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Good point, I changed the title to make it clear.

Also, in C# the string interpolation works only on literal strings at compile time. So it's not possible to inject a malicious code this way from outside of the source code.

Could you provide a screenshot of the problem you encounter?

The link leads to 404, at least for me.

I'm excited about this development. I'm really looking forward to a web implementation of Material Design that is not bound to Angular 1 and is production ready. I did a few projects using React + Material Design that was enabled by Material-UI component set. [0] And although Material-UI seems like a really great implementation for React, it's certainly not production ready yet. I did spend a significant amount of time fixing / messing with its code to make things work relatively smoothly.

Regarding the Google's MDC-Web [1] the demos look promising, although the components seem to lack polish and animations sometimes get stuck. I hope they will push them to the point where these components will be as good as Angular Material ones. [2]

[0] - http://www.material-ui.com

[1] - https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

[2] - https://material.angularjs.org/latest/demo/button

Isn't it in this case just an implementation detail without any meaningful consequences (apart from interop)? - I'm trying to find a way to benefit from it. I wrote some code to compare the two approaches and see what's going on underneath.[0] I'm not familiar with IL, but it seems like the memory usage is the same and the simple return function requires less ops.

[0] http://tryroslyn.azurewebsites.net/#f:>ilr/A4VwRgNglgxgBDCBD...

The Add method signature could be simplified from void Add(ref Matrix, ref Matrix, out Matrix) to Matrix Add(ref Matrix, ref Matrix).

Also, could you elaborate what you mean by out returns? Normal returns could be considered "out returns", no?

Wouldn't it lead to just higher internet plans prices? I can also imagine hackers ddosing themselves to get the $$ from the nodes and unfortunate users. And what about international traffic? Same charge for everyone, US citizens and Nigerians? I don't think it can work.

You suggest it's probing. Then how would the full scale attack look like? Also, how does probing help the perpetrators, doesn't it lead to better defenses in the future?

Please consider using a thicker font. This one is not very readable on my device (Windows 10 + Chrome + 17" 100PPI display). I can read it, but it's not a pleasant experience. [edited]

I don't think it makes much, if any difference. The internet can be used to spread misinformation, but it can also be used for fact checking. So the net outcome is not that obvious. I'm curious to see some hard data on this subject.

Is this time any different than previous? Well at least the fear of nuclear annihilation is smaller. It's kinda normal for the US to think it's on the brink of a disaster. And it's normal for Europeans to think the US supremacy will end at any moment. And still it doesn't and the US is better off than any time before.

> Germany doesn't have many internal issues ...

It has huge problems with its exports. Roughly half of its GDP comes from export. And since the 2008 financial crisis that hit other exporting countries so hard, Germany only grew its exports. How's that possible? They started to export more to the UK, Canada and the US. But it seems they are reaching their limit and if the cyclical crisis comes to the US it will really hurt Germany. When half of the country's GDP comes from export, a 10% drop in export leads to 5% drop in GDP.

It also has a banking system, a refugee and rising nationalism problem.

> ... won't get much criticism.

It won't, in Germany. It will in recipients countries.

> ... why Germany has the power it has

Half of Germany's wealth comes from its export. It means it comes from its clients. Germany's economy is dependent on other countries buying their goods. Anything that threatens the free movement of goods is a threat to Germany's well being. Let say, if some country decides to leave the common market and establish trade barriers to protect its national market and then it does well on its own, other countries that currently struggle may follow the suit and protect their producers by blocking German goods. It would be a disaster for Germany.

> ... not earth shattering

In 2015 the revenue from the UK constituted 15.6% of total EU revenues for that year. It's a significant share.

> ... the tax would go to national governments and not the EU budget.

In 2012 the Commission recommended that two-thirds of the revenues from the FTT should go to the EU budget and the remaining one-third should be retained by the EU Members. It's reasonable to think that at least some portion of this tax will go to the EU budget directly.

The European Union is looking for a way to fill the budget hole that will inevitably appear after Brexit. The current EU budget is set for years 2014-2020 and Great Britain is the third largest net contributor to it, behind only Germany and France.

Fixing the budget may get nasty, since the EU countries may have to increase the contributions or slash the expenses or EU bureaucrats may have to accept a decrease in wages. Net contributors like Germany or France will not want to contribute more, since they have their own problems to solve internally and the nationalist parties are on the rise there (Marie Le Pen and Alternative fur Deutschland). If the budget is decreased it will further alienate the East and South European countries. And euro bureaucrats will not simply accept smaller wages.

Also after Brexit the average EU income will decrease so some regions may no longer qualify for subsidies. Slow economic growth, European banks problems, a migration crisis, Germany's wealth dependency on export that is expected to falter, a conflict with Russia, all this won't help in finding a new, acceptable budget.

In the current situation the EU is ready to embrace any solutions that will increase the budget without causing too much friction within the bloc. FTT seems to meet this goal.

Side note: if you are hungry for more interactive fiction, I highly recommend "Lost Pig" by Grunk[0]: http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A//mirror.ifarchive.org/if-a...

[0] http://grunk.org/lostpig/

There's an interesting comment about a similar thing happening with rattle snakes. It seems they evolve into silent snakes to better avoid human predators: http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoen...

For those interested in what the leaked emails contained, here's a related article: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/redhack-turkey-albayrak-censo...

Inclusive Design Toolkit (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design/practice#toolkit) consists of a downloadable manual and activities. The manual is an overview of the inclusive design problem. The activities are more like a guideline to researching possible design solutions.

I didn't find there any ready to use design recipes.

It reminds me of DCPU-16 that was supposed to be a part of the cancelled 0x10c game[0]. The specs[1] of the cpu and other hardware where published and the community created emulators, tools and programs around it [2][3]. Even custom, virtual hardware.

It wasn't clear what the DCPU-16 was going to be used for. But the community assumed it will handle navigation, communication, weaponary and internal spaceship systems.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLt4VVEJ9Kk

[1] https://github.com/lucaspiller/dcpu-specifications

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqefqWol1Cw

[3] http://www.0x10cforum.com/

Good catch. It seems that the "Object" string doesn't provide any crucial characters for further steps; in this case the literal curly brackets aren't needed.

It does, see the "fill" step: «So now we have acquired the following extra characters: c,o,v,(,),{,[,],}, .».

Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Says who? - "a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc". Germany will do what it has to do to keep its economy afloat. If they have to bail out their banks, my bet is they will.

> Individual US states are pretty close to sovereign. Other than ability to tax and a few other things, the US federal government doesn't have much power.

But the idea of the geographical transfer of resources is there. While Texas may not want to refinance american banks, the FED doesn't care. Germany may not want to refinance Greece, and the European Central Bank can't enforce it. [0]

>> While US states share a common fate

> Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

It's a great question. You can get the best answer from the following article: https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100510_europe_nationalism_...

[0]: https://geopoliticalfutures.com/lehman-brothers-and-germany-...

The states in the US may vary, but so do regions in Spain and other countries. And the differences are often way bigger than between any pair of states.

It would be more unfair to compare separate US states with European countries. While US states share a common fate, the same can't be said about say Germany and Greece even though they are both in the EU.

To sceptics: John Carmack believes that cloud gaming can be successful. Here's his view on this (2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uooh0Y9fC_M&t=26m24s

In case you missed it - when you refresh, the bikeshed changes color.

But the simulation doesn't have to be 1:1 in regard of time. They could have started the system just an hour ago. Hence blue screen of death is still a dreadful possibility.

It's an interesting experiment and an inspiring one.

However, I don't think this solution will help too much with regexes. To me it's overly complex and less readable than regex strings.