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On the one hand it increased sensitivity to people who have dealt with trauma is admirable. On the other hand college should be a place to grapple with all kinds of ideas and to learn how to deal with vastly different experiences and points of view (including those that are offensive).

Once we add a trigger warning, where do we go from there? It is one thing if the expectation is for the student to use the warning as an opportunity to brace themselves for the challenge and, if necessary, seek help in dealing with the material.

However, I think the fear of many who are skeptical of the warnings is that they would result in students being excused entirely from having to deal with any material that might trigger them. Over time this would actually diminish students' ability to deal with challenging material, which is the opposite of what students should be learning.

This already happens in lower-stakes contexts. For example, a friend of mine is a religious studies professor: he has religious students ask to be excused from learning about secular approaches, like the biblical documentary hypothesis, on the basis that it challenges their beliefs. His response, as it should be, is that being able to understand and apply something they don't believe in or even vehemently disagree with is part of what you are supposed to be learning.
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Other than, you know, a position in the US Senate.
One way around the implied slippery slope is to impose a time limit: If anyone still wants this in after twenty years, it goes in, but not before.

Yes, it's arbitrary. These are color names. They're inherently arbitrary. If there's no limit, our list of CSS colors will become a list of dead people, which is nice and all but isn't useful for the task of assigning human-meaningful names to points on the color spectrum. Let's see, was this dead kid bluer or redder than that dead kid...
I'm going to assume the internal network at a Google office is going to make moving even gigabytes of updates trivial.
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University of Oklahoma is a public University, which means it's employees are state employees. If I am not mistaken technically Governor of the state is their boss.

Isn't it a crime to intimidate state employee?
Come to think of it, we moved offices 3 times since then, must've been 8-10 years ago. I don't think I had to do any special trickery, I spend only an afternoon or so writing and testing the code. I didn't realize such a thing would be impossible now - what a shame. I downloaded several gigabytes iirc - a big amount at the time.
"In the United States, we usually don’t autopsy people unless the cause of death is mysterious or foul play is suspected."

In any case, health insurance doesn't cover autopsy. Turns out its classified as postmortem to deny insurance coverage. there was an hour long special on NPR sometime in 2014.
This is why there are legisilative bodies who can react to social norms, to update the laws.
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To make decent electronic music takes considerable skill and practice.

People looking to invest the minimal amount of time required studying in order to perform is not a new phenomenon. The pop charts of previous decades were filled with pretty terrible guitar playing for example.

Sure there were some great exceptions along with a bunch of dedicated session musicians to add that professional slickness, but that's no different from today's for-hire producers.
Opera used to do this, so there's no particular reason specific to BitTorrent that the others do not. Probably the usual questions of priority and bloat.

http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.00/en/bittorrent.html
A very good childhood friend of mine has been growing small amounts papaver somniferum (opium poppies) in his back yard because it is much cheaper than prescription pain killers. He was injured in a car accident and has lived with debilitating pain most of his adult life.
Spot on. I'm not against money per se; I take issue with the fact it's used at every level rather than only where it makes sense.

It doesn't make sense to use pure supply and demand for land at the very bottom level of human sized parcels. It makes sense to say that a studio should be cheaper than a 1BR should be cheaper than a 2BR and so on; but not that the studio should be allowed to tend towards its absolute maximum price (e.g. roughly minimum wage).

Why? You don't even need a moral argument. It's simply inefficient, a huge drag on the economy. It means people spend 90% of their time scrambling just to exist and never do anything more.

It is like if I had to spend 90% of my CPU power just to run the OS. Bonkers.

It benefits no-one but landlords who in many cases are in a zero risk situation (you own a home and then you still own a home; the monetary value is really a game, it's not a real risk).
Ah yes, The Chipmunks with David Seville. Real highbrow stuff there. (And I loved that record when I was 10 :-)
It's basically young rape victims asking to be warned when a lecture/reading is going to contain descriptions of rape.

Is that really a reasonable request in a literature class? Does the same apply to any traumatic event and any field of study -- for example, if a medical student was robbed at knifepoint, should he be given advance warning about seeing blood or cut skin...?

The quoted passage specifically mentions "people of color or students from a low-income background" in addition to survivors. How is that meant to be interpreted? What kind of writing do poor students need to be protected against?
The mainstream part of pop has always been equally stupid. I have a hunch that i can't prove, however, that the 'eclectic' part of pop has become significantly dumber. We don't have as many distinct new genres as in the 90s for example, and that may mean that music is more homogeneized in general.
(And here I was about to turn around and ask you if you had seen this)
there is a limit of 16^6 24 bit colors
Maybe now, I don't remember I had do anything sneaky back then (8-10 years ago)
Then why would the US go along with allowing the dollar reserve currency to go away? Answer: they won't go along with it at all.

