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So, that seems like a reasonable answer, but historically that wasn't sufficient for me. When I was an HSBC customer in college a few years back, I had disabled overdrafting because I did not want to receive overdraft fees and, in a pinch, I could use a credit card if my charge was declined.

One day I checked my account and discovered that I had accrued a number of overdraft fees. Apparently sometimes merchants (namely gas stations) will put a temporary charge of a dollar against your credit card, then later correct the charge to the correct price. This caused my account to overdraft as HSBC didn't deny the correction, then with my account overdrafted as of the date in question, all subsequent valid charges I had done against the account assuming a one dollar gas charge were made as overdraft charges. Contacting customer service and reminding them that I had in fact disabled overdraft was not enough to convince them of anything other than giving me a one-time partial credit of fees, so I switched banks.

I don't know if that is still how things are done over at HSBC, but ultimately the point is that disabling overdrafting is not some panacea for the problem, as ultimately there are situations that can still get you in trouble.
I compiled many FreeBSD kernels on a Pentium (no bloody Pro, II, III, or 4). That took long enough, but was several times faster than a 386.
I'm not sure if sarcasm, but I have issues with defining "EVIL" as "removing a feature to allow custom streaming". I also have issues considering falling down the stairs an "EPIC" fail, or reading companies looking for SUPERSTAR NINJA programmers, or things that are LITERALLY the worse ever happened to someone.
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The United States uses 39% of the energy it produces, wastes 61%...
Your first points should really be addressing active Terahertz radiation and its effects on living things. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation

The summary is that we don't know enough about terahertz radiation to draw any solid conclusions yet, and there is at least one reputable source pondering, "How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA": http://www.technologyreview.com/view/416066/how-terahertz-wa...

Do you know how much power is emitted by the terahertz-wave scanner as two antennas are swept across your mid-section in close proximity?

Here are some responses to your other points about mm-wave:

Passive mm-wave scanners do not produce radiation

Passive mm-wave scanners are not used in airports and not relevant to this discussion.

You'll pick up far more radiation on the flight itself at a fairly low 5 mrem (50 µSv)

Also, irrelevant as the xray body scanners have largely been removed from US airports due to their safety concerns. The EU has also banned the use of those scanners. The study that you cite is for radiation applied to the entire body mass, while the xray body scanners applied all of the ionizing radiation only to the outer layer of the body (skin + some bones + male reproductive organs + brain).
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It's interesting that you can almost always spot the university areas in a city on this map by looking for the cluster of asians.
You don't appear to know very much about either science as practiced, or the current state of psychological research. Just the idea that there is no room in science for making, repeating and reporting observations is wrong. Much of science is absent of grand attempts to explain observations in the context of known theories.

Also, have you read the paper in question, or are you judging it from a press release and/or journalist's summary?
I've not seen that at any UK or US airport I've been through. Stuff just goes through on a conveyor belt, and sits at the end for the passengers to pick up. It's struck me how easy it would be for someone to swipe a phone or wallet while it's sitting there, though I've never seen that happen.
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> The problem is that we are seriously limited in what we can actually do/use if we base psychology entirely on this premise.

Yes, that's true, but current events suggest that the remedy is not to claim that psychology is scientific on dubious grounds, but instead to shift focus to neuroscience, see where a more biological approach will take us. This happens to be the NIMH director's view as well.

> We haven't fully mapped out the brain, we don't know about all the neurotransmitters out there, and we don't even know what fMRI shows us exactly, so we gotta be realistic with our expectations given our current limitations.

But that's not psychology, that's neuroscience. Psychology is the study of the mind, not the brain, and the mind is not accessible to brain scanners.

> ... however the past thread I linked to makes me weary about pursuing this discussion further.

Perfectly understandable. In any case, recent events like the NIMH director's decision to phase out the DSM make anything we choose to say rather unimportant.
As far as I understand this tool works at higher level - with directories and files.

I will try to explain the concept less accurately. For example, you have your favorite os versioned in git. (kernel, x server, apps, init daemon, session management...). This tool will take all the stuff, compile it, will create directory structure and place binaries to appropriate places. In the end it will create bootable directory structure (filesystem tree) to that you can chroot. But maybe you want to test different revision of systemd. So ostree will take chosen revision from git, compile it, add binaries to filesystem while preserve old structure. It will add only new things that are different. Both verisons will be bootable. It's basically binary mapping of git tree.
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Actually, most warning implementations punish those users that disable cookies in their browsers by forcing them to see the obnoxious warning every time they visit the site.

This is arguably worse than the previous situation.
Oh, my apologies, I misread. I thought you were bringin up that usual argument that libertarians think all people are rational...

