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I read you comment. I get your point on why the state provides benefits for marriage. You're argument that civil unions should suffice misses the point and is ignorant of the facts. The fight for marriage equality is not because gay people are overly attached to the nomenclature, there's a real practical difference between unions and marriage[1].

Also you quoted me in your response, but your comments made no argument against my quote. Care to shed light on why people you don't know getting married deprives you of something?

1: http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/marriage-compa...
So, would this be consumer-facing internet, or would SpaceX be subletting capacity on their network for various providers to offer "space internet"?

This has been mentioned before in the context of municipalities building/maintaining fiber infrastructure and subletting to ISPs.
Just curious: any similar libraries for the other class of erasure codes, the fountain codes?
Almost half of my time in the past few months have gone into interviewing and hiring and I approached the subject with a complete beginners mindset and tinkered to see what works. Much to my chagrin turns out there is a positive selection effect to filter candidates by resumes based on hot tech. Maybe the smart ones know this increases there employability? Maybe they are naturally more curious? Who knows, it just seem to be a good signal.
Data point of one here, but my experience is different. I used Crédit Coopératif, and they issued me with a password generator fob (like a small calculator in which you stick your Visa chip-card) which the 3D Secure page would ask for a response from.

I suspect it depends on your bank. Back when i used Crédit Agricole, i was indeed forced to do SMS auth, which is inferior.
You can't keep suspending heretics forever and expect not to be called the Spanish Inquisition.
I'm not even sure what you're asking me to google. "The big SJW conspiracy"?

So there was a black women falsely reporting a crime, cool. How does that show that "almost all of these stories are fake"?
I only buy manual transmission cars. The reason is twofold. First it is dramatically cheaper to fix a manual. The transmission also lasts longer. The second reason is that it is more fun! Any time I want I can drop a couple gears and kick out the tail. Even a front wheel drive is more fun as a manual because it takes skill to accelerate fast.
Correct. It's basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_transmission .. implementations vary in quality but on high end cars, tends to be extremely nice to use.
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and then there's the question of how many therapists would validate this thought process? And how much will that number increase?
This is actually why a lot of expensive sports cars have 0-60 times of 2.9 seconds. Unless you design specifically for it, it's difficult to generate much downforce at low speeds.

Related: if you've ever wondered why some drag cars (e.g. Funny cars) have short exhaust pipes angled up and back, now you know.
As long as saudi arabians keep pouring money into its tanking stock, i 'm alright with it.
Did a search for that. Cheeky.
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MSDN (web version, maybe desktop app still exists, I don't know) still has very poor usability. Recently I decided to try .NET and was surprised how painful MSDN is (compared to almost any other documentation website). Page load times of 5-10 seconds, poor navigation (2-3 link clicks just to get to list of class methods).

Does anyone know any alternative .NET documentation viewers (usable without Visual Studio and Windows)?
Is Tesla so fast compared to the price because is an electric car or this is totally unrelated and was just designed to have such an acceleration, without help from the fact it's an electric car? Thanks.

EDIT: Thank you for the replies!
I rather think the burden of proof is on those making the claims. Why should we accept any of the reports as true without evidence? Since I can't think of any way to prove that some random person on the internet relating an anecdote is lying.
Sure, but we're talking about city driving near a red light, not breaking flow on high speed roads.
Yes. Would you say your power outlets are political?
Not really an issue. The energy used to restart the engine is small compared to the fuel savings. An electric starter motor is very efficient compared to a combustion engine at idle.

Stop/start will automatically disable if the battery has a low state of charge.
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I can't help but feel in the majority of cases fleeting access should not be a problem for a modern operating system.

Lets say you are working in an office and get up to go the loo. You lock your work station. You are expecting that your locked computer will mean that a visitor cannot gain access to it in the few minutes you are away.

They could steal the computer, they could destroy it but slipping something into the port of a locked computer shouldn't give them this sort of access.

I feel that we can do better.
So, you prefer it when they make their plans behind your back ?
Don't they provide none of the advantages of an automatic (ease of mind in traffic), and all the disadvantages (less mechanical and power efficiency, etc..)

As far as I know, they're pretty much only useful in racing
I'm co-founder of Daplie (https://Daplie.com) and we offer a home cloud (pointedly dubbed "Cloud") that competes with some (or potentially all) of Google's G Suite.

The Internet never seemed so small, closed, and locked as when we got our notice that our ads account was suspended (and we got no explanation other than that the reason was 'on a list they weren't allowed to talk about'). It suddenly became super clear just how much Google monopolizes the web and had the power to censor products and services and ideas they don't want.

Not evil, eh?

