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is the UN's decision motivated by the UN's embarrassment, though?

I assumed it was more about the UN's fear of major dropoff in volunteer rates from countries/orgs that would be embarrassed about their infection rates. After all, the UN only exists because of the participation of all the member countries. They are right to fear hurting participation rates...

I'm not defending the spread of HIV, just noting that it's a nuanced challenge.
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I find it funny that most of these proposals completely ignore US territories. Those people are truly second hand US citizens.
The idea of a corporate for-profit proprietary video game being the centerpiece of a generation's learning is horrifying and dystopian to me.

It is the same problem the last generation had, in large part, with the public schooling Microsoft monoculture. Kids grew up on Windows 95 and Office and are now indoctrinated into Microsoft tooling, probably for life, as loyal customers. A very valuable investment on Microsoft's part to capture the computer knowledge of a large portion of a generation.
Isn't the whole point of UBI to replace other entitlements? If everyone has basic income, why have food stamps? Or disability? Or social security?
That is not what I have seen in the bay area over the last few decades. The high end fluctuates quite a bit but the low end is steady and remains high. Much more competition for starter homes than higher end homes around here...
Uunfortunately that has not been my experience. Between various linux distros LaTeX environments and 3rd party plugins, I've yet to be able to easily recreate the environment to produce similar output. If I struggle with it now, I have little hope that I can do it in 10 years - and I have more faith in VM containers.
If LunaSea had mentioned those reasons and some supporting evidence, it would have been a better comment. Two of the points raised by bllckchps I've been able to verify for myself:

* The crowd funding campaign goal has been modified since the article was published. The article said the goal was $13,000, but the goal has now changed to $18,000. [1]

* Some of the content on The Center for Planetary Science website is just a cut and paste from Wikipedia with a few words changed. Compare [2] and [3].

[1] https://www.gofundme.com/wow-experiment

[2] http://planetary-science.org/astrophysics/black-holes/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
> During the recession, the stimulus bill authorized $1.3 billion for subsidized employment programs in 39 states.

I'm reminded about how much we've wasted bombing and rebuilding the infrastructure in foreign lands. Think of what we could have built if we invested the deficit here.

> Subsidized employment programs “really help get money into the pockets of some of the hardest-hit families,”

It gets tricky here because even most liberal or conservative ideologies agree that working is good, and government-created demand for work is fine. It gets hairy when we start to spitball exactly how that demand should come.

What may work for both sides? Find out how to create the most demand with the least amount of long-term dependance. Let's start talking about avoiding the second part while encouraging the first.
I think prophesi is suggesting it would be fun to use for something non-professional such as a single-player browser game. You could, for example, make it possible to hack the game by hacking the DOM, or unlock godmode by changing your player nametag to say "God".
sure, I wasnt proposing dialect maps as the divider, just that the nyt midwest divide seemed arbitrary.
I don't agree that the cost of food reflects how often we should eat it.

See: seafood, rare spices, berries, nuts.
>But a lot of break-ups wouldn't be that hard to do, such as separating NYC from upstate NY.

Ideologically NYC should be separate from Upstate New York -- I certainly agree as a liberal minded person living upstate.

However, it's not as easy as you claim, mainly because without the millions of taxpayers in New York City upstate would crumble faster than it already is.

I can only speak to the northern most counties where I grew up and still live, but most of the manufacturing industry has gone and left ghost towns and social difficulties in its wake (unemployment, crime, drug abuse). The biggest industries are healthcare, tourism, and the prisons (which host inmates almost exclusively from the city).

People around here like to cling to their rural red state values and look down upon city liberals, but if all of a sudden that tax support left we would be up shit creek (the Hudson?) without a paddle.
Certainly turning down a $4.5M settlement suggests you believe there's merit to your claims. Also, reputable lawyers won't take on a case they don't believe they have any chance of winning, and Keker & Van Nest appears to be a reputable firm. So not always, but in this case, basically yes. Admittedly there is a bit of a difference between "chance of winning" and "some merit" (unfortunately) though.
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What they mean with "Brazil Fiasco" as a scale challenge to Facebook? We, Brazilians, would be more safe with an explanation about this and how Facebook has invested in escalation of fascism in Brazil.
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I grew up in Minnesota and then went to school in New York and I can definitively say that Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin should not be included in whatever "Yankeedom" is, and I think my fellow B1G fans would say the same (a certain bar on the upper west side notwithstanding).

