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While a lot of people think what Trump said is extremely out of what United State legislators stand for, current Senate and President passed and signed HR-158[1] which bans European citizens that visited Iran, Syria and Iraq in past 5 years from getting into United States without a visa. This is going to apply to pretty much any dual citizen of Europe that visit their families back home in every couple of years.

Obviously asking for someone's religion is the most stupid way of filtering terrorist, when governments decide to do something like that they discriminate based on place of origin.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158
There is only a working class in a working economy.
Does bittorrent provide a measure of security against such attempts? Provided you can trust the magnet link or torrent file?
You're doing it wrong? Cashflow? I am slowly making my way to independent wealth BECAUSE of land/home investments. But it is because they are in production of providing good homes to people (multi-family residential), not farming (large part of the short article) nor waiting for the turf itself to appreciate.

Even the investment in farmland is not taking the production of the business into account. Wouldn't that be similar to investing in some servers, but letting them sit and hoping they appreciate in value, rather than being involved in what the servers are doing?

This article seems so at odds with land/home investment, I am wondering what Schiller's real motivation is with it, or if it is taken out of context...

What am I missing?
The interesting point about measuring anything in many reports is less associated but more practical dimensions are often picked for writers to tell more engaging stories. Well, someone is able to have one model and different report APIs targeting different audience then.
>cultures sufficiently isolated from Western music

This doesn't translate to "they don't have harmony". Tons of those cultures do have harmony AND it's different than the traditional western harmony.
The strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is conclusively disproved empirically, and also suffers from being logically impossible. The weak versions of it border on tautology.
Yes, Scala has that. There's a precedence, and ties are compile errors.It

It won't apply more then one level of conversion, though you can perform recursive operations in the type system. Shapeless is a library that uses this for ad-hoc typesafe programming without boilerplate.
Microsoft paid about $60 per member. That's not counting the value of Linkedin's assets or revenue streams. Linkedin members are probably monitizable at higher rates than a typical Facebook member...and perhaps in more respectable and more useful {to the member} ways.
Given the discussion of patents and instruction sets, you may be interested in the work of David Patterson and his student Tony Chen in tracking prior at of all RISC-V instructions http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-6....
But wasn't Trump not only suggesting a visa-requirement, but a complete ban? Seems very different.
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>> What turned me off to Prolog is that there's no way to reason about the computational complexity of the algorithm.

That's easy to figure out once you realise your code also has an imperative reading. So for instance it's obvious that reversing a list:

reverse(A, B) :-
reverse(A, [], B, B).

reverse([], A, A, []).
reverse([B|A], C, D, [_|E]) :-
reverse(A, [B|C], D, E).

takes time proportional to the lists' length, since you're walking through the list an element at a time. And it's easy to figure out that consing, as in [B|C], is a constant-time operation.

Or, for instance, say you wanted to apply reverse/4 to elements of a list-of-lists:

findall(L_, (member(L, Ls), reverse(L, L_)), Ls_).

You can see that this is going to take the time to go through Ls, times the time to reverse each L. Same goes for the recursive version, except we need to reverse the output also to get it back in the right order:

revall(Ls, Ls_):-
revall(Ls, [], Ls_).

revall([], Ls, Ls_):-
reverse(Ls, Ls_)
,!.
revall([L|Ls],Acc,Bind):-
reverse(L, L_)
,revall(Ls, [L_|Acc], Bind).

So it's not different than any other language really, and in fact you can, up to a point, completely ignore the declarative meaning of your program if you just want to think about how fast it's going to go.
I know plenty of very good mathematicians who did not participate seriously in this kind of thing. (Disclosure: I work as a mathematician at a research university.) I'm not sure why the only ones quoted here are mainly ex-winners. Indeed, while these competitions may have the positive effect of putting like minds together, it's possible that they have the negative effect of discouraging those w/o the aptitude for this particular kind of competitive sport (which is what it is), or who do not have access to the kind of coaching and practice that successful competitors often have.
>Baja becoming a US state

Baja is already well to do.

