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I live in a murder capital that's in top 10 of violent crime. I rarely deal with a mugging and basic methods let me avoid it. Pre-9/11, I didn't worry about secret police putting the FBI on me for being a dissenter or CIA kidnapping me at an airport then torturing me. That kind of stuff happens here now but very limited. Also happens in Singapore with zero protections, accountability, or even media reporting far as people tell me.

We're over here doing all kinds of unpopular things to try to get us privacy, better healthcare, better this, better that. We have the opportunity with 90+% too apathetic to join. (sighs) Over there, you only have the opportunity to do what their regime of specific ideology allows you to do. If you don't, they will do more than give you outvote you, cite you, or try you in court. You won't stand a chance.

Leads me to believe you must live a very predictable, non-threatening-to-regime lifestyle to be safe over there. Activists I know in Singapore do not feel safe. :)
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You can read any implication you want into 11 words of text.

"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."

- Cardinal Richelieu
7 people died in the challenger disaster. 30,000 people die each year in car related fatalities. Completely different order of magnitude.

Additionally, going up on a rocket is a fundamentally risking proposition done by adults.

Having a driverless vehicle that glitches, applies power instead of brakes, and kills a bunch of pretty young girls.... well that makes the 5 oclock news and 11 oclock for many, many days.

People get charged with crimes.
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Leverage only goes so far. Since it was originally a BBC show ~20 years ago, chances are that country-specific rights were sold off long before Netflix got involved.
Too bad the internet archive can't take care of this, like the way they do with data-hoarding startups that shut down.
They block anything they can detect as a VPN, which is a pain in the arse, because I don't want to browse at all without a VPN, so I can't use netflix at all any more.
Same here but its Sweden ;)
You may be interested in a recent revival of his thinking from the left - [1][2] - the idea there is that he doesn't mean "enemies" in the sense of a mortal fight, but rather "agonists". This is explicitly directed against the Habermas type of discourse that is directed towards achieving a consensus, and advocating not to bury conflicts. Basically in response to a "mainstreaming" of political parties (probably not so much in the US, but in many European countries you will find that the major established parties seem to agree fundamentally with very little differences, with the rise of extreme right and left parties at the same time as a reaction). Not a view I share, but I find it interesting that they are now going back to Schmitt for that.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Agonistics-Thinking-Politically-Chanta...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Political-Thinking-Action-Chantal-Mouf...
This is one of those jobs that I can totally see being automated, and I really worry about being automated. If we automate the long haul truckers out of a job that is going to be a huge dislocation of workers. Further, what is their alternative job prospects? Even with free retraining do we have enough things for them to do?

I'm really interested in disruptive ideas that can soak up lots and lots of human labor at a living wage.
Compiler. Chez scheme is compiled with a nano-pass compiler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7FE3J-U5Q
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>Nobody deserves to have their hard work stolen

First off, it's not theft, it's copyright infringement. No one's stealing their content, because the copyright holders still have it. Stealing is wrong because it deprives the owner of the use of that thing: if I steal your car, then you can't drive to work any more. If I sneakily scan your car with a tricorder and 3D-print a clone of it, you still have your car.

Semantics aside, I completely disagree about them deserving to have their hard work copied and not getting paid for it. They absolutely do deserve this. If someone works hard on some piece of art (music, movie, etc.) and makes it conveniently available to everyone at the same fair price, then I think they deserve to get paid for it. But if they're dicks and they use their dominant position and inertia to promote their works and make them popular and culturally relevant, but then they only make them available to some people and not to others because they're trying to figure out unethical ways of gaming the system to make more money, then fuck 'em. People in other regions where this stuff isn't available have every right to copy it without paying.

These copyright holders have been bitching for many years about "piracy". Then along came the iTunes Store, Netflix, etc., and they proved that people are willing to pay for this stuff as long as it's a fair price and is convenient. Now they want to dick with it, so predictably, people are going back to piracy. Personally, I'd rather not bother with piracy: it's a PITA to use BitTorrent, try to find good versions of stuff, hope there's enough seeders out there, wait forever for it to download (not a problem if it's extremely popular that day, but a big problem if it's not), etc. I'd much rather pay $8/month for Netflix and just select what I want to see, hit "play" and watch it. But if the copyright holders are going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, then oh well...
not a myth, although popularly touted as a myth by people to whom this fact is inconvenient. it's very easy to google examples of racism towards irish and italian immigrants.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=irish+need+not+apply&sour...

here's where the "myth myth" started and was easily debunked by a high school student

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/High-school-studen...
If you look at scheme.com, you will see Copyright © 2011 Cadence Research Systems. Cisco bought Cadence back in 2012.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11549778
Right but you're skirting right by. The thing is it is a pretty common phenomenon. It's something that isn't intrinsic to white people or any single class of people. It happens to be that in the US whites on average can experience advantage. But if the US had a different history and were colonized by other people there would be other people experiencing this "privilege". I mean, we don't go around calling the issue Sunny privilege to describe it, or urban Han privilege, Sciences-po privilege, yet it is the same phenomenon.

