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I don't know that this is a very persuasive argument. We have all sorts of complex, technical "laws" (both in statutes and agency rules extending those statutes). A lot of them are important and sensible.

In a field like finance, once you make something illegal, doesn't the prosecution's argument pretty much come down to:

1. Under the US code, foo is illegal. That's the rule that everybody working in this field has to play by.

2. The defendant fooed, flagrantly and with relish, and in the process made umpteen zillion dollars.

3. At all times, the defendant made it clear that they knew fooing was wrong. For instance, when discussing fooing, they logged into each other's email accounts and wrote drafts rather than sending emails, and shredded their birth certificates after discussing foo.

4. As a result of all this reckless fooing, which we remind you is illegal in the US, 3,392 people lost their houses.

A jury can't follow this argument?

An argument I've read more frequently is that the laws around this stuff aren't clear enough, so that a defense attorney can hopelessly muddle up a case by arguing "we weren't fooing, we were clearly barring". We could make the laws a lot more clear! But in doing so, we'd potentially disrupt the economy, and so it's a tricky balancing act.
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I yam what I yam, said the caveman.
Yummy was heard in the background.
You can fire it relatively slowly because of the low gravity of the moon, and take plenty of time bleeding v. Ideally there would be a space elevator and capture system to bring them back, but other methods work. You’re not just firing “at” Earth. Even if you were, Earth is mostly covered by oceans, and landing them there would be acceptable.
I like the article but it left out one of my favorite things unique to video games, ludonarrative dissonance — the phenomenon that the actions you perpetrate as a character can be entirely antithetical to the internal moral state of the character or the motivational state for achieving a certain goal.

One example is the recent Tomb Raider reboot. You play as a distressed teenage girl who is shipwrecked on a dangerous island with no survival skills or knowledge of self-defense or hunting.

Yet later in the game you are brutally murdering hundreds of enemy combatants by stabbing them with a homemade ax, shooting them with arrows in the head, lighting them on fire.

On one hand you are just trying to survive, find missing people, gain intelligence about the island you’re on. Needing to kill someone would only happen in an extreme situation, and you would be desperate to run and hide or use weapons to incapacitate rather than kill. On the other hand you function nearly as a harbinger of brutal and complete annihilation for the groups of enemy foot soldiers, mowing down hundreds of them, using anything in the environment to brutally kill them.

You aren’t a fallen anti-hero in the game’s world though. You are the thumbs-up, wholly moral protagonist, but the actions you perpetrate go far beyond anything justifiable for mere survival.

I think this effect is also something unique to specifically video game story telling, because it’s very hard to depict a character acting directly antithetically to the moral character the reader/viewer is supposed to believe they really represent, without entering some type of morality surrealism.

But in the game, since you are asked to be the agent who perpetrates the irreconcilable actions, you are more willing to engage the dissonance aspect, and feel like the brutal, unjustifiable actions don’t negate the character, since you “had to” do it to complete the game.

The Uncharted series also contains a lot of ludonarrative dissonance, as you are a cheeky Indiana Jones character who at root is a “good guy” just out for treasure, but who ends up brutally murdering thousands of bad guys along the way in over the top, morally indefensible ways.

The Metal Gear franchise has components, especially with the Raiden character, that touch on it too.
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Landing the space shuttle was hard because it used a crappy design for secret reasons. Technicians at the time tried to propose a sensible design instead, but obviously could not override this.
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This is accurate. All the talk about how to fund college ignores the fact that some degrees are not worth it in terms of financial cost/benefit. What does an MFA get you in actual earning potential? If the benefit is extremely low, no method of funding will make financial sense except if you can convince someone else to pay for it.

If you pick up $200k in student loan debt from an Ivy League school but leave with an engineering degree, you’ll probably be fine, even if that’s not really the cost effective option. If you leave school with $50k in loans and a degree that doesn’t get you a decent-earning job, crippling debt is now your life.
You (and I guess the load of downvoters) are making an assumption that drugs is like any other business and not a criminal enterprise[1]. For a lot of drug sellers, it is a customer acquisition game. You give a first sample and then get them addicted and then they spend all their money on the drug and then they are of no use to you. It really doesn't matter if you kill them at some point since they will be out of money anyway. It really is only in the drug dealers financial interest to keep you alive as long as you have money. Adding cheap additives to the product (regardless of the danger) is not really a problem. Adding additives that are even more addictive even if they are very dangerous is a bonus.

1) obviously, some like mj do fit into a normal keep customer happy business model
Creative citys have more homeless- disrupting, non-incremental creativity relies on controlled schizophrenia, and those "useful" creatives have family members or children who get the full hardcore life destroying side of a brain on a runaway recombination trip.

