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Pro democracy rebels vs a war mongering despotic regime that came into power by a coup over a democratic republic. The choice is also pretty obvious to me, though not the same one, obviously.
Then the state gets to decide what happens with your money, too. Maybe you'd be ok with the stat seizing all your assets beyond what you already pay in taxes, but I certainly wouldn't. Idealogical differences, I suppose.
A huge amount of debt is always a threat to prosperity (both personal and national).

The fact that so many people seem to think it is "no big deal" is part of the problem (on both a personal and national level).
No one knows. At least not in the TM Disney Star Wars universe.
Whether or not something is a legitimate military target does not change whether or not the rules of war apply. Destroying Alderaan was genocide. There is no splitting hairs about it. It was a war crime.

Just because genocide saves more of your guy's lives than a protracted ground war doesn't make genocide any more just. The danger to yourself of an invasion is supposed to be a deterrent. You're supposed to weigh whether or not your cause is worth having a lot of your own people die before you commit to using violent power.

I also wouldn't call the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "not genocide" and I certainly wouldn't say it was justified, regardless of whether or not it gains any future, official designation as genocide. It was mass-scale, indiscriminate killing. Is "genocide" the only unacceptable form of mass, indiscriminate killing? The implication was that it would continue until the Japanese surrendered or were wiped out.

His understanding of genocide seems to be limited only to race, but the real definition extends to culture and national units. Alderaan is certainly a nation--it has its own monarchy. While theoretically that doesn't guarantee they are a distinct culture from other planets, practically speaking it is a guarantee. Alderaan being a planet--therefore comparable to our own planet--probably has several distinct cultures wholly contained within it.

Even by his own false, limited definition, there's no reason to definitively state Alderaanians are not any less a distinct race of people than the Serbians are from Bosnians, or Hutus are from Tutsis. Interstellar travel is portrayed more akin to sailing between continents than flying between major international hubs, and even that level of mobility is still unable to prevent Earthlings from stratifying into distinct races.

Since the author is doing his own work to draw parallels to the Middle East and Daesh, the US didn't just nuke Iraq in 2002 when the Minister of Information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf kept lying about their capabilities. And we would not be justified in nuking Syria or Saudi Arabia today. There is no conceivable justification for wiping out an entire people.

What Mr. Bunch has really discovered is the Myth of the Supervillain. Every villain sees themselves as the hero. No villain identifies as evil. They all have a post-hoc rationalization for why their terrible, terrible actions were justified, because we can always rationalize anything by appropriately cherry-picking who we consider human and what laws do and do not apply to non-humans.
It's incredibly tacky publish a comic piece that draws these analogies between a weakly-plotted space opera and an actual current war where thousands of people are dying, and passes it off as meaningful analysis.
I've often found parallels between the death star and the atomic bomb. Both are weapons of incredible destructive power that would be difficult to use without deliberately killing untold numbers of non-military citizens.

The justification for the use of the bomb in WWII can be debated but one interesting point I have heard is that for Truman to not authorize it's use would have amounted to political suicide. After pouring so much money and research into the project it would have been difficult if not impossible to then change course and say "well, we have this absurdly powerful weapon the likes of which the world has never seen before, and we know it could end the war in the pacific theater with near immediacy as well as likely establish The United States as the predominate world hegemon for years to come. We also spent years and billions of dollars developing it, but now we're just going to put it on a shelf and end the war another way." People would have been outraged. It's easy to look in hindsight and judge the morality of an act of war but often these judgements ignore the political motivations of those actions and only take into account the strategic benefit with respect to the cost of civilian lives.

With the death star there may have been a similar situation where the momentum behind the project was simply too great to build it then not use it, even if only to prove its power.

(For the record I have strong moral objections to the use of the bombs over Japan and don't mean to condone their use in the above comment, only to provide a short summary of a popular theory as to why they were used)
it's also marketing for a new star wars film
We categorize problems endemic to particular racial groups all the time.

For instance, blacks, hispanics, and poor whites are largely over-represented in the prison population. The reasons for this are many, but are largely endemic to the system, rather than being endemic to these groups. Inequality of education and opportunity is, in my opinion, the primary factor; followed closely by the War on Drugs. But other factors include inequality in how law enforcement treats suspects in these groups and inequality in legal defense.

Solutions to some of this are fairly straightforward. Educational opportunities should be improved for the underserved. Real legal defense should be provided for those who cannot afford it.* Law enforcement needs to be overhauled and demilitarized.

The problem is there is no political will among people who matter to make these changes.

