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>What sort of jury could come to an 12-0 vote that any case like this was beyond reasonable doubt?

People that have not ever had had friends or family ensnared in the criminal justice system tend to project popular myths and natural biases onto anyone in jail. One of those is that people in jail are all idiots that do nothing all day but sit around bragging to their cellmates about their crimes. This is why jailhouse snitches are believed by juries, despite the obvious incentive to lie.
(Italian too here)

Actually alcohol IS a social problem, but in a way smaller size than in countries who had Prohibition. Young americans, australians and brits usually once in Italian land set their desire to drink free, causing a lot of problems (personal multiple experiences).
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Ah, maybe I should have clarified. While I've taken some care to curate the notifications I get on my phone, there are nevertheless times that Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc... would just be a nuisance. When I'm meeting with someone, the buzz of my phone is distracting to me and strikes me as a little rude to the other person (we both know I'm thinking about that buzz, and I want to be completely present in that conversation), which is why I tend to enable Do Not Disturb mode when I'm supposed to be engaged. The problem is that some notifications are valid to let through - in particular, a reminder that I have an event in 15 minutes (particularly a one-on-one meeting) is absolutely worth letting through.

My question was whether there's a policy suitably fine-grained to let me whitelist an app (or a certain type of notification) so that it can get around Do Not Disturb mode and reach me without having to completely shut down notifications from other apps in the settings.
There's a fair amount of overlap between David Chapman's views and the LW memeplex, though see his response[0] to what he calls "Pop Bayesianism" from a couple years ago. I remember getting a lot out of that essay, maybe even changing my mind a bit.

[0]: http://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think
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As a European I would like to see Europe begin afresh to pull its weight as a collective entity on the world stage. The first time Europeans went abroad was as colonialists, the second as neo-colonial capitalists, next time it will have to be as equals.

The cynic might point out that (geopolitically) Europe has no other choice but to go abroad as equals. Europe has been eclipsed by its former American colony in the West and the Middle Kingdom's re-ascendancy eclipses Europe to the East.

Where does that leave Europe? Once the global engine of growth for ideas, innovation, trade, you name it... Europe nowadays is looking a tad stale.

Economics: Europe needs to close down tax havens within European borders and sphere of influence. Needs to negotiate a fiscal transfer framework to save the € and work to make the € more of a global reserve currency, that means fixing the € project so that the UK gives up the £. Implement a variant of the Tobin tax.

Science: Europe needs to bulk up ESA and promote a private space industry. Needs to double down on projects like CERN and ITER. Needs to get Galileo up and running. Needs to invest more in nuclear and renewable power, wean itself off coal.

Politics: Needs to re-make the UN security council. Needs to work harder towards sorting out Israel/Palestine. Needs to disengage from NATO. The accession of Turkey to the EU needs to happen soon.

Welfare: Needs to move Europe as a whole towards the Scandanavian model which has shown itself to be fairer, more progressive, and more forward thinking. Perhaps needs to experiment with basic income because tech automation seems to be replacing jobs faster than they are being created.
Shintoism openly celebrates male genitalia. Manga has a lot of sexual content but it's not creating demons Americans are so afraid of.
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I always thought that the main attraction of couch surfing was the fact that you got a free place to sleep. Sure, meeting locals is a nice side effect, but for many people the fact that it is free is the thing that enables travelling in the first place.

We've hosted a bunch of people, and it's usually young people with little income (often students). And Couch Surfing works great for that: The website matches up people who look for a free place to stay with people who like sharing their place. And despite all the politics, couch surfing still works great for that!
People learn Esperanto because it's useful - especially if you travel or have international interests. I have used Esperanto in Argentina, Cameroon and about fifteen European countries. We are seeing an upsurge in Esperanto at the moment because of the appearance of the Duolingo course. See:
Duolinghttp://www.liberafolio.org/9-000-homoj-eklernis-esperanton-e...

Two days after the launch of Esperanto course at the popular language learning site Duolingo, the course has already gained almost ten thousand participants. The course still is not even officially launched, but is in its test phase. The course opened in its testing phase on Thursday 28 May at eight o'clock in the evening (M.E.T.) In less than two days, the course already had 9,600 registered participants, although it has not yet been actively advertised.
I think you're absolutely right about the negative power that ideology can have in terms of getting (some) people to say that the ends justify means, no matter how atrocious. However, I wouldn't say it's the only thing that can cause people to defend the indefensible.

Indeed, for some, ideology itself in the means to an end, and these people can be quite flexible about how seriously they take it depending on how well it supports their more fundamental goal, which is raw dominance.
CS is great example of how the growth can kill community. Even five years ago CS was kind of underground community of travellers, hippies, hitchhikers and odd people like that.

