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Methinks I'm going to HN hell for presenting the disagreement here as a logical fallacy, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

For I agree with drzaiuslordofthenukedfallenearthgetyourhandsoffmeyourdamneddirtygorilla even though I think I'm not a sociopath. And that's because I also think this is an excellent case for the government to step in and provide the strong parental middle-finger to Martin Shkreli that he deserves so we can still get the free market that does bring so much good and yet also punish the sociopaths who exploit its unavoidable corner cases like this. See Goedel's incompleteness theorem about why, broadly, there will always be corner cases (yeah yeah inconsistent statements in any consistent system, sue me).

See also I prefer Obamacare because all the other attainable alternatives are worse (In the same way I would prefer single-payer like medicare, but unless Bernie Sanders is our next president, we're not getting it).
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Eh, the quality of her game doesn't really matter anyways. It's interactive fiction with some graphics showing - it's hardly Call of Duty, but it does take a lot more than "15 minutes". Quinn is a game developer in the same sense that my gran playing Words With Friends on Facebook is a gamer - both terms still apply, even if casually.

Play around with something like Inform7 or even Twine with the interest of making a full story - it still takes a lot of thought.

Still, having played it, I'm not a fan (and that goes double since I've fought with depression and do not care for her treatment of the material!), and I think it comes off as amateur hour. I think Steam could do a lot better than IF-style "games" in general.

Good point WRT her Twitter following. I had not considered that.
Tesla tried to snag Ive.. Apple retained him...

I have to believe (car guy) Ive gets what he wants at Apple?

edit: Which would hurt the stock (ie Cook's #1 goal) more in the short term? Announcing a car in 2019 or announcing Ive leaving in 2015? I'm thinking was part of an earlier deal to keep Ive.
... and Kruschev was the one who choosed astronauts. Same problem was with Gagarin versus Titov.
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> But what if they go to all this trouble, and it's significantly slower than C++-based browsers?

Do you have any specific reasons why this would be the case?
It's hard to judge someone from a profile in a popular magazine. If you throw caution to the wind and attempt to judge her based on this particular article, you end up with an impression of someone who may not be, well, entirely stable and rational.

Still, more power to her. For everything that seems a bit "off," such as the idea of being able to sleep less on a vegan diet, or the idea of crediting an unspecified god as a source of personal strength, there's also something about Holmes and her approach to her life and work that comes across as unadulterated awesomeness.
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If the situation is as I read it:

- Importing drugs from countries with reliable drug regulatory infrastructure would have substantial benefits, including a check on cost (sorely needed), and improved availability of less profitable drugs

- Other similar countries are doing this without seeing measurable negative health outcomes

then getting hung up on this 'major concern' that seems to have been rendered moot elsewhere makes most people worse off. Mentioning the existence of potential (and unlikely?[1]) downsides is not an adequate cost-benefit analysis.

[1] not that it's unlikely that there will be people who try to take advantage of the system, but it seems unlikely that given appropriate regulatory care, the downsides will be unmanageable to the extent that they cause the change to allow drug imports to have an overall negative impact.

[edited for clarity, including the addition of the footnote]
Design will not save the world, but a lighter touch with caps lock (and enter key) might make it prettier.
There's a link to the paper in the article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03602
> Perhaps the latter will actually become reality.

How far is it from the reality now though? I buy cars with very high reliability (usually Honda) just so I don't have to deal with it.

I grew up fixing cars, motorcycles, and snowmobiles with my dad, but these days much of what we did is no longer possible to fix (or even necessary with the case of fuel injection).
All credit to Holmes' accomplishments in business and technology, but this story should be read alongside another recent one:

http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-...
so catchy
I agree with your assessment. I over-simplified it because I'm lazy and its been 15 years since I read it.
The more real this becomes, the more it starts to feel like the R&D sprawl of the Michael Spindler years. Yet it's not: This categorically isn't sprawl because it's focused on one hugely ambitious thing, and unlike the Apple of the early 90s, even if Apple literally puts ten billion dollars into this project and it fails, they come out with 190 billion left to continue running a successful consumer electronics business. And if it succeeds, of course, Apple becomes a major player in a socio-technological revolution for the third time.
That's how it used to be years ago. The economics have changed; due to the increased competition in that marketplace and the extreme aversion of users to paying for things, freemium games must use social engineering to survive.

Whales only play one game at a time.
Price controls only cause shortages if the supply in inelastic and demand is elastic. If you make beer cheap then people will buy more until you can't keep up with demand. But pharmaceuticals (especially rx-only) don't work that way, because people only buy them if they really need them and need is relatively static. It also helps that most pharmaceuticals benefit well from economies of scale and are made from non-scarce feedstocks.
Am I missing something? How is Anne Frank controversial?
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Open trade in rhino horn? The only market-based approach I'd tolerate would be the development and flooding of the market with an indistinguishable synthetic horn designed to trigger impotence in all the idiots who buy it.

