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Yup, okay, that's very pretty.
This. 100 times.

I've had the same experience (and a few relapses, but I do know better).
It's not called a 'British Unit'. You've mischievously added a capital letter there as if the whole thing is a proper name when the article didn't do that. It's just called 'a unit of alcohol' which isn't as silly as you're pretending. 'British' in the original article was just an adjective, not part of the noun, and the context of unit being alcohol was implicit so it was left off.
This. Once I got my head around flux, it made sense, and I understood why its a good way of designing the data flow inside a web application, but as someone who likes to hack together projects quickly, setting up a flux architecture required a lot of effort on my side, effort I would rather spend building out functionality.
The problem here is that this was badly put together legislation. I don't think the idea of net neutrality was actually debated at all in reality. The need to abolish mobile data roaming charges in the EU was front and centre of the needs of these MEP's constituents minds and they would not vote this down, it would've been mad for them politically. Whoever wrote this piece of legislation is to blame here.

I would be very surprised if this didn't come back for debate in another form prior to it's adoption.
Someone could easily put out an article titled, inside the secretive world of the atlantic article titling to increase page views. That's about as illustrative as this article.

The US has always been a place with a love hate relationship with the wealthy. We like building people and personae and tearing them down lest they get too comfortable in their perches.

The Atlantic continues this tradition of faux populism but with a twist to drive readership.
Really in the UK this isn't that true. Bear in mind that you are usually locked into an 18 month contract. Also bear in mind that lots of people don't live in cities.
What I'm taking away from this is:

1. re encryption:

> Apparently before iOS8 only a subset of user data was being encrypted compared to what is being encrypted now.

Which leaves my question unanswered: in that case the government could still unsolder the flash chip and access that data. Your link [1] mentions that this would include pictures and SMS messages, which is probably what they were after.

2. Custom firmware from Apple will help to access encrypted parts since it would allow to run the OS under the cracker's control, who then only needs to brute force the password and not the UID. According to [1] this is still slowed down to 12.5 attempts per seconds (80 ms) and newer iPhone hardware additionally contains hardware enforced rate or number of guesses limits.

Edit: custom firmware would of course also help in case 1 in the sense that it makes it unnecessary to unsolder the flash. But my estimate for the effort needed to do the latter would be around USD 1000 if done exceptionally, perhaps USD 100 if done often enough. I wonder if Apple's unlocking service would be any cheaper. So perhaps the reason it's not being done is psychological (Apple complying is offloading the question whether it's OK), or the law, or worries about the constitution.
Love it.

That said, I consider many of these "tricks" to be the absolute opposite of playing chess like an asshole (though I understand that's part of the joke here). But the reason I take the statement seriously is that I once tried to genuinely play chess like an asshole, and there was a very intelligent guy who was able to thwart it.

I read a book called "how to think ahead in chess" and discovered that I could lock down the game against a computer by playing queens pawn, building what is called a "stonewall" defense, and then slowly maneuvering along lines that I understood. It was a good way to play against a computer, because it limited the options to the point where I was better able to see one or two moves ahead by reasoning only along a couple of lines, whereas the computer (this was back in the late 80s, I think) still needed to crunch a bunch of unnecessary numbers.

The guy who could beat me? When I played queen's pawn, he played king's pawn. Go ahead, take it. One pawn sacrificed to blow the game wide open, and all of a sudden, creativity, the ability to see lots of positions and opportunities? Easy.

The reason I say I was playing chess like an asshole was actually documented in Martin Amis's book "the Information." There's a scene where one writer decides to essentially crush the other's self esteem by beating him at all the games they play (tennis, chess). He hires a chess instructor, and the chess instructor, teaching him what I think is pretty clearly the queen's pawn stonewall, reflects that what he is teaching almost feels more like how to cheat at chess than really play it.

It works, unless your opponent is much better at the game and realizes that giving up a pawn and a bit of position early on is a small price to pay to take you out of a game that you know very well and throw the entire board into chaos ;)
It's somewhat ironic to think how "pirate" once meant someone who takes everything you have and gives nothing back, but today a pirate is a very generous individual who contributes their time and money, not to mention risking personal safety, in order to give you free access to contemporary culture.
>> "Now if you want t up the ante, you move your hedge fund to the Cayman Islands where you don't pay any tax on the gains until you repatriate the money back to the North America."

