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Is it necessary? NO!

Is it worth it? Oh gosh yes!! Like a hundred times yes!

My development productivity has been measurably an order of magnitude greater after getting the laptop. Just the simple act of opening the laptop and getting to work in a couple of seconds with the machine running at full speed is such a blessing. My experience with windows and even Linux (on laptops), has been that there's a slightly long delay in waiting for everything to come alive. Reopening apps would cause slight bits of sluggishness. And overall the performance degraded with each screen close and open cycle (this last bit mostly applies to windows)

And the battery life is nuts! Having my MBP has meant that I can pack it up and take it to the car wash place and hack from there since I know the battery is going to last more than 2 hours effortlessly (it actually does 6+ when doing just dev work on a slightly dimmed screen).

If someone ever made a linux laptop with this kind of quality and no hardware issues, I'd switch in a heartbeat. But that laptop doesn't exist yet (from my experience), so hands down, for development, if you can afford it, buy the macbook! Zero regrets guaranteed :)
I think one aspect that the article misses, is the fact that the public can't make an informed decision with their votes if the government has secrets.
> If you believe it is illegitimate for a government to keep secrets, it’s a quick jump to assume that a government that holds secrets is illegitimate itself — and that a system that maintains this illegitimacy, namely democracy, isn’t half as good as most people think. In other words: Like any other system, democracy stinks.

This is a very twisted way to paint Assange as a communist. "Governments should be transparent" doesn't logically lead to "democracy is inept". That's just bullshit.
If you feel that Assange and Wikileaks are limited then set up a better one, don't claim that the current one should be run by committee.

Wikileaks is quite possibly flawed but whatever flaws it and Assange have should easily be fixed by creating a similar institution that is not somehow tied to a person.

Wikileaks 'the brand' should not be required for that.

But until someone somewhere decides to take on the establishment on a similar scale as what Wikileaks has dared to do we'll have to continue to rely on that particular flawed individual who spent the better part of the last decade in pretty tight spot. Not many people would be prepared to give up their comfy lives to spend the rest of it in the cross hairs of just about every intelligence service.

My personal guess is that all these 'wikileaks should be run by us' people would fold at a very small percentage of the pressure that Assange has withstood to date and that is the primary reason why he's still running Wikileaks. If not for that we'd have long ago seen an alternative.

If any group is set up to be that alternative it is Poitras/Greenwald and a couple of other brave souls, but none of them so far seem to think they can do a better job of it than Assange.

As for Russia, Assange has set his sights on 'the five eyes' and the machinations of diplomacy at large. You can agree with that or not, that's fine. But if you want an organization that focuses on let's say Russia or China then by all means create one, don't bitch that Wikileaks is ignoring them or must be in bed with them.
Ptolemies split too in Egypt but were calling themselves Greeks while having Pharaoh and religious evolution. Greeks were not known for being under a single ruler for long, yet they were keeping a common cultural identity.
I did that for a few weeks, then stopped because it's so much hassle. Using a VM is very clunky, a lot of features don't work as expected. There is the perpetual mouse lag, copy/paste is very confusing (different hotkeys for the the host and VM), transferring content from the host to VM doesn't always work, plus filesystem annoyances. It's not something people want to deal with all the time.

Dual-booting was out of the question, because restarting the computer just to run Microsoft Word never made much sense to me.
Good idea. I'd rather see it use something standard like XMPP and then people can connect it to propriety apps like slack if they so wish.
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Judging by the divorce rate in the US where we date for a long time before marrying, it does not appear the length of time you spend with someone before deciding to exchange vows them is not a good predictor of success in marriage.

Actually I would say arrange marriages have a higher chance of success simply because people who know you well decide to give you in marriage to someone else whom they know kind of well.
The outrage was very similar when a second meat scandal occurred in Sweden when fair trade marked high quality beef was substituted with a imported cheap alternative. No one likes being made a fool and paying 2-3 times the actually value, and different quality of meat has different amount of nutrition, water content, risk of human transferable diseases, toxics and antibiotic/environmental footprint. Most people also have a strong dislike of fraud, and do not like the knowledge that their money got into the hands of criminals.
Just wait until they want to take advantage of Ireland's favourable tax regime. Ireland also has strict libel/defamation laws.
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Please tell us more, at least you have knowledge on something ;) Do you have this problem yourself? Or are you looking down at your co-immigrants for that? Do you consider western countries should have a middle-ground effort?
I still call it integration as it was predominantly secular before a surge of Wahhabism from oil, now there is a divide.

