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> there is no reasonable argument that Snowden should be subjected to its plainly unequal notion of justice.

Couldn't everyone accused of any crime use that excuse?
I actually have a PhD in economics. You are right that revenue can increase due to a supply shock. What I should have said is that revenue net of costs can never increase due to a supply shock. Because of this, the full statement this could conceivably even increase the total revenue of almonds sold -- leading to increased incentives to bring more acreage into production is still wrong.

Consider the limit as demand becomes (locally) infinitely inelastic. Then a shift of input costs of X will cause the price to change by X. Total volume (call it Y) of goods sold stays the same and total revenue increases by YX. Total revenues net of costs remain the same since total costs increased by YX.

The main point here is that markets don't do weird counterintuitive things, at least in a partial equilibrium analysis. Shocks to the costs of inputs always result in less production and less profit.

[Reply to edit] No offense taken, I shouldn't have said "econ 101" in the first place since it could be interpreted as disparaging. What I meant is that once we accept the assumptions of partial equilibrium analysis, it really constrains what can happen, and it can be shown by simple well known theory. And you were right, I wrote "revenue" when I should have written "profit".

I'm sure that what you are saying about water rights is true, but I'm simply arguing that the increased "cost" of water must move the supply curve of nuts up (at every point) not down. This shift of the supply curve might cause some people to stop growing and others to start, there is nothing in the theory that contradicts that. But everything in this thread still fits into partial equilibrium analysis.
Are you arguing that there isn't a causal effect between people living together and domestic violence?
The military-industrial complex is not a rational animal. It knows that it wants to manufacture more armaments. It also knows that in the past, "sanctions" were an effective pretext and political cover for its singular purpose, since the marketing story for them was seemingly opposed to that purpose. Now, when "sanctions" are widely imagined to have "worked" in accomplishing the goals publicly claimed for them, the beast is angry that it went along with the marketers and pollsters. The military-industrial complex expresses its anger through retired generals, think-tank analysts, and "conservative" politicians. If we just ignore it and stop feeding it so much, it will quiet somewhat, eventually.
This. It's a shame that such promising lecture vids are close to inaudible.
I'm not sure why you think the GOP is in disarray. The Republicans don't trust Iran not to build a bomb. To think the Iranians won't is naive to a childish degree. We went down this road with the North Koreans. Are memories that short?

And what happened with Democrats and anti-Semitism? When did it become okay to see Evil Jews behind every problem?
While I appreciate your viewpoint, it is not obvious to the reader. I think it is more important to not alienate women any more than already happens in this industry, than it is to form a sentence that has a certain rhythm. I would also examine why male pronouns “sound right” while non-male ones “don’t”.

And I agree with @sidawson that gender-neutral pronouns maintain the same rhythm besides.

Edit: And thank you for the upvote. I am glad that you are open to constructive criticism even if the crabby status-quo-loving anonymous users aren’t.
http://talk.gg/asdfaewfawefwfawefawef worked for me. I don't often need this, but the name is definitely memorable!
thanks for checking it out Kevin. Our p2p technology causes these issues frequently. Sometimes weird NAT settings, firewalls, etc cause it. Would be interested to hear your thoughts if you (or dang) try it on another network! j.fulghum@gmail.com
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Not necessarily.

> The ‘natural experiment’ of cross-cultural study finds levels of variance which rule out any direct causal effects of alcohol on behaviour. We have already noted that in some societies drunken aggression and belligerence are commonplace, while in others the same doses of ethanol result in quite opposite behaviour, characterised by calmness, passivity and good humour. [1]

[1] http://www.sirc.org/publik/drinking4.html

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9273914
Giving blood is one of those things where it's low risk, can help others, and has some science behind the benefits presumably by reducing iron. Have been meaning to get into it.

Some of the studies are linked here:http://www.science-of-aging.com/donating-blood-extend-lifesp...
That's what 12:00 clocks display in Japan, fwiw, and it's much less confusing (because, really, jumping from 11:59am to 12:00pm is nonsensical for people not familiar with that quirk)
What alternative do we have?
Some apes have already learned to speak. We call them humans.
How does that even work?
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How about this:

If you're caught cell-driving, you either pay a large fine, say $750, or you submit to a program that bans talking while moving faster than 5mph for the next two months. The cell carrier will monitor the ban and issue citations by SMS.

So if you opt into this program, and then you're driving down the road, start talking on the cell phone, and then 30 seconds later BANG! you get a text message: "That call was $75 payable to the city hall before the end of the day". Yeah, you can't talk on the bus and stuff, but that's the "punishment" part for ya.

