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I guess I was thinking about using photos in things like forum posts. Movies is a different matter - members of the general public routinely pay for movies. Members of the general public don't routinely pay for photos in a forum post - this is not where photographers get their income stream from. Hence hard to prove damages.

And even then, the MPAA, despite it's considerable legal power and ability to get laws altered, still has a difficult time getting damages out of people. "In 2011, for example, the producers for Hurt Locker sued almost 25,000 BitTorrent users—and almost all the claims were voluntarily dismissed by the studio, because it was taking too long to track down all of the defendants via their IP addresses."[1]. That's not difficult for the reasons I said, but it's still difficult, and that's talking about a violently litigious entity with very deep pockets. A regular company or a freelancer is going to have an even more difficult time.

[1]http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/bittorrent-illeg...
Expect 2015-2017 to have a number of AI/ML-themed movies as screenplays are likely now making the rounds.
It does, but it's not crazy to say that personal identity barely exists outside of group identity. Sure, some groups are less defining than others, but from what I gather the general consensus is that there is no such thing as 'personal identity' that doesn't also overlap with group identity. We're social creatures.

Of course, some people might have a more defined personal identity than others, but those are outliers. The vast majority of humans define their self based on groups that are important to them (with parents/family usually being dominant, followed by friends and culture).

Basically, I'd argue there is not much self left if you take away the different group identities.
So how did you get to be 300lb in the first place?

Obviously it's not that simple is it. You had to dedicate a long and sustained effort to lose weight you didn't want! If it were simple it wouldn't have taken 50% extra body mass for you to act and learn how to lose weight.

I really do congratulate you, but let's not pretend this is an easy problem, or it simply wouldn't exist!
That's true, but it's unempathetic, and if everyone stopped thinking there, no one would help each other. Imagine a depressed person who commits suicide. You could say, well, this person clearly wanted to die, and so she killed herself. She wanted to die more than she wanted to be around for her family, etc. and so that was selfish, the end.

But what was making her want to die? Do you think she was unaware of it, or unaware that she was having thoughts that she couldn't seem to control? Could it be the case that living with major depressive disorder might have been so mind-rendingly terrifying that it made even death seem more desirable? But isn't the best solution in this case not really death, but rather for the depression to go away, and only failing that would one ever want to die? Don't you think a suicidal person would be more aware of this than anyone?

You say this guy wanted to get thinner but he also wanted to keep overeating, and unfortunately he didn't seem to want to get thinner enough, so he kept eating. But what he really wanted was for his uncontrollable desire to overeat to go away, and he could not make that happen himself.
Or, you know, if professors were taught how to teach introductory courses. As far as I am aware there is no pedagogical training for professors in Germany. There certainly isn't any for TAs (who are simplay the professor's PhD students).

It's a lot easier for professor to teach a subject they are enthusiastic about to advanced students than it is to get students interested in an introductory course.
>>>Modernized versions of T-72 is still in wide service with Russian army.

>Oh, that's funny. SKS is in wide service. Along with Mosin-Nagant.

In active service Russia has 2000 T-72, 2000 T-90, 3000 T-80. And 3 or 4 of T-14. So, according to you, which tank is in wide service in Russia?
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> Is this a correct statement?

Of course it is. By 'randomly' he refers to a maximum entropy ("uniform") distribution conforming Gauss' Prime Number Theorem. Since by that theorem the gap rises, the probability of twin primes would go to 0 and, crucially, the expected number of twin primes would be finite (or any finite gap really).

That's an interesting reason for Yitang's proof being so significant without actually reaching the small gap -- it shows primes violate eloquently the random distribution in some ways.
Reminds me of Fluidinfo... (general purpose tagging of everything by everyone with an API and built in query language.)
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Depends a lot on where and how you live, but 400-600€ should suffice easily if you're on a budget.
I'd say getting in the habit of using password managers is by far the most important point.

Once you are doing that, using long and unique passwords comes automatically.

Using 2FA is good but I'd say it's not 'low-hanging fruit'

Changing passwords regularly is also not low-hanging fruit. For many things it's not even necessary, for very important stuff you'd want to change password every 4-6 months, so for example someone wont have access to your email for 3 years straight. It will put a ceiling on the maximum continuous time someone could have had access to your account. 2FA helps with this as well.

I'd focus on making people understand how easy these password managers are. Depending on the audience, you could focus on it being much better and easier, not necessarily "more secure", they probably care more about it being easy.
To play Devil's advocate here, war was profitable in the stone age just as it is now. That said, technology does tend to reduce the number of casualties, with a few notable exceptions.
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The world trusts that they will receive the money that they lend to us. The lender doesn't care from where that money comes.

