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> Cannabis is a great example of something that greatly improves the quality of life for many people, but isn't recognized and respected as medicine by the medical community at large.

Scientific research can go (too) slow to your liking and/or needs.

With cannabis, that's been changing the past decade AFAICT. My late father had MS, and he had the opportunity to use cannabis to reduce the effects of MS well over 10 years ago (he didn't use that opportunity because of his preconceived notion about cannabis). My late uncle, who AFAIK never used cannabis before (it is decriminalized here), used cannabis to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy. More and more governments are accepting medical marihuana/cannabis. Portugal has decriminalized a lot of drugs, and even in the conservative USA various States are finally adopting medical marihuana.

That being said, there are also cannabis zealots. E.g. some people abuse that scientific research to justify their pot smoking (which is here, unlike in USA, traditionally combined with tobacco, and regardless includes carcinogenics). They simply deny that smoking is bad for their lungs despite decades of evidence suggesting the contrary. I know one friend of my partner who claims cannabis is great for his diabetes but dismisses his change in lifestyle/diet. You cannot simply ignore such factors, and they greatly complicate scientific evidence in research, never mind for those who decide to self medicate based on such research.
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From other sources, I have read that the author was not allowed to publish articles on such topics on 2013, leading some to believe that this indicates a change in the attitudes of the Chinese leadership.
Indeed. They should be discussing something everybody agrees is important, like the relative merits of various programming languages or vi vs Emacs.
Just toss a coin and pick Xilinx or Intel (Altera). If you are working for a company then you may have better access to a Sales Engineer from one or the other which could also influence your choice.
There is a fine line between collaboration and dialogue. In South Africa, there were a significant percentage of oppressed people who tried to get along with the (white supremecist) apartheid government. They participated in the sham elections that gave them political scraps. They governed the Bantustans that were used to deprive black people of citizenship by driving them into a tiny proportion of the country.

The apartheid government ultimately was a creature of greed masquerading behind an ideology. It enabled a part of the population to loot the wealth of South Africa for its own gain, using others as a pool of cheap labour. It deliberately, as a matter of state policy, gave blacks an inferior education, so they could be “hewers of wood and drawers of water”. Yet it was always open to dialogue, as long as that dialogue enabled it to survive on its own terms.

The apartheid government did finally capitulate, but only after it realised that it was utterly alone and isolated and almost universally reviled, and the collapse of world communism meant that it wouldn’t be shielded by its erstwhile allies. FW De Klerk, the then leader of South Africa, boldly ended apartheid, but has tended to equivocate about its evil. And many white South Africans remain somewhat ambiguous, at best, about the evil it wrought. Would white South Africans have eventually seen the light if they weren’t isolated and treated as pariahs for much of the 1970’s and 80’s? I expect not.

Although I can admire the subject of this article for trying to reach out to individual racists, care needs to be taken to not read too much into his message. Evil ideologies still need to be condemned, unequivocally, since they crave legitimacy, and are often not just “idealistic but misguided concepts in the marketplace of ideas” but well thought out mechanisms for the exploitation and oppression of others.
It is really hard to give money directly.

often, those in need will refuse money, because they are too proud to take it.

on the other hand, many organisations will happily take money on behalf of those in need, but you have no way to see how much actually ends up with the intended recipients.

if you pay someones phone bill, you know you are helping someone...
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(given that the site is down...)

Here's a great (if slightly sobering) podcast from last week by foreign policy professionals about the global relationship with North Korea [1]. They give a pretty nuanced, if dire, look at the NK situation that is significantly more informed than the standard NPR/CNN article. Though Trump's tweets today were not part of their calculations...

[1] https://soundcloud.com/deepstateradio/the-only-discussion-of...
(discussion specific to NK heats up ~23min into the podcast)
First of, direct links to imgur seems to just reroute to the imgur page these days.

Secondly, i suspect the inaccuracies comes from using satellite photos to draw the maps.
One of the biggest epiphanies I had in high school (a million years ago) was to not let their fans keep me away from the music of Led Zeppelin.
How much does it cost to be smuggled from Afghanistan to Belgium? Exactly.
If you're worried about vendor lock-in, FPGA/ASIC design is not for you. The design tool market is horrible.

That said, for a novice there are no significant differences in features between Altera and Xilinx.

The place where you might see problems is mostly in simulation, where the big three tool vendors support different language features in SystemVerilog and VHDL-2008. Again, this is not likely to be a problem for a hobbyist/novice.

GHDL has good support for VHDL-2008, I don't know how good Icarus supports the corresponding SystemVerilog.
> Or anyone who expects me to spend more than five bucks a bottle (ok I can go as high as ten if it's a restaurant).