...
As always the SoC manufacturers are to blame. Google could probably fix these problems by writing yet another layer of software to abstract the hardware even further but the simple solution would be to fix these problems at the root.
there is censorship everywhere...they select only what they agree with and ignore what they don't understand even if there is an explanation for it...why is no one investigating this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQrT84kjc4
I don't know of any cross-library comparison benchmark. Also, if a library does ship with an internal benchmark, it usually uses a different number of data/parity shards and different shard size, compared to other library benchmarks, which makes comparison difficult.

I wrote an MIT-licensed ReedSolomon module for Node [1], with native C++ multi-core throughput. The internal benchmark (node benchmark.js) provides latency and throughput measurements for data=10, parity=4 for a variety of shard sizes, and the number of data/parity shards can be adjusted for comparison.

It's not yet using optimized assembler or SIMD like Klaus Post's implementation, but it is compatible and also based on Backblaze's implementation, as well as including a pure Javascript implementation for browser use.

[1] https://github.com/jorangreef/reed-solomon
>How would such a compromise look like?

Stop legal abortions at the age of viability as arrived at through scientific consensus.

>I personally feel that the conservative stance on abortion is cruel...

In some cases, it is. I'm not agreeing with all the anti-abortion arguments. I have also talked with "progressive" family members that have a cold/cruel absolutist view of it. In their mind, 8 months was fair game, because choice. When it comes to abortion, the assholery cuts both ways.
Surely this entire argument is an artifact of the governments uneccessarry intervention in private and family life. If we remove the governments role in marriage completely then people can decide for themselves what role it should play. Small government is a sensible ethos but never seems to be applied to these conservative hot button issues.
I would say a sports car is not a real sports car without stick ...
People can't downvote comments that are replies to their comments.

You can't downvote this comment, because it's a reply to your comment.

Thus, the downvotes are coming from other people, and they're telling you to calm the fuck down.

Plenty of people think Allied bombing of civilian populations was a war crime.

The reason it wasn't a war time at the time is because "don't kill civilians" was taken for granted - it was so obvious no-one put it into conventions.
This is a good reason for it to exist. I still keep a Windows 2000 VM around on my Mac so I can run a few Windows programs I need, and while I also have a Windows 10 VM, the Windows 2000 version is so much faster & less resource intensive.

I'm playing with ReactOS tonight and it's still extremely buggy, but I can at least start to see a future where that Win2K VM might get retired. Version 0.4.3 looks like a good improvement over v0.4.0 earlier this year.
The same is true of other older BMWs. I've owned four, and my E30 was still the best.
You don't have traffic where you live? I like driving manuals too but 45 minutes of stop and go traffic each way would be torture in a manual so I have an automatic.
I think Trump has power of law over twitter now, no?
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Many NIC's support this but they aren't really setup to handle individuals (they prefer resellers do that) expect to pay a lot more for the privilege. You can usually find the Registrar by just going to nic.tld (e.g. http://nic.io/)
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Having lived in the US, Canada and Europe, I have spent a lot of time driving both manual and automatic transmissions. I would say that the answer "being more in touch with the car" is not far fetched. I enjoy driving, different cars give me a different experience. But I find driving automatic cars very boring, and that's about the only reason (might be a bad reason, but still valid). I can drive both just as well, I never really thought about the fuel efficiency (I have a motorbike for driving around city that will take care of that) nor have I ever heard anyone mentioning that - I have heard that they were more expensive, but I've never tried to buy one in Europe.

Regarding the size of the cars. US cities have been well planned and designed for cars, while a lot of European cities haven't really been planned for cars back then. So, when you live in a city like London, most people will go for a smaller sized car rather than an SUV (or other types of big cars common in the US), otherwise going through those small two-way traffic street and find parking can be annoying. Otherwise, I might not mind as much having a big comfortable automatic car.
> fake news sites that are obviously not satire

Are Stephen Colbert / daily show etc. included in the list?
I think that's true, but I also think one reason that works for him is that the left is so hostile to a moderate position.
What happens with someones 2FA accounts that use google authenticator in this scenario?
This is a good article, and the quote in the middle is absolutely amazing -- it belongs up there with some of the most insightful quotes about software ever (and it was not even directly about software).

I sum the quote up as, "Systems are sentient beings like the One True Ring, and they will absorb you. Soon, though you believe you are thinking freely, you will actually be merely a part of the System, thinking what it wants you to think." So true!

But ... Taco Bell programming still creates a new system. That's a flaw in the article's premise.

