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Not sure why Sidney Powell was brought up here, but that’s ongoing litigation and neither side has emerged victorious.

Further, the claims in that article were odd and don’t seem to match the filing Sydney Powell actually made:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.225699/...

So I don’t think that’s necessarily a great source to cite.

EDIT: In either case, these are lawsuits. There’s a few things that have to occur in the Powell (and Apple) case:

1. Is it reasonable to believe the people making said statements or taking actions believe they are correct / the truth

2. Was there malicious intent (predicated on point 1). Those suing have to prove the statements are both (a) convincing to a 3rd party and (b) show the defendant was trying to take action contrary to their beliefs

Because of the setup, it makes sense to basically say “prove a reasonable person believes the claims and prove the defended intended to cause harm, using evidence contrary to their beliefs”

That’s equivalent to saying “prove it.” This is standard in a motion to dismiss, which is step one in the legal battle.
I do not think consumers know this at all and very much do agree that what they buy will be available to them during their lifetime at least. When I told friends that this can (and does) happen to books on Kindle that they paid for, they were very surprised. I am a reasonable consumer but yes, of course I assume that if it does not say 'rent this movie or book for a day' but instead uses the word 'buy' (often next to the button rent, so they they are making a distinction!), it will not dissapear. If it does disappear, I should get a refund, no matter the reason for it disappearing.
Why don't they use IPv6? Is there still a lot of hardware out there that doesn't support it? It seems perfect if it's internal only.
> How will candidate even know where to look at if he has no idea what he needs to find?

That happens all the time, not just for algorithms. I don't expect candidates to know every possible algorithm (as I surely don't), I expect candidates to identify and learn what's required for the task. A knowledge of the specific algorithm is not of much value. The ability to learn and possibly implement algorithms is.
But what if it is a dichotomy? Right now, the “answer” seems like it’s going to be coal and oil and natural gas and screw the planet, so I think we need every tool we can get.
True. I think most people can benefit from a bit of this at least. Ie. Speaking of software engineering, at work our 10% time is for us to do as we please. A lot of good things come from that. Maybe 50% time would be too much for most though. Google's 20% is probably the maximum I'd opt for if I were a CEO.
As you have hinted at different styles benefit from different approaches (sounds). There is no right or wrong.
Those exposed via thread access to in memory data, for sure.

However we are slowly moving back into multi-processes as way to avoid in-process security exploits and improve overall application stability.

In these kind of scenarios, there is little that Rust type system can help regarding races in IPC.
> They should just force all these vendors to relabel those buttons to "Rent" or equivalent.

Yeah. That will be a little less misleading. Also with an expiration date "Rent for 5 years". So people know what they are exactly paying for.
Nobody has implemented them or designed them yet. No obvious reason you couldn't come up with a satisfying design, but there's consensus building work there around "this is a good feature and the right design" as well as implementation work.
IMO they should just forbid taking away access. You can't terminate the account. If someone does a chargeback, you can terminate access to what they charged back. You can forbid them to write any additional data in the future. You can decline to sell them anything more. You can sue them for any monies they owe you. But if you're providing property-like digital goods, you must give indefinite read-only access to those goods, even if the account is otherwise banned from interacting with your service.
Very good point about Google. Will they care enough to ever leave their "neutrality" behind?

This reminds me of Yelp asking for tribute or protection payments lest they put all the worst reviews on top and bury the great reviews.
https://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Amtrak-C...

The damn map from Amtrak goes to a 404. I wish we would just get some other company than Amtrak to implement the rail. I love the idea of rail, it’s a shame that Amtrak is somehow incredibly more expensive than flying every time I check the prices.
IMO it wouldn't matter if they'd used the word "Rent" or "Licence" instead: it would still be unreasonable. Account termination is entirely at Apple's discretion, meaning the term of your "rental" is not known when you actually pay for the content.

For most people the term will be "forever", so that is the expectation.

It's simple: if apple want to terminate your account, they need to refund you for any content you lose access to as a result of that termination.
A good history about how bellman came up with this name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History
They are just available to you more indefinitely than you thought.
It would be nice if this got built, but I will be shocked if it does. The only way it will happen is if we take a battering ram to a massive amount of red tape, NIMBY resistance, and car and airline industry lobbying.
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> unfortunately the name "dynamic programming" is, according to the people responsible for choosing the name, just BS that they made up one day for their employer.