There's no strong replacement for the dollar, and looking out over the next 20 years, there are none even on the horizon. An independent digital currency perhaps, but that would be outside the realm of the context you're talking about.

China is one of the most indebted nations on earth, even more so than the US, and the Yuan isn't a first tier currency. As they accumulate ever more debt, it's going to guarantee their currency is never trusted globally.

The Euro is practically ripping itself apart at this point, and always had to (unless they choose to go all the way as a union). After seven years of zero growth, the ECB has taken to debasing Euro members standards of living to reduce debt and artificially (and temporarily) juice the economy. Unlike with the US QE program, in which dollar inflation is substantially exported and others pay part of the QE cost, the Euro members will bear almost all of the cost of the debasement there.

The other major currency, the Yen, is aggressively being debased by the Japanese government, because it's bankrupt and can no longer afford to pay the interest on its debt. While simultaneously the Japanese people have stopped saving, in an economy that hasn't grown in 25 years; which means the government has run out of sources to borrow, forcing them into currency devaluation to reduce debt (hammering Japanese standards of living).

So there are the major competitors, all in terrible shape.

The US will do a lot of things before it allows the dollar standard to go away.

Just 5% interest on the US national debt would bankrupt the government (or wipe out social security or the military). Zero chance they just roll over and allow it to occur, much less actively sign on to such a thing.
It was just an example haha. (I was actually a D1 athlete myself, so I certainly have nothing against sports!)
As a peruvian, that brown color can only mean two things; the beautiful color of the Andes, or the shitty state of peruvian politics. Either way, I am cool with it.
An entire article on how to clip an image with a bunch of ugly hacks makes it to the front page of HN. Nothing wrong with the article, but I can't say the same for html and css.
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If there where a 4 way tie for best then there is no contradition.
You can check to see if your browser has the color:

http://output.jsbin.com/derewavufu/1

Look for purple background. Firefox 38 and Chrome 42 have it.
Because they were a small party in a coalition with a larger party that did some horrible things. Their core voters deserted them, since they were in government when things were brought in that their core didn't like.

Always the way with small parties in coalition.
There's nothing worse than a project full of bad commit messages.

There was one project I saw that had a two line commit message, and there were 29,000 changed lines across 44 files. Who does that?
> Others have added ipfw support to do NAT and firewalling - I'm going to add configuration rules for NAT, IPFW and routing soon so it's all integrated.

I thought that most of the BSD world had transitioned to PF at this point. I checked FreeBSD handbook and indeed all three firewalls are supported: IPF, IPFW, PF. Are the older ones still really relevant?
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>Sometimes I wonder if the only thing between us and widespread support for ending mortality is someone standing up and stating the obvious for everyone to hear: "Death is bad!"

No. What's needed for widespread support is a clear idea of what the world looks like after death, which gives people a clearly imaginable goal of a desirable possible world to pull towards.
Being represented at the UN doesn't necessarily mean being an observer at the General Assembly, lots of NGOs have consultative status on ECOSOC, the UN Economics and Social Council.
I'm donating my body to science. I don't see much use in having a death ceremony involving my body. Will probably be much cheaper for my family too.
Not as cool as cosmic latte. :)
I never got the "google shuts everything down" mentality that has become so prevalent.

I could easily beat those 4 with a multitude of examples from both Apple and Microsoft, that doesn't mean that any of them are untrustworthy, just that they evolve and continue to grow.

At least when google shuts down a service, they give a good amount of "heads up" to those using it, provide examples of trustworthy equivalent services from competitors, and ALWAYS provide an export function if it makes sense to have one.
It's not like I'm defending yelling "fire!" in a movie theater.

I absolutely do defend the right to yell "fire!" in a movie theater. I also absolutely think you are subject to the consequences thereof.

If there IS a fire, then by all means yell "fire!" accordingly.

I've twice seen Penn Jillette stand on stage before thousands, juggling flaming torches, pontificating loudly about and proceeding to yell "fire!"

I've seen the movie _Backdraft_ in a movie theater; there was much yelling of "fire!" therein.

And, of course, if you scare a crowd into a life-threatening stampede by yelling "fire!" when there isn't one, then you're culpable for any harm that follows.

All of this is different from what you portrayed, which was incarcerating someone for yelling "fire!" in a theater purely on grounds of doing so, regardless of whether there was/wasn't a fire and whether (in case there was) it posed a threat.
Well, not necessarily. Let's say doSomething is a closure that itself returns a function. Then it makes perfect sense to call it that way.
Always nice when a newly registered account pops up talking of shills and Citizenfour. I didn't mention 2, 4 or 5 at all in my post which undermines you a tad.

