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Social networking is becoming the dominant form of media. Media controls what people think, including their politics, and what products they buy.

You need to stop and see the big picture here. facebook is basically as powerful as the entire TV industry combined, with all the power concentrated in a single company. The NYT recently reported that the average US facebook user spends 50 minutes/day on facebook. And people are watching less and less TV all the time.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, quite the opposite, but I think it seems dishonest not to acknowledge what a huge effect these companies have had on every level of our society, from how people talk to friends, how politicians communicate with the electorate, how people decide what to buy, etc.
>It seems like such a huge game that it won't be possible to judge it fairly without playing at least 40 hours

this is a rather absurd statement
Pad size is irrelevant, and smaller pad sizes can actually result in faster release of material.

Regeneration is certainly a benefit, but in my experience with a few different EVs caps out at fairly low levels of braking.

Also, I don't know anyone who's replaced a V8 SUV with an EV. Most of the EV-owning people I know replaced hybrids, generally Priuses.

You may be right, but I'd like to see a source that runs contrary to this instead of pure conjecture:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231016...
I meant it as a bit of a tongue in cheek response, and indeed I used 'was' to indicate the NFLs former status.

Nevertheless, I don't think its as simple as goals happening to align with industry, nor do I see equivalence in the industry relationships to brady groups (though admittedly I haven't researched that).

Given the NRA's closely held governance structure and the large individual donations from manufacturers, one does not need a great deal of money (and certainly not majority of $) to influence direction toward industry ends that may not be in the interest of individual members as much as industry members and NRA leadership. That's honestly the best kind of influence to have, as your goals appear to be those of the large passionate group of individuals.

I agree though 'more or less' overstates that relationship, I was wrong. I'll amend that to: the industry has influence over the policies the NRA advocates for, and benefits from those policies appearing to come from their large member base.

FWIW I'm not opposed to the NRA per se, in fact a group for teaching responsible gun use is great. I'm just opposed to the current incarnation of the organization.
"Opening the door" to something bad happen isn't an actual argument.

Detaining someone could "open the door" to violent beatings, talking to someone could "open the door" to threatening them, but until those beatings, threats, or actual discrimination occur it isn't considered illegal.
Try removing BN from the critic :)
Also the electricity needed to charge them needs to come from somewhere – some of this will come from burning coal which has significant health risks.
Right, it's hard to grow the company when you destroy your only DB servers and your backups don't work. They are lucky they follow yet another bad practice of having their customer's data in some random stage environment, so they could restore it from there.

There's no excuse for not writing a bash script or ansible playbook when you're spinning up the most important machines that hold the entirety of your business so you can spin up a 3rd, 4th, or 5th, hot standby. I've done it many times. It takes about a day to write it, a day to find the bugs, and a day to test it out. Take a week your first time just to make sure.

I don't see any valid excuse to not have a 3rd database server. This is not complicated, it's just lazy and/or cheap.
Even if that was done, wouldn't these areas be disproportionately less healthy due to particulates in the air from tires incrementally tearing up the freeway, which ends up in the air?
> If one can extract practical comparisons between a pair of mathematical formalisms, and map those to differences in observables, I think that qualifies both as physical theories.

That’s fair. I wasn’t aware that anyone had managed to make any potentially observable predictions at this point, so thanks for updating me on that.

(As an observer from the sidelines of physics I’ve always had a fondness for Loop Quantum Gravity / Spin Foams over String Theory(ies) personally, but not for any particularly deep reason that I can point to as justification.)
Guards, pattern-matching (even down to the structural level) and typespecs cover a lot of the ground that static typing would, without forcing the type rigidity. Although Haskell seems to have admittedly cornered the static typing market
Isn't this ironically referencing a lot of Unix development?
Tech center of the world with a 1970's subway system that sucks in more ways than one (hurts your ears inside and out, dirty, not on time, not many stops, frequent maintenance issues, etc.).
It's pricey, but Playa Vista would probably match what you're looking for.
> Groovy is a scriptable Java

Apache Groovy enables a programmer to script Java, not to be a scriptable Java, which is different.
That's your prerogative. I choose to believe this was a misunderstanding on the part of Susan. Of course, if there is further evidence then I would love to hear it and make a new decision then.
"This could get the same treatment as /etc/passwd if it becomes a burden. In the meantime, if it's a performance bottleneck, make a memoizing function to lookup groups and use a '-n' switch to ls."