For people interested, Richard Bellman who apparently came up with the name, put down the story in his autobiography which is cited on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History

"I spent the Fall quarter (of 1950) at RAND. My first task was to find a name for multistage decision processes. An interesting question is, "Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?" The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word "research". I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used the term research in his presence. You can imagine how he felt, then, about the term mathematical. The RAND Corporation was employed by the Air Force, and the Air Force had Wilson as its boss, essentially. Hence, I felt I had to do something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact that I was really doing mathematics inside the RAND Corporation. What title, what name, could I choose? In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word "programming". I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying. I thought, let's kill two birds with one stone. Let's take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities."
They are a monopoly. I hope the Judge on Epic class call this Apple’s Motion to Dismiss.

Hopefully there will be platform independent store where you can buy once and available on all devices.
Regardless of the feasibility of rail in the US, I cannot think of anything less forward-looking then continuing to sink public money into the particular company Amtrak.
Not a dupe, I think?

There are two distinct lawsuits. The previous submission is just about the case on Apple making content impossible to download. But this article also discusses the case where Apple terminated an account with $25k of purchases.
Seems crazy to me. Sure, all their content won't always be available to purchase. But once you've purchased something, how can that not always stay in your library? It is just a long term rental, not a purchase, if it can disappear and that isn't obvious to anybody without looking into it (and how should you know to look into it in the first place?)
DP and DC there's lot left to learn but feels like you learnt so much already...
It's actually a positive. The commoditization and proliferation of content-free and evidence-free complaints against people will lead inexorably to the distrust of all such things, leading to a birth of a future "evidenced-based" moral culture that will wipe the slanderous, coercive and blackmail-esque "fake accusation" intelligence-industrial complex from the face of the earth, break it into ten thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds upon the waste. The trend is already in progress, and much of the blackmail networks are already undone. The pendulum will swing back. We're just in the the lowest, and fastest, point of its arc right now.
This is rich comming from the NYT.

They are now only the 8th defendant since 1964 to be in the situation they are in for likely acting with "actual malice" and "reckless disregard" in making defamatory statements.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/22/project-veritas-wins-ea...
> It’s morbid curiosity

I guess it's the caveman in all of us who really needs to know what happened to his buddy so that he can avoid it. And I guess those without this curiosity in their DNA died out rather soon...
So it might not be insincerity but genetics.
ShowDown would have been a cooler name.
Doesn’t really matter whether you do or not, it’s in Europe.
Every third party tool (or library dependency, by the way) is something that will have to be well understood, maintained and fixed when broken. Which is why I try to avoid them for the most part in my personal and work projects.

When someone at work says "Hey, lets just use Xyz package I found online! It does just what we want!" you need to ask: Who fixes it when it causes a problem that stops us from shipping? Who does the security audit? What data does it collect, and to where does it send that data? What will adding it do to our software's performance? Who decides when to update it to the next version and verifies compatibility? Is its license compatible with our workflow/software?

All of a sudden, people are less excited about that great doodad they found on StackOverflow! I'm always troubled by the cavalier attitude about relying on external tools and library dependencies. Yolo just pull it in! In some cases it might be the right decision, but not always. And, avoiding third party stuff is not always just blind NIH mentality: There are costs to depending on someone else for your project.
Check out the papers from the MIT SPARC folks. Getting the magnets working is not the bottleneck at all. REBCO and similar commercially available products are physically robust. Seriously, two grad students set a new field record doing nothing more complicated than spooling the stuff into a spiral.

In terms of engineering, the diverter, and a wall that can last years are far, far, more difficult than the magnets.
Looks interesting, but you need a "new" button.
Should probably add "(2015)" to the title as per the convention here, given the video is from six years ago.
I think Rich is an amazing presenter. He has clear and simple ideas, he has humor, his energy is directed to help the listener. He clearly enjoys helping others. He reminds me of Richard Feynman, in his earnestness.

I think work he has taken time to prepare, is worth thoughtful consideration.
yes, if you don't count in the inverter and charger controller units and the batteries used as part of a common setup... I've got a degree in electrical engineering, but as I've said, I really don't feel competent enough to go into any discussion on a degree of actual threat, if any, as looking into all the side-effects of some tech is really complex task far above my pay grade and it's super easy to overlook something and jump to wrong conclusions. I just wanted to point out that this popular black & white bias between solar and nuclear is not as simple as people think of it.
The biggest problem is everything is JIT so all supply chains using JIT (like all of them) get disrupted with as little as 10% variance from the media flow rates. The only real answer is to relax the reasons why we have JIT: taxes on inventory which prevent accumulating safety stock inventory. Having larger safety stock would very quickly end this supply chain disruption and solve the chip shortage in few months rather than 6-24 months.
Then I expect to pay considerably less though.
I hate to be so cynical, but here's exactly how this is going to play out, or I'll eat my hat:

1. Apple and Amazon will add language to their Terms and Conditions stating that regardless of the phrasing on their websites and apps, access to the media that customers purchase will be revoked if their account is terminated. And since it's in the agreement, it's binding: in general, you can't sue to get out of a contract just because you discover you don't like the terms later on. (Whether or not you actually read it before agreeing to it.)

2. Apple and the class action attorneys will settle this out of court. Apple will pay the attorney fees and reimburse the lead class member for the value of the media he "purchased". Everyone else who joined the class action as a member will get a $5 credit to their Apple account.
Fascinating, found a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i43QuILX68
It would be pretty hard to do all of that on purpose, let alone by accident, or by gradual accretion of new features. They must have worked really hard on that mess.
Like why is it even the governments business to go curate a public image. If there is a false statement, make a statement about it don't infringe on rights of your citizens or non-citizens.

It's the fundamental difference between an Authoritative govt & a democratically elected one.

I hope after the whole pandemic goes away (whenever that is), these issues of suppression are thoroughly investigated to find out who is behind muffling voices/criticism.
I think the long term outcome will be some sort of account "locking" where the account becomes purely passive
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I think the main problem is that because the conditions of the rental are not known at the time that you make a purchase (accounts can be terminated at any time for any reason) you can’t call it rental or buying really.
It's jarring to look at footage of a crowd in the 70s and see just how skinny everyone was. The article's instict seems right to me; it can't just be succumbing to too many snacks and soda all of a sudden, across the entire world.
Historically media has had a limited play-life. 78s, 45s and 33 warped, broke or got scratched, etc., tapes wore out, broke, got tangled etc., CDs scratched or deteriorated after some time. There are exceptional specimens for all the above, but a good number don’t survive long unless owned by an aficionado who took care of their media.

With digital you can have backups and in theory they could last forever as you convert the format into whatever is popular.

How do they price this? Do they not do CRCs and hashes and let your bits rot over time and have you buy a new one? How do you approach this commercially? Make music or video very, very faddish so even if it lasts forever no one will want to listen to or watch something out of style ten yeas hence?

I’m not defending Apple. I’m asking how do you price things reasonably if they potentially last forever?
Blah Blah Blah: The Lack of Small Talk Is Breaking Our Brains
> class-action lawsuits over the meaning of the words “rent” and “buy.”

Ohhhhh this is great news! This has been a personal soap box of mine for years and years.

I really hope that the outcome will be that going forward at least, these words won't be used lightly anymore for risk of false advertising lawsuits. That should take care of a bunch of the "just rent it" business models that on second thought aren't really what the customer wanted at all. Well, I may be wrong about it. Maybe the world really doesn't care. In which case, at least language will be re-joined with reality in this case.

Edit: and at the risk of starting a fire here, this might also call into question some practices by the likes of Tesla and John Deere
Amazon argues the same exact thing if you buy a movie digitally from them. It's only available to you for as long as they host it on their servers. This is why I pirate shit that I can't find on Netflix or Prime Video. Buying digital content is merely "long term rental" and really needs to be better advertised as that.
You’re right that’s honestly a shitty way for Apple to make a counter argument. I suspect that a large number of Apple customers would see a purchase of a movie on iTunes as equivalent to buying a BluRay or DVD (the price would certainly indicate it), and now Apple is calling them unreasonable.

Apples legal team also seems forget that their customers expect them to behave better than the industry in general. No reasonable person would expect Apple to deny a loyal customer access to previous purchases.
It's already in nightly too

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...
Some of the new additions would have a ton of ridership, even if the trains weren’t particularly high speed. Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nashville to Atlanta are the two that jump out to me.
Change it to “rent” or give the option to download. You can’t have a contract where the terms change at any time for any reason (apples account termination policy)
For people who sleep during the day, blackout curtains and ear plugs.
I’m having a hard time settling on how I feel about this law. On the one hand, I recall too the images of drivers being dragged from their cars, and the protestors stopping and potentially harming (I.e.late for work) innocent people. I think blocking the roads is bad and creates unnecessary tension and animosity. On the other hand, driving over them is not an option anyone would completely endorse, and I worry this will lead to some idiot assuming he can plow with impunity.

Arresting the protestors is not feasible. There’s no law short of a Berlin style death strip that will prevent protestors from encroaching on roadways. So a law that gives some cover to motorists who, without malice or intention, hit a protestor.

They may not be immune from civil suit, and there should be necessitated to first find if the driver was truly accidental, or, in fear of their life.

It’s not an easy solution to find.

*Edited for grammar and spelling.
Professional, personal networks have shrunk by close to 16% during the pandemic
> The reveal.js file format is HTML, an open standard, and will still be readable decades from now.

I don't think the javascript part is future-proof. Any client side UI rendering logic is tightly integrated with browsers' rendering quirks..
I'm afraid you might be right about 2, but wrt 1 I think you can absolutely sue your way out of a contract if it was made after blatantly false advertising, no?
Mostly the impurities coming from contacts and support materials, according to [1] primarily As, Cd, Hg, Se,Pb, Zn, Co, Ni, Mo, Cu, Cr, Sb.

"In the course of the work, it was found that the toxicity
indices of the EVA and Tedlar® components increase
with prolonged exposure to materials in aqueous
solution, approaching values characterizing an unsafe
degree of toxicity to the environment and human health."

[1] https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2020/21...
An “old energy production source” can be cheaper now because the environmental damage it causes is an unpriced externality. A carbon tax solves that by giving a price to that environmental damage. Suddenly, fossil fuels only make sense in the rare cases where renewables cannot be used.
What a great comment. Does anyone know if Tesla went the old automaker way or do they stockpile chips and/or had better forecasting on demand during pandemic? It seems their production is doing great.

Selfish reason, I want to know if my Tesla order will be delayed.
I don’t invest in funds, I only buy individual stocks. I also exclusively trade tech stocks, because that is the industry I know. I pretty much take all the financial advice you would get from an advisor and toss it out the window. My current positions are in AMD, CRM, TEAM, NET, SQ, CRWD, DOCN, and AAPL.
It isn't only insufficient by far, it's the only complete code example. There's as good as nothing else. The chapter on control structures isn't even there. There are some cryptic remarks on mutation, but that's it.
google "hydraulic jump"

Separately, when you model surface tension, you get an equation for when a stream breaks up into droplets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau%E2%80%93Rayleigh_insta...
> Very little can actually be directly achieved at a conference,

The article directly contradicts this.

> and connections are probably more important for ongoing future progress.

Then why are so many of these “networking/socialization” events held in forms which don’t facilitate either? With darkness, deafening music and copious hard liquor, the amount of socializing you can do is severely limited in scope and kind. (And non-partyers get to stay home and stay out of the loop, I guess.)

Regarding Werewolf, it is certainly slightly more amenable to networking/socialization, but all things should be taken in moderation, which the original article argues it had exceeded. And, like drinking, Werewolf is not everyone’s cup of tea; do non-players simply get to stay home and get nothing?

> things had matured well past that

Had it really, or did Werewolf simply meme-infect the conference population? There is no way to tell without more data.
I remember when I worked for Disney and they had some "lifetime" products, like "Leave a Legacy" (i.e., personalize a brick or small plaque in Epcot). If you read the fine print, they were only obligated to preserve your "legacy" for 20 years.

In fact the plaques were taken down after 20 years, but eventually reinstalled somewhere else:

https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2021/02/09/leave-a-lega....

The TOS for these media “purchases” would be more honest if they had a time limit, e.g.: 10 years. You are “purchasing” a 10 year license.
In general, contracts can say literally whatever they want, and it doesn't mean they will stand up in court. If the court agrees that Apple selling $25k worth of stuff and denying access to it isn't "fair", then it isn't fair, end of story, regardless of what the contract says. The court might of course disagree, but you can't be certain until the case happens.

I do however believe that Apple will just settle this out of court, specifically to avoid such a ruling.
Asciidoc would be better.
So a service that provide and sync your content, and also allow you to buy the content, will work ? ( I.e can Dropbox be distributor ? )
For reference, the poorest quintile in the US earns 35k and the richest 230k (and the gap is widening), according to https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56575
Japan as seen through the lens of Marcio Kogan
Probably because you have an Amazing GF that makes the things you used to love seem mundane in comparison. I'm also around 30 and occasionally feel burnout and the lack of interest as well. I like to do DIY projects because such as home automatic projects to add fuel and motivation
Doughnut's and Fire: Forge Your Weakness into the Iron Will of God
Any chance to make shortcuts customizable. I'm used to Vim and it would be nice to have vim-like navigation instead of memorizing new keys.