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> Why is nearly every culture against it, with the exception of mostly indigenous tribes?

Are you sure about this? My layman's observation has been that all societies have some list of approved drugs and drugs approved for specific purposes, then demonizes the unapproved drugs and unapproved use of drugs. Your general point still stands, but we need to be careful about romanticizing groups just because we think they're "closer to the earth" or whatever.
I agree and to the point I upvoted your comment :)

I think that a key part of this discussion is making the distinction between saying which drugs are illegal and whether drugs should be illegal at all.

Alcohol is particuarly interesting. It was a crucial part of pre-modern society in creating clean drinking water and even for nutrition in the case of beer. Not only that but alcohol, as opposed to LSD for example, can be taken in doses that range from completely benign to powerfully intoxicating.

Defining what drugs should be illegal, how to punish the crime, and all the other details around it are more difficult to navigate.
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This looks great, but if you want this to work, you need Android and iOS support. When is that going to happen? Is that going to happen?
Actually, it is not true that Instagram had not received funding at the time the story took place. I am referring more to typical pressures, some of which founders place on themselves.
>Most tech workers could easily work fewer hours for less money in second-year cities or take months-long sabbaticals but choose to do the opposite.

What universe do you live in? In my universe, this is simply not true. No tech company is going to allow you to work, say, 30 hours a week for 75% of your salary, plus full health benefits. And taking a months-long sabbatical means you don't keep your job, and you have a hard time getting a new one because of a resume gap, which employers absolutely hate.
> The only reason there's two kinds of "dark" is because both the space aspect (matter) of our math is wrong AND the time aspect (energy) is wrong.

You're pairing space and matter, then time and energy, and comparing them as though these entities are naturally paired in current theory. They aren't. Space and time are elements of spacetime, matter and energy are interchangeable by way of a rather well-known equation, but these things don't arrange themselves as you're trying to do.

> And as for your last sentence, trust me I understand the scientific method, and how proof, evidence, and fact interrelate with knowledge.

So you didn't say, "So many non-scientists think dark matter is proven. It isn't. It's nothing but pure conjecture."

Nothing is ever proven in science (falsified, yes, proven, no). And dark matter and dark energy are both more than "pure conjecture," a domain reserved to notions lacking observational evidence.
To be picky, the thingy was introduced "only" in 2014, so maybe "only" 4.5 million tv affected, that would raise the cost for the company to a whopping $0.50/each, more than double what you calculated but still peanuts ...
If I don't have a keybase account, can I use this app?
What zip code is your family's ranch? I want to look up the area on a topo map.
Ah, ok, I was going to say, if the excess energy in heat was sufficient to explain the gravitational lensing, you'd have several problems. You're just pointing out that there are other significant anonymous things going on we don't understand. Until they are also explained, the solution is not a complete one.
Every Windows box is different from every other one. Some Windows drivers are way more stable, less-bloated or functional than the OEM's drivers (personal example: Realtek audio) on certain hardware, other times (as seen in this thread) it's the exact opposite. Managing and selecting which driver works well on your particular combo of hardware, and preventing auto-updates from overriding your choices should be a top priority for Microsoft. They desperately want Windows to be as user-friendly as macOS in this area, but the reality is that Windows runs on heterogeneous hardware and in practical terms, it just doesn't work. Right now forcing one particular driver over another is an exercise in pain and uncertainty. You never know if tomorrow you'll wake up to your microphone not working (again) because of an overnight update. It's silly. Just give end users a friendly interface and stop the nightmares.
Anonymous speech was contemplated by the Justices during the deliberation of Citizens United. Justice Thomas's was the only dissenting opinion in upholding the reporting requirements for contributions toward PACs.

The majority and dissent opinions agree that the public interest is served by knowing who is funding a particular set of advertisements. Wrongful retaliation based off of that speech was deemed activity that should be handled when it occurs.
The article only makes the claim that they have made it faster that the previous technique. Most people say VSCode is faster than other electron editors like Atom. I am not sure who has said that VSCode is faster than Vim and it would be safe to assume that Vim would be faster.
I don't have an opinion on YC one way or the other, but...do you have an axe to grind? There are only three numbers in that list that don't overwhelmingly support the claims made. You call that a list that "goes on and on", "PR/marketing BS", and "lipstick all over the pig"?
Haskell's functions may be mostly pure but they're certainly not total, so they're still not the familiar mathematical concept, and therefore would fail the author's definition as well.
I had the exact opposite experience. I filed a vuln report for a company that promised guaranteed bug bounties, complete with a polished PoC. I received no response at all. I contacted HackerOne, who pinged the company a couple times, didn't get a response either, apologized to me and that was it.

The company remained on HackerOne and continued to promise bug bounties (and occasionally even paid some). Meanwhile, since the company hadn't responded to my report, I was not even able to disclose it within the platform.

I wrote it off as a learning experience and concluded that HackerOne was clearly focused on getting companies on board while not really caring about hackers. Business-wise, it's probably a clever practice (because getting companies on board is hard while finding hackers is easy), but I certainly am not very excited about them...

Edit: Said company is still on HackerOne, still offering their bug bounty, with links in the description now pointing to 404s since they changed their product line in the meantime. QED.
Out of interest, what are some of these? I have a hard time believing that the implementors of the Perl regex engine chose to write it that way for no reason while the Thompson NFA figures are thrown about. I knew there must havevbeen something this 'implementation detail' was good for.
Thanks for your reply, you're right about that. Currently we've only been developing micr.io based on wishes we received, that includes features such as hotspots, tours, etc. See https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en for its first release. We simply haven't had the time yet!
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Because they find the price agreeable and wish to reward the rights holder. If they found the price disagreeable then they pirated despite wishing the content holder to be rewarded.
Neoreactionaries/Dark Enlightenment bloggers are fellow travelers with the alt-right. There's always a verbose woolly-headed (pseudo)intellectual movement that accompanies the vulgar street brawlers and vandals.
It is wikipedia[1] definition of pointer.

> In computer science, a pointer is a programming language object, whose value refers to (or "points to") another value stored elsewhere in the computer memory using its memory address.

> [2] Pointers are the most primitive. Due to their intimate relationship with the underlying hardware, they are one of the most powerful and efficient types of references.
Pointer "points to memory", so if you change value of a pointer, you change what memory it points to. In java you can't change what a pointer points to. It's only references.

> I'm actively using pointers that point to object.

No, you passively use references that point to object. You can't do *(ptr+1) in java.
Leaky abstraction means that it's called a pointer but it isn't a real pointer. Also as another commenter said, in C# it's properly called a reference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programming)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_(computer_science)#E...
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This is a fallacy, AlphaGo didn't increase very much with additional hardware at all, it's elo would still have been higher than lee se-dol's elo.

And yes, MCTS worked well for Go, but notice how the combination boosted it to new levels? And deep nets without MCTS also worked very well on Go, outperforming MCTS only approaches (by FAIR and was the top before being dethroned by AlphaGo).
If you think the dreams are weird how about this. There was a period when I was was spending a lot of time writing code every day. And there were some nights where I'd fall asleep then partially wake up and look at the window to see light cast on the curtain in a way that would sometimes spell a message that helped me debug, figure out a problem, or discover a new technique. Or give me an idea for an operating system's logo...
Has anyone ever studied the effect that happens when some people are faced with data supporting a given position they argue the exact opposite? It's a sort of tone deafness, I think.

From TFA:

"So I don't think people should start with the question of whether or not to have reduced hours. First, it should be: what can we do to make the working environment better? And maybe different things can be better for different groups. It could be to do with working hours and working times, but it could be a lot of other things as well."

Well, yeah, but a comprehensive study just showed that reducing working hours gives a tremendous improvement to the quality of life and number of jobs in an area. So why shouldn't we look at it?
I had some offline feedback on spiffe.io - would also love to hear of people using this. Thanks!
Modeling analog amplifiers to produce good sounding guitar distortion is well understood in the music DSP plugin industry. There are several products for doing this (search for tube amp VST plugins). It isn't a new concept.
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/2/14486034/facebook-ai-update...
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Post your comprehensive chart of legal and illegal drugs. The reasoning for your foundational argument must be precise.
The goalposts keep moving.
I have been thinking that currently NAND fabs would be good, not to restore jobs but to restore the balance of trade. It is probably not a simple matter though.
Sorry if you saw this coming but do you really not miss generics and exceptions? I like Go given that it's a lean language and the compiles down to a self contained binary which doesn't consume gobs of CPU or memory and is pretty quick to start-up and run. Perfect language for writing command line tools and one-off network clients.

But I dread the feeling of writing repetitive error handling code and copy-pasta to get a simple generic functionality to work across data types. Maybe I should just consider it a better C and move on...
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Umm has anyone read the lisc. for this application?

https://keybase.io/docs/terms

When providing Keybase or the Service with content, such as your name, username, photos, social media names, data or files, or causing content to be posted, stored or transmitted using or through the Service (“Your Content”), including but not limited to the Registration Data and any other personal identification information that you provide, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable (in whole or in part), fully-paid and sublicensable right, subject to the Privacy Policy, to use, reproduce, modify, transmit, display and distribute Your Content in any media known now or developed in the future, in connection with our provision of the Service. Further, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your moral rights and promise not to assert such rights or any other intellectual property or publicity rights against us, our sublicensees, or our assignees.

That's a bridge too far, and someone needs to dial this back.
Hi David, can you reveal some of your environment (e.g. on-prem vs cloud), were there any technical reasons for switching or was it primarily a matter of perception of velocity/popularity between the two projects?

Just to add some of my own perception as someone who works on Mesos, Mesos continues to be popular with large technology companies that don't make their technical investments lightly: Twitter, Apple, Netflix, Uber, Yelp, for example. Companies continue to choose a Mesos stack based on its technical merits. The project is still moving fast and adding powerful primitives to support the needs of production environments while distributions like DC/OS are trying to make Mesos more approachable (easy to install, administer) and comprehensive (providing solutions for load balancing, logging, metrics, etc). I hope you will take another look at the Mesos ecosystem at some point, a lot of care has gone into it :)
... and it's not even 3.7 millon, the total is seemingly 2.2 million including the 1.5 million FTC:

>The order also includes a $1.5 million payment to the FTC and an additional civil penalty to New Jersey for a total of $2.2 million.

Or am I reading it wrongly?
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It's amazing how much work has to be done 9-5.

Banks, most contractor/consulting stuff like dealing with a CPA or lawyer, anything medical, even just shopping at specialty stores. I remember my parents changed banks when they both returned to work because only one local bank stayed open past 5.

Having a block of "standard work time" for asynchronous tasks (e.g. writing code, building a car) makes sense, but having it collide with the schedule of e.g. buying insurance is really weird to me.
Awesome! I've been using this for the past few weeks on and off, and the user experience is very pleasant.

Now that I know about the JSON API for chatting, I'll have to add it to my unofficial Ruby interface[1].

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/keybase-unofficial
Most people like to think that science is all about sharing information and that the popular theories are as far as mankind has come to understand the universe. Sadly this is not true. For every scientific discovery which has the potential to be used as a weapon, there will be forces trying to keep it hidden.

Instead of looking forward, it may sometimes be more productive to look backwards - especially pre-Einstein. James Clerk Maxwell and his luminiferous aether is as good as theory, if not better, than any modern explanation about what's out there. He even provided us with the math describing it (though is was removed later on).

The years after, towards the end of the nineteen century, is full of scientists claiming incredible discoveries - like anti-gravity, free energy, wireless transfer of information as well as power, apparatus for remote viewing and more. Nikola Tesla being the most famous I guess. Think how different the last hundred years would have been if any of it had reached the public domain.

On the other hand; making an atom bomb isn't really that complicated (the difficult part is surviving doing it). If every person you know had one, that would probably not work out. My point being that there are arguments for keeping information restricted. Put capital in the mix and it's bound to be some collusion.

Imagine you had a grid of antennas and that you could adjust the phase and frequency of each as to get the signals from all of them to be in-phase at a specific point. Everyone visiting this site could probably think of a handful of ways to do exactly that. Then imagine you had a lot of antennas and a lot of juice - you could more or less focus an insane amount of energy wherever you wanted on this planet without anyone being any wiser. What would you do with a power like that? Would you share?
Even some of us who aren't Trump supporters are getting tired of the incessant Trump-bashing.
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I like to call Lisp "semi-functional" -- it provides better support for the functional style than ordinary imperative languages, particularly if you use FSet [0] (shameless plug), but is still perfectly good for imperative programming when you want to do that.

[0] https://github.com/slburson/fset
Mostly. Java puts a lock on every single object in a multithreaded context; Go doesn't do this as a performance tradeoff, so two goroutines manipulating a pointer simultaneously will likely corrupt it. FWIW, I've been using Go for 4 years and I've not yet seen a memory corruption.
Slow connection is okay, it's just slow. Now spotty connection, or high latency, that's the killer.

Webapps that make 50 requests to download all the JavaScript and CSS and talk to the API and get 3 images really really really don't behave well when 12 of those 50 requests fail or take 30 seconds to complete. Honestly, I'd rather have slow internet than packet lossy internet.

Still don't know why, but my Xfinity router routinely gets into a state where it drops the first 10 or so packets of any request. The first `ping 8.8.8.8` takes 3 seconds, the rest are the usual 0.1 second. Terrible.
We didn't provide a diff because the new Terms were not an iteration of the old Terms; they were written from scratch.

As you can see from that diff, comparing the documents in diff form was just confusing, so we didn't try.

We hope to provide future updates in PRs with a diff.
I worked for well over a decade in a US +100y.o. global research company, who famously kept everyone working during the depression. Famously, 8 hour work days with summer work hours reduced to roughly 7.x hours because the founder respected workers and family life. Half hour for lunch, variable depending on responsibilities, excellent on-site food, a barber shop, other amenities. Significant Christmas bonus, mostly shut down over holidays, pension later 401ks. I would arrive at home at 4pm after full day in the summer and a half hour commute - and still had until after 9:30pm to garden, home projects, before the sun set. Bottom line, things got done but Wall Street doesn't take kindly to that kind of giveaway nor freedom to employees and forced a buyout. Of course I understand noone cares what I think, but I had the greatest personal and professional recognized successes and triumphs in that very environment, freedom coupled with discipline, and I simply cannot understand people's point of view when they talk of longer hours.
If your program isn't memory safe, it's very often the case that someone can make your program run their program, at which point the kernel doesn't know that your program didn't intend to modify itself.

W^X/NX bits and other technologies don't totally obviate the issue, as ROP gadgets can be used to defeat it. And so on, there's a whole domain of computer science dedicated to that arms race and no evidence that it's stopping any time soon.

On the other hand, a Rust program without unsafe should simply never execute code outside of its defined control flow, it's not possible to hijack any control flow on the stack or heap, and so a running program under arbitrary user input can only ever explore execution paths that exist in the absence of memory unsafety. No ROP gadgets or heap/stack smashing, no overflows leading to overwriting a function definition in memory, no overwriting the parameters of a function to cause impossible branches to be taken, and so on.
The dynamic languages people are always saying programmer time is more important than computer time. Yet they put out an editor that is wasteful with both.
Intel has always fabbed its high-IP parts in the USA or strongly allied countries (Israel, Ireland). They will never put a fab in China because the Chinese will rip off all their IP. The fact that Intel has resumed construction of a half-completed facility in the same town where they make almost everything else is not really news.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Circumcision

>However, in a meta-study spanning 40,473 males, the studies rated most accurate found that "circumcision had no overall adverse effect on penile sensitivity, sexual arousal, sexual sensation, erectile function, premature ejaculation, ejaculatory latency, orgasm difficulties, sexual satisfaction, pleasure, or pain during penetration."
Isn't that boilerplate legalese for a service that lets you upload, edit, and share media?
But why June 21, 2006, specifically? According to Wikipedia, there was a circulated Pre-RC1 Vista build (but only the first of 3) that was built on June 20th, and June 21st was the first day of summer that year, but neither of those seem like good reasons to pick this date in particular.
No, I'm merely a marketer myself, with some experience behind their side of the table, so I felt like calling out "oh really?!?" types of statements when I see them for the gullible entrepreneur types (met many) who might thoughtlessly drink the cool-aid.

Also, there were more than three. A few more that stood out, and I'm sure we could argue on a few more:

> Misconception: I’ve raised too much money for YC.

Is a sampling anomaly for all we know.

> Misconception: I’m too far along for YC.

Likewise.

> Misconception: Solo founders aren’t accepted.

Seriously? "8.5% had a solo founder."

> Misconception: I need to know someone at YC or have an alumni recommendation.

Likewise. "54.7% did not have a recommendation." Of those that did/didn't, how many got accepted?

> Misconception: I’ll never get in.

Right, 100% who got in applied, see? Meaningless.
I've been a die-hard defender of IRC and yet, I have been using it less and less since I started using Discord.

I can finally have a single platform for communication. Voice chat, text chat, group chats, friends list, async communication, unlimited logs (no 10k max msg nonsense), webhooks/integrations that let me do far more than IRC bots ever did. All of it under one account. Oh and the client doesn't suck, unlike Slack's. It's fast. The voice quality is superb.

As far as productivity goes, I get far more done with it than I ever did with IRC. The addition of being able to hop on voice very quickly is insanely good. Screensharing and video chat coming this year as well, I'm pretty excited.

It's to the point that I bought Discord Nitro (their premium offering) the day it was released, for no other reason than to give them money.

I hope the question of protocol openness gets resolved; until then, IRC just doesn't cut it for me anymore. IRCCloud.com helps, but their interface is super slow with lots of channels and IRC itself simply has no support for the thousands of improvements that have been made in communications the past 30-something years.
this looks like a great codebase! thanks so much for open sourcing this.