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Up until college, I had always heard the story of the Catholic Church persecuting Galileo as sort of the prototypical example of the church's attitude toward science. As a Catholic, I figured it was an episode where Galileo was clearly in the right and the Church was clearly in the wrong.

In college, though, I discovered that many influential Catholics strongly reject the idea that Galileo was persecuted by the Catholic Church because the Church disagreed with his theory or felt it threatened to undermine its teachings:

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-galileo-controversy

tl;dr - It's more complicated than the typical anti-Catholic narrative suggests. The episode was primarily a clash of personalities (Galileo was a jerk and insulted thin-skinned Vatican officials who misused their power to punish him), rather than a dispute about science, or even a dispute about the intersection of science and religion.
Thank you very much for the detailed answer. It really answered my question. This kind of passion in people is so rare and always when I meet I learn a lot.
sure, I use it to manage connections to people who meet me at conferences.
It locks up after 8 mph probably because if it locked up at any lower of a speed, the engine would be too close to stalling.

Also, the ZF 6HPxx (and newer) transmissions behave the same way. My 2011 335i will lock up in first gear (probably around 10 mph, but it depends on the load). This transmission has been used by BMW since at least 2006. A derivative of it is also used in the Ford Mustang now.
Not to mention they are stealing not only your e-mail data but your entire digital identity. Now they can reset the password of all your accounts, send e-mails in your behalf, buy things in your name.

I just don't trust DNS, domain registrars and all the things I would need to secure to have a custom domain e-mail.
Plain text is your best bet. You can just save images along beside it. Backup often.

If you must have images inline, you could probably use Markdown to include them. Markdown will almost certainly be around in 20 years, but if it's not, writing a parser for it will be self-explanatory and won't take long.
Zfec is really slow compared to state of the art CRS codes like cm256: https://github.com/catid/cm256
Having more control isn't something everyone values: some people would rather focus on where they are going than the process of getting there. By that metric automatics are far better.
Someone using an iPhone doesn't invalidate their views - are they supposed to suddenly stop using a phone as a statement to the world?

I see plenty of issues with Chinese laborers working in slave-like conditions. I'm happy to discuss breaking trade treaties and dealing with the consequences to give these people better lives. I'd say their condition is worse than the American poor - so if anything, we should bias towards them.

But, we have power to fix these things within the bounds of our nation and refuse to do it. We have more influence over our country than any other.
Hadn't heard of it. Very cool alternative. Especially since I still can't get used to Win 10.
agreed. if they are unarmed then they can forget about arresting people and bringing them into jail and in front of a judge. plenty of people are willing to kill to avoid that outcome.
Automatics will never shift well until they can consider the road ahead. Upcoming curve, slope up or down, heavy traffic, etc. all affect a driver's decision about when to shift and which gear to select. So you basically need the sensors a self-driving car would have, and at that point, manual vs. automatic transmission is sort of irrelevant.
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Speaking only for myself, I was enamored by VCs when I first moved to the Bay Area. I definitely put them up on a pedestal, and selectively listened to people who did the same. After spending about 12 months trying to raise money for my "business guy w/ no traction & no product" startup idea, I learned that VCs are highly visible & accessible because they need to generate leads for themselves. But I didn't understand for quite a while that I was bringing them a lead they would never fund. That was a hard lesson to learn.
Sounds like it's time to leave the rust belt then.
Again, not my field of expertise, but worth asking: There's going to be much much more air between two mountains 80km apart than between the surface and 80km altitude. I believe the quantity of air in a column above you at sea level is about equal to 9km of sea-level air. How would that change the problem?
> Trump is far more corrupt than Clinton

We disagree on this point. I believe that Clinton is the most corrupt politician the US has ever seen.

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to when you talk about Trump's corruption, but if you're referring to his buying and bribing of politicians, I don't consider that corruption. It's wrong and illegal, sure, but the private citizen bribing politicians is not betraying the trust of the electorate in the same way that the politician is.

(Seemingly similarly, I go against the societal grain in that I don't think that people who sleep with married people are doing anything wrong; they're not the one who made the commitment.)
I blame containers. I'm a sysadmin. My shop uses -- last I checked -- 4 different versions of Python. This is insane.

Nobody knows or cares what's in the stack anymore, because sysadmins are just creating container infrastructure and letting devs do whatever they want with it, and containerization has lowered the pain threshhold for that. Which still doesn't make it a good idea.
They are also staggeringly ineffective and can't seem to decide what they stand for. Miliband was OK despite the "controls on immigration" equivocation, but since then the party has turned into a circular firing squad.

Going back into history, I'm fairly sure we saw attempts at invasive surveillance under Blair's Labour; Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and the failed ID cards scheme.

