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>Completely agree with your observation that it's ludicrous to argue that Christianity is consubstantial with human civilization; what about ancient Greece, for starters...?!?

Ancient Greece declined, and Greeks adopted Christianity among the very first -- because it solved many of the moral and social problems that led to the decline of their civilization. They actually had abandoned their old gods for a few centuries already, dwelling in eastern gods, neo-platonism, mysticism etc.

But even more importantly, Girard, whether right or wrong, neither says that "Christianity is consubstantial with human civilization" nor ignores Ancient Greece.
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Isn't this a problem in most markets though? Take writing. Most authors starve or make a pittance, while a handful of authors at the top make most of the money. Stephen King comes to mind. Same with music.
> That is not a straightforward choice, [...]

And no matter what (sensible) tradeoffs you make, it will always be agonizing around the margin.
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> * alcohol (which is a depressant)*

I thought a depressant in the context of drugs means "central nervous system depressant", not "causes depression"?
Talent or Toxicity?
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I have a feeling this person never ran any production environment, nor spent time debugging.
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Shouln't everyone just be doing dual stack with real IPv6 + NATted IPv4 for the forseeable future? What's the point of T-Mobile trying to do CLAT/PLAT?
WordStar, not WordPerfect.
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Yes. The written word is part of our extended phenotype. Google-ing (especially on the go on your phone) is just so much tighter integrated and has a shorter feedback loop.

For an opposite view on how to use computers to enhance humans, look at SuperMemo. They use technology to help you practice remembering, not to remember for you.

(It's like steroid that let you train harder, vs using a forklift.)
the tool looks great, thanks for the tip.

To whomever is using it, do you also capture VAT in ledger? VAT reporting is something I would also need.
If anything, certain illegal substances, like hallucinogens, have opened my eyes and gotten me out of depression, by making me see what's important in life. Without it, I might have committed suicide, or at least be still stuck (or even deeper) in a situation I don't want to be in.

Cannabis and mushrooms, to name some, have been considered and succesfully used as versatile medicine for thousands of years, only to be banned about half a decade ago. Only the last few years this is starting to change, as more and more research shows the medicinal benefits, while debunking most of the lies that have been spread.

Psychedelics 'cure' consumerism, make one more sovereign, enable independent thought, and help you break destructive patterns, by making one see through their life-long conditioning. They make us better people, but worse consumers who need less medicine.

It's quite obvious why these substances are banned, as it's not in the interest of the state to have a flock capable of independent thought, that does not consume a lot and doesn't buy words of division and fear.
To clarify even more: the only legal substances are those that cloud our thoughts and make us stupid and dependent, like alcohol or prescribed anti-depressants.
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Assuming it's 1kg of plastic, manufacturing it cost about 180 litres of water and 80MJ of energy.

I can bring 12 pans of water to boil with that energy, and have lots of water to spare.
The specific number of years is a tunable value. Any prison sentence at all sends an important message about the importance of respecting personal liberties.

As for the length, a good argument can be made that violations done under the color of authority[1] should always be punished more severely than "regular" violations of the law. The people who have the power to enforce the law have much greater power than the average citizen. Abuse of that greater power should require a similarly larger punishment.

That said, I have no idea if 10 years is appropriate. If it isn't I'm sure a better length of time can be negotiated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_%28law%29
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di·a·gram
ˈdīəˌɡram/

noun
1.
a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something; a schematic representation.
"a diagram of the living room"

verb
1.
represent (something) in graphic form.
"the experiment is diagramed on page fourteen"

Not so bizarre use of the word diagram based on its dictionary definition.
I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the statistical distribution of popularity on HN or Reddit is very similar to the hockey-stick shaped graph illustrated in the article.
If you are looking career growth, this will help you for sure.
Why? Marx may have hit a nerve by investigating important problems, but his findings and theories are still rubbish.
His this is Benson again, Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V...

Doesn't work! I just broke my keyboard keys! Stopped my reviews, damn..
Characters, not digits ;-)
... and alcohol is a CNS depressant. A common "can't afford to smell of booze right now" substitute (at least in the old days; it's been a very long time between drinks for me) was Seconal. It ain't the same, but it takes the edge off in the right way.
> Ancient Greece declined, and Greeks adopted Christianity among the very first

Not before having invented Western civilization, philosophy, mathematics, literature, etc. Thank God we didn't have to wait for Christ for maths, because we'd still be waiting.
I used their docker container in manual mode and the whole process was a great experience. No need to stop the main server. The steps were:

1. Run the container without ports in manual mode
2. Use the GUI to enter account data and URLs for the SAN certificate
3. Let the client print out the challenges
4. Copy the challenges to the webroots using the provided command
5. Press ENTER and wait a few seconds. Certs and Keys are ready to be linked from the webserver.

