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I thought the definition of life was a matter philosophical, not scientific, debate. How does one "find evidence" to support an open philosophical argument?
> It's not a wealth transfer, it's just internalizing some externalities

I'm wary of that argument, it can be used to justify just about anything. It's all too easy to selectively internalise a politically unimportant group's externalities while letting others' remain external.

Where are these millions of people supposed to move to, to be closer to work? Don't houses in DC start at around the seven-figure mark? People with children don't want to live in tiny apartments.

How about we have a government which sees its job as helping people do what they want to do (ie live in big houses and get to their jobs which can't be relied upon to be within a one-mile radius) instead of one that tries to force people into its own vision of life?
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>That's only very recently, right? Like mostly post-2008.

No, it also dates back to the '80s. Partly this was political: right-wing state governments wanted to crush those damned hippies. It was also demographic: states had major obligations to fund, like tax-cuts for Baby Boomers and pensions for state worker, so public higher-ed got the cut.
Yep, crows have pretty good eyesight. Speaking of chipmunks, I used to have one shamelessly come to the window where I would put some peanuts out every day for jays and chickadees. This particular chipmunk just couldn't help himself and tapping on the window wouldn't stop him from stuffing his cheeks (he'd just look at me for a moment and then carry on with stuffing). I would have to literally open the window to get him to run off and save some for everyone else. However, as soon as I look away (my PC at home is next to the window), he'd be back stuffing his cheeks again. Perhaps it just couldn't see me that well, as you said, heh.

Crows will craft and use tools in the wild[1]. Their intelligence always surprises me, though I think most of us are predisposed to assume birds are not that intelligent when compared to other animals. I used to think that myself before making the study of birds a hobby.

Crows snip into the leaf edges and then tear out neat strips of vegetation with which they can probe insect-harboring crevices. These tools have been observed to come in three types: narrow strips, wide strips and multi-stepped strips—which are wide at one end and, via a manufacturing process that involves stepwise snips and tears, become narrow at the opposite end.

Studies show that New Caledonian crows are capable of meta-tool use, at a level rivalling the best performances seen in primates.

One such study involved putting food in a box out of the crows' reach. The crows were given a stick that was too short to reach the food. However, this short stick could be used to retrieve a longer stick from another box, which could then be used to retrieve the food. This complex behaviour involved the crow realising that a tool could be used on non-food objects, and suppressing the urge to go directly for the food. It was solved by six of seven birds on the first attempt. This behaviour had previously only been observed in primates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonian_crow
I was a teenage DARE ambassador, taught younger kids how uncool drugs were. But that wasn't nearly as effective as the time I drew a caricature of the class's newest drug user and a friend made 50 copies of it. Major fireworks, major drama, and all adults who wanted to know were now in the know. I may have almost destroyed that poor thing's life, but in doing so I believe I found a faster-acting solution than DARE, at least for kids who didn't want their parents to know.
How about instead we start to question our city-centric culture?

It's no problem getting around by car in a town of ten thousand, or even sixty thousand. But in a city of six million, transport is inevitably going to be a huge issue.

There's no really good reason, especially in the internet age, why we should be trying to cram into ever-larger cities rather than trying to spread people out a bit more into medium-sized cities which don't suffer from so many problems.
There has been a whole bunch of changes and cleanups in OpenSSL, it's just stuff like that doesn't seem to pick up as much traction here (they don't really have the blogging / communicating thing down so well, I guess?)

This is the current roadmap. https://www.openssl.org/policies/roadmap.html
Picking out a few highlights:
* "Objective met (2015): The FIPS code has been removed from the master branch, and will be re-integrated more cleanly during a future validation. "
* "Objective met (2015): All use of dynamic memory allocation has been cleaned up and made consistent, and the internal memory pool has been removed. "

Under Coding Style:
* "Objective met (2015): All release branches were reformatted using a script included in the release." (so all code now adheres to a consistent style at least, which is a good starting point)

And amongst their targeted goals now:
* Legacy platforms that are unlikely to have wide deployment will be removed from the code.
.. but ..
* Non-supported platforms requiring regular maintenance activities will eventually be removed from the code after first seeking community owners to support the platforms in platform specific repositories.

Not convinced that's necessarily the right route, but I can appreciate where they're coming from.
Ah, BT... at times just terrible, at times really amazing.

In 2002 I'd rented an apartment in central London, and wanted ADSL, which was pretty new then. They came to inspect the wiring, very old copper they said, and put some new stuff in. No charge.

