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You can't look at an individual law alone. New York has a whole array of laws designed to protect the power of both major parties, and they work in conjunction with each other.

Want to switch your party registration? Go ahead and do it today - it won't take effect until 2019. Yes, you read that right. This deadline for change of party registration is an order of magnitude larger than the next largest state. New York also uses fusion voting to weaken third parties - they only have any influence whatsoever if they endorse the major party candidates, which prevents any real competition with the major party candidates. (See how Cuomo created the fake "Women's Equality Party" during the last election cycle specifically in an attempt to strip the Working Families Party of its ballot status).

There are a whole range of these laws, and if I were to go into all of them, I'd exceed the maximum length for a HN comment ten times over,. The end result is that New York is, objective, the most corrupt state in the country[0], and the system is also perfectly stable (in the literal sense) - there is no way, short of a federal court case, that any of these laws will ever meaningfully change.

[0] http://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2016/sep/19/el...
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To be fair, I should note that those publications published only the abstract and eliminated the actual research results.

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I think this is what I've heard referred to on conservative forums as "the soft bigotry of low expectations." It's arguing that he doesn't know any better, he acts this way because that's how his people act. That sort of reasoning has historically led nowhere good, and it's pretty insulting to everyone of his race who's capable of not being an asshole.
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Sure :) One of those things which makes you wonder why even have a smartphone when the old dumb phones can do the trick.
I could imagine that shielding electronics from radiation could fall under military secret.
http://sixsentences.blogspot.ch/ is pretty good sometimes.
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Yeah, I am extremely confused at this, too. I am a developer by profession who happens to care about security because I care about delivering a good product. I'm not a "security person." Bounds-checking is a way for me to deliver a good product, and killing buggy code is sort of my job. Bounds-checking should be enabled in production.
In terms of hardware it is practically the same. However Crazyflie has its own development while these cheap controllers can work with any standard open source flight software such as Cleanflight, Betaflight, etc. They are also cheaper than Crazyflie, you can have a drone for half the money.
I wish this was prevalant in the States. Here you are real estate "investors" (flippers) who think putting lipstick in a pig is improving the house. Cosmetic improvements like new flooring or painting everything new.

While the 100 year old internal plumbing is about to implode or the fragile walls continue to creak.
> only 4% of registered Democrats - four percent! - bothered to show up and vote for someone other than him in the primaries.

New York has low turnout because it has a set of laws that serve to disenfranchise voters in ways that other states could only ever dream of. (Yes, people technically have the right to vote, but because of a set of laws which I've described elsewhere, there's no way for them to use these votes to hold their elected officials accountable, like there is in other states).

Once every decade or so, yes, there's a race that's moderately contested (like the one you describe). But at that point, people aren't in the habit of voting anyway.

By the way, in your example the only reason Teachout ran as a Democrat instead of on the Working Families Party as she'd planned is because of these laws. The Working Families Party was pressured into endorsing Cuomo as their candidate, to ensure that they'd retain their ballot access. Teachout was angry enough that she decided to run as a Democrat, knowing full well that she'd lose, because nobody in New York ever wins a primary without the backing of the major party[0].

Teachout is far and away an exception, not the rule. Even then, her run was purely symbolic, and she herself knew it.

[0] Again, due to a whole bunch of laws that give the party incredible influence in shaping the outcome of primaries.
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Those Easter Island Statues: did building them help to keep the islanders sane or was it merely a shocking waste of time and resources? (serious question). When the final crisis hit, did they see the problem and grapple with it or did they merely double down and build more identical heads?
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Usually it is because as soon as the build gets a little complex, you need to define your own logic. In a minute, you are scripting your build tool with a Turing complete language. And of course users of language X want to script their build using X.

That just makes sense - define a build DSL inside your own language. For some reasons, though, the de facto build DSL used by Scala suffers by all the issues mentioned by Li Haoyi in his blog post
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C++ also needs something like std::bind.
To have to use some bind mechanism is reasonable for me.
In JavaScript you could do this since quite some time with currying.
Linus is extremely lucky to have found his niche, as he is otherwise unemployable. One of his sweary rants at a cow-orker in any normal company would see him fired for gross misconduct and probably a restraining order taken out. Much of the toxic behaviour in the tech industry can be traced back to Linus "getting away with it".
It's interesting that Martin Odersky (creator of Scala, and possibly also involved in SBT) responded in agreement, linking his own critique from several years ago.
This website looks pretty awesome to follow. Some of their articles are just mind blowing.
It might not be an excuse, but judging by the things people are offended by in America, it really is a cultural difference.

