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> For example, there is an unconfortable number of Christians who do have a fundamentalist mindset, too (although I didn't find any exact numbers).

Even fundamentalist Christians don't have divine commandments to kill apostates. Nor do atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, or Jews (well, they do, but it hasn't been in force since the Exile.)

This is a false equivalency.
We had looked at Asgard, but didn't use it because it used dedicated load balancers (e.g. separate ec2 instances) instead of ELBs (IIRC).

Our deployments were already using ELBs and we wanted to stay with that.

Does anyone know if this has changed with Spinnaker?

I would not be surprised if Spinnaker's canary/etc. features require finer-grained control over the traffic than an ELB with just course-grained "add/remove instance" gives you, so it probably makes sense.
Correct me if I am wrong but money transfers are controlled at state scale or even at higher scale.

Banks are liable to states about where money goes or come from, so yes I think you can brush some countries with a level of control on money flow. Some with really strict control and some less strict or even tolerant in some cases.
Many believe that the pathologist report and the verdict of the report were fixed. David Kelly's stance on chemical weapons in Iraq was not helping the British government in any way.

This relates to the sexed up dossier that took the UK to war, which we now know was a preach of lies and fiction.

They needed David Kelly to step aside or give his blessing and backing to the dossier.

He didn't, but then magically he did, because he took a walk near his house and an apparently non-suicidal man took his own life. Except there are many discrepancies: http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/doctors-claim-coveru...
Where I live, commuter trains are packed, though (Europe). How can that be? The same logic should apply to commuter trains as to cars?
There are a lot of jobless people in the world. If all of them became militants we had the full chaos. Bye bye open society, here comes the surveillance society.

If you read e.g. what happened in Palmyra, the (sometimes foreign) radical muslim terrorists attacked/killed the citizians and a liberation is very much needed.

'Only' maybe the 'state-building' has to be done longer than before in Afghanistan, Irak... And a UN administratered government is needed for some time. I don't talk about 'the west' but also about the 'moderate muslim community'.

It's no good now to stand on the side and watch the atrocities. If I read correctly also countries like the Lebanon suffer from the influx of radical maslims foreigners.
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I can't downvote, so here you got my -1 personally.

edit: ok, let me explain: putting the USA and ISIS into the same bucket "terrorist states" is just moronic, that's why. happy downvoting.
Facebook blocked anti-ISIS group setup by Anonymous hours before Paris attacks
Well, for starters, a group of trained soldiers from a wannabe state slaughtered innocent civilians in our streets, detonated a bomb in a stadium (where, I remind you, our President was located) ... I would also remind you that there's really nothing to prevent this from happening again and again. Our security forces do not have a handle on this, and our president is declaring war.

We've had two gunfights in the middle of Paris in two years. If you don't see how this is different from previous terrorism, then respectfully, there's really no point in discussing any of this with you.

The point isn't that things are different from a security-state point of view. The point is instead that we're facing something whose scope and scale we underestimated.
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You could say the same thing about Northern Ireland (and the media regularly framed it that way), when "Catholics" retaliated against "Protestants" for some action, or the reverse.

The Troubles in Northern Ireland were never about religion. They were about power, territory and self-governance - it just happened that the two main "sides" in the conflict were also traditionally of different Christian sects - and the easiest way to spoon feed it to the uninvolved masses was under the guise of religious/sectarian animosity because it made it slightly irrational, rather than motivated by oppression.
Literal interpretation is the argument moslems use too. Problem with that argument is, these apologetics also mean that, they believe in some god, that is unable to say anything directly and has no idea how messed up the people that god itself has created, that most would not even be able to understand its words.

Sorry. No. This argument does not work here. For, the translations are almost the same in english, turkish, german and any other language that book is translated to. And it says that, all should either convert to islam or be killed. There's no other interpretation here.
The suicide bombers in Paris explicitely said they were here because the French military is in Syria; this is political. ISIS did wrote these attacks were to punish the French for messing with them.
Religion is what empowers the war. It's the oldest trick in the book for getting popular support. But the root cause and the reason for the war is not religion.
I think the outermost comment made a great point that religion is basically a tool to manipulate people, to make them make irrational moves. After all, if you want people to move rationally, you make rational suggestions, otherwise even if people are doing the right thing, they're doing it due to irrational reasons.

