A prisoner who starts ranting about what he did to whom and how bloody it was on those phones against the lawyer's advice, they deserve what they get.
That's easy to say, but the result is people being misrepresented by the things they said in confidence. There is a reason you have a right to silence, and a reason you have a right to confidence.
and the prisoner should be allowed new hearings of whatever kinds that lawyer was involved in with a more competent lawyer at the original lawyer's expense.
Ha, ha... That's funny (in a sad way), the US barely provides poor people with lawyers in the first place: http://www.nlada.org/Defender/...
(at 150+ cases a year it is effectively the same as not having a lawyer at all)
"all citizens would be paid a taxless benefit sum free of charge by the government"
But gee, where does the government get that money from? Of course, the citizens would pay, on average, multiple times that "benefit sum" to the government.
So what... there is many countries that have talked about this... The main arguments here hear for this is about ensuring everybody has some level of income.
To ensure that unemployment doesn't destroy you and that there is less stigma to the issue. It's also about removing bureaucracy and providing people with freedom to try crazy things weather that means spending time doing art work, watching TV, studying, doing a super risky startup (without a VC).
As always there are pros/cons, if can get to society where making money is less of a necessity and more of a hobby maybe that's good...
After all we are moving towards a future where most people won't have to work, machines will do all the actual work for us.
Bla bla bla.. it's risky - so what... I think doing these kinds of pilot projects is a good idea... Total capitalism isn't going to work great, when everything is made by machines.
... why we need all those H1B visas: to bring tech unemployment more in line with US unemployment overall. Unemployment inequality affects us all.
Low unemployment is bad for businesses and strangles the economy.. It's hard to start a new business if you can't hire people for less than 200k.
So true, nobody wants high unemployment rate (which is obviously also bad), but like everything in life there has to be a balance.
Due to lack of social services in the US, I get that it is hard to accept that zero unemployment isn't a goal.
How about if in the course of applying, the fake person also describes a lifestyle that qualifies them for completely subsidized care that other people get to go to work every day to buy for them? This is no different than any other of benefit fraud
Well, it is different, an insurance is just paper (contract), when you obtain the contract to benefit a person that doesn't exist, you've acted in bad faith and obtained a contract that is invalid by nature.
So your chances of successfully upholding the contract is slim. That said, yesm the fake people could probably get some care, before the private insurance company starts looking at the details... This is another problem with private insurance, if there is a problem with contract the insurance company will declare it invalid (but they won't do so before you file a claim, ie. only when do it when you the insurance).
But yes, this is great:)
Note. insurance contracts in the US are in my experience, super sketchy have through my employer and had to fight very hard to get any kind of actual paper... and I'm still not satisfied that I have sufficiently strong contract to sue my insurance provider should it come to that, and certainly not if my employer decided not to look out for my interest (which I don't have contract saying they will). So legally speaking I'm is a poor standing (despite working for tech company, and having an good PPO plan).
People per square foot in SF is pretty dang tight.
Coming to SF from Denmark... I would say there are 3 main issues:
1) traffic laws aren't followed,
2) drivers are poorly trained (drivers license requirements is a joke),
3) roads aren't optimized for safe high-throughput traffic
(1) is what causes danger, but (2) and (3) are the reasons for this. Compared to most European cities SF has wide street, lots of space, and yet manages to spend half the streets on parking, uses stop signs all over, this causes drivers to disgard stop signs, speed up/down like crazy, and it makes everything go slow which in turn makes drivers agitated..
Selecting a few major roads, getting rid of parking and stops signs on those roads would go far (very far). Turn some of the small side roads into parking lots, that you can't drive through, and you would have more parking, less traffic congestion. You don't need all the small side roads, it's okay to drive 4-6 blocks to get one block up hill, reducing the amount of intersections and increasing throughput.
While the subject line specifically pertains to the email challenge for Clinton's campaign the pattern is the same. Say nothing until forced to, assume a disengaged electorate will forget, or not care to begin with, then crank out the next "talking point" all on her terms.
