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5 years in prison is also irreversible.

My point isn't that we shouldn't abolish the death penalty, rather that you should be able to apply your argument to all forms of punishment.
Ah yes, that's the problem. It must be, otherwise how could you be right and not have counter-arguments? ;)
Well, here's a somewhat analogous issue where the courts have decided differently. A 10b5-1 plan is set of rules set up by someone, like a company exec, to trade stock even if that person holds inside information at the time of the trade. That is, you could set up a plan that automatically sells 100 shares of stock per month. You can NOT change the rules of the plan while you have inside information.

However, you CAN cancel plan orders even if you have inside info. For example, if you knew great news was coming, you could cancel a sell order. If I understand it, this is because courts have ruled that insider trading laws can only be applied when a trade occurs, not when one doesn't occur. IANAL so someone correct me if I'm wrong.
You should check out Olio Devices. I think it's clearly the best designed of all connected watches.

https://www.oliodevices.com/
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You're quite right. Switching from a db to a log as the "master" loses the simplicity of the app-to-db model.

As the article says: "For now, a better option is to extract the log from a database" - i.e you use some tooling to generate a log from the db.

Indeed, you can now see tools that go in this direction usually by using the replication stream. (eg https://github.com/shyiko/mysql-binlog-connector-java and https://github.com/xstevens/decoderbufs)
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And the PDF presentation too: http://kpcbweb2.s3.amazonaws.com/files/90/Internet_Trends_20...
Mobile web market will triple in size to $850B by 2018, says Digi-Capital
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So 50 years in prison and being labeled by society as a murderer/rapist can be compensated how exactly?
Tunnelbear recently released a chrome plugin for their VPN service. I hear good things about it. (I personally use the application on my Mac)
It's a bit of a trade off... static generation of dynamic content isn't so much different from front-side caching, if the bulk of your requests can cache for 30+ minutes, you can setup some pretty decent caching rules on a couple of servers fronting a dynamic backend that doesn't need to be too big to support many requests.

For the most part, the load tends to come down to less than optimized database storage and queries on the backend, often duplicated for every page load for content that could easily be offloaded to the client browser, constructed client-side, and requested on demand.

It's a matter of striking a balance... In this case the content changes very infrequently, and having a publish step to static storage makes sense. It really depends on one's needs.

If you have a million pages you'd need to regenerate daily for a single site, and thousands every hour, then you might think differently.
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It's really hard to push out code 2-3 times / week when you have 7-10 days review time for every change
>I'd wager more than half wouldn't know what a bot net is, or what an exit node is.

Hell, I'd wager that more than 90% of their users have no idea what a bot net is.
"In The Rooms" puts on several virtual AA meetings a day (via a custom video system they built with OpenTok's APIs).

I sat in on a few while researching various non-typical video conferencing systems..
https://www.intherooms.com/
> tmux split

> Bottom Pane: urxvt

You have urxvt inside of a tmux frame?
Applying the open/closed principle in R
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The phantom wrist vibrations will come eventually... I get them whenever the leather strap creaks.
I've made a pull request that contains a reasonable mount of feedback. I hope it's useful and instructive!
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I don't think that anyone is advocating lowering the price in response to requirements changes, etc. I think the idea is that the initial price might be lower.
Is that just an educated guess, or do you have a source?
Yeah - I have bipolar disorder, and this is why people with mental illness don't speak up, because we're afraid of this attitude. When you have to be on mood stabilizers and go through a lot of therapy to begin to not blame yourself for everything that your illness caused just because it's invisible it can be a real setback to tell people and have them say "Well you don't look sick..."

Same thing, ironically, happens to people with other chronic and non-visible illnesses: lupus, fibromyalgia, etc. "You don't look sick - get off your ass" - meanwhile their immune system is eating them from the inside out.

Anyways - to the original point - therapy can be very effective in treating anxiety and depression, but we should also not completely eliminate the possibility of SSRIs, MAOIs and related drugs for controlling depression. The reality is that depression is often multifaceted and the biological and psychological components of it are mixed in ways we don't entirely understand. I know a lot of people that have required an antidepressant to be able to _deal_ with therapy, and then were able to discontinue slowly after they went through therapy.

People with more serious mental illnesses (waves) can be helped through counseling, but often will be dependent on medication for the rest of their lives - but counseling for these people can still result in a net benefit for society, as often we can contribute quite a bit (and many of us are very high functioning!) if we are given the opportunity.

Anyways - to parent - thanks for illustrating everything that is wrong with our society's thinking about mental illness. I will literally link people to your comment when I have to explain in the future :). In all seriousness though, please get educated on this or study it more, I am hoping you're just ignorant on this topic and not malicious or mean.
One that i love to put as reference, specially when dealing with time travel and the dangers of knowing the future, is PKDick's Meddler.

