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I thought it might be an H1B article at first.

But..

> Thus far, it’s evident that this was another episode in the SpyWar which we’re in with both Moscow and Beijing, and the Kremlin won this round.

Does seem like it. Or at least that is the most convenient narrative if not the truth.
Tesla is the innovator in this space for 10+ years. Only a few of the companies are all in on electric- and 10 years from now there will be no new old school cars. Some of them have even giant liabilities because of the mess to the environment they have created, which also damaged their brand. Some of them probably wouldn't even exist anymore was it not for government backing/looking away and in some cases even intervention.

Many of the companies mentioned are quite far behind, and will face severe challenges in the coming years trying to adjust with little marging for error.

But most importantly Tesla is also a battery company! Who knows, most of the other players might even have to buy batteries from Tesla.

Gut feeling tells me that Tesla will still grow significantly, especially if they start selling batteries to other markets at scale, but also the car business itself will experience a tremendous growth.
Still paying the monthly fee though
I agree that promotions are an important part of what makes Shogi work so well. As I mentioned in the article, I see there are two ways to make drop chess work - either build a game around weak pieces, or make the king more nimble. I think Shogi has perfected the first approach. I love Shogi. I don't want to reinvent Shogi. But there's something that I love about Western Chess: I love knights, bishops, rooks, and queens. I also like the pawn structures it has. I like Western Chess, but I don't love it the way I love Go or Shogi. My goal is to create a version of chess that I love, and has the knights, bishops, rooks, and pawn structures that I love. This is my current best guess at what that looks like.
Can they give everyone a free router and charge a $10/month system access fee regardless of whether you use their router? This is how cell service in Canada used to be structured haha.

Generally I’m not a fan of this kind of targeted legislation and rule making. Pricing should be mandated to be advertised all-in or left alone; these folks aren’t gonna let this income go.
The only way to justify the valuation of Tesla is to assume that they do something that doesn't depend on individual customer sales, because those aren't ramping up at the right rate. I think they are about to launch an autonomous taxi service.

Here is a good example of Elon Musk talking about how robotaxis are going to push up the price[0]. So far nobody has talked about Tesla operating their own robotaxi service.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/08/elon-musk-self-driving-robot...
Benchmarks. CAS latency is only a small part of total memory latency as seen by the CPU.
This is in case you're recording an officer and you want zero ambiguity when writing a complaint form. It's not just about getting lawyers, often cops act differently when being recorded from different angles or livestreamed for other people to save. You must be European, it's not always as simple as "Here's your ticket, goodbye.".
IANAScientist, but FWIW, I think it might be (metaphorically or literally) like an "infinity shot" when you point a video camera at a live monitor of its own output.
Mansplaining on-chain derivatives, the savor of blockchains
> For 382 days ending on 11 July 1966, he consumed only vitamins, electrolytes, and zero-calorie beverages such as tea, coffee, and sparkling water, although he occasionally consumed small amounts of milk and/or sugar with the beverages, especially during the final weeks of the fast.

That's an apples to oranges comparison with hibernation. Your body needs some vitamins to process body fat into energy.
Express VPN is fool-proof. The most advanced thing you can do is flash your router with their firmware in order to do house-wide VPN switch for all devices.
> as a malfunctioning modem can take down a neighborhood

The worst case scenario is a poorly secured cable modem gets infected by malware, then infects a bunch of other cable modems before switching to "take down the neighborhood" mode in which it transmits random garbage onto the cable. Since the cable is a shared resource, any misbehaving modem can prevent all others being able to connect.

Perhaps just 1% vulnerable modems across the USA, and most people's home internet would be offline for weeks until whoever in every single neighborhood has an infected modem is identified and unplugged.

Considering that, I can completely see why they wouldn't want you using a cheapo modem you got from Walmart.
I can’t claim any number so I don’t. I would love to see how you came up with that number, can you share source?

It is very different from my experience
No worries, for sure the SoftwareBitBang implementation is not designed to stream digital audio or video at high speed but it is handy for many to move few bytes from sensors in a local network that can be built very quickly and at a low cost.

Have a nice Christmas :)
If that’s the case it makes it more likely that hibernation for long duration space flight may be more achievable. The ability might not be too far outside our standard biological envelope.

There are many long, slow, but low energy orbital trajectories between bodies in the solar system that take advantage of multiple gravity assists, etc. We currently use those for probes but plans to send humans places always aim for high energy fast trajectories for obvious reasons. This limits their payload and increases the cost. Hibernation would make these slow efficient paths viable.

