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Michael Flynn plead guilty to the charges. He signed the statement of offense[0] with his personal lawyer. Simply because Mr Flynn chose to write a book of fiction afterwards does not change the fact that he admitted his guilt to the courts under penalty of perjury.

"The preceding statement is a summary, made for the purpose of providing the Court with a factual basis for my guilty plea to the charge against me. It does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this offense. I make this statement knowingly and voluntarily and because I am, in fact, guilty of the crime charged. No threats have been made to me nor am I under the influence of anything that could impede my ability to understand this Statement of the Offense fully.

I have read every word of this Statement of the Offense, or have had it read to me. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, after consulting with my attorneys, I agree and stipulate to this Statement of the Offense, and declare under penalty of perjury that it is true and correct."

[0] - https://www.justice.gov/file/1015126/download
Thing is - YouTube has got one of the best recommendation engines - much better than Netflix. So I wouldn't blame ourselves but the algorithm doing its job.
> I'd love to see all cars being on FSD and communicating with each other around, dropping deaths (and even minor accidents) to virtually zero though.

That sounds like a world that'll be great as long as you're in a car, and terrible if you're a pedestrian or cyclist. Kind of like the world we've got now, except with even more victim blaming.
I like videos for small topics as well, but I find reading much easier for hard to digest knowledge, personally
Roll the tanks because Jimmy sells loosies.
A drug preference ins't a "class of people". It's just a preference (or an addiction).
How can you have an electronic strobe tuner? I understand the mechanics of mechanical ones (they're really quite simple), but how can you have one with an LCD display? Is it merely a weird way of outputting the same electronic tuning you can get from any FFT-based tuning, and they're just riding the reputation of the mechanical devices?
The other major difference is their use of Paxos USD, a stablecoin that's tied to the dollar.
If it's on HN or Twitter or FB then it NOT a secret
This is true, but I don't know to what extent Chinese businesses can purchase USD assets? My assumption is it's probably harder (you need Chinese government permission) to do so? Certainly chinese retail investors can't do it at the moment.
Talk to any Tesla-fan.

"Icky ICE Engine". "Now you have two engines with twice the malfunctions". "I don't like oil changes". Etc. etc. They're incredibly anti-PHEV.

Neither Elon nor his gang of supporters are very good for PHEVs. And on stage, Elon still derides them as a strategy.

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Look: Elon / Tesla are right now arguing __against__ government incentives for PHEVs and EVs.

His politics have flipped. He's no longer a supporter of incentives for this industry.
What about the benefit and joy of learning itself?!!
Probably. Though the last time that happened I didn’t. The family had less income, so while I was losing more money now due to property taxes, my income had gone up so it was kind of a wash.
One consideration here that many folks (US in particular) may not consider is that smokers put a very substantial burden on the NZ healthcare system which is taxpayer funded.

Of course, there are plenty of counter examples to this such as obesity (NZ is #2 in obesity only to US at #1) where the costs don’t result in any substantial regulation or prohibition. Alcohol is a ginormous topic too, NZ has an extremely unhealthy relationship with it.

I think I agree that the stripping of liberties is uncomfortable, even if I’m totally opposed to smoking.
Unfortunately for Google, FCC sets the context here which is shown in Kari's Law:

"If 911 is dialed on anything that is a phone, your system must connect to 911."

https://www.fcc.gov/mlts-911-requirements

This is less of a "oh it's just a bug" and more of a federal compliance issue.
It will only get cooler. And you put age discrimination in the law book.

Sure there is some age discrimination in the lawbooks for kids/elderly have some different laws applicable to them. But this is discriminating against a generation not an age group.

I prefer the "tax the shit out of it" approach. Possibly with a tax that is calculated based on your wealth/income (as all discouragements taxes should be, or they only apply to poorer peeps)
Protip: this is how Tether works but people in the west dont want to believe that people in the east actually deposit fiat into bitfinex.

Multiple US regulators came to the same conclusion. One regulator said “well you usually create tethers 1:1 in response to deposits the vast majority of times and vast majority of amounts, but for the brief few times you didnt at least put a disclaimer up, also here is a fine for not having the disclaimer up”
Please don't make false claims. You can argue that he should have lied (for whatever reason) under oath, but you cannot argue that he didn't lie under oath.
Maybe NZ has socialized healthcare? In which case you need to relinquish "personal liberties" to access medical resources.

In general, I don't support these kinds of things. I just think vices are something humans have pursued in general and will continue to pursue regardless of government control. It's just cost of being in a society. Education can help and has helped greatly reduce smoking along with policies restricting where one can smoke.

