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> Also, aren't they the same planes and seats as decades ago?

> Early jet planes like Boeing's 707 had 17-inch seats

> Now, cost-conscious airlines are moving to lighter 17-inch-wide seats on their Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliners and 18-inch seats for A350s.

If anything, we're just going back to the older seat width after enjoying a few extra inches on the non-low cost carriers; Sure they're adding more rows but the seats themselves are just as wide (if not more) than what they were decades ago.
And the government just takes all your private information without any terms of service.
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Journalists are private citizens who can have preferred candidates. Why can't they donate to them, just as you or I would?
Trumpbots are drowning out other voices in a torrent of tweets
I believe they used perforce, and switched to an internal tool called Piper, which has ACLs.

I presume that all employees install custom software that work in a way similar to NFS — a distributed file system that avoids having to download everything locally.
It kind of depends. I live in Illinois, and I pay about 12 cents per KWH. A huge proportion of the baseload is generated by nuclear power in Illinois, which is incredibly inexpensive. Peaking power is provided with fossil fuels, such as natural gas, which is much, much more expensive. It takes a long time to ramp up or down nuclear plants, but the utility is pretty good at matching demand, so electricity remains inexpensive as a whole.

The question of whether our power will continue to be inexpensive is brought up often. The nuclear plants are slowly being decommissioned, and there are vocal factions against all of the replacement options. The barriers to constructing a new nuclear plant are substantial, but people are also opposed to the construction of coal plants as well. There is a strong movement for renewable power generation. Illinois is a great area to generate wind energy, but wind is more expensive than nuclear and also requires a greater amount of peaking plants because of the variable nature of the wind, etc. All those extra peaking plants cost a lot of money, even if they sit idle 99% of the time.

Illinois is way too flat for hydroelectric, but we have a few pumped hydro storage facilities. They aren't very large, and a few of the pumped hydro facilities are only designed to consume power to use up extra baseload power when the supply is expected to outstrip demand.
This says different: https://www.oregon.gov/energy/pages/oregons_electric_power_m...

33.65% is coal.
I have done SFO-DEL 3 times in last 6 months and on all 6 journeys, the plane was completely full - only one or two seats empty in economy. Half of the in-seat entertainment was broken (bad remotes/hung screens/broken USB ports) still people preferred a 15 hour journey over a connection, so I can attest to this first-hand
Google makes diffs available for all Privacy Policy changes. I wish more companies would follow suit.

e.g. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/archive/20160325-201...
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She's at 41%[0] (38% among only registered voters, Trump is at 37% by the same metric) and falling favorably wise, Bush was also at 41%[1] when he was inaugurated but around 47% - 48% at this point in the election. Given her probable "private position" on TPP and other anti-worker policies that number will be lower than Bush (his personal worst in office is 29%), and in half the time. Democrats should hope that she steps down or is impeached, as it will be impossible for her to win the election in 4 years as an incumbent.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/31/a-...
[1]http://www.pollingreport.com/BushFav.htm
Newspapers should sell subscriptions to the latest news, and provide slightly old news for free, like 8 to 12 hours behind.
A public servant is beholden to the public. So yeah, there should be no problem with their official representational capacities being 100% recorded, in-office discussions and all.

Soldiers, as far as I understand, are not technically public servants. But correct me if I'm wrong.
Maybe journalists are acting in their own interests. Trump appears to be very hostile to journalists who are critical of him. Freedom of the press is their livelihood.
Nexus 5's camera didn't even remotely compare to iPhones of that era

Also, Android 4.x was an awful experience (that was the point I had jumped off the iOS train)
As far as I know, freedom of speech protects you from the government. Since YC is not the government freedom of speech isn't applicable, but anti-discrimination or employment law could be. In fact if the government would limit YCs freedom to not associate with Theil, as guaranteed by freedom of speech, that could technically be a greater violation of rights. This is why some libertarians think that private discrimination should be legal.

> In short, we should condone private — but not government — discrimination, even if the rationale is that a service provider simply doesn’t want to deal with the persons seeking service. That rationale — however offensive it may be in some circumstances — is implicit in our right not to associate, which is the flip side of our constitutional right of association, guaranteed by the First Amendment.

http://www.cato.org/policy-report/marchapril-2016/libertaria...

But I don't have the best understanding of US laws.
It is indeed a wild exaggeration, as anyone who's recently visited Paris can tell you.

But there are some problem areas where the police unions say they can't go:

https://www.thelocal.fr/20161010/are-there-police-no-go-zone...

“The police can’t apply the law in these areas, they are attacked. If the police can’t do their work it’s because there are criminals and delinquents who don’t respect the law.”

“It’s not just a problem with this government it’s a problem with all French governments over the last 20 years. Governments will never admit there are no-go zones because it’s a sign of a failed state."
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In addition to forcing transparency on governments, corporations, and non-profits around the world, I think he would like to secure his own future freedom.

