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Heroin isn't significantly more addictive than cigarettes.

You can also easily overdose from nicotine, its just that this is mitigated by the relatively slow delivery mechanism, which makes it so that you get terribly sick before you could consume lethal quantities.

If we can come up with an effective delivery method then heroin would be no more dangerous than cigarettes (sort of, you still can't, for example, drive on heroin, but also it doesn't destroy your body long term).

Perhaps heroin could be adultrated with a chemical that causes nausea when consumed in an amount proportional to a dangerous level of heroin. This would help heroin users build the same negative associations with high doses that cigarette smokers do, and could make them unable to consume more.
I would have agreed 100% before switching industries myself and seeing how helpful & productive ex-consultant MBAs can be in getting things done. It totally depends on the corporate culture and the roles these people are put in.
Well we've had remotes for TVs since the 50s

Is it really that big of a leap to have other things be remote controlled?

I feel like every day I want the light turned on while i'm at my desk. Or i remember that i forgot to turn out the living room light when i'm in bed. Or when a friend texts me and i'd like to turn on the outside light for them.

Yeah, it's not a cure for cancer, but it's not useless either.
Thanks for making this. However, I've been burned by some other services like this shutting down. This looks like IFTTT for devs, and my only concern is about you shutting down.
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Hello, this is a site for live-evaluating cljs forms into UIs, the way the Reagent library does.

Some ideas about next steps include adding parinfer[1], the ability to save cljsfiddles, or $YOUR_SUGGESSTION.

[1] - https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
He/she is talking about cheap (quality) vs. inexpensive (cost) - to put it another way, poor-quality items can be expensive.
Discord users probably disagree with you. (If you don't know Discord is basically Slack + voice, it even looks the same, and is exploding right now.)
Your three reasons are spot on and match my experience. A friend of mine (in finance) did the opportunity cost calculations and figured it would cost $500k to go to a top-tier program (between tuition, room, board, supplies, missed salary, etc.). My main reason to go get a MBA would be to grow my network, but there are cheaper, faster, and more effective ways to accomplish that.

Plus the average age of MBA grads seems to be getting lower. (True?) At this point, I'm 30, two levels above where my company brings on MBAs, and have MBA direct reports. So leaving to get a MBA seems like a step back.
I scanned the website, but there's nothing about the architectural or technical aspects of Nuro's security model, so I am still wondering what it actually does to achieve its claims.
Drug use being legal is an intermediary step, but pointless if possession and trade of drugs is illegal. Since you aways have to obtain and possess drugs in order to comsume them, drugs are still illegal. I don't even know based on what law this organization can administer clean drugs. But yes, Switzerland is doing a better job at fighting drug crime than a lot of other countries.
> You can get both Z-Wave and Insteon switch inserts that continue using the existing physical switch

Can you provide some links? I'm also looking to automate some lights via z-wave and am having similar difficulty in deciding what to use.
>Maybe if you were a head in a jar living a life of quiet dignity like in Futurama

People like comfort, a friend of mine says that we come to earth to fight against pain (or discomfort).

There are practical scenarios that you would like to consider,

-e.g. you are on your way to the kitchen and lights turn
on on your way
-(not sure if we have a product with this feature but)
turn the temperature of lightning as it becomes night a
la f.lux
-Wake you up with lights

On the other hand even then with the exception of light temperature I would not consider it price/feature ratio worthy.
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Comey also said,

They [Apple] sell phones, they don't sell civil liberties, they don't sell public safety, that's our business to worry about. [1]

He thinks public safety is entirely his domain and private companies cannot help people keep themselves safe. That's as bad as "self-made" business owners who cannot see that roads and infrastructure helped make their businesses successful and cry socialism whenever taxes are levied.

[1] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h16m18s
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Discord is exploding right now.
Singapore is a police state. Execution is illegal in Portugal as it's a human rights violation. They're very different places.
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The OS X Dictionary app's thesaurus lists "poor-quality" and "low-grade" and "shoddy" as synonyms of cheap. Merriam Webster's online dictionary gives this for definition 3a of cheap:

"of inferior quality or worth"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheap
I make a point of never visiting RollingStone for anything after they dragged my school's name through the dirt without a second though to journalistic integrity for the sole purpose of pursuing some agenda they had. Call me biased but I refuse to believe that they are capable of producing anything of quality and I would love to watch this magazine crash and burn.
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I'm not sure how important security is in a z-wave lightswitch because any vulnerabilities for your network would be in the zigbee-to-lan gateway. The devices are rather dumb themselves, just an address and a little bit of state. If someone did compromise the lightswitch, it would still need the gateway to do malice.

If you're talking about a full processing node, that would be a real concern, like some of these wifi products that can sit on your network, sniff traffic, and compromise you via egress. I have a real concern over all these unknowns.
I don't see what that has to do with efficiency though. Granted gas is probably easier to modulate for spiky usage—I've seen the same BBC documentary that I suspect you have, with the quip about France having to donate some capacity to satisfy the post-EastEnders surge—but that doesn't really tell us anything about efficiency per se.

Having used both kettle technologies, my gut feeling is that heating a traditional kettle on gas just wastes a lot of the heat into the air by forcing the heat to penetrate an intermediary layer, whereas an electric kettle is insulated and puts heat directly into the water. This isn't a problem if you are boiling water to heat radiators because the lost heat is still helping heat the house. In that case you are saving the losses of converting heat to electricity (at the power plant) and then back to heat (in an electric heater).
Perhaps just like everyone else he's realised that pirating is easier than buying, no matter how much money you have.
It hasn't stopped it from becoming widely popular in the gaming community though. All gaming-related projects I follow are on Discord. This includes streamers and guilds.
I feel obligated to note that the stuff good managers do is frequently as important as the stuff good makers do in well-managed organizations. You are not better or worse, just different from each other, providing different value to the company.

Lots of MBAs take that route out of consulting because they hate consulting but don't know what to do next. The internships & connections they make during the program help them decide, and frequently these decisions are to jump into a completely different industry. I consider it an expensive, but helpful, way for overachievers to figure out what they want to do with their life, and signal to future employers that they're serious about it.
So apparently the publishers trying to prevent a monopoly-grabbing maneuver from Amazon is insane. On the contrary, it would be insane if they let Amazon drive all other booksellers out of business and ruin the market.
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its direction.
Hi! Yes it will be. Basically when your done it gives you "What's next" instructions as the last text section.
Having gone the corporation route there are jobs that I don't go for because I don't have the desired degrees and without the degrees the job req. ask for twice as much experience without it.

I've held off and have done well for it, often the job I wanted wasn't what it looked like and better opportunities came along with networking and aiming at the jobs I knew were great fits.

Those I've spoken to have described Wash U in St Louis as mainly international students and a big group of bitter Boeing employees who don't get 100% of it paid for anymore like previous employees did. My company offers less than the cost of a single class for the entire year since there was no correlation with loyalty.

I'm still torn though, always feels like the grass is greener on the other side.
This is exactly what I was going for. Thank you so much for the confirmation! Means a lot.
> Hardcore drug addicts

As another commenter mentioned, I'd imagine a lot of drug trade (maybe not in heroin, but definitely in cocaine) is not hardcore drug addicts, but occasional (or even regular) users who live (relatively) normal lives.
I skipped to the section that is titled "Decompiling the Software" hoping for something interesting. Spoiler alert the author "was too scared to port scan the light switch." These IoT rage posts are starting to get monotonous.

There should be a law against that many "pull quotes" from your twitter account.
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does anyone know the HW specs needed to develop and use apps for Meta2?

UPDATE: HW requirements have been posted!

Intel Iris Pro / NVIDIA GT 650M / AMD Radeon HD7970 (recommend NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD 280 equivalent or greater) Intel i7-3610MQ equivalent or greater 8 GB RAM HDMI 1.4 video output 1x USB 3.0 ports Windows 8.1 or newer 64 bit Unity 5+ on Windows (for development, not end users) Intel HD compatible sound card USB 3.0.

SOURCE: https://www.metavision.com/faq
I'd quite like to retrofit remote-control lightswitches in a couple of places because the existing lightswitches are badly placed (either behind, or a long way from, the entrance door) without redecorating.
Except he used probably camera phone to take screenshot because his Monitor's brand is in it.
Not defending him here, he's a professional millionaire musician and should just buy it...

But music software is a HUGE pain in the ass to purchase. Pro Tools, for example, is tied to a dongle. It's 2016, and that's still the security method they choose to use. Lose the dongle? You're fucked. It's unfathomably frustrating.
A typical electric kettle puts a heating coil right into the water, and is better insulated against the escape of heat from its jacket.
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This is funnier because by definition it already has a many-watt light to indicate state!
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Are there any disadvantages of using Xamarin for app development compared to native Java/Swift for Android/iOs respectively? Why would I want to develop the same application twice, once in Java & once in Swift, rather than developing it just once in Xamarin?
The problem seems to be there are two AI tracks: practical and science fiction. Most people (especially enthusiastic novices, even well-funded enthusiastic novices) don't distinguish the difference.

The current practical approaches are all kinda non-AI stuff that's been co-opted into "AI" by marketing/branding. Nobody looks at a Toyota factory robot and screams "AI!!!" But, every day day people look at image/speech recognition and do scream "AI!!!"

In the long run, the science fiction approach is of some concern, but the trick is how long is long run here. The enthusiastic novices think fully self-aware computer brains will control the world within 3 years, but those same people also are pretty much ignorant on current research (outside of popularizing articles). They can't really tell you about any details of practical progress that could result in a chain of events between the present day and their "computational apocalypse" science fiction future.

(and other things of concern like "friendly AI" are just so silly to be... silly. we can't even make "provably friendly" people, and you expect systems more powerful than people will fall under people control? good luck with that.)

take a deep breath. slow your irrational exuberance. stay in the present. work towards a better tomorrow. the future isn't going to make itself.
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I have an electric kettle plugged in to a standard US 110 socket, and it boils a few cups of water very quickly - about 2 minutes from the tap to boiling. Plus, the kettle has an automatic shut-off and I can hold the handle with my bare hands after it's done. Way better than the microwave or a stove-top kettle.

I think electric kettles are pretty common in the US among tea drinkers, but houses where everyone drinks coffee won't typically have one. Since most of the US prefers coffee, you don't get a lot of electric kettles.
That's not his YouTube account logged in. There's a pic that shows more out there, and seemingly Kanye took a pic of someone's computer.
I would be interested in learning more about this, or their agenda, what school or article is being referred to here?
Especially given that most US homes have a microwave oven which heats water better than either.
Quookers are fantastic, but they're still hugely expensive - hundreds of Euro - compared to a kettle which can be picked up for a tenner
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On MacOS it's builtin, Cmd + Shift + 4 lets you select a screen area

(yeah, not as intuitive as having a PrtScrn button)
Totally appreciate that concern!

Other community-oriented services out there are built on top of a completely free platform, which makes it very difficult to pay the bills and why you see so many of them shutdown.

While we're in beta, our services are totally free, but we will have to find the right pricing model down the line.
Here's a much better commentary on AI for popcorn reading.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
So much possible downside to these smart things and very little upside.
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Whoa I had no idea. I'd just assumed amperage would be higher in the USA, and that my kettle was crap.
This is simply not possible if you are getting your fix from a regulated supply chain.

Well, it would still be possible (see e.g. last year's horse meat scandal in Britain), but the entire supply chain would be known and could be prosecuted.
I've never used them for large volume actually. Are you using them via SMTP or API? I'm asking because I've never seen a single API call fail with them, but maybe it's about the volume like you said.

For large volume sending, I'd probably use AWS SES. In the past, I've used it for sending 150-200K/transactional emails per day and the service was very robust.

On the other hand, I've seen Mandrill increase the number of failed API calls with a lower sending volume.
Edit: This is about taking screenshots of a device fro the same device. I see in another comment that the screenshot here was a photo taken by a smartphone (which is a different topic).

This is really an issue most people aren't aware of. People somehow learn how to take screenshots of their entire desktop on computers and share them, but also somehow fail to learn how to take screenshots of a window or crop/blur them appropriately. Or perhaps they're always in a hurry and don't have the time to look up how to deal with it.

I have learned which banks some people use (online banking tab open), which browser they use, which programs are running on their system (from the task bar), which Facebook pages they have open, whom they're messaging with on Facebook, which other articles around the web they're reading, and so many other details just by looking at screenshots. It may not be an issue that I got to know these, but it's an information leak that should've been avoided.

Since people aren't going to change quickly, the only solution I can think of is having the screenshot feature or software on all platforms ask the user with a simple UI what they would like to black/blur out and then save that. Dear Apple, here's a cue to build this right into iOS and OS X to continue with the "privacy matters" motto for users (of course, it would be great if Google and MS also embrace this across all their platforms).
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They also have very homogenous populations with a strong, shared sense of cultural identity.
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The government persists with the drug war because Americans have a moral opposition to drug use: http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2014/study-public-fe.... When I was a kid in the 1990's, 70-80% of polled adults wanted to make even marijuana illegal. For drugs aside from marijuana, that's still the case.

Your alternate theories about money and control directly contradict the history of prohibition. Did you know that at the time alcohol prohibition was instituted, fully 1/3 of the federal budget came from liquor taxes? Alcohol producers were incredibly powerful, yet their product was banned because of moral panic. To a significant degree, women's' suffrage happened when it did so they could vote for prohibition.

There is a great PBS series on this: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition. It's a story of a grass-roots national movement of Americans, many of them heretofore politically marginalized, rising up against money and power to effect change.
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"They also exhaust their land with poor farming practices, that isn't climate change, either."

The climate change adepts will argue with you on this one, as human induced (micro)climate change is still considered a climate change.
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The behavior does look irrational if you ignore the fact that publishers also want to sell their books in to other retailers and those retailers will not order books if they believe Amazon will deeply undercut them for the same titles. So they ask the publisher to put in place a deal with all the retailers through which the book will be sold that guarantees no one retailer will offer the book below a certain price. This is, of course, quite a lot like price fixing, but seems to be how it's been done in many areas of retail for just about ever.
We don't have a 220v version of the Plum Lightpad, otherwise I would offer to send one to you, but not all "smart" switches are quite as bad as your experience. We've done our best to focus on build quality, security, and usefulness (we do need a neutral though).
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a lot of that boiled water is invariably wasted rather than turned into tea

Only if you've overfilled the kettle. They consume 3kW, but only for a short time. David MacKay FRS investigated the gas vs. electric question in detail: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/hotwater/

Fun additional fact: British tanks come with electric kettles enabling the crew to make tea in combat situations.
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One thing I am surprised by is that it is almost never mentioned how China became drug free after Britain made China into the biggest dope user through the Opium wars.

They virtually got rid of opium usage in a relatively short time, and they did it without any sort of war on drugs approach.

They certainly fought the drug usage but they did not imprison or blame drug users. Rather than told abusers they were victims who needed help. They were given education to cope with addiction, jobs etc. Even drug dealers were, except the worst ones who were imprisoned.

It might have helped the narrative that they could blame Britain as the evil doer.

While not the same as legalization it does have some resemblance to the Portuguese approach where the focus is on helping people taken for abuse rather than punishing or imprisoning.
Re: more drug choices -- that's exactly what's happening here in Colorado. There's a huge variety of choice. And at the dispensaries the staff generally very knowledgable, so it's almost like buying wine.
Start with Sun Tzu. :)

Some people have an aptitude for diplomacy and it comes naturally. Others don't. Some are completely turned off by the entire concept that quality work can't stand on its own. Intuiting and playing the power dynamics in an organization is a critical skill for managers especially (and in particular if they want to set their teams up for success). You can read all the theory and case studies you want but if it doesn't come naturally and/or you don't have opportunities to practice, it's going to be tough to make inroads. You can almost imagine it like the current US presidential nomination process. All the candidates are shit, on both sides, but astute folks know it only matters a little bit because there are plenty of smart people behind the scenes who actually pull the strings and make the important decisions. Those are the career diplomats, who are supported by specialist analysts, who are in turn receiving data and insights from technical staff.

One of the easiest ways to "improve" in this area is to start by trying to figure out what the corporate BD strategy is (as well as the entire industry sector), then try to learn what individuals' agendas are, and finally connect the dots and figure out what critical role you or your team can play in the context of the bigger pictures. That's business. Business is not the same as making things. Business is the practice of instilling confidence and trust in other people, ultimately convincing them to give you money for something they find valuable.
"We know how important a good core team is for a startup, so we don't want to hire people we don't think fits in our team."

Is this code for "cultural fit"?
its a publicity stunt, this is so freaking obvious. kanye west knows the dangers in the public more than enough, to know what he's posting. anyone agree?