Exactly, and this is the sort of thing that can be done with open source software. It may not even be a lot of code depending on how it is approached.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and blame google plus, wonder how much long term damage that did. Put off tons of people (aka me) from even trying these services during the time that they should have been gaining traction, and left everything in disarray as they tied, and then tried to untie, all of their services together.

I think duo is the right idea, where making a video call should be just as easy as making a phone call, but so far every time I've tried to use has been met with "install what? can't we just facetime?"
People who use Uber are not setting the price, they are simply picking the cheapest option. I don't think it is fair to assume or expect that the average Uber customer is fully aware of the latest news and controversy.
Yet you weren't clever enough to ban Hitler or muslims ... oh well ...
"GPU acceleration besides games is still extremely rare"

Not even. Video acceleration, browser acceleration, flash acceleration, and much more, are becoming increasingly GPU-oriented.
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Cool well best of luck on the next steps. I always welcome more competition and new ideas surrounding CSS frameworks.
> There's a difference between what's popular & what's ethical.

I can certainly agree with that. My citation of popularity was to defend conscription from exactly the kind of reasoning you describe: "No one really cares about national sovereignty and it's just a few suicidal wackjobs whose quixotic desires shouldn't impinge on the lives of us normal people."

>2. Since we're being intuitive here: Throwing a bunch of amateur teenagers at the problem doesn't seem like the best solution. It could be a cheap solution. A type of hidden tax which taxes the lives of people who have no way to vote. Two foxes and a hen voting what's for dinner type of thing.

Surely you're not against universal suffrage!
I was in fact thinking of the --force problem which is why I went another way.
Something doesn't pass the smell test. Over two hours to reboot the index hosts?
It's a miserable 20-odd miles between Santa Monica and Northridge through the Sepulveda Pass, which makes that a tricky thing to optimize for.

The real questions are the usual: where are you going to work? what do you consider a reasonable commute? and finally, how much can you afford?
Looks cool. Would be nice to be able to drag a pptx or google slides link which would unpack the images or slides automatically. Then you could use arrow keys to easily advance the stream. May be outside the scope for simplicity though
And it's merged and deployed.
Isn't that the whole point of POSIX though?
This reminds me of the Stroustrup quote:

There are two types of languages, the ones everyone complains about, and the ones nobody uses.
Maybe they were, but they missed this one thing?
You're correct that their power comes from the large bloc of single-issue voters.

Though I disagree that there is no relationship, see other comment above.
> The amount of consumption (goods and services) a given person can indulge in has an upper limit

Why? What is the limit? The amount can grow, and the evidence that it does is overwhelming.

> In the past, people who were freed from some tasks were simply reallocated to others and more stuff was produced which there was demand for.

Why would that only be 'in the past' and not today and tomorrow?
Somehow, it's reassuring to see how 45 years later, the rm -rf class of problem still persists.
Most of the author's criticisms around the Unix Philosophy™ (aside from perhaps the performance aspect) would be solvable in two steps:

1) Standardize on some structured text serialization format (I like YAML for this)

2) Write a new shell

Both of these things are compatible with the Unix Philosophy™, and thus said Philosophy is nowhere near collapse. Rusty around the edges, sure, and maybe with some asbestos in the ceiling tiles, but certainly renovatable.

The philosophy is already prevalent in the world of "microservices"; an application is split into a whole bunch of independent (usually containerized) programs communicating via something like JSON over HTTP.
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> "However, because they’re 24 percent heavier on average, the study found that EVs shed more particulate"

That's a pretty misleading statistic too. EV's are 24% heaver than the average subcompact. But most people are already driving cars significantly heavier than the lightest subcompacts.

According to the EPA, the actual average personal vehicle weight was 3,977 pounds in 2012. That is heavier than most EV's -- it's heavier than any Chevy Bolt, Volt, or Nissan Leaf ever sold.

For example, a 2017 Volt is lighter than a similarly-priced 2017 Avalon, even though the Volt has a 18.4kWH battery in it, does 53 miles zero-emission electric, and gets an extra 15mpg when using gasoline.
Maybe. Or maybe you were brainwashed to think that.
Unfortunately (in this case) the US seems to have a much greater sense of individual right rather than collective right.

My right, and that of my family, friends, and community, to clean and pollution free air seems to be less important than someone else's individual right to drive the vehicle of their choosing and maintain it as their means allow. I know some States have emissions testing etc but that is not universal across the US.

I assume the assumption has always been that the market will slowly correct the issue and the fleet will change accordingly. But CAFE laws are of course a politicized issue.
Ha, I'd actually love that. Google Slides should be in the realm of possible things, PPTX could get more complicated.

What I suggest you try is to upload a PDF. I've built a moderator mode on the presenting screen, there you can do exactly what you want (just not with a PPT but with a PDF-Presentation).

The reason is that PDF can be rendered very consistently across platforms, this is more problematic with Powerpoint and friends.
So they knew they had to apologize for what they were about to do and did it anyway? Not sure what to think other than to avoid such companies altogether.
Science 'rejects' the behavior choices of individuals all the time. Should we ignore the obesity epidemic because it 'rejects' those suffering from it?

Science isn't about making feel comfortable, it's about following the scientific method. It often presents ugly or inconvenient truths.
Good to hear that... It would have been even better if it was C++ Qt based.
The Baltics and Finland were both part of the Russian Empire; the Baltics were part of the USSR, and Stalin tried and failed to retake Finland. That's probably cause enough, if you're Putin.
It's about numbers. As sien noted earlier "So about 50% of US citizens you would treat like holocaust deniers/flat-earthers?
http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/public-views-on-climat.... "

If the numbers were different we could marginalize these people. But the numbers aren't different and it doesn't help that generally speaking liberals tend not to vote in off elections. So the problem is even worse. Marginalizing will blow back.
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I think you're wrong. Most electric cars also have a 12 volt regular battery for the in car electronics and the motor battery is isolated from the rest of the car. With that said I don't know how it's charged.
Words matter and so do PsyOps and confirmation bias. Companies are savvy at marketing so they should tailor their apologies to trigger good will confirmation bias in their customers. Actually, according to pre-suasion, they should stage false flag events so help the public pick the right confirmation bias the second time.

Does anyone really believe in 'lone typists' when we live in a world where #Vault7 is likely on #S3?

Personally, I think we should all grow up and doubt all news accounts and company PR from any source, until cui bono and Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) in the Critical Thinking process they use in the IC and LE communities has been thoroughly engaged. Especially if the company has a contract for #SpookCloud.

We are all intelligence analysts now.
Other side of the coin: I don't like cooked tomatoes. Iranian cuisine has them, on top of rice dishes. I like Iranian cuisine otherwise, which I've had in a few restaurants in India, but not the fried/boiled tomatoes. Prefer them raw like in a salad.
Woops! I meant Quantum.
Depending on rendering task, GPU rendering isn't always feasible. In particular, for very large scenes consuming a large amount of RAM, it is difficult to find graphics cards with over 8 GB of VRAM, while 32gb or 64gb of desktop RAM are easily accessible.
I see, but that website is clearly biased as they're trying to sell their product. Also, they don't even use correct math which makes me even more certain they're just making up numbers. They mention that other places cost $1/minute, and they claim that half of that cost is $3.33/hr. ???
I like this story. My pet theory (after thinking about this for half an hour) is that the key is to keep the tight-knit community (selective entry probably helps), probably the internal governance structure, but drop the requirement of self-sufficiency. In fact, interaction with the "outside world" might well serve to more firmly anchor the group's identity.

I want one of these for software developers. Edit: and no, YC doesn't count. Sorry.
Thanks for the correction re: more versus less. But I'll still posit that this is an arrogant line of thinking:

Cleverness is a huge advantage in the survival game.

Cleverness won't be much help when underlying dependencies disappear.

Edit: one way humans will extinctionize our species:

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-scientists-categorize-earth-to...

We're basically driving this car full speed towards the cliff. No amount of cleverness will stop this.
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> banned all the old and badly tuned cars in the inner cities, with significant success

Too bad a recent study found that diesel cars (PKW) are much more polluting than previously thought (article in German). [0] They're even worse for emissions than modern trucks (LKW), at least in Europe.

We traded a very well known pollution source (old and/or badly tuned cars) for a new and previously unknown pollution source (diesel cars).

I do honestly think this is the beginning of the end for diesel cars. VW scandal aside, they're just more harmful than previously thought.

For me personally I'm excited for electric cars to reduce noise pollution in the city. You don't realize how loud normal cars are until you've ridden in an electric car, like a Tesla. It's night and day.

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/diesel-pkw-stossen-teils-...
All _NEW_ cars will be electric by 2025. The entire country will not be. The actual quote:

> "The Norwegian Parliament have decided on a goal that all new cars sold by 2025 should be zero (electric or hydrogen) or low (plug-in hybrids) emission"
RussiaToday is a poor source.
Or to host it on a static .html page that gets rewritten every 60 seconds or so by an external process, running on physical servers. Minimal stack, so minimal attack surface.
ANSI C and POSIX aren't the same thing.

POSIX is more like the extended runtime that C needs to be portable outside UNIX walls, which isn't being fully implemented on iOS and Android.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine...
Barely half of the PCI-E lanes than my FX-9350.

Nooooooooooooope. Was looking forward to a nice SLI rig but looks like Ryzen just died for my choice on upgrade. Guess I'll stick with the power-hungry beast.
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Years ago, the hypervisor was nailed by VmWare, while Xen was a joke.

Then the AWS/Google/DO/other worked hard on the hypervisor and they released infra that worked and is entreprisey ready... but it's a complete offering, you cannot just get their Xen package and put it on your systems (assuming it's even powered by Xen anymore), you have to use their platforms.

Docker is unstable now.

AWS/Google/RedHat/CoreOS are all working pretty hard to pull out an offering for containers that works and is entreprisey ready. It's gonna take years to be production ready enough for critical systems, and it's as likely to reuse Docker as to replace it with their own more stable tech.

The point is, docker is nowhere near ready in its current state. Wait and see.
I'm not sure what point this find/replace is supposed to be making. That seems like a pretty accurate assessment of how Blackberry could have beaten Apple and why they didn't. Well, except it also needs a find/replace on "security" to something else like "UI."
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> There's such a problem with immaturity in tech. It's frustrating because it creates barriers to learning from others. No self-respecting person is going to want to learn from someone who has a "holier than thou" or "I'm a rockstar" mindset.

You wouldn't consider it to be immature to not do the right thing just because it was communicated in an unpleasant way that a 'self-respecting person' should have disdain for? I'm not talking about this particular article or defending immaturity, - I just don't see how your position is any better; more so it's just as unhumble as the 'rockstar position' since you would apparently be willing to write worse code just to avoid learning from someone that's an asshole.
> Linux - I am frankly not familiar with a single Linux user, developer or not, who ever bought anything except for games.

I beg to differ. Grew up with Windows, but nowadays full-time Linux user. I paid some $40 for Sublime Text and it was worth every cent. Also donated to various services and projects, but maybe that does not count...

And now I also just paid $13 for fman, not because I'm sure about it, but because it's cheap, looks promising, and I sometimes miss Total Commander rather badly.
Given that runtimes like Lua are comparable in size to a single image, and/or could be cached in web browsers, I don't think that will much of a problem. And the more that WebAssembly adds, the smaller that will get.

Obviously if we're trying to run a full JVM or CLR in WebAssembly, that will cause problems, but C# and F# both have compile-to-js targets that would likely just get faster.
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We have a deploy script that does exactly this, unfortunately we've all gotten our muscle memory so trained that most of us type the deploy command, press enter, type yes and press enter before we're ever even prompted. Fortunately in most cases a quick ctrl-c can prevent any actual damage.
An http request for every icon???
I'm just glad its not in San Francisco! Too much money lives here.
I'm with you on the main point you're making generally, but regarding vegetables, those people often have a point also. Many of the vegetables in grocery stores are bred to deflect armor piercing bullets and last a thousand years- with the side effect of tasting like poison.

I am one of the people who gags from eating raw tomatoes, but I've found that I have absolutely no problem eating those brown tomatoes - the ones that grow mold after 2 days.
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I see things like glasses as making the fitness landscape smaller. This means there are less dimensions evolution has to solve for to produce better organisms.

(Or like you said, it's part of the system)