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Swift is at least an order of magnitude faster than python. It provides static typing. It compiles to native binaries. It's still fun to program in. There are already frameworks that allow programming web servers in Swift. It's more expressive than Go.

It's a matter of time for it to get traction.

The only thing python/ruby have going for them at the moment is momentum.

Remember in 2005, Python was a fringe language on the web. Most web programming was done in php.
sure. and counter ecological collapse by simply stopping to breathe right?

Look, there are things that can't be avoided. And most people like to be lead and kept in an illusion of safety. That disgusting fact may actually be what makes us stronger than all other current participants on this planet.
You can change your last sentence to say: "Only spanish can decide their own fate".

Only Scotland voted on their referendum, as agreed by the whole United Kingdom. USA did not allow southern states secede, Germany did not allow Bavaria secede, etc.
The edges grow much faster because "molecularly flat regions... have fewer dangling chemical bonds and are thus less favorable attachment sites [for condensing molecules]." Also, snowflakes can take on 3D column shapes depending on humidity and temperature. See http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/publist/AmSci2007.pdf
> You simply asserted that it is "obviously so" that spending money on infrastructure isn't worthwhile.

This is just false. The only use of "obvious" was in the line

> We would never consider building ramps everywhere for strollers or suitcases because the benefits are just obviously not worth the cost.

Which is not even close to how you describe it.
> Politicians should start Patreon campaigns to get livable wages from supporters and then just execute on what they stand for.

How little do you think politicians make? I don't know of any poor politicians at the federal level.
I think the overwhelming evidence points to the contrary, at least so far. We only have a few very recent examples that may very well be exceptions to the rule, or perhaps the very beginning of a very long term trend.

It also depends how you measure the money invested. By some calculations Trump received $3 billion worth of free advertising. I guess this also shows that the media can have great influence in swaying elections, too, especially when the hosts' opinions are set on helping one candidate and attacking others (almost constantly, either way), or worse, it comes as an order from the top to do that.
Yeah, but it still shouldn't matter, because there's not much to optimize: string substitution is inherently fast.

But it's what your sibling comment said that I missed: it might not just be string interpolation, it could bound to a shell command's result etc -- which would then be executed at every occurrence.
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Wow, that's a great analysis. In addition to being less efficient, there's definitely more overhead with the extra layer of JS underneath. Just of the top of my head, this might be a bigger issue with apps that constantly refresh the screen or have real-time interactions (e.g. games or Slack), and not so much apps that are essentially a series of forms (code only runs when you interact). With our app, what affects battery usage most is the location analysis that happens in the background. It's one of the areas the development team spends a lot of time testing and optimizing.
Probably not. Why? That's the trillion dollar question.
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If not being Spanish prevents one from having informed opinions, what makes you right?

Since we measuring Spanish penises, I'm half-Spanish myself and I find the characterization of "Trumpists" to be absurd. Yes, they are probably a minority, but so what? As for finding them fucking stupid, that's just politics, especially nowadays. Lots of people find Podemos to be fucking stupid, yet they still got 20%+ of the whole population vote.

In any case, people here are arguing for the principle, not the people. The analogy is not with supporting Trump, it's with defending his right to run at all. Now, the cases are different, but the point stands: defending the right to a referendum is not the same as defending a certain result.
We agree that Mission Bit does great work too! But yeah, we also work directly with SF and Oakland public schools, just not the same ones. Another thing that makes us different is that we focus on preparing our students for paid internships in high schools. Sounds like we agree that more students should access CS education.
This answers it: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5gae8u/why_are_...

"Ice crystals are like a six-sided prism. This prism grows as more ice molecules stick to its faces. It turns out that under conditions found in common snowstorms, some facets in XY plane tend to grow much faster than the facets along the main axis of the crystal. As a result, snowflakes usually end up looking like flat pancakes with many finger-like branches"
I'd be fine with that. So long as the shareholders determined how the corporation voted (or ideally, there was fractional voting).

Walmart has paid some 40 billion in income taxes since Amazon went public. Amazon has paid ~1 billion. I think Walmart should get more of a say in how the country is run since they're paying for ~40x more of it.
At the end of 2014, both Apple and then Mozilla added DuckDuckGo to their browser's list of search engines bundled by default.

This was the very first time any meta search engine (search engine that combines results from multiple search engines) was added to any of the most popular browsers.

They've also added it to Firefox Focus (at least at the time when it was released on Android).

So, it's fair to say that they have some sort of collaboration between them. Wouldn't count on it getting more serious than that, but I would still love to see it happen.
You just need to increase the number of representatives multiple orders of magnitude. Imagine if we had 10000+ congressmen, it would much much harder to buy influence or lobby. The votes would eventually start to resemble the will of the people.