The thing is everybody is used to the media overreacting and lying (FOX), so why should we care when they cry wolf.. Sure this is not ideal, but it probably stems from nothing more than an attempt to get things... At least I see no evidence to the contrary, I why should I care to read the medias articles they are always crying wolf....
If you want normal UI DOM enables fast development, and isolates things nicely (compared to coding against a frame buffer).
But for rendering some things raw framebuffers (canvas) is and always will be the right tool...
Could also be you're using setTimeout instead of requestAnimationFrame...
But yes you're right, the DOM is slow... but you're not forced to use it when making pixel art...
he he, I think I once saw a js library to draw with 1x1px divs:)
When are motorists going to start obeying the rules of the road?
in the US probably never... maybe when you take away their guns... I'm jokingly implying that there is a similar feeling of entitlement to drive as you wish on the road.
Having moved to SF from EU I notice that nobody (drivers, cyclists nor pedestrians) obeys the rules (granted cars have a MUCH higher responsibility to so given their capacity for dange). Anyways, considering how the roads and rules are made I fully understand why they aren't honored.
Here some examples that invites people to do bad things:
- turn right on a red light (people constantly forget bring the car to a full stop, nor is the intersection clear),
- lights only required at night (people forget, and it's impossible to distingush active from passive participants, I see people in tunnels without lights on!!!),
- street parking on major roads (stops traffic in dangerous ways, insanely dangerous for cyclists),
- stop signs everywhere (makes people gas up and down like maniacs, bad for environment and encourages reckless driving, causes people to ignore stop signs),
- lack of bike cycle paths (despite the fact that US cities have extremely wide roads compared to European cities, you have plenty of space),
- grid system treating almost every road as equal, rather than promoting some roads to serve as conduits (keeps cars driving everywhere, and inefficiently so),
- lack of training,
In countries such as Denmark a drivers license requires:
- 28 x 45 minute study sessions,
- 4 x 45 minutes closed driving course,
- 7 hours first aid course,
- 4 x 45 minutes on wet driving course,
- 16 x 45 minutes on public road with driving instructor,
- Test while sitting next to a police officer who loves to flunk you:)
Credit where credit is due though, I applaude the concept of allowing kids to drive with an adult supervisor present. This is a good way of getting a lot of supervised hours on the road! And it's a lot cheaper than driving with a driving instructor, IMO not a substitute for professional training but a really solid complement.
validation of source to binary step... This is so you don't have to trust their binary... but can read their source and trust that it is in fact the source for the binaries..
If this had happened in Texas those $1.2 billion would amount to... less than $45 for each of it's 27 million inhabitants. Now it doesn't look as cool, does it?
True, but using it for infrastructure/schools/etc. and giving a tax reduction might work too...
Or for slightly less per month based on average monthly usage, you could buy, insure and fuel an I3 and when you got tired of it, you could sell it and get some money back.
Not in Denmark... 2 / 3 of car prices in Denmark are taxes... Energy is also more expensive..
But also note that the "more permissive add-on API" is why FF extensions break between FF versions...
Note, I think there is commitment to allow FF extensions to do more than Chrome extensions can... Ie. sidebar-tabs etc. will still be possible.
Hopefully, the extensions won't break as much... In related news Mozilla is also moving various features into add-ons to reduce bloat, and be able to update features independently of Firefox. I think Hello, Pocket are great examples of things that will be moved to add-ons. (btw, at the announcement where I heard about some features moving into add-ons the subject got a standing applause!)
So I'm pretty sure we can expect FF to embrace/extend Chrome extension API.
If Mozilla wants their browser share to increase, deprecate the god damned single-threaded engine!!!!
Firefox is already heavily multi-threaded!
Process isolation is already in nightly... Have been for a while now. This is some of what is necessary to roll out per-tab-process isolation...
