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> Why do you need patents for secret technology anyway?

A government contractor who invents something would like to prevent other government contractors from infringing on their invention.

Also, if an inventor keeps an invention secret and private then another inventor may be able to independently invent the same thing, patent it, and then prevent the first inventor from using the invention.
Thanks!

That's not exactly what I was looking for, though. Because every listed approach injects technical complexity in the middle of my business logic.

I.e. if I have two consequent tasks I have to define them as a separate scripts or commands, package them, upload and then orchestrate them in a completely different place.

While in Prefect I have all the niceness of writing almost plain Python (as with new tasks API in Airflow), then I can package and distribute the whole thing in docker image with a single command. It really matters!
I broadly agree with you but measuring the results of some initiatives strikes me as very challenging. Two examples jump to mind.

I remember reading about early childhood education investments. When the program was completed they saw no measurable results so the program was cut. Researchers picked up the study years later and did follow-up and found dramatic improvements in the children that were a part of the program.
Now if the measurement endpoint was set to the 2nd point, the program would have been viewed as a success, but we have, as a country, an incredibly short term view. It would be extremely challenging to find anyone in the US government that would have invested in the program if they were told the results wouldn't be known for 40 years (positive or negative).

The second example is military spending. This spend is done to keep us "safe" (others would argue it has other purposes e.g. to fund the military industrial complex or as a tool for stimulus). But if we take it at face value that military spend is supposed to keep us safe, what would be the measurable goal?

I get the need for goals, but I think you need to understand the limitations. And I think we also need to focus on long term planning in this country.
I've seen this take place with all sorts of things. Restaurants where you get free dessert by leaving an online review. Hotels where you get some type of upgrade. Stores where you leave a review and get a chance to win a gift card.
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I think those companies care about their customers it’s just that regular users are not their customers. Facebook cares if people stop putting ads on Facebook, not if some random person has a problem with their service.
The OP design might see a big jump in effectiveness if they add an air guide one one or both sides of the box fan (just make a simple square cardboard tube with some tape) so that by the time the air reaches the filter, it has laminar flow. This helped enormously in a DIY design I kludged together in Thailand (where box fans are NOT available, so I had to get something to work with regular round desk fans, which everyone already has):

https://slice-of-thai.com/air/

"cannon" design (ugly but effective): https://slice-of-thai.com/air/#p3

This may also explain why the OP heard that the tape "helps" but was surprised when it didn't. The key issue is likely not sealing with tape but rather forming an air guide.
More common with HTML is to set the text to the same color as the background which allows you to see it when you highlight. (Which is probably easier in general.)
if you are culturing bees, and cannabis the bees will take pollen from male or intersex plants.

female plants are not pollen producers however the trichomes of female plants are primarily used by bees to produce propolis, the bee equivalent of construction adhesive.

this results in a small amount of crossover into the honey, usually a minimally detectable amount.

this also results in a problem if your hives are new and your bees need to seal up airgaps..your female plants will be robbed of glandular trichomes and they will be mixed with other compounds such as pine resin etc. to create an adhesive compound that is not amenable to smoking or oral consumption in large quantities. This will reduce the potency yield of your female cannabis. if you dont want this to happen you must use a screen house for your cannabis, or keep your bees and cannabis separated by at least 3 miles
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Even when the means of production are in the hands of the workers, that presumably doesn't necessarily equate to accepting the workers tinkering all day, getting nothing done.
Whether or not that was their stated intent, it isn't what they actually did.

Here's the effective rate table going back to before Regan:

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-averag...

Not exactly huge differences before and after. And compare the recent effective rates to the ones at the start of the table. About the same for the top quintile, significantly lower for all the others. So we should be seeing a reduction in wealth inequality then, right? Or at worst it should stay the same, so why are we seeing the opposite?

Obviously this doesn't prove that the thing that hasn't actually been tried would actually help, but it does point to the idea that maybe the problem lies somewhere else entirely. For example, lack of effective antitrust enforcement.
There’s another approach - where null takes on contextual meaning.

List<Integer> f = null;
f.add(1);

This is clearly a NullPointerException in Java but in a language with Nil punning, f is automatically a list containing 1.

