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I've been in an old Subaru Justy whose floor pan had been rusting for years, and it wouldn't have stopped squat coming through and hitting the driver. Once, the car's owner was driving us to a music contest, and we started to hear some scraping. He pulled over and pulled a piece of metal off the bottom of the car, and we kept driving.

That's never going to happen with a Tesla S. (Read that both in a good and bad way.)
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Haven't used Salt much, as I understand it they do take Puppets model. Even if you want that (and I don't) there are still a lot of ways you could do a better job, so I'm somewhat open to Salt.

However, Ansible is significantly different from Puppet. For starters it is push-based rather than pull-based as a lot of Puppet setups are.

The other important difference is that Ansible has top-to-bottom ordering. That's what first attracted me.
I'm wondering what insurance will say. I wonder if the fire would have occurred if he had immediately pulled over.
But nobody eats MSG by itself like fruit juice, won't mixing it to food that contains fiber and 'other chemicals' have the same effect?
I'd point out that those innuendos are based on manipulative statistics: the standard is comparing the rate of car fires, but most of those 250 million cars are far older than Tesla Model S (decades as opposed to months old). A proper apples-to-apples comparison would look at new cars (within a year, lets say) and compare those rates.
>At worst, debris may cause a flat if it punctures one of the tires.

That's dismissive hyperbole. Debris regularly causes serious damages to all vehicle types. If the object in question, as in this case, is hard enough and hit with enough force to penetrate the battery, it's hard enough and hit with enough force to seriously damage any system it hits. It may not crack the engine block, but it can destroy radiators/suspension/brakes/fuel tanks/etc. The worst case scenario is most certainly not "a flat".
Some people are allergic to MSG (or maybe just glutamate). I'm sure it is something an allergist could test you for.
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"Qatar and Saudi Arabia are the only Gulf Cooperative Council states with an exit visa system"

They're in a good company. Only other countries to have exit visa are North Korea and Uzbekistan. (In the latter, you can still travel to most former USSR neighbors without exit visa)
Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which is even named after the royal family (who does that anyway?) are countries that offer us a glimpse of neo feudalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism).

This is a potential problem for every country. While western governments are considered much different than both Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the trajectory is leaning towards the paradigm those two countries occupy. This is of course, inequality, which is the measure that slavery falls onto one side at the end.

We can look at this policy as a policy, or we can have an intellectual argument on the merit of this type of governance. GOVERNMENT is literally what society as a whole, consents to being legitimate use of force. Military, Law, and Order.

No obviously we can assert that the power of the Sauds and the Thani is illegitimate today in the western world, because we ourselves have in our past moved away from the concentrated and hereditary control of power, into the hands of the super rich (the other end of the inequal spectrum).

So while I applaud hrw.org for pointing attention to this horrible policy, and more intellectually honest headline could read, "Qatar's People: Overthrow your illegitimate rulers.".

Any westerners who are reading this article and are upset or angry, need to fight against neo-feudalism in the US and European countries. The only way we can truly help the people of Qatar and Saudi Arabia is by stronghand political means. Not seeing anything from the US regarding these matters speaks volumes of their slide into neo-feudalism in my opinion. This is something seen both by anti-authoritarian leftists AND rightists(is this a word?).
> There is negligible danger pulling over on the freeway.

Is this really true? I don't know of any evidence either way, but it's not hard to find articles warning against it. Here's one randomly selected from a google search: http://www.allenandallen.com/blog/the-shoulder-of-the-highwa...

Since I have no hard evidence either way, I have to go with my gut, which says that pulling over on a freeway shoulder is dangerous and should only be done as a last resort. But I would welcome evidence to the contrary.
It's also usually located behind the rear axle. Something which is shaped in a way as to lodge itself against the road and the bottom of the vehicle to it is driven upwards is likely going to have done this before it gets to the rear axle.
Airbnb monthly prices will be considerably higher than what you can find locally though.
Nevertheless is useful to do a relative comparison.
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Yes, yes, I agree. This isn't difficult. Right. I mean, here are two guys talking it out. Imagine if you put together a dozen real experts, took them to a nice resort for a week and tasked the with coming out with a complete definition covering architecture, operations and penetration/scam testing. It isn't like we are trying to build a Star Trek transporter. There is nothing about this that we don't have a pretty good handle on. And that's kind of my point. The government is and was the worst possible project leader for something like this. It isn't that complicated.

As I said in my opening to the prior post. I know it's full of holes. At the same time, I know it would be a million times better than what we have now and it would probably cost $595 million dollars less.
Econ is an interesting subject. Basicaly, it's taught using slide-ruler-y math from the 1950's[1]. Its amazing that learning to build linear algebra models without a slide-ruler (ie, by hand), comined witha year or two of statistics and some calc, makes someone an expert in "Economics".

