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An important cultural difference is the concept of "policing by consent"

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policing-by-conse...

"To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect."
Where? In airports maybe but it is very rare to see
them on the streets.

Depends how often you go past things that have guards. For example Winfield House [1], American embassy [2], Israeli embassy [3] and places like that. Sometimes in the larger train stations too.

Armed guards seem most visible outside second-rank attack targets; places like Downing Street, the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace usually have oodles of unarmed police, presumably to deal with all the tourists. Presumably there are armed police somewhere nearby, although I couldn't see any on Street View.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/uti8AGqanMU2
[2] https://goo.gl/maps/oZK9Dcr4xQr
[3] https://goo.gl/maps/o3heh5wFFoE2
Pretty reasonable article, but you know it's catnip for "men's rights" folks
Uhm, most of the environment deciding if/how our genes get to the next generation have arguably been other people for quite a few generations.

That is, how well you functioned with other people in your group was probably one of the most deciding factors. [Edit: Or like this -- cultural environment is part of nature. Not only for humans.]

You could probably make an argument that the big differences in a modern western society are mostly about fewer parasites and the need to build quite different skill sets than earlier.
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Humans are only "fundamentally different" in that we have alpha castes as well as alpha individuals.

It's not unusual for animal alphas to monopolise/deny mating opportunities. Eugenics is the same evolutionary invention taken up a level.

Ironically, this means proponents are acting just like animals.
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It may correspond with that description but it's really just a good title for the piece. I've not read the whole piece yet but it seems thorough and thoughtful.

As the article asks and investigates exactly that question what would you title it instead?

Example segment:

>"Yet women largely still want to be with a man that makes more money than them, reinforcing the cycle where she must then take more time out of the workforce than him to care for their children." //

Not all titles that are immediately interesting are clickbait.
dcoutts said it would not be appropriate to change Hackage to require upper bounds on software.

It would be quite simple to change Hackage so that any upload would require upper bounds restricted only to package versions that already exist. Why has no such change been made? If I were in your situation I would not be spending time on menial work when a simple program could prevent that work.

If such a change were made I would happily stop uploading to Hackage altogether. That no such change has been made suggests there is insufficient support for your position.

I have not wasted any trustee's time, as all my software works and I keep it working or mark it deprecated. That said, I do not want trustees to fix my stuff. I have no desire to waste anyone's time.

The only reason I upload to Hackage is to get stuff into Stackage. I would fully support a way to get stuff into Stackage that skips Hackage. I think it would reduce a lot of this friction. However I can understand why Stackage has no such method: Hackage allows no upper bounds. This suggests that people value a large unfragmented Hackage more than they value required upper bounds.

Of course I have no role in telling you how to spend your time, but if I were you I would stop fixing software that does not play by your preferred rules.
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A brave person that always choses to confront an enemy, no matter how powerful he is, has lower chances for survival, just like a coward who always choses to run away, leaving his resources to the enemy and risking being killed by his own people for treason.

That's why most people of today are neither brave nor cowards, they are somewhere in-between.
Nothing is inherent in a word other than what people understand it to mean, and the worlds where 'modern' is a term of jargon are larger overall than computing. It has fairly specific meanings in art, architecture, literature, and music.

Grandparent referred to the meaning of the jargon term in architecture. It's not his personal redefinition; it's an interpretation of a widespread understanding of the word mapped analogously to software.

Jargon is important. We'd have a hard time communicating if we could never create new words or imbue existing ones with new meanings by analogy. The more verbose explanation is mostly useful for laymen and beginners.
Japan making steel 20% lighter and stronger than high-tensile steel at same price
I understand that they are common around potential target locations but OP made it sound like you see them all over the place.
China warns on global economy and says G20 must lead
That's because when you grow up with money you either have so much that you can do all the usual things and you won't run out, or you already have an investment machine in place for you.

Lottery winners certainly don't have the latter, and often don't have the former either. They may think $1 million makes them rich, but it really doesn't.

Money is as much about training and education as anything else.

It's a lot easier to handle if you get that training and education than if you don't.
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My problem with string theory is that so far string theory has gotten EVERYTHING wrong. Not a single of their predictions were true. Yes, they adjust the theory once their predictions are proved to be false, but it just turns the theory into constant best fit theory for current observations.

In my opinion string theory is a very complex case of interpolation. Yes, it "explains" our current knowledge, but it goes way off just after the last point to which it is interpolated. I like that it exists, as it will surely make history in science a grandiose attempt to unify GR with QM, and it is real science in a sense that the methods used in it might be transferred to other fields, but I don't expect for it to give any insight into our universe.

