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That's why he said leaves and not bags. It's ok to reuse the leaves, most of the times the resulting brew will be different from the previous, which is sometimes the desired thing.
Awesome feedback. Especially the part about making the "adding an entry" part easier, it didn't dawn on me that some of that information is redundant.

The reason I've been writing driving directions in a wall of text is because in a lot of cases, google doesn't map all of the forest roads required to get to the trailhead. There are some hikes, like http://hike.io/hikes/mount-rose, which do and in that case I include the link in the Directions header. I thought it might be nice to also include the step by step directions in case you don't have an internet connection, but you're right, it feels extraneous.

And, I'm going to have to investigate OSM, you're the second suggest that.
I don't think there are any UK health insurance companies which allow you to claim for NHS doctor's appointments.

Presumably if you have a health insurance plan which covers private doctor's appointments, they get a copy of the doctor's notes anyway.
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Real answer: it doesn't matter. Pick one and go.

It takes 3 months to get okay with something. 6 months to be decent. 9 months to be like, okay, I kind of get this, and then at the end of the year you'll probably change your mind and try something else.

I tried PHP, it was easy. Too easy. Hated it.

Tried Ruby, then Rails came on the scene and it became cool. Ended up hating it too.

Now I'm on Python. Learned Django. Tolerating it, but switched to Flask.

What I really want to master is JavaScript, closures, then node.js and AngularJS.

Just start. You can switch after. And to be real, making websites is actually really easy with any of the languages. Whatever you're thinking of doing there's probably already ten other projects on Github that has redone what you're thinking of that you will end up using.

It's the deploying, that perfect minute customization that you really, really, really want, scaling, and long term maintenance that's going to be tough.
You post strongly reminded me of the Physician's Oath.

I will not permit considerations of age, disease or disability, creed,
ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race,
sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene
between my duty and my patient;

Teach like that. Everyone deserve the chance to learn and grow as human beings.
Oh, that servicing position. That's because you can't lift wipers from their resting position since bommet is too close to windscreen. You have to turn on the ingition, turn it off and then hold wiper stalk in the lowest position for 2 seconds. Same goes for 2013 Skoda Octavia. Had to learn that yesterday :)
"Do the residents realise the connection between scarcity and price, and that they are able to do something about it?"

There's some truth to the parent comment (I've said parts of it myself), but it's also misleading. Yes, the city could stand to build up in places, but the people in the tech world are also totally delusional when it comes to choosing where to live and work. Everyone is trying to cram into the same three hipster neighborhoods, and ignoring all of the cheaper parts of town. Price sensitivity is almost completely absent.

Notably, when people here talk about "bungalows" and "three-story buildings", what they're really talking about is the western half of the city (the part west of Mount Sutro). It's true that those neighborhoods are really low density, but it's also true that rents there are already much lower than in SOMA or the Mission. You can move to the Richmond and save hundreds of dollars a month in rent, but nobody wants to do that.

There are good reasons for all of this, of course (transit, weather, etc.), but the point is that it isn't just "zoning laws" that are causing prices to spike here. There's good deal of irrationality on the demand side, too. You'd be surprised at the number of tech people who have never even visited neighborhoods like West Portal, even though they're on major transit lines. If it's not hip in San Francisco, it doesn't exist.
Women entrepreneurs are relevant because there is (at least in general media) a recognition that there are a lot of negative stimuli towards women (especially when young) aiming to be entrepreneurs. Everyone needs role models.

French entrepeneurs are relevant maybe to counter the idea that France doesn't know how to innovate. I'm not sure how relevant ebay's guy is as an example. As someone who did something similar (Born in France, went to US for elementary school and middle school, back in france for HS Uni) I feel more american than french.
I think a lot of cheap tablets are loss leaders, and the manufacturers don't make any profit (or even lose money) and hope to make more money by bringing them into their retail stores (eg Tesco, Walmart tabs) or on accessories.

That said, I think the kettle thing is mostly a). Companies will price things highly because they've found that people will pay that much, I reckon it's as simple as that.
By getting in before you on the seller. HFT arbitrages the price differential by means of moving faster than you can. Rather than buying Wigets-R-Us at $100/share, the HFT slips in with a, say, $99.99 offer to the seller, and offers you $100.01. Rinse, wash, repeat a few million times a day, and those two cents add up. And it's cost you (and the seller) a penny a share each.

The numbers are made up here, but that's the principle.
All three can get the job done, have tons of resources and extensions available, very active communities, proven reliability and infrastructure available, with a similar learning curve.

