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As a homeowner in a similar neighborhood as the one described in the article, I wish passionately LESS people would turn their houses into apartment buildings. I hate to use the 'there goes the neighborhood' argument, but renters are ruining my neighborhood. They're loud and disrespectful of others property. The fierce competition in the renting market means steadily declining property maintenance (basically you can charge a small rent uptick for a very nicely maintained property and spend a bunch on maintenance, or spend the bare minimum on maintenance and only lose 5-10% of rental income-which is way more profitable than maintaining the property nicely). I'm currently warily watching some renovations going on at the property next to me-the minute it looks like they're splitting it up into apartments I'm going to have to put my property on the market. I can't live 20ft away from a carousel of characters.
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A surveillance state is exactly what the financial companies have created within their walls. Typically, every keystroke is logged.
I can't help but think, if you have to be so paranoid, then maybe you are doing something wrong.
> The problem is that people now assume that Washington Post and Breitbart operate on similar editorial standards.

I'm afraid the WaPo have themselves to blame for this. In the early 2000s they (and the NYT, and CNN) bet the credibility of their paper on yellowcake, Curveball, and Bush's 16 Words. And they believed lies because they were being told by people in respectable positions, and they dutifully forwarded them on. When they were proven wrong, they responded with a mix of doubling down; claiming that while they were wrong, no one could have known better; and publishing retractions buried in the back pages.

That doesn't make places like Breitbart credible, but it does make the WaPo (etc) incredible. So alternative/mainstream can absolutely not be the dividing line for judging credibility. You have to judge outlets (and articles) individually.
>I recently heard something about JFK wanting to disband the CIA so they 'knife to throat him'

This theory goes back a long time, and like most things, there are nuggets of truth in it...

...but also like most things, reality is far more complicated and nuanced.
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I really wish there were an alternative to the autotools that offered that configure make install interface without the nightmarish developer experiente. Perhaps by compromising on the portability, if that is the only way.
To extend on your post, all the failed blocks seem to have one thing in common: too much density. Anything higher than maybe four story high packed or slightly higher sparsely packed tends to enter a downward spiral except when "risk groups" are consequently priced out (and even that is only possible in exceptional locations like New York City where low density would be completely unaffordable even for buyers of luxury apartments). In lower density environments (the medium density the article is advocating), the exact same mix of people seems to create much less of that downward spiral.

My hypothesis is that it is not the relative fraction of potentially troubled individuals (for lack of better words) that makes or breaks a neighborhood, but their absolute density. No matter how many affluent, stable, nice people you add to the mix, they are pretty much invisible when it comes to creating a positive or negative impression. If "misery per acre" reaches a certain threshold, sad individual fates start influencing each other negatively, multiply and eventually dominate the whole place. Up to a certain, moderate density, stable individuals pull up the troubled, upwards of some undefined density threshold, the troubled start pulling their environment down.
"But as we improve radioisotope power systems, they can go for longer and longer--powered by heat, even in the cold expanse of space."

Since the amount of electricity generated is related to the temperature difference, the fact that space is cold actually helps quite a bit.
I also pointed at two lies at the UN that were used to trigger wars (the second one being a bigger one than the first, because irak was truely invading koweit).

Those are the biggest ones i can remember without thinking too much, but then there's all the state operations during cold wars to change regimes, the hidden financing of one ideology to fight another ( talibans vs communists in afghanistan comes to my mind). All the state dirty little secrets than you learn about decades away, and cast a different light on the news of their time. On top of that you can add regions like the middle east , where there's almost no reliable source of information, but yet news agency keep pretending that they can do their job.

I'm not a conspiracionnist at all, because i think that at the moment 99% of those alternate news are boggus. I just think it's a good start that people starts asking themselves questions about what they see and hear, even when it comes from a supposedly professional source.

Edit : i checked, and the koweitian girl fake testimony wasn't in the UN, but at some US caucus. Which was broadcasted all over the news channel.
To offer a different view, I've seen lots of them and I found this one very informative. I think it did a great job of keeping the viewer focused, and slowly building complexity by drip feeding new details as it went. Loved it.
I tend to agree with the Zerohedge assessment: the rare times they discuss something I have any first-hand professional experience with (e.g. Automotive industry) they spin outrageous tales based on flimsy "proofs".
A major problem with anonymous sources is not just the inability to verify the claims, even more troubling is the inability to assess the motives of the source and their context and agenda.

