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The financial industry is difficult because of money laundering.

Any illegal activity requires a financial crime at some point to launder the spoils. Therefore, financial institutions are the perfect place for law enforcement to hook into to try to crack down on the more widespread and organized forms of crime. The financial system is so much of a force multiplier for criminal activity that LE can't really ignore it.

To hook in, they need you to do KYC, they need you to check with OFAC, they need you to do you to do SAR's and report any attempts to structure financial activity. Basically, actors in the financial services industry, as a prereq to being able to do so, have to agree to act as a modern day Stasi.

Thank the criminals and reactionary Congressfolk of the last fifty or so years.
I have had my mid-2012 RMBP since 2012 and I haven't had to repair it yet (I might be an outlier). I'm hoping to trade in my 2012 and get the 16" and have it last another 7 years.
Because that's what Vivado uses for scripting?
VAT is regressive - that is it takes a proportionately larger chunk the poorer you are - often considered unfair. For example if I and Warren Buffet buy a car then I have spent a much larger percentage of my overall wealth than he does
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Did you really mean "us" "ambassador" "germany"?

Here are some results for Taylor Swift instead:
In 2009 the Fed tore down the wall between retail and investment banks. Which allowed the Fed to pump the latter full of cash. Stands to reason that every other large non-finance corporation wants to get in on that.
I find the whole debacle absolutely bizarre. The butterfly keyboard is fantastic. The only real problem with it is that the keys aren’t easily removable. If they were, you could easily clean them and/or replace them. I don’t understand why the design directive after the first ones started failing wasn’t: Make the keys easily replaceable.

They did four iterations on the original design and never made a variant where you didn’t have to replace the entire top case because of some cookie crumbs. It’s just insane.

All they had to do was redesign the hooks under the keys. I’m no engineer, but when I look at them it doesn’t seem like some kind of impossible challenge.
In common usage it seems containers is synonymous with "what Docker does". Because meanwhile Docker has blurred in meaning since various other things were called Docker. Such as calling the non-native product "Native Docker" or whatever "Docker Enterprise" is (impossible to tell by the landing page description).
> Lines of code or configuration so far: zero.
Which zero-conf server was serving PHP back those twenty years ago? I remember using LAMP (and WAMP) installers for local development back then, but getting everything to run on production was always a nightmare.

> Number of steps to rebuild or restart: zero.

This just made people not debug or test at all. Also it had the side effect of people coding directly on production or just overwriting everything via FTP on the fly.

Yes, those were the simple times. But also the dark times.
The Illustrated Children’s Guide to K8s
We are not discussing nuclear waste here. It is highly concentrated and disposed of in the end of the fuel cycle. What you should be comparing with is the radioactivity that is released in the environment during the operation of the plant. That is mostly Tritium and isotopes of Xenon, definitely no heavy metals. Tritium is a very low energy beta emitter and is mostly harmless. Xenon is a noble gas and a beta emitter, so again not very harmful.

The WHO guidelines on alpha emitters (all elements you cite that are contained in fly ash) is 1 Bq/l in drinking water. So depending on how and where this ash goes to, you can definitely cause some significant damage with it.
Nice work, although WebViews shouldn't be used for anything beyond displaying HTML documents.

Either go native or go Web, hybrid apps always always feel worse than middleware frameworks.
It’s not what your asking, but having tried to exercise when in AF it’s horrible. A steam engine with a hole in the boiler is what it feels like, but with more sweat.
> funding/promoting the Arab spring.

Details? By whom? What for? Is this claim based on anything?
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New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Quebec (well, 14.975%).
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Web is only native on browser OSes.
> It would take a significant groundswell of grassroots political will to apply a carbon tax fairly and universally;

This is where carbon tax falls apart. There is ZERO insentive for poor people in high polluting countries to make their lives worse for the benefit of the world. None.

Therefore, carbon tax will only ever be paid by the "rich", but then we /know/ the rich dodge taxes. So the carbon tax falls on the middle class in the rich countries.

