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Politics works on a combination of public opinion and donations to candidates and parties. If you have a lot of money, it's quite easy to move things a bit in the direction you want. Also here, you're doing it for a "good cause", because we all know that drugs are bad and everybody should think of the children, etc...

So of course many people don't suspect bad intentions here, maybe even many politicians or organizations which are on the receiving end of a donation, which originated from drug money.

Of course there are some other reasons too, but considering the amount of stupidity which is necessary to really believe that the "war on drugs" can be won, it's quite unlikely that there isn't lots of active lobbying involved to let the war continue as long as possible.

In the end, it's just a very profitable business and the people involved aren't stupid and have lots of money at their disposal. So why shouldn't they do it?
Ok how to middle click on a tablet? Press and hold, but that sucks.

How to middle click with an apple mighty mouse with no middle click? Press and hold cmd whilst clicking left click.

Middle click doesn't work and it if you are about to submit a comment on a thread how do you middle click to load the same page at the same scroll position?
Yuck! Don't say such things.
"the fat in French fries slows the process only slightly"

Tomorrow's blog headline: SCIENCE PROVES FRENCH FRIES ARE THE HEALTHIEST WAY TO EAT POTATOES
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Using immutable objects means that the overhead for checking a component that has not changed what it's rendering is a couple of function calls plus an object identity check. Modern JS can do that very, very fast.

And, if you find that it's still too slow, there are other strategies you can employ to fix it without having to turn your whole application into a stateful soup. Odds are, though, that this is not going to be your bottleneck.
The American overweight problem is cultural and not an issue with eating high or low glycemic foods like the article states. If losing weight is an issue for someone. They are better off having a larger second meal and a smaller third meal even if that third meal is at 9 or 10pm so they can enjoy it with family or after work. The idea is not to have more blood sugar than then the liver can store as glycogen at bed time.

Everyone is different. If someone is really thin they probably should eat a massive third meal because the body does need stored body fat too.
Hmm, that's not a bad idea actually. So you never expose your models at all to your components?

Apart from dirty-check for POST/PUT and uniqueness/sorting what other benefits could Backbone models have?

How do you expose your models to the view, I would guess you just serialise into regular objects?
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> It’s really important to distinguish between healthy fats and bad fats, healthy carbs and bad carbs

What a bunch of crap. They said the same thing about cholesterol after fucking up monumentally and the history repeats itself over and over again. Just man up, recognize how incompetent you are, how your non-scientific advice has been hurting people over the past 50 years and switch jobs because the science you're practicing is nothing more than a cult.

> He explained that saturated fat, found in fatty animal foods like meats and dairy products, raises blood levels of cholesterol and is not healthy

There is zero evidence that saturated fats are unhealthy. Fats don't make you sick. Neither do carbohydrates. Humans have been eating fats and carbohydrates ever since the dawn of men. It's part of our identity as omnivores.

What actually changed is making food an industrial process whose output is processed/synthetic food, which is much more profitable, while riding the waves of crap coming from nutritionists, coinciding perfectly with the obesity and diabetes epidemic. Low-fat milk for example is still on sale with health claims, even though it's a well known fact that it's much more unhealthy than normal milk.
By their own governments I assume.
If you want to do an experimental check: just try to not pay taxes for a while, and you'll find yourself at the wrong end of a govt. gun eventually.
> If you're pregnant, do the things your doctor advises you to do. Don't try to make up the rules as you go along.

The issue of absence of science on which to base certain recommendations affects doctors providing advice as much as pregnant women making up their own rules as they go along.

> Just because vanilla extract contains a negligible amount of alcohol doesn't mean a six pack of Natty Ice is okay.

Vanilla extract doesn't contain a negligible amount of alcohol (its typically 35% ABV, Vodka is 35-50% ABV -- homemade vanilla extract is typically vodka in which vanilla beans have been soaked for an extend period of time, and then removed); its just typically used in small quantities.

> doesn't mean a six pack of Natty Ice is okay.

No one in this thread has suggested that. What has been suggested is that:

(1) Science making clear the impact of different levels of alcohol consumption in pregnancy isn't clear (and guidance from medical sources based on that lack of science is, unsurprisingly, mixed, though government guidance in the US and most other countries is fairly consistently for complete abstinence.) [0]

(2) Complete abstention from alcohol (vs. complete abstention from things labelled as alcoholic beverages) isn't easy.

