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Nesting mappings are worse in TOML imo
I recall a interview in recent years with James Burke, about his Connections tv series.

At one point he mentions that he basically had to ignore certain aspects to fit things into a clean narrative, as things were just so darn interconnected.

And even then you get some inkling of that in some episodes, where he basically has to tell the viewers to keep some event in mind while he rewinds and starts on a different branch that will eventually reconnect to the event to drive the story onwards.

And from a technical aspect you can sometimes see this in old telecom setups. Where now retired box A was used to bootstrap box B, that then bootstrapped box C, that was used to bootstrap box A+1. Except that if you then have a complete power failure you find that you can't bring up any of it because none of them can be booted on their own.
That's great! What's changed in the last 30 years that serves are so much faster? Racket design? Balls? How we measure the serve?
He found problems with the identity binding where if even a short-term key was compromised, it would allow impersonation attacks in the future[1]. That's a poor way to handle failure (and it's fixed in CurveZMQ with the minor changes he proposed) but it requires a key compromise to exploit so it's not as bad as a straight-up misbinding attack which any MitM can exploit.

[1] https://codesinchaos.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/curvecp-1/
> Or I don't care about freedom to bear arms because I don't have a gun

You're doing it wrong. If you want to paraphrase one of the two affirmations in that quote, you need to write something like: "Or I don't care about freedom to bear arms because I don't have anything to shoot at".

The second part of that structure is showing a use case for that freedom (speaking, publishing, shooting). Simple possession is not enough.

So concentrate more the next time you feel like entertaining this fantasy that civilians need to be able to freely shoot at stuff, just like they need to freely speak and publish.
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Thanks, we changed the url to that from http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost..., which doesn't have any context.
I had a fear of flying (still do, but I can manage it better) and sleeping would have been the best thing to get through the flight. However, I could never do it. Therefore, I would do everything possible to distract myself from the fact that I was in a plane for the next 7-12 hours. In fact, I recall reading the entire Akka documentation from start to end on a red-eye flight from Washington to London. It was very dry, but it kept my mind off it.

The crazy thing is I loved flying when I was a kid. How nice it is to be ignorant
That's actually a really great visualization. Technology and progress are fractal. There's also increasing cost, and generally diminishing returns (both also addressed by Tainter). Chip tech is a very notable outlier, but even there you've got the end result impact: what exactly does more processing power, storage, and transmission speed buy you? Particularly in terms of the lower end of Maslow's hierarchy.

Another aspect is that tech tends to have a narrower operating bound than low tech: prerequisites and conditions which must be met. Higher tech means less flexibility.
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I recently learned that French national ID cards were put in place during WWII / Vichy regime. Weird.
Same here. I used to answer a lot of android stuff when android was new and eventually it got too big and a lot of lazy questions got pretty much spammed. I loved helping people (I think out of ~400 posts two were my own questions) but eventually you get tired of "my toast isnt showing" or any other question like that. I gave people the benefit of the doubt as much as possible, but in some instances I could copy the question title, paste it as-is into google and the first hit was the answer.

Eventually I just deleted my account and left since my motivation to answer stuff over there was a bit more than "I'd like to help people". I also liked to find questions I can't answer and figure out how to solve them on my own. Those became buried under lazy questions to a point where I had to dig for hours to find one. Maybe android was/is a bit of an extreme case, but still I see the same pattern more or less when I occasionally browse SO after finding an answer to my own problems over there.

As for the OP, I think a lot of people don't get the SO format. Yes, that post contains a lot of very useful information. That's great, but: No it's still not a good fit for SO, SO is for specific questions with a clear answer and that post isn't that. It's overly broad in scope and has no right answer. One can argue about whether deleting really helps anybody (don't think so personally), but closing it seems appropriate considering how the site is supposed to work.
double-check the OpenVPN log after you connect to the server. I had to add a flag to tshark in the provided up.sh script to make multicast forward properly.
And stop throwing your butts out your car windows!

They (use to, don't know if they still do) make ashtrays in cars. Most people I knew who had them and smoked didn't use them. They a) couldn't be bothered to clean it out regularly and/or b) didn't want the butts to stink up their car. But b) was pointless, they and their car already stunk like cigarettes. Their noses just could detect it anymore.
Many generations have changed to adopt newer forms of transit than the previous generations. I'm pretty sure the pony express doesn't run anymore. Did you think we would never change forms of transit again? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/16/t...
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A navigation device can be messed up for any number of reasons, but none of them are responsible for causing accidents.