So with my new PC, 19 inch CRT monitor (fantastic resolution) and Alcatel modem (also free) I tried to connect. 2002 was when Windows XP was getting rolled-out en-masse, but I'd heard about Linux, and had purchased a Mandrake CD. Come 11pm, back from work, I tried connecting. PPPoE or something like that just didn't work. Called BT. They hadn't a clue. Explained it wasn't a supported operating system. But they stayed on the line with me for 1.5 hours trying to work a fix - I'd make a suggestion and they'd check on the internet if it would work, I'd type it in at my end of the line. Amazing service. Improbable today.

Biggest regret is not sending a compliment to the customer support representative. When you (as in, anyone reading this) do get good service, do send a compliment, as few people ever do. I know now that is does make a big difference not just on a personal level, but to the rewards customer support representatives get.
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I think Randy Marsh from "South Park" had the most effective anti-marijuana speech I've ever heard:

Stan: I've been told a lot of things about pot, but I've come to find out a lot of those things aren't true! So I don't know what to believe!

Randy: Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but… well, son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored. And it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything.
>In 1989-1996 studies done showed that kids involved in the D.A.R.E. program take 3-5% more drugs than kids not in the D.A.R.E. program.

Are DARE programs more likely to be targeted at kids in higher-risk groups?
If that's set on the connection, could a misbehaving/poorly-written client still give you trouble (obviously it would be better to not have any other teams connecting directly to your DBs, but have to you work with what you find in place, sometimes...)? Or is this something specified at the DB side of the connection, not the client?

My practice with long-running query killer scripts is to have them ignore queries that are known to be long by running those queries on a specific user/machine(s) and then hoarding and protecting those credentials.
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It seems to me that the best way is simply to severely punish any kid caught taking drugs. And do hair tests to make sure they're caught.
Not mine, but one that is maintained: https://github.com/puckel/docker-airflow
that's...uncool. most people grow out of drug experimentation naturally and never look back. you might have actually fucked that person's life up, compared to if you had done nothing. that's no solution, that's just plain mean.
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Knowing how these recruiters work, I'm not surprised at all.
> So there's no objective test which can distinguish between you and a p-zombie

Oh there is for me, just not for anyone else. I know I'm conscious, but I don't necessarily expect anyone else to believe it.
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How do you know that if you pay $5 your service will actually be cancelled?
I would be very interested in volunteering for Donald Trump. Does anyone know how I could get involved?

I like the way he is the only candidate with the guts to oppose illegal immigration, even though it should be obvious to everyone that illegal immigration is wrong and must be stopped. It's especially ridiculous given that almost all liberal candidates support much worse in Israel, while calling Trump a racist for proposing relatively mild measures in the US.
Everywhere but a few small markets have no cap at all. They suspended the 250GB soft cap years ago.
It's obvious from his past history that he sees himself as Jobs 2.0. So I'm sure he's working the PR machine hard to see himself cast that way.
Yeah, but a bad trip to the ER can screw up your life even if you have money. Everyone dies, unfortunately, and interventionist medical methods don't seem to help that much. What does help, though, is living a clean and healthy lifestyle.

I agree, living without money is certainly more challenging. Growing up without it and not getting well educated makes it much much harder. But again, I know people (no children, no dependents) who do just fine. They just realized at some point that they can survive without the trappings of wealth. I envy them greatly.
The only good thing about OpenStack is that if you find yourself thinking it's the solution, you know with complete confidence that your problem lies elsewhere.
The only thing I can remember is the dare officer teaching us how to use a bong and how to cook heroin in a spoon. I'm not sure how that's supposed to stop us from using drugs though.
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As opposed to all the ones that worked?
The constitutional specifically prohibits a standing army

No, it doesn't:

The Congress shall have Power ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

As long as Congress keeps appropriating money for it, we can have a standing army.
Did you see the video of the DEA agent who shot himself in the foot during a K-12 presentation?
I think there is a huge opportunity to move more software development to developing countries. It could become the next version of sweatshops, which have done an immense amount to improve the wellbeing of people in the third world. The winners of using cheap labor from overseas are the companies that hire them and the people they hire. The losers are the workers in the first world who are outsourced. But it's crucial to understand that both nations as a whole benefit, and the first world nations are more than capable of redistributing wealth.

When you cut through all the self-interest and xenophobia surrounding outsourcing, there still remain many quality and communications issues. But I believe these will be reduced as more people learn English and recognize the value of English as a market skill.
You do realize that every President of the US in the last 2 decades has smoked pot and in some cases used harder drugs, right? Oppressive police state tactics are rarely a good idea, whether dealing with kids or otherwise.
As a counterpoint, I found DARE to be a useful and worldly course.

