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> Considering that markets when combined with stable institutions, property rights and the rule of law, have done more to reduce poverty, increase lifespans and health than any else in history, I think the onus of proof is on the other side.

Actually, the markets created some of the most disease-ridden, sewage-infested hellholes with jobs that exploited child labor and threw away the sick and injured.

It was people who took up arms, got shot at, but persisted in wrenching some measure of control from the "capitalists" who managed to pass child labor laws, get medical insurance, and 40 hour work weeks.

Your fairy tale narrative is a pleasant fiction, but we have plenty of examples of unfettered capitalism in history--the vast majority of them were horrible.
plonh: Indeed, I have read that women can be the most rigid and cruel sexists.

I have no idea what your point is.

But let me use this as an opening to suggest that men with math challenges are not being routinely encouraged to give up on challenging careers and go spend their days with small kids. In fact, men who want to spend their days with small kids face the challenge that people look askance at them and assume they have nefarious motives and are probably child molesters. So I don't think women who are bad at math being actively encouraged to go teach elementary school is evidence that women are overall inherently worse at math than men. I think it just means that when we don't readily get something, people cluck at us about how nature designed us to spend our days with small children and why don't we go do that in some capacity.

My ex husband sucked at math. I tutored him when he took college math classes. He got really frustrated sometimes and threw his pencil across the room. He did not give up and no one suggested that, well, maybe you should just go do something easy, like teach small children basic things in elementary school.

You are welcome to clarify if your remark is an ad hominem or not.

Have a good day.
CNNs are used in NLP all the time for a range of problems. see Collobert and Weston's work, NLP (almost) from scratch.

even in images, you're able to zero pad the input.
When I was in Europe and Latin America both, I could buy SIMs by writing down whatever number I concocted for my DNI. Now, I actually wrote my passport number down but nobody really looked. One time I used my CA drivers licence, which could have been a Boy Scout troop membership card for all anyone cared.
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Did you mean to reply to another comment? I didn't say anything about dieting.
> If the cellular provider doesn't know who you are, why does it matter if they track your location?

I guess they won't, so you'd defeat some commercial advertising. But the location information still gets dumped to government databases which will easily correlate your path to home/work/friends/CC etc and find an identity for that IMEI. It's similar to saying that Bitcoin is "anonymous" - sure, if you jump through a lot of opsec hoops you can achieve privacy for a particular transaction. But the system lacks the stronger property of untraceability, which is required for common casual users to retain their privacy.

Psuedononymous PSTN access doesn't actually seem that hard - a prepaid CC to some VOIP provider. It's just orthogonal to location tracking, so I haven't thought much about it.
That is very unlikely, show me some real science (not the one flawed study from a few years ago). Type II diabetes is severe insulin resistance. A food like eggs don't have sugar, your body doesn't produce insulin when you eat them, therefore its not possible through any known mechanism for them to contribute to type II diabetes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/577051/Birmingham-Universit...
Public shaming is an appropriate reaction to demonstrable theft of credit, and works by like mechanisms as the original offense. The threat of being exposed for building a fake reputation can preserve the (relative) reliability of "judge me by my portfolio" by making the expected reputational gain from plagiarism neutral or negative.
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I don't think it's all smokes and mirrors. I think there was likely a legitimate intent. After all, everyone has been talking about using microfluidics and microliter quantity samples for assays for nearly decades. It seems like the time is right in terms of tech maturity, for these things to hit clinical reality... Why not try to be the first on the scene?

FWIW, this isn't the only company to be trying this sort of thing, there was a company in the first batch of indie.bio claiming to do this, perhaps tellingly at demo day, the attempted live demo failed.
Hill's list is plagiarized nearly in whole from Georges Polti's list visible at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situat... . The original comes with definitions, so we can see that "struggle against God" involves two characters, a Mortal and an Immortal, who "enter a conflict". Obvious exemplars in Greek mythology would be Hercules being born (and thereby coming into conflict with Hera), or Odysseus killing Polyphemus, who was going to eat him (and thereby coming into conflict with Poseidon, who, unknown to Odysseus, was Polyphemus' father).

Where's the criminal intent?

To the earlier discussion, it's probably worth noting that Polti's plot 30, "Ambition" involves a person, an object, and an adversary; the person seeks the object and is opposed by the adversary. Not applicable to Groundhog Day.
Backing up hyperpape, here's the word from the horse's mouth https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
BMW's been developing hydrogen-powered cars for over a decade. One of their advantages is that the same engine could use either gasoline or hydrogen making it a much more practical car for a world in which there is not yet the same distribution infrastructure for hydrogen as there is for gasoline. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to get as much press as EVs which have both serious operational drawbacks (short range, long charging periods, etc.) and manufacturing costs (lithium batteries, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7
That your data isn't passed around to multiple companies that you don't know, have no relationship with and you don't know their privacy policies.
Is there somewhere a clear indication that the extent of the relationship with Phizer or GSK was misrepresented to reporters by someone from Theranos?
Just to add a little more context, the international honey market is incredibly fraught; lead, antibiotics (including chloramphenicol, which can cause fatal reactions in humans) and artificial sweeteners are all commonly found in Chinese-sourced honey, much of which is transshipped through India and East Asian nations. The upshot: buy from local honey producers with known quality.
I am Director at Melbourne Software consultancy inoutput.

My side project is a cross platform code generation tool, think Yeoman mixed with a pretty UML editor mixed with an AppStore... well, oneday!
> and people should be allowed to profit from their own work without giving it away for free.

I'm kind of curious how, even if people are allowed to profit, they'll be able to. Consider Wikipedia, OpenStreetMaps, and Linux.
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Actually, if you start with good measurements, many clear reasons appear that PHP is a terrible language. A nice write-up is here:

http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

It's amazing how much has been done in what was essentially a pile of hacks on top of a pre-processor making it pretend to be an application language. That pro's avoid it and its wiser users almost always leave it eventually further corroborates the author that it's fundamentally bad. If anything, it's one option among better ones (Python, Ruby) for non-programmers to get started in web apps. Little reason to use it at this point with all the 3rd party components and communities around better languages.
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Anthrax has noncriminal uses -- science, for example. Sure, they're unusual, but they're there.

I'm not arguing whether or not megaupload was a good service, or whether or not the government should have cracked down on them. The fact is that the government did crack down on them, and the reason is because they positioned themselves as a great avenue for piracy. If they wanted to survive, they should have either not been so pirate-friendly or found a jurisdiction that didn't care about piracy.

Maybe it would be impossible to accomplish megaupload's goals without being pirate-friendly. Urbit's goals can be accomplished while staying well within the letter and spirit of the law, so there's no point in jeopardizing its success.
Exactly what I thought when I read it. Her entire bio reads like nothing but fluff to make up for her lack of credentials or experience.
Last time I checked it out it seemed pretty easy to crack, if anyone is that desperate. Didn't do it though.
You can open a U.S. bank account with a foreign passport and no SSN already.
The phone icon is from AIGA: http://www.aiga.org/symbol-signs/
Every time I've taken a train in the UK (between Aberdeen and Edinburgh or Glasgow, or from Edinburgh to Manchester) this has been my experience. When you're sat in the station in a city you get 4G, it rapidly deteriorates to 3G after you set off, then 2G, and then it just alternates between 2G and nothing.
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I thought the issue with H was transportation: a critical hurdle for new fuel technology adoption is safety (as seen in Tesla's quick and overprotective addition of an armored underbody on the Model S when a few stray stories of crashes caught flames in the press). Tankers of H hurdling down our freeways?

I feel like range anxiety on full-on EV's will dissipate in the next few years as we get to 300+ miles on a charge. After that, what's the downside?
Old fashioned telco companies are transforming themselves into data centers
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> Do a lot of people use DI?

I use it mostly for unit testing.
I'm surprised Facebook UK engineering isn't driving this. Reception is terrible country wide here
I find taking the overground in London quite good for testing real download speed for mobile web applications, rapidly switching cell towers with some of them not even running gprs
"Let kids be kids" means something different for each household. In mine, that meant video games and sports, but mostly the former.

Not sure what's going to come of any no-homework generation while this happens elsewhere:

"Teens in Shanghai spend 14 hours a week on homework"
http://qz.com/311360/students-in-these-countries-spend-the-m...
Uhm, why would your salary go down when there's deflation? It's not like your employer is actively tracking living expenses daily and adjusting your salary to match.
>It’s incumbent on anyone creating a new network of any kind not just to avoid using it yourself for criminal purposes, but to design it so that it’s not useful for criminal purposes.

What happens when your point of view is "criminalized"?
>>which often is not India.

But its a often a low end phone with slow internet speeds.

If I remember correctly, one of Google's advantage over their competition in their early days was their page would load quickly on low end desktops and slow dial up connections.
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Most really harmful stuff is either banned / controlled already, or the dangers are a part of common knowledge. You don't get research articles that "touching live wires contribute to sudden unexpected heart attacks".

As for "kill you slowly" things, there's slowly and there's "so slow that you may as well ignore it". Cigarettes and asbestos belong to the former group and guess what, they're controlled and people know about the dangers. Dietary stuff sits squarely in the latter - most of the "causes cancer" stuff won't have any noticeable effect on you in few decades, and if you eventually die of cancer it still won't be clearly connected to a particular lifestyle choice.