Apart from the fact than nobody should expect you to spend any money on anything... Just like everything else, wines differ, among others, in quality. If you spend 5 bucks on a bottle, chances are what you're drinking is really bad. It is possible to find decent wine in this range, but it's quite difficult.
You know I can appreciate some good snarkiness like this; but to be fair, governments almost always sell tyranny to the people in the name of moral righteousness.

I guess what it comes down to is what you fear more: tyranny or some racist people with restaurants.
"If you don't shut up, I'm going to kick your ass" is still a pretty clear outright threat despite containing the word "if."
> I haven't thought about Neo Nazis in 20+ years,

Then may I suggest doing some research on what they have been doing in the last two decades? In particular the current tactics[1] they are using?

> banning their sites

A private business refusing service is very different from a government ban. I agree that the extreme centralization of the internet has put a troubling amount of power in the hands of very few businesses. However, this is orthogonal to the fact that neo-Nazi groups have took advantage of a lot of people ignoring them for 20+ years.

> It's not the people who tolerate their speech and ignore it that gives these people's ideas weight

If everyone was actually ignoring the neo-Nazis, we wouldn't have a problem. Instead, we have people tolerating their speech and arguing against it in the neo-Nazi framing. They have been very successful at constructing a framing with blurring language and rhetoric constructed specifically to sound reasonable. So now we have people unintentionally defending fascist ideas that has been carefully camouflaged as "distasteful idea".

[1] https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/896823834338263041
I (American) have the same reaction you do. I think this is an incident where something is not properly explained so non-Americans think this is just some weird American thing.

The text " living and sleeping in the office is a terrible taboo and social stigma" is not phrased well. The issue with living at your office is much more due to liability reasons. If someone is allowed to live at their office, then the organization might be liable for anything that person does, or anything that happens to that person, even when not working. Also, as an organization it looks bad to have your graduate students / researchers be homeless, not to other grad students or researchers on an individual level, but in the sense that outsiders will react "I do not want to work at Harvard because they work their researchers so hard / pay their researchers so little that they have to live at their office."

This also happened about 25 years ago, when there was more of a stigma in the US for living an untraditional lifestyle. It's much, much more common these days for people in their 20s to live semi-homeless (e.g. in a car) and housing usually costs a lot more know, adjusted for inflation.
I call this road-rage diplomacy. Both sides can give each other the finger in crowded traffic. But eventually somebody just might pull out a gun. Or crash (errant missile).

As much as I can appreciate the diplomatic brinkmanship of sending mixed messages, I don't trust either side, so I find it disconcerting.
That's the point, consumer attitude is completely different in Germany than in the US. Saving 5€-10€ in aggregate is worth it to a lot of Germans.
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Steak cooked with ponzu sauce is a amazing. Ponzu is a sauce made from citrus fruits. So yes, for some oranges and steak go together great.
i learn about good practices testing some python cookiecutters where you can find a lot of practical project clues :)
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I have a big interest in compilers and created multiple toy languages as well as a half baked C compiler and I'm very interested in the source of google's v8 compiler and WebAssembly. I also enjoy creating pixel art games. I don't know where/how to apply or even start. I don't have any job experience. Also is this enough background to start getting into the industry - if not, what can I do to improve?

About me:
I've started programming 6 years ago as a hobby by hacking on existing browsergame sources. I've worked up to 12 hours per day to learn and put everything open-source. I'm a slow but persistent learner, my grades don't allow me to study and I currently do something called "education" in germany which is like 50% about office stuff and often very frustrating. I feel that I won't be able to pass an interview because I have strong social anxiety and asperger as well as big gaps in knowledge about computer science. I'm 21 now.
Lattice is the only vendor with an open-source toolchain: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
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There are basically two companies in this business, Altera (Intel) and Xilinx.

I would not worry about vendor lock-in for now -- there are some quite affordable dev boards (like the Arty (http://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-developmen...) I've mentioned elsewhere), and no matter what you pick there's a ton of tooling. The concepts from the tools will translate between vendors, though, even if the commands and exact flows change.
This is going to fizzle just like all the previous scary saber-rattling (Iran, Ukraine, etc etc), though I must admit the production on this one is 'top notch', what with missiles allegedly flying over Japan (anyone have a satellite image of those things actually going over Japan?).

You realize North Korea can't take a dump without China saying so, right? I'm not sure what is China's angle on this but for starters I'm guessing to make the US look like the aggressive buffoon (again) and 'at the last moment' Russia and/or China will solve things diplomatically. It's possible China got tired of having a PR nightmare on their backyard and want that cleaned up.

