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It's just intellectually dishonest to not use GMO foods because "we don't know". How will we ever know if we don't try them?

Is it really intellectually dishonest, or did someone else just come up with a different risk and cost/benefit analysis from yours? I'm not saying they're right, but it's entirely possible they're making an honest mistake. (Also, the ethics of science get tricky when your subjects are human beings.)
Sometimes it's not possible to just avoid people, even on the web - I worked online customer support for a while and we had to respond to every request. This tactic works well for those types of situations.
What does proxying have to do with it? One of us is terribly misunderstanding the concept. As I understand IPv4+ concept in this article, your router gets address 1.2.3.4 then every device behind it gets 1.2.3.4.0.0.0.1, etc. That way all the routers in between don't need to be upgraded, they just get the packets to your router and don't care about the extra address bytes, and your router gets them to a particular device. Which is great for routers in the middle, but your web browser still has to use IPv4 and NAT workarounds until all the web servers are upgraded to support IPv4+.
Net neutrality matters wherever you are.

Picture if BT started offering higher bandwidth speeds or lower costs for Youtube, Netflix and Facebook usage. Yes, us superusers would switch away, but a large proportion would think that this is a great idea.

The losers would be anyone too small to bribe BT for fat pipe usage. We'd end up with the two/X tier internet we fear, and it'd be all wrapped up in the sugar pill of speeding up your most beloved services.
> an algorithm generates a much more plausible view of reality, with rare exceptions, than actual reality

Queue Baudrillard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
> Amazon originals are a torture chamber

Man In The High Castle is an amazing[1] series. Transparent was pretty good. Shaun the Sheep. Orphan Black.

[1] Amazing.
Yes, that can happen, but with overwhelmingly small probability. Say if you consider the probability that all the gas atoms in a box spontaneously are in one half of the box, the chance is approximately (1/2)^N, where N is on the order of Avogadro's number.
The article had a pretty clear position it was arguing for, so rather than read to the end, I jumped out of the author's narrative and searched PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=monosodium+glutamat...). Of the first page of results, two were randomized placebo-controlled trials of MSG administration (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23565943 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9215242) and both had positive results.
Some of these collections are really amazing -- These old clothing getups - http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/collection-of...

And the maps, wew, great stuff.
An accountant who has honesty issues. Makes for a good sales pitch.
I'm not familiar with the exact device, but strongly suspect the cell phone simply serves as the internet link. Early car trackers had integrated cellular radios, but that can't be cheap.
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That's the spirit! Please write a little more about that.
Did you try the things I suggested here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=10866718

It would be really interesting to discover someone who was genuinely sensitive to monosodium glutamate but not to sodium or free glutamates in other foods. I'm not sure how that would be explainable.

There have been many blinded experiments looking for glutamate reactions (using MSG as the vector), and they're not inconclusive; they appear to refute "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome".
Our CFO received an email like this, it appeared to be from the owner of our company. They even used owner.name@ourdomain.com as the 'from' address. We don't use that naming scheme for email accounts, and it was actually using a Yahoo address as the 'reply-to' address.

Subject: Transfer

Hi John,

Hope your day is going on well, I need you to process a Transfer payment swiftly,let me know what details would be needed, to get it done as soon as possible

Kind Regards,

Jane Doe

Very weird, not sure if a bot puts these together or if there's human involvement.
The vast majority of billionaires are people whose names and actions, entrepreneurial or not, none of us know. Just because you can name a handful of successful rich businessmen over the last century, doesn't even come close to proving that most billionaires are like Musk.
> Problematic, yes, but not the difference between a terminating loop and an endless loop

If the loop does significant work and was calibrated for an expectation of 65k iterations, stepping to 2 billion (let alone a few quintillion) is for all intents and purpose endless.

> And using INT_MAX or similar for what sounds like a timing loop is a whole other can of bad practice. Then the problem isn't that you used the wrong type, it's that you used the wrong value.

No objection there, doing that is making invalid assumptions, my point is that moving to exact-size integral does fix it.
But, in keeping with this topic, that C has not been subject to formal analysis from the angle of defending against rays doing random things to the CPU and RAM or other hardware errors.
With email, rather than happiness, amping up the professionalism and courtesy might be an analogue.
I use the same little laptop stand thing, can recommend it as a cheap way into standing desks.
> LAMP people on Slashdot were benchmarking MyISAM tables to Postgres' 6.5/7.x's fully transactional engine.

