The United Nations was ridiculed on Friday after its experts ruled Julian Assange is "detained" in the Ecuadorian embassy and suggested Britain should pay compensation to the Wikileaks founder.
The findings were described as "ridiculous" by David Cameron, the Prime Minister, as it emerged the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was deeply divided over its conclusions.
One member of the panel refused to support the final report, saying Mr Assange was a fugitive who "fled bail" over a rape allegation in Sweden and was using political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy to "evade arrest".
Mr Cameron's official spokesman said: "It's ridiculous. There's a European Arrest Warrant out for him. He has never been arbitrarily detained in this country. It's entirely his choice to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy and he is avoiding lawful arrest by choosing to remain there."
Echoing the Prime Minister's comments, Phillip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said: "I reject the decision of this working group. Julian Assange is a fugitive from justice. He is hiding from justice in the Ecuadorian embassy. He can come out any time he chooses. But he will have to face justice in Sweden if he chooses to do so."
He's been in there for five years. The ridiculous thing is that if he'd actually gone back to Sweden and been convicted of rape he'd probably have spent less than five years in a very comfy Swedish jail.
Then again he's effectively got free board and lodging in the centre of London and he can claim to be a political prisoner. And a load of celebs can do his shopping runs to Harrods for him - he doesn't actually need to go out. He certainly seems to be gaining weight. I guess a diet of Harrods food hall stuff agrees with him.
After arriving at Central Station in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, the boys made their way to the Migration Agency registration office, where the agency assigned them to one of the 34 refugee residences here. In the youth residences, Afghan males dominate: another on-the-ground expression of a geopolitical reality. Because Sweden grants permanent residency to all Syrians, Syrian men don't need to pretend to be boys, and only 3,777 of the unaccompanied minors arriving in Sweden last year came from the ravaged country. But with no such blanket asylum in place for Afghans, they - and a likewise disproportionate number of Somalis and Eritreans - often appear to claim asylum as unaccompanied minors. Recent figures provided by the Migration Agency show that more than half of the 41,564 Afghans who arrived in Sweden in 2015 claimed as unaccompanied minors.
I.e. it's pretty obvious a lot of people are lying about their age to get asylum.
You are indeed correct. But what you may not know is it's actually possible to point out a fact and correct someone without succumbing to the overwhelming urge to interject your Trumpian political views and snarks.
Sweden will make medical age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers by examining their teeth and knee joints. The new system, unveiled on Friday by the national forensic medicine agency (Rättsmedicinalverket), aims to tackle doubts over the accurate age of those who seek asylum in the country. With over 35,000 coming last year alone, Sweden has taken in more unaccompanied children and young people than any other country in Europe, and many of them lack identity documents.
The migration authority (Migrationsverket) makes an initial age assessment with every application, but the tests have been criticized for being ineffective. If a person is not clearly over 18, they are registered as a child.
In the last year, several Swedish municipalities have reported suspected cases of adults being placed together with children at residential care homes for young people (known as HVB homes), as well as being sent to school with minors.
According to the migration board, there are doubts about the accurate age of 70 percent of unaccompanied minors who have stated that they are between 15 and 17 years old.
As a solution, the Swedish government asked for medical age assessments to be carried out on a large scale. Rättsmedicinalverket detailed at a media conference on Friday when that work will get under way and explained how it can be done.
Between 15,000 and 18,000 age assessments will now be needed, the agency said. The two methods that will be used are dental maturity assessments involving wisdom teeth, and the examination of knee joints using MRI. The two examinations will be performed independently by MRI clinics and dental clinics.
"Medical age assessments are an integral part of forensic medicine in many other countries, so it is only natural that we carry them out," Rättsmedicinalverket methodology manager Elias Palm commented.
The agency expects to reach an agreement to outsource the assessments by December this year, with the goal of starting the tests during the first quarter of 2017.
Earlier this week a Swedish pediatrician sparked debate when he criticized the current tests authorities use to verify the real age of asylum applicants, claiming some could even be as old as 40.
"The refugee children who are in their early and mid-teens are the ones who end up paying the price for this. These are resources that have been earmarked for children, but are used for another age group," Josef Milerad told newspaper Expressen.
Emphasis mine - the authorities thought 70% of them were lying. And there's still some debate as to whether the age tests are catching enough of them.
I'm sure you'll find people in Sweden saying that there's no problem and anyone who says there is is a racist. It is Sweden after all.
The Swedes tried to do that. Most refugees destroy their documents so they can't be deported and Sweden gives preference to children. It turned out that most of the 'child refugees' they were admitting were over 18.
