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So far I'm loving it. The design is simple and clean (on the phone too). I wish you best of luck and I hope the community won't be like the one on 4chan.
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Such an object heading for earth could be detected tomorrow, and there may not be enough time for an effective response. We have to prepare in advance.
Some people know how to tune and others just want to work on the laptop. As this one comes with Ubuntu pre install, in my opinion, Canonical should provide a patch or script to Dell which tunes this on par with Windows out of the box instead of having the user do it. Seems MS arranges aggressive powermanagement out of the box for Windows so Ubuntu should have the same. This is an example of the wrong way around anyway; you should not have to install and run powertop etc ; you should have to deinstall it if you do not want it... IMHO that it. I use powertop and some of my own scripts on my X220's (my go-to laptops for years now and hopefully years to come) and I get the same battery life as Windows on it.
The current technique being used won't be as fast as normal RAM Disk, but somebody might find it useful.
You are right, but in this case my friends are a pretty good sample of the over-all population. I live in Sweden, where 10% of the population is vegetarian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country.
This seems to be a growing trend as well, also elsewhere: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/number-of-veg....
Assuming this is a variant of RLE-style compression, the implementation is also wrong, if the input is `aabbcccddaa`, it will return "a4b2c3d2" instead of "a2b2cc3d2a2".
This is why I like buying used laptops - they're cheap and the kinks are already worked out.
Honestly though in 2016 why can't whatever is done during auto tune be done without intervention based on a power profile?
This thing breaks the internet hard. What is the meaning of an URL now?
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I'm not sure the efficiency of the whole of humanity on earth and the efficiency of a comparably tiny colonial group is related in any way. There's a ton of momentum to overcome here on earth, and any change will need to occur across vast swaths of the population to be effective. That's an extremely tall order and it's extremely unlikely, as humans tend to ignore impending danger if there's no immediate consequence involved. Significant change will be seen at a generational pace at best.

Colonists, on the other hand, must be efficient if they wish to exist for longer than a few weeks, and they're a small and smart enough of a group that maintaining efficiency isn't an issue. Efficiency is a way of life for them. If anything, extremely low waste yet modern lifestyles will get their start in planetary colonies and make their way back to earth, not vice versa.
100% this. Blocking zoom was an annoying user-hostile behaviour that I'm glad is overrideable now.
>If you think of it that way you can pretty much equivocate capital and income tax

They are equivalent. Income is only good for consumption and investment (which is just deferred consumption), so if you tax income and you also tax everything that income is used for, you have taxed the same income twice. In fact income used to buy equity is taxed three times, first when it is earned, second every time the company reports a profit and then third every time the company issues a dividend. But all of these are collected on the "same" money.

If you want the rich to have a greater part of the tax burden, that's fine, but Varoufakis pretends he can argue against income tax in one paragraph, and argue for a functionally identical revenue scheme in the next.
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There's still the old issue of whether downvotes should be used for disagreement or only for mistaken or unconstructive commenting.

Paul Graham said several years ago that it made sense to him to use it for disagreement (because people might use upvotes for agreement), but I continue to feel uncomfortable with that and try never to use it that way. I try to upvote things that I disagree with that I thought were well-put or constructive.

Maybe an alternative would be to look at Paul Graham's own "hierarchy of disagreement" and try to use downvoting only for things at DH2 and below.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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Yeah, no. I guess yes, if you consider any implementation of a far reaching policy in a democracy to be fascist.

I have thought a lot about this. And I think that the western media seems have a genetic dislike for popular leaders. I guess the UK/US media expects their country's leaders to be Eton/Harvard boys who maintain an air of separation from the common population. Anytime a leader tries to get close to the public opinion, they are roasted for being populist/jingoistic etc.

Narendra Modi has been an extremely popular leader, even before he became the Prime Minister. He was re-elected twice for the post of the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat (and this was after the opposition tried to brand him as the key perpetrator in the 2002 riots.). Under him Gujarat became the fastest growing state of the country, and a lucrative destination for industries. His inclination towards industrialization was later used against him as an argument for his collusion with the "crony capitalists".

But Modi has ignored all the rubbish against him and carried on working. He works 18 hours every day. The greatest change in his rule has been the focus on making the bureaucracy to work instead of sleep, as it has been doing for the last 40 years.

I am not a huge supporter of his party, and I hate fascists with all my heart, and I can say that Modi has been good for the country. His policies have broken through a lot of bad fungus that had settled on the country in the multiple decades of INC lead rule. And it is refreshing to witness.