It seems highly likely that a Trump administration would give him immunity or a pardon.
and sell subscriptions to old news ?
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OK, you'll be shocked. That's fine; politics is a matter of taste. For that reason, it is ever plagued by this sort of fuzzy, tone-policing, last-year-you-could-say-that-but-not-this-year, latest-fashion argument. Most political pundits owe their careers to that insipid bullshit. Personally I'd like both of the candidates under discussion to go jump in a lake, so we could elect someone opposed to the Eternal War on Everything. That's off-narrative, however, so it will be best to avoid both rural Arab weddings and plant-based pain control for some time to come.
So does DigitalOcean:

https://github.com/digitalocean/tos/commit/782ce59ec49a75fe2...

I'm not seeing anything there that substantially differs from the previous version, but IANAL.
> Abrahamic religion explored the alternative intelligence problem in great depth over two thousand years ago. It's a pity the results have been lost to Progressive axe grinding.

I'll take the bait: What in the world are you talking about?
White collar, middle-class people can expect to live until their 80s.

Life expectancy for lower class people, blue-collar workers, and manual laborers has not gained significantly - and neither has productive life expectancy.

If you threw out your back stocking shelves at 43, what exactly are you supposed to do? Get a desk job? If you were capable of getting a desk job, you probably would have done that before you crippled yourself.
Sorry DigitalOcean. Unsubscribe.
Of course there's a terms of service. It's "do what we say or you'll go to prison".
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This part absolutely disgusts me:

Even when they have access, lawmakers often fail to push back against interpretations that go too far. After all, they have little incentive to take on the national security establishment when their constituents are not even aware that a problem exists.

As a representative, you are there to uphold the constitution and deal with all the issues that would otherwise swamp the general public. You are not micromanaged by the people. Your general representation has been elected. We do not elect you to sit on your butt and wait for "incentives". DO YOUR JOB.
I think you're half right. Willpower is bolstered by a belief that it is infinite, but in reality, it is finite.

To go even further than that, those who believe they don't have a willpower limit are more likely to continue challenging it and developing it - paradoxically increasing it. Those who believe they have a limit may exercise it less.

The same effect can be seen in sports psychology. Those who believe themselves indomitable can squeeze out extra force/endurance in physical trails, whereas those who believe themselves fragile perform at a weaker state.
Thom's first post explicitly states that if you disagree with him, you are less well informed than him; and that you are an autocrat who does not accept dissent.

Thom's selfish and privileged expectation is that he can open with that attack, and that we'll all be polite and civil to him; even though he started the conversation by directly claiming that only dumb autocrats disagree with him. That's not how the world works though. Thom chose to be awful to a huge group of people; and he chose not to retract his shitty, awful words. he should expect people to treat him poorly.

Further, he's a white man who decided to tell a diverse group of people (who has never met) that we don't understand sexism or racism as well as he does. This was insane. The level of arrogance required to do this is... almost unmeasurable.

So a few things:

1) he shouldn't expect us to be polite. He was rude as FUCK in his opening, and he was also incredibly arrogant with his assertions about his understanding of american sexism and racism.

2) 'ad hominem' is not what you think it is. Don't use words you don't understand.

3) It's borderline insane for you to spend your life defending OP. ThomPete made REALLY bad decisions, and you have better things to do with your life than to defend a white male asshole who isn't actually being hurt at all.

4) The amount of "oh the poor rich white men who are suffering..." bullshit is off the charts. PG and Sama are suffering no harm at all, beyond a few words on Twitter. Their lives are completely intact. They're FUCKING FINE.

5) The people who will suffer in a DJT world are all powerless. They are people whose lives will not be completely intact. They are people who will be ruined. But you don't give a fuck aobut that because you're too busy vilifying people for being mean to an awful cunt like ThomPete.
That's the exact sort of scenario you would want a travel agent for--if you can trust the agent to get a good fare.
I don't think I'm out of touch. Anyone young enough to have the internet, Reddit, and modern social media is very unlikely to be socially conservative over the medium term.

Why? Because young people everywhere (red states and blue states) all like sex (gay and straight), drugs (legal and illegal), and music (country, hiphop, pop). The top 100 list on Apple Music is 50/50 country and poppy hip hop, for example.

The main reason young people affiliate with socially conservative groups (churches, etc.) is to signal membership in a system engineered to get them into a relationship (aka attraction, flirting, sex, etc.). A young male joins the group and immediately gains credibility as being a good person, etc. A young female joins the group and immediately can relax because the males she's meeting are vetted via their membership in the group. A young gay person joins because his/her young gay friends are also members, and they can use the org as cover to spend time together without needing to come out.

Institutions have a label, but their purposes can change very rapidly. Humans are superb at leveraging institutions to achieve their goals.

