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The beauty of drug dealing (from a criminal's perspective) is that it's easy and profitable - there's a high demand from customers willing to spend a lot of money on drugs, and enforcement is very poor (judging from the ease end-users can buy drugs). Prostitution is very similar. So, if you legalize all businesses with which criminals easily earn a lot of money, a lot of them will be economically incentivised to start participating in legal businesses.
If you do not hold a Swiss / EU-passport, it is hard. A Swiss company can get you a work permit, if they can prove to the authorities that no other suitable candidate could be found in Switzerland / in the EU. This can be done if the company really wants you.

So unless you are an expert in some field AND a company really knows you, the chances are unfortunately low. :(
The drug abuse problem was not completely fixed but at least it shifted the principal caretaker of the problem from the security forces to the social security.

In my view these were the main factors for the relative (and undeniable as per [1]) success of the Portugal approach:

- Decriminalizing the use and possession without the intent to distribute (the measure that gets all the credit)

- The harm reduction program [2] with measures like needle exchanges, safe rooms for drug injection (popularly known here as "salas de chuto", roughly "kick rooms"), methadone clinics

- Relocation, requalification and housing programs to vacate popular drug hotspots like, for instance, Casal Ventoso (before [3], after [4])

It is interesting because in the span of one generation heroin consumption turned from "cool, rebelious and chic" (like in Kate Moss heroin chic) to a bums drug, provided by the government to the ones that lost their ways.

This change in perception helped to break the cycle of graduation from light drugs (like cannabis) to hard drugs (like heroin) in the youth and most likely is a significant factor in the success of the portuguese approach.

Kids won't touch the hard stuff because they can see very clearly based on who ends up in "salas de chuto" or in the methadone centers the harmful effect of the drug.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-decr...

[2] http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/country-data/harm-reduction/Port...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7lOXcR05_E (graphic, drug use, in portuguese)

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqIUU80W60M (in portuguese)
On a sunny Sunday afternoon sure - and there's a great park culture in London under those circumstances. But after work, in bad weather and/or winter? I want a room, a "third place" for socializing (and I want alcohol available there, because I'm bad at socializing without it). Americans tend to call such places bars (as a Brit I wouldn't generally think of them as that). They're certainly not all dark rooms that look alike.
Its peculiar that a group with a specific DNA marker would be wiped out so completely by climate change while another group was not (or at least prospered at a later time in the same region).

Could this more easily be explained by an aggressive disease or plague that wiped out anyone it contacted and the separation of the 2 groups (N and M) in different locations protected enough of the N group for it to prosper. Also isolated pockets of M carriers who had migrated beyond the infected area survived.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. Haskell (specifically GHC) has perfectly thread-safe secretly mutable thunks. Are you suggesting there’s a problem with doing this in a strict language? An impure language? Or something else? I don’t see why you’d say there’s a problem with a secretly mutating thunk datatype.
One important fact(1) i haven't heard in the entire hearing:

(2)The FBI wants 3 things: disable 'erase after 10', disable delay between attempts, create possibility to enter PINs programmatically so they can be brute forced.

(1) If this would be created, criminals/terrorist could easily defeat this by (instead of 6 digits) enabling alphanumeric passwords and creating strong passwords that cannot be brute forced (which isn't even a usability problem since you can easily unlock your iPhone with your fingerpint most of the time.)

So the end result of (2): security is lowered for 99% of all people (innocent) and criminals/terrorist (1%) can still easily avoid being caught by this measure.
As far as I'm concerned, that's the price one pays for doing research in secret.
No, a rude man is typically described as rude or as being an asshole. And women can be tough, assertive and confident, too.
Problem: In e.g. Germany you need these papers to get access to some jobs, without you won't get them or nearly only 1% will have chance to get it.

There's no job guarantee with it, but still...
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Had planned to start a non-profit org but couldn't find time for it. Let me know if anyone is interested in the domain or the idea(Can collaborate).
It's clear that the guy who wrote this never read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Nor did the author of the article he links to.

Pure drivel.
- I use slack for email replacement.

- I leave channels where information/noise ratio is low for me.

- I use voice/F2F if slack is not sufficient.

- I only fall back on email for calendar invites.
I have been screamed at by women, too (for example once I asked one who was struggling with a vending machine if I could help her). As I said - in general we try to be polite to prevent escalation of things.

And it doesn't sound from the story as if the girl agreed to meet for dinner because she feared an abusive response otherwise.
Right, and your daemons use sub-1000 UIDs and user UIDs start at 1000. In Debian, at least. Other distros have other starting points, but the concept remains the same.
It depends on the source code you find: if you find a source code without comments or even worse an obfuscated code it would be a really really difficult task to modify it the right way.
> When push comes to shove the establishment tell the BBC what to do.

