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A visual history of abortion and birth control
Hey there, thought you’d be interested in this story. It’s a fascinating photo essay by Laia Abril on centuries of birth control and abortion methods, some of which are surprisingly still in use today.

Here’s a direct link: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216773-abortion-contraception-birth-control-visual-history

The project pictures a history in “gadgets” - from lemon rinds and fish bladder condoms, to soap and enema syringes, to illegal surgical instruments disguised as something else, to, finally, methods “women could use to protect themselves regardless of the partner’s cooperation.”

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In the sense that you would have root access to your phone and could potentially run any linux app that compiles to ARM.
It doesn't solve any problem that isn't already solved better and cheaper.
In 9th grade our teacher had us make Cornell notes on everything we read (to be turned in).

All I remember is having to make the notes (because they took forever) but nothing of the content.

Honestly it just felt like more busy work that attributed to an ineffectual high school education.
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Long live the TUI!
>Notice that they never say Android is here to stay - Maybe Chrome OS will become the Phone/Tablet OS under a new guise?

Or Google could give two names to the same thing, like Youtube Red and Google Play Music.
I will say it took me an uncomfortably long time to determine which pictures were real. The pavement is a pretty good giveaway, but incredible nonetheless.
Does your mobile IRC client notify you (push message) when you're mentioned or receive a private message, but only when you're idle or offline on your desktop client?
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I highly recommend visiting Mr X in Shanghai if you have the opportunity. It blew the two that I've done in the US out of the water.
> He didn't say any of those things are related to suicide

Which is why he got downvoted. They're mostly not relevant to suicide[1]. It's just a dump of MRA bullshit with no relevance to the thread.

[1] but if you can show reputable sites that make links I'd be interested to see them. (And I'm not saying they're all irrelevant.)
I am no expert on the HDMI spec, so I'm unsure exactly what features are required, but I have seen some TVs that can power the chromecast right from the HDMI port, but other ones that require USB power. My cheapish Vizio LCD TV can't power the chromecast over HDMI, at least.
On PC it reaches 60 frames quite easily on moderate hardware, and quite beyond as the hardware improves.
Thanks for sharing. I've been told that the adoption of new software/process is one of the biggest challenges, especially in the B2B space. Coupled with the fact that there are multiple stakeholders with decision makers being different from the users and I can see the challenge of a B2B marketplace.
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Reminds me of the joke: Traveller to ops guy, "Why do you have a piece of fiber optic cable in your rescue kit?", ops guy, "That way if I ever get stranded I just bury this cable nearby and wait for a back hoe to show up and cut it!"

On a weird note, when evaluating data centers I had one tell me they had redundant connections to the Internet but what they really had were two lambdas on the same fiber. Sure its great that you have two providers but it is only one fiber didn't seem to sink in. Pass.

The problem is very real of course, when a disgruntled AT&T engineer cut lines in South San Jose they did a huge amount of damage. Looking at their impact and the time it takes to resplice a fiber, a group of us calculated it would take no more than a 100 people to take California completely off the cabled Internet (satellite is really hard to disable from the ground). That seems pretty risky.
Even in the late 90s when we had IRC, ICQ, and AIM for realtime chats.
Astonishing achievement. Now take a look at Batman Arkham Knight on PC and the marvelous technical failure it is.
For us, it's the difference between only developers using chat and the whole company using chat.
I doubt Snowden would be foolish enough to set foot anywhere in Europe, no matter what they say. I'd be willing to bet the CIA has people all over Europe that would be smacking their lips, not to mention the US would probably have extradition leverage that it doesn't have with Russia.
> So only people with some special justification are allowed to defend themselves?

In many countries the legislation is like that. For most of the rest, if there's no extraordinary risk of someone targeting you you're actually putting yourself and those around you in an unnecessary risk.
What if the book has been published in paper form? The book is public as long as you pay for it.

Since internet isn't free, you're still paying for content. At what point are you paying "enough" that the information isn't public anymore?

Are you saying no one should monetize their content using ads unless they're willing to allow anyone else to do that as well?
> What word would you use instead?

Infringing. (duh)
Enterprise was just badly written for much of it's run. Season 4 was an excellent example of how Enterprise could've been done very well, but unfortunately it was way too late to save the show.
I'm changing my opinion to "revert until tested better". This is way too messy.
Anonymous drops names of KKK members online, including US politicians
Plagiarism can also apply to copying content without using the exact same wording. In my mind, "stolen" means copying verbatim.

Plagiarism comes from a word meaning "kidnapping" though, so the tone of both words is pretty similar.
The Supreme Court has held that it is, and if you want to argue against it then that's fine, but you need a better argument than "nuh uh".

How many of the folks who argue against the Citizens United ruling have actually read it and understand the legal basis for it?
New 'Star Trek' Series on Way, but Why Just on CBS' Streaming Service?
Nod nod. Turned down an offer a few years ago precisely because of that.
The only graphics programming I've ever done has been with pygame.

