But presumably the Brazilian Google exec was just that -- a Brazilian living and working in Brazil, and presumably under the jurisdiction of their justice system (no matter how non-local the video hosting was).
What I as an American find kind of unappealing is the jurisdictional claims that US law enforcement makes against a foreign national living in a foreign country whose actions took place in a foreign country and only tangentially involved the US, like the guy happened to have a dollar bill in his pocket at the time, so therefore all US laws apply.
I think it's serious overreach and it makes me wonder how safe I am from the reverse situation, some foreign prosecutor who decides that because I said "boo" on the Internet and it breaks some law in Fuckedupistan that they should get to prosecute me.
I figure there has to be some risk with even the apparent advantages.
For one, you still have to collect on deadbeats. That's not easy.
There could be some kind of shift in the so-called gig economy where like minded student loan evaders eke out some kind of cash-only existence, making them even harder to trace and collect on.
Then there's potential for political action. It's not hard to imagine some kind of "student loan debt relief" where Congress basically forces the holders of these loans to take a haircut after 10 years or rewrites the rules to allow them to be discharged in some manner.
This is one of my main complaints -- you find a specific item and there's a dozen or more sellers of the item, including Amazon itself.
I usually filter by Prime and try to choose Amazon as the seller to make sure I have the best chance of getting the real product and a recourse for a failed product.
I think Amazon could benefit itself and its reputation by forcing greater differentiation of products by seller. You would think they would want to for brand identity purposes and to claim more sales, especially when the alternative sellers are often underpricing Amazon. I know they're making money either way, but usually they're making more when they are the seller and not just the transaction handler.
Politics may have been the motivation for the space program, but that doesn't mean that when people stopped what they were doing to watch a man step on the moon that the politics that drove the space program were even on their mind.
I'd wager that's the value of the AI analysis, sifting the performance demands across the variables -- I/O, CPU, etc -- to find patterns that indicate where you ought to home workloads, the return on migrating workloads on demand and so on.
It may be that the metrics they had targeted previously suggested similar kinds of workload distribution merely for the power benefits of idling or spinning down nodes but without taking into account the HVAC-related aspects, resulting in fewer nodes but with no HVAC zoning priority, resulting in inefficient using of HVAC.
I'm sure there are limits, as they have other probably more important priorities like available network bandwidth, redundancy, risk mitigation from too much concentration in a single HVAC zone, etc.
Your post pretty well captures a key value of manned spaceflight. It demonstrates a pretty astonishing human achievement that is largely bereft of politics and presents an image of human civilization moving forward.
I'm sure the lander/robotics crowd are right that we can do more *science* (as measured by dollars per mission) without people in space, and while the achievements are no less amazing in terms of technology, they don't capture the imagination quite like human space fight.
The land question is an interesting point, but the water basins can be used for storing fresh water, water surface can be used recreationally, and in places like the Tennessee Valley and other places, more land is usable downstream because flooding has been controlled.
I think the nuke plant land argument is mostly bogus because unless you have a Chernobyl event, the lost land to a decommissioned reactor is relatively small in the scheme of things.
That may be the reason for commercial applications, but even in the free software space shared libraries are completely dominant, so dominant that in some cases it's becoming impossible to statically link even if you control the build process.
I ran across this mailing list thread from Freebsd-Stable about static linking:
I'm not enough of a developer to fully comprehend the reasons, but it sounds like dynamic linking is so baked in that it's just not possible to statically link in some libraries. Perhaps if you built the source code into yours and tweaked the limiting functions, maybe, but the level of effort it involved would be huge.
I've often asked the same question, and at first the answer was usually "disk space" as shared libraries cut the amount of space compiled executables needed since the code was in the libraries.
Most recently, the answer has been "security updates" since you can just update the library and the application will inherit the security fixes.
It's all application development stuff beyond my knowledge, but I do miss the days (like on old Macs) where the applications were one giant file and would Just Run without installation or without a maze of dependencies.
