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Thanks. At the moment, unfortunately it's not rechargeable. We've reduced the bill of materials count to almost nothing. It's just a few parts, mainly adhesive tape and aluminium foil, so it's meant to be used more like an RFID label that works without scanning. That said, we do have some R&D going to implement an energy harvesting method that could extend the life for several years (that's actually how David and I met years ago, in roughly that technology space).
IIRC, the reason Seattle instituted the free fares downtown scheme was to reduce bus boarding times, especially in the tunnel beneath downtown where buses would often get backed up.

/No longer live in Seattle, so I may not be remembering this correctly.
How can I “bootstrap” this from start to finish assuming money isn’t an issue.

Money is an issue, and you'll have costs that software startups don't have to contend with, such as renting or building out lab space, and eventually doing trials. You'll also need a far longer runway owing to the typical R&D, trial, and approval timelines.

I know of one biopharma startup that "bootstrapped" by doing R&D for other pharma companies while developing their own products, but that required contracts worth millions.

Then there's the "virtual pharma" movement, which AFAIK hasn't really created much value. They have a few executive and science positions, but don't own lab space and basically outsource almost all development (using funds from investors) with the hope that they'll have something promising enough a few years later to justify acquisition by a larger company.
If they have an SLA then that is straight up fraud.
That won't save you.

Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1axnNK-wI

Two attackers. One distracts the clerk, a second slips a skimmer over the in-store point-of-sale terminal in three seconds.
Well, the entire movie industry doesn't even exist any more, because it was killed by the videotape, according to the MPAA. Remember, Jack Valenti of the MPAA asserted before Congress in the 1980s that videotape recorders would destroy the movie industry. So none of this should even be an issue now.
Hence my "parts of Google" comment - for an organization as large as Google, I don't think that saying that it "desires" anything other than profit is particularly meaningful. There are people and teams at Google who agree that this is a problem. I have no idea what influence they have over the people/teams that make the Pixel, or vice versa.

For a good example of this, see the conclusion of this recent Project Zero writeup of an Android bug (related to old kernel versions in Android, in fact): https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/11/bad-binder-an... First, Google Project Zero determined on their own that they would approach Google Android with a 7-day disclosure timeline because of active exploitation - usually a disclosure timeline is a way to force the hand of a software vendor you don't control. Second, their suggestion for fixing it is for Android to change how they approach kernel updates.

For another good example, see the time that Google Ads penalized Google Chrome for buying paid links. https://searchengineland.com/google-chromes-paid-link-penalt...
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but I’m using it to embed SQLite in an app that’s both desktop (electron) and web-kinda-sorta. I say kinda-sorta because really what we’re doing is embed SQLite (and other dependencies) in an html page so our users can just open it straight up in a browser without having to be online or connected to any other systems, and still able to work (albeit read only for now.) The download time doesn’t matter to our users (and more often than not the file is loaded from a local file: url anyway) and the startup time is not spectacular but sub-second at most currently, so we’re happy so far.

Except for some noob mistakes when implementing the PoC it’s worked remarkably well, much better than I though it would.
Sad!? You must not be old enough to remember when we used the global namespace for modules, and there was no console.log(). You wanna talk about sad, try debugging with alert().
In iOS you can make use of Reader mode, just click on the Hamburger-like icon to the left side of the URL.
Sure, and I'll just patch together a few of my home PCs and we can call that a cloud too
Seattle used to have this for an area of the city. It was called the "Free Ride Zone" - and it had some unexpected consequences.

The primary problem is that homeless people would get on the bus because it's warm, and would fall asleep. The busses became rolling homeless shelters.

This caused other people to take the bus less, because of public safety concerns, as well as simple quality-of-life issues like unpleasant smells.

Eventually it was scrapped.

But this issue has been returning as it's now common knowledge that Seattle bus drivers are instructed not to collect fares from anyone that declines to pay.
This is a great example of casual misandry. You seem to think men have no issues, and only women have difficult lives. That simply isn't true. Men and women both face issues, and both have issues that are both significant and insignificant. Try to learn some empathy.
I don't know if I like the "Elvis Operator" - I feel its one too many conditions on a single line.

And the ternary operator is just odd when there is a more terse "standard" approach to it.
Since "best" is a subjective term, I'll go ahead and disagree with UNC here. Best might have involved melting it down and using the copper in some new Cat6 wiring for a new science center, not paying a bunch of white supremacists an extortion fee.
The current best practice is to check the manufacturing date of the chromebook you're buying, because the clock starts from when the first unit ships, not when the unit you're purchasing was made. For a part number that may have a 2 year manufacturing run, that can make a HUGE difference.
Looks like KC transit ridership has been declining since 2014: https://nationaltransitdatabase.org/missouri/kansas-city-are...
Modern Monetary Theory is the idea that the government can go ahead and just pay all its debts with IOUs, which is all cash really is anyway. You don't need taxes to pull in cash and dole it out, which just complicates things. You might do it anyway, to control inflation, but even orthodox Keynesian theory says that a little inflation is a good thing (since it encourages people to invest rather than put their money under a mattress).

