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> If you, like me, or tptacek [1], were confused why this is a big deal, that's because it's not.

Ah yes, because you two are certainly the authorities on the matter.

> Standing up for "ethical journalism" was and continues to be one of GamerGate's most popular smoke screens.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It's getting stale that the diverse group of people associated along with GamerGate are merely harassers: you know that isn't true.

Downvoted. You use scare quotes and have to link to someone else's post in an attempt to add weight to your clearly weak argument, make no attempt to add evidence to your points and eventually fallback on claiming thinly-veiled harassment and misogyny. Absolutely no legs to stand on.

For some reason, your particular group of people cannot have a real discussion about ethics without dismissing it all together and then dropping your boogeyman term "GamerGate".

Why do you think that is?
Skyscrapers? Sporting stadiums? Megamalls? You could also probably consider large sections of the road network to be single objects.
Perhaps the UK's extensive canal network? Hmm, what was/is the convention for passing narrowboats? I presume it follows the road rule in all countries?
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"in general I always assumed you should walk on the right as a pedestrian for consistency"

You walk facing traffic not for consistency, but so that you can see what's trying to hit you. It doesn't apply so much for pavement/sidewalk, but you'll certainly live longer when there's no clearly separated area for peds.
Yes. It automatically replies to anything you say in the chat on that channel.
This project is a bit like the British 'Bloodhound' land speed record attempt in that there is a bit of 'Duke Nukem' about it, i.e. it is never going to happen! Very 'British' though, with the usual cause for failure, e.g. short term return on investment demands of the city, the uselessness of the government for backing 'British genius' and so on.

Anyone not sceptical is advised to watch the BBC documentary 'The Three Rocketeers':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_a21fPkYM

These guys have been begging for funding and making the same 'design studies' for decades, the fact that British Aerospace 'BAE SYSTEMS' have disowned the project is quite telling, it is not anywhere near being tangible and it never will be. The only lesson to be learned here is how not to run your start up!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vV8_uQmxs#t=673

If you have the time, I highly recommend Mark Blyth's explanation of the EU situation. The article is mostly right. Blyth goes into a lot more detail in the history (pre-euro), showing how the various banks of europe bet against their own sovereigns by exploiting how the bond yields were converging with the introduction of the Euro - often by getting all the Greek and other "risky", high-yield debt that they could.

If you thought "too big to fail" was bad enough in the US, at least our Fed could do something other than let the economy fail and now were starting to slowly recover. In Europe, they are "too big to bail", and I expect a few more countries to quickly follow Greece's lead fairly soon.
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While I no longer pay much attention to their editors, previous NY Times public editors and "conservative" columnists have been quite milquetoast. They fully understood the direction of the prevailing political winds.

I'm sure those editors pick their battles carefully. I have zero confidence that they are interested in anything but the most egregious of errors or corrections.
This is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen on the Internet.
In April 2013 Motorola invited my startup partner and I out to demo our new audio sync across multiple devices technology.

They talked about buying us potentially and we were crazy excited...

http://ryanspahn.com/my-google-NDA-experience.html
I want all the url submissions in a given subreddit, but all I can find in the tables is "link_id". How do I map link_ids to urls?
That's best-case. (Well, not really. Best case is that your disk isn't doing anything, the data is in one contiguous region, the head is in the right position, and the data is about to pass under the head.)

In actuality, it can be a lot worse. I've seen latencies of 500ms+ before, when the disk is in "seek hell". And right now my laptop has a median (!) latency of ~100ms. Mind you I'm listening to music and copying files in the background. But still.
I was responding to a comment about plaintext login credentials. I'm not claiming that bcrypting passwords somehow makes a database full of exquisitely private details somehow unimportant.
The banks counted on other countries to bail out any other in the eurozone, so they provided as much risky debt as they could. Maybe I'm cynical, but however this ends, it will probably end up being a wealth transfer from the european taxpayers to the banks. We've seen this time and time again recently: socialize private risk. The only way this ends is by letting the banks go down eventually, otherwise they will continue risky behavior, counting on the public to save them when things go wrong. Unfortunately the system is such that this is not in the interest of the politicians. Politicians with "good behavior" get cosy high paying jobs in the financial sector after their political career. Just look up any ex politicians and I bet you he or she is now working in the financial sector.

The solution for this is to extend a politician's salary for say 10 years after, and forbid them from accepting any money from any company for those 10 years. They can work for those companies for free if they want. They cannot get a cosy job after they've shown "good behavior" in their political career. The cost of this is a drop in the ocean compared to the perverse incentives this will remove. Say what you want about Dijsselbloem, but this is one thing that he gets right. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
I totally believe this is about bailing out French and German banks. It's also about making life really bad for Greece to encourage Ireland/Spain/Italy/Portugal they must keep paying back German/French banks.
It's kind of a hyperbole, granted, but most of our assumptions about disk access being faster rely on only one piece of software accessing that disk. With modern multi-core processors, pre-fetching and caching both at the application and the kernel level that assumption is quickly proven to be faulty.

10ms random seek is fine when you're only accessing one thing. But when multiple things are loading and alternating between locations it becomes significantly slower. Windows startup can be a pretty good indicator of this. I've got one system with an SSD (containing the OS) and a spinning platter drive for data. When I start it up, I have to wait for more than a minute before clicking anything or I end up with an unresponsive application for 3+ minutes. It still induces a quiet, resigned rage that such a powerful system can be nigh-crippled on boot.
It is amusing and sad that Merkel apparently described Tsipiras as "hard and ideological" when the German position is so clearly ideologically driven.

Merkel is risking her legacy over this, and Schäuble's legacy in Europe is basically sealed - barring something truly crazy happening, he'll be remembered for this, and just this, outside of Germany.

And in the end the outcome - no matter what they do - is that Greece will not pay all its debts. Everyone knows this. The IMF have gone historically far in expressing public dissatisfaction with the Euro group and the ECB over their unwillingness to accept this.

Yet they appear to insist on sticking with the alternative that will cause the most pain and uncertainty for everyone involved just because further debt relief doesn't fit their ideology, knowing that the end result either way is that the money won't - can't - be paid back on the current schedule or in full.
This thread has to be a joke. Conde Nast's strategy from 2005+ was to acquire internet brands and communities. They acquired Wired and ArsTechnica. They almost acquired certain other internet communities. It looks as if their strategy didn't quite work out.

Edit: Here's an article from 2014 that might shed light on their strategy: http://digiday.com/publishers/conde-nast-social-ads/

(I have no inside knowledge of this. I'm just an outsider looking in)
Here's a fun recent link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI&t=46m26s

Plenty more options to explore in the links under the video, starting from http://www.gputechconf.com/

Then there is NVIDIA's CUDA Zone with lists like http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu-applications-domain.html
This was not a simple update. This was a rewrite that changed the format and the content - from a factual report to an opinion piece chastising the evil white men of SV, all while managing to put a positive spin on a humiliating trial.

This may not be new in the dishonorable world of journalism, but it's the first time many of us outsiders get to look behind the curtain. We kind of suspected how the sausage is made, but actually seeing it is still shocking.
That happened to me: years ago, '60 Minutes' did a hit piece on a friend at work, and I knew that the story was far from the truth. First hand knowledge in that case turned me off of watching '60 Minutes' in the future and helped me develop the habbit of second sourcing stories, preferably from news media in different countries.
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> Other subreddits start going private in solidarity. This spreads until over 100 have shut down, pledging a 24 hour blackout. I think the petition starts around this time.

Just a small correction. The petition was made in response to the shut down of fatpeoplehate and others.
More people are killed by family members with their own guns than by 'home invasion' murders in the US. Despite what the NRA propagandises, 'home invasion' murders are actually pretty rare.
The French and German banks were already bailed out. At this point the issue is that the governments that bailed them out don't want to be the ones left with the bill for the bailout they basically dictated.
No. This is just new-age pseudo-science founded on a garbled mish-mash of Einstein's field equations, universal resonance, quantum physics, the Kabbalah, the Knights Templar, sacred geometry, the Ark of the Covenant, crop circles, etc.

Just Google the name 'Nassim Haramein'. He is a charismatic crank with a popular following like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, or Immanuel Velikovsky.
Not that I agree with the person you're replying to, but it makes some sense. (caveat: i'd never confront an intruder without my life or my families life in danger.)

Guns have hosts of failure modes, and require specialized knowledge on their operation to ensure safety. Guns can even fire accidentally, with an accidental discharge on dropping the firearm being a possibility on any gun without a firing pin block (which is practically any long gun, the kind you can buy at Walmart in some states, with no waiting period in some states). A poorly handled gun may shoot in a totally unpredictable trajectory, and a first time user would be unlikely to consider collateral damage. (Nursery behind the attacker?)

A knife mishandled usually leads to non-life-threatening self-injury. A knife can be dropped, but will only damage those around it that are wearing inappropriate footwear. A knife has very few mechanisms, and only has as many mechanical failure modes as there are gimmicks on the knife; with some having zero mechanical failure modes possible besides faults that are metallurgical in nature. A knife can be wielded poorly with zero training; a first time gun user may never find the safety without assistance, let alone loading and reloading. A knife results in very low collateral damage.

