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Nope, neoliberalism is not what he means. Neoliberalism is about pro-banks, pro-corporate, pro-small-government economic ideas.

Wikipedia: Neoliberalism (neo-liberalism) refers primarily to the 20th century resurgence of 19th century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.

What the author refers to is "liberals" as in "liberal studies". Political correctness, victimhood, etc mostly, but also how the same things are used by the conservative.

He does start with a 2009 example of being accused as a "communist", but the gist of his article is not about the same ideological origin of accussations, but about the emergence of this whole new climate where you can't hurt anyone's "feelings", etc.
What's really odd is to think that there are some animals (whales) that had fins, evolved them into feet and then evolved them into fins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans#Early_e...
One thing that the internet has removed is the endless debates / discussions / disagreements between friends and family about different facts. We just now google the facts and the argument is over as soon as it starts.
I doubt your skills are so specific to the internet that you would be unemployable in a universe without it.
Thank you!

About your last equation, wouldn't J/m^2/s^2 come out as kg? 7.9E2 would be very low then, no?

I wonder how much energy is stored electromagnetically and through nuclear forces though. These things are supposed to have extremely strong EM fields and I imagine every piled up nucleus like a little atomic spring that has been depressed as much as possible. Wouldn't most of the stored energy be in there?
Fact: Journals don't pay for peer review
I've had some hard times porting Kivy to the Raspberry PI 3 on Raspbian. It is a decent toolkit, but I'm not so sure on the ease of cross-platform.
This is egregious and unnecessary, IMHO. If you're someone who wants a refund, request one and get one. The lack of automatic processing here is annoying, sure, but they have clearly provided a method to get your money back.
Field Guide to NYC’s Antennaes, Wiring and Cameras
You're joking, but the Visa application does ask this already: "Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities?”
The usual place:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/solar-panel-12v-50w-poly-2-pc...
Similarly i recall my mom using a payphone at some diner during a summer trip to call the grandparents back home.

Then some years latter dad got a mobile phone (a brick of a Nokia) that was used sparingly for the same task.
There are smelting bugs in the game where melting down certain items produces more metal than it takes to make them.

That and hatch covers (building destroyers can't destroy on different z-axis) makes it really hard to lose in Fun ways. Most of my fortresses die from FPS death.
There is. It's called the PE (Professional Engineer) license. Today, however, it mostly only applies to civil engineers. Back in the day, if someone wanted a bridge or building (especially for the government) designed, you had to be a PE to get the job. It required a certain amount of hours of work after college and an exam. Doesn't really apply to software though.

--When I got my first job as a software engineer, my dad, who's a civil engineer PE said, "I thought you were going to be an engineer, but it sounds like you're just a computer programmer." :-)
Storing a year of gas is just stupidity, even for a crazy survivalist.

Less insane use cases for generators are a week or two, mostly to keep heat, well pumps, and refrigeration up. A generator for that purpose is about $3k installed, and goes up with output.

The off grid use case is a fringe thing, because most if not all states require grid connections for residential construction.
I'm very interested in reading more about your last point. Where did you hear about this shakeout? Will it affect companies had invest in solar projects like Wunder?
> From Charlottenburg to Tegel to Friedrichshain and Neukölln? I can't even guess what they have in common

I'm not the OP, but in common they have nothing much really, but beggars can't be choosers (which is the main issue)

They're usually accessible and are popular with expats (except Tegel, I wouldn't go there)
Added to that, there seems to be real-time tagging of people and objects.
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> If you're someone who wants a refund

This isn't about wanting a refund, this is about what is right and wrong.

Udemy must not keep money where they know the money has been obtained by fraudulent means. It's not even slightly grey. It is clear what the correct course of action is.
Many places divested transmission from generation. The transmission people don't care, and the generators want to maximize return on their assets.
Yes indeed. Libraries. Walking around the stacks looking for books in college and not necessarily knowing what would be in the book other than what was briefly described by the card catalog. You couldn't wikipedia a topic, so you had to really know how to scan a books contents and decide if it was worth the time to read. It was such a huge time commitment to learn anything at all from books back then. I love learning but I don't think that books/libraries were a better way to find information than the internet is. Every book should be digitized in my opinion.
If you've granted contacts permission to the Facebook app, it could've identified using the phone number.
One of the comments in the linked thread suggests that he might have picked up a different definition of the word "homeopathy" in India, one that includes actual herbal medicine in addition to the nonsense dilution thing.
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The Justice System That Lets Executives Escape Their Crimes
Forensics is good enough to narrow the time down enough to get a good start.
Thanks for posting. You made me discover ledger and it's great
If ING is able to suggest Twitter/WhatsApp as communications mediums instead of email, then it means they are either incompetents, or it means that they are doing it on purpose, due to Twitter/WhatsApp conversations being superficial and the services very volatile. Maybe they don't want you to store your conversations forever in an easily searchable archive. Maybe they don't want you writing long and clear messages describing your problem.

Either way, it's time to switch banks. And it's a good thing that you told me about it, as in Romania we also have ING and was considering then for my business account.
For GPL software? You just ask the EFF or FSF.

They like to destroy idiotic companies.
For the benefit of younger generations, here's everything you need to know about the pre-internet era:

You didn't miss anything. Everything was strictly worse. Much, much worse. It makes me shudder to even think about any of it. Count yourselves lucky that you didn't have to live through those dark ages.

If you ever feel the urge say something like "but the internet gave us mass surveillance", just stop and think wether you would really complain about hospital waiting times to someone who had to have surgery before the invention of anesthetics ;-)
Now everyone see's themselves as an informed authority, after a few minutes googling and reading a wikipedia page.

I think today's self-proclaimed informed authority compares pretty well to yesterday's hobbyists, at least. Access to information today is just so much better than it used to be. I've got a passing interest in ancient history, and I own a number of books, but I'm hardly an expert. This morning I watched a YouTube video about the origins of cavalry and how long it took after the domestication of horses before anyone tried riding into battle on the backs of the horses. Chariots, on the other hand, were widely used much earlier. Just from that 20 minute video I learned a lot about an important part of history, and I know that if I wanted to I could spend a few hours, right from home, learning far more about it than I could have gotten from days or weeks of research in libraries when I was growing up.
I have to agree with you on that one. Phones did change our lives in a day but internet was like a whole new world for me. It's nice to know you can find literally anything of your interest in just 2 seconds. If people used it more for exchanging and sharing knowledge rather than boosting their ego with social media the world would be so much better.
Nobody I know uses whatsapp.
Everyone has this thing called a phone they run whatsapp on, I assume you can ask for this weird old thing called a phone number.

I will double check, but I think the setup and configuration is already complete for most people's phones, so no additional install needed.
Bot tech controls drug release when needed
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I think I have to reluctantly agree. Collaboration is a huge part of a developer's professional life.
Chinese PV are made in a country where electrcity is mainly produced with coal. All construction carbon emission taken into acount, they need around 30 years of use to get carbon neutral, generally more than their expected life time. This is not sustainable at all yet.
We have chosen Qt for our new cross-platform app (Android, Windows, MacOS) which we've developed for the past 1.5 years and have overall not regretted it. Doing UIs with QML and Qt Quick is so much faster than Android's XML based system and gives you a lot of flexibility.

However there's a bit of a UI rendering overhead, although I understand they made it faster with Qt 5.7. And OpenGL integration is more complicated than doing it natively since you have to understand Qt's UI scene graph system and the way Qt is threading things.

But overall it's been a good choice so far.
Curious to know if the parent poster was alive before the internet was available to consumers?

It's hard to get over just how isolated information was before the internet. If you missed a sports score, for example, unless you heard the result fortuitously, you had to wait and read it in the newspaper the next day. CAN YOU IMAGINE?

If you wanted to know something relatively obscure, you had to travel to a library and look it up in a dozen books. Sure, phones provide an additional sort of last mile for that sort of thing, but the difference before and after the internet is almost impossible to communicate.

Can you imagine "missing the news" on the TV?
Flow batteries have two basic problems.

One is that they deal badly with usage intermittency - one must be always charging or discharging them, you can't just store them.

The second is just, where do I buy one? Nobody seems to make them, no idea why. Maybe this one solves itself when solar gets widespread, or maybe there's some government hand in that and it won't be available when we need it.
I believe the FSF only sues over code the FSF itself owns the copyright to, rather than acting as a general GPL-enforcement agency, since their lawyers feel themselves on more solid footing in that situation.
> and the ussr. despite everything. destroyed us global military equipement sales.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/world/middleeast/us-foreig...

"Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals."
That seems great at 50 cents per watt, but the shipping is another 91 cents per watt.

Good place to start looking though.
> doesn't work at all like cons

clojure.lang.Cons follows what CL's cons does with exactly one deviation: cdr must implement clojure.lang.ISeq. The practical effect of this is that you don't get a Cons cell as a primitive building block, but you don't need that because you have deftype (or one of the many higher level interfaces in clojure, which tend to be faster anyway since deftype will end up using java fields for storage, which the JVM understands very well). I don't have to build up my own alist using a list of pairs containing keys and values because I just use a map. Further, when I'm using deftype, if I implement the right interfaces, the core clojure sequence functions like conj, first, rest, map, filter, reduce, etc will all work on my custom type, without me inventing a namespace worth of custom implementations for those.

> violates homoiconicity

Clojure code isn't written using Lists, Vectors, Strings, Maps, Keywords, and Symbols? I guess I'll stop writing macros then. No clue how they ever managed to work.

> fundamental guarantee of the reader

AFAICT, clojure's printer makes no such contractual guarantee here. FWIW, neither does CL (witness the thousands of subtly (and not so subtly) incompatible read tables floating around). In clojure, the printer, out of the box, prints values in such a way that they can be read back in in a way that is `clojure.core/=`. It's unreasonable for them to be `clojure.core/identical?` (which is essentially asking if they are the same memory as before (this isn't even something that Common Lisp or Scheme does, mostly because it's pretty insane unless you statically map out all of your memory)). I mention out of the box because you can change the printer and supply additions to the object tag reader (or even to throw out clojure's reader and use one of the reimplmentations as a library).
Their pricing fell a bit decisive as well:

$2.99

and a bit smaller: "per month billed annually"

I know breaking it down to the month is popular, but it makes 0 sense for me if the only way I can pay is anually and there is no way to pay monthly (even for a premium).

Sorry, but I'm now over to Dashlane (clear $39.99/year)
Apologetic Hacker? Not If You Peek at His Emails
So you don't support the enforcement of property rights? Since that involves throwing non-violent people in prison after all.

(And to predict a common argument, I do not consider taking someone else's property without the use of force to be a violent act.)
> Why is food so much cheaper? Why is land so much cheaper? Why are utilities so much cheaper?

Don't forget about currency manipulation. People in China are buying those things in yuan and then to do the comparison you're converting it to dollars at the manipulated exchange rate.
Udemy is profiting from piracy here in a way not unlike some Torrent sites. This is not some minor thing ethically or legally.
Not nearly as maddening as DJ Mustards "Hey hey hey hey" sample.

https://youtu.be/kGVrCIzzoro
There are two things that needs to come in western pop music to kind of renew it : oriental tuning ( quarters tones, like you can hear in indian or chineese music), but this one may take a while because ot actually sound like a bad note if you mix it with our scales. And the second is non conventional time signatures, meaning different than 3/4 or 4/4.

The only popular song i know which has a different beat is "money" fromp pink floyd, which is a 7/4 and sounds good. So it is possible to use at least this new time signature.
Yeah the picture thing frustrates me, my parents used to have a photo drawer and albums with all the important stuff, now its just facebook.

I remember her talking about them as if they were the one thing she would save in a fire, but I doubt she has ever looked at an old facebook photo more than once.
I can imagine somebody in the 1400s talking about being the last generation to remember life before books, and what a freeing time it was where people actually had to talk with each other to get information.
This is the case when attackers don't get access to the database itself - imagine they were able to listen to connections between users and front-end servers, and extracted authentication information. This would only concern users connecting during a specific timeframe.

In this post for instance, they indicate that attackers got 'sync users’ passwords' while storing only 'encrypted/hashed data'.

Other possibilities: they accessed a partial backup (or prod data used in dev), a caching system, a message broker (Kafka)...
Clojure's most recent builds include "spec". http://clojure.org/guides/spec
Piracy can be a convenience/market-failure issue, but it can also be a theft/moral issue. There are plenty of people out there who simply love taking stuff for free. If they could steal food from a grocery store, they would, but they can't, so they settle for pirating digital content instead. I've met people first hand who don't even try to justify their behavior - they just laugh and tell me they like free stuff.

Regarding your comment about deadweight loss: Yes, in a perfect marketplace, any product with a marginal cost of 0 should be priced at $0. But this ignores the fact that numerous products, including books and software, have very significant upfront costs that vastly exceed their marginal costs. If everyone pirated them on the basis of your economic theory, those industries would completely collapse.
> Each user's voting power will then be scaled based on whether they vote for good stories or bad ones.

