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Why is it okay to use violence (libertarian definition of) to protect private property rights, but not to protect public property rights? To take a concept from a libertarian elsewhere in the thread: why is the private individual 'magic' and the public not?

This is the irony of libertarianism: "Freedom for everyone, but I get to keep all my goodies!". It's not actually freedom for everyone; it enshrines privilege with the people who already have a lot of wealth. It works against levelling the playing field and against people advancing by merit. If you're born into wealth, you're protected by libertarianism - you'll get better schooling, better networking, better secret-handshake memberships. If you're born into poverty, libertarianism handwaves and mutters something about charity (which is always amusing, because private charities have never amounted to anything like public welfare), but really doesn't care about helping you improve yourself, giving you the tools to become wealthier. The poor don't have private property, so libertarianism flips them the finger. If the poor get shafted by someone's actions, the libertarian answer is "take them to (the skeletal remains of) the court system", something which the poor cannot leverage at all. Factory spewing toxic smoke into your house? Take them to court... oh, you can't afford a lawyer, or at least one that stands a chance. Pity - there are no regulations on air pollution, because that curtails 'freedom' and is 'big government' and so the supposed answer instead is 'take them to court'.

I watched your second video. It's funny that the creator gave libertarianism a great loophole: "Oh, wars of conquest make it alright if the losers have all been killed". It's basically hand-waving away the indicated moral issues about taking things by force and translated means "I get to keep my stuff". It's a bad video full of leading statements and bad assumptions, though it does have nice production values. The entire video frames libertarianism as a mechanism to keep your material goods all to yourself - unsurprising, really, since this is what really underpins the philosophy.

Fundamentally, libertarianism is about people who want to maintain their social privileges and wealth, and not actually about fair opportunity. It's an incredibly selfish philosophy, but it's wrapped in attractive-sounding rhetoric. In any case, to answer the libertarian question "Why should I help anyone else at all?"(paraphrased, but ridiculously clear on every discussion regarding tax), the answer is basically "Because you're human, and humans are social animals that rely on each other; they are not self-sufficient without extreme effort".
Is intent to break a law good enough? If I buy a gun and try to shoot someone, it's still a crime even if the gun never worked. If someone signed up to receive the code and put it on their website with the intent of mining bitcoins on user's computers (which the NJAG is saying is illegal, I have no idea), is that not also a crime?
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Music has had negative value for a long time. A lot of businesses play music outside to discourage loitering. We leave our alarm clock tuned to a country music station and you'd better believe we get up to turn it off. Nothing else on the radio has been much better since sep 11, when the regional rap station took oochie Wallie off the playlist.
If you read the numbers this isn't exactly exceptional. You share the opinion of the majority of the participants of the study.
Atlas Shrugged is fiction, genius. Some libertarians are anti-Objectivist.
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What an incredible bargain!
If you want to play with the trolley problem: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/trolleyproblem/TrolleyProble...
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Your pension fund might be aggressively speculating in daytrading. Mine is not. You might want to look into that for reasons beyond other market participants. You can lose your shirt if you're a short term speculator very quickly, regardless of presence or absence of HFTs.

Long term investment might be a better strategy than wild speculation for a goal like that.
ExoLance project is supposed to use that dead mass to shoot darts under the Mars surface to look for signs of life:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/exolance
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Which operating system is this?
As a parent, not only would I not hit the switch, I'd blame Congress for the passenger deaths for not funding modernization of the switching infrastructure.
I love the idealism of this but:
1) the price is far too low to have any effect, I am guessing.
2) won't this money go straight into someone's pocket?
3) how on earth do they expect this to be enforced?
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300kgs of gold. To encourage someone to come looking for it.
Shape it into a kinetic projectile. With the orbital velocity it should make a crater exposing underground materials.
None of that money is used to pay for this.

Well, indirectly it might be, as some of the profits from invested oil money are made available to the government to spend each year.
What tends to kill incandescents is the non-uniform thinning of the tungsten wire due to tungsten evaporating, which causes the thinner parts to heat up more, combined with tungsten's positive temperature coefficient, which causes a current rush on power-up when the filament is cold, which causes the weak spots to heat up particularly rapidly and potentially higher that they would if the surrounding wire was hot and thus had higher resistance (a cold tungsten filament has about 1/15th the resistance compared to when it's glowing hot).

