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The kind of sting you're describing sounds incredibly improbable. You should take what those agents told you seriously.

If you're actually concerned that the whole situation is an elaborate hoax to catch you torrenting episodes of Game of Thrones, then you should talk to a lawyer but still act as if the threat against your life is real because it very well might be.
Just some technical info in this if anyone trips over this thread, consider the following diagram of a voltage divider:

http://pcbheaven.com/wikipages/images/voltagedivider_1235725...

The Rload and R2 are parallel resistors really so if Rload is really low which it is generally if it's doing anything then it will effectively shrink the R2 resistance (Rload || R2) and therefore voltage. Then whatever is connected as Rload won't get enough volts + current.

You can fix this to some degree by using very low values of R1 and R2 but then they start to sink lots of current as they are in series across the power supply and get hot so this becomes an efficiency problem. If you're really unlucky the magic smoke comes out or you touch one and burn your fingers emitting a nice bacon smell.

You can fix all of this with a single NPN transistor and a zener diode pretty easily but you might as well use a regulator IC then.

Analogue electronics is fun even if it does burn and explode in your face occasionally! My shit blows up all the time: http://i.imgur.com/GZBKblt.jpg
Right. As soon as I saw that the source is on sourceforge I decided to move forward.
It wouldn't be about "not learning how to count", but about keeping a rhythm that makes the time predictable within a relatively small variation. I used similar tricks for long exposure photography back in the long ago. (There was a period in the late '70s and early '80s when radium illuminated dials had gone away, their replacements didn't stay illuminated long enough, GraLab-type timers were too bulky by far, and neither LEDs/micro fluorescent segment displays nor LCD side-lighting on watches were up to the task. I had, between cadets and the regular force, more than a decade of military experience then. British Grenadiers - a marching tune - takes 16 seconds to play/whistle/hum through once, breaks down easily into 4-second chunks, and only "feels" right if the speed is right for a 120 paces-per-minute march. Heart Of Oak takes 32 seconds, etc. That allowed me to be remarkably consistent across exposures without a usable external timing device. Habitual prayers, especially when combined with something like a rosary to keep the count accurate, would have the same sort of consistency.)
Believe it or not, women have had to fight for the right to work in coal mines. You probably hear only about the fight to get more women in tech, since you are in tech. But anyway, here you go: http://www.women-in-mining.com/news/1389309

Proof that there used to be laws on the books banning women from working in mines, and feminists went and fought them. It's quite possible that the other reason you don't hear about female coal miners asking for more representation is that tech is worse at hiring women than coal mines are by now.
Steve Yegge is not a scientist and prone to highly emotional rants. Further, your situation, whatever it is, is an anecdote, not sufficient to draw a conclusion.

I wonder if the same is true of alcohol, given the two substances are so close. Whatever the conclusion, it's not justification to ban either of course. There are many other facets of the problem to consider.
I'm not sure if the article been updated since you had a look, but the first line of the article refers to the Jihadist group as the "so-called Islamic State".

Also I think there is a public interest in knowing that Daesh is apparently switching communication platforms. If there's been an effort to reduce/remove Daesh from Twitter, why couldn't there be a similar strategy with Telegram?

You seem to be advocating the security-by-obscurity line, in regards to propaganda. It's out there, and if people want to find it, they don't need to look far.
The history of practical computing is really labour intensive. The mass of the work has been done in counting paychecks of megacorps, census, taxes, and weather simulations. Unfortunately I have no statistics that would say that women did most of the jobs there but based on historical precedence it sounds plausible to me.

Programming as a field has historically two or three subcultures - the corporate, the academic (and finally, the personal).

The academic branch is where the new stuff has been imagined. The corporate branch is where the work that added value to society in form of financial income happened. Think of huge accounting machines, and extrapolate from that to modern computing. Taxes, census etc.

The corporate branch had several tasks that were labour intensive. Usually this labour intensive part was reserved for women (they are more keen on details on average or other such rationalization). Also, historically, women did not get paid as much as men so more labour for the same amount of money...

Well, anyway, the first computers were women (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer).

Women were also extensively hired as data entry clerks.

In the age of the mainframe, a typical division of labour was that the software designer wrote the program on paper with pencil, and then the data entry clerk encoded it into the computer (using punch cards or later terminals).