The Migration Agency has so far made 5,700 decisions on the basis of assessments carried out by Rättsmedicinalverket. In 79 percent of those cases the agency decided to formally consider the applicant as older than they had initially claimed in their asylum application, reports Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).
Between mid-March and late October, Rättsmedicinalverket carried out a total of 7,858 age assessments. Of those, it found that their examination suggested 6,628 were 18 or older, and 112 "possibly" 18 or older.
The left - who wanted to let in the refugees - claimed that doing tests were a violation of human rights of course and fought the introduction of them to the bitter end. You can expect something similar to happen in Germany.
It seems more feudal to be honest. Then again fascism has become a rather meaningless word. In fact Orwell pointed that out that was the case even in 1944
On page 7 you can see in only two elections did the winning party get more than 50% of the vote - the Conservatives in 1931 and 1935 though Labour came close in 1951 and 1966
So you'd end up with 1st/3rd party coalitions almost all the time.
And - as he points out in the comments - that's what has happened in Israel and Germany.
In Israel religious parties typically hold the balance of power and extract subsidies unpopular with the great majority. In Germany for 49 years the FDP with
Saying 'well people might vote differently' doesn't affect his argument. People vote differently from the UK in Germany and Israel and differently between Israel and Germany. However both Israel and Germany have the same problem where smaller parties can extract unpopular concessions from the larger ones as a price for entering a governing coalition.
MOV to CR3. The behavior of the instruction depends on the value of CR4.PCIDE:
If CR4.PCIDE = 0, the instruction invalidates all TLB entries associated with PCID 000H except those for global pages. It also invalidates all entries in all paging-structure caches associated with PCID 000H.
If CR4.PCIDE = 1 and bit 63 of the instructionâ(TM)s source operand is 0, the instruction invalidates all TLB entries associated with the PCID specified in bits 11:0 of the instructionâ(TM)s source operand except those for global pages. It also invalidates all entries in all paging-structure caches associated with that PCID. It is not required to invalidate entries in the TLBs and paging-structure caches that are associated with other PCIDs.
If CR4.PCIDE = 1 and bit 63 of the instructionâ(TM)s source operand is 1, the instruction is not required to invalidate any TLB entries or entries in paging-structure caches.
I.e. with bit 63 and 0:11 set to PCID a write to CR3 works like INVPCID in processors which don't have INVPCID.
This actually makes a difference. My 2012 Macbook pro has a
machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz machdep.cpu.features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 PCLMULQDQ DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 SSE4.2 x2APIC POPCNT AES PCID XSAVE OSXSAVE TSCTMR AVX1.0 RDRAND F16C
I.e. assuming the patches know the bit 63 set in writes to cr3 trick, they should be able to do page table invalidation per PCID even on rather old chips.
It looks like KAISER on Linux supports/will support this
Another long overdue improvement to the page tables is the Processor Context ID (PCID). The PCID is a field in each TLB entry that associates a given page to a process. Previously, Intel's TLB could only contain entries from a single process and whenever the CR3 register was written (e.g. a context switch), the TLB was flushed. The PCID lets pages from different processes safely inhabit the TLB together, so that CR3 writes no longer flush the TLB. Whenever a process tries to access a page in memory, the PCID is checked to determine whether the page is actually mapped into the process' address space; if the PCID does not match then a TLB miss occurred. This is very much analogous to Intel's VPID, which enables the TLB to contain pages from different virtual machines and avoid TLB flushes during VM transitions.
PCIDs are generally available on Sandybridge and newer CPUs. However, the accompanying INVPCID instruction did not become available until Haswell (the ones with "v4", or called fourth-generation Core). This instruction allows non-current-PCID TLB entries to be flushed without switching CR3 and global pages to be flushed without a double MOV-to-CR4.
I.e. it'd be interesting to see what happens on a CPU old enough not to support enough of PCID/INVPCID to optimized KPTI.
The claims of >10% hits are all for these old CPUs.
The interesting thing is that under anything with a lower Gallagher Index than FPTP, the third largest party can form a coalition with either of the first two parties.
This leads to a situation where the third largest party can choose who is Prime Minister!
It's the objection to AV that David Deutsch raises here - that it grants too much power to the third largest party. And that power isn't even good for the third largest party
It's very hard to do anything about this for the voters. Most of them don't vote for the third largest party anyway. In fact only the rise of the fourth largest party can evict the third largest party from a permanent place in government - something that Deutsch points out in the comments happened in Germany.
