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I encourage you to read the wikipedia article on the settlement of the Americas, mostly because it's fun[0].

The landbridge theory has its supporters, but what's really interesting is the gaps in knowledge, and other theories about multiple waves of settlement, or settlement directly from seafaring peoples.

It's really just a fascinating mix of fields. You do yourself a disservice by reducing the settlement of the americas to 2 sentences like that.

I do believe the claim of less genetic diversity amongst indigenous Americans is correct. The excellent book "1491" even discusses how this could have contributed to the spread of disease: less genetic diversity meant less overall population protection.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas
Seriously, Dell has no excuse for how ridiculously buried this information is. Let's take these terms and stick them where they actually belong, right next to all the other crap they make me agree to EVERY time I purchase something:

http://i.imgur.com/MTOujSd.jpg

Was that so hard, Dell? Was it?
> If banks freely set rates as players in a competitive market based on prevailing inflation rates, demand for money, etc, that would be the "market rate" of money.

But, they do.

Of course, "inflation rate" is in large part a product of monetary policy.

> Now it very well may be that zero would be the market rate of money, and the Fed is doing a great job of estimating it.

The Fed sets interest rate targets, and then directly takes action which affect those things which you suggest should be the inputs by which the market sets rates, which the market then actually takes as inputs, and sets the actual interest rates that are levied in practice.

> But to say the notion of artificial rates has no meaning is a little odd.

The notion of artificial rates has no meaning, because the things you suggest should be inputs in "natural" rates are not products of nature, but themselves "artificial" in that they are in many ways influenced by policy, and the first of them is not merely substantially influenced by monetary policy, its one of the two main things (alongside, but usually ahead of, employment) that monetary policy is aimed at controlling.

And, as a consequence, what you describe as the mechanism for "market rates" as opposed to "artificial rates" is the predominant way by which central bank interest rate targets are achieved.
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A Mexican. For instance: Louis CK is a Mexican. Except around people that think the word "Mexican" is derogatory word...in which case you pretend that people from Mexico don't exist because that hurts their feelings.
Civil war was fought over Slavery as an economic system and with layers of morality in between. You cannot sanitize the Civil War from Slavery. They are intricately weaved issues, only slavery no. But Slavery is the big bad central theme.
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words like 'philanthropic' and mission statements like 'promote equality' are being bandied about but come on: this is zuck's VC arm investing in a potentially profitable startup, no different than any other funding deal. please stop insulting us by claiming this is for the good of humanity blah blah.
> by keeping rates artificially low, central banks are causing asset prices to increase, making investment in productive endeavors less profitable

Central bank cash is agnostic as to whether you invest it in store-of-wealth assets or productive assets, so it's businesses and investors that make the decision to invest in the former instead of the latter. It seems silly for the OP to blame the central banks in this matter.
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> a programmer should not assume the ordering of the keys

The Python community has many inexperienced programmers, even non-technical people. Particularly, it's so beginner friendly by making it very, very easy to get started with the REPL, etc. A lot of these programmers aren't even going to look at the docs and even if they do, might not understand them.
The US is not ‘handing over’ the internet
> Why only human? Why not the well-being of all conscious creatures?

The human race as a whole is still comfortable with snuffing out conscious human lives (death sentence, wars, 'collateral damage', etc). I think the other creatures should join the line...
noscript solves it for this site at least, since the script which does it appears to live on rgstatic.net
What's the point of authoring an article like this and not including samples so we can listen to it?
I dunno, I can see some daylight between skilled carpentry and slapping around some cute CSS.
I think it's normal to ship back a non-faulty product that I realised was the wrong one...

I've done it with expensive routers/switches from Cisco and SFP+'s from various vendors.

Never had any issues either. Cisco even cross-shipped the gear we wanted.

Although I think corporate account vs one-offs make the difference here ;-)
It's not the reason for censorship. Facebook may offer parental control and display explicit content warnings to serve this audience. After all, people who find nudity offensive may limit their subscriptions to accounts which do not post it - it's not that they are forced to look at it.
Perhaps I'm using the wrong word, but by milder winters, I meant warmer winters.

The article you link to points out how increased moisture in the atmosphere will lead to more extreme snow storms in below-freezing areas, but acknowledges that winters will be warmer in general (just not enough warmer to get those below-freezing areas above freezing, which would result in rainstorms instead or snow storms).
Node v7 will be out sometime in October (and it will have this version of V8), so we'll find out soon enough.
How is it possibly fair to demand repayment for two decades of "excessive fees" which are not defined in the law and were only clarified by the EU in the last two years. Unless I'm missing some crucial information, this just looks like a shakedown of an American company.
(Kinda gross Hannibal spoilers below)

There's an episode where a man's skin is flayed off his back and turned into metaphorical wings, which are then used to hang him from the ceiling.

