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Well, by forcing the "bad people" into less popular apps they become much easier to identify through other metadata as the popular apps account for the vast majority of the "everyday person" traffic..

I think to get a balanced perspective we should appreciate the dilemma & work done by the govt security people. Their job is to fight the terrorists, pedophiles, forced sex traffickers, and many other "very bad people" - which is easier said than done. In the future WMDs will become cheaper, easier to produce and more powerful, so the issue is becoming more acute. They understandably want better tools to increase their chances of success & reduce likely traumatic failures. They seem to be doing ok with terrorists in the West at the moment, but failing badly with the other categories.

The risk of abuses against everyday civilians are there and I don't have the solutions. But I would presume that the majority of people will trade off a significant reduction to their privacy for a slight increase in physical safety, so that will likely happen. Vastly improving the governance & oversight of the security agencies is one way forward. Otherwise when the next disaster strikes, the security agencies will rapidly make a successful grab for more power.

Unfortunately for my application (which includes helping doctors create medical care plans) Firefox still does not support SpeechRecognition. This is despite Mozilla's DeepSpeech project on GitHub having had its first public commit in Nov 2016 (judging by its README file). As a result we don't have much choice but to recommend Chrome for the best experience.

Yes it was designed in the 50s but there was plenty of time for the design faults making it vulnerable to a tsunami to be fixed..

I'd like to raise that:

- If a future administration ever has the political power to implement totalitarianism, we're stuffed. The lack of an existing mass surveillance system will not stop them as they will build one.

- Most people's political leanings are already very easy to detect due to social media, social networks, financial donations, etc. So balloons don't seem to make it much worse.

- We can expect severe security threats in the future as WMDs become cheaper, more accessible and more powerful.. The police are not magicians - they need effective tools..

If a future administration ever has the political power to implement totalitarianism we're stuffed. The lack of a mass surveillance system will not stop them as they will build one. Horrible totalitarian regimes have existed in the past with quite low-tech systems (e.g. East Germany, USSR).

Can't Russia already fairly easily eavesdrop on F22s and F35s during military exercises from ships or by just renting a room / camping van somewhere nearby?

Even working long hours for money can bring meaning & happiness if one donates a lot of that income to worthwhile causes that make the world a better place for everyone. Movements like Effective Altruism seek to find the most effective ways to donate. This of course does depend on what work one is doing and on not "wasting" non-work time on meaningless "entertainment"..

It does at least to some extent. Core types like Vector are generic and there is some specific float32 code like:

https://github.com/mathnet/mathnet-numerics/commit/3a0d55fd2...

https://github.com/mathnet/mathnet-numerics/pull/481/commits...

What about Math.NET?

Given how much after-salary profits the big tech companies make do you really need to be worried about your paycheck?

Capitalist governments do not stay out of the way - take a look at the volume of corporate law. (That's in addition to healthcare, education, policing, building industry regulation, etc)

I'm grateful to QubesOS for being able to easily browse in a disposable VM whilst waiting for the build. Even without QubesOS starting a disposable VM manually is probably worth the effort..

One can consider a supplement. It's not strictly "natural", but cooking animal products instead of eating them raw isn't exactly "natural" either..

I think what's helped me a lot are teachings by Ajahn Brahm on YouTube that touch on loneliness and how to be at peace with oneself. I've learned that I'm always with a friend - myself. Learning to be friends with oneself also helps one be friends with others for example by being generally happier and much less critical.

Well gVisor doesn't use the control plane. It is free, but I wouldn't think it has a high cpu or memory load, and Google would make a lot of profit on the nodes.

I quite like this defense-in-depth approach, but it's disappointing that it will only be available as part of the probably expensive GKE Advanced. I would have thought safety features should be standard..

Yes this is quite concerning for users of WSL on non-Azure clouds or on systems like Qubes. Hopefully WSLv1 will continue to be supported in the medium-term - Microsoft have put quite a bit of engineering time behind it.

Wow, I'm quite shocked that reddit allows so much extreme violent content.. It's readily accessible, even advertised as subreddits, and there aren't any warnings or self-help resources. If people get into that stuff, which is readily addictive, I would think it has significant potential for psychological harm, especially for teenagers. One can argue that it's possible to compartmentalize it, but I doubt it since the mind/brain is a single highly integrated system..

Research seems to be mixed, and unfortunately I don't have time to study it in depth, but there are many articles like this: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/pornography-violence-and-sex...

I've been quite happy using Firefox for all personal and most web development work. Unfortunately though we've had to recommend Chrome to users of our web application since Firefox doesn't support speech recognition..

To catch up I think Firefox needs

- More funding - I think large tech companies should donate heavily to avoid a chrome monopoly..

- Perhaps more focus on core browser features like speech instead of various side projects? (like Firefox Color and Price Wise.. though I must admit I really like Screenshots).

Good on you.

"Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Not even a God, an Angel, Mara or Brahma can turn into defeat the victory of a person who is self-subdued and ever restrained in conduct." -- Dhammapada 103-105

It is just shocking & negligent UX - the radar screen should have at least had a coloured circle around the centre indicating the area that was not being scanned..

I really don't understand why the operational tempo is so high given that it is peacetime?? Surely some "missions" can be sacrificed as the Navy was clearly not coping. It sounds to me like one possibility is that senior "leaders" wanted to keep increasing the tempo to make themselves look better on paper..?

"Opening the Door of Your Heart" by Ajahn Brahm https://books.google.com.au/books?id=R0sMB9qk890C

This book consists of over 100 very short stories that are inspired by Buddhist teachings. It's contributed quite a bit to making me wiser, happier, less anxious and having better interpersonal skills.

Competition between the USA and the USSR also produced thousands of nuclear ICBMs... but I get your point that space tech development was faster. It's slowed but hasn't stopped and everyone has far from given up. I think we have to use our money & brainpower rationally - especially given the many threats we have on Earth - whereas competition and egos often go against this. For example, I think a manned colony on Mars in the next decade is definitely possible but would be an epic waste (what would it achieve?) - IMHO we should first develop far more advanced robotics, self-replicating machines, etc - to build a proper base before sending humans over.

That's like asking what the value of sharing is. China would provide funds, equipment, astronauts, etc that could be partially shared - like with the ISS. Note that the U.S. doesn't have to turn over source code or detailed designs to share stuff. Also, soon, China will develop original technology that others do not yet have (or already has?).

That was part of it though I think space engineers would never have been unemployed or out of food - just reassigned to much more boring projects. Russia also has ways of ahem "discouraging" unauthorised trade of military secrets.

With China's ICBMs, aren't they already advanced enough that collaborating on space exploration with NASA won't teach them much ICBM technology that they don't already know?

The USSR and USA started cooperating in the 1970s and this has had very good results. For example being able to get to the ISS after the Space Shuttle accident, and arguably in easing political & military tensions. They continued to compete as well.

Good riddance to all those mostly useless brain-teaser questions.. They require countless hours of practice for most people to get good at them - and I find it semi-tragic that many highly intelligent people are wasting their time on that instead of on complex real-world problems (not to mention on learning things that would make them happier and more well-rounded).

But without healthy competition it's quite possible that Chrome will also start stagnating..

Lots and lots of new "features" isn't necessarily a good thing.. Also F# already has many of the features that are being added to C# and TypeScript ;) I for one would advise Microsoft to sponsor more work on F# libraries, such as in data analysis & TypeScript interop..