If you think about the huge increase in computer power available today, it seems a field ripe for disruption. However, the guys that run the fed, and guys like Krugman are basically from the "slide rule era" of Econ.

I'm sympathetic to the power of modeling and techniques, but I do think its a case of the more you know, the more you understand what you don't know. And I think for most people the deeper you go into the field of Econ, the more this becomes apparent. Its getting better, though, and I'm sure in another generation (once the current tenures expire) things will look a good deal different (hopefully better).

Not sure if your views are similar, though.

[1] You see no little to no respect for dynamic systems that are chaotic or non linear; bounded rationality and its antecedent effcts; the role of institution underpinnings to markets, etc. Just to name a couple that are glaringly relevant and empirically important, but not subject to "hand math".
Facebook does a great job of filtering what it shows you.

I have lots of "friends" on Facebook, and once in a while I see a photo (usually of a major event) of a classmate I haven't seen in a long while and I didn't remember he was on my friends list.

My Facebook use is mostly to keep in touch with my family abroad, and we have a closed group. I usually don't post much to my broader "friends" list.
Is it ethical to get up and get a cup of coffee on the clock? Stop and chat with coworkers? Browse the Internet?

It's unreasonable for employers to expect you to spend 100% of your time 100% focused on the 'task at hand'. You need to have a little downtime on the clock for reflection, thinking, stress relief, etc especially if you are a programmer. Frankly if I was an employer I'd be happy if you were using it try and keep sharp as opposed to looking at lolcats or something (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Of course this has to be "within reason", and an employer is well within their rights to decide that certain activities are too disruptive and ban them. Violating an explicit ban would be somewhat unethical.

Another question: is it a polite thing to do? There are certain general and company specific social norms for what and how much of that stuff is acceptable.

So I would say go for it, with the caveat that you shouldn't abuse the privilege.

This is for employees ofc. As a freelancer I try to be very conscientious about stopping the clock when I feel I'm not adding enough value for the client. I get paid a higher rate than I probably would otherwise, and therefore don't screw around. I do sometimes bill for reading that's done for research for the project, just as I don't stop the clock every time I look up something in the docs - but I do this as little as possible and always with the clients understanding.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but, your calculations don't take into account the population's distribution over the surface of the earth; most importantly water masses.
I had heard that during the peak of the conflict with the IRA, more brits came to view surveillance as necessary to safety, and then it remained that way. Don't know how true this is.

It's eerily similar to the 9/11 situation and the Patriot Act though.
Also note that regardless of where you live, it's illegal for employers to have an employee work off the clock, regardless of any stipulations in the personal contract, since there are tax issues involved.
> Most “scripting” languages don't support annotations for checking parameters and return values

PEP 3107 introduced function annotations to Python 3. The following syntax is valid:

>>> def square(n: int) -> int:
... return n * n
...
>>> square(3)
9

Nothing is done with annotations by default. Here's an article discussing this "unused feature": http://ceronman.com/2013/03/12/a-powerful-unused-feature-of-...
It appears this one works the same way. As the About page explains:

Search for images and only get the unsafe ones. That's
Filther in a nutshell. We give you only the stuff that
Safe Search Filters leave out. This search is strictly
NSFW. And let's be honest, this is what the internet
was made for.
Are .02% of all car drivers injured every year by road debris which punctures the cabin from the underside of the car? Because that's the percentage of Tesla drivers who claim the design of the car saved them from this very thing.
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A great way to get some Umami in your cooking is Vietnamese fermented fish sauce
It is said that the human body itself produces up to 50g of glutamate every day; an allergy to it should result in much more terrible effects than superficial numbness. Someone already posted a longer explanation: http://www.metafilter.com/131105/Dorito-Powder#5147903
> Writing explicit dependencies literally what Puppet -- or any other config management system -- is about. Puppet cannot possibly know what your intent is. So you have to tell it.

Other tools just execute manifests top to bottom, which is a much less error-prone approach.

I agree that finding the right abstraction level for modules (and for reuse) is not well solved.
Shamir's paper is bullshit (RSA and SSSS are cool, though). 98% of bitcoins belong to exchanges or web wallets that manage money for their users. This distribution says nothing about actual users and there is no way to find this out. Yes, technically there are big "owners" of a lot of coins, but that's temporary delegates, not primary investors. Also, by scanning HTML printout of blockchain from block explorer they only demonstrated their incompetence in this matter - blockchain is always readily available for analysis in bitcoind.