See also "The Thick Of It".
Sorry if it came across as condescending; I'm just tired of the lazy "drugs are more dangerous than tobacco" argument because it's easy to repeat, but essentially meaningless. Answering your question is difficult because very few countries have legalised 'the most dangerous' drugs.

Let's take Portugal as an example, though. It decriminalised heroin in 2001; for the sake of argument, let's agree that heroin is at least very slightly more dangerous to the individual than tobacco. Portugal now has a way, way lower incidence of death due to overdose than almost every country in Europe [1]. That's not relative to numbers taking heroin, that's relative to the population, so even if heroin use has rocketed (which it hasn't; lifetime use has increased from 0.7% to 1.1% [2]) lives have still been saved overall.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-decr...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#Observ...
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Why would they increase consumption? Do you think there are millions of people saying "Oh, I wish I could do meth, but I just don't want to get arrested!"

Smoking kills more people than all other drugs combined. WAAAAAY more. Same with alcohol.
Also curious. Have lots of experience on CATI/CAWI systems.
> won't significantly increase their consumption

It could. That's not the point.

The main point that Annan is making is that there should be a health system in place for addicts, instead of a penitentiary system (where addictions typically become worse).

The past 50 year study/failed experiment known as "The War On Drugs" has shown us that there is nothing you can do to stop people from taking drugs. The war on drugs not only wastes tax money, is not only completely ineffective, but actually drives people toward dangerous usage. If drugs aren't regulated you never know what you are getting. Just recently tourists were being sold white heroin in Holland instead of cocaine (3 fatalities AFAIR). If used in the same way as cocaine is, white heroin can be lethal. This is simply not possible if you are getting your fix from a regulated supply chain.

Basically, by regulating drugs there is hope that there will be fewer drug-related fatalities and in the long-run (possibly decades) we'll most likely see less drug-related crime. This quote from the piece sums up the remainder of the piece perfectly:

> It is time to acknowledge that drugs are infinitely more dangerous if they are left solely in the hands of criminals who have no concerns about health and safety.
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You don't. At least not by every job. It's more like 99% could get a job without a MBA.
If everybody will be a master, everybody will also want to get a higher grade in his job, which couldn't work, so you need normal developers as well.

The only thing you will get a lot less than a MBA. When you would get the job of a MBA you will mostly get the same money he will get even when you have 5 years of experience.
New video on drug war by Kurzgesagt (excellent to get an overview): https://youtu.be/wJUXLqNHCaI
> I really hope modular implicits will make it to the language one day

"I'm expecting there will be more news about those in the next six months".

I'd be very surprised not to see modular implicits in 4.04 now that the foundation has been put in place with Flambda[1]:

"Even if you're perfectly happy with OCaml's performance as is, Flambda is still an exciting change. That's because various upcoming language improvements like modular implicits (a feature that brings some of the same benefits as Haskell's typeclasses) will only really perform acceptably well with a good inliner in place".

[1] https://blogs.janestreet.com/flambda/
I remember my undergrad signals and systems class. Instructor said if I use Laplace transforms on any of the problems, I would get no partial credit. I got an A+ for the course.

Also got A+ in DE, but I still don't think a grokked it.
It's hyperbole to compare the median person's experience in the US to that of the median person in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
I think a lot of people are realizing that you don't need to get dozens of thousands of dollars in debt to get a quality education. Dedication counts. Sometimes you just need to know the right people or get your foot in the door as a lower level employee who can learn it in the real world.

I know a surprisingly high amount of people who hold less than a 4 year bachelor's in Comp Sci or related who now hold significant positions in major companies.
Well it's certainly not because they want to be able to order their heroin online, have it delivered next day, and mainline it in the safety of their own homes. Because they can already do that.
To be completely honest, I also do it like this at the moment, using Kdiff as a merge tool. I've been thinking about moving over to Ediff, but I'm lazy.
I just took a look at Discord and it's really funny how it seems more of a Slack/Skype alternative than a TeamSpeak/Mumble alternative, even though they try to target the gaming market.