I probably wasn't the target audience, as an introverted sciency-type, but the class gave me a survey of the various drugs on the market and an introduction to a vocabulary with which I'd had no contact. When interactions with drugs touched closer friends in subsequent years, I feel that I was better prepared than I would've been without DARE.

Anecdotally, DARE led to my confounding our family doctor when I categorically refused to take any cough medicine, even prescribed, that contained codeine.

So, Mr. DARE officer, your course worked for me.
D.A.R.E. was funded by Big Pharma trade groups, branches of law enforcement, and even things like asset forfeiture [1]. It was never about public health, but simply propaganda to justify the abuses carried out in the name of the War on Drugs and to prop up the prison and pharma industries.

Substance abuse education can't be entrusted to the government given how easy it is for public programs to be corrupted by interests who are opposed to public health and safety.

[1] https://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/rpt/2010-R-0468.htm
Twitter is a one-to-many platform. It's nothing like IRC as most people use it. If you want to make a comparison it should be to a mailing list.
Tongue in cheek solution. No one should do this. The fireworks enveloped us all.
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Are you replying to the wrong comment? What you just said is strictly irrelevant to my reply to GP.

And if you're not, whatever your point is, there's actual reasons why Twitter is not a good debate platform. Kinda like there's actual reasons why an oven is not a good place to store money. Biggest one, the 140 character limit encourages "clickbaity" arguments and lossy compression of information.
I remember DARE. A message delivered to us by people we didn't respect. A police officer that no one trusted and videos of teens we perceived to be losers telling us that drugs were bad. The program seemed to focus on social pressure not to do drugs, but social pressure is meaningless and ineffective when it's coming from somewhere beneath you. It had the effect of making my peers want to get high to distinguish themselves from the lower social class who were shown to us coming out against drugs.

From personal experience, I feel that they would have been better off focusing on the consequences to your health rather than a fumbling attempt at peer pressure. The one class when they showed pictures of a smoker's lungs was the only one that had any lasting positive impact on me.
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As a kid, hearing that kids were taking drugs, I always wondered what I was missing out on. The one thing that didn't make me want to take drugs were the ads saying "most kids don't smoke or do drugs".

But then everything changed when I went to college in my mid-20s and developed a strong cannabis habit. It gave purpose to my life. I'm still a daily smoker, years later, with a fulfilling job and good friends.
As long as you don't directly work with FLIF, cause tools don't support it, having the file browser's preview-feature work using FLIF would be awesome. This way it doesn't need to store n previews for the supported preview resolutions but could store just a flif of the max preview size per document (psd, jpg, png, svg, pdf) and then, when you seek 3 pages down, the system reads the first kB of each such preview to render it and reads the next kB to improve the images, etc.

Sure, for actual flif files you would not have a separate preview file.
If Google loses all of its code, how long for Google's engineers to rebuild?
"it's a pain to look up what the fair rate is and then draft a competent counteroffer letter."

Not that hard these days, viz. https://www.rentometer.com/
> The best and brightest should stick to engineering and finance where they can have a bigger impact.

Many of the best and brightest stay in academia, but at the university level. Many others go into engineering and finance, but make no real lasting impact mostly working on the day to day tasks of making the cogs turn. Currently many of the smartest engineers in silicon valley have dedicated their careers to selling targeted ads.

In the scheme of things, I'd be hard pressed placing selling X more power drills a year or "yet another CRUD app" over building the foundation of a quality education system.
Developing software has all kinds of metrics that show the team if the progress is in the right direction, effective, and future proof.

How is it a program like DARE could have gone on for so long without peering into their own performance metrics to see if the program had any value?

It's a rhetorical question. It's obviously political. A group of powerful people banked their political cred on the concept and was unwilling to admit defeat. Just like the entire drug war.
I live and work in the emerald triangle now. There are so many stories like yours that it's more of a nuanced discussion: For whom, and at what age, is how much of which variant too much? :P
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A trillion dollars wasted but let's keep at it! I'm sure its gonna work out with just one trillion more. Besides, think of the consequences of suddenly stopping! Private jails would go bankrupt and that would be anti-capitalism and therefore anti-american.
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interesting how it jumps from csv to rewrite stuff without just doing SQL and be done with it. since csv did the job almost good enough, it seem like SQL would just fine and dandy while easier to manage and implement (minutes, literally)

note: after reading a little more I suspect SQL would be faster, in fact.
I didn't know what to expect from the title, but it wasn't that. That was amazing and heartbreaking, and reads like an elegant work of fiction. (The cynical part of me wonders if it is, but I don't like the idea and so relegate it to parentheses.)
Seriously, the only things that have ever made me think a second time about drugs are the honest descriptions of it, not the "I did drugs and now I have no teeth" kinda descriptions, but the ones that go, "When you're on meth, meth feels great! Everything is amazing, you feel like you can do so much, but when you're off it everything seems boring! So you go back for more, and eventually you're addicted." kinda descriptions.

