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This reads like out of one of Hideo Kojima's computer games, war as a "business model"?

"War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity.

It's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control. Information control. Emotion control. Battlefiled control. Everything is monitored and kept under control.

War has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction. And he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine."

– Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid 4
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But the second type can also fail quite miserably. Daimler-Chrysler, Kmart-Sears, Sprint-Nextel...
Great start! You'll find out the Ansible VM serves no real purpose as you can install Ansible on the host. Also you could use a YML config file to define your environment. And you should have a look at dynamic inventory scripts.
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Yes being on the other end is not so fun.

The basic problem is that very few customers that can really benefit from a product actually make the effort to find the product. I sell a product that is vastly superior to all other solutions, yet almost none of my customers come organically via a Google search despite being number 2 in the niche. Almost all our new customers come indirectly after losing a contract against a competitor using our product. I have to say that this is the best way to sell.
Oh no, not another instance of the Qmail abomination.

And I don't know where they got the information about Postfix supporting
Qmail's QMTP. Postfix' own documentation doesn't ever mention it.
When in history did newspapers ever survive on subscriptions?

The Economist makes ~60% of its revenues from subscribers.

Sources : http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-economist-is-winning-...

or if you prefer to delve into The Economist Group annual report you can find the 2014 edition here:

http://www.economistgroup.com/pdfs/Annual_report_2014_FINAL....

Granted, the publication is pretty much an exception in print journalism land, but it does prove that not all is lost.
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K2 is actually a pretty good board game (I found it a bit dry, but maybe not if you're that into climbing).
I was hoping for a comparison of out-of-box accessibility between the two frameworks.
Serious question; on what basis is "how well they will do at college" the right metric to use for selecting who to accept?
Unfair competition http://www.zerohedge.com/print/502779
If a page's function is to display some text and CTAs, it should work in IE8.
I've found that if you ever want to contact a company, find the appropriate person and email them. Collectively owned company emails are terrible because they often don't have a single point of responsibility.
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It is not a problem if the money is somewhat recirculated within the economy (make projects for the general public, rejuvenate cities, create jobs, pay salaries). It is a big problem if the money is simply drained out of the economy and funnelled into fiscal havens.
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Yes. But catholic vs protestant in eg Germany has been solved for quite some time now. (The last major war of religion there was from 1618-1638.)
It might not matter what is on the exams. SAT could just be testing for test-taking ability. I'd assume test-taking ability would be a good predictor of college performance too, as exams are typically 40-90% of college grades in my experience.

Is there any data out there which tries to measure test skills independently?
Cool blog. I tried playing around with Rust as well on some toy problems, and had a similar experience: cryptic error messages that only made sense in hindsight.

It's an awesome language, but I wish there was a bit more effort put into into making it 'ergonomic'. Of course, it's an open source effort so nobody is owned anything - but useful error messages are incredibly important, especially when the language pushes so many new concepts.
yes, virtualenv switches to whatever python you used to create that virtualenv. but where did that python come from ?

conda installs pythons as well. like pyenv, but I lost a bunch of time trying to get that to work correctly.

everytime I used virtualenv I had to go look up things and many things still didn't work with the same ease as nvm rvm etc. There's virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper (to make it somewhat usable ? I forget); pyenv; pyenv-virtualenv (what?)

conda has always worked flawlessly for me without fussing.
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Yes, mergers routinely destroy value http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/03/hard-facts-mergers.htm...
If you run a college then selecting people who will do well should maximise your graduation rate. Of course if this is what should be optimised is an open question.
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Right.
Did you know that DVD's still outsell BluRay's?
If the code is not well segregated you won't be able to write a clean unit test that tests the complex logic without also mocking a bunch of stuff.

That test will also often break as you refactor the various connecting APIs it surrounds.

Tests that break in the presence of changed API contracts (as opposed to bugs) are vastly less valuable than tests which only go red in the presence of a bug.
> You can go hundreds of years back and companies and businesses were already then busy at pushing through special privileges to keep their profits high.

