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How is your opinion informed on the highly additive nature of cannabis? As with any substance cannabis can be abused and can have negative consequences; however to say that is it highly addictive is highly misleading.

I agree that anxiety can be an issue especially with novice users, but those effects vary person to person and strain to strain.
I have the opposite problem somehow. Chrome is incredibly slow and pages take dozens of seconds to load. Firefox feels so fast and responsive. I think the issue is due to adblock though, which I keep off of firefox.
> The minute she went public, Tesla has the right to fire her.

Technically (and tangentally), they had the "right" from the moment she signed her contract. That's what at-will means - Tesla can fire an employee with no reason whatsoever should it wish. In theory, that power is balanced against an employee's right to quit without notice; but the balance of power is not really with the employee in that change.

> she had the chance to do that internally

Playing the devil's advocate for a moment, it sounds like she tried to do exactly that - resolve it internally - and it didn't work out: her allegations were classified as "unfounded." This means her options for resolving the issue internally were practically exhausted.
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Microsoft was “too slow” to become a hardware company, says Steve Ballmer
Some other languages have a "raw string" syntax which disables backslash processing. For instance, Python (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html and https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#st...) and Rust (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/tokens.html#raw-string-l...).
Try using uBlock Origin on Chrome next time. It's way more efficient than adblock.
I'm on Linux and I don't feel any noticeable speed difference using FF vs Chrome (startup time doesn't bother me at all, my browser is always running and I rarely restart my machine). I've been using FF since the early days and never found enough reason to switch to any other browser and I'm quiet happy with the improvements that have been coming to FF lately and what the future holds.
Thank You. Looking forward to reading these.
No where in their statement do they say they based said special treatment on gender - you assumed and added that.
Very good result although the green mind in me screams a bit when thinking about all this waste.
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I don't want to dissuade you if curses-based UIs are your thing. But one thing that's been crucial to me from Day 1 is that you can type "tad foo.csv" at the command line and immediately get a usable view of your data with no extra config or tweaking needed. I mostly launch tad from the command line.
> Gosh it was so blazing fast in comparison to everything else.

It was dead slow, actually, unless you were running a modern (i.e. very fast) multicore PC and with a very small number of tabs. For example, when trying Chrome out soon after release, it managed to grind my PC to a halt because I dared open something like 5 tabs (whereas Opera was happily running double to triple digits). Back in 2008 multicore CPUs weren't as widespread as they are today, so for the most common cases Chrome was just slow, context switching PCs into the ground.

> I think that initial period is why so many regular people use chrome.

Regular people don't simply install new browsers, it's the people familiar with computers (like the family geek, or the guy maintaining PCs for a living) who push them unto regular people. Anecdotally it went something like this: technically inclined people were supporting Firefox (because it wasn't IE and because of A LOT of marketing) despite it being a crappy browser and there being better alternatives. Now, Firefox was not slow per se, but if definitely FELT slow, so when Chrome was launched the same people who had popularized Firefox started promoting the new shiny trinket. Everybody kept saying "it's so fast!" - well, it certainly FELT faster than Firefox, at least when it came to the UI, and that was enough to switch.

> I think the other thing that pushed it this far is just the fact that it's new.

I think so too. Shiny new things have the side effect of attracting the enthusiastic bandwagon jumping types, and enthusiasm can be contagious.
Before I start, Disclosure: I'm neither a Trump or a Hillary supporter and I don't mean the following to be political. I'm just very dissatisfied with the sad reality of how I cannot trust anything online anymore.

For me, the moment all my trust in NYT died was the election day. The front page had this interactive realtime story of how Hillary is supposedly winning by overwhelming margin, when it was very apparent that that's opposite of the truth. People kept questioning "where the hell is this data coming from?".

I believe Newspapers should try to play as much neutral role as possible, but throughout the entire election cycle the narrative was NYT vs. Trump. News organizations and journalists should report stories but should not become the story.

As someone who just wanted to learn what REALLY is going on, I had (and still have) hard time believing anything they say anymore. Other conservative publications at least don't claim to be neutral. A publication shouldn't claim to "tell the truth" and do a whole TV ad about it if they are clearly biased and they're also aware of this.

I know they're being provocative because this sells, and they need to make money, and it's getting harder to make money with newspaper. But they've crossed the line.

People keep talking about "fake news", but what's really dangerous is not some viral website that write some funny photoshopped story. What's really dangerous is influential news organizations like NYT doing deceptively objective-sounding pieces with narratives that mislead the public.

