All of the popular interpreted languages we use now were dog slow when they originally came out and we still had to deal with many the quirks of low level languages back then but here we are. If you don't like it just don't use it.
Exactly. If someone else gets wrongly convicted for the crime then the actual perpetrator now has no fear of ever being prosecuted for what they did. The fear of being caught for a past criminal act is a deterrence to committing more criminal acts. Once someone else is convicted for that crime, to the criminal, they've gotten away with it. If a novice gambler wins big early, they're more likely to take bigger risks later. The same is true of criminals.
It's all fun and games until you're the one in prison and sometimes executed for a crime you didn't commit. Why do I doubt the author would just accept their fate for the greater good of society if it was them wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime they did not commit?
There's a key difference though. In Linux and other UNIX inspired OS's /etc is only accessible by root but the Windows registry holds config data for users too. Any userspace program in Windows could potentially bork any registry key that the user has access too.
I understand the point you're making but according to the fancy chart you posted it did reach a peak in '95 but your statement implies that it's been in decline since then. According to the fancy chart it then steadily rose to almost the same level in '04. It fell again to it's lowest level in '12 and has consistently been above that level in the following years. Also the article makes it clear that the current rise is a result of local government policy and reduction in regulations which has been one of the primary obstacles in preventing mass deforestation. If we repeat the causes, we'll just inevitably repeat the results.
That's an oddly specific response to something that was never said. My point and the overall arch of what I think Kubrick was implying in EWS is that these people exist and people in positions of power we would otherwise hold in high social regard are no different or ethical than anyone else and more often less so. What's the difference between a corrupt elite "secret society" verses the Mafia and organized crime syndicates? Socially we tend not to view them as morally equivalent because one group is at the top echelon of society while the other are just lowly "criminals" when in fact there is no difference.
I understand what you and OP are getting at and I'm saying it's wrong but it misses the broader point that others posters were positing. The exact same point I came to make but found myself in good company. Why?!? And it's not specific to JS or a direct criticism of JS, this issue it becoming endemic. It's happening everywhere now. We shouldn't have to depend on language specific hacks to make things "work" in that language. JS has gotten so out of hand now we have/need new metalanguages like TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Bable, (insert buzzwordy JS lang here) that transpiles into JS because it's become so unwieldy. All this just to be able to make a simple web app. The fact that V8 can parse JSON faster than processing a native JS literal is a compiler problem. Why is it suddenly my problem? It's one thing if it's a bug that we have to temporarily work around (these things happen) but now it's becoming the norm. How are people new to the industry supposed to learn something like JS if the only way to be proficient at it is through an endless, ever changing array of hacks? Especially when it's something as counterintuitive as parsing a string is somehow faster than the actual equivalent code. The "move fast and break things" mentality that has permeated tech as of late has done just that, got us nowhere fast and broke everything along the way.
Regardless of what the article posits, the movie was based on actual secret societies. I'm pretty sure Kubrick was trying to tell us something.
Anthony Frewin (assistant to Stanley Kubrick):
I had a friend who lived in the south of France, G. Legman. He supplied us with a lot of information about secret societies and sexual mores in Vienna at the time of Schnitzler. He also sent over a lot of illustrations of secret-society rituals and the Black Mass, mainly from the 19th century. We had a lot of illustrations, contemporary and even much older, of some ceremonies.
OP here. Yes, the article itself it somewhat vague but I found the implications relevant and thought others would also. We tend to view and focus on the use of cryptographic privacy tech like VPN's as a way to escape or bypass a more restrictive environment to a less restrictive one but the inverse is just as societally significant and necessary.
Minus someone or in this case everyone looking over your shoulder the entire time while doing something that's pretty much never been done before. I don't care where you work, this is impressive.
To be fair, most products and practices in the 1950's would be considered wildly dangerous by today's standards. Hell, we were still using leaded gasoline (gasoline with
tetraethyllead additive) up until the 90's. Think about how dangerous lead poisoning is and now imagine that we used to add it to gasoline and every gas powered motor was spewing vaporized lead. Good times.
Now the old Powerbook 5300's actually did catch fire. My 1st tech job was a hardware technician at an Apple production facility mostly building and refurbishing Powerbooks, can confirm.
Therein lies the rub. I've consulted/worked at a crapton of companies and organizations over the years. The vast majority had minimal backup solutions or none at all. Reliable backup solutions are expensive and not coincidentally, upper management at these companies just wouldn't pay for it. I can't tell you how many times I was told something along the lines of "Why are we spending money on IT when the IT dept. doesn't make the company money?" Management usually would just hang the IT dept. out to dry anytime something like this happens so there's seldom any real repercussions for the actual decision makers that cause the mess to begin with. Wash, rinse, repeat. And this is the sad and pathetic reason why something as strange and convoluted as ransomware schemes are so successful.
They should, I don't know why they stopped. They used to sell computers and electronics when I was young (yes it was a long time ago). That's actually where I bought my 1st computer, a Commodore VIC-20.
But Reddit, along with most major sites now, is also rife with the same marketing manipulators and "influencers" the article is commenting on. Digg tried something similar before Reddit and was pretty much ruined by biased organized vote manipulation (brigading). Not that I agree with Google's "trust us plebes we know better than you" model of secrecy either. The SEO problem is the prime example of why this doesn't work also. Search engines have become a vital resource for the modern internet. We need an open, publicly funded non-profit search engine.
It's proven that access to education and skills development significantly reduce prisoner recidivism, which means less prisoners to house in private prisons. The private prison industry has been lobbying at the state and federal levels for years to create new laws to increase the U.S. prison population (the highest in the world) and eliminate programs that reduce recidivism. This isn't "laughably ignorant", this is intentional and by design.
> Yes, it would. Again FB will have just 1% of the control at launch.
But wouldn't FB be running/in control of the most of the infrastructure behind Libra? The stability of the currency would be dependent on FB providing the core services behind Libra. Having "just 1% of the control" doesn't matter if FB can just shut it down and/or destabilize it's value at will. It's FB actually intends for it to be an open cryptocurrency then why make a new one when we already have several options available other than being able to exert control over it?
I'm sorry, that's just dishonest. If you're paying for an allegedly dedicated VPS, or any service for that matter, it's not your i.e. the paying customer's responsibility to limit their use of it within some vague guideline. It's disingenuous to imply a plan comes with X number of CPU cores when it's actually just shared hosting.
> this looks to be an elongation of the external occipital protuberance
Good call, that's exactly what they are. They buried all the actual science at the end of the article.
"The effect — known as enlarged external occipital protuberance — used to be so uncommon, Sayers said, that one of its early observers, toward the end of the 19th century, objected to its title, arguing that there was no real protrusion."