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The unfortunate reality is that the 20th century legal code is ill equipped for dealing with software firms. Up until about 1980-1990 it didn't matter all that much, but tech firms are now the largest, fastest growing and most powerful companies in the world. We can't punt on these issues any more.

There are 3 forms of IP protection: copyright, patents, and trademarks. The crux of the issue is that, for software, copyright protection is too weak and patents are too strong. So called "stupid patents" are a symptom of this issue, but not the cause. Software ideas don't work well under either of these existing protection models. Further, software patents are especially broken since they've deviated from their originally intended purpose of helping fledgling inventors launch their creations without larger firms stealing their work. Now every large firm has an arsenal of allegedly "protective" patents that can be swiftly mobilized to crush upstart competitors. Similarly, patent trolls can sit on the sidelines and exact royalties far beyond the economic value that their inventions contribute. Bluntly, there needs to be a new form of IP protection to deal with this reality -- this isn't to say I have any strong ideas of what this form of protection should be, just that these are the characteristics of the problem.

The same core issue is starting to become apparent in anti-trust law. These laws are inappropriate for tech firms because they don't scale like traditional businesses (how do you deal with an industry with super high HHI but massive barriers to entry and no easy way to split up existing competitors?), but that's a topic for another thread.
> "Cheuvreux analysts as saying that dispite these rumours, they still feel a collaboration with Google would be more probable for Carrefour than an acquisition by Amazon."

I wonder why they think that? What could collaboration with Google bring?
A person who has "latent schizophrenia" would have quite possibly been "fine", had they not engaged in ingesting a substance that "catalyzes" their predisposed illness. There isn't a reliable way of measuring what would have happened to a group of "psychedelic casualties", had they not taken such substances.

Anecdote or not, and regardless of the causality argument, taking a substance can "catalyze" such conditions to use your wording. There are numerous accounts of people who truly were/are "never the same" after taking LSD or similar substances.

It's important for people to understand this, because of chicken vs. egg. If someone has such a predisposition and isn't aware of it, they might engage in ingesting such substances under the pretense that a substance cannot "cause" a mental illness, meanwhile believing there's no way they could have any such disposition. Contrarily, understanding that these chemicals absolutely are permanently-life altering, regardless of any pre-disposition, is probably the most important thing to consider when weighing pros vs. cons.

Speak to anyone who has taken LSD or similar. Whether good or bad, whether the person is mentally stable or not, the common thread is that changes in mentality/perception from taking these substances are permanent.
Unfortunately, as a mere customers, it's not up to you or me.
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My take is that there's an undercurrent of unease that everything is about to go to shit and "I want to get my pile of cash before it happens."

Of course, since all money is just an electronic agreement now, anybody not hoarding gold is gonna be SOL anyway. So it's a bit short-sighted.
Even in the US the current conception of "free speech" - both culturally and legally - only goes back to 1964.
Ambiguity in such contexts is inherently unsafe.

For that reason I think, my local municipality has started putting signs with instructions on these types of traffic lights. I am thankful.
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Whether a person has actually joined a movement appears to matter less than if some vocal group claims a person has.
So by all means explain to me how I'm being overly simplistic (because I feel that I am), but while our brains like to ponder the complexities of this situation, can't we at least conclude that it's a bad thing that physical, state-backed violence is used to prevent people from doing something that isn't in any way physically violent (and in fact a rather admired 'action') in itself?

I mean, hell, it's quite possible that even if an overwhelming majority of Catalonians vote for secession (which I hear is not even likely to be the case?), reality will get in the way. At the very least even the worst-case scenario, in my opinion, does not justify physical interference in a non-violent process.

But again, honestly please correct me if I'm missing something blindingly obvious.
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Forget classes, lifecycles, schedulers and all this stuff for a moment. If you boil it down what you're left with is but a single signature: `createElement(name, props, chilren)`.

When you pare it down to that, you're merely saying that GUIs are trees of configured objects. It's not a great revelation because the very first production GUI (Smalltalk 1972) already worked like that.

To get React from that idea, you need to add back all the stuff that you left out in the previous sentence. You add JavaScript, HTML-like syntax for defining trees and object attributes, component lifecycles and all that. And then it's not a generic idea anymore but a fairly specific implementation that will be superseded by something else eventually.
Maybe.

But based on the 3rd-hand reports I have read (the suicide can't/doesn't report), the self-kill-decision seems more immediate than the realization that the efficacy of the substance wasn't, you know, efficacious.
> the big shopping malls like Walmart or Costco

I guess that's one way of thinking about them. If you haven't, I hope you never have the displeasure of visiting an actual American shopping mall.
> Humanity has decided there are just some things that shouldn't be said or shared.

