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A land grab by a stable government is not very likely.

Furthermore, unlike land that can give you valuable goods even if you can't sell it, US treasuries are worthless if you can't sell them.

I heard the following story recently, though I haven't checked if it's true... Back when the dollar was a gold backed currency, multiple foreign governments traded some of their gold in for US treasuries. It became clear to these governments that the US was issuing more treasuries than they had gold deposits for, so these countries tried to get their gold back. IIRC France was one of these countries. The US government stalled the sale of the treasuries then switched away from the gold standard.

If the above was true, France and the other foreign governments lost money in this deal. Who's to say what other adjustments could come in the future. So you see, US treasuries can potentially be a bad investment regardless of whether the US continues to exist as sovereign state.
One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of (state) violence will
ever solve a (hard) math problem.

-- Jacob Appelbaum
Only a Cnut would hold back the waves of the sharing economy
There some much healthier options in there if you know where to look, but unfortunately its not easy to identify them, and even things like granola which are colloquially thought to be healthy are often jam packed with sugar.
The End of Visual Regressions
Pretty much every programming language in existence has a utility for parsing CSVs into tabular data while handling commas sanely. (using awk for processing is not a typical pipeline)

More importantly, CSVs are handled natively by statistical programs such as Excel and R (you can change the expected delimiter while importing, but in my experience that leads to unexpected results)
There was just a little bit of space in the tip for a warhead. Sometimes the tip was filled only with concrete from a shortage of explosives. Not without a reason the scientists in Peenemünde were calling V2 a "flying laboratory". Its actual military effectiveness as a missile was quite poor. For a scale:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Ag...
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I think my local supermarket sells bottled water for as little as 19p (29c) for 2 litres, as as much as about £2 ($3) so I think you are mistaken.
What we really need is a limit on advertising. Corporations manufacturing packaged sugar like coke, cereal etc. should not be able to manipulate young children to get them addicted to their crap. Sell this stuff in plain white boxes, ban advertising to young children, and in general, limit the free speech of soulless legal fictions when they target children.
I said kilobytes per Person (it is clear, when you read in context). One page in a paper file normally has 2-4 kB.

Everything starts out small. Some institutions in the "free west" are already quite good in oppressing people.

Today, you already must be very carefully which books you read in the public library or buy at Amazon.

Because you, yourself don't feel it, does not mean, that it does not exist.
If it's a trite and artless attempt to yank at your heartstrings, sure. The difference is, fiction declares itself as fiction so you can judge it on its merits as such. This thing would not get a single repost nor an iota of internet attention if it announced itself as fiction. Comparisons to Murakami notwithstanding, it's terrible fiction.
Or if they just stopped advertising it. In the UK the government tried to ban food advertising to children but there was massive lobbying from Kellogg's and they dropped it.
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Network effect: Database upload/export, spreadsheets, etc... I used to hate them too until I realized how ubiquitous and well supported they are.

comma vs. tab: It doesn't matter, in the end, you have to use a character to separate fields, and if you are going to use a "normal" character, there are chances that it might appear in your text, so you have to either escape that character, or quote your text, which csv does in a fairly standard way, so comma vs tab doesn't really matter.
If you are going there, you may as well evaluate the entire store. Most processed foods are not healthy, and most grocery stores are stocked with processed foods. It is not like the frozen dinner/pizza aisle has many good choices either. The produce sections are good, though.
I have a large bowl of cereal every morning. Yes, I eat those kids' sugary cereals. My BMI is below 20.
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I've heard numbers for the top 1% in wealth for Americans being more like $14M. At any rate, most doctors and lawyers I know get there by saving their 1% incomes, which software engineers can also do (although I think it's easier for a lawyer/doctor to get north of $300K than it is for a software engineer, excluding stock)

And speaking of stock... you can get lucky that way, although you still need to save / diversify!
"But the people have solved some pretty important problems,” I said.

“Have they, in fact? The actual practice in a democracy is to vote, not for a given state of affairs, but for a man who claims to be able to achieve that state. I’m not a historian”—Frazier laughed explosively—“quite the contrary—but I suspect that that’s always what is meant by the rule of the people—rule by a man chosen by the people.”

“Isn’t that a possible way out, though?” said Castle. “Suppose we need experts. Why not elect them?”

“For a very simple reason. The people are in no position to evaluate experts. And elected experts are never able to act as they think best. They can’t experiment. The amateur doesn’t appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his expert to know. And he’s utterly incapable of sustaining the period of doubt during which an experiment works itself out. The experts must either disguise their experiments and pretend to know the outcome in advance or stop experimenting altogether and struggle to maintain the status quo.”

