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> > And you know that they were lying because you read their minds....

> No, I infer it from their actions.

There's your mistake. You think that bad outcome implies bad intentions. It doesn't.

How do you know that they didn't honestly think that killing a lot of people would result in good?

> > It's easy to convince [do-gooders] that the world would be better off if the "right" people were dead.

> I'm calling B.S. Evidence?

It's a conversation that I have as often as possible, in hopes that pointing out where they end up will convince them that they really should rethink what they mean by "good".

>> You seem to think that killing lots of people is inconsistent with a desire to do good.

> Yes, I do, especially since we're talking about corruption in the U.S., and not about the rise of Stalinism.

You seem hung up on Stalinism. While it does have the record in shear numbers, it isn't the winner in percentages. And, there are plenty of other folks who will go the same route.

For example, it's not hard to find environmentalists who are hoping for a population crash. Do you really believe that none of them would push things in that direction?

> Show me a consistent source of corrupting bias, one that silently and perniciously organizes the behaviors of millions, but which _isn't_ money.

All of the "I know what's best for you" behaviors qualify.
How did you save the composition? I can't figure it out.
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Another one that people repeat is that Bill Gates said 640kb out to be enough for anybody. He says he never said it, but even if he did, at the time he supposedly made the statement, it was an accurate one given the technology available.
Scientists can be just as emotional and biased as any other human being, regardless of training.
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Google is one of the few companies who would invest in this sort of PR.

It's good publicity for them and also an ultra creative way to garner people's curiosity and attention. It must have been a hell lot of work(unless I am missing something) but it's totally justified.
Huh, maybe I will try whispering some Loglan into my wife's ear and see what happens :-)
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What evidence do you base this on?

People who make it their life's work to study human beings generally believe that humans are motivated by the drives to acquire, to bond, to defend, and to learn.

The drive to acquire is fundamental to all animals. Getting stuff is therefore one of the prime meanings of life.

What do you spend your money on?
Click on the black button with the red dot on the bottom right of the doodle.
There is a record button hidden in second 'g' of Google doodle.
Sure, it is. But it can become pathological.
In case anyone's interested, this is the Bitcoin "drugs" site in question, "Silk Road." http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-...
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Here's my attempt at Mary Had A Little Lamb: http://goo.gl/doodle/1tEs
Is it possible that US doesn't have as great of a manufacturing indusrty as China, thus in a war between the US and China, the US would be at a disadvantage in the long term in terms of the sheer number of aircraft, tanks and war ships produced? Similar to the Japaneese during WWII.
While I've been skeptical about BitCoin here, this is a terrible argument against them. Broadly speaking, there is one market, the global market. Dollars aren't that special, really, they're just one more asset in a pool of millions of different asset types with every imaginable attribute and every imaginable kind of customer. (Yes, they are a bit special, but in the grand scale of things there are all kinds of special assets, like food, water, gold, housing, medical care, professional skills, "when everything is special, nothing much is". Dollars aren't that special.) The only way to carve out a piece of that global economy is to very aggressively build yourself a walled garden. Certain entities do that, like those running MMORPGs with internal currencies, who aggressively prevent people from using MMORPG currency in the real economy (mostly because of the sudden and horrific tax implications if they permitted it to act like true currency). They deliberately make their currencies as useless as possible outside their walled gardens to avoid scrutiny by the IRS. (And they don't do a perfect job. But the walls are usually high enough.)

This is not what BitCoin should or can do. It wants to join the pool of millions of different asset types and bring some new and unique characteristics to the party. It can not become a separate economy, because very, very powerful (and completely impersonal) forces drag everything into the global economy. If you try to separate the economies, all you actually do is create arbitrage opportunities, and the act of exploiting those returns the currency to the general market.

