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> This is a cultural problem, and the way forward is not to choose the second worst answer instead of the absolute worst: it's to create an environment where people can choose the best answer.

I don't agree. To think that we can solve substance (ab)use issues with cultural intervention is to deny the basic biological aspects. Many species simply enjoy altering their consciousness. Humans are very inventive in this regard but it's common throughout the animal kingdom.

Instead of denying a basic human urge, we should stop criminalizing it. Properly support those that have developed a dependency and move away from the nanny state. Harm reduction should be the overarching aim.
Should say [2012] in title. This is an old paper that apparently predates the point in time when bitcoin started getting used for this kind of scheme. For example this one [1].

[1] http://insidebitcoins.com/news/trendon-shavers-bitcoin-ponzi...
I like how the title of the story implies that the scammers are all men, but in the article the person who left the voicemail was actually a "stern woman". Where is the PC police when you need it?
People will continue to use ubuntu if it meets their needs, mostly in terms of packages. I'm a seasoned sysadmin and sometimes it's difficult to make things work "the right way" with little effort in centos/RHEL.. but with ubuntu it's very easy to make reproducible machines even with no proper ops experience.

Honestly, I don't like ubuntu server, but this is my choice.

I also dislike systemd, and I laud any distro that doesn't use it, even if they will begin using it soon.
Uhh, that was my thought too. "How my patient discovered..."
I don't worry about that. Poor people who can't afford to lose money generally don't invest in online ponzi schemes that require the use of exotic digital currencies.

Realistically, the "investors" are people who want to gamble with their money. Who cares if they lose it?
This is terrible clickbait, it reminds me of that 4chan HN spoof thread.

The author disregards many of his points through his article, yet only acknowledges this with a small footnote at the end of each section. Those sections should have a note at the start, or be removed altogether.

He praises Red Hat's use of upstream LT kernels, yet ignores the fact that RHEL's lifecycle is WAY longer than upstream LT, essentially negating any benefit after some time.

Perhaps his comments about Upstart and logind are valid. However I doubt Ubuntu devs are going to break their entire init daemon, and surely as long as logind works well this isn't an issue either?

Only the AppArmor point is very valid. Ubuntu has never been a good choice for a virtualization host. Red Hat, KVM, and SELinux are very closely knit and very good.
Runtime is already open and runs on Linux, one just has to cross compile it, optimize for mobile and do the bindings and such that Xamarin already does. That's still quite a bit of legwork since Xamarin has been doing it for some years now. Not saying someone couldn't do it, but it would take a good amount of time to be on the level Xamarin is in stability and performance.

I pay for Xamarin personally and think it's well worth it if doing cross-platform compared to the alternatives out there. I'd continue to do so until there's a very stable open sourced alternative. However, I think Xamarin knows such a possibility could happen and that's why they primarily target enterprise and not individual developers.

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
Sounds to me like Alcohol has more potential to be abused and cause damage in the short term (bad decision making, drunk driving, risk of addiction), while Marijuana has has less high risk outcomes but more long-term negative effects when used casually (likely to lead to a less productive and successful life). Basically: pot makes you moderately dumber for the rest of your life, booze increases the small risks of catastrophic outcomes for short periods of time.

I've tried pretty much everything; and then decided that Marijuana is something I don't want to - haven't had any in 5+ years. I drink Alcohol regularly, but seldom getting more than tipsy. I know my limits, and even if I do get drunk, I'm smart enough to not put myself in bad situations: I don't drive & drink, I know when to stop, and pay attention to my surroundings. I prefer that to the idea of losing 20% of my intelligence.
Since I signed up for the free (to consumers) www.nomorobo.com the scam calls don't bother me anymore. They won an award from the FTC for innovative ways to stop automated phone calls. You use your phone service's simultaneous ring feature to ring your house and Nomorobo at the same time. If the call is from a known scammer / automated dialer it picks up the call and immediately hangs up. So your phone only rings once.
Interesting. I did a tiny bit of digging to see where things stand today. When I search for "Undiscovered Colors" in iTunes, his recording (The Flashbulb) shows up first in the list. "The Inventor" doesn't show up at all.

