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> Are you suggesting that people should be empowered by the law to take young people and rent them out to people as sex toys?

More like individuals should be empowered by the law to charge money in exchange for sex. That's the thesis, the whole thing. "Party X paid Party Y for sex" becomes not a crime.

> do you really believe that human trafficking exists because child prostitution is illegal? And that such a move would actually decrease the number of, say, young girls are forced into prostitution against their wills?

It doesn't matter, it's unrelated to the central thesis. It's possible to agree people should be free to charge for or pay for sex, while also condemning human trafficking and other forceful restrictions of personal agency more generally.
From personal accounts, ones I've only read about, it seems that sensitivity to things like MSG, ingested orally, are completely possible. But the reactions are small enough to never require any medical attention or further study. No anaphylaxis for instance. Anyhow, since the reactions aren't large enough to be measured in an acute way there is no allergy. However when lay-people speak about how they have reactions to something they eat you might often encounter them using the term allergy in a sense that doesn't require caring a steroid injectable.

In essence they have proved through research that MSG causes no allergic reactions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19389112/
But they can't say there are no reactions at all. (last paragraph http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he...)

It might be MSG causing a headache or eating too much salt in a single meal but either way the symptoms are avoided by elimination of that from their diet. No deaths, no acute reactions, no more study needed. It hurts when you do that? Stop doing it.
It needs a picture of the monochrome MacPaint fill patterns!

I heard that the display drivers for the first Macs were written in Pascal. I don't have any links that prove it, but it was considered crazy back then not to write pixel routines in assembly...
> has absolutely no authentication before allowing control of your computer via a publicly available webpage.

It's less than 100 lines of code, not hard to see exactly what it is doing. It doesn't dial out to a remote server, it starts a local server. And unless you're running a computer that is exposed to the public web, that won't be "publicly available."

I'm not saying it's secure, but let's not immediately jump to conclusions. It is what it is a little useful utility, albeit small and immature.
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This is a great summary.

The entire argument frustrates me, because the two sides appear to be "GMOs are safe!" and "GMOs are inherently harmful!" I can't take either position, I want a way to assert "GMOs represent rapid and potent change with limited oversight, regulation, and trial periods!"

There's no reason at all to oppose GMOs inherently. If you use CRISPR to turn one strain of well-established corn into another strain of established corn, no one is going to get hurt. But that's not what's happening; the point of concern is that these changes are going into national consumption with minimal testing.

GMO-by-year makes more sense to me than any other position going, and yet somehow your comment is the first time I've seen it proposed.
Link to Soylent's words there? I'm not finding anything with a Google search.
>I have a degree in Molecular Biology and the utmost respect for good science.

OK.

>They're absolutely more likely to be harmful to the environment based on the general behavior of the companies that make them (Syngenta, Monstanto, etc.). There shouldn't really be any debate on this.

Guilt by association is bad science. Saying "shouldn't really be any debate" is not an attitude a good scientist has.

Also, "absolutely more likely" doesn't make sense.

>In science, the burden of proof is on the new thing to unequivocally prove itself true...not 'harmless until proven harmful.'

Actually, science is not on either side. Science is science. Putting the burden on one side or the other is purely a human policy decision. It has nothing to do with scientific principles.

> Most of the studies declaring them safe have industry funding at their root. ... Careerism and loose morals in this field give me plenty of reason to at least be skeptical of a Pro-GMO general consensus...and of overly enthusiastic new science in general.

Do you avoid pharmaceutical products as well? They suffer from the same problems.

>I'm morally opposed to supporting products that support mucking with an already perfect product, namely real, clean, unadulterated food

Again, this has nothing to do with science. And, I can assure you: Many, many people disagree with the characterization of "already perfect product"
Not all banking systems require 2FA, phone banking doesn't.

If tested systems that allow you to transfer money between accounts, if you can bypass the initial authentication you can transfer money without needing to use 2FA or generating a TUN code.

And these systems can be breached.
Not a lot of mention of AI for CS, even in 2002. What about (2080+, P/=NP, proof techniques completely opaque to humans).
And by that I don't mean mechanical exclusion of special cases like for map-coloring. As mentioned already, there's like a handful of people that understand the FLT proof, that situation is unlikely to improve.
There is very much a relation to the two and why Perl 6 has not garnered the enthusiastic community Perl 4 and 5 had 10-15 years ago.

When I was still active on their mailing list there was a lot of excitement around Perl 6. By the time I left most others had already been long gone. They'd gotten smacked too many times.

None of that is Larry Wall's fault. He's been herding cats since he started these projects. I think Larry is great.
It only takes me a couple hours to do my taxes in the first place.
True, but today many cars have A/C and car feature controls integrated with the entertainment system, so unless the aftermarket system can replace that somehow, replacing the factory system will be troublesome.
I only call it my "old" one because I got a 3 recently.
Www.prepaidfinder.com

Includes a backend for updating the listings. Was picked up by life hacker
Domain gets tagged as distributing malware by my work's security system, FYI. Dunno what list it's gone on, but it's there.
Hi, you seem to know blender quite well, I'm trying to export an fbx file into unity 3d, but when I import it, it's not the rendered model, it's just the solid view model, not animated... :/

I'm trying to import this simulation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epyqHzoCxa0) without the camera view and the background image.

Thanks.
More like Apple don't give a flying damn until poked about it.

Just watch how they ignored the mandatory 2 year warranty on computers in italy, while pushing Applecare.

Frankly when it comes to Apple they basically behave as if the whole world is like USA until told otherwise.
> I think you're really optimistic about how quickly everyone is going to switch to USB-C.

At this point, many new computers have USB-C, and a growing number of computers have only USB-C. So there's a market of people who need USB-C connectors, and untapped markets with a strong demand and a proven willingness to spend premium money attracts device manufacturers heavily. So maybe I'm being optimistic, but I don't think overwhelmingly so.
Well, in this example I don't wonder at all. Sure, Mac OS ran in 128K of RAM, but IMO it ran kind of poorly. At a minimum, it seemed right on the edge of being under-provisioned. In contrast to Win2K, which could pre-emptivively multitask applications, serve up files to other computers, allow remote access to the user land desktop, and had color. So no, actually, I don't "really wonder" why Win2K required 128Mb of RAM. Sure, there was probably some bloat in there, but there was also a lot of utility that came with those higher RAM requirements.

EDIT: and in response to parent's edit, no, the utility I list should not require 100K x the RAM of the original Macintosh. We could probably do a lot of it with 100 times less. But you'll be waiting another twenty years while we figure out how to cram all that into a smaller space. Or we could just say "fuck it", build it now, and just bloat the RAM requirements. That doesn't excuse >100Mb web pages, but I'm willing to put up with some bloat if my apps can be segregated from one another such that they don't take the whole machine down (as just one example of where I'm willing to compromise).
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>We are constantly exploring the frontiers of food technology, with an aim to engineering foods which are more nutritious, efficient, and affordable than ever before.

Right on their index
I guess I've gotten lucky. I don't have a very high-powered machine but I can run Slack, Visual Studio, Atom, and Chrome with a bunch of tabs without any issues.
It's a solved problem in a sense that yes, you can do it that way. But it's also more conceptually complicated, and much easier to get it wrong, which is evident by the fact that so many desktop apps on Windows still lock up occasionally. Not so with UWP apps.
Other than being in a different directory, what difference is that going to make?

Because, if they had picked their own directory and not a standard one like /usr/local/bin, then they would only be putting the homebrew installed binaries at risk. It would be better for defense in depth if they had not. As it is, all of their users are incentivized to unnecessarily give up a little security in favor of convenience. It's precisely that mindset that's one of the "enemies." (The other "enemy" is security without concern for convenience. We know from practice that's just as broken.)

You are going to have both in your $PATH in order to run the binaries, so if an attacker can write to either bad stuff could happen.

Normally, you'd need root privileges to write to /usr/local/bin. Since it's a very popular location for installing 3rd party tools, homebrew is effectively incentivizing users to have more writable executables than otherwise.

Homebrew also aids security by making it easier for devs to keep executables updated. They also deserve credit for making something useful. I use homebrew as well. However, I still really wish they would've made a different decision about /usr/local/bin.
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I think a better example would be mixing alcohol and caffeine http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/caffeine-and-alcohol....
Ya, and there's nothing wrong with that. I wouldn't fault anyone for choosing not to use Soylent because of this.

But there seems to be a weird sort of vitriol in the reaction here that doesn't seem like it happened to Chipotle. Perhaps because people see it as an example of the overconfident arrogance of 'tech people'. I'm not sure. But it seems deeply misguided to me.

Yes, something has gone wrong. Yes, they are having trouble figuring out exactly what it was. But so did Chipotle. So do lots of other food companies when things like this happens. Would it be great if this didn't happen? Absolutely. But it's not unprecedented and it isn't at all clear to me that their processes and controls are substantially inferior to the industry standard.

