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> Certainly in the UK there are many cases where "unfair" contracts can't be enforced

AFAIK there's no unfairness provisions in common law. There are two statutes about unfair clauses - UCTA (Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977) and UTCCR (Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, the UK implementation of an EU directive). Both are mainly focused on limiting businesses trying to enforce unfair terms on consumers. UCTA limits itself to specific types terms (liability limitations etc). UTCCR is much wider in the types of terms it covers, but still only applies to 'standard form' contracts (ie not-individually-negotiated terms), and only to terms which are unfair "to the detriment of the consumer".

Ie none of them will help a bank trying to claim that one of its own standard form contracts were unfair to the bank!

Edit:
If you just meant that that the existence of this sort of legislation undermines my 'certainty of contracts' point, I disagree.

For one thing, even the more-powerful UTCCR explicitly bans the core terms of the contract (ie how much it costs and what you're getting for your money) from being considered 'unfair' -- it doesn't try to judge whether a bargain is good or bad.

For another, there's a hell of a difference between the law choosing not to enforce a term in a standard form against a consumer who probably didn't read and certainly couldn't have negotiated it, and someone objecting to a term they did write/negotiate - i.e. either an individually negotiated term or, as here, a bank objecting to a standard form term it wrote itself.
It's almost like the mods are complete tards!
I remember being taught that glass was a liquid in high school (early 90s) and they referenced antique glass being thicker at the bottom as an example. So I was fascinated by that and thought it was true for the longest time. :/

Some interesting reading regarding that urban myth and the actual science:

http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ualberta.ca/...
If you'd finished the article, you'd probably notice he says (twice) exactly why he used CNN. Not that they're one of the worst, but rather that this is pervasive.

> Again, I don’t mean to call out CNN as the “bad example,” but rather use them to show a specific example of a model that has become pervasive for content on the web.
How Did Life Begin on Earth?
After reading the original article when it was first posted, I picked up a few across the entire range (they're available for a few euros in French on Kindle) including all of 1-27 and read through them to see what the fuss is about.

My opinion FWIW:

- the early books (1-20 or so) are pretty good and similar in tone and observations to non-fiction of the period written by those who lived it (Mike Hoare, Mike Calvert... even Jacques Foccart). There's a lot of interesting claims, which seem ridiculous and with a bit of research appear to be grounded in some form of reality. Even the names that come up seem to have done what is claimed that they have done (e.g. Gehlen). The local flavour is fantastic, the Iron Curtain stuff even more fascinating from being gone today. The books are extraordinarily politically incorrect in every way you care to list, racism, sexism, colonialism, great admiration for aristocracy and classism... there is no way a modern editor will ever approve a translation, or a translator will ever put their name on the job. Despite the tone, they are the most interesting ones in terms of actual content. Some are creative - the Hollywood plot definitely is the result of an active imagination.

- The middle books (e.g. "Panique au Zaire") get pretty trashy in a Roger Moore Bond kind of way (but one with the sex scenes left in). There's still some "local colour" (e.g. in aforementioned, an exploration of Lebanese networks in Africa) but it's buried under fairly boring and flat plots. At some point I started skipping most and picking a few titles in locations of interest. For example, the photos of De Villiers with Savimbi hint that he might have interesting things to say about Angola, and I read the one on Singapore because I live there. Oddly enough he becomes more politically correct, especially regarding racism and colonialism, almost a 180 degree turn; "Compte a Rebours en Rhodesie" is profoundly anti-Rhodesian and anti-apartheid and has the aristocratic, blond-haired, "golden-eyed" S.A.S. go help one of the Rhodesian resistance movements whilst continuously expressing disgust towards the white Rhodesians. The books are somewhat worth reading for snapshots into fast moving political situations that look nothing today like they did back when the book was written.

- The last books claim a lot of things which seem possible but which we will never know about. E.g. "La Vengeance du Kremlin" claims Litvinenko was acting FOR the FSB/GRU, accidentally poisoning himself whilst preparing the dose, and Cameron covered up the poisoning for political reasons as he was trying to get things from Putin. I thought they were interesting books presenting a non-mainstream POV (and "higher up gossip") but not as insightful as the early ones, and more political.

Fun fact: De Villiers selected the cover girls himself in the street, sometimes asking his contacts for "the right kind of girl" (said in a Helmut Newton accent).

France is the elephant in the room in all the novels, especially considering many of the locations.
> When first formulated by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore 50 years ago, this suggested that chip power could double every 12 months.

Actually, when first formulated by Moore, it was that transistor density doubled every 12 months (he later revised it to 2 years.)

