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A switch to PR would require a change to federal law. Meanwhile, in the absence of PR, any state is free to adopt its own redistricting policy. The latter approach seems much more feasible.
you mean Québecois cuisine ;)
Cannot recommend this blog enough , where the author is playing methodically computer RPGs in chronological order (he has started in 2010 and I think its going thorugh 1992 still...) , with detailed descriptions and reviews:

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/p/index-of-games-played-by-ye...

It has been scratching my nostalgic itch fairly well.
My question was posted in the context of its thread. Specifically, the figures we were discussing were about "gun related incidents", not mass shootings; the OP took the time to explain that these included things like brandishing a firearm or bullets striking school property whether or not there was a shooter on the property or someone got hurt. I would expect these sorts of incidents to happen more often in more violent communities; mass school shootings seem like they follow a different pattern than other kinds of gun violence.
The hate for the new Baldur's Gate seems misplaced, too. If you check the reviews on GOG and elsewhere, it seems to be thinly disguised "GamerGate" anger :/ (with some genuine complaints, to be fair)
Fun fact, Swam now has a job open for "Regulatory Engineer". I wonder why they would need that...

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This is not how copyright law works. You cannot reuse other people's copyrighted performance unless your work counts as a parody and the standards for parody are well documented. For example, Weird Al Yankovich needs to get permission for most of his parody songs because most of them don't actually qualify as parody under the law. Some do, but not all. Musical covers are generally done with permission from the rights holder. https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/posting-cover-songs-on-yo...

Also, the question as to whether any of the songs in question meets with the minimal creativity threshold to qualify for a copyright is a different question as to whether choreography can be copyrighted. The later is definitely the case, but the former is an open question that will answered in these court cases.
>And remember, the US a has a large population - 60 times more people live here than in, say, Norway. So for a given incidence rate per capita, you would expect the US to have more. In the past twenty years, more people have been killed by mass shootings (5 or more strangers), in Norway than in the US.

Japan has a large population too, about 120M. But the US has 19 times the murder rate of Japan.

I'm sorry, I don't buy the "large population" canard. Lots of European countries have large populations too: UK, Germany, France, Italy all have ~60-80M each. The US is not an order of magnitude greater than these. China has far more people than the US, yet it only has a murder rate of 0.62, compared to the US's 5.35. Japan's is 0.28. The US has a murder rate that compares with those in Sudan and Zimbabwe. But hey, at least we're not as bad as Brazil or El Salvador... /s
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IVPN does. Ars did an article on it semi recently.
It feels a little like Schrödinger's cat - if you contribute, you alter not just the direction and content of the meeting, but also the dynamic. By getting involved (opening the box) you would irrevocably alter what you observe.

If my goal was truly to observe the CEO and learn from him, my approach would be to be as silent and 'small' as possible - don't speak, don't draw attention to myself, sit behind the table, not at it, etc. I'd want everyone --including the CEO-- to forget I was even there.

I suggest you need to figure out what your goal truly is: to learn from him, or to 'bring value' for some reason? I'm not sure the two are compatible.
With all due respect: clang hasn't been asked to cover even a tiny fraction of the breadth you get with gcc. Cross compiling with clang generally just means building ARM Linux binaries on x86 Linux hosts. Where's the clang/llvm equivalent to buildroot, for example?
>At best, these companies are making money selling snake oil to dying people. At worst, they're introducing dangerous toxic chemicals to immunocompromised individuals and actively harming them.

This statement would make a lot more sense if our government did not currently have ignorant and draconian regulations and restrictions around this substance.

The snake oil salesman knows it does nothing and sells it anyway. Snake oil is not banned from being studied.

CBD absolutely helps with seizures and anxiety. I don't need some retroactive scientific study to show this because the evidence is already there, vouched for by those who use it. There is no placebo effect for seizures.

You have an opinion that someone with a PHD needs to sign off on everything you put in your body, that's fine. But that does not equate things that are untested to fucking snake oil, my guy.
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There's talk about some new characters and items that mess up the original "feel" of the game that can't be turned off. I'm trying to read without spoiling anything, that's just the theme I'm seeing.
I had the plate with the poutine thrown on my table in Montreal. I am not sure the reason for such bad service. The waiter told the tip is 10$ before taking my order. Is tipping mandatory or something in Montreal ?
No, I am making the claim that you don't have to use the message service for them to read your messages. I was unclear.
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I remember Baldurs gate, sure. But i dont recall Baldurs gate being anywhere near as important to the survival of Computer RPG's than Diablo, and more importantly Diablo II. If i'm not mistaken DII had macintosh support out-of-box, and is still played to this day on battle.net
Rates were near zero for close to a decade. Fed needs to raise rates in order to have room to respond to a crisis, otherwise we won't have many monetary tools to use when another 2008 comes around.

