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Maybe because they didn't learn to write proper headlines explaining the content of an article ?
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Decriminalising ganja will also boost textile industry.
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Singapore has a thriving methamphetamine ("ice") problem: http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1St... http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/young-well-edu...
My counterpoint would be that marketing and selling are often done rather wrong by the big publishing houses. People care about the story behind the book and the authors, I rarely see these emphasized in the typical publisher campaigns. Much easier for a modern author to forge these relationships naturally.
The other things you mentioned can also be automated to some extend (typesetting and layout for sure).
Has it occurred to you that by spreading hopelessness and despondency, you're making it more likely that we will lose?
Yes, but nowhere is set in stone that such skillset cannot be automated (and hence more efficient, in aggregate). Webapps will appear that will manage such production, once demand emerges, not unlike they appeared in the music business.
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Note that manufacture, import and sale of drugs is still illegal in Portugal.

I find it hard to understand why so many people in the US want to switch drug policy from one extreme of the spectrum to the other. It's a rash social experiment with consequences that are hard to predict.
And then successful dedicated marketing outfits starts vertically integrate to beat out competition, offering editorial services, distribution, etc.... becoming a publisher.

What will happen is that some publishers fail to adapt to a digital economy and are replaced by upcomers who are perfectly adjusted to it. Publishing companies will not disappear because they fill a function in the industry.
Great idea!

Have you considered giving the user the option to load gifs individually (or in sets of 2 as your app seems to be organized)? Loading 20+ gifs per muscle groups takes
a lot of time and bandwidth on slower connections.
Looks pretty cool. I have know about it for a long time but never actually looked into it. Now I am considering using.

I am planning on rebuilding a site of mine which was originally built with Wicket. I have been debating about whether to use Play, Spring MVC, Wicket, or something else.

Tapestry seems to have most of the things I like from Wicket but in a less verbose way.
what's the official client?
The desktop app already has that.
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OUP page for the book:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-face-of-the-budd...
Stephen King (or rather his publisher) experimented with a lot of these options through the years. He was widely shunned in the writing community. There are important cultural elements that stand in the way of such models.
I'm very sceptical that in-mem B Trees can beat hashes, given their huge size overhead and cache unfriendlyness
I'm in an office surrounded by people using Visual studio on windows, running Perforce. We do have some git infrastructure, and anyone that interacts with that uses sourcetree. I know that the diff tools of choice are Araxis Merge/P4Merge/Beyond Compare. There's also people using VisualAssist on top of Visual Studio.

There's plenty of developers who don't mind using proprietary tools
Is there evidence to show that legalizing drugs (I don't mean e.g. tobacco here; I mean the far more dangerous ones) won't significantly increase their consumption?

I ask because, unless there is, I'm afraid I do not understand why it would be rational to do so...
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>How much do you value your favorite authors eating or having health insurance? //

Thing is with ebooks the author should make more money, there's a wider accessible market, lower production cost. But publishers moved to close the market and to increase the selling price whilst at the same time accruing the added profit from the reduction in production cost.

The blame here shouldn't be on those buying the books who refuse to be screwed by the publishers.

Readers don't care about the booktrade, they want to read books and have authors rewarded for writing them, the booktrade somehow doesn't seem to help much to this end.

Instead of starting a Patreon, perhaps your writer friend could sell books to readers rather than to a publishing house?
That is a short post and doesn't make a strong argument compared to the UK's House of Commons Defence Committee saying that the UK could not maintain and operate Trident independently.

Even if the UK could theoretically launch Trident without US authorisation, they wouldn't in practice.
Even if hanging drug users is effective, it certainly isn't a conscionable solution. However, I really don't believe that would work anyway.

Drug users should be left alone and drug abusers should have access to treatment.
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Humans aren't averages. A randomly chosen woman will almost always have some fraction of men out there she can physically dominate. And some women are just plain tough and could physically impose on nearly all men. And yet men don't worry and walk faster when the woman they're alone with in the parking lot looks like she could bench a truck.
Portugal seems to be doing better from decriminalising (obviously not the same as legalisation).

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-decr...

Source: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/drug-decriminalisation-portugal-...

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
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Singapore is somewhat unique in that it's a country with very restricted freedoms, which have been given up in exchange for security/safety. It's extraordinarily rule-bound, and, in many ways, is the antithesis of the United States, in which freedoms reign. In such a structured, government controlled and monitored society, all sorts of rules can be laid down, and enforced through strict punishment. I wouldn't try and use it as a model for other countries.

But - hey, might be worth executing anybody who uses drugs to see what happens. But I hope you're going to start with the really destructive ones, like Alcohol and Nicotine before you start looking at the less harmful ones such as cannabis.
> Sweden legalized heroin in the 60s and it was a disaster.

I can't find any source for this. What I can find is information about legal prescription from '65 to '67 to a limited number of addicts, who were able to get sufficient doses that they in effect became a source of drugs for drug dealers.

So they continued to have the same problem of dealers, but with substantially increased supply.

Note that many countries today have legal prescription of proscribed drugs to addicts. Prescription of heroin is legal in the UK, for example (and, in fact, it is not only prescribed to addicts, but also used for post-op pain management in hospitals), without the problems Sweden ran into, because the amounts are strictly controlled.

It seemed the Swedish government managed to get the worst of both worlds by continuing to fight drugs while turning themselves into a cheaper, safer source for dealers.
> Food bank use is increasing out of certain social classes realising there is free food on offer. Rough sleeping is by choice in the UK;

That is unsubstantiated opinion (to put it mildly), and does not even address the main point that these examples are intended to show: inequality is growing, and that this causes problems, or that the statement "living standards are better" is not true for many people.

While your statements might resonate with a certain mean-spirited kind of person, they don't even make logical sense - Do you really think that food bank use is increasing because "certain social classes" have found them all of a sudden? Why now? What other forces might be at play at this time that caused it to happen now not 10 years ago? Are there gourmet buffets on offer that weren't there before perhaps?
Abstract:

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You can choose something bad but still not have better choices available. If it's their best option are they allowed to complain then?
Are there any non-native speaker who make a living as technical writers? I absolutely love writing about tech but I'm wondering if I'd put myself at a too big disadvantage to compete with writers whose first language is English.
> I left once I saw that corporations are taking over. Redhat and Novel decisions started to set the direction, I felt I can not contribute anything.

I sought refuge in BSD land as a consequence of this. I got sick of the whole drama around Gnome, systemd and everything else precluding me from properly using my computer. Everything is perpetually half-broken, bug reports and user demands are ignored if they don't fit their world domination agenda and so on.

I still develop for Linux because they pay me to do it at $work, but it's increasingly unpleasant. Things are still fairly sane in the kernel (barring the occasional rushed device drivers or the whole ARM clusterfuck, but there are limits to how much that can be helped). Userland, on the other hand, is full of 0pointer-branded narcissism and nearly unworkable for anything that has to run for more than three months without constant attention. Great for devops, brain aneurysm-inducing for anything else.
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We use octopus deploy(Great software btw), most people use configuration stuff mostly for connection strings. Everything else is the same.
Back in 2000, the UK government introduced the widely criticized "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000".

It was even heavily criticized in the House of Lords, but still made it through to Royal Assent on the 28th July 2000. The bill started in February of the same year and was pushed through as fast as possible in order to "prevent internet crime and paedophilia".

The core criticisms [1] surrounded the inclusion of the requirement for suspects to give up encryption keys or face prison (reverse burden of proof), and the expansion of the act to allow almost any government body to snoop secretly on the public.

It was dubbed the "Snooper's Charter" [2], and here we are 16 years later and that bill is now law and abused every day by councils across the UK to snoop on people "putting their rubbish bins out on the wrong day" [3]. Seriously, I'm not making this shit up.

Make no mistake; There is little we can do within the current political framework, in order to prevent this bill from passing into law, albeit with minor amendments and other hidden little nasties that we discover later were snuck in on the quiet.

The government is playing the long game, against a public that doesn't even realise they are even supposed to be playing the game.

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.

"The only way to win the game is not to play", sadly doesn't apply to this game.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/24/qanda

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009...

[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-counc...
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Legalisation, no, but decriminalisation, yes:

Take for example Portugal: Almost 1% of the population was addicted to heroin a couple of years ago, as the country moved away form a dictatorship and found freedom (also coming from a colonial war). With decriminalisation, and by treating addicts as patients, instead of criminals, the panorama improved greatly.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-d...
The figure is more like 50%, despite lorries being only around 5% of the traffic (see eg http://lcc.org.uk/pages/cycling-near-lorries, http://www.cyclelaw.co.uk/cyclists-and-hgvs). They are disproportionately dangerous, but not to the extent you suggest.
Yes we can't operate and maintain (mostly maintain) without US assistance because we have made a plan where we share that duty. If we changed our minds and decided to go alone we would could do so.

The nukes on the subs can be launched without US approval. As members of NATO we would discuss before firing under most circumstances, but that is a rather different scenario to the "UK requires US authorisation to fire nukes" being implied elsewhere.

When it comes down to brass tacks we have complete operational control of our nukes independently. That in most situations we would discuss with our allies before nuking someone does not mean our nukes are not independent, nor does that we reduce costs by sharing maintenance of nukes not in our subs with the US mean we have lost independence.

So the argument that we do not have independent control of our nukes fails.
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Why do you say that the first scenario requires a large-scale software engineering effort? They don't want new features, or major changes to the crypto systems - just disable the function that causes the phone to lock for longer and longer times when wrong PIN codes are entered.

Comment out the function call. Change the number of allowed guesses to MAX_INT. Change the time increment to zero. Click build.

This is not a hard task!
It's difficult to imagine this recovery operation could happen if Apple never get access to the phone. Perhaps they could have representatives from both Apple & FBI present.

Proving all copies are gone isn't possible; you can't prove non-existence. Ensuring extreme unlikelihood seems relatively straightforward, though. Make fewer copies, trusted personnel only, isolate the development to a particular location with no network access, etc. Naturally there'll be a risk that a copy survives, just as there's a risk that a contingent of rogue Apple employees are already working on it for the FBI.
I love the taste of kimchi, too. It's just unfortunate that it has such a low PH. I wonder, how is the dental health of those Koreans who eat so much?
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And of course hanging drug users is effective: You necessarily reduce demand if you're brutal enough. Want 100% effectiveness? Pre-emptively hang everyone. War on drugs won...

It misses the fundamental point, which is that the goal isn't - or shouldn't be - a drug free society. But to reduce harm. Including to the drug users.

Accepting that ruining drug users - addicts or not - lives doesn't reduce harm needs to be the first step, because we seem all too willing to lock them up and ensure their prospects of making a living in any other way than through crime is removed, without considering that these people are also part of the community we are supposedly trying to save from harm.
The conflict started way before that.

My reference is to when encryption was considered munitions and a bunch of people printed, shipped and scanned source code to get around the rules.
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Far more dangerous ones, such as alcohol? Tobacco is already the 6th dangerous drug in the world.

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/whats-most-dangerous-...
I don't think that's something we can settle with "they knew about working below market so they shouldn't complaint".

Knowing about something and considering it fair and acceptable are two different things.

A logical argument would be: "they knew about working well below market so they shouldn't act surprised" (because knowing in advance and acting surprised are contradictory).

But being hurt and complaining? There's no logical contradiction between doing that and having prior knowledge that a choice would end bad for you.

(Besides they also know that for some authors that's not the case, and they could -- even legitimately for some -- think that they are better than them, and deserve the same money).
His response to ""Don't message me SO MUCH or I will BLOCK YOU", followed by a block when the messaging remained unchanged was to file a series of nuisance complaints about her and start messaging her friends and employers.