It's worth a try, I think.
Hezbollah was not a aggressive militia group. It was an resistance to illegal Isreali Occupation In Lebanon.

If you consider this to be a cowardly act, then its no more different than the cowardly act of the French resistance against the Nazis.

If the Iranian are cowards then so are the Americans, Pakistanis, Russians, Israeli, Chinese and British.

This is why the Iranian are more than well justified to own a nuclear weapon - since everyone tries to covertly try to overthrow their government, and they do not have a useful deterrent against superpower nations.
I've responded to both your tickets. The deviceType issue seems be resolved now, but please ping me on Twitter at @grantland if the deadlock issue fails to re-open. I just need the SDK version you were using since your thread dump was obfuscated.

WRT the ParseCommandCache links you sent, you're right that there is some trouble using the same lock on a background thread and UI thread. It would possibly cause some UI stuttering, but it wouldn't necessarily cause a deadlock on it's own. There's probably a bit more to it and I'd love to dig deeper and find out why.
Thanks! I think I learned a lot about product design from Wufoo.

When I originally mocked-up the interaction I imagined a second, slightly more minimal version (http://codepen.io/kidGodzilla/full/qdLRzb/), & the app generates a "dev blog" from your updates (http://featurekit.featurekit.co).

I also imagined it would be a bit like statuspage.io - You could definitely create it yourself, but would gladly take an off-the-shelf solution if it had good defaults.

I think I could probably keep adding equally-useful widgets if this gets some validation from users.
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Yes, it's not unusual to curtail certain freedoms of a person who broke the law.
Look at section 793... IIRC that can carry the death penalty.
I've been aware of the dangers of low iron levels, but I did not know the dangers of too much iron.

This blog has a link to an article at the NYT that was particularly interesting.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/a-host-of-ills-when...

I have a vegan friend who is always battling low iron levels. After reading the NYT link, I told her that her spinach and whole grain intake might be making things worse.

The links between high iron levels and diabetes were also very interesting.
That depends largely on language semantics. Ideally, a language would either guarantee that overflows can't happen (via dependent/refined types), make sure that addition is `(int8, int8) -> int16`, or guarantee modular arithmetic. In any case, the second interpretation looks overall superior.
Of course you can. You can, for instance, include an automatically verified proof that your code terminates for finite inputs.

This is in fact where the newest academic languages are going. In dependantly typed languages bounds checks are only done in theory. you have to include a proof that your indexes are within bounds, and the compiler verifies that proof. If it checks out, it compiles. If not, back you go. Far safer than java/go and the like and far faster than c++. These languages tend to allow pointer arithmetic too, for beating it in speed is almost impossible.
I'd argue that the unit liter was chosen as a nice power of 10 relation to a cubic meter (the obvious initial choice) as being the best for 'every day' common person transactions.

Take a bottle of water, most commonly the sold sizes are 0.5 (about 16oz) and 1 liter bottles; a liter is also pretty close to a quart.

As another example, it is common to find soda pop sold in bottles of 1, 2, and 3 liters (depending on the brand).
When this is sent to my friends is it a link to the zejoop site to then update what they plan on doing?
>Intelligence does require communication

The claim he made is that people think intelligence requires linguistics - he then goes on to say that aliens may be communicating in some different way that doesn't require linguistics.

At any rate, a number of the arguments made in this thread are absolutely absurd. Of course intelligence doesn't require linguistics - linguistics is merely one of the markers of intelligence.

And of course creatures can communicate without language - it happens in nature every day.
>In a world of pure supply and demand considerations that would be true. but as I've pointed out, we don't live in that world. We live in a world where many consumers are experiencing the same drought as the nut growers, and are aware of the impact it could have on prices, either because they live in the same place as where the nuts are grown or because they like to read the news.

None of this explains how knowledge of supply shocks would change a consumer's intrinsic demand for nuts.

>In other words, consumer preferences can result in inelasticity of demand.

Earlier you said As long as nut prices are going up faster than nut costs, so will nut acreage

No matter how inelastic demand is, it is impossible for prices to increase faster than costs. In the limit of infinitely inelastic demand, prices increase at the same rate as costs (all costs are passed on to the consumer).
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> while popular older cars are stolen in vast numbers

For now. Once they get out of circulation only newer cars will be left and at that time it might be that thieves could buy devices to hack into these cars just as you can rent botnets today.
Hm... I probably don't know enough about compilers, but why does Windows/Mac/... matter for a compiler (I see why it would matter for the standard library)? AFAIK, the main differences between these platforms are calling conventions (and possibly exception mechanisms), which LLVM should abstract away.
> I am a full-time Linux user and have been for several years. I run Debian on my laptop and Arch Linux on my home machine. Both use i3 (no DE), and I do all my work at the command line or in applications that I launch from the command line[0]. I love the Linux terminal. I don't even own a non-Linux machine, not counting the various OS X devices I've used at work when one is required.

Wow, that's exactly my case as well :).
I could've written this, almost word for word (except I run debian on my servers, and archlinux on my laptop/home machines).
maybe just set up a landing page with all the info and then have a modal pop up with the login that looks like the current log in.

just a thought
Or people who are more violent tend to drink more?
I think you've misunderstood my point. The design I described does not require any component to be perfect. If any of these components (including the kernel) crashes, the system _still_ converges to the correct state.
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I mean, if you were speeding above the limit then you do "deserve" a ticket. Everyone is bound by the rules of the road.
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Walking and biking are not always options, especially when you can get a DUI for riding a bike drunk or a drunk-and-disorderly for being drunk in public (on your walk home).
Sorry, you are correct. The original estimate was $3 million (probably from the consulting company), as built $9 million. It was built in record time, but it would have been built even quicker if the coastal commission had been more cooperative. The CSD finally gave in. Examples of current restrictions: it can be used only for stage four droughts. It must go through the whole permit process again if it is to be used again. It has more stringent water quality restrictions. It cannot be used as the basis for additional water connections. Cambria has had a moratorium on new water hookups since 1991. If I spent $9 million on something, I would like to use it more than once without going through the whole process.

BTW, The link to the Tribune just goes to their front page, but that's always problem if one is not a subscriber.

The original desal plant wasnt just looked at. It was fully funded as demonstration desal plant in 2009 by Obama's jobs program.. It was finally killed by the Coastal Commission's refusal to allow the drilling of a test well on the beach to measure water flow.

I'm not against environmental regulation. I certainly wouldnt want to live China or even Texas. We need more or more effective. Dont get me going on Wall street or regulatory capture or Citizens United.
yeah i think your definitely on track with this, no sense in spending extra dev time if the different UI's are not asked for.

I'll keep playing with it this weekend. I'll ping you if I think of anything else :)

If you have 4mins mind giving me some quick UI/UX feedback on my project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062700
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Thanks for the tip. I wanted to keep my implementation extremely bare-bones and simple so I chose to leave conflict resolution (which itself is a rare event in my a use-case as I usually only make modifications on one synced machine at a time).
Glad to see there are GNOME3 user doing real science job out there
Timeouts are better than grounding.
That's strange! Just tried to send myself a few test mails to that mail, and it works fine here...

You can try our general mail, info@netlify.com
Do you have any experience with S6? Do you know how it compares to runit?
Wow, the C1 looks awesome but I would be really hesitant to put my life into one of those things. Thing is, if the car you're on loses power you are pretty much safe all of the time, if your bike loses power you may have some trouble but you would basically be able to stop and get off without dying. If the C1 loses power, goodbye gyro and that's the end for you. :(

If they made the same vehicle with some kind of device that solves the stability issue in a passive way I'd be totally in.
> The program sounds like a very targeted, but also very invasive, ban on alcohol.

No kidding. It's in South Dakota, with a 10% (one of the highest) native american population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_Native_Americans
Chevron was forced to clean it up. Last fall the contaminated well was tested, found contaminant free, and brought back online. Since the cleanup was something like 20 years ago, I feel safe in drinking the water.
You missed my point. At the moment, you're assuming that the kernel behavior will reliably, buglessly fall into one of two outcomes: Either lossless full system reset, or detect init has failed and restart it. You're ignoring the possibility of, deadlocks, failures in detecting that init has crashed, bugs in the special casing of init to restart it, etc. You are assuming that there are components that do certain things perfectly reliably.

You haven't gotten rid of a correctness assumption, you've just shuffled it around a bit.
We looked it up, and learned about a disease called fatal familial insomnia. [...] You can go for 9 months without sleeping before you die.

Debunked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568961

A small percentage of people with fatal familial insomnia don't experience insomnia, yet they still die.

In other words, they die from the disease, not the insomnia.
I think it's super important, but maybe should be considered a skill rather than a quality. It's definitely something that people don't get much practice on in school or most jobs. If you get some practice, you can improve self-discipline dramatically.
I think we should start making decisions based around the understanding that we probably don't understand the full implications of what we're doing.

i.e. We don't really know for certain what will happen if we seed clouds with nitrogen to alter the weather - so let's not (in reality we are doing this)

and

We don't know for sure if these hormones we're injecting into livestock have down-the-line health consequences for the people eating them, so we shouldn't do that.