Then the VCs come in and mainstream media started to write about the site, which brings new crowd of people. Now it feels like dating/hookup site and meetings are now mostly expat gatherings of weekly drinking party of local english teachers.

I used to be active member of community, surfing over 5 continents, attending meetings in many many cities and countries. I don't surf anymore, but I do visit some meeting from time to time and I can tell how the vibe is completely different, also the long time members are gone.
Phrased more poetically by Kris Kristofferson: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." :)
One interesting twist - reverse the genders of the characters involved and then decide your order of morality.

I did that with my girlfriend - both of us could make up our minds for the original tests, but when the genders were reversed, it took a long time for both of us to make sense of the situation and come up with the final ranking.

Very interesting to see how our brains are conditioned.
Here's another cool random plane tidbit.

Commercial jetliner fuselage wall thicknesses are typically around 1-2mm. They don't call 'em flying tincans for nothin! Think about that next time you fly!
And breast feeding, nudity. But then I guess other countries have their own weird little taboo's.

More and more I see America having a lot of Puritan values, which is spreading. Even countries who wouldn't have freaked about penis or saying fuck on tv, suddenly find themselves adding pixelation and muted audio to their native language
I don't understand why the US is so puritan. They even blur out footage of babies' bottoms on broadcast TV here. I was watching a documentary about some artist on PBS one evening with an interview scene that took place on a beach. I didn't notice there was a baby in the background until my eye was drawn to the floating blur oval concealing his or her precious little butt cheeks.

In fact now that I think about it, when that Picasso painting was in the news a week or two back for setting a record price at auction, some channels blurred out part of it in case their viewers got offended by cubist depictions of the female breasts: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/14/fox-news-blurred-out-the-breas...

You can show all sorts of atrocious acts of violence on network TV, but display a penis for 3 seconds and it's a $325,000 fine: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-32A1.pd...

No word yet on how this horror will affect the fine children of Roanoake, VA - no doubt the monies collected for the fine will be channeled to treating their post-traumatic stress disorders.
Nothing WWIII won't fix. But seriously, whose going to challenge the US? China? They are on even shakier ground than the US economically and socially. Europe? Another decade of recession.
It just seems strange that there needs to be an orange widget to act as a "landing zone" at all.

Why not park the heads hanging in free space? Ostensibly the plastic widget is probably a guide rail to prevent head crashes, when the head unparks onto a platter spinning at full speed?
It is a rather abstract and nebulous article. Put more positively, it encourages introspection and contemplation. In any case, "geeks who are slightly evil" seems appropriate here :)
Seems similar to 'pass' (http://www.passwordstore.org) but IMO without pass' killer feature: git integration. pass manages passwords as a directory tree of gpg encrypted files which can be easily synchronized with multiple machines using built-in git integration (not to mention all the other benefits of version control, like undo/redo, history, etc).
Wow, this is really competitive pricing. I'm sure it'll go up once the VC gravy train ends.
I opened it on my iPad, it added a browser history entry for each slide as the OP mentioned and unlike my parent mentioned. Pressing 32 times on the back button isn't fun. It's just bad UX design.

There should be a "share" button that spites out the URL with the hash-tag of the current slide - similar to Youtube where you can click on the "share" button below the video to link to a specific time in the video, e.g. https://youtu.be/I26EwcssMbY?t=1m37s
They should make a web comic university. I wonder if someone could pass the Bar Exam...

None of these cover the scenario. They do not have to do with whether using coercion (let's say the leverage in the third example) counts as entrapment if done by the police.

The answer is yes.

You are continuing to try to use web comics to argue a strawman.

They are interesting web comics, for sure.

Whether it is okay or not to kill someone if you are under duress is tangential to whether it counts as entrapment.

Both can be true. It can not be okay - illegal - AND be entrapment on the part of the police.

The argument is that it was entrapment.

The argument was not about whether hiring a hitman would be okay or not.

Please, if you feel like getting the last word in, for the sake of readers who stumble onto this, cover the issue and not another straw man.
The heads (the one above and the one below the platter) would crash into each other if there is nothing to keep them apart, and then you could not put them back on the platter.
Well yes. If juries gave no weight to the testimony of convicted criminals with an enormous incentive to lie then prosecutors would stop putting them on the stand. It tells us how broken the whole jury system is when prosecutors go to the effort of obtaining these testimonies.

Interesting here in Australia these jailhouse testimonies are not given much weight by juries and when used (rarely) they are seen as a desperate attempt by the crown to bolster a very weak case. I guess the more people learn about how corrupt these testimonies are the less juries will believe them and hopefully they will stop being used.
Right, it was just an explanation on an issue that wasn't a charitable representation of the DPR case. Which is what we were trying to resolve. Thus both our frustrations. It's cool, man. Let's both give up. :)
@waynesutton you've got a potential product. Many businesses don't know how to convert social media to sales. This however is simple

Repackage, repurpose your product for businesses.

