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>Your original question must have been one of morality, not law.

You are correct in your assumption. Perhaps I should be more explicit in that premise, as this seems to get lost on a lot of people. My fault.

>My response is that I, personally, don't think property is moral or immoral because I do not take it as a priori. It is a human system.

Surely, property in and of itself is not moral or immoral because we are talking about inanimate things. But the ownership of property, if you agree that property can be owned, does lead to questions of morality.

I am not sure I follow when you say property is a "human system... it has consequences". Surely all discussion of morality involve humans, correct? We certainly don't condemn lions as immoral for killing and eating antelope; or the mallard for reproducing forcibly with a less than willing female.

>What notion of property do you have?

I am of the belief that property is an essential element of liberty. If someone has the right to say what they want, or worship how they will, or have relationships with others how they see fit, or whatever they want that is not initiating violence against others, that right is valid as long as they have property to perform those rights on. They cannot go on someone else's property and be entitled to act however they want, without the owner's permission.

Now, just to be clear, I am not talking in the context of our current system, even though there are similarities. I am talking theoretically. This is important because I believe property rights pre-exist the state; that the right to own property is a natural, inalienable right. (In case there's any confusion when I say "right to own property" I do not mean that everyone is entitled to have property, but rather the rights which someone has as a property owner). So I would disagree with your statement that "property rights regulated by the authority that justifies them as legitimate," assuming the "authority" you refer to is the state.

With the view of a natural right to property, it is clear that theft is a "crime" even absent codified law. Furthermore, any codified law which sanctions theft in any form is a violation of natural rights, is immoral and is invalid.

>My personal views on property are most certainly fringe.

You are in good company. While many believe in the notion of natural rights, few hold an intellectually consistent view in applying what it would mean to respect natural rights today.

Edit: up vote for you for fostering an intelligent conversation and not resorting to ad hominem attacks.
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I said I could provide a ton of links. I didn't say I would. Just saying.

And if you see my words start to fade before your eyes... they are becoming transparent... and the meaning becomes clearer... and clearer... to your subconscious mind... your deepening desire to buy a Zission poster... http://zission.com
A close friend of mine once asked me to accompany her to an abortion clinic.

She and I prepared for the experience for a couple weeks. I spent quite a lot of time talking it over with some of my coworkers.

At the very last instant I realize I screwed up; while she was in with the doctor I raced out, purchased a miniature teddy bear then raced back.

That made all the difference to her but even so she was completely overcome with grief.

All the women at the clinic were overcome with grief.

I was the only male in the place other than the staff.
that sub is even more politicaly-left biased than reddit FP 8 years ago.
I don't care what NSA's rationale for extended-random is. You're still discussing this as if extended-random was an attempt to change the version of TLS that you and I use. It was not. It was so much not that, that the primary objection to it in the TLS-WG is that the extension worked in such a way that it made an end-run around the TLS standards process (in allocating extension numbers) in order to avoid being standardized for normal TLS. Because its authors didn't expect us to use it.

Bernstein cavalierly mentions Rescorla in this paper, but never provides the additional color that Rescorla himself on the mailing list said he had no idea why the extension needed to exist, and did not understand its parameters.

Rescorla is an extremely sharp person. Do you think he thought, "I don't understand this extension, but NSA says it's important, so we'll all use it?" Of course he didn't.
> I said I could provide a ton of links. I didn't say I would.

This is exactly the kind of stuff pseudo-science wackos spew.

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I hear other people having poor experiences. Here's one: http://www.loopinsight.com/2015/07/22/apple-music-is-a-night...
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No. But I would be glad to pay for something identical to reddit without all the hatred and childishness.

How much? Expensive enough to discourage those who have nothing to say but memes.
Many people near the Canadian border do exactly this. I think it's more common with dental procedures than most medical issues, but I've heard of people getting non-emergency surgery done.

Even if you pay completely out of pocket, Canadian medicine is much cheaper than US. I had an emergency appendectomy while on vacation in Quebec, and the total bill, with surgery, anesthesia, an overnight stay in the hospital, and the 100+ mile ambulance ride to get me out to a real hospital, was around $2500. That's the deductible on my US health insurance... A comparable procedure in a US hospital would be billed at nearly an order of magnitude higher (source, several in-patient orthopedic surgeries I've had)
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No. Currently about 50% of the carbon ends up in sinks like oceans and some forests. Unfortunately, these sinks look to be getting full, but even if they are able to absorb 50% of the emissions we are still going to go over 1200ppm if we burn all the fossil fuels.

Actually one of the big worries is that some of the large carbon sinks like the arctic tundra will start warming up enough to result in a non-linear runaway release of GHG. We don’t know if this will happen, but I am none to keen to find out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Can I post a job ad?

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears at the beginning of every month, and you're welcome to post there. The rest of the time, job posts are reserved for Y Combinator-funded startups.

An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first.