Any sort of prohibition creates a very wealthy "criminal class" who are adept at covering the gaps. And now the government will spend way more money trying to bring that "criminal class" down.
I read:

> The GAO report also says the Justice Department has largely ignored a requirement included in the 1994 crime bill to “acquire data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers” and “shall publish an annual summary of the data acquired.”

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but I read this as "the collection is required by the crime bill passed in 1994". Even if it's not, the FBI surely has carrots and sticks they can use to force participation.
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It is going on right now.

"And the answer is obvious: they all serve as mouthpieces for the same propagandists and disinformation agents of the CIA, FBI and other security state agencies. In this capacity, they dutifully write down and vouch for what they are told by those agencies to publish without any investigative scrutiny or confirmation. The most amazing part of it all is that when they try to malign independent journalists for not doing "real reporting” — real reporting like these corporate outlets do — this is what they mean by real reporting: getting a call from the CIA or FBI and being told what to say. And that is why they so often mislead and deceive the public with blatant disinformation in unison."

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/corporate-news-outlets-agai...
dude - read some history.. the biggest slavers of the old world made the Dutch look like beginners.. and slavers have been hated by their own people since forever.. putting "slavers" and "Dutch" together is pretty ignorant, even if it is partially true
One definitely has to wonder. We know that GPT-3 solves 1/2 digit arithmetic pretty much perfectly†; people criticized this very hotly as "it's just memorizing", but regardless, whether it learned or memorized arithmetic, that should apply even more to Gopher, which performs so much better and is larger. How can GPT-3 solve similar arithmetic near-perfectly and Gopher then be unable to...? Are we going to argue that "15 x 7" never appears in Internet scrapes and that's why Gopher couldn't memorize it?

I would want to ask it "15 x 7" outside of a dialogue or with examples, or look at the logprobs, or check whether "15 * 7" works (could there be something screwed up in the tokenization or data preprocessing where the 'x' breaks it? I've seen weirder artifacts from BPEs...). GPT-3 does not always 'cooperate' in prompting or dialogues or read your mind in guessing what it 'should' say, and there's no reason to expect Gopher to be any different. The space before the question mark also bothers me. Putting spaces before punctuation in Internet culture is used in a lot of unserious ways, wouldn't you agree 〜

I definitely would not hastily jump to the conclusion, based on one dialogue, "ah yes, despite its incredible performance across a wide variety of benchmarks surpassing GPT-3 by considerable margins and being expected to do better on arithmetic than GPT-3, well, I guess Gopher just can't multiply 1-digit numbers or even guess the magnitude or first digit of the result! What a pity!"

† quickly checking, GPT-3 can solve '15 x 7 =105'.
I spent like 5 minutes trying to phrase my thoughts into words but I kept coming back to: “are you fucking serious?”
Well, everybody is going to die, and therefore have some kind of end-of-life healthcare cost. If it isn't lung cancer from smoking, then it will be heart disease or Alzheimer's or some other form of cancer.
Just what we need. As if AWS itself wasn't already expensive enough.
> With a flat tax you don't pay a higher % if you are richer, you pay a higher amount.

That's literally what I wrote.

The Flat tax is not fixed. Its incremental up to a a limit. So you only pay the full amount once you reach a certain level. Below that you pay increasingly less.

And as I suggested, if you want higher % you can make that slightly slanted as well.
The NOC structure gives the CIA a lot of flexibility internationally. You also have to realize that international anarchy is not just a buzzword, but is reality. When operating in weak states, cooperation with the CIA or taking NOC status is the cheapest source of security that you can get.

The CIA also benefits from workarounds to its statutory limitations established by the CIA Act of 1949. It can do this through intermediaries. It can also grant individuals NOC status who are working internationally for a US corporation. As you might imagine, this provides a ton of flexibility. Most NOCs are not necessarily doing James Bond things, but they are forking over reports and other information to the CIA to help that agency to generate reports.

The 'free press' is actually even worse than what you think, because so much of foreign reporting is just framed directly by the State Department's wires, press releases, and coverage. You don't even need to have Johnny N.Y. Times as an agent: just naturally they are ideologically sympathetic to what the State Department wants everyone to think by education, socialization, and active consumption of State Department propaganda. Johnny NYT then reads lots of State Department material, adds his own literary flair when he goes to report abroad, and then distributes it to the American retail news consumer market. This conveniently evades all the statutory limitations on domestic government propaganda.

Journalists are already automatically suspected of being foreign spies, so they don't really make the best spies. An investor, attorney, or consultant is a much better informant because their information is going to be a lot better and much more relevant for US government purposes. You already have the entire press by default, so why bother putting them on the payroll? They will already do it for free and without being told what they have to do. Even then most know that if they are of particular service to the USG, they can get a sinecure later off of their servility while in the private sector.
This is the thing, as drugs go cigarettes aren't a particularly good one.
I can't speak for totalZero but I feel the same way. I am not at work to make lifelong friends, I am working so I can eventually retire early and do what I really want (that doesn't have any opportunity to earn income).

