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Title: Tips from Comedians
According to http://www.proeuropa.org.uk/twelevereasons, the UK enjoys all of this thanks to the EU:

1. Jobs

Around 3.5 million British jobs are directly linked to British membership of the European Union’s single market – 1 in 10 British jobs.

2. Exports & investment

The EU buys over 50 per cent of UK exports (54 per cent of goods, 40 per cent of services).
Over 300,000 British companies and 74 per cent of British exporters operate in other EU markets.
American and Asian EU firms build factories in Britain because it is in the single market.

3. Trade

The EU negotiates trade agreements with the rest of the world. Outside the EU Britain would have to renegotiate trade deals alone. While the EU is the world’s largest market, a UK outside the EU would not be a high priority for other counties to negotiate a trade deal.

4. Consumer clout

British families enjoy lower mobile phone roaming charges, lower credit card fees, cheaper flights and proper compensation when flights are delayed or cancelled. These sorts of benefits could not be achieved by Britain alone.

13. Research funding

The UK is the second largest beneficiary of EU research funds, and the British Government expects future EU research funding to constitute a vital source of income for our world-leading universities and companies.

A Brexit could mean that there will be increased taxes on all of this to compensate from these lost advantages, which will surely translate to increased corporate taxes.
The person who started that discussion is an idiot.
Australia also has very lax money laundering laws, it is said that Mossack Fonseca would have faced less regulation being based in Australia vs Panama.

Tories are all about extracting wealth through property and money management (tax avoidance and money laundering are forms of asset management really).
That's a bit of a silly thought experiment.

If faced with a symmetric foe that has launched a nuclear holocaust upon my country, it would be absolutely essential to retaliate in kind so as to ensure that they could not mount a second assault and kill even more people. If I were president, I would not hesitate.
Facebook executive arrested in Brazil over data access – CBS News
Obama by himself, no. But the executives from which he raised money will make him do and say anything they want.
There is a book, Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman that describes this phenomena beautifully. It's a short and wonderful book.
New grad (Dec '15). I have no commitments at all except for my ~35hr/week job, so I have a great amount of time to do whatever I want. Mostly I just end up playing video games...
I like this idea in theory, but in practice if I see Dick Cheney coming at me with a butcher's knife I'm getting the hell out of there.
I never got the point of service-worker caching. What's wrong with cache headers?
Goodbye Boost VC – Thank you Tribe 7
Ah for the good old days when we just tied our animation routines to a vertical blank interrupt and that was that. :-)
SleepBus – nightly trips between SF and LA
In social sciences, there’s an absolutely massive bias in favor of publishing results that confirm current educated opinion, or that deviate from the consensus in ways that will be seen as quirky or interesting rather than cold or cruel or politically tone-deaf.

Isn't that a massive problem for meta-analyses? If there are 15 studies supporting the consensus/politically-correct position and 5 against it, that might be evidence against the consensus, if less than a third of researchers with against-consensus results have dared to publish their results.
Might be worth while if it lets you kill SystemD.
Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for ion drive
Anyone else feel like the problem here isn't tax havens but the tax system.

Is there a better approach than collecting taxes?

What if inflation was used as a tax (printing money)?
Jeff Meyerson's interview with David Heinemeir Hanson [DHH] includes rewriting software. It discusses the reasons rewrites have a bad reputation and the difference between rewriting because "it's not my code/language/idiom" and declaring "technical bankruptcy" as an extension of the technical debt metaphor.

Agree with DHH or not, he's thought deeply about a lot of software development tropes.

http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/01/13/the-evolution...
Front End State of the Union, 2016: Best Practices a La SASS, ES6, React, Etc.
Would be great if we could discuss the 'State of Frontend' as of April 2016.