I think maybe you are talking about cultural issues of particular groups that contribute to problems. There is the concept of "acting white" which does hold down certain ethnic groups in some areas, particularly education. I do think those problems should be addressed, but I also think they are addressed, just not at city, state, or national level. I see these problems addressed largely in support groups within and without communities. My college, and many universities have programs tailored to provide help for underserved groups and addressing these kind of issues falls under their aegis. (A matter of pride, the program developed at my college served as the template for all such programs in colleges and universities across California.)

But even so, I think addressing the larger issues will not only solve many of the issues that are specific to particular groups, it will also provide the moral grounds to avoid accusations of racism when addressing those issues directly.

*In my county, the public defenders are private. They are paid per case and are therefore incentivized to take on as many cases as possible. The quickest way to deal with a case is to encourage their client to take a plea deal regardless of the merits of their defense. In other counties, the public defenders are holding public offices and are incentivized, therefore, to win cases to further their careers. However, often these defenders are given case loads so large they can literally only spend seconds or minutes on any individual case.
Great point, and true in my experience as well.
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I also hate the grey-on-grey, so I made a chrome extension to change it to black-on-white: https://github.com/bentrevor/emblacken. I found a gist with the js and de-obfuscated about half of it. It works on almost all sites.

Chrome lets you set keyboard shortcuts to run extensions, so I press it once to change to black text, and again to use a white background.
Have you tried just typing "sfo to hkg" into the Google Search App on your Android or iPhone?
If not directly, still certainly it broadens your horizons though & exposes you to a different way of thinking, which is pretty good.
At that time, MS also had the best online documentation of (D)HTML in MSDN site.
The allure over other DV CAs is that it's gratis, and, soon, that it'll be deployable at the push of a button.

DANE-TA or DANE-EE still would have been better than any and all of this DV public CA nonsense. A DV cert from a public CA proves that someone on the other end of the connection momentarily controlled either the DNS records for your domain, or your web server, at some point in the near past. That's it.

DV is an extremely weak proof of identity, and provides no authentication at all (as in, proof that the issue was actually authorised by the domain owner).
If your social order requires the destruction of entire planets in order to persist, I think your social order is probably shit.
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Well, imagine apple puts all information necessary to build an iPhone into a patent. Then Samsung builds a phone identical to the iPhone, except it's green. If the patent specifically mentioned black, gold, but not green, then a green phone might not infringe.

My point is that too specific can also be a drawback.
@lprubin reminded us about Asimov's Foundation series, so here is a quote from Wikipedia which is related to your question:

"With the Galactic Empire in fatal decline, Hari Seldon, inventor of the science of psychohistory, predicted a 30,000 year interregnum of barbaric Dark Ages until the rise of a New Empire. So Seldon created a plan to shorten this interregnum from 30,000 years to 1,000 years."
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The extended universe has some kind of consensus on that...

It's not dark ages. But the New Republic never becomes more than simply the largest power in the region, either, and even that takes decades.
Most distros provide sbcl binaries, but otherwise you're stuck building from the github mirror or downloading a binary from sbcl.org.
This really is about rhetoric:

The article is an excellent example of a popular rhetorical trend, especially on the right[1]: Say something outrageous, provocative, and aggressive to take the initiative, to force the other side onto defense. (EDIT: And to frame the discussion; that is, to define the debate in terms of issues in your favor and omit issues that don't suit you; people will sheepishly follow whatever terms are set.)

Think of the things that GOP presidential candidates and other politicians say, day after day, that meet those criteria.

Putting someone on the defensive and forcing them to articulate and make explicit something that is intuitively obvious, but which they haven't had to put in words before - it's a fun game but ultimately is a waste of time. It's much cheaper to make spurious attacks than to defend against them, and as a defender you can spend your whole life jumping through those hoops and never get anywhere - which is one of the attacker's goals.

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[1] I'm not taking a political position, but it would be untrue if I said that in 2015 it was done nearly as much on the left as on the right.
Cincinnati, which is the curveball. We're one of the top 10 most expensive airports in the country [1].

Ex. On Google Flights, 2-day RTs from CVG <--> EWR over the next 3 weeks are: $407-621, then $371-520, then $375-593.

1. The Most Expensive Airports to Fly To: Business Travelers, Smaller Cities and Other Factors That Drive Up Prices; Sorry, Cincinnati http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023039800045795760...
It is true, though, that a lot of the danger isn't in the JIT but rather in the bindings (e.g. the native implementation of the Date object, or Typed Array Buffer, or what have you), which Rust's safety features could help with.
Do you know if there was some correspondence with seniority and teaching higher or lower level courses? One way or the other.