Try that with Chihuahua and maybe I can agree with these proposals.
"Generational habits of consumers don't change overnight" seems a less than surprising conclusion for something as social as food. Even with availability + affordability + community education, I can't expect you'd be looking at less than a half-generation for diets to change.
I think this makes the point that real estate is a stock investment. You buy it today to turn it into rental income of some form. But the study did confine itself to farmland. That portion of real estate has always been the slowest to grow and for many reasons. There simply aren't as many people interested in owning (the same tracts of) farmland as there are homeowners in a town/city.
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There is definitive evidence the brain contains multiple mechanisms for pitch ratio detection.[1] Spectral theories of dissonance like Sethares', meanwhile, fail to explain some very basic phenomena.[2]

It should also be noted that people have reported trouble reproducing Sethares' dissonance curves which Sethares has, to my knowledge (we've corresponded on the subject for almost 20 years), never addressed.[3]

Lastly, there are serious problems with the ethnomusicology in Sethares' book. The scales derived from timbres, e.g. of Indonesian instruments, are designed to match the dissonance curve of the timbre only in a single mode. Intervals not measured from the chosen tonic will in general not be present as minima in the corresponding dissonance curve (except in the case of highly symmetrical scales like the diatonic scale).

[1] e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00271.2001

[2] Spectral models are all based on pairwise interactions between partials and therefore predict roughly equal dissonance scores for harmonic and subharmonic chords (including the major and minor triads). But subharmonic chords are dramatically more dissonant, as you can hear for yourself

http://lumma.org/music/theory/demo/majmin/

(files beginning "o" are harmonic; "u" subharmonic)

This is a consequence of chords larger than dyads being almost completely ignored for the entire history of psychoacoustics. A strangely analogous situation may exist in economics, where the theory of comparative advantage is thought to be settled by most economists despite that there is no consensus on how to extend it beyond Ricardo's 2-country, 2-goods model of 1817.

[3] Briefly, the shape of the dissonance curves is unrealistically sensitive to the relative amplitudes of the input partials.
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Wait, wouldn't a trend towards micro-apartments and higher density make urban land more valuable? I suppose the trick is buying urban land in just the right place if things get more dense.
I honestly do not get it. How can you make any assumptions about an investment when you only consider prices then and now? I mean, this land has produced goods for a hundered years, why aren't those counted to the three times the investment itself has increased in price . This is true for other inverstments too, but still you have to include that in your calculation. An oil field is even worth less after you have extracted the oil, still it might have been a good investment.
Wow, that's a terrific article. I don't think anyone at Xoom was in a position to make or break a revolution (maybe on Xoom International, but we'd delegated the whacking duties to the Italians on those sites, if memory serves). A lot of Xoomers moved on to Google later, and there it did start to become an issue, but all the pornwhackers had gone elsewhere (I took a detour but ended up at Google eventually anyways).

It's crazy to me to think that YouTube was relearning many of the same things the pornwhackers had figured out ten years earlier. I guess there is an underbelly that Silicon Valley really, really doesn't want to talk about. When it mattered, though, YouTube did the right thing, even though it could have cost them the business. Little decisions like those can, in a small way, change the course of history.

I don't think that sort of flashpoint ever happened at Xoom, because we didn't have any policies against bad taste. For all I know, Damien and his crew were gleefully promoting protest sites the whole time.

If you ever have a chance to read Ted Rall's piece "A Cog In Satan's Bulldozer", do it. He touches on bits of it here and there in http://comiczine-fa.com/interviews/ted-rall, but the real thing is mindbendingly great -- truly, almost all cynics are disillusioned idealists. When I worked for google from 2003-2004, it was as close as I've seen to a corporation with a pervasive conscience (people really did ask whether a purchasing decision was "evil"). It seems like even their ideals have slipped.

I went back to school after a while. Now I design clinical trials for kids with cancer. It doesn't pay as much but at least when I die I won't say "gee, I sure sold a lot of ads!"
Most of the time "Visa on Arrival" costs money as well whereas "Visa Free" is free.
Exactly, it's fungible, so you don't need to track specific gallons. The point isn't to track the specific molecules that represent one specific gallon, the point is to just track that a gallon was made and sold.

Nothing was made, nothing was sold, but he fraudulently tracked a creation and sale by creating the RIN.
China has eased up a bit, but you still can't travel freely inside the country.
That's true. I tend to think in English sometimes instead of Hungarian. It's easier to keep focus because the language is more "compressed".
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I saw that whoever still trusts Juniper after the discovery of the NSA backdoor, deserves all data breaches they're going to get going forward.
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Someone should try this in the US.

Of course it's called "off-shoring" not "Maoism", but the effects on US industry have been very similar.
Probably because car manufacturers haven't lobbied the relevant governments successfully. I suspect in many cases, the companies doing the copying are local and therefore have more influence over the relevant government than the foreign company that originated the design.

