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Depends on context. In the early days many s100 users assembled the boards themselves and doubtless wouldn't have blinked any eyelid at hacking 8080/z80 bios code if they needed to (I remember the first kid at school to get a computer around that time, programmable with physical switches, binary LED display). By the time the commercial software market for CP/M became established with killer apps like word star, the users would have been rightly horrified by bios hacking.
I know your argument seemed to be simply stating some logic, I wanted to respond because even though you didn't say it outright, I sensed some degree of anxiety or sadness or something in your comment. Or maybe, others in a similar boat might be experiencing that.

In my case (turning 35 shortly), for reasons completely out of our control, my wife and I have not been able to bear children. We are getting to the point where the only option is adoption, which we are not against. The risk and cost of any other options are just far too high.

I didn't wait, I was married once in my 20s but my ex-wife had an affair and that was the end of that relationship. Took me a number of years to meet my current wife, and several years to get to the point of trying for children.

All I guess I'm trying to say is, even though you say you could have tried harder in your early 20s - I did, and it still didn't work out for me with regards to having children as young as possible (yet).

So for yourself, I hope you don't hold it against yourself that you did what you did. Even if you had tried hard, it might not have worked out - and I guess this is just how it goes.
You're assuming that they have a vested interest in holding their Bitcoins for some greater good.
Increasing someone's burden after sentencing is incredibly sketchy behavior and detrimental to the rule of law. Parole is not a punishment it's monitoring for legal behavior.
Why is "criminals" in quotes there? These are people who have been convicted of crimes and are still serving their sentences.
A slowdown is a remark on a change in trajectory, not a change in absolute position.
It's like how the booze companies give money to mothers against drunk driving or the petrochemical companies say they are pro-environment. It's an attempt to seize the narrative and cover their misdeeds.

Someone somewhere near the top has to care more about say, buying a fancy new cutlery set for lavish dinner parties, then the lives of people in their communities. We pretend like we've moved beyond the marie antoinettes, but we have them in spades.
This is another example of both American Narcissism plus insufficient understanding of Chinese business environment. Leaders are "human beings", which means they do business on behalf their own interest. Tobacco industry spend billions on lobbing/advertisement to want public believe "smoking is healthy". And listen, China is a whole different world at a complete different stage than USA, so why do u expect it should be like USA? Look out the window and you will see how many developing countries ruined because they were once obsessed with the so-called "American capitalism".
Would you say "mash <up-arrow> several times until" or "mash <up-arrow> until"? That is, in gaming terminology, would you ever use "mash" to describe pressing a key only a single time? Or does "mash" always describe repeatedly and rapidly pressing a key?
Oh I didn't start with SICP either, I programmed very casually as a hobby for years before that
I wonder if reporting something like that is more of a spite thing than actual concern. Could the neighbor be annoyed with the children's volume? Did she do some unrelated thing that bothered them and this is revenge?

Who in their right mind thinks that kids playing in a fenced backyard are in danger?
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These people could be locked up in a cage instead. Putting them on parole at all is decreasing their burden compared to their original sentence, and adding a restriction to that is still way better than what they were sentenced to.
The people will most likely end up in jail.
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The home owners are the ones stopping new houses from being built.

Homeowners don't want their property values to go down, and want the city to be locked in time, never changing and never growing. They are the ones stopping new houses from being built.
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I hope it gets voted down. It was John F. Kennedy that introduced the Community Mental Health act of 1963 to close down and defund mental institions. The idea of cutting spending for mental facilities was put forth by the Democratic party, not GOP. Both parties have continued ever since.
> Correction: August 3, 2016

> An earlier version of this article gave an outdated location for the headquarters of Moon Express. The company is now based in Cape Canaveral, Fla., not Mountain View, Calif. The error was repeated in the headline.
So if one concluded, based on an impartial examination of economic facts, that free market economics is indeed the best way to foster economic development and standard of living gains, how should one promote such views without become an advocate of free market economics (and thus become discredited in your eyes)?
Weather is still an issue AFAIK. Perhaps a 3d visioning system can fix this at some point, but I don't think we're there yet as those solutions are too slow for RTC.
I find the logic of this perspective difficult to understand.

You've got a group of people, and an activity that you think it is potentially dangerous for these people to participate in. So you want to make sure they don't participate while you're supervising them, but that they're free to once you've stopped?

If you're going to allow them to participate once they're off parole, there is no case for prohibiting it while they're on parole. If they're going to be a problem, it's better to catch them at it.
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These are very useful when somebody else tells you which one applies to you, and you end up with a reasonably simple standard to check against.