-- B.F. Skinner, "Walden Two"
I'd rather have neither. I particularly dislike the .every().day.at("10:30").do(myfunc) thing where methods and attributes are abused in order to artificially make it read like a sentence.

This is not Pythonic at all <troll>it's like some childish Ruby code</troll>
I can think of at least one reason. Copy-pasting from a terminal fails to preserve tabs, while commas are fine.

Tabs might be somewhat less frequent than commas in data, but you're still gonna have just as bad a time when they do turn up. And don't forget quoting and escaping. Without proper parsing you can neither read CSV nor TSV safely. My go to solution is pandas.read_table()
> Being used to memory safe languages with AOT compilation like Turbo Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Delphi, Ada among many others, I also would have prefer that Java and .NET had offered the same type of toolchain from the beginning.

Do those languages offer consistent, defined behaviour on all platforms (e.g. for integer overflow)? Particularly in the context of multithreading - do they have a crossplatform memory model? That to me was the big advantage of the JVM.
where do you draw the line? should all food be sold in white boxes with plain lettering?
Not the case in the UK, I suspect, which is where I live - most people will be familiar with A3/A4/A5. They've been the standard for the past 50-odd years, and penetration of non-ISO paper sizes is approximately 0%.

Until I followed the link, I didn't know 11x17 wasn't just a particular type of printer. And once I found out it was a paper size, I wondered how large it was, since I don't have a good feel for anything in inches once you get past the 12 that fit on a standard 30cm ruler. Which is why I posted :)
That's not a very constructive reply.
I used to own a few Miele mountain bikes, made sometime in the late 80's early 90's. They were hand me downs from my Brother and Brother in Law. Canadian bikes. The company folded a while ago.

Like many such companies, the name was bought from a Taiwan/Chinese company, to slap on whatever bikes that come out of the bike factory - the same factory other more known name brands come out. Frames from these companies are the same/very similar to those same brands; the components can be a bit dodgey. For more,

http://www.bikesdirect.com/‎

(not that I recommend anything on there)
It's very difficult to argue about something that exists but only in the eyes of its proponents. Carl Sagan wrote this up nicely once:

http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Dragon.htm
The claim of identity politics isn't that we must be seen through those labels, but rather that in present society we _actually are_ always seen through those labels and we should acknowledge it in our language. Only by acknowledging it can we begin to fight it.

I don't necessarily agree or disagree, but that's the claim as I understand it.
Using Alpine Linux for Docker images is doable, of course, but, as the post admits, Ubuntu is the "cloud OS of choice". Now it has the critical mass in terms of samples, deployment automation scripts, and packages. The package ecosystem is the key here though. Can you really get the same packages in Alpine? Yes, in some cases, but you can't say with a straight face that Alpine == Ubuntu :-)

So if you can't go the Alpine (or if you don't want to :-)) there's a tool you can try. It's called DockerSlim. It was created for the Docker Global Hack day that ended a few days ago. You can see a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdHnfEbc-E The demo shows how I minified a 430MB Ubuntu 14 based Docker image (result: 40MB image that can be 9MB smaller once the tool is refactored and enhanced).

It's not production quality yet (it's a mess though it works for simple images), but it's a good start. Contributions are highly encouraged :-)
Just do not get a Miyata, as its just a name slapped onto frames, and accessorized with cheap components. The name itself was sold long ago. The original Miyatas were great bikes.
They had no effective long range bombers that could carry such a bomb, nor air superiority in the latter half of the war (in which it'd be used).
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That's entirely possible. Just like there are people who have "exotic" taste for moonshine (or want to avoid taxes), but we have a lot less problems with bootleggers now than we did during prohibition.
That's CB1 you're thinking of, which I believe was the second to open. It's the oldest surviving in the UK.
Tinychat
That will certainly not pass the first amendment test.
Regulating advertising then gives control to whatever organization makes those decsisions. Are their interests always going to be in alignment with our own?
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You're assuming zero sum rather than supply and demand. When supply is decreased, fewer car trips happen in the first place because some marginal trips are combined or cancelled. This less likely to happen for commuting but can easily happen for shopping and entertainment where there are lots of choices.
I find comparing the current state of affairs compared to the Stasi simply revolting. I have yet to see (surely I am ignorant) anyone actually living through that state the current situation is worse or even equal.

I didn't live under the Stasi but I was born and raised behind the Iron Curtain and I had a taste of what's going on. It's the fear and suspicion of the next person. You can easily get used to your phone being bugged (ours were and we knew, that's a story for another time) but say you are in a band. Perhaps the drummer writes a report every time over a beer you make a critique of the system. You have no way of knowing. It's hard to describe the feeling and the result on the whole society.