Western media can go court their Trumps and Farages. We are fine here.
Not much? Trying to post photos to Facebook/Flickr.
It baffles me that university professors, who are in front of a minority of the population for typically only 4 years, are viewed as having all this control, whereas the people who literally own the media, who can arbitrarily hire and fire any voice they please, are viewed as somehow having less sway over their own company's output.
He meant that you typically use base64 when the medium you use (e.g. email) doesn't support binary data. When you compress base64 encoded data you get back binary output. If binary output is ok to transfer, then why would you use base64 in the first place? Why not just compress the raw data?
> No, the point of the United States is to unite the states into a manageable single government. It is not to provide a direct action democracy to the people.

Right, obviously this was the point at the time of the Constitution's creation, and it made sense at that time because people thought of themselves more as citizens of their states than of their country. But that's no longer true, and hasn't been for a long time.

> This means that smaller states get a boost in power vis a vis larger ones but that larger states still matter more. This is not a bad thing.

Again, let me show you how absurd this is:

"This means that religious minorities get a boost in power vis a vis larger ones but that larger religions still matter more. This is not a bad thing."

"This means that racial minorities get a boos in power vis a vis white people but that white people still matter more. This is not a bad thing."

Why is it a good thing for geographic minorities to get extra voting power, but not minorities for other dimensions?

> States provide the basic block upon which Government in the US rests. It is in our interests to provide states with more equal power at a national level than population would dictate.

1. The Senate still does that anyway.
2. Why is that advantageous in this particular context?

> If you pass a constitutional amendment to adjust voting laws you can enable exactly whatever you like though, for any of your more hyperbolic suggestions you would need to override many of the existing protections as well but if you wanted to be an asshole along with the rest of america there is no reason we could not do so using our existing legal framework.

You don't even need a constitutional amendment actually, the interstate compact is sufficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

Of course it's unlikely Republicans will back this since the current setup works to their advantage.

> The argument is not about rural versus urban but about the relative power of small versus large states.

Yes, but in practice states with larger populations tend to be more urbanized and states with small populations tend to be more rural.
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Projects like this is one of the things that make Linux the single most important, first-grade in its universal usefullness, operating system.

Another similar cool multi-platform project that has been around for a while is Aboriginal Linux.
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Not likely at all. If anyone wants wealth redistribution they are free to go to Norh Korea and live there, see how it really works. Or bootstrap an utopian underground Mars colony for that matter.
I never once said that. In fact I asked for clarification on the incident but you seem unwilling to give that.
> Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++

What is a postmodern data structure?
So battery usage doesn't matter to you?
Thanks for the explanation! Attack: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREACH_(security_exploit)
> It is worth knowing that this was an American narrative

Are all the political assassinations committed by Fidel's regime a product of the American narrative?

Is Cuba's direct participation in the Angolan civil war just propaganda?

Is Cuba's oppressive and castrating regime just tales from disgruntled americans?

...or is it something else?
Look for an older archive for a distribution like slackware. Your hardware should be more supported
If your embedding encoded data in another file format which forces restrictions on it. The encoding in the article is very explicitly optimized to be embedded in HTML attributes, which have a limited character range. The full HTML document is later compressed for transport, over a protocol that a) is aware of the compression and b) can transport binary data.
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Many problems caused by human nature can be classed as engineering problems too and could make human nature moot (within that context). Reducing emissions, reversing climate change, artificial meats, safe nuclear power, efficient transportation.
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For myself, decades ago, my learn-as-you-go project was a distributed rendering system. Here's what worked about it:

- Ray-tracing (for example) is easy to reason about in an object oriented fashion (this was before functional was all the rage)
- You're never done. There are always new lighting models, surface models (shaders), geometries, optimizers to add
- Each module, pretty quickly, gives you visible results.
- Because it's modular, there's lots of opportunity for incremental refactoring of modules and for re-implementation of modules in new languages
- It could be part of a (much) larger ecosystem. Maybe you want to add water - oceans are fun. To add robot simulators, you need a physics engine. To which you can add ML to generate and optimize controllers to have the robot hit goals. etc. etc.

In this case, I had to learn numerical methods (for both rigid-body physics and monte carlo), various rendering techniques, how to implement shading languages, distributed algorithms, managing distributed clusters, FPGAs (before GPUs were cheaply available), etc., etc.

