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Alot of people mentioning the "rule of law" where was it when the US and UK invaded Iraq looking for WMD that they never found?

Why were there no war crimes charges brought up?

It seems like western nations are always quick to invoke "the rule of" law when it suits them
You don't think that you are lucky to have been born into an upper middle class family, without any serious psychological issues?

Someone born with mental problems is automatically an immoral, bad person?

> Somehow other cultures tend to place virtue in the development of discipline, a personal responsibility which can mitigate all kinds of external erosions of self control.

But what about all of the social safety nets in Europe? Seems like they take care of people in hard times, rather than tell them to just develop more discipline...?

>expect the world to throw money at them and their 3 children in LA for an advanced English degree.

Would you agree that hindsight is 20/20? How were these people supposed to know that they won't make money with their graduate degrees, years ago? They are in a tough spot because of bad choices made in the past, and so they deserve no sympathy now? They should be homeless?

Your parents, who fought their way to upper middle class as immigrants, what percent of your college did they pay for?
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>I would absolutely suggest that.

For the sake of the person's safety that should be suggested, but where does one draw the line at such suggestions? College aged women are safer if they don't drink alcohol, so should that be the official statement of a university? What about saying that if they stay with a male guardian, they will be safer than if they don't? If that statement is true, should it be an official policy statement made to increase safety?
Companies should never be responsible for managing the retirement savings of their employees. I can't imagine that this every made any sense, but it's an idea that comes from an era when there were a lot of big stable companies that people believed would be profitable for an entire lifetime. We've now seen ample evidence that such companies are really unusual.
This. Dietary fiber is important to positive gut health (flax is a good place to start if you're interested). While cutting carbs and fiber in the short term may have some positive impact (maybe the OP was cutting out a lot of processed fiber/carbs) I can't imagine this is good in the long run. I'm, personally, surprised the conflated war on "carbs" is still a thing. You can't eat fruits and vegetables without carb intake. Not many people are going to claim the fiber and carbs in Kale is harming them detrimentally. Carbs are not the devil certain fad diets claim. The finger should be pointed at the type of food first by asking a question like: is it whole or processed. But lumping them all together is just spreading a lot of misinformation unfortunately.
> Nobody should be telling me what I can and can't look at on the internet (please don't take that out of context of laws).

But the law is mutable and so we must appeal to deeper principles than those that the law hinges on. Otherwise, we could pass a law that restricts your access to exactly those websites that you wish to visit.

This is the fundamental problem with liberalism. It desires to marry liberty and (an anemic version of) reason, but reason properly exercised also entails knowledge of good and evil. Thus we pass legislation to punish some evils for the sake of the common good and social order, and tolerate other evils the punishment of which would cause more harm than good. But when liberty chafes under the demands of reason, it will often resort to a tendentious skepticism in order to artificially erode certainty for the sake of securing greater permissiveness.

Now it may be possible to argue that, given the way things are, and as broken as liberalism it, it is nonetheless the most prudent way to organize a (Western) society and that the best available way to deal with many social maladies is through softer means than legislation. Whatever the case, the laws themselves are to a large degree informed by culture, ethos, and circumstance and so what ought and ought not be legally restricted online is very much a core issue. It is insufficient to say on the one hand that nobody should be telling you what you can and cannot look at on the internet and on the other preface the former with the caveat that you are assuming conformity with the law because the law can be changed based on a change in understanding of what will best serve the common good here and now.
Ugh, you're right. I got it backwards https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/23818

thank you
This looks to be a standard Indian/Hindu nationalist historian revision practice.

As conventional historians and anthropologists agree, Indo-Europeans originate as a nomadic pastoralist population from somewhere on the steppes around Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The major European branches of Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Balto-Slavic, Hellenic, and Anatolian (e.g. Hittite) spread into Europe, virtually extinguishing all the other existing languages (Basque is the only one to survive to the modern day). It's thought that this spread didn't involve any sort of violence of conquest.

The Indo-Iranian (and Indo-Aryan subbranch underneath it) is generally understood to originate from Indo-European migrations across the steppes, which would eventually come to dominate the settled regions of modern Iran through modern India as the language of the rulers and, much more slowly, eventually the language of the commoners as well. The similarities between Vedic texts and Zoroastrianism also allows us to trace the development of Zoroastrianism and Hinduism from a common set of Indo-Iranian religious beliefs.