Now the politics are more clear. Is it any surprise that the middle class don't want carbon taxes? Only the middle wealthy (doesn't affect their life much), the poor (they don't pay any taxes) and the rich (actors, politicians, etc...).

This is why Trump is popular, a whole class of people is being dumped on, it's not a conspiracy from the oil companies, it's ideology based on fantasies that dump all the costs on one group of people.

A new plan is needed, carbon tax will _never_ work.
No problem. I think of it as collectively saving the mankind another 10 hours of debugging.
Mine was like that even when on the charger until I replaced the battery, after that it was like new again. Well worth the money!

Another thing to do is opening the bottom an removing as much of the dust buildup as possible, that shit alone explains a lot of the “my computer gets slower with age”.
The poverty rate is 1/3rd what it was in 1950. Remarkable progress.
Very well written. It was odd how the article mentioned an improved rendering of Chicago's second largest building, and hyperlinked to the wiki page about the tallest buildings in chicago (spoiler: it's the trump tower). Why not just refer to it by its common and well known name?
I miss my sunray.
Do you know what happens to deadlines when the talent evaporates because they don’t want to deal with management-by-hysteria and they leave for a place that treats them like adults?
So great and all that, but what about the jobs?
And "despoiling", I've been there, it was fine. Beautiful.

So was it really worth killing even more of our careers?

Bet the earth "as a whole" is better now that Chinese coal and hydro plants are supplying the power to build our shiny new cheap solar panels.
> largest battery legally possible on a laptop

What do you mean by "legally possible on a laptop"? My current machine (some rugged mobile power house) got 120Wh and I really don't wanna get arrested. Please enlighten me.
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It's probably a weakness of democracy, sure, but it's not as though "total financial freedom and anonymity" are common properties of non-democratic states.

Most of the problems in democracies seem to exist, possibly magnified, in the alternatives.
Sure, PHP deployment could run into some issues back in the day - remember magic quote configuration issues in rando hosts? But even that was something you could get around relatively easily (mostly thanks to the stupidly beginner friendly docs). These days, hosts can easily drop in a PHP hosting pre-packaged solution, so you'd be hard-pressed to find a PHP host without a reasonable configuration.

As for pure beginners, if your goal is to get pretty things on screen, HTML + CSS is fine. But if you asked me to pick between PHP and Node.js (or any other language, for that matter) for teaching a kid about server-side web programming, I'd pick PHP in a heartbeat. You can't even get past posting a form in Node.js without having to reach for NPM :)

In fact, PHP is how my brother (who went to business school) converted to a programming career.
Or the Mac Pro. While it’s not a laptop, the original cheese grater Mac Pro is a delight to open up. It’s amazing to see what Apple can come up with when they make serviceability a central design goal.

The new one looks nice too, though it seems significantly overpriced.
You're over 20 years too late to propose this.
In the last discussion this was mentioned relative to air flight
A Case Study on Automated Fuzz Target Generation for Large Codebases
If you truly have never met an eng that complains about open office spaces, I submit that you have not worked in an environment where engineers feel safe to voice their true personal opinions.
Ah, darn it. Yeah, I did. Oops. Cheers.
I would totally envy you if you tell me you have the one with the green dial. Do you have the proper "Red Alpinist" (with the actual "Alpinist" word printed on the dial) or the "SPORTS 200" version?

I have the other two (proper "Red Alpinists"): cream and black. And I'm just missing the green one.
Sorry, I posted the wrong link. :/ See sibling response to my post for the correct link: https://mobile.twitter.com/DDoSecrets/status/119621668503812...
I really don't see much actual discussion on Reddit.

For all that it was a ghost town, if you could find some good conversation hosts / moderators on Google+, that site had some really good discussions. Probably mostly because it didn't try to scale.

