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My first memory of Jewishness in America was my local synagogue being burned down, with swastikas spray painted on the sidewalk out front.

Were those Nazis that committed those acts, or wannabes? I think that is parent's point. How many of those "Nazis" can name a single plank of the Nazi platform? (And I'm sure that more than one can do just that, but not even a majority.) In other words, are they Nazis or more like the character Otto in the movie A Fish Called Wanda?

Otto West: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

But at the end of the day, IMO, it's all just semantics. Some people irrationally hate Jews, some have a distaste for blacks. Whether or not they fit a particular label or not is a distraction from the fact that there are violently hateful people out there, and there weren't Jews they'd find someone else to hate that isn't like them.
I think the argument is more around the potency of a thing (although plant strains can become very potent as well). Just like naturally fermented berries have a different effect compared to distilled spirits.
Except we know what happens when major cities are fire bombed from World War II, and we know the effects of the much worse 1991 Kuwait oil fires which caused no such effects.
How does the Japanese system live with the stuff that plagues Western transportation systems?

For example in Munich there is nearly every day one or more huuuge delays due to:

- people on the track (sprayers, drunkards, people whose phone fell down)

- animals on the track, ranging from stray dogs over wolves to deer - and in some cases, entire herds of sheep... one caused an ICE to derail and destroy a huge amount of tunnel track in the progress once.

- suicides (1.000 suicides in Germany per year, and that's only the successful ones)

- accidents on street crossings (okay, that's eliminated on the highspeed tracks, but regional traffic and metro rails suffer often enough)

- kids letting balloons loose in the underground sections, where they shorten out the power line, sometimes causing major destruction - and occasionally it's a bird that does the same and ends up grilled

- absolute morons who do not make room for people trying to exit the train

- people with disabilities (wheelchair users, but also old people who simply have problems moving!), who sometimes need to be attended by the conductor, e.g. to put out a ramp

- technical breakdowns

However, in Japan this seems to be nearly unheard of.
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The author here implicitly assumes the truth of the descriptions of the Midwest and Midwesterners that he discusses. Further, also assumes that nothing changes, nothing happens in the Midwest. (I particularly liked the intro; now try describing the Midwest to someone who doesn't actually love there.) Everyone is from the Midwest or describing the Midwest, no one seems to be living there.

Here's a hint: there is no Midwest. That should be obvious; it's roughly twice as far from Oklahoma City to St. Louis as from London to Paris.

If you want to read about the past of the central part of the US, can I suggest a brilliant writer who isn't mentioned in the article: Walter Prescott Webb. See The Great Plains or The Frontier.
> Contrast this with the Minneapolis bus system, where you could time the busses at stops within 2 minutes in the central city, even while a foot of snow covered the ground. Both systems used essentially the same equipment -- same models and manufacturers.

Aghh, I hate the Minneapolis bus system, I remember two times in the winter when the bus just didn't come, real nice when it's -8F outside. Or buses being 15 minutes late. But worse of all are the bus drivers themselves. However the Blue Line and Green Line follow the schedule much better then the buses. If your in Minneapolis your best off either driving, biking, taking LRT or catching a Lyft or Uber.
All that Japan love!
Excellent question - in general they don't! The voice recognition is smart enough that it can discern between music and speech (maybe there is to much melody?)
If you know Rails already and you are new to Vue.js. I would say first do some small frontend app only in Vue. So that Vue is not the problem. So having Vue and Rails out of the way you can focus on bringing them together.

TL;DR; Learn Rails and Vue in isolation. When building sofware use this gem.
But that's an legal thing in Germany, not a convention. Also, because it's a codified law, you're perfectly allowed to use Nazi symbology in many contexts where US people would still feel they have to use the "n-word". The rules are a bit similar to "fair use" in copyright.
The people not near the cities targeted wouldn't die from environmental results. That's the point. They might die from serious economic disruption if they can't get access to food. But there would be people who would survive it. There's quite a lot of land in flyover states and what not. A lot of that is farmland.
I agree. That is a true failure that has effects on all future scientists going public. Presenting hypothetical effects as a possibility and open to discussion / discourse is still important.
Counterpoint

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2017.13...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/08/12/even-a-...
It happens in dense cities too. You get empty towers instead. That is more solved by extra unoccupied and non-resident owner taxes. Or you can go south east asia and require majority citizen owners of all properties
The contention was yes: cities are built primarily of loose-frame wood structures that burn easily with rapidly-spreading fires (unlike forests, which are much harder to light and sustain). So the idea is that one bomb causes the inner city and all the urban expanse surrounding it to burn within a few hours as a "firestorm" that would lift the soot into the stratosphere.

