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Sincerely, as an European this makes me uneasy. Not because of Erdogan or Turkey itself, that's not what takes my sleep. But for knowing that the spiral into madness in Turkey now seems unstoppable and in 5/10/15 years it will blow up and, yet again, Europe will be called to take care of their problems and, yet again, be blamed for not doing enough.

Once again we will have to open our borders to this good people running away from a war and once again we will have to pretend that the majority of them didn't actually choose this way of life by supporting some dictator/ideology whose main ideologic pillars are xenophoby against people that don't follow their religion their way (Kurds) and a return to islamism in some form of Sharia.
If you can work remotely, I'd pick something nice and sunny with a beach.
All I know that Erdogan is way better than a _genius_ Americans elected for their country :-)
Did you read it?

> And evidence is accumulating that the death rate of bled horseshoe crabs is much higher (more like 29 percent versus 15 percent)

You do understand that a majority means more than 50% right? So 29 percent is not a majority, and certainly not an overwhelming majority
Don't worry, if elections would be made today in Poland then ruling party (PiS) would lost (opposition would have more votes so coalition would be possible). Poland is the most EU enthusiastic society in EU. Most of the things that ruling party does now was not in their program before elections, people protested on streets but it's democracy, you need to wait for next elections. Orban in Hungary is very pragmatic, he talks a lot but when pressured in EU he will take step back. In Hungary genesis is different, 8 years ago there was big economic crisis there, country was on the edge of bankruptcy, Orban and his party changed things, people just voted for bread.
But the article says the crab blood costs $14,000 per quart - if something works "well enough" and can be made synthetically, certainly it could be used in some cases due to the cost alone.

For example, consider if there is a simple case where the test is not administered at all today in some cases, due to the cost. (Use your imagination.) In that case "good enough" to quickly administer for a quick read, might well be a very low threshold indeed! Who says "good enough to administer" must be "the best level in existence"?
Do you think something like this could be used for some form of a distributed blob store that you can query? Things like package managers could use this effectively.
There's a great book called Homodeus they goes in depth about this for a chapter

Basically it's come down to humans deciding the fate of so many animals. We keep our cows and pigs in very narrow places and just enough systems for their survival but no regard for their emotional needs.

Because we are the dominant spicies we act according to our selfish interests. A smarter intelligent spices will probably do the same. If we somehow end up being useful for them, our fate might be the same as chickens, pigs and cows.
This is bad logic. The benefits derived from additional data integrity assurances would be additive.

A special controller isn't a valid substitute for other measures apple hasn't historically been any good at designing filesystems and they aren't any good now.
Well, no. There's actually a term for it: Crony Capitalism aka "Cronyism" (protectionism). Don't conflate this with actual Capitalism.
Meanwhile, in Canada:

> As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3,100 other positions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada
When a tin of sardines cost $120 people will notice. When chicken is worth $45/pound (because they are fed fish meal) people may notice. And the world will be a changed place. We'll have neural laces, and soylent 19/20 meals.
As someone who grew up in an area where tourism was the primary "industry" I don't think it's appropriate to count loss of tourism generated commerce as a "loss" here. It might be a local loss but it's a net win for society.
For what it's worth, it's fortune.com that annoyed me, not your link to it. Thanks for looking for alternatives at least :-)
Have you seen this hub? A must for the new MBP.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K7C53K2/

Power delivery, HDMI, SD card reader, 3 USB 3.0 ports. I have one at home and one at my office, they work great.
I'm someone who cycles over my thoughts for long periods of time. Interviews really don't capture this at all, but it's one of my strongest intellectual assets.
Sadly this is true, but it still seems illogical every time it happens.

Edit: Illogical because while you may be making money now, your actions will cause you to loose your assets in the long term.
>You don't need _a lot_ of filesystems to offer it - just the one you use

Only if you use it everywhere. Including on your laptop.
It would be possible. I'm thinking of adding "pack/unpack" operations to the Leaf data structure, but it's more motivated by getting a varint encoding for line breaks; right now each break is a 64 bit integer (on 64 bit builds), so if you have file consisting of empty lines, the corresponding line break data structure is 8 times bigger than the text. With the varint encoding I have in mind, it would be bounded at 1/4.

That said, I'm very skeptical that lz4 on text would be worth it.
pro-EU and pro-Humanrights are not quite the same.
In general most (all?) USB-C phones support USB power delivery. This means when you plug in two phones to each other, they will prompt you on-screen asking if you want to charge the connected device.