My suggestion is that all contributions aim at breaking their responses as follows:

1. Cutting edge - Stack of choice; examples, links would be nice.

2. Pragmatic usage, currently used in production. Stack of choice, examples and links welcome.

Thanks!
But they all share the same similarity - culturally and historically connected to their larger counterparts, enabling well-connected citizens to hide their money.
API vs. ABI
That's because Walmart doesn't offer third-party fulfillment (to my knowledge). They allow select third-parties onto the selling part of the platform (but again, not open like Amazon), but fulfillment remains the 3rd party's problem to handle, which is why the shipping price is still an issue there.

Amazon is providing far more of the value chain than other e-commerce sites, and it's no surprise to me that they're charging for that. If that doesn't work for a given seller, they shouldn't use Amazon. If enough people don't use Amazon, Amazon will have to adjust. I see no evidence that the latter is occurring in great numbers.
> The question is not, can it be done, but rather what's easier and lower cost?

I thought it was about speed.

> The C++ equivalent would be to allocate as much as possible on the stack, and then make sure to do a restart every night to eliminate any heap fragmentation that is left.

The C++ equivalent would be to do heap allocation and never free, then shut the process down which will return its memory to the OS. Heap fragmentation wouldn't matter here since you aren't freeing any memory.

Fundamentally if you can avoid freeing any memory all day then you should just allocate it up front an be done with it. Anything else is ignoring the more fundamental point that you are using a limited amount of memory and pretending that you aren't.
Somehow funny that this needs to be marketed as a climate project. That impact is probably marginal, and energy/material cost of the surface material - not covered here - is more important.

Probably it has more positive effect by reducing flooding, which tends to get worse in built up areas with lots of pavement. When rain and melting snow can bw absorbed to the ground, flooding risks go down.
On that pay gap...

I've noticed over the years that the SQA teams tend to have more women as a percentage than development teams[1]. And, SQA tends to pay less than, say, full stack roles[2].

Again, it is not scientific, but the difference in populations of women in a lower paying role seems to explain some of the pay difference. Perhaps the research needs to be more granular.

Is there anything to this, or have I just not seen enough organizations? And then even if true, there is still the question of causation. Why is there an apparent affinity for women in SQA roles over standard developer roles?

[1] Not scientific, but search LinkedIn for Title: SQA. 10 of first 20 hits appear to be women in my search. Then search Title: Full Stack. 0 of 20 are women in my search.

[2] salary.com:

Software Quality Assurance Analyst II, Mountain View, Ca: $83,362

Software Engineer II, Mountain View, Ca: $95,881
What if the first strike wasn't a disablement strike but an exterminating one?

If your foe launches a strike that would kill 99% of the population of your country would you retaliate to ensure same level of destruction?
I think that we're arguing the same point...?
This is really interesting. Do you know of anyone using it in production?
The city is set to receive $175,000 through the FCM's Green Municipal Fund, meant to help cities tackle climate change and increase environmental sustainability.

And they built a parking lot.
Bananas genetically modified not to rot
Presuming the USA is the only country with nuclear weapons?

Does everyone promise to do this and have them nowhere else?
Quite a few:

- Enumerated types

- Enumerations as array indexes

- Generics

- Classic OO with inheritance

- Untraced references in unsafe packages

- Unsafe packages for low level systems programming

- Exceptions

- Reference parameters

- Bit packing

- Since Modula-3 was a system programming language for SPIN OS, the runtime library was richer, including GUI components

There a few other features.
But that's not the case here, in most Starcraft tournaments it's 1v1. So it would be one 1 AI mounting serveral attacks at the same time against one humain player with the limitations it entails.
Tips on Finding the Best Career Fit in a Startup
Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful back end server (2015)
This argument makes absolutely no sense.

Can you agree that sometimes it is morally just and legally permitted to use violence?

Can you also imagine that someone may know that it is the right thing to order this violence, but be put off by physically having to hack someone up themselves?

If so, do you now see the practical problem that the friends in the Pentagon were warning of? With the capsule in the person you are clouding the judgement of the president and making it harder for them to make a cool assessment of the right course of action, not adding some kind of clever moral check. Can't you see that?

