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It is pretty remarkable, that 2 years ago
Kevin B Broke (the Hill's opinion contributor), listed out as he called 'oddities' in Flynn's case. [1]

And the listed oddities (see 3) is exactly how DOJ explained dropping the case:

>"
Oddity No. 1: Then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe personally contacted Flynn on the second full working day of the Trump administration and asked him to meet with FBI agents, a meeting that McCabe reportedly characterized as no big deal....
... McCabe’s request apparently came at the direction of his boss, former FBI Director James Comey ..

Oddity No. 2: The fact that a 302 was immediately generated is an oddity. A 302 normally is used only as a reporting mechanism in criminal cases when it is anticipated that the information obtained may be used in subsequent litigation and testimony. It usually is not used in counterintelligence investigations.
Yet, the Flynn charging documents indicate Flynn was interviewed pursuant to an open FBI counterintelligence investigation — indeed, the one that Comey infamously and selectively made public ....

...
Oddity No. 3: The interview results reflected on the 302 seem untethered from the Russia collusion counterintelligence investigation. The only way FBI agents can legitimately interview Flynn is through an authorized FBI investigation — in this case, the Russia collusion counterintelligence case examining “links” between the Russian government and the Trump campaign to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign.
But Flynn is never asked about those things....

"

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/422801-three-odditie...
sourdough starters are not the same thing as what people are used to with instant, active dry, or even fresh yeast. Sourdough starter requires reasonably good timing, while instant/active dry/fresh yeast do not.

Unless you are a professional bakery, keeping sourdough alive for 60 years, is a waste of time. This is because the organism involved is constantly impacted by the current environment, wild & indigenous yeasts, bacterias, each and every time there is interaction with the environment. This interaction is not only the air, but the flour, utensils, and people touching the starter.

There is a possibility that a specific strain of bacteria and fungus survived for 60 or even longer, but it is unlikely for a home baker. That said, taking sourdough starter, drying it, and keeping it in dry place could prolong the particular combination.
Applications average about 2 office actions to disposition, so some back-and-forth is implicit
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It would be good thing in the long run. Yes there would be short trem pain, but we still should make they standards higher.
Correct. The US has "eliminated" measles (since there are almost no cases and it's not difficult to contain), but the world has "eradicated" small pox (since the virus itself literally only exists in a couple of research labs in the entire world).
AMD has committed to restocking to retailers who should be selling at least close to MSRP, but this part is underpriced. We'll likely see it continue to be bought in bulk and resold at a higher price as long as this is true. You're getting what is very nearly a half-price 2600.
Things were already better for linux with last year's models. My E495 works flawless with Linux.
I just switched to the X1E after using Mac for the past 20 years. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.

It's an amazing machine: excellent build quality, screen, and variety of ports. The only thing I can complain about is the battery life, which isn't great.
Contrived means "Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously"
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/contrived . I think the problems used to demonstrate quantum supremacy very literally meet that definition - they were largely created for the sole purpose of demonstrating supremacy; they are not problems we naturally want to know the answers to.
> > The one thing I'm waiting for is rooms where participants are hidden, so that you actually get closer to a pubsub system.

> This is surprisingly hard (if you don't know what users are in a room, how do you know what servers to send messages to?)

Can you expand on what your threat model is in this case? Because I assumed rakoo was just talking about a cosmetic change (possibly coupled with allowing pseudonymous users with low (read-only) permission levels, but you'd have to go out of your way to break that).
For non-burner phones, just Google the phone number---you'll probably get a sketchy "look this person up for $XX.YY" telephone directory page that will contain their full name and age, if not their address.
Each of those things ultimately reduce to human labour though. Energy because it requires human labour to produce; material scarcity because of the human labour required to extract certain rare materials. It’s very easy to say that this is mental gymnastics, but do you honestly disagree and think that these disparate things are categories into themselves? - how can we then determine the relative value of things, it becomes a matter of comparing apples and oranges. You can look at the utility of some commodity, but that will only ultimately tell us what a person will pay for it, and value does not always correlate to cost.
I believe the above posters point is that, though a tremendous number of housing units are being developed, the demand for housing is increasing faster than this development.

I don't have a stake in this matter but there appears to be some evidence to support this idea.

> Between 2016 and 2019, the GTA added more than 325,000 jobs, but only 102,000 new homes. [1]

[1] https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2020/02/15/toronto-...
In your case, it is quite likely that the GPU is the better money for an upgrade.
I love the concept; who wouldn't really. You wonder what the actual consequences will be though when it's a broad market policy decision.

