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> Any religion that fundamentally doesn't tolerate the existence of other religions and calls its followers to slaughter those who don't convert is "bad religion"

Christianity is a bad religion. See the genocide of Bosnian muslims by Serb christians during the Bosnian genocide. (1995 approx)

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

Christianity is a bad religion. See the murder of muslims by Christians in Central African Republic. (2014, ongoing) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/10/central-african...

I'm interested in how you're going to contort this to say that these genocides of non-Christians by Christians is somehow different to the massacres you've mentioned.
That means you're not fully ex-muslim yet.
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A lot of people prototyping in the IoT space are using the precertified modules.

There's not much more to it: the transmitter is already soldered to a small piece of PCB but has the antenna and necessary tuned discretes on there and ready to go. Doesn't add much to the cost: like BillinghamJ says it's the certification time and cost that's not really worth the trouble if you can just amortize it into the cost of the module.
> unreasonably wide definition by most people's standard?

Yes - words meanings are defined by how people use them, after all.

Let's say you help a friend and you both feel good about it, even though you sacrifice something of personal value in the process. That's a selfless act by most people's definition. Can you truly say that you did it solely for the kick you got out of it, regardless of his feelings about it? No, because you wouldn't feel that good about it if he wouldn't also feel good. On the other hand, if you just did it because you want to trick somebody into believing you care about their good (for example), then that's selfish, yes. Big difference, intention matters.

Looking at it another way, one could construct a symmetrical argument for the nonexistence of selfishness, this time. Something along the lines of: the best possible course of action for ourselves, in the interest of preservation of life on the planet, is to look after our own person and interests. So really we're just being selfless when we're being selfish (Adam Smith: “Individual ambition serves the common good” - mentioned in the article). But this argument equally erases the boundary between the two opposite concepts. And that boundary is what makes words useful as you observed too. Without it our language and our conceptual framework become less rich.

On the other hand I think it's good to observe this collapse of opposites, because it points to the limits of language and description.

> I don't get what you're saying here.

Please ignore that. It was just vacuous conjuncture on my part.
It's even simpler. The "starts with a vowel" rule is about pronunciation. The spelling is entirely orthogonal. If you pronounce "SQL" as "Ess-cue-ell", it's "an". If you pronounce it as "sequel", it's "a".

Aside: the reason "an" is also sometimes used for word starting with an "h" is that the "h" in those cases is silent and the pronounciation therefore starts with a vowel (following the silent "h"). There are some style guides that recommend using "an" for words where the "h" isn't silent (or "a" for words where it is) but they're just being intentionally obtrusive.
But JS isn't lisp, and to manipulate it you have to turn it into an AST and traverse it with a lot of extra tooling. It's not as (easily) pliable as lisp.
It's also unclear from their homepage why I would want yet another OS/UI combo. What are the advantages? Does it run any apps? I'm definitely not paying $10 sight unseen. Maybe a 30-day trial would be a better model before asking for payment.
$2 a year for a permanent advert within someone's house which also generates sales.

Sounds like a win / win for both P&G and Amazon...
Lawyers are typically hired to apply their expertise to a particular problem and to tailor there advice based on a particular set of facts and circumstances. One of those circumstances is the desired outcome of the client. People don't hire a lawyer to go before the jury and say "My client is probably guilty."

Day in and out, much lawyering is piece work of a custom or semi-custom nature...even with standard contracts getting the execution date and names of the parties correct and double and triple checking matters: GIGO doesn't make the grade.

Years ago I worked on a team that designed renovations for a courthouse parking structure. Documents were done, competitive biding had been announced, closed and fixed price bids received, a contract awarded, notice to proceed given, and selective demolition began at 7am or so Monday morning. 10am the phone call comes in. The job is shut down. The bailiff told the superintendent that the Judge said he would throw his ass in jail for contempt of court because the construction activity was disruptive to proceedings in his courtroom [jackhammers can do that]. Twelve months of daylight construction became thirteen months of night time construction. I'm not sure if the contractor started preparing the change order price or started shopping for a new boat first.

Anyway, moving fast and breaking things in law runs the risk of winding up in jail. If the judge doesn't like it, the bailiff comes just got a change order to move toand hauls you away with "Tell it to the judge" the only response to your protestations of good intent while knowing full well its irony.
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Why do you assume that if 30% of board positions were held by women, they wouldn't be capable?
It's the mindless-consumerism aspect of the idea that I find most disturbing: "press this button to feed yourself with product".
That's not the point.

The point is right now, they are asking people to pay for a free version of Ubuntu. This annoys people.

