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> That said, many will claim that The Godfather movie was better than the book -I never read the book, so I cannot offer an opinion.

I think I tried, lo so many moons ago. And IIRC, I can confirm that yes, The Godfather is one of the few exceptions that proves the rule.
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I personally wouldn't feel safe eating pink turkey.
Doesn't the registry have some level of 'duty of care'?
Gerrymandering and disproportionality are separate issues: the former implies the latter, but the First Past The Post voting system (where the winner is the person with the plurality of votes in a given district, irrespective of magnitude) tends to generate the latter even if apportionment is fair.

Example: the United Kingdom. We have independent redistricting, and the Boundary Commission are genuinely not in anyone's pocket. The criteria are debatable in some areas, but gerrymandering is essentially absent. And yet, if you look at the most recent general election, the SNP won the overwhelming majority of the seats in Scotland with only 45% of the vote! [0]

Now that's partly because there are four effective parties in Scotland, but they would have done very nearly that well against any single opposition party. FPTP magnifies the seats for the more popular party.

Bluntly, if the votes are distributed completely evenly, 51% of the votes gets you 100% of the seats. See the Eisenhower/Stevenson presidential election in 1956: Eisenhower got 86% of the electoral college votes for only 57% of the popular vote, because he was (a bit) more popular nearly everywhere.

There are systems which aim to have seats and votes be proportional: they're very popular in democracies beyond Great Britain's former colonies. So the gap you mention is, in principle, fixable. But it's not in either party's interests to do so, so it's likely to persist.

[0]: https://i0.wp.com/ballotbox.scot/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/...
SQL/JSON path expressions use the built in jsonb_path_ops GIN index when you query using the operators (@@, @?). (They can also use the default jsonb GIN index but the jsonb_path_ops one is smaller and faster for most queries.)

What do you mean by needing upfront knowledge of the structure you intend to query?
I much agree. But there is this idea that progress progresses all the time therefore new tools to do your job with are better than older ones, else they would not come to the market. And younger people have easier time learning the new tools because they have to learn some tools to do their work with. Therefore younger people have an advantage, in that sense. Older people who don't know much about the new tools will look ignorant and are not much respected by the younger people.

Younger people think they know it all because they don't know what they don't know, see Dunning-Kruger.

Is this really so I don't really know but I think there is some logic to it.
The point was that other email (even with a GUI served over the web) services were available when gmail was introduced, and you did have to pay for many of them. IIRC I was using something called "zworg".

I almost regret getting a gmail invite early enough to be able to snag my first and last names with no number, since I am constantly getting all sorts of messages that include surprisingly private information about the various "Jess Austin"s around the world who are getting married, renting "flats", going on vacation, considering cosmetic surgery, etc. I don't know whether these various Ms. Austins have forgotten their email addresses, or perhaps their friends and service providers can't be bothered to use those.
In what way are e.g. Netflix and MS evil on a level even close to Facebook?

Netflix has to be some saint in comparison. MS just now is starting to be a wanna-be Googlesque spy and has a history of screwing competitors over, not the people in general.
> At no point was any surveillance detected on any kit.

That's not proof of absence...

> I suspect it's an attempt to wage "economic" warfare. Under WTO rules national security is a virtual get out of jail free card for protectionism. Huawei had just recently proven that China can overtake western technological capabilities in a key industry. That's the point when America flinched.

That is a legitimate national security concern.
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> Am I missing something to think it is insane a kitchen appliance manufacturer fund such core dev work

It’s a great development and the key to open standards success. Not, of course, that a kitchen appliance manufacturer stepped up, but that any outsider was interested and willing to contribute to a general computing tech stack.