Per Wikipedia, it was David House who applied it to performance (and, when he did, it was with an 18 month timeframe.)
How Uber is ending the dirty dealings behind Toronto's cab business
The idea of "checking in ASTs" becomes a lot more compelling when you think about representing a diff of an automated refactoring. For example, a simple rename refactoring, performed by an IDE for a statically typed language, is completely safe, yet it could generate a 1000 line diff. This is hard to review, causes merge conflicts, does not rebase correctly, etc.

Instead, if you could somehow check in the refactoring action, all those problems would go away. You could rebase the code by undoing and redoing the rename, taking into account new usages of the renamed item, etc.
Ghostery + httpseverywhere did the same for me.
Don't worry. Eventually the cruft will get filtered out by AI, just like in adblockers, but in a much more powerful way.

Essentially, the circuits in your brain that remove cruft subconsciously now, will be implemented in software.
Picture This: Instagram for Marketing Communication
The original Circuit Java-App was incredible useful to me during the Electronics course and while designing basic analog circuits. It's basically a SPICE for noobs.
theres not much to it really, a jquery powered script onto a static html page, backed by a PHP api to load questions, coloured in by Materialize CSS to make it look nice. server site there's really nothing to it, just a linux, nginx, mysql php setup :)
I do not. Microsoft Research and Google Research and IBM are examples of places where some of this research is done - and there's Universities. MITRE does as well as other semi-public orgs.

But it's the case that all of these places also sponsor work and work with the military. I guess the answer is yes that it exists, but no it doesn't exist (AFAIK) completely military free.

I don't have very good visibility into pharma companies and agro companies. I know that they do some long term research and I don't know (I would suspect) whether they have partnerships with DoD folks.
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> but trying to make them all fair would just make us all worse off

Lots of ideas look ridiculous if you take them to ridiculous extremes. I'd feel silly if I had suggested a contitutional amendment requiring absolutely everything in the world to be absolutely fair in every way. Boy, I'd have egg on my face then.

It's easy to mock a straw man for looking silly, but it says a lot more about the one doing the mocking.

> How does what I spend on my lawyer affect the services that a public defender provides for someone else?

That's idiotic. In a contest between two people, one person having an unlimited budget absolutely makes a big difference. And you know this, because that was the point of your second sentence.

> Your argument is rooted in envy

Grow up. As someone who is actually pretty well off, and who has never been to court, I'm pretty confident in saying you don't know what the hell you're talking about. A desire to help the downtrodden doesn't mean I'm green with envy. You're just insulting a caricature you've drawn in your own mind with no relation to reality.
I picked up a pair of Bose SoundTrue On Ear headphones. I'd been stalking them for a while but they've been priced at £129.95 for months. I ordered them yesterday for little over £70. Very happy!
Polygamous marriages change the core identity of marriage: that it is, as you say, a dyadic undertaking. That polygamous marriages might be legalized is a tenuous argument that is being spread up and down these forums. Sliding polygamous marriage in while the topic is about gay marriage is changing the subject at best, and dishonest at worst. Legalizing gay marriage is about equality, allowing polygamous marriages reinforces inequality between individuals. While we are at it, bestiality/pedophilia/etc. won't magically be next either for marriage: those acts are currently illegal because they create a dynamic of harm, as opposed to one of mutual support, between two individuals.

I would argue that the right to marry is not inherently a dyadic right. Before the latest law, certain people were categorically denied the sort of marriage they (as an individual) wanted because of a quality that they (as an individual) possessed and likely have no control over. Gay marriage changes nothing about the institution of marriage for any other person, and the administrative differences for the government are practically nil.

Accepting your definition of the "right to marry" as a "dyadic right", where do the basis for these sorts of rights come from, if not from the same source as the basis for "individual rights"? Where does the line between "all individuals are equal" and "these pairs of individuals cannot be considered the same as these other pairs of individuals" get drawn? How is the denial of marriage to an individual not a slight to the equality of that individual?

Lastly, I would venture to say that I am not a totalitarianist, nor a consequentialist. There is most definitely room for expression of contrasting opinions in the marketplace of ideas. I do apologize for the brashness above, but I fail to see what "culture" people like me are destroying when they are promoting equal application of rights. A culture whose identity is formed around restricting the abilities of others doesn't seem like much of a culture at all. (If it's being burned to the ground by criticism, it seems fair to say that that's a critical part of its identity.) To play the same sort of game that the polygamist argument relies on: these arguments sound an awful lot like the arguments for Jim Crow laws and against interracial marriage.