Bernie and Trump were just the beginning, the internet has allowed the people to wake up and field their own candidates instead of just taking what the political old guard give us.
Even when I compare the Impossible Burger vs. the Beyond Burger, the Impossible Burger is more burger-y (I've been vegetarian for over 10 years FWIW). Now, I actually don't like the Impossible Burger it's too meat-like, and leaves a strong flavor for several hours afterwards. But there's a real difference between these "scientific veggie burgers" and the bean/tofu burgers of the past. I'm not saying you'll like the Impossible Burger, but at least try it once.
Honest question : Is the Vive really profitable ?

It seems to me that this current generation of VR is a niche that lacks any killer app and that any tangible improvement is very incertain
This seems like the mechanism can be summarized as working by precession.

The inner pulley wobbles inside the flexible V-belt and is induced into rotating by precession.

Separation of the inner pulleys controls the effective precession cylinder's inner diameter, the variation of which is accomodated by flexing of the belt: how far it is "squeezed off" and displaced from its outer mount.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession_(mechanical)

Note in the precession animation here how the fast spinning green arrow can be regarded as an input (the wiggle), and the slow spinning of the square-centered blue wheel as an output: there is a many-to-one reduction here, effectively forming a transmission.

Not to be confused with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession
"I don't think there's a right to be taught in the language of your choice".

But there is the right. Is in the Spanish Constitution. Article 3.
Clean Links is swell for getting real links in Google results:

https://github.com/diegocr/CleanLinks

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=15769
Matrix/Riot.im works pretty well. It's a bit of a hassle getting the devices verified[0], and (imho) a bit unintuitive about how it shows contacts, chats and rooms. But it works.

[0] Tip: name the devices and remove any you don't recognize, I just have three devices with Riot.im installed but during setup some others appeared, maybe duplicates or a web session, I got rid of those. Less devices is less verifications.
I am attempting to apply for the SF area. I thought that the url did not include "volunteer" at the end b/c the NYC link did not and it took me to a "daily session landing page" ScriptEd google doc that I could edit. Odd. Y'all should fix that.
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Okay, if you want to be that guy, then I'll also be that other guy and say the Democracy is "drowning in the free speech of a handful of wealthy people."

Is that much better though? And is that the system we should be content with? Or should be strive for an improved, more equal democracy?

At the end of the day the "money vote" greatly skews the "one person, one vote" principle, which is supposed to give everyone (or those who choose to take it) equal opportunity to influence government decisions. Clearly wealthy people have much more influence than a "single vote" in the U.S. plutocracy or than some random person in the U.S.
You are doubtless correct, but to aim only to have worse alternatives seems to lack ambition.
Considering the tendency for politicians to be drawn to money and become millionaires while in office through various means, I'm not at all convinced that large salaries would cause them to turn away people handing them more money.
I guess ssambros is being downvoted because it seems tautological that politicians run the Republic.

But we really should stop to ask whether legislatures should be doing the kind of micromanagement where they routinely divert billions towards one private interest or another. And we should adjust our political rhetoric, voting behaviour and expectations about propriety and the law accordingly.
What are you even talking about?

> there are not many true opportunities to grow value anymore

There are more opportunities than ever in human history. The knowledge and data are extremely accessible. The amount of spare money people have is near all-time-high. You can literally become a multimillionare without leaving your basement, simply by pressing keys on your keyboard.

> buying index funds is no guarantee for safety anymore

It never was. There's never a guarantee, your bank can go bankrupt, so can FDIC. But it's still one of the safest ways to invest.

Your investment options are extremely diverse as well. Only 50 years ago you had to call your broker to buy a stock. Now you can do that with a few mouseclicks. You can invest into foreign markets, cryptocurrencies, ICOs, you name it.
Hemingway summarized it best, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

It's hard not to bond over what might be the most difficult task you accomplish with a group of like minded individuals, but it's also impossible to not grapple with the morality of your situation.
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> By some calculations Trump received $3 billion worth of free advertising. I guess this also shows that the media can have great influence in swaying elections, too, especially when the hosts' opinions are set on helping one candidate and attacking others (almost constantly, either way), or worse, it comes as an order from the top to do that.

In this way, it seems not to matter what specific opinion the media takes at this point. The vast majority of those three gigadollars were spent on media taking a position against the candidate who prevailed, and the candidate who spent the least doing it.
There was a device called an electric wheel, a few years ago, which did the continuously variable thing using a planetary gear (the sun and ring were driven by separate motors, and drive was taken from the planet carrier.)

http://web.archive.org/web/20080104094149/http://www.solomon...