And if you work out the terms for the Gallagher Index you notice something strange about the above results
You get these results
FPTP
CON: 306 LAB: 258 LIB: 57 Other : 28
AV
CON: 281 LAB: 262 LIB: 79 Other : 28
AV+
CON: 275 LAB: 234 LIB: 110 Other : 31
STV
CON: 246 LAB: 207 LIB: 162 Other : 35
Notice the way the seats for 'Other' and the Gallagher index term for 'Other' doesn't change as much as the 'Lib' figure. I.e. the proposals are designed to be more proportional for the third largest party but not for the others - they are designed to entrench the third largest party as permanent part of government! Needless to say the Liberal Democrats are very, very keen on 'electoral reform'. Still if you look closely at what they say, they often say that electoral reform 'would keep extremist parties out of government' - e.g. by having a high threshold for STV. Of course an extremist party means 'any party with less support than us'.
I would consider electoral reform so long as it didn't have this misfeature though - it needs to be more proportional for all parties - 1,2,3,4,5. Not just more proportional for 1,2,3.
NYC would descend into chaos if the countryside stopped supplying it. It's always struck me about the worst place in the world to be if there's some sort of apocalypse.
It's a bit like operating systems. Apparently Windows always run on more than one architecture to make sure people wrote portable code.
Even when only the x86 version was distributed there was always an internal build for Alpha and then Itanium and Microsoft started off developing in i860s and then MIPS machines and only add x86 rather late to stop people writing x86 only assembler which the old 16 bit code was full of.
As Raymond Chen observed x86 is the wierdo, i.e. all the other architectures have more in common with each other than any of them do with x86.
And I've noticed with embedded systems and Windows applications that adding support for a third architecture is not too bad but adding support for a second architecture is usually painful. When you add support for a second architecture you're essentially making non portable code portable and that portability helps you when you add support for a third.
It's possible that bilingual kids have some analogous effect - having to support two languages as first class citizens makes their internal language processing language independent. It's very noticeable in places like Sweden or the Netherlands that people speak English as well as they do Swedish or Dutch because they grew up speaking both. Meanwhile if you grow up speaking only one language any other language will always be a second class citizen.
However I still think if you're going to try to learn a language you should learn a real one - Spanish or German or Chinese for example.
Marxism said that capitalism was bound to collapse due to the 'tendency of the rate of profit to fall' and that a planned economy was the inevitable future.
Environmentalism says that capitalism is bound to collapse due to environmental damage and that a planned economy was the inevitable future.
It's no coincidence that at the end of the Cold War when Communism collapsed in the USSR and Eastern Europe and the Marxist notion that capitalism was doomed lost credibility a lot of people who saw themselves as future economic planners decided to adopt environmentalism instead of marxism as a justification. In fact Marxism never really went away - rather than the bourgeoisie oppressing the proletariat it mutated to be {whites, men, straight people} oppressing {non whites, women, LBGT people}. Amusingly the people who believe this tend to be much more bourgeoise than the ones who don't.
As Brendan O'Neill put it AntiFa activism has become the bourgeoisie 'getting a bus into town and punching a working class Trump supporter in the face'
[Brendan O'Neill] - I don't understand what's wrong with having principles especially on freedom of speech. You should have principles on freedom of speech and also there isn't this neat divide between principles and practical everyday life, they inform each other and that's the example I gave, of in Britain, where we have public order legislation that can ban a march and that came in as a consequence of the refusal of the left to defend free speech and freedom of association for Nazis. These have consequences. If you give up your principles, it has devastating consequences in everyday life. I think I disagree, but I think this is entirely about freedom of speech. I think that is the issue in relation to all of this stuff. I think freedom of speech is the foundational freedom, it's the freedom that makes everything else possible, it's the freedom, the right to vote, the right to association, the right to political organization, none of those make any sense or are even workable without freedom of speech, without the right to say what you want to publish, what you want to distribute, so the fact that there is a new left or students or society in general that is increasingly uncomfortable with freedom of speech should concern us enormously and you know in relation to antifa, antifa poses as this kind of radical lefty, kind of you know like the International Brigades that went off to fight the fascists in Spain, do me a favor, the antifa is a bourgeois, censorious, shrill anti-democratic, anti-working class. For George Orwell, anti-fascism meant going to Spain and risking your life to kill actual fascist. For antifa, it means getting a bus into town and punching a working class Trump supporter in the face, that's not the same thing.
I.e. the new form of Marxism has invented the class alignment of the original one. Now the idle rich are the good guys and the working classes are sexistracisthomophobes. Who - horror of horrors - emit CO2 because they have actual jobs.
Stepping back, I have to say the arrogance of the model-makers is breathtaking. There have been, in every century, scientists who say they know it all. Since climate may be a chaotic system-no one is sure-these predictions are inherently doubtful, to be polite. But more to the point, even if the models get the science spot-on, they can never get the sociology. To predict anything about the world a hundred years from now is simply absurd.