There are down to earth uses too, like sleeping while waiting for a critical donor organ to become available or for the time it takes to culture one from your stem cells.
is there a way to get you up with Information or a talk about issues within the java server?
Thanks for your perspective and the wonderfully detailed response. That's quite interesting about Julie Taymor. I wish I would have been able to see that and now I'm curious to read a review. Do you have some online Shakespeare resources that you cold recommend for reading more about these types of elements discussions of Shakespeares works and career arc?
Of course the need for external stimuli is a universal and important human need. The question is merely whether 100% of one's waking moments must serve this need, or whether one has the ability to spend a percent or so of one's time not satisfying this need:

> …that people detest being made to spend six to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think – even to the extent of being willing to give themselves mild electric shocks instead.

Simply pointing out the importance of external stimuli is like responding to an observation that many people cannot hold their breath for 30 seconds (say) by pointing out the importance of breathing.
Finally!

Multidimensional array discussions tended to dissolve into bikeshedding. Some people wanted the ability to store an array as either transpose, that is, by row or by column. Then that had to be extended to N dimensions. That added a lot of complexity to support a rare use case. Then the proposal got so complex it was shelved. All this is in old USENET comp.lang.c++, if that hasn't been lost yet.
On-chain derivatives: the only thing making blockchains relevant
So assign random values to connection weights and then ‘spin’ those weights to a combination of other random values that hopefully perform a bit more favourably.. isn’t this just random search?
That's a legal question I don't have the answer to but I know there are time limits on claiming inheritance that vary by municipality.
Oh, someone is fixing Go? Nice.
Those are the "empty(/bad) calories for the mind".

It's akin to eating processed snacks when you're hungry, instead of nutrient whole foods
PoE Ethernet would mean just one cable to each device.

Hmm ... seems like you can also network boot them over DHCP/TFTP:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
> It is wrong to pretend that lockdown isn't effective.

If they were effective, why do graphs show seasonality predominates?

There's yet to be conclusive scientific evidence of the effectiveness of lockdowns.

No where in the 2006 Bush plan does it even mention something akin to lockdown - there's mention of quarantine and isolation under police power but that's about it.

Surely the medical community and govt would have written about something like that beforehand?

> It's pretty embarrassing that China had got the disease beaten, while we're still struggling with COVID-19.

Why are they spending billions as part of their campaign to control narratives through means of propaganda, etc.?
One issue is that anti-trust has moved from being concerned about harm to consumers (great!) to being focused on harm to other businesses (not so great).

For example, a TON of issues especially in EU around Google de-prioritizing some of the scam "Review" and shopping network sites that were just total trash and clutter. Yes, this hurt those businesses, but as someone who was absolutely sick of them in search results it was WONDERFUL to see them go down in flames.

To be clear, places like nextag were paid "comparison" shopping engines. To have enough margin to win the "comparison" you often had just total trash products advertising impossible claims.

Anti-trust seems focused on the harm shutting these folks did to these businesses, but no one asks if users actually liked these folks (or the auto review sites that someone generated just boilerplate but clearly never actually had product in hand). Again, SO glad they pushed some of these down, lots of complaints.

If you think people want this trash, just start your own search engine that emphasizes this junk.
What We Know about Java 16 and 17 So Far
Ah good times. No adblocker needed and a sophisticated audience :D
Here's a link to the video of an interview with Steve Furber [1], who worked on the chip's development, discussing this.

[1] https://youtu.be/1jOJl8gRPyQ?t=508
The bread would likely be frozen and thawed. It's fine. Historically Arctic peoples often bought bread in bulk and thawed it as needed.
I use PJON in combination with MYSENSORS in my smart home system. . It is the first wired protocol that works so stable and don't even need extra hardware - just one free IO pin. I have over 200 smart sensors and devices around my house. PJON was a perfect solution for all problems I was facing with wired and wireless communication for DIY smart home solutions. With some luck PJON will be officially supported by MySensors already from next release - beta test are already done. I think this will make PJON more common.
The Web accelerated everything. The speed of picking up knowledge and general developments has multiplied by who knows how much. The know-how in every single vocation is no longer compartmentalized.

A chef comes up with a new trend in an Austin restaurant, a few weeks later it's all over L.A.

