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one word Eben. The fact that he found Eben, and thought that it was him in angel form and put him under his bed and would take him out at night to talk to him, that was some really twisted crap.

Funny story I dated this girl off and on, and she went away to college. Well she caught her boyfriend over there cheating on her and she called me and asked me to come over for the weekend a few weeks later (I was a good rebound guy). Anyways, we go to rent movies, because one still rented them back then, and I see the reflecting skin so I was like oh lets get this, and I tell her it is really messed up. Well we get back, one thing leads to another and we never watch the movie, so I really never got to tell her how much the movie disturbed me, just really had a high level, this movie is crazy talk at the video store. Well the weekend comes and goes, I go home which is about 2 hours away and 3 days later I get a call from her, which can pretty much be boiled down to: "What the fuck is wrong with you! Loose my number". Maybe 5 years later, we cross paths in a bar in our hometown and we are talking and one of the first things she brings up is the movie and tells me, that about 5 of her girlfriends came over to hang out and they decided to watch it as she had not returned it yet. She said the most awkward part was her explaining to her friends that she had not selected the movie but this guy, that lives 2 hours away who she does this on again, off again thing with was over and picked it out. They pretty much convinced her that I was a serial killer for having selected that movie for viewing. At the bar, I did get to relay to her, my experience of first watching it, and that I had planned to explain to her that the movie was fucked up and had a profound impact on me, as I did not have a lot of empathy for people in my teens and 20's and I had kind of did her shitty after our first round of dating. Instead I got the cold hand due to the possibility that I could have been a serial killer. I figure it was Karma having her laugh, at my expense.
yeah, but is is much harder for plaintiffs to collect in the UK than in the US. Losing a lawsuit in the UK is not nearly as bad as losing one in the US because the Uk has really crappy asset recovery procedures. The US requires losers to disclose everything under the penalty of perjury.
It starts to matter a lot with things like AR, video games etc. I work on an AR mobile product and the performance advantage for iOS is substantial. Outside of flagships, the performance of AR on android is pretty bad, while as far back as iPhone 8 you’re maintaining 60fps no problems. I haven’t tested older than that but I tend to believe the oft-quoted 5 year performance lead on the A series chips.
This article is written from the cluelessness of somebody confined to New York. As somebody who lives in one of the fastest growing areas of perhaps the fastest growing large city in the US this issue is incredibly simple.

The more housing there is the more people there will be and thus the more traffic congestion there will be. This is true regardless of availability of public transit or road size. Billions of dollars are spent here yearly to widen freeways and eliminate choke points but it still does not keep pace with the growth in population. The problem is due to numbers that are easy to calculate and simple to forecast.
+ the text isn't joined up.
Why doesn't Twitter just resurrect Vine? They literally have all the source code.
And 25 years ago there was that IBM card that allowed realtime voice recognition on a 486, no connection required.
At the presentation I saw at IBM, the operator loaded a word processor, wrote a letter, saved it as an image, sent it as a fax, received it on a second machine and printed it without moving a finger. I also seem to remember one machine ran OS/2 Warp and the other one Windows.
It wasn't that fast for sure, and she had to correct some errors, but the point is that if done on dedicated hardware (FPGAs?) the performance can be a lot higher than on software. A lot of powerful hardware can be fitted into those assistants, and unless they fully open source them, there's no way to know what they do and what they could do if instructed to.
> Not perfect but sometimes perfect is the enemy of good.

This. Add enough hurdles, and people will

a) spend all the energy they're willing to spend on your process, hate it, and as a result never do anything except what you force them to, and in particular, never voluntarily reduce permissions unless forced (because they might need them later and then it'll be a pain). They'll also see you as an enemy, not a partner, which is not the place a security team should be in.

b) optimize for not what is best, but what is least affected by your wall of process, even if it's less secure (e.g. because it's a legacy system that you didn't get around to locking down yet).

c) outsource to less secure vendors, and get it approved because management knows that getting it deployed internally would take forever due to the process

d) in the most extreme case, set up uncontrolled shadow IT with zero security controls and hide it from you - and because they already spent all their energy dealing with "perfect", they don't want to hear the word "security" ever again, and the security posture of their shadow IT shows this.
Why not store this data into a relational database?
They are not the same thing. Despite not supporting plugins, I think you can definitely expect Rome to support some form of macros, thought it might look different from the existing API in babel.
This is the very best advise when dealing with debt collectors.

There are several unscrupulous debt collectors/scammers that use public information to try and frighten people into paying off non-existent debt or debt that is way beyond the statute of limitations to be sued over.

But they are very convincing and claim that they will be sending a court summons (that never arrives)

My elderly neighbor got taken for several hundreds of dollars by one of these Scumbags until I found out what was happening.

