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If laptops can charge via USB, international travel will be so much nicer.

USB has already made international travel much better (thanks to 90% of your key electronics being USB, and international USB adapters being cheap and reliable, or heck just buy a local one in each country, they're $5/each).

Most laptops have a "brick" which works in most countries, but you still need to find the correct local cable or have an adapter (and frankly some adapters are unsafe/bad). In a future where everything is USB (type-C) which might be 10+ years off, everyone will benefit.
Look at the system this gang you call "government" has created.

They tell you you rule the country, but you have to tell them what you want, through these voting things.

Then they ignore those voting things and just do as they please.

Then the fools that believed they could change their oppressor's mind with voting things, get upset that the voting things didn't work.

The gang assures you that voting things work.

So you're left to believe that the reason the system doesn't work is because not enough people are using the voting things.

Yeah! They're the problem! Oh no, look away! - the gang threatening to throw you in a cage for not paying protection money isn't the problem, because you see, they are you since they have assured you that you are in control, through these voting things.

That's the circular reasoning they use to take down your thinking skills. I'm impressed it only took this much to fool you, as this is really basic rhetoric that most children can see through.

Yes, let's change our oppressor ways through oppressor-approved means, because there's no oppressor, as our oppressor keeps telling us. Genius.
Oh no! I've been listening to people calling it the DPRK instead this whole time! ;)
which is still illegal in half the US

I was unaware that it's legal in half the US. That has to be hyperbole, right?
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And it wasn't just low intensity use by French trappers alongside natives but even higher intensity use such as the US southern states along side Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole agricultural societies that was working perfectly well [1] (until it was annihilated by Andrew Jackson et al contrary to a supreme court decision prohibiting it)

And indeed those tribes very much had land title offices, legal system and even constitutions echoing the US document.[2]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee#Treaties_and_governmen...
When I accidentally shoot someone and they die, they would be alive if I hadn't had the gun.

When I intentionally shoot someone and they die, they would likely be alive if I hadn't had the gun.

When I intentionally shoot myself and I die, I would likely have found another effective suicide method and died anyway without the gun.

Killing someone with a pill is not something you do in a fit of rage. Killing someone with your car could be, but only if you're driving and they're in the road (ideally not in a car of their own).

Killing yourself is quite easy to do using non-gun methods, without any additional planning or prep time.

In short, take my gun away, and I can still commit suicide, but it's much harder for me to kill others or accidentally kill myself.
What the NRA is really against is the legislating of these safety devices. They certainly don't care if a manufacturer wants to sell a gun like this. The other argument is that technologies like this (microstamping is another) aren't effective, thus why force them on people?

Also keep in mind that a lot of NRA folks are rural. They have almost no local gun crime and have (what they feel) are legitimate reasons for owning a gun (self-defense, hunting, etc). Their opinion is why should they give up their guns because the city folks have a problem?
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> So it’s hardly surprising that Thiel’s Founders Fund has become the first institutional investor to make an investment in the nascent cannabis industry – a business that isn't even legal in half of the states in the country.

That is some awful fact checking. Last year there were 4 funds that I know of that invested in marijuana companies. I'm sure the actual number is an order of magnitude larger.

I guess this head line gets readers though:)

There are already marijuana companies that list, MJNA US Equity, TWD CN Equity and SUN CN Equity are three that come to mind. All of which have institutional investors.
Wasn't he the one who said Twitter execs smoke too much weed?
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Good point. If you think about it, due to the distribution of guns and the fact that the majority of gun deaths are suicides, accidents, or domestic violence - living in a gun-free household should reduce your risk even more dramatically than these statistics might suggest.
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Thanks for making my point a 1000% more clear.
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Look at how the resistance in Iraq stymied the US army for months/years.

Also, look at the Nazi invasion of the Island of Crete. A ton of local farmers with gun took a huge toll on the Nazi paratroopers.
Nobody mentioned TRON yet?
If you are discussing medical use, half is about right.

Recreation is only legal right now in CO and WA, with OR to follow mid year, when it's law goes into effect. June, I believe.
"In fact, what makes you say that recursion is difficult to analyze? Inductive proofs over recursive algorithms are generally much nicer than proofs over iterative algorithms."

For static analysis purposes, it is not great.
Particularly if it is inside conditionals.
Either you eat exponential path blowup (assuming bounded recursion and context-sensitivity) and fix-point it, or collapse the whole call graph cycle starting at the recursion into a single result (which generates false positives).