Everything went as expected and I am a happy user of letsencrypt.

[1] https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html#run...
>As you can see, not one of them is a perfect hard-cooked egg: the eggs go directly from having slightly translucent centers to having rubbery whites.

This happens when you cut them in half when they're still hot. The trick is to let them sit in the water until it cools down after cooking, or at least don't cut them until they cool down considerably.
There are subredits of apps, there is also a web called producthunt and there are even native apps called AppHunt for this.
I'm in the GPU business. Here, ISA compatibility does not even exist and nobody cares. As long as you own an entire toolchain - a GLES/OpenCL driver, or, as in this case, an Oberon OS and a compiler - nobody gives a tiniest bit of crap about the underlying ISA.

So, I do not see any reason for the Oberon machine to rely on any "standard" ISA. It can even be compiled into some kind of a NISC, and nobody would notice any difference.
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Containers are cool for big things. But imagine every single program stuck inside a container without proper management tools to track dependencies. Now imagine a heartbleed-like scenario where you need to patch a big security hole ASAP. With containers you'd have a hard time.
Forcibly institutionalizing people is not a panacea.
The results from this are incredible. I'd happily pay for a high-res image that I could have printed.
"Estimated waiting time: more than 58 hours"

It's going to be a long, long time before being able to comment on the results (of a photo I submitted), but the latest submissions look fantastic!
If you study the Numenta algorithm, you will see that the prediction is not only for the next steep and that the prediction, is forward feed to another layer where it becomes the input of a more general and stable prediction.

Also, there is strong evidence that prediction is the main (if not the only) function of the brain. I would recommend Hohwy's book (https://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Predictive_Mind.html...) for an explanation of this idea.
Existing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508629
"Just be doing dual stack" is not as easy as it sounds.

The whole point of a carrier doing 464XLAT is that they (the carrier) can move to a IPv6 only network without breaking the internet experience for their customer until everyone else is also accessible over IPv6.
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That's business- it's fundamentally a combination of Product and Distribution. Both need consideration (not necessarily obscene amounts of money). Most 'Product' people, including but not limited to developers, underestimate the challenges of Distribution. Ironically, many are the first to call out the flaws when a 'Distribution' expert starts talking about "a great idea for an app/site/SaaS product, I just need someone to build it for me".
The cartels are a business. The main reason they use violence is that they can't rely on police protection, so they have to provide their own.

I am quite sure that the cost of providing their own security is considerably more than any taxes on legitimate businesses in mexico. So it makes sense for them from a business perspective. Obviously it won't happen overnight. Some of them will adapt and work within the system, others will find that their old ways are not competitive with the legitimate businesses, who have lower overheads.

Obviously there will still be crime, and the cartels that don't adapt will find other criminal enterprises to pursue. But it's hard to see another market that will provide them with comparable income.

It was not my intent for the comment to come off as "anti-american". Just saying that mexico making this change would move the problem to the US, which would then be forced to act, hopefully by following through with a full-on legalisation of their own (not just for marijuana).
For those curious, someone has made a public implementation, using the same source material as the linked site:
https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style
Interestingly Congressman Chaffetz is a Republican, good to see him stand up for the Bill of Rights rather than give lip service to it.
I agree, when I read "diagram" I don't think "photograph." This diagram is more elaborate some others, but I don't think the first impression is to assume it is a real photo when it is explicitly called otherwise.
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Can't wait to see those pop up as facebook profile pictures. Sarcasm aside, some of them really look fantastic!
Fair point :)
>We are two researchers, trying to give the access to novel machine learning techniques to larger audience. Unfortunatelly (sic) the server costs a lot and we cannot afford many... Thus, if you like our work, please consider helping us with a small donation for covering server costs.
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BTW, will it balance if I want report not in GBP or CND, but in some other currency I use?
Tags would be useful, if you were limited to two or three, to aid discovery. Search in the app stores seems to be pretty useless.
Depends on how stuff is implemented no? You change a library, you do a rebuild of all packages that uses that library, the user downloads package deltas and the filesystem does deduplication so the same file is used in all the containers. Would only cause a problem with packages from third party sources. But thats a possible problem now already?
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I'm hoping this leads to increased build speeds. They really need to get rid of repo though
"guix environment" can spawn a container to run software in isolation. There's also "guix system vm" to build a virtual machine, or "guix system container".

