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I am having trouble with the idea that a bourbon-casked Glenrothes, with no peat and practically no other flavors other than the malt, has been "covered up" with flavoring, while a "serious" Scotch like Laphroiag, which has so much peat it tastes like unsweetened cough medicine filtered through a swamp bog, is standing on the true quality of the whiskey itself.

Is there more crappy Speyside than crappy Islay? Yes, of course: there is more Speyside period, the world's most popular Scotch whiskey comes from Speyside, and most blended Scotch is built from Speyside distilleries.

What any of this has to do with the idea that Scotch is all about peat is past me. Once again: the most popular Scotch in the world has minimal peat, and lots of Speysides have no peat at all. Ergo: it cannot be the case that Scotch is simply peat-flavored whiskey.

People who talk enthusiastically about American beer don't generally think about Coors Lite, let alone talk about it.

The age comment you made about bourbon and Scotch is also weird, since most bourbon is aged less than 12 years to begin with. At 18 years, you're asking me to compare a cask-strength Pappy or Buffalo antique --- bourbons that were built to be aged past the point where most bourbon would suffer for it --- to Scotch. That's a pretty apples/oranges comparison.
It's an efficient way to subsidies industry's. Do you want to set up 62 year old apprentices? We need to have job training programs that work quickly without undermining or subsidizing the older workforce.

PS: Back in WWII we had job training programs that worked and worked quickly. http://militaryhonors.sid-hill.us/honors/images/dothejob.jpg Today, we have a surplus of workers.
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They have to make money somehow. They're not making it by selling all of your data (and giving it to the NSA for free) like Microsoft and Google.

How do you suggest they continue to exist, if not partnering with Pocket / Yahoo / etc?
>>doesn't mean she's more valuable than anybody else

That only makes my argument stronger, not weaker - if she's exactly the same member of the society as everyone else, she should still pay the same percentage as everyone else.

The rest of your statements are nonsensical. She provides something that I want, so I trade my money for her product - the "quality" of the product has absolutely nothing to do with it. Just like I trade my time for my employer's money.
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If your margin is only a few percent, 2% is a big deal.

What matters to a retailer isn't the revenue, it's the difference between costs and revenue.
I haven't been thrilled with Mozilla's direction for a while now. Bloating Firefox by embedding Pocket and Hello into it, speeding up Firefox's release frequency just because Chrome does it that way, wasting resources on Firefox-OS, and firing an employee just for donating to a political cause.

If they are not careful, they are going to run Mozilla into the ground.
In Australia retailers have supported NFC in the form of Visa's payWave and Mastercard's PayPass for years now and I've got to say, it's fantastic compared to the experience in the US.

Walk into a supermarket/retailer/cinema/restaurant in Melbourne and payment is as simple as waving your card at the terminal. If the purchase is less than ~$100 you don't need to enter a PIN and don't need to sign anything (we outlawed signatures for domestic payments mid last year). It's just done. Visa/Mastercard/banks generally cover any fraudulent purchases using the system so you don't need to worry too much about fraud.

In addition to this, since the US tech companies generally don't appear to have cared about the rest of the world until now, our banks have provided us with contactless payment apps for our phones and unlike the numerous standards being developed in the US, the banks' apps work with the existing payWave/PayPass systems that are already supported.

The reason I'm bringing this up is to show just how behind the US is when it comes to payments. I'm currently living in the Bay Area and the only places I've been able to successfully complete a purchase using a contactless payment method are Office Depot and Whole Foods. Most fast food places don't accept it, most retailers don't accept it, most businesses in general don't accept it. In Melbourne at least nearly everywhere accepts it, from coffee shops to supermarkets to tech retailers.

Even the US's move to EMV is backwards. The country has the second highest credit card fraud rate in the world yet when moving to a "more secure" system, signatures are still being retained as "authentication" or "authorization" despite being literally attached to the back of the card.

The US is fantastic when it comes to technology but when it comes to banking and payments it's incredibly dated and behind.
Here is a "handmade" implementation of this concept made with normal cameras.

https://home.otoy.com/otoy-demonstrates-first-ever-light-fie...

edit: it's actually mentioned in the article which I couldn't see at the time...
> In parts of my home the Verizon coverage is more reliable than my own wifi.

This is fixable.
Its not an opposition party thing. I have full faith this particular Congressman would introduce this bill regardless of party in the White House. Its more a libertarian leaning part of the party.

Some Republicans will still sing this tune, some won't. There is a bit of a split at the moment.
It's clear people are using software architect due to the prestige the name brings.
This is the wrong way round. Charging people to be popular on twitter would turn it into an advertising platform and drive away the most interesting grassroots users. The benefit flows from the popular 'content creators' to the people who follow but aren't themselves followed.