For example, there is no way to self-host a Discord server. While that might be OK for Slack/Skype users, some TeamSpeak/Mumble users might not like that.
You have a point. We might actually end up with a multitude of lazy types (akin to `RefCell` vs. `Mutex` in Rust). In high-level languages like ML and Haskell, forcing all lazy data to be boxed, and atomically mutating pointers to boxed data, seems like a reasonable solution.
Only in areas where software is not the main product.
Mind saying which version of django is used?
You're probably in the Bay Area -- and if you don't want remote developers you're shutting yourself off from all of us who wouldn't move there no matter how high the compensation.
Just work on one thing that has a chance of being used. It's going to take some time. Give it all you've got. If it hasn't worked in say six months, try something else.

Six startups in six is just showcasing your lack of understanding of what it really takes.
Is the end of an ice age not a form of climate change then?

A fact of the matter is that a lot of evolution is driven by constantly changing climates. The supervolcanos and asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs also did so through climate change: too much dust in the air and too little sunlight made the land colder, killed much of the plants, and made resources more scarce. Small warm-blooded animals suddenly had the edge.

It is a bit of a catch-all, though. Just "climate change" doesn't tell you much. Receding glaciers and more accessible land tells you a lot more.
I'm Portuguese, so let me give a local perspective. It is important to note that Portugal had a very low crime rate to begin with and, in comparison, drug problems smaller than the US. The experience may not translate directly.

Nevertheless, decriminalization of consumption (not traffic), has allowed drug users to reach out for treatment, which led to better statistics on drug use, better approaches to treatment and an overall decrease in hard-core drug use (cocaine, meth and such). Cannabis use is up from then, but that is perhaps an observation bias (better statistics).

The result of lower hard drug use is a lower crime rate. That effect is clear as water. It is now obvious that most crime had drug use as its cause.

Interestingly, there was a social effect that may be hard to reproduce. Hard drugs fell out of fashion. While cannabis is widespread in youth events, hard drug use is socially shunned. Perhaps the visibility of its effects hit the population, perhaps the relative personal cost became obvious, but it is certainly uncool to be a hard drug user.
On some level the premise of your statement is not totally incorrect. As a result of legalalized weed, It has been reported that Mexican cartels have moved to other sources of revenue such as kidnapping [1].

One of the main goals of legalization is to starve black market actors of revenue. Extortion and kidnapping don't scale nearly as well as dope; therefore they are orders of magnitude less profitable.

1.http://fusion.net/story/108575/how-mexican-drug-cartels-are-...
Even with a significant increase in consumption, it might be worth legalizing because the social costs (that is, the costs born by those who do not voluntarily choose to accept them) of prohibition could still be higher than those of the increased consumption.
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Random crazy idea that might be useless or contraproductive: have users install a small daemon that notifies the server about their workspace changes in between commits, so you can see what people are working on live.

In a team setting such as where I work, it's somewhat arbitrary that I only learn about work once it's committed and pushed. It would be interesting to see in real time what people are messing around with.

But I also like the idea of asynchronicity, and taking inspiration from open source collaboration into the business world, rather than the other way around...

By the way, it seems to me that the basic functionality of GitHub and GitLab is quite simple, and the kind of thing you could make an MVP of in a weekend or two, if you carefully avoid complications and keep it ruthlessly simple...
The usual WebGL demos that never match native experience.

My mobile devices do OpenGL ES 3.0 and 3.1, none of them runs the demo.
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Askia. Great company with a great sense of humour.

Disclaimer: I used to work there.
My first guess is that maybe your "high" salary isn't high enough. That's usually the reason that companies think there are no good developers out there.

They're out there. But they're expensive. How much are you offering?
And the alternative ways to make money for a self respecting criminal are getting harder every day. Cars are more difficult to steal, people use a lot less cash, you have CCTVs everywhere, now the police even collects DNA for a robbery. I can't think of an obvious substitute to drug trafficking for these criminals. I would be also ready to bet that Tinder must have made a dent in the prostitution trade!

But not all drug traffickers are Tony Montanas, there are legions of petty criminals, or even workers who make money on the side dealing drugs.
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But the problem is that their personal specialty is not valued much, so if they want bread on their table they better augment it with a complementary specialty.
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Zdziarski's arguments are very illuminating on how this is not a simple or one-off request. Excellent read.
> Click Build

I'm willing to bet iOS has a huge build infrastructure, many different components, and about a snowball's chance in hell of having a single nice clean Makefile for you to type one command to get a build without access to that infrastructure.
> 0pointer-branded narcissism

It is possible to avoid that crap. Older - and much saner - software still works. Just ignore the "desktops" and run the specific tools you need in a saner windowmanager of your choice.

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It absolutely is a conspiracy. I think you mean it's not an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
> without (in most cases) hurt anyone else

Surely you don't think the only victim in the drug trafficking industry are actually drug users?
You can learn OCaml in a couple weeks.
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As with many things, there's a widespread and not entirely erroneous perception that working below market for a while is a necessary precondition to later doing well.

