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> Under the framework of cold rational logic. In what ways could Eich's actions be construed as morally positive without resorting to superstitions and other faulty logic?

Yeah that isn't an ethical framework. You were judging his actions under the framework of moral utilitarianism. The flaws with this can be found in a google search.

His actions could be construed as moral under a rule-utilitarian moral framework and a kantian virtue ethic framework. (The virtues being participating in politics and standing up for what you believe.)

> and oppressing people to the point of ingesting cyanide is not going to help grow a scientific community large enough to keep me alive as long as I would like

This is a straw man. Oppression of gays in the US amounted to not giving them the right to marriage and not having them be protected in the work place for their sexuality. Neither of which amount to "oppressing people to the point of ingesting cyanide".
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I suspect that crude oil at a price of $40 plays a role. At $2 a gallon, as another poster pointed out, it's not so much more people driving, it's just the same people driving more.
Before you make your population adjustments, compare the 1997 workforce population to today's. It hasn't grown with population.

Also, the workforce is less well compensated than it was. I recall from my days in high school and college in the 90s a retail manager at the mall could afford a decent used car on their salary. Now, the car costs double and the salary is 10-20% more.
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There are absolutely no efficiencies to private blockchains. Are you proposing that banks will run miners merely for the purpose of passing signed messages to one another?
Very well could be.

MS did something similar in Poland two weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoPrPWMRT8

This is a Polish Microsoft anti piracy campaign equalling everyone who calls himself a Hacker to ISIS terrorist and pedophile :/ Thats right, they uploaded YT clips showing "hackers" in balaclavas collecting child porn.
I have been searching for the same thing, ideally I'd like to buy an electronic scale with a digital I/O port. You may have more luck finding these in the US than I had in the EU, but in any case I wasn't able to find anything that hooks up to a computer in a non-proprietary way. As with home automation, all products seem to sync to the cloud, most of them in a one-way fashion.

I lost track of this idea a few years ago, so the situation may have changed. But if it hasn't, I see the following options for you:

1) find a cloud-synced scale that offers an SDK or at least some way of retrieving the data from the cloud.

2) buy a low-cost digital scale, take it apart and see what you can do with a voltmeter and a soldering iron. At the very least, you should be able to hook into the raw analog weight data which you could feed to a Pi with an A/D board. The nicer solution would be to siphon off the digital value. Even in scales where one chip does everything you could still try to pick up data going to the LCD. However, that might require some epic cabling and soldering, not sure it's worth it.

3) cheesing it: hook up a networked camera and point it to the scale's display. You can do this with any old android phone and a remote webcam app. Have the software on the Pi (or some other computer) pull the image when you step on the scale, run OCR on it, write the value out to wherever you want.
I apparently misunderstood. What did you think was my argument to discredit all academics?

What I wrote was that your value to the department is your funding, not your teaching. If you're good, the funding takes care of itself; if not, you whore yourself to whomever you can.
Article says pressure sensors, and also to efficiently act as a catalyst in chemical reactions requiring gold - Admittedly I'm not sure why this form of gold is superior as a catalyst.
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It is an 10 min long video recorded by our team today with a concept in mind. We are depending on your helping hands to share to more people possible.
"Let's aim for World Peace I instead."

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

Si vis pacem, para bellum.
The second chart is population-adjusted and still shows a sharp uptick, it's just not an all-time high.
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Yea, totally, but this all assumes you can get ammo too. That's way harder than making a gun.

Maybe a 3D printed taser would actually be more accessible?
Isn't that addressed in there?
My first job was at the startup Micro-bit in the mid 1970's We were building Electron Beam Access Memory systems as a "Cache" memory between Core and Disk memory for mainframes.

It was an 18 bit wide memory so it had 18 CRT tubes and was leveraging electron microscope techniques to increase density. It had two steps of electron beam steering.

