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> If Rajesh from Chennai is sending all his money back to Chennai, Americans won't have the funds to benefit from the lower prices.

LOL! That is mistaking money for value. If Rajesh sends the money back to Chennai it will very likely increase the value of money for Americans which affects the poorest of poor in a very good way.

I would however worry more about Rajesh maxing out his credit cards and then catching flight to India. :P
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If you look up the endorsement by Valve, it's not just a straight up "Use Vulkan" but a well reasoned set of arguments and case studies by people with a lot of experience. So, this is not an "appeal to authority", but a reference to an existing body of research which supports my assertions.
This is a very important point. Nothing happens until it's made easy and presented as a choice.

I also think that some user education is in order, and needed for this choice to be made. I'm not cynical about it, though - I believe that humans can learn a whole lot more about the internet than they have in the decade to two that most of them have been using it in the west.
The surprising thing is actually that a significant number of people seems to be spending weekends in preparing for interviews[1]

1. example "recursion", "algorithm"
I actually created a meta search engine for high quality cc0 photos, its called librestock. check it out :)
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Wow! My thoughts exactly!
Having worked at both companies, I can confirm.
No. I live in Spain, in an area close to a river delta where it is very, very windy. I also lived in a windy island for many years.

Wind, when it is strong enough, can be very uncomfortable, even dangerous.

I guess that what you are looking for are places with a sustained sea breeze in summer. However, these places tend to have high relative humidity, which is not comfortable.
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Kaspersky MITM's TLS connections by default and inserts JavaScript into sites that you visit. It installs its own root cert even if you disable TLS interception.

Are there free AV products that simply offer a good file scanner, no TLS interception, no broken browser extensions, etc.?
Is there any good introductory material? I have tried severally to understand the theory and the spirit of DL and ML, but I have not been able to connect the dots. Please direct my path.
You cannot vote with your feet if you cannot leave, and leaving takes both money and will.
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The juxtaposition is a well-known jest:

"Ankh-Morpork! Brawling city of a hundred thousand souls! And, as the Patrician privately observed, ten times that number of actual people."

- Pratchett, Terry (1989), Guards! Guards!, Corgi UK.

I suggest the usage is wry rather than derogatory, unless accompanied by more specific disparagement.
Paid voters are given pre-filled ballots. They go inside polling station, drop the prefilled ballot in the box, and bring new blank ballot outside to paymaster to collect their cash.
It runs in a web browser sitting on top of different underlying apis though. Which is basically what's being suggest here.
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>which covers 99.99999999999999% of all Windows machines where this is an issue.

TIL Matrox only has <00.00000000000001% of the market. :(
I'm saying MobX is not the final answer for React. Behind React is the theory of uni-directional data flow. Observable in MobX looks nice and it fixes uni-directional data flow in JavaScript syntax of assignments. Seeing from ClojureScript and other languages that implemented persistent data structure by default, MobX is just a tricky solution designed for JavaScript. And ClojureScript handle uni-directional data flow well too with persistent data and atom type.
The last time I transferred my mobile number, the telco wanted to have the IMSI as well. Then what my phone reported was not what they wanted, so it took a while to sort that out.

But it seems secure enough. It is not easy to get an IMSI for a random phone number.
Except bombs are dropped by the military and the victims of the terror attacks are civilians.
It's because in the US, corruption is just legal thanks to lobbying.

Plus, you are in a country where you can go to war to satisfy your friends benefit. Lie blatantly about the motives. Spend billions of dollars for it in a country in massive debt. Get caught doing so. Yet ignore international instutiions, go kill thousands of people anyway and get away with it.

You are in a country bailing the banks that ruined themself.

You are in a country where it's legal to snatch somebody without a trial. Where you can get in secret prisons and be tortured. All that justified by events that killed less people than the flu.

Where massive surveillance is allowed by politicians for security, yet they ban all attempt of transparency on their own actions.

The only difference with India is that they are better at it :

- they don't make it obvious and chocking enough so that it leads to a strong reaction

- they use all the tricks in the book to divert attention

But in the end, the US is so corrupted it could be a case study for future historians.

France is pretty much the same, mind you. We have just less guns and more smug.
Rust and Go are not competing with each other. Why do we see so many comparisons of them?
An alternative scenario might be that drugs would get cheaper in the US, European drug prices stay the same and pharmaceutical companies somehow scrape by with lower (but still positive) profit levels.

Seriously, if drug companies were making a net loss in European and other countries, they'd just stop supplying in those countries and subsequently enjoy higher profits. Unless you're suggesting companies like Pfizer and Merck & Co do it anyway out of the goodness of their hearts. And prices the US pay are in no way related to what other countries pay: it's simply a function of market power and being in a much weaker bargaining position.

