I think the issue is redundant code through duplication, not code that isn't used.
The Swift optimizer can perform high-level optimizations, but to use the high-level abstraction of built-in Swift data structures in Swift Intermediate Language, the developers need to understand how the Compiler performs those optimizations.
My guess is that the developers lack that understanding of the Compiler's SIL optimization.
As everyone who's travelled to Vietnam knows, the only thing about the Dong that's grown is the size of the wallet you need to store it. Everything is a banknote. Even 1000 Dong (about £0.02) is a note.
"The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set-
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all the shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink-
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK-HE ONLY SEES!
Join the international campaign to dump the smartphone and bring back wholesome, honest, brain-rotting, eye-lolling TELEVISION.
Personal data has real value, but without a physical form, the general public do not grasp a full sense of it's worth. It's the same issue as cash vs plastic payments. People entrenched in debt are often told by debt councellors to pay cash day-to-day, to help them perceive the money they spend as tangible.
If you stopped someone in the street carrying a thick book containing every location they'd ever been, their entire web browsing history, the dates and times of every piece of software they'd interacted with, and their personal interests... and then offered them $300, I'd wager that 99%, maybe 99.99% would say no (and probably get angry).
Because this data is not visible in a meaningful way to the end user, the outrage at such an offer is lessened.
The point was not that 'the ownership of gold cannot be made illegal', but rather 'Gold cannot be made illegal'.
In other words, the substance 'gold' still exists, regardless of any law (aside from a global law compelling the nuclear transmutation of all gold). The Gold Reserve Act wasn't the only time that private citizens had been prohibited from owning gold, Eygpt banned it around 1200BC, Sparta around 600BC. But gold still retained value afterwards because despite these bans the substance itself continued to exist. It's very robust stuff. By comparison, cryptocurrency is exceptionally fragile.
The Etherium 'The DAO' hack took place because some people uploaded experimental, poorly written solidity to the Ethereum blockchain. They didn't correct their coding mistakes in the time between creating The DAO (30 April 2016) and people putting $150M into The DAO (June 17, 2016), and by then the funds were an incentive for smart people to write better code to transfer the funds to a new DAO.
Writing code to transfer funds from one DAO to another is not fraud. Fraud is wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. There was no deception here. Just clever code that was able to transfer Etherium because sloppy programming did not prevent the transfer.
Am being pedantic because the whole point of Solidity contracts are that they will run no matter what. So if you are planning to let those contracts control substantial funds then you have to write them properly. Just like instructing a magical Genie to carry out your 3 wishes, you must be careful to be specific, because that Genie will perversely 'misinterpret' your wishes.
If someone hands you a $150M badly-made magic lantern, and you can persuade that Genie to hand you the funds by issuing it careful instructions, that's not fraud.
Bitcoin would disappear tomorrow if there was an actually anonymous (Bitcoin isn't even really anonymous) way of sending literally anything of value.
Monero is (mathmatically) provably anonymous, provided you download the Monero blockchain and run a full Monero node to send funds (and take the usual steps to anonymize your network connection).
If you're talking about the 1949 gold rush, that's not the same as bitcoin. You can't make dental fillings out of bitcoin. As an element on the periodic table, there is only one substance that's gold. There is no gold 2.0. Gold is 100% fungible. Gold cannot be made illegal. Gold doesn't need any other technology. You can hand someone your gold at the same speed as you could 4,000 years ago, regardless of how many gold transactions took place in the interim. And you can wear your own wealth.
For example the soon-to-be-announced 'jquery' experience, in which the CDN hosting your scripts will start inserting 'brand experience' messages into your code. eg:
Man, I really love your use of that StarbucksEaseOutBounce
As long as I can talk to them in their first language... show them what I need in person... quality is going to be better.
Exactly my experience. Not just showing someone what's needed in their native language, but also being absolutely sure that they understand what's needed and aren't just 'nodding in agreement'.
