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Whether or not they were slaveholders. The fundamental reason the South went to war was to preserve slavery. That many of the soldiers did not own slaves themselves does not clear the flag of its meaning.

Considering that the states were united until the south started to secede (again, because of slavery), I'm not sure how the war can be framed in any other way. The north can only be called invaders in the context of the secession.
I should preface this by saying that Christmas dinner at the Hluska household is already complex enough...:)

On a serious note though, you allude to one of my favourite aspects of law. Throughout history, views on brother-sister marriage have changed. At points/places, it has been perfectly fine for brothers and sisters (especially in elite families) to get married.

I am far from an expert in this field so can't speak to why our norms changed. If you want to take this further, you should start with the Westermarck effect and look into the kibbutz study. Or, maybe consider how marriages between families evolved as a way of formalizing business or other strategic relationships. Either way, taboos are cool!!

For example, in ancient Greece, homosexuality was fine. Hell, even Zeus advocated it as a way to prevent pregnancy. Yet, by the early 1900s, it was considered mental illness through much of the world. Taboos are always in flux and I can't figure out why. Logically, you'd think that science and information sharing would make us all more liberal and taboo-proof, but I'm not sure that is happening.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
All I'm hearing is "I don't want to read about Cultural Marxism because I can't deal with the cognitive dissonance".
About polygamy: If I can share a company with two other founder, share its money and profits, share the building, etc. why can't I do the same thing with my private life if I want to? Instead of dividing by two, you divide by three, four... sixteen... why not?
Yes... until you take into account that this is only really useful for swim races, and is not really practical for 'survival' swimming.

Its a very difficult to learn swim technique that is really only useful when you are trying to maximize your speed very slightly over a very small distance to the extent you are willing to give up your ability to breath.

'Regular' swim strokes give you the ability to continue for large distances and to breath while you swim...
I don't think the graph says which request types are more or less common. The ordering could be arbitrary.

It would be interesting to know why some are slower. Perhaps they require very little processing and so the time becomes dominated by FFI transformations? It would be nice to know!
ES6 is quickly becoming the norm and now with Babel there is no reason not to embrace the future. https://babeljs.io/
I seem to find it funny when people talk of things killing "marriage". Divorce kills marriages, not more marriages! Let there be more happy marriages!
It does when those unintended consequences are immoral.
Speaking of functional/Haskell network tooling, this is a really cool project: http://www.pfq.io
Although it's sometimes a bit of work to find these opportunities, there are enough people with good ideas who need money these days. Friend of a friend-type stuff.

Occasionally, after talking to a startup about a potential employment opportunity, I'll ask if I can simply invest. They are usually flattered that someone would be so excited, and they are usually quite happy to take your money.

A final option is to invest in one of these new index funds that track startup performance. E.g., the SharesPost 100.
Anyone who eats out regularly in New York City.

Anyway. Cash is a boring solution, but you get bonus points if someone brings in a few hundred in dollar coins and $2 bills :P
Thank you. I do not know why but volcanoes and tectonics were intrinsically linked in my thinking. You have demonstrated that the possible mechanisms for surface geological activity can be so varied that this implicit assumption was completely unfounded. I will be reading more on this.
That isn't polygamy that verse describes.

Every instance of polygamy has a bad ending in the Bible.
Digging in the backyard like that makes me think of septic tank repair....

Hopefully she doesn't hit the drain field.
One thing's for sure, Facebook staffing did an amazing job hiring Haskell devs ;-)
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Strangely, there was no negatively in the comment you replied to, they were simply asking if is is open-source or not, as it didn't align with their expectations of github-hosted projects (I would argue this would be the case for most people).

Contrary to what you state, it is _not_ clear from the README that this is a commercial venture, just that the author provides an email address for any queries in relation to licensing, and actually includes _no_ copyright or restrictions on running the code in the provided documentation. One might even assume that since we've been provided a copy of the binary without any notices, we might be free to run said code without restrictions... but really, who knows? Hence the OP's questions.
Well, when I left, I went to Australia. Perth is expensive, not crowded and extremely clean :)

But after a few years I ended up back in the UK, on the south coast. It's nice here, and I have friends (unlike there!)
I'm gay and I agree with you.

But, it's not fair to ask gay people to wait around until marriage is removed from our entire legal system (taxes, immigration, property rights, family law, custody...). So in the mean time marriage equality is a much easier fix.

Maybe someday there will be a ruling based on the Equal Protections Clause that bans treating married people differently than unmarried people under the law. Wouldn't that be interesting?
As far as I know, Dolphins cheerfully swim on their sides when they want to. The point is they don't break the surface except when they want/have to so it does them no good.

Here's a video of a dolphin swimming in shallow water:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk0X9hbaTuU
Is Rails relevant today in the world of rich front end frameworks other than for legacy applications? I used to be a big fan of Rails but there is a steep learning curve and looks like there are better alternatives now.
The Linux desktop has been here for quite a while. If you expect to see high usage numbers, it's not going to happen. The problem is the entry barrier to a completely different OS. Most people when sit next to me, admire and are jealous of the things a Linux desktop can do (as does my friend from the story), but they can't invest the time needed to learn a new OS; there are literally hundreds of big and small things they have to forget and re-learn anew.

This is the funny part too, because for me the same happens with Windows. I can't invest the time to learn the new Windows (I left at Windows XP). Once I spent half an hour on Windows 8 trying to find out how I shutdown the machine! I even opened windows help! Another time I spent as much time on Windows 7 trying to make file extensions visible.
But you know that the gov't is not going to just drop marriage any time soon, so it's good that this is happening.

Would you rather continue the (imo) injustice in pursuit of a pie-in-the-sky reform?
> Why should people respect a system that doesn't respect them?

The people are the system, it is impossible for the system “democratic society” to disrespect “the people”. I also did not say that one must respect immoral laws, I said that breaking laws implies disrespect for the way by which these laws were put into place – namely the free democratic society.

You can disrespect immoral laws all day long and I encourage you to do so, just don’t break them unless absolutely necessary (because the alternative would be much worse). Taxi transportation is such a triviality that it certainly doesn’t qualify for that.
Why two? Civil marriage should be a normal contract between n entities that are allowed to engage in contracts. It seems extremely inelegant to have arbitrary restrictions on it.
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What you should ask yourself then is, why did they hire core Haskell contributors?
And then Uber, owning this fleet of cars, would be disrupted by a company that sells/leases self-driving car kits to people who then convert their own vehicles into robo-taxis.
> Today's decision pushes back the more important goals of social equality and cultural integration. These are arguably more important, as our interactions with marriage laws are a relatively minor part of our lives when compared to our interactions with people.

We've proven as a society that this won't happen without administrative action being taken from the top.

The legality has real consequences for people right this second, so waiting for the tide of change is absurd to ask of those that are affected.

Both fronts can be attacked simultaneously.

Though, I do agree there is a trend to pass a stopgap measure and to then pretend the problem is fixed.
Instead of 1 line, you can write 17!

This tool is an anti-pattern. Just learn regex.
How America achieved full marriage equality
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> A pretty major adjustment.

True, although flounders manage a similar 90° rotation, including migrating one of their eyes to the opposite side of their head during their early life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flounder#Eye_migration
Gays wanted this way to be a top down authoritarian decision not a bottom up democratic one so there you have it.

The govt should not be in the business of meddling with personal affairs in the first place except voluntarily and for minimum legal purposes.
No hearts and no minds are changed as a result of the supreme court rulings, just the code powering the justice system.

This assumes that peoples' moral judgments aren't influenced by societal opinion and that societal opinion isn't influenced by laws and the opinions of its leaders/elites. That seems like a tough case to make.

Today's decision pushes back the more important goals of social equality and cultural integration.

How so?
Heavy-handed? Do they block roads and burn things if you don't ride with them?
How would legalizing gay marriage increase the risk of anyone getting HIV? You're not making any sense.
My circle of friends use Venmo, I highly recommend it.
It often happens that recruiters will contact me on LinkedIn, on which my resume is essentially laid out in some detail, and then still demand a resume. I assume they have to enter an old-style resume into some sort of internal database, as per company policy.
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AI+VR

Edit: Just remembered this is already happening http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/none/love-plus-scourge-takes-ano...
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I admit I must plead ignorance on this point. I know ISIS is creating a bloodbath in the middle east, but I don't know the history well enough to comment on whether there's a flag that symbolizes that slaughter.

Out of curiosity, which flag do you mean? Be specific. One of the first flags on that page is the flag of Turkey so you probably don't mean all of them.
I think that's the Best TL;DR; of the ruling I've found so far.

#1 was found by the court almost 80 years ago in Loving vs Virginia[1]. What the court found was that this applied to the rights of same sex couples.

The court has been building the legal framework for this for about a decade. They found that Civil Unions must not be legally different from Marriage. From there it was a simple matter of ruling that existing civil rights rulings did in fact apply to LGBT folks.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
What's shocking to me is that we need permission from the state to marry, whether gay or straight. Why do we need the blessing of the government to marry anyway? We can have kids without permission from the state (so long as you aren't in China), why do we need to ask for permission and "apply for marriage"? In theory, applying for marriage implies the government could deny a marriage, gay or straight. Why do we implicitly give this power to the government?
Correct. And the restriction on two people is also a cheap hack. It should be more like an LLC where multiple entities join for tax and other concerns. Full stop.
> Then congrats on never suffering verbal abuse.

define: violence
"behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something."

It's clear that the meaning of "violence" is physical, not emotional.

> Someone accuses you of being a communist. Witch hunt ensues.

As I said: "It can facilitate violence, surely".
You can't just pull a quote like that out of context. Chappelle said the "gay sex is gross" thing twice, once was in the black bush character (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoDpghAaXT4) and the other was when he had a white girl sing his thoughts:

"Gay sex is gross; sorry, I just think it is. (gets another card) Unless, of course, they're lesbians. (gets another card) I like lesbians. (gets another card) I like lesbians."

Which is super tame compared to a lot of the other things Chappelle said back then, or even Louis CK says nowadays.
> And as long as we're talking about deciding which laws to obey, how about the taxi folks setting fires and other violent acts? Perhaps those much more serious crimes ought to get addressed, as well.

In my original post, I specifically mentioned:

(Note: I DO NOT condone property damage or violence)

Violent crimes and property damage should be prosecuted, just as Uber should be fined and prohibiting from operating unless they follow the law.
Its not about what I am thinking. I never said anything about my thoughts on it. Perhaps I think computer security can be improved with liberal applications of butter and jelly or something equally ridiculous.

The people in question think it is an issue. They do this because of their starting point.
The copyright industry wants "new tools to discover the identities of website owners whom they want to accuse of copyright and trademark infringement, preferably without a court order."
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I presently living in Indonesia, I cant sell software to overseas, there is no payment gateway here to accept international payment. my country has low internet penetration that's why...

I can only afford bank account, credit card is quite expensive to me as a homeless.I was born christian in country where Muslim is majority, some of 'em are racist.

paypal can transfers money directly into bank account I need such feature. Paypal not support in my country, bitcoin is hard withdraw, Please I'm not eating for few days just drink water.Thank you very much.
Another thing that is helpful, especially if you don't even have knowledge of the problem domain of the codebase: Write a glossary.

As you read the code and encounter terms/words you don't know, write them down. Try to explain what they mean and how they relate to other terms. Make it a hyperlinked document (markdown #links plus headings on github works pretty well), that way you can constantly refresh your memory of previous items while writing

Items in the glossary can range from class names / function names to datatype names to common prefixes to parts of the file names (what is `core`? what belongs there?)

Bonus: parts of the end result can be contributed back to the project as documentation.
For what it's worth, the 14th amendment was not adopted until 1868, nearly a century later.
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Any straight guy will, if given the choice, avoid scenes of man on man sex as much as possible. They might say it's "just not my thing" out of politeness or tact but watch what they do. When Chapelle said it it was funny because everyone watching can relate and it's a tension reliever to hear what you've been bottling up is actually true. Much comedy works this way.
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Company: https://www.staffjoy.com

Pitch: Our application decreases labor costs by precisely scheduling hourly employees to fulfill business demand. By preventing over and under-scheduling, we've been able to show a 10% decrease in labor costs with early customers.

Question: What wisdom do you have about "go-to-market" strategy in the retail space? We have startups as clients that are eager early adopters, but to cross the chasm to sustainable growth it seems that we will have to focus on retail companies and going to many trade shows. What can we do now to prepare?
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Stop defining marriage of any form? Isn't it shorthand for a collection of rights and duties that would be inconvenient to spell out by other means?
I for one do. They've diverged heavily since forking from OpenOffice. LibreOffice is a great project, I use it myself and I recommend it to all my friends and family.
As much as I love to see new things written in Go I am not a big fan of directly porting libraries written in different languages. It's not even that they're not idiomatic - I can live with that just fine. But the real power of Go comes from interfaces - two great examples being `io.Reader` and `io.Writer`. Once you can structure your library code so that it reasonably implements these standard interfaces you can do complex stuff in a trivial way. Say I want to get a file via HTTP, encrypt it while getting a hash of plaintext and upload it to say Google Cloud. I can pretty trivially do it by putting one `io.Writer` (Google Cloud) in another (encryption) and another (hashing, via `io.MultiWriter`) and then perform the whole thing using a simple `io.Copy`. This sort of expressive power can be achieved iff all libraries you're using adhere to the same philosophy - which is not the case with ports.
But marriage is not a religious thing.

Before most popular religions were created, marriage was already old.

For cultural reasons, it's popular to do a RELIGIOUS CEREMONY along the marriage. What's religious there is the ceremony, not the marriage.

You can have religious ceremonies without marriage, and marriages without the religious ceremony. Two independent concepts that, by happenstance, often come together.
Venmo. People in the office here use it for paying rent, and even splitting cash for cabs, food, and the like.
what? what's hateful? How's giving animals the status of humans hateful? I gave a no analogy there. I mentioned a possibility. Also, I am pretty sure 100 years back someone mentioning that gay marriage should be legal was categorized as hateful.
I am sure a lot of people don't myself included. We are talking about the law and minors though. Society sets that "consensual" age limit. I am sure everyone has their age "line in the sand" so to speak.
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You're not being ignored. Lots of people agree that, in an ideal world, the government not having a role in marriage would be a decent solution. This is not an ideal world and that political position is not feasible; in the art of the possible, that is not.

On the other hand, we have people being harmed by the unreasonable jank thrown at homosexuals who wish to marry. The perfect must not be made the enemy of the good out of a sense of ideological purity.
Thank you, so Rails would be a front runner choice for you when developing a new web application?
Even if your competing offer is ~$150k, it still makes sense to not work at the startup ALMOST every time (given that you are trying to maximize money--most are not). I've seen a few exceptions, but startup offers are usually that bad.

Also, based on my convsations with literally hundreds of startup engineers, I have seen three trends:

1. They care very little about how much they are getting paid due to being passionate about their work (awesome!)

2. If they do care about money, they are under the false belief that their startup options are worth more than than that startup's investors were willing to pay for them in the secondary market (i.e., the price of a nearby round)

3. They are almost always talented enough to get a high-paying job somewhere else
Thanks, bookmarked... I'm checking that out when I get home.
The audacity! Europeans had feudalism for... as long as I can remember! Who do those colonists think they are?
Maybe it's a signal to change jobs, or launch a startup, where folks aren't petty crooks? Life is short; time is precious.
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You're right, it is only my reasoning.

I continue to talk to my legislators to explain why Uber shouldn't be allowed to operate in the jurisdiction(s) where I take up residence. I encourage you to do the opposite if that's how you feel.

That's how democracy and government is intended to function.
Is there any example of a religious marriage service being funded by the government?

It seems like an unlikely, and possibly illegal, situation.
With the evidence being:

(a) The same survey cited incorrectly by the person I was responding to as evidence that the usage was not OK and should be exterminated.

(b) Webster's dictionary

(c) http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gend...

(d) http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2012/10/slang

(e) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.usage.english/yp...

(f) http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english...

(g) my personal experience as a language user and linguistics student

In all, if you want to avoid "guys" as an address, do so because it is too colloquial, which it might be, not because it is gendered, it isn't.

And as I wrote in my article: be prepared to be courteous to your audience. If there are people there who will take offense, you may choose something different. But it's not you, it's not the word, it's them.

Anyway: what is the evidence that it is not OK? Because it seems to me that the burden of proof is on the person wanting to prohibit/ban something, not on the person saying "do whatever you want, it's fine".
In fact, it appears to be ordered by performance. There's no other reason I can think of for that appearance.
I'm not talking about the owner but the broker, he is the guy in the middle making the deal happen.

I started to ask experienced entrepreneurs around me, none have heard of that before.
I thought that this would be obvious already.

Cool that they reported the bad nodes however.
Because the unions carry legal consequences, and are therefore the purview of the state.

That having been said, one could imagine that a government that didn't evolve from a religiously-knitted culture would have grounded those unions of family more firmly in contract law, not in a construct that's bound up with gender requirements.

... and when you can find such a government on the entirety of Earth, let me know. ;)
I think it's trickier than that because tax laws are deeply intertwined with institutions like marriage.
> Was this a question? I don't think I've heard anyone ever say otherwise.

As a former Mormon, I'll give a resounding YES. Mormons have a persecution complex. And whenever Prop 8 or gay marriage is brought up it gets even worse. They tend to inflate opposition - you say "we should legalize gay marriage" and they will respond "I have a right to talk about my religious beliefs!!"
I try to compose a formal model and algebra of the codebase - quite informally, mind you. Takes a bit of pen and paper and a few caffeinated drinks usually.

People really do learn quite differently and everyone needs to find their mode of learning - there is no one single true way. This is one of the most important skills in software development, IMO. Once you learn how you learn you can apply it to most new contexts.

I write stuff down because for me that-the process of writing seems to be the most effective way to learn.