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just to clue you in on a little known secret, gays don't normally have children. in the traditional heterosexual family unit kind of way that is....
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> Your entire post is based on the premise that each culture's practices are all valid within the culture that they are practised within.

Not really. I will explain below.

> This is demonstrably false.

While I would not necessarily agree with the validity view you said, I don't think it is demonstrably false. Please demonstrate that it is false in a way unbiased by your own cultural assumptions of autonomy.

> The fact that Russians support each other via a traditional heterosexual family unit does not in any way mean that someone who is gay should be discriminated against.

Define discriminated against. Is a retire-with-the-kids culture where parents get to say no to spousal choices (but won't if he's made her pregnant) inherently discriminatory?

> The whole premise of your argument is that gays cannot retire with children, so they will be a burden upon the state.

No. My point was that same-sex couples can't have equality if only opposite-sex couples get a veto override (via "accidental" pregnancy) against parental objections. If equality is the goal, one cannot tolerate a retire with the kids culture because parents have so much power over childrens' choice of marriage partners, and this is inherently greater with regard to same-sex couples.

I don't think you read what I wrote very carefully.

As for the cultural validity piece, as I said, I would come back to it. I don't think it can be demonstrated to be false, because cultures function in different ways to the point where apples to apples comparisons are essentially impossible, and so any comparison comes from assumptions, passed on by culture, which determine the conclusion. But at the same time there are certain problems that can't be easily addressed by a position of pure cultural relativity. In my view, these come in two forms: inter-group disputes and breakdown of institutions.

The first includes things like intercontinental slave trade, Germany gassing Polish Jews, Japan's brutal treatment of various occupied areas in WWII, colonial treatment of Africa and Asia, treatment of Native Americans by the US government, etc. You can't solve an intergroup dispute by assuming that both sides are valid actors, so what one is left with is a political resolution.

The second issue is the question of the breakdown of institutions. If a practice is perfectly valid in a culture, then institutions should be perfect, but they aren't anywhere. I think that critique of cultural institutions from a context sympathetic to the culture is a worthwhile endeavor.
Ditto for Sphinx. Thought I might mention http://www.readthedocs.org for hosting Sphinx docs if one is interested.
If it's a personal preference, then this has to do with culture, not biology. If it's a cultural thing, then you should realize there are different cultures out there, and one culture has no right to impose itself on others. As they say, when in Rome do as they Romans do.

I can confirm that there are gay artists, filmmakers, etc in Russia and it is common knowledge that they are gay, and they are not persecuted in any way. They are just not holding gay parades or teaching 6 year olds about gay sex. So as long as the gay athletes are not doing that, they will be perfectly fine.

For many Russians, teaching young children about gay sex is a problematic element, and I think you should respect their view when it comes to THEIR children.
I've given up mobile phones completely. The only device I carry around is a Nexus 7.

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/no-smartphones/
except, expressing the fact that you're gay in public is seen as promoting it to minors. So for all intents and purposes: being gay without pretending to be straight is illegal.
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You are equating homosexuality to paedophilia and bomb making?

Should I mention I don't live in the U.S., btw? Would that negate my argument in any way?
For a taste of this utterly bizarre game, maybe check out the Quick Look:
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-jazzpunk/2300-845...

I made the mistake of watching it at around 2AM, so hopefully my uncontrollable laughter didn't wake up my neighbors.
Microsoft put up $2 billion on a note for the Dell privatization deal.

Not ownership of course, but a serious bit of dough at stake non-the-less.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/feb13/02-05de...
Pretty nice work, I like the approach that you took. Now that you know OpenGL if you choose some other library in future, you will have a better understanding how it works underneath; in my opinion it's good to do things 'the hard way' at least one time - in order to grasp a deeper understanding.
Great - so we'll still have a better, more secure interim solution with coin for the next two years or so until the majority of our system transitions!
Your premise that Western culture's social norms are absolute and universal is far more dangerous than OP's idea of having each culture define its own practices.

Yeah, I'm not.
The problem with science magazines is that if you dumb down paper enough for general public to "understand" it there is basically nothing left.

Article doesn't even try to describe what this $2 C_{2 u}  − C_{2 d}$ coupling is all about.

If you're trying to follow High Energy Physics, your best choice is to follow abstracts in ArXiV (which in turn requires _some_ knowledge and education :-(.
Who really killed adventure games: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
The thing I don't understand, though... why not just use bitcoin to do it?

It was BTC that found a way "to send really small amounts of money through the internet". No need to invent a niche.