It seems to be that some things that are female dominated at lower levels, like undergraduate studies, might still be either more gender balanced or male dominated at higher levels, like research. Whether that is due to a glass ceiling or whatever else, I don't know; you'd have to ask a sociologist about that.
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Marxist Wookie interpretation. It is true that the Force and its Dark Side are not Good and Evil. They are the two dialectical poles around which life evolves. Like Eros and Thanatos or Yin and Yang. That's from a universal perspective. However, from a living being perspective, there is a sweet zone around the point of equilibrium where life grows from the contradiction between the two poles. Outside of these bounds, life dies. Life breeding its own destruction is fundamentally unjustifiable. So the destruction of Alderaan is unjustified.
They skip a lot of stuff supposedly. It is more a subset of javascript than Chrome and Firefox.
Alderaan was demilitarised, but more importantly, it was a member of the Empire, represented in the Imperial Senate by Princess Leia until that institution was dissolved shortly into Episode IV. The destruction of Alderaan would not be at all analagous to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or the dozens of major cities ravaged by strategic bombing during WWII; it would be like the US wiping Texas off the map with nuclear weapons because the Federal Government was unpopular there, except in this case Texas would have virtually no military of its own.

To be clear, while Bail Organa was deeply involved in the foundation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, it was a separate entity and Alderaan was not in a declared state of war with the Empire. Furthermore, Alderaan was an important Core World with a large population and significant economic output.

This article amounts to little more than historical revisionism and I suspect its author is pushing this agenda at the behest of the more conservative Moffs of the Imperial Remnant.
ISIS is not an opponent that will meet you out on a big field. They don't care if its USA or Russia. What they would rather have is Russian and American troops invading. They'd love that. Film it all, post it up on twitter to convert a large swath of the population that is 'on the fence' to join their death cult.
A show of naked force is EXACTLY what they want, because it means they WIN.
Independent People is one of those rare books that manage to make bad choices relatable to the reader.
As other people have said, the author is not criticising them herself.

However, I think your statement is strange. Firstly, she states that "working class" generally means "without college degree" - that doesn't mean physical work. Secondly, knowledge workers also get diminishing returns from longer hours, potentially with even more dramatic effect. Thirdly, many common non-physical working conditions are also extremely tiring mentally and damaging physically in the long-run. Finally, you're implying that child-care is not physically exhausting.

My impression of your response is that it has more slurs than the article, to be honest - just re-inforcing the primacy of manual labour. I have the impression you know what it's like to work long hours in a stressful non-physical environment, so I find that odd.
It is good. I had a dated copy, but a lot of what it talked about was still applicable to learning how to implement a basic programming language.
If your system has poorly thought out rules, it can be gamed. If these rules also go against market pressures, it will be gamed. I'd argue that in the case of these absurdly complicated SEC rules, it should be gamed.

If your stock exchange system (including the technical and legal aspects) needs a bunch of weird hacky proscriptions on user activity, then it deserves to fail.
From what I remember, Pocket was "fast tracked" to the Firefox 38 Beta channel just a couple weeks before release. It did not ride the trains from Nightly to Aurora to Beta. This was controversial within Mozilla. We have the pre-release channels for good reasons.

The Pocket tracking bug was filed in April 2015 [1] but the feature shipped with Firefox 38.0.5 in June 2015, just two months later.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=pocket#c0
By the time the bomb was actually used, Japan was in no way a "Great Power" or any kind of a match for the US.

> In April 1945 a new government headed by Kantaro Suzuki took office with the mission of ending the war.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_Weber.html

You're painting a very black and white portrait. The US military was killing millions of civilians even before the nuclear bombs, not the other way around. I'm not going to second guess the decision calculus at the time, but you are trumpeting caricature as fact.
I suppose these people would have supported the British Empire against the Americans, the Soviets as they oppressed their client states, Saddam Hussein's oppression of the Kurds, the Serbs oppression of the Bosnians ... and every other act of imperial, government oppression. All in the name of order!
This is a little misleading because its dealing only with the "bilingual advantages in executive functioning" and stating they "either do not exist, or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances.”. As the article states as pertains to the task of cognitive control there is little to no evidence supporting the theory that bilinguals have an advantage in that area. This isn't dealing with other perceived benefits of being bilingual as far as I can see.

Me and most people in my immediate family speak 3 or more languages fluently. Still, in my non-scientific observations I've noticed little difference between say, multilinguals and monolinguals when it comes to tasks not related to well, speaking languages. It seems to me that in actuality monolinguals usually speak one language with greater fluidity since with multilinguals you are constantly mixing up the languages all the time to greater or lesser degrees.

Is is quite rare (I can only think of one occasion in my life), where I have listened to an articulate and intellectual communicator / speaker, who was not monolingual in whatever language they were speaking.