And just as the other commenter had said, the debt collector never sent proof of the debt.
Just more threats.
Undoubtedly, the complete guide on the pandemic out ther
There have been many lies surrounding the recent Corona Virus outbreak in the US

But this latest one really takes the cake!

Right now, it is all over the news…

And believing it puts you in lethal danger,
And Samsara! I think I preferred it one for some reason
"have no nutrient losses to the environment." Not Possible, unless you leave the plant in place. All nutrients come from our environment.
No doubt working remote can make some things a little harder. I don’t envy a younger person entering the workplace, but if you have good managers and a good environment you can help that person thrive. But my experiences so far have been incredible because I can get my team to focus on the work. The people struggling are the people who spend great deals of time worrying or used to spend a lot of time networking. They just can’t seem to figure out how to make things work, and always bring up how they can’t wait to be back in the office. No doubt I’m making some generalizations, but I’m psyched that I’m seeing great results from all my teams when you cut out the office BS. I’m just making sure that they get recognized for accomplishments that aren’t visible (as managers should do).
As a UPI user who is using this from literally day 1 and who is hard core advertiser of this, here are few important points:

1. Security: Signup requires phone number validation via SMS and phone number must be registered with bank. It also requires additional details like debit card validation. This makes is hard to spoof. After signup your device finger print is stored with NPCI and this works as 1st factor. An additional PIN is also required during signup.
You can send money only from registered device and requires fingerprint and pin validation.

2. Every digital transaction in India triggers SMS, so that provides additional transparency to user.

3. All payments are from bank account to bank account and they happen in real time! Also no transaction fee!

4. Merchants require no special equipments and they advertise their VPA usually via QR code in shops so it’s easy for users to pay.

4. Online payments can be either user triggered or can be requested via pushing payment request to user app. However user needs to approve the request with pin.

Point 3 & 4 were the biggest reasons why India adopted it pretty quickly. Also ofcourse due to Jio boom & cheap chinese smartphones!
The author states:

>"The transistors have complex shapes to make the most efficient use of the space."

What are some of the constraints and factors that go into deciding the individual shapes here? Does each Transistor have to meet a minimum width or gate length?

>"The dynamic latch depends on a two-phase clock, commonly used to control microprocessors of that era."

I thought this was interesting. When exactly did chip makers move away from using two separate clocks?
Maybe management don't want to admit to shareholders that they made a horrible mistake.
Yup, we built a game engine in order to visualize your hikes, rides, flights, etc etc . https://ayvri.com

We've been surprised to see how many uses people have found for the tech, wildlife research, commercial drone operations, and more.

The default is currently cesium, but if you click the "view beta player", button, you'll see our hand-rolled game engine.
Wow Scoper seems like such a great concept too... What a darn shame...
In most states, this alleged debt would be outside the statute of limitations for contract originated debt (usually 6 years from day of default). Meaning that, unless you pay any amount to them, it is no longer a debt that can be pursued through legal channels.

With any debt collector or buyer, per FDCPA, they must stop calling if you notify them. Best way to do this is by a certified letter stating your name, your phone numbers, and that it is not permitted to call you regarding this alleged debt. Offenses here can net you a bounty in court, but worth noting most folks with valid debts, can't afford to fight the onslaught of robocalls from spoofed numbers, as is all too common in the trade

Requesting validity of a debt is also covered under FDCPA, but with some general stipulations. Legally, a collector or debt buyer is required to provide validation in the 30 days after the initial notification to you if requested in writing. Most will still send documentation out of this window if they have it, but it becomes less transparent under your civil protections for them to be mandated to do so.

Obligatory IANAL, but if you find yourself in a similar position here, doing a few minutes of research on your protections and common "gotchas" of dealing with these outfits is incredibly valuable.
A person calling himself "Q" posts to a board on the site where all members call themselves "Anonymous". That is where the name "QAnon" comes from, and it refers to his posts on there.
They objected to Appleton Area School District lol. Wonder if it's even an automated system.
Cherry Street Coffee in Seattle (local chain) did the same but a bit more brash.

They sent out texts to all employees after having no contact with them saying you must come back to work now or we will report it as refusal and also never allow those people to be eligible for employment again. No concern for people who may have already found new employment since the company abruptly laid them all off, you don't come back and you can never come back. Forced loyalists is a weird strat
>they'll hear exactly what they deserve to hear

You mean fart noises?
That’s ATT for you. They have the worst billing systems that I know of.

Back when they were pushing UVerse they wanted to combine billing with their other services. For what ever reason they weren’t combined to begin with.

Well when you did that you had to get both on the same cycle. UVerse I believe was post paid at the time. You needed to pre-pay as their other services. Maybe it was the other way around, don’t remember. Either way you are stuck with 2 months of UVerse plus your other services when you combine it. So a large bill.