[0] And, while it hasn't been discussed previously, in the thread, there's even some controversy over whether the research establishing the correlation between "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome" (which is relatively rare even among children of women who drink heavily in pregnancy) and alcohol consumption actually establishes causality (there are strong reasons to think that,at a minimum, there are other factors at play, and its not impossible that alcohol may not be a cause at all -- the much higher rates some studies have shown in FAS among children of heavy-drinking low-income mothers vs. heavy-drinking high-income mothers, along with the fact that FAS symptoms are sometimes seen in children of women who completely abstain are suggestive that alcohol consumption is neither a necessary nor sufficient cause of FAS, and may even just be something that happens to frequently happen alongside the things that are the actual risk factors, such that controlling alcohol consumption isn't actually useful in preventing FAS.)
Another solution: https://github.com/xthexder/httptee

A daemon that sends to two backends, and diffs the results.
Maybe for you. I could easily put down 6000 calories worth of peanut butter in one shot, but if I tried that with pasta I probably wouldn't break 4000, and with veggies I probably wouldn't break 1500.
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The problem, in my mind, is that as other container formats that have been in the shadows due to Docker's huge mindshare could easily supplant Docker if other major providers start switching their language away from 'Docker containers' to just 'containers' (witness existing language around ECS from Amazon), and pointing to a different format as their de-facto standard.

Hosting companies will do what's in their best interest, and competing against an 'official' Docker container hosting solution might be less appealing than telling customers about their own system that uses (what may or may not be) a 'better' container format.
Hardly, just because alcohol is socially accepted doesn't mean it's not a drug. Alcohol and heroine are considered the most harmful drugs out there. It's an apt comparison.
"US-style federalism"? The politics and $1B+ in tax breaks and perks paid by Nevada to get the Gigafactory say otherwise.
Now it looks like Elsevier is not going to cooperate

Are we really surprised? How would you feel if some of your customers demanded you turn your business over to them for zero compensation?

I wish the linguists all the luck in the world starting their new, open-access journal.
>Not all of Europe is part of the Five Eyes, or even it's outer orbits.

Five Eyes is only one such intelligence alliance. Germany, for instance, cooperated with the NSA despite not being part of FVEY: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellige...

The Dutch, again not part of Five Eyes, tapped phone calls to pass to the US. We don't know the full extent of which nations played a role. I'm willing to bet it's more than have so far been revealed.

>They don't have first-party access to US government communications, never mind, say, POTUS's cell phone.

Germany wasn't exactly giving the US access to their government's communications either, "just" private citizens. They did assist the US in getting access to the French leadership, though.

>"They all do it" is meaningless if one nation has an NSA and Greece has a sketchy looking guy with black shoes and no socks and a tape recorder.

When the large European nations are aggressively spying on their own citizens and then passing that info around to foreign governments in exchange for special software or information, it sort of renders their complaints about the NSA kind of moot. Yeah, the NSA spied on your citizens, but you helped them.

For those nations that didn't engage in this, I have a feeling not having your data in America isn't going to prevent the NSA from getting it if they desire it. Especially since much of that data will end up in the sorts of European nations that are spying on their citizens and trading data with the NSA anyways.
TBH as soon as you're using a cloud that you don't control anywhere you've lost control of your data.
We're trying to reduce the amount of JavaScript on our pages and have decided at this point to move forward with Redux as our common approach to state (keeping an eye on things like Relay and Falcor as we move along).
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"The more we learn about genes and how people react differently to different foods the more intrigued I am by the idea of an "optimal" diet only being achieved on a person-by-person level."

For me, it's implicit that optimizing diet can only be done on an individual basis. It's pretty obvious, at least to me, that taking maternal twins and having one be active while the other remains inactive for most of their lives leads to the need for different diets between the two.
Was desperately looking for a more direct comparison between the m3 and i5. I can't decide!
It's also unfair to smaller local businesses who cant use the same loopholes and are automatically disadvantaged against their larger competitors.
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A Linux machine with an "Intel Integrated Graphics Controller".

I doubt an equivalent Windows machine would fare better.
This was interesting too:

http://evonomics.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-laiss...

especially the part about regulations.
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Nah, clearly the definition of "unreasonable" has been altered quite a bit over the last few decades. No knock raids generally have a legal warrant, given by a judge and everything, allowing them to do so.
Depending on how it's done it could be viewed as anti-competitive. To give an exaggerated example, imagine if Apple, using its big pile of phone money, came into your company and offered 10x market rate for every company willing to leave that day with a guarantee of 3 years of employment at that rate. In my opinion that should trigger anti-competitive laws. And if that's true, then we're just talking about to what degree this type of behavior is allowed before it crosses the line. It doesn't sound like any lines were crossed to me in this case, I just thought it was an interesting thought experiment.
Hmm the NAND write is a little low. Not a huge deal but a little surprising for a machine of this spec/price.
Its a good and common question. Backbone can handle rectangular models okay. When you get into more complicated UI states, or if you have two different views backed by the same ui state like here [1], backbone models totally fall apart - backbone model is designed for list-of-records where the list can change or a record can change, it can't elegantly handle other shapes, like nested records, or list-of-lists, or tree-like (recursive comments), whatever arbitrary shape most naturally models the domain.

