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Have they really? In my experience prying into people retelling this story, the whole vegetarian zealot thing is one of those moral panic things that everyone claims to have had run-ins with but really most people are just citing the one main caricature.

I've certainly seen way, way more people say "I'll eat two steaks for every sanctimonious vegetarian I engage with" than actual vegetarians, particularly after becoming an engineer.
I also prefer uBlock. Allowing some ads through in order to extort advertisers is not only shady, it interferes with Adblock Plus's only function--blocking ads. Does any user prefer an extension that blocks most, but not all of them?
Amino acid "synthesis" in animals works by ripping apart existing amino acids and sticking on new side chains. Animals cannot create an amino acid from nothing. To do this requires fixing nitrogen, which can only be done by certain bacteria, plants that have a symbiotic relationship with them, or the industrial Haber process for making ammonia.
And it doesn't mention civil rights or feminism either. There may be various cultural phenomenons that play a part in increasing the labor supply, but enforcing barriers to entry disregards the dignity of people. The fact is, if you want to be materially successful in life you have to compete (at least in some way) with everyone you share the Earth with. You can't stop immigration any more than you can stop oppressed people from wanting to be free. The point of the article is though to remind us educated NYTimes readers that while we might be sitting pretty, there are certain classes of society who are getting left behind.
> Maven, ivy and sbt are the go-to tools for having your system download unsigned binary data from the internet and run it on your computer.

Not Maven.
Cattle have a FCR of between 5 and 20 or so. Chickens more like 2ish. If beef is bad because it takes 20 units of food to make one unit of beef and you have a way to make 4x the units of food per acre, then your effective FCR (relative to traditional methods) drops from 20 (at the worst) to 5. If it was at 5 then your effective FCR could be as low as 1.25 If it was more in the middle at say 10ish then the effective FCR could be at 2.5 which is pretty respectable. This is made better because you're also getting eggs from the sanitizing chickens and meat from the broiling chickens that are all making multiple passes over the same land at different times.

This is of course predicated on grass fed beef with the farmer taking a substantial interest in raising as much grass as possible (sanitizing chickens and paddock system). It's not a lot of work, but it does take more effort than just throwing grain at cows in a feedlot.
All protein on this planet was created by plants via photosynthesis.

This isn't accurate. The grass that cows eat doesn't contain enough amino acids to support the cow's growth.

It's actually the bacteria the cow's gut that digests the grass (mostly carbohydrate) and converts some of it into amino acids that the cow absorbs.

That's not all amino acids, since the cow's body can create some of it's own (just like humans).
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> Do you happen to remember the name of the documentary? It sounds very interesting.

Radioactive wolves of Chernobyl and yes, is great; you can see it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTHBfo_A6No
Here in Spain, they show a B (as in bar), but also, they randomly put a banner with some code related to the customer (pub), so if an internet stream shows the code, they know who is the customer.
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Imo the Wikipedia app is much better, and addresses all those points. I think it's been getting the main development time lately, because the previous app was ancient/broken and so they tasked a team with redoing it. But now it's ahead of the mobile site, which was previously ahead. I'm not 100% sure why they actually need the app vs. just a good mobile site though.
Pubs tend to be owned by the breweries. I suspect there would be problems if Sky wanted (for example) Greene King to start advertising Fuller's in their pubs.
As a ruby/js dev moving to Berlin in September, that's good to hear. I'm interested in talking to folks who might be more familiar with the scene there. If you know anyone who'd be good to reach out to, let me know!
Right now, you can avoid that fate by unticking one checkbox. I'll start caring when that checkbox disappears. But even in that (currently entirely hypothetical) scenario, I genuinely don't understand why people are so scared of AdBlock Plus abusing its position. This isn't Facebook, there is almost no lock-in. The principle behind adblockers allows many different applications to use the same filter subscriptions. Several alternatives already exist, and they will only multiply when AdBlock Plus starts alienating its users (which can, currently seems to, but needn't overlap with its customers). So what is there to worry about?
It is, the level of the pint glass changes every day, so the "enterprising publican" would have to send someone out everyday and change his sticker every day too. Sounds like quite a bit of effort.
> but it is a sort of benevolent dictatorship.

Indeed, and the problem with dictatorships is that sooner or later your country will be run by a person you really don't want in charge, and it will be impossible to remove them.
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Exactly. I grew up on cattle ranches in Montana and Wyoming. The short growing season, rocky soil, and dry conditions would make any attempt at farming laughable, but the cattle did just fine. Driving them into the high mountains for summer grazing allowed the mountain grass to also be converted to beef. None of that land was appropriate to farming, which means that any beef grown there is extra food for the planet.