It's basically paranoia coupled with inability to multiply probabilities (or knowing one should do so).
Unsurprisingly, your version-2 story is as close as possible to version-1 and the demonstrated proof of version-1's lies. This is why it's nice to hold in reserve some additional evidence when you expose a liar - so you can catch them lying in version-2 and completely destroy their public credibility.

I hope this doesn't happen to you, but in my experience version-2 is usually only a partial confession.

Good luck recovering from this with a lesson learned: you don't look bad when you shared credit and honestly represent your contributions. People will already associate you with the good thing you brought to their attention, deployed and customized for them, etc.
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Especially sites that hide content until all CSS and fonts are loaded... SO ANNOYING.
I really like the way the author anthropomorphizes the pieces of the flux architecture here. I am in the middle of writing a saltstack tutorial and wonder if I should do the same.
That's true, but not enough--you have to explain how that enables a revenue model for a modern company. How many companies make money selling open source software (not support, not feature development, not proprietary forks based on copyright assignment) without using the Red Hat model?

The FSF point about charging for distribution seems to be mostly an artifact of the time before software distribution was commoditized/made free.

(Same goes for SteveKlabnik below).
Now tell me who is going to get the rebound on the missed shots.
After having had the first few addons I tried to install a good while back tell me Firefox for Android was not supported, I gave up on trying.

I love uBlock Origin on the desktop and thanks to you now I have it on my tablet too!
Didn't even know they had ARC processors in them. That's a trip.
Honestly, from the point of view of a minority this is already a dystopia.
Thanks for the comment -- just a reminder for people reading this that in the wifi hotspot solution case, in order to thwart location tracking you should change your device MAC address, otherwise the wifi providers can identify your device (and some of them will!).

An unexpected obstacle about the privacy-protective MVNO that I heard about from someone who was investigating this is taxes on "telephone lines" that the MVNO is supposed to pay whenever it "activates" a "line". It may be difficult to reconcile this with changing subscriber identities every day (assuming you can get ahold of devices that change device identity every day).

Whenever I talk about this I say: it's too late to change the cell phone network cheaply now (though we should still be vocal about the problem and not give up: we shouldn't accept that there is someone who knows where almost everyone is almost all of the time, which is the case today). If you're designing a new communications system, make sure that it starts with privacy protection and user and device anonymity, and layers optional identity on top where needed, rather than the reverse! Let's not be saying in 2030 "oh, if only people in 2015 had thought about the privacy issues with this technology...".
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I noticed nobody in the thread seems to be pointing this out, so I'll do it:

Scientific research articles are very often behind a paywall. So citing them wouldn't really give the reader much more information.
The funny thing is, this startup isn't that young. It's 12 years old. Someone basically gave a completely inexperienced founder tens of millions of dollars and over a decade to run an R&D lab.
yes but the difference is manufactured sugar vs real sugar found in nature. Think about all the chemicals and the processes Aspartame goes through to get the effect of "200x" sweeter than sucrose.. that stuff doesn't come free. (same goes for anything labelled "Diet" or "Zero"...wow same great taste and 0 calories? what's the catch?..yeah..it's your health)
I was wondering about that.

* Regarding the VPN: Inevitably it adds an extra hop but with a VPN that provides sufficient bandwidth, low latency, and sufficient processing resources to decrypt/encrypt at wire speed -- I assume that either it will cost extra or will be something the user has to setup at a good hosting provider -- couldn't performance be sufficient for voice? IIRC, from long ago, voice needs ~80 Kbps.

* Regarding cellular data: Cellular connections are very widely used for voice, of course. Cellular data connections are used now (e.g., VoLTE). On one hand I'd have the same doubts you do; on the other it seems to work. Aren't there already VOIP apps?
There's no reason you can't take a "proper road trip" with a Model S these days. Stopping for a break every ~3-4 hours isn't a huge issue and 120kw charging goes surprisingly quick.

Heck, when I was at a supercharger yesterday I barely had time to grab coffee before I had the 40% charge I needed to make the end of my trip.
A ton of people, including government and private industries and businesses.

