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The biggest issue with illegal immigration is that it is intensely dysgenic. A legal immigration program can select people of some distinction. An uncontrolled illegal flood has the effect of burdening society with another society's least able and most desperate contributors.

Those escape religious or political persecution, like the Puritans, some Christian middle east refuges, scientists from 1930s Germany, etc. don't count --- we all know that when we talk about illegal immigration, we're talking about a flood of low-skill economic migrants.
Yes, people don't realize that this "solution" doesn't work for any drug just because it makes sense for marijuana. For the people who disagree: In the limiting case thought experiment, imagine a drug which provides a complete DMT + MDMA experience with a single molecule, but has a 50% chance of killing you. Should this drug be easily available in a store? Run a simulation, let me know what the half life of your population ends up being...

Heroin isn't too different, really. It's very addictive, has a low LD50, and when it's easy to get, people effectively get a free ticket to a brothel on an accelerating rocket-fuel train with rarely stops. If a drug can have that much power over the body, people might think we could create microdoses, and sell those, and then it'd be safe. But then, the market for heroin/tar/etc. would still be there, and would continue underground.

It's not as simple as "selling it at CVS w/o prescription will lower overdoses and dissolve the underground H market"
Sending a tweet @company can work wonderfully. Make sure not to put the @ right at the beginning, so it's not marked as a reply and shows up to everybody following you. Most companies really hate being called out in public.
There is a fallacy at work here where people automatically assume that outright banning a substance through legal action is always wise or even always effective. And if the people die as a result, our attitude is essentially stuck on 'screw em, they shouldn't have been breaking the law anyway'.

Meanwhile, with proper health care and psychiatric care, the same people who could have stayed within the system, could have greatly boosted research into all kinds of conditions that compel people to take hard drugs in the first place and we could have had this issue solved long ago.

Instead, the medical industry is hamstrung in helping them almost as much as the addicts themselves. But politicians from the left to the right get to look good on camera, and journalists can bravely declare more drugs will be off the streets as they show children walking to school, ensuring nobody will ever suspect they're setting those same children up for severe problems that will go untreated.
I have this extension and Comcast. I didn't even notice they were injecting things
Data scientist, permanent US resident, denied return home
> The $99 ComputeSticks are just powerful enough to play standard def video from someone like NetFlix or Amazon. Higher bit rate streaming video is too much, and the'll stutter. But they have higher spec ComputeSticks I've not played with for $199, and $299. (Maybe I'm being grumpy, but most video content simply does not need to be 4K, or HD.)

Even the slowest compute sticks had a BayTrail-T Atom in them which has support for hardware decoding of any 1080p content you're likely to come across and technically supports 4K 30FPS playback (though doesn't have the necessary DRM support to play any commercial 4K content). If your machine had trouble playing back any 1080p content you probably had something misconfigured in your player or video drivers so it was incorrectly using software decoding.
One thing I've been wondering with regards to this order is this: How is this possibly constitutional as an executive order?
> Ubers position on immigration is not relevant to ubers business

Are you sure about that? A large percentage of Uber drivers are immigrants.
> ... has access to your browsing history, your search history, your entire internet history ...

That's a bit over the top. They'll only have access to data that you already knew lots of people have access to anyway. Not HTTPS sites where they'll only have the domain name. So they won't have your Google search history but will for Bing which bizarrely defaults to HTTP.
Erdogan already said some stuff about removing Trump (just the name) from Istanbul in 2015 [1]. That said, Erdogan says a lot of things.

[1] http://presstv.com/Detail/2016/06/25/472171/erdogan-trump-to...
Nope. I want to reduce the things that can divide people. Otherwise feel free to have the same polarizing debate topics for the next 50 years.
Japan Has Become a Big Player Within the Bitcoin Economy
Looks modular, well-built and well documented. I'll definitely check it out next I need a terminal app or script. Thanks.
No. We're actively bombing the shit out of them using drones and have been for a while. All except Iran, I think that one is there to send a message.
What sucks is when you say "at the whim of immigration". This is how the US government has been operating forever, long before Trump, and this is the foundation on which Trump's new policies will flourish.
I can't accept that heroin and alcohol are equal in that sense. I would be very skeptical about any sources claiming this equality. Ease of production, pharmacodynamics, etc.

Edit: Ideally, humans wouldn't be consuming poison? But, what is poison? It's a lot more complicated than "alcohol is bad" or "heroin is bad". Maybe you are right, letting down the flood gates will surely kill people who don't have control, and we'll be OK asymptotically. Making alcohol legal certainly killed people who wouldn't have died, and saved people who would have died. At some point, this is just a variation of the trolley problem. If heroin was made CVS-able without prescription, I would not guarantee that I wouldn't try it, and that scares me because I know how dangerous it is.
There's about 200 chronic addicts doing a heroin treatment study in Vancouver too http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouv...

They found using pharma grade heroin worked better than methadone in weening addicts off heroin but it is difficult to get from Europe, so they did another study to see if hydromorphone worked just as well and it did, effectively cutting costs for any prescribed opiate treatment program. They also found by prescribing it, the addicts no longer were getting arrested everyday or participating in the black market, and made long term goals like savings since they no longer needed to live day to day committing crimes to support the addiction.

As for injection sites I hope Seattle doesn't make the mistake of not making sure treatment is also available or else they'll end up like Vancouver with a growing number of injection sites because of the months long waiting list to get into treatment. These facilities are majority used by street addicts too so you still have a large amount of fentanyl overdoses since it's casual users dropping dead in their houses who don't frequent the clinics.

Another issue with these facilities is there's constantly a crowd of gangsters out front ready to sell you drugs on your way in or collect debts from addicts in the lineup so some addicts don't go to the injection sites.

Patrick K Kroupa of LoD/Cult of Dead Cow managed to clean himself up with ibogaine doses and a lot of self discipline http://ibogaine.mindvox.com/articles/heroin-ibogaine-patrick...
Condolences for sure. Do you happen to know the size of their place by chance? CO becomes deadly at about 400 PPM or 0.04%. Doing the calculations I can't for the life of me figure out how a small laser cutter could produce enough CO under any condition to become deadly. Even with the smallest of places, lets say 24x20x7 studio, that's 3,360 cubic feet of air & at 0.0807 pounds per cubic feet of air, that means roughly 271 pounds of air. To become toxic, that would mean the laser cutter would need to output 0.1084 pounds of CO or roughly 1.7 ounces of CO in that area and then not get dissipated through air leaks, opening and closing the exterior door, etc. That seems exceedingly high given a laser is going to cut very little actual material and even getting to the point where it has cut 1.7 ounces of material, let alone produced 1.7 ounces of CO would seem to me to take weeks, months, or years.
Mexican currently living in Canada as well, I'm a bit on the fence on this one.

Is unlikely we will have any problems getting into the US, but that being said things could change literally overnight.

There is a good chance I will not go to the Magento conference this year just out principle.
I dunno. Neurotransmitters are complicated, and interact in complicated ways. I typically have "slow time", and it doesn't speed up when I'm having a good time. I don't know if that's low dopamine, or what, but now I'm curious to get a... neurotransmitter panel? Analysis? You get the idea.
Japan is not the only one, I believe China does it too. There is a merit to this, and even though i can see many people would be unhappy to give up their citizenship (basically, you'll be required to have a visa to visit your family, which is big inconvenience), if it's part of the deal, I think many people would still take it.

Most of these though, I feel, should not happen retroactively. In other words, if they are already naturalized citizens and now have two citizenships, they should remain so. US shouldn't go after all the generations who naturalized. It's fair if they require you renounce your former citizenship going forward.
"Forgive but never forget".

The 3rd option used most widely in business today. Defectors are "punished" by refusing to do business with them after a defection.
This becomes more relevant, when (if) Trump makes any big changes regarding bombing.

Right now he has just made the life terrible for a lot of people's coworkers, friends and family; so that fact that Obama bombed some other people doesn't really help.

(You still shouldn't be down voted though)
Just curious, what city? And did you try to appeal? That seems crazy.
I'm not sure what number of undocumented Syrian refugees I would trade for every American citizen who believes that immigration is "dysgenic", but I think it's probably a high number.

But neither my beliefs nor those of Donald Trump are material here. The laws of this country forbid the kind of discrimination Trump has enacted, and have forbad it throughout multiple cycles of challenge and pushback.
Opioid use is not inherently dangerous (indeed, long-term pharmaceutical-grade opioid use is remarkably safe does not cause organ damage, unlike alcohol). There are several actual circumstances where opioid use gets dangerous to life and they are:

1) Dosage/concentration uncertainty

2) Contamination of a lower strength opioid (say, morphine or heroin) with a much higher strength one (fentanyl or fentanyl analogues)

3) Poly-drug use -- such as combining opioids with benzos to exploit synergistic effects

When it comes to pharmaceutical-grade opioids, the doses are known and measured and there's no risk of contamination with unknown amounts of fentanyl analogues. Indeed, the mechanisms of drug prohibition actually incentivize the use of extremely high potency/volume opioids such as fentanyl.

The third issue, poly-drug use, also is a consequence of prohibition -- the prices of opioids in the black market are artificially inflated (if you don't have the requisite permission slip for the drugs, you need to invest in all sorts of countermeasures to avoid being put in a cage and your product seized), so users need to economize, and this sadly happens by combining benzos with opioids, which can lead to fatal respiratory depression. This is also a symptom of prohibition and is not inherent to opioid use.

There are definitely real harms involved with / caused by opioid use today -- but most of those are caused by (or greatly worsened by) opioid prohibition.
> traveling by sea [from another continent]

If you have thousands of dollars and a week or two to waste.

> Canada or Mexico

If you can get a visa for those places. Both of your ideas are things I, as an affluent Westerner, would try if the US government stuck me on a no-fly list, but for the people targeted they may simply not be possible.
I also read the book (listened to it while swimming.) I must mention it was listed on YC’s Winter Reading List [1] right above 48 Laws of Power which I also read, however, that book has since disappeared from the list, presumably due to some of its non-PC and brutally honest manipulative methods to power it prescribes. How can I unread it now YC?

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-winter-reading-list
I hope you like it
It's not quite the same thing, but I've been using the Redux store in conjunction with Mingo (https://github.com/kofrasa/mingo/) to perform sorts and filtering.
"It is in fact a quite mainstream machine, nothing too special about it." The mini introduced a form factor that has since been emulated so often that it seems less special than it was at first, but it was something new. Small computers extant back then were larger than the mini. Most were based on the Mini ITX motherboard design, introduced in 2001, and all of them looked like boxen (ugly). The mini's dimensions gave it a non-computer look. It might seem plain now, a very simple form, but that was the genius of it. To allege that it's mainstream and not special, something to be incremented, is to cast it as just another box, a mere container. To Apple, it's an optimum solution to both engineering and aesthetic challenges. Maybe they resist the idea that it is just a box, and that is why they don't just increment the internals.
Followup question: Is there anyone that is currently within the US that is cancelling travel plans out of the country for fear that they won't be able to return?
> I don't think the two systems are fundamentally different. If a British PM has a Commons majority and retains the support of their own party, they can basically do whatever they like.

The difference is that a PM has no independent power; they don't just need a partisan majority in the Commons, they need the confidence of the majority of the Commons.

The President has independent power, and is not subordinate to the Congress the way the cabinet (including the PM) is to the Parliament in a Westminster system.
Long term though... bans, tarriffs, protections of any kind are all ill conceived. You will absolutely get a boost in wages, but the cost is quite significant. Shortening supply artificially always raises prices, and ends up meaning the same amount of output costs more to achieve than it otherwise would without the restrictions. Why would any economy want entertain that for too long?
> I don't get what you're trying to say.

Then analyze what happened with HTML and ActiveX. Draw parallels, and you'll understand what I'm trying to say.
What you are saying is contrary to what immigration lawyers say to their clients. Do you have a citation from the Immigration and Nationality Act that says that Congress needs to decide whether CBP officers have discretion to turn back legal residents at a port of entry? To my knowledge, this is the prerogative of the president, and this is exactly the legal basis that underlies Trump's executive order.
Imagine you're not bandwidth-limited and you want to transfer multiple files. One is on Disk A, one is on Disk B, one is on NFS, etc. Sending them all at once exploits parallelism, and the transfer on the faster disk doesn't get stuck behind the transfer on the slower disk.

One file per connection also makes the implementation simpler. If you want to use one TCP connection for multiple transfers then you need some kind of a header and logic to determine start and end of file, and new control messages get delayed in queue behind already-buffered data. If you have a data connection for exactly one file then you just call sendfile() and then close().

And transferring a file with active mode FTP looks like this:

Client -> Server: I want to transfer a file, connect to 1.2.3.4:12345.
Server -> Client: TCP SYN to 1.2.3.4:12345

Passive mode requires another half trip latency:

Client -> Server: I want to transfer a file, passive mode.
Server -> Client: OK, connect to 4.3.2.1:54321.
Client -> Server: TCP SYN to 4.3.2.1:54321

A different protocol could avoid the extra latency by having the server always use the same port, but that makes the implementation more complicated again. The server could get a data connection from the client before it gets the associated control message. Now it has to deal with matching them up, another timeout in case the control message never arrives, etc.

It's possible to run FTP over TLS. Hardly anybody does that because it makes the NAT problem worse, because then the NAT device can't even snoop the control connection and map the port. FTP programs could fix this by mapping the data port using something like NAT-PMP or PCP, but I'm not aware of any that currently do.
I'd have to say that it is situational. What we're really discussing here is the old proposition that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

If Pence denounced Trump's action and detailed what he was going to do about it, I would suspect his motives, and be concerned that he does not mean what he says, but this is a terrible policy that needs to stopped ASAP, and it's likely I would welcome Pence's help in this circumstance (while stating my reservations about him as a person and political actor).

However, in many situations "the enemy of my enemy is my enemy still", and I might not consider the benefit of accepting Pence's help worth the cost of working with him.
And you apparently represent those who profit from lock-in. Is that why you justify it all the time? Because no one would objectively do it. I never saw an engineer who said "lock-in is good, more lock-in please!". Those who do it, are backwards thinking managers like the one from this quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Vendor_...
>Ubers position on immigration is not relevant to ubers business

Immigration drives down semi and unskilled worker's wages (which drives up profits).

Uber absolutely has a dog in this fight.

Arguably the reason why Trump's rhetoric has struck such a chord is precisely because wages have been driven down by (among other things) immigration.
The problem is that it's so easy for bigots to conflate one with the other - if you see some lady in a headscarf she might just be carrying on the sartorial tradition she grew up with, but a bigoted person might say she's a harbinger of Islamic radicalism.

And there's no question that such radical Islamists exist, are generally strongly against the western-liberal-pluralist tradition, and that some of them are willing to commit heinous acts of violence. It would be a logical mistake to conclude that every Islamic person must necessarily be an extremist, but sadly it's not hard to think of politicians and pundits willing to mine that particular fallacy for all the political capital they can extract from it, and sadly there's a large portion of the population that is too dumb to spot the difference and who can easily be talked into scapegoating anyone who looks or acts differently, regardless of whether they actually pose any danger.
I could imagine the robot car having an easier time in a place with minimal expectation to obey traffic rules. It simply becomes an entirely self-serving entity solving a constraint maximization problem. Namely, get from A to B, don't hit anything, don't get hit.
It's really annoying when they inject warnings of the "You downloaded so and so TV show illegally".

Comcast, all my p2p traffic is encrypted. How do you know what it is? What're you trying to tell me about the safety of using your pipes for encrypted communication?

Switching to https makes the warnings go away. At least there's that.

(before anyone gets up in arms, I pay for cable as part of my subscription, I just don't have a TV to plug said cable into and I don't like broadcast TV, so i download)
What's the difference between powder and black-tar heroin?
> I'm not sure what number of undocumented Syrian refugees I would trade for every American citizen who believes that immigration is "dysgenic", but I think it's probably a high number.

Unfortunately, I don't think this administration considers itself bound by laws. That Trump made his contempt for laws and norms clear before his election and won anyway indicates a deep-seated frustration with the current legal and social framework of our country. Part of this frustration comes from the denial, in the face of all evidence and logic, that different groups of people differ in intelligence and temperament. If we deny reality, we're going to make bad policy. Bad policy doesn't solve problems and breeds resentment.

I don't like this situation any more than you do. Maybe CRISPR will let us boost everyone's intelligence to some biological maximum. In the meantime, we have to acknowledge reality.
BTW for confused readers I'm actually Irish and have nothing against parades - this was a satirical argument.
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has sending a paper letter actually made any difference in your experience?
> Just curious, what city?

IJmuiden, NL.

> And did you try to appeal?

Yes, I did.

> That seems crazy.

It is crazy. Especially since the RDW (local equivalent of the DMV) has my address on file and I lived right across the street. All they had to do was ring the bell and ask me to move my car. Hefty fine too, 140 guilders at the time (70 Euros or so today).
>Forget that they pay their drivers peanuts, that drivers have to drive up to 30% more now to make the same wages as just a few years ago, and that many are calling Uber to unionise.

Uber can't compete if its workers unionize. Please don't promote the failed anti-free-market ideology of labour unionization, which is based on total economic ignorance and shallow class-warfare cliches that don't conform to the complex reality of economic development and wage growth.

If you talk to Uber drivers, you'll see the vast majority are happy with the opportunity to do what theyre doing. We don't need more misguided calls for authoritarian regulatory prohibitions that violate the right of consenting adults to engage in voluntary economic interactions with each other.

I know it's not fun to see one's wages decline over a span of a few years, but that is what MUST happen if there is a huge influx of Uber drivers that tilts the supply vs demand ratio. Thinking you can legislate the pain away with mandates is failing to grasp that price is an information signal that tells us about supply and demand and allows the economy to adjust accordingly.
This sounds great but the TPP didn't include China, by far the biggest IP violator on the planet. The TPP was more of a giant conglomeration of things that various large companies in different countries wanted.

The text of the agreement was drawn up as secretively as possible because everybody knew the only point was to help the fortune 500 and fuck over everyone else.

I'm glad it's dead.