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Considering it has been shown that a lightsaber easily and nearly instantly cuts through most metals, apparently due to extreme heat, that regular bullets would likely not cause an issue.

The speed of the projectile is not an issue either, Jedi use a precognition-like ability to dodge or block blaster fire. That's why a group is required, to eliminate the possibility of them dodging and blocking.
It's easy to denigrate obvious waste like empty buildings. But context matters: even waving a wand and disposing of all of these buildings would improve the federal budget by ~0.0119%. Put another way, we'd get roughly the same impact by reducing our order of Littoral Combat Ships by 1 boat.

If you profile your code, you don't go after the line item that's < .1% until everything else is fixed; I'd argue that our representatives have more substantive budget fixes they can target.
This isn't even remotely true. Computer security was a concern and an area of study long before C/Unix showed up. Unix (and by extension C) descended directly from the Multics project, which from its start in 1964 made security a central priority. Kernighan and Ritche were important members of the Multics project. Further, the idea that everyone who used the computers of that era were "in the same room" is also patently absurd.
So... sign up for Medicaid. When you become ineligible for that, you can sign up for a non-Medicaid plan. I fail to see the problem.
It is a guy in a booth. The computer is used to time the whole process and make sure that the right events occur in the right sequence, but it's still human-supervised. Before the 1980s, it was done manually with switches from the control tower.
Or that you were in a certain part of Chile that is run well.
So has this gone into effect immediately for new memberships and renewals? My prime expired last month when it was still $79, and I'm considering renewing.
> It's just a matter of someone taking the time to do it.

And there's the crux of the matter; it takes a ton of time, and few people care enough to invest that time. And even if there is someone that cares - like the people / organization listed in the article - their efforts will only make a dent in this issue, which is exacerbated by the heaps of paperwork and whatnot they have to go through.
How is it easier than just pressing the build and run button on XCode?
It's a list of perceived corruption, not of corruption.
I had individual coverage as a freelancer for $130 per month.
It's a basic law of economics: If the market demands shit, someone will step up and sell shit. Externalities be damned.
Yeah, in hg named branches the branch name is forever logged as part of the commit. Hg bookmarks and git branches are just pointers to the most recent commit.
I'm working on a product in a similar space to prismic, and as a developer myself, this would also be a concern for me. The way we plan to approach it is offering a self hosted version of the product, and committing to an open source warranty so that if something went wrong with the company the product could live on. Would these kind of measures make you feel more confident?
Denmark doesn't have the sort of easy bankruptcy laws the US has

Lots of Danish companies go bankrupt without it affecting the personal finances of the owners. It all depends on the kind of company you form.

you have to pay your employees 6 months wages if you go under.

Source? AFAIK, as long as your business is alive and well you pay a small amount of money each month to an organization which will make sure that if you go bankrupt, your employees will get paid anyway. This means you don't have to pay anything if you go bankrupt. https://lifeindenmark.borger.dk/Pages/Compensation-if-employ...
Or may be things are just uneven..

While officials in touch with foreigners in Santiago are clean, it could be that it's less the case at the local BMV in remote town..
I think that they are. (Can you think of any in-universe proof they are not?) Blasters are less versatile than light sabers, though, so they carry light sabers.
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The explanation is really, really long. You should consider something shorter.
In NY, it was illegal to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions, which meant it was higher there than other states in which it was legal. I used to live in NYC and was under Freelancers Union insurance, which ran about $400 a month with a $10k deductible and 30% coinsurance. Moved to Nashville and was able to get better insurance for about $200 a month. (I'm insured through an employer now, so I have no idea what it looks like post-ACA).
The writer seems to be in a period of his life where he is neither young enough or old enough to find it truly useful, which would be college or as grandparents. -I vaguely skimmed the article...
Rising prices are common. People understand and deal with it even if they don't necessarily like it. Inflation is a fact of life.

Netflix's problem was twofold. First, they increased prices enormously. A lot of people's rates almost doubled overnight. Second, they presented it as an improvement.

The combination is a real killer. Cost increases are rarely sudden, so people know that a sudden massive price increase is not being done to compensate for increased backend costs, but is instead being done to extract more profit from you. And people really hate being lied to, especially in such an obvious way, where it looks like they think their customers are idiots.

Amazon isn't doing either of these things. This is a pretty small price increase, and they're not presenting it as anything other than an unfortunate effect of rising costs.
How are those "reasonable"?

The purpose of a sale is to find out who wants something. That's the economic system we use.