Look: If I was selling stock in a company that I told you would be profitable in 2100, would you buy it? Or would you think the idea was so crazy that it must be a scam?
Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horse****?
Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport.
Now, apart from Bill de Blasio virtue signalling antics, NYC generates very little horsehit.
In the early 1990s, Rambus was invited to join the JEDEC. Rambus had been trying to interest memory manufacturers in licensing their proprietary memory interface, and numerous companies had signed non-disclosure agreements to view Rambus' technical data. During the later Infineon v. Rambus trial, Infineon memos from a meeting with representatives of other manufacturers surfaced, including the line "[O]ne day all computers will be built this way, but hopefully without the royalties going to Rambus", and continuing with a strategy discussion for reducing or eliminating royalties to be paid to Rambus. As Rambus continued its participation in JEDEC, it became apparent that they were not prepared to agree to JEDEC's patent policy requiring owners of patents included in a standard to agree to license that technology under terms that are "reasonable and non-discriminatory",[8] and Rambus withdrew from the organization in 1995. Memos from Rambus at that time showed they were tailoring new patent applications to cover features of SDRAM being discussed, which were public knowledge (JEDEC meetings are not secret) and perfectly legal for patent owners who have patented underlying innovations, but were seen as evidence of bad faith by the jury in the first Infineon v. Rambus trial. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) rejected this theory of bad faith in its decision overturning the fraud conviction Infineon achieved in the first trial (see below).
Researches have previously shown that the microbial community of the intestine can be rapidly and reproducibly modulated by food19. Our data are complemented by the analysis of the microbial community of the faecal samples and metabolomic analysis of faecal short chain fatty acids (SCFA). The focus of our discussion is on the O2, H2 and, to some extent, CO2 profiles. O2 is chosen due to the fact that different segments of the gut have very different O2 concentration levels. Furthermore, and because the movement of the capsules through the gut is governed by the type of dietary intake, we examined whether the O2 profile can be used to identify the location of the capsule and the speed of food passage through each segment. This process of localizing the position of the capsule in the gastrointestinal tract is benchmarked with ultrasound31.
To investigate fermentation of the food intake in the gut both CO2 and H2 profiles were obtained. However, the H2 profiles are of more interest here, as CO2 profile can still be interfered with the respiratory production. H2 plays an important role in understanding the microbial fermentation of the food in the gut as it appears in their metabolic pathways. Gut fermentation is the anaerobic process by which most small bowel and colonic microbes gain energy from unabsorbed food. From previous flatus and measurements in vitro, it is known that H2 excretion varies markedly with different food substrates. H2 by-production is critical for initiating and continuous fermentation, while excessive H2 is thermodynamically counterproductive, restricting further fermentation. This is naturally mitigated as H2 concentration is regulated by its simultaneous oxidation, which is conducted by three main groups of H2-utilizing microbes: reductive acetogens, methanogens and sulphate-reducing bacteria10. These microbes, together with flatus and breath excretion, dynamically reduce H2 concentration. Overall, the first step to understand the food fermentation in the gut is measuring the dynamics of H2 in situ, which has so far not been possible. The capabilities of our gas capsule in measuring H2 are explored in this work through modulating the dietary fibre content (excluding readily fermentable carbohydrates) of the food intake of the subjects in various scenarios.
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He's a fugitive from justice.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
The United Nations was ridiculed on Friday after its experts ruled Julian Assange is "detained" in the Ecuadorian embassy and suggested Britain should pay compensation to the Wikileaks founder.
The findings were described as "ridiculous" by David Cameron, the Prime Minister, as it emerged the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was deeply divided over its conclusions.
One member of the panel refused to support the final report, saying Mr Assange was a fugitive who "fled bail" over a rape allegation in Sweden and was using political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy to "evade arrest".
Mr Cameron's official spokesman said: "It's ridiculous. There's a European Arrest Warrant out for him. He has never been arbitrarily detained in this country. It's entirely his choice to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy and he is avoiding lawful arrest by choosing to remain there."
Echoing the Prime Minister's comments, Phillip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said: "I reject the decision of this working group. Julian Assange is a fugitive from justice. He is hiding from justice in the Ecuadorian embassy. He can come out any time he chooses. But he will have to face justice in Sweden if he chooses to do so."
He's been in there for five years. The ridiculous thing is that if he'd actually gone back to Sweden and been convicted of rape he'd probably have spent less than five years in a very comfy Swedish jail.
Then again he's effectively got free board and lodging in the centre of London and he can claim to be a political prisoner. And a load of celebs can do his shopping runs to Harrods for him - he doesn't actually need to go out. He certainly seems to be gaining weight. I guess a diet of Harrods food hall stuff agrees with him.