Note the old way of doing extensions have been on the way out for a long time... AFAIK jetpack based extensions will not be experiencing issues.
Is it any surprise that going major architectural changes to FF necessarily means extensions will break.
Hopefully, the new APIs (and extensing jetpack SDK) will be more stable... The way old extensions were able to dive deep into FF, meant that they easily broke between versions. And yes, the browser needs to move forward that means changing FF internals -- FF is not IE6 the dev team haven't been fired:)
I didn't see anybody breaking up a fight in that video. When the video starts, the fight is already over. All I saw were two handcuffed black men and a couple of off-duty cops waiting until the NYPD got there.
Okay, fair enough it doesn't show the breaking up...
But do notice how they ask the detainee if he is alright, if he is hurt... and so on...
Notice that they don't sit on the guy, they hold him, yes, they apply force, but they do so respect and dignity (as trains professionals).
Here is another normal day in the US: http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
Notice how police officers sit on a guy with a prosthetic leg... And how when more arrive they seem to stand around more concern about covering for the video.
I particularly note that when they start talking to him it's "I bet you have a gram of dope in your pocket". Rather than asking if the guy is hurt they escalate the conflict further.
It doesn't matter if he has dope in his pocket, the officer can discover and resolve that later when you are sitting down at the station... But instead they try to intimidate him with at this stage unfounded and unnecessary accusations.
Should be placed in the center of a circle of fellow scientists; their pocket protectors should be yanked out; their labcoats torn off....
It's a pretty efficient way to terminate your academic career. I think at my former University you would be banned for 3 years...
That plus your name in google you career is pretty much over.
I don't believe that's true. WikiP says, "As part of the settlement, the United States did not admit legal liability but agreed to pay on an ex gratia basis US$61.8 million, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims."
After being dragged to International Court of Justice...
Same article says "The United States government did not formally apologize to Iran".
>> training costs more than the taxpayers are willing to be taxed
I doubt it. In fact, many local universities and other institutions are happy to donate this training.
Donated training probably won't work at that scale... Police officers in Norway and Denmark (just to mention two places) have ~ 3 years training.
How much does US police officers have? (I read that it's typically 3-4 months various places online).
To get proper police training you probably need a police academy dedicated to the job, not a bunch of ad-hoc training sessions donated...
Also de-escalation is often just about remaining calm, acting in a calm and orderly fashion while a crazy suspects yell at you. Or showing concern for suspects well-being once handcuffed. Largely it's about communication before things escalate to a point where you even consider applying force; reducing the risk that the officer ends up in a violent conflict. And it's about remaining calm while force is applied, reducing risk that suspects panic and suspect's willingness to fight back.
Except 99% of the time it's not the cop that starts off being confrontational, it's some idiot wailing about their right to speed...
I'm sure you're right about that, but officers are supposed to keep their cool and de-escalate the situation.
Here is something to think about: US police officers typically have 3-4 months training, police officers in Norway and Denmark have ~3 years training.
Sure, crime rates and access to guns have a major effect on police shootings, but training is a major part of what enables officers to remain calm and polite in the midst of a struggle.
Here is a video of off-duty Swedish police officers breaking up a fight on the NY subway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Especially when the rules of engagement require visual confirmation before weapons release. We've already had one commercial airliner "accidentally" shot down during a military conflict last year (MH17), so it's unlikely those requirements will be relaxed any time soon.
Also there was that time the US shot down Iran Air Flight 655, and then decided not to apologize or accept liability.
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A prisoner who starts ranting about what he did to whom and how bloody it was on those phones against the lawyer's advice, they deserve what they get.
That's easy to say, but the result is people being misrepresented by the things they said in confidence. There is a reason you have a right to silence, and a reason you have a right to confidence.
and the prisoner should be allowed new hearings of whatever kinds that lawyer was involved in with a more competent lawyer at the original lawyer's expense.
Ha, ha... That's funny (in a sad way), the US barely provides poor people with lawyers in the first place:
http://www.nlada.org/Defender/...
