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Nobody wants to see abusive speech being used. The question is whether or not the law should "protect" people from it. I'm not talking about making credible threats, because the crime of assault already covers that.

If a society decides that abusive speech is a special case that must not be tolerated, it also has to define what "abusive speech" is. This requires, by its very nature, a subjective and often emotional interpretation. That society must also determine whether unintentionally abusive speech is a crime.

If the law is charged with protecting people against abusive or potentially abusive speech, it has to have powers necessary to do so. This requires the power to censor, the power to silence dissenting voices, and the power to (re)interpret the words of others based on the emotional reaction of anyone who hears those words (which may not be the intended audience).

Those powers undermine the use of speech for all purposes, not just ones that society deems appropriate.

I don't understand why people seem to think that any kind of distinction here can be enforced without undermining free speech as a whole. By way of example, you have property rights and if, by exercising them, you erect a hideous statue on your property which your neighbor finds offensive, your neighbor has no right to have the statue torn down simply because he finds it distasteful.

Freedom of speech is only really valuable when you're saying something that someone might want to censor. Nobody cares if you're saying something everyone already agrees with.
That could be the door-to-door salesperson autoresponder.
I wonder why this is commercial; no more than a handful of people will install/use this powerpc version will they?
This may seem draconian, but...

- I've been in places which have tossed people out with 2 weeks notice.

- I've been in places where people have been stiffed their earned bonuses.

- I've been in places where people haven't been let back to their desks.

This beats all of them, especially if the comp is generous. It is very hard to change a manager's mind. If they're convinced it's time to go, better to encourage the move and be generous. (To stiff the employee implies a hiring decision, which was the manager's fault to begin with.)

The one caveat is some top firms allow people to spend the next few months with an office to encourage another employer to hire them away.
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You don't.

Just to drive this home: I've read the spec a few times when evaluating whether to integrate the concept into code I've written, soon after the pattern was introduced, and then again a year or so later. (Side note: the result of both evaluations was a "no thanks".) But at this point, I've never used or authored a Promise, ever. And before moving past the intro that contains the quiz in question, it's been over a year before I last looked at them, much less read any up-to-date spec.

The quiz in the intro doesn't actually do a good job of exercising the details of `then`, because they're all trivial; there's only a single use of `then` in each example, rather than a chain of multiple ones (or a chain involving `then` and `catch` for a less useful example). You can get past the quiz in the intro by having only a general understanding of how `then` works. In fact (and I can only speak for myself here, but this is how it played out when I went through it), not having an extensive familiarity with Promises may help for the quiz, because that knowledge isn't crowding your thinking, and all you see is function calls. The author points out the third example from the quiz as particularly sticky, but it was the easiest gotcha to catch with my mostly Promise-free background, because the effect where overlooking parts that can lead you astray (because you expect idiomatic patterns in that place) is pretty totally nonexistent.

It's the examples further into the article that you need to really look into and consider how `then` works. For example, in rookie mistakes #2 and #5, understanding how `undefined` is handled required backtracking to the intro where the spec is linked, in order to delve into interaction with "synchronous" return values, and `undefined` in particular.

Lesson for potential interviewers: don't rely on the intro quiz in this article for your fitness function to weed out candidates, because it could mean you're optimizing for the people you don't want (like me), rather than those you do. Do make sure to focus on the examples further in that actually exercise an understanding beyond the superficial.
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Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” is a fixture of Lit Hum, but like so many texts in the Western canon, it contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom. These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.

Wow. That reads like something the Party in 1984 would use to justify its censorship:

"The Ministry of Truth works tirelessly to protect the oppressed from narratives of exclusion and oppression."

Is it really like this in American universities these days? I'm stunned.
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It's not about protection from dangerous ideas, it's about arming the populace with the tools to more readily determine for themselves which ideas are dangerous, and to protect themselves.

And the thing is, you don't really need to fool all the people, just most. Unfortunately, it seems that willful ignorance is the norm in many areas, and while I agree that reality has a tendency to win out in the long term, it can do a lot of damage in the short term.
I was thinking that average minimal living costs will decrease in the US and other economically well-off countries. Elsewhere, I was thinking that average minimal standard of living would increase, but that cost increases would be offset by inexpensive machine labor. Alternatively, they could be more-or-less ignored as they are now, except when killing is necessary.
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In many jurisdictions, unemployment only covers 6 months, and it pays much less than an actual job. It also doesn't have taxes deducted, which can screw you over later.

When I was last unemployed, I qualified for maximum benefits, which was about half my post-tax salary at the job I got laid off from, but the unemployment money was pre-tax. I suppose I should be "lucky" that this occurred during the Great Recession, when unemployment got extended to 2 years (it's back to 6 months now), but I don't feel very lucky.

6 months of my old salary would be strictly better than unemployment, especially unemployment now that extended benefits are gone.
You are talking about two distinct concepts. The Constitutional Convention was concerned about individual liberty and protection from overbearing government, not personal enlightenment.
Or don't, as it requires adding an extra library.
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Oh I'm aware of that disgusting and misogynistic community. I think the irony of those comments in context might have been lost on you though.
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Is it? Publishing an anti-government article in a newspaper, something we think as the core of free speech, is actually speech (the writing) + action (publishing). So is putting anything up on facebook or sending it over the intertubes. You can apply a binary protection to speech, but that just moves the battleground to defining "speech" versus "not speech."

The U.S. approach is a pretty good one. It defines "speech" as almost anything expressive, and focuses the analysis instead on whether any restraints on speech involve the content of the speech. Protesting is protected in the U.S., which it would not be under a "speech" versus "speech plus other action" dichotomy. The attended activity may be limited, but not based on the content of the speech. Hate speech laws have been repeatedly ruled unconstitutional, because they ban particular types of expression based on content.
Venezuela was never labeled as part of the "axis of evil," which was the label for Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
It was there since the inception 03/14/2006 to be exact.

https://noisemore.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/amazon-s3-has-bit...
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Why the hell should I have to talk to someone to buy software?

As far as the resellers: why would I deliberately insert a middleman in here? I'm talking directly to the producer.
No, as optimizing performance hasn't been a focus, shipping good language semantics has been.
No. The post says that this was Briggs' original claim. This post proceeds to "dig deeper" and concludes "I think it’s difficult to definitively call today’s music 'stupider'".
You're right. I was overly broad with my BC comment. I live in Vancouver.
Custom allocators are certainly a thing that's coming in the future. :)
You sure you linked the right repo? There are forks with newer activity, and the linked readme doesn't say anything about DNS not working? (Or I'm to tired right now to find it) Is any of the forks a new "official" version?
I guess this is talking about price-to-book? In some other countries, price-to-book is usually close to 1, or even below it, which always struck me as strange. Either something is wrong with their stock markets, or companies are not as profitable as they might be for some reason. (Maybe a good reason; profits aren't everything in life). I'm not familiar with the Q ratio so maybe it's a slightly different concept...

It makes sense for a single company, if it is so unprofitable, even including future potential profitability, that it really should be shut down and stripped for assets. But ordinarily I would expect a company to be worth significantly more than its book value. Otherwise, you could easily recreate the company by just "replacing" the assets. But this is only true if the company is based entirely on easily replaceable, low skill labor. Are there any large companies like this anymore?

In reality, there are intangible assets - and I'm not talking about software etc. - that are very difficult to measure, and guarantee that any worthwhile business should be valued at more than its tangible assets. Some things are hard to price, but might be possible to sell off: brand identity, customer base, marketing data, etc. Still, replacing these things is hard.

Some things are very hard to sell off. Businesses have employees, and employees are in an organizational structure where they know how to work with other employees to get their jobs done. As well, there are relationships with contractors and vendors. Replacing these is extremely hard.
How do I _prevent_ an autopsy from being performed on me?

As a cryonicist, I find what is being advocated for very scary...
I think the article may have provided evidence for the opposite of what the author seems to believe:

"My results confirmed what Briggs had described: unique words and total words have risen over time, but the ratio has gone down significantly. This would suggest that pop lyrics have in fact gotten less eloquent."

I'd have to disagree... this just implies that modern pop songs are more lyrically repetitive, which is not immediately a sign of "less intelligence". It may be less enjoyable to some of us or you might call it "more insipid", but given the definition of intelligence (italicized because that's an important phrase in this paragraph) chosen at the beginning, it's still pulling from a larger vocabulary, and that still implies higher intelligence by the definition.

"Smarter people putting out more repetitive/insipid music" doesn't seem too shocking a result to me... the intelligence of a songwriter puts an upper bound on the intelligence of the song they can produce, but no lower bound.

There are still some confounding factors that could be at play though: Increased ethnic/cultural diversity could simply be introducing significantly more slang vocabularies into the songs. Rather than implying that any one performer is using a larger vocabulary, that would simply imply a certain dialectal diaspora, which wouldn't prove anything about the individual musicians.

So, now the part where I question the definition of intelligence being used. "Vocabulary size" isn't a bad choice of proxy for at least a fun analysis, but perhaps instead of graphing the years as a whole, each song should be analyzed for things like word count, then we can look at the population statistics instead of the summed words. If the individual songs are as a whole using more vocabulary, I would consider that stronger evidence than if the songs all turn out merely to have dialect differences. In fact it's completely mathematically possible for the set of all Top 50 songs in later years to use more different words as a whole even as each individual song is simpler than the individual songs of the past.

And, if this really was a real effect, if word gets back to the pop song creators, the very act of observing the vocabulary has gotten more difficult could well cause the pop songs to get simpler over the next few years....
Growing up my father actively hated me and wanted me out of his life even though I did live with him until adulthood. Told me how unwanted I was every single day. Yeah, stand up guy. I had a baby sitter (my father's cousin - she was paid and babysat other kids at her house all day) who loved me more than anyone, including my mother. For me time spent with the baby sitter was more more caring, loving, nurturing, etc., and better in every single way than time spent with either of my parents. I'm sure my baby sitter would have jumped in front of a bus for me.

My sister ran an after school program for mostly disadvantaged kids and I am certain that she cared for and about her children more than some of their parents. Not all, just some.

You see examples of extended family stepping in all the time making sure children are cared for and their needs met when the parents are doing a horrible job.

Unfortunately we do not live in an idealized world like many might believe, otherwise there wouldn't be infanticide, honor killings, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, etc., etc.

I'm not sure what my point is other than "some people's experiences are different from yours." (I'm sure you knew that, just chiming in with my story as a counterpoint)
ok. how do I add support for other similar Atheros MIPS SoCs? I have a few, and a bit of FreeBSD user/admin experience; but the kernel config files in the wifi git repo might as well have be conjured up using magic, to me.

more directly: how'd you do what you did? :)
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It sounds like potential employees need to start asking for employer references. Of course, many of us are. Make sure you know what you are getting into. If this person actually does as well as he claims with firing, perhaps that employee will leave a good reference for him as well.
This is a good article, I'm sure I'll find myself saying "no bad bunny code" soon.

I've encountered this phenomenon and there are a few situations where it can feel natural or correct to copy and paste code. While I can't say these are great reasons, they do merit being considered.

0. QA concerns. You can't just modify/change logic without triggering a need for QA to re-check. This is in fact, one of the biggest stumbling blocks for code quality in a company. You just can't refactor as needed, it has to be planned for and paid for. There are times when you're basically stuck using bad/logic and just extending it.

1. You're a guest in the code. You're just working on this feature for one iteration, and the other guy who will likely be on the project for the rest of the year wrote the bunny code. I wouldn't change how he does things, I'd instead talk him and let him know there's a better way. I wouldn't implement a second type of fix.

2. It's unclear what direction the primary authors want the codebase to grow in. For instance do you use library level functions to accomplish tasks the language syntax can? (for loops vs an iterator function). Some prefer one over the other. I would just follow the style I see

3. Styleguide logic. E.g. the code should look as much as possible like it's written by one person. While I know this rule applies to indentation and visual appearance. I think it's fair-ish to apply to it to logic as well.

These are a few things to think of, but I agree with the author of the post, be careful, this code will multiply.
The Forbes article is atrocious, the guy really doesn't know what he is talking about. The analogy with cars is completely bogus, particularly when the "8 cylinder engine" of CPUs was the Pentium 4.

The directly linked article is confused IMHO.

One kind of "12-core" mobile CPU is an extension of the big.LITTLE concepts to have three clusters, to have a high, a medium, and a tiny cluster. You are only running one cluster at a time. The benefit is the same as big.LITTLE but more so.

Another possibility is to have 12 (or some other large number) of very little CPUs and really run them at the same time. The advantage there is you can lower the clock and voltage a lot and with CMOS that means a huge drop in power consumption. Now for the "embarassingly parallel" jobs that I do a lot of, it is pretty easy to get a near 8x speedup if you are using ExecutorService in Java (and not so easy if you are playing with Fork/Join, Actors or some other paradigm.) When you get to 16+ cores even jobs that are easy to parallelize start to hit the wall.

You might be able to get video encoding and decoding to go very wide but for common tasks like web browsing and word processing it is hard to translate a large number of cores into more responsiveness. It is an active research area and Mozilla would like to do it but it;s hard.

The SMT technology you are advocating is a different animal, the big advantage is that it is a relatively easy way to "eat" the latency that comes from the memory hierarchy. If you have a large number of instructions in flight from different threads, high latency doesn't block throughput so much. Funny enough, the most interesting SMT systems are on the server side such as Sun's Niagra and some of the chips that Cray ships these days.
Just adding the Python test I used:

https://gist.github.com/mmcclellan/4b01bf781393395526e3
"Free speech as a right to abuse people is not something I want to see"

And if you take that to mean "people" as any group of people, then it means you aren't free to speak out against ISIS, or the attackers at Charlie Hebdo, or those doing things you think are objectively wrong.

In parts of the world now, it is not socially acceptable to speak out against the actions of Israel, as such critiques are considered anti-Semitic. Maybe this is fair, but if the Israeli state begins decapitating innocent people in the streets, should you be allowed to condemn it publicly?

It's a nice fantasy that the disenfranchised could somehow be immune from hateful or critical speech, but to suggest that there's ever any group that qualifies as saintly enough to deserve such protections is, I think, naive at best.
That's 'cause they've been recycling the same four I, IV, V, vi chords for years :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
I dunno... I quite like that song. It feels like a good example of psychedelic pop.

Similarly, there's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uo9tMoew6o (Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express) which has fairly silly lyrics, but it's undeniably a good (ie, catchy) pop song.
This article likens warnings to censoring. While "triggered" is commonly misused by a large number of people, it did stem from people who suffer PTSD like symptoms from traumatic events.

Giving such people a way to prepare themselves for these types of events, or recuse themselves if absolutely necessary, shouldn't be considered the same as censorship.
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Let's read the account of someone who decided to move his family to North Korea - on purpose - and how that turned out for them.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/07/16/the-story-of-...

Oh Kil-nam is a South Korean man who received his PhD in Germany, decided to defect there with his wife and two children in 1986.
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As far as I perceive it, they're open sourcing dev-facing stuff, allowing you to create stuff for Windows without using Windows yourself. Which is a refreshing change.

Along those lines, you might expect them to make a Linux version of the Edge browser, except that it won't be the exact browser the majority of users will be running - I suspect they'd point you to the VM images they already have at modern.ie instead.
>Last time I was fired because someone didn't like my visage.

To be frank, unless you're grossly incompetent, this is how all firings work. If your bosses have an all-around positive impression of you, they'll excuse any lapses in appearance or decorum, and if they don't, they won't.

As a rational employee, your single biggest job duty is to win the popularity contest. Make sure anyone and everyone likes you and has very positive, warm, and fuzzy feelings about you, especially people in power. You will never get stable above-market compensation or advance the corporate ladder without doing this. In a corporate context, performing your actual job description should comprise 20-30% of your effort and being popular should be 70-80%. Your "paper" job is almost insignificant as it relates to corporate advancement -- your real job is to run an effective campaign and develop a cult of personality.

I make this comment after having been excused in part for "sitting wrong" -- the boss decided he didn't like my posture (after he decided he didn't like me anymore) and that this was so substantial he needed to demote and/or fire me.
> there's virtually no research (at all) into "trigger warnings" by actual psychologists

I assumed that these "warnings" were to alert a reader who may be "triggered" to stop reading, lest they encounter their "trigger".

Is there some other intention?
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i made this today, theres possibly a link to mental illness and mercury, just thought i would share.
In kernel density estimation, each observed data point is spread out by a "kernel" function such as a Gaussian, essentially exp(-0.5*x^2), or uniform function, f(x) = 1 for |x| < 0.5. So I think of a "kernel" as a function used to distribute a point mass.
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It takes some herculean logic twisting to claim that someone who is not shackled is less free than someone who is.

If you are locked away and your speach censored, then rising above your animal instincts does you, at best, only personal good. If you are not locked away, then rising above your animal instincts could let you do good to some larger fraction of the world.