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That reminds me that I need to enable TRIM on my Ubuntu SSD. I usually do it, but I had forgot to do it with my recent install. I've used this article in the past (http://www.howtogeek.com/62761/how-to-tweak-your-ssd-in-ubun...). It is fun to measure your IOPS before and after.
Wha? The war of rape is about Jamie Leigh Jones, specifically about rape, and contains gems like "The best official estimates suggest that between 8 percent and 10 percent of all rape claims are false"
Sorry I didn't check back here for a couple days.

> There is always a resistor in series with the LED

Sure, almost always. But there are many different voltage level, forward drop, forward current combinations for a given application. There's no guarantee, even with a ballast resistor, that the a shorted LED won't result in an effective short to the power rail (not a real short, but drawing close to the power supply's current sourcing limit). A resistor with a shorted LED results in a useless current sink, in any case.

> But how often have you seen these tiny LEDs fail...I have never ever seen it happen.

What you've seen or not seen has very little bearing on the reality that parts fail. Period. Things should be designed in a cost effective way that minimizes the possibility/effects of failures. FWIW, I had a laptop recently that had a dead LED on the front panel :-/

> There is always a resistor in series with the LED

I just meant that if your "power rail" is actually just a signal line (or whatever) for some other purpose, and the led is there to indicate activity, then even in "low" signal states where the LED isn't fully conducting yet there is a small leakage current.
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Neither Mitt Romney or Barack Obama were good choices for President, regardless of their comparison to each other. If more people refused to vote for a bad candidate, then the margin to win would be much smaller.

Egads, if people voted for who they actually wanted, rather than vote against who they want the least, then maybe we'd get someone who actually, you know, represents the people!

The only reason you can be upset about me not voting against my principles is that I'm not helping your favored candidate over your disfavored candidate.
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The full quote is:

"The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 1.8–4.3) than for controls of the same birth sex, particularly death from suicide."

So trans people are at an increased risk of suicide compared to cis people of the gender the trans person transitioned into.

The original claim was that trans people are at increased risk of suicide post-op relative to pre-op transsexuals!

You're "generally opposed" to a medical intervention that has dramatically improved the lives of many thousands of people over the last 50+ years? You're "generally opposed" to something that I know for a fact has dramatically improved my own life?

Go fuck yourself. I'm not wrong, you misrepresented the study and you're a bigot.
I had a kidney stone too (age 35, 190lb) this year in July.

All said and done, my medical bills would have hit $54,000.
Here we have more evidence of the miraculous ability of crypto currencies to turn unassuming computer programmers into economics experts. Let's take a look at some choice quotes.

There’s no inherent reason that a piece of paper has a certain amount of value. There is a subjective reason, though: namely, that a large enough number of people agree that USD is a worthwhile commodity. They believe that for a number of reasons, including that our Army will go off and fucking kill anybody who threatens to break the spell that makes everyone agree that USD are worth your time to accept.

That's a bunch of needlessly cynical and completely ignorant bullshit. We don't use the army to convince people to use dollars. That's quackery. People use dollars because the value is relatively stable, most goods for sale in the U.S. and exported from the U.S. are priced in dollars, people in the U.S. pay their taxes in dollars, oil tends to be priced in dollars internationally, foreign countries hold lots of dollars as reserves, in the U.S. you can have a bank account denominated in dollars that will retain it's value up to $250,000 even if the bank blows up(!), and so on. All of these are reasons people use dollars. It isn't something that's done at the point of a gun.

Everyone agrees that dollars are worth something, and we trade them all the time. They’re really easy to trade. I don’t know of any coffee shop near me that takes Euros, so even though 1€ is “worth more” than $1 USD, the Euro note I have in my backpack is basically useless for me to get some coffee. Economists call this property ‘liquidity,’ and it basically means ‘how easy is it for me to get what I want with this commodity.’

Stop calling currencies commodities. Currencies aren't like some weird subset of commodities. The reason Euro isn't useful in the U.S. is because there are no good reasons for it to be useful. I can't pay my taxes in Euros. Almost nothing for sale here is priced in Euros. If I try to deposit Euros in my dollar denominated bank account I will get a shitty FX rate from the bank. There is a lot of obvious friction involved in using things other than USD as a currency in the U.S. It has nothing to do with "liquidity."

Imagine a “Dogecoin VISA”, a credit card where I hold a balance in DOGE.

Great idea! Ok so now a bank has given me a certain amount of dogecoin denominated credit. Presumably that is backed up by dogecoin denominated savings accounts or whatever. People give their dogecoins to the bank and the bank lends the dogecoins to me. I spend my full line of credit but I can't pay it back. Suppose there are a bunch of crappy dogecoin debtors out there and none of us can pay back our dogecoin denominated debt. Now suppose the banks depositors get wind of the situation and all try to withdraw their deposits at once. Classic bank run. Depositors are all fucked because there is no FDIC insurance for dogecoins.