When people are made to do good things due to irrational reasons, they may be made to do bad things due to the same or similar reasons the next day. A religion can teach to love and it can teach to hate. Why not discard such a tool and let people make their own decisions with better reasoning other than fear/love of God or wanting to have a better afterlife?
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the thing I never understand: why God/Allah even care if I believe in him or not?
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Thank you downvoters, I couldn't do it without you! Meh..
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People irrationally overvalue benefits (relative to money). Plus many benefits are tax advantaged aUnd they are also easier for big players to provide.

If they were allowed to provide limited benefits without being obligated to provide full benefits, it would provide a barrier to entry for competitors. How will Gett (a little guy competing with Uber in Manhattan below 110th only) find drivers if it can't provide benefits?

Economics >> moral posturing.
This is probably about as accurate as the Drake equation.

At the company I work at in the UK, probably 80% of people lift-share. Admittedly that is unusual but still. The article makes several mistakes anyway:

* "8 out of 31000" is one source to one destination - so it is very misleading

* They don't realise that people might be willing to work different hours in order to find a lift share

* 10 percent seems unoptimistic
Curious how this compares to Jenkins Workflow plugin suite. At first glance Spinnaker seems to be simpler and has a prettier UI. Workflow has a lot more customization possible and the crappy Jenkins UI to go along with it. I might look at Spinnaker anyways just to keep from gouging my eyes out on the Jenkins "UI".
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The last time the west waged a war of ideology was the cold war, that one went pretty well all things considered.
JobDSL was more along the lines of a templating engine with groovy customization that tends to break Jenkins masters. The Workflow plugin would be more akin to Spinnaker than JobDSL.
what you said its all true but there are out there already some fanatics who wants to kill you, they can.
and they did, and i don't know how many more life should be letting to "statistic danger", in the various places of the world.
its really hard to calculate, really.. i don't know.
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>The article appears to be implying that Western nations should not make war against Daesh because "that's what they want."...

I agree the article spends a lot of time implying what we shouldn't do and not much time at all saying what might make for effective policies, but it's hardly advocating Islamising Europe either.

I took two things away from the article. One is that the kind of pretty much deliberate social and economic marginalization of Muslim minorities in France is a terrible mistake. You can have a pluralistic egalitarian society without insisting that everyone has to dress, talk and behave exactly like white western Europeans all the time. Having an Imperial legacy and historic connections with extensive regions of the wider world isn't compatible with being culturally allergic to anyone who looks or acts foreign. We in Europe need to build strong cultural bridges connecting us to the Muslim minorities in our midst that are now also Europeans and deserve respect and support. I may take flak for this, because it turns my stomach to imply that France has any responsibility for the recent attacks, but frankly the French state is not doing it's job.

The second lesson is regarding our foreign policy in the Middle East. Keeping out of Syria and letting whatever happens just happen hasn't worked. The result has been a breeding ground for radicalization and chaos that has exacerbated the situation in Iraq, and lead to the biggest Refugee crisis Europe has seen since WW2. The Iraq war was awful and the political pressure to withdraw and 'bring the troops home' intense, but doing so was a horrible mistake. Once you're in, you're in for better or worse. We can't wash our hands of these conflicts and expect that the resulting mess will stay put and not affect us.

As a corollary, I think that our consistent policy that none of the borders in the Middle east are up for negotiation is a mistake. If the Sunni, Shia and Kurd regions of Iraq want to be separate states, they should have the freedom to do so. Trying to insist that the Sunni minority had to stay welded to a larger hostile Shia population was just asking for unending trouble. Partition isn't always the right answer, but in some situations it needs to be an option.
Many of the extremists have come from affluent homes, e.g. second generation Pakistanis with secular, professional parents living in comfortable London suburbs. Converts come from across the socio-economic spectrum.
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Part of the Hutton report that is due any day now....
It appears, from what I could find, that Saudia Arabia's yearly spending on education is $57.9B, they spend $42.7B on health, with a total spending of $229.3. So they spend 25% of their budget on education and less then 2% on arms importation. Yes they could spend that money on something else, but please don't make it seem like they are neglecting healthcare or educational spending for arms.

http://www.us-sabc.org/custom/news/details.cfm?id=1645
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Plus global trade is down. I am afraid the future is looking a bit darker than usual.
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I believe it is a bit more complex. From the point of view of the bomber this is certainly true. But there are also people using their gullibility. I have read multiple times that Isis has amongst its member ex Baathist officer from Saddam, Ba'ath party which was at least originally more secular and left-leaning. I am pretty sure that some of these people are not that into the religious aspect, except as a recruiting and propaganda tool.

