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> because it's handguns that do the dirty work

I'd also like to point out that the Supreme Court of the United States of America affirmed that individual ownership of semi-automatic handguns (cited example, but, "common use" is the test) is a protected right.

We have a financial inequality and mental health problem (somewhat stemming from said inequality) in this country, not a firearm problem. These are the problems that need addressed to reduce crime.
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I disagree with this in part. I'm using spaced repetition to learn maths - and without it I just wouldn't progress at all. My natural aptitude isn't great.

Can you say a little bit more about what you mean by immersion? Do you mean - say, having a teacher who can show you a problem from multiple angles, allowing you to triangulate your understanding by asking numerous questions... etc? Things like this?

I do agree that in terms of developing immediate understanding - having access to this environment allows you to obtain understanding quicker. And I agree that it doesn't cohere well with spaced repetition learning.

However, the problematic thing with learning with this way is that unless you go on to use it daily, you lose almost all of it. So all you manage to do is pass tests throughout your life - never developing a full suite of knowledge that you can deploy. What an enormous waste of time!

Given that the energy needed to learn/recall an individual card drops exponentially over time, over the long term this is a vastly more efficient process for retaining information.

The only question is whether it can be used to learn complex and abstract ideas. I believe it can.

Here's how I typically progress with learning a difficult, abstract mathematical concept or problem.

First pass - I'll rote memorise a solution.

Then after a couple of weeks - I'll typically forget various parts of the solution. More often than not these will be sub-problems that I don't completely understand. So I'll create new cards that will provide training on these smaller sub-tasks. In the meantime, I'll rote learn the solution to the larger problem again.

What I find is that no matter how many times I rote learn a complex solution, eventually I typically forget it. But the smaller, easier concepts stick. Eventually my rote knowledge gets swapped out progressively by the smaller units of understanding and I end up being able to work through the solution without remembering it as a whole at all.

This is a frustratingly slow process in the beginning - particularly if you are starting at the very beginning of a new field (as I am with maths). But in my experience it's worth it. For the first time in my life I feel I'm actually really learning a topic in a way that I'll truly own.
> Noun phrases need determiners on them or they feel ungrammatical.

Nature abhors a vacuum. One giant leap for mankind.

The rules for when articles can/must be left out are quite complicated :(
Good for Greece. What they now need asap is digital drachma with automatic tax on incoming transfers, capital controls on imports, default on debts to ECB, haircut on deposits above 100k, exit Schengen/Russia sanctions and currency swaps with Russia and China/India. Next they need to improve balance of trade by devaluing drachma, removing expensive imports, replacing EU imports with imports from China, encouraging local food and energy production, exporting fish/fruits/vegetables to Russia and China. Also cut defense expenses with defense pact with Russia vs attack by Turkey and sell old military equipment to Iraq. Once all of this is done, they can start fighting corruption and waste, which can be done by cutting max pensions, reducing the public sector and centralizing government services.
The original idea was for people to share their home or room to strangers. This was not a good idea, but pivoting into the illegal hotel business where the properties are continually rented was a good idea - at least until there is a major crackdown.
Why do I always find it funny (and sad) when this happens?

Interesting to see that they do in fact work with oppressive governments...
Thats great, so which is it then, total dollars or return on federal dollars?

If i put in 1k in federal taxes and get 800 back, what matter is it what state i'm in? Or are we saying Delaware residents getting 70 cents on the dollar is not as bad as Californians getting 95 cents because there are more people, thus Californians are more important?

I'm honestly not trying to be a dick here but what exactly is the argument outside of if you aren't California or New York, you're not important to the conversation.

Give me numbers not supposition, how much has California invested in federal dollars versus the other 14 states getting less than their input. Without that this amounts to a pointless discussion.
There are plenty of reposts that make it on the front page, and they were expressly ok-ed in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html It got posted for the same reason anything gets posted: someone thought it was interesting, and it was upvoted to the front page because others thought it was interesting, too. Plus, Sunday.

IMHO, the community benefits far more from folks weighing in with their opinions or discoveries or complaints in the comments than the actual link itself.
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400GB dump?! Can't imaging how many 'accomplices' will get sucked into this!
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I would argue that "the" is a determiner, and the class of determiners is mostly closed. A determiner is the root of a determiner phrase. A determiner phrase can consist of only the root, like "the" or "a", but it can also be more complex like "every other", "uncomfortably few", or "90% of".

(This is all from chomsky's x-bar theory [0], which dates back to the 60s. I'm not aware of another model of syntax that better captures reality, but I'd love to hear about such.)

So the class of determiners is probably closed, but the class of determiner phrases is not (because phrases like "fewer than five of", "fewer than six of", etc are "generative" i.e. you can generate as many as you like).

I could absolutely conceive of a situation where a certain determiner phrase gets used so much in a community that an abbreviation becomes accepted as a new determiner. Perhaps parliamentary procedure buffs, who (say) care about 2/3s majority just as much as simple majority ("most"), come up with "tooths" meaning "at least two thirds of", and it becomes accepted as jargon within that community. Could totally see it happening. In fact, if anybody knows of any such instances I'd love to hear about them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory
It's a UI innovation that is found in OS X, but Apple did not invent it.

I meant my list to be more like: here are some big innovations in window-based GUI computing, which can be found in OS X. Not that these are all exclusive to OS X.

People say nothing has changed in desktop GUIs but I remember the dark times before tabs and window managers. Constant dragging, resizing, and minimizing windows just to keep track of things. Same with desktop search--constant careful folder curation just to keep files from getting lost and forgotten.
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We will certainly see. Given the rhetoric I expect Greece to simply disavow the debt, leave the Euro Zone, and let them figure it out. It isn't like you can repossess a country.

The interesting question then is what happens next. Either they recover their economy (at least briefly) because they aren't carrying any sort of debt costs and the rest of the EU does nothing? Look to see Spain and maybe Portugal jump ship as well. The EU freezes them out, basically letting the black market set the value of the drachma, and we see hyper inflation in Greece where the price of everything goes up several hundred percent a year (maybe even a month) like it did in Argentina. Or maybe we see the Russians bail them out and give them a favorable exchange rate to roubles which can then be converted into dollars or euros. That sort of "help" comes with some strings that perhaps the Greek people will put up with, perhaps not. No matter what we'll get to see what happens when a country does the equivalent of filing for bankruptcy.

My guess is that Greece will see economic turmoil like the various South American countries for the next 50 years, but its only a guess as I don't think we've been in this sort of situation in Europe since the end of WWII.

I think Piketty could have said that without insulting the Germans.
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I think the more accurate assertion should be residents only. Or no long term unoccupied properties so people rent them out. Or you get my home town of Vancouver[0] or you get London[1], which is even more complicated. If your not a resident, then you can deal with just renting. In asian countries where they limit ownership to only citizens or residents, and your not china, you don't see such huge property value booms, and the average citizen there can afford a property.

I think the only reason why the bay area has become another Vancouver yet is because it has the huge tech industry surge to help support the prices somewhat. Also wide anti-NIMBY regulations could help a lot too.

The consequences of autocratic regimes and their capital flight is being felt around the world [2][3].

[0] http://saeidfard.com/post/113616107456/the-decline-of-vancou...
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/28/london-the-ci...
[2] http://business.asiaone.com/news/chinese-become-biggest-fore...
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign...
How can you miss his devilish good looks under the hoodie?

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Just look at how seductively he lifts his hoodie to reveal his face in the darkness, 10/10 would buy exploit again.
It would be bankruptcy rather than austerity - all businesses will likely go belly up in the coming weeks, including the government. Work will be on the honor system, barter, and IOUs.

So it's a rock and a hard place choice - austerity for 15-20 years or bankruptcy followed by maybe a new deal, betting that Europe won't let one of its own starve to death.

If they lose their funding they need to do both of:

1. negotiate a new deal with their creditors

2. Get emergency humanitarian funding to feed people and keep hospitals running

3. start paying people in IOUs (which could eventually turn into the new drachma if #1 doesn't work out).

Exiting the Euro completely would be disastrous for both Europe and Greece - there's a year or more of IT work required to introduce a new currency and one can't run an advanced economy on cash only. And Europe would have a €250 billion hole across the major powers that would need to be covered by its taxpayers if it can't get it from Greece. Legally by EU law they could sue Greece for its actions which then opens up questions about membership in the EU itself.
The long answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_debt_crisis

TLDR: Greek debt is used as collateral for loans by European banks. When Greek debt takes a haircut, most (nearly all) European banks have to choose one of two options : either they can raise capital equivalent to the net Euro value of the haircut OR they have to reduce the amount they're loaning out by the net Euro value of the haircut times 100 (it was times 50 in the last crisis). In practice for most banks that will mean raising 3-4% capital (which will still seriously impact their share price of course), but apparently in a few cases it's near-distressed banks that'd need 20%.

Most banks will use a combination of both, so this will mean that effectively money loaned out across Europe by banks will have to reduce by 5%-10%.

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/mr/html/calc.en.htm...
Author here. AMA. Happy to work out the details of how this would work if anyone would like to see. It takes a little more than just "bitcoin" - you don't want most transactions to be on the blockchain, for instance. Instead, we would do what Streamium did, which is to use payment channels. That will allow for tiny payments.

Also, how the hosting and sharing of content works requires a lot of effort. We can use Web RTC to do the p2p communication over the web. Most people don't yet know this exists - but p2p communication over the web is indeed possible. The only catch is that you need a rendezvous server. That server would be run by anybody, so the network would be two tiered - the simple-to-use web clients that share content but don't provide the rendezvous service. Then the "full nodes" where the users would also run a rendezvous service, allowing people to find each other.

To most users it would look and feel similar to reddit. Anyone would be able to run a "business" by just running the "full node" app full-time and delivering the content to users.

Of course there's a lot more to it than this. I've solved many of the problems, but not all, and there is no prototype yet. But I believe the fundamental technology now exists to create a decentralized reddit, where the users get paid for hosting the system and providing the content.
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That would be preferable to what happened to me once. I tried using a + filter and it was accepted but I never received booking information for my trip. When my trip was getting closer I realized I didn't have a confirmation number, and after a long conversation with customer service, it turned out that instead of "<email>+<filter>@gmail.com" my email address was saved as "<email> <filter>@gmail.com", so nothing ever made it through to me.
To continue along your analogy, that would be akin to the local population saying "there's need to involve police forces, it's only the one guy"
"Just because there's a violent criminal in town doesn't mean we have to do anything about it, we're on the whole nice people"

Instead of you know, assisting the police with their enquiries, teaching their kids it's not ok to slice open people, volunteering for search parties to find the victims, organising groups to walk kids to and from school, etc.
I've been in guitar orchestras, what we do is annotate our sheet music with optimal finger positions as we work through the piece. Especially for long pieces you can't necessarily keep in your head, this helps with sigh-reading tremendously since the positions are written in the sheet music.

Some sheet music for guitar also has note-level annotations for string number and finger positions, which does the above for the guitarist.
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A similar discussion got posted to Reddit a while back, and nobody seems to be mentioning that the phrase that has everybody so riled up ("domains used for online financial transactions for commercial purpose should be ineligible for [WHOIS] privacy and proxy registrations") is taken entirely out of context. If you read the actual document, it's clear that this is a suggestion from a few specific parties to the discussion, and it is emphatically not the opinion of the ICANN working group as a whole, much less does it rise to the status of a "proposed rule". From the PDF: (https://gnso.icann.org/en/issues/raa/ppsai-initial-05may15-e...)

> The WG agrees that the status of a registrant as a commercial organization, non-commercial organization, or individual should not be the driving factor in whether P/P services are available to the registrant. Fundamentally, P/P services should remain available to registrants irrespective of their status as commercial or non-commercial organizations or as individuals.

...

> As noted above, the WG agrees that the mere fact of a domain being registered by a commercial entity, or by anyone conducting commercial activity in other spheres, should not prevent the use of P/P services. In addition, a majority of WG members did not think it either necessary or practical to prohibit domain names being actively used for commercial activity from using P/P services.

...

> the WG does not believe that P/P registrations should be limited to private individuals who use their domains for non-commercial purposes.

I think it's telling that the vast majority of feedback came from members of the public who read Namecheap's call-to-action at https://www.respectourprivacy.com/. As an outsider, it looks to me like Namecheap and the EFF are purposely distorting the situation to drum up some positive PR.
I believe the statistical lesson here is widely applicable, and may well be of use if data analysis - particularly of rare events - is part of your job.
I can give you some idea. I've had two surgical procedures where something like midazolam was strongly recommend, but opted out for one of them. The one I opted out of was a four hour procedure sawing on bone and soft tissue.

For the procedure on midazolam, I have virtually no recollection of the procedure except for about a minute in the middle where it apparently wore off. It was a completely neutral experience.

For the other procedure, it was extremely unpleasant for two reasons but I got through it like a stoic. First, they had trouble keeping up with the local anesthetic, too many nerves involved, so there was quite a bit of transient pain and it got sloppier over the length of the procedure as the doc got tired. Second, even when you can't feel pain, you can still feel them tearing up your tissues and rearranging your parts, which is disconcerting if nothing else. Overall, I strongly recollect just how unpleasant and painful (even under anesthetic) that procedure was. I probably would not be able to tell you any of this if I was on amnesiacs because I would not remember.

It is really about where your thresholds are. Like you, I find the loss of memory on the amnesiacs disturbing and the alternative, anecdotally, was far more unpleasant than I think some people imagine. The experience that I remember doesn't bother me that much because that is my nature but I can't deny that I have vivid memories of it. I can easily imagine that many people would prefer to not have those memories. That said, I would likely elect to forego an amnesiac again if I thought it would inconvenience me (i.e. by making you useless for several hours). I can deal with the experience.
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"regulations are annoying, it cuts into our profit margin when we have to find a reseller and give them a percentage"[0]

Well this could certainly shed light on the role that contractors operate in ways we have yet to see from the snowden "leaks" (of which most still remains unleaked[1])…

RE: "Media practice of consulting with governments on what to publish or withhold of material disclosed by risk takers, is anti-democratic, unconsitutional, venal, protective of privilege and betrayal of public trust."[2]

[0]: https://twitter.com/hackingteam/status/617892908583243776

[1]: http://cryptome.org/2013/11/snowden-tally.htm

[2]: http://thecryptosphere.com/2014/07/24/cryptome-kills-the-kic...
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I play guitar and find having both sheet music and tablature together useful. Sheet Music has an incomparable amount of timing information and other nuances, and tablature has the fingering positions you can sight read effortlessly once you've got the piece down.
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I would say that the definiteness use of "the", perhaps alone among English words, doesn't even have a part of speech because it's related to the thematic structure of English, whereas parts of speech are defined in the grammatical structure of languages. So "a" and "the" are different animals in a way, and perhaps shouldn't even be taught together.
Although arrow functions are nice, they've been around in the form of lambda expressions in C# and other languages for some time, so the initial reaction was more of a "about time" rather than a "wow!" for me. Same goes for generators/yield keyword.

Thanks for pointing out the key difference between arrow functions and inline functions being the context of 'this'. 'this' is going to be a source of confusion for a lot of people.
It's possible to get power without flexibility. Flexibility is bad -- it creates code that is idiomatic to the person who wrote it.

Rust and Go are so exciting because they've intentionally rejected flexibility without compromising power.
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My apologies for suggesting that you would be callous and unsupportive of a colleague in such a stressful situation. It's easier to understand how this connects the industry to such abuses by bringing one's company into the discussion, but you are right that it is unfair to you and her other colleagues who I know no better than Jess herself.

But I'm glad to hear that you would take this seriously. And Jess sounds like a hell of a person. I know it would be difficult for me to handle the kind of abuse she describes.
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> Proper nouns like George Washington don't need a determiner.

"Nature" is a proper noun (there is, after all, only one.).

"One" is a determiner. "mankind" is a proper noun.

Absolutely agree that, in colloquial English, the rules for when articles / determiners (and any other part of speech really) can be elided are complicated. I quite routinely ask people "time is it", leaving out the "what".
Because one of those things is you acting on your own initiative under your own control, and the other is dependent on someone more powerful than you to grant permission and decide it's worth their time.