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yeah, subway pretty much summed it up. It was one of those mods I thought would be cool until I had it... then it was pretty much useless since I sat far enough away that I couldn't read it.

Such a fun system, though. I really miss running a MAME emulator.
> But I'll suggest that there's a "big" problem behind SWAT-ing, too: the way technology intermediates between agents and consequences, abstracts away externalities, reinforces the rationalizing techniques our brains use to salve themselves when violating fundamental inhibitions

At this point, I am not sure the people who go all the way to make the phone call to SWAT someone are somewhat detached from the consequences. I would put it on the same scale as loosening the bolts of someone’s ladder.

The intentions and consequences are clear, even if the “accident” might or might not happen and there is some indirection. The very fact they have to choose specific channels to make the call, or spoof caller id makes them explicitely cross the boundary of the “joke”.

Also I believe a sizeable fraction of Us is not beyond wishing someone’s actual death during a long enough period to act at least partially on it. I see it as human nature. But up until now we didn’t have a button in our hand to press it to kill any random person within some probability.
America is very large, and within it there are disparate groups with very different opinions on the level of force required by police. Sometimes I think that America would be better off if it weren't so large. Then there might be more of a consensus on this kind of thing. As it is, there are just too many different levels of government (local, state, federal) and people with all kinds of backgrounds and viewpoints setting up these enforcement bodies (for example, FBI is federal, there are likely to be many people from out-of-state in that enforcement branch, also, those SWAT police officers were probably trained out-of-state, just a guess on that though).
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Thanks, that's an interesting idea. I do take very frequently walks but nothing intense. I might try that
Already a long time member! That's actually what prompted me into all this extreme frugality in the first place :)
Interestingly, car dealers in Germany usually require you to pay in cash.

I think this is because getting ownership of a car (the keys and papers) has legal implications and so you need an atomic transaction.
Just take the hit and move back to the city. You have a better chance of meeting interesting people and pursuing hobbies.

You are currently trading happiness for money. You won't get this time back, but you have the rest of your life to work and make money.
There's nothing wrong with inflationary currency as long as the supply expands at a fixed/steady rate.
But not because of the workflows. I'd argue it was hated mostly because its changing management at some point decided they need to market it as a (poor) groupware/messaging platform rather than an application platform, for which I'd argue it's still great. Once you've replicated an application locally it allows interacting with near zero latency. Development is possible for non-programmers who are proficient at developing excel spreadsheet - the alternative at the same development cost is sending those around.
Damn I remember doing that same thing around 1994-1996, using coaxial cables and checking all the connections / terminators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2

Even back then when we wanted to add a new host to the network we had to hunt in the "junk bin" in the local store to get a networking card, then pray that it was supported under Linux.

I can say that I've never used token-ring though.
Yep, I got my money invested in some quality companies and don't plan on touching them for a while.

As for hobbies, I actually have a few. The problem is that many of them are more of a lone activity, and that makes me feel even more isolated

As for the local stuff, that's why I bought that house in the first place. Wanted to get more involved in the community
I find fascinating how Aldi split akin to how the Roman Empire split, "The separate Aldi companies came about 50 years ago: the brothers disagreed about some business practices and decided to split the company along geographic lines across Germany."

https://consumerist.com/2016/08/15/the-family-that-owns-trad...
I really goddam hope so. 20's is a really shitty decade
>I don't see the VC money and avoiding regulation to be essential parts of the business though.

But it is. The entire reason they're cheaper than taxis is that the VC money is subsidising their losses because they have capital to burn, and they pay no tax and have uncertified and unlicensed drivers.

>I very rarely take a cab, and am not price sensitive. I tried Lyft, albeit not Uber, and like people repeatedly say, the good things about it are (a) you get fast response and a direct way to contact the driver, (b) you see how close they are to you on a moving map, (c) you get an up front estimate, and (d) they don't demand cash.

Same is true of all the taxis I can think of. Fast response, can contact driver, see them on a map, get an estimate of price, can pay through app, etc.

>While it might slow them down if they weren't subsidizing drivers, or drivers weren't subsidizing them, it wouldn't change the fact that the things they do are actually worth more than a regular cab, so they could charge more and not less, as far as I'm concerned.

In your area? Perhaps. But Uber could not exist without VC money and breaking the law all over the world.

If their service is supposedly worth more, then why are there prices so much lower?
Glad that'a not contracts for difference.
It does not in fact matter at law: arranging to have somebody killed will net you the same murder 1 charge as the person who pulls the trigger.
> and a tiny proportion of the most technologically sophisticated banks provide the ability to transfer money to any arbitrary person.

