Another less biased way of looking at it is that this was the easiest option to pursue. Even if they could stop publication in the US somehow, it would still only apply in the US. And it's not like grandma is going to pickup this book in the store. People who are interested will get it, either online, as PDF or order it from another country. There is literally no way to prevent publication world-wide.
However, US will probably be a big market and there might be repercussions throughout other countries through political pressure to also collect the proceeds or even ban the book.
On the other hand, I also find it curious why Snowden would sell this book to begin with. Kinda undermines his credibility. He is earning a shitload of money through his talks already and the book is essentially a chronicle of a crime he committed. Seems "morally interesting" that he wants to monetize it like that. On the other hand, who cares about morals, but then its just a tad hypocritical.
If that was true, it would be hilarious. The law does only apply if the defendant keeps his records in order :D.
Normally, you get fined extra. Like you get fined for not keeping order, then for being late at producing said document (first you need to find it in your mess after all) and then fined for the document being what it is.
> Anything that can be neatly siphoned off from that more complex imperative world, should be.
No it really shouldn't. Just look at JS. It's a complete mess. And HTML would get there in a short time if they were to adopt "anything that can be neatly siphoned". The problem is that data binding is actually quite complex. I have seen data binding done 10 different ways in different languages and they all had their flaws. It will be very difficult indeed to come up with such a standard that is actually being used universally.
If it is not, what sense does it make to add it to the standard? But for it to be used a lot, it would actually need to solve most problems in most businesses for the forseeable future.
Given the fact that the Web apparently still hasn't figured out quite how UI development is supposed to work (judging by the 1 new language feature, 10 new frameworks, 100 new libraries developed each day), it will be a very poor idea to start baking half baked stuff into a standard.
> but certainly enabling these things to be trafficked does not provide net positive to the world.
You really wanna go there? Seriously?
Nobody forces you to use drugs. It doesn't even harm anyone else directly. He didn't even sell drugs directly, he offered a marketplace for others to sell drug on. What about pawn shops? Should we lock em all up in super max prisons for providing weapons to people? I mean here the intent is at least directly to harm people other than the client, while with drugs its just to harm clients.
Net positive... LOL Name a single politican that does provide a net positive to the world. How about Trump? What about locking him up? Did he provide a net positive to the world? He has a list of crimes that could wrap buildings in documents, however he is president of the US, which somehow manages to kill more people in a year than this guy could have killed indirectly in a life-time. But hey, yeah lock em up!
> so it's a clear reflection of his morals and empathy.
Oh is it? So what now? We lock up everything who doesn't have your high moral standards in a federal super max? Oh wait, your morals seem a bit off actually. I think you are kindof insane. How about locking you up? Do you provide a net positive to the world? Probably not. Wait, let me just call 911 so they can lock you away for life.
> Expressive, pretty powerful, ML and Haskell inspired type system
This is not a reason to use rust. It's like saying "I like Ferraries, because they drive fast", failing to specify WHY you need to drive fast (you usually really don't, unless you are on a race track)
> Memory safe. In higher level code you have almost zero justification for `unsafe`, except you really need a C library.
Java, C#, etc.
> Immutable by default. Can feel almost functional, depending on code style.
Okay, however this isn't a big win in practice. Java has this too with @Immutable and mostly that's enough.
> Very coherent language design. The language has few warts, in part thanks to the young age.
Yes, Rust looks fine. Let's see how it evolves. Coherent language design is however again not a reason to use rust, because it fails to mention WHY you need it and WHY it solves a business problem better than Java, C# or C++.
> Great package manager and build system.
Yeah, pretty much all modern languages have that, so it's not worth to even mention. Rust builds are slow, so there is that.
> Great tooling in general (compiler errors, formatter, linter, docs generation, ... )
Really? Ever used Java or C# tooling?
> Library availability is great in certain domains, ok most.