If you have a friend that can help you when you're stuck in any of these languages it would be a good reason to choose one over the others.
What do they teach in US schools? The three things I know they teach in UK secondary school physics (11-16s) are how to draw graphs wrong, how to wire a plug and how a kettle works!

Also, who doesn't have a cheap kettle? (I actually have a £20 one, because I wanted a high wattage so it boils quicker, but in my defense I got it free with nectar points[1]. It is still plastic and the on/off LED broke within a week, but it boils enough water for my enormous free hackathon mug in like a minute.)

[1] If you didn't know that Argos accepts nectar points, you're welcome. I have never paid for a kettle or microwave.
Mainstream segments of the movement, if you will. The mainstream of any movement is where a sense of tribal identity emerges that's likely to engage in partisan disparagement of other movements seen as opposition.
Budapest is a good example - lots of 5/6 story apartment blocks right in the centre with (what seem to be) huge numbers of apartments and they look ok.
There are lots of insiders who think that the issues with derivatives market were the cause... In fact the commodity futures trading commission more or less said that their evaluation was that there was a concerted effort to use derivatives to obfuscate risks and for the most part caused the issue.

That is fine that one guy wrote a book about the crisis. And it is very nice that he decided to pass the buck on who was at fault by using the stale "Big Government Is Bad!" and "Any Regulation Is Big Government!" lines. But when the group in charge of looking after derivatives (ICE Trust, an industry self-regulatory body), that is independent of the government, comes out and says that after looking into the issue there was a fault with the actual system... I tend to give them a bit more credit... Perhaps everyone should just believe John Allison and his incredibly strong (Ayn) Randian ideological bent though?

Also you seem to be missing the point on the Wall St. vs Main St. thing... The bigger issue to most is that somehow Wall St. firms are 'too big to fail' and the little guy (read: everyone else) had to give them a huge bailout because they gambled and lost. In the eyes of most, its as if they had to pay for someone's trip to the casino, out of their own taxes. It's not about being able to leverage capital markets... It's about having to pay for your losses yourself, rather than having everyone else bail your ass out to the tune of billions of dollars. Taking all of the risk out of the system for the big boys, while it still exists for everyone else seems pretty BS (especially if you're part of 'everyone else').

Edit: Wall St. isn't 'bad' but the way it shook out this time was utterly bullshit and people have the right to be angry and adversarial about it.
I wonder if anyone has studied the health outcomes of nicotine-only users eg: patches, or gum?
Chrome wins on psychology, it's uber fast on start and with few tabs, then it gets a bit slower than firefox, which is relatively constant in its non-snappiness (it's not slow but you notice tiny lags in the UI regularly)
Citation on developing psychosis? As far as I've read that's a very small number of people and usually linked to people with undiagnosed schizophrenia.
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day.

Teach him to fish, he and his family will eat fish the rest of his life.

Give a man a consistent supply of fish and maybe, instead of fishing all day to feed his family, he could go to trade school and learn to be an HVAC engineer, send his kids to MIT and retire at 55 to Naples Florida.
Perhaps people do these things all the time, but it only seems consequential / makes the news headlines if the person doing it makes billions of dollars.
I anticipate this reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7088378
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The language is not important. There is another factor that is way more important:

Do you know people using one of the languages? If yes, you could ask them about problems you have. Will be easier than going to stackoverflow.
For me it's about the community. Every language has a different mindset / way of approaching a problem. Read some groups, have a look at the various packages on github and see which community fits best with what you're personally doing.

Having contacts / friends who could help is also an advantage.
I was also going to suggest mini-maps.

I would suggest you look at camptocamp.org, it's run by a french non profit (CC data, also has an english interface) and has a lot of users posting their hikes. It's pretty useful if you want fresh data about the terrain conditions of your future hike. They have a split by activities (just hiking, rock climbing, ice climbing, etc.) and also by hiking grade, height diff up, etc.

On a personal note I have a small webapp I used to share my location while hiking alone: http://gr5.herokuapp.com/ it has mini-maps based on the gps data I uploaded at the end of each day.
There are men's rights practitioners that support the egalitarian aims of feminism. Equality is what reasonable MRAs and feminists want. Unreasonable MRAs and feminists, however, are more interested in having someone to blame.
> I'd like to see a safe or safer tobacco replacement for rolling joints with

There already is one: Marijuana.

The fact is you don't have to mix it with tobacco :) It's commonplace here in the UK but you can just smoke it on its own or you can use a vapourizer. You can even cook it with butter but that increases the effects
> For years, consumers in Europe and many other countries have used a technology called EMV (for Europay, MasterCard and Visa), created in the mid-1990s that makes it possible for retailers to confirm payments locally instead of placing a call to your bank. That’s possible because of a chip on the card that requires you to tap in a PIN code at the point of purchase. Simple. Safe. Secure.

