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Not necessarily. In some places you can host Olympic games without throwing money away, even getting a profit.

Take for example the proposed Olympic Games 2024 Hamburg and Kiel:

Kiel hosts the largests sailing event worldwide every year, and hosted the Handball world cup before – and, due to having the best european team in Handball, we also have often large matches.

Hamburg has also lots of other sports which are done on worldcup level. Combined, we have the infrastructure done to host more than half of the Olympics RIGHT NOW. You could host more than half of the Olympics right tomorrow, without any additional constructions.

And Kiel has also been co-host of the Olympics two previous times, each of them producing a net-profit and developing a complete new district out of the investments – the facilities built for Olympia 1972 are still in use today.

What are we going to build for Olympia 2024? Nothing new – we’ll update existing infrastructure and stadiums, improve public transport (which would have been done anyway, and is already being built today), and add some new living quarters for the contestants – which could be used as cheap student housing afterwards, as both Hamburg and Kiel are facing a crisis where not enough affordable apartments for students exist.

Reusability quota: 100%. We’d have no losses, only profits, and it’d be cheap, too.
>>men with funny hats piss all over centuries of accumulated and massively tested scientific knowledge?

Religious Men with funny hats invented the Scientific Method.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazen
I bus from Seattle to a nearby city. Part of my commute is a 2 mile walk. Including freeway traffic for the bus, my travel time is 1.3 hours to work, and 2 hours home.

Commuting from Redmond to Tacoma during rush hour is a 2 hour drive as well. During other times it's a 45-minute drive.
if you want to build a new derived datastore, you can just start a new consumer
at the beginning of the log, and churn through the history of the log, applying
all the writes to your datastore.

For high-throughput environments with lots of appends to the log, how do you get around the ever-increasing size of your log file? I know the traditional answer is to take a periodic snapshot and compact the previous data, but is that built in to tools like Kafka?
You could always map the document id or channel id to be always the same partition, then that particular document or channel log would be ordered. Seems like it would work.
Both of your sources agree with my statement. I don't get your point.
What is used to create those images?

They look like whiteboard pictures but not quite.
From the other side of the pond, it seems like a good solution would be to a) fix the appeals process and b) stop jailing people for life without parole.

Advocating the death penalty because it 'force[s] an appeals process' appears to approach completely the wrong end of the problem.
It will probably be cool if you let users be able to customize the reward for inviting folks. For example, if I'm launching an app, it doesn't matter if you're number 1 on list or 1,000. Everyone will still be downloading at the same time when the app is released. Perhaps some users will want to customize such that when you invite 20 friends, you get x, when they sign up, you get y.

Good concept though.
And in some places (big companies and government come to mind) often a kick in the teeth as well.
About midway through the article, the author mentions the titular film.
>why is something like this decided at the state level?

The US Constitution is set up to give states some power and the feds other power.

Simplistic explanation - There are two kinds of courts in the US - federal courts and state courts. Federal courts hear cases involving US law while Nebraska courts hear cases involving Nebraska law.

Here's an overview - http://www.fjc.gov/federal/courts.nsf/autoframe!openform&nav...

>Criminal cases involving federal laws can be tried only in federal court, but most criminal cases involve violations of state law and are tried in state court. We all know, for example, that robbery is a crime, but what law says it is a crime? By and large, state laws, not federal laws, make robbery a crime. There are only a few federal laws about robbery, such as the law that makes it a federal crime to rob a bank whose deposits are insured by a federal agency. Examples of other federal crimes are bringing illegal drugs into the country or across state lines and use of the U.S. mails to swindle consumers. Crimes committed on federal property, such as national parks or military reservations, are also prosecuted in federal court.

>Federal courts may also hear cases concerning state laws if the issue is whether the state law violates the federal Constitution. Suppose a state law forbids slaughtering animals outside of certain limited areas. A neighborhood association brings a case in state court against a defendant who sacrifices goats in his backyard. When the court issues an order (called an injunction) forbidding the defendant from further sacrifices, the defendant challenges the state law in federal court as an unconstitutional infringement of his religious freedom.

>Some kinds of conduct are illegal under both federal and state laws. For example, federal laws prohibit employment discrimination, and the states have added their own laws. A person can go to federal or state court to bring a case under the federal law or both the federal and state laws. A case that only involves a state law can be brought only in state court.

So Nebraska writes its own laws and uses its own courts to enforce said laws which it decides the punishment for.

However, said punishment has to follow the US Constitution - if it isn't federal court can "override" Nebraska law, but only if they are breaking the Constitution. The Constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment" however the Supreme Court of the United States says the death penalty isn't "cruel and unusual punishment." - here is some cases involving capital punishment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_C...