Backbone models are also mutable which means lots of model change listeners (callback soup) - check out the flame charts here [2] to get an intuition for what callback soup does to your code and how react fixes it.

[1] http://wingspan.github.io/wingspan-forms/examples/faceted-se... (json blob is the ui state) [2] http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...
I did not downvote you, but I disagree with your premise. Systems administration is only part of the problem, and only in some cases. A non-inclusive list of other causes include failing to understand the intended purpose of a system and the environment it is to operate in, and losing control of the design.
they have to do something to make up for all the extra effort used in turning the results over to the government...
How is it a monopoly situation? There are multiple journals out there where scientists can publish their work. They could also start their own journal (open-access if they like) without many barriers.
Can you link the sources for your claims? I'm asking sincerely, as I'm sure people interested in the topic will want to see the research.
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This. I (loosely) follow bulletproof/keto diet and never have to watch how much I eat, without gaining weight. I just eat until I'm full, and if I have some munchies later in the evening, as long as I don't snack anything rich in carbs, I have no problem in keeping a stable weight.

I used to weigh about 100 kilo's, until I changed my diet to LCHF, now I'm about 70. A few months ago, as a test, I switched to Soylent for 2 months, and gained almost 10 kilo's.

I just think a high carb diet is not something that is compatible with an office job.
And a similar small trial of the reverse problem - speech recognition, using the Python 'speech' library:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-py...
I would imagine the sort of people to use such a trigger wouldn't care.
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Just seeing the reviews on Amazon (26k+ and avg rating of 4.5 stars), it's amazing to me that it's not common knowledge among my friends, tech-savvy and otherwise. The majority have never heard of the Echo. Is Amazon just really bad at marketing products? Or have they gone slowly until the feature set is more mature and built out?
It'd be near if instead, these symbols were shown (but not interacted with), depending on your hover state on the link. So if you hover with control pressed, the "new tab" icon would be displayed. Normal hover would display the "current window" icon.
This may be remembered as cloud-to-butt's finest hour. A potentially historically significant statement made readable to the Buzzfeed crowd.
Information is never just that abstract concept 'information'. Information has to be transmitted for it to be of any use. Information transmission requires a sender and a receiver, an encoding for the information that is understood by both parties, and a medium. In this case, we have senders (people who write web pages) and receivers (African villagers). If we add in free Internet, we also have the medium. But without a shared encoding, all these are absolutely useless. The shared encoding is, in this case, the (written) language. But as long as rural Africans cannot speak English (or any other language commonly found on the web), and as long as they cannot at least read with some level of proficiency, we simply do not have a working system of encoding that could be used to transmit information.

Thus, in order for free Internet to be effective as a provider of information, we first need to give the target audience an education sufficient for reading and understanding English.
Historical processes take their time. The old ways of working in Europe don't solve these taxation issues either, on the contrary. So let's move forward instead of backwards!

It makes no sense to scrap the only hope for shaping Europe in a consensual and constructive way just because it isn't perfect yet. Otherwise it's national interests against national interests once again.
Me and friend (he was a contract attorney) started a company that read and published the fine print of various products (many of it was software and smartphone contracts and EULA's) and tried to warn consumers what they were signing off on.

We didn't get far because after a year, it was clear nobody cared what was in the EULA's they were signing even if it meant giving up your personal information. They were more concerned with the ability to use a new piece of hardware or software they thought was cool without thinking about the ramifications of giving out so much personal information to do so.

It was eye opening to say the least.
Not to mention idempotent code is trivially memoized, allowing you to skip computations you couldn't previously reason about. A function that produces a value is always comparable to another value — a function that modifies some state requires that you have a way to observe that the world changed in order to skip doing it again.
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Ok I was going to say something about genetic clustering and how there're probably just a few diets needed to cover most people. Then, behavior. Right, it also depends on where you are in your life (age, exercise, previous diet, health issues). It's fair to say an optimal diet is an individual thing.
Well, that was fast... After the announcement of Amazon Container Registry docker had to make some move and this is a great one.

