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Ha ha ha ... ha ...

The 'Arab World' was never together. Ever.

All of the 'Anti-American Imperialism' kids here should remember that the bulk of the 'Arab World' is 'Arab By The Sword'.

Arabic is spoken across North Africa, in particular because of Arab Colonialism of the 9th-12th centuries.

Not since then has the 'Arab World' been anything resembling 'together'.

The Turks kept them (and there was not much of them) under the thumb, after that the Europeans tried to maintain some degree of balance, now the Americans.

The most recent and damaging decision by the US was Obama's withdrawl of troops in Iraq. Of course, invading in the first place - but Obama simply by virtue of having 10K soldiers sitting on a base 'behind the wire' doing nothing, could have kept forcing Malaki to play nice with the Sunnis. The moment Obama withdrew, Malaki purged Iraq of Sunnis, and the Sunni tribes decided that ISIS was 'less worse' than their own government and there you have it.

As far as Syria ... this is a function of the 'Arab Spring' more than anything, and I don't think anyone can say anyone else is directly responsible for that. Other than the standard: Assad, Saudis, Iran etc...

Once things stabilize in Syria, maybe things can start to settle down.
tl:dr
In Paris, I used to leave my bag on the street in front of my high school whole days. It was just leaning on the front door, for hours. That was before.

Now I guess someone would call a bomb disposal team and cut the traffic 3 blocks around it. (and I would have been very sad, because to this day I still love that bag, leather, light, durable, practical, it still fits a modern 13" laptop perfectly)

Anyhow, this thread is all anecdotes.
Yes, but I use Linux, and it's really bad under Wine :(
Thank you for this extensive answer! German is no problem for me (Austria :)). I might get a hair test now.
Didn't finish that sentence: 'of course invading Iraq was a huge mistake' ...
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it was that liberal philosophy that the administration thought it would be a great idea to destabilize and kill the dictators that created this hot mess.

many of the dictators are either dead or crippled, and the world is awash in more terrorism than ever before.
I don't know if I've seen it in compiler output, but I've seen IDEs like Eclipse and XCode have some pretty good "fix it for me" suggestions (maybe those are sourced from the compiler, I'm not sure).
Agreed on all points I think, the silence on -security has been a bit harrowing. Rightly or wrongly, it felt like the project was dead to me seeing the lack of response (and some perhaps hyperbolic posts not rebutted or even responded to).

I feel like all FreeBSD needs is some understanding about what a nice system it is (despite some warts). Security though, as a volunteer arrangement, that must be tough. It's like an arms race keeping up with the blackhats, and doing that for free can't be fun.
> Of note, many have forgotten, but rice suffered from a pandemic blight in the 1980s that was saved only because a particular species of wild rice, coincidentally found in South India, happened to have disease resistant genes.

Do you have a source for this as well please?
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"A language is a dialect with an army".
Oh, you're right. I was thinking of the combined zip/png, and it's the zip file that has the header at the bottom, so my previous comment is completely wrong. The article seems to be adding the HTML in the EXIF data (thus making it a completely valid JPEG) and the browser tries to be very accommodating in what it accepts, thus ignoring the junk data (or what it thinks is junk data) at the start of the HTML file.

Whether JS would work or not depends on how much the browser tries to recover from errors there. I would guess not much, but what would you gain from a combined JS/JPEG file anyway?
World Science Festival talk on CRISPER [1:24:25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nimj6SNPq-o
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Interesting concept! One thing to mention, "remaining" has been spelt incorrectly in your iOS screenshots (at least in Notification Center) and is currently spelt as "remainning". This is both on the website and App Store.
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That is absolutely fine. Many people in the Open Source community go out of their way to make sure they are not thrown into the free software bucket. I think the feelings here are mutual.
Nice to hear.

I came back to the JVM many times in the past and every time it was the same. It always seemed like things changed, but the baseline complexity stayed the same.
Is this BEP44 actually implemented in most clients? I was experimenting with p2p some years ago, and I considered extending the protocol, but I figured it would be more practical to work out-of-band, rather than relying on widespread implementation of an extension (which didn't seem that likely to me at the time).
I think that's covered under 2) about Salafism/Wahabism
Preventing women from driving, from being in public without family members, from touching others, from having other see their face etc. etc. is 100% part of the 'intellectual deficit' imposed by Arabic flavours of Islam.

Islam is a religion, an ideology and a culture all blended into one. Parts of it are bad.

But I don't think it's any of that. I think it's something simpler: there is nothing in the desert. It's really hard to build a civilization of nothing. Absent civilization, even if there is Oil in the ground ... the surpluses won't be managed effectively or fairly.