The only thing that would cause an accident would be if the driver diverted his or her attention from the road instead of stopping the vehicle in a responsible manner.
We're not talking about scientific discovery, we're talking about programmers typing questions into google. If you start from 'I want to use sun.misc.Unsafe but I don't know what for - let's see what Google comes up with' you are clearly up to no good.

This question is useful as a place for blogposts to link to, not as a primary answer to a question you might Google. So it's 'wrong' for stackoverflow in that sense. But no, I'm not agreeing that mods should have closed it, and I didn't say it should have been purged from SO. Luckily, it hasn't been, so we can stop worrying.
Be careful on the escalators in the Tube. You are instructed to keep right if you wish to stand, so that the left side is clear for people to walk if they are in a hurry.

In general I have never noticed a preference for which side to walk on on a pathway, in the UK or anywhere else. People tend to stick with the peleton.
It was not clear if energy capacity has recently increased but the article did state that last year on average it produced 39% from wind. That being the case, focusing on conservation seems like a good idea still...
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...that last part...

Deliberately inverting motivations or reversing cause and effect is a common form of humor. Another example: "If you want to wear your seatbelt, get into a car crash."
This essay doesn't really say anything new (there's literally a Wikipedia article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument and the religious registry being put to evil use has more or less reached classic status when it comes to discussions of it).

A more interesting essay might analyze the beliefs and attitudes that lead to people agreeing with the statement, and (perhaps) why they are problematic.

(It's actually quite difficult to figure out why people are comfortable saying they have nothing to hide, it's masked by the sea of text explaining they are wrong)
I guess my question is why do we accept alcohol as a safe choice? There is some unknown number of drinks in some unknown amount of time where alcohol becomes neurotoxic and diminishes memory and general intelligence. The best approximations I have seen is about 4-5 drinks.

For those at risk alcohol can push them over the threshold into sleep apnea.

Over time alcohol makes one less attractive. Broken blood vessels, and looser skin from the inflammation from going to sleep intoxicated.

But clearly alcohol is useful and enjoyed by most adults, its ubiquity at social events is clear evidence, I believe its a critical social imperative to develop and promote healthier alternatives.
Doesn't the halting problem pose an obstacle in deciding whether two types act in an equivalent way (similar to how the equivalence between two programs is undecidable)?
Denmark is rather small (1.5x Hawaii), it has a high population density and the population is relatively evenly distributed. The area in Denmark where you could put a rural vacation house without being relatively close to an existing electrical line is almost nonexistent.
That's a valid point, because no one listens to music when they're not in a car, ever.
Well, to clarify (seeing how I can't edit my post) - if I was in OP's position that's what my concern would be. As I live in the UK I'd have to be careful about hosting things like BDSM pictures as the porn laws here are rather retarded.
A few things:

> somehow this became twisted by the furious mob

There's no mob here. If anything, most people seem unfamiliar with this episode.

> Legally in the US you are guaranteed three months of unpaid leave for getting sick

Except where one qualifies for protection under the ADA [1].

> That's not just not despicable, it's laudable

There are two things here. That Reddit maintained the employee for nearly two years, as you say, is clearly laudable, though this decision predated Pao. My overall view of the situation, and likely this goes for others, is in how it was ultimately handled, where Pao said one thing to the employee then did another, more than once. I can see a situation where this could have been handled openly and candidly, with humanity, but that's not what happened.

Maybe in the end he would have relapsed again, and maybe his doctor would have determined that he was too sick to perform his duties, and maybe firing him for that actually would have been legal (without knowing his ADA status we can't know), but that's quite a few 'ifs'. Not knowing what would have happened, Pao could have addressed the uncertainly in an honest way, but instead she chose to lie to and then fire the employee. I'm not a one man mob, and I respect your difference of opinion, but that to me is despicable.

[1] http://www.cancer.org/treatment/findingandpayingfortreatment...
Seems you gotta find it through this map: http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/
There is a tendency among the new mods to retroactively close questions which were asked and answered years ago. Honestly, I don't get it.

Here is a question of mine for example (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4701538/javascript-based-...).

