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"And this is why I fucking HATE COPS. I don't care if it's the few, this god damn country-wide gang is a piece of shit and I will do everything I can to avoid them and teach my two children about staying away as well.
Fuck these pigs."

This is what you were responding to. This person never said the main thing that seems to have incited your tantrum. At this point you're either trolling or stupid, so there isn't much of a point in us continuing here. Cheers.
He's also a professor at HBS. I'd like to read your refutation of his post if you have one though.
"There's some question as to whether he should've left the scene or not and I think there's some discussion to be had there"

What a weird place America must be.
Voting should be independent of opinion, should it not? Voting should reflect the merit of a post regardless of its popularity, right? Comments with little more substance than "cops should die" shouldn't be at the top of a comment page, right?

You're 0 for 2 with me so far. Don't join the debate team.
If you're offended by the buttons, why not try a simple line of text w/ a hyperlink after the article?

"If you found this interesting, I'd love it if you would spread the word [on Twitter]"
Categorically speaking, does it matter?
You have to at east try. Most good lawyers will take this case on a contingency. Otherwise these cops will just get away with it yet again. Also, I wish this case would be picked up by the news. If anyone knows a reporter, send this to them. This needs to be public.
It's not the same thing as not having laws. That's like saying that a competitive market for food is the same thing as having no food.
Thanks for the link, really interesting/enlightening read. I would hope, at least, that Europe's police officers are on the whole less pointlessly violent (though, as Peretz points out the majority of SF police probably don't act as such).
I've noticed that my blog didn't have too much changes in terms of use when we talk social buttons. It didn't matter if they were at the top, bottom. People consume my blog on several devices and apps and they seem to share stuff with the apps itselfs.
My bad. Perhaps I should have said sustainable. Canonical is not going to disappear. They may have unprofitable ventures, but ultimately they can cut it back to the core business and carry on going. Got to spend money to make money!
> The "real" Plan 9 continues to be developed and distributed by the labs

Are there still employees on the project? I had been under the impression that the entire core dev team left in 2003, mostly for Google, and that Alcatel-Lucent no longer staffs the project. Looking through the last-modified dates in the source tree, there are a handful of edits in the last few years, but not very many, and the only specific people I can find who've worked on plan9 in the past 5 years are all external to Bell Labs (e.g. the 9front people).
Probably not, because it's not a very good argument.
zedshaw being an asshole. I'm shocked, shocked!
I would argue that the police deserve somewhere in the neighborhood of one million times more blame for false imprisonment and beating than a civilian deserves for, gasp, talking when they people they pay to protect them didnt want them to talk.
Basic rules like "have no compassion" and "respect people with guns?"
Regulate the Internet like the real world or the real world like the Internet?
"In every interaction with the police, ask if you can leave. If you can, count your lucky stars and leave. "

"count your lucky stars" is not what I'm paying my taxes for.
Right now, there is one group that can decide you are a criminal by their standards. It's a group that you have virtually no control over, and it's funded via force.
the logo looks almost exactly like the scala-lang logo
I won't wade into all of the waters here. Not even sure what my opinion is at this point. But, I do have a question:

If these guys decide to band together to exact some form of "justice" against the thieves, then isn't that a form of "government"? Aren't they making a kind of de facto law?

More generally, there seems to be some sort of "code" that evolves out of any given community. And, if everyone agrees on acceptable conduct or behavior in order to participate in the community, then how is that different from, say, a democratic government? Here, of course, I'm speaking of an actual democratic government, not what we currently have in the U.S.
I'm not arguing it's a forever stable success, because the industry moves too fast for that. And yes, this is why RHT wants OpenStack and better diversification.

But speaking as someone who literally based their whole business on managing Oracle on *nix, Solaris/AIX/HP-UX are dead platforms. Over 80% of the Oracle servers our users are managing with our software are Linux. Of those, probably 80% of them are RHT, and 15% are Oracle Linux. SLES and CentOS barely register.

There is one more massive advantage that RHT offers vs. anyone like CoreOS - platform stability. Things like driver interfaces, library versioning, kernel versions all make it much easier for ISVs and corporate engineering teams to certify and manage RHEL releases. They're not a fast-moving target.

Over time that will become less relevant, I agree, but it's been a huge factor in their success.
I dunno man. I agree with you on that, of course you're right. But, people have limits not everyone wants to talk at length to a libertarian so mockery is employed.
Yep, there are always things missed. This redesign is actually for teaching Photoshop techniques more than it is about getting the best possible United search screen. For example, I didn't make any major changes to the flow or UX side of the design (which is needed for a real redesign!).
I wonder how they deal with differences in income levels. The article only touches on that briefly: "He's also earned more in his life, giving him a bigger pot to bet with. "

For example, my long-term girlfriend has an art degree, and I'm a professional developer. It's likely that I will make more than her for the foreseeable future; maybe as much as 1.5x to 2x. Should I do half the housework? It seems like that leads inexorably to the 1950s logic of "I bring home the bacon so you should keep the house."

