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> Limits on owning nuclear bombs can be seen as an increase in freedom for those who don't own them.

I would disagree here, limits on owning nuclear weapons is sort of capping the decrease of freedom for those who don't.
A strict ban of nuclear weapons is required not to impact freedom of others.

So your analogy fails as a ban on freedom always translate into less free.

Actually I fails to see how putting limits on freedom would not limit freedom. Arguing otherwise does not make much sense.

Having the freedom to do something does not imply that this freedom will be used. Pretty much anybody is free to commit suicide, but does not.
Actually I tried using that nuget package on VS2015 but it doesn't seem to work. Is VS2015 support C# only?
I can see this easily addressed by a TOS. Even the subtle ones like "clicking that button means you agree to [link to TOS]" covers it, no?
On Tuesday I spend a hundred bucks and start a Delaware LLC that has no assets and no business plan - what's the company worth? Most would say $0 or close to $0.

After breakfast on Wednesday I spend a couple hours on an abstract powerpoint deck, make a bunch of phone calls, and by dinner time (based on past successes and personal network) I have $1m in seed funds committed at a $5m pre-money valuation. What's the company worth then?

It's one of the best tax incentives out there, in that successful founders and very early employees usually pay long-term capital gains on near zero-basis stock.
What I want to know is what happens if you get 'trapped' in this invisible ReCAPTCHA?

The most frequent encounters with CAPTCHA's I see are rejected API requests over VPN.
It will need many generations before you have a plant that can live in a natural martian environment. I don't think you'll be able to get much nutrition out of it anymore.
One rider used fishing line in 1904. He was caught, and he didn't try to deny it and smear anybody who pointed out his cheating or coerce his teammates into cheating under threat of losing their livelihood.
> What are the factors in the American system that prevent reasonable pricing?

One major factor is the administrative cost for medical providers when dealing with insurance. That's why the cash price for medical services is often much cheaper
I assume it pops up a challenge, again, just like the current one.

Edit: Yep. "Human users will be let through without seeing the "I'm not a robot" checkbox, while suspicious ones and bots still have to solve the challenges."

It really is just the current one, with the site owner's button instead of Google's checkbox.
This makes H1B worker more restricted who is already screwed up pretty bad. Government can not track where people work. Can the person work from home ? Can the X Inc. rent out their 4 cubicles to Infosys?

The obvious solution for H1B is to increase the cap from 85K to 200K or so while giving instant green-cards to all the pending applicants.
Desperate people are going to do desperate things, things that they know are bad or won't work. Especially if the only option that does work is taken away.
If Homo sapiens survived because of alcohol and coffee, monkey survived because of skills, then who is smarter? Not author of this article.
I look forward to your evidence of sexism there then, since otherwise any inconsistency is entirely irrelevant to the "strong woman stood up to men" narrative (and please realize I say that as an enthusiastic Warren supporter).
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I think you are raising a valid point but this is outside my expertise. Could a site owner satisfy the EU Data Privacy Directive by simply notifying users that their activity is being provided to Google to prevent abuse on the site? I imagine something similar to the cookie warning.
http://pyparallel.org is one of the more interesting experiments currently going on in the GIL area . They're basically working on removing all the practical limitations of the GIL without actually removing the entire GIL.
Any open source porn blocking setups?
I'm fed up with watching porn, but I know very well I am addicted to it. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good porn blocking setup?

e.g. I access a porn site and my computer shuts down after showing an "uplifting" message.

Edit: I'm single and don't intend on starting a romantic relationship at the moment.
Did he do it according to the rules of Senate procedure? Honest question. Please provide an article or reference.
Honestly, I was really surprised how little of it is new knowledge.

That's not criticism, but maybe the realization that there isn't much more knowledge to gain about friendships, if science knows exactly the same stuff as someone who is in a totally different department.

I think maybe it becomes interesting when combined with other relationships like colleagues. If you spend the prime time of your day with someone for 10 years, you also expect them to be dependable to some degree. However in a mostly formal relationship people can get quite surprised about how little they actually can count on their coworkers when sh*t hits the fan. And at the same time many people may spend more time, energy and money into their coworkers than into their dependable friends.
Like car travel, but significantly safer.
> In a set of interviews he did in 1994 with middle-aged Americans about their friendships, Rawlins wrote that, “an almost tangible irony permeated these adults discussions of close or ‘real’ friendship.” They defined friendship as “being there” for each other, but reported that they rarely had time to spend with their most valued friends...

To what degree does friendship have to do with quantity of time spent, as "being there" suggests, versus quality of time spent?

Anecdotally, it seems that people can share deliberately quality time, as determined by some arbitrary and subjective metric, and remain fulfilling friends with each other. It also seems that many conflate quality of time with quantity because spending lots of time with someone (or someones) will yield some moments of that formative quality.

Does this observation break down after the social 20s, when people start families and move away? Have you found that raw amount of time spent with someone matters more or less as you grow older?
Yes and then I'll use my transporter to beam myself to the past to right all the wrongs.

> cows do understand all they go through
Also you seem to be exaggerating a bit, what do you exactly mean by all? Are you talking about their entire life or just when they're about to be slaughtered, because I think for most parts cows have a pretty happy life. The slaughtering could be done more precisely and quickly but that's really just negligence on the part of some bad actors and not something that is inherently difficult to fix.
I wonder how long until they place some native ads in there so that publishers could earn a penny.
Because we get flagged down a lot. This thread managed to survive because we started a big twitter stink to try and get it unflagged, and because we had the international women's day hastags to get attention, it managed to make the front page. But even that was a struggle.

Many of us, myself included, fight on behalf of a lot of underrepresented groups on HN as best we can.

I'm sorry if you haven't seen it, but I assure you some people here are trying.
Hmm, interesting. I know medicare reimbursement rates are still quite low compared to private insurance, so I wonder how that squares with a 'no negotiation' policy.

Edit: One study from Texas found that Medicare reimbursement rates were 70-80% below the private average. https://www.texmed.org/June16Journal/
10-20 years is not the time taken by government. It is essentially anti-asian discrimination where the application is simply kept in cold storage. Take $10k from the person and give him green card in 1 month.
Thanks for calling out these major factual errors. I can confirm your corrections. What a terrible article!
> Furthermore, the idea that companies are paying women with "exactly the same" skills as men in "exactly the same" positions up to 20% less doesn't make any sense at all. Why would I ever hire a man in that case

I don't think people typically perceive the issues facing women result from conscious bias. While there are some cases of blatant sexism, my impression is that people consider the more difficult and (hopefully) more common issue to be unconscious bias.
I watched this series more than once, it has so much details. I believe python-3 is not complete rewrite of python-2. So there must be lot of common code between them. So its useful regardless of its python-2 series or not.
I've seen the Valossa offering and it is indeed impressive. Insane amounts of visual data on videos.
> If you can sacrifice more, you can get Single Paxos

What do you mean? Single Decree Paxos is linearizable so it's consistent. When the multi-key updates are necessary - they can be implemented with client-side transactions such as 2PC, RAMP or Percolator.

Even with Raft we in the same situation. Once the data overgrows the size of one machine we need to shard them. As a result some keys can live on different shards and we need cross shards transactions to do multi-key updates :)
Making paternity leave widely accepted would help fix one of these issues. More people need to talk about this.
I don't know how the generated code would look like, but I am sure humans wouldn't like it. But that's not a big deal, because for every piece of code out there, there is somebody who doesn't like it.

Proper metaphors (better call them abstractions) would be generated at that "basic library" creation step. Basically those are functions that are commonly useful. Some of them would correspond to abstractions known by many programmers, some of them would be different, but altogether would let you write more compact code (because that's what they have been selected for). Ultimately, knowing abstractions amortize and ease understanding of the code that uses those.

We humans do the same thing - the code that is easy to understand is the code that uses commonly known abstractions, such as control structures, standard library functions, etc. What makes this possible is that we hold these shared abstractions in our heads, and create them as a part of programming culture by working with different code bases.

There is no trade off. You cannot write a terse function with high coupling, because then you cannot use the shared abstractions very efficiently inside it, nor you can build other functions easily by reusing this function. So terseness IMHO behaves very differently when you account for the fact that you can create new definitions, and you put those definitions to use. (And especially if those definitions come from some "basic library" for free - they are not included in the cost that you have to pay to understand the program - because they have already been understood.)
> From a brief scan of the study they didn't control for hours worked and they are already down to 5.9%

Why is it a foregone conclusion that the majority of women in this population worked fewer hours? A forbes study which averages across a large canvas of american workers is not a very good thing to compare to glassdoor's targetted subsection.
Near impossible, on Earth there are no plants in most of Antarctica. And that has more water than Mars. There is no solution that matches all the constraints.
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It seems to me you are confused about freedom. Either you have freedom or you don't, there's no "more freedom than" except to convince yourself that you are free when you are not.

Flint tap water being more drinkable than ammonia does not make it potable.
> you may have clocked that Tuesday's dump was engineered to help the President pin the hacking of his political opponents' email server on the CIA

Why does everything have to be about politics nowadays? I want an unbiased analysis. It is plausible, but not certain. There is a bunch of assumptions here that I'd rather keep as hypotheses.
Here's the main page: http://pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm
Without my mum I probably wouldn’t be programming today. When I was 9-10 years old she gave me a Commodore 64 + printed BASIC book. I remember when I created my first "real" program = number guessing game. In that moment, my beloved programming journey started. Then few years later I switch to Pascal and so on :)
What do you mean it had a wake-up call in 2008? Looking at the data its surpassed 2008 prior levels!

https://mhanson.com/2-1-hanson-house-prices-main-street-bubb...

It's like the world collectively said `Yeah this is bad, lets do exactly the same thing but BIGGER!`
The 409a value is the strike price, say it's $1. Your investor comes in and buys for $10. Every new employee that comes in, you say 'you can buy it for $1 and sell for $10, so each share is worth $9,' which is basically lying to make the comp package sound better and hire people for less money. To be less cynical, the lower you force the strike price, the less anyone getting new shares has to pay to buy it. Early on, it's much easier to early exercise and buy them if its cheaper. Everyone gets more profit if they can buy at a discount, so they try to discount options as much as possible
It's weird to me that you so casually conflate technical advancement with human advancement.

You don't see it as perverting some of the basic tenets of sport and competition to encourage rampant technical meddling in them? You honestly don't see where that road leads?
Having the wrong service boundaries can obscure the data flow in ways that can be hard to fix. You end up with high fanout or ugly caching layers where a simpler structure might have been possible before process boundaries were introduced.

Best to give it some time, figure out where the important interactions are and separate things that don't interact heavily.
Well, that and people are incredibly inactive by the standards of last century.
We do speak about minorities; others have provided links. Bringing it up here, now, though, is deflecting from the actual topic at hand, which is a sadly common tactic in discussions like this.
You're not asking HN here but promoting your event.
Good to know, can't remember where I read that.
So, would you like me to link in the HUNDREDS of articles posted to HN over the past two years going over how working more does not equate to working better and how hours worked is a bad proxy for productivity. Should I? Or are you going to just concede the point right here and now and retract your statement?
Are you not aware that literally every major sport has technical restrictions like the ones you're decrying and have for many decades?

This whole thread is full of people staggeringly ignorant of physical sport and competition.
Yes, that is true. It's worth noting that it's a relatively small part of the problem here. We need to stop being angry at women for being women (e.g., viewing nursing rooms as a luxury or somehow unfair).
Not as impressive but similar idea:
https://github.com/ziqbal/jpegfit/blob/master/61081.jpg
The GP claim is that "beer as a safe alternative to water" is likely a myth. In order to back this up they linked to a comment that does nothing to prove this claim.

Sure, the Reddit comment says there is no primary source evidence to back up the claim that beer was used as a safe alternative to water but that does not make it a source to claim that beer was not used as a safe alternative to water.

Furthermore, the Reddit post makes unsubstantiated claims, such as "failing many logic tests" without naming the logic tests themselves. The entire second paragraph is predicated on the assumption that homesteads used only clean water sources without polluting them. How did they handle waste? Did they know how far from water sources to deposit their waste? The comment doesn't say.

Indeed the burden of proof is on the accuser and in this case the GP is the accuser. Reddit comments do not meet my standard for proof.
I think his point is the fact that /r/AskHistorians comments are usually sourced properly and are strictly moderated.
Finally! I've been wanting this for a decade - but not badly enough to try to build it myself.
This is great! I'm happy to see PostCSS proving to be a creative platform for web development.
Motivating "the girls" to work? That language alone -- "girls" versus "men" -- suggests a diminutive, dismissive way of thinking about women.
"Blockchain tech is reinventing finance and law" perhaps?
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Even saying they are growing doest mEan they will work, I've peeled many potatoes and they grow eyes if left long enough...in the dark too!
There's been plenty written about how "the pipeline problem" is a myth:

- http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/26/426...

- https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/the-lack-of-women-in-tech-...
Given a multitude of other results showing that equalizing for pipeline problems shows women competing equally with men, the more likely reason is that women are being filtered out of the pipeline by sexism, not some mysterious "maybe they just don't want to" handwaving.
You can upload a song, and it will jump through the song backwards and forwards such that the song will seamlessly continue forever.
I think this crowd tends to vastly underestimate the ease of deploying and testing this stuff in a targeted and useful way.

There's a big difference between broadband spray and pray malware, and malware you actually want to hit a target with.

