Government drone copies NSA malware onto a system with Kaspersky security software installed for the purpose of detecting malware.
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Brilliant
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/how-a-criminal-r...
If you have the technical know-how to protect your private key, and you're immune from rubber hose attacks, and there's no mechanism for key recovery outside your control, I'd agree.
However, people.
> We are exploring adding data storage at the edge.
> I don’t see us going into hosting.
You must have your eyes closed then, because that's clearly pushing the camel nose into the Amazon lambda tent.
I'll concede that lower profits from developer-subsidized housing my drive fewer attempted community reviews, and I'll also concede that it's possible that more attempted community reviews could result in more housing being built.
However, I still believe that the loss of profit from subsidized housing is not the significant factor holding back new construction; at least not when 3 bedrooms goes for 7 figures. Land costs and political friction currently dominate the equation; if you could easily buy a half acre and toss up 100 condos on it, the sale prices of those new condos would drop, and construction profits would become a pressing concern. (of course at that point housing would be affordable, so it's a moot point)
No we won't, because the limit of zoning and land doesn't allow us to get anywhere near that equilibrium. Your statement would only be correct in a world with infinite land in the Bay Area. But the equilibrium for "fewer" units in San Francisco might be (for example) 50,000 new housing units per year, but you're lucky to get permits and land for couple thousand.
> Things aren't built to the maximum of the zones - they're built to what's affordable by developers attempting to get permission to build.
This is missing the point. 100% of the land that can pass the community review process is profitable to build on. Even with "affordable housing" requirements. Even with reduced developer profits. If you can build on it, you're gonna make money. Therefore, the limiting factor is land; the effect of affordable housing requirements is to lower the windfall profits of any developer lucky enough to get by community review.
> It doesn't matter whether housing is affordable at market rates because we build things that are affordable, or through building so much luxury houses that there's so little demand for existing buildings that they now become affordable.
Right, everyone who understands math understands this. The issue is that if you don't have land you can build on, you can't build. And if you do have land you can build on, you're gonna make money. Affordable housing requirements do not decrease the amount of net construction, they just move windfall profits from the developer to a few lucky random people.
To be fair, developers sell units at what the market will bear, rather than on a "cost-plus" basis. Raising developer costs doesn't impact the final sale price.
Now one could argue that reducing developer profits means that fewer developers will try to build... but it's properly zoned land, not developers that is in short supply.
Or maybe you mean that the requirement that some of the housing be "affordable", means only projects that the remainder of the units are "unaffordable" will be built... but that's the case anyway; given the scarcity of land it doesn't make sense to build affordable housing unless forced.
Not that I'm in favor of housing subsidies. It turns a few well-connected or lucky people into lottery winners, and doesn't reduce the overall cost of housing.
As a modern eTulip bubble, it's a "success" for anyone who has made money speculating.
As a replacement for fiat money, it's an absolute disaster as a currency. Volatility and high transaction fees have killed any opportunity Bitcoin may have had to gain traction as a way to pay for anything besides drugs, ransomware, and evading currency controls.
Health Savings Accounts are highly dependent on the circumstances of the individual. Many people with employer-provided health care plans receive minimal benefit from an HSA.
That being sad, you've made you point, in that there are portions of the tax code with deductions accessible to the middle class, like home interest deductions and deductions for charitable giving.
But the, "I'm going to start 12 shell companies and park my money offshore" kind of tax dodges are not really feasible until after your first ten million.
The middle class is best served by collective bargaining to increase their wages and benefits, strong consumer protections, and access to affordable health care.
Up to about your first 5-10 million (depending on where you live) you need to play by the rules. After that, you can think about hiring a tax advisor to start scamming the system. But the downmarket financial advisors that serve people with a paltry million or two are mostly focused on selling high-commission financial products.
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'. --George Santayana
Thank you.
"If not all cultures and values are equally successful in modern society, should we (as a society) encourage people to adopt a more successful values, or should we adapt society to make all cultures and values equally successful?"
(edit: obviously I have biases, but I tried to phase this in a way that masked my biases. If there's a more neutral way to phrase this, I'd be interested in hearing it)
https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/
(Edit: never mind, it looks like the closure compiler can also be used as a service by posting your javascript to at http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/compile)
That's going to be when $4 billion aircraft carriers are sunk by $250,000 sea-skimmer anti-ship missiles launched by the dozens.
I'd bet they could have seen significant cost savings on AWS by migrating to lambda, and gotten continuous scaling to boot.
(with the possible exception of an open-source application built and distributed by an open-source advocate, e.g. Firefox, K-9 mail, sipdroid, DDG, etc.)
I don't know what the "hard left" is, but I know that teachers, labor unions, and local political leaders are all about jobs and wages.
> The fact that communist flags are regularly flown at leftist protests should be a tremendous national scandal and embarrassment, with our media educating the populace on the horrors of communism.
Look at Boston. Tens of thousands of people marched. There was one guy with some socialist literature, and a couple guys who were anti-GMO food, and then someone trying to sell you a copy of his music CD. But the overwhelming majority stood for free speech, representative democracy, and equal protection under the law.
But let's face it, you can walk into any Starbucks in Boston and find one crazy person there too.
You mean they attack the right. It's right there in the name, Anti-Fascists!
The enemy of my enemy isn't necessarily my friend. They aren't out there advocating transgender rights or arguing for paid family leave. They are there to clash with Nazis.
That's funny, someone should tell that to המחנה הציוני
In America, the "bourgeois" is usually called "The American Dream". Most Americans idealize the middle class income and middle-class lifestyle and middle-class families and middle-class values. Ranting against that is usually a non-starter.
> my wife's parents suffered greatly in China by having their property taken from them
Many people were killed in China, of starvation, political punishment, etc. It should be an object lesson to the world, don't turn your government over to a corrupt dictatorship, even if they promise you communism.
Perhaps I should have been more specific, and clarify that the antifa values, goals, and belief systems (thank you for the term) anarchocommunisism is completely incompatible with the democratic-social capitalist hybrid model espoused by the contemporary American political left.
You mean Antifa? Those aren't leftists, those are anarchists. They believe that government is incapable of protecting against fascism, and are instead committing vigilante violence. This doesn't represent the "left", who would instead fight fascism through constitutional and judicial protections.
They only thing Antifa has in common with the left, is they both hate fascism. But they have completely different views on the role of government.
Where do you live that you see people marching in the street waving flags of communist dictatorships and ranting against immigrants and... whatever the leftist version of anti-Semitism is... maybe... anti-vaccination? (that's sorta equally irrational)
If companies were honest in their EULA (or employment agreements), they would simply say that you will be removed if you cause the company to receive bad press.
Microsoft users do not want it.
Microsoft customers want it.
In case it's not obvious, when Windows was given away for free, the users were no longer customers, and transitioned to become "product".
(If you have a Windows computer with default privacy settings, press the Start key; type a few letters. You just "searched" Bing)
If I'm building an ML cluster, I'm going to go with the vendor that's easiest to containerize and deploy, and right now it looks like nvidia has a commanding advantage in software.
Why doesn't AMD throw a few hundred thousand dollars at some developers to get containerization parity?
You need to take it one step further; you should compare it to the suicide rate of healthy, employed young adults. If (for example) the suicide rate is higher than employed adults, but comparable to unemployed, it would show a serious problem at the factory.
In many industrialized countries suicide rates are not spread equally across all demographic groups.