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"You do realize that the US has been intervening in Iran and Afghanistan for decades, right?"

Of course. That was more or less the point.

The U.S.-backed Shah of Iran (who was, let's make no mistake, an authoritarian dictator) was ejected and women's rights immediately took a profound backward step.

Do you deny it?
What's funny about this is that these techniques where already described in 2002 in the following book:

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-ActionScri...

I'm not proud of it but I did a lot Actionscript programming in those days and I find it really interesting that these techniques are still totally valid for Javascript.
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For what it's worth, this is how Ruby operates, as well - "a + b" is really "a.+(b)". In practice, it doesn't end up being very dangerous. Maybe it's just a community thing (the potential for abuse is certainly there), but it means that you get some really nice, natural-feeling code when you do need to use those overrides.
e.g. subtitles on movies, following instructions on computer games, googling stuff, reading books with parent (and looking again later without parent).

The general case is: pursuing something cool for its own sake is enhanced by learning language and other gateway knowledge i.e. knowledge which aids wider learning. No teaching or curriculum or testing or extrinsic motivation is required. Help is available. I'm not advocating neglect.

And there are the additional benefits of saving vast amounts of time and not damaging creativity.
I don't want to die of cancer. I don't think anyone does. How far do I need to go to argue in favor of proposing a change in the form of cancer prevention and/or treatment?

I think I can inductively argue that given a set of possible ways of dying or becoming incapable there will always be one or more candidates which everyone would be happy to see eliminated.

There are going to be downsides to increased lifespans, but it's hard to imagine anyone convincingly arguing at any given point in the future "we need to stop increasing lifespans because it's just too hard to get parking spots/nice beachfront land/tenure". Let's suppose hard limits are placed on procreation to offset increasing lifespan, would that be enough? Any restriction which allows people to have one or fewer children each (let's call having a child the old-fashioned way counts as each person making 0.5 children) will cap population — advanced countries drop below replacement without legal enforcement already.
So I guess Zennström and Friis of Skype fame aren't entrepreneurs?
I think idiomatic Scala code should be FP. And although you can just quite Java-esque code in a slightly more concise way in Scala; I do think that people are starting to see that Scala is more than that - it introduces new ideas and idioms.
They have great leaps forward, we have wars on drugs. They aren't allowed to know when their troops fire on civilians in Tienamen square, we aren't allow to know when our troops fire on civilians in another country.

They have celebrated massacres too...

We might write books about St Valentines but many fewer are written about the trail of tears, mainly because St Valentines serves a political purpose where as the trail of tears does not.

It's all "five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains"
Is that just with the CFLAGS, or did you include the Falcon patches?
I'm not anti-US or anti-west at all, but one could argue that it's some kind of modern slavery. US and KSA are allies (despite KSA being the #1 human rights violator), US profits from KSA's oil and because they buy billions of dollars of weapons from them, so for the US, a repressive government for KSA is much better than a democratic one.

Maybe if it wasn't for that fact, the Saudies weren't so rich and powerful, and those poor young Arabs, who for the most part like democracy as much as you do, could "rebel" against Saudies...
I completely disagree. Speed limits are not based when someone becomes a hazard to himself or others. A great many people can and do safely travel faster than the speed limit. Also I don't think that stray cats are a nuisance, and that they do in fact keep down the rodent population and are a generally healthy element of the urban ecosystem.

If you are in the US and want more cops in your community, you can make it happen by convincing enough people to vote for the necessary tax increases to hire more law enforcement. Alternatively, you could move to a gated community, many of which hire security guards, that you pay for, who will help take care of the stray cat problem - but you'll still have to contend with the speeders outside the gate.
Wow Canada has a similar population and political system as Australia but we only had 50 vs Australia's 523.

What's going on there?
Please read my other posts before making assumptions, accusations and generalizations.
That's a different argument. I think it's the likeliest route to immortality, if we ever get there. There wouldn't ever be a 'immortality, yes or no' referendum.
Ask your government what happend during the dustbowl years and what lifted the people out of starvation...

Ask them whether people starved to death because of crop failures or the agricultural policy of the new deal... then try to figure out why crops would be burned while people starved.
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The US backed militant jihadists when a movement usually known as "arab nationalism" was thriving in the region and had vast popular support. Arab nationalism was against current foreign policy of Saudi Arabia and was in fact pretty secular and very progressive for its time. The US didn't want them because "it waz teh commiez".

