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> Believe it or not, these people exist.

Their position makes even less sense than the other one, the creation of stable family units, and thus the provision of legal and financial advantages to these units trough official recognition of them is usually considered a social good, and the government "being involved" as the provider of the aforementioned advantages is sensible.
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No decompiling, just observing the game with a timer. I used a lot of community wiki/forum information as well. There has been some really amazing research done by the community [1][2], to figure out optimal resource harvesting strategies, and I used quite a bit of data from that.

[1] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Mining_Minerals

[2] http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/140055-scientif...
I believe the point was for you, with all of your infinite battery wisdom, to review the patent and possibly even use that to back up your hyperbolic "obviously snake oil" claim, but I'm not holding my breath.
With the combined search/URL bar in Chrome, every single keystroke of every single URL you type into your browser is sent to Google. With a separate search field, you get the advantages of auto-completion of search entries without the privacy issues of leaking every URL you type.
I implemented this in JS some time ago to get into JS. I visualized the carving of the maze and still think it's pretty cool to look at it.

Here's the link: https://googledrive.com/host/0Bzr7EVRN_St0UkhIdUdrQ3o4T0E/in... (might load slowly in the beginning, give it a bit of time)

Source: https://github.com/arya-s/A1/blob/master/js/A1Maze.js
They themselves say so: "requirements drive selection of specific high-performance materials and design details that would preclude us from using many of the features you see in these options for the Z-2 suit"
That url you gave is broken. a typo? Curious to see it...
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1. Many companies are run by CEOs that probably don't approve of legal marijuana, and also don't do drug testing. I think this link is tenuous at best.

2. Actively rallying against same-sex marriage shows a level of commitment above just a general disproval of the idea. "I will vote against it" is a weaker position than, "I will put money into making sure that it doesn't happen."

3. Issues like the environment, and health care, while important, aren't discriminatory towards specific groups of people. Would you rather that health care and environmental-sustainability were solved issues, but discrimination wasn't?

4. Do you feel that people who only ask about (e.g.) health care issues are implicitly accepting of discrimination?
Of course not, but then again I don't consider intentional physical harm & objections to marriage even remotely comparable situations.

Latent effects of refusing marriage like lack of insurance coverage leading to preventable deaths would be a much better match though. And to that, I still believe conversation is a better tool than outright condemnation & intolerance.
> It relies on young people buying expensive plans instead of paying the relatively small fines.

IIRC, the fines are only temporarily small.
My point was actually that Keurig's own cups might fail validation 0.x% of the time causing angry customers.
Which issues would remain private political matters?

Short answer: none, if somebody disagrees with them.

This is another sign of our increasingly polarized (and politicized) society.

If Eich supported Prop 8 in California, then clearly he's a homophobic tool of the Koch Brothers.

If Eich opposed Prop 8, then clearly he's a leftist degenerate and tool of George Soros.

I'd like to propose an addition to Shakespeare's list: after the lawyers, we go after the damn partisans.
It's actually an interesting question: When does a political opinion become untenable?

Slavery was once a political opinion. Women's suffrage as well. There are many other more extreme examples from abroad.

Calling a position political doesn't absolve its owner from consequences.

I think in the Bay Area, opposing gay marriage has crossed over, and is no longer simply a political opinion upon which decent people may disagree.
Is being graceful the same as being against other people having loving relationships that are different than the majority? Because Obama was against it? I really do not understand this perspective.
They probably reboot them in batches, so not all of them were unavailable at the same time.
>Still, it's his site, so his call to make. //

It's not his. He certainly has a lot of control over it though. Debate/Culture isn't owned by those who facilitate it. I find the idea that this is solely pg's plaything to be damaging.

>quoting the site rules //

De facto standards don't necessarily have documented support. Down-voting for disagreement seems fundamentally wrong [to me] on any site intended to be more than an echo chamber - unless there is a parallel means to promote quality - combined with the established [it seems amongst many long term users] and upheld viewpoint of voting for quality causes me to promulgate that position.
been using this since the start and the evolution of the product is just amazing. The team is doing a wonderful job at simplifying everything around a very good core experience.

I hardly open Instagram these days and don't use Snapchat, but have been using Povio 5+ times/day over the last year.
FWIW: I don't work 70 to 80 hours a week. My best estimate would be 35 to 45, with variances depending on what is happening in life.

The more useful numbers for calculating successful implementation of my ideas are 8 and 5. I have 8 years in the game, and get +/- 5% compounding improvements a month. This happens fairly reliably whether I work 20 hour weeks or 90 hour weeks and, after a few years in the salaryman salt mines, I know which I'd rather pick.
These are excellent, powerful computers. The hardware is not special other than being a known good Linux configuration.

