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You forgot the biggest insanity of all: the wholesale undermining of our ecosystem for short-term private gain. The biggest offender by far is idiotic practices that deforest and degrade soil in agriculture and animal husbandry. Throughout history these practices have made more land "useless" through desertification than nuclear accidents could even dream of.

Currently the Amazon rainforest is being slashed and burned for a mere decade or so of beef production, before the fertility is washed out to sea, the vegetation dies, the continental transpiration cycle shuts down, and that land too is desertified. A similar process has already happened the Middle East, which was forested in accounts as recently as Napoleon's campaigns.

I liken it to the crew of your spaceship busily axing away at the life support generators... :-\
Not getting the downvotes. Have I made some logical error?
You're right that it's much less water, but euro countries are still choosing to accelerate the situation. Migrants will float their boat up to anything that looks european, sink themselves, because they are often required to bring them onboard and take them to europe, even if they're barely off the coast of wherever they came from.

Even if you want all the migrants you can get, it's a terrible plan because they often accidentally sink themselves near vessels that can't take them onboard and drown, or leave in vessels that aren't seaworthy because they think they'll get picked up, and when they don't they drown.
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I share the author's optimism. I work for a start-up, and we just released a mobile app that uses Elixir on the back end. I'm the architect on the project, and this was my first time using Elixir professionally. I've been blown away by the speed and stability of the product, the ease of hot deployments, and the intuitiveness of Elixir's syntax. Behaviors are amazing, and for the first time in my career, concurrency isn't a huge pain in the ass. The codebase is extremely easy to maintain and organize, and Elixir just takes baby sips at our cluster's resources. Elixir has far exceeded my expectations, and has provided me with one of the smoothest product launches of my 27-year career. I cannot speak highly enough about it.

Regarding learning Elixir, I thought LearnElixir.tv was great, but wasn't nearly as impressed by LearnPhoenix.tv. The latter is good, and definitely worth the money, but it didn't feel like it went into nearly the depth and breadth that LearnElixir.tv did. I also recommend the books "The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook," by Benjamin Tan Wei Han, and "Programming Elixir," by Dave Thomas. Elixir School (http://elixirschool.com) is great online resource, and the Hex docs (https://hexdocs.pm) are clear and well organized. Finally, "Take Off with Elixir" (https://bigmachine.io/products/take-off-with-elixir/) is a great video/book offering.
What I worry about is those "thoroughly-vetted libraries" is that the use of those will likely follow a power law distribution in terms of code dependent upon them. When that happens, a disproportionately-high amount of code will depend upon those libraries. So when a defect (or vulnerability) shows up in one of them, a disproportionately-high amount of code will become vulnerable.

Reducing this unsafe surface area should result in outsized gains overall. I'm not familiar with the unsafe patterns, and to what extent they could be addressed/reduced through Rust language/compiler design, but that'd be one area where research focus might produce even more benefit.

The other weak point may be the LLVM itself, which I guess would be sort of a background hum of risk to Rust.

Outsider view: not sure of the relative levels of risk in each layer, and to what extent they can be addressed.

Can (or will) these unsafe patterns be capable of being addressed by future changes in Rust?
IMHO, it is not Apple's style to make such things configurable.
Depends on the mode of transport too. At my last job I had a 1 hour commute but it was via public transport. I sat down and worked on my personal projects during that time, now my commute is a lot shorter and I'm getting a lot less done.
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An illustrative example is how many refugees Sweden received in 2015, 150 000[1]. Sweden has about 1/3 of the number of inhabitants as Canada.

If Canada were to receive a proportionally large number of refugees that would be about 450 000 refugees. In actuality Canada has received about 35 000. An order of magnitude less.

The Canadian refugee system is/was under no where near the amount of stress that the European states are/were.

(Some European countries like Hungary for example have behaved thoroughly Xenophobic during these events and are frankly embarrassing to be associated with)

[1] http://www.migrationsverket.se/English/About-the-Migration-A...

[2] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/milestones.asp
I don't think Junio Hamano (aka gitster) has done much kernel work at all.

But point taken.
Can it be used to cure cancer?
How does one know what to build? And even then, how do you approach businesses to sell your product to?
Unless you live 15 miles away from it.
There's no succeeding with nuclear.
I think you mistook a barrier to entry (getting over the syntax) for a permanent cognitive load. At our company we don't care if you know erlang or not, but we expect a developer to learn it on the job and have had no issues either with junior or experienced developers. All who've tried it are amazed at the productivity.
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It's little touches like using fractions instead of decimals where appropriate that really improves the usability of software, its something I've made an effort to do over the years, and I certainly think it pays off.
Coming from the Clojure world, every time I read about about Elixir, the similarity of the two langauges' values always surprise me: immutability, macros, dynamic and gradual typing, concurrency, and on.

I've yet to touch Elixir (or Erlang, for that matter). Does anyone have experience using both? Thoughts? Has anyone crossed from one language to the other over any strong preference?
I've heard great things about it and currently have both of those books under my Christmas tree. One discussion I have had often recently is the split in the web community that appears to be emerging. Around (Less than in my opinion) half of the community seems to be going the way of full oo while the rest are going fp. Personally I feel fp is the right direction and will quickly become the new hot item
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At 4 hours a day it's time to look at what else you can cut, like house/apartment size.
What was supposed to happen on January 1st: https://datatheorem.github.io/ios/ssl/2016/08/14/ats-enforce... .

"The overall approach the App Store review team will take when it comes to ATS exemptions was summed up on the Apple developer forums:

“The goal here is to flush out those folks who, when ATS was first released, simply turned it off globally and moved on. That will no longer be allowed.”

Hence, for a given App going through the App Store review process:

* An easy policy to justify is to have NSAllowsArbitraryLoads disabled and a list of domain-specific exemptions for third-party domains the App connects to.

* A policy that will be harder to justify is to have NSAllowsArbitraryLoads enabled and a list of domain-specific “un-exemptions” for the domains you control.

* Lastly, a policy that will definitely trigger a rejection, as stated by Apple, is to have NSAllowsArbitraryLoads enabled with no additional ATS settings.
"

Since most Apps are not compliant yet, the App Store review team would have had to review every justification for every App and make a decision on whether to allow the App on the Store or not.
Definitely thought this was going to be https://xkcd.com/443/
Just tried applying, but the page for the data scientist remote position doesn't load correctly.
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Which is why your use of google branding and your domain are deliberately misleading. If you refuse to change the name, I personally hope you receive a C&D. Some users may legitimately not realize this isn't a google product, which is exactly why this is infringement.
Uber has been shut down in many countries already.[1] Their success in the US comes from the fact that regulation in the US is local, and many municipalities don't want to go up against Uber. In countries with national regulation, Uber isn't faring too well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_protests_and_legal_action...
> But, instead, young people want urban living

I think most young people are trying to go where the jobs are more than anything.
> they're way smarter than that.

Upon what do you base this assertion? Because they sure as heck don't seem to be. Way more arrogant, perhaps.
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I have experienced this effect multiple times when my wife remembers me saying something I have no recollection of :-). I like the idea of a mandella effect, or perhaps someone does invent time travel and the only change was who starred in the movie and what its title was. Something like "in the timeline where Sinbad was in a genie movie the world is destroyed but scientists stepped back in time and changed just enough to save the world, unfortunately causality resulted in the movie no longer existing even though some still remember it. A small price to pay for saving the world."
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The broad, rapid American growth has a lot to do with the fact that Europe and the Far East was in complete ruins after WWII and the US was in the immediate position to rebuild Europe.

Remember, right before the mid century prosperity, we were in a massive depression caused by the "Roaring 20s" which was fueled by another smoldering Europe.

The time period before WWI; the late 1800s and early 1900s were pretty bleak. Before that, the North was fairly prosperous but the South was under reconstruction, so that region was pretty bleak as well.

Of course, there is plenty of wealth to go around today, it's just concentrated due to a war on the middle class by industry, aided by goverment, dating back to at least Reagan.
Batteries are expensive, low-capacity, and absolutely horrendous from an environmental perspective.

Flow batteries[1] aren't especially dense storage, but nor are they expensive or environmentally horrible.

They make a lot of sense in distributed power generation scenarios (ie, rooftop solar) .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
If you put your money into an S&P 500 index fund in 2006 and reinvested dividends every distribution, you would have 6.89% annual return even taking into account recent recessions. In other words, if you had $10,000 in your 401(k) in 2006 and stopped adding any payroll to it, it would be worth over $19,000 now. If your 401(k) isn't in an index fund, it might be worth switching it into one rather than keeping it in a managed fund that charges higher expense ratios, but has worse returns.
He has proposed, for example, that the voting age be lowered to 16. “Sixteen-year-olds are just as good at logical reasoning as older people are,” Dr. Steinberg said.

As if logical reasoning were sufficient.

Your typical 16-year-old doesn't know a thing about history yet, or the real-world practical effects of political choices over time, or just how confounding crowd effects and herd instinct can be, or any of the other weird shit about human behavior and governance that defies the kind of logical reasoning that many 40-year-olds are capable of, let alone 16-year-olds.

A 500 GHz CPU with no data to work with is just an impressive lump of silicon.
Yes. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966
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>I've been using Python for over 4 years from writing web applications for enterprise to startups in Django and Flask

He has used python to write web applications.
You're correct from the perspective of a lawyer or pedant. The GP is correct from the perspective of the common man.
The right term is obfuscation. And if you'd done your research well, you would have found tens of them on the perl monks forum....... way more intriguing and "creepier" than your examples
Thank you for the feedback. I've added percent growths and I would like to encourage you to try the tool again. Thanks!
I've been playing with this lately:

https://github.com/jlund/streisand

It's essentially a set of Ansible scripts that will install a set of VPN daemons on your cloud instance* , such as OpenVPN, Stunnel, OpenConnect, L2TP/IPsec, Shadowsocks, and more. Seems to be running well so far.

* supported providers are Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean, Google Compute Engine, Linode and Rackspace.
> Privacy of course suffers

Sure, but I'd rather be in a house with extended family than with roommates.
Yes, great suggestion! I've added it a couple of hours ago. Thanks!
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
I'll remind the court that irrationality merely means "not rational". I.e. "No identifiable rational is known". Often times decision makers appear to be acting without reason merely because they're responding to something the observer does not see/know about. The root reason is stil up for grabs. I'd bet that existential threats tend to motivate people only once they can comprehend the threat as a reality.
Which package are you using for deployments?
Although considered somewhat non-traditional, aneutronic fusion[1] approaches may have interesting possibilities on significantly smaller budgets than ITER

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Current_rese...
Okay, thought I'd mention it because it's had such a significant effect for me. So that possibly means that in my case the Auth0 <-> Instagram connection is something to investigate further.
Artificially lowered apartment rent seems obviously flawed but how about just not artificially lowering supply? Surely these high prices should have a lot of developers chomping at the bit to turn low density accommodation in to high density accommodation.
A true exercise in Giving The People What They Want(TM).
> It was the database that gave us the most performance problems not Python

I agree database has given the most pain to me as well may it be SQL or NSQL
Probably because the several that already exist are constantly being flagged and there's always market space for a new addition?
I just want to point out that it's not the number of people who die installing rooftop solar that matters. It's the delta between rooftop solar and regular roof install deaths, given that it will eventually come down to a choice in materials (see: solarcity). From that perspective solar has very little incremental harm while nuclear has vastly greater risk to public health, not just "political capital".
Nope! Consider the Bart problem, and then after that, consider the Wyoming problem. And then think about the India problem. Wifi just isn't available much of the time. It's important for apps to build out functionality for core user journeys in offline mode.

Of course, you can't offline the whole internet... But with reasonably good personalization, you can get some of the parts that matter most. For example, in the case of a food ordering system, the app can know the menus for restaurants used before, and have those ready to go offline. And then get the menus for restaurants that match the user profile, in the local area.
RCA reusing FCC IDs for different products?
TL;DR - We noticed RCA reusing an FCC ID for 2 separate android tablet products. The FCC ID printed on their Intel design is from an ARM design.
Images here - https://twitter.com/SiddharthKandan/status/811810300794171392
https://twitter.com/SiddharthKandan/status/811821993393786880

We bought an RCA Voyager tablet from Walmart - https://www.walmart.com/ip/RCA-Voyager-with-WiFi-7-Touchscreen-Tablet-PC-Featuring-Android-6.0-Marshmallow-Operating-System/53990885

The packaging stated it was an Intel tablet. We validated that it was an x86 processor that gives Intel device IDs as it's booting. The back of the tablet has "FCC ID: A2HRCT6773W22" printed.
FCC site - https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Sum&calledFromFrame=N&RequestTimeout=500&application_id=me2wM0wUnE%2FY60iY7Gk1qA%3D%3D&fcc_id=A2HRCT6773W22

FCC Document Details - https://fccid.io/A2HRCT6773W22
The documents on the FCC website state it's supposed to be a Mediatek ARM tablet and not an Intel Atom. Our best guess is that they didn't want to pay for certification again. We also considered that Walmart may check FCC ID during product certification and this change may have gone unnoticed when fulfilling orders to Walmart. Is this common? Any other guesses to motivation?
This headline is a bit misleading. It says that Tests of the EMDrive were successful in the laboratory setting and that they are currently testing it onboard the Tiangong 2.

It does not reference results of the Tiangong 2 tests.
Easy now. It's not an analysis, it's a question.

Here are the costs of just a single nuclear disaster, one considered minor:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/getinvolved/They-...

Please bear in mind that this was the most conservative estimate I found when googling.

According to the below post, even a relatively nuclear heavy country like the US would need 5 times more nuclear power to cover the electricity need: https://www.quora.com/How-many-nuclear-reactors-would-be-req...

So, on a global scale that would be many new reactors, including many in countries with dubious safety records in other areas.
> And the interesting thing is that no nuclear plant built starting today would have any of the issues that hit Fukishima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island.

This might be true and is obviously a good thing but it does not make a good basis for your argument. That we have more faith in our designs now does not mean they are safe. There is still risk.

