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"Species are notoriously local":

No they are not. Species are dependent upon habitats for which they are adapted to. If a particular species is extremely local, it is strictly because the suitable habitat for their physical characteristics is extremely localized.

This isn't the Galapagos islands. This is the Sahara desert. To suggest that there is some habitat feature in one extremely small section of it that isn't present in others is just plain ridiculous. The main driver of extinction and endangerment in the Sahara has been over hunting by humans. Not habitat loss.
It's important to understand what "increased risk" means.

From the linked article:

> The IARC’s experts concluded that each 50-gram (1.8-ounce) portion of processed meat eaten daily increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.

From a related article:

> To put this in perspective, the lifetime risk of colon cancer is 5 percent. If you have a hot dog every day, your risk goes to 6 percent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancer-sausage-red-meat-world-he...
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There's plenty of other waste that's more dangerous and produced in far greater quantities that people mostly don't care about. Why all the attention on nuclear waste specifically?
Perhaps a reason why this works so well is due to most people's way of subvocalizing[1] material that they read.

If you're saying an article out loud in your head as you read it, then it sure does make sense for it to sound like an actual voice is saying it!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
I did follow a few courses on coursera and I remember the professor saying that the number of students who successfully completed the first/previous iteration of the course was around ~5% or less, so I'd say you are right on the money.
Lives are infinitely more valuable them possessions.

If an Uber driver wanted to hurt you, he would be extremely likely to pay the legal price. After all, there's an electronic paper trail of the ride he gave you. So an Uber driver won't do that unless he's essentially insane and a) doesn't understand this or b) has nothing to lose and doesn't care if he's caught or c) thinks he can get away with it because you're incapacitated/inebriated or something.

Whereas with housekeepers, it's more a crime of opportunity. They notice that you have valuable items laying around that won't be missed. Or an acquaintance of theirs pressures them for tips on houses to rob. A housekeeper that's an otherwise "good" person can convince themselves that it's a victimless crime if they decide that you won't even miss the item(s) they take. I mean, who wouldn't be tempted to take a shiny, never-used bauble from the home of somebody with 10x their income if it was the difference between having food on their table or not?

Don't get me wrong - the vast majority of housekeepers are great people. I have family members that clean houses. I just mean that an Uber driver would have to essentially be insane to harm you, whereas a housekeeper would just have to give into temptation in order to pinch some items.

You may be trusting a cleaner with you possessions,
but you're trusting that Uber driver with your life.

1. Everybody I know that's had their house robbed has had reason to believe that it was been an inside job.

2. If you have things worth stealing, each person you let into your house increases the odds that a robbery will happen. Maybe the cable guy isn't a burglar, but how many friends does that guy have? 50? Is one of them a burglar? If you were a burglar and you knew a cable guy, wouldn't you bug that guy for tips?

3. Any home burglary is potentially dangerous to one's life. Who knows what happens if you're home while the robbery is in progress or if you arrive home while it's happening.

So yeah, there's a trust factor there!
If it has a gui, I would draw it out on paper first. Next, I would make wireframes or html mockups of each state. From there I would mockup a backend to serve static test data and convert the gui to use the real data.
"In reality, inviting someone into your home is a very personal thing, and people much prefer to build a relationship with someone that they might pay a little more on a regular basis, than get a different person each time."

Yes, for sure. I've had professional home cleaners for nearly 10 years now. And over the course of those years, I've had many conversations with friends and neighbors who do as well (e.g. in giving/receiving recommendations). I can't imagine using a service that sends someone different every time, or even someone for whom I can't see reviews and receive references before the first visit. I think most of the people I've talked to are in the same boat. This is a service that requires putting a lot of trust in the service provider. I could potentially see myself using an app that helped me find a provider, but it would need to give me a lot of information about them up front, and let me choose from several. And then it would have to let me keep getting the same person every time. It ends up being more like an Angie's List than a Homejoy.

For something like a handyman, where the service is less intimate and less frequent, this might make more sense (though I have had enough horrible experiences with handymen that I also would want personal recommendations at this point)...
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I don't have children yet, but if I do, I plan on asking them "how do you think that works" often to get their curiosity gears turning. Do any parents have experience with this approach?
What they want at that time is food and fuel. If your children are starving, and someone else's aren't, any belief in fairness collapses. Crime and revolution are the result.
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This argument is hard to buy when pharma has been turning 20% profits in the US for decades, far and away above any industry. Boohoo, compliance is obviously so onerous for them, wah.
Chrome is already dropping XP support in just a month or two. While Firefox is not going to change in the short term, its really not a great idea to stay on XP if you have a way out.
Exactly. Send a guy out with a big janitor's push-broom in the evening.
You'll have to enlighten me.
So, what happened was they lost money on each job, couldn't retain customers, and then used venture money to accelerate growth (to be even more unsustainable)?
This is the plight of today's journalism. Students are taught to find both sides of the issue and treat them equally, despite the fact that one side has a clear conflict of interest.
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I wouldn't advocate for abstinence over education, and I usually feel like our understanding of human health and nutrition is comparable in sophistication to alchemy; but to add some nuance to the counterargument to what you said, I'll suggest that whether we will live before we die is only one of the important questions, that (a) how long we'll live, and (b) the total number of happy, easy, healthy years we'll have before we die, are also important questions. Until the science is more reliable, moderation seems like the safe bet.
The headline is not correct. The article is about how light is processed, not how it travels.
I made this encrypted chat as a hobby project. I hope to make it work on iOS and Android as well at some point.
I remember when that article first came out. As I note elsewhere, the fundamental flaw in his logic is thinking, 'if something is worse than tobacco smoke, then it must be banned!' My own thought is, 'if tobacco smoke is less bad than wood smoke, then it must not be banned!'

A world without wood smoke would be a poorer, sadder, less pleasant-smelling world. Yes, it's a pollutant. Yes, it's carcinogenic. But it's one of the things which makes life worth living.
I remember Groovy didn't allow ? on indexes like in the third C# example:

int? count = customers?[0]?.Orders?.Count();

I remember asking for it but it never came. I don't think Ruby's proposed .? syntax would work with indexes either unless they use [? ].

Neither Java nor Groovy has the int? declaration shown which enforces the optionality. The C# version looks more versatile.

Back when Groovy was more popular, its backers also discussed a cascading ? on their mailing list but it never happened. If C# had cascading ? then the example above would be

int? count = customers?[0].Orders.Count();

because the first ? would ripple to the subsequent member accesses and index lookups.
That's a problem even in B2B businesses. I used to run a design center where we often contracted out teams to work onsite at a client's place. Clients sometimes offered one of my guys to go direct, even though there was a big nasty clause in the contract forbidding that. But then we didn't want to start suing our clients so they usually got away with it. It must be way worse in a B2C business. I just don't see how this had any legs.
Reported the clear bugs (#63, #64). not sure if the list content model is bug or intentional, though allowing the first line of an item to be a single quote or code block + the freedom inside a quote does make it questionable IMHO...
(cf. http://spec.commonmark.org/0.21/#principle-of-uniformity)

P.S. Squire doesn't seem to allow block content inside lists. Only Shift+Enter linebreaks.

ProseMirror does allow block content (it defaults to markdown content model); continuing the numbered list after non-sublist items required the paste-into-existing-list dance.

Firepad does allow non-item content but doesn't align it like part of the list. It does tend to continue the numbering afterwards, not sure what are its exact rules.

None of this is IMHO satisfactory UX. I've observed many people struggle with lists in any WYSIWYG I've ever seen :-(
love changedetection. Using it for years!
> The fundamental fallacy is the idea that tobacco is so dangerous that it, and anything comparably dangerous, must be banned.

Please name a country where selling or buying cigarettes is not legal.

> But you, I and everyone else on earth will die sometime, of something: whether it's cancer, congestive heart failure or something else entirely, we all die.

Strawman. By that logic we would not use safety belts or cars.
Looks like a great gift for my younger brother. And if he doesn't end up using it I wouldn't mind making a tin hedgehog myself.
"No, processed meat has been classified in the same category as causes of cancer such as tobacco smoking and asbestos... but this does NOT mean that they are all equally dangerous. The IARC classifications describe the strength of the scientific evidence about an agent being a cause of cancer, rather than assessing the level of risk."

http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/Monographs-Q... <- link seems to be down at the moment
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Better than the ones in Kickstarter who asks for vote on Javascript framework where most backers opted for Meteor with React and then the trainer never teach a proper Meteor course as promised.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/azat/astonishing-power-...

Glad you have made a great choice on the teaching materials.
Slingshots have never been used for Earth-Mars launches where Mars is the final destination. I am having trouble finding a reference as to whether a Venus flyby could even reduce the energy budget for a Mars mission, but in practice no one has ever decided to do that.
What is the point / function / utility / novelty of this? And where does obfuscation come in to it?
I am surprised that Khan Academy is not recognized in this report probably because the scope is limited to just those offer by an accredited university. I think calculus and chemistry have helped many first and second years of college students taking introductory courses including myself. I think KA is probably the most popular MOOC for all ages, in the most accessible way given it only requires a YouTube account, which millions have for over a decade. But that's just my opinion.