By now I think a lot of people know it's very possible to take a same piece of reality and write completely different versions of it, just by framing them differently. Because of that I have hard time believing anything online anymore, especially the influential ones. This is sad because it used to be the job of journalism to fight against injustice, but nowadays it's more about generating more page views and getting more subscribers, which led to people losing faith in journalism.
I'm not in the US but I sincerely doubt that harassment is that common.
I look forward to learning more about this product. I love that we're moving non-x86 into mainstream consumer products like this (and not limited to low-end chromebooks, e.g.).

ARM SoCs lack the backward compatible x86 BIOS-style bootstrap. This is great because it's kinda crazy to think about booting into stuff like MBR, real mode, etc in 2017. But this is bad because without good standards it's really tricky to have a generic installer for another OS. Also, all or nearly all ARM SoCs have signed bootloaders. Great: less fear of a rootkit/virus hiding in my system. Awful: often used to protect subsidies or other business model hijinks; can't install an alternate OS.
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Not really. Assertions like yours are a moral assertion that we should ignore the moral points at issue and instead favor some unspecified pseudo-business-y ones.

But even taken on business terms, you're sweeping a lot under the rug. As developers and entrepreneurs, we've benefited hugely from the web being an open, competitively specified platform. The more one large company can control the platform, the more it will get tilted toward that company and away from the rest of us.

That may not be bad for any given business next week; these things take time. But for anybody building a serious business, you're going to have to worry about the long-term, large-scale stuff. Google's been going 20+ years; Microsoft and Apple, 40+; IBM, 100+. They didn't get there by only thinking about the next quarter, and you won't either.
At Upverter we’ve been working on a new product we call EE Concierge. We make and verify symbols, footprints, and 3D models for electrical components on-demand. We started doing this inside Upverter about 2 years ago. But with EE Concierge it’s now possible to use the concierge with Altium, Eagle and soon Cadence. If you’re a hardware engineer and you don’t use Upverter to design your PCBs you should check it out - we'd love your thoughts!
I don't understand how people can even find the Silmarillion but somehow don't understand what it is. Its just pieced together mythology. Its not some lost LOTR sequel. Its a bit like saying, "So I ran out and bought Infinite Jest. No one told me it was long and ponderous!"

Uh, who is recommending these books to these people and why aren't they at least reading the descriptions?
I read the Salmon of Doubt, but I honestly don't remember much of it. I do remember at the time thinking that it was interesting to read it, and I don't remember any revulsion or finding it particularly bad, but clearly it was not particularly noteworthy either. Then it was not a finished novel. That said, it was not presented as a finished novel either, and included various other biographical bits and pieces, and as a whole I like that it is out there in the form it was put out, which was more of a tribute to Adams than an attempt to sell another Douglas Adams novel.

On the other hand, though it is of course quite different from a posthumously released book by the author himself, it is quite relevant given that part of the reason Adams wanted to turn Salmon of Doubt into a Hitchhikers book was that Mostly Harmless was quite bleak (I seem to remember claims he intentionally ended it the way he did to prevent being badgered about another sequel):

I quite enjoyed "And Another Thing..." by Eoin Colfer, written as a sixth book in the HHGTG series. I read it with some trepidation, but enjoyed it. It wasn't quite the same of course, but he managed to match the style surprisingly well, and it did give the series a much more upbeat ending.

I think both are examples that it is possible to do post-humous releases both of the authors own work and sequels without it going badly.

I think that very much boils down to marketing and readers, though. If you read either with the expectation that they represent Adams at his prime, then you're set for a disappointment. If you see them as more material for the specially interested, then to me at least they were worthwhile.
They're a big enough problem that they created Rust to deal with them.
That's an interesting point - there are competing factors here. The list comprehension is usually a bit more efficient due to not having to look up the local variable for the list on every iteration, I think. Take a look at this (albeit a bit old) article:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips#Loo...

I imagine that lookup overhead would happen on every iteration, but the list add only happens when the conditional evaluates to true - so it seems a bit less likely that the append is the overhead, but maybe the cost of allocating memory is so bad (it is a syscall after all) that it compensates for the infrequency.

Generators would help with this too: instead of materializing and appending the list at the end every time (i.e. [2] + [x for x in s if x]), you could do something like itertools.chain([2], (x for x in s if x)). Then you avoid ever allocating a massive list -- provided that the rest of your code avoids that too.
Carbon is bad, but I think the coming methane releases will be the end of us.
Same here, can't stand the fact it's taking so long to get Hangouts support on newer versions of Firefox.
Chanting and self-reflection on myself, my environment and my purpose in life: http://www.sgi.org/

I've also read more, breathe deeper and focus on other lighter things in life. Just enjoy the moment.
> You need a ton of domain knowledge to figure out if some warnings are actually bugs or not.

