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The whole war on drugs thing is a hysteria created by certain aspects of drug-use being artificially blown out of the proportion. Many of the risks associated with drug use (like overdose or addiction) are actually created by the legal system.

Here's how it works. If you overdose, and you go to ER you're forced to admit you did something illegal. Many people would rather die than face a life of humility that's unfairly associated with being a junkie. Not to mention overdoses would be less likely if everything was legal and properly labeled.

Same thing with addiction. Removing stigma and legal consequences associated with being a drug-addict will help many people seek help if they need it. How many people do you think are too afraid to go the doctor and admit they have problems, considering drug use is illegal and stigmatized? A lot.

I think it's a matter of creating a minority and punishing the fuck out of that minority. Being a drug-addict right now is like being gay or black hundreds of years ago.

Being an addict is not a fucking choice. It's a grueling mental torture accompanied by physical torture that's relieved with a consumption of a particular substance.

When you're addicted to opiates and you use, it's not because you want to rebel against the world. At that point it's about PLEASE STOP THE FUCKING PAIN. Mental and physical pain, violent diahrrea, puking, being unable to sleep for days.. basically all your natural painkillers are gone and everything is pain. All of that can be ceased with a hit.

The fact that anyone thinks it's okay to throw these people in jail sickens the fuck out of me. And you know what, I don't fucking care. Some of the best minds used heroin, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain. Wanna throw them in jail or fuck with them to the point of suicide (as with Cobain)? Go ahead. "Drug warriors" are like a grown-up version of bullies punching a sick kid.
In all seriousness, it would be easier to adopt this proposed calendar than it would be to:

- Not have football on Sundays
- Tell students that they have to go to school Thursday
through Monday this year (But church is still on Sundays!).
- a bunch of other weekday/weekend-aligned activities.
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Nothing here that isn't already present in the Android SDK documentation. Why was this post submitted?
I'm interested to know if earning that cert from UW allowed you to jump in to the financial sector. I'm currently pursuing a similar path and would be interested to hear about your experiences.
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sick! the UI looks like it would feel better on a tablet, you should consider pivoting to be an ipad app since it's oriented for media consumption
As long as my birthday is on a Saturday it works for me.

(seriously though, imagine how mad people will get when a particular event happens on the "wrong day" every year)

I like it though. I'd even take a Tuesday birthday to make it happen.
I think to anyone who requests it, within a reasonable period of time, for at most a reasonable fee to cover your expenses for sending it to them IIRC.
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Soundtracks - mainly instrumental ones.

Trainspotting, Reservoir Dogs, Snatch, Run Lola Run.

They're moving, the backdrops to quickly developed stories, builds momentum :)
BSD is basically just granting a copyright license. Apache grants you a right to use any patents the code may use.

Where I work contracts and grants prefers that we use BSD because they (as I understand it) think apache's patent grants are too broad.

Contracts and grants prefers we use Education Community License over apache http://www.educause.edu/wiki/Educational+Community+License
My thoughts, exactly. Those magical ("happy") days of The Terror were indeed too short. And UTC -- practically a symbol of British Naval prowess and Empire -- is really a nice touch, specially for the "brown/yellow" ones who get to toil happily at "midnight".
i understand the excuse that people put up with facebook's flaws because so many of their friends are on it, but why are all of these early adopters putting up with google+?

there is not a strong network effect going on there yet, there are no 3rd party apps or even a full api, there are hardly any celebrities or companies that users are joining just to follow, and it only seems to be used by early adopter tech-types. those same users are the ones that keep complaining about flaws like google's handling of pseudonyms and now this middle-finger baloney.

if you don't like a new service and there is no compelling reason to continue using it, why are you using it and writing about it and continuing to drive traffic to it? just stop using it and there will be one less reason for others to keep using it.
* Check out EGOImageLoading https://github.com/enormego/EGOImageLoading

* Or the UIImageView category in AFNetworking https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking

* Or this https://github.com/anoopr/fully-loaded

* There are many more...
I don't think the suggestion is that the working day everywhere should start at X:00. The idea is that 4:00 in California is 4:00 in Britain and 4:00 in China. When the day starts would vary from place to place; perhaps 1:00 somewhere and 12:00 somewhere else. The point is to eliminate the confusion caused by timezones, especially those like Nepal's which are 15 minutes off other time zones for no good reason.
I like this idea. Unfortunately, it can't coexist with the Gregorian calendar in its current form; if a small fraction of the world switched to it, they'd always have to wonder which calendar someone writing "Jan 1" was referring to.