Also, I'd like to add zareason.com, who I've had a great experience with.
> anyone who opposed civil rights for blacks

Or interracial marriages, since that's much closer to the issue.
You hit the nail on the head with marriage definitions.

A bigger problem, not admitted by the religious side of this debate, is that the legal definition of marriage is what grants many states rights. To some extent that some states would have to rewrite their constitutions to no longer honor marriage as an institution.

I don't think the end game legally would end very well for the people stating that "marriage" is a religious term. It might be in common speech, but given we're talking about granting legal rights its about as relevant as ice cubes to an eskimo. Push this matter too hard and its likely that marriage as a legal term or definition goes away entirely.

I'm all for it but pushing the religious points too far will only cause more issues for those fighting via that angle. (no i'm not a lawyer)
Not to appear to be piling on, but no one[0] has yet mentioned that this is the case in the United States, as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia#Decision

[0]: OK, someone did while I was getting that citation. The link's still valuable, though.
Sure, arbitration requires a trusted third party. Look though, the situation is a huge improvement over what we currently have:

1. Arbitration services can be decoupled from payment services. With multisig, buyer and seller get to choose an arbiter they trust based on reputation, jurisdiction, experience arbitrating similar kinds of transactions, etc. This is an unbundling of what credit card companies do today and opens up an entirely new and competitive market. As your scenario shows, reputation will be everything for these new companies. Evidence of foul play will be disastrous. However, in the less-than-competitive market of bundled payment and arbitration services we have today, evidence of foul play in arbitration doesn't even seem to make a dent (consider PayPal).

2. Which brings up another point: arbitration with multisig is safer for buyer and seller. In their dual role as arbiter, PayPal can and does freeze funds in transit indefinitely. A Bitcoin 2-of-3 multisig arbiter cannot do this if both buyer and seller agree there was no problem. The arbiter is simply outvoted.

3. The flip side of that is: arbiters don't have to get involved at all in the vast majority of transactions that aren't disputed. They don't have to process payments. They don't have to transfer money. They don't need all that infrastructure. They only get involved in settling disputes, in which case they cast their vote by signing the transaction to the buyer or seller. This should make arbitration services cheaper and more efficient on the whole.

4. Finally, unlike current payment systems, Bitcoin makes arbitration services optional. Whole classes of transactions suddenly become cheaper because of this. In the current system we're paying for arbitration services we don't even need. I'm not going to dispute that $3 charge for a cup of coffee. If you're friends and family making a larger payment to me, I don't need arbitration either.

Like Eli Dourado, I also think we're on the verge of some very interesting things happening in arbitration:

"What excites me most about the decentralized arbitration afforded by multisignature transactions is that it could be the beginnings of a Common Law for the Internet. The plain, ordinary Common Law developed as the result of competing courts that issued opinions basically as advertisements of how fair and impartial they were. We could see something similar with Bitcoin arbitration. If arbitrators sign their transactions with links to and a cryptographic hash of a PDF that explains why they ruled as they did, we could see real competition in the articulation of rules."

http://elidourado.com/blog/bitcoin-arbitration/
Except in this case, the median Californian voted for Prop 8.
Non-Tech Founder shutters MVP after $120k F&F invesment
The Air's battery already lasts 12+ hours. How much demand could there possibly be for people to stretch it out even further? HyperJuice (and I would guess others) is already out there and I've never even seen one of those things in the wild.
FB's Sandberg speaks out about tech industry wage fixing
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Personally I find Scala to be more elegant than OCaml. In OCaml OOP is a strange add-on, whereas in Scala it's an elegant mix.
Again, technology drives prices down not up.
> Gays and straights are treated the same - both are free to marry people of the opposite sex. Gays may prefer not to do that, but they do have the legal right.

Yep, blacks and whites are treated the same — both are free to marry in their race. Blacks may prefer not to do that, but they do have the legal right.
It certainly is a screed - you can practically feel the spittle as the guy expresses indignation that anyone could possibly disagree with the teachings of his own church. Cohen seems to have made no effort to understand what the other side says, but is still sure they must be evil and wrong to say it. In short, he's "projecting".

That said: it's "Godwin's" law, and that law is about comparing one's opponent to Hitler or the Nazis. Comparing one's opponent to a Holocaust denier isn't quite the same thing. I agree that invoking Holocaust deniers, just like invoking Hitler, is in this context a sign of desperation and ignorance - it's something one might do when you have no good arguments against their position, as a substitute for actual thought and engagement. So I do agree that people who shout "denier!" probably ought to be shunned and not engaged with, but if we're going to call that principle a law, it needs a different name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
> They would be better off economically

Considering the experience of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Italy, etc. in the EU thus far, I highly doubt that conclusion.
There's only a "clear trend" on homosexuality if you limit your timeframe.

