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> So you're claiming that everyone who has ever favored Marxist ideals will without any doubt resort to mass murder when given the chance?

I don't know about the future, but the past is pretty clear. The only exceptions seem to be folks who give up such beliefs.

> McCarthyism was the same thing that the Soviets were doing to their own people. The only difference was that they were killing people instead of shaming and/or jailing them.

The same thing? Killing millions is the same as some folks losing their jobs and a (relative) few jailed for a law that predated McCarthy? Hint - that means that he had nothing to do with it. (You didn't even honestly summarize Wikipedia.)

That law, fwiw, punished folks who "knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise or teach the [...] desirability or propriety of overthrowing the Government of the United States or of any State by force or violence, or for anyone to organize any association which teaches, advises or encourages such an overthrow, or for anyone to become a member of or to affiliate with any such association".

I don't much like said law, but to equate it with SOP in communist countries is quite a stretch.

> But you have the SAME philosophy.

No, I don't. In other news, surgeons are not (necessarily) Jack the Ripper. There is a difference between the police and the robber, even though both might fire guns.

> You're 'breaking a few eggs' to find the Communists. How are you any better than them? Because "I'm right and they are wrong?" They believe that they are right and you are wrong. So who is really right and really wrong?

They kill millions when given the chance. That doesn't make me right, but it does make them wrong.

> Please wake up and realize that the world is not black-or-white.

Hey, another straw man.

I never wrote anything that implied that the world was black and white. I did say, however, the communists were evil.

You seem torn between "other folks are just as evil" and "communists are not evil, they just kill a lot of people who probably needed killing". Since we're mind-reading, I'll go with you really think that they're not evil but their opponents are. You do realize that the killing thing looks bad, so you're trying to put that off on people you don't like who didn't do it, but it doesn't much bother you that communists do it.

> You are bordering on wanting to execute anyone that is ever an idealist in thinking that Communism in the Marxist sense (i.e. all humans working together towards a better world)

Marxism isn't "all humans working together towards a better world". It's a very specific way of "working together" that leads to mass killing.

There are lots of ways to work together, the vast majority not being marxist. (To be fair, there are some other ways of working together that also lead to mass killing, but they're not common.)

> I doubt you're about to start arguing about the benefits of Fascism over Communism

Fascism was Communism with better clothes and a more efficient implementation. I don't count those differences as significant benefits.
No offense, but I'm betting there are plenty of boring old real things that you haven't seen yet and that most of them will blow your mind.

If this is just me, please don't tell me--being wowed by the real world is awesome :).
It has had a fair few mentions on this site:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=www.jwz.org%2Fdoc%2Fgroupware....

Some filtering or a more refined search might give the actual (much smaller) number of posts.
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I've heard it argued that all Chinese dialects are in fact creoles, an artifact of the expanding and shrinking Chinese empire. ie, indigenous language + language of the court + several generations -> new dialect.

And if you can argue that for Chinese, you could argue it for the romance languages, for English after the Norman invasion, etc.
Haha! Life is not fair. It never has been. It never will be. I've stopped worrying about how fair life is, and I, instead, try to make sure I'm not the one getting screwed.
The company I work for provides coffees, sodas, and spring water. Most of the time I'm happy with just water. But I asked for some healthier alternatives and they started offering fruit juices =)
Also, Arabic calligraphy varies greatly, and just because you know one form doesn't enable you to read another. Perhaps cursive vs. print is similarly difficult for non-English speakers, but I feel as if Arabic's is especially difficult. After years of studying the language, I can hardly do anything with it.
Why so angry?

You just made my claim for me. %5 is nothing to sneeze at. Further, the US is more than a "top 10" list. You cannot simply discard vast portions of the country because they don't appear in the top 10 list and thusly don't support your argument.

Meanwhile, why would all new immigrants will automatically go to the largest existing community? Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Has someone conducted a poll asking potential immigrants where they'd like to be, and found that these are the most likely states?

Regarding xenophobia, Texas has a significant immigrant population and is also anecdotaly considered a very xenophobic state. Can you resolve your claim that immigrants won't go to xenophobic areas with the reality that is Texas? How about Southern California, which has struggled with race and immigration fears for over a decade?

And what kind of person suggests that the entire inner corridor of the US is xenophobic anyway? Are you seriously claiming that every town from Ohio to Nevada to Louisiana to Idaho is xenophobic? That is a stunningly offensive, unfounded, and unsupportable argument.

"Next time", I suggest not lecturing others about "next time" in the middle of a conversation. It implies that you believe you have "won" the conversation (which, being a reasonable person having a reasonable discussion, you wouldn't do, right?), it doesn't make you sound like a particularly pleasant person, and it doesn't add to the conversation.
I am a meteorologist. This GOES-14 visible image loop is amazing (aka even better). http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/projects/svr_vis/eastcoast_s...
How robust is rsync? How does it report failures? (Is that one line inside something that tells a human that something went wrong?)

