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Dreher writes for The American Conservative (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/), a center-right publication which is a must-read in my media diet to get coherent, well-reasoned essays from the other side of the political aisle.

I often find myself challenged by the viewpoints they put across, gaining understanding of where people on the right are coming from intellectually, and it's refreshing to get out of the filter bubble. Recommend reading through it, especially if your news sources and environment tend to be more left-leaning.
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I was hoping the article would back up its claim based on what's actually in the content of Buddhism teaching.

On the contrary, the entire article is based on various accounts of actions taken by people that happen to be Buddhist.

Some religion condones violence under certain conditions. This article doesn't mention that about Buddhism. Article title is click bait.
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I believe recent versions of IOS still do this in some form, but they use random MAC addresses. But even if recent devices don't send out probe requests anymore, there are still many older devices or devices with out-of-date OSes to make this work.

While testing I didn't really have a way see what percentage of devices around me sent probe request, but the absolute amount of devices is still high.
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I spent some time providing huge tarpits to SPAMmers also (I get about 10k SPAM delivery attempts per day on my small SMTP server), but in the end I've had to spend my time on other things...
Some programmers make a liberal use of "passing by reference" (v. "passing by value") a variable when referring to passing a pointer to it (v. its value) to a function. This is common language in a C environment, where there's also no pass by ref (quick example: [0]). I'm guilty of this myself.

It's possible that this may create confusion to other people more familiar with, for example, the C++ concept of passing by reference which is passing an actual reference (v. "passing a pointer").

[0] https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_function_call_...
You realize that in most cases "disabling UEFI" is really enabling a poorly-tested emulation of BIOS running on top of UEFI?
There was the secure golden key boot exploit last year[0]. In the conclusion they also points out that Microsoft can't revoke the affected bootmgr versions:

> Either way, it'd be impossible in practise for MS to revoke every bootmgr
earlier than a certain point, as they'd break install media, recovery partitions,
backups, etc.

[0]: https://rol.im/securegoldenkeyboot/
This is a common phenomenon that's not very well known outside of immigrant communities. My family emigrated to the US from Russia in the mid 80s and quickly went hard-right, as did most of their cohort. Same for many Chinese immigrants to the US, Cubans, and I'm sure the list goes on.

I never completely understood this. I guess it's partly a kneejerk reaction to the nominally left-wing repressive regimes they left behind. Another component is probably a sudden immersion into a truly pluralistic society when coming from an intolerant and homogenous one. But still, I can't say I truly understand it.

I'm in my 30s and this is still a source of conflict between my family and me. They're lower-class "real people" who have a soft spot for despots on the Putin spectrum. Because while they're pro-democracy, they also think you need a "firm hand" to keep all "those people" in line, and by "those people" they mean people they can't or won't empathise with: poor black people, the stew of "educated degenerates" who refuse to have normal sexualities or lifestyles, muslims, and so on.
Ha, that would be awesome! Feel free to clone the Github repo and implement it ;)
The other commenter is generally right, I think. I think what the campus was really drawn to was the idea of a place where you could express unfiltered observations about the campus community. The anonymity of YikYak provided sufficient cover in that regard, but so does the Meme Page. This might sound absurd, but fitting these same observations into meme format almost provides the same amount of cover that anonymity does. Now, the anonymity of YikYak did mean that there were typically many more controversial posts, but those posts almost never got any traction. The Facebook meme page seems to fill the bulk of the void, in terms of broadly appealing, humorous observations about campus culture.
Isn't this the same argument for leaving Assad alone in Syria?
You've figured out something very important, which is that as an employee, you never get to see most (ie. all, beyond the limit of your wage) of the value you create.
> “I liken liquid modernity to the Great Flood of the Bible,” Dreher said,[...] “The flood cannot be turned back. The best we can do is construct arks within which we can ride it out, and by God’s grace make it across the dark sea of time to a future when we do find dry land again, and can start the rebuilding, reseeding, and renewal of the earth.”

That reminded me of the convents in Neal Stephensons 'Anathem'.
The issue I have with the i3 is that it was hinted they could upgrade the batteries but they won't do so, at least in the US.