Fact that the economy is starting to sputter with rates around 2-3% signifies some serious problems that we can't use zero interest rates to paper over forever.
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It's a great idea that a lot if families need. It's not clear what it costs and its not clear if we use our name domain or your domain and what happens if it's not available. The white glove service is spot on, the person who would pay for this would not be the person who would know how to do it themselves. And finally, this is a great anti Facebook family product and I think you should mention that somewhere. Hth
Do you have a citation? I could believe the most high-profile school shootings don't happen in dodgy neighborhoods, but the notion that school shootings generally are rarer in more violent neighborhoods seems counter-intuitive.
>It feels to me as though the mantra of "move fast and break things" wasn't meant to apply to laws

Laws are just a contract. There are terms and penalties. If you weigh the consequences of breaking the contract and decide it’s worth the risk why not do it? Most people in America do it everyday (speeding in their cars).
On Reddit I have no idea where a person who replies really works.

You either haven't found the interesting threads or the interesting replies from internal people that make Blind different.
Knuth has said that the story as told above is apocryphal. I quote from here (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856):
> Donald: The story you heard is typical of legends that are based on only a small kernel of truth. Here’s what actually happened: John McCarthy decided in 1971 to have a Memorial Day Programming Race. All of the contestants except me worked at his AI Lab up in the hills above Stanford, using the WAITS time-sharing system; I was down on the main campus, where the only computer available to me was a mainframe for which I had to punch cards and submit them for processing in batch mode. I used Wirth’s ALGOL W system (the predecessor of Pascal). My program didn’t work the first time, but fortunately I could use Ed Satterthwaite’s excellent offline debugging system for ALGOL W, so I needed only two runs. Meanwhile, the folks using WAITS couldn’t get enough machine cycles because their machine was so overloaded. (I think that the second-place finisher, using that "modern" approach, came in about an hour after I had submitted the winning entry with old-fangled methods.) It wasn’t a fair contest.

> As to your real question, the idea of immediate compilation and "unit tests" appeals to me only rarely, when I’m feeling my way in a totally unknown environment and need feedback about what works and what doesn’t. Otherwise, lots of time is wasted on activities that I simply never need to perform or even think about. Nothing needs to be "mocked up."
Uh, really wish I haven't seen it. Not exactly surprised, but I forgot how many people in the industry (and the world at large) are like that.
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My favorite too. Such a good game, characterful and intriguing, and with awesome music too. Planescape is the best D&D setting.

About the only thing that hasn't aged well are the character portraits; I wish they had been hand-drawn instead of these weird late 90s low-res 3D renders. Everything else is superb.

I wonder if Nordom is still patiently waiting for the Nameless One to return...
Try giving her a lobster in shell. I as an adult got the opportunity to try Maine lobster; never again. The whole process felt like dissecting someone who I'd rather play with.
I wanted to try and re-register an old, obscure video game fan site with a short but unpronounceable domain, and a human (!) broker called me and said that it was going to be thousands of dollars. I estimate it's real value to be less than what they're paying him to sell it.
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Even if wages are "going up" over the last year or whatever, they have been largely stagnant over the long term in the face of skyrocketing corporate profits. It's a problem 30 or more years in the making and it will come to a head. Look at the recent tax "reform;" we aren't any closer to fixing this, in fact we're accelerating the other way
> Isn't this showing up in interviews?

Probably? I mean, if your hiring process is leetcode hazing by these same people, then it is self fulfilling.
You are responsible for the assumptions you make. You also make a good argument for CBD as a prescription drug.
So I am one of the rare people who were born without a sense of smell aka congenintal anosmia. Most people you run into with anosmia lost it due to an accident or medical procedure but as far as I can tell, I've never had it. Several other people on my dad's side of the family also have it which reinforces my belief that it's genetic.

I usually bring this up with co-workers along the lines of "If I smell bad or you smell smoke, PLEASE TELL ME!" which usually starts a whole series of questions mostly b/c people want to know what it's like.

I usually explain it like this: "Think of aluminum foil. Now think of fresh out of the oven baked bread. When I say 'baked bread' to you I imagine that a smell pops into your head and all kinds of memories are attached to it. When you say 'baked bread' to me it's like when I say 'foil' to you. There is no memory or sense attached to it all."

Even more interesting is that I didn't even realize I had no sense of smell till I was 19. Growing up I always thought that feeling in your nose in, say, a fried chicken place was smell and my sense was just weak (my sister has an AMAZING sense of smell). It was a room mate "breaking wind" in college that finally triggered the "ah ha" moment.
Your message reads like you are either speaking out of disappointment or you have overly ideal views of work.

Don’t live your life in a metaphorical or real box :-)
To me, the two games that "saved" the CRPG were Fallout (because I was tired of Elves and Orcs) and Planescape Torment, because of the same... and the cool setting and compelling characters.
What? The FDA openly publishes stuff. From long before GitHub was around.

Here's a good overview of how they go about making sure that approved drugs are GRASE (Generally Recognized As Safe and Effective): https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm14353...
CBD can be and is commonly smoked, it can be in flower form or concentrate
Mostly I agree, but there is one factor that makes C++ (or any native compiled language) better than java for HFT: the ability to lie to the optimizer about what the hot path is. in HFT you have thousands of no trades for every trade, so the java optimizer will optimize the no-trade code path as more likely, then when the trade happens java pays a CPU branch prediction miss penalty at the only time low latency matters.

You have to have good algorithms optimized to the max for this to matter though.
LEAN has significant momentum right now. I was at the International Congress of Mathematical Software this summer (as a plenary speaker), and the other plenary was about LEAN, as were a bunch of talks. There are also excellent VSCode, Emacs, and CoCalc modes for using LEAN. The Zulip LEAN chat channel (https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/) is also very active.
Poutine is amazing. Source: Spend a lot of time in northern Maine and it's served many places.
> outright racism against Indians in particular.

Racism is not illegal and should not be suppressed. It does should also not be encouraged, however.

At the end of he day, people do not have the right to feel good.

> My first look at Blind rated cities to work in by how hot/available women were there (e.g. comments like "SF sucks, you have to settle on dating uglies" or "NYC women are so much hotter than SV women, no contest where to live").

It may be off topic the original post, but is most definitely relevant to the users. Nothing wrong with rating women. People do it all the time. It's about time it is made less taboo.
The feasibility study was, to be blunt, horseshit. As I stated at the top, they are very good at getting the media to buy their bogus claims.

Here are some articles written by actual marine scientists and engineers regarding this project:

http://www.deepseanews.com/tag/the-ocean-cleanup/

I'd read this one, which is a quite entertaining criticism of their prototype from an actual oceanographer who is skilled in the field and knows what she is talking about:

http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/06/the-ocean-cleanup-deploye...

As an illustration of their incompetence, the prototype they built was black. This presents a massive navigation hazard, so they'd get their pants sued off if they ever actually put that in the open ocean.
Its interesting but you should know that Adam Curtis and Jordan Peterson are opposites in their conclusions. Curtis attacks negative liberty and individualism birthed in the 80s. Curtis suggests that we should still try to change the world (positive liberty and collective action). JP is very the polar opposite to this. He is almost purely negative liberty (libertarian) and is the inheritor of the 80s individualism.
I actually proposed the idea, but he did put the thought in my idea by telling me how successful his sales reps are...hmmm lol. It made me really curious how they do it, and how he was able to build such a successful company.
A mutation that can be tried is removing the vowels from the last name. You might find it available, and also (at least for my fairly short, one syllable surname) almost makes the domain look and sound almost better and more smooth/flowy.
I've been using Tile38 for over a year now. It is amazing.
Doesn't that imply they compound profits by either 1) raising prices and thus reducing demand for their product in the presence of non-profit maximizing suppliers or 2) creating efficiencies to increase profit margin at an equal-or-lower price?

In situation one wouldn't the advantage go to the non-profit motivated supplier and in situation 2) doesn't it ultimately benefit the customer with lower prices?
C and C++ (and Rust!) can put objects on the stack, so you have a lot more leeway to write normal idiomatic code without hitting the allocator.

When Java gets value objects, this sort of work will begin to get a lot easier in Java as well, but there will be a lot of catching-up to do.
Nothing to learn there.
You can tell those characters to go away in your initial interactions with them. I think there are three. One in the Copper Coronet, one in the Graveyard District (or was it Trademeet? I don't remember), and one in a random encounter when moving between Athkatla districts.

People who say this "ruins" the game are just angry nerds being angry nerds.

BG2 wasn't just great for its time; it's great now.
Along with iOS 12, Apple released a new app called Shortcuts. It is not preinstalled as far as I know. I think they got it via acquisition. There’s a bunch of new hooks that app makers can/must use to integrate with it, so not everything is supported.