At least the current mass surveillance is only technology and not humans.
Arguably 1, 2, and 3 require funding and noise.
What we really need is education. Children and adults alike should better understand nutrition and what they are putting in their bodies. It's no secret that soda and so many other drinks are packed with sugar, but no one seems to care or understand.
I don't fully understand the physics behind it, but how exactly does can the track be 'at capacity'? Isn't the track just fed from the power grid, so if the demand on energy on the track is lower, won't it just take less energy from the grid?
The proper personal, gender-neutral pronoun in English is "they"
Sure, contact me. There are some issues / feature requests you can start working on and others I need to flesh out more.
> Do I really want a piece of paper? Or a dashboard with the same contents - perhaps set as my browser's home page.

The piece of paper would be sitting there, waiting to be seen. When's the last time you looked at your browser's home page? I don't even think mine has one.

And changes to a dashboard-generating system can be a lot more expensive that changes made in a paper-printing system. As someone elsethread noted, he's seen millions spent on tools to replace cents spent on paper.
Some, but certainly nowhere near all of the scientists involved were jewish. What did happen was that rising antisemitism (in many many countries) caused jewish academics to suddenly become more mobile, more willing to move about the planet or country and take positions on strange projects. I think it less revenge and more market forces that resulted in a relatively large number of jewish experts working on the bomb.
Modi vs. Trump
If Modi can get elected in India, it's perfectly alright for americans to elect Trump. The end of the world is coming sooner than later., at least humanity has ended already.

In Pakistan assholes threaten to be in power, India is the country where they actually become Prime Minister. Just because India has more facebook users, does not mean Modi was wrongly denied US visa.
> It's hard to justify the cost of hiring a sysadmin, a backup person to the sysadmin, pay for colo space, leasing a server etc., when you can get a pretty nice Linode VPS for $10 a month.

Once you have hundreds or thousands of instances, especially ones with reasonable amounts of resources, the sticker shock starts to make owning and hosting your own servers look pretty tantalizing.
Young children don't do the grocery shopping. Parents need to take responsibility and not buy unhealthy food for their kids. I'd say children up to a certain age are drinking this stuff simply because their parents bought it for them (How else?).

Plus, "when they target children" would simply become harder to define as companies would modify their ads, but the problem would remain if parents aren't taking an active role in educating their children themselves as to what is unhealthy, and making purchasing decisions that are healthy, instead of depending on the government (or corporate advertising) to do it for them.
That stuff is probably more or less tap water:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesco-and-as...

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Actual spring water is uniformly 45p for two litres:

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=258016736

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sparkling-wate...

http://groceries.asda.com/product/sparkling-water/asda-eden-...

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Pe...

That said, i imagine kevin_thibedeau was referring to the situation in the US. Perhaps bottled water is more expensive there. Or perhaps sugar water is cheaper.
Why use a character like tab, which can also appear in common text, when there are control characters designed exactly for this purpose? ASCII 0x1C - 0x1F are there specifically for machine parsing of tabular data.
I was a cereal addict as a kid. Killed a couple boxes of the stuff a week. And I was super skinny, probably because we played outside to the point of exhaustion every single day.
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Bottled water prices are usually regionally-defined and bulk prices vary from excellent to horrendous.

I'm fairly certain the parent was referring to the 24-unit packs of water, where each bottle is ~500ml.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_(brand)
Yep, they are still shipping the binary, mostly for compatibility for scripts that require it. I have a feeling even that binary is eventually going to get dropped.
Huh, I wrote a few pages on neural networks for Natural Language Processing just a few days ago. Too bad I didn't have access to this. It seems to mention all the different kinds of networks I figured to be relevant to mention, and it has a comprehensive explanation on Recursive Neural Networks, which I didn't really find.

Nice one.
Since you used some anecdotal evidence, I felt I could provide some anecdotal stuff back.

LSD: I've tried it a handful of times. The last time resulted in a strip so strongly horrifying I nearly stole a car with people in it to escape my extreme schizophrenic trip.

Note: I've never had any symptom of it before in my life, and it doesn't run in my family. Nor do I believe I ever will. It was so extremely out of character, I know for a fact it was induced by the drug. In fact I think the dealer who gave it to my gave me a hugely high dose, which is a big danger of taking LSD from dealers.

Cannabis: It may be good for pain relief, I had stomach issues that I used it to help with for years. Then a doctor told me it could be causing my stomach pain. Look up "cannabinoid hyperemesis". It was horrifying. The worst stomach flu you could imagine that lasted for weeks, and didn't leave me for years. I don't know if it was the weed, but I stay away from it now. I've had three different doctors talk about it (in different states), and all told me they have seen big spikes in stomach problems due to weed.

