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> You could probably kill more people with knives

So why are you worried about gun bans? You can just use a knife instead.

I think you must know, really, that guns are more dangerous and effective than knives. That's why you want the right to own one. It's also why the US has frequent mass shootings in schools, whereas there are no instances of mass stabbings in UK schools.

Just look at the recent terrorist incident in London. The guy killed two people with a knife before being restrained by unarmed members of the public.

>And I don't have to kill them if I pull a gun on one

The first principle of responsible gun use is not to point a gun at anything you don't want to kill.

As you illustrate, hardly anyone is capable of using guns responsibily.
I'm in the healthcare analytics industry. I see the private payers optimizing for the things you say they don't. It's simply more profitable to have a healthier patient.
Can you explain who is teaching nihilism to whom and where? In school, while I did not have a clear backpack and quite obviously had internet monitoring on someone else’s network, I was never, not once, taught nihilism. In fact, in my education through grade 12, most everything was filtered through a compassionate lens.

It’s not like I was taught that the Holocaust will happen again because humans are inherently bad and such everything is meaningless; instead it was that if we seek the goodness in the world we can prevent something like that happening again. Furthermore, if we were taught anything about nihilism, it would be that the Nazis used it to justify mass murder, which we were taught is the worst thing ever, because it is. Just my experience
Possibly worth noting that this works for cars as well; you're allowed to own as many cars as you want, and the vehicle license is to operate it on public roads (and the driver's license is to be the operator, again on public roads).

The US usually puts the balance point at "own" vs "operate in public" for how rights are structured. There are rare exceptions where even ownership is considered too dangerous.
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Are there any backend JSON/REST open source applications* that allow declarative configuration for your storage (eg. set SQL statements in config files) instead of needing compilation?
We're talking about the current state of the real market here, not abstract hypotheticals. Laptops overheating at 30% CPU usage is not a widespread issue in the real world; to a first approximation, the only way to get an ultrabook's CPU to thermally throttle is to keep at least one of its cores completely busy so that the processor stays in its boost state long enough to pump out serious thermal energy. Bursty workloads give the CPU too many opportunities to cool off.
"You can only infer that as the result of court case demanding logs. "

You can't be sure. In the Lavabit case, Lavabit argued giving up the key protecting all their users... compromising them to the FBI... would cost them customers due to damaged reputation and privacy. The FBI argued they could do it without telling them. Then, Lavabit would still look private with no financial harm. The judge agreed.

That proposal and the judge agreeing changed how I looked at a lot of companies' claims about law enforcement. I already assumed this would happen with Patriot Act requests by FBI/NSA partnership given they'd be hit with secrecy orders. I didn't see a judge straight up telling a privacy company to defraud all of its customers. I figured the order would be more narrow than that. Now, I have a blanket recommendation to avoid U.S. for privacy tech over both secret government (Patriot Act stuff) and regular, court system.
Data Drift Detection for Image Classifiers
Simple multi-select component for Vue, with items displayed in a table like UI
Yes many people love big dense cities like NY, which is why they live there.

The problem is when people love low density cities and make it a great place to live. Then new people want to change it into denser cities with everyone living in apartments. Who should win out?
The framing of this comparison is fraught due to unequal bucketing. Most other countries are the size of US states or even cities, so they can boast individually low numbers while in the US everything gets bundled together. The US should instead be compared to something like all of Europe or all of Western Europe.
Note this is for one of the client libraries - the C library, to be specific - not the server (written predominantly in Erlang, a memory-safe language).
Not to worry about healthcare and medicine costs is not really true. I just commented about it. Most people pay extra for private insurance even if they get public healthcare for free.
Artificial Intelligence and National Security, and More from CRS
Amazon pulls Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments
Moving isn't free. Most people you would assume to be not poor couldn't afford a move. Neither could they finance a move because of how leveraged they already are.
If the lawsuit ended in settlement before they were found, there is nothing unusual here. There is no reason to look after that point. They settled.
A hacker is someone who clicks on https://www.sparkfun.com/ and doesn't come up for air for at least an hour. Can you pass the test?
e.g. gigantic fires that eradicate whole areas.

Did you see the photos of the lightly-charred koalas?
>But clear backpacks do nothing at all to make them safer

I must be missing most of my brain then because, to me, this sounds unfounded.
Plenty of people do know who they are. Not anyone's fault but your own that you're under-informed.
I'll need to subscribe to an app in order to manage my subscriptions. Of course, that app will only deal with media-related subscriptions. I'll need another app to manage food/health related subs. Rinse. Repeat.

Awesome.
I'm most upset by internet monitoring. If I had had access to school devices and it had monitoring then I wouldn't trust the school with anything, because they wouldn't trust me with anything.