Attitudes toward homosexuality in ancient Greece, for example, were pretty liberal. They were also really different from anything we have today, such that it defies putting it anywhere on a spectrum that modern folks would be familiar with.

Society moves in many directions, often simultaneously, and we should be careful not to confuse the movement of the last century or so with either inevitability or rightness.

(I personally think that consenting adults should be allowed to have whatever sort of sex and marriage they feel like, I just object to the idea that there's a clear trend on the issue overall.)
Being self employed and living a very nomadic life (1.5 years with all my belongings in a 70l backpack), this service has been incredibly useful for me since there are a lot of services requiring me to have a snail mail address. If you are a Swiss citizen, I can only recommend getting an account.

NB: I have been in the same bureau as the original project lead and consulted in several aspects of the project.

Therefore I have been a customer for the last 4 years, with three years not being associated with the Swiss Post as employee anymore. I couldn't be happier with the service as it provides me with snail mail addresses in four countries whilst I only did a single payment for those - now I only pay by mail volume.
Great deck. Congrats on your success. I briefly met your sister in a ruby class a couple of years ago and was impressed by the work ethic both of you displayed.

Could you talk more about how you got from "nobody cares" to the first funding that attracted your CTO? Was that the $20/day in FB ads?
I'm wondering what happens to botneted subscribers from which the attacks originate. Is any attempt made to locate them and contact their ISPs? I think there should be, and subscribers found to be participating in the attack (presumably unknowingly) should be disconnected immediately. After all it's the subscribers' responsibility to keep their computers botnet free. Launching a DOS attack, even unknowingly, is probably violating the contract they signed with their ISP.
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Given that it will always be beneficial to work if you need extra money you take those jobs. It's always beneficial to work. But those jobs are disappearing anyway.
Customers, especially non-technical ones, don't give a crap.

The fact that this is on a Github Gist, as opposed to a static page (like on s3), suggests an audience that would understand those subtleties.
What does this binary format actually look like on disk? Is this documented anywhere other than in the code that reads and writes it?

I do remember a description of it in some slides a few months back, but i can't find them now.
I guess I don't find much of a problem with this--or rather, I don't think "my URLs aren't being sent to Google" is much of an aid in protecting my privacy; any number of intermediary routers could log the same information for all non-HTTPS traffic (which is most websites where the URLs are at-all telling), and personally-interested attackers are just as willing to tap my line as they are to ask Google for my browsing history.

What I'm really saying is, if you think something is important enough to use any sort of a private-browsing mode? Spend the extra few seconds and open up Tor instead.
The denial is the problem - the fact that people who do not live anymore committed a genocide is certainly nothing that people living now should be held responsible for. But a nation has to embrace its history even if it was a predecessing state - the Third Reich is different from today's Germany as much as Turkey is different from the Ottoman Empire.

If you deny Holocaust publicly in Germany you are in serious legal trouble - but in Turkey it is the opposite - you are in trouble when you publicly claim that a genocide on Turkey's terrain took place.
They should launch when they are safer than the average driver.
Wait, how did simple access to google DNS circumvent their twitter ban?

They had blocked twitter... merely by removing it from some DNS servers that they thought were the only ones used by people in Turkey? Or something?

That seems like a particularly ineffectual way to try and block twitter. And I don't understand, if they have the ability to _actually_ block Google DNS... why don't they just do the same thing to actually block twitter?

This makes no sense, I must be missing something. Anyone have the scoop?
I came up with an idea when I was on the top of a snowboard ramp(i was a snowboard pro), trying to capture the moment and share it with my friends over Instagram. But it felt like bragging, I didn’t want to collecting likes, comments and build my ego. Than I thought - if my friends would ask me where I am right now, I would be glad to show them and it would feel totally unintrusive!

So that was the initial idea for pull photo sharing app!
If you replaced the word "gay" with the word "interracial", would you be receptive to the argument that we should excuse this sort of bigotry because in the past many Americans thought that way?

Of course you wouldn't, so don't try to excuse it in this case.
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That is not the impression I got from the article. No logic in the system cares how long it has been up, not directly at least. What matters is drift from its time reference, which is a function of uptime.

Various modules in a complex system like this each have their own clock, which I will refer to generically as a real-time binary counter (RTBC), which the module uses as its event time reference. The RTBC starts at 0 when the module comes up. At some point shortly after coming up the module will check in with its controller, which will send a time-of-day (TOD) message. The module links the TOD message to a particular RTBC tick to create its time reference. At this point the time is free to start drifting relative to the actual wall clock time, until the system is power cycled again.
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Pretty impressive if it works as flawlessly as in the article. Anyone know how the debugging capabilities compare to the standard VS ones? And the standard gdb + whatever gui frontend ones?
The scanning center is based in one of the three post relay centers that Switzerland has. To get into one of these, you need a batch.