It's not even clear whether they're able to oppose Brexit.
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Monopolies are interesting because they limit choice. Increased profit may be a side effect, but that's it. It's accidental, not essential, to the definition.
"receive recruiting emails"

That's pretty much it, right? That, and very easy job applications. Nowhere have I had an easier time applying for a job.
There used to be a bunch of alternatives to explorer.exe (yep, the very same damned .exe as the file explorer), but its been ages since i played with them. They all had quirks and issues, as best i recall.
How could Go possibly be anything but a inappropriate choice? For numerics and working with data, Go would be about as expressive as Fortran or C, but slower. I took a quick look at Gonum, it's highly imperative and monomorphic just like Fortran. It makes me sad that these efforts could be spent improving the ecosystems of Haskell/OCaml/F#/Scala. These languages are far more expressive than Go and offer far more type-safety, all with the succinctness of Python
LinkedIn doesn't seem to mind if their Chinese databases are leaked; they complied with similar requirements there. If the market in Russia were as large as China, I'm certain they would make a compromise too.
I hadn't even considered that until you mentioned it. It's subtle, and crossing that 50% threshold is a very powerful notion that I (and likely many others) simply glossed over.

This seems to be a dark pattern that pushes a narrative. In reality, looking at popular vote totals in an electoral college contest is not particularly helpful. If the contest were an actual popular vote, the candidates would campaign completely differently, and the turnout would change entirely (especially in solid red/blue states.)
"We" had 8 years to encourage Barack Obama to strengthen institutions.

In law. With Congress (especially during his first 2 years in office when Democrats held both halves).

The Executive Branch giveth, and the Executive Branch taketh away. Don't celebrate the former unless you're OK with the latter taking place in the future.
My counter to this argument is I ask "Who decides what you should hide?" The answer is the government, which is not always on your side or right or ethical. I think (hope) people in the US will get this argument now more that Trump has been elected.
I think that would be an effective public information campaign and this idea should be given serious consideration.
It's actually illegal in many states to coast downhill in neutral.
> Mostly, I would urge people not to use Zcash for situations that require real anonymity. E.g. wikileaks accepting donations, or routing around captial controls in oppressive countries. And this is because I do not believe that the cryptography will hold up. There's too much of it, it's too new, and it's too interesting

I would disagree; the cryptography that people are more skeptical of in Zcash involves soundness of the zero-knowledge proofs. (i.e., if counterfeiting could occur) Privacy is protected by standard cryptographic assumptions that are relied on in other systems.
In the environment I'm in, my Linux home directory is shared by multiple systems. Most are CentOS 6, but we're starting to use CentOS 7, too. I'm using the default Gnome 2 Desktop on 6, but Mate Desktop on 7, as I don't like Gnome 3 or the "Classic" option. I can't point to any specifics at the moment, but I've had what I think are issues of these desktops stepping on each other. Being able to switch between DEs is nice, but they have to play nicely with each other and I'm not sure that's always true.

I also maintain some Solaris 10 systems and that's a whole other set of issues, sharing a home directory across different "unix family" systems.
Doesn't seem like it: https://www.google.ca/search?q=russia+gdp
There are many that would argue that Gnome 3 is just that. Opinionated to the point of driving users away.

Beyond that, there are many projects that I feel meet your criteria: Enlightenment, Deespin, Sugar, etc.

And, of course, you can go ask the folks at i3 or wmii for an opinion, I bet they will be happy to give you several.
Getting in front a jury means surviving summary judgment. A good contract is designed to allow any disputes be resolved at the summary judgment stage.

It's been a while since I've looked at the enforceability of clickwrap class-action waivers, but it's either enforceable or not as a matter of law. No factual issues in dispute = no jury required.
Speaking as far as true communication skills is a bell curve. 90% of communication is non verbal so you might be focusing on the wrong metric. Give 'What Every Body is Saying' a read.
I grew up in Brazil where most cars are manual. After my first automatic car, I really missed switching gears... and I ended up going back to manual. Some friends ask if I don't ever get tired switching gears, but after you've done it for so long, it becomes second nature, you don't have to think about it. Whether true or false, I feel like I have more control of the car when I'm in control of the gear... specially when going up/down a steep hill, or going through terrains other than asphalt.
Well, the key here is that the functionality of the extension 'Firefox Focus' only works for Safari in iOS. They weren't able to make it work for Firefox for iOS. So this is a way to use it outside of Safari.
I recommend the takeaways you get from this thread (especially as someone in Spam & Abuse) to communicate with those you work with and your superiors at El Goog.

- Automation is going to be the end of your job. Not because your job will be replaced by an algorithm, but because overuse of algorithms is leading to the collapse of trust people place in Google. Major actions like the banning of someone's Google account should never be done by algorithms. If you can't afford the humans[0], you shouldn't be in the business of holding people's valuable data.