(Yes, this was a hugely subjective experience, and depending on who you did or didn't follow, quality varied dramatically. The core G+ user group was probably ~100k or so English-literate participants, of whom a good 10-20k have ended up on the Pluspora Diaspora pod.)

I've both tried to start and gone looking for conversation on Reddit. The site conspires against this, in several ways.

If you're aware of specific subs that really shine and aren't afraid to name them, I'd appreciate it. (I can completely understand not wanting to out good discussion.)

Mind I'm contrasting discussion with merely good information, which Ask Historians, Ask Science, and a small set of other subs manage to achieve, with draconian (and much needed & welcomed) moderation.
It's not allowed to take more than 100wh in carry-on flight luggage (in some countries).
For context, the current iPad Pro (still running last year's A-chip generation) benchmarks 50% faster than the Surface Pro X, and basic web browsing battery life tests peg it at around 13 hours battery life.

Apple killing off 32-bit app support (and Carbon, QuickTime API, etc) is probably them preparing for an ARM transition. Any app that managed to make that transition is well-prepared for a pretty trivial "just change the compile target and press the button" ARM port.

Apple would be betting on Mac app devs quickly getting ARM ports of their apps out there. In the Microsoft ecosystem there's zero chance of that happening, so they have to rely much more heavily on emulation.

There's also a chance Apple could do some kind of bitcode magic[0], but they don't enable bitcode on the Mac App Store yet, so that is probably not in the cards [0] https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20190518-Translatin...
Seconding Unshaky.

I use it on my work computer (2018 15" MBP). Does a very good job of detecting these double key presses and mitigating them transparently.
> I don't think any desktop computer should be telling me how to type.

I agree.. seems like Apple derped there. The auto-correct was because typing on a smartphone is a lot harder, but some genius must've thought "Hey, why don't we use this software on our desktops too?". Also holding down a hardware key to get to accented characters, oh fuck, how is that ergonomic?
New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020
Yeah I don't actually know. I don't write or really like PHP. But I do begrudgingly admit that PHP advocates have a point when they mention ease of deployment. I don't think any other language has really tackled that properly. Perhaps there's some dead simple Ruby ERB integration that works with a server? I'd love that a lot actually.
There is a slow moving disaster in the Midwest where houses constructed in the last 25 years are rotting from the inside due to leaks and internal condensation. Problems are. Sealed construction means moisture can't escape. Think insulation hides problems until major damage occurs.

I'm also skeptical because houses we build today should be in use a 100 years from now. And it's really obvious that renewables aren't supply limited like oil and gas. But in the passive house world it's always 1980.
> a file saying "hello world" is enough to get the text to show on a browser

Wrong. A file saying "hello world" does not even serve its contents through HTTP on port 80, contrary to the node.js-example you are arguing against. Good luck setting up that Apache monstrosity (as it was common back then) without any "programming knowledge whatsoever". But yeah, I guess your mentioned stockholm syndrome is a thing for PHP people, too.
Realpolitik is a sham, it got us two world wars. After these, rule of law became, for a short prosperous time, more dominant, at least in Western Europe.

These things (laws, ability to peacefully cooperate, ethics) are like religion, if you believe in them, they, for all intent and purposes, exist.

But we are infused with an ideology of rational distrust, because a small amount of people can't mentally grasp any alternative to power. so we dig our own graves.
If you think it is easy to charter a bank you are in for a huge surprise. Credit Union might be an option though.
Their resale value holds much better than any other laptop; so I wonder if that somehow balances out the lack of repairability - working machines keep being used for much longer than equivalent PCs as people have more incentive to resell them.
South Australia's giant Tesla battery output and storage set to increase by 50%
US airlines might choose to approve 160 Wh batteries: https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/resources/media/Airline_...
You'll find that linuxbrew exists, apart from the AUR being a thing. And yes, apt and other distro package managers work perfectly fine in both wsl and wsl2.
«why not cut out the middlemen and be the only parasite in the loop?»

