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This is an incredibly well written article. It's actually quite reasonable and logical. I think the reason why Europe is going through what it is on immigration is because the people feel like they are not being listened to. I don't think it has anything to do with xenophobia or racism or anything. People are afraid of change, and when politicians forced change without explaining it, large masses of people get upset.
I was planning on doing exactly this idea in the next 3-5 years, and had told nobody about it. I considered pizza made on the way to the customer's door to be the ultimate realization of our Snow Crash future, but without all the human-related problems that come with it. Plus, one could probably clone/license Jeff Varasano's recipe[0], and deliver a better product to the customer.

Unfortunately this means that Domino's will be competing in the space very soon, which I hoped would be open for disruption for another few years; but at least I have the comfort that comes from knowing that Canada is 5-10 years behind trends, even with multinational corporations (Apple Pay just got here, for instance), giving me plenty of time to get a Blue Ocean strategy developed while everyone fights over small parts of the (ahem) pie.

If Zume moves to Canada rapidly, I'll definitely start to sweat. Right now, I'll be cheering them on while sitting on the sidelines. The sooner that crap pizzas like Dominos or Pizza Hut are outclassed by smaller startups the way that Uber outclassed taxi companies, the better we all are as a society.

0. http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm
Do you expect that they wouldn't be either calling from their own phone, calling more than once, or leaving a voice mail? There are two people who I would lay money on knowing my phone number by heart, and only one of them lives within an hour of me. Everyone else will be stuck looking it up on their phone.

I often go out without my phone, have the ringer off, have a dead battery, or ignore the ringing because I'm driving. It's ridiculous to assume that I'm instantly available 100% of the time, or that I wouldn't treat different incoming numbers with different priorities.
Anecdotal evidence from 20+ years ago seems like the common argument against Virtual Reality, as well.

Technology got better, and cheaper. That puts previously-unattainable goals within reach.

Would you argue that a $15/hour McDonald's employee will be cost-competitive with a Big Mac machine nowadays?
How can a person tell I was using the museum's faithfully reproduced image, and not one that I scanned myself?

Preparing a halfway decent digital image requires a great deal of skill, in the same way that a decent transcription of a written text requires a great deal of skill.

Someone transcribes a text of a manuscript, and according to Bridgeman, anyone can reproduce that text that the original transcriber established. This is precisely the same free-rider problem that legal tool of copyright attempts to solve. Of course copyright doesn't apply for a transcription because a transcription isn't a creative work, but there is still the free-rider issue and no legal tool available to solve it. For services there are trademarks, for processes there are patents, computer code is copyrightable or patentable, but for text there really is a legal hole.

Back then, before the digital age, image libraries would charge for reproducible copy, but nowadays there are lossless copies, and Bridgeman is very much out of touch. The German court, thankfully, had some better sense.
unpack result sets into what?
Sounds like the very definition of "outlier". Even if your family does that, nowhere near a significant majority of hunters do anything like 50-50 for hunted vs bought food.
Clarification: Americans confuse Indians between those from Bharat/India and Native Americans. Dots and feathers is a common way to differentiate between both. I am from India.
Any software or hardware built for the US or any State government should be required to be open sourced, with zero restrictions. Same with research.

It's ridiculous that we as tax payers don't have access to what we pay for.

I'm glad you've put so much effort into cutting through the red tape to get this out there. Thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Invoice_lottery

If I lived in a region with a generous social safety net and high immigration I'd be a bit worried.
And it comes at the expense of craftsmanship and programmer happiness. Lately I've been thinking how much initial architecture affects the mental well-being of all subsequent programmers that join the project. This is one of the reasons there is such a high turn-over and burnout rate in programming. If you're not consistently paying back technical debt and improving the architecture of the project then you're paying for it in other ways with the revolving door of programmers.

Then again if you're a big enough business it probably doesn't matter as long as customers are paying you. All you have to do is plug-in another cog/programmer into the machine when the previous one wears out.
At some point in the ripening, handling the berries damages them enough that it's not worth it, but otherwise the practice is fine. At the gourmet market I worked at, pretty much all the berries were taken from the original flats they arrived in and repackaged (removing the bad berries along the way).

Pro tip for delicate berries: when you get them home, remove them from the package they came in and store them in a broad container lined with paper towels, something big enough so they can be spread out with a minimum of stacking. They'll last much longer that way.
I don't think it matters, legally, wether two copies are identical or not. To determine guilt you just analyze other evidence. Do the museum servers have a log entry of your ip retrieving a copy at the time of the aledged crime?
That probably is true - if you have a crappy API design
Nice work!

