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What doesn't "taste good"? Almost all modern food is Genetically Modified at some level, all meat has hormones as well so not sure specifically what constitues tasting good with that.

Are you saying hormones make things taste bad? Have you blind A-B tested that assumption? Same for "GM" food? Also what exactly is constituted as GM? Is Corn a GM food or still "natural" because we just used selective pressure and chose what populations of maize was able to continue to the next iteration?

To be honest the Sturm und Drang over GM foods while seeminly well meaning seems to belie similarities to the climate change deniers. If humans do it it somehow is implicitly bad, but almost all modern food isn't "natural", assuming we define natural as without impact from humanity. (yes the link is tenuous, but its similar to zombie stories being tales of human hubris gone awry, and alien invasions being worries of the unknown. GM being our hubris, climate change being fear of the unknown or inability to be able to control our future)

If the arguments against GM for example are against terminator genes, sure valid, but even if those genes spread, I doubt they'll get selected for too long in the wild.

In addition, without the option of GM foods, how does everyone propose we feed an ever increasing population of humans without impacting the environment any more than we already have? I personally foresee insects and other alternative protein sources as an inevitability. What is being proposed as alternatives that will scale to the sizes we need? I'm honestly curious here despite how the tone of my post might come off but anti GM foods in general strikes me as the same strain of anti-science as anti-climate change. Sure be conservative with changes, but most GM is pretty mundane.
Actually, if you go to reddit.com/login directly, you get http://reddit.com/login, not https://reddit.com/login, which means anyone can forge the login page. This is the problem HSTS was designed to be a bandaid for, but reddit doesn't use it:

# curl -i reddit.com/login
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: AkamaiGHost
Content-Length: 0
Location: http://www.reddit.com/login
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:50:13 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

# curl -i www.reddit.com/login
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Length: 0
Location: https://ssl.reddit.com/login
Cache-Control: no-cache
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:50:24 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
There are podcasts that relate to specific technologies. I listen to Ruby5 and RubyRogues.
You should re-read the essay.

You may think you've never used drugs but you have, you just don't understand the meaning of the word.

I'd try and think of "drugs" less like substances and more like vices. If you've ever used a vice to help yourself emotionally or physically you've taken drugs.
An important part of bringing people back to an interactive web is to do away with the 'browser' concept and bring back symmetrical web clients.

I still actively use the SeaMonkey web browser, and a big part of the reason I do is it still has an integrated WYSIWYG HTML composer component. I have an 'edit' action item for any web page I visit, and cut-and-past capability between browser and composer windows.

Hosting a website permanently is just a matter of getting an account on freeshell.org and setting up your ~/html directory to face the web. If you want a decent amount of space and the ability to use the PHP and MySQL backend, you can make a one time donation of ~30 dollars (can't remember the exact amount) for a lifetime upgrade.
From what I've heard about German employment law, wouldn't you need to form a "work council" and fight with yourself? ;)
To a substance, the soul, not a deity. And that, actually, is an answer.
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Supplementary: The 3D Printed Occulus Rift killer.

http://www.durovis.com/index.html
League of Legends uses a matchmaking system. You queue for a match and it automatically finds an available game for you to play. I think all the MOBA genre games use a queuing system.
This is a nifty product, and a surprisingly elegant and low-tech solution to the problem of how to allow free movement while in VR.

I had beers a week or two ago with the project founder (really friendly guy!) and he's looking for software developers to help create an awesome SDK. Get in touch with him if you're interested--it's a really cool project!
That was a fantastic response.
His passport was cancelled before he left Hong Kong and arrived in Russia. Hong Kong said they didn't receive the update or something. I imagine they were happy to just have him out of their country.
If you've had a beer, or a cup of coffee, you've tried mind altering drugs.

That was part of the point of the article.
Not quite what I meant by my comment...

I meant the 1% problem being almost a validation for btc, in the whole "things change but they stay the same" vein.

[EDIT] - While the article does indeed discuss doing something about it/focusing on the 1% problem, I was not surprised by their findings -- hoarders gonna hoard.
One thing that doesn't often get mentioned is that a Pi is a pretty decent way to play around with Risc Os. Probably better than digging up some old Archimedes/RiscPC or the overpriced replacement machines.
OR just fix a very bright smartphone on the dashboard. It works.
I have personally experienced both spectrums with my psychedelic experiences.

One positive experience involved me sitting on a hill near a road only to get lost in a the almost musical sound of cars whooshing by. Afterwards I returned to my apartment and experienced amazing closed eye visuals of some kind of fused technological/organic robots trees. The onset was seeing the walls of my apartment melt before my very eyes.