Not necessarily true: CFC status is going to tax your Cayman Islands company as if that income accrues you you personally unless you meet requirements to avoid you having control of that corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_foreign_corporation
Being a minor pedant - the sugar in Smoked Salmon isn't really 'the food producers putting sugar everywhere', it's part of how the Salmon is cured before it's smoked. Rubs and cures are fairly typically a mix of salt and sugar along with herbs and spices - the sugar is a pretty integral part of the process rather than being an additional ingredient.
When experimenting with intermittent fasting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting) I have also observed that my lust for sweets and other "unhealthy" foods completely disappeared. Somehow after a grace period the taste (In my subjective experience) gets much more aligned to foods that we know are considered healthy. I think adjusting ones diet to minimise sugar and highly processed food can do wonders for ones general health and well-being.
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David Chalmers, a famous philosopher of mind among other things, shares your idea in a fairly influential paper. http://consc.net/papers/extended.html
Star Citizen.

Really interests me. I believe it is the next version of EvE so been keeping my eye on it for ages. However I do think they are going to have massive issues bring it all together. At present they have lots of modules that are pretty standalone. Yes it is very pretty but I not sure if they can make it work as a single Shard MMO

I am rather behind on news but last I heard someone left and the FPS part was delayed.

There are concerns from ExDevs highlighting the game on kickstarter might never be released http://news.softpedia.com/news/star-citizen-development-supp...

I think they will turn it in to a single player game with some light MMO features, or they will have to mass shard it, at which point i lose interest.

The fact that just last week they release another ship worth $300, and the above news pieces indicates they are down to 8mil out of the 82million pleged might show how they are running out of money.

Note above minecraft: Notch used minecraft to learn. The code in it was never great, and you are completely right that it generally ran like shit but it is getting better, and the development are stream lining the code but they cannot re-write it because some of the things that make minecraft good was the odd behavoir that a recode would most likely lose.
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Fruit has a lot of sugar in it, too. Do you avoid fruit as well?
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Every one of these has me tearing my hair out. Good post!

Being a marketer myself, I'd love to know what people see as a solid alternative to pop ups asking for emails? It's a difficult balance to maintain between making it obvious what you want someone to do, whilst maintaining high quality content.

Something like a scroll up box in the bottom right corner I think could represent a happy medium, but would be interested what people had to say.
>Not really sure what you take issue with.

Yeah we're talking past each other.

My point is that writing isn't the primary purpose of most academic work, and even when publications are the primary measured output, it's rarely the case that the publications are being evaluated based upon the quality of the writing rather than the quality of the underlying work. It's possible for excellent science to be written up poorly. And also vice versa.

So thinking of writing as the main output of science is kind of misguided. In a way, the opposite of what you were saying is true -- the actual writing is of far less importance than the results that the writing is being used to describe, and so scientists struggle to communicate with the outside world not because writing is the point, but because it's this thing they have to do in between their experiments / proofs / software writing / etc.
At first I was very sad when I read the article.

However I hope that we, as European, could take this as a challenge and come out with a way to completely obfuscate the web traffic, wich I believe will be extremely important in the coming year.

We should see this as an opportunity, maybe we won't come out with the next Netflix, but hopefully we will be able to to set the standard for privacy and security online, so needed right now...
I really could do without "considered harmful" titles. x86 has been one of the most influential technologies of all time and a clickbait title doesn't do it justice imo.
> "on my 1 mhz 68000"

Did you mean 7 MHz 68000?
I guess saying 'oil' is being a bit too specific. It is more like the 'energy' that drives the modern economy? and that is sold and you find new avenues everyday of collecting(producing) it. But yeah, it digresses a bit too much from this post I guess.
Throw in that two of the world's largest corporations are little more than glorified sugar pushers - Coke and Pepsi - and you have a replay of the 90's tobacco scene. Just Coke and Pepsi together represent a sugar ecosystem worth perhaps half a trillion dollars globally (their market caps + companies directly dependent on them + retail).

