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Many religious people don't think the death penalty is a good thing. When I questioned a Catholic monk about this very issue he told me that while the Church condemns both the death penalty and abortion, because abortion affects tens of millions of "people" each year it's given more attention by the Church than the death penalty which affects many less people per year.

However for those that do support the death penalty while at the same time condemning abortion, it's important to realize that for them there is no inconsistency.

It goes like this: abortion is bad because the unborn are morally equivalent to birthed people (by virtue of their souls), and they are essentially innocent beings.

Criminals are not innocent, and therefore killing them is excusable.

Their belief is not inconsistent because of the role innocence plays. Now you may disregard the importance of innocence here, but that doesn't make their views inconsistent.
Mozilla recently released open source speech recognition model [1]. What minimal and reasonably cheap device could be used to run it? There could be or already is an open source project that could replace devices like Echo.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-init...
Quiet, you're spoiling the narrative we're imposing on semi-random, chaotic events.
> Dell XPS are very nice but whatever you do don't go for a model that has an integrated AND dedicated graphics card

This goes for any laptop. Be careful what you buy.

> If I had to do it all over I would have gone for a Thinkpad without a doubt.

When you do go buy a Thinkpad, take care not to make the same mistake twice. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad w530 with Nvidia Optimus. It has an integrated intel gpu and a discrete nvidia gpu. It has given me all kinds of issues on both Windows and Linux.
Interesting, how is that possible?
> one wonders why none of them leads by example and hires woman only.

Because that's blatantly, bright-line illegal?
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>If that is true, why is it true? I think that's a far more interesting question.

Almost any scientific finding should be ended 'but more research is needed to be certain'. Perhaps the question to ask is why isn't this getting more research, given just how important the topic is to the lives of so many people. All of the questions you raise can be tested with further research, so why aren't they? Why is some of the best data (best is not to be confused with good, as best is relative) from dating web sites?
I've seen everything anyway, and I get on my bike and ride off. On the grass.
Neil Armstrong didn't build the rockets or the shuttle so I guess he's also a bum.
That completely misses the point which is a simpler format to implement and support.
Stay-at-home mothers are typically handsomely remunerated -- their food, rent, clothing, hobbies are all paid for, typically by the father(s) of their children. This is part of total compensation, but never factored in. It is also never deduced from the total compensation of the father(s).

Any statistic that does not take this into account isn't serious.
Heritable doesn't necessarily imply genetic. Culture is heritable. Traits can propagate through generations memetically.
This service appears to do nothing else aside from automatically generating a resignation letter. Did I miss a value-add here? This just seems like a media campaign instead of anything useful.
>They might be 30% slower in virtualization and should be about 5-7% slower in real world usage.

Virtualization IS real-world-usage. This is going to damage Intel where it will hurt the most, the datacenter (which is largely virtualized using VMware, or Hyper-V). The Xeon CPU's have some of the best profit margins for Intel. If they erode away to Epyc (which is finally becoming available) this could be pretty good for AMD's, espically since AMD has said the the past few years there strategy is to go after the datacenter market.
Take the first point, "The US is philosophically much more egotistic than other developed countries". If all Americans accepted that they as a whole would pay less if they pre-paid in taxes rather than post-treatment bills then the country would be better off. What's stopping them accept this is the overlap of media, politicians, rich people (and maybe more, not my area of expertise) telling you that isn't true. The better way is to ignore them, to let money speak not money holders.

That can be expanded on with another point, the American dream. If the millionaires tell an American dreamer that something isn't a good idea the dreamer will consider it a roadblock to their own riches.
This piece is (IMNSHO) trash. It's trying to stare into some crystal ball guessing at the cause of market fluctuations; but there's no real evidence they're right.

Not to mention it's pretty misleading about technical stuff, saying e.g. "Chip design errors are exceedingly rare. More than 20 years ago, a college professor discovered a problem with how early versions of Intel’s Pentium chip calculated numbers."

So, they imply that chip design errors are once in a few decades kind of things; that's just complete nonsense. Chip design errors are common most just aren't this bad.

Furthermore, they imply this stock change is anything more than temporary volatility; given the tiny, tiny changes so far that's just premature. Perhaps the stocks will adjust more in the future - we'll see. But as of now, this piece is financially and technically pretty misleading.
> We are talking about whether 1) you can apply scandinavian style healthcare to the us (you can't)

You keep repeating this throughout the thread without giving any actual arguments why. "Because we're not Scandinavia" is not a reason.
Yes, it would be, but in practice it's hard to nail people on this. He can argue that he'd already scheduled the sell when he learned about this and it will be difficult to prove otherwise.
Good point, although there could be some strands of metallica alloy through the bone matrix to reinforce it, breaking your bones is so rare for most people, it's no surprise nature spent budget on other places.
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You are doing the right thing.

