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Being an offshore finance centre isn't something you can just become. It requires an industrial or resource extraction base to generate wealth (e.g. Dubai/singapore/London/NYC) or a client state relationship with a powerful country (Bahamas). Lesotho, for instance, would never be able to do this and neither would 1950s Singapore.
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Ummm.... There is literally already a name for this attack. It is called a reorg attack.

Doing a reorg of the blockchain can cause all sorts of problems, and reverse all sorts of things, depending on what those transactions were, and how they are re-ordered.
I live in Vietnam and I've always been surprised at the large number of Singaporean tech companies that open up development offices in Vietnam. And it isn't (just) to save money on salaries. The average quality of a Singaporean developer is shockingly bad for such an educated, developed country.

And saying that Vietnam has more creativity isn't exactly a high bar given the similar values of Confucian hierarchy here!
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> There is plenty of evidence - of no impact.

There is plenty of evidence of the opposite in fact and is not difficult to find at all. We can choose to close the eyes to not see it, but the truth is stubborn:

Techa river (Russia): Used as dumpster from dismantled nuclear submarines until 2004. 25 times more probable than normal of having limb and organ malformation in newborn babies from people living there, plus a bonus 40% increase of probability of having cancer. This is the harvest of just 50 years of activity. What would you call that?
Email is federated, not point to point. It quite often hops between a couple of servers. Cloud hosted stuff typically gets routed through the cloud provider first (and whatever intelligence agencies are tapping that feed), which then pushes it to the top-tier smtp server nearest the destination for obscure hosts.

Still we’re in a perverse situation here. Running your own server is getting harder to do since everything operates on white lists, and I wouldn’t trust the big name providers for something like this.
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A few things.

Broadcom is notorious for demanding NDAs for their datasheets, completely pointlessly. I've also heard of companies demanding their parts be redacted on schematics if published, even more ridiculously, though as far as I know Broadcom isn't one of them (I've seen public schematics with Broadcom parts).

Still, from what I've heard of Broadcom specifically, they're pathologically secretive with their documentation unless some star customer dangles enough money in front of them. rpi.org certainly fits that description. So I don't really buy this excuse for rpi here.

In reality, I suspect it's more the fact that rpi.org was started by ex-Broadcom engineers and they brought their culture of secrecy with them.
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When I use https://www.gumtree.com/, a secondhand listing site, I am quite satisfied that I can response to any chat message by email.

Is there any other platform/product allows you to communicate with other users in the same platform via email?
Style is a part of the substance of an object; the two are not in conflict. Apple is simply one of the few companies that cares about style enough to make sacrifices in order to achieve it. And that's something I really like about Apple gear.
I also noticed that the foreign startups they lured in with their juicy incentives were not the better ones. Nonetheless they probably still believe that the same techniques that brought in Shell in the early days needed to be adapted for the "modern world".

Despite throwing money at tech salaries are still poor. Everybody gets that money except the developers.
Having embarked on a house hunt in an Australian city, I’m surprised by how many of the houses I see (especially the more “affordable” homes) are empty on inspection. I assumed they were vacant post-lease, but your point about the houses being empty as a result of speculation is quite plausible. That’s crazy.
I stopped carrying a pocket knife specifically because of how many times I lost them in airports. I think if you fly often it's worth finding a different solution.
Singapore's population is very conservative, e.g. live with parents until marry, homosexuality is illegal, a lot of pressure against interracial couples (my experience), and essentially a single, dominant media voice.

There is a militant approach to education which produces nice test results, but it doesn't produce young entrepreneurs, just conservative careers, helped by statutory hiring quotas. I don't think the Singapore model produces much innovation, they just really opened up to innovative foreign companies.

(Some reflections from my time living there)
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I honestly don’t see a purpose for a mouse when you have a state of the art, not yet surpassed trackpad. Of course it is mostly regarding the MacBooks, not when you’re using an iMac or Mac Pro even though the wireless versions are also a joy to use, except for the delay you get when you’re used to a built in trackpad
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I once had a support call for a customer whose mouse had stopped working. I told him that I get a lot of calls and I was sorry to ask but: "is it plugged in?"