What about partial successes?
"The fiber does not compensate for the high levels of fructose in modern fruits."

Why not?
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Why does the browser itself not implement its own buffering algorithm? I do not quite understand why this onus should be placed on the developer responsible for the video imbedding functionality of the hosted datum. Certainly allow the external developer the flexibility to override this functionality (easily enough done via language features of JavaScript). But why force all developers to implement competing but similar algorithms? (by example and anecdotal personal observations: netflix > hulu > CBS/tv.com, in terms of how buffering algos deal with potentially high but intermittent bandwidth [1]).

If this were abstracted to the browser level (discounting the fact that these long-format providers will likely never move away from their current flash/silverlight implementations), my choice of online tv watching would no longer be dependant on the competence of the content-providers buffering algorithm: currently, despite the fact that I enjoy several shows provided by CBS.com, I will not watch them online due to their shoddy buffering algos. I will not watch them via antenna, either (I watch on my own schedule, thanks).

Of course, as stated, these providers are hopelessly locked to their delivery platform due to DRM and contractual obligations. Ergo, most of this point is moot when it comes to long-format TV-oriented content distribution.

[1] in my experience, CBS does not buffer enough before playing, and does not buffer during the pause state. It also does not indicate how 'full' the buffer is during pause state, like hulu does. Netflix is, in my opinion, the best on this as it indicates on the seekbar the buffer level, and adjusts bitrate based on perceived bandwidth. When your bandwidth drops below the perceived bandwidth, it gives you an accurate status indication as to buffering activity. CBS, contrarily, simply buffers to the original perceived value and resumes play. This is problematic if you begin with high bandwidth but midway through stream something happens to negatively effect your bandwidth. If this situation occurs, you're likely to encounter a slideshow: video resumes for 5< seconds, whereupon it buffers once more. This results in >2s stutters every 3-10 seconds. Because CBS does not buffer during pause states, this renders the video unwatchable except during time periods when my bandwidth is constant: living on a highly variable cable node makes this time period nigh impossible to predict. Therefore I do not watch CBS shows - antenna or streaming - at all.
From what I understand peoples problem learning English relates to it lacking fixed rules for most issues. Spelling being the most obvious example. A Spelling Bee would be a far more trivial exercise in Spanish or German. Granted the 988,968 words in English http://www.slate.com/id/2139611/ have something to do with that. Although the total number of words in German is larger (In the modern scientific German vocabulary data base in Leipzig (since 1.7.2003) there are 9 million words) the core vocabulary is fairly small and consistent by comparison. EX: "glove" as "hand-shoe (Handschuh)
Ha, I would have thought you were a native speaker, your English is excellent. :-) I think you make the same generalizations about Latin that native English speakers often do, though, in assuming rich nominal case = complexity. The issue is much more complex than that.
Your money doesn't have to go to the government after you die. You could spend it on yourself taking advantage of your doctor's prediction as to how much longer you will live.
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Firefox could pay the licensing fee for the copies of Firefox they distribute themselves, but they can't pay the licensing fee for unknown downstream users - the various Linux distros who build their own Firefox builds, projects like Seamonkey and Camino, any random people who want to use the Gecko source for something. Mozilla is pretty committed to making sure that anyone who uses Gecko has access to all the HTML features that Firefox has, so having a special feature-filled Mozilla-branded version and leaving everybody else out in the cold is not really an option.

Although Chrome supports H.264 video, I believe Chromium does not.
Is it a waste to see this movie in 2D?
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Yeah, I should've included that as a third point. We get Arabic television stations at home that I'll watch to try to read headlines, etc, for practice, but the font changes so drastically from show to show that I often find some letters unrecognizable.
There are some language features that are just easier than their alternatives -- for example, written Finnish is phonetic. Compared to English, his has massive advantages both when first learning to read and when learning Finnish as a second language -- to learn to correctly pronounce Finnish, you need to learn 29 phonemes and their corresponding letters (One lacks a letter and is marked by ng/nk instead -- the guy who defined the written language missed it.), and the length of their long forms. After you've learned them, to correctly pronounce any Finnish word you just string together the sounds of the letters of the word.

That's not to say Finnish is an easier language than English -- even if our writing system is strictly superior, as a fenno-ugric language we've got boatloads of other crap that drags us down :).