But answering your question, no libertarians don't necessarily assume there's just a state and everyone else. However they emphasize state so much because of its violent and deceiving nature. Corporations are there to make money. It's explicit, everyone knows this. May not be pretty and corporations may be greedy from someone's standpoint of view (although, what is greed, really?), but they don't lie. And everyone also has the freedom to buy or not to buy certain things they offer.

State, on the other hand, pretends to serve public interests, but actually serves private interests. It also extracts taxes from people with a threat of force and then pretends it gives things for free! But who's gonna build the roads, they say! So, in a nutshell, this combination of force and deceit makes state a very undesirable institution.
Actually, IMVHO, people still should run custom kernels because otherwise they turn into sissies who waste hours switching distributions every time they hit a driver bug.
With GIF one have to create multiple versions of the same image for different backgrounds. APNG works nicely on any background.
Once upon a time, I learned to play the game Go.

One of the key insights I took away was that if you directly attacked an enemy in a weak area, the enemy would defend in that area, making him strong there. Almost always you would end up with an impenetrable wall on both sides.

There's an art to pressing your advantage in an area without making it an 'attack'.

(In the end, I never really got that good and haven't played for years, so actual good Go players may find my insight pretty naive.)
That's certainly a fair point, but would you say that there are axes of diversity in European cities that have properties similar to racial delineations in the U.S.? That is to say, political tensions arising from economic disparity as well as strong cohesion within distinct social groups?

I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of European social conflict, but I don't imagine there is a lot of catholic versus protestant tension in say London, nor do I imagine there are persistent and massive socioeconomic disparities between the two groups in London (or at least nothing comparable to the more than factor of 2x disparity between blacks and whites I cited for Chicago).

And running with your example, what do you imagine would have been the political situation in the U.K. if say London had consisted of 60-70% Irish nationalist Catholics in 1985?

Or is there still discrimination within categories of whites? Are Londoners whose families originally hail from say Poland still dramatically disadvantaged compared to ones who can trace their origins in England for centuries? And if so, what would the politics be in the U.K. if London consisted of 60-70% of these hypothetical disadvantaged poles?
I know it is silly, but its weird to see this post in the light of Bezos as owner of this publication. He is not exactly neutral on this topic. AWS competes with Azure.
According to the CFPB, The banking industry charged a total of $32 billion in overdraft fees to consumers in 2012, an increase of more than 60% from $19.9B in 1990. Part of this increase is that banks have been turning the screws on consumers, increasing the average overdraft fee from $27 in 2007 to $34 today.

Those fee increases would be more acceptable if they went to cover the costs associated with those transactions. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Only 14% of the average fee goes toward the cost over covering the overdraft, meaning that 86% of the average overdraft fee is pure profit for the bank.

Collusion sucks and keeps the amount that consumers shell out unnaturally high. Anybody that would compete on price gets bought, eventually, by one the big banks (Chase, BoA, Wells Fargo, etc) because they're just buying customers. Your small-town bank that offered cheap checking gets bought by big bad Chase and now you have to pay $35.00 for overdrafts, ad nauseum.

Something similar is happening right now with collusion between payments processors (like WePay, Stripe, Balanced) and those same big banks regarding Interchange, "processing fees", etc. The Durbin Amendment, which the author mentioned briefly (but with an outdated reference) was a start in the right direction but there's still a long way to go. More on the Durbin Amendment: http://ink.hackeress.com/2013/08/its-time-for-price-war-in-p...
> That's false. Psycholgists and psychiatrists do not craft or test falsifiable scientific theories -- they publish descriptions without explanations.

You know nothing about the current state of psychological research and should stop posting.
This is needlessly burdening the customer, which in my opinion is the textbook definition of bad customer service. The days of hand-written checks in the consumer space are largely gone; and the bank knows at any given moment what the customer's current account balance is and which transactions are pending. Permitting a card-based withdrawal or debit request that the bank already knows is likely to result in an NSF at settlement time is both misleading and adversarial to the customer.

This entire issue would grind to a halt immediately if banks properly denied debit requests when permitting them would yield an NSF.
I think the author of this site is a tad bit too optimistic regarding the advancements in code development, that are waiting for us in the future. Code writing tools or new input devices, maybe some other paradigm shift.
"Public Understanding of Science" has been a big issue for several decades (maybe even longer?), but I think we'll see progress towards "Public Understand of Cryptography," or at least I hope so :)

It goes deeper than just using some PGP client. You need to understand how it works, to be sure that the bits coming out of your network are encrypted, and only you and Alice know how to decrypt them.
So, let's dispense with the bill of rights, and let innocent people falsely accused of crimes come up with their own solution, 'cause we don't want to protect criminals' rights?
In Factor, code is data. Remember, though, that there are many sources of goodness in a language. As for your actual question, I decided to write a stack-based language because:

• They can be implemented very efficiently on real hardware. The stack-based VM is well established as an implementation technique for non–stack-based languages.