It does seem, though, that the PortableApps craze hasn't abated and you see more and more portable versions of apps that can be just plain copied around and run directly. So at least somebody else thinks there are situations where it makes sense.
Wouldn't virtualization make this pretty trivial, concentrating your workloads on hosts served by a single zone?
As visually appealing as it is, I've kind of always wondered why so many data centers I've seen have been basically one giant room. Maybe they have some zoning control with the whole hot aisle/cool aisle concept, but it kind of seems like if they were more segmented there would be easier zoning controls and less general air mass cooling to be done.
Although I would imagine data center cooling is an extremely complex problem with lots of hard tradeoffs.
It seems kind of strange nobody ever reverse engineered the protocol. Maybe it's too hard to do or too well encrypted, but it seems like a lot harder things have been reversed or cracked.
I don't think Erdogan engineered the coup attempt. But, I think he's still paranoid enough about the *possibility* of a coup that he has significant monitoring of the officer corps (whether eavesdropping, informants, etc) and he was able to figure out that it was going to happen.
So like some kind of a police sting, he figured it was best to let them proceed as much as possible and then pull the plug just after it got started. This would give him more justification to further purge the officer corps of disloyalty.
I think this also demonstrates that Erdogan's earlier purges of the officer corps and trumped up charges against retired officers was successful. It's more likely that had the military retained its historic leadership structure and attendant loyalties still been in place, a coup might have actually worked.
Of course the worry now is that he has decimated military leadership and the military will suffer from lack of experience and/or competence because all the important slots are held by Erdogan yes-men.
To me, the worry ins't that Erdogan is like Putin, it's that he's like Assad of Syria.
I would think (naively, I'm sure) that it would be simpler and more easy to get an apples-apples comparison with a PC-type platform than a smartphone platform.
Generally speaking, getting your PPC OS running on an x86 reference box would be an easier port, since the hardware documentation and drivers are more easily available.
Using a competitor's smartphone platform, though, would be much more difficult since the hardware is more likely to be highly customized and sort of proprietary, making creating drivers more difficult.
But who knows, maybe hardware makers like Foxconn can do a nearly identical reference platform with more standardized parts.
I wonder if Apple has ever ported iOS to any of the top of the line Android hardware platforms to make comparisons.
It's probably a bunch of work just to get drivers working and even more for necessary optimizations, with a net result of "just about the same" but it would be interesting to see what would happen.
When I bought my Volvo in 2009, I bought it used and they had to basically give it away. Mine didn't come with the iPod connection option and I got the dealer to add it in lieu of a further price cut.
They had a devil of a time getting it to work -- you'd hook something up to it, and then nothing would play. The story I was given was that my car needed not just the software for the iPod installed but a patch specific to my VIN which an engineer at Volvo made available to dealer via VIDA.
How would a Chinese VIDA copy do that? I would assume to do much more than read diagnostics your specific VIDA instance would need to be registered with Volvo to get at stuff like software updates or VIN-specific info.
"When I was the attorney general, I stood up to crooked multinationals like Volkswagen and I made them pay for the environmental damage they did and their illegal business practices. I have always put the interests of this state first and I always will."
After the election...
"Amalgamated Mining, Pipelines and Smelting has been a bedrock of this state's economy for years, and I won't allow the environmental bureaucrats at the EPA to undermine the jobs and economy of this state. Their needless regulation runs counter to the economic security of our state."
If this was a movie, Google would be the hapless businessman with a gambling habit arguing with the mafioso about the vig.
"But I paid the vig we talked about last week, every dollar."
"Yeah, but you know, this is this week and we want something extra."
"I'm only paying what we agreed on."
"Yeah, that business you own might have some problems. Think of this as extra protection against business problems. It comes along with the sports book."
Wasn't the legally approved workaround for that to require car manufacturers to sell their proprietary computerized diagnostics systems to third parties?
I own a Volvo and frequent a repair place that does nothing but Volvos. They have the Volvo "VIDA" system in their shop that can do everything a dealer can do, like changing some of the goofy internal settings for the trip computer or adding/removing software features.
