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>> the consensus is that it is ruled out

Science does not work by consensus opinion. I know many non-scienctists and even some scientists get pissed when you say this but it is the absolute truth and true to the scientific method.

This idea that the "consensus" has ruled out all other theories for a substance that we cannot even detect is an appeal to authority logical fallacies and a bias towards a known flawed paradigm. Authorities who have never detected Dark Matter say it cannot possibly be anything other then Dark Matter.

Thomas Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions details this mentality that leads to these sort of errors in thinking, which can be summarized as follows (taken from an outline of his book found here: https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html) :

--Students study these paradigms in order to become members of the particular scientific community in which they will later practice.
----Because the student largely learns from and is mentored by researchers "who learned the bases of their field from the same concrete models", there is seldom disagreement over fundamentals.
----Men whose research is based on shared paradigms are committed to the same rules and standards for scientific practice.
----A shared commitment to a paradigm ensures that its practitioners engage in the paradigmatic observations that its own paradigm can do most to explain, i.e., investigate the kinds of research questions to which their own theories can most easily provide answers.

Even the author of this paper is an LCDM (AKA dark matter exists) advocate who had to admit that his preference does not fit the data observed:

"I have been working under the hypothesis that dark matter exists, so this result really surprised me,” Chae said. “Initially, I was reluctant to interpret our own results in favor of MOND. But now I cannot deny the fact that the results as they stand clearly support MOND rather than the dark matter hypothesis.”

The keyword there is "reluctance". This sort of mentality ripe with internal bias towards the existing paradigm is the number one thing that I think holds back scientific progress. The breakthroughs that push things forward rarely come from the consensus holders and those simply doing research that refines the current paradigm. Dark matter / Dark energy has never been detected / sourced - and the by the way the Standard Model of physics IS DEFINITELY WRONG and does not explain all observations. It simply our best approximation just like Newtonian Mechanics was, but we need to look beyond it rather then be scared to defy it.
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> Every single one of these people should be dismissed or resign. They are simply not officer material. The Honor Code is very clear. You lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do and you're not military material.

Yeah but since 2015 the rules have stated you can get a second chance. So it would not be fair or ethical to retroactively change the punishment now.
Forcing kids to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning isn't very liberal though.
Advisors get NSOs. You owe income tax on the spread between strike and FMV at time of exercise, regardless of liquidity in the underlying shares.
Does anyone have a link to the detailed limits of the free plan? I don't see any numbers on the pricing page.
As if those $29B would have been purchased if not watched illegally...
'We haven't done a great job' explaining why Goldman is 'good for the planet'
I do wholeheartedly agree about user guides. But I'll rephrase the statement as "Your documentation team should write a user guide". If your big enough to need a user guide, you're big enough to have a documentation team. That can be a team of one for starters. Comparative advantage. Programmers should program.
Why the asterisk? Among the military academies in the US, I think only Annapolis is anything close to the name recognition of West Point.
I will bite. I don't know the context in the USA but there was similar issue in Turkey that ended very badly.

So in Turkey there is this islamic cleric, a charismatic figure who was a "Youtuber" before the internet. His organisation was spreading his message through VHS tapes and he gained substential following. Innocent enough, right?

Well, the problem is that the guy was preaching about infiltrating institutions, "the capillaries" in his own words, to create a "golden generation" and to achieve that cheating, killing, destruction of lives was acceptable for greater good.

The Turkish military was the primary target of the organisation and the military at one point began expelling people for being associated with this organisation.

How they were getting in? First it was through legit ways: study for the exams. Later, those who get it keep their alliance with this organisation and did whatever they can to get more people in. At some point, they reached dominance in the admission process and some of the branches were recruiting from this organisation - exclusively. They were passing the exam questions to the organisation and the organisation got all their people in. They created an unofficial ranking scheme inside the military where officially highly ranking personel could be below the cafeteria guy.

At some point they were everywhere that matters and were the unofficial partner of Erdogan up until they decided that they want it all and clashed with Erdogan. Erdogan won, then they attempted a coup. Erdogan won again.

Crazy stuff, right? I wouldn't believe it up until the coup night when people dragged civilians associated with these people out of the tanks on live TV and CCTV footage of the airbase that bombed the parliament. On the CCTV, businessman known to be associated with this organisation was running around the base, checking the screens, talking to solders - he was clearly directing the air attacks that nigh.

So yes, corruption in these institutions is a big deal.

[0] : some CCTV footage from the airbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLEOKnCcRNM

[1] : an article about the guy being sentenced for life in prison: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/15-temmuz-darbe-girisimi/akinci-dav...
No wonder Sergey Brin And Larry Page Step Down last year. The tide would change as soon as the cat was out of the bag.. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784570156/google-founders-bri...
Buses are under-utilized, but walking and various forms of wheeled transportation (motorized longboards, those one wheel things, bikes, scooters, etc) are popular.