FYI: CTA button for creating an account under the "Useful features coming soon" section doesn't seem to be working.
I understand that the dot/feather thing is considered crass, but I will say it's a bit overboard to be offended at it. The idea isn't that all India Indians have dots or whatever, it's just synechdoche, where one aspect of the broader culture stands in for the whole. Like if you said, "He's from America - suit not cowboy boots." (Referring to urban vs rural America) it would hardly be offensive as a stereotype.
What I'm trying to say is that the private-equity model isn't an inevitable outcome. It all depends on the legal and cultural environment.
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That "small text page" weighs in around 2.1MB.
The first statement made by this article is wrong: there is a very good reason why the North pole would come first: it is the direction the Sun is headed to in our orbit around the galaxy. when you look up North, you are basically looking forward!
To be honest, RMS's reasons, while valid, are just barely scratching the surface of why you should not use (be used by) Facebook. It is not enough to not use Facebook but make sure any domains owned by the company are blocked in your hosts file so you can't possibly load that crap in your web browser.

Here are just a few:

https://ghostbin.com/paste/9evbc
There are two types of ORMs
1. ORMs for SQL dummies
2. ORMs for SQL gurus
You really need to be clear, when discussing ORMs, which type you are discussing.
It's not terrible for Britain. Britain will actually gain in the long run over this as the US will broker better deals with Britain than the EU could arrange. They will save a ton of money on money they have to give the EU every year as well. The majority of Brit's spoke up and decided they wanted out. If people didn't want to honor the vote why have it in the first place? The thing is that most of the uproar you see from people is from people who either are not old enough to vote or didn't go vote at all. The rest is just the media pandering to liberal sentiment since it's en vogue.
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If you can find it, this book is interesting and entertaining: https://www.amazon.com/Delight-Hearts-What-Will-Find/dp/0940...

It was written in Arabic in the 13th century, and is a look at the sexual practices of the time. It was eventually, much later, translated into French, and the French to English, and then Gay Sunshine Press published the edition cited above, which is just the gay-related parts of the book.
Look, people are surprised because Facebook has become an integral way to communicate with someone whether it be via chat with messenger or as a broadcast message via a newsfeed post.

Internalize this: Facebook has become as integral to communication as having a cell phone was in the last decade. If you met someone who didn't have a cell phone today (whether it be a smartphone or otherwise), wouldn't you be surprised? That's the same surprise people are giving you.

That's their perspective and it's not unreasonable.
Well, it's called that, but it might be more accurate to say that it is written in the form of hundreds of years of legislation, treaties, and judicial decisions, just not compiled into a single document. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin....
It's really easy to tell when people make these comments about Lisp with little to no knowledge about lisp, because they always revolve around "lisp without parens" as if that makes ANY sense at all.

Indenting lisp code is not a semantic feature of the parentheses, it's something lisp programmers use for convenience. Python indentation serves a completely different purpose, as indenting a line can completely change how a function operates.

Furthermore, "purism sucks" is probably just bait anyways.

Bless you, you poor thing.
> daylight hours from April 1 - 17, 2016.

What happens (happened?) between April 1 - 17?
Charles is one of those applications like Sublime Text that delivers value far in excess of the purchase price.

Plus, the Charles icon on Mac is always an idiosyncratic delight to see in the dock.
There are a number of evidence-based case studies, reports, and other scientific papers that support the assertions in the OpEd. I'd recommend reading them before jumping to contrary conclusions. See, e.g., https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/05/04/big-risks-big-opp... https://bigdata.fairness.io/.
I can't resist:
"I want to live one more day. Tomorrow I will still want to live one more day. Therefore I want to live forever, proof by induction on the positive integers." - http://hpmor.com/
Nobody benefits from it except he money issuers. It's not growth it's inflation.
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The ostatus protocol already is in use through various projects, albeit relative to RMS GNUSocial would be the topical one. It replaces Facebook and Twitter with a federated newsfeed / profile protocol where you can either run your own server or use a third party server to connect to any other ostatus user in the same user@server semantics as email, xmpp, or matrix.
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I don't think BTRFS has all the features they want. One thing you can do with APFS is do an upgrade of an HFS+ partition to APFS. That might be difficult with BTRFS.

You don't necessarily need snapshots on a watch, but I can see it coming in useful on a phone when you're editing pictures and video.

Snapshots on a watch could be useful for system recovery. Say something went wrong during an update you could potentially use the snapshot to revert to a previous version.
Depends on cost of a machine. Plus, McDonalds is a weak even if common example. Many companies push employees go focus on good service or at least sales (esp upselling). Computers still arent as good at that with a good chunk of customers rejecting them outright in such uses.