Yup. Who knew civilisation would collapse because fat, blue haired genderqueer womxn decided to open the city gates to the barbarians.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016...
After arriving at Central Station in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, the boys made their way to the Migration Agency registration office, where the agency assigned them to one of the 34 refugee residences here. In the youth residences, Afghan males dominate: another on-the-ground expression of a geopolitical reality. Because Sweden grants permanent residency to all Syrians, Syrian men don't need to pretend to be boys, and only 3,777 of the unaccompanied minors arriving in Sweden last year came from the ravaged country. But with no such blanket asylum in place for Afghans, they - and a likewise disproportionate number of Somalis and Eritreans - often appear to claim asylum as unaccompanied minors. Recent figures provided by the Migration Agency show that more than half of the 41,564 Afghans who arrived in Sweden in 2015 claimed as unaccompanied minors.
I.e. it's pretty obvious a lot of people are lying about their age to get asylum.
You are indeed correct. But what you may not know is it's actually possible to point out a fact and correct someone without succumbing to the overwhelming urge to interject your Trumpian political views and snarks.
Reality has a well known Trumpian bias
https://www.thelocal.se/201609...
Sweden will make medical age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers by examining their teeth and knee joints. The new system, unveiled on Friday by the national forensic medicine agency (Rättsmedicinalverket), aims to tackle doubts over the accurate age of those who seek asylum in the country.
With over 35,000 coming last year alone, Sweden has taken in more unaccompanied children and young people than any other country in Europe, and many of them lack identity documents.
The migration authority (Migrationsverket) makes an initial age assessment with every application, but the tests have been criticized for being ineffective. If a person is not clearly over 18, they are registered as a child.
In the last year, several Swedish municipalities have reported suspected cases of adults being placed together with children at residential care homes for young people (known as HVB homes), as well as being sent to school with minors.
According to the migration board, there are doubts about the accurate age of 70 percent of unaccompanied minors who have stated that they are between 15 and 17 years old.
As a solution, the Swedish government asked for medical age assessments to be carried out on a large scale. Rättsmedicinalverket detailed at a media conference on Friday when that work will get under way and explained how it can be done.
Between 15,000 and 18,000 age assessments will now be needed, the agency said. The two methods that will be used are dental maturity assessments involving wisdom teeth, and the examination of knee joints using MRI. The two examinations will be performed independently by MRI clinics and dental clinics.
"Medical age assessments are an integral part of forensic medicine in many other countries, so it is only natural that we carry them out," Rättsmedicinalverket methodology manager Elias Palm commented.
The agency expects to reach an agreement to outsource the assessments by December this year, with the goal of starting the tests during the first quarter of 2017.
Earlier this week a Swedish pediatrician sparked debate when he criticized the current tests authorities use to verify the real age of asylum applicants, claiming some could even be as old as 40.
"The refugee children who are in their early and mid-teens are the ones who end up paying the price for this. These are resources that have been earmarked for children, but are used for another age group," Josef Milerad told newspaper Expressen.
Emphasis mine - the authorities thought 70% of them were lying. And there's still some debate as to whether the age tests are catching enough of them.
I'm sure you'll find people in Sweden saying that there's no problem and anyone who says there is is a racist. It is Sweden after all.
Age can be determined by teeth.
The Swedes tried to do that. Most refugees destroy their documents so they can't be deported and Sweden gives preference to children. It turned out that most of the 'child refugees' they were admitting were over 18.
https://www.thelocal.se/201712...
The Migration Agency has so far made 5,700 decisions on the basis of assessments carried out by Rättsmedicinalverket. In 79 percent of those cases the agency decided to formally consider the applicant as older than they had initially claimed in their asylum application, reports Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).
Between mid-March and late October, Rättsmedicinalverket carried out a total of 7,858 age assessments. Of those, it found that their examination suggested 6,628 were 18 or older, and 112 "possibly" 18 or older.
The left - who wanted to let in the refugees - claimed that doing tests were a violation of human rights of course and fought the introduction of them to the bitter end. You can expect something similar to happen in Germany.
It seems more feudal to be honest. Then again fascism has become a rather meaningless word. In fact Orwell pointed that out that was the case even in 1944
http://orwell.ru/library/artic...
Deutsch's point is that under AV or any low Gallagher Index systems there's no way for voters to vote to remove the third party from government.
And he's right. You can see here that the winning party hardly ever gets more than 50% of the vote
https://researchbriefings.parl...
See PDF
http://researchbriefings.files...
On page 7 you can see in only two elections did the winning party get more than 50% of the vote - the Conservatives in 1931 and 1935 though Labour came close in 1951 and 1966
So you'd end up with 1st/3rd party coalitions almost all the time.