There really isn't any difference between a bug fix and a new feature: either way somebody is requesting a change in the state of the application.
True in theory but there is widespread abuse of plea deals in the US justice system.
Seems debatable. From what I recall, at least some news about this issue was already public before he sold his shares. And what would be illegal would be trading based on information that isn't public. OTOH, since details are still dribbling out, you could possibly argue that the Intel CEO had more complete information than the public.

The sell could also have been scheduled in advance, which would - AFAIK - not violate any insider trading regulations.
In the lifting crowd it's incredibly common for people to not be buoyant. I have a friend that requires 2 life jackets to float.
> It looks like petrol cars have done it in under 27 hours

With pretty insane modding though. The previous record (in 28:50) was done by "just" adding fuel tanks in the trunk and laser jammers: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/31/us/new-york-los-angeles-ca...
No, because it's not a binary choice. There are degrees to which people are open to new experiences or extraverted.
I think they meant PR-only guy. His PR genius is in using his fan following for free PR. Tesla or SpaceX hardly need to spend any marketing dollars.

No other tech leader is as charismatic (Steve Jobs came close, but Musk seems more genuine whereas Jobs felt like a salesman) and very few are as personally intelligent and accomplished.
That's possibly it, but I'd have thought the proximity to Leeds would have offered a good choice of roles within commuting distance.
I tend to agree with you. Although I also don't have any hard evidence, it seems to me that growing up in the 80's, there was far less parental supervision of kids then there is now. In the summertime during school break, even as early as elementary school probably 3rd grade, we would take off on our bikes and roam without any supervision. As long as we were home by sundown we wouldn't be in any trouble.
What does it do, then? That is approximately what the mitigation patch does, according to early averages of perf changes.
No:

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This is an utter fantasy. Small scale limited scope tools being rolled out to augment diagnosis -- Yes. AI doctors -- No :( Also the data is probably mostly shit -- physicians are fallible and like all people potentially incompetent or negligent -- these trends would be reflected in whatever historical data is used, that inefficiency would simply be made much faster with automation -- which is why they will try it first in India before it is ever approved on Western soil.

On the other hand a RL system that pokes and prods a living persons brain with electrified needles and uses a conv net to watch for feedback from the resulting facial expressions is completely possible -- with enough training experience anybody could convince me of anything using it. One 30 second session to ensure a lifetime of compliance and happiness -- the promotional material can have a guy drinking a glass Kool-Aid with a look of tranquil bliss on his face.
Sony digital cameras sensors are the best in the market. Guess what the Iphone uses, that is the number one camera in the world.
>Men, especially men of lower social status (or "attractiveness"), benefit from a glut of promiscuous women.

They don't because promiscuous women will continue to choose high status partners. More sex doesn't mean more sex for low status men.
> "objective status" is usually "net worth" (aka "life score") which has many readily evident indicators like clothes, car, house, jet, private island, etc.

I disagree that "net worth" is a measure that is applied in all communities. For example bohemian societies were even somewhat proud not to have a lot of money, because the members saw themselves as artistic avant-garde that is not understood by "the ordinary world".
It's more than a little Orwellian!

For example Pol Pot and his henchmen justified their mass murder by accusing their victims as enemies of the "equalitarian state" [1].

It's interesting that this is being downvoted. Do the downvoters question the historical veracity of the connection between totalitarianism (such as Pol Pot's) and equality?

[1] Daniel Bultmann: Kambodscha unter den Roten Khmer
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I've never seen a card like the CSR. It really only compares to the AmEx Platinum and Citi Prestige (although some other banks are now trying to compete). The AmEx plat has far too many restrictions to make it valuable to me (and, it seems, many others). The bonus category (5% on travel) is only for one particular airline. I have (almost) no airline loyalty. I will fly with whoever is cheapest (unless the prices are close). The travel credit is for airline incidentals with a single airline. Since I never check a bag or pay for things in flight, that is entirely useless to me. The Uber credit is also useless. I might be able to use the Uber credit-- if it weren't spread out over 12 months. The Centurion lounge access is only useful if you are regularly in places that have a Centurion lounge.

Meanwhile, for the CSR, travel (for both the category bonus and the credit) is travel. There are very few restrictions. It offers the same Global Entry credit, the same Priority Pass membership, the same primary rental car insurance, and the same rental car benefits. It also offers things like trip delay insurance that the AmEx does not. Additionally, it offers United as a transfer partner and United still has the most flights out of my airport. If one were based out of a Delta hub, the math changes since the AmEx has delta as a transfer partner and offers Delta Lounge access.

tldr: The restrictions on the AmEx make it hard to use and justify the annual fee vs a no AF card like Citi Double Cash. The CSR's lack of restrictions make it easy to get more value than the AF.
I'm currently trying to cut Google, Facebook and the other gargantuan major players out of my online life, and move to smaller, more specialized providers. If nothing else, it gives me a bit of peace of mind that my online assets are not all in one basket. If you're 100% Google, what are you going to do if the big G decides to suspend your account? If all your social life is though FB (or other big social network), what happens if they suspend your account?