Try testing small businesses e.g. Hotels, restaurants, schools to see if they'll pay to have customers chat, ask questions or make reservations over the internet.

However, you'd need a way to bring the cost of adding a new number down for scaling purposes. You could add a routing code to each SMS to transparently share one phone number amongst multiple businesses.

Hope you pivot instead of just shutting down
Thankfully, with sane encryption you don't need to trust them. (Or any other cloud outfit).

They're more than welcome to distribute and analyze as widely as they see fit, the few hundred megabytes of random-looking data sitting in my account :)
I received the green postcard announcing that "Ada is Green", meaning that of the four candidates for Ada, the Green design had won. That was a long time ago.

The big problem in the early days was getting a compiler. DoD had a test suite for the compiler, and only compilers that passed could use the Ada name. They also had a "floor equals ceiling" rule - no missing features, no extra features. Compilers were to be feature-compatible.

That's how aerospace does things. The interface spec defines the interface. If something is incompatible with the interface, it's defective. It's why you can take Pratt and Whitney engines off a 767 and put on GE or Rolls Royce engines. DoD took the position that a compiler was a part with a specification.

Ada was a big language back then, and some of the compiler companies underestimated the job. Ada compilers were quite expensive - one for the M68000 was $40,000. I ordered that one when I was with a big aerospace company. When it showed up as a magnetic tape, it came with an unexpected cover letter, saying that this wasn't a validated compiler, and the validated compiler would follow - someday. No go. Quality control reject. Red tag attached: "REJECTED BY INCOMING INSPECTION - DOES NOT CORRESPOND TO SPECIFICATION". Purchase order says "validated compiler". Tape returned to vendor. Vendor tries to get out of giving refund. Legal department hammers vendor until they pay up. Meanwhile, another vendor ships a validated compiler, and that is ordered and used. That's how aerospace used to do things.

The compiler price was a big problem for non-Government customers. That contributed to the lack of adoption. We had great hopes for Ada, having used Modula successfully. But it was not to be.
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Okay, so I just tested the n-body benchmark [1] for Rust and C++ (program #8), and where they list runtimes of 24.62/9.4 (a factor of 2.62), I actually got a factor of 1.25 (5.45/4.35) on my machine [2]. I used the same version of Rust and nearly the same version of gcc (4.9.1 vs 4.9.2).

Conclusion: Don't draw conclusions from the benchmarks game.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...

[2] i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz
Where are the self-tuning systems?
Blackberry's OS10 phones do a solid job providing this feature. HDMI out to a larger screen, bluetooth connected keyboard and mouse. They also have their Blend software for Windows/OSX which is somewhat the reverse, use your phone without actually using your phone.
So, why not set the intermediate pressure (fixed) at the average of the external and internal (typical) pressures?

The load on each pane is lower so I would think they'd be less likely to fail.

A few hypothesis:

- If the main failure mode is a defect that doesn't depend too much on pressure, then we have increased likelihood of failure;

- The manufacuring cost of pressurizing the midpane is high;

- Having a varying load direction on the external pane (inward on ground and outward in sky) is not good.

Any opinions?
I don't know how to put this nicely, but warding off people with reactions like this seems like a feature, not a bug.
To put it another way: Fuselages are 20x thicker than the walls of soda cans.
I'm a designer. I can help you out but It would have to be remote. Not sure if that works for you.

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It seems like you are asking why a more complex solution with no benefits and some drawbacks isn't being used. Is that fair?
If a medical researcher says that a chemical has potential benefit to alleviate suffering, then it's NOT up to politicians to decide if they can. Obviously, that's my opinion and it's not shared by American politicians.
Uhm, it looks dangerously similar to this one...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icechen1.s...
This is a great idea. I wish other compilers would offer this feature (scalac is in dire need of such an option).

Does the Rust macro system require compile-time compilation before type-checking?
This is one of the most important comupter science laws out there, yet, people mostly treat it as a joke.

Anyway, the bottom line is that the teams should be built in such a way as to reflect desired architecture of the project. If you fail to do that, the project will end up with shitty architecture.
This was presented at I/O this week:

https://github.com/google/lovefield
There's a lot of improper ways.
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What about SandForce? They were founded in 2006 (vs 1998) and acquired in 2012 (vs 2011).
I've always struggled with resistor colour codes, but after I looked up what you were talking about I think I have it instantly memorized. Better not let anyone know, though.
(just commented on his blog but since I found this on HJ):

Why have a cap at all? It doesn't help the company, and is often used as a proxy for valuation, which it isn't (and is bad for the company). I don't think it's that great for the note holder either, who gets the discount regardless.