Customer, who was pretty technical, was very embarrassed.
> I have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction

If you're pulling a digital bit-stream off a disk then why does the reader matter?
That's one on the better ones I've seen recently. There are a couple of other similar videos, but there's a lot of background distortion which makes them more obviously fake.

We must be getting pretty close now to the revival of the film careers of Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, etc. etc.
Sorry if it sounded like that, just wanted to point out that is nothing new and not surprising. China is doing it, Israel is doing it and probably other countries too. Not big news.
I'm happy with the compact Apple keyboards in general, but when I got an iMac Pro at work I wanted to try out its full-sized keyboard since it is nice to have all of those extra keys. To keep the trackpad closer, I decided to put it on the left.

I normally use my right, so it took a few days to get used to it, but I quickly became fluent and the arrangement works much better. I also like it since it balances out my hands a bit more instead of doing absolutely everything with my right.
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The best developers in Singapore usually work in SV, because Singaporeans have access to H-1B1 which makes it extremely easy for them to move over.
I think even your average xenoglossophobic English speaker could have worked that one out!
Comes down to personal preference. I liked the touch functionality much more than i disliked shallowness and rough edges. It was very much shit for gaming though.
That just doesn't make any sense. Regardless of what functions are used "under the hood" (how do you even know that? Did you go through every xpath library? What do you even refer to when I use an xpath library in php to open an xml document. There isn't even a web page or "DOM" to speak of, there is no browser, no JavaScript, it's just xml.), the interface provides you with ability to select whatever you want from an almost arbitrarily complex xml document with 1-liners of xpath. This is not the same outcome as getElementByID-acrobatics.
Let me know when any of those things are used in a significant amount by real life, in person merchants....

Because right now, the only merchant point of sale system that has any non-negligible amount of adoption, is BitPay, and the only thing they might be using is Segwit, which gives pretty minimal fee savings.

They aren't even close to using anything like lighting, or liquid, or any of that other nonsense that is not implemented by any significant payment processor, or user wallet with any significant amount of adoption.
He allowed a CoC to be added to the Linux kernel. I’ll be glad to see him get a taste of his own medicine. At least it would serve as a warning to others.
Lynching mob is coming. Hopefully Linus has not renounced his original citizenship so he dont have to move to Texas like poor natives.
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Because he assaulted his partner.
The article failed to mention 1 important thing: LKY built an incorruptible government. With all the power he had, he could have done so much better for his family if he just tried, but that wouldn't necessarily be good for the country. A lot of countries want to be Singapore, but few have a leader of his caliber.
From a physics point of view this is a very strange thing to say. Why are 'we' or 'measurements' things of special status? Because we have a soul or something? Now, that would be a theory where an abstract concept is taken to be more real than observable things. The measurement apparatus is also a physical thing that should be described by the physical theory in use as would the humans be. The very painful point about the copenhagen interpretation is this distinction between 'normal' time evolution and the special procedure when a 'measurement' is carried out. Actually, there exist mathematical proofs that the normal time evolution when applied in cases where information is transferred from microscopic stats to macroscopic ones leads to something that looks like a collapse of the wave function but is actually a split of it. This is as a physical theory much more attractive than giving a 'measurement' a special status. The question what this all means is a bit more mind-boggling though including multiple worlds and that kind of stuff. Taking 'a mathematical construct as more real than basic empirical experiences' is basically the history of physics and it has in the past been highly successful.
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Unfortunately there are plenty of software patents in Europe.

And patent lawyers are trying hard to establish a "unified patent court" so software patents can snowball completely out of control:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...
Vietnam has twenty times the population of Singapore; it's not surprising that it'd be easier to find good developers there. It's also harder for good Vietnamese developers to emigrate to somewhere with better pay like the US, compared to Singaporean developers.

>And saying that Vietnam has more creativity isn't exactly a high bar given the similar values of Confucian hierarchy here!