The answer isn't in economics. It isn't even in protecting rhinos. The answer is to educate all the stupid men of the world that still believe that eating something shaped like a penis will increase their virility. That myth is the real issue. I really don't care whether such things are part of any culture or belief system. You don't get to wipe out such a species because you cannot bother to exercise enough to keep it up on your own.
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When Github will be gone (if that ever happens during your lifetime), will that extra clutter in your commit messages really matter that much?
I'm not conflating anything. I know the hard core of your movement. They are not new people to me. Their agendas are not hidden--and they're not even hidden within the noxious little vortex that you're chilling in, you just don't want to see it. Spend a little time amongst your buds where they think nobody's looking, like 8chan, and you'll get it. (Oh, but they're not "the real GamerGate", I am always assured. Except that they're the straw that actually stirs the drink...because the rest are useful idiots.)

And for reals, nobody has had this happen? I've had a friend crash on my couch after your fellow travelers have doxxed her, emailed her pictures of her house, and said that they'd come to her house and "slit [her] throat like a pig." So you can turn this sideways and insert it back where it belongs.
Can you elaborate on how this works?
It seems like the common safe crypto expert suggestion of deferring to authority is a bit of a philosophical problem. Deferring to authority is how everyone got into this SSL/TLS/openssl mess!

I guess it's what you have to do to make sure less skilled/experienced developers do the least-stupid thing they might do when it comes to crypto, but on the other hand, to not be on an openssl-emergency treadmill for the past few years, there's no alternative to being a very sharp and independent developer who uses something niche but quite well made like polarssl, or finally decides to attack the openssl codebase like the openbsd developers have done (and since you suggest their work, you must have confidence that they won't fk it up.)
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Also: never underestimate laziness. Typing in a credit card takes work.

Re: Netflix/Spotify price differences. The relative size of the libraries (vs all content in the domain) is something to keep in mind. Netflix gives users access to some videos, but Spotify gives users access to almost all songs [1].

[1] Can't find precise estimates for sizes of libraries, so apologies for the argument from anecdotal evidence.
> In contrast with consumer cars, which will always require a human driver.

Always is a long time, brother.
Starship Troopers, its worth noting, was written in something of a fit of political pique that interrupted the writing of Stranger in a Strange Land.
I think Mike Cernovich did after he got doxxed and attempted swatted
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I agree; delivery services will only make sense with autonomous delivery (which I suspect is the long-term plan for all of them - Uber included). But realistically, the R&D required there is crazy if you're trying to be first to market - Amazon and Uber are investing billions in this, and they're the competition.

Once drones or autonomous cars become widespread, this business becomes a commodity and anyone without a legacy business they have to migrate will be at an advantage. So I have no idea why these companies are getting funded other than it's a problem that's simple enough for a really smart university student to tackle.
That is misleading. We should calculate percentage improvements against the better value. Fewer gallons per mile is better. For instance, if you cut in half the gallons per mile, it only looks like a 50% decrease. But it's actually a doubling of the mileage: you go twice as far on a tank of gas. The improvement in gallons per mile is 100%.

Using something other than mileage: suppose you optimize a program so it takes half the time to run. It's running twice as fast: it is 100% faster. Looking at it as a mere 50% reduction of time can be misleading. If you calculate the speedup using the running time, you have to divide the time difference by the smaller, better running time: 100 x (Tpoor - Timproved) / Timproved.

The main problem with the "percent reduction" is that arbitrarily good improvements only approach 100%. If we make a car go a million times longer on a gallon of gas, it's only around a 99.9999 reduction in gallons per mile, which looks only about twice as good as a 50% reduction. :)
They got upset because moot banned any discussion of GamerGate, including journalist conflicts of interest and censorship on other forums around the web. 4chan until then had had very few restrictions on speech. It was very unusual for posts to be removed for mentioning, say, that Kotaku's Nathan Grayson had given favorable coverage to close friends.
It might work if their were an appreciable increase in the African standard of living as well. As it is, the price of horn could be $100 per kg and there would still be someone poor enough to poach. However, it would at least reduce the drive to poach substantially, and that may be enough for the Rhino to survive.

On the other hand, we may have to face the fact that in the modern world large wild animals simply aren't going to survive. It seems sad, of course, but there is really nothing super-natural about it. Many more species have gone extinct naturally than currently roam the earth. Perhaps it is for the best. There is a reason we humans left the trees and created civilization. Surviving in the wild is hard. The larger (and generally smarter) animals have some awareness of this and probably, if given a choice, would choose a "civilized" existence as well. If we make the effort to make zoos very accommodating to the needs of animals (which means putting a lot more money into them) then I think that is the future --and a generally better one for all.
Water treatment is private where I am. Some places in the country it's (still) government ruled. They are on a regimen every other month it seems. Also the streets turn into rivers when it rains heavily. Oh... and their bills are higher too.
Water works represent an enormous public investment in R&D over hundreds of years. They didn't and don't invent themselves. It's an engineering triumph that they feel so routine.
It's really not. We're talking about security architecture here (which rolls out only with OS releases) and not security bugs (which get rapid patches on all but the most negligent of OEM devices).

Having a better security architecture works (to stretch the metaphor) like immunization: past a certain adoption level you reach a "herd immunity" state where the marginal benefit to an attacker of a specific flaw drops rapidly to zero even though there are still "old" devices out there in the market in small numbers.

Basically, the market refresh cycle is still at something like 18 months, so even given that OEMs are slow new Android releases are reaching the public in large numbers fairly promptly.
Why the downvotes? There is some truth to the above. Germany is NOT int the top 10 when it comes to business transparency. While certainly not bad (the US is even lower), its relatively low position (12th in 2014) on the list is surprising and does not quite fit the "impeccably honest" image of Germany some people have.

https://www.transparency.org/country/#DEU
I see, that's interesting.
What device do you have?
Microsoft would be crazy to get into this. They have enough to do right now with fixing their business.
I'm going to have to apologize. I got DQ mixed up with a different hipster Twine game that I heard of at around the same timeframe. One that was no more than 10 or so panels and 3 lines of dialogue that also garnered a fair amount of attention. I confused the two (and no more than a brief Google search showed me that I had...)

At 40,000~ words + music/still graphics, DQ is a fair chunk of work.

Again, apologies. Definitely more than "next to nil" effort.
Exactly, even the most disciplined code base will have errors. Rust type system "automates" the process that many well designed C code bases will do by convention (e.g. borrowing and keeping ownership localised).

While wrapping C libraries in safer Rust APIs is useful for many application, having something as fundamental as time-sharing, task interruption, etc would be much better if written in Rust and care is taken to define simple semantics for the system (e.g. like the recent HN post regarding state-machine based asynchronous IO in Rust).
Looks like it's gotten a bit worse: http://imgur.com/a/7X0Wt
Hmmm, yes, it seems it is more generally distributed now than it was in the past. I just found it's on a lot more distributions than I had recalled.

This is good to learn!
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If by "dogpiled", you mean "having your public communication using a hashtag responded to in public by lots of people".

Volume of replies does not harassment make.

>If you criticise them, you will receive rape and death threats.

This is frequently claimed but there's little evidence of it.
if i were younger, i'd agree... but now, i can only ask: why do you assume that you know better than her what life should be? why do you even care about life choices of someone you don't know? why does it matter so much that you had to comment about it? does it matter at all?
I suspect that these proposals are partly due to desperation. Nothing else seems to be working; At least if we're farming them there's an incentive to keep enough alive that they won't go extinct.
You're accounting for Facebook's and Google's business model all wrong. The end users aren't the customer. Advertisers are the customers. Think of Facebook and Google more like giant hydro-generation plants that have to continually work to divert the flow of attention of its users to its customers.

Like any hydro-generation plant, you want to capture a monopoly from this recurring source of income so you can dictate premium prices from your customers.
And you want standardised controls before the late 20/30's cars had different layouts for gas clutch break etc.

A modern driver would have a hard time driving a Model T
Funny, I pay for Netflix but consistently cancel it because I rarely watch TV or movies but I consume music so much.
Yeah, you're probably right, but I'd go so far as to place all empathy as coming from a place of superiority. Some poor guy can feel sorry for a rich dude because the poor guy knows his friends really like him and aren't just out for his money. The childless couple can feel sorry for how the couple with children has no free time, and the couple with kids can feel sorry for how the childless couple doesn't experience the joy of having a family, and so on, and so on.

That said, I sure feel sorry for someone with no friends, romantic partners, or human engagement on anything outside their work. It may be rewarding, but it doesn't sound very fun.

AND, if it's fun for them, then great! Different strokes and all. I hope they're as satisfied at the end of their days as I suspect I will be, looking back on life.
A major source of information in this article is from a Libyan expat living in Germany named Musbah Eter, who at one point straight out says (apparently on video, but in Arabic) that he was directly involved in the La Belle disco bombing, and furthermore that it was a mistake and he regrets it.

Eter is maybe the most interesting person in the whole article. This following paragraph introduces him and explains some of his motives.

