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Human intelligence has remained approximately the same for 50,000 years. The ancient world had its geniuses at the same rate as the modern world. The main difference is whether their environments enabled them to prosper. Europe really had some issues in the post Rome era that meant that most of that talent was not appreciated and lots of knowledge was lost. It sounds like this stuff came from even earlier and had been passed down without knowledge of how they were produced.
A) You edited your original comment, which alters the meaning of my reply in ways I cannot control.

B) Giving out birth control and giving women power are incredibly different things. They can be intertwined, but trying to give power to an oppressed population is typically a hard uphill battle. Never mind the issues involved in trying to convince various religious groups that contraception will not have you burning in hell for all eternity.
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Having children directly takes from childless single people (in the US) through their taxes. I know that due to the law of averages, everything is supposed to be equal, but that is a direct subsidy to the majority from a minority.
> > trying to be a fast car but only really good for 0-60 in a straight line

> LOL. I sense hurt feelings.

A Model S weighs something like 4700lbs, depending on battery? I suppose it depends on one's definition of "fast car", but I personally consider more than straight line performance, and lighter cars have a distinct advantage. I agree with Lotus's Colin Chapman: "performance through low weight".

> > no OBD-2 port as another poster pointed out

> Why would it need an OBD-2 port when it has an API?
http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/#

Because OBD-2 is a standard with an entire ecosystem built around it.

> 2. Safety. It is the safest vehicle on the road. Period. Because there is no engine block slamming in your face during a front-end collision.

That is an advantage (also, it's on the heavy side and mass helps a lot) and it certainly tests well in crashes. IIHS statistics for injury and medical payments don't however support your statement that it is the "safest vehicle on the road". Porsche's 911 and Boxster have lower Personal Injury Claim frequencies (and the Boxster doesn't even have a roof!).

> 4. No oil changes. No transmission failures. Fewer moving parts = less maintenance needed.

There might be less maintenance needed on some of the drivetrain leading to a more convenient service interval, but there still is maintenance (tires, brakes, brake fluid, HVAC, battery, suspension, steering, etc.) to be done, and the longer service interval might make it more likely for problems to increase in severity before they're noticed. It's kind of a moot point, modern cars have overall excellent reliability on the drivetrain; luxury cars tend to have problems with the electrical system and associated accessories, especially after the lease period is up, and Tesla is no different.

> 5. American designed, American built, no $$$ going to questionable oil interests.

Overall design and final assembly, perhaps, but are you saying that the subsystem vendors are American too, to some degree larger than other manufacturers?

> 10. Supercharger network. Free juice all over the country and beyond. Fills up in 20-30 min.

It's not free, it's incorporated into the cost of the purchase.
I remember reading about this very thing in Barbara Tuchman's "A distant Mirror". In medieval France there was a large number of bandits that looted the countryside and wreaked havoc wherever they went. The royalty would find some excuse to wage war and hire a general to round up the bandits and bring them away with promises of war bounty. In the scope of world history, though, this was probably not too common.
Fixed link to Uni Utrecht press release:
http://www.uu.nl/en/news/origin-of-medieval-sea-charts-dispr...

Open access version of one of the student's recent articles:
http://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/327279/Nic...

The thesis is not public as he's written a book on this: http://www.brill.com/products/book/enigma-origin-portolan-ch...
Huh, I didn't know this was something special. I used to swim underwater with my eyes open all the time when I was little and I could see underwater just fine like the article describes. I just assumed everyone could :).

Although I couldn't do it in salt water, it stung my eyes too much but that might also be due to me learning to swim in pools instead of the sea.
They have marketing people working for them, so they're obviously spending money on "marketing". Advertising, which I think the article is alluding to, may or may not be worth it. ROI in your ad dollars is really where the trick is with paid acquisition.
I think most people (at least from the Southwest) know about this; otherwise Donald Trump's desire to "build a wall" would be incoherent.
I liked the "We have ticket system." (in the screenshot of "README_TO_DECRYPT.txt").

They ask (only) 1 BtC as a ransom.
An Elegant FizzBuzz
I'd be pretty wary of pushing information like this out in the open without first making sure the vendor had time to alert their customers that his is about to hit the streets. Who knows what kind of vehicles we're talking about and under what conditions they operate. Of course it isn't rocket science, but that doesn't mean you need to advance your stature in the security community by blindsiding some manufacturer on Sunday evening.

Anyway, call me old-fashioned, I don't think this is the way it should be done.

FWIW I'm aware of a SCADA system that is widely deployed that is just about as secure as this system here and I'd be the last person on the planet to publish the details of it because I know for a fact that it is used to control HVAC equipment and other building infrastructure in hospitals and prisons. These things are not toys and being aware of them does not actually allow you to play god. (In that particular case as far as I know the systems are so old that fixing them with an update is not even an option).
Sid had a reputation. He played Red Barron against an Air Force Pilot and beat the Pilot's high score. He did so by memorizing the algorithms of the enemy air ships so he could avoid their shots and shoot them down.

http://kotaku.com/the-father-of-civilization-584568276

He made airplane simulators after that and war simulators. Before he worked on Civilization he already had a reputation in video games.
They don't do it deliberately, but that's how it often happens. Even in tribal societies those with a surfeit of young men tend to start raiding neighboring tribes for women.
>> Regardless, if Netflix was actually producing all the content they have, they wouldn't be in business today.

Sure, but that's just a growth phase, right ? Once Netflix becomes fully global(and as successful it hopes), won't it revenues fully support the content ?
Also, air-cooled transformer windings are installed such that there are deliberate air gaps between each coil layer. Spacers are inserted in between the gaps for some structural rigidity, but there is enough remaining flexibility to vibrate.
So, I own a Toyota. I don't need permission from the manufacturer to fix anything, or change anything. It's much cheaper than a tesla, but it will likely last longer. I have no restrictions on how I drive it other than traffic laws. It's not as fast in a straight line, but it's much better on a track and significantly lighter. Everything you describe is a huge downgrade in my personal freedoms, with no clear benefits.
If by men you mean people, ok. But he said too many "men". But its still backwards, its like when someone says, oh my food is too cold and you say, no, it's not too cold at all, it's simply not hot enough.

Often times wars were fought for stability. If you were stronger the weaker adversaries would be less likely to wage war against you. So your going to war was more to counteract someone else's lack of resources who might fight for them rather than your need for resources...

Anyhow it like saying we went to war because we wanted to live longer.... Ok. Yes, but that's not how we typically present the issue.
Vice Media goes gonzo on the news. Advertisers may be a different story
Yeah, this is kind of ridiculous. You can go from skimming the article to tracking vehicles in 30 seconds...
> What you describe with searching would come down to pull advertising, because you are asking for it, not being shown it out of context.

What determines the "context" for what you are "asking" to be advertised from?

I'd argue that your choices about what to click, what content to read, etc., all also place as much context as what you explicitly type.

More importantly though, as I mentioned in my other comment above about Leesa Mattresses, the specific benefit of ads is for push ads, not pull ads.

The whole point is that there is something you want, but you've arrived at the conclusion that either it doesn't exist, or that you've already paid a search cost for trying to find it and you didn't find it and so you're less likely to engage in a pull search on your own.

You may still want to know about the new product.

Imagine it like an RSS feed. There are the "pull" subscriptions to the blogs you already know that you want. But what if you also want a certain kind of blog that you don't know about yet? If you only look at your RSS feed, it cannot ever possibly come.

There has to be another feed, of sorts, that pushes content at you that you did not previously explicitly agree to. A lot of it will be noise, but sometimes it will show you something you wanted that's outside your sphere of pulls, and then you can add it to the pulls.

I think this might even be the majority of things that I want. I don't usually respond to a direct need in my life and then say, "Hmm ... what are my options for solving this need?"

Normally, I have vague awareness of a whole bunch of things I might want, and they are at various states of being "filed away for later" in my brain, which determines how likely or unlikely it is that I would exogenously come up with the thought to search for it. Many times I benefit from something I never asked to have hit my eyes nonetheless hitting them and making me aware of something I didn't know about, or that I had filed away and would not have actively generated the thought to find it.

Whether the value-to-noise ratio is in favor of this arrangement is the big problem. The standard ads online have such a poor noise volume that it's almost never worth it.

But, in principle, it could be worth it. Which is why the idea of a push ad is, potentially, a very good thing.
But I can't recall any of those being released as Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear etc in the same way it's been Sid Meier's Civilization. Same with reviews, it does seem this genre that that was first, and most consistent, mentioning the designer behind the game.
If your employee is a habitual pot smoker there is still the risk that one day he turns up high for work. Why would you take that risk if you can hire somebody who does not smoke at all?

Other than that, consumption of cannabis is correlated with a bunch of stuff that an employer may want to avoid (for instance increased impulsivity [1])

Given the fact that employers routinely choose to not hire somebody because of even the slightest misgivings, not wanting to employ a pot smoker can hardly be called irrational.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25595054
The Incredible Power of Ignoring Everything
Banksy unmasked? Scientists use maths and criminology to map artist's identity
If countries really started wars to reduce their populations, they'd send women to war instead of men.
So your going to war was more to counteract someone else's lack of resources who might fight for them rather than your need for resources...

This is causing me a blue screen of death moment. You are disagreeing with me by saying "But the war could start because of someone else's lack of resources..." and I cannot fathom how that is an argument against the idea that a lack of resources is almost always the root cause.

So, I think I shall step away from this discussion now.

Thank you.
> Which resource is insufficient to support the current global population?

The Earth could support perhaps 10x or even 100x more people - but by support I mean that that amount of people would survive. The real question is how does quality of life depend on population and where's the optimum. When you have a small population (e.g. 10 million), the rate of research is slow, there are not many different products on the market (i.e. you can't choose from hundreds of cars to buy like today), etc. With a large population on the other hand, you have less resources per capita - water, oil, minerals, land, wood.
It is the case for me in a really small number of situations. I want to block most ads just like everyone else.

I only bring this up to point out that the Platonic idea of an ad can be a good thing.

The OP takes the untenable and extreme position that the concept of an ad is inherently bad, by definition.

I don't think that's a reasonable point of view, even though I also support the proliferation of great ad blocking tools and want 99.999999% of current online ad practices to go away.
Silicon Valley is full of them. While I haven't met one of the owner, I'd be surprised if there weren't some who still had the hacker mindset.
This is exactly religious logic:

> I'm not sure we've ever seen a 100% free market so while regulation appears on the surface to have been helpful, it could be viewed as solving problems caused by other regulations.

The prosperity gospel types, for example use it to say that if something bad ever happens to anybody, it just means their faith wasn't sufficient. [1] Communists use it too; when I've asked why we would want to try communism when it has failed every time, they explain that it just wasn't "true" communism, that it would work if we'd use a more pure version of it.

This strikes me as ridiculous in two ways. One, it isn't falsifiable; nothing can ever prove it wrong. And two, advocating to run a country on a system that can't work except under the most perfect conditions is advocating for something that will never work in practice.

I also reject your thesis that war is necessary for progress. Einstein wasn't out there building bombs. Most Nobel winners are not engaged in war research. The Hubble does not have military applications, and neither do gravity waves. The CDC is not paid for out of the defense budget.

Your notion that the most effective way to get more progress is to have more war between non-state actors is, aside from being wrong, ridiculous as something to advocate for; exactly nobody will go along with it. I agree it's a reasonable consequence of unfettered pseudo-libertarianism, though. It's at least refreshing that you admit that; so many anti-government types have trouble admitting that by their lights Somalia is the freest place on earth.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/sunday/death-the-p...
I'd be interested to see a comparison between this and the measures Microsoft has been building in since IE8. IIRC Microsoft avoided full taint checking of strings and went with an approach of just looking for reflected content.
Another reason not mentioned in the article is quality. Domestically produced hydroponically grown marijuana is so much better than the Mexican weed. I live 60 miles from Mexico in Tucson Arizona, we see a lot of it around here. The quality difference is huge - compare your favorite craft brew with Bud Light that has been left in the sun too long.

I had a friend give me an ounce of Mexican weed last year. That is a fair bit of weed. I tried a sample one night, and then gave it back. It wasn't worth keeping around, even for free. I knew I would just never use it, it was typical Mexican ditch weed and my tastes had gone to better things.

So which beer did you want? Sam Adams, or this Miller with a cigarette in it? The Mexican weed is just disgusting now. Only people on a tight budget will use it, not people with a choice; maybe 10% of the users I know. Everyone else gets the good stuff. Light, fluffy with 20 strains to choose from, tested and graded, and you can pick out the individual bud that speaks to you; or compressed brick that smells a little like coffee or grease and has an unknown THC level, unknown origin, unknown anything.

The only positive attribute to the Mexican weed is price.
At least you'll have some hope of knowing what's going on when you try to compile the code and uint8_t doesn't exist.
Have you seen Wanikani? It's the best! Before I used Wanikani, I was struggling to learn Nihongo, also known as Japanese to you non-anime experts. I was able to get my katakana and hiragana down, and I was also a pro at romanji, but I just couldn't get myself to study the kanjis! By the way kanjis are like the Japanese alphabet if you were wondering. Anyways, I spent 2 years working really hard on my Japanese listening ability by listening to native material, but try as I did, I couldn't get anywhere, but then I used Wanikani, and WOW did it boost me up to a whole nother level! I'm starting my 4th year now learning the language, and I'm still working on Wanikani. Some people do it faster, but I'm happy with my pace. Anyways, I now know 756 kanjis thanks to Wanikani! It's definitely joyous to see all the progress I've made! Once I get through the rest the kanjis, then I'm going to learn the grammar, which should be easy due to all of the vocabulary and kanjis that I'll know. I do know basics, but I still have a lot of work left for my grammar.

Yeah, I really feel like technology is bringing us into a whole new era for language learning. At least it has for me.

みんなさん、どうもありがとう！
Open Source software has existed for more than 2 or 3 years, you know.

All software is vulnerable to bad actors writing malicious code. What makes it any safer if its proprietary software? In any case, in a pessimistic scenario you'd have to change your sentence to "give it 2 or 3 years and stories will come trickling about how ALL apps, open or closed source, were tampered with by hackers, the government, etc".
The is interesting and I hope it will get around to all of the modern implementation tweaks.

Hopefully not too off-topic but I would love to learn how we would have implemented a state-of-the-art global interconnect protocol today. There's of course efforts like http://named-data.net but what about the lower levels like about congestion control. Is dropping packages really the best paradigm?

EDIT: to be clear, I mean if starting from scratch in a world where IP never existed (and no backwards compatibility mattered).
The knee-jerk, canned response from most parties erring on the side of Law & Order claims:

Even if the door is wide left open, crossing the threshold
is still trespassing, if you don't belong on the property.

This is why burglars are typically charged with breaking AND entering.

Unlawful entry is still a crime one can commit, without breaking open, or otherwise circumventing pro-active security measures.

When it comes to the idea of "hacking" we often find our words fail to describe activities with precision.

The nuanced distinction some tend to draw between "hacking" and "cracking" is mostly relegated to specialized jargon, community slang, and pedantry. Laymen often do not distinguish between the two.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
In my opinion, the ONLY book on self development you ever need read.
There are certainly people doing a poor job of raising children that are creating net losses, there are also others doing great jobs.

The other thing is, the single people are the very product of this subsidy, so I'm not sure how it creates any sort of moral high ground.

That's kind of the point about this holier than thou attitude I detest in the article.
Many 'big operations' will use some sort of image-resizer CDN, whether something custom made in-house, off-the-shelf/open source (like thumbor), or a CDN like Imgix.

To prevent anyone from fiddling with the URL to generate thousands of differently sized images, they'll often have a way to 'sign' the URL to ensure people can't do this sort of attack. This can be expensive, depending on how its done I guess.
The way this usually happens is someone decides to create a device, in order to be able to access it and program it they give it an embedded controller listening to some port on a local area network. Next up someone installs a gateway that starts to assign NAT'd or public IPs to devices and boom suddenly that box is now wide open to whoever stumbles upon the IP. This has caused a whole raft of problems with embedded systems that were built before people were more security conscious.

The real problem is that the end users are more often than not totally unaware that their stuff is exposed to the world until something bad happens.
> People kill 40K/people a year in the US simply driving, and injure/maim hundreds of thousands.

Not true. People kill 40K people by crashing their cars into them, not by "simply driving". Make crashing your car into people illegal and punish that. No reason to ban driving.
One is cause the other effect.
Not to mention a high-profile TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_...
First Mac Ransomware Found in Transmission BitTorrent Client
Ray Tomlinson, the creator of email, has died
s/marketing/advertising/ would be useful.
It's not about which chain is longer. With segwit as a soft fork old clients will recognize new blocks as valid but fail to see segwit transactions, effectively failing silently. With segwit as a hard fork old clients will not accept new blocks and fail loudly. In both cases old clients are forced to upgrade in order to keep using the network.
Each style is "more cohesive" than the other, but measured along different axes.

Declaring variables at the top keeps variable declarations close to each other; declaring variables close to where they're used keeps, obviously, declarations close to use.
Why would we need even more money?

Money will not get managed much better unless it is scarce.
The rate of research is orthogonal to quality of life. On an absolute timescale, yes you might reach more advancement faster, but also more people were living at the time without those advancement. So unless we are in a race with some aliens, it doesn't matter
Airbnb, Uber, and local laws
Oh dear god. Used 2.90 past week, when I saw the news I updated immediately, checked for all the files, found nothing. I hope my MacBook will stay fine tomorrow. I got it backed up on Time Machine anyway. Where do we go from here, since I lost the trust, what are the alternatives? And from now one, I'll go with Brew Cask for everything possible.

F* GUI /s
Why can't we have the same thing for "-android-system-headline" for example? And when everyone implements it, it would be just "system-headline".
And if anyone was a fan of the Master of Orion series (as they should be), it's getting a new game: http://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion
It is 2016. SSL is not slow anymore. Only case it could be deemed slow would be on a webpage where the browser has to download a ton of small files likes images. Each image would require a new connection and each connection would require full SSL handshake. Even then the fix is not to not use SSL but to bundle all the images/files into 1.
Jeb Corliss “Grinding the Crack” [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero for Doom
Ecosystems, soil, water.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/12/humans-ha...
That is only true if the other car is of the same era.

Verus newer cars the crumple roles are very much reserved

https://youtu.be/qBDyeWofcLY?t=105
Also cameyo to make your own:

http://www.cameyo.com

And they have prepackaged sandboxed apps:

https://online.cameyo.com/public
off topic but I think interesting: Andy Tanenbaum is also the creator and maintainer of http://www.electoral-vote.com/, which I find to be one of best resources on american elections.
Would it be "ethical hacking" to DDOS any website hosting or linking to this article?