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Even if only a few cents?

What if you give everyone the same numbers in a different order? Or one spelling mistake in each release?
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No, I wasn't referring to the sensor size, merely the resolution of the total array.

This was a very large camera back (16x9 or something to that effect which had to do with the application it was put to work for) at a company I visited several years ago, the thing had at that time 14K x 8K resolution (so ~125 MP) and they were working on getting an even larger one. It was a custom job, not something 'off the shelf' but if you wanted them badly enough more could be procured.

The lens was something to behold as well.

Anyway, clearly the size of the Canon sensor is extremely impressive, I did not intend to belittle their achievement, just that I'd fully expect various nation states to have access to gear with resolutions well in excess of this.
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Market forces will guarantee that any bidding for an RFP will maximise profit and minimise actual social spending.

It's bad enough trying to manage IT procurements through RFPs. When you try to manage social spending through RFPs, the result is madness.

This is empirical, and not just opinion. The UK has made a policy of outsourcing all kinds of critical social services to "market forces", and the results are predictably unsatisfactory.

Why would they be anything else when you have a direct and clear conflict of interest between maximising shareholder returns and providing effective services?
While not a perfect analogue, my understanding has it that with strays spaying has a much greater effect on population than neutering, presumably for the reason you suggest.
If Russia was "occupying" Crimea, there would be gunfire and bombs going off every day and night in that region. Kind of like what happened/is-happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and so on and on.

> So Russia occupying Crimea is just politics...

The politics of it is this -

When the government of Ukraine was violently overthrown, and an un-elected regime was brought in that did not represent a significant portion of the people of Ukraine, Crimea had every right to join Russia - as it had been part of Russia for the majority of the last 200 years, Russians were the largest part of its population, and a turnout of 80%+ at the polls voted 90%+ yes.

> just drawing borders in a way favorable to you?

Why is it that people who do not live in Crimea want to decide the fates of the the people who do live in Crimea?
Agreed, and there's no guarantee that pursuing what we deem to be meaningful at the expense of interpersonal relationships will leave a mark on humanity. As a matter of fact, a lot of great men and women are/were the product of investments (not necessarily monetary) from their parents, teachers, friends, and family.
If someone has wealth I'd generally expect them to consume that wealth before receiving wealth transfers.

You don't need to make it so complicated. Just tax people on their wealth and income, then pay everybody the basic income. Those at the very top will end up paying far more in taxes than what they receive in basic income.
Exchange is much more discerning of email structure than Google servers.

That means that, if you have any configuration mistake, an Exchange server will reject your email. But if you have a good reputation, Gmail will deliver it anyway.
People have tried and failed with fee-based email before (e.g. HashCash). I do wonder if the postal service could do something here: every citizen has an address, people pay some pittance to deliver mail to that address, and it's a federal crime to tamper with that email. Physical junk mail is annoying, but nowhere near as bad as spam.
I'm sorry, I don't think you fully understood my point, as you appear to be presenting arguments against making financial support conditional on other things, which I was not endorsing here (that is a whole barrel of complicated which I don't want to open).

My point was rather than a financial-assistance-only approach is insufficient: we also need, at minimum, strong education and healthcare support, because there clearly exist groups of people who need them.
"That aside, conservative politicians aren't famous for demanding that the poor be given free money."

Milton Friedman is just about the most famous conservative/libertarian economist there is. Nobel Prize, even.
He uncovered other people breaking the law.

Despite an appeals court decision on illegality, because of the way that Congress revamped what was previously Section 215's language, and ended some of the previous programs, it has not been officially taken that what they did was illegal - that is, named as culpable certain groups or individuals that broke stated laws.

As a result, under common law and procedures of the courts/congress, technically the only one who has broken a law was Snowden.

I'm not arguing right or wrong, I am just say that you are technically wrong under legal statute.
I didn't steal anything, but wanted to assemble my first computer following radio schematics in Radio magazine (that article mentioned). Collected slowly bunch of parts frmo electronics store but never got into completing the project due to lack of parts.
Not sure what you're comparing OO to , but it certainly makes l little sense if you're comparing with FP. Grouping by function is so much more natural than artificially attaching the same function into different objects. When I copy, do I care whether I'm copying a document or a program? All I care about is the functionality, which is copying. This applies to many cases. OO design forcefully fractures every function into different objects, which makes extension a nightmare.
I'm curious, what kind of firearm is classified as DIY and registration is not required?
Nice! Can you give more details on how you made the simulation?
According to Wikipedia US human lives are valued at 50-100k a year so if it provides the equivalent of 2 good years above what they would have otherwise it's plus.
>Pedophile isn't a legal term. Men get "straddled with the term pedophile" for simply being in a playground.

I sat on a swing earlier this summer and I've never been accused of such things.

You created this "man hugs lost child, gets labelled a paedophile" scenario that's just ridiculous.
>>I actually think the U.S. Founding Fathers

We'll never know though, which makes personal conjecture meaningless. And while the "Founding Fathers" may have had some singular ideas at the time, they were merely people. We could speculate what the authors of the Magna Carta might feel about drones, or the Athenian democrats as well...
When you get around to building a statistical model, make sure you take into account that vasecotomies cost about 1/4 as much to perform (e.g. $700 vs $2800, in the US), and have are something like 20x less likely to have complications (although complication rates are low for both).

source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19041435
These studies seem to crop up now and again.

What's funny is that we have devised this completely contrived way of divvying up the world's resources, including this notion of private ownership over key natural resources. But, in truth, no one needs to go hungry, without shelter, water, etc. There is enough.

But, then, we step back and say, "what if we give these people, who currently cannot subsist under this scheme, some marginal share of the resources we've convinced them by fiat are someone else's to give them in the first place?"

Then, of course, we measure their outcomes within the context of the same scheme, and ponder other ways to help them.

Yet, the scheme itself is much more seldom questioned. That one person can earn bilions from what's pulled from the earth we all inhabit, while others die from lack of access to the same should be expected to create irreparable distortions in outcomes. But, it's somehow accepted as an unchangeable, almost natural premise, even as we search for solutions.
I'd like to know too, I've heard this trotted out several times, and never seen anything to corroborate it. The story has remained consistent - when he left, he no longer had anything left to give, it was in the hands of journalists. (Why would he walk into an 'enemy' country loaded up with sensitive data anyways? Blatantly stupid) This just stinks of astroturf or poorly-thought out demonizing.
I wouldn't mind seeing sources for some of the theories posited here. For example, I searched briefly for other sites that mention William Howard Taft's use of blackmail and wasn't able to find any. It wasn't an exhaustive search, to be sure, but the lack of information reduces credibility in my eyes.
If anything what people want are less frequent releases with longer support periods.

I wish the big name software vendors would understand this, but the hype train has a lot of momentum right now and it seems like everyone is trying to jump on board.

The reality is that stability and reliability in your software bring huge benefits. Big changes can bring big benefits too, but usually any improvements are more modest. And the kicker is that even quite small changes can make something work worse from the user's personal, subjective point of view, and this is actively bad.

My standard policy on our Win7 machines at work has been security updates only for quite a while now. I don't see anything pushing us to install Win10 on any of those machines right now. In fact this whole farcical exercise has been a great demonstration of why we shouldn't: the more Microsoft try to abuse the update process in older versions of Windows, the clearer it becomes that a version of Windows where updates are mandatory shouldn't be trusted.
What? I assure you that the the meddling, micromanaging social services bureaucracies are not run by "conservatives". Far from it.

Yes, they are. These services are known as prisons and you will find no greater a champion of their construction and expansion than among the most hard right wing members of the Republican party.
I wish they would stop with the new features and get their security under control.
$90 million revenue run rate this year and an $11 billion valuation...

Are VCs trying to rush everything onto the public while they can, or what? Slightly disconcerting when people say VCs aren't trying to do things like they did in the last boom.

Yes, I really don't think you can justify a valuation like that. It all depends on Pinterest having the popularity of Facebook in a few years, which is an incredible lie.
Hey, same here. I'm in Seattle though. I have no idea were to start... Sure, I can go to a gun shop and get a shotgun, but then what?
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The Blender UI fails a number of very basic usability requirements.

I take the point that it's powerful once you learn the keyboard shortcuts, but it really shouldn't be either/or, especially for beginners.

My issue with it is that the API is so unwieldy. I'm very interested in creating fun things with code, and it's actually easier to do that in some of the pro packages than in Blender.
> Taxation (of individuals at least ) is theft. If one person puts a gun in your face, or threatens to, and demands your money, you would have no problem seeing it so.

Property is a fiction made reality by government. Society agrees to let individuals have exclusive access to particular resources based on a system of rules. One of those rules is that people pay taxes. It is not "theft", because it's part of the property system. I could just as well insist the car in your drive is "mine" and call it "theft" when you try to drive it.

Presumably you have absolutely no issue with the government putting guns in other people's faces to stop them using "your" stuff. So don't complain when they try to stop you hoarding "their" stuff.

If you would prefer a different set of rules, then you're free to try and enforce them yourself.
It's a lot older than that, and is also the normal practice for governments in most civilised societies: even in the US, there is a progressive tax system and various forms of tax credits and cash benefits to give low-income people more money than they would have otherwise had. That argument has been had in the past by people like Friedman and, at least to some extent, won.

What's more recent is that we've got a few long-term studies like this one providing results showing that no-strings cash benefits do give strong beneficial results. This was long suspected, but that suspicion is now supported by evidence.
> One of the problems with most PL type systems is that they predate ubiquitous networking; so they're not designed to address the problem of describing external data, eg with MIME types, XML DTDs, protobuf schemas or whatever.

The problem existed before "ubiquitous networking" if you realise that networking is just a specific kind of I/O.
But I/O from a PL perspective is nothing more than sending or receiving bytes. PLs usually do not impose a format and a meaning on I/O because it would restrict the capabilities of the applications and libraries.

One could argue that PLs should impose such restrictions just like some PLs impose restrictions on memory access ("managed languages"). However, a huge difference between memory and I/O - and especially networking - is that they are unreliable by default: transmission errors, disconnections, lags, etc.

But even if you solve that, your PL can only speak to itself, which quite significantly restricts its practical usefulness. As far as I know, only languages specialized in distributed computing do that.

But for a general purpose language, high level networking is usually not something you want to be carved in stone (in the language's specs). You'd rather want to leave that in libraries, that can be replaced and enhanced.
From an abstract frame, it seems fine. From the frame of, I don't know, the USA's political economy, it's "eugenics to keep down the black and hispanic population".
One type of update is fixing a defect in the original product -- closing a security vulnerability that should never have been there, fixing some function that didn't work as advertised because of a bug, that kind of thing.

Another type of update changes to the product in ways that are not necessary for the original product to be used as intended. They may be desirable for the customer and/or the developer, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, from the point of view of things like consumer protection law that says you should get what you paid for and it should work as advertised, these two cases look qualitatively different to me.
Are you kidding me? How could not bypassing the kernel POSSIBLY be better here? It's infinitely harder for kernel devs to optimize these scenarios than for userland devs.
Pretty easy.

The privilege granted by registration can be linked to other things. So when Mr. Dumbass decides to buy more beer instead of paying for insurance, and subsequently rear ends your car, you are screwed as a motorist. The requirement for registration and insurance tied to a drivers license makes the driving environment work for the vast majority of people.

The same thing applies to drones. When some jackass decides to peep into my daughter's window every day, why should that person be able to act with anonymously and with impunity?
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It's a few hours' training to teach a basic skill most of them will use (along with all the other "not all of them will use it" things they do or should learn). Those who don't formally learn will still likely end up behind a wheel anyway, documented or not - and it's those non-documented ones who are precisely the ones we particularly DO want to ensure are trained one way or another.
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All the big consumer drone makers are in China. I love how all sorts of unregulated surprisingly powerful tech comes out of China. The last mischief they engaged in was way too powerful lasers. They just don't have the fear of science in that country like we have in America.
Storing Data with Redis
Yep, i have some wd red 3tb drives in a raidz6 pool.

At best I can get 60m/s out of it. Each drive can do about 100m/s sequential but that is rare.

Putting an ssd on for caching read/writes though really changes the calculus of this.
Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (2010) [pdf]
Two other tools that render images from ascii are ditaa (http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/) and plantuml (http://plantuml.com/). Those tools, some scripts to render and combine markdown and images, and DrawIt (+ some other vim tools like 'boxes' (not sure if that still has a web page), 'sketch.vim' and 'boxdraw') make for the least painful, versionable documentation system, for me. ('least painful' in the sense that I still need to code way too much to get it all to work, but there isn't anything ready-made and stable enough that I have been able to find the last decade).
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How much does it cost if you want a more robust app?
With all the complaints with Blenders UI I've never understood why more people haven't developed plugins that offer a UI alternative. I wanted a simpler UI for Maya so I wrote my own : https://github.com/shawnfratis/Scrimshaw-MEL-Mini-GUI-for-Ma... . It's not perfect but it works for my uses. I'd think a program as open as Blender would lend itself to something like that.
When you say "That is not how HTTP works" it suggests that your claim is that anything that HTTP allows is ethically OK to do. However that is clearly a ridiculous stance, since a DDoS attack is a stream of valid HTTP requests and that's clearly not OK.

That wasn't a response made to your comment, and you are mixing two different arguments there. You guess in not correct.

So I'm left wondering what your argument actually is for why unwelcome scraping is ethically OK.

I never even suggested such an argument.

The behavior you described in the last paragraph is only deceptive from the eyes of an information and privacy surveillant state actor.
Anonymity is not unethical, it is a human right.
Any chance of releasing the source? I'd love to be able to self-host this...
Drones are army planes that can fly for hours and probably weight hundreds if not thousands of pounds... Quadcopters are toys that can fly for minutes and weight only a few pounds...
It would probably be possible to build a system like this on top of https://ipfs.io/, see https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues/10 for example
Indeed, a deeply touching and human story, but even more so I've been engrossed by the consuming discussion it has sparked!
>This design will also scale to running across multiple servers, and in general to any kind of computer, business or industry problem.

If I understand what you're getting at, you're saying that locking is the solution to all concurrency problems? This section is the most interesting to me, as I've been researching concurrency at a high level lately. I'm a little confused by your conclusion. It seems naïve to claim that multiple hosts can agree on what action to take "just" by using locks. What if a peer is holding a lock and becomes unreachable? What if the peer isn't dead and thinks it still has the lock? What if the core that is issuing the locks becomes unreachable?
As far as I know, shader.io sells individual proxies. Luminati and Nohodo are exit nodes priced by the amount of bandwidth that you use.
Oh honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.
If an app, any app, crashes your X session, you should be far more upset at X or your graphics drivers than Blender.
"Drone" covers all UAVs/RPVs whether small enough to fit on your palm or large enough to need a full size air strip to launch.

All UAVs are drones and all drones are UAVs. Not all drones are quadcopters but all quadcopters are drones. Even in the strictest definition, what we commonly call "R/C Planes/Helicopters" actually qualify as "drones."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
Will the average Cherokee child consume $80k of police/court/prison services during their lifetime? That's breakeven

You can't talk about "breakeven" without considering opportunity cost of not taking the choice - in this case, taxes and other returns that better outcomes would produce. It doesn't take much increase in outcomes to arrive with a benefit worth $80k over a whole lifetime.
Zooming-in is a bit tricky as a page scroll is triggered. Might help to add

event.preventDefault();

to the wheel event listener function.
I wonder how many of those pixels are dead, since that is a huge IC and the yields are likely to be very low otherwise. Even a few thousand dead pixels scattered randomly throughout wouldn't be particularly noticeable though, as interpolation is used to mask them out.
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'a "validation" function'

Or "normalization"
What's the popular JPEG library that this is from? Why the refusal to mention it?
You know, artists have to pay radio for the exposure. Spotify gets them the same thing, not only for free, but paying the artists.
Must read! Jon Evans has mastered Cognitive Dissonance and about a very important issue - the Gig Economy. That being said, there is an alternative. A guaranteed income - and the gig economy highlights the need for it.
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I thought my comment above would have played better to the crowd here, who always seemed to be strongly anti-conspiracy theory since they always wanted to mis-apply things like Occam's Razor and other such heuristics, in a debate. Maybe the tide has finally turned. I just like Microsoft and don't get all the hate for them, so I tried branding someone as a conspiracy theorist to see what would happen. Interesting results...

I actually fall into the group of people who can see the possibility of conspiracy everywhere. While I don't believe in lizard people, I do believe in the strong possibility that the US gov't was at least partly behind 9/11. Matter of fact - I believe the lizard people story was put out there to make conspiracy theorists look ridiculous. I also believe, for instance, that the CIA runs the illicit drug trade...and I believe that Mao Zedong was a controlled assets of the western elite, just like China is today and that this will all culminate into a really scary new world order with China as the only superpower. My favorite thing about being a conspiracy theorist is that it has actually freed my mind up a bit because I don't sweat the small stuff so much anymore and I have fully accepted the fact that I am going to die one day since I have spent so much time thinking about all the ways I'm going to get killed by the Illuminati :)
> Why are you trying to argue that systems which benefit sellers and buyers should compensate legacy entities which refused to adapt and change?

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In particular, http://docquery.fec.gov/pres/2015/Q3/C00583146/B_PURPOSE_C00...
I've always been confused as to how a forum for entrepreneurs wound up with so many honest-to-fuck communists.
You are correct and I don't think sitting in the pilot's seat but not having your hands on the controls qualifies as "unmanned."

Again, UAVs are not computer-flown. They're remotely piloted. They are not completely autonomous (yet.)
This is exactly the problem. I would be happy paying an extra 10% in taxes if the money was spent efficiently. But so much of it is wasted (and ends up back in the hands of ''the 1%'' ironically). After what I've seen I trust wealthy individuals to invest that extra 10% into efforts that benefit society much more than I trust the government. I think we'd be better off if we lowered income taxes, raised property taxes, and raised the death tax in % terms (and eliminated the perpetual trust loophole). But instead there will be a circus show as politicians argue over the Federal rate (already effectively at 43.4% for ''the rich'').