Clear backpacks is such an absurd thing that I still find it difficult to believe that adult human beings came up with such an idea in the name of security. It's something I'd only ever expect to encounter in a novel about a dystopian future.
The controller is not very good. It's in-between the PS4 and XB1 controllers and just a little off to be unsatisfying to use.
How healthcare works in Europe changes quite a lot per country. Which country specifically are you talking about?
The vast majority of those guns are sitting around harmlessly in gun collector's lockers.

US has a mental illness problem. At some point, a societal sickness entered the country. A sickness of nihilism and hopelessness. A sickness where (mostly men) feel lonely and unloved and powerless to change their futures. A sickness where hatred for peers is harbored for years until it festers and explodes out in a violent way.

Why does America have these kinds of people at such high frequencies compared to Switzerland?
The centrist boomer motto: better things aren't possible.
Unpopular prediction: The US of the future is going to look a lot like what we would currently consider a "surveillance state" than it does now, and on the whole that's going to be okay.

I think "Transparent Society" has the right idea; these technologies are ubiquitous and cheap, and the question of the near future isn't going to be whether they're deployed but who controls the feed. If we pretend the answer can be made to be "nobody," we're dodging the conversation that needs to be had.
I love parsers, but I wonder what the motivation or use case is for this particular parser. I’d love to see a “Why another parser?” section of the README.
Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)
One issue you don't mention is the urban growth boundary laws, which basically mean there is no competition for housing outside of areas that already have housing.

Prior to these laws, cities absolutely could not get away with such nonsense restrictions on growth because people would move just outside of the city limits, establishing new communities not within the city's taxing region, so cities would try to accommodate to keep the taxes in the city.

Now, the cities all know that people cannot move outside of cities, so they can behave as oligarchs.
Nope. My grandmother and extended family in the UK received great, high quality care as working class people for all of their lives. There have been more issues with access to care since right wingers started attacking and defunding the NHS, but hopefully Corbyn will soon put an end to all of that.
That's a poor comparison though. Both of the others provide other benefits: a method of commuting to school or exercise. Potentially even scholarships.

Fashionable backpacks do nothing.
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> "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified

The two sides of your equation do not equate at all.
The bigger hassle is adding users. Apparently, right now, before Xmas, there's no way to add users without buying more hardware kits?
> Exacting revenge on people who make mistakes is the wrong way to improve safety. Even the best people make mistakes.

And everyone, not just the best people, know this. Which is why, in a blame-oriented culture, everyone will just sit back and watch a colleague walk off a cliff. If you're not already involved, then getting involved risks painting a target on your back.
If you do a bunch of filtering/joining etc that should be done in SQL by grabbing whole tables you can hit a CPU bottleneck...

But then maybe your problems are deeper that choice of language.
prosecutors prove a car’s doors were locked at the time of a break-in

Weird law. Here in Wales if you leave it unlocked you might have a problem with your insurance but it’s still equally a crime.
Sorry, yes you must type protocol/scheme. Sorry I did not think of FQDN as enough. I'll add the issue now, thanks! :)

Also, it's not obvious, but you can reload by right clicking to get context menu -> selecting "realod", or you can click on the "->" button to the right of the omnibox/address bar.

If you look a little closer, and spend a little more time, I think you'll find it does have "at least have some of the same basic functions as my typical browser."
A Little DSL for Everyone
I've had a teammate like this. Very smart, very young, had the strong opinions of a senior with the actual experience, narrow-mindedness, and general attitude of an unprofessional junior. He got moved out of one team, then was just as bad on the next one, and eventually left. By the end I stopped trying to debate with him and his toxic attitudes toward other people's code because I decided someone like that isn't worth the energy. Hopefully he'll find a better fit at his new company.
https://www.axios.com/health-care-industry-on-track-massive-... (Health care industry on track for massive profits)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/08/04/as-sande... (As Sanders And Warren Attack, Health Insurer Profits Soar; "Take Humana, which last week said it made more than $1 billion in profits in the second quarter and raised its earnings and revenue forecast for the rest of the year thanks to growth of seniors signing up to Medicare Advantage plans. Cigna, too, which said it made more than $1 billion in the second-quarter, also increased its earnings forecast last week for the rest of the year. And the week before, Anthem, which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in 14 states, also reported more than $1 billion in profits in its second quarter and said its profits are ahead of expectations for the year due in part to the money its making off of government contracts with Medicare and Medicaid programs. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth Group's UnitedHealthcare health insurance unit reported last month $2.6 billion in earnings from operations in the second quarter and the parent company boosted its earnings forecast for 2019.")

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/05/top-health-insurers-profit-s... (As Obamacare twists in political winds, top insurers made $6 billion)

https://www.gq.com/story/eat-the-health-care-ceos (Last year, 62 CEOs of health-care companies made a combined total of $1.1 billion in compensation. That's according to a new report out from Axios, which coincidentally notes that CEO compensation eclipses what the Centers for Disease Control spent on chronic disease prevention by $157 million; The average CEO makes $18 million annually while one out of every five Americans is struggling with medical debt.)