Transients certainly are one problem for LEDs if the power filtering is bad, another is (lack of) cooling - while LEDs produce much less heat, they also need to stay much, much cooler: A tungsten filament is fine at 2400 °C, an LED die should not get much hotter than 100 °C, preferably less than that, and most fixtures are not particularly good at getting rid of heat.
I like Heroku's PostgreSQL. So far only AWS RDS can compete. Or there is any recommendation of PostgreSQL as a Service?

Heroku Standard 0 (1GB RAM): $50.00 per month
RDS On Demand (1GB RAM): $12.96 per month
RDS REserved 1 Year (1GB RAM): $9.29 per month
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So basically you're saying Moot is the cancer that is killing /b/?
Provably false. http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html
This is our next step. I hope we will finish development till 1 of December. Thanks
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Ask HN: Help. I'm no longer interested in programming. Can I find the joy again?
I'm currently a backend developer/devops engineer. I've been in my current role for 2.5 years (total of 5 years professional work experience), and I cannot stand the idea of doing this forever. I used to be very passionate about coding, but now I've lost my enthusiasm and interest. There's no joy in it anymore. I don't dread going in - it's not high stress - but it doesn't interest me. Even when faced with challenging problems, I have no interest in solving them.

I have a strong desire to get out my chair and create things by hand and to travel. I recognize that coding can be a creative activity.

I'm hoping that someone has been in the same position, and can help me find the joy in coding again.
It's a deprecated standard as of 2007, so I'm not sure what can be done by the standards body to stop people using it.
Right. Presumably for a bilingual person (where both languages are native), both languages they speak would have equal emotional impact.
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Only because B) has been there for ages doesn't mean, it has to stay that way, does it?
In terms of what do you want the recommendation? Pricing? Performance? Scalability? Availability? Tech support?

I would go with Heroku or AWS RDS. Both truly deliver and make devs / devops sleep better.
We do this in several other countries already. We only actually pay the money if they meet certain goals. Currently we have 4 billion NOK (632 million dollars) still standing in a bank account, because the countries we intended to pay the money to hasn't met the goals we set as a pre-condition. Then again we paid 3 billion NOK (474 million dollars) last year, so it does work to some extent.
It doesn't work for me in neither Firefox nor Chrome. The space doesn't work on level 0 and 1 (training and 3 people vs 1) but it does work with fat person.
2) won't this money go straight into someone's pocket? 3) how on earth do they expect this to be enforced?

Sometimes #3 can be solved by #2. "Hey corrupt minster/police chief/army general, want more of that bribe? Get your corrupt police officers/soliders to stop those people cutting down trees! Since you don't have to obey the law that much, beat up those peasants who are chopping down trees"
"humanizes the people of USSR" - so you are saying they weren't actual humans?
Whenever I see ISS dockings I wonder why the arm isn't computer controlled. There's no specific information on this page but I'm assuming it was a manual docking. Can anyone explain why the process is still manual?
From what I understand, it's not a user who installs it on their own pc. A website owner installs it on their website, and then visitors to the website mine bitcoins for the owner. I'm not sure how visiting a website implies consent to use their computer to mine bitcoins, but ianal.
Or for burrito delivery: http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_t...
Nokia was killing it in software until 2005 and Hardware until 2011. All ongoing handset manufacturers owe a lot to the foundations Nokia had set. They all still utilise 100's of their patents. If only Meego was released in 2007, we'd all be using it now and Nokia would still be the dominant force.
How do you separate his own real thoughts from the delusions? How do you know which are which?
Railgun.

Use the momentum just before it goes into orbit to blast it into deep space with a message.

It could outpace Voyager easily.
I wouldn't say they're calling nature inconsistent. They're calling the supposition inconsistent. Which is more or less the same as saying the theory is inconsistent.
Thanks for generalizing. I assume everyone in USA owns a shotgun and a trailer?
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The soft-touch plastic used on Lightning cables has the amazing property that stress failures look just like the cable was chewed on. Not even joking. It basically disintegrates and falls apart.
It's technically a berthing, not a docking as it mates under the power of the Candarm, not under its own steam.
Depends where you are, and I am guessing the EU, since I came back from vacation from the US back to Germany and I was treated with lots of warnings, especially from the BBC.
Price/Performance. Most my apps low traffic so scalability and availability not that critical.
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The problem here is: cutting down trees creates jobs; receiving 150m doesn't. You still have to distribute them somehow and make these people figure out what to do.
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While all of those things are (apparently) possible in Skype and friends, they haven't been the focus, or what the product is all about. I use Skype on a weekly basis perhaps (not an expert, but a regular-Joe user), and replicating the kind of experience presented in the article seems like it would be a huge hassle, if not impossible based on my knowledge of Skype. That matters a hell of a lot more than whether or not it's possible, especially when it comes to adoption of an application for certain use cases.

Skype and Hangouts are synonymous with video calling/conferencing, and that's it. They may have more features tucked away somewhere, but it's not what they are.
I agree you should keep your fursona to yourself, but I don't understand why this project is associated with any subculture.

Replace branding with generic placeholders and host it on a GitHub named something appropriate like "greatforum" instead of something inappropriate like "yiffchat".

Operate your personal hosted version as a branded deployment of the main open source project. This has the advantage of teaching you to make software which and be easily deployed and customized by others. Ideally you should be able to pull the upstream down without blowing away your personalizations.

It sounds like you've put a lot of work into this, and there's nothing like actual code to prove you know your stuff, it seems like a waste to stash it away. If an employer asks what you use it for, just say chatting amongst your personal friends. You don't need to tell your life story or interests to anyone else.
This is only true if you are selling a relatively low investment product.

I also work at a SaaS business and can tell you there is absolutely no way we could make sales on marketing alone (and we sell to primarily SMBs).

Whether or not you need a sales team depends greatly on what type of product you are selling.
Its really too bad-the exhibits at the UofM Museum of Natural History (the museum mentioned in the article) has/had truly beautiful dioramas. Sure they were old, but they were incredibly detailed and very accurate.
Neither can I. Do you feel having the same fair market access without the BB terminal at your disposal?
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Direct youtube links for those (like me) for whatever reason were unable to watch the videos directly in the page:

5-Minute Random Code Walk-Thru

Episode #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqoJfIbPGv8

Episode #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuqBc5FZH2g

Episode #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlU8YywcAo

Episode #4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ocExv4xcs

Episode #5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlnLQOFv_g

Episode #6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjaHfqkxfn8

Episode #7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRDmfeQxpQ

Episode #8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22goZWnhMOw

Episode #9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzkLAlYlbbo

Episode #10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B6-pxFvcrM

Episode #11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0MVG2e2Mco

Episode #12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_Qm47_EDY

Episode #13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SahDS27GdQ0
I bet the trainers that certify an astronaut is precise enough to get it done are a lot cheaper than the engineers required to certify a computer wouldn't karate chop the station.
Please pardon my pedantry, but, I have to ask: why is VR and the web being too far apart a problem?

That condition describes the state of the two technologies, but doesn't, to me, strike as an actual problem.

"Real-time collaboration of disparate entities through video / voice / instant message is sufficiently inferior to physically present collaboration as to be a detriment to ____" would be a problem, for example.

I definitely agree that it's really cool tech, and would be great if a truly seamless MMO virtual environment were possible.

But, perhaps past attempts have sputtered out for lack of a few actual problems providing impetus for the task. Building something awesome should be reason enough, but often seems to fall short of what's necessary to see an effort succeed.

Edit: I didn't see other comments in a similar vein as this one that you've already replied to, so, I do consider the notion "asked and answered".

I struggle to come up with problems that VR solves as well, and really like the likening of it to paper or video as a communication medium.

Though, maybe we limit our exploration of its possibilities by trying to fit it into that or other existing mental schemas.
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NetBSD can run as a xen dom0 host too though normally I use Alpine Linux/OpenRC as dom0 because it's so small.
Along the lines of your question, the guys at escapecom also wrote a white paper [1] that covers the high level technical details, and talk through the Chicago to Jersey problem from the OP. They do also sell such gear, so there may be some bias and salesmanship in there as well, but it was a good read.

[1] http://www.escapecom.com/pdf/low_latency_white_paper.pdf
How can you help people who don't realize this and would refuse any suggestion to seek advice? I fear my mother might be struggling with this since she was laid off last year but actively refuses to have conversations about how she might feel. 1/4 of my blame lies in Irish culture however :/
I was specifically replying to the idea that we haven't had time to judge the ethics of communication technology in trading, when it is in fact a basic market force.

I'm not an ethicist so I'm hesitant to speak on the ethics of market forces, but I will say:

A) How do you prevent some actors from getting information before others? Do all actors have to wait for the slowest participant? Why should we prevent it?

B) In general, faster dissemination of information leads to a more efficient market, we should encourage this, not discourage it.
Your minification process should be separate from your build process that's required to run it. This can generate JavaScript that's not a huge pain in the ass to debug, then you as the developer can minify it with existing libraries.