I`m happy im living in germany.
I have a brother, who studied engineering - and he got hit hard by the "dark side of the family" with several episodes. He is on a state pension now, he will not live the life of his dreams, but at least he does not have to fear for his existence and roam the streets.

Several members of my extended family have similar issues to a varying degree, and its the state pulling them through, the family carrying them - or spouses, who basically steer them remote. The last type can be very bewildering for others a grown up man, engineering great machinery, being basically ordered around like a little kid in social life by his wife.

Do you really think, all those break-troughs grown on trees?
Are made by those normal, 9-5-5 a week, incremental cogwheels?
Don't you ever wonder, who dreams up all those paranoia and excitement drenched TV-shows you consume?
All this can be done by everybody, if you just show up and work really hard?

The homelessness you see, is a by product of the creative process.
Get used to it.
Handle it like a grown up, stop trying to solve the problem by protest-antics preachings to a reality who does not care about your moral outrage.
Grow up.
As an OSM contributor, I beg to differ. "Just an algorithm" needs to take into account all the different ways in which the data is input, guess at possible transfers (again, stops might be mapped, but are they reachable from each other?), and that's before we get to the issue of stale data (infrastructure might be mapped, but the line numbering and routing changes at a moment's notice).

So yeah, it looks easy at first glance.
I think that video is more of a warning about the dangers of cognitive overload, cybersecurity, and estrangement.

It looks impressive whilst also being oppressive.
>Bank employees were instructed to tell prospective clients to lie about their income

But is there explicit proof of this? I didn't think there was, but maybe I'm wrong. I thought at best the argument would be more like:

"Bank executives set up incentives for their employees that they knew would encourage fraudulent behaviour."
As a guy who had a bit of a delinquent streak and was sleeved with homemade tattoos by my late teens (in the mid 90s) I am SO happy that tattoos have become socially acceptable. Through an accident of fashion all of those warnings about never being able to get a job or be taken seriously have been rendered moot. Now most of my original tattoos have been covered with much nicer, less embarrassing work and I blend in with every other vaguely edgy middle aged adult.

The tattoos I had when I was young meant something, but only in the sense that they were meant to signal a teenager's rebellious and dangerous nature. In a way you could say that the tattoos didn't have to be physically removed since the surrounding culture did that for me. The effect of the big sea change in fashion meant that the permanent marks on my body no longer kept me outside of polite society. Far less involved than lasers, that's for sure.
Heat shielding for reentry is a solved problem, you will not lose 90% of anything, or have it explode.
according to wikipedia[0] "As of Quarter 1 in 2012, the average student loan balance for all age groups is $24,301"

which to me doesn't sound too bad (i.e. less than a year of salary).
is that inaccurate and is she talking about a complete different figure here?

in the netherlands it's fairly common to finish school with a couple of thousand euro's in debt, so why is this such a big issue in the usa?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_debt#United_States
Less setup involved especially if you are dealing with a language you don't use everyday. Also nice to build reusable small components in an isolated environment.

I use codepen everyday for compiling different frontend web components. Its not an IDE, but it has IDE-like features. This way I could build reusable code snippets. Then I port those into my actual project. I wish something like this existed for backend languages, repl.it was the closest thing I found. Although stackblitz is nice too.

What I look for in an web IDE is a simple system that lets me debug small singular components. If they integrated something like pythontutor.com or loupe.com, visual animations for debugging, that would be really nice. A webapp has more potential for these applications than an electron-based app.

Next I always end up with build errors. I'm too lazy to use docker / run VMs so having someone do this for me is a bonus.

Also, online IDE's are used in classroom settings often. I used cloud9 a few times for this reason and its very helpful, minus the fact the git-integration tools the last time I use it weren't there.

To put it in short, I look for webtools that would let me build micro environments to test a small suite of code. Ideally with nice debugging tools. And an easy way to reference those code snippets later (imagine evernote's tagging structure applied to a web IDE).

Web IDE's won't compile as fast as a native desktop application however.
Easy solution - just send down bigger asteroids, and drop them on whomever might object.

Easier solution - park the asteroids somewhere and have the nations of the world pay you not to.
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Nature expressly allows preprints. You can put your Nature paper on arXiv at any point, before or after review. Authors are perfectly able to open their papers themselves. Authors also retain all copyrights.

https://www.nature.com/authors/policies/license.html

I’m no fan of big publishing, but Nature’s policy is ok in this respect, and better than eg. IEEE.
I think VR is forever destined to be a niche sideline. Seems like I've been hearing that VR is about to take off every few years since the 90s. It resolutely fails to do so and aside from some "wow" at tech demos and games there's no killer VR app that makes it a must have.

