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I get where you're coming from, but I'm not sure this was malicious. First, you could have driven around, which is probably what people did. More importantly, this happened all over with the interstate system; old railroad towns had their last gasp and newer highway towns replaced them. Finally, interstate is federal, so blame them if any one.

Americans have significanlty more patents than other nations in history. I'd view it as a random consequence and an action taken by the handful of criminals all nations have.

This is ridiculous. You're purposely conflating need/demand for addiction to try to spin something a certain way. I need food, water, air, etc. and yet would not call myself an addict. Would you?

I don't think any one is claiming oil is a viable solution long-term, so why are you bothering?

> How long do we have to wait before people give up on fossil fuels?

Probably not that long. Oil extraction is such a resource-intense process that some alternative, be it nuclear or otherwise, will become more economically viable.

Here's the problem - there's usually a stipulation of good faith. A Chinaman investing money in your company with the intent to clone it like that is not in good faith, and would be so adjudicated by any American court of competent jurisdiction. Even if, however, your contract is technically enforceable in American court, it's not easy to go get some one from China to punish.

In America, you're very much expected to be a "right guy" when dealing with others. Regardless of what the piece of paper says, you will (deservedly) gain a bad reputation is you exhibit bad behavior, and become a person with whom no one wishes to transact. Word will get around. I think this system of doing things is highly effective, contracts aside. Interestingly enough, this is strongest in the South, followed by the Midwest, and only occurs to a lesser degree on the coasts. I sill haven't figured out why.

China has a very different perspective. Her business culture involves things like committing embarrassing acts in each other's company, a sort of mutually assured destruction. For better or for worse, when these two cultures mix, American businessmen end up the suckers.

What were cgi script? Not sure that people have stopped using them. Old things don't always need replacing; some times, they still work fine (though you have to watch your security).

I'm not sure about this, still. I'd consider it roughly equivalent to posting a POC for an exploit: it could be abused, could be uses for academic learning, or could be used to improve systems. It's not inherently bad.

First, this was too long. Well-done journalism does not have to be a tome unto itself; vignettes of his daughter the ballerina add little to the story besides acting as padding.

Secondly, I don't get this part. From the article:

> In the 1940s, the city built Independence Boulevard, a four-lane highway that cut through the heart of its Brooklyn neighborhood, dividing and displacing a thriving working-class black community. The damage continued in the ’60s and ’70s with new interstates.

I don't get this part. I thought red-lining and confining blacks to ghettos was the problem? Wouldn't building an interstate mean more commerce and more prosperity?

1903 decoupled cortana from search. I would have her or just deleted the executable a long time ago, but they had them bundled. Now, I can do that, no issues.

He really did that? Jeez, you're right. Still, such attacks have doubtless been used before. Even if they haven't broken the core protocol, I'd assume they've got a few zero-days sitting around.

Because it's often about the "piece of paper" cost. What I mean by this is explicit costs and savings are preferred by management: they can point to their bosses, wave a sheet of paper, and say, "See, I saved twenty-six dollars here!" In reality, it may have cost fifty dollars, but that doesn't matter. It's the same reason why we have open offices, "hot desks", and improper tools: the incentive structure is wrong.

Look at Neurable, they've been around for years: http://neurable.com/

Tech is pretty good, and they're working on a VR headset which works with games. If you talk to the founder, his story is really interesting. He has an uncle who was crippled in a trucking accident, and his end goal is to create a version of this which can help cripples regain mobility. He's using games as his beachhead market to get traction, proof, a chance to iterate, $$$, etc. Pretty inspiring stuff, and "social-conscience" investing done right, in my opinion.

As much as I hate to say this, we all knew it was happening, right? I'm still ninety percent sure they had to scramble to justify a non-tor-breaking reason they got Ulbricht. I don't know why people are still encouraging others to use it alone. You should also be using some kind of encryption of the content itself. Their goal is to figure out who you are and what you're saying; deny them either piece, and they're foiled (three-letters, that is).