In the country where I live all internet banks supports this. And all of course use 2FA. Most if not all banks here let's me do any kind or transactions. Not just viewing my data but transferring money, buying stock, setting up new bank accounts, pension management and everything else.

Maybe it's the lack of security at your place which prevents useful functionality.
In Germany, a country with more than 80M people and over a dozen cities with a population of more than half a million, that number has been around 7-10 per year in the last few years. The US number seems insane in comparison. Extrapolating by the population of the US (of course thats a simplification), the US number is still a factor of over 200 higher.
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A "pay per less" world has happened; each year you pay the same, but get less.
You can check out the homeworks from the class these notes were intended for: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis515/cis515-hw-mid-fin-16.html
Performance can also be relative, subjectively. My daily driver, a 2004 model 2.5L turbo diesel long wheelbase six-speed auto T5 Transporter, is at the workshop waiting to have a short length of wire that runs to the starter motor replaced. I'd do it myself, but talk about an inconveniently layed out engine bay. I digress. As far as vans go, it's fun to drive and has a bed in the back!

A friend loaned me her 1999 Vectra B[1] wagon, five-speed manual 2.2L 108 kW. Compared to the van, it corners like it's on rails! With myself behind the wheel of the Vectra I reckon I'd eat the E90 320i 115 kW[2] auto she replaced it with.

So, neither of these three vehicles are performance cars, but they're all quite fun to drive. Though I do toy with the idea of getting a Miata.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Vectra#Vectra_B_(1995–200...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_3_Series_(E90)#Petrol
This isn't the right place for your fallacy of relative privation, and 1/3 of people killed by strangers are killed by police.
Fair enough.. It is definitely an idea with a lot of merit. I guess I have three questions:

1) Do you think this is politically feasible? Being seen as "tough on crime" is almost never a bad thing in any kind of election, and what you are proposing feels decidedly the opposite of that. Further, even if you aren't disarming existing officers, they have unions and a fair amount of political clout.

2) Do you think you could find enough people willing to do this job unarmed?

3) I definitely see how this would lead to less escalation in a lot of situations (escalation seems to be the default behavior of police now), and it could prevent some of the high-profile police shootings that have been in the news lately. But it also seems like a high percentage of them (the one in this SWATting situation, Michael Brown, the 6 year old in Bexar County last week, Aiyana Jones) would be handled by armed officers anyway, so that only solves part of the problem, right?
> Once the sweet spot is reached the experience becomes less enjoyable

Not much different than alcohol in that respect. Some people abuse high dosages but most don't because it's usually an unpleasant experience. The problem with marijuana specifically is the advocacy/culture that celebrates over indulgence in a way we haven't seen since the glory days of 'Mad Men' style alcoholism.
It's a private beta, you have to ask the author :/
soon(tm)

It will be full of trading cards, real money micro transactions, Pay 2 Win multiplayer, grinding gameplay, no single player random skirmish maps against offline AI bots, no base building, WinFxckingStore-only and delayed, made by the guys who wasted HaloWars 2, who had no prior RTS experience.

All we wanted was a real-time-strategy (RTS) Age of Empires 4 with no bxllshit (like AoE1/2/Mythology), developed for Win7+ with no compromises whatsoever and port it to consoles later. M$ won't deliver it, rest assure.
Yeah I'm going to go with I'd rather chance dying in a incredibly low likely-hood 'active shooter' situation than face possible death from prank phone calls. The probability you are going to be in an active shooter situation * the probability that a few minutes of investigation would make a difference in your survival approaches zero.
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What exactly are you using that article to argue?

"Whether you can say we're 20 per cent better off, 80 per cent better off, is subject to debate... But the bottom line is, if [the reforms] had the effect of reducing the number of guns that are available to Australians, it is strongly correlated with the gun homicide and suicide deaths on the wane."

"Data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows the rate of homicide victims dying from a gunshot wound has dropped since the reforms came into force, but not consistently in every year."

"ABS data indicates the rate of assault by firearm causing death has also declined since the reforms, but not in every year."

The only credible argument against gun reform that article gives is that correlation doesn't imply causation, which is of course true. However, that's not an argument against the common sense position that gun reform decreases gun deaths, but an argument against this specific type of study (which OP didn't mention at all).
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I had a very similar experience to this a few years ago. I made an app called Face Juggler which was one of the first face swap apps (before snapchat started doing it for free). I made it just for a bit of fun but it somehow went to the top of the charts with zero effort or publicity and I made a similar amount of money to you. And I also got really down about it.

Apparently this is pretty common. We aren’t that good at predicting things that will make us happy or sad. There’s a great TED talk about this https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy/...