I'm not sure what you mean about charging a USB-C Bluetooth keyboard? If you mean can your phone charge a random USB-C peripheral the answer is generally yes.

You can even use your phone to charge your laptop if you like, although I don't know why you'd do that :)

One awesome thing with USB-C I've found is I can simply use my phone charger for trickle charging. I rarely take my power brick out of my laptop bag these days, since that's more than plenty for most uses.
This doesn't have much to do with Islam as much as just a mishmash of ultra-nationalism / pseudo-populism / authoritarianism. It's the same class of rules like Putin, Chavez, Trump. Usually these start with a group of people who are ignored in one way or another, or aren't in the good situation that they once were, but then a viable leader comes and speaks to their worries, and promises a better future. This leader represents some kind of identity characteristic that has been shunned in that society (islamist / not politically correct / strongman authoritarian / xenophobe), which draws the ire of everyone else and is criticized heavily in the media. This adds to their popularity among their supporters, overall polarization, and the collapse of sane political discourse, which gives them a better chance. Then it's all about "give them a chance", and after they get elected, sooner or later, they turn authoritarian when things get tough. They blame foreign countries for every problem they have, etc. Eventually they remove the separation of power, replace powerful government positions with their own people, solidify support among their base, and change laws to make competition harder. It happens so often that I get tired of seeing it over and over.
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Try to convince people who stay off voting booths to actually go there and remove Fidesz from power next year.

The "no alternative" is a lame excuse, Momentum is coming up and even giving a vote to MKKP would be better than staying home.
On the contrary, I empathize with the plights of humanity. I know first-hand how difficult it is to be alive, what it's like to be downtrodden, and even how difficult it is for some of us to lose weight.

But, going through the extremely terrible has given me a better perspective on: the true severity of problems, whereas one who suffers will be stuck in such a negative and hopeless mindset, even if such is not true at all; the problems that are strictly self-imposed, as opposed to those one has no control over; and the extent to which one's problems can be fixed by putting in conscious effort.

As there are few who truly are unable to lose weight, without extra effort and accommodations, there are few that are truly stuck with unmanageable and crippling thanatophobia.

Have you heard of former drug addicts being harder on addicts than those who've never faced the problem themselves? This is relevant to our discussion.

While people need support and understanding, the victims themselves must take personal responsibility for their issues as well.
Just like Christianity was in previous centuries.
A split opposition and a 10% voting threshold. The opposition would essentially have to lay aside their differences and form an anti-Erdogan party. That's unlikely, because the Kemalists and the Kurds hate each other.
I was also thinking on the case when others you are about die and you are thinking if they are lost forever, I am not sure if you had this feelings, maybe if you are religious you can find much easier some comfort,
Not only Islam but also other religions can be used as a tool. Putin is investing heavily in Russian Orthodox, in Poland Catholicism can be used as such tool (and to my understanding has been already used).
Provocative perhaps, but certainly not dishonest. The unregulated behavior of free market actors leads to oligarchy and violent organized crime syndicates. Every time.

The idea that capitalism as you recognize it can exist without serious regulation is obvious nonsense.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093860
Also, they _know_ that many of those devices are backed up regularly to iCloud (they may know which ones were recently sync’ed with Mac, too). That diminishes the risks even further.
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The US system has been shown to work exactly as intended on a number of occasions in the last two months. [..] the executive state has grown significantly over the last few decades in the US. But that was hardly unique to Trump.

'Exactly as intended' and the growth of executive influence and the federal government as a whole seem rather contradictory. And what's unique is Trump himself.
XXX is also easy to recognize visually in printed text. It stands out well and through convention it has become clearly recognizable as such a placeholder.
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Worth noting is the extent of power held by the Canadian PM:

> As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3,100 other positions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada

Chilling, isn't it? Perhaps this change in Turkey is an opportunity to engage in political change here in the Americas.
From someone not very invested in the OpenStack process it feels like all the momentum of the recent push of the project just withered away all at once. I am not sure if the container crowd ate it's lunch, where containerized appliances just solve the problem of openstack better.
That does not legitimise anything you said or anything Erdogan is doing.
Democracy is not the uncondional rulling of the majority opinion. Democracy must come with freedom of speech, fair trials and basic freedoms.
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"you should use an example of a non-Muslim dictator being praised."