And - as he points out in the comments - that's what has happened in Israel and Germany.
In Israel religious parties typically hold the balance of power and extract subsidies unpopular with the great majority. In Germany for 49 years the FDP with
Saying 'well people might vote differently' doesn't affect his argument. People vote differently from the UK in Germany and Israel and differently between Israel and Germany. However both Israel and Germany have the same problem where smaller parties can extract unpopular concessions from the larger ones as a price for entering a governing coalition.
Don't worry Zuckerberg is in favour of a Universal Basic Income.
The first stage is a UBI
The second stage is that everything needs micropayment, cunningly priced so that the average person spends their whole UBI
The final stage is that the UBI goes directly to Whole foods, Apple or Microsoft, Facebook etc.
If you want a vision of the future imagine a vegan Birkenstock stamping on a human face forever
You will be Cyber Converted!
Interesting thing is that PCID predates INVPCID. And you can get some of the effects of an INVPCID on a processor which only supports PCID.
I.e.
http://forum.osdev.org/viewtop...
MOV to CR3. The behavior of the instruction depends on the value of CR4.PCIDE:
If CR4.PCIDE = 0, the instruction invalidates all TLB entries associated with PCID 000H except those for global pages. It also invalidates all entries in all paging-structure caches associated with PCID 000H.
If CR4.PCIDE = 1 and bit 63 of the instructionâ(TM)s source operand is 0, the instruction invalidates all TLB entries associated with the PCID specified in bits 11:0 of the instructionâ(TM)s source operand except those for global pages. It also invalidates all entries in all paging-structure caches associated with that PCID. It is not required to invalidate entries in the TLBs and paging-structure caches that are associated with other PCIDs.
If CR4.PCIDE = 1 and bit 63 of the instructionâ(TM)s source operand is 1, the instruction is not required to invalidate any TLB entries or entries in paging-structure caches.
See
https://www.intel.com/content/... page 145
This chap tried it, and apparently it works
http://www.dumais.io/index.php...
I.e. with bit 63 and 0:11 set to PCID a write to CR3 works like INVPCID in processors which don't have INVPCID.
This actually makes a difference. My 2012 Macbook pro has a
I.e. assuming the patches know the bit 63 set in writes to cr3 trick, they should be able to do page table invalidation per PCID even on rather old chips.
It looks like KAISER on Linux supports/will support this
https://github.com/nathanchanc...
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/... [currently down(!) but the title is "Subject [PATCH 4/6] x86/mm/kaiser: Support PCID without INVPCID"]
I.e. the 6700K.
I.e. all the chips have PCID
It's a bit hazy when PCID and INVPCID became supported.
This says PCID was first supported in Westmere
https://www.realworldtech.com/...
Another long overdue improvement to the page tables is the Processor Context ID (PCID). The PCID is a field in each TLB entry that associates a given page to a process. Previously, Intel's TLB could only contain entries from a single process and whenever the CR3 register was written (e.g. a context switch), the TLB was flushed. The PCID lets pages from different processes safely inhabit the TLB together, so that CR3 writes no longer flush the TLB. Whenever a process tries to access a page in memory, the PCID is checked to determine whether the page is actually mapped into the process' address space; if the PCID does not match then a TLB miss occurred. This is very much analogous to Intel's VPID, which enables the TLB to contain pages from different virtual machines and avoid TLB flushes during VM transitions.
The LWN patch says
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/l...
PCIDs are generally available on Sandybridge and newer CPUs. However,
the accompanying INVPCID instruction did not become available until
Haswell (the ones with "v4", or called fourth-generation Core). This
instruction allows non-current-PCID TLB entries to be flushed without
switching CR3 and global pages to be flushed without a double
MOV-to-CR4.
I.e. it'd be interesting to see what happens on a CPU old enough not to support enough of PCID/INVPCID to optimized KPTI.
The claims of >10% hits are all for these old CPUs.
Here's the 2010 UK general election under different systems
https://i.imgur.com/YFhke.gif
The interesting thing is that under anything with a lower Gallagher Index than FPTP, the third largest party can form a coalition with either of the first two parties.
This leads to a situation where the third largest party can choose who is Prime Minister!
It's the objection to AV that David Deutsch raises here - that it grants too much power to the third largest party. And that power isn't even good for the third largest party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's very hard to do anything about this for the voters. Most of them don't vote for the third largest party anyway. In fact only the rise of the fourth largest party can evict the third largest party from a permanent place in government - something that Deutsch points out in the comments happened in Germany.