> A few years later, after Germany reunited, a Berlin prosecutor named Detlev Mehlis accessed files revealing that the Stasi had been tracking the La Belle terrorists before and after the attacks. Mehlis identified one of the key perpetrators: Musbah Eter, a baby-faced Libyan operative who had been posted in East Berlin. But Eter had fled the country. Then, one day in 1996, Eter walked into the German Embassy in Malta and turned himself in. Before leaving Berlin, he had fallen in love with a German woman and fathered a daughter, and now he was looking for a way back to Germany, even if it meant serving time in prison. Mehlis flew to Malta to debrief Eter. They met for beers at a Holiday Inn, and Eter gave a full confession. In 2001, he was convicted of the La Belle bombing, along with three associates.
You really have no idea whether or not the additional pollution caused anyone's death. This is part of the problem with figuring out the true costs of things like oil.
for some there is, for some there isn't. i agree but i can totally understand that there are poeple who live to work.
You also get to add the forward velocity of the aircraft so it's Mass * (v1 + v2) ^2. Arguably the largest advantage of the A-10 is it keeps tank designs 'honest' as it's free to engage from just about any angle which forces tanks to add quite a bit more armor.
Yes. If you reboot an iOS phone, and then call it without ever entering the passcode before, it will display the phone number but not look it up, because contacts are encrypted. The encryption class here is "locked until first unlock", so they stay unlocked afterwards not to disrupt basic expected user functionality. The whole security design is still much better as many other things stay completely locked.
Don't be sad about it, there are plenty of Charlie's.

I knew a Charlie in Hollywood, CA. He was an old cranky Asian-American guy, greying beard, real guru stereotype, had a big store full of hi-fi and guitar and studio equipment. Every studio engineer in SoCal knew that if they needed something fixed, fast, no questions asked, you took your synth/guitar/studio equipment to him. He looked at you, told you exactly how much, exactly when to come back, don't argue with him or leave the shop immediately.

In the 90's I built my synth studio by buying cheap stuff that was considered borked - SH101's, Pro One, DX's, etc. - by some studio mishap - spilled wine, homicidal drummer, etc. All of it broken somehow, and thus cheap. A Saturday afternoon with Charlie, and it was like it was brand new.

So the point is, there are plenty of 'em out there, still doing the work. The key to it is always remember one thing, and one thing only: hardware rules us all. Working hardware, even more so.
Tesla is definitely not doing this.
I've got submited to Product Hunt[1].

[1] http://www.producthunt.com/tech/sheetsu
As a woman I do find I need to negotiate a little differently. It's a careful balance. I can't remember where I've read it, but someone once said, "For men you're being assertive. For women you're being bitchy." And also, "As a man, you're assumed knowledgeable until you prove yourself stupid. As a woman, you're assumed stupid until you prove yourself knowledgeable."

In my experience, those things are regrettably true. You have to work around those social expectations. It's just another hurdle. From your linked article though I think it does point at a good suggestion to countering that some:

“We’ve found that you need to offer an explanation for your demands that gives a legitimate reason that the other side finds persuasive,” Bowles says. “You need to signal concern for the broader organization: ‘It’s not just good for me; it’s good for you.’

A good tip for anyone, I think, but I think it's an especially important step for a woman to take when negotiating salary.
I might argue the same things is true about getting everyone in North Korea to switch from wheat to growing cotton. An amazing technical achievement perhaps, but is it the right thing to do?

That's not to say that upgrading to iOS 9 is the same as forced labor, but when you control the market as tightly as Apple does, and then fan the flames of the "the new new thing" as something you have to have ("nothing has changed except everything"?), yeah, it's not gonna be a really hard sell.

I think the most impressive part of it is that a lot of people are reticent to upgrade due to fear of bugs, and it's a testament to Apple that the vast majority of folks trust them to roll out quality releases. Of course, it could be their audience doesn't give a shit about quality and just wants the new new thing. Not really a single variable study here.
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Easier said than done, as toxoplasmosis promotes risky behavior of the sort that tends to be incompatible with a research career.

Of course the real problem here is the subversion of the controlled-distribution mechanism to serve a private rather than a public end, a tragedy of the regulatory commons if you like. The basic idea here is good; you don't want drugs like thalidomide being freely prescribed because if they find their way to a pregnant woman consumption is likely to result in horrific birth deformities. This is an abstraction to many Americans because the FDA restricted Thalidomide early, but growing up in Europe I became aware of it from quite a young age because there was a small-but-distinct demographic cohort of people with characteristic deformities.

But what's happening here is the drug manufacturer falsely claiming that there's a serious public health risk in order to get into the controlled-distribution system, and then using that to prevent any potential competitors from entering the market. I imagine that if the FDA had declined to make any of these drugs controlled-distribution then the strategic response would have been to hire a PR firm to plant stories about how the FDA doesn't care about medical vulnerabilities.