You can look into Iran, Iraq and even Afghanistan. Unfortunately they didn't have a Lee Kuan Yew to draw in the line. My mum told me how no one cared about Halal only sections in Iran, my dad said the same about Iraq even though they would identify as muslims.

http://youtu.be/1KDjjXUx9bY
It's semantics, we're saying the same thing. Once the bubble bursts, then the fallout begins. Already we're seeing a few thousand layoffs from established companies (Autodesk, Yahoo, GoPro, Twitter, etc), and I've heard that LinkedIn is going to have layoffs, too.

The consequences of the burst don't necessarily have to be as catastrophic as the dotcom bust, so it may or may not be dire enough affect traffic, commercial rent prices, etc, the same way. I do think that it may be painful, but hopefully it's not filled with fraud like the dotcom bust.
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If you find someone fairly attractive, then the sex is not important so long as both parties are somewhat functional. "Good sex" is learnt, nobody was born with this ability. If both parties are patient and willing to go through it together, they will succeed.
You can get stuff done, asap. There are a lot of higher level rails inspired frameworks like laravel or cakephp which let you get going quickly on any no name hosting site (all the UNIX ones support php). These tend to have drop in plugins with lots of functionality. Testing is supported.
> You don't address the point they made about people
> having no qualms about eating pig meat while
> simultaneously forbidding the consumption of cat and
> dog meat

> > Also there seems to be a pretty clear dividing line
> > between pets and food

There, you quoted it just after you called it an irrational position O_o

> I have a pet dog, but I also enjoy bosintang. Is
> there a rational basis for why I can't have bosintang
> in the US?

I wonder how much research you've actually done here? Public opinion on dog meat in Korea is shifting ... pretty much in lock-step with the increase of keeping dogs as pets in Korea. Additionally, people don't keep meat breeds of dog as pets.

I wonder if you'll use historic cannabalism as an argument that humans are irrational for avoiding eating each other next?
This article is just pure <censored>
It's certainly true that there is a wide and long history of eating dog meat around the world [1]. However, I think a distinction can be made between eating the meat of a herbivore (horses) and eating the meat of a carnivore/omnivore (dogs). And I'd suggest that it is healthier to eat the meat of herbivores.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat
Exactly. It's also possible to capture stack traces remotely from a running system and/or after a crash. http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/debugging-nodejs-in-prod....

Hopefully, this practice -- and the tools required to make it happen -- get better with time.
You could make a similar argument for every employee that works in the food industry, including the entire supply chain. Personally I find an $8 combo at Macdonald's expensive enough, we'd be looking at $12+ if everyone had a "proper" level of training.
On my very insignificant server, fail2ban has banned around 400 IP addresses in 2016, so far. What actionable information would I have received by having a disruptive notification about it?
I wrote the article.
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Surely you understood what the words meant to recognise the errors? Read beyond them, you might learn something new.
But democracy is inept. It's an illusion. We as citizens (at least in the UK) don't have any day in the running of our country or the decisions that are made by our government. Every four years, we're given a choice to elect the party that we think will do the least damage, while hoping and praying that they'll keep their promises (although it should be noted that they're under no obligation to do so). Even the petition system has no effect on anything. 10,000 signatures warrants a single reply, while 100,000 means it's considered for debate. We're all just sheep at the end of the day, and it's foolish to think we actually have any control.
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This guy should send his apprentices and customers to Mongolia. Here whatever meat is cheapest reigns. All types are at multi-year lows because of a drought and now extra cold winter called a dzud. Depending on the preparation, I like horse meat a lot, and it gets a lot of play from people who prefer it to typically prepared mutton or beef.
Anyone who runs something like WikiLeaks will be vilified. We all have something in our past -- whether a jilted lover willing to make things up about you, or a conflict at work, or whatnot. We all have some slightly unpopular political views on some subject. At the time you get into a position where you have real enemies -- which the founder of WikiLeaks does -- those become publicized and twisted. It doesn't matter who ran WikiLeaks -- the outcome would be the same.

Source: I've been in a couple of positions of minor fame, and through a divorce. In both cases, I had enemies maybe 2-3 tiers down from Julian. My past -- factually -- is squeaky clean. I know what happened to my reputation in both cases.

Footnote: Jochen Bittner is a judgmental jerk.
It used to be that Wikileaks was used in headlines for articles which reported about a leak. I do not see patter anymore, and the articles focus instead on the content of the leaks rather than the platform which it was published on.

I view this as a positive step, and I only hope that we can see the same progress with the "the dark web".
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The best article I can find is a bit outdated. Is there more progressive thinking in tech on this subject ?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/02/07/the-truth-about-wasting-time-at-work/#7f73c8571285

My thinking is if someone doesn't have to get up for smoke breaks they could be more productive.
Haha. nope as well.
You don't have to control. Being part is sufficient.
Society can't function without some level of secrecy there are plenty of people who have social issues for being "too honest", secrets aren't that different to lies at the end and we need to balance them both to maintain any relationship.

