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I get the points you're trying to make, but I think you need to broaden your perspective.

For one thing, combat is something that happens between two belligerents. I've been in a lot of fights and I've never, ever, gone off on someone by mistake because it's legally safer to risk a bit of disadvantage than to create a situation where none exists.

I absolutely disagree that we need to 'doing something on the civilian side' to make civilians more accommodating of police anxiety. That's literally the recipe for a police state, and there's good arguments for the proposition that we already inhabit one, it's just that it's benefits and costs are so unevenly distributed and the structure of it so decentralized that it's hard to perceive.

Knowing police officers gives you some xtra insight, as it has me. I suggest you expand your awareness to include information from criminals, attorneys in the criminal justice system, and other participants. Right now you seem to think that because you know some martial arts and some cops you're far enough ahead of the general population that you're half expert already. I think that's more likely knowing one corner of a field and thinking you've seen the whole thing.
The problem in Singapore is you need to get a COE for motorbikes. They cost at least 5x what am ebike would cost. I want an electrical assist bicycle that goes 50kmh and is nimble not a scooter that goes 80kmh, costs an order of magnitude more and rides like a death trap. I'd be happy if they provided some sort of intermediate license with a test for faster ebikes.
The core idea is that you need to imagine what would be the condition of the artifact in question if it'd be reasonable to do the required modifications, and (slowly) push the environment towards that state, filling in the gaps.

IMHO it's to be expected that you won't get where you want to be, you'll fill some of the gaps but not all of them.

The key issue is to identify what is the major pain point that prevents you from doing this. For example, in a particular similar situation for me the key points were (a) ability to reliably build a deployment package that's sure to work; (b) brief documentation about the functionality of the main components of the software and their interaction/interfaces; (c) creating a basic suite of tests to ensure that key functionality keeps working as intended if we change/rewrite certain parts fo the codebase.

The pain points will be different for you, but that's the direction that needs to be identified and taken to proceed properly.
As I said, it is not a rule or universal but it is a distinct feature that has multitude of examples, even within a firm, where different business units may be fighting aggressively to hit their numbers for a quarter even at the cost of longer term growth
From my personal experience I have seen that middle and senior managers make short-term decisions that favor bonuses, rapid growth in their careers that may or may not benefit the company in the long term. As an example the directors and product managers while trying to optimize costs to maximize profits completely lost track of the customer expectations over a decade and the products the company made got disrupted.
If they didn't try to get the sale, they'd probably get fired and swapped with someone who would.
Some HNers make me wonder if they could even enjoy a remote beach without finding a way to bill someone for it.
That's a funny video, but what am I expected to get from it?
Previous discussion from 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16036268
For the record, if you see a shadow banned comment that shouldn't be shadowbanned, you can click on the timestamp and then click "vouch". I don't know if there are karma restrictions to this, though.
If I'm an investor, I want comparable accounting which means GAAP; if I'm a founder, maybe I just want to know what's in the bank account and don't want to deal with deferring recognition of income for long term contracts.

External scrutiny and pressure is a mixed bag. It probably reduces the chances of doing something stupid that destroys the company, but it also reduces the chances of doing something stupid that changes the world.
As MP3's have invaded more and more contemporary listening spaces, the class of privileged sounds which the format inadvertently creates has become more apparent... This format has become a curator for these spaces: allowing in a great deal of wonderful sound, yes, but at the exclusion of a vast territory in the available sonic terrain.

Wondering what kind of creative expressions have been blocked by the status quo is absolutely social justice. Just admitting that MP3 might be holding back entire cultures or subcultures of music is going to be a big leap for some people.
> The probability of killing someone when you hit them in the center of mass seems a lot higher than that of accidental hits to the femoral artery.

It is, but American cops are not trained to shoot to incapacitate or warn. If they shoot it is to kill and that is why the target is the center of mass.
I have seen this first hand many times. Many startups won't spend a dime on design. A $5k design budget is unthinkable. They are being pennywise and pound foolish IMO.
I think South Sea Bubble is more appropriate.
Because cops have lethal force at their disposal for non-lethal responses.
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A dead dude with a rifle is incitement? That’s a laugh.

In the US you can go to a rifle range and buy targets with the president’s face on it. Then you upload that to YouTube and get hundreds of likes.