It’s basically IFTTT for iOS, and you can assign phrases in Siri to it.

https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios
I'm talking about population numbers since it directly affects the odds that your kid would be killed.
Oh, yeah, if you're an uber-nerd you can't have a spouse that even remotely challenges your intellect. They need to be just smart enough to obey.

At least according to Blind.
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That's a great idea! I'm already all about eating well and fresh produce so I'm all set :)
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Barcelona (coming from the UK).

Reasonably cheap compared to other major European cities, great weather, close to the outdoors & the ocean, very walkable & cycleable with lots of public transport, good tech community, and amazing food, drink & lifestyle. My costs have halved compared to London, with a far higher quality of life.

Only real downside is that local salaries aren't great, but if you're working remotely that doesn't matter in the slightest.
This is a big part of the reason > 100 people leave Chicago every day. My wife and I have never been happier than walking away from 1k worth of unavoidable tickets (Chicago's collection abilities are near 0 outside IL). They are a horrible, inefficient method to collect tax revenue. I'd estimate each ticket wastes ~4 hours of time for the recipient. Most of the people I know who lived there also had some towing occur, which wastes more like 24 hours of time. The ticket problem looks like a consequence of the disastrous meter deal (the city sold the rights to it's parking meters). Vote with your feet people.

(Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/chicago-e...) note: moved to Austin.
If the system breaks, returns don't compound. That's an assumption that our whole system is defined on, but globally the amount of leverage on money is astronomical. Basel III set it to 3% (I'm aware the US is either 4% or 5%)

Returns don't compound if it's all made up of fairy dust and repeatedly bailed out by issuing more money to do quantitative easing. That's a sign of trouble, and harmed societies all over the world. You can't just keep bailing the banks in order to make sure 'returns compound'. At some point it's too ridiculous and things break.
900k is almost chump change in the world of aerospace, sats, and space tech.

This isn't a deterrant, it can be framed as the cost of doing business.

The fine is far too small.
Even considering the recent meltdown, the S&P500 is up 34% over the last 5 years, before even adding in dividends and up much more than that (200%+) if you want to start at the very bottom of early 2009. These returns are big, not modest.

If you think that the dumbos running the show are going to ruin everything, consider that we've had dumb humans running things since the beginning.

Pessimism can masquerade as grizzled realism. It can make you blind to opportunity. It is your opportunity to lose.
What's interesting about FLT is that in the sense of proving a hypothesis, although the attempts themselves have lead to failures in their objective, they often illuminated whole new areas of mathematics, but this realization only comes somewhat later than when the proof is realized. It was obvious that a particular attempt had failed relatively quickly, but the lessons learned and their applications required a keen (creative mathematical) eye to spot.

Badiou (a continental political philosopher interested in the philosophy of mathematics) uses FLT as an example in political contexts, to what extent we can say that a utopian vision has failed even if it results in disaster, we should be (and some have been) looking out for the lessons which are learned after failure.
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Good. It's outrageous that people are allowed to dump waste on other people and we just act like it's perfectly normal. It's even more outrageous that the people who claim to be the most concerned with individual rights and basic freedoms don't see pollution for the massive violation of property and personal rights that it obviously is.
The bans seem a little over the top compared with what is legally required. I went to Iran in 1993 - I wonder if I'm on the list!
That's interesting, never thought about that.
The metaphor is pretty tortured at this point, but almost all towns have police forces.
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> Someone somewhere once said that cannabis makes it fun to be bored, and that's the real danger with it. It's not toxic, it's not terribly addictive but you get addicted to feeling good when doing nothing at all.

I think that was South Park
As the article said, none really. It's more the tools that were created to solve it that are useful. FLT is like the Apollo mission of Mathematics and has been for hundreds of years. A crazy dream of no direct immediate practical value, but the pursuit of which sparks innovation and dreams.
I think this is actually a great opportunity to green power generation. Build a solar and wind infrastructure. This is in Florida so they have plenty of sun all year round. Its not an overnight fix and will of course require large amounts of money but it can be the beginning of something big. In addition, the US is beginning to face a clean water crisis, and desalination could be a fix. Take the left over salt and send it to the power plants to use for molten salt power storage. Build turbines off shore along the coasts. The US needs another 'man on the moon' mission to unite us, this could be it. Maybe I am naive but all things are impossible until someone does it.
A State changing how it runs its State Legislature is a change to the State Constitution either way, whether taking away the map drawing authority from the Legislature itself or changing the structure of the Legislature to be non-districted or multi-member districted.
I was with you until you mentioned branch prediction... isn't branch prediction a hardware feature? How do you trick the HW branch predictor into predicting the unlikely case?