A single YC startup job post may appear on the front page at a time. Job posts have no vote arrow and just a timestamp in place of the usual story details. They begin partway down the front page and fall steadily in rank.
> complete transparency or totalitarian control.

same thing.
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a woman could be coerced to get an implant in order to get cash for her partner or parents etc

While I recognize the concern, I think it's rather infantilizing to take a choice away from women because of a concern that they will be subject to coercion and unwilling to avail themselves of the protections afforded by the criminal justice system.

Consider an analogous situation with men instead of women: Men are coerced into enlisting in the US military in order to gain cash for their partners and parents. Should the answer be to transform the US military into an unpaid volunteer force?
What you are describing is historical truth. The Sparrow missiles were really bad. They had poor seekers, poor motors, and poor maneuverability. It took multiple Sparrows to even have a chance of killing a target. I believe their Pk was below 20% and was often as low as 9%. Early Sidewinders were more reliable, but had a narrow engagement envelope. And pilot training completely eliminated any work on how to conduct traditional dogfights. This was a recipe for lots of aircraft and aircrew losses.

However, the aerospace industry and government have not stood still. Newer missiles are orders of magnitude more reliable and capable. High off boresight missiles mean that pilots can engage targets from a wide variety of angles. Seeker technology is amazingly better.
Blame Qualcomm for this part in particular - and they're doing better. The PDF I linked is relatively recent.

Thanks for reading.
We do want to clarify, we can work with businesses ranging from a few hundred orders/ month all the way up to 100,000's of orders. The way our network is set up, we can easily scale up or down the fulfillment needs of our customers. We work with many young businesses today because they need help finding their first warehouse, but we also work with more advanced businesses too.
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Unstructured code can actually be easier for beginners to learn. There's no magical implicit context in a loop, just a few variables they have direct control over, and an instruction pointer they control with GOTO.

Once a beginner has written a few small programs with GOTO, they'll start to feel the tedium and appreciate the benefits of structural abstractions, despite the extra things they have to learn.

You can make the same argument for writing code with simple functions and records before object oriented code -- the power of the abstraction is easier to explain once they've run into the rougher points of not having objects.

Absolute beginners are confused by polymorphism and loop constructs because they don't understand the problems the abstractions solve.
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"Life" vs "(viable) human life". Not the same thing.
I would say the hazards of this device sure beat the hazards of kerosene lamps (fire, mostly). [1] lists a series of accidents with kerosene lamps in a three year period in a small town. I think a horse kicking over a kerosene lantern started one of the big Chicago fires. There's even a possibility that a kerosene lamp caused a deadly fire in modern USA [2]. And I'm guessing that fire would be a serious problem in small, dense areas such as the slums (not intended pejoratively) in the third world nations that are likely to have the most use for this.

Solar plus battery might be better than this, but this looks like a whole lot better than a kerosene lamp.

[1] http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_lamp_accidents.htm

[2] http://www.chicoer.com/20120322/kerosene-lamp-may-have-cause...
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We had "unit cubes". We used them to ... something. Still terrible at arithmetic.
early life isn't significant enough to protect at that stage of development

The usual condition as I understand it is that it must be a "viable human life" to merit protection. All sorts of things can go wrong, such as miscarriage, so it's not a viable human life until it's born.
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I am actually less concerned about VC money as it is a relatively small amount of money in the scheme of things, than I am about all the private equity money going into unicorns. The VCs will rock and roll with the funding environment, but the private equity market can go poof in an instant. If (when) it does the fallout will be vey nasty.
Cool story, bro. What's your point?
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Shovels & Levis still seem to be doing well ;)
I don't believe that story.

You may have idiosyncratic views on abortion ("I don't believe in a woman's right to her own medical choices, so I went and bought a stuffed animal"), but it seems totally implausible that your bringing a stuffed animal into the clinic would make "all the women at the clinic [be] overcome with grief."
0.1W LED light is as bright as one of those clip on book reading lights, they only look bright in pictures. It's not quite useless, but you can build a 0.1w for 12 hour solar light with a 12' cord for ~2$ making the whole thing a joke.
I agree and have proposed the same thing. I was trying to build on my old toolkit which aimed at RAD w/ C/C++ compatibility, BASIC safety, and LISP flexibility. I essentially implemented a basic-like language that was compatible with C/C++ functions in LISP. Let me have LISP macros and interactive development with result auto-generating C/C++ code that reused their compilers. Worked great while I had it. I know the BASIC angle is funny to many. However, it's how I started & iterated fast with readable, no blue-screen code. I'd have used a Wirth language if I knew of them then.

So, next question was "How to make an environment to allow easier development of high assurance, portable systems?" My platform was a 4GL w/out 4GL's problems. I want a 4GL for highly-secure or reliable software. Noticed portable by itself usually requires a bunch of variations on same basic thing. LISP macro's handled that for me prior. So, my concept was to use something like Racket Scheme for meta while building a mockup of constructs of imperative language (Wirth's, Go, or C). Transformations for specific systems are encoded as meta transforms that operate on base program.

