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To me this comes across as you having an opposition to private prisons and therefore a compulsion to insist that others who don't share your opinions not contradict them. Are you an expert in prisons (and a "quick google search" doesn't count)? If not, why is it okay for you to share opinion as if it were some known fact but not okay for me to share mine?

Speaking of quick Google searches though, lets do one. My top three results are:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-...

>But private prisons have turned out to be neither better nor cheaper. They have about the same recidivism rates as their government-run counterparts — nearly 40 percent. And the Government Accountability Office has concluded time and again that there is simply no evidence that private prisons are more cost-effective than public prisons.

Which I sum up as: recidivism is similar between public and private prisons.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/recidivi...

>Results of multivariate statistical analyses indicated no significant differences in recidivism rates were discovered for adult males and youthful male offenders released from private versus public prisons, which is consistent with previous research on Florida offenders

I take that as meaning recidivism is similar.

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2017/may/5/report-says-...

>Several studies have found that incarceration in private prisons increases the risk of recidivism by almost 20 percent. [See: PLN, Feb. 2014, p.14; Dec. 2009, p.11]. Other research has determined that violence in private prisons is significantly higher than in government-run facilities, often due to understaffing. Lower numbers of staff in private facilities, of course, increases the profit margin for private prison operators.

I take that as comparisons are complicated by confounding factors (e.g. private prisons more likely to be in areas where visitation is difficult and visitation is a predictor of violence in prison which is a predictor of recidivism). In part because of the confounding factors it is hard to exactly say and studies show different things as regards recidivism.

I hope you can see why your comment might not be received well. You make it seem like there is some consensus on a matter that is actually debated. Further, you conflate the current reality, where private prisons have misaligned incentives, with what I'm proposing, which is aligning their incentives with society. If private prisons now were substantially worse than public prisons, and I haven't seen any evidence to that point, then that would be an argument in favor of aligning their incentives, not against it.

The pattern of our conversation is: I have an idea which I share as a casual comment on a forum. You have a vague reference to "experts" who resoundingly disagree with my idea. Only, you can't cite those experts and when I follow your recommended google search I discover that the experts do no such thing.
A lot of people consider anything not in the tiobe top 10 to be esoteric (especially for the purposes of enterprise work).

Maybe obscure is a better word here?
Lol. Google's absolute insistence that you must want local language results has been a pain in the ass for years.

It's impossible for them to understand. Clearly they have zero people working and living in countries other than their own. /s
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Do it anyway. It makes their lives harder.

If someone can go to the domain and buy the domain, you lose the domain. It doesn't matter what else is there. If doesn't matter if nothing else is there. What matters is that something isn't: The ability to buy the domain.

That means Joe Schmoe can't go to the domain, put in his credit card number and enrich the scalper. Because if he can, they lose the domain.

If they come up with some convoluted scam to get around it, they'll get less business and scare away buyers who perceive it to be the subterfuge that it is, which is good.

The best thing about it is the low cost to honest people not trying to sell domains for money, who shouldn't be affected at all.
I didn't mean to claim that the examples are comparable, just provide an example to highlight that there degrees to which you can highlight such views.

Ultimately, the relevance is subjective.
How can the Lancet publish a letter with a) such basic statistical omissions and b) no editing whatsoever

Like everyone operating in bad faith, they compare % of cases in fully vaccinated people to unvaxinated people, without talking about relative vaxination rates. Of course you're going to get more raw numbers infections of people who have been vaccinated (especially with waining immune effects as time passes) if you vaccination rate is 90%+.

Here's the IMO right way to look at it:

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio...

Unvaccinated people in King County are 7x more likely to catch covid, 38x more likely to end up in the hospital, and 24x more likely to die. The raw numbers don't matter in the context of arguing about effectiveness except to ensure you have a large enough sample to make statistical inferences with.
You misread my post. I am saying such a contract is a violation. Right to work laws forbid such contracts.
The goal of academic research is to explore ideas, which are judged by submitting papers to conferences for review, and to train the next generation of academics (i.e., graduate students) in coming up with ideas, proving them, and then writing up said ideas and the proof that they work well. It is not to create a production quality software, which is an orthogonal set of goals and skills.