(That said, it seems to be working for these two, so more power to them. :) )
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Interesting that a person acting imperfectly (which I can buy happened, and that this account is colored in that direction) is enough to make him the greater of the people who screwed up here. Roughly 9/10 of your comment is directed at attacking him personally--in terms you have no justification of, since you have no concrete knowledge of the situation--while only 1/10 is a concession that the police screwed up. Despite the police screw up being far more violent and egregious.
I've made a few 911 calls, but the last one was pretty surreal.

My partner and I were walking past a high rise where people go to score and in front of us on the pavement we saw a man and a woman trying to wake up someone who seemed on the verge of OD. He wasn't responding, the two were frantic, and everybody was watching from the other side of the road. She was screaming at him and us, saying he is ODed, and get an ambulance, so I called emergency, asked for ambos, didn't give my name, and described that a guy was unconscious and needed medical help. 20secs later we heard the sirens, and we saw the cops screaming down the road in the distance, no ambulance in sight. The man started dragging the woman away, and the previously comatose looking man started re-animating in front of us, trying to get up with great difficulty. With stupendous effort he rose to his feet and then through sheer willpower got his bearings and tried walking on the sidewalk. All together 3 cop cars screeched into the intersection, I put my phone on silent, and like the Truman Show every pedestrian did their bit and started ambling and chatting as if nothing had happened. My partner and I ambled on while my phone rang silently in my pocket and the previously ODed looking guy should have got an OSCAR as he walked (slightly stiffly) in a straight line past the cops. The 6 cops looked around the intersection, observing people and running around looking behind walls for a minute and then sped off. No ambos in sight.
I admit that this is probably the consequence of living in a less populated state, but when they ask the nature of your emergency here (NM), the dispatcher typically makes a decision of what response is needed.

All three are sent for most vehicular accidents for traffic control (state police, county sheriff, or city), fire suppression (volunteer FD, usually), and medical services (sometimes volunteer, especially in the county). Judging by the comments below, I suspect there's an advantage to living in an area that doesn't have tax money to blow. ;)
You're right. Proponents of polycentric law don't claim that something fundamentally forbids this from happening. But the same goes for proponents of centralized (government) law. What needs to be analyzed is which system makes this more likely to happen.
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We created our own GiftCode system for In-App-Purchase
Perhaps the safest (certainly not right) thing to do is call 911 and get the fuck out of there rather than trying to help and being imprisoned/abused for it.
Well, please do try to put it another way, because it sounds to me like you aren't satisfied with the good cops simply because bad cops still exist. I'm not really sure what your point is.

I agree that our current situation is sub-optimal. I don't remember ever arguing otherwise.
I cannot reveal the (technical) details.

For app developers, promocodes are a wonderful thing for 1) customer service, 2) media outreach, 3) reaching out to app reviewers.
Its painful when you switch from selling standalone app to In-App-Purchase, because Apple doesn't have promocodes. But we couldn't do without it, so we built it into the app.

Is it against Apple's Terms&Conditions? I don't know. Regardless, its #HackerPride!
Yes, the Security talk will cover ROP too :). Stay tuned.

The Mill is far from exploit-free, but vast swathes of attacks can be stopped or mitigated and we do our best.
> those who are greedy and, say, losing or just not getting what they want from the normal framework, have every incentive to cheat in this competition.

This is also clearly the case with centralized government law.
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Way to miss the point...

The simplicity is the function on the, rather the app itself. To be clear, its not what it does (or doesn't) do, it's how it does it.
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Have you ever been to the Southwest? (California counts for half credit at most.)
Ah, yes, Hanlon's razor. It works as a general rule, but I think that there are enough powerful, vested interests (proven by eg. Russia, China and US Fed actions/statements regarding Bitcoin) and enough precedence (CIA disinfo campaigns, NSA TAO and it's 'dirty tactics', Chinese and Russian gang ops and propaganda/DoS attacks, corporate APTs) to make conspiracy a real possibility. I think that one of the key things here is that many of us discussed the possibility of exactly this situation, whether conducted by advanced actors or petty criminals the last time that Silk Road was burned to the ground (and, in that case, it was pretty clear who was behind it).
In America we tolerate brutality and are intolerant of nudity.

Tis' a silly place.
> The lawyer for the accused never recants either the confession, or that his client said what he is reported to have said. In typical defense lawyer posturing, instead he criticizes the metadata around it. For good reason given that the accused has repeatedly admitted, to the police, prosecutors, and even the media, having written exactly what was reported, but now we're to pretend that maybe it was a different person, or that Facebook messages were doctored?