The use of a cap is quite a recent phenomenon (and I wrote a bunch of $500K notes without caps just a few months ago) -- so let's get rid of them.
More info: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/...
The point I'm trying to make is that the rules should, in some way, actively encourage results in line with the game's thematics.

For example, Dogs in the Vineyard encourages/threatens players with the risks and rewards of escalating conflict, Nobilis tries to get you to reenact a game version of the Sandman comic, and Vampire: the Masquerade rewards you for treating normal humans like pawns and playthings.
If you shrank a 777 to the size of a soda can, its skin would be about four times thinner than the average can's.
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>It is generally accepted these days that commercial plugins are sold with an annual license giving the customer 1 year of access to support and software updates.

As a person developing WP based sites for a small business, this is a huge sticking issue. I absolutely agree support should be charged for on a case/time based basis, but limiting updates essentially means the site will be broken after the license term. WP moves fast enough that keeping up with core/plugin/etc revisions on at least a quarterly basis is necessary if you don't want your site to be broken or hacked.

I think the minimum for at least security/compatibility/bug fixes should be 2-3 years. The products we sell have a 3-year warranty for all defects, yet your proposed software business model wont do that.

Last point: you want $90-1000/year to upload databases to S3? Isnt this a trivial amount of developer effort to automate? I am not a developer by any means, and I could do this fairly quickly. Numerous high quality plugins will do backups for free and writing a cron job to upload these to S3 would take a few minutes. If I'm just misunderstanding, your page is doing a poor job on selling me the real advantages.
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I think seriously the intrinsic thing is that the language itself doesn't marshal (right word, not sure) anything that's particularly fat. The classic is if allocating memory require dealing with a general purpose garbage collector. If that's the case you're pretty much dead as far as systems stuff goes because now you can't predict how long anything will take to run.

And the minimal libraries usually need to be light weight as well. Or at least such that you can strip out what's not wanted. Here again garbage collection becomes an issue. If the language supports it natively then it's going to be impossible in practice to prevent the libraries from using it for something unexpected.

The last bit is escape. There are always some cases where the language doesn't have the ability to implement a critical bit of stuff and you need a way to seamlessly mess with that something. In simple you need to be able to insert a bit of arbitrary code and have it work properly.
I think it is assumed you will open a presentation in a separate tab and not need to 'return' anywhere.

You could argue that every link should open in a new tab by default and only replace the contents of the current tab in special cases, instead of the other way around. In the past 20 years we've been 'trained' to have different expectations, because of the design of the first websites, browsers and the resource limitations of those days. However, the designs and abilities of all of those have changed and it may be worthwhile to reconsider the current default.
Oh, but they have a thin black band covering the frenulum. That's clearly the part that's causing the psychological harm.

But Americans needn't worry, because they already carve that part off of the infant's penises, along with the foreskin.
I would like to highlight that the first validated Ada language processor from 1983, the NYU Ada/Ed interpreter is still missing, along with its associated toolchain (an early SETL compiler for VAX/VMS implemented in a FORTRAN-like language known as LITTLE), more details are on my webpage:

http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/a/retrocomputingtasman...

There are also several other interesting or unusual Ada compilers still to be found too, notably:

Ada for the Intel iAPX-432 (arguably an instruction set architecture tailored to Ada)

Symbolics Ada - an Ada implemented in Lisp

Ada for the inmos Transputer - an Ada for a parallel computer architecture
There was also a similar club, in the early 90s, probably existed already in the 80s, which operated my papermail. You mailed a letter to the club, explaining where you are travelling. And they responded with a list of people with addresses, whom you could then mail and ask for accomodation.
Really nice tooling. I like how the editor guides you 'fill in the next blank'.

Since you write the AST directly, this seems to be a lisp without parentheses.
So it would be unwise to fill a 777 with soda.
I have been using an Intel 520 SSD on my Debian unstable for > 3 years and I have not done any such setting let alone knowing they exist. Should I pay heed or should I continue using my SSD like this? Thoughts?
Thanks for the info! It seems Google see the need for it - great.

Announcement from Nov 2014: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/11/lovefield-powe...

Video of a recent presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRiI4p5Uk4E

Lovefield actually uses WebSQL in certain cases: WebSQL backstore shall be considered a gap-stopping patch
18 and will be removed as soon as Apple fixes IndexedDB bugs in Safari. -- https://github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/lib/backstor...

I wonder why the would remove WebSQL support? Isn't it faster to rely on a native C library in the case of Safari (WebSQL uses SQLite) than riding piggyback an SQL layer on top of IndexedDB on top of SQLite as it is the case in Firefox?
I'm not sure the advice to disable the browser cache is such good advice.
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