What should I read next?
I'd argue there's little reason one of the chat clones couldn't be backed by an IRC server and give us a similar experience.
I said nothing about disliking YC. I said their selection criteria very obviously does not include technical ability or people skills.
Perhaps 'weird' is the wrong word, I think ultimately it is an unsupportable position. It seems irrational to me in the face of alternatives (Amazon, NetFlix) with higher customer satisfaction.
Luckily for humanity, we have people who are willing to take action that others would find ill-advised. Risk aversion does not make for incredible discoveries, and an adventurous can-do sensibility drives us all onward.
OVH's North American data center has been down for 3hrs
He hasn't ended his Presidential campaign. He's ended his bid for the Democratic nomination. David Weigel at WaPo asked him if he would run (pointlessly) as an independent; Lessig would (unsurprisingly) not rule that out. Note that he is still taking donations.
Explaining Go error handling
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Actually it is. For when you show willingness to silence one form of speech by anyone you forever give up your right to form any association to do similar.

While many of us do not like all the money in politics how people assemble to pool that money should not be the concern. The concern should be and always should be how politicians routinely ignore the rule of law and Constitution and twist the words to deliver the outcome they desire.

If anything, they would love restricting who can put money into politics as all their personal avenues of funding are protected.
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No ETA on when it will be fixed. Yikes.
Also, the only problem with "coercive abortion" is the "coercive" part; if you believe that abortion is ok, then gender selection via abortion is also ok. If you don't believe gender selection via abortion is ok, then you also must disagree with general abortion as a practice.

Not at all. The entire point of this line of discussion centers around limiting an implied personal right to reproduce for the good of society. A one-child policy might serve society's needs as a whole. A one-child policy that allows prospective parents to, say, flood the world with a supermajority of male children does not serve society's needs.

I think that gender selection via abortion is ok in the general sense, absent perverse incentives that cause society-crippling gender imbalances, but if those incentives exist and are abused, I can certainly understand a desire to make that illegal, while still allowing (and supporting) gender-blind abortion.
Unfortunately for humanity, we have other people who are willing to take action that others would find ill-advised because they are, in fact, ill-advised. Risk aversion does not make for incredible discoveries, but has the virtue of mitigating disaster. And an adventurous can-do sensibility drives people onwards in all directions, including off cliffs.

Ralph Nader is also a pretty compelling guy, on paper. In practice, he turns out to be the reason we invaded Iraq.
Direct reads (by ID) and writes are ACID.

Complex queries are eventually consistent.

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It would be nice if people would stop posting links to proposed products with descriptions in the present tense.
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It still introduces context switches and insertion into a queue, and I can tell from first hand experience tuning the terminal code for AROS that even running in a single address space, using a single CPU and no MMU on modern hardware, being careless about how you do the message passing will still kill your performance.
From 'book strap' to 'burrito': a history of the school backpack
Men can't be a sub-population by definition since men can breed with men. In regards intelligence both men and woman share the same mean. Given men have only one X chromosome we might expect that they might show a wider distribution in intelligence than women, but the evidence for this is controversial and airing it has a habit of losing you your job.
China Plans Enormous Particle Collider
Sad about this. I think we still need a high performance way to observe changes on objects without a lot of framework bloat.
I can't tell if you're joking, but "infringe" means "to violate" which implies that there is a law or agreement that's being broken. That makes it sound like you agree with the idea that this is stealing.
How to write better code using mutation testing
Why is this even an issue? Slack has nailed team chat. Slack is easy to use, they have a free plan. If you want the premium features, their pricing is very affordable. Can we stop re-inventing the wheel, just because engineers don't want to pay for software. This is the fundamental difference between founders+engineer/engineer.
> Do you not think that working in dangerous and/or unhealthy jobs (or being stationed in Afghanistan) affects your happiness?

No. But if you can show a reputable site that shows a link to heavy industry and suicide I'd be interested.

There's currently a link (in the UK) between construction workers and suicide, but this is thought to be linked to financial instability, not dangerousness of the workplace. That link hasn't always been there. We don't see the same correlations in other dangerous industries. We do see the same correlations in other industries that are affected by worsening economy, or that provide access to means and methods. (EG vets have access to meds, and are affected by worsening economy when farmers can't afford them).
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I didn't say you should use it, nor would I. Only that it isn't pointless/futile to attempt. No tool will be as mature as bison or what have you until it has also been battle tested for 25+ years, but 25 years ago bison was also new and upcoming.