Compared to what? C++? I don't even think there it's true. When comparing to Java or C# library availability and quality is a joke in Rust.
> Statically compiled (though I often wish there was an additional interpreter/repl). Mostly statically linked.
Yeah... What do you need that for? Again no mention of why that's even useful.
> Good performance without much effort.
Like in Java, C# and C++ you mean?
> Good concurrency/parallelism primitives, especially since async
Async is a paradigm that received a lot of criticism lately. It turns out to be cancerous. Fibers will likely replace it and Java is getting it soon. Otherwise yeah, concurrency is something any modern language should solve and maybe Rust has a head-start here. The whole purpose of Rust is focused around safe multi-threading. However other languages don't sleep. You don't switch your company to Rust just because it does one thing better for a couple of years. Other languages will catch up soon.
LOL. Using "people" and "unselfishly" in the same sentence is deep. There may be perhaps one out of 100 who acts unselfishly, the rest only cares about themselves or their direct dependents. And usually that one out of 100 only thinks he is acting unselfishly, but just didn't yet honestly evaluate why he/she is caring about other people (to feel better?! Oops).
And fun fact: Even if you were right, and locally this would be true for some unfathomable reason... The lockdown has saved lives... Lives of the rich and well off. However it has cost much more lives than those few percent who would have died if we didn't do anything. And it has caused unimaginable economic hardship across the world. But since the people who die and suffer now, are people not included in the statistics, nobody really cares. I mean why would you care about the repercussions of lockdowns in the 3rd world? We have soo much to worry about here, and we are so unselfishly staying at home to help our fellow humans... What an euphemism.
Even if it violates conservation of momentum, that doesn't really mean anything, since this is all happening on a quantum scale. It would definitely violate physics if you didn't need to apply a constant energy source for this to work, i.e. just one laser beam that spins in there virtually indefinitely while providing thrust. However, that is not the case.
This device presumably requires a reasonable amount of energy comparable to other existing drives. So what might happen here is a potentially unexplained quantum effect. Quantized Inertia seems like a really reasonable idea. Why wouldn't it be quantized? It doesn't even make sense for it not to be quantized.
> If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest?
Like... None? This seems like a complete waste of resources. It's probably a life-like toy from someone with too much money? The world needs more 10,000 year clocks, we don't have any other problems...
If you want a 10,000 clock, you bury a radioactive rock with a note about the decay pattern at the time of creation and future radiologist will know how long it's been "ticking". Problem solved.
Being able to read is helpful. They are "zero cost abstractions". Yes, they are not zero cost, big surprise (I thought they wouldn't produce assembly instructions). A pointer is an indirect reference. But the abstraction around them is zero cost:
i.e. there is no way to end up with faster code that does the same thing, without using the abstraction.
This is the very definition of zero cost abstractions.
What are you talking about? unique_ptr contains a pointer, that's it. Yes, to represent a pointer you have to contain a point. Passing it on or not makes zero difference and using a website that return unoptimized C++, is not a good place to gather intel. unique_ptr is zero cost, unless you use it across library boundaries without LTO.
Dude, read the article?
This is like a cop posing as a cow and trying to say on "slaughterYourCowToday.com": "Hey look, I am actually a real human being, please don't slaughter me"... But hey, the picture of that cow shows a freakin cow. Now the guy drives to the farm and is greeted by a fucking cow. He takes a gun and tries to shoot the cow. But the police rolls in and arrests him for attempted murder...
This is ridiculous and yet another demonstration of the absurdity that they try to sell as US "justice" system.
So let's summarize.
1) Guy is looking for adults on an adult page
2) Adult women(24) with an adult picture says she is 13
3) Guy probably thinks like "okay, doesn't look 13". Which arguably is stupid, given that US citizens should know how stupid the US is when it comes to minors.
4) Talks more
5) Women says again she is 13
6) They agree to meet anyway
7) Guy drives to her home and she greets him. She is obviously a grown women.