For example can you count that as income for a mortgage; if so then house prices will rise and all that will happen is the government will have given up more money for the private sector to use versus the government to use for public services.

Another thought, but related is can someone lose their right to that income? Can you hit me with your car and if I win do you lose a percentage of your financial means that's calculated with that income too?

What I'm trying to say is that the income must be a protected source that can't be used by any financial institution or instrument but to spend as cash. At least off the top of my head this is something I think that makes some sense.

A sideshow win would be the millions/billions saved from administratoring welfare and other subsistence incomes. That's definitely no small win.
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WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted so the service providers themselves can't read the message content, yes, definitely. Although, technically the security guarantees are nil unless you verify safety numbers which I can guarantee almost nobody actually does.
They're not making any money, but they're not universally worse off.

Depending on their status (e.g. if their debt is secured by a lien), it's totally possible that some classes of creditors could be reinstated with the same claims under the reorganization plan (assuming it gets confirmed by the court). Even if a secured class doesn't get the same value and votes against the plan, they're still entitled to a handful of protections under the Bankruptcy Code (§ 1129(b)(2)(A)). Less so for unsecured creditors and shareholders.
To be clear, by "your editor", I don't mean emacs—I mean the person who works at a publisher: she knows that a gnu is just a wildebeest and inheritance bequeathal of wealth; assumes "C-c ;" is just an obscure emoji; and will not waste her time indulging a writer who uses an obscure [1], roundabout way of entering text into M$ Word.

Look, again, you're preaching to the choir—I use emacs every day. But writing a Python script to generate my org-native ToC to navigate reference materials is just...a very different, more work-intensive beast than an interactive drag-and-drop IDE tailored to the needs of professional writers. Impossible to approximate, with enough determination? No. Possible to start using intuitively within the first 15 minutes? Also: no.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
It's 5.8% of GDP, 20.4% of exports. [0]

That's a large figure, but it's not as if New Zealand lacks any kind of other industry. There's a massive primary industries (dairy, meat, logging, wine, plus others) where the country hasn't yet fully exploited it's opportunities yet for secondary value-add processing.

As a completely anecdotal observation, most tourists go to the South Island, where roughly a fifth of the population lives. The North Island is four times as densely populated. This disparity sometimes leads people to believe that country is entirely dependant on tourism, with a few sheep thrown in.

[0] https://tia.org.nz/about-the-industry/quick-facts-and-figure...
This is absurd. The US did exactly one of the many things that were required, and then did nothing else for a full month. Other countries did more of what was required early and defeated the virus.

This is exactly the sentiment of the parent comment. How can we let the US leadership off the hook by just shrugging and saying, hey, they did slightly more than absolutely nothing. This was avoidable and the US did not take the well-understood public health measures required to avoid it.
In all honesty, there's a whole slew of platforms it could be:

- Slack

- Keybase

- Mattermost

- Discord

- Microsoft Teams

- Facebook Messenger (incl. Work)

All of these fine folks apparently use Electron or a similar technology...
For what it's worth, In New Zealand, they're over half-way through May 8th. (12:39PM)

And it looks like that the Publish date is the Issue Date of their magazine, which appears to be every Saturday: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issues
You bit him? I think something got lost in translation here...
For reproducible builds the source needs to be available to the users, so they can rebuild the software themselves and verify the binary that is being distributed is 1:1 similar.

There is really no way around that.

As for "messing it up on developer machine" - that's not really possibly if the build is really reproducible. If the users get the same binary after building the source, they can be sure they have the source matching the binary.

If the binary they get is different from what the developer built on their machine, there is a good chance they don't have the source matching the binary, which is exactly what reproducible builds aims to protect them from.
Mailvelope, KWallet, Signal, Jitsi, not sure what does encrypted IRC-like chats as well..
One of our larger markets is Australia, so we're looking at establishing a trans-Tasman "bubble", when they get it under control too. Other countries would be added based on their status - Taiwan has been mentioned.

But who knows, we could see a large upsurge in domestic tourism given our lack of foreign travel options - although that would require some pain in our tourism industry, as prices tend to be considered excessive by Kiwis.
Poking around on my laptop, dash and perl take about 2ms. Python takes 12.

Anyway, the modern c++ I use avoids allocations like the plague.

I subscribe to the idea that C++ is a language for standard library implementors, and that std:: is mostly placeholders for the “real” implementation you’ll use later.
lol "real developer." I was the Director of Engineering for Bump, a YCW18 company. I've run mobile teams as well. I just wanted to mix two tools together, no need to hop into who's real and who's not a real developer here.