I remember the founder walking around talking about our main competitor "Bubble Memory" which also never got very far.

http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1975/02/01649340.pdf
Poe's law at work in this comment.
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My mind was just blown reading your comment, but now that you mention it, my friend's mom did something similar; she had over 500px tall of toolbars in IE (7, I think). I went to uninstall them because they were all just loaded with spam and banner ads, and nonsense search bars. It was unfuckingbelievable, like more than half of her screen, but she wouldn't let me uninstall them.
Ideally we'd have drastically more $100k-ionaires, i.e. people who don't have to worry about basic needs, but who aren't rich enough to manipulate laws and their fellow humans to their own advantage. Unfortunately, things haven't been headed that way for the past few decades.
Despite these facts, the availability heuristic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic) ensures that our perception of probabilities is proportional to how dramatic (and thus memorable) an event is and not to how likely it is.
If you don't want spying, put the machine behind a http proxy with a strict white lists in and out firewall. I guess than you have to worry about the firewall machine. chain a couple of them, and they won't know which machine is the final firewall. If any of the others send unexpected chatter, you at least know you are failing. This way you can still use windows at least until they require an always on chatty encrypted connection to microsoft to function.
Microsoft switched to online activation after EU court decided used software can be RESOLD. This means you can buy broken laptop for $10 from recycling center, and legally own license for a system that was installed on it.

UsedSoft vs Oracle (2012)
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If you came to me looking for a job, and we've had this exact conversation, here's what I'd want to say to you:

"My goal is to hire competent people. Technically competent and socially competent people. That means getting along with others and understanding their perspectives and priorities. I don't care how well you know some piece of software; you can learn that in a book. I can buy you a book. You can't learn basic human decency from a book.

As someone who presumably cares about this company, I'm aware that we do not only sell products, but also culture, and if you cannot produce valuable culture, then you will not serve this company well. I will not hire you. Not because I have some quota to meet, but because I have standards to meet, and you do not meet them. If you want to be so myopic as to ignore gender issues (or any other issue that actually matter to people in this world,) then go do that on your own time."
There is no doubt that cheaper gasoline is helping. But right now in the US we seem blind to the actual strength of the economy. Car sales are about to have one of their best years ever. We had such a bad downturn coupled with bad economic news from Europe then China. Add to that a Republican primary that thrives off a negative economic message and you can see powerful forces at work to drive home a message that the economy here is still pretty bad or hanging in the balance. Data like this is "surprising" mainly in that context.
I could be wrong because what do I know about guns, but when I see these I-made-a-gun stories, I'm really irritated because 1. it seems like the action of someone who began with "What is the easiest thing that I could do that would get the most media attention?" 2. when an important technology is young, it is so irresponsible to stoke fears for selfish reasons in the populace or abet politicians and pundits doing the same.
Whether driving in the US is making a comeback or not, the lower price of fuel makes this an excellent time to raise the fuel tax, which hasn't seen an increase in 25 years [0].

Given the decrepit state of the US infrastructure [1], the funds will need to be gathered soon if we wish to avoid the deleterious effects of neglect.

[0]http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/5DDB791947...
[1]http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
Genetically modified foods are not any more harmful than regular foods. If you have a problem with Montsanto then talk about Montsanto, and not spread fear and doubt about a technology that is wholly beneficial and may lead to many lives saved.
Note that they're using .22LR ammunition, which has low recoil. They are also likely using subsonic ammo, which is even lower powered. Anything higher powered is likely going to break apart plastic.

I'd love to see one of these with a metal 3d printer. It would be impractical for most people to produce, but would be a cool proof-of-concept.
>I think it is rather common sense

Common sense is not proof.

>Flavor compounds if done right will not be massive. Have you ever added spices or vanilla to anything you cook or bake. How much of the total volume is it? It usually isn't much.

Then it's not a problem
Thanks for that link, definitely puts a lot of what I have felt for a long time into a well thought out analysis.
Actually, no, I didn't see that. Did I miss something?
With Fallout 4 being pretty popular in memes at the moment, and the fact that I've been playing a hell of a lot of it, I got a bit of a FO4 vibe from this.

Next stop, adding a scope and replacing the receiver for more accuracy and damage!
I am as wary as you of offshoring in general, but Romania is not that "broken". It has problems, yes; it's still quite poor, yes; but it's a relatively stable part of the world, raising very limited interests from movers and shakers (unlike the Balkans, Ukraine, Egypt or Israel, places with problematic geopolitical intersections).

> But I wish that all those companies seeing 10% of cost of a London team will have backbones in a years time.

To be fair, it's not a given that even London teams will have backbones in a year's time, given current property-price pressures and the easy access to global markets that London grants to local talent.

In that sense, the cold calculation is that you can pay £100 and have a 80% chance to have a backbone next year, or you can pay £10 and have a 50% chance; is that 30% extra worth 90% of costs to you? It's a legitimate question, and the answer might not be the same for every company.
"In Australia’s province of New South Wales, thanks to a law passed earlier this month, merely owning the files could land a person in prison for 14 years.