When a date is written down, it needs to be immediately obvious which calendar it's referring to. It needs a special notation that doesn't overlap with any of the currently-used notations for dates, so that it will be unambiguous (and so that the old calendar will remain unambiguous). I propose doing this by giving each month a letter, A-L, and writing dates like this:

2012-A01 = New calendar, first day of first month of 2012
2012-L30 = New calendar, thirtieth day of twelfth month of 2012
2012-01-01 = Gregorian calendar, first day of first month of 2012
C30 = New calendar, thirtieth day of third month of whatever year this is

With the notations neatly separated, you could then print calendars with the two schemes side by side, and let people convert back and forth for awhile while the new system is adopted. We could give the months fanciful names, too, as long as they start with the right letters. But the important thing is, the two schemes must be unambiguous and distinct.
The scientific part is simple, its just a little maths.

The difficult part is to get 8 billion people to agree to pull in the same direction. And my guess is, that it will never happen, unfortunately.
True, but don't those services require schema definitions and similar setup? It seems like a lot of prototyping could be sped up by simply inferring relationships based on RESTful URLs and relying on schema-less storage.
Why do I need to pay $360 to read the C11 standard?
"""* the idea that society-wide events happen because they are planned by an entity that is fully conscious of what it is doing"""

"fully conscious" is a weasel-word to disqualify the fact the fact that A LOT of society-wide events DO happen because they are planned by an entity.

Not only an aggregate entity, like a government, but even a single man sometimes. A dictator, for example, can (and historically has) pass a totally arbitrary law or course of action of his own choosing. (Napoleon: "we shall invade Russia").

"""* the believe that entities actually exist that could actually reliably orchestrate society-scale things"""

"Reliably" is another weasel-word here. Maybe a plan cannot ever go 100% as planned, but entities DO exist that can determine a course of action society-scale and make it happen. For example, NRA and it's lobbyists can pen, lobby and have the congress vote for a specific law.

"""* the idea that society-scale things can be planned at all, which entails that society-scale things can be predicted reliably"""

See adobe.

"""* the attribution of human characteristics to a vague group"""

Human characteristics (like "ambition", "ambivalence", "will", "shameless" etc) are totally applicable to groups, even vague groups. Actually, those characteristics as as easily applicable to single human s as to groups of humans -- there's nothing that makes them inherently applicable to single humans only.

"""* the idea that vague groups can be understood as having a singular consciousness"""

Singular is another weasel-word here. They might not have a "singular consciousness", but they DO have an aggregate consciousness. I.e it's statistics, not an exact measurement.

"""* the idea that vague groups can be understood as having a singular motivation exactly like that of a single human being, such as greed, avarice, lust, pride, jealousy"""

Same as above.

In fact your arguments can even be applied to single human beings. Who said that the idea that a single human being "can be understood as having a singular motivation such as greed, avarice, lust, pride, jealousy" is not silly?

We choose to generalize, we choose to make broad statements on data aggregates etc, both on terms of single human beings and groups because IT WORKS, and because it helps us understand and judge reality better.

It's like when we study chemistry: yeah, underneath it it's all physics, but it's a nice level of abstraction to have and it helps us understand processes and act better for a lot of cases.
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The job would have be trivial enough to make it clear to everyone concerned that there was nothing patentable in it, I suppose.