- The support and appeals process must be human. Ever tried Microsoft's Answer Desk? Talking to humans isn't difficult even with one of your largest scale competitors, even for free tier products. Humans want to talk to humans, and Google's customer base consists of humans. FastMail ticket support? Incredible. It feels like Google isn't even trying to treat customers well in comparison.

- Google shafted 200 of their customers, and from the looks of it, this thread has another 200 ready to leave. The Guardian just picked up the story, so expect this effect to continue. One bad behavior by automation can cost you multiples of damage, especially if someone writes a blog post about the incident.

[0]Google can definitely afford the humans, especially with that princely sum they have stashed in offshore accounts.
Well the idea is supposedly that if you get your DE/WM just the way you want it, you can be more productive.

Various people have a love for tiling WMs because they can navigate and organize things with the keyboard.
> In other words, full root exploit of the phone from the NVMe JTAG pins.

Sure, except the data on the device will be encrypted. The keys are kept in the iphone's tamper resistant security enclave. Android and iOS both have full disk encryption enabled out of the box these days. (On iOS I don't think you can disable it.)
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Same as National Security Letter. You give the government what it wants, or else. At the end of the day the difference is soft power vs. hard power. The thugs dressing in nice suits and having their agents mess your business up through audits or lawsuits, or thugs sending their secret police to mess you up. The end result is they get what they want no matter what.
Nope, sorry, discrimination on basis of skin colour is wrong whoever does it.
I meant a law for journalists, similar to malpractice lawsuits against doctors, if they keep spreading misinformation as news.
Eiffel, I hear, was (is?) quite cool. I've read some of Bertrand Meyer's work and have learned a lot from it.

One area that is becoming really interesting to me is in dependently typed languages and their ability to encode at least some of the properties of the formal specification in the type system.

I haven't had much time to take a deep dive into Agda but what I have challenged myself with gives me hope that this may be the way we write programs in the future (even if it's not Agda per se).
If a patrolman is unarmed, he will not be perceived as a deadly threat by wrongdoers and thus will be less likely to be shot. And consider the current number of criminals apprehended without guns drawn. It is possible, even in the United States.

Certain officers and teams absolutely should well armed, but it should be a much smaller subset of the force. A call for deadly force should be an explicit, intentional escalation.
I always have one of those learning sites open in a tab and try to go there when I have to wait.

At the moment it's pluralsight.com.
Let's be clear, the focus on transgender rights is a conservative one. Conservatives lost the fight on gay marriage and needed another moral crusade to rile up their base. So far it has been quite effective. Transgender persons are as you say, a tiny minority, and politically a nonentity. The status quo on bathroom laws was really just fine. Trans people are more worried about nomenclature and paying for therapy, and reducing the amount of nonsense required to legally change one's gender marker. Some progressive institutions were voluntarily providing accommodations for trans persons, partially as a safety issue as they are very frequently targets of violence, and this was also uncontroversial.

The main thrust of your argument was that we must either talk about jobs or trans issues. This is a false dichotomy. I'd say it's a pretty clever way to control public opinion, but we've seen these same rhetorical tactics being used against gay rights for some decades now. It seems to be very effective with the more emotionally driven populace.
I loved my manual car when I lived in a state with little traffic. Now that I'm in CA, a manual sounds like a nightmare.
Why not both? Feels like only doing one is like only putting airbags in cars when seat belts are also effective. I don't get why there has to be only one approach to solve societal problems.
I'm seeing that strange quoting style all over your actual website too (not just the blog post). May want to change it. I thought it was a HTML coding error till I read the parent post.
"Perhaps it's not fair to call this bait & switch. Really it was bait & refund"
Wow, thank you. That really changes the initial result.

I remember being shocked by those numbers. 10 per night is high-impact even with high tolerance, and totally out of the question for lots of people. For 5% of Americans to drink more than that would be wild, since you've largely slashed your potential demographic to good-sized men.

And the reverse explanation, where the low end is particularly bad at estimating, would match with everything else people estimate. If you have a beer after work and a second with dinner, you can probably say "two a day" with confidence. If you have a glass of wine sometimes, out with friends, but not often, it's not terribly easy to guess whether that's two a month or one every two months.

I sort of see why he used his estimate, because you have to bring up the low end hugely to account for so much absence, but it seems unjustifiable to assume that the heaviest drinkers could even survive having their numbers doubled.
I like Tomoyo better than any of the others. I find it the easiest to configure and reason about.
Sure, but there is also a huge amount in the rendering engine that can't be changed, which is the issue.
I looked up. Art. 36 para. 4 SVG says: «The driver [...] is not allowed to impede other users of the road [...]», however I don't know what «impede» does exactly mean. Since I often experience that I have to adapt my speed because someone entered the road rather tightly, I think the Swiss are more lax about this. You only «impede» if the other one really has to hit the brake. Maybe.

https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19580266/... (German)
One not-so-unrelated thing I really love about linux is that the "configuration" for just about every application is stored in plain-text files, mostly in the user's home directory. Which means we can use git to version control them (like many many people do - the dotfiles trend).

