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> Why is compartmentalization natural?

Because intelligence agencies are always also concerned with counterintelligence as a major function.

> The business world analog is "silos", and we're forever trying to break them down, or work around them or something.

Most businesses try to keep highly sensitive data that has adverse consequences for release siloed. Unlike intelligence agencies, for most businesses such information is exceptional, rather than the rule.

> Are intelligence agency compartments just jargon-justification for bureaucratic fiefdoms?

They aren't just that, which is why the practice is universal. There is, of course, the perennial risk that the legitimate need gets exploited for that, though.

> Would an intelligence agency that scraps compartmentalization have an advantage?

As long as they were never penetrated by a hostile agency, maybe (though it might also reduce focus, contribute to analysis paralysis, and have other deleterious effects without penetration.) But the impacts of any penetration would be magnified, and while major penetrations may be rare because of compartmentalization, penetrations of intelligence agencies aren't rare enough for magnifying their impact to be discounted.
> Primordial black hole would have formed before big bang nucleosynthesis and so would not contribute to the relevant amount of baryonic matter.

What would they have been made up? Do quarks have mass, and there was enough of them? Or does energy through E=MC^2 mean that enough pure energy density can cause a black hole?
Just to add perspective, just 2 weeks back they reduced the Optical Fibre Connected 40mbps plan to $6.36/month, with generous 3.3TB monthly limit. You can get 1gbps on same line with appropriate charges.

Soon after leading incumbent Airtel matched their plan with $7.95/month.

Mobile & Broadband is really PICKING UP OVER HERE, all thanks to Jio.
Based on the people I've seen during my career: The skill to stop procrastinating and start programming. Being able to pick up tasks reliably is way more important than technical bravado.
My related theory is that it's a decoupling of politics from material outcomes.

Both parties are under the control of professional classes who don't actually need to care about the material outcomes for them. David Brooks type Republicans supported a "tax cut" which raised their taxes. Woke liberals want different TV characters represented while knifing Bernie Sanders in the back.

The professional classes have the privilege to engage in culture war, and it's what the parties respond to because that's the donor base. Actual policy and material outcomes are irrelevant to everyone across the spectrum.
I agree. I am utterly unsurprised that gradient descent was unable to optimize a “minimal” network to a complete solution of a binary state problem with a Boolean rule set.

I’d have been shocked if it went any other way.

I’m also reminded of an ‘06 paper by Kreinovich and Shpak, Aggregability is NP-Hard.

http://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/2006/tr06-29.pdf

Neural networks aren’t magic, and optimization isn’t finding the one needle in a haystack with a blindfold on. This is an intuitive result for anyone mildly conversant in the space.

I don’t mind that they went out and did it, though.
Hum... Empathy, problem solving, communication, creativity, patience, humility and self confidence... What else is lacking for requirement gathering? I can't think about anything else.

In fact the article is so generic it could fit any job. It basically says: be a well rounded person.
That's a great point about being willing to jump around every few years. On one hand it can make you seem like a job hopper and can't deal with certain environments, but on the other hands it's the #1 easiest way to advance your salary.

It's really a fine line of jumping for the right reasons and right opportunities so you can sell the story the right way (a la personal marketing and hype plan)
To some extent it worked the other direction, in that church involvement, specifically in the Evangelical community was used as a tool to create the social conservative movement (see Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority) as a response to the forced desegregation of religious schools.
yes but the whole world isnt germany
Because Facebook has the power to help or harm reelection campaigns of politicians. Also, if they destroyed the monopolies and with it the market cap of companies like Facebook, the pension funds of many potential voters would look much more meeker.
Will Tesla's tabless cells use Schoopage?
That people have done it doesn't make it a good idea.
We don't have to consider anything near unlimited resources here - you can do a masscan of the internet on commodity hardware in an hour, or you have a shodan sub (they've sold lifetime basic subscriptions before for $5). Actually doing the exploitation on every target again probably takes under an hour with a couple cheap droplets. The only thing that actually requires any effort is setting up a reliable C&C infra.
A recent smartphone has enough hardware for that, I would think, and if it hasn’t, but the idea made sense, it would be added. If the hardware can power a GPU and a million-pixel display, it can power quite a beefy DSP, too.

I would worry about the latency of a round-trip over Bluetooth. Google search tells me it’s, optimistically, 100ms single-trip, so 200ms round trip (https://www.headphonesty.com/2020/07/fix-sound-delay-bluetoo...)
On a similar topic of programmers needing to know non-programming skills, I'd suggest the book, "How To Be A Programmer"[1] by Robert Read. I read it about five years ago, and I liked it.

Talks about the essential technical skills -- managerial skills to manage a team of programmers, ethics of working as a programmer, and being part of a team. I remember loving the topics on how to talk to non-programmers and deal with difficult people.