Treat it like a theoretical physicist toy, and when you look at it that way, it isn't that bad at all.
British police do use tasers:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/dec/22/how-da...

I think you may have missed the point of the video. It isn't to show the most time-efficient and effective use of force against someone. It's to show that gradual escalation of force is effective.

They initially keep their distance and wait for him to tire or to make a rational decision. Then they use pepper spray. Only when it becomes clear that he won't give up they slowly escalate force, resolving the issue without major injury.

Contrast that with the informal 21 foot "rule" that has been used to justify fatal action:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Laquan_McDonald

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/12/mario-woods-...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2639772/Suicidal-tee...
One of my biggest pet peeves is code duplication from lazy copy/pasting. I find it's a good exercise for myself to sometimes pretend like the copy/paste key are not available to me.

I had to think about the first one for a moment, but I do agree. It's better to abstract later with greater knowledge than the much more difficult task of trying to debug or fix it later.

It's an outstanding list and great rules to work by!
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True. We also got negative role police models like the popular strongman of the decade Alan Delon, Goetz George or now Till Schweiger. Germans really love their bad guys also.

And you are right. Not the strongman is the problem, the real problem is the normal guy disrespecting the law, not involving any violence. Like disrespecting privacy laws.
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> Airport is MOD police

That's wrong. UK airports are protected by whichever constabulary the airport geographically falls under, though the London Greater Metropolitan Area and Belfast are slightly different with dedicated units.

The Aviation Security Operational Command Unit (SO18) is a Specialist Operations unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service. The unit is responsible for providing law enforcement and security for both Heathrow and London City airports.[1] London's other airports, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton are policed by Sussex, Essex and the Bedfordshire Police respectively, as they are not located in the Metropolitan Police District.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Security_Operationa...
Which itself turns out to be contributed by the community in 2010. Open source in action.
It's a problem, definitely, and things would be much simpler if not for this problem.

However, the example of Australia shows that you can roll back guns.
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> First off there's a variety of fees (title, title transfer, title insurance, escrow, HOA docs, miscellaneous city and county fees) that are split in a generally accepted (but un-recorded anywhere) manner. The buyer's agent would know of a fair split, the seller's agent will pile it all on the buyer in the hopes that it will be accepted.

This is a quirk of the industry.

A 'fair' and simple way of dealing with this is to make the buyer pay everything, then adjust how we think about home prices accordingly.

If you need to pay 10,000 additional to attain a home, that should be included in your mental model of how the particular home is priced.

HoAs are a quirk of the US land-system, having some kind of quasi-democractic process over common territory. In the UK, there are only home estates, wherein the land is actually owned by a 3rd party and people who own the structures built on the land instead pay ground rent to the 3rd party.

There's no democracy because ownership is to a single party.

Is the UK's system better than the USA's? I'm not 100% sure, but certainly it is proof that alternatives can thrive and realtors are unnecessary so long as you make further changes to the system.
The main problem I see is the "free flow" of legal and ilegal guns for citizens. In Japan, a disarmed society, the amount of deaths by gunfire are almost nil. They also have a really tight gun control, which arguably it's easy since it's a "small-ish" island.

Of course there are many more reasons, and I think that America's youth thinking of "gangster's are cool" is way off. Hech, in Japan even a knife stabbing reaches all newspapers and makes a big fuss.

But doing that in USA would make the economy slightly worse and "cut their freedom": tighter border control on imports, regulating the shit that is on TV, better education, etc.
> "The bulk of the software was on read-only rope memory and thus couldn't be changed in operation, but some key parts of the software were stored in standard read-write magnetic-core memory and could be overwritten by the astronauts using the DSKY interface, as was done on Apollo 14."

Ah, yes right, there was something. I've been fascinated by the AGC by some time¹, yet I completely forget about that. Time to hunt down the mission protocols to understand what this patch did.

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1: … and the LVDC, which is the computer that controlled the Saturn-V. Because it was based on the computers used in ICBMs still a lot of information about that is classified. A lot of people conjectured that it was a IBM System 360 reshaped, but when actual LVDS board got torn down by electronics nerds over the past couple of years some significant differences to the 360 were discovered.
The problem is that we need a convincing mechanism to explain how the irreversibility implied by the Copenhagen interpretation arises, which to my knowledge no one has come up with yet.