The integrated software designer / data entry thing probably originated in the universities and other research setings (i.e. Knuth typing his Tex from his notebook the the terminal at his Uni. and so on).
> No defensible moral framework regards foreigners as less deserving of rights than people born in the right place at the right time.

In roughly the same way that no defensible moral framework says that you should feed your own child rather than every other child in the world. Or the same way that no defensible moral framework says you have more of a right to live in your own house than anyone else has to live in your house. Or in the same way that no moral framework says that you should take and keep the money which The Atlantic pays you for writing this article and spend it on yourself, instead of giving it to some random stranger in the street.

Perhaps you could argue that any sensible kind of morality requires you to believe that your own interests are entirely equivalent to everyone else's, so you should never serve to protect your own interests. But I don't think anyone on the entire planet believes this, on a practical level. And if you invent a moral system that nobody is actually going to follow, it's a bad moral system, because the point of a moral system is that people should actually be able to follow it.

Instead, I choose to believe that yes, we have the right to serve our own interests and protect the privileges we were born with. In my case, that includes the privilege of being born in a rich first-world country that my ancestors built, as well as the individual privilege of living in this nice house which I bought. It's very sad for those people born without these sorts of privileges (ie closer to our species' natural state) but I'm not about to give up what I have so that billions of others can... well, not have it too, because in an unlimited immigration world there would be no rich countries, just a series of war-riven shanty towns... but so they can have the satisfaction of bringing me down.

Instead of letting the whole world onto our little life raft 'til it sinks, how about we start giving them useful advice on how to inflate their own life rafts?
I'm glad this is the top comment, because I was really confused by the question and it explains why. Indeed, I'm French, and the only thing that I have heard people (including among people who have a cook diploma) use a thermometer for is fine pastries (e.g., meringue, don't know how they are called in English).
I know what the inference is here: give me your back doors, encryption is only for evil people.

However you could say the same for electricity, GPS, phones, guns etc.
Interesting point of view. These people submit to dehumanizing surveillance to avoid getting fired. But good news - they're gonna get fired anyway!
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As a foreigner, I guess it is similar to importance of a labor in previous socialism.
Maybe there is some "The Part played by CS majoring females in the Transition from Ape to Man" on the way. Who knows :)
I think discodave is asking for evidence that quotas are in use for these courses, as oppposed to evidence that quotas increase numbers of otherwise-underrepresented groups
Baking things often works at a fairly wide range of temperatures. What matters I that the inside of what's being baked gets to a certain temperature and you can achieve that with different oven temperatures. It just takes a different amount of time. Then there are techniques like poking a fork or a toothpick into your cake to see whether the dough sticks to it or not. If not, it's done. And then there's trial and error and experience. Others mentioned a gas oven which a) doesn't have a precise temperature and b) often an uneven heat distribution. Works just as well, though, with a bit of learning.
youre not going to destroy Daesh by forcing them to move communications medium to their tenuous followers.

They currently have excellent source or arms, money, people and land. The only way to stop them is to deprive them of resources, just like any other war.

There is nothing different about daesh. They live, breath, fight and bleed just like any other. They only real difference is that the western media appear to be hell bent on giving them as much airtime as possible.
>It's _very_ important to avoid discouraging teenagers and young adults from going on their own path.

Alternative idea: it's important to discourage teenagers and young adults from going their own path, to make sure that only those who are really prepared and committed will actually do it. Like the old Jewish tradition of telling anyone who wanted to convert "no, go away" three times before eventually letting them start the process.
As a person who reads your code I'd like to know which one you were checking for. If you were checking for None or an empty list, for instance, because there is often a non-semantic difference between them.

E.g. one can mean "value not provided" while the other means "there aren't any of that thing" and the behavior you want will often be different depending upon which one it is.

It's this type of subtle difference that often causes obscure bugs.
I guess it's probably a good case for minifying all production code.
Lol, if that is upper class then I am upper class too. Didn't have much money growing up, so I am kinda surprised.
I didn't think group messages on Telegram had any special security.
Thank you, I read that long ago then lost the link. Nice to track it down again
You didn't just compared ISIS to the Pirate Bay, did you?
"The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more."

One-way street to an even more individualized society where even more teenagers and students can get stressed out.
Rather convenient that this news comes out at the same time that Obama says he won't ask for keys to encrypted data.
They have laws, courts, schools, taxes, an army, and a territory. Sounds like a state to me.
No. Nope. Not true. Mostly, anyway.

Follow https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar, look at some of the links from Twitter and click around a bit and you'll find plenty of IS sympathisers.

However, Twitter is fairly active in shutting them down nowdays. What most do is keep a Tumblr with a link to their Twitter account, and link their Tumblr from Twitter. Then when one shuts down they can reestablish from the other.

I'd be surprised if IS aren't using Telegram though. They are pretty active on every other social platform.
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If this isn't proof that Twitter's business model is doomed then I don't know what is. It would be like the Taliban announcing they'll no longer use Toyotas.
So, should I interpret your lack of answer to my last question as "oh dang, my file manager is actually part of rom used by company name, and from kitkat you really can't edit sd card contents from apps" ?
Remember that booleans are integers in python. This is just the regular exponential operator.
'So called' disclaimer is on almost every BBC article. But it is media like BBC who spread this name in first place.

Compare IS with 'Kurdistan'. It is a 'state' somehow similar to IS, but it gets completely different treatment.

And they gave step by step manual: Go to app store, install Telegram, search IS channel.
If I need different behaviour between "value not provided" and "there aren't any of that thing", I would perform both checks (if x is None:/if not x:).

The idiomatic way to check for an empty list is "if not mylist", but I still enjoy the fact that I can check for "if this is anything other than a thing I care about, do this" with one check.

Not to mention that doing anything else would violate duck typing. You don't care if the thing passed is an empty list, you care if it's falsy. If you had a "reverse()" function that checked for an empty list and raised an exception, you'd get in trouble when someone passed an empty tuple. What you care for is whether the object is iterable or not, not whether it's a list.
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So has Kurdistan, but we dont hear about every fart they made.
I'm always split when reading stories like this.

On the one hand, I really feel for the person and appreciate her sharing. Problems like these rarely consider the practicality of the situation and shouldn't be taken lightly.

On the other, I know there are kids out there who never got to go to a good school, always had problems at home and never got to feel the joy of learning. They can't write this kind of story and even if they did no one would read it. They can't travel somewhere, don't have anything to be cut off from nor will ever meet someone who saves them. They can't stop doing things that hurt them and if they become depressed they might very well end up being homeless.

Or the high-performing poor kids who might have to work or in other ways face academic death from a thousand papercuts. Many times because families with better resources uses all their power to make overexertion a desirable thing so other kids can't compete.

Or just the normal kids who already knew from the beginning what was important and the limits to being productive. Maybe they went to a good state school and now regardless of merit have to live with being last in line after people from private schools time and time again.

I guess my point is that when we contemplate a fix to these problems I hope we also don't overlook the people in different situations with similar problems.
If workers cooperating for better conditions is seen as evil, of course businesses will squeeze workers with impunity. Look at other countries to see that it doesn't have to be this way.

Libertarianism: the idea that the perfect society must run on unchecked prisoner's dilemmas, and enforcing cooperation is a crime. "I'm sorry that your vase broke, but we must put faith in the invisible hand of gravity."

The real question is where the left-wingers are in all this. Their job was supposed to be helping the worker class, organizing strikes and unions and such. I guess they stopped giving a fuck sometime in the 20th century, because blue collar workers are too "socially backward".
"What separates CS from other degrees is that it does filter out those..."

This is quite a strong claim. I also find the terminology "filters out" troubling. I thought universities were fundamentally there to teach people and not just sieve them. Well, personally my physics department was operated like a sieve but that simply is not a rational way to run an educational facility. It's just macho bullshit ("We're so tough...").

"That means, that even if the SV bubble crashes, CS majors are the best equipped to handle whatever career is hot next.."

I would claim when changing to a new field, any university major that requires rigorous thinking and understanding of math based systems gives that advantage.
I've had parts of a website blocked over a word "sponsor" in a CSS class, so I'm willing to bet it's not "Twitter" that's the cause.
Take the PETA case: their "improvement" is something that these families would not agree to do if they were not in this situation (most likely).

Or surge pricing: the net effect is pricing out people with a lower income, while there are other, more fair solutions to the problem.

> In all cases the people involved could simply choose not to take the offer, and be no worse of.