I dare you to find European devs who believe terms slave and master in tech context are offensive and should be replaced.
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Supply and demand. new cars get built everyday but house supply remains the same (for the most part), while population increases.
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Perl is a very practical language. But this practicality has been achieved by building features on top of bad design. The result is a big, complex and quirky language. To make this worse, the community decided to "fix" this re designing the whole language from scratch. They created Perl 6 which has a much better design, but it's incompatible. The community now it's broken in two and the future doesn't look that good.
Rome did not collapse at all, it just entered a long slow decline period where the central power became less and less effective while independent city states thrived and created numerous works of art, developed scientifically and commercially and militarily, and generally weren’t particularly aware that there was a “collapse” going on.
Are you talking about the Roman Empire or the city of Rome?

The city still exists and was never completely abandoned but having its population drop from 1 million to less than 50000 is a significant change. I guess, if you consider this change a "collapse" depends if you think it dropped fast enough.

How much the fall of the (western) Roman Empire was due to or was accelerated by environmental factors is still up to debate. Was the migration period caused by climate changes? Or what role did the deforestation of the Italian peninsula play?
Camels or Dromedaries had a strong advantage over other animals like horses: They did not need roads in good shape, nor fields where to eat.

It is important because at that time, creating and maintaining a road and relays was really costly for states, and states at the same time, needed to tax businesses which could not exist without roads (or ports/boats).
Now that you mentioned it.. Since japan's birth rate is decreasing year by year, it does make sense that home prices naturally decrease/depreciate. Simply less demand.
We are also interviewing at the minute and I can't believe how low the bar is for people to claim they are software developers.

I'm sure these learn to be a web developer in 8 weeks courses don't help, but even people with years of experience seem to be absolutely hopeless.
Its the main reason any language is hated. JavaScript now is less hated because the tooling got there and people were educated at university to program in it well. PHP and Ruby are on the list of disliked on the SO analysis. Which is basically nonsense for modern versions of both languages. I really wish these stats would state "Perl 5" too, as Perl 6 is really modern in semantics and syntax and is nice to code in.
Do you have a link to more information on that protocol, or a name for it or something? I'm striking out trying to find it. Thanks!
For those fed up of SBT, it's worth taking a look at CBT [0], which is an attempt to do this job more simply and intuitively using plain Scala code (no affiliation).

[0]: https://github.com/cvogt/cbt
On one hand I agree but on the other, Team Fortress 2, where the model originated has stagnated with only a handful of team members shipping actual content updates to the game with the majority of it just seemingly being community items made canon.

There is still a community but it doesn't feel like the same game since microtransactions were added. It's still a fascinating example of a player run economy though with (virtual) "Mac OSX Earbuds" being used as a primary currency at one point
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>how Perl managed to become quite so profoundly disliked

I'm guessing the reasons are actually more conspicuous than computer science concepts of "undecidability" since most working programmers don't read academic papers to judge whether they like/disklike a programming language.

The conspicuous reasons seem to be a combination of:

1) PERL's usage of sigils.[1] One the one hand, it makes code compact and terse. On the other hand, many perceive the source code as "line noise" or "sigil hell". This is the opposite problem of other disliked languages like Objective-C where people complain it's too verbose.

2) PERL not having a constantly updated ecosystem that keeps up with new trends in computing. PERL was great for text munging (alternative to sed & awk). However, PERL wasn't extended as the driving language for dynamic web pages (Brendan Eich created Javascript instead of embedding Perl interpreter in Netscape browser), or GUI data entry forms programming (Java and C# gained popularity), or machine learning (Google developers designed Python to be 1st class in Tensorflow), etc.

tldr: PERL is perceived as "legacy" with ugly syntax

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)
It's actually quite interesting, from what I've understood it's one of few well adopted programming languages that's designed by a linguist and made primarily to be easily understood and written by humans.

At the time of inception and around the peak of popularity I do believe it was a quite innovative language. But by now we have a much larger set of languages aimed for the same target group, many of which have gained larger adoption among developers of this time.