Note, though, that Guix has not been ported to MacOS yet.
That's orthogonal to whether or not kenji was being scientific in his methods
It may help to look at it akin to evolution.
The problem with tags is that we (software devs) know how to use them, but many other people don't. Source: Research done by a startup I worked with.
Damn, I read this article a couple of weeks ago when making my own eggs. Little did I know there was so much delicious HN karma to be had. I'll just submit every site I visit in future.
Just grabbed one from OVH for 2.49 €, no WHOIS protection for .eu domains though.
Alternatively, could this particular post could be seen as a signal in contrast to some of the very anti scientific policies of his predecessor ?
Yep, I did read that right below the ETA line :-) still it's a long time, isn't it? It doesn't diminish the quality of the results anyway, I know it was a great effort to put everything together (and it is even greater to maintain). I just don't feel compelled to pay for it yet.
Depends how those "containers" interact with the system at large.

In the Windows world, it's common to have the libraries you need stored in ~/Program Files/Program_name/ . Now, each program dumps in its program home the library, only because it cannot guarantee the library would be in the system.

In Linux, we deal with having different major versions of said library. nd minor versions are clobbered by major. So when someone who wrote stuff using python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3(bugfixes) comes out, there is invariably something that is broken.

A container that encompasses "Python", and holds all the versions would be a great deal. Same with other programs. They could interact, but their install and environment would be encompassed as a complete "Python", regardless of version or bugfix.
If you met the two guys who'd produced this, would you consider buying them a coffee? If so, the $1.99 to support some researchers and technology is hardly a big ask. You don't have to think of everything as 'paying for a good or service' - supporting folks doing something cool is just as valid (just don't tell the capitalist overlords).
Kenji has stated many times on SE when this comes up that he's catering to US home cooks with measurements
How do you know? I need to wait 70 hours. Did you donate?

EDIT: Just noticed Latest submissions. Ignore this. :)
According to [1], the Netherlands has about 0.16% homeless people per capita, and the USA 0.50-1.10%. (If I'm comparing figures correctly, since that page has "counted on one night" and "total for the year" for different countries.)

It's probably significant that a lot of the US is a lot warmer year-round.

[1] https://www.homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statistics/#eu...
Imagine alcohol was illegal in Mexico, was suddenly legalized, and then the booze mafia and the corrupt cops on their payroll go around threatening home brewers selling their wares.

Then Anheuser-Busch comes along and plunks down $100 million to build a brewery. Which side is any cop with half a brain going to opt for: the mafiosos trying to cling onto their obsolete business model, or the legit megacorp who'll be paying "facilitation fees" for decades to come?
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>But of course, there's still a lot of eggsplaining to do.

Upvoting this share just because of this pun!
I absolutely do this, and have so for a long while now.
Yes it will. The trick is that the currency you use for capital gains always has to be the same. Also, my colleague mentioned that you might be trying to do this without recording the capital gains. You have to have a capital gains account, or else it will not balance. You can report in any currency you want with the -X flag.

I'm busy for the moment, but I will send you email tomorrow with some better information. I'm GMT+9 so depending on where you are, probably while you are sleeping ;-) It will get me off my butt to write a blog post about it.
So why not make an abuse of power registry and require people that have been convicted of abusing power to disclose this fact?

It would also be necessary to have hiring institutions publicize that they are hiring a power abuser (i.e., if a police chief didn't care about the previous abuse of power he would still be required to inform the community of the situation).

Someone running for office would be required to do it to, it'd be great, tack "I was convicted of blah blah blah" on somewhere near the "I approve this message".

The above is still a much more substantial punishment than I would want to see for an average citizen that was eavesdropping on cell phone calls.
> That's...staggering. If I tried to guess I would have been an order of magnitude out.

Yet it is still hard to find the app you really need. The amount of crap pushed at the top of the stores is also staggering. Something is definitely broken.
Apparently there are about 27,000 homeless in the Netherlands[1], out of a population of 15.5 million, so 1,742 homeless per million people.

In the USA there are apparently 633,782 homeless [2] per night out of 319 million people, or 1,987 per million people.

But that's heavily influenced by the way homeless people are counted. The US number is explicitly the number of people homeless on any given night. Estimates of the number of people in the US that will be homeless for some period each year ranges from 2.3 - 3.5 million [3] (7,210 and 10,972 per million resp.) This is estimated from shelter occupancy.

I couldn't figure out if the Dutch statistics agency were counting number of people homeless in a year, or number on any particular night, but [4] hints to me that they're estimating the annual population, so I think the best comparison is:

Netherlands: ~1,700 homeless per million
USA: 9,000 +/- 2000 homeless per million

[1] http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/bevolking/publicaties/ar...