The key thing to remember is that THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS ACADEMIC PROCESS. I go to the Filesystems and Storage Technology (FAST) conference, where many of these BetrFS papers were published, to harvest ideas which I might use in my production systems, and of course, to see if any of the graduate students who have decided that the academic life is not for them, whether they might come to work for my company[1]. I personally find the FAST conference incredibly useful on both of these fronts, and I think the BetrFS papers are super useful if you approach them from the perspective of being a proving ground for ideas, not as a production file system.

So it's unfortunate that people seem to be judging BetrFS on whether they should "trust my data/workloads to such systems", and complaining that the prototype is based on the 3.11 kernel. That's largely irrelevant from the perspective of proving such ideas. Now, I'm going to be much more harshly critical when someone proposes a new file system for inclusion in the upstream kernel, and claiming that it is ready for prime time, and then when I run gce-xfstests on it, we see it crashing right and left[2][3]. But that's a very different situation. You will notice that no one is trying to suggest that BetrFS is being submitted upstream.

A good example of how this works is the iJournaling paper[4], where the ideas were used as the basis for ext4 fast commits[5]. We did not take their implementation, and indeed, we simplified their design for simplicity/robustness/deployment concerns. This is an example of academic research creating real value, and shows the process working as intended. It did NOT involve taking the prototype code from the jJournaling research effort and slamming it into ext4; we reimplemented the key ideas from that paper from scratch. And that's as it should be.

[1] Oligatory aside: if you are interested in working on file systems and storage in the Linux kernel; reach out to me --- we're hiring! My contact information should be very easily found if you do a Google search, since I'm the ext4 maintainer

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/YQdlJM6ngxPoeq4U@mit.edu

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YQgJrYPphDC4W4Q3@mit.edu/

[4] https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc17/technical-sessions/p...

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/842385/
Firefox doesn't support it out-of-the-box.
>People have to survive inhumanly hard, exhausting studying regimes just to land a job which hardly uses a humble portion of what they learnt.

I always thought the purpose of these kinds of exams was to determine if you had enough work ethic to pass them. The information actually included is peripheral at best most of the time.
IIUC, they can get 7 years worth of SMS/MMS (including contents) with very little effort/cost.
It's definitely the fault of some individual related to the service. BUT, you must be pretty stupid to send a device away that contains sensitive information.

And unfortunately, a lot of people in society don't expect this type of intrusion by a company they trust. But they should. And I don't think you can blame Google for any of this.
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Maybe he already is - thus the deleted comment.
We have to assume that Google devs see these crappy spammy code websites too on a daily basis, right? What's up with the incredibly strong programmer culture over there, gone already after 20 years? You'd think someone would take these weak search results personally...
Is being told to wear clothes or get fired coercion? Do you find that acceptable?
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Nitpick: there’s no way to apply the Chinese Remainder Theorem. It merely states that “if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can* determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime.”* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem) It doesn’t say how to determine that number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem#Comp... describes a few algorithms for doing that.
I am hoping someone can educate me. I do enjoy Jeff's articles and videos, but I fail to see what these could be used for. I concede that this is entirely due to my ignorance.
Another comment quotes:

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> we couldn't wipe it. We contact Google and used the device care to get an RMA.
> Communication, collaboration, strategy and analysis, perseverance, leadership.

I'm deeply sceptical that these translate in any useful way off court.

It sounds similar to the equally unfounded belief that playing chess makes kids smarter.
Yep - every culture (and even family) is different. Heck, I have a close Hong Konger friend who is one of the most physically affectionate people I’ve ever met
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What's great about this is you don't need evidence. People just need to believe it. People at large have a large number of vices they do in private, but the moment our private lives are made public it is very common for others to point the finger and say how dare they do that, even when said person does the same thing.
whether you think its right or wrong, its apparently not without precedence

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/flu-vaccine-requir...
> Sure, but it was never said to be purely an identify verification process. There have always been other requirements

Yeah. That's what people are annoyed about. That wasn't twitter's public position.
I was kinda confused as to what this is, but I think it's meant so you can host a browser as a "server" and have multiple people stream that "browser server"?

