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> A grid-based layout might mean more through traffic, but the traffic can filter through many, many different cross-routes rather than funnelling through the singular optimal route.

That singular optimal route funnels traffic away from my kids riding bikes, playing street hockey, drawing chalk cities, or anything else their little minds can come up with. It's why houses on a 'quiet street' are coveted, and sell for more than the same house on a busy street.

To call a design like that 'absurd' you'd have to completely ignore all of the reasons people want to pay more for it...
But sometimes it's funnier when it's not true, which some "trusted as news" comedy shows are well known for.
I think removing the word "deprecated" would go a long way towards making the title less misleading.
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"The documents were written on wooden tablets which would have been covered in blackened beeswax.
Although the wax has not survived, the words were etched into the wood below using styluses."
The etching was an accidental by product of writing on the wax.
True but those non-grid layouts can also help with traffic issues as they're sub-optimal to cut through. I live in the Boston area, i'm pretty well versed with crappy layed out streets
If you want sovereignty, you are looking for Walden (or Bir Tawil), not a McSuburb.
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There are way more subtle ways to cause problems and make money that would be less likely to land you in jail.

Are you an entrepreneur? What is it worth to have "Mark" tweet about your company/product? Or maybe make a warm intro to a top tier investor?

Sure, none of them are likely to radically change your business but some things just need a little push to get going and turn into something bigger.

I wrote about this (and other) scenarios in 2010: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-media-for-social-evil-p...
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That's incorrect, at the Daily Show they have a large fact checking team because they want their jokes to be based in fact. The Daily Show has also done apologies and retractions when they were incorrect. It is a comedy show but they are working hard to be correct, there's a great episode of NPR's Fresh Air where they speak with a Daily Show producer about exactly this issue.

Edit: I have heard Stewart say "we're not the news" in response to questions like "Do you feel a responsibility to cover every important issue?" where "we're not the news" means they only cover issues they can make funny (an example of something perhaps too sad to make funny is the Flint water crisis)
I am glad that they did this but I don't think this rises to the level of "fucking balls to try". What is the down side of doing this with other people's money?
Fwiw many newer residential developments (from roughly the 1990s) are built like this in the first place, which is why there are so many back-to-back cul-de-sacs, and rarely through streets that go more than a few blocks. It's mainly older neighborhoods that have the traffic cut-through problem, because they were built before developers started laying out neighborhood streets with the explicit goal of preventing through traffic.
>>> Tim Connor stands by a sign his neighbor purchased to thwart commuters from cutting through their quiet residential street in Takoma Park, Md.

So who here is the one really flouting the law? You are not allowed to simply erect traffic signs, nor are you allowed to restrict access to a neighbourhood. So it's no surprise that this guy then goes rogue on the app, a presumed violation of the eula/tos agreements.
I haven't been following WebAssembly, but I've asked myself why, given the elevated level of security threats, there is not effort to design a safer, tinier, web page scripting system. I have the feeling that based on the experience we could streamline and simplify much of the web client stack to allow (1) safer implementations, (2) smaller implementations and (3) less interpretation of the standards.
> Sure enough, they found, the smarter the primate, the less the time its baby spent in the womb.

Interesting.

When I had ZX Spectrum, it booted instantly. You just pressed reset button and voila, BASIC prompt. It takes couple minutes to boot up a modern PC to a usable state. Does that mean ZX Spectrum is a better computer?
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How exactly is forgiven debt considered income?
I see you comment negatively on Microsoft articles just about every single time they're posted. It makes me think that you have some sort of agenda and so I don't really trust your opinion at all.

For myself, having used Linux since early Red Hat releases and Macs (professionally) since System 6 - I am certain that OS X and every Linux desktop are absolute garbage compared to Windows.

Anyway, to address your concerns:

> You shouldn't have to disable spyware when installing an OS.

You don't have to. Problem solved.

> You shouldn't have to install powershell to remove candy crush.

You don't have to do that either. Problem solved.

> You shouldn't have to uninstall adware on a new OS.

There is none. Problem solved.

> You shouldn't need an SSD...

You don't need one. Problem solved.

> Nah, Windows is a trash OS and it seems like the only people who use it are people who are forced to because of program compatibility.

Well, that's your opinion. I use it because it's the best. So, given that you're obviously wrong that "people only use it program compatibility [and no other reason]" we'll have to conclude that your opinion is not based on facts.
Aha, yes, this is what I was looking for. Thankyou!

