NeutronBoy

Everyone here has accounts in development databases named 'aaa', 'asd', 'asdf', 'qwer', 'hjkl', etc!

Four upvotes and the page is already Slashdotted... I guess this is why people don't host their own content!

(I think that's the point of the article, not having read it)

> you're

Frankly, if you want to have an argument over the semantics of language and the interpretation of words, you need to be on top of your writing.

> What happens if you say no?

They don't let you in

Agreed, but it's not about the brand - it's just that in the market segment for a $35-40k mid-size sedan, there's not a whole lot of need to wait two years for a car, which is why it's so uncommon. The reason it doesn't happen to other manufacturers, is because although they have 3-4 year lead times on new models they produce, they're still continuously producing the current models

> Which other car is 400,000 people waiting patiently to buy for two years, even putting down a $1,000 deposit?

None, but I would hazard a guess that's because if you want to buy a BMW, a Mercedes or an Audi, you don't need to. You can simply go and buy one!

I'm reading through the support messages that were posted. Where exactly did they say they wouldn't refund the customer? It was an assumption made by the author that since they didn't ask for the money back from the driver, the customer wouldn't get a refund. It is possible that Uber ate the difference, rather than ask for money back from the driver.

Not really, the point of verification is to verify that you are who you say you are, not to prove that you're somehow special.

You also need to be a master at every piece of the puzzle, rather than being able to focus your efforts.

On Android, if you install a new application that can handle links, Android will ask you the next time you click on a link how you want to handle it.

Nice writeup - good to see a solution proposed, rather than the same complaints about 'how TLS is broken'!

That said, the key flaw that's raised at the start of the article (how do you know that amazon.de is Amazon) is not really solved with this solution. You still need a trusted third party to bootstrap that first visit.

> If you can't tell it just feels wrong to me. Just something's off about this concept.

It's your representative's job to represent you. Marc has no obligation to answer your question.

It makes supporting hibernate a lot easier - your system can just dump the contents of memory to the swap partition.

I understand, but their default response for "You've done something to hide information from us" isn't going to be "Oh well, we tried. On your way!"

> potential patent troll

I must be confused. How are they a patent troll if they actually do the the R&D part of the patent? A patent troll would buy the filed patent and just spend money enforcing it to collect cash...

I am a bit biased because I'm Australian and fully support the CSIRO. They're a non-profit entity[0] - their mandate isn't to make money. The money they do collect from royalties is rolled back into their research.

[0] In that they don't produce a profit for stakeholders. They're a government agency though, not a registered charity.

I agree. You need to be able to differentiate between 'types' of fake news. It means different things to different people. Three perspectives I can think of at the top of my head, but it's a sliding scale:

1. Flatout lies with no factual basis (Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump is a lizard person from Mars)

2. Mis-truths of accepted facts, or mis-representation of statistics (climate change)

3. Opinions that you don't agree with (ACA is good/bad, or The Media is good/bad)

'How selecting a tool without understanding if it was the right tool to use was the wrong decision'

> I wonder how much of this particular philanthropy is just giving back money that those countries spent? I.e. Microsoft licences, or balance of trade with the donor countries?

I mean, that's literally how capitalism works. You earn money selling a product or services to people, and use that money to purchase products or services from people.

> What made me change my mind about UBI was to realize that a) human desires are infinite, and there'll always be more work to be done and b) the more work is done by machines, the richer the population as a whole will be, as products and services automated tend to be cheaper.

I agree with this sentiment. Looking into the (very long term) future, it's interesting to look at a fictional post-scarcity society (Star Trek) (with a grain of salt - it's really the writer's imaginations and what you see in the movies/shows) and see what the impact would be. My key takeaways are:

* everyone still works, or studies, and the culture is that you still contribute to society rather than sit around and do nothing. This requires a significant culture change from our current society.

* They often visit colonies and planets that are decidedly not post-scarcity - they are often poor or middle-class colonies, with an agricultural bent. In theory this shouldn't be the case in a post-scarcity society, but it becomes apparent that there's still a cost (resources and time) associated with production and transport unless you want to be ruled by AI overlords.

An importing part of the Australian system, is that for people and families earning over a certain threshold ($80k for singles, $160k I believe for families) you have the option to either

* pay for private health insurance, or

* pay an additional 2% surcharge/tax on your income

This is to encourage people who can afford it to purchase private health insurance, to lessen the load on the publicly funded system where possible.

All the death and killing in the canon HP books is all good though.

I would still use Winamp! It was a great piece of software...

... if I didn't stream all my music now.

> It wasn't until several years and versions of Ubuntu later that I decided I wanted to try a different distro and realized how convenient it would have been if I had put /home on its own partition.

It's a great idea in theory, but my /home is full of dotfile configs that belong to specific applications - which is great, I can take my configs with me! Except that not all distros have these in the same place. For a given app, some distros will have the config in ~, in ~/.config/, in /etc/, and so on.

The legal limits probably don't specify rejection criteria on a per-grain basis - they probably say something like "No more than x.x% trace of fungus Y in a given batch", so being able to calibrate on the fly is pretty important.

Yep, and this TC article uses the original Bloomberg article as a source. I don't think there's any new information in this one.

Yeah that's the sort of thing I'm thinking of! From my total layperson perspective, the OP article seems to be a step in the right direction for this.

> But Romesberg says there's no need for concern just yet, because for one, the synthetic base pair is useless. It can't be read and processed into something of value by the bacteria - it's just a proof-of-concept that we can get a life form to take on 'alien' bases and keep them.

While it might not be useful to the organism, could the synthetic base pairs lead to a way to store data? Imagine a bacteria that can be used as a living, self-healing datastore.

In an Enterprise, you almost never buy 'a database'. There's a solution/application that you buy, that will have a supported DB backed (usually Oracle or MSSQL). That solution is mostly picked on business capabilities and functionality. The technical component is only one aspect of the requirements, which cover business capabilities/features, technical fit within existing environment, data migration/compatibility, vendor support, vendor credentials, the amount of training required, the amount of business change needed, etc.

These projects often cost $10m+, once you factor in the technical implementation and integration, business process changes, training for business staff, training for IT staff, transition costs, etc.

So if you want to argue that the business should get the solution that fits their requirements the second best, because the 'best' one has an Oracle backend, you had better come up with a shit-hot reason that can't be solved with 'hire a couple of Oracle engineers'.

> Are these seriously that much more important than how well the job gets done. On some level I don't care if the president is a member of the goddamn KKK if the job gets done well enough.

That's very true, if they're the sort of person you trust to put their personal feelings and opinions aside when they make decisions. If you don't feel they're that sort of person, you better hope their values align to your own.

These Alix boards are my normal go-to for exactly this sort of stuff. Note I say Alix, but they have a few different platforms with a few key differences. You can also get small enclosures, Wifi cards and antennas, etc.

http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm