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I'm cutting past the corporation talk and going straight to the premise. It's one that we need to reject.

The article starts off with the premise that we are currently suffering a health crisis. This is insane. It's an extreme, hyper-negative point of view. We live in the safest times in all of human history. If you're not living in a shanty town without running water and suffering from dysentery, you're doing pretty well. If your sitting in your climate-controlled house in suburbia, sipping your soda thinking "Man, I'm killing myself with this sugary drink", you are choosing to be miserable. You have decided not to enjoy the wonderful world in which we live. You have decided to focus on an oblique health threat that starving humans through out history have dreamed about. Exporting that self-imposed misery to others is impolite at best if not pure evil.

With this kind of hyper-negative thinking, we could advance medicine to the point that we become immortal with eternally youthful regenerating bodies, but we would go hunting for a way for french fries and sodas to still be evil somehow. Like these things are some sort of modern day werewolf.

The premise is laughable at best. Dangerous at worst. It's neither sane nor healthy to think like this.

You mention civil war. The war here would boil down to the noble cause of killing people to protect us from the health threats of sugar. That's insane! We must reject this thinking.
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The problem isn't with PhD positions. PhDs after all are training positions. But each postdoc position makes one less employable. There really is little justification (other than exploitation) in my mind for having postdoc positions that don't lead to permanent positions.

This is more of an issue in Germany (where I work now) than in the UK (where I did my PhD).
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Message passing, it seems, is the basis for implementation of protocols, be it communication between objects in a hierarchy or between actors/processes in a system or nodes in a network.

It is not coincidence that message passing is the core concept in the original OO paradigm and in design of fault-tolerant distributed systems. Cells do message passing too.

I am not sure what is being copied here. Messages are just structured data (a molecule) in otherwise share-nothing architecture.
What's the difference, and why should it matter? I just want to persist my changes to a file.

IMHO just keep things simple and use Save for saving in the same format as the original (possibly if a warning if it doesn't support some things you've done to the file), or Save As for saving in a different format.
What I see is, now we have tablet ready Linux DEs. But there is no proper production ready Linux tablets. But the worse part is sooner or later Android will support windowed applications, then what will be happen to Linux DEs?
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>> I realize that this is common UX jargon, but is it literally "painful" to click "File->Export" rather than "File->Save"?

One can also make that statement to the person who decided the default save format should be different from the one the user opened. IMHO most people want to save in the format they started with and if they want to change it, something other than "save" is warranted.
>Why lie? It's heavily-processed, high-fat, high-sugar candy

What part of claiming to be able to enjoy a chocolate bar if you eat otherwise healthy is a "lie"? It's only "unhealthy" in the context of your overall diet.
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Right. You're free to choose your diet, but any costs of said diet should not be imposed on the rest of society.
I call myself a Bangalorian now, but I have been here for 16 years. Not born and brought up in Bangalore, so some of you will cringe at my claim at being Bangalorian. I love this place because it gave me a career. There is no other place in India that I would be willing to move to. BUT, I am now worried about this city and the future my children have here (if they choose to continue to live here). Just yesterday, after a dinner with a couple of friends, we ended up discussing if there is a better place to go to in India. The answer, as always, was -- no. If I want a better life (which includes decent job opportunities), the only way out is to move to a place outside of India. I wish this was not the case.
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You are in fact very right, but there is one critical issue here. If we are talking about marriage. Culturally there is a "lifespan" of value to both genders. A Man's valuable lifespan can be well over 20 years, from age 20 all the way to age 40.While a woman's valuable lifespan maybe only less than 10 years, from 20 to 30.

This is because of the "stake" people are seeking when looking for a marriage between genders. Women are seeking wealth, social status, personality and whatever it may take to maintain a stable marriage ( family).
While men, in most cases, are looking for prettiness, good-looking or whatever superficial. This kind of value lifespan and marriage purpose mismatch is the whole problem of marriage issues in China.

A divorced, less pretty (compare to those in 20s), mid-aged woman is very hard to find another marriage. Even if they did not even marry before, it is still hard for them.
A lot of women in China who are well-educated, well-paid, in their 30s still have problems in finding partners (This is what Chinese society called sheng nu, or "women that left behind":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_nu).

Statistically speaking, women are indeed more than men, but the mating process is not statistic.
I sure hope they remove Pocket.

I find disturbing that even after I removed Pocket as per official instruction[1] and restart the browser, I can still see it in there as per `about:memory`:

0.10 MB (00.04%) ++ firefox@getpocket.com/js-non-window/zones/zone(...)/compartment([System Principal], jar:file:///usr/lib/firefox/browser/features/firefox@getpocket.com.xpi!/bootstrap.js (from: resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm:4519))

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-pocket-firefox
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>Sugar, on the other hand, is very obviously bad for you

No, excess sugar is bad for you.
A lot of cities in the US that are experiencing severe drought have prohibited watering lawns. So they won't fine you for letting them die, just the opposite -- they'll fine you if they catch you watering your lawn to keep it green.
Photoshop will save in the original format unless you do something to the image that isn't supported in that format (e.g. adding vectors, layers, layer filters, etc.) Then it will switch to .psd, although you still get the option of saving in the original format with Save As. I think that is a good design.
> What's the difference, and why should it matter?

See edits.

> IMHO just keep things simple and use Save for saving in the same format as the original (possibly if a warning if it doesn't support some things you've done to the file)

You'd have to warn on every single format except XCF.

> or Save As for saving in a different format.

But I don't want to change the save destination. The project and the export are separate for me.

If you just want to save a PNG or something, you have the option of using Export exclusively.

But I need the ability to Save.
Philosophers? Using precise definitions? Maybe some philosophers do... But not most.
Don't we already allow anonymous tips? Surely you're not saying we should disallow anonymous tips about crime, right?

I apologize. You must be making some point that I'm missing. If somebody breaks into your house, they are guilty of a crime. Period.

I didn't say anything about "slaps on the wrist" For all I care, you can make discovering a crime while breaking into the house the same as being complicit in the crime.

Along this entire subthread, there seems to be several topics conflated. Punishment is a separate matter from culpability, as is the state breaking the law during a criminal investigation, which you seem to be focusing on by bringing up parallel construction. The only thing I am addressing is how society should treat the discovery of random bits of information put into the public domain by thieves. That's it. Not how criminal investigations should be conducted, not the relative punishment for various crimes, not how a robber's personal morals should affect his decisions, and not whether it's okay to publish such information once it is made public.

These are all great topics. I'm just not talking about them.
I agree; see the PS I just edited in.

Firefox OS (or more generally, a free phone&OS) is something I do believe is needed but Mozilla had the completely wrong approach towards it. They severely underestimated how much effort is involved. I heard from several mozillians the attitude was "we'll just do everything in HTML5 and gecko will do just fine". (Sounds familiar? It was Jobs' vision for iOS. See how that turned out.)

They didn't understand how much work is involved into making not just a platform, but also an OS (with all the builtin apps, making them not suck is a prerequisite) and the hardware itself. My Flame's only redeeming quality was that the battery died after a week, which kept me from finding out more issues with it.

I don't know that FxOs was ever a solid choice. It was barely ever even a choice. I wish Mozilla would've just funded or partnered with one of several existing players in that space, such as Jolla.
The distinction is probably lost, but a mistress is someone the husband has emotional feelings for (and what scares the wives is their ability to manipulate their husbands). It takes time to find someone like that and build up a new side relationship. It could happen again, but they're hoping not quickly.

This is different from sleeping with escorts and other transactional women, which a lot of wives are comfortable with and attribute it to the way business works (taking clients out drinking, etc.).
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Political and military power sure seems to be correlated to skin color -- thanks colonialism!
It's not just me though. Dozens of friends, family members, classmates, and coworkers all described the same experiences I've had whenever the topic came up.

The average-case taxi ride in Boston is quite good.
>I don't feel very comfortable with this "anti-sugar" campaign.

People want to be victims rather than taking responsibility for themselves. They need something to blame.

Unless I'm imposing costs on others (which, admittedly, sugar can do), don't tell me what I should or shouldn't eat.
No that's what knee-jerk Uber defenders are writing who refuse to grant taxis any credit for being good, useful services.

These responses aren't reporting average case experiences with level headed analysis.

They are just one-sidedly saying everything is bad about taxis, including "corruption" even, and how thankful they are Uber "disrupted" them, etc.

It all reads very much like paid social engineering by Uber. I'm sure that's not it, and they are just strong fans defending a company they like.

