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Why the downvotes? What I state above is historically well documented. I'd also like to remind the readers that Germany is still an occupied country and cannot make decisions about the Euro according to its own needs and wants.
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I could argue (though don't really agree) that Andrus Nomm was a threat in the same way as Bernie Madoff. Neither was running around shooting people or starting fires. The same could be said for elderly war criminals.

There are situations in which it is right to send people to prison without them posing an active and dangerous threat. Whether this in one of those situations is more arguable.
My main point was about the claims regarding european car companies.
Am I missing something? Don't the US, Russia and France also have SLBMs?
Trident II are submarine launched. Trident II missile is listed for the US also. Pretty sure Russia has submarine launched nuclear missiles too.
You don't need nuclear weapons; Just Drop A "Heat bomb" In Antarctic Ice Sheets. You'll Drown The World.
So he wants to be free. Well, there is already a petition:

https://www.change.org/p/apple-free-jony-ive-from-his-white-...
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Its complicated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nye
Nice job DoJ. Now to raise the bar and serve the people some real justice, go get Jamie Dimon ( http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witn... ).
If people are involved in the transmission of child abuse, I'm happy for them to be prosecuted for that.

I'm not happy with the approach of prosecuting people for copyright infringement and then claiming they deserve it because of the child abuse material. That's a bait-and-switch.
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on mine there is not even a end/home key and also no pgdn/pgup key... writing is terribley slow with it

theres a solution i saw before on autohotkey forums where a small app runs on the desktop in always on top mode - with 4 buttons that are pgup pgdn home end, or you can bind a hotkey to them
If we concede that the guy is not completely ignorant of world history, he must be referring to something else, although admittedly it's not clear from the cited passage.
Pinker is making the distinction that the two cases you refer to weren't used in conflict, as such. They were used against civilian targets, not on the battlefield.
Saying "if Wall Street could assign to The New York Times the ratio Silicon Valley grants BuzzFeed (8.5 instead of a paltry 1.4), the Times would be worth about $19bn instead of the current $2.2bn" is like saying "if raindrops were lemon drops, all dentists would be millionaires." True, but irrelevant, and completely missing the reason the one is not anything like the other.

Between this article and the Calacanis one about Apple buying Tesla, SV people don't seem to understand the basics of how or why publicly traded companies are valued how they are. Revenue or earnings multiples are not 'given' to a company like an award, they are the result of how a great many investors perceive the risks and upside of a company (among many other things). For a company's multiples to change, perception of the issues surrounding a company would have to change. So just saying "if it's multiple could be X" without getting into the issues why the multiple is something else, or what would have to be done business-wise to get it there, is pretty useless "analysis" and makes the differences between one company and another (and how they are perceived) seem much less than they really are.
Most drug research tends to treat causality with contempt - my interpretation would likewise be that people with psychotic tendencies are more likely to try cannabis.

As to "hash skunk cannabis" which is "as bad as heroin" according to the telegraph... don't make me laugh - or are they seriously suggesting I start shooting up because it's no worse than smoking a joint after work?
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Let's be clear here -- I'm the first to admit Apple haven't made a mouse worth using in the last ten years. All their mice in the post-ball era have been mediocre or miserable. (I currently use a DeathAdder 2013.)

But their full size corded keyboard is brilliant. Haven't used anything that feels half as good. Haven't seen anything that looks half as good.

Oh, and their trackpads are brilliant too.
Almost all nukes are targeted at civilians. WW II not a conflict?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uveD0Z3lIWo
This doesn't exist? Also nuclear weapons make a lot of heat...
> 75% of my work relates to child exploitation material, and an enormous amount of child abuse material disappeared from easy access when mega-upload went down.

However, this apparently did not serve as the grounds for punishment, and is not mentioned in statements quoted in the article—the whole deal seems to hinge on copyright infringement allegations.
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Of course not, Banks, Oil, and basically all big corps are immune from law.

The sad thing is, that is hardly an exaggeration.
>>Nearly two-thirds of injection drug use, they found, is the product of childhood trauma.

You're aware you don't inject marijuana, right? I mean, the news media in the UK today seems to think you do, but you don't.

Either way - your post reminds me generally of Rat Park, which was posted about here a few days back. Addiction as a product of environment and conditioning rather than idiopathic.