Look at it this way, how would people X feel if we called crime instead of crime "people X" behavior as if only that group engaged in crime? And go around saying, well, true many peoples engage in crime but we wanted to highlight that people X engage in lots of crime too so that the people will be conscious of it and then kerb crime.
1. A vacation like a real vacation (not just time off)? A long time.

2. My job isn't horribly by any means. I have a lot of say in what I do and oversee it and development. A lot of responsibility rests on my shoulders and at times it stresses me.

I've lost the passion for what I'm working on and the "direction" of the company. Maybe I'm just being a stereotypical millennial.

I should add that I have a wife and children so my actions and decisions to quit don't just affect me.
It's actually like that on my laptop to, although slightly better, since I can actually scroll it.
Related: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Well, they were granted one for peer-to-peer synchronisation...

https://torrentfreak.com/dropbox-scores-patent-for-peer-to-p...
I feel like you're framing this as enormously more complicated than it needs to be. As I understand it, within the affirmative consent framework it is fine to move toward escalating as long as your partner has sufficient chance to signal their comfort before you actually cross any lines.

In a lot of the essential cases, those lines are reasonably well-defined. So (e.g.) if you want to touch someone's bare skin under their clothes for the first time in a given encounter, signal that intention somehow and then pause a moment to catch their eye or to give them a chance to react. If their reaction isn't unambiguously positive, back off, and don't be the first one to signal that interest again without checking in verbally. (If their reaction is positive, cool.)

In other cases, like many of your examples, the lines are fuzzy. Merely looking at someone briefly isn't any more intimate than "sitting close" (which we're assuming they've already signaled they're happy with), but eventually a long gaze might become pretty intense (pro or con). So as you approach that fuzzy border, it's your job to pay attention to their reaction. If they smile and gaze back, awesome, keep it up. (Hey, maybe they're gearing up to lean in and offer that kiss.) If they turn away or look annoyed, then of course you should ratchet back rather than maintaining your stare all the way to the creepy point.

I feel silly spelling all of that out so explicitly! It seems like any person who's paying attention to whether their partner is having a good time would just automatically pick up on these reactions as a matter of course (and at that point only a real twit wouldn't adjust their own behavior accordingly). And when there's any uncertainty, yeah, you've got to touch base verbally.

But in practice I think that's pretty rare. Honestly, based on my own limited experience in these situations, people who want a sexual encounter to progress are usually entirely unambiguous about that fact, with or without words. If they're not actively encouraging you (and you don't know them really well), why push it if they're not into it?
But did they really chose to live that way or did the government institutions just kind of lag behind the economic progress?

Economic progress excuses many sins. You see a similar thing in China. Human rights abuses are frequently minimized as long as there is economic growth.

Many cultures used torture and hanging and all sorts of extreme and cruel punishments. Even the paragons of peaceful resistance did: the Tibetans.

But many cultures chose to outgrow such practices.

I'd argue that:

1) The Singapore people never _chose_ to live this way, that it's an accident of history, and that economic growth keeps most people from complaining about it.

2) given the control of the press and the draconian government they couldn't easily chose to live differently now.

We should be wary of imitating them, because it would be very hard to dismantle a system like that once it has been installed.
Well, looks like we're about 1.00011779755% of the way until it's safe again.

https://twitter.com/chernobylstatus/status/72495666416050995...
Not only that, but I'm also concerned about the future of addons like Pentadactyl [0] and Vimperator [1] that use XUL.

I know the user base of these addons is not anywhere as big as Thunderbird, but I can't really imagine using Firefox without Vimperator; and it's already started to break in Firefox 45.

[0]: https://github.com/5digits/dactyl

[1]: https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs
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Seems like a shady site to me.

Will see myself out...
Sometimes I question whether there is the possibility of change, here. The CIA has started openly torturing people - they have no doubt been covertly torturing people for years; we've been showing this in our fiction for decades, and this is probably largely the public's view of how the CIA is - unsavory characters who do the "dirty work" that needs to get done to keep us safe.

Why do we accept this notion of torture as a heroic virtue, when it's obviously not? I think we're unable to assimilate the alternative - that our national myths are all false, that we are subject to an evil torture state, that our security apparatus is beyond democratic control or the rule of law. All of these are horrific, monstrous possibilities that we can't confront, so it's much easier for us to rationalize them away by suggesting that the CIA's actions are not, actually, evil.