One negative experience involved me pacing back and forth furiously in my apartment for hours while crying hysterically. If felt as if the weight of everything (good or bad) humanity has done and would do in the future was crushing me. I think tripping alone may have added to this experience.
No system of ethics can be 100% perfectly self-consistent in a mathematical sense. And no legal system can remove ambiguity from human interactions, there will always be fuzzy gray areas which require subjective interpretation.

Consider something very straightforward such as the notion that using violence is never allowed except in utmost self-defense. Firstly, it's not possible to determine the circumstances of an event without doubt. Secondly, it's similarly difficult to determine intent and motivation, being internal to the human mind, which means that it's impossible to prove in every case whether or not a perceived attacker actually meant to hurt or kill someone and whether or not someone alleged to be defending themselves perceived such a threat and acted only to defend themselves. And going back to the first point, even if violence were completely outlawed it would be difficult in many cases to rule out an accidental cause of death vs. an intentional cause. There's simply no way to divorce justice from subjective judgment (of both the facts and the intent).

Additionally, the attempt to divorce the law from society, to make it a separate edifice independent of human beings, is itself a very dangerous idea. To the extent that such a thing is possible it would mean the ability to mold mankind into whatever form you desired, through the force of external law.
Millions of people make digital art in their bedrooms. Demoscene, deviantart, 3D abstracts, threadless, processing were full of people who weren't old enough to be in art schools.

Plenty are as prepared creatively as art school graduates. Seems that it depends on what your peers appreciate, how good they are, how high their standards are. In some art schools you may end up in a less skilled group just like on some internet cliques/forums.
> a data cold war, where all governments are spying on everyone

One of the least discussed topics in this whole cyber-security fiasco is the issue of the exploit industry: hackers and hacker collectives buy, sell, and trade software exploits between each-other and state governments.

This flies in the face of actual security in that software corporations and state governments purchase exploits in order to buy a hacker's silence (preventing the sale the same exploit to competitors) or clandestine operations. How do you think the NSA (et al) hacked into various computer systems across the world? They've got a stockpile of zero-day exploits.

This stockpile of zero-day exploits is similar to the previous cold war's stockpile of nuclear warheads: it reinforces MAD (mutually-assured destruction). We lived through a little over half a century under the fear of nuclear warfare, do we want to endure the same threat in the 21st century?
True Grit in Education -- Prof. Angela Duckworth
A lot of higher level languages abstract away the fundamental implementation details and provide a lot more scaffolding than C.

So something that might be a couple of lines of Python or Ruby (just remember the library and the method calls), could wind up being a more interesting problem in C.
Where am I meant to make the logical leap to "this is a bad thing"? Keeping a cow healthy prior to it being slaughtered seems like a good thing, as far as I can tell, and I don't know of any great evils coming from corn feed, other than the increased land and water cost. The use of antibiotics is something I have my own concerns on, but I fail to see what it has to do with GMO rice and feeding cows corn.
All cows that aren't slaughtered end up dying from disease or old age. Antibiotics prevent the spread of disease and aren't harmful in and of themselves, but their overuse can lead to resistant bacteria. And I'm not sure why you'd have a problem with genetically modified rice if it would increase the food supply safely. ll of these things have been relatively well studied and there appears to be no evidence to support any indication that this these practices are harmful to humans.

There are so many people that take a fearful view without evidence, but such fears are scientifically unfounded.

Also, movies and TV aren't necessarily great sources of information. They're entertainment first and foremost, and to put it charitably, not always especially factually accurate.
That I am not sure of. At least, until now, I didn't think that it was likely for them to be checking up on that or to have that data. Now, even though I know they have the data, it seems unlikely to me that they would use it for something as inconsequential as enforcing this policy.
My analysis: the time period in which a civilization goes from "present" to "owning the observable universe, rearranging the stars" is short. The first civilization sees an empty sky. The second sees red-glowing stars tapped for all their negentropy, Shkadov thrusters rearranging them, and probes whizzing from star to star, disassembling them for usable mass and building computronium.

My conclusion is, if you don't see that, you're the first.
That sounds like a great idea.

EDIT: NetBSD does support the -a flag (since version 1.23 of mail in 2006) but OpenBSD and FreeBSD doesn't. Good to know.
No, he's reacting to allegations about direct ties to Palintir, and failing to respond to the criticism of such a surveillance program.
He's right--you're just not talking about the same thing. You're saying that if somebody forges a non-HTTPS page so that it doesn't POST to the original secure page, then you can trivially intercept the credentials, and you're absolutely right. But pietro is also correct that if a non-HTTPS page that POSTs to a HTTPS page isn't manipulated, then yes, the POST contents will be encrypted--but the fact that that doesn't matter if you can manipulate the connection is clearly a problem, one HSTS is intended to alleviate.
>> Although, I do realize that this is just another: "Come on, marijuana is not any worse than alcohol" style argument. And for that singular case I would say: yeah sure your case holds up alright.