* TWTR -> USD -> BTC -> DOGE -> MYCOMPANY *

You lose money at every step along the way. You pay the spread for every transaction, and if banks get involved, you can probably expected to get fucked in all sorts of mysterious ways by the FX desk at some point too.
If you want to define greed as imposing externalities on others (e.g. someone who finds that burning plastic in their backyard is legal because of some loophole, and so creates a garbage disposal facility there) then I agree that this is something we should try to avoid, but this is not what has been preached for millennia. In fact the discussion on gentrification shows that most people still cannot distinguish what is and is not an externality.

I couldn't understand what your code was supposed to prove, probably because it was full of premature optimization and mutable state.
We haven't actually given a genuine 'market economy' a chance to prove itself. One critical aspect of this is taxation. We all know that the big multinational companies can put their profits somewhere else, where they will not get taxed. In most cases this is fully legal even if it is morally wrong.

There is also the matter of subsidy and when the government bails a company out. Old business models get kept running when the invisible hand of the market would have swept them to one side, maybe to allow new business models to take hold.

Then there is outright corruption - backhanders to win government contracts. This is not 'letting the market decide'.

Even worse there is the likes of Lockheed Martin able to own the government, listen in through NSA on rival contractors bids and win favourable contracts for themselves and the companies they do business with.

Then there is the small matter of law. Larger businesses can get away with polluting the environment and running unfair business practices that mean their rivals are not playing on a level playing field.

Also, there are costs to business that are not paid for by those businesses. If the taxpayer is expected to pay for the road to an industrial estate on a greenfield site just to get some lousy business to setup in that area then again this is not 'market economy'.

Also there are those government services that are sold on the private marketplace. For instance, the market in weather information, e.g. for television news, should be a profitable one, however, if the government's private arm of their weather service - e.g. the UK Met Office - competes in that space then again things are not fair.

However you look at it we have not got a 'market economy', we have something corrupt, with cronies and their backhanders rigging the marketplace. It is not free and fair trade. We can forget about 'morality', let's just do things by the book.
In my experience you almost never see phrases like that being used, certainly not in news sections. In any case, this article is an opinion piece, on Comment Is Free, which is a free-for-all, and it's not written by a journalist, but by an aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

For those who don't know, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the leader of the Church of England, and the current incumbent, Justin Welby, used to a finance executive in the oil industry, and tends to be engaged with these sorts of issues.
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'The choice is not "tech employees live in Oakland and commute by car" vs "tech employees live in Oakland and commute by bus". Get rid of the buses, and the tech employees will move closer to work. It's a classic straw man argument.'

That's not a straw man, you might have meant "false dichotomy".

I think that OP was trying to say that anecdotally people will actually not move closer to work, they will just drive. At least this is supported by some kind of data, where your premise is not.
It's easy enough to engage the local authorities, but if they won't cooperate, a unilateral op. in the name of national security is not unheard of.
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Send mystery gifts this holiday
Me and a friend made this site recently. Everyone knows the holidays can be a stressful time of year and sometimes there can be too many things on the TO DO list. Basically, the site will allows people to quickly send surprise gifts of a certain category to an individual. The gift is fully wrapped and includes shipping. We want to see if this is something people will adopt, any suggestions are also welcome.
Thank you. I came here to say this.

Reasons NOT to use SSL:

* Server is not powerful enough to handle the extra compute load -- SOLUTION: go buy a server made in the past decade.

* Certificate costs too much -- SOLUTION: go get a free one.

* You hope caching will reduce the load on your servers -- SOLUTION: pay for a CDN or use bittorrent for distribution. Mostly, mid-network caching doesn't happen anyway.

That leaves just one reason:

* You want 3rd world spy agencies and hackers to be able to snoop on and hack your customers just like the NSA can.
Dogecoin actually will inflate indefinitely by 5% a year. Mining will never stop.
Results are all that matter.
wow. much serious. many tears. so angry.

I specifically said I wasn't an expert. ;)

> That's a bunch of needlessly cynical and completely ignorant bullshit.

We're arguing the same thing. I'm just being a bit snarky about _why_ those things are true. You're totally right that those are the first-order reasons.

> Stop calling currencies commodities.

Sorry, my Marxism is showing. From a Marxist perspective, money _is_ just another commodity, though a special one. Maybe shouldn't have mixed that concept in, good call.

> Depositors are all fucked because there is no FDIC insurance for dogecoins.

