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Always fond of the story that Steve Jobs used a Cray to design Apple computers while Cray used an Apple to design the Cray [1]

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AppleCrayComputer
I think that regimes (communist ones) were pretty decent economically and technologically, even better than other countries at the same time because they heavily invested in large scale infrastructure and basic education. They introduced electricity and literacy to their rural populations very successfully.

But since they were regimes they had technological embargo placed on them so they couldn't use international exchange to acquire new technologies and they fell behind technologically and as a result economically and finally crumbled.
Isn't every post on a start up's blog a way to get more customers?
The "all sizes" selection has a similar effect: take "small", "tiny" or "remote" to put markers on sparsely populated locations only.
Which, ironically, are really, really great. I know it seems weird, but everyone should try them if they get a chance. The Toto Washlet E200 is ~500-600 on Amazon, but it's worth every penny.
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(also through http://divbyzeroambient.rad.io/ )
I hope the rate of change decreases... but I think it's going the opposite way. We are generating enough e-waste as it is already without a mass trashing of otherwise perfectly working machines not powerful enough to run a newer OS. Each new CPU model released is already providing smaller and smaller improvements in performance. The day when hardware stops getting faster and bigger couldn't come soon enough; maybe that's when software will actually get more efficient and we'll finally realize what a wasteful approach we've been taking with software development for the past few decades...
>By default syscalls that fail set $? (which can be ignored and usually is) and don't die, and making them die breaks a lot of library code that only "works" because it ignores errors

The solution to this is to use the autodie pragma (https://metacpan.org/pod/autodie) which has been part of the Perl core since 5.10.1 (released in Aug 2009):

use 5.016;
use warnings;
use autodie;

open my $fh, '<', "somefile"; # this file doesn't exist

So above will now produce a runtime error - Can't open 'somefile' for reading: 'No such file or directory' at...

And autodie is lexically scoped so it won't break any library code.
Perhaps you didn't get the sarcasm. ;-)
If nothing else, an outside alternative improves your negotiation power within the company.
that rocks !
People are weird and wonderful.
Not always though. There are cases where people have gone on holiday and had their homes invaded and damaged, their possessions stolen (and often sold for drugs), and have been stuck with long and costly legal battles to regain what is rightfully theirs. Squatting violates the victims' freedom of property. If insulting someone verbally can be referred to as violent, so should stealing their home and possessions.

I'm less concerned with invasion of business properties - while it should still be illegal, there is less loss to a business, who also typically have the legal staff and expertise as well as funds to get rid of them more swiftly and easily.
I think that the brain is influenced by what is often called true randomness (e.g. radioactive decay). If neurons are influenced by true randomness in our environment, then the way they fire is not purely deterministic. But I'm not so sure anymore that radioactive decay and the like are purely random. Are they (because of quantum mechanical effects)?
Consider that I always buy laptops "refurbished". Dell's definition of a refurbished laptop includes "someone else ordered this, and we built it, but then they canceled the order and we never shipped it". The discount you get for buying one of these, relative to a "new" (different how?) one, is substantial.

> I actually asked a Korean man the same question maybe 20 years ago, and he told me that he thought quality product meant "well crafted." Maybe because he was americanized in some way by watching American movies, etc.?

Occam's razor would suggest that he said that because that's what "quality" means, and the article was written by a blowhard.
Wasn't able to get Windows XP updates for months now. Not quite sure where the issue lies, but forums are roaring.
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indeed, and can only do so without "breaking" any locks or windows (so it isn't "breaking and entering," which is the legal name of burglary.)

A properly secured property, where you make sure all windows are repaired and doors and windows are locked, is basically safe from squatters, assuming you get all the entrances (many old Victorian houses have common loft spaces, so when residential squatting was legal people could find one unlocked door in the street and claim a whole terrace. I heard of a priest who did it once in Lancashire somewhere and then used the row as almshouses.)
Oh man, the hours spent hunting down orphaned or misaligned brackets in some include file as part of a multi-million line of code program.

TCL + Vignette, takes me back to 1998.
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Cool idea for creative writing class, would've helped in plausibility if they'd thrown a few nano and quantum randomly into the essay instead of "negative time delay circuit".
This fairy story about all the money coming from the Fed's printing press is basically a misunderstanding. The money was all created by the banking system via leverage before the bubble, and the Fed basically stopped all that money being destroyed at once via defaults. letting the people who got the money created (printed if you like) by the private sector keep it.
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Thanks for this, was having trouble finding it on tpb
I don't pay for much online. But, Rdio has my money and I probably won't switch to Spotify. When I first joined spotify they scanned and left my entire itunes library corrupt -- it was a pain to say the least.