Oh, and you can't be physiologically addicted to cannabis. Psychologically, sure, but you can be psychologically addicted to American Idol, and I know which I'd rather poison my mind with.
> Behind Ive, at a distance that suggested self-exile, was Steve Wozniak, who, in 1976, co-founded Apple with Jobs, and who was wearing a black steam-punk watch the size of an ashtray. (“What is that?” Ive later asked, rhetorically, in mock affront at its design.)

Well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gy53vVRNs , the binary watch is a silvery-metal colour and not as big as the Nixie watch, so it's probably the Nixie watch http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/ . (But of course you knew that. ;) )
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Because it makes the issue seem like it's only a concern of angry and ignorant teenagers. While I for one would love for the current corporate capitalist model of society to be fundamentally restructured, it's not going to happen by making snide remarks on Hacker News.
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"hash, a milder form of the drug" - I thought hash was the resin, which could be made from any plant variety, including Skunk and Skunk-like types? I was also under the impression that hash, in the form of cannabis resin, was stronger, not weaker.

EDIT: Found a 'source' for my vague thoughts, even if it's just Wiki. Took a little while to overcome Google's inclination to serve me information about hashing functions and hash maps but I imagine, say, a journalist could have googled hash and found this with little effort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish
Also

> If one were to calculate the amount of destruction that nations have actually perpetrated as a proportion of how much they could perpetrate [...]

is an extremely ridiculous metric!
This is so interesting - keep up the good work!
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... So much to learn. So much time.
It's all about strategy.

There are two main paths that any nuclear war could take: The first is all-out war, we're all screwed regardless of strategy. The second is a more limited tactical war where the aim is to try and take out the oppositions nuclear capability first and then focus on their military.

Unlike the USA, the UK has only a very small landmass to hide big ICBM sites and they will always be near some sort of major population centre. In a limited war scenario, it therefore makes sense to not have any fixed silos but to keep it all at sea and hidden. They may be able to nuke our submarine bases and catch the subs at rest, but we have a standing policy to always have at least one of the subs at sea at all times.

I guess you could argue in favour of air launched missiles from the back of a carrier, but then you go to all the expense of maintaining multiple launch systems, etc. Even the current Trident system is frequently criticised for its cost, so that's another reason to keep it limited and simple.
Some people buy a car to do whatever the hell they want with it. Others buy chunk of a nuclear superpower's government to do whatever the hell they want with it.
Basing on my experience I would first ask you a question - how much do you like doing it. "it" means fiddling with code, handling legacy and not so often creating your own stuff. Also what technologies do you want to work with - web technologies is that right?
I'm guessing some people won't like that idea but I can advice basing on my own experience - you do not need to go back to school to do this stuff for your living. I'm holding MSc in engineering not relevant to software engineering nor computer science and still I'm working in software engineering.
Having that said holding a valid qualification is an entry requirement for many well paid job posts out there. So if you do not hold a degree then it's a good time to get around that since later it will be much more difficult (i.e. when you consider a great project called 'family' your time is basically vanished).
I have no idea why they are giving this article away for free (loaded it into Instapaper and won't see ads).

Who wouldn't pay $3 for this via Stripe?
Wow, as a former fixed income trader I find this really interesting. I wonder if they're looking for any help.

There's definitely an issue with getting prices in the FI market. When I was doing it, I used to create a Bloomberg chat with all the likely banks (the usual suspects) and blast them all a message like "EUR 2Y, 1MM/bp, what's your market?". And then wait as some guys were inevitably slower than others, and some people wanted to pull their prices before I got them all. And the more complex the product, the longer it took (swaptions for instance). And of course once you'd picked someone to trade with, everyone wanted to know what price it was. It was a real nightmare.

The question is how exactly this service is going to work. In principle, it's not that hard to distribute prices, especially if they're not actually tradeable like equities (then it gets hard!). I think I've seen at least one service that just gives you an indicative and tells you who to call. These days you could just do a filter with the banks you have docs with, and click and chat with whoever came out on top.

Implementation wise, I'd worry if the banks made it too hard to integrate with them. Even opening a firewall is something that can take time at big shops.

There's also a whole regulatory can of worms. Best execution, and all its consequences.
What if my belief has always defaulted on silence, no thought?