They should change their pricing model to make it clear that the base OS is free. And that their additions are a product which should be paid for.
Why a "startup" is only related to a technology? Why can't I make a kebab startup?
I think the idea is that this is eventually built right into the products. The washer with the built-in Amazon button for detergent, etc.
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I don't even have cellphone coverage at my house in West Virginia. No voice, no text, no bars. Not with AT$T, Verizon, or Sprint.

Now coverage maps, AT$T says they have 3g but I get no service at my house, Sprint Map is spot on, and Verizon map I haven't compared.
I fear them, too :)
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Right, this is exactly what I meant by setting up the indirection yourself. The main difference seems to be that in Haskell, you have to write this code separately for each typeclass, and wrap/unwrap it manually. In Rust, you just change Show to &Show and you get dynamic dispatch with no extra code. Here's a gist of the two approaches: https://gist.github.com/evanpw/89d89aae1159c608c476. One other difference is that in the Haskell showStatic, static dispatch is not a guarantee, just an optimization.
so what happens to the digital prophet??
> Do you honestly think there is any religion besides Islam that would raise such security concerns if mocked in a Broadway musical?

In 2015, I can't think of any other. But I don't think there is something fundamentally and radically different with Islam as its core. In some country, you could not mock the official religion or the (despotic) head of state either.

I used to believe that some religions were exempt of violence, but since I learned about "Buddhism fundamentalism" I am much more circumspect.
Agreed the LG UI is very nice (in comparison to Samsung's). I have an LG G3 and absolutely love it. Correction: I used to love it until I received the Lollipop upgrade which essentially blocks a small little feature not many users care about - notifications. Yes since upgrading I can no longer receive notifications unless I disable wifi. And even then notifications sometimes appear several hours later [1][2]

[1] http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g3/520160-updated-lollip...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/LGG3/comments/32l4xj/verizon_is_awar...
Having had a friend seriously injured in a licensed minicab accident many years ago, I concur.
> probably lower skilled workers can take your job, you probably suck

More probably these decisions are made at a very high level and the individual abilities of these workers aren't even taken into consideration. The real lessons here are never trust your employer, loyalty is a two-way street and always have an exit plan.
With no limit on the length and number of lines that can be drawn, making the ball touch the square is just a process of drawing successively smaller triangles.
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Year old reddit thread

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1wrlji/
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There would be a great experiment to do. We recently learned that Picasso's handyman was paid in paintings and that he probably stole a few others. That means he has Picasso paintings that are unknown to the world. It would be great to alter the signature on one of them to some unknown czech artist of the same period and see if museums will even want to pay a penny to acquire it and if art critiques will even bother spending a minute looking at the painting if they don't know it is a Picasso!
Yeah. Austria has them completely banned, and in Germany you can use them,but if you have an accident then whatever is recorded is inadmissible in court. Also if you post the recording to youtube you have to blur out faces and registration numbers to not get in trouble.
umm..
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-dozens-of-rohingya-muslims-ma...
Hey, I put together a list of useful apps that can help with growing a business/startup fast and cheap. I hope it can help. Any other tips welcome.
I think Shingy will replace the "can you hear me now?" guy.
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The same way I do with the belief that the Sun revolves around the Earth, or that the Earth is flat. They are based off of early attempts to explain the unknown or the unexplainable (especially death), and recognized by a few as a fantastic way to hold influence and sway (and iron-fisted rule) over the general population.

We learned the Earth wasn't the center of the universe (a fact Religion had a hard time letting go of) and that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. We grow as a species with knowledge we obtain. Left completely uneducated and alone, I believe religion would spring up as quickly as it did before - but now we have the benefit of vast amounts of knowledge at our fingertips.
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What language are those examples in?

export let Button = {
render({props, state}) {
return <button>{props.text}</button>
}
}
browserify website (http://browserify.org/)
To be fair, none of the recent models has been as bendy as the T4x series, which I think was the last set of T-series actually built by IBM before the acquisition.

(I still have a T40p, kept running with parts from three different machines -- a wonderful machine to use, one of the very best, but that chassis was a bit of a disaster.)
The OnePlus invite-only marketing tactics was very successful, from what I heard. Even their reputation seem to be good.

Though 5.5" is very big. Most chinese built smartphones are 5" or bigger.

There are only three high end flagship smartphones that are below 5" (ca. 4.5"): Apple iPhone6, Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and Samsung Alpha.
How does it compare to Mithril?

http://mithril.js.org/
I have definitely seen people do things that make someone else happy, but makes the first person less happy and provides that first person with no benefit.