Aimlessly asking around works when you want to know if your cousin wants your old sofa before you craigslist it; but is just ridiculous in any larger context.
I moved to Rome and got a job at a small Italian company with just a handful of other people. I'd never studied Italian before (but French and Latin, yes) and just simply turning up and having to struggle through reading and writing emails in Italian, talking to people in Italian, even terribly broken and incorrect Italian, has done for me in 6 months what would have taken about 8 years of non-intensive study. My grammar isn't great but that's for lack of actively studying it, I'm too busy. Even still, I self-correct all the time and my conversational and comprehension skills are comparatively through the roof. There really is no substitute for immersion and practice. The more familiar with something you become, the more you start to recognise patterns and where your own styles fall down -- you start to notice that others use certain prepositions in a context where you'd use a different one, and you check and self-correct. All the time you're getting better and more comfortable with the whole process; listening, speaking, pronunciation, stringing more and more complex sentences together. It's a holistic process and there is simply no substitute for jumping in the deep end, and the more organic and 'real' it can be, the better. A stale classroom a few times a week is almost doing you a disservice by making you think you're studying -- you might be better off saving your time until you can commit yourself to it properly (for e.g. reading a newspaper every day, speaking for an hour every day with a native speaker, reading and writing in forums/IRC in that language).
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"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

There is nothing in the 4th Amendment that says anything about an expectation of privacy. Besides phone metadata IS private. It is only shared with the person placing the call, the phone company, and the recipient of the call. It is not publicly available. Just because I share something with someone else does not mean it is no longer private, just that it is private between myself and that other person.
For most folks in this position, particularly with 4 young children, cryogenics is not exactly at the top of their priority list.

Cryogenics might be an interesting "hail mary" for someone without a dependent family, but it seems crass suggesting it in this context.
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Yeah I fail to see the problem. When I left my salaried job to start my own business I applied for our state provided healthcare (MA) as my income was almost non existent. As my income increased I got bumped from plan to plan adding cost along the way. If you actually have $0 in income, Medicaid or the like sounds appropriate.
I know that(I've lived in countries that were at the time last on the list).

But did they survey North Koreans to discuss said perception ?
Is "corrupt" really an equivalent of "bad and arbitrary and awfully run" ?

To me those are two different things.
... and you just hijacked this discussion about self-serving advice as an opportunity to plug your own book :)

I think it's fine to plug oneself when it's at the end of an ostensibly useful article but a bit more jarring in a "me too" comment. I think the more socially acceptable thing to do is to put your book in your profile and mention that you're working on it. Those who are interested will find it easily. Opinions on this vary, of course.
While this makes sense it may have to do what the poster above you said

Lastly, I believe all electronics on the plane must be on a breaker circuit in case of electrical shorts so that pilots :can isolate and turn off faulty circuits.
Pretty cool data, but doesn't reveal anything too insightful into peoples' gambling behaviors regarding sports. People are prone to a game's intangible momentum, who knew?
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Trying to explain intervention there, say I have an agreement with AT&T that they maintain records of my calls strictly for billing and then dispose of them, then doing something else with the records is intervening (in the sense that undisclosed attention is somehow being directed at records of my calls). It was not a good way to say it.
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The Brochure is only one page and has no information about methodology. The most info I could find was "The CPI reflects the views of observers from around the world, including experts living and working in the countries and territories evaluated." from http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/in_detail
The fertility rate in the UK is below 2.0.

The US has a similar story, fertility rate below 2.0 plus migration from the third world results in net population growth, even though the population of the US is no longer "exploding".
My product isn't tech-related[0], and my (re)launch didn't net me $58 G's, but I had great results when I relaunched it.

The site was running for years, but without any grand purpose or vision. Then I decided to completely revamp it, open it up as a platform for other cartoonists, and focus on a mission (help cartoonists make money). I wrote about this rebirth[1] and got an amazing response--24 hrs on the front page, lots of love and feedback. (And one minor snafu that cost me a few hundred bucks.)

I have another post sitting in draft mode about the exact results of that relaunch, including metrics, analysis, and discussion on getting qualitative product feedback.

[0] http://www.gagcartoons.com

[1] http://www.gkogan.co/blog/creating-new-business-model-cartoo...
It might be different in different part of public administration.

I spend time in Transylvania, Romania. I love to be here for the food, the people and the nature (there is a certain lack of seas, sadly).

That said, the country is a corrupt piece of sh-t. (I like to say: "The Romanians should shoot more than two politicians next time.")

