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There was a documentary about this company and other surveillance topics aired on Swiss TV in last November.

https://www.rts.ch/dossiers/la-suisse-sous-couverture/

It's in French and may not be accessible outside Switzerland but I highly recommend it.

Printer manufacturers have been doing this [1] for a long time.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

It seems they have removed the DNS entry for www.farsnews.com therefore, www.farsnews.ir is still accessible.

Electron rest mass is about 1E-31 Kg which is orders of magnitude more than the proposed estimated bit mass of 1E-38 Kg.

Yet, Saudi Arabia is an ally of US and purchases billion dollars of American weapons that kills civilians. You know very well that the sanctions has nothing to do with the democracy index. It is just another tool in the toolbox of the empire to force its hegemony throughout the world.

You should add to your list thess odds as well

- smart watch correctly detects a crash

I feel this is becoming a geopolitical conversation. I can go on and on, so do you. I don't want to hijack the main discussion of the thread any longer which was the human aspect of the sanctions to a geo-strategical game.

Thanks for a civilized conversation anyways.

Yes, you are right they didn't literally say that because in that case it would be legally troublesome. I think it is childish to think that this is not pure coercion either to the negotiation/surrender table or public unrest. By the way, Bolton didn't just advocate war/unrest years ago. It was last year [1].

I understand the importance of being exact, but by being pedantic in a political context without considering motivations and effects is trivialization.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cenpiO6LMpE

What they mean by negotiation is sever limit on Iran missile program. They ask Iran to limit its missile range very considerably. At first you may say missile is not defensive but offensive.

But the fact is that Iran has no air force or any other serious military hardware to defend itself. Because simply they wouldn't sell them to Iran. Most Persian gulf countries have military budget per capita orders of magnitude larger than Iran. In addition they have the might of US military behind them. Missiles are the only reason that Iran is not like Iraq or Libya right now. Iran has been on the hit list of Neocons since long time (you can refer to General Wesley Clark)

Iran experienced a very bloody war with Iraq during 80s where everybody was supporting Saddam Hussein from Soviets to the US and persian gulf monarchies. I know personally people that where harmed by Saddam chemical weapons but international community remained silent for too long. I remember seeing Saddam's missile on the Tehran skies but we had no means of stopping them or retaliating because again nobody cared.

About annihilating another state: How can Iran annihilate a state which has 200 nuclear warheads? It might be other way around.

Just refer to John Bolton, you can find many instances. He gave a talk for MEK which was in the US terrorist group list.

I didn't say it is "Terrorism" I said "Economic Terrorism". Economic sanctions by definition are indiscriminate. Now there is a shortage of some cancer and MS medication in Iran and people are dying because of it. Even though the medications are not sanctioned, the financial transactions are sanctioned and these medications cannot be purchased easily. How isn't this violence? According to the UN, sanctions on food and medication is a crime against humanity. We have seen this period of sever sanctions on Iraq in the disguise of oil for food program. We know how it ended.

I don't want to justify the actions of Iranian government, in my opinion most governments are evil and power hungry. I am just pointing out that the goal of sanctions, even according to the US officials is to cause suffering for people ultimately in the goal of regime change.

Sever economic sanctions are just another tool in the empire toolbox. Be it against Iran or Cuba for example.

Definition of terrorism according to Wikipedia:

"Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a religious or political aim."

How economic sanctions and maximum pressure different from terrorism? Putting a lot of pressure and pain on ordinary people to achieve political goal, which in this case is surrender of Iran. This is economic terrorism, plain and simple.

Now there are many ARM single board computers such as RockPi with PCI-E connectors.

This might be due to the involvement of Panthera Corporation in the conservation effort. The founder of Panthera,Thomas S. Kaplan, is also the main donor to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). UANI aggressively lobbied for sever sanctions on Iran and if I am not mistaking was against JCPOA.

Of course this just could be a simple coincidence, but also a possible and reasonable suspicion for further investigation.

Online Codes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_codes) are very similar to Raptor codes for rateless erasure coding. The construction consists of an inner an outer code. However unlike RaptorQ, they are not optimized for an entire range of block lengths.

You can have a look at Tornado codes[1]. These codes are also based on LT codes and their patent seems to be no longer in effect.

For a completely open and free alternative for application-level forward erasure correction (AL-FEC) codes, checkout OpenFEC[2].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_code 2 - http://openfec.org

PuTTY is a good example where the author resisted to turn it into bloatware. It is minimal and does the thing it is supposed to do.