The phrase "American officials" connotes an objectivity, as if the information was revealed by God himself.
I don't understand what you mean, if it has the same interface as autotools how do you remove the legacy stuff without breaking anything?

Autotools is a huge pain in the ass for the dev, unfortunately I haven't found any alternative that didn't end up being an even bigger annoyance.

A decent, simple, easily customizable and portable C/C++ build system is still very much a unsolved problem as far as I'm concerned (and I've tried quite a few of them). At least autotools are supported basically everywhere.
See, this is much better of a comment than the above, which was mostly an insult, with no substance.

(I don't agree with much of this but that's not the point; my point was trying to raise the level of discourse around here.)
True, but that is industry- and role-specific.
I disagree, if you consistently think that the code you wrote a year ago is shit then you are probably just chasing a new fad every year. I'd say that if a junior developer with a year in a language doesn't write code he can rightfully be proud of then he is focusing on the wrong things.
Going to university doesn't mean you will learn any of these.
If you look at the issue of 'buy to let' you will see a significant upshift in housing values that started in 1996. http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/ The change that happened there was enabling buy to let mortgages. We're now in situation where upwards of 40% of council houses are buy-to-let owned.

In fact you now have a situation where people hitting retirement, buy houses to let to ensure good income.

We are now in a situation where generation X will almost not be buying a home for until their late 30s.

It's go so bad that St Ives introduced a 'no second homes' clause to all new builds.

I actually think there is nothing wrong with buy to let however you need strong rights for tenants as well as rent contol. Something Germany has successfully done and people are quite happy not owning houses and renting for their life knowing they have strong rights to stay with safe rent levels.
The FBI can track who you talk to in-person, but they can not with WhatsApp at the moment. Thus WhatsApp is orders of magnitude more efficient.
Next time, just spend 15 minutes to automate it. :)
Actually it is a typo. Apparently even college education didn't help me here.
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I'm a senior developer for Silent Circle.
If he was doing the job and doing it well, I don't see why it's a big deal. Universities used to be where you had to go to learn something new, but with the internet, anyone can learn anything they choose to.
The six animated gifs on that page, placed so that as soon as one scrolls away from the introductory material there will always be one visible, make the page annoying to read.

Approximately half of the vertical space in the body of the article is occupied by animated gifs!
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In 20 years, I've never even been asked about my non-existent degree. Not even one time. I've mostly worked at 'big 5' companies, and their equivalents in the game industry.
AFAIK, it's normal for them to ask for official transcripts if you put "PhD" on your transcripts. (I hope they ask for proof of a MD, too...)

But yeah, at the same employer, they apparently don't ask for proof of a master's degree (or BS).
The material presented to you is only the tip of the iceberg. If you didn't bother learning the material, then why bother going through the door?
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No, but I think there is a difference between having the great idea and putting in the work it takes to bring it to market on a global scale. Fantastic ideas won't go away, just the motivation to put in the hard work of turning an idea into a product.
Is there any data to support the idea that tourism collapses due to a negative effect on the holiday environment caused by emigrants ...? How was tourism doing during the height of grexit (and before immigration became the global problem du jour ...)

Based on the number of tourist areas that depend on/benefit from cheap labor -- there's not a lot of me that believes this is a real mechanism...
Well I don't disagree with your thesis in principle, I'm just adding that science is part of philosophy, as it too seeks to find out what is true and what not. And after all, logic and mathematics come from philosophy - there is no clear distinction between the two.

If you are talking about idealist philosophy, and are asking yourself how much their theories on the true substance of the world has contributed to the general wellbeing of the average human being, then I already said, that most people would agree that the products of science, as a materialist philosophy, are more helpful.
> They're not lower class, but not truly upper class either

Yes, if only there were a word for someone in the middle.
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Meh. If your code works, then it's good.