(at 150+ cases a year it is effectively the same as not having a lawyer at all)
Just how is SETI not finding a signal in anyway shape or form news ?
Following the scientific method a negative result is an equally valid result ;)
"all citizens would be paid a taxless benefit sum free of charge by the government"
But gee, where does the government get that money from? Of course, the citizens would pay, on average, multiple times that "benefit sum" to the government.
So what... there is many countries that have talked about this... The main arguments here hear for this is about ensuring everybody has some level of income.
To ensure that unemployment doesn't destroy you and that there is less stigma to the issue. It's also about removing bureaucracy and providing people with freedom to try crazy things weather that means spending time doing art work, watching TV, studying, doing a super risky startup (without a VC).
As always there are pros/cons, if can get to society where making money is less of a necessity and more of a hobby maybe that's good...
After all we are moving towards a future where most people won't have to work, machines will do all the actual work for us.
Bla bla bla.. it's risky - so what... I think doing these kinds of pilot projects is a good idea... Total capitalism isn't going to work great, when everything is made by machines.
Software development is just writing a specification document in a language that a computer will understand.
I guess you code Haskell :) he he...
... why we need all those H1B visas: to bring tech unemployment more in line with US unemployment overall. Unemployment inequality affects us all.
Low unemployment is bad for businesses and strangles the economy.. It's hard to start a new business if you can't hire people for less than 200k.
So true, nobody wants high unemployment rate (which is obviously also bad), but like everything in life there has to be a balance.
Due to lack of social services in the US, I get that it is hard to accept that zero unemployment isn't a goal.
sorry meant to say: "But yes, this isn't great :)" he he
How about if in the course of applying, the fake person also describes a lifestyle that qualifies them for completely subsidized care that other people get to go to work every day to buy for them? This is no different than any other of benefit fraud
Well, it is different, an insurance is just paper (contract), when you obtain the contract to benefit a person that doesn't exist, you've acted in bad faith and obtained a contract that is invalid by nature.
:)
So your chances of successfully upholding the contract is slim. That said, yesm the fake people could probably get some care, before the private insurance company starts looking at the details... This is another problem with private insurance, if there is a problem with contract the insurance company will declare it invalid (but they won't do so before you file a claim, ie. only when do it when you the insurance).
But yes, this is great
Note. insurance contracts in the US are in my experience, super sketchy have through my employer and had to fight very hard to get any kind of actual paper... and I'm still not satisfied that I have sufficiently strong contract to sue my insurance provider should it come to that, and certainly not if my employer decided not to look out for my interest (which I don't have contract saying they will). So legally speaking I'm is a poor standing (despite working for tech company, and having an good PPO plan).
People per square foot in SF is pretty dang tight.
Coming to SF from Denmark... I would say there are 3 main issues:
1) traffic laws aren't followed,
2) drivers are poorly trained (drivers license requirements is a joke),
3) roads aren't optimized for safe high-throughput traffic
(1) is what causes danger, but (2) and (3) are the reasons for this. Compared to most European cities SF has wide street, lots of space, and yet manages to spend half the streets on parking, uses stop signs all over, this causes drivers to disgard stop signs, speed up/down like crazy, and it makes everything go slow which in turn makes drivers agitated..
Selecting a few major roads, getting rid of parking and stops signs on those roads would go far (very far). Turn some of the small side roads into parking lots, that you can't drive through, and you would have more parking, less traffic congestion. You don't need all the small side roads, it's okay to drive 4-6 blocks to get one block up hill, reducing the amount of intersections and increasing throughput.
While the subject line specifically pertains to the email challenge for Clinton's campaign the pattern is the same. Say nothing until forced to, assume a disengaged electorate will forget, or not care to begin with, then crank out the next "talking point" all on her terms.