There are going to be some groups of young people who claim to have highly prejudiced beliefs, etc., but those are fairly common and rarely hold up to scrutiny as the belief holder gets older.

In other words, there is not any sort of youth-oriented grassroots social conservatism in the US. There will always be economic populism, but increasingly there is not a "golden era" in memory for young people to harken back to. Chances are among the stereotypical Trump demographic things were never very cushy economically, and chances are very high that all have had good friends who are African American, latino, hispanic, asian, or any variety of multi-racial backgrounds. Chances are they've had a crush on a multi-racial person and consider the person's humanity far more heavily than their isolated grandparents did (who likely never had many peers or friends from other groups).
I'm more sympathetic to this argument, and hiding it behind an about: variable seems like about the right way to handle it.

In fact: apart from the sheer ugliness and cryptographic ass-backwardness of the protocol itself, this is my biggest problem with DNSSEC: it takes the exact same set of failure modes and migrates them to the DNS, where there is no error recovery possible. When DNSSEC configurations break, sites simply vanish from the Internet.
Acquihire in mid-2011 http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/bitly-acquires-twitterfeed...

Mario continued to work mostly independently on Twitterfeed for many years, maybe up until now.

Legend has it that one of the motivations for the acquisition was to help with a work visa situation for another employee from the UK, Mike Dewar. He was a graduate student in NYC who did an internship (or similar) at Bitly, but had to move back to the UK when he finished/discontinued his studies. So they had Twitterfeed hire him, then acquired Twitterfeed, then he was able to move back to the US office. Just hear-say from long ago, I don't recall any details :)
My takeout from this: positive unknowns are addictive to your brain. Everytime you checkout a website too often you're mostly like a kid before christmas. For a second it defused my own behavior pattern, I may be able to stop losing hours of void refresh per day.
They still have nearly 90% market share of the desktop market.It hasn't really been declining that much. Most people who work still use windows at work. People still use excel and word. I think you underestimate how important they still are.
It is! Almost two days on open range! (Which is why dehydration is such an issue)

When I was a kid, we were amazed at the people who apparently got lost on Hell's Half Acre, about 40 miles west of Casper:

- https://www.google.com/search?q=hells+half+acre+wyoming&num=20&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2iqHTsOXPAhWCsFQKHegtCo0Q_AUICCgB&biw=1151&bih=818

Broke an ankle or got stuck in a gully - sure, but lost?

Now that I'm officially old, and far less energetic, I'd be willing to believe that they just sat down and hoped that help would find them in time.
did the Fifth Avenue address play any role in the winding down of this business
I stand corrected.

I definitely skimmed the article too fast. State ID photos makes a lot more sense.
You and salmon30salmon are missing the point. Language is an indicator of 4000+ years of local cultural differentiation. The rest of us europeans are just trying not to say something about 200years worth of adopting cultures. That does indeed create a unique multifaceted community, but surely you realise how much in common you have with most of the rest of the US population?
In Europe these language barriers correspond to sometimes dramatic changes in climate, environment and lifestyle. Finns have very little in common with Italians as far as weltanschauung or culture goes, for instance. I doubt you could find as drastic and systemic difference on your side.

(Just to clarify, I don't mean to imply EU>US, just underlining the difference's depths)
"Not wanting to cook..."

And again, how much clearer can I be in that I'm not talking about that? You're welcome to ignore that fact, and go on these intensely boring rhetorical diversions, but it achieves nothing.
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No, I just don't see a huge difference in functionality - my comment was tongue in cheek.
One example of that I have run into at work is mismatched versions of json.net in dependencies. It becomes a mess when you realize one requires an older/newer version and you don't have the source to modify it or will take some time to have the developer of the dependency update their project.
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Better late than never, but why has it taken Air India so long to do this?

Edit: Answered in replies to manav
1)

> preamble - Provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our prosperity.

So far so good. We certainly do need to provide for the common defense, and secure the blessings of liberty.

> 4th ammendment is unreasonable searches and seziures

Its quite reasonable considering every other party is capable of it

> 9th ammendment - individuals have unenumerated rights

This might be a stopper. A person may have the right to control the information they willingly gave away and which they specifically agreed to give up control.

2)

Should the government have a standing military capable of lethal force? Should the government be allowed to setup metal detectors and security guards at the fronts of schools? Should the government be allowed to collect information about their citizens?

Should the government be allowed to purchase information from private companies? Should the government be allowed to purchase weapons from private companies? Should the government be allowed contract security jobs to private companies?

These questions arent that contreversial but certainly interesting
You've asserted without facts that Trump is not a problem.

You've DIRECTLY STATED that only poorly informed autocrats could possibly disagree with you.

And now you have the FUCKING NERVE to claim that you're making evidence based reasoning? FUCK YOU.
You're right, D1 was procedural as well.
How about purchasing a dock?