If you know average tools won't detect it, then why get fancy when you have something that's proven reliable and if discovered is unlikely to have your victim substantially improve their processes?
Pretty sure agriculture developed for many reasons, including that this was far from true:

> you could go out and beat something with a club and have dinner in minutes
So your point is Iran, Malaysia and China have more freedom to put people in prison, kidnap and disappear people ?

If the US didn't have one of the worst prison record of the world, been known for kidnapping, assassinating and disappearing people all over the world you may have a point. Right now you're just looking like a fool boasting about not being black, muslim and having the privileges of not having been the target of what the US government has been known for doing for decades.
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Arnold is 69 and looks in pretty good shape to me. When you get to that age lack of muscle mass is probably a bigger issue.
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A processor also operates with a high level of indirection. The 6502 doesn't have transistors dedicated to jumping or shooting; it has transistors dedicated to 'add value to accumulator', an instruction that might appear hundreds of times in the game code even on a 6502, with a different purpose each time. If they instead tried the lesioning approach on software, i.e. nopping out one instruction at a time, I think they could relatively easily identify the function of various sections of the code. Alternatively, if they analyzed a video game implemented directly in hardware rather than using a CPU (say, the original Breakout), that would probably work better too.

Of course, nobody really knows how much indirection is used by the brain, but it's probably closer to a direct hardware implementation than a CPU. One respect in which it differs from both, of course, is plasticity; neither hardware nor software created by humans is given to constant self-modification.
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> Part of the beauty of The Twilight Zone, as a science fiction show, was that Serling could get away with social commentary by disguising it as harmless fantasy. He was allowed to be critical if he was allegorical at the same time. As he himself put it, "You know, you can put these words into the mouth of a Martian and get away with it."

http://www.plosin.com/beatbegins/projects/brenner.html
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Microsoft provided backdoor into windows ?
This has really become common while my Facebook friends play politics.
They plot can be good without the acting being it, regarding your example.
What is "the jitter test"?
As long as you can post that without any worry of jackbooted thugs kicking down your door, there's a very real distinction whatever terms you want to use. Keep up that virtue signaling though, I'm sure it'll help even though it hasn't before.
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It says so right in the release notes..
> If you want safe water, all you have to do is boil it.

That's not necessarily true. Boiling will protect you from ingesting live parasites or bacteria, but it will not protect you from potential toxins that might have been produced by the bacteria.
It will not protect you from pollutions like heavy metals either, but neither will alcohol.

Alcohol would have the advantage over boiling water that the bacteria would not be in the alcohol in the first place so they could not have produced something bad for you in the water. Also, as someone else pointed out, if you don't understand why some water makes you sick, and don't understand how to treat the water to keep it safe, how are you gonna start boiling water? Does it give you something beneficial apart from the not yet made connection of safety? no.

What gives alcohol the big advantage here is that the safety-thing is a side-effect. People drank because they liked it, and the hypothesis is they also gained better survival because it happened to have antiseptic features as well.
She never attended University. Do you think she just wasn't interested in attending?
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That's not the point. 80 dB isn't twice as loud as 40 dB, either, it's much more than that.
Wow, thanks for the explanation. That's a ball-of-yarn-shaped collection of problems :(

Here, if you don't pay your insurance premiums, the insurance company still has to cover for any damage you cause, until you return your plates (deregister the car) and I think you face a nice fine if you have unpaid premiums at that point.

This means insurance companies have a great incentive to hunt you down like hounds if you don't pay. I could see this working in the US, but I think the next part is also required for the trick to work:

Not paying is hard. If the insurance company goes to court against you, it can do things like demand that a part of your wage be seized in order to pay for your debt. There are cantonal registers of previous enforcements against someone (you get an entry there for any situation where a creditor requested and enforcement of payment). Having any entries in the register is social suicide because you'll have a much harder time finding an apartment (almost all landlords demand a copy of your entries).

So if you have no assets, you won't be driving a car for long, removing you from the pool of people who can cause damage. Plus, we don't put people in jail too easily (we only have capacity for ~7000 people nationwide, and about 6900 people out of a population of 8 million are in jail right now: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/crime-crimin...

I can't imagine the stereotypical American we know from bad TV to be in favor of so much government involvement, but I think the system works well. Of course it's ridiculously hard to get by in the (non-urban) parts of the US without a car, which again changes the whole perspective.

It's interesting that the two systems in place here produce such different results.

Vehicle regulations are not uniform even in Switzerland, by the way (e.g. in Zürich you don't pay tax on electric vehicles, in St. Gallen you pay by weight (!!!) for your heavy Tesla). But the insurance rules are the same for everyone.
So it should be perfectly all right to raise humans for slaughter then, as long as we can manage to keep them unaware that they are going to be slaughtered until the last moment?