I think there is a real possibility that nuclear may be necessary (due to climate change concerns). I do not think though that it is helpful to dismiss concerns as being naive or simply emotional. Especially when the only actual proof we have for the safety of nuclear is negative (the historical accidents). What we need is honest cost-benefit assessment. That assessment should include climate change, waste storage, decommissioning costs, comparison with alternatives, and an acceptance that although nuclear accidents are highly unlikely, the consequences are great (loss of productive land is the big concern in my opinion - more so than potential loss of life).

Let me ask you, what are your concerns about nuclear power?
I remember reading Phoenix had templating (eg HTML). Is Erlang/Elixir good for this? Or is it something better suited for NIF?
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Yes, you are right, Elixir feels closer to Clojure than ruby in my opinion.

Still you need to understand the whole process and OTP deal.
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I wish they'd release the details of their lab tests, or maybe they have in chinese and no one noticed.
It's possible 20lbs is closer to your cat's ideal weight, since some breeds tend to run large. Mine only hit 18+lbs while we freefed her. Now she's around 12lbs, in good body condition (just a little more abdominal fat she could stand to lose).

We really had to push the weight loss because it was clear she wasn't meant to be so big. Her asthma was significantly worse when she weighed more (multiple attacks a week vs now I don't even remember the last one within the past year), and there were huge patches of her body covered in greasy dandruff because she couldn't groom herself. It would have eventually led to a lot of problems. Better for us to put up with her antics than to watch a painful death, really.
No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estill
My Shazaam.1994.DVDRip.x264.AC3 torrent has been stuck at 15% for five years.

Plz seed!
Did you implement the entire backend in Elixir? Or did you have to use any NIFs?
The observation in the linked video is that, when the browser is incrementally rendering the page, a traditional "grid" layout will put the content in its final location, while a flexbox will render a box of content that's bigger than usual and shrink it later -- because the items that cause the content area to shrink haven't been loaded yet.
The thing about warlords is you get to skip the 'acceptance' bit.
This thread is really depressing as someone currently going through a bootcamp. (dataquest) Is it more realistic to aspire for data engineering/analyst roles?
I you enjoyed clojure you should check: http://lfe.io/
My trust of cloud for many things has dropped markedly, unless it's some form of private cloud.

Google has a long history of pulling the plug on things. Even successful things. Basecamp went from always going to offer a free tier to $99 a month cheapest (well only) tier. Now add in the countless acquisistions of "We're delighted to announce we got bought. Oh the service that got us there? It's dead. Please bugger off. Thanks for the exciting journey" style.

Granted for a fair number even paying wouldn't save you.
That's Foxconn, and they're just getting started with replacing workers. Foxconn has 1.3 million employees. Hon Hai CEO Terry Gou: "Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache."

He means it. He brought in the director of the Tapei Zoo for advice on how to manage animals with different temperaments.
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Same here, made the change a couple of days ago and saw no change in failures.
What about the problem that solar also needs batteries?
Admittedly, cattle have been selectively bred for compliance for millennia, whereas I kind of suspect that humans encourage cats' hunting behaviour.
Yep I read the title and assumed that the first meaning was meant.
It's actually getting pretty accurate, nice!
I second this! I watched Liz Rice's Golang UK 2016 talk and was inspired to write something to create containers. I was also interested in x86_64 assembly so decided to go with that.

In the end it is realy simple to create something to run containers even in assembly since it is just a few syscalls to set things up. Ended up with: https://github.com/archevel/quic

The main difficulty was figuring out how to do the netns part.
I didn't know that either. I would have definitely used spaCy for a project I was doing last year, but didn't because of the licensing.
There is an old French Canadian folk tale, "John Labadie's Big Black Dog". It was written up by author Natalie Savage Carlson in 1952.

It revolves around a town of people who all claim the existence of a dog. Trouble is, there is no such dog.
Since 45% of USA is uninhabited, America should absorb more Syrian refugees
After reading, I can't help but think that the problem is that the cat knows there is food inside.. is there a leak where the scent gets out?

I would try sealant around all the seams And revert back to so lesser security measures to test it.
By that logic, neither do 18-year-olds.
You'd prefer the minimum voting age be raised to 60, so only people with "experience" can vote?

I'd wager that at least 90% of voters do not do any research no matter their age and just vote for what the media or the people around them say.

Also.. I don't vote.
Iterating aggressively is great when the consequences aren't as dire as nuclear mistakes.

The last thing I'd want is more plants built aggressively when stupid mistakes happen at the non-aggressive rate, such as installing the reactor backwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...
Apple's own services make extensive use of plaintext HTTP. Even if they're only doing so in ways that are safe (due to other application layer encryption mechanisms like in iMessage) it's hypocritical for them to enforce a requirement on 3rd parties that they themselves cannot meet.