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> Watching what's happened on university campuses for the last couple of years

Have you been on a university campus recently?

Contrary to what some reactionary conservatives seem to think, they are not generally oppressive places with no tolerance for conservative thought.

Yes, occasionally 19 year olds say and do some silly things. That's kind of what being young and having your first taste of adulthood is supposed to be about. And if you only consume media that highlights those silly things and never actually visit a university and talk to young people, yeah, you can easily get a very negative view of what universities and academic culture are like.

> People are classified as "racist" for believing that the culture that came out of northern Europe is not inherently oppressive.

Well, it is inherently oppressive, as is just about every other traditional culture, and citizens have to be constantly vigilant about to make sure that oppressive nature is held at bay as much as possible. Can there really be any doubt about this? Consider, among many other facts, the fact that Alabama just very nearly elected to the US Senate a man who thinks the US was better under slavery and that the constitutional amendments granting women and blacks the right to vote should be revoked. If that's not enough to convince you that racism is a serious problem I don't know what would be.
I always forget about what the mosquitos are like in Ontario until I visit my parents' house in the boonies up there in the summer time.

I think that within a 10 km radius of my parents', there are at least 4 streets that are named "mosquito [lane,street,road]" and by god are they aptly named (in the summertime).
"Back then" you would try and kill your oldest brother to inherit the 2 chickens and a goat your parents would leave to him.

Read no further than the histories of nobles and their feuds and murders to see how bad the best families were.
Roughly similar: http://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=PriceListTrading2

But GDAX is a vertically integrated exchange and retail trading platform, so the 0.1% taker fee is all you pay. A stock exchange won't talk to you directly so you must pay additional broker/clearing/bank fees.

Real all-in fees for stock can be 2 USD to trade 2k USD, so 0.1%, same as GDAX. But you can also find fees of 10 USD to trade 100k USD and many other rate examples which are either higher or lower.

I think a lot of people don't notice the huge difference between a traditional exchange (which does not handle money, only agreements about money) and GDAX (vertically integrated exchange + clearing house + trading application).
> Granted, people in unstable countries may have difficulty investing in the US stock market.

People in unstable countries may have trouble safeguarding gold stockpiles, as well.
I have an iPhone 7. Run a test "Antutu benchmark" (The phone was connected to power) and it got "127823", according to their ranking, it should have "160864".
20% less.
I would like to know, if this is the case or just coincidence.
Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for this initiative :)

I am a 28 yr old Software Engineer working in India (Citizenship - India, unmarried). Have around 3 years of experience in IT. My father is a GC holder & he has filed a family based petition for me. My priority date is Nov 7, 2017. Actually, my father was going to wait till he was a naturalized US citizen & then file for my petition, but Trump's activities (cutting off legal legislation by 50%) alarmed him and he got in touch with his attorney over my case the very next day.

So, my question here is -

1) Should I go for Masters from USA? Will it help me in getting GC early? If yes, how early? (I am really keen on completing my Masters from USA, since I would like to be exposed to US way of education - mostly in Artifical Intelligence)

2) Will Trump do something that may deter the petition my father has filed for me? What are the chances, in your opinion?

3) I am going to initiate Canada PR process next year. Would Canada PR brighten my US immigration chances in any way imaginable?

4) I fared quite dismally (7 yrs for a 4 yr course) in my bachelor of engineering course, but final year marks are good and gradually got a job and am doing well now. Would Bachelor of Engineer academic grades hamper my US GCpetition in any way imaginable?

I really appreciate you answering so many questions here. Would be much obliged if you answer mine too.

Sincerely,
One of the great upsides to Aquaponics is enforced trust.

Since fish are very sensitive to water conditions, you can bet that there will be nothing added to the system that will kill the fish. If it is safe for fish, then it is safe for humans.

This can't be said about Hydroponics or Soil farming. But with Aquaponics, the farmer is forced to play nice.
Craigslist now allows people to mark their posts as crypto-friendly.

Anyone who accepts Bitcoin runs into the problem where others can know their balance by looking up the address (and thus could be at risk for theft/mugging).

If people want to keep their balances private and not share their transaction history (or later transactions), they should use a coin that's private by default such as Monero.