What we understand so far is:

* the measurement process can be described as an entanglement of a quantum system with a large external system, followed by a dephasing of the wave function that is caused by the huge number of degrees of freedom in the external system.

* this dephasing decouples the individual terms of the wave function of the system that is being measured, thereby effectively suppressing any further quantum effects in those measured states. This is what we call a transition from a quantum state to a "classical" state.

* the measurement process itself is not a discrete event: We can perform continuous weak measurements on a system's state, which will only partially collapse the wave function (there have been many experiments done on this e.g. by Serge Haroche's group and more recently with superconducting systems as well).

* this whole process is completely reversible and can be described by the Schrödinger equation.

Now, if we want to introduce irreversibility into this picture (which is required for the Copenhagen interpretation), we need a mechanism for it to arise. To my knowledge, no one has come up with a good theory for this, as it would require to modify the Schrödinger equation in a way that subtly depends on the characteristics of the system being measured and the measurement system. This mechanism would need to contain a variable A that would account for the size of the measurement system, as we need to preserve reversibility when the measurement system is small (i.e. has a small number of degrees of freedom), while destroying it when the measurement system is macroscopic.

I'm honestly a bit surprised that no one makes this argument in favor of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, as it's the only theory which accounts for all experimental evidence while not forcing us to invent a mechanism that "eliminates" the many realities that we don't want to accept, while in fact they arise naturally out of the theory. I think that many people just don't want to accept that the universe could work this way, even if it's the simplest and most straightforward explanation.
Police Service of Northern Ireland [1] officers routinely carry guns, but I don't understand the culture where a sidearm is drawn and pointed at a driver from the start in a routine broken tail light/uninsured driver type stop. That would probably make the news in NI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Service_of_Northern_Ire...
Most gun related crimes in Holland are drugs related. Regulate drugs, problem solved.
Neither ocaml-tls nor this new one do formal verification. The only TLS library that does so is miTLS.
You can't compare Norway -- the oil rich Saudi Arabia of Europe -- to a country the US. Crime doesn't just pop up out of a vacuum. When you've got millions of people getting wrapped up in violent cliques\gangs that are going to be armed to the teeth irregardless of gun regulation (most use stolen weapons) you don't want to go into those environments armed like the French bicycle police.
While deadly police incidents seem less common in Australia, don't kid yourself that our police always get it right.

They could do with better de-escalation training to deal with situations in critical environments like crowds [1] or when dealing with mentally ill people [2].

I think anyone carry a deadly weapon, civilian or government officer should bear extra responsibility to safeguard the safety of all people around them.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-09/four-injured-as-police...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tyler_Cassidy
I think Quassel IRC is a better fit for most purposes. You run the daemon (core) on a server and you can connect using a desktop-app, iOS-app, Android-app etc.

I cannot see how any of the current web-only IRC-clients can provide this user experience.

http://quassel-irc.org/
Twitter marks Black Lives Matter movement with special emoji
This justification is advertisement for his company so more people will be willing to work for them.
@praeclarum how much more effort is needed if you use C# (instead of F#) to build Continuous IDE ? Which bits of F# really helped you in building this first release?

and also, awesome job on the App, bought it yesterday :)
Everything works as advertised, although my Ipad is a bit old, so a bit laggy in compiling the scripts.
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You do realize that there is other software out there for displaying maps?
Including Google Maps? And some of that software can store maps off-line, if
you only care enough to pre-fetch the area you're going to (similar action to
buying a paper map in advance)?

That being said, I prefer paper maps. Because batteries, because view size,
because I personally like paper more than electronics.
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Symantec – the popular computer protector – may actually help hackers, feds warn
Sometimes the police has no chance to tell the liar from who's not from what accident participants tell, till a dashcam video appears (can even be from a car, that wasn't involved in the accident, but was passing by).

Good thing, we're blessed with this, unlike people in CA, for example :)
>20% vat! Which makes the total tax rate 58.14%.

You don't pay VAT on everything. The VAT is sometimes called regressive tax for this exact reason.
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Totally agree! The semantic web (Web 3.0) will change a lot how we for example interact with websites and will finally make the information on the web usable. Currently every website lives in its own little world. As long as we stay on one page it kind of works and I can for example sort and filter by properties, however as soon as I want to combine the information of different pages this ends (example if I want to see the hotel I stay in with the best restaurants in the city from yelp).

That is the reason why we currently work on http://link.fish which is a smart bookmark manager and allows people to work with the information behind the urls. We are currently in a closed beta but am happy about anybody who gives honest feedback.