Agreed. That's why I describe myself as 'scared.' I just said it's possible, not that it's a good idea. You won't find me quitting my job and starting that project any time soon.

> You lose money at every step along the way.

Absolutely, which is why you have to account for that when making the trades. I assumed that was too basic to bother to mention.
Don't forget that each transaction is recorded and secured as well. There is a ton of Doge to be made in analyzing the interactions.
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I was shocked to see "text messaging" and "smartphone" as words introduced in the 80's. I would have thought those were 90's words at least (for "smartphone" i would have guessed the 00's in fact.)
Realtime map of every airplane in the air, worldwide
I prefer Greenshot because I can do some magic like autosaving each shot in a particular format and folder. It also allows me to save and copy to clipboard so I can with just one click have it available to paste into a new Gmail message while keeping it saved on the disk. I use this a lot every day.
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"Many have argued that capitalism does not offer a satisfactory moral message. But that is like saying that calculus does not contain cabrohydrates, amino acids, or other essential nutrients. Everything fails by irrevelant standards."

-- Thomas Sowell
I'd argue that cryptocurrencies have a fair amount of commodity worth to them. The security of the coin is enabled by work put into the system by miners. Hypothetically there is some value in linking a commodity compute operation to crypto coin value.

BTW, I looked to see if there was a correlation between oil commodity and USD, and here's what I found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency

Note the bit about oil in the Middle East being paid for by USD.
Makes me sad to think there are still people supporting communism after it killed 170kk plus in less than 100 years.

Edit: Missed a "k"
This is true in the sense that a market economy, i.e. capitalism, is based on morality. Few people are aware of the moral justification for capitalism. Morality trumps politics. Without a moral justification, the market economy won't survive.

> "No social system (and no human institution or activity of any kind) can survive without a moral base. On the basis of the altruist morality, capitalism had to be—and was—damned from the start." -Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 30
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Incorrect. This used to be true back when Bauer was under contract. This is no longer the case. Google owns their own fleet and employs contracted drivers. The infrastructure is all in-house now.

The secure wifi network used by the employees to check email, do work, push code, etc. make it a satellite office on wheels. Ask anyone who works for Google.
> wow. much serious. so angry.

You said it yourself. People are scared by this. Anger comes with fear.
Moral facts are not self-evident. We became aware of disagreement, but about the games we use to describe right and wrong. It's what comes after the "because".

Saying "X is wrong" and "Y knows X is wrong" mean two very different things depending on your analysis. "Notions of morality" is about the first statement and about the second. Does Y know X is wrong in virtue of the moral fact that X is wrong? If grass is green, there's something I'm learning when I read "Grass is green" — or is it upon seeing grass that I know grass is green?

The point here is the features of facts: one does not see the wrongness of an act in the way that one sees grass is green, irrespective to the question of language. Now, of course, morality is primarily codified into symbols — do facts exist here, behind the veil of language? Perhaps. But the main question here is the structure of a fact: Is it a picture? If I know the constant of gravity, I know something about the shape of galaxies through relativity. I can see regularity across the heavens. I can test it and measure its components, but only in virtue of axiomitization, which is linguistic. Well, how does one test morality? Does one collect report on opinion, or does one look into the world to discover their structure? Certainly reports on moral opinion will be picture-like, but do they disclose the structure we would find if morality could be discovered in the world without reports on it? Is direct evidence possible without the existence of indirect evidence?
Hah! Thanks! I'll also be giving an updated version of that talk at PyCon in Montreal this April. :)

There's a video of the PyCon Canada talk here: http://pyvideo.org/video/2315/quick-wins-for-better-website-...
"But if it's running on my Mac, I think I'll just use the iWork suite, and Messages - they are 'free' in the App Store"...
> last I checked there's still a long laundry list of non-default incantations to optimize SSD usage on Windows

Would you mind listing them?
Yes. The point of being like OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps is the way the maps are not read-only, but that anyone can contribute. And for Mapillary, this is not true unless you have an iPhone.
Telegram protocol defeated. Authors are going to modify crypto-algorithm
I was as skeptical as you are. But then I read the original article. The attackers here specify the ciphertext, and they craft a specific one for every bit they want to extract from the private key.

The ability to craft a ciphertext of ~1 second per bit makes it plausible they are able to force the difference between a 0 and a 1 to be large enough to be heard. Still surprising, but plausible.
Thanks for that info, like many people I had always assumed that India was especially unequal, and this was the cause of many of its social problems. The more you know...
The funniest part about Dogecoin was how the initial point was to make fun of bitcoins, but it rapidly turned to people taking it pretty seriously but pretending they aren't. Dogecoin mining pools, dogecoins for sale on ebay... they've become what they hate.
I've tried and failed to come up with a single explanation for why this might be a good idea (from a security point of view and also from a "is this really the best thing you can do with your time if you're going to be in Damascus" point of view).