The thing is everybody is used to the media overreacting and lying (FOX), so why should we care when they cry wolf.. Sure this is not ideal, but it probably stems from nothing more than an attempt to get things... At least I see no evidence to the contrary, I why should I care to read the medias articles they are always crying wolf....
Fastest will probably be 'Servo', which is the new browser engine by Mozilla.
The future is indeed interesting... :)
Some of it also web devs who builds up CSS rules and DOM such that some small changes causes a complete CSS reflow and other fun things :)
Like I wrote to GP, DOM is a tool, not the right tool for everything (clearly DOM isn't good for manipulating pixel art).
Choose the right tool for the job.
:)
If you want normal UI DOM enables fast development, and isolates things nicely (compared to coding against a frame buffer).
But for rendering some things raw framebuffers (canvas) is and always will be the right tool...
Could also be you're using setTimeout instead of requestAnimationFrame...
But yes you're right, the DOM is slow... but you're not forced to use it when making pixel art...
he he, I think I once saw a js library to draw with 1x1px divs
When are motorists going to start obeying the rules of the road?
in the US probably never... maybe when you take away their guns... I'm jokingly implying that there is a similar feeling of entitlement to drive as you wish on the road.
:)
Having moved to SF from EU I notice that nobody (drivers, cyclists nor pedestrians) obeys the rules (granted cars have a MUCH higher responsibility to so given their capacity for dange). Anyways, considering how the roads and rules are made I fully understand why they aren't honored.
Here some examples that invites people to do bad things:
- turn right on a red light (people constantly forget bring the car to a full stop, nor is the intersection clear),
- lights only required at night (people forget, and it's impossible to distingush active from passive participants, I see people in tunnels without lights on!!!),
- street parking on major roads (stops traffic in dangerous ways, insanely dangerous for cyclists),
- stop signs everywhere (makes people gas up and down like maniacs, bad for environment and encourages reckless driving, causes people to ignore stop signs),
- lack of bike cycle paths (despite the fact that US cities have extremely wide roads compared to European cities, you have plenty of space),
- grid system treating almost every road as equal, rather than promoting some roads to serve as conduits (keeps cars driving everywhere, and inefficiently so),
- lack of training, In countries such as Denmark a drivers license requires:
- 28 x 45 minute study sessions,
- 4 x 45 minutes closed driving course,
- 7 hours first aid course,
- 4 x 45 minutes on wet driving course,
- 16 x 45 minutes on public road with driving instructor,
- Test while sitting next to a police officer who loves to flunk you
Credit where credit is due though, I applaude the concept of allowing kids to drive with an adult supervisor present. This is a good way of getting a lot of supervised hours on the road! And it's a lot cheaper than driving with a driving instructor, IMO not a substitute for professional training but a really solid complement.
validation of source to binary step... This is so you don't have to trust their binary... but can read their source and trust that it is in fact the source for the binaries..
If this had happened in Texas those $1.2 billion would amount to... less than $45 for each of it's 27 million inhabitants.
Now it doesn't look as cool, does it?
True, but using it for infrastructure/schools/etc. and giving a tax reduction might work too...
Or for slightly less per month based on average monthly usage, you could buy, insure and fuel an I3 and when you got tired of it, you could sell it and get some money back.
Not in Denmark... 2 / 3 of car prices in Denmark are taxes... Energy is also more expensive..
Chrome uses a crazy amount of memory...
But also note that the "more permissive add-on API" is why FF extensions break between FF versions...
Note, I think there is commitment to allow FF extensions to do more than Chrome extensions can... Ie. sidebar-tabs etc. will still be possible.
Hopefully, the extensions won't break as much... In related news Mozilla is also moving various features into add-ons to reduce bloat, and be able to update features independently of Firefox. I think Hello, Pocket are great examples of things that will be moved to add-ons. (btw, at the announcement where I heard about some features moving into add-ons the subject got a standing applause!)
So I'm pretty sure we can expect FF to embrace/extend Chrome extension API.