There's plenty of interesting history in how Finnish got this way. In a nutshell, the protestant reformation hit Finland before there was a written Finnish language. Since everyone being able to read the bible on their own was kind of important for the Lutherans, this posed a problem for the clergy. So, to fix it, one particularly active scribe named Michael Agricola went and defined the basic form of written Finnish on his own. He wanted to make it easy to learn to read, and so made it very simple. However, as spoken Finnish was an old language, much of it didn't fit in the straightjacket of a language he had created. His solution? By then he had become the bishop of Turku, and could pretty much dictate anything church-related in Finland. He chose to simply ignore the parts of the language that didn't fit, and in a few decades spoken Finnish shed the features that couldn't be represented in writing. The end result is probably the simplest writing system anyone anywhere uses as their first language.
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Assumptions are prerequisite for reason. Faith is a prerequisite for assumptions,. Therefore, faith is a prerequisite for reason.

Put more simply: absolute proof of anything being impossible, some degree of faith is a universal requirement of human beings wanting to live a productive life. Thus to conclude that faith precludes reason is to conclude that every human on earth is incapable of reason. Which is quite a pretentious claim, I think.
Ask HN: How best to collaborate with designers?
Have you ever hired a freelancer to do design work? Did you have a clear idea of what you were looking for, or only a vague notion of what's good and bad?

I fall under "yes and the latter". I recently hired a logo designer on eLance and I feel like good communication can make the difference between a mediocre and a great final design. But I'm not super-good at articulating what I like/dislike about an iteration and feel unhelpful giving feedback like "this logo doesn't feel right".

So I figure some of you out there must have been in my position before, perhaps they even learned a few things from the experience. Maybe you can share some wisdom or point me to a good article on the subject? It will be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks!
Spot on: perfect teeth, realistic actors to the point of looking like real actors with paint on their bodies, beautiful living landscape (particularly at night), and a horrendous script.
The problem I'm solving is not about volume, but rather a value proposition. There is value in reducing the number of operations problems that a company needs to solve.

DNS as a platform isn't really about serving content, but providing data for applications to use when making decisions.
True. Antoine de Saint-Exupery said that "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" Obviously I am not implying anything about my post here (which is far from perfect -_-), but I do like simplicity as a principle...
No. It is a fun romp and visually gorgeous in 2D.
Actually, I'm not much of a sci fi fan. You've been trying the "Sci Fi Dreamer Pander" three posts in a row now. Starting to get old. It's an obvious way of saying "you're affected by some dogma, I'm not." Nice try. Nobody is buying it.
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Life often ends unexpectedly. I seriously doubt I could time the cash flows to expire at the exact moment I expire.

EDIT: I am absolutely certain I could not time the cash flows to expire at the exact moment I expire.
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Here are some more useful options:

* "-C" to exclude all common revision-control working directory files. Lowest filter priority, consider the rest of your args.

* Look up backup rsync guides and add snapshot or "--backup-dir" support to your deploys for a cheap alternative to system snapshots and other deployment reversion techniques.

* "-E" and "-X" for when you just want to apply execute settings and not blow away whatever custom permissions you may have on your deployed files ("--chmod" is also helpful here)

* "--delete-after" and "--delete-excluded" to clean up files you've deleted from your source files.

* "--timeout=120 --contimeout=60" Because nobody needs to wait 5 minutes to find out their deploy failed.

* "--compress-level=9"

* If you have a huge deploy tree, it may be faster (though less reliable) to run

find SRC -mtime -8 -print0 > files.txt && rsync OPTIONS --from0 --files-from files.txt DEST

This will make a list of only the past 7 days' worth of modified files to attempt to rsync, which may cut down on the total time to deploy considerably.

* "--log-file=/big/partition/deploy.log" To get a better idea of how the deploy is going or how it went.

* Consider if you need --delay-updates to make the deploy more atomic. If files get deployed a few at a time, will this cause the user experience to suffer? Load as well as long file lists can cause long periods between updates.

* If you have more than one developer that can deploy to the site at the same time, consider that rsync should only be your file-transfer tool. You need a whole other layer to account for transaction locking, who is deploying or reverting files, and basic logging is very handy to track down problems. But that's a bit out of scope for this link :)
The folks who previously submitted NES emulators, and were rejected, must be more than a little annoyed right now. At $6.99 this developer is going to be making some pretty good money especially with the wave of free PR. It would be interesting to see if this app has some extra layer(s) of sand-boxing or other security that made Apple willing to accept it. From a PR standpoint it would be quite clever for Apple to just start accepting a lot of these taboo apps and they'll look like the great hero of the people acknowledging their mistakes and moving forward. Crazier things have happened.
Netflix is much, much closer.
It's been my experience users always end up wanting to save the image for a presentation or report.
I'm confused as to what you are trying to accomplish. I was pointing out that this particular priest's position shouldn't surprise anyone as it's already largely offcsial teaching by his church. I was not making an argument for, or against the position. Even if I were, your comment is an ad-hominem attack which is hardly convincing one way or the other.
Tell me that's not Jay & Silent Bob in real life. . .
Why so angry?

