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Most powerful in terms of money spent? Because they don't even make the top 30. CVS, the pharmacy chain, spends more money on lobbying.

Or do you mean more powerful because they're backed up by the huge percentage of gun owners in this country? How big does a group represented have to be before you stop calling them a "special interest lobby"? There are more gun owners than there are teachers, but the teachers spend more on lobbying.
"Once you start..."

I don't think there is any civilized government that does not perform redistribution. Taxes are a form of redistribution. Any government functions such as free schooling, are a one way to redistribute the wealth back to society.
These are all open questions, since these don't really exist in any meaningful way yet. But the answers are likely to be

1. Significantly more expensive, at least in the short to medium term.

2. They can only reduce reliability, and they probably will.

3. Easier than the manufacturers would have you believe.
Do you have small children in the house? Do you regularly use your gun for hunting or practicing? That seems like the intersection where you want a smart gun.

PS: Adding more than one user seems like a really simple feature.
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This is one more reason for counter-terrorism strategy as it's currently envisioned being bogus security theater. Ultra-effective, low-risk, completely unsecured and simple to exploit angles of attack haven't ever been attacked, and nobody is even worried about it. You don't see railroads being sabotaged, power lines being cut, or roads being intentionally blocked. You don't see water supplies or manufacturing facilities being attacked. You don't see civil infrastructure being mobbed by faulty paperwork, false claims, or otherwise. You don't see disinformation for the sake of reducing economic efficiency.

Instead, attacks so far have focused on showy but ultimately one-off violent events in which the perpetrators essentially kill themselves, mostly in already high-security areas. It makes a good propaganda bit for both sides, but doesn't actually impede function. I suppose it's a good thing that prospective jihadis aren't motivated by charts showing decreased output.
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Please point out where in the article a solution is discussed at all.
I can't directly respond to bruceb, but a child getting ahold of a gun is the fault of the parent, who neglected to responsibly secure it. If someone with a child isn't willing to buy a safe, they shouldn't buy a gun.
It still works for me.

The tl;dw is that the Democrats changed their debate qualification threshold from polling at 1+% < 6 weeks before the debate to polling at 1+% > 6 weeks before the debate. This means Lessig went from probably-in-the-next-debate to definitely-not. He figured if the Democrats are actively changing their rules to disqualify him, his effort is probably best spent on things other than running for a primary that doesn't want to include him.
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Interesting! Any thoughts on Kotlin? Normally I'm deeply skeptical of new languages, but the IntelliJ people have been making good tools for so many years that they're one of the few groups I'd trust to do something solid.
This is a great breakdown even for a novice who doesn't know much about how rendering engines typically function.

What would you like to know? I have some time, so if anyone was hoping to learn more about this, ask me.
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I would've liked him to participate in at least one debate to discuss the corruption of money in politics.

Unfortunately, even if they would've allowed him in the first debate, he totally murdered that chance by saying he will quit as soon as he fixes this issue. Even if he really wanted to do that, he would be lucky if he solved that issue in one mandate, making it completely unnecessary to announce before even the first debate that he would quit during his first mandate.

So it seems Lessig isn't a great politician, but I still think he's a great activist for this issue.
Apple justified their purchase of a Cray in part for this use case.
Thats not the point. The point is that re-distribution does not mean that you can't increase the wealth of everyone which was that intended claim my OP.

Germany has a pretty big welfare state and are 80million people and they even had to take on eastern germany.
A discussion from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363
> Then what exactly did they ever mean by "merging Chrome OS and Android"

They never said that. The WSJ said it, citing unnamed sources who were supposedly familiar with what was going on.

> They've mentioned the merger multiple times since Chrome OS first came out.

They've said a number of things in the past which suggested a either convergence or increased commonality over the long-term, but increased commonality has, in fact, been occurring, so its not inconsistent with that.
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Of course, you can get into all sorts of trouble if you say that there's even such a thing as "intelligence" and that not everyone can be as brilliant as Einstein if they'd just had the right advantages as a child.
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> Are you currently holding the gun? If not, take off the gloves and then pick up the gun.

Sorry would-be assailant, please hold-by while I remove these gloves.

> if I lose the ring or it comes off

Sorry would-be assailant, please hold-by while I drive to my local sporting goods store and have them clone me a new ring.
He also wasn't an option in many of the polls.
Don't people have guns for self defense? What if someone invades your home in the middle of the night - do you want to have to start fiddling around with your gun vault?
I think it means that you can take a bad foundation and push it forward amazingly far with enough effort, but you're setting yourself up for lots of problems if you do so, and you're usually better off starting from a solid foundation.

For a concrete example related to networking, transmitting bits over telephone lines designed for voice can get you amazingly far, but it still sucks a lot and you'll eventually hit a solid wall.
Keeping guns stored in a vault with children present is generally a good idea if you have one or more weapons that you occasionally use. However for self defense purposes, you typically don't want to be fiddling around with a vault if someone is invading your home. I'm not commenting on the likelihood of that scenario, but it is something people consider when they own firearms.
XML is a standard format for markup (e.g. HTML). When XML is used where it shouldn't (object serialization) it adds complexity. Here it signals that creating a report is as simple (or at least as standard) as creating HTML. What other format you had in mind?
Media was spreading rumors as if it sounded official. There was never an official corroboration.
Yes, that's cited in the 4th paragraph as one of the reasons why "smart gun" sales may be delayed in the US.
A few years ago I abandonned the project of studying part-time while working, I hated it. Today, I'm well into a distance program and remain motivated. This is at a local uni, not a Mooc, with some live chat/interaction during lectures That I watch later. Key experience points:

- For me, the most difficult part of in-person was managing my schedule and transportation. I would come in to class, all stressed out about being 10 mins late, only to listen to 15 minutes of unimportant chit chat. The energy expenditure felt hugely wasteful.

- In-class questions from others were generally not the questions I had in mind. I find forums more tailored. When someone asks a question, another student with access to books and google can take a thoughtful crack at it any time of the day, with the teacher/assistant adding in precisions regularly. Just like with any teacher/group, this is hit or miss.

- Pausing is key. For math classes for example, the ability to stop a lecture after a concept is introduced and spend the next 2 hours on books/internet/exercises/etc to really assimilate it before continuing is the best way I've ever learnt maths.

- Pace is good, but focus is also important. The ability to sleep 1 hour after work before starting a lecture makes a world of difference in my sustained alertness and interest.

I understand the arguments for traditional school, but for me they are outweighted by the immediate, tangible benefits I get from distance learning. YMMV.

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Here's a documentary/analysis on the circumstances that led to Germany's 2010 Love Parade disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y73-7lFBNE

Basically, exits were blocked off on both ends and the crowd was large enough that people trapped in the middle were crushed by enough force to led to suffocation. People attempting to move caused compression waves to ripple through the crowd which injured hundreds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Parade_disaster
As an Ashkenazi Jew, I'd tend to agree. We're also much better looking than other people!
Of course you have also have many billionaires that contribute to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
IMO it's more important to make sure that a firearm is shot by whoever's authorized to do so, rather than making it convenient to shoot them per se.

It might not apply for an average american shopping guns in Walmart, but hopefully it will be important for defense forces, police, etc.

edit - typo
He didn't say any of those things are related to suicide, they're just examples of gender disparity. I don't know much about MRA or red pill, but my guess is that you're committing an association fallacy here.
These are called 'urlBeacons' iirc.
I think that can be true. But I think that an excellent virtual course is still inferior to an excellent physical one.

I mean, 90% of the interesting stuff I am learning during my classes comes from the discussions that start at the end of the course with the professor and a few others.

I do enjoy the ability to rewind, and choose my pace when taking an online course. Too bad the quality of the interactions I have mentioned has not yet been captured by MOOCs or OCs.
It's probably not hard to make a city stop its business and social life for a short period of time. Someone else cited the Boston Bombers and that's an example.

I suspect it's extremely difficult to make a city stop for longer than a few days. Even New York following 9/11 largely got back to business within a week (except for near the WTC of course). And city services, except where physically destroyed, never really stopped.
Very cool indeed - pair this with 'watch' and you have instant ASCII monitoring tools implemented as http endpoints.
So does a safe.
And also of every other candidate for any office within the executive branch. Those wanting to counteract Citizens United would have to run for legislative office instead. But those races have less media visibility, especially in gerrymandered safe districts or primary races against an entrenched incumbent.

People run for President of the U.S. to parlay some of their popularity or notoriety into slight changes to their party's platform, or to implicitly nominate themselves for another executive position, like vice president or cabinet member.
As much as it's often panned, Insurrection is the most Star Trek of Star Trek movies. It's about the Prime Directive at it's core. The Undiscovered Country is also a great example of a movie about diplomacy.