When I play the song preview and use Shazam, Shazam tells me it's "Undiscovered Colors" by "Flash Bulb & Inventor". There is no link to Inventor's version, presumably because it is no longer on iTunes. There's a link to a video in Shazam and that takes me to The Flashbulb's official Undiscovered Colors video on YouTube[1].

On YouTube I found what I think is Inventor's version, though it's called "The Flashbulb - Undiscovered Colors (Inventor Dubstep Remix)"[2]. Calling it a remix at least seems closer to the truth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgoAgYR4584

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVHobhMHrQ0
No, bitcoin isn't a ponzi scheme because it's not a ponzi scheme.

A ponzi scheme is a very particular kind of scam.

If I started an altcoin (like bitcoin) and promised people it would increase in value, it still wouldn't be a ponzi scheme because that is not how a ponzi scheme works.

It would be a different kind of scheme that I don't think has a name. edit: Well, some people would call it a pump-and-dump, so maybe that.
May I recommend "Miles from Nowhere" http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Miles-from-Nowhere,.... Turns out that a county in Texas has fewer folks per square mile.
Sounds like you need to educate yourself a bit. There's more to microcontrollers than Arduino.

I was using AVRs long before the Arduino platform popularized them (does that make me an MCU hipster?) Even ten years ago there were far better chips. Somehow AVR not only outcompeted those chips, but came to utterly dominate its market niche. Why do you suppose that is?

Your position is reminiscent of those who expressed incredulity at the success of iOS when it didn't do anything that wasn't already being done at the time it was introduced. There's something you Just Don't Get. If I were you, I'd wonder what that might be.
I'm not very educated in this department, so be kind. These are my thoughts.

So what happens when inflation occurs (which it will) and offsets the "Universal Basic Income"?

Isn't this just socialism?
I'm not entirely sure what your argument is. Are you saying we need to create an environment where the choice to consume neither marijuana nor alcohol is accepted? That just seems totally contrary to the human condition. I don't think the problem is the lack of that environment, it's that there's an innate animal desire to alter reality and currently alcohol is leading the pack in mind-altering substances.
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Yep, even based on the source code, the article is from October 2012.
"News" is awfully broad. Nevertheless...

For me it means:

www.nakedcapitalism.com
www.eschatonblog.com
asserttrue.blogspot.com
thinkprogress.org
www.scoop.it/t/news-that-doesn-t-fit
I've just started working with the new AWS CLI, and while in the long term I will probably switch to using boto directly from Python, for now I process the CLI's JSON output in bash scripts. Using structured data in this way is really quite interesting. Because it isn't sensitive to whitespace or newline mangling, the JSON output can safely be stored in an environment variable a la Perl (e.g., ```VAR=$(aws ... -output json)```). Rather than hacking up some rudimentary parsing using sed/awk/etc., I can pipe it to an existing parser (e.g., jshon), which will extract the data I want with minimal effort. I think that if I had an objection to XML, it isn't because it's structured but because it's so verbose relative to simpler serialization formats like JSON or YAML. Then again, I don't know why we even bother with those when we're just a tiny bit of syntax away from sexps. :)
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There is an excuse for this "small mindedness," it's that I think human well-being is strictly more important than the well-being of other organisms. And to think otherwise would be monstorous.
I had no idea! This is very cool.
Your argument is similar to the argument for teaching only abstinence. Regardless of whether it's truly better to abstain until marriage - it's been shown that teaching abstinence as the only option leads to more high-risk behavior than teaching safe sex. Teenagers will have sex regardless; but with good sex education, they might change their behavior and say, use a condom, or get on the pill.
These are not equivalent:

/* signature INTMAP = */ import scala.language.higherKinds
/* sig */
/* exception NotFound */ trait IntMap[A] {
/* type 'a t */ type NotFound
/* */ type T[_]
/* val empty: 'a t */
/* val get: int -> 'a t -> 'a */ val empty: T[A]
/* val insert: int * 'a -> 'a t -> 'a t */ def get(i: Int)(x: T[A]): A
/* end; */ def insert(k: Int, v: A)(x: T[A]): T[A]
/* */ }