Now, I'm sure these systems are priced high to keep the dealers happy and reduce competition, as well as requiring a whole bunch of certifications for the shop and its workers (some of which makes sense, some of which is probably hoop-jumping).
Their obvious long term plan is to gently ease users into full-on permanent subscription of music, for the same definition of "gently" Rocco Siffredi uses when making porn films.
I categorized iTunes music management as tolerable (a highly personal and subjective judgement) up until a few versions ago, and now you can hardly tell what the fuck is even in your library. They've slowly eliminated most views that let you see or manage your content very well.
The whole cloud business model is subscription only. Pay every month forever.
I don't mind for movies and TV shows because I mostly can't rewatch them, but this is of course subjective. But music I want to own and don't want to be tied to streaming and bullshit.
60 mg was excessive because of my own personal reaction to it -- it just left me extremely sluggish, tired and in a mental haze. Maybe it's just right for someone else.
I took the whole 60 mg recommended dosage the first couple of days, but by day 3 or 4 I was so zonked out that I started taking less just because of the fog it left me in.
It wasn't an immediate drop, where I took 60 mg one day and 5 mg the next. I think it took about 3 days to drop down to about 15 mg and maybe another 7 where I was at about 5-10 mg. Even after a couple of weeks, there were still days where my hand just hurt more by the end of the day and I took an additional 5 mg.
But part of it was conscious choice, because I was worried that this was ALL they would give me and I would face an extended healing period with no pain relief available, so I assumed I would need to conserve some pills -- better to have days with limited/peak pain relief as an option than none at all.
Which, IMHO, is really shitty to have paranoia over pain relief be a motivating factor because "ZOMG! ADDITICTION!" is the current zeitgeist in pain relief.
Are AirBnB rentals going into places that already meet occupancy codes or are they going into permitless new construction?
I would imagine there's a percentage of people willing to rent the cheapest room, which may be a newly converted attic space, which if done to poor standards by a homeowner might be some risk, although it would also be a risk to the homeowner, too, which would seem to mitigate some risk as the homeowner doesn't want to die in a fire, either.
If the majority are going into existing dwelling spaces which already generally meet occupancy codes, where's the construction code risk?
I would imagine the high risk spaces with shoddy construction would get downvoted by potential renters anyway, as if the electrical is so poor as to be a major fire risk, then the rest of its likely to be seriously substandard as well.
Of course, rich people always find a way to buy property right in front of beaches, built a walled residential area or something, and then make public access difficult.
That's been done in Malibu, California, too. The beaches are technically public, but many are dominated by rows of private homes built closely with fences. There are public access paths, but private property owners have been known to fence them off or hang illegal/fake signs prohibiting public access to discourage people from using the paths.
I don't know what the cheap solution to this is in situations where you have many individual private property owners and narrow/hidden beach access. I'm guessing you won't get far with fines for blocking or illegally signing public access, the property owners are too wealthy and the statutes too weak to allow for substantial fines.
You could pass a law requiring all beach access to be a minimum of 12 feet wide with obvious signage indicating public access, but the houses are built so close because the land is so valuable that you would basically be destroying at least one person's property do it -- at the cost of millions per beach access in compensation and probably millions in lawsuit money. Plus the owners are politically influential.
Compounding the problem is that many of the beaches are basically inaccessible unless you rode your bike miles on a highway or someone dropped you off. There's no parking or other place for visitors to just show up, so in many cases you'd be creating a million dollar access that almost no one could use to a beach you can't get to except by car and you can't park anywhere close anyway.
You want the government to not interfere in your life and what you do with it right up to the point you're looking up from the gutter?
I think that's the essential flaw in your argument, that all drug use ends in vicious cycle of addiction and degeneracy.
Historically, medically addicted people at the end of the 19th/early 20th century were largely maintenance users taking regulated doses at set intervals. Many may not even have been aware of themselves as drug users, they were simply using a medicine to treat a pain condition.
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But presumably the Brazilian Google exec was just that -- a Brazilian living and working in Brazil, and presumably under the jurisdiction of their justice system (no matter how non-local the video hosting was).