One example would be power companies. Physical security is obviously big for power plants. They are definitely afraid of drones both from a surveillance stand point and also from fear of them being used to destroy equipment.
> SkyJack - tech to steal model aircraft for resale on ebay

FTFY
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If eggs do anything they decrease risk of diabetes. They may, or may not, be bad if you already have type 2.
Thats an interesting note. I guess othwrwise someone could send out a lot and make other peole liable. Thanks :-)
I just have the UniFi AP Pro. I thought I'd need two or three of them, but one covers my whole house and an acre of land: something that my TP-Link WDR-4300 with three huge antennas failed to do. I could not be happier with this product. Got the non-AC version because I have no devices that support AC yet and it was about double the price. It also did not support the seamless handoff feature which I thought I'd need with multiple AP's.
> Isn't a diet you lose weight from the very defintion of an unhealthy diet?

Not at all. If you're carrying excessive fat around, you should be modifying your diet in order to shed that excessive fat. If your body composition is healthy, then you should be on a diet that a) is providing both a proper ratio of macronutrients and b) enough calories that you're not losing muscle mass.
> I wonder how much of that "time until 1 am" is spent staring at a cell phone. I know a lot of time in class is.

That's probably where the actual learning happens. Also, it used to be "video games" before, and "TV" before that.
> Of course, workaround the pitfalls of tools is unavoidable in a world where "worse is better" have win. But why persist on this?

Because the unstated alternative is a false choice. It would be nice if all of the code written in poorly designed languages would disappear and be replaced with code in better designed languages, but that isn't realistic. Migrating a large codebase to a different language is very expensive and introduces fresh bugs, less popular languages aren't supported by all platforms and libraries, and large numbers of people have made significant time investments in learning languages that are popular even if they aren't very good. So the old languages aren't going away.

Given that, it's better that we teach people the pitfalls of the things we're stuck with, and improve them with things like std::unique_ptr in C++ or safer SQL APIs that discourage manual parsing of SQL statements, than to pretend that there is no middle ground between continuing the tradition of bad code and the fantasy of rewriting essentially all existing code from scratch overnight.
I am in Chicago, and it is not uncommon to see the connection (AT&T in this case) drop all the way to Edge inside buildings.
It won't take long for alternative phone OS that do not broadcast the location (whether it is compliant with regulations or not). If all the telco can tell is which tower is activated, it will limit a lot their spying capacity.
I like your line of thought, but this is no refutation of IIFYM or "eat less if you're fat" unless they performed this substitution isocalorically. Eating fast sugars instead of equivalent slow starches makes me crave more sooner, and eat more.
as a user of google search can't you switch this off? maybe you have to be signed into a google account to have the ability to switch it off? maybe they would ignore this switch for the purposes of determining if you are suicidal (or homicidal)?
It seems to me that the complexity of the issues facing our education system is often drowned out. Everyone went to high school, so they feel comfortable looking back on their experiences and inferring out from there.

I'm a high school teacher in NYC- the largest school district in the country, and the complexity of this system is utterly shocking. I agree with what you said about most parents not having the tools to effectively advocate for their child's education, and I think it's true that the teacher is in the best place to have real impacts on students educational outcomes.

I have to stop there- was teaching all day, lost track of what I wanted to button with.
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It does have a prioritize feature in the app.
We are not asking anything for free. We will pay for a internet connection, for the bandwidth and for the speed. Once done, we wish to use that bandwidth and speed they way we like.

But we are not going to pay extra money just to use a chat application over the internet, or make a VoIP call.
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It's actually much easier for foreigners to open a bank account in the U.S. than it is in the UK, since the UK banks have this silly list of documents which no-one who's just moved to the country will be able to provide. I had no problem opening a bank account as a British person in the U.S., but every American I know in the UK found that it took around a month to get one.
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>What additional knowledge do any of these story plot classifications give us?

Well, at the very least, it's a nice store of writing prompts.

What I would say is that it's less of a classification and more of a map. Out of the vast space of possible stories, here are the sections of story space which tend to get told again and again. Why? Because these are the sorts of stories are of interest to our silly human brains.

Here's a story. One day a man bought a newspaper. Then he saw a giraffe, and he threw the newspaper into a river. The Queen of Denmark bought a trombone. Was that a good story? No, it was dull, incoherent and meaningless, just a sequence of actions. We can't identify with them at all.

Here is another story. One day a man met a woman. But the Queen of Denmark kidnapped the woman. So the man went and rescued her. Now that's a much better story! It needs a bit of fleshing out, but it's precisely the sort of sequence of actions that humans like being told about, over and over again.

It's somewhat bizarre that humans should enjoy hearing lies about stuff that never actually happened, but we do -- only very specific types of lies about very specific types of stuff. This list is a vague attempt to map out the specific types of stuff that people like hearing about, and from that we can get insight into our own psychology.
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I was initially happy about this until I saw that the primary reason was the VW scandal. Why are our laws only ever put into check when a controversy like this breaks out? We have to wait for the really bad abuses before anyone ever dials back the bullshit.