YouTube has a few really amazing courses available online.

For example, UCB has a channel with up-to-date content that otherwise not available on MOOC platform.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMV45tHCYNI is a very good class on data structure

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUK5RAJg1c and the rest has very good lectures on theory of computation

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G6_-ljgmXE also very good for algorithms. I find MIT's version to be too theory based for practitioners. Anyway, I still watch MIT's just to complement anything missing (no two speakers can teach the same topic equally)
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If you're going to go through all that trouble, you might as well just install a different editor.
How would that work? Groupon takes their cut when the the customers pay for the deal itself, days or weeks ahead of them showing up at the business.
Correct, but most of them do use it as a preservative. I agree the article should address this instead of just saying processed meats are bad. Also, high quality vitamin C can block the nitrosamine formation if you consume it with your processed meat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWRxtS_cGI

http://store.naturalnews.com/NanoNutra-Liposomal-Vitamin-C-1...

http://store.naturalnews.com/Optimal-Liposomal-Vitamin-C--5-...
It is, however, important to make sure that this plant is not in any migratory paths of birds. The air above the centre of the plant will be hot enough to incinerate them (this has happened with these sorts of solar plants)
Perhaps they need to play more Power Grid [0], entire EU expansion?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Grid
Looks nice! I use this one: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
Nope. The nitrates themselves aren't the issue.

It's the cooking that's the issue because the nitrates convert to nitrosomenes under high heat.

If nitrates were the issue, then we should stop eating celery because that's where the nitrates in processed meats come from, celery juice.
It opens with the extreme-left's point of view on Greece. That should give you an idea about the article's reliability and unbiasedness.
I do write all my CSS by hand but I'm not good with it; I'd like to improve: what article (or book) would you recommend to help one actually "get" CSS?

(I'm also not sure what is meant by "nesting": combining selectors like this "div p" or "div > p"? Or is it something specific to SASS?)
When you asked the above question, you should have included your blog link. By doing so, the people on here will be able to tell you exactly what to do. If you don't mind, edit your post and include your URL..
Backfill is a useful feature that an app like this can provide. The problem is it's a small fraction of initial sales and has high customer acquisition costs.

It might work as a platform where they only take a cut of the first transaction. But, you’re still stuck with high customer acquisition costs and minimal repeat business.

The other option is to directly higher the cleaners so they don't defect. But, then you’re just running a cleaning business and competing with those who have minimal documentation.
The snark us unwarranted here. The article explains that all employees went through a house cleaning during on boarding.

There are plenty of ceo/founders who would consider themselves not responsible for doing the dirty jobs that make a company work, particularly on a holiday such as thanksgiving (in the US, a very family-time centric holiday)
You simply were never the target audience in the first place.
Thanks. I smoke and I found the title and subject matter interesting. I am not a genius but am perfectly capable of understanding the article. It is just mentally taxing trying to wade through a sentence structure that seems aimed at a goal of obfuscating knowledge and proving the writer is intelligent rather than disclosing the information in a terse digestible way.
Below, someone pointed out that there are many grammatical errors as well. I have thought a lot more about long form articles in publications like the New Yorker and NYT, etc. While often criticized for over simplifications and lack of understanding of subject matter, they often present articles in a way casually interested parties will understand.
I don't have a problem with the jargon, large/obscure word use (to the extent it is reasonable) or otherwise employing tactics to get the point across. It is just that, as someone casually interested (not an academic looking for citations) I don't really know what to do with this sentence:
> Cannabis use almost always predates psychosis, is associated with an earlier age at onset (Donoghue et al., 2014; Myles et al., 2012b) and heavier and more potent cannabis users have an increased risk of developing psychosis (Di Forti et al., 2009) and do so at an earlier age than people smoking milder cannabis (Di Forti et al., 2014).
I wish they would just use superscripts for citations, as a significant portion of that sentence is citations. If academics would just edit the papers, dump them into Tufte CSS or LaTEX with sitations as footnotes or sidenotes and adapt a style human beings could digest without collapsing to rest from the boredom and dull overly-complex structure I think they may find a readership base that exceeds the single digits it currently has.
Do you know of a place with interesting articles written for non-academics? I think that would be a cool thing and sure it exists? Cheers.
I dunno. What happens in case of a crash? If a vehicle burns on the PV panels? You don't want to pour water on a PV installation.

