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Well, I know full well that 'sexual assault' does not have to be linked with physical violence, but lack of it certainly makes it somewhat less serious than other cases, does it not? Also, the victims did not want to persecute him, they just wanted to know how they could make him take some test. Also, attorney (is it correct word?) who looked at the case closed (dismissed?) it, it was only reopened later, by another attorney. Also, it's not certain that the victim was 'asleep' or just 'half asleep', which would mean that she was NOT raped (because she was able to protest, which she didn't do, it's how I understand this). Also, interrogating suspects abroad IS possible and happens often - not that long ago two swedish officials were sent to my country (Poland) to interrogate someone.

And so on. Sorry, I know that rape is very serious crime and should be punished, but I don't think your stance in this matter - that Assange is guilty of RAPE, omg, omg! - is valid. I think you're needlessly emotional about the matter. You may dislike him, but you should at least try being objective - you'd realize that finding him guilty here on forum is not a good thing at all, not to law, not to his victims, and not even to you.
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If you don't want to be in a startup, fine, that's not ageism. The problem is if you're turned away because of your age if you do. There's a perception that older folks are going to be "stodgy", overly concerned with outdated engineering principles and less with cool new features, and that startups need the latter. This attribute seems to map reasonably well onto Yegge's conservative/liberal framework, and to the degree that it does (and the degree to which the survey is representative) this seems to not be the case empirically.

It doesn't preclude the possibility, of course, that there may be other reasons someone might not be a good fit that age may predict.
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never understood why people bothered with this garbage

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Mexican landscapers can't buy multi-million dollar homes (assuming that's the range we're talking about here). Other than that, can't really feel sorry for hurt millionaires, it sucks for them, but there are more pressing problems in the world to worry about.
It acts like gold, but it is not gold. Gold is a tangible asset that has been a proven store of wealth since as long as we know about the history of human civilization.

Once somebody mine an asteroid full of gold, the whole Gold as money will come to an end. However, gold will become a more useful commodity in industrial/medical/electronic/etc applications since they are cheap.

Thousand years of history mean nothing when something change the whole playing field. There's nothing remotely implausible about asteroid mining except the necessary development of a space industry. As far as I am concerned, gold is living on borrowed time.
So is Kim Kardashian.

Assange is hardly Nelson Mandela.
> The current situation is probably costing each country involved more time and money per hour than the travel expenses for the questioning trip would be.

By now, I imagine they could be flown in by singing angels for every day of the questioning and it would still be cheaper than maintaining the current mess.

Everything makes sense, always. It just may be that you are looking at it the wrong way, or assuming the wrong motivations.
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What experiment would disprove string theory? This.
The comment you are responding to is a response to the argument that since the UK is doing something unusual in rape charges (discussing their options to get Assange out of the embassy), this is not really about the rape charges.

But that doesn't follow. It is ABSOLUTELY relevant that UK's unusual actions occur in an unusual context they didn't set up: indeed, most rape charges do not coincide with diplomatic shielding by an embassy, so diplomatic issues do not arise.

Nefarious, deceptive motivations on the part of the UK are not a necessary condition for its response, because shielding someone from the host country's criminal justice system is highly diplomatically sensitive even where it is justified.

Yes, for the UK it CAN be about something other than the rape charge, WITHOUT it being about some nefarious plot to assassinate Assange for Uncle Sam: it can be about what the UK sees as abuse of the privileges it gives to the embassy.
Yes, one of the biggest problems with a trusted cloud is that (with currently-proposed technology) the cloud provider would have to provide source code to their hypervisor, but many providers consider that a proprietary advantage.
In Swedish law, rape can mean something quite different than it does in the states. They both consented to sex, there was a contraception miscommunication, and afterward they decided it would be a good idea to have Assange tested for an STD to be safe. In Swedish law, rape can mean a disagreement over contraception.

If these women approached a lawyer in the US with their side of what happened, the lawyer would advise not to bring the matter to criminal court, with civil court also being a waste of time.
> he should be killed, and put to death

Would that be two consecutive sentences, or would they be served in parallel?
It's so disappointing to hear this repeated ad naseum as fact.
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What is this argument you're making? Anyone who becomes a public figure must engage in chastity?
I just confirmed that this does work. Note, however, that you'll also need to set clipsToBounds to YES on the window.
The whole thing is wonky - there is no software "liberalism" vs "conservatism".

I always assumed startups target younger devs because they generally fit startup culture more: cheap, work horses, full of energy, willing to take on risk.
As a designer and developer, I notice it, and have noticed it on my iPhone over the past couple of years. Tho I'm not sure I notice it to the extent this article analyzes it.