Dictator and terrorist are the terms that are relative, everyone use for his own sake.
The coup was most likely staged to get this vote.
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Some friends here are complaining that Airbnb apartments in their block mean that they are getting woken up by frat boy parties.
> People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear.

I particularly like this advice.
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Kind of in a similar bind.

I work for a big company, and am paid decently well. I'm respected, but I have impostor syndrome. I really am doing nothing other than basic business logic coding. We have good tests, but no unit tests. We're not doing what I would consider as optimal programming practices, and I have not been able to convince them to change.

Yet when I look around in my city for jobs, most are lower paid than I am. Do I take the lower pay temporarily? I worry if I stay in my current job then in another 5 years, if I lose my job, no one will hire me.

I've kind of decided to make a goal for this year: Gain enough influence in my role to change some of the mindsets (e.g. convince them to introduce unit tests). If I succeed, I will have learned valuable influencing skills. If I don't, I should just find another job.
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A hotel is also less authentic. I stayed in AirBnB and hotels both when traveling through Europe and the AirBnB gives you a bit more local flavor vs hotels, which tend to be very standardized. I also was traveling with kids and AirBnB allows you to rent out an entire apartment for the price of a single hotel room. Much better. Hotels should lower their prices and increase their options and then maybe they would compete? Instead of anti-competitive legislation...
I did read the story, and the fact that he said it in 2015 doesn't matter to what I opined. I'm not crying out loud that someone said something bad about the country I was born in. I'm just sharing my opinion in a forum of hackers (who could end up running businesses in India) that businesses work differently in India, and that a CEO of a billion $ startup would be just naive to not realize that and word his views accordingly.

If I say something that misses the point entirely, I expect my friends to just tell me, I'm wrong, and also tell me why. That's what I intended to do. Albeit publicly.
Sadly it's the time of the populists, racists and fascists all over.

RIP Austria (OVP), long time ago. RIP France (soon, NF - Le Pen). RIP Germany (soon AfD). RIP Holland (soon Vilgers), RIp Russia, RIP Hungary. In similar lines - Maybe RIP USA too. (Trump).
Imagine if surveillance satellites inherently included the ability to not only view secret airfields and missile silos, but also to sabotage the vehicles/weapons/equipment. That's a whole different world of potential for misuse.
They simply don't work for multi-second exposures, however.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airbnb-party-hou...

>Neighbors of what critics say is a “party house” in the Glenwood community told the Glendale News-Press that the constant partying in the 1300 block of Norton Avenue was interfering with their sleep in the early-morning hours. They said they’d find beer bottles in the street, people fighting on the sidewalk in the early-morning hours, parking clogged and loud music blaring.

>Frank Higginbotham, who lives across the street from the house, said he saw tour buses with about 30 people pull up to the residence for a party about two weeks ago.

>Earlier in December, neighbors, said, there was one party that had to be shut down using a powerful spotlight from a hovering police helicopter and several police officers.

>“This was like a war zone,” he said, adding that parties have been going on every weekend for months. “Every night I came home, I was scared to think about what I was going to find here.”
There are other democracies. Tunisia. Indonesia. There are also free elections in Morocco even if the king has a strong power. But pretty much every muslim country has to deal with a rising, if not dominant islamism in its various forms (of which AKP is one).

It really feels like a repeat of communism. The rise of an ideology across the world. It's not an homogeneous block. Various muslim ethnic groups hate each others, as did the Maoists, Stalinists, Trotskyist, etc. It happens pretty much everywhere there is a muslim population. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lybia, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia / Eritrea, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, etc. Western leaders like to pretend that islamists are a minority of extremist groups but the reality is that pretty much anytime there has been a free-ish election in any of these countries, the islamists toped the polls, or got an outright majority.

I think it will get worse before it gets better.
I remember a proprietary image format (complete with a proprietary converter and viewer for Windows) in the 1990s that dubbed itself a "fractal compression algorithm" -- and did an impressive job with things like water ripples in rivers or grassy terrain.

You could "zoom in" 8-10X in an original nature photograph and be semi-convinced.
> In a world where "random hackers" can write twitter bots to parse scientific papers and uncover obvious mathematical flaws (which sometimes invalidate central claims of the paper), I don't understand how we aren't immediately gravitating to standards which promote more and more openness.