For a thousand flowers to bloom, the bird must leave the nest.
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Flying with drones through a tree can be incredibly difficult. Secondly, someone steering a drone will probably not have the same yields as someone climbing. In consequence, this would require the whole drone process to be fully automated. A fully autonomous drone flying through trees recognizing the correct cones and managing to harvest them is even harder. Add the short battery life and I fear the economics simply don't work out.
You can use SVGs as vector images though. Before that only PDFs were supported for that role.
Stop and go traffic is not the same.

In stop and go traffic, the car in front of you is visible to the camera at all times.

In this case, my car may not have been acquired by the camera before it was already stationary, in which case it might have been ignored, causing the accident.
I don't think that's an example of whataboutism, given that one of the stated goals of autopilot is literally to provide a safer alternative to the status quo of humans driving manually; pointing out the riskiness of driving in general is not some unrelated thing that's being raised as a distraction from the real issue.
Wut? Wow -

https://lawandreligionuk.com/2016/08/30/undue-spiritual-infl...

I thought you were going on about voting while under the influence of spirits.
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> People won't even wear masks during a pandemic caused by an airborne pathogen for political reasons.

The pandemic is unusual in that we physically had no options but to work together.

With something like climate change, yes, everyone can be a bad contributor, but honestly, the solutions if they are to be arrived at involve a lot of invention, creation, trying things. Individuals & entities & governments are free to explore their own ways of making wins, and we don't all have to work together. We can ignore naysayers, & do the good work.
The most sophisticated resource I know of this sort is https://littlesis.org
True enough, though if the modern real estate market had existed in the 70's then "inflation" would have been something closer to 30-40%.

Like it or not "home values" decoupled from "housing costs" over the past two decades. The reason for that metric change was to preserve equivalency, you don't get to argue backwards because of it.
> Is it strictly-true that anti-spam algorithms must be hidden to be effective?

Can't answer that but there were, for a long time, services that would run your "targeted emails" through spamassassin et al for you and give you advice on how to tweak them to lower the resultant score.
Split the difference and call it good?
My old roommate works there on a database/storage team. They are pretty insulated. He doesn't directly interface with the product-side. Sure perhaps on some level he could look at his role and say he's enabling mass collection of user data. But at the end of the day he has no interaction with the actual filesystem contents or what they mean. They're just bits flying around.

So, should the graphic designers of the emoji buttons feel responsible for misinformation? The CDN/network folks keeping the websites available? The janitorial and cafeteria staff for cleaning up and feeding the "monsters of humanity" ?
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"embodiment" really is the raison d'etre of virtual reality. Without it, you might as well explore the internet as usual. I get that some people don't get a rush from embodiment.
So, it's stabler than bitcoin or stocks. But can you see the hike in May 2021? [1]

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_inflation_rate
I like to say they should remove the block from under the accelerator pedal.
FYI: LSB [1] is/was the ISO-sanctioned Linux standardization effort, on top of and beyond POSIX/SUS. But it hasn't caught up with recent major changes such as systemd, namespaces/Docker, io_uring, etc. and nobody really seems to care anymore.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base
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Gotta love this bit:

> Unfortunately, many of the articles published about SQUID failed to make it clear this token is not officially affiliated with Netflix — giving it a sheen of respectability that may have lulled investors into a false sense of security.

So much blaming...
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The Salem witch trials were under the justice system.
Explain how it isn't a tradeoff. Give me one example that supports your stance please.

It's a sliding a scale. You get to move the marker one way or the other. Whatever you do for the "greater good" will inherently remove rights from someone.
Also, in my experience, many homes are listed on the realtors MLS systems before they hit public sites like Zillow.

I bought my house right after it was listed on my realtors MLS system -- I had already made an offer before it ever hit Zillow or before there was a For Sale sign in the yard.
>How can any financial instrument/currency make everybody "rich", in any real terms?

By organizing economic activity in a more efficient way than our present system of centrally planned debt supplies. That's what currency is "for" - organizing real activities.
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I only have my own experience to draw upon, so I may be an outlier, but I didn't buy a Tesla because of its Autopilot feature. If they pulled the feature today, I'd be totally fine with that.

