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The changing climate conditions are going to wreak havoc on countless species in the coming century.

The only question is would we be ready when things start rolling faster than we could control?
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I spent at least half an hour trying to figure out which gene it is. I have a sneaky feeling I have read this story before, and managed to track the gene down there, but not this time.

You'd think that if they were serious about tackling this, they would add a footnote with the name of the gene.
Nice read. Some personal experience: in the 1980s during my mandatory time at German military I was military police. At things like Oktoberfest we had to work with the American MPs to deal with drunk American soldiers when they were causing trouble . One thing that was very noticeable that we were trained to deflect violence and retreat if possible to call more people. The MPs on the other hand had more of an attitude to directly confront the situation and quickly resolve problems with force if necessary. They seemed to take things more personally and didn't want to let the bad guys win. Another thing I noticed was at a shooting range. We had to account for each bullet whereas the Americans would hand out piles of bullets liberally.

I also never even thought about somebody having a gun whereas in the US I guess this fear is always there.

This is only my personal experience but after working with the MPs and now living in the US I think part of it is the competitiveness in the US. People want to win. That includes cops who want to win over their adversaries and not look like losers.
> I often wonder how many authentication log files contain passwords because people in a hurry append it to the username on accident

Is this why everyone does 2-step login on websites now?
You just need to wait for a few seconds for the transaction to be "pending" though, which is enough for small-medium payments. Unless you're worried the guy buying a 5$ burrito from you will mine a block with his double-spent transaction.
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It's an organized resistance group, but it's not what we need. Just the name Black Lives Matter is loaded with racial connotations that don't help the situation. We need to focus on police demilitarization everywhere and with everyone, not just around a single race.
Interesting, thanks for sharing!

There was a video on how Germany and The Netherlands tackle cross-border crime. They ride in pairs, one German, one Dutch. What the Dutch officer highlighted was that the German officer was allowed to reach for his gun, hold it to his/her side and put it back without reporting he/she did so. This would not be allowed in The Netherlands and one would have to report that this was done. Reaching for your gun is a big thing here.

Unfortunately the video is in Dutch: https://youtu.be/v4TyJUEMPVU (4:40)

If you need a translation of certain parts, just ask.
> Calling someone you don't like a "fake account" (as someone has already hinted about me in this very comment section!)

I don't know where someone hinted that you're a fake account, but you are certainly disingenuously passing yourself off as some kind of authority on what ordinary Filipinos think, when you don't even live in the Philippines, but a country thousands of miles away.

This explains why your only evidence of "the entire population" favouring Duterte is a Youtube of people who like Duterte saying they like Duterte, and what some people allegedly told you when you visited the country.

> even though they live in the country [...] who has probably never been in the Philippines?

And why are you even getting so worked up and fanatical about this? Because you spent two weeks in Boracay? It's not your country - you live in South Africa - so why are you acting otherwise?
> Monetary policy is a very powerful instrument for helping the economy along. Without it, it would be impossible to ensure enough liquidity as the market expands. Also, the economy would not be resilient to 'shock' events.

Many countries expressly forbid themselves to use monetary policy to manipulate their economy. Their monetary policy has singular goal: to keep inflation low and stable.

So maybe it's not such a graet tool although tempting.
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You can find what you want on the (Central) East Side, I think.
Just a small note, the person that shouts the instructions is Sgt. Charles Langley but the shooter is Philip “Mitch” Brailsford.

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It's not a Puritan mentality. It's the fact that any person they interact with could be armed. The reason many other countries police deal with violent criminals in a different way is because it is very unlikely those criminals will be armed.

Where I live (Hungary) there is almost no gun violence. The few instances I'm aware of that do involve guns are things where violent groups are involved like organized crime or right-wing groups. In those cases I think that the police go in prepared for something different when they interact with people on a day to day basis.

When I moved here from the US it was a big adjustment. I would hear a loud bang and think someone had fired off a gun. Now I hear the same noise and realize it is fireworks or construction. When I'm out in the city I no longer have to worry about an armed confrontation and that's relaxing. In fact I didn't realize how much those things weighed on me in the US until I got away from it.

The proliferation of guns is the reason so many people get shot in the US and it's no surprise the police are a big part of it.
I was slightly off; see callahad's description of the algorithm elsewhere in the thread for a better description of what happens.
Say what you will about US police departments: they keep the population in line and when shit goes down they don't run away.

