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You're replying to a poster who is trying to divert discussion. Please don't engage, because the post is not trying to have a discussion, it's trying to divert the rest of us from talking about the current administration.

You're seeing the conservative social media strategy in action -- repeat talking points to divert discussion whenever "their side" is criticized.

If we want real discussion we have to ignore efforts to change the subject!
You still have the freedom to drink as much as you want in France. This is not about the freedom to drink, this is about fighting obesity.
I set one up at work for this purpose, but using an old, unused Mac Mini.

If I'd needed something new for refreshing a couple of web pages, I'd have bought a Raspberry Pi or similar. Would anyone really buy a Mac Mini, new, to do this?
If only Firefox / Intel would sort themselves out and get H.264 encoding working on the NUC so you can watch YouTube above 720p on Linux. Sigh.
That's what I was wondering. I haven't spent much time in France, but in, e.g., Italy, I never saw the US-style "unlimited soda refills". I was wondering if France was different to the extent they felt the need to ban it.
The freedom of having a society full of overweight people? This decision looks quite reasonable to me and has nothing to do with freedom.
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The difference is that places like China have very little influence over "us". We trade, that's it. Whereas the US, through Hollywood, Nato, SV and general industry, has humongous cultural and economic influence. When my Prime Minister goes hand-in-hand with your President and licks his gold-plated boots, we feel it. When you "help" our neighbors fall into civil war and we get millions of refugees, we feel it. And so on and so forth. This why we feel a duty to resist and condemn trends in American politics that we see as destructive: because you are our Rome and we can't afford you to take your imperial duties this lightly.
Weird. For a few days, every time I tried to use the Facebook app, it would crash loading the second article. I ignored it for a bit, and after an update it seemed to start working again. It was frustrating, and I wonder if I was part of this "experiment".
Why are you trying to change the subject away from immigration policy? I could also talk about how the president is trying to subvert the media to sell his immigration policies, but that would not be relevant in this thread. If you want to talk about that subject, post a new article.
Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean you are instantly clapped in irons and hauled off to jail. Especially if you are the President. This particular issue will take months or years to work out.
I can understand the sentiment but I'm not sure if further separation really helps. As a European with strong ties to the US I'm more than saddened by what is happening but also see that Europe is fighting its own daemons. I feel that those of us who believe in an open society (and there are plenty both in the US and Europe) should resist the temptation to cut ourselves off and rather continue to strengthen our ties across the pond. Our friendship built over decades is too important to be lost to what has been happening over the last few years.
And lack of H.264 encoding in Firefox / YouTube means no smooth HD YouTube playback
It's not that people are incapable, it's that they're being given ever increasing and complex decisions to make in their daily life without being given the education to support it. Some people do receive such an education or are aware enough of the knowledge to seek it themselves but that's not the case for everyone.
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I agree it's politics, no argument there. Perhaps the Saudi question has to do with ISIS instead of Al Quiada being the enemy?
The mac mini is much larger than an Intel NUC.
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Some background: I'm from India and I'm doing my undergrad. Until a few months ago, I had aspirations to work in the US. I consider myself quite competent, so I'm not talking about working in sweat shops like Infosys. I wanted to work at Google or Facebook full-time when I graduate (I have done internships with MS and Amazon).

But with Trump's recent spree of executive orders, it looks like my future will be highly uncertain if I go there (assuming of course that people are still allowed to enter the US). I'd much rather work elsewhere where I can have the luxury of not having to worry about my visa everyday.

Before you implore me to work in my own country - please don't. There are reasons why I want to work elsewhere.

So I'm just wondering - what are some other places in the world where there's a lively tech scene (i.e. Big 4 and unicorns have offices), the salary is competitive (maybe not as high as Silicon Valley, but close) and the quality of life is good in general?
I'm sad to see that muninn_'s comment is being downvoted, since he's expressing a view that I'm sure is held by a majority of the US public. It's actually already common for J1 visa holders to be vetted for months before they are allowed to return to the United States. This is a policy that existed long before Trump became president.
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> We're in a world where the masses don't need/want a PC

Oh, I think many people still use a PC every day - at work. Office jobs are not going to disappear in the next decade. I wish Apple would try harder to capture this super boring market: With a better Mac Mini, by formalising its policy of supporting each OS for three years, with a focus on stability over gimmicks, etc.
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is open source the point here?
The answer people seek when calling their representatives about schools is to decrease funding and further restrict teacher autonomy.
We don't live on a commune, the reality of the world is without money and IP we wouldn't have some of the biggest companies on Earth.