Again I ask: Should actors be liable for threats they've delivered in a movie? Surely not. Why? Because of what you call "metadata," which is commonly called "context." We know that these actors were not sincere because they said the words in the context of a movie. The idea that context doesn't matter is positively absurd. Human communication is hugely reliant on context for meaning, and humor even more so.

> Since you like anecdotes, imagine that someone walks around pretending to punch random bystanders, but he pulls up at the last second. Hilarious, right? Now they have no intention of actually hitting, and can even point at a history of being the sort of person that pretends to hit people.

> Is it assault?

> Yes, of course it is. The recipients of the threat reasonably believed in its validity, so what the perpetrator thought is irrelevant.

Precisely — it is normal to assume that you are being punched when somebody swings his fist at you. But when somebody in the middle of a lighthearted conversation responds to the statement "You're crazy" with "I'm totally CRAZY — in fact, I'm so crazy I'm going to $CRAZY_THING," it is not necessarily the case that they are actually going to do $CRAZY_THING. If he had said "fling poop," would you have actually assumed he was going to fling poop?

The objection here is that there is no reasonable belief in the validity of this so-called terrorist threat. The mere fact that somebody said the words "I am going to shoot up a kindergarten" doesn't mean he is actually declaring an intention to do so. I just said them right now. Are you going to report me? The rest of this comment is, after all, just metadata.
Was the 1950's logic fundamentally wrong? If one partner is not working, should they not contribute more to the house?
Lest anyone think this is exaggerated or linkbait-y, I've personally seen them do this, a lot. For example, a $100 gas purchase was immediately resolved using a method similar to what's shown in the video - had the number come up, $1000 would have changed hands (it didn't, much to my chagrin).
Very true. But also there is another aspect to it - there is a lot of admiration for programmers and engineers and what generally hackers can do, be it Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Ted Hoff, Kevin Mytnick, Elon Musk, Kim Dotnet or Edward Snowden - each one of them is a pop superstar in his own respect, no less than Madonna or Britney. Most people see only the final effect of years of dedicated effort, and cannot appreciate Sting's solfeggios that underline his performences. But people do see and appreciate the big bucks of Zuckerberg and Jobs, their impact on culture and social interaction.

On the other hand people don't see the simple coder behing an app just as much as people don't recognise the tuck driver who delivers the groceries.
If you don't mind me asking, doesn't this lose some of its effectiveness when one spouse is in a lot of debt (the article mentions $80k)? It seems like it'd be harder to make a useful estimate of utility when you're so deep in debt. What's another $10 when I own 80k? I'll just bet really high to avoid doing the chore.
Here was my answer to a similar question on LessWrong:

Bethany and I philosophically bite the bullet on this, which is basically ... the wealthy person gets their way all the time and the poor person gets what's to them a lot of money and everyone is happy.

If that's unpalatable or feels unfair then I think the principled solution is for the wealthy person to simply redress the unfairness with a lump sum payment to redistribute the wealth.

I don't think it's reasonable -- ignoring all the psychology and social intricacies, as I'm wont to do [https://xkcd.com/592/] -- to object both to auctions with disparate wealth and to lump sum redistribution to achieve fairness.

Now that I'm introspecting, I suppose it's the case that Bethany and I tend to seize excuses to redistribute wealth, but they have to be plausible ones.
Hey, thanks for Beeminder. It's cost me a bunch of money (~75 bucks), but it's also helped me make some really positive changes. One small note - I'd really like it if I could pledge in CAD, so I don't see the annoying conversion from USD and wonder "what the hell did I spend $5.42 on"...but that's a very tiny nitpick.
Bitcoin can be divided down to Satoshi's (0.00000001) an are often traded in fraction. Since they're worth $500+ at the moment, it makes a lot of sense.
couldn't you curry out all those nulls?
When I say "responding to" I didn't necessarily mean the post directly above me. A minimal amount of effort put into looking at the rest of the comment page would have remedied your apparent confusion.

Please, do stop responding to me. I have enough to fill my time without trying to explain (what I thought was) the obvious to you.
Yes, but the article is comparing the total Amazon revenue in the $70bn+ range to the RedHat ~$1.3bn. A completely misleading comparison, considering that Amazon don't actually break out their AWS figures in their financial reports.

Those charts are highly misleading and borderline duplicitous.
"Laws" and "law enforcement" are just products, similar to any other service. If you can imagine what a civilization without a monopoly on food production, or house cleaning services, or medical services would look like, you should be able to imagine with a civilization without a monopoly on laws and law enforcement would look like.

Most people believe that monopolies are not economically efficient for producing "ordinary" goods and services, but for some reason they don't believe the same is true for laws and law enforcement. I don't see much of a difference. Certainly the production of laws and law enforcement is not an easier task than the production of food.
So I take it you code in PHP and don't understand the necessity to have other programming languages.