The upside is, those companies are slowly dying. Coke's sales the last three years:

$48 billion > $46.8b > $45.8b

We can add trash like McDonald's into this, their last three years of sales:

$27.5 billion > $28.1b > $27.4b

These types of companies will continue to bleed sales and struggle in the next decade as consumers seek alternatives.
Sugar in fruits is not added sugar.
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I agree with you on the benefits, but I did find it quite hard to get rid of added sugars from my diet. As you said it's basically in 90% of products you find at the grocery store, so the only way is to buy raw foods only and do a lot of cooking.
I work remotely from home, so I have time to choose what to buy and time to cook everyday, but otherwise I don't think I could do it easily.
Not to mention its a very small amount of sugar. I noticed in the study they replaced added sugars with simple carbs (bagels/chips). Makes me wonder if the best strategy is just reducing all sugar/simple carbs across the board and replacing with low GI or high fat foods.
Why? Binding factors? Aesthetics? Is there any alternative (perhaps more expensive)?
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But nobody is arresting the strawman.
Of course they get a say. No one is holding a gun to their head. Yeah, they might not stay at that store, but in a tight labor market, there's another workplace that would have a position that would fit their schedule or their life-work balance better.

But you need to trade your precious time and effort to get paid. Mandating that there should be no trade on the nth day of the week/month/year, days that were arbitrarily set by a bunch of dead white guys trying to appease their subjects or gods is just mind boggling to me. That should definitely not be a basis for a one-size-fits-all rule for people in vastly different circumstances who wish (often need) to trade or not trade.
Great catch.

It's possible that participating in a study of high risk people has a subtle influence on eating behavior such that these biomarkers might be altered over a 10 day time course anyway. I'm pretty sure that this change wouldn't be as large as the experimental group's results, but you never know.
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Fruit does not have added sugar and the fiber in fruit helps slow the digestion of the fructose greatly dampening the negative effects of the sugar. Plus fruit is loaded with naturally occurring vitamins essential to the human body.
I couldn't find anything concerning what you said about SETI. Do you have a link I could get?
So I read the blog post and skimmed the PDF and I'm left with some questions. IF these security issues have been present for 10 years, but there hasn't been any widespread malicious action on them, are they really issues?

To create an analogy, my car doesn't have bullet proof glass, someone could easily shoot it up and i'd be dead. But nobody really goes around shooting up cars, so is it an issue?
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It varies a bit from project to project, but I usually start with a custom PHP MVC framework: GluePHP for routing, Savant3 for templates, and PHP-ActiveRecord as an ORM. I'm definitely someone who prefers to work with small, understandable modules with very limited scopes/responsibilities.

I've recently considered polishing up the most-used bits and packaging it as a proper framework, but I probably need a kick in the ass (or even just a hint of interest) to do so. :)

Artpacks.org strays from the framework a bit by using Backbone.js for the front-end. So does the game that I'm working on.
I'm not sure how this is news to anyone these days. There are a billion and one places you could go on the web, see on TV, read in books, or even speak with neighbours and the same advice would be given. Lots of sugar = bad. Less sugar = generally good.

The human body is quite remarkable in it's ability to adapt, the only thing this article adds is the '10 days' portion (pun intended), but even that isn't too surprising!
1. Fruit is not healthy in large quantities. (Everything in moderation?)

2. If you eat fruit in its natural form (with the fiber etc), it has a much lower glycemic index than processed. Also consider the glycemic index and load of an apple is much lower than a potato.

Its worth noting that in the form of something like a smoothy, a person can consume more fruit than would be possible eating actual fruit. Imagine a counter top of fruit turning into a single large smoothy...
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I eat fruit but I don't drink fruit juice.
Today I prefer to eat a whole orange than drinking an orange juice.
>> Today I am more attracted to a fruit than a cup cake or an ice cream, and it feels good :)

I had a buddy who has convinced me to do this as well and says everything tastes better when you re-align your taste buds so to speak. He says all his fruit tastes sweeter, vegetables and other foods have more flavor when he stopped eating processed sugar.

Clearly, you've had the same experience.
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I'm sorry I do not have rigorous numbers for you. I can only estimate based on personal observation: in a typical neighborhood of single family homes, about 50% of homes employ a gardening service in Southern California.
In my area, it's typical for the gardener to visit once a week and receive $20+ a visit.
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The paper discusses this:

However, there are some limitations to our paradigm. Athough inclusion of a separate external control group would have been optimal, it would have presented novel challenges of its own, such as: 1) if subjects under- or over-estimated their baseline fructose consumption, then providing them their reported daily fructose content would be problematic; 2) altering each subject's diet while trying to maintain the baseline fructose content would require changes in liquid versus solid, which may also result in caloric change, altered absorption, and altered satiety; and 3) our participants were all patients in an obesity program. We did not believe that maintaining fructose at the same level, even within a study, is commensurate with the message that the change in macronutrient composition is important for their health, and in order to use the study as an “educational moment.” Furthermore, others have looked longitudinally at children with obesity over time without any intervention, but still within the confines of a study, and had seen no changes in metabolic outcomes [39]. Rather, each participant served as his or her own control. Our paradigm of dietary sugar and fructose restriction, which included mid-study dietary adjustments to compensate for weight loss, resulted in a 4% decrease in percentage of calories from carbohydrate, a 2% increase in percentage of calories from protein, and a small increase in dietary fiber, which could have reduced macronutrient absorption [18], flux of fructose to the liver, and also increased satiety. Recognizing that consumption data by recall is routinely underestimated [24], we made every effort to maintain our participants' baseline weight throughout the 10-day study interval, and even increased the caloric allotment partway through the cohort, yet a decline of 0.9 ± 0.2 kg was noted during the 10 days.
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Write them down so you can laugh at them 10 years later :)

On a serious note, I regret not writing things down consistently. Not every single thing I think about, but more substantial matters. I am trying to get into the habit of doing it now. Here are my 3 reasons to write:

1) Clarify and solidify your thinking
2) Learn how to express your thoughts in writing (very important no matter what you do in life)
3) Help "remember" things. This is especially useful if you need to build upon previous knowledge/discoveries. You won't need to start from scratch.

There are reason for keeping your notes private, but also good reasons for publishing them. Probably the biggest is getting feedback. Hearing other points of view is helpful in identifying missing pieces.
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net neutrality always matters.
The problem is you're not allowed to use Amateur Radio for anything "useful". You can chat with your friends, but for instance you'd never want to use it for email or online banking because encryption isn't allowed. You also can't conduct commercial transactions over it, except to occasionally sell a radio.
Great! I would love to see more of these :-)
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Right... but how do you know it takes a billion year to get here?
This is almost surely placebo effect

Given the amount of time wasted on diet/nutrition fads I'm starting to thing the US government should actually do some science on these issues.
Yeah I lived in San Jose, and you had to beat off gardeners with a stick. It was easier to say Yes once than No a million times. Not SoCal but anyway.
What do you mean by "added sugar"?

What about carbohydrates, which have "added sugar" (because they ARE sugar by default?)

What about high-sugar fruits like bananas, citrus, and red apples, which often have as much sugar as processed snacks?

Or do you mean that you eat low glycemic index foods?
This was my reaction as well.

When she tells the story about the gentleman who is wary of academics concerned with income inequality, I think it's interesting that she seems to be writing precisely the kind of account that may lead to further scrutiny of his assets and people like him. I would say his concern is well-placed!

There are two ways to look at this issue. First, these rich people are just fleecing the "system" and governmental powers should be increased to prosecute them.
Or, the "progressive" tax system is particularly punitive for high net worth individuals, and they will continue to shell out millions to wealth managers while tax laws are actively hostile to their assets. (Tax collections have been ~19% throughout U.S. history, even when tax rates were as high as 90%.[0]) On a purely "practical" level, tax codes should be simplified and taxes lowered so that it's more economical for those of high net worth to comply with the intent of the law, rather than skirt it. As an added bonus, it would also help economic growth generally.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487035149045756029...
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Should also be noted that the link mentions that the paper contains no new attacks - the title is misleading in this context with the new paper qualifier.
It constantly frustrates me how news articles never cite research articles, they always just mention "a study" and the author, leaving me to fumble around for 10 minutes to find the actual study. Does anyone know why this is SOP?
> The idea that the poor are just too stupid to know how to work is insulting.

I read it twice, and I didn't see anywhere in which planfaster suggested that the poor were stupid. Either I'm missing it, or you're reading in to something that isn't there.

> Some got squeezed out as prices and the job situation changed rapidly. Blaming them is pointless.

I agree that the point of cities is inaccurate, but the problem isn't that they've been squeezed out, it's that they don't have homes, but are otherwise still there. Perhaps I'm just being pedantic here, but squeezed out implies that they aren't there any more, and in the case of city homeless, they generally are.

That said, you've completely ignored the point of the post. Utah has had success in giving away vacant homes to their homeless, with the qualifier that if you're getting a free home, you don't also necessarily get to pick its location. Comparing it to penal colonies is a straw man, but regardless, the question is whether or not a homeless person in NYC would accept a free home, perhaps slightly upstate. If not, why not? There are currently more vacant homes across America than there are homeless persons, and it's not infeasible to suggest that if adverse possession were slightly restructured, we could completely solve the problem of involuntary homelessness within a decade, though of course any such solution will introduce new problems as well.