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Life on other planets will be extremely different from us. Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine a planet like earth, where evolution follows exactly the same path, with the same species, the only difference being that it is 2% older. The earth is 4.5 Billion years old, so 2% is 90 million years.

According to Wikipedia [1] 90 million years ago is about the time placental mammals appeared. So in that time frame evolution pulled mammals in directions as diverse as bats, whales, and elephants. So the human decedents on the other planet will not look at all like us...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolutionary_histor...
I'm not sure what you are trying to do - but I almost fell for it.

First, I specifically stated "3100mAH NCR-18650s" which is a specific part, not a form factor which anyone who handles these batteries would know - which was your first (confused) reply.

Second, from everywhere I have read, like (1) these are just standard cells.

Lastly, I was originally stating that I would feel unsafe being around this technology. I did not say "the technology is unsafe."

If it makes you feel better, Tesla as a company gives me great hope and I am rooting for them. I do not have ties to anyone at all.

It would have been nice if you could have simply pointed to some factual reason (like breser did above) why I shouldn't be worried.

(1) http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1084682_what-goes-into-a...
The author misunderstands just how much people care about screen size and completely misses the point of a watch. Choice is not confusing in that product category - people want something PERSONAL and that isn't likely to be the exact same thing their friends are wearing.
"Under identical conditions."

In other words - not in reality.
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Pyston 0.2 released with experimental GIL-free mode
> the same old regurgitated boy-who-thinks-he-has-nothing-is-actually-a-great-wizard storyline

How many comic book movies actually follow this formula? surely not most of them.
SMS isn't going to get good bandwidth, given the path it uses over the mobile network.

But I've thought about building HTTP-over-WhatsApp. Mobile providers here offer prepaid contracts where you don't pay for WhatsApp access, regardless of your balance or traffic remaining.
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There is something very important missing in your "nature vs. nurture" worldview, which is: people can and do think for themselves and thereby determine their own values.

For instance, you attribute the grandparent's point of view to "biological essentialism." The grandparent said no such thing. He said: certain people are prone to crime. That is true. Those people are acting out their values and their ideas about the world and about how they can best survive and cope within it. I don't agree that everyone who is a drug criminal would necessarily find some other avenue of crime, but to suggest that they would is not a claim to biological essentialism.

> A hundred and sixty years ago, millions of people in the United States actively participated in a monstrous crime perpetrated against an entire race of people, the equivalent of what in the modern world would be multiple felonies per day across their lifetimes. It was certainly antisocial. Was that destiny? Were all those people just inherently bad? If so, what happened to them? Why doesn't modern Georgia have most whites being serial felons?

What happened is the spread of ideas about human rights from the Enlightenment. Slavery has been the norm for 99% of human history. The Southerners you talked about just didn't have the great newfangled idea of people having rights. That was a real intellectual achievement that took humans thousands of years.
Relevant Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1317811

Relevant upstream discussion: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg282340.html
I remember when Steve gave an interview and said that nobody wanted to watch movies on an iPod. The next iPod came out with video playback, and films came to the iTunes Store.
I live in an area that grows a lot of apples - in fact the Honeycrisp was developed only a few miles from my home. But I don't think I've ever seen a locally grown Red Delicious. As a kid I fell for the storyline "they're delicious", but as I got older I realized just how poor those ones from the supermarket are. I avoid them at all costs now.
I've never asked someone I liked what their family income is. Does anyone actually care what a prospective partner's net worth/income is? That seems bizarre.
Right, but had you read the discussion this thread is about, you can see that Debian is working on a roadmap that includes binary drivers, shipped with the OS, available during the install.

Linus has traditionally done a poor job of ensuring that filesystems will work well in production, ext4 being a _fantastic_ example of that. I appreciate the work he does, but I don't quite give a fuck if he is scanning the source for my filesystem. I've seen more ext4 filesystems go corrupt than all others combined.

Red Hat and IBM can, equally, kiss my ass, I've never found either to be reliable.

I don't see how DKMS is really an artificial barrier to run, test, deploy, and support something. It is, in fact, the opposite of a barrier - it's a tool.
Not that you're saying it is, but it probably isn't ideal to use a programming language that is able to become mainstream. It seems likely that the ideal language should be (at least, at first) very difficult for an average mind to grasp. A language that inherently forces its users to be either 'naturally smart' or 'doggedly learned' will produce a better signal-noise ratio as a by-product: in open-source offerings, engineer-employees, and, at a micro level, within the engineer's code.

With that said, whenever readability is lost for the sake of ego, that is a loss. I'm not accusing the author of that though.
I don't see this could EVER be economical. Even wholesale SMS (not Twilio/Plivo/Nexmo/Etc) can still cost $0.001 / SMS. There is simply no way they can operate the proxy/gateway profitably.
While I like most parts of ZFS, these days BTRFS is both stable and performs well with a decent feature set. We moved from ZFS and EXT4 to BTRFS for a good portion of our production servers last year - and we haven't looked back.
We knew plenty more than "thermodynamics" about losing weight before we knew about thermodynamics. I'm not saying "we need more study before anyone should make any changes to eating habits" - of course we need to operate off the best understanding we have (we certainly can't refrain from eating until we know everything :-P). My point is that reducing things to "thermodynamics, duh" is not doing that.
I think the libertarian position is:

1. in a free market,

2. with seller reputation,

3. where the seller is the direct producer/grower/manufacturer, rather than the producer retailing through many false, reputationless identities,

4. "fair-trade" and "conflict-free" drugs will simply outcompete the other kinds.

Which is to say, if the consumer is willing to pay $X, then any money $N used to pay for guards and guns and drug mules (the "conflict" part) is $N less available for actual chemists and equipment and materials.

The guards and guns and drug mules are a sound investment for A. putting down rival operations to ensure a monopoly, or B. avoiding state action at scale, but if A is made impossible (by Tor) and B avoided by technological advances (running headless drug-manufacturing cells rather than a centralized organization), they cease to be rational investments.

Without these considerations, "conflict" drugs would have either a higher markup (decreasing marketshare), or a higher ratio of fake/cut product--a lower quality--meaning a worse reputation for the seller (decreasing marketshare). The conflict-free drugs would naturally rise to the top of an efficient marketplace.

The simplest comparison is another marketplace commodity which could, for all you know, be cut and low-quality all the time, but which very likely isn't: gasoline. Gas stations which sell at a higher markup go out of business. Gas stations which sell inferior product get a bad reputation, and go out of business. The market takes care of itself, without a regulator having to intercede at any point. (Commodities markets like this are in fact the shining example of where free markets are optimal for consumers, because they get very close to having the "complete information and distributed intelligence" that the Efficient Market Hypothesis assumes. The less commoditized the goods in a market are, the further from efficient it will be.)
It's such a shame... I like twitter so much. They just took so much money, they don't really have a choice right now, but to ride the train.
Classist and heterosexist. You're a real catch.
Not sure why this phone wasn't $399 off contract in the first place.

Amazon is repeating HP mistake of thinking they have product that is the same level as Apple and pricing it the same. The Touchpad was released at $499 the same as the Ipad 2 at the time.

For a company that is well known to have thin margins were they thinking $649 is something people were going to pay? Get the phone out with a lot of people using it and then sell the Fire phone 2 for $499 next time.
Well, that's what they say. Given that it could hurt their image, I'd say there's a conflict of interest. But that may be farfetched.

We just put up this thing this afternoon internally and though we'd sugar coat it and share it with the world.

Lastly, thanks for the tip on how we shouldn't harvest emails. But this is not in our plans. We never (and never will) spam random people.

Disclaimer: In case you haven't figured out, I work there.
She offered one such example where analytics told the team that users were using Like stickers often, “so we moved that feature so people can send in fewer taps.”

Oh, Facebook, that's your best coverup for the media? How cute. Or did she just tell me to go fuck myself? [1]

http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/fault-tolerance.png
The real lesson here is that, whether or not it's morally acceptable randomly drop a spoiler into an article, you probably shouldn't do it because it's an instant derail. We're not talking about the content anymore, now it's about the spoiler.
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This isn't exactly a new idea. Private clubs were banned in the Roman empire specifically because of the risk of collective action (they didn't want clubs to be the seed of a rebellion). We have correspondence from a governor to the emperor where the governor says (paraphrased, obviously), "a bunch of the men locally have put together a firefighting group, so if a building catches fire everyone shows up and helps put it out. This seems like a decent idea to me, is it OK?" The response is "absolutely not".
The last example in the more detailed notebook [0] linked from that page is also pretty cool, especially with the graphs. If you're familiar with Haskell or other similar languages, the code is fairly easy to read.

[0] http://indiana.edu/~ppaml/HakaruTutorial.html
Something similar has been done using Facebook chat (looks like it's Linux-only currently) - https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel
I used ZFSonLinux on my laptop and workstation for a couple of years now, with Ubuntu, without any major problems. When I tried to use it in production, I didn't get data loss but I hit problems:

* Upgrading is a crapshoot: Twice, it failed to remount the pool after rebooting, and needed manual intervention.

* Complete pool lockup: in an earlier version, the pool hung and I had to reboot to get access to it again. If you look through the issues on github, you'll see weird lockups or kernel whoopsies are not uncommon.

* Performance problems with NFS: This is partially due to the linux NFS server sucking, but ZFS made it worse. Used alot of CPU compared to solaris or freebsd, and was slow. Its even slow looping back to localhost.