This design is inherently more compact than that arrangement, and the parts are simpler. (I think)
Alright, so you use VPN as your bastion server - effectively.

I guess I never considered the need to SSH directly to machines. I completely agree security is defense in depth through layers.

I brought up the question since I was just at a client site that required VPN to ssh to their single bastion (jumpbox) ssh host, which then you used to further ssh to production machines. The VPN layer in that architecture seems rather silly - just lock down your bastion server (SSH) in the same way!
Are megadollars and gigadollars common units of measurement of money in some field?
while people are listing some good philosophy resources, it's not quite the same as CS course on the original link.

But it could totally be done for philosophy, there are some great lectures online covering enough that would be equivalent to a degree. It wouldn't be that hard to extend such a site to allow people to find small groups of people for philosophical discussions either.
Because then the money just moves to whoever does have influence on how the republic is actually being run. Or, worse yet, the money just buys the power it was previously trying to influence and simply wields it directly.

Weakening the formal power of government officials doesn't make that power dissolve, it just displaces it to somewhere even less visible and answerable to the public.
Press and hold?
A constitution defines a government, and it is a poorly written constitution that is instead used to limit people's determinism.
Haha, I don't think many employers would be too happy about two full school days out of the office every week. We generally have volunteers teach in the morning or in the afternoon. It depends on school sites, but it's a total of 2-3 hours per week in the classroom. Apply at the link and we can tell you what's available and see if something works!

You can check out our curriculum here: https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/curriculum17-18

Hope that helps!
But why would someone who's avoided meat for 35 years be interested in something that pretends to be meat?

I've not had milk-based ice cream for more than 5 years. There's a great variety of non-dairy frozen treats and I've eaten most of them. But I would not be a good person to ask which would be most palatable to someone who loved real ice cream -- I can't even remember what that tastes like.
You didn't answer my question. People aren't born radical. And fringe regional parties don't come to control the media, education, and public purse without some significant measure of popular support.

So once again: Why do you think radical secession is even on the table? Why do you think Catalan nationalism has flared up in recent years? Why would any young person support Catalan independence if Spain's federal government is meeting their needs?

Answer that question honestly, and I think you'll realize where the problem is, and where the solution lies.

(Hint: It's not censoring websites, arresting ministers, or raiding the officials of regional bureaucrats.)
He wasn't a programmer since the beginning. He was a designer.
Very cool. Are you driving the webview from React Native, or driving React Native from React/Redux code running in the webview? I imagine the latter would provide a seamless transition path for web-first shops, and you could probably do cool things with JSX syntax to make proxies for native components that feel like web components.
Singapore model. Market wages for the best talent (millions+). Huge penalties for corruption.
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That is the wrong question to ask.
Read the McSweeney's column "In These Deserts: War Stories From Afghanistan" written by a former Army officer. It's absolutely heartbreaking.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/column-1-the-misundersta...
Yes, I develop monocular slam for a stealth startup, so I have directly dealt with the requirements for markerless AR. It's a well known fact in SLAM that a physical measurement is necessary to determine scale. IMUs get close, depth sensors are better but have rough resolution, seeing a known object (like a marker) in the space is best.

Because the toy AR displays on a small 2D screen, there's a number of shortcuts that can go mostly unnoticed.
Output scales with design, size, location and height. With "beyond some height" I mean really tall buildings would need just a tiny propeller. Micro turbines are nice for a very different reason. -- "Unfortunately, micro wind turbines deliver hardly enough energy to power a light bulb." The benefit from not siting in complete darkness starts at about 1 Watt, the example produces considerably more. -- "Payback time: 50 to 750 years" The interesting bit here is the static world assumption. No one can tell how manufacturing, wages/income, the economy, geopolitics, climate, migration, food, etc will change. There is lots of room for the grid to go down and it kinda already regularly does in the best of locations one time every 10 years. (atm the entire grid in Puerto Rico is down) -- While it would be nice to have a heater or a cooker small devices like led bulbs and radios are valuable when the power is out.
> In short: please be skeptical about whatever you hear from either side. There’s an estimated 40-45% of support for the vote and less than that (30-40%) support for independence

Do you have sources, because the last I know is from El Periodico (against independence) and the amount of people supporting a referendum was almost 80%
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+1 had it at kronnerburger and thought it was great. They said it's easy to screw it up and end up with a crappy burger.
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Thanks for pointing that out - we've changed the editing rights!
Samsung phones still come with garbage bloatware. I love the hardware but the first time I do whenever I upgrade to Galaxy Sn+1 is throw a custom ROM on it.
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No, but I wish they were! I prefer to use SI magnitude prefixes when speaking analytically, so I thought I'd try them out for money.
we use a lot of bitly links... you found something that we use for our classes!