The revisionism comes from those who do not want to believe that Hinduism arose from non-native Indian traditions. For these people, Indo-Aryans are indigenous Indian people, perhaps a continuation of the Harappan civilization. And so Indo-Aryan is Sanskrit is Vedic is Hindu is Indian, and the discovery of a culture in Syria that may have a ruling Indo-Aryan population (I should note that recent scholarship tends to believe that it did not) is therefore evidence of a commonality of culture as distant as Syria that originated in India.
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Valve has made it easier than ever to run some Windows-only games on Linux with Steam Play, which uses a special version of Wine with better graphics support.

It has been hit-or-miss for me when I wander off of the pre-approved game list, but it does make it easier.
Lazy IT people are always a good excuse too. Especially in CFO driven IT shops.

I've seen people waste millions on magical systems that did very little out of inertia. In one case, a system with something $10M in annual costs that managed terminal (as in VT-102 terminal) and line printer assignments. A decade after the printers were trashed and terminals moved to a (almost equally offensive) very expensive web-based system.
As far as I know (at least in the US) college tuition is constant at each college across majors, though there are occasionally extra materials costs for particular classes.
Here's what I don't understand (aside from the naivete of Brady):

What percentage of the aircraft cost is the delta between the Chinese and US made crank? 2k/80k? Does even make sense to cut corners here? For rotational and safety critical items I always use OEM or better in my street cars, what would drive aviators to not think the same?
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Website is basically useless on mobile. Redirects to random garbage
Why should something be banned because someone somewhere might be offended or their "brain might break"?

Just because someone might get hurt playing sports, should sports be banned from universities? Everyone should be punished because someone might get hurt?

Why limit it to universities? People's feelings get hurt in everyday life. If someone asks a woman out and she refuses, it might hurt the guy's feelings. Should women be forced to date every guy who asks them out since there is a chance some guys' "brains might break" due the rejection?

Coddling and infantilizing people is the worst thing you can do. Especially for a university where you are supposed to have "your brain broken" by being exposed to new and offensive ideas.

I grew up protestant and went to university and took philosophy classes that "broke my brain" and were initially offensive to me as a christian. Should I sue my university?

If we followed your logic, everything would be banned because anything can "break a brain". Flat earthers could shut down physics departments because the spherical model of earth "breaks their brains".
There are powerful and influential institutions in the United States which limit access to birth control, sex education, and access to abortion.
I would go one step further and say if you have full of go getters, some might get bored when the inevitable “just execute the assigned tasks” work comes up. This is what I hear happening at Google a lot: they only hire A players, but many get bored (and eventually leave) when they are assigned B or C-level work that needs to get done.
I don’t like when people use “wins the lottery” because it leads to distracting tangents. A person that wins a lottery could do anything. How much did they win? Maybe they’ll still keep working? Maybe they’ll go off to start their own company and take a bunch of key employees with them? Maybe they’ll be broke in a year and come back to their job? Maybe they don’t leave right away? These are just distractions you don’t need when illustrating a point.

By contrast, a person being struck by a bus and killed has a definite finality to it. There is no going back. There is no hope of extracting knowledge from the once living individual. There is not even time to prepare. Their existence and their output has ceased and everyone alive must now live in this new reality.
Arranging the incentives to be responsive to market signals would move us towards a situation where there are paying jobs for all who graduate, not one where everyone graduates in what are currently the top-paying fields given a different system.
> It's fairly simple. Any person's favorite Elder Scrolls game is usually the first one they played.

A common narrative regarding World of Warcraft expansions as well.
I think you’ve hit on a failure point of the media: views more matter now than serving the public.
I got hit by a bus two years ago, granted it was more of a rude push by the side of the bus that I was riding for 6 hours from Athens to its last stop Preveza and the bus driver was just about to park his bus, but getting hit by a bus is not necessary lethal. I simply got back on my feet and dusted my pants.
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> Should all hires be like that? Isn't being able to execute the tasks you're assigned enough?

If you manage to build an org where everyone is a self-starter who takes on projects from ideation to delivery repeatedly you work in a crazy awesome env. There are some people that are really good at getting work done, but if you don't give them a clearly defined task, they will flounder.

When you are in startup land, most of what you are doing is undefined. You need someone who is really good at saying "is this working? Should I keep doing this? How do we do this better?" Over and over and over again until you find product market fit and aren't burning through cash.

If you are running an enterprise mature SaaS product a lot of those variables are solved (but possibly could be optimized). The majority of people don't need to be solving for profitability. In startupland of 10 employees or less, almost everyone should.

It's the same logic that a "startup founder" may not make the best "enterprise CEO". An "early hire" may not make the best "gear in a 300 person machine".
For starters, stop ingesting all things that have fructose in them.

The U.S. government is really kind of complicit in allowing the spread of diabetes and NASH to happen in the first place by allowing harmful substances such as high-fructose corn syrup and to be infused into anything you can find in a store or fast food.