Now, that's been debunked apparently. But the hypothesis as stated is sound enough. It's not the blast itself, it's the fire.
Can someone explain how current property taxes don't cover this already? Aren't you taxed relative to the value of the property which is both the land and buildings combined? When my parents owned undeveloped land they still paid taxes. They were still disincentived from holding land indefinitely without using it.
only when walking right?
NN does not unfairly inconvenience you. You are the type of person NN exists to stop.

Sorry, not interested in giving it up so you can bilk and spy on the elderly.
AFAICT you've got it backwards. City A replaces its existing property tax with an LVT. So whereas previously crappy buildings paid less tax than nice buildings next door, they now pay the same tax.

So the tax on nice buildings goes down, making the city more attractive to companies, incenting companies to move to City A and incenting capital to invest in properties in city A.
Austin has done that to homes along Onion Creek. Like you said - it's cheaper in the long run to buy the property so that people's homes don't get flooded, with all the knock-on effects afterwards.
>And what happens if you cannot afford the land tax? Does your home get taken away?

There's usually an exemption on some dollar amount of LVT for your primary residence, provided that the municipality can verify it's actually your primary residence.
It really depends on what your data looks like. If it's just game settings and state, put them in Couch and that's it, and keep user data like payments and activity there.

If it's data you're going to want to run analytics on and sync to the client, you're probably going to have to store it in both places, I think.
Don't worry, surely the government will save us.
Couldn't agree more. Social networks are deliberately designed to be addictive and can definitely cause problems with self esteem - doesn't seem like something kids should be engaged in at all. Additionally, if anything we should be exposing children to less advertisement, not more. This almost sounds like some sick "hook em while they're young" scheme
> I argue that it is not. The destructiveness of opiates derives from their very nature, not the context surrounding their existence in a society.

As someone who has both studied pharmacology and worked in drug policy, I've seen this common misconception before.

Opiates, as a class, are not inherently any more destructive than any other class of drugs. It's possible to synthesize very potent forms of opiates, but it's also trivial to synthesize or distill very potent forms of other drugs as well, including drugs which are either loosely regulated or completely unregulated.

Opiates are, in certain ways, less addictive than alcohol. That's not an endorsement of opiate drug use, but it does mean that we can't say that "the destructiveness of opiates derives from their very nature" without saying that "the destructiveness of alcohol derives from its very nature", and questioning the implications of what that would mean.
That wasn't just Lenin. That was every single rebel on behalf of the lower classes for the last 6,000 years or so. Next time, it'll be about land and AWS servers.
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I want to see mecha firefighters with buzzsaws and these cannons for arms: https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/928387852399865859
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Maybe. But when I need a hammer or drill or saw, I need it now. If I have to go to the library, which may be closed, or may be out of what I need, that won't do it for me.

Libraries work for books because they offer a large selection of items you may only use once, or just browse over. But (inexpensive) tools? You wouldn't rent a dictionary for example...?
This DSL seems largely motivated by the desire for provable compile-time bounds checking. One general-purpose modern language that can check bounds at compile time and generate code that is performance-competitive with C is ATS:

http://www.ats-lang.org/

Dependent types are meant to solve exactly this class of problem. Rust has an RFC for adding these:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1930
People already pay property taxes on their homes, though. LVT would eliminate taxing the improvements and structures and instead just tax the land itself, so the maximum assessed value would decrease.

Additionally, this would ideally be implemented while also eliminating income taxes (and general sales taxes). One of the biggest benefits of this is that we would no longer _need_ to track everyone's income, and could even eliminate vasts amounts of bureaucracy like the IRS and state-level departments.
I might have - give me a minute to check the owner's manual for my hypercomputer.
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For whatever reason, the culture in Silicon Valley has evolved to be relatively open about ideas and business plans. As you've discovered, this is a stark contrast with the norms in lots of other industries/parts of the world.

This culture of course has a powerful pro-economic side effect -- ideas that are shared have a chance to grow, evolve, be challenged and fork, ultimately coming out stronger and better-developed.

To answer your concrete question on how to persuade someone with a different background to open up about their ideas -- maybe share this blog post with them? A little bit of social validation that other successful people are willing to share their ideas can't hurt. :)
I think the most common way to accomplish that idea is to run a linter. Linters should be able to statically catch most of the unsafe operations you're probably describing.
By default, but it is possible to enable integer overflow for release builds with "-C overflow-checks".
> Vue is more flexible primarily via its single-file components

In what way is that a demonstration of flexibility?