To me it looks like the ones using dogecoin don't want to think of it as money, but just some other form of internet points like karma.
This article summarise one of the techniques that has been used recently: http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/10/the-strange-shady-world-of-1-....
Taking what some CEO said as prognostication and not marketing talk is asinine. We were never headed for a "post-PC era". Tablet sales are slowing. Handhelds are were it's at. Regardless, desktops/laptops have and will (for the foreseeable future) have a very important place in consumer and especially business markets.
Welp, I'm convinced!

Thanks :)
I remember playing SFCave on my Palm IIIe. That was so much fun.
You're throwing around huge figures there. I'd be over the moon just to have my pay at 20k, or to even get a bonus. Of course I would be furious to take a pay-cut.

Try and remember that people are out there earning far less than you are. It might even make you feel better. Crevecoeur puts it well:

>It is strange that misery, when viewed in others, should become to us a sort of real good

If you're earning as much as you say I really can't fathom how you can be miserable. Perhaps a hobby or some fresh air would do you good.
They removed the Bitcoin app because you can send coins with it.

This dogecoin app is "read-only" for your dogecoin accounts.
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The fact that Ukraine's fate is being controlled by the normal suspects is, sadly, unsurprising.

What I found intriguing was the fact that this conversation was bugged and then released.

It's also interesting to read the editor's insights into what is happening behind-the-scenes.
> How do you guys deliver code/value fast on the first day

I haven't been a FTE in a while but here are some of the things I do as a consultant:

1. Ask for a simpler feature. On the first day you may be given a feature to work on. As you look at the code you'll get a sense of whether it's doable in the first day versus two weeks. If its too big ask for lower hanging fruit. This shows you really care about adding value from day one.

2. If 1 doesn't work ask someone to pair with you. It can be super awkward if you're not used to it and you'll probably have to fight some impostor syndrome but the ability to be humble and ask for help is something a lot of companies/team appreciate. Just try to limit the sessions to 30 minutes to no more than an hour. You don't want your head to explode. This also provides value to a team member because it allows them to work through explaining the code as well as seeing the existing code from someone else's eyes.

3. Communicate, communicate, communicate. 1 and 2 already imply this but when people are let go because they're "not the right fit" its often because they didn't build relationships with the rest of the team. Communicate what your confused about. Communicate what your excited about. If you've already been hired, then you should already be in an environment where people are receptive to you.

4. Ask a ton of questions. What tools are everyone using? How do they feel about TDD? How does this thing work? Through your questions the rest of the team may find bugs or things that need to be refactored.

5. Document everything you were confused about. If you were
confused about something in the code then most likely the next person coming onboard will be too.
Your guy's product is such a boon. Can't even begin to count the hours...no, weeks saved due to it. Great to hear it.
You could take a cruise ship, or hire your own airplane. The no-fly list only applies to commercial airports.

So I don't think that merely being in Hawaii is going to help.
Yes, not illegal but all the risks borne :v
The weirdest thing here is that, mistakes or not, these law violations gives someone jail time.

Come on! At most, it caused monetary damages. The proper way to make it right is to apply monetary penalties (eg. fines). What's the reasoning behind locking up someone for that? It is not like the general public is being physically harmed, so 'Michelle' should not have to be physically restricted.

Besides, depending on the amount, a fine can set someone back for way more than 3 months. The cost-benefic analysis will make her thing twice next time.
For small miners, there are plenty of profitable GPU coins.
People want games with birds in them.
Can someone explain what's wrong with the spinning ball analogy? From my understanding, it's a pretty good first approximation of the physical interpretation of particle spin.
Please demonstrate that it is false in a way unbiased by your own cultural assumptions of autonomy.

Just to make sure you understood me, I'm saying that not all cultural practices can be viewed as intrinsically good within that culture by an outside viewer. I can assure you that the practice of female genital "circumcision" is abhorent regardless of whether you are in the culture or not.

Given that cultures change their morality and practices, it often means that there are cultural practices that are accepted that are abhorent within a culture that are changed at a later time.

Define discriminated against. Is a retire-with-the-kids culture where parents get to say no to spousal choices (but won't if he's made her pregnant) inherently discriminatory?

Well, yes. It means that the person has discriminated against the other. Ergo, that's inherently discriminatory. That's not from a value-judgement, that's definitional.

My point was that same-sex couples can't have equality if only opposite-sex couples get a veto override (via "accidental" pregnancy) against parental objections.

Well, that's royally screwed up in its own right then. But you're right, I don't think I did understand what you were saying. I stand corrected on this point.

I'd just like to end this to say that not all cultural practices are equal. There are some that are fundamentally wrong, and some that are just different, but equally valid. That's really the only point I was making. Discrimination against gays by the state is one of those issues.
Everyone says they want BTC because they don't trust the government, then puts their money into MtGox.