What you want is

/* signature INTMAP = */ import scala.language.higherKinds
/* sig */
/* exception NotFound */ trait IntMap {
/* type 'a t */ type NotFound
/* */ type T[_]
/* val empty: 'a t */
/* val get: int -> 'a t -> 'a */ def empty[A]: T[A]
/* val insert: int * 'a -> 'a t -> 'a t */ def get[A](i: Int)(x: T[A]): A
/* end; */ def insert[A](k: Int, v: A)(x: T[A]): T[A]
/* */ }

Update: To elaborate further, the problem with the trait as defined in the original post is that it has moved type quantification outside of the functions/methods. A ML module satisfying the signature INTMAP could create instances of t for any 'a, while an instance of IntMap[A] would be limited to instances of specific to A. At this point, because T[_] depends on A, there is no reason for it to have a higher kind.
I gave your app a try. I think its fairly good. It was a -bit- choppy when clicking on sign up, but once signed in, I couldn't tell it apart from a native app. The 'swipe to move to next screen' was pretty good too.

Cheers.
Thanks for that. The application I'm looking at has a very specialized ui. The functionality also counts for much more than native look and feel from the customers point of view so Qt might still be a runner.
> I know my limits, and even if I do get drunk, I'm smart enough to not put myself in bad situations: I don't drive & drink, I know when to stop, and pay attention to my surroundings.

At 34 I'm the same. But when I think back to all of the incredibly stupid and dangerous things I did under the influence of alcohol I realize that I'm lucky to be alive.

There's no way to really know, but I think that in an alternate universe where pot is legal and alcohol is not it would be a net positive for society. Alcohol makes many people aggressive and drastically lowers inhibitions. In my experience pot makes people mellow and keen for some Donkey Kong and pizza!
> Why do you suppose that is?

Marketing and the Arduino IDE.
I implemented multihash in Haskell: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/multihash
If two parties both send you a song and claim to own it, how would you determine who was the original creator? This is a nontrivial problem.

From what I understand, they defer to the party with the higher revenue/sales numbers. There are ways this can be abused, and we've seen plenty, but it at least provides a larger target to be sued if they are actually behaving fraudulently.
Be very cautious of texts that start with "this is how we can" instead of "this is why we should"
Why choose between them when you can have both?
(I edited my comment to point out that the AVR chips predate the Arduino platform by several years, and that there were technically superior parts on the market even then.)
From your own description this sounds super annoying
When was this about pot legalization? I thought I just read an article comparing alcohol to pot; can we have a discussion relating to pot without having to talk about legality for the zillionth time?
> Instead of denying a basic human urge, we should stop criminalizing it. Properly support those that have developed a dependency and move away from the nanny state. Harm reduction should be the overarching aim.

While I agree with decriminalization to a reasonable extent, I think you are severely underestimating the crippling effect being dependent on a foreign substance can be on relationships, society, and the individual. Simply changing the legislation is part of a broader comprehensive solution. A cultural change needs to be part of any comprehensive solution to substance use and abuse.

A cultural change is also needed so members of society can enjoy moderate use, without leading to abuse, of substances. Or so they are encouraged to enjoy other parts of life besides substances, if they so choose.
I received an aborted call (hang up after half a ring) from a non-anonymous number. When I searched for that number online, the only results that came up were forum discussions of wondering whether it was really Chase's fraud-detection line or a scam. For the most part, they concluded it was a scam, in part because several Chase branch managers had not heard of the number.

Fortunately, I came to the opposite (and correct) conclusion, seeing as how I had received the call 30 seconds after attempting to use my Chase card for a large international purchase online and was able to quickly get that issue sorted. Still, it seems to current state-of-the-art that the rest of the bank is not aware of the phone numbers used by their fraud departments.
Very interesting, thank you.