This is one of those stories that goes around in certain communities. I don't know if it's true or not; it may well be. I've heard of it several times, but only ever second- or third-hand. I've also heart it's happened to more than one company. The thing is, you can't really verify this sort of stuff: if it's true, whoever developed it would throw its full weight behind it and hit as many targets as possible. It would probably be under tight investigation by some three-letter. Companies also probably wouldn't want to disclose this. I don't know if It's not unreasonable to hypothesize N. Korea or Iran put together a kit, though they'd probably relegate it to a certain stack (too much technical debt otherwise).

Of course, it's also possible it's not, and I wonder if that's more likely. Every industry has such stories; maybe this is the white whale of forensics.

Honestly, many of them are in nations where they are working for a state-sponsored cybercrime agency and have few other options, if any. North Korea and Iranian gov'ts are major purveyors of ransomware; I've known many clients who were breached by them (FBI guys said it was usually one of them each time). If not, it's probably Russia or China, especially if it's a higher-value target. If it's just a private citizen flinging exploits at ip ranges, it's possibly Brazil too.

Honestly, it used to be Eastern Europe, until we started realizing they've got some serious programming talent and contracted some work out. Now it's less bad, though still a bit sketchy. Of course, this doesn't help nation-state attacks.

It's not a serious issue for me. I can't download my configs to random devices either. Working on embedded stuff I've usually only got vi, and honestly, the most annoying thing is no `F` binding (which is a default in vim).

Maybe so, but Americans are also some of the tallest people (especially compared to those who eat much less). I'm not saying this is necessarily for the better or for the worse, but it's not easy to just say "you should eat this". Recommendations for diet change - remember when it was "don't eat fat", then "don't eat sugar", then "don't eat either"? Who knows.

After all the diet recommendations and panics about obesity, I still think most of us know what healthy eating is.

The difference is that we're using stuff that's already being grown. It's re-using that which already exists. This could be lawn clippings, coffee grounds, or other compost stuff. It could be rotten food and help solve the food waste problem. We're not growing more food, we're making wasted protein available.

This was posted on the 2017 thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14512368:

Pathfinder tessellates edges into microtriangles, computes signed trapezoidal areas in the fragment shader, and then accumulates those areas using a compute shader. I assume that this would make Pathfinder a "tessellating" algorithm in the language of this article as opposed to a "non-tessellating" one.

By contrast, I can't verify from source, but it appears that Slug does all the work in a fragment shader. If so, this would make its closest relative the Will Dobbie vector texture approach [1].

I considered the Dobbie technique but rejected it because it's very slow, asymptotically so even: it's O(height ∗ width ∗ number of curves), with a high constant factor as Newton-Raphson or de Casteljau subdivision (note that the quadratic formula is an alternative if all you care about is TrueType) has to be repeated over and over again for every pixel/subsample in the scene. I don't know how any non-tessellating algorithm can avoid this asymptotic problem, since if you defer all the work to the fragment shader then you have no choice but to run your expensive shader on a conservative cover area instead of only the areas that need to be expensive (i.e. edges, or curves if you're doing Loop Blinn). By contrast, traditional scanline rendering on the CPU is O(height ∗ number of curves), not counting the blitting, and forward differencing can make the work needed to be done for each curve on the scanline extremely cheap. For this reason, every non-tessellating algorithm I've seen is significantly outperformed by typical CPU renderers in practice.

This is not to say that non-tessellating text renderers such as what Slug seems to be are worthless: they may be useful to avoid costly CPU/GPU synchronization if the size of the text to render is not known by the CPU, for example if it depends on the result of vertex shading for a scene.

My further work on Pathfinder, should it pan out, ought to allow for more precise tessellation without significant performance cost, exploiting the fact that the shape of the traditional CPU scanline rendering algorithm can be adapted to generate triangulations on-the-fly through monotone polygon decomposition. My colleague Nical Silva's Lyon [2] shows how this idea can work, though I'm still working on adapting the technique to efficiently handle curves and high quality Levien-style antialiasing. This would eliminate the compute shader step, allowing Pathfinder to easily composite into 2D and 3D scenes as Slug can do without sacrificing performance. Bear in mind that this work is highly experimental and unfinished.