Most importantly, if the work is submitted and doesn't do what was agreed, being in a position to say 'we both know you understood the exact requirements, this work doesn't meet those requirements, please fix it until it does what we agreed'.
Flash needs to be treated like the smallpox virus. Once it's eradicated from the world, the source code needs to be preserved in an air-gapped laboratory that authorised members of the scientific community have access to in case of another outbreak.
There are no padded lampposts in London. Or trials. This is an urban myth that started when British directory enquiries service 118-118 ran an advertisting campaign in 2008.
How can people still be foolish enough to include this in news articles without checking the facts?
I don't think you appreciate the size of Maddof's fraud.
Or what Maddof's fraud was, in relation to possible ICO fraud.
Maddoff was able to perpetrate his frauds because he operated a Ponzi scheme within an investment black box that hid the mechanics of what and how he was investing funds.
Good or bad, a DAO or any ICO operating directly on the Ethereum blockchain is, by definition, transparent. Anyone who can read solidity can look at its code and understand what it does, and will do in the future.
If a reckless investor nevertheless puts money into a scheme that isn't governed by a democracy (smart) contract that gives them voting rights on whether the code base is changed, that's their fault. But the code is not a black box, as in Maddof's case.
The SEC exists because, currently, financial institutions operate in a way that is very much un-transparent, and depend on investors trusting that the institutions are doing what they say they will do. Therefore the SEC is needed, to provide oversight of those 'black box' operations.
A DAO is supposed to sidestep this, and enforce transparency by design. Which begs the question: does the SEC even understand why it's not needed to regulate DAOs or ICOs relating to DAOs on the blockchain?
China is building Skynet. America is building the F-35.
Maybe it's good for the planet that they build different things. The last time two superpowers tried to build the same technology we had the space race as a financial cover for the arms race.
China thowing down the gauntlet of an AI challenge reminds me of Kennedy's "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things" speech, and if America rises to that challenge in a confrontational way then Hawking's "artificial intelligence could be humanity's greatest disaster" is more likely to be the result.
Given that most people have no idea what Parallel (sic) Construction actually means, here's a definition:
Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel - or separate - evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how an investigation actually began.
In August 2013, a report by Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are based on NSA warrantless surveillance. The use of illegally obtained evidence is generally inadmissible under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
Cazes provided his own encryption backdoor, because the police literally walked into his house through the back door and found his computer running unencrypted and connected to alphabay.
Although the linked article doesn't mention the link between his email and his 'front' company, the Wired article says that police identified him because his Hotmail address was linked to a PayPal account which was linked to his company.
My head reels at the inept OpSec of this clown. He runs the largest illegal marketplace in the world, yet posts links to his real PayPal account. With no visible source of income, he lives a high profile lifestyle in Bangkok with 3 houses and the most expensive Lamborghini they make, while running the marketplace with an unattended decrypted laptop. Another demonstration that intelligence and common sense rarely go hand-in-hand.
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I think the issue is redundant code through duplication, not code that isn't used.
The Swift optimizer can perform high-level optimizations, but to use the high-level abstraction of built-in Swift data structures in Swift Intermediate Language, the developers need to understand how the Compiler performs those optimizations.
My guess is that the developers lack that understanding of the Compiler's SIL optimization.
You're right. Dr Evil was funny.
Ed, man! !man ed
As everyone who's travelled to Vietnam knows, the only thing about the Dong that's grown is the size of the wallet you need to store it. Everything is a banknote. Even 1000 Dong (about £0.02) is a note.
And enforce numbers, punctuation & mixed capitalisation on yourself. If you get your own prefix wrong, SMS 2FA.
"The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set-
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all the shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink-
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK-HE ONLY SEES!
Join the international campaign to dump the smartphone and bring back wholesome, honest, brain-rotting, eye-lolling TELEVISION.
Personal data has real value, but without a physical form, the general public do not grasp a full sense of it's worth. It's the same issue as cash vs plastic payments. People entrenched in debt are often told by debt councellors to pay cash day-to-day, to help them perceive the money they spend as tangible.