And secondly, they market themselves as a sort of radical new approach to food. They expressly cultivate that image of transformation and self-experimentation. Anyone willing to use a product like that should be more tolerant of bugs than average, IMO. If I got sick from Soylent I might stop drinking it, but I wouldn't say they shouldn't have made the thing in the first place.
Sure, but as you can see, at least five years ago, they had an app that was basically Android Auto running on your phone, and now they have it again, with more distracting colors and animations.
Woa, someone is an optimist.
Because the argument is that men aren't capable of doing so [0]. I don't believe that is the case, but it is the argument being hinted at. It is also a very common argument.
I do this too. If somebody helpfully labels themselves as anti-science, I'll make sure not to give them my money.
To give users who have java script enabled (the address bar updates) the feel of an SPA and the full page reload jank doesn't take place.
Not sure why you're getting so many downvotes.

Every post in this thread that is explaining why Blenders' UI is bad is being downvoted.
Sure, but it would be nice to automatically start when I plug my phone to my car.
I remember those... And let's not forget Perl Poetry:

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_1/tpj0501-0012.html
Email or RSS would be better for that IMO -- I don't need my browser interrupting my flow for something like a blog post.
Uploadvr demystified this stuff a couple years ago:

http://uploadvr.com/magic-leap-how-it-works/

Magic leap is a pair of glasses you wear on your face that displays AR imagery through a clear glass lens. There's a cable leading from these glasses to your pocket where you have a tablet-size device doing all the heavy lifting, most likely using mobile SoC's. Pretty sure you can't run a desktop CPU and GPU on a pocketable device.

You don't get 1080gtx performance or anything remotely close to that with a setup like this. Its mobile-level graphics. Oculus's recent showing of its mobile SoC-based Santa Cruz prototype shows fairly poor graphics compared to PC-based VR like the Rift or Vive. I imagine the Magic Leap has less pixels to push considering it isn't doing any backgrounds, but still, those very impressive marketing shots of high resolution dragons flying around and interacting with you might not really be possible without a lot of compromises on graphic quality, fov, framerate, etc. Worse, no one wants to talk about transparency, especially in well-lit rooms. The few hands-on Hololens reports we've gotten make this out to be a big issue, as well as fov, and fundamentally the Magic Leap and what hololens is using could be the same or very similar technologies.

My gut feeling is that no one has yet to handle the transparency issue (and this is why MS can show off the hololens with confidence) and because of that it makes sense for Magic Leap to keep its product secretive. The tech press was not too kind to Hololens prototypes due to transparecy issues and Magic Leap doesn't need that kind of negative press as it continues to fund-raise and develop its product.
Yes it is and it is terrible. The lack of upstreaming also makes things like applying the PREEMPT_RT patches much more difficult than it should be. You might be stuck at a version of the kernel where PREEMPT_RT was never released, not to mention you will be missing the PREEMPT_RT changes in the custom code.
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Come on Apple, why is this not the new MacBook Pro?
> If it is a non issue, why is the EU banning it?

Why do some US schools teach creationism? Sadly, the anti-science lobby in EU is surprisingly strong.

EU even had a chief scientific officer position, but they ended the whole position when the plant scientist in the position was defending the scientific view that GMOs are safe.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/sack-s...
gaaa, if only it ran osx instead of windows...
Depends on where your bottleneck is.

If its disk, maybe a one box approach is suitable.

If CPU, where many current (F)OSS RDBMS are limited to one-core-per-query, a cluster can help.

Additionally a cluster can manage a larger working data set in RAM than a single box can do.
Finding and fixing page faults with perf and system-tap
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This is false. Soylent is classified as a food, and has to follow the same FDA requirements as any other food.

"Soylent is not in violation of any product-safety standards or requirements, and is manufactured in FDA-approved facilities that follow federally regulated current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)."

Source: https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204197379-Californ...
Sadly the guy in charge is either:

A. clueless about Android internals.

B. fanatic about UX above all else.

C. both
Proprietary services don't even federate with each other so why hold free software products to a higher standard? The problem isn't that they can't (often the free tools can federate with each other, which is more than the proprietary tools can do.) It's that, as you mentioned, they copy something existing and notable, so practically by definition they are already too late to be the popular thing everybody uses.
We have legal prostitution in my country (Aotearoa).

