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Because winners of purely stochastic games believe they deserve the win does not imply that our real game of life is purely stochastic. It has stochastic elements, for sure, but the player himself has an enormous amount of possible moves that you could label "free will".

Success in life is an incredibly complex game, maybe the most complex game. There are strategies one can follow and build upon to up their chances of success in life, and hypothetically if one were omniscient so that they could understand all of the random variables then they could judge whether somebody else "deserved their lot in life". If the player made all the best strategic moves given his input, and he also reaped those rewards, then he truly deserved his lot in life. If he didn't reap the rewards, then it's obvious he didn't deserve his lot. This is apposed to a purely stochastic game in which the omniscient individual would only be able to determine that the game's outcome had nothing at all to do with the player's moves.

In a hostile game in which other players are neck to neck with you(like the government and the capitalist elite in our corrupt game), you still have free will, it's just that exercising it in the most precisely strategic ways has become very, very valuable.
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If an assailant has shown intent to cause harm upon another person with a deadly melee weapon only a damned fool would get within striking distance of that weapon. If that damned fool was armed with a potentially even deadlier weapon then he is an extremely dangerous damned fool.

The reason the answer is to shoot the guy is because putting more people in danger is not a good solution. It can easily be shown to be an incredibly bad idea.

If we're talking about taking the guy down with a non-lethal projectile then that's a different matter. Because it keeps you out of striking range of the melee weapon. It's kind of difficult to perform your duties as a police officer with a claw hammer sticking out of your head.
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A father in despair , who had recently lost his employment , made this statement with his three young kids behind him .." if they make the pole to greasy .. people will stop trying to climb it " .
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d3.select('.foo').html('<div class="bar" data-selected="true"/>';
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Gandi does (France)

Maybe Joker if you want German
There is one, with HTML5 DRM, but again, this is only code running in userspace on your computer, so any CompSci student can just disassemble it and get the image again.
I quite liked this other article of his on being banned from ever returning to the remote island of Tristan da Cunha.

http://laphamsquarterly.org/travel/take-nothing-leave-nothin...
Using REST over HTTP certainly gets us a lot for free. But I think we must concede that some APIs somewhere, are not best represented as a small, fixed set of actions on "resources". So then the question becomes, for web APIs, when do the benefits of complying with REST principals get outweighed by the benefits of not?
No need to do that. Satoshi has bitcoin in the blockchain already that he or she may have secp256k1 keypairs for. Being able to spend these coins would be proof enough.
I don't know much about the whole mindfulness thing, but the fundamental insight of stoicism (as explained by Aurelius, anyway) seems to me to be that the majority of negative emotions and unhappiness the typical person feels or experiences are self-inflicted, which means one may learn, through knowledge that these are under one's control and practice avoiding them, not to feel them.

I can't speak for everyone, but this was a major breakthrough in my development as a person. Once you think of it in those terms and treat negativity as a considered choice, you may find it astonishing how many little ill thoughts and such clutter one's day, in addition to larger, obvious things like brooding uselessly over a situation or event that one does not like but cannot, at the time of the brooding, meaningfully change.

YMMV. Maybe that's obvious to some people from the beginning, or maybe some people naturally come to understand that as they grow older. I know that I feel fortunate to have encountered Stoicism, by way of a high school English teacher who taught Salinger's Franny and Zooey, when I did.
IMO, a much more natural approach is to look at things from the perspective of light emitted. Specifically black body radiation. Red/Blue shifting correlates with changing temperatures. And temperature works as a natural proxy for time.

The other thing that confuses people is presenting things from an 'independent' perspective in the diagram.
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Don't take the offer from this bigger company as an indicator that you need to demand that much from your current company, they are two completely different situations.

If you choose to negotiate with your current company, only do it from the standpoint that you are worth that much to them because of the revenue you bring in or because of your productivity. They don't care what someone else is willing to pay you, only you care about that.

If you choose to go to the new company, just make the decision and do it, don't give an ultimatum or anything like that... if you do that, they might give you what you want initially but there is likelihood that you will be let go in 6-12 months, or at least shoot your chances for advancement in the foot.

As far as career... having varied experience is probably good, but working in the bureaucracy of a large organization can be soul-sucking and exhausting.
>If we find that you are active in any subreddits that promote hatred toward any particular group of individuals, your participation rights in this sub will be revoked.

Nice thoughtcrime ya got there.
With respect to that "canonical example": http://popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackney...
https://www.google.tl/patents/EP2254311B1?cl=en

Seems this is just the bog standard keepalive packet to keep NAT port mapping from expiring.
That was a part of your stoicism training.
I am one of those people, to an extent. Or rather, I largely avoid the dating scene because of the dangers involved.