I see this as a swan song and it's simply unsustainable in real products, and is probably just a ploy to get me lulled into accepting their experience -- until it's too late.
Only problem is that the salesperson closing the multimillion dollar deal, isn't actually by himself bringing in all that money. He still needs the engineers (or whatever) to actually deliver on the contract...

So is it really a case of the salesman bringing in all that money, or the combined effort of the entire team?
I’m a regular subscriber but I’m getting more and more confused about what I’m actually paying for. Is it really 'just' about shuffle vs. selective play at this point?
I'm not sure the average wage is higher. Average prices do seem lower. But it is more complicated than that (there are parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa where stuff is really cheap!). I'd qualify by saying for the basket of goods I consume, the prices seem lower.
> And the UK is blocked too (well, it depends on which BBC channel you are talking about)

Odd, I thought the entire UK was granted access, so long as they paid their "television tax" or whatever they call it now. How/Why does such additional blocking happen if that is not the case? Just curious.
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As a paying customer I am fed up to pay for the free leechers and their war for customers.
i think you underestimate the degree of control the state has (data-phones? what data? what network?), as well as the extent of brainwashing of the population
I paid for mobile ($12) instead of standard ($5) now that mobile is available to everyone not sure why I am not just paying $5, but they removed that plan now.
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You're not seeing the wood for the trees. Ireland is just one example among many where it is a poor predictor of growth. I could pick out China, India, Brazil (and complain about the weighting given to small countries), or just point at...all of the data:

http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Freedom1996.gif

It's comically bad. Random things like penis size correlate better with economic growth
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5008876deab8ea62620...

(that's from a real paper from the Helsinki Center of Economic Research, btw, though it's obviously tongue in cheek)

Even its correlation with GDP is pretty shaky:
http://www.heritage.org/index/book/images/in-2014-chapter-1-...

This is nothing but a list to write press releases around. There is no science to it, and we shouldn't take it any more seriously than articles about the mathematical formula for the perfect sandwich.
It's unbelievable the difficulty there is in evicting squatters. AFAIK it's a civil not a police matter. It should just be re-classified as property theft.
If the author only paid $4 to escape that ornery-looking, club-like loaf of bread he baked at home, he should probably consider himself fortunate.
Looks like they removed the mid tier plan, and it is now the same as the top tier, did spotify just get twice as expensive?
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Squatting violates the victims freedom of action and causes great damage. Squatting is non violent, so it's more comparable to burglary than mugging, not that that moves is far up the scale.

Defences for squatting typically hinges on arguments around that the squatters need the building more than the landlord who leaves it empty. As a moral argument, that would carry more weight if squatters were known to leave when the landlord was putting the building to productive use, but they don't. So on that angle, squatting is mere theft, too, but of a much higher value item than any regular burglar or mugger could ever hope to make off with.
Premium allows 320kbps streaming and offline storage.
That used to cost 50% less.
That's a bit of disingenuous strawman comment. No matter what you think about the price of coffee and toast in SF, you'd have to be blind, in denial, or suffer from amnesia if you think valuations of stocks in general and tech stocks in particular are based on anything else but free money funneled into a system that would collapse without it.
You can use Unlocator (http://unlocator.com/) to get around it. I've been using this for a number of months, and highly recommend it. (And for now, at least, it's free!)

This is a practical workaround for what I agree is a stupid policy.
:(. And that's why we can't have nice things.

(also a paying customer, and I'm very happy if things improve for free users while not degrading the service I pay for)
I had to disable offline storage, spotify maxes out my 50mbps uploads link if i use it (p2p crap), with no option in the app to disable that.
You're demonstrating the very point the author is trying to make, which is this: don't assume you know what a word means in a particular, foreign, culture - because they have different meanings depending on where you live.

And you've just demonstrated that.
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> To me, a good cup of coffee and a nice breakfast in a quiet cafe with friendly staff is worth at least $4.

Sure, but that's based on what you earn. If you earned a quarter of what you earn now, would it still be worth 4 dollars?
Plus, if everyone bought $4 toast, the cafe's that cater to the wealthy would soon have $8 toast.
Happy birthday Tcl! Let us use this moment to commemorate our enormous luck that you didn't spread further.
Also, offline use.
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If you're interested in North Korea (and I find myself increasingly fascinated by it, perhaps because it's so different from anything I've ever experienced), you should read Nothing to Envy (http://nothingtoenvy.com/), which describes life in North Korea and the ways in which people manage to escape.

