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> Drone killing ought to be regarded as a war crime.

It is a war crime. That doesn't mean any drone wielders will ever be brought to justice, but the same goes for all those Blackwater (oh, sorry 'Xe', oh, sorry 'Academi', it's hard to keep track of these scumbags) contractors during the Iraq war.

War crimes as a rule will only see their day in court if they are committed by relatively powerless people on the losing side of some conflict. Otherwise you're probably in worse shape shoplifting or stealing a car.

Heck, America doesn't even subscribe to the international tribunal for warcrimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...

And they're the main users of drones for killing people in countries they are not formally at war with.
However, if it is a very wide spread problem then they will eventually install a light on your dash to notify you to change your oil. My wife's car currently does this. Since this is the first car she's ever owned, it's good because I don't think she would have known. We also have check engine lights and indicators for when a turn signal light bulb stops working. New cars even keep track of things like tire pressure.

I don't expect the mechanic to take advantage of me and instead offer me fair service at a fair price. Luckily enough people have a natural interest in it that the competition keeps prices down.

My argument is in the similar vein of those who aren't physically fit to win a fist fight. Doesn't mean they deserve to pushed around, robbed or beaten just because I'm stronger and a better fighter.

No matter the analogy, if someone doesn't know better it doesn't automatically mean they deserve it. Peoples lives are busy, complicated and not everyone starts on the same ground or with the same capabilities.
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Now I'm wanting to draw with one - I very much understand the hand fatigue as I get it as well... Along with tennis elbow. Different pens and paintbrushes have different fatigue rates.

For handwriting, how long did it take you to adjust to it? Is the grip much different?
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But that is only your choice. Someone else might prefer to see his kids grow up. And really, do you prefer death penalty even when you are innocent when there is the possibility to be pardoned one year later? And also, it's not like you are killed immediately now, so you spent time in jail anyways.

Being 20 years in jail destroys you live, innocent or not, I agree. But by killing people you are not giving them a choice either, so your argument can be negated with the same message.

(Not that I am for the choice of death for prison inmates either, a terrorist for example should not be allowed to become a martyr and escape prosecution.)
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Very personal newbie experience. I got much further with react native. You can find so much stuff for RN that you can do a lot just with javascript. I wasnt so sure about that wit Nativescript.
I agree with your comment, but I don't see what the first sentence has to do with the rest of the comment. Yes, security infrastructure is broken, yes it needs to be better, yes I think $200k per month is a lot.
I'm not so sure this wasn't just a brilliant marketing ploy to pimp out codegophers. I can't read anything online anymore without some skepticism.
> There is no magical Happy distro where everything finally Works.

That's why it's advisable to use simpler stuff, not like the Gnome/KDE based systems, etc. Actually Linux works well enough for me.
I see, that makes sense. After researching a little bit more on WebTrust etc. I can see your point and what I was indeed missing.

2) I thought i saw around 60k certificate requests in statistics on your site.
looks nice, simple, I like it.
Btw, it would be good to be able to copy the message received (android client).
And maybe to be able to expand the message if it's too long, currently its just truncated.

Good work!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/13/wrongly-con...

While the innocence project has saved many innocent people, it's important to remember that they also are wrong sometimes.
The problem is that I can't buy anything from Apple that connects directly to it that isn't a dongle.
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One of the best measures for whether or not a country is civilized or not (or where it sits on a scale of civilization) is to see how they treat their prison inmates, people with mental issues and people without income.

In other words: those over which society wields a lot of power who do not have much power of their own.
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systemd can do this - see RandomizedDelaySec in systemd.timer(5).

The hack you mention for cron doesn't seem particularly bad though.
I dropped my Macbook Air, which is quite thin and light, from about 5 feet up onto a tiled bathroom floor. It hit on a corner at the thinnest end. The corner bent a few mm and the lid doesn't quite close correctly. But it woke from sleep no problem and I have used that laptop for more than 2 years since.

It would be great if Apple could engineer a completely indestructible 3 lb laptop. I'm pretty darn pleased with the durability for its portability.
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Nothing I miss.

The Dell XPS goes to sleep when lid closed, and correctly (and fast) wakeup when you open the lid. Battery life amazing as well. So I just shut the laptop, and open it the next day and continue...
Why not both?

Yes, LE are the good guys, and everyone should be donating mountains of money to them, and the bsd-folks. But that doesn't negate the fact that $200K a month is a crazy amount.
I have the baby Macbook 12" that I bought specifically for programming on the go. It took a bit to get used to, but now I love that keyboard.
> take these cretins out of the gene pool Keeping them locked up for 25 to life does no one any good.