If you want to know more about this issue, read up on the 'trolley problem'. It's a more complex moral issue than your snarky comment implies.
They should have a twin backup and test the process every month.
Why Most Indians Can Speak Multiple Languages Like a Dream
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This is a really interesting article and I'm glad this is getting attention. It's especially refreshing to see a theoretical treatment bridging algorithms with more "modern" hardware implementations.

One opportunity I do find in this article is real-world performance tests and determining the importance of constants in performance tuning. Prakop et al. did some really interesting work in 1999 on cache-oblivious algorithms, with applications to kernels such as the FFT and matrix multiplication. The work is theoretically extremely interesting, but in practice, hand-written or machine-generated algorithms continue to dominate. The most famous example of this is probably Kazushige Goto, whose hand-optimized GotoBLAS (now under open source license as OpenBLAS) still provides some of the fastest linear algebra kernels in the world.

If you're interested in learning more about how the differences between the two approaches shake out in linear algebra, I recommend "Is Cache-Oblivious DGEMM Viable?" by Gunnels et al.
You could limit the APM the AI can use I think :/
Give it the same number of APM as the mean of the top 100 players. Something of the sort...
That is what attracted me initially to it, but then I got disappointed with the overall direction the language design was going.

I am more of a Swift/Rust guy than Go, in terms of features.

Even Oberon eventually evolved into Active Oberon and Component Pascal variants, both more feature rich than Go.

To be honest, Niklaus Wirth's latest design, Oberon-07 is even more minimalist than Oberon itself.

EDIT: Typo
>> Intel plateaued, no significant user-appreciated progress in the past 5+ years

It's not true. Their 3DXpoint memory offers 10x GB/$ of dram, at a speed relatively close to dram.Leaving aside the huge impact on the storage market - Intel even did an exeriment[1] , taking a 8GB Dram computer and comparing it to a 256Mbte Dram(as cache) + 3DXpoint sitting on the main bus - and they performed equally.

If that's true(and 3DXpoint has the reliability for such usecase) - this means Intel could possible own the mobile market - and own the full stack of computing.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXurTRtmfWc&feature=youtu.be...
Have you ever tried any psychedelics? Feel free not to answer.

I am very curious if they could make that connection. I know LSD puts the brain's visual processing into overdrive, perhaps it might make the connection strong enough to give you this mind's eye, even if only temporary.
> So basically you reversed the defaults in order to make it easier to find sites with partial style declarations, so you can yell at them.

Nope, it's only the especially egregious that get yelled at. In the case of ticketmaster.es, their purchase form looks like this with the default black-on-white colour settings https://imagebin.ca/v/2ekv8S6pbKls

It looks like they're forcing the foreground colour of native text input fields to be black, and the background of native drop-down lists to be white. I refuse to change my entire GTK+ theme (and hence, every application I use on a machine which I spend the majority of every day staring at) to an eye-straining black-on-white colour scheme just to make up for some Web devs going out of their way to break their own sites.

Plus, in the case of ticketmaster, their form handler mangled my input; their "change details" form didn't work; they provide no contact details other than accounts on social media sites which require signing up to; their entire "help" section is an "ask us a question" form which displays all submissions publically; and so on. Besides, it's not "yelling", it's bug reporting; they're free to ignore it.
Wouldn't people just store wealth in things that are out of reach of politicians inflation policies? Bitcoin, gold etc?

Another approach is to lower taxes and create less of an incentive to circumvent them in the first place...
Apple patent prevents headphone audio dropouts in hybrid wired/wireless designs
OK, but it's more expensive that "free", and they didn't previously list their prices, but now I see at the excellent https://www.azul.com/products/zing/zinqfaq/

Zing is priced on a subscription basis per server.... The annualized subscription price for Zing per physical server ranges from $3500 (for several hundred servers) to $8000. Higher volumes and longer subscription terms will reduce the per-server price for Zing. Pricing for virtual servers is also available upon request.

Since you're likely to be running it on a server with a hardware cost approximately the same or larger, next time I'll only use two dollar signs ($$) ^_^.

And I've indeed heard it's popular with financial trading firms for the obvious reasons. Up to 1 TiB heap, no problem, and no 1,024 second pause which other collectors require for a full GC.
Wow, that really is fascinating.

I wonder what else people would be more willing to do by pushing a button rather than doing it themselves.

I mean, it's not surprising that gov higher-ups would incinerate human beings with a button, dump toxic waste on people from a plane with a button, poison water supplies, launch tear-gas from choppers, etc.

They should be forced to open their eyes and WATCH the effects of their buttons. Like Clockwork Orange or something.
Let's say that magic is real, OK? Magic actually works. Science hasn't noticed it yet because psychologists don't get network effects and don't have the data sets. But let's say this is the case.

That means words have power. Certain words and phrases, repeated in the right way, perceived in the right way, will get people real sick. Names and labels have even more power. The right name can change people, give them a new identity. They change the way people see themselves, how they behave.

Some websites, some communities, are chronic incubators of the bad kind of magic. Enough exposure to it and you'll start having bad thoughts, you'll get depressed, withdraw from society, maybe start giving a harmful kind of name to yourself, maybe hurt yourself or other people. Sure, the boundary between mental illness and not-a-mental illness is vague, and maybe subject to abuse (just ask the Russians). But some stuff is unquestionably both contagious and harmful.

We just have to be careful not to get exposed to bad juju out there.

We don't have to sterilize every water source on the planet. Some people like drinking out of rivers. But we'd be crazy not to treat our water for obvious bugs.

But it does mean we should be prudent about what we're consuming, and what our families are taking in. And if you were a government, you'd be tempted to do some harm-benefit analysis. You could say that free speech isn't an absolute, and promoting, say, bulimia or terrorism carries great harm and should be minimized, as many governments do.
and? i think this is incomplete.
Could you share which TED talk? My wife and I are about to buy a house with the hopes of turning the land into a permaculture food forest and I've been trying to find a way to leverage my development skills to bolster the farm skills as well!
I don't get it. When I was 14, hacking on a Commodore 64, I didn't know a soul around for miles who knew a thing about programming. I once pestered my chemistry teacher because rumor had it that he knew C. But I knew plenty of people on BBS and usenet forums. That was my developer community.

It's SOOOOOO much easier nowadays. Everything's at your fingertips. There are literally hundreds of communities a URL away. There are more tutorials than you can shake a stick at. You don't even need to special order books from obscure sellers and wait weeks for it to be in stock anymore! Hell, you can even video conference with people, doing hackathons over google hangouts!

In fact, that's the main reason why I've moved TO a small town. I work from remote, and live on a farm.

I don't mean to say "kids these days", but seriously...
I thought he was referring to "A Colder War," which to me replicates perfectly the cold dread I felt when reading Lovecraft's stories about the Colour out of Space, Irem of the Pillars, et al---more so than any of the works by Lovecraft's other fans (including Derleth, whose work I didn't enjoy).
It's good that you have one user. How will the second one be acquired?
Here in Europe, usually the people that don't talk about salaries do so, because they are constrained to reveal the values or don't want to constrain others in the room.

But usually among friends, people are generally comfortable mentioning them.
No. I will aim for 100%. 1% with enough technology will still rebuild.
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Its just a line, you should share your experiences and tell us how difficult it was to get to silicon valley from PK.
Let's put aside the likelihood of a exterminating strike (where the enemy achieves near-total destruction before you can even think about launching).

Now suppose you do also decide to retaliate to ensure 99% destruction to your foe. Would your foe's knowledge of that change whether your foe even tries an eliminating strike in the first place?
I have found passion rarly has much to do with talent in Tech. It's just a buzz word for, willing to be under paid and over worked becuase you have nothing better to do.

PS: When things are not going well, firing the energetic guy pulling 80 hour weeks may seem dumb. But sometimes it can make dramatic positive impact over time.
It's amazing what people will do with a button if told to do so by an authority figure:

http://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
I think this reverses causality; our values were carefully eroded by right wing think tanks and so on pushing free market ideology. Deregulation resulted, along with financialization.
Probably! For many of us alumnae, it was giving back to something that had a direct impact on our lives. Many of us already work with other groups, and/or will shift our efforts to those groups now.

I don't know of any non-profit bootcamps for women/underrepresented genders in the bay area :) The work that Hackbright does takes a lot of one-on-one time and a lot of money, and that's hard for a non-profit/volunteer model to support (I used to run a non-profit and have been a part of many volunteer groups).

There are, however, a ton of neat projects doing great work around adjacent or overlapping issues, and I'm working on a list to help provide alternatives for folks who can't stomach supporting Capella. Feel free to post suggestions :)
Cheney never comes at you with a butcher's knife.

He prefers to become your friend over many years, have great experiences together, then shoot you in the face and make you apologize for your role in the incident.
Dave Cheney: gocon talk (slides+notes)
But it isn't difficult. And there's no magical path. Where there's a will there's a way.
After diemboweling: "Oh, there were launch codes in his chest??" -Dick Cheney
Not a big deal. Air Force One actually has operating rooms on board. Just have a cardiothoracic surgeon with the President whose job it would be to retrieve the launch codes.
Killing via button is killing many of them "them". Hacking the innocent's chest is killing one of "us".

Part of the dilemma in this thought experiment is basically about weighing the worth of the lives of unknown numbers of "them", against one of "us".

The President must distinguish "them" or "us", otherwise he has no business leading the country in a war. He must treat the killing of one of "us" with a different judgment.

The other part of this is remote controlled killing versus visceral engagement. Suppose that pushing the button is the right thing to do for the country, but the President has a personal aversion against the bloody engagement form of killing. As President, he's supposed to push, but a personal, psychological reason is preventing him from doing it as a man.
Ponder institutional corruption and you may realize capitalism in it's extremest form is as toxic to the common good as is extremes of communism or socialism. We are parasites to our environs and each other, and that can be a GOOD thing(cooperation, trade, specialization) when it is symbiotic, but when one entity takes all it devolves into parisitoidism(aka, harming or killing the host).
> [I]f you want me to rush to the Singularity community’s defense, the way to do it is to tell me that they’re a weirdo nerd cult that worships a high-school dropout and his Harry Potter fanfiction, so how could anyone possibly take their ideas seriously?

Ha, good one! I really love his long rambling answers, very interesting.
How does meta-analysis in a highly opinion based field like the social sciences, where there are different, mutually exclusive schools of thought even make sense in the first place?
I would actually be good with Dick Cheney coming at me with a knife.

I live in Texas so it would permit certain actions on my behalf.
There is huge difference though. He has to kill one of the citizens of his own country. Better example would have been lets say a convicted war criminal. He still has to do the killing, but not a person that is one of his own.
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Observe the sneaky trick this story tries to play: The president is supposed to kill one of his own before he's allowed to retaliate against the enemy.

As a thought experiment, let's implant the launch code into, say, a captured enemy spy. Is it still the same story?
That's embarrassing. Isn't it the CFO's job to use his or her discretionary judgment when approving transfers? I think we need to fix business cultures rather than build tools to think for us...
What was the way ?
The problem is whether they "know that it is the right thing" vs. just do it because the negative repercussions are not felt strongly enough to deter him in circumstances when it is not the right thing.

Perhaps the butcher knife and the capsule is too extreme, but on the other hand, perhaps just having to issue some codes is too easy.

The situations where a nuclear counter-attack serves any moral purpose are limited enough that such thought experiment are worthwhile means or considering what level of deterrence should be in place.
Well, this is basically the question upon which the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine hinged itself.
Remember this when people like raiyner and tptacek tell us that drones don't change warfare.
you plan to come back to pk or stay onwards?