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> but it's still expected that eventually

> you'll move to the suburbs and have a home.

That might be true for the whites, but I don't think that expectation exists for the blacks or hispanics or Koreans or Chinese or basically anyone. I've known affluent Koreans who dream of eventually being wealthy enough to buy apartment buildings, but I don't know any who want to move to the suburbs.
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Actually, as someone renting several flats in the UK during the last few years I'm still shocked by the lack of rights I have as a tenant.

For example, landlords can enter your property by only giving you a 24-hour notice in writing. I have had real state companies entering my flat without prior notice to show it to potential new tenants several times.

Other countries in the EU would take these incidents very seriously. And I'm talking about expensive flats (>$2000 / month) and reputable companies, so I imagine it can get much worse.
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Nasa = Microsoft. SpaceX = Apple.
I.e., each of 26 bankers, for a period of some 2 to 3 years, cannot get a passport.
I find mobility to be a valuable asset. That may be a byproduct of working in the technology industry.
If you're reading files rather than writing them, then you must be decrypting them and in possession of the private key, which means you are permitted access to everything; so you could cache all the decryptions. Initial reads might be more expensive to locate, but then free. Also, how many cycles could it take to decrypt the few hundred or few thousand characters that could possibly make up a full filepath?
Sure, I agree that Docker is pretty good, and much better at security than a simple chroot. But I think you should be worried about those kernel bugs if you're on Linux, and you should therefore be using actual virtualization (hardware, paravirt, whatever). And therefore, it shouldn't matter how much better Docker is at security than a simple chroot, except as far as defense-in-depth goes: it should not be the single thing you're relying on to sandbox untrusted applications.

That is, I am not saying that Docker is bad at security; I am saying that caring about how much security it provides is using the wrong tool for the job.
In the US, for tax purposes (and most federal legal purposes), "insolvent" simply means unable to pay debts.

It is only when a corporation is liquidating that it matters (for purposes of determining insolvency) if liabilities exceed assets.
If this topic interests you, I recommend you read the book by Gudrun Johnson called "Bringing Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland". It is a translation and summary of the Report of the Investigation Commission of Althing (the Icelandic Parliament).

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

The Report of Althing is, in my opinion, the most comprehensive since the Amulree Report of Newfoundland in 1933, and one of the very few reports to investigate causes of the crisis.

As a matter of interest, I seem to recall that 83 million euros was given to Icelandic bankers for their part in the crisis. The proceeds unaccounted for numbered in the billions. Much of what the banks did was modelled on Enron-style deception, a practice which remains quite commonplace now in the financial marketplace.
Ah, that makes sense. In that case, I agree - don't force me to pay a high tax rate and then use the money to bail out people who make bad deals. That's just rude: I can feel the anger swelling already.

The executives would be personally liable for bad decisions that lost their shareholders money, so I could see letting the banks fail and then having people sue the executives to reclaim some portion of their money.(I'm assuming the banks are public companies)

Why the cries to have them jailed or criminally punished, though? The article mentions fraud and market manipulation, but that's pretty vague. (I'm assuming people are angry at Icelandic bankers for the same reason they were angry at US bankers)
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People need to stop reading 3 years of professional experience as 3 years of technical experience. So long as you've been in the work world for 3 years already, doing contracts or whatever, then you have 3 years of experience. You can have 3 years at McDonalds.

Also, a college grad should not shy away from applying to such positions. If a job appeals to you, you should apply and let them tell you you don't qualify.

Mostly that clause is added to weed away wannabes.
Through the modern history, politicians always succeeded in turning the plebs against various scapegoats that they blame for the trouble of the day. Ever wonder how they always find someone to mark as a villain, but it is never their, the politicians', mistake?
A bank transfer within the Euro Zone takes less than 1 work day to complete (if you do it until 15:00).
Periscope Data cofounder here. I wouldn't say we're "allergic" necessarily. ;) Like a lot of startups, we're very young and haven't gotten around to building out the website as much as we'd like to.

`jplitz and `ajones are right. As of now we support MySQL, Postgres, Amazon Redshift, Vertica, SQL Server, Oracle, MemSQL, Sybase, Exasol and Google BigQuery. We add more all the time.
That article just tells that France is more fascist than the UK and their government arbitrarily decided that their people are too dumb to manage their finances.
Recklessness or negligence that results in harm to others, while not always criminal, is absolutely punishable. It's the whole basis of tort law.
> The person that refuses to go into debt, saves until they have the money to spend on whatever it is they want to buy.

Bingo. Never been in debt and glad of it.
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It comes as nitpicking; it should be obvious to even a small child that events outside something's existence couldn't have affected it.