It does if they're found innocent after conviction, as has happened at least 347 times so far[1].

It should also be noteworthy to the true law and order types that false convictions mean the real perpetrator is still going unpunished. If you kill everyone who does something you dislike, the pressure applied by those bleeding hearts at the Innocence Project will go away, which means now not only have you killed someone innocent, but you've pointed blame away from the guilty and basically assured they'll get away with it. I must confess my failure to understand how this outcome is supportive of law and order.

And with regards to the comment about surveillance and DNA testing, you might benefit from a bit of reading about the history of forensics. It is a history of foolproof methods being rather less than foolproof. Of if you really can't dismiss the idea that we've achieved the pinnacle of physical evidence analysis, at least do some reading on what is actually involved. Remember that with, e.g., DNA testing for legal purposes, you're not looking at just the test: you're looking at the whole "stack", from our understanding of biology to the lab performance to the chain of custody to jurors' understanding of science. Not going to point to anything specific; there are a ton of explainers out there about this waiting for the interested.

I'll end with a simple question: do you believe that Blackstone's famous ratio is false?

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer[.]"

[1] http://www.innocenceproject.org
Do phones not do any kind of cryptographic verification that the cell tower is real and that mobile data is sent securely between the phone and the tower?

In 2016?
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Talking about the Three Body Series specifically, the sheer scope and the lucidity of the writing was pretty breathtaking. Cixin Liu is like a Chinese Arthur C. Clarke, his novels are just overflowing with ideas. Haven't read anything like it since Clarke or Asimov in Western Science Fiction, with the exception of Ted Chiang.
" This is about whether it's ok to kill innocent people."

So why is the discussion to eliminate the death penalty instead of ensuring more oversight or limitations?

Something like:

- Not applicable when only one murder committed

- Bigger burden of proof for the DP to be applicable (not only relying on witnesses, for example)
You actually believe that present cases have 'perfect evidence'?

Preventable deaths are a step or two removed from state inflicted and sanctioned murder.
I agree, but I feel that in our lifetime this will essentially become impossible, if not downright illegal under the premise of road safety.
Let's consider four collections of people:

A) Guilty people who don't deserve to be put to death.

B) Guilty people who deserve to be put to death.

C) Innocent people who don't deserve to be put to death.

D) Innocent people who deserve to be put to death.

D is empty, so let's just consider A, B, and C.

I agree there are people in B. At the same time, it seems very hard to design a death penalty system that selects any of B without selecting any of A or C.

I'd be very curious to hear what system you propose that is able to limit false positives more for A and C than death penalty abolition would. Unless you're able to, I, and a whole lot of other people, are more willing to support Charles Manson spending the rest of his life in a cell than murdering someone--or dozens or hundreds of people--to satisfy mob rage at the existence of Charles Manson type people.
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The goal is to democratize software. Quite a shame that 30 years into personal computing, an average person's interaction still caps at word-processing. We'd like to change that.
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I think it's just a general misunderstanding of what privacy means. I've explained several times and even convinced a few people that just because they think they have nothing to hide, they generally do have something they don't want someone to know about or see. At best they will just revert back to the "I have nothing to hide" mentality after a week. I think people outside of tech just don't see how damaging it can be when you loose privacy.
I generally agree that you shouldn't have to look at the keyboard, but I'm currently hoping that peripheral vision plus muscle memory will be enough to make up for the lack of tactile feedback when it comes to commonly used applications. (I haven't tried out the new MBP yet, and I'm going to do so before ordering, but that's my hope.)

In return, I'd get the ability to use slide controls, and have both system controls (volume, brightness) and application-specific ones directly on the bar rather than having to choose Fn for one - which makes for terrible ergonomics. Plus, Touch ID.

But then, I don't care about the Esc key because I've had
Caps Lock mapped to it for years.
This isn't lane detection, this is line detection. Don't mistake the best-case scenario weather and freeway setting with that.

In any case, there is nowadays a pretty dramatic gorge between 1) discrete transforms heaped upon each other like here (Mobileye style) and 2) just DNN. I feel 1 is falling out of favor until we will eventually realize 2 alone isn't the duck's guts either.
Not sure if you're talking about this but Pocket recently launched Pocket Explore - it's a little nicer than the "Recommended" tab in dashboard. https://www.getpocket.com/explore/

Also - If you're looking for discovery/curation then you'd probably be interested in what I'm doing - GGather.com. Right now it's in private beta - but you can join on https://beta.ggather.com
I think the real observation here is not so much that print is more legible than cursive, but rather that most people actually suck at handwriting. That can be solved in two ways: get them to practice it with an aim towards improving legibility (good luck), or tell them to give up and just type everything (easier).