Leaving aside the question if the question is indeed off-topic, I don't know why anyone will come 4 years later and question intelligence of person asking the question and person answering it. Are these mods suddenly wiser than participants 4 years ago or here to stroke their ago?
Maybe, maybe not. My friends and I are all pushing 40, most don't own cars (including some of the people with kids, mind), several of us don't even have licenses.

Like I said, the world changes. We got to this autoist-centric world slowly and through a lot of policy choices, and we'll move away from it the same way.
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If you seek to be neutral in this way, even if you are successful, then you are allowing advantages from other sources to carry over.

If you're hiring, other sources are none of your business. You have limited information and limited scope of responsibility. The only alternative to what KaiserPro described is subverting your position as an employer/interviewer to try to "correct" some general issues of your choosing by "reverse" discrimination. There are many self-evident problems with this.

Why should you as an interviewer act like some ultimate judge of privilege? How do you know it will help to solve the general issue? Why should the particular person you're interviewing be affected by what's effectively a stereotype? Not to mention that "reverse" discrimination is still just a form of discrimination, so you're effectively supporting it. If you're allowed to discriminate in the way of your choosing, how can you demand others to not to do the same?

That is not neutrality.

You're simply redefining the word to mean nothing and then using that to attack the concept it used to refer to.
At the time of construction it was one track and stayed like that for a long time. Same true for other East European countries I lived in - English tech one track. Upgrade to two tracks happens much-much latter. Even France, Alsace trains travel on right side!
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No. It's important to separate technology creators and users. Physicists should bear no blame for the use of atomic weapons. Cisco, IBM and others are, likewise, just technology providers. Google, OTOH, actively uses its technology.
Also please remember that vaping is very nearly as annoying as smoking to nonparticipants. It still hazes up the room, it still has a smell, etc. So be courteous when vaping, and don't just start vaping in any old place, least of all an office, train, or a non-vaper's private residence.
It really depends on the state. Making blanket statements about guns in the US is simply ignorant and stupid.

In NJ, for example, it's not even safe to move your guns when changing residences, let alone taking them out of the house at any other time for any other purpose (taking a handgun off your property is equal to committing robbery with it in the eyes of the law for example). There are some protections under the law, but those only apply after you've been arrested, charged, and had your life ruined--if you're lucky to have a judge who lets you bring them up, that is. With hollow point bullets, you can't even legally move them when you change residences, and have to leave them at your old residence (which might also be illegal). To even own a gun, you have to be a legal expert. NY, MA, CA, have similar, though perhaps slightly less draconian laws. You won't be able to get a carry permit (concealed or otherwise) even if you prove you have multiple stalkers who intend to do you harm or kill you.

NJ especially, I assume, is a model the anti-gun lobby wants for the whole country. There are no guns (especially handguns) legal outside one's home or place of business. We have such a peaceful state with no gun violence at all. I guess it's a small price to pay for persecuting all those gun owners.
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The easy, popular questions have been answered.
You're left formulating and answering long-tail questions. These understandably get less traffic and so less upvotes. People don't go around browsing SO and upvoting high quality answers. They solve their own problems and upvote/edit/comment along the way. And that's fine.
What I don't understand about the want to have freedom to bare arms (aside from moral arguments about what high levels of gun ownership does to society, but let's not go there) is that the only time I can imagine needing a gun in life is during a time of civil war or some similar sort of uprising. It would not make any difference to me what the law was in this regard if lawlessness had already broken out and I feared for my life.
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I just wasted an hour on there, it's amazing.
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I used to use something similar, but atool is far superior. It handles quite a few situations, but the most important is that it will decompress into the current directory (as a normal "tar zxvf foo.tar.gz" or "unzip foo.zip") if-and-only-if there was exactly one file or directory at the top level of the in the archive. If the archive was packaged badly, it will leave the resulting files in the temporary directory it creates. Also, atool leave the file(s) in the temporary directory in the event of a name collision, so you protected from the risk of clobbering existing files.

Without atool you have to either 1) create a temporary dir youself and do the dance I showed above, or 2) always inspect every archive before you decompress it to see if it has multiple top-level files, or 3) accept that typing "tar xvf" or similar will sometimes spam your current directory (often $HOME) with thousands of files.