Learning another language is a foundational step towards becoming a better communicator. And software development is fundamentally about communication. Even if you don't need the other languages you learn, you are still a better developer for having learned it.

And yes, I see no point in differentiating on a fundamental level between human and computer languages. The end goal is the same: to communicate.

EDIT: I also think it is inexcusable for a software developer to not be an extremely competent writer of their native, spoken language. If you can't express yourself with clarity and without ambiguity in your native tongue of English/Russian/Japanese/Dutch/etc., then you have no business writing code in your non-native tongue of Java/Ruby/Python/C/etc.
Thanks for sharing!

I believe in that situation, that you can defuse the dynamic of being accused of not having your ID, by sharing your social security number. So one response to the police in that situation is to acknowledge not having your ID, but offer to share your name and social security number so they can identify you in the database.
Wow! That's one of the two basic things.
"reject the use of force or fraud to compel others except in response to force or fraud."
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> "I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dishonest actions and use whatever means you deem necessary to bring this person to justice." We need the government!

I'm not following how you are drawing the conclusion that this is a call for government. It seems more like a call for 'street justice' to me. Much of the rest of the your post is based on this assumption. What I took from that post is more akin to a mafia boss saying 'take care of the problem' in an effort to maintain plausible deniability if caught, but everyone involved knows the real meaning is to track down and kill the guy.
No. Lots of people died in the Gulag, but not enough to switch these numbers.

Most Soviet deaths occurred as a result of (deliberately engineered) famine.
Do you consider the history of government to be particularly positive? It doesn't seem that way to me.
Last I checked, people aren't forced to be cops.
Best advice ever. It stands to reason the police deal with the worst of humanity on a regular basis. At a small cost to pride, respect and humility shows you're not one of those.
Yup, I like that much better: https://github.com/phaedryx/react-tutorial/blob/master/app/a...
Exactly. I only have to worry about being declared a criminal by one rather than [arbitrary number] of groups that I have literally no control over.
>2b) Even without the same resources, the main Linux kernel has an enormous number of top-talent developers working for free. This is a serious economic advantage over traditional closed source companies.

I am not familiar with the actual org structure of Linux kernel contributors besides Linus being the leader but isn't it the case that most of the major contributors are in fact employed by companies (including Red Hat)?

In other words not devoting their time working for free...or am I off?
Have you ever sued the police?
This reminded me of Hipchat's 30-day free trial that I recently discovered. I was mistakenly under the impression that they limited the trial to 5 users. I reached out to them on Twitter, since I couldn't find an email address for them anywhere, and they told me the trial can be for an unlimited amount of users. I think this is genius. With a product like Hipchat, 30 days provides a decent enough amount of time that companies will feel locked-in as long as they use it a fair amount. Great strategy.
> It can't be strawmen if they're direct quotes.

It can, if the people you're arguing with now aren't the same people you're quoting.
You can also use a more lispy way to write React code in CoffeeScript

{div, h3, textarea} = React.DOM
(div {className: 'MarkdownEditor'}, [
(h3 {}, 'Input'),
(textarea {onKeyUp: @handleKeyUp, ref: 'textarea'},
@state.value
)
])

http://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/react-coffeescript.htm...
You realize that the look and feel of iOS6 that you like isn't ever coming back right? I've had friends refuse to update because of that exact reasoning as if they think somehow their defiance will change the course Apple is taking with the UI...
But IIUC US Federal law generally ignores intent -- in a bad way for the accused. A lack of bad intent isn't a mitigating factor.

Prosecutorial discretion is tricky enough to begin with. But also mix in disregarding intent, and season with charging people multiple times for the same act? Federal prosecutors can be little Putins.
I'm interested in working on this as well. I've never been a victim of violence by the police, but I've had a couple interactions that I mishandled that didn't go well for me. My contact info is in my profile.
People should know better. I made a nice profit last year with bitcoins which could have been a lot more if I had sold them later, but I always saw that as an experiment. It was basically fuck you money that I could affort to lose. I truly believe that cryptocurrency will have a lasting impact in the future, but right now it's just much a gamble as playing roulette. In its current state, believing bitcoin is as stable as traditional currency is very, very naive.
Levine clearly understand's RedHat's business model: Most of their money comes from support contracts.

He also understands that selling support isn't as profitable as selling software, simply because the businesses scale differently. With software your costs are basically fixed (you sell the same thing many times), while with support your costs grow as the business grows (you need to hire more & more people).

Instead, compare Red Hat to Microsoft, CA, or Oracle who compete directly in the "razors & blades" market of enterprise IT support. (Those companies do have other markets as well.)

The numbers on those businesses make a good example. Microsoft makes almost all it's money from selling products, not support. Oracle has a very aggressive service division, and yet still makes more than 50% of it's money from selling software (and now hardware).