I am very happy with my second generation Volt, averaging 66 miles per charge since I got it in March (Georgia weather) and it should squeak out a few more as summer progresses. I am really curious what my range will be in Winter seeing as a friend with an i3 loses twenty miles per charge in our coldest and the Tesla 80 at work goes under 200 range max by a good number.

still not sold all battery is the way to go, range is always there, but recharge times and sheer weight of so much battery is contrary to where manufacturers want to take cars (lighter weight is better regardless of propulsion method)
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error 401 (and requires security exception in firefox)
He's holding millions of Syrian refugees and has threatened to send them to Europe if things don't go his way. Think European nationalism is bad now? You might not have a NATO after that.
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The company I work for took on some people from a bootcamp recently so I can perhaps offer perspective from the other side. The final decision came down to personalities and life stage: we knew that hiring people with relatively shallow experience (not a criticism, just true relative to others in the company) was going to be, initially, a large time sink and investment in development of these individuals. So the decision boiled down to: once this person is productive, how long do we think they will stick around? If that time is shorter, do. they have the increased energy and great attitude to make up for it? Are we a momentary stepping stone for this person or do they want to learn what they can from us and jump off to bigger and better things quickly? The main decision was around this. Whether our investment in the person would yield a payoff.

Also a big consideration but not as much: What are their strategies for learning, and will those strategies withstand the forthcoming onslaught? What are their instincts when something doesn't work?

Hope that helps.
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i asked myself the same 2 years ago when my team was deciding if we need all of that javascript framework madness. In the end we built whole product based on dartlang (http://www.dartlang.org) which compiles down to javascript. We used only Dart language and no frameworks and best thing that came out of this is that we don't feel bound by restrictions of some framework but add stuff as we feel like. What we did is email marketing app https://www.listshine.com, something like mailchimp but faster and with less clutter.
I respectfully disagree with you on Wikipedia's article on sex assignment. To me, it covers the issue in detail, going over the mental health aspects that have persisted. Additionally, it explicitly notes that the surgeries if done in a child could be construed as human rights violations, with notions of respect to a child's autonomy and right to privacy/identity.

If you could point me to where in the article you have a problem, I'd appreciate it.
Childhood experience is thought to be one of the 'causes' of Synesthesia. For instance people who perceive letters as having colours (a is always red, b is blue), often find that these correspond to the colouring of alphabet fridge magnets or toys they had as children.
I think I set this up in about 5 minutes on my devuan laptop (basically just Debian 8.3 for the purposes of this discussion). I told it to delete all its keys, then whitelisted the debian efi blob (no Microsoft signature needed), and all was well.

I did not test the configuration with an old copy of windows, but I'm pretty sure installing secure-boot enabled Linux distros now fails as expected.

Is this not standard functionality for secureboot laptops?
Yap, your comment is better than the entire article. Thanks!
Not exactly fake hardware, but also quite commone- reused hardware- you desolder SOCs from defunct old scrap hardware and reapply them to "new" or "faked" hardware.

Suddenly the invetible bitrot - by material migration or allready done flash-writes sets in way earlier.
This is full of suspect data and shilling on a car that has gotten a lot of bad press. This feels like pure PR. Please respond if you disagree.
It's the URL provided in the paper (first-page bottom left)
http://imgur.com/a/JTKqT
Much of this problem comes not from the top, but from the bottom. It's a terrible idea that people can actually suck, and suck en masse, but it truly is the case. The bad leader is an emergent consequent of the bad people crying for him. Shitty leaders aren't the sole purview of Islamic states, but they seem to be better at generating them than anyone else in recent history.

How do you fix millions of people, so they stop desiring terrible things? Well, by having a culture that pays better, and marketing it well. And it's delicate, because their "better" detector isn't working properly already.
Original Youtube video from Stanford online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Rd4UShDxQ
> We collect a very large corpus, SARC-raw, with around 500-600 million total comments, of which 1.3 million are sarcastic.

So Reddit is 0.2% sarcastic. That sounds accurate.
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Is there anything special about the camera or did you previously have a vehicle without one? Rear view cameras will be mandatory on US cars starting with the 2018 MY.
There is a catch. A coworker had the battery on his wife's Honda Insight go bad. No worries - it was only 18 months old, so get it replaced under warranty. Afterwards, they were informed that the new battery would be covered under Honda's replacement part warranty - 12 months. And not the remainder of the 8 year/80,000 mile original equipment warranty.
Does this fix the "page up" and "page down" keys as well?
Since I got downvoted: More than 20000 people die every year, millions get attacked. They eat old people and children alive.