This assumes a single-thread.

Concurrent javascript code, with recursion, does not even have a decidable reachability problem, which makes it very difficult to get good answers.

Suffice to say, what is easy/hard for humans to prove is not the same as computers.

You would have a much harder time getting good static analysis results from a recursive fibonacci function than an iterative one (and this is simple tail recursion)
Also the reminder that a deterrent doesn't have to be perfect to be effective. Yes, you can easily find a crack for anything. That doesn't mean that the protection didn't serve it's purpose and generate a significant ROI. In the game industry even one day of delay before you hit the warez sites can be worth millions of dollars. With copy protection (including support) costing a tiny fraction of that, it's hard to ignore the option.

And to cut off the "developers spend their time on that crap instead of making the game better" comment before it arrives: frankly, it's a fun and welcomed diversion to code the anti-theft stuff. For every story like this that you read there are hundreds you don't. And the "penalties" imposed by the devs are almost always funny and creative.
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>So what? A person's race doesn't determine the ideas, religious or otherwise, that they hold.

You'be be surprised. The race (or, to be precise, the ethnicity) very much determines the ideas, religious or otherwise that a person holds. Statistically very much. There's a reason a person born in Italy is far far far more likely to be Catholic and not Budhist, etc.

>Two famous examples: Ayaan Hirsi Ali left Islam, and Cat Stevens joined it.

That you can point to a few specific invdividuals as examples for that, doesn't it tell you all you need to know? That these people are famous exactly as outliers?

Most people stick with the prevailing religion in their country etc.
I'm unable to compile this on Win32 (I don't have any problems compiling older versions). I don't understand how the code could compile for anyone, maybe it's a platform specific issue. Take a look here on line 80:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/cversi...

The variable cflags isn't defined. I suspect it should be CFLAGS. I can make it compile locally by changing that, and it would make the code in the function consistent with the other code in the same file.

I thought C defines were case sensitive on all platforms. Anyone knows better than me?
Down voted as this is not factual. Suicide by firearm is much less survivable than taking pills, and even when it is survivable it can be incredibly disfiguring and/or debilitating.

There's also the fact that suicide by firearm can be done impulsively, without much preparation, in contrast to asphyxiation or falls. When there's more requirement for preparation there are more opportunities for someone to change their mind or for some intervention to take place.

The use of guns might be the reason why more women attempt suicide than men, but more men actually die of suicide. It may be that women are more likely to prefer a method that doesn't result in disfigurement (pills) and, because that method is less likely to be successful, women are less likely to die of suicide.

If guns were banned, it is at least plausible that deaths by suicide would go down because the alternatives might be less accessible to those making an impulsive decision and more survivable.
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For me the skull one just never worked right no matter how I tried scrolling. But the other ones work great.
I guess you could argue socializing is completely useless and doesn't add anything to our lives, but that would be pretty dumb, huh?
It's important to note that, according to the chart, both are on the decline. Auto deaths are simply declining further.

Gun ownership is an important civil liberty in the USA, but one that comes with danger.

The Economist is recommending a technological approach to mitigating that danger. Research and development has been done in this department, and many technologies have been applied to modern firearms. Better safeties that prevent accidental discharge, better safes, ammunition that prevents over-penetration, etc.

We have yet to see a simple and trustworthy technology that limits who can fire a gun. When we do, it will start to be used.

For such a technology to work, the user needs to feel in complete control of it. There can be zero risk that an authorized user won't be able to fire the gun due to system failure or low battery.

Ultimately, though, no technological solution will prevent suicide. For that, a different approach will be necessary, and I don't have an answer for that.
That's actually the direct opposite of what the article says. The very first paragraph states: "Deaths by guns, though—the great majority suicides, accidents or domestic violence—have been trending slightly upwards."

They don't give a source, but their own graph [1] shows that, aside from a tick on 2006, gun deaths have been trending down, almost indistinguishable from flat in recent years.

I couldn't find a nice graph, but googling gave me these two years (that I did not cherry pick): here's an anti-gun site giving the numbers for 1998 as 30K [2] and another anti-gun "just the facts" editorial in 2013 saying it's 31K. [3] Using normal per-population numbers, the US increased in population over 13% over that time.

The US in the 21st century is a very safe place to be. Foreign news may distort the picture, but middle-class Americans don't worry about being killed by guns.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

[2] http://college.cengage.com/english/resources/research_guide/...