Of course I don't literally mean that; you can write code in a way that makes it easier to debug, extend, etc. But too many developers get wrapped up in engineering the perfect system and forget that they're supposed to be, you know, writing a program. I think this is why a lot of hobbyist projects run out of steam.
The problem is that the value of the degree is dropping significantly. I'm unemployed right now because all the tech support positions require a bachelor's degree. I already have a year and a half experience. Why should I have to go to college to get a position that should be entry level?
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> This would seem to contradict the finding that lower commute times are associated with overall happiness

Not at all! Happiness _is_ correlated to shorter door-to-door time, but higher speed does not equate to shorter times if the distance grows as well. From the article:

> We have a strong hunch as to why traveling faster might not generate more satisfaction with the transportation system. Faster travel is often correlated with lower density, and longer travel distances to common destinations, such as workplaces, schools and stores.
Guess he should have marketed it to law enforcement and state spy agencies. They buy this sort of stuff all the time.
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: An advanced mode for the file manager

- DESCRIPTION: I find that the default file manager is a bit dumb. There should be a mode to enable advanced features; like 'connect to server' when one can pick sftp. ftp, smb, nfs, vboxsf etc. It's fine if it's hidden in a configuration modal but 'advanced mode' should be an option.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: user
That is exactly what you do. While on first sight this seems like it'd impede flow, having everything in small chunks makes it much much easier to get back into the flow.
Essentially, the average reader can't tell the difference between well-cited reporting and questionably-cited reporting. Which seems reasonable, given that both now heavily feature "anonymous sources in senior government positions."

I think the accelerant to the problem is the increased throughput of news. If I throw out complete BS on my news site, no one is likely to fact check me unless it's a major story. And why would a reputable news org waste their time replying to "Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton had a secret genetically engineered Aryan baby"?

If it isn't debunked, then only the crackpot article is read, and it plays to the "mainstream media isn't covering this" conspiracy. If it is debunked, then (a) someone has to read the source that debunks it & (b) it gets spun as "well, of course they're trying to cover this up."
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Totally agree. It's a freedom of speech issue. Just like you can't hold the Beatles responsible for the Manson murders, you can't hold someone expressing themselves in code responsible for malicious use. See: NRA lobby white papers.
There seems to be a lot of people who cannot handle the possibility of the NY Times being wrong enough to be skeptical about. They get very upset and worried about what happens when people loose faith in such institutions. They then delegitimize the distrust others have for traditionally trusted news orgs and reduce people who read alt sources (left or right) to fools.

You can call them idiots all you want but in my adult memory there have been several scandals at the Times that have challenged my trust.

Until you can empathize with someone who reads infowars you're never going to solve the problem of fake news.
If anything, increased stability for general-purpose usage would be very nice. Increased hardware support, especially drivers for some wi-fi cards need a lot of work.

I really love Linux desktops, but they have too many stability issues/crashes to completely switch from Windows to Ubuntu or any other linux distribution.
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I may be wrong, but I don't think Canonical has the engineering resources to pull it off. Even if they did, the main issue is that Microsoft does not publish their API spec which is why Wine and ReactOS devs bend over backwards to be compatible with Windows binaries. It also does not make sense from a business perspective. Considering there is no demand for such a system outside of the very, very small number of hobbyists who run Windows games and software on Wine.
This just isn't true. Don't let Marx cloud your understanding of Smith.

Value is created when someone is willing to pay for something to get done, and that something gets done at a cost less than or equal to their willingness to pay. If somebody A is willing to pay for money to be moved, then as long as somebody B is there to move that money, then somebody B is likely generating value by doing so.
Here is the author's guest post providing background for this plugin - https://mathbabe.org/2017/03/31/guest-post-make-your-browsin...
Sorry, I don't see how that's relevant. Iran doesn't position itself as a global tech center.
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Is a technically-focused university diploma fundamentally different than a trade-school certification, aside from the particulars of what material was learned?
Whatever you think about this case, the article is written in a deceptive way. For the first half of the article, you are told that he is being prosecuted for making a tool that was used by hackers against his intentions. But then you find out that that is just his side of the story. According to the feds, his intention was to help people commit crimes. And they have a pretty good reason to suspect that this was his intention in that he announced the software on a site for hackers.
For the same technical challenge? None occurs to me, but I'll think harder about that. Even if other options are more challenging, I guess I welcome the excuse to dabble in Elm soon :) Thanks for the advice.
That's quite similar to how Go does it (Go would have something like hello_platform.c), which in my opinion works quite well. I actually find it to be one of the nicest things about Go, compared even to Haskell, which for some bizarre reason uses the C preprocessor (!!) to pepper code with #ifdefs.
> We have a strong hunch as to why traveling faster might not generate more satisfaction with the transportation system. Faster travel is often correlated with lower density, and longer travel distances to common destinations,

Indeed, who ever thought that speed alone could matter? Time is the key. 2 km at 30 km/h is much better than 60 km at 120 km/h.
> If we can survive on mars, we can survive on Earth no matter what can plausibly happen to it.

