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> If we really take any logical argument against meat eating to its root, we will be left with nothing to eat.

I would argue that this is [edited out: Reductio ad absurdum] a straw man argument. One of the best 'logical' reasons for not eating meat, as opposed to ethical arguments, is the reduction of greenhouse gases and other negative outputs the lower an individual eats on the foodchain. This argument doesn't suggest that an individual starve or die, but instead pushes that individual towards more careful use of the resources available to humanity.

In addition, an ethical argument could be made for not causing pain. Since the vast majority of life on the planet is incapable of experiencing pain, it leaves the vast majority of food that humans eat available for consumption.

So there exist logical arguments against eating meat that do not leave a person with nothing to eat.

Edited because Reductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy, but a straw man is a fallacy brought about by faulty application of Reductia ad absurdum.
> All it does is mechanically keep on steering the game towards positions that are evaluted as best by the function.

I wouldn't say so entirely--It's possible to predict multiple moves ahead (before the number of possibilities explodes), and a heuristic is a sort of plan too.

What you're describing sounds like a greedy algorithim more than anything else.
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This article includes a statement I've seen several time before: "flux is more of a design pattern then a library or framework". This statement drives me to unspeakable levels of fury. What does that mean? It's like saying "Alvins ball is more a boulder in Yosemite than a mid century school of literary criticism". They're two totally different things!

Someone who understands the statement, could you help me? Does it mean that there is a design pattern so light that some particular library which implants it would be trivial to recreate?

Any answer, I beg you, please clearly distinguish between the very different concepts of design patterns and named code projects which implement them.
Perhaps make your user enter their email again... To make it clear they are subscribing and giving their email out?
I bet this is not true for the Encyclopedia Britannica, by design.
I 100% percent agree with you.

But on a practical note, some advice for those traveling on these budget airlines: if you pack your carry-on in a backpack rather than a suitcase, every budget airline in Europe and the US that I have flown on will not give you a hard time about it. I personally use a very large backpack that holds at least as much as a carry-on suitcase, yet the fact that it is in backpack form means they count it as my personal item and don't give me a hard time. When I travel I usually have a smaller laptop bag inside a compartment in my backpack, once I get on the airplane I take that out and keep it with me as a personal item (so I can easily access it inflight) and I put my backpack overhead like I would a suitcase. I have successfully done this on Frontier, Allegiant, Spirit, and Ryan Air within the last year and have not had any issues.
I'm not sure that the average earth temperature is all that important here. The alarmism I hear usually relates to the biosphere either radically altering or collapsing outright due to sea level rise if the ice caps melt - which would take about 8 degrees Fahrenheit over a relatively small area of the planet.
"over qualified" a.k.a too old and will want a competitive salary.
Can you recommend a beam forming microphone to implement a voice assistant on an rpi?
With 112 it sounds like 111 is where it's really at but we get the 112 service.
I don't know it. What did it do?
While having a plan is important, it's not the only way a human approaches chess.
Experienced chess players develop an ability to evaluate positions intuitively. Without being able to explain fully why and without a specific plan in mind, they're able choose the best position out of several options. In a way, it's very similar to a evaluation function without access to its internal logic.
As I recall there were people selling thin strands of gold laminated to cards at a past porcfest. I don't remember the min denomination though and you would have to trust the weight they say.
This doesn't really address your teacher's claim about having to look words up, though. What you want to look at is the distribution of low frequency words across the book. What do the plots look like when you remove proper nouns, functional words (e.g., "the", "and", prepositions) and, say, the top 1000 most frequent words in English?
>but the African slaves themselves were basically all enslaved by other Africans and then sold to the Europeans

Paying someone else to do the work doesn't change who was responsible.

>Portugal was also the first country to officially forbid the slave trade.

In mainland Portugal, slavery wasn't abolished in Brazil until 1869.

>because in fact Lisbon had very few ones actually living there (it was not well seen in Catholic Europe to own slaves) and was mostly a point of passage (but then again, so were many Atlantic islands).

Catholic Europe didn't have a huge problem with it until the eighteenth century, they just had enough serfs that it generally wasn't necessary. Plus, this is about Protestant Portugal, and your source mentions that in 1550 10% of Lisbon's population was African slaves.
Huh, sounds a little like House Of Leaves, which has a similarly weird structure.

I'll have to check out Pale Fire.
Isn't that why the number 112 is usually used? Fast to dial, but not as easy to dial by mistake as 111.
> In a natural world, these animals would have the choice to reproduce (or not)

In a natural world these animals wouldn't exist. There's no such thing as a cow in nature. There are things that are almost like a cow, but they're not cows.