Similar to how git tends to remove mental blocks around branching (you not longer have ot worry about the cost of making an arbitrary change), atool frees you from having to worry about how an archive was created. This has, in practice, saved huge amount of time and mental effort.
Interesting ideas. The cart driver sitting on the leftmost rear horse as a reason for driving on the right I can buy. However, I have a harder time with the idea that "feudal, violent societies" preferred to walk on the left in order to maintain the best position for using a sword against an oncoming opponent. The author doesn't locate this observation in time, other than to mention "feudal," but I don't believe that a large enough percentage of the people using the roads, at any time, carried swords for this to be a determining factor in forming the custom.
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Well, it's gamified for a reason. Sure, I'll hang out on IRC and help folks, respond to questions on YouTube video tutorials I've posted, etc. I'm certainly altruistic to a point, but throw a number in front of me and it becomes a competition. Combine that with the fact that folks get to "win" against me by posting a shit answer and stealing my work, and I'm just not gonna play that kind of game. I'm not gonna learn anything posting intro to Java answers, now am I?
Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.

We have. The question of how to eliminate "class privilege" has remained open for quite a while and will for as long as the optimal distribution of scarce resources is still an active field of study.

It doesn't actually mean "no privacy for anyone". For that to be the case, society would have to be actually egalitarian, e.g. post-privilege.

You're delving into Foucault territory here, which is fine but also somewhat tangential. Of course the people doing the spying and the people who fund it will be less affected (but maybe not with the bad state of infosec), that's a given where any power structure is involved.

How would egalitarianism fix this? I think you're operating under a wholly different definition of egalitarianism than is commonly accepted. The only way to solve your dilemma is through a stateless society with a totally flat hierarchy with a method of economic exchange that doesn't involve a market system, or any mechanism that awards having more information.

They don't get killed by drones for starters.

Not yet.

If someone says homeless alcoholics should be rounded up and put into camps, then the fact that they aren't that, and don't have a friend in that situation, is their "privilege" they may not be aware of.

That's just asymmetry. You can just as easily have it be an oppressed group calling for the internment of a dominant group, which by definition they will not be a part of, and may not even be in contact with if there are factors like apartheid put into play. Calling it "privilege" makes no sense.

"Privilege" is not a complicated word, it means what it means in context and is perfectly fine to use.

The sociological concept of privilege is in fact an inversion of what we generally call a privilege. Sociological privilege often refers to constant and immutable characteristics that cannot be taken away, and moreover makes the value judgment that the group with privilege is bad, and that said privilege must be abolished. This is totally ass-backwards: it should be that the disadvantaged group is elevated to the same level of privilege, because more often than not (excluding class) "privilege" simply refers to the baseline that preferably all groups should be held to.
"Collecting evidence" seems extremely broad. What is the evidence collection process? Access granted to servers, wire sniffing, seizing of hardware? How long will that process take? What recourse is available should the FBI seize hardware?

I know the parent commenter said they would speak with a lawyer, I just wouldn't take comfort in a casual remark by an FBI agent.
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Imagine the mafia started a country and then a hundred years later tried to clean up their image a little.

That's how I think of business and government there.
Open questions can get updated if there is new information (years later: "BTW, since version 7.3 this workaround isn't necessary anymore/this has been renamed to/...")

Closed as "out of scope"/"duplicate" isn't saying "this is finished, moving on", but "don't ask this kind of thing, go somewhere else, even if you probably would get a good answer to your related question here".
> oriented around'My new movie...

Incorrect. She did some of the best ones. The ones with Bill Murray and Sean Bean really stick out in my mind as being really great. You couldn't see either of them, but thanks to her you could make out inflections, emphasis and character. It was like hearing them talk, rather than having them type. Either way, regardless of what you think I loved the AMAs that Victoria assisted with, and so did a whole lot of other people. Pao took that away from us, and you're saying that we shouldn't criticise her for that?

> That this became the battle-flag to pitch-fork

He was almost recovered. He would have rejoined work in a month, but she rejected that. That reddit was so benevolent to him was thanks to hueypriest and Yishan Wong. She reversed this policy. Now you're saying its appalling that people are criticising Pao because Yishan and hueypriest were so nice.

> What does this even mean?

It means that the people most engaged with the site (top submitters and moderators) were unhappy with her. The site depends on these people for quality content This was written in really simple English, I don't see what your trouble with understanding it was.

I feel like you were in the flow of a "point-by-point takedown" and had to say something about the last line, but that left you looking pretty silly by the end.
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