I don't think any reasonable law enforcement agency could conclude that this behaviour wasn't a problem because she hadn't asked him to stop.
> makes sure the company is able to provide data requested

How should that be possible if FB doesn't store this information in the first place? I mean, if there would be a legal requirement for data retention on behalf of the state, I could understand the issue. But there isn't...
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I wasn't talking about the article, but responding to btillys comment and btilly never clarified the jurisdiction where the events he was describing took place.

I do think that the ability to defend yourself would be of great help if you're faced with a serious threat of physical violence, as seemed to be the case in the situation btilly described.

> a subset of them have a duty to retreat which will likely get you crucified later in court

This is what I was referring to with "most".
>And that leads to the other core issue few address: "supply and demand" still rules, and the economy would merely shift prices to drive beneficiaries right back where they were before. If you don't have to actually do anything to buy a gallon of gas or a loaf of bread, prices will rise until you once again have to work about 20 minutes of menial labor to earn whatever "extra" you need to buy it.

That's not how supply and demand works. The supply elasticity of a price of bread in particular is very high because it's trivially easy to ramp up production. It's the same for most industrial goods - industrial slack (google it) means that increases in demand do not correspond to increases in price.

The price of goods and services which have a constrained supply (low elasticity goods) would go up in price to match the new level of spending. The only one I can think of that would qualify these days is land, but it would be trivially easy to throttle spending on that at the same time by raising taxes on it.
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> Doesn't the question that started the thread imply the exact opposite?

I'm asking about demographics here avoiding the discussions.
People are leveraging webcomponents all the time, recently i saw job opening at slack for Polymer dev.

> Where's this "uptake" -- outside of Google, who can use whatever they want

I saw questions about webcomponents/polymer pop up all the time for aurelia and other frameworks (how to integrate nicely), github uses components too, salesforce. It seems that here is it treated like something that doesn't exist.

> The shadow-dom (and it's speed, predictability benefits)

React doesn't provide shadow DOM I think? Polymer does, i think it is the opposite?

> Being able to run on the server

This is cool and a nice selling point, I've been interested to do that multiple times but it appears that this is only possible if you build your app in node.js?

> React native

This is also awesome selling point, I still have reservations about PATENTS clause in all FB-related open source projects.
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It will be interesting to see what happens when we reach a position where virtual drugs are possible, or virtual reality can be as addictive and detrimental to ones life as being addicted to chemicals.

Can you ban math(s)?
OK, first of all: I don't question that this guy turned out to be an asshole and a stalker and that author is a victim.

But I can't help but raise a question of definitions here. He was a stalker for 4 years, not for 12. His behaviour during first years of their relationships wasn't something that I would even remotely call "stalker behaviour". Up until this point:

> I caved and sent him a message asking him to please stop messaging me so much or I’d block him. “Ok. good luck on your quest,” he wrote back three minutes later. “Huh,” I thought. “That was easy.” Then he sent three more angry messages in quick succession and I blocked him on Facebook.

there's literally nothing in the description of his behavior that calls for the term "stalker". (Later — of course).
>And while I don't support it, the only country with a measure of success seems to be Singapore, where you just hang anyone who has more than single dose in their possession.

Success being what? People not doing drugs? Who said that's what people want?
Seems to be iPhone only…
True, an increase in optimizations will likely mean longer compile times, on the other hand, with better optimized code, the compiler itself (as it's written in Go) will also perform better, which may negate some of the increase in compile time.
By "dangerous" I meant in the typical, colloquial sense (e.g. more likely to kill you in a shorter amount of time or what have you)...
Also, it didn't really fix the drug abuse problem. It did help a lot with the social consequences of abuse by removing obstacles to seek help (or provide help).
Several of our customers (IT projects) are organisations for homeless. So I can tell you they do exist. Two types of referral exist: from the council, or a walk in from the street. There are also numerous TV shows that document the process. Sometimes it is called "sheltered housing" other times "homeless hostel" and other times "emergency accommodation". It is effectively all the same thing.

Like I said "living rough" i.e. the stereotypical homeless person is basically not a real thing in the UK. They do it because they either choose to do so or have other mental or social problems that prevent them from seeking free help.
How is this different from using Redis and MySQL?
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