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Oh my! I'd say that judgement is a bit premature.

We are talking about a planet-scale engineering project; something that is millions of times the scale of anything that has been attempted.

We have only d 13 landing on it, and only something 70 space craft have travelled to Mars or beyond[1].

We have only just found traces of water there, and who knows what else is available (or not).

We have never even attempted to terraform anything, and the closest we've come has been maybe things like desert control programs.

And yet it is supposed to be common knowledge that "it can't be done"? Sure, that is likely to be true, but the idea that we already know the specific things that will stop us seems unlikely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_probes
>What's particularly annoying to me is that they talk about prison rape as if it's a natural part of the punishment.

Did they ever think that this also include women prisoners -- and even teen prisoners?

It's a sick, twisted ideology that permits this.
I'm nowhere close to having much knowledge about cancer either, so anything I say is as a lay person. This comic made sense when considering how many cancers are "treated" and what people go through when they have cancer and undergo treatment. Of course, not all types (or targets) of cancers are the same, and we do have better outcomes for some and possibly no hope for others. I've also read in the past that with our current technology, we can detect cancers only when they become significantly big, by which time it's usually kind of serious for the person.

The root cause solution is very likely going to be through some sort of genetic engineering (which is again quite complex). Preventing (bad) mutations requires (in my ignorant opinion) observation over a longer period of time after we find that there's a mutation. This would also need a lot of study and knowledge to be collected across races, genders, ages, etc. In summary, I think we have very less knowledge/information and need a lot more information, time and effort to get to solutions that would work for any human on the planet.
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Then we slaughter and eat them :-) So when we feed farm animals we feed ourselves. Feeding inmates would require less selfishly motivated motives...
Burrow could get a billion dollar exit through an acquisition but its hardly going to become a sustainable concern. It's designed to sell, basically, and the idea is no more mysterious than building a furniture company that is digital first, which would be attractive to existing companies because they cannot simple change their processes over night.
One problem is that it does not have the standing of a pure subject like math, engineering or CS.

Its more vocational, isn't offered by top-tier universities (in the UK) and therefore has lower status e.g. its like taking Media Studies at an ex-poly vs. reading English at Oxford.
>The death penalty can be abused, but there are some clear cases where it is the most reasonable solution. Charlie Manson has been in jail for 45 years; probably Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be kept alive for decades as well.

And the death penalty is "the most reasonable solution" in those cases because? It's "too much" to keep people alive?

In that case, maybe don't have a system that gives life sentences with wild abandon -- e.g. for BS "3 strikes offences", etc., and has the biggest incarceration rate in the world by a wide wide wide margin.
> Shouldn't there be some kind of penalty for this obviously "wrong" stance?

To the contrary I believe that Nobel prizes should be awarded for not only ground-breaking discoveries, but also for successful rejections of widespread hypotheses and theories.

Penalties instill fear, which is not the effect that you want when the mind is the most valuable asset to science.
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If you just want to get up and running quickly and get normal stuff done easily go with RoR or Django (depending on if you prefer Ruby or Python as a language)

If you want to learn something 'new', exciting and interesting and put yourself ahead of the pack of where web development might be heading, go with Elixir/Phoenix. That's what I'm currently doing anyway.
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The point is not killing someone if we don't have to.
So you'd prefer this to prison? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=factory+farm

:P hahaha .... :( ....

We need a lot more compassion in the world in general. Is there some technique to make people or the world more compassionate?
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>In Europe, prisons are more focused on rehabilitation, whereas US prisons are more focused on punishment.

It's because American at its core is the place built by descendants of the religious nuts that were rightfully thrown out of Europe. As for new immigrants, they usually just adopt the prevalent national ideology...
The name of said startup is Kontena :) www.kontena.io
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Haha yeah, sure. Reading the input from an IO device once it's been delivered is synchronous.

But IO is not handled in an synchronous fashion.
If CPU cores just waited around idling until a hard drive is done fetching the data (for example), our computers would be very slow indeed.

That was my main point.
The evidence for it is that gravitational phenomena occur, and QM makes accurate predictions. Supersymmetry is one family of theories that can provide a coherent explanation of these two facts. It is not yet unreasonable to believe that one of the less-accessible variants of supersymmetry is the true description of reality, because there is no clearly better explanation of those two phenomena.
My app does not use small modules... but its dependencies do, and the dependencies' dependencies, so in the end my node_modules folder has hundreds of packages and everything compiles slow like molasses :(
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You missed my point - that ethernet and layer 2 is agnostic to what network or transport layers run on top of it. Those were examples were to illustrate non-TCP transport layers. The date doesn't matter at all.
So far, only you?

The article didn't say Snowden is behind it, nor did it pretend anyone else said that. No idea where you're getting that from.
PS: of course change can also happen bottom up, if the people feel strongly enough about it.

But that's usually only the case for things that can be felt, witnessed and judged more directly.
> Although the research is based on anecdotal evidence from fewer than 60 inmates and staff from one male state prison, the author points to other findings indicating that the trend toward using ramen noodles for exchanges is evident in other prisons.
>what is the point of locking them up behind bars for the rest of their lives?

That's the (small) price society pays because:

> The death penalty can be abused

And history has repeatedly shown that there is no level of evidence that can stop someone being wrongly convicted.
> What's particularly annoying to me is that they talk about prison rape as if it's a natural part of the punishment.

This seems to have become a standard idea in American TV shows. It's usually something along the lines of a cop threatening a suspect into cooperating..."You wouldn't want to go to jail, a pretty boy like you would be reeeal popular in there."

I've noticed it even in mainstream shows that are otherwise not particularly violent or shocking. I'm pretty sure there was even a line like this in The Simpsons once. These references seem to go unnoticed by the same people who go crazy whenever anyone jokes about female rape.

Now I'm not saying that popular culture is necessarily an accurate reflection of reality, but it's terrifying to imagine that it might be, and even more scary to think that the American public are ok with that.
It's not common. Usually you can choose between Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, if you want to do things with computers. The problem is, Comp Sci tends towards an inordinate amount of proofs on blackboards and theoretical horse-hockey, that you don't get to actually do in code, while EE tends towards playing with soldering irons and wiring breadboards, with a little embedded low-level programming.
And rather than just telling your shopkeeper friend, you sell this to anyone and everyone you can.
I can understand the scale argument when we're talking about things like railroads or internet connectivity, but how exactly does it impact this issue? The jailing system seems quite "horizontally scalable" to me.
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Ongoing arguments about representation. Some people want to maintain the lie that there were no black people in the UK before the Empire Windrush. Some people want to insist that fantasy novels of pseudo-medieval settings should not have black people in as it's not "realistic", which is also silly.
So we've just removed the incentive for an accused person to show up to court? Bail serves a purpose.

However the amounts of bail could be recalculated to be relevant to a specific prisoner's condition. A million dollar bail to a poor person might as well be 100 billion which is the same as no bail. That same bail to a rich person would be the equivalent to a $1000 bail to a poor person.

So bail shouldn't be eliminated but scaled appropriately to the financial situation of the prisoner.
The lack of quality blurring is definitely something to prioritize.

As an aside, OpenStreetView makes me think of the "gargoyles" in Snow Crash. As sensors of all types (but in this instance cameras) get radically cheaper & start to permeate the physical world it's inevitable that things visible from the street will just become less private over time.
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I linked this just the other day, and it's relevant again. Life in prison for stealing a pair of socks: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/cruel-and-unusual-...

If that's not manifestly unjust, I don't know what is. I have no idea how 3 strikes laws and mandatory minimums are constitutional in the USA, I'm no constitutional scholar (or American), but I'm fairly sure that it violates separation of powers.

Regardless, the above link is a very good reason for judicial discretion, among other reasons.
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My startup Infinite Food[0] is building a network of automated food preparation and retail service locations based upon robotics, with an initial focus on noodle soups. While we are launching in mainland China, prisons are one of the network locations that we have in mind for international expansion. In a prison context, we see a single purpose, locked-down tablet being lent to prisoners, upon which they can select, customize or create from scratch a meal from a relatively broad range of fresh ingredients, and their cooked meal would be ready to eat within a few minutes. Currently raising seed!

[0] http://8-food.com/

Edit: Genuinely curious why this has 5 downvotes and no comments? It's on topic.
It's set and I just tried to download a free app - and it asked for my password.