Wow, that's pretty harsh. I have read about Australia's gun confiscation program but I didn't realize they banned possession of computer files. I wonder how that could even be enforced. What if you just rename the file to "bunny rabbit" or some other innocuous thing?

And what about 3-D printing parts of a gun separately? A barrel for example is basically a tube. Will they ban tubes? The grip is just a grip. Useful for finger strengthening. The cylinder is a candle holder. Etc.

Just piece it together and you accidentally, coincidentally have something that happens to shoot. As for bullets - hm, homemade bullets have been around for centuries. I would suspect it's possible to make bullets from scratch even in a place like Australia or Japan.

Bottom line: bans don't work, and 3-D printing merely makes it easier to circumvent clumsy, 1930s style laws.
Catalysts are not consumed. The effect is dependent on contact, so like the platinum in a catalytic converter the goal is surface area at minimum cost.
Have you tried NixOS?

I run the unstable channel, which is updated quite often.

Don't be scared of the name "unstable", because it's really quite stable since the channel only updates when all tests pass. Also, it's trivial to go back to a previous configuration if the current one is broken (which is something that has practically never happened to me).
Surging economic indicators and cash in working people's pockets (or jobs for that matter) don't exactly correlate.
Like the other commentator, the stated problems in your comment have nothing to do with GMO, they are a problem with a specific company and patent politics. I don't like software patents but I don't go around telling people software is dangerous and that they shouldn't use software.
Yeah, ouch. Thanks for pointing that bit out. I won't download it then =/
Guns are easily obtained on the black market in any country in the world. I'd be much more concerned about 3-D printed nuclear bombs or 3-D printed surface-to-air missiles or, in the not-too-distant future, nanotech 3-D printed tailored viruses :(
I don't really have a problem with the article. It's a reasonable reduction, although I think paleolithic/low-carb diets are unrealistic if you stick to "mostly plants". Plant-based diets typically rely on grains -- when you remove this, it's very difficult to replace them without introducing more meat.

However, I think the more pressing issue is, even if we knew the perfect diet, it doesn't mean people want to eat it. Even if someone wants to eat a healthy diet, it doesn't mean they can make themselves eat it.

Self-control is a limited resource, and when overly prevalent junk food decimates that resource, most of us lose. If you want people to eat a healthy diet, you can't allow it to be easier to eat an unhealthy one. It's very noble to treat humans like gods with perfect free will, but in reality we're closer to animals. If we are to thrive, we need to adjust our environment so that it tends towards thriving.
That's why I label them "dishonest" in my head, and blacklist the worst offenders. Yes, I won't use your service if you bullshit too much in your copy.
Modern fruit has been selectively bred for higher sugar content. If it doesn't taste tartly sour, it's probably more sugar than your body really is evolved to consume.
A lot of 3D printing is like JavaScript: See, I can do 'X' with JavaScript, where 'X' in JavaScript is not better or even a proper application of the technology, but it is new to the maker and it is new to their audience.

Making a gun from plastic was doable for many years (various epoxys, simple casts) so no news there, in principle.

But making a gun (or a whole bunch of them!) with a push of a button and without skills is definitely new and that's the reason why it is newsworthy.

So even if the tech is wrong, the product crap and the workmanship shoddy there is something new here: a lethal weapon that can pass through a metal detector can be manufactured by anybody without skills. They still need ammo, they are manufacturing guns (which in many places can get you into a very large amount of trouble), they're showing that 3D printing is an enabling technology.

As noted below there are better ways of making guns, but they require a little bit more in terms of skills (but less in terms of investment, and the guns will be much better).
I think there's something to be said about the liberty that this kind of thing gives to people in general.

This is a bit of a touchy subject but I think that in the case of overthrowing an oppressive government this kind of thing certainly makes defending yourself a lot easier.
>> - It doesn't blaze any theoretical trails in computer science today (e.g. Haskell)

Which is probably a good thing.
As much I'm fascinating by functional programming (type system, lambda calculus, etc etc), I find it kinda difficult to program on :p
> It's also why comment sections were virually unmoderated until recently... a civil debate brings less comments than a heated flame war between lunatics.

I've heard second-hand information about my national media platforms that they're (the media companies) actually seeding flame wars in comments on purpose - angry people coming back to respond to other angry people = much more eyeballs = more ad dollars flowing in.
In a movie I saw (Existenz) there is a scene where someone pieces together a gun firing teeth from a bunch of stuff they find in their meal. All the bits individually look very gross but are not immediately recognizable as parts of a weapon.

