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> Without even a charge being filed.

that's exactly why it has survived without review for this long. the courts can't just order an investigation the way, for example, Congress can. the judicial system requires either a criminal complaint (filed by the states' attorney) or a civil suit (filed by the injured party) in order to take up a case and examine the relevant law.

this won't go anywhere until a victim of civil asset forfeiture sues the police department. that is EXTREMELY hard to get away with. Police have the "thin blue line" mentality and will go to extraordinary measures to protect their own tribe.
A JSON data API and an HTML (view) API are two different animals and should use different end points. REST/HATEOAS doesn't describe accurately or work well with JSON because it is not a hypertext. This is why newer JSON APIs are moving away from REST and towards things like GraphQL. REST/HATEOAS works great with HTML though, because HTML is a hypertext. You don't even have to think about it very hard, it just works. Read the above blog post, I explain this.

People get hung up thinking I'm advocating adopting HTML for their public data API. I'm not. I'm advocating building your own web application in a restful manner against a separate set of HTTP end points and letting your data API satisfy the needs of your integration partners.
Wouldn't the next logical conclusion be to get rid of cash altogether?

Did I fall for a slippery slope fallacy?
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It's an analogous situation to last week's news about Apple banning self-updating apps in the App Store and Rollout.io's business model. Except that had the opposite outcome.
I wrote out the numbers I worked out for a tesla, but I had also done it from basic physics (plus referenced efficiencies) for a gas car, and it's not horribly different. I didn't include it because I have no idea what so ever how big of a deal adding in a 1kW power system to a gas car that still drew power from the gas engine, or what the losses look like. The order of magnitude remains about the same. I drive a prius, and if my estimate is close enough, the range isn't a factor for cars like mine. I was mostly curious in order of magnitude kW stuff, and only tangentially $ stuff.
well I suspect they would just push us to a digital currency and be done with it. slowly take away the small currencies and try to convince people that if they want to save money long term (as in get the penny values back) they need to convert
This. Also it's not like you need to develop that $45 with one paycheck. Put $5 or whatever a side for 9 weeks.

To me the whole 'it can't be done with some people' is just an excuse to be risk averse.
In the case you gave, ANY amount is a bargin.

How much would someone pay to get 14 more years of life? Just about anything.

Value can't be calculated like this because you get massive distortions.

"How much is worth to save one child's life? Billions!"
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Your thinking on the subject is a symptom of something else.

The "question before the question" is-- why is the penny worthless? That's the uncomfortable situation.
No idea, clearly they aren't paying attention to anything I say and just send automated replies. No one to talk to, nothing to do. I'm assuming complaints with different organizations to see if they can help.
Unit test in cases when it's the fastest way to test your code.

I find manual point and click testing is often cumbersome and slower particularly if you need to go through a few screens to test your feature/bugfix.

And always unit test at least your core functionality.
For what it's worth, I think of a journal as append only by definition and that's what SpiderOak does. Unless you have millions of very small files, the journal is going to be tiny relative to the backup content so this is fine.

So the server doesn't have a concept of "an existing file was updated" vs "a new file was uploaded" etc. The server only knows "new blocks have arrived." All the "smarts" are on the client.

In general operation, only new journal entries and new blocks are added. The only time blocks are removed is when the user intentionally chooses to remove data (we call that operation "purge") Intentional purges can also reduce the total size of the journal, and this the only operation that does so.

Most backup software removes previous versions and deleted files after 30 days, but SpiderOak keeps these indefinitely by default, to allow for for point in time recovery, restore from ransom ware infections, mistakes you don't catch right away, etc. You can set a different retention policy if you prefer.
You seem to be discussing tooling rather than channels.

Appropriate marketing channels vary distinctly by business type, development level and market positioning. Service vs. product, physical vs. digital, popular vs. specialist, early stage vs. validating vs. growth-phrase vs. stable, desired audience, phase of moon, etc.

In general tooling should be determined by the channel, not the other way around.

The advice given to me by a very successful CFO (many $Ms personal exit, multi-decade angel, now running an accelerator) on my first business was: "test each channel". That means: marketing spend per new prospect, conversion percentage, repeat customer percentage, customer lifetime or fixed-period value estimate, and maybe other channel properties like responsiveness, customer demographic or other data available, markets served, total available inbound volume. Try to keep the building of this data for objective channel-vs-channel analysis as your focus, and don't get distracted. Remember, you're being marketed to. ;)

If you're lucky, you'll find a strong channel. In most cases, you simply need to sink a certain minimum amount of capital to get your customer base large enough to get in the black. Take it from me - not having this war-chest can cost you the business (as it did my first). If you find yourself in that position, workarounds can include partnerships with established networks, acquisitions, pivots to SaaS-conversions ... but again it depends on the business. Good luck out there :)
I've been using pipedrive.com for deal flow.