This was one of those books that had me saying, out loud, "Wow, I can't believe it!" on nearly every page. It gave me a lot of insight into how they live, and how hard it'll be for the regime there to change. It also made me feel quite sorry for the people who are forced to live in North Korea, who suffer starvation and abuse (physical and psychological) for the sake of the regime.
If I was an investor and someone introduced me to our new COO with that video, I think I'd run out of the room screaming "To the boats!"
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It appears that it doesn't work with websites containing international characters.
It's also the same in Stockholm.
strange... I still pay 4,99 €.
In many cases, growers can make three or even four times as much per pound if they don't sell within their Fair Trade contracts

Am I missing something then? I don't understand why these coffee growers wouldn't be doing so.
As said in another comment, you get a better audio quality and the avaibility to store music offline (I found it quite useful on my mobile phone). Of course, the quality will only matter to some people.
Congrats Tcl indeed. One of my fondest memories working with Tcl was in the EDA industry. Thanks to its legacy, Tcl/Tk enjoys widespread usage in the entire workflow - from logic design to sign-off. Quite odd to think that development of semiconductor chips around me is dependent on such a relatively obscure language.

Despite its odd syntax which sometimes tends to get in the way, Tcl is one of the rare examples of a functional programming language actively used in the industry (I'm looking at you Lisp). Though I did often find myself wishing that something like Python would replace it instead for better readability.
Won't they end up eating the same amount of bread in the end? The expensive stuff then would waste more physical resources.
That's pure snobbery. By all means spend your money on the opera if you enjoy it, but it's no more "meaningful" or "intellectually nourishing" than good food.
In what way does it affect you?
"For example, I am sure it is not possible in Germany because tenancy contracts that include short-notice eviction clauses are void."

Dutch rent law is stricter than German and it's still allowed. It's a combination of a regulatory framework at a higher level, and anti-squatting not being 'renting' but 'borrowing'. (terminology is a problem here since there is no word in English for the civil law legal form that is used. The closest is 'lease' but that is used for regular renting already in English.)

More to your point, it certainly exists in Germany, and is generally called "Hauswachter" (that is, the people living there, not sure about the form itself). Companies offering it are for example http://de.cameloteurope.com/ .
I think the biggest risk in doing this for a VPN service is that the usage is impracticable given its nature and secrecy.

With services like Facebook, Twitter, etc, the telcos know more or less what they can expect in average data usage from users (and plan/charge accordingly).
You might get something described as breakfast at a greasy spoon for £3, but I wouldn't recommend it. If you get coffee, it'll be a stewed hotplate at best.

£3 should definitely buy you a semi-decent coffee though:

http://www.londontoolkit.com/blog/eats/coffee-shop-chains-in...
This actually goes for beyond that!

70 is sixty-ten (soixante-dix), then 71 is sixty-eleven... and so on, up to 99: four-twenty-nineteen. Indeed, 80 is 4 times 20, hence "four-twenty" (quatre-vingt, without the "s" at the end).

Interestingly enough, French-speaking Belgians use the regular forms: 70 is "septante", 80 is "octante", and 90 is "nonante".
Thanks, I successfully bought some via bter
Mobile clients don't do P2P, due to battery and bandwith concerns
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The company Camelot arranges this in several European countries. I have seen their posters on nice medieval monumental buildings owned by the state, too.
Here's a map of properties available:
http://uk.cameloteurope.com/8/0/available-properties/availab...
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If you use Chrome, Hola is pretty good and doesn't require a signup: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...
My understanding was that `box` would be for allocation, but type definitions still need to have the ~ sigil. But I could be mistaken.
mostly luck
+1 for paging. really important
Wait a minute.

If I zero out drive using traditional method - data is still recoverable.

If I zero out drive using random data - I can be suspect and/or get free rubber hose for life, trying to extract keys for something that doesn't even exist?
Very similar here in Japan (Both Tokyo and Kyoto). The price for a glass of soda usually starts around 500 JPY (about $5 US). 100 JPY on the street in a vending machine and 150 JPY from inside of a train station :)
You seem to be implying that "poor people" can't enjoy Opera or by extension 'classical' music? I don't think the author was meaning to make the comparison to highlight wealth rather than something that may benefit you beyond "I ate some expensive toasted bread".
Agreed. Also, less (/no?) memory related bugs counts for something too.
Even a single espresso is in the range of $2.5 to $4.
The ads on the free version are fairly frequent and rather annoying so avoiding that is a big plus.
What if it doesn't fit into your culture? So everyone who wasn't aristocracy when growing up can't truly enjoy opera or classical music? They're justing aping the taste of the rich?