FB is not offended by a dead Arab with a gun. It’s scared of other things, but you’ll have to re-read the article to find out
It was an analogy. But, you'd be surprised.

https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/ibm-mainframe-revenu...
Looks like it: https://www.outsideonline.com/2191911/american-climbers-conf...
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How many companies keep striving at things outside their actual core competency rather than issue dividends? For example, Facebook could have issued dividends rather than purchase Oculus Rift and I'm not sure that the company or the shareholders would have been worse off.
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I've been out of SF almost 2 years to the day. I went back for Christmas and was driving around and BOY has the downtown SOMA area east of 4th street changed. So many new apartments and condos popping up. The new train station is going in. Sales Force 1 sticks out of the sky. It's crazy, but for some reason I can't wait to move back.
no... it really depends on the function being evaluated and frag shaders operate in warps. Furthermore, on certain CPUs, vertex shading is emulated on the CPU which is worse than a fragment shader.
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Except for the USA, give me one country with a GDP larger than 0.5 trillion that recognizes Jerusalem.
I’m using it mostly as a catch all from “actually a fucking Nazi” all the way to “trolling 4chan type college kid”

But yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
Do one ride along. It's not hard to arrange.
I don't follow. Progressivism advocates for the general improvement of society. This applies to both technological advances and social reform. Why not modernize social structure, infrastructure, and technology simultaneously? That should at least to the goal - hindering one will likely hinder the others.
Facebook is bigger than some governments. It deals with governments almost as a peer. No newspaper baron of the 20th century ever had such power. Not Murdoch. Not Hearst.
> in New Zealand so YMMV

Very different than the US
I'll be honest, but I find it very hard to believe that amphetamines can
really enhance your cognitive skills. I'm talking from second-hand experience
only, but it's pretty clear to me that they can have the effect of making you
feel like you're smarter, faster, leaner, better- but this feeling is just a
side effect of taking the drug, and does not reflect a real improvement.

I can believe that the drugs can help some people get over some psychological
hurdles that are keeping them from delivering a piece of work, but I'm really
not sure why the work itself would end up any better than if it was done while
sober. Given that a big effect of apmhetamines is to make you stay up all
night, for weeks on end, in other words causing sleep deprivation, I find it
very likely that the end result is in fact much worse than the baseline.

Personally, the only magic drug that I've found really helps me do better and
more is getting enough sleep and doing so regularly, for many weeks. Even if
it means having fewer waking hours for work during the day, it doesn't matter,
because I can pull twice the work (and twice the quality of it) when I'm
well-rested than I do when I'm tired and haven't been sleeping well.

So, taking a drug that completely screws your sleep patterns and just makes
you forget how tired you are, sounds like a recipe for destroying the quality
of your work, to me. And I think those studies the article quotes, the ones
that haven't found any cognitive enhancement from Aderall (to healthy
individuals and ADHD sufferers alike) are basically justifying my hunch.
Why the heck should developers build schools? That's what people pay property taxes and impact fees for. Here on the east coast, I've never even heard of a developer building a school. In my county, there is a law that halts development when the local schools reach 100% capacity, but other than that the county takes on the burden of buying land and building schools to keep up with development: http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/ph-ac-cn-old-mill....
Is there a name for this kind of architecture? Once I was daydreaming and thought something similar would work well for business CRUD applications. You get an audit log for free, and it would enable offline edits relatively easy.
> The military is part of the state's monopoly on violence. We dress it up today and make it seem all noble, and selectively forget all the torture at Abu Ghraib...

Are you suggesting that there's a better solution to handling conflict than relegating the use of violence to the state? If so, what's that solution?
Estonia must be a veritable progressive paradise.

For thieves.
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I wouldn't mind 100% now dead if it means GPUs are affordable again.
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This is to debug embedded javascript application which does not depend on node. It gives same functionality as node inspect.
The Firefox Focus app for iPhone pushed out an update a few months ago that showed an active clipboard tray below the URL bar, which was shocking and freaky to see.
Anyone know whether the update had added the API or just made it visible? With the desktop browser it's enabled by default, but at least can be disabled through about:config.
> Yea this answer is total and utter crap. We aren't asking law enforcement to be super human, we want them to be educated and competent.

That wasn't an answer and it is well reasoned. Saying "nuh uh" as a red herring to put forth what excuses you believe, frankly, is not compelling.
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> In 2004, Stephen Joyce threatened legal action against the Irish government when the Rejoyce Dublin 2004 festival proposed public reading of excerpts of Ulysses on Bloomsday. In 1988 he destroyed a collection of letters written by Lucia Joyce, his aunt. In 1989 he forced Brenda Maddox to delete a postscript concerning Lucia from her biography Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom. After 1995 he announced no permissions would be granted to quote from his grandfather's work. Libraries holding letters by James Joyce were unable to show them without permission. Versions of his work online were disallowed. Stephen Joyce claimed to be protecting his grandfather's and his family's reputation, but would sometimes grant permission to use material in exchange for fees that were often "extortionate".

> [In Finnegans Wake] is a hint of intimacy between father and daughter here that borders on incest. Lucia once remarked to her father that no matter how many loves she had, she could never be unfaithful to him.

> Even today among Joyceans this subject remains taboo. Regarding Lucia, academics have toed the Joyce party line - that she suffered fits, had uncontrollable sexual urges, and endlessly shouted forensic sexual details with involuntary abandon. For the sake of being allowed to quote from Joyce's papers, writers have repeatedly cast Lucia as the "problem", just as James and Nora always did. In effect, Lucia has been vaporised from history; memories of her obliterated. She is a "vanished woman".

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He definitely reached for his shorts. It's a reflex that comes from a whole lifetime of being able to pull up your pants without risk of being shot.

But that's all irrelevant. If the cops were only interested in securing him, they would've made him lie down like a starfish and have someone approach him instead of letting Jigsaw make him play Twister.
Here in India I see a few people cycling to work. A "few" (we have a LOT of people).

I can't see adoption increase. I myself won't ride a cycle, because

1. There's way too much pollution on the roads. I'll die breathing that air

2. If I don't die breathing that air, some car or bus driver who doesn't give a shit about other people's lives and is on their phone while driving will hit me and perhaps kill me (or worse, leave me disabled for life)

I want to cycle to work everyday. I want the exercise. I want to live, and to be healthy, and to protect the environment.

But the flip side is, I might die.
Easy, just close the browser tab and never use calendar or keep ever again.

Rational? Far from it. Functional? Nope.

That's why it's a disease but we have medication to treat it.

It's like trying to tell someone that walking is easy, just put one foot in front of the other - to someone with no legs. Unfortunately it's harder to see missing legs for mental diseases.
A huge amount of resources can actually be a requirement (not a nice-to-have) if what you're trying to achieve is huge, too.

If your hobby project is e.g. putting humans to Mars, you need a lot, and every tiny million USD counts. Same applies to biotech (defeat deadly diseases, slow down or reverse aging, etc), terraforming (stop deserts from expanding and recultivate them, etc), lowering humanity's greenhouse gases emission, improving or reworking education across the world, etc.

These things are normally not what a for-profit company makes its explicit target. It's what some of the super-rich spend their own money on, seeing utility in that.
Yes, although they can be somewhat hard to find in some markets. Any Dutch or German bike shop will have a wide selection of bikes with gearhubs, but in the US you might need to speak to a dealer that specialises in urban utility bikes. Some department store cruiser and hybrid bikes have Sturmey Archer 3-speed gearhubs, although the rest of the bike may be mediocre.

Dahon and Tern are both manufacturers of folding bicycles and both offer a good range of bikes with gearhubs. Folding bikes can be a very practical choice even if you don't use the folding feature very often - they're compact, agile and easy to ride.
> Not a true Scotsman, eh?

No, accuracy. If there's a raft with "YACHT" scribbled on it in permanent marker, and you call it a yacht, and I correct you that it is, in fact, a raft, then my correction is not an example of the No True Scotsman fallacy. To date, there haven't been any 'true' communist states. For that to be so, the workers would have had to hold the power. It is trivial to prove that in most self-professed communist countries, the workers have not held the reigns of power.

For example, in Mao's China only 11% of the communist party consisted of working class people. In Cuba, the working class never held power -- it was a revolution solely of the upper echelons (Actually, the way the revolution was performed was quite clever, I'd advise you to read about it, it's quite a marvel of strategy :)). In the USSR, for a short time, the workers held the reigns, however this was quickly made not the case. And -- to paraphrase Cliff -- if the state truly consisted of and gave power to the workers, the workers would have fought against the destruction of it.

> It's called social democracy or social market economy. It's still largely a free market capitalist system because the means of production for the most part are privately owned.

Yes. It took some of the materials from communism and bolted it on to capitalism so that the roof doesn't fall down every 20 years.

> Like many people being lifted out of poverty in the last decades? Like the average person having a much easier life than the average person just a hundred years ago?

Really? From the UK all I can see is the literacy rates getting worse and worse in either country, people being driven into unspeakable amounts of debt by private universities and bank bailouts, and Americans dying of silly things like Type 1 Diabetes just because they couldn't afford enough medicine.

Just because things are "getting better", doesn't mean that things aren't bad -- in fact, it's an open admission to that fact. Nor does it mean that under an alternate system things would be worse.

> Quite to the contrary, free markets overall have been tremendously beneficial to the development of mankind.

On the contrary, "free markets" of the current ideation have only existed for about a hundred years or so. Just because something is a market doesn't mean that you can jam it into the capitalist Free Market slot. I'd advise you to read Ellen Meiksins Wood "The Origins of Capitalism" for an academically correct view on this.
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This happened to me on Wednesday about 5:00am. My wife and I had gotten into a terrible fight. She suffers from terrible alcoholism. This week of Christmas has been absolutely horrible as demons resurface. She awoke me from my sleep about 4am, drunk and outraged because I asked if she was wearing a robe in bed. Things spiraled very quickly out of control, my wife was out of control, and so was I. We both said terrible things and made unwanted body contact. The fight made its way to the driveway and a neighbor called in the disturbance.

About 30 minutes later I was awoken by the doorbell. I knew who it was. I threw on my PJ pants and a hoodie. Fifteen minutes later I was in handcuffs heading to the county jail.

I could have easily been in a very very bad situation if I hadn't followed orders to the letter.

My wife and I are in therapy and she will be entering detox this next week. I hope this event turns into the wake up call that helps her beat this disease with my help all along the way.

Peace.
> Censorship can only be committed by the government.

False. Heck, the modern understanding of censorship is strongly influenced by the (officially, still continuing, but greatly reduced in significance even within the Catholic community) official censorship practice of the Catholic Church.

Now, there are certainly consideration that apply tomstaye censorship that may not apply equally to non-state censorship, but state censorship isn't the only kind of censorship.
They definitely increase energy levels. A person can stay up for days on them. They are an unwise and partial substitute for sleep but a substitute nonetheless. Like you mention, a large part of what they do is change intrinsic motivation, not intelligence. When you feel "charged" with energy, it is hard to oppose doing intellectual work. Amphetamines are pure energy. And intellect loves pure energy...so does physical work. But its not for free. Amphetamines decrease circulation..they caused Peyronies Disease for me..and I used to take them all the time in college with no issues. Age always brings the true nature of bad habits to bear.
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> I'm sure some of you will hop and go say "Right, you prefer to do it in the fields, with soldiers bullying and taking lands they don't own." For fuck sake, give me a break. For all I care, my neighbor could be Arab and we can be BFFs as long as the killing-spree stops.

I think there must be a premise hidden somewhere behind that expletive.

What is the nature of the sentence between the quotation marks? Is that a hypothetical counterargument of someone who is misrepresenting (or misunderstanding) what Israeli soldiers are doing? Or is it supposed to be an accurate account of what Israeli soldiers are doing, and you mean to say that people wrongly think you agree with what the soldiers are doing?
It might not be the future of software, but it's the software of the future, in the sense that it's what enabled us to get to the moon, and will enable us to get to Mars.
That's great (the lower stimuli regimen.) I envy your ability to discipline yourself for greater accomplishments in your future. Good luck friend!
> In fact, there really is no upside to leaving a negative review.

There's a downside - you get reviewed yourself, as a guest. My wife had an OK experience with airbnb, then a shitty one. airbnb did nothing helpful, and the host threatened my wife with a negative review if she left one. The fact that we had documented evidence of things like

* a completely broken shower

* missing curtains in the living area, exposing your entire room to an office block across the street, with no way to walk between bathroom and bedroom without being seen by office workers day and night

* broken television

* moldy refrigerator

* and - as trivial as it sounds - 1 hanger in a closet for someone who booked a 10 day stay

airbnb hung her out to dry, no refund, no partial refund. "it must have been acceptable because you stayed". There was no guarantee of getting any refund during that time, and we were already out over $2k for just the accommodations. Horrible horrible experience, and I will not be giving them our business again any time soon.

Again, the host threatened to leave a "negative guest" review. Given that my wife would only have that one review (despite a previous airbnb stay), this has more of a damaging effect on her ability to use the service in the future than it does on the host with dozens of "fabulous/great place!" crap reviews. She declined to leave a negative review out of some odd fear, against my suggestion, but what's done is done. The airbnb team makes it pretty clear how they resolve issues, and it was not even close to being fair, from my perspective.

Of course, looking at things "objectively", yes, my wife could have come in and broken the shower, added mold to the refrigerator, broken the television and stolen the curtains just to try to wrangle a few bucks from the host. There is always that to consider, I suppose.
The geometrical point you refer to is a projection, not an empirical fact. PBS has an excellent YouTube series called Space Time, which describes the Big Bang cosmology in some detail, in several episodes. I'm not exactly sure which ones, but I could track them down if you like. However, I might recommend the entire series; you might be able to refine your speculation somewhat.
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Well, that's a case of a branch that never even occurred, so what's the point?

In that case, it's not as bad as if it was a secret ISIS compound and one of the bad guys set off a bomb that blew up the block. That's worse than your worst case. But notice how this adds no value to the discussion.