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We could use some serious development in non-lethal weapons, but I'm afraid it might not solve anything - non-lethal weaponry is by definition more complicated by lethal, and thus any technology designed to stun could be repurposed to kill with more effectiveness than the bloodless variant. We'd probably need to reach the level when there would be no practical difference of effectiveness between the two types.
Inception will be remembered in part because it's overrated. (Birdman does better incidentally what Inception tries to do.) Pan's Labyrinth will be remembered for its style. Michael Bay will be remembered as an example of the excesses of technologists in art.
Thanks for the links, it had been a while so I was a little foggy on that one. In the end, I don't think you'd want to back the project for that reason.

>It doesn't offer a whole lot over traditional filesystems in a single-device context; since Apple has basically abandoned server/enterprise, I would wager the vast majority of new OS X systems are single-drive.

Not really, but of all the major vendor file-systems, HFS+ is probably the weakest link. An update to a filesystem that is well maintained for a freeBSD base would probably be an upgrade. Also, even with a single disk, zfs would have the benifits of good filsystem level compression which can boost read write/speeds by 2 or 3 times. Especially on a no server box where you are likely to have idle cores.

There are some features from an os level of using COW if you want to give people restore points or built-in os VCS for files. Also checksums (ie, this file looks to be corrupted, would you like to go back to yesterday?).

So there's some cool usage for these file systems even on a single disk but again a corporation probably doesn't want to touch it with a 10 foot stick.
Speculative realism
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First, nothing here is made up.

Second, I gave this advice because it would be incredibly sad to think, "I want to play video games all day, but unfortunately, I have to have a job." That is no way to live. I was trying to encourage the person above me to think about what he really wants.

Third, please don't go around snarkily second-guessing people's comments. My comments deserve to be taken at face value. I am tired having having to defend myself from unwarranted personal attacks.
why is it that kids who have parents that hide them from everything "bad", wind up so messed up, narcissistic, and are generally unable to cope with life?

Precisely because!

As the Japanese say, "You only know true kindness through suffering."
> kickback scheme

How could enforcing the law be a kickback scheme? Don't want a ticket? Don't speed!

As a pedestrian I would personally prefer that drivers always feel they are in danger of getting a ticket, so drivers always have an incentive to follow the law.
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you want aid? open that image in a program with color picker and look at ze pixels
If only that was so easy. What really happens is that some of the people who don't want to go get jailed or executed, and the rest quickly change their minds. And if you somehow managed to breed a whole nation of people refusing to kill others, then your country would quickly get invaded by another one. "Why don’t we live in the utopia dreamed of by sixties pacifists and their many predecessors? Because if we did, the first renegade to pick up a rock would become a Genghis Khan."[0]

You'd have to enact a global and immediate mentality change to beat the coordination problem inherent in this situation.

[0] - http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=418
> By fun you mean exercise I assume. Cats aren't that smart I am pretty sure they don't have a concept of fun.

Being not smart might mean they have no concept of exercise, but the pleasure responses that can be fairly labelled "fun" are pretty fundamental.

(Now, the reason those propensity for those particular pleasure response or selected for in cats may well be the activity that they encourage provides exercise that useful in developing reflexes for survival skills, but that doesn't mean they do it "for exercise" in any motivational sense.)
Everything else that changed over the course of the study period. Speed limits might have been lowered, enforcement patterns might have been revised, the congestion charges might have changed, the weather might have been different. It would be more helpful to see a graph showing historical trends stretching back at least ten or twelve years, just to give us an idea of the standard deviation.
What if we did have incapacitating weapons that could be used in a wartime situation?
As a pedestrian I would personally prefer that drivers were looking out for me, not fixating on their speedometers.
Cameron made some really outstanding movies, but I at least don't count Aliens among them. The Abyss was more than amazing for me.
If anyone's interested in recreating some of these, LaTeX provides a neat way to do so: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/illusions
"When trading real money in a real market, predictions based on historical data go out the window." No they don't. Depends on the style of course but most arb or stat arb strategies are fully derived from historical data.

"Ever back-test a trading system that simulates a Market Maker letting low block go under the bid or dialing down the sensitivity of the bid vs. the ask" Could you express this more clearly? Your language is sloppy. Yes I've back tested lots of market making strategies - all far more complex in behavior than traditional market making.
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i quite like the interactive timeline component [1] at vis.js. it's zoomable, scrollable, highly customizable and even editable.

[1] http://visjs.org/timeline_examples.html
Now that's cool! Only problem to overcome? Network effect. How to make this popular?
Google and Mozilla definitely plaid a supporting role but the iPhone was the main act because it was the device which executives wanted to use. In addition to web video, that also pushed HTML5 in general because all of the IE-only internal apps didn't work on the CIO's new pride and joy.
Well the main article shows a bunch of demonstrations of how objects can appear lighter than they are when contrasted against a dark background which makes logical sense.

In the disputed image however, you have a bright background (so bright in fact that it causes glare on the lens over the right shoulder of the dress) supposedly making the dress appear lighter than it is. If anything I would say that the optical illusions offer evidence of why the dress would generally appear darker than it actually is than why it would appear lighter.

My problem with the "because science" isn't meant to be dismissive or imply that the principles that are argued aren't valid or plausible, my problem with "because science" is that a lot of the articles and videos made to describe the phenomena are titled something to the tune of "Science explains why people see different colors" and offer one of a varied set of plausible hypotheses, but they are explaining something without any controls.

I see it like being told you have cancer, asking the doctor "why?" and her saying "have you ever smoked cigarettes?" you saying yes, and her saying, "Well it's widely known and has been repeatedly proven that cigarettes are carcinogenic, there's your explanation."

In the same light, to me, saying the dress is interpreted differently because our brain plays tricks on us such as in optical illusions (which I don't refute at all) and that's why people are seeing it as different colors is completely unscientific to me because it doesn't have controls for things such as the type of screen people are viewing things from (glass vs matte), the color temperature of the screen (anyone running f.lux?), the viewing angle, auto-dimming screens based on ambient light, the effects of anti-glare material in some screens all of which may contribute to why not only different people see the image differently, but why the same people see the image differently based on different times/environments.

And given the amount of time and energy people have devoted to discussing this, I don't see why asking for evidence of one globally debated outlier example is comparable to redoing experiments that have been widely reproduced.

The thing is, I don't have a problem with people using previously proven concepts to expose potential explanations, I have a problem with people saying that one hypothesis "scientifically explains" a phenomena because it's a scientifically viable hypothesis.

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On a side note, thanks for disagreeing with me via a reply instead of just arbitrarily down voting me because you don't like my opinion. I wish more people on here shared the views you expressed on your about blob.
I think allochthon means that he didn't feel mature enough to watch it.
>So do implement it then to avoid the compilation and/or linking errors, but make it crash intentionally if called.

void SimpleReferenceObject::operator delete[](void * /* pPtr */)
{
free(NULL);
}

What will cause the crash? Passing a null pointer to free() is fine. Something specific to C++?
Source? I believe that animal food sources are a vastly less efficient use of land and resources than plant food sources--the whole "20 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef" thing. Certainly nutrients can be in short supply in a meat-free diet, but it's easy enough to get them from vegetable sources and add supplements.
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It's for tumblr. Css, javascript, and related web design how tos.

I'm very new, and do not know what are commonly used terminologies.
Asians from poor neighborhoods still are because they're Asian. And if they are male, then they are even more discriminated against than Asian women who are both "female" and "Asian".

Basically Asian in general regardless if you're from overseas or from NY, you're getting shafted. And if you're male... good luck, you better have a 5.0 GPA and be the captain of the football team to get in any where.
What comes after postmodernism? Postmodernism++?
So how are half of the children, who play violent video-games all day long, not imitating the behavior they see and do in those games?

A lot of those games involve hardware the children do not have access to. The games also often portray consequences in a way which the kids still know to be very bad. (As much as children play "war," they know viscerally that being in pain and bleeding is generally not fun.

We should be at least overrun by car-jackings at this point thanks to Grand Theft Auto.

There was one young man who enacted a GTA scenario and shot his way out of a police station with a gun he stole from a police officer. However, he is very much the exception.

What the orange advert did was to portray an activity with bad consequences as a trivial and harmless one, in a way that specifically worked around the built in understanding that otherwise deters kids from doing things like that. (Unless they mean harm. That's also within the possible range of behaviors of children. However, it's not so common in many places for children to want to really harm their playmates.)
The thing I like about CSM is if you hover over (or click on, I can't recall exactly) the ratings for each category they outline why which helps you make your own mind up how flexible you want to be with their recommendation.

Also gives good age ranges, not just the broad certificates.
Both films have been re-rated to 15, but the DVDs still seem to be 18 for some reason.
> I think plants are much better. Most of them are living in amazing synergy.

And the rest of them are evil. Just like animals. Nature is a complicated thing. Some advanced animals have complex cooperation and ethics-like behaviours, but as for the rest, it's just kill or be killed, which powers the feedback loops of the ecosystem.

> How do you know? Cats for instance have very sophisticated behavior in regards to killing their own kind.

And yet they still do.
I'd like to see how you analyzed the race of github contributors. I'd also like to know what "plenty" means. Personally, I strongly suspect that you'll see fairly small set of race/location/income combinations.

Why, me and my friends and colleagues, Chinese and South African and Ghanian and Kenyan are on github. I'm very offended you suggested only white people can afford to be on github.

Given that we're not really talking about color, per se, I seriously hope that you don't honestly believe that statement.

You specifically mentioned "white males".

It takes half a day to write something you can put on github. If anyone can't do that it's because they're not as experienced as those who can. It's not much more effort than writing a resume. The point of github is so people who aren't interested in brain teasers can demonstrate their ability to write good code.

You can argue people who aren't good at programming enough to be able to write something in half a day should be hired anyway, and I'll tell you the communism experiment is over.

You, sir, are racially biased.
http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ (Web Widget by MIT for Visualizing Temporal Data)
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Sure. Bombing them. Less risk for you.

The point is, when you're a soldier on the ground, your choices are very constrained. You want the right decisions to be made? Go after people who sent those soldiers in the first place.
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If he didn't know it was food, but still killed it, doesn't that fit as killing for fun?
OT: Hmm, something seems very wrong with that CNET page. It loads ok but it's unreadable on iOS.

As soon as I try to scroll it goes haywire. Anyone else seeing that or have a link to a static version?
As a bonus you get the considerable chance that they will lose all their bitcoins in a hack/fraud for free.

Hmmm... going long bitcoin and shorting this may be the trade to do.
http://xkcd.com/1492/

I suspect people seeing white/gold live/grew up in sunny climate with blue sky, sea?, maybe blue walls/wallpaper in their bedroom. Basically people primed for seeing things illuminated by blue tinted light.
I'm not sure that's the entire story of what's happening. There are a lot of factors that play into whether a new platform succeeds, and it is never just the way one makes apps for it that makes or breaks the platform. Obviously, there are people who will use any technology, no matter how poor, if it means they can make money in a growing market. iOS showed that; while the APIs for iOS are quite well-designed, ObjC is not particularly wonderful environment for GUI apps compared to many modern alternatives. But, a huge user base means people will learn ObjC in order to make apps for it. In fact, the only reason ObjC is relevant at all is because Apple put in on their phones and tablets. But, even Apple can't keep it alive forever...Swift is obviously their answer to more modern development approaches.

This has played out in many other markets, including desktops and servers, where higher levels of abstraction won mindshare over time as technology (both hardware and software) advanced to make it feasible. When I started using person computers (8 bit machines), software of any seriousness was written in assembly. The next generation (16 bit machines) brought good C and Pascal compilers, and applications built with those tools. Only now are we seeing serious talk of replacing C/C++ with something else for systems programming (maybe Rust, maybe Go, etc.).

Being right but at the wrong time is just as bad as being wrong. Maybe WebOS was right, but at the wrong time...maybe apps made in JavaScript five years ago weren't snappy enough on a phone. Maybe the tooling wasn't there. Maybe the VMs weren't good enough. Maybe they are, now.

I don't know. But, Mozilla has shown itself capable of taking on the biggest companies in the world with open web technologies, and holding their ground tenaciously. I believe they have the clarity of vision and the technical chops to pull it off.

Finally, I just want a Firefox phone. So, I may have rose-colored glasses. I think Firefox is the bee's knees, and I think Mozilla truly represents one of the most positive forces for good in technology today. I want Firefox OS to win. If it can't win, I want it to be a serious contender.
Watch your cat carefully the next time it catches an insect. The cat will eat it, eventually. But not after playing with it for a good few minutes. Cats are cruel. They bring their prey to the brink of death, then release it only to catch it few moments later and repeat the process.

Source: I have two cats.
There are multiple schools for thought currently vying for that position, but transmodernism seems to have the most traction.
Do you view films like Toy Story, Star Wars and E.T. as junk?
Postmodernism is more insidious than rejection of authority/structure. Authority tends to be straightforward. Postmodernism says there is no authority, but you know very well there is authority but you have to find it out yourself and be sure you are correct in your conclusion of authority or structure.

It's like when you ask someone for an appropriate gift for an occasion and they say, 'oh, you'll figure something out' instead of telling you what would work. I mean, it's not as though 'anything' would be accepted, but now they are putting the onus on you to get it right.

So rather than being liberating, it can be debilitating.
That would be uber cool. Unfortunately, we don't have any that rival the effectiveness of lethal ones, thus if one were to use stun weaponry, one would lose to an enemy that decided not to.
I don't know. By this logic ("Who's to say what is art and what is not art?") even my pictures of stick figures can be considered art. Except that no, sorry, they're not art, and I'm not an artist.

Roy Lichtenstein asked himself "What is art?". And when he took pictures out of instruction manuals and newspaper advertisements (and, later, comic books) and reproduced them on canvas he said "Ok, I took something mundane, something mass-produced, something you see every day all around you, and I reproduced it here on canvas, using tools and techniques that artists use, I painted each of the Ben-day dots by hand, and is this now somehow not mundane? Is it now art?". And when I see one of his pictures a voice in my head says "Yes, this is art."

When I see a canvas painted black (or a shark in a tank, for that matter), that voice says "no".
Shouldn't hard work get rewarded instead of genetics?

But even in the model you suggest, you're not rewarding "hard work", you're rewarding test scores. Not the same thing. As my old professor would say, "Don't tell me you studied hard. I don't care how hard you studied."

In many regards, all these metrics are arbitrary. I wonder if there is a utilitarian perspective on college admission metrics.
> All of our thoughts require language

No. A very concrete example of this for me was when my dad and I designed a ladder-chair(1). We both had pencils and drew the views and measurements on a single piece of engineering paper over the course of 45 minutes, I think with maybe a dozen sentences spoken. But clearly each hand was responding to the other's lines.

(1) https://www.flickr.com/photos/niels_olson/sets/7215759452966...
It's quite impossible to lose your license here in the usa. Most people think their license was given to them personally by God.
Try Sundance Kabuki, especially the 21+ shows.

Also, we're getting an Alamo Drafthouse, which I'm really looking forward to: http://drafthouse.com/san_francisco/new_mission
But one of the types of cameras generating the most revenue is on the exit ramp from a highway. They have cameras that will clock you before you're in a "city street" proper.
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I want to make sure I'm solving the problem before I decide how to make money.

It's useful to several different groups: business teams, coaches, people in the employment space and normal people. I only need to cover rent and other expenses.

There are a few options (in-app purchases, ads, pro account for business teams).
Moreover, we seem to be too dumb as a species to avoid conflict. We just can't coordinate with one another on a big enough scale.

And yet, I still have hope for us reaching the Star Trek level of humanity.