Most of the plants and animals we breed for food are not represented in nature nature.

> Why is it OK to do this to a pig but not, say, a dog?

Dogs are bred for food in some parts of the world.
If you're interested in this area of morality you should absolutely read Peter Singer. I'm not putting him forward as the authority or saying he'e obviously right, but for me and I think for most people that read him it will have the effect of exposing you to a host of unusual and unexpected arguments and conclusions.
A Standard. One thing that has not been mentioned here. The lisp community came together and created a standard.

I maintain code from the 1980, part of which is in Common Lisp and part of which is in C. The C code breaks. The latest failure seems to be caused by the GCC compiler changing the semantics of 'inline'. The include files differ between platforms.

The Lisp code just runs.

There are no arguments like Python 2.7 vs Python 3.x. No arguments about C++11 vs C++14. No arguments about Clojure from 4 years ago and Clojure today. No arguments about any of that.

There is a standard. ONE standard. It only matters when you have to maintain someone else's legacy code. But it really matters.
I'm excited to see what you find! I sent you a message on Twitter, but it's probably easier to communicate here.
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> (Anyone who is more tuned into Rust style, feel free to set me straight.)

Style team member here; you're absolutely right. We started with more visual indent but basically have switched entirely to block indent.

> it might look more like this:

This is how rustfmt would format this code, exactly.
It sounds like they stingrayed or otherwise captured an entire node (on some system / a few systems covering a specific area) and then attempted to sieve out what they were actually looking for... instead of actually going after a surgically targeted filter.

Even in the Jason Borne movies they didn't slurp up this much data!
Regardless of its eventual fate, I'm deeply grateful to the jailbreak community for speeding up Apple's implementation of the useful tweaks power users wanted most like 3rd party keyboards, picture-in-picture, control center, F.lux, etc. iOS is a better platform today because of the JB community, so cheers all around.
https://github.com/boramalper/Essential-YouTube

maybe set up your very own instance?
I mean that the technical limits are a not an issue for the program you want to run. Hello World will run on an AppleII computer, but it doesn't have enough memory to run Libre Office (Assume an unlimited budget to create/port the compiler, POSIX layer, X server ...)

If the conversation is concerned with running Hello world it doesn't matter that an AppleII can't do everything, for our purposes it can do anything. If we expand the conversation a little but though we realize this machine is unable to run many things we find useful today.
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Or just do "press to wake" feature. I guess that is a sortof hold button, in software.
That's kind of what Watson did, but that level of architecture hasn't made it into personal assistants yet
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Yes, that's Zipf's law applied. I doubt that many language learners knew about this law. I think it is still worth pointing out, that when you go through the beginning of the book, reading will become rapidly easier.
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> So there were valid technical reasons

Valid technical reasons and crappy design are not mutually exclusive.
Most fliers want the lowest price, full stop. They'll complain about it to no end but will still keep voting for it with their wallets.

Must be an interesting challenge separating out real user issues from the volume of complaints about the service people were advertised and agreed to up front.
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and yet none of the original devs get any credit or compensation for the ideas that were taken by apple which is kind of sad
Is there any reason to think the jailbreak community inspired those? I'd think competition with Android, Windows phone, etc. was a lot more persuasive.
> Most fliers want the lowest price, full stop

Is it that most fliers want that, or is that headline ticket price is the easiest thing to compare with existing tools, and what people can compare easily shapes their selection criteria?
> a voice UI invites people to think about the other end of the conversation as a person

It's not the voice UI that does this, it's the marketing.

If they sold it as "speak your google search terms", it'd work a lot better. It'd also be a lot less sexy, but that's still mostly what it is IMHO. Not to say that it isn't impressive stuff, it is! But it's highly oversold, still.
No, but speaking of functional, there is a FixedPoint. It's that point in the presentation when your bleary eyes have seen fifty slides and now all subsequent slides look the same.
Southwest never will. It is against their values and how they differentiate themselves.
the best use case in the united states is as an alternative to gold, as in store of value. that is crypto's killer app.
the payment system cannot compete with centralized ones, unless you're looking to buy black market goods.

financial products like ATM's, credit cards were very slow to achieve widespread adoption. like a decade each.

its possible consumers will start buying a bit of crypto instead of lottery tickets. thats the only way i see half the population using bitcoin/ether/etc.
Fair enough. There is a difference between never eating meat and being responsible in eating it. The argument here is about not eating meat at all which makes the logical argument around greenhouse gases not applicable. With respect to ethical arguments, unless you really end up manufacturing food that meets nutritional needs of humans, do you also account for the pain that a human has to suffer for eating inferior food lacking essential nutrients?
Dogs are bred for food in some parts of the world.

