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Best i can tell it is not just that it will be referenced, but that judges on the same tier of court is bound by that decision until a higher tier overrules it.

This process btw is how USA effectively got software patents.

A corporation or other applied for a patent on a production process that used a computer (and therefore software) to gain more precise control of the results than previous mechanical means.

The patent holder was sued over it, and a judge ruled in the patent holders favor.

This ruling was then used by other lawyers to press for "process" patents, where the process was described in software.

And so far no higher court has overruled the initial ruling, thus effectively USA have software patents.
> I'd say it's a matter of debate how good that control is

It's just that having this debate is pure luxury already. Otherwise it'd be "where the hell do we get the gold we need to fuel our economy?" or "what do we do with all the surplus gold that's ruining our economy?".

> but alternatives such as Bitcoin become increasingly interesting in countries plagued by hyperinflation.

Bitcoin, really? Private currencies where inflation is at the mercy of random developers who may or may not control significant currency reserves as well?

Using foreign currencies to supplant or replace a failed domestic currency isn't a new phenomenon, nor limited to "crypto""currencies" (the Balkans used the German Mark extensively in the late 90s, and US Dollars get you far in a lot of places).
To use a software project analogy, it's the difference between working in isolation and dumping a source tarball on a personal website, and creating an nice introductory website, putting the source on github and accepting comments/pull-requests. One has more chances to get used and studied than the other.

At least that's how I understood it.
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And risk detection of more "emission scandal" like issues? :-)
In the US all the GMO's go through years of testing by the government. It can take up to ten years to get approved, to me that is a fair compromise as to potential future problems. From the earliest testing in the early eighties we're going on 25+ years of data right now.

Neighbors and GMO's are a trickier problem. For seed fields there's a set distance to prevent cross pollination. In practice for a row crop farmer if I have say an organic farmer neighbor I use something different on the 12 rows next to his fence. There is no law saying that I have to do it but in my experience there are few problems.

The company I worked for had a custom spraying business and it was law that we had to give notice to any registered organic farmer if our sprayers were anywhere near them. If they asked us to change our schedule we'd do it.
Looks like an outtake from Nathan Barley.
I'm looking at http://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_13.jpg. Can you tell me exactly what looks impressive about that? The leafs outside seems to be more in focus that the little guys eyes. They even had the chance to set focus after capture, so I don't see why this should be happening.

I see noise even at this resolution. I also see really bad highlight clipping (the "hitting a wall" type of clipping) and purple fringing like color shifts in the transparent plastic right above the vinyl.

To see something interesting, take a look at the gray box in the lower left corner. In the absolute corner there's "increased resolution", and then to the right of this there's a sharp line where a more smudged area takes over. And no, that is not beacause of shallow DOF.
Ambiguity is the domain of lawyers...
Wow, this is really interesting stuff. One could read from this that to be more creative, say, for designers they should focus on the left screen.
Doesn't really matter too much what the proof is about, does it? You can still choose different notions of proof.
It would be by far the biggest community betrayal from the past few years, bigger than Cyanogen and Minecraft selling to Microsoft, and bigger even than Oculus selling to Facebook. I hope Canonical is considering this issue. 80% of its "consumer" users and 50% of its enterprise users could leave it overnight. Ubuntu could become the "OpenOffice" of the Linux distro world.
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because safety

I'd rather play a game that performs a little poorly than a game that crashes. I gave up on Dragon Age Origins due to how buggy it was, for example. I've also refrained from buying games that looked great due to bug reports. I can't tolerate a broken product, but I can tolerate one that doesn't perform quite as well as I'd like.

Therefore, I think giving up on safety in favour of performance is a bad idea. Sure, its possible to write good code in any language, but the fact is people make mistakes, a lot and software is, in general, extremely buggy.

Of course, I understand that not everyone thinks like me and the "average gamer" is possibly much less forgiving for performance problems than I am, so Blow of course is doing what he feels best serves his goals for the market he's in.
Yes, let's solve medical condition problem with a smartphone application! How could physicians be so clueless that they didn't see this solution?

Next time somebody maybe will cure cancer with another app!
I'm sure you appreciated the sarcasm anyways. Thanks for the link.
Really. It's important to remember that every floor in a building has to support all of the floors above it - not just physically, but all the services and access for the floors above too. Above three floors or so, you also need extra infrastructure like pumps to get drinking water to the upper floors, tanks to store it, and elevators so people near the top don't have to carry their shopping and furniture up all the flights of stairs. At the same time, you're losing economies of scale because rather than building the same house 10 times, you're building a one-off, with every floor having to be designed and analysed separately because it's under different loading. And of course that one building has the same transportation, power, water and sewerage needs and generates the same amount of garbage as all 10 houses, but now you have much less space at ground level to satisfy those needs with.