What always amazes me about capitalism is how it often manages to allocate resources efficiently. Nobody is raising large cattle herds down in farm country. Land that can be farmed is generally farmed, because that provides the best return. Land that can't be farmed, is ranched. This idea that you have to give up farming to have meat doesn't take this into account.
Seems obvious to me that it would make the situation much more tense, and thus more likely for something unsafe to happen.

Even people who dont have drugs arent going to be comfortable being treated in that manner, and people are already on edge when they get pulled over.
Haskell has some typesafe template languages. I'm not a huge fan of them, tbh, as they're kind of rough at the moment.

More promising in my opinion is the fact that Javascript is becoming an increasingly popular backend for Haskell via GHCjs which will give a great space for building type-checked front ends which have all the guarantees you like. For instance, type checked routes already exist which prevent you from writing the wrong endpoints or sending invalid typed data to them... these can be transparently extended to the frontend without much more difficulty.
http://www.askartsolutions.com/iso9001training/Identificatio...

ISO9001 often turns into its Dilbert parody of bureaucracy, but the core ideas are sound: if you have some sort of failure of production, it's useful to know what went into the production process and where it came from. So in the case of deploying images, then yes: you get repeatable copies of the image. Provided you know where the image came from. Images themselves aren't usually stored in a version control or configuration management system. It may not be obvious where the image came from. And, if an image is made up of numerous "parts" (ie all the installed software), you need to know what those parts are. If an SSL vulnerability is announced, what is the process for guaranteeing that you've updated all the master copies and re-imaged as necessary?
That... Was brilliant. My weekend plans seem to be pretty sorted. Thanks a lot for this. I wish I could reply with something more than just thanks but honestly, there's so much here. Just.. Thank you :)
I guess that means you have to move that logic to it's own go file.

kinda mimics c in that way.
> Since then water pollution has seriously curtailed the growth of that industry.

Interesting. I'd like to know more. Do you have a source for that?
An involuntarily funny quote from the article:

> Their solution was not to engage and educate those programmers to change their habits.

I wish the blog author good luck in educating masses of programmers, even smart ones :)
This is incorrect. What, pray tell, is a "complete protein?" There are no amino acids in animals that are not found in plants. You appear to be wholly misinformed on this subject.
What is the definition of "layering" here? I've seen this label applied to a technique that is used to ensure that orders are at or near the front of the queue on a price/time priority exchange as the market is moving. Essentially, this allows you to hold the option of whether to cancel your orders or leave them in place to facilitate your hedging as the market moves in a given direction; do you believe that this technique is or should be illegal?
It's from a more recent addition to the series, focused on performance. I reviewed that chapter and it's very well written.
The fact that lowering barriers to entry (by people unfortunate enough to be born black, female or foreign) is a normative good does not mean that an article should ignore them - they are still possible positive causes of low income workers "getting hammered".

If they are a primary cause, then the correct response is just to accept that good things may have tradeoffs.
As someone who lives near the coast in Southern California we have lots of vegetarian and vegan options.
GCC 5.1 defaults to having color diagnostics set to `auto`, meaning it will display nice, beautiful diagnostics like Clang does on your terminal, if that's what you're referring to. (You can also get these with GCC 4.9, too, using the `GCC_COLORS` environment variable).

Personally I don't care about that as much as the optimization improvements this time arond, it seems. Better devirtualization? AutoFDO? Reuse of the PIC hard register, especially? (That will be a great win on 32 bit machines, and makes it all the more possible to enable things like PIE for 32-bit applications, where it would otherwise be a big penalty, as well as many other things.)
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GCC 5.1 defaults to having color diagnostics set to `auto`, meaning it will display nice, beautiful diagnostics like Clang does on your terminal, if that's what you're referring to.
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> If you are a subscriber then you are already paying for the service, why the hell do you have to view the ads too?

But your subscription isn't necessarily paying the amount of money that the publisher has decided it wants. In that case, it's divided its revenue between your subscription and selling ads. It's hoping that the ads won't annoy you enough to block them or leave. For most people that's probably true.
And please don't forget, at an annual salary of $1.7 million USD [1], Mr. Lee Hsien Loong is also the world's HIGHEST PAID prime minister.

So I am not surprised that he should have some additional chops to be amongst the highest paid world political leaders.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hsien_Loong#Salary
Interestingly, I was listening to a vegan friend complaining about exactly that this week - that he finds the vegan community itself nearly insufferable due to smugness and proselytizing. He's vegan for religious reasons, but doesn't want to impose his faith on anyone else and doesn't feel it makes him superior. Sadly, not true of many vegans.

My daughter, a budding chef and foodie with many vegan friends, gets a lot of grief over it too. For her part, she's trying to get the vegans to eat decent food, as most of the ones she knows eat what she calls "vegan junk food" - factory products rather than actual cooking of fresh ingredients.
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I think a lot of people would hate having it be recursive by default.
I don't know what a sanitizing chicken is, and apparently neither does Google. I assume from context it means chickens bred to lay eggs?
I'm getting the system default font on the dates in the selector in Firefox on the example. Other than that, it looks really nice!
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Fascinating!

However, the name of the publication (“Atlas obscura”) seems grammatically nonsensical. “Atlas obscurus” would look more credible.
Personally, I think people dislike Go because they try using it for tasks where it makes their life miserable. Mainly for web programming. (unless of course you're a masochist and enjoy not having a repl and want static typing and a compilation step when recursively parsing unknown json data structures).

In my experience, Go is a tool thats really good for a certain set of programming tasks and like all other languages really bad or annoyingly painful for others.

For me, Go is my number one tool for creating command line apps now. I get immediate cross-platform cli tools with zero headache. Its also a really nice fit for lower level networking/distributed applications where you are working with byte protocols (things like mozillas heka, or docker, proxy servers, chat clients, etc), the networking server-side stuff where you would probably have used C++/Java.

My recommendation would be, if you work a lot on this kind of software seriously start using Go, you will love it and think everyone is crazy for hating on Go.

The problem is I think lots of people are trying to use Go for stuff it is not designed for and where, compared to the alternatives, it is a rather bad fit. For instance Go is zero fun for: Compiler Programming (Haskell/C++ have way better tooling), Games (libs are one thing but Go cannot compete with C++ perf here), Desktop GUI apps (Just use QT), Mobile Apps, and Web Programming (take your pick of python,ruby,js,clojure,php - your life will be much easier), Hardware/Low Level Systems programming (Obviously you can't use a GCed lang here).

I haven't found another area where I really like programming in Go besides CLI and networking I mentioned above. It could have another sweet spot I've missed...
The examples you give don't seem to be typing problems, they seem to be wrong-value problems. They might incidentally also involve typing issues (e.g., "/oranges" might not exist or might be an endpoint with a different signature than "/apples"), but that doesn't seem to be the central problem in any of the examples.

> Have you worked out a way to catch these sorts of things at compile time? If not, do you think it's possible in the framework of the future?

To the extent that they are typing problems, it would seem conceptually possible to catch them through a strongly typed language and framework that abstracts all the underlying technologies and compiles to a combination of backend executable(s), and front-end HTML, JS, and CSS, and includes all the routing for both ends.

Actually building such a beast would seem to be a non-trivial engineering challenge.
Ah, that makes more sense, thanks.

I wonder how easily the firmware can be downgraded (or downgraded) to remove that behaviour. Though as noted in the sibling thread, it's more likely easier to crop the video output.
Maybe they don't like dogs in their car. Maybe an option when ordering a car, to avoid delay?
I think that is a good thing that Europe may never have a Silicon Valley.

Some things in the US corporate world are extremely reckless and pray on the many to profit the few.
As someone that uses R it is very encouraging to seeing it more legitimized. It is a great language for what it does. It is concise and easy to read (if you use the libraries I am familiar with and code in a clear manner).

Having had to endure the hate of some people who find the language not to their liking it is nice to see the HUGE uptake in usage it has seen in the last three years.
I know many who do this and Sky activly try to pressure the publicans to purchase sky but can't do anything about it.
Update 2: It is sorted out now, but if someone finds this, I have a question?

In the age of shared VPSs I point my domain at a well-known endpoint of a major hosting provider. How can I prevent people from also setting up a competing set of DNS records with my provider? How would digital ocean know where to send traffic if it had 2 ip addresses with identical DNS settings running on their platform.
That's a good question. I used to live in Japan around the area of the disaster, so I still have a vested personal interest in the event. It's something I try to keep at the back of my mind thinking about the people living there.

I worry about people who live in Koriyama which is a great city but there is obviously a heightened risk now. For those who can't move their families, the radioactive isotopes of cesium and what was iodine in the initial exposure obviously could cause cancer or other diseases. Especially in children, which makes me sad.

It's not something I talk about because there is little benefit to prevention at this point and really more negativity surrounding those who try to use it in journalism to shock people or create unnecessary panic. In some ways I might not have a scientific view of the disaster, but studying at a university in the region in May of that year, I did have access to regular reports of the radiation level and I did do some amateur investigating.

I don't believe anyone who says California is or was at risk from the radiation has any right saying that.

I also believe that, in the long term, many of the areas surrounding the disaster in northeastern Japan are safe and that tourism in the region has been impacted disproportionately to the risk.