I think being multilingual has advantages - you can speak multiple languages :) but beyond that I have often wondered if it is really as advantageous as scientific news media makes it out to be. Would you be just as well served by spending your energy building in your workshop, playing music, painting, studying mathematics, etc?
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Maybe I am misreading, but the Little Types section I think recommends an ugly habit, especially for libraries. When calling this "func Set(ID, Width, Height, Color)", assuming I acquire integers through user input, this means my code would then look like -
extLibrary.Set(extLibrary.ID(id), extLibrary.Width(width), extLibrary.Height(height), extLibrary.Color(color)), which frankly is a nightmare. I'd expect the function to take 4 integers, then convert internally if needed.

Further, it makes Godoc more confusing, since now I have to search around to figure out what each of these custom types is.
By 1945, Japan's GDP was one tenth that of the US. Even at the start of the war, it was nowhere close. The US built more aircraft carriers in one year than Japan built not only during the war, but in all the years before. It was never anything close to a match for the US.
Old story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War...
Of course, I'm merely saying that there might be some benefit that arises from implementing a specification (ES6) into a newer engine vs a legacy engine.
But that's fully disclosed. The order type is explicitly not publicized.
One would think Firefox would lead here, since the browser is Mozilla's primary product, imagine how much hype and PR Firefox would get if only they were far ahead on ES6.
Would you rather they use uncompressed bitmaps instead?

I remember the little MP3/MP4 players which were very popular around a decade ago(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_player ) used a similar strategy of making all the UIs bitmaps. The LCD had the windowing functionality built into its controller so it was easy to define a rectangular window and then just stream the appropriate pixels into it. They only had a 24MHz Z80 and 384KB of RAM, but hundreds of MB or more of secondary storage, so it made sense to tradeoff size for speed that way.

You can see an example of that here:

http://www.mympxplayer.org/pafiledb/images/screenshots/12088...
Asimov's Empire is in no way related to the Star Wars empire, so it's not really relevant to the question at all.
I think I would have just written it in Perl, and remove the bash dependency (since bash is not installed, by default, on some minimal distros...Perl is also missing in such a case, but depending on both is certainly not better).
This reminds me of some of my early linux boxes. As a poor high school student in the mid to late 90s I was only able to get free computer equipment. Some of it was pretty cool. In order to squeeze as much performance out of them, I ran slackware and debian.

Some of the most memorable were:

386DX AT&T Server tower (a huge case with a 40lb 1.2GB Hard drive) - got it to run slackware and serve files on a 10mbps network

486SX-40MHz desktop machine running linux with FVWM and Englightenment! :) Biggest achievement: Play a 128mbps Mp3 file streamed from an Apple LC475!

Apple LC475 (68040-25MHz) - The 68040 could decode an mp3 file. I used to use it to decode the MP3 files and send the audio over the network to a 486sx that lacked an FPU. I ran linux on this, not mac os.

Apple Quadra 660AV - awesome little machine. I ran linux and mac os on this.

Those were fun times!
But by that point in WW2, the US was pretty confident that it would defeat Japan. The atomic bombs were dropped to avoid a potentially costly invasion, and to end the war before the Russians could reach Japan and spread their influence. Imperial Japan did some awful things, but those actions by themselves could never morally justify the indiscriminate slaughter of 50,000 civilians.
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Where can I run queries against these verifiable logs for my domain?
Here's the rub with that argument though, Japan was not a great power in 1945. Indeed there were few enough targets left to drop the bomb on which had not already been devastated by conventional bombing.

What Japan still had was a warrior / religious culture that would have no problem fighting to the end, as had been demonstrated on island after island. Even had Japan been persuaded to surrender without a total victory Germany post 1918 and the "stab in the back" theory that arose served as a reminder that militaristic cultures can rise again.

The dropping of the bombs fundamentally challenged that mindset. It ushered in a weapon that no force of arms, no military culture, no level self-sacrifice or ultimate effort could stop. It enabled the occupation and subjugation of Japan without having to stage an invasion.

Atomic weapons then and now are things which are essentially impossible to fit into a legal / moral framework - other than to view them as the ultimate insurance policy against humanity's darkest nature. They keep us as a species in check. Organised religion didn't stop war, so humanity created it's own biblical flood, and fortunately has never had to unleash it.
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The browser is the primary product to the Chrome team. Does it make any difference?
> Is is quite rare (I can only think of one occasion in my life), where I have listened to an articulate and intellectual communicator / speaker, who was not monolingual in whatever language they were speaking.

This has been my experience, too.

In my case, I speak two languages every day, and have done so for decades. I often say or write things that are syntactically incorrect in both languages. If I pay attention, I can correct them, but it does affect my fluid production of speech. Correct grammar rules have become a blurry mess, and I hate that.