Reminds me also of using linear programming to do belief propagation and decode sparse codes.
If it makes a return for the random people, isn't that a benefit?
I think it's basically bullying. I'm sure bullying people is more funny than being nice for the bullies as well.
If the "No Through Traffic" was approved by the local government, it would carry the same weight of law as any other traffic sign. It sounds like this is the case, since their councilman is on their side. The wording does make it sound like the neighbors had an arts and crafts party and decided to create some signs though.
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That's why I listed other factors, too, including real estate and, in an unusual manner, warmth.
Why is it a good idea to use a key file instead of a password? Any malware I catch could use the key file to access all my passwords or is there something I'm not understanding?
I thought salting was to stop precisely this sort of attack, no?
...in America (where cities are actually built for cars and people are just annoying, barely tolerated parasites).
In this kind of solution bicycles are not the solution. Its about blocking residential roads to vehicles and forcing these vehicles to use planned routes, around or through. Sure, bicycles can go through them but its really about forcing cars to use engineered paths. Hopefully they did proper traffic studies for these paths but thats another issue.
If debt is trading at pennies on the dollar, and I owe someone 5k, what's stopping me from borrowing 50 or 100 bucks from a friend (if I dont have it) and buying back my debt? Do you need to buy in bulk?

Here's an idea - aggregate debt at pennies on the dollar and sell it back to the debtor at twice the amount it'll still be pennies on the dollar and you'll make a nice profit.
There's a good few examples of "bully and harass the debtors until they pay" in his segment. Most disheartening.
In TFA, it was due to a construction project, and the problem largely abated once the construction cleared.
I think thieves don't want to take unneeded risks. Otherwise, no protection would make any sense and we could as well just leave the doors open. Even if 9 out of 10 times the alarm going off wouldn't be noticed, the remaining chance could still discourage some thieves and make them run away.

Actually that has happened once to my parents' car. The alarm saved the wheels. Thieves wanted to steal the wheels (not the whole car) and they managed to unscrew 3 of them when they accidentally activated the alarm and ran away. Funny, they left their car jack behind.

Anyway, it is a pity they didn't analyze the security level of the OBD2 interface and other systems connected to the ECU or CAN bus. I saw a few youtube videos of thieves stealing cars in a way they enter into a car and in a few minutes they just switch the engine on and drive away. From the outside, it really doesn't look suspicious - probably most people seeing this would not notice the car was being stolen. This shouldn't be that easy - there's certainly something wrong with the design of the factory anti-theft systems.
Fun fact: recent notable rocket landings seem to use convex optimization to solve the soft landing problem, AFAICT.

See here for more info: http://web.mit.edu/larsb/www/iee_tcst13.pdf

> This convexification enables the planetary soft landing problem to be solved optimally by using convex optimization, and is hence amenable to onboard implementation with a priori bounds on the computational complexity and realtime execution time.
I think partially the authors are pulling our legs, and partly they're pointing out that academia's current usage of the word "excellence" commits a Fundamental Attribution Error by attributing the desirable qualities of research to an innate individual trait of the researcher rather than to methodological rigor and a good knowledge of math.

In human words, much of academia now talks about "excellence" to mean "extremely horribly steep competition for jobs", which amounts to pretending that the Best of the Best of the Best individual academic laborers can and should produce the Best of the Best of the Best research results out of some shining individual genius rather than because they had a good way to check whether theories are right or wrong before they published and their reviewers could also check and other researchers could also replicate the results.

In even more human words, "excellence" has become the academic equivalent of "success". It denotes that society's reward mechanisms have rewarded you a lot, without specifying anything at all that you actually needed to do to deserve all that rewarding.
I'm beginning to think that Alphabet (read: Google) just isn't very good at things that aren't related to advertising. There have just been so many failures (Verily, Nest, Glasses, etc.) as they have tried to get away from their core business - it almost looks like IBM back in the 90's as they tried (and mostly floundered at) becoming a services company over a mainframes company.

You can argue that they are trying 1000 things and 999 can fail as long as that 1 succeeds - but I don't think this is generating a good public view of them.
Couldn't an indoors farm use a closed air system? Actually, no - it would probably consume CO2 and produce O2, so there would need to be some exchange with the external world, but it would probably be beneficial to do it in a controlled manner, to avoid loosing water and getting pollution in.
There's always Pokémon, as long as you're okay with trapping innocent creatures in tiny spheres and using them to battle as opposed to studying them (though you do get to catalogue them) ;)
Can you give a specific example of someone who was manipulated to make look bad on the Daily Show? Most of their interviews are with people the host disagrees with but are happy to share their views (gun rights advocates, abortion rights advocates, etc). Typically guests and participants in segments are not being manipulated. I can't say it's never been done but it's certainly not an epidemic at that show.
Yeah every time I go to learn about the simplex method I end up staring at these monster tables and think "woah this is complicated". But I think maybe that's just not the way to learn about this stuff, and is effectively implementation details.
Hmm, that's the right site but right now all you get is the WP install walkthrough....
They totally did!
I don't count the times I forgot about this while I was stuck on the eastbound traffic on university ave, attempting to outsmart the traffic by cutting through the blocks on the south side. Most of those blocks are barricaded nimby style, and you end up having to drive several extra miles, worsening your carbon footprint!
You should always let something else 'drive' your coding. Lots of people like tests. I personally am not a huge fan of TDD, though it's better than a lot of alternatives.

Essentially, you set a visible goal. Passing test, compiling program, running command, visible widget on a browser. Run the test / command / browser URL and watch it fail. Let the error message you get determine your next step.

It makes a good debugging workflow too. The first step is to get a reproduction. Then you need to set up an environment where you can repeatedly and idempotently reproduce the bug at will. Then all you have to do is keep trying and learning things about the system until you know enough to devise a fix. Here you can manipulate the command itself to exercise less of the system, giving you a clearer idea of where the bug is.

Whereas if you're building a new feature, you want to keep the command static until you see what you want to see.

There's nothing magic about programming languages or paradigms that allows you to do this more easily. It's just how well you know your system. Some domains are trickier. You need special tools and expertise to reproduce network errors, and God help you if your stack isn't memory safe.
Is it normal for password hashing libraries to save salts to a database?
Just like Fox News a lot of people have difficulty differentiating "news" from "entertainment". The line is so blurred.
I thought the main problems were less abstract, like not being able to buy toilet paper etc
I love this solution so much. I wish SF would do something similar in outer richmond, one of my biggest concerns is driving down Fulton towards Ocean Beach and having cars pull out from residential stop signs, turning the opposite direction.

If I was dictator I would force all traffic to enter and exit the residential areas at the red lights and block the majority of other roads. I am sure it would be next to impossible though as the houses on those roads with lights would block it.
I'd suggest exposing more technical information, e.g. documents and guides, on the landing page. It's hard to evaluate the value of a free sign-up from just a few lines of large font text and pictures of iPhones.

In the end, the technical solution is what you're selling. The iPhone app is a nice to have, but is mostly orthogonal to the important problem.

Good luck.
No, it's OS X. For example - go and open any window from a "menu bar application" such as BetterTouchTool's settings window.

Now try switching to that window with they keyboard in OS X, without using any 3rd party helpers like HyperSwitch.

You can't do it.

Also try running 2 instances of the same app in OS X. You also can't do that.

OS X is garbage compared to Windows.
Or London, or Paris, or Rome, or Shanghai, or Mexico City, or.... I'm sure there are shining paragons of traffic efficiency and urban design somewhere in the world, but you're not exactly doing a good ob of pointing them out here.
As creditor, you file a form 1099-C with the IRS:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1099c.pdf

The borrower also gets a copy, and the IRS will know to look for it when the borrower files his taxes.
This.

However, I think the prevailing thinking will lean more and more towards voting for the free stuff. Someone else is paying for it, right?
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Be aware that very few routers actually have enough power to do openvpn encryption with higher bandwith (20Mbit+) links and 256CBC encryption. You may get better results by downgrading your cipher (not every vpn provider supports that)
To achieve good performance you are looking for hardware with Intel QuickAssist, I would recommend putting pfsense on something like http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440.aspx
The cost of collecting that $10 may turn out to be more than $10....
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I'm in my mid-30's, and four years ago I started going to as many meetups that seemed remotely interesting to me in a bunch of different groups, met a ton of acquaintances, and eventually quite a few friendships (that are hard to maintain for me, but I do make an effort).

I'm fairly introverted but I think the secret to why going to a bunch of meetups worked for me is I just kept showing up and did some small talk that people eventually got to know me and became friendlier and started inviting me to things due to familiarity.

In fact my closest friends right now I made by taken a chance at a random invite to a weekly game night by someone I met once at a meetup, and just kept showing up to his weekly events, and over time I became friends with everyone there.
I always thought it was because on slow modem connections the traditional arrow keys could become unreliable. Vim supports use of the arrow keys, but back in the day when I tried to use them over a modem occasionally the sequence would be interpreted as escape then garbage, breaking me out of editing mode and sending some unsuppported command to the vim. That's why I learned to use hjkl instead. Those keys are also reliably placed on Qwerty keyboards, whereas any other keys may or may not remain in a sensible location, especially back in the old days before keyboard layouts settled down.
I think most people have converged to 4 space tabstops, so 24 spaces means 6 levels of indentation.
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Do you have a specific (and simple, if possible) example at hand?
Speeding isn't usually considered a crime. It won't usually show up on background checks. Usually you can't go to jail for it. It's usually just a fine. When it isn't, you're talking about moving from simple speeding to reckless endangerment and the like.
Most of this line length theory isn't backed up by any science. Newspapers are a particularly poor example as their line lengths are typically much too short to provide "good" readability.

It's also worth noting that newspapers traditionally used columns because they allow individual articles to be typeset and then divided into pieces later during composition. Not because they offer some kind of readability advantage.
I totally agree with the approach you've described.

Ticketing is only the first step, a temporary solution that highlights unacceptable (to local residents) traffic patterns to the local government.

Waze and its user are surfacing inefficiencies in how traffic patterns have been engineered. Though it'll take time for communities to plan and implement solutions, these are definitely solvable problems.
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I view it a bit differently. Trading freedom for efficiency sometimes makes sense.

I have to admit that governments force us to do all kinds of things, and I accept that, mostly. For me the debate is about which things the government can mandate.

If turning three out of four lanes on LA's stretch of the 405 freeway into HOV lanes meant that commute times from the Valley to Culver City became a reliable 20 minutes, I think I might be happier.
I'd love to hear more about that!
Mikrotik was pre-Ubnt and had excellent hardware lineups. These days Ubnt is miles ahead in the router/wireless-board field, which puzzled me.

While Mikrotick sells its RouterOS, it's not that hard to install Openwrt on it. Ubnt was quite Openwrt friendly at the start, not so any more.

These days I'm just assembling my own x86 routers. PCengines and Soekris do not have the best performance/price ratio nowadays, and they somehow just feel a bit out of date.
> Economic expansions don't die of old age.

I don't disagree, my comment was purely empirical. According to the historically observed frequency of recessions in the USA, we have gone longer than is typical.
That's more than a bit of a straw man there - the article never accused any of the drivers or the app companies of 'flouting the law'.
The NYC location is great for marketing, too
> He and Jon Stewart keep (kept in the case of Jon) using this excuse when they get things wrong, but when they get things right they take all the glory they can get.

It's not meant to be an excuse, it's meant to be an accusation. If a comedy show is so much better at news than a news show, that's a major failing on the part of actual news shows.
Perhaps we could be more positive and instead of spending so much time trying to get his street off Waze instead help change the public opinion and city official to improve the public transit system or get more people to use bicycles, or both.
Well the story mentions roadwork starts, traffic increasing... roadwork ends, traffic stays increased as some drivers now use that route as matter of habit...

I know I use a more varied bunch of routes thanks to Google Maps and Waze, some of which become preferred back-roads.
It's unlikely that a law on geo blocking in the EU will have much effect over US content.

But besides that, it's a great idea that will entrench cable companies for a few more years and delay the transition to streaming by forcing streaming services to compete against every single cable and satellite operator in the EU at the same time (cable/sat firms aren't part of the digital single market, so they can keep carrying on). Is there content that is specifically relevant to Estonians, but for various reasons thorny to license in France? That's going to suck for the Estonians.

One might assume that Netflix (or another one of the streaming services) might grab the broadcast rights to a major sporting event (traditionally the domain of cable/satellite, and the last good reason to keep this around for many consumers) -- this proposal makes sure that day won't happen until they can grab the rights for the entire EU zone, which is obviously hugely expensive. It's not hard to imagine that it might make more sense (and be a lot easier) to grab the rights in a single, small-ish, well connected market (say Netherland) as a pilot, then leave, say, the UK for a few years later until broadband outside the cities get good enough to support at decent HD stream.

Major sporting events is of course only one such example. Plenty of content will suffer the same fate.

Another victim is license fee supported content. Especially the BBC relies on re-licensing high quality content in other european markets. This income subsidises the UK operation. If forced to not geoblock this content, the BBC will have to chose between foregoing significant licensing income, or to stop streaming altogether.
This is also exactly my intuition here, but I'm hoping for others to comment here as well.
The genius of Colbert is that the way he presented it you were defensive internally of what he was saying. Questioning what he said. Maybe it was the Republican blowhard persona that made me do that but it worked. Southpark is obviously satire so it makes it a lot easier but Parker and Stone do such a good job of presenting controversial subjects across all media formats without making it seem like they were biased in one way or another. Truly "We Report, You Decide".
I think you're confused. It's satire. It's a satirical post.
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"I was trying to outsmart traffic and ended up outsmarting myself, what injustice!"
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Sure, same applies to the lottery, except there's substantially more evidence of the lottery generating extremely high returns for ordinary players than an unregulated investment pool governed by the votes of anonymous entities.