I know some mainland Chinese who live in Singapore, and they often complain about how closed-minded the locals are. If Vietnam is similar to China in that regard, then it might well be less hierarchical than Singapore (Chinese culture seems much less hierarchical than some other Confucian-influenced cultures like Japan/Korea, maybe due to the communist revolution actively demonising Confucious, and Vietnam also had a similar revolution).
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There was also the 1997 Asian financial crisis around that time.
Exactly. If it eventually turns out you were right, but most people didn't realize that at the time you traded according to your eventually-proven theory, you will have incurred huge losses at the point in time you finally are proven right. The icing on the cake is that you might even have given up on your idea and eventually decided to just go with the flow regardless of how stupid you think it is, and that might just be the time the market eventually concludes you were right all the time. Then you lost twice.
I 'member X11amp, it was in the glory days. Things were simple back then, no systemd, none of this k8s stuff, perl ruled the scripting scene and people wrote maintainable code. People had time to test their code. SCSI was the thing because you couldn't get IDE cd writers. Floppy drive cables had a twist so you had a primary and secondary. They were 50K per second. Mobile phone users complain loudly and change operators if their phone internet is slower than MB/s.

Anyway, please add the x11amp skin! It was something like this:

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Hopefully it won't become my white whale, this rabbit hole has gone pretty deep:

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This is ultimately an interesting question.

The immediate answer is that Microsoft built the systems this is discussing last century and at the time this wasn't highlighted. Both the LANMAN and NT schemes are from the era when Microsoft was just getting into stuff like remote authentication that we now take for granted as a baseline.

Even though it's probably true this is an unsatisfying answer because the Unix password hash (at least a decade older) is stronger, using 12-bit salt and a deliberately pessimized hash algorithm.

A further (and longer lived) excuse for Microsoft is that they strongly favour backwards compatibility which has seen their company be very successful over a long period. Having accepted this poor scheme in the 1990s it was hard to give it up and annoy millions of users.

One of the grave mistakes Microsoft made a little later is that they began relying upon these password hashes as secrets themselves, and that's where it starts to get interesting, because that's a sign that key people at Microsoft didn't know that they didn't know what they were doing. That is, not only did Microsoft not have people who were competent to do this properly, they didn't even have people who knew they needed those people.
I hope the Linux mailing list doesn't become a place where a bunch of political correct lynch mob hangs around to harass others.
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Because people claiming that MBA are the problem is not evidence that MBA are a problem. Obviously some companies will make missteps and when they do it will be managements fault (because, surprisingly, management were in charge). On balance, the powers that be believe MBA are more likely to lead to increased profits than losses.

Besides, someone is always going to be complaining about management. That is one of the pitfalls of management - everyone seems to be an expert at running a company except the people who actually do it.
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>Here in Australia, it has become an investment vehicle

Which is a pity, really. IMO housing policy should target property prices to follow inflation.
I can only half agree with you on that. Yes, I also dislike APIs that make wrong or unsafe use easy and correct use more bothersome but seemingly no different in behaviour (until it goes BOOM), but I also find that soooo many people simply don't have the awareness that they are interfacing with another system that interprets their data in a potentially unsafe way. And these people will misuse any API like this.
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i hope it has fewer troglodytes hiding behind a misguided concept of freedom of speech
The case is still on trial.
LKY ruled from 1959-1990. Singapore's GDP over that time grew at a 14% compound annual growth rate: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/gdp-gros....
One and two read as if STUN and TURN are specific technologies build for WebRTC, but as far as I know, those are just the standard technologies for handling P2P-scenarios with consumer level usability in mind.

I think the biggest issue is that often you have to set up a STUN/TURN server in an extra environment. In the XMPP world, ejabberd has come to the point, where it brings most things you need today in a single package (XMPP, HTTPS, Lets-enrypt, STUN/TURN, ...). That way you add about 5 lines to a config file and get STUN and TURN with little effort. I like that simplicity and if you don't, you are still free to use an external STUN/TURN server.
Non-free market housing isn't that great either though, like in Berlin.
Like-minded = being a puppet of the US
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> Because good law-abiding people ... follow them with inconvenience and cost to themselves...

Maybe this provides the required benefit to society and enforcement would only increase the costs. Given that there is a heavy discretionary component to the justice system that reinforces broader power dynamics in society, these costs are likely to be borne by the have-nots rather than than the haves. There's very little benefit to society in squeezing blood from a stone.

> Maybe we should retreat a little from our self-confidence and think "maybe I should follow rules even if I don't agree with them"...