If you want more: https://linkedin.com/in/zackshapiro
They were never mostly written using select, either.
I mean there’s a white paper on iMessage’s security, and there isn’t (i don’t think) on WeChat. WhatsApp’s encryption uses libsignal.

The security qualities of iMessage and WhatsApp is known. It’s not of WeChat.
iMessage is e2e encrypted but Apple has the key... so I would not consider this e2e....
I know pcwalton has been banging the "just use threads" drum for a while now. Rust used to use a green thread approach, but if I recall correctly, they ripped all that out for just native threads with the idea that in most cases it's fast and efficient enough.

I remember when C10K was the big challenge, but even the naive approach of spawning a thread per connection now can handle that.
Any time others have access to your keys the only logical assumption is that they already know. Relying on goodwill is just naive
The HN title is misleading and doesn't match the economist title. Also, banks were being ransacked before covid.
You also have to trust the source code, or trust a recent audit, then also make sure the build you have kept it's integrity and matches the audit build.
I find Riot/Matrix to be very feature-poor compared to Discord and Slack, and not nearly as polished as Signal/WhatsApp for just pure chat purposes. Its best at nothing.

I find the lack of ability to group chat rooms, into discord "server" type things or Slack "workspaces" or whatever they're called, to be particularly deathknelling for Matrix's usefulness.

The matrix answer, "communities", are in the works, but who knows how good it will be.
Rails wasn't even the best web framework to use when it was top of the tree, but it had mindshare which meant plugins and community support if you had a problem. That mindshare has been on the wane for some time.

It's going to be hard going forward to continue justify the attitude that DHH wants to excuse as "defensiveness".
Edit: new guidance is from 2019 so my comment is not relevant, but we haven't had a chance to analyze much published data from this period anyway
Yep. WhatsApp is better and Signal is better still, but iMessage's level of privacy and security is more than enough for someone who isn't specifically targeted by a nation-state-level actor.
1) Multiple small islands, thanks, that together approach the size of Great Britain.
2) A small island nation with large amounts of of foreign tourists

You make it sound we live on Pitcairn Island, which is rather overly simplistic.

IMO, it was the timing of our lockdown - we went into lockdown before community transmission was established, which kept it limited to clusters.
This is my understanding. You would have to register your device in ADP and create an ad-hoc certificate for the app. If people are doing this on their own ADP accounts, then they're just testing their own builds, not receiving an enterprise deployment from some single developer.
These things reduce the input human labour required to produce some good. They are inputs to the process of production, but do not themselves produce value. In fact, as I mentioned, they may well diminish the value of some product, because they reduce the abstract human labour required to produce it.

Your second question isn’t really helpful ... the simple answer is sustained famine in the 90s, poorly maintained land, and market forces.
This sounds like more of the no-true-scotsman problem to me. You're basically saying that a paradigm shift has never happened more than once per field (at its founding).
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You would need to pay quite a bit more to make this viable for most publications. The ballpark formula is the issue price divided by the number of articles the average reader wants to read enough to pay anything. For example, a WSJ is $4, so if readers wanted to read ten articles, they should charge 40-50 cents for them.

A more realistic price might be $1-2/article since the median reader won’t be that interested. Pricing schemes that increase the total reading cost on a log curve can be imagined.

Of course we dream of a micropayments system fluid enough that people start consuming 10-100x the content so the price per piece can go down accordingly, but that is unlikely since there isn’t that much free time. A first mover might accumulate a lot of new readers, but that would eventually even out.
The disease was known to have pandemic potential for weeks before Trump did anything. He could have shut down travel in the beginning of January. But, he was too busy politicizing things himself, by calling Democratic criticism of his so called "response" a hoax. So, he waited until literally the last day of January to do anything. That's not fake news. That's reality.

Here are his actual words:

> Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that right? Coronavirus, they’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, “How’s President Trump doing?” They go, “Oh, not good, not good.” They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa. They can’t even count. No, they can’t. They can’t count their votes.

> One of my people came up to me and said, “Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.” That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.

The antecedent of "this" is "the virus." This is what he said, buddy. Why don't you think that through while the death toll keeps going up?
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We one downfall of iMessage is that because they facilitate key exchange, Apple can add their own key to your profile and read all your messages.

Though, my limited understanding of iMessage is that if you were to sniff the network traffic you could detect this.
Funny you should ask that. Someone asked that exact question in Reactiflux a couple days ago. This was my response:

> Many reasons. For one, anything that the browser supports now, it has to support... forever. For another, all browsers up until now don't support JSX syntax, so you'd still have to compile your code to handle all existing browsers.