I'm just one data point on a screen, but is that evidence for what you would call selflessness?
Function call is somewhat expensive in Python compared to most languages, so I guess there are reasons other than personal taste for why functional composition is not blessed.
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That's an interesting thought. There would be deals by detergent companies to include their button in a washer. Also maids could order the products themselves if they're responsible enough.
Trust me, I know Lisp. In Lisp, there's built-in templating via quasiquote, so we can easily construct HTML documents by first writing them as s-expressions.

JSX is a far cry from how Lisp does things. You get all of the nastiness of the redundant typing involved with hand-writing HTML mixed in with your JavaScript, plus the addition of another compilation step in your build!

I like Mithril's virtual DOM API[0] much more. It's really pleasing to use, but of course not as good as SXML in Lisp because JavaScript doesn't have macros or quasiquote.

[0] https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/mithril.html
I think there are some interesting dynamics at play here....

The post (even with the edits to remove unfortunate phrasing) seems really aggrieved at the community's expectation that open source projects are by definition free as in beer. Reading the comments on that article, it does seem true that many folks seem to feel entitled to a free copy of this software.

This is part of the culture and the ecosystem, though. It doesn't justify being an entitled jerk, but if you're going to operate in a particular space, you have to understand the culture behind that space.

(And for those on HN stating "this is why you don't see entrepreneurial activity in the Linux ecosystem"...well, how much entrepreneurial activity are you seeing in the Windows ecosystem these days? I think the Linux attitude may foster rather than hamper long-term innovation, because even when the money moves elsewhere there's still that core group of people working on projects for love and passion rather than for money.)
I still prefer just-HTML sites to the typical JS-based sites (e.g. the new Google Groups) I see.
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I think this is, happily, becoming a myth. The transparency of the internet and the ease of owner to owner sales is making the used-car market more efficient. It is easier now for consumers to know the value of a vehicle. If you are treated poorly or over-quoted at a dealership, hopefully you are in a position to just leave (like the parent). Fighting the "war", even if you win, is still supporting the old model. Keep in mind that it sucks for the salesperson, too, at these sorts of dealerships.

I recently bought my first used car since 2007. The first dealership I went to is still in the past: "You know, before you go, I've just remembered I've got another one in the back that would be perfect for you....", overpriced, etc. The second dealership I went to simply pointed us toward the computer with a searchable inventory with all the information about the cars, prices, and additional fees explained. The way a purchase should be. Knowing the value of the vehicle beforehand made it easy know the additional cost due to the convenience of not searching on craigslist for weeks and weeks for some random "best deal", and driving out of the lot that day with a clean, serviced vehicle.
Being a Chef seldom pays bills too, but it doesn't mean you should stop so you can get a job at McDonalds. (And once you get that McDonalds job, it doesn't mean you have to stop cooking good food).
>Don't think that everyone who worked at AOL were a bunch of "you've got mail!" chatroom admins.

Who in this community would think that??
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This was actually my primary role at Google from 2006 to 2010.

One of my first test cases was a certain date range of the Wall Street Journal's archives of their Chinese language pages, where all of the actual text was in a JavaScript string literal, and before my changes, Google thought all of these pages had identical content... just the navigation boilerplate. Since the WSJ didn't do this for its English language pages, my best guess is that they weren't trying to hide content from search engines, but rather trying to work around some old browser bug that incorrectly rendered (or made ugly) Chinese text, but somehow rendering text via JavaScript avoided the bug.

The really interesting parts were
(1) trying to make sure that rendering was deterministic (so that identical pages always looked identical to Google for duplicate elimination purposes) (2) detecting when we deviated significantly from real browser behavior (so we didn't generate too many nonsense URLs for the crawler or too many bogus redirects), and (3) making the emulated browser look a bit like IE and Firefox (and later Chrome) at the some time, so we didn't get tons of pages that said "come back using IE" er "please download Firefox".

I ended up modifying SpiderMonkey's bytecode dispatch to help detect when the simulated browser had gone off into the weeds and was likely generating nonsense.

I went through a lot of trouble figuring out the order that different JavaScript events were fired off in IE, FireFox, and Chrome. It turns out that some pages actually fire off events in different orders between a freshly loaded page and a page if you hit the refresh button. (This is when I learned about holding down shift while hitting the browser's reload button to make it act like it was a fresh page fetch.)