Edit: Worldwide condemnation and sanctions could be the first steps to a Chinese-controlled change in management over at Pyongyang, hopefully one with a more open model.
unfortunately, it seems that antifa does violence against more people than just those fitting that description.

not that the violence is justified anyways.
You can actually get an ASIC manufactured for a few thousand dollars via CMP or Europractice. So not quite Google money. The difficulty is in paying for the software licenses you need to go from Verilog to DRC checked GDSII files (which is what you need to send to them).

In fact personally I think this is a much better route for open source hardware. Reverse engineering FPGA bitstreams impressive, but you're swimming against the tide. If we had good open source tooling for synthesis/place-and-route/DRC checking and good open source standard cell libraries (and these things exist, eg. qflow, they're just not amazing currently) then truly open source hardware could actually be a thing. Even on 10 year old fabs you'll get much better than you could do on an FPGA (you just have to get it right first time).
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Even with a slippery slope, you can install fences to prevent people from falling down. Every society needs to have standards it adheres to, and you can't accept every idea, or as happened in America, the bad ones get louder, because the intolerant are not interested in a discourse, but rather enforcing their views on people.

The 2 cases you picked are poor, because in each case, there's evidence that people can use to make up their minds.
Merge commits are bad because they add unnecessary complexity. Your software is already complex enough. Why add complexity to your commit logs and your overall development process?

A linear history is easy to manage and easy to understand. It might be slightly worse for people committing code, but developers read several orders of magnitude more code than they write. Always optimize for reading code over writing it.
To be honest, the backfire effect played a dominant role and I don't think I was persuaded by that particular instance or any that followed. It was that things I said were called out as sexist many times, and years later I started to realize that I shouldn't be offended when that term is used, and I should be more receptive to people who feel the need to use it.
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If i correctly understand what you are saying, it cold pe possible to make a custom small chip for doing some crypto capable of a little more than what those smartcards offer for under 10k$? That would be awesome, from a trust perspective, at least if you could realistically compare the chip you get back with what you know to expect, using an electron microscope.
I think the easiest thing to do is just be educated in the facts and able to defend your views without getting caught up in the political rhetoric of the day.

A lot of racism is just ignorance and callousness towards others, combined with a lack of resolve to do what's right, which is really true about all of us to a degree. People feel like they have enough to worry about without others' problems. Also when you expose racism you are exposing the nasty underbelly of this country's history (assuming you're American), which is hard for people to handle. People will make some of the most embarrassing and extreme statements when confronted about race. I believe that's because the topic puts them in a state of distress.

I try and have the mindset of helping and educating people rather than judging them or censoring them. After all, if you are saying racist stuff, it is you who has the problem and no one necessarily has to say anything. It's like telling someone they still have a sticker on their shirt. You are really doing them a favor so if they don't want a favor, there's no harm in just leaving them alone. Like you said, I don't have all the answers and certainly am no Daryl Davis but I think about this stuff a lot and find myself in a lot of debates about it with family and friends.
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If you don't know what you are doing, trying to pick an optimal path is not likely to be a useful exercise. I'd start with anything that looked approachable & free/cheap, try to learn a few things, craft a few questions, and then reassess. There's no reason to fear the unknown. Jump in and make it more known
> Wine tastes good, and it tastes good with other things, but in no way more special than say, other fruit juices or beverages.

No, wine is a bit special here. It's somehow similar to cheese - there is a whole universe of tastes and subtastes based on many factors. You can of course ignore it completely and treat these foods like eggs (or put any other uniformly tasting kind of food here). That's perfectly fine. Or you can discover that there are so many flavors of cheese, with some of them particularly appealing to you - and just let yourself enjoy these.

Of course there are snobs who make a show out of everything, but don't let that spoil the genuine joy of tasting some good wine (or any other food that may or may not be expensive at that moment).
Don't forget that Carrefour also have shops in Brazil, China, Taiwan...
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I wanted to learn about Verilog development and to get a better understanding of what's happening on chips. To that end I bought a MiST FPGA-based computer: https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/wiki

It's Altera Cyclone III-based. The MiST wiki says the free "web edition" of the Altera "Quartus II" development environment is sufficient to develop for the unit (albeit I haven't actually gotten around to doing anything with it yet).