The point is that a "top of class" trainee is making basic factual errors (65m as the "safe depth" for a submarine) and accepting every second hand story he heard as the gospel truth. Anyone who has spent any time in any military will tell you that service personnel, especially those cut off from the world for 3 months, like to tell exciting stories which get embellished with the retelling.

Submariners, even more so than the rest of the Navy, are "all in the same ship" when it comes to safety. Incidents like the fire on HMS TIRELESS which killed two submariners are drilled into young personnel as examples of the dangers involved. I'd prefer to side with the rest of the crew, all far more experienced, over a trainee conducting his own crusade.

As for the concept of material defects - nuclear submarines are probably the most complicated machines in the world, operating in a hostile environment, things break all the time. Patio11 is still fixing bugs in Bingo Card Creator, I think we can accept that there might be problems on a submarine, that's why they embark engineers.
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In extremely specific, objective terms: What's the difference?
Rights don't work in degrees though. For example, no one has a sort of right to control his own property as he sees fit.

It's also worth noting that governments don't give us our rights - they're inherent in our nature as human beings.

When a government declares that its citizens have the right to free speech, they mean it with the caveat of "as long as they're not a threat to our continued rule". The fact that's exactly how they operate can be seen throughout history.
To be clear, I understand that "it's all in your head" is not a valid response to phobias, depression, PTSD, etc. I do know that they are real problems for people and they don't just go away when someone says "walk it off".

But if there is no real danger, in the physical world, that defines it as an irrational fear, a phobia. Are we going to put trigger warnings on anything involving dogs, water, heights, spiders, narrow spaces, open spaces, or clowns? Which phobias are the suffer's responsibility and which are societies?

We might, and should, choose to be considerate. But it should be in the realm of social norms and manners, not codified regulation and law.
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He developed normally until about 18 months. He was even picking up things fast - memorized a picture book in one sitting for example. Then over the next 2 years, we started noticing his speech was delayed but he seemed fine otherwise (affectionate and connected). At that point we were concerned but not alarmed.

His big regression came around 5, we seemed to completely lose him. He lost skills and seemed to lose the connection he had.

We started him on ABA but we stopped it soon because we were concerned about the animal-like training it involved.

The next few years were spent in various types of interventions but without any real breakthrough. Then we started to notice he could pick answers for multiple choice questions, often showing a surprising level of understanding.

For example, noticing that he was hanging around when the TV was on (not really watching, simply hanging around) I remember giving him a quiz: "Barack Obama is a a) Republican b) Democrat c) Libertarian d) Independent" and he would pick the answer. Thinking may be it was a fluke, I would try with Bush, McCain, Clinton and so on, and he would get each of them. This was unexpected because the way he looked and acted, there was no hint he could have known any of these things.

That was the point at which we discovered the prompting method. Initially I was personally skeptical if he really was learning, but by now, given the way he has passed externally-administered tests by people who have no connection to him or us, it is very clear that he was learning all along.

He can still be very prompt dependent in a social setting, but give him a paper and pencil test, he tends to do extremely well. He still has huge issues (OCD, repetitive and random behaviors) and he has practically no social skills to speak of, but he does seem to show a remarkable degree of intelligence.
There are around 30 in Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh.
My understanding of "trigger warnings" is that they are an acknowledgement that many people have trauma they haven't overcome, and college students certainly among them – these are young people, overcoming the trauma of sexual assault, for instance, is the work of years or decades, if it's even a thing. These are classes full of diverse people and experiences, and if they bring their full selves with them into the class then they'll be bringing some trauma. Some points of literature will be deeply meaningful to some in ways it is not to others. If the students don't bring their full selves, then they can just approach it academically, abstractly; not an uncommon result, but it's not a very ambitious outcome for an education.

That said, I'm not quite sure what the trigger warnings are supposed to accomplish. That is, I see the problem trigger warnings are trying to address – but I don't see how those warnings themselves accomplish much. Though they could just be the preferred strawman when arguing against a whole category of sensitivity advocacy.
I guess there's the argument of not personalizing the content more than it already is.

There's also the argument of how much utility all these colour names actually have - if you did a survey of the colours specified in the CSS of all sites on the Internet, I bet a huge proportion of the ones that use colour names are the common ones like "black", "white", "red", "green", etc.; and the rest are specified in hex. All these other seldom-used names just take up space in every single piece of software that wants to claim compliance with CSS4 standard.

Especially with the development of CSS preprocessors, it feels to me like hex colours would suffice; and perhaps the primary and secondary colours.
Because they are paying you not to sue them. You'll take home more money if you take the offer; hiring a lawyer to sue them is expensive.
> The AV system we voted on wasn't actually PR

Yes it is. It's what Ireland uses (that and multi-seat constituancies) and it is called PR. (Technically PR-STV).