A country can still have secrets while maintaining transparency, the government like any other entity has confidential information that has to be kept secret, as no one can operate on any meaningful level if everything they do is public.

Anything from actual national security information (e.g. from list of covert agents to nuclear launch codes) to day to day diplomatic and policy related information needs secrecy.
You can't build a case when the criminals know you coming after them, you can't negotiate a treaty when every discussion is public, you can't always say what you spending money one because it can cause and arms race etc.

The article doesn't misses that aspect the notion that a government can operate without any type of secrecy is just absurd.
That shouldn't stop you. three.js makes webGL really easy to write, and most of the maths can be borrowed from other code. You can do some pretty awesome stuff with only a basic knowledge of JS. It's very rewarding to give it a try. My math-fu sucks but I've still been able to make fun things like http://library.ooer.com/2015/11/15/Cube-Ocean/
Setting up a similar institution is what Daniel Domscheit-Berg tried to do - Openleaks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Domscheit-Berg
Chuck rules are the day #1 instruction item for a reason. I've seen that one replay many times over only a couple of years but always with inexperienced machinists. The older ones all have their ritual before engaging the 'on' switch of the spindle drive, which usually includes a nice 360 on the main spindle by hand to make sure it all runs free.

While it is definitely true that making dangerous mistakes is not limited to CNC machines GP has a point, with CNC machines the potential for accidents is quite a bit larger because of the much longer time the machine will spend with the workpiece during which even a trivial change in setup will cause serious damage to workpiece, machine, operator and the environment. And because a proper trial run will take as much time as making the workpiece and people get overconfident accidents are all too common, especially when you put a bunch of inexperienced machinists and very high power tools in the same space.

It's a pretty harsh way to learn that servo motors don't actually care about you at all.
There is just no telling. Keep in mind that your mate will only show you part of their self and hide many other parts. So do you. Many people find out well into their relationships that their partners is XYZ and XYW.

3 months and 3 years and 3 hours are not so different, although they provide some false comfort.

If you really are serious and want to build a long term relationship, the safest step to take is bring a list of questions and a polygraph.
Thanks for the feedback. I've been having trouble trying to convey exactly what it is in a clear an concise manner. I'll go through and give it another update.
A hand crank X-Y table with a digital read-out is halfway between CNC and manual, you can do incredibly complex work with a setup like that if you're patient.
A few niceties apps in AppStore e.g. Affinity Photos and Designer only for Mac.

I have encounter Windows laptop (you bet even a Lenovo Yoga 3 screw is defective itself, loose screw) faulty too many times due to defective parts. It's why Macbook are well built the most and although it doesn't have any tools to control power management that Windows have, intensive running programs e.g. video processing or may overheat Macbook to 105'C but it's still working fine if you read SSD could still lasted a few more years depending on the temperatures.

Get Intel Power Gadget which is certainly useful to monitor the temperature and such.
wait until he realizes that unsigned commits can be made to look like they're from anyone...
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Link is a thin blogspam wrapper for this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QetfnYgjRE
Clearly you must be reading an entirely different set of peer-reviewed articles from the ones I've just been looking at.

"Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife" www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1206820109

"Cannabis use has been shown to impair cognitive functions on a number of levels —from basic motor coordination to more complex executive function tasks, such as the ability to plan, organize, solve problems, make decisions, remember, and control emotions and behavior. These deficits differ in severity depending on the quantity, recency, age of onset and duration of marijuana use. ". J Addict Med. 2011 Mar 1; 5(1): 1–8.

Plenty more where these come from.
Someone already got an implementation of a hook? No idea how it should be used...
I hope it ends up being as cool as it sounds!

I'll try lower contrast colors and a different font. Thanks for the feedback!
The real point is that sharing economy (horrible name, better name is "access economy") allows for car greater elasticity of supply, which means that the economy just got more efficient (in microeconomic terms).

That's great news for consumers of such services as lodging.
I know not all countries have this problem. But i live in Switzerland and not a single bank offers me some kind of API. All i was asking for is a readonly interface to allow me personal tracking. (We dont do credit card payments for everyday stuff here, we use money)
There can be a lot of reasons to want to delete something you've posted online, a stalker for example. I think it's careless to dismiss all such reasons in one swoop.
Ok c'mon people GoPro does not belong with Twitter, Yahoo, and Autodesk. Yahoo has been on it's way down for the better part of a decade. If you're going to provide 'evidence' at least make sure it's valid first otherwise your whole argument goes to shit.
When I was in college (15 years ago) I did a course on ancient Hellenistic religious groups. Part of that was to either write a 20-page term paper (on a topic assigned by the professor), or produce a smaller set of Web pages on the topic.