The idea is to pump enough cash into the economy that employers (or worst case, the government itself) will find jobs for everybody who wants to work.

It's kind of the flip side of the inflation-averse Chicago/Austrian school of economics, with mainstream Keynesian economics in between. The Chicago school is strongly associated with the right wing, and MMT is receiving a lot of attention right now from the left, who want to use it to fund a lot of progressive spending policies.
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Well, marginal dollar on road yields greater than marginal dollar to economy. Current political structures in the US means that marginal dollar on passenger rail is absorbed by the agents in charge of ensuring the rail existence. i.e. the $500 million railway and the $1 billion version of (say) the Central Subway will both yield probably the same economic benefit. Rent-seekers know that they can extract a large amount of economic rent because of government propensity to spend and political reasons that require governments to chase sunk costs.

Because of the large amount of roadway in America, the number of parties you can call to get more road built is pretty big (as Thiel says, competition is the enemy of profit). And the primary place you put more road is out where there's nothing. Because of the existence of a large network of roads, you could build roads where there is nothing and it's easy to get to where there's something.

Personally far prefer public transit so I'm pretty interested in ideas that change the structure of the interactions to pursue efficient construction.
Which banks support that?
I think what the original commenter meant was that people get upset because they don't want to subsidize transit systems, and would rather have them break even or turn a profit.

What a lot of those same people don't understand, is that taxes pay for the road systems.

The people that understand public transit realize that it's hard to recover the costs without assistance (taxes).
They can do that even if you don’t set a PTR record... since they own the domain, they can get a certificate for it. The danger comes not because you set a PTR record, but because you use that domain at all.

Really, this is the same risk you take with any registrar... they could give the domain to someone else, or alter the DNS to give themselves a cert. This is basically making has-a.name your domain registrar, and you have to trust them to not behave poorly or have bad security.
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> imagine you have a ring collider system

I'm pretty sure you already lost most people here that isn't a physicist.
Public transit follows the law of utility. Shitty transport cheap or free is used less than expensive but good.

Tfl could hike the fare wuite a bit and after the riots have died down people will use it the same.

And you could make Emirates Air Line free and I doubt it will bump ridership substantially.
If 99% of the Kansas City population are apparently getting by fine without public transport then why have it at all?

The problem is people seeing public transport as a virtue in itself rather than as a solution to a problem. I catch public transport every day, but I wish I didn’t have to. If I lived in Kansas City then I could drive to work, but instead I live somewhere that parking is too expensive, so I’m forced to catch a train that goes from somewhere I’m not to somewhere that isn’t where I want to be at a time that isn’t exactly when I want to go, and in the company of people that I didn’t choose to be with.
Monuments glorify people. That's sort-of their purpose. Pretending otherwise is intellectually dishonest, or do you have any example of people erecting a monument to someone they considered bad/evil/their foe? Are there any Hitler monuments in the US or Israel? Is there an Al Capone monument at FBI headquarters? Pontius Pilate carvings in catholic churches?

None of that exists. Nor do any groups not sympathetic to racism advocate in favour of keeping this monuments. It's only "Converedate Group[s]", such as the one in this article.
Amazon sent out 3.3 billion packages in 2017, and saves $2-$4 per package shipped if they handle it themselves. USPS, UPS and Fedex are all raising their rates. You do the math...

They also have 50 Boeing 767's, btw.
Such movies would not be profitable in the US. Americans have no interest in those.

Of course, with digital distribution, the cost of actually making them available in the US should be extremely low, so it should still be profitable given there's a very small number of Americans who would watch them, surely more than the puny number who watch crappy old B-grade movies that are now available on YouTube. So I'm not sure why they don't bother.
> you are trying to behave like a computer, but you are not one

meta [0]? In any case, [0] seems appropriate for this thread as well, especially the parts about attention and humans vs computers.

[0] Calm Technology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799736
I've seen a few arguments.

* That modern tractors are complex enough systems that only official techs should be working on them.

* That if they allow third party mods, they can't guarantee regulatory compliance with emissions.

* That they have proprietary secrets that would need to be divulged of the systems were more open, and they just wouldn't have bothered in the first place.

* That their pricing model is dependent on recouping initial capital expense with service contracts.

