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So basically, git over IP? Each "update" is just a commit containing the modifications since the last one. If you want the most recent, ask for the HEAD.
You're correct. Keeping cash on hand and paying down debt is healthy. A high savings rate encourages investment, which encourages productivity increases, which increases quality of life.

It's hard to think clearly against the blizzard of noise which says savings are bad, consumer spending is good and economies only grow when everyone is in debt. But the opposite of all these things is true, you've just got to ignore all the talking heads that want you out of your house and wasting your saving on consumer trash.
Illustrator was released in 1986, CorelDraw in 1989. I'm not sure why QuarkXPress is included (it is a page layout/desktop publishing tool, not an illustration tool), but it was released in 1987.

Postscript became popular[1] well before any version of the PDF format existed. It was popularized by the Apple Laserwriter, the first printer to natively support it.

[1] Well, I suppose it depends on what one means by 'popular'. I think creating the desktop publishing industry counts; YMMV.
Best way is to not send credentials in plain text. I wish SRP had taken off and become standard.
Peace with Israel?! Never ever. Too much money for Big Weapons relies on Israel pretending to be threatened by its surrounding countries.

No country leader right in his mind, not even Kim Yong (all NK is after is more Western aid money and a bit of luxury goods for the elite, and potential nukes are a perfect way of extorting), would ever sign off a military attack against Israel, given its nuclear abilities and the support of NATO. Still, Israeli government successfully manipulates the entire world to believe they're threatened.

The only threat for Israel is its corrupt, right-wing-extremist government. Israel government complains all the time about raising anti-semitic behaviour worldwide yet completely ignores that it is the fault of Israeli government.
You are aware that black minorities and jews in europe never declared war to anyone, and didn't throw thousands of rockets on their neighbours every couple of years, right ?

I wonder how long people will tolerate this kind of verbal abuse ( since you're unfortunately not the only one to draw those kind of hateful comparisons).
Keep in mind that because they recycle so much wastewater, "wasting" water by running the tap is not as bad as it sounds.

Washing and reusing glass bottles is really stupid in a desert. You have unlimited amounts of sand to make glass, but water is less plentiful. Plus kosher issues make washing bottles problematic (doable, but more complicated).
I wonder what the amortized cost of solar energy is? It's probably still more expensive than Israel's $6 per million BTU.
Only devs seeking private information about users will be harmed by this. It's OK for Apple to have contempt for devs like that.
Sure, but on modern servers, the amount of data you can put on the stack (or stacks) amounts to no more a few percent of RAM. The smartest thing you can do with the rest, is put as much of your DB data there, and that data has an arbitrary lifetime, and is read -- and written -- concurrently. So most of the memory activity on large servers is going to be on the heap. If you put on the stack everything that can be done on the stack, you've reduced your heap usage by, say, 2%. True, the kind of memory work on the stack and on the heap is very different, but the two problems are of entirely different magnitude and nature.

I think the reason many people say "just use the stack more", is that most people delegate the hard work to a DB, and let the DB engineers worry about using the heap well. But the best way to use a DB is if it is in memory and in process.
Banks are organisations, I include them in this, you need to prevent banks from not lending.

>"it has the effect of lowering interest rates"

Not when we are already at the zero lower bound.

At the ZLB you need higher inflation targets for things to function properly.
How on Earth is it not different? Wolves/Lions have no machine guns, thermal sensors, armor, chemical weapons, and more importantly, are not controlled by a human third party.

This research is funded by DARPA. Not because of its potential to help the elderly, mind you.
Another data point: In Sweden water costs 15-25 kr/m^3 or 1.5-3 dollars/m^3 and we get it untreated directly from lakes. So $0.58 is very cheap even if it is the bulk price and it quadruples before it arrives at the end customer.
Yeah, from a purely non-political, engineering-only perspective, nuclear power and desalination seem like a match made in heaven: No carbon; steady, predictable power loads; near-limitless demand for agricultural freshwater in CA; near-guaranteed markets because of indefinite CA droughts; even a chance to do something useful with the waste heat.
Not OP, but for more, see:
http://truthonthemarket.com/2009/12/29/the-collected-works-o...

As a thought experiment, in an environment where for-profit entities
will tend to try to increase their profits, consider: in what cases
is it appropriate for governments to interfere with economic activities?

To protect individuals, or _caveat emptor_?

To protect businesses, or "free market"?
If he thought Curtis had robbed him, I suppose it was okay to hire someone to murder him.
> it doesn't seem like a massive logical leap to suggest that shutting down a particularly convenient and unique part of the supply chain will have an effect on consumption and therefore the negative effects of consumption.

It seems quite likely that Silk Road was one of the safest ways to acquire these drugs. It seems likely to me that shutting down Silk Road would have two effects: reducing consumption by casual (non-addicted) recreational users who will not bother with less convenient and safe sources, and driving addicted users to less convenient and safe sources. You might argue that the first effect is slightly beneficial, but I think it is far outweighed by the harmfulness of the second effect.