I'm not suggesting a rendering test-bed specifically, but unbounded problems that can be modularized where you always have a list of "next modules" is one way to have an ever-green project you are always adding things too -- sometimes (but not necessarily) in new languages, using new development paradigms. For me, agent-based computational economics, various physics-related simulations (in general), machine-learning around robotics (control systems) and that rendering test-bed were my "domains" of experimentation. For you, it could well be just about anything else.
Two things:
a. underestimating 'compound interest' (if I may say so) of repetitions from past material you must do in the future. As more and more material is done, there are more repetitions you must do every day, simply because you're forgetting some of the material. So simple '20k / X new words per day' gives BIG error.
b. "I had multiple one day slips" is another one, especially as you quickly "learn" that the more new ones you do, bigger daily repetitions number follows :) So quite often I was just doing repetitions to reduce burden on me.

Guessing from my memory, average repetition number over that 10y would be around 100 per day.

BTW: You can start with smaller db. e.g. I started in the middle doing Russian one and used a 5k one.
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"but you seem unwilling to give that"

No, you seem unwilling to read the link I gave? From the article:

"That same month, on April 23, 1976, the Church Committee released its Final Staff Report on the FBI and CIA’s rampant domestic illegalities which included a chapter entitled “The FBI’s Covert Action Plan to Destroy the Black Panther Party.” The chapter concluded by highlighting the Hampton raid as a COINTELPRO operation and quoting from the bonus documents that we had obtained only weeks before."
I don't have an easy way to try a test corpus but I fed this comment page into it.

Raw size: 37409
gzip(raw): 6170
gzip(base16): 7482
gzip(base64): 10675
gzip(base85): 10549

So it works better than base64, and it has the advantage of working 4 bytes at a time rather than 3.

Also note that when you're feeding in binary data the gzip sizes for raw and base-xx data get a lot closer together.
Floating IP's are not the same as the dedicated IP you get from the VM itself. I've been sending outbound on that for the better part of 2 years.

To the other point, if you have a problem with spam scores, you are probably sending too much mail for this sort of solution (consider Mailgun 10,000 emails/month for free). For an individual it is fine, not for use as a mailing list. A clean IP address (every IP I've ever tried was clean), DKIM, and SPF will allow you to hit pretty much anybody. It might take a few people pulling you out of spam on gmail before you can send to them, but I think that's true of any new mailserver.
8 bit 3.58 Mhz MSX 1 in the early 80s, I was 7 or 8. I had been learning Basic and Pascal from books and magazines for about a year already before I touched my first computer.
It's nice you mention the supreme courts of India here. Notice, they also discharged(?) Salman Khan of Bollywood for his 2006 road kills! It's almost a joke when you use SC to say that your PM/candidate doesn't have a questionable past.

I'm fairly certain that you'll also fail to accept the fact that Modi was the mastermind of a series of murders including that of his own cabinet minister Haren Pandya following the events in 2002.
Sure, they're not throwing them away. They sell their appliances to buy new models, but new appliances obviously take resources and energy to build and transport. Same for cars, TVs, gadgets, etc.
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appropriate financial incentives along with scarcity could do wonders.
They probably mean "trying to get on the hype train". I have nothing against immutable data structures, but that wording is just silly.
What about the effects of prolonged exposure to low gravity? Not to talk about the psychological effects of isolation and low light.
There will always be something newer and better but it's not sustainable for everyone to keep going out and buying it. I've only bought one TV in my entire life.

Sweden's move is definitely a step in the right direction but I really wish something like that would even have a chance of passing in the US.

Repair work creates jobs for regular people. This is a good thing. People buying less new TVs just means less corporate profits. This doesn't affect the little guy anyway.

This kind of law kills 2 birds with 1 stone. Pollution and income inequality. I really wish more people would think this way.
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Yes, I'm aware of how things were at the time of the Constitution's creation. But things have changed; people no longer thing of themselves as Virginians first, and Americans second. As America has industrialized and developed, that the nation has become more tightly-knit and less an aggregation of states has been inevitable.

> Small, local governments have many advantages: it's easier for ordinary people to participate in and influence them, and they're harder for big money to control. Local governments listen more closely to their constituencies and their decisions more accurately reflect what their communities want.

Local governments also have certain disadvantages: just look at the housing and transportation situation in the SF bay area. Excessive fragmentation has resulted in horrible policies, with each community unwilling to compromise or do what makes sense for the area as a whole. It's basically tragedy of the commons.

> While some of the Founders were fonder of a strong central government than others, none of them would have supported the degree of centralization we have today.

Who cares? The country is radically different than the primarily agrarian society they had, what worked then won't work now.