I can't say how the MiST board stacks-up to dev boards from FPGA manufacturers. I may be going about this the most wrong way possible, but here was my rationale: I was attracted to MiST because tutorials were available for it (https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/tree/master/tutoria...), and because the device could be usable as a retro-computing platform if it ended up being unusable for me for anything else. (Chalk that up to rationalization of the purchase, I guess.)
How naive are you? I would say that an ideology that advocates for racial or ethnic cleansing should not be shared. I would say that sexually explicit images of children who are emotionally traumatized should not be shared. As someone mentioned above, when the speech advocates for the harming of other people, it should not be shared.
Thank you for the info. Will look it up.
And now you're implementing SMP in application. Zero chance of doing that as well as the Linux or bsd kernel.
I expected that she couldn't stand wine because of the histamine and sulfites! slightly disappointed.
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Thanks! Defintely checking those out.
I like the design and typography too!

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The only advantage that crypto currency has as a means for raising capital is that it is currently unregulated. When that changes, there is no reason not to just use dollars.
I had a bottle of red wine a few months ago that smelt very distinctively like 1980s Star Wars toys! (Perhaps there were other toys of the era that smelled the same, but after some initial difficulty in placing this slightly unwelcome, somewhat solvent-like smell, it was Star Wars figures that came to my mind.)

And the smell appeared to be in addition to all the other smells and tastes you might expect from red wine: so it tasted like a red wine, and smelled like a red wine, and it was actually quite nice... and it smelled of Star Wars figures as well, on top. That bit wasn't so nice, but it was so unusual that I could somehow separate it in my mind. Like I was drinking wine with a Star Ways toy under my nose, or something like that. It was a very strange experience.

Anyway, perhaps this is the same chemical, or one related.

After a couple of glasses the smell mostly dissipated.
Sure they do. I used to work in the wine industry. It's full of people who love to talk about wine. Most of it is complete and utter bullshit, and don't get me started on reviews (Has anyone done NLP work on wine reviews? I suspect they're mostly indistinguishable from each other).
Yes to diesel and cell networks are only up in san juan are and barely working elsewhere. We lost a lot of fiber optic.
Huh? There's loads of cheap dev kits for a few 10's of bucks on eBay.

Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALTERA-FPGA-Cyslonell-EP2C5T144-Mini...

This uses the EP2C5T144. Some basic getting started info here: http://www.leonheller.com/FPGA/FPGA.html [Leon Heller]

You can run a free copy of Quartus and use it to run Verilog / VHDL cpus, or anything else you want to do.

Same applies to the Xilinx FPGAs.

A really cool example project: http://excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html
Technically the state was involved. They were sued along with the non-profit in violation of the US Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. You can see this info with the SCOTUS brief I linked.
Not for an ASIC without spending a LOT on tooling, and really $10k is awfully optimistic even if you had all of that tooling (I probably should've just said tens of thousands).

For <100k, yes, you can absolutely do a small run in that range.

Honestly, you might be better off just buying functional ICs (multi-gate chips, flip flops, shift registers, muxes, etc.) and making a PCB, though. Most crypto stuff is small enough that you can do a slow/iterative solution in fairly small gate counts plus a little SRAM.
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Indeed. More and more discoveries these days come from cross-field interactions.

Things like a prof from one field walking past a blackboard with some formula or other for a different field and noticing that it is remarkably similar to something he knows intimately, or a solved problem in his field.

Similarly fresh eyes may notice or question something that trained eyes has overlooked virtually by habit.

That said, there is a risk that one get a "eternal september" scenario where any useful input is drowned in the flood of noise from a stampeding horde of newcomers.
You are completely right, but as you condemn the ideology you need to also give a way out (hopefully not a humiliating way out) to those who have been indoctrinated (or those who have gotten used to dehumanizing the "others"). The subject of the article seems to have succeeded in this.
The US doesn’t surround China at all. The only possible highly US friendly border would be a unified Korea, and while some other countries have diplomatic ties to the US they are not strong allies, for example some post Soviet counties like Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Also there aren’t really ‘ethnic North Koreans’, just ethnic Koreans. The border doesn’t affect the ethnicity in that way, because if anyone from North or South Korea did an ancestry test it would just say ‘Korean’ or ‘Korean peninsula’.
I'm just telling you what rights the Constitution grants and what rights it doesn't.

The government's job is to enforce laws that are on the books. If someone commits a crime, whether they are a business or a vigilante group, they will be persecuted.

Attacking cops and breaking store windows are crimes.

Running over counter-protestors is a crime.

Firing people because of their religion or skin color is a crime.

Banning users for breaking your terms of service is NOT a crime. The reason is simple: no one owes you a platform from which you can express your opinions, regardless of what those opinions are.
This is definitely a thing, but it's independent. I went off sugar for about two months. Apples tasted like candy. Celery and carrots were noticeably sweet (and delicious). Bell peppers tasted better. But bitter greens, especially kale, still tasted awful.