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Thanks for posting. I don't know nearly as much about my ancestry as you do of yours, though I haven't particularly looked, but I too grew up with the tale that I had some Native American ancestry, 8 generations back in my case. 23andMe, however, says I'm .4% African, and, like you, 0% Native American. Since .4% is exactly what you'd expect after 8 generations, I think it's the same kind of situation.

Ironically, I recall my mother's father, now long dead, as being rather virulently racist, but in retrospect it seems likely he's the one my African ancestry came through.
"All men are created equal..." is certainly not invalidated, but what was intended to be indisputably true is rendered debatable, since Jefferson obviously countenanced exceptions.
But this time it'll work, really!
Names such as Battlefield, Candy Crush, Angry Birds and Minecraft are known internationally now, right?

There are more studios per capita in the nordics than anywhere else. Obviously the games industry is just one niche but those are examples of somewhat successful companies.
he should also sue then for impersonating and harassing.

he trusted then to handle his private personal email. instead they sent out millions of messages faking that it was from his account, when they could have used, literally, any other combination of words to tell the recipients that they should not reply to the message. change no to dont, and it is even more functional to the intended purpose.

it's so trivial to use another bogus email on the from field that his lawyer should have no problem claiming it might have been a malicious employer harassing him. because, really, that's the only explanation that is actually plausible.
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> Back in the very early 2000's I owned a domain and a month after renewing it, the registrar refunded me the registration fee and took ownership of it - the new WHOIS entry was for the owner of that registrar.

Are you comfortable with sharing their reason (if they gave one) for doing that to you? That seems like a situation that would quickly cause a mass exodus of customers to a competitor.

Years ago when I first started helping people build a web presence, I used 1&1 Inc. as both a registrar and hosting provider. When one of my clients wanted to move to a cheaper host, I was happy to help her make the move, however 1&1 did everything short of taking ownership of the domain to stop her from doing so. They would delay the transfer, lock the domain after I'd unlocked it, and wouldn't respond to support requests. I finally had to threaten legal action to make them release the domain to the new registrar. I immediately pulled all of my own domains to a new registrar and moved my sites to a new host. They tried to delay my move as well, and again I had to say "lawyer" a few times before they let go.
When I said "replacing", I meant the proportion, i.e. majority/ minority change, as the article suggested.

I think you understated the similarities between Americans and Irishs / Italians, and understated the differences between Americans and Hispanics / Muslims. Not sure whether you did this intentionally, but it is so obvious that Americans / Irishs / Italians are part of western culture, they have differences, but they belong to one big group. On the other hand, Southern American / Middle East belong to non-western culture. The latter is even worse, it is anti-western culture. When you look at the countries, US / UK / EU countries are similar, but Southern America countries are different from US / UK / EU countries, and Middle East countries are extremely different. Did you intentionally blind yourself?

Also, we lived in a different time with two important changes: 1. welfare state. 2. far-left ideology (multiculturalism, post-modernism, etc.) becomes norm
That's roughly what I had guessed. Thanks for clarifying.
Pretty nice "Processing via the command line" trick. The API at https://processing.org/reference/ is much more friendly than the Java API at https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/
In this article I'm talking about the quote generalizing about white people: "white people are scared of change..." and the callous tone of sentences like "it's over for anglos."

More generally, my circle of friends skews liberal urban professional. My Facebook feed is full of griping about "white people" being racist, etc. Supposedly respectable outlets are tweeting stuff like this: https://mobile.twitter.com/Salon/status/871028742294036480. Can you imagine Salon tweeting something that started "Memo to black people?" People callously adopt this disrespectful tone when talking about or writing about white people that they would not when discussing any other race.

I also agree with the point below about celebrating/ being gleeful about the demographic changes. It's become acceptable to celebrate America becoming non-majority white in a way that it wouldn't be acceptable to celebrate DC or Atlanta becoming non-majority black.
Chrome has profiles for this as well. You can also use the PrivateInternetAccess addon which proxies all traffic for that profile alone, and a canvas blocker, in a dedicated Chrome profile. Font fingerprinting is still possible, but beyond that there is no way to associate that profile with anything else.
Perhaps. But you can put your phone on airplane mode or turn it off or just leave it at home if you don't want it to be tracked.
> ...but evolution has been heavily eliminating the traces of the breeding and they are generally often linked with diseases.

Do you have a citation for this? I was under the impression that greater genetic diversity usually leads to greater disease resistance, because disease-prone genes tend to be eliminated more quickly by natural selection.
They are hands down the best email provider I've used. I moved from Gmail to them and the speed, support, and reliability is head and shoulders above even the paid Google service.
Consumers would support slavery if it was legal, hence labor laws and regulations. Just because you're a tech platform doesn't mean you're a special snowflake.