* Slower on SSDs: ZFS does more work than other filesystems, so I found that it used more CPU time and had more latency on pure SSD-backed pools.

* There are alternatives to L2ARC/ZIL on linux, are built-in, and work with any filesystem, such as "flashcache" on ubuntu.

For these reasons, I think ZoL is good for "near line" and backups storage, where you have a large RAID of HDDs and need stable and checksummed data storage, but not mission critical stuff like fileservers or DBs.
I wonder if they could do some intelligent parsing of the content and just return a plain text version of what the user requests. It wouldn't work for everything, but for things where there are articles with a defined "content" it shouldn't be too hard.

In fact, isn't that what the "read it later" type apps do? I'll bet there is a free js library that already does the detection or you.
So... are the notes (and associated terms) open to the public? If so, where does one go about buying it?
Well, Apple is known for referencing Microsoft and PCs in its keynotes. I recall many references to competitors over the years. Even their commercials, with references to Intel and PCs.
Seriously! I'm in the middle of watching it too; What total BS!
Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.
Malpractice suits only make something like 1% of healthcare costs, and malpractice insurance is already everywhere.

This isn't measuring the right thing. Pretend that some lawyers managed to win a case locally that the "standard of care" for a shoulder injury was an MRI, even through there is no medical reason, because a bunch of doctors in one hospital did it for whatever reason.

Now all the doctors in town rapidly move to MRI'ing every shoulder injury so they don't get sued. This doesn't show up in the malpractice premium numbers.

"Standard of care" is strictly a one-way ratchet. If enough doctors in your town/county/field do something, you have to do it, too. You can have comparative results research as long as your arm showing it has no benefit (and even creates slight radiation risks) and it won't do you any good. "Standard of care" is the legal term of art, and it always increases, never decreases.

Two more pieces of evidence that lawsuits matter [1]

1. Vaccine manufacturers were going to stop making vaccines because the lawsuit risk was getting too high. (Vaccines do have risks, although minor.) The vaccine courts were set up and everyone seems pretty happy with it.

2. Hillary Clinton's health care plan from 1993 had a whole bunch of tort reform. This is not because the Clintons hated trial lawyers! But they didn't want the courts to be the ultimate arbiters of how much medical care someone should get. You would not be allowed to sue for malpractice without first going through an arbitration process.

[1] I'm not blaming everything on lawsuits. But you couldn't run an NHS-like system privately in the US.
Pretty cool.

This guy was living in a dumpster before it was hip:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-dumpst...

Also check out the film "Tiny" about people who build/live in tiny houses.
The only "valid" reason I saw in that list, it is because "Facebook is using my data" something that is stipulated in the license, so, in the end is not a valid reason. And how is G+ or Google in general better than this? Is not. And the same people hating Facebook for security reasons and yet use Google or an Android phone are not congruent with their ideas.

In other words, those people hate Facebook and they don't even know why.
I'm not suggesting anything is biological. But the guy who has never had a real job other than crime isn't not a "bad, antisocial person" just because you can ascribe his condition to his circumstances growing up. Nor can you say that the drug war created those circumstances.[1] The drug war didn't create these insular low-income communities that don't trust the police. It didn't create households where fathers abandon their kids. It didn't create the vacuum of social authority in these communities that is filled by the gangs.

Say you end the drug war, legalize everything so you can go into Wal-Mart for a hit of heroin. What happens? The gang members driving around shooting each other aren't going to go get jobs (there aren't any). Heck, you might dry up a lot of what little income flows into these communities.

[1] Very interesting set of graphs: http://www.newclarion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/homicid... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat... http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/images/11217607.0002.206-....

The first image is the number of homicides per capita. After hitting a minimum in the late 1950's, it starts increasing again in 1960. By the early 1970's, it's at historical highs (last seen in the 1930's). The second image is incarceration rate, which we can use as a proxy for the intensity of the drug war. Note how it's almost flat till about 1973-1974, and starts really increasing around 1975-1980. The third image is a comparison of America's murder rate to that of the U.K. Note how we have always been a dramatically more violent society throughout the entire 20th century.

The final thing to note is that the peak murder rates of the 1980's are similar to those of the 1930's. In other words, homicides went down dramatically in the 1940's and 1950's, but returned to their previous levels by the 1960's and 1970's. Don't be quick to ascribe the first peak to Prohibition, either. Prohibition lasted from 1920-1933. You can see it caused an increase in homicide rates, but the rate from 1900-1920 was already very high, and Prohibition didn't increase it that much relative to how much it went up from 1960 to 1980.

So what causes this pattern? Is it Prohibition or the Drug War? Or are those just relatively small effects on top of much larger phenomena? The social upheaval of the 1900's-1930's and of the 1960's to 1980's?
Where do you live? Location is everything, you shouldn't take it personally if someone in san fran or austin can find a job easily, those markets are on fire. It's a different story if you live in Kansas or Arkansas, you definitely shouldn't take it personally.

Some of the crappiest engineers I know have a plethora of offers coming in on a weekly basis, just because the supply/demand curve for tech workers is completely out of whack here in Dallas. Geography makes a big difference.
> My insurance monthly is 1/3 of my salary after taxes. Blue Cross through my employer.

Uh, that 4% is if I was self-employed. I pay $35/month through my employer.

> I tried to fall back on something from the ACA Web site, but because my employer offers insurance, I don't qualify for the better rates. Stupid rules.

The price I can get insurance for through the ACA website is the same as the unsubsidized cost of what I get through my employer. I suspect that is because we are a small company that is not getting a break from Blue Cross. I honestly don't know if I am benefitting from being in Texas, but I can buy a gold plan for $350/month.
Article content notwithstanding, calling it the "Amazon Fizzle" is a great burn.

As a prime subscriber, I'd feel that I get more value for my subscription if they finally made their streaming work on Android devices (I'm not sure if it works on iOS). There is no app and the last time I checked, firefox on android also wouldn't play the content. This phone just reinforces in me the idea that I shouldn't renew my subscription, because the free streaming is elusive because it doesn't play on my platform of choice, only that of amazon's choosing
It would be lovely if the next / previous buttons stayed in the same place between slides.
Dalvik the runtime is dead. Dalvik the bytecode is not.
You make a good point, but I wonder if autonomous car proponents aren't falling for the same bias in regard to human drivers.

It may be the case that self-driving cars are safe. However most of the time, most human drivers don't kill each other all the time, and the majority of driving events are uneventful. It is a risky activity but it's certainly not the bloodsport some make it out to be.
Question: Why is this called a "browser"?

Is it a web browser? If so, then I don't see the point. Why not simply write some kind of driver that does IP over SMS; then any app that uses the net could connect that way.

(And if it isn't a web browser, then why "browser"?)
Point and space taken. Now it is readable - and I rather dread the consequences.
I love how it's titled "Simple Example". I don't think I'm ready to delve into Haskell, much less an abstraction embeeded within it. Maybe Clojure for another 6 months and then we'll see.
In that case, it was pretty clear. She had to answer a questionary so yes it was documented. And the contract stipulated very clearly that in case of mistake or omission the contract would be void. I can't really blame the insurance company even though it seemed unfair at the time.
I have a laptop running ubuntu with a single SSD. Does it make sense to run it with ZFS to get compression and snapshots? If I add a hard drive, again does it make sense (perhaps using SSD as cache (arc?) )
Is this because Wikipedia is "done"?

I recall seeing that the rate of articles created has flattened out, so current activity is more editing of existing articles than it used to be.

I am mostly a Wikipedia reader (although I have created articles before and done minor edits). From my perspective it's just great and I don't notice any of the angst or frivolity that goes into its curation.

I don't have extremely high expectations. It's a fantastic starting point to learn about almost anything. I suspect some of the arguments are basically "in the noise" for a user like me. That is, the way I use Wikipedia, the outcome of the argument wouldn't really make a difference.
Right, you can basically blog about something, cite the blog, and that will stick, but a public figure can't even present a birth certificate to correct their age, birth date, birth place - they can only try to get the media to cite them correctly. One such person I know found that for some unbeknownst reason, articles opposing him and his ideas tended to mistake his birthplace and date.

So you have fact by media scrum, which is dangerous.

Also, there's no way that mom can just buy one volume of a 4g tablet at the grocery store each week. ;)
I'm not so sure. Amongst those I know who program, the ones who finished college are doing better. I think there is a tremendous difference between on the one hand 1) engaging in schooling, finding an opportunity that is more valuable (along some metric) than schooling, and pursuing it; and on the other hand 2) deciding you don't need schooling and spending time just looking for those opportunities (it is frequently difficult to get a good sense of whether you are pursuing them effectively, and they may not come in any event).
I told my story many times. I'll give the short version. My son got an initial diagnosis of autism as 18 months while living in Quebec. Despite laws stating otherwise, after a year of waiting (and being flat out lied to and dealing with gross negligence), we'd had enough and moved to the US, where we were able to start getting care faster than it took to get our stuff moved down here, all at no cost. In Canada, the wait time was over 3 years for public care, and going the private route was still a 1 1/2 year wait at a cost of $30k+ a year. In the end, I'm left with the knowledge that I trusted in the Canadian Healthcare system for over a year, and the price was putting off my son's early intervention. My younger son (also autistic) received care at 18 months, and is doing much better.

To this day, I still can't share this without getting really angry at all they did, or didn't do.
Amazon just launched the Prime Instant Video feature on Android.
Swedish bank starts telling what really happened during outages