What I as an American find kind of unappealing is the jurisdictional claims that US law enforcement makes against a foreign national living in a foreign country whose actions took place in a foreign country and only tangentially involved the US, like the guy happened to have a dollar bill in his pocket at the time, so therefore all US laws apply.
I think it's serious overreach and it makes me wonder how safe I am from the reverse situation, some foreign prosecutor who decides that because I said "boo" on the Internet and it breaks some law in Fuckedupistan that they should get to prosecute me.
It might be easier to deal with.
I figure there has to be some risk with even the apparent advantages.
For one, you still have to collect on deadbeats. That's not easy.
There could be some kind of shift in the so-called gig economy where like minded student loan evaders eke out some kind of cash-only existence, making them even harder to trace and collect on.
Then there's potential for political action. It's not hard to imagine some kind of "student loan debt relief" where Congress basically forces the holders of these loans to take a haircut after 10 years or rewrites the rules to allow them to be discharged in some manner.
This is one of my main complaints -- you find a specific item and there's a dozen or more sellers of the item, including Amazon itself.
I usually filter by Prime and try to choose Amazon as the seller to make sure I have the best chance of getting the real product and a recourse for a failed product.
I think Amazon could benefit itself and its reputation by forcing greater differentiation of products by seller. You would think they would want to for brand identity purposes and to claim more sales, especially when the alternative sellers are often underpricing Amazon. I know they're making money either way, but usually they're making more when they are the seller and not just the transaction handler.
Politics may have been the motivation for the space program, but that doesn't mean that when people stopped what they were doing to watch a man step on the moon that the politics that drove the space program were even on their mind.
I'd wager that's the value of the AI analysis, sifting the performance demands across the variables -- I/O, CPU, etc -- to find patterns that indicate where you ought to home workloads, the return on migrating workloads on demand and so on.
It may be that the metrics they had targeted previously suggested similar kinds of workload distribution merely for the power benefits of idling or spinning down nodes but without taking into account the HVAC-related aspects, resulting in fewer nodes but with no HVAC zoning priority, resulting in inefficient using of HVAC.
I'm sure there are limits, as they have other probably more important priorities like available network bandwidth, redundancy, risk mitigation from too much concentration in a single HVAC zone, etc.
Your post pretty well captures a key value of manned spaceflight. It demonstrates a pretty astonishing human achievement that is largely bereft of politics and presents an image of human civilization moving forward.
I'm sure the lander/robotics crowd are right that we can do more *science* (as measured by dollars per mission) without people in space, and while the achievements are no less amazing in terms of technology, they don't capture the imagination quite like human space fight.
The land question is an interesting point, but the water basins can be used for storing fresh water, water surface can be used recreationally, and in places like the Tennessee Valley and other places, more land is usable downstream because flooding has been controlled.
I think the nuke plant land argument is mostly bogus because unless you have a Chernobyl event, the lost land to a decommissioned reactor is relatively small in the scheme of things.
That may be the reason for commercial applications, but even in the free software space shared libraries are completely dominant, so dominant that in some cases it's becoming impossible to statically link even if you control the build process.
I ran across this mailing list thread from Freebsd-Stable about static linking:
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabb...
I'm not enough of a developer to fully comprehend the reasons, but it sounds like dynamic linking is so baked in that it's just not possible to statically link in some libraries. Perhaps if you built the source code into yours and tweaked the limiting functions, maybe, but the level of effort it involved would be huge.
I've often asked the same question, and at first the answer was usually "disk space" as shared libraries cut the amount of space compiled executables needed since the code was in the libraries.
Most recently, the answer has been "security updates" since you can just update the library and the application will inherit the security fixes.
It's all application development stuff beyond my knowledge, but I do miss the days (like on old Macs) where the applications were one giant file and would Just Run without installation or without a maze of dependencies.
It does seem, though, that the PortableApps craze hasn't abated and you see more and more portable versions of apps that can be just plain copied around and run directly. So at least somebody else thinks there are situations where it makes sense.
