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Bernie Sanders is the most popular candidate among all Americans. Republicans are going to vote for Trump no matter what and a center-right Democrat will not change this. The only way to defeat Trump is to produce a record turnout among young people and people that have felt abandoned by the political establishment that would otherwise not vote. The only candidate that can possibly do this is Bernie Sanders.
I had a similar thought when I read that : "Try live patching kernels in production, that'll get you going"
The same was said about the single market, we're leaving that now contrary to statements by:
Owen Paterson
Daniel Hannan
Nigel Farage
Matthew Elliot
Arron Banks

I believe they called it project fear
Which two, and do you have a source?
Thank you! Probably the most outsized risk is liability, basically if you're sued for something related to the property (had a party and someone broke their leg) your insurance company will defend you up to your liability limit.

Edit:
Also keep in mind our renter's insurance (and most others) covers you wherever you are, so if your laptop is stolen out of a coffee shop, it's covered. Also if there's a fire in your building and your stuff is not damaged but you have to move out, renters insurance covers additional living expenses.
Beside the discussable mortality rate among healthy adults, and beside surving with permanent lung damage, many people who are 30-40 have kids who are 0-10. Things take a whole new dimension there.
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Sure, there's no black or white answer to what is misinformation or extreemist. But regulation and the courts aren't black and white. We regulate the content of broadcast media just fine without hand-wringing about the grey areas.
A small amount of work over a long period of time (i.e. setting up a redundant system) may be worse than losing a large amount of work in a short period of time.

Single machines just don't fail that often. I managed a database server for an internal tool and the machine failed once in about 10 years. It was commodity hardware, so I just restored the backups to a spare workstation and it was back up in less than 2 hours. 15 people used this service and they could get some work done, without it, so there was less than 30 person-hours of productivity lost. If I spent 30 hours getting failover &c. working for this system over a 10 year period, it would have been more hours lost for the company than the failure caused.
The question I have for people who advocate for "platform liability" is, at what size should they become liable for user generated content? Facebook & Google definitely seem big enough to most people, and maybe Twitter & Reddit. But what about Y Combinator?
My company’s suggested implementation made it to the second round of proposals. Unfortunately we are not involved any more.

There are some serious challenges that needs to be ironed out. Two that comes to mind is how to solve offline payments, the other one is how to live up to the requirement from the government that the currency needs to be liquid also during a crisis (what if electricity or telecom doesn’t work?)

The Riskbank have had a hard time steering towards the inflation goals. Cutting the commercial banks from that chain, and giving interest, for example, directly on the currency, would make The Rikabanks job a lot easier.
The central bank could start raising rates. There are very good arguments for temporarily lowering rates to stimulate the economy, but the arguments for keeping it this way for 5-10 years are weaker. Especially if it discourages savings, as in the long term economic growth requires savings (in the economic sense, wherein there is a choice to "save" or "consume" our output, and only the "saved" output can be invested to increase future productivity).

There is also little empirical evidence that such low rates help (or no evidence, because negative rates were never tried before). Japan's had low rates for a while and they didn't seem to help, but the argument could be made that without those low rates the situation would be even worse (you could find economists who'd argue both sides). Personally I think it's better to err on the side of favouring whatever the "market rate" of interest would be (the rate if the central bank was taking no action to alter the supply of money or loans), and I'm very doubtful that would be negative.
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I didn't work on that side of the company so I can't comment with accuracy (the entire entity was around 25,000 people at the time). Only what I've heard along the way. I know they wanted to leverage the data, but I didn't gather they had necessarily developed much use at the time. They were definitely interested in collecting data, however.

edit: I'd like to add a disclaimer that my comments are as good as hearsay. I just wanted to add them for context.
Wouldn’t even do backups, you couldn’t trust them.

If a box is hacked, it’s hosed. Cast fire and rebuild start again.
That depends very much on the platform ...
Not really forgotten.
This era had a small number of 'gems' for fans: The Thrawn books series, the SW RPG (d6), and the Dark Horse comics - Dark Forces was another in the lineup for fans.
This was one of the pivotal video games for Star Wars fans and was probably (at least in my experience) one of the key games that opened the market for later Star Wars games.
It's a cost of having money, but not spending it. The central bank pays a negative interest on excess deposits. So banks are motivated to lend it out. (Eg. take on more risk.)

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2283~2ccc0749...

One problem that becomes a bit hard is that in the retail sector if interest rates go below zero people are willing to simply withdraw the money, which would hurt banks' ability to lend. (Eg. the central bank would have to add funding via some mechanism, such as lowering the fractional ratio, or QE . [Or paying interest on reserves. But that would go against the negative interest on excess reserves.])