My own preferred model for charging would be the transferrable 'premium' account: essentially a visible flag on the account that anyone can pay for, like reddit gold. Encourage people to pay for accounts that they enjoy following.
I would suggest that while reading this and forming an opinion, you take all the consequences of the treaty into account.

In something this large there will definitely be points that are objectionable, but that doesn't mean TPP as a whole isn't good for the parties involved.

Reaching agreement between governments that span the globe and govern hundreds of millions of citizens requires a lot of horse-trading and compromise. The final agreement can still be good for the world, even if there are objectionable provisions.
They would still 'see' gravitationally active stars turning into black holes. They would infer a form of anomalous radiation from seeing the stars collapsing, and they would guess that there are other fields that interact with this other form of matter.
> It's probably significant that a lot of the US is a lot warmer year-round.

Yup, exactly this. It's why there are so many homeless folks in Hawaii: it's easy to live there without shelter. Living in a part of the world where the weather gets cold forces people to make decisions.
Crap, I missed one... I had checked all of the crashes, as I know Japanese trains are among the safest in the world. By the time I had reached the end of the list it seems I forgot Amagasaki. Thanks for the correction - but lie implies intention. I had no intention of misrepresenting the facts.
" it makes a lot of sense to take them from those who have the most." - And we already do. If they pay the same percentage as you or me, they already pay an order of magnitude(or several) more than I do. My question is - why should they be taxed even more than the rest of us? The only argument I'm seeing currently is "because they have lots so it makes sense to take from them". That's from Robin Hood I guess?
I keep 2 maremmas on my small farm to guard my livestock against predation. They are magnificent at what they do, chasing off ground predators as well as aerial ones. They immerse themselves in their flock and guard fiercely, working as a team to keep my chickens from getting eaten. I love how independent they are in their work, though in my case they aren't alone for more than a day at a time: one thing the maremmas can't do is milk my goats for me!
Does Bootstrap need to be more 'accessible-first'?
You may disapprove, but the belief that "you should only release what you're willing to maintain" is still there, and broadly held by leaders and shakers in our community.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/responsible-open-source-code-pa...

"As Markdown's "parent", John has a few key responsibilities in shepherding his baby to maturity."

https://plus.google.com/+TomDale/posts/CkmmbjmvebM

"And if you release, don't release more than you can realistically maintain."

https://opensource.com/business/11/7/responsibility-open-sou...

"open source project leaders [...] have an on-going responsibility to make it easier for community members to contribute"
Why is this not released to the public before it is signed by lawmakers?
With him, its defending the Constitution. He has stated his motives clearly and often to many sources. He has a reason.tv interview that was pretty good.
Yes, if you have a lot of time on your hands..
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Whoops, misworded that. I meant to say it's clear he thinks the odds of success are higher. It was supposed to be a direct counterpoint to your interpretation.

That said, I do think the odds of success are higher for a non-VC-pattern business. I do not have hard numbers or any sort, though. Of course, it depends on what you consider "success". A VC company has a nice, fairly-cleanly-defined success point in the exit. What is "success" for a business run as a going concern without an exit as a target?
I'm generally in favor of open trade. To the extent that particular American jobs disappear, American consumers are usually better off, which broadly allows the creation of other jobs.

However, I think there are a lot of good concerns raised when these things come up. E.g., why should you lose your career just so I can get mildly cheaper stuff? Thus the common solution of trade adjustment assistance, where tax money is used to pay to retrain you.

Another legitimate concern is the value of those jobs in other countries. Even in countries that are net receivers of existing jobs, those jobs may not be particularly great ones, in that they may harm traditional industries. Or be controlled by (and mainly benefit) foreign capital. Or be jobs that only exist for a while until wages rise a little and jobs shift to yet poorer countries. Or that the external capital flows may increase opportunities for corruption, worsening local governmental problems.