I personally don't buy these arguments, or at least don't buy that they lead to a better world than the alternative, but those are what I've heard.
The DoD has the DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) Chemical and Biological Technologies Directorate, which throws funding at things like antibiotics development. Achaogen, mentioned in the blog post here, has received DTRA funding in the past.

BARDA (a US HHS program) is also a huge player in this space.
It feels like a common sentiment that concise code == good code
I’ve seen NFC on a couple Chevron pumps, but it’s not common.
Agree.One of my slightly younger colleges introduced me to Snapchat filters: that's damn impressive!
I think the reliance on being able to adjust tax rates--especially upwards--makes MMT a non-starter politically. You'd basically have to remove the power of taxation from legislative bodies to unaccountable agencies, similar to how the Fed controls interest rates. And good luck convincing any legislative body to give up that power.
>with several UAC bypass techniques exposed by auto-elevating binaries

According to Raymond Chen, a MSFT employee:

>There really are only two [UAC] settings.

>* Always notify

>* Meh

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94...
Tbh I'm not sure Amazon is better wrt work requirements.
Mine's definitely been worse. I had one go missing marked "handed directly to resident" for an item on a one day only sale that Amazon said they couldn't reship. Then the next day a neighbor's package was left at our building. I walked it over. Then two days later a package for someone the next street over was left at our building. I walked that over, too.

It doesn't seem like Amazon's delivery drivers know what they're doing at all.
The casual user stumbling on this article is going to think that TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt has been broken. There’s a big difference between attacks on a live system when a volume is being used, versus cases in which an encrypted volume is lost, stolen, or copied.

It needs to be firmly said that there is still no known way to recover plaintext from an unmounted TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt volume on a powered-off system without knowing the pass phrase. TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt are still totally secure for the standard use-case of protecting your powered-off laptop being stolen, or your backup drives being lost, or an encrypted volume that you’ve copied over to Dropbox being compromised.
Rickshaw Bob is the worst.
Is your fennel-mode spacemacs layer published on github or elsewhere? I couldn't find it in the spacemacs develop branch.
I have read the article, when it came out actually, it's merely about type mapping rules to an intermediate common representation. And it absolutely doesn't imply that interface types give you everything for high level interfaces in any language. Not that it's even possible, as high level <-> wasm <-> another high level transformation cannot realistically be automated for an arbitrary high level language, what can be is just high level <-> wasm <-> wasm level looking code in another high level language. It's like decompiling, you can't produce high level code automatically, only low level looking code in high level languages.
I don't think any of this has anything to do with Amazon, or at least it isn't limited to packages from Amazon. I've had several categories of what are almost certainly flat-out lies from various carriers throughout the years:

- Packages marked as being delivered, but they don't actually show up for another day or two. (I assume this is a driver who can't be bothered to make it to my building that day but doesn't want to get penalized.)

- Entire carriers who systematically fail to deliver. My current apartment building has a near zero delivery rate for packages from USPS that cannot fit in mail slots. UPS and FedEx generally deliver to our package room without issues, but USPS will just claim to have attempted delivery two days in a row then leave the package at their sorting facility for me to pick up (which I won't do). This is clearly a building-wide problem, because I see hand-written notes on our outside door begging USPS to deliver packages. I think the USPS package delivery person simply cannot be bothered to try, and is apparently not incentivized to do so. Thankfully this rarely affects me, because the only time I get larger USPS packages are from rare Amazon deliveries that for some reason use USPS.

- Packages that claim that the delivery was attempted on a Saturday, but are redelivered on Monday. This has bitten me a few times where I took care to rush a package to me when the shipper claimed it could be delivered on a Saturday. I suspect the weekend delivery person cannot be bothered to make it to my building. I can't really blame them. Saturday delivery is fairly new and I can live without it, I just wish the carriers wouldn't promise it then "attempt to deliver" unsuccessfully.
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In an ideal world, government would invest in many more low-probability/high-impact engineering projects. But this doesn't align well with political incentives - 100M on a bet that will return 50X 10% of the time is great for a private investor, but a politician won't get 50X the votes from a successful project as an unsuccessful one, instead there's a 90% chance the project will be portrayed as a boondoggle.
Not all of the ROI can be captured with fares.

For example, public transit takes people off the road and keeps commutes for other people reasonable (or at least makes them less bad). Which is why it makes sense for public transit to be subsidized by people working in a region even if they aren’t necessarily using it.

