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I don't know why people think devs are special in this regard.

Being interrupted is a universal human problem, there is no need for an analogy for something that anyone who works in a professional (or hell even non professional) job experiences.
Lucky you for having an absolute moral compass that immediately recognizes who’s right and wrong in the conflicts around the world
As are the unionists.
Nah, those were Jews and communists. No crime shooting them.

/Godwin
The word "referendum" is vague in English, but it's the only term for the least-binding question a government can ask of its citizens. I am not familiar with the Spanish system of autonomies, but in federal systems like the US, small bodies regularly pass referendums, resolutions, and even laws concerning how they will interact with larger ones. Usually without such direct violence, even when the laws conflict.

On a purely practical level, by cracking down on the vote, they only ensure its outcome. See if it passes and then strike down the resulting legal structure in a higher court, at the very least. The constitution of every divided country has measures to deal with these, and the first step is never "cracking skulls."
Could this be wishful thinking?

I think the church banned psychedelics because it gives people religious experiences easily, and their interpretations sometimes really stink.

So I'm curious where all this is going wrt spirituality. Especially during the last days of humanity, as we are slowly self assimilating into a system greater than humans.
Pointing out an apparent contradiction in policy - claiming one thing but doing another - isn't whataboutism.

Whataboutism would be, for example, CF attempting to defend retaining dodgy/illegal sites by attacking ALS for its dodgy/illegal origins.
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I'll disrupt it for you (us), just need the seed funding.
The events are actually happening are they not? Please can we distinguish between "I don't agree with the politics expressed here" and "the reporting describes events which didn't happen, or misdescribes events that did"?
Traditional religious may be feeling a decline, but religion as a trait, the unquestioning faith and zeal, has not gone anywhere. For examples, look at the modern political movements.
That's what I thought MFA meant, I just didn't see the relevance. I've never heard of that Duo.
This appears to be one of those cases where the government is going against its own people. I guess it is up to the people to make sure their voice is heard and to replace a government that does not serve them.
> 1) DS hasn't in fact been kicked off the Internet

It has however been kicked off Cloudfare and that's what the plaintiff wants to happen in their case also.
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>I'm sure it has a formal name

Spinner.
I am not excusing neither of the behaviors: both violents and not professional policemen are doing wrong. All your text is based not in what I said, but in yours interpretations of my words

I am adding references for the women issue too.
But the truth is self-determination is for nations and colonies.

In this case, the right for self-determination is for Spain, not for a part of Spain.
Correct. Nazism is illegal in some jurisdictions.
The BBC, though in lamentable shape in many ways, is not usually considered a Fake news source. Do you have any links to English language reports that are less biased from your standpoint?
Surely there are many countries now in existence whose declaration of independence was considered illegal by the country they declared independence from.
>> What if twitter only needed 50-100 engineers?

Their IPO will suck because every wannabe big company must have lots of employees to raise more money.
Different political opinions aren't fake news. There are real people in Catalonia trying to submit ballots. In some places there are Spanish police trying to stop them.
>A valid point- if you're not careful that can happen. Key things: remove those ifs after a launch

I think a big factor that's unspoken about "trunk-based-master" development is that it fits better with "website apps" such as Facebook and Etsy. The "live website" can be thought of as a "single executable" and trunk-based mental model maps well to that. The feature-flags as a replacement for branches doesn't result in an unusable combinatorial explosion. There are minimal # of "alternate universes" of Facebook... maybe a "Facebook for internal engineers" etc. You can tame that with feature-flags.

However, for corporate development where the output is "exe" files... e.g. version 2.x of product has dependencies on a old version of a library and a version 3.x uses a totally different architecture with different conflicting dependencies... you can't model that code evolution in a clean manner with feature-flag "if" statements. If you move the "if" statements outside of the code and into preprocessors (#ifdef) or the "build" system such as cmake, you've just shifted the problem around instead of solving it. Branches instead of feature-flags are cleaner and more sane for certain domains.
The Spanish government seems to be in a lose-lose situation.

If they don't stop the referendum, positive results will be used to further the independence movement. If they do try to stop it, the videos we're watching will be used to further the independence movement.
No, they’re not. They’re just overnighting large shipments of GPUs with carriers that use airplanes to handle overnight shipping.