I trust my government a lot more than I trust MtGox. Bitcoin might be the solution to a problem, but I am not sure exchanges like this are.
The crashing is very annoying and very very common.
When science works out a way of making this happen, your head is going to explode.
Which is why I have so much respect for Richard Feynman. His books, especially QED, are so well written that I could understand the most part while still being able to appreciate the complexities. I believe he has said something to the effect of "if I can not make a lay person understand complex phenomenon it only means I have not understood it fully yet.
I like it, but it must be resilient to people screwing up with files, moving them around, etc, considering when you share folders anyone with write access can delete files.

Now, if you make it synch with my own Wunderlist account, you've won me over...
I think you basically just described my situation at my last job. I was making good money but I hated the people I worked with and was generally not happy. I was laid off from that job last year and have been freelancing since.

Being laid off caused me to pursue freelance more seriously and made us realize how excessive we were living. We cut back on wasting a lot of money on everything from going out to eat to movie rentals, to buying garbage we didn't need.

Because I was unhappy, I felt like I was dieing at my old job; like the world was passing me by. I was there for almost 8 years...

If you can take a pay cut and be happier somewhere else, I'd say do it. Money is not everything. I'd say learn some new things on the side and pad your resume a bit. Maybe it helps you get a job you do like with the same pay your accustomed to.

Money is a tough thing to figure out. We all want to get paid our value, but living expenses, family, kids, retirement all come into play.
Why can't people focus on both battles?
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Homosexuality stopped being illegal in Russia in 1993 (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%...).
"Is there any way to distinguish a sound file with intention from one without?"

There is a way of distinguishing a musician that plays "automatically" from a musician that plays with its heart. Every musician knows that the best performance is made when he/she is sincere.

Plus, you're talking about the "bits", that is the "form" but i'm talking about the content. You can have a machine spray some paint with some constrained rules on a canvas and reproduce the style of famous painters. But it will never have its own style, its own intention. No original and new message to communicate.
It appears this story has hit the flame filter.
Oh dear. According to that, several transactions are using the same input, which basically means that they're trying to use the same Bitcoins to pay multiple people. So Mt Gox may never even have had enough Bitcoins in their hot wallet to make all the payments they claim to have already sent out.
With the 3.5 months sentence described in the article, they probably got off fairly well on a potential profit / jail time scale, compared to normal people who go to jail.
You can think of it as a pay cut or, assuming your getting valuable skills in the new job, you could treat it as getting paid to go to school i.e. making an investment in your career. LIFE IS EXTREMELY BRIEF. It really is worth the effort to find a job you like.

Another way to make that sort of money is contracting. You get to pick your own projects and if the project isn't working out for you, you know it won't last long before you're doing something new someplace else.
In my experience, the biggest problem was lack of exposure to colleagues I could learn from. I was usually hired because they didn't have my expertise in-house and I did most of my work from home.
> "If it's a personal preference, then this has to do with culture, not biology"

I didn't say personal preference, I said preference. It's not a choice you make, but it is an orientation. Why do you prefer members of the opposite sex? Did you choose this?

> "teaching 6 year olds about gay sex"

I doubt that actually ever happens.

> "For many Russians, teaching young children about gay sex is a problematic element, and I think you should respect their view when it comes to THEIR children"

So I should moderate my reasonable behaviour because you feel awkward explaining it to your kid? Your communication problems mean I shouldn't hold hands with or kiss someone of the same gender, in case they see it?
> I can assure you that the practice of female genital "circumcision" is abhorent regardless of whether you are in the culture or not.

Your assurances are different from demonstration. I asked for demonstration. If it is so clear that this is objectively true, how would you demonstrate it to someone who fully adopts the culture in question? Until you can do that, I don't think you have demonstrated anything other than "we feel horrified" which is a basic view that "these things are self-evident." The problem though is that what is self-evident depends on culture.

> Well, yes. It means that the person has discriminated against the other. Ergo, that's inherently discriminatory. That's not from a value-judgement, that's definitional.

So now we understand that if discrimination against same-sex couples is a human rights violation and retire-with-the-kids cultures are inherently discriminatory in this respect, then a cultural expectation to retire with family is a violation of human rights, right? This is just Aristotelian logic here. Hence my proposition, that one must choose between an equivalent to social security payments being a human right and access to same-sex marriage not being.

> I'd just like to end this to say that not all cultural practices are equal.

I actually never said they were. I think all cultures are open to critique but I think that critique is most productive (and more likely to be on the mark) when one treats the culture as a whole as a generally good, functional system.
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It'll probably be the same time science makes it possible for you to request your unborn baby be ensured to be "not gay".