Congrats to the tutum team, they have built a really nice project that makes really easy to build and maintain container pipelines.

Can't wait to see the integrations with the other docker tools...
Certainly agreed that eating things that aren't twinkies is healthier in the big picture. I doubt Coke wanted to prove that wrong, they just want the "IF YOU EAT ANY JUNK FOOD YOU'RE GOING TO GET FAT" crowd to shut up for a few minutes. And frankly, so do I.

A twinkie has 135 calories (or 270 for a pair). It isn't a hard thing to fit into your diet if you aren't constantly snacking on things.
"Wife's a great cook "

I think you've succinctly expressed one of the core issues that we have as individuals and as a society: we love tasty food more than we love healthy food. We generally consider meals that derive flavor from fats and sugars as great/tasty/enjoyable while we relegate more healthy options as that which we only eat to either make up for or "save calories for" the meals that we really enjoy.
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> It might actually be a good thing for the taxpayers of that country when looked at narrowly, which is often why these deals are done, but if every EU nation does it to their neighbour then overall it's a classic case of "race to the bottom" and taxpayers all across the EU will lose out.

The problem is that countries refusing to compete with each other doesn't actually help all of them. Countries like Germany have strong infrastructure, high availability of qualified labor, etc. If Romania had the same taxes as Germany then who would expand into Romania?

And of course taking taxes off the table would just shift the issue to spending. If you required countries to have a uniform (presumably high) tax rate then they could just spend the money on things that encourage companies to expand there and you're right back to the same situation.

Countries compete with each other to attract capital. The only way to stop that is to prevent the movement of capital across national borders, which is a completely unrealistic bad idea.
Both the NSA and various EU intelligence agencies were violating their various laws. Or, if you're a lawyer for one of these agencies, they had found convenient loopholes that violated the spirit of the laws and rendered them meaningless.

So if we apply the standard of intelligence agencies violating the laws mean a country is unfit for storing EU data, then many EU nations are now unfit to store this data.
This is an unfortunate development. It's tough to fight against the tide of developers that simply don't care or honestly believe it is a good thing, but it's a fight that is worth it for better security and easier maintenance of GNU/Linux systems, which directly benefits users. Thankfully, Debian hasn't given up, nor has GuixSD that I help maintain.

I asked Tom Callaway from Red Hat about it and he said "I'm not a fan, I think its a poor decision, but I also appreciate that I might be in the minority these days." [0]

Hopefully, once enough people have been burned by the apparent convenience of bundling, we'll see the tide change. Maybe after Dockerization has run its course.

[0] https://twitter.com/spotrh/status/656677002028691456
We are almost at 2016. Shouldn't something as important as this be maintained under version control, available for free for everyone in easy formats, updated as frequently as needed, with a proper API etc?
>Where do they draw the line?

I'd say they just did. They're sticking with what they have now, and not using the newer, better technology.

In most sports, there is an intersection of skill and technology. In order to keep things interesting, you typically want to increase the amount of skill required, and lower the amount of technology. However, there are times when that may sway one direction or the other- safety is an obvious exception to the above.

There is no reason to insert fallacies; this is normal and has been going on as long as sports have existed. The only interesting thing here is that the top teams are taking a stand before the ruling body makes a declaration. That will still need to happen, but this will likely sway the decision made.
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I've used (servers and laptops and desktops) Fedora and Ubuntu for many years. Since the advent of package management, Fedora has been significantly more "just works" when it comes to anything slightly professional or complicated (of course Ubuntu has had the edge on personal multimedia), and I'll bet this practice of discouraging bundling is a huge part of that. On the other hand, Fedora usage is falling, proportionally, right? I'm not sure, but it seems like it. Anyway: tough call.
Besides all of the stated reasons to legalize/decriminalize, I think just as important is personal liberty.

I should be free to experiment with my own consciousness (so long as it does not impede on the rights of others) - how much more personal can you get? For the government to impede on this is unconscionable (pun intended).
Webpack's commons plugin is still a killer feature. Tree-shaking is nice though.
Tutum mentions they manage persistent volumes and handle mapping them to containers at runtime, presumably across different nodes/hosts.

Anyone know how that actually works? Is it similar to Flocker at all?
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I'm sorry I'm not keen on making games for only one platform at a time.
These companies both sound like bad western tech crossover movies from the 80's. This was bound to happen.
If you lose weight but end up with diabetes, or a serious vitamin deficiency, would you still think this research is legit?

Eating only one type of food for weeks will almost always result in losing weight, because it would disrupt the gut flora, as well as deprive one of necessary vitamins/minerals.
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