Not to mention that this is not even really a parser generator like bison or yacc... it's a combinator library. It's an entirely different way to write a parser. It's like me saying Python shouldn't exist because I know how to write C.
Well this is not very surprising considering the fact that Porsche is a subsidiary of Volkswagen. Given the benefits of scaling effects it's normal that VW tries to share as much technology as possible between its different car brands (e.g the chassis of Audi's cars are almost identical to VW's own models [2]), and software modules for fuel injection seem like a very good candidate for a shared technology platform as most of the underlying hardware comes from the same manufacturer (e.g. Bosch).

I wouldn't be surprised if other brands would be affected too, e.g. Seat and Skoda. That they also tuned the engines of Lamborghini, Bugatti or Bentley seems less likely since those cars are not renowned for their fuel-efficiency to begin with, but who knows.

That said, many people in Germany (including me) are very angry about this whole affair since this one act of fraud (and yes it was fraud) will probably do great damage to the reputation of our whole industry.

[1] full list of VW brands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group

[2] VW MLB platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MLB_platform
Absolutely true, so long as humanity is made of billions of individuals all pulling in their own direction, there will be risk, disaster, death, destruction, and amazing advancement.

I find the last worth all the preceding.

edit: missed some words
Um... Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the DNC, was the co-chair of Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign. It's no secret she wants Hillary to win the nomination.

It's actually a pretty fucked up system. The rules for qualification into the debates are decided by Wasserman Schultz and her alone, so the "rules" end up being in practice "will this make Hillary Clinton look good or bad?". Lessig's inclusion ran the risk of making Hillary look bad - by calling her out on her corporate donors - so he was excluded. Clearly this is not how we should have public debates about the future of our country.

For what it's worth, Wasserman Schultz is already under fire for restricting the Democrats to only 6 national debates. Almost every other executive in the party thought this was a bad move since it gives the Republicans significantly more airtime, but remember the rules are decided by Hillary Clinton's campaign co-chair.

Also Trump just called her out, which is pretty funny. http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-takes-aim-at-highly-neu...

I don't think she's going to keep her job.
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There are far more people in the world who will happily point out the obvious truth that if your undertaking doesn't succeed it will fail, than people who will give a rational analysis of why a given undertaking is a bad idea. Teddy Roosevelt's quote is addressed towards the former, not the latter.
Stolen implies that the original owner no longer has access to the data due to the actions of the perpetrator.
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And Android and Windows.
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This is great. Would LOVE an iPad version of this. It is the kind of thing I can just mindlessly play on the airplane or something to kill an hour.
I imagine their ranking metrics show that Wikipedia pages are very popular with their users, which is why they've steadily moved up in the rankings. It makes sense too - Wikipedia gives a general rundown of a topic in a standard format, so for a initial search to learn the basics of something it's a great destination. Can't see much of a conspiracy here.
No chance. The whole idea behind both Android and Chrome OS is to push the user away from root access and leave Google as the one with root access on your device.
You say that like there's not fragmentation on the closed-source side as well, with Slack, Hipchat, Skype, etc.

The reason there's competition is because ~"let's only field one perfect option" sounds great if you think you're the one with the perfect product, or you're a user whose needs are exactly like that product's pitch. In reality, user needs are diverse: there's no singular perfect product.
The web is becoming unusable
I am having more and more trouble visiting sites I read because of advertising-related browser problems. Many sites simply kill my computer; I can barely close a browser to escape. Is this a good business strategy?
As much as I love Lawrence Lessig, I'm glad for this. "Celebrity single-issue candidate" is a poor role for him, a terrible waste of his talents. He deserves better, and the Democratic Party would do well to recognize him for it. An explicit, high profile advisory role for either Bernie or Hillary (or whoever wins the nomination) would be fantastic. Maybe even a Cabinet seat.

But president? What's that supposed to accomplish? If you can't break out of the nerd ghetto, it's not relevant.
Or you could go the more subtle route, and acquire key positions in the city's traffic team and ensure the roads are never flowing as well as they could be.
Yeah, from a marketing perspective they'll never say that Android's dead, even if it's quite different underneath.
>The CDC stopped recommending circumcision because it didn't have probable benefits, noticed bad results (increased chance of STD transmission) and started recommending it again. You're fighting an uphill battle on that one

Are we to suggest that the main issue with FGM is that there aren't any major beneficial results from doing such?
It's free for open source projects.

For commercial enterprise, Raven is effectively $788/core/year [0]. Quite reasonable, IMO.

Contrast this with MS SQL Server Enterprise, which appears to be $14,000/core one-time cost [1].

(Disclaimer: I'm a part-time employee for RavenDB. But I loved and used Raven on my own projects before becoming an employee.)

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[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-ser...
You mean "Lets clone Slack's UI and say 'look we are just as good at UX as Slack!'"
"While Slack offers many benefits to customers, there are also downsides to using the platform, including high subscription fees and the risk of a massive leak of private data if Slack’s servers are ever breached (again)."

Not everybody wants to pay to put their potentially sensitive data onto somebody else's systems, where they can't control the security of that data.