If you talk about LSD, and say, "I've had some amazing times on it, and other times I've had spiders in my eyes", I think most people would be less likely to try it. Sure, not everyone, but still more than people saying just spiders in your eyes.

I mean, it's a classical argument tactic, give something up to make your point more valid. But damned if it doesn't work.
Twitter is somewhere in the middle of both. It's async, skewed towards realtime, topic-centered multi-user conversation. It's an unintuitive but valid comparison tbh.

What do you define as "one to many" anyway? All conversation is one-to-many unless you are actually aggregating what people are saying before presenting it somehow.
Because I am an idiot. Disregard. Move along.
I almost want to login to my non-throwaway/hellbanned account just to laugh at this notion.

The times I've been most curious. Most engrossed in a piece of new tech has been when I'm high. Some night, I will go home from a 9-10 hour work day and get high to relax and make dinner and then go to bed... but will wind up reading about the latest and greatest in container tech, or whatever.

The notion that pot makes you distinctly less interested is just laughable in my opinion.
Usual bullshit.

The job of sysadmin is to recognize how systems have been designed, based on which first principles and what are the alternatives. This is how one ends up with Postgres instead MySQL (or Informix instead of Oracle) with Scala instead of Ruby (because you do understand principles Scala is based upon), with Erlang instead of Java (you do understand the differences and principles),etc. Basically, sysadmin is a system (or service) designer and architect.

Nowadays the term sysadmin is used to describe a job of issuing memorized commands to AWS or some "containers" without any deep understanding of what dynamic linking is, what is libraries and API visioning, how to compile from sources and run several versions of some sets of libs, how to recompile a source package disabling unnecessary features, and so on. This is the same nonsense as to call an auto-mechanic an engineer. Most of moderns sysadmins does not know what the ./configure; make; make install sequence or a syntax of Makefiles or how the mess they called cmake works. (how many here knows how to write RPM's spec?))

Old school sysadmins are engineers, not mechanics. They do understand access patterns, data-structures, memory allocation techniques, what are shortcomings of posix threads and its naive usage, and, of course, programming paradigms, so they could reason (more objectively than managers or other laymen) about behavior of a system.

They think that running a Hadoop on AWS (from ready images) is a big deal.

btw, in my 20 years of being sysadmin (since SCO Open Server and FreeBSD 2.0) everything worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_tx_fTjhBI Basically takes that same tack.
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Not as uncool as smoking green, according to DARE. :P
The most important thing it needs is an explanation of what it does, in 1 sentence. Like a header in large fonts on the top.

(I'm sure it does a lot. But I don't want to think. Just tell me.)

Is this links to music?

Is this links to music events happening now?

Is this links to music news? (I think it is.)

Whatever it is, just tell me!

Can you also put a link somewhere on top with more details? Like where the data come from, etc.
In a city of ten thousand, there is no reason why 20 to 40% of trips shouldn't be done on foot or on a bike. A bus network can easily provide mobility in a city of 50 to 100 thousand. In Sweden, some mid-sized cities have lower car use per capita than Stockholm, the capital.

Anyway, I think you've got it all wrong. There's no good reason NOT to cram into large cities. In the past, people had one job and they did it till the day they died. Most small towns of the size you describe were built around one employer.

In the modern economy, having one job only during one's life is next to unheard of, at least, in the private sector. What replaces job security is the ability to find another employer in close proximity, so you don't need to uproot yourself and your family when you change job. It also means that you can have a few big companies working the same sector, then have a lot of small companies specializing in providing professional services for these big companies, which creates a very dynamic industry where the contractors acquire expertise working with the big companies and can share that expertise with startups and smaller companies. That's why Silicon Valley exists and why even IT companies, the most liable to transfer to telecommuting, tend to gather around a few hubs rather than spreading far apart.

Telecommuting is also not applicable for a lot of industries, even when it is, being physically present in one office can be quite beneficial for expertise sharing through casual contacts rather than relying on formal internet communication.
Nothing specific to the article here, but in general I believe philosophical question tends to be explain or made obsolete by scientific discovery rather than philosophy itself. Look at the discussion on "life substance" (I forgot the term) before we learn how to synthesize organic compound as an example. Otherwise, the concurrent philosophical text on conscious and intelligence would be another case where answer would likely be explain by science.