I guess they gave up on that? Would be interesting to hear how it panned out.
Humans have an innate need for stress & conflict. Crime has gone way down, to the point that most fears are unwarranted, yet people invent even more fears to be uncomfortable about.
Yes, I was, see another reply below. "The Internet" in the pre-Web form I first encountered it was quite different from what you describe, and close to useless at answering your questions.

Also, Teletext was a thing, and it solved the "missing news" problem pretty well, as did TV and radio.
Does Predix track cf-release, to your knowledge?

We track it on PWS, meaning we're upgrading the whole platform live every week or two. So I'm surprised it's unstable for you.
In my experience there are plenty of US shops happy to get work on a few specific widgets, typically by having a CAGE code. They aren't necessarily incompetent in the act of making a specific part, but they aren't optimized in a production sense.

A quick checklist for sniffing out shops:
1. Are they ISO? Getting through an ISO audit says something about the facility.
2. How much WIP is sitting around on a visit? With the best vendors I've worked with you'd swear they didn't do anything until you see their shipping lanes. Low WIP and busy shipping is another positive.
3. Ask to see their rework area. If they have one and SOPs for handling rework, that is a positive
4. Ask to see their documentation for current parts. PPAP, CoC, etc.
You really need to read/watch 1984, Brazil, and Brave New World this week.
JavaFX is amazing, but I'm not sure how it holds up when an app gets complex.
I wasn't aware of this change, so I read the entire linked support thread. Although the company responders did some nice verbal gymnastics, I think it is pretty obvious that this is just mainly just a money grab on behalf of AgileBits.

Additionally, several comments implied that AgileBits was hiding the option to buy a standalone license, so I looked at their pricing page[1]. I have to say I agree; it is not listed as an option alongside the two subscription options. In fact, you have to scroll all the way down, to the end of the FAQ, to even find a mention of it.

[1]https://1password.com/sign-up/

I'll concede that a subscription option might be better for some users, especially those using it on multiple devices, but I think AgileBits should not be hiding the regular license option.
Mobile phones gave us information about our friends right now.

The internet gave us information about everything, across all time and all places (barring the disconnected and undiscovered.) And that includes all information about our friends that they share. Often it's what they are doing in the moment, with hints about who they are, how they live, what they believe and enjoy.

Before the internet, all of this information was an infrequent but novel discovery. Often, it was personal and unique. Now, the world is homogenized, and discovery is constant, but trivial.
Playing devils advocate here:

Reviewers themselves aren't paid, but the publishers do pay editors to do preliminary filtering, select reviewers, collect their comments and decide what to do with them.

Now that is relatively little work for the comparatively extortionate prices they charge.
You can also wrap the reactjs web application in in Electron (http://electron.atom.io/), which supports Mac, Windows and Linux.
The Honda VTM-4 system is quite good in it's intended operating environment - which is operation during winter weather. It uses electromagnetic clutches in the rear differential housing to direct torque to the rear wheels with left/right independence. This gives you the effect of a locking differential, up to the friction limit of the clutch material. There's no center differential in the system, and the front differential is open (but Honda includes a TCS, which is cheap because once you have the ABS sensors & pump, it's just software).

Even during good weather on dry roads, the system has benefits by engaging the clutches when accelerating from a stop, so all four wheels are driven when you need to get going. The clutches are disengaged after about 20 mph so you get the fuel economy of a FWD vehicle.
I see nobody mentioned Juce. It is pretty neat if you like C++
Seems a bit of a stretch from "crime happened in the past and people wrote about it in fiction" to "crime is fundamentally necessary for our societal development"...
Don't listen to this.

If we follow this author's lead then AI will turn on us and that will be the end.

This is garbage: "Not only your new technologies, but your cool new ideas are also probably very short-lived. Sure, you might have millions of users already, and even CNN is discussing your innovation. But in 5 years from now, I doubt if someone still remembers you. Do you remember which were most popular apps 5 years back?"

New ideas, even the ones that go away in five years move us forward.

I say collaborate, produce voluminous tech products, increase the range of options, perspectives and opportunity in any discipline, tech, whatever.

If you focus on the money, fame, or don't value that which you are passionate about you are missing the real secret in life. Fulfillment is found in serving, in being of value to others. I think it's why Hacker News exists. Yes, there are benefits that go along with it, but the reasons to do it and maintain it is passion and the fulfillment of being of value to others. Pardon if this sounds too preachy or self-righteous. I will post a public apology if an HN founder explains it was profit motivated.