So yes, the feds can get rid of the death penalty two ways. Either the US Supreme Court declares death penalty as unconstitutional or the US Constitution is specifically amended to prohibit the death penalty.

>does the federal government have a position on capital punishment?

Yes, there is a federal death penalty for certain federal crimes.
> Is that different from any other punishment?

Yes, death is different. Because all other punishments can, in some way, be compensated if later the punishment is deemed to have been given in error. That is not yet possible with someone who is dead.
Paper - https://www.fiftythree.com/paper
As a parent, there would be no closure in my child's death, no matter what they have done. I look at my 2 daughters and see the most beautiful girls I've ever laid eyes upon. For one of them to commit such a heinous crime would ruin me. For their death to be added on to that, life would mean nothing at all.
There is the retributive argument, in which condign punishments play an important role in maintaining the balance of justice.

As summarized by the Catechism of Trent, a Christian religious text of historical importance:

"Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment [against killing] which prohibits murder. The end of the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life. Now the punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by repressing outrage and violence."

– Catechism of the Council of Trent, Part III, 5, n. 4 (1566)

http://j.mp/CatechismTrentDeathPenalty
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I didn't believe you but here's one article that basically agrees with you http://m.cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/8/1032.full
The value add on riak is riak_core[0][1][2] which handles data distribution/replication and the like.

[0] https://github.com/basho/riak_core
[1] http://basho.com/understanding-riak_core-handoff/
[2] http://basho.com/understanding-riak_core-building-handoff/

(I work for basho)
I'm pretty sure it's Paper by 53, more information is available here: https://www.fiftythree.com/paper.

If you look at some of the screenshots on the site, you might notice some similarities.
Hundreds of thousands? There are about 2.6 million in prison. Say 260,000 innocent? You think 10% of people are wrongfully convicted? Seems a little high.
This is exactly what I’m talking about – Vancouver 2010, or Kiel+Munich 1972 are perfect examples for reusing existing infrastructure and upgrading it.

Even London 2012 was a great example – reusing infrastructure, upgrading it, etc is a good way to do it.

Another good idea: One of the recent UEFA cups was hosted by two countries together (actually, several of them were). Which is another good idea, several less developed countries working together to still get the profit off of the games, but sharing the costs.
> but also compiling, optimization, etc.

These are going to be the same in C anyway so I wouldn't decide whether to learn Rust or C based on that.
There's a log compaction cleanup policy yes. Never used it myself but if I'm not mistaken it works like this: for each message you send to Kafka, you set a key with it. When Kafka does log compaction, it keeps only the last value for each key.

The other cleanup policy is to just have a retention time. After X minutes/days/weeks segments of the log are simply deleted.
Haha. For me, Mandrake was the first distro I broke my computer with, around age 12. I wasn't allowed around the computer for a few months, but I did learn a lot about bootloaders.
It's amazing in a kinda-depressing way to think of LA as a "City without a name/face". It's really a melting pot in more ways than one.

Are all of the landmarks there really so generic?

Did the movie industry influence less-recognizable monuments and other features in the past? Or is it just that the city's culture lends itself to a "scrubbed" culture?
This link allows you to access the entire document using ReadCube: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature14539.epdf?referrer_acc...

It doesn't allow you to print or to save the article.
In that case the ethical problem is already there: most 1-st world countries subsidise own poor people (including single mothers) to have extra children that they cannot afford. France is even legally prosecuting casual paternity tests - raising someone else's child is just another form of wellfare. I guess I can spend whatever is left of my post tax money on making myself live longer.
I tried one at Maker Faire. I was worried that the press photos were overselling the legibility of the screen, but in person it looks just as good as in the photos, and the animations are cool. I've been using a Moto 360 since release, so here are my thoughts:

* Pebble Time can't match the saturated colors of the Moto 360's screen indoors; however always-on and sunlight readability are far more important. I definitely prefer the Pebble Time screen for a watch.

* 7 day battery life: Don't care. I don't sleep with my watch on and with wireless or magnetic charging it's not a hassle to charge nightly.

* The Moto 360 touchscreen is slow and unreliable. I much prefer the Pebble's physical buttons.

* I prefer the Pebble's vibration motor to the Moto 360's.

* I find the Moto 360's voice commands to be mostly useless. My phone has always-on voice activation and it's faster and more reliable to talk directly to my phone even while it's still in my pocket. I wouldn't miss this feature switching to Pebble Time.

* I still prefer the Moto 360's design over any other smartwatch including Pebble Time. Most people assume it's an Apple Watch. That said, I think the Pebble Time looks reasonably good. Certainly better than any of the square Android Wear watches.
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Pardon the bluntness, but I think you're missing the point. Algorithms have artistic value for what they represent -- and not because of the font, programming language or even social language they're written on. It's like taking the famous formula "E=mc²" and write it in a cryptic font to make it 'artful'. For me, the beauty is in the simple (and amazing!) meaning that mass and energy are equivalent. Making the formula legible and neat highlights that, in my opinion.
I'm doing everything I can to kill Oracle at my organization. I work for the State government too. One success story will breed many more is my hope.
According to the post, the pause/lockup could only happen under production queries, and was not directly related to production data.