It wasn't just the /. crowd. Back in the 3.5 days the MySQL devs were doing that too, and writing long discourses on why transaction safety was a bunch of crap and a crutch for bad application developers.
IIRC, one of the main differences between human and chimp behavior towards infants is that human parents are willing to allow other humans, even strangers, to handle their infants. Chimps never allow this, because other chimps even within the group will kill the infants.
I think there's a time before you learn how to make that collaboration productive, for a given tool, which is more aptly termed "fighting" and which you should certainly be able to get past. After that, you can have disagreements but they are far more productive.
From an exit during high school to Fortune 500 customers
The Man in The High Castle is pretty good. It's not the same level of production value or acting as many Netflix ones but it's still interesting.
> gates is probably the great living human being

Amazing how a person can go from most hated in tech to most revered in the space of few years.
>Software structures underwent a radical change as their development teams became distributed across time and space, as shown in Figure 1b. Instead of a centrally planned, top-down, linear structure, code structure became network-like. Shortage of programmers, lower labor costs in emerging countries, and lifestyle preferences of the extreme programmer all contributed to this tectonic shift.

That paragraph is not explicit on whether he's talking about open source collaboration vs corporate distributed teams but since his references include FLOSS and "social coding" on github open software, I'll assume "open source" to interpret the following 2 paragrpahs:

>Stigmergy ensures tasks are executed in the right order, without any need for central planning, control, or direct interaction between the actors performing the work.
[...]
Markers make stigmergy more efficient, by more reliably focusing a programmer’s attention on the most relevant aspects of the work that needs to be done.

These are interesting ideas but I think any benefits of markers[1] are drowned out by the desires of programmers who are not beholden to a manager's agenda. Programmers volunteering to contribute often work on what is interesting to them.

It's very unlikely for a volunteer programmer to wake up with the irresistible desire to "hunt for memory allocation bugs in OpenSSL to prevent heartbleed". On the other hand, a Microsoft manager can direct one of his programmers to add a shim to Windows Vista so Quicken 2005 is compatible and future customers upgrade without fear. That type of work is drudgery but he's getting paid a salary and doesn't pick his tasks at random.

A stronger lever than "pheromone markers" in source code is sponsorship. E.g. a corporate entity finds value in an open source project but there are some gaps that programmers are voluntarily working on. The business entity pays a salary to programmers to prioritize that work higher and get them done.

[1]Don't know about Tesseract but it's probably something beyond sprinkling markers such as "//TODO: optimize this function is next highest priority" throughout source files or overhauling github to have a leaderboard of "important things to do next"
This...but. We need to gain the ability to make more of these things (or equivalent): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Right, but the OP said Musk didn't do stuff like that, which is what I was pointing out was incorrect.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but this story reminds me of good ol' Proverbs 25:21,22!

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
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In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the Lord will reward you.
On the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
It's a guess, but I think GP uses "operational" as a synonym for "imperative". I think I encountered the term "operational semantics" in the context of Prolog programming. Denotational semantics is a term for a kind of semantics which are mathematically pure. IIRC Prolog has both operational and denotational semantics defined and they conflict. There's something about cut operator and tree pruning, but I read this long ago :-)
The power of Docker is not the jail itself but the workflow to deploy apps. There is none of that in BSD jails.
I did my trekking in Uganda. It is $350 if you go during the right time of year. My group had 8 people, but I did not find the viewing angles limited. The only limitation with a bigger group is that you may be affected is someone is not physically capable of trekking to a remote spot. The gorillas are not in plain view, the scouts will tell you where they are.

"you are constantly in the hands of Virunga vehicles/lodging/guards"

I simply do not want to travel that way. :) Reminds me of being in South Africa. Very safe, provided you stay within your compound with high walls and electric fencing! The behind the scenes does sound amazing.
That depends on your initial assumptions, which you can shape over time (though you may not want to or find it advantageous to do so).
"So why, if they can always buy at wholesale prices, should they deliberately pay retail prices instead?"

It is worse. Wholesale prices vary during the day. If you force them to buy at average price at times when wholesale prices are low and sell at average price when they are high. That will cost them money, potentially lots of it (nowadays, wholesale prices can go negative when there is a lot of supply from wind or solar farms)
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When you have no gyms nearby you get an error msg:
"SORRY BRO..." <- so if im not a bro but a brolady what do I do besides complain?
Sure, but that would require a change in legislation - one that doesn't seem very likely in America.
While government regulations provide a fertile ground for growing a monopoly, I do not believe they're a necessary condition. A for-profit business will seek the most effective ways to reach its goals. It happens that in our world, those often involve abusing the regulatory framework. But if you remove that framework, it won't make companies magically stop trying to monopolize markets. They'll simply grab the next most effective way to do it. Maybe some will band together, now that there is noone saying that they can't. Maybe some will start cutting more corners on the product, or ignore even more of what used to be environmental laws. Or maybe the few remaining competitors will enter a literal fight, involving guns and bombs and tanks.