In the end we arrive to the same conclusion, EU/IMF/whatever trust Portugal enough to bail us out again.

But I understand where you want to get: "we are behaving like good boys" and making everything that "Germany" says. Would you prefer an atitude like the Greek one, "acting like a spoiled kid"? As Greece, we are a small and periferical country without any power to negotiate by ourselves - we need to associate with others - and sincerely I prefer Portugal to associate with Germany than Greece. Our best way to get through this is by being "the good boys" and man up.
And hilariously, whenever it is tested the whole thing falls flat. Because humans cooperate by instinct. Kennedy was told again and again to escalate until the Kremlin backed down. Eventually he had enough and basically showed "rationality" the door. Thus the Cuban Crisis ended without the cold war going hot.
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> I feel that this is a cultural phenomenon of seeing children as less than human, as incapable of making good choices for themselves.

I teach primary school children (aged 10 and 11) once a week. I think the author is mistaken and using a lot of assumptions to justify a very bigoted position.

Firstly, most children are not capable of making good choices for themselves. This is essentially why we teach them, if they came out of the ground fully aware and able to rationalise there would be no need for schools. My direct experience is that some children are quite self directed and can be left to pursue their interests and work around topics in their own way. Most children however find a lack of direction quite daunting and will end up not working at all if they are not given quite clear instructions.

Secondly, allowing each child to pursue their education in their own preferred mode is unreasonable because of class sizes. I have found it very difficult to support more than 5 or so children who are all doing different things, even if they are focusing on a common subject and broadly similar tasks. The only way for a teacher to reasonably teach a class of 20 to 30 or more is to give them all the same work and teach them all in more or less the same way.

The author makes the mistake of assuming his teachers were stupid or mean. Whenever you find yourself assuming this about other people you should take a step back, because there are very few individuals, and certainly no broad categories of people who are actually like this.
Well considering parliament dissolved over the issue I can imagine there's a lot to be desired.

However, like construction projects, the original politician/official get the credit for signing the contract and their successor actually has to deal with the terms.
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The hard part of nearly any parallel activity that aims for order over chaos is synchronisation. It strikes me that part of the problem with parallel programming is that the margin for error with regards to synchronisation can be very slim.

Some would say that we need to improve our code to fit into this margin for error, and I can agree with that, but what if we look at the issue from the other direction. What methods could we employ for increasing our margin of error? What might these methods look like?

If we treat the goal as improving adjustment to synchronisation mistakes, we'll first need to know when adjustments should be made. One way to do that is to predict how long each process is likely to take, then measure the success of this model against real world performance. In this way, a system could get better at synchronisation the longer it runs for. It doesn't matter if the original guess was way off, as long as you correct it with feedback.
Reminds me of SmoothLife, a variation on Conway's Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I
OK. It's just as clear that Greece will not be able to indefinitely refinance its debt. As in, debt will perpetually grow beyond GDP. I don't think this is even controversial.

The US is an anomaly in that it has had the printing press for the world's reserve currency for more than forty years. Whether it'll be able to do so indefinitely is a different question.

Apropos this:

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/books/the-global-minotaur/
The comment I replied to expressed a desire to do nothing and I presumed that they also did not want to deal with an inconvenient failure.

I don't think either of my suggestions are particularly sensible (unless maybe you are in a situation to have your butler take care of it), but they are possible, which compares favorably to the idea of a maintenance free bike.
On pixels versus vector:

Notably, it all began with yet a different technology. Early computer displays were typically point plotting devices, meaning, these were random access displays like vector displays, but had no memory and would plot individual blips on the display. (Moreover, these displays used high-resolution tubes originally manufactured for use in radar displays, employing a dual P7 phosphor that wouldn't only add stability to the image by its sustain/afterglow, but also added iconic trails to any moving objects.) Thus, early games, like Spacewar!, would employ two different modes of graphics: Once, vector like graphics, drawing lines by advancing plotting locations by not more than a screen co-ordinate a step, and on the other hand, painting effects by individual pixels, like the pixel-dust of exploding particles.