And while I'm sure you'll attempt to spin that into a "good thing", I'll hazard a guess that these companies are a net positive when you include millions of employees and the fact without them computers would still by a hobby, not ubiquitous technology, and in fact I'd be surprised if we weren't decades to centuries behind in other fields.
the really pricey trashcan Mac

Whose last update was 10 months older than the mac mini's.
I believe your comparison isn't correct. Or, at least, is a bad example.

Certain substances are banned not (just) because they're harmful but because its addicts way too frequently tend to exhibit certain behaviors that are harmful to others.

Don't think it's any common to hear about a soda, coffee or chocolate addict incurring violence on drug-fueled rampage, or stealing to get another dose.
It's only a thing in some fast food chains like KFC or Quick.
is that sarcasm?
If a business is willing to offer me free soda refills and I freely choose to patronize thar business, then it takes a hardcore Stalinist to dare stand between us two and prevent by the force of guns this peacefull, voluntary exchange. Does one really need to explain that in the 21st century?
Can you provide a pic?
They could make a profit. Just need to stop expanding and subsidizing drivers.
Yeah it's almost like people don't even do any diligence but emotionally attack Trump in every turn. Do research how christians are persecuted or whats happening to gays and women in Muslim countries.
I suppose I have to agree with you. You apparently want a nanny state and to tax me to pay for it.
Why are you scared about an idea that our society has been based on throughout modern history? We live better collectively than we do alone, and living collectively requires compromises.

In a system where everyone pays for everyone else's health care, they have to act to keep that affordable and avoid widespread obesity and heart disease. This is a light touch. They're not going to make Coca Cola illegal altogether next year.

We've never had total freedom. Different countries draw the line in different places. The line gets nudged back and forth over time. I accept it because I could live on a plot of land with total freedom and the quality of my life would be significantly worse than a life without rules and without benefits.

Even though my government (the US) is currently undergoing a body horror I'd seek out another country like France with some other set of rules before I'd live in total freedom and anarchy.
I wouldn't be so sure. Old platforms suffer from diminishing returns and developers get bored easily. If a platform is no longer exciting and dominant players are lame or annoying, then developers and entrepreneurs will look for alternatives in completely different directions deliberately avoiding the old incumbants.

Amazon.com wasn't a Windows desktop app even though most customers would have used Windows to buy from Amazon. You could say that shifts like the Web are inevitable and nothing Apple could do will change that. That's probably right, but the way in which it happens and the role old incumbants play in the new world does depend on whether or not they are hated and actively avoided by the new elites.

I believe that Apple is making the upcoming decline steeper and deeper right now.
> A year ago America was a country I admired.

This is very childish and shows that you never really knew much about America in the first place. Love it or hate it, our nation was never a Scandinavian hug box. Even under Obama.
Its always "anything to save a life!" when its nobody you know. But take away your liberties in the interest of lifesaving, and its a different story. That's called hypocrisy. And in this case its very harmful.
I wasn't in tech at the time, and didn't have the leverage of a software engineer who has recruiters pinging them every week.

I think there are plenty of job sectors where the only options above entry level are middle management roles that have serious drawbacks like this. I accepted it because it seemed like the only way to climb the ladder.
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This relates to the industry—a large part of the tech industry in the U.S. involves people with work visas and green cards who will be excluded from reentry if they come from the countries covered by this order and are currently out of the country or travel internationally.
I build iOS apps but I avoid giving Apple any money wherever I can.

I buy all of my Apple hardware used from third parties. I don't buy any apps, music or books from Apple. I only use free apps.

The only time Apple gets a cent from me is when I pay for my developer license.
Am I the only one who things it is weird when a company who wants to sell me something tell me something that would probably make me buy their service?

(And the service isn't telling me stuff.)
I've kept a digital journal for the last five years (I have a chronic illness, so I look over my logs whenever I get sick to try and identify the trigger).

I tried a bunch of different programs, but I ultimately ended up writing a python script that creates a new .txt file with the datetime as the name("2017-01-20-22-02-50.txt"), launches vim, appends the day, date, and time to the top of the file ("Friday, January 20, 2017, 22:02 PM"), and then I just write my thoughts down inside vim.

I'm fairly disciplined about writing an entry everyday, but if I weren't, I'd just have it run as a daily cron job.

Having each entry as its own file is nice since you can just grep a term and find all the dates + times that the term was mentioned.

It's been incredibly useful - just this week I realized that my daily headache started when I began taking a new supplement, so I cut it out and sure enough, no more headaches.
I don't want to live the way the government wants me to.
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You are free to buy as much soda as you want.
Arguably, the additional representation made more sense before the federal government got as big as it was, and before mass communication and the Internet made large-scale cross-state collaboration and organization feasible.
Instead of down voting, could you present a better idea? Spouses of American citizens on legal visas are being indefinitely detained without any cause.

So are members of the US government. They did nothing at all to provoke this reaction from the authorities. Some of them even actively "kept their heads down".

If people do nothing about this now, where will it end?
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> man has been proven by several dozens of studies

If so Trump can back his actions by "several dozens of studies", then its ok right ?

> If your definition of "freedom" is "doing whatever the fuck I want without any limitations no matter the consequences", then I fail to see how this is a value worth pursuing.

Individual never do right. Collective never do wrong. Hmmm.

Leave us alone. Please.
> It doesn't sound like the two individuals in the article are actual persecuted refugees. The article doesn't elaborate on that.

Yes it does...

*The filing said he [Darweesh] had been directly targeted twice while working for the United States Military."
I totally agree with you on this and your previous comment to me that right wingers are giving libertarianism a bad name by appropriating it to advance their agenda of screwing poor and other disfranchised groups while enriching their donors and paymasters.
Implying nothing. He didn't finish his statement. Period. End of Story. I'm not going to attack him on a sentence that he never finished and instead on what I inferred from him, which is wrong. I'll wait for him to actually act, and trust me, I'm watching very carefully.

I hate Steve Bannon and Trump, but lazy and dishonest retweeting of your own personal biases are what causes this complete fake news epidemic. I said the same thing in the New York Times post. This is what is killing America, because we can't have an honest discussion.

The same thing happened with the "media should keep their mouths shut" quote. Another dishonest quote taken out of context, which only weakens any respect in stories that are anti-Trump. You don't beat Trump by spreading your own lies, you beat him by spreading the truth and opening the eyes of his supporters.
We run factories and if we had a bad deploy bring a factory down, it's not going to get "more broken", so we can push a fix-attempt change live as soon as it's ready.

Abstractly, we got pushback from QA about this policy. After we had gathered a couple of concrete examples, it was clear that QA-as-gatekeeper when the factory is already in the worst possible state wasn't valuable. We do mandate the normal reviews but allow them after deployment. (You can imagine the conversations with the auditors about this as well, so we had to carefully document that this was our process and made the auditors audit our conformance to the process not to their own preconception of what it should be.)
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I agree much more with jdam's thoughts - why are we controlling other people with laws. Its sad, ... scary at worse. Is your idea really to start policing people's everyday interactions that we don't support?

Just the judicial and monitoring overhead alone makes this really silly. What do you do to a restaurant that serves unlimited sodas? What resources do you expend to find them and bring them to trial?
It's called a public health service! A wonderful thing which avoids becoming a society full of overweight and unhealthy individuals like the United States.
It's not a thermodynamic equilibrium. The system does not have maximum entropy, and so, eventually the spin crystal will decay. The problem is eventually might be larger than the age of the universe by a factor of some really really large number
There is blame enough for both twitter and the asinine people here who engage in the deliberately misleading communication, fraud and harassment.

Capability is not a moral license to hurt others. If it were, you'd be morally responsible to kill as many people as possible.

My third paragraph is saying this: The US elections were decided by and large by social media plays. There are hints of illegal use by campaign actors, but even beyond that it was the first election we had where widespread bots on facebook and twitter were engaging the electorate. That and the repeal of the VRA are definitely factors in why the democrats lost while still keeping the popular vote.

I've been in this industry since a time when I was a teenager being laughed at for texting ("It'll never catch on."), using social networks ("Why not just call them?"), and reading online news ("WIRED doesn't put real journalism on their website, and slashdot isn't news"). Many people who are on the internet today take for granted that society has accepted this state of affairs, but it's the work of decades of amassing respectability and providing value.