And now that your monopolies have guns and tanks and can openly play dirty, good luck for the small upstarts trying to take them down. They won't be able to.

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Anyway, I'm pretty sure that if all governments were to suddenly disappear tonight, by tomorrow morning many corporations would be already on their way to forming some new quasi-governments. I believe high-level executives are aware that a) social order is good for business, and b) having a working framework for establishing and enforcing contracts is vital to their operations.
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I have done the same for my side projects and used cost as excuse to force myself to learn basic devOps.
If anything the story of communication has been one of ever greater methods to spread disinformation. Russians are swarmed on social media with paid shills for the government, and it makes it almost impossible to discern a genuine opinion or paid propaganda. I doubt there is a single person who is truly immune to misinformation, except perhaps the Beatles' "Fool on the Hill."
That's not a very good list of countries you would want to reside in. You also stand the risk of having the transfer blocked. The article states that a majority of transactions that get initiated still do not go through.

I agree it's not just a stupid accountant, but they need to be responsible when the weight of the job is on their shoulders.
One solution would be to have laws like Europe has that require companies to provide to each customer all data it's collected about that customer on request Then you could "take your data with you" and show you're a save driver.

Interestingly enough, Geico was started by someone who successfully predicted that government employees would be less risky (the GE stands for Government Employees):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEICO#History
Followup studies were unable to reproduce the results of the Yang study:

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/130/4/1058S.full
I believe your first assumption was correct: "The output is the middle image. The right image is the true color"
Everyone who lives downstream of a water treatment plant is already drinking (diluted) recycled wastewater. Most of the liquid water on the planet has already passed through a human body countless times. It's all recycled. This is not news.
Mine used to reliably have me teleport into the United States then back into Canada during my morning commute. They've since fixed that bug :)

Edit: it wasn't actually teleporting, but it had me driving across fields, mountains, rivers, and the boarder all in about 1 or 2 minutes.
I'd actually like to have those links in case I take up Rust or someone I know trying it gripes about the problem. Good to have them stashed away.

I see what you mean, though, if it's just rules you have to memorize and apply in many situations. Might be potential for my proposal but I'll take your word for now.

"Anyway, like I said, I'm doing my best. More experience reports is the only way that I can do that, basically :)"

Makes sense.
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Agreed, the "cars become autonomous" problems are separate from the "autonomous cars means nobody owns cars anymore" ones.

I'm more optimistic about autonomy. It still seems like a crazy hard problem, but things are advancing so fast right now that it actually seems like they might get there.

But I don't see where the leap from "autonomous cars" to "shared cars" happens. The main obstacle there is simply personal: I don't think people want shared cars. People want autonomous cars (although they probably want the autonomy to be optional) so that hurdle is not a problem on that side.
David Burns (in the book "Feeling Good") wrote about the "disarming technique" which is "find some truth in what the other person is saying, even if it seems totally unreasonable or unfair".
Self-driving cars will shift that equilibrium. We outlaw types of insurance all the time.
If we leave the money with private wealthy capitalists, they might do something good for society on accident as a side effect of their ego-aggrandizing or wealth-concentration efforts.

If we tax it, we can actually do something good for society on purpose with it. We can give the business/tax subsidies that are required for all of Musk's ventures to succeed. We can educate Musk's workers. We can maintain and create and enhance the infrastructure required for Musk to continue to make his obscene profits, which we continue to tax and reinvest in the country.

Or we can just keep hoping that the rich and powerful class of billionaires have weird hobbies that tech people happen to think are cool.
This article seems to have missed that Amazon sucks and Netflix doesn't. How much of Amazon's content do I really get without paying an additional rental cost or fee? It's become quite annoying to even try to look through Amazon's library.
We really enjoy Netflix, but from Prime; I mostly just want free shipping.
* I don't usually post such vagrant "Opinion", but this article is making assumptions about consumer opinion that purports to represent fact.
> If you know C, you will love Arduino.

Isn't it the opposite? If you aren't comfortable with C, Arduino has a simple enough API and good enough tutorials+documentation that you can still make it work.