These displays were also the most limiting factor in game development. As the beam had to be moved at high speeds, displays were serious pieces of hardware, applying high voltages to address the requested plotting locations. In order to prohibit any resulting ringing and blurred images, there was a wait time required in between individual plotting commands. In case of the DEC PDP-1's Type 30 CRT used for the original Spacewar!, these were 50 microseconds, the equivalent of 10 internal CPU instructions. Provided the program had to repaint the screen in reasonable time in order to maintain a stable image and steady frame rates, the time spent in display routines contributed a significant amount to the runtime of the main loop and limited what could be done during a frame.
I stand corrected. I knew there was still a little out there, but it sounds like more than I thought. I remember doing retail in my mother's shop in the paper note days and having to be moderately vigilant, and I've not seen retail staff doing any routine sort of note-checking since the start of the polymer days.
So you suggest that we frontload that abuse onto our youngest members, just to make sure they learn to succeed in that environment and then have an incentive to perpetuate it when they get to where we are?
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we used our own C++ multi-threaded Gibbs sampler, which turned out to mix fast enough for the estimation - even given the large number of parcels/items we have at Zalando
People are often successful at passing very, very low quality counterfeit bills.
Nothing stopping them from doing a RHEL/CentOS setup - they open the code, keep the trademarks to themselves, if you want 'Windows' you have to pay for support.

People who don't want support are probably pirating Windows anyway.
Wow, please, easy mister Obama, nobody's going to take you Peace Prize back!
The ECB buying government debt, and pledging to buy as much as was needed, wasn't the main cause then?

Global interest rates being historically low isn't a cause now?

No, you say, it is because of something that was the same before, during, and after the main crisis point - that promises and contracts were not broken. (Not that promises or contracts need necessarily have been broken had other courses of action been taken).

Meanwhile e.g. Germany, who broke the rules on borrowing early in the life of the Euro, has of course suffered economic collapse, and cannot borrow money at any interest rate. And Iceland, they are back in the stone age now.
The question is, what are the fighting for.

Nukes makes zero sense if it is a resource war, and those are the oldest ones there is.

A influence war also has little use for nukes, as you want those friendly to you to live and thrive afterwards.

As best i can tell the only time using nukes "make sense" is when faced with a enemy that is committed to your total elimination, and that are completely unified in this goal.
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> So how did you get to be 300lb in the first place?

I never paid attention to what I ate, I ate until I was stuffed, I drank way too much beer, and I never exercised. Basically I was lazy and didn't give a shit. This was the normal lifestyle of most people I knew who were 16-22. The ramifications of being fat were not enough to overcome the perceptions of the difficulty of dieting and exercise I gleaned from most people, so I didn't even try. In fact, dieting was not difficult, so when I actually tried it with an established plan I had immense success.
GP meant low end smartphones. The first 64 bit android phone was one with 8 A53s coming out in China. Before that using 8 A7s was very popular. Small cores are very small compared to higher end cores. Part of this is 8 being a lucky number.
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Didn't know these blockers could handle youtube video ads.

And if you really want to listen to music undisturbed, why not get a Spotify subscription?
I seem to recall a recent article claiming that companies has started to ask themselves the same thing.
"some children are quite self directed and can be left to pursue their interests and work around topics in their own way"

Can you tell us why then most teachers feel they have to specifically peck this kind of children and make them "behave" (i.e. do whatever everyone is supposed to do and ignore their own sense)?

You don't have to specifically be stupid or mean - it's enough if ruining other people's lives is a natural consequence of your work. You won't be loved by those affected.
Where did you get data about 2k T-90s in service?
I'd love to hear John Carmacks' take on this. They had to solve very similar problems when developing this helmet:

extremely low-latency head & eye-tracking, managing depth-of-field, integrating multiple input streams, providing non-distracting information overlays etc.
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In my opinion, the short answer is 'no'. Although coding involves inspiration, like science, engineering, or mathematics, the crucial distinction is that art exists to --communicate-- a certain set of mental experiences from the artist to the spectator. Art is a form of communication through a combination of direct and indirect means to convey a set of complex, rich, nuanced mental experiences from the brain of one person to many others. The more reducible the communication is to a direct statement, the less 'artistic' it is; simply because art exists as a channel to communicate those experiences that are too complex and rich for logical statement.

So again in my opinion, while coding involves ingenuity, creativity, technical skill, and intelligence the product -- i.e., code -- is an unambiguous logical statement akin to a philosophical syllogism, perfectly expressible and intelligible by regular communication. It does raise the tricky question of the relationship between 'creativity' and 'art', as normal non-artist human beings frequently apply creative thinking without producing art (or shall we say, without producing 'fine art').
Perhaps if everyone were educated in a way that respected children as human beings, when they grew up, no one would stand for bureaucracy and TPS reports, and we'd finally be rid of them.
It's no longer 1930 and the US no longer has any claim to moral superiority.