And now in the public eye: dismantling the ability to associate and speak freely because the majority of even first world rich actors cannot use it responsibly.

Sure, there is blame for Twitter and Facebook for not ignoring the problem. But the people here relating in a chipper tone how they're undermining the system because, "Tragedy of the commons?" They're so stupid they're literally biting the hand that feeds them because it's a rush to commit minor fraud.

(Aside: It's very sad that Twitter fired blake so long ago, because he predicted exactly this would happen. Twitter's management didn't want to think about it, so they made him leave. Typical execs.)
In a situation where the water is recycled effectively and we have massive stores of it far in excess of what we need?

Yes. That's the whole point of modern water systems in the US -- that we're very wealthy and water cycles anyway, so why not cycle it a little faster if it makes us happy?

In the US, our troubles with water stem from corruption from people meant to be maintaining the system and inefficient agriculture. Personal consumption is well covered.
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But why would we? Because it's the polite thing to do? That's fine to an extent, but when there are active state-sponsored terrorist populations trying to sneak in operatives from the very region affected, why is that a risk that's wise for us to take? The "state-sponsored terrorism" boogeyman used to be a mostly-imaginary thing with reference to Iran, but who can argue now that ISIS, a literal terrorist state, controls large sections of Iraq and Afghanistan?

Culturally, we have very little in common with Middle Eastern refugees, and I don't just mean "they go to a weird looking church". We don't share similar cultural values. It's a big culture shock in both directions. There are other nations nearby that are much more similar and that the majority would be much more comfortable in.

Geographically, we're nowhere near the affected areas, and we already have a burgeoning refugee crisis on our southern border. Why do we need to import Syrian or other Middle Eastern refugees, specifically? We have taken them in some limited quantities, and that alone is risky enough, is it not?

I sympathize with wanting to be nice, but we need to be smart about it. There's more to life than tingly feelings, and there are plenty of opportunists out there who'd be happy to exploit our kindness. I love being nice, but I also love being smart. We should do both.
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Can anybody comment on why such a big track pad is useful? I'm using a 4.5 year old MacBook Pro Retina right now and I feel its trackpad is the right size. Aren't the new trackpads easier to touch by accident?
The whole advertising industry is built upon the evidence you're asking for.
That kind of segregation within nations is a recipe for wars and conflict. It didn't work out well for the Nazis and the neo-Nazis wanting the same thing also seems like a bad idea.
Well, MS removed quite a few ridiculous features from the Office 97 days. Like auto summary or Cliparts.
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That's about where I am. I like the idea of being a purist and see the potential gains but practical reasons such as needing to deal with other humans as well as my own lack of intelligence keeps it to this sort of midrange level
The replies to the topic where people fantasize about running other people's lives for them really makes my heart ache :(
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Am I the only one that read this comment three times and still has no clue what the poster is on about?
> You apparently want a nanny state and to tax me to pay for it.

What's it with Americans and these expressions. I've heard "nanny state" used 0 times by non-Americans (non-Americans use it only when quoting Americans).

Also, you're making it sound like you're _the only one_ being taxed. He will also be taxed.
So suddenly people became incapable of making meaningful decisions? We're perfectly capable of making "meaningful" decisions, but nanny-state, authoritarians know that they can get away with it now, rather than 30 year ago, when they would've been "run out of town" with stupid laws like this.

We're not sacrificing freedom. Places like France and NY are.
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Most of the European terrorists were European nationals, not immigrants or refugees.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34832512 e.g. Salah Abdeslam: French national.
The marginal cost of that sugar water is less than the cost of the waiter's time to walk to your table.
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Lots of educated people make bad choices about health. It doesn't take education or sophistication to know that you're better off without a lot of Coke. We're bombarded with messages about drinking Coke and not drinking Coke and we've made our choice.

An completely optimal diet does get very complex, and probably subjective. Definitely over my head. But we shouldn't pretend will power isn't a problem where the low-hanging fruit is involved.
That is not entirely true. For instance you can't drink in the street or be inebriated in public places.

France also used to serve wine in schools (http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/47/74/06/20160130/ob_1c8cee_...).

Maybe some law makers will come up with the idea to forbid sugary drinks and fast food to less than 18 or 21 years old (like it is for alcohol and cigarettes in some countries).
No, those costs are externalized in healthcare, which has a large and real public effect.