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>Isn't Communism very similar to your perfect world? All the people were provided for and they worked for everyone and everyone was equal. However, that didn't work out too well.

A system where everybody was equal was never tried.

A system where the necessities were guaranteed was tried - in the Soviet Union - and it was, by and large, very successful.

It was successful enough, in fact, that Western elites responded to it in the 50s by implementing similar guarantees - NHS, social security, medicare, etc. (McCarthy's witchhunts and the Vietnam war weren't the only responses to communism).

What made the Soviet Union finally unable to keep up economically was the prohibitive cost of the arms race and declining oil export revenues, not the lack of capitalist profit motives.
He did his time. That he wrote a biography, toured as an orator and was immortalised by Rhys Evans were self conscious acts. Working with terrorists is unforgivable, the troubles were bad. Marks seemed genuine and tells it well, he was after all a Welshman.
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I'm irritated by the loading screen and the enormous list of JavaScript pulled in. That's a simple static page using a few css animations. Is adding bloat considered "modern webdesign"?
It's really hard for me to start reading. Yes, there are other reasons for poverty, and yes people make money out of poor people. But that doesn't really mean that this reasoning replaces the reason that many poor people don't know how to handle money, family, friends well enough to keep their head above the water. And most of the examples they use seem to underline that as far as I can see.

Poverty has a lot of facettes. Here's one that wasn't even mentioned: Because you can recognize poor people by their dressing preferences, richer people give them less opportunity. And there are quite a few opportunities that come with being at the right party, having the right friend, having the right hobby (like playing Golf). Poor people aren't at that party. And they don't feel comfortable in a suit.
I googled the IRA involvement at it looks like he didn't work with them directly but he worked with another smuggler, James McCann who did smuggle arms to the IRA.
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> http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-bei...

I found the referenced article to OkCupid rather interesting. It seems that if you can block people from visually seeing each other, until the actual blind date, then even very attractive women report having a great time with very plain men. So it seems that while people will almost invariably filter and match each other on looks if that option is open (which it usually is these days), but at the end of the day, looks are not important if you can meet in person first.
I really dislike the glorification of criminals in the British press.

I agree. I had the same reaction when I first heard about the cosy nickname for England's own ISIS terrorist, "Jihadi John".

knowingly caused a great deal of violence and human misery [and then] having the audacity to blame the laws of the time for the violence in his trade

As another commenter noted, public opinion is shifting in favour of his assessment about drugs.
The problem being that it isn't public.
Thanks for reinforcing my point
stigmata is also just the plural of stigma; that usage hasn't disappeared yet.
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>If every time you took an ambulance you were forced to sign over 80% of your wealth or be left to die in the streets in a 'voluntary exchange', that would be exploitation.

What is wrong with this scenario? If there were no ambulance service I automatically choose "Die" (which is, apart from matters of inheritance, always the wrong choice), but if there is the ambulance service I can buy my life for the relatively meagre price of 80% of my wealth, then having neither children nor wife I would take that deal ten times out of ten.
> To write code with the same guarantees as the core of my system would be theoretically possible in a "simpler" language, but it would be incredibly verbose: it would take longer to write and be much harder to maintain (because you'd have to keep a lot more in your head to understand each piece of functionality).

I could use the same reasoning to justify writing my code in Common Lisp instead. The thing about Turing-complete languages is that the only real dimmension of power is their expressiveness - i.e. how much boilerplate do you have to write to implement something (and therefore how much of that cruft other people have to deal with when trying to understand your code).

I therefore find this principle as applied to programming languages to be illogical.

It makes sense in non-Turing-complete languages though (configurations, DSLs) - because there by "least power" one means power in the computational sense. Accidentally making a language too powerful when it's not needed can lead to security issues.
I suspect two issues.

There's some observational bias at play. You notice the cases where the guy (usually) has "outkicked his coverage" and you may notice the very attractive singles and wonder about it. You don't notice the plain singles or the perfectly matched couples, but you notice the woman in the red dress from the Matrix.

Second, some people make a conscious decision to have a stable relationship. I'm not saying it's 100% choice, but it's well over half IMO. I sought [and found] a partner who came from a stable family, who was educated and valued education, who wanted kids, and who wanted a stable relationship. Did that contribute to me being one of "those people"? Probably.
(this is largely irrelevant to the discussion, but it's an interesting sidetrack, I think)

>Physical attractiveness correlates pretty well with income.