Those profits (which you mention they're optimizing for) are dollars that could be used to improve healthcare delivery. That's actual care someone could receive, instead of going to unnecessary middlemen and shareholders.
"gun restrictions only benefit criminals"

All the data from other countries that god rid of guns supports the opposite of this. Show some statistics or stop saying this.

"are you gonna make cars illegal too?"

Ones that can be easily used to kill people? Hopefully, eventually, yes. We already heavily restrict them, license them carefully, track them meticulously, require them to be registered, and constantly improve technology and legal standards to make them less likely to kill people -- unlike guns in America. Soon all new cars will have technology in them to make it very difficult to run someone over with.

"People who want to hurt people also don't care what laws there are, they can buy guns illegally."

So I suppose you're in favour of having no laws at all? Since people will just break them? This argument only works if you're in favour of total anarchism.

Both gun crime AND the overall murder rate dropped substantially since Australia heavily restricted guns in the late 90s [1] - i.e. people don't just switch to other weapons - murder, plus accidental death, actually decreases.

"They've tried banning everything in England and criminals will still kill people with just about anything."

Nope. Not having guns works:

Homicide rate per 100,000 people in 2017 according to UN-CTS:

United Kingdom: 1.2

United States: 5.3

[1] https://crimestats.aic.gov.au/NHMP/1_trends/
>“With approximately 70 auto burglaries a day”

That doesn’t seem like a crisis in a city the size of San Francisco.
Do we need 3 posts about this?
This is a complete straw man. We are not discussing how many guns the Swiss have in absolute, not are we talking about how that could affect school shootings in the US. If we want to discuss the numbers, devices like ratios will serve us much better.
> If that wasn’t enough, Crossrider’s Founder and first CEO Koby Menachemi, was part of Unit 8200 – something that can be called Israel’s NSA.

About half of my coworkers in Israeli game development companies have served there. Some wrote custom linux kernel modules, most did very low-level QA work, and in general had more or less the same skillset and level as any other coworker. Of course, they probably worked close to Stuxnet developers, but calling a typical kid, just out of his mandatory military service, a "spy" paints this in a completely different light.
System76: Reflections of a Superfan
> A knife is quiet, you could probably kill more people with knives, a gun is loud and everyone nearby will hear it, probably what a crazy shooter would want is to strike fear into victims.

Dear sweet lord, you are a dumb cunt.
Superdesk Analytics Module to Debut at Prague Media Point Journalism Conference
> SQL Performance

No such thing.
Better title (extracted from the abstract) "Why gas bubbles in narrow vertical tubes seem to remain stuck?"
Hypothesis on the specific topic of cars vs. guns:

The US has already done about all it can to regulate cars to maximize safety. There is, perhaps, more to be done, but since the Constitution doesn't include a right to keep and bear cars, regulation and law in the space of publicly-operated vehicles is already large and mature.

The same is not true for firearms, which is why it's such a contentious topic in the US.
Everyone who wants to sell product with processors. Data center upgrades etc.

Retail market is insignificantly small. AMD can win it but it does not matter in Intel vs AMD fight.
I’m in regular contact with artist friends in the UK and Canada and absolutely none of them do this. And neither did any of my family in the UK. Not sure where you’re getting this idea from.
This looks like an XY problem[0] on a massive scale.

Because the grown-ups can't figure out how to solve the top-level problems, they are instead dealing with the low-level symptoms and applying band-aids.

It also reeks of political pork to me.

I admit that enumerating the top-level problems is politically fraught, but I think they can be neatly condensed into:

* that mass shootings occur, ever

* that we cannot control childrens' use of the internet in any meaningful way

* that children are seeing through the thin veneer of meaningfulness that life in the US is supposed to have (notably traditional career paths and religion)

I don't pretend to have easy answers, but see-through backpacks is security theater that is the stuff of Bruce Schneier competitions.

[0] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378/213169
In practical terms, the NHS for example sinks a lot of money into anti-smoking campaigns and into advertising campaigns about weight reduction .On the government side this tends to translate into things like taxation on sugar in drinks.

I've just been called in for a check up on my blood pressure and if it had worstened, I would on the end of quite a lot of dietary and excerise advice in an attemp to avoid additional medication. Many GPs in the UK has teamed up with Parkrun and now prescribe park run participation for certain patients and conditions.
How would this compare to ingesting this in a locally running rdbms, like postgres, and applying some judicious indexing? Or maybe a local spark cluster?