Thank you for visiting! Please sign my guestbook.
I took this course during my time at Imperial. Tom Clarke is a great lecturer, and is actually passionate about teaching (which cannot be said about other lecturers...)
Not only are there "enough vaccines to go around", no one is getting placebos and these people have already been working through the pandemic, why would they need a placebo?
From what I’ve seen, the purpose and direction is quite different between the two (Zig seems like a better C, while V seems like a better Go.) I think it’s unnecessary to stoke another flamewar between the two. I may have some doubts with V, mostly with the fact that the language spec for managing memory isn’t clear and the compiler seems incredibly unstable right now - probably would need a few years to be usable for early testers. But I really don’t want that criticism mixed with any mentioning of Zig since the two aim for different needs.
> they don't break the rules or tell outright falsehoods
They don’t but that hardly qualifies as “highest standard of journalism”
You just missed the step where you quickly become 10x bigger than any member of the recording industry and become the one telling politicians how to re-write their silly laws.

But I hear you had better luck with your room-sharing app.
Don't rush to conclusion mate, it is still early by programming language standard, and jury is still out on Go and Rust.

Remember where was Python when 20 years old? It's just another scripting programming language on the block and was playing second fiddle to Perl and TCL. Ruby was hot on its heels due to RoR hipsters [1]. Replace Perl/Rust, TCL/C++, Ruby/Go and RoR/Kubernetes, see the pattern emerging for interpreted/compiled programming languages diaspora.

But now look how far Python has come despite the transition from Python 2 to 3 fiasco. At least D has passed the stage of growing pain while transitioning from D1 and D2 with minimum damages.

[1]https://insights.dice.com/2018/03/09/hipsters-ruined-ruby-fi...
What is this Rust server you speak of?
Lots of extraordinary claims in this article and literally no proof. This isn’t helpful. You can’t just say, (paraphrased) “Wow Google and Facebook had an illegal exclusivity deal! It’s so illegal and crazy I can’t offer any evidence”. I hate both companies but this reads like a tabloid. Companies are sued all the time and what the Plaintiff alleges can deviate greatly from reality. Sometimes cases are fishing for evidence to support a theory.
As a Muslim, I can assure you there’s no such thing as mystic Islam. Islam is foremost about clarity, simplicity and straightforwardness in its message of pure monotheism. It does not seek to lure people by mesmerising them with incomprehensible riddles. It hides nothing.

The so called mystic Islam also known as Sufism, is a deviant sect, and is fundamentally a gateway to polytheism, as it borrows many practices from polytheistic religions. In fact, many of the famous ancient sufis have roots in India, where paganism and idol worshipping was and is still prevalent. Hence sufis are adored by Hindus.

I hope i could be clear to you
Thank you for this. Interesting points in here I certainly had not considered.
Fun situation I found myself in a couple of years back: My options were expiring for a company I had worked for (3 year expiration after I left) and the secondary market was not great. I was able to make a sale well above my strike price but below the most recent 409(a) valuation. I arranged a deal where I exercised and sold the shares in the same day, with the buyer fronting the money to exercise as part of the transaction.

In this case despite the fact that I sold the shares on the same day for less than the 409(a) valuation, that valuation is still used to determine taxes owed for exercising. And that spread is taxed as income, whereas the subsequent "loss" on the sale (since the cost basis for the stock was then the 409(a) valuation and I sold lower than that) is a capital loss, and so they do not cancel each other out. Luckily in my case my sale price was just a little below the 409(a) valuation so I didn't get hit too hard but still, it felt absurd.
I'm curious why ISO exercises were ever added into the AMT income calculation. Exercised shares in private companies are generally very illiquid, and exercised shares in public companies would get taxed on sale, just like any other stock. On the surface, it just seems like a rule that doesn't make sense at all, but likely would never get changed due to the optics of it.
Observation: "avsvmcloud.com" -- seems to be the one constant around which a whole bunch of other things, which are variables revolve... (oh sure, "appsync-api" also appears to be a constant -- but it exists at a far less important place in the URL).

"avsvmcloud.com" is far, far more important -- because ALL of the communications go there...

Now, it may be that "avsvmcloud.com" is a legitimate ISP, hosting provider or what-have-you...

But, if I were an investigator on this case, I know I'd want to track each and every place that these requests flow through whoever owns the "avsvmcloud.com" network...

I'd start with the idea that because a subdomain is being used, that the first thing that happens is that subdomains must be resolved by a DNS subdomain servers... so where exactly on whoever owns the "avsvmcloud.com" network, does that happen?

I'd even go so far as to audit, completely dissasemble, the DNS software that is running on those servers... Give it to as many security researchers as possible... What does it do? Where does it point to? What's on the other end of those IP addresses that it resolves to? Are there any anomalies in that IP address resolution? Specifically, when/where and how do they manifest? Are there any patterns there? Who owns the machines on the other side of those IP addresses?