Maybe is not the most emotive (Tolkien's Leaf by Niggle and Ted Chiang's Story of your life are superior in that) or the most far into the future one (Asimov's The last question should be required reading), nor even the funniest one (hard pick, Asimov's The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline fits there, if even because the story behind). But not is a so bad option.
I'm not confusing anything, pdk. As ONE example, what do you think Obama's goals of a single-payer healthcare system are if not state ownership of healthcare? What do you think the IRS's control over your healthcare is if not state ownership. If you think that is regulation, you have a very different definition of the word than I do.

Your second point is an appeal to probability fallacy. You conclude that Obama blocked development of energy in America because companies wouldn't develop energy responsibly, when there is no logical reason to make that assumption given that plenty of companies produce energy in non-destructive ways.

Your understanding of tax systems seems flawed. There are many, many countries in the world, especially in the Soviet block region, that have implemented flat tax systems, have have enjoyed economic growth, and have not had the social unrest you claim comes with the territory. Even in countries where the flat tax system hasn't gone as well as hoped, other factors, such as government corruption, wasteful spending, high tax rates, etc. have been destructive elements that cannot be ignored. This is all irrelevant, however, and simply a smokescreen to hide the fact that Obama's is obsessed with taxing the rich (and the middle class) using Marx's envy-based tax system.

I'm not sure what your point is on estate taxes. Are you saying that if a bad policy only affects a small number of people then it is OK? Or, do you mean to suggest if I don't have $5.43 million in my estate I shouldn't have an opinion on said bad policy?

I have better things to do that argue the obvious with someone who is obviously playing team sports. I'm surprised you didn't find a way to fit Fox News or Rush Limbaugh into your argument. I am not a member nor a supporter of the GOP. I am well aware that Obama has done nothing more than double down on Bush's worst policies, while sprinkling his own brand of Marxist idealism on them in order to really polish the giant turd that is the federal government today. How is this relevant?

I don't support either of the big parties and suggest you and others consider doing the same. Your civic duty isn't a basketball game. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you vote for what is right. Currently, I don't believe correct governing principles exist in either of the major parties. They are both corrupt.
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It's mentioned in the article.

> We also have Fastly sitting in front of GitHub Pages caching all 200 responses. This helps minimise the availability impact of a total Pages router outage. Even in this worst case scenario, cached Pages sites are still online and unaffected.
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Which is a violation of due process itself.
because they aren't for profit? their only reason for existing at all is to keep harmful things from being approved for sale.

I'm by no means saying the FDA is perfect or infallible, far from it. Just that it's super easy to rank them above the drug companies in reliability as to a drugs safety and efficacy.
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"But one thing led to another, and it was [Nash], rather than von Neumann, who ended up as an intellectual celebrity, the subject of a Hollywood movie."

Hollywood schmollywood.

From The Dream Machine, Waldrop's account of the history of computing:

"Von Neumann! Goldstine was awestruck [. . .] he already knew the legends. At age forty, John Von Neumann held a place in mathematics that could be compared only to that of Albert Einstein in physics. In the single year of 1927, for example, while still a mere instructor at the University of Berlin, von Neumann had put the newly emerging theory of quantum mechanics on a rigorous mathematical footing; established new links between formal logical systems and the foundations of mathematics; and created a whole new branch of mathematics known as game theory"

[edit: still liked the article]
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So, it's never your own fault?

This bothers me as much as it's all your fault. You can't just commit everybody who isn't "normal" all the time.

Being an illness that needs to be treated and being your own fault are not mutually exclusive. If you have cardiovascular problems, drugs and surgery help, but you also need to lose weight and exercise.

Mental illness is quite a bit less distinct. What is the border between individual will and chemical machinery? People have been arguing that for centuries, and we're not really any closer to a good answer.

In addition, I'm more than a little skeptical that he "suddenly" became an alcoholic at 45. If he was 50 right now, he's right at then end of the "3 martini lunch" brigade that became socially unacceptable about 1990. I suspect he may have been consuming a borderline alcoholic amount of alcohol, but that something finally pushed him over the limit.

Ultimately, it's just tragic irrespective of fault.
I already commented, but I'll make one more point here: I don't disagree that there are a lot of steps you can take to improve your mental health: exercise, diet, etc definitely help. The problem though with saying most of the problems people have just require them to focus is that no one can measure other people's internal struggle/pain. We don't have _really_ objective tests on this yet, we have inventories where you check a box. Because of this, it honestly comes down to what someone can handle.