Consumers may choose from any service that follows regulations set forth by government.
Asymmetric routing, probably. Can't know for sure without bidirectiional traceroutes.
Author here.

This covers the main types of databases and use cases. I believe that developers should known them all to be able to pick the right tool for the job. Sometimes, a job really has a right tool.

This doesn't cover every product in the universe. These databases are the most important databases that you should absolutely known (and use when necessary).

Many enterprise paid products are missing: Teradata, Exadata, Vertica, OpenDJ, Greenplum... not that many people have $50k/node to spend on them.

This also ignores a million of lesser known databases, most of which are not noteworthy. Apologies in advance for not mentioning your favorite or homegrown products.
Wolfram's Mathematica / Alpha has an extremely wide range of operations at your disposal.

https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/
I don't get it. How often do you need to cross diagonally? I live in a grid city and so traveling to another point on the grid usually involves needing to do X moves North-South and Y moves East-West. You opportunistically cross whichever direction you happen to get at the light until you only have one direction left. This means almost no waiting time while needing to walk diagonally. What's the use case for these?
NOTP: a middle way (Erlang)
In 1998, I managed to register the root@ email address with a new Dutch ISP that ran its email on a Windows infrastructure ( so on day 1 only Administrator@ was taken). I even became friends with the guy who registered info@
It took them almost a year to realize that they should have blacklisted some accounts for registration. They took it from me in the same way: a one month notice. The hardest part was that I couldn't convince them that I wasn't trolling them when I registered it. But ah well.. I was :)
44% of Canadians are socially responsible consumers. Not bad eh
True, but there's one catch: backpage allegedly edited ads to hide signs that they involve children.

If this is proven, all their claims of neutrality should go out the window.
Getting feet on the street is probably one of the most impactful things a city can do. It reduces pollution, improves the inhabitants' health, improves the look of the city (people will demand nicer neighborhoods if they have to walk through them), and it reduces crime (eyes watching).

My wife and I finally live somewhere with high walkability. It's wonderful, and highly underrated.

Of the many things that affect walkability, intersections aren't generally high on my list. But we do have one of these pedestrian scrambles near us and, as pedestrians, it _is_ a lot nicer. It has a rather large impact radius too: since it's the quickest way to get from the left side of the road to the right side (or vice versa), we can plan our walking path a couple blocks ahead and avoid having to cross at other intersections.

But like I said, intersections aren't high on my list for things that make cities pedestrian-friendly. Having quiet, nice looking side streets that connect all the various significant locations is the most important thing.

We avoid walking along major roads at all costs. For people who don't walk, it's hard to appreciate just how loud and droning busy streets can be. Walking along peaceful side streets is just that; peaceful. Miles can whiz by. But walking next to major streets is physically draining and turns the walk into a slog. Major streets also often lack big trees, which provide shaded respites during the walk in summer, and they're generally dull and give no flavor for the city.

The next important thing is having a good sprinkling of the necessities around: places to eat, stores, parks, etc. When things are close by, it's easy to convince yourself and others to walk instead of drive. "It's a beautiful day outside and this restaurant is only half a mile that way. Let's go for a walk!"

Walking around my city makes me feel more connected to it; adds a sense of pride. It gives you eyes on how the city is really doing; areas that are improving and areas that need help. Imagine if every denizen had that perspective!

And for programmers, like most of us here, I can't think of anything better. It gets you out of the chair, and walking is a great elucidator of thoughts and bugs.
I wouldn't be so sure. Screen resolution, Machine time, flash version, fonts. Plus several others I forget
A good talk along those lines is Feynman on algebra http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html

He starts from numbers 1,2,3 etc and gets to eiθ=cosθ+isinθ which he has as 'This, then, is the unification of algebra and geometry'

I've always wondered if you could go further and deduce our spacetime in a similar manner.
You start by saying "the New York market" which presumably you mean New York City by citing taxi medallions. Then you say

>"when Uber comes along they facilitate these types of illegal ride for hire operations all over the country"

How did you go from Uber operating in NYC resulting in "facilitating illegal ride for hire operations all over the country in your next sentence?" Uber didn't start in NYC. I don't see the connection, can you explain?

Illegal ride for hire in NYC are what are informally known as "Gypsy Cabs"(not a politically correct term but its not mine term.) I have not seen or heard any evidence that the presence of these has increased with the introduction of Uber. Please provide a citation.

I am quite doubtful that given the availability now of Uber/Lyft along with the already existing licensed yellow cabs, green cabs and livery cabs that people are at all inclined to elect to take an unlicensed cab.
his writing "All men are created equal" is not invalidated, certainly, but the fact that he did own slaves calls in to question the degree to which he actually believed that all men were created evil; Either he understood the word "Men" in a much more narrow sense than we do today, or he was just a regular hypocrite.