The thought of this terrifies me. It invites the absolute worst kind of collectivism.
Ah, the good'ol "Stallman was right".
I'm getting the feeling that I think we're agreeing and you think we're disagreeing. But in any case -- I hear you, I see the distinction you're making, and I agree with all of what you said. I think it's weird that math isn't patentable and software is. There was a time when that made more sense, but I think today it no longer makes sense.

That said, the line I'm talking about isn't the representational line, it's the physical line. Math can be written down in multiple representations too. The reason that math was deemed not patentable isn't because I can or can't write it multiple ways, nor whether I can solve the math problem by hand.

Patents were just designed around products made out of physical devices and physical processes. If I had to figure out how to build a machine using gears and hydraulics, or wires and chemicals, then it was patentable. If I used math to design a better airplane wing, and built the wing, then the wing was patentable along with the methods to design the wing. If I came up with a better Laplace transform, then it's pure concept and not physical product, so it was decided not patentable. I believe the distinction is mainly about you having to build & sell the product you invented, because the patent is a business protection and not a copyright. If you invent something in theory but don't build it or try to sell it, then you don't get patent protection.
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`let` is block scoped, while `var` is function scoped.

Essentially:

function do_something() {
if (true) {
var x = 42;
let y = 42;
}
console.log(x); // 42
console.log(y); // Reference error: y is not defined
}

It's extremely useful in for loops:

for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
setTimeout(function () { console.log(i); }); // => 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
}

for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
setTimeout(function () { console.log(i); }); // => 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
}
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It caches them. Uses a ton of space though, so be careful.
Thanks for the tip. :-)
I am not an American but currently staying in the U.S., why is it a displeasure?
I don't know if "desirable" is a suitable word for describing psychedelic experience. You don't really get to pick the outcome. The outcome largely depends on your inner self.

I don't know if any words can truly do it justice. I truly think it's an ineffable experience. :)
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No, simpler than that; we used the BitBucket web interface to enter the approval message and click the approved button to allow for merge. These actions are recorded and visible in the overview page of the PR.

However the BitBucket server's web interface was not approved/validated for long-term storage and evidence for the audit trail, so the PR owner was responsible (before triggering the merge) for saving a PDF copy of that PR page and committing the PDF file into a git-controlled code-review directory.

So it's digitally signed to the extent that your account/identity is recorded in the approval step and in the collection of PDFs. I did ask about a more systematic export method but it was not considered important given the PDF-based approach.
Gold... if shit hits the fan with today's population densities, the only currencies that will matter will be food, fuel, drugs (alcohol & tobacco) and ammunition.
I'm French, and I can tell you Carrefour is a very famous brand in France. So to me there is no way Amazon will buy it, I just don't see this being accepted by public opinion, and thus by the French government.
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Costco is very appealing. Have you ever been?
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Judging by the downvotes, I think that post was misinterpreted. I was suggesting that the word "cheatsheet" could be replaced by "summary" or "overview".

E.g. "An overview of modern JavaScript" or "Modern JavaScript - Executive Summary"
While I was on a retreat this year in a Peruvian village, I was told by several natives (Shipibo people) that, by their tradition (some estimations are that Shipibo tribes have been using Ayahuasca for millenias), Ayahuasca is orally taken in healing ceremonies by their shamans only. Traditionally, in the normal course of a healing ceremony, it is not a patient who takes 'the medicine' or 'the plant teacher' (Ayahuasca), but the shaman in order to learn from the plant what his patient illness is and how to go about healing it. Also traditionaly, Ayahuasca is taken during shamanic training (which takes years, if not a whole life) as a part of a special and very strict diet that can last between several weeks to a year or more, depending on a plant that one is dieting. During the diet shaman apprentice is supposed to take Ayahuasca, but only at the beginning and at the end of the diet, if it is a short one, or every once in couple of months if the diet is longer. The diet is a way to become familiar with the plant and learn what it has to teach you and Ayahuasca, the teacher plant, is used as a sort of a learning facilitator. From my understanding, a practice of organizing Ayahuasca ceremonies and giving the brew to foreigners in exchange for money has been relatively recently established with rising popularization of Ayahuasca and demand for it from abroad.
Yep, today a lot of people that were against THIS referendum and wouldn't have vote have gone to vote even to vote no.

It has been converted from an independence referendum to a protest.

And we must remember that last polls in Catalonia from Madrid newspapers like El Pais (against secession) say that 82% of catalans want a legal referendum, even the voters of PP and C's, the most vocals against secession
Well yeah but I wouldn't say the rate that occurs is so awfully different from when people earn money. And both activities stimulate the economy so...