I think that were the Arab world to be green and lush, it would be a better place, because civilization and power would have developed from an agrarian base ... which is more distributed, then higher level civic institutions can come into place etc.

With desert+oil, basic and important institutions don't get a chance to form, and you have a Fedual system which depends on the intelligence and benevolence of the Feudal Lords, aka House of Saud, Qatari 'royal' family etc.
I know of others who forward almost everything to email, including custom scrapers/converters (and then of course there's RMS). If your info feed contains more long form resources, that seems like a better end point. But for twitter feeds and notifications, IRC seems mostly sufficient.

Now I do wonder what would be the equivalent for someone heavily into image-based communiciation/updates. Unifying your reddit, snapchat, facebook, imgur etc.
Forward everything to pinterest (or a similar homebrew interface)? Maybe even rendering some text updates to images...
I'm surprised nobody in this thread has mentioned PICO-8, a "virtual console" which compresses its "cartridges" in the form of a PNG file. When viewed in a browser or on a computer the file is displayed as a neat stylised image of a cartridge with a description, box art etc but when opened in the PICO-8 executable reveals all of the game code, art and music/sound assets in fully uncompressed editable form. The cartridges can be shared freely on sites that leave the original file intact without re-compressing. Nifty!

http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
There's no need to be snarky. Fedora and Red Hat are very concerned about the fragmentation of ARM, and the fact that ARM is almost completely different from everything else. We actively try to make sure that upstream kernels boot unmodified out of the box on new aarch64 hardware as it comes out, working closely with vendors to ensure they upstream all their drivers and don't do stupid stuff. We have also co-written (with ARM) standards to ensure that any operating system will boot unmodified out of the box on any aarch64 server hardware, because in the end that's what is required to turn ARM into a serious server platform.
I think it is explicitly mentioned here:

>The procedure can be repeated (with a new permutation each time) to minimize this chance, with Victor asking to reveal a row, column, or 3x3 subsquare each time, until he is certain that Peggy has a solution.
With HR Block you have an option of going somewhere else. with IRS ?
Mutual intelligibility is problematic for languages with a dialect continuum.

Native speakers that live next to each other can understand each other without a problem but the farther apart the regions are the more likely it is that they can't anymore.

For example German. The Swiss Germans and the South Germans can understand each other but if you let somebody from the north of Germany speak with them in the local dialect, they won't.

Linguists usually don't even classify languages as dialects anymore. It's almost always a political minefield.
Sorry, forgot the /s
Most Singaporeans still have a concept of "proper" English, and can code switch across the creole continuum, but interestingly the acrolect ("variation most associated with refinement") is basically standard UK or US English - though not everyone can get there. As a comparison, the closest similarity I can think of in terms of having a similar English creole continuum is Jamaican patois.

I doubt most native English speakers (despite my best wishes, I certainly can't) could decipher the Singlish basilect ("least refined") - the cadence is syllable-timed, the vocabulary is part Hokkien, Mandarin, Tamil and Malay, grammar is nonstandard and a substantial part of emotion is conveyed through particle suffixes (the stereotypical Singlish "lah" is emphasis).
I don't know exactly for Python. I would expect mixin class to be used for this. Also, maybe Python will allow you to define union types: e.g. X is either a "foo", a "bar" or a "zot" (all of them duck types the same implicit interface).
Have you guys heard about the Casetop? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lividesign/casetop-ever...

Cleaver way of docking the phone! (Especially the option to slide it in under the keyboard.) I wish you could do something similar :)
>when almost every thought and action is dictated by an old book

Compared to the US, where political actions are sorely based on facts and the bible and religion are completely irrelevant. /s

It's not really an issue only in Islam, people make a lot of actions because of an even older book - the bible - as well.
"Can you come up with an alternative explanation?"

Open a history book.
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>"The problem with ideology is that it gives you the answer before you've asked the question".

Yupp. Looking at checks signed by other helps make the decision lot quicker.

> BBC in the UK produce great television.

What for ? At what cost to public taxpayer ? Is it even needed to be run using taxpayer money ?
This pretty much describes the entire BT HomeHub firmware, to be honest.
Surely this is a good thing? We (as a species) have been growing exponentially in an unsustainable manner. It'll be tough as we transition into looking after more elderly with less of a young population to support them - but in the long run it's for the best.
I really hope this gets put into a podcast/audio format, would love to ingest it on a commute
People see and act through their own personal philosophies and personalities. You can't peel those off and have any kind of reasonable conversation about culture and history.

When faced with impending death, pessimists might commit suicide. Optimists might struggle on. People with under-developed personalities might just listen to the first person they run into.

But whatever the case, their choices will be broadcast through their religious and cultural values. Those committing suicide could self-terminate. Or they could be suicide bombers. Those deciding to carry on could become artists or prophets. Or they might open a house of worship.