I wish you the best and apologies for any personal vitriol that my posts may seem to contain.
Google and Mozilla Disable Flash Over Security Concerns
i am just going to punt because this still isn't landing for me. Maybe I am just mischaracterizing you, but it seems like you are either frustrated building things with outdated tools, or you want more control as a user. If it is the former, we are at the top of a funnel right now and we will start to see much better tools become improved and a few winners will emerge. If you want more control over your sites as a user you would probably have to force the css to either not load, or override it with your own scheme.

it's just, when you say color, it isn't that easy. There are tons of screen sizes and even as minimal as hacker news is has at least 4 colors, so I am not sure what would happen on a site like fast company with many different colors. An OS/Browser couldn't manage that because no one would agree. Ok fine I didn't punt.
I really like how syntax trivia allows you to completely ignore comments and whitespace, if you want, and focus exclusively on your problem domain (source code). But it's also available for when you do want to inspect or modify it.

Because Wasabi doesn't implement syntax trivia, there's no way to losslessly round-trip Wasabi code. Whitespace is not preserved, and comments are always assumbed to be on a line of their own.

Did your team invent the idea, or is there prior research I could read?
The latest stratechery article discusses this same topic from more of a high level industry trends and business forces perspectives, https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/
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It's worth bearing in mind that rich people play an important role in restraining the power of government. Our founding fathers were, after all, the wealthy elite of their time. Despots and dictators crack down on wealthy people who do not fall in line, and guaranteeing independent legal representation (which the Constitution does) is a bulwark against such overreach.
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet
I am older than you probably, I am over 40.

Holy shit, it's like you're throwing nappies at me and telling me I should wear them immediately. I don't want or need a nappy.

Holy shit, look at this: http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2011-3660/

"There is total information disclosure, resulting in all system files being revealed."

OMG it's from 2011, and those poor people from 2011 with Firefox installed.

Listen. I am not worried about your CVE's. Got it? Don't push your paranoid, unsubstantiated crap into my reading.

If I'm vulnerable, where's the stories of "person with Firefox and Flash gets owned" stories? Link me one, just one.

If you want security, if you want privacy. Close you damn Facebook account (if you can). Good luck.

nightpool..... some advice: uninstall your virus protection program for one year. Let us know how you go in a year. (hint, you'll be fine).

Hack me.
Cars, chickens and a distracted Android Colonel
I think the "hack the plane through IFE" thing is nonsense but it still seems negligent to encourage people to try to break the electronics on a plane in the air, which is exactly what a bug bounty that qualifies findings in the IFE does.

Something to remember about every company that offers a bounty: they aren't just offering to pay for findings, but also implicitly granting permission to attack them, waiving many of their rights in the process. It makes sense that an airline would do that carefully.
The Sourceforge site is currently in Disaster Recovery mode
The mfws page is 5k or so and one script (and I might want to fight about that depending on the reason it is there - see the page code at the bottom).

Suppose you had another 5k budget for css. What could you do with it to make the page look 'nicer' in the sense of closer to mainstream Web pages that ordinary people might use?

Edit: clarity
What could go wrong?

Explaining the audio latency problem and the current need for larger buffer sizes.
> The world is not fair. Deal with it.

I do deal with it. I have a pretty fulfilling life. But I'll never accept someone saying "The world is not fair. Don't ever try to make it more fair."

Here's a thought- Let one party pick a pair of legal representatives, and let the other party pick who is represented by whom.
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Here's a first-pass user style sheet that gets rid of most of the noise.

#breaking-news,
[data-video-id],
.sibling,
.pg-rail,
.js-gigya-sharebar {
display: none;
}

body {
padding-top: 0 !important;
}

.nav-header {
position: relative;
}
'food' = 'food'
Hi.

Question regarding your Safari -- does it carry well ? For example, can you toss it in a courier bag and tote it around safely without it leaking ink, or having some other fountain-pen-specific problem happening ?
Gerd Gigerenzer asks roughly similar questions of a wide range of people - mostly medical professionals. It's scary how wrong people are, especially considering that this is information they're using to medicate you or operate on you.

Here's an example from his book:

http://imgur.com/zO4zkl4

Gerd Gigerenzer Reckoning With Risk.
It is, psychedelic induced hallucinations (as opposed to hallucinations as a result of delerium) are produced in much the same way as deepdream. And the results are strikingly similar.
Thinking about your point, I'm curious about how to determine the line between these groups and terrorist organizations. How do we tell the difference and why is it OK to lock one up but not the other?
Not clear what IBM doing 7nm means, really. They no longer own a foundry, and don't have any chips in normal products that compete with Intel. IBM also demonstrated some really high clock speeds previously, but the Power8 is still a 4GHz part and is built on 22nm.

Now, if Global Foundry actually starts making full 14nm chips this year (which it doesn't sound like it, seems to be a 20nm back end), that might things pretty interesting.