If you stopped someone in the street carrying a thick book containing every location they'd ever been, their entire web browsing history, the dates and times of every piece of software they'd interacted with, and their personal interests... and then offered them $300, I'd wager that 99%, maybe 99.99% would say no (and probably get angry).
Because this data is not visible in a meaningful way to the end user, the outrage at such an offer is lessened.
Or, more relevantly, the Tohoku Shinkansen.
The point was not that 'the ownership of gold cannot be made illegal', but rather 'Gold cannot be made illegal'.
In other words, the substance 'gold' still exists, regardless of any law (aside from a global law compelling the nuclear transmutation of all gold). The Gold Reserve Act wasn't the only time that private citizens had been prohibited from owning gold, Eygpt banned it around 1200BC, Sparta around 600BC. But gold still retained value afterwards because despite these bans the substance itself continued to exist. It's very robust stuff. By comparison, cryptocurrency is exceptionally fragile.
The Etherium 'The DAO' hack took place because some people uploaded experimental, poorly written solidity to the Ethereum blockchain. They didn't correct their coding mistakes in the time between creating The DAO (30 April 2016) and people putting $150M into The DAO (June 17, 2016), and by then the funds were an incentive for smart people to write better code to transfer the funds to a new DAO.
Writing code to transfer funds from one DAO to another is not fraud. Fraud is wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. There was no deception here. Just clever code that was able to transfer Etherium because sloppy programming did not prevent the transfer.
Am being pedantic because the whole point of Solidity contracts are that they will run no matter what. So if you are planning to let those contracts control substantial funds then you have to write them properly. Just like instructing a magical Genie to carry out your 3 wishes, you must be careful to be specific, because that Genie will perversely 'misinterpret' your wishes.
If someone hands you a $150M badly-made magic lantern, and you can persuade that Genie to hand you the funds by issuing it careful instructions, that's not fraud.
Bitcoin would disappear tomorrow if there was an actually anonymous (Bitcoin isn't even really anonymous) way of sending literally anything of value.
Monero is (mathmatically) provably anonymous, provided you download the Monero blockchain and run a full Monero node to send funds (and take the usual steps to anonymize your network connection).
If you're talking about the 1949 gold rush, that's not the same as bitcoin. You can't make dental fillings out of bitcoin. As an element on the periodic table, there is only one substance that's gold. There is no gold 2.0. Gold is 100% fungible. Gold cannot be made illegal. Gold doesn't need any other technology. You can hand someone your gold at the same speed as you could 4,000 years ago, regardless of how many gold transactions took place in the interim. And you can wear your own wealth.
Man, I really love your use of that StarbucksEaseOutBounce
As long as I can talk to them in their first language... show them what I need in person... quality is going to be better.
Exactly my experience. Not just showing someone what's needed in their native language, but also being absolutely sure that they understand what's needed and aren't just 'nodding in agreement'.
Most importantly, if the work is submitted and doesn't do what was agreed, being in a position to say 'we both know you understood the exact requirements, this work doesn't meet those requirements, please fix it until it does what we agreed'.
Flash needs to be treated like the smallpox virus. Once it's eradicated from the world, the source code needs to be preserved in an air-gapped laboratory that authorised members of the scientific community have access to in case of another outbreak.
There are no padded lampposts in London. Or trials. This is an urban myth that started when British directory enquiries service 118-118 ran an advertisting campaign in 2008.
How can people still be foolish enough to include this in news articles without checking the facts?