In addition, the definition of "impending doom" changes depending on your philosophy of life and worldview.

It's a red herring to blame everything on religion. People are people. But it's also a red herring to refuse to accept the role of religion in determining how well cultures thrive. Whatever myths you choose to believe in has a profound impact on how you see the world around you and how you react to it.
Long piece , but it fails in that it does not give a coherent message. Pieces of stories here and there are not history. First of all , lets stop calling it Arab Spring. If anything it's the arab Autumn of civil wars, where all arabs are united only in their resentment of the west. Secondly, let's talk about people, their souls, aspirations, and culture instead of political history. Given that these states were built as western protectorates, their history should not be a good guide for their future. Clearly the approach to colonialism/interventionism that the US takes is a failure, compared to the colonialism of the British for example (e.g. Jordan). The arab world has always been far too divided to able to draw clear borders around their states. Their only hope for peace is long-term economic prosperity and transition to secularism. Until then, tyranny worked.

This piece may be fun to get through your flight, but it should offer a holistic perspective.
> Anyhow, this thread is all anecdotes.

That's true. And crime statistics aren't much more useful because willingness to report and how well the police handle filing differ a lot between cultures.
I am not an IRC user, but I wonder whether Python Paradox[1] applies to IRC users.

To soak wisdom from top-tier hackers in the field, you want to go where they hang out. IRC might just be the hacker playground.

That alone makes a convincing case for using IRC.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
> Once things stabilize in Syria, maybe things can start to settle down.

OT, but do you see this happening soon? The only way it seems that Syria can stabilize is for the regime to retake control. That's beginning to look like the most likely outcome. Could there ever be a path back to pre-Spring peace? Anything is better than what they have now :(
Is there much evidence for the specific choice of religion as a casual factor? Methods of blending a traditionalist religion with modern life seem much more important than which religion you start with. For example, Judaism imposes an extremely strict set of rules that govern almost every conceivable aspect of daily life. And indeed you find that strictly observant Orthodox Jews are mostly unable to function in a modern society; a large percentage of those living in Israel are unemployed and supported by state funds. However a large number of Jews have chosen to be somewhat looser in their adherence to Jewish law, which seems to be the key, rather than Judaism itself being more compatible with modernity.
Adam Curtis's Bitter Lake has some good stuff too.

https://thoughtmaybe.com/bitter-lake/
I'm not sure one questionable exampe invalidates the rest - most of the versions are combinations of english vocabulary with another language's grammar and vocab or phonetics, which I think makes them distinct enough for a langauge.

I must admit I too find the idea behind singlish questionable, especially since the cited website doesn't contain the examples, or in any place I could find. But, if the examples they provided are accurate, “Wah lau, the movie damn sian”, from what I can tell based on the transation, the grammar structure is different enough from english that it's probably a good candidate for something new.
You sure? I was playing with Unity back in 2009 and you scripted both game and IDE atop mono. The .NET flavour of JS was being pushed, with code examples additionally in C# and Boo (!). I preferred to use F#.
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Because Christians would never pray a lot, slavishly follow an old book or oppress women?
Vietnam was most likely "Chuoi Cau", they look like burro bananas but are very sweet and easy to peel?

Interesting that you bring up Vietnam because it looking increasingly like they are looking to be the largest banana supplier to Asia, soon to overtake the Philippines. There was a big splash in Japan last year when Vietnamese bananas showed up in Don Quijote a discount chain in Japan.
The invasion of Iraq was a stupid idea, and the NYTimes should be ashamed for that.

But the real problems occurred in the disastrous power vacuum and complete lack of a plan that occurred after the war was won. That's what tore Iraq and the Middle East apart. I don't think the NYTimes has any responsibility for that.
but aren't the US experiencing very high inflation?
Yes but the current economic system is not evolving in an idealistic world. You will have deception, bridery and other coercision method to push other players out of the market.
I got Zika. The US health care system had no idea what to do with me
Always amused me when my father regailed us with tales of seeing his cardiologist, who told him in no uncertain terms that smoking is the one thing he shouldn't slip back into, it's awful for cardiovascular health.

After the appointment he spots said cardiologist in the car park smoking.

As you said, they're just people too.
Sure, the praying alone would not create a huge amount of cognitive load, but it is just symptomatic of an overly binding religion. It must be terribly confusing as a Muslim to see other cultures vastly outperforming them even though these cultures don't follow the word of Allah, e.g. by not throwing people off of cliffs for having wild gay sex and not stoning women for adultery. These are literally the kinds of rules, fears and confusions that shape Islamic cultures.
passwordSafe. It runs fine on Windows and on Linux under Wine. I have never tried an alternative, to be honest, as it does a good job - double-click to copy password, an option to display certain characters from password, auto-generation of new passwords, hierarchically organised and searchable.

When sharing passwords with a team when using passwordSafe, we had to share the same sign-in password - not ideal.
To me the whole view of the game world being a "giant blob of highly mutable and intertwined state" stems from the fact that for over a decade all games had to do was have an update and a render pass in the main loop. So you could have a big mess because all of the world updates were serial, and so the developers didn't really experience the problems arising from such design.

Now it takes a change in perspective on how to structure code and data to properly exploit multiple cores to their full potential. It is certainly possible to have interaction in the game world and do it in a multi-core multi-threaded way, it just needs smarter structures and better organisation of data.

Game developers have and will adapt to this.
The quote in the headline (“Open source is not free software”) in this context means that the open source movement or ideals are not the same as the idea or aims of the free software movement. On the other hand, actual software which can be classified as “open source” is, except in pathological cases, also “free” by the definition laid down by the free software movement.

I write this because many people seem to have a misconception: that the “free software” somehow does not apply to non-copyleft (some even say non-GPL) software, but this is not the case. Software under the MIT, BSD or CC0 licenses (and even software in the public domain) are all also “free software” according to the FSF. The headline could easily be interpreted to mean the opposite, and thereby create further confusion and discord.
Quote: For software to be truly free, “users have to have control to run the program as they wish and to study the program’s source code and change it,” Stallman said. “This is based on two essential freedoms: to make exact copies and to copy and distribute your modified versions as you wish.”

The distribution part describes the BSD Licence, not the GPL. With the GPL, you are not free to "distribute your modified version as you wish." With the GPL, if you distribute a modified version to others, you must provide the modifications. That's not freedom to choose.

Stallman's idea of freedom in terms of the GPL is that, if you don't like the many pages of terms, then you are free to choose to not use the software, which is a freedom you already have.

If you have to have as many pages of stipulations as the GPL has, I can't see it as freedom. The BSD license is, in my opinion, a free license, as you release it, and the consumer of it is truly free to do what they want with it.
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Completely agree: automation is already changing the employment landscape. The number of people who tell me how the unemployed truck driver or factory worker can become a robot designer boggles my mind. It's a total break-down in the ability to see quantities vividly for what they are. I grew up in a field where orders of magnitude were the first class citizen and it's clear that order of magnitudes more people do mundane automate-able work than will be able to contribute on the design side of the next era's production systems.

To your point: the way to fix these problems is to make sure that everyone, irrespective of their ability to make money selling their labor, is able to consume a fair amount. Hence the need for a basic income for all: the higher the better. The quicker we break from the moralistic perspective that everyone should "work" in a world where not everyone can, the quicker we can create a world that is about "the pursuit if happiness" again.
So its Europes fault that Shi'a managed to established a Shi'a Caliphate for the first time, and start a power struggle that would rage in the middle east since that time?

I'm not excusing the action of US and all the others, but I just want to point out that they didn't start anything and that before the even existed their were already states in that area that were fighting each other over many of the same borders areas.
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"Like most of modern history: America's fault most recently, but Europe's fault originally."

America and Europe are stabilizing and largely benevolent forces in the world, and they were even this when they were colonialist.

The Middle East is a mess because of the nature and history of the types of cultures there.

The most prosperous nations in the region are those that play reasonably in the context of international balance as defined by Western powers.

Namely Saudi, Qatar, UAE, and now Jordan, mostly Egypt etc..

Iraq would be mostly ok if Saddam did not invade Kuwait.

Syria would be mostly ok if they didn't side with the Soviets, and support Iranian terrorism via Hezbollah.

Iran would be mostly ok if they stopped declaring that 'American must be destroyed' and overtly exporting their Islamic Theocratic Revolution outside their borders.

The 'internal issues' of Saudi such as human rights etc. - is making slow but steady progress as evidenced by their evolution over the last 50 years. Patience would get us there.

Without America or Europe, Middle Eastern powers would have wiped each other out so long as they had access to weapons, or I should say rather, there would be no stability.

Without USA+Europe, I believe the Arab world would look like Libya does now internally.

This is not to fail to recognize that the US+Europe have made tons of mistakes.
eclim is the best you're gunna do for Java in Emacs I think, and it's realllllllllly slow.
290.000 deaths later and 1/3 of the population fleeing the country. Even if the US knows that the return of Assad's tyranny is the only quick path to peace, they (US) will not be willing to bear the blame of the damage created.
Misspelling will be oh-so-costly.
ohh, thank you for mentioning me about incorrect word. I will edit it in next version.
I keep receiving emails to other email addresses I don't own. Sometimes it contains sensitive information...