"News" is indeed broad, since blogs do not qualify for news. something that you want to read and follow, I guess.
Regarding the human condition:

"History shows that people have always used intoxicants. In every age, in every part of the world, people have pursued intoxication with plants, alcohol, and other mind-altering substances. In fact, this behavior has so much force and persistence that it functions much like our drives for food, sleep, and sex. This "fourth drive," says psychopharmacologist Ronald K. Siegel, is a natural part of our biology, creating the irrepressible demand for intoxicating substances."

http://www.amazon.com/Intoxication-Universal-Drive-Mind-Alte...
GP sounds more like a call for decriminalization and harm reduction than outright legalization.

There is a difference.

EDIT: And in response to your shadow edit: no, we can't. A significant factor in the abuse of drugs — and marijuana in particular, given its relative harmlessness — is their very illegality. The forbidden fruit seems to be far more tempting.
> Why not use their position to guarantee that users can easily modify the software running on the device?

Because that's not an ideology that everyone supports.
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Evidence firmly points that "neither" is the correct answer by a large margin

Evidence shows no such thing, at least if we are talking about mortality. When studied, moderate drinkers seem to have better outcomes than those who abstain. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010....
Alcohol makes many people aggressive and drastically lowers inhibitions. In my experience pot makes people mellow and keen for some Donkey Kong and pizza!

This is too narrow a viewpoint. Alcohol makes me mellow, friendly, hungry, and more into games. I know people for which pot makes them aggressive (I think as a result of paranoia).
Basically: pot makes you moderately dumber for the rest
of your life,
...
I prefer that to the idea of losing 20% of my
intelligence.

Where are you getting this from? You're entirely within your right to not use marijuana, but it sounds like you have this idea in your head that you treat as fact.
I dislike systemd as well, but at the same time...

Is it really worth swimming against the tide?
Yep, and Bethe had no clue until the paper came out with his name on it. Gamow just couldn't resist adding his name as a joke.
There wouldn't necessarily be an extreme event like a famine in which only consuming milk would save you. It could well be that consuming milk gave you even just 1% more calories on average (not skipping a meal every so often, when all there is is milk to be eaten right at that moment, because other food spoiled or was unavailable). Even a 1% fitness increase compounds itself over multiple generations into a large effect, even if in each generation it is so small it is hardly noticeable (and so not written into legend).
Producing the lactase enzyme also has a biologic energy cost. If the is no regular milk in your diet, then it is a waste of energy. That's why it is selected against in many situations.
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I'm not very fond of Ubuntu, actually I hate it.
But this is an incredibly weak arcticle. Most of the points
involve Ubuntu not adhering to what all the other distros that
the author considers supperior are using. So? Isn't the point
of a distro to do things differently?
Partial list:

Aaron Toponce	https://pthree.org

Abduzeedo	http://abduzeedo.com

ACLU	https://www.aclu.org

adafruit.com	http://www.adafruit.com

ae911truth.org	http://www.ae911truth.org

aeon.co	http://aeon.co

aerospaceprojectsreview.com	http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com

A Fistful of Euros	http://fistfulofeuros.net

AirlineReporter.com	http://www.airlinereporter.com

akihabaranews.com	http://akihabaranews.com

Al Jazeera	http://www.aljazeera.com

AllGov	http://www.allgov.com

AlterNet	http://www.alternet.org

American Forces Press Service	http://www.defense.gov

amusingplanet.com	http://www.amusingplanet.com

AnandTech	http://www.anandtech.com

Android Police	http://www.androidpolice.com

aNewDomain	http://anewdomain.net

anonhq.com	http://anonhq.com

AntiWar.com	http://original.antiwar.com

APOD	http://apod.nasa.gov

ArchDaily	http://www.archdaily.com

Architizer Blog	http://architizer.com

Arms Control Wonk	http://armscontrolwonk.com/

Ars Technica	http://arstechnica.com

astrobites.org	http://astrobites.org

astroquizzical.com	http://astroquizzical.com

Autoblog	http://www.autoblog.com

AvaxNews	http://avaxnews.net

Aviation Safety Network News	http://aviation-safety.net
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I read the "no gratuitously negative comments" rule, and I will have you know that I spent a full 10 seconds thinking about different ways to phrase my comments on this (old) article.