Up to and including paying child support for someone who isn't even yours. Or paying child support for a child resulting from you being raped.

And there's no way around it currently. Currently, even if both parties agree, there's no way for them to actually form a binding agreement. It's gotten to the point where prenuptials are essentially useless. They are far too easily thrown out.

However, I would not tell you as such in person unless specifically asked, and possibly not even then. It's a good way to get ostracized.

Though there's also a moral component for me, but that is another matter.
To me it is a bit like mobile payments - it's moving, but the value to the consumer hasn't been demonstrated to create a rush to support it.
Yeah but jQuery's find (and a ton of its other APIs) are so drastically different than any other programming language/library. `find` in just about any other language returns the first encounter of an item in a set, as opposed to jQuery's `find` which returns all matches in a set.

And don't even get me started on how jQuery hijacks `this` in callbacks...
I couldn't get it to work in any of my browsers. There simply is no changing the view. I tried the latest Chrome and Firefox. The view is always static.
In the US most of those who graduate with a CS degree did so because they are interested in CS. In India you have a lot of students who are taking CS because they are expected to not because of a passion for it. Combine that with lack of accountability at some schools you get a lot of half prepared graduates.

So there are good and great programmers but you also have a lot of mediocre ones. The other problem is a lot of what is taught at these schools is dated.
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Just because you have a right to do something does not make it right. Just because there is a law against something does not make it wrong.
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I specifically said "to stabilize and build a little savings" and nothing about retirement.

It's great that you've cut unnecessary things. But I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the overall trends and data:

According to Mintel[1][2], 57% of those making less than $35k own pets. Further, 34% of people without a high school diploma and 31% of those with only a high school diploma smoke[3]. Odds are those two groups are also low income.

Social norm or not, you have to prioritize and make hard choices.

[1] - http://www.marketingcharts.com/traditional/3-in-5-americans-...

[2] - Updated report: http://store.mintel.com/americas-pet-owners-us-september-201...

[3] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanton-peele/why-do-poor-peop...
Have to wonder how many of them are people who just moved back in with their parents and gave up after they lost their jobs in the Great Recession and spent years trying and failing to find a job with no success.
Oh gees, the financial crisis affected the job market. Shocking...
Took me a minute to figure out how to even navigate through the online magazine. The navigation is half way down the side on the left. Also, a PDF of the entire thing:

https://www.nsa.gov/research/tnw/tnw204/articles/pdfs/TNW_20...
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The explanation really does not help people who are not familiar with this topic.

I find that the following Susskind's lectures explain this subject really well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDDFE71BA2DE55505

Basically, the key of understanding of special relativity is to start with: Maxwell's equations are correct. But these equations also need to be correct in every reference frame - even if speed of light is constant. How to fix that?
A thought experiment I've always enjoyed is the idea of two infinitely long rods, each moving at near as damnit c, perpendicular to one another, with a point of contact.

At what speed does the point of contact move, relative to the reference frame of either bar, or to a static external observer?
The whole point of the article is completely irrelevant at this point.

The NSA already built their huge data center in the desert. They've been scooping up data for years. They've been using methods to usurp wireless phone security in order to snoop on what should be secure networks. There's suspicions they've cracked TOR's encryption as well.

Alert the media, the people who support the NSA have financial ties to them.

Even with the recent court ruling, Pandora's box was opened decades ago, and I see no palatable future where anybody is able to close it.
I've worked with Indians in a number of counterparty firms. The key isn't whether they're Indian, the key is how they are organised. The Indians who worked in a western firm in permanent roles were pretty much the same as everyone else at those firms. The guys who were working outsourcing roles were problematic.

Sometimes it's just plainly obvious a guy has been hired because he's cheap. And since it's a money-saving exercise, the employer will also skimp on such things as documentation, communication, availability, etc. This only makes the guy's life harder, and makes him look worse than he really is.
I am not sure we do have a right to privacy in some generic sense. We have a right to privacy in certain very well defined situations and not in others
Nobody pays for it so they don't have money to hire proofreaders?
Exactly. Ruby’s solution will run even on FAT12 (which has only single-level directories), while npm isn’t really compatible.

In general, node does this quite often – their memory model also assumes they have infinite memory.
It's there for me, in version 1.0.5.178.g885b099b on OS X.
> - d3 data binding is oh so convenient, and that's where the real magic happens

It's great, but it has limitations. It only ever binds to a single `__data__` property on the DOM nodes (making it very very difficult to associate multiple sets of data through a single DOM tree) and which needs to be carefully re-bound to each sub-node if you wish to substitute the objects with new ones.
And acting on the data (basically two-way binding) and then updating the d3 selection has to be done very carefully too.