San Francisco is only about 7 miles wide. You can walk from one side of the city to the other in about 2 hours. When I lived there, I walked almost everywhere. The only times I did otherwise was when it was a really long walk (over 45 minutes), or I needed to be somewhere fast. The bus will not get you anywhere fast, it's only about twice as fast as walking. I think that's why a lot of people use Lyft. The buses are actually quite nice inside imo, they're just slow. Plus the stigma that only poor people ride the bus.
Heyo another Auria user here! I actually recently upgraded to a Dell 4k screen, but that Auria served me great for several years and is my secondary setup screen. Got it used for $150, amazing value there!
Does anyone remember iSight? For the time the quality was great, and it was also really nice looking on top of a monitor. It may have been a high-water-mark.
I can imagine all sorts of horrendously terrible problems with real democracy.
> Last year, one study reported that digital video piracy costs the U.S. economy $29.2 billion a year.

"One study," funded by people who also -- just by mere coincidence -- gave a lot of money to Thom Tillis' election campaign.
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Caster Semenya is not transgender and has not had testosterone blocking hormone therapy, which is what these regulations/debates are about.

I'd wager most women competing aren't hovering around the minimum levels (which is where most trans women are going to be by virtue of how anti-androgens work). Instead of unscientific blog spam

Again, Semenya is not transgender[1] and her T hormones are not hovering around the minimum levels, which is the entire reason for the ongoing debate. The "unscientific blog spam" was referencing the IAAF study of competing athletes[2]

not .6 as you're implying with the 7.5x figure ...

which indeed showed the average T level for 1332 female athletes was 0.67. 5 / 0.67 = 7.46

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/05/03...

[2] https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28673896/
When I have sought out an 'illegal' stream, it is because I deemed that piece of media not worth paying for.

Either the price is too high [0] or I can't trust the company to put out good media.

[0]: For instance, paying $30 for a limited license to stream Mulan a month early. You don't own it (Disney can and will take it off Disney+), the only benefit is seeing it early and it costs Disney nearly nothing to distribute to another person.
Hold out. Keep working and keep proof you are working and do what is required to keep your stake. Don't give them anything that could be used to justify firing you or the upper hand in any legal battle. Keep any evidence of them violating the contract. Try to get the upper hand in any negotiations. You'll get a better deal at the very least
I can't imagine my co-founder accepting this as they don't have the cash to buy my shares, so they would be forced to sell?
>After alt-right extremists were booted off reddit, they found a new home there. The site was bombarded by /pol/ chan culture.

Nah reddit users bring reddit culture. They aren't welcome anywhere.
I suspect those figures are assuming three things...

a) Wildly inflated estimates of views.

b) That the viewer would have purchased the content if the pirated content were not available.

c) All purchases in "b)" would be at the highest price the content was ever offered at.
Hmm. There’s a vim sequence to accomplish this that you could macro. But even so, don’t most IDEs give you somewhat more than a glassbox header? I’m almost certain I’ve seen people scrolling and even editing code in the “glassbox” preview pane in VSCode.
If the people who will be in command of thousands of American soldiers and lethal weaponry across the globe are willing to lie, cheat, or cut corners to further their own career, that's not good for America or the world.
"Under current law, only violations of the reproduction and distribution rights of copyright owners can be charged as felonies, while criminal infringement via streaming (or “publicly performing”) can only be charged as a misdemeanor. This is known as the streaming loophole – and it is particularly harmful to the U.S. economy because streaming has become the most common form of criminal copyright infringement."
iSight was such a beautiful-looking product!

It's rather mind-blowing that back then its 640×480-pixel VGA resolution was considered good.
In my head there is a clear distinction between the axiomatic mode of thinking and the non-axiomatic one. It's fundamental to any mental activity. I cringe anytime I hear "but how can you even prove <non-axiomatic theory>?" or "but why is <an actual axiom> true?".

It would be a shame not to have a very precise term for that, so I stick to "axiom" anyway.
Anyone know if studying ancient Spartan training methods is a part of the West Point curriculum?

The Spartan boy, learned only the basics, according to Plutarch, such as music and mathematics. Their principal training is a military one, often even crossing moral boundaries, such as learning how to steal without getting caught. The philosophy was that, in case of a war, a soldier might have to steal food in order to survive. The main key point here is that, when a boy was caught, he was not punished for his act of stealing, but for being caught! The Spartan youth had their favorite "game" of stealing food or other possessions from servants (Greek: είλωτες, helotes).

