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I think you're missing his point. The ability to rationalize is what allows people to do bad things. Do you think someone who wants to steal something is going to say "Yeah, this is bad, but I'm going to do it anyway"? Not very often. It's probably more like: "I've had really bad luck in my life lately; I need this to help my family/etc...; One item won't make a difference to the shopkeeper".

So, no, he's not automatically dismissing any counterargument. He's saying that the ability to rationalize anything is a strong reason for immoral behavior.
Specs like "6A MOSFET" don't exist in isolation. The current rating of that MOSFET is due to the on resistance(Ron), the resistance between source and drain. As current flows through the FET this resistance causes power to be dissipated as heat. The 6A number comes from how much heat the junction can handle without frying and is measured under a set of assumptions.

Usually testing is done at room temperature (25C often used) with the best possible heat-sinking and ideal Vgs. Most MOSFETs of this type actually tie the internal thermal components to the drain pins. Its intended that the PCB designer use a large copper pour for the drain pads, this copper area acts as the heatsink for the chip, transferring heat away from the junction.

In other words, the MOSFET can only handle 6A if ambient temperatures are kept at room temp (usually means fans on it or its wide open to a room), there is adequate heat-sinking provided by the PCB design, and Vgs is high (higher Vgs reduces Ron). Further its important to remember that FETs have a "run away" characteristic in that as junction temperature rises so does Ron, which creates more heat.

So, there is a lot more to the functional rating of a MOSFET than the 6A on the datasheet. In reality you would never want to nor expect that FET to hold 6A. With just a cursory look at the PCB layout and previous experience with what the ambient temperatures tend to be on back-planes of server chassis loaded with many drives, 1A would be pushing it, so I'm not at all surprised that these things blew.

Perhaps the most WTFery aspect of that PCB is the lack of any suitable capacitance near the SATA connectors. If you aren't using staggered spin up and many drives were spinning up at the same time the rail voltages can dip which in this setup causes Vgs to drop, increasing Ron at the worst possible time as mechanical drives draw a lot more current at spin up. This could trigger thermal run away.
So your contention is that a moral obligation is created by the fact that pillage and plunder is no longer permitted? Since we are both protected from pillage and plunder, which of us owes the other?

Another thing I don't quite understand is this - you implicitly seem to treat the right to kill and eat whatever you like as the only "natural right". Is resisting those who might kill/eat you not a "natural right"? I.e., am I obligated to surrender to the cannibals? If not, then it's hard to see how modern society is anything other than a different strategy of resistance, in which case no moral obligation is owed to anyone.

I'm also confused by your change of topic. Previously you were contrasting the subsistence farmer to modern life. Now you seem to be contrasting hunter/gatherer/cannibal life to modern life. Can you explain?
"Compile-time valgrind" seems incorrect. It is compile-time addition of run-time valgrind-like instrumentation.
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Yep, thats what I thought. Thanks for the feedback!
They were right, there were probably an 80% chance that they would declare Obamacare unconstitutional. The thing with 20% chance to happen happened, like it does once in a while.

If there's 80% chance of something happening, it doesn't mean that the 20% alternative won't happen or that you was wrong if it happened.
http://apple.de – http://apple.fr – http://apple.it – http://apple.pl

http://apple.com is the outlier, always has been. It’s no surprise that it’s different.
It is a good approach and back say 20 years ago the favorite was to redo the du command and add a conversion to MB (now handled by the -h option for human in the du and ls command).

Cat is also a good example and not just to learn a programming language but the OS. Ask somebody to come up with 20 ways to display a file, you can do it with not just the cat command. Now I'm not saying there are twenty ways, but it is one area which some delving and approach will allow people to try and find them.

Examples are for me the best way to learn a programming language and again with the simple Unix commands you have a common base which people are more likely to ifnd an example. Can't recall but great site on the net which has "Hello World" in about every programming language around.

After a while, you will start to add option to your redeveloped commands, then add entirely new commands and from there you can think about writting your own shell. No graphics or the like to distract you too much. Graphics as a rule in programming languages I have found to be like learning an after thought and also you are more controlled in the mentality behind the API. So I do advise not even looking at graphics for a while until you have learned how to flex the language without the distractions graphics and the way they are handled add a overhead to your code. I'm sure somebody will list a programming language that is easier to do graphicly as apposed to text output, though its a safe rule. SO just because you have windows, don't mean you have to jump into GUI's from day one, if even at all.
If you believe that bookies are consistently giving the odds wrong, then you should start consistently taking their money.