Etc., etc.

In fact...

What would happen if someone were to run a machine learning algorithm on say a, let's be polite and call it a "challenged" DNS resolver?

Would it find some DNS resolution anomalies?

In fact, if I were an investigator, I'd go as far as to audit the whole chain of DNS resolvers / the DNS resolution process THOROUGHLY...
This is why we should work to transform the UN Peacekepeers into a militarized world police, composed of volunteers from countries all over the world. While simultaneously drawing down and disarming the world’s militaries.

UN inspectors would be allowed into any member country, to inspect potential human rights violations, nuclear and chemical weapons development, and large environmental hazards. They need to have teeth to enforce things.

The Peacekeepers should be a decentralized organization with only three main rules:

1. Your only job is to defuse existing conflicts and violence, and force warring sides to resort to using courts and diplomacy.

2. Anyone in the organization found breaking the first rule (using force to take sides or escalate a conflict, like Norriega) will be put on trial and executed if found guilty.

3. Any alumnus of the organization breaking the first rule is likewise hunted down, captured and put on trial. The only difference is, if they are not on active duty, they aren’t even empowered to carry out Rule #1 fully but must call on-duty reinforcements.

Don’t like it - don’t join the peacekeepers. Every cadet would be trained in these three rules, so no one can take over the peacekeepers and rule the world.

And there is a set of rules that all countries can abide by:

4. If there is a sectarian conflict between groups A, B and C in a region, only peacekeepers from countries and backgrounds with no serious stake in who wins can intervene. Others are sanctioned / excluded from that conflict etc.

5. The peacekeepers wear a specific and unmistakable white-themed uniform. Anyone in any country caught impersonating their uniform would constitute a criminal offense, like impersonating a police officer.

6. They all wear body cameras, they present themselves and warn any armed combatants or terrorists to put down their weapons or they will shoot to kill. They are also able to pre-emtively kill in certain situations where they can prove massive harm (eg a bomb) and that a warning could have allowed it to happen.

This monopoly on force would probably lead to a net reduction in harm, assuming it can’t be taken over or corrupted.
I use PJON in combination with MYSENSORS in my smart home system. It is the first wired protocol that works so stable and don't even need extra hardware - just one free IO pin. I have over 200 smart sensors and devices around my house. PJON was a perfect solution for all problems I was facing with wired and wireless communication for DIY smart home solutions. With some luck PJON will be officially supported by MySensors already from next release - beta test are already done. I think this will make PJON more common.
Still, it’s definitely not “all an act”. Yes, Michael has a few good moments, but more often than not, he’s doing stupid shit. GPS incident, the management class, etc.

I think these moments are there to show us that Michael tries his best to be a good manager, and that he sometimes does have good ideas.

As for the numbers, I think that’s all thanks to his employees - he just gets carried along for the ride.
That's only true if you accept moral relativism.
You've never heard of a commercial break? Find that hard to believe.
> There's a near-universal expectation of sex, so this could easily fall afoul of FOSTA-SESTA regulations.

I've always been curious where exactly the line on prostitution is drawn. Not in a judgemental way, just in a legal curiosity way. If sex is not explicitly part of the transaction, but heavily implied as a requirement, does that count? The woman could always say no, but then there might not be a second date.

I have a suspicion that it probably does count as prostitution, but because it doesn't create a lot of the issues surrounding traditional prostitution, it gets ignored. No one is complaining about the crime in their neighborhood because of sugar daddies. The women involved seem generally attractive and well-dressed, so there are fewer cries of it being a form of abuse. The whole affair is fairly discrete, rather than being out in the open. The men involved are wealthy as well, which probably helps keep the whole thing under wraps.
I have wondered how possible it might be to set up a few such cameras in a region and use them to triangulate meteor landing sites, maybe go find them after? I don't know how precise you could get, but it feels like if you could get down to a football field or something, maybe you could find the recently fallen ones, at least the large ones.
I does indeed seem inevitable. That's why I'm surprised that some still believe cryptocurrencies are going to escape that fate somehow, even though money is even more critical for governments to control than information.

But in terms of suckiness I think that it's not primarily caused by regulation (although the cookie law does try very hard to inflict maximum pain for zero gain). The funding model is just broken and I don't really see a way to fix it without losing even more freedom and privcy.
Major Design Changes Coming in Gnome 40, Out Next Year
FWIW, this post came after that one, and there has been somewhat more development activity this year compared to last:

https://sandstorm.io/news/2020-02-03-reviving-sandstorm