The paper concludes that the negative interest rates resulted in more loans.
Yes, "petition" offers plausible deniability in a matter Rohrabacher said needed "handled with care" as it could be harmful to the president.
Another problem is that vector icons cannot capture every type of icon. For example, icons that were generated using a ray-tracer.

So instead of using a vector format, we should probably use an executable format instead to obtain full generality. Postscript does something like this.
This would apply to political parties as well? Those are corporations as well — spending billions “speaking.”
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Also probably having two different codebases to handle data compliance is probably not too easy to support.
Why Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction ?? <a href="https://www.currenttrendnews.com/2020/02/google-plans-to-mov... it.</a>
We share that desire, and are iterating on this a thousandth of a basis point at a time, because at the scale of the internet it really matters. (Anyone want to work on this? Super fun stuff. https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/backend-api-engineer-acquiri... You get to e.g. build systems which blackbox reverse engineer the behavior of financial institutions worldwide, in some cases getting to explain the behavior of their systems to them directly because the people who built them retired years ago.)
New wiring standards are not necessary. The most popular successor is as tialaramex described, an integrated lamp hardwired into AC power.

For more sophisticated users, AC/DC power conversion, power regulation/dimming, and the LEDs themselves can all be separate components. This allows more customization, and the possibility of replacing individual components when something fails.

Personally, I've been using Viltrox brand photo/video lights for interior lighting lately. These combine two sets of LEDs in different color temperatures with dimming/regulation, and an external AC to DC power supply. These have much better color rendering than most consumer stuff, and I like having adjustable color temperature. The bigger ones have remote controls, so hanging one from the ceiling is possible while retaining access to all of its functions.
Oops, I meant to say that TrueType was designed by MS/Apple to avoid Adobe's patents, not "MS/Adobe". Fixed the typo; thanks for the correction!
wbronitsky's comment was horrible, yet exemplary of so much. I, on the other hand, wish you the very best of luck.
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The UK is planning to leave the EU, so Google is planning to treat UK accounts as not part of the EU. I don't see what is difficult to understand about this.
I am continually telling my engineering manager that just because he can do somethign in Excel it in no way means that he should.

He is a smart guy, but refuses to learn even basic Python or R, despite doing some very significant statistical work in an area related to preventing machines harming humans.

I just wonder, even if initially perfect, how many spreadsheets have been unknowingly perverted by someone sitting on the mouse, or a pet cat treading the keyboard.
What bothers me is the difficulty in interpreting such numbers because they’re not normalized to health.

E.g. dropping sperm counts in men. Is that dropping in all men? Or is it a side effect of rising obesity in enough men to dent the average?

Is the mortality 1/500 here because a good health 30 year old has a 1/500 chance of dying? Or because the 1/100 30 year olds with poor health have a 1/5 chance of dying?
ive never seen it for sales either, but ive seen it for recruiting. get everyone in a room, give them a linkedin search, and tell them to add people to a spreadsheet for sourcers to reach out to. i always nope out of those, they cant really force you to give up your friends, so id just ignore any expectation of leveraging contacts
You must have the patience of a saint, to untangle and address the parent's arguments.
This is one of my (two) favorite essays regarding software production - it deals with the evolution of software in an uncontrolled environment. I just posted my other favorite "classic" essay which deals with the evolution of a technical team in an uncontrolled environment. Perhaps others will find it equally enlightening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376468.
I don't think it's a good precedence to make companies liable for the posts of users. I do think it's reasonable to examine the ways Google and Facebook profit off of extremist views and surface extremist views algorithmically.

As soon as Google and Facebook moved to having an opinionated queue of content (Youtube's suggested videos and Facebooks timeline) based on things like engagement, I could see the argument made that they have both ceased being mere conduits of information and became publishers themselves.
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I agree with you. But it is encouraging that there are adults in the room:

> Kate Klonick, a law professor at St. John’s University in New York, urged caution.

> “This is a massive norm-setting period,” she said, with any alterations to one of the internet’s key legal frameworks likely to draw unexpected consequences. “It’s hard to know exactly what the ramifications might be.”
Here is the official source -- you aren't exactly providing many sources yourself beyond repeating what you've "seen":

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
I expect this kind of nonsense from US Cybercommand, but fun to see IBM getting into the tacti-cool LARP'ing scene too.
> The pilot will run until February 2021 and will use block-chain technology, the Riksbank said.

Will it really?

Riksbanken can have a central server to resolve any double spends, which is only really a problem in a decentralized network. Once you have a singular authority you can just let them decide, and you'll have no need for an inefficient cryptocurrency.