And checkout Segment.io

Also, I've got triggers in my app that spawn Trello cards. I feed Trello, then manually do stuff in the other systems. Ugly but I can switch out other tools easier. This lets me try new tools faster, and switch back too.
> Wouldn't the next logical conclusion be to get rid of cash altogether?

I like this solution. Get rid of the need for money, too.
I'd take your bet, but only because I believe an intentional detonation is far more likely.

My vaguely informed guess is that the probability of nuclear war is around 1% per year. This is roughly consistent with what we saw during the Cold War (both the lack of a nuclear war and the numerous instances in which it almost happened) and seems to be consistent with the way things are set up today.
For rolling your own, I would also highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic
> The reason why we have money is so that they can facilitate trade of goods and services so that we don’t have to barter like savages.

This is entirely wrong. In high school you're taught that we went from barter to money to credit, but in reality, the earliest human economies were credit based.

People sometimes say, "x society collapsed and reverted to barter," but in every case, they "revert" to the currency of trade from the previous state .. or they use something generic like "Oxen" but they never actually trade in real Oxen; they just use it as a unit of measure.

I do agree the penny should be deprecated, and I know it sounds nit-picky, but myths like this prop up a narrative that doesn't match with history, and it distorts our perception of what money and markets truly are.

I highly recommend the book Debt the First 5,000 Years, as it goes into great detail about the history of debt, money and slavery.
Nope, they did use contrails. I happened to see the /hwndu/ board while it was happening. They only sent people out in cars after triangulating the flag using the sun (for camera direction) and flight data (for location).
>They are the same people that worked there and didn't protest publicly about the actions of the organization and/or didn't resign.

So nobody has left or joined MIT since the Aaron Schwartz case?

Even ignoring that detail, I have a lot more respect for people that change an organization from within rather than quit immediately anytime something disagreeable happens. If everyone operated the way you are suggesting, we would essentially have institutions that would never change because nobody with different viewpoints could join.
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When deciding whether or not something is malicious, I don't think "they could have done something even worse" is the standard you judge it by. I think you're definitely right that they could have done worse but I'd argue it's already pretty malicious as it is.
How about the IRS calculates, you click OK if you agree, and if you don't, you're free to file? (Maybe this is how the UK system works; I've only done American and Canadian.)
Nope, they used flight radar data to triangulate the flag to within 2km, then had cars drive around.
The EU still has 1/2cent coins (although I think Belgium no longer allows shops to give them as change).

Pennies are gone in AU/NZ and other south pacific countries.
> I don't know if you've noticed, but we haven't destroyed ourselves with nuclear weapons, despite giving it a fairly good go for five decades

Five decades is nothing in historical terms, and it was by no means a foregone conclusion that nuclear weapons would not be used in that time period. The reason they have not has been due to extraordinary effort, chance, and non-proliferation efforts. The future decades and centuries look much grimmer unless we can dismantle existing stockpiles and do what we can to enjoin future generations to not create them.

> The Cold War is over.

The Cold War is over, but the Pax Americana enforced by American hegemony will not last forever. If history teaches us anything, it is that all peacetimes eventually end.

> Sounds good enough for me. Fuck cancer, fuck heart disease, fuck diabetes, fuck obesity. Full steam ahead!

If eliminating heart disease means the extinction of human beings, or the death and suffering of billions of others, is that really worthwhile to you? What if heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity can eventually be dealt with through other, safer, means?
This somewhat anecdotal, but the biggest issue I had when living in the suburbs was traffic. I'm someone who has driven hundreds of thousands miles and never been in an accident, but the extreme levels of fear and stress I got from going even short distances in the suburbs was just aweful.

I didn't always feel this way, but I think the use of cellphones has created and environment where even slow moving drivers are unpredictable. I now walk to work and frequently see people on their phones while driving, if a line of ten cars are stopped at a light at least three people are on their phones. The result isn't an extreme increase in accidents but a constricting deficit of attention which incrementally lengthens every encounter on the road. More short stopping, more people missing green lights or just driving super conservatively and not merging holding up traffic.