In the bit of the world where I live, there seems to be almost an inverse correlation between physical attractiveness and income, just because nearly all the high-income folks I know are serious computer types, which (at least before a few years back) correlated with not taking particularly good care of your body, in part because physical attractiveness mattered a lot less when getting a computer industry job than in nearly any other industry. When me and my friends or co-workers went out to lunch, the service staff was almost always way more attractive than we were.

Now, there's some pretty obvious selection bias there, of course, and I don't doubt that you are mostly correct (if you correct for age, first) with a large enough and random enough sample size, but in the context of this website, the sample isn't particularly random.
I kinda like the name, and the logo as well. Have you thought about making it more of a "name"? Like reddit?

So the name would be "lets" and later on maybe people will go "ahhhh, like 'let's go to blah'!" Some will get it and some won't, but it will still feel more like an actual name than a word.
Hm, how is a cooperative / mutual-aid-like financial/organizational structure imposing artificially lower prices? The profit is absorbed by the members in-kind in the form of lower shelter costs in exchange for the responsibilities of shared ownership, and as the shareholding owners it is their right to take out profits in the form they mutually agree upon. Just because the profit is not capital and not in the norm of conventional land owners, I don't see these Wohngenossenschaften are artificially decreasing prices. The Wohngenossenschaften are smarter capitalism, squeezing out more inefficiencies.
Ah, but that's a different claim. The claim in the article is "You can use mutability to model things that change with time.". Your claim here is "You can use mutability if it makes programming easier.".
Not only symmetry, but also the proportions. People are evolutionary wired to use symmetry and proportions of faces and bodies to estimate health and survival/reproduction "value". This is not the only factor, of course, but a huge one.
> Until then let them eat cake?

Of course not. But neither is it all or nothing; slum or safety net. My point is the root cause needs to be explicitly identified before it can be rectified. The root cause in this case is America's fetishism for small government and smaller taxes.
That is not a silly but a precise name.
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I would strongly recommend against using Seafile.

Seafile stores a lot of metadata in clear text (including filenames): https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350

The developers know about it, the issue is 3 years old, this huge limitation is still not reflected on their documentation.

An attacker who obtains a copy of the encrypted library without the key can:

- read the complete list of directory and file names.
- know the size of every file
- know which files share some of the same information
- see the history of who changed each file, when, and what byte ranges were altered
I don't type-ascribe all public methods. Maybe I should but I'm lazy. I don't even type-ascribe my implicit vals or defs... i probably should but i don't

As to Either, I didn't mention it because I don't use it much, and don't see many other people using it either. Sure you can use it and it'll work, but it's not the style I use or the style I see most open source libraries using.

As for Scalaz, yeah \/ is great, or cats' Xor. But this doc is all about Vanilla Scala: for every library out there, they will have their own best practices, that are totally uninteresting to people not using hat library. If someone wants to write similar documents for Scalaz, Cats, Akka, Play, Finagle, Play, they would each probably be just as long as this one, and probably just as valuable!
Quarnot does this too (European), free heating bill. Never tested it personally though.

http://www.qarnot-computing.com/qrad
> Bloomsbury's Nigel Newton said GCHQ contacted him in 2005 after it apparently discovered an early copy of The Half Blood-Prince on the internet.

> However, after a page was read to an editor, it was determined to be fake.

This is hilarious

There was a lot of crap being put online being named for an upcoming book, usually fanfic (especially at the time of Book 5 and 6)

But it was easy to tell
How on earth are those things related? Because using mutability to model mutable things makes programming easier, while using mutability to model immutable things makes it harder. It's not rocket science...
Can we get it in print?
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To protect domestic business, yes. As stated in the article, "GCHQ, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, is a secret intelligence agency which monitors electronic communication to prevent terrorism and tackle serious and organised crime."

Spy agencies should not help domestic businesses by engaging in serious crime, i.e. industrial espionage, though some nations' intelligence agencies, including France's have done so.
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> I could use the same reasoning to justify writing my code in Common Lisp instead.

Maybe you should then. I find it too hard to restrict my code in lisps: if I want a certain part of my code to be in a DSL-like constrained sublanguage, there's no standardized way to express that, only ad-hoc macros.

> It makes sense in non-Turing-complete languages though (configurations, DSLs) - because there by "least power" one means power in the computational sense.