For BitCoin to remain fully separate basically requires them to be utterly useless as anything but tokens in a video game. The posted argument is complete gibberish.
All the people bitching against it wished they thought it first. Its a clever and simple idea. Good work.
I have 500GB of tweets from the random sample stream, in raw json form, going back to August 2010. Aside from some very broad measures it hasn't been all that useful to us. I never considered distributing it until now, but the TOS clause forbidding redistribution wrankles me. Are we really all okay with contributing content under these terms?
I've tried it on FF4 on both Linux and Mac OS X. Works just fine on both.
I see two separate assertions : one, that hard work lifts you out of poverty. Two, handouts don't result in lasting changes in someone's economic status. I agree with you on the first. As for the second, that seems true enough: few welfare recipients have their lives transformed by the payments.
from a superficial look, it seems like the sound is actually being played through flash. it looks like the doodle is canvas though, which suggests the interface is in javascript.

too bad they didn't synthesize the sound with javascript as well. their web audio api is great. firefox has a (somewhat) equivalent api. :)
I'll have to disagree with two of those statements. To me MS Office (admittedly I haven't owned any version since the ribbon toolbar) looks much worse now than LibreOffice does (and as far as I know it hasn't deviated too far from OO.o).

As far as the file formats go, I like it to remind me to convert back to .odt when I'm done using a file in .doc because it uses less of my Dropbox. However, I've given LibreOffice to both of my parents now and they can barely tell the difference- once I set their initial preferences it stopped prompting them about file formats.
I think you really hit in your last statement: It's a soft projection of power. And that's not theoretical if you think about China in relation to Russia, Japan, India and of course the US. It's also important to keep in mind that China has a very active interest in brining back Taiwan and in oil interests near Vietnam or even Indonesia.
This is ridiculous. Are ToS of this kind really enforceable? (What about outside the US?)

(Anyway, I guess that in practice, if a torrent with a dump of tweets appears somewhere, it's pretty hard to find out who did it. Yes, Twitter could do some clever watermarking of the API results or correlate the dump contents with the server logs, but it would probably be a lot of work.)
Go, too. But they run the show so who cares. Golang manages to show up as 3rd result on Google for term go. On bing, it's 37th.
Not to mention if the tank is full of a fluid that is not particularly dangerous, you might be able to integrate it into the structure of the car, similar to motorcycles with oil-in-frame design.
Nowhere in the article does it seem to be mentioned where they actually got the carrier that's pictured in the article.

The Varyag is an abandoned Russian carrier that was transferred to the Ukrainians after the breakup of the USSR, and finally bought at auction by the Chinese after almost becoming a floating casino.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Varyag

She's hardly a homebuilt Chinese carrier.
The author is right about how dangerous it is for students to only learn from one source though. However, how is this different someone who gets all their news from Fox? Each person has their internal bias, and will learn from their chosen source. Existing education system, ranging from school texts right down to the career path is dictated by academia. I can't see a better alternative other than simple freedom for people to chose who they wish to learn from, and how they wish to lead their lives.
"PIC vs. AVR" means two different things depending on your context. The intelligent context is discussing which family best suits somebody new to microcontrollers (which thankfully is what this link is about). The moronic context is entrenched hobbyists arguing about why the family they chose is superior.

Anybody who reads this headline and already understands what the acronyms mean is probably going to assume it's the latter.
for me, an architecture with a GCC port is a big selling point (between these two, that's AVR)
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Do you mean handwritten, or just a printed hardcopy? If it was handwritten, cue loading up my handwriting as a font and typing it anyway. ;)

A couple of my programming instructors use a build system that compiles your code with three different compilers, and runs it with various tests and diffs the output with a master copy (or sometimes stress-testing and tracking memory/time/probe counts). One of them also ran valgrind on submissions. So you'd get your "accuracy score" on the same day or so as the programs were due, then the teacher/TAs would grade the source and dock points for bugs not found in the test, supreme ugliness, etc.
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Where? Care to point it out with a screenshot?
Now that I know about the keyboard shortcuts, this got much easier.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: http://www.google.com/webhp?tune=IARZyzlkDIWcsA0CzDmDGWM0RZw...