I far prefer the black status bar in apps, as it feels like it goes away, while still being there. But the rounded corners don't see a big deal to me. The fact that the article always compares the two together, you can't quite make the argument that one is needed with the other. (unless I totally glossed over something in that)
Hm, this is kind of sad.

On one hand, I understand that the original concept wasn't as successful as everyone thought, so the best thing to do is try to do something else.

On the other hand, "meme creation" is so overdone at this point that I am surprised that this is the "next big thing" that they try to build
Did she attempt to remove his penis from her vagina? Did she attempt to push him off of her? Did he physically prevent her from doing so? Did he coerce her using a gun, knife or some other weapon which she identified, and the police have been able to locate? Is there any sign of a struggle?

If a woman lies naked and spread eagle, and a man begins to have intercourse with her, and she makes no move to stop it, but tells him to stop in a calm tone, but in a language he does not understand, is the man raping her?
Thanks :)

I'm dead serious when I give the offer of help in any way I possibly can.

Also, there is no need to be jealous. It's not expensive, or overly difficult. It was also by far and away the most rewarding thing I've ever done in my life. If you want to do it bad enough, change a few things around in your life and you can do it!
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I paid the extra $$ for lifetime (and did it back when I was a grad student and had basically zero money) because I didn't want to have to think about hosting any more. Now I have to think about hosting again. Ugh.

Broken promises leave a bad taste in my mouth.
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Just curious, if any of the funds raised via Kickstarter for Diaspora were used in the development of Makr.io, including founders/developers salaries/expenses/etc.?

If yes, that is the biggest flaw of Kickstarter, no accountability. I can dream something really great, raise tons of cash via Kickstarter, and use that to do something else.
"more cells, elliptical shape" Yeah, a relatively rigid wing which reacts quickly when deformed by pulling a toggle.

"Are high-performance canopies restricted to certain levels of licensed proficiency?"

Circa 2004 (when my knowledge ends), rules were informal and largely enforced on a case-by-case basis by dropzone owners who didn't want the bad publicity of an inept person splattering himself into the ground. "No Bob, you're not going to jump with that canopy here!"

I do recall the wingsuit manufacturers at least having minimum standards and then asking questions when someone called to purchase one. It also helped that most wingsuits were sold at skydiving conventions where the manufacturer was on-site and could directly assess the buyer's competence. This sort of regulation is quite prevalent in the BASE jumping community where it's even frowned upon for individuals to sell used gear to someone without first assessing competence (or at least the existence of a mentor).
You're still thinking very US-centric. So what if US makes it illegal, maybe that kills the US market for it, but there is still the rest of the world. And maybe the rest of the world using it while the US cannot even provides them some advantage over the US (of course this isn't necessary).

On the other hand a 51% attack on the blockchain by _anyone_ would have a near 100% chance of destroying Bitcoin.
I didn't know about it, thanks.
The traditional definition of rape is "by force and without consent". Not to say this isn't immoral or indeed criminal, but it isn't rape and to call it such is unfair both to him and to rape victims.
What a complete waste of a slot in YC.
That depends on your perspective, and what you value in a monetary supply.

If deflation outstrips investment returns, then yes - that would cause capital to stay in one place, as people wouldn't want to spend money that would be worth more tomorrow. Investment would stop, businesses couldn't get financing, and everything would grind to a halt.

That's not a sustainable situation though; there will never be a time when all units of currency are held, nothing changes hands, and value is infinite. Instead, as value increases there will be profit-taking, which will hold down the value to some point. With the current relative lack of liquidity, you get a boom/bust cycle (the price will shoot up as more people try to get in on the value incrase, then confidence falters and the price crashes back to near baseline).

This has already happened once for Bitcoin, and it's important to note that the value over time has been somewhat linear when you account for the impact of the boom/bust.

As the liquidity of the market increases due to wider adoption, then you'll start to see the cycles increase in duration, as the market seeks balance. There will always be fluctuations, though, so the ultimate goal is ubiquitous use of Bitcoin in the general economy, and years- or decades- long variance in value.

I believe we're entering a new phase of growth, which will be sustained. I predict we'll see a good-sized correction relatively soon, and lots of smaller ones on the way up, but otherwise the value of Bitcoin in USD will steadily rise for the foreseeable future.

This doesn't look like another boom to me. This looks like people moving wealth to Bitcoin, and actually using it to buy things other than banknotes.
There's a huge volume being traded today. Who is buying?
Assange has been formally questioned. He was formally questioned back in 2010. Then the prosecutor decided there was no indication of a crime.