In the words of Chris Rock: we don't need gun control, we need bullet control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0Y4qIZ4PA
Given the amount of energy in a typical smartphone battery, I've wondered about making some sort of replacement back, loaded with supercapacitors and a couple of contacts, so the entire phone could double as a stun-gun ...
If you think this thing is going to be any use against even the lowliest army rifle then good luck to you.
There is no need to run miners. They can use the "Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance" consensus algorithm.

http://forum.hyperledger.com/t/hyperledger-vs-bitcoin/20
Fearmongering is the best/easiest tool to create the feeling of us against them so you don't have to think about the problems that are way worse (probabilistically speaking).
And it is good TV( AKA availability heuristics enabler )
Public transportation needs to improve. Especially railroads. They are simply lacking in a lot of places.
> I wonder how that could even be enforced.

It couldn't. What it can do, though, is to aggravate sentences for "bad people" when arrested for other crimes. Raid a dealer's house, get laptop, "find" (cough cough) 3d-print files, threaten perp with 14 years extra, get him to confess to the original crime, job done.

This is why 1930s laws stay on the books -- they can always be useful here or there.
Thankfully that has about 0% chance of getting through Congress. The last thing working people need is a tax increase on essential goods.
With a little bit of creative re-wiring it might even double as a grenade.
"Once one agent learns how to become more competitive by sacrificing a common value, all its competitors must also sacrifice that value or be outcompeted and replaced by the less scrupulous. Therefore, the system is likely to end up with everyone once again equally competitive, but the sacrificed value is gone forever. From a god’s-eye-view, the competitors know they will all be worse off if they defect, but from within the system, given insufficient coordination it’s impossible to avoid."

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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While perpetuating ignorant propaganda. No one speaking against it helps bullshit spread.
This article is far too shallow in its diagnosis.

Yes, the media manufactures outrage for attention. This is not the problem. The media has done the same for as long as it has existed. The problem is that real people are willing to believe and act upon this "outrage", sometimes in an extreme manner, to avoid being on the "wrong side".

The action I care about isn't the media writing a libellous "story" about how "outraged" people are at some action of mine, though they are scum for it. What I care about is when people use it as justification to call my boss/family/friends and go after me personally.

It's not the media that doxxes, makes death threats, and gets people fired. Who does that is a population that increasingly cannot tell the difference between words and violence, a population that sees bad thoughts as assault and disagreement as evil. Even the smallest infraction is justification for ruining lives.

Brendan Eich was ousted from his position at Mozilla for his donation years ago. A pizzeria owner was threatened with death for merely saying he wouldn't serve gays. The mob retaliations are completely disproportionate to the "crime".

That's why people are afraid of the new outrage. They know one violation of the ever changing set of rules can now cause a mob to go nuclear on everything they hold dear.
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Surely this is a sketchy way of inferring future likelihood of being killed in a terrorist attack? The number of lives claimed by a single biological weapon could be gigantic, while the number killed by a single car accident, say, is limited to a relatively small number.
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Always thought it was funny how most new msft employees, especially college grads, spent years pirating windows and pirating it for their friends and family. Instead of being pushed, they are rewarded with a nice paycheck, and given thousands of dollars worth of ms software per year for themselves and their families for free.
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In Canada, the government creates money in the banks and borrows it back at interest. This guy explains it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jghiU55O5eY
Small arms are used to gain large arms. That's how it always works.
What about option 2.5? Rather than hack the hardware, hack the software; buy a cloud-synced scale and sniff the traffic it sends out with the pi.
That is not what they're doing. When you have a known set of entities and trust that at least 1/3 of them will be honest, you can use other consensus systems like Byzantine Paxos. There's at least one project combining that consensus algorithm with the Ethereum virtual machine.

Just passing signed messages around wouldn't be sufficient, you need a way of ensuring overall consensus.
Raise an issue about it? https://github.com/skilldrick/easyforth/issues
It’s your own comment that’s not relevant or constructive. I’ve made a valid point.
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This is exactly what I'm working on: puppets.life/demo
It requires a perimeter wire embedded in the ground to define boundaries. Why aren't they using the tech the self-driving cars claim to have?
Hah! My wife owns one of the Samsung S3s with the 'swelling battery' problem; those things are almost grenades out of the box :)
You wouldn't retell a story someone told you. (Unless, of course you're Disney, then you change a couple of names and slap a copyright sign on it.)