> I've still got no real moral qualms about punishing someone who enriches themselves off so much harm to others.

This is just another way to rephrase the claim that Silk Road did net harm to others, which we were just debating.
The parent was speaking to US nationwide policies and conditions, so nationwide US data would be most relevant, but I would appreciate any illuminating data, as it appears very hard to support the points I initially responded to.
No, because the vast majority of people driving are obeying the law (or at least are committing very minor crimes). In contrast, the vast majority of people on Silk Road were buying and selling illegal goods.

It boils down to intent. If you intend to make a legitimate platform for commerce that also happens to be used for illegal stuff, (Craigslist, for example) you're in the clear as long as you aren't actively aiding them.

In contrast, if you set up your platform with the explicit intention of selling illegal goods, then you're in trouble.
Good point. Thanks.

I'd thought Collab.net ended up with them. Need to review the history.
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Yeah, I remember reading news stories all the time about how Canadians overdose on maple syrup or how Egyptians overdose on water. Truly, all drugs are just as innocuous as air and puppies.
Yeah, this reminds me of the recent(ish) realization that a javascript could check a link's applied style to determine if it had :visitied, letting advertisers trivially run test a very large list of links to fingerprint and profile anybody who visits a webpage.

Mozilla patched that information leak. I don't remember anyone accusing them of "contempt for web developers."

I'm no longer using iOS regularly, but the fact that Apple can and does police apps that violate a user's expectation of privacy is one of the strong points of the platform.
From the article: "Four people had been listed as 'attending' on the Facebook page for the event, but by the time the meeting began, eight Esperantists were sitting in a rough semicircle of dormroom couches and hard plastic chairs." Ladies and gentlemen, that is in New York City, where a social club meeting on almost any topic might be expected to attract more attendance. Esperanto has severe growth problems if that is how interesting it is to prospective learners.

I have used some Esperanto textbooks to learn a bit of Esperanto, and I have read whole books about the artificial language movement and the development of Esperanto over time. If we take Esperanto to be a hobby, like stamp collecting, then I say "More power to you" if you are interested in Esperanto. But if we take Esperanto as a serious proposal to produce a practical "interlanguage" for worldwide communication, then we have to count Esperanto as a failure. Esperanto has had fewer speakers (to a given level of proficiency) and fewer readers (likewise) in all time than either English or Chinese gains in one year simply by natural increase and extension of education to the masses.

As I studied Esperanto, along with studying human languages such as Chinese (four modern Sinitic languages and also ancient Literary Chinese), Russian, German, Japanese, Biblical Hebrew, Attic Greek and Koine Greek, and assorted other languages, I was struck by how many design bugs Esperanto has. Many of the decisions made by Ludwik Zamenhof as he designed Esperanto reflected exactly the languages he knew in childhood in Russian-occupied Poland, but didn't reflect at all what makes a language easy to learn or to use as a second language with speakers of varied backgrounds. I used to think that I would have to do a write-up about the flaws of Esperanto myself, but then in the 1990s I discovered an online description of Esperanto by a sophisticated student of constructed languages,[1] and I see by checking the link again that that description has been continually updated over the last two decades.

The statement in the article kindly submitted here that "Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to have perfectly regular grammar, with none of the messy exceptions of natural tongues" is demonstrably false, and the link I have shared here will show the statement to be false. What ultimately turned me off to Esperanto as a movement and even as a hobby was seeing frankly incredible statements about Esperanto and about other human languages made by Esperanto-hobbyists who thought they were proposing a practical tool for world communication. If Esperanto is your hobby, more power to you. But if you propose Esperanto as a world interlanguage, you had best acknowledge the reality that Esperanto has always failed in that role, and always will.

[1] http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/
but the actual definition of regulatory capture is that regardless of the reason regulation exists (which usually is a real reason, not an invented one as in the article - the article doesn't have regulation resulting from anything any member of the public actually objected to), the regulating bodies will be captured. So take a real reason: let's say we (the public) want to improve Comcast's level of (notoriously bad) service, even in areas where they happen to be a sole provider. So how do we do this - we can only do it through some regulating body. So, okay, let's improve Comcast's atrocious service. The idea of regulatory capture is even though we have a great reason to do this, Comcast can still capture that body, and be better-off than before the regulator existed - at the expense of the public. Which is why we don't do it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
I didn't expect anyone to take the example as a literal. The example was only a concept in response to the original poster who used it as a concept prop for their argument.