It was only yesterday that I entered my password for another free app so it's not just a '30 day expiry' thing.
> Do you think deterrence is ineffective?

When even The Bloody Code[1] didn't stop people from offending, you have to question the effectiveness of future punishment as a reason to not commit a crime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code
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We don't know from the DNA evidence itself when we received Neanderthal DNA other than the fact we know roughly when main-line Neanderthals died out.

There's a huge difference between saying these modern British people have some tiny amount of African DNA and we don't know where it came from, and saying this person right here in this grave from this historical period grew up in Africa. They tell us very different things.
In Go you might have an interface Rectangle":

type Rectangle interface {
SetHeight(int)
SetWidth(int)
GetHeight() int
GetWidth() int
}

Then you could conceivably have a type Square which implements this interface.

The problem is, that clients that use the Rectangle interface make certain reasonable assumptions that turns out not to hold when the Rectangle in question is a Square. Case in point: If you call SetHeight(x) and SetWidth(y), you would assume that GetHeight() and GetWidth() return x and y. But that obviously violates the invariant of a Square if x and y are not equal to each other.

This problem is what LSP aims to address.
The latter half of the article makes me wonder to what extend the cycle count of instructions is specified, or up to a specific implementation.
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The thing is: none of us are (effectively) locked up for life so it is hard for us to judge what his experience feels like.

Also remember that people thought that what we call "white torture" today wasn't torture. Many people today, if you ask them, probably wouldn't think it is torture.
You're not taking this issue in account:

> you can't make your own interfaces that unify standard library types and your types unless you make your types take exactly the same methods with exactly the same signatures (problematic if you want your types to support slightly different functionality, etc.)
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There hasn't been very good news from the Antartic lately.

After seeing the reception Brian Cox received lately by Australian senator Malcom Roberts on an episode of QanA it's pretty clear we have no hope in world leaders doing anything significant about it. There is way too much self-interest and sociopathic behaviour going on by the majority within these circles of governance and "power".

Too many of us are waiting for the UN to just fix this issue; however, we've relied on the UN and it's narratives of change for too long and the truth is, we the masses need to change our own behaviour, it's our responsibility, somewhere we lost our way. I know there are good people working in these organisations and others like it, doing really good things, there just isn't enough of them or they're not having a big enough impact.

It seems pretty clear that democratic governance has severely failed us on this issue and many others in recent years, and as a society I think we need to try to understand why and correct it. Democracy is obviously not a bad idea, but in most western countries, the current configuration seems to be problematic and corrupt. It's not sustainable.

I have a strong feeling it's now too little to late and the only hope now is to take matters into our own hands by ignoring what democratically elected "leaders" are telling us they're doing and start doing it, get our own hands dirty. Divest, install solar panels (decentralisation of power production is important), consume, travel, eat thoughtfully, don't have so many kids etc.

By the look of it, the only way to make it through the madness ahead will be kindness and compassion for the earth, all living things and each other . If not, mother nature will each us a very harsh lesson, I think she is already starting to balance the books.

Unfortunately this storm is not just going to blow over, it would be nice if it would, but it's not going to.
I think that's a fair assessment, but still, it's important to raise the issue sooner rather than later.
It's also because they get to vote, and someday they could vote for communist / socialist / dictatorial redistribution of all wealth.
If a logo can upset you so much, then i don't see how you can even live in this world.
It's surprisingly frequent, though generally short lived.

Legal and profitable mob run businesses are taken over vs shut down then resold once the books are clean. During World War II, Washington seized dozens of companies including railroads, coal mines and, briefly, the Montgomery Ward department store chain. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/business/worldbusiness/13i... Banks are probably the most common but it can also happen in bankruptcy.

Generally ownership is short lived though.
> The problem is, that clients that use the Rectangle interface make certain reasonable assumptions that turns out not to hold when the Rectangle in question is a Square. Case in point: If you call SetHeight(x) and SetWidth(y), you would assume that GetHeight() and GetWidth() return x and y.

I don't know that that's a reasonable assumption, it doesn't work with any fixed-aspect-ratio rectangle (of which square is but one case).