• Like in Lisp, the simple structure makes them suitable for useful visualisations beyond the program text. Static typing creates even more cool possibilities for such analysis.

• There is fertile ground for new research, and applying existing theory to these languages for the first time—particularly type and effect systems.

• It’s just a lot of fun. :)
It's the most nostalgic form of recursion I have ever experienced!
Xbox/Bing/Hotmail might have a hard time staying afloat w/o the profits from Windows/Enterprise/Office.
Perhaps Microsoft should break up - but there's a lot of wishful thinking in there. Windows RT would beat Android in tablets if it were its own company? How? It couldn't do that with billions of dollars behind it.
Sorry, but I just don't see it. All I see is a complaint and a demand for a feature. IMO, that's not entitlement. Entitlement would use words like "owe" and "responsibility".
I go much faster when I'm typing what I'm thinking than when copying text, especially if it is a text that I have no clue about or in a language that is not native or near native to me. Given a typing test in French, German or Spanish I would probably fail miserably. But typing rarely involves copying text and rarely involves writing in languages that you don't know.
hmm...no love for django here.
There's just so much wrong with your short little comment here, I've rewritten my own comment four or five times trying to capture it all. Here's the bulleted list:

* Yes, I really do want to fill my company with people who want to be there 24x7, for many reasons, least of which are the fact that such people exist in large quantities, and while it's not a guarantee they'll put in more work-per-dollar, it's a safe bet that they will.

* If what you're saying were true about "sole traders", then Google, Stripe, and all the companies who play these "rediculous parlor games" would not be staffed, and yet they are. So clearly, that's an inaccurate prediction.

* Your girlfriend listed professions which come with multi-year vetting built-into the system. No such system exists for programmers, especially, considering some of your best talent is going to have dropped out of college. When you get an applicant for a software dev position, they could be effectively anybody.

If you're not willing to play the game at the level other folks are playing, you will need to bring something else to the table to compensate. That's that.
I built a new kernel yesterday. Modern distros streamline the task a great deal.
RMS, is that you? :)
Yeah, it’s possible, obviously. Especially if you are young and alone and look a certain way – but the way the German police does racial profiling is very obvious. And since I’m white and apparently look harmless to the police they just completely ignore me. I just don’t really have to worry about this. Ok, maybe the police will stop me the next time I’m in a train station and I will miss my train – but who cares? That would still be a very rare event for me. In practice I don’t even have to think about it. Something I’m pretty sure wouldn’t be the case if I looked differently.

During the last 25 years of my life I had exactly two run-ins with the police, one traffic stop (all I had to say that I didn’t drink any alcohol and they let me drive on – I didn’t even have to leave the car) and one time I was jaywalking (the police was hiding right at the pedestrian crossing, I had to pay a €5 fine).
> If you like I might write about it here.

I'd be interested, public or private. I'm working on such an idea myself, though as a person, I'm ill-suited for actually getting it to work.

> Hackers have a much bigger role to play in modern civics, in my opinion, than they currently have.

Than they've currently taken. They do. This is one of the reasons "everyone should learn programming" is actually a good policy; even if they're not experts, they can take data and draw conclusions.

Another thing we need is stronger collaboration infrastructure. The NSA got themselves that shiny new Utah datacenter which can apparently hold all the data in the world. (That's probably an exaggeration.) Why wasn't that money spent on improving citizens' ability to communicate with each other? Our discussion tools are extremely weak. I wish I could give better specs, but if I could, I'd be building it.

> We need to be writing open-source software platforms for city, state and even federal governments and putting them on github.

Being a politician doesn't actually preclude you from doing this.

> There is one policy change I think is very important: put limits on the complexity of law, and end what I call "The Tyranny of Complexity" (a take on Mill's "Tyranny of the Majority").

I think it'd be interesting if someone could figure out an algorithmic way to rate the complexity of laws. I recently came up with the notion of a body that would at least garbage-collect law by checking for rulings of unconstitutionality and just writing a repeal for submission, but I assume the idea has problems I haven't figured out yet.

Without such a standard, it'd be difficult to objectively determine over-complexity.
A 5 hour interview process, is "a lot of effort"?
If you want download options (AI, SVG, etc.) and the other ColourLovers features you can copy the palette ID from the URL http://pltts.me/palettes/92095 and drop it into the ColourLovers URL http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/92095

Edit: I do feel like a link to the CL page on palettes would be nice, but I certainly (think) I understand why it isn't there.
Very good point. Mutation is extremely useful when birthing a new data structure; this is a time when it's not yet visible to the rest of the system so the danger of sharing intermediate state does not occur. Clojure has a very elegant facility for dealing with this particular scenario:

http://clojure.org/transients
This argument doesn't make any sense. They cannot buy it.

The smart thing to do would be to treat that as free advertising, and to milk the outrage to get good PR in markets that can buy it.

Also, try going freemium, with ads.

I.e. you can't really control what other people do, but you can accept reality and look for a way to turn it to your advantage.
Yeah, if you're getting paid to create it. If you're a starving artist, then society doesn't pay you because you're not solving a real problem.
AFAIK there are two common types of long-term disability policy:

1. You are covered if you can't do your current job.
2. You are covered if you can't do any job.

Every employer who has ever offered me this benefit offered the second version, which is great, but it certainly won't help replace my current income if I can't perform the job I have now.
I thought the dragon analogy was a mess too. I would much rather be in control the dragon's food supply than be the most recent person to move to the next village the dragon burned.
Do you have any plans to open source this for people who wants to install Moot on their own server? As a forum junkie, I'm excited about Moot, but I hope you do understand that to be successful as a platform you have to give the option to self-host :)
Remember that every division with the exception of Windows + Office has a hard time turning a consistent profit.

XBox (independent) vs. Sony, Android and Apple is a losing proposition, they may as well sell the division. In a high-stakes game like that, you need a parent company with deep, deep pockets.

Windows independent of Office is worthless. There's virtually no reason to use Windows apart from the Office infrastructure built around it, or the entrenched base Visual Studio developers. It's somewhat popular as a gaming platform, but as Linux starts to be reshaped into a first-class gaming operating system, that will quickly become a non-factor.

The online division is the most troubled, basically a black-hole for money. Surely it could be made profitable, or simply sold for a massive chunk of cash to someone like Yahoo! who could afford to pick it up.

It's not that the divisions would do better independently, but they're part of a highly dysfunctional family that cannot survive independently.
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Oh, i don't know. He turned out 50% right.
> You need to travel more.

Hehe, that's funny.
However, if you do Ireland -> UK -> EU, you'll most likely only see passport control between UK & EU.

Passport controls aren't technically necessary between the UK & Ireland, but few airports in Ireland are architected to treat ingress differently. (I suspect in at least one case, they've actually gone backwards, as the domestic channel was repurposed for the US "ingress before you fly" method.)

If you do the same trip in reverse, you're less likely to see passport controls entering the UK, as most larger airports are architected around domestic & International travel - Irish flights are usually landed as domestic.
Is it stupid to believe in the singularity?
(By singularity I mean roughly any future society that is so complex and advanced that it would be impossible to understand it in our current state. According to most proponents of this theory this likely would involve the development of a super intelligence far removed from anything we know today.)

I'm fairly young so I frequently fantasize that humanity will make incredible leaps forward within my lifetime. I can't help but dream that most of our problems will be solved in a matter of decades. I have held this belief for most of my short existence, but I am now starting to have doubts.

The main problem is that technology doesn't seem to be progressing as fast as it should. Sure, we have a new smartphone model every six months, but what about more fundamental long term research that doesn't have immediate commercial applications? I don't have enough information or scientific education to determine whether we are heading in the right direction. However it does seem that A.I. and genetic manipulation research is evolving at a snail's pace.

A lesser but perhaps even more depressing problem is that belief in the singularity itself is starting to look awkwardly like a form of religion:

1) A belief in a second, better life in the future whose nature is incomprehensible to "mortals".

2) A small evidence/speculation ratio

3) Worship (in this case, technology or those who create it)

4) A "chosen few" mentality. (For example, the singularity benefitting only scientists or people who saw it coming and planned accordingly i.e. Kurzweil taking 40 pills a day to live long enough) This is extremely common in internet discussions around the subject. I had this same attitude myself until recently, patting myself on the back for being "in the know".

So do you think it is stupid to believe in the singularity? Am I delusional? I really need some outside perspective here.
I agree with the submission - fuck correct code, if it's not maintainable it might as well not be correct. I'd throw out correct but illegible code if it was bad enough - spend an extra 100% of time rewriting, and then 1% of time relearning, or spend an extra 20% of time re-learning the confusing code every time someone has to go back and look at it?