And elsewhere, dogs have been bred for their appearance at the expense of their health or functional traits, on the whims of people running competitions.

See, for example: https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Wars-Border-Battled-American/dp/0...
I think they are trying to fix it, they spent over $200 million on the homeless last year, but it is a difficult problem to solve.
We sure didn't. I think one guy got hired by Apple because he came out with an innovative app switcher, and I know a few others who got internships there, but largely speaking, Apple took over a lot of features we put into play.

P.S. There's another reason why jailbreaks are few and far in between. There is close to no trust between the people who create the jailbreaks...I had several good exploits that became public without my permission.
The article mentions ten percent of their population were slaves in the sixteenth century, and Christianity was not what had an issue with it. Portuguese Brazil was a huge part of the slave trade, and it was the same Christianity as Portugal.
As a Thomist (Catholic Aristotelian), I winced when I read "their purpose is to be food". So, here's one possible counter-argument:

Aristotle describes all things and beings as having four causes: matter (what it's made of), form (how it's organized), first cause (where it came from), and final cause (what it's meant to do).

In this model, the final cause of an elephant is to live the life of a happy, well-adjusted elephant; it is not piano keys. I'm not sure what the final cause of a square is (maybe Aristotle's model only applies to that which has both matter and form), but the final cause of a living being is to live the best and most fulfilled form of that living being's life.

This means that an animal's purpose can never be said to be food. Predation interferes with other beings' final causes, so it's always a material evil. Is it always a moral evil? Non-conscious beings are never moral actors, so nothing can be called morally good or morally evil for them (although it's fine to suspect that the Devil had more of a role than God in shaping the evolution of the giant roundworm); for conscious beings, when and whether predation is morally evil depends on the nature of the universe -- on which theology/cosmology is true.

Catholicism, for example, teaches that humans have immortal souls and animals probably don't (although it doesn't rule out the existence of non-human intelligent life, so seared bottlenose dolphin and elephant cutlet are probably not wise meal choices); so raising animals for meat is potentially defensible -- although cruelty is bad for the human soul, and cruelty or callousness towards animals as well as towards people must be atoned for at some point.

Hinduism teaches that humans, animals, and all other beings share fragments of a single immortal soul; so killing an animal for meat is pretty much the same as killing a human for meat. Jainism -- which might be the original source of Hindu and Buddhist cosmology -- takes this a step further, and similarly condemns killing plants, recommending that one should live on products that can be gathered without killing their source. Classically, this meant milk, eggs, and fruiting bodies; modern Jainism is increasingly skeptical of the idea that one can keep animals and birds without violence, and prefers eating only nonviolently-gathered products of plants. This is an unfamiliar diet -- ahimsa diets are in general -- but I doubt it would be as restrictive as it sounds; and if it's the only diet that isn't literally homicide, it would be particularly well worth following.
Ugh that screenshot is cringeworthy. Comp-wise, you're saying execs > engineers > PMs > designers. At least make the ICs equivalent.

Also kinda sucks that execs get more. They have the most equity and the most pay, seems like a terrible deal for everyone else.

I'm sure you didn't do this intentionally.
Suggestion for your site. I'd change the front page header text that says: "Discover cheap flights with Concorde."

It's not the text I disagree with it, it's how you're using it. You've made it so that you have to mouse over that text to make it react (segments change color) and figure out that each section may be clickable (how do I know where they go, if I'm an average user and don't necessarily know to look at the url hover at the bottom of the browser?).

Why is it an issue? It's extraordinarily bad usability, because there's nothing above the fold on your site that says: sign up. Not anywhere. There's a weird text in the upper right that says "Discover" that is changing colors, but gives no indication that it links to /sign-up. From a logical usability stand point, why would the "Discover" text be the /sign-up link, as opposed to just having a "Sign up | Login" segment.

You're trying too hard to be clever / creative, you're over-doing it and it's a bad usability outcome.

At the top, I'd keep the large text that is making a clear statement. Then place two or so lines of descriptive text below it, with blatant links to signing up etc. Or some variation on this. You have plenty of room to work with up in the header area.
That's the one I was thinking of, yes.
You really don't see how being called out on the loudspeaker could be insulting even if the ticket buyer was fully aware of the service difference (which they may not be)?
The issues with inheritance based OOP are that it fits very few problems well, that it usually causes lots of problems and that many programming languages only have inheritance based OOP in their toolbox.

Java is the extreme case of this. Patterns like abstract visitor factories are hacks to express situations that cannot be expressed in an obvious way.
A variety of factors, I think:

- The creator (((pg)). I bet the imbalanced parentheses gave him a stroke even if he didn't read this. Voodoo stuff.

- The audience (who they are, what they come here for, all the site is not that makes them return): mostly people who are accustomed to text as a medium of communication (code, docs, books, articles, papers) and might prefer it to other media.

You might like http://textfiles.com/
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Very nice; that deserves to be a POSIX signal too:

kill -BOVIK -1 # send SIGBOVIK to all processes, permissions permitting
swipe the spacebar to move the cursor is the one thing I missed the most when I switched from a jailbroken iPhone to Android. Luckily the Google keyboard recently implemented that function.
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They mentioned same thing about laminated gold.
I applaud you for not putting the obvious work-around in place:

- Inserting "sleep 300" into the startup process.

- Adding a cronjob to reboot the servers once a week.

I kid, but I'm sure we've all seen hacks like this.
> Unless we manufacture artificial meat, we won't be able to live without killing/hurting some living being.

Look up ahimsa -- nonviolence, the Jain philosophy of life -- as it applies to diet. Specifically: fruiting bodies of plants are meant to be eaten and possibly have the seed planted; you're not ending a life by eating cucumbers or avocados. (Ahimsa traditionally included allowing milk and eggs -- at least unfertilized eggs? -- although modern Jains are more skeptical; it could probably extend to honey, too.)
> the lower an individual eats on the foodchain

Why are you privileging organisms higher up the food chain?
There should ethically be no difference in how we treat living things based on where they are in the food chain, except for qualitative reaons (bacteria vs a cow), so you are making the distinction on purely practical reasons.

> is the reduction of greenhouse gases and other negative outputs the lower an individual eats on the foodchain

That is at best a practical argument, and one that can be made only because technology to scrub greenhouse gases is not yet in use.

> Since the vast majority of life on the planet is incapable of experiencing pain

Counting by species or by total population? Insects may not feel pain (AFAIK) but most species (animals and plants) experience pain or stress.

> exist logical arguments

Not sure why you keep saying logical arguments. As opposed to what? Non-rational ones?

There are strong ethical arguments to be made for not causing pain/stress when killing animals (and plants) and not killing life unnecessarily. But against eating meat? Its in our very nature to eat it, indeed meat is part of a healthy and balanced diet.
I remember it being a practice at one time in various IRC and other online communities to share hashes of the exploit payloads between teams so that they knew whether or not there was one or more than one, and whether or not they were going to collaborate.
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A purpose of every living thing (and many nonliving things) is to be eaten...
I had the 1st iPhone on T-mobile via jailbreak and unlock. My company paid the bill and used T-mobile so...

Thank you to the Jailbreakers and Unlockers..

Today I can see no reason to Jailbreak. There is no kill application I care about that anymore.

Given the state of security and the stance of some governments I am happy Apple is locking things down!
A good point to build on what you said is "don't overthink each small decision" — build the very minimum possible you need (or slightly less) for now. No need to research and have the best component and most efficient for every step. All that matters at this stage is getting it running end to end.
It is shocking how many people will ignore the fact that health care and pharma in the U.S. are nothing like the toy models taught in econ 101, or an actual free market for that matter, but pretend that they are in order to defend rent seeking.
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Wordflow keyboard allows you to use the entire keyboard as a cursor with force press.
In cases like this, you can just "inspect" on the text block, find the rule for the font-family and set whatever font you like, no need for extensions :)
You're confusing the email subscription terms with the giveaways terms. "ever have an never will" refers to the email subscription. You have to specifically sign up separately for giveaways, and they have different terms and conditions from the email subscription.
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Mostly a pretext to crush his political rivals.
The stock keyboard does that as well.
Hmm. Neat trick to incentivize more businesses to share their information, while also tracking more end users.
>I see your point and won't pretend there isn't an air of pretentiousness surrounding some who purchase records.

I was part of the smug audiophile brigade. Still bitter about buying those $700 headphones!

>Also comparing listening to records as consulting tarot cards is a bit extreme don't you think?

Hehe, yeah maybe a tad bit :)
The funny thing is that not everyone may even know that they are on a "basic economy" fare and may not raise their hand - not out of a desire to cheat the system, but because somebody else booked their travel (corporate travel department, family member, etc.). That, in addition to the people that just don't want to be called out as cheap, will yield very few people voluntarily disclosing this on a crowded plane.
Just to add a bit.

Tomatoes were a small yellow berry. Europeans thought they were poisonous for a while because they are nightshades.[1]

Milk and beef cattle are most likely descended from Aurochs.[2]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
So in the summer of 1962 we've sent clear message to all aliens that we are here, nice.

So when they will arrive with who knows what intentions we know whom to blame.