[2] https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2012AHAR_PI...

[3] http://www.familyhomelessness.org/media/306.pdf

[4] http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/methoden/toelichtingen/alfabet/...
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Anxiety and depression are pretty common in the entrepreneur crowd -- these conditions can drive a desire to find independence, some relevance and self-worth.

What makes the entrepreneur different from the homeless person is simply a fighting spirit, but sometimes even those with the spirit give up. I guess the point is, we're all people, and we should all get the same help and respect, whether we're the power-driven entrepreneur or the homeless person who just can't deal with it anymore.
This journey is made easier by looking and speaking to customers first before you build anything. For people that just enjoy building apps, that is really hard to do. If you don't want to sell to people now, you won't when you have an MVP either.

Find a group of founding customers so you are building something specific based on their feedback. Your motivation and profitability are accelerated by having such involved customers.

You can investigate such a large number of ideas before you have to start building anything.
Yes, and before we had efficient textile factories, scores of small businesses and individuals worked as wool spinners - many of them women (the origin of the term "spinster"). These businesses went kaput when industrialization came along.

Same thing with farming. In the middle ages, and long after then, there were many small businesses engaged in farming. In fact, quite a lot of it was subsistence farming. Fortunately, textile manufacturing brought down the price of clothing from thousands of dollars per suit to far less, and industrial farming has made food (by comparison to the past) cheap and plentiful. In the course of it, this shut down many small businesses who could not compete with the scale and efficiency of larger ones, but it brings down prices for everyone - as bambax mentioned, the general public cares about prices, not how goods are provided.

In the modern age, we live better than kings did in the middle ages, with electricity, sanitation, health/vision/dental care, access to food and water, fuel, entertainment in our homes - all of the benefits of modern life come from the steadily lowering price of technology and scale and knowledge. Small businesses are not intrinsically good, and large ones are not intrinsically bad. Large businesses tend to have economies of scale and investment in technology that small do not, which brings down prices and raises the quality of living for everyone.
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I think GP means the percentage of homeless people that have a mental illness is similar to the US, not the percentage homeless compared to the total population.
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In fact, the absolute worst thing you can do with someone whose still "fighting" is to institutionalise them. Once you label and stigmatise them that way, they tend to give up fighting, and whatever benefit they were to society, even in a limited capacity, is then lost.

You want them to keep fighting.
So you don't care that all of humanity is living objectively better now vs. the rest of history. You just care that some people are filthy rich and you don't like them one bit. So, lynch them, take their money, made mostly through their labor and inovation and let the proletariat rule! Nice. Very nice actually, except for the fact that this idea already played out and crashed and burned as the biggest mistake in history.
Really touching story. Nothing to say about.
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Regarding the supposed barrier that is installing the app: I don't know. For a paid service (as we are comparing apples to apples) the signup process on a web app can be more tedious than clicking a button, entering your mobile store password, waiting couple of seconds, and tap "Open app".

My candidate causes of the current situation:

- People are used to paying very little for apps. On the one hand, apps have been commoditized, yes, but on the other hand, web apps can be a lot more useful and productive than a phone app. We'll see what the iPad Pro and Android successors do about that. I'd suspect that there will serious money be made in enterprise apps.

- Competition (just swipe left and you find other purchase options) and reviews (highest ratings always wins) - I think OP got that right. You CAN do research about web apps before you subscribe to one, but that information is never complete and you can easily shrug off a bad review on some forum and buy that subscription nonetheless.

- Lack of trial versions. I would never buy a $10 app that has one 2-star rating. I would try it out, though. Note that almost every web app has a trial mode - it's a huge conversion driver! That one's completely missing for apps. I think that's also the reason why freemium has become predominant.
Well, the previous guy was quite bad for science [1] [2] [3]. Perhaps you can elaborate as to how things could get worse?

[1] http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/hundreds-of-world-s-scientist...
[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/research-library-s-clo...
[3] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/research-cutbacks-by-gover...
Good resource. Liked it.
As a data point, or startup works with a variety of payment processors in Europe (in addition to credit cards and PayPal we accept back transfers, prepaid, POS cash, SMS, phone, etc), and to date I have yet to find a company in this sector that doesn't have slow, atrocious and unreliable support. Even if you carefully craft extremely simple one line emails to help them read and process them faster, you are still going to get the lowest amount of effort possible consistently; let alone discussing something complex. And good luck if something crashes on weekend.