Far as machines, depends on how cost of installation, maintenance, and licensing vs humans it replaces. Varies case by case.
While there may be some power-mad librarians out there in terms of 'there will be silence in the library!', they curate the library's collection for many reasons: to meet the requirements of stakeholders, to meet the needs and shifting interests of the community, to make room for new material...

Really, there are a whole host of reasons for deaccession of library materials that include financial, space, and other concerns that hit the bottom line.

The great thing about technology is we have the ability to collect, classify, add metadata[1], and make all human knowledge accessible to everyone. If only insanely long copyrights and restrictions on scanning and lending copyrighted works were not in the way.

[1] This is not really something a busy librarian has time for, so other methods, such as user-driven tagging and folksonomies[2] are an interesting solution that is being tried.

[2] http://interactivearchivist.archivists.org/technologies/tagg...
It'll get there. We have a gap now, but many national libraries and other large collections do understand the value of scanning and making available. Part of the challenge is that they then to will prioritise old and rare publications to things like these magazines, especially when copyright limitations makes it challenging to publish the newer material.

There are many quite decent publicly accessible collections of computer magazines, though, because of the audience - other types of magazines are in a worse position.
xo is great, we've used it a few times for existing databases, great timesaver. Thanks!
That's a coherent argument, but that argument is also, I think, probably responsible for virtually all of the exploitable offset-from-NULL vulnerabilities shipped in C code.
All this is true, but it's also the reason why programmers are paid as much as they are. In general, in a market economy, you are paid to do things that other people don't want to do. The whole point of a market is to create an incentive to do things that are unpleasant.

Beautiful code does exist in the software world. It's usually found in hobby, open-source, and research projects without profit motives, userbases, deadlines, and all those other complications that result in shitty hacks.

In the meantime, you could look at the crap that is most large-scale codebases as a barrier to entry that keeps demand for programmers high. Enjoy the money you get for cleaning up other peoples' messes, and then use that to buy time to make the beautiful, useless stuff.
There's a simple way to attack this: bait cars.

But ultimately, SF doesn't want to stop auto burglary. It's seen as a form of local stimulus. Auto glass replacement companies profit, retailers of typically stolen goods profit (both off sales of replacements and resale of stolen property if it leaks back into tax-collecting retailers), burglary ring members get spending money to spend locally, etc.

The strategy only breaks down if tourists and new residents stop coming altogether, and they are assuming that won't happen.
Yes your right, but not all products (and the product I was initially referring to) have large web facing footprints for security issues. At the indicated company the web facing portion was tiny part of the code base. I did monitor a few key technologies, and back-port or upgrade those (php, apache, ssl, etc) as needed. OTOH, we let our version of gcc get really long at the tooth, as well as refuse to allow additional technology stacks in certain areas (hence no ruby, python, node.js, etc, all rejected because they fill a similar place as the PHP we were already maintaining).

Amusingly enough, we avoided heartbleed because our version of openssl was too old! That was fun to try explaining to people, yah we backported the _1_ thing we though might cause a security issue a year ago into our ancient version of openssl, and your not affected by heartbleed. Yes, I know all the version checking scripts say its too old, but try to run one of the legitimate exploits against it..

The second part of this, is that an amusing exercise next time you actually have a need to call "support" for something. Find your local full stack/kernel developer and tell them, hey can you find this critical bug before the support guys find it.. and see what happens.

Keeping your toolkits small and lean, with a small set of dependencies does wonders for maintainability.
Still don't understand the problem with the terms in your second paragraph. Copy protection protects CDs from being copied. Digital rights management manages the rights of the IP owner. These are just as valid.

Then you have claiming Win32 is a subliminal message about winning rather than an abbreviation for Windows...
Unfortunately, SQL servers aren't generally scalable. Offloading joins and aggregation onto (inexpensive) app servers can increase over all system performance, despite lack of advanced query planning.
Don't be selfish with your ideas
Breaking, as in how everything on your kart will eventually break? Sounds about right.

You'll also learn about braking.
I honestly don't get why this is coming up now. TOR's funding never was a secret. Serious infosec people didn't need Snowden to be suspicious about the actual anonymity provided. If one was not concerned back then, what does an ex-CIA agent (or even not-so-ex CIA agent) in the tor project change?
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It's definitely possible, but for me it would have to be as easy to use as Charles Proxy. Charles doesn't cost that much money, and frankly I've used it so often that it feels like I got a bargain!
> connections, parameters

The database driver takes care of that, not the ORM.

(It's also not black magic.)

> transactions

Huh? That's a database feature. BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK are ANSI SQL.