People who adhere to a particular form, whether it's a form of print or cursive, and do it consistently and with superior execution, have very legible handwriting.
This is good advice, but I'd like to point out that you could avoid the surveillance revealed in this project by simply using anything other than default SMS.
You call it "ridiculous", but it's not like they charge you a bunch of money and give you nothing. You get a single vendor for operating system and hardware, free support at their retail stores, and free updates to the operating system.

People these days whinging about "extremely expensive" have no idea. Computers used to be stupidly expensive and ridiculously slow, no matter the brand. We've been spoiled by these vendors willing to sacrifice everything to slash costs and margins.

Do you want a good keyboard, a great trackpad, and a durable metal housing? Be prepared to pay more than you would for some system built out of what was salvaged from the garbage bins of Dell's factory.

Every single one of these alternatives listed is over $1000, and that segment of the PC market is tiny. Most get all dizzy at the thought of spending more than $500 on a laptop, that's what the industry's conditioned people to think.
I prefer shallow keyboards for coding -- large travel keys drive me crazy.
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True. But the chance of undoing a murder is also exactly zero.

4% innocents on death row is a higher number than those killed by escapees, I will agree. But where do you stop? That means at least 4% of those sentenced to life without parole are innocent. Now what? Is leaving them to rot in jail for the rest of their life really that much better than executing them?
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To integrate my acme client with nginx running in a separated Docker container I started nginx together with a shell script that reads from a named pipe and then sends signal to nginx to reread configuration. Then the client writes to the pipe when it gets a new certificate.
Taking violent offenders "out of the gene pool" need not involve killing the offender (or their descendants).

Keeping a violent offender removed from society for the duration of their life DOES all of us a lot of good.
That's the whole point though, justice is a messy business and everybody gets it wrong sometimes.
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I'm looking forward to features like finding related articles, a https://longreads.com/ like portal or more customizable weekly digests (lately it's all US politics which I don't care about). That said the usual 'click on read later, read article on the train' use-case works very well for me, no complains.
Why can't people speak in honest terms? What you mean isn't justice, but revenge. Killing a killer will not undo the damage they have done. It will not bring a life back.

If people require revenge for emotionally healing then that is because society has promoted this as justice.

I've never heard of victims desiring death for killers in my home country, but we are not so big on revenge and don't.

The American justice system frequently paints a trial as some sort of game, where the victims family score more points in the competition for every year extra the perpetrator gets in prison.

What about helping victims in meaningful ways instead? They might need mental health care, time of from work, economic support etc. America tend to do little in this regard.

It reminds me of the conservative desire to ban abortion, but unwillingness to actually help a family in a difficult situation giving birth to a child. Instead of making it easier to have a child so people themselves will chose to keep it, instead they want to intimidate parents to keep it threatening with prison and fines.

It is a fundamentally negative and cynical perspective on humanity. I guess that is what you get when people follow a faith which teaches that people are only good because the fear eternal punishment in hell.
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You chose a really, really bad comparison there.
https://mynoise.net/ is also an interesting website.

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I suppose the best hting we can do is share this post and go vote.
Actually I think the above statement is correct. If the U.S. was a pure democracy, the will of the people would be ultimate. As a constitutional republic, the constitution is ultimate, and in the U.S.'s particular implementation of the republic, the will of the people would mandate a law, and the supreme court would determine if that law comports with the constitution or not.
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Great timing. I literally just 2 hours ago finished reading Three Body Problem, a sci-fi book mentioned in the article. The description of sci-fi books, not as predictions about the future, but as allegories for the present, is dead on. As someone who virtually always reads western books by western authors, Three Body Problem was one of the best books I've read this year. It was gripping, suspenseful, intelligent, and most interestingly, offered a perspective of the world that differs dramatically from that found in western books.

I think a truly global literary scene, featuring writers, ideas and perspectives from all over the world, has the potential to usher in the next golden age of literature.
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"build quality" is the dumbest pseudojustification I've heard.

There are a lot of well-built machines out there once you leave the bargain bin--Lenovo for example.

Let us just acknowledge it for what it is, posturing.
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