Determining otherwise requires an act of national catharsis, a revolution in our understanding of ourselves as a political entity. We are not safe, good, democratic. We are venal, aggressive, evil. Making this confrontation will take more than just a factual understanding.
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"Why use this instead of GNU screen?"

The low latency features really set this one apart. The smart local echo (it underlines unconfirmed predictions) make it much nicer to use over laggy mobile networks.
It might just be my experience dealing with Bell when we had ExpressVu before becoming cable cutters, and Shaw's Internet service when I was growing up.

I also hate the things Bell has tried to do through the CRTC, like that whole Internet thing with smaller providers using its pipes.

I guess it's a principal thing.

EDIT: Another example... I used to always choose Famous Players for movies. I avoided Cineplex. Then Cplex gobbled up Famous and I started going to Landmark. I should be able to choose where I consume my content.
The alternative is to operate within the law and international convention.
It's been getting a massive amount of attention lately, really. Well deserved too. Phoenix is the sanest out-of-box web framework I've experienced.
HDBs are still expensive. 2k SG for a small 2 bedroom HDB and very expensive electricity are not a good mix and there are very few studio or 1 bedroom HDBs. In most non coastal cities in the US you can get a studio for $600 USD.
> Bottom line is: Singapore is not for everyone.

This seems an oddly difficult proposition to grasp for a lot of people who have never lived in, visited, or been anywhere near Singapore, nor have any plans to do so.
You can find quite a few videos on YouTube of cyclists on freeways. There is a video from a couple years ago of a bunch of cyclists holding up traffic on the freeway in Austin because they felt like riding on the highway.
I use tiny tiny RSS and can whole heartedly recommended it. One concern is that their user forum is extremely hostile and the moderators thinks it is somehow entertaining to make fun of others.
The website looks down.. any mirror?
I believe torture is morally wrong, but it's easier to point out the practicalities of coercive interrogation (even of a nontorturous kind) producing useless bullshit most of the time.

Also, your hypothetical is absurdly biased in favor of torture, given that any real information retrieved would be a needle in the haystack of the aforementioned useless bullshit.
Since air molecules have fluid boundaries, and since it is a non-scarce and fungible resource, the concept of ownership of air around your property does not mean ownership of specific molecules.
The sensor is the same size though.
There were some explanations in the Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4ghy5h/blog_by_kamal_...

If I understood right, the stack probes are like this: detect stack allocations that are larger than a page so that they might go past guard pages. In those occasions, do a tight loop of memory accesses with one-page intervals that would trigger the guard pages, to prevent the access going past the guard pages going unnoticed. The probes are done only on large allocations, so the costs are minimal compared to the size of the allocation.

If the stacks grows only by small increments, like on normal recursion, guard pages are going to catch it.
The first reaction pretty much everyone is going to have: "Wait, isn't Nokia a phone company?"

And that is why this will likely fail.
> The autonomous truck need not drive the whole route that a human driver does now.

Exactly. They'll be more like trains than trucks as we know them; they'll simply have more tracks available.
That's because we're trying to do more. If we were just trying to solve the same old problems as in 1970, then we wouldn't need as many programmers as we have now.

Once trucks can drive autonomously, once it's a solved problem, what more is there to do within that vertical?
I know--I was only counting the regular season. :)
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I also want this feature, and I like open stuff, so I wrote SyncthingFUSE[0]! It's primitive right now, but works for me at the moment.

Bazil[1] has similar goals, but wasn't ready enough for me.

I do very much like sibling /u/pritambaral's suggestion of OwnCloud support. I tried OwnCloud briefly in the past, but ended up switching away. A feature like this might get me to try it again and stay.

[0]: https://github.com/burkemw3/syncthingfuse
[1]: https://bazil.org/
Listen, when I went to high school, there were only a couple of "computer classes" available and I took all of them. When I graduated and went to college, my parents were lower-middle-class and I was a white male, so I didn't get any kind of scholarships or grants or whatever. But my parents had put aside some money and I worked really hard to get through as fast as I could, so I graduated without any debt. Then I got a good job, worked harder, and eventually went back to school. I worked full-time to pay for my masters and phd, and when I graduated I jumped back into another job. The whole time I was putting aside 10-20% of my salary and the result is that now I'm semi-retired. I get to choose what I work on.

There ain't no privlege here. Nobody ever sat me down and said "this is what you need to do". Hell, nobody ever cared about that, just whether or not I could get stuff done. I never had any big friends throwing me tips and jobs like that guy at Sea World training the seals to play horns. I never begged some "angel" to give me money. When I hit a wall, I banged my head against it until I got through. When everyone else was going to "conferences" and "training classes" on the company dollar, I was back at my desk, pounding out code and reading the f'ing manual. And when somebody says I have a duty to make somebody's life easier, I want to ask them where they were when I was sweatting blood?

You want a new "language" for "privlege"? How about spelling it L-A-Z-Y? Anyone could do what I did. It isn't hard. You just have to put in the work and for Goddess's sake stop whining.
Pricing for the enterprise can be an incredibly complex thing. License management as well.

I used to work for a company that provided custom pricing software for highly complex products (did you know a semi truck can have over 4000 options?). They charged hundreds of thousands for a custom pricing software solution - but it was mostly a custom job, some off-the-shelf software but mostly a ton of customization for that particular customer and their very complex business needs.

So no, you can't just charge a flat rate like it's a box of Fruit Loops.
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Yeah, this offends me - I want my terminal to have simple, predictable behavior, not be trying to reason about what the shell process is up to. If it has some predictive model, I have to worry about my predictive model (expectation of what happens when I hit a key) being in conflict.
You'd be hard pressed to find an instance where an average American civilian was affected by the KGB per se. Remember that most of the Cold War was a proxy war, fought in the middle east and South America.

The FSB their successor did assassinate a dissident in London (Litvinenko), which the UK government ignored until Russia became sufficiently persona non grata lately.
I use mosh daily and love it. It's great for moving around the office and maintaining a connection - no accidental hups, no real need to use screen or nohup.

My one beef with it is that it effectively defeats my terminal emulator's scroll bar. Need to scroll back the output? Nope. You have to use less or more profusely.
> Okay, but such a bug means Rust is not ready for prime time yet

Does the presence of miscompilations in GCC mean that GCC is not ready for prime time?
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Yes both in terms of degree and scale. In my mind the CIA's actions are morally indefensible but still pale in comparison to what those organisations got up to. Even if you throw in the FBI in its darkest days under Hoover you don't get close to the tyranny the KGB inflicted.

It is going to take Western history a long time to get over its Communist apologists like Hobsbawm and be willing to fully accept the horrors that system spawned.
Assuming the conclusion? That would only be true if I also stated that the only possible justification someone might give for torture is intelligence gathering. I was simply addressing what I thought would be the most likely counter-argument, not asserting it's the only possible counter-argument.

By all means, feel free to argue the merits of my 'pre-emptive counter-counter argument' (boy this is getting confusing). Or if you like, feel free to argue the merits of some alternative justification for torturing people. Here, I'll start you off:

- It's a good deterrent to <x> behaviour

- It's fun

- It hurts people we don't like

- The victim is a witch, and we need to find out who the other witches are
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It does fix those issues.
>Why is everyone assuming that greedy German companies aren't willing to sell?

The OP isn't talking about greedy German companies, he's complaining about greedy American companies who won't let Netflix in Germany show American content to German viewers. Greedy German companies are a different issue.

This whole issue is mainly about greedy American companies, because if there's one thing that America produces that people around the world want, it's our movies and TV, and a lot of people outside the US were/are using VPNs and other such things to get access to a US-based Netflix account because the versions in their own countries didn't have all the content that the American version has, and now Netflix is restricting that access.

There aren't many people outside Germany/Austria who really want to see content from German media companies.
For sure, smells of big corp PR department.
>The bar is so high at most employers that almost every applicant gets rejected.

There might be some network bias here since it sounds like your experience (first- and second-hand data) is from outside recruiter-referred candidates.
more likely a move to kotlin or C# than swift imo.
> A few generations back there were a couple of multi-socket-single-memory-domain designs.

Core2Quad/Duo based Xeons, P4s, Athlon MP, etc
1) Expectations are definitely not strong.
2) The common multiple is versus profit, not revenue. Their Price/Earnings is around 8. Not great, but much higher than Price/Sales.
The companies get to sell the distribution rights more than once. Its more chances to get a good deal for the producers of the content.

Then they need to maintain this barrier so that the deal is good for both the Producer and Distributor involved. If they don't force Netflix to do this then the deals don't look as good to the distributors.
Company interests generally outweigh individual interests in America. Besides, we live in a global economy, so putting off technology that is profitable (by a huge margin) today only ensures more American job losses as companies can't compete with foreign competitors. I predict that the driverless car revolution, whenever it happens, will be the issue that pushes Universal Basic Income to the forefront of the political landscape.
I meant to ask whether the average Russian was affected by the KGB.
It should be easy for them to get the satellites up: just point them up and multiply by the right scalar.
And aside from the JVM implementations and some works in progress the last time I checked, the only one with native instead of green threading.