If you are comfortable with C, just about everything is better than arduino because you'll get debugger support and full control over all the goodies like clocks, charge pumps, DMA controllers, asynchronous ADC operation, pin multiplexers, USB/Ethernet controllers, etc.
If it was flagged as spam it would probably be due to a misconfiguration on the fraudster's end. There might be some anti-spam systems that might be looking for this now but I've yet to see it listed as a feature.
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"Bro" is gender-neutral, as far as I'm concerned.
The worst part: people lap it up. They love it. Millienials love BigCorp as long as they can continue to check their activity feeds on their phones every hour. And government will do nothing to stop it...why would they? The lobbyists pay too well.
Nothing forces them to do it, but it offers a fractured and confusing user experience. There are other comments in this thread about how it's annoying that some content is free and some paid. Now add offline yes/no, and you've doubled the possibilities for every piece of content. And better yet, offline yes/no on this device and you double the possibilities for every device you personally own.
This article wants to frame the bunfight in terms of tech. "Streaming vs offline". Actually it's more about incumbent vs challenger. Challenger spends more money doing something different (offline access) but the actual tech difference is incidental. The key issue is that Amazon is having to work harder. If it wasn't the tech differentiator, it would be spending more on content which arguably, it is (also) currently doing.

This really is a story of number 2 needs to spend more money to provide a better service, to catch up and take over number one. It's not really a story about streaming vs offline. It's just business 101 - significantly better service (however achieved) to offset inherent leader advantage.

That said, this whole thing is beautiful for the consumer. Leading player cannot get lazy, deep-pocketed challenger innovates to improve customer experience. Long may it last!
Good to know on stability part. Far as bugs fixed, it's more on the lines of day-to-day use of the language in common scenarios. Are people getting unnecessary troubles out of the compiler? Typically don't for most languages as they work out most of them in common idioms and library functions in first, few years. If they're serious rather than 1-3 people's hobby, that is.

I certainly won't expect it to be bug free. Nice comeback with CompCert, though. ;)
Actually they are the biggest welfare recipient on the planet. They pay workers so little and abuse them so that they must rely on government help, provided by the taxes they avoid paying. They are a parasite.
Leaving aside the infamous laws against "unauthorized access", if you pulled that scam on any gaming platform that had a real-money market, that could easily be interpreted as theft.
Obviously, because it's stigmatized. Surely you can't be suggesting that we can draw conclusions about its biological properties simply from that.
I think it is more that this time round, economics as a "school" is quite a bit more entrenched.

Keep in mind that during the great depression you had fascists in Italy and Germany, and communists in Russia.

Now the fascists have gone underground, and the communists have imploded.

All this gives the current mainstream economic thinking an air of correctness that it didn't have back then, by "virtue" of being the last system standing.

Sadly what is happening now is the rearranging of deckchairs on a sinking ship.

The big names of economics are arguing about where, if at all, the "frictions" are to be found in their models.

This while basically ignoring that the world right now is in the biggest private debt hole since the great depression, because they think that debt and savings are one and the same (and therefore sum to zero).
Lots of things probably won't work very well at the state level, but might nationally. Consider what could happen if just a single state offered universal basic income, for instance.
I understand you're saying that the FCC considers it to be a net neutrality issue, and I'm not disputing that. I'm simply saying that I don't agree with that, and don't see why it would be considered a net neutrality issue. If you throttle all data to "unlimited" customers equally then that's still perfectly neutral. The government may disagree, but I have no reason to follow their definitions.
I think very few users care about "downloading" or "owning" video content. They like to convenience of streaming's instant availability from any device have. And how often do you re-watch the same movie or show? I do think people would appreciate caching to allow "offline streaming" to watch movies on, say, an airplane without paying for Wi-Fi.
It's not the same level of production value or acting as many Netflix ones

I disagree with that. I thought the production values were quite high. The sets and costumes were amazing. The actors were first rate, but mostly unknown (probably to keep costs down).
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a rubbishy article
This article is a defense of Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, a Holocaust denier and ardent anti-Semite who uses his comedy routines as thinly-veiled calls for a new genocide against the Jews, and who has attracted a large following of Muslim immigrants plus a few extreme-right-wing Frenchmen -- fans of Vichy and the Nazi occupation. He's rather popular on white-supremacist websites in the English-speaking world, too. This is not the first time that this "comedian" has been arrested for promoting genocide, and it won't be the last.

The article also condemns France for arresting supporters of the recent, random ISIS attacks, and, I think, for arresting supporters of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. (I gave up on it before then, not really wanting to be reading the moral equivalent of Stormfront.org.) What the headline means by "free speech" is "anti-Semitism and support for terrorism"; if I had the karma to do it, I'd flag this. I'm not, personally, very fond of free speech as a moral principle; but I think that those who are, should feel no contradiction in saying that they support free speech, yet silencing calls to genocide against highly vulnerable minorities.

From the name, _The Intercept_ is probably an extreme left-wing magazine, and yet this article would fit in on an extreme right-wing website. Extremes meet, and that's how you get neo-Nazi content on Hacker News.