So this is the problem: I totally agree, if those things you said work for you great, but saying that most people don't have hard-core mental illness is really bad is really bad to say. In a world where it's already hard for people to come forward that have this problem saying something like this is going to push people into the dark more - telling them that causes thought patterns like: "well, most people don't have this, so I probably don't, it's really unlikely, and you know, my friends have down periods too, I bet they've cut themselves before, it's probably fine".

I know from experience.

PLEASE don't tell this to people, don't promote this line of thought, don't promote anything like this. If you want to communicate what I think you're trying to say, maybe this is a better way to put it:

"For me, I've found exercise and diet have helped me feel better, but if someone feels like things are out of control they should see a doctor and see where they should go."
Weddpros was making the point that criticism worked. The poster tried (An important first step), failed, and critical people pointed out his errors. Weddpros points out the poster corrected those errors because he received criticism. Weddpros is clearly a fan of critical feedback.
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Very scary. Here's an equally scary TED talk on the same subject by an Epidemiologist:

http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pande...

One point he made, is that he did a meta-study amongst his fellow epidemiologists. He found that 90% of them believed there would be a pandemic within their children's or at latest grandchildren's lifetime.
Apart from other technical reasons, Angular is backed by Google.
Your comment and the parent comment are exactly how I feel.

I've now lived here for almost 15 years. I've traveled all over the world, and LA is still my favorite city of them all.

It's a cruel mistress one day. And a wondrous utopia the next day. Never predictable. Home.
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As much of a fan of Erlang and Riak as I am, you did make the right call. If you only have one or two people on the team who want to know that technology, then it isn't a smart move to base a core piece of technology on it (Erlang) just because it might be the best answer. Sometimes an okay answer that everyone is familiar with is much better.
Time for a new OS why not try Ubuntu?
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Linux-Mandrake 7.2 was the first distribution I successfully installed and used as a primary OS. All of the memories :(

(I may have abandoned the RPM world for Debian, but it was Mandrake that got me using KDE back in the 2.0 days - it's now 2015 and I'm still a KDE user!)
True. But it's sunny. You cruise down the road on your bike, feel the breeze from moving in the air, and we have a lot of bike paths too.

I commute most days, usually several miles. The only time I prefer car or train is when its raining, which is rare.
For technically inclined people, setting up your own SOCKS proxy is the simplest method possible.

1. Get a cheap server (ex: DigitalOcean $5/month) in the city/country you want to connect through.

2. Add these 2 lines to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

AllowTcpForwarding yes

GatewayPorts yes

3. Restart sshd (service ssh restart), or restart the server.

4. Connect to the server setting a dynamic port forward. On linux or Mac, this is just "ssh -D 8000 user@domain.com". On Windows, putty lets you set a dynamic port forward.

5. Personally I use Chrome for my real browsing, and then use Firefox for the proxy since it allows configuring a proxy for the browser only rather than the entire operating system. You just set the SOCKS proxy under advanced networking settings (host 127.0.0.1, port 8000).

6. If you want all internet traffic to go over the proxy rather than just Firefox, this is easy on Mac through the Network Preferences panel. I'm not able to comment on linux/Windows in this regard.
So we're going to see this on web sites. Oh, joy.

It's time for browsers to start saying no to really bad HTML. When a browser detects a major error, it should put an error bar across the top of the page, with something like "This page may display improperly due to errors in the page source (click for details)". Start doing that for serious errors such as Javascript code aborts, security errors, and malformed UTF-8. Then extend that to pages where the character encoding is ambiguous, and stop trying to guess character encoding.

The HTML5 spec formally defines consistent handling for many errors. That's OK, there's a spec. Stop there. Don't try to outguess new kinds of errors.
I fondly remember TechTV.

Then G4 took it over and absolutely destroyed it. A tragedy (at least to me).
My Experience in Tech and Its Reflection on Women in Tech in India
Good observation. That last one is quite a compilation! Pity about the zealotry.
God how I do love that acronym. As soon as I see it I know to ignore anything the person using it says. It's like a giant flashing fuckwit sign.
The Pebble Time's vibration is much more subtle (but still strong). A big improvement over the original Pebble.
Image processing in Python
Yes, Second Life has one persistent world ("one shard") but it's composed of a bunch of "sims" glued together at sim boundaries. (A "sim" is a 256 m x 256 m x notsure m volume of space.) The states of the things in that sim are the responsibility of one server; if an object crosses a sim boundary, the new sim may be handled by a different server. The sim-crossing hand-off can cause object motions to look non-physical.

As I understand it, Improbable also simulates one big world, but they map the various simulation calculations to servers in a different way. How exactly? That's their secret sauce.

