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True. I was stalling on back squats at 60kg for months on end and kept hurting myself trying to pass it because lack of flexibility (and stupidity...) meant I kept loading my back wrong until I finally gave in and got proper advice.

Just luck that prevented my stubbornness from causing real damage. In a way I'm glad I learned my lesson while I was stuck at a relatively low weight,though.
The problem is mostly that these companies seem to try to put a wall around a market and try to become the gate-keeper for that particular market, and will then become the regulator of that market. This goes against the principle of "free markets".

Besides these "do it for me" markets, roughly the same pattern is seen with app-stores, and probably many more markets.

(Of course, in a truly free market it should in theory be possible to create such nested markets, but this just shows that the concept of a totally free market is nonsense, and that we should act against these patterns.)
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The new GM (it's a different legal entity post bailout) bought a bank and renamed it GM Financial:

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

The old GM had sold a 51% stake of it's finance corp to Cerberus:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/profits-in-g-m-a-c-ba...

But the US Treasury took majority ownership in the bailout.

That entity is now Ally:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_Financial
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In all likelihood, it means exactly what it sounds like. :/
I've started referring to it as Google-Yutani.
Upsell.

"Unfortunately I don't offer that particular service."

"However I can offer a six month package of weekly onsite training at my onsite training rates."
Why not?

Example: I own a synthesizer and a motorbike from the same company.
If you make the pictures really small relative to the mosiac, to the point that pictures are very nearly just pixels, yes, that works.

However, the next time you see a professionally-done photomosaic, take a moment and really look at it. Especially look at the sharp lines of contrast in the original image. If the mosaic draws from a large source of images, you'll find that you can follow the line through the source images themselves, not just between images. For instance, if you've got a sharp horizontal beige/blue line, you will find that the algorithm will pick up an image of a sunny desert day or something where the line for the horizon is approximately correct.

To do a quality job requires at least edge detection and some fuzzy matching of the primary edges of images, which also means you need to break the image down into more than just averages, you need to be counting the colors of segments of the images.

Nothing impossible about this, of course, it's just that it's an awful lot of work for a challenge like this, considering the stakes.
That could explain why I've been getting oddly accurate (highly targeted) ads on FB related to the niche of a new app I'm developing. I haven't liked similar stuff on FB and I was wondering how in the world FB knows that info (I have talked about it extensively via whatsapp). So there are only 2 options:

1- They somewhat are able to read my browser history even when I have ABP with "Fanboy's Social Blocking List" and a selective JS blocker installed.

2- They read my whatsapp messages.
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Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.

Agent Smith: Then we have a deal?

Cypher: I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. You know, someone important. Like an actor.
The basic issue here is that computer crime laws are terminally broken.

What would be the punishment had the teenager placed a magazine on his teacher's desk?

This is an identical scenario, but with computers. The 'access' argument is bunk. He could have opened drawers on the desk, he could have photocopied everything in those drawers. But he did not.

The same problems crop up all over. Copyright infringement carrying harsher punishment than actual theft of a physical object, for example.
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As a windows user, I avoid developing with node on windows machines, because building dependencies caused me trouble many times. pg, socket.io, bcrypt, jsdom, countless others.

If it's just the vc++ compiler, chances are node devs already have it installed anyway if they do in fact work on a windows machine.
Or kids in chemistry classes learning to master chemical reactions... or shop class learning to build combustion engines to contain explosions...

Who knows what anyone might do... ever. May as well lock us all up now for what we might do based on our "skills."
I am also pro-retainer. I look at it this way: If under this agreement you realistically need to spend some time every day (or every other day, or even one day a week) for this client you need to plan ahead for this. And that means you cannot offer full-time work to other clients. So if you turn down other clients and then only sit around waiting for a call that never comes, you are losing money.

A retainer that guarantees your availability and a fixed amount of hours seems to benefit both sides and is not at all unusual in my experience.
> Are the police allowed to act on charges and arrest individuals?

Yes. Although the arrest can happen before the charge, typically a judge will issue an arrest warrant as soon as the charges are filed.

And given the >90% conviction success rate in the USA (at least in federal cases), it's a pretty good bet any charges filed will stick if the prosecutor wants them to.
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Well, we promised to assist if North Vietnam broke its promises, but after Watergate the Congress felt it could break that promise. It really was a terrible time.
EV CO2 footprints are in the same ballpark as gas cars. It's just environmental procrastination, there's nothing in sight to make two cars per household sustainable. (Or even one for that matter.) Giving subsidies to nuclear plants wouldn't drastically change the picture.
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Couldn't you say they were a big data company as well? It seems that all that consumer data is what makes them such an effective ad company.
This makes me fear that we are going to make a generation of people too afraid to screw around on computers.
Is the NYT an advertisement company? No, it isn't. And, furthermore, they have very little in common with, for example, Google. And that's, because Google is a _software_ company, and the NYT is a _newspaper_ publisher. Both sell ads, but that's not what their users buy and it's not what their employees produce. The "advertisement company" classification is just not that useful.
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Sounds like in-app purchases for education.
And if you use something like Compass, the prefix stuff is taken care of for you http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/css3/flexbox/
Interesting, here in London for example, the older the house the more money it's worth generally. Actually, it's kind of a reverse bell curve, with the lowest point falling for buildings built during the 50s/60s.

The most desirable houses are typically Georgian / Victorian town houses.
But why is Google successful at selling ads? It's because they're best-in-class with AI techniques. Google's revenue is from ads. Google's technology/core competency is AI. Classifying companies is hard, and it doesn't really make sense to try to fit your worldview into "X is Y, A is B". Sometimes X and Y are both A and B.
If the person you pay to worry about that kind of stuff is worried about the risk of NASA suing you, you should probably get a better worrier. Or is there something here I'm missing?
This is absolutely crazy.

A common 'prank' in my high school was going around the computer labs changing all of the desktop background or renaming folders/changing their icons to mess with people. Immature: very. Criminal: obviously not.

I guess it's the password part that constitutes the hacking here but if the password was widely known and therefore he didn't 'brute force' it via guessing (it's unclear from the article) is it still hacking? I guess it depends how he came into 'possession' of the password. If someone gives you a key to their house and you use it I wouldn't classify it as breaking in, but if they key it left outside the door and you use it to enter without permission that would be.

Either way these are just technicalities and the fact that a school even got law enforcement involved in this is utterly ridiculous.
Isn't this akin to charging a teen with murder that entered a teachers house and swapped out framed family photographs with men kissing using a key known to be hidden under a planter?

It's probably not even that ridiculous since the computer was, I assume, school property and not personal property.
I was writing about software. Of course everyone knows German cars are much better than US ones (even the dumbed down ones sold in the US that don't need to handle speeds over 100mph). Obviously, US doesn't care about trains, Silicon Valley has like one line comparable to average S-Bahn line and nobody cares anyway. As for your lack of a middle man in paying online via 'Bankeinzug', instead of merchant bearing the cost of payment, you're depending on how many free transfers your bank gives you until it starts charging you fees for any additional transfer (and Amazon often splits your charges per item so you are likely to run over your limit easily).
The most amazing thing is that no one along the chain of escalation this must have passed (e.g. the teacher, the vice principal, the superintendent, the officer that arrived for the call, the sheriff, the prosecutor) - took a minute to stop and think:

"wait is this really the right way to go about handling this?"
Good to see Florida is determined to remain a national joke.
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Indeed, fast food comedy is not well received here. I think because it ruins the forum quality in the long run.

I am yet to find another high level forum like this. So, to me, those community guidelines are working pretty well.

So, although I sometimes laugh a little with those comments, I prefer them to be downvoted to oblivion so we continue to keep having amazing and informative comments from others.
Could be interessting for meteor.com, the mongodb only usage prevent me to use it.
> They're sorta turning into a commercially viable DARPA.

This. Google and other companies at its scale don't need to worry too much about focus. They can just use the excessive amount of revenues made via software to throw resources at solving global problems and turning scifi into reality.
Just because the energy density is there does not mean that the engine can take advantage of it. ICE engines are all about timings and combustibility. If the timing computer is not configured to adjust for E10's alternate timing, this measure of poor efficiency is entirely possible.
Get a publicist.
Why does the news of Yahoo need to be sent over an encrypted channel? Since bandwidth is still expensive, why take away basic caching? I don't want to setup reverse proxies because I don't want a massive headache to separate Yahoo from people banks or medical records.
Why does it need to be free, though? Domains aren't, and you can get a PositiveSSL for $5/year.
I used to work for eDonkey as their support minion, a file sharing program of yesteryear. We had forums, and a user there was far more helpful to all the newbs than I was. We started chatting from time to time, then more often, he even came up to meet me while I was down in NYC for the summer.

We kept in touch, he helped me manage a dedicated server I'd bought somewhere. I felt bad because he was managing it and I wasn't paying him, he felt bad because he was using it and not paying for it.

Then I started https://wonderproxy.com/ he was a natural choice for co-founder, and we've been growing ever since.
How many motors and actuators in one door of a Model S? The sunroof? The HVAC system? The driver's seat? The suspension?

This "20 moving parts in a Tesla" meme seems like a really tilted interpretation of the actual numbers. A Tesla certainly has more than 20 moving parts, and an ICE engine certainly has less than 10,000.
From my experience of MySQL's pluggable engines, I learned that this actually complicates things: the user interface ends up being awkward, optimization is harder, adding features is made much harder.

Investigating standalone alternatives therefore seems like a good thing, even for projects starting today.
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Why is that a problem? In real life you always have a container div.
IMO, its more about the proliferation of Prosecutors who aren't taking advantage of prosecutorial discretion.

I think any judge / jury will agree that giving a felony to a kid who has only changed a wallpaper is absurd. But that isn't the point, the point is that the prosecutor wants to appear "tough on crime" and jack up the numbers on the "number of cases prosecuted".

The problem here isn't the law. The problem is the widespread culture of prosecutors.

EDIT: I found a better quote from the officer. It looks like this kid was a repeat offender. That's a big no-no actually... hmm....
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-fructose-bad-for-you-2...

This is just one source, of course, but is not the only one in that direction. Carbohydrates in excess - specially sugars like fructose - are being linked to increase of fat accumulation on the body and much of the modern day metabolic diseases - Google scholar should give you a bunch of results in this one too.
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Does Germany have distinction between creator's "personal rights" and "property rights"? In Poland you can't give up your "creator's personal rights", i.e. the right to have a work associated with your name, but you can pass your "property rights" - the rights to profit from the work - to someone else.
What percent of 911 calls have no location data?
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And imagine the deliveries increased an order of magnitude when they try to sell the model 3.
Well, I'd largely say a friend probably wouldn't have charged their friend for B&E if it was for the purpose of a prank. If it had been something more nefarious, he probably would have.

Throwing the book at him is a bit harsh... but it really depends on the context. Fair enough, they don't know what he did. Fair enough he copped to the crime and that at first glance appears to be the extent of the "damage".

If this was a one off, okay, laugh it off. "You got me, you little bugger, but I'll get you back." No police needed. In which case this punishment is off the charts heavy handed... the punishment should definitely fit the crime.

If this is the actions of a kid that was constantly engaging in persecution of this teacher, he's been warned, sent to the principal's office, suspended etc. then it's easy to see how it could escalate. I fail to see how anything beyond expulsion is necessary... but some people do tend to blow things out of all proportion.
I really don't get the hatred for ads -- it's really weird to me. I haven't been bothered by an ad in probably the past 3 years, I can't remember the last autoplaying ad I saw.

I like ads, they make the internet frictionless. I don't need to worry about what I've paid for -- everything just works in return for giving up a little bit of my screen.

I discovered Atlassian through ads and I really like their products, I assume those were targeted -- so if anything I've benefited from tracking.

Maybe I'm a sheep, but I like easy - and I like that the people providing me with articles, how-tos, etc get paid for doing that. I have yet to see a viable alternative to ads for a low friction internet -- people using adblock are, in my opinion, bringing us closer to the tiered internet than cable mergers ever will.
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Hi,

I'm going to hold an important presentation very soon.
Usually, Google's html5-slides and/or Powerpoint did the job.

What do you use and why?
Not much of a reflection if American military leaders cannot see and will not state that these two wars were horrific and immoral -- sacrificing thousands of young Americans without serving the interests of the American people, while paving the way for radical enemies of freedom such as Iran and ISIS.
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> This and the annoying "Google support sucks!!" ignorant BS.

How doesn't it? When your whole company IP range is flagged for "suspicious activity" and cannot use Google's search, your only option is to suck it up. No appeal process, nothing. You're not even told what "suspicious activity" so you could, you know, fix it.
Why would they sell in 10 years? A sale then would only make sense if they were struggling, in which case I wouldn't count on a failing "Tesla culture" to remain.

It looks like they have a very bright future, with classic automakers playing catchup. No need or benefit to sell.
Very similar story here. It had been suggested that I see someone regarding ADHD when I was younger but my dad didn't really "believe" it existed. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with old fashioned grit and character building.

Dropped out of college after losing almost all motivation to go to class or constantly forgetting things I had to do. This just started a cycle of self loathing and depression and feeling like a worthless fuckup.

Eventually landed a low paying job despite not having my degree and with the help of my SO, got through the long waiting period and other hurdles to see a doctor.

Got treatment, went back to school and finished my degree with nothing lower than a B in any class. Not making nearly what you are but where I live at least, the difference between $20k/yr and $60k/yr (especially as one half of a pair of "DINKs") is massive.

Medication to tweak the dopamine response curve isn't perfect but I have it to thank for at least enabling me to do the normal hard work of making it in life.
Why don't we test this hypothesis and start talking about something in whatsapp and see if we get ads on facebook?
I was a sophomore in 99. I was suspended for 3 days for "hacking" our keyboarding software. It was an old blue-screen'd DOS application. My friend and I figured out that F10 (or something) created a new folder. I made at least two, named "school grades" and "top porn stars" (Hey, I was a teenager). My friend did the same on his, but I think his was just "school grades" and "porn". They claimed that we were trying to alter our grades with those folders. We were A/B students, so that didn't really pan out.

Getting in trouble for it wasn't really a deterrent, but then again, I wasn't arrested. It probably would have stopped me from ever fiddling with a machine if I had been.
Janteloven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law

The case of the Carlsberg slogan may not be Janteloven. However, if I were a betting man I'd say that the advertising creative who came up with it either knew about the concept or got the idea from some Danish executive's modesty.
True, but this doesn't stop them from cataloguing who I'm talking to. That data can be very valuable with facebook's model.
A lack of trace elements causes people to get sick. Does purified salt provide those trace elements? It did not, therefore iodine was added.
We have trespass laws, but somehow when you trespass on someone's computer you can get thrown in prison for decades. This attitude towards computer crime vs any other crime will not change unless we the tech community do something about.

Now back to my upvoting...
All the advice is well-worth reading. Number 16 ("Rubber Ducking") is my particular favorite. It kills my ego every time, but the thought process involved in explaining the goal, attempted solution, and the problem seems to make the problem clearer. Explaining it in writing does not seem to have the same effect for me. It has to be audible.
They didn't sell ads for a very simple reason - they wanted to get as big as possible, as soon as possible for the sole purpose of selling themselves to FB/Google.

That was the plan from day 1 (imho).
If it was stored on their server I would assume I would be able to get my old messages when I change phone but it didn't happen last time I did, plus they could have implemented web also for iOS without relying on your phone to show messages in the browser (through more permissive android functionality), no?
See http://blog.nadim.computer/post/114970275623/on-the-secure-m... and http://blog.nadim.computer/post/115940264683/how-whatsapp-ne... about the end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp.
> Its not exactly a democracy, and some programs are essentially forced labour, requiring villagers to work for free and build these terraces and irrigation etc

Well it's not as though a democracy is absolutely the best either; there are all kinds of undesirable features like losing 49/51 and getting basically no say for the next four years. But I digress.

In the case where very little money changes hands (subsistence farming) then compulsory labor is a more effective tax than requiring cash payments. Any percentage of nothing is still nothing. And at only 20 days out of a notional 250 work day year, it's less than a 10% tax which seems incredibly reasonable compared to what people in the developed world pay, generally between 20% and 70% (or more) depending on country, state and city.
This is quite a hypocritical post from a company that sold out to Facebook. I guess money > values.
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Yes because no other state in the US has ever had police or sheriffs do crazy shit.

It's just Florida..and next time it'll just be Colorado and the time after that just Montana.
The article is 2012, not 2015. Let's see what they do when they hit 1B users.
There are billboards up across Michigan advertising "Save $1/gal, look for the yellow hose". Doesn't say a thing about the yellow hose being ethanol. My grandparents decided to take this opportunity to save $1/gal and had to have their fuel lines flushed because their car doesn't run on ethanol. It's like saying "get better mileage, switch [your gasoline engine] to diesel!"

Ethanol can't go away fast enough. It's like 3D TVs. All the companies are pushing it but it's not something the consumer ever wanted.
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