Sure, it's ultimately an issue of education, but when the vast majority of foods have this stuff in them, educating every person on non eating most of the available foods in stores becomes very difficult.

Watch how the metabolism of alcohol and fructose compare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&feature=youtu.be...
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> If you are suffering from depression, please seek help. And if you are in a relationship with someone suffering from depression, find emotional support. It isn't your fault.

An underrated piece of advice. Not to take at all away from what those with depression are suffering, but supporting a loved one with depression can be a tremendous task in itself, sometimes involving a lot of emotional abuse. Thanks for sharing.
They all die of age around the same time.
Agree. Also a random input generation tool should really be run multiple times against each target, etc.
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I'm happy that worked out for you. To be fair, however, moving from the US to Norway has done wonders to help with mine. But I understand that could easily be that outside stressors are different and I'm in a much more stable and healthy environment than I was previously. I'm also in a situation that I chose. All of it, all of my everyday life is in a situation I chose. I also rather like being an immigrant, it turns out. I'm going to guess you have some of these feelings too.

Not everyone can say that.

And as it turns out, my experience about beautiful days is different from yours. I find it is quite easy not to feel good on a beautiful day. Doubly so if you feel too ugly to go outside, better about yourself when you can wear a jacket, if you are in a bad situation, stressed, sick, stuck, and so on.
MWU was successful in having the complaint dismissed in US Circuit Court. The ruling in the article is a remand from Fourth Circuit Appeals vacating the US Circuit Court's dismissal of two claims and upholding its dismissal of the third claim. As required, the ruling is based on a favorable reading of the plaintiff's argument (since the case was not heard at trial).

The title of the article is misleading in so far as there is a difference between websites and mobile apps. And perhaps in so far as the specific app involved, Yik-Yak, used geolocation tied directly to specific universities and using MWU's network was a first order means of accessing Yik-Yak in the context of the MWU oriented Yik-Yak community.

Neither party denies that threats of rape and murder were made via Yik-Yak against specific students.

The plaintiffs allege that MWU could have blacklisted Yik-Yak's IP address on it's network. The plaintiffs cited the failure of MWU to block Yik-Yak as evidence of deliberate indifference to Title IX and Equal Protection claims.

The keystone of MWU's defense against the deliberate indifference claims was that blocking Yik-Yak would be a violation of the First Amendment.

4th Appeals determined that threats of rape and murder made via Yik-Yak were threatening speech and ruled on established precedent that threatening speech is not protected. As a matter of legal precedent the court noted the long standing practice of blocking music and video download IP addresses and sanctioning students for copyright infringing downloads as evidence of technical and practical feasibility.

The court vacated the dismissal of the Title IX and Equal Protection Clause claims and remanded back to the Circuit Court.
Thank you for checking this, and determining it didn't actually apply in this case.

We do a lot of I/O intensive Rust at work, and I have a list of things to double-check when benchmarking. The most common slowdowns: debug builds, unlocked stdio, line iterators, and anything else which allocates in an inner loop.

If I can hit 250 MB/s throughput per core on my laptop, with some light data processing, I'm usually quite happy.
I’m curious to know what you find so difficult about iptables?

It has always seemed reasonably straightforward to me, although I will concede that not being able to combine tcp & udp into the same rule is a bit annoying (though also rarely needed).
Technically, yes - looking at the GWT Google Group, there's evidence of people still using it. I'd assume it's mostly in internal/enterprise scenarios.

As far as public mindshare, though, it's dead. It's Java, it compiles slowly, the old DevMode plugin stopped working as of FF27, and the Javascript ecosystem has advanced far beyond what GWT could do in terms of developer experience and sharing code across client+server.

Also, the discussion of "GWT 3.0" and the J2CL compiler seemed to add a lot of FUD to the community. It hasn't been clear what GWT features would still exist in a notional 3.0, and J2CL was stuck behind Google's walls until just a couple weeks ago.
Could a mod please change the link to the actual Court Opinion [1]? Both the linked article and the source that is cited omit a considerable amount of detail as to what actions are actually being proposed, the context of the threats (surrounding events and the platform YikYak, which requires proximity to participate in), and also completely ignores the actual suggestions made by the Court.

[1] http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/172220.P.pdf
This episode is a look back on 3 years of podcasting, and a bit of a look forward to what to expect in 2019.