Just Google "stray dogs India".
> You're in an industry reaping disproportionate benefit from loose money policies, leading to a trend-chasing culture of overpaid nerds making web apps. You feel guilty about this, but there is nothing you can do about it because you have no other talents that a rational person would pay you for.

/r/2meirl4meirl

But in all seriousness, this was a great article and an exceptionally fun read!
Of course, it is. If Assad loses Chrisitians and Alawites will be massacred in Syria.

A more honest assessment is, Gaddaffi, thanks to regime change, you have slave trade live and well in Libya. Pick your poison.

Its always easy to say, replace this.. but it much harder to replace it with what?

Middle East is not a choice about good and evil, it always present two bad choices, I choose the ones in which fewer people die.
From the paper: "To investigate the noisiness of using Reddit as a source of self-annotated sarcasm we estimate the proportion of false positives and false negatives induced by our filtering. This is done by having three human evaluators manually check a random subset of 500 comments from SARC-main tagged as sarcastic and 500 tagged as non-sarcastic, with full access to the comment’s context. A comment was labeled a false positive if a majority determined that the “/s” tag was not an annotation but part of the sentence and a false negative if a majority determined that the comment author was clearly being sarcastic. After evaluation, the false positive rate was determined to be 2.0% and the false negative rate 3.0%. Although the false positive rate is reasonable, the false negative rate is significant compared to the sarcasm proportion, indicating large variation in the working definition of sarcasm and the need for methods that can handle noisy data in the unbalanced setting."
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Doesn't the post stumble over right in the second section? "It is not possible to create a Go program where two variables share the same storage location in memory". So what? The C example didn't show that either.
Good find, good read.

While I've dealt with hugely complicated systems from bare electronics up to (eg) full banking systems, I have to say that I found my encounter with OSGi over a year or so to be quite unhappy.

So the argument "it should be like OSGi" wouldn't work for me!
Thanks for your in-depth comment.

As you found out, this whole things is pretty unclear and it really depends on the phone/vendor (or combination vendor and software version) . While testing I've noticed some phones use their own MAC address every time (like my Nexus 5), while others change their MAC address.
Changing the MAC address doesn't really help if they send the full probe request though, as you can still use the combination of ESSIDs a device is looking for as a way of fingerprinting them (the chances of someone else asking for the exact same list are quite small).

Also, in one of the cases where I noticed a device using different MAC addresses, it only changed the last part of the address, keeping the vendor ID the same, making identifying a device easier.
What a terrible video. "I can't imagine anybody can make this work, so it is absolutely impossible"
Often, I'll deliberately give the naive "pointers are references" answer in a job interview, just to gauge the interviewer's response.

It's actually a good proxy to determining company culture. If he starts to patiently explain the difference, I'll stop him and talk about the practical implications of the concept, and we'll have a good laugh.

If he gets annoyed or stiffens and things become tense, I'll have a good proxy for what to expect should I make the mistake of working there.
please don't equate Arkansas to the whole country
Thanks for those suggestions. I wasn't aware of Kiwix. It sounds similar to XOWA, which has worked well for me: http://xowa.org/
It's a spectrum sure and sound/taste effects would be lot more difficult to deal with.

We all visualise abstractions, but adding fixed, and arbitrary, properties (the number line turning at 20) is different and more akin to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form
Since it's dynamically linked against the runtime library most of the time you need to include how big msvcrt*.dll is.
Except instead of useful math and pure science, it's supernatural religious stuff.
I have always gotten this after a migraine. I get about one or two migraines per year on average. For me, they go like this.

1. The aura, a flashing zig-zag of blindness moving across my vision for approximately half an hour.

2. The headache. This is unpleasant but not nearly as bad as some have it. I usually go to sleep for a while until it gets better.

3. The aftermath. I feel mentally foggy and more physically weak for several days, my sinuses are sore like after a sinus infection, which causes coughing, sneezing, or suddenly getting up or down and causing
a pressure change to be painful.
Not only that but we have accepted this lying into our society. When a businessman lies about something or does something shady, we say "he said what he had to say" or "he did what he had to do." Lawyers likewise are socially excused. And by socially excused I'm referring particularly to the neighborhoods and communities and clubs in which they live and recreate.

Not everybody gives them a pass of course, but many do.

I'm curious about something: were any of those bankers from the 2007/8 crisis and scandal booted out of their country clubs?
Depends on the area of work I guess. It's not that uncommon to have English as company language in startups or IT companies in general, but even if not you'll get around with English just fine.
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COoL!

I have tremendous trouble reading a list of color words on a whiteboard, if each is written in a different color from what the word is. E.g. write blue in black; write yellow in red; write red in blue etc.

Extra points - try to say what the color each word is written in, while looking at them. Maybe even harder.
Define "science."
By the time you could conceivably build some of these tunnels, the Teslas and most other cars will be at least somewhat self-driving. (Since you're in tunnels, the problem gets a lot simpler, with on/off the real tricky parts.

I would have thought you'd say where you wanted to go, and if you had enough battery to get there, the car would just drive itself in the tunnel, eliminating the need for a whole other wheeled, motorized sled to move a wheeled, motorized vehicle.
This does still seem to be developing: https://twitter.com/tdohack3r
Since pros only play once a week--risk of lifelong injury included--I don't expected amateurs to do it that often. No need for cynicism.

EDIT: word order
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>Turkey is going through transformation, and it will come out of it stronger and mostly becoming pillar of Middle East.

Like Nazi Germany grew stronger and stronger and grew to be the leader of Europe (+)?

((+) until it was vanquished of course by democratic countries -- but where do you find democratic countries, when you need one?)
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If you don't mind sharing, what's the big app you're warming up for? :)
can you blame them with all the media alarmism about global warming? The Day After Tomorrow type movies and such too.

Not that it's not a problem - it obviously is - but it's not like the earth is going to be barbecue'd in our lifetime.
> That's why I couldn't pick out which of the second set were a fake, sure there were differences, but there wasn't any visually obvious detriment to those differences.

Cheap knockoffs quite often skimp on laser engraving, which seems to be the case here too.
I mean, where I lived I _tried_ to use public transit. But with a 50/50 chance of getting passed by the single bus running that route, it just wasn't making sense anymore. And that route ran every 60 minutes .. and also didn't run on Sunday's.
Indeed. Definition 2 is broadly in line with what "reference" means in general usage, while definition 1 is a term of art in the vocabulary of certain languages.

Before languages had reference types or pointers, the distinction between pass-by-reference and pass-by-value (or also pass-by-name in Lisp and Algol) told you important things about the semantics of the language, such as whether a function you called could modify the objects you gave as arguments, or incorporate them by reference into some other object, and how arguments that are expressions are handled. Some of those distinctions become blurred when pointers or references are passed by value; the distinction on how you pass them now becomes a distinction on what you pass. In practice, is there any language that passes pointers or references by reference?
What's the relation (if anything) of [1] https://github.com/developerdizzle/react-virtual-list to [2] https://github.com/OutSystems/react-virtualized-list, who blogged [3] about their component in July 2016?

For the GP, the technique itself is older [4][5][6][7], but with this new crop of component-oriented frameworks I can see the value of a dedicated component.

[3] https://medium.com/outsystems-engineering/virtualizing-the-v... [4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12613113/
[5] http://engineering.linkedin.com/linkedin-ipad-5-techniques-s...
[6] http://stackoverflow.com/a/12613687
[7] https://dannysu.com/2012/07/07/infinite-scroll-memory-optimi...
One of the reasons I work hard is so that my children have a good future ahead of them. Why should my family give that all back to the state when I die? The state didn't earn that money... I did.
Interesting to see the range of responses in this thread, eg. you are advocating keeping it fun and interesting, whereas other people recommend deliberately doing things you don't like.

It might have to do with different personality types. For instance, I am prone to procrastinate on anything that doesn't interest/excite me, so when my goal is to work on stuff I don't like, the output approaches zero.

I resonate with the "do more than nothing" approach advocated by Khatzumoto of All Japanese All The Time[0]. Which is a great website by the way!

It's all about how language learning can be fun. It's like 10% language learning advice, 90% "you can do it stop beating yourself up".

[0]: http://alljapaneseallthetime.com/
You are right, except clearly the effects of human caused change is still being denied by many. I am guessing/hoping there would come a time when such people will lose their influence.