Basically : I'd rather put a limiter on a novice in combat than give him or her weapons in which they put themselves and their family in even greater danger by their own naivety. With proper training, a gun will be the best choice; my personal problem with that decision is that I've met very few properly trained gun enthusiasts that treat firearms with the respect they need to be handled with, and that's not to say I know very few of them.
I'm not sure about the "often" either, but I don't find it absurd. A full page nowadays has 20-30 files, which might not get cached sequentially, so you're talking about a bunch of seeks. If half need to wait for some other application to read its stuff, you're already talking about a big increase in latency; on the other hand, the connection tax is only paid once per hostname.
It's going to be a default on the boomer savings which are far beyond reality. I agree it is coming, hence the desperate rear-guard action against Greece to maintain the line that pretending to be solvent is your best option.
Also point out that they break a couple of laws every day, just like the rest of us do here in America. The only thing that saves them, however temporarily, is that those laws don't "count."
Yeah, I think they could be trolling. And, yes, if so the whole thing does seem flippant, given that real people have lost jobs and had their names splashed all across media. But I guess that's part of what it means to be a redditor.
Will people drop this narrative?

It was tired and strenuous, when it was published, but now it literally makes no sense. Sure he did Game Theory research, but LIFE != GAME. He said it so himself.

I haven't read a single unified explanation using game theory, that accounts for everything Greece government did during negotiations.

It's the Epileptic Trees[1] of the Politics.

[1] Epileptic Trees was one of explanations to why trees in Lost were shaking violently.
> eg biological neurons are far superior to our best silicon.

By what metric?

Biological neurons misfire and make errors all the time. Biological neurons don't like -40C or 100C very much. Biological neurons get rather upset when you subject them to a couple of G's of acceleration.
The context is easier to ridicule. He says it in explicit terms: Don't search for something you wouldn't want authorities to know about because we just may hand it over to them.
witnessing something first-hand in real life, and then reading about it in the media

You don't even need to read about it elsewhere. Your own recollection of the details of events you witnessed is usually very malleable. It's one reason why eyewitness testimony needs to be treated carefully. E.g. from Wikipedia[1]:

Memory recall has been considered a credible
source in the past, but has recently come under
attack as forensics can now support psychologists
in their claim that memories and individual
perceptions are unreliable; being easily
manipulated, altered, and biased.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony
Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto is a global leader in research and the center for all of Canada's EB patients. The EB program is the only one where ALL members must rotate (i.e - take time away from EB patients). To see the toll on all involved is devastating; partly because the realities for EB outcomes are still stark.

Sick Kid's developed an iPhone app - which is actually quite informative to go through on your own - to help create more structured outcomes: http://www.sickkids.ca/Research/iscorEB/index.html

If you'd like to tear up a bit, here's an article about The Butterfly Girl - one of the stars at Sick Kids whose strong attitude and will I can only marvel in amazement at: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/07/01/butterfly_pati...
I believe that's why the word "maybe" was used.
The next culture war will be fought about city planning and housing economics
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Please do continue writing. I enjoy your writing very much.
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Strange then, that the people who most agitate for and carry guns are not short women.
This complaint and others in this thread all seem to be that you don't like the new content of the article and have nothing to do with the article being updated.
Yes, blackmail is probably the primary concern. But anyone who has your SSN, DOB, employment history, and every address you've lived at... they can convince banks, cc companies, etc., that they are you, because those phone calls usually involve questions about where you've lived and worked.
Doesn't fit very well on firefox on a 1600x900 screen. I had to switch the browser to full screen mode (F11) to be able to see all the content on each slide.

Interesting story though :)
Don't forget Portugal!

There's a major problem unravelling. A large amount of the population live a lot longer than were expected ~90 years ago when the current welfare state system became widespread across Europe.

How do you pay pensions in the current economic climate to people that have been retired for 25+ years, who were expected to largely die 25 years ago?

In the Greece situation, how do you do this when a large amount of the populace actively avoid paying their fair share of tax? How do you do it when nearly 30%[1] of GDP is exports based around imports and your accounts are frozen and you can't pay suppliers?

It's an economic situation that hasn't be witnessed before. All this is before you throw Germany into the mix, who have a _lot_ riding on how this all plays out.

The world economic situation is in a very interesting place at the moment - Greece is only the tip of the iceberg. Look at Puerto Rico, look at China, hell look at the UK and how it's economy is currently stacked. Suddenly, overnight, the government won't support "free" TV licences for people aged 75+! The global economic situation at the moment is very interesting.

[1] - https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/grc/
So Long, Reddit
I pastebined the code. It's terrible. I should rewrite it. But here it is: http://pastebin.com/CM9u17jq
Seattle has had an anti-growth strategy going on 20 years now, and the State as well as City have been terribly mismanaged for at least that long.

