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I edit the HTML on most end user agreements I sign to read, "I disagree and waive no rights," then I click that button.

I wonder in what sense these agreements are enforceable when they cannot prove that people actually agreed with them? Hard copies of contracts are kept for a reason, I always assumed.
Curio: A Modern Library for Reliable Concurrent I/O Using Python Coroutines
I think raising your children and bettering yourself is a great thing, but it doesn't tangibly generate revenue. Starting a business might if it's successful, but there are small business loans. Money changing hands (money velocity) is one of the ingredients to inflation along with high demand for goods and services. Detaching the expectation of some level of productivity from income is a recipe for big inflation
> After all, you aren't really teaching repeated addition, you are just using it as scaffolding to provide an insight into multiplication!

You may be right. This is the interesting part of the discussion, and you've framed it well. I think it can be scaffolding technique also for the application of definitions, the expansion of symbols to their definition. Perhaps there is a better way to say that (or other examples), but the point is that I don't think that the exclusive value in teaching the technique is soon-to-be discarded scaffolding for multiplying numbers.

> the child (and parent!) was annoyed because it made little sense to mark it as wrong

The impact that the -1 has on the child is also interesting. I think it scored 1 out of 2, so it wasn't marked "wrong" so mach as "partially correct". It should be clear to the student that they basically got it right but slightly misapplied the technique, due to the comment, shouldn't it? If it isn't, it's the result of too much focus on the grade and too little focus on the comment.

It seems to me more likely that it's parents and other adults who see this -1 so negatively, and impose that on the kids. I would have been upset as a kid, too, but the sooner someone could have gotten me to be okay with quantitative imperfection, the better.
Yeah, the "diff" is a big one. There should be 5-10 major types of contracts that companies can work from, and consumers should be told "This is contract 5. The diff is as follows:" and limit the diff in length
They should just tell companies if they cannot describe the legal situation in under a page in a clear language for general consumer products then they cannot sell them.

Diffs won't help - the aim from version 1.0 is to obfuscate.
The answer was NOT wrong.
This is very interesting to me from the point of view that it's like a great combination of programming and another discipline.

I wish I knew enough about other fields so that I could create things like this. But my lack of in-depth knowledge in other topics prevents me and I don't know how to come across these things on my own.
As a developer, I'm very interested in the band2. Personally, I think bands are a better format that, say smart watches.

The MS band looks to me, a general purpose device rather than a dedicated fitness product. I see a lot of potential for it. Like all things, the dedicated fitness devices will be displaced by general purpose ones.

I'm interested in developing products for the Band to work under Android, but there's no access to the microphone nor any voice recognition provided (that i can see in the MS Android SDK).

Voice control is, in my view, essential for wearable devices like the band.

Anyone know if this might become available or if there's an unofficial way to access the mic.
That's not part of the definition. That's a separate property.

I'm not sure we should care about that in elementary school, so the point is not to defend the teacher but only that you can't use the definition as an argument against the teacher.
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In a law-heavy society, the rich, powerful and savvy can easily wield law preparation to exploit the average joe. It's been trending that way in the US since the beginning.
Quotes are wrong. Should be:

Snapchat's 'new' scary privacy policy.
Elaborate por favor.
Adblock seems to block that annoying overlay that covers the page. You can also get rid of it by copying and pasting the following line into your browser's web console or debugger:

(function(){var x=document.querySelector("[id$=modal_signup_wrapper]");x.parentNode.removeChild(x)})();
This is a load of crap. "Equivalence" has a mathematical meaning and it isn't the bullshit he tries to play it off as. After interpreting an uncited example blurb on Wikipedia as "the definition of multiplication" he goes on to discuss division, a non-commutative operator, how it's bad for kids to use the commutative property of multiplication before the teacher has taught it, how bundles of bananas of varying quantity (i.e. sets of different sizes) are not equivalent, how the JavaScript type system is weird and how you can't simply flip the dimensions of vectors and expect them to be equivalent.

Neither of these things have anything to do with the original problem. The best thing I can think of him doing, as a self-proclaimed "math evangelist", is to shut up about concepts that are obviously beyond his understanding.
"This is not a difference of degree, it is a difference of kind. It is why there is probably not an evolutionary path from the cruise/autopilot systems based on existing ADAS technologies to a real robocar."

Really interesting. I did not realize that.
The scrollbar was very irritating
Sorry to disagree, but despite your assertions and insults, society was absolutely more orderly. Don't conflate "orderly" with "fair"; they don't go together necessarily. In fact often it's the opposite. South Africa for example during the apartheid era was a relatively orderly place for both blacks and whites, and since the end of apartheid it's become the world center for murder and other violent crime.

I've had countless conversations with people who witnessed the 30s, 40s, 50s and even earlier. My grandfather for example was born in 1900, passed away in '91, and I was able to learn what it was like growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn in the early 1900s. For one thing, boys certainly had gangs, and there certainly was crime. Fights were not uncommon, and he had to fight plenty since he was on the short side. But if 2-3 boys were beating on one, others would intervene to break it up; that was considered unfair. Few carried knives, and no one carried guns. Women were not afraid to go for a walk. I know a 20-year-old musician who got beaten up walking home from a rehearsal. A skinny little girl with a violin, and she got her jaw broken by some piece-of-shit mugger. That would have been almost unheard of in an earlier era. It truly was a different world.

The New York subways were safe at 2 in the morning. There was little or no road rage. People were safe in their homes in most places. Sure, there were spectacular crimes and notorious criminals, but they were notable more for their exceptionalism than anything else. The average citizen's life was rather boring, actually, which is why these edge cases got sensationalized.

My mother told me of a news report on the front page of the local paper, that some college students had caroused and caused a disruption on the train the previous night. This was considered front page news in the old days!

In the U.S., prior to desegregation, black families despite the injustice of racism were far more functional than today; in the 1920s, 80% of black families had a mother and father, and the father was generally employed. Today that ratio is reversed and only 20% are 2-parent homes; furthermore the father is often destitute, drug/alcohol addicted, or in prison. No, I'm not advocating a return to segregation. I'm just pointing out that we have a vastly more disorderly and dysfunctional society today in many ways.
> As long as they say that they're deleting photos from their servers there's no reason to believe they're not.

There is no reason to believe they will delete any snap before all recipients have viewed it once, or according to new policy, have viewed it once and paid 33¢ to replay it once (I'd imagine this could update to n times where n is a number they decide in the future).

Imagine being able to use people's snaps for advertising online. Use a photo of someone you watch a lot and put a picture of them smiling or a video of them saying "I love you" (thanks to voice and or face recognition) in a targeted advertisement... I believe Facebook tried something similar a while back.
A Not So Short List of People to Blame for Internet Content Woes
There seems to be history of failed ideologues from the west going to poorer nations to try to sell ideologies that didn't sell here: fanatical Marxism, fascism, and now dominionist ideology. It's like a form of toxic waste dumping.
You're projecting your ire on the wrong person. I ride 20+ miles daily in large city with outdated, poorly maintained infrastructure for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike. I'm just trying to get to work, not break any speed records, and I'm extremely mindful of pedestrians (for their safety) and cars (for my own). I'm not the guy laying on the bell without reducing his speed or treating a shared trail like a personal racetrack. I've cycled my entire long life and hardly qualify as a hipster (not that it's pertinent). Whenever I've been in Europe, I have to remind myself when I'm back in the States that drivers won't stop for you when you step into the road, even when there's a sign in the middle of the crosswalk telling them to do so. I have no idea what I said to inspire your alienating rant, when it seems we both want the same thing.
Yeah, more people traveling from US to Europe because the cost of a European vacation has gone down in USD due to the slumping EUR.
Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal (1968)
Node.js, Express, MongoDB RESTful API: Fundamentals
Airtel Kenya Head of Airtel Money Feted at the Annual IT Women Conference
> P.S. If you have a Bachelors in Mathematics, then surely you can see that there is a fundamental problem if a child is taught that 5x3 is not the same as 3x5?

It's not the same. I'm not sure when that should be taught to a student.
I grew in East Texas. I think it is the same as many areas; yes there are vocal groups that paint a picture for the entire region, but individually I think you'll find some of the nicest, most honest, sincere people around. Many of whom are educated and well-read. I'm sure just like in your hometown. It's unfortunate those are not the people you see on TV or quoted in the news. As a caveat, there was a four-year public university in my hometown.

Definitely a slower pace of life. I can't go out to eat or to the grocery store in my hometown without running into someone I know, went to school with, etc.
Symfony and Search: Lucene, Solr and Elasticsearch
The definition he quotes is accurate. His understanding of what it says is what is inaccurate! His error is that he believes the definition says that the first number referred to in that definition has to be the left-most number, when in fact the definition refers to either the LHA or the RHS number.
Your post read an awful lot like a statement of fact that was meant to be backed up by the link following the colon. I just pointed out that the information was not present in the article.

You wonder why I focus on the distraction, I wonder why you put it there.
One version of central planning and in quite specific initial conditions not quite favorable -- and with dictatorship like power structure to boot. And of course without modern information propagation, like with the internet, etc.

There are many more versions of central planning, including in the US in various segments, western Europe etc, that have done quite well for themselves.

Besides, the market has also been tested, many more times, and I wouldn't call it any great success either.
It should be illegal to "sign away" legal protections that you're afforded under the law.
It is the same!
"Front-running demand" is just anticipating where prices will go. That's what all competitive trading is. At its core, that's what business in general is. Observing supply and demand playing out through public information is completely natural.

The reason we have terms like "front-running" and "insider trading" and laws against those practices is because of ethical obligations between people. If I see a lot of women wearing blue dresses this season, and buy more anticipating they'll sell for a profit, that's just business. If my accountant also works for the shop on the next block and tells me they're about to buy lots of blue dresses this season, that's unethical.
This is why strong consumer protection laws and regulation is good. They generate set of standards for enforceable contracts and remove surprises.
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I rather think if people had exercised the power of the vote and not allowed these morons into power who perpetrated that monstrous war in the first place.

Look -- Goldwater was against the war. Actually he said, either get in and finish it quickly, or don't go in at all. But he lost, badly, to the Johnson machine that portrayed him as an extreme conservative nutcase. Think how different history might have been had he, or someone like him, been in power during that turbulent era, plus of course more intelligent Congresscritters.
So you're saying he's yet another example of a screenwriter who doesn't use plain text computer files for his screenplays?
Oops, that wasn't clear, money is a distributed consensus system to figure out how to satisfy _their values_. You earn money from people when you satisfy their values, and spend money to get yours satisfied.

I do think that people are "value-maximisers", short or long term is irrelevant. Being rational isn't really important either, people do what they believe will satisfy their values, even if it doesn't end up helping.
A Bestiary of Alternative Game Controllers
The article mentions this towards the end, but dismisses their utility. I wonder when the opt-out period begins -- on acceptance of the contract, presumably.

While many companies also include an opt-out provision on arbitration — typically between 30 and 45 days — few consumers take advantage of it because they do not realize they have signed a clause to begin with, or do not understand its consequences, according to interviews with lawyers and plaintiffs.
It's mentioned elsewhere that this guy worked for Google Switzerland, who have different employment laws to say the US.
I would really like to see that play out in court. The fix (for the companies) would be to simply include the text of the contract (or maybe even just a hash) in the form submission.
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Like apparently happens for many cases, there's probably a whole list of better options potentially available to people in the article's subject's position... as long as you have access to money. You could pay a bond and get out while awaiting trial, if you have money. You could petition the judge for a reduced bond or something, if you have the money to pay a lawyer to really care about your case and spend time on it. You could be confident of winning at trial when you're actually innocent, if you have the money to pay a lawyer to really research the case and all of the details and explain why you are not guilty.

No money, and apparently you are stuck in jail, with your only representation being a public defender who is at best drastically overworked and has very little time to spend on your case.
Seems feasible to do as a Chrome plugin.
I agree. The EU parliament royally fucked up this, thanks to the scaremongering tactics of the EU ISPs - or their money.
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> The problem is simply that people don't read this stuff in the first place. They simply sign without reading, assuming/hoping/praying that the terms are reasonable.

that's not the problem. I see these arbitration clauses all the time, yet I sign anyway. Because I can't function without a credit card, without a cellphone, without internet hookups to my house, etc. It's not reasonable to say that I have to forego these services, or that I need to carefully shop for those vanishingly few providers that currently don't have such a clause, only for them to add one in when the contract renews in a year.

What choice does the consumer really have if these clauses are unavoidable?

edit: waqf's comment makes this point way better.
As usual, there's a nice Emacs mode for it: https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode
> This looks like a standardization of the way that screenwriting is done, rather than a revolutionary change in the way screenwriting is done.

Yes, and this is exactly how a standard should be.

A markup language is the text equivalent of a user interface. It's well-known that good user interfaces for an existing task work with users' previous workflow, even to the point of including skeuomorphs as cues. A good markup language is one that makes minimal change to the user's existing workflow.

XML is terrible. It's not nearly as human-readable as it promises to be, nor is it as computer-readable as it promises to be.
Perhaps one could legislate that legally immaterial changes have to be kept in separate commits than legally material changes, and that those have to be as atomic as is reasonable.
The problems with prisons cross private and public prisons. Private ones are likely worse, but even public ones are not shining examples of how to treat other humans.
I disagree with the premise that the asset class as a whole is bad.

At the seed stage you're looking at returns of 50-5000x if you "win" so there's more margin of error in the 1/10 statistic.

To be clear: I think investing $5k in one startup (and only one startup) is dumb. I'm not saying that's what people should do. And there are legal limits to how much people can invest and requirements for platforms to educate (and ensure investors understand basic risks like failure rates and need for diversification). When you invest $5k across 50 startups that starts behaving like an index fund.

The caveat to the "big win" returns is that it's traditionally hard to get access to the companies that have a real chance at IPO. A small group of people with privileged access make an obscene amount of money and it's hard to break into that insider club due to structural issues with non-JOBS Act regulations.

The health of the asset class, IMO, is dependent on platforms' ability to attract those companies. For equity crowdfunding (when restricted to rich people) it's clearly in the realm of plausibility. The three major platforms all have at least one "Unicorn" under their belt. For unaccredited crowdfunding I'm optimistic given the information I've seen that this is doable, but if I'm wrong it'll be because the new regulations scare away the "good" companies. Not because retail investors are dumb or there's an inherit issue with democratizing access. There will be a law or amendment in the future that fixes any regulatory issue. I'm pretty certain this or something like it is the future if you look forward far enough.
That may be true. But, the Internet existed because of massive multi-decade investment from folks without a profit motive. All of the fundamental Internet protocols were created through those organizations.

Look at what capitalism gave us as an Internet like experience: compuserve, aol, etc. Those were all horrible closed wall systems.
The syllabus does nothing of the sort. The addition technique is a way of teaching very young children in a way they can grasp. However, it relies on using concrete objects and so far as I can see, should be used as a technique to aid understanding, and only then should the multiplication notation be introduced.
I would like to have this as a feature in the language without having to import another "magic" module, something similar to case classes in Scala.

Let me dream :)
Thanks to missionaries ... 96 percent of people in Papua New Guinea consider themselves Christian.

That's a bizarre bit of editorializing to put into what should be a balanced work of journalism.

I imagine the writer was trying to imply that most of the population in Papua New Guinea won't participate in events like these because of a belief system they've acquired. However, when a writer words things like that, it makes me question their inherent bias.
The "take marbles & leave" approach.
I could not figure out what the heck they were for a while. When I figured it out, I felt like I'd just caught a coelocanth in a fishing net. There it was, making perfect sense in its prehistoric context, but completely out of step with the modern world. Same thing with the weird goto-based control flow. It was very disciplined and regular, but it didn't map to anything I'm used to.
>It's disingenuous to suggest that it's a problem only because some of them might be innocent.

Luckily the parent never did that. He just mentioned that's even worse to be held there if you're actually altogether innocent, which I think we all agree with.

>I've had plenty of close calls, and some of them were my fault. I was lucky, but left the scene with full knowledge I was to blame.

In the cases that it was "your one fault" yes. In the other cases why?
The only way to bring about that kind of change is from the regulatory level, the companies benefit from obfuscating the changes they're making you agree to.
Making it easier to see that they just added a single provision allowing them to sell your data is not something companies will want to implement themselves.
Thanks for the reference! I've put it on my reading list.
No, I'm afraid you've not given a complete definition of multiplication. You need to also show that multiplication is commutative, which is indeed a property of multiplication but MUST be included in the definition.

At the child's level (primary age child, NOT high-school) then it is unnecessary to introduce the distributive property. But you honestly have to make the associative property very, very clear of the child will potentially have problems down the track!

(Edit: brain fart - I said associative when I meant commutative. Oops!)
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namedtuples are a great feature of the language but this example could be solved just as well with a dict. Like why is `person_data` not a dict?

The overall codebase used in this example is smelly.
Unfortunately, the current criminal system requires plea bargaining to exist, because, if it didn't happen, you wouldn't have enough judges, juries, or courtrooms to handle the mess.

A few years ago in California, a District Attorney who was running for re-election made the edict during campaign time declared that there was to be no more plea bargaining. Unfortunately, what happened was that prosecutors could not handle the trials, and had to release a fair amount of inmates for speedy trial violations, had to move cases to other counties who had the availability of courtrooms, and cases that should have been resolved in six months were taking upwards of a year to go through the motions of a trial.

Suffice to say, plea motions are the grease that keep the 'speedy trial' machine running in the United States.
Yet it appears a significant reason for the emergence of this phenomenon is the regulatory statute of the FAA which elevates arbitration to the same standard as contracts, and preempts state decisions on their enforcement, and moreover has had its restrictions (i.e. ability to waive class action in arbitration clauses) subsequently reaffirmed by SCOTUS.

As such, this has only created more surprises. But it's a folly to call it a failure due to lack of regulation, since this all takes place in an environment that is already heavily, and in fact often incomprehensibly regulated. The verbosity of standard-form contracts isn't incidental.