Yes, I'm aware that this way of thinking is odd to people who do not understand markets, gambling, and so on. But it is still true. Bookies try really, really hard to give correct odds. And if you look at 20 bets which had 80% odds, you would expect to find several examples where the expected winner lost. That's why the odds were set at 80% and not 99%.
It's not just how far you walk, it's how fast you do it. Perhaps if you walked faster? Or ran?
Did they just update the homepage on apple.com? Shows the iPad 4th gen now.
Do you have experience with valgrind? Can you compare & contrast the two?

Also, I thought that the compiler additions was implemented years ago, several times (tristan gingold's "checker-gcc" first, then the bounds-checking patches and most recently "-fmudflap"), so that asan's functionality would basically only require rewriting libmudflap - but it apparently requires a much deeper surgery of gcc. Can anyone familiar with asan and/or the previous implementations comment on that?
Citing statistical models based on massive samples of polling data is not biased reporting; it's based on fact, on what's actually happening. What the the media should not be saying is that the race is close when it isn't. It has no basis in reality.

One purpose of predicting the outcome is to take the narrative back from the pundits whose obvious motives are to maintain the perception of a close race. That's media bias. The FivetThirtyEight is a response to that.
So does one plan to have a fueled-and-ready helicopter waiting on that rooftop pad? Seems like the neighbors wouldn't like that very much.

If not, do you have a fueled-and-ready helicopter on standby somewhere else? Is that hangar fortified and protected?
Thanks! That's good to know about Apache. I haven't even had a chance to look into it thoroughly. Maybe I'll dive into it this weekend :) So if I want to get up and running quickly my best bet would be to grab a linode with a LAMP stack?
The "Kardashian Effect"?

After all, nobody gives a fuck about her :)
seems like that issue is being worked on: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435

Chrome has similar problems on Windows. For example, the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols work in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and even Notepad, but not in Chrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbo...
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109844
A variant (I think) of this idea that I've been using for years: when I stop coding, I jot down what I was doing, whatever problems I was dealing with, and what I felt my next steps were going to be in a little Emacs buffer.

It would probably be even smarter of me to take 20 seconds to figure out exactly the right set of Emacs tabs/frames to keep open alongside them, so when it was time to start up again, I'd get sucked right in.
Thank you so much for the link. It was clear, succint and a wonderful explication of the oft-discussed, never explained, Unix philosophy.

I look at the options for cat on my ubuntu system though, and realise that this problem has only gotten worse.
Hmm, does this apply if I use leased server in a leased space.
"Doing good for your fellow man" is slavery if you're forced to do it by law or if you accept the unearned guilt delivered by a Sunday sermon.

It's not the same situation at all as when a person helps a friend or family member because that person is a value to them.
>Then I asked him to imagine if the product in question represented several months or even years of his life. All that time he was creating, writing, editing, and marketing this thing in order to fund his next project. And then everyone downloaded it, illegally, for free.

So he responded to an actual argument with an appeal to emotions? And he seems to be proud of this?

Sorry, no. If you have a problem with an argument, you point out the flaw in the argument. You don't try to make the person giving the argument feel bad for the conclusion.

> It turns out that we view ourselves categorically as either good or bad, and moving from being 3% legal to being 4% legal is not a very compelling motivation.

This is very silly reasoning. People who download illegally don't view themselves as "bad", and most people I know who download illegally (aka "most people I know") also buy stuff in the same category as what they download.
I had problems with the multiple Java version of different applications.

But all the complaining about the many security updates is plain stupid:

* Goolge Chome: 22.0.1229.94
* IE9: 9.0.8112.16421

whatever those numbers really means.
Same for iOS. Google Voice app won't render emoji. Why?
I think that goes to show more about the narrowness of the bet versus real life. Sports outcomes have scores and winners, case law has subtleties.

Technically, the individual mandate was illegal under the commerce clause according to the ruling. This was the main area of debate and clause that people assumed it would fall under.

The surprise was the expansion of the taxing power given in the ruling allowing the individual mandate to be considered a tax. It also was small enough not to be considered punitive, thus still legal under the "expanded" taxing power.
Deliberately leaving some piece of low-hanging fruit at the end of a session so that it's there to pick up at the beginning of the next session is a really good idea.
In the UK the judges will not be ammused. But this aspect of legal terminology does cover such matters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law
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You substantially underestimate the effect of the (unreported) model parameters. A person can often arbitrarily change the prediction by tweaking the parameters.