Most of these countries have 'single buyers': essentially a panel of medical practitioners and economists who negotiate prices on the basis of cost-benefit ratio on behalf of the entire country. So the lower drug prices in European countries (and other single buyer/universal insurance countries like Britain, Australia, Canada etc.) is simply drug companies supplying the market at the price it will bear. They are price takers in such countries, because those countries are monoponsy markets.

I realise Pfizer (net income: $7.74 billion) and Merck & Co (net income: $4.44 billion) are really doing it tough, but I think they'll be OK if Americans realise it's insane to pay close to double (>15%) the OECD average (7-8%, medical spending as a % of GDP). Although I hear US medical treatment is top notch if you're rich, otherwise statistically (and conservatively) 25% of the time it will send you bankrupt, assuming you make it out of the waiting room alive (compared to, say, the UK where medical costs account for %5 of households that report 'financial difficulty'). [0]

It truly baffles me when I hear Americans talk about this issue, as they always argue it's actually really a good thing that they're getting rogered by most of the private medical industry in their country (hey, they're nice people, we cuddle afterwards). There's some crazy mental gymnastics going on if you truly believe that paying double the 'rich country club' average on health care costs for basically the same outcomes (apart from the much higher bankruptcy rate) is in some way a good thing.

It's almost like some weird form of buyers' remorse: 'Yeah, but we treat cancer better that anyone. USA #1!'

[0] http://www.snopes.com/643000-bankruptcies-in-the-u-s-every-y...
I agree. I am of course nitpicking, but it is exactly the same mistake I made in the first post (but I was assuming a discrete distribution instead of a continuous distribution).
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TL;DR: On weeekends people either do homework if they are students or play with the languages they would like to work with, if they work in some SharePoint salt mine during the week.
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60 years was a long time ago?!
Once a market for a particular chip is big enough, it's much more cost effective to replace an FPGA with an ASIC (a custom silicon chip). The non-recurring cost to have an ASIC developed is often millions of dollars, so it only makes sense in high volume applications.

FPGAs excel in low volume, and in products that are still being developed.
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the 4th one has mention of "these viruses on my computer"
I think seeing this as an inevitable, when humans still have some choices in regards to the technology they buy and keep in their homes, is a lazy extrapolation.

More importantly, it's very important to keep in mind the massive benefits of privacy, be it psychological, philosophical and practical. This is both because of our hard-wiring and the natural importance of information. It's inherently interwoven into our lives, we don't even know how we'd act if we couldn't have any privacy. It could be debilitating for our intellectual development.

Surely this is a thing worth thinking about, and possibly fighting for? Otherwise, someone could simply extrapolate from our use of earlier weapons that we will probably have nuclear war, so all activism about anything is moot. This sort of careless extrapolation is beside the point EVEN if it's true.
Scam does not require dishonesty and no one is saying anything about morality. I can tell you that you can play poker with me and because I'm so good at it, your chances of winning is 1 in 100. If you still decide to play, it's your choice and it's neither immoral or a scam. However, somehow if you turn out to be better player than me and suddenly I'm losing in droves and then I call police to not only confiscate all your winnings but also bankrupt you and then put you in jail. Now, that's a scam. Being able to pass laws through political lobby and making this whole process legal doesn't make it any less of a scam.
It is not a non sequitur: it is the same argument applied to another situation where people fall into the same trap of lack of knowledge leading to a lack of understanding of their own plight (we might even call it a "blissful ignorance"). The other person who responded to the same parent comment saying "it's hard to be consciously bothered by the lack of something that you've never experienced?" could have been leaving that exact same comment with respect to having an intact foreskin in response to someone claiming the point about circumcision.

Do you really not see the parallels? It seemed like a really great way to point out the fallacy here and demonstrate that "just because people aren't complaining, and even if when asked they are adamant they don't have a problem (an even stronger position than simply that they aren't going out of their way to complain), it clearly doesn't imply they don't have a problem if they haven't been given the necessary knowledge to understand or appreciate the problem" without having to directly engage with the broken logic (which is, of course, impossible).
This.

Also, I'd have thought that with weekend projects you're more likely to find things out by experimentation and reading the documentation than by asking questions. With work or classroom projects, you have to work with a fixed spec, a prescribed technology, all sorts of Best Practices, and deadlines. Weekend projects give you much more freedom in all four respects.

So yes, GitHub would be much more accurate.
From what I gathered, they're trying to be "smart" about it by detecting if there are "docks", but I didn't really investigate much further (in particular, if "dock" means "external monitor is connected") beyond setting the relevant action to "ignore" in some config file (don't have the laptop in front of me at the moment, and my own machines don't use systemd, so hard to be more specific, unfortunately).
Among things :)
The difference is in marginal cost. Industrialization was a relatively gradual change. AI can make whole professions almost redundant basically overnight.
Many of the people in this thread are looking for the analogous solution to WebGL for Vulkan, and the primary argument for not doing it from the WebKit engineers is that Vulkan is a lower-level API than Metal and DirectX 12, which makes it difficult to impossible to simulate efficiently on top of those APIs; but, this is actually only a problem because Apple refuses to implement Vulkan.
While I agree with you on the perks of a UBI, I think India is not yet in a place where UBI could work.

As mentioned in the article, the pay would be a meagre Rs. 7000 per annum. To put it in perspective, I found it hard to keep my expenses per month to under Rs. 8000, living frugally as a student, with basically free housing and subsidized food.

Sure there are millions of people who would appreciate this sum and might gain some benefits from them, but it would be inconsequential to about 70-75% of the population. That's a lot of money wasted. It might br better to have focused welfare programs which would put this money to better use. For instance, government sponsored vocational training programs. India has a vast network of NGOs, and many of them have such programs. Another venue to invest this money might be on rural education systems. A disturbing number of them are not functional, where both teachers and students infrequently visit a shabby one room building to have free mid-day meals (I don't have any woes with this program, btw). Better infrastructure, better teacher training programs, are all venues that would benefit from the money. Ofcourse these venues are riddled with a corrupt administration which would substantially diminish the returns, but UBI distribution too might have similar problems.

Basically, in a country with this population, and with a huge wealth divide, I think UBI is a very ineffective welfare program.
The article fails to differentiate between charges and conviction. In India anyone can get charged for a crime no one ever gets conviction.

As an Indian I think Criminality of Indian Politicians is a non issue. Very few of the politicians are actual hard criminals. Most face charges that anyone in important position is likely to face.

Nearly all my politician friends have been in jail and have criminal records but I can vouch they are pretty good people.

India does not uniform laws and far too many laws to deal with the exactly same crime.

Examples:
1. One of my friend has been fighting in court for last 7 years over a case registered on him by his political opponent. My friend called him "asshole". However as per Indian law it is a crime to abuse a person if the person belongs to specific caste (SC/ST) not just that, the police are required to register the case even if they think the charges are frivolous or unsubstantiated. This gentleman has been visiting court every few months. The charges will be dropped some day as a political bargaining chip.

2. I barely escaped having a criminal record when I participated in a political movement. The cops basically filed any random charges against the protestors including molestation, attempt to murder and what not. I escaped because I had a fake ID card with fake name on it.

3. A lot of civil offenses are "crimes" in India.

For example you are CEO of a publishing company that publishes a scholarly book on world mythologies. Some person files a complain saying you (CEO) has hurt the sentiments of public which is a criminal offense. India Ebay CEO was arrested as a criminal becomes someone sold a CD on the website that had porn clip in it !

4. Courts that don't work.

Indian courts spend time only on cases that make the judges popular. Such as cases that involve celebrities or cricket. That is why conviction rates are next to nothing. One Indian celebrity recently got acquited from tow major crimes after around 12 years of fight.

5. Drinking wine or beer might be a crime in some states and in one state they want to give capital punishment for the same.

6. Eating beef might be a criminal offense.
I would also like to know the answer to this question. Every time I try setting up a Kubernetes cluster, it's an exercise in frustration. Docker Swarm is much easier in comparison.

Add to the fact that Docker Swarm is adding Enterprise features (such as Secrets in 1.13) and that is has an Enterprisey version (Docker Datacenter) which supports multiple teams, why would I - an Enterprise developer and architect - look at Kubernetes over Docker Swarm?
Security issues aside, why wouldn't we want "WebVulkan"? I suspect there would be some interest from various parties in making a WebAssembly compatible cross platform 3D library. Being able to create something with Unreal Engine, for example, while targeting both web, mobile and desktop seems like it would be incredibly powerful.
With regards to domestic policy, the US was miles better than the USSR. With regards to foreign policy, the distinction isnt anywhere near that clear. The US has supported mass murders in Guatemala, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan/Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq since WW2 and I'm sure I'm missing a few.

The nuclear arms race was also hardly one sided, and Kennedy in particular has a terrible record when it came to the imminent nuclear destruction of the world. The Cuban missile crisis was sparked of by NATO and US troop movements in Turkey and Eastern Europe.

The United Nations in particular was deliberately crippled by the US. There are quotes from officials under Nixon and Ford who said they were deliberately instructed to sabotage UN proceedings relating to the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh. There are also numerous such instances where the US has dramatically opposed international consensus and blocked the functioning of international agencies relating to Israel/Palestine, Rwanda, Cuba, Indonesia/East Timor and Nicaragua.
The autopilot, carefully designed to handle all situations the engineers have imagined, suddenly throws hands up "you human handle this!". You, having let the car drive itself all the time have 0 hours hands-on driving time. You are now put in a fast-evolving situation too complicated for computers and are expected to do the right thing.

This how AF447 happened.
Ever heard of ISIS?
Intel doesn't have a production quality Vulcan driver as of now.

Considering that browsers implemented WebGL on top of DirectX, why would it be any different for a proposed new API?

In which case it's reasonable to at least have a discussion about what this new API might look like.
True. But then, keeping within the frames of parent's argument, if you want power (you do), you want privacy.
> For that money Sweden took in about 163.000 people (refugees and economic migrants who pose as such). UNHCR is responsible for 60 million refugees.

This comparison is meaningless without comparing what help they get and standard of living
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India is very special, traditionalist society. As person who have spent a considerable time living in North India, I would say that people will turn this free money into gold and garments and other status symbols, like mobiles, which in turn, will cause inflation and soaring of prices of gold and other assets.

The analogy could be a land in the great plains of US. In San Francisco or New York the value and the price of land is ridiculously huge, while in plains it is almost free - no one needs it. Similarly, free money will simply lose any value and some new form of wealth storage and accumulation would emerge very quickly.

BTW, in India there is a free food available in many big temples, but for some reasons lots of people prefer to eat at home. In India people do not run after money per se, but for social status, which is a cornerstone of the Indian culture.

India is special. They have many local government programs to give nutrition to the poor, which does not work well due to rampant corruption. Simply distributing money to a bank account will obviously eradicate some corruption, the problem is that, perhaps, a third of population in some areas have no bank account.
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When I was writing my thesis I wanted to correct for that as well, and weighted my data by the log of the sample size. This made intuitive sense to me, and both my advisors seemed to agree, though neither of us found compelling papers for this.
Thought experiment - what is worse - a) expanding a drone program and killing thousands (including by the US's own admission 100+ innocent civilians, but probably many more given that the US classes all military aged men in a strike zone as 'combatants' regardless of whether they are actual combatants or not), or b) issuing a temporary visa ban to a large number of those countries actively being bombed by the above-mentioned drone program?

Does your answer match with which one has seen the most outrage from the press and the general populace? Why or why not?
This is highly impractical, and possibly even detrimental to your privacy/security. For one, most people are simple not qualified for such an undertaking, but that's probably not the biggest problem. It's the people who may think that they are qualified and may follow your advice and self-host. Some exceptions aside, almost nobody should put anything up on the internet unless they've done it in some professional capacity before. It's a fallacy to think that an average Joe can push a button and replace Google by paying 10-20 bucks a month to a cloud provider. For most people, a better solution is to use services like signal or protonmail/tutanota (at least until end-to-end email matures, at which point other big players will support it too)
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For your concern number 3, the creator of spacemacs has created a package to help you author lisps in normal mode (https://github.com/syl20bnr/evil-lisp-state). It is included by default in spacemacs (all the bindings begining with `SPC k`).

It offers you all the cool features of paredit (barf, slurp, splice, transpose, convolute etc...), but it is easier to use in evil-mode. Check it out!
That's why GDP is a pretty bad yardstick. Spending on inefficiency is spending so it raises GDP, but GDP doesn't indicate whether money was spent making people better off, or just spent.

It's like a natural disaster or oil spill: there is good chance a natural disaster or actually increases GDP short term. People aren't better off for it however, since that money could have been spent better elsewhere.
Yeah hiccup syntax is my favorite as well. JSX is mentally the same thing for me except I read "HTML" faster than data structures if that makes sense.

I wonder if Hiccup was the first one to introduce this syntax? I never bothered to check but I always thought the JSX inventors might have been inspired by it.
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Shipping WebGL is not the same as shipping OpenGL support, which they don't do. WebGL on Windows browsers is built on DirectX. Apple ship a WebGL enabled browser.
I have been self-hosting my email for a few years now. (I use Zimbra BTW)
Whenever the server goes down for whatever reason, the sending SMTP will retry. Each server has their own configuration, and can be changed by the adminsitrator, but it's usually a few days.
As an example, on their default configurations, Exim will retry every 24h, and give up after a week. IIS will retry every 2 hours and give up after 2 days.
We could send some weather balloons, at least.