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These are Red imported fire ants, they are considered to be a pest so nothing wrong with this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ant#Counterm...
A quick google search suggests various mental illnesses (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and the catch-all "serious mental illness" category) are strongly linked with violence.

http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/resources/consequence...

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mental-illn...

The latter article also describes a study suggesting "matched controls" (read: siblings of mentally ill people) are also disproportionately violent which is interesting.

Many citations are provided therein. I didn't provide it because it's completely tangential to the main point, namely that there exist crazed and violent people who should be tazed and tied up. I'll note you didn't provide a citation either.
Were they Saudis? I took taxis daily in Riyadh and I don't think I ever had a Saudi taxi driver, they were mostly Pakistanis or Yemenis with the odd Ethiopian.
Yup, that's a pretty good point. Politicians don't work for us, they work for themselves. Our input is only to vote some of them in, and in aggregate, we vote based on the media impression they themselves orchestrate.
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> A smart player would put money back into the public coffers so that people could be taken care of, not hoard it for the already-wealthy.

No, a smart player would let others do that, and avoid doing it themselves. Exactly what Google is doing.

I think you should be directing your ire at the overly-complex, full-of-holes tax code.
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Programming by modifying ASTs sounds very interesting and I really like Lamdu examples. I see, however, many problems, as not being able to introduce even slightest modification to the code using terminal, not being able to use textual tools, and problems with source control interop.

The last one is probably the most serious, as it doesn't seem to be enough to plug new diff tool into git. There are still places like GitHub, which are hard to modify. That would mean one would need whole new ecosystem for such language.

Having underlying textual format, possibly based on s-expressions might help. You could modify it using AST editor, but still be able to read the code as text and diff it. Other option is to have two-columns editor, with one column being text source and the other AST, making it possible to edit any of two and have the other updated.
This pleases me to no end. Sort of reminds me that an imperfect representation of Bach's Brandenbourg II is floating around on Voyager, encoded on a golden disc.

As a professional violinist for almost 30 years, and an expert in early music, it makes me a little sad that it's that recording that got sent out.

On the other hand, it thrills me that 4.5 or so billions of years from now, long after we are extinct, and when the sun goes dark, Bach will still be out there in the cosmos.

Not a perfect Bach. Not the best representation. Not at all what he would have imagined. But a representation.

Completely off-topic and re: Fermi's paradox.

I think that the voyager mission was a unique thing. It was only possible for a brief window of time in which we had the technology to do it, and the social willingness to do it. It was a short period of time.

Think about the social and political implications a mission like Voyager would have today. If you tried to do that today, people and countries and orgs from all over the world would argue for inclusion. I think there's a Simpsons episode about this.

My point about Fermi is that I'm suggesting that there was only about a 10 year window in which Voyager was both technically possible and socially acceptable. In the time scale of intelligent life, that's a very narrow window.

I sometimes wonder if there isn't a lot of intelligent life out there whose civilizations simply missed that window. In other words, a lot of life that would very much like to say hello, but can't agree on how to do it.

Sorry for the tangent.
Saudi reserves are now under $600 billion. They were $608 billion around January 1st [1], and they have been destroying $15 to $20 billion per month. Their deficit was $115b for 2015, and it's going to be drastically higher this year.

And that's pretending all $600 billion is available to be burned freely. Which is never the case in reality. They're so desperate at this point they're going to IPO Aramco and begin selling off state assets.

Their reserves will be completely gone in three years if oil stays at or below the $45-$50 range. That's assuming nothing else they're doing gets more expensive (bribing the populace, local war), and that they can actually use all of their reserves freely; both of which are dramatic assumptions.

The real problem is that they desperately need hundreds of billions of dollars on hand to bribe their domestic audience as necessary. Without that, risk of civil war or collapse goes up dramatically.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-28/russia-set...
Re: corruption I don't think the Saudis are any more corrupt than Western economies. The patronage networks are personalised and familial in a way that's (mostly) unfamiliar to the West. But it's naive to think that Western politics isn't any more bought and paid for - in its own way.

My understanding is that Saudi Arabia has been directing a large part of Western foreign policy since at least the oil shocks of the 1970s.

SA is a particularly nasty regime. Not only has it been politically and diplomatically untouchable even when clearly linked to anti-Western terrorism, but many US-led foreign interventions have been of obvious benefit to the Saudis and the US MIC, while making little sense at home.