Exactly. So going to Mars and staying there long-term will require us to develop many solutions that can be applied here on Earth. Both under current conditions and conditions that would currently be civilisation-threatening.
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]

- HEADLINE: Mouse to work

- DESCRIPTION: I'd like my mouse to work properly in Ubuntu (or any of my mice). When I start my laptop, my USB wireless mouse scrolls super fast. When I take it out and plug it in again, it scrolls super slow. I'd like that not to happen, and also some way of configuring the scroll speed.
My mistake, you're right. Going to correct my comment.
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Excellent support for Apple laptops.
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: More stable and polished desktop

- DESCRIPTION: This one is hard to pin down, but I'd like to see more general polish and stability in the Unity desktop. One example would be around multi-monitor support, it's pretty good, but a bit funky in some places.

For example, if I have a monitor plugged in and I let the laptop screen lock come on, I can sit there and watch while both displays cycle through an On -> Off -> On -> Off loop. I think when one display goes to sleep it sends a signal which wakes the machine back up, or something.

I'd also like to see more options for configuring multiple mice/trackpads/trackballs in the Settings app, general improvements to quality-of-life issues which are very noticable when transitioning from, say, macOs to Ubuntu.

One more polish issue: I'd like to see more attention paid to power-drain regressions in the OS. I had an issue recently where a process related to automatic updates was spinning in the background and consuming 100% of a CPU core, and cutting my battery time in half compared to what it should have been. I looked into it and found it was a known issue that wasn't fixed yet, but could be solved by deleting one of the default apps. If I were a less sophisticated user I would have just concluded that battery-life simply sucked on Ubuntu, and frankly I would have been right.

[EDIT: all these issues were encountered on a Thinkpad T460, which should really be one of the best supported machines in the world for this OS. If things are flaky under the best of circumstances, I dread to think what it's like on some weirdo Siemens laptop some user might have]
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Developer
I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for a decade now, and I agree. Especially the UI crashes much more often than I'd like, and I always get a "there has been an error" error message at startup. Please make things more stable.
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Bring back gaming support for AMD graphics cards.

-DESCRIPTION: Pipe dream, but: the ability to run games with an AMD graphics card, the way we could with 15.10. Google "Steam AMD Xenial" and you'll see how big of a mess this is.

As of a year ago, gaming on Linux was pretty viable with an AMD graphics card, using fglrx. However, because that was deprecated, it was removed in 16.04, and the open-source drivers can't handle 3D games, at all. Most 2D games are non-starters as well, literally: the graphics freeze before I even get to the opening screen and I have to REISUB. I'm running an R9 390, but this is widespread among basically all AMD cards.

AMDGPU is an option, but only for some cards, and thats only for 16.04 - it won't run on 16.10.

I could go more into the history and the compatibility, but suffice to say, the intersection of the different versions of {the kernel, mesa, opengl, fglrx, open-source drivers} on Ubuntu now means that I have no choice but to boot into Windows to run games.
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These are abundant in Germany, but the green that grows between them isn't exactly a pleasant sight. They are not so much used for the greenery but as a compromise between natural seepage and vehicle compatibility.

That seepage is important because any sealed off surface area increases flooding risk downstream. Of course nobody really cares for that, but the sealed surface also determines your utility bill for wastewater treatment, and people quite certainly do care for that.
Yeah, but to a certain extent that's true of things that no one doubts are science. Evolutionary biology is limited by the fact that evolution is non-repeatable, for example.

I used to be an archaeologist. Definitely a field where you can't experiment; you're studying the evidence left by the past. But good methodology in archaeology is making hypotheses about what you expect to find in a new excavation or an inadequately studied old collection, and then testing those hypotheses. Yes, there's a problem with controls, but that's not unique to social science.