That isn't necessarily true. Coverity has its share of false positives but for the most part they're quickly dispatched by studying the surrounding code without needing intimate knowledge of how it works. On the other hand it readily finds legitimate bugs that are only triggered by a certain set of inputs through certain code paths that are easily missed by a human.
Do you have any evidence that's why users are switching away?

My general belief is that general-audience users don't care at all about bugs like those. Which is why we have so very many of them, and have for decades.
So Syndicate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(video_game)
That is simply not true (in California). If the underlying lawsuit is based on employment Discrimination or Harassment under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, firing the employee because they filed the lawsuit itself subjects the company to liability. It's called a "Tameny Claim" -- a "Discharge in Violation of Public Policy." [1]

Of course, proving that the reason for the firing was Retaliation isn't easy, but that doesn't make your statement true.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?q=tameny+v+atlantic+...
"At-will" does not mean they can fire her for literally any reason. For example, it would be illegal for Tesla to fire her as an act of retaliation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment#Statutory_e...
That's weird. Any time I search for anything in chrome that doesn't contain a space, it asks me "Did you mean to go to http://x ?"
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Agree to disagree.
But we should these things based on evidence, not just accusations.

Its very hard from a legal perspective to establish "beyond reasonable doubt" (or even "preponderance of evidence") with just the word of one person. You would probably need something else too.
I live in Philly and I get texts about "stoop beers" at least once a week during the summer.
> That's what at-will means - Tesla can fire an employee with no reason whatsoever should it wish.

That is not true at all.
They don't explain anything in that link.
I like the approach that the Cities: Skylines devs are doing because it's actually MEANINGFUL DLC, not "buy an extra hat" or something similar. I'd buy the DLCs if I could afford to do so right now...
If flight capital from China really were the only/major use case, most of these people would probably convert at least 50 percent of their bitcoins into a different currency once they moved the capital overseas. However, nearly 99 percent of the transactions are paid by CNY. These look more like domestic transactions to me.
1/75,000,000 of our current emissions per device vs. not digging up coal and burning it for power. Which seems more reasonable to you?

This thing is not not really useful for climate change, instead it can provide CO2 gas we already concentrate for producing dry ice etc.
Does any remember the DEC Alpha? Windows NT 4.0 was ported to it. The Alpha was a 64-bit RISC processor. (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) An ARM is just an Advanced RISC Machine. RISC architecture has an instruction execution advantage over CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) that is what Intel is famous for. Although they did have a i860 and i960 RISC which many of them were for embedded military systems.

Other RISC systems were from Silicon Graphics, with their MIPS processor were used for 3D graphic processing. RISC has shown that it has its place in the computing world time and time again.

My personal appeal is their low power requirements and compact designs. Obviously cell phone manufactures like it too for the same reasons.
Yes, "stableperl" maintains a small number of backported bugfixes to Perl 5.22: http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html

The author cites a couple of issues as the motivation behind the release.
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I'm using $commonusername.xyz because it was cheap. And kinda cool.
Harassment is very common in the US and even more common in Europe.
> without giving them a chance to make things right

Well, according to both sides of the story, they did an internal investigation - their chance to make things right in her eyes - and classified the accusations as unfounded.

Does that make her right? I don't know. Does that make her a malicious liar? I don't know that either. Did it leave her with avenues other than going public and/or suing the company if she still believes she was wronged? Not in this day and age (though going public before talking to a lawyer is not always in your best interest, particularly when it comes to something related to law, and not just poor customer service).
I definitely think it will be popular in the future. It depends on who wins the race for ubiquitous network coverage, though.

Google, Facebook, and SpaceX have all moved to initiate programs to install global high speed wifi access.

This is probably the last edge chance for cellular network companies in the long term. If wifi hits first, with projects like Google home offering free calling as well as other ip-phone services I think we could see those companies begin to fall.

I'm taking the rather long view, though.

For average, non-power users, I could see these being quite popular -- especially if they can handle Windows 10, MS Office, some light Photoshop, and fast internet. Otherwise I wouldn't mind one to turn into a highly portable Linux machine -- stars in my eyes, and all that.
I like this version more (also david.li): http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/soup/ (2D, but funnier)
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I don't trust product demos, movie trailers nor press releases, so I'll reserve my enthusiasm until someone on the "real world" has had the chance to get their hands on this.