That quote also isn’t from Gibson. :)
"You also had some very fine people on both sides."
How do you think countries are created and absorbed? through legality and democratic negotiation?
Power and powerful allies is what matters.
In any case throwing the police against your country citizens (which are the powerless), just seems the worst possible strategy.
How many people changed their minds today to a pro united Spain stance?
If this was happening in Russia, nobody would say nothing because there is nothing to say.

German police in the last G20 (Hamburg) was more violent, for example.
> The right to vote means nothing without liberal freedoms or without the indivisibility of the territory.

Woah now, that's an absolutely insane statement you just made. Actually, it's two absolutely insane statements.

There is nothing that says you have to have one particular set of rights before it counts as "democracy". The EU goes nowhere near as far as the US on some "liberal freedoms" (try supporting the Nazi Party in Germany and see where it gets you - being the most obvious example). They go much farther than the US does on some other ones. Which one of us is not a democracy in this situation?

Also, there's nothing that says a territory must necessarily be indivisible. Scotland independence, Puerto Rico independence (or statehood), and Catalan independence are all perennial issues. Hell, we literally just had the whole Brexit vote a year ago. There is no reason that any particular unit of government has a self-evident right to exist. They exist to serve their people! And in fact it would probably be better if we rearranged them more often - the US states are very unbalanced in many respects and it might be better if we rearranged them into equal populations and geographies that made a little more sense (this will never happen of course).

Legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed, and nothing else. If it doesn't work, there should absolutely be a right to dissolve it and reform another government. Or in other words: "when in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..."
Of course there are injured people, including policemen. If you start a revolt, you can expect problems. What do you expect, peaceful anarchy? Police is acting after a Court order, ensuring the rule of law.
US slavery was legal, and it took a civil war to change that.

The right of people to self-determination is actually a quite important concept in the international law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
It's totally irrelevant and shameful that data is held back for such reasons. Put a disclaimer/warning on it if need be.

When scientists play a part in the open access problem it's like having doctors who smoke cigarettes. There are plenty reasons the cancer is happening already without the leaders of a field contributing to it.

"In our field of particle physics, there isn't the tradition of making data public," says Thaler. "To actually get data publicly with no other restrictions—that's unprecedented."
Guilt is a terrible long-term motivator. For me, two big mental shifts made an enormous difference.

1. I had to stop feeling like someone else was going to tell me how to do it or make me do it. Start going to the gym and do whatever exercises you like doing. Keep showing up, and change your posture. Don't think "I should exercise more." Think "I'll go on Tuesday nights when I don't have as much going on." Work from the assumption that you're already a person who exercises, and just think about the mechanics of actually making time for it. We spend way too much time thinking about how we become gym people instead of just going and exercising.

2. As some other people have pointed out, realize that you can't undo a sedentary work day by working out for an hour at the end of the day. One trick I use is to do pomodoros (25 minute chunks of work) followed by a 3-5 minute break where I get up and just walk or look out the window. If my motivation or focus is flagging, sometimes I'll use that time to read a couple of paragraphs on my Kindle app. (Churchill said "a change is as good as a rest"; sometimes taking your eye of the ball for a minute can help you refocus your mind). By moving a little many times throughout the day, I find I don't build up those slow and steady tensions that ruin your body and will to exercise.
Another anecdote for you: do a mental check you shoulder and back muscles. I’ve personally found (as have others) that my tinnitus intensity is closely tied to how tense my shoulders and upper back muscles are.
Yes, before we know it, Cloudflare will also get in trouble for "facilitating fake news" or "not doing something about it."

The internet is trending towards becoming a cluster of walled gardens. Whether or not that will make a "better internet" than the one we have/had, it remains to be seen, but I'm inclining towards believing it won't. It could make it better for some things, but I think it could make it much worse for other things (freedom of speech, defending controversial ideas like gay marriage, or national security whistleblowers, etc).
I wonder if it's a (failed, obviously) attempt to control the optics.

As I understand it, polls show a slim majority of Catalan residents actually oppose independence, but people likely to put in the effort and/or take the risk of voting in an illegal referendum will of course skew in favor of independence.

So if the vote proceeds, the Spanish government will be struggling to explain the result as being likely not representative, and illegal in any case, but they'll be doing so in the face of an invigorated independence movement that will be claiming a mandate. Even if the Spanish government's position is correct, this is a very hard PR problem.

If you can quietly prevent the vote from proceeding, you deny the independence movement the ability to claim a mandate, they have less energy, and your PR problem is easier.

Obviously, they got neither of these, but instead got a different flavor of PR disaster.
> It's much better than crashing at runtime because '12' isn't a number.

something something yell at you for breaking their door
BBC is fake news?
>It's easy to say that we should take every opportunity we can to fight Nazis.

We fought the Nazis in 1941-1945. These guys aren't Nazis, they're angry, misguided white people trying to look tough. Why is this an important distinction? If we as a society are going to upend core values and norms, we need to have a damn good reason.

If I were a cynic (which I sometimes am), I would say this guy was trying to ride a political wave and it is now biting him (and us) in the ass. DCMA takedown without a warrant is bad for everybody. It sounds like there is a decent chance he just squandered that to score a political point that no one will remember 6 months from now.

Politics and business don't mix, regardless of how much of a "slam dunk" it seems.
This is lame reasoning. If that was the case democracy is just a dictatorship of the majority. Or a husband have a word when the wife wants to divorce.

You are just saying that if Catalonia wants independence they have to go to war and win it, because the Constitutions says the country is indivisible. Maybe you want the USA reintegrated into the UK, because british citizens didn't vote for the secession.
> The ref is illegal. The hypothetical declaration of independence is illegal

How can they be illegal ?

A democratic government derives it's legitimacy from the fact the people they govern choose to be governed by them. If the people obviously do not want this government, then isn't it the government that's obviously illegitimate ?

'The people' are the source of power, they just outsource it to a smaller group of people through democratic elections for practical purposes. If 'the people' decide their government's services are no longer needed, then there is nothing the government can do. It's not their call.
Once again I think Canada has set an example for the world with how to do this properly: permit open and peaceful votes on secession (e.g. of Quebec), treat the issue as something to be resolved politically and not with the use of force, and pass legislation to deal with the matter that:

- mandates that the secession question on the ballot be clear and unambiguous;

- requires a clear majority to be considered valid;

- mandates the involvement of all provinces and First Nations in negotiations following a vote in favour of secession;

- and stipulates that secession, if it proceeds, would require an amendment to the constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarity_Act
This is not Spain, indeed, so don't expect people to support violence against voters, no matter what they were voting for.
The indivisibility of a nation was overruled when the EU nations ( sans Spain, Greece and Cyprus ) rushed to recognise the UDI of Kosovo.

At the time that was warned to be a dangerous precedent, and here we are.
Switzerland's health care systems beats those by a mile. Every expat who knows these countries can confirm this.
Myself I'd say it was the narrow window between the end of the Berlin wall and the fall of the WTC. A dozen years.
> "Nah. Read your Popper or your Rawls. Every modern moral philosopher..."

I'd also recommend Carl Schmitt [1]

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schmitt/#ConPolCriLib
The referendum was ruled illegal by the courts. If we are going to allow all old tribes of Europe to become their own state, there wouldn't be much left of Europe. The nation-state and standardization is a European invention and a successful one. The case for an independent Catalonia isn't on strong grounds either.

This is no small issue, and Spain is responding accordingly. The message has to be clear: Spain isn't going to split and we aren't going to allow tribalists/nationalists to act freely.

They are using rubber bullets to disperse the crowds, that's not exactly a crime against humanity as some seem to suggest here.

Having lived in Spain for some time, I can say police there is awesome. That is, friendly and laid back. Once I was caught smoking marijuana in my apartment (the neighbors called the police because of the loud music) and they made a couple of jokes and left. Back in Norway, they'd be angry & taken me to the police station.
The number of injured have been reported by the Catalan officials, which benefits from enlarge the amount. Maybe the number is true. I will remain skeptic until information from several sources is provided.
> It is worth remembering that DS had claimed that Cloudflare's management secretly supported DS ideas/worldview/etc.

Where/when did they claim that?
I suppose the Spanish government didn't do a good enough job of convincing the Catalonian people that they are part of Spain.
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> Monte Carlo Tree Search -- AlphaGo (although some of it is Neural Network training, the MCTS is the core of the algorithm)

AFAIK, this is not correct. Many of the Go playing algorithms before AlphaGo used MCTS or some variant. The true breakthrough of AlphaGo was deep reinforcement learning.

> AlphaGo's performance without search
The AlphaGo team then tested the performance of the policy networks. At each move, they chose the actions that were predicted by the policy networks to give the highest likelihood of a win. Using this strategy, each move took only 3 ms to compute. They tested their best-performing policy network against Pachi, the strongest open-source Go program, and which relies on 100,000 simulations of MCTS at each turn. AlphaGo's policy network won 85% of the games against Pachi! I find this result truly remarkable. A fast feed-forward architecture (a convolutional network) was able to outperform a system that relies extensively on search.
https://www.tastehit.com/blog/google-deepmind-alphago-how-it...