"PR" covers a lot of voting schemes.
CSS already supports this natively via 'clip-path' (or the legacy 'clip').
So if this becomes a thing, there are people who will be left out, simply because either the community arbitrarily says "No" just like it arbitrarily said "Yes" in the past, or because there's no more room in the spec. Either way is a recipe for bad blood.

"Rough consensus and running code" is a powerful methodology for low-overhead development right up until it means everyone gets all emotional over what a color is named and whether there are too many memorials in something originally designed to be simple and useful. Say what you will about bureaucracy, it at least enforces a certain emotional distance when people are bound by rules and can legitimately say that their refusal is nothing personal.
You're contradicting yourself all over the place.

You claim the US is going to sign on to a gradual removal of the US Dollar global reserve currency, switching to SDRs.

Then you claim that the US Government is very aggressively fighting to prevent such an outcome. And is so powerful, it can apparently wreck the world's 27th largest economy (Venezuela) without so much as breaking a sweat.
I understand the arguments against this, but I don't think I've ever met a web developer that actually still uses the color names. I saw it often in 2007 or so, but not at all anymore. So I'm left not really caring about a slippery slope of names appearing in a list of things nobody uses.

And I should say that despite color names not really being used, it's still a very nice gesture.
I appreciate the reply, but we don't currently have transparency. We have the aggregators and the aggregated, and those doing the aggregating jealously guard their own privacy. If transparency was truly a reachable goal I would embrace it, but I don't find it to be realistic outcome.
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Peru was introduced to CSS from its status as an X11 color.

It originated as a color name ("Peruvian Brown") in the 1920's, though I'd be interested in seeing how that happened.
Yeah they clearly bet the farm on it, lost it, and got hammered in the election. But had it passed, the Lib Dems could have been reaping the rewards for decades, since they'd almost certainly gain more seats.
>> It's hard to say if this is a bad thing, though. [...] The saturation of poor-quality music seems to be having a negative effect on music quality overall.

Personally, I think it's fantastic. While mainstream pop has become overwhelmingly homogeneous over the last decade, underground and alternative hip hop have arguably become the two most innovative genres of music of the last 40 years.

That said, it works both ways, and as you pointed out the static to noise ratio is still pretty bad. I think the biggest issue is still the fact that the loudest voices get the most attention, and those voices still belong to the big three record labels.
For those unaware of Eric Meyer's story, I implore you to listen to Shop Talk Show's interview with him about the general topic of "designing for crisis": http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/161-with-eric-meyer/

This topic I feel would be dear to many HN readers, as his experience really gets at the heart of design, technology, and the human experience. It raises the question of how important design really is in those key moments of crisis and tragedy, and how we still have a long way to go in our society to optimize for the 5% of experiences that fall outside of "the happy path" (double entendre).

Hearts out to Mr. Meyer for his loss.
Yes, I've talked to them and nearly ended up going the wire transfer route. But using a credit card and reimbursing myself ended up being easier and cheaper.
> (I am a supporter of single transferable vote and I didn't see it on my referedum voting sheet only FPTP [rubbish] and AV [?more/less? rubbish but still rubbish].)

Really? Because AV is what Ireland uses and called it PR-STV.
I'm pretty sure that has been tried, likely millions of times before. How do we know we can't melt steel with our mind? Because we've tried, and it didn't work. We weren't born with some inherent knowledge of physics and the universe, we painstakingly experimented with everything until we developed a model of how things worked, and we've passed that along.

> On the other hand, what I said earlier boils down to "it's pointless to attempt something that can't be done". I fail to see how that warrants lodging a complaint like yours.

But you've provided no real evidence that it can't be done, have you? Trying provides that first bit of evidence, in whatever direction it goes. I'm all for prioritizing what we try, but stating something is pointless to try when it hasn't yet been tried implies you not only have perfect knowledge of all the variables that constitute the outcome, but can also use them to correctly predict the outcome. I feel fairly safe in asserting that neither you, nor any other person alive, is truly capable of that. As such, nothing is truly "pointless". It may be undesirable for a number of reasons, but pointless is not one of them.

To be clear, I'm not arguing for argument's sake. I truly believe that that the original idea has enough merit to at least try. That's not to say the outcome will be as hoped, but that doesn't mean we won't learn something in the doing. Is that not why we try things? To learn?
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I've used this in the past to distribute scrapes of black-markets (eg https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2zps7q/evol... & https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2zllmv/evol... ). It saves a lot of bandwidth (which is not all that cheap on S3) and so far the <5gb restriction hasn't been an issue.
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