It took another prosecutor to take the extremely unusual step of swooping in and reopening the case before it was suddenly imperative he was questioned in Sweden, after he had been given the go-ahead to leave.

Meanwhile the Swedish police are happily interviewing suspected murderers elsewhere without the same insistence.

As for the Egyptians - it caused a massive uproar, then as stated, the US was shown to be right back at it again shortly afterwards, ignoring the political fallout of the initial cases. Even if Sweden doesn't want to be involved in the dirty work - and they have a lengthy history of bending over for the US -, that is by no means any guarantee of anything.
Let's be clear, I'm not saying that Amnesty have always been perfect before today.

What I find shocking is that they spend most of their time supporting this or that journalist in this or that country, and when something so egregious happens in the UK, in London, they stay mum because it's happening to somebody they don't like. They are failing spectacularly, in their own backyard, without any risk of repercussions whatsoever (this government is not friendly to them, they're not friendly to anyone really, so there's nothing to lose by criticising them).

I fail to see why I should support the rights of Russian rock bands to criticize Putin, but I should ignore the Metropolitan Police, down the road, banging on the door of foreign embassies to get hold of Assange. One day they might be looking for me on some trumped-up charge or other, and will Amnesty then stay silent if I'm not their pal?

That's just not how it works, and that's why Amnesty won't get any more money from me.
I hear this repeated a lot, and can't for the life of me understand why it even matters?

The point is: There is an extradition order to Sweden. The Swedish police want to talk to him. He fled the country before his interview.

Last time I checked, you don't get to just tell the police "sorry, not interested" when they are investigating rape allegations. I'm pretty sure that in just about every country in the world, at some point, there are rules dictated that you have a certain level of cooperation with authority. And if you don't, there are consequences.

How is this so hard to understand?
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You forget the fact that Go is a young language while modern C implementation has to support several standards, countless extensions and probably decades of cruft in the codebase. Additionally, if you factor in that go includes a tool that replaces most of what autotools gdoes in the C world, we're talking about a huge blob of accidentally complex code.

It's very reasonable to think that the Go implementation is simpler.
"The Hungarian authorities have not explained why they could not question him in Australia under the treaty on criminal cooperation."

Seems very similar.
Dojo is rather past its prime, because of increasing browser support for CSS3 and HTML5 features. Better support for native language capabilities like map/reduce/filter/indexOf in arrays also have siginifact impact.

Dojo is my primary js framework, I prefer it over jQuery, because it's more strict.
That's just glib. People use lots of bitcoins on silk road every day with no interest in speculation. Bitcoins are a real currency with value backed by the interest in silk road products.

If you can only look at bitcoins from the viewpoint of turning a quick buck, then you are not able to see a substantial part of the elephant.
Again, I don’t really care. I do not see how that’s relevant to the question of whether there is a government conspiracy or not.
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I don't believe at all that Apple was still developing hardware features in July on the iPhone which will ship this fall, only a few months later.

After buying some mapping companies, it took them over a year before they released their first product which included maps. Integrating new, never seen, hardware components in the iPhone sounds harder, not easier, than generating maps (something that is possible with fully open software).

I'm sure Apple has plans with the company they bought, but I'm certain we won't see them before 2013.
Having been part of that hiring process during the first bubble, we'd drop a lot of older, skilled candidates for "cultural fit", which was related to the exact same things as to why I wouldn't really want to be in a SV startup at my current age.

* Candidate asks about overtime? Probably won't work late with us during crunches.

* Candidate won't take equity in lieu of a pay cut? Doesn't get at all what our mission is.

etc. etc.
Ah, you view him as a celebrity gadfly and this event of no real world consequence. OK.
This actually seems fairly typical for most free or lifetime plans for things. Are there counterexamples of site/services that offered lifetime access that are still doing so 5 years later?
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Manning has been in jail for more than a year and hasn't even been sentenced yet

That's because he's awaiting trial, which has been delayed by both sides for various reasons. This is normal judicial process.
While beating your breast about intentionally skewed wording and heavily implying that the other guy is lying by omission, you do the same thing yourself!

Is it normal for an embassy's shielding of someone from the host country's criminal justice system to become a diplomatic issue? Yes, of course it is. Even if the accusation is minor, the diplomatic issue is between the UK and Ecuador and its severity is not determined by the accused, but by the legal interactions of the UK and Ecuador.