AR is much more instantly obvious to all with things like Night Sky and augmented maps.
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You kill the rats and the pigs that come for your yams then smoke the meat.
AR I think needs killer apps and utilities. The AR measuring app is a good example if it works accurately.

Other AR apps/ideas I think would be killer are...

- AR historic view: wave phone or point glasses at a location and see how it looked year’s ago via pics & a 3D model or maybe a mix. Make me feel I stepped back in time and have a Disney like feel/experience to it.

- AR night time/day time view: At nighttime view in glasses how it looks during the day

- AR Linkedin/Facebook: Know the strangers name your talking to and all their public iNet info via glasses view
In math and physics there is the Pin group which is named because it relates to the Spin group (named after spin like of an electron) in the same way that SO (special orthogonal group) relates to O (orthogonal group) and SL (special linear group) relates to GL (general linear group). This is something some mathematicians find quite amusing.

Edit: also some say rng which is a ring without an identity (without an i). I think there are others similar to this.
Only if you refuse to apply a hacker-like mentality to spirituality. Hackers will tend toward agnosticism or outright atheism more readily than the average person, sure (they're less likely to take scripture at face value), but will also do so for more obscure or lost-in-history religions (paganism comes to mind), or perhaps a parody religion (SubGenius, pastafarianism, etc.).

In my case, I like to explore what makes different religions tick and try to sort between "hey, this is a good idea" and "oh wow, that's a bad idea". That sorting ultimately determines my own "religious" beliefs. Whether I take the existence of God or the afterlife or what have you literally is immaterial to whether I apply those teachings to my own life.

I certainly agree that organized religion is antithetical to hacker nature. You probably won't find many hackers who are regular churchgoers (at least not to the same church each time), and they're probably not going to be the ones following scripture to the letter. Organized religion is only a subset of religion, though.
From 2010:

“It’s about Garrett Hedlund defending his decision to skip college to pursue acting.”

Headline: NEW TRON STAR NOT DENSE

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-astronomy-minors
That's obvious to anyone who knows how humans replicate.

The sentiment of the comment was that the timing was unfortunate because the kid was born in the same period that had presumably something else going on on the work side. Not that the child was born. So either the OP had some prior "history" with his manager, which changed the literal meaning of the comment, or he is reading too much into it.
Single letters were reserved for personal commands and aliases.
If an investment has outsized returns would it not be due to some innovation ?

Also the purpose of an investment is a return. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but what you’re mixing up research funding with capital investments.
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> AR Linkedin/Facebook: Know the strangers name your talking to and all their public iNet info via glasses view

A killer app indeed; it'd kill AR. At least I like to think we aren't so far gone that as a society we can't see how wrong that would be.
How did they win their deposit back with that situation?
You could do it with a little extra effort. I used to work on a cluster and ran bash on any of hundreds of machines. Having my entire history available at all times saved me countless times.
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I would focus on three areas:

1.) Start reading source code. If your favourite frameworks are open source, they're a great place to start.

2.) Work on your soft skills (ie - communications, leadership, general interpersonal skills, public speaking etc). At this stage in your career, Toastmasters would likely be a good investment.

3.) It would be extremely useful to get experience taking a project all the way from idea to release. And, the more you do this the more useful it gets to you (particularly if you switch up the types of teams/roles you take on).
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I'll fully get behind mat leave if it's taken as bonus paid vacation time that's available to everyone. Having a child is a choice, and a selfish one at that, the world being as overpopulated as it is. No problem with that. You want a kid, I want to take time off to make music and travel.
And the japan Times is the best source for this news?
This is a bit unrelated, but I think it would be cool to have a decentralized way of making persistent URLs.
Title should say: "Cities wreck travellers' holiday plans as battle with AirBnB intensifies"
"consumers can live without another 42in tv." So you think. Americans will rage if these taxes land on them. There will be hell to pay. Fuck with Americans TVs and iPads, we will go to war.
Interestingly, it was against the TOS to build the AR Linkedin/Facebook app using the Google Glass API.
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A bash script (function) to rename in batch (bulky process).
For Linux or its port on Mac / Windows (Msys2)
>It looks impressive whilst also being oppressive.

That's an apt description of the technological future in general...
http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

4. Naughtiness

Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.
They offer fundamentality different experiences so I'm not sure we should be grouping them together as much as we do. It's like saying "It seems like cars are a lot more practical than boats" - but they're intended for different things.