So even if the Pentagon can game the Fall of the House of Saud militarily, that doesn't mean putting boots on the ground is a viable political solution.

At this point I don't think anyone knows what a viable political solution looks like in that part of the world.
I can't, for the life of me, understand why people associate being a Salafi with the various terrorist groups.

I have never heard a Salafi scholar promote any acts terrorism. In fact, every single high-ranking scholar in Saudi Arabia (those who call themselves Salafi), are all opposed to groups like ISIS, Al Qaida, and Al Nusra. There are dozens of audio clips on Youtube from such scholars who clearly warn the Muslims from these types of groups.

Here is one such video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAZLE6JiqE

And another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNL9cwB-plY

And another (from arguably the most respected Saudi scholar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J5s2PPwZcY

Here are two from a Muslim student of knowledge from the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05yw1IXM1k4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ocvexFXCo8

There is also a great book that references many of the Islamic verdicts given by the contemporary Salafi Muslim scholars that dispels much of the "Wahhabi" myth:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Wahhabi-Myth-Dispelling-Fictitious...

I'm not here to preach; it just bothers me when people hijack words to push an agenda.
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This may be a new concept for you, but people don't always do things for their own benefit. She might have thought that it was worth writing this even though it wouldn't benefit her.
Thank you for the suggestion, I will see if I can get the movie somewhere (Even if I don't enjoy it at the very least it will improve my hipster level ;) )
Still a disgusting practice. You can go ahead and say the tusk on your wall is from an elephant hunt that you paid 15k for which went to starving African children.

Everyone is still going to be disgusted by the fact that you killed an elephant, or killed 10 million ants, for your fancy shmancy art piece.
You're correct about the ones that correct myopia, but there are eye problems that make the lens a total loss - most prominently, cataracts. In these cases the current approach is a lens replacement: the old lens is completely burned out by laser and a new one implanted in its place. It's actually a really cool laproscopic procedure - the lens is flexible and is inserted rolled up, unfurls on its own, and then has its position adjusted by the surgeon.

In my dad's case, because an accommodating implant was still impractical, he ended up with one eye permanently focused at infinity and one focused about about 4-5 feet. Which works surprisingly well, because the brain is really good at image processing, but still.
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The CIA and/or NSA very likely knew that the 9/11 terrorists were in the US, learning to fly airliners. Not long after 9/11, there were reports that Mossad agents (the "art students", as I recall) had been tailing the 9/11 terrorists. Almost all of whom were Saudis. But I've seen no credible reports that any of them knew what was planned.

And yes, those pages might be very interesting.
they also do it on native colonies: e.g. "Ant Type: Field Ants (Formica pallidefulva)" among others. (all those less "rooty" casts)
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Sure but somebody needs to port it and maintain it.
How about if you kill them without producing an art piece in the process, because they're a pest? Is that also immoral?
"protected by ethics." Who's ethics? The law had slaves at 3/5ths a person at one point.

Generally, a way not to be an ass, is to avoid taking life unecessarily. These art pieces are cool but I'm pretty sure no comprehensive set of ethics supports taking life for sake of entertainment or "coolness."

I find it disgusting.
I mean "what other ways do they have to download this?" All I saw is HTTP and Torrent, so I'm curious as to what exactly got compromised.
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I believe it's in bad taste. We don't make art out of executed criminals. In the same vain, making art out of pests is reprehensible.
Me neither, but I gave it a shot and it turns out it's super super fun (it's now one of my favorite hobbies, I'm redesigning this right now: https://github.com/skorokithakis/esplights).

I definitely recommend it, KiCad is great, the people at #kicad are great, and the people at https://gitter.im/esp8266/Arduino have taught me most the little I know now. I can't urge you enough to try it.
I went and found a few images of this car and variations of it.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2015...

http://www.benzworld.org/forums/attachments/g-class/209746d1...

http://olive-drab.com/images/id_mb_gclass_03_700.jpg

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--qAO8Ma4i...

http://spintires-mods.lt/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Mercedes... (CGI)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DobFdTEMh3Y/TDoii7WEbZI/AAAAAAAABB...

http://cars-pics-db.com/pics/steyr-puch/steyr-puch-g-290/ste...

http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/testdrive/gallery/108...

http://car-from-uk.com/ebay/carphotos/full/ebay1416702369969...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/4a/bc/16/4abc163c1...