Unfortunately, the state is cutting the tree they are sitting on. Their massively inflated money supply is going to hit them hard when China and other foreign nations will refuse to accept USD as a reserve currency and all that printed nonsense will hit US economy and destroy it by hyperinflation. Or, USG will put up massive capital controls to avoid that thus closing the country in an iron curtain. Considering that externalised inflation destroyed a lot of production inside the country, isolating people from global market will also destroy what remains of the economy. In no theory it is sustainable in the long run to print shitload of money and not have its value massively dropped at some point of time. Each day it doesn't happen only makes the inevitable hit harder.

Once people all over the world start tasting Bitcoin and moving savings off fiat currencies, they will naturally hyper inflate - people will be trying to get rid of them quickly. This has nothing to do with orders of the state: it'll happen legally or illegally. And policemen will be among those people who try to save what's left of their savings.

Also: did you notice what Obama said when he asked Congress to raise debt ceiling? He said he wouldn't be able to mail the social security cheques. In other words, he admitted that there's absolutely no money that was extracted from people is available in form of cash or real investments. That he must have to issue new debt to pay that debt. Isn't it a good enough proof that the whole monetary system is going to collapse any time Link: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14y4cx_obama-tells-america...
I lived in the south of Spain on the very cheap for a couple of years. Highly recommended - I lived in Conil de la Frontera 200m from ocean for less than 300 euros a month.
When Tesla does it, it's lauded as bold; but when the same thing is done by Steve Jobs (antennagate), it's derided
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General look and feel is not copyrightable. Exact level layouts are.
Sure, except that once you're doing stuff like that, you might as well switch to a manifest-ordered tool like Ansible. Ordering isn't the only problem with Puppet, just the most serious.
I know nothing about the physics of it but would that not depend on the causes of fires? I may be misunderstanding but it sounds like you're implying that fires are more likely in older cars - maybe that is actually the case (I'd be willing to believe it).
I was not aware of this libel suit; but it fits well with how I perceive the PR handling; what remains in the zeitgeist is a company fighting the right(?) battle using all means. The fact that said suit was gravely deficient most likely went largely unnoticed, and in the immediate it creates a us vs the rest mentality with the owners/enthusiasts; something that shows in this driver's account. Unless the driver is also a stockholder.
If your car says that when you're starting it at your home then it may not be something to be concerned about but if that message pops up immediately after you hit something at highway speeds, you should take that as an indication something is definitely wrong and pull over.

I had a similar innocuous sounding message popup in my car (not Tesla) right after there was significant damage to the tires/rims and suspension due to some large debris on the road. I pulled over immediately but the car's "Car needs service"/"Tire pressure low" messages were ironically amusing when I got out and saw the extent of the damage (completely flat tires, broken rims, etc).

TLDR: Cars don't have "This car will explode/catch fire" messages. "Needs service" message can mean something really bad.
When do we get paid? Every two weeks or twice a month? Every two weeks means your pay is essentially reduced by two entire paychecks. With "twice a month" your paycheck is $NET_SALARY/24. With "every two weeks" your paycheck is $NET_SALARY/26, meaning two months out of the year, you'll get three pay checks. But--the rest of the year, your salary is essentially reduced by ($NET_SALARY/26 2). You can't create a monthly budget out of two pay checks you get twice a year, six months apart.*

Am I missing something there? To me, this is only a concern for someone living paycheck to paycheck and that generally doesn't seem to be an issue for software developers.
You should have just gone to the Biologik Pazar near the old Bomonte brewery... it was pretty close to where you were and was the best I found in Istanbul. (It was a bit more expensive, of course, but still cheap by Western standards.)

And you're totally right about the peaches. And the apricots.

Now for purposes of the discussion:

Istanbul had a nasty flareup a few months back, but otherwise has been very stable. You will need to learn a little bit of Turkish, and it's not the easiest language, but two classes will make the city twice as cheap. It really is a city that gets cheaper the longer you're there, because you get to know particular grociers and as you develop a community, they will direct you toward better deals.

But even at the tourist prices, it's reasonable compared to the rest of Europe. And learning the tricks can take a significant part of your time for the first month or two, which may not be the best for a startup.

Immigration is exceedingly easy. Just have 300 bucks per month that you want in your account. You will need someone to guide you through the process and translate for you, but that's relatively cheap.

I'd say, though, it's not a beginner's city on your own. If you can give it two or three months to get settled, then it's a great option. If you need to hit the ground running, it might not be for you.
No, because adding extra glutamate means the ratio of glutamate will be higher than the counterbalance.
The earth is not spherical. The diameter of the earth through the equator is more than the diameter through the poles, because of its angular velocity. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth
>The issue under discussion isn't the safety of the passenger versus road debris, it's the vehicle catching fire after colliding with road debris.