> Also, the JSX syntax is not React-specific. Typical usage is to compile `<MyComponent>` to `React.createElement(MyComponent)`, but you can edit your build settings to compile it to other similar APIs for other frameworks.

> The JSX syntax has been pretty stable for a while, but there's been plenty of proposals to tweak it further. How would that get handled?
https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/101_exam... has some helpful examples that are part of the new guidance. Seems pretty readable surprisingly.
At the time Emacs was created, Lisp was one of the few languages that had automatic memory management and higher-order functions and error handling, but those have been lifted so often that they're now table stakes for modern languages.

I'm pushing 50 and excited about Rust because it's finally conceivable to have software that works reliably. I like Emacs, but it's not like I haven't seen my share of crashes in its kinda clunky C runtime. Hell, Rust even has macros.
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It is completely understandable that Alice rejections will go down as new guidance is provided. This is because people drafting patents react to the same new guidance and draft patents accordingly.

Guidance documents often come with examples, language from the Alice-overcoming examples will be included in patent applications and in arguments against Alice rejections. Often, word for word if possible.

Note, there have been several rounds of 'new guidance' since Alice came down. Most of them (maybe all?) include examples from courts showing claims invalidated under Alice and examples claims that made it past Alice in court.

It doesn't take that much effort to draft patents or arguments that match the good examples. Note, this doesn't change the scope of the inventions, it simply puts magic words into applications or claims to get around Alice if needed.
The question was: do we have any reason to believe it's more secure than weChat? I say yes but those are all valid points.
> Thanks for that I'll have a read.

> Is there any discussion about other countries using this NHS app (the repo says MIT license)?

> Each country could customise the alert heuristic but it seems like a waste of resources for each country to code their own app for a global problem.

Not seen any other country talking about this yet although it only came out today in source form, and still is technically in limited beta. I imagine Australia and Singapore will be interested in the iOS Bluetooth in sleep workaround method, as that does appear to be novel and not really done before.

If you implement the same basic API, it would be easy for another country to implement. The nice aspect of this design is that you can have an MVP (like UK has right now) while you evolve the more complex heuristics and models on the backend, and add those as you develop them. I'd agree it's a waste to build multiple apps, and I imagine countries will be looking at this approach now, and the value of an app with real working code, versus trying to build something.

The Bluetooth protocol itself is designed to support multiple countries using it - the outer message contains a country code flag so you know which country's health system you'd need to communicate with in order to exchange info of a proximity event.
The thinkers who founded all branches of modern science were very well read in the classics and significant philosophers in their own right. They were also predominantly and deeply religious. But, I guess only people well read in the humanities would know that.
It makes sense to be very careful with this sort of thing. Comcast is infamous for "accidentally" severing other ISP's lines whilst running their own.

Also, given that Google has been playing the (x-1)th day game with the EU for nearly a decade, and asking for every possible extension in order to respond to even the most basic requests... let's not act like ISPs are bad and Google is good. Google is a bad actor that was trying to edge in on another market of bad actors.
However you call it, they’re producing value for me instead of (or in addition to) their shareholders.
> You have to keep in mind, it's nearly 45 years old. This is almost unprecedented in computing.

We can acknowledge Emacs's longevity without straying into unsupportable hyperbole. Emacs is nowhere close to unprecedented in its age and not remotely close to the oldest piece of software still in existence.

GNU Emacs is from 1984. It is a reimplementation of the earlier 1972 Emacs. This matters, since if you're including reimplementations then obviously Unix itself, which is used by many of us every day, it older. And if you start counting from 1984...that's not especially old.
The new guidance came out in 2019.
Running 20.04 on X1E G2 without issues here.
Multiple islands, two of them are pretty big even. And what do you mean by restrictive travel? We were a prominent tourist destination.
it is critical to note that you also need to disable backing up your iPhone in iCloud to defeat having your key stored in iCloud:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428
WhatsApp message content is secure, but metadata does get turned over in subpoenas.
Iteration speed is sometimes an effective substitute for deep product insight. If you are a Steve Jobs you can go off and spend a few years building something in secret because you know people are going to love it when you show it to them. For everyone else, being able to ship stuff quickly offers a chance to maximize the number of spaghetti strands they can throw at the wall until they find one that sticks.
I tried to learn emacs but after the week of struggling through arcane keybindings and the bizzare quirks I just noped. Emacs is cool but it did not age well in a way that any software with three decade+ history would.