Also I never use my phone while driving, but the fact that I can't even look at it when I know someone is trying to contact me is incredibly frustrating and impacts my enjoyment of driving.
It's even funnier: SAFE notes are very advantageous to naive founders as well...
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I think that's the case. Americans tend to move out of the city and buy a house in the suburbs when they have children. The perception (true or not) is suburbs are safer and offer better schools.

Also, I suspect you can almost buy a house in the 'burbs for the difference in rent between a one and two bedroom apartment in SF.
98 people have upvoted this story at this point. Part of an "intimidation campaign to silence free speech" or some people just think it was an interesting activity?

Is it possible some/many/most of the people who actually participated in the activity also just found it interesting to do?
>"it's only a short matter of time before some disgruntled person could try to destroy the world's food supply or cause many other large scale issues."

You've been fooled by hype. There is a big marketing effort behind CRISPR for some reason, watch out.
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At least as far back as the 1970's, every time our civil servants in the treasury ask congress to let them stop making pennies, the John Birch Society types raise such a stink about how this is a communist conspiracy to enable world government, that the politicians drop it as not being worth the fight. Source: Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury 1977-79.
The statistics are not in doubt, but their applicability to the safety of driverless vehicles is, given that the drivers preemptively disengage in precisely those cases we are most interested in. The 1 in 14000 miles figure you quote effectively takes the position that they did not happen.

Waymo simulates those situations to estimate how they would have played out, for the purpose of improving its algorithms. As a first analysis, there are three possible outcomes: the car would have handled the situation safely, it would have disengaged, or it would have done something that led to at least the risk of an accident. The report does not appear to allow us to distinguish between them, probably because they are somewhat speculative.

This brings us back to where I joined the thread: the idea that 'slam on the brakes' is a fallback position for not having a driver present does not work when the system fails to recognize a developing problem.
The problem with that rounding is that I suspect I know which direction the rounding will always go... and for things like gasoline or water (or even pork chops, which differ in size) there's no way to prevent a price that would require rounding.
JavaScript is as elegant as a cat scratching his nails on a blackboard.
it's a mongrel language without any whatsoever elegance.
Taking your art metaphor further is like comparing the ceiling of the "cappella sistina" to a cut in a canvas.
In OOP you have to both instantiate a class and then call
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And in FP a state falls out of the sky?
Places like Australia got rid of 1c and 2c coins (with the 5c being the smallest denomination) long before 'digital currency' was on the minds of anyone.
Most of the advice holds true, but there's one bit you should happily ignore: don't uglify your code with external include guards - that is put your include guards in the included file.

Modern compilers perform include guard optimization:
http://www.bobarcher.org/software/include/results.html

There is one exception to this rule which I think still holds true: MSVC doesn't perform this optimization correctly, perhaps due to its love affair with precompiled headers.

I personally prefer solving that issue with pragma once, as I find the risk of having an include guard name clash higher than the chance of having two the same file accessible between to different hardlinks or copies, let alone compiling anything on network share. It's also a lot more readable.
Foxconn plans to replace most of their workers with robots in the next few years. They already replaced 40,000 humans.
New Zealand phased out their 5cent coins a decade ago.
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Peak oil? Oil is still cheap. If expensive oil is the end of suburbia, we wouldn't be seeing any effect yet.
As far as I understand most of the work was done on 8chan because the 4chan moderators banned discussions of the live stream from /pol/, but most users of the /hwndu/ board on 8chan originally came from 4chan's /pol/.

>it seems that most of the "talent", so to speak, has left 4chan amidst increasingly strict rules against various forms of tomfoolery.

I don't have any number to prove this but to me it seems that the overlap between 8 and 4chan is huge. There's very few 8chan users that absolutely never visit 4chan anymore. 8chan is tiny in comparison to 4chan so the signal-to-noise ratio may seem better there. (according to their front page they get roughly 2k posts/hour, if it was a 4chan board it would be medium-sized and 3 times slower than big boards like /b/, /v/ or /pol/)
The title is somewhat misleading. The suburbs are not dying; in fact they are growing [1][2][3][4] and this article makes no claim to the contrary.

The article is saying that suburbs are becoming more like urban areas.

I like the author's evidence that housing prices are falling:

> In that same city in 2012, a typical McMansion would be valued at $477,000, about 274% more than the area's other homes. Today, a McMansion would be valued at $611,000, or 190% above the rest of the market.