Article summary: "I like RH/CentOS, and so you should use it" - as suprjami points out in his comment, he disregards most of his own points.

We use ubuntu for general purpose stuff, and alpine linux for more task-specific stuff - especially for container images. I have a bitter resentment towards rpm and yum hasn't done anything to make that go away. We don't like systemd, and are evaluating alternatives to ubuntu for that reason.
When Portugal decriminalized all drugs of abuse, they saw an initial spike in usage rates for most of them, and then a significant reduction in usage — to well below the original, criminalization-era rates — across the board.

That is to say, a significant part of the cultural shift that's needed appears to be taking away the "Oooh, I'm being so bad!" stigma that criminalization incurs.
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> So since the guy who runs “Foul Play” apparently printed out my cease and desist notice, rolled it into a tube, and smoked crack out of it, I’m going to assume that he won’t show up to court either

So the author saved himself the effort of filing a lawsuit? Part of me is annoyed at the retailers' indifference. But a greater part is glad that adjudication is left to our courts.
> Is it really worth swimming against the tide?

That depends where the tide is taking you....
> I know people for which pot makes them aggressive (I think as a result of paranoia).

Fair enough. I think the general consensus is that alcohol leads to aggression more so than pot, but your own personal experience may differ.

Are these people only using pot, or are they mixing with alcohol or other drugs? This is all anecdotal of course, but I've personally never seen 2 people high from pot act aggressively or want to fight etc.
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systemd has its place, and that is "Linux on the desktop." Say what you will about it being a pain in the ass to debug or maintain or how it eats every Unix service in order to grow like a Katamari, it works beautifully for package maintainers to keep everything in order. If you like `apt-get install`s or `pacman -S`es, this really helps those who need to keep that in order.

However, I would never, ever, recommend it on a server. Unless you've got some sort of really complex deployment, get a barebones kernel and SysVinit and put it on a read-only FS. Do you need any more than that?
I fear never. We made this question over and over on the forums or via emails but the answer is ever the same: "we have no plans to support linux".
Originally the problem was about "there are too many linux distros!", then when some people suggested to at least support ubuntu as Valve did (and correctly considering the big part of used distros are ubuntu based or related) they went again on "we have no plans to support linux" without futher explainations.
Made the edit before I saw your reply, apologies..

Maybe you're right, maybe its legal status is the only thing about pot that really matters, but it's such a multidimensional issue I hate seeing the conversation home in on legalization/decriminalization every time.

A change in legal status will not solve all its problems (else why does alcohol have problems?), and we have just read an essay which spends very few words even talking about legal status, which I think supports my point that there are so many other important angles to talk about.
The New York Times article links to scientific studies on the long-term effects of marijuana use, measuring factors like memory loss. ("Lose 20% of my intelligence" is not supported by any of those studies, though.)
If it's important enough they will leave enough information for me to personally identify who or what I need to call. Then I can go on the IRS website and verify.
That has been shown, in our culture. It isn't obvious that it can't work in another cultural environment, which I think is what GP was suggesting we create.

I don't know how feasible it would be to create such a culture. Alcohol use is so normalized it seems almost impossible to change. (Yet, there have been experiments like Prohibition; those didn't go well.)
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DMCA legally has to be honored regardless of the source, as long as the notice is complete. There's no "megacorp" favoring going on here.

I'm sure if he actually issued DMCA takedown notices these listings would be gone within a day but since searching the post for DMCA shows zero results, it sounds like he hasn't done this.

EDIT: And to be clear, you don't need an expensive lawyer to file a DMCA notice. There are plenty of free templates all over the internet you can print and mail.
That's really cool. I tried it with the birthday problem[1] (real answer 23) and got 16 if I used whole exponents[2] and 19 with fractional exponents[3]. They're a little off but it gives you an idea of the value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

[2] 256 days=2^8, 16=2^4

[3] 365 days=2^8.51, 19=2^4.255
Yep. I have two GV numbers and never give out my real number ever. If someone legit wants to talk to me, they'll leave me a GV voicemail.