They did test against the full production data, afterwards, and could not reproduce. Which was what they expected, since the migrations were on empty tables, which just happened to have foreign key constraints against large tables, but no rows for those constraints to actually apply to.

So for them to "fully" test this migration before applying it to production, they would need to be replaying all production queries against the testing database as well, and maybe even test the migration multiple times to get a statistical sense of the possible latencies.

(I've actually done something like that before, but it's not something you do for every little change)
It gets to it eventually.
Doesn't help you right now; but this looks promising... https://letsencrypt.org/
Well thanks for posting, I hadn't quite hit my extreme outrage quota for today.

> Since our change to mirror GIMP-Win, we have received no requests by the original author to resume use of this project. We welcome further discussion about how SourceForge can best serve the GIMP-Win author.

How about, you know, just leaving shit alone?
Be warned, though: this will only create a secure connection between the user and CloudFlare, not between CloudFlare and GitHub Pages.
I agree that was worth reading, but it seemed a touch harsh.
There seems to be some disconnect between review objectives of 'is this a great product with growth potential' versus 'is this perfect for everyone' ... but maybe I just did not like the author's comparisons to toys as negative descriptors.

Fairness: I backed Pebble twice on KS, am wearing one, waiting for my new Time to arrive, and still marvel at the OLPC XO-1, also derided as a toy but one of the most amazing computers ever built. I like viewable screens :)
> In that scenario, it is easy to see how an expensive watch that replicates smartphone's functionalities would be a commercial failure.

I think in the case of watch and luxury products, this is different. Buyers don't buy watch for the functionality of checking time, but the design, status symbol and other values from luxury goods.
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The movie is based on the idea that intellegence has a large inherited (~.7) component. Whatever is causing the Flynn effect is acting on the smaller non-genetic component. Interestingly the Flynn effect is only acting on the bottom half of the bell curve suggesting it is the result of the removal of environmental factors that destroy intelligence - things like lead or poor nutrition.
I believe Xiaomi phones use Google apps in non-Chinese markets, e.g. India.
OT but I'd never seen that site before. Looks really interesting!
To be an effective sysadmin, you have to be able to work well under pressure. If you have anxiety, you will definitely not work well under pressure, so programmers and sysadmins have different personality traits, methinks.

Regarding biological reasons, you might be interested in the Human Behavioral Biology course [1]. I'm half way through it and it's jam packed with knowledge.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
Lambda diagrams (http://tromp.github.io/cl/diagrams.html) offer an artistic depiction of algorithms. Here is, for instance, a prime number sieve:

─────────────────────────────────────────────────
┬─┬───────────────────────────────────┬──── ────┬
│ │ ┬─┬ ────┬─┬────────────────────── ┼───┬ ┬───┼
│ │ └─┤ ────┼─┼───────────────────┬── ┼───┼ │ ┬ │
│ │ │ ┬───┼─┼───────────────────┼── ┼─┬─┼ │ ┼ │
│ │ │ │ ─ ┼─┼─┬─────┬──── ──────┼─┬ │ ├─┘ └─┤ │
│ │ │ │ ┬ └─┤ │ ┬─┬ ┼─┬─┬ ──┬───┼─┼ ├─┘ ├─┘
│ │ │ └─┤ └─┤ └─┤ │ ├─┘ ──┼─┬─┼─┼ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ ┬─┼─┼─┼─┼ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ └─┤ │ ├─┘ │ │
│ │ │ │ └───┤ │ ├─┘ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │
│ │ │ │ ├─────────┘ │ │
│ │ │ ├─────────┘ │ │
│ │ └───┤ │ │
│ │ ├───────────────────────────┘ │
│ ├───────┘ │
└─┤ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘
See also http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919
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If you are looking for a place to start try What if there's no such
thing as chaotic good? (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-if...). It is a short and fairly standalone post that well shows Moldbug's most major line of thought and writing style.
I actually commute every day via 405 and 10. You are right, it's awful during the rush hour, but during non-rush hours it is still faster than taking local streets. A few weeks ago I left work via 405 at 4:45pm and arrived home at 7:10pm, the commute that would take no more than 12-15 minutes without traffic.
> What's even better is that dnf uses ZYpp's solver.