However, if you are on one side of the issue it is much more persuasive to say that the UK is treating Ecuador like a colony, that the UK wants to send Assange to Sweden so he will be secretly sent someplace and assassinated by the CIA. None of which is actually substantiated.
As a big diaspora fan I was confused and dismayed by this at first. Then I realized they simply made another app based on what they learned/coded for diaspora, not "going into a new direction" or anything. THEN I tried it out, and remember that I'm a hobby photographer and started uploading some with captions. Now it's actually growing on me. Sure, it's not any "new big thing", but it's fine, and light-hearted and simple. It's always good to make more than just one app, right? You never know what you'll learn. Also, all work and no play makes people poopyheads.

I just wish it had a way to link it with diaspora profiles, so diaspora could gain some users through it :)
The problem is, I believe, TFL won't open up their API without charging for it.
That may be possible, but it isn't inevitable. I use tests to validate that my mental model is correct. When I'm doing something greenfield, you'll see my tests are full of rather stupid-looking assertions of really basic stuff, and the reason for that is that about 5% of the time, my really basic so-simple-it-couldn't-be-wrong is wrong.

If you're building something that's going to be used as a foundation by lots of other things, those 5% errors add up really fast.
It appears that lifetime means lifetime of the product rather than lifetime of the customer. Is anyone really that surprised?
On a related note: where is good for hosting two small websites? I'd like to be able to log in with SSH and get an actual Unix shell (and not have to pay too much, as the websites are neither large nor popular).
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Be sure to repost this when GoldenEye 007 is working. Especially if multiplayer is working (I assume it would be entirely harder to get actual online multiplayer working, right? Did N64 have any real multiplayer functionality? Either online or N64 to N64 direct connection?)
Here's the testimony from Assange's own lawyers:

He described Assange as penetrating one woman while she
slept without a condom, in defiance of her previously
expressed wishes, before arguing that because she
subsequently “consented to … continuation” of the act of
intercourse, the incident as a whole must be taken as
consensual.

In the other incident, in which Assange is alleged to
have held a woman down against her will during a sexual
encounter, Emmerson offered this summary: “[The complainant]
was lying on her back and Assange was on top of her … [she]
felt that Assange wanted to insert his penis into her vagina
directly, which she did not want since he was not wearing a
condom … she therefore tried to turn her hips and squeeze
her legs together in order to avoid a penetration … [she]
tried several times to reach for a condom, which Assange had
stopped her from doing by holding her arms and bending her
legs open and trying to penetrate her with his penis without
using a condom. [She] says that she felt about to cry since
she was held down and could not reach a condom and felt this
could end badly.”

That's rape.
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NZ does make quite a bit of money from the film industry, so that might affect things.

http://www.med.govt.nz/sectors-industries/screen-industry
> it appears they only provide XML whereas the current code requires XML

Is there a typo here, or am I just reading this wrong?
More specifically, it seems the definition of rape in Sweden is not directly comparable to the definition in the United States, therefore emotional-laden reactionary arguments come across as uninformed and disingenuous. This is problematic because the debate necessarily ends up orbiting very close to "violent agreement" and "ad hominem". Neither of which are useful when the subject matter is this serious.
If rape is so significant a crime as to change the politics of nations, why isn't the Vatican under siege for the roles it has played in child rape? There's a hell of a lot more evidence there than against Assange, and about a great deal more rapes, too.

But you said it yourself: rape (like murder) is a crime against the person. Not against the nation. Nations shouldn't be violating treaties just to 'get their man'. It's a bit like the point of the 5th Amendment in the US: sure, some bad guys get away with it, but overall it protects everyone.

Here's another example: elsewhere in the thread someone mentions China not going into the US embassy to get their man. But if the UK does this, China now has a clear and more importantly very public precedent and the UK embassy becomes more insecure in China: "Hey, you've shown us that if you really want the guy, it's okay to break the rules".
Why it's the best for most people? Because study after study shows that generating alpha (excess returns that are not attributable to buying stuff with debt, basically) is _hard_. And if the risk is too high, just buy more US treasuries and less stocks.

Just a few days ago I read that Bain Capital's nice 20-30% returns were mostly based on leverage in a favorable market environment... I think there are a few people who really are good at choosing market segments or individual stocks, but you or your advisor-for-hire are not likely to be them.
If all you need is a shell plus LAMP, Dreamhost is pretty decent shared hosting. (Their Rails support apparently works, but Rails-using customers seem to have a tendency to suck up a lot of resources that other people could be using more moderately.)
Well I was simply meeting exercise requirements, which aren't necessarily the most practical.