The way I see it is that using the "Islam" brand is great way to have funds and international support/appeal.

In the same way, in the sixties, you had plenty of nationalist movements all over the world that were claiming to be Communist. Sure it was also the hand of Moscow at work, but for local people, that was also a great way to secure some funding/weapons/etc from USSR.

Also some of the bomber have allegedly married in Syria, possibly with children, I am not sure what would happen to their family if they defected.
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Better the devil you know.

The reason we (i.e. "The West") left Saddam in place until the US needed an easy target after 9/11 is that despite being a dictator and mass-murderer, his reign kept Iraq relatively stable. As soon as he was taken out of the equation other forces began to fight for dominance and now we have a huge mess on our hands that's arguably worse than where we started.

The same is true for most of the dictatorships toppled during the "Arab Spring". This is partially why Russia was against intervening in Syria from day one and why nobody seems to think Saudi Arabia or Qatar or any of the other bloody dictatorships in that region are worth disrupting.

In many cases the actual borders of these countries are pretty arbitrary and split up various ethno-religious groups (that often historically hate each others' guts) in weird ways. As soon as you tell them to self-govern and dispose of the dictators you end up with all these directly opposing interest groups suddenly being able to get at each others' throats.

It's not that Assad is a nice person or that it's more ethical to leave an evil person in place than to dispose of him, it's just that mindlessly handing out guns and expecting an oppressed people to be rational is pretty much the worst thing you can do.

Look at WW2 Germany. Sure, we got rid of Hitler, but in order to prevent Germany from blowing up again (exactly what had happened after WW1) the Allies actually had to work out long-term plans for the occupation of Germany to make sure the citizens were educated enough to understand how messed up their world view used to be and that the country was re-integrated into world economy and politics.

We need a Marshall Plan for Syria with buy-in from several major influencers. THEN we can talk about disposing of Assad.
> ML is good at what it does but it doesn't offer Haskell's type system.

You can do most of Haskell's type trickery in OCaml though. Some things are much easier in Haskell, but other things are much harder.
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> This kind of thinking is exactly why Mid-east is in its current state and that is exactly the reason why ISIS was born.

ISIS was born out of the Salafist/Wahhabi ideology that the Saudi state has been exporting from the beginning of its existence. This is why terrorism is almost the exclusive domain of this one sect.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism...

As another poster said, if every disenfranchised person in the world turned to terrorism, we'd have complete and utter chaos. But most don't.

As for you argument, Mali was in the grips of an Islamist army. They aren't any more. Thanks to French intervention.
I actually explained my point. Read my full comment.
Deeply embarassing for the BBC.
Hate to dwell on topics not suited on HN, but I'll just ask you one thing: how would the French troops on the Syrian ground even remotely help securing France?

USA can pull off its invasive politics via a) pouring insane amount of resources both militarily and politically b) by getting along pretty good with other Muslims while bombing some (like Saudis, Turks, etc.) c) by being an ocean distance away from the very people they drop bombs on.

How will France do all of that with a) much more limited resources b) while being uniformly disliked by almost all Muslim nations due to historical reasons and c) while being a boat ride away from tens of millions of agitated Muslims?

I believe, with this attack, France is pulled into this already extremely messy situation by the powers that be. And I am afraid things will escalate to a much worse situation.
this is so childish from the teacher.

5x3 == 3x5

Complexity is a major aspect in computing but not in school for undergraduates.

Also the kid should get a +1 since he used a law of math to reduce the complexity of the operation. That's more insane than proving this kid wrong.
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> It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.

Fantastic book, with possibly the best opening line ever, and yes, she does have a pacemaker.

http://www.tor.com/2009/06/22/a-funny-book-with-a-lot-of-dea...
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... and they hope that this war results in the outcome they envision - which is some utopia that the Muslim world unites against the crusading threat and a caliphate is established? But they are human and they are perfectly fallible. And maybe force is necessary. In an ideal world, this is when a multi-national force under the UN banner is actually warranted.