At some point, some SEO figured out that random() was always returning 0.5. I'm not sure if anyone figured out that JavaScript always saw the date as sometime in the Summer of 2006, but I presume that has changed. I hope they now set the random seed and the date using a keyed cryptographic hash of all of the loaded javascript and page text, so it's deterministic but very difficult to game. (You can make the date determistic for a month and dates of different pages jump forward at different times by adding an HMAC of page content (mod number of seconds in a month) to the current time, rounding down that time to a month boundary, and then subtracting back the value you added earlier. This prevents excessive index churn from switching all dates at once, and yet gives each page a unique date.)
Certified pre-owned is a fancy way of saying "used, with a 7 year drivetrain warranty from the manufacturer", which is a lot different than "used and those broken things are your problem now". The checklist isn't the point.
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"Destructive in the long run" is nearly empty of content. You could trivially make the same claim about the steam engine. (Industry leads to pollution leads to disaster.)

Organized anything is powerful and dangerous. Organized goverment, organized commerce, organized labor, organized rationalism, organized kittens. Animals are scary and dangerous, humans most of all.
Today I learned that WhatsApp is 5 times more valuable than AOL - and I never understood either of these companies' market..

Interesting though - that company 'felt' like a giant when I seriously got into using the web and although the article seems to imply that the operations of AOL continue (using the AOL brand?) it's fascinating to see such a company being swallowed.
Isn't the answer to this question to be found in game theory?
Nothing is stated in my contract, and I don't carefully track my hours. I'd guess between 35 and 55. So I guess you can't reason about my claims.
Me too. That's another area that takes up a lot of my time.
I'm tempted to start a conspiracy theory that these are just phase one of a plan to eventually have us all living in actual Skinner boxes.
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I agree! But you have to make a differnce between "enhancing the UX with JS" and "the whole App is written in JS".

I think it's perfectly fine to enhance stuff with JS, as long as important content is visible without it.

Some people go head over heels the JS route (since this seems the way people do it today) and build things that can be build way cheaper (measured in hours) with traditional HTML. Since the outcome is the same (static content) it's just not necessary.

Note: I'm focusing on static content here. Pages that mainly show text and images (Blogs, Newssites et al). (Web)Apps are another topic that present good reasons to use Frontend JS.
I'm saddened by the glorified view on non human systems. When they'll reach a large scale enough, there will be too-complex conditions, confusion and bad (contextually optimal) decisions and ordering, just like what happen to humans.
In 2000 Hillary was running for (and won) a US Senate seat in New York. Also in 2000 George W Bush was running for and won the US Presidency.
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The netinst allows you to download the packages you manually select during the install. Wouldn't this allow you to install a minimal system with only the packages/apps you want? So this ~600MB "core" option is really for people with unreliable internet connections, or otherwise don't want to install via TCP/IP, right? Or, am I missing something?
> Given the choice, and whether consciously or unconsciously, they will typically elect people much like themselves, because that's the kind of person they can understand and relate to.

The issue is at what point does the need for diversity kick in? If I start a startup right now with a friend, a person who is much like myself, very few people will criticize us for diversity issues at 2 people. But if we continue to hire friends, when does it become a diversity issue that needs addressing?
Yes, some standard procedures on ASA1 patiens do not require a lot of sophistication. However do not underestimate how hard anesthesiology is, while 90% routine, 10% is incredibly complex stressfull scenarios in trauma/emergency, surgical complications, adverse events. Its much more than just heart rate, RR, oxymetry etc. Its knowledge about medicine interactions, organ systems, physiological systems and the skill to perform under immense pressure (trying to provide a permanent airway through facial trauma or large bore IV access for fluid replacements on a patient in volumetric shock) And while uncommon it can happen during standard procedures in ASA1 patients. I'd rather have the anesthesiologist close please.

As a quick sedation system these sound wonderfull though, for example for resetting joint dislocations in the OR where all emergency staff and equipment is already in place.
chat function for leaders please
Plagiarism still going strong too!

https://twitter.com/ollieblog/status/598087576675844096
It doesn't make sense to mention "Moto G". Google owned Motorola during that era. In the meanwhile Google sold Motorola again and recent models come with a new customized UI.

Most companies like Samsung, HTC, Sony, Motorola, etc. customize Android. Some more (Samsung), some less (Sony, Motorola). Plain Android are on Google and Chinese devices.
I wonder if the solutions will be similar to what worked in the developing world or entirely new.

You don't even have to go to the developing world to find opportunity. There are services that exist in the US that simply don't exist elsewhere. One example is an MLS for real estate, which powers Zillow, redfin, etc. There are many developed countries that don't have one yet.