I think non-Turing-complete general-purpose languages are possible. I'm very excited for Idris.
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It should also be noted that that fact is duly noted in the obituary itself. For fairness.
Thanks for doing waybackhn. I've wasted a fair bit of time on it.
http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/ess-news-and-events/news-head... - "Conservationists Crying Wolf? New Study Shows Yellowstone’s Ecosystem Dynamics More Complex than Trophic Cascade"

"Our results contribute to a growing body of evidence showing that changes in growth of woody deciduous plants following the reintroduction of wolves cannot be explained by the trophic cascade model alone"
I think there's a second dimension of languages to consider, namely how hard it is to write incorrect code. To some extent these goals are conflicting, in that preventing incorrect things often means disallowing some shorter correct solutions.
... or possibly that they seem like nice guys.
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> The thing about Turing-complete languages is that the only real dimmension of power is their expressiveness - i.e. how much boilerplate do you have to write to implement something

Have fun implementing your compile-time Common Lisp typechecker.

I mean, you can do it. I have friends implementing a typechecker for Python, and it works. As for me, I'm very happy to have someone else implementing/debugging/maintaining a typechecker for me so i can do other things with my time, like watch cats climb into boxes on youtube.
I don't read it as a contrast. The ICIJ is apparently saying "we didn't gave them access, because they had no interest in cooperating with us". So NYT's statement that they didn't have access, seems accurate.

As for "we didn't know": it's unclear on which level the ICIJ communicates with newspapers, but it makes sense that happens on a managerial level, not editorial. So it's not that surprising to me that a NYT editor would be unaware of the documents.

The more interesting part to me, is why the editor expects the situation to "change soon". Has management reversed course now that they see how big the story is getting, or are the reporters/editors up in arms because they were blindsided by management?
>> "violence versus Scotland's wait of 30-40 more years for a referendum; some Irishmen obviously wanted a resolution within their lifetime"

I don't think you can really draw a comparison between the two. The Troubles didn't start simply because the Irish wanted to control their own affairs they started due to the fact that Irish Catholics were being heavily discriminated against.
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I was going to say Scala's secret weapon was in it's non-turing-complete typesystem.

Unfortunately, Scala's typesystem is turing complete.
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Thanks for the corrections. When I bought the dongle, I already had an iPod Touch. I wanted an iPhone, but they weren't available in Europe yet (without a jailbreak, anyways). So I guess a couple years had passed since I got it. My memory is apparently very bad!
Regarding the troubles with malloc, Firefox as developed by Mozilla doesn't use system malloc. (It uses bundled jemalloc.)
Thank you so much for the invaluable feedback. I totally agree with you we did fall short with the prototype. The content was very vague and the clear value proposition of the product was not coming across. So I think its a real problem.

We have been posting about the prototype on various platforms where people discuss finance. But I think our UX is pretty crappy at the moment which has led to a very high bounce rate.

We are planning to rework the entire product, be A LOT more professional with the content and the delivery. I will surely check out Khan Academy's video on finance stuff.

Thanks again for being so honest. We would love to be in touch in the near future when we are done iterating on our prototype. Drop me a message if you would like to receive an update regarding the same :)
I think it's pretty humorous actually.
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Agreed, in the Netherlands dating apps are having serious troubles because Tinder is free, easy and quick. Dating apps now try to sell there "privacy aware" attributes because you don't need facebook with them (which you do need with Tinder).

Personally I have no experiences with it, but in my circle I see tinder being used as a dating app.
My intention is to try to tease out the finer distinction between where immutability should be used and where mutability should be used, because I'm personally very interested in the tradeoffs.

I'm genuinely sorry if my comment touched a raw nerve. As I said, I think it's an excellent article.

One thing I got wrong in my original comment: use mutability where performance means you can't get away without it, but also where code complexity means you can't get away without it. (My personal view is that there are many cases of the former but few of the latter, but that's an argument for another day.)
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Hopefully Uber will be able to keep dodging stupid regulations. It's remarkable how well they've done so far.
As a Scot who watched the 'troubles' on the news week after week, year after year, I respectfully disagree. Many Scots I believe felt that the Irish had the courage to do what we did not: to take the matter into our own hands. Those same people also held the contrary view that violence was not the answer, and that common sense would prevail. They can now feel venerated in that they took the higher ground.

Recent events in Scotland however, display that the political situation/plight is not different enough that you can merely dismiss it as you do, almost half the population of Scotland want self-rule (for the record, I'm not among them). The details may differ but the desire is equal.
Indoor plumbing came to rural America in the 1930s.
Electric lighting came to cities in the 1920s.
Electric appliances were rare in the 1920s, even in cities. The first self-contained electric refrigerator was invented in 1923. (Ever wonder why your grandparents probably still call it "the ice box"?)
Cold running water was probably available, but water was still heated by the stove or fire in most places. (The single-lever faucet was only invented in the late 1930s.) Rural water supplies were still via manual wells.
Heating systems were commonly manually fed by coal with no thermostatic control.