And this just gets worse as the building gets taller. Eventually, the infrastructure required to add more floors removes so much usable space from all the floors below that it's not ever economically viable to do so, which is why all the tallest skyscrapers are built for bragging rights these days.
They noted dogs in the write-up so I assume they are using extremely high frequencies far beyond what animals can hear.
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> I'd say it's a matter of debate how good that control is when who's controlling it is either incompetent or has it's own interests -- or worst, both.

The problem is that, in the example quoted, no one had that control. Gold mines run dry and you're fucked. Not because some incompetent banker is controlling the gold supply, but because there is no more damn gold. The most competent financial advisor of Rome -- a figure so gargantuan in the field of finance that, if transplanted to the modern world, would not only win that fake Nobel prize for economics, but would cause every other economist to retire out of shame -- would have been powerless. Because there was literally no more gold.

Obviously, it wasn't the end of all things -- new mining facilities would be open, sometimes processes would be optimized in older ones, wars would be waged, but these things took time and needed money.
I believe there is more at play here. I hope someone more qualified would research this, very interesting.
The worst part is that now the news is out that placebos are getting more powerful, people are expecting it. The effect will grow exponentially.

Wait, I guess that's not really bad.
That's hilariously brilliant. Your infrastructure is in the US, so Australian law doesn't apply to it; but your staff are in Australia, so US law doesn't apply to them.

I'm glad jurisdictional conflict is being used for good.
From the comments:

> the long-short of this: Say nothing, ever, except “I am (ironically) exercising my right to remain silent, and I want a lawyer”, unless your lawyer says you have to talk? (because we know cops can lie, so we can’t trust them to tell us how our rights are going to apply)

> > That’s what you say if you’re in custodial interrogation, sure. But if it’s not law enforcement asking you the questions (or providing the forms to fill out, or whatever), you have to assert that you’re taking the privilege every time they ask a question. And there are some situations where the 5th Amendment will NOT apply, and you will have to answer or face penalties.
I want to believe this idea came from Adventure Time

http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Ancient_Sleeping_Magi_of...
For further reading, the New Republic article thread a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329831
The merchants are geniuses, the clip parts break if you barely touch them the wrong way. Brush up against someone and it's time to drop a few yuan to get a new one.
> Anyone who endures verbal abuse chooses to do so.

That is factually wrong. People are abused in school and in their workplace. Of course, they could choose to change schools or workplace, but the existence of the abuse is a severe, coercive, limitation of their freedom.

Most common form of coercions work in non-physically-violent ways, both in human and animal societies. Coercion is not binary, and bodily harm is not the only coercive force. Not recognizing that is simply ignorance of both human psychology and sociology as well as zoology. It's a little like saying, "in physics, the only force that matters is the electromagnetic force!"

I understand that you're making an assertion of value, but values should (I believe) at least be somewhat based on fact. If an experiment were to show that physical force coerced 100% of people to do something, and intimidation coerced 80% of people, you could not say that intimidation is not coercion. You could say that intimidation is a strong coercive force, but one that is weaker than physical violence, and with that I -- and everyone else -- would agree. My point is that the effect of intimidation on people is a matter of empirical observation -- not an assertion of value -- that yields clear results, even if the effect size is less than 100%.
http://www.monetary.org/

From the site above, and the related book, i got the impression that Rome didn't get into monetary issues until they started using gold and silver for foreign trade.

Internally they used "worthless" metals with few problems for generations, in large part because the "worthlessness" made them durable tokens rather than metals to hoard.

Meaning that they acted as an accounting system without a third party.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevekeen/2015/02/28/what-is-mon...
Things you can't do with ZFS:

- Use it together with GPL-licensed software
I'm using it all morning (UTC +2 here) and I must say that it has improved drastically from the last time I've used the service! Cool :-)
A valid question, but it raises another question - why just Americans?
You can. ZOL does that.

Blame the GPL plague-like principle.
No, why do you think it would?
It doesn't look so creepy when you are in the middle of a busy shopping district and seeing tens of very much alive young people walking around with such things.