So there's plusses and minuses to science...
I had to re-read the pay rate a few times myself.

Money fixes a lot of problems. But if your not happy with the work your doing or the people you work with, no amount can fix that. You can put on a fake smile for sure (i did for a long time) but that gets old real fast.
Apparently he doesn't. From /r/Android:

> I was at this interview, and he made the point that Apple 'could' make an Android phone, due to the nature of Android being open and free and all that, not that they 'would' or 'should'. The title of this post and the article itself mis-represents what he said. I'm guessing for the sake of sensationalism?

> Someone in the audience even stood up during the Q&A and asked him why he thought Apple should make an Android phone and Wozniak was quick to correct him and clearly state that he didn't think Apple 'should' make an Android phone, but that the option is there if Apple ever felt so inclined.
It's not that simple. Running around thinking that CFO = evil sociopath is ridiculous. It's about motivation and accountability.

The story in the article is a great example, I don't think the CFO thought that she was breaking the law. It was a practice that she had engaged in previously, it was vetted by a big-5 accounting firm, and benefited the employees. The CFO was widely respected in the industry -- this wasn't some flimflam person or sociopath.

When your attorney works for someone else, that other party becomes the client. If you, as a CEO (or an individual) are ultimately accountable for the outcome of your decisions, you want the attorney working for YOU, so that you get unfiltered information to drive decisions.
That may be true for slots (although even that mundane aspect could be made much better with some VR, eg being able to see that someone is sitting next to you and talk openly with them; or to be able to sit next to a friend, and see that they just hit a jackpot), but there is a drastic entertainment difference when it comes to visually perceiving that you're sitting at a poker or blackjack table with other people, and being able to look around. Hitting that sweet spot where your brain forgets that you're not actually there, that sense of tension at the table when the stakes are high.

It's all about atmosphere and entertainment. That's why Vegas exists. A very small fraction of the Vegas crowd are real gamblers. And I think it's why VR gambling will go far upscale from the texas hold'em on our smart phones. It'll be about charging for an experience.
We're going to spend a century trying to hack our bodies until we realize we can just abandon them and stop worrying all the time.
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And of course, you don't even need to explicitly free heap-allocated objects if you're using C++11 smart pointers like shared_ptr and unique_ptr.
Steve is a great guy personally, and is all about the technology, but I am never that impressed with his business recommendations. This is more of a curiosity than sound business practice.

This is no different than recommending that Apple drop OSX in favor of Windows, but that would kill Apple's profit margin and gain what exactly?
Elementary particles are dots for all intents and purposes. But dots can't spin. Spinning requires internal structure to notice spinning, but elementary particles don't have it.

Basically you don't need analogy at all.

Spin is inherent property of a particle like mass, charge, etc. It's quantum like charge. If lagrangian of interaction includes particle's spin, spin effects will be noticeable in scattering and everywhere.

Analogy is only needed to not mix spin with angular momentum.

Funny how in media spin is left and right, but in science spin is always "up" or "down". :-)
> Out of curiosity, what are the favored money laundering methods of modern day?

HSBC.

EDIT: see here for example: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/11/hsbc-bank-us...

That's a 'record fine' cheaper than some of those bot-war books, but there you go.
In part because Google may wish to do something that required that money at some point in the future (for instance an acquisition or purchase of a chunk of patents to think of just two multi-billion dollar expenditures they've made in the relatively recent past).

Giving money back to shareholders is relatively easy, raising it from them if you need it for something is more involved.

And if you're going to hang on to it in some relatively liquid form, you might want to try and get a better return than you would from sitting on a pile of cash.
It's examples like this that make me question the validity of everything I read on the internet. I think I need to adjust my expected signal to noise ratio online
I agree, let me give you 0.0000005 BTC. Or I could give you 100 DOGE.
> Consider how difficult it is to get a computer to do anything. To take a simple example, let’s say we would like to ask a computer to find the most commonly occurring word on a web page, perhaps as a hint to what the page might be about.

Um, has the OP ever tried getting a human to easily perform such a task?
I agree with chris_wot but i'll answer you directly. 1% or even 3% of the population being gay and displaying their homosexuality in public is not going to destroy the traditional family. Everybody is not going to turn gay because the law allow them to be what they want to be.

On the other hand, Google getting political is just ridiculous. I dont expect my ISP or any service provider to get political,(at least display it on their homepage) because they might end up defending a cause I dont support one day,their job is to provide a service, not to alienate half of their customers.
Metrics that waste your time (and money)