"Stick to what's right" lol, that's the point. Who decides what is right? The government? The teachers? Education should be more about how to learn and how to discover truth, not about force feeding what some bureaucrat thinks is right or wrong or important. The greatest period of geniuses per capita in history were during time of when the socratic method was used for teaching.
While it's nice that Force is responsible for the theft and not Green, Ulbricht didn't know that and so can't be given any 'credit' for that mistake. He arranged for his own employee to be tortured and murdered, even if his idiocy (and only his idiocy) in choosing hitmen prevented an actual fatality from happening.
I've got a pair, but they're too light for a lot of days. It's the days when you need thick gloves/mitts that it most sucks to have to take them off too!
This feels appropriate.

Wired (1994)/Mondo 2000 R.U. A Cyberpunk? : https://i1.wp.com/craphound.com/images/R_U_cyberpunk.jpg

Funny to think of a modern 'cyber-punk' extolling the values of paper currency. Guess Wired was off the mark a bit.
> So your argument is basically that if you keep adding users, at a certain point my system will break? I think that is a strawman argument.

That's only part of my argument, and I don't think it is a strawman argument.

> In my opinion, it is perfectly legitimate to have the requirement of low latency, while running lengthy operations in the background

Ironically, this is a straw-man argument - I never said nor insinuated it wasn't a valid requirement. All I am saying is for the kind of scalability Go was designed for (1000s-100,000s connections), if you are doing lengthy operations, you will never be just thinking about multi-core, you will be scaling across servers.

> then I guess it should not be branded as a general purpose, mainstream language

Well I honestly am not sure it was. It was branded very early on as a language that is good for writing highly concurrent, highly scalable network servers. For example, integrating with C/C++ libraries is a pain, and slow. I would say most general purpose languages would have good C integration as a basic feature. And the lack of good C integration is a direct result of specializing Go at running millions of little Goroutines concurrently (segmented stack and all that).
> Israeli apartheid

Let's assume for the sake of argument that there is apartheid (it's clear there isn't, but let's assume it anyway). They are in Gaza! Gaza is not Israel, the entire concept of apartheid doesn't even make any sense in that concept.

> ethnic cleansing

Oh definitely. Most effective ethnic cleansing in history.

> implements the final solution for this evil minority?

Your antisemitism is showing.

You do know your github and other public data is linked from your profile? Most people at least try to be anonymous before being antisemitic.
Great benchmark for California... Actually, it looks like the project is closer to $780 million for the plant (not sure why the Wikipedia summary is off). [1] Central question is, can the Sorek method/scale be implemented in SoCal to get better results? Can it be run on integrated solar or other renewables?

[1] http://carlsbaddesal.com/carlsbad-final-schedule-taking-shap...
> Sadly, the Palestinians elected for their government, Hamas, which has as part of its charter the destruction of Israel when they could have elected the Palestinian Authority to lead them which does recognize Israel.

This is a bit confused -- they elected the Hamas-led Change and Reform group, which then led the government of the Palestinian Authority, until the Hamas/Fatah civil war occurred, causing the Hamas-led government to be dismissed (the PA Chairman -- chief of state, effectively, rather than head of government -- was Fatah), and a new Fatah-led government to be installed (with debated legality) which only effectively had any control in the West Bank.

The PA was the institution for which they were electing leadership, not one of the parties.

(Incidentally, since the existing government of the now-named State of Palestine -- effectively, the government of the West Bank -- is Fatah-led as a result of the Fatah/Hamas civil war and subsequent dismissal of the Hamas government, even to the extent it might be reasonable to use Hamas as an excuse for Israel obstructing water to Hamas-led Gaza, its pretty ludicrous to try to extend that justification to Israeli treatment of Palestinians generally, or the area under the effective control of the Fatah-led State of Palestine specifically.)
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There's plenty of evidence that banks intentionally mislead consumers through predatory lending schemes, signing them for (and misrepresenting the terms of) loans that they knew that the borrower would not be able to pay back. They did so under the explicit premise that the bad mortgages would be lumped in with other investment products and then sold off.

A lot of people were defrauded. The economy is still trying to recover. I don't think people who lost homes or are struggling to find work and make ends meet would consider any of this to be an internet trope.
Technical people are accustomed to looking at the technical limitations of a problem space and then coming up with a solution. If the person managing the game then says "rule violation: you can't do stuff I don't like" it seems unfair.

The better way is to design the API in such a way that it can't be "abused". It's Apple's fault that iHasApp was able to do what it did, and it's Apple's fault that Facebook continues to do what iHasApp did.
What do you mean "Here goes my dream". On the contrary, here's your chance to have that dream. Where there was little or none before.
On my system, PyPy is 4x faster than the fastest Cython version given.
It's amazing to me how people can be pointed to literally where in a charging document you can find where the government actually included murder-for-hire as part of the charges against Ulbricht and yet "people here" can still manage to avoid seeing it...
Also, can you please avoid drinking water for the next 4 days... I think you might be addicted, if you're not addicted you won't show any signs of withdrawl.