Observation: this is precisely what cryptocurrencies do. No middleman. Users transact directly with each other.
Risk based assessment. You look at macro parameters that businesses submit and if it flags you among other companies you dive deeper and request information from business itself. More friendly approach to

If you find something fishy - you penalize business for different misconduct and signal them to be compliant in the future.

In general big businesses/taxpayers will be compliant anyway (but use all the loopholes that exist in your tax law)

While smaller businesses will have trouble to be compliant not because they don't want to, but because they can't have their accounting straight.

So there is no good justification for government to scan every transaction without prior justification, since most actors want to be compliant anyway.

I come from post USSR country and have a small fortune accumulated abroad. I don't have to pay taxes from this money, since I'm not a tax resident in my country at the moment. But since laws in my country work against regular people and some of them are prohibitive to work abroad/in modern digital way - the moment I transfer this money back home, our tax authority will pull some outdated law and the burden of proof will be on me (with my bank account frozen)

I DON'T NEED THIS.

So please, 1st world countries, don't send information on my hard earned money, to our 25 year strong socialist dictator.
There are several subs I'm aware of which do seem to garner expert-level moderation.

The Asks -- Science, Historians, possibly Economists (I'm trying to decide there -- the mods talk expertise, though quality IMO lags). Several of the Fitness subs are quite good. Various technical subs attract high-quality contributors, and the CSS support sub (specifically for styling old-style Reddit custom stylesheets) is simply superb. I've dug into energy topics, and though there's a bit of BS flung about, there's also quality expertise.

Posting online actually is a form of shingle-hanging and getting a sense of issues people are facing in the real world. There's value to that.
Fun fact: There is a commonly understood reference in India since as long as i've known. It is that all the corrupt businessmen and politicians stash their money in 'Swiss banks' and if this money could be repatriated a lot of Indian problems will be solved. I know this is exaggerated but this is what even the most average of Indian knows and the country does not have the leverage (at least so far till CRS) to do anything about historical wrongdoings.

Also check the relationship between Mauritius and Africa/India for another example of such a relationship. It is funny though how even in today's world the corrupt from developing countries still manage to move the money around so easily, it happens only because you have the ability to grease the right palms.

Forget about the island countries, i do not think even developed countries like UK (Russian money) or Canada (Vancouver real estate) cooperate enough if the person gets citizenship and is accused in a different country. I know because there is at least one documented case where the proceeds of a large scam in India were funneled to Vancouver real estate, how something like this is possible is beyond my understanding.
While this definitely sounds like a good alternative to everything bundling its own Electron, I do have some questions.

To make sure I understand how viable this solution is...

> On Windows, WebWindow uses the new Chromium-based Edge via webview2, assuming you have that browser installed (it could fall back on older Edge if you don’t, but I haven’t implemented that)

So this will currently only work for those running the absolutely newest version of Windows 10?

(But if the user does, you get a reasonably up to date and capable web-engine, which sounds good)

> On Mac, it uses the OS’s built-in WKWebView, which is the same technology behind Safari

Sounds decent, I guess?

> On Linux, it uses WebKitGTK+2, which is yet again a WebKit-based technology

Isn't WebKitGTK horribly outdated, or have things improved recently? Couldn't that be a source of issues down the road?
I'd rather have my bank abruptly close my account for opaque reasons than fraudulently open additional accounts in my name.
>> The Peltor X5A Ear Muff offers the best 37 dB attenuation for use against extremely high noise environments where double protection is required

This seems like a drastic measure - do you require complete silence or is your workplace that noisey?
> Agricultural is 80-90% in the states for instance

Actually, irrigation uses less than 40% of water in the US. The largest use is thermoelectric power generation. [0]

[0] https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2018/3035/fs20183035.pdf
stricmp() (silently) behaves incorrectly returning MAX_INT. Isn't it a bug?
This isn't even UD.
Apple launches a dedicated mobile app for developers
Sincere question: Do the Swiss have any moral debates about the source of wealth from third world countries' dictators, politicians etc and the impact on these countries of their action of enabling the 'theft' ?