Here is a short 2 min (low quality) demo video which shows how it works:
https://youtu.be/Chfy3le5gY0
> I'd rather embrace nonlocality than the crazy many-worlds stuff.

Why do you describe many-worlds as 'crazy'?

Edit: to whoever down-voted me, this was a serious question.
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Two words: Emacs. Vi.

Boom.
Sending game snapshot state as deltas is pretty interesting as initially thought they were sending actual diffs of snapshot but they just mean they're not sending all state at once and from the bitpacking section it looks like they're using some kind of custom binary format. The reason they're deltas is that even though they're using UDP, deltas only work when you have the previous snapshot and so they require acknowledgement of the delta, something you don't get with UDP by default. Even the compression is custom.

Extremely small message sizes was really important to them.
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And there. You are doing philosophy.
Also, the litter analogy does not hold up because littering is a crime. People with your viewpoint apparently lack the clout to make non-PVP bounds a "crime".
Just stay off the windows till the wave passes (mistake some folks made was seeing the fall, waiting for couple minutes, then getting back to the windows -- to be injured by the pieces of glass minutes later).

This was from Russia :)
US police don't just shoot offenders with guns, they shoot offenders with knives and offenders with cell phones.

UK police don't magically become armed when facing someone with a knife - specialist officers (with rigorous recruitment and training) will be called, but regular officers deal with it until the armed police arrive.

There are a few Youtube videos of the different approaches. UK officers tend to take a de-escalation approach, and to do what they can to protect members of the public. US officers appear to shoot first. They may think they're protecting the public, but they frequently shoot innocent bystanders. (From what we know -- bizarrely the US doesn't count how many people get shot by US police.)
Assuming tasers are effective, do US police forces carry them? If they do, why is it not the first choice? If they don't carry, what's the problem with tasers?

If tasers are not effective, I'm still wondering why non-lethal weapons do not seem to be the first choice. Would all known non-lethal restraining tools be inefficient (too slow) if we assume the civilian will make use of a firearm? I mean, let's say tasers are not good enough, maybe pepper spray or something else can be used.

Genuinely curious and probably missing important details.
I do too, i just find the concept considerably more elegant, and to my own feeble mind considerably more intuitive.
The Pilot Wave theory has also been getting some experimental support recently [0], and while it's still fairly early, it still beats string theory.
All the work in nonlocality also helps in my opinion the Pilot Wave theory to become relevant again, we have too many experimental data for use to disregard it and none of the other solutions that incorporate nonlocality seem as elegant to me.
I too think that the universe is most likely deterministic, and has strong realism which saves us from having to deal with the observer concept in QM especially some of the weirder interpretations of it[1].

P.S.
If anyone is interested in PWT one of the best materials I've seen is a series of lectures by Mike Towler of Cambridge University[2].
It's probably one of the better constructed lectures I've seen of QM in general, it hits the very rare sweet spot of being actually informative without falling into the realm of popular science while not requiring PHD level physics to follow (infact depending on the country you went to high school if you did cover QM in year 10-12 it's almost everything you need).

[0]https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160517-pilot-wave-theory-ga...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...

[2]http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/PWT/lectures/bohm1.pdf (change the url from bohm1 to bohm8 to get all the slides)
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Wow. I'd pay MONEY to see you roll into South Chicago armed with a Taser. Most CompSci people I meet are skinny liberals from the suburbs and have NO IDEA what it's like to live in bad neighborhoods and have ridiculously naive socialist ideas they take from group-think liberalism. The matter-fact reality is we have MILLIONS of individuals in the US that have 0 mentors, are trained to from a young age that compliancy is for punk made bitches, and will kill\hurt you if you try to enforce compliancy with a taser. Good luck with that.

The real problem the US is similiar to the problems Liberia is facing with child-soldiers. You've got MILLIONS of young men with no mentors, trained from a young age to be violent, and have no career paths. Not a good combination and it's not the police who are to blame. It's a cultural\systematic issue.
I don't know what the commentator is referring to. But, there's a wide-spread belief in the UK that arming the police is a bad idea - since it leads to issues. There has been an increase in the number of 'armed police' with the perceived increase in terror: but there's no much support for widely arming the police. I think that's likely to be a key difference in how the police are perceived in the UK and the USA.
US police go into every encounter with US citizens armed. Simple traffic stops in low[1] crime areas have armed police.

[1] low relative the US. The US is remarkably violent compared to Europe.
I've been considering outsourcing the creation specific ReactJS (and react native) components where the interfaces/state can be defined by me.