So yes, the fact that he owned slaves diminishes the admiration he might deserve for coming up with that line. It does not eliminate it
One thing I don't really like about that site is that it gives browsers worse scores for not unblocking third parties which promise to honor do not track. Surely you're more safe when you don't trust anyone instead of trusting that third parties which honor DNT actually honor it. It kind of reeks of pushing an agenda, which would have been okay (it's the EFF after all) if the tool didn't claim to score your browser on how well it protects you from tracking.
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I think people are conflating two different things: medallion systems (bad) and other regulation (good)

Saying Uber should follow regulations that other taxi companies follow is just common sense imho. That includes minimum pay, insurance regulation, background checks, training requirements, employment security etc.

That some cities regulate the number of taxis via medallions or monopolies is a related but different topic. I find that practice very strange, and that I hope will be gone in most places soon. The irony though is that cities that don't have medallion systems are tougher markets for Uber because there Uber doesn't have the same obvious edge.
I don't even know what their logout button does. It puts me on the login page with my profile pic, and it displays the number of notifications I've received while logged out. There is a 'remove account' X overlay placed on the top left corner. I usually click it and hope it does something.
Medicare doesn't cut out the private insurance companies either. If you have 'Medicare Advantage', the Feds are subsidizing your private insurance premium. If you have regular Medicare, the Feds are paying one of a handful of private insurance companies to manage your account. It has been this way for quite some time now.
When Wechat updates it's voluntary. Made a free w/c to w/c call internationally. Decent sound. Then went to make a paid call on Skype. Forced upgrade again? We went through this 2 or 3 years ago. It won't work this time, not with me. I just got a refund. Will spend the day looking for an old school html (not html5) site that let's us call the world for a penny a minute. They're out there.
I've found gitter really good for popular projects, you can ask fuzzy questions that aren't suitable for something like stack overflow.

some gitter communities are pretty dead though.
Author here. It's a page I built for phishing susceptibility testing. There's another entire blog posting in the fact that I get about a 70% success rate emailing people from .ru domains asking them to visit that site and run the executable.

It is 100% benign.
>"There are Uber-like services in Europe that somehow still manage to comply with the law, while bringing the same benefits to the end user"

Could you say what those are? I agree you don't need to ride roughshod on regulations to be innovative.
It's too bad AVX-512 is gimped on the cheaper i7 Skylake-X models.
Steve has always been years ahead of the game
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*decreased time to market

(I assume)
The idea is that cars don't have to worry about pedestrians. It speeds up traffic and lets drivers text safely. Meanwhile pedestrians get to stand and wait 50% longer at every intersection, because their time doesn't matter. But the idea is somehow sold as "pedestrian friendly," so for politicians it is a win-win.
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> before the replies - yes I know a lot of dropouts without any ambition or discipline as well - but living in a highly educated community it's easy to note many of the "educated" people really lack ambition and ingenuity whatsoever.

I don't think the argument normally has anything to do with how much ambition & ingenuity college educated people have. Looking at college educated people with low ambition isn't a great reason to drop out of school.

The issue is that, statistically, college degrees are strongly correlated with better outcomes. There's a variety of reasons, and of course it does not mean that every dropout will do worse.

Most people who drop out don't drop for a positive, because they're doing something better. They drop out for a negative, because they don't like school or authority or it's too hard or they're uninterested or drugs or poverty, etc.. If you're giving advice to someone who doesn't know what to do, going to college and doing well there is hands down the better recommendation on average for most people.

If they're driven and strong enough to drop out because they're learning faster on their own, or have something more important to do, or see the potential to make more money now, then they're probably going to ignore advice anyway. The strong driven successful people who don't need a college degree also don't need the advice or any emphasis on grades, because they know what they want, and they've found their own metrics. Everyone else, most people, will probably benefit by staying in school longer.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of...
I believe this is because the sub-Saharan African humans would be anatomically modern, while the others would not. Even though there was gene flow back into European and Asian humans from Neanderthals and/or Denisovans, it apparently doesn't count for much in their physiology compared to their sub-Saharan genetics.

But I don't think "human" excludes those groups, when not qualified. My understanding is that there's a continuum between the first archaic humans that diverged from chimpanzees and the behaviorally modern human. The anatomically modern human predates the behaviorally modern human. It coexisted and interbred with archaic humans, but is believed to be the predominant ancestor of all extant humans. (Although some argue that anatomically modern humans are indistinguishable from behaviorally modern humans.)