The founders would also be horrified at our views on sex and gender, just because they were smart men for their time doesn't mean we need to follow their beliefs for all time.

> The antidote is a return to the true meaning of the 10th amendment. A more local government which is influenced and participated in directly by the people it governs. A world where your vote is one of hundreds or thousands, not hundreds of millions, and genuinely does count.

This doesn't happen because it's ineffective, same reason that -- current moves towards populism/nationalism notwithstanding -- there's a long-term trend towards more integration and fewer trade barriers as nations become more developed.

More fragmentation among local governments means powers are closer to individual citizens, yes, but that also means more government overhead: you're losing economies of scale. For example, imagine how well the interstate highway system would work if there were no real federal government or even state governments, and you just had hundreds or thousands of cities each managing little pieces of it.
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This is anecdotal for sure, but I've noticed in travels that poorer countries tend to value repairs and older appliances more. Presumably, this is because labor is cheaper.
Perhaps a more streamlined way to sell (or even donate) old stuff to poorer countries could combat the wastefulness in a productive way.
There was a good discussion of this a while back -- one user here made a multi-reddit of the suggested subreddits, in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255336
And presumably someone is buying the old appliance and uses it, instead of buying a new one: one appliance more bought new on one side, one less on the other.

There is of course the factor that through this people can afford appliances that otherwise wouldn't have them, but that at least has a clear benefit for them.
You're ignoring the power they have to shape minds during that 4 year period, which is particularly powerful for residential students who are out of the nest for the first time, how they can keep doubleplusungood people out of a lot of professions by not letting them graduate (it's now getting explicitly official in some, and personally sobering for me, the moderate conservative-libertarian I was in 1979? No way today I could become a scientist in the US today), and apropos of that, they control who gets to teach K-12 students, the Overton Window in K-12 curricula (which has had a serious allergy to effective teaching of reading for close to a century now, and much later math), etc.
Yeah similar to how columnists with alternative views are called "outside columnists" -- us and them -- or sometimes deshdrohis. Many Indians fail to see the reality in chasm of words.
> I think that, before colonizing other planets, we should start by realizing that Earth can easily sustain human kind for the foreseeable future, given some pretty modest tweaks to our way of life (compared to "going multi-planetary" that is).

What a horrible lie to spread. What you said is hardly the case at all. Scientists have known for many decades that Earth is already beyond its carrying capacity. Multiply that by the fact that our natural ecosystem is collapsing way faster than any estimates, and you get the fact that humanity has NO CHOICE but to establish a self-sufficient colony off Earth as soon as we possibly can. You're in denial about the severity of our situation, but without realizing it you're also not aware of the reality of the problem. CO2 is not the real main cause of global warming; and global warming is just the first step in a series of steps that will result in the destruction of human civilization. I've already got verification of this through lots of research and collaboration with peers and we'll be publishing a paper soon. But completely aside from whether this supposed cataclysm is going to happen in 1 year or 200 years, and given that technology continues to develop and be used, why on Earth wouldn't we ensure our survival by distributing ourselves?

I would apologize for my tone but to be honest it's imperative that you and the the people around you open your eyes to the reality. If not, you will also perish. Would you rather live forever or perish forever? And if someone appears in front of you and says "here is your way to live forever", would you turn away from them or would you try to verify their proof?
"Managed languages tend to use a more limited set of system calls than non-managed languages because most libraries don't make any system calls of their own"

I have a hard time understanding how that could be true. A library either needs to use OS functionality, or it doesn't. If it needs to, managed languages cannot avoid doing so, and if it doesn't, why would non-managed languages make them, more so since a major argument for the most popular of them, C, is performance?

The only argument I can see is that managed language libraries could use (fewer) other libraries or the runtime to make such calls. Neither decreases the number of system calls made by any program.
I wish they would stop pushing the touch screen on the higher end models.
You're right, plenty bikes get abandoned out of pure laziness. But I think most people realize they can be fixed, which is why they're abandoned in the back of their garage rather than thrown in the trash and replaced.

Right?

For example, my mum has a bike like that. She's been putting off repairs for some 15 years now. Mostly it just needs some love from someone to adjust gears and stuff to work again. She knows it's still a working bike so she doesn't toss or replace. But it's easier to just avoid using a bike than to invest the energy to fix that one. We've tried a couple of times but it's juuuust bad enough to need a professional, which increases logistics exponentially.

My point is, abandoned and unused is very different from thrown away and replaced.