My FB usage is now scaled down to basically just an event RSVP service with a few token page subscriptions for bands and venues. I've removed all photos and videos, cleared out all profile information, set visibility on everything to "just me" or "friends only", and I've untagged myself from everything I was ever tagged in. Yes, I know FB is probably keeping a lot (all?) of that in their archives for an indeterminate period of time, maybe the EU "right to be forgotten" can help with that.

I've replaced Google search with Startpage and I've migrated my email, calendar and contacts from GMail/GCalendar to a paid hosting/email provider, with my own personal domain name.

My phone is still running stock Android 7, but I've significantly cut down the amounts of apps installed, I much prefer to use web versions in Firefox with a decent lineup of privacy-protecting and tracking-inhibiting extensions. Some mobile web sites are really shitty about forcing their apps on you, but I'd rather just do without them. Obviously on the desktop, Firefox with the appropriate extensions is the browser of choice.

I refuse to get any "smart" devices, they're not welcome in my home. I'm working on replacing my Chromecasts, if nothing else I'll just use my laptop and an HDMI cable. For music in my kitchen/bathroom/basement, I've got a decent BT speaker instead.

Kicking the Google/FB/whatever dependency is hard.
Major security flaw found in Intel processors
Sony's huge and complicated. Obviously they're still doing well as a purveyor of gaming consoles, and their mirrorless cameras are AMAZING right now, but at the same time their forays into other markets (computing, e.g.) haven't fared well, and they went from market leader to also-ran in displays.

The thing that still shocks me, though, is the degree to which they blew their market leading position in portable music players. They OWNED that market in the 80s and 90s with the then-ubiquitous Walkman brand, which they extended into the CD era with "Discman" players that seemingly everyone had when I went to college in 1988.

Internal politics (I assume?) kept them from introducing a reasonable MP3 player until far, far too late for them to catch up. Some of their early efforts literally required you to re-encode your music into another weird format to use (ATRAC, I think?) -- and this while smaller players (Rio, etc) had devices you could load by copying MP3s to a memory card. I assume this is because Sony Music was afraid of the Mp3 revolution, but my understanding is that Sony Electronics has always been far more profitable than Sony Music, so it's hard to understand how that tail ended up wagging that particular dog.

(Oh, and there's also Sony's bizarre insistence on proprietary formats, like MiniDISC and MemoryStick -- that didn't help them, either.)

And then, of course, Apple came in with the iPod and gathered up the high-end, high-margin customers that were Sony's constituency.
Do you think that some of the hiring practices are out of whack as well? I've heard it claimed that sometimes the government treats hiring as welfare employment programs - which adds a whole new spin on this.
There's a certain irony to Gizmodo now going "Don't buy this!" after having it hyped as the "most innovative thing from Amazon" when it got released.
35k will be the base. They are starting the production ramp with a single, more expensive options package.
....are you asking for a friend?
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I have had dual GPU in my last two laptops and it has worked just fine in ubuntu with the Nvidia-prime support. there.
With Wayland you can now scale everything so the HiDPI matches your needs (it is still in experimental but works just fine)
Instrument of Government of both 1809 and of 1974 was signed on the sixth of June.

I'm not sure if the 1809 date was picked on purpose but the 1974 date was. Sixth of June has special place in Swedish history.

Glad it isn't sixth of January.
This is more in line with my experience. A friend of mine purposely sought out a job in government for the job security. He seemed to have had a rough time in the private sector as he was always getting laid off/fired and generally seemed to never like his bosses etc. He explicitly expressed that he wanted a job where he could be comfortable working at his own pace without having to worry about performance based evaluations and such. He's now in government and seems to be doing very well financially.
We love Netflix and HBO.

I mean we KNOW that the US is a sinking ship and that in order for our continued economic success a pivot to China/Asia is necessary. But American TV shows are just too good.
Arguably, Tesla & Elon Musk already achieved their goal of speeding up the adoption to EVs away from combustion engines: all car companies are working now on or have plans for electric vehicles.

Elon Musk has already succeeded big big time.
> Assume the moral obligation lies at exactly the same point as the legal obligation. Now assume the tax law changes. Has your moral obligation changed?

I don't actually believe that this assumption is generally true (nonpayment of taxes can be a form of civil disobedience; Henry David Thoreau did this in opposition to the Mexican-American War), but let's say that we believe in the principle that "any entity has a civic duty to follow the law, and if it is unjust, to protest it and endeavor to change it rather than simply disobeying it." In that case, yes, the moral obligation changes, because it is based on following the law.