Also what's considered "market rate" and what's in 2016 a living wage have relatively little in common. Seven cents a word is the minimum 'professional' rate for short fiction, which very few people in 2016 can actually live solely on.
Is this the most viral competition format ever?
The people I've known who were successful who had MBAs seemed to use it as a way of signalling that they were serious about doing the whole "management" thing - which in a large organisations tends to mean that you stop doing whatever it is the the organisation actually does and focus on "management" stuff.

NB Note that I am most definitely not criticizing the need for high level managers - someone does have to do it, just that I personally have no interested in doing it as I'm too interested in actually doing stuff rather than managing other people doing stuff.

Edit: For the MBA track in a large organisation you probably are aiming at being at least the manager of the manager of the manager of the people who actually do stuff... ;-)
I'm guessing after 4.03 and before 4.05?
And "climate change" is a misleading word to call resource exhaustion caused by human populations outgrowing the carrying capacity of their environment. It's as if the humans are simply passive victims of external circumstances.
I know you are probably getting down-voted into oblivion, but I'm with you.

There are already services like this, they just don't have an LLC or an App :-)
Are you talking about MBAs or M.A./M.Sc. degrees in related fields? Personally, I do not even consider MBAs to be much of "a thing" in Germany. Yes, there are some prestigious universities offering them (St. Gallen comes to mind) but many people still have not moved on to the Bologna System from the good old "Diplombetriebswirt" in their hearts, let alone MBAs.
has anyone ever found the spaghetti tangle of branches diagram useful for anything?

every git gui provides one but I've never managed to parse any useful info from it. maybe you have to be supernaturally disciplined about your commit history or something. or maybe they're just fun to build, yay data visualisations etc
Not necessarily – you can chain iterators and skip elements on the hare.
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Is this format of competition where users share for extra entries the most viral way to run a competition or are there more effective types of competition/software that can generate more leads?
As a side note, Ukraine actually did have nuclear weapons post-USSR. Then, Ukraine agreed to give them up, in exchange for clauses in treaties where Russia guarantees its territorial integrity.

So now, after Crimean acquisition, we know that the Russian signature in nuclear treaties is worth nothing.
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I know b-trees. Still patricia trees or the optimized variant judy hashes are more cache friendly, and non fucked-up hashes even more.
For OrderedDict it makes sense, but I would still consider judy or patricia better.
The wikipedia page explains them pretty well I think, so going there is a better explanation than anything else.

For a programmer, they allow you to be more precise about the point in time where an object should be regarded as a weak object. That is, an object which can be collected when under GC pressure. A weak references edges itself toward this goal, but often require some manual intervention and/or knowledge of the GC world to manage by the programmer. An ephemeron removes this additional knowledge from the programmers mind. It allows one programmer to make an interface which is truly not leaking in GC abstraction. So other programmers don't have to know about it at all.
>in which freedoms reign.

Really? Looking beyond what is drilled in to the population from birth and the US is very rule bound in my experience compared to Europe. Whilst over there I got ticketed for parking at the wrong angle, crossing the road in the wrong place. Granted not a rule, but got questions by police for walking and many other situations I forget.

Perhaps European countries have this many rules / laws but I have never experienced them being enforced
I'm finding things like a combination of something like Podio, Zapier and other integrations are what are going to finally unseat salesforce.
Superb talk at NYC.rb this month btw.
1) Agreed. Right now until I can find someone who knows how to dev. I'm trying to keep the page to 4 movements per page (to helping any loading issues). It'll come for sure though, we also have it filmed.

2) Cleans IMO is quite a complex movement. I'm looking to apply an "advanced" button on the homepage sometime soon that will enable people to select more advanced movments like this (and deadlifts, but I feel they were too important not to include)
3) For sure!

Thanks for the feedback. This has been in my mind as a site for such a long time, I'm glad to actually have people seeing it.
I am pro legalization but I would never see a drug user as a victim. No more than an alcoholic driving a car is a victim. The flip side of freedom is responsibility. The state will not make decisions for you, and therefore you are responsible for your own decisions. It's not like if the long term effects of drugs aren't well and widely known.
Not I don't money is zero zum. But in the end, what you can exchange for it is. The current virtual nature of money has nothing to do with it, it's just yet another mecahnisme to accumulate capital, in the form of the potential of things you can acquire represented by a number. This potential is virtual, and moving, it's a (broken) mecanisme, but the things you can buy with it are not.