And a road built from glass? What happens in winter with ice forming? That's not going to go well.
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> you can just take an Option or Result and .unwrap() and the compiler won't complain at you for not checking it.

Explicit vs implicit. In Rust/Haskell you are forced to do _something_ about the nullability. If you use unwrap/expect/fromJust you are explicitly acknowledging that you want it to panic if it fails.

On the other hand, in Java, you can get an NPE where you didn't expect it because nulls move around easily and there's nothing in the type system to prevent that. That's the difference.

> I'm surprised that so much new rust code does this

Also, in my experience, unwrap() in Rust is mostly confined to irrecoverable errors in applications, and example blog posts (where the focus is on getting something done and not worrying about good error handling).

> defeats a core purpose of rust

What purpose? Whatever unwrap provides is still possible via a match+panic. Which is _more_ explicit, but they're both still explicit.
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While trusting someone with your physical safety should be a
high-trust decision, we treat it cavalierly enough in our day
to day lives that most people clearly don't worry about it.

We just can't avoid it. We assume that nobody's poisoned our food, we assume that nobody is going to go suicidal on the roadways and ram themselves head-on into our car, we don't wear body armor to work because we assume our coworkers won't shoot us. We even assume that the anestheseologist at the hospital isn't housing a wicked hangover that will prevent him from doing his job.

Essentially our lives are in other peoples' hands pretty much 24/7!
The Tektronix 4010 is not a computer, it's a terminal. Also, xterm still has support for its command language so you can still use it on modern systems.

I'm not saying that NEURON's code base is not old, just that using its Tektronix support is not the best example to use.
Handy is horrible. Had really bad experiences with them
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Care to explain why? Whatever unwrap provides can be done with a match+panic. Which is more explicit, but that's just splitting hairs -- unwrap is pretty explicit anyway.
There's really no "right" answer to how asynchronous courses should be. On the one hand, if you just open things up, make some videos available, maybe some machinery for auto-grading where appropriate, I'm not sure you can meaningfully call that material a MOOC at that point. It's some YouTube videos with an associated website of which there are already many for all sorts of content.

On the other hand, if you run things on a tight schedule, real life will get in the way for a lot of people in that many of the better courses are fairly significant time commitments.
Uh, all mind-altering substances? Including the ones they use to treat schizophrenia?

Seems pretty unlikely.
The rationale from this post for not-nesting is incomplete and I personally think nesting has advantages (grouping markup together and mixins for example). Sure avoid the pyramid of doom and unnecessary nesting, but in general, nesting is not bad.

Aside, BEM is a nice pattern but doesn't need to be followed religiously, you could say the same for most patterns; put together the best for your project/problem you are trying to solve... and if you have time, understand all the design decisions behind a pattern in order to do so appropriately. imvho
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> in March, when it had 643,000 downloads for the month. By August, the number had climbed to 1.34 million. Laforge attributes the jump to Apache's "stamp of approval" and the strong marketing Apache brings

That jump happened all in one day. Go to https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics#stat... and click on "1 Year". Can the Groovy people explain this graph? Now click the earth icon on the far right. Can the Groovy people explain that map?

It looks to me like the downloads from Bintray are mostly faked, using a server somewhere in Germany. As for Maven, it looks like you can only see the stats for your own projects so I don't know the details, but if the Bintray stats are faked then Maven's probably are too. The person quoted in this article has a history of deception with regards to promoting Groovy.

I very much doubt Groovy's downloads changed after joining Apache, and probably would've gone down after the Pivotal fiasco in January. Groovy's backers are perpetrating a hoax.
600,000 attributed to alcohol each year.

That number is a bit misleading. Does that include the deaths say due to DUI,, liver damage, poisoning?

It ideally shouldn't as we are discussing carcinogens.

Edit: Added additional alcohol related deaths.
Using consul (https://www.consul.io/) in conjunction with HAProxy is another great way for service discovery and routing.
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This is actually not strictly true and can trip you up if you aren't careful. Two rules with the same specificity depend use last one wins. In that case import order matters.
If a given question has an answer that is due to racism, the answer is still the answer. For example, if society has some underlying racism that factors into what it considers attractive, that doesn't change what it considers attractive.

I don't think these algorithms are learning racism. They are only being blunt in revealing what already exists.
Huh. The Uber driver could rob you too; they could rape or murder. They could kidnap. They have, really, far more opportunities to harm you. But the ol' housekeeper is alone in getting assumed to be a thief.

Probably this was not meant. But its been a hot button, the casual assumption that housekeepers are thieves, since forever. I guess I read that into the comment too readily.