http://www.papercraftsquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/D... (Paper Model)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/3d/84/04/3d84040cc...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---M1k3rjO...
to complicated and slows it down.
Bad taste yes, but bad taste is subjective. Morality (should be) objective, so it's one thing to say "I don't like this" (I don't like it either), and another thing to say "nobody should like this".
Source on the female fighter pilots? All I could find were articles on UAE first female fighter pilot teaming up with a prince from SA to bomb.
It starts with one justification. And then ends with another. Even if it was just pests, it's in bad taste to create art through termination of life.
not all casts are. look at the less "bushy/rooty" ones, they are e.g. "Ant Type: Field Ants (Formica pallidefulva)"
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It's about organization structure. Centralized organizations where work is assigned top-down and/or where people working on the same part of the code base are likely to be in the same timezone (if not in the same office) are better served by a centralized VCS which is simpler to understand and mirrors how the organization works.

Open Source will probably never produce a good centralized VCS because it's not a problem that exists for Open Source projects.
>As a drama, actually having weak case is a juicy obstacle for the protagonist to make the story much more interesting. It's a good novel not "in spite of", but "because of", Finch's dubious legal standing.

Yes, this is exactly the point I was trying to make, so it seems as though we're in agreement. It also seems as though I may have read too fast or too far into Gladwell's editorial.

Color me satisfied :)
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Yes/No. What's the difference how he answers your question.

You're absolutely the reason why our politics and logical thinking of our citizens suffer. People who think that asking a "wiseass" question suffices for actual ethics/moral compass.

Here let me try this brainless questionnary approach to rhetoric. Tell me if I'm up to your level of quality.

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I've had raccoons raid my trash bin. Should I slice the next raccoon up and turn him into a "Rorschach test"?
Exactly. Why can't the database guy add categories to his account (databases, politics, personal) and assign a category from his list each time he tweets? His followers could choose which categories to follow.

That would avoid alienating his followers, but still allow him to tweet on any topic he likes, knowing that only people who are interested in that topic would see those particular tweets.

This would be better for all parties.
Suppose I designed something from scratch at former company, and then I decided to reimplement the same project after leaving the company (and perhaps turn that into an open source project), with mostly new code, but similar concept, would that be considered copyright infringement?
Looks nice. I've done a couple projects with a timeline, i was using this other library: http://visjs.org/timeline_examples.html

comparing the two, the visjs is older with more features overall, but it seems to lack the option of having points instead of bars, like in your example.
It also omits and response to the most obvious thing about TED: thanks to TEDx, it's brand has become associated with fake science, wishful thinking advocates, and other fraudsters.
I have a Microsoft Sculpt Bluetooth keyboard.

On Linux, it does this.

On OSX, however, it still takes a few seconds to wake up, but the keystrokes typed while 'waking up' do make it through to the screen in the right place.

I keep meaning to dig into the Linux Bluetooth stack to see if those initial keystrokes can be salvaged. I guess they're sent in a burst once the keyboard realises 'yeah, I'm being typed at', but Linux seems to ignore them for some reason.
I will freely admit that I don't understand the politics of Saudi Arabia.

But is it not a known fact that the 9-11 operators were a) Saudi, and b) backed by the Saudi government?

I'm certainly happy to be proven wrong, but if I'm correct here, that seems a lot to me to fit in with the concept of "exporting terrorism".
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The sensible answer to this issue is tax reform, to make sure the real world use of tax laws matches more closely to the intended consequences of the tax laws.

However, in the meantime, we can still send a clear message that the behaviour being engaged in is not desired. If words alone will not build enough momentum for change, then people could resort to civil disobedience. For example, Google is dependent on its advertising business, it would be trivial to "legally" damage this (for example, running bots that clicked on Google ads but did not purchase anything, inflating the cost of running ads without increasing revenue for those running them. Similar schemes would work for Facebook and others).

I'd hope it didn't come to that, but if companies can act without a moral compass, I don't see why the general population has to act any better.
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Morality isn't black and white. It's somewhat bad to be killing ants but let's not say it's on the same level as killing sentient life. It's just a rather shitty thing to do.
One can be new to git but familiar with i.e. SVN or with VCS theory in general. Sometimes I really do hate it when I'm trying to learn how to use a new tool and every beginner's tutorial starts with explaining how computers work or with some story that is somewhat relevant.
> Chrome just doesn't feel and look elegant and smooth

I bet this feeling comes from the "smooth scrolling". Development Chrome currently has it, I really cannot imagine why didn't they do it earlier it's so trivial to do for major benefits.
That's not a good analogy. Molten metal invading the ant habitat kills them. Ant invading your habitat annoys you.
Well, some of those pages have been leaked by the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND), because some of the attackers lived in Germany before and it was a priority for them.