Trust me: you do NOT want the police to be your friend. They tried that experiment here.
There is an entire paragraph showing the causation. I disagree that its a jump.
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If the richest and most powerful countries say "there is no climate change" and "others want to destroy our economy", then the answer is a pessimistic one. The same applies to countries that say "yes, there is a climate change and we must do something", but in the end avoid doing anything to unwind the death spiral.
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To the 12 men who said it hurt their chances... really?
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> the ideal scenario is for police minimize death (of criminals and police officers) at all costs

Do you really believe this in all situations? I don't. In a standoff between 5 cops and 15 criminals I'd rather see the cops kill them all than vice versa, since the cops didn't create the bad situation in the first place. We all weight lives based on their moral value and culpability in the situation.

Maybe that's an extreme example, but the way it happens more often is that a suspect pulls a gun, points it at a single cop, and the cop has to decide whether to kill the suspect or die him/herself. I'd always argue that in such a situation the cop should shoot.

Are you suggesting that shoot to wound is a better policy?
Is having optional debug trace that can be activated only with admin rights really a bad thing security-wise ? Maybe when combined with other bug/features ?
> [...] even he had to take a few shortcuts in CompCert, e.g., he eschewed some termination proofs.

This turned out to be a premature optimization, actually! The CakeML compiler did full functional correctness proofs for their register allocator and report that it wasn't significantly harder than Compcert's translation validation.

> Writing a formal spec is no harder than writing tests (and arguably easier).

This, I'm much less sure of. IME, the really hard thing about correctness proofs is that specifications and proofs often require genuinely new ideas that didn't occur in the code.

For example, the spec of something like a sorting routine is that the output returns a list in increasing order, and that the output is a permutation of the input. The concept of a permutation doesn't occur explicitly in the implementation of the sort, and so the need to make this concept explicit can stop learners dead in their tracks.

I taught Agda (a dependently-typed programming language) to undergraduates, and found that Agda-the-programming language was actually easier to teach than Haskell (the IDE is better and there's less magic). But Agda-the-proof-assistant was hard to teach, mostly AFAICT because I don't know how to teach having mathematical ideas well.
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>Ding ding: it's not either/or, it's both

Yes, that was the point I was making.

>Loose coupling and DI are important to strike the right balance

DI is useful sometimes (e.g. when you have a set of modules you want to hotswap with one another), but it's often just an overused crutch to deal with the inability of unit tests to couple to real things - like an actual REST API endpoints over a loopback interface.

The whole idea that unit tests drive "good code" by making you DI all the things is a pile of shit. Unit tests just make it painful to not do DI because unit tests are themselves a form of tight coupling.
Not a study, but...in Ron Chernow's bio of Alexander Hamilton there are a couple of places where he mentions that AH was notable for talking to himself while walking from place to place. [1] Your comment made me think of it because his tremendous impact and voluminous output made that behavior seem odd. But, perhapse they where related.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=4z5eL5SGjEoC&pg=PT438&lpg=...
You won't see species vanish in a 1 minute video. It's a slow and painful death.
The article is mostly about global warming and contains a wealth of citations / references / relevant links.

They provided their evidence as to why it's not a jump to link it to global warming -- where is your evidence that it is, in fact, a jump?
> Some checking also happens at compile time, even more if you intentionally include type declarations. (Type declarations are part of the ANSI Common Lisp standard.)

Just a note that this is entirely implementation-dependent. SBCL, for instance, is very good about using type declarations as correctness checks (those that can't be statically verified transparently degrade to runtime assertions) but their exact behaviour isn't specified in the standard; for example, implementations are free to take them as declarations that the programmer knows things the implementation doesn't and to trust them, which could cause weird bugs if they're not correct.
Nobody was singing the whole song, only individual, isolated notes (both for regular instruments and the phoneme synthesizer) went through the mturkers, in homage (machinage?) to how the original was programmed.

Personally, I would have preferred a version that kept the "voice" from the original and only replaced the non-voice instruments.
This is a very interesting study to me. When learning I've always read out books/scripts/articles loud to myself and it actually helped me to remember things easier than by just reading them without speaking the text. So it was not just my imagination it seems.
Individual animals in the wild die cruel, slow, painful deaths all the time, regardless of whether their species as a whole is thriving or not.