It's pretty wild to me to imagine that for all of our diversity and abundance today, there was much greater diversity of homonins at a time when we were much fewer in number.
If anyone is wondering, Usenet is still alive.
I don't think Salon is respectable, which I suppose means I agree with you in that regard.

I think "white" can have a bunch of different meanings. In one common meaning, "white" really does connote a sort of insular subconscious racism. There's a reason it's OK to talk about "white people" being racist and less OK to talk about Irish people being racist. I agree, in advance, that it's better to be clear about this stuff.

With regards to demographic shifts: we've spent hundreds of years openly and overtly celebrating our country's supposed shared European heritage and values. So I'd turn the question around on you and ask: what should Latinos say about their emerging demographic importance?
They have one of these in SLC by the University of Utah.
I'll take this cum cranulo salis.
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I couldn't agree more. Look at internet speed tests. I used the ookla speed test because it was the first result until one day Google had created its own, built right into the search results page. I don't know which product is better, but it's easy to see ookla getting starved out by this regardless of product merit.
I run a registrar, and while we can mess with people's domains we would get in serious trouble with the registry and you would get the domain back if we did so. Many registries have rules which protect the domain owners from the whims of registrars, but if you are worried you can look it upf or your specific registry.
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Whether he had slaves or not made no difference to American history. I've never read about anyone justifying holding slaves because Jefferson did.

Don't conflate the man with the idea. The idea has changed world history for the better, a LOT better.

For example, I believe that a healthy diet is desirable. But I often fail at eating a healthy diet. In no way does that invalidate the idea or my belief in it.
The diffence is that google has the power to improve the web and instead they warp it for their own profit while saying they're improving it.

No one doing the ASCII ribbon thing could change what the majority of mail users saw when they opened their mail clients.
Yep, both of my "Native American" family branches turned out to be in fact African American.

You should look into your ancestry, you may be able to track it down. Just be sure to depend only on primary documents (birth certificates, death certificates, family bibles, wills, census rolls, etc) and perhaps some very convincing secondary sources (like newspaper accounts, or academic works). There's a lot of misleading "genealogy" that people have done in the past 50-75 years, and particularly in the past 10 years in the genealogy forums.
Your argument sounds similar to those who opposed the civil rights movement.
These were installed about a year ago across dense, pedestrian-heavy section of Santa Monica, near where I live. I don't drive and usually travel that area on foot.

I can't speak for any safety changes, but they're vastly less convenient for pedestrians. Maybe they're mis-tuned, but the wait to cross is much, much longer, and due to both the pedestrians and the drivers being mostly tourists there's a ton of confusion that's not going away with time.

Both cars and pedestrians have a tendency to just follow the vehicle lights. I'm not even sure what the rules for right turns are supposed to be.

Given the blindingly obvious solution for the area of converting the narrow, crowded roads to one-way and/or no-turns, this has not turned out well. There was a trial at a single intersection about a year before the broader changeover that was a complete mess, but I guess it was one of those fake trials with a predetermined outcome because it didn't stop the broader roll-out.
>"and the drivers charged me in NOK without asking, against MasterCard rules"

What is NOK?
It diminishes the man, not the ideas nor the accomplishments.
This actually does look great.

There's real value here. In a world being overrun with services what's desperately needed is an orchestration language. Such a language is severely focused on consuming services/messages, converting data, and then uploading data/messages. This is the next Unix shell; a tool whose only purpose would be to stitch together services, pipe data, schedule execution, and display results. An integration dsl.

But it's not clear ballerina that can really do that. Would love to see a more real world example that demonstrates it really solves the integration/scripting problem.
Just to straighten out the terminology: Let's say "Taxi" (at least for the context of this discussion) is a car that takes someone somewhere the passenger decides, for money.

It doesn't matter whether you hail it on the street or book it elsewhere. Taxi is a paid car. By that definition in NYC all black cars, yellow cabs, Ubers etc are Taxis.

That weird US regional laws have made a whole family of terms for this simple service just makes this discussion muddy (as you might have noticed).

What this news article is about and what is already obvious is that Uber is Taxi because they take people places for money.
The vast majority of people correlate 1:1 with IP address alone, so I'm not sure how effective this is. Nonetheless, that's pretty cool.
> I'm not sure if the fact that they refuse to migrate his emails to a new account is a matter of terrible customer support, technical debt, or incompetence.

Likely explanation: bounced emails landed in his mailbox, and his access to them is problematic. Migration would mean they have to "clean the data", which as we know can never be done to 100%, plus it is time consuming / expensive.

I'm not protecting the company, just pointing out the forces.
Car buyers stretch loan payments to record lengths to get in pricier vehicles
Columnar != CSV/columns/spreadsheet/tabular data.

Columnar as in column-family or wide-column is just advanced key/value.