I previously worked for a company that used both TSMC and UMC, the jump to the next process level is always extremely hard, and the biggest deal is yield. Until the yields are high enough to actually get to a profit a lot of companies with specialized chips will stick to the older process (set-top box chips for instance) where it's good enough.

FD: I'm at Intel (not hardware), cannot comment on Intel itself.
Bunnie Huang on Moore's Law, http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/08/features/moo...

“.. WIRED buys the iPhone 6 schematic book (above) for 25 RMB (£2.70) .. It's like getting a master class on circuit design .. for £2.70, engineers in China can get a leg up on the best and brightest university-educated kids by studying these designs ..

.. there are established, legitimate businesses that earn their keep creating schematics from circuit boards. As the pace of Moore's law diminishes, learning through reverse engineering will become increasingly effective, as me-too products will have a larger market window to amortise reverse-engineering efforts before the next new thing comes along.

.. Even a modest deceleration of Moore's law can have a dramatic effect: a five per cent reduction in the pace of gate-length shrinkage -- from 16 percent to 11 per cent per year -- increases the available time to develop products within a technology generation by 50 per cent, from two years up to three.

.. Instead of running in fear of ­obsolescence, open-source hardware developers now have time to build communities around platforms; we can learn from each other, share blueprints and iterate prototypes before committing to a final design.”
BUT you get the great publicity of being one of the forward thinking companies that does bug bounties. Anecdotally many non-programmer people are starting to understand that bug bounty = good.
I don't know. Even since I was a student developer for companies there were always at least three topics at any given focus that needed at least some share of my attention. PG's suggested stretches of time where I could just do one thing are very small and very small to realise. In a great world one would have such a schedule, but if you don't code alone you will always be interrupted. At least that's my experience up to now.
A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics (2013)
Lets say, for the sake of argument, that's true; what percentage of computers are "web servers that serve at scale". What's the cost of setting up production lines for 1024-core chips for just that market -- and how many chips are you going to be able to amortize that cost over.

Even if it was possible, I think the costs would be exhorbitant, even if the marginal cost per chip wasn't.
Finally, an article that actually talks about the real reasons, instead of blaming it on the hiring process.

There are numerous companies that would LOVE to hire black and latino programmers. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you are black or latino (and are even halfway competent at programming), you actually have an ADVANTAGE in the hiring process because your race is so under-represented, and the companies want to satisfy their anti-discrimination policies.

The problem in these companies isn't that the candidates are being discriminated against (although there are, of course, plenty of challenges that still need to be overcome in that area). The problem is that the candidates just aren't there!

For every 50-75 white programmers that applied to work at my company, there was probably only 1 black person who applied, and that's not even taking skill level into account.

If we want to solve the racial equality and representation issues in tech, we have to start at the bottom of the funnel. We have to solve the problem at the education, support, and motivation level. We need to get younger black and latino kids and teenagers interested in programming, and we need to make sure that they have the right environment and support to pursue that dream.
To understand circuits, and to test them without building them. Thought that was obvious.
Exploration Exploitation Tradeoff
I don't think the issue is people not wanting to pay for content. The Web breaks apart for-pay models in different ways: people want content from more publishers than they can afford; and, people want to share.

Getting people to pay for content on the web is a tricky issue. Looking at it as a consumer, I don't mind paying, but to whom? "Walled gardens" tend to force you into a subscription model: pay "The Economist" (e.g.) annually and you have access to their content. In modern times, people read content from all over the place without respect for boundaries. Realistically, you will probably want content from more publishers than you can afford to pay in subscriptions.

Should publishers move to a model in which you pay per article? If so, how much? Do they price low ($0.10 USD) with the belief that more people will pay? Do writers get a percentage or flat rate? How is the quality of writing affected by each option?

How do we share content in a for-pay model? Communal reading and discussion is what people do. It's the same way with music. People share articles, music, and pictures with others who might be interested. In turn, sharing entices dialog and dialog entices relationship-building.

I don't think the issue is people not wanting to pay. The Web opened up individuals to a much larger set of publishers. Publishers in turn tried to keep a subscriber model while trying to curtail the very human desire to share. Solve the issues of not limiting people to small numbers of publishers and not limiting their ability to share, and you will reduce publisher dependency on ad revenue.
Looks great! I especially love that the concept you are calling StreamFields is finding its way to more and more CMS's (Concrete5 and Perch call them "Blocks", ExpressionEngine and Craft call them "Matrix Fields", and Advanced Custom Fields for Wordpress calls them "Flexible Content Fields"). It's really a great balance between giving site owners the ability to manage rich content on a page while also giving designers the ability to ensure that content sticks to the site's overall design.