So although I'd agree that some trade opponents feel (or at least play on) American nativism and isolationism, I don't think that's the only motivation for trade limitations, and it's definitely not the most interesting one.
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You can start on github just by being clear what sort of repo you have in the readme. There's all kinds of projects on there, from "I accidentally the fork button" to production grade stuff, and it's often hard to guess which the author thinks they have.
I used onedrive, I have 30 gigs and I was just saying last week to friends that I will probably buy the 5.99 1t fromonedrive. now that they are steeling 25g of the 30g and leaving me a terrible 5gig they can f off. Its that simple. I bought and payed for my Lumia 930 and part of that deal was the extra 15gig storage. I accepted windows 10 90 pounds because I got a free 15gig for desktop. As onderive is built into windows I find it important to offer a medium amount of free storage and for my 2 devices I found 30gig acceptable, though I really need 45-55 gig but I wanted to test one drive first. I'm glad microsoft came out and screwed over every windows user using onedrive cause now I know I cant trust them even with the basic requiorement of space. Also the fact they find 5g space acceptable fopr most people is completely worlds away from what myself and friends think. With microsoft being thiefs and with them being so backwards in their thoughs of what space is accepotable I don't think its gona be long till we see the reall effects of what they have done here. I cant wait to see the negative impact this will have on OneDrive, windows 10 desktop and mobile, on tablet sales on book sales and well the terrible sales they are about to endure, or at least deserve to endure on their 950 and 950xl and yes I'm a huge windows 10 desktop and mobile phone fan, I justy think microsoft suck. Thks for all the fish SN.
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The gist I'm seeing here tends to view apprentice opportunities for skilled manual labor. What about software? I work with a developer in his 60s who only came into programming late in the game because after years of self-employment he realized he'd need to pay more into social security to get any benefits.

Old dogs might not learn new tricks, but people can.
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It would seem that dodging the ethical issue entirely is a possibility. Is is not fair to assume that if your friend can get a job with this company, he/she could get a job paying a similar amount at a non-questionable company? Seems the easiest way out from a practical standpoint would be to just seek work elsewhere.

I don't think there's any clear rubric for making these kinds of decisions involving ethical quandaries. It's up to your friend to simply make a call about whether it feels right to trade their conscience for money, to put it cynically.
Did I say something wrong? Why the down vote here?
Looks to me like it will be a log of your DNS lookups.

Deep sniffing Host: headers from HTTP seems like too much work.

But I wonder how it will work with Proxies / Manually setting DNS lookup to outside your ISP?

I can SSH tunnel my desktop (or phone when using Wifi on Android) computer requests both HTTP and DNS to my VM on another network. It makes me wish I was interesting enough to be snooped on.
Walmart is also smart about this. They algorithmically determine how many cashiers to have at certain times of the day, under the assumption that even though some people may give up and leave instead of waiting in line, its still more profitable for that to occur than to staff more cashiers for everyone to complete their purchases in a timely manner.

In the real world, its about profits, not volume.
Everything about the universe as we see it would be a mystery to them, because the only way of them interacting with our universe is through gravity. But if you see it from our side, to us dark matter is just an incomprehensible field of gravity with no known source as well. So their perception could be absolutely identical to ours.

This opens up a wild but entertaining hypothesis. Assume we have two universes, one of which is ours, and both are located very "close" to one another (whatever that means, maybe it's the next Brane over or something). Our dark matter could just be gravitation leaking out from that other universe. It would certainly explain why there is no other interaction. It would also explain why gravity is such a weak force (because it's leaking out). And our gravitational hotspots would in turn have the same effect on their matter.
Not really.. I had kind of error there. It's still often toughness when you wish to study how material reacts to sudden increases in (kinetic)energy.

Fracture toughness describes relation between maximum tension and maximum depth of pre-existing crack that still doesn't launch phenomena called "fast fracture".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fracture

It's highly relevant in many cases, because most real world materials have microscopic cracks. And because the load where fast fracture might happen is often lot smaller than yield load.

Curiously Charpy impact test still indicates more toughness than fast fracture. But it's never used to quantify toughness in real life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charpy_impact_test

Thanks for that comment. I need to clear this stuff bit more in my head.
The problem is that equality in the working class, internationally, means wages will become lower - because textile manufacturing in China is so cheap, for example. But it wouldn't mean equality across the board - i.e. the rich / higher management / 1% having to share their wealth with the bottom 99%. Another commenter mentioned 8 billion in less expenses for the US due to lower income tax, but those savings wouldn't end up at the working class, it'd be a benefit for companies and their higher management and shareholders.

Better financial results rarely / never mean higher income or conditions for employees.
I hope for Lytro's sake that they release real open-source playback tools. AFAICT, if you have a first-generation Lytro camera right now, you're pretty much stuck viewing the pictures you take in a Flash app, and I'd be very hesitant to buy a camera of any sort that gives no real assurance that the picture format will still be usable in ten (or twenty or fifty) years.