One, minus a couple notes that fell outside the scale: http://goo.gl/doodle/6H8G
What is the advantage to Apple to build in an incorporated city? I understand the need for infrastructure, but what does a tech co like Apple need other than electricity + water + gas? Wouldn't there be less regulation and taxes if they moved to unincorporated territory?
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Here's my version :) http://goo.gl/doodle/OXis
This is excellent! You can really easily play "Ode to Joy" with it.
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This article manages to mention just about every insignificant detail (who cares about the crappy IDEs they ship with?) and almost none of the actual properties of the chip!

You would expect at the very least memory comparisons, clock speeds, and power consumptions. Maybe a mention of timers, ADCs, UARTs, etc.
Like many responders here, I have been through something similar, but not nearly so tough as what you are going through. I hope you can come through stronger and that this thread helps.

One thing you didn't mention is how much time you have to devote to healing yourself. In my case, the only time I had for myself was after everyone else went to bed. If you are still monitoring, give us an idea of how much time you have per day/week to spend on your needs.

The most dangerous part of your situation is the depression. It will drain the life out of you. I wasn't effective on my work project until I dealt with it. There are many good ideas here on how to climb back out; here are a few more.

* Get some professional help

I know finances are tight but a very close friend of mine saw a psychiatrist and it helped immensely. Make sure they are goal oriented in that they are working towards putting themselves out of a job, not setting up a continual revenue stream.

* Apply your skills towards non-profit activities

Work makes me feel better about myself and helping others is a wonderful feeling. Sites like: http://catchafire.org/ can help you find opportunities.

* Mentor at a local school

You have failed and probably think about it a lot; I know I do. (This is probably not the healthiest of activities...) But this means that you can also help others avoid the problems that you have faced.

On a different note, I think the many responses here have shown just how prevalent this kind of situation is and how wonderful it is to have a support structure. I feel better just seeing the support for you!

You might want to consider recording your journey, either for posterity or, if you feel comfortable publishing, to help others in similar situations.
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From the article;

"In its broadest sense, the present invention is a method designed to accomplish the following: 1) Allow any computer(s) (desktops, laptops, handhelds, portables, etc.) to be used to capture information; 2) Transfer the information to a data center (via file transfer methods such as a network, to include, but not necessarily, Internet based) in a form that the data center can recognize; 3) Allow another computer(s) to access the information and download it from the data center in a format that can be readily used regardless of the format in which the original information was gathered."

This was granted in 2010..
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Recently a lot of start-ups have been making it in the 'billion dollar club' also known as the billion dollar evaluation.

Recently Square and Groupon have been welcomed in this new group, are their any other start-ups that recently (past 12 months) make it to this club, with this valuation?
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> Also, you should be nicer to your parents. Read point #3 again, and it almost sounds like you are describing yourself. Negative about everything? Not planning for the future? Refusing to accept change is needed? That's you!

This is something I think most of us have to face up to at some point, often with a bolt of shocked denial when the realization hits.
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Not when it comes to weapons. The US makes more arms than any other country and is the biggest exporter. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest...)

One of the reasons the US congress can't cut its military budget is because the US actually produces a lot of arms across the country. The joke is that an ideal defense project will have at least one job in every congressional district.
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This could be a description of the iPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY&feature=youtu...
You're basically paraphrasing the doctrine of mutual assured destruction.
Mattman are there any past colleagues or friends you can reach out to, to get some temporary work. It could be as simple as writing a user manual or reviewing code for a small amount of money.
You would be surprised at how often people are willing to help you if you ask. Once you get into the rhythm of work, it will get somewhat easier to structure life.
Wishing you all the best!
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse is a big one. Ecclesiastes is also excellent, and you shouldn't shy away just because it's in the Bible.
Weird. That shows up as a keyboard for me, and allows me to use the keys to play.

See: http://min.us/ldmfEC
Until recently, carriers were apparently able to avoid missile hits simply by moving at full speed - I guess it's still not trivial for a ballistic missile to hit fast, mobile targets (the US missile defense program probably faces similar engineering issues). The Chinese recently shifted the balance of power in the Pacific theater by developing a missile theoretically capable of taking down US carriers from afar. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e69c85a-1264-11e0-b4c8-00144feabd...