Sure, every movie is going to be action-packed for film screens, but those two I felt stuck to Star Trek's ideals more than the rest, where the movie focused on stopping a specific evil villain.
The problem with smart guns is that they add an additional point of failure to an otherwise reliable piece of technology. In the unlikely situation where I need to defend myself I need to know that my gun will go off when I pull the trigger. The finger print technology on my iPhone is maybe 90% reliable. On a firearm that would be unacceptable. Until smart guns are reliable enough that they are adopted by law enforcement I'm not interested.
It's built on top of Google's beacon format. Every "Physical Web" beacon transmits an Eddystone beacon with a URL.

Definitely check out the video on that page (it's only 5 minutes long). Also, Scott Jenson was interviewed on The Dirt podcast: http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/designing-for-the-future-pt-4...
the author says that with AWT it was a design decision against thread save GUI, one problem here - there is no way they could have made AWT thread save - AWT uses the native windowing toolkit as its basis; on Windows this implies that all clients of the Win32 sdk are from the same thread as the event loop; there is no other means to work with USER32.dll - you have to send windows messages to the window handle, that's only possible from the thread of the event loop
NSSF rule #3:

"Don't Rely On Your Gun's "Safety" Treat every gun as though it can fire at any time."

Basically throwing money away for no real increase in safety. Spending the same money on a better more convenient more likely to be used safe or trigger lock or best of all, even the most basic safety and familiarization training, would save a lot more lives.

Its not necessarily bad in itself as a technology, its just an awful system wide allocation of money.
What parent out there is so concerned about his child's safety that he'd buy one of these, and yet so unconcerned that he wouldn't just buy a regular gun and a safe?
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> it's to do so given the resources the defender has available to allocate.

That's my point exactly.

For any popular currently-sold piece given hardware, it would be nice to know which algorithm should be used rather than to just say, "This is better. Use this which requires better hardware."

Don't get me wrong. I appreciate all of the work, but there are people that run on hardware that isn't as capable, so I think making blanket statements about what's best may not be the right idea. Qualify it at least.
Google's marketing department claimed it ran Chrome OS.

However, a group managed to root it and figured out it was "more Android than ChromeOS", derived from Google TV of all things: https://blog.exploitee.rs/2013/chromecast-exploiting-the-new...
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They are very powerful in that almost no politician is willing to act against their interests. Please correct me if that impression is wrong.
That looks like it wants to download just one file.
There was later a cartoon sabotage manual that isn't so wordy.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/19/world/cia-linked-to-comic-...
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A non-zero number of people don't have fingerprints - I'm (mostly) one of them. I can't reliably use the fingerprint scanner on my iPhone.
In modern frameworks like Qt the message loop is mostly hidden.

An astute observer will also note that at the bottom of every Win32 program is a message loop monitoring events such as for when the window is closed.
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I have kids and guns and I don't trust this technology to work when it needs to work, both in a defensive scenario and with my kids. Keep-It-Simple-Stupid.

Basic gun safety dictates that a gun is always loaded, even if your fingerprints don't match.

There's a theory behind handguns like Glocks that manual safety switches are too complicated when you're experiencing the intense response of a defensive shooting. Taking gloves and jewelry off, adjusting your grip, or the nightmare of having to screw with electronics is just asking for problems.
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He still could. In the AMA he seems to like Sanders a bit, but Lessig advocated a different approach that he "thought" would be more effective. Now that Lessig has realized it didn't work, I wouldn't be surprised by an endorsement.
Khaled, you're right - it doesn't work. The characters are not substituted. I made a quick proof of concept, but it triggered for the wrong reasons. Bummer.
Rocket.Chat does have an open issue with discussion about this: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/36
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People love to make the Netflix comparison, but it's generally silly. First-run, current-season material is vastly more expensive than the backlogs and cheap movies Netflix buys.

You couldn't/wouldn't want to pay for how much current TV shows would cost in commercial free. Netflix works because they only buy cheap content.
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The iP1 which nearly went on sale last year was going to be sold for $1800 with the watch, and was only available in .22lr.

AFAIK, nobody has posted dissassembly pictures or video yet, but I would be surprised if the electronic disconnect can't be easily removed by anyone with time to field strip it.
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ExtremeTech[1] lists the specs:

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