What is sad though, is that it does not output CUDF, which would allow using other solvers.
Death row stats: for every 9 people executed in the US, 1 person is exonerated. There was an exploration of these numbers on this BBC Radio 4 segment (not sure if available outside UK):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rf5qj
If I didn't think it would negatively impact the rest of the industry, I'd pay to watch that.
My mistake...I initially read 'unconvinced' as 'convinced'
See also synecdoche.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
I'd like to hear about that too.
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Your argument against capital punishment was that the role of an actor was irrelevant to the morality of the action. It's entirely correct to apply that logic to other types of action.

There may be plenty of valid arguments against capital punishment. Yours was not one of them.
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> Simply put, an algorithm is a procedure for a process,

"Procedure for a process". That's very vague. Might as well write "method of doing".
I get the sense that you think that rioters are "just bad people" or something like that? Is that correct? They are genetically predisposed or something?
Fully functioniong human? Here's a challenge: solve any Google ReCaptcha audio
Go to missinfo.tv , click into any story , scroll down, and click on the "headphones" icon on the Google ReCaptcha widget.

I'm a (mostly) normal functioning human, and I couldn't solve single audio captcha. It sounds like two voices saying numbers, and they've very hard to follow independently, let alone together.

Alternatively, find any Google ReCaptcha anywhere, click on the headphone icon and give it a spin.
The whole story is just brilliant, company that has theoretical valuation, theoretical business model, it could work, or not, a guy who has theoretical money or not, and a theoretical stock. Everything is just air, except well... that $18 000 he spent.
Move our cursor over the graph. The numbers pop up when hovers over the line.

That being said, this graph is a weak indicator. Facebook is doing well in the ad space.
So, you mean, like Verizon did with Netflix?
I'm not sure. His main argument in this case was that distribution of a non-GPL program with intention of letting user link with a GPL library was a "subterfuge".

Google's case is different. They didn't write Android so users can choose between a dummy libDoesNotRunAnything or wink, wink unlicensed Oracle JVM.
Step 3. The AI decides that the atoms that make up your body are being very innefficently used and decides to rearrange them into a computationally more efficient structure with a sorry-this-is-the-price-of-progress excuse.
I've heard a bit from a friend there, so what I really mean is "I think I'll stay out of this one" :P

But yeah, @jtuple, @Roach_B_me, and others have some choice tweets on the matter.

Off topic- your name is a fantastic book!
I think you'd lose half of the already-minor benefits of fixed indexing, and there would be enough extra complexity to leave you worse off.

In addition, there's a 95% chance you're not dealing with enough text for UTF-32 to hurt. If you're in the other 5%, then a packing scheme that's 1/3 more efficient is still going to hurt. There's no good use case.

Coding for variable-width takes more effort, but it gives you a better result. You can divide strings appropriate to the use. Sometimes that's code points, but more often it's probably characters or bytes.

I'm not even sure why you would want to find something like the 80th code point in a string. It's rare enough to not be a top priority.
No, but it adds copyright trolls to the mix. At least you can count on patents to expire eventually, copyrights are forever in software years.
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I would imagine the laser loses energy quickly going through the atmosphere as the distance increases. Cloud, mist, rain, and dust all absorb the energy.
I've been really interested in this architecture since Jay Kreps' blog post on it. One part that I'm less clear on is how this fits in with request-response style communication between, say, a Web browser and a Web server.

In a simple Web-app-writes-to-DB scenario, it's easy to read my writes, but with a async log processing system, how am I supposed to organize my code so I can read my writes and respond with useful information?

Maybe the solution is to eschew request-response entirely and have all requests return 200, then poll or use two-way communication?

Alternatively, I could have my log-appending operation return a value indicating the position in the totally-ordered log, which I could pass to the query interfaces as a way of indicating "don't return until you've processed at least to here." Does anyone do that?

Am I totally off base here? I'd love to hear from anyone who is using these kinds of systems today.
It does not seem crazy to me to suggest that our flawed, underfunded criminal justice system is 90% effective.
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While that's a good argument for preserving other punishments but abolishing the death penalty (and one I happen to agree with), it has no bearing on the supposed illogic of killing in order to show that killing is unacceptable.
The Solicitor General is still appointed by the WH, and confirmed by the Senate. I would think that he/she, ostensibly speaking, would probably be in direct dialogue with the WH with respect to the executive's position on legal matters, especially considering that they so often end up on the Supreme Court anyway.
I don't think they are "just bad people". I think they're people behaving badly because they have deluded themselves into thinking that they can violence their way to justice. Some of them have their hearts in the right place, more or less, except for the whole "Yeah! Senseless violence!" thing.

Others just like smashing things.

I've also seen people get very upset when confronted with the links I showed you. It's a treasured article of faith in some circles that riots produce desirable social change.
Opinions: no it’s not worth the hassle. Yes, "fixed length" is misguided. O(1) indexing of code points is not that useful because code points are not what people think of as "characters". (See combining code points.) http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/9/ucs-vs-utf8/