Housing prices go up when you cannot build more housing units while population increases. When the state gets any money-- the dotcom boom is a perfect example- they spend like crazy, and not on things that add lasting value (transportation was a trivial part of the state's budget) ... then when the boom times end or slow down, the state has the same spending as before, without putting any reserves in. So they end up raising taxes.

It's the standard "let the roads suck so you can get people to vote for a tax increase, even though road spending is less than %1 of the budget." routine.

Seattle is geographically challenged with the sound, lake union and the mountains compressing the amount of room available... yet you can't build housing on a scale that makes it affordable?

Lets not even mention the fact that Seattle has been overrun with califronia liberals who have bought real estate and profit from the rapid increase in costs... so long as supply is way below demand their houses go up in value each year.

They pretend to be about "keeping a good community" but really they profit from their anti-growth position.
Mods were never involved with this question; it was closed by regular users (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/5574241/revisions). It was also never locked – locking is significantly different from closure.
Rather amusing to see an advertising company like Google protecting Chrome users from these "extra ads".

I wonder if an OS could block Google's software for vacuuming your information to Google's servers, never to be deleted.
I had read the "It’s Silicon Valley 2, Ellen Pao 0..." article. I remember being surprised that misogyny was mentioned since this issue had nothing to do with gender.

And they even attacked Reddit users themselves - Essentially calling them sexist. It was obvious that this article was politically motivated - There is some corruption happening there.

Journalistic integrity is dead. There is a financial or political motive behind every article you read. I don't trust anything I read online anymore. Maybe Reddit itself is the only place which still has some degree of credibility left. Maybe it's only a matter of time though before moderators start using their powers for personal gain.
>"sexist" or "male-dominated"

>both of those constructions mean the same thing.

>"sexist"

>"male-dominated"

>the same thing

Am I reading this right?
Don't be discouraged. Look at it this way: tptacek is the living proof that great things can be accomplished by people of average intelligence. It's quite uplifting.
On OS X 10.10.4 if you set IPv6 to link-local this doesn't change IPv4 at all. And link-local disables IPv6 for all intents and purposes.
I don't think you're right that game theory did not work out for them.

Your assumption appears to be that what they could hope for was a reasonable deal. But the way Schäuble has acted, it is by now clear that a reasonable deal is unlikely to be possible. For Germany this is all about ideology, not about economic rationality (amusing they accuse Tsipiras of being too ideological).

In that instance, what could they hope for? Their winning scenario is to demonstrate to their own constituency that they've tried everything. They've stretched extremely far. They've demonstrated to their home audience how Germany wants to humiliate them rather than get a fair deal.

They've further managed to create substantial cracks in the Euro group facade, with France in particular now openly having taken their side.

If they exit, then it is clear the Euro must be reformed if it is to survive.

They may in the end have permanently tarnished Merkel's and Schäuble's political legacies. Justifiably so.

Would any of this have happened if they had played ball and agreed to a toxic, unsustainable deal? The previous Greek government played ball, and what they got was a death sentence for the Greek economy. Playing ball with these opponents is a bad idea, since they seem intent of kicking in your knees first.

> It is a little bit if your wife threatens you with divorce and you say: OK, let's do it.

If you're told that to stay you will need to subject to daily beatings, then divorce is the right choice.
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Is that really what you understood from what I wrote?
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Guerilla warfare in Vietnam was a major component, but the major gains on the ground were made by the North Vietnamese Army.
I like that the article mentioned the difference between privacy and secrecy. I've been struggling with that for a while. What is private is secret but what is secret (a secret recipe, for example) is not necessarily private. But in some cases, a secret can be considered private (a secret love affair, for example). I'm confused...
supposedly greece exiting is more expensive than keeping them but at what point do you kick out someone who is mooching off you and suddenly demanding all sorts of things. It's like the beggar that becomes very choosy and feel a huge entitlement. I don't know why this is the case, someone receiving so much should feel humble and grateful but instead arrogance and a need for more.

having said that do they seriously expect greece to ever pay back the debt or even let alone feed their citizens? When was the last time you heard something made in Greece that wasn't in ancient history textbook and encyclopedia of Gods? I also feel irked by the lack of rationalism from EU.
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Ah, you meant those subreddits. I thought you meant the ones on strike - I think of the /r/fatpeoplehate thing as a separate, prior incident. That's also not really at all Victoria's department; my understanding is that she really only did AMAs. It was just a recent time the community got pissed off at the reddit administration (and therefore Ellen personally, because CEO), so obviously it fed the flames some more once the Victoria trigger happened.