> which is being developed by consulting firm Accenture

Accenture is quite famous for developing bullshit solutions for made-up problems, so I guess this is a good fit for them.

> The sharp decline in the use of cash and competition from alternative currencies, such as Facebook’s Libra, has also prompted central banks around the world to consider issuing their own electronic currencies.

This is poor reporting, as e-krona predates Facebook's Libra, which is still far from being launched. They probably mean the perceived competition from Bitcoin.
Wouldn't a data repository considered more of a wiki than vcs? I don't understand the desire to associate the concept with Github instead of Wikipedia, which I would propose is more appropriate.
Developing the blockchain of the global financial system
I don't know how Barr expects to have a civil discussion about any topic in the midst of what he did with the Roger Stone prosecution, and in the midst of this presidency.

The public and his own Justice Department cannot have a reasonable discussion with him, when his behavior and actions up to this point have almost all appeared to be for one purpose - to help the President and his supporters in criminal issues.

The question we all find ourselves asking is: "So how is this going to benefit the President at everyone else's expense?" and even if it doesn't benefit him, it colors the entire discussion in a bad light.
This is a bizarre line of reasoning

> his perception that there are a set of correct facts and incorrect facts is just so meaingless

Yes, there are facts. In your example, if I say "person X said Y" and have a video of them saying it, I am stating a fact. I am not dealing in beliefs and I don't give a fuck whether or not the person still supports the statements they made or not. I am saying that at some point in time T, person X said Y and this fact is on record.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370405
I hadn't thought about that possibility. But I think it's arguably more of a cultural and informational, rather than a technical thing.

But I do agree that when the stakes are high, mistakes like these can mean life or death. But again, that can be solved by trying to better the general understanding of confidential communication systems.
There's a lot of evidence of careless skimming in the comments here. The article didn't say "don't use email." It said "don't use email for encrypted communication." Because it can not and will never meet the minimum standards for such. Keep using email! Just not for sensitive/secret/confidential communication
I agree, like the California effect in the US. California is both the strictest and biggest car market and all the car manufactuers use California as the standard because it covers everyone else.
You are correct, publishers don't have a legal requirement to be unbiased, but publishers can be sued. Service Providers cannot be sued for what appears on their service[1]. The argument is that "biased" decisions on what to publish makes them publishers and not service providers.

1) ok, in the US anyone can get sued and there seem to be some specific things people can sue and win on, but that is outside the scope of 230.
Can you clarify the significance of the fixed header?
> If allocation tables are highly optimized databases, they're not the kind of safe and robust database we're used to

Those two points aren't mutually exclusive (that link, by the way, is discussing syscalls like I'd mentioned).

When I talk about "optimised" I mean in terms of other limits placed on the table that makes sense with regards to storing file metadata but wouldn't be desirable for a RDBMS.
You can open tabs, incognito windows and switch back and forth
Could you tell more?
Depends if the goal was to make a scripting language and at the same time tackle a problem (or not). Some people like building stuff for the hell of it. A language by itself is an interesting non-trivial project.
You haven't seen anything until you have seen large process plant importing and exporting data from Excel via OPC to allow the non programming process engineers to tweak performance.

Really not the intended use or appropriate criticality management of Excel as a tool, let alone the O/S it runs on, yet it is done.
I know. I am not claiming otherwise.
This headline is goofy. Central banks have been using digital electronic currencies for decades. The difference is that now they want to include all Swedes in the electronic currency system, not just Swedish banks, as they have been for decades. (And the claim that this uses "blockchain technology" is just a lie; it's a centralized database. It's no more a blockchain than Git is.)

I think this is a terrible idea given both the current appallingly bad state of unintended vulnerabilities in computer security and the appalling intended security vulnerabilities inherent in centralized architectures like the one they're proposing.
"I was just following orders," is not an excuse with a precedent of being accepted.
FWIW they do mention it's 2 business days on their docs and have been for quite some time if I remember correctly.

https://stripe.com/docs/payouts#2-day

Not sure if that was the case in the past though or when it would have changed. I don't have any reason to doubt your story, so it's possible.

What you describe would be a calendar days setup I guess and I agree that changing that silently (on the same account) would piss me off. There might be good reasons for them to change it but not without reaching out to affected users. Or did you only see this new behavior on a different/newer account?

I'd say you should raise that with their support team! It should be fairly easy to find evidence of that change for Stripe, right? And you should also be able to find evidence of the old behavior (a bit of search work in the balance history but doable).

EDIT: I tried to go back on the wayback machine and it said business days for quite some time before last year (https://web.archive.org/web/20170905023631/https://stripe.co...).

Still possible that your account is much older and you were grandfathered and then finally moved over to the new behavior long after this was standard for everyone. I'd really just check with them.
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You don't want the information. You want the order, so that you can be the other side of the trade. As long as the order arrival isn't too correlated with price movements, the market maker can buy a little above the bid price and sell a little below the ask price and make some fraction of a cent on each share, on average.
According to the estimates in the article -- predicted infections: 60% of 7.8 billion, current known fatality rate: 2.3% -- this virus is on track to kill roughly 108 million people. That's more than the Spanish flu of 1918 (high estimates put that at ~50 million).
The word "now".

The UK is following EU rules and regulations at least until the end of the year. After that point, it can pick and choose, based on negotiations for trade agreements or whatever other reason pleases it.
If you're designing your own icons, you already failed.
But, masturbation is pleasurable.

I wonder if this "designer" realizes that the car dashboard icons are internationally standardized, and companies DO NOT redesign them.
There are a lot of misandrist "men are trash" posters on Twitter that haven't been banned: https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/menaretrash?lang=en

Unless they're equally blasé about "women are trash" posters, seems their enforcement against sexism is only one sided?
We do not regulate the content of broadcast media just fine.
I mean every platform is monetizing data. If the telcos are arguing 'google and facebook are the same as us, we should have the same business models' I kind of agree

Of course my version is that they're all common carriers and have to comply with some norms, but allowing platforms to do this but not telcos is potentially silly
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> Populist demagogues

That's redundant.
Here is section 230, the law protecting websites from liability for things published on them by third parties. [0] I do not see anything about a provider needing to be content neutral. In fact, part c2a seems to be explicitly saying the opposite. IANAL. Where does this legal concept of a distinction between a "carrier" and a "publisher" appear?

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Linkedin for sure, I used to work there so I can vouch for it.
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Is it not present in the underlying layer anymore? Applescript displays paths with : separators unless you specifically tell it you want a “POSIX path”. (This is actually really annoying.)
That is absolutely incorrect. Eventually every account will have to pay, they just didnt get to you yet.

You mention $40k/month, that is irrelevant to what is being discussed here, more importantly is what is the amount of refunds that you process? That amount times 2.9% is your new reality.
That is sort of like calling a garbage tip a wharehouse - yes there is suff there, and yes you can find if you try hard enough, but yiou dont ever really know exactly what is there until you try to look for it and it could be way better organised.
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the solution is to outfit the truck with a custom rear diff with a power take-off. Such configurations exist and are expensive, generally governing the truck to 55mph or so after they are set up. You would also be running the engine, which burns through expensive EPA media like CO2, NOX, and sulfur scrubbers (which arent required if youre just running a generator.)

if i had to guess, most of that 40 some kilowatts of power generated is going directly to HVAC. trailers are not insulated, so the heat from servers as well as the hot air from the X-Force sales team will need to be managed.

Ideally you'd park this thing in an arena outfitted with 480 3 phase hookups. Put the generator into bypass, and just use it to condition power you get from the venue. Alternatively, flood a parking lot with fresh hot diesel fumes and hope hypoxia works its magic to convince people IBM is serious.
That is the type of situation that 230 was meant to stop. It would be impossible to be Twitter, etc. without the protection of 230 and that is why it was created. It carries over from not being able to sue the telephone or telegraph company because someone sent something defamatory about you over their system.

The argument is that the services desire to keep the protections of 230 but act like publishers that are not afforded the same protections.
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Salaries being literally dictated by geographical market rates is the opposite of socialism.
So 1/500 sounds like a correct ballpark. A few days ago there was some data released by China on some 40,000 cases. When you age adjust the mortality stats by:
- Assuming uniform age distribution
- Accounting for the age distribution of the population.

You get something like .4% for the 30-40 age range. This was a crude estimate... but that's why I say ballpark. It also could go up/down as we get more data.

I agree the risk here is considerably high. People just don't understand scale well. Assuming the R0 is high, it could eventually sweep through the majority of the population. IIRC, the 1918 flu pandemic is estimated to have infected 80% of the population. So in the US alone that's 6,000,000 deaths, or one Sept 11. like attack every day for 200 days.
They are really expecting it to reach over half the population?
IMO there's two ways to read this: either A) this is a baldly transparent attempt to "own the libs" and punish a company that the administration sees as a threat or B) they are too incompetent to understand the technical nuances of the case and are essentially morons. Maybe both? This administration can't be thrown out on their collective asses fast enough...