It would be like if someone said "IBM has survived every major downturn in the economy" and then someone replies "not the Dutch tulip crash of 1637!".
Yeah, the port detection seems to be a bit funky. It says my smtp port is open and I panicked a little bit, but everything is pointing out it's not open to the public.
There is a difference between not bringing in additional security and bringing anti-security. In my eyes, you are doing the latter.

Your default examples elevate privilege, not warning the user about this fact anywhere.
> My parents rented the family home in Paris for 45 years, and although they did buy a seaside flat and a cottage in the country in the 1970s, their value has only kept pace with inflation

American home prices only started rising, in real terms, after WWII [1]. This is driven by people wanting to drive more income to buying land, i.e. treating land as a superior good. Growing government intervention is also a cause.

In the long-run, real house prices appreciate at the rate of inflation. This effect is stable across countries, cultures, and centuries [2]. It vanishes in the short term amidst the noise of credit markets.

Can't find the source at the moment, but the most fascinating study on the subject looks at asset prices in Austria-Hungary and surrounding states. The story is uncomfortably familiar. Decade after decade, credit-fuelled gains were safeguarded in the form of development restrictions. This served to transfer wealth to the landed elites.

[1] https://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/institute/wpapers...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Houses-Historical-Analysis-Property-Pr...
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There are two reason I'm more interested in just tweaking the current programs rather than UBI (or something similar) and neither of the reasons are that I think the current system is more efficient.

1) In the US at least UBI seems politically unfeasible for the near term at least. The ACA was a massive political battle, and while I don't think it'll be repealed, there's still a decent political groundswell aimed at doing so. This makes it hard to imagine anything like UBI getting done in the US. Graduated cliffs for existing programs seems like a minute tweak in contrast, and I really can't foresee what a legitimate argument against it would be on either side. I'm pretty sure most of the programs could even be changed by executive order to some degree.

2) I think there will always be a paternalistic side to welfare or UBI. With UBI some people will continue to avoid spending their money on decent housing, decent food, and health insurance (assuming there's no universal healthcare as well). And there will always be some pressure for programs to provide these things to people, who have decided they aren't a priority, at taxpayer expense. Hopefully, charities could step into these roles, but welfare gets messy in both directions with some people claiming there's a moral imperative for government to help people in certain situations, and some people angry about "their" money being spent by others on things they find morally objectionable. I don't think those arguments are ever going away.
The new syntax using curly braces to initialize a variable disallows type conversion and is the recommended method now iirc.
That's a fair counter but one must remember the cost. The PCB board is usually designed for certain parts. Those parts availability often changes. Replacing them requires redeveloping or implementing them at hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of dollars. It can also be hard to replace a CPU depending on how it's packaged into the board.

So, it would have to be pluggable, open, inexpensive to prototype, and enough volume to spread prototype over users in maintenance.
Normally most companies have a clause specifically saying you can't claim to work for them after you leave the company.

Normally. Normally. One would think that I would ride the company's reputation, not the other way around.
Which was, as it happens, the reason chroot was invented (to test the installer of newer versions of UNIX without having a brand-new physical system). Better tooling around chroot is absolutely useful.

I guess it's a misnomer to use the word "container", since that usually means things like Linux containers with security isolation almost as good as OS virtualization.
If this were the case, I'd expect to see a lot of this. I don't.
Good programmers are hard to come by, and that will always be true, regardless of what language you choose.
#1) because in many jurisdictions it has no bearing on the divorce itself, and

#2) in many jurisdictions a person who flirts with a consenting adult over text hasn't actually committed any crime in doing so

Which leads to...

#3) what is the point of decrypting said personal communications except to vindicate the estranged party's already fully-formed assumption that their spouse is a wicked person, or to exact some kind of court-sanctioned revenge.

I swear, sometimes in threads like this it's hard to tell if someone is trolling or legitimately can't ponder the unintended (or, perhaps, fully intended but thinly veiled) consequences of laws that serve to grant the state access to private communications.
Those landlords are breaking the law (and the terms of your tenancy) and I believe you can file a report with the police that will get them into very hot water with their local council -- potentially fined and booted off the register of landlords (which means it'd be an offense for them to let any flats out at all).

Source: my sister is a landlord.
So I like everything that Zed Shaw wrote on this topic before. Whether his points were mostly or somewhat correlated with her point of view, I don't remember, but it was full of great ideas.

His project Mongrel, allowed other for profit Ruby projects exist in the way that the community needed.

A good analog of getting paid with 'free to use' theory are calculators. We know that 2 + 2 is 4. The theory is free and out there. If you want a thing that does the calculation for you, then you gotta pay $5 for a calculator.