Guilds are probably the prime example. Government-enforced cartels established by the industries to keep up prices for centuries.
> Integrations are a pretty big part of Slack.

I think I disagree. Integrations are a big part of Slack for tech companies, but Slack is doing well not because lots of small tech companies are using it, but because lots of bigger less-technical companies are. With them, I think it's transformational to have good instant messaging, not integrations.

> I definitely understand repositioning to "IFTTT provides pipes, but you provide the data." It's much more scalable (helping to ensure that it'll be around for a while) and offers advantages on both side of the fence. 100 companies maintaining 1 integration is more straightforward than 1 company maintaining 100 integrations. And that means IFTTT can concentrate on making the pipes (the real value-add, because "consume this webhook" isn't interesting in isolation).

But this is exactly my point, there isn't anything in those pipes, it's just an integration at each end. Sure there might be some tricky technical stuff to scale it (I don't know), but that's not the product.

And I think 1 company having a core-competency of "plugging webhooks together" is simpler than 100 companies a) knowing another 3rd party API, and b) having to prioritise maintaining that integration highly enough that it matches the release cycle of IFTTT.
I used to work in Middle East affairs.

There is a tendency for Westerners to overstate their own importance in the Middle East, which are also informed by inter-state, intra-state and extra-regional groups and actors that are neither European nor American.

The real regional meta-story that is playing out right now, in my opinion, is the inevitable collapse of the post-imperial order. It was caused not by any grand state actors (or by Twitter) but by a single Tunisian street vendor. He upended the unsustainable patterns of rule that have characterized the region since the withdrawal of the European powers after World War II. Nobody knows what comes next, and there is no good model, yet, of American statecraft to inform a regional posture.

The story made me shake my head, but not because of anything to do with of any sinister implications that it raised about the military-industrial complex, but because it looks like Keystone Kops. The Syrian civil war is a proxy conflict between the (Sunni) Gulf States and (Shia) Iranians with the Russians alongside the latter. It takes the form of members of ISIS killing Quds Force commanders, and it ignited without much help from the West. Which side would you pick?
I do like what I see, though Flexbox makes most of it so trivial that the benefits of adding it as a dependency seem limited.

I've taken to using CSS frameworks as reference guides for solving certain problems, I tend to not use them directly.
I like the idea but don't agree that all you do is vote above the cutoff. If there are 10 choices and I approve of 3, but I know my 7 and 9 are the only possible winners, I'll likely vote 1 2 3 7.
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Nope! I was chronically suicidal and depressed from 8th grade all the way through my first semester of college at Harvard. Someone jumped off a building halfway through that first semester, and ever after, I couldn't stop thinking about killing myself. Knew I'd unequivocally off myself if I stuck around, so it finally provided the impetus for me to drop out, travel around the world, get a Thiel Fellowship, and now be surrounded by the most amazing group of friends, family, and coworkers, and to be working on something I truly find meaningful.

Haven't been depressed or suicidal in the slightest since I came out here to SF and started living an autonomous life on my own trajectory. Was 100% circumstantial and situational for me, took zero drugs and professional therapy didn't do anything. Changing my life circumstances did everything.
Agreed 100% here. I was chronically suicidal and depressed from 8th grade all the way through my first semester of college at Harvard. Someone jumped off a building halfway through that first semester, and ever after, I couldn't stop thinking about killing myself. Knew I'd unequivocally off myself if I stuck around, so it finally provided the impetus for me to drop out, travel around the world, get a Thiel Fellowship, and now be surrounded by the most amazing group of friends, family, and coworkers, and to be working on something I truly find meaningful.

Haven't been depressed or suicidal in the slightest since I came out here to SF and started living an autonomous life on my own trajectory half a decade ago. Was 100% circumstantial and situational for me, took zero drugs and professional therapy didn't do anything. Changing my life circumstances did everything.
I find it odd that economists generally ignore the field of human psychology / behavior in their assessments.

Psychology, especially social psychology, is an epistemological disaster area[1][2] and everyone would be better off ignoring its "findings", not just economists.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...

[2] http://michaelinzlicht.com/getting-better/2016/2/29/reckonin...
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> Rust cares about first-class FFI support; in particular, copying strings at FFI boundaries is right out. That is why Rust needs C strings to be a separate type.

How does Rust handle strings encoded as UTF-16 or UTF-32? Does it need immediate conversion?
Self-censoring is plainly wrong. You have a human right of free speech - use it!

I never care if people vote me down. I have been downvoted often. It's just a convenient way to censor unwelcome messages.

If people don't want to listen to you even when you have good arguments then the downvoters aren't worth your opinion. Their response however points out if they have something important to say which could question your point of view so that you can use it to advance your own view.
Professional video used Betacam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacam

When I started editing, BetaSP was the broadcast format.
Two World Wars, millions of deaths and the subjugation by conquering powers of one of participants isn't a process we really want to repeat to solve other conflict zones.

The process whereby nations are built from multiple ethnic groups, and then nationalism and international tension is replaced by international co-operation seems to me to be one that we can't say reaches a stable state. The Cold War hasn't been over for that long, the European financial crisis has revealed some pretty ugly attitudes between various European polities.

Perhaps the democratic peace thesis is right, however it is also possible that France and Germany kick off again in our lifetime.
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My experience is no, most therapists don't deal with depression as a symptom for necessary changes in life circumstances. They'll expect you to talk about your feelings and so on. I've never heard of one saying your life sucks, change your job and make some friends. Which would often actually be helpful.
What makes you think economists don't try to study all those things? Even the caricatured "homo economicus" model, while defined as being perfectly rational in the methods, had an utility function (ie, goals) that was completely subjective; the idea that it was necessarily an Ebenezer Scrooge type is nonsense.
I think more so than the choice itself, what's important is that you design a system with integrity. If you want to go in the direction of quality, always choose quality and make decisions in favor of creating an organization geared towards quality. Whenever you go against the system you've created, the outcome will be poor because your system isn't built to handle it.
>People do not always want to bother going through all matches

That's funny, because Sublime Text opens all currently not opened files with matches for you to review before saving them individually. Having all that in a single search window is definitely faster.

Again, you cling to a single use case (having all files with matches already open) and demand changes, because you think your way of doing it is "right" when in fact there are many use cases that benefit from the way Atom currently handles find/replace.
I don't disagree here, but I am concerned you may be overstating your point.

Regulation is rarely a case of being good or bad. Rather, various competing interests have valid points and some arbitration must be found between them. As the old saying goes (paraphrased), politics is about slogans. Governance is about choices.

Political systems exist for political purposes. So what happens over time in a democracy is that regulations that sound good get enacted while regulations that don't sound good are not. In addition, regulations are enacted that sound good even in cases that may not require any regulation at all.

To fix this, politicians use cartoonish slogans -- "all government is bad" or "we need somebody to protect us from corporations"

This response, while great for the political system, does nothing to address the underlying bug in the regulatory system.
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The problem is that C's case of "always trust the programmer" has proven over time not to be sufficient. This is particularly true for security bugs.

The major driver behind Rust's design is memory safety - make it impossible (or very difficult) for certain classes of bugs to exist. You can write C software that is reliable without that safety, but it is very time consuming and never perfect.

This is a similar situation - give the programmer tools to write "obviously" correct code.
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Do these companies not recognize that moment of cognitive dissonance that surely -must- come when, as they're faced with "how do we determine if someone will be productive coming here" decide "I know; let's ask a bunch of questions we don't expect them to know! And then, let's provide a study guide so that they -can- cram before the test and come in and show they know it!"

That's exactly how the top management consulting firms operate their recruiting process. McKinsey even has a webinar for how to prepare for their interview and exactly what category of questions will be asked. The webinar is run by current associates.