But the police seems quite good. The rest of the justice systems (courts etc) are said to be a horror story that would need a plutoon of Kafkas to describe.
No, it's not. America was formed by European immigrants remember? Each sought out their own place. The Bayou, NY City, Texas, North Dakota, San Fransico… All with their own culture. This struck me as I drove from New Orleans through Alabama. I couldn't even understand the Alabama-english..
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Hopefully they'll use it to make Dota 2 for Linux comparable to Dota 2 for Windows :)

Right now it doesn't perform well at all (using 2x more memory and being significantly slower on Intel GPUs) , and still comes with an annoying sound bug (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/770)
I think the problem he is having is with how to get to that point. There is a lot of setup to get to the point of just being able to hit the build and run button in Xcode. Of course, once that work is out of the way it's super easy.
I would argue that debugging is also infinitely easier in the Android world, since plugging a phone into USB and authorizing ADB gives you full control to see everything on the phone. You can get full logs and debug control over the hardware. You can push and pull stack traces and files to and from the device with a single, three operand command line and obtaining hardware screenshots requires only a click in IDE.

Android also has a plethora of debug options hidden in a special device settings menu that can be hugely helpful for troubleshooting performance issues.
Really cool.I've been working on semantic models for sometime.
At my work we do loads of spreadsheets+docs+ other things which are supposed to communicate ideas.But unfortunately it never seems to communicate the ideas as is.Take an example.I were to a market to buy some vegetables.As soon as the shop keeper says '1 Kg is Rs 20', it immediately communicates how much i'll need to pay.Its because we all share the common formal semantic for maths we get to ship ideas easily.But not so in financial software(where i work).Ideas take spreadsheets+word-docs+experts to have a call on!Can't it be simpler?Like the visual realization of the spread sheet example shows it can be simpler!
I wonder where they get their data, I feel that the community could come up with a better ranking algorithm than the square distance formula that they give
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The amount of storage required for storing all of the call recordings (GSM, VoIP, land-line) are currently available. For example, Speex [1] can compress voice even in 2kbps. So storing everything e.g. in 8kbps you can store 916259 hours (104 years) of voice in just one 3TB disk.

[1] http://speex.org/
They pay corp tax on the profit they earn in their UK's operations. Just like every other company with operations in the UK.

What percentage of your revenue do you pay in corporate taxes? None! You only pay a percentage of profit. (extremely thin for Amazon) They base in Luxembourg to benefit from UK laws and EU regulation. The UK media and government quoting billions in revenue is meaningless. They're trying to stir you up. They would relatively nothing in corp tax relative to their other tax footprint (payroll, vat, etc) and would absolutely spend it all to avoid doing so.
For anyone doing GLSL work, here's a shader debugger that is quite useful: http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/glsldevil/

Would love to see someone with resources (i.e. Valve) somehow maintain it (or do something similar).

Here's an open source fork: http://glsl-debugger.github.io/
Benny's American accent in Chinese is thick (the tones are often wrong on individual words), and his speech is halting, but even with the mistakes in grammar and vocabulary choice, I can understand him. (I am an American native speaker of English who has been learning Chinese as a second language since I was a teenager in the 1970s. My HN user profile discloses other languages I have studied over the years.) So, yeah, I guess he's doing not half badly. You won't fail to notice that Benny speaks MUCH more slowly than the native speaker of Chinese he "interviews," and after the prepared remarks he uses to open up the interview, and a few personal stories about himself, he hardly interacts with the native speaker of Chinese except to say "uh-huh." (You will also not fail to notice that the Chinese woman he is interviewing knows English, and presumably has spoken Chinese to other Americans with thick accents before.)

I think the rule of language learning in the blog post that has the most plausibility is "#8 – Embrace mistakes." (The interview subject basically says this to Benny in the interview, that he has a good habit of immediately using the language he learns, which he learns to use, and uses bravely.) I know an American man whose first visit to east Asia was simply to use up a one-way portion of an airplane ticket a friend gave him. He arrived in Taiwan in 1982 not knowing a word of Chinese, and having a thick south Boston (specifically Quincy, I think) accent that made his English sound strange to most Americans who met him. But he was very bold in striking up conversations with local people in Taiwan, and practiced his Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) relentlessly, so he gradually outpaced a lot of more shy Americans in his actual communication proficiency. He eventually found work in a high-tech company operated mostly by Hong Kong Chinese people, and has had a very satisfying career working both in east Asia and on the west coast of the United States. I was DELIGHTED to remake acquaintance with him by LinkedIn a few years ago and to endorse his language ability. He earned it.

Of course Benny is promoting his new book, and here is a link to some press coverage generated by his publicity efforts:

http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/13/benny-lewis-the-man-who-says-y...