(conj nil 1)
;;=> (1)
> Amazon suggests that Amazon reviews are worth at least something.

More and more it is proven that reviews themselves don't mean much. You should consider your own personal relationship with the brand, or from people you trust. Of course we don't all have the luxury of those things and sometimes you need to read a few reviews. After all, without GOOD and HONEST reviews we probably would not have a company like Anker, which I love dearly and who did it all right... but like with all things, you have to be critical of what you see and read and hear. Reviewers are not always honest, people are not always honest. Particularly when there is money at stake, particularly when you're online.

I'll have you know that the movie "Wolfman's Got Nards" is currently sitting at 100% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Does that mean you should go watch "Wolfman's Got Nards"?
Will they run into the same roadblocks that befell Wayland on Nvidia? I guess not, because they'll likely create their own compositor that bridges into dwm, so they can use EGLStreams but I sorta hope MS does pressure Nvidia into some kind of support.
People who seek treatment for insomnia are often told to institute some form of sleep hygiene. My immediate thought was the comment was made by someone who found the advice worked for him/her.
People usually commit suicide because they see no way out, not because of frustration or humiliation.
CBTi is generally effective, and "physical ailments" are not generally suspect in the case of insomnia. You can get checked for ailments such as sleep apnea anyhow and CBTi doesn't somehow jeopardize that. It's not like it has to be either or.
> The Nvidia 3000 series GPUs for example are definitely the most powerful GPUs ever built and Samsung fabbed those.

Yup, and has been unable to meet nV's demand-- such that this has been accused of being a "paper launch".
I personally never cared about products being closed. In fact I still use Windows 7 and XP (albeit my main OS is Arch Linux). It (Flash, but Windows 7 and XP also) works (and is way more efficient than modern alternatives, both in runtime and in development) and that's Ok.

There also are open-source implementation like Ruffle, Lightspark, Gnash etc (I never bothered to try any of them however).

Even the original Adobe Flash player is not dead - it will[1] be maintained by Harman for years to come.

Nevertheless, what I meant to say was nobody really forced or could force Google - AFAIK killing Flash was Google's and Apple's own initiative.

[1] https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe
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This is a common refrain, but cities would absolutely collect substantial property taxes from new residents because new residents are much more likely to be paying substantially higher property taxes (having bought now-expensive properties). Commercial properties bring in tons of sales taxes, but not quite as much in property taxes. (See Figure 6 in [0].)

The history of exclusionary zoning is a history of replacing restrictive racial covenants (binding agreements on property titles that prevent sales to certain groups) and redlining (which rendered unavailable mortgage loans to anyone for properties in neighborhoods that were not majority-white), both of which were invalidated by the Fair Housing Act in 1968, triggering the wave of exclusionary zoning intended to keep out the same people.

The history is clear that this type of zoning is explicitly designed to keep properties expensive, to keep them out of the hands of "undesirables". Prop 13 then insulates longtime residents from that same increase in cost. They go hand in hand, but I'm not sure it's fair to say that Prop 13 contributes to zoning.

[0]: https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/tax/property-tax-primer-1129...
Hahaha, seemingly the FSF had a goal of getting 500 new members during 2020 and two weeks away of 2021 they only got 222.
Can you confirm that you don’t recommend storing session tokens in localStorage / anything accessible by client-side JS? (It’s a commonly recommended bad practice these days)
It seems that Russia's cyber prime directive is to ceaselessly attempt to penetrate USG contractor's systems, which, to a layperson seems like an obvious cybersecurity flaw.

How are these systems secured in other Western countries? How do France and the UK, for example, secure their critical infrastructure networks? The U.S. strategy of just contracting out all these essential service is revealing its pressure points. Seems that the USG insists on just cutting checks to these companies like SolarWinds, which are more interested in gaining clients, generating revenue, and marketing than effectively engineering durable solutions. Another factor is probably NIST's questionable practices about password hygiene (requiring them to be changed every 30-60 days).
That's true, one drawback is that it isn't progressive, but I would argue that the massive simplification of the tax law would allow the government to bring in much more money
than it currently does, which it can then divert to social services for those who most need it.

