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He was seeing a number of psychiatrists, and 41 doctors total, in part because he thought he was going blind and that the blindness would destroy his career. But doctors thought that problem was psychosomatic (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-27/germanwing...).

I'm not a psychologist though, so not qualified to weigh in on questions of sanity. For the same reason, I also agree with your point about crew judging each other's mental states. The part that resonated with me was more that there's now one more person in the cockpit who could potentially pull this off.

The fact that he waited for the pilot to leave doesn't prove that he wasn't prepared to pull off the same attack if the pilot didn't leave. He'd still choose to do it this way given the option. We'll never know, but regardless, it remains a possible vector in the future, yet the cockpit security remains in place (for good reason).
I can't tell what you mean. In some sense (not a very good one), the data must follow a normal distribution, as the sum of normal distributions is itself a normal distribution. But that would imply that you could sensibly add values like "circumference of upper arm" and "length, ankle to knee", which you really shouldn't be doing.

- If you measure values from a 10-dimensional space, what would it mean for them to be "normally distributed"? Do we norm them by distance to the center of the space, or what? Does that approach preserve the nice properties of normals?

- If this concept exists, did Daniels or anyone related to the project know that? Is it really what they were looking for?

- If this concept exists, were the pilots in fact normally distributed?

Saying "the data should follow a normal distribution" without having a definition of "normal distribution" that allows for multidimensional points immediately implies that all body measurements are correlated with all other body measurements at plus or minus 1, which I'm certain nobody believed. And the individual measurements are normally distributed.
> your landlord can rent neighboring units to whomever he wants

... As long as he complies with existing federal, state and local laws, as well as existing HOA regulations, you as a neighbor don't have any property rights preventing a rental.

Apartments seems to be a great way for AirBnB and hosts to make buckets of money but then they are creating de facto hotels.
And theophylline.

From wikipedia[1]:

Theophylline is naturally found in cocoa beans. Amounts as high as 3.7 mg/g have been reported in Criollo cocoa beans.

Medical uses[edit]

The main actions of theophylline involve:

- relaxing bronchial smooth muscle
- increasing heart muscle contractility and efficiency; as a positive inotropic
- increasing heart rate: (positive chronotropic)[1]
- increasing blood pressure
- increasing renal blood flow
- anti-inflammatory effects
- central nervous system stimulatory effect mainly on the medullary respiratory center.

Theophylline is also a metabolite of caffeine[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophylline
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Pharmacokinetics
Complaining to airbnb is like complaining to a local newspaper ad, craigslist, AWS or another marketing organization for listing something. It's barking up the wrong tree.

You complain to the person who owns the unit, the condo / HOA board, the police and the municipality. Because those are the real people who have the ability to deal with something.
Agreed, the site has lost focus.
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Back in the 90s, there was a piece in Wired by Will Shortz about then-president Bill Clinton's crossword prowess—he claimed he could solve the NYT puzzle in about 10 minutes, if I recall. But readers who would care about this would also know that there's no comparison in difficulty between a Monday and a Friday. Which puzzle could the president do in 10 minutes? I couldn't believe Will Shortz of all people would leave this out.
Not sure if this statement is sarcastic or not, I could read it either way. So I'm going to respond as if it's not a joke.

The heart of the advice is to start solving problems that are hard to solve, and worry about scalability and efficiency after you've proven there is a demand. Often you will find creative ways to gain efficiency, build the infrastructure, and then have a wonderful competitive moat for the business. The big exception is customer service, there is no replacing being able to talk to a helpful person within 60 seconds of encountering a problem, but it's much more expensive to parallelize people then software.

In the case of legislation, getting on offense and working with a few cities will go a long way for establishing a precedent that other cities will follow. Uber was rather effective in this area.
> Other languages have cultures that respect the craft, rather than viewing it as something you grow out of.

Not really, in many countries there is the expectation that when you are over 40 you either are a solution architect (those that never code) or a team manager.

It is very hard to fight against this society bias, regardless of the programming language.
Yes, I think you must contact the district attorney. It is the most quick option.
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That person doesn't mind being labled a suicide, but people campaigning for assisted dying have to spend time and money talking about the difference between suicide (generally something we want to avoid) and assisted dying (something we want to provide).

By continuing to use the word suicide for people who chose assisted death you make it harder for people to get assisted death legalised.
Slow down.

I was allergic to cow milk, and anything remotely containing it. Eczema. Notice the 'was'. Baby suits with hands binded unable to scratch because eczema is an urge to scratch and itch. Arms wrapped in bandages from at the exact hospital cited in the article. Wrapped and re-wrapped every day.

Until I was 8. And then, it just stopped. So today I enjoy milk and cheese, especially cheese.

Being diagnosed is fine, it is a precaution. Actually suffering those symptoms is different. Please don't be do flippant.
They do work out well in many European countries.

We do have unions for IT.
That's called dopamine. The chocolate you eat probably has sugar in it (otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao), and sugar is a drug associated w/ the release of dopamine in the brain.
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> I wouldn't want the vendor lock-in that comes with Oracle's "AWS".

Doesn't matter, its the outsourcing of this decade. Every board wants to be in the cloud, because it gives the (stock) market the impression the company is going places.

And everyone from Oracle to MS, and Google as well, wants to be the one to rent them that cloud, Hotel California style.

Thats why MS has changed their tune regarding Linux, as long as it is running in a VM on top of their Azure service...
It's kinda difficult to buy a stolen laptop without knowing it's stolen, unless it's at a reseller shop and it's been wiped.

There has to be some willful blindness.
> t may be that you dislike the word suicide because you have a distaste for it but not for any rational reason—by what recourse could you separate the legitimacy of an assisted dying person from a suicide? They both want to die and then do it—the difference is usually of aesthetics or location.

The difference is in capacity to make the decision, which many people who die by suicide lack because of mental ill health.

Bob who has bi-polar may not have capacity to make the choice to die.

Other Bob who has a degenerative illness, but who's had recent good quality treatment for any possible mental health problem probably does have the capacity to make the choice.

The rest of your post is semi-coherent and contradicts itself.
At which point, why is there a need for bitcoin at all?
I always thought that Cameron and Reza didn't present a very balanced view. Which is OK if you're hired for marketing as long as you don't claim you're not a corporate drone.

Two examples:
Reza is a famous spring hater and much of his writing can be summarised as "Java EE rocks, Spring sucks". Which is fine if you're hired to sell Java EE. Which is fine, just don't claim otherwise.

Cameron's view on TCK licensing was also very one sided and uncompromising. In every JCP meeting the topic of TCK licensing pops up. Everybody except Oracle agrees on the subject. Everybody has the same position Oracle had before the Sun acquisition.
I was at a JCP meeting when the whole panel (all JCP members) agreed on TCK licensing and Cameron from the audience simply said "no". Then he said something like "if you open source a TCK that makes the TCK worthless because anybody can change anything". Totally ignoring the fact that the best TCK out there (the CDI TCK) is open source. Even if that was an issue there would be fixes for this like trade marking the TCK like Mozilla does with Firefox.

Again if you're hired to wield the power of the TCK against Apache Harmony for whatever political reason that's fine. Just don't claim you're not a corporate drone.
This is no limited to Australia. I know a person in Russia who consulted 3 or 4 surgeons regarding her foot problem. The advise was always to perform a complex operation that would leave her with crutches for at least 3 months.

Finally somebody recommended another doctor. His advise was to make a hole in shoe insole around problematic area and see how things go. Then 9 months later she spent a month at sea and that mostly cured the problem.
> I was a Product Manager at Oracle when we decided to integrate Java. It seemed like an odd decision to those outside Oracle, but at the highest levels in Oracle we were circulating a Microsoft internal presentation about how Microsoft was going to use the dominance of Visual Studio to defeat competitors across the application space. So Oracle had no choice except to support Java as the alternative to Visual Studio. So Java and all Open Source support were really done only to the extent which self-interest demanded. We had floors of kernel engineers fixing Linux to make it work (it was barely functional back then.) And we coordinated with HP, IBM, Sun, Red Hat, and others so that they would encourage and pay their engineers to support Open Source. The idea that Open Source is somehow separate from business and market forces ignores its history.

And the idea that Open Source is always positive is equally absurd. I've been working in open source for decades now, and the big winners are often the same rich companies which are extracting the wealth of our society - as they get software for free while the engineers provide work without getting the true "fruits of their labor". Does it make sense for multi-billionaires to get this software for free? Really, the Open Source idea is very messed up in an economy with distinct winners and losers.

If you only use permissive licenses, free software can result in large corporate monopolies. Copyleft licenses help counter this. Linux, GNU, VLC, FFmpeg, etc are all good examples of this.
> easily

No, not easily. And if you want to die there are very many ways that are as easy or easier.

Assisted dying has should have some safeguards built in - "does this person have mental ill health?", "has this person had access to a variety of good quality MH treatment?"

If anything the delays built in (waiting for an appointment) are somewhat protective.
Can Starbucks succeed in Italy?
The difference is that Radiant requires Flash as far as I read.
One word: eBay.
There are pros and cons for both methods.

Personally, I much prefer to put functionality in a plugin and the theme limited to the frontend presentation. To suggest that I don't know what I'm doing is, well... Incorrect.

Syncing production, staging, and dev is an unrelated and solved problem.
That's a weird lesson to learn from a story about a guy who spoke out and still carried that guilt. It seems more like a lesson of "win the argument or you will be traumatized"?
They could go slower. For long haul routes the truck could drive 24hrs straight, or longer, so driving slower could result in huge fuel savings while still getting to the destination on time.

A car cruising on a highway at 50 mph (80 km/h) may require only 10 horsepower (7.5 kW) to overcome air drag, but that same car at 100 mph (160 km/h) requires 80 hp (60 kW).[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)#Drag_at_high_ve...
I believe that you were facing the reality of living the 6 months of an agonising slow death in a cancer hospice, you might change your narrow minded opinion.
I was confused by the title, I thought it was something like "remove all GPL software from your machine". (GPL Software) Cleaner as opposed to GPL (Software Cleaner).
The ugly truth about body dysmorphia
To put this in perspective: a junior role in software in the UK will bag you 25k, which is roughly an order of magnitude lower than what you get as a senior civil servant.
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Back in my days of working in an office, I used to move to a new apartment every time I changed jobs so that I could stay within walking distance.

Being young and minimalist helped a lot with being able to pull it off, but I'd definitely recommend it for the benefits. Especially living downtown (Portland in my case) and having a short to medium sized stroll through the city to work, it's amazing what a difference it makes to your sanity compared to sitting in traffic for 45 minutes.

I would interview for jobs and the first thing I'd ask the recruiter was whether they were in Portland itself or out in the suburbs. They'd say "yeah, definitely Portland" then set up an interview and give me an address out towards Beaverton. I'd have to cancel.

Moving to LA, the difference was even more pronounced. I set up shop in a shabby little neighborhood in San Gabriel, the shortest distance across the sea of concrete that contained the office I was contracting at. They had guys driving in from the hills above Mission Viejo and even Yucaipa, 2.5 hours away. It was insane. Those guys never seemed overly happy with the situation. But I bet their houses looked nice.

Fortunately, we don't have to worry about this anymore. Enough shops have caught on to the benefits of having everybody remote that a fella can pick up a gig from anywhere in the world these days. I haven't commuted more than 50 feet in a decade.
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What is this current obsession with stevia? It has a very strong, pretty much unpalatable taste that even strong espresso can't mask.
From their perspective, they have a desktop application for Google Play Music in the form of the Chrome browser.
There is a radio program in the UK called More or Less, who''s (whom's?) motto is "Correlation is not causation". Admittedly, I have neither read the paper, nor did I fully understand the section on proving the direction of influence, but I can't help but feel this research makes pretty poor use of statistics and logic, however much I wish to believe the result. Is all nutritional research this bad?
In a way, your point about authorities and highway patrol being alerted is actually a good thing. These trailers can go in lockdown and wait for authorities to arrive. Even if a human were on board, a silent alarm could be triggered without the human making any obvious moves for distress (perhaps a hidden panic button in case sensors don't trigger, assuming a human driver is required to be with the trailer). Also, trailers today aren't immune from hijacking/piracy if the driver isn't armed.
Completely agree. I got fed up with the whole thing and went looking for opportunities to do useful stuff with the technology, without venture money and extractive shareholders. And found it.
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That may be true but there is definitely room for error here and in that case this kind of attack may actually be a worse crime than the theft of the laptop. This guy may very well be the thief but if he's not and he loses his job over this or has something else happen to him then the OP may be in pretty hot water.
Try Seamonkey. I consider it FF for grownups. (or for ancient Netscape users, if you prefer :-))
Where I live people can, and do, get euthanasia for psychological suffering. Now, research has shown that a rather large percentage of the elderly are suffering from depression. Part of the reason is, of course, that getting old can be very painful. But another part of the reason is that in today's society many old people are almost criminally neglected.

The only right solution to this problem is that society begins to take better care of old people. But now we begin to offer an alternative "solution" which consist of helping these people to kill themselves. And look, now there's extra budget to take care of the old people that remain.

Did you see what just happened? Assisted suicide has, sneakily, become a means to control the cost of elderly care and to avoid addressing the real problem -- while thinking ourselves very enlightened and progressive as a bonus.
I agree with you, but:

When a person with a mental illness turns to the medical system for support they should be offered a range of psycho-social interventions as well as purely medical stuff.

We know how debt or problem drinking or vulnerable housing or lack of a job or social isolation or etc etc can make mental health problems much worse.

In that situation it's pointless just giving people the medication because they've still got the other stuff going on.

Modern English treatment for mental health problems should be including this range of support. It's not all provided by the NHS. A lot of it is provided by social interest companies (charities) (although it's often paid for by the NHS).

> If a person has to rely on the medical system for affection, I'd say there's a bigger problem in society.

Yes!

Social isolation is a pretty widespread problem. Here the person has become isolated, and needs a bit of help and support to become unisolated. And they need that before they can make use of the other stuff that society provides. Joining a 5-a-side soccer team would help reduce a person's social isolation, but they may need help and support to access that 5 a side soccer. This might only be a bit of sign-posting, or it might be a bit more intensive like shaddowing or buddying.
The radio interview was crushingly sad, listening in the car to that old guy blame himself. It was one of the saddest things I have heard in a while.
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It's natural, as opposed to unnatural things like sucralose and aspartame.

In the current zeitgeist, 'natural' is assumed to be better.
The problem is that due to the placebo effect you will never know what is real or not. That said I would suspect that a lot of alternative medicines have therepeutic benefits. We just don't know why or how.
I think that Starbucks could win in Italy. No in a caffe category but in service (free wi-fi, etc). But also normaly italian peoples want from barista somthings more (they treat them like: mom) so in this category Starbuck do not win. Even when they introduce this silly "What's my Sturbuck name". The are Corp, not small family caffe bar and they have to aceept this.
>Is all nutritional research this bad?

No, but media reports of nutritional research tends to be.
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I didn't know that. But I guess the reason why it's not just implemented that way by default is so it can be easily ported (even if all kernels supported it, relying on the kernel implementation of ICMP packets might cause inconsistencies you wouldn't see in raw sockets).
And that behavior of yours (before you started doing remote work) is a huge and understated benefit of renting rather than buying s home.

You aren't "throwing money away", you are paying for, among other things, the privilege of being able to move quickly and cheaply.
> otherwise it tastes horrible; try raw cacao

It's actually delicious, and each bean has its own flavor. If you live near Silicon Valley, head up to Dandelion chocolate and you can try some there (work up to it by getting used to the bitter chocolate first)
Correlation-digging studies absurd or otherwise have led to an awful lot of peer-reviewed literature detailing a raft of <<molecular mechanisms>> by which flavonoids may be implicated in improved brain function.

To pick one at random: "Flavonoids exert a multiplicity of neuroprotective actions within the brain, including a potential to protect neurons against injury induced by neurotoxins, an ability to suppress neuroinflammation, and the potential to promote memory, learning and cognitive function. These effects appear to be underpinned by two common processes . . ."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2593006/

Most of us enjoy eating the stuff so it's no surprise that chocolate as a flavonoid-containing substance gets special attention.
That doesn't explain adding in a spurious statistic (in the case of the OP, % imported cars in Chicago)
I studied philosophy for a year, and I find it to be one of the most universally useful things I've studied. It's the process that is useful, not necessarily the content. The subject matter which you apply it to varies greatly in usefulness, but the process of thinking and deconstructing that you acquire as a skill while doing it is tremendously helpful everywhere else.
I would guess that the ability to grow new limbs and organs in a e.g. a petri dish is the end goal and where a lot of current development efforts are. My feelings are really influenced by a couple of ME's I've worked with with decades experience between them - they want to move towards software or biochem, the writing is on the wall. The only way you can do implements or tools is when you work with the creator of new medical procedures and they need something that doesn't exist - and willing to wait 5-10 years for it to pass FDA approval.

The DoD and VA are doing a lot of amazing work with biomech and limbs, if that's you're interest.
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Yeah, I meant sad for Mozilla. The excitement and praise for Brave could have been Firefox's if Mozilla hadn't become so timid. Maybe I'm just jealous.. :)
That link leads to a 404. That aside, it would be disappointing if it's addressing the 'evil killer robots' straw-man rather than the 'increasingly efficient optimiser that kills everyone as a by-product of its optimisation process' issue. Even if we give strong AI seemingly benign 'goals' (optimisation targets), there's a non-trivial chance it will result in the extinction of the human race.

One example I've seen: imagine if we invented strong AI and gave it the goal 'eradicate cancer in humans'. The most efficient way to achieve this goal would probably be to vaporize all currently alive humans, thus eradicating cancer in humans for all time.
I commuted to a job in the big city (about 45 minutes away by car, an hourish by bus) for about 8 months.

I started the job in the fall, and riding the bus was fine, but as May rolled around and I saw the weather getting better and better and thinking about all the time I was stuck in a bus instead of outside, I realized it wasn't going to work out. (There were other things going on at the company too, but this was definitely the straw that broke this commuting camel's back.)
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