So, what's the rationale (I'd genuinely like to know as I assume it's being organised with good intentions)?
oof, long shot...
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I'm getting javascript errors when I click 'Go', it says there's a 404 on /randomMovie/undefined.

I like the idea though, and look forward to it working. You couldn't add links to IMDB and Letterboxd could you? Would be great to add films to my Letterboxd watchlist or look up the cast and film info on IMDB.
> If you want to define greed as imposing externalities on others

No, but I mentioned those things because they can result from greed, which is why greed is bad. If greed didn't result in destructive action, or if the negative effects were borne by those causing them, it wouldn't matter. And those things, multiplied by millions or even billions of people in an endless loop, can lead to vast destruction, too.

> this is not what has been preached for millennia

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty -- Proverb 22:16
Looks like a security patch to GnuPG 1.x has already been released that addresses this and GnuPG 2.x is not vulnerable to this hack according to this article. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/00033...
I'm not trying to say it's truly a nice deal. I'm saying that it's certainly better than the other low-end jobs available. I'm the guy who thinks every worker should have a union and wage labor should be abolished entirely, don't forget that perspective!
No, C is as low level as you can get. It directly maps into the instructions of a register machine in runs on.
>and would have more of both after adopting a minimum wage because labor would be better utilized

How does that work? If someone has an especially productive task, that means that they can afford to pay more than current wages, there is nothing stopping them offering higher wages right now.
Once upon a time maps cost a lot of money and were a government thing - you had to licence the data.

What Google have done by driving everywhere is to create their own maps. They don't need to license data from anyone, they own their own maps and the underlying data is in a format they can make sense of unlike the many other formats that went with old-style GIS.

They have also been running that CAPTCHA to get people to decipher street and other signs for their maps.

In previous times maps were closely guarded secrets - because knowledge is power. Although Google have made quality (well, amazing) maps available to anyone with a computer, they have also taken ownership of maps and mapping. There have been no complaints of unfair practices from rival mapping concerns, they have not 'done a Microsoft' on their rivals. They simply offer a better product.

Whomever it was at Google that had the vision to do maps - and create their own map data - was very clever. Mapping the whole world their way - with Street View - may seem insane, but, there is a lot of power in owning the copyright to the world's maps. By analogy, with music the money is in song writing rather than performing.
The OP gets snarky about the reasons people think dollars are a viable medium if exchange; you get serious. But four of your six reasons why people use dollars kinda boil down to "people use dollars because lots of people use dollars".

He's realized that "money" is just a very complicated game we play with each other. Possibly this is the lead-in to realizing that society is also a complicated game we play with each other. Either way, dude just had his mind blown because a silly joke currency made him start to think about What Money Is for the first time in his life.

That said, yeah his lengthy chains of currency exchange are a bad idea. Which is why there are exchanges that let you buy and sell BTC (and other cryptocurrencies, maybe even DOGE - I'm not going to bother checking) in currencies other than USD.

And there are a lot more rules that need to be added around cryptocurrencies before having a DOGE credit card, or bank account, is a sane game to play. Don't be putting anything you can't afford to lose in DOGE, or BTC for that matter.
I can't say I find that particularly freaky, I assume all of my tweets are publicly available and that people will be able to determine things about me, so I limit the information appropriately.

However something I did find freaky: Facebook have enough analytics that they believe they can predict relationships starting up to 6 months in advance, and predict predict them ending 6 months before they do.
Without this turning into a long diatribe, one of the major problems I have is that the general assertion that the ACA is "better than nothing / better than what we had before" is that it is only true in some states. Yes, many states were doing a poor job of regulating health insurers, but in my state (Washington), the ACA offers few new benefits. Whereas previously high-deductable / catastrophic plans were available cheaply for those who were willing to pay cash for the bulk of their health needs, now everybody is pushed to plans that don't do enough for preventative care and will cost ~$1000/month for a typical family. I think we are all thankful to see people with long-term chronic illness finally able to buy health insurance regardless of their state, but for those states that already had functioning marketplaces for family/individual insurance, the ACA smacks of unnecessary federal meddling that, IMHO, fixes the market rather than leading to the competitive market that was a claimed benefit. Background: I've been a buyer/selector of health insurance as both an individual and employer since 2006, so have been through this a couple times now.
Did we read the same article? The `secure` flag is the fifth of the "Key Points" at the top of the article, and the entire penultimate section is devoted to it.
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When was capitalism ever based on altruism? Isn't the idea rather that everybody being as selfish as possible magically leads to good results?