I talk about:
- statistics for the show, including download counts, etc.
- how many episodes are about testing, how many about non-testing topics.
- Python vs language agnostic topics
- solo vs guest episodes
- the top 5 episodes
- stuff like that

And then a retrospective like:

- what went well
- what was lacking
- what's next

I'd like feedback on what you think went well, was lacking, and where to take the podcast.
Harassment is a crime. Countering it does not require censorship. (Except in the sense of restraining orders, which are actually targeted at the responsible party)
What would you like to see changed about that situation?
I had trouble following it myself, and then it struck me - that must be because I’m not an idiot!
>I was entertained to noice that Clang actually defines __GNUC__. Shall also GCC define __clang__?

Pretty unsurprising. Same reason why Firefox and Chrome still identify first and foremost as 'Mozilla.'
That's a great point and something I've seen dealing with multiple look and feels at a single company. While not quite as far as what you suggest, we've had good success building components with no custom CSS at all and instead use Bootstrap classes exclusively. This allows a lot of freedom for the design system to look at it needs, but encapsulates the "hard parts" as you list. We've struggled with react-select as well, but were able to mostly specify various props to use Bootstrap classes. Not a sexy approach, but it works.
People said it about assembly when it came out. The actual (binary or octal) machine codes gave you an intimacy with the hardware that assembly took away. (People actually said that.)
Uni is essentially extended High-School for students nowadays, unfortunately.
New Horizons can't use many of its scientific instruments and cameras in spin mode. Spin mode gyroscopically stabilizes it so that its main antenna can be pointed more precisely, allowing a higher data rate. Thus, I suspect they won't want to enter spin mode until it's no longer doing any photographic or scientific observations of Thule. Therefore, data packets will be slow in the days before and after encounter because they want to still aim instruments; but this makes antenna pointing less precise. New Horizons can't chew gum and talk at the same time :-)
Equity holders are pretty low on the totem pole. Pension holders would have higher bk priority.
^^^ This 110%. I grew up in a poor family. Had friends that were well off and didn't have to think much about the future. I noticed early on that I just didn't have that luxury. Fortunately I was aware enough at an early age that every decision I make has to be a good one. I can't afford any failures. I don't think thats a good a way to become an adult or raise a society. By 25 I was at a good place but not without issues. I was having multiple anxiety attacks and all kinds of health issues. I made it out but with scars.

There has to be a better way.
Do you think NASA burned a 24x CD-ROM from their PC and added it to New Horizons?
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> That's a bit of an overstatement,

With all due respect I think I'm in a better position to judge that than you are. But there are two things you should know. First, I haven't told you the whole story (and I'm not going to). And second...

> the person interviewing you did not know that you had been told there would be a know [sic] ruby questions

The conversation went something like this:

Him: Welcome, the first thing we want you to do is debug this Ruby code. (Actually, the first thing he wanted me to do was copy-and-paste some shell commands from an unfamiliar text editor into a shell window, but that's another story.)

Me: Um, OK, but I've never worked in Ruby, and I told that to everyone I spoke to on the phone screen because I know you're a Ruby shop.

Him: Yeah, I know. But this is what we want you to do.

Me: OK, I'll give it my best shot, but don't expect too much.
Look at how much you gamed, and look how you turned out. Would that be ok for your children?
The author has done some excellent work. I would love to make this kind of deep-dive compiler / optimization regression part of my own team's continuous improvement because it is so important to stay on top of, but every time I try to dive into LTO/PGO it ends up getting deprioritized. Articles like this are inspiring and informative.
These links were posted by someone a day or two ago:
https://andrewgelman.com/2017/02/11/measurement-error-replic...
https://andrewgelman.com/2017/02/06/not-kill-statistical-sig...
It's even worse than that--a bearing surface on a crank journal will be specced in ten-thousandths if an inch (~2 \u m). Width of the journal isn't typically as precisely specced, but for an aircraft motor journal width is extremely important, as the crankshaft is placed under high thrust loadings. While there will be a thrust bearing, crank endplay on an aircraft motor is even more critical than on an automotive engine.

I have no sympathy for the businessman who had the cranks made, something that far out of spec should have never made it into a customer's hands. If you are serious enough to invest 30k in tooling to get parts made, you should also be consulting with an experienced engineer and lawyer who both have experience dealing with Chinese suppliers.
Indeed, and "much slower" is somewhat ambiguous as its a lot more nuanced than that based on what I've read so far. I know Firefox switched to clang+llvm for more reasons than just "binary size and program speed" alone.
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You’re assuming aging is bad for populations.

My assumption is historical learning is valuable up until some percentage of your memories are false and/or obsolete. Even in a perfectly healthy individual both happen continuously.

At some point an empty vessel has more utility than a trained up individual. So some heuristic that arbitrarily purges old people and their ideas is adaptive.
Can you share what you found?