[3] http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/16/16547690-just-the...
Should I get cancer I would instantly take today's cancer treatments and not rely on diet. After all, if I do get cancer and it is a metabolic disease affected by diet, then my idea of the correct diet is wrong by definition. I wouldn't expect it to cure the disease it just caused.

"Exclusively" is a tad too strong, but other than that what you said is exactly what I believe. And it's not only a belief, it's based on research and evidence that's publicly available.

To my best knowledge cancer reasearch by and large is off tracks, and it's the aberrant metabolism of cancer cells (which has been known for decades and is not controversial, even PET scanners operate on that principle) that should be studied more. And that's highly linked to diet as well.

I'm more interested in not getting cancer in the first place, and here I believe diet is the key. I know there are many people who died of cancer and thought the same way, but then again, I operate on the logic I stated in the first paragraph. I expect more evidence starts popping up during the years and decades ahead. The results of mainstream ideology are not at all convincing, and to me it seems hard evidence supports the metabolic theory.
This is a neat game that portrays that exact concept. It isn't really your system, but the idea is that the in game objects are supposed to visually represent data in a fictional system, and your job is to fix the corrupted bits to progress.

http://www.brokendimension.com/
Most gun owners I know are like Unix programmers, in that they favor the simplest solution that could possibly work. A safety feature that makes a gun significantly more complicated—and therefore possibly less likely to work when needed—is a non-starter for most gun owners.

Furthermore, most gun owners have firearms at least in part because of the criminal element. I find the argument that a significant number of gun owners want to be able to resell their firearms to criminals to be patently absurd.
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>It seems to me that if you choose to identify as a follower of Mohammed you can't uphold him as a paragon and oppose violence, those positions are contrary.

Well, being contradictory is nothing that ever stopped people (religious or not). For example Jesus was all about piece, yet horrible attrocities have been done in his name by people saying their were for Jesus ideals (e.g. the Spanish Inquisition, the genocide of Latin American indians, etc).
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It's an option in Firefox, which (IIRC) is disabled by default everywhere except Windows. Look in Firefox's preferences; on the Advanced tab, it's the "Use autoscrolling" option.
Any sense of cost? I'd love to have my insides available for me to see.
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I completely disagree, I think the manner in which the author shared this story is full of the sort of insight (and emotion) that is often left out of these stories.

This is a human story, not a manifesto or technical thesis. For someone like me who has attempted similar, and have failed similarly, its good simply to know I'm not alone in the emotional roller-coaster these scenarios create. I find it kind of inspirational how he found meaning from seemingly banal events and comical misfortune.
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It's a bit puzzling to hear this coming from Nintendo since it's pretty clear that piracy hurts the Windows platform infinitely more than the console industry.

Very, very few console owners run unlocked consoles, so they don't even have the option of running cracked games.

On the other hand, every PC owner can run cracked copies, and it only takes a few minutes of reading for even the most non tech savvy Windows user to find out about bittorrent and how to procure cracked games.
In this case, they would be opposed to "smart" guns due to laws like New Jersey has.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/24/325178...

Essentially, once a smart gun becomes available for sale in the US, all guns sold in New Jersey must be "smart" within 30 months. I wouldn't be surprised if other jurisdictions had similar laws in place. This dramatically increases the cost of legal firearms while doing very little to impact firearm murder or suicide rates.
I would consider 'sed 4d' to be significantly easier than doing the same in Perl, but I don't disagree that it's not that hard to do in either.
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The NRA is not opposed to the development of smart guns. They are opposed to legislation that bans the sale of non-smart guns once smart guns are available on the market.

Such a law already exists in New Jersey and was proposed at the federal level by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
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Of course I am not taking it literally. But he does mention God.

Being a technical guy Stephen Hawking makes much more sense to me than God.
Easy access to an effective suicide method is one more impact of the pervasiveness of guns in a modern society. It's an important factor in determining gun deaths.

In determining the deadliness of drugs to a society, should suicides be ruled out? Accidental overdoses? Drug-related shootings? Where do you draw the line in filtering the statistics so that they're more comfortable for a given political position?
I think this raises the old conversation about exposing your idea in the wind. In this case, directly to a company who can actually put it to work really fast.

Let's wait for the next thoughts about this.

Still, the idea is cool.
Interesting how even China, given its wealth, has given up on building its own OS and chip infrastructure. The much touted Red Flag linux running the Godson/Loongson chip never really materialized. They're using Microsoft products on Intel/AMD instead.