So, yea. Nothings black and white. Drugs are an "arbitrary" definition (as all definitions are) for "something that affects you strongly". And anything that effects you strongly deserves a massive warning: if at all possible, don't rely on it.
Kids can buy whatever they want if they have money. And surely, they'll buy the shiny thing thing they saw on TV or the internet when they encounter it in the shop and see it's cheap.
The JVM was very slow in the beginning because it was just an interpreter and had no JIT compilation. Then there also was the issue with 80bit floats on x86 making float computations slow, as the results of each operation needed to be saved back to memory to truncate them to 32/64 bit.

The speed difference since those problems have been overcome has been relatively low. The biggest performance problem is garbage collection, which you can't overcome just with implementing ahead of time compilation. Another issue is the lack of SIMD support of JIT VMs.
If you use control characters, it is not plain text any more. It's hard to edit with a text editor.

Tabs have a similar problem: They look like spaces in a simple text editor like notepad.
I doubt it. Things exercised far more strenuously than nethack rely on urandom.
>More importantly, CSVs are handled natively by statistical programs such as Excel and R

in excel or R? Because I've never encountered problems with tsv files with excel
There was a really good post somewhere on Reddit a while back that I can't seem to find now that had a lot more details on the idea of a Nazi atom bomb, mostly political. I think the gist was that one of the key steps in a nuclear program at the WWII stage is the realization that an artificial nuclear explosion is practical, if difficult, and makes a very effective weapon of war. That also means that they understand the core physics concepts and have some idea of what building a bomb would involve.

As I understand it, the Nazi regime never got to the point of even realizing that a bomb was a serious possibility. So naturally, they never devoted real resources to figuring out the details and how to go about actually building one.

There's also the economic aspect - the initial development work was massively expensive, and even the other major WWII combatants who had an idea that a bomb was possible didn't think they would be able to devote enough resources to it to actually build one for that war. They may well have been right - even with the massive resources the US poured into the project, the war was still pretty close to being over before they had a bomb ready to drop.
A point of the article is that major investments of money and work may be completely ineffective. Almost everyone involved in such projects perceives first hand that the project works. The illusion is very compelling. Efforts to stop the waste are not met with cooperative collaboration. As technology advances, we will not have more leisure time. Instead will will spend more and more effort working at jobs like DARE instructor.
But temporary schizophrenia is very common. Cmon guys, this is ridiculous. I've seen it so many times. It literally re-wires your brain.

And yes, temporary schizophrenia can be extremely dangerous. This is something no one can argue. I hate pedants.
I guess this is the URL - https://github.com/cloudimmunity/docker-slim

Wow, this looks brilliant! I'm going through the sources. Thanks!
Two clicks from the 'First amendment' Wikipedia article led me to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...
So yeah, it might pass.
+1 to Caddy, here's a handy link: https://github.com/mholt/caddy

Very configurable but also very easy to get started.

$ caddy browse

and off you go.
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Yeah, conjugal visits at work would be great :).
I love SimpleHTTPServer. I use it 80% of the time. One downside is that it's single-threaded, so if you have multiple people who need to fetch stuff from your server it can get pretty painful.

I was helping run a programming workshop last week and I wrote my own tiny concurrent server in Go but in the future I think I'll just use Caddy (https://github.com/mholt/caddy).
When Mr. Nutter was fighting the soda tax battle, he kept a bottle of Mountain Dew and a container with 17 teaspoons of sugar — the amount in the bottle — on the table in the center of his office. It was a good “conversation piece,” he said, about the surprising number of calories in a typical soda.

I think this is key. Better information and transparency is having an effect. I'm glad to hear we're approaching a point where the RDA for sugar will be listed on products just like fat, sodium, and potassium. I expect this will have a major impact on consumer behavior and industry behavior, much like calorie listings on fast food menus. It still requires government regulations, but instead of challenging First Amendment principles, it embraces them.

Most consumers aren't idiots. But they're aren't scientists or academic researchers for the most part either. Bring them relevant, accurate information and they are capable of making rational choices. This article is encouraging evidence.
I'm not sure what the 'first amendment test' is when it comes to corporate advertising but our government already limits how alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and marijuana can be advertised. We also limit what and how things can be advertised to children. So I'm not really sure your sentence is correct.
I sure did, and when I was 11 years old we had soda machines at our public school. Sold soda at the lunch counter, and had free soda give away days where the distributor would hand out free new/trial products.
For the US, it was than raw materials and talent. It was infrastructure. The US had the juice to run all the centrifuges. A decade of rural electrification created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Germany didn't have that sort of abundant electric generation, let alone protected from bombing.

I remember reading somewhere that the abundance of electricity in the US led its planners to ignore the fragility of Axis power infrastructure when selecting targets for strategic bombing. Allied dam busting was tactical and carried out by medium bombers at low level not the heavies from altitude used on targets deemed important.