If public transit is good enough, it can even make it so people don’t need to purchase their own cars+gas+insurance, which is a huge cost savings. You can argue that this would be more fairly priced with fares than taxes, but again, cars off the road (less parking infra, less air pollution, etc). Only capturing this value via fares turns this from a global optimization problem for a region into a local optimization problem for each agent

Also some public transit does pretty well with fares anyway. Caltrain covers about 75% of its operating budget with fares (and parking and some other minor income sources).
My barbershop comes with a cool feature called human interaction, which is useful for raising serotonin levels in the brain.
You're link won't load, but my house is wired like that. It doesn't have any "smart" features, but each light switch is a momentary-contact toggle switch connected to a relay in a big panel in the basement. The system is made by General Electric and is still sold today (mostly for commercial applications).

However, the low voltage wiring is very neatly done, and it still functions perfectly. Since low voltage wiring is so small, it means a bank of nine switches can easily fit in a single gang box (in the form of a 9-position dial and a single switch). Also, some lights are controlled by as many as five switches, since it's so easy to daisy-chain another switch, and I love that I can shut off the detached garage lights from inside the house.

The main disadvantage is that it's difficult to add dimmers to lights, since the line voltage isn't in the switch box.

This relay-driven system just screams to be hooked up to a computer system to add "smart home" features, and I actually started doing that. I got a prototype working with a Raspberry Pi and some home-made circuit boards to the point where I could ask Siri to turn on any light in the house, but I'm no electrical engineer, and before long my boards started to fail.
The difference with Amazon running that way and Fedex/UPS is that Amazon has AWS to prop up other services that run at a loss. They can run their shipping service at very low or negative profit and use AWS to make up for it.
Interesting! Do you know of any resource where I can read more about this?
I've encountered a couple of gas stations that supported NFC, in the last year. The most recent one was at ARCO - although in that case I couldn't actually use it since they only accept debit and at that point I only had my credit card in Google Pay.
Excellent comment, and indeed this seems like a much saner approach. I guess one complicating factor is the risk that an upgraded system remains vulnerable, which you'd need to account for in some manner.
They are liable but why wouldn't they just keep making us type in our zipcode. We are basically doing chip and pin how about we do it for real.
Perhaps a dumb question... How does ransomware propagate from end-user PCs to the servers that host critical applications and data? Surely, they don't allow end-users to run email or access the web from "secure" servers?
The small town of my alma mater is entirely built around the university. There's school bus serves everyone in the town (not limited to student, no validation required), and is basically no-cost public transit.

I suspect this applies to many other college towns across US.
> Women have a right to expect not to be harassed online, men don't have a right to expect women to initiate contact with them online.

No one is arguing this... they are simply saying women don't understand how men experience online dating.

> Men who don't experience contact from women should be able to comprehend that women are often harassed despite their own personal experience being different.

If this is true, then women should be able to understand that a man who has faced nothing but rejection during years of online dating will begin to get frustrated, and may lose their peachy demeanor. After the 100th "genuine conversation" you have online with someone that ultimately goes nowhere, and the 1000th message you send that gets no response, you may begin to resort to "ay bb want some fuck?" Obviously no one deserves to be harassed online, but ignoring the factors that cause these behaviors is silly.

You won't change these men's behavior by telling them to just die alone silently and accept their loneliness. You will change men's behavior by understanding their position and empathizing with them.
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Why don’t the Java examples use var?
But are actually allowed to do a very small amount of very basic repairs. For everything else, they have to send it to Apple and they tell you that.
In my personal experience, Simple has real-time push notifications for every charge (which once saved me/them from a fraudulent $1k charge, when I noticed a $1 test charge and immediately locked it). So does Apple's card.
Oracle's cloud is an also-ran. Just follow the investment the cloud giants are making. Oracle is not even in the same league. From:

https://www.platformonomics.com/2019/02/follow-the-capex-clo...

"Google’s incremental CAPEX spend in 2018 is about what cloud pretender Oracle has spent on CAPEX throughout their entire history."
Redesigning your environment is hard and expensive so it's easy to see why hospitals and similar industries are so behind and vulnerable.

BUT, given that important data needs to be backed up anyway, most commodity backup software and commodity storage platforms are sufficient to restore encrypted data. Even Windows shadow copying feature (which lots of storage platforms will expose snapshots/revisions as) is pretty sufficient to prevent significant data loss.

So unless the ransom cost is cheaper than an IT tech reimaging/rebuilding the machine + compliance costs, it doesn't really make sense.
My local WaWa installed NFC readers in their pumps.
Russian web giant Rambler seeks to drop ciminal case against Nginx
I never had a Hercules, but that virtual desktop automatic panning was a general feature of XFree86. It was especially useful back then when we had CRTs capable of myriad native video modes.

In XFree86 you'd switch through them with ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt--, the monitor's video mode would change but the virtual desktop size stayed the same. Whenever the monitor showed less than the entire virtual desktop, the viewport would pan within the virtual desktop when the pointer moved past the screen edges.