Perhaps it is worth obeying trifling laws for the purpose of living and letting live. But there are also a great many unjust laws. I'm not sure you're being entirely fair to your fellow citizen, here. How are people meant to have a respectful relationship with the law when some are hardly punished and some receive what amounts to summary execution?

I believe the problem with our discourse today is that it has been sabotaged in small ways meant to protect the powerful in the short term, and toxicity has built up to a very dangerous degree. I don't believe we're especially less law abiding than we have been previously.

That being said, there are a great many laws I would like to see enforced more rigorously. Especially in the area of white collar crime.
Nope. They just had to agree to stop trolling open source projects with patents they already own.

They can still troll non-OSI-licensed projects with those patents and can still troll open source projects with new invalid patents.

We could stop issuing invalid patents (I'm not holding my breath), develop a legal defense fund to do this again (thus maybe scaring off future trolls) as the article suggests, or change the law.

If we change the law we could do something minimal like the article suggests (eg: allow proof the code being sued over predates the patent to be presented at the summary judgment stage) OR (my favorite) something bigger like eliminating software patents entirely.
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Using a trackpad permanently seems like a recipe for RSI, at least I will have pain in my hand for a day or so if I use the trackpad for more than a few hours.
Future publishing was the shit back then. I lived in the Canary Islands where thanks to the influx of British tourists and migrants we had a steady flow of one-month-late, overpriced British press. Everything from future publishing was miles ahead of the Spanish videogame press, Super Play and Edge were my favourites, i still have a good collection in my mother's basement... It's how I learned English, and the joys of British humour, but also how I learned to think critically about games at a different level. Peter Moulineux was an ever present figure in them, of course.
Regarding [2], I asked a copper in Liverpool about this. The passport office threatened to call the police when I turned up with a french folding-knife on my keychain. I was annoyed enough to go ask someone.

He said my reason of "I need it to cut the tomatoes for my sandwich" was good enough.

There's also the comment David Cameron made about that aspect of the law:

"Police must exercise common sense. This is about kitchen knives being stuffed down the front of tracksuits" [1]

But it does feel a bit like one of those laws that can be applied selectively to get people if the police really want to.

https://police.community/topic/272735-jail-knife-carriers-sa...
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The messages described in the article/headline are from 2014.
“ Almost every serious programmer I interviewed painfully developed RSI in their 20s. I didn’t even know until I asked them! Me? I was 24 when it struck. No warning. Just pain. ”
Aside: The word you wanted was "deprecated" not "depreciated"

Supporting obsolete and perhaps insecure algorithms can give your user false confidence. Adversaries do not prefer the better algorithms, they get to choose whatever suits their purpose and so by supporting an obsolete algorithm you let your adversary choose that if it suits them. So don't.

The diediedie draft (now more respectably named https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-... instead) deliberately tells people not just to support newer TLS versions but to stop supporting old ones, for exactly this reason.
The emails getting cited here are from 2014 - what is the news in this article actually?

And for what it's worth, I didn't see anything particularly noteworthy - Linus used the platform offered to him by Debian at DebConf to attack another organization that Debian presumably shares some goals and sympathies with - the FSF. Apparently many Debian project members felt that this was wrong, that they did not want it to repeat, and that Linus may not be welcome at their events because of this.

To be clear, Linus wasn't speaking out against the FSF, he was berating them and accusing them. It seems it was mostly a rant.

Note that this has nothing to do with 'policing language' or 'social justice warriors' or anything that CoC's normally bring to many people's minds. It is mostly about one organization offering a platform to attack an organization that they are friendly with.
Thanks for the explanation - I misinterpreted the OC to be about audio quality rather than just trying to recover data from damaged media.
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I find it interesting that the original meaning of factoid is "something believed to be true that is isn't" and is now used in common parlance as "little fact".

Which meant that before the shift in definition, the belief that factoid meant "little fact" was itself a factoid. But I'm not a prescriptivist. I find that evolution of language, and how up in arms people get about it, interesting.
Again, it's cultural, but that doesn't make it subjective. The fact that it will be different in the future doesn't tell you that it's already different now. There is a fact of the matter here on which everyone already agrees; it's as objective as any other fact.