On my ThinkPad a single cable delivers power, video, USB, Ethernet...

I'm sure Apple has identical solutions, I've seen many third party ones for the 12" MacBook.
Am I the only one somewhat concerned over the absolutely blatant declarations that Russia is now our enemy again?

You've got a one presidential candidate claiming that the other is Bad Guy because he might have ties to The Russians.

It sounds like something from McCarthyism, or from the height of the cold war.

And now the mainstream attempts to discredit what is effectively a whistleblowing service seem to center around The Russians.

It's creepy.
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But you still need to clone the whole thing. Sparse clones are theoretically possible, but aren't implemented AFAIK.
It checks that the first column of each row is not null, that's what the '1' stands for.
Isn't Google sending customers directly to airline websites to book?

So the way this is working is: Google, Hipmunk, etc. use GDS for queries, and then send customer to airline to book? Does GDS have any ability to sell tickets?

Has Google tried to scrape data directly from Southwest website and Southwest won't let them? Or is it just that Southwest will not provide APIs to make it easy for Google to pull the data?
We have a Nissan LEAF and a Honda CR-V as our two family cars. We do about 4K miles/yr on the LEAF and 5K miles/yr on the CR-V. Because both cars are used for fairly short average trip lengths, mostly in the city, the LEAF gets a little over 4 miles/kWh and the CR-V about 22 miles per gallon. That makes for about $0.05/mile for the LEAF (at MA's insane electric rates) and $0.10/mile for the CR-V, for fuel/power only.

Electric cars are quite good (as compared to ICE) on the city drive cycle. The CR-V as a modestly sized, Civic-chassis/SUV-body is quite comparable to the LEAF. After incentives, the LEAF is cheaper than a new CR-V (though we bought our CR-V very well used).
I have directly worked with very large endowments before. They are all different, but it is understood that not spending money represents a risk. The French Revolution is probably the most well known case, but endowments are not safe. If you really want a source here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/368736?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...

But, I am done talking as you are both rude an ignorant.
Why do people keep saying that Nexus users won't be getting stuff like the Google Assistant? The Long Press activation requires 7.1. That's the only thing holding it up. All Nexus phones receiving 7.1 will have the same Google Assistant that is on Pixel. You can even enable it right now if you want by tweaking a Build.prop file if you running the latest version of the Google app (just not using Long Press). You can also just access it from Allo. It's not some grand conspiracy to get Nexus users to upgrade to Pixel.

The new launcher is called the Pixel Launcher (though leaks of it called it the Nexus Launcher). Speculating that Nexus users won't be getting the new launcher is reasonable (though they can just install the APK and it works fine). That has nothing to do with the Google Assistant though.

There will be a developer preview of 7.1 for Nexus devices in the next couple of months. Having to wait a couple months to get the latest and greatest Android release after it's publically available on another phone is definitely something Nexus owners can complain about. There is nothing to suggest that Nexus phones won't be getting features like Google Assistant though.
And gets a full pardon "so we can stop being distracted by politics and get to the real work".
I thought small talk was illegal in the UK.
Does an overpriced laptop with outdated hardware provide a 'desktop' environment.

Yes.

Are you wasting your money on branding when you could just install linux on any old computer and be fine.

Yes.
Yeah. I actually have broken down and used our company travel service for this. Then at least it's out of my hands. But usually I have too much sunk cost :-) and have sufficient preferences that I just motor through on my own.
Yes, fair enough. I didn't make myself clear enough, because I was referring to the share of developers, where my hunch is that a lot of devs have migrated to OSX, but you're probably still right.
> I'd like some kind of reassurance that USB Type-C is going to last more than a couple of years...

heh https://xkcd.com/927/

It's unrealistic to expect a single connector/cable/pinout to last for a very long time. Throughput requirements increase, size constraints do too, mechanical designs improve, etc.

Even Firewire or SCSI looked like "the last interface you'll ever need" 15 years ago.
There's a difference between David Duke and a mainstream party candidate supported by roughly 40% of the American population.
(Was there anything wrong with being single?)

Your “lonely people giving up on life” is a huge reach. It’s just food. People are capable of socializing outside of meals.

Setting that aside for a moment, though, you also don’t have to replace every meal, as is mentioned elsewhere in the comments. How about just breakfast? Despite it being greatly beneficial to start the day with food, many people feel like they don’t have the time. Something quick, filling, and taking no preparation is ideal.
My first electronics victory – I got a serial port in my tablet's headphone jack
Wait a second... I just realised I've been reading SMBC for years now and I've never noticed the red button! I'm mad at how much I must have missed out on but, at the same time, I'm glad you pointed that out!
Tracking down and proving who is behind it would probably be very hard, but if this took place as they write, I think it's already quite interesting as a case study in information warfare.