As an example of a working implementation of this system, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints effectively taxes all their members at a flat 10% of their annual income, and I thought I read somewhere the church is both debt-free and has a crazy amount of money in the bank ($100B+). Even though the poorest members still pay 10% and it impacts them more than Mitt Romney-type members, the poor members can then go and receive assistance from the church (rent money, food, etc.) if they need it.

Of course, with a church people voluntarily give their money whereas with the government people do everything they can to keep their money, so perhaps it wouldn't be as effective as I think it would be. However, what is very clear to me is that the current tax law needs to be much, much simpler.
You might be reading way too much into the "old, white" part IMHO. It was a generalization. A generalization that was successful in illustrating that the ad was targeted primarily at legislators and their peers. Nothing more.
We are a nation of laws, not men. Everyone should be treated the same under the law. Every person in your example should pay the same amount of tax.
I see a lot more ROT13 text on Twitter when people want to make comments about recently released media.
Facebook is much more convenient as a marketplace for illicit goods compared to a darknet, but wouldn’t it also be much easier for authorities to hunt down participants in that marketplace?
You're right that a totally fair comparison would use zstd. I didn't personally run these benchmarks, but I believe that the dominate time was computing the binary subtraction mappings, so I would expect similar results.
> they sought to exploit it in some profitable way

Agreed, Google did. And now the chickens are coming home to roost – hence my initial post.

And on your equating of "well-educated" with "woke"… What a disgusting thing to say. Your demonstration of such non sequiturs and reading miscomprehension, combined with the downvotes and post flagging, makes much better sense now.
A fascinating bit of history is that the reason for this data structure was to explicitly distance git from BitKeeper.

BitKeeper was used by many kernel developers, until one of them (the co-inventor of rsync, unsurprisingly) reverse-engineered its protocol, leading its proprietary owner to end its offer of a free license to Linus Torvalds and other developers.

While searching for a replacement, the Linux community sparked two projects: Mercurial (which uses changesets, similar to BitKeeper) and Git (which uses Merkle trees). Git was created by Linus in the unexpected free time that this event created; and he mentioned being weary of Mercurial and having adopted this design for Git to remove any ambiguity that they were creating a BitKeeper clone.

Incidentally, BitKeeper did demand that its customers not work on Mercurial[1].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115009/http://article.gm...
Seller will just rise prices accordingly to offset 1000 items sold with 1 bad feedback. So, like 10 cents per item?
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I think you mean intelligible? It’s the opposite of unintelligible.
We will monetize features that are required by large enterprises. Features needed by developers / startups will largely be free. We have a pricing philosophy section on our pricing page that goes into more details about this :)
They use CRISPR/Cas9 [1] techniques on animal models, mice in this case. They knock out the gene that transcribes the protein in question and observe the impact in the lab.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
> I assume they still have analytics, but the analytics are all happening server-side which provides them basics like pageviews and visitors. And since you have to be logged in to do almost anything in github they don't need cookies to track what you do while logged in, thats all going through their servers and databases anyway.

Considering Microsoft's size, wouldn't this still be a concern, and might even still violate GDPR if they were to use identifiers like IP or Microsoft accounts between their various services ?

For an even more extreme version: see Google or Amazon (AWS).
Or they could just have used PHP instead:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Shouldn't it logically be "make heads and tails of"?

There are a few superfluous expressions, that make me think I'm missing something (but it's hard enough to read as it is, the reader needs something familiar to hang on to). e.g.

So I decided not to rush it.
But then, all at once,
I was, after all
That depends on what personal data they're collecting and for what purpose, in the case that a person hasn't explicitly opted-in by giving consent freely. I don't think it's possible for us to figure those details out exhaustively merely by observation from the outside.
What good is a ROT13 encoder? They would need a ROT13 decoder.
Buying from cheap places will help them get out of poverty though. Which would in turn solve most problems.
That thinking led to the corruption. Any normal senator, governor, or president has the skills to work at a high level in corporate America. That pays better, counting only the legitimate pay. It should be no surprise that voters are seldom able to hire (elect) anybody non-corrupt. We aren't paying market rate for the desired skills or for the level of responsibility.

Senators get about $200,000 and the president gets about $400,000.