Plus I'm more addressing the ingrained idea (in the USA at least) that poor people are all addicts, druggies, alcoholics, unemployable, or terrible with money. Many addicts run the course of their addiction while holding down a job (otherwise they can't feed said addiction). At the same time, the fastest route to the streets in the US is medical costs, either by way of some kind of accident or acquiring a chronic disease or condition, or hell, even breaking a leg and not being able to work for a month.

Most people, and I'd say a large majority of them, if just given money not in the form of EBT stamps or some other patronizing ass "here, we'll help you out, but here's a catalog of rules you need to follow because you're obviously incompetent" method would lead to more people getting out of poverty.
Unfortunately a lot of people fall for this technique. People that are generally educated and willing to argue back with rational/logical arguments seem to be particularly susceptible. The problem is assuming the person trying to introduce an inappropriate, reprehensible, hateful idea is trying to win an argument. They expect to lose the current argument, nor are they actually interested succeeding in the "marketplace of ideas".

The point is to get everyone talking about the meme until it becomes a legitimate "side". To in introduce humans to a radical idea that is far outside what they would normally consider acceptable, you have to reframe the idea and/or their beliefs. The easiest way to do that - which marketing departments have known for a long time ("branding") - is by repeated exposure. If enough people talk about e.g. ethnic cleansing in a way that gets you to repeated argue back about how they are "obviously wrong", you will eventually believe it's a legitimate political point of view that people might have.
Your comment points to the fact that the globalisation project we've embarked on for close to 70 years is either sick or dying... What does it matter if the company still employs Europeans and supports local economies?
Finally, my American friends will know something about Carrefour.
Because Amazon.com is already popular in Europe. It's not that big a jump to also buy groceries from Amazon.
That should work just fine.

Hours of inactivity will harm you. Frequent breaks, help.
Not if they are tradable and (semi) liquid? Isn't that the whole point, to raise capital through an ICO + eventually make said tokens (representing equity) tradable from the start, so you have liquidity?
I believe that is because English grammar is in a transitional stage right now as we lose declensions for our pronouns. In a century or two, "they" might be the proper genderless pronoun, and we may not even have gendered pronouns at that point -- but that is not the English of today. So while using "they" as a genderless singular pronoun might sometimes work it still feels a bit awkward.

Personally, I try to alternate between "he" and "she" when I am talking about hypothetical people, so I am never pushing the bounds of English grammar (at least with pronouns).
Hammurabi is left. The scene is him receiving the laws from some god, who is sitting.
There are two reasons I am not in favor of python. First and foremost its packaging sucks.

I have wasted far too much time wrangling pythons packaging systems. Incompatibilities between pip, setuputils, distutils, virtualenv, eggs, C modules, and wheels I have literally given up. I love and use python but I no longer package it and deploy it for others to consume. Try to package a protobuf3/grpc system these days into a .deb, its a nightmare. Even the grpcio devs use docker containers to build packages because python has such a nightmare of a system.

I'll leave the second reason out for the sake of context
> For competitors like Ahold Delhaize, it would be another blow

I'm not sure that's a very good example of a competitor. Carrefour is French, Ahold is Dutch. They don't compete in France, nor in the Netherlands. They both have supermarkets in Belgium, though. Furthermore, Carrefour is known for their hypermarkets which are much larger than regular supermarkets.
Well on the flip side, in America we seem to have no problems buying groceries from a European company (Aldi sells many times more groceries here than Amazon does, even counting Whole Foods).
Multiple? A Main Battle Tank such as the German Leopard 2 weighs 62,300 kg (137, 347 lb). Even a puny WW2 Sherman medium tank weighed in the neighborhood of 70,000 lb.
For people who disqualify themselves as honest thinkers. Numbers don't change that.
Carrefour is quite present in North Africa (Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia..) as well, this would give Amazon quite the global reach!
I also want to be careful that people don't do acid because they think it's going to be "fun." They will likely be in for a large surprise if they do. They should instead be prepared and do it safely. It's a lot different than drinking a beer.
I'm French, and that's also the first thing I thought when I read this title. I really don't see this happening, knowing how the French government is anti us tech companies (remember when yahoo wanted to buy Dailymotion?)
That's a funny one. :-D
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And I'm out
I forked the chrome one and it worked, but I'm too lazy to sign...

anyone willing to?
I agree lawsuits are not sane solution but as you hinted they are the only tools for 'non consensus driven' change at a personal/corp level. Pretty much everything else I think about involves congress which requires influencing elections which requires large amounts of money (esp for numerous HR seats as opposed to presidential).

BTW govt agency accepting comments might as well direct them to trash bin directly. you can see that from recent FCC net neutrality debacle.