If you solve a problem by stringing together 11 tools, then yes, you should get some benefits from reusing preexisting tools. But now, you have a system with some rube goldberg characteristics, plus you've written a bunch of "glue code" (which is "new code") in the process.

Those systems can often turn out to be more complex.
I never defended the claim that almost all are fake (in fact, I said I'm sure many are true), I'm simply saying there are many times these people have been caught lying about harassment -- and yes, they are SJWs. Like many of the people most upset about Trump's victory. You don't know what to google except "big SJW conspiracy". I can see I'll get nowhere with you. Just forget about it, you've made up your mind.
Yeah, I really liked it feature wise, but it was a shocker on performance.
Now doing it, will share it here when it's done. Give us ~2hrs :)
Also, most managers won't act on anything they can't measure directly.
Ah yes, that makes more sense. Thanks.
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For most people it is not what is better, but what are they used to in daily life. I learned on manual transmission, the care I mostly use has manual transmission and gear up and down because I'm used to do it.

One driving instructor warned us, not to hit the break with the left foot when driving automatic. ;-) (of course this never happened to me)

Eventually I don't really care.
I don't really have a better suggestion. Ideally, making sure that the feeds would raise some kind of error condition in all feed readers, but I doubt there's something universal like that.

Maybe the "still working" message is good enough, it wouldn't bother me too much, personally.
How so? It gives us an opportunity to ask questions to make sure the service is right for us. I think it's pretty cool that I could talk directly to a Fastmail employee if I wanted to, without having to call support or open a chat session.

Besides, I'm the one he directly replied to, and I'm not complaining. Why do you care?
>It's a weird thing to care so much about.

I agree with you. It wasn't something any thought about before. But once it made its way into the public discussion, I understand how some people would be uncomfortable with it: especially people who don't know any trans people.

>'m not sure how you can explain away...

I can't and I don't. I think people like Mike Pence are assholes. My personal stance is we should use the age of viability (as arrived at by scientific consensus) as a legal cut off.
> FWIW, Dell, HP and other vendors use the term "workstation" to cover what you're talking about.

Yes, indeed. And as with many other things, Apple being Apple, decided to name their workstation differently.
Definitely not. Check out any country that is not US for that. Not just Argentina or Brazil, but Europe too. Poland, for example.

(Personally I think everyone would be way more corteous and the roads would be safer if traffic laws were actually enforced. What I mean by that is e.g. ANPRs deployed pretty much everywhere, automatically fining you for speeding. The way most drivers I know treat traffic laws as mere suggestions is ridiculous.)
I did one of the rust-koans out there and it went very well. Can't really remember which one, though...
To my knowledge the essence of an electric engine is that is has max traction almost independent of the rpm. Where a petrol engine has an optimal rpm (4000 for instance) where it provides most power, the electric car does not. Consequence is that a petrol car needs a gearbox to keep the engine around this optimal RPM (and thus most power) while the electric engine does not need one - it accelerates and keeps on accelerating...
So the Tesla is so fast because it is electric, not because it has other features.
Except when it doesn't or when it's pain in the ass (embedded systems, or so
I hear).
I absolutely hate it as a term. It's an exercise in rebranding of an ideology and it's a pretty clever one as well. Alternative (alt) implies that they're somehow ideologically different from the rest of the "right". They aren't, they're as you say just further right.

Also alt with the lower case a carries with it some techy payload as well which together with people like Thiel makes it look like its some expression of ideas about the future when it's mostly about nostalgia for the past.

I can't believe how easily this has been swallowed by everyone particularly the media.
Why is it people have so much trouble spelling Breitbart consistently, let alone right?
I sorta get the idea of the article. Working smart etc. However the incentives in organizations run often counter to that. Gluing together existing pieces to do some grunt work is rarely good for your career. Building new glorious systems is much more likely to do that.

Also for orgs that do the developing for other orgs it isn't really optimal to offer the quick and efficient solutions unless competitors are doing the same.
Racing divers would shift exactly like automatic

I'm not going to say "you're wrong" but I think there are plenty of situations where you know or can anticipate what gear you need to tackle a certain scenario, where an auto simply can't know.

For example, a set of 90 degree bends with (very) short straights between them (this is a real scenario where I live and why I've thought about this at length already). In a manual, you might ride the entire set of bends out in a low gear so you get both the most acceleration between bends and not have any gear changes mid-bend so you're ready to accelerate out quickly. An automatic, on the other hand, would be inclined to change up gear between bends and then have to change back down again once you want to accelerate out as it wouldn't really know what was going on.

My car's transmission has a wide variety of options, including a "race" mode, and I usually drive manual instead, because the semi-automatic options seem to be terrible at anticipating anything and coaxing them through throttle alone is an art beyond me.
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> A lot of people in Germany think automatics are for people who can't drive properly.