> You implied that there is a moral obligation to pay at least the legal minimum, and I'm saying that's not a moral obligation but a legal obligation.

I don't believe I implied that. I just said there's no moral obligation to pay more than the legal minimum. That is true even if there is no moral obligation to pay taxes at all.

> Edit further: imagine living in a regime with 90% income taxes, and which takes that money and uses it to do terrible things. You have a legal obligation to pay those taxes, but I'd argue at least that you don't have a moral obligation to pay, and perhaps that you actually have a moral obligation not to pay. Therefore the legal minimum tax payment is not a moral obligation but a legal obligation.

OK, so even in this situation, there is no moral obligation to pay any more than the minimum legally required tax. I fail to see where we disagree.
It's much easier to remember things that are different from your norm. I grew up around giant parties as in 20+ kegs and you still run out of beer. However, some of my strongest memories where odd things that happened not so much masses of people dancing.
I'd rather interpret it as "50% are fixed (nature) and the other 50% are a coin flip (nurture).
It's sad to see the "Bitcoin doesn't do smart contracts" line repeated so faithfully - even implicitly as in your question. It's rubbish.

Bitcoin supports smart contracts, and has done so since launched in 2009. Even the simplest Alice-pays-Bob transaction is actually running a smart contract written in Script, a Forth-like language custom built for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin also supports metacoin protocols that create tradeable tokens, and has done so for a long time (e.g., ColoredCoins and MasterCoin).

Only a fraction of Bitcoin's full range of features are used today. This leads me to suspect that Ethereum's much-hyped VM will turn out to be mostly unused.

And, the majority of the interesting use cases for smart contracts require extrinsic (non-blockchain) state to operate. The price per barrel of Brent. Whether it rained over a piece of farmland. Randomness. Notice of the publication of a death certificate. All of these applications rely on a trusted server (or a federated system of them) for input. And they can be corrupted or shut down by a powerful adversary. Ethereum might be able to free itself from oracles to a small degree, but the difference will be negligible for many practical purposes.

In other words, Ethereum offers little more for day-to-day use than Bitcoin does. Ethereum does, however, enjoy a massive marketing advantage.
This is definitely true, and driven in part by media-driven hysteria that has led to the decades of the perception that child abduction and similar child targeting crimes are on the rise, while the reverse has been the case.
> Unless demand is fully inelastic

It's mostly inelastic. People don't buy resources unless they need to do work. Alternatives, such as on-prem hardware, are affected as well.

The only work that would be affected would be the work that becomes unprofitable at a 10-30% hardware cost increase and this is probably marginal enough to be ignored.
> The people who have left were responsible for collecting

> and analyzing the intelligence that goes into the

> president’s daily briefing.

I seem to recall that the president's daily briefing is now a single page with pictures. How many people does it take to produce that?
Well, I was walking to school 3 km (2 miles) one way alone since I was 6 years old (Europe). Pretty sure today my parents would be thrown in jail or something for "child neglect" (or whatever the latest PC buzzword for that is). Times are changing, but I don't think it's for the better.
You develop a feel for it. I'm not sure if there is a silver bullet to this. Specific examples and cases are easier to give answers to. Your list of IP addresses is a solid one. You might think a comma separated list is easiest (and maybe it is), but you could likely have a single input field and a "+ add another IP" link that dynamically adds a new IP input field.

You either make it more structured and need less validations and transforms or you make it more free form and need more validations and transforms. And it depends on the case. In the end, you probably want to construct some JSON that maps to part or all of your data structure. Depending on how important it is to get the data "right," you can also prompt the user with a "does this look right?" confirmation. Also, don't forget all the "falsehoods programmers believe about" articles.
Personally I think more people would be turned off by the fact that someone thinks they are a "loser" for having a Facebook account. Though it's a bit harder to quantify personality.
> It's trying to stare into some crystal ball guessing at the cause of market fluctuations; but there's no real evidence they're right.

Welcome to the world of business reporting.
Google Research team: adversial patches to confuse Deep Learning algorithms
What a ridiculous strawman. Do you want him to insert every last rivet and weld every last joint in his cars and rockets before they become 'his' cars and 'his' rockets?

Tesla I could still grant but you do him great injustice by simply ignoring how much of his personal resolve is responsible for SpaceX even existing.

Feel free to list the number of times a group of engineers have spontaneously teamed up to form a rocket company.
I saw that rumor spreading last night, but have yet to see any trustworthy reporting on any such action.

Edit: Here's trustworthy reporting on that action that also predates this announcement: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-so...
Went from a start up with a garbage fire app chasing VC money to sell the last of their dignity to the world of big business working on real software; so 50-50 on terrible soul crushing experience and fantastic year.