Funnily, one of the attackers used to have a small internet cafe in my city before he learned to fly an airplane.
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We'll only do it to the circus elephants that refuse to obey their commands. And the rest of the body, the meat will goto charity!
Link-bait title. The destination is web shop, not a proper answer.
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This sounds like a panic attack. Relax, breathe slowly, and get medical attention. At the very least they can rule out some more dangerous conditions.

They can probably also give you a long term prescription for a generic (but still good) long-term anxiolytic agent and a short course of benzodiazepines to knock out the acute anxiety.

Finally, some personal advice.

You will get through this.

You're 30. You could get a whole entirely different degree and career before even age 35. Your options are wide open.

Last part. I've been there. That feeling of impending doom, as if the universe is waiting to thwart my every move. The truth is that the universe doesn't seem to give a damn one way or another. Those feelings come from deep-seated anxiety.

The source of that anxiety, for me, was too closely personally identifying with my start up.

Your work does not define who you are. And who you are has intrinsic value beyond the ability to code. What helped me was to repeat this like a mantra, "I am not my company. I am not my company."

We all need some help from time to time. Thank you for reaching out to us, and I would encourage you to do the same toward others.

As for your first startup, that isn't failure. It's the best damn business education money can buy.
don't watch so much Fox News. A vast majority of people in Pakistan are very moderate. Much of the bad shit you see about extremists and all is from a particular area of Pakistan in the north west near Afghanistan. Pakistan army has cleared out most of the extremists from there and many operations are being conducted as National Action Plan to curb terrorism and extremism.
Yep, or the hornet's nest on your porch.
But it annoys him A LOT! How dare indiginous life on this planet invade his artificially built home that happens to have been built on the habitats of others animals..
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Although most of the methods are globally bound to the current request, Flask is thread safe and I can't see any problem with it. (except that it encourages beginners to use globals, which might be process and thread-unsafe).
Indeed, the miracle here is how git got so popular.

It has _NOTHING_ to do with meeting needs or doing things spectacularly better than other tools. There was version control before git and it worked just fine. I just think some "cool kids" started using it, it developed a certain Caché that made it desirable and that was it: here we are with the most popular version control system in the world with an absolutely shitty, inscrutable interface.

For the vast majority of git "users", this doesn't matter. They use git as little more than filestorage.
I think the simpler answer is they didn't invent a practical steam engine.
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I doubt it will be "copyright infringement" since the code was rewritten.
It might fall under patent infringment if something was patented.

The more likely scenario is that it will constitute a misuse of trade secret either under law or from the contract signed on employment.
I am not a lawyer and the law is different in every place but it is likely that such a use would be protected under paw by protections given to professionals to retain expertease gained while practicing their professions.
I don't remember how that protection is called.
Well the Soviet Union collapsed without a major world war right?
The social contract is formalized in law. They are paying what is required by law. In Singapore that rate is 17%, is that the right rate for the rest of the world? Why or why not? The only right rate from a company's point of view is the legal minimum.
Now you've added an immediate threat to safety. Things change. After all, the goal of steadystate life is to survive. Don't try to cross the two.
> No expenditure is deductible.

So what about taxes themselves? My largest federal tax deduction is my state taxes.
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Oh, you must be an alien. My species, humanity, has been displaying the corpses of criminals for the entirity of its existence and continues to create paintings, songs and movies about it. The question is more "Is it art, or is it porn?", followed by " Is porn art?". Find me a catholic church which doesn't have a cast crucifix. That the ants were in the 'mold' feels like an implementation detail. They were scheduled for death. Weather the aluminium was poured before or after the extermination feels like an implementation detail. But do I want one? Fuck, no. It was interesting for science, but once was enough.
Since I don't believe any of them are for sale, I don't think it's a "shop".

It's a gallery, with videos, of what transpires.
> You're absolutely the reason why our politics and logical thinking of our citizens suffer. People who think that asking a "wiseass" question suffices for actual ethics/moral compass.

This is not a constructive response.
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