There might be some cross over in some of the technology, and how you consume it, and the end game may be AR eyewear/contacts that can do proper virtual reality, but for now - they're quite far apart from each other.
This 90% is absurd. What about:

ATT - DirecTV, Time Warner (WB, Turner, HBO)

Verizon - Yahoo, AOL

Comcast - XFinity, NBCUniversal

Disney - 21st Century Fox?

Sony - Pictures, Television, Music/Publishing

Netflix

Amazon

Google/Youtube

Facebook

Microsoft

National Amusements (CBS/Viacom(Paramount))

Fox Broadcasting/Fox Sports

Sinclair Broadcast Group/Tribune Company?

Vivendi - Canal+, Universal Music Group

Bertelsmann - Random House, Penguin, RTL, BMG

Lionsgate

Crown Castle - Hallmark

Discovery - Scripps Interactive, TLC, Animal Planet, US Networks

AMC Networks

Kobalt

Warner Music Group - Warner/Chappell

News Corp

Tronc

Time inc

Hearst Corporation

Gannett

Advanced Publications

Meredith Corp

HarperCollins

New York Times Company

Wenner Media

Getty

Gray

Nexstar

Tegna

iHeartMedia (ClearChannel)

AMC Theaters

Madison Square Garden

Regal

Cinemark

MindGeek

Televisa

Univision Communications

Sprint/T-Mobile?

Charter Communications (Bright House Networks, Spectrum Internet formerly Time Warner Cable)

Dish

Cox

Altice USA (Optimum Online, Suddenlink Communications)

CenturyLink

Frontier
>I only wanted to highlight there are companies on the other side of the spectrum too.

I am fully aware of that, hence some of my statements. I think it's contrived and not being completely honest, at the very least it seems pretty irrelevant.
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I have been looking into this, and one of the few commodities that has value at scale is Nickel, there is a large demand for it and the prices have been generally high.

The Spanish brought back gold and silver from the New World, and crashed the markets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution

Mansa Musa of Mali splashed gold on his trip to Mecca in the 1300s and caused economies to falter for several years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali

There would seem to be more danger to the economy by being flooded with rare metals than from an actual meteorite impact.
Well, that shouldn't be very hard to solve; at the worst save the "working set" in a UI-specific cache (aka detached from the git repo), and maybe offer options for autosaving into branches.

I do agree this is something that needs to be solved, but cannot categorically be solved elegantly, so GitLab needs to just get on with just doing what will work.
I have: papers on alias analysis for compilers. I've had a lot of difficulty filling in the gaps in the old-but-important papers I've read.
Weirdly enough most of the folks with large funds (e.g. mid-sized VC firms) do not make a large number of bets because their MO is to take a board seat with an investment. Because there's an effective limit on the number of boards one can sit on and fulfill a fiduciary duty to each corporation, there are only so many checks the firm will write. They are further constrained by fund timing (having a few years at the start to deploy capital and generally ten years to return it). Worse yet, they need one big success that will return the fund in order to earn carry. So they have a fixed number of bets, one of which must make it really big in less than ten years. Needless to say with all of these constraints most VC funds fail to beat the public markets. Many VCs given these constraints follow the advice in this article and invest mainly in companies that already have good traction. The problem is that everyone wants to invest in these companies so those that get in either overpay or have some reason why they have gotten access to proprietary deal flow.

Angels that make small, passive investments can build very broad portfolios, wait patiently over long time horizons, and make money when even a single investment returns. Angels can afford to be wrong much more often and make much edgier bets. Nearly all seed funding these days is provided by angels.

Over a broad portfolio, that's where the returns are.

Background: started two companies, invested in 50+, advised 15+, run three funds/syndicates.
Or "Airbnb hosts fail to comply with regulations and accept reservations anyways, wrecking their guests holiday plans".

Or "Airbnb fails to properly warn travellers they're booking stays that potentially will have to be cancelled later".
>Just feed mice roasted coffee beans as their only food (which should keep them alive, shouldn't it?)

No, why should it? For one, it would lack tons of nutrients.

>and see what happens

Which easily could be a side-effect of only getting coffee beans and not other foods, and not of coffee-bean in itself.
It’s an easy thing to say we are all extremely complex and that every trait should be treated independently. The problem with this thought is that creative thinking is in opposition to a productive and managerial approach. Creativity thrives under expansion and exploration. Managerial/admin thrives under focus and execution. To excel in one area you have to let go of the other; you can either be expansive, or you can be focused. Now it’s possible to be good at switching between the two modes and that one person might be better than another at both, but I would argue it’s difficult or even near impossible to think in both ways at the exact same time.