Basically, the issue here is that the interface is terrible and essentially mandates a single concrete type.
Willingness to learn, technology is always evolving and the skills and abilities a programmer has today will likely be outdated in a few years. It’s important to find a programmer who has an interest in following the latest trends and is eager to participate in any continuing education opportunities that are available.
The owner of the shop is arguably also a user, who would be having a not-so-great experience.
> "If a viewer wants to watch, for instance, an animal movie and sends a request to the equipment, it will show the relevant video to the viewer…this is two-way communications," said Kim Jong Min, head of the centre in charge of providing information and technology, according to NK News.

Hong Gildong wants to watch a funny cat video, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed.

Hong Gildong wants to watch an action movie, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed.

Hong Gildong wants to watch an award winning drama, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed.

Hong Gildong wants to watch a movie about a rebel insurrection, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed to entertain him until the delocation squad arrives.

Seriously though, with all the crap that we give to internet companies for gathering data and using it for ad targeting, imagine all the other kinds of "targeting" that could happen.
You're right, and you're also being chronically misunderstood. It's not about "asynchronous" in the sense of "unclocked"; it's more about how incredibly fast processors are if and only if they aren't waiting for something else.

The programmer would like to think of the series of operations involved on a per-connection basis. Whereas from the point of view of the processor a "connection" is not a thing; there is only a stream of incoming message fragments at occasional intervals from the network and I/O subsystem. It can request data from persistent storage by what is effectively snail mail: send a message and wait a few million cycles for it to come back.

So the software must consist of a set of state machines. We can push those up into the operating system and call them threads, or down into the user's code and call them callbacks and continuations. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages, and it's important to understand what they are.

(Possibly the language which does this best is Erlang, although it's not as easy to get started with as node.js. Theorists really overlook the vital metric of "time to hello world" in language learning.)
The US is not a ethnically homogenous society like Norway is. Neither does Norway have a wide spread gang culture like the US has in African American neighbourhoods where even law abiding African Americans that want to have a normal life can't because no one is effectively policing these areas for various reasons.

These people have to put up with living in high crime areas where laws are generally not enforced, most people have no legal jobs and instead criminals and gangs set the rules for everyone.

What makes you believe that what you are doing in your culture is automatically applicable to certain US subcultures?

I can tell you from the experience we had here in Austria and Germany with Arab immigrants that our way of handling such issues does not work at all with them.

While a typical German is afraid of consequences should he get into conflict with the law and will stop and rethink what he is doing an Arab immigrant often wont.

That's because they are used to a much more cruel enforcement of laws, thus they regard our way of punishing them as a mere slap on the wrist and will continue with their behaviour.

You would be amazed if you knew how many of them got convicted 6,7,8 or even more times within the first year of arrival.

Just look at whats going on in neighbouring Sweden at the moment. Does this kind of liberal law enforcement work there?
It's interesting how Americans act horrified at the word collectivism, when a market is nothing if not a collectivist decision making process.
Making bail a multiple of something like gross total income and remove the need for the judge to set a dollar amount should help. So basically instead of saying "Bail is set at $50000" the judge can just say "bail is set at X month income or Y% of net worth" without having to take any consideration of the accused financial situation into account . Of course you'll probably need some minimums and few other tweaks, but on the whole it feels like a better method.
Please quit branding us under one umbrella. Many of us don't like the current situation. Even those of us on the right (Libertarian) find the system appalling.

This is purely a power play and money machine of the political class (the true one percent). Prisons, if not the whole police state, are all products of the political class. It is there means to spread money to constituencies that they favor, punish those they don't like, and put away people they don't want to deal with. Oh, it also makes tons of money for local, state, and national, politicians.

The idea we put people in prison for drug use, financial improprieties, and such, never fails to depress me. Prison should be only for violent offenders. People who willingly harm others should be locked up. Then they should be prevented from harming fellow prisoners and also stopped from forming gangs/violent associations within.

However that later issue is overlooked because it feeds the cycle. Prisons make many people worse and that sends them right back to the system to make even more money.

tl;dr Prisons are profit centers of the political class.
It doesn't sound like he believes it one way or another. He's just saying it's time to hedge bets by pushing the next generation to look for new frameworks. That is a long term endeavor, and he's just admitting that he's too far into his career to accomplish much in that direction. At this point in his career with a Nobel under his belt, he's probably doing more mentoring type duties than purely research.
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