By the way this is the exact situation that American after 9/11 swore would never happen again - a safe haven for global terrorism to be planned and launched from. That one is on Obama, though with Iraq Bush made that option incredibly difficult.
I have an honest question here. As a believer in the Christian faith, do you believe Angels exist? And all or some of the other supernatural tales from the bible and the faith?

I am ashamed to admit that I didn't realize until I was well after 25 that followers of the faith, some of them, really believed in such beings and that priests of the Christian faith have to at least pretend to do so as well.

I was raised catholic(I'm agnostic) and I always took "Adam and Eve" and Angels as tales and alegories, elements to tell a story.
> There seems something profoundly suciidally nihilistic in the idea that Europe should simply do nothing different and simply be more and more welcoming as attacks happen in an attempt to appease extremists until at last Europe is no longer populated by Europeans.

It reminds me of this fable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Qw5xVn7c0
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> all catholic priests being asked to distance themselves from the catholic scandal of the last decade.

Catholics absolutely take heat for the various scandals over the years. It's just easier for most of them to distance themselves since few actually practice the faith...
Of course, and I don't seriously claim that they are rubbish. They are useful and I admire some of the people who have developed them.

But I think we need to question why data seems to have this outsized value compared to algorithms. I don't think it is some sort of information theoretical invariant. It's a relationship between the specific algorithms and the specific sort of data we have.
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This is what will happen to every single streaming service eventually. It's hard to believe that 10 years down the line Apple Music, or Spotify, or Google whatever-it's-called-now will still be a thing.

If you really like listening to music, make sure you either have it as physical media, or stored on your hard drive (yes, I still buy and rip CDs myself).
The "future" of AI is systems, not code or data individually. It's also the past and present. Funny, that.
The article has two insights, which are kinda related in an surprising way.

One is tangentially mentioning that car poolers almost always know each other and will not go with random strangers; I thought to myself, yes, I am not young and I cannot remember ever hearing or seeing first hand a "hitchhiker" style car pool although coworkers helping each other out (critically, without a dedicated app/service middleman) is almost normal. The insightful part is the successful ride sharing services actual business model is psychologically tricking users into pretending to be taxi drivers and taxi customers rather than some random dude picking up anonymous hitchhikers which is what they really are.

The second semi-related insight is when the free market numbers won't work, just demand the government socially engineer a private profit. Specifically the part of the article where the government should artificially manipulate parking prices to make him the billionaire he is entitled to be because he is so much more deserving of a billion than everyone else. As the article implies, the concept of suburban ride sharing IS mathematically impossible as defined and the only hope for that sector is winning some kind of "dictator for a day" lotto to basically oppress and dominate the inhuman locals.

What ties them together is the concept of LARPing, live action role play. In the first insight from the article, you can successfully run a middleman transport business, basically an online semi-illegal unlicensed gypsy cab dispatcher service, by convincing both participants to LARP that they're taxi drivers and passengers. In the second insight from the article, aside from all this complicated mathy stuff which is none the less true, you can tell a business sector is dead when the only serious business plan first involves LARPing like becoming dictator for life or mass social engineering or whatever other wish fulfillment.

The esoteric message of the article, as opposed to the mathy exoteric message, is the sector is dead because the only participants are the business hustler equivalent of joining the SCA and mistakenly thinking that means you're actually the municipal government, rather than the reality of getting drunk with friends in costume. Which is fun, but don't confuse it with actual political rule.
Imho of course this is about religion.

But not mainly Muslim vs. 'the rest', but within the Muslim communities: moderate, shi'its, sunnits, fundamentalists, wahabits, normal...

Most people 'of the west' are no longer deeply religious in a former Christian sense. I think many muslims are of the same not deeply religious kind. 'Problem is', that the Muslim religion has too much influence in the 'worldly' government matters in most of the (moderate) 'islamic states'. This must change.

Do you think a Daesh would care? Spit them and they shoot you. It wouldn't have been different with a Nazi in former times.

Of course you are right with your 'walk with Christian if your Muslim...' this goes without saying. But I don't see a problem here with the majority of people 'in the west'.
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