I think the problem I had was that when you have very little you are quite care free. You take chances and don’t worry about the consequences because you have little to lose and lots to gain. This feels good! But once you actually get somewhere you start to worry about stuff. What if I lose this money? What if I do the wrong thing and it all goes wrong. What should be a great position becomes scary and unstable.

Now would be a great time for some proper reflection about what you want from life that isn’t just about owning and buying stuff. You’ve bought your way out of that game now and it’s time to think about what’s really important to you. I also think Tony Robins is a genius for his ideas in this stuff.
I think the population of India in 1890 was nearly 300 million. Controlled from thousands of miles away by a tiny island and had been for a long time.

If Russia had still been at the state they were in 1912 they may well have gotten rolled by the Axis. Perhaps the appearance of the Bolsheviks saved them from that fate. We'll never know for sure.

I'm not a Bolshevik supporter btw. I'm aware they caused a lot of suffering and I don't attempt to justify that.
It looks like the police shined high beams in his eyes, causing him to reflexively raise his arms to block the bright light. Another officer shot him for raising his arms.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/gLFrv

Once you know to look for it, it becomes obvious that this is what is happening when watching the video.

Video: https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192244734.htm...

I don't know whether the police can be 'legally' pinned with criminal culpability here, but there is no doubt that they royally fucked up. No amount of presence of mind on the part of this guy would have prevented an entirely uncontrolled, reflexive action in response to them shining incredibly bright HID lamps in his face.
CS is basically math++, i.e. a CS graduate is considered elite, capable of mastering in 1 year what math graduates do in 2 years. Deal with it!
Weed "should" be mandatory for every citizen, supplied free from the Government.
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I still use bootstrap components in my projects. Just the layout is done using CSS grid. Its actually a very powerful combination.
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The article is too abstract for me. I don't have enough leadership experience to relate to what is being said. I'd be grateful if someone could rewrite this article with some concrete examples. I am sure there are many others in the same boat as I am. They will find this useful too.
I can pick up the phone and have the police kill you, and you don’t think that’s a problem? Explain that logic.
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It depends very much on the school. I attended two different programs. The first was a software engineering degree with IMHO an entirely insufficient math requirement of basically calculus plus a combined discrete math and linear algebra lower division class. The second university didn’t have a computer science program per se — they had a math degree plus algorithms class and called it a computer science concentration.

Having been through both I can see the logic of both approaches.
Abuse departments make Internets not feel like hpme since maybe 2005. I for once will be happier if they stop doing that.
"Los Angeles man arrested in ‘swatting’ call that preceded fatal police shooting in Kansas" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-arrest-man-suspe...
Oh, it's definitely decodable. Most CPU's can be (though x86 post-386 wouldn't be fun), since that's what they're usually doing internally. But, with 8-bit CPU's, the opcode space is usually limited to a byte, which makes tables very doable and very efficient.

My rust-based GB emulator uses a decoder based on those very docs, in fact. Though, modified slightly since the GB's CPU only supports the CB-extended range operations.
So it is true Americans don't use past participles?
They did release the bodycam footage. It looks like they shined high beams directly in his face, he raised his arm to shield his eyes, and then they shot him.
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Nice list, although I was horrified by one (sorry to need to pick on the one thing that was bad):

>Being overworked is not a good reason to hire. Instead, hire to be ready to catch opportunities, not to survive the current battles.

That's why we as programmers should say no to overwork, because only then will they see the need to hire. I only do overwork when some unexpected disaster happens, or when there is a sudden huge opportunity. In the other cases, they should plan better or hire more people, simple as that.
> would be handled by armed officers anyway

Exactly. Expecting police to go to an active shooter / hostage situation unarmed seems rather flawed. That said, I think many other situations police officers are in don’t warrant being armed.
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>>If instead you mean police should respond swiftly but not bring out the SWAT teams without more verification, then that could pose a (different kind of) safety issue for responders and potential hostages.

I think you're getting close to someone people don't like to talk about; we (as a society) seem to value the lives of police officers far higher than we value the lives of innocent "civilians". This seems entirely backwards to me - I'd strongly prefer that police officers effectively never fire first. Let the SWAT teams be very highly armoured and lightly (or non-lethally) armed.
But how do you do it without centralizing coin issuance?
>We don't send documents via fax or courier, we send them digitally.