I thought that was a widely known fact... that was the time when the US backed the Taliban/Bin Laden, they actually made Rambo III about it.

So, actually, yes, I think there would most certainly be less oppression of woman if the US had backed out from middle east in the 70s. I think almost every serious historian/sociologist or layperson who knows about politics in that region would agree with me, I've actually spoke to many who do, even sociologists that study Islam and Middle East with CIA grants. What they definitely don't agree with me is basically how much what they call "political stability" in that region is worth.

TL, DR; Yes, I think if the US had backed out in the past there would be less oppression of woman. I think "the US" also thinks it, but they just don't care and want a stable regime so that oil prices don't fluctuate chaotically due to heavy speculation.

EDIT: Got four e-mails about this... If someone wants references, I was just compiling some but realized that Chapter 2 of Perilous Power by Chomsky/Achcar is most likely the best place to start. So sorry, no Wikipedia or newspaper article that accurately portrays what I'm trying to explain as an undisputed fact... get used to reading and debating a lot if you want to get into Middle East politics.
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Wear it, but not before putting it in a microwave oven for a minute on high.
"poor young Arabs, who for the most part like democracy as much as you do"

Evidence? That doesn't seem to be the way it's played out elsewhere in the region.
Thanks, yeah that was a bit of shame; I actually discovered logic programming through Clojure's core.logic. Definitely logic and probabilistic programming are some of the most useful DSL's that can be built. The power is there, it's perhaps the case that Prolog compilers have a much longer history of optimizations, so it might take a while to catch up even though core.logic has some convincing benchmarks too.

Another area is functional logic programming. I've played around with Curry, and it's great and it feels even better than just having a logic DSL. The way you can represent strongly typed bi-directional declarative regular expression parsers is simply magic.

It's an exciting decade for logic :).
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A religious defense only helps religious people. Worse though, it perpetuates the idea that certain classes of opinions are more worthy than others.

Clearly secular solutions are more valuable because they help everyone. I'm very tolerant of religious people finding safety under my umbrella even though I find their belief odious.
The issue is timescale. Yes, the atmosphere is (very slowly) stripped away by the solar wind, so we could not simply terraform it and forget about it. On the other hand, the timescale is very long by human standards, so as long as we produced new atmosphere at a rate faster than it is being stripped away, I don't see it being a fundamental problem. I could be wrong, of course.
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Apparently there were too many under-18s who looked over-21, many bars now advertise a policy of checks for anyone who looks under-25.
That's a general error, such as claiming there is no right to travel, or freedom of movement in general. You have the "sense" of rights backward.

The reason internal passports would be unconstitutional in America would be that the restriction of freedom of movement is not a power delegated to the federal government. That's why in the BoR it has words to the effect "this is not an exhaustive list of your rights."
Are you aware of the twitter backlash? Are you also trying to say that imprisoned women are quite happy or unaware of their situation? Religious restrictions don't make restrictions right, if they are opposed by force. Your comments above are rather tactless I'm afraid.
did anyone else notice one of the thing they said on the what's at stake page? I think this my be their hidden motivation for doing this.

"Other proposals would require services like YouTube, Facebook, and Skype to pay new tolls in order to reach people across borders."
The best one I've ever heard was AlgoMusic[0] on the Amiga by Thomas Schürger. I used to spend hours listening to it. And it was a pleasant surprise while searching for it now, to find out that the author has a brand new project called SoundHelix[1] that has all the awesomeness of AlgoMusic, and sounds even more incredible. You should listen to the examples[2].

[0]: http://aminet.net/package/mus/misc/AlgoMusic2_4

[1]: http://www.soundhelix.com/

[2]: http://www.soundhelix.com/audio-examples
Those might be good things in some cases, but usually not. In my area, stray cats are mostly beneficial and not overpopulated. Speeding by such a small amount is not usually dangerous, and drivers paranoid about overzealous speed enforcement are likely to focus too much attention on the speedometer and not enough on their environment.
> Passive CCTV is one thing. Massive spying on unrelated civilians is another.

By that you seem to be implying we don't have both
Im glad we are getting this out of the way on HN, super critical to define prefix and postfix operators. Maybe rename the site to slacker news? ALSO can we please not entertain stackoverflow tom foolery, kindergarten cop programming questions on HN?
Set aside national boundaries and what we're talking about is super-rich ultra-religious hypocrites, and Saudi Arabia sure has no monopoly on those. There are plenty of people in the US who'd happily roll back two hundred or more years of social progress for the great unwashed, and then send their daughters to Europe to get educated and Canada for abortions, and send their sons to Monte Carlo to have sex and gamble.
My point is that you can demonstrate the yes/no argument is winnable by induction.
Wow. The author never even asks whether requiring adult women to obtain permission to travel is right or wrong, he just points out how less onerous the electronic version of subjugation is (no need to worry about forgetting your papers ladies, your husband can grant you permission from his cell phone and government keeps track!)
Hans Rosling made an inspiring case for the washing machine being the greatest product of the industrial revolution in his Ted Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...
Maybe this is a good campaign maybe not, from the site though there's a huge problem of basically no details, references or data anywhere. How can 3 paragraphs without anything to back it up convince so many people to submit their names for something? Here's a link to one article I quickly found just looking for a perspective on this. http://www.brecorder.com/it-a-computers/206/1260960/

Anyone have others?
The BBC...when is the BBC going to "discover" the famine they caused in Ireland in the 1840s? I guess they're too busy digging up the Chinese..."commemorate Empire Day, when we try to remember the names of all those from the Sudbury area who so gallantly gave their lives to keep China British"...China had famines for thousands of years, including in the 20th century before the communists took over. The one they mention is their last one. The unusual thing is not the 1961 famine but that there have been no famines in China for a half century. Because the communists smashing the Four Olds and industrializing the country and kicking out the foreign imperialists got the country on track. Of course the British ignore the famines they cause, and dig up so-called famines by their former imperial conquests. China would not have had to industrialize so quickly if England was not threatening China from Hong Kong and so forth. That does not count of course. Thankfully, anti-imperialists are crashing into the US/UK all the time now, showing those hubris-filled imperialists who live by the sword shall feel the sword coming from the other end as well.
ASK HM: Why Trademark domain name? Supply.com vs Svpply.com
When i go to a website I see some have trademarked their domain name. My question is lets say Supply.com trademarked "Supply.com" would they be able to sue Svpply.com. Supply seems to me to be a generic word. Lets say they were both in the same space. This is all hypothetical. I ask because if someone bought Faceboook.com/Faceebook.com/Fadebook, then Facebook.com would be able to sue.

But since Supply is such a generic term could they really sue? again i only use this as an example because most people are probably familiar with Svpply.
Undemocratic and oppressive nature of mideast governments for millennia? Seriously? :)

I'm sensing a prejudicial subtext from your comment and other comments you made, that you think the governments and the people they represent, are incapable of producing prosperous and just societies.
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Just goes to show that the US government is not the only organization capable of crippling progress.
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Evidence is what happened in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, what's happening in Syria and also, most importantly, my personal experience (I live in Iran) and what happened 3 years ago here.

Please don't be fooled by the appearances - just because Morsi is being an asshole, Egypt parliament has banned porn websites or some cleric in Egypt says men can do XXX (some crazy thing), doesn't mean it was the will and wish of the Egyptian people. Do American people agree with everything US congress and president do?

But there's a big difference: in the US, you can disagree with them, argue about it, protest, hold a demonstration, and do anything you want to make your voice heard. Remember PIPA and SOPA? How many do you think were in favor of it? And it took the combined effort of Google/Facebook/Reddit/..., a 1-day internet blackout and millions of people mailing their senators to kill them.

Now, imagine the same thing happening in Egypt (before and after Mobarak) or KSA? Do you think people can freely protest?! What happened to those 99%-ers in US? (almost) nothing. What do you think will happen to people if/when they protest in KSA? Prison, torture, death.

That's why you don't hear as many complaints from Egyptians, Arabs, Chinese, Soviets (in the Cold War era, but even to some extent today in Russia), North Koreans or Cuban as you'd like. If the choice is to live in oppression, but live, or to die a gruesome death under torture, most people (understandably) choose the shitty live. But it doesn't mean they don't long for a better life.

And remember, you always (in any dispute, political or otherwise, anywhere in the world) hear the loudest, most extreme voice. Just because the loudest voice in KSA and Egypt is also the most backward, doesn't mean everyone agrees with it. Maybe they're the minority (population-wise) and can make their voice heard because they're rich/powerful!