We also see a lot of cases where the copying isn't really copying. The first generation of Lexus IS300, for example was a compact rear wheel drive luxury sedan with an inline six engine and sporty handling. Most car people reading that description would immediately think "BMW 3-series", and that was, of course the best-known entry in market the IS300 was intended for. It's hardly a clone though; no component was directly copied from BMW, the styling was clearly not intended to be mistaken for a BMW product, the engine was already used in other Toyota products, etc....
I'm not sure religion is so much of a choice. I grew up in a household of a particular religion that my parents imposed and even though I don't really identify what that religion anymore it was a very strong influence on me until my mid-20s.
Even when I didn't identify with it internally, I still said i was a ______.
IMO, It's extremely hard to find an alternative and maybe even harder for one to say they're agnostic or atheist.
>> Seems that SV and Stanford could do a lot more to fix the issues closer at hand in the Bay Area (homelessness, unaffordable living, rising inequality) and the US in general before solving all the worlds problems. Lead by example sort of stuff

Speaking as someone who currently struggles financially, one of those three things is not like the other....

Homelessness and unaffordable living are things that could potentially threaten me personally. Rising (income) inequality does not. There are bonuses and fat paychecks being received all the time by upper management in a casino nearby where I live. Those well-off managers are not the sort of things that are worth losing sleep over.
Even with these examples, the absence of an identity can be useful. e.g. Non-empty lists form a semigroup.
This was not insightful at all
I agree re: the secure backplane (though I would prefer to see it done outside server software in a more comprehensive manner).

I'm surprised that the bar isn't set a bit higher inside the cloud provider infrastructure for tenant separation at the network level. I suppose it boils down to the lack of assurance at an even lower level (who trusts Xen these days?) that seems unlikely to be fixed in the short term.
Most Americans buy homes, not farmland. In that respect, the UK's "Safe as Houses" is worth a read.

Summarising many studies on the matter, across countries and over long time horizons, houses appreciate at the cost of inflation. Short-term swings are primarily driven by credit; a bet on house prices rising is a leveraged bet on credit quantity increasing, i.e. rates falling.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/30/safe-as-houses
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The biggest issues of the case to me were that MIPS believed that hardware patents cover software emulation and (even assuming that the first case is true) that Lexra could somehow be held responsible for software companies choosing to infringe. It's like holding a car manufacturer responsible because a driver decided to head into oncoming traffic.

I don't understand why these cases weren't immediately thrown out as the garbage they were. MIPS wasn't a mega-corp like Samsung or Apple which can bring lots of pressure on the system. Why did the court make such a boneheaded decision on appeal?
> It can be used as collateral

Registered securities can more readily be used as collateral on account of their liquidity.
Related paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02789v1.pdf
Thats the takeaway. People buy farmland for reasons other than property values since property values of farmland basically increase at inflation. It feels very humdrum.
>Having grown up near Seattle, how does the color black represent death?

How is it any different "near Seattle"? All over the US and Europe people have been using black to signify death for centuries. From the usual depiction of death as a black robe wearing skeleton with a skythe, to the black color of hearses, to the black clothing traditionally associated with funerals and mourning, down to black clothes worn by Death Metal and Goth fans.
Or inflation increasing, no?
1st Problem of this article: How do WE "over here" fix THEM "over there".

You cannot "fix" another group of people in another country. They have to fix themselves and go through the necessary procedures to stabilize, weed out problems and corruption, and change their culture, people, social mindset, and traditions. All the stable rich countries of today were once violence, corrupt, and environmentally dirty during their earlier years, suggesting a sort of "puberty period" that all nations go through.

One group cannot build a country, achievements, stability for another group. If they try it is almost always only a temporary success, followed by complete failure as soon as the original "building" group pulls out. Google "the white foreigner effect" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268115... the most horrifying side effect is that natives purposely handicap themselves to signal need to an outside charity. This leads to dependency.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/africa/mosquito-nets...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123758895999200083

In the short term good is done and hearts are warmed but in the long term a nation doesn't develop an immunity to its problems. A charter city would be no different. People would become dependent on the charity, funds, resources, and achievement coming out of the foreign created character city. What incentive do they have to create their own city? If they tried how could they compete with the foreign city?

2nd Problem: The solution and problem in the article is based on an emotional desire to uplift another group of people. Don't you think they want to lift themselves up? Do you believe they want you to lift them up?

What the article suggests, which is basically "nation creation communism" will actually do more damage to a country than good. Because now the native original people of a country cannot compete with the success, wealth, and power of the "colonizers" who are trying to uplift them out of poverty. This is the same series of ideas that sound good and make you feel good but actually cause damage. Countries grow and mature and stabilize on their own at their own natural rate. Trying to artificially "fix" each country ahead of its time, I believe, is immoral. That's like giving your kid steroids because you want them to hurry up and grow faster.
The pope has a cool passport.
That's how the softfork worked before it got scrapped. A hardfork literally splits the network in in two, it's basically like creating a new coin shares the previous history.
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This article misses one crucial point: leverage. People can afford to buy a property many times their current savings with a mortgage based on their income, because the government in effect guaranties the credit risk in the US or subsidies it in other countries.
For most citizens this is the only way to obtain wealth. If you are already wealthy then, yes, land might not be your best investment choice, but chances are you aren't (see Piketty).
Cool app to prank friends.
There are better inflation hedges. Home prices are more volatile than those assets, e.g. gold.