Up 28% in price - must be dying!

[1] http://time.com/107808/census-suburbs-grow-city-growth-slows...

[2] http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/03/2015-us-population-wi...

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-moving-to-suburbs-r...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2013/09/26/americas-...
Author here. The last graph actually shows that the problem still happens with CPython's allocator disabled.

Also, to clarify, the amount of memory allocated is actually decreasing (in-use bytes), while the memory allocator requests more and more memory from the system (system bytes), presumably because of fragmentation.
> It is not as if keyboard shortcuts were mutually exclusive with using mouse

Of course, nobody said that. The mouse is one of the best user interface devices that has been designed for computing. Just not for working with text.

Now nobody condemns you if you like to use the mouse for browsing your code. However, if I'm right in reading your comment as rather snippy (hard to tell on the internet ;-) ), you seem to be very ready to do that to everyone seeing the merit in getting more proficient with their keyboard...
>Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self­evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. (See Brooks p. 102.)

I came to the same conclusion, after a while. In the end code is there to process data. (there is meta programming and things like state machines but most programs do hold data in some kind of structures to be processed)

>Simple rule: include files should never include include files.

Yes, please!
Your thinking on the subject is a symptom of something else.

Sure, if you're very new to this planet and aren't aware that, "The penny must die" has been published in some form for longer than you've been alive. The actual question isn't engaging, isn't new, and doesn't represent a significant issue facing any of us. The issue behind why we keep regurgitating the same issues and pawing at them like blind fools however, is interesting.
Diet plus lifestyle. Yeah.

But I had to roll my own, so to speak, as everyone thinks that does not work for my condition. I get a LOT of flack for talking about it online.
Chaos aside, I wonder what the impact would be of simply declaring that all pennies are now worth $1. Based on circulation ca. 2009 it would imply a $1.65 trillion "conversion"; ~10% of GDP.
> the wonderfully productive development pattern of ``python -i`` -- running the script and breaking into the interactive prompt afterwards

TIL
The Netherlands no longer uses the 1 or 2 cent coins - they are not accepted for payment, even if you have enough to make a round 5 cent amount.
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The software is free. At least when you're done with it, you get to keep the hardware which over time will pay for itself.
>But the $1 bill really ought to be a coin instead

There have been various efforts at dollar coins and they've never really taken off.

I would hate this. I don't use a lot of cash in general but I really like the fact that, when I do use cash, except for some quarters I save for parking meters, coins are basically in the dump in a jar when I get home value. I dislike when I travel to UK/EU that there's coinage of sufficient value that I can't just ignore my loose change.

If I have to use cash I'd much rather just use bills. Coins require some sort of different container to carry them.
Why does this matter at all? Even a little bit? Even a tiny bit?

I'd way rather my programming editor be flexible, hackable, fully support unicode, and integrate with my workflows. When I need a hyperminimal editor I have vi, which the confusingly named CudaText is much larger than but not substantially more powerful at editing with.

Executable size comparisons are either an important part of managing core OS primitives or a complete waste of time.
Are you sure it's not a case of junior programmers writing up useless feedback and dismissing an experienced programmer's judgement?
Doctors already have more patients than they can handle, that's why they work such crazy shifts.
But many EU countries, including Belgium, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands, do not. (Technically, they do exist for collectors, but all prices are rounded up/down to the nearest 5c and you never encounter them in daily life.)
Yes, the nickel is just as bad. New Zealand got rid of their 5¢ coin about 10 years ago, but they had (and have) a 20¢ coin instead of 25¢, so they could easily drop the decimal. My proposal would be to drop the penny and nickel, keep the dime, and replace the quarter with a 50¢ coin.
A friend worked with that kind of transportation in the 80s. At the time it wasn't 2 truck drivers. Perhaps 30 people with lead and follow cars. Iirc, most were us martials, everyone was armed. the trailer was a rolling fortress. Security was probably much better in the Cold War. My friend had a story about a truck hitting some ice, and tipping over. They had prepared for many contingencys and had it handled in a few hours. The only person who noticed something was up was another truck driver who stopped to help. He was confused that the trailer didn't tear itself apart, but didn't make a bid deal out of it.

Not cheap. But likely pretty reliable.

Perhaps without the Russian villains the system has atrophied. Stories like that make me think it can work, but perhaps require a bit more wherewithal to maintain it.
They've tried multiple times now. The public loves their greenbacks.