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Edit: as an aside (and remember, I'm not at all anti-US, maybe quite the contrary), consider the "Civil Rights Act of 1964"[1]. Some Martian coming to Earth in 60's might think: "hey, those American were no different than Nazi fascist they fought in WWII. Black people couldn't use white people's bathrooms, or sit on 'White-only' seats on the bus? Couldn't even go to the same schools, or apply for the same jobs? That's fucked up." - It's fair to assume that American were/are racist based on that fact, but you and I know that it's not true. Most Americans were NOT in favor of segregation, not all of them approved of slavery, not all of them were racist... Yet, it took about 200 years after US independence for them to gain these right. Hell, 2008 was the first year that there was a possibility that the president might not be a white man (Hillary Clinton / Obama)! Does that mean American people (of today) are anti-woman or anti-black?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Millennia? You do realize democracy is a less-than-four-hundreds year old concept? At least in its modern sense, which I would like to think is the one you are referring to when speaking about women rights (i.e. "democracy" that abhors slavery/serfdom... those slave athenian woman definitely had no rights).
Noone in the UK cares about CCTV, I certainly don't and my friends don't either. The average person in the UK is seen 300 times per day[1] on CCTV and the number is probably higher now.

CCTV in the UK is essentially completely privatised anyway & thats even considering that the government run cameras to track car plates etc. Similarly, the government can request that the shop keeper etc hands over the CCTV footage but seriously who cares?!

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2071496.stm
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Is Google AppEngine down for all or just us? :-)
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There are some great examples of using book barcode loopups in Excel here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3903731/book-list-getting...
Right. 6 people in your anecdotal experience is a good rebuttal when compared with thousands of years of world history where there have been no problems finding people to do awful things. For the most obvious example, go to Germany in WWII.

No idea why the grandparent is being down voted.
What business does the Government have to fix the prices of a private company so arbitrarily like this? Surely this isn't constitutional?
To be fair, ever since China was inducted into the WTO, they have abandoned any pretense of running a communist system.

Their government now seems to have taken the worst parts of capitalism, and mixed it with the worst parts of socialism.
This is good and all, but it is also important to remember they depend on the "open web" so that they will still have a place where they can show their ads. Us spending most of our time in mobile applications is not in their interest as long as it isn't on their mobile platform with their mobile apps that collects data so that the earlier mentioned ads can more efficient.
Note the use of the words "can be". What's the trend of modern states? Is it towards limiting or increasing surveillance?
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much appreciated. At the moment, being happy feels like the natural thing to do.
I don't want either. I'd prefer more people took care of themselves. An armed society is a polite society.
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I can't make up my mind what's worse...KSA tracking women or France telling them what they can and can't wear
Ah, I'd forgotten it now mutated [[Prototype]] and not the prototype property's [[Prototype]] (IIRC, earlier drafts had it mutating the latter, i.e., `SubClass.prototype.__proto__`).

`super` is indeed new semantics though, so that is definitely true.
Japan is certainly having problems, but I would treat this article with a grain of salt.

The author comes off as yet another entitled-yet-clueless gaijin-inna-bubble. The people he talked to are essentially the "parasite class", who spend lots of money on things like BMWs and aping American lifestyles; they're not representative of most Japanese.

[A blog called "modernmarketingjapan" doesn't exactly inspire confidence either...]
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What stories (good or bad) do you have from Black Friday, either as a customer or an employee?
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"An armed society is a polite society."

Do you really believe this platitude? On a purely logical level, there are so many counterexamples that one has to be embarrassed to state it as fact.
>An armed society is a polite society.

Is the subtext of this statement "An armed society is a polite society because rude people get shot"?
I respectfully disagree. Although, this only refers to the government...well schools are government too lol...but you know what I'm getting at, I would think that whether it's the school or the government would yield no major differences in the outcome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones_(2012)

...Although if the device only tracks around the school and not 24-hour...that's another layer to be considered. Very complicated matter from a legal standpoint. As for my personal ethics, I'd tell my daughter to take it off.
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The situation in Taiwan isn't quite that rosy I don't think.

The result of the examination system (which, FWIW, is not unique to Taiwan) is that high school kids routinely spend 12+ hours each day schooling. When they're not at public school, they're at private cram schools, and success in the exams certainly haven't been democratized for those who cannot afford the extra, private help to get ahead.

So sure, it isn't corrupt, but the integrity of the examination system doesn't mean egalitarianism, not by a long shot.
Or things like killing the idea of net neutrality, and allowing ISP's to charge for "premium services" like watching videos and using P2P technology:

http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/proposal-for-ict-and-i...

Surprisingly enough, this proposal from ITU comes just a few months after this:

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/isps-ask-itunet-neutral...
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