In depicting this from behind, you could originally see the man's buttocks. NBC censors objected, so the "fix" was to digitally add a massive amount of dripping blood to cover them up.

The absurdity of that has always stuck with me.
This shows how important for Fintech companies to care for regulations and compliance as equally or more than just focusing on the technology side.
It was unclear to me if the criticism post and the reposting of the image were separate or together.
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Apple Pay needs to do a whole lot more than just replace credit cards
>git is bloated, and certainly anything but simple. It's also arguably stupid in a lot of ways.

Amen. I have to confess that I actually prefer Mercurial to git; it just feels simpler to use.
You don't get it. Singular "America" in its common usage in English to refer to the US is absolutely not a politically loaded term, at least not in the sense that you are saying. Your assertion to the contrary because you were taught differently in a non-Anglophone country does not change that. Language cannot be divorced from culture.
Do you have any examples of the kind of board game inspired video game you have in mind? When I think about a video game for this, I imagine a RTS game which would be somewhat similar to Age of Empires II and Empire Earth II in the graphical look and in the mechanics.
The first description in what you pointed to says "could signify the beginning of a speciation event". It doesn't say the result is a new species.

The second description concerns a pairing between two hybrids which started a new lineage. It uses the term "lineage" instead of saying there is a new species.

> These two examples make it clear that the division between species is not a black-and-white issue. Rather, speciation occurs as many different sorts of traits (physical, behavioral, and genetic) diverge from one another along a continuum. Because of this, biologists sometimes disagree about where to draw the line between incipient species — about when a division has become deep enough to warrant a new species name. Whatever we choose to call them, these two cases clearly illustrate how a lineage can split and begin to make its way down two separate evolutionary paths.

Regarding ring species, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species says "Currently, there are four known forms of life that appear to match the definition of a ring species". Frankly, I thought there were more. It would suggest that birds don't tend to rapidly form ring species.

> You do not need a 1000 generations to speciate.

Are either of those two cases described in the literature as a new species, or are they given as a subspecies, or variant, or fertile hybrid, or some other term?
OP also submitted this link to a discussion site where people don't believe criticism is forbidden or may only be given on the submitter's terms.
> It's a walled garden, and it's their walled garden, and if you don't like it you're welcome to leave.

That is not what happens in a monopoly. We have old laws but the spirit of monopoly fighting is that they can't do whatever they want.
> Programmers should not try to access memory beyond the end of an array. They should not attempt to add ints and strings.

In Python, both of these raise an error to make it very explicit and obvious to the programmer, while this implicitly ordered keys bit can't.
we (mindmup) moved from Heroku to s3+cloudfront for web pages and assets and AWS lambda for backend functionality, works like a charm.
How about we allow annotation of text with prosody cues? Mark the words you want stressed. We already use question and exclamation marks.
What? No. You don't use Chef to run Vagrant to run Kubernetes to set up a container to run your app. That doesn't make any sense, and makes me wonder if you are lashing out simply because you don't understand what these technologies actually do.
Only because it's a luxury good that everyone thinks they deserve. Cities that don't expect you to have a car (NY, cities in Europe, most of Seattle) don't really have the same problem, because nobody has a car. And it's not like this doesn't have any precedent. We've mostly car-less cities work before many times.

EDIT: Are you able to reply to my other post now? I think HN has a timer that limits how often you can reply, but I could be wrong.
I've been thinking about creating a dev focused version of Duet (http://duetapp.com) for a while. Any current Jira users have time to help me figure out what I should add/change to make it a good Jira alternative? I'm a solo developer, so sometimes it's hard to get insight into how teams work on dev projects and some outside input could be very valuable...
I said nothing about what the parent believes, i said that there are religious groups that have an ideology i find narcissistic at best.

besides that gp didnt say 'i prefer humans above other animals' dont change what they said to suit your needs; they said:

>the whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness.

Thats a significantly stronger statement than you allude to
Yes, I know that :-)
Sorry for being unclear in my comments!!
To some extent it is - sites with better UX will tend to become more popular. I agree that animated radio buttons is probably going to be a bad UX decision in the majority of cases.