I think the recruiting process is designed to minimize type II errors (false negatives), namely someone who passes the process but would later turn out to be a bad recruit. Inevitably, the type I error (false positives) grows, those who are good but rejected in the process.

I don't understand this risk averseness in the recruiting process by the employers. Especially, in countries with favorable dismissal laws for employers.

Glad to see that someone puts condition on the interview process and doesn't submit to their rules.

The point is not that is 86K is low. In fact it is an interesting salary if you consider all salaries in the US among all jobs. The point is that it is lower than US software engineer average salary. This leads to wage compression for the local population whom or their parent have been paying taxes hence the prosperity and attractiveness of the US.

Nobody says that the fault is with the Visa holder who happily work for less than average wage. The problem is with companies exploiting this law which was designed to attract best talents who wouldn't work for less than average because they know their worth.

As a foreigner, I say this is not fair to local population (including those immigrant after they obtain their permanent residency) whose wages are kept low by companies who abuse these laws.

As a side note, I've lived both in San Diego and Berlin for a short period. It's true, in Germany total deduction of salary can go as high as 40 percent. But you get full health care coverage, child care, paternity and maternity leave, free university for your children and good public transport and infrastructure. This also covers unemployment and disability insurance plus the pension.

In contrast in California, one pays as high as 33% tax rate and get a fraction of these services.

I wouldn't be tempted to change my 60K euros Berlin salary with 110K $ San Diego salary. I would have a much better life quality in Berlin.

The statistical expectation from the dataset that you link to is $86,328.67 [1]. I no nothing about US salaries, but I don't consider this value a competitive salary. Therefore, I believe the premise of the article is statically correct. Citing a few example with large salaries (Apple, Google, ...) is misleading.

1- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f0iZ7VZkA7Th2dCE6rgD...

I admit I was guilty of this. After failing in my first startup I realized that I was playing the startup game rather than creating true value.

Neither of them are mosques. Picture 5 is a palace [1] and 9 is a public bath [2]. You can see the name of these places here [3]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chehel_Sotoun 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakil_Bath 3 - http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/09/25-incredible-photos-that-show...

You missed social media. I know people who spend hours on facebook each day!

The west only needs to dump their old good friend, the Saudis. This corrupted family morally and financially support and endorse extreme and barbaric version of Islam, Salafism. But unfortunately, economics (e.g. massive sales of arms) and geopolitics don't allow the west to do the right thing!

Iran is a big country with diverse climate. More information here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Iran

Be sure that if they had a chance with military offensive they would have done it (Israel/US). Like what Israel did with Iraqi and Syrian facilitates. Due to nature of Iran spread facilities, it is extremely difficult to destroy Iran's program with an air strike unless there are boots on the ground and occupation which is clearly not an option. According to best estimates it would only delay the program by one year with the outcome that Iran will actually quit NPT. Moreover, an attack would unite all Iranian to support the government. So in any case, this approach is not going to be toward the objective.

It is also partly wrong to think that sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table, Iran has always been negotiating. In fact, most of the development of enrichment was done during UN sanction. Sure, people and economy suffered but again the objective was not the collective punishment it was to reduce Iran program which did not work. What caused Iran to accept to limit its program was the fact that the US accepted peaceful program and research nuclear capabilities which is a matter of pride and recognition.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

However, I totally agree with you if your approach is to create another North Korea.

This is not a very good argument. There are many products and services that are voluntary but regulated such as tobacco and alcohol. There are many laws that are designed to protect people even against their own will. Laws such as minimum wage.

The point is that notions such as privacy is not universal (at least not yet) and we should accept and respect that each region has their own value systems.

I am not rejecting that their opposition is not political. In fact, Europe and US have had many similar cases such as agriculture subsidies.

This might be the case but I don't think that is the main reason. In fact, Europe has many excellent universities. I believe one of the reasons that Europe is lacking IT giants is because investors are risk averse and they would rather invest in tangible industries. For example, in Switzerland which is ranked first in global innovation index [1] the IT industry is almost non-existing even though it has vibrant medical, food, financial industries.

Another reason in my opinion is the lack (or weakness) of military industrial complex. In the US many innovations are funded directly or indirectly with public money through military contractors and projects. (DARPA, Silicon Valley [2], Internet,...). Just by looking at patent portfolio of NSA you get a taste of technology transfer with public money to private sector.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index

2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

This is the risk involved in working as an independent. I have experienced a similar situation but not as difficult as this story. I think most independent contractors are generalists with a diverse set of skills. This makes them disposable in such situations and reduce their employability.