That's the same kind of logic which gets you social advances like zero-hour contracts.
Article doesn't mention what firms tho'.
According to the article they are planning to use Telegram channels (which is more like a broadcast list in whatsapp), and not group chat. Doesn't seem like it's meant for internal communication, so I guess that security isn't a top priority for this purpose.
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Raqqah (Raqqa) is (or was) over 250,000 people. Mosul is 1.5 million. That's hardly desert, bandits and pickups (no matter how much we may wish that was true).
∗∗ is the exponentiation operator. True is implicitly converted to 1, and False to 0. It's a coincidence that 0^0, 0^1, 1^0, and 1^1 line up with converse implication.
In the Falklands war, the BBC broadcast that the Argentine air force were setting their bomb fuses wrong and their bombs weren't exploding when they hit British ships, and also pre-announced the attack on Goose Green. They're well known for playing both sides against the middle.
As written, overkill. One unique word can address any place in the world.
(I'm strongly against gun ownership by private citizens. I struggle with questions like these but I'll try.)

1) It's mostly ignorance. When we look at mass shooters we see histories of violence, or of drug and alcohol addiction, or sometimes mental illness. The drug and alcohol addictions and previous history of violence are better predictors of future violent behaviours.

2) Reducing access to means and methods is an important part of suicide prevention. People who complete suicide are more likely to have a mental health problem than the general population. Reducing access to guns would help those people. This does not need to be done through law. The taboo around suicide doesn't seem to stop people doing it, but does it does stop people seeking help. Ideally people would work together with their clinicians and carers to identify and ameliorate risk.

3) Some politicians seem to suggest that if you stop mentally ill people having guns you stop all mass shootings. That's clearly not true. You stop some of them. But when we talk about mental illness it's not clear what those politicians means. Do they mean serious, life long, psychotic style illness (rate about 2 people per 100)? Or the subset of that group who have command-hallucinations? Or do they mean everyone who's had a diagnosable mental illness? (Where diagnosable would be defined by DSM 5) - someone who was treated for depression two years ago? Someone with hoarding? Someone with OCD that was treated four years ago? It's odd to see people who are pro-gun using this argument, because their calling for about 1 in four people to be prevented from gun ownership. And not all mass-shooters use their own guns. Harper-Mercer (killed 9 people) used a mix of guns owned by him and his family; Lanza used guns bought by his mother.

4) Looking at mass shooters we see sometimes see failed checks: people with histories of violence are allowed to buy guns; people are prevented from buying some guns (eg rifles) but allowed to buy others (eg shotguns). Wong's background check took longer than 3 days, so he was allowed to buy a gun. He went on to kill 13 people.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/03/us/how-mass-sh...
It's really not clear what point you're trying to make, if any at all.

If you don't like reading about ISIS, then don't. It's as easy as that.

And it'll make you look a lot less pretentious than you are right now.
I can't quote a source, but I recall one study correlating higher IQ with higher risk of psychoactive drug usage.
Maybe your brain is amazing enough to not be hindered by smoking pot. Maybe the performance decline is not noticeable and you continue to function well. Maybe you've smoked so much marijuana that you have a strong resistance to its effects. But then again, maybe you are the exception - that's the problem with anecdotal evidence.
If a more average person is given easy access to THC, maybe their chance at greater academic performance would go up in smoke (ha).

Either way, as a recreational smoker, I prefer to keep my habit away from my work and study. That would be the worst way to multitask - can't enjoy the high due to work, can't be as productive at work because of the high.
Or when the potential income from those users is less than expected expense coming from not ignoring them.
It appears that regular cannabis use [0] decreases dopaminergic brain-activity [1].

Dopamine is often referred to as "pleasure"-transmitter, but it's function in certain parts of the brain is better thought of as "regulating expectation", therefore influencing drive & motivation. It makes it possible to work on stuff you don't particularly enjoy by focussing on an expected long-term reward. This works by enabling your conscious thoughts to silence other, more excitatory and emotional parts of your brain via a feedback-loop. [2]

People with ADHS have trouble concentrating because this feedback-loop doesn't work well when they're not moving. Sitting still, they are constantly being flooded with inappropriate and negative emotions. They calm down when taking stimulants like Ritaline, because the "calming"-function of the brain starts working properly.

Bottom-line: Cannabis has many good effects, but it definitely blunts motivation. [3]

[0] rule of thumb: more than once weekly

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/111/30/E3149.abstract

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontostriatal_circuit

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw