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No region of America reaches the level of racism that is acceptable and ingrained in Japanese society. Rural working class white towns don't have many minorities in them, but they have some, and their children aren't sent to separate schools.

I believe Trump to be deeply racist, and I recognize a fiercely racist strain of his followers. But those people also make great television. I think Trump's followers are willing to abide racism, because the alternative is a status quo that promises hopelessness for their children. I don't condone racism and I think the mainstream middle-aged Trump base will eventually be ashamed to tell their grandchildren they supported Trump --- but that's because they have a moral core that does not accept racism.

I do not believe you can make the same generalization about Japanese society --- or about many other societies in the world! It's a sign of the health of our culture that we so openly confront our racism.
The intelligence argument is nonsense. Pigs are as intelligent as dogs. Describe the treatment of livestock (pigs, chickens, cows) but frame it as something that is happening to dogs and you'll drive hundreds of thousands of outraged meat eaters to signing a petition. The reason is cognitive dissonance, we're taught from the moment we can understand that it's okay to farm animals and very few people ever really think about the consequences of that. To be humane means "having or showing compassion or benevolence" which is about as far from how you can describe the treatment of livestock that you can get. To suggest that the the real problem with livestock farming is the slaughter demonstrates a clear misunderstanding of where the real problems lie, slaughter is one of the most humane parts of livestock farming.

Dairy cows spend more than half a decade being repeatedly raped and abused until they're slaughtered because their bodies have been destroyed by the milking process, and they spend that half a decade having their young snatched away from them over and over again. If having the emotional intelligence to mourn your stolen young isn't enough to justify ending the inhumane treatment then it's certainly not intelligence that humans care about.

If this research is unethical then learn about gestation crates, which immobilise pigs for months of their pregnancy.
Sounds like your friend ran into a bug. I don't see a reason to assume malicious intent unless Microsoft refuses to fix this issue.
> Nintendo is quite different

> Nintendo always starts with the same goal, coming up with a new way to play

As a game developer this comes across as quite the Nintendo propaganda video. Nintendo games are the least innovative things I have ever played, as they simply recreate their popular IPs over and over again (mario, zelda, pokemon etc) with somewhat better/different graphics. The only reason they are where they are today is the original games were released at the right time (timing + luck), and people continue to buy the sequels today out of nostalgia.
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Trump is about as far from a Christian as you can get in a person. I very highly doubt that he cares about religion except as a useful electioneering tool. He is unlikely to stick with that label during his presidency since it would be inconvenient, so I don't think you have to worry about Christianity being the official religion.
I don't care for banal greetings either. I'm with you there. I want to pay and get out.

However, in many workplaces I've worked at, there seems to have been a pall brought on by HR at least discouraging saying Merry Christmas and opting for Happy Holidays. I've had managers self-correct themselves and correct others as they spoke -probably out of fear of offending people who take the greeting too literally [i.e. celebrating Christ Mass].
This isn't a healthy mindset for anyone in the healthcare industry.
I'm splitting hairs, perhaps unnecessarily so, about exact word choice used to communicate the ground facts. We agree about the ground facts.

>> Would the sentence "Japan is way way more racist than America" work? If not, I'm going to express further surprise, because that is a sentence you have used before.

Is this a quote or a paraphrase? I'd be mildly surprised if I said those exact words and did not do an immediate verbal retraction. I have recollection of writing e.g. "[I]s racism a bigger problem in Japan than e.g. in the United States? Yes."

Consider it from the perspective of a government bureaucrat who has the brief Protect Japan From Threats. In the formulation "Japan is a fiercely racist society", and his goal is to protect Japan from threats, anyone opposing racism is a threat. In the formulation "Racism is a big problem in Japan", his goal can plausibly be "Reduce racism in Japan", much like it could be "Reduce poverty in Japan" or "Reduce unemployment in Japan." I like making/keeping space available for people to embrace that second interpretation.
This is why the Python community gave 15 years to migrate. This is why we created many, many tools (2to3, six, Python-future, mypy) to help with it. And this is why Guido is always saying 2.7 users are important and need respect.

