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>> Meanwhile the public are more concerned that "I'm a Celebrity get me out of here" is about to start, and the tax on petrol and beer to due to rise in the next budget.

First of all, "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here" doesn't start until autumn time.

In all seriousness the lack of concern by the general public surprises me especially after the high profile coverage of Edward Snowden. I spoke to someone training as a lawyer (specifically in human rights) and they'd never heard of Snowden or mass surveillance - and didn't seem to care either when I explained. That was pretty worrying.

On the other hand the decline of privacy rights has concerned me so much that I plan to retrain in Law (been in technology for about 9 years since I left high school) with the sole aim of working to maintain our privacy rights. So although not everyone cares right now (they probably will when it's too late) I'm sure there are enough people who do who are willing to do what they can to try fix this.
Yup! That's pretty much one of the end goals. I need a dev on board really (and I'm searching)
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I find a GUI very convenient for picking chunks that I'd like to commit.
That's coming very soon. (the image will change based on selection of male/female) as will the gifs.
That's, to the extent it's an issue at all, a short term problem that you need to accept at some point if you want to stop creating new criminals of that sort through drug prohibition.

And rehabilitating criminals in the criminal justice system becomes easier when drug-war-induced overcrowding of the prison system is reduced.
Nearly all countries have some ban so I doubt full legalization is the answer. I think if you approach it to minimise harm you'd probably have varying policies depending on the drug and the situation. For example cannabis, maybe legalize and tax like cigarettes. Stuff like Heroin and Meth don't legalize private sales but let drug counsellors hand it out to addicts to kill the illegal market, prevent them being harmed by contaminated drugs and stop them breaking and nicking stuff.
he did not say this when he still had anything to say. he could have made a difference.
I'd quote an interesting point of view on MBA from Joi Ito's TED talk.

Before the Internet, if you remember, when we tried to create services, what you would do is you'd create the hardware layer and the network layer and the software and it would cost millions of dollars to do anything that was substantial. So when it costs millions of dollars to do something substantial, what you would do is you'd get an MBA who would write a plan and get the money from V.C.s or big companies, and then you'd hire the designers and the engineers, and they'd build the thing. This is the Before Internet, B.I., innovation model.

https://www.ted.com/talks/joi_ito_want_to_innovate_become_a_...
>I believe is medically accepted to have immense benefits, whereas I'm not sure the case is the same with the drugs under consideration here...

Another flaw of your "the dangerous ones" generalization.

Does MDMA count as one of the dangerous ones? It has promising potential for the treatment of depression, PTSD, etc. Or other psychadelics such as mushrooms or LSD.

What about ketamine? It's used recreationally, but it's also commonly administered in hospitals and may also be beneficial for those suffering from depresson.

There are undoubtedly others.

Ironically, good research into these "dangeorus" drugs has been hindered largely because of the widespread perception among the public and policymakers that they are dangerous, whether or not that is actually the case.
More issues with OpenSSL are discussed in this study sponsored by the German government: https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publicat...
Floating point textures seem to be a particular weak point with WebGL on mobile devices. I don't understand why, though, as the devices I looked at actually support them with native apps (they're in the ES3 spec), but not with WebGL.
"I'm enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and achievement that made modern capitalism possible and brought billions of people out of poverty. Talking about Socialism is a huge luxury, a luxury that was paid for by the successes of capitalism. Income inequality is a huge problem, absolutely. But the idea that the solution is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd."
--Garry Kasparov
How sure how closely it compares to large companies, but with most of the [large] companies i've been at, the metric for promotion was how many people you could hire under you. Not code quality, size of system, not impact, not money saved, not business enabled....just the size of your org chart. Not sure why HR devolves into such a silly metric for non-revenue generating departments, but i've seen it at 5 separate organizations. Is it any wonder employees then behave in the ways they do and build empires?
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> why do they persist with it?

So far as I understand, a treaty[1][2] is the root of this problem. I assume that the validity and efficacy of this treaty will come into question April 19 through 21. Amending this treaty would pave the way for sensible drug control.

[1]: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/single-convention.ht...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...
Yes and no. Different places are better for different things, but some places do combine a lot of positive factors, and some places do combine a lot of negative factors; I suspect there really are pairs of cities where you can say that X is just better than Y for most reasonable criteria.

Even if you don't believe that, many people on this site have the choice between London and San Francisco, so it's well worth exploring the differences between them here.
One of the alluring things of SSA form is that many optimizations are much faster to execute on the form. The costly part is to raise the SSA form in the first place which in the standard implementation requires one to build a costly dominator tree.

You don't need to add every optimization known to man to a compiler, so you can sometimes keep a few of the important ones and then skip every other optimization. A priori, I'd guess SSA would speed up the compiler, which means you end up having a better budget for the more expensive optimizations.
> Sorry, but I'm going to have to call out this statement as sexist.

Here we go again. Somebody pointing out gender bias is blamed for being sexist.
I didn't downvote you, but I think you're being downvoted because the information content isn't much more than "but cryptography something something!"

I mentioned that the most common method for uniquely identifying a handset (the IMEI) can be changed by switching a chip on the iPhone's main board. (At least this was true 6 years ago.)

So, unless Apple uses an interactive signature scheme or prevents the FBI/intelligence agencies from ever seeing the signature (using TLS with hard-coded certs), then the signature can be replayed.

If the signature can be replayed, then in order to prevent FBiOS being used on multiple phones, it must be tied to one or more unique identifiers, probably excluding the IMEI.

Many people understood my post as shorthand for the above. Responding to this with "[But] Apple firmware updates are signed on a per-install basis." doesn't add to the conversation unless you provide further details. At least, that's my best guess as to why you've been downvoted.
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The phone belongs to San Bernadino County, and is administered by them. This entire effort is PR intended to set precedent or encourage new legislation.
While I agree that this premise may be true for many, it really depends on the individual. Also a distance MBA is not worth it, almost never. It looks like the author went into a poor program, ill prepared and had to drop out. Generally a top MBA will put you on a quick rising career path. Whether you are happy in that path, well.. That's another matter. MBA doesn't guarantee you will rise in that path either. You may, if you are good. The degree just gives you a shot at it. A poor article by usual economist standards.
He means that updates to those thunks have to be guaranteed atomic. This can be achieved in three ways: (0) disallowing threads running in parallel, (1) using atomic operations [only works on small enough pieces of data, such as pointers to boxed data], or (2) using explicit concurrency control [locks, whatever]. We know GHC doesn't do the first, and the third would also be overkill, so it probably does the second. This also explains why unboxed data in GHC is less lazy.
I always wonder what would happen to drug use if it was widely and easily available. Would usage drop because it wouldn't be "rebellious" to get drugs?

That was at least the motivation for a lot of younger drug users I know.

In my country (India), there is a region in the Himalayas - Kasaul - where marijuana grows in the wild. It is so easily accessible that you can literally pluck some on a walk through the forest.

You'd expect with such easy availability, the locals would be all addled on weed/hashish all the time. Yet, most locals tend to be non-users. Most users tend to be tourists and outsiders who come solely for the purportedly "best in the world" hashish
I will generalize his argument, since it's not really about MBA's:

"If you make major life decisions against your clear preference in a vague effort to please your parents, you will probably regret it."
I just gave my throwaway email address, let them spam it all they want.

I wasn't overly impressed by their app (not to say that it's bad, given the overall scarcity of decent GUI options for Git), but I wanted to take a peek... having to provide some email isn't a showstopper at this point
We deploy straight from master, but tag each build.

If you need to rebuild a specific version, it's as easy as checking out the tag.
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The browsers say what they accept, the server says what it provides and something in the intersecting set will be used.

If (as a random example that didn't annoy me at all for 2 years) a website also needs to support SmartTV devices which only accept obsolete certificates then your server has to either break them or not.
We have noise complaint laws, sure. They're different depending on the jurisdiction, of course, but they exist.

And as for the security guards, it doesn't sound like they're protecting public property. Depending on the laws in that area publicly accessible does not imply that people are allowed there, just that they can easily get there.
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upvoted because I loved the honesty! I am 30 something and these are the exact sort of reasons which are holding me back from pursuing MBA. I have met people who have NOT done MBA (or any formal management education FTM) and are running successful businesses or are in management positions in good corporations. And I have met MBAs who are doing the job I would not consider if I have an MBA.
I guess the point is to do it for right reasons. Like when you want to switch career to a new field and MBA can be your gateway. Having an MBA does not guarantee a high salary or that coveted management position IMHO.
It's not that they want to be poor, it's that you're making it viable for them to lounge instead of work. A great many would rather sleep in and watch TV all day, instead of get up early and work hard for not a significant improvement in living. Every time I go to help the poor at their homes, I'm amazed at how many choose their conditions by opting for behaviors causing their poverty.
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MBAs are going the way of the law degree.

Unless you are from a top 15 college, it's not worth it.
I generate random answers that fit the question (i.e. best friend: Steven Austin, 1st Car: Hummer H3) and store them in Last Pass (or Keepass). Can use password generator too.
Here's what we have in Switzerland:

http://www.premiereligne.ch/quai9/

(basically, a drug user's paradise: a "consumption space" injection rooms, clean drugs available, medical attention and reanimation in case of overdose, therapy programs and support programs with the intention to help people quit drugs without stigmatizing them and pushing them to it).

It is immensely successful. Drug crime becoming nonexistent here. The number of drug users is also decreasing, as drugs are now decriminalized, uncool, readily available and coming with friendly doctors and therapists.
Hi,

Is there an email you can be reached at? I'm looking to relocate to the Denver area. I came across LASP on other sites and was very interested in some of the positions. I'd love to get some insight on how you like working there.
> Stuff like Heroin and Meth don't legalize private sales but let drug counsellors hand it out to addicts to kill the illegal market, prevent them being harmed by contaminated drugs and stop them breaking and nicking stuff.

That's the worst of both worlds. What will happen is a lot of people will become "addicts", get the drug (legally), then sell it to drug dealers to cash out. Criminals will keep their profits high, but they'll decrease their risk (because the government will be a safe and reliable supplier).
I've edited my post to include the context-- but my point stands. I just don't believe that most homeless are incapable of finding shelter, let alone choosing to be on the streets.
> I suspect Comey is just a fucking idiot.

I'd argue that he's being intentionally deceptive. For example, he testified* that "he's not a good lawyer", when in fact he served as the Deputy Attorney General during the Bush administration.

* http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/james-comey-ducks-mo...
Depends if your gaming the immigration system having a masters helps
Just a remark: St. Gallen is in Switzerland, not in Germany
Not sure how you're claiming prescription heroin is not a problem in the UK. It is a big one.
> The number of drug users is also decreasing, as drugs are now decriminalized, uncool, readily available and coming with friendly doctors and therapists.

I wish this was the norm everywhere.
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> PlaNet figured out where 3.6 percent were taken with “street-level accuracy,” another 10.1 percent at the city level, 28.4 percent at country level and 48 percent at continent level

I'm nitpicking, but that's hardly an 'exact' location (as admitted in the article.) Solid progress nonetheless!
What about the fact that drugs are incompatible with the lifestyle we want our society to have? Isn't it better instead of legalizing them to find the root cause which is forcing these people to seek escapism from reality in psychoactive substances?

I don't want to live in a society of drug addicts, I want to live among people of sound mind, body and spirit, who conduct themselves honestly and honourable among their peers.
Everyone keeps saying that Amazon has a secret evil plan to become THE source for everything and then jack up the prices, but no actual evidence of this ever happening.
The number of books in the world is monotonically increasing.

The number of hours a person has available in their life to enjoy reading books is constant, or at least capped pretty close to where it's at now.

There are already too many books for anyone to read everything that might interest them in their lifetime.

So what's the use of new fiction books? Haven't enough already been written to serve everyone's needs? I agree that we need fewer fiction authors and the market is showing that with their low compensation.
> Thing is with ebooks the author should make more money, there's a wider accessible market, lower production cost.

The market is... different. Wider in some ways, narrower in others. Young adult fiction is largely nonexistent in ebook, still, because young adults' access to e-reading devices is still more limited than adults', and they are less likely to discover fiction online than through more traditional channels.

The production costs are, again, not significantly lower in ebook than print.

> Thing is with ebooks the author should make more money

While that's been the going theory in some parts for a while, in practice it hasn't turned out that way.
The article should probably be renamed "Why enrolling for an MBA to please my parents was not a good idea".

MBAs make sense in some cases. It's a good way to change career path. Bankers and consultants use it as a break after two or three hellish years as a junior. Knowing all these middle managers in other industries is actually very useful, to keep an eye on what is going on or sell them stuff, and providing opportunities for future career changes. For others it is a way to "upgrade" a modest academic education.

But enrolling in one of these things without having any clue of what to expect from it or just because of peer pressure is a waste of time and money. But the fault lies with the applicant.
I actually tried to make a business plan on that in one country. To my surprise there is a huge burden of proving what exact varieties are you growing and your entire textile crops can be destroyed by police raid just out of suspicion.
Women may be more afraid of escalating conflicts than a man would. Surely it's not controversial that an average woman is physically weaker than an average man.
But are they useful now, other than as nomenclature? Bessel functions are defined as the solutions of Bessel's differential equation. It's all a bit circular. (there's the series expansion, but it doesn't gain you much)

30 years ago, if I wanted to plot the result of solving an equation like this, Bessel functions were useful as I'd just reach for Abramowitz&Stegun and look at the tabulated values. But now I have a computer, tabulated special functions don't matter nearly so much.

It's a long time since I had to use Bessel functions, so I could be very wrong, but this might be one of the reasons Rota said that.
A few years ago, I dropped out of a decent but not top level MBA program after a quarter.

Putting together my own + my classmates + my college friends at top 5 programs, my takeaway is that the 3 main reasons to enroll in one are (1) to switch industries (or roles within an industry), (2) to take time off without leaving a hole in your resume (matters a lot in nontechnical fields), and (3) gain a particular network that you lack (ex: Wharton for finance, Stanford for SV, etc.). These reasons may sound trivial but for the right kind of person, the program can be a decent~good trade for their time and money opportunity cost.

The "move up the corporate chain" thing used to be more true (ex: you need to have a MBA to move up past a certain rung in the org chart) but is increasingly less so today. These days, if you're good, you're good. A noteworthy might be the "in-between" phase after the 2 year consulting or finance analyst program, but a large fraction of this cohort fits into (1) above.

The "learning" is nonzero but seems underwhelming and not anywhere near worth the funds you need to put up. Frankly if you know what you want to be doing in the future, imo you'll learn more by actually spending those 2 years actually working and doing those things (which was my main reason for dropping out). It may make more sense if you're a pretty bright person who doesn't really know what you want to do in the future but you do know that it isn't what you're doing now (ex: my journalist friends who saw the industry as a dead end).

edit: Also it's unwise to bucket all programs as "MBAs" since each one can be surprisingly different in what they offer in terms of concrete benefits.

edit2: For young professionals without a strong signaling institution thus far in their academic and professional careers, an MBA may be one of the more feasible options to get a mulligan in this regard. Say what you will about paying up for a signal, but it can pay off depending on the role and industry you're going for.
And its not like the last ice age just neatly stopped - there was a significant cooling period during the Younger Dryas which wasn't quite a bad as a full Ice Age but was still pretty severe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
But still your point is what? I said clearly that they don't want help not that they are incapable.
Prescribing heroin to addicts seemed to work quite well for society

http://www.badscience.net/2006/11/methadone-and-heroin/

Unlike our former business of selling the stuff to China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China
It isn't as simple as creating the tool, read this blog post that was linked elsewhere in this thread that explains why they can't just create and delete the tool.

http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5645
...I was at Sechseläuten a couple of years ago --- an end-of-spring festival where the city of Zürich explodes a snowman --- and was standing behind a couple of people sharing a joint.

The friend who'd taken me there was absolutely livid. He said it was the most incompetently rolled joint he'd ever seen.

Truly, it is a different place here.

(Although the downside is that tobacco smoking is rife and getting away from the smell at bus stops, station platforms etc can hard.)
ML Specialist link goes to the same page as Data Operations, fyi.
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I won't pretend that I know what the answer to this is, but the idea that the answer is evident is fucking absurd. Gender roles cut quite sharply both ways, and the only way to think otherwise is willful ignorance: for one extremely obvious example to anyone with even a second of thought, how often do you see men crying?
Who will the drug dealers sell it to?
That sounds like a people problem, not a technical one..
It is indeed fast. I'm just waiting for it to mature a little bit more to use it in production. My goal is to start working on production system after summer 2016. By the, more information about gotchas and issues should have arose.
And a lots of what is taught in these MBAs (or all these Agile, Scrum & co for that matter) are essentially substitutes for common sense.