Finding the right damn standard, and checking that all the countries decided to implement it in ways that don't introduce random technicalities (in other languages) is very hard.

So now you are weighing up the cost of investigative lawyers against the cost of being taken to court. And lets be honest, there are a lot of countries in the EU with not so many clients in them.

So these are a completely non-legal safety net that is kind of legal but really isn't but probably won't cost you too much if you are wrong.

Law is... hard.
Well, yeah, but that'd be recirculating counterfeit currency. Also you might not realize that the bills were fake, and find out later in a store or something.
git config --add hooks.confirm.match "AKIA"

would probably be a good default for AWS users.
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Not trying to be pedantic here, but that's not off-color at all. There's nothing in poor taste about saying women are under-represented.
Which --coincidentally-- is exactly the problem with it.
The only truth about Wordpress being so successful is its theme availability. Envato can for sure be responsible partially for its success.

It's not that Wordpress is good, or great or that much extensible. One could easily look for ExpressionEngine or Craft, if that would be the case.

But if you want a 1-click install, plus slap a 50$ theme on it, and your stuff to look pretty good, Wordpress is a viable solution.

However, if you want to customise stuff yourself, things become really dreadful very quickly. Anyone saying otherwise, hasn't done so.

All the other stuff, about any of its "goodness" as addressed here in the article, is basically the author doesn't knowing any better, what a real CMS is supposed to do.
Can you elaborate? It sounds like you've had some bad experiences, would love to hear them. (I've had mostly good experiences.)
+10 to Name of the Wind. But don't read it if you aren't willing to wait 5 years for him to finish his trilogy.

The Martian was probably the best fiction in the last year for me.
Haha, how'd you find this so fast?
I was there 2008, stayed on DongZhuAnBang Road. Somewhat near the Bund, if I remember correctly. I got the instruction from a Swedish expat who had lived there for three years or so.
https://github.com/brigade/overcommit

It's wonderful.
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That's correct. The regulators are still playing with these rules but two things will mitigate that:

1. Banks are not allowed to have a too large exposure to a single counterparty, so the bail-in of a single bank should never result in another bank failing.

2. The investment in regulatory capital or in bail-inable bank capital is likely to be treated in a very penal way from a capital point of view.

Banks do have this exposure naturally as they tend to be market makers for other banks paper, so typically always hold some inventory of these bonds, but these are relatively small amounts. Banks should normally not hold large positions in other banks capital and debt as these instruments are not eligible for their liquidity pools.
...and with Margaret Thatcher. In the UK it was called `care in the community`. This also coincided with lots of heroin filling our streets, presumably sold to keep the mercenaries branded mujahadeen paid in Afghanistan.

Seems that we have some horrible drugs on our streets these days so rinse and repeat. Happy days.
Why do you think only employees deserve the protection from the law and not employers ? All they are asking for some information to make an informed decision.
> For some reason, the West has let China get away with extremely protectionist trade policies the likes of which no one else in the world would dare even attempt.

I always assumed that this was allowed because in turn, China gave American companies access to very, very cheap manufacturing labour.
Well, localization is good practice and something that should be supported already. But I think it's more like the Quebecois language laws mandate bilingualism in the workplace, which is a greater hassle.
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Directives have more or less been replaced with regulations, which are directly binding law.
It's in quotes because I suspect the threat of sex offenders actually playing Pokemon Go is minimal. There's no reason that the government should be able to force Niantic to search for arbitrary lists of users without a court order.
I'm still loving that Adobe Flex won the war. Remaking the web in its image even as it fades into irrelevance.

JSX was instantly understandable and desirable to me due to its close philosophical connection to MXML.
Platform for gathering human perspective on moral decisions made by AIs
This is a very interesting discussion of the pros and cons of HAMMER and ZFS: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/49789/

I've been considering using DragonFlyBSD for a home NAS because of the seemingly smaller system requirements for HAMMER.
Theoretically, that makes sense. But I'm pretty sure you didn't try to customize one of these themes, if you write that. So..
Granted

Or the interiors of ordinary people's houses in places like Morocco? Or the cafe down the road where I get 'Indian breakfast' for £3? (Channa/naan and tea made with spices).
>I don't disagree, but in my opinion picking a very mainstream, arguably mass-market, but still decent place for a first date over the one-of-a-kind local shop is useful signalling.