Is a national OS such a non-trivial problem? Interesting how autocratic regimes and their citizens often attack the US on every level, but are happily running US developed software/processors and using US discovered patents on a very important level. I suspect this is further proof that autocracies simply can't compete with capitalistic democracies regardless of the propaganda they believe.
I felt like I was going to have an ocular migraine after looking at that for a few seconds.
To be fair, while this product is a big improvement, I wouldn't distinguish between it and "traditional CT." It's just the latest evolution of CT (from one particular manufacturer).

Radiation Dose for CT has been a big issue over the past decade. It continues to improve due to better algorithms and hardware changes.

The big features here over GE's other CTs are the fact that it rotates faster and covers more anatomy in a single rotation. Neither of these has a significant impact on the dose. One of the dose oriented features of Revolution is called "ASiR-V" and GE claims that it "is designed to deliver reduced noise levels, improve low-contrast detectability and routinely reduce dose up to 82% for patients of all ages."
Yeah, after I wrote that it occured to me also that in the past the "poor opressed" buddhists of Tibet (with Dalai Lama as their spokesperson) actually ruled over the people there as dictatorial overlords, with slaves and everything...
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Crazy, the default language is 'ko'. I thought only South Koreans used that?

http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/18/why-the-sony-hack-is-unlike...
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And for context, suicide overall: 39,518
IIRC there was a graphical file manager on some systems like this, famously featured in Jurassic Park ("This is a UNIX system! I know this!")

Also, not quite the same, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus:_The_Game
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He means that you're either OK with mocking both of them and their faiths, or you hold a different standard for Muslims vs Jews, etc.
It makes sense, they became political when guns came under political threat.

As a side note, it's funny to see that parts of the media still mechanically repeat LaPierre calling the ATF "jack booted government thugs" in 1995 like it was a bad thing, after the full-on liberal awakening over police militarization via the Boston Marathon Bombing and Ferguson, MO. The NRA was 20 years ahead of the curve on that.
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But you're doing that at the cost of denying all non-suicides the right to own a gun. The government's mandate is not to eliminate all deaths at all costs. It is to balance a wide variety of conflicting issues. And many people who wish to own firearms do not believe that the very small chance that they may commit suicide justifies the government preventing them from owning a firearm.
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Thanks for comment :-)
I make a point of only enabling an ad-blocker if I find the ads overly invasive, resource-intensive or objectionable.

Another suggestion is that, for sites that I regularly visit and like the content, I will (and do) happily pay a subscription fee in exchange for guilt-free ad-free content.
I don't think anyone is trying to ban smart-guns. What they're trying to stop is regulation requiring guns to be smart.
Actually, it's more subtle than that.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, entertainment dollars are fixed. People have what they have to spend on entertainment, and when it's gone that month, it's gone.

What happens is the various content producers compete for their share of those dollars.

There just aren't billions out there for entertainment purposes. Wages being flat in the US speaks right to that. People don't have it.

In a perfect no piracy world, people would just consume much less, not spend billions more. Again, because they just don't have it. The money doesn't exist.

So that person pirating a lot of music might spend real dollars on video games instead, much more than they would just spend more on the music.
You didn't mention the lack of backwards compatibility. Broke Kindle, for example.
I like that I can start hacking right away after reading the 'not a manual' once.

I don't like the 'do' - it's either redundant or inconsistent. Why does 'while' get a 'do' but 'if' doesn't?

Or the 'end', especially as it could be a 'while-end' or an 'if-end'.

And 'isa' (what was wrong with 'is')? Blech!

I like that 'var' is an attribute and the 'fun' is a method.

Android support is intriguing.

Maybe this seems like small things and I don't know about what the rest of you are talking about. 'contravariant'? huh?

But it looks cool to me and I don't think you can ever have too many cool things.
It isn't a slippery slope, it is already reality. The New Jersey Childproof Handgun Law outlaws the sale of non-smart guns once a smart gun becomes available for sale anywhere in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Childproof_Handgun_...
This article is a comparison of deaths caused by vehicles and guns as well as a comparison of the amount of government regulation between the two, not an argument to ban the 2nd Amendment. One point in the article is the lack of oversight on gun sales to criminals.
I'm assuming this is snark, but print magazines actually do both by selling the magazines themselves and filling them with advertisements.