It's just the opposite of the confidence in always yielding a conclusion. When I work with science, I ere on the side of hesitance, and I always believe that hesitence will be there.

I think some of my beliefs about believing are stronger than my actual beliefs. This conversation has become too overgeneralized to say anything useful aside from the ways the mind simplifies, reduces, and applies pattern derived from observation.

I don't understand the strong reaction in 'knowing'. I always feel like I have to know everything all at once, in order to truly suggest that I know anything, and since I can not know everything, I only have a very vague guess of knowing some things, which are continually subject to the same analytic deconstruction and reconstruction. Ideas are broken down and rebuilt over and over and not a single one of them is a complete picture. That's what I observe in my mind and in dialogue outside of my mind. I don't have to believe anything about it because it's a direct observation. It just comes down to how angry, 'strong', assertive, or authoritative people sound, and I find that ridiculous. It's like being human is a stupid joke.
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I know I am sure my collegues don't enjoy my "industrial" language at the typos caused by rubishy chicklet keyboard.

Though I am building an adaptor for my IBM Type F as my first Ardunio project and am activly looking at getting a proper mech keyboard at work - I havde just replaced the wirless moouse with an old ps2 Microsft one.
> increases productivity by a few orders of magnitude

I'm the biggest Haskell fanboy you'll come across, but this is only true if an order is not much bigger than 1!
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<conspiracy>

i wonder if the war on drugs is really orchestrated (either with intention, or manipulated by vested individuals) to make drugs more scarce, and more difficult to obtain, to justify their high price. By making it highly illegal, trafficking drugs has never been more profitable (for the drub lords - not for the peddlers nor the mules obviously).

You hardly see the real boss go to prison...

</conspiracy>
Oh? I thought the Israeli arsenal was a closely kept secret. What are the sources on that?
Whenever studies like this come up, I think it's important to remember that alcohol causes the majority of substance induced psychosis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance-induced_psychosis#IC...

Quoted reactions to the paper included calls to ban skunk-like cannabis because that may reduce incidence of psychosis. Why are there no calls to ban alcohol, despite the fact that we already know it causes far more cases of psychosis?

Nobody suggests banning alcohol because we've learned from history that that wouldn't work. Why then do they think banning any form of cannabis would work?
The UK had plane-launched warheads in the 50s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_bomber

The rationale for the Trident fleet was for "second strike purposes": in the event of nuclear war, the UK is small enough to be completely obliterated. The sub fleet provides a single submarine at all times capable of retaliating in this event.

This leads to the letters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort . In the event of surfacing to the horrible silence of not being able to contact HQ and the BBC having ceased transmission, open the letters and follow orders.
Frankly I think the discussion about children and toys is a bit more interesting than some storage thing, but to each his own.
I'm pretty sure it was in the scope of a rather big conflict.
I actually have one on my desk, waiting to be used. Hoping to play around with OpenBSD on it.
Yes. The article, like most of them on the topic in the UK press today, is nonsense.

Hash is, per gram, assuming you've made your hash from the same plant as you're measuring against, much, much stronger - as you're getting rid of the useless leaves, stalks, and vegetal matter, and just retaining the resin from the trichomes.
I'm not sure who fired first matters too much when you are on the receiving end.

This is a serious point: the most serious "near misses" during the cold war were mostly caused by errors in early warning systems or procedures.

Given the instability of Pakistan there is a non-zero chance that a non-government-authorised launch could occur. What would India's response be to that?
Indeed, and I the way I read it in the context of the chapter, and the book, it was intended to come across as ridiculous.

The infographic emphasises Pinker's point: The world has actually got a whole lot less violent over the past few decades, despite our ability to cause a lot more death and destruction, we choose not to.

Another quote from Pinker, in the same book:

"Also distorting our sense of danger is our moral psychology. No one has ever recruited activists to a cause by announcing that things are getting better, and bearers of good news are often advised to keep their mouths shut lest they lull people into complacency. Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society."
why would anyone waive the hearing (presumably, where you would argue that you shouldn't be extradited)?
"CD's corrode from the inside out"

Archival Disc is supposedly the solution to that [0]. Haven't seen any details how it works though.

"SSDs left sitting around can always be reformatted (i.e. just using TRIM [...]"