In a way I can almost see Node as "the new Perl" in the sense that it's a widely used language across platforms praised for it's large set of available libraries and ease of creating "quick n' dirty"-hacks.
Where on Wikipedia do you find Marxism so described?
Plenty of people do use maven, but there's a lot of power in being the assumed popular option, which sbt is.
A more interesting zero-word article than the writer's block one is "On Nonrecoverable Deletion in Syntax" (1972) [0]

0: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmLQjz0CMAA-l28.jpg:large
It's worse than that. You can't parse Perl without running arbitrary Perl code:

https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663504
One of the huge differences is Apple hasn't gone down the root of making octo-core ARM CPUs. They stuck to dual-core designs all the way until (and including) the iPhone 6S, then the iPhone 7 going quad-core, and the iPhone 8 going hexa-core. They've very clearly avoided following the big.LITTLE that most ARM licensees have followed.
Intel has more of the existing partnerships with OEMs, and that isn't going to reverse immediately with a strong showing from AMD. The new Ryzen Mobile notebooks are low-to-midrange entries and groundbreaking in their category, but Intel still covers that higher end segment.

It's easier to see this from Intel's perspective: Intel's biggest threat is from the onrush of GPU-driven computing, and Nvidia is the market leader there. The classic play is to starve them of oxygen by leveraging existing channels to get them out of the gaming notebook market. Thus comes this weird saga with AMD and Raja which is a win win deal in fact: Intel gets ammo to fight Nvidia now and a key hire for their own development later, and AMD gets another source of cashflow and marketshare plus a graceful exit for what has been reported as shaky, conflicted executive management at RTG. Although they've delivered decent hardware and software recently, there have been numerous PR flubs from the group and the business unit performance is questionable overall. There is an open question of what happens to RTG later on, but perhaps the answer is simply to survive in Intel's shadow again.
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Actually the problem has more implications, as it's an effect of parsing the code. Any IDE:s that have advanced features that rely on parsing and analysis of the code can be caught in an infinite loop and stop responding.

The sad part is, in the general case it's impossible for the parser (or any other process overviewing it) to decide if it's actually caught in an infinite loop or not, that's why they call it undecidability.
OP here,

As mentioned I did use Linux on several occasions previously. On my previous work we used plenty of Oracle tools that were not available for Linux at that time, and older documentation is written in Word/Excel hence we were forced to use Windows.

When I moved I got a Mac, not by choice, so I had to use it for last 6 months (I didn't feel to comfortable to request a new laptop immediately after joining).

Once I felt comfortable I asked for a ThinkPad (x1 carbon 5th gen).
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Of course no system is completely bulletproof against a determined attacker. There are however a few differences. First of all what these people did is obviously illegal and people go to jail for doing that sort of thing. As it stands there is no legal consensus on whether exploiting a bug in a smart contract is illegal or not.

Secondly and more importantly, the fail-safes built into the system largely work. In the Bangladesh case for example the vast majority of the money they where attempting to steal was never transferred due to humans intervening and overriding the transfer order. And even a non-trivial amount of the money that was transferred was later recovered by reversing the transaction.
But there's no gameplay!

Sorry, I mean to say: there's no inherent evolution of plot or mechanics. It's a game that's literally defined by "numbers increasing on the side of the screen, and microtransactions to make those numbers go up quicker." What would that look like without the microtransactions?

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And I could retort; can you file a defamation suit towards Facebook for something their users did? Can you file a defamation suit against NYTIMES for something their reporters did?
Personally I believe the BBC version of events

The BBC has their own narrative (the rest of the world was living in peace and harmony before white Europeans spoiled everything) so I would take their opinion with a large pinch of salt.
Second what svennek said: get your foot in the door in a company that supports employees changing roles over time.

In addition to technical writing, another potential position is training. Teaching children isn't the same as teaching adults, but many of the skills will transfer.
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Entrepreneurship is not an easy road. It can be ultimately very fulfilling but being depressed is not the state to start it.

You have to hit upon an idea (note that, it need not be THE idea), take it to customers. If you get positive response, you go with it and build the core of your product and take it to customers again. Get their feedback, iterate. Spend more than 50% of your time marketing. If at anypoint you believe the product is not the success you estimated it to be, you will need to pivot. All of these are very hard decisions and grueling work. And you need to do it alone. You will also need several months of backup to see you through till you get your first sales.

Being your own master is the ultimate freedom. Before you go that path, take a vacation or meet friends to alleviate the depression. If that is not enough, see a professional.

If you do go the entrepreneurial route, these tips might help you.

1. Finding a compatible cofounder can help keep loneliness at bay and focus on what is truly important. Ideally they should complement your skill set.

2. Any product, big or small, should be decomposed into small chunks. Each chunk you finish should be releasable. i.e there should a concrete output at the end. That will give tangible feedback and keep your morale high.

3. Split chunks further into tasks that are very specific and unambiguous, and finishable in small period of time, say two hours or less. So every time you sit to work, you will know exactly you are going to do. Makes it easy to get into flow. Also, time tracking will give you the satisfaction that progress is made. A common pitfall is for founders to force themselves to work night and day to finish it at fast as possible, at the compromising health, sanity and relationships . Unfortunately this can lead to burnout.

4. Design is secondary. Domain names are secondary. The core product is all that matters. For my first product, i wasted so much time just coming up with that perfect name! Nope, does not matter.

5. Market, market, market. You need to learn how to take it in front of your customer. There is no escape from this part. And if you are not already familiar with it, that in itself is a big undertaking.

Wishing you the best.
This is more of a cultural thing. Editing articles themselves is carte blanche of course, but editing people's comments has a stigma. From a pragmatic standpoint it probably prevents petty squabbles over typos, as well as passive-agressive tweaking from editors. On a deeper level though, it's about integrity of thought. Even for articles it's expected that quotes should present what was originally said. People can take it really personally if you change what they said and it's not hard to change the tone or force of an argument by changing even a word.

Btw, I highly doubt it was an admin that gave you that warning. It was probably a regular user.
Exactly, this DNA does not get to live inside a cell.

The next evolution is to craft viruses that carry the payload and use a (human) host to carry the information around.
> it's not like they could tear out New York city and build fresh then put it all back

Several large cities in Europe have built new high speed tracks in tunnels under the city.

The track between London St Pancras and Stratford stations in London (and from Stratford further east) is an example. St Pancras is the end of the line, so the speed is necessarily limited by the acceleration and braking capability of the train, but [1] says the speed is 230km/h = 142mph. [2] says speeds in tunnels are limited to 270km/h (168mph), they probably mean a bit further out of the city.

Other than the last 1km or so, the whole track of this route is new.

Realistically, any city worth spending so much money on will have every train stopping at it, so there's no need for higher speeds in under-city tunnels.

[1] https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/hs1-maximum-permitted-s...

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/6969116.stm
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> legitimate leadership technique

What do you mean?

If by "legitimate" you mean effective, then sure; linux kernel development seems to be humming along and providing value to lots of people.

If by "legitimate" you mean socially acceptable, then I'd look to the large community that seems to find little problem with "Linus language".

If by "legitimate" you mean causing no harm, then perhaps you have a case. Linus does seem to get under some people's skin. But what are our priorities, really?

From a stoic standpoint, Linus' words have nothing to do with anybody but himself, so it says a something about me or you if we get bothered by him.

However you look at it though, Linus is a human just like you or me. If we dislike him, then we're free to ignore him and move on; why spend time trying to argue what he "should" be doing?
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That is obvious, the thing is that in America a "permanent resident" and "permanent resident for tax purposes" are two different things, and IRS does bestow the second status quite liberally, and once you are deemed a tax resident, it is hard to get rid of that status even long after you left the coutry.
>Mathematically, something has to be the leading cause of death ages 25..44. What should it be?

I'm a bit late here, but I think we could reasonably hope for things that are essentially random, such as car accidents, food poisoning, house fires, chronic birth defects or DIY mishaps.

If you look at the actual causes of death[1] You can see that in that age bracket, this is broadly the case. "Unintentional injury" is #1, followed by suicide, followed by homicide, followed by cancer (which includes lung cancer ofc) and then heart disease. (The exact ordering varies a bit depending on source, but accidents->suicide->lung cancer->heart disease is definitely a broad trend)

Your point is well made, but when suicide and homicide are above heart disease in the deaths of a nation famed for a national scale chronic weight problem, it's not hard to say that the US could probably do more on the mental health front. I'm of the opinion that the same is true for most of the western world.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10lcid_all_deaths_by_...
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> If anyone wants to try this type of "game" give cookie clicker a try.

Cookie Clicker is fun and entertaining, but I'd recommend playing it (and all other "incremental"/"clicker" games) with the JavaScript console open. Enjoy the story, flavor, and twists, without the wasted time and idleness.

Also try Spaceplan.
I found this only to be a problem in legacy libraries.
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