NO, It is absolutely not a "come on MJ is no worse that alcohol" argument. I'm not even making an argument here, I'm trying to tell you about the relative harms of alcohol, which you asked about.

The addiction potential, short term and long term physical harm profiles for alcohol are much worse than for things like ecstasy, LSD and various others.

I'm not trying to make an ideological point here. I'm not arguing for legalisation of everything, I'm not arguing at all. I'm just trying to answer your question, but you seem to want to cling to denial.
My point is that there is no intrinsic meaning in the bits that make the computer I am using right now. It's all atoms. The causal connections that transform my typing on a keyboard to pixels on the screen, it's all physics.

The same way, the brain is a whole made of parts. They may be causally interconnected, but just that. You have different physical states over time, and in different parts of the brain. But understanding and awareness and phenomenological experiences are not there. Or, better said, it's puzzling to see how they are there when there's no clue of how they occur.
I can't say but whenever I hear about something that 'defies' theory [n] I like to take a moment and. Imagine that the anomaly in question was constructed by unimaginably developed beings. Of plasma, computronium and other unmet exotic concepts. Powered by rainbows of gamma radiation from stars coerced into the bellies of super-massive black holes.

Then I tidily put away the thought because I know it is not even falsifiable, I don't bother assigning probabilities like unlikely. But the short moment (following such news) of delight at contemplating exotic entities so foreign, that words like conscious and alive are inapplicable is a healthy pastime I much enjoy.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/130111-quasa...
Udacity is partnering with Georgia Tech to offer their online masters: http://www.cseprograms.gatech.edu/distancelearning
An anti-GMO comment is the top comment on a story about US spying? This place is starting to veer into Alex Jones territory.
Discover company's vision from commercial
Yeah, that confused the crap out of me. I opened the paper and started reading the abstract, and was still confused. Took a lot of flipping through it to realize that it has something to do with molecular bonds and protein folding, maybe. :)
> So what hypothesis could support billions of iterations of 'life' evolving into the multicellular form we see today and in our past, and so few evolving technology?

Probably just a function of environmental input and enough generations optimizing along directions that matter more for species propagation than a large, energy burning cognitive organ. Keep in mind, it appears that Human level intelligence seems to have (so far) only evolved maybe a handful of time maximum in planetary history...and AFAWK only along a fairly specific mammalian family line that happened to live on part of the planet with fairly specific thermal/environmental and energy availability properties.

On a planet slightly warmer than the Earth, the dominant species might be selected to have heat management organs we're not even aware of; or a planet with more landmass vs. ocean, the ability to handle dry climates; or a planet with two moons and higher gravity an efficient metabolism and ambulatory system...some kind of reptilian slug perhaps?

Are savannas necessary to culture space faringness? Or could a planet with no moons, shotgunned with equally dispersed Guam sized islands provide the necessary conditions?

It's useless, but an incredibly fun thought experiment.
I don't have evidence that hormones in beef affect humans. Do you have evidence that they don't? Personally I would rather not eat it without such evidence.

I just quickly googled and found this on the website of the American Public Health Association:
"By contrast, the US government position is that hormone residues in beef from adult cattle pose no threat to human health. This assumption of safety, however, has remained untested by long-term epidemiologic studies and instead relies on dated research concerning the ability of estrogen (estradiol) to mutate genes. This policy fails to reflect more recent research that hormones and hormonally active chemicals may exert their toxicity instead via epigenetic changes.12,23"

Source: http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm...
Upvoted you because I find it humorous that so many go off the defensive deep end with regard to your little joke.

My own opinion regarding the matter is that there are plenty of mind and body altering effects that we encounter every day. I'm a chemical engineer, and anyone who is involved with chemistry or biology can tell you that all but the simplest mechanisms are difficult to understand. There can be repercussions you would never predict from some compound. Heck, even ordinary food items (high fructose corn syrup, margarine) are constantly under debate because of the unknown long-term effects. With a system as complex as the human body, it's difficult to tell what subtle effects may exist.

But you can't avoid it. As a whole, people are living longer and healthier than they were in the past (well, maybe that second point is debatable in some countries). I think the best philosophy is to weigh the risks and go with what you ultimately think will be the best route for yourself. Someone who has terminal cancer may be willing to try a new drug that isn't well understood at all, but that's because the possible benefits far outweigh any risk.