Then, inside this building (which is huge, like three soccer arenas), there is a glass building that has yet another batch only access with revolving doors that only has space for one person.

So getting the mail out of there (aka stealing) will be hard.

As for the concern that some person other than yourself will read your mail, that is true. As a customer, you will sign a voucher that you are ok with specific Swiss Post employees being able to read your mail.
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I think if he had thought better of it he would have released some sort of statement on it. Until then he actively tried to prevent equality and should be called out on it.
I would lay long odds that upwards of 90% of the U.S. citizens taking Eich to task on this thread voted for Barack Obama.

So being opposed to gay marriage disqualifies you from being the CEO of a tech company, but not from being President of the United States.

That's a...convenient...position. Just not a rational one.

Personally, I don't think the government (and certainly not the Federal government) has any business being involved with marriage in the first place, other than providing a registry for the contracts and a court system to enforce them.
But is this new technology? Have they really figured out something that other battery companies don't know?

This charger takes 2.25 hours to reach 80% or 4.5 hours to reach 100% capacity. Could it simply be that they're charging more slowly?

Maybe other battery makers know about this, but they don't implement it because they (and consumers) don't value using the battery effectively. Hoping for some lithium-charging experts (I know there are people out there with this as their primary research focus) to weigh in.
Marriage is not solely a tradition, or there wouldn't be a problem here, as anybody could claim themselves to be married and the world would go on. Instead, it's tied heavily into the legal system, as well as into policies of organisations across the world.

When people say that gay people are not to marry their partners, that is discrimination under the legal system, entirely ignoring any cultural aspects.
Because, obviously, Eich is a witch and must be burned.
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> It is also worth noting that the technology isn't in question, just the regulations. That means it is just a matter of when, not if.

Hemp. Superior is many ways, illegal for a century and counting.
There are different types of DDoS attacks.

Each level of the OSI model can be attacked in a DDoS, and its still of Denial of Service attack. I.E.: You can hold down a pre-2009 windows server with as little as 10-15 packets per second, totally less then a kilobyte per second.

Yes if your have a 10/100/1000 nic and your getting 20Gb/s then yeah nothing's getting in. Or if you have a 10Gb/s router, then 20Gb/s will freeze the whole data center. But if you have a 100Gb/s router with a 4x bounded 10Gb/s nics. And your service is down, then it isn't your hardware, but your software. Your kernel, sockets.h, are still processing packets, you can still be attacked.
try searching for ado.net. Granted this might be msft's fault :)
"It's not the purpose of UBI to get EVERYONE to work."

Never made any claim - or implication, so far as I can see - that it was.

'The purpose is to get as many as possible to work and not have to deal with controlling who "deserves" what, who cheats etc.'

I think the purpose is to ensure that everyone has some basic resources to build upon, to stabilize consumption, to shift power a bit toward labor in the jobs market, and to provide something of a safety net. It is preferable to conditional assistance because it doesn't have any cliffs and there's less room for political nonsense than with targeted assistance, but that's not really the purpose of the program - those are equally attributes of a system with no UBI but also no other welfare programs.

"It's totally fine that some people don't work as long as the majority of people will."

I agree with the sentiment, not the precise formulation. It is totally fine if some people don't work as long as enough work that we can produce enough to meet demand. What portion of the population that is depends on a whole lot of factors (and in the longest term will probably shrink). I don't see that it has any particular relationship with 50% ("the the majority of the people") - currently it probably needs to be quite a bit more than that.

"In many ways we already have a form of BI today, it's just conditional and have the negative effect of branding people, keeping them in their social status."

I wouldn't call it "a form of BI", but I would say that many of the supposed evils of BI are already present in our current system.
Agreed. But it's hypocritical to be intolerant in the name of inclusiveness.
At some point Obama might have to take an actual stand on something, and then follow up on it. Him being a politician doesn't absolve him of his uselessness.

Last example: ooh Putin, you're going to face costs for these shenanigans!
Simple, fun & fun. I love it.
Freditup was asking why this is different than questioning a CEO's political views on abortion. My answer: because his donation suggests an irrational bias against his employees.

I'm not arguing that Eich should or should not have the job. I don't have enough data to say. But I am saying that apparently having an irrational bias against gay people is legitimately problematic for gay employees, and is therefore material in considering his fitness for CEO in a way that isn't true for other political views.
I fervently wish that arguments that rely wholly on self-reference were illegal. For the love of Gödel.