We should stop messing with stuff we really don't understand, and actually don't even need to be messing with - leave well enough alone.
Definitely. Thanks for your feedback!
> Failure to use the metric system everywhere cost NASA a $125 million Mars orbiter

No, bureaucratic failure to address the concerns of people who spotted the error well in advance of the launch cost NASA $125M. The investigation report makes that clear, especially when it goes on to make recommendations for avoiding future mishap; nobody recommended that the engineers needed to brush up on their units.

And yet here you are, insisting that the issue was that we didn't switch over to the metric system, and throwing in some unsupported claims to justify the position.
Of course: Can get that headline from a simple Markov process argument.
Thanks for checking it out!

Google's working on something called YouTube Gaming, which inspired this post, but it's basically their competitor to Twitch, rather a competitor to Meerkat/Periscope/Facebook Live.

It would be interesting to see what else they could bring to the table.
> Members of Alcoholics Anonymous like to joke that when alcoholics get arrested for drunken driving enough times, it finally sinks in that they need to make a change in their life, so they quit…driving.
Speaking of which, I've long wondered how hard it would be to make the wall of sheep display ASCII art or something by letting it sniff bogus credentials....
Comparing Iran to North Korea is quite a stretch, and frankly doing so reveals that you are severely misinformed about the Iranian people, culture, government, and history. It's OK, majority of people are, and I would be more than happy to clear up any questions you might have regarding the matter.
At least one Mythbusters episode has been filmed there. This one[1] for sure, I think a few other driving-oriented ones. (However it is not the same as the Alameda Naval Air station, a big open runway where they have done a number of episodes including the recent "driving in reverse" episode.)

[1] http://wikimapia.org/14471022/Mythbusters-Dirty-vs-Clean-Car...
With Prohibition in the United States, we discovered another interesting effect: heavy-handed restriction of alcohol lead to a surge in violent crimes and government corruption. It got so bad, that the original proponents of the 18th amendment joined with others to overturn it only 13 years later. It's worth pointing out how we've tried to "ban" alcoholism before.
What are your use cases that require this kind of performance? High performance order matching or other trading/financial applications?
A reasonable agricultural solution is to stop growing food in California. There are many fewer farms in the eastern part of the country than there once were because the settlement of California, fossil fertility, underground fossil water, and federally-subsidized surface water projects made agriculture in California dirt cheap. That put the east coast growers out of business. The eastern USA of course has undergone a huge multi-century boom and bust cycle, being naturally forested, then significantly cleared for European-style agriculture, and now again highly forested.

If we just grew food where the water is, we wouldn't be having so much fuss over agriculture in the desert.
Please don't put things like '(must read)' in the title.
I don't think the concept of "more" and "less" evolved is really valid in general. Drop a human into the middle of the ocean and suddenly it will seem "less evolved" than nearly every living thing for thousands of miles.

We could go with a purely information theoretic notion of genetic complexity, but that's not ideal because genomes with a lot of random accumulated cruft would seem more complex than they really are.

Maybe with the benefit of hindsight, we could say an organism was more evolved if its lineage remained relatively stable over long periods of time or across different environments. By that measure, it's still too soon to say whether humans are more evolved than cyanobacteria or the crocodile, but at least we have a chance.
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I am not against environmental regulation at all. I am against bad regulation of any kind or a process of administering regulation that, for lack of a better word, is stupid or non-sensical. Laws like this one (nothing to do with the environment):

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/irs-seizes-life-savings-for-depos...

Nobody is suggesting dropping regulations, destroying our environment or going anarchist. But a situation like the one you described ought to make everyone angry. The damage caused through inaction (or whatever the mechanism may have been) is inexcusable. The people responsible ought to suffer consequences, perhaps even be fired. Killing half a forest is, well, criminal. And that is, per your account, what they did.

I'd like to think we agree. Perhaps I am more passionate about confronting ineptitude than you might be or perhaps I am much older and I've seen enough of this that I've just reached a limit. I love nature. Killing half a forest should not be taken lightly.
I read this as badly designed and woefully underpowered study generates worthless results.
Currently each invitation is sent via email and contains embedded accept/decline options. Growth will include txt/sms as an option, and later, as an app, likely push notification (not yet)... Server-side keeps tally of responses, and on the preset 'need-to-know-by' date, either confirms or cancels event, and notifies accordingly. Hope that helps... thanks for checking in... Michael (to clarify, friends are not sent directly to Zejoop site because it's not necessary that they opt-in just yet... they opt-in if they want to plan an event of their own)
How did you get it free? Or you just go the repository from github?