We do have some problems with trafficked sex workers, but the police investigate them as crimes. The other prostitutes can cooperate with the police without fear.
The problem is that voting machines are a competitive system sold to various levels of government. At the state level, there are different requirements, but not unified at the federal level [0]. Due to the differences, there cannot be a single mandated design, as the voting machine companies are not required to be consistent from state to state. There is lots of history here, which I haven't gotten very far into, but I think most would agree that reform and consistency would solve these problems. That wouldn't benefit the voting machine company profits though, so there is huge push-back.

[0] https://www.eac.gov/assets/1/Page/State%20Requirements%20and...
Yes, sure, but there's always been a presumption in those definitions that you have a multi-user system. I would say that most people today operate their computers as single users. The multiuser paradigm, is more about differing security contexts.

The multiuser features are used to provide defense in depth, especially for developer machines.

For me these locations are an artifact of multiuser systems days, it's generally more desirable for me to store most stuff in my home directory, such that when I upgrade computers, there's only one thing to copy over.

Apple's migration tool and cloning have always worked for me.
most browsers will auto select the right cert. But for browsers that dont support the keygen tag you have to create the cert including priv key and pw.
you can of course create many certs for different users, you can of course also sign them yourself, no ca is needed besides for the ssl server cert.
most of the points on that site is moot besides poor support on some browsers.
Well, it's demonstrably not "unquestionable", since I question every paragraph you've written above after the first.

And most especially the last, for the North can't even feed its own army, and one of the many things standing in the way of reunification is the major difference in intelligence, height, and so on of the respective populations, the North being stunted from malnutrition.

The South's hand has been stayed because they've not been willing to take the costs, especially to Seoul, infamously within heavy artillery range of the North, and of course our moderating influence. And now, of course, we've let the North get nukes....
I'm not sure why people downvoted you but I +1 because it is important to understand when this article was written (btw I can't stand articles or other content that isn't dated).

I assume this article was written around 2000 when Microsoft hate was in full swing. I was in college at the time and probably would have said the exact snide comment by the author.

Comparing Windows 2000 to 1984 Mac isn't really that funny or even a good comparison of whoa look how little resources. It is like comparing a spaceship to a car.
I'm not sure that's true; I've dabbled with the idea of ordering it a few times but thought it's probably best to wait a little bit more. Maybe I'll wait forever or maybe soylent will lead to an end of the destruction caused by industrialised farming, who knows.

Despite this hiccup I'm glad they are making the attempt to be able to feed the world a well balanced diet (isn't that the plan?).

Other food manufacturers specialise in trying to poison you in the longer term with salt, sugar, flavour packs, fructose, "low fat", MSG, anemic vegetables, mercury tuna and antibiotic meat.
I can't shake the feeling that the history of modern agriculture is just a history of staying one step ahead of disaster.

We used intensive farming until it ruined our soils. Then we used rotation farming with heavy irrigation until it collided with a drought. We used DDT until it killed the eagles and condors. We used nitrogen fertilizers until they triggered algae blooms and ruined our waterways. I see no particular reason to expect a different pattern; we keep putting things into widespread usage before their harms are known.

I'm not even sure I'm opposed to this; most of these crises have been mitigated and most of the changes have been reactive, to accommodate a population that grew regardless of agriculture. I'm just skeptical of claims that this time, rushing things into national use without long-term evaluation won't cause any harm.
In my opinion, Mac OS 7 [0] was one of the best versions of Mac OS. It was small enough for people to understand most of it. I liked how one could extend the system using Extensions. Debugging problematic Extensions wasn't too hard, one could just remove suspect Extensions from the System Folder and perform a restart.

I think at the start of Mac OS 8, more and more bloat was added to the system, without significantly increasing it's usability.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7
As a huge hip-hop head, I will just add that there are two aspects to evaluating rhymes: How it sounds when delivered by the artist, and how it reads. The best rap succeeds in both domains. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize because he succeeds in both domains. In this case, we obviously can only consider the second domain, how it reads. So we should evaluate the results exactly how we would evaluate any other poem (while giving due respect to the conventions and tropes of the form, ie, rap has its own classic metaphors and themes).
GNU Social is the seventh level of usability hell.
Okay, but you're still talking about how a particular nutrient interacts with the digestive system in a particular way. I don't assume there's any evidence that eating meat increases the absorption rate of iron from plants as well, for example. The hypothesis I responded to was a component of algae reacting with another chemical to create a product that some people are sensitive to.