I'm tempted to benchmark this against better known tech, maybe anyone has some insight to share?
you can get 150TB for 310€/month: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/sx292
That varies a lot from place to place. Most people in Italy, where I lived for many years, did not get supplemental insurance.
One school shooting is far too many. I reject your argument vehemently. We are talking about murdered children.
The problem is that it's very difficult to see the far-reaching consequences of policy that affects entire generations. People in the 1800s observed that using fossil fuels in abundance doesn't burn down the world around them, but we know now that that's not really true.
Aside from the weird sentence periods, I love the look and feel! It's refreshingly uncompromising.
That might be true in some eu states (Mostly the newer and poorer news)

From experience in the UK Private insurance is not worth it as an employer benefit as you get taxed on it.
I think a lot of the rip is from Wordpress generally being insecure. You can have it locally and treat it like Jekyll and have your json sent to git and published to something like Netify.
I think the overall thread might be getting derailed but the Sam Harris <-> Jordan Peterson live discussions are some of the best I’ve seen on this topic, and over the course of many hours they just maybe get somewhere.

And they both reject nihilism. It’s just how to get people there.

I’ve come to think it might be impossible to fend off nihilism without religion. At least for me, I don’t find any non religious argument a useful protection against nihilism.

And I’ve really put in a lot of time on this, for whatever that’s worth.
How Facebook Has Changed Computing
This, or literally any other action that isn't crazy in the sense of attempting to suppress personal privacy or the idea of protecting oneself. People want to feel safe and capable, not guilty and dependent.
I think it really comes down to the type of project that you're working on. For data science / machine learning projects python is a much better choice and that spills over to django.

REST APIs are also incredibly easy to throw together using DRF.
My Experience as a Remote Worker
Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Bonkers for European Startups
Maybe a growing pie is not perfect, but it is greatly preferable to a shrinking one. For a simple example, take a company that looses some contracts and stops growing; you get new conflicts or old ones become critical, ppl start leaving, etc. As long as the pie is growing, it can hide or solve by default many existing problems which would be very difficult or costly to fix otherwise.
Analysis of Harvard life sciences inventors and their inventions
Node.js boilerplate / Authentication from scratch – (express, GraphQL, mongodb)
What sounds unfounded?
That's still blocking, not actively monitoring. Probably because it runs all network traffic through their VPN.
Those are incoherent ramblings of an underdeveloped brain. My advice: If you're going to obsess over something that may or may not be pointless, at least make it so that you're getting sordidly rich doing it. Maybe somebody notices that you made pointlessness a moot point and calls you a disruptive genius.
The world won't burn down, they'll just slowly and quietly lose their freedom over the course of decades. They might not even notice, since it will happen invisibly through self-censorship and implied consequences. The very idea of freedom will seem useless in their own hands and frightening in others'. Control will be centralized liberalism will give way to fear. Everything will keep moving, but the people will not be in control of their own rule.
The us economy is losing billions because foreign students aren’t enrolling
Yes, it's a good idea, but being forced to carry a device around with you that is used to track your movements is not okay. Parents need to be able to say no to that.
>The constant use of smartphones has become a pretty central part of US culture.

Only in the past several years, and in that time there's been a lot of pushback to it and a growing consensus that it is likely harmful when people don't moderate their usage. I was in high school less than 10 years ago, and phones of all kinds were banned. If a teacher saw an iPhone, it would be confiscated and your parent would have to pick it up.

The schools are optimizing for convenience and cost, not the cultural zeitgeist.
It's a crime everywhere else in the US too. California is pants on head stupid about this.
"eliminate a requirement that prosecutors prove a car’s doors were locked at the time of a break-in, has been shelved two years in a row"

I lived in San Jose, left my crap car's doors unlocked because there was nothing in it. Still, the thief just broke the passenger window (without trying the door?) , opened the glove compartment, saw there was nothing in there, and moved on.

So, not a crime I guess. Yay California. I don't live there anymore.
Interesting that this is the trade off:

Gun rights at the expense of privacy rights
Here are some references about the C++ memory model, introduced in C++11:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.04432.pdf

https://people.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/slides/2016-01-debug.pdf

A language memory model is a mathematical specification on how the language semantics map to actual CPUs and the basis how to write lock-free algorithms.

If you bothered to follow the YouTube videos you would found the CUDA projects I mentioned.

Rust currently doesn't have such mathematical model.
Sounds more like a prison than a school.
If the problem really is the perception and not the reality, then the perception can be changed without a constitutional amendment. It would be a lot easier to raise awareness of how safe guns are for society than it would be to get rid of them just to satisfy those who are afraid of them because they aren't aware of the facts.
Ones I know of based on friends and family are Israel (follows the European public healthcare model) and Spain. I'm not saying it's the same everywhere in Europe, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the case in many European countries.
Enterprise customers may care about brands at the level of Dell or Apple.

Data center customers care about specs and prices only. They study the products they buy.