ORM is an _Object Relational Mapper_. You're confusing it with a database driver (or, in the case of transactions, just a database in general).
For me, (c) is not really a pro for Airbnb. I'm vegan and cooking is a passion of mine, so I almost always want to cook for myself if I can. I'll even pre-cook meals that can be sealed and go through bag check at the airport just to avoid dining at restaurants. If it weren't for the social aspect, mostly appeasing others, I think I would never eat at a restaurant.

But I've always found that even in dense urban areas (and especially in suburban areas) it's always very easy to find an extended-stay suite sort of place that has an adequate kitchen. The huge benefit for me is also that I'm in control of the kitchen, instead of having to deal with someone else's haphazard stuff, personal ticks, etc.

In terms of (a) I've rented a lot of cabins and houses for small group hiking vacations, but never used Airbnb for it. I can't say anything about how it works on Airbnb, but on other travel sites and one-off sites like Craigslist, I've always had easy, positive experiences and never found the prices to be anything but reasonable.

Obviously (b) depends on exactly who you're visiting. When I visit my family in small town southern Ohio, Airbnb is not an option (too few listings, and I would not trust the safety in that region anyway), so hotels are necessary. I've never had trouble getting cost-effective and nice hotel rooms in suburbia, but perhaps some cities are just much worse than others.
I will be very interesting to see what theses companies claim they expect to achieve in terms of the maximum human life span, instead of the mean. I for one don't think that we have made very much progress at all in that area, and I would be very (pleasantly) surprised if I lived to see anyone reach the age of say, 150 in my lifetime. On the other hand her prediction of being able to extend many peoples life span from say 80 to 100 doesn't strike me as too far fetched because it's basically moving the mean life span up, but not really moving the maximum up.
It isn't passive. See lines 64-73 of the code [1]. This seems very similar to what you describe, but rather than you pinging a bunch of places around the world, it has a bunch of places around the world essentially pinging you.

If you check the HTML source, it's src'ing scripts from machines around the world (I assume whatever host is being used, the author has spun up a VPN in each of their data centers). Here's an example of one [2]. Each of these sends you a constant value over and over again, and the server side measures the latency, before finally reporting the average round-trip time to you.

[1]: http://geoloc.foremski.pl/tcpinfo.go

[2]: http://46.101.226.53/DE_Frankfurt.js
Err, sorry for my lack of clarity, I meant hunting itself is a 50-50 hobby and food collection thing. The one big animal a year back when my father did that, plus upland game birds and miscellania (including the bull frogs I hunted for dissection and giving the legs to my Cajun mother), plus fishing ... maybe as much as 1/3 the year's meat? More than half the red meat, a much smaller fraction of fowl compared to the chicken, and a domestic turkey or three a year.

And that doesn't count veggies (we did garden) plus the cereals that probably accounted for probably over half the calories we consumed.
As an historian, I still use it all the time for consulting 17th and 18th century records. There are still large amounts of historical manuscripts that exist on microfiche but are not yet digitized. Looping the film into the machines can be a pain, but I'll miss it when they truly fade into obsolescence. There's something fun about being in a dark room in a library whirring through thousands of pages of ancient manuscripts with an analog machine.
And "Gypsies", describing the Romani people, is sometimes considered derogatory because of its negative connotations, and because it is reflective of the mistaken belief that they were itinerant Egyptians.
Or just as easily America (perpetually offended) to tell the same thing
> But surely no half-decent ORM would concatenate strings to pass arguments?

I wish... Drupal had an issue in ORM itself. https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005
That'd certainly be ideal, but seems like a more difficult problem which would probably take longer to solve. So my concern would be old, healthy bodies hitting the market without plastic minds. The lag time before brain plasticity breakthroughs is still a problem.

And the issue I'm referring to with food production is the order and distribution of the diffusion of the technology. In Europe, the agricultural revolution preceded breakthroughs in medical technology, and it worked out great. However, the rate of diffusion of medical technology to the east was greater than the diffusion of agricultural technology, which is what caused catastrophic results. Yes, they could have produced enough food, but because the rate of diffusion of the technologies was different, they didn't. We should apply this historical lesson.

In Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley argues:

> importation of an element of material culture from one society to another is helpful to the importing society in the long run only if it is a) productive, b) can be made within the society itself, and c) can be fitted into the nonmaterial culture of the importing society without demoralizing it.

For longevity technology, a) is perhaps true but it's not clear that b) and c) would be for most societies. There's a calculus here worth getting right, otherwise longevity technology could end up doing more harm than good.
> Imagine refactoring a program to not use globals but instead pass them up by const or mutable reference to where they're used. The checker can do the same imagining with an effect system.

Not at all. This requires higher order control flow analysis, which is pretty much guaranteed to fall down in all sorts of cases.
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