Says who? You? The issue under discussion is the safety of a Tesla versus other cars in similar circumstances. If I was evaluating the relative safety of cars while purchasing a car, a fire after a few minutes of striking a big piece of debris seems to be safer than major damage or loss of control(if that's the case).

Whether an equivalent non-Tesla car would actually be more dangerous is certainly up for debate, but I don't see anything insightful in your post. We can already see the domain name even before clicking on the article and we know this is Tesla publishing the letter so it's likely to be one sided. In fact, the current top comment on HN points it out.

Your comments shouting "PR! misdirection!" add nothing to the discussion. Are you arguing that a non-Tesla car would not catch fire in similar circumstances? Can you share your reasoning?
> You may be right, but a similar claim could be made about any patent case. (i.e., it's a weak argument.)

You would be correct that this wouldn't save you in court -- under current patent law, independent inventions still counts as infringement. But my argument is that in terms of what feels "right" or "just", independence is the key test. If it turns out later that Google did in fact read Rockstar's patent and copy them, the outrage at Rockstar would probably be mitigated.

> Obviously, Google claims they've never read the Rockstar patents or that they're irrelevant, but equally obviously, I'd make exactly the same claim regarding the time machine.

You could claim that, but I could also prove it false. If you read the patent by downloading it online, there's an electronic paper trail. Unless you're Doc Brown, building a time machine sounds complicated enough to require multiple people, so there are now witnesses to your copying. I'm not a professional investigator, but if I were, I'm sure I could find some other ways of proving or disproving copying -- especially if there were bajillions of dollars on the line.

That said, if you had a time machine, I suppose you could just go back in time and patent it first and avoid the issue altogether. But temporal mechanics mechanics aside, if you're curious on how to make an independent invention defense work, I've written a much longer post on it at http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121011/14171220681/yes-in...
For what it's worth I have my doubts about the article as well. If the driver didn't have enough time to avoid the object but the truck in front of him did, then it's probably because he was tailgating.

At highway speeds, all you need is a second of hesitation to erase a four car-length buffer. It probably takes over a half second to identify the object and determine it's too large to safely drive over.
I wonder how well this integrates with Racket? I see that it's built with Racket, but I'd be curious if I could mix and match this with all my Racket code.
> shockingly corrupt bureaucracy.

Oh yeah? Since Brazilian's president's father is bulgarian, I know where did she learn now.
Now you are grasping at (incorrect) straws. Firstly, roaring population growth != roaring fertility rate. Try and read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_progression and then look at the fertility rate again and model how population growth would look based on that rate (assuming a constant or decreasing death rate). Anyway, the graph of absolute population looks like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India-demography.png, which is what I term "roaring population growth".

My contention is that the fertility rate would have dropped much faster if the stringent family planning incentives during the Emergency would not have been imposed. At no point am I claiming that they have led to an increase in the fertility rate. The fertility rate naturally should decrease as a population gets better education and healthcare; and it should have dropped much faster than that graph you posted.

Also note that the fertility rate is not the only thing that contributes to population growth. The death rate and its distribution among the population also affect the population of a nation during every decade.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to be questioned by MPs over NSA leaks
> Capitalism is (...) not a human-created system; it did not emerge from
> colonialism. It is merely the natural emergent behavior of actors
> under resource scarcity.

1) I didn't mean to imply that capitalism emerged from colonialism, but
that the current distribution of wealth an power within capitalism is
connected to colonialism (among other things).

2) I don't think you're assertion of capitalism being "an emergent system"
is correct -- capitalism is defined by having capital and private
ownership over means of production. There are many other systems for
regulating scarcity (artificial or otherwise) (eg: feudalism).

> As long as there are not enough resources for everyone to have what
> they want, there will be some variant of a market and capitalistic
> trade. The reverse also applies; in the absence of actual scarcity,
> it is impossible to enforce a market, since that is an emergent
> property of scarcity rather than a human-chosen system.

3) You imply that there aren't enough resources. While that may be
true, I think the issue is more one of uneven distribution. This
obviously also depend on your clause "for everyone to have what they
want". I think the current system encourages aggregation without much
regard for what individuals actually want (Who "wants" Foxxconn to
dominate in certain areas of industrial production?).

4) Not all markets and trade systems define a capitalist system.

Note also that I specifically said modern anarchism. That doesn't
necessarily define away the right to self defence. Communism certainly
doesn't.

The main difference between the two, is that communism seeks to
maintain a form of government, highly localized and highly democratic
-- but with the option to retain such things as a police force and a
justice system (reserve the right of the government to use violence such
as detaining and investigation of crimes for the common good) while
anarchism is generally more sceptical of any power structure and any
use of force against the individual.