Their recruiting works pretty darn well.
I'm not sure what you are trying to reason. X was cancelled but Y was almost cancelled. That makes no sense.

According to Wikipedia, $2.2 billion was spent on the SSC before it was cancelled in 1993.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collid...

It's unfortunate that it was never completed, it was going to be bigger than the LHC. Everything we are learning now could have been learned a generation ago.
> I have never ever had bugs in my code from somehow having invalid Unicode code-points in my paths.

Do you use any computers with non-unicode filesystems? I hit such a bug every month or two. (Most recently a couple of days ago in Deluge, for a concrete example, which seems to not open .torrent files with non-unicode filenames). If you're actually using a computer with a non-unicode filesystem at all regularly then I'm honestly amazed you haven't seen such bugs.

> I realize certain classes of bugs could happen, but I'd rather take that risk, have a bug, and fix it, than burden the type system and libraries.

It's a question of costs and benefits, no? A particular class of bugs has severity x and happens at rate y. If the language is such that the type system and libraries can handle it at a cost of less than xy (in terms of complicating or slowing development) then it's worth handling it there; if not, not.

> In a way, I'm a little sad that modern computer languages are going from C's extreme of "always trust the programmer" to the other of "never trust the programmer". Bugs are bad, but language usability, ease-of-use and simplicity are also worth fighting for.

Language usability, ease-of-use and simplicity are absolutely valuable. A good language is one that allows you to write correct programs without sacrificing those things.

I find a language that will keep track of things for me is a actually huge help in writing correct code. E.g. if I'm writing Python 2 then I still have to worry about whether a particular object is a string or a byte sequence - worse, I have to do all the work of keeping track of it in my head, because the language will just silently corrupt data if I get it wrong. I end up writing comments on my functions that say what a particular value is, and carefully reading my code to verify I've made encode()/decode() calls in the right places. I don't want my language to "trust me", any more than I'd want to e.g. try to cut a piece of wood to the right length without measuring or marking it first.
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Bitcoin mining costs only grows as mining competition grows. Cost is linearly proportional to the difficulty, which is linearly proportional to the amount of computing power spent on mining.

And the money spent on computing power is proportional to the mining reward value, meaning that mining follows the price.

And yet people don't stop spending. Very few people hoard exclusively. And yet again, there's the equilibrium where not spending undoes the deflation and causes you to lose value again.

Incentivizing spending by messing with valuations and risk judgements isn't the greatest way of keeping the economy stable.

Inflation doesn't only come through loans...
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Yes I had that too. I would have used "variety", as in this "variety" of string. Or "kind" maybe.
E-Commerce website to sell Latest Technological products?
As per my research till now, there is no single platform till now which lists and allows to buy the latest technological products
and people don’t know what the latest products are? If people want to know about products they have to follow some blogs regularly,
even blogs also won’t guide the people how to buy those products, there is no specific eCommerce platform to sell Technological/Innovative products.
> We’re working against cartel-like companies in China and other countries that will stop at nothing to enrich themselves,

That's how I felt about College Board.
"Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite."

– Joseph de Maistre

Seen from a systemic perspective one could argue that "every country gets the government they deserve" and by meddling with that "order" we created even more chaos.

Meddling with systems is something we are pretty confident about unfortunately (think about the recent findings regarding Greenland sweet water accelerating global warming).

The multitude of motivations behind our actions ultimately don't matter, what matters is the root cause - believing that we can or should "meddle" in the first place.

We notoriously think we understand but as "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" we usually suffer from collective Dunning-Kruger effects all the time.
As I read it

"Depression and anxiety are, for the large majority of cases, emotional signals that one’s psychological health is not ideal and that one’s psychosocial/relational needs are not being met."

looks like a theory and and experimentally testable and falsifiable one at that. Take a bunch of depressed people, try to fix their relationship needs along the lines mentioned in the article, survey the people who now have friends, get on with their family and so on and see if they are still depressed and compare to a control group. Simples.