And if you work out the terms for the Gallagher Index you notice something strange about the above results
You get these results
FPTP
CON: 306
LAB: 258
LIB: 57
Other : 28
AV
CON: 281
LAB: 262
LIB: 79
Other : 28
AV+
CON: 275
LAB: 234
LIB: 110
Other : 31
STV
CON: 246
LAB: 207
LIB: 162
Other : 35
Notice the way the seats for 'Other' and the Gallagher index term for 'Other' doesn't change as much as the 'Lib' figure. I.e. the proposals are designed to be more proportional for the third largest party but not for the others - they are designed to entrench the third largest party as permanent part of government! Needless to say the Liberal Democrats are very, very keen on 'electoral reform'. Still if you look closely at what they say, they often say that electoral reform 'would keep extremist parties out of government' - e.g. by having a high threshold for STV. Of course an extremist party means 'any party with less support than us'.
I would consider electoral reform so long as it didn't have this misfeature though - it needs to be more proportional for all parties - 1,2,3,4,5. Not just more proportional for 1,2,3.
Enemy of logic detected. LOGLAN nanites dispatched to cure ...
NYC would descend into chaos if the countryside stopped supplying it. It's always struck me about the worst place in the world to be if there's some sort of apocalypse.
It's a bit like operating systems. Apparently Windows always run on more than one architecture to make sure people wrote portable code.
Even when only the x86 version was distributed there was always an internal build for Alpha and then Itanium and Microsoft started off developing in i860s and then MIPS machines and only add x86 rather late to stop people writing x86 only assembler which the old 16 bit code was full of.
As Raymond Chen observed x86 is the wierdo, i.e. all the other architectures have more in common with each other than any of them do with x86.
And I've noticed with embedded systems and Windows applications that adding support for a third architecture is not too bad but adding support for a second architecture is usually painful. When you add support for a second architecture you're essentially making non portable code portable and that portability helps you when you add support for a third.
It's possible that bilingual kids have some analogous effect - having to support two languages as first class citizens makes their internal language processing language independent. It's very noticeable in places like Sweden or the Netherlands that people speak English as well as they do Swedish or Dutch because they grew up speaking both. Meanwhile if you grow up speaking only one language any other language will always be a second class citizen.
However I still think if you're going to try to learn a language you should learn a real one - Spanish or German or Chinese for example.
We need to force everyone to speak LOGLAN so that fiercely logical LOGLAN soldiers can conquer the world, then the galaxy and finally the universe.
LOGLAN is like metric but applied to your mind.
Marxism said that capitalism was bound to collapse due to the 'tendency of the rate of profit to fall' and that a planned economy was the inevitable future.
Environmentalism says that capitalism is bound to collapse due to environmental damage and that a planned economy was the inevitable future.
It's no coincidence that at the end of the Cold War when Communism collapsed in the USSR and Eastern Europe and the Marxist notion that capitalism was doomed lost credibility a lot of people who saw themselves as future economic planners decided to adopt environmentalism instead of marxism as a justification. In fact Marxism never really went away - rather than the bourgeoisie oppressing the proletariat it mutated to be {whites, men, straight people} oppressing {non whites, women, LBGT people}. Amusingly the people who believe this tend to be much more bourgeoise than the ones who don't.
As Brendan O'Neill put it AntiFa activism has become the bourgeoisie 'getting a bus into town and punching a working class Trump supporter in the face'
https://westernfreepress.com/2...
[Brendan O'Neill] - I don't understand what's wrong with having principles especially on freedom of speech. You should have principles on freedom of speech and also there isn't this neat divide between principles and practical everyday life, they inform each other and that's the example I gave, of in Britain, where we have public order legislation that can ban a march and that came in as a consequence of the refusal of the left to defend free speech and freedom of association for Nazis. These have consequences. If you give up your principles, it has devastating consequences in everyday life. I think I disagree, but I think this is entirely about freedom of speech. I think that is the issue in relation to all of this stuff. I think freedom of speech is the foundational freedom, it's the freedom that makes everything else possible, it's the freedom, the right to vote, the right to association, the right to political organization, none of those make any sense or are even workable without freedom of speech, without the right to say what you want to publish, what you want to distribute, so the fact that there is a new left or students or society in general that is increasingly uncomfortable with freedom of speech should concern us enormously and you know in relation to antifa, antifa poses as this kind of radical lefty, kind of you know like the International Brigades that went off to fight the fascists in Spain, do me a favor, the antifa is a bourgeois, censorious, shrill anti-democratic, anti-working class. For George Orwell, anti-fascism meant going to Spain and risking your life to kill actual fascist. For antifa, it means getting a bus into town and punching a working class Trump supporter in the face, that's not the same thing.
I.e. the new form of Marxism has invented the class alignment of the original one. Now the idle rich are the good guys and the working classes are sexistracisthomophobes. Who - horror of horrors - emit CO2 because they have actual jobs.