So it comes down to an individual decision of what you find to be an acceptable risk. And I think it should be a right to make personal decisions like that. For me personally, I'm not going to try illegal drugs because I believe they have a higher probability of causing negative long term effects. Do they actually? Who knows; you could debate this ad nauseum. And science isn't anywhere near a stage to definitively confirm or refute it. But it's not a risk I'm interested in taking. In fact, I find it funny that out of all the unconventional things that Feynman tried in his life, the thing that embarrassed him was the time he tried LSD (he was worried about any unknown effects it might have on his brain).
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This is not a moral gray area. The NSA is the government breaking its laws, throwing off its checks, and establishing tyranny. The other issues that have been brought up in this thread (gay rights, abortion) are pittances as a people we humbly request of the government.
No, I clearly understood what he meant by "drug". In fact another comment I made on here elaborates on that usage.

But he specifically mentioned alcohol and marijuana, to which I was referring.
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Exactly, unless the cars already drive themselves, this would always be considered dangerously distracting in the best case scenario.
The difference is that simonster actually presented facts, while your post was just "nu-uh".
The the government's claims of transparency and audibility of the NSA's PRISM program is analogous (if not directly related) to the claims of Palantir's. Search for "immutable auditing" below:

http://www.palantir.com/wp-content/static/pg-analysis-blog/2...

But even with such an audit trail to the core, it is known that it isn't sufficient:

http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~accorsi/papers/imf09....

I wager that for any given system that touts immutable audibility, there is a way to hack around it. Privacy through automated means is impossible. At best it is a kind of DRM that the NSA can easily work around secretly if it wanted it. What we should be advocating instead is Perfect Forward Secrecy in our internet architecture, and the dismantling of PRISM and related data centers.
Pretty cool, next up use a Raspberry Pi with a pico projector and you've got all the data you ever wanted to distract you :-). I've noticed that some of the HUDs on the market actually put the display fairly low on the windshield so it is above what you would normally consider the dashboard but in terms of what it is obstructing in the view its where your eyes would be looking at the hood of the car.
Supporting whistleblowers is not sticking your head in the sand.

The PRISM program & Palantir's products do not give YOU any transparency into anything.
This is such a dumb argument. People say "drug" isn't a meaningful classification because it mixes different categories of substances, and in the next sentence they're equating coffee with LSD, apparently to defend the use of the latter.
No, it's how strongly people object to your dismissal of a couple of great scientists expressing an appreciation of LSD as somehow false, and your assertions that you obviously know better than them.

A dismissal, I might add, with absolutely no argument behind it, simply an arrogant statement.
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> That was part of the point of the article.

Yes, it was. But that wasn't the point of the paragraph I was referring to. Shall I cite it?
More governments have probably been complicit with the US in one way or another, perhaps in exchange for aid in spying on their own people or other countries.
I may not be able to speak for anybody else but I find the GMO debate has many parties with multiple (even conflicting) goals. Personally the primary opposition I have with GMO is the very murky patent environment. It's no secret that Monsanto engages in patent warfare and manipulates legal systems across the world to stamp out competition.

GMO foods can bring about a revolution to the world because it's an interesting intersection between engineering and biology.
I see. The dog whistle hadn't registered with me until I read your comment, so I probably attributed some of my distaste of it to you. Sorry.
i would like to try lsd, but i don't know of a safe, reliable, legal way of doing so. it just occurred to me that perhaps someone here might?
So you have never had a cup of coffee or tea? I'm not aware of any adult I personally know who hasn't partaken of some substance that alters perception in some way. Though no doubt such individuals exist, such a state of absolute abstinence is not something I'd think of imposing on my children.

Take into account the actual effects and remove social stigma and legal ramifications, and the substances I'd be ok with for my children would be different than current norms.

Also, I've known quite a few people who have never had a drink, smoked pot, etc., and I respect their desires. Bit even they drank coffee or tea, or used other substances that alter mood or perception.
If you follow Alex3917's link, you'll see he argues that Nutt is intellectually dishonest. That's of course different than being regular dishonest (i.e. fraudulent).
I remember when Google came out and vividly remember what was different. It was the UI. It was clean, sparse and without any ads.

For me the search results were across the board worse than Altavista but better specifically in searching API documentation.
Well, you could extend your argument to state that one of the most important things in Van Gogh's life was to sever his own ear and hand it to a prostitute. Therefore, those who wish to become good painters ought to sever their ear. The fallacy in your argument is simply:
"person x has done y, which led them to achievement z. therefore, if you do y, you will also achieve z, because person x had done so."
I don't think this is a good way of refuting the parent comment, as disingenuous as it is.