Additionally, Monero has a dynamic blocksize, so as usage increases it won't experience the transaction backlog that Bitcoin faces.
Interesting that the battery aged extremely fast when iOS 11 got installed and took the performance down to the „really unpleasant“ level.
Unix style sockets, tar and curl in Windows. Background WSL processes
Another interesting swing was Mansa Musa:

> Musa's generous actions inadvertently devastated the economies of the regions through which he passed. In the cities of Cairo, Medina, and Mecca, the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade. Prices on goods and wares greatly inflated. To rectify the gold market, on his way back from Mecca, Musa borrowed all the gold he could carry from money-lenders in Cairo, at high interest. This is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the Mediterranean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali
How much would it cost to get in this initially? Any tips for the marketing/building up an email list?
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The nobles were the richest families, but not necessarily the best by any other measure.
>Online multiplayer game developers figured this out decades ago. The primary way to prevent people from cheating is not by preventing them from hacking or cracking the client application code. It's keeping the game state — the data — only on the server.

At least, good online multiplayer game developers.
You know, a couple weeks ago, I was reading a link (from HN, IIRC) about liberal (really!) feminists who didn't want to share a public bathroom with someone who was genetically male but self-described as female. They viewed it as males defining what female is.

The article went on to describe how feminists who hold such views have been subject to literal physical attack by others on the left.

I'm pretty sure I can paint something in that as "denying people fundamental rights"...
Its unfortunate that I have troubled you, Dan. I'll reevaluate how I engage (or not) on threads like these.
Was kinda waiting for years to finally get seamless out-of-the-box tar on windows. And now you can also setup an SSH server on Linux on windows and it'll work in the background!

Such a time to be alive
Except, until today, no-one knew their phone was being throtlled, because Apple doesn't want to tell anyone about this. So no-one knew they could improve cpu performance with a new battery.
Allow the user to decide because there's no right answer.
You can put Low Power Mode in Control Center on iOS 11
Google is losing market share of searches last I looked.
Baidu searches have doubled in percentage marketshare.

Youtube and netflix are both on demand television as are amazon instant, modern cable tv subscriptions, and a variety of specific channels (hbo, showtime, etc).

There will definitely be use case dominance, but they may not be the same whales as we currently see.
"Discontinued" does not mean "they don't work". Have you tried them?
Yep, on evacuation day, when you are sitting in stop and go traffic, EVs are a big win because they get much better mileage at low speeds.
> but August in Manhattan can get pretty unpleasant

For me it's not even the heat that's the problem, it's the goddamn smell of hot garbage. At least the outer boroughs are better in that regard to Manhattan.
A human would record that as clearly being PRINCE. For their described use case, reading images of business and movie names, the presence of other, small text in the picture seems quite fair.
A good stepping stone to exploring this space would be a useable complete system in which you layout high level concerns such as architecture, use-cases, and user-interface behaviour using a "system 2" style, and can dive into code just for the details. A separation of which concerns are built using declarative modelling (the "system 2" stuff), infrastructure built using a normal imperative programming language, and the actual business logic when it can't be generated entirely from models being implemented in a functional programming language with a strict subset of the procedural code.

And most importantly (and probably the most work) the user interface for this would have to be extremely polished and well-thought-out.
It's not just you. Take a look at the google trends data for "iphone slow": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...
Even though the OpenFL api matches the AS3 version pretty closely, a porting job of this scale would've been a huge ordeal to go through. To have this kind of a positive trip report after the whole process is over is a great credit to Josh's work on OpenFL.

(self-disclosure : member of Haxe community)
Duverger's law isn't the whole picture. Normal FPTP assemblies the size of America's have third parties (see Canada, UK, India).

Some PR countries have strong two party systems (see most obviously Malta).

There is something additional in America that causes a two party system which may or may not continue past a switch to PR because we don't know what it is.

Also, it is good to specify your goals. You might want to make it easier for unconnected people to enter the assembly, or to make it easier to throw out the choice of the primary voters, or literally just a more fragmented assembly. It is easier to come up with useful compromises if you specify your specific objectives because not every system of PR will have any of those goals. Closed list PR with primaries is probably the antithesis of what you want, but it's an extremely common kind and what a lot of people hear when you say "PR".
You are missing my point. You are assuming a perfect regulater in your imagination. However this is not how the real word works.

Do you remember all the democratic autrage about Net Neutrality. How everybody cried about how unfair it was.

Who are actually the exact people that get to make these choices. How do you enforce fair proceedings? How do you handle appeal? How do you do all this without making it fundamentally undemocratic?

Do you want a democratic vote to make these choices?

Do you want the Senate as a whole to vote on these issues?

How about a congressonal subcommity?

Do you want a largly unsuprivised undemocratic burocracy to just make these chocie by fiat?

The list of problems goes on. What is the legal bases for these effect and how do you punish people who don't follow the rules? How about the US not controlling the internet and if the US goes away from global standards it could massivly hurt the US as a industry standard.

These are real conceptual issues that have caused many issues in many of these ideas that people have where they assume that 'if only I could make these choice the way I want, it would be better for everybody'. However the outcome that you imagine is probebly not the outcome you are gone get, specially if you don't think about these issues.
network neutrality refers to network providers being neutral to the data they transmit. applications running over the network can do as they please.

by this argument ad-blockers violate net-neutrality.
iPhone 7 user here and iOS 11 also made my device much, much faster.
This knife cuts both ways: you might change your mind if you were subject to sexual abuse.

"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested." -- Tom Wolfe
A sale larger than the demand would.

An every day analogy: saying a river can never flood because there it has a big dam.
Legislative solutions are always bad.

What is needed is simply competition and for people who care about the things you care about to have influence among end user communities.
Fahrenheit 451

Animal Farm

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Martian

Currently reading Sapiens: A brief history of humankind. I would recommend all these books, if you're interested in the subjects they are written about.
The EU is a national federation of 500M people from vastly different cultures - all of which already have their own governments.

Switzerland is barely bigger than Toronto - so they hard hardly comparable.

Switzerland is almost a 'city state' and at that level, direct democracy is much more achievable. Many municipalities in the west also have more direct ballots - that said - they don't cover the heavy-duty things like human rights.

It's also worth noting that more than 1/3 of the world's offshore wealth sits in Switzerland, largely due to privacy and detachment from regimes that can (could) not access information - and of course stability.

This is an incredibly historical advantage that yields enormous wealth for the nation as they manage incredible amounts of passive income. Buying and trading low risk assets.

It's a lot easier when you're rich, money papers over a lot of problems.

I am not a banker but I was almost recruited by a family office in Geneva a while back.
This is the sort of reasoning and rhetoric that pushes people like me, political moderates, away from the left.

If I’m following you correctly here, because you can’t use whichever public toilet you want, you are denied a fundamental right, stripped of all public personhood, and not allowed to even venture outside at all.

Are you being serious or are you trolling me?
Yes, you're right. I meant Discord. Thanks for the correction. Too late for me to edit though.
> I get coal rolled.

Could you define that term for me?
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This is already a (separate) thing, though. When battery life drops to 20% (and then again at 10%), iOS devices suggest that you enable "Low Power Mode."

In effect, right now, on old devices, Low Power Mode is always either fully-enabled, or half-enabled, but never fully-disabled. All they'd have to do is to change it from a binary switch (between enabled and {disabled, secretly half-enabled}) to a three-level switch.
Yes/No -- In my last job hunt, I talked to more than one employer who said they had declined people who rocked the whiteboarding, but had nothing else to show. People are building teams who can work together, communicate well, and dedicate their efforts to completing projects together. Good whiteboarding is a prerequisite to being part of a team... but not the entirety of a hiring decision.
> You're not thinking about this from a game theory perspective.

> Slow down pages -> more users bounce -> fewer ad impressions -> less ad revenue.

Game theory is the theory of how agents deal with each other. You left out the most crucial part of agents affecting each other!
I'm not spinning, I saw Leno on the news. I'll try to find a decent link.

As for Simpson, others should read him and decide for themselves: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/02/propos... (among other pieces)

Pretending marriage equality was always on deck when Leno et al. were working on domestic partnership is the spin here. Either the advocates of the previous decade's reform were not telling the truth (and Obama was strategically lying when he too endorsed civil unions but rejected marriage equality), or they meant what they said at the time. You can't have it both ways.

Again the revolutionary (full Alinsky) playbook is evident: down the memory hole with the past; lie (to self and others, doesn't matter) about goals, promising no further; then go further the minute you get it and isolate and demonize anyone who objects. No thanks.
At least we can both agree that we are talking about how we interpret and react to hypothetical utterances on the internet.
A problem in the U.S. with using criminal law to control wealthy corporations is the doctrine of "prosecutorial discretion".
the browsers requests are your requests
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American parties aren't exactly permanent tho are they? How many bills have fallen this year because some republican senator wouldn't support it? And I certainly wouldn't describe Trump's Republican administration as pursuing the same platform as Bush II's. Certainly there's similarity but not the stability you imply.
> is on record as saying it's certainly possible that Jesus visited other planets

I literally said that in my comment.