CS theory is similar. Each tool or abstraction builds on a previous one. While we can't charge at each step of abstraction, we can at least license accordingly to encourage sharing of profits made from it's use.
Payson by chance? Still blows my mind that Prescott/PV have 3 walmarts.
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The unambiguous meaning of "N people sentenced to Y years" is that every one of the set of N people was given a Y year sentence. There is nothing unclear about it; it's simply the wrong way to say that each of N people was given Y/N years, on average, so that the total sentences add to Y.

You can't add people's years together. Two 30-year-olds are not a 60-year-old, in combination. Moreover, different prisoners do not serve their sentences consecutively; it won't be the case that 74 years passes before the last banker goes free.
"New" one? Was shared memory communication actually never that prevalent?
OS X doesn't provide kernel features directly equivalent to Linux's CLONE_* and cgroups. But it does provide Seatbelt, a sandboxing policy layer, which you could use with effort to implement something similar in end result. This is what both iOS apps and desktop App Store apps use for security isolation.

Alternatively, you could ship a kernel module that added these features (although that might be ridiculously complicated).
exec.library is a great design. The way programs know nothing except for AbsExecBase, and it points to a table of function pointers of which you have the offsets of.

In a sense it was a Component Object Model(COM) like the one in Windows. You call exec->OpenLibrary("name of lib", version_of_lib) and it returns a pointer to a table of function pointers of which you know the offsets of. It could even handle multiple versions of a library in principle. In reality makers of libraries just made sure the function table was the same, and added new stuff at the end.

You have to call CloseLibrary(libptr) to release the instance. Pretty similar to Objective-C's and COM's release().

OpenLibrary was allowed to return a different pointer for each call, but the early exec.library did not do this AFAIK.

Great design really. And how signals and message system works is just beautiful as well. I really get why Matt Dillon(of FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD) wanted something similar in the BSD kernel.

I still have the Amiga Kernel Reference Manual for exec in my shelf.
Forced-choice is deliberate because it maximizes the information of the question. If you put in intermediate options, that can mask real differences by letting peoples' differing preferences for certainty influence whether their responses are informative or not. (People have information or preferences they don't even realize they have, like in some perceptual tasks, and you can't detect this without something like a forced-choice because if you give subjects any other options, they'll just say they don't know.)
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"and precious little currently being made will last for a long time."

The difficult physics of recent nodes almost guarantee that. It's why I encourage safety-critical designs to, where possible, rely on stuff made on older process nodes (350-500nm if possible). One of the older or newer 180nm's might be OK. Yet, it was the stuff closer to a micron that lastest decades where the modern stuff croaks all the time. Plus, more predictability and less interference from weird physics.

Naturally, that leads to a proposal to go NanGate on the situation to make a ton of custom cells and analog for 350nm. Automatically, of course. Throw in some rad-resistant ones, quad-logic, or something. Then can squeeze more life out of safer, longer-lasting processes if application doesn't demand GHz, etc. Also, can always do SMP or NUMA. :)
Good point. Several other retailers (Sears, Footlocker, Macy's) are also closing stores but the difference is that Wal Mart is planning on opening stores in stronger markets whereas those other retailers are not.
I think you're close, but based on my layman's research (and my own experiences), the theory that in my opinion best explains the variety of symptoms (anxiety, meltdowns, sensory processing issues, mind blindness, repetitive behavior and obsessive thought, etc.) is the 'Intense World Theory'.

The basic idea is that people with autism (or at least a big 'subset' of what we now call autism) are born with heightened sensitivities (or 'differences', in some way) on a very fundamental level. Whatever the exact cause, the result is frequent (high-functioning) and sometimes constant ('full-blown', to use the proper term :P) overload.

Or to put it differently, from the outside it looks like autistics are trying to navigate a dark basement with dark shades, where perhaps the real situation is that they're trying to navigate this room with night-vision goggles. In both cases they keep bumping into things and are 'deficient' in a number of ways. However, in the first interpretation, the problem is that the bare bulb does not provide enough light when wearing shades, whereas in the second interpretation the autistic is blinded because the light overloads his night-vision goggles.

Obviously, which of these is true has effects on how to treat the problem, assuming it's always one or the other and assuming there's not a third option, of course.

There is growing support of this theory, and Temple Grandin touches on it in her book 'The Autistic Mind' (which I find refreshingly hard-sciencey in its approach. More emphasis on brain than on mind, so to speak).

That said, a common criticism is that Intense World Theory perhaps explains a bit too much. And it's relatively new and basically the opposite of many of the previous theories.