Regarding whether or not this is a practical asset, so much of military power is "soft" (you might say political, but I think that's an oversimplification), I don't think you could fairly call this an impractical asset. China has traditionally focused on maintaining power in there sphere of the world. As others have noted, the power of an aircraft carrier is that it allows you to project power globally. They could send the aircraft carrier to a lot of places that would make other countries unhappy, but not unhappy enough to actually start a military attack over it - thus the carrier would have been an effective tool.

From a more political perspective, there's been a regional arms buildup. India already has a carrier and is building more, and India and some other Asian countries have been buying up submarines.
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Ballistic missiles v. Aircraft Carriers seems like overkill, especially when it is fairly trivial to outfit submarines with nuclear torpedos (I can't find any that are listed as active in the U.S. arsenal, but we've had them before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_45_torpedo ).

EDIT: What was I thinking? A nuclear-tipped cruise missile is even better.
I get the keyboard too, no ability to record or play back anyone's existing tunes.... odd. Thought maybe it was because I am in Canada? Tried in FF and Chrome.
I don't see how it can already be considered a failure as a currency after only 2 years.
I assume you exclude the buildings at La Défense?
No cost, plus a $50 programmer. What is the PIC equivalent of the $20 USBtinyISP?
If you want to talk historically over long terms; gold is a far, far better store of value over time than fiat currencies, including the USD. None of this however changes the fact that rapid convertibility to and from bitcoins allows you to price any financial instrument in any kind of currency and perform the actual transfer at time of execution, effectively transforming bitcoins into nothing more than a fee free electronic funds transfer with no regulatory oversight.
"being a capitalist" is a catch-all accusation used when employers are trying to remove benefits from employees. It's the same as calling someone "greedy" in the west. There is still tons of protests and criticisms led by employees in China for better working conditions. Also, keep in mind that since the 50s the system took care of factory workers, from food and housing and even authorizing marriages! And then, out of a sudden the capitalist reforms came and they were all threw in this competitive market economy without any benefits. The term "being a capitalist" includes all these nuances and grievances.

Also, note that China today is NOT this extreme-capitalistic country that people think. The big enterprises (telecom, oil, etc...) are open and competitive, but most of the shares are actually owned by the government. In fact, when they describe "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics" I believe it is not a buzzword (like many believe) but really a meaningful description. It seems that they actually created something different.
Re: NKS theory of physics. You're right, it's far from convincing. But it is intriguing speculation, and I think he adequately hedges it as such. Some fascinating partial results are that the natural restriction he introduces for graph automata to be deterministic are enough to induce special and general relativity. That's pretty eery!

Re models: now we're getting into epistemology. I don't think the aim you ascribe to scientists to "prove them (models) to actually be fundamentally connected with the manner in which reality functions" has much meaning when one is talking about, say, quantum field theory. How do I connect the mathematics of QFT with what is "really going on"? You can't. It just is.
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Also grow your own vegetables in the garden. It's not only cheap, it has also no pesticide pollution, tastes much better and is very healthy because it's fresh. But the most important thing is the psychological effect: You seed, you care, you work on it, you watch it growing and then you harvest and eat your own effort. That's like beeing an entrepreneur on a small scale. Build on this positive experience and grow to bigger tasks.
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Are you thinking of yourself as a human in the context of other humans? That's the perspective where this is rational.

If you're in a system with a bunch of humble rich guys, people will be forced to be thoughtful and conscientious. In a system of cocaine and no-value relationships, your daughter is seduced while you're nursing a hangover, and then you die of heart disease.

It isn't about stealing women, but rather creating a sustainable lifestyle where people grow and have a manageable environment.
If Moe's can be successfully sued over using dead people's likenesses, how can Google get away with living people?

Do they have to get permission for each one?
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Two meanings of "history" here: one is what has actually happened in the past, the other is what we claim (or teach) happened. The former is static and impossible to know perfectly. The latter is necessarily a perspective. Obviously the latter has no effect on the former.