skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're not being accurate when you claim that a "war on drugs" has not been prosecuted in the West. The cost to minority populations in the US and in countries where the drugs are produced has been enormous. Maybe you don't personally know anyone who has faced societally-imposed hardships due to drugs but the reality faced by many poor and minority people is quite stark and different than what you allege.

A young man here in Texas was facing LIFE in prison for selling marijuana infused brownies (as well as possession of cannabis oils). That's just one case.

And this:

>>What does work is very harsh and uniform punishment for users.

Paints you as a complete fool like the rest of the drug warriors.
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I misread Wikipedia. I have removed the "hundreds" wording which was clearly in error.
>The argument put forward above is that stopping the war on drugs just because we can't win is equivalent to stopping the 'war' on (for example) burglary.

I do agree that stopping the war on X differs greatly when X is something that deserves stopping in and of itself compared to when X is not inherently harmful, but closely tied to things that are (though I do think that different people will classify certain actions into other groups, for example some people will say some drugs are so bad that they deserve to be stopped in and of themselves).
The battery costs $3000 - that is likely a cap on the cost of the work involved in producing it.
Replying to your other comment here because it was too deep to respond.

> Remember just a few years ago there were no major organizations or groups of people advocating for... same-sex marriage.

Is 1991 a "few years ago"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Hawaii
> It makes one wonder what happens to Presidents after they're sworn in. Does someone read them in on the facts of life? Or are they simply always dirtbags whose principles are for sale?

This is precisely why I had someone recently tell me they'd like to see Ron Paul get elected. He's someone who has been relatively consistent on his views throughout his career as a politician - often to his detriment. They said if he got elected and also did the 180, it'd surely be the nail in the coffin on the "facts of life" reading you mentioned being a reality.
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We're super proud of the company mission, engineering culture and tech stack we've put together and would love a chance to explain it all in detail!
>and it's all due to the drug war.

How about the civil war with the farc guerrilla? That might be a bigger contribution than the drug war.
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You can remount those dirs without noexec when you need to do a legitimate install.
Easy: document saying no, then go public with the fact that the government tried to pervert its medical apparatus into supporting the torture programs.

Boom, credibility of the USG's medical agencies goes to shit overnight, and you're inoculated from further manipulation.
And the British have demonstrated how well they handle alcohol these days.

Edit: meow, oh the butthurt. Binge drinking apparently is a significant problem but is tolerated because "alcohol is not a drug"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10825449/Britain...
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Hmm, I missed this story. I'll have to look for it. It's a great testament to his vision and integrity, no matter what others may have perceived of him.
This. Why can't more people see it the way you have described? True marriage equality does not discriminate.

As it stands, the campaign for "marriage equality" is deceptive and has only been concerned with marriage between homosexuals - other minority groups be damned!
You are not understanding the analogy I am making. It is not startups = houses. I am saying that it is easy to use hindsight kick people while they're down, and that we see that behavior all the time when startups fail.

> renting your own place (if you actually care about it, like that person in the article) is just silly in terms of benefit/risk ratio

Ah, note another rhetorical maneuver: the false objective voice. That is a belief of yours, not a demonstrated fact. Many people differ. Try owning your opinions.
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May 1, 2015

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This. We have a small farm but small tractors don't have the horespower needed to pull and power the equipment needed up and down hills. Most people forget that not every farm is flat. We have significant hills in this part of the country and need the power to climb, pull several thousand pounds of rolling equipment plus provide it power in many cases.
"Pretty sure they already can, you do not come into work drunk, for example."

We don't have medical alcohol, so it's not the same thing.

"You already pay lots and lots and lots and lots of money to drug-war enforcement efforts. The cost of health problems related to drugs would be minimal compared to this."

The costs can't really be calculated at this point. We don't really know how many more or less people will need medical care after the legalization of many drugs. However, in my experience, it will most likely be many more than we estimate now.

"Lots of conservatives seem to want all the benefits of drug legalisation (reduced tax bills) without any responsibility (helping out your fellow man)."

That's not how taxes work. Yes, we will have have more taxes, but they will be spent on something..and we will always need more. The benefit is that our fellow man gets the option now of recreational drug use without going to jail.

"Further, those taxes help keep you safe. You want to be robbed by an addict or do you want to give a few cents to the free-heroin-for-addicts program that keeps them from committing crime and helps them become contributing members of society?"

I'm unclear why the reason I need to legalize drugs is to appease a criminal from not robbing me. It's answers like this that make me glad I have multiple guns at my disposal to protect my home and my family.

If heroin is as bad as you describe (creating addicted criminals that want to rob me), why again should it be legalized?

You aren't really making a good case, sorry.
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> "Am I giving 100% to the quality of my effort, in this moment?"

Exactly.

Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching (buy here: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780061142666-0; full text here: http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.h...) is one of my favorite books. It has some things to say on this subject:

Express yourself completely,
then keep quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows, there is only wind;
when it rains, there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through...

He who stands on tiptoe
doesn't stand firm.
He who rushes ahead
doesn't go far.
He who tries to shine
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others
can't empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.

If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.
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So you don't have to run the Let's Encrypt client? I was under the impression you did because without running the client there was no way to communicate with the Let's Encrypt service?

Or do you mean, you can have multiple servers and only need to run the client on one of them?
>> -Businesses should be able to fire someone for being under the influence of any mind-altering substance.

That's sorta special cased for alcohol, pot, etc. You'd have a hard time firing someone for being on Prozac, even though that's mind altering.

Drawing a line at "recreational" usage is bad, as it just reinforces the unfair power arbitrary doctors have over people's lives. Got money and can persuade your doctor into rx'ing what you want? OK, no problem! Poorer or marked "drug seeking"? Screw you then.
I just made an account on this site so I could tell you this, but you just saved the last four years of my music collection. I can't tell you how incredibly thankful I am right now.
Recycling this way batteries that are not good for cars but fine for less demanding applications would be really smart. Is there any indication that they actually do this?
I'm curious if local governments will give subsidies to aid in distribution of such devices - many places have issues with the power grid.
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It also says nothing about anyone being picked up off of a US street.

US persons (not just citizens, but people legally living in the US) tend to enjoy more US Constitutional protections than people outside the US, so I think you are still quite wrong in your characterization.
Been long enough that it took me a while to get it...
> How do we know that?

Because marriage equality is a well-established term with a clear unambiguous usage in political discussions. Sort of like "pro-life" and "pro-choice", which could (divorced from context) each have a wide variety of possible meanings, but which, in the actual context of modern American political debate, have very specific meanings in terms of particular opposing positions regarding abortion policy.

> It's a marketing myth that "gay marriage" is the same thing as "marriage equality".

It would be more accurate to say that "marriage equality" is a brand that has been established by advocates of legal marriage without distinction based on the sex of the partners.
Ack, sorry about that. Can you shoot me an email with your name or jobvite ID? I'll look into it.

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Vox getting it wrong, shocking.
Than you fix the XSS vulnerabilities and implement CSP. Shitty security practices is not an excuse for more shitty security practices. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/CSP
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GPS system from first principles.

To be fair, that would probably be navigation by naturally observable indicators such as the rising or setting sun, shadows over the day, locally / seasonally reliable stars for your area, and knowledge of local fauna/wave patterns.

After getting interested in sailing again (after 20 years) last year through multihull vessels, I started reading about the evolution of multihulls in the Pacific and then began looking at traditional navigation techniques. Following that, I was wondering for fun whether it would be possible to plot one's position given a rough time, rough position guestimate, and perfectly measured horizonal inclination, lens property and visible to 'the naked eye' star positions (ie. visible to the naked CCD at evening time = high ISO, noise and short shutter speed to failitate clarity in rough seas). My conclusion was yes, it's possible, with sub-GPS accuracy but accuracy which would be good enough to get you reliably between certain locations in certain seasons even on a sailboat.

I was surprised to read that some ICBMs allegedly used astronomy and pre-loaded landform navigation to avoid issues with jamming, and that fat databases of precise naked-eye type visible star locations are widely available, indeed so is software for reducing them to identities from an image input.
Talk to your insurance people. Usually when you have expensive items, you can get a specific rider for it.

For example, a friend had a rack with about $80k of servers in his basement a few years ago. I believe he paid an additional $400 for coverage.
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We're the single source of truth in logistics -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and every truck on the ground so that we can know everything that's going on in the logistics world. We do a lot of analysis and optimization, too. We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time. The problem -> Lots of inefficiencies in the supply chain! One of our customers spends $400mm/year shipping empty containers, another spends $80mm/year on late fees. Lots to optimize! How we fix it -> We track everything in the supply chain and make predictions and recommendations as to what our customers should do!

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