Homes are also less portable. If you're worried about runaway inflation you're at risk of political failure. Makes no sense being anchored to the risk you're seeking protection from.
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That's because they started picturing them back in the day as wearing the same white linen thing (shroud) they used to wrap dead bodies in before burying them.
Really cool product presented beautifully. But perhaps from being a security engineer, I wish it would say anything at all about how they're going to ensure a 16 year old kid can't pwn me from the internet and crush things -- here's praying it can't crush people.

I've just started getting into the whole smarthome thing, it worries me how hard it is to get information about security characteristics or even standards enforcement for these (which appear to be mostly non-existent).

I wish the public were more inclined to ask the question of 'but how is it secured?' when examining something to be placed in their home.
What about paid phone support?
I had citizenship of one most repressive and poor countries in the world - Uzbekistan. Later I obtained Russian citizenship. Now, I'm living in the Netherlands and plan to obtain citizenship of some first world country (NL, SG etc).

So I have first hand experience to live with Uzbek passport and being practically completely isolated from the first world (nobody give you EU tourist visa if you have Uzbek passport and you are not "special" person).

Now, I have Russian passport, it's a bit easier but I'm still struggling to get even tourist US visa (I was refused twice).

Changing passport is very long and painful process. It can significantly change your course of life (like in my case).
Disagree, fine...but where's the alleged mocking?

It is a fact that that a loud contingent of people hate the Windows 10 telemetry. How is it mocking someone to say so?

If someone said "Those dentist visits you hate actually help you to live longer..." would you say that they're mocking you?

Or, was it the part where he said "What to do..."? I really want to know. Is this a case of you projecting your feelings about Windows telemetry onto the situation? It sounds like you're perception is way off here.
Presidents have about as much influence on the economy as they do the weather. That's especially true in this modern globalized age. Nobody is in control. The global economy is not controllable, even if a concerted will to do so existed.

On issues of civil liberties, national security + surveillance, and a growing police state, Obama has been similar if not worse than the previous regime.
I'm not sure if that's right. Countries all the time have mandatory fees included in Airline tickets. Sometimes those fees are paid at the airport on arrival instead. Many other other Visa Free countries have a mandatory departure tax.

A lot of the "Visa Free" countries have fees (whether they call them visa fees, tourism fee, etc). I'm not sure that any correlation can be drawn between "Visa Free" and "$0".
What's disappointing about an investment that holds its value for over a century, keeping pace with inflation, and you can live in it and bequeath to your heirs without a forced sale?
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Being faster is not the point. Having to rely less on javascript libraries and more on the built in framework in the point.

And client side validation is not a substitute for server side validation, merely a better UX.
But that's actually longer. It does look a bit better though, maybe.
How does the fact that it was a hardfork invalidate either of the statements above? It's known ahead of time, and if not enough people adopt it then it doesn't get activated at all.
Sorry, I've never been able to reconcile these claims. On the one hand, any retirement-investment seminar is going to give the stat that real estate on average has returned just a little above inflation.

OTOH, pretty much everyone's social group is full of people who bought a home that has significantly appreciated in value if they've held it 20+ years (and also saved them a ton in housing costs). What gives?

- Is there a huge chunk of homes pulling down the average?

- Is the home appreciation understating the return, after you account for interest/maintenance/tax costs?

- Is our recent experience dominated by anomalously large returns that aren't likely to continue?

- Is it an artifact of the calculation, which excludes relevant things like the imputed rental income (and not having to pay current rates)?

Does this statistic really translate into "don't worry, you won't be priced out of any booking metro area"?
Serious q, I've never been in Africa: what is there to do in Zim to have a good time? Did you go on safari or somerhing similar, or are there off-the-beaten-track things to do (without knowing locals) that are relatively safe to do?
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"Conditioning" is a very mild way of putting it. The parents' beliefs are almost always presented as fact to the child, from a very very tender age.
>Countries all the time have mandatory fees included in Airline tickets.

>Sometimes those fees are paid at the airport on arrival instead.

In most cases they apply to everyone though, even people with no visa requirement.

>I'm not sure that any correlation can be drawn between "Visa Free" and "$0".

Not in general, but when looking at the visa costs.
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