> decisions are generally a lot less arbitrary than people imagine. It's just
> that when someone gets suspended they tend to only post misleading
> reports about it

Strong disagree. Twitter's rules don't accomplish what Twitter says they accomplish, and the enforcement is uneven, arbitrary, unreasonable, and utterly opaque to users. I've seen countless examples of utterly arbitrary enforcement, and regularly repeated claims that perfectly normal content is somehow a violation. Not only in my case, but in many, many cases.
In this case, a woman was gleefully discussion the fact that human face mites do, in fact, have anuses, and therefore our faces are covered in face mite poo. The conversation was already about this topic - merely suggesting that we affix tiny diapers to them so we can study the poo is not hostile in anyway. This person didn't understand or like the suggestion and instead of muting the tweet or the tweet author, they used Twitter's rules and the company's pro-complainant bias to remove my ability to use the service. That's neither just nor reasonable nor sensible.
I'd suggest examining your instinct to defend the giant faceless corporation over real people, but figure that'd be a waste.

I'll take over and fix Twitter if the people there finally acknowledge that suggesting that we affix tiiiny little diapers to human face mites is not "hostile conduct" and unlock my account.

Adobe's neural filters are not 'deepfake tools,' they're tools. Blaming the makers of a general purpose tool (of any kind) for specific uses that tool is put to is pretty weak sauce. This simply is not a case of someone making a tool specifically designed for a nefarious purpose, and CEO's assertion is essentially correct.

Here's a simple example: perform the computation in the exponent over a finite field. Let's say you're doing linear regression and need to compute a*x+b. I'm going to pick a number g and give you g^x instead of x. You're going to compute g^(a*x+b) = (g^x)^a*g^b. Now you can twiddle a and b to fit a line. But you don't know the data x (because inverting g^x is computationally hard, aka the discrete logarithm problem). Note 1: this is vastly oversimplified to demonstrate the idea. Note 2: this is partially homomorphic encryption -- you can't multiply two hidden numbers in the exponent -- this is what is added by fully homomorphic encryption, which pulls in a mountain of new headaches.

Give me another way to turn real-world assets into cryptographic form without "trusting" someone.

Bram founded a new company, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchia.net%2F which is making a new bitcoin-derived crypto-currency based on Proof of Space and Time. Basically it fills the unused space on your drive with entropy, and uses this like a set of lottery tickets instead of Proof of Work mining. They're also focusing on features of the crypto-currency that will enhance "Layer 2" (like http://lightning.network/) to enable scalability. In an economic sense this construction shifts the costs of mining toward capital expenditure (for storage) instead of electricity consumption.

He and a collaborator recently won Best Paper at Eurocrypt 2018 for a Zero Knowledge Proof of Time https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feprint.iacr.org%2F2018%2F1... (presentation: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcyber.stanford.edu%2Fsit... )

Interesting things are coming from Bram.

Astronomical observations don't always need to be reported as "mysterious," tbh.

I'll stay with Windows 7 for a while longer. But I won't be installing Windows 10 willingly, if ever.

Microsoft: "We let you choose how much spying we do on your activities!"
Users: "Uh...please don't spy on us at all. Like, none."
Microsoft: "OK, here's some revised settings that don't let you actually turn data collection off! One is called 'Basic'!"
Users: "..."

They're shooting protons at a LiF2 or LiO2 solid target. Why do we think there is not a (p,F) or (p,O) reaction contributing to this?

As a long time reader, I'm pretty severely disappointed by the responses to this post. No discussion of NTP, or GSM time distribution, or CDMA time distribution, or shortwave radio, or ANYFUCKINGTHING relevant to the poster's question.

Where did the knowledgeable people go? Because I really don't need some douchenozzle to tell me that the Amazon fire has a clock app, and see that that post has been rated +4?!?!?! WTF?!??!?!

Give mod points motherfuckers and I will clean up this mess.

Evanston did a lot of that, too - broad sidewalks, killed off parking, increased density. It was an unholy mess about 15 years ago when I left college. Small businesses hated it (try walking your purchases from the hardware store back) and lots went out of business. Then they built up even more density, built a new downtown center next to the old downtown center, *finally* built some parking garages, and it started to pick up. Post-bubble rebound in the mid 2000's helped.

Honestly - Evanston is a lovely place full of liberal people on various noble quests (practical is another matter), but "kill the car"? I don't know who is saying you'll find no cars around, because it's still damned hard to find street parking and there's a constant flow of cars through the downtown streets. And where's the nearest grocery store? Closest I'm aware of is still a couple miles out of downtown, either up on Green Bay or down Chicago towards Dempster. Very much not in walking distance of anything. The cars aren't going to disappear just because there's a condo complex next to downtown. Like every other suburb, it's still very much a driving place. After all, every suburb wants to attract people from every other suburb - Evanston has dining, Skokie has Old Orchard (a large mall), Northbrook has shopping and the Botanical Garden, etc. All of that requires cars.

Didn't see any problems with VPNs during the betas, nor with final release. This is with connections to Junos Pulse, StrongSwan/xl2tpd, and racoon VPNs.

Maybe the reason it wasn't "fixed" is it isn't an issue in the first place.

It's hard to believe psychology studies are more reproducible than cancer studies (11% reproducible): http://www.nature.com/nature/j...

Unless you want to spend several months a year of your life auditing inefficient "charity" organizations and trying to make judgments about whether they're doing it right and spending your dollars wisely...and hey if you think you're good at that you should probably start your own charity. But if you do, everyone will expect you to work for free. It's a viscous circle.

Donate your time, you'll meet people too.

Unless you're a multi-billionaire, then start a foundation and direct where the money goes.