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  1. The Second Amendment in the 21st Century on Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones To Sinaloa Drug Cartel (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. All Wars Are Bankers' Wars https://youtu.be/5hfEBupAeo4

  3. Lufthansa & Air France on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Lufthansa & Air France board optimally: back to front.

  4. Markets not Capitalism... on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 1
    https://youtu.be/tcEOh17heyo?t...

    Other kinds of privileges for the politically well connected that tend to make and keep people poor – think occupational licensure and zoning laws, for instance – would be absent from a freed market. So ordinary people, even ones at the bottom of the economic ladder, would be more likely to enjoy a level of economic security that would make it possible for them to opt out of employment in unpleasant working environments, including big businesses.

    Gary Chartier

  5. Without skin in the game:

    Smart drug dealers become pharmacopsychiatrists;

    smart astrologists become economists;

    smart serial killers write for the Wash Post;

    smart bullshitters become “experimental” psychologists;

    and smart bankrobbers become bankers.

    — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) February 15, 2018

  6. Somone found Apple's Brown Noise on Mac and iOS Bug Crashes Apps With a Single Indian-Language Character (mashable.com) · · Score: 0
  7. not sure what can be learned about crypto in class on Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the discussion in Antifragile about "academic" discoveries that were in fact made by practitioners. pic.twitter.com/xiLZdPOkzi

    — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) November 28, 2017

  8. 4th Phase of Water on Scientists Create a New Form of Matter: Superionic Water Ice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Fourth Phase of Water: Dr. Gerald Pollack at TEDxGuelphU https://youtu.be/i-T7tCMUDXU

  9. Re:try before you buy on The Rise Of The Contract Workforce (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    With the proliferation of "Right to Work" laws and states it has gotten much easier to get rid of any employee for practically any non-discriminatory reason, including their politics.

    Non-union employees have essentially zero job protections and with the death of unions we have fewer and fewer union employees.

    I work in right to work state. My sample size is small and possibly biased, but I've never seen this happen in practice. Employers keep poor performing employees to a fault and ultimately to the detriment of the org. Higher performers end up leaving.

  10. try before you buy on The Rise Of The Contract Workforce (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Contract workers is effectively "try before you buy" on an employee. It's getting increasingly difficult to fire poor performing employees. Contract is a good bet for employers.

  11. It's about time someone invoked the 10th amendment. Though, Montana may end up with the most congested links.

  12. Net Neutrality has been distraction... on AT&T and Comcast Finalize Court Victory Over Nashville and Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Meanwhile, everybody is distracted by "net neutrality" when it is precisely ISP competition that will keep the net neutral.

  13. competing dogmas leave people confused on Trump Administration Prohibits CDC Policy Analysts From Using the Words 'Science-Based' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Renowned cancer scientist was paid by chemical firm for 20 years https://www.theguardian.com/sc... Nutrition Has a Consensus to Use Bad Science: An Open Letter to the National Academies https://www.realclearscience.c...

  14. Re: neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    yeah, I try to stay out of the politics & stick to the technical realities. Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

  15. Re: neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    Your institution use the full 20G bandwidth at all locations? In my previous experience, remote clinics -- when properly shaped and policed -- can run on 10Mb virtual circuit or less. A friend manages 50+ medical imaging sites on a shared 500Mb EVC. If your Tier 1 supplier is not shaping, then you're probably on a dedicated connection (not cheap) and not sharing the bandwidth with other subscribers. Not surprising from a HC institution; rising cost of HC & all.

  16. Re: neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    QoS & neutrality are mutually exclusive. QoS is what manages traffic congestion that would otherwise break the interwebz. Net neutrality, while politically popular, is not technically desirable. Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

  17. Re:neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    Porn, Netflix, Emergency 911 VoIP calls... Net Neutrality says to treat them all the same. Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

  18. Re: neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    What CiR are you paying for? How does your Tier 1 provider shape and police your traffic before it hits their backbone?

  19. Re:neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's all defined in the contracts with the ISP. You expect your ISP to honor and provide the CiR agreed to in the contract. The way it's done is by classifying traffic, which necessarily implies no neutrality. RFC 2474 Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

  20. Re:neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    "Preferential treatment" is defined by the CiR in contract with the ISP. "Traffic management" necessarily implies no neutrality.

  21. neutrality breaks shared resources on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have to classify traffic to prevent congestion. Congestion will break the interwebz. As soon as you're classifying traffic, which is already happening, you have no neutrality If you want a simple example of how neutrality breaks shared and limited resources, remove quotas from your file system or schedulers from CPU resource management. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

  22. Tesla's Cobalt Conundrum on Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2
  23. congestion breaks interwebs on FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Net neutrality is great and all until you have congestion, then the interwebs breaks to hell & back.

  24. lots of inputs... on Farmers In India Are Using AI To Increase Crop Yields (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    "Annual agriculture is all about living through our concepts... our idea we've imposed on reality. And, when reality doesn't behave according to our idea, what do we do? We input... we can never input enough to make our false concept correct." @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1GnbtAA