I used the word “socialism” which provoked a negative emotional response among a certain set of people.
I guess it depends where you live. My city (SF) allows dogs on public transit in off peak hours. The 24/7 animal hospital is 1.5 miles away from my apartment. If it were a real emergency (minutes to live), I can zipcar or uber since my dog is carrier trained and I'd be happy to pay a $50 tip in exchange for letting us ride for an emergency of that urgency. (As of recently, Uber is piloting a pet-friendly option in select cities as well, although this doesn't apply to me yet). In the suburbs, when I had a car, I lived about 15 miles away from the animal hospital so it's not actually better.

My dog gets significantly more exercise now than when I lived in the suburbs because there are more parks, interesting sights, etc right outside my door and I don't have to drive to them. But otherwise, sure, I'll walk. According to my fitbit I take about 25k - 30k steps a day so walking a little extra to get to a different neighborhood isn't a big deal to me.

Edit: It appears that dogs are allowed on the train/bus in DC if they are in carriers.
If we destroy ourselves first, agree.

If we persist and advance technologically, disagree.
Thanks! We'll move some comments there.
> the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one

Small nitpick, but you need to be a Norwegian resident with an ID number (fødselsnummer) and a postal address in Norway, not necessarily a citizen.
It doesn't fit the narrative.
#2 would be a violation of freedom of association.
Samsung certainly went from having a large market share in China to being an also ran that abandoned Chinese manufacturing after state led boycotts of their products as a response to South Korea allowing a ballistic missile defense system to be installed on their soil.

As I recall, buying local brands instead was framed as patriotism.
I hear the same story from my girlfriend, cousins, sisters, basically any woman I talk to about health related things. Every time I hear those stories it makes me sick to my stomach and mad as hell.
> “Doing business in China, it’s been easier to ignore the authoritarianism of the government because they were asking us to do things like remove a skeleton [from a game],” he said.

It looks like China learned nothing from the USSR (or from their own Great Leap Forward, for that matter). Escalation is not going to go their way. Hawkish members of the CCP are going to blow the whole thing up.

This is much bigger than Activision-Blizzard and it's clear that Western companies are going to have to pick a side soon. There's a very salient conflict between Wall Street and the Classical Liberal underpinnings of our modern democracies. As it stands right now, this is going to get worse before it gets better. Is anyone worried about the HKD/USD peg falling?
> One has to assume the commercial/financial risk from fan and sponsor backlash was a significant factor.

I would assume that distraction for the team — regardless of reason for that distraction — was a major contributing factor.

At a certain level their objective is to win games and focus on the player politics and non-sport activities would be disruptive, and likely negatively impact his overall value to prospective teams.
In your "Sentiment" graph, dont you think `negative` should be red?
Here are some things that can help:

- Put your phone in Do Not Disturb mode. On Android, that hides the notification icons for IMs, texts, calls, app notifications. Often, I turn on my phone screen to look something up and immediately get distracted by the notifications. Then I forget what I was originally going to look up.

- Remove your favourite sites "quick bookmark" icons on your browser's landing page. Often I mindlessly click those icons when I open the browser, even though I had a different purpose in mind when I opened it.

- Use the grayscale mode on your phone if you have it. It turns the entire display black and white, and makes app icons, images etc look less vibrant and less noticeable. It's a hack that makes me want to go on my phone less often, or just use it for the exact purpose I turned it on for.
COM layout is followed upon most mainstream Windows compiled languages, namely major C++ compilers, .NET, Delphi, Eiffel, Ada, so it is not MSVC++ keeping ABI compatibility under the hood on their own.