As to GPL compatibility, I've seen this play out with the AFL too (I use the AFL a lot). My take on it is: GPL incompatibility with well-designed, modern licenses like the AFL and Apache is not their fault. It's the fault of the FSF for producing licenses with outstanding flaws. As someone firmly in the BSD camp, I'm not too concerned about the FSF's foibles.
From another point of view, a given date gradually occurring on every day of the week is a feature, not a bug. I see that the proposed calendar puts my birthday on a weekend, every year year after year, but I kind of like my birthday (and my wedding anniversary, and other important dates) occurring on a new day of the week each year, for variety.

I note too that the calendar would not "make it easy to plan annual activities" for any of the dates in the "extra week" proposed for the calendar, if by annual activities we mean activities that occur in every calendar year. The extra week occurs "at the end of December every five or six years," and the new memory load everyone would have to bear is remembering which years--2015, 2020, 2026, 2032, 2037, 2043, 2048, 2054, 2060, 2065, 2071, 2076, 2082, 2088, 2093, 2099, 2105, "et cetera" are the extra week years.
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My brief interactions with Reddit these days lead me to believe that this sort of immaturity is not limited to r/atheism…

That said, I'm glad Reddit exists, for the same reason I'm glad that skate parks and X-Boxes exist.
The Apache License 2.0 mixes copyright law with patent law. Its patent related claims are not acceptable to OpenBSD for example.

This site gives a good overview:
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/apache2.xml

IMO, you may just as well use GPLv3, ALv2 source is almost as risky in commercial products.
A screen shot of an image is usable for web applications, but not much else since it doesn't have the resolution in most cases.
So, there was a lot of discussion on HN taking on ACM, IEEE, and Elsevier for creating paywalls, but how about ISO? Standards should be open source, free to copy and distribute without making any changes.
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Flash in photography is a tool like any other. It can be used well or used poorly. After discovering the strobist blog a few years ago, I found that controlling light with flash and lighting in layers has opened up a bunch of new creative opportunities for me.

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Obviously, the calendar ambiguity can be resolved by some sort of calendar NAT.
I think you understood the point about timezones backwards. The point is for everybody to use, for instance, UTC time. So instead of working the proverbial 9am to 5pm, if you are in Japan you would work from 0am to 8am (UTC).

It makes sense to me, but I can see how lots of people would have a very hard time understanding and accepting this.
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And yet, the US still isnt on metric.
Agreed with the general proposal: the only time periods that are important to preserve are the day (coz of morning/night), the week (coz of work-week and religious days), and the year (coz of seasons). The month is pretty arbitrary.

They propose a 364-day year with 8x 30-day months and 4x 31-day months. If they're okay with a 364-day year, wouldn't it be better to have 8x 28-day months and 4x 35-day months. Or you could have 13x 28-day months. That way the day-of-week would be even more predictable.
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I believe that a BSD-style license is generally good (personally I even prefer the WTFPL). In an ideal world, we wouldn't need licenses because nobody would be stupid enough to make proprietary software[1] or otherwise try to restrict the user's freedoms. We'd pretty much have implicit CC-BY or -Zero for everything and be done with it.

For now, we need the GPL to force change. BSD-style does not slowly force the ever-stuck-in-the-past industry to stop making inferior unfree[2] software. It will not prevent the same people from leeching off the efforts of the FLOSS community without giving anything in return (or even trying to sabotage our efforts with patents or similar nonsense).

[1] Yes, proprietary software is and always was an enormously stupid idea, probably up there with patents and copyright on the list of Most Ridiculous Bullshit In Human History.

[2] Free as in Speech.
No don't do this. My birthday is on 31st 0_o
My experience so far, 2 months into the program.

Many problems with the reimbursement program seem fixed. Stories from earlier rounds seem to have changed things, which is a sign that things can get better.

Given I had all the right information up front, I got the full amount returned on my first report. The housing allowances are very generous for Chile and things like requiring a housing contract is not exactly a 'pile of paper'. I finished my entire first report in a single morning, having kept myself organized ahead of time.