Well here comes the fun part, I had that service for maybe a year. I canceled it and to my surprise nobody seemed to remember that I had an extra month I already paid for. The system didn’t seem to account for it.

I called numerous times and talked to quite a few different people. I ended up getting about 700 in credits because I was able to walk people through the billing who were able to see what was going on.

I thought about taking this to a few attorneys I know since this had to have impacted a ton a people. Never got around it.
The ecosystem is already fragmented and dueling. When it says it replaces those tools it means it aims to replace the functionality of those tools, not make them obsolete.

Rome being successful doesn't mean eliminating those tools, it's providing something valuable and giving people an option. If it's not for you then that's okay. Rome is early and is still evolving, including possible areas for extensibility.

I think a lot of people don't realize the sort of capabilities that they're missing out on by not having their tools work together, or sticking with old tooling that cannot innovate for legacy reasons (like Babel). I don't think it's harmful to the ecosystem to advocate for more consolidation, especially around tooling that not a lot of people either like to deal with, or have few maintainers in the first place.

I also think you have me (Sebastian McKenzie) confused with Sebastian Markbage from the React team.
Dang the hypocrite
And real nerds will just disable what they want with ADB :)
Dude, did you READ that obituary? Not very positive view of Limonov. More like a read of someone gawking at a car accident.
I would love to see a post on the instruction decoding phase
and and the microcode ROM next.
> Which is very bad, IMHO.

Not humble enough not to shit on something you admit you don't know much about.
Better launch reliability, larger payload fairing (needed for some NRO payloads).
The CIA needs to be stricter about enforcing their trademark.

The Pentagon is good at that - just try marketing something with “US Navy Seals” or “US Marine Corps.” You’ll be hearing from their lawyers fast.

CIA in the other hand ... all sorts of weird internet ads use the CIA name.
And how do you know they actually obey it? :/

Knowing Google it will still go somewhere.
Journalist Hopewell Chinono denied by by corrupt Zimbabwean government
Well the silver lining is it created the conditions for SpaceX to exist.
You can say that about anything under the jurisdiction of Chinese law. It's not like they have a choice. US companies are also "controlled" by the state in the same manner we are accusing these companies because the Chinese government can compel them to release their data to them in the same way national security letters can be used, and in the same way NSA data harvesting is being used.

The difference right now between China and the US is that everybody knows China is monitoring everyone—even Chinese citizens.
But urban land is finite in every sense in which land is finite, so no matter what sense the poster was using it in regard to land, you are incorrect to say urban land is not finite.
They don't even look remotely similar and aren't in same industry. WTF
I spoke in this post about how rushing into a plugin system hurt the longevity of Babel and it's ability to innovate. We aren't going to make the same mistake again. Rome will likely eventually have a plugin system, but what that would look like isn't clear.

This is the first release and until there's some actual usage, there's no real way to realistically predict what sort of things people will feel is missing. You can always supplement your project with multiple linters if you feel like it is currently a blocker.
Using Safari over Chrome or Firefox gains me 90-120 minutes more battery on my Macbook. Android went through contortions and re-architectures for over a decade to even approach iOS' place on the performance/battery-capacity/battery-life chart. I used to be an Android user and wildly better battery life (especially idle—I gather it's better now but damn Android used to eat a lot of battery while doing nothing) is part of what got me to stick with Apple, when I tried their phones. I'm fairly sure mobile Safari—and so, Webkit—is more battery-friendly than Chrome or Firefox.
I'd like to see the yields in practice. This is necessary information if we look to grow crops in environments like Mars or Luna.
I removed Babel from my toolchains a while ago, so it's even shorter: TS, ESlint, Prettier, Webpack.
How is the satellite transported to the launch site from the point of manufacture?
Any chance the Motorola legacy had anything to do with the ROM situation being so weird and inaccessible 30-40 years on?
Block rates don't mean that much though. With Apple everything on an out-of-box iPhone goes through them so they only need one connection. A Samsung phone will want to talk to Google, Samsung, and whatever crap they have preloaded (in my case Facebook, OneDrive, "UpDay" and many others). They even made most of those system apps in case I'd have the audacity to remove Facebook :/ Of course they know how much I need it, much more than me.

Deep packet inspection is the only way to really tell (if they haven't done cert pinning, which I assume they have for stuff like activation).

I think the author's point is that you can at least harden Android a lot by uninstalling system apps and services, which you can't do on Apple. There's also many more options available for mitigation, like firewall software. I don't know whether that brings it to a better level than Apple. However loading another firmware certainly will (think LineageOS with MicroG or even nothing at all).