I was mainly objecting to your line about "countries where coffeehouses actually exist." We have those in the US, they're all over the place. Just not in small towns or shitty (usually smaller and Southern) cities. Just open Google Maps, pick any metro area with at least 1M people, and search for "coffee". You should easily find something that's not Starbucks or Panera (though I will admit Panera is pretty good, it's my favorite corporate chain by far, but make sure to go to the corporate locations and not the franchises if you can). They aren't all one-of-a-kind local shops; there are plenty of local or regional chains around. I'll take any of those over Starbucks.

But for your "useful signaling", that can be played different ways. Picking a Starbucks when there's better convenient alternatives, to me, says that you're possibly a mindless consumer drone who just buys whatever's popular without putting any thought into your consumption. Maybe I'm just biased, but from my own experience, Starbuck's product is generally sub-par, and their shops are generally too small and overcrowded compared to their competition. Not really the kind of place where you can sit down with someone and have a nice, quiet chat. Maybe they used to be years ago.

You're probably right about quirkier people. Maybe the Millenials have a higher proportion of quirkier people than previous generations. The internet certainly can be blamed for that.
> The reason is that I think it can still be useful as training data for, say, designing new programming languages/tools around coding patterns seen in the wild.

Do you happen to have any evidence of that ever being done even once in the history of mankind?

It's a nice idea, but you should know by now the world isn't a slave to your desires.
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Can someone smarter than me compare FreeBSD to DragonflyBSD given the fork has now been 11 years.

How do the two compare based on features, stability and performance?

DragonflyBSD network stack seems of particular interest given that it's lock less.

And on overall OS performance, last benchmark I saw was very dated

http://dl.wolfpond.org/benchs/Pg-benchmarks.2012-10.pdf

Curious to know how 4.x stacks up
I fully concur with you that the sorts of investments that depository banks can make should be more highly regulated, as should their leverage ratios. I didn't include that on my top list for "taming Wall St" because we were discussing Wall St and this wasn't as much of an issue in the US/Wall St as in the UK. That said, I definitely agree this was an issue in the UK.

Another note here is that much of what brought down these UK banks was contagion, due to the bubble in commercial and residential real estate pricing and then to the spreading financial crisis and it's effects on chilling available financing and liquidity.

> In a way, universal banks tend to be more robust than a specialized bank, as it benefits from funding and revenues diversification (and cheer size to absorb losses)

This is not only an unproven claim, but a disproved claim. In the US, cross-breed banks resulted in greater contagion across the financial sector and put depositories at risk, increasing the need for bailout.

You could in theory get the best of both worlds by having a highly, highly regulated and constrained investment banking arm of a depository bank. But then how well would it compete with standalone investment banks? And would we really be able to ensure complete separation of risk between activities? Doubtful, in practice. This is a suboptimal set up.

Depositors in a bank do not deposit their money with the idea that it is going to be put at any significant risk. It's supposed to be effectively warehoused and insured. Taking complex and risky bets with deposits, or capital derived from or backed by a depository base of capital, makes no sense on first principles and the theory of combining operations for some benefit in diversification has been falsified in practice... the opposite happened, with higher degrees of correlation and contagion happening in reality.

> You can't send people to jail for making bad business decision

No, but we didn't pursue even a tiny fraction of the cases of negligence, let alone fraud. Also, reducing the discussion purely to jail time is a straw man. Civil penalties for individuals are perfectly justifiable, especially when you're well-compensated and when your decisions result in gross harm to the public.
>They've been talking about building the world's tallest building for years in only 90 days,

I didn't say they built the tallest building in the world. They built a 54 story buildings and five story buildings are certainly realistic.

>A US company could also put up a 40 story building in 2 weeks. If the government loaned them hundreds of millions of dollars, allowed them to ignore worker safety and environmental laws, and they ignored any long term maintenance considerations

The whole "they cheat" meme is part of every criticism of China. China actually makes stuff though. The funny part about IKEA and other western retailers opening in China is that they had a very hard time competing because the locals just copied theit designs and sold them cheaper down the street. Unlike other markets they operate in, the locals can make things at a competitive cost. If you don't actually make anything you can demand all this abstract perfection. Most of the products that Americans buy in stores are made in China, including the cell phone or computer you are reading this on.

>It wouldn't be profitable, just like it's not profitable China. And it wouldn't last 40 years, just like the buildings in China won't last 40 years.
Sure the government gives out lots of money, but that's communist central planning in action. Seems to be working better than the McMansion bubble.