The reason I mentioned its stars and upvotes is precisely to point out that some people may have a valid use case for this, and you can't rule it out completely for every radio button on every website.
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To be fair, I have not seen or used that link, but I will take note of it for the future - thank you, that's very helpful.

I should keep notes on specifics, so I apologize that I can't highlight a particular thing that I've been frustrated by in a given moment. I'll certainly say that the documentation is improving.

As a general item, I think my biggest struggle has been hitting a wall with the documentation - there are some things that are left almost as exercises to the reader, especially getting into more advanced topics (how does one do rolling upgrades or canary deployments in more esoteric situations, how might one do load balancing properly in a master-slave style configuration versus something more round-robin oriented, etc.)

And I don't like to levy a complaint without acknowledging that anything opensource is ripe for improvement by contribution, but my professional situation prevents me from doing so. Trust that I would love nothing more than to help and not just make an empty observation or moan about it.
> Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan.

Is not this a case? People immigrated to america from many continents.
Yeah this is tricky. I'm not a huge fan of all these distributed file systems like EBS, NFS or others - That doesn't make much sense for most DBs.

I prefer to have a DB which is "cluster-aware", in this case, you can tag your hosts/Nodes and use Node affinity to scale your DB service so that it matches the number of Nodes which are tagged - Then you can just use the a hostDir directory as your volume (so the data will be stored directly on your tagged hosts/Nodes) - This ensures that dead DB Pods will be respawned on the same hosts (and be able to pickup the hostDir [with all the data for the shard/replica] from the previous Pod which had died).

If your DB engine is cluster-aware, it should be able to reshard itself when you scale up or down.

I don't think it's possible for a DB to not be cluster-aware anyway - Since each DB has a different strategy for scaling up and down.
There is no reason to make them tiny: http://solairegeneration.com/project/rutgers-university/

You just build the solar panel mounts like you would usually build lighting mounts (big concrete bases).

Height is less of a concern in some parking lots (where it's virtually all cars)
Someone elsewhere in this thread complained about the NFS experience with k8s. I know OpenShift contributed some or all of that code so does it improve the NFS experience as a layer on top of k8s?
I wonder if any aliens out there have taken pictures of the real deal yet.
The problem is more the definition of the term, rather than availability of adequate data. A lot of biologists (and humans!) grew up thinking that "species" had a clear and obvious definition. One result is that their views are very entrenched and people don't realize that there's even a serious definitional problem at hand affecting a critical area of biology.
> check the docs (where?)

Thankfully that's more obvious in Python.
Usually the same product is more expensive when buying as a consumer, presumably because of the extra protections they get.
It'll be interesting to see once "true" voice emulators become main stream how it's exploited for good and evil.

Reminds me of "virtual" kidnapping scams where an attacker knows the victims phone will be unreachable and the attacker calls a relative demanding they wire funds or the victim will be killed. Attacker plays back a voice sample they've captured from the victim that makes it sound like they're in trouble an need help; basically the attacker calls the victim and say something like "May I help you?" repeatively until the victim responds with something like "No, I don't need your help!" an panicked voice - which is then edited to say "Help! I need your help! Help!"
This news has spread and seems to cause a great deal of confusion. I wish the headline had been "Python dict faster [because of some subtle details ... don't look behind the curtain]"
Social networks pose a really interesting problem to the usual capitalist model, where competition (y'know, theoretically) ensures the best outcomes for consumers over the long run. If you build a definitely better automobile than General Motors, even only slightly, you can compete and bring the price down/quality of life up for the customer. If you build a definitively better social network than Facebook... no one cares. They're only on Facebook because their friends are. You need to vastly exceed their experience before they'd even consider it.

When the normal checks of a single business dominating a field fail, we need to find new solutions, especially when that field is communication. We don't want a future in which Facebook is non-democratic, but everyone gets their media from it and can't see a good reason to leave. I would hope that over the long term, we figure out public ownership of social media, and enshrine control and understanding of the systems that bring you information as an important right.
I've known a few people involved in Bitmaker.

We had someone apply who completed Bitmaker, and she applied for a development role. I work in developer relations. She was initially rejected for a developer position because she wasn't experienced enough. She caught my eye though, and I hired her on as a developer relations intern. She quickly became my team's dedicated developer, and built us a lot of stuff to make our lives easier. I think she was really green coming out of Bitmaker, but we were able to provide her an environment where she could get acquainted with working in a larger organization and get some real world experience coding professionally while not in a developer role. She quickly became incredible, and moved off my team to be a junior developer. She's now a senior developer after a few years, and is absolutely killing it here. I'm super proud of her, and thrilled we took a chance on her.