I know that it's a complicated issue and that mistakes have been made, labeling food that's been grown in Fukushima, or failing to set up a proper evacuation zone initially, but all in all it's a real place where people are still living, and most of the attention Fukushima has gotten in the US has been really misplaced, in that there hasn't been sympathy and there's been a fearful response.
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Why are NULL pointers defined differently in C and C++?
Ok, I agree with that, but what you said above is, "It's not the risk of NASA suing you but the risk of the original creator suing you." I've never heard of such a case.
This doesn't mean corn-fed meat isn't wasteful, of course. But it does mean that meat itself isn't the cause of hunger elsewhere.
Yahoo gross revenue up more than $93M. (v Q1 2014.)
Not all pubs cant accept hundreds of people within there premises. And large crowds are only attracted for big games which are few and far between.
I have no obligation to help the security services, or the police, or any other authority.

If my neighbour performs an illegal action, I will not report him unless I believe the action to merit punishment.

I do not believe secure communications are bad and therefore I will not aid in their destruction.

Simple.
Why don't you take it one step further and question the viability of the model of work as one of the primary sources of "inspiration" and "core" aspects in life and that life should not be centered around this in light of the recent developments in the job market and technology?

Also, please debate why most humans have to work in the first place just to put food on the table while the 1% of Earth's population controlling ~40% of global wealth.
I hope they at least open whatever source code exists.
Finally I can run .css() over 700,000 times per second. Also, the 30 KB saved over the wire means a lot because the average page size is over 1 MB.
The challenge is measurement. For sales people, it's easier to measure the individual sales, hence you can have commission based on individual performance. For developers it is much harder to measure individual performance.

We have implemented commission for developers based on overall sales number. Based on pre-announced targets, developers can get 1x, 2x, 3x salary as a bonus/commission at the end of the year. No caps.
Any problem involving network effects is hard to pull off with small or medium services.
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His/her point is that the strawman is self inflicted. There is a silent majority that inherits the stigma of the crazed minority. Of course not all vegetarians are like this, but the few who are give a bad name to the rest.
What resources did older cultures have less of?
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This doesn't seem to me to be true in practice, e.g.

Not a crime in the UK at the time http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/norris-loses...

UK citizen entrapped by US agent (entrapment would likely be thrown out of a UK court, but is now being tried in the US...):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tappin

Even if the treaty is applied in this way, which it doesn't seem to be, US penalties are still not appropriate for UK citizens.

The UK has abolished the death penalty on human rights grounds - and yet the UK government can send someone over to the US for this punishment.

If you commit a UK crime on UK soil, you should be subject to UK punishment, and you should not be the subject of the law and punishment of any and all nations of the world.
In the USA, it's axiomatic to not consider armed active resistance until your back is to the wall. Thing is, when that point comes one does not fight like a dog (unarmed), but with such firepower that the oppressor feels compelled to use SWAT teams and tanks ... and even then hesitates to do so.

Laws are changing, slowly. The next Presidential election should prove interesting in this regard.

Interestingly, those promoting defense from oppression via "firearms" are "behaving ethically" - licensed gun owners are among the most law-abiding & ethical citizens (popular quote: "an armed society is a polite society"). That Waco & Ruby Ridge & Brady Ranch all happened IS significant, because they were followed by a significant drop in violent raids, militarization notwithstanding.

Don't conflate resistance to oppression with incarceration rates, as the two categories practically do not overlap. The militarization likely has more to do with police desperately wanting to minimize their risk (statistics don't matter to a cop when he's the one at grave risk of being killed), and a criminal subculture which is he11-bent on violating clear laws (if criminals won't "go quietly", and won't stop engaging in unlawful behavior, that leaves the state little choice but resort to the natural foundation of law: force and incarceration).
> The problem being everyone has had a runoff with the small proportion of non-civilized advocates

Everyone, apparently, except for me. Yet despite the dearth of obnoxious advocates, I have run into dozens or more who complain about their existence.

I think the obnoxious advocate trope is just a trope, and I'm convinced the the vast majority of complainers are complaining about the idea of a reification of the trope or something they've seen on television, rather than any actual live instances of the trope they've had run-ins with.
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DISH and DirecTV, the two major US satellite operators, pay the individual content networks a cut of the subscription for rights to broadcast. So for example if your $80 package has ESPN in it, ESPN might be getting $5 of that. Whereas common networks like ABC, NBC, TBS, CBS, TNT, Fox and similar might only get $0.50.

For public viewing they scale it based on occupancy. So if your bar is likely to have a viewer count of < 100 people, you'll fall into the normal tier. For a maxed out package with 2000 possible viewers, you'll pay $175, or $425 if you want all of the ESPN channels (Disney must be getting a huge cut of that +$250).
How are they farming the chickens? Free range, or in broiler barns?