At an S&P 500 company, CEO pay is about $15,000,000 on average. Elon Musk gets around $595,000,000. Tim Cook gets around $133,000,000. Sundar Pichai gets around $280,000,000. Satya Nadella gets around $77,000,000.

None of those CEOs have responsibility for tariffs, military operations, hundreds of millions of people, thousands of nuclear weapons, or over 10 million employees.

You get what you pay for.

Proper pay: The senate splits 0.1% of GDP, the house splits 0.1% of GDP, the supreme court splits 0.1% of GDP, and the president gets 0.1% of GDP. Lump the VP in with the senate, probably. That totals 0.4% of GDP for the whole group.
Pork belly contains important macronutrients like protein and fat, which is part of why it tastes good. Despite that, I know I can stop eating it when choose to. Pork belly itself is not a problem; the problem is unhealthy eating habits. Thankfully, habits can be learned, unlearned, and modified.

"X in moderation" is pretty good advice for most X. It just turns out many people are quite bad at moderation, prefering instead to "shove X into their mouth" or otherwise consume in ways that promote overindulgence. Usually, these habits deserve scrutiny more than X. It possible to choose to eat in a different way.

Seriously, read that book. If you've studied "serious diets," you should know their medium- and long-term success rates are absolutely dismal. Luckily it is not the only way. Working with the hard-to-modify aspects of food psychology is easier, more sustainable, more enjoyable, and more effective than fighting against them.
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So seller reviews are useful even if buyers can't read them at all.
Yeh, but Netlify also has broken HTTP/2 prioritization whereas Cloudflare has working prioritization

There's also a big difference between deploying CDN nodes at the Edge as CloudFlare does and deploying ‘Edge Nodes’ in other cloud hosting providers which won't really be at the edge.
> Except there is no mechanism

Have you considered the Higgs mechanism [0]?

Perhaps an adjacent theory? I am fascinated with such a concept but I am by no means an expert at all.

I would appreciate if you could expand more on your comment, thanks!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism
There's plenty of online dencoders (i just abbreviated de+encoding as its the same when shifting by 13 either to the left or right with an alphabet of 26 characters). Not everyone recognizes rot-xx though.
Same exact thing...
Thanks for this!

Do you mind sharing where you found this damaged photo: https://i.imgur.com/4xmreDb.jpeg

Clearly, the model struggled with this picture. We would like more photos like this to improve the model.
Firstly: field != person.

Secondly: There’s a reason why I wrote “social norms” — although I’ve honestly never heard of Gentzen, I knew someone would think of something along those lines.

If one is part of a society that does or supports doing things which we consider to be evil, the social norm of that society is inclusive of that evil, and one who openly and enthusiastically supports that evil is still following their society’s social norms when they do so. Social norms are what keeps science healthy — without good social norms, people would’ve responded to p-hacking etc. by saying “great, let’s all do it!” rather than trying to fix anything.

The importance of comparison with social norms is also sort of reason why people aren’t thrown into insane asylums for claiming that the literal creator of the universe has personally ordered them to eat each week a small token of unleavened bread which have been magically transformed into human flesh by a prayer in honour of the last meal the supreme being had with his mates that one time he took human form right before he prearranged his own temporary execution in order to give his non-mortal other self an excuse to not put people’s immortal souls into eternal damnation by default.

Also the broad reason why Washington is not heavily criticised for owning slaves.

None of this is to say that evil social norms are not to be challenged or fought against, just that it’s really really unusual to have someone who can both do that and avoid taking down Chesterton Fences.
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Stallman is a man whose idiosyncrasies intensified over the decades.

I think his current lifestyle was motivated in part by huffing his own farts (figuratively speaking) and believing his own hype. He thinks he's the free software prophet he's been cast as by admirers, and is deliberately renouncing the ways of the world, much as prophets did in times of old, and hippies do to the present day.
I've been meaning to get in deeper in 3D rendering. I always thought it is fascinating. I took a shot at creating my own 3D engine in the browser from scratch using webgl and it's kinda hard. Back then I was between jobs so I had a lot of free time.

How do you got into CG? Do you fiddle with other areas, like AI, ML...? I'm asking cause I think you really have to concentrate in one field to get to the level of the guys behind cyberpunk. They probably never had to learn react / redux in order to get a job.
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