So while this video might evoke a strong emotional response, it is just an anecdote and not actually evidence one way or the other for human-caused climate change.

Of course, human-caused climate change is obviously real, but it's not OK to use bad arguments even if your conclusion is correct.

EDIT: To clarify further, I am not disputing that polar bears are not being harmed by climate change, or even that the particular bear in the video is not starving because of climate change. I am merely pointing out that one could produce a video of a starving polar bear both in our world and in the world where climate change is not happening, because wild animals starve all the time.
Very thoughtful comment, thank you. What do you refer to as „grade level“? Political knowledge, personal range of power, personal sense of empowerment, or psych. ability to deal with hardship?
> When reviewing the games it is hard for Go players not to talk about 'intent' and 'planning'.

An interesting point. Of course the AI is not planning with intent, but the language is useful. But it IS seeing that if it does X, then the opponent is likely to do Y, which will allow it to do Z. And note that when we see a human player playing X, we say he/she is planning Z, but in reality that's not quite true. What's happening is just the same: he/she is expecting Y, which will allow Z. The process is not so different.
I'd agree, but... Well, she mistyped the number, then typed out a text and didn't send it. One hypothesis: it was creepy for some guy she just met while working on her product to be asking for her number. Which is true.

You can't really pretend you're with a male, any more than women can pretend they're with a woman. I wish you could.
An example I tend to give is the case a while back where someone was wielding an axe. Two police officers went after him, and the axe-wielding man was shot and killed because he went for one of them.

Success, surely? He protected his partner, who might have been harmed.

The way something like this would likely have gone down somewhere like the UK would be that the first responders would have called for reinforcement, and then kept their distance and waited. You don't engage someone armed unless there is immediate danger to others. She should never have been close enough to be in danger.

In the UK they may or may not call in a firearms team in such a case, but if they did, they'd be brought in as a precaution. More likely they'd close down the area around him and wait, and wear the guy down, and then see if they could get him to drop the weapon peacefully.

For comparison there was a case of a man robbing a house near me a while back unarmed, and the police brought in 20 officers, chased him until he climbed onto a roof. Then they simply waited for 4-5 hours until he accepted he had no way out.

So many of the cases I hear about from the US is down to impatience and seemingly some kind of belief that they need to stop things as quickly as possible rather than trying to stop things with as little conflict as possible.

I don't think it's necessarily so much punishment as fear that if they don't do something, things will escalate. But most of the time if you contain a threat and wait, the level of conflict will de-escalate. So much violence boils down to fear that the other side will be willing to use more violence. And that fear is pervasive through some groups of people. E.g. we see that in the insistence of keeping or carrying weapons.
One less to have to write if you want to do evil. HP -oh nice, just have to enable their builtin keylogger.
Another vote for Common Lisp here.
> Surely, if 1000 people own 40% of a currency which had evangelical aims to service 7.5 billion people, then it is impossible to call it decentralised...

Decentralized can have many meanings. What is important is that you can transact with anyone without a third party having any say. For that 99% of all coins could be in the hands of a single person as long as there would be enough left for others to use.

> Add this to the obvious fact that the vast majority of new bitcoins mined are from china, which due to the scale of processing power now has a monopoly due to capital barriers

As long as they do not collude to destroy or disrupt the network it has no relevance at all.

> This has become nothing more than a pyramid scheme that adds no value whatsoever to the world. Not cryptocurrency as an idea, but bitcoin's current iteration and implementation.

As Bitcoin is practically useless due to high fees and congestion, I agree. But not because the reasons you gave.
With the 5120 CUDA cores is this going to be the go to card for mining cryptocurrncies? I wonder how much it would increase performance and in turn how long it would take to recoup such a hefty pricetag.

Thanks for the link.
Thank you for the insight. It seems to me people in the western world/media just can't accept that leaders in other countries can genuinely have high approvals in the population despite behaving dictatorial and using violence (I'm also thinking of people like Putin and Erdogan here).

This is something that we've (we as in western europeans) also had our fair share of and thought it over and done with. The reality seems to be though that time and again crises arise which enable violent/dictatorial leaders to rise to power.

I don't try to defend anything Duterte's doing here. In fact I don't really know too much about what he's done, other than the horrendous 'everbody's free to kill drug dealers' policy. I just don't like that so many news outlets seem to be fixated on discrediting genuine approval and followings as all just being 'fake news'.
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If HP was able to release a patch to remove keylogger is a very short amount of time, does that mean that they already know about the keylogger being in the production code and had a patch ready just in-case it was detected?
Good update! Suppose Tesla will use this one.
Most rich countries acknowledge climate change and try to come up with solutions. The big outlier is the US.
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Keep in mind that the 'bitcoin.org' is now controlled by infamous 'Theymos', who is known for the 7000BTC scam and became anti-Bitcoin since 2014.

So it's highly risky to cite Bitcoin White Paper from this site, if you wanna read untampered version.
It depends on the source language. We have done extensive benchmarking. For example, on Python the median slowdown is 1.4x. PyJS doesn't use all of JavaScript's features and we can exploit that to improve performance. Our worst slowdown is when the source language is JavaScript itself because we can't make simplifying assumptions. (Median slowdown is 20x.)

These are slowdowns on a cheap ChromeBook. We also have results from the four major browsers on a desktop machine.
Mass shootings in America are not an easy problem to fix.

If 0.00005% of the population decides to spend the last 20 minutes of their life going on a murder spree, there's not much you can do, at least in the context of America.

Guns are prolific in the US: between 2000 and 2010, 2,000,000 AR15s alone were manufactured for domestic use.

Deciding on a set of laws to control that number of firearms to end these arbitrary events is not simple, and perhaps not feasible with how many citizens regard firearm ownership a right. California has some of the strictest gun laws, but has been victim to more mass shootings than other states (of course depends on the definition of mass shooting).

America Uncovered (from Chris Chappel of China Uncensored) does a relatively good unbiased video on the topic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtLnTyimT0

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/us/25shooters.html
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/dec/17/how-ma...
oh the "I am a pedantic using and obscure feature thus I am a great dev"!

Here comes back the variadic arguments from paleo C.

This man hates people who will maintain his code and love bugs.

1) if you need an external library to reimplement an obscure feature introduced in original C, this is not idiotmatic. Idiomatic means in the core of the language

2) variadic arguments (varg vlist in C) are totally fine but this exemple totally misses the "idiomatic" use case of it and makes a very poor use of it.

No this guy is not a great dev.

If for only one thing his super exemple does an horrible thing: it makes the maintainer think it is one function while it actually branches in 2 functions.

Functions should never change of behaviours with a same name.
f(int, int) => int

becomes
f(int, int, ...) => f(int) => int

which breaks any expectation of developers and static analysis tools....

Is their any good use case for this however?

Yes, any cli tools intensively uses this in their main(), but devs like *BSD core devs will tell you they hate the bloat introduced by having too much useless branch points in this kind of function, specifically because it introducdes bugs that are hard to spot. Polymorphic function are also often called parsers ... and no devs love to see parsers everywhere.
"Whether a methodology works or not depends on the criteria: team productivity, happiness, retention, conformity, predictability, accountability, communication, lines per day, man-months, code quality, artifacts produced, etc. Every methodology works if you measure the right thing. But in terms of the only measurement that really matters—satisfying requirements on time and within budget—I haven’t seen any methodology deliver consistent results."

You star with a premise that requirements, time constraint and budget are all set magically right before the project began.
In addition to being able to memorise things better when reading them out loud, I also agree with your observation. I have the same memories about what I did at university: writing down the parts of the lecture that I needed to learn for a test helped me a lot. It took more time than just reading over the stuff, but it was very effective for me.
If there is a standoff and the police does not have a significant advantage of numbers, they've already messed up. Maybe using their guns will be the right response at that point, but where they failed at minimizing death was when their response was so crazily inadequate in the first place that they got pinned down by superior numbers (if they're not pinned down, and there aren't civilians at immediate risk, they can/should wait for reinforcements).

In the UK for example, police is more likely to respond with a factor of 4x-5x more officers than suspected criminals, and will avoid approaching until they know they have numerical and tactical superiority.

Of course, sometimes that fails - you can't predict every possible situation, but it's rare.
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The NRA is responsible for militarization of domestic police?
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