We still send messages via fax, because a document you sign and send by email isn't a legally signed document, wheras a fax is. I had to print out a PDF, sign it, and and fax it a week ago for this reason.
I think anyone who looks at bitcoin thinks "what we need is a proof-of-work scheme with positive externalities". But when you look at the actual constraints of the proof-of-work-- unpredictable, unsolved problems with automatic difficulty adjustment-- you realize implementing this idea in a decentralized manner will take almost as big a breakthrough as Satoshi himself made.
Yes there are but they don’t even dwarf compared to the illegitimate usage they effectively do not exist.

I’m sure you watch PBS on your Kodi box, but I’m also sure you watch a lot of other content.

You also forget that Kodi is also heavily used to easily access content behind geoblocks so while I would assume there are plenty of people that use it because the interface is neater than that of the BBC iPlayer a very large portion of them would also be those who aren’t in the UK.
If anyone can find a better year for when this was written, we can change the above. I put in 1997 based on the book preface.
I want to be clear that this idea doesn't have much to do with SWATting. What makes SWATting so evil is that it's deliberately designed to place officers in the scenario most demanding of readily deployed lethal force.

Having said that:

1. Yes, I think it's feasible. Not in DFW or Maricopa County, but test cases in places like Madison and Columbus? Remember: big cities already have people like this --- parking enforcement, traffic direction --- and most cities are facing pension problems due to the assault forces they already have.

2. Clearly we can find the people to do the work. TSA staffs unarmed people at checkpoints designed to catch armed terrorists. Big cities already put unarmed officials in adversarial contact with citizens.

3. It only solves part of the problem. But I'd hope that by gradually relegating assault officers only to those scenarios where escalation was known to be required going in, we'd eliminate the kinds of snap-judgement mistakes police make in routine confrontations that end up with firearms deployed.
It's worse for me, cause Chinese people don't change names when married. It is zero-effort to learn the maiden name since it is still their actual name. However, many Chinese websites still have this question available.

I always give a fake name/addr/, etc. Very hard to remember all those answers, before I know how to use a password manager.
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With success I think it's easy to fall into a pattern of comfort and avoidance.

Whether it's exercise, going to meetups, gatherings, or any sort of public place, trying new hobbies as you've done with the house, etc., I'd suggest finding at least one thing to do each day that forces you out of your comfort zone, and see if you don't notice a difference in your feelings and outlook.

If you're walking, speed it up a bit or even try a short sprint to force a recovery, and note any physical and mental difference as the body does its thing.

Can you approach it that way? "I haven't done my 'one thing' yet today--I need to get out/hit the floor/call a friend/whatever." Go to the library, hardware store, mall, church, something different, even seemingly mundane.

And yeah, maybe move if you need to. Sometimes a change can be beneficial in and of itself, and you don't have to go to the extreme Bay-end of the COL spectrum to find more opportunities--there's a range of options between there and remote small town.
> If Russia had still been at the state they were in 1912 they may well have gotten rolled by the Axis

Wut?? They didn't the first time. What makes you think second time is the charm? Without a crippling 10 years civil war, Russia will have a huge head start.

But even if they did, I doubt it would be worse than what we have now. You can infer that what we have now is pretty bad.

They did roll Poland. Does Poland have it worse than Russia? Nope, the opposite is true. French understood that and abstained from the fight.
Yep, the domain name doesn’t help with disambiguation either.
In the post the author complains about the lack of a VM inside current phones to run Google instances in it. I believe BB10 had that feat to overcome the limits of its native app ecosystem. My old Passport nowadays could almost reach the objectives of the author. Too bad due to licensing the Android kernel is stuck on 4.3
For Christ’s sake, sue him if you want to get justice.

I sympathize with those who suffer injustice but if you haven’t sued him and won in court, even that much is unclear.

It is disgusting and deplorable that you are trying to drag unrelated “enablers” into this. Your problems are your own. Nobody owes you anything.

Get a lawyer and sue him. I’d be happy for you if you won.
That’s true nearly anywhere your strongest negotiation position is during pre-employment.

But money isn’t everything and those pay rises suck I get 5-6% p/a without asking, must have been a heck of a bonus cut then.
There was also an episode of The Twilight Zone with the same plot [0]. Based on a short story by Richard Matheson.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Z...
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I hope no year will ever be the year of the Linux desktop. I use Debian and it is awesome, both on the server and desktop. So as long as Linux is a niche, all is well. How awful if it would become mainstream, think viruses etc. So it's a good thing that people like you don't like it. Keep it up!
Hmmm...I see an allegation of rape, which is a serious criminal allegation. This is not for a ‘community’ or conference organizers to adjudicate, we have the criminal justice system for this: the police, the courts etc.

Conversely, a false accusation is also a serious crime. This is simply not a matter to be resolved in public by defamation. Leave it to the courts.