To put his 'personal' wealth into perspective, I calculated it's more than the total GDP of
Tuvalu ($34m), Kiribati ($167m), Marshall Islands ($183m), Palau ($293m), Federated States of Micronesia ($322m), Sao Tome and Principe ($350m), Tonga ($403m), Dominica ($520m), Comoros ($620m), Vanuatu ($773m), St. Vincent and the Grenadines ($775m), Samoa ($786m), St. Kitts and Nevis ($903m), The Gambia ($965m), Grenada ($1,027m), Guinea-Bissau ($1,155m), Solomon Islands ($1,184m), St. Lucia ($1,385m), Antigua and Barbuda ($1,398m), Seychelles ($1,405m), San Marino ($1,592m), Cabo Verde ($1,636m), Belize ($1,743m), Central African Republic ($1,780m), Djibouti ($1,894m), Liberia ($2,111m), Bhutan ($2,115m), Lesotho ($2,267m), Timor-Leste ($2,498m), South Sudan ($2,914m), Burundi ($3,133m), Maldives ($3,379m), Guyana ($3,437m), Suriname ($3,570m), Swaziland ($3,770m), Sierra Leone ($3,981m), Montenegro ($4,126m), Togo ($4,434m), Barbados ($4,588m), Fiji ($4,640m), Mauritania ($4,714m), Eritrea ($5,352m) and Malawi ($5,492m)
Total $89,814m
- International Monetary Fund (2016) GDP values
I don't think you appreciate the size of Maddof's fraud.
Or what Maddof's fraud was, in relation to possible ICO fraud.
Maddoff was able to perpetrate his frauds because he operated a Ponzi scheme within an investment black box that hid the mechanics of what and how he was investing funds.
Good or bad, a DAO or any ICO operating directly on the Ethereum blockchain is, by definition, transparent. Anyone who can read solidity can look at its code and understand what it does, and will do in the future.
If a reckless investor nevertheless puts money into a scheme that isn't governed by a democracy (smart) contract that gives them voting rights on whether the code base is changed, that's their fault. But the code is not a black box, as in Maddof's case.
The SEC exists because, currently, financial institutions operate in a way that is very much un-transparent, and depend on investors trusting that the institutions are doing what they say they will do. Therefore the SEC is needed, to provide oversight of those 'black box' operations.
A DAO is supposed to sidestep this, and enforce transparency by design. Which begs the question: does the SEC even understand why it's not needed to regulate DAOs or ICOs relating to DAOs on the blockchain?
Or... he has some superbad news he needs to distract from (1), ergo... the CrazyTweet defence.
(1) They have 20 hours to pass a black-box healthcare bill by Thursday
why is this thing connected to the internet in the first place?
Because that's how they hoover up your data!
China is building Skynet. America is building the F-35.
Maybe it's good for the planet that they build different things. The last time two superpowers tried to build the same technology we had the space race as a financial cover for the arms race.
China thowing down the gauntlet of an AI challenge reminds me of Kennedy's "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things" speech, and if America rises to that challenge in a confrontational way then Hawking's "artificial intelligence could be humanity's greatest disaster" is more likely to be the result.
Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel - or separate - evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how an investigation actually began.
In August 2013, a report by Reuters revealed that the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to practice parallel construction when creating criminal cases against Americans that are based on NSA warrantless surveillance. The use of illegally obtained evidence is generally inadmissible under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
Source
Cazes provided his own encryption backdoor, because the police literally walked into his house through the back door and found his computer running unencrypted and connected to alphabay.
Although the linked article doesn't mention the link between his email and his 'front' company, the Wired article says that police identified him because his Hotmail address was linked to a PayPal account which was linked to his company.
My head reels at the inept OpSec of this clown. He runs the largest illegal marketplace in the world, yet posts links to his real PayPal account. With no visible source of income, he lives a high profile lifestyle in Bangkok with 3 houses and the most expensive Lamborghini they make, while running the marketplace with an unattended decrypted laptop. Another demonstration that intelligence and common sense rarely go hand-in-hand.
But George Brandis, the Australian Attorney General, said the UK security agency GCHQ has assured him it was possible to unlock encrypted systems.
Note that he's not claiming 'weakened' encrypted systems. And if that's true, I am questioning whether mathematics applies here in the UK too.
Does it make any difference since soundcloud only has enough money to last another 80 days or 50 days depending who you listen to?