The NY and SFBay bitly links don't have the same naming convention. This is what you are looking for: bit.ly/ScriptEdSFBAYvolunteer
They also redesigned the antenna lines to conform to the curves of the phone. The back of the 7 looks a lot nicer than the 6s in my opinion.
I sincerely doubt it.
Yeah. This is showy and really cool. But it seems kind of unnecessary to make it "a map"

In terms of solving real problems, I don't see it as functionally any better than a list ordered by distance with a small compass showing directionality. Basically what you see on the left when you search google maps for "pizza in san francisco".

The benefit of that list is that it uses space much more efficiently and can show things like ratings and thumbnails. Whereas in the article's ui, you have to click on every circle to see what it is.

Put another way, maps are incredibly information dense but when you remove most of the information from them, they're just dense.
Well, there's always this: http://locutus.io/php/

PHP functions written in Javascript. Been around for quite a while, actually.
I own a '16 Impreza and it really drags at low speeds. It's my only complaint with the car however, and it is better with higher octane fuel.
Just to play Devil's advocate, one could argue that the EC is a necessary evil. More than 25% of the population of the US lives in just CA + NY + TX. Without the EC, there would be absolutely no incentive for the President to even acknowledge the existence of a majority of the states.
>But do you see the majority of the people even trying to do that any time soon?

We barely have the majority of the people show up at the polls.

One of the more groundbreaking things about Trump is he is the first R of note to denounce the Iraq war. The problem we currently have with the establishment is as a rule, they don't criticize publicly other members of their party.

For me, that was significant. Ole Jeb said he would fight the Iraq war again. Probably not because he believed it, but because he wouldn't criticize a fellow R, let alone his own brother.

Just think of all the decades of bad policies we have that may have been reversed had that unspoken rule not existed?
The Coat of Arms of Spain doesn't have fasces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Spain
> breaking changes are a major failure in language design IMO.

So I presume you:

a. get every major design decision on a project right on the first try

OR

b. don't care and let people live with bad design for the lifetime of the product
First Aid/CPR are definitely good skills to have! On the medical side, EMT might be the next level certification for you to get. (Here it's one semester at a community college with night/weekend options also available.)

The team I'm on, like most SAR teams, is all volunteer. Except for specialized teams like the one in Yosemite, professional SAR teams are generally under military, Coast Guard, or fire departments.

The big national accreditation organizations are NASAR and MRA.

http://www.nasar.org/
http://mra.org/
I teach twice a week from 8:15 - 9:15 - I'm not even late to work! Curriculum is pretty intro - basic html and css, jquery, then some beginning javascript.
Nitpicking: One can say force WAS used between superpowers (Cold War, proxy wars) and we are still here.

Old rich men will always find a way to fight each other without destroying themselves.
My point is that even a single guy changes his opinion. It's not reasonable to present it as representative of a full system of government. Go ask Rajoy if his opinions represent the whole system :)

EDIT: Also, those quotes just show that the iconoclast and rebellions attitude of Catalonia against the central government is quite old, and not just an invention of some corrupt politicians to divert attention :)
No matter how oversubscribed, VM systems have to supply enough servers to meet peak demand, which means inefficiency during the trough. Amazon's spot billing means that they can approach 100% utilization 24/7.
Because they don't usually avoid meat because they don't like the taste - they do it for morale reasons. And sure, in 35 years a person may forget what that taste is, but if you make the best tasting plant-based burger then all sorts of people will be interested.
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No, that article doesn't say that, that article says that Spanish must know Spanish language.

And if people holds sacred the contituion, the TC didn't invalidated the linguistic immersion, it is constitutional
I'm quite dubious about equating the modern sense of "politically correct" with that.
That's low, about 4 years ago it was standard 30k for college grad. Glassdoor often underestimates.

Anyway this is just hearsay of course, before anybody would believe any of this I would say let's get the census in or something.
Ok, I have to ask. What's wrong with dd?
Would Mrs. Clinton have won in an alternative universe where the aforementioned alternations did not take place?
> Why does DDG not present "direct" URLs in its search results?

They explain it here: https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom It's to prevent sites from seeing what search term you found them by.

Turning it off: Menu button at the top right of search results -> other settings -> Privacy Tab -> Redirect (Toggle)

Edit: Note that I have the redirect setting turned on, and don't get the redirects. Presumably because I'm running firefox nightly and they know that this browser supports rel="noopener" (which they use on the link).