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even in a city near or in silicon valley, well armed criminals roam the streets

Well, in most of the US, 43 out of 50 states, 5-10% of the civilian population could also be "well armed", and outside of (still) high crime areas like Chicago I think this sort of crime is much less common, and as noted by dvirsky the crime rates in general have been dropping for decades, although that's almost certainly more due to demographics than anything else (i.e. the population of young men).

My vision of a "sane society" is one where I don't necessarily bother with a sensor, although the data from one would certainly be neat, but one in which during a moment's inattention from the one with the gun, or when they stupidly ask me to empty my pockets, I draw my 1911 and give them some .45 ACP love instead of my can't lock in the first place feature phone etc. Assuming my situational awareness was so poor I hadn't started avoiding letting them get so close in the first place, a skill honed in the dozen years I lived as an unarmed pedestrian in the Boston area, yuck.

Before anyone goes off on an "oh, you're so deliciously macho" tangent, while you have to judge each incident by itself, statistically, resisting a criminal assault results in much better outcomes. If you live in Silicon Valley, well, it sucks to be you (even if this isn't your sort of thing, as it is nationwide for the 90-95% of the population who don't legally carry concealed, you don't benefit from herd immunity).
I had one of these on a key fob for an apartment building. I thought the exact same thing every time I saw the HID letters embossed on it.
If you act like a total dickhead in real-life, you're apt to get your teeth knocked in, which tends to modulate dickheadsian behaviors.
Or how much energy is used to perform single google query.
Different people have different things they struggle with - this was clearly an important breakthrough for her and many others, she wants to share that with the world. That's a positive thing, and I think you are unfairly characterising it as some kind of self-glorification.
From that same article it mentions that 20% of the water 'used' was involved in packaging. Bottled water has the same packaging and will involve the same transportation issues, etc. The only difference is going to be in the water used to create the sweetener (sugar, corn, etc) and in those cases the water is 1) not lost, and 2) often coming from sources like rainfall over a vast area that would otherwise be unavailable to us.
Assuming this is, at least in part, water that's used for things like cooling plastics when bottles are made or rinsing machines to clean them, that number would be a simple calculation of the amount of water used per litre without taking in to account the fact that a lot of the the water in the system is recycled. A manufacturer could use the same 340 litres to make 1,000,000 litres of soft drinks, right?
Not just that, but if it's self-hosted, that also implies that it might be local to your work-area. I.e. It's on-premise, so even the entire internet going down wouldn't necessary stop local operations.
So the Mideast troubles comes from decisions a hundred years ago and a few million of "Zionists"? No local responsibility at all...?

The problems had nothing to do with e.g. the Bath party, directly inspired by the Nazis? Or the hundreds of years of religious conflicts? Or the lack of experience of own governance, because of Turkish control? And so on...
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Exactly for the reason gpm spelled out in the parent comment. Judges are smarter than that.
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There are lots of things I like about plain GNU make, but the fact that I need this is maddening:

LEFTPAREN:=(

A robust way to quote/escape something is sorely needed.
I think this depends on whether the course is 'Computer Science' or 'Software Engineering'.

While I agree that people might have a good amount of experience of writing software before university/school, I'd be surprised if they were well versed in Computer Science (which I think is more focused on the mathematical/algorithmic side at first).

(I studied CompSci at Cambridge)
> The right answer is to try and help those people who post the wrong stuff in a nice way (point them at the right places, explain the issue), move on quickly, and answer good questions.

Indeed, I wish that behavior was more common on SO. Unfortunately, smug remarks, closure and downvotes are the norm. This might be understandable for questions which are clearly ill-conceived, but it happens to ernest, sincere questions as well.
Per volume of the end product, coffee is worse, black tea is better.

Coffee: ~1100 liters of water per liter of coffee.

Black tea: ~270 liters of water per liter of tea.

Source: The water footprint of coffee and tea consumption in the Netherlands, http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/ChapagainHoekstra2...
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It's entirely possible to be paid above minimum wage and require food stamps, since minimum wage applies to everyone, to include minors and dependent spouses.

Increases to the minimum wage have had a brutal effect on black and youth employment, for obvious reasons. It's amazing how minimum-wage advocates refuse to accept reality.

The minimum wage should be the lowest amount a person is willing to work for.
It takes time to get the water back where you can drink it. We had this discussion before when we talked about the drought in California.
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(Just a personnal feeling) Gulp commands are more standardized, while in Grunt every plugin seems to develop its own way of doing things. And Gulp tends do do things faster.

But as you said, nothing wrong with Grunt. Indeed feeling the Javascript build tool fatigue , I'm seriously hesitating to do everything in a makefile
This is breaking news, no international media has had a chance to cover it yet. Here is the submitted link, as translated by Google: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev...
I think it's rather ironic that this was published by Trend Micro, a company that has had at least two critical vulnerabilities in their own "security" solution:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=69...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=77...

I realize that the two teams are probably unrelated, but maybe it would be worth verifying that their "security" software is indeed, you know, secure.
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My opinion on this is totally uninformed.

A quick search for 'global aquifer depletion' yields

"Scientists had long suspected that humans were taxing the world’s underground water supply, but... major aquifers [are] indeed struggling to keep pace with demands from agriculture, growing populations, and industries such as mining." ... "The situation is quite critical" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/16/new-n...)
You're joking, but it's true. It's the same thing with any poweruser tool, like Vim and tiling window managers. You can accomplish surprisingly difficult tasks in just a few keystrokes, but you can also destroy everything just as easily.
I went through this in the last couple of weeks. After about a week of infuriating behaviour trying to get gulp/grunt working even remotely how I wanted (eg vendor stuff split so builds don't take 10 seconds) I decided to give webpack a shot.

For anyone else in this position, sorry to the gulp/grunt guys, but skip them - go straight for webpack. It's still taken a lot of work to get a config that works nicely for my usecase, but all in all the experience was really good and I was 80% of the way there in no time at all.
Hm.

Git clients probably supply some anonymous but consistent identifying information when doing a standard pull... per-client rate limiting, anybody?

It's a nice idea[l] at least; practically speaking there's enough bandwidth to keep the current disaster ticking over, so... :(
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I've seen disputes about how much (can look them up), but as the abstract notes, this was largely a mid-1970s thing, as advanced trauma treatment from the Vietnam War filtered into the US, although the process started in the last '50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Adams_Cowley
Yes, it would be more helpful to have a breakdown of how much of that is service water and how much is potable water.
The point is that it's not law everywhere, and never will be.

At some point, the minimum wage will price unskilled labor completely out of the market. Companies now have 5 years to start automating these positions.

The Internet made this possible. So many people love using adblock and sharing files for free.. and the same tactics are being used to outsource labor... and now government intervention is a good thing.
You can't destroy water, but you can most definitely destroy fresh water. Or else you could have the same argument for just about anything ("I didn't really break your cup, all the pieces are still lying on the floor.")
> if we want more women in programming, then let's talk about how cool it is to build stuff, instead of how we can be role models or whatever.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To clarify, they disabled it for everyone in a software update[1]. Some comments made it appear they just disabled it for this guy due to his hacking, but it was for everyone.

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/691884/
It takes energy, not time. It takes a long time if you passively wait for random environmental processes to slowly replace the water, and a very short amount of time if you actively apply energy to the problem.
My browser shows me a 2 page article with numbers pulled out of thin air.
Btw 620 and 340 is very far apart. One drink uses 68 l of water for packaging and the other 124 l? I am skeptical.
There is nothing open about Ultra 45 workstations in the context of this thread (it uses Open Firmware, but that's about it).

Note that Ultra 45 workstations are extremely slow, much slower than you expect. They were very slow even when they were new. Think Pentium 2 performance.
Consulting doesn't scale as well, because you need people to do the work. In theory, with an product, you only need people to sell it. The cost of selling software is expensive, but still much less than the cost of delivery consulting.
His autobiography ("My Silent War") is worth reading - the process for getting into the intelligence services seemed pretty cursory - seemed to be pretty much lunch at a club to make sure he seemed like a decent chap...
I tried to build a serverless contact form by hooking up AWS Lambda function into S3 HTTP API event source and it's hard to configure and not working well. In any case it's not an alternative to HTTP Request triggers in Google Cloud Functions or Azure Functions.
Add to all the current comments in this subthread the fact that every drop of water you keep in a bottle is a drop of water you are keeping out of the system.
It's not just what you drink, it's what you remove from the cycle. And you'd like to keep the balance, right?
I think a large part of the "taste" of "fizzy" drinks is governed by the amount of sugar and salt they put in it. I also dilute plain fruit juice with water as it feels more palatable, but I don't mind fizzy drinks as they're very refreshing.
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I'm not into 4x4s at all but I like pure mechanical diesels for their simplicity and overall robustness (and distinctive sound, especially the 2-stroke variety) - no electrics or electronics at all, so completely immune to EMP, and doesn't generate any electrical noise on its own either. On the other hand, the emissions aren't great but I suppose they could be tuned to minimise that; it's just that most diesel enthusiasts are tuning for power (and smoke) instead.
Speaking about markets for alternative solutions, I would very much appreciate more reusability in containers. Like the Germans do with (some sizes of) plastic Cola bottles - they get refilled, not recycled. We waste ridiculous amounts of energy on making throwaway packaging. Recycling helps limit the waste, yes, but more often than not it seems like an attempt to optimize an utterly broken solution that shouldn't have been implemented in the first place.
What if I heated the earths atmosphere and then boiled all the earths water. What would you drink then?

I'd drink soda.
I agree. I find that the more you go without, the sweeter things taste when you go back. I used to drink diet fizzy drinks and then found the regular ones way too sweet.
I have yet to find a use for Grunt that would not be better served with either a more modern replacement or, more commonly/simply/pleasantly, an older replacement like plain old 'make'.
The technical side of torrents is lacking in this case, as a lot of rare, old, or more unheard of movies have no seed at all.

This is the main problem that you'll get with torrent if your goal is to have access to "every movie ever".
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The concept of programming by string substitution really needs to die, and operating systems need to stop enabling it with functions like system(). Any time you have to think about "sanitizing" strings, terrible mistakes are going to happen.
I'm also convinced it's the syntax highlighting in atom that contributed to a massive amount of its "sluggishness".

It uses regex with some off-the-wall engine that they chose because it supports just about every encoding under the sun. Many of the language syntax packages I looked at could easily improve their regex performance.

Plus when you open a file as "plain text" or disable the syntax highlighting package much of the sluggishness goes away.

I'd love to dive in and try and fix it myself but I won't have time to for a few months. The code itself isn't horrible just a little undocumented.
To be fair, they have been cracking down on those kinds of comments - there are even filters that stop you posting certain common toxic comments. It's not perfect, but they are pushing the culture away from that as much as they can.

It's worth noting closure isn't always a negative thing - questions closed as a duplicate give the asker an answer and work as pointers for others.
This talks about a water source, and more specifically a slow-filling source that has been tapped too much. This is where you should apply your concern and effort, to the protection and wise management of easily accessible fresh water sources that are being depleted too rapidly.

If someone talks about water usage (usually in a generic 'it takes X gallons to make a Y, so you should feel bad about doing/using Y' format) without regard to the specific sources then they are trying to bullshit you. If they talk about a specific source and use then keep reading to see if the rest of their argument holds up to scrutiny.
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Gordon Dickson is the first as far as I know to write this, in 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
I don't think so, but to be honest I'm not 100% sure because I've been using an adblocker and noscript so long and so consistently that I haven't the slightest idea what (if any) ads show up on my favorite sites.

I do know that I've been quite happy to stop visiting any site that refuses to show content to browsers that adblock. Such sites are almost always low value, and their refusal to serve webpages is a good reminder that the content isn't really a good use of my time, anyways.

If more websites I value more highly start doing this, I'll probably just end up buying subscriptions to turn off ads.
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Softdrinks are only one tiny part of number of products which uses water heavily.

Add almonds, microchips, mining, recycling and I frankly don't understand what exactly it is you are skeptical about.
> it is perceived as a difficult

It is difficult. Why would that impression be problematic?
Another nice comparison:

Milk: ~1000 liters of water per liter

Chocolate: ~17000 liters of water per kg

Beef: ~15000 liters of water per kg

Sheep Meat: ~10000 liters of water per kg

Pork: ~6000 liters of water per kg

Butter: ~5500 liters of water per kg

Chicken meat: ~4500 liters of water per kg

Wine: ~400 liters of water per liter

Beer: ~300 liters of water per liter

source: http://www.imeche.org/policy-and-press/reports/detail/global...

(pdf report on the right)
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I don't think 1.4.2.3 was the last version before this one.
The one in the Ubuntu Wily repositories for example is 1.5.23
Well, it supports returning a string from a handler, so ... yes. :)
Where does this energy come from and, more importantly, how many does it cost.

All of our problems could be solved with an unlimited amount of energy applied to them. Most of them were created that way too.
A good case for "Tax Waste, Not Work"
It's worth checking out Friedman's "Gradient Boosting Machine" paper (as mentioned here in the references) from 1999 -- this has a good description of "boosting" from the general perspective of function optimisation.

Here's a copy: [pdf] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.31....
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It'd be good to have another large-scale study to try to replicate, because, while the results where, err, politically incorrect, they fit too well with what an extremely large number of people have observed...
There's a remote-sftp package that allows a bit of this. But I've only used it for light fixes and config file changes on servers, never for real full remote development.
Yes, they do - I know of at least one case where they make large changes to the sugar content in a product based on costs at the time.
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What do you mean by "litre"? What do you mean by "used"? What do you mean by "produced"?
"One: This is not actually a leak"

It is a huge data leak.

"Two : This is a very mere share of Worlds Monetary Corruption"

I think it's very illustrative.

"Three : This is a business Opportunity for Media Organizations"

Yes it is.

I've learned nothing from this article. Yes we don't have access to the leaked data and this is frustrating because we only get selected morsels. Writing contrarian drivel is not the way to address this.
That actually highlights the problem perfectly. Energy is the metric that matters.

With current knowledge and level of technology humanity has, we can make almost anything by applying energy to shuffling dirt. Need gasoline? We can synthesize it. Need gold? We can recycle it out of stuff. Need drinking water? We can make it out of almost anything.

All that's needed is energy, which is something we don't have much of. Last time I checked we didn't have the world full of nuclear reactors. Until we hit a sustainable and ridiculous energy abundance, we can't assume we can fix any global problem with energy - there's not enough of it to go around.

EDIT: Wording.
Thanks for the reasonable response - I've heard of fossil, but never had any experience with it.
It would be a lot more interesting if apparent wind [1] was calculated and the vectors were superimposed on the sailboat so users can see what is happening.

Sails are curved so they act like foils with wind moving faster of the outer surface than the inner surface creating forward thrust. The faster the boat moves through the water more thrust created which is countered by drag of the boat through water. There is nothing like the feeling of acceleration when a windsurf board starts planing.

[1] http://www.sailbetter.com/apparent-wind/
I'm talking about a traditional sort of model, where each project hosts its own issue tracker, code review, etc. Unless you're working across multiple projects, you'd only care about downtime for your own server, not other people's (except perhaps for dependencies, which should be cached locally anyway).
I don't mind being harassed for preferring Emacs over Vim – it's a choice, after all. I can argue rationally for why you are wrong if you contradict me.

I do mind being harassed for being a man rather than a woman – that's not something I chose. I was born that way. I can't change that nor can I argue rationally for why I decided to be that way.
It's more frightening to realise that there is no conspiracy running the world, pulling to strings, and realise that everyone is not very good at their jobs and dont know much about the world.

A conspiracy is comforting, the reality of ignorance and incompetence is much more scary
The "New Routemaster" busses are indeed diesel-electric hybrids, but London is also now testing new fully electric double deckers:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/wor...

We already see a few EV delivery vans around (Nissan have one based on the Leaf technology). They need to get a bit bigger and have longer range before they'll start replacing all the diesel vans, but we are indeed making progress.

There's various problems with using intermodal rail for things like supermarket deliveries, though, at least in the UK. It's not really compatible with the just-in-time model that supermarkets and other retailers operate, where the supermarket places an order every day based on their real-time sales data which is fulfilled overnight from their large regional distribution centres.

Consider a shift from truckloads of goods to intermodal container loads: you'd be going truck-rail-truck, with all the inefficiencies of transferring between modes. You'd need intermodal freight depots on the outskirts of cities, shunting yards, etc which just don't exist any more. You wouldn't actually be cutting down on city traffic, since the same number of local trips would need to be made anyway.

And the distances involved from distribution centre to supermarket are usually relatively short, so there just isn't a huge fuel saving to be made in using rail.
It's very common in Germany to mix e.g. apple juice with fizzy water (called Apfelschorle), the ratio according to your liking.
We "use" water so poorly for agriculture and cities. I lived in Imperial Valley California. They have an open canal through a very dry desert for 100 miles. The canal is made of porous concrete that leaks along the way. It is then used in the farms to produce what I was told is the majority of America's lettuces and vegetables.

They LOVE farming out here since there is virtually no rain or weather events to complicate things. They have everything down to a science and a tight schedule that rarely if ever changes. We use up 90%+ of the Colorado River for this one purpose. We then ship these all across the nation using more resources. Seems a bit wasteful.

So how much water to produce a head of lettuce?
> you'd need someone to actually look at the evidence

Not necessarily somebody. It can be something.
You keep using this word "used", I do not think it means what you think it means...

Energy is one of those strange things, where consumption is not necessarily destruction. You 'used' a joule of energy when you heated up your coffee this morning, then dumped the waste heat to the rest of your kitchen, where it became an input for another part of the cycle. The energy did not go away when you consumed it, and in this case most of the energy 'used' in the production of a cup of coffee was never lost.

[I kid, I kid, I know you meant negentropy, but I just couldn't help myself.]
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