I wore a few of them myself.
Their strategic needs of keeping AWS as a trusted platform override any potential gains from giving Netflix the shaft - particularly since they'd be stupid to assume that Netflix doesn't have a contingency plan.
> Whenever I see my 10-year-old daughter brimming over with so much energy that she jumps up in the middle of supper to run around the table, I think to myself, "those young mitochondria."

Best first sentence introducing a scientific text, as far as I can remember ...

But I challenge you - got something more intriguing?
One of the infuriately amazing things about Roman history is the tendency for people to see within the past whatever lesson they most want to communicate to the present.

Some see Rome through the eyes of the conservative: Once a great nation that fell to decadence and handouts to the populares.

Other see Rome through the eyes of a more socialist/anarchist bent: Once a great nation frittered away on useless wars while elites competed for power.

The truth? Rome is complex and fairly well recorded. We can know a lot about it and it allows us to see that humans build quite complex and often contradictory societies. Easy, bumper-sticker versions of this are often at least partially wrong and do not do justice to the very vibrant lives that the Romans lead. Similarly, they too were often slaves to the bigger trends and forces that were often unseen in daily lives.

That's a long way of saying, be careful when you think you've got a lesson from history. It probably says more about you than the Romans.
I can confirm this is true. I saw many people sporting them when my wife and I were visiting Beijing, Shanghai, and Suzhou a month ago. My wife even bought a pair (antlers: http://laurenandmarc.blogspot.com/2015/09/suzhou-china.html) Mostly women wear them, but also some men. Street food vendor, young student, worker, etc, everybody seems to like them.
Maybe spend some time working with asbestos and see how your "life is a fatal disease" philosophy works out for you.
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We don't do titles so much where I work. As far as my boss is concerned, we call ourselves what we like. I think whatever official HR system of record we have, I'm probably listed as Technical Analyst III or something, even though for the last 3 or so years I've been a Software Developer or Team Lead or Product Manager, depending on the client or email. Which is what I'll call myself on my resume the next time I have to go out job hunting. I'm not sure I see anything untoward in it, though someone correct me if I'm wrong. Official Titles are for payroll systems, your title should describe what you do or what you did.

Which is a bunch of words to say were I a Zappos Ninja that was actually a software dev, I'd write Software Developer on my resume and tell a joke about how cool my TCL nunchaku skills are now.
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> YOUR magic words: "I'm not answering any question and I want a lawyer"

then shut the fuck up.

Although I think you have to provide your identity to officers? Not sure.
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> called for a quick fix

Can we not do that? I would like a comprehensive reform, not a "quick fix". If that means US companies can't offer their services in the EU in the meantime, so be it. Take it up to the U.S. government and the NSA.
> ...I am not aware of any single system of ethics where free speech is a higher value than preventing all forms of intimidation.

I'm not sure how you define "system of ethics", but systems that eschew relativity and focus on universal principles (as defined by the philosophy) are more likely to value freedom over prior restraint. I'd be surprised if you've never heard of anarcho-capitalism, that is the first such system that comes to mind.
I was in Shenyang last month. They sell this stuff in every corner. In every shopping district where I saw young people, many of them wore these things. I bought a few of them myself. People just think they're cute.

Interestingly, my elders tell me that wearing flowers or plants on your head used to mean that you have been sold as a slave.
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> Some raw (is there an equivalent here?) or high res samples would be greatly appreciated in exchange for my deposit.

Yes, supposedly it outputs (or will output) raw/mosaiced DNGs[1]. I think it will be some time before we'll have access to these though. There's about a year until release and even the files available (downsampled to 1920 on the long side) looks noisy and a bit smeared (probably from noise reduction).

[1] http://support.light.co/hc/en-us/articles/205746673-What-ima...
For those who don't follow, the acronyms mean "array of structures" vs "structure of arrays". These are two orthohonal ways to represent data, both of which have advantages which make them attractive. Being able to switch the same data around between the two is cool and innovative.
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I would love to, but I live on the other side of the "pond" :)
The one thing I know how to do really well with ZFS is get confused by the extended ACLs!
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I suggest that you pack them into a git repo and use GNU stow to deploy them.
> If you want reasonably secure and private email, and you're not doing really dodgy shit, we're probably a safer choice that many. But we're not selling a privacy service, just an email service. If privacy is 100% non-negotiable for you, then you'll need to look elsewhere.