Oil stopped NYC from literally drowning in horse shit
http://www.s8int.com/crichton....
Stepping back, I have to say the arrogance of the model-makers is breathtaking. There have been, in every century, scientists who say they know it all. Since climate may be a chaotic system-no one is sure-these predictions are inherently doubtful, to be polite. But more to the point, even if the models get the science spot-on, they can never get the sociology. To predict anything about the world a hundred years from now is simply absurd.
Look: If I was selling stock in a company that I told you would be profitable in 2100, would you buy it? Or would you think the idea was so crazy that it must be a scam?
Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horse****?
Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport.
Now, apart from Bill de Blasio virtue signalling antics, NYC generates very little horsehit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the early 1990s, Rambus was invited to join the JEDEC. Rambus had been trying to interest memory manufacturers in licensing their proprietary memory interface, and numerous companies had signed non-disclosure agreements to view Rambus' technical data. During the later Infineon v. Rambus trial, Infineon memos from a meeting with representatives of other manufacturers surfaced, including the line "[O]ne day all computers will be built this way, but hopefully without the royalties going to Rambus", and continuing with a strategy discussion for reducing or eliminating royalties to be paid to Rambus. As Rambus continued its participation in JEDEC, it became apparent that they were not prepared to agree to JEDEC's patent policy requiring owners of patents included in a standard to agree to license that technology under terms that are "reasonable and non-discriminatory",[8] and Rambus withdrew from the organization in 1995. Memos from Rambus at that time showed they were tailoring new patent applications to cover features of SDRAM being discussed, which were public knowledge (JEDEC meetings are not secret) and perfectly legal for patent owners who have patented underlying innovations, but were seen as evidence of bad faith by the jury in the first Infineon v. Rambus trial. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) rejected this theory of bad faith in its decision overturning the fraud conviction Infineon achieved in the first trial (see below).
Rambus deserved to go bust, the rat bastards.
I thought it was because they were using pH to which would be affected by H2 and CO2. But it turns out they're actually interested in H2, O2 and CO2
https://www.nature.com/article...
Researches have previously shown that the microbial community of the intestine can be rapidly and reproducibly modulated by food19. Our data are complemented by the analysis of the microbial community of the faecal samples and metabolomic analysis of faecal short chain fatty acids (SCFA). The focus of our discussion is on the O2, H2 and, to some extent, CO2 profiles. O2 is chosen due to the fact that different segments of the gut have very different O2 concentration levels. Furthermore, and because the movement of the capsules through the gut is governed by the type of dietary intake, we examined whether the O2 profile can be used to identify the location of the capsule and the speed of food passage through each segment. This process of localizing the position of the capsule in the gastrointestinal tract is benchmarked with ultrasound31.
To investigate fermentation of the food intake in the gut both CO2 and H2 profiles were obtained. However, the H2 profiles are of more interest here, as CO2 profile can still be interfered with the respiratory production. H2 plays an important role in understanding the microbial fermentation of the food in the gut as it appears in their metabolic pathways. Gut fermentation is the anaerobic process by which most small bowel and colonic microbes gain energy from unabsorbed food. From previous flatus and measurements in vitro, it is known that H2 excretion varies markedly with different food substrates. H2 by-production is critical for initiating and continuous fermentation, while excessive H2 is thermodynamically counterproductive, restricting further fermentation. This is naturally mitigated as H2 concentration is regulated by its simultaneous oxidation, which is conducted by three main groups of H2-utilizing microbes: reductive acetogens, methanogens and sulphate-reducing bacteria10. These microbes, together with flatus and breath excretion, dynamically reduce H2 concentration. Overall, the first step to understand the food fermentation in the gut is measuring the dynamics of H2 in situ, which has so far not been possible. The capabilities of our gas capsule in measuring H2 are explored in this work through modulating the dietary fibre content (excluding readily fermentable carbohydrates) of the food intake of the subjects in various scenarios.
That popping was neurons being irradiated with MIB memory eraser rays.
An i7-7500U still gets 3468/7500
https://browser.geekbench.com/...
An i7-8550u does even better 4829/14721
https://browser.geekbench.com/...
Even an i5-7200U is still 3535/6701
https://browser.geekbench.com/...
A Core m3-7Y32 is 3709/6844
https://browser.geekbench.com/...
The 835 is around level with a Celeron 3865U at 2296/3832
https://browser.geekbench.com/...
I think most people would say a Celeron 3865U is a slow chip
I replaced by S5 with a LG V20. It's actually a great phone.
ObCanada joke from an American friend
"Ever since Scotland had that independence referendum I've been worrying what we should do if Canada tries the same thing".