I've run into many subtle errors that stem from this fairly primitive method of binding.

It probably could use some additional abstractions to make replaying updates on object replacement/modification easier.
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It's good to end the day on a positive note. I occasionally spend ten minutes on Reddit right as I get in bed. It doesn't take long to find something in the comments to give me a solid laugh.
Sure, if you use some of the unsafe stuff ... but what about the safe core of Haskell, do you consider that pure?
Unsatisfactory answer, though mathematically correct.
The fuller explanation considers what constitutes "measurement" in a physics with a speed limit (lightspeed).
We measure "intervals", i.e. lengths between to points of space or time. We'll see the intervals stetched/contracted by the Lorentz factor in another frame moving at a high constant velocity.
If there actually where something moving faster then light, and you measured the speed, it would still appear to be moving at the speed of light!

Say you had two space ships with FTL capability that would race from our solar system to the finish line located near Alpha Centauri. How would you know witch one came first?
thanks for the corrections.

but here is a perfect example of multiple ways to do the same thing. and the custom additions to HTTP REST begin: multiple locations in the body of the response. the fact that sometimes the headers are sufficient, but at other times, you have to just create your own API to fill in the missing functionality using the response bodies.

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Another thought on welfare moms: if you are a welfare mom, you still have your children to care for, which makes you useful. What does a man on welfare have to make himself feel useful?
A link to the Wikipedia article on 'Pea Soup', the kind of smog prevalent in London in the 1950s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog

"The result was that visibility could be down to a metre or so in the daytime. Walking out of doors became a matter of shuffling one’s feet to feel for road curbs, etc."

And form the article, based in 1962 (though things were surely better by then overall):

"More than once the bus I rode to work had to be led by a policeman walking on the road with a red flashlight, so thick were the greasy, sulfur-dioxide-laden pea-soup fogs that in 1962 were so bad as to send people by the hundreds to hospitals some days."

LA, Beijing... if not good, probably a lot better than this era and location.
Hmm, I'm not so sure. If anything, it seems to me that bitcoin has actually been quite a boon for the viability of darknet markets; certainly the silk road would have never risen to such heights were it not for bitcoin, and as far as I'm aware, bitcoin itself has never actually played a direct role in helping to identify darknet kingpins (who end up tipping their hand in some other fashion). Honestly, I'd say darknet markets are the only place where bitcoin is genuinely useful.
Some strange bugs in the forms library. One being:

https://github.com/elm-lang/core/issues/227

This was a major blocker for me. I know of workarounds but I haven't gotten around to implementing them and I'd rather the core library just work.
"It's quite possible for an atheist and a die-hard Christian to get dinner together, if they both commit to focusing on the topics they share rather than the ones they disagree on."

Actually, nothing even precludes them from discussing religion. Just because we're wired to get into angry shouting matches on the matters that pertain to tribal identification (which I used descriptively, not perjoratively... human psychology can not be understood until you understand that we are deeply tribal, and religion is a huge component of that) does not mean that we are obligated to give in to those impulses.

It's just... really hard. For everybody. And increasingly, giving in to those impulses is being held up a virtue, rather than vice. This bodes poorly for the future of civil society.
While the $200 million worth of bitcoin sited in the article is certainly a lot of money, in a world with at least 1,800 billionaires in it, all open enough to be identified by Forbes, it can't really be called a "massive" amount.
If I were both Szabo and Satoshi, I would answer "no" to that question, because in that case I would lie on that question.
Cool stuff... I'd like to try it out, but I'm afraid I'll get sucked into it and wake up 5 years later wonder how the time went by so fast.
The first graph animation is kind of distraction. the 2nd graph of the difference in time explains it better.
From my experience, Java while more verbose offers better tooling, standards, documentation and support. Scala certainly is more concise but there is a cost that you will incur later when trying to debug or maintain s large fast moving code base. Sbt blows, ide support for scala is spotty and good luck defining a code convention and standard that you can automatically lint and format. To me it's c++ for the jvm (not a good thing ☺).

The next thing I'd advise is to not use play but to consider dropwizard or better yet spring boot. You may be thinking "ugh spring.. Isn't that so heavy?" Possibly but it's a lot simpler to use, extremely powerful and well documented and supported. Play just doesn't have that maturity and support going for it that a spring or dropwizard have.
For a moment I thought this was for the fish market only and it seemed that would be of limited appeal as many chefs like buying their fish in person so as to get the flesh of the right color, fat content, exact cut, etc. But this is trying to supplant the vast network of middletraders in as many industries as possible.

That definitely has great potential --as much as Amazon. On the other hand, Japan is about balance and this throws a whole sector of the economy into disarray. The jobs are menial but do provide people with a living --what will these people do now that they can't make a living pushing faxes and making deliveries?

I think about those nameless guys who stock those tchotchke dispensers in convenience stores. It's such a dreadful and unfulfilling job but it earns someone rent money.
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I worked at a supermarket in the late 70's as my high-school job, and we didn't compress + band the cardboard boxes -- we burned them in an incinerator out back. Every so often it needed to have the ash cleaned out, so the male employees would take turns with a shovel and the ash buckets. You'd blow grey mucous out your nose for a couple of days afterwards, because masks were for sissies.

Not-so-fun story time: The stock guys left a can of Lysol aerosol in one of the boxes, and when I tossed it in the resulting fireball burned some of my hair off. Occupational safety? What's that?
I think this is an excellent data point. The article quotes an economic cost of $20,000 vs $100,000 for giving them a home vs having someone homeless. Is there a writeup somewhere on the methodology for doing that calculation? San Francisco claims to have 7,500 homeless people so that would be $750M vs $150M. I'm pretty sure the city supervisors would go for a half billion annual reduction in their expenses.
Yeah, all that stuff isn't a big deal, but health care and (especially) child care are a huge expense.

For child care, either a parent stays home (cost = what that parent would be making, including retirement and benefits) or you pay (around here) ~$600-$1200/month per kid for day care, depending on the quality/reputation of the place.

Tax credits help a bit, but not much.
Famously, /r/technology was demoted (removed from "default" status, meaning you see it when you're not logged in, meaning it's visible to the majority of Reddit's users) after it came out that they had a bot removing submissions with certain words in the title. Those words included things like "CIA" and "Snowden".

/r/skincareaddiction was caught red handed (with a price list, even) offering promotion services.

Those are the big ones I can think of - most of the suspicion comes from the fact that you find a lot of the same people moderating a lot of the same subreddits. It smacks of the cabal.

(Given communities with a few million subscribers, how is one supposed to do their job on a single one of these, let alone multiple?)
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Thanks for asking this question, it helped me to reach an understanding.

If (although it's quite a big if) homeless people from other cities move to Medicine Hat, that means the problem of homelessness in other cities is reduced.

Is that a bad thing? I claim: not in any way.

Other cities should easily recognise the benefits, in that case. The federal government should be happy to pay for this and similar projects in other cities.
As you say, event order is not preserved: two events that appear simultaneous to one observer can easily appear in different orders to other observers.

But causality itself is safe in relativity: if a signal from event A could possibly reach event B (given the speed of light limit), then every reference frame will agree that A comes before B. The only events whose relative order is indeterminate are those separated by enough distance (relative to elapsed time that one couldn't influence the other: events who are not in each other's "light cones".
How does it check for new versions? Could it be MITM'd? :-)

I've personally no idea, but I hope you asked yourself those questions.
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In some cases, that's just fine. In others it is a perverse incentive we should reconsider. Prisons, domestic spying, etc.
I greatly dislike the NSA and think they should be dismantled. So let me take a moment to think outside of that box...

Page 9 of that report essentially says 'we read all your social media, browsing, and email'. I've always been ok with corporations doing this because they'll never kick down my door in the middle of then night, unlike governments. But the NSA isn't kicking down doors either (not that I've heard of). Even their most famous malware (Stuxnet and Flame) were carefully designed only to screw over certain people. Sure, they're grey-hats; testing systems and not reporting bugs. But they're not yet black hats. They haven't been caught yet fucking over innocent people (I think we can agree the Iranian nuclear program doesn't qualify as innocent people, though again an act of war against it isn't exactly white-hat activity).

Maybe they're not guilty until they commit a more egregious crime?

Probably not. Probably they're still a negative influence in the world. But it's interesting to consider other perspectives.
I'm not on board with the other reply to this comment, but to me stoicism means the ability to handle stress better, staying calm through it rather than getting overwhelmed. Mindfulness helps with this by giving you awareness of your thoughts and giving you the ability to choose whether to act on them.
I appreciate you mentioning the Session ID and Session Ticket scenarios. Those can be disabled though, correct? HTTP/2 over cleartext TCP is also possible? Maybe still some increase in correlation risk due to those?

Do you think the Alt-Svc scenario we are talking about would guarantee two separate HTTP/2 connections?
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