Wouldn't virtualization make this pretty trivial, concentrating your workloads on hosts served by a single zone?
As visually appealing as it is, I've kind of always wondered why so many data centers I've seen have been basically one giant room. Maybe they have some zoning control with the whole hot aisle/cool aisle concept, but it kind of seems like if they were more segmented there would be easier zoning controls and less general air mass cooling to be done.
Although I would imagine data center cooling is an extremely complex problem with lots of hard tradeoffs.
It seems kind of strange nobody ever reverse engineered the protocol. Maybe it's too hard to do or too well encrypted, but it seems like a lot harder things have been reversed or cracked.
I don't think Erdogan engineered the coup attempt. But, I think he's still paranoid enough about the *possibility* of a coup that he has significant monitoring of the officer corps (whether eavesdropping, informants, etc) and he was able to figure out that it was going to happen.
So like some kind of a police sting, he figured it was best to let them proceed as much as possible and then pull the plug just after it got started. This would give him more justification to further purge the officer corps of disloyalty.
I think this also demonstrates that Erdogan's earlier purges of the officer corps and trumped up charges against retired officers was successful. It's more likely that had the military retained its historic leadership structure and attendant loyalties still been in place, a coup might have actually worked.
Of course the worry now is that he has decimated military leadership and the military will suffer from lack of experience and/or competence because all the important slots are held by Erdogan yes-men.
To me, the worry ins't that Erdogan is like Putin, it's that he's like Assad of Syria.
And as an image file format, it doesn't mean dick unless the web site serves up WebP format images.
I would think (naively, I'm sure) that it would be simpler and more easy to get an apples-apples comparison with a PC-type platform than a smartphone platform.
Generally speaking, getting your PPC OS running on an x86 reference box would be an easier port, since the hardware documentation and drivers are more easily available.
Using a competitor's smartphone platform, though, would be much more difficult since the hardware is more likely to be highly customized and sort of proprietary, making creating drivers more difficult.
But who knows, maybe hardware makers like Foxconn can do a nearly identical reference platform with more standardized parts.
I wonder if Apple has ever ported iOS to any of the top of the line Android hardware platforms to make comparisons.
It's probably a bunch of work just to get drivers working and even more for necessary optimizations, with a net result of "just about the same" but it would be interesting to see what would happen.
I wonder how that ties in with the factory.
When I bought my Volvo in 2009, I bought it used and they had to basically give it away. Mine didn't come with the iPod connection option and I got the dealer to add it in lieu of a further price cut.
They had a devil of a time getting it to work -- you'd hook something up to it, and then nothing would play. The story I was given was that my car needed not just the software for the iPod installed but a patch specific to my VIN which an engineer at Volvo made available to dealer via VIDA.
How would a Chinese VIDA copy do that? I would assume to do much more than read diagnostics your specific VIDA instance would need to be registered with Volvo to get at stuff like software updates or VIN-specific info.
Fast-forward to some future election...
"When I was the attorney general, I stood up to crooked multinationals like Volkswagen and I made them pay for the environmental damage they did and their illegal business practices. I have always put the interests of this state first and I always will."
After the election...
"Amalgamated Mining, Pipelines and Smelting has been a bedrock of this state's economy for years, and I won't allow the environmental bureaucrats at the EPA to undermine the jobs and economy of this state. Their needless regulation runs counter to the economic security of our state."
If this was a movie, Google would be the hapless businessman with a gambling habit arguing with the mafioso about the vig.
"But I paid the vig we talked about last week, every dollar."
"Yeah, but you know, this is this week and we want something extra."
"I'm only paying what we agreed on."
"Yeah, that business you own might have some problems. Think of this as extra protection against business problems. It comes along with the sports book."
Wasn't the legally approved workaround for that to require car manufacturers to sell their proprietary computerized diagnostics systems to third parties?
I own a Volvo and frequent a repair place that does nothing but Volvos. They have the Volvo "VIDA" system in their shop that can do everything a dealer can do, like changing some of the goofy internal settings for the trip computer or adding/removing software features.