1. https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Programmer-Robert-Read-ebook/d...
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> PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE

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How about YouTuBasic?
A SAR just means activity is suspicious. That's it - a SAR is not by itself evidence of wrongdoing, just a report to take a deeper look.

"Hey, this persons makes mostly foreign transactions with vague companies" is a SAR. That's not a crime, and it may not be criminal behavior - it's just an indicator that someone should look closer.

Can you imagine if your bank closed your account and refused to do business with you, without any kind of trial or notification, just because you did something that triggered a fraud measure?

Or to put this another way, how many times have you had to call your credit card provider because they stopped a transaction just because it was suspicious, even when it wasn't?
Imagine 100% human are greedy - there will be hunger games & we get extinct in no time. Hence, don't we need some moral standard to survive in peace?
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>Americans want the right to vote and participate in democracy, but are generally unwilling to take the responsibility to be informed.

I'm not so sure about that. Especially given that only ~42% of eligible voters cast votes in the 2016 US elections[0].

What's most troubling about that statistic is that more eligible voters did not vote than voted for any of the presidential candidates.

Without ascribing motives or intentions, it's not clear that your statement is supported by the facts.

I don't know what the motives/intentions of those non-voters might be. Given that I always vote in every election, because I see it as my duty and responsibility as a citizen, and because that's how we choose the path our government (and, more broadly our society) will take. Especially in local and state elections, where my vote (given the smaller size of electorates in such elections) is more consequential.

In any case, while voter suppression and disenfranchisement are all too common in the US, such activity doesn't explain why nearly half of eligible voters abdicated their responsibility and gave away their opportunity to create the government they want to have.

[0] https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/post-election-2016/voter-tu...
Yep, the government is very slow to change, by design. If more people understood that, they'd see that politicians on any side who promise major overhauls to how the country runs are lying, it's simply not possible with our current setup. Whether the government becomes more liberal or conservative, it'll take a while. At the same time, it's important to not get complacent, because the further the government goes down a path you don't like, the harder it gets to turn it around.
Early in my career, I also thought fast typing was important. Then I worked with a severely disabled engineer, who could manage to type at probably 3 words per minute. Even at this snail’s pace, he could produce as much as anyone else on the team, and his work was of a higher quality.
We can't answer that, consult a lawyer. We have no idea what your employment contract stipulates.
iPhone SE locked down to a specific carrier used in A-rate (best quality) goes for $50 on ebay. iOS14 is guaranteed to work on it for at least one year.

Edit: I am not an Apple guy but needed some cheap AF development hardware.
> A quarter of all food this animal receives through its entire life ends up as milk

You are not doing the math well. Milk is 87% water, so we should include both, what the animal drank and ate.

What you have after removing the water would be the real conversion factor (dried food to dried milk).
Looking at it rationally (coldly).

You are not trying to convince the cult member they are irrational - this is lost cause at this stage.

You are trying to paint a picture to everyone that might be susceptible to falling it in a hope that they will heed your warning.

My mum started listening to online masses - she was religious but now she is taking it up a notch but worse. She is subscribed to some fortuneteller/psycic youtuber. And it seems she is starting to take it somewhat seriously. And that concerns me greatly.
> the motto (of one of the NRO's satellites) comes to mind: Doing god's work with other people's money.

This was not an NRO mission patch, but one for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/youre-m...
I want to see "The Most Important Programming Skills for Non-Programmers"
Cochlear implants do not "restore hearing" but they do allow people who are completely deaf to sense sound well enough to understand speech.

That's a huge change in a deaf person's life.
I don't feel these unavoidable disadvantages are as black and white and you describe. To circumvent the fake title/bait & switch practices, you could allow users to flag videos as misleading, vote them as spam, etc. Put the number of flags next to the video, add the ability to not even see flagged videos.

Further, scripts could be used to report video play statistics to the scrape site. Drawback is users would have to add the script to their own site, but adding analytics scripts is common practice.
If you saw many seniors with slow typing speed, wouldn't that be a sign that typing speeds doesn't mater that much?
There is a distinct possibility that he will 'Jeffrey Epstein' while in custody and he's very well aware of that.
Overgrazing can and does cause problems but controlled grazing can actually fight desertification and has been used:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-livestock-gra...

The organic and natural farming methods used in parts of Asia - especially India, utilizes livestock for much more than just manure.

You should look up Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) by Subhash Palekar.

Quoting from this site:

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/zero-budget-natural-farming...

The “four wheels” of ZBNF are ‘Jiwamrita’, ‘Bijamrita’, ‘Mulching’ and ‘Waaphasa’.