I understand your idea but the thing is, nobody has tone of free time to read an unknown hacker's blog (if he/she really does). People are busy for working so the best way is to read a peer-reviewed paper. This thing is like a brand, I guess.
Robosigning just this time literally and on a grander scale. It works well, it is fin-tech (TM) and the technology limits the risk. It will stop working well when the music stops as it always does. Let's just hope the lenders sources of capital are diversified and there is no AIG like entity involved.
> Which adds to the desired goal of making normal open source look like a normal and reasonable thing.

What didn't you like about my original question?

I don't think anyone involved in this story has a desired goal of making open source look normal. rms is famous for railing against the phrase 'open source' as it disguises the actual desired goal of understanding the relevance and importance of freedom.

> In all honesty that already happened. All the big players now release and support some open source projects; even Microsoft

I always worry that when people preface a statement with 'in all honesty' they are conceding that everything else they've said has been dishonest. Is that the case here?

Anyway, most of the big players have long since fought / lost / taken advantage of / contributed to free software ... and much of that happened in the last century. I'm not sure what your point is.
Humans are just a lot better conditioned to respond to short-term stimuli than long-term goals. Maybe it's a product of our evolutionary history (avoiding predators, making sure we are fed) but it sure doesn't work well at global, collective scales.
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What all he is doing, one can like or dislike but Turks are supporting him. Why irrelevant people are worried? Americans selected Trump, I definitely did not like it but then I respect their choice. You should do the same.
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I'll take a dangerous idiot over a dangerous genius any day, thank you. At least we're done with Trump in 4 years (or sooner)
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Nitpick: I can think of one thing NTFS does proactively about this problem. Just not anything good. Googled and found: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/doxley/2008/10/29/self-h...

In my time at Microsoft I did see a number of workarounds for bad disks in Windows source, in ntfs.sys and elsewhere.

However I agree with your overall assessment, it's not as if anyone is running zfs or similar as a default.
Well, he tried aligning Turkey to Europe, paving the way for EU membership, visa-free travel, and even shot down Russian's plane to show his European alignment. That was the crest of the Western wave for him. Once he saw that EU is just a pipe dream, and after through discussion with Putin, he decided on a new way, returning his people back to the Islamic roots, purging opposition, and controlling ethnic groups, especially Kurds, who pose a big problem considering they are over 10% of the population, and would eventually want independence, hence Kurdish activity in Syria.

Sad outcome. Especially with 99% or so voting turnout, and such a close result. 97-99% voting turnout on such a large scale is a classic telltale sign of fabrication balloting, and was standard since at least CCCP, just like in Crimea independence referendum. With such a close result it would mean he was losing 70/30 by vote on a standard 70% turnout, but padding his numbers by 30% with his ballots was sufficient for him to maintain grip and win. Each successive referendum will make him stronger, unleashing his full potential without pesky opposition "provocateurs".
For journalists, the placeholder typically taught is "TK" for fact-checking later, as in "The youngest president was TK years old."
Earlier cars were terrible death traps and we were told crashes at highway speeds were unsurvivable.

People died in mangled messes but the sky didn't fall then either.

The status quo is rarely a sufficient argument because the human race is pretty much terrible at everything improving things only slowly, incrementally accruing useful strategies and procedures.

We built bridges well via centuries of practice, software is less mature.
Yep, the vote happened under the national emergency they activated after the failed coup.
I think the Fermi Paradox's great filter will probably filter us out. I don't regard humans as a very smart species. It's like an ape hacked on with a large computer
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It may be small consolation, that in the mid term, only humans can prevent meteor strikes from re-extincting everything on this planet. 99 percent of every species that has ever existed is permanently extinct. That being said, I'd love to maintain or grow biodiversity, for it's where we will learn the most tricks to help ourselves in the mid term.

Thus, if it helps humans a bit, in the long run, it could help all the life on this planet. Also, these guys are working on the problem https://rebelbio.co/sothic-bioscience-saving-human-lives-and...
I think the idea is that you pay a one time fee to lease your game console for life. If you mod it, then you have vandalized someone else's property.

The US has something called the "first sale doctrine" that essentially outlaws such schemes by simply treating such leasing schemes as sales.

The first sale doctrine has been constantly under attack (for a century, at least) by vendors that want to shut down markets for used goods, avoid allowing their own customers a license to use patented products as they see fit. Printer ink manufactures like lexmark are a good modern example.