Opera is, comparatively, much more different than pop music than, say, comparing a cheap $1 toast from a $4 one.
The thing I remember about Unicos was that it was fanatical about job prioritization, which processes had permissions to use processor cpu time etc. You had to jump through hoops to get things running, even for commands that would run for less than a minute on a less robust system.
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I think they grandfathered the mid tier plan?
Churches, schools. Yes. some offices? maybe. Yet its not allowed for the big empty office buildings, since they do not provide all the sanitary needs, and are usually cut off from power and electricity altogether. Also wondering how much guardians will be needed in the future now that squatting is punishable and has been upped to up to 2 years in jail.
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Although weirdly there is a big dark space in France - what's with that?
The desktop client is what I am talking about, it will try and use as much upload bandwidth as you have if you put popular tracks in offline playlists.
It does seem like a bit of an ad splash page.

But on the topic of different meanings, my favourite example is in Greek, you as "Τι κάνετε" "What are you doing" literally but it translates as "How are you?". These things go always translate directly, and if you are speaking with a nonnative it's likely that these things will occur.
Agree! Once you go crap-in-a-japanese-seat, you can't go back :)
So people should freeze on the streets so property owners can keep their buildings empty? Fuck that, squatting laws are to make sure property is being used and not hoarded. Whether squatting is right is independent of any criminal activity that might happen during squats.
Thank you for the help but I simply downloaded the torrent given elsewhere in the comments.

I'm not really comfortable installing VPN software in my browser though, especially when it's free...

It seems so easy to forget to deactivate it and have all your plaintext traffic be highjacked by a third party. How do they pay for the VPN hosting anyway if it's free?
Of course, the waiters in Australia also get paid a more decent minimum wage than in the US.
Free for everyone, everywhere, except in my country.
Deezer seems happy with my money.
OK so you're saying that instead of using a scraper to deal with malformed data out there (the whole reason of its existence), instead we should use a format that is better suited for machine representation? That's like saying 'yeah I've got this car here to take you to places that are very far away, too far to walk; except it doesn't work very well if you want to go far away, so you're betting off just staying at home. Or walk along time.'.
I think this is true but the background color of the whole France is too dark even for that. I will assume that French don't use panoramio for some reason.
"had their homes invaded and damaged, their possessions stolen (and often sold for drugs)"

Sounds like burglary and criminal damage, not squatting, is the issue here. The problem is that those are hard to prove and it's easier just to have a catch-all crime for squatting.
I think you'd have a hard time convincing most people that good music (of any type) is less meaningful or intellectually nourishing than toast.
Food is finite, it fills you up for awhile. Music is not, it can stick with you for quite some time, and change your life. Very infrequently does a meal mean as much as music does to most people.
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some might take this

"wget ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/cove2.0/frontline/773e4c49-c6a6-47a0-b075-7f298847a106/2014-01-14-201639/hd-mezzanine-16x9/00003206-16x9-hls-400k-00001.ts"

and iterate to *00323.ts
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Congrats, Tcl! I remember sitting down for hours fixing syntax errors for Eggdrop scripts in 1999 or something. Great learning.
It's conflating language and expectations. Quality means the same in the US as in EU or China or in Japan, we just don't expect the same level or properties depending on the environment. Quality sushi in Japan is not the same level of expectation as quality sushi in Brazil. A quality car in Sweden won't be judged on the same criteria in Zimbabwe.
We all know there are a lot of existing tools that does the same things. But I've not met one with such a polished UX.
Kudos to the Kimono team, I'll definitly recommend your product.
It's not a war. No more than the war on drugs is a war.

I don't agree that as technology gets better that the number of civilian deaths decrease. I would point to the atom bomb and chemical warfare. As drone technology gets cheaper, I don't see why civilian deaths would decrease. This is not an argument for ludditism.

You're presenting regional carpet bombing as the only alternative. This is not the case. There are alternatives other than drone strikes, and regional bombing that you seem to be ignoring.

Using your terms, how many countries is the US at "war" with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...
These are not wars, this is unilateral, self appointed world policing.

Unfortunately, the drone technology is not sufficient to guarantee accuracy. You can tell this because of how civilian deaths have been "redefined" by the US administration and the US military. Both refuse to publish their statistics. Historically, US intelligence has been anything but accurate, maybe the refusal to publish is another example of this.

I question the effectiveness of attacking funerals and weddings half way across the world, under the guise of preventing terrorism. Particularly with spectacular failures recently making the news.

The technology is not on trial, the US's reputation is. The technology has already been shown to be bunkum - the US's defence is that it's cheap bunkum. This isn't progress on any front. The US does not need cheap drone strikes in these countries, nor does it need to bomb the regions.

It's not the weapons people are scared of, it's who is using them.

[0] http://www.livingunderdrones.org/numbers/

[1] http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/25/confessions-of-an-a...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-...