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> While I could go into discussions about the rule of law, or decentralized political systems, I think the best way to explain my position is an idea that most gamers will find familiar: If the game lets you do it, then it's not cheating.

Most MMORPGs I've played banned players if they exploited behavior that the game software allowed if that was allowed due to a bug or a design oversight or went against the spirit of the game. For instance, if you found a way to duplicate items or currency and used it to your advantage that would earn a ban.

Another example that could earn a ban would be finding and using a place in the terrain where a monster gets stuck and can be killed with ranged attacks without the attacker being in danger.

Even things that do not involve any bug at all commonly could earn a warning, and punishment (up to a ban) if you persisted. For example, taking a high level magic user into a low level zone and using area effect spells to clear the zone of all low level monsters and keep it clear so that newbies have trouble finding things they can fight.

EverQuest did once try a "no rules" server where you could do anything the game allowed. They made it a PvP server, leaving it up to the players to define and enforce punishments against people who were playing in ways the community did not like.

That lasted until Fansy the Famous Bard, of the wonderful Flowers of Happiness guild, figured out a way to get people killed without them being able to do anything to hurt him, and the "no rules" server was given rules [1].

[1] http://www.notaddicted.com/fansythefamous.php
Code is not pure reason. It's an attempt to implement some of the concepts or operations of pure reason, so a machine can carry them out. Any such implementation will contain quirks and imperfections. Even pure reason contains paradoxes and strange consequences that are difficult to anticipate.

The process of engineering requires trying something, failing, learning from the mistake, and reiterating.
It's the (design) principle of the thing
The only real downsites are if you use screen/minicom/etc inside tmux you tend to mash Ctrl-a quite a lot, but if anything that's easier than keeping track of which key goes with which level?
I think it's important to point out that "uses water" here means "temporarily restrains water on its natural way to the ocean."

This water isn't being pulled out of storage and dumped in the ocean, it's precipitation that would be going into the ocean anyway.

Using it in the canal first could very well reduce the amount of fresh water that reaches the ocean, since retaining it would cause some evaporation loss. Although I'm sure that's completely insignificant either way.
I don't think this is misguided at all. I've heard right-wing people say work hours should be an employee-employer agreement that shouldn't concern the government. The author argues, quite civically in my opinion, that one can disagree with this particular example but that shouldn't interfere with the main point.
I truly appreciate the guidance, thank you. I'm originally from Romania and speak English, Romanian, Spanish, and some French. Multiple people have been mentioning Germany as an alternative so I might look into that more as I have family there.
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Can anyone comment on this sentence :

"And further on, there are larger SRAMs for L3 caches, where they are possible."

I believe L3 is always SRAM so I'm confused about this. Also I thought that larger L3 caches were only an issue in terms of cost and perhaps power budgeting for the die. Are there other issues as well with moving to larger L3 caches?
If we had algorithmic laws that would adapt to situation at any given time, then having a non-profit organization managing them could be beneficial. But when the bureaucracy in Brussels is strikingly similar to the one in Moscow during its "glory" days, I am not so sure we really need that. What we have now is that all politicians the member states wanted to get rid of due to their incompetence and other vices, end up in Brussels. You can gauge the quality of representatives from this.

As for potential Brexit, what would happen is that GB would enter TTIP earlier than other EU countries and get a deeper integration with US much earlier. So in a way it could give UK an edge (if TTIP proves in any way beneficial to UK and not only to US). The main industry is anyway financial; once TTIP is signed between EU and USA there won't be much in the way of UK either.
Let's say I need to build the library again with a different set of options. Make clean and rebuild is only solution, even if not needed.
What percentage of your users are monthly active users? What percentage (of the monthly active users) ended up paying? How much do you charge per month? How did you figure out what to charge?
Perhaps if you reinvented the web well enough, it would become the Internet. Everything would be just some communicating components, only some of them would be graphical, for example.
I have no strong opinion here, but I am curious to hear yours. What were the discriminators in choosing saltstack over the alternatives?

My head spins with these tools and every time I pick one I seem to eventually run into a road block that is a no-go. The most recent effort was ansible and the no-go was its strict dependency on python2.7.
Yes you did make that claim. You said that you feel there is a high likelihood that lastpass is compromised. You have no evidence or proof of this, just a gut feeling presented as some sort of fact or 'just asking questions.'

"I feel like it's almost certain that Lastpass is owned"
Switzerland is part of the EFTA and has access to the EU's single market. They might not be part of the EU but to say that they're "not in a union with any other country" is just wrong and not even remotely close to the truth.
"Why? Because we know there will be nonrecoverable unintended consequences ... It's time we handled the internet the same way."

You can set down your phone anytime you want to. It just feels like you can't.

The degree to which "Internet" becomes a driving force in your life is the degree to which you diminish your life to allow that to happen. It doesn't have to be this way and it takes very little effort or imagination to keep it from being that way.
I appreciate the tip, thank you! Do you have any first hand experience in the German startup scene? I have family in Germany and am certainly open to the idea.
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I would guess compiled Fortran accounts for the majority of processor cycles on supercomputers worldwide, given how common it is in applications modeling weather, fluid mechanics, nuclear physics and quantum chemistry.
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While not 100% comparable this feels as weak a move as selling Facebook to Yahoo for $1B

London needs strong, original startups. It's dire if you're looking for employment out here.
I used to think, like you, that Fortran is a dead language. Later I learned that it's still used in SciPy[1] (and I believe NumPy, but can't find a reference).

[1] https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/faq.html#how-can-scipy-be-fas...
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The API has stabilized. There will be future changes, and I would expect to see those as the service gets new features added (like retraining).
> Instead, the "right wing" idea is that by mandating those things through government intervention, you will not achieve your goal of actually securing them.

That is more an American definition of right wing as far as I know.

Traditional European right wing (sufficiently right wing) is usually very interventionist, the economical policies generally goes from an interventionist left, to an economically liberal center, to an interventionist right, with both far left and far right advocating nationalisation of (some) private companies.
It's more like "We're killing our own planet via overpopulation but are more prone to argue about theory on the internet"
I guess they've given up on making the text part of their product make a damn bit of sense.
The fake signature may have been done on purpose.

There was another interview with someone who claimed to be the hacker, and that's what he said.
Speaking as a math major, I didn't see any ambiguity at all.
Perhaps I should restate: I can reach most people via forums/social (although ignored plenty of times including the main startup guy) but the conversations and the platform just seem informal as if this entire thing is a side project (I know it's not).

We're a paying customer and I understand tiered support is available (as it is with every vendor) but there's a distinct difference in on-boarding, which is even more important and has to happen before we're a stable long-term client with a support contract. GCP is very barren in on-boarding resources and opaque in happenings. Here are some of my recommendations:

- The APIs (which are quite literally how applications connect to the platform) need a lot of work. I know there are idiomatic versions in progress but this has to be improved rapidly, like yesterday. They just don't seem production ready (they're even called alpha). I don't want to dig around github, I just expect to use them in whatever major language I'm writing.

- Documentation has recently gotten much better (good job!) but was terrible for a long time and is still confusing in parts. Add more solution/use-case oriented writeups. This is often the best way to understand how to use a new service rather than wondering how to make it best fit our app.

- Send an email as soon as an account is spending more than $1k/mth and see what they're doing and how you can help. Don't mention anything about buying a support plan or offer it free for the first quarter until everything is setup. The money is far outweighed by the goodwill.

- Properly staff the startups department so they can vet companies instead of outsourcing this to VCs/Accelerators. Right now you're turning away many companies that are bootstrapped or have other needs and are actually focused on building sustainable/profitable companies - the ones that will become long-term paying clients for you.

- Put out a roadmap with more detail or let companies take part in planning the next features. There seems to be only vague indications of what's coming up in the future.

Formality, reliability, assurance and easy access are critical, especially when you're asking companies to build on you as a foundation. The basics of computing are becoming commoditized so it's important that the services and service are able to differentiate.

I get the sense that the GCP team is aware of all this though so good luck, we all want a great platform and I can't wait to see what's in store.
Not to get into a technical discussion of the merits between the two. But, I don't get the excitement around Diane Greene? Wasn't she asleep at the wheel at VMWare when AWS/MS were building out their cloud offerings? Seems like a major blunder and sitting on your laurels.
And you'd like to enforce that moral position on others through law?

;0)>
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>In fact I conjecture it's physically and metaphysically impossible.

That's crazy. Human brains were created by nothing more than random mutations and selection. A very stupid algorithm created the most intelligent thing that currently exists. Humans are a thousand times smarter than evolution. We can invent things evolution never could.

And now humans are learning about how our own brains work through studying them, and also how to build intelligent algorithms ourselves. And we are doing it much faster than evolution did (10's of years vs millions.)

>the barber's paradox where you're expecting a system to understand itself completely using its own system.

I don't see how this is a paradox. There's no reason a system can't understand itself. The algorithms in your brain are probably much simpler than the amount of space your brain has to store information.

>Bio-like systems may turn out to be more efficient than silicon

Silicon is already vastly more efficient. Transistors can be the width of atoms, while synapses are the widths of many molecules. Neurons have to maintain all the machinery necessary for life and self replication. They use slow and inefficient chemical signals and reactions. Etc, etc.
That's why Twitter also plans to acquire Magic Beans. Guaranteed to grow instantly up into the sky!
True, and looking at the code, it doesn't make sense to define it as a global, since each potential goroutine (i.e. the HTTP handler functions) is re-defining 'err' whenever it's being used.
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The above is how most people first configure tmux, since C-b is just awkward. `bind-key C-a send-prefix` is optional of course, but is used to forward C-a to the active window (beginning-of-line in shell and emacs). How would you do that in screen?

The default for `previous-window` is `prefix-p`. Run `tmux list-keys` to see all active bindings.
Because Linode and similar overcommit their bandwidth given that they're charging a package deal - most people won't actually use the full allocated bandwidth.

AWS/GCE charge for actual bandwidth usage, which means that everyone uses exactly what they pay for, and the folks who use less bandwidth don't subsidize the folks who use more.
How good companies treat employees without regulation doesn't have to be imagined, it can be seen quite well in the USA. Even just a short look shows that companies treat employees like shit, if not forced by the government not to.
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It's misguided because it's an uncharitable strawman of the right-wing position. It implies that people on the right think that workers should "work excessively long hours." But people on the right would instead say that workers should be free to work more or fewer hours depending on their personal situation.
Just a CSS critique: could you add "monospace" to the end of your list of monospaced fonts?

I have perfectly good monospaced fonts on this computer, but none of them are Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, or Lucida Console, so I end up with a default proportional serif font.
As I was reading your comment, I was thinking - "Why not? Why shouldn't advertisers figure out how to advertise in ways that comes somewhat close to what you are suggesting, but make you want to buy before you know you want something?" ;-)...

Sometimes I think we are in a difficult dichotomy -- we like Twitter and we consume it voraciously and love that it is free, but we don't want them to use advertising as a source of revenue even though that might be the source that keeps it alive for us to consume. And, for free!
But the main question comes from (b) - will we ever be integrated? Ignoring Britain and the rest of non-Euro countries, Germany and their unwillingness to even consider a fiscal union seems to be the main stumbling block. Can you imagine the US government introducing capital controls only in Alabama?!
So which country in the world right now - or at any point in history - actually provides a system where any employee in the country can quit their job because they feel treated vaguely unfairly and expect to fall back on some sort of safety net, whether that's another job, education, or the dole? And then - how much does that cost the country?

Frankly, some large amount of people get into terrible situations, and sometimes they do that no matter what help you give them. Therefore, unless somebody actively provides help to people when they're being fucked over by their workplace, you're always going to have a number of workers who simply don't have a choice - work for any number of companies that treat their employees badly, or starve.

There's some countries which'll provide free higher education for some number of years, but AFAIK none will make sure your family don't starve while you're at it, and if you've already been through that and are still in a bad position... well, sucks to be you.

We could eventually just say "if your employer is screwing you over, it's your fault", but that's not a wonderfully moral position to take IMHO, and can be used to justify all sorts of horrible things.
Yes, because this can be logically reasoned as a basic right.

It's when it starts going further(which the eu has) is when it becomes a problem.
Switzerland is not part of the EU.
"I do not think it is part of any "right wing" ideology that workers should not be decently paid, should not work excessively long hours or should work in an unsafe environment, which is what the author is implying."

Furthermore, I'd point out that if this is your model of the "opposition", for any given value of "opposition" (right wing, left wing, the people in your office who disagree about what coffee we should have, whatever), that they just hate people and want to hurt them, you are being played. People who tell you those things about the opposition are at the very least wrong and at worst, lying. You should consider looking into why.

Or, put another way, the belief that the other side (again, regardless of who it is) is full of bad people with actively bad motives who just want to hurt and destroy and are being uniquely selfish, that is proof positive you are in a bad filter bubble.
No it isn't, it's part of EFTA. It sits on the very edge of the EU but it's definitely outside; several hundred years of neutrality is hard to give up.
Recently quit twitter other than to @ at people directly. Was never a heavy user a Facebook, but came to conclusion that checking it once a day was sufficient. No more RSS - just typing in HN, The Register, and TheVerge a few times a week to catch up. I listen to music instead of podcasts; Apple's Beats 1 station and some local jazz/classical stations.

This has worked wonders for my latent anxiety. I finally feel free.

I very much recommend it, if you feel overwhelmed.
I'm not against government in total. Government should enforce basic rights for individuals. Beyond that it becomes dubious.
I usually develop in VM's where the machines are very well defined so it's easier to build a build machine. In the end though this usually means that the absolute package requirements are held by the project repo so what needs to be installed is based on that.

So if I need to start a project or rebuild a system to do a project I can generally use the project itself as guidance on what to install. After two or three builds I have usually cleared all the dependency hurtles. The only thing that really breaks down is not having your dotfiles available, but for me those are backed up/in SCM.

If you are familiar with building projects from scratch it becomes a lot easier to understand dependencies and grow the system to what it needs to be, and with VMs it is that much easier to start with a blank slate that you are capable of blowing away and not even trouble secondary workflows.
Thanks for this, will edit.

Edit: Oops, I missed the editing deadline.
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Another way of putting this would be: Where does the subsidiarity max out? I mean, the minimum is just, you are free to decide yourself. Above that, your local council, above that maybe a city mayor, above that parliament - basically the PM and the cabinet, the other MPs rarely rebel. This is the Boris Johnson as post Brexit PM level. If we Brexit, the buck stops here, this is the maximum. If we don't, there's the EU over that (which presumably has internal regional subsidiarity too, but I'm not good enough at civics to know how).

So it's reasonable to distinguish "I don't like Boris" from "Boris ought not to be where the subsidiarity maxes out, some decisions are better taken over his head."
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The issue is what you give up. Yes the FORTRAN compiler/runtime is fast but concurrent primitives weren't added until FORTRAN03, and recursion wasn't fully supported until FORTRAN90 [1]. It hides almost all the implementation details from the programmer.

Fortran is a really good language for number crunching. Academics who don't know how to code can build very fast number crunching tools without really any CS or hardware knowledge. This the target use case and target audience.

If you want to do low level system things with it, it'll be painful.

[1] Some fortran70 compilers had limited support for recursion it wasn't added to the official language standard until 20 years later tho.
Yes, a friend has immigrated into Germany and has set up shop in Berlin (and has found some grants to support his fledgling business), and I spend quite a large number of days per year in Berlin, Hamburg or Munich evaluating start-ups.

Of all the countries in Western Europe I think it is by far the best right now to jump to from outside of the EU.
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I think what OP is getting at is that you can drop the "if you are [side of the political spectrum]-leaning, then..." clause and lose nothing substantive from the argument. It's there exclusively to poke at the opposition while adding nothing of value.
Yes, it's true. I did use curly braces! Well spotted :)
LAPACK [1] is written in Fortran. It is still heavily used in scientific computing. And to be honest, I don't know if there are good alternatives for it in other languages (except for CLAPACK, which is just a transpiled version of LAPACK in C).

[1] http://www.netlib.org/lapack/
But there are "whoops".
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A company like google has the resources to basically just make their interview an IQ test with the assumption that they can throw smart people into any role they need them in.
Switzerland is my example of the best case scenario for the UK if they leave.

A haven for corporations/money, a good government that cares about the people, still open borders, still free trade with the EU, no say in anything they do.

But that's if the UK manages it well - I don't see that happening, corps will just jump over to Ireland, NHS is under heavy pressure, tariffs are still high (not because of the EU, but in spite, just look at food prices), wages rather low...

It will do alright, but not better I think...
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"Only speaking personally, what happened for me was that I noticed that these utopian online communities that we reinvented are not really particularly wonderful because a lot of the loudest people in such communities are really nasty people with really nasty things to say."

It's interesting that you say that here, on this forum, which in my mind has defied that stereotype for quite a long time.

The aesthetic barrier to entry of plain text and limited function along with (relatively) little support or help is, I think, a fairly decent recipe and one we see succeeding in places like craigslist, which has shown surprising longevity and utility.

I am optimistic that this recipe will start to influence designers and builders more and more ...