A well-known story that proves the Spartan training and loyalty is this: Once, a 13 year old Spartan boy stole a fox from a village near his camp. Alas, a trainer found him and asked him what he was doing off campus. The boy had seen the trainer and had hidden the fox beneath his cloth. As the boy said nothing, the trainer insisted. The fox, still alive, beneath the boy's cloth, started scratching him, in order to escape. While doing that, the boy continued to deny the stealing until the wounds suffered by the fox killed him.

https://www.ancient.eu/article/342/the-spartan-education/
It may not be everyone, but there are a number of pirates who would buy a subscription to a legal streaming service if illegal streaming was not as easily available.
"Work on it yourself; I'm keeping my equity".
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It's worth highlighting that there are distributed databases that meet all those criteria except "incorruptibility in terms of maximum supply". You're right to point out that there are a few very specific use cases that a distributed blockchain with multiple independently-owned verification nodes will satisfy and other more performant databases will not. Whether that makes them "valuable" like gold is left as an exercise for the reader.
The agents in a system tends to work in the way the system incentivizes them. Understand the forces of these incentives to predict behavior.
Ireland was interested in doing covid zero, but the uk wasn’t, other than scotland.

So once you exclude ireland, you have the channel tunnel, and a handful of ferries to france/belgium. All of which arrive at terminals and where you can do tests or register people for isolation requirements.

Australia and nz aren’t the only successes. You also have taiwan and vietnam. Very close to china, and vietnam has land borders. The biggest difference is these countries tried.
Finally someone stands up for the little guys, like major league sports, film production companies, and cable networks
Still think its all about COVID?
Oh, that’s amazing. I got curious and found this comment on youtube, sharing in case it may help or diagnose:

Battle Angel Sorry, not sure why I didn't share previously. So, I believe this is caused by using a non-HDMI cable with the audio out turned on. Either turn the audio in the display off completely in the settings, or use a new HDMI cable. The alarm is a result of the display trying to send an audio signal through a Displayport cable. Are those of you getting this alarm using Displayport cables? They do not pair audio with video, as HDMI does. I hope this fixes your problem.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1i2dB8mGuKM
considering iraq wmd, the financial collapse, the bailout, syria, libya, russia-gate, and the pandemic (among other things) I think the x-axis should go back further and resemble a negative sloping line instead.
If only they had the equivalent of `git diff`.

Side note, who mandates these time constraints? Why are seemingly arbitrary deadlines applied? If a bill can stand on its own, why rush it at all unless you intend to enable surreptitious changes that will hopefully be missed?
The idea is that every pirate copy is a lost sale. Of course, that ignores people who would never buy the product if it cost anything. But it is partly true as some people would pirate over spending if it’s available.

There’s also the flipside of some pirates turning into paid customers (think Photoshop).

Then there’s the fact that the number is vastly inflated as some people use the $150,000 maximum fine as the cost of a pirate copy. Never mind the fact that it was actually $5 (or whatever) of “lost” revenue.
This is something that is totally underappreciated in software. I guess it's difficult to do and takes experience to get right. And probably more difficult to explain how to do to others.

Having worked on enough crap code in the past (and right now) my primary thoughts are to try and make things understandable for the next dev that needs to pick it up after me.
> And sure, moving to another FAANG isn't necessarily going to help, they all have those skeletons. But there is a ton of tech that isn't done by Fortune 50 companies. There's a ton of tech that is for the good of humanity or on new and innovative upstarts. The only alternative to Google isn't Facebook or Twitter.

I would be happy to hear of tech companies falling under that bucket which meaningfully employ PhD's, and are either located in a low cost of living location or pay comparably to FAANG in a high cost of living location.
How is this changing anything? We already have DMCA.

YouTube has every show you can think of, including live streams. Will this somehow make it more of a problem for content hosts to screen for ownership?
I am wary of continuing to feed the troll, but you understand that there's a difference of kind between a communist and a Stalinist, yes? Tankies can and should be bopped on sight, too. There is a crucial difference, in that they are not generally actively attempting to subvert the liberal order--they are disorganized and, tbh, generally not really capable of doing so--but they don't belong in decent company either.
You own 40% of the company, tell him to sod off it's as much yours as it is his
Is that not censorship then?
> The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act would apply only to commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services. The law will not sweep in normal practices by online service providers, good faith business disputes, noncommercial activities, or in any way impact individuals who access pirated streams or unwittingly stream unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Individuals who might use pirate streaming services will not be affected.
For all the folks doubting the decision making here, unless you know specifics, I suggest that the system is working well.

Years ago I worked very closely with the current Commandant of West Point BG Buzzard. I know him to be a man of honor. Based on my experience working with him and other quality officers during my enlistment, I can assure you that they are experienced, highly educated (BG Buzzard has a masters from Harvard), and have a good sense of the broader impacts of their decisions.
Get a new job. If it were as easy as you say it is, why is thepiratebay still around?
I think a big part is the growth in complexity of the "source code" has allowed special interests to thrive in a discrete way.