> the fact that you use the phrase "the church" to describe all of Christianity shows your information level about religion is pretty low

I was referring to the Roman Catholic Church.
It's been slowing down over time but my anecdotal sense is the iOS 11 caused a substantial performance hit in my iPhone 6. When this story came out, I even got the geekbench app but the benchmark is right where it should be--a little higher in fact.
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Thanks for the detailed feedback! Here is what I mean by "necessarily contrived IO": in a more realistic setting, we might have to answer a question like "what host returns the most 500s?" coming in an email or on a support channel. Or one I actually had to answer a couple weeks ago: "what are our most frequently firing alerts?" That is all of the problem statement right there, not a detailed description of the formatting of the input and the output. Just a user with a question, so you have some work to do to understand what is being asked and how you can find the most time-effective way to answer it. I might have follow up questions like "over what time period? For a particular service or all services of team X? Just in prod or in all environments?", etc. The user also didn't ask for a specific format, I just need to get an intelligible answer with reasonable effort. So based on the context, maybe bash makes sense to answer a one-off question rapidly. In the context of a customer facing app, maybe introducing some abstraction makes sense (again, context). This is whst I would consider a more realistic "on the job" setting, you have to understand users and make trade offs and understand constraints and it's all a little bit fuzzy. In contrast, an online judge necessarily imposes more rigid constraints because of the automated verification -- I don't really see a way around it.
I very much agree with this. What gerrymandering (and partisan voter suppression) does, is reduce the number of competitive districts in the country. Next year, the expected number of competitive House districts is 23 to 38 - out of 450! So, in over 400 districts, primaries are the only thing that matters.

On the other hand, primaries attract more motivated voters than the general. And those motivated voters tend to be motivated by their ideological positions - in other words, they're more extremist. From the perspective of candidates in the primary, they have to pander to those more extreme voters to get to the general - but they have no incentive to pander to the center, because even the more centrist members of their own party will vote for them over the opposition candidate anyway.

This also sets up a positive feedback loop, where even less ideologically radical voters, forced to vote for more and more extreme candidates of their party in the general, adopt at least some of the positions of those extreme candidates over time (making it easier to cast such a vote). Which in turn makes primaries more extreme, and shifts the overall party platform in that same direction.

We've already seen Republicans walk down that road, and where it got them. Now Democrats are going through the same process (Indivisible etc). It looks like we're undergoing the last political realignment possible in the current system, and at the end of it, we'll have two "ideologically pure" parties, with most voters going for straight party ticket, and with most legislative votes going down party lines. At which point the system is going to deadlock, because it pretty much requires some compromise to function properly.
Technically that is correct, but many of the agreements are handled not individually between countries. So the EU does act as important structure around these issues.

Also there is ongoing effort to make many of these laws standard for the whole EU. For example, the saving of all phone and internet metadate for multible month is now mandetory for all EU states.

In germany the suprme court shut the initiative down and germany had to pay fines to the EU. Last I remembered this idea has come back in germany and all the fight german hackers (CCC) and co have put up did not work.

There is a large number of things here, and many have long lectures add Chaos Communication Congress during the last 10 years.
The important part of context here:

If you targeted APIs before Android 6.0 (e.g. you targeted API Level 21 - Lollipop), you didn't have to ask users for permissions to access contacts, sms, SD card and other data. Which made all the new security improvements in Android rather moot - scummy apps (like Snapchat :P) just didn't update their API levels, kept collecting personal data without asking for permission... AND didn't implement improvements of new OSes because they wanted to keep collecting data without restriction.

This is finally great news for Android security.
It's not possible for a valid block to include multiple transactions spending the same input. All full nodes will reject such a block as invalid.
Same here, the phone is otherwise fine. I don't really want to go to a Pixel 2XL because I like having a headphone jack.
Smash your phone, pay for a new phone under apple care. Voila.
The linked article is not very good imo. It goes into almost no detail, despite including two directly contradictory statements:
"Yet another cloud storage misconfiguration has exposed personally identifiable information (PII)" and
"the data in question contained no names of any individuals or any other personal identifying information"

Can we change this to link to the Forbes article referenced in the linked one? It goes into substantially more detail, including reconciling the researcher's claim with Experian's. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/12/19/120m-...

edit: didn't even notice the substantially more click-baity headline "Every single American household" vs. "120 million American households".