In a country that overwhelmingly drives manual that is a reasonable assumption.

Many Americans seem to get quite defensive about driving automatic. In America, driving manual is a choice, and a weird thing to do. Therefore driving manual there has many value judgements associated with it. It is "macho" or something for driving elitists and gearheads to do.

In overwhelmingly manual countries, this is not the case. Here in the UK, your 85yo grandmother drives a manual. Your 16yo daughter drives one. Everybody but everybody drives a manual, nobody goes around thinking that driving a manual is novel or macho or in any way notable.

The very few people that I have ever known who drive automatic were truly awful drivers. They took the easier automatic-only test because they kept failing the manual one. It is not an unreasonable assumption to think that someone driving an automatic who chooses to do so, is a poor driver - but only in a country that is strongly manual.
Or it could be that loud noise affects how you perceive food.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3081285/Why-a...
Is it just me, or is every other font produced by Bigalow and Holmes essentially Lucida?
I just did a cursory search for options to backup google account.

The most comprehensive option seems to be https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout, which offers to save data from almost all google services to a downloadable ZIP file. That is manual solution though, with no official way to automate.

Other option is to back up data from each service separately with different tools:

* offlineimap for GMail,
* goobook for Google Contacts (mainly for Android contacts),
* gdrive for Google Drive.
* other tools for other services.

I'm curious to hear other's thoughts on their experiences with this.
Thanks for the pointers, this was not discoverable from web searching.
Funny enough, I prefer the cold food for everything but breakfast when flying (an ice cold Danish is not how I want to be informed that it is 0800 local time)

Part of that is a lot of what the article mentioned (overcooked and soggy food is not what I consider good), but it is also just for peace of mind. I don't need to balance a lot of liquid filled tray compartments and I don't have to worry about the person next to me somehow flipping theirs (it happened before...). As long as they still have hot water and can reheat week old Starbucks then I am set.
Can you find me an example of a modern car that this is true for? I'm one of the few Americans (I guess) who can drive a manual transmission car; I just hate it. But if it were really better for the environment and better gas mileage I would consider it.

HN has spurred me to look into it, but the Honda Accord had 1 mpg better for manual, the Toyota Camry had exactly even, and the BMW I looked at had better gas mileage for an automatic.

So for now I'm chalking it up as HN'ers being irrationally in favor of manuals because that's their culture (since the U.S. hasn't really woken up yet).
Isn't it in this case just an implementation detail without any meaningful consequences (apart from interop)? - I'm trying to find a way to benefit from it. I wrote some code to compare the two approaches and see what's going on underneath.[0] I'm not familiar with IL, but it seems like the memory usage is the same and the simple return function requires less ops.

[0] http://tryroslyn.azurewebsites.net/#f:>ilr/A4VwRgNglgxgBDCBD...
What I didn't see mentioned in that article but has come up on other sources regarding airline food[1] is that the altitude also negatively affects your sense of smell and thus taste since so much of our perceived taste is actually smell.

[1] http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hestons-mission-impossibl... (Episode 3 - British Airways)
I drive the UK variant of the volt, and while it has good acceleration, it also has a variable lag from the pedal being fully depressed to the acceleration starting.
I'm running into quite a few bugs with Firefox 45.0.1 / 47.0.2, it's giving me some invalid SSL results on Let's Encrypt sites & generating 400 Bad Request "Request header is missing colon separator" errors on sites that work on other operating systems. But it's still a big improvement, I don't think I've been able to even get that far with ReactOS before.

Notably, this comment is being posted from ReactOS.
I know it was mentioned but I'd check out HappyFunCorp out of New York City, I've heard great things about them.
You always have to rely on someone, but you can structure your affairs so that you're only temporarily reliant on them to provide service today, not to provide service indefinitely.

If your email address is "me@gmail.com", you're stuck with Google. If they suspend your account, you're in big trouble. If your email address is "me@myname.com", you're a free agent. You can use Gmail or Fastmail or some random hosting company or a mailserver on a Raspberry Pi. You can use DNS or forwarding to send your mail wherever you like, you can transfer your domain name to any registrar you like. Rule zero.

If all your files are in Google Drive or Dropbox and nowhere else, suspension of your account could mean total data loss. If you have a local backup on a NAS or a mirror on Glacier or Backblaze, you're just mildly inconvenienced. Rule two.

Eliminate single points of failure wherever possible. Avoid vendor lock-in. Don't rely on a service unless you have a contingency plan if that service fails. Treat everything as if it were hopelessly unreliable.