Hot damn you should put that on your front page. Ok maybe not but to people like me that is without a doubt the best way to phrase your sell.
Nice overview of unix systems legacy. Would you be interesting in contributing your vision of a modern operating system to a common document? I've been wanting to start a casual WG for this purpose with someone for a while now.
The CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) prohibits unauthorized access. If you find a piece of paper with an account name and password written on it and use it for access, it is illegal.
Interesting essay, even though written more from a "literary" viewpoint than a historical/archaeological one. Nevertheless, I found this phrase a little disconcerting:

> We hardly need to read of the difficulties of the Roman legions on the Syrian borders to understand that modern military interventions in western Asia might be ill‑advised, or that feeding inedible food to refugees is likely to rebound.

As far as I know the refugees now passing through different European countries have not been given inedible food by the locals, or not on purpose, anyway, quite the contrary, there are more than a couple of YT videos of some refugees throwing away bottles of water and what looks to be good enough food. Not sure how this Cambridge professor might have come to this conclusion, and more so, why she chose to propagate this false fact as being, well, the truth.
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The same site has a good Fourth Amendment flowchart as well:

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256

For what it's worth, the whole site is a good read for an introduction to American law.
Can you have your / in linux in zfs?
Just because the reasons are not immediately obvious does not make them non-existent. Rather, it makes them so much more interesting as they can reveal emotions/thoughts/urges that have hither-to been hard to express, without an appropriate medium or unacceptable socially.

Putting plants on your head might seem strange, but that's why it's interesting to explore. It's a shame that we in this thread band together to disregard this behaviour (like talking behind someones back, it is seemingly to defend our own culture and behaviour. "our way is the right way").
It seems you have reduced my argument to the last part only. Google's system is pretty good even if you don't focus on gaming. By the way, even when it comes to websites, most users (admins) don't try to game the system.
lichess has a nice clean interface and it is a joy to play on it and also it is nice to have easily exportable games (i am looking at you chess.com!)

The one problem with everything free philosophy and relying on donations is that top players are unlikely to play on the site (see FICS vs ICC battles of early 90s where ICC by paying and giving affiliate sales quickly rose to be the dominant force in early net chess despite the questionable morality of taking over original ICS).

This presents a problem for someone who has problems getting a good game on lichess.

At 2400 on lichess, I either have to play masses of 2100-2200s or computer cheaters. As an FM I've played a few FMs and I think one IM on lichess.

On commercial sites (the top 3 being chess.com, ICC, and Playchess) there are incentives to bring in GM caliber players.

Again, if you just want a good amateur game, then lichess is a fine choice.
(full disclosure: I'm the maker of make)

make might not be the beauty in your cheerleader team of build tools, but it gets things actually done - that's what it was made for ... it's for devs who want to make things - hence its choice of name!
Sure, if your /boot is something else.
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This seems very similar to Valve's boss-free "flat" structure - http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
It's an interesting experiment, but two tendencies of human nature prevent this sort of thing from being conducive to running an efficient company, in my opinion.

One, having everyone in the company able to make executive decisions or at least influence them sounds great, but inevitably more outgoing and charismatic workers will gain influence, even when it's a supposed democracy. You can structure the system to have all the meetings and groups and power structures you want that seem equal on paper, but when someone is popular and outgoing often people will follow with that person. There are going to be people who slip into leadership roles--it's human nature, and trying to minimize that instead of steer it is impractical in my opinion.

The second thing is that having everyone in on the decision making is simply information overload in most cases. I think tasking everyone with being informed and voting on a wide array of things will make them either pretend to know all the issues properly and vote uninformed, or they'll vote the way they see their favoured peers voting. Maybe I'm letting my own experiences cloud my opinion here, since I work at a company that has a fairly flat managerial structure, but it's certainly a problem for me. If they're making executive decisions while not seeing what other ways the company is moving, that seems bad too.

I think there's definitely merit in promoting equality among employees, and it leads to better teamwork. But I just don't think that end of the extreme ever works particularly efficiently, and I think human nature tends to influence most companies toward the more normal business hierarchies.
Indeed the article briefly mentions Valve.
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> and bolt on empirically determined heuristics above the pure mathematical model of PageRank

The impact of Google doing this is, in financial terms, probably much larger than if the same type of approach would be applied in the academic situation. So if Google is allowed to do this, why can't we allow the same approach for research? Apparently, the system works quite well.
Not in a long time -- regrettably ;) flower tattoo seems the best hope nowadays
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There's nothing libelous in that article. The author is reporting on the matter and doesn't claim that Lyft or any specific individual is guilty of anything.
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Pretty much. I bet there isn't a political position today that you couldn't find a examples from history both for and against.
Marvelous! So that quote must be interpreted for its technical implications instead of its meaning, which add more subjectivity to the mix!
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