Now, I'm sure these systems are priced high to keep the dealers happy and reduce competition, as well as requiring a whole bunch of certifications for the shop and its workers (some of which makes sense, some of which is probably hoop-jumping).
Bottom line is that Apple doesn't give a shit.
Their obvious long term plan is to gently ease users into full-on permanent subscription of music, for the same definition of "gently" Rocco Siffredi uses when making porn films.
I categorized iTunes music management as tolerable (a highly personal and subjective judgement) up until a few versions ago, and now you can hardly tell what the fuck is even in your library. They've slowly eliminated most views that let you see or manage your content very well.
The whole cloud business model is subscription only. Pay every month forever.
I don't mind for movies and TV shows because I mostly can't rewatch them, but this is of course subjective. But music I want to own and don't want to be tied to streaming and bullshit.
60 mg was excessive because of my own personal reaction to it -- it just left me extremely sluggish, tired and in a mental haze. Maybe it's just right for someone else.
I took the whole 60 mg recommended dosage the first couple of days, but by day 3 or 4 I was so zonked out that I started taking less just because of the fog it left me in.
It wasn't an immediate drop, where I took 60 mg one day and 5 mg the next. I think it took about 3 days to drop down to about 15 mg and maybe another 7 where I was at about 5-10 mg. Even after a couple of weeks, there were still days where my hand just hurt more by the end of the day and I took an additional 5 mg.
But part of it was conscious choice, because I was worried that this was ALL they would give me and I would face an extended healing period with no pain relief available, so I assumed I would need to conserve some pills -- better to have days with limited/peak pain relief as an option than none at all.
Which, IMHO, is really shitty to have paranoia over pain relief be a motivating factor because "ZOMG! ADDITICTION!" is the current zeitgeist in pain relief.
Are AirBnB rentals going into places that already meet occupancy codes or are they going into permitless new construction?
I would imagine there's a percentage of people willing to rent the cheapest room, which may be a newly converted attic space, which if done to poor standards by a homeowner might be some risk, although it would also be a risk to the homeowner, too, which would seem to mitigate some risk as the homeowner doesn't want to die in a fire, either.
If the majority are going into existing dwelling spaces which already generally meet occupancy codes, where's the construction code risk?
I would imagine the high risk spaces with shoddy construction would get downvoted by potential renters anyway, as if the electrical is so poor as to be a major fire risk, then the rest of its likely to be seriously substandard as well.
Of course, rich people always find a way to buy property right in front of beaches, built a walled residential area or something, and then make public access difficult.
That's been done in Malibu, California, too. The beaches are technically public, but many are dominated by rows of private homes built closely with fences. There are public access paths, but private property owners have been known to fence them off or hang illegal/fake signs prohibiting public access to discourage people from using the paths.
I don't know what the cheap solution to this is in situations where you have many individual private property owners and narrow/hidden beach access. I'm guessing you won't get far with fines for blocking or illegally signing public access, the property owners are too wealthy and the statutes too weak to allow for substantial fines.
You could pass a law requiring all beach access to be a minimum of 12 feet wide with obvious signage indicating public access, but the houses are built so close because the land is so valuable that you would basically be destroying at least one person's property do it -- at the cost of millions per beach access in compensation and probably millions in lawsuit money. Plus the owners are politically influential.
Compounding the problem is that many of the beaches are basically inaccessible unless you rode your bike miles on a highway or someone dropped you off. There's no parking or other place for visitors to just show up, so in many cases you'd be creating a million dollar access that almost no one could use to a beach you can't get to except by car and you can't park anywhere close anyway.
You want the government to not interfere in your life and what you do with it right up to the point you're looking up from the gutter?
I think that's the essential flaw in your argument, that all drug use ends in vicious cycle of addiction and degeneracy.
Historically, medically addicted people at the end of the 19th/early 20th century were largely maintenance users taking regulated doses at set intervals. Many may not even have been aware of themselves as drug users, they were simply using a medicine to treat a pain condition.