[1]: http://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-textu....

[2]: https://github.com/nical/lyon

It looks like a great piece of code, and I wish I could use it. Maybe the author would consider doing a free-for-open-source type model like many other companies do? It would have the benefit of allowing developers to become familiar with the technology and possibly encourage wider use, too. To be clear, I'm not saying the author needs to open-source it, but he might wish to consider distributing a static lib.

Not in that sense, in the sense of "how many cart checkouts, wire transfers, other business logic transactions can I perform per unit x time?"

It's a significantly higher frequency. RF can raise body temperature slightly at high enough powers (any one who has been in an MRI for a while knows this, though that is much higher than 5G). This is a high-frequency signal with access points packed densely, which means more RF per person by an order of magnitude. Maybe it's like so many other things: fine in small to moderate doses, but harmful in large ones?

Not trying to fear-monger here, but the bottom line is we don't know. As the above comment said, I've seen experts on both sides, and really have no idea where to lean on this one.

This still leaves problems:

1. Now I have to trust two providers, each of which could have problems.

2. Now I have to pay for encryption, then pay for storage, and probably have higher ingress costs, too (I can probably trust AWS/GCP/Azure/Backblaze/whatever; not sure about random-blockchain-guy #67812).

Backblaze's failure/longevity stats are indispensable when considering which drive to purchase: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/

Here's the issue with this: the live-traffic component of google maps, waze, etc. is very much a network effect. You get a lot of traffic info by measuring the speeds and stalls of your users. This creates the classic chicken-and-egg problem: need users to get data; need data to get users.

I personally blame social media for a lot oft this. Mob mentality has been a problem since forever, but Twitter has created a nation-wide 24/7 mob which is angrier than ever and never disbands. I blame that for the elections of President Trump, Congresswoman Ocasio, and other such divisive figures. I also think it's responsible for the phenomenon of each "side" seeing the other as morally wrong, inuhame, and almost not people. It's been known for a while we're meaner on-line because we can't see any one on the other side; I think that's a significant part of the problem.

This, of course, begs the question: how do you fix it? I don't know.

> I would have to disagree. I think for-profit prisons, money-is-speech, on-your-own healthcare are three examples of extreme individualism and anti-social-ism that it seems the Republicans are proud of.

I'm guessing your frame of reference is left-of-center; mine is somewhat right. There is no "one true anchor" for who is where, so the best thing I can think to do is use the general center of American politics when we discuss America. I'd take many positions you'd generally disagree with, but others would call them sensible. Other opinions of mine are not generally regarded as sensible by most, and that's fine too.

> The NRA is fringe... it has been hijacked... by the Russians

The NRA operates with the approval of many Americans. I wouldn't call it's positions fringe, though the organization certainly has its failings. At some point, the Russians supported the election of a president; it's hard to call a figure such as that fringe. I'm not sure an endorsement by the Russians should damn and organization or person; the same thing is now happening to Tulsi Gabbard (non-interventionist policy is amenable to the Russians).

> This may be true, I honestly did not have time to read the whole article. I don't disagree that the left has a bunch of issues and idiotic positions, hyper-sensitivity and a general vicious lack of tolerance for momentary lapses in judgement being the main ones in my opinion.

Fair enough. The important part is the box-plot graph mid-way through the article, which shows a huge leftward lurch in the past few years. I would have linked directly, but the page overlays text on an image so it can't be linked.

More importantly, Google's core competency is PageRank. Sharing the index != sharing PageRank. As time goes on, others will use inferior algorithms, and become worse. This scheme will not accomplish what it intends to do. Also, you can't just force people to give away their property.

That's not a fair assessment. Your opinion of a "sensible position" on "gun control" is almost certainly different from mine. I would take the perspective that people openly supporting socialism is a much further-leftward lurch than any thing on the right. [0] You also brand the NRA as "fringe" and as "general nutcases", which is again unfair. Your political opinion is not the single source of truth or the center of the political spectrum. Your implication here is that the right has become fringe, but the graph linked above shows otherwise.

[0] https://qz.com/1580091/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-how-far-left...