The in the last decade US policy has killed hundreds of thousands. I suggest you update your knowledge of history.
These are all the countries where the US has a military presence
I have been doing web development for last 1 year. Can someone recommend a resource to learn Architecture?
I get the feeling MS is heading towards Windows running on a MS Linux kernel at some point.

An MS linux build, that supports .NET (CoreCLR) and a true cross platform windowing library (WPF) would be serious force to contend with in both the enterprise and consumer markets.
I thought April Fool's day was on Wednesday. Now I'm not sure which is pulling my leg: Every single fake story from April 1, or this?

Interesting things sure have been going on since the LA Clippers changed ownership!
I worked for a non-profit for my first job - it was nice in a lot of ways, it was a zero pressure environment, no crunch time and a lot of spend time learning at your speed.

The decision making was experiment with different technologies, figure out how to get them to work, and determining whether it was scalable.
I've actually tried OnLive, and in less than ideal circumstances. I was amazed by how good it actually was, even with RTT for 120ms. Some games, like rally games didn't suffer that badly from the added latency.

For things like first person shooters it didn't work that well, the latency and input lag was very noticeable. But get that down to a RTT of 20-30ms then I'm sure most casual gamers will hardly notice.

The encoding and decoding is done in hardware and is negligible at best. Also something to keep in mind is that kids today are used to input lag. Both PS4 and Xbox One uses wireless controllers.
"is an essential, defining aspect"

More likely, "was an essential, defining aspect briefly in the XX century".

That century is now over. Before that, you was expected to steer your own judgement while working on a farm (not very machiney experience), and after that, everything that can be replaced by a machine would.
And because it worked for you, it'll work for everybody...
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If they open sourced something important to Windows like the NT Kernel or DirectX then I'll believe they are serious about open sourcing it.
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Photocopiers will keep a count of the number of attempts to copy currency, and the copier leasing company tracks those numbers. I wonder if Photoshop does the same.
I mean that very little is done to actually face the problem.

I probably should have said "underestimated", please forgive a foreign speaker :)
Among the possible hurdles to open sourcing Windows are any dependencies on 3rd party code with incompatible licence terms.
This model is used by any number of "business intelligence" micro-zines - which are basically market tip sheets, with some trend speculation.

It can be very lucrative if you get a following. I've seen sites charging four or five figure annual subscription fees for something that probably only takes a day or two a week to put together.

So IMV the Econo is really just industrialising that model, with some extra journo-fluff for credibility.

It's completely different to being a mainstream headline newsie like The Guardian, with a fundamentally different reader focus.

You're not selling news, you're selling the suggestion that you're on the inside track, with access to the thoughts and beliefs of people who make policy and move markets.
It's not intimidation, it's just determining which path you want to take. The people who constructed the ground of the popular frameworks had to start somewhere too.
Yup, that's kind of how metabolism works. If you run a caloric deficit, you will lose weight...
I hear what you're saying but that view is too cut and dry and cynical when you look at reality. Some of the most amazing things we've accomplished as humans and some of our best amenities have been born out of military needs or technology. There is also a massive amount of infrastructure that supports this single aircraft and we as a society have benefited from that infrastructure.

Is it sad that the internet has connected the entire world in ways no one foresaw? That through it ideas and information flow so much more effortlessly than they used to? Is it sad that anyone with a sufficiently powerful receiver can contact a satellite and find out where they are on the planet to an accuracy of a couple meters? Is it sad that digital cameras have become ubiquitous and we can capture whatever moment when want on demand? All of those technologies came from the military. Do you even stop to think that America's government is paying for the upkeep of and freely giving access to the GPS we've come to take for granted?

America's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs are another great example. Mercury and Gemini both used modified ICBMs where they swapped the nuclear warhead with a pod that had men in it. America used those (and the Russians used their versions) to put the first men in space which started the space race which has ultimately given us GPS, and untold knowledge about our planet and what we're doing to it.

To say that the military only creates technology that kills people is disingenuous when all you have to do is stop and think about the modern tech we use every day.
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You will gain it all back in 5 years with 80% probability. (and likely worse odds because of the size of the weight loss and the fact you are male)

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/82/1/222S.long

It isn't that hard to lose weight. It is very hard to keep it off.
As a Gear VR dev I am extremely excited about this. This is a major step forward for GearVR as a platform and think it'll do a lot to promote openness among developers. Now if only we could do away with the walls on that garden...