As a user of Autopilot, it's absolutely insane to me that anyone would blame Autopilot for a wreck. It's like a "smart" cruise control, except unlike cruise control, it gives you all sorts of warnings about your role as the driver and will shut itself off if it thinks you're not paying attention. Any one blaming Autopilot for a Tesla wreck is either trying to sensationalize, or is just completely inept or lying.
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You don't have a lot of time in the VBlank to decide what tiles you're moving to VRAM.

I haven't developed an NES game before but I would assume you'd need to decode your game's map data into a buffer out of VBlank then stream it in after updating OAM. Unless you have the luxury of being able to just read it directly from ROM and write it to VRAM without a lot of intermediate processing.

I think most NES games had various schemes to represent the map data (compression schemes basically) with Metroid/Kid Icarus being a particularly elaborate one (a game editor "MetEdit" out there explains it). Not sure how they split the unpacking/VRAM writing workload.
One of the problems this class of mechanisms runs into, in the real world, is that--particularly in times of crisis--liquidity and prices are discontinuous.

Djed doesn't seem to be vulnerable to the former. (Reserve coin holders transparently give up liquidity for their yield. Though, as the paper admits, reserve coin holders are subject to run mechanics.) It would be to the latter.

Still, fascinating stuff.
Thanks for the summary. Everyone looks bad in this story: the police, the solictors, the DVLA, the bank, and finally the law itself which probably hasn't changed for decades if not longer.

A law that says a home can be fraudlently sold to an (innocent) purchaser and thus confers ownership on the purchaser, while the original owner loses ownership is simply not fit for modern times. Even if Mike Hall receives compensation, he's still lost his home and the contents in the home.

Will the compensation match the purchase price of the house and the contents in the home? And what of the innocent house buyer who bought the property? Surely it would make more sense to return the house to the original owner, and for compensation be paid to the house buyer.
Fair, but chicken having salmonella is so common it's not news. Veggies having salmonella is so uncommon it is news.

There's a big difference between the FDA limit of 15% of chicken being contaminated with salmonella (with the average from this article looking to be around 5%), and the once or twice a year events where more than 0% of a veggie is contaminated and it makes the news.
Exactly. Ultimately cryptocurrencies are a negative-sum game in that they take in real money and just move that money around, while spending some on overhead.

In contrast, imagine investing in, say, a new fast-food franchise joint. They money you put in there is used to acquire assets that are used to produce goods that people will pay to consume. If it's a well-run business, the value of the outputs will be more than the value of the inputs, making it a positive-sum effort.
Great lakes region is considered "central", not eastern, Canada. When we refer to the east in Canada, we are referring to the Atlantic provinces.
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Yes, I know many people at FB. I wasn't saying they aren't talented enough to work with other FAANG companies; if you read my entire comment I'm saying that every company has things you can be morally outraged about, so unless you want to cycle through seed-round stage startups every 6 months, you're probably going to run into some things you're not a fan of in your career as an engineer.
> It's to avoid moving "a 9-to-5" to "an 8-to-4", to avoid it by pretending that noon isn't noon and making all of us mess with our clocks to keep up that pretense.

Exactly. In our modern lives, noon itself is not very significant. Sunrise and sunset are much more so. So when the sun starts to set "too early", we fight back by pushing the clocks forward an hour. Some people don't like it because maybe they want the sun to rise earlier. Or maybe they hate the lost hour of sleep. Or they're a distributed database programmer :)

But there's no solution that pleases everyone, so we all get on these long threads about DST twice a year and yell at each other. My preferred timekeeping would have me join the "America/Phoenix" time zone (I'm in California). But 2nd-best is the current system.
I have to agree with this. A little O/T, but reminds me a bit of how US patents are handled. If you're able to constantly monitor patent publications (the stage where patents are disclosed but still in review), it is cheap and easy to challenge applications. But good luck trying to get any work done while trying to to keep up with the deluge of patent publications!

If you miss your chance to challenge the patent before it issues, the cost to protest goes way up, even if your arguments would have been just as valid during the publication phase.

I get that the system is trying to reward vigilance, but it punishes people who put more time into sharing ideas than protecting them, especially considering the PTO does not search most modern repositories of open source for prior art.
Not surprising coming from the country that won't even let people carry a locking pocket knife around without showing it's a necessity for work.
I'm not sure how you get "punishing innocents" from publishing a very incriminating recording even though making such a recording is illegal.
It isn't about property and power, though. It's about knowledge and power. The buyer knows there's a transaction being contemplated. The buyer knows how to contact the seller and/or their agents. The owner does not. The predominant U.S. system requires buyers to guard against known unknowns. The U.K. system requires owners to guard against unknown unknowns. It's a least-cost-avoider problem, and it has a clear answer.
that's completely missing the discretion refs have in calling fouls. if they didn't employ discretion, you'd have a foul every 5 seconds, rendering the game unwatchable/unplayable (e.g., the rule changes that the nba made this season). intent and (unfair) advantage are crucial to that discretion. again, nuance.
And the media could do the same thing, but they know bad news sells. Why is FB fundamentally different from the rest of media?
I will restrict myself to Bitcoin as I don't believe as strongly in the rest though I do own some of those as well. Bitcoin is at a market cap of 1T. That's less than major tech cos (Apple 2.5T, Google ~2T), gold(10T), total USD (~30-40T) etc. If you believe BTC will be used as the global store of wealth and currency, buying anytime (until the time BTC gets there) will make anybody who buys rich.

Of course, after price discovery is more or less complete, we can't all be rich as the value relative to goods and services will stagnate, and BTC will become as boring as gold.

> From where I'm sitting....if somebody else buys it for more.

Sure, and they will if the value of said coin keeps going up. Note that you don't need to sell it for USD, you could be paying for services in said coin directly. Point being that the exchange doesn't need to happen in USD, it can happen in any form of value.
That's not really a counter argument.

But yes, the conclusion would be to either do something before it's too late or to go to a self-sufficient colony on Mars. There's plenty of other angles that support this, whether that's melting permafrost or the studies that calculate that limiting climate change now is far cheaper than mitigating the consequences later.
Fortunately, those whom civilisation just doesn't rub off onto are still farily easy to spot.
A central plank of the US dollar (all fiat currencies, really) is that if you hold on to them for long enough all the wealth you had when you first picked them up gets transferred to someone else.

Compared to that baseline holding literally anything else - including crypto - has a better theoretical chance of preserving your wealth. When measured in terms of US dollars, that has the appearance of everyone who owns it getting richer.

> How can any financial instrument/currency make everybody "rich", in any real terms?

You have resources, someone else has a really good idea for how to use them. Financial instruments let the situation play out sensibly (you lend them resources, get back resources + something) with easy-to-manage legal enforcement if something goes wrong.

More complicated financial instruments let that scenario play out in more abstract ways. All in theory, in practice most people are bad with debts and more complicated concepts.
Atlas Shrugged actually being applicable to your situation is interesting.
I added next and previous pointers to my red-black tree implementation for a freshman-level CS class back in 1997. It enabled me to claim O(1) rather than O(lg N) to "find next value" at an expense of a constant order of memory usage. Converting the whole tree to a doubly linked list in O(N) time is cute. It's also possible to re-construct a new balanced binary search tree in O(N) time using O(N) memory.

You'd start by counting the number of nodes in your circular array O(N), and making an array of pointers to each node O(N), then finding the middle node, which is the root node at count / 2. You'd then re-link the nodes for a sub-array and recurse on both sides using your in-order array of pointers, and replacing the smaller and larger node pointers with the pointers from the array. The total recursive algorithm visits each node in the new tree only once.
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