You can have a log of configuration changes for your system, you can have various profiles with branches, etc. Want to switch to a different profile? Just `git checkout <branch-name>`, done! Want to revert some change, or see how your PC looked like 2 months ago? `git log` and `git checkout` your way through!

I currently have all my configurations[1] in a dotfiles directory representing the home directory (same directory structure etc.) and symlinks to them in the actual home directory. Very easy to manage.

[1]: https://github.com/awalGarg/dotfiles
It should be blocked everywhere :)
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I've only owned manual transmission cars since I was old enough to buy my own, including my most recent car, a 2016 Golf R. In fact, I specifically bought the Golf instead of the BMW I wanted to buy, because BMW dropped the manual transmission choice.

I enjoy shifting, and even in bay area traffic, I simply don't get what's "hard'" about changing gears. I'm already sitting there in front of the controls. It really takes no additional effort or brainpower, it's second nature. It's like complaining it's too much work to press the brake to avoid colliding with the car in front of you. It's driving.
Edit: Can the downvoter explain their reason?

My personal favorite is the LXDE / Lubuntu 16.04 setup.

All my subjective opinion, of course:

- Sits in the sweet spot for bare bones distro vs batteries included.

- Without decorations, I have essentially borderless applications, that I can quickly toggle the titlebars etc.

- Kept sane keyboard shortcuts and did not remove them for some arbitrary reasons. Here's a random nitpick, why do some interfaces no longer allow you to press a single letter on the keyboard to launch an option from a menu, example: An option from the list of options in the File menu?

- Very fast, allows a great battery life, all of ubuntu packages and ubuntu community support/troubleshooting, very easy to customize if you need to.

I love it because it is an OS that stays out of my way, has a sane setup out of the box and looks awesome with the borderless windows.

It is perfect in almost every way! I'm worried about their plans to switch to LXQt. It's almost like how Ubuntu 10.10 was IMHO, the pinnacle of perfection, sane choices etc, and then they decide to start all over again.
<i> The US, for the most part, doesn't have these problems (lots of roads, parking, and fairly well behaved drivers)...self driving cars are seen as more of a convenience than a necessity. </i>

The same problems exist in metropolitan areas in US as well, like Bay Area, NYC, Chicago, etc. although to a less degree than those in China. In Bay Area, people are so exhausted by long-commute driving. Check how jammed the traffic is in 101, 880, 580, 237, etc. Bart and CalTrain's coverages are pretty limited. With self driving cars, I bet plenty of people will quit driving by themselves for the commute. Imagine one can read, relax, read a book, or even work in the car, instead of sitting behind the wheel for 2 hours a day.
> Wait, isn't that what traffic police are for?

They just punish after the fact. I'm still able to make a poor driving choice that results in the injury or death of a bunch of people.
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If you don't see the point of the former, you become convinced of the latter.
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My family name is $20/year!! Now I need to decide if it's worth supporting this cartel...
SV MT driver too, I simply don't get it either. You're already sitting there. The controls are not hard to operate.
Wow, I was in Rome this past summer, I didn't know anything about this, I would have loved to see it!

Sadly, I don't know if I'll ever have the chance to go back. =((
You'd be a fool to expect book-level accuracy from blog posts. Even I mix Giordano Bruno up with Galileo sometimes, it's not a deal breaker.
Money. If Theranos were financially successful (At getting an enormous DoD contract, even if they were, technologically a failure), they would have become very wealthy.
By a company called "London Trust Media" run from Los Angeles, CA? Uhm, I don't know...
> But as electric cars become more common, they will need to be able to handle all types of driving, including steep slopes, which is a very common reason to stay in a lower gear. There will be demand for such a function, even if not in every vehicle.

There's no need to add a transmission for this: many electric cars automatically apply regenerative braking when you let up on the accelerator, which provides similar benefits. It actually provides a really similar feel to driving a manual in low gear already.
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My 6MT car has laser cruise control and while I have to operate the clutch and shifter, it doesn't disengage cruise. works just fine.
Thank you, the problem is now resolved for me.
“Edward Snowden is a fucking idiot” (sic)
Crazy that this guy criticizes the Minority Report interfaces and then makes the terrible claim that interfaces ought to make use of humans' ability to grip. Not all humans have strong grips, particularly the elderly. There's a reason newer buildings use lever handles over doorknobs.

My hope would be that the interfaces of the future would be more accessible to the disabled, not less.