The legalization process for foreigners is also pretty slick. Try coming to Chile (or anywhere) and getting an ID card, bank account, and apartment in 2-3 weeks without government help. You may feel your time was wasted by RVA, but you win a lot of time if you choose to. If one doesn't feel that these things are worth his time, it may make sense to raise money from friends and family and stay home.

Regarding the RVA involvement there are many ways you can participate. For example, spend some hours teaching a local Ruby or web design. This sort of thing may actually help you work better too.

Above all the biggest problems are in communication, which seems to get better over time.

My feeling is that more accountability for teams (required demos) and the impact they have locally would help everyone build a better sense of trust. So would a stronger commitment from Startup Chile to communicate their goals clearly to new arrivals.
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Wow, after reading the comments it's amazing how difficult it is for most people to understand that eliminating time zones doesn't mean that anyone will change when they work. You will just have a different number for the time you do things than in than other parts of the world. In England you might start at 09:00, but on the other side of the world they would start at 20:00 which would be morning for them.
"Influencial individuals" can do harm to society at large (and have done it quite a lot in the past years). They are "public persons" and must undergo check and control by the society. That is absolutely not comparable with private individuals who's actions are very unlikely to have any damaging impact on the general society. That's the difference.
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right. You can sell it, but don't expect to keep selling it as a long term business.

Why? Anyone that purchases a single copy can re-compile and re-release to the world for free. In addition to this, anyone can share it for free and it's allowed by the license.

If your app has any popularity it all, you will slowly lose your customer base because it's too easy to generate free competition (you will essentially with an exact duplicate of your software for free, and it's legal), unless of course you want to become a support company. Support might work for larger companies, but doesn't scale well at all for a one-man shop.

It's quite obvious to me that Stallman doesn't want you to be able to charge for software, due to the very nature of the license.

He has said when questioned that support is a viable way to make money from "free software". I don't know about you, but I don't want to run a support company.
The problem is that these are still timezones. It's actually a very trivial change. Instead of saying you're in a different timezone, I say you wake up at 20:00 instead of 8:00 like I do.

That's not a very significant change ...
> GPL incompatibility with well-designed, modern licenses like the AFL and Apache is not their fault. It's the fault of the FSF for producing licenses with outstanding flaws.

+100. I love this attitude.
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There are a few different thresholds, and the quality of the carbs (glycemic index / glycemic load) also matters.

Generally a good starting point is the Zone Diet macro split: 40% carb, 30% protein, 30% fats, by calories. On a 2000 cal/day diet, that's roughly 800 calories (or 200g) carbs. Low carb is generally anything less than that, with < 100g being fairly seriously constrained, and ketogenesis generally requiring ~50-100g.

And yes, most unprocessed diets are reasonably low in carbs, or at least have slow carbs. Though there are some relatively high-carb indigenous diets, particularly among Pacific Islanders eating manioc and breadfruit, though fish and seafood are also staples.

Good overview of "essential carbs": http://www.ajcn.org/content/75/5/951.2.full
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I think a lot of the hate against statically-typed languages is because people associate them with languages like C# and Java (as opposed to e.g.: OCaml), which lack not only many of the higher-order functional features that we've come to expect in both static and dynamic languages, but also the soundness guarantees that come from actual type-safety.

If you're more productive in JavaScript, it's probably not because you can write a function that converts either an string or an integer to an array2. More likely, it's because you don't need to manufacture a new class every time you want a one-line handler.
Truth. I know plenty of women who lift. Including a couple on steroids. You don't look like that without steroids.

Body for Life's success stories before/after shots would be vastly more representational. Though Crossfit women are typically highly photogenic as well. http://bodyforlife.com/success-stories/#pg-1
Because it sounds, until you dig into it, like a flagrant violation of common sense. Most people will not dig into it. They'll just say "how ridiculous!", as I almost did, and at best will get an inaccurate picture of things. This may help them make bad decisions down the line, as other people have suggested on th subthread.
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