Thank you for the link to the attempt to reproduce Silver's results. I will have to spend more time to determine how closely they agree -- it isn't obvious after a cursory look.
yes but you don't interlude with random personal quotes so I feel attachment to the subject enough to follow it to b5 than from b6-b9
https://github.com/arvida/emoji-cheat-sheet.com/blob/master/... doesn't look good. All rights reserved is not an open license at all and makes me question the legality of that repository.
Exactly this. A fair bet is theoretically passing money back and forth. Silver should offer the worst odds that Scarborough is likely to accept, which should be 1:1 is Scarborough is as confident as he claims.
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If I could copy someone's birdhouse, and they could still keep it, why should they even bother putting time into making the birdhouse in the first place if the whole point was to make money off of it? In that case, there's no incentive to create anything at all.

And secondly, I believe people need to respect other people's rules for their own content. It's rude to disregard someone's wishes with regard to what they've created. If someone says "Yeah, go ahead and feel free to copy my book" then that's fine. But if someone says "I'd really prefer it if people did not copy and distribute my work", and you do so anyway, well... that's just not very nice because you're disrespecting that person's wishes.
... It's good that one part of the government (Navy?)
presents it's predictions with confidence values abd so will introduce the concepts to the nation in an everyday format

but just the weather service is not enough

(what I would have said had I more time first time)
Take a look at the Novo tablets. Ainol is producing unsubsidized tablets for less than Google. Tablet prices will fall no matter what.
I learned programming in QBasic by experimenting with graphics, games and fractals.

I honestly think that plotting per-pixel graphics is a much more fun and rewarding way to learn programming, than a cat program.

It's only a shame Linux has no "mode 13h" screen and a PSET function in the C language :)
THe judges a couple of days ago already lambasted Apple for the wording, details such as JS will not phase judges. It is the output and end result and if somebody smells something a miss then the judges will be told. They may not be the fastest or most aware, but they do look at the end result and if they see shinangigans or even a hint of it then they will ask what is going on. If they are not happy with the answear then they bite and they can bite. Generaly there pretty firm but fair so apple needs to play ball and stop trying to be clever as it will only work against them.
Also there was http://realtimerelativity.org/ a while ago, which simulates motion pretty close to C. Don't know which one is more "realistic", but it shows much more pronounced effects
Sharing secrets and distributing passwords
Appending a cost to your emotions
There's a cost to your emotions. Will you do the logical thing next time you're upset?
I'm not In the sitemap :(

In case you were looking for me:

http://linkedin.com/in/pjbrunet :)
Temperature can be just as important as current draw. The amount of current those MOSFETs can handle will reduce fairly rapidly as ambient temperature increases and green drives tend to run much cooler than high speed 7200rpm drives.
> It's a factually correct statement, nothing rude about it.

Facts can be stated in a rude manner; rude statements can be factually correct.

Asshole.
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yes, but I believe we are using different interpretations fairness. as someone already pointed out, for fairness to be innate to humans it would need to be a better genetic trait compared to unfairness. so we are not arguing about how and if it is a good behavioural strategy, as it needs to be a better gene to have vs 'the-unfairness-gene'. so you might be genetically unfair and act fair as long as it is a valid behavioural strategy and revert to your genetic inclination when the situation requires you to (in case of serious danger for example). based on that it would be also possible to say that people are genetically fair and act unfair when in need, but that would not be fairness in my opinion.
The first few pages of TFA seem to be more about raising a prodigy than about giving birth to one. I.e., given that your child is a prodigy, what parenting techniques are useful?
While they may offer a discount for using BTC, their prices start off much higher than the competition.

Clicking around in the section for LCD monitors, all the name-brand models were 50-80% more expensive than on the likes of newegg and amazon.
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I never understood homepage startups, do someone use them?
> However, the behaviors we most often observe and notice are ones that are outside of the legitimate domain (e.g., doping in sports, infidelity by politicians, exaggerated resumes by CEOs) and in these cases the social proof can change things for the worse.

The idea of scandal also has its place in the catholic doctrine, see the Catechism 2284-2287[1]:

> 2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. the person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense. [...]

[1] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P80.HTM
The US site has the iPad 4 featured on the homepage. All the other sites have the iPad mini featured. I'm pretty sure that once the other countries switch to the iPad 4 feature, the script will disappear as well.
It is important to note that the cited accuracy was for the predictions made the day before (or perhaps even later) the election. It would be interesting to know how accurate the predictions were X weeks out.
Yes, I would love to hear this man explain how prices should be structured for a country like India or China.

Oh, you make less than 20$ a day? Well, I guess that means there is no legal way for you to become culturally enlightened.

I mean the claims that pirating are bad are easy for me to buy for pure entertainment, but I think it really falls apart when it comes to music and especially books. The idea of being able to distribute ereaders with 100g sticks filled with textbooks in any wanted language - it astounds me. It's so cheap. So easy. So many children would be able to get such a head start on life, with so many wonderful words to guide them on their path to becoming an adult.

But it will never, ever happen. Not until people start thinking less about exchanging money with other rich people.
For learning functional programming languages, Project Euler[1] is a really great resource.

[1] - http://projecteuler.net/
I'd also like to see more air time devoted to the Congressional budget, but I can't think of a way of presenting it that the average TV viewer would find entertaining.
I think it is more for cases where there are search and rescue helicopters around.

Climbing one of those rope ladders would just be ... undignified?
Yeah, LAMP seems to be the best route to get up and going faster, I think I'll start with that. I need to be learning those DB and process skills to begin with, which makes taking the LAMP approach probably the best option. Thanks.
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For me he automatically dismissed the argument of the student giving his reasons to download (he wouldn't buy the music anyway, and the disc production are exploiting the artists).

If I killed somebody and tried to rationalize it (he would have died at some point anyway, maybe he was a bad person, etc.), you could retort that no matter what, I killed someone and it's just bad because you are causing lots of harm (the victim, his family and friends, etc.), but you couldn't tell someone who downloaded illegally some music that it's just a bad thing to do.

That's why I agree with the GP that his mention of the rationalization process is here to automatically dismiss counter argument. It is an interesting point, and I am sure people used this process to have a clear conscience having done really bad things, but it is not by itself a counter-argument to illegal download, or anything else.
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You'd hear of Norco if you're on a budget, they're one of the many cut-rate brands. Supermicro charges roughly three times the price for enclosures, which do get the job done if you aren't bitten by firmware issues, but are by far not a budget brand compared to the competition out there.

I've actually considered some Norco enclosures in the past for a hobbyist project, but I had concerns over their hot swap backplanes -- mainly, a lot of reliability issues reported. Catching on fire pretty much settles it!
I've found the best way for me to jump into something is to leave vim open to the very project I'm on--even if I'm midtask. I wouldn't want to close all the windows, as that would make it harder to start the next day.
My dad replaced his iMac hard drive, with the whole glass removal thing, and didn't have any problem. Doing it safely just requires a tool like this: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100119050/h_d2/Produ...

A lot of people find the process scary, but the risk of breaking the pane is pretty low.
What you just posted is misleading. Silver's model gave the GOP a 2 in 3 chance of winning the House in 2010, predicting a net gain of 45-50 House seats, and the majority - http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/g-o-p-ha...
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Surely by the time people are building structures like this, their other wants and needs have been accommodated to their satisfaction.

I can't imagine someone strapped for cash putting off their yearly physical or new car because they really need to scrape up the payment for the new multimillion dollar safehouse.
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They might also view it as a challenge to prove the pundits wrong, and turn out in large numbers.
I ended up in one of the longest, stupidest arguments of my life trying to add my two cents into a discussion about whether to wait on the new MacBook Air or jump on the current one.

The person mentioned they would be doing some gaming on it, so I pointed out that the new Air would almost certainly have Intel HD 3000 graphics and that the Nvidia chipset in the older MacBook Air was better overall for that sort of thing.

Someone proceeded to try and rip me a new one, chastising me for having the gall to recommend purchasing a previous generation laptop. I said I owned an Intel HD 3000 MacBook Pro and even on that vs the Nvidia 320M MacBook Air, the Air performed better when it came to gaming.

He called me a liar, said it wasn't possible and that the HD 3000 chipset couldn't be the culprit. Here we are a year later, and I've been proven right countless times. I'm sure this is interesting to nobody, but it's nice to get a little vindication when someone was laying into you that hard.
Silver’s methods cannot possibly produce more reliable information than the official sources themselves. These are the savviest, highest inside sources. They are the strongest form of epistemological proof — a “case closed” in an argument against calculations and numbers.

Now where have I heard that before . . .