- Jiwamrita is a fermented mixture of cow dung and urine (of desi (Indian) breeds), jaggery, pulses flour, water and soil from the farm bund.

- This isn’t a fertiliser, but just a source of some 500 crore micro-organisms that can convert all the necessary “non-available” nutrients into “available” form.

- Bijamrita is a mix of desi cow dung and urine, water, bund soil and lime that is used as a seed treatment solution prior to sowing.

- Mulching, or covering the plants with a layer of dried straw or fallen leaves, is meant to conserve soil moisture and keep the temperature around the roots at 25-32 degrees Celsius, which allows the microorganisms to do their job.

- Waaphasa, or providing water to maintain the required moisture-air balance, also achieves the same objective.
Those progressive movements are critical to emphasize, underlying the renaissance of the current era, but they also came with violent upheaval. In many ways, the world wars were one long conflict over those movements and their competitors, followed by a long period of residual conflicts in the form of the Cold War, Korean War and conflicts, Mideast politics, and many other things.

What that portends for the future is difficult to say, as this could all swing the other way very rapidly. However, it's hard not to see data like what's presented in this paper, combined with things like inequality and the global displaced persons crisis, and not conclude that something significant is coming worldwide.
There are around 300 million vegetarians in India. That is close to the population of the United States. Whatever health problems you think they may suffer from it isn't the ability to procreate.

I gave up meat 6 years ago. All of my non subtle clinically diagnosed health problems went away.

I did it because I couldn't think of killing animals anymore and the wonderful side effects of obesity, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure all went away.

I'm never touching meat again.
Content creators don't want to leave the platform because they profit via ad-revenue, monthly subscriptions and superchats.
Can anyone with context tell me how far 4000 rupees go in India? It feels cheap enough (like a fire device) but also that did not turn out hot.
yeah im with the people who are saying its a bad idea to release this data, spreading suspicion is completely pointless.
i study this professonally. batteries are sufficient if we make other improvements as well. and not true about combustion being essential.
>We live in differently realities.

That sums it up doesn't it? Both sides only see the worst the other side has to offer. It feeds the algorithm for it to be so.

But that illusion is actually quite fragile and hard to maintain, and the other side has an obvious incentive to shatter it by any means available. I would guess a lot of people, on both sides, will switch votes this time around.
I'm interested in antimatter too. There should be a lot of antimatter out there, but we can't seem to find it. It's possible that antimatter does interact gravitationally at a smaller magnitude with matter and/or other antimatter. As far as I know, we haven't even experimentally confirmed whether antimatter has the same sign for gravitational effects as regular matter (ie whether it's repulsive or attractive), but it seems very likely that it's the same as regular matter. The magnitude could be different though.
Flee to other platforms and get their videos taken down too. It’s so ridiculous to see the majority of the comments here not to understand the simple reality that other platforms also have to adhere to these copyright laws.
I have to disagree with the fast typist - depending on your definition of fast. Without any formal training, I touch type with one hand (not by choice) and I am decently fast and accurate. But I spend much more time thinking than I do typing.

But on the other hand, I can’t imagine having two good hands, be a professiomal software developer and not learning how to touch type. It just would seem to be a level of laziness.
Can you point out from where in that report you've got those numbers? I couldn't find them.
This is not a $1 hearing aid and never will be. The material cost of almost any device is insignificant compared to the overall cost of manufacturing, testing, and distributing it. The barrier to low-cost hearing aids in most countries is medical regulation and liability coverage, not expensive parts. Maybe India's regulations are lax enough that someone could bulk-manufacture cheap, poorly-tested medical devices to get the price down to a few dollars, but there's no technological breakthrough in this "new device" that would enable that; if there were a viable market, it would already be manufactured. There's no profit to be made, so why would anyone bother?
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Atleast till some years ago Queuing Theory was considered fundamental for CS, and certainly statistics and probability and spatial geometry is very important for CS, apart from discrete math.

Also entirely another kind of math is also used often by CS, the "numerical methods", and also the fundamental arithmetic on digital domain, which also is usually treated separate from discrete math.
These researchers would agree with you, so it's not exactly a fringe idea. I think it's not more commonly discussed because most people aren't used to doing root cause analysis that spans several steps. It's easy to just assume the other side is filled with uneducated fools or truly evil people than it is to keep asking "why" repeatedly and come to conclusions. Also it makes sense that both major US parties are mostly filled with wealthy people, so if they can keep "the poors" fighting about orthogonal issues, the two parties can stay in power.

https://www.noemamag.com/welcome-to-the-turbulent-twenties/
/r/politics was taken over by David Brock and crew around 2016.

/r/conspiracy has seen a takeover by the right wing equivalents over the last year or so, since the banning of /r/t_d
The notion of bias is totally meaningless. What you should worry about is truthfulness. Everyone is biased, some people lie even if that means being selective in the sources they use to build their narrative rather than outright fabrication.

I have read the guardian for my entire life, I am aware of it's biases but I would not continue to trust the newspaper if I believed it was lying.

It seems to be an American disease spreading throughout the world to accuse things of bias constantly, when the root issue is just falsehoods and being economical with the truth. A newspaper should aim to represent multiple views but should not shy from having the conviction to both be explicit about what the truth is and who they support.
How to integrate a fuzzer with your project?
God I hate Jio. They want to be the combined version of Amazon, Facebook, and Google in India.

The sad thing is they have deep ties with the current Govt, meaning no anti-monopoly action against them will ever be initiated against them.

They are completely against privacy and have don't have any ethical values at all. They block all VPN's, 'progressive' sites like Wikipedia, Reddit randomly, and blatantly copy other competing apps (whatsapp and zoom were the biggest thing they copied).

They are 100% going to get into the ads and tracking business in 1.5 years. They are the ISP, the chat app, cloud storage app, the browser, the entertainment/media app of many people here. They literally know more about you than Google does.
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The article notes that democratic backsliding is a global phenomena, particularly in the G-20. Seeing as countries with much less wealth/income inequality than the US are experiencing the same trend, that kind of disproves this theory. There have been populist revolts in countries with a pretty low Gini, most recently Chile which is in the middle of the pack inequality-wise for Latin America. Basically, this is a popular but demonstrably wrong theory. I recommend reading Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri for a deeper explanation of how the Internet Age enables rolling, continuous populist revolts that have inchoate goals and accomplish little
>Anti-trust laws (and the concepts that are based upon) do not apply to free services

Do you have a source for this? I feel like Microsoft would have liked to have known that, back when they lost an antitrust case around a freely provided web browser.

>Ad revenue which covers less than their overhead makes them a non-profit

That's not what "non-profit" means.

>nobody makes money in the free media hosting and distribution product domain.

Nobody has been profitable, but that doesn't mean nobody is trying or nobody could if the market weren't anti-competitive. There is also plenty of case-law in the US establishing that just because an anti-competitive scheme wasn't profitable doesn't make it legal. Hell, a lot of anti-competitive activity works specifically because it's not profitable in the short term.

>YouTube wouldn't even have a system that automatically takes down channels except that laws were written that required them to do so.

But not in the manner that they do. The point being made wasn't that their management of takedown notices is itself anti-competitive behavior, it's that the fact they don't have to change it to something more reasonable is evidence that they don't have any competition, which is indicative of a monopoly in the space.

>they only acquired it for the good will providing a free service generates for them

Again, source. I know YT is unlikely to be profitable right now, but I seriously doubt the purchase was a good-will gesture rather than a strategic long-term investment. I don't think there were a lot of people whose opinion of Google went up as a result of the purchase.

>r......d

Really? Was that necessary to make your point?
In late 2018 we rebased desktop Brave from Electron to a chromium front end fork, so if you tried Brave earlier than then, I hope you'll give it another try. Thanks.
"Be likable" is the most important skill. Everywhere.
Extraditing someone to a country with the death penalty is barred in UK law, however it's no bar if "the Secretary of State gets adequate written assurance that the death penalty will not be imposed or, if imposed, will not be carried out"...

It's quite the disgrace.
I suggest "10 EASY STEPS FOR BETTER i" as for(i=0;i<10;i++).
Don't even know what to say about this. I'll probably vote third party but I'm not going to pretend it's going to have any effect whatsoever on what the eventual Democrat or Republican president would do about Assange.
The Google info box shows Google is perfectly happy to take content, uncredited, and deny your site clicks.

No point enabling that behavior for site owners.
And OSR’s The NT Insider which for some reason was delivered around the world for free and contained a ton of useful information.
Even a house you own is probably going to be a good $10K/year after property taxes, insurance, utilities, and even modest maintenance. A condo might be less but condo fees can be significant too.
The parser should use TikTokenization
The earliest proponents I know of - the ones writing XP books back in the '90s - had a very flexible definition of "unit" and assumed that you would vary the scale according to your needs. So some units might be low level components like data structures, but others might be large modules that included a lot of moving parts, up to and including actual databases.

The world has moved on now, and "agile" no longer means "use your own best judgment." It's become a carefully catalogued list of rules and prescriptions and definitions and dictums.

Which, come to think of it, is an excellent example of memetic natural selection. "Use your own best judgment" is a meme that is uniquely poorly adapted to survival in an ecosystem that consists largely of people jabbering back and forth on the Internet like we are right now. You can't base a rollicking good fun argument or a strongly worded blog post on something like that.
>There's no profit to be made, so why would anyone bother?

Really dude?