Modern SSDs should support the "ATA Secure Erase" command which erases all the chips simultaneously, including any area used for wear leveling.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc
I would rather do both, and store the short url to long url in a key value store with automatic deletion. I would rather keep that crap away from my customer data if its not needed.
Well its better than a CBM 2001 (PET) or a ZX80 or Spectrum keyboard i will give you that - compared to the rolls royce IBM Type M and F Keyboards its very poor
Aircraft delivery of nukes is cheaper and better for tactical application (easier to disguise the nuclear capability of the strike). But they are far more vulnerable to interdiction and counter-force strikes.

I suspect the UK's reliance on SLBM's is due to the size of the UK which makes finding sites for launch facilities difficult, and would expose their civilian population to too much risk from counter-force strikes (they were going to get nuked a lot already to knock out their airfields and harbors).
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For the feels, look no further than any mechanical keyboard.

For the looks - it is a matter of personal taste, but I agree Apple keyboards are elegant.
it's like arresting the knife maker for a crime committed by a murderer.
This was the second world war, that distinction wasn't really maintained for air bombing. Use of incendiaries against cities was already widespread, and the firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than either of the two nuclear bombings.
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It's the first thought that popped into my head...

I don't exactly see how your comment helps any more than mine but that's fine.
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An interesting case of "the bomber always gets through" were the mock attacks the RAF did against major US cities as part of an exercise with the US - the Vulcans managed to beat US air defences fairly easily - something that was kept quiet for a long time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Skyshield

[Fantastic planes the Vulcans - saw one doing aerobatics as a kid above the wee village I lived in - what an absolutely incredible noise]
Plea bargains. A promise of 1 year in low sec prison vs the risk of getting a life sentence in solitary.

It's similar to what was done to witches in medieval times: "Confess, and we will kill you gently, or be sentenced and be burned alive."
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Can you explain what exactly is unscientific about it, for those of us who haven't read the full study yet?

From what I gather, this is about the age of onset of psychosis in people genetically predisposed towards psychosis, ie. it's already accepted that the participants have a predisposition for psychosis.

I suppose http://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Maccabe/publicatio... is the article; a quick search for the main author also shows e.g. http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/article00725.html regarding the genetics.

Meta-reviews https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=meta%20study%20psychosi... seem to support it as well.

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EDIT: reading the comments here, I feel I have to mention that yes, alcohol is also bad and possibly worse (definitely worse if you look at absolute numbers) and no, cannabis is not worse than heroin and no, we shouldn't ban everything that can do you harm. That still doesn't mean we should pretend cannabis can never do harm.
> You'll Drown The World.

No you wouldn't, it would only increase the sea level by about 65m. You'd indiscriminately kill a lot of people (including your own) making it a useless weapon. There would be hefty amounts of survivors (billions), again making it useless if you were going for all-out genocide.

The ruined climate might do something to kill off the human race, though.
Might as well jail every tobacco or arms producer as well.
Here is the preceding paragraph to give some context:

I have spent a lot of this chapter on the statistics of war. But now we are ready for the most interesting statistic since 1945: zero. Zero is the number that applies to an astonishing collection of categories of war during the two-thirds of a century that has elapsed since the end of the deadliest war of all time. I’ll begin with the most momentous...

So the "zero" figure means "since 1945."
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Good idea, thanks! Will definitely implement it as well on my side.
I'm doing this for money, so I prioritize based on that.

I put everything that I think would be cool to do in a doc. Then I add from 1 to 5 $ signs next to each task depending on how much money I think the task could make, or a ? mark if it has questionable financial value.

For example:

"Optimize documentation pages to rank better in Google - $$$$"

"Improve styling of download links table. - ?"

Then it's really easy for me to decide what to do.
It would be really hard to argue that. Bernie Madoff was more like someone who robs banks, or e.g. ATMs (i.e. no danger to human lives, but money stolen). Megaupload didn't steal anyone's money, and while people did get content without paying for it, it's not very clear that they would pay for it if it wasn't available for free.

One undermined the public's confidence in the strength, fairness and security of financial institutions, the other made some rich people not any richer.
A bit hyperbolic but definitely all the major coastal cities would be gone.

This is what would remain: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice...