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The point is that risk of death does not deter sellers; why do you think a long prison sentence will deter drug sellers?

> so why do we continue to make excuses for this category of criminal?

I am genuinely baffled by this comment. American prisons hold more people - by any measure - than any other society. (America is 5% of the world population but has 25% of the world's prisoners.) Many of those people are serving very long sentences for drug offences. More than half of federal prisoners are there for drug crime, only about 16% of state prisoners are there for drug crime. As of 2001 one in six black American men had been incarcerated! Here's an article talking about the very long (and racistly applied) prison sentencing for minor drug related crime: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/high-time-the-i...

> In October 2010, Bernard Noble, a 45-year-old trucker and father of seven with two previous nonviolent offenses, was stopped on a New Orleans street with a small amount of marijuana in his pocket. His sentence: more than 13 years.

> At least he will be released. Jeff Mizanskey, a Missouri man, was arrested in December 1993, for participating (unknowingly, he said) in the purchase of a five-pound brick of marijuana. Because he had two prior nonviolent marijuana convictions, he was sentenced to life without parole.

That's life for a cannabis related crime. I don't understand how you think drug dealers in the US get light sentences? "African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months). (Sentencing Project)" (from link below)

And so far the only justification you've given for even longer sentences is that it'd make you feel good.

You started this thread by saying that you didn't want to see drugs legalised. So criminal sellers only exist because you have laws against selling the drug. This is obviously going to select for a certain type of person. Removing those people from the chain of supply is one of the reasons to legalise! Why would I visit a scumbag criminal to buy contaminated heroin when I can get a clean product of known strength from a pharmacy?

Society has limited funds to deal with the problems that drugs cause. We can either spend that on very expensive enforcement of law (which tends to be racist in its application) and prison (which clearly hasn't stopped drug use yet despite very long sentences. Or we can spend the money on treatment of addiction; sexual health; child protection; awareness. We save money if we legalised drugs.

Race and drug crime: http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet

Drug crime and prison: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/prisons_and_drugs#sthash.OPr...
> but the way you describe it sound like some virus, which affects your brain and make your a zombie

Chronic heroin use absolutely does alter brain chemistry very significantly.
The tests generate a _random_ number of items. How it is a "good example" of TDDing react components?

It will fail or pass based on something random so you might thing you're good to go but in fact your test fails.

It also doesn't test how something will be _used_ but directly what it is checking ".textContent" equality.

Overall this is nothing like what UI tests should look like IMO and it's the sort of thing that causes people to hate testing UI.
Eliminating them earlier would have allowed a better qualified candidate to go through, a benefit to YC and to the other company.
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You don't actually explain why you would pay a distribution center employee more, but in any case I don't believe that's why.

Costco's employees get paid well because it reduces costs to hire and train employees as well as pilferage.

Also, I'm not sure how it fits in, but there are radical differences in the items between costcos just a few miles away, at least in the bay area. They are more neighborhood oriented then you might think.
> And what the hell does "margin: auto" mean?

It means "calculate the margins automatically according to available space". Nothing complicated about that.

Print is quite different from web. The most noticeable difference is that paper cannot be resized, nor does it adapt it's content when you rotate it.
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The <div> element has no semantic meaning, screen-readers don't read them and they have no intrinsic behaviour unless associated with an aria tag.
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Having read more history books than I should have, I have much respect for Churchill and English people.
I think that without teachers, the concept is lacking. Even the brightest need teachers. An expert could have helped the students learn more.
The main thing most security people look for are weapons and explosives. A laptop is going to get a more through examination then a Pi, because the battery is a big hunk of something, and if it were a bomb, that would be an issue. That's why they often ask about you to turn on your laptop.

I'd be more worried about it being pilfered if you check it then it being a security issue if you take it in the cabin.
Is a Jest version planned? I'd love to see a tutorial based on how the fb team does it.
The Christian faith, by definition, is rooted in the historical factual events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday. These events are open to investigation. One can refer to the earliest New Testament document sources in this regard, i.e. 1 Corinthians 15, if one has a scholarly interest in the early Christian understanding of Jesus.

The author on the other hand, seems to confuse "faith" with "blind faith". "Faith" is simply the behaviour today in the light of facts which have been established in the past. For instance, the author herself has faith in how the world will continue to operate today, based on our understanding of how it operated yesterday. "Blind faith" on the other hand has nothing to do with facts as it is not concerned for them in the first place, this is not the "faith" of Christianity which is concerned for truth.

Coming back to objective faith, belief in the historical Jesus of Nazareth falls apart if he was not in fact historical, since faith in him depends upon historical facts. As Paul of Tarsus said:

"And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead." - 1 Corinthians 15:14-15

It is all the more surprising that this same Paul of Tarsus, also known as Saul, had previously persecuted the church, according to Luke's account in Acts 8:

"On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison."

See Paul Barnett's "Jesus And The Logic Of History" for the historical method as applied to Jesus: http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-History-Studies-Biblical-Theolog....
No issues with Chrome 42 on OSX 10.10. That said, that particularly site its quite complex in how it handles updating the DOM, so might not be the best example anyway.
>Well, the discussion here is about the US, where that is definitely true.

No it isn't. Not only is the media apparatus in full-throated support of "women, black people, and the LGBT community", the last people on the planet who should need safe spaces are the people who demand them: wealthy and the UMC white women at places like Vassar and Oberlin.

Truly disadvantaged people can't afford to be that weak.
heh. developers in a fortune 500 company will work around issues/misunderstandings in code from the same company... let alone some 20 open source projects they were told to use by some architect
MVP/idea-validation is for ideas that require a lot of investment before they are any use - needing, say, manufacturing, R&D, partners. But many, many ideas, especially software, can start really small, and be of real use immediately.

Richard Dawkins has this nice chapter called "do good by stealth", which is about how complex features like eyes and orchids can
evolve in small increments, each step giving a survival advantage... ie being useful.

Some would argue timebeard.com is a MVP, and you got data. Some would say it's version 0.1. It's both.
The phrase the poster was looking for was that "the example provided was hyperbole." Your comment is far too confrontational.
Weird, out of all their problems I would think charging a cell phone would be the easiest. Laptop, car, food, place to sleep, etc.. thats all seems like the hard stuff for me. I just have a super cheap solar panel that charges my phone.
I'd actively encourage everyone to listen to "the other side" regardless of what side they are on. I see the popehat article as guilty of not doing that, but similarly I think dismissing popehat entirely as a result of this article is a mistake for "my side" because the same thing will happen when we criticize it. We won't have understood the full picture, so we'll use the wrong words and make mistakes. I feel like this is true in many domains.
NA cities actually did grow much faster. Melbourne's "doubling in ten years" during the 1850's doesn't even come close. Chicago, for example, grew 6x in the 1840s, almost 4x in the 1850s, and 2.5x in the 1860s.
And that's why I use the "basic" interface on the (two) webmail providers I have email accounts with. Much faster, and actually handles things like open in new tab properly, among other things.

When the fancy chrome gets in the way of basic functionality, I take the functionality every time.

There is a solution. Or rather, a way of mitigating it. Namely, unlike so many developers, when you look at a "feature", consider the drawbacks, not just the positive side. When you're considering adding something to a button that pulls in umpteen billion JS frameworks, consider if the bloat is worth it. When you're starting to reinvent the text box just so you can have tags, consider if the inefficiency is worth it. When you're considering reimplementing scrollbars in JS, consider if the UI problems you'll have are worth it.

And, you know, if/when you run across something that's problematic to do well, consider feedback. Among other things, the number of features of CSS that ultimately boiled down to someone going "there isn't a good way to do <x> currently"...

I'd be interested to see the other effects of effects. I've seen things on perceived time - but that's not the whole story. Does it affect user retention? Clickthrough rates? User mood?
Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrisson. Not the student made off-brand film released last year, but a production with a budget.

It has the makings of a TV series as Bill's adventures are already serialized in the books.

Sof of Man by Silverberg would be my other choice. A fantastic book, it would make an eerie and atmospheric production on screen.
fascinating. it gets its power from the light itself and is able to record it. still can't wrap my head around it.
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why wouldn't you?
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Fair enough, that said I feel it's a waste of resources to allocate someone from a 'Grande Ecole' to low level things like a rail app.
So it begins:

Why io.js instead of node.js? The latest versions of jsdom only work with io.js
I wouldn't worry about it too much. It was a different time back then, when work was mainly guided by linguistic theory. I think that linguistic background is a plus.
The quote (maybe not his) means that linguists used to ignore actual language usage.

"Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its (the speech community's) language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as memory limitations, distractions, shifts of attention and interest, and errors (random or characteristic) in applying his knowledge of this language in actual performance." ~Chomsky,1965
https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues

1470 open issues

the first one is about phantomjs crashing and many many other scary sounding issues you wouldn't have if you've used just a regular browser with Xvfb.

you can't really be sure unless you've literally run a test on the colorful variety of websites in the wild. You need a huge development and quality assurance team. You also need a way for a large crowd of people to test your browser and send back useful reports automatically whenever it crashes.
Your second line answers the first, and also there is more to know. Distribution employees are generally interacting directly with the ERP, driving forklifts, handling the receiving process, etc. Managers handle a lot of those things at the store level, that's not feasible at the distribution level.

On your last line, my knowledge of what Costco carries comes from a CNBC doc - so I'm not arguing that you're wrong, that's weird though because they made it seem like they have the exact same product selection everywhere (except produce/meats) and it's carefully curated. One example was the sizes of Motrin they carry, they only carry one size (180).
I'm not sure what the joke is.

That CSS is awful? That people in the start-up scene are too dumb to center content on the web?
> For me Anzac day isn't even remotely about nationalism or patriotism, it's about love, families, bravery, sadness.

That what ANZAC day should be about. It should be about the rememberance of the family thinking about their sons, brothers, fathers on the front line.

I am an Australian living in Germany. Every year when ANZAC day comes around, I also try to imagine how the local German families felt when their love ones go to war. In general, the people from the war generation that attended the war were brainwashed into action. For the Germans who can see through the hatred, they are just humans.
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Did you really expect a JS related framework to last more that 2 years?
Simplicity and style are features too. he may be successful because his ratio of users to effort is higher.
Accepting command line options does not make something Unix-y, IMHO. I assumed it was called a "Unix tool" because it reads data from a file/stdin, does something, then writes to stdout.

If I needed to do something with JS as part of a series of Unix commands this would fit in the pipeline nicely. e.g. let's say someone wanted to do a one-off data transformation and they understand JS a lot better than Awk.
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Yeah, I just struggle to find solot workout experiences I can gamify in order to sustain my interest. Like you, jogging is just so boring for me. But my problem with team sports is they're just so dependent on the schedules of others. This is my biggest excuse for my paunch.
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I question whether the fundamentals are practical, due to conflicting goals.

In general, we want to minimize sensor sizes for a camera; while if it's going to be used as a power source, we want the opposite. In a PV plate, we want to maximize light capture; while in a camera we want to make sure we 'organize' incoming light with a lens, and restricted field of view. ...

In this case having separate specialized PV plate makes total sense, in fact you can find in the market a cheap cam and a cheap PV plaque that will provide power for the camera blowing this one out of the water.

If they could "hack" existing camera systems to provide some extra power essentially for free though, that might be worthwhile.
This is a big step in the right direction, but I'm afraid it's still broken. Centering things in this way breaks the <BR> tag. It works inside text but now fails between elements. For example:

foo<br>baz

renders correctly as

foo
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but <span>foo</span><br><span>bar</span> renders as foobar.

And AFAICT it doesn't work at all in Safari even with vendor prefixes.
I'm sorry, but where are the people who think that nice downtowns aren't the result of long-term planning and hard work by city officials? I'm genuinely curious, as this is not something I am accustomed to hearing. Whenever the conversation of a nice downtown comes up, it's almost always accompanied by conversation about the planning and execution that must have happened to make it that way.
Hi folks, author here - thanks for the interest in the project. It's literally ~1,000 lines of Haskell that I wrote a couple of weekends ago (and don't use at all in production), but LMK if you find it useful in any way (or have feature requests). Thanks!
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> or if you switch technologies, you might get a 'debt relief'

There's no free lunch here. When you do this you either pay off some of the debt by removing some value from the product, or you spend ages just reaching "value pairity" at which point you've likely accrued a whole host of shiny new technical debt.

Per the top commenter (jewel), I have to agree that this article misses the most important chunk of the metaphor - interest. Any time you have to work around limits imposed by architecture/technology/coding decisions, you're making an interest payment. Worse yet, side-stepping like the author describes is often like paying off one credit card with another - the premium compounds which dials up the interest payments. All of these sorts of things distract from delivering value and serve to further increase scheduling risk.

Point being, the author is correct that the case of having to make a large pay-off in order to move forward is quite rare. However, that doesn't mean that you should disregard good project planning and discipline. As you point out, there are cases when you should take technical debt deliberately as part of some tactical decision such as when you are just getting an MVP together, or when you need to deliver immediately in order to make payroll. However every project accrues technical debt which was not deliberate as well.

Regardless of the cause, you'll find that just like real loans, payments against the principle amortize best when they're made early. That said, it doesn't make sense to pay off a loan when doing so might cause you to miss out on some bigger opportunity, like a huge sale, or perhaps simply not starving.
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HECO is the central and most prominent racket of all on those islands. Just ask anybody living there.
Except that that is not entirely true. Although not as abandoned as many American city centers, the downtown areas of many a European city was pretty awful during the 80s.

I personally live in a nice picturesque gentrified part of the center of Amsterdam. The building I live in still has the front they added to the original porch to keep out the junkies and homeless in the 80s...

Taking back the city center is a process of the last few decades. The main difference is that there was something worth taking back.
The article mentions "without a battery". The power source is the sunlight / light.
My perspective is he was speaking in terms of how tech ought to be for women, but failed to mention that the situation for women was currently different.

That's just completely wrong, watch the video again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndm_RSvAgO4
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The original post

http://www.airtel.in/about-bharti/media-centre/bharti-airtel...

and their clarification on the Airtel Zero

http://www.airtel.in/about-bharti/media-centre/bharti-airtel...

I feel Zero rating can be a boon or a death knell for small startups based on Airtel decide to charge per GB of data. I don't think it about restricting certain sites, its about giving the option to peoples to be able to access certain services without having to recharge. I am not sure if Airtel have a sinister design behind this at the moment.... Its more of wait and watch, keep your fingers crossed.
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Sorry but I do disagree with few things you say.

> A bank (or any entity) is allowed to lend as much money as they want to someone if they are actually lending money that they have.

No they are not. There are supervisory limits on what a bank can lend (leverage ratios, capital adequacy rations etc.).

> By definition fractional reserve is lending more currency than you have.

No it is not, it is lending a fraction (less than 100%) of the money that has been deposited with you.

I think the confusion comes from that in todays banking system there are two sorts of money that seem very similar - the base money (federal bank notes) and the bank money (loans/deposits of federal bank notes). The loans/deposits can also be used as money but crucially they are NOT the underlying money even if it is very easy to convert one to the other (depositing or withdrawing the base money). Example: I can buy something with the fact that Chase bank owes me bank notes (with the loan I made to it), by changing the ownership of that loan to the shop I want to buy something from. I have a bank card that makes that transfer very simple.

The 10:1 ratio is a limit on bank money (loans / deposits) to base money (federal bank notes). Both sorts of money are denominated in dollars, but they are different and have different supply and demand.

To recap, by keeping careful records of the loans / deposits, and making systems to easily transfer ownership of the loans and deposits, these loans end up also having characteristics of money - they can be used for transactions, for accounting etc.

> You can't do that with Bitcoin by design

You absolutely can. The loans/deposits form of bank money could work with bitcoin as the base money, and you could have the same rules around fractional reserve, capital adequacy rules, liquidity ratio rules etc. that the normal banking system has.
Asking as someone who knows extremely little about testing or TDD but hopes to learn, why should one avoid using randomness in tests? What would be a better approach?
everyone who dies in any war is remembered as someone who fought with honor for the motherland, by their own.

The ISIS people regard their dead as heroes even today, they don't need 50 years.
Same in many places. "South of the river" in Londen, "Noord" in Amsterdam.
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This is actually pretty neat. As someone who has worked on many wordpress sites for a long time, having faster everything would be amazing.

The product looks very polished and I hope to see it grow and develop a large community. That would make it a real WP competitor since the main reason WP is so powerful now is because of all the themes, documentation, and plugins.
First, I want to say that your last paragraph is something I do agree with. Sounds like we are ultimately on the same page and do actually agree with each other.

My point was simply that local reasoning is strengthened by trust in everything that you do locally. This is actually no different than living. I trust that what I hand off for recycling is actually getting recycled correctly. I have no real verification of this, however.

Now, you can work in a language that demands this for you. However, there are times where this demand actually makes things more difficult than they need to be. Conversely, there are plenty of times where not honoring this idea leads to annoyance.

Again, I do agree with your final point. I'm just not clear on where empirical results lie on this. Too much of it is just a very compelling argument.