I'll have to read the book...maybe he makes a clearer argument than in this map, or is selecting on some variable I'm not seeing.

I've also lived in south Georgia (a little over a year) and Seattle (4 years), and have traveled those areas extensively. Those parts of the map definitely ring true to me, especially the "left coast" designation for the PNW (a lot of my friends in Seattle jokingly called it that) and the "New France" designation for the NOLA area.

I'll definitely be checking this book out - thanks for the recommendation.
(it doesn't exist, or appeals to the "fact" that toxicity is so minor that we can't see it yet)
There's two scenarios in which one can avoid or delay taxation when his home has appreciated:

1) $250k deduction if single ($500k deduction if married) during the year in which the capital gains has occurred.

2) Convert the property to a business and use a 1031 Like Kind Exchange in which 100% of the profits can be rolled into a new property and deferred until that property is liquidated or the gains are realized.
Always liked using Abiword on Linux, but the Windows version seemed quite buggy last time I tried it. IIRC Abiword could read and write in (some) .doc format, though that was not the default native format. Come to think of it, a decade or so ago, access to .doc files was a major reason to use Abiword on non-Windows platforms. It will be good to see it working again.
Did you look at the modded Minecraft experience at all, before doing that?
One of my favorite drawing-up of America is based on data from Where's George:

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/04/16/177512687/a-...
I see it as unsustainable because it doesn't scale and the results don't produce any actual benefit. I see it in the same light as a golf course... a huge waste of resources so that someone has something silly to throw away their money on. Not saying that it shouldn't exist, per se... but it is at odds with the greenwashed way it is marketed.
You ask for something very complex and subjective. For instance, I have a set of libraries written in Python, and I use them in a web app, on a desktop app and in Android (using python 3.5 provided by crystaxNDK - https://www.crystax.net/).

The python libraries are my "backend" where I have most of the interesting code, and only the frontends change: html/css/js over flask for web, PyQt for desktop and Java/JNI for Android.
Probably my favorite book is "Death by Food Pyramid". I can't remember if she went into this particular topic though.

I don't know of any definative proof, which I think is what makes issues like this so dangerous. Scientific proof is a high bar when dealing with something this complex, pit that against powerful food lobbies and truths can stay buried for a long time.

For me, it's been an observation of many cues, then making a personal decision about how I eat from that. One interesting place to start is corn: Most corn that you eat isn't the sweet corn you buy in the store and cook on the grill. It is very hard and must be broken down with lye before being eaten.
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And what would be the alternative to the "old and busted" business model? I personally think advertising is a great business model. It's not because some technology (with a dubious legality) can render a business model less effective that's it necessarily old and busted.
There's a two year minimum that you must hold the home to qualify for the exclusion. So it's not "every time" it appreciates, but it is "once every two years".

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p523/ar02.html#en_US_2015_p...
Sorry, I'm not familiar with California counties. I thought he was one of those people advocating splitting off the very northern part of California, the part north of the Bay Area. There was a movement to do that long, long ago, called the "State of Jefferson" IIRC.

Yeah, splitting the state in half around the mid-section does make sense; the state is too large, and the north and south halves are pretty different from each other. While they're at it, Las Vegas should probably join the southern half.
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> Snark aside, this is probably one of crappiest articles I've ever read (EDIT:) on Ars Technica (or rather, skimmed; didn't deem it worth reading word-for-word). "Microsoft should make a do-it-all box for $200 that has cutting-edge GPU and CPU, and they should fragment their hardware lineup. Oh, and put a pony in every box." I'm sure this article is being passed around the E&D executive suite as I type.

Maybe you should bother to read the article before commenting, because it says quite the opposite, and suggested that in fact it's the attempt to make a do-it-all box that leaves the Xbox simultaneously overpriced as a streaming box, and underpowered as a console.
You should definitely look at Electrical Age as well.

I mean... I'm biased, because I'm one of the (non-core) devs, but it's a reasonably accurate DC electrical simulator, in Minecraft! What's not to love?
The point being that moving is expensive in general. I recently moved back to Portland from the Bay Area for a decent paying tech job, and it still cost me an arm and a leg. A lower cost of living doesn't mean that it's cheap to move.
Also people need to learn to live with minorites and give them rights. Applying radical Wilsonian determination to the US sounds very libertarian.
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Capitalism: Hey, Socialism. Remember how you worked your ass off
trying to make Communism happen? From each according to ability,
to each according to need?
Socialism: Ahhhh. Don't remind me.
Cap: Check out what I did, as a hobby, after going home from work.
Soc: You... bastard.
Cap: To each according to need, from each according to how awesome I am.
Soc: I hate you. You are literally the worst. Most of those
people aren't even *working*.
Cap: I'd love to talk more, but I need to be on Mars soon,
on a rocket built without taxes.
Soc: Yeah, you'd better run! Jerk.
Even if there's nothing wrong with GMO produce, consumers shouldn't be lied to. If they want something, pay extra for it, and are told they should get it, then they damn well better get it.

I tend to think GMOs are fine, but at the same time, I understand why one might be skeptical. Humans are pretty great at inventing toxic consumer products (e.g. plastics, lead pipes, asbestos) and even "health foods" that later turn out to be disastrously unhealthy (e.g. trans fats). Sometimes the lag between invention and the confirmation of deleterious effect is many decades.
Completely agree. I have found myself more often than not trying to "bet" which framework I should learn next that will give me an edge. And this always leads to the fear of missing out and sometimes learning seems a chore.
Indeed, and so does being a Shuddle driver. It's not (wasn't) the equivalent of trusting your kid to some random cabbie.
Every argument against this hinges on a very odd idea that land is more important than individuals.

Rural areas use more resources per capita, contribute less to our GDP, and are less educated than urban areas. Giving these areas a greater influence holds back progress.
Right! The ole toilet argument seems to win over everybody. I was in the Army for a long time, and right after 9/11 during our pre-mobilization for our first deployment, we mobilized out of Fort Stewart, in Georgia. We were put up in these awful billets from WW2. Just awful. Anyways, the bathrooms only had rows of toilets immediately behind rows of sinks. So if you went to shit in the morning (literally knee-to-knee with the guy shitting next to you), someone's ass was in your face as they brushed their teeth. It was at once one of the most enlightening moments of my life about the cultural concept of privacy that we have these days. We have an expectation of privacy that obviously they did not enjoy in days of yore. And we have got to fight to keep it.
Building a chatbot that would search or even crawl through listings on Yelp, TripAdvisor and Google Maps would probably allow us to build the database faster - and there are other chatbots out there leveraging existing databases. However, consumers accustomed to services like Airbnb and Etsy are looking for authentic connections to local, and social­-good businesses.

We believe that one of the key value propositions of our product is to provide a highly curated list of high quality and more personalised results. While Google and others are competing on speed and quantity, our key value propositions is to provide users with high quality and more personalised results that they normally would spend hours researching online.

Do these assumptions match your learnings from building a similar experience?
It's very easy to be snide, as your last sentence demonstrates; it's much harder, but more valuable, to give thoughtful criticism.
I think this is a great comment, if you already have enough money to really enjoy life (well, perhaps except a private jet), then even more money might not make things better, but being able to solve interesting problems might.
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No, the North and South halves aren't very different (particularly, they are less different than a similarly over simplistic coastal/inland divide.)
Hi, dev on TypeScript here. I would not just say that TypeScript "can work" with React, but that it is really very good, especially in terms of JSX tooling. Give it a try some time!

I also wouldn't say TypeScript strives to focus on OO features - we try to be a type system that works well for JavaScript programming as it exists, while paving the way for the future. We don't even use classes in the compiler!

Also like you mentioned, we try hard to work well with many other frameworks and I think that will show. Angular 2, Dojo, Ionic, RxJS, and others are even written in TypeScript and provide a pretty great experience.
That depends on a lot of factors. The advantage of an approach like this is that every package is built in a clean-room container independent of the host. For example my host is os x and I'm building binary tarballs to run on ubuntu. If you have a build server obviously this is less of an issue.
This bothers me. How are people interviewing for (presumably) admin positions without this knowledge?

When I interviewed for my first real job they included a programming "test". It was basic C stuffs (really, more C pointer focused). Things like 4 swap functions, each incorrectly implemented, what are the resulting values of a and b after running swap(a,b) or swap(&a,&b), etc.

Apparently, I found out after getting hired on, I was the only one to have ever gotten every question correct (note: I was not their only hire, the code there made sense once I heard this, I'm not there anymore). So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that sys admin jobs see similar problems. But it still really bothers me for some reason. This is fairly basic knowledge (telnet/ssh for admins, C and pointers for embedded systems programmers).
I don't get this article. Other than defining a bunch of new words, what are they exactly saying the problem is, and what are they saying the solution is?

Just saying that <the solution isn't diaspora, it's swadeshi> is complete nonsense. And the problem seems to be <something big corporations do> but they never really say what.
Google Maps is now displaying it as "disputed territory", like West Bank or Hans Island.
> It really helps to have R&D office in Europe, India or Philippines, you definitely should consider this if you want to keep your dev costs down.

I'm sorry but my anecdotal experience totally disagrees with this.

The problem really isn't developer quality -- which I believe is quite high in a lot of places, my problem is that it's so hard to work across time zones and countries. Your costs are cheaper but your productivity sucks.
The right certainly demonizes those who don't/can't work more than the left so I'm not sure your equivalency tells the whole story.

Also, working is good now but what happens when jobs become increasingly automated? I don't think it's too far fetched to predict that automation could take the place of most of the jobs on this chart: http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2014/occupations/images/chart_0... in the next 50-150 years. What happens to our opinion of work when many people can't work?
Did you read the previous articles? Allegedly Paul Le Roux created TrueCrypt (because a domain name is linked to him or something like that). Even if he didn't create TrueCrypt, he definitely created the pre-forked version of it (which he was open about).

It's got me curious as to whether Satoshi was really motivated by being anti-bailout or whether he created it for his own operations just as Paul allegedly created TrueCrypt for his.
One being proportional to population while the other is biased towards low population doesn't balance out. You would need another chamber biased towards high population.
I already stated above. Lack of en_CA and use of en_US means it gives me news, weather from the US, and default measurement units in the wrong form, and it spell checks things wrong.

And switching to en_GB means getting dinged for words like organize, getting odd keyboard layouts, getting news and weather from the UK, and navigator speaking in English accent and dialect.

It's worth nothing that other manufacturers (such as Motorola) ship their Android with an en_CA locale. It's stock Android on Nexus that has the problem. That Google hasn't bothered is rather awful.
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Haven't head of that game before. I looked at a few minutes of game play on Youtube and their website. This feels a lot like Second Life: A blank world were everything has to be developed in order to do anything meaningful. I might be totally wrong with my first impression so I'm curious it's comparable.
Nice, but I think they still clash with the surrounding architecture. Wouldn't be nice to paint them "terracotta" so at least they blend better?
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I don't think it's pedantic. It changes the meaning of the map drastically. Most major cities in the US are not capital cities. In the top 10 states by population, only one is a capital city (using 2014 numbers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Microsoft famously used the term "non event" for several of their hick ups. Gotta give them credit for their retorical skills :)
If the tax disincentivizes boomers from buying real estate at asinine prices and then seeking rents to pay the resulting mortgages as an alternative to the stock market, then that should make property cheaper as it reduces the demand.
>> "It is the same problem the last generation had, in large part, with the public schooling Microsoft monoculture. Kids grew up on Windows 95 and Office and are now indoctrinated into Microsoft tooling, probably for life, as loyal customers. A very valuable investment on Microsoft's part to capture the computer knowledge of a large portion of a generation."

I don't think this is as big of an issue as you think. I would be part of that generation. Almost everyone I know (and I mean regular people, I don't have many tech nerd friends) has switched to OS X in work and personal life. A few are on Chromebooks too. Most use a mixture of MS Office (when required for work/college) and Google Docs. So although I agree that there was an MS monoculture when growing up through the 90's/00's I disagree that has led to lifelong loyal custom.
I love newly thinked maps - but I don't like borders.
"out that of America’s 350 major metro areas, the cities with more than three million people have rebounded far better from the financial crisis." I assume the writer means metro areas with over 3 million people, but the lack of clarity is confusing at best. Who knows, maybe some readers will assume there are more than 2-3 cities (i.e., not metro areas) in the U.S. with populations of that size.