Or is the Swiss view generally more like what it has been historically, that they are neutral and provide a service that others can't.
> Office noise bothers some people more than others

The title could be better as there is some discussion about health implications. Then again, I read the article because of the title. I am pretty sure you can't make it less interesting, as it already reads like "people react different to things". Yeah, no doubt on that.
Cool, that’s where I’ll be staying. That’s reassuring.
Who can use this color combination?
OpenRA Release 20191117
I used to be daunted by the complexity of Make until I saw it used and used well and now I love it!
No, you buy the chattel property right in the manifestation itself, but not copyright. Even if that is an original work. Unless copyright is specifically conveyed.

That is, the copyright in, say, a book, and the original manuscript of a book itself, are two separate legal entities. You might own the copyright and not the manuscript, or the manuscript and not the copyright, or both, or neither.

Once the copyright itself has expired, you could own the manuscript itself, and use that to produce copies. But there is no longer an exclusive right to make those copies, so there is no copyright to be owned.

(General case, specific law may vary by country.)
Key travel for the 2016 is 1mm. The "bad" keyboards had 0.5-0.7mm travel. 2015 and earlier had 1.2-1.5mm travel. Not sure about the reliability of the new mechanism, but the 2016 keyboard does feel much more like the old 2015 one.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/11/15/heres-what-the-16...
What about Israel?
Israel isn't expanding, all lands it conquered were in wars it didn't initiate. when a chance for peace came, it gave these lands back.

Did you see a map recently? Do you grasp the size of Israel vs it's neighbors? (The Sinai desert, which Israel gave back to Egypt as part of the peace agreement is x3 larger than Israel)

You can't clamp together imperialists like US Germany and China with Israel defense strategy, that's just weird.

Now don't get me wrong, some israeli leaders did/do crappy things, but never at the scale of China US or Germany, or for that matter any colonial country. It's a whole different scale.
We aren't a tax haven. We are a wealth haven. People buy assets here like real estate. They are more concerned with the strong privacy rules and strong protections for property. In terms of actually earning money, that is better left to tax havens or special economic zones.
I'd love to set up something like this in my garden. Could I figure this out without speaking German?
I bought a MBP 15" around the time of the fall keynote because the 16" was not announced. Does anyone know how I can replace it with a 16"? The keyboard really is driving me nuts.
Which is why the web is the best platform to support. I don't get why companies offering a service that can easily be web-delivered don't do it as their primary mode of business.
Browsers Are Changing How Notification Permission Prompts Work
Never had any problems traveling with it, even to the (supposedly super restrictive) US.
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If crinkle-crankle walls protect fruit, then I suppose the analogous software might run on some Apple device that's unnecessarily expensive, technically lagging, and probably beautiful. Hard to justify economically, but still attractive.
Oh you are right. I have to admit when I got to that part of the page my eyes were drawn to the image of that weird looking "Repliee Q2" robot.
Rancher Releases K3s v1.0.0
Huh?? 64gb of ram, bigger screen, much more powerful GpU, bigger storage options, better thermals, better microphone, better speakers, bigger battery...it’s definitely not just “the same CPU” and a fixed keyboard”...not sure what else did you expect?
> According to the study, it seems that people with high empathy are more often people with high empathy towards their in-group...and a lack of empathy for the out-group. I'd argue that it isn't really empathy at all...just a more emotional form of tribalism.

Yes this, especially considering literally everybody is this way. Care and concern for some people and none for others is par for the course. At that point it's not empathy, it's just being the same thing everyone else is.
Traster expresses much angst, a love of GPUs, a dislike of FPGAs, and many opinions, but provides no real data and much speculation. This is hardly an serious evaluation of the FPGAs as an element of a high performance system. (Full disclosure: I am an advisor to Maxeler.)