Being lazy, I spent a weekend teaching myself HTML, and did the Web option. It was linked from the course page on the college's site.

Ten years later I was still getting random emails from people who saw it, noted the .edu domain, and assumed I was an academic expert on Hermetic cults. Thankfully, a reorganization of the college's site and course pages seems to have killed it off for good.
We have been using Luigi for a larger project and it works fine. Some people have a bit of a hard time understanding what it is about and why at least some software for scheduling is needed. I find the notion of "make for data" useful.

After a presentation on Luigi in a Python User Group, we had a lively discussion about certain features. One issue that came up was the fact, that downstream tasks are not necessarily recomputed, once you change something in the code. For that to happen, you would have to keep track of the source code as well. Similarities with Nix came up, where a change in code leads to a different ID, so all changes can be tracked.

Shameless plug: When I started using Luigi, I missed some auto-generated filename feature for task outputs, so I wrote a utility library for that (and a few other things): https://git.io/vg4D0
I agree, what I do instead is track the number of currently banned with nagios and if it goes over a specific threshold I get a warning. With PNP4Nagios you also get a nice graph over time.
I was thrown off by this definition of "marijuana-years" seemingly being used as the base of the study, when we then read this:

>> Few people actually smoke this much pot. Among the 3,385 study subjects, only 311 (8 percent) had more than five marijuana-years of exposure.

The article makes an assumption about how much one's memory would be affected by 45 years of smoking... but if only 311 participants have smoked for even 5 years, it is logically unsound to even pretend to extrapolate that to 45 years.

Why do studies (or perhaps the study itself makes none of these conclusions, and it's just the article) try to overreach on their conclusions? :/
It certainly is not for everyone. We should accept that everything has its lifetime and end it when it is over instead of prolonging it.
> all these 'wikileaks should be run by us' people would fold

Au contraire: they would relish the power. Who wants to be a stenographer? Media people want to be gatekeepers and tastemakers. Even when they fold under pressure from higher powers, they rationalize it away as "trading favours". When some random uppity Joe Bloggs comes around and shreds their credibility as gatekeepers, they get mad.
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"It's an absolute egregious shame that PayPal, after more than a decade of problematic behavior, is still relevant."

What alternatives could you offer? I really don't feel like entering my Visa details in some random website and Bitcoin is still a mess to acquire and use. Yes, PayPal has it's cons, but unless some other service arise that could offer comparable convenience (fast email & password checkout) and safety (no need to enter personal or financial information) I don't see how it can become irrelevant.
> But if you want an organization that focuses on let's say Russia or China then by all means create one, don't bitch that Wikileaks is ignoring them or must be in bed with them.

Sorry, but bitching is my inalienable right. Assange did more harm than good for my home country by cooperating with its secret police. I'm not going to have any reservations about his character just because am not ripe for martyrdom myself.
This is just a poorly thought-out hit piece, right?

> Yet, even back then, observers and media partners felt that Mr. Assange had more in mind than transparency, that there was an ideology behind his idea. Over time, that ideology has become increasingly apparent, through his regular public statements and his stint as a host for a Russian state-controlled TV network.

One element of Assange-think has been clear from early on: There is no such thing as a legitimate secret. The public is entitled to share any knowledge governments hold. Only complete transparency can stop and prevent conspiracy. Therefore, editing information by the government — redacting sensitive material, for example — equals manipulating it.

So, the hidden ideology behind mere 'transparency', lurking beneath the surface and which colors all of Assange's work at Wikileaks is... well apparently it's just more transparency.

Frankly, he's right. Any knowledge governments hold which is not germane to some contemporary disaster or military action, diplomacy, etc., should be available to the public. I'm hard-pressed to think of any good excuse for keeping a thing secret for twenty years, a decade being about the maximum for e.g. military secrets, etc.

> And it’s particularly bad, in Mr. Assange’s view, if those people represent Western democracy: In his simplistic reading, the West is hypocritical because it stands for civil liberties, and all secrets are antithetical to liberty. No wonder he got a show on Russian television — his viewpoint puts him nicely in line with Mr. Putin’s ideological agenda.

Eh, his position on secrecy is much more nuanced than that, and I'd bet that even my take on what should be top secret and what should not is more radical than Julian Assange's (and less thought-out, heh). His belief, in a nutshell, is that institutions which mean to control the population share a culture of mistrust, which in turn elevates secrecy to a virtue. Such organizations actually can't operate if they are constantly in danger of having their secrets exposed, even if the risk is low and the real impact even in case of a leak is small.

That's why Wikileaks exists - not because Julian Assange thinks that everything James Clapper knows, we should also know.
DDB fucked up big time. His credibility is even lower than Assange.