>In the meanwhile, you are quite literally blaming the people who are doing pretty much the best they can. They have very short periods of time to get their work done, etc.

what I am blaming them for is not doing their job properly and which very evidently causes everything to be deferred to courts to fight it out, which needs lots of money and introduces uncertain subjectivity (east texas district for instance). guess what that translate to for individual companies, more defensive patents.

I hate to say it but I agree with stallman to a degree on this.
That reminds me of a story about an infamous image from an old ARG.

http://www.unfiction.com/compendium/2002/11/15/wheregif/
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It depends. Do you regard your enemy as a good person doing a bad thing, or as a bad person doing a bad thing? If it's the former then teach them a better way a la MLK and Gandhi. If it's the latter, then teach them a better way a la Malcom X.

If you can see some compassion or love in your enemy's eyes, then every time they hold up their fist to beat you you should hold up a mirror.
You're not the only who thinks this is a great idea.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/enabling-trunk-ba...
Also their warehouse practices seem to be unwelcomed to say the least.
Don't ever watch a baseball game then, relief pitchers are kept in a bullpen.
Walmart now owns Asda, one of the supermarket chains in the UK.
> "it will work one day", and continued working on them that we have these technologies making our life simpler these days.

You unknowingly make my point. I have nothing against people working on new technologies until they work. That's a strawman on your part.

But, this isn't a case of working on something until it works. The headline of this blog is, "HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web." IPFS is not ready to replace http, and it won't be until the cost vs. benefit ratio works out for enough people.
Don't worry, some of them are still trying to figure out the psychedelic logo.
You are talking about slowness to adapt? So who implemented C11 fully? Only MSVC and Embarcadero.
I would think gold wouldn't be worth anything in the modern world if civilization actually collapsed.

You would need a semi-robust trading market as well as an upper class who can afford to not spend resources on survival to trade gold for necessities, wouldn't you?
Considering what Dailymotion became, I'm not sure protectionism was the right choice.
What is different between having a new belief and having your brain functionality modified such that you indistinguishably genuinely feel you have a new belief? Wouldn't the act of integrating a new belief also modify your brain functionality somehow? Not trying to start an esoteric argument, I'm interested if there's an actual answer to that.
Might be for the way American do groceries, and usually in Europe people are way more attracted by local, smaller scale stores and buy food almost exclusively day by day.
So no, something like Costco where you can buy everything at 10x the scale to save some bucks might not be as appealing for the european market, which is more into local, healthy alternatives, despite being more expensive.

source: I lived half my life in America, half in Europe.
Well, we might not be doing all that badly. Today's computer applications run on machines with billions of components. The machines execute billions of instructions with only a few observable errors. It is something of a miracle that anything works at all.
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> I had such opportunity and ability to buy bitcoins in 2012... and I missed that boat.

You also have opportunity and ability to buy bitcoins now. And, just like in 2012, you have no idea what the price will be five years into the future.
Maybe they think google shopping express is still a thing :D
This is one of those unintended consequences that highlight the value of good legal representation.

CEO shuts down website lickity split, but then claims in court he can't stop a piracy site.

I've had this happen before at work where legal has told me "if you ask that question it will come back to bite us since if something bad comes up, it will show we knew nefarious behavior was happening. Better to not ask at all."
If I'm fleeing a fire in my building and I run across the street to get away from it, am I jaywalking? Does that make me not respect that law?

You're attempting to rationalize intolerance on a linguistic loophole (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). I know that cartoons for late-adolescents have popularized this in mass media over the past decade (ahem, South Park), but it's still childish and distracts from the legitimate concerns over the free expression of ideas in our society and world.

Yeah, sure, you have a right to engage in the expression of childish thoughts, but you should be aware you're not as clever as you think you are.
For ES6, I really like this one: http://es6-features.org/ Not a cheatsheet per-se (nor sold as one), but at least they keep it mostly on one page, it's closer to a cheatsheet and better than a long document.
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Holy shit, man. That’s intense.

Was that acid or ayahuasca? Did you do multiple days?

I’ve done acid a handful of times. I’ve luckily never had a “bad trip” but I did have to untangle a friend from a coil of barbed wire which he thought was jungle vines.

Another time (I’m from Florida) I went out during a tropical storm (we don’t take those seriously) with a shovel and a laminated note from myself reminding me “everything is OK, but go inland if the water gets above your belly button” and buried myself waste deep in the sand at the beach to force myself to watch the storm. That was a crazy night.

Lightening is weird when it sticks to the ground permanently.
I'm definitely against it - just stating the facts!
Or how about this, let's build fewer apps in the US and more infrastructure. We spend so much time on software but our connectivity lags well behind developed countries, not to mention not building enough roads and houses.
> I just don't see this being accepted by public opinion, and thus by the French government

Do they have a word to say on the issue?
It matters because we want control.