The Chinese are not an inherently superior civilization to the Americans, thus the Americans could do the same thing if they got their act together. We rely on dumb wall street money to allocate capital that chases whatever bubble is hip at the moment. China allocates capital via giving banks very specific lending instructions. Different systems, and they seem to have some advantages.
Until I hear a billionaire story begging with - "I spend one year of my life reading books about starting a company", I feel like it is worth skipping as a path to success.
I agree that feature flags, like any tool, should only be used where it makes sense. I disagree that they should only be used for visual changes though. Often, backend changes can have performance impacts that are only visible at scale, so being able to roll something out gradually can help there.

Also, a flag can be used as a permanent control to disable a part of the system (like an external call) if that part of the system is having problems. Imagine if you had a github activity feed integration, and you wanted to be able disable that feature when a github outage caused that call to take a very long time. Being able to easily disable that feature without needing to change your code can be immensely useful.

nb- I work for LaunchDarkly.
I think the important bit is the government buy in and support for this. As far as autonomous driving is concerned, legislation might end up being the bottle neck in most nations.
One of the world's largest high-speed traders has 'opened up the kimono'
/ask is my favorite page of this site
Whenever you ask a question, I feel physically sick. Please stop asking questions. And don't question me.
a good problem to have.
As others have said, blinding executing a ruby script directly out of a GH repo is risky (to put it mildly). Sure, you have to have some trust in the whole infrastructure at some point, but the number of times I've seen this type of thing blindly posted and followed boggles my mind. Here is a post talking about the issue and pointing out non-malicious issues: https://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act [1]

Are we talking about the welfare reform that put 5 year absolute limits on public assistance? Does that sound progressive to you?

It also has many ongoing consequences. Poor, working class mothers have to choose between accepting assistance or living with their child's father. If neither made enough to live on the father was forced to leave the household. I don't see anything progressive in destroying poor families.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Wo...
I tried it a handful of times. Each time, I got frustrated and left. Looked good for 1999.
That's a big part of what incarceration does, it removes freedom for a period of time. It's kind of a waste if that's all a society manages to accomplish with it, but there you go.

I can sort of believe that someone who is required to maintain a steady job for 2 years is more likely to continue participating in society than someone who has just been released from an institution.

I was also replying rather narrowly to the other post; parole is pretty clearly a lesser punishment than incarceration, not an addition to it like a registry. I wasn't endorsing this idea.
But that's one of the central themes of Star Trek. The Federation is explicitly about unity, not necessarily freedom. The Federation has been accessed of being an essentially communist government over the years.

The film was written by long time fan of the series, so one of the central themes of the series being highlighted in the film is unsurprising.

I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with China.
Dynatrace does I think what you describe. It is on various levels - between services, hosts, processes (on different hosts too) and AWS zones.

https://dynatrace.com/capabilities/application-topology-disc...
I've got the regular virtualmin (free) and I don't see it in there. :(

Oh - yes, there's a "Django" installer, but not the Django CMS I was referring to.

Yes, it's a small number, but I'm doing my best to help grow it with my client base, and then their client base, etc.

Thank you for the work you all do on Virtualmin.
Singapore also has a political framework that could force self-driving car adoption if the powers that be want it. Things that could be mandated such as self-driving only car lanes and motorways could be possible given the small size of Singapore and the powerful nature of the government. It would be unthinkable at present in America to force all cars on certain roads to be self-driving only. Singapore has the sort of culture that values "safety" over freedom.

In America, for better or worse, it would take a long time to mandate these things if they were even possible (considering that the same laws would need to be passed at least 52 times for states and territories). America has checks and balances--everybody gets their say.
"He forgets to mention intellectual properties issues."

Minor nitpick, but the author is a she.

But this is a good point. Generally speaking, whenever you're freelancing, you should be aware that "work for hire" is the standard agreement. This means that the work you create will become the intellectual property of the commissioning client unless you and the client agree otherwise. The burden is typically on you, as the contractor, to raise this issue and attempt to stake a claim -- be it maintaining ownership of the finished product, or be it making exemptions for any aspects of the product (for instance, any use of your existing IP as part of the new project).

IANAL, but I have freelanced pretty extensively over the years. I'm not sure what would happen if you entered into a freelancing project without addressing IP status in a contract or statement of work -- whether the IP would therefore be assigned to the client by default. But I don't leave that to chance. It goes in writing.

That said, I don't often fight for IP retention on freelancing assignments. Many of the people I have freelanced for would not have hired me if they couldn't own what I created. That's just the nature of the work I do. Your mileage may vary.
I should have said mainstream 1980s. Obviously you can find any number of more sophisticated lanugages in the 1980s by features, give or take the multicore support which, depending on context, was less relevant back then, but not in the mainstream. By that metric ML is still probably "ahead of its time".