> ability to easily leverage existing HTML/Pug/CSS/SCSS/etc, making it an easier target to migrate to.

How is it any easier than React? Seems the exact same to me.
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A visit to Japan will be eye opening for you. The culture is unlike anywhere else I have ever seen.
May be 5 years ago for PCs but still year 0 for Smartphone crap-ware bundling. At least PCs have the ability to remove it with keeping the hardware warranty intact.
Also curious was the inclusion of pushd/popd without explaining what a 'stack' is
Not to mention, how would you limit it to children only? Talk about pedo heaven.
huh? - so we can never build turing machines? because we can never build infinite memory?
I mostly agree with you. (I have 4 kids ages 9, 11, 13, and 23)

My Counter-Counterpoint is to first consider the following: (a) most kids are using normal social networks like Snapchat and Instagram in jr. high school (age 12+ in the US), (b) children see their parents and older kids using social networks and want to emulate them, (c) a lot of parents are either too busy or too lazy to do what you suggest and that's why so many children are handed a device at way too young an age, (d) helicopter parenting makes c. even worse.

So, given that, I say this should be built–if, for no other reason, than to encourage responsible and empathetic use of social media. Maybe it has time limits and is purposely non-addictive. Maybe it encourages IRL interactions at the park and helps parents coordinate that. Maybe it detects cruel comments and teaches them why its not ok. Maybe it guides kids through outdoor games and educational activities.

I like what you're suggesting but I'm more of the mindset "this is inevitable so i hope someone takes the moral/responsible route with it"

Also, a side note for those that don't have kids and aren't aware, a very large swath of elementary school children in the US already have Google accounts through their school or school district.

Edit: some words
> This was the problem california had, paid off homes property tax became the same as renting an apartment, driving elderly out, and thus laws had to be passed to protect them.

Oh, is that why Prop 13 also applies to commercial property, people who can easily afford the increased property taxes, second homes, and heirs?

Prop 13 was a giant mistake. A narrow version to prevent grandma from getting kicked out of her longtime home would be fine, but the real thing is insanely broader than that.
This has been my experience as well; It's as if every company is looking for a unicorn programmer... when their domain isn't any more or less unique than any other domain.

One of the "interesting" side effects is that it seems like interviewers are starting with the assumption that the person interviewing is an idiot who knows nothing and then works from there. So any slight misstep or misremembering of something puts you the fail box immediately.

My theory is that part of this is the broken culture of interviewing that we have as an industry. This "tricky CS puzzle" crap that originated at GOOG and MSFT is so prevalent that it's nigh impossible to actually succeed. More than once, it's obvious to me that the people DOING the interviewing couldn't pass their own interview...
I read the Cyclone papers when I designed the original Rust borrow checker, and we spoke to Dan Grossman.

Cyclone only works because it uses garbage collection for the heap. There is a uniqueness extension, but it is limited compared to what Rust can do. (See Grossman's "Existential Types for Imperative Languages" presentation for details.) The uniqueness extension was not designed to (and is not flexible enough to) supplant the garbage collector in most real-world projects.

This theoretical static checker for C code would not be compatible with virtually any existing C code in the wild, and so it would be effectively a new language.
Sounds like there is a Commerce Clause case to be made in there somewhere?
the answer is in the question. Except for the technical breakdowns, all the other are caused by people. People stop doing stupid shit -> train can be on time. It's a cultural problem mostly.
In Japan, you don't do the stupid shit (or you do it in private) and in exchange the train is on time. Every day!
With online sales, all of that is on record on credit card or bank account statements. All they have to do is jack up the penalties on sales/use tax evasion, and randomly audit people.
Then by that point of view no commercial OS is made for developers, including UNIX ones.

It was the way that commercial UNIX vendors started selling their SDKs, with Sun being the first one, that made people actually contribute to gcc.
Racism (or, racial bias) is a tendency of human nature. It is not dependent on where one lives or one's own racial heritage.
Impact is the important part of racism, not intent. You can have the best intentions and still be racist.
I don't think I could disagree more with having `man` at the bottom of the advanced/infrequently-used section. Learning how to read and search through the documentation that comes with the system is a very beneficial thing to learn how to do.
Back in 2014 teams at Apple weren't allowed to release papers. If they were you wouldn't be making this comment since you would be including Apple in the list of companies who do this. Not that this is even a paper.

And who cares about Google, Facebook anyway ? They never invented this technology nor were they even the first to incorporate it in shipping products.
There's only so much you can do, though. With eight colors, you're already into difficult territory (as far as distinguishability goes) and color cues need to be supplemented by other visual elements.
It goes with the adage: "Some people have 20 years of experience; some have one year of experience repeated 20 times."
No one here seems excited about the Dr Dolittle tech. I would love to get one.
I've been fooling around with the GDAX API which might be what OP meant, since GDAX owns Coinbase. Maybe. I guess you might be able to use GDAX directly.

Anyway, it is a pretty good API that is directly tied into the exchange, so you are fairly close to the data.

There is no pricing, just fees. Fees are fairly low.

For higher frequency trading (does not seem like what OP was doing) it can matter, but if you're trading on 5-10% change, well, it won't be a big percent of your earnings.
Nope, the point of a map is to display the information you want to know, which is a subset of all information.
> While Linux distros have been getting better and easier for many years, installing and maintaining Linux on my own machine still requires sysadmin Linux knowledge to this day.

I'm not sure that's true. You can buy a few computers (including from Dell) with Linux pre-installed, and maintenance doesn't take a lot more than clicking on the upgrade button with the daily update-manager prompt.

I _do_ have sysadmin knowledge and find the shell more efficient than the GUI in 99% of everyday-use cases (I can't remember the last time I opened a file browser). So it's entirely possible that there's some day-to-day work required that I'm not even thinking about.

But my dad is running a Linux Mint system and I switched him to it (about ~10 years ago) because it required so much _less_ maintenance than running a Windows machine did. The number of phone calls for tech support I got from him plummeted from twice a week to zero when I switched him from Windows: I did so because I got tired of fielding constant questions about antivirus software, defragmentation, startup programs littering his systray, possible viruses installed, etc etc etc etc. It's really beyond me why anybody thinks that Windows is an appropriate OS for a non-technical user (er, or for a technical user, or really anyone who doesn't need specialty software).
Vendors do write drivers for bsd, they just don't generally give them back to the project. Agree or disagree, they generally have a ton of time and money invested in their drivers and don't want to give them away to competitors.
I am humble unlike all those full-of-faults lower being from other regions. My identity is defined my my lack of faults, unlike other regions. And that attitude is no nonsense, because we are truly better then them.

It seems more like fake humblesness more then really being humble.
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How long before this makes github enterprise I wonder.
> Next, do you think the cartels or monopolists who come to control opium supply will show the poor of India more mercy? Do they currently?

You can't compare a local cartel to a foreign, hegemonic imperial power.

In addition, what leads you to assume that the opium trade will inevitably be controlled by cartels or monopolists? Is marijuana production in California controlled by cartels or monopolists[0]? Opium is already produced in India (legally!), and its production isn't controlled by cartels or monopolists. And the plant is both endemic to the region and easy to grow, making it incredibly difficult for any entity to seize control over its production.

[0] Answer: no, despite all their best efforts over the last couple of decades.
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Oh, they do have some of these problems. The Chuo line (中央線, Chūō-sen) in Tokyo used to be famous for suicides. People would avoid the line, because it was quite probable that there would be delays.

But in general the trains run really well, and an avoidable mistake is really rare.
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What are the current recommendations for rapidly building a web application? Back in the day it used to be Rails. It seems like Phoenix is picking up steam.

Are there any other full-stack frameworks that take you from nothing to something fairly robust in a few hours?
It's especially awful when people try to give directions based on crossroads and stuff. "Drive on Main until you get to water street then turn." then water street isn't marked. or "It's at the crossroads of 46th and main" then 46th isn't marked so you have to find 43rd and count three streets forward. You'd think that would be one of their base duties.
He never actually made the trains run on time. It’s a myth.
That does sound like an excellent idea.

Many many informations about one's health are found in feces, and yet collecting them to give them to a lab is, well, repugnant. If we could somehow have a sensor in the toilet that would scan them every day, that would be invaluable (and probably save lives).
presumably 1) public domains resolving local is a threat, 2) that domain has bad reputation and previously hosted nasties
At that point you will have basically reinvented Rust. The resulting language will be so incompatible as to essentially be a new language.
I saw this today and had the sense of excitement and dread. Correcting the gene responsible for a given condition is only a small step from changing a gene for better athletic performance.
The Orthodox split happened in 1054. Though there was a gradual shift apart before that they were very closely related. If your argument was that Orthodox Christianity moved towards Aristotle a century before the West, that seems to be well backed up.

Your first book lists five people covered in the book, all of them outside the period being discussed. I have no idea why you think the second one will support your argument.