Perhaps the statement in the article, "Lewis says: ‘The problem here, though, is that if you have such high criteria for fluency, then I have to confess, I’m not even fluent in English, my native language’" helps put his claims in context.
ESPN Magazine recently had a "conspiracy theories" issue, in which it explored (among other things) the long-held, popular theory that basketball is fixed. College basketball, in particular. IIRC, the preconditions for a fixed game tended to be:

- Non-tournament, regular season play (b/c not as many bettors and media would be paying attention)

- The favorite team is favored by 11 or more points

- The favorite team is dominated by one or two very strong players

If one player controls his team's play, and he's favored by 11+ points, he has the incentive, the ability, and the margin to shave points without risking losing the game. With a smaller point spread, on the other hand, it's too risky. For reasons I can't recall, an 11-point spread was the magic number. It provided just enough cushion to cover shaving, without jeopardizing the nominal win.

When analysts looked at the history of games that met these criteria, they found consistently abnormal distributions of outcomes in favor of the winning team, but just south of the spread. They estimated that about 3-4% of games in the study sample are quite likely to have been fixed.

At any rate, it would be interesting to see bigger data sets plied for this sort of thing.
I came here to ask this exact question. Bitcoins will be on their way next week.
> Um... isn't the exact opposite true, namely that under the current system a poor person can't even afford to win a lawsuit and thus have to avoid them at all cost, no matter how certain they are of winning?

Not as plaintiff, where there own legal costs are less than the amount at issue.

As a defendant, maybe, or a plaintiff in a case where the costs of prosecution outweigh the potential recovery, yes. (The former is clearly undesirable, the latter less clearly so.)

OTOH, with this change, it makes the position of the (largely mythical) certain-to-win party (plaintiff or defendant) somewhat better, while making a significantly less wealthy party worse off in pretty much every other case.

The outline of the current system, where awards of costs have a higher standard than just "whoever wins also gets costs". That's not to say that there aren't tweaks to the details of when costs and/or additional sanctions for abuses are awarded that would make the current system better, but switching to loser pays as a rule isn't one of them.
As of January 1st, I'm on a non-exchange plan that I'm only able to get because of the ACA (I was previously uninsurable on the individual market due to preexisting conditions). I'm off-exchange because the best plan for my particular situation isn't offered on the exchange on my county, and I wouldn't be eligible for a subsidy anyway. (You do know that if you really don't want medicaid and can afford the premiums, you could just go to an insurer off-exchange, right?)

I have family with limited income who went through the quick signup process on Washington's exchange site and got put on Medicaid. Card and related information showed up soon thereafter. No big deal.

Seems like you've got some sort of mental block. Your comments haven't mentioned any practical problem, yet you seem unable to get past some unstated obstacle.
I'll stand in line for a TL;DR of the methodology. Another thing bothering me is that corruption perception is somewhat relative. In some countries it is normal behaviour to bribe police agents or administration employees. It comes with the job, as a perk and is hardly considered as corruption.
This is less likely to change the ranks of the countries, rather the dynamic of the perceived corruption levels.
Go has MULTIPLE compilers, because Go is a language spec, not a compiler. Hence GCCGO (which for example, takes advantage of some of those GCC optimizations) can be used.

Additionally, in most benchmarks, Go does fairly well and is young and constantly improving: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

You will also find Nimrod / Jester in those benchmarks, and can compare the performance for yourself.
A lot of US employers do same. But it is not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.

Any case similar to OP will become problematic. When you get terminally ill you will eventually lose your job. Thanks to COBRA you can keep health insurance, but not the life, disability and long-term care insurance plans. And getting new term life policy at this stage is not really an option.
Like hire someone to sit inside it all day?
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VC++, if the number of characters to write is exactly equal to count, will return count without inserting a null:

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There's lots of cool start-up culture in Denmark. (Podio, Zendesk, Zyb, etc)

While the system isn't always too kind to start-ups (high tax etc) they still do exist.

I've been working as a developer in Denmark for 7 years now (currently Xamarin) and haven't had a problem finding interesting projects.
It's been a while since anybody had a totally new idea
I am still daily picking up new English idioms That's because we're making them up ;)
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The article closes with this idea:

@sbellware we should bury agile, mourn the dead, and get on with establishing something that is designed to be resistant to being so easily undermined

https://twitter.com/sbellware/status/443397344436817920

Which makes me wonder, is it even possible to create a "thing" (idea, movement, methodology, system, whatever) that is resistant to being undermined? I don't think so. It seems like a natural cost to attaching a name to something.

This is why I try not to talk about "Agile" these days, but rather just to try to discuss the specific principles that have proven valuable for me.
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