If Mozilla wants their browser share to increase, deprecate the god damned single-threaded engine!!!!
Firefox is already heavily multi-threaded!
:)
Process isolation is already in nightly... Have been for a while now. This is some of what is necessary to roll out per-tab-process isolation...
Note the old way of doing extensions have been on the way out for a long time... AFAIK jetpack based extensions will not be experiencing issues.
Is it any surprise that going major architectural changes to FF necessarily means extensions will break.
Hopefully, the new APIs (and extensing jetpack SDK) will be more stable... The way old extensions were able to dive deep into FF, meant that they easily broke between versions. And yes, the browser needs to move forward that means changing FF internals -- FF is not IE6 the dev team haven't been fired
I didn't see anybody breaking up a fight in that video. When the video starts, the fight is already over. All I saw were two handcuffed black men and a couple of off-duty cops waiting until the NYPD got there.
Okay, fair enough it doesn't show the breaking up...
But do notice how they ask the detainee if he is alright, if he is hurt... and so on...
Notice that they don't sit on the guy, they hold him, yes, they apply force, but they do so respect and dignity (as trains professionals).
Here is another normal day in the US: http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
Notice how police officers sit on a guy with a prosthetic leg... And how when more arrive they seem to stand around more concern about covering for the video.
I particularly note that when they start talking to him it's "I bet you have a gram of dope in your pocket". Rather than asking if the guy is hurt they escalate the conflict further.
It doesn't matter if he has dope in his pocket, the officer can discover and resolve that later when you are sitting down at the station... But instead they try to intimidate him with at this stage unfounded and unnecessary accusations.
Should be placed in the center of a circle of fellow scientists; their pocket protectors should be yanked out; their labcoats torn off....
It's a pretty efficient way to terminate your academic career. I think at my former University you would be banned for 3 years...
That plus your name in google you career is pretty much over.
I don't believe that's true. WikiP says, "As part of the settlement, the United States did not admit legal liability but agreed to pay on an ex gratia basis US$61.8 million, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims."
After being dragged to International Court of Justice...
:)
Same article says "The United States government did not formally apologize to Iran".
Granted the US could have acted worse...
I don't know if an apology would have prevented such a reprisal, but it may have, so not giving one was still a very stupid mistake...
Yes, because it set a precedence where by Putin doesn't have to apologize for shooting down MH17.
>> training costs more than the taxpayers are willing to be taxed
I doubt it. In fact, many local universities and other institutions are happy to donate this training.
Donated training probably won't work at that scale... Police officers in Norway and Denmark (just to mention two places) have ~ 3 years training.
How much does US police officers have? (I read that it's typically 3-4 months various places online).
To get proper police training you probably need a police academy dedicated to the job, not a bunch of ad-hoc training sessions donated...
Also de-escalation is often just about remaining calm, acting in a calm and orderly fashion while a crazy suspects yell at you. Or showing concern for suspects well-being once handcuffed. Largely it's about communication before things escalate to a point where you even consider applying force; reducing the risk that the officer ends up in a violent conflict. And it's about remaining calm while force is applied, reducing risk that suspects panic and suspect's willingness to fight back.
Except 99% of the time it's not the cop that starts off being confrontational, it's some idiot wailing about their right to speed...
I'm sure you're right about that, but officers are supposed to keep their cool and de-escalate the situation.
Here is something to think about: US police officers typically have 3-4 months training, police officers in Norway and Denmark have ~3 years training.
Sure, crime rates and access to guns have a major effect on police shootings, but training is a major part of what enables officers to remain calm and polite in the midst of a struggle.
Here is a video of off-duty Swedish police officers breaking up a fight on the NY subway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Especially when the rules of engagement require visual confirmation before weapons release. We've already had one commercial airliner "accidentally" shot down during a military conflict last year (MH17), so it's unlikely those requirements will be relaxed any time soon.
Also there was that time the US shot down Iran Air Flight 655, and then decided not to apologize or accept liability.