Though I'm not necessarily sure it wouldn't be high performance just maybe a hair slower to load. Then again I don't know how well their generator works.
Are they going to decorate the innards of said pyramids with diagrams of themselves hauling stuff with sledges, water and ropes too?
That's right. And it's not even clear that they found a correlation that would hold up in different experimental conditions.

The paper is at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... , and unfortunately has the provocative title "Your Morals Depend on Language", instead of a more accurate title like "There's a possibility that some people's morals are correlated with language, but we're not sure and we're also not sure if that's true for everybody because our sampling is insufficient to allow us to draw such a conclusion".
Some buildings are made by aliens, but not many. A lot more are made by crazy architects.
Disclaimer, I work at Typeform.

It's like comparing a beautiful swan to ugly ducks. Just by having a look at Typeform, you'll see that Typeform is on a whole different level when it comes to UX and UI, compared to any other form creator.

We have a lot of people loving Typeform. I bet you'll have a hard time finding anyone even liking Google Forms, most people use Google Forms because they have to and don't know any alternatives.
I hope one day speed of trade execution will depend on beating cancer. Those guys will solve it in a month.
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Russian native speaker here. I too never think of keywords as words in english language.

As for function/variable/type/etc names and comments -- in Russia english is the standard. Russian is rarely used in comments, and using russian in code is frowned upon, so it (almost) never happens.

> But I'm wondering how it's interpreted from the point of view of a native speaker.

In Russia, we have company called 1C. One of the software products of this company is "1C: Enterprise". This product has some built-in language(for automatizing common accountant tasks or something like that). And keywords in this language are russian words.

I've never programmed in this language. And code in it looks really horrible to me, to the point of being repulsive. Here is hello world program, in case anyone is interested:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Встроенный_язык_программирован...
JavaScript has some things in it that shouldn't be used but that's true with almost any language out there. There is no reason you can't write clean, easy to read and understand, code in JavaScript. I'm not sure why you're saying he may be misinformed; you can write really great code in JavaScript.
Working at NASA here. (Should be self-explanatory?)
I will second this recommendation. I was about 1/3 of the way through the book before I realized it was a 'historical' book and not a fiction.

I have in the many years since I read this one, become quite the fan of all his works.
Gives new meaning to "Are you speaking my language?" It can have moral overtones too.
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This took to long to happen, Congrats for them.
I don't see what's complicated about the Postgres goesearch API. Just use earthdistance not PostGIS.
Our Personal Predictions about Moral Judgments in Contrived Hypothetical Situations while Being Observed by a Third Party Depend on What Language We're Reading

I mean seriously, if you're going to test the slight difference in people's moral attitudes based on the method of information consumption at least find it important to consistently distinguish between oral and written.

That aside, this article, unless you ignore what was actually tested and just imagine it to be what you want, is saying absolutely nothing.
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Based on many of the people I've worked with "well enough to get a job" is a pretty low bar to clear.
>>... sue the patent clerk?

No, not really. The patent clerk made a mistake in approving the patent, buy they didn't intentionally grant a bad patent to cause trouble or make money. Its really the patent trolls that are at fault for weaponizing the patent clerk's mistake.
I daresay the US does smokejumping too http://gacc.nifc.gov/oncc/logistics/crews/smokejumpers/
"Undeterred, I installed the bees on the roof of my Brooklyn apartment and began the absurd process of learning how to keep them alive. Incredibly, they flourished, and by October I had perhaps 70,000 bees..."

That has to make one unpopular with the neighbors.
And that is their second launch within 14 days. The previous launch was a satellite to a geostationary orbit.
Does it upset you when you go to buy a car to think that Avis can buy that car at a gigantic discount because they buy in bulk?
What a silly thing to complain about.
Let's be realistic. This is Liberia. This money will not be distributed to the workers.
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Seeing these types of experiments are always interesting but just like CoffeeScript it requires learning two languages instead of one [so you an debug] which makes it a hard sale. Why not just write clean JavaScript? I know many want to make JavaScript the assembly language of the web but JavaScript is so much more complex than assembly I'm not sure that's necessarily a good goal to have.

Granted I would love for more languages to be usable on the web; even if I thought JavaScript was the best language it's always good to have competition and alternatives. But I think that has to come through browser support. I wonder how feasible it would be to generate some sort of byte code similar to how Java and others work with the JVM.
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> You still have to distribute them somehow and make these people figure out what to do.

And I doubt any low level worker will get real money,given the insane level of corruption there.

And for god sake,why would Norway care? this constant meddling into african politics by the west is upsetting.It's not help,it's arrogance.