But the fact that it's all written just like social engineering spam us a good indication that it's not describing realistic, average-case experiences of most taxi users.
Why can't we in 2016? What is so special about "installing" software as opposed to just running it, that it needs additional consideration?
Maybe the group of people who drink and are responsible enough to call a Uber does not significantly overlaps with the group who drinks and are irresponsible enough to drive.
Just use Ctrl-E vs Ctrl-S, its a pretty common part of my workflow now
It's a nice to have. But not really necessary. It very likely won't be the thing to increase conversions
Still waiting. They need to prioritize 3 things IMHO, and those are 1) GEGL integration - this was claimed to be 80 percent done in 6 weeks (several years ago). Updating core code and libraries should be done quickly, not spread out over years concurrently with other development. 2) Update to GTK3. How can a flagship OSS program still be using a many-years-old GUI toolkit? And finally 3) Wayland support. This will be easier with GTK3 and is still slightly future-looking, but I'm writing this on a Wayland desktop so it won't be long before GIMP on the whole is completely built on outdated technology. I know all of these are in the works, but it seems like a nice sprint could get each one done in a month or two at this point. Yet here we are seeing another blog about anything but these...
Unless the wife has higher income in which case the husband benefits. Or maybe they even earn similar incomes...
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Yes dropping sugar is the first step. But then after a while, you want to take it further, and you start exercising. And suddenly, you need sugars again!
You mean, personal hatred of 10% of the population.
> Closure Compiler types are/were too verbose.

The difference is about the length of an additional "/ @type /" and the fact that the annotation is in a comment, not in code. That had the benefit that that all code for closure was valid JavaScript, which was key in the days before basically all production JavaScript went through a transpilation step.

> It didn't support most module systems until this year.*

ES6 modules maybe, but it's supported CommonJS and AMD modules since 2011[1] and its own module format before that.

The real reasons I think it didn't catch on are that it came out too early for much of the JS world, the closure library is written verbosely/awkwardly (though there's no reason to touch it when using the compiler, they're associated by name), and many thought you to annotate all existing code to use it instead of adding annotations incrementally.

[1] http://www.nonblocking.io/2011/12/experimental-support-for-c...
If a tobacco company say starts giving cigarettes to 5 year olds to get them hooked you don't think that's evil? What difference does it make that a company is a bunch of people rather than one?

I'll give you that it's trickier to deal with bad stuff done by a corporation. With an individual you can jail them but less so with a corp unless you can pin it on an individual.
> Weiqing eventually ended the affair, she said, by persuading the other woman to take a higher-paying job in another city. “I don’t care how that woman is living now,’’ Ms. Wang said. “I just feel relieved that my husband is back.’’

This makes me sad because the issue is not "fixed", it's just lost one of its symptoms.

If you speak to enough people who have been married for a "long time" you realize they have been through some really hard stuff. It takes an extreme amount of work and forgiveness from both sides. I can't picture success with just one party being interested in staying together.
I think it is always egregious, regardless of whether it happens all the time or not. For example, the USG is known to meddle with other countries elections. I don't think that's excusable. I assume the RNC played all kinds of tricks as well and that this is SOP for both parties. Wrong in every case.
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No, the taxi services (in Boston, anyway, which qualifies all of my comments) have an average-to-good reputation. Uber tries to steer opinion against it, but since people have perfectly fine experiences with taxis most of the time, that doesn't work.

Also, there is no singular reputation that represents all taxi services. Your idea that all taxi services have a bad reputation only further makes your argument unbelievable. A mom & pop business operating a few taxis in a small suburb is way different than a highly regulated city taxi service competing for medallions. Taxis in some cities are always good, while in other cities they are always bad. Taxis in some countries aren't regulated well enough, making them unsafe, but then in others they are regulated and safe.

"The taxi industry" is (mostly) just a fiction that Uber enthusiasts make up. It certainly is when it comes to taxi service reputations, which vary locally.
Yes, those of us with disposable time and disposable income are able to avoid food industry products and/or to research those we ingest.
Try building some muscle. Maintaining muscles requires tons of energy, and I believe it is the best way to lose weight (read: fat).
For my own particular case, I would have been getting soaking wet on a regular basis anyway from rain, so I showered and changed in a gym near my workplace that rented lockers. But in certain climates, and cycling cultures you can just go slowly, same as how in certain happy circumstances people can walk to work without having to change into Lycra. (Some people do commute via jogging, and that's cool too)
I think it depends on who exactly you are selling it to and what they want to use it for.

If there is some workgroup that is buying it that is different thing than something that needs buy-in from central IT and top management.