Despite this caveat, the reason why I strongly support the theory, even if it might ultimately be entirely or partly wrong, is that it fits much better with the self-reported experience of actual autists, both high-functioning and low-functioning (in the cases where they find a way to communicate). And actually listening to the experience of the person suffering from something strikes me as rather crucial when you start talking about causes.

One reason why I dismissed the possibility that I might be autistic is that I simply did not identify with the descriptions. It was only after the diagnosis that I realized that the symptoms were ridiculously applicable to myself; it was just the underlying explanation that seemed like the opposite of my own experience. It baffles me that problems making eye-contact (the symptom) is still very often said to be because of an inability to understand it, or something like that (the purported cause), when most autistics I know or read about self-describe the cause as being 'overstimulated' and simply not being able to maintain eye contact because it's all 'just too much'.

I can strongly recommend 'The Autistic Brain', by the way. It's very enlightening.
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Probably a dumb question, but I skimmed through the full paper and didn't find an obvious answer: does this actually result in an effect that could (theoretically) be scaled up to make an air conditioner-style device that pumps colder-than-ambient air out in one direction and hotter-than-ambient air out in another? Or is it more of a technical curiosity? Or something else?
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> In the long-run, real house prices appreciate at the rate of inflation.

Some one should tell this to Canadians. Since the early-mid 2000s, house prices have been rising much quicker than inflation, to the point where people think homes are an 'investment' that will always rise, leading to a massive housing bubble (also propped up by foreign buyers, many of whom are using land to launder money gained through corruption, and Canadian banks/government just look the other way) and also unaffordable housing for young prospective buyers and tenants.
Some commenters disputed the Han statement, and some others flew to his defense. His own defense of that statement was rather uncharitable to the objectors and he coyly avoided pointing out where exactly it occurred.

I myself reviewed the script several times, and I couldn't find it anywhere. The only time the topic came up with Han and Ben was while Luke was training with the helmet and droid, and Ben definitely does not offer to train him. So I'm confused where he seems to think this occurred.
This is less of an issue if your landlord is a giant faceless soulless holding company that operates many real estate businesses. Though such landlords have their own problems.
About “What is happening with this world?”
Civil cases are, by definition, not dealing with crimes. They're typically dealing with contractual obligations, or agreements of mutual and fair performance by two parties. If one was a good husband/wife in every respect, and occasionally got their libido raised by flirting with someone online, are they a bad person?

Or, as the saying goes, "it doesn't matter where you get your appetite as long as you eat at home." If the racy conversations are a result of unhappiness in a relationship, it's a symptom and not a cause. If it were medicine, we'd aim to treat the cause in order to mitigate the symptoms, not punish the symptoms by making the patient parade them for the world to see.
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Renting is just another form of debt, though.
Maybe its because OpenTK has type safe bindings(OpenGL, OpenCL and OpenAL) for F# and C#.. http://www.opentk.com/
try using moving statistics, looking for outliers in more than 1 dimension, and so on
But that Freescale CPU isn't open and cost big $$$ to develop. That's the problem: can't use something like that if heirlooms. Only exception maybe is if whole platform is tied to a virtual ISA. That way, hardware might change but SW & interface is the heirloom. System/38 did this to be ported to successively new hardware and interfaces as AS/400, then iSeries, then IBM i.
This is something that is definitely overlooked in these discussions. I'm in the US, not living in SF or NYC but in a city growing fairly rapidly and closing on a house in a few weeks. I know that my mortgage won't increase (property taxes excluded), and I don't have to worry about a landlord deciding he wants to redevelop the property or just raising the rent enough that I'm forced to move - both of which are happening with regularity in my area.

I don't think home ownership is a decision to be made lightly and I disagree with the idea presented in the article that it should be done to make money, but there are definitely numerous benefits and the idea of a mortgage being somehow evil just because it's debt is extreme. As another commenter mentioned, debt is a tool which can be used poorly or wisely.
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You can also #include "python.h" in C and use cpython to handle from C dynamic data structures and manually do the incref, decref.

If you are totally crazy you can also manipulate the frame to bring exception with stack trace in C... I don't do black magic. :)

Very wrongly vulgarized you can integrate python as a runtime for your C code.
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And when private banks provide near-unlimited debt the total cost of the average mortgage will consume all income after paying for food/heating/fuel.

And if we get more productive disposable income will go up and that will feed into land prices.

All the rentier need do is wait.

edit: would love to hear the counter to this from whomever downvoted me - it's a fact that with our system productivity improvements flow into land prices therefore speculating on land sees you capture these gains.
No landlord would want their family renting the place in lieu of real tenants. Real tenants pay, on time. Family likes to take advantage of you (ie. they find excuses to pay less or not at all).
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