Still. 15 years. It's not a last minute change. Python has been incredible in maintaining the 2.7 around, giving people help and time to change. I know NO other tech that did that. The JS community breaks his toys every other week. PHP just jumped a version to avoid it. No one is migrating to Perl 6. Python is actually the only one that pulled this off, and have been very, very careful to give you the margin to do it.

Everything needs to evolve, and one day you will have to do it. Don't to it in 2020, or it will be way more costly.

And yes, you have many advantages in having Python 3, mainly ease of dev, debug and maintenance. This is not as hard as it seems. Took me a week alone to convert a huge system. Don't feel overwhelmed by the task, it's really not the end of the world.
> very high quality English speaking devs

Thats exactly what OP is saying you'll get in India for that price. Unless your assumption is everyone in India/China is low quality at any price.
Yes, they do indeed. Like the one that specifies how long you can drive professionally for in a day, and how often you have to take a break.
I do not want to nit picking our discussion. But I seem failed to convey my ideas:
1. QA exists prevalently
2. In general software companies do not have dedicated QA team for every engineer team
3. Lack of testing is a real concern for maintainability in big companies, because developers need to write tests themselves.

I do not disagree with your examples, but they are orthogonal to my point #2 #3. Let's go back to your original comment:

"""
The thing is, most large companies have a QA team so this fear is not super tangible to many developers. And small startups are more focused on building stuff quickly (which they should be).
"""

The comment was responding to:
"""
Once you release a product that will be used by many customers and developed by many people throughout its lifecycle, which come and go as the time passes, you won't be able to maintain/extend it without a proper testing suite. It's not only about complexity, but also about maintainability. Some tests will also rot in time.
"""

My understanding is that, you meant to say that the fear of lack of testing harms maintainability is not so relevant to developers in big companies, because they have dedicated QA team (writ tests for them).

My comment says, in general, big companies do not have dedicated QA teams for dev teams, so there is no dedicated QA team write tests for dev team. My examples are 2 of the largest software companies in the world. Among them, Google redefined how people access information, Amazon reinvented how developers access computing resources.

I think my examples support my intention to prove that your statement and what it implied, in general, is not true.
Pigs are actually really intelligent as in higher than dogs. So, it really depends on the type of money.
David has moved away from it, in OM.next you do not use CPS. You can of course, but it would only be a implementation detail and not fundamental to the structure of Om.next.
Winds – An Open Source Personalized RSS Reader
Alibaba breaks records, sells $17.7B on Singles Day
> I am sorry, I imagine it would be possible in Germany.

As a matter of fact, it is entirely possible. Just yesterday news broke that cops were in bed with a biker gang (http://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/ermittlungen-polizei-durch...). But it's very rare that such things happen.

> But them being members of a fascist party and compiling lists, as hard as I try, I don't see happening.

It's not the cops, it's the fascists who compile and spread such lists.
Note that it is key to go further than training the nurses. You have to change the culture so that it is expected by everyone involved for a nurse to tell a doctor to stop what they are doing and wash their hands.
Ruby isn't about the syntax, though. Ruby is about the metaprogramming and what the language allows you to do.

Crystal is neat, but it isn't interesting.
Also use pivotal tracker. I find it much better than JIRA due to its simplicity.
If politics was all logic we 'd be running on a circuit board.
I think it might have something to do with the right being absolutely (and not always fairly) demonized by the media over the course of this election cycle. You can expect schadenfreude for a little while. The left certainly engaged in the same in 2008 and 2012.
But we don't really need to understand something to create technology leveraging it. And we are just getting started with deep learning. And our computers are extremely slow and have tiny storage compared to what they will be.
In particular, if you attack (verbally or physically), shame, fire, riot against those whose opinion you want to change, I can't imagine you'll achieve much.

When it comes to the disemploying and physical violence, I assure you that you'll indeed accomplish a lot, just not anything you want. The verbal abuse of course doesn't help, either, and has helped to harden attitudes prior to this period where disemployment and physical violence are rising to the fore.
I am trying to normalize some of this between different operating system shells: https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle
>> [MSE] doesn’t have: parental control

Thank the heavens. I mean, seriously, using parental controls as a parent is equal to failure at being a parent in my opinion. They're useless at best (because you can circumvent ANY of them), and instill false confidence in incompetent parents.
As languages go, Python 3 is pretty successful. It unfortunately shares a name with the language it is a variant of so people tend to compare the popularity of the two. The popularity of Python 3 should be judged against all similar languages, not just the insanely popular Python 2.
The simple thing that gets me is how he always addresses his audience as 'friends', and thanks them.
I live in "Europe" as well, and don't see that "99%"

> In this country the only political trump supporters are the ones that has historic ties with the nazi's

That all racists support trump is not the same as all trump supporters are racists. Can you provide more evidence that "the only political trump supporters" are racist? It's not "telling" if it not true.

> that is fact

...
I'd imagine that only having a partial buffer available makes it really hard to do text highlighting, auto completion, linting, etc.
Humanity, Clan and the Urban Archipelago
I don't believe so, and clearly America doesnt believe so.
Whether or not you think what Gawker did was right, it is a terrible precedent that a billionaire can shut down the entire publication by funding lawsuits for other people against the publisher. There are ways to get the tape removed without simply outspending the press to the point where they cannot feasibly fight your lawsuit.

It is a slippery slope. No one feels too bad about a sex tape getting taken down, but cases like this ensure that journalists will have to self-censor what they publish and err on the conservative side or else risk their entire publication being closed. This has a chilling effect on investigative journalism.
Agreed. And voting the whole thing up.
I’m not sure why but the Mac has not installed a "/usr/bin/python3" so I continue to avoid 3.x migration (aside from minor things like "__future__" imports for division and print_function).

I don’t want to add a dependency for end users when my current code works fine with the built-in Python at 2.x. Nor do I want to bloat the size of downloads to embed something like an entire interpreter binary. (Swift has the same issue; there is currently no way to refer to it externally, as it is in flux; I do not want to embed loads of Swift libraries in every build so I will wait to migrate until they have stabilized binaries and made them available from a common root.)
Oh, okay. That makes sense. Thanks for the reply!
Yes... the simple observation that everybody has an agenda. I don't consider any news source to be worthy of being taken at face value. I feel we should be at least somewhat skeptical of, well, pretty much everything.
> neither earned a plurality

You mean a majority, no?
> From the depths of my heart, Fuck You.

You can't behave like this to other community members on Hacker News, no matter what's going on and no matter what they say.
I have pain in my fingers (especially index finger of my right hand). I've always hit the keys on the keyboard hard (I picked up that habit when I had to work on some terminals with really stiff keyboards back in the day). It's worse on keyboards with short key travel. I think the index finger is worse, because it also gets to do the mouse clicking.

I'm 54. At this point, it could be the beginnings of arthritis...
> Then, perform floating point operations only on top of that, as a last step.

Right. "Once you go float, you never go back."

Any time you need discrete operations like counting and equality, do it in integer space. Avoid going from integer space back to floating point space.
Well, it's not such a big deal, apparently. Everybody looking the other way, when the boss touches the secretary. Good times!
> During "Suzanne", the room (a hockey arena) was completely dark except for a spotlight shining up from below casting a giant shadow behind him. Combined with such a haunting song it made for one of the most beautiful musical experiences of my life.

I think that what got me from the concert (which I saw in Chicago) was when he dropped to his knees to sing. What a privilege it was to see such a giant perform.
Optional static typing in a Python 2 codebase
How many people could perform an emergency C-section out of the blue, without harming the child as well? I hope nobody actually thinks this is worth considering if your pregnant wife has a heart attack.
people so upset they decide to waste their time building petty websites. lol
You mean after the lawyers and HR got to him?
The Ars article discusses Playpen / Operation Pacifier in the first sentence. But you're saying that these 23 other sites only displayed an error message and distributed malware? Ok, but still, the FBI did in at least one instance distribute child porn, and that was mentioned in the article at hand, so I don't see why my analogy is out of place in this discussion.
Trump’s anti-immigration stance threatens the heart of American innovation
What further evidence that she's an establishment hack could have convinced you?

I'm in my 30s, which means that I'm 97 in tech years. So I remember the 1990s. People were horrible to that woman. Her complaint about a "vast right-wing conspiracy" is spot-on. The Establishment beat the hell out of her.

So she realized that she had to work with the Establishment to get things done. Like I said, I'd rather take a chance of planting a bomb in it than throw a brick at it. And if I'm wrong and Clinton proved a sellout, we could fire her in 2020.

Yes, she accepted her market rate for speeches at Goldman Sachs... after leaving public service. Wouldn't you? I despise Goldman Sachs and I applied to work for them at one point, because if I'd gotten the Core Strats gig, it would have been good for my career. Almost all of us are whores, or were at one time. That's how capitalism works.

The Democratic establishment sold out their base.

I dislike the Democratic establishment (although it is less onerous than the Republican one). I dislike the fact that left-leaning and rational people face a complacent one-party system. Not enough to vote for Trump.

Just saying that people are "dirty" because they have friends in the Establishment is bigoted and Trumpist. We have to accept that people have different strategies for dealing with corruption, corporatism, and national failure and that one only knows the right one in hindsight.
Court says secretly filming nude young girls in bathroom isn’t child porn
An idea for encrypted, verifiable voting
You said those exact words, laughing, walking on Wells Street in Chicago.

I take your meaning about being careful not to lock in an unsatisfactory status quo with rhetoric. I think you know that's not what I'm trying to do.

Here, the connection between the comment I was replying to and my summary about Japanese society is particularly powerful. That commenter is selecting an attribute of Japanese society for praise that you and I know is deeply problematic. I know you agree with me: importing the cultural attribute that commenter is referring to would be a tragedy.
The code has a mind boggling LOC. e.g. https://github.com/therecipe/qt/blob/master/widgets/widgets....
I think there's a rather extreme hierarchy of wrongs here.

1. The crime that utterly dwarfs all others is involving children in the making of child porn.

2. After that, the crimes that dwarf all the rest are those that provide financial or practical support to child porn makers. Consuming child porn is generally regarded as one of those, and I'm fine with that categorization.

3. I'm sorry, but violating a victim's theoretical privacy by distributing the images a little further doesn't seem to be nearly as big a deal as helping to prevent the next live video of child porn from being made.

I'm usually regarded as being pro-privacy, but privacy is not something to be a rabid extremist about. Preventing physical sexual abuse of children, on the other hand, is a fine area for extremism.
You're ignoring the case where resource A is finite, or relatively so, health care, especially in the US where the Federal government controls the number of new doctors and hospital beds and requires emergency room care for all is a great example of that. As soon as the Federal government can no longer can borrow money a essentially zero percent real interest rates, you'll find that's even true for things like "welfare queens".
Same. I think the juxtaposition between the cohen version throughout and the 4 non blondes (?) version at the end made me love it so much more.

I feel that many singers just sing the words, and sometimes they're pretty, sometimes sad. It was like raw emotion poured out every time Leonard Cohen opened his mouth.
First, PHP isn't perfect. I've worked with PHP since I started developing and i love it. When you're developing for web it's the way to go. And with PHP 7 the language has matured a lot.
"We will not tar good people for joining the Trump administration."

Good people like Colin Powell, Gen Eric Shinseki, Tom Ridge, John J. DiIulio, Jr., etc, etc?

Reread 'The Prince'. Any nail sticking up will be pounded down. There will be no tolerance for 'good people'.
Apparently one of the websites required users to submit CP in order to access content.

You can imagine all you like, but this hasn't radically changed just because we have the internet.
That's not a rebuttal. You can shut down any discussion like that.
That's true between a debug build and just running it as a script I believe. But a release version will be optimized, I imagine if they compared a debug build to the scripted version they'd perform similarly.
The funny thing is that Avast which used to be my go to choice for the past 5-7 years has gotten quite bloated and intrusive as well.

They even bought/merged with AVG which was quite annoying 10 years ago.

So MSE it is for friends/relatives.

I miss the days when one could run the virus scanner once a month and not have it always be on.

In fact some of my Win7 computers behind NAT I run without any active anti-virus.
You are just answering to the style of my question, while you perfectly understood the meaning and avoided to provide the answer.

Basically this feature is here to provide an easy propagation of errors, something an exception system does for you for free.

"?" exist because the current error handling make it inconvenient to propagate errors, and is a workaround to make it less of a pain.

It's alright. There is no shame in it. Just say so, don't try to talk your way out of it.
> I dont get why people are so emotional when famous artists die. Posting on facebook and whatnot.. We werent personal friends with them, so it wont affect our lives in any way.

I mentioned in another thread how touching it was that Cohen always addressed his audience as 'friends'. It is a little thing, but he wanted to connect with us personally—he was a poet much more than a performer, I think—and he did, and I feel it as a personal loss even if I was never physically any closer to the man than one seat at one of his concerts.

If you don't feel it, or any loss of anyone famous, personally, then that's totally reasonable; but why try to dismiss others' sense of loss?
So, no firefighters for you. No ambulances. No tax levies for public education. No child labor protection laws. No OSHA. It's just everyone for themselves.
It should also be pointed out that Solar is the most [1] green house gas producing method of green energy.

... but still tiny compared to any form of fossil fuel or biomass!

Presumably the carbon footprint of solar is largely made up of fossil fuel used in the production and installation of PV panels themselves. This would decline over time as the grid, and vehicles, become greener. Eventually, new panels would be produced using energy from existing panels, closing the loop.

Wind, Nuclear, Hydro-Electric, and Tidal are all vastly more carbon efficient.

The difference is pretty small according to the table you posted. They're all much, much better than fossil fuels.
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Back in the 90s McAfee was the best AV around. By quite some margin as well from what I recall. But then around 1998/2000 - i forget the exact year - the AV went from being nimble and reliable to a slow and troublesome mess. It went from being a market leader to one of the worst solutions available. And it seem to happen in just one version number jump.

Ever since then, it's been consistently awful to the point of ridicule. But sometimes I have flashbacks to when even I would recommend it.
> hasn't yet found a single thing

No illegal email servers then?
It's such an insane thing to have to hope for, but the best case scenario is that Trump is... George W. Bush. That he'll be impolite, but not undiplomatic. That he'll start one, maybe two wars, and keep them non-nuclear. That we'll see a declining market economy, not an authoritarian state. I oppose Paul Ryan on nearly every economic ideal, but I have to hope he pushes his agenda through, as opposed to... Alex Jones?

Most terrifying on the list is Steve Bannon. Rumor is that Trump likes him, and the only one close to him who doesn't is Ivanka. Probably because she's Jewish enough to fear the top adviser to the president being a white nationalist itching for the Day of the Rope.
The Federal Prosecutor (1940) [pdf]
> Is clicking on a link enough to establish intent?

Legally no it's not, that's a very weak binding and they know it. That's why any type of sting - whether cp or other - will attempt to get the user to sign-up, view content, or otherwise willfully provide personal information (eg a credit card).
Three brilliant super-tough ultra-effective women helped Trump succeed
Maybe, can you put your example in context?