A modern small home, with electric lighting, an indoor flush toilet, a refrigerator and other electric appliances, hot and cold running water, thermostatically controlled HVAC, microwave, and cable TV? Absolute luxury compared to the typical house built and lived in in 1916.

My house (a quite respectable house built in the mid-1920s in Cambridge, MA) appears to have originally been fitted with a coal furnace and has had electric lighting retrofitted (originally had gas lighting). An oil furnace was retrofit in 1937. It seems to have had flush toilets from the start.
> rupee millionaire

I don't wish to put down Mr Prakash's achievements, but is that actually a celebrated figure in India - or at ~£10.6k is the word 'millionaire' just a sensationalism for our benefit?
Any reason why it won't work in India? I've had worse problems with cabs trying to rip me off in India than in most other places and would be delighted to have a way to avoid that.
Including the US, who misused ECHELON to help their aerospace industry.
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When I was at University I stayed in a 7ft X 7ft room (because it was £40 per week) and my computer often made my room too warm, especially if I was overclocking.
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Interesting stories.
Better copy editing would make them easier to read.

"Ed had shouted on them like this"

"No real kidnapper hauls around a struggling, scream-seeking captive"

"I see I need to show the adolescent asshole affecting to be me "

Broken sentences like these make the stories a bit of a chore to read.
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This is interesting. A quick search turned up an article [1] that outlined some of the difficulties with lease-to-own residences I wasn't aware of. However, the CFPB is likely on the losing side if the leases are structured as short-term rentals, terminable at any time, as Rent-A-Center has done [2]. This type of consumerism is likely to be self-correcting over generations of time; I'm seeing far less participation by Millenials and younger generations for this consumerism than older generations, by simple virtue of the fact that they are quite drained of financial resources and growth potential by the time they graduate. If this trend is real and continues, then the velocity of money could seem great while juiced by the Fed, then drop like a cliff function when demographic realities trump monetarism and lack of fiscal policy changes in the US.

[1] http://www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com/home/featured-arti...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/rent-a-center-cfpb-...
Thanks for the heads-up.
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In other news, the next firefox release is going to have W^X

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/46.0beta/releasenotes/

http://jandemooij.nl/blog/2015/12/29/wx-jit-code-enabled-in-...
>These claims fell on deft ears.

On deaf ears, you mean? (Or perhaps daft?)
'Tinder is not an app people seem to use to find "the one".'

I think this is both true and not true. A suspicion I have (and I'm sure there's got to be research on this) is that a lot of people interested in casual dating/hooking up on Tinder and/or in bars are unconsciously looking for a long term mate. In some ways this is a very effective strategy, since you're cycling through a large number of potential mates to find one who meets some kind of acceptability threshold. I read somewhere (sorry can't find the reference), that extroverted, high frequency daters ended up in happier long term relationships simply because they had more selection, which on the face of it seems to make sense.
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Not sure why you were down voted this is correct.
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I don't think his generalisation his accurate, and lots of others agree.

Not only the idea that Tinder is majority used for hook-ups, but the idea that people have been having casual hook ups for hundreds or thousands of years, and mostly falling in love through work or long term social relationships. You don't have to look very far in time or geography to see societies that don't work anything like that. Arranged marriages, gender segregated schooling, lack of women in the workplace until relatively recently.

And FWIW, within my social circles, Tinder is frequently used to find serious (as opposed to casual) dates. I have just moved in with my girlfriend who I met on Tinder.
Also, though less exactly relevant: http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
Is this possible? Fault currents are much more obvious at a higher voltage than lower, and I thought most RCDs would not be made to be sensitive enough to catch what might be a dangerous DC leakage.
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Poverty is the reality for most people 100 years ago, and for all of history.

It's just in the last few hundred years where we've actually moved people out of poverty that we've come to the idea that people shouldn't be in poverty. Before that, it was just assumed that everyone besides the rulers were in poverty. And if you read stories from the time, there's never any idea that it could change or that peasants could all be royalty.

Stories from pre-1500 that involve wealth are all generally about an extremely lucky peasant being married up to royalty, and that was pretty much the only way to move up from poverty. Well, that or war.
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To his credit, when I saw him speak in the late nineties and some in the audience cheered when Jim McCann (his IRA contact) was mentioned, he stopped and spent several minutes explaining that Jim McCann was a horrible human being.
This is amazing! Thanks for the effort!