Sample size of one, I know. And she really is exceptional, so I'm sure she would have been successful with or without Bitmaker, so take this with a large heap of salt.
Sure, but they're regulated differently, and the parent seemed to assume it should be regulated as a media outlet
>Mastercard is alleged to have done this for 16 years between 1992 and 2008 ... Two years ago, the European Union capped the fees retailers pay at 0.2 percent for debit cards and 0.3 percent for credit cards.

Seems the EU is getting rather fond of the retroactive law change shakedown, at least when it comes to US companies.
Wow!! That is amazing!
That paper has some serious issues.

On the practical side, the prisoners were ordered. Judges tried to break for meals after processing a whole 'batch' of prisoners from a specific prison. Within a prison block, those with lawyers went before those representing themselves, and lawyers also ordered their cases however they wanted. As you might expect, prisoners having counsel fared better than those without.

Additionally, they measured "time elapsed from a meal" in two ways: actual wall time (in hours/minutes/seconds/etc), and case order. Both measures were individually significant, but when both were put into a model, only the ordinal one remained significant. This suggests--to me, at least--that the result isn't due to a physiological process: blood sugar levels vary continuously and don't "jump" from case to case.

There was a rebuttal letter in PNAS shortly after it was published.

Edit: HobbyJogger covered most of this first. Thanks!
On the fluff note: If this system is called WaveNet. The next weather prediction system based on deep learning should be called SkyNet.
There's a simple path to change things here.

Start criminally charging Facebook for every criminal act they fail to remove. If they're playing the censor, then they need to be punished when they fail in that role.

The other choice, is not to censor anything, other than by the requirements of the law. Like the telephone system does.
People have already mentioned it, but since I made the original comment, I'll pile on and say that Mercurial was (well, still is, but it's out of fashion now) awesome. It matches Git on most axes and blows it out of the water when it comes to usability and "don't shoot yourself in the foot"-ishness.

Brushing aside some relatively minor differences, Mercurial is very similar to Git, except that it was designed by people that don't have an all-consuming disdain for all of humankind.
Same in Brazil... You have 7 days to return anything you buy from the internet. For any reason.
FYI, Mervyn King was the Governor of the Bank of England for 10 years.
Yes they are a species, i think you are working on a different definition of a species than the accepted common one.

Also don't rely on wikipedia for accurate information about many subjects, it's ok but it's far from perfect or being technically correct.

As for the rest of your argument that's semantics and it clearly misses the conclusion of that article:

"While we can't know the fates of these lineages, directly observing such divergences in real time highlights the fact that we don't always need to look into the distant past or far off future to find examples of speciation in action. Evolution is occurring all around us. We just need to learn where and how to look for it."

We have examples of speciation and divergence in real time over a handful of generations, a species at the end is a group which is capable and practices interbreeding amongst its members but does not breed with others.
Another reason, possible related to all of the above: if the USD sharply declines in value for some reason, its trade deficits with many export-dependent economies (e.g. China) will also decline and perhaps even become surpluses. Those who run such economies /really/ don't want that to happen.
People seem to lose sight of that: corporations are REQUIRED to be as ruthless as they can legally get away with, or they are literally in violation of the law in terms of making money for their owners.

The law is the ONLY thing that curbs their bad behavior, other than publicity so bad that it (temporarily, until forgotten) causes a sales drop.

Yeah, I'd like to see more corporate death sentences handed out, as well. It may or may not deter any other bad corps, but it would cut down on second offenses :-)
Well the Vice President of the Confederacy [1] and the declaration of causes published by many of the states made it pretty clear that it was about slavery.

[1] "The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions--African slavery as it exists among us--the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution [...] The general opinion of the men of that day [Revolutionary Period] was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution [slavery] would be evanescent and pass away [...] Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."
Of course criticism is not forbidden - if it was, then I would be flagging these comments for deletion. Instead, I am criticising your comments, and that is also not forbidden nor only allowed on your terms. It works both ways.
> I don't know if it's so much as collective thin-skinnedness as it is that diversity is such a cornerstone of our society that we're forced to deal with the tensions it creates on a constant basis

I don't think that argument holds: Canada is a pretty diverse place but I don't think there are simmering/barely-contained tensions there as much as in the US.

I think a lot of the tension results from specific 'environments'; in reverse chronological order: the "southern strategy", Jim Crow laws and ultimately chattel slavery. For most of its history, the prevailing, unquestioned belief was that one race was inherently superior. It will take several generations to rollback that mindset back to any significant degree