Because you just called me "very wrong", as well as "unnecessarily vicious and ignorant".

%5 is nothing to sneeze at.

It appears that you didn't even bother to read. Illinois is home to Chicago, home of one of the largest cities in the US. There is nothing rural about it not to mention having one of the highest murder rates in the nation.

Meanwhile, why would all new immigrants will automatically go to the largest existing community? Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

I presented to you 2 pieces of evidence from the US government, while all you have done is produced anecdotes and refusals to believe the facts. By now it is clear that you are trying very hard to ignore all the evidence, so I am done conversing with you.
I use a Rakefile with a deploy task that uses rsync to send the HTML to our server and s3sync to send our images to Amazon Cloudfront.
Random question, but did Pepsi offer any vending machines that had Coke products?

I imagine at least a few Pepsi employees might like some of the Coke brands (e.g. Dr. Pepper).
Kempel is about to launch glow-in-the-dark fly decals for the adult male market because, he says, "men, evidently, hate to turn on the light at night because it blinds them," and they'd rather navigate to a soft glow in the bowl.

Smart thinking. I'd rather sit down than turn on the light; too many lumens and my brain thinks its morning, losing at least an hour of my sleep time.
On the other hand, once you understand how to construct & deconstruct words, it's a lot easier to build your vocabulary.

You learn the word "read" & you immediately know all the verb tenses (read, reading), the nouns (food) the adjectives (written). Inconsistencies & exceptions make going from conversational to fluent a nightmare, but getting to conversational is not too bad.

Affixes, like an new alphabet are a bit of a hurdle, but once you're over it it's not hard any more.
The man page and docs in the source detail how it handles these different circumstances. The short answer is "very robust" and there are options to customize how it behaves during partial or total success/failure.
Summary: Some guy posted on a forum that by switching Facebook from PHP to C++, 22500 servers could be switched off. He seems to have arrived at this conclusion by pulling numbers out of thin air.
What about the fact that the standard written/literary form is not what people actually speak? Arabic speakers seem so strict about the language. I would imagine that makes things hard.
Do you know of any language where there are not formal and informal vocabularies? I don't.

The point is that in English the additional semantics do not require additional syntax. To make a programming analogy, this is like the difference between C++ having overloadable operators and Java using methods to achieve the same. C++'s grammar is more complicated than Java's, because C++ uses additional syntax to achieve the same semantic ends.

The dual French / Germanic roots to English vocabulary does however hint at one of its distinctively complicated features: English pronunciation and spelling is bewildering because of that lineage.
There's a big opportunity here for someone. Lots of people prefer the linear video experience. They want to flip channels and have content pushed at them so they don't have to think. The other piece that's been missing for a while on IPTV is live sports. Both MLB & NBA are now offering their league pass IP video subscriptions on the iPhone. MLB is on the Roku set top already. Between gaming consoles with IP video options, Smart TVs, and now more dedicated devices like the Roku player I don't think Apple can stay out of this market much longer. It's going to happen with or without them.
Great example. It also makes me wonder: If every moment of your work is so intense... does that change your perception of time ? A student once wrote that if he had one hour to live he would spend it in a boring classroom, because it would feel like eternity. Joking aside, the perception of time is an interesting subject...
Looks like Apple is going to leverage on MobileMe. If you're a MobileMe subscriber you will get an "all-access" pass to movies, video and audio content etc with no ads. On top of that you get email, webhosting, "Find My iPhone" features etc.

This is eWorld v2.0 as envisaged by Steve Jobs.
Look up SPF + DKIM (aka "domain keys").
This, will, I fear, be highly successful. Please tell me you are not the responsible party.
Nice charts showing this data (albeit a few years out of date):

http://perotcharts.com/category/taxation-charts/page/7/
That first statement kinda reminds me of Xanadu... (wonder if they're ever going to call it quits)

The main problem with doing a sequel to a top-selling paradigm shift project is that the sequel by its very nature will not be able to repeat the paradigm shift and still stay true to the original. Or at least its so hard that there are very, very few examples.

I'd imagine that being part of that original team blinds you somewhat to the practicalities of releasing a sequel.

What I would love to see though, is all that unfinished work (if it is still around) being released to the public, so that duke enthusiasts can collaborate and "finish" some of the work to a playable standard...
There's a term in Chinese to describe this, it's called 八股文

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-legged_essay

The funny part is, it's invented about the same time as English language :)
If I remember right it is laser cut stainless steel.
refers to this article, "New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs" ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007303
Would be interesting if they open sourced it. Maybe some of the original developer's would get involved.
Remember when video conferencing was the future? The new future is video conferencing without the video, just the audio!
Autobuffering video in Firefox