I don't find it tiring. I do the same thing with my family and more so my spouse's family, who are very religious. I'm used to it.
Have you tried some of the old "Graphics Gems" series books yet? [1], [2], [3] They are not CS fundamentals but will help you out with the necessary concepts, math and algorithms for graphics programming and ray-tracing.

As others have mentioned any books on Data Structures & Algorithms are a must. [4], [5], [6]

However in my opinion, trying to understand CS fundamentals without undergoing some sort of formal education is a chore. You won't know what you are missing. Going through an established approved syllabus will give you a fuller understanding. But that is only if you are interested in the long haul.

There are a number of MOOCs that may fit the bill allowing you to slowly gather the knowledge without sacrificing too much time and focus on a day job to keep you going. I feel they are also great value for money for what you get. Some of them are from very reputable names if that is important. [7][8].

Since you have a B.Sc you can do the Masters level but there are also Bachelors level courses. [9]

1. https://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Gems-Andrew-S-Glassner/dp/01...

2. https://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Gems-II-IBM-No/dp/0120644819...

3. https://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Gems-No-3-David-Kirk/dp/0124...

4. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-3rd-MIT-Press...

5. https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-4th-Robert-Sedgewick/dp/03...

6. https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

7. https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-computer-science-...

8. https://www.coursera.org/degrees/mcit-penn

9. https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-compute...
Failing builds in the CI/CD pipelines due to security vulnerabilities?
We had a fairly mature DevSecOps practice in the previous company I worked for. We had static and dynamic AppSec testing, software composition analysis and container security products integrated into the build and deployment pipelines.

We broke these pipelines when high severity vulnerabilities were identified, but the inability to release hot fixes to the product impeded the development velocity.

I decided to develop an aging threshold mechanism that allows developers to exclude specific vulnerabilities in a text file, but the caveat was that the pipeline always checked if the vulnerability is aged over 2 weeks. If it was the case, no more exceptions were allowed to deploy.

On top of it, we had a policy to re-deploy the containers every week, so when a deployment failed, it notified the relevant teams that the deployment failed (we didn't have it in the build process though).

Which portions of these practices are adopted in your companies?
An 'us vs them' narrative between citizens and government is really really unhealthy. We are all on the same team after all. It is completely reasonable to do the vast majority of, if not all, police work without being untrustworthy and unaccountable. The US Government is based on checks and balances - accountability.
Funny it’s getting huge coverage in UK media
I agree 100%. Originally land taxes were conceived as a correction for a more subtle bit of economic inequality: productivity of fields.

In today's world, where access to a city can dramatically change one's earning potential far far more, they are even more relevant.

The issue is both about the scarcity of access to a resource, such as the economy of a city, but also about where that resource comes from. With urban land, that resource is not the product of the individual land owner, but rather all the other land owners that made the city so prosperous and with so much opportunity.
> You can produce a copy of Picasso that is indistinguishable from an original.

I can't, but will happily pay anyone that can considerably more than the Ethereum gas fees involved in minting an NFT copy of something.
Same club :)
yeah, those currencies are freely tradable though, CNY is not, it's pegged. No political way Fed will do that.
I think it's just a Japanese person thing, Yuri Kochiyama was still organizing and writing well into her 80s.

Absolutely fascinating individual, she should be an essential part of American history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kochiyama
You're missing the most important part of the quip...

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses

The dismissiveness is often a signal, that was his point.

BTC has grown too far to be compared to Columbus setting out anyways, it's reached widespread access and accessibility, there are public companies devoted to it's access, BTC ETFs, etc.

We've reached the point where the cynicism is backed by reality. I think the fact we're now abandoning the currency pipedream for the most well known cryptocurrency says it all.
There is still no accountability in decentralized schooling, but that doesn't mean that there couldn't be. A lot of modular learners pull their kids out of school exactly because they want a deeper commitment to an education based on scientific inquiry and comprehensive, inclusive approach to history. You should check out SEA homeschoolers to see what they are doing. https://www.facebook.com/groups/seahomeschoolers
GSM standard + standard in the EU also for landlines.
It seems like you are making two points here. That the view is manipulated by forces behind the scenes and that the view is subjective. Yes. All humans who write words down taint them with their own subjective view. This does not mean that we are powerless though. Reporting can be improved by fact checking, editing, and other means. We can also use technology to make sure that the color of chosen words does not prime the reader. This does not imply manipulation or behind the scenes manipulation.

My own opinion: Media bias is a boogeyman. If somebody needs to be flatly told what is or isn't biased or if some source is left or right leaning then they are a dimwit. Even asking for unbiased information shows stupidity- it does not exist in an absolute sense.

I agree with you that you should start from a frame of mind that the media is biased because it is. Embrace it. There seems to be a push to therefore reject all news media which is a scary thought.

The press is the only private entity specifically mentioned in the US Constitution. It is often called the 4th branch of government because of the oversight that it provides.
Legally, doesn’t age discrimination only protect people over 40? Would it apply to banning people under the age of 14 from ever doing something?

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination
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That is no different from expensive picture collectors. That's a minority of participants.
Preventing people from buying something that affects their own body should be illegal. It's their own body. (Anti smoker here)
I lost a good number of men on my mom's side to tobacco and generally hate it.

Prohibition doesn't work and anyone who supports "quick fix" criminalization of substances is a fool.
Good idea. I'll do that next time:) Thanks!
How is this relevant to the Apple Neural Engine and this BlackHat talk?
We're talking about Clapper, not Flynn.
I've somewhat had this phenomenon, with the added observation that if I listen to the recording multiple times it will "click" and will sound good again. Then I wonder if it actually sounds good or what.
While police power generally belongs to the states, state and local police get tons of money from the federal government. It should be at least possible to withhold that money from non-compliant agencies.
Have you looked into it? I mean even the author of Skeptic magazine went through it and thought it was very credible that he was murdered.
> "If nothing changes, it would be decades till Māori smoking rates fall below 5 per cent, and this government is not prepared to leave people behind."

I'm not from New Zealand, so it's officially none of my business. But, this quote in particular seems so patronizing.
I think you may have just also described fractional reserve banking? that is literally where much of the money supply comes from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
Crypto speaks to aspects of humanity which people hold near and dear.

Crypto no doubt harbors shady characters, ponzi schemes, scams. You also can't deny that there are ideas which threaten state control, monetary policy, nationalistic ideals, religion its self. Just look at the magnitude of the conversation.

Its easy to dismiss me as the ramblings of somebody caught up in the scam. But when has it been a good idea to completely dismiss ideas which can shake the bedrock of society? I'm sure dinosaurs never thought an asteroid would cause them to go extinct either.

I ask the skeptics to take a Bayesian approach to skepticism. If you think in absolutes you can never accept new information. Move your skept-o-meter from 100% to 99% and allow yourself a fraction of a sliver of consideration. It might just be one of the most important things you have done.
What? This case is all over Uk media
> And if you don't realise that Russian government / KGB is VERY MUCH behind Facebook and its initiatives, I'm afraid you have quite a bit of catching up to do.

Uh, I have to say, this is a new one for me. What's the theory here?
But it's important to note that this is a different question than if the roads have tolls on them. (Not that you implied that in any way, but it is a confusion that happens!)

Rather, the tax on the land of the roads is an accounting mechanism to ensure that the land is being used for greater economic efficiency, rather than, say, a way forward wealthy people who live far away to get the public to subsidize the transport to their large mansions.
Maybe this was incorrect information, but I was under the impression that smokers were generally less of a cost on healthcare, as they tended to die earlier and use less medical resources.
Aspartame just hits different ya know?
The only way to really solve this is to make all potentially responsive data available to the public by default, via API.
If you mail Don Knuth about the error you found in TAOCP, he'll send you a check for $1 -- he used to do that, anyway. People tend not to cash the cheque, but keep it.
Yep, they should also be put on a 'no fly' list that excludes them from any Federal Law Enforcement Grants or Funding, which is a large part of many police dept budgets. For instance, it's how the Federal government enforces speed limits in all 50 states, by only giving highway funding to states that comply.
>composability

Not sure what you mean by this.

>security

The opposite in fact. If a hacker takes over your second life account and transfers your property you can bug customer support to get it back. If they compromise your secret key and transfer it over the blockchain you have no recourse. Unless the true source of ownership lives somewhere off blockchain and they invalidate and reissue it to the original owner, but then what purpose does blockchain/nft serve again?

>persistence

Already handled, obviously.

>liquidity

If second life wanted to offer liquidity they could(do?) without using an NFT. And if they don't want to offer liquidity than trading the digital asset as an NFT doesn't do you any good since there's no way to transfer ownership in second life.
You often dont need the full airflow those fans can provide; with some twiddling they can often be slowed, dropped entirely, or replaced with quieter ones.

I ran "bottom edge" priced server gear from ebay in production for several years; most of that lived with the case as open as possible and few of the original fans there; i'd scored a surplus deal on potent 120vac 6in muffin fans and had those tied to things with bailing wire.

Being able to reach things quick to replace them and visually diagnose the sources of smoke was another plus.
interesting. Have there been any aspects to homeschooling that you've enjoyed or do you think you'll return to school once/if the protocols you're looking for come into place.
It does in the music world.