Addicts suffering from water withdrawl often drink amounts that are unsafe for their health which is why marathon runners have to be given water adulterated with mind altering metals like sodium and highly toxic chlorine to make it safe for them to drink.

It's kind of insane that water addiction would drive people to ingest water in such vast amounts that you'd have to add chlorine and sodium to make it safer.

If you think places unsafe for swimming are marked I would hazard a guess that you haven't spent much time in the outdoors.
Mozilla didn't start white-listing web sites which it determined didn't snoop on the :visited property, and black list all other sites. Instead, it fixed the API.
I wasn't aware suspecting someone of embezzling (whether or not its the proceeds of your criminal enterprise) was generally an accepted justification, or even significant factor in mitigation, for torture and murder.
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I had the same reaction. Water access for Israel is a question of security, while a drought in California is just the ugly underbelly of needless excess and unsustainable policy rearing its head.
So because Israel invested in early warning systems, mandates shelters to be built, and build anti missile systems like iron dome which shoots down incoming rockets and thus the amount of injuries is lower it's their fault?

Sure let's get rid of all that and play the number game...

There is not correct statistics of the number of innocent victims from air strikes. The one coming out of a terrorist organization? They count every dead as a civilian.

The Israeli Air Force tries to minimize the number of casualties, there have been numerous occasion where they canceled an operation while it's in the air because innocent civilian will get hurt, even if it means the terrorist will fire at Israeli target or get away.

If Israel really wanted to kill as many as they can, the would, they would just carpet bomb that place, they don't so your argument is invalid....

Israeli isn't an angel but it's not the devil you try to make it be.
Navigating away from the page, although there was no interaction on the popup that would have kept them on the site so they left entirely.

It should be noted that the traffic to that site at that point was nearly 100% search traffic looking for a specific data point and the content on the page was tables of data, not an article. I would assume that a site with an engaging article would have a much smaller bounce rate.
He was also charged in a separate jurisdiction, yes, but murder-for-hire was actually a component of one of the charges he was accused of in this trial.

Either way enough relatives of deceased drug abusers testified at sentencing, and enough heartless chat logs of DPR's were introduced as evidence, to rather eviscerate the idea that Silk Road was completely "victimless".
> Making natural gas cheaper should not be one of our priorities. It's non-renewable and contributes to carbon emissions.

Your attitude is WHY there is so much CO2 emission.

If everyone switched to natural gas no one would worry about global warming. You would not be happy if CO2 emission was slashed in half in one go? Because that's what switching to natural gas would do.

Instead people bash it because it's not perfect.

Quite the opposite: If you actually cared about climate change cheaper natural gas would be your top priority.
So you agree that Alupis' item is completely false, which was my sole point.

As an aside, you conveniently neglect to mention that Curtis Green feared Ross would have him killed simply because Curtis had been arrested and Ross knew that he might spill the beans. And since Curtis knows Ross better than you or I do, and the fact that he managed to predict that Ross would try to have him killed, brings into question whether the money really made a difference.
I think you do have something there, but that only works if the manager has discretion to do so. For instance, at a mom & pop shop that's clearly possible. However, if wages are pegged by HQ and there aren't slots to move someone up, this sounds like a waste of time. The employee is only getting the pay and time spent flipping burgers out of it.
From the article:

Mr. Shezaf, who also grows olives, prefers older agricultural methods and says desalination is essentially a privatization of Israel's water supply that benefits a few tycoons.
The probability of swarming would be influenced by multiple factors, eg

* Higher popularity => More peers => Higher probability that multiple peers want the same packfiles.

* Higher popularity => More commits => More permutations of packfiles => Lower probability that multiple peers want the same packfiles (and stronger trends toward small/inefficient packfiles).

* More frequent synchronizations (peers always online) => More immediacy => Smaller packfiles => Higher probability that multiple peers want the same packfiles.

* Less frequent synchronizations (peers go offline regularly) => Less immediacy => Bigger packfiles => Lower probability that multiple peers want the same packfiles.

It would be really interesting to see how these competing pressures play-out (either by doing some math or randomized experiments).

If the main goal here is strictly decentralization (without concern for performance or availability[F1]), then one might look at swarming as a nice-to-have behavior which only happens in some favorable circumstances. However, by latching onto the "torrent" brand, I think you setup some expectations for swarming/performance/availability.

([F1] Availability: If Seed-1 recommends a certain packfile, then the only peer which is guaranteed to have that packfile is Seed-1 -- even if there are many seeds with a full git history. If Seed-1 goes offline while transmitting that packfile, how could a leech continue the download from Seed-2? The #seeds wouldn't intuitively describe the reliability of the swarm... unless one adds some special-case logic to recover from unresolvable packfiles.)

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Could this be mitigated with some constraints on how peers delineate packfiles?