When I first clicked I thought it was going to be for programmatic testing of code.
My guess why higher your reputation is the fragile it becomes is because the more reputation does not necessarily make the effects of negative thoughts against the company weaker but rather makes people trust you more and willing to stick around for longer. If a well reputed company or a person does a major mishap, people are more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and have a higher chance of going back despite the mishaps as long as they are not very big or in a way that sends red flags because they trust the person or company due to having a good reputation

Then why is it so brittle in big companies? Because the mishap mentioned here of Stripe rescinding the candidate and others we tend to hear about are pretty major and enough to erode trust significantly and in turn reputation.

When smaller negative things like Amazon not donating a large amount of money to curl but it was short lived and faded easily and probably nobody remembers it but bigger bad things we frequently hear about big companies such as poor work environment in Amazon is pretty hard to forget and no amount of good reputation unless something big enough shows that it is not true it will be on the back of mind for a long time.

In smaller businesses people expect negative things to happen more frequently and nobody remembers since it is normal for people and reputation is unaffected unless something extremely bad happens.

Hence even if you have a good reputation negative things will break it more often than in smaller companies because you have far higher standards to hold to maintain while small companies dont't and their reputation does not go down as much as bigger companies
> BUT, you must be pretty stupid to send a device away that contains sensitive information.

Irrelevant
This is really cool.

I used an app called Puffin on iOS in the past and have wanted something similar for the same reasons the author listed.
Do you believe that mobile handsets are communicating with their embedded storage devices using ATA?
If you put some good audio headphones its amazing!
Sure would be a shame if the employees collectively bargained with the company for more reasonable policies...
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> business

The logistics of setting up as many shell companies and domains which are squatted seems unreasonable. The onus is on the purchaser not to illegally purchase a domain against the licence agreement or the domain is revoked. Both of these would likely massively reduce the financial incentives domain squatters enjoy.

> personal

They can still licence a domain, but when they're done with it, it returns to the pool of available domains for others to purchase.

> Websites

sure, and websites are the major driving force behind domain squatting though.

Maybe I'm explaining this poorly, and I know I haven't solved the worlds problems in a single post but it's fun to theorise, however if I purchase a software licence, I cannot sell that on. If a business purchases a software licence and that business changes ownership, the licence isn't always void.
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The key insight that many people, particularly those without the stronger math background, miss is that you can increase the addend like you (and I, in my solution) have done. So they either leave it at 1 (and the solution is around 1-2 trillion, IIRC, so that's not happening quickly) or they do one optimization which is to set it to the first divisor (7 in your example, which still leaves you with hundreds of billions of loop executions), but don't adjust it with each newly matched bus line.

And instead of talking down to people, it can be more productive if you walk through a solution instead of stating "This algorithm self-evidently works" like a jerk.

Also, the last modulo isn't needed.
> That said, I’m wondering if Google didn’t farm out their repair work to a 3rd party, leading to this situation.

They almost certainly did, since a large portion of Google's offices are staffed by contractors as well. There is no way they're paying Google salaries and benefits to the guys handling RMA phones.

And that's part of the problem. You send the phone to Google, a company you (very mistakenly) trust, and they immediately hand it over to a lowest bidder shady shop. These services should definitely be letting you know your phone is actually going to AAABob's Phone Repair Shop, and not some magical Google factory center.
Here's a fact, there are a limited number of developers period. You seem to magically have conjured a team out of thin air.
> So I doubt that the overall security of users is in practice affected.

The problem is the sheer number of APIs that Chrome ships and wants other browsers to ship, and what browsers already ship that require access via prompts: camera, location, notifications, file access, bluetooth, usb, motion sensors, serial ports, midi devices, clipboard...

Just prompting user to allow stuff is no longer enough, and adding more prompts leads to worse security.