Nope. All that proves is that you own the card. It doesn't imply that the transaction is worthy of approval by the bank.

It needs to be a three-way conversation between the merchant, you, and your bank. The merchant is represented by his POS. You are represented by your phone. And the bank sits somewhere in the cloud. The merchant presents the bill to your phone. You approve the charge by entering a code on your phone. Then the bank approves your approval, and the transaction is complete. Everything is encrypted, and there is nothing to skim.
Tesla accepted a lot of pre-orders long before they had shippable cars.
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I disagree with this type of thinking. I think we need to be careful of mandates begetting mandates. I agree with public health spending. I think it's a good thing. But I don't think it should (morally) cost us personal freedoms like that. Paying for health does not give the public mandate over the private's eating/exercise/smoking habits. That is the road to totalitarianism and I don't think there is any reason to travel down it.

Said another way: A public responsibility towards the private person's health care is not a wide responsibility for their health and it does not translate into a right to make an individual's health decisions for them.
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http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/01/share-learn/
Sure, but you still need funding, and the only people with a vested interest in marijuana studies are legalization advocates, and marijuana legalization isn't nearly as well-funded a cause as "anti-tobacco".
Damn, that looks really cool.

I've been wanting a car with the "futurist concept car look" for years, but they seemingly never progress to mass production. It's good to see that that's finally happening.
Numberphile: Why do people hate mathematics?
Recently I've been exposed to a number of people who claim they "are bad at math" and "hate maths" when the reality was that they were discouraged by their high school teachers.

Here's a mathematician's view on the subject of math hatred.
That's fine, I suspect the %age of Windows users at Yale is fairly small.
To give an example of this... When answering the first question, I found myself thinking only of things which are pure white almost all the time. So I thought of snow, clouds, white sails - and even with those I felt they were arguable (snow can be grey; clouds too; sails can be multi-coloured). Arguably the only thing that's prototypically white in the world is sunlight - and that looks yellow! :-P

On the other hand, when considering my fridge, I only thought of what is white-looking in there... Milk is prototypically white, but cheese, eggs, bread, mold on some old sausages, etc... are just kinda sorta white sometimes. But within the limits of a fridge they're acceptable examples of white.

I think that's what the GP was arguing: when asked for "white things in the world" you naturally place the bar for "white" much higher than when asked for "white things in your fridge".
Big fan of the Dilbert book...I struggled for years to find a way to make things work for me. I always had 'performance anxiety' when it came to doing work on my 'real' projects that were nevertheless relegated to a hobby-level alongside something else that paid the bills. I had limited time and as a result I became incredibly stressed out when I couldn't muster peak-level attention and productivity during those few hours. For some reason I felt I could only do the project justice when I gave it all, interestingly this has resulted in bailing out too often and not progressing with anything for weeks. Conversely I was much less productive than now when I put all my effort into just simply doing something (anything) every day, let's say for 30 minutes. All the anxiety is now channeled into the thought of missing a day or not maintaining the routine :)

I think your aim should still be to, at minimum, cultivate a system that is aligned with both your short and long-term goals. Then, when circumstances allow, you are free to exceed that minimum by racing to meet ambitious goals. But you should never let anything break the 'background process' or the 'system' (aka. routine). Write 50 words a day, anything. It really does add up big time.
Mobile Web is & will be slow
They use miniature camera's in blind spots for the person using the machine, transparent foil on the numbers or even completely dummy covers on top of the real covers with prepaid phones sending the data immediately. My point is the bank can do so much more (and so easily) but they do not care. Your Credit Card act as a buffer if I understand correct. You can get the money back right?

About my PIN? Yeah it doesn't work outside my country. In just 1.5 hours dive you can use that card abroad without the PIN. The banks have now blocked this by blocking the card abroad. So I need a Credit Card as well...

My friend works for the biggest payment system we have around here. They do not care about these systems as they're focusing on a society without PIN/Credit Cards. Cool of course, but for now we're stuck in 1980.
Great to hear you're rolling up your sleeves and going to give developing it yourself a go.

I taught myself to program using PHP, then moved to Rails, and now do mostly Javascript and Node work.

There are a few things to consider. Number one, you're absolutely going to need a front-end, which means you're going to need to learn javascript, and probably use a framework like backbone, angular, or ember. Personally, I think knockout may be the easiest of all of these to 'pick-up', but none of them (I don't think) are going to be easy as a beginner.