8) Guy gets arrested for child rape
Yeah sounds about right.
God bless America!
So let's rewrite the story a bit:
1) Guy is looking for some mint on craigslist
2) When asking the seller why the mint "makes people high", the seller says it's actually weed.
3) Guy thinks, okay, doesn't look like weed, it looks like fucking mint
4) Guy says, I will buy this mint anyway, looks like mint
5) Seller says again "Dude, it's fucking weed, but okay"
6) Seller sells the mint
7) Guy receives the mint in his mailbox and opens it
8) Cool it's mint, smells of mint, looks like mint.
9) Guy gets arrested for drug possession
Erm what?
In the real world, that cop should have been suspended for false advertising and the seller's account as well.
I really wonder what people think when creating something like this and also where the money comes from. It was already difficult to find a use-case for crypto currencies, and now all they did was to create the slowest possible distributed programming language. Just what the world needed. But there are enough marketing buzzwords in there that probably some crowd is gonna pick it up, which is sad.
> Once corona goes away, only the paranoid will follow these guidelines.
The social distancing guidelines? Sure. A lot of people don't give a fuck already, if it wasn't for appearances.
Working from home, skipping the 1-2 hour commute, sitting in a depressing office all day? Oh you bet you can kiss that one goodbye. I for one, will not return to the office and my employer (a large software company) seems to expect that as well. The day of people going to do office will be numbered. There still are reasons to go, socialize with your peers, etc. but that's pretty much it. And we have excellent offices and I had literally zero commute time before I moved one hour out of town in wise foresight of corona impacts. I never felt as good as living in the nature, working from home, getting away from it all. Now I hate cities (completely unimaginable before, I was always a city person, or so I thought. Corona changed that completely, and I bet I am not alone)
"I had wondered, if the present warming rate goes on indefinitely"
Why would it? There are plenty of mechanisms that prevent that. Don't worry too much. The earth doesn't care about a few degrees. Humans might though, at least 99% of the population won't be able to survive if the earth heats a few more degrees. The question is if anyone will care though. We advance pretty quickly in terms of technology. It's not a far stretch to imagine that humans simply convert into a philosophy of "earth as the first space colony". That would actually make a lot of sense too. If we can't manage to colonize earth when it goes to shit, we don't even need to try with other planets. This could become the catalyst for human space travel. There is a positive in everything :D.
This will hopefully never happen. A security warning is a must. The average user has no clue what they are even doing and don't understand the risks they are accepting. A security warning might just be clicked away, but at least you were warned.
Really? They are so hellbent on proving alien life that they take anything huh... And that from a Harvard professor. Great.
So what do we have here. Some cigar shaped object, rotating around its own axis and accelerating somehow. I know, this must be an "advanced" alien space ship.
Or it could be just some debris from a collision from god knows where. And that crap is now heating up while approaching our solar system and you know, frozen stuff starts to evaporate and accelerating this object.
I still find it fascinating how even professors who should know better, just pull these crazy ideas out of their hat. Usually the simple explanation is the right one, and given that humans have no visibility into space whatsoever, it is kinda interesting to come up with theories like that. They have no clue where this thing came from, but make grand assumptions about how it must have behaved in the past.
We are years away from any of that. This is a simulator first and foremost, with some basic option to run it on a primitive quantum computer for real. In any case, there are still massive practical hurdles that need to be overcome to make quantum computing useful for any real world scenario. Breaking cryptography will require up to tens of thousands of QBits.
However, US will probably be a big market and there might be repercussions throughout other countries through political pressure to also collect the proceeds or even ban the book.
On the other hand, I also find it curious why Snowden would sell this book to begin with. Kinda undermines his credibility. He is earning a shitload of money through his talks already and the book is essentially a chronicle of a crime he committed. Seems "morally interesting" that he wants to monetize it like that. On the other hand, who cares about morals, but then its just a tad hypocritical.