What I know is this: ARM emulation via QEMU on my core i7 was pretty slow last I tried it. Not unusably slow, but still slow. And I have tons of ram and a fat CPU.

These laptops, especially if they are made on the cheap side, won't have tons of RAM and a fat CPU. Unless Microsoft pulled some magic tricks, I don't see this emulation being usable.

But I could be wrong.
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Servo's WebRender sub-project has amazing performance (GPU accelerated compositing and rendering), and is scheduled to be merged in Firefox as fast as possible.

Stylo (Servo's style subsystem) has already landed in Firefox behind a preference flag (not everything is wired at this point), and it also improves perf.

So, yes Servo is of paramount importance for Mozilla's future, because it does make a difference to end users.

Another advantage of Rust is that it allows devs to avoid a whole range of bugs making it easier for them to iterate and ship updates without introducing new tricky bugs (race conditions can be hard to debug).

While dynamic languages may be nice when you want to explore a problem space, the stronger/most static type system is a benefit for upgrading large, mature code bases...
It occurs to me that maybe this more abstract approach I've been taking isn't working. So let me try again, with a concrete example. I'll use "stand for", which you seemed to have taken specific umbrage with. You state that you believe "stand for" is a verbal phrase ("stand") with a prepositional phrase ("for something"). Let's use a concrete sentence:

A rainbow flag stands for LGBT pride.

So, if I'm understanding you correctly, this is how you would analyze this sentence:

(A rainbow flag)subject (stands)verb (for LGBT pride)prepositional

I agree that, with this interpretation, the question form should be:

For what does a rainbow flag stand?

However, I don't agree with that interpretation. Here, the verb is simply "stand", with the prepositional phrase being the beneficiary of the standing. Well, a flag can't stand. And even if it could, I don't see how it could stand in benefit of LGBT pride, considering that it has no intrinsic motive.

I propose the sentence be analyzed as follows:

(A rainbow flag)subject (stands for)verb (LGBT pride)object

In this analysis, "stands for" is a discrete lexical entry, a transitive verb that just happens to be written as two words. A flag can't "stand", but it can "stand for". And since it's now a transitive verb with a direct object, it's perfectly acceptable to ask:

What does a rainbow flag (stand for)?

Because that is how you ask for the direct object of a verb. It's exactly the same construction as:

What does a lion (eat)?

And all this is directly in line with German prefixed verbs -- both separable and inseparable -- where the prefixed verbs are analyzed as distinct verbs from their unprefixed forms. And I doubt you would argue against "understand" being a different verb than "stand", which is an example of an English inseparable verb. So why the strong stance against the same type of analysis for English separated verbs?
I'm considering picking one up. Which one would you recommend out of all of them?
I give you Wikipedia:

> in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason [...], and without warning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
I wasn't suggesting I had one. I'm just pointing out that SuperPACs get around pretty much any meaningful prior attempts at regulating campaign contributions.

I don't think there is an alternative. What is needed in order to solve the problem is a complete overhaul of how campaigns are financed, including making quite a lot of currently protected speech illegal. And that cure may be worse than the disease. Without it though, politicians will continue to require massive quantities of private cash, and I don't see any way to make that not suck for the country as a whole.
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
It is a business decision, and the right decision is not to allow for monoculture to develop.
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I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin is pretty great.

As noted elsewhere, the vast majority of the work in the posthumously published Tolkien material was written by JRR himself.
Read Silmarillion three times, would describe it as mythology. Think Beowulf rather than Bible. Thoroughly enjoyed the world Tolkien created.
Mods, consider adding (2014) to the title as this was presented at USENIX '14.
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i wrote a small telnet game in bash

you can find the source on https://github.com/izabera/1-2-3
Taking ibuprofen for your pain today is perfectly acceptable. Taking it everyday in an attempt to treat chronic pain is not. There are heart and liver disorders linked to long term ibuprofen use.
Expedia is ~5x larger that it was in the mid-aughts and Priceline is ~10x larger and each has the benefit of a decade's worth of data. So if the barriers were not insurmountable then, I think they are now.
Not really though. Perhaps everything is almost entirely false positives, but perhaps he just picked a specific bad example and claims a generalization that isn't true. Or maybe there is a simple trick to turn off the false positives. Or maybe the next version is much better...
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The experience of a MacBook is also that the reliability that it won't crap out on you with weird issues in crucial times.
> Did you read what you're replying to? The New York Times didn't buy into some sort of "propaganda campaign", nor were they part of it.

I was replying to gp's comment about Liz Spayd criticizing Times