Philip Rosedale's new startup, High Fidelity, also takes a different approach. See https://highfidelity.com/
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On the flip side, PostgreSQL's high availability options aren't in the box, or are at the very least varied, problematic and/or cost more than other options for support contracts.

Every time I've worked with mySQL I've seen some irksome behavior... just the same, setting up failover options is miles ahead of PostgreSQL. And when you already have in-house talent, it becomes even more obvious.

My only thought was that using a clustered database (such as Cassandra) as the store with the data itself might have been better. domain/url (minus querystring) would hash/distribute fairly well, and with even a relatively small cluster with 2 replica nodes for the shard would be pretty effective. Also, it would be easier to manage a replicated database, in my mind, than tracking sites to pairs of static servers. GoDaddy is/was moving to something similar with new development on one of their applications when I worked there, and able to serve a huge number of static requests (hundreds of thousands per second) off of a relative few servers with a sub 10ms response time, for content not backed by cdn.

In the end it just goes to show that serving static content on modern hardware can scale really well, with a number of options for technology. Which is why I'm somewhat surprised that something hasn't taken over the tide of poorly configured Wordpress blogs.
If you communicate, by any signal, including the lack of sending a signal, or any prearranged protocol, that you received a warrant when you were ordered not to talk about it, then you are in violation of the order.

( in some regions, in certain courts of law, under certain conditions, maybe. )

Thankfully 'global laws' and 'global court' aren't a thing yet.

Let's not lump everyone into a big US/UK legal blackhole, please. The canary concept is valid for more than just a US based legal adversary.
Once again illustrates that it basically was the Russian winter that stopped the nazis.
Why do anti-vaccine people get so upset when told to produce factual evidence?

The problem is that anti-vaccine sentiment is NOT harmless.

Anti-vaccine sentiment means we now have diseases killing children that were effectively eradicated 20 years ago.

Anti-vaccine sentiment means that we don't have a Lyme disease vaccination because the cost of fighting anti-vaxxers exceeds the profit from selling the vaccine.

So, if we look at the balance, anti-vaccination causes real, demonstrable problems while pro-vaccination has yet to have any demonstrated factual downside.

So, yeah, we now have preventable diseases running amok because the logical community was tolerant about anti-vaccination instead of stomping the anti-vaxxers into the ground like they so richly deserved.

Now does the vitriol make sense?
I've never tried hemp. You make it sound like an excellent treatment. The aim of all the mindfulness meditation is to observe your thoughts and feelings and stay disassociated from them.

Much better than switching them off with alcohol.
Except that erasure on modern drives rarely actually erases things...
This is really cool! Reminds me of the Berkeley PACMAN Ai project: (http://ai.berkeley.edu/project_overview.html), but seems easier to customize, try out different edge cases and compare algorithms.
I second this recommendation. Not being a CS major I didn't take an OS course so I worked through the first part of the OSTEP book and found it to be very well-written and much less intimidating.

I haven't finished reading it entirely yet and didn't do any of the labs but I liked the big picture approach it took to OS design.
Just a matter of time before Mozilla backed free LetsEncrypt goes LIVE. Meanwhile you can get comodo positive for less then $10 at variety of sites (do google search).
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City of Quartz by Mike Davis. Probably the best social history of Los Angeles, and a major influence on the film this article takes its title from.
There have been four flu pandemic in the last century, the most recent less than a decade ago. I'm somewhat surprised that 10% of epidemiologists would expect that we won't have any pandemics in a multi-generation period.
Which is most of them that have enough traffic/data to need this tool in the first place. MySQL generally tends to perform badly at massive scale with foreign keys. (i.e., when your doing 30k queries/second)
The attitude seems a bit out of place but I understand your position more now. Thank you.
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Karma could be used to weight votes.
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Great to see you and other work on rust-lang. It looks like a great open community!
He won't do things for the non-open journals without getting something in return. In this case, he gets a Nature paper in return. He presumably would be willing to edit one for sufficient pay as well, he just won't do it for free.
I think the only thing that I wish were supported would be simple rewrite rules....

/article/foo => /pub/article/foo.html

Or something very similar... That, or a custom 404 map, to take old urls, and send them to new ones (in the case of a blog, for example)... that said, gh-pages works well, and it's pretty awesome that it's offered to so many floss projects, and in my mind reduces the chances of a custom domain/website going away because someone doesn't really support something they put out there 7 years ago anymore.
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PLoS has tried to do that, with journals like PLoS Biology.

Hypothetically, AAAS is in the best position to pull something like this off, but as the publishers of Science, they're sadly very committed to preserving the status quo...
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