Why can't you publish your music?

So is this pretty much GNU / NT, maybe it shouldn't be called a linux distribution -- in order news where are the flying pigs? :)

Is that what the US does? I think the problem is that "fight its enemies" is defined as drone striking suspects with limited evidence and civilian casualties, minimal accountability in a process that seems more like a global administrative execution program for people suspected or associated with anyone suspected of planning terrorism.

If you want to defend your borders that's fine, but do it at the border. Fact is there are no existential threats to the US, no territorial threats, and none have been made for decades. Biggest risks to welfare are economic in nature, whether theft of trade secrets, discard of patents, over reactions to terrorism, political turmoil, or cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Further arms race is hardly necessary.

There might be an aspect of nature at play. But don't let that convince you that women haven't been oppressed, or that gender equality isn't a concern anymore.

Just because something is the natural order of things, doesn't mean we should accept it.

Violence and murder is the natural order of humans, that doesn't mean we can't make laws to stop it :)

It's well known that we're not rational economic creatures... There are many examples of this, for example loss aversion..
I would be that fear of missing out on the bonus hits you far harder than the much higher cost of smoking.

I wouldn't be surprised if _fear of missing out_ on the bonus is more effective than the huge taxes that a factored into tobacco prices in many countries.

Agreed, it's closer to program synthesis... That said with transfer learning, the neural nets seem to _sometimes_ learn underlying concepts.
So the neural net seems to be able learn some of the underlying concepts, and we don't understand the algorithm that was synthesized.

That said, we still fully control these AIs, they don't evolve while solving a task, they can be saved to disk and restored :)

America is so far behind it's hard to comprehend... I just recently moved back to Denmark from San Francisco, and trying to cash a check from my former landlord is basically impossible. I remember cashing a Canadian check 5-6 years ago, but today banks won't touch checks.

In the US, however, most online bill-pay systems are just web frontends for sending a physical check by mail. I remember the teller explaining this to me, and laughed because I thought he was joking. It's a pretty stark difference, in Denmark physical letters is barely a thing (no private company or public entity sends me physical mail -- unless it's an extraordinary situation).

All the 3 letter agencies had a lot of trust... But they abused their position, the Snowden revelations made that clear.
They routinely violated laws in many countries, and when caught they weaseled out of it. Nobody admitted that what they had done was wrong, there was no massive change in leadership or policy. So trust was lost.

Suddenly, being safe from government abuse became a sales point, and tech companies were quick to jump that.
These days security people will discuss how to minimize risks from state actors "friendly" or not, even if answers aren't perfect, this is now a thing.

But this is their own doing. The 3 letter agencies lost public trust by invading people privacy in the shadows. We have a wide acceptance of search warrants from a public court; but when engulf the process in secrecy you loose trust.

IMO, lots of things could be unencrypted, but rebuilding this trust will take generations. And right now law enforcement in the US should perhaps focus on not shooting people, as a good first step to rebuilding public trust.

"modern diseases", people diabetes in the past just died.

People in the past were far worse off by most accounts... We just love painting the past in rosy colors.

Yet, we must admit that making piracy harder than buying the service have been an immensely successful strategy :)
They never needed perfect security, you could always just record the music from the speakers anyways.

We don't live in the world where we have to download mp3s anymore, it's much easier to stream legitimately from spotify than it is to pirate. Now, if only we could get rid of the DRM completely.

You make a unique one per download... and require sign-in in-order to download... it something like that..

That said, I would rather they give up freemium and focus on paying clients, I for one want non-DRM clients for Linux.

Look it up, a search for "gun" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Finds quotes like:

and

Outlawing guns without a proper judicial system is hard. And outlawing guns when they are readily available from the US is very hard.

I think it's fair to say that the ease of access to guns in the US causes a LOT of murders in south America. Where do you think Mexican cartels gets their guns from?


Also what is with the obsession of framing everything as a pro/con gun regulation argument. We know sane regulation of firearms limits the amount of damage a single person can cause... Fixing schools, education, mental healthcare, prisons, criminal justice, poverty, and running an trustworthy police force all contribute to reduction of violence, along with sane gun regulation.

The added upside to gun regulation is that it also protects neighboring countries, who currently suffer from illegal weapons import from the US.

Okay, do we have any one indicating that this was intended... I think it's pretty clear that these are unintended bugs...
Meltdown could justify a recall, but probably it's impractical to do this... and spectre will probably not even be fixed in new chips. I suspect it'll be some time before we have a reliable fix to spectre, it'll probably require changes to the specifications as well..

Are you sure? I'm sure they get away with it quite often, but that's not the same as saying the practice is legal.
Afaik, manufacturers (or brand owners, if you will) can't dictate re-seller prices, etc. This is anti competitive behavior. Yes, they often get away with it, and yes, it's hard to prosecute. And no, I'm not a lawyer :)

As I understand it old extensions had synchronous hooks in to much of Firefox, causing security problems and making it impossible to improve performance.
Take a look at the browser extensions API, sure they aren't perfect, but on MDN it's clear that firefox has more extension APIs than Chrome.