I don't know whether AlphaGo Master (the next version of AlphaGo that was trained purely with self-played games and has not been beaten in 60+ games) even uses MTCS.
With all the articles and papers I read, the problem is that you never have to active your body and legs' muscles, even just slightly. Sometimes even your arms' muscles. And this kills us.

The solution to all the problems this create for your body is to use your muscles, and even just a little bit is enough.

- If you are usually standing: you don't have to be standing up for hours, just a few hours are enough.

- If you are usually sitting: a yoga ball is great. You don't have to move all around, keeping your balance on the ball will be good enough.

- And every hour you can take a quick break, or talk to someone so you will move out of your computer and use your muscles.
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I recently had a conversation with a guy who wrote a few lines of code in his life. We had a heated discussion about programming and it turned out that he sees himself as a programmer who can program and hack everything. I program for many years now, but didn't have any words to give him new perspectives on this topic or to show that it's not that easy. I don't want to prove him wrong but I need an advice about showing such people that there is much more behind it (I think this can be said about many other topics too). How to have a good conversation with such people giving them facts or questions to rethink their current mindset and arouse more interest for it?
What do you do when murder is a political idea?
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Which leads to other complications. Who enforces the law when the police are the law breakers?
I've hired plenty of technically rockstar employees for cash strapped startups.

Those who get kick out of these technical challenges are willing to do it for nearly free - we only gotta make sure, their other needs are taken care of.
The project I work on at Microsoft uses feature flags. I see it with many Azure services as well. I can testify that it is absolutely if-statement hell, at least in the areas that rely on these feature flags. However, I will say I think 'lazy programming' is more the issue than the flags themselves. For example, isolating feature specific behavior to it's own impl and using an abstract class to share common behavior--that sort of basic stuff gets skipped in favor of 'time'.

Thankfully these are all obscured from the user for the most part.

We have a 'control panel' like thing that we used to enable/disable feature switches. It works well for its use case and let's us enable/disable with as much granularity as we want.
The US made a war against separatists, in order to ensure the civil rights: the losers wanted a self-determination involving the "right" of slavery. So "self-determination" for evil/egoistic/xenophobic causes is not reasonable at all.

In Catalan region the population is split in two. It is not a "revolution against the central government", but for the power inside the region.
So Norway should have remained a part of Sweden and not allowed to gain independence?
The only source for BBC quoting "hundreds injured" is what secessionists say, they don't contrast that number.

There was a change in BBC news after Brexit, trying to weaken the common European position.
Its also been boycotted by the opposition and was rushed through using dubious mesures by the ruling party
Without very good reasons it is my maxim to prefer to sympathize with the side that applied no/much less violence (which can be the side of the law, but can also be the other side).
It's easy to distinguish them. One is thoughts (we don't arrest and convict people for thoughts) and one is action. When it comes to something like inciting a riot though, that's a fairly grey area. I would guess it is mostly used to squelch unpopular speech.
I'm repeating myself but...

The only source for BBC quoting "hundreds injured" is what secessionists say, they don't contrast that number.

There was a change in BBC news after Brexit, trying to weaken the common European position.
The beneficial aspects of organised religion are overshadowed by the abuses they enable. It continues to segregate based on race, sex, culture, sexual orientation, not to forget other religions. It restricted knowledge to those deemed acceptable, until inventions like the printing press enabled dissemination of knowledge far and wide.

If you want to see a modern example of the effects of organised religion (more to the point, theocracy), you don't have to look any further than the Iranian Revolution in the 1970s. Iran went from a secular, pro-science society to one ruled purely through fear induced by the dominant religion.

I have always tried to maintain a dialogue with people, no matter their way of thinking. However, in recent times I've come to realise that unless you subscribe to a person's religion, any respect they give you is false. They think, by definition, that you are going to a different place to them in an afterlife that nobody truly knows exists. It doesn't become apparent until you come into conflict with the tenets of their belief (sexual orientation being a current one) - then watch them try to politely tell you wrong.

The truth is organised religion is more a burden than a boon, and the quicker we move past it as a species, the quicker we can move on to things that actually matter.
Self-determination for some, miniature Spanish flags for others!