At first, I'd suggest your back-end can wait. You can use parse or firebase or one of the other back-end as a service providers to manage your data. Just make sure you're able to get it back later.

Now, if you're adamant about doing the server-side stuff, I'd say go with Ruby-on-Rails, which is a framework for making it easier to build and manage an application written in Ruby. The framework does a lot of stuff for you, and you can host it on heroku fairly easily.

A few good things about Rails (I haven't used other frameworks like Django (Python) or Larvel (PHP)), is that it forces you to have a program structured in such a way that if you bring in another developer at a later date, they should be able to find their way around your code base fairly easily. That's what got me to make the switch, I was doing a contract I knew I wouldn't be working on long-term, and new that a rails app would be easy for somebody else to step in on.
> plenty of everyday non-police citizens walking around armed too.

This is not a reason not to be afraid. I'll spare you my big rant, though, as I probably won't convince you.
Oh gods, I just realised they'd have to get Eddie Izzard to play him. Who else could be the Izzard of Woz?
Why not just roll a pure marijuana joint, perhaps using weaker pot than you've been mixing with tobacco? In my experience (US), mixing tobacco into joints is mostly a European thing.
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is there any other medium that would be suitable and provides more storage then engraving to metal or stone?
I'm skeptic about myth #2

Foreign aid is a fragile process. If the country you're aiding is having political problems or poverty problems, aiding a country won't mean a lot. It will have an overall positive effect, but on the long run, I have my doubts.

Political instability, poverty, illiteracy: relieving the pain of those problems can't be done without a minimum of politics, and when I mean that, I'm talking of both the country you aid and the country the help comes from.

I agree with most of what they say about foreign aid, that we should not stop, but that doesn't mean I should blindly trust charities. Democracy and free markets doesn't bode well with generosity. Our governments don't have any interests in getting into the politics of charities.

I really think it makes a difference when billionaires comes at those countries's help, rather than common citizens, but I wish there would be lobbies that work in the interests of charities. I wish there would be a true political debate about how governments could care about charities.
Docker is just leverage of FreeBSD jails which, in turn, were modeled after IBM mainframes.)
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Cool site, rendered well on my iPhone except the top logo which was a bit blurry on a retina screen.

Keep it up
It's different in the US:

'The taxable income of the donor is reduced by 300 USD. If the donor's income was in the 35% income tax bracket both before and after the deduction, the donor's tax liability (amount of taxes owed to the government) is reduced by 105 USD.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_contribution_deducti...
Yknow, a lot of the world doesn't run their economy through some zero-sum fuck-your-employees-the-bottom-line-is-what-matters crap...
Popped this on my seedbox. I do feel wonderfully dirty downloading a FreeBSD torrent from Microsoft SkyDrive.
FYI mixing weed with tobacco is purely a cultural phenomenon. This is something that I have never heard of being done in the U.S.
From wikipedia: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine )

> According to the American Heart Association, nicotine addiction has historically been one of the hardest addictions to break, while the pharmacological and behavioral characteristics that determine tobacco addiction are similar to those determining addiction to heroin and cocaine.

NHS: ( http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2278.aspx?CategoryID=53 )

> Cigarettes contain nicotine, which is highly addictive.

> Even if you want to quit smoking, you may find it difficult because you’re addicted to the effects of nicotine. Some research has suggested that nicotine can be more addictive than heroin.

"Only mildly physically addictive"...
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The estimate for cost of electronics is ludicrous. It is a micro controller, a relay, and a PSU. I can build that for $5 at low quantity. PID controllers cost $30 since you pay for low quantity and design. You can build ones from a $1 micro controller, or for even less in analog. Plus you do not need a pid. It makes no sense in that context. It is a thermostat.

They cost what they cost due to product differentiation and similar.
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>The report newly identifies exposure to secondhand smoke as a cause of strokes.

How long do we have to wait till the tobacco industry funded Cato Institute finds some shills to wheel out to deny this?

And how long do we have to wait for them to apologise for decades of spreading FUD and undermining the science that demonstrated the risks of smoking.
It sure did for me — I went from a twenty year long, two pack a day cigarette habit to e-cigarettes a month ago. I immediately preferred vaporization to smoking, and honestly haven't wanted an ordinary cigarette since.
An example of this that I recently had was a 北斗一号. The first brew is extremely fragrant - smells of bubble milk tea, but has very weak flavour. The second brew brings out the flavour of the tea.

You're supposed to let the first brew fill the smelling cup[0], and drink the second brew, but I drink both

[0] http://the-chinese-tea-company.com/teaware/tea-cups/blue-bat... on how the smelling cup looks like
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