If it is internally facing, I think corporate identity matters less, if it is externally facing, it is critical. If you look at Saleforce.com for instance, the internally facing side looks like Saleforce, but consumer facing forms can be completely customized. Put it this way -- if you send customers to a site that looks like a phishing site that was drawn with a crayon, that is bad.

For internally facing apps I think the best integration feature is single-sign on with the corporate intranet.
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"Revolutionize software" is silly. I can't help thinking it's been tried before. But the timing's right now if it wasn't before. I would see lots of big companies who manufacture devices with embedded software submitting not individual binaries but distributed systems of binaries. The static analysis alone is a really good start but it's interesting to see that they're doing some fuzzing too.

After reading this article I did some searching about binary static analysis. One simple technique that's popular is symbolic execution. I hadn't heard of it before. Or, rather -- I guess I had in the context of "concolic" execution but I don't think I quite got it. There's some popular packages out there, both open and closed source.
No, because even though there may be fewer young, attractive women due to the policy there are still hardly any wealthy, single men, comparatively speaking.
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Another point that is missing here is, in many cultures, women are reluctant to consider any fault in their husbands. Cheating? Fault of the mistress. Domestic violence? Fault of herself. Coming from India, I have seen this happening countless times where women would never see anything wrong with their spouse even in worst cases.

This may seem horrifying but it is often a result when women are brought up to be good obeying wives, be great mothers and religiously do household duties.
I am a Chinese. as far as I know, even the relatively backward rural areas currently divorce has become more common. I d'not know what is progress?
My comments were only meant to apply to Boston. I fully agree that there can be some locations with consistently bad taxi service. Boston isn't such a place (nor are most cities in the US), but others could be.
Were the actually capitalist? When I think of the Middle East monarchies dominated by an inherited nobility that controls all of the wealth and gives handouts to keep the lower class from revolting, "capitalism" is not what comes to mind.

I feel like I'm being mistaken for a staunch libertarian here, so I want to point out that I'm not that at all. I do think there is a big role for government investment to play in society, including in providing drinkable freshwater. This was the Israeli solution, and it's increasingly going that way in California as well. I'm not advocating for strict market-force-only supply-and-demand, but rather just pointing out that wasteful uses of water will go down as the price of water goes up, which it should be allowed to do rather than being subsidized in order to control wasteful uses. The cost of having enough water to drink and to cook with is measured in the low cents per day per person in the US. A single penny gets you over two gallons from the faucet where I live. And I'm in favor of safety net programs to prevent people from dying from illness, hunger, or thirst.
That seems like a pretty minor "what if" to a pretty concrete solution.
Isn't that exactly what the article says, one paragraph further than your quote?
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Except everyone who is doing RPC in a browser. Not sure why that is, but binary formats aren't popular. We still care about performance.
Huh. Do they have the pretense of a commode, or is it a hole sawn into the floor?
Weird response, to say the least.
And from a green account. (takes off tinfoil hat)

Now, what is laughable is this idea of corporations suing governments because of lost profits from legislation.

Happened with cigarettes too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVe8wwNMh24

As for the idea of civil war: obvious hyperbole is obvious. Democracy needs fixing, or much larger problems -- but if there is no fixing, corporate corruption might ensure the problems.
I think you're right that people paying attention already knew. But there were denials from DWS that she was being unbiased. The same thing happened with the Snowden leaks. Most paying attention knew, but it was still upsetting when the proof came out.

Concerning election fraud, there are separate reports on that. For example the one from Election Justice USA http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/29/1554022/-Election-Ju...
City will fine you if you let wild plants grow instead of grass. So you will be fined either way - you have no option but let the lawn die.
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Was this not the issue in Flint, Michigan with the water leaching lead because it DIDN'T have something in it?
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There is a great deal of 'scientific' studies from major universities in meditation, compassion, happiness... Yes seriously! And how these hanged physically change our minds and bodies (not to mention the ripple effect on our famikielues and neighbors and coworkers!) Stanford U has a whole department dedicated to these studies ( http://ccare.stanford.edu) as Harvard and UCal at Berkeley have also done great http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/meditations-po...) (http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/tag/meditation) .... The CCARE and the Greater Good Scuence Center have a whole lot f scientific data about the positive effects of 'mindfulness', compassion, etc. on our minds, dispositions, health, memory, etc..... Basically there is NO downside to meditation!!