But I think the biggest problem is centralization of media control.

Copyright allows the media to be controlled by tiny fraction <1% of the population.

Control the media and it becomes a lot easier to get away with lying.

We need to #AbolishCopyright
>If the USA populace elects its officials, why do the representatives act against the populace’s wishes?

Here is the basic flow:

- Get elected by lying to voters and/or suppressing the vote

- Use power to choose your own voters / write laws to suppress voters who are against you

- Repeat

So in effect, many elected officials can safely ignore constiuent's wishes because either: not enough can / will vote against you or you can use your power to make sure they can't vote against you.

Then you have the issue of politicians being given bribes... I mean... lobbying money to do what corporations want.
> The last time this happened, everyone involved was dismissed or resigned.

If you're referring to the 1976 scandal that's not completely true. Yes they were dismissed, but a large number of them were given a second chance.

The 1976 scandal involved 150 cadets but 92 cadets were readmitted after completing year of useful service as stipulated by the Pentagon. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/nyregion/west-point-cheat...
Actual title: "Creating a competitor to YouTube, Hulu, Twitch, Netflix, et.al. to be a felony soon."
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In the companies’ contract, “the word [REDACTED] is mentioned no fewer than 20 times,” the lawsuit says. The unredacted draft fills in the word: Antitrust.

Why on earth did they redact this?
Keylogger Based on a Window??
I'm a veteran.

In my opinion this should probably result in dismissal (depending on exact circumstance which I'm not privy to).

The main issue here is demonstration of a lack of character. You give in to temptation to take the easy way out. That might be not doing the proper maintenance on a vehicle, or maybe not going exactly through the checklist before you take off for a flight, or maybe you take a shortcut and think "you got it" before that recon mission, or maybe you don't quite make sure someone's gear is up to standard and it fails on them and kills them.

Once you start taking shortcuts, you tend to keep taking them until it results in a colossal screw-up.

When I got out of the army it actually took me a few years to get away from the "triple-checking" anxiety. Do I have my car keys? Ok. Wait do I have my keys? Ok good.

"walking to my car"

Do I have my keys? Ok hand is on the keys and I can feel them.

Etc.

Cheating means you'll eventually screw that up and forget your keys. Then you or someone else dies.
Right. And a lot have come from other languages like R where that’s more common.

If I were building a library for something like that, I’d build the core idiomatically, then expose an idiomatic API with aliases for brevity. I’d make sure the alias is documented in the docstring, and types refer to the idiomatic names. I know TIMTOWTDI isn’t entirely “pythonic”, but it’s a small compromise for probably a good maintainability boost.
why shouldn't a life saving treatment be exploited for personal financial gain? hmm let me think about it for a minute. Meanwhile, when the future "allocation of capital" is to spend $2m on a rap album, I think your argument falls apart.

Sociopaths often do small goods to whitewash their ills. Saying that any action Shrkeli might take is ok because some other purported endeavor is designed to help people is a perfect example. To say that the only way to get money for medical research is to exploit society and its regulatory environment, sounds to me like a bad faith argument, since it's so easy to come up with counter examples (VC, public grants, prior profits from normal development/sales cycles).

Besides, Shrkeli is in prison for securities fraud unrelated to his pharma shenanigans, so how does that work when he's actually a terrific person?
Not having bash installed by default is not the issue here. The issue is that macOS comes with a buggy version of bash and those bugs cause valid scripts to fail in a unique way. So at first you might think everything is just fine (because there is a bash) and but in fact you either have to test against those bugs or install a newer version.
See Brexit
Is this just lip service to entertainment industry lobbying?
I mean how will this be enforced?

Most torrent sites are based overseas, people can just use VPN to torrent.

Even if they ban the DNS record, you can get the IP address, from a reddit forum or something.

If ISP's start to ban I.P.'s then the internet is truly broken at that point.

Doesn't seem practical.
>I've repeated this many many many times. You don't work at a startup to maximize your net worth. You'd be better off working almost anywhere else and come out on average with a higher net worth.

100% agree. The experience gained was the invaluable part of working at a startup. That said, every startup I've talked to pitches the equity as the big thing, and not the experience. I.e.
"...and these options would be worth X at our current valuation."
Well the standard for controlling the most powerful country aren't too high so this shouldn't be a problem either.
> That would be 1976, when all 153 fourth-year cadets were expelled. I guess we're all enlightened now

Actually, the majority if the 1976 participants were allowed to return to West Point:

> Ninety-two of those involved in the scandal were later readmitted as cadets and allowed to graduate after accepting a Pentagon amnesty that required them to complete a year of “useful service” away from the academy.

See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/nyregion/west-point-cheat...