But I do agree that an Android out of the box (for most vendors!) is full of tracking, way more than Apple seems to do. And of course almost no user even tries to remove system apps.
Someone needs to invent the elevator combine -- existing combines are super efficient. Not sure how you harvest wheat in a vertical frame efficiently though. Maybe the frame rotates and you guillotine it all off?
No, not at all. Maybe just a playful stomp. Here's the explanation of how it all went down - https://bit.ly/31vAPes
This "protection" is not free, in fact is quite expensive. I think most customers would be better off without them. Many customers when faced with having to pay the 3% for it opt out. And most merchants do not have really any protection at all, at least none that I am aware of.
I like the name. It evokes "all roads lead to Rome"

Although "Borg" might be more accurate.
I really enjoyed the writing even though it took me some time to correctly understand some passages (I am not a native speaker). I feel sorry for Burrows's case, he seems to be a great militant against oligarchy and oppression as well as a tempted writer who was not fairly reviewed by his peers.
NASA Didn't Drive on the Moon (2012)
They aren't hard to steal when your building another companies products for them. Eventually you're the one that has all that not them.

20 years ago I was saying the mistake American Businessmen were making is they thought they somehow owned all those factories in China. And they did not at all. Since then Chinese companies have been taking over design as well. You spec it, they figure out how to build it at scale. All that IP they own not you.
In fact, I've often thought it would be an interesting experiment for a developed nation to form a partnership with a developing one - equal, of course - to experiment with what modern infrastructure might look like without having to cater to legacy systems.
No, no. Those wealthy receiving the tax breaks expand their companies which requires hiring more people. /s

The recent tax forgiveness that allowed all of those corps to bring their offshore money home proved your statement correct and the obvious falsity of the trickle down theory. The corps used the incoming money for bonuses, stock buy backs, etc. The effect it had on the lower income tiers of society was barely even noticed.
Just as he tried to with his wall Trump is trying to usurp the power of the purse of congress. This won't fly he's ultimately going to have to actually make a deal and quickly before the bottom falls out of the economy in a severe way. The two pieces that might stand are the pause on student loans and freezing eviction those don't involve spending money or allocating money I could see those two still standing.
The Halifax Gibbet
The problem isn't different values, it's that non-technical users aren't able to make informed consent, they don't understand how they're being harmed.
Not OP. I assume they meant 1 acre of growing space per 1 acre of surface area. We can increase that with multiple floors.
You're completely ignoring the food cost I just mentioned. For example, the cost of a Big Mac is around 1 dollar. Try making a burger with ingredients from the supermarket for $1, it is impossible. Things easily cost 5-10x as much in retail vs their bulk prices, it is much cheaper to cook for 50 customers at once than for a single meal.

This system is removing all of the other costs of operating a restaurant, so unless you also buy ingredients in 50kg bags for your home, they can definitely make it cheaper.
And what’s wrong with the early days? Great things were accomplished back then.
The Liquid Argon Calorimeter
Hence the clarification "willing party". A company "pirates" a GPL'd code, creates its own derivative version, slaps a sticker saying "This is proprietary code, if you want to see the source then go buy from somewhere else." Someone is willing to buy the product, they are both happy. Just like two internet users sharing copyrighted files.
if copyright were more long-term

I really don't get this. Other people have already replied to you but not specifically on "long-term" vs your later "unlimited-duration" stand.

The USA adopted the Berne Convention in 1989. It stipulates that the duration of the term for copyright protection is the life of the author plus at least 50 years after their death. For some categories of works, the minimum duration is shorter. For example, the minimum term for applied art is 25 years. Movies have a minimum term of 50 years. Countries may choose a longer term of protection, and most countries have done so.

If you're a potential "budding young novelist", will you eschew that career because life + 50 years isn't unlimited and isn't long enough for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright...
High-resolution electromagnetic calorimetry with noble liquids (1998)
Your comment says to me anxiety largely just at violating conventions of popularity. Your only hesitation is an appeal to authority. There is no consideration of merit or anything technical.
UPI is a fascinating battle field of tech companies. I had a front seat to some of the negotiations happening to build platforms on UPI. There was a fear in India that foreign tech companies would monopolize that platform.

Concurrent with negotiations to build on UPI, there were also leaks and stories by both sides in the press to bolster or communicate positions. For example, there was one story where an official said that a tech CEO made a commitment. The tech CEO did not make that commitment. That company's team had their own set of meeting notes confirming their position. Other companies were livid with the tech company for supposedly taking that position. With the story now published, the tech company could not publicly deny the story or else they would anger the other side. So they quietly rolled with it.

It is also a credit to PayTM's CEO. Their CEO saw that succeeding with UPI was a matter of survival. Backed up against a wall, he fought back against his competitors with everything he had and is winning so far.

Someone needs to write a book on the behind the scenes happenings.