Everyone has access to a JPEG decoder. Lytro, not so much.
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For those interested, I highly recommend reading Berkshire Beyond Buffet (http://www.amazon.com/Berkshire-Beyond-Buffett-Enduring-Valu...), which talks a lot about all the individual businesses before & after being acquired. A little repetitive, but good reading.
I've used this method many, times (a few hundred, say) and it works fairly well, but definitely not 100% success on peeling. Also some variability on yolk consistency.
Here's a link to the FAQ with more info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-pbm

And links to lists of what is blocked:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tracking_protection#Lists

I'm curious to know what the in-the-wild breakage rate for FF's blocking feature is. I use Ghostery myself and I find that maybe 1 in 100 are broken. I feel like that could be 1 in 1000 if blockers implemented a Google Analytics stub -- by far the most commonly required script for things to work.
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Or worse, they start running the law on a computer. Instead of human interpreters, they'll just run their models and say, oh, the computer says you're guilty.
From what you've seen, what's recommended, flux or redux or relay/graphql? I have trouble keeping up with those
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>Is this about "free trade" or about profit-maximizing and guaranteeing for some big corporations?

If the West is moving towards an information economy and is going to let the developing world take over manufacturing, the West wants to protect the information economy. The idea is we want to sell information for goods/services.
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Based on iperf tests, it appears uplink on a A0 is being capped around 5Mbps. Considering I work with Azure Networking, I will find more details on this internally.

I generally work with Azure CLI (https://github.com/azure/azure-xplat-cli) and ARM templates (https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates), helps with simpler configuration and consistent results across deployments.

Though we are aggressively working on adding more features and improving documentation, evidently there are gaps in certain areas. Please feel free to reach out to us through Twitter (@AzureSupport) or Stackoverflow (tag-Azure), for anything we can help with your deployments on Azure.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it obvious that they did better because they focused on long term goals, instead of short term profits.
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I like this as a thought experiment - can I write JS code (specifically using React) that can be shared across a variety of devices. At the same time, I would not do this for any sort of non-trivial production application. The main reason being that you're going to end up writing platform specific logic at one point or another (basic example: Handling files on the web vs on mobile - ios / android vs via node webkit). I think that the codebase is already doing something like this with its .ios.js files.

Eventually you'll end up with some shared code and other platform specific code and you'll wonder why you don't just split up the codebase into individual applications (that can easily be worked on by independent teams). You can still have a shared dependency that handles logic, but you can iterate on each application independently.
I would love to see people trying to create these sorts of representations.

But I suspect we're decades away from actually making the shift you want in the primary documents. Computer languages are made to be executed by computers. But the execution medium for human laws is human minds. And most of the relevant human minds have law degrees. So a computer-friendly translation of laws will be always be extra work until the execution medium changes.

Machine translation is making great progress, though, so perhaps we can automate away the problem.
> My question is - why should they be taxed even more than the rest of us?

Among other reasons: because it is government and the legal system which makes amassing and maintaining large fortunes possible; being poor without organized society is easy to achieve, being rich is a possible only with the order imposed on society through law. Therefore, it makes sense for the rich to be taxed not merely proportionately to their wealth, but disproportionately so.
Maybe it's less about having lots of energy, and more about expending it lazily and efficiently.

For many ideas, an MVP can be a five-line CGI script in bash. Or even a static HTML page. Minimal means minimal.

The MVP is the most trivial thing you can do that will still give you useful information and guide future development. The purpose is exactly to be able to try things without investing significant energy.
That's one of the features http://www.commonaccord.org/ is trying to achieve, as I understand it.
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In 19.1 on labour, party nations are required to "adopt and maintain in its statutes and regulations" certain rights, including

- "freedom of association"

- "a prohibition on the worst forms of child labour"

- "the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation"

- "acceptable conditions of work with respect to minimum wages, hours of work, and occupational safety and health."

Sounds nice, but there is absolutely no guidance on what types of regulations these incredibly subjective "rights" would require, and I imagine every party will interpret them differently (and probably conclude that their existing regulations already provide all of these guarantees.)
Weird thought:

I've seen some people on HN commenting on how the "responsibility" of funding R&D seems to be shifting (somewhat) from the public to the private sector. Surely this varies by industry (aerospace and defense is still hugely gov't funded) but it seems to be an increasing trend in the education, consumer goods, and healthcare sectors at least.

Twitter is not very profitable, but it is useful. Try to make it profitable w/ ads and dumb changes to a service that was fine without it, and you'll make it less useful. It's like taking a park and putting billboards on all the trees.

It would be interesting to see some sort of cost/benefit analysis from the gov perspective on whether or not to subsidize a public service like Twitter. We must do it for the large public energy companies we subsidize, why not for a network that (ostensibly) adds value to people's lives in a more abstract sort of way? If there was a compelling argument for putting our tax money towards Twitter rather than the DoD/NSA budget, I would at least be interested in hearing it.

Unless we start to think longer term about investing (50-100 years, not 5-10), we will be missing out on a ton of great products and services that investors shoot down with silly short-term monetization schemes.