Initially, the thing just generates code it feeds through existing compilers. From there, you model the basic constructs (eg control flow, stacks) in both a generic form and one optimized for certain situations (or ISA's). Language abstractions are modeled as compile-time transforms on these. Constraints, pre/post conditions, invariants, and so on are added as needed for next phase: type/interface checking + automatic production of verification conditions, tests, static/dynamic checks, covert channel analysis, and so on based on annotated code. Each refinement uses data in step before it for correspondence check (eg trace-based). Ends at typed assembly (or LLVM maybe) modeled in same system subject to same correspondence checks and extra analysis at that level. Any run reuses what's already done and not changed while supporting multicore to reduce run time. Critical checks run in background as developer modifies the software.

Written and specified to high level with metaprogramming transforming, analyzing, and optimizing it to lowest levels. Highest, assurance levels using tools such as Coq or HOL would be able to leverage HLL code for easier, spec-to-module/code mapping while trusting certified transforms to do the rest. Your thoughts aside from how much work this might be? ;)
> it hasn't been all over the news for being stricter in searching people of particular ethnicity

This is not the policy of the TSA. The only people who advocate such a policy are racists like Clarkson.

>can you blame Clarkson for being in character on it's own satirical column?

It's not a satirical column. If you think that Clarkson is doing a Colbert-like performance, you've just got the wrong end of the stick.

>moreover if the main smoking gun is a quote by Clarkson himself I'm not really impressed,

What kind of backwards logic is this? Clarkson's own words are (obviously) the most reliable source of information regarding his beliefs.
Well, I'm talking about what happened 9 years ago. Maybe things have changed, though it doesn't seem like it from the other comments on this thread.
> Those who oppose contraceptives reveal themselves for ...

It isn't that simple. I was hoping that the article would dive into the reason why contributors to these endeavors are so quite about it, given the title, but unfortunately it didn't. I'm guessing that it has something to do with the very touchy issue of eugenics, the attempts to use birth control to reduce the number of "unfit", and the fact that early eugenicists and birth control proponents where also wealthy white people. [0] The parallels are so easily drawn that it is much more simple to just keep a relatively low profile.

So some of those middle-ages minded people you mentioned might actually be more concerned about the long term impact of disproportionately servicing the historically vulnerable with birth control.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger#Eugenics
I think they would be good in a mine safe room or something, no need to ever replace batteries right. There are a bunch of cases you might not have a charged light.
While the AP Stylebook advises using "anti-abortion" and "abortion rights", it seems unrealistic to expect people to parse their statements that carefully, indeed journalists need a guide to achieve this aim professionally. Pro-life and pro-choice are common terms, and it seems uncharitable to leap to the assumption that someone flipping a prefix is purposefully using an epithet with the intent of caricature an opposing view.
If these things make it out of the region (To the Americas), we're in trouble. A handful of them can decimate a honeybee hive in a matter of hours. Western honeybee's have no chance.

Completely off-topic, but a relationship like this makes you really wonder how we got to where we are today, and if we aren't literally the only life in the universe. The fact these honeybees figured out they could swarm these hornets and kill them is almost unfathomable. And then to pass on the knowledge to others? Mother nature is frigging amazing.
The test pilots told David Axe no such thing. Someone inside the program leaked a pilot's report on a basic fighter maneuvering test. David Axe basically failed to understand

1) The exact nature of the specific F-35 used in that test, and how it differs from production aircraft in crucial ways

2) The intent of the test plan this test was conducted under. Axe says "The two jets would be playing the roles of opposing fighters in a pretend air battle, which the Air Force organized specifically to test out the F-35’s prowess as a close-range dogfighter in an air-to-air tangle". This basic assertion is incorrect. The intent was to test how the F-35's control laws responded to the kinds of inputs that it would receive in combat maneuvering, and how the pilot would feel about how the aircraft responded. As the pilot himself reports, "The test was designed to stress the high AoA [Angle of Attack] control laws during operationally representative maneuvers utilizing elevated AoAs and aggressive stick/pedal inputs".

3) The meaning of much of the language used in the pilot's feedback.

The key takeaway from the report was not, as Axe says, that the F-35 " is demonstrably inferior in a dogfight with the F-16", but, as the pilot himself says in the leaked report (I will not link to it -- it is ITAR controlled and should not have been distributed in the first place, but Axe has posted it), "Whereas rudder inputs often feel sluggisth or gradual/delayed, the anti-spin logic is immediate, abrupt, and forceful. Perhaps some of the available authority may be given to the pilot while still preventing departure." In other words -- the plane has more maneuverability in it, please give that to me. The pilot also recommends some changes to the seat to allow for better visibility, and a change to how various regions of the control laws are blended together.

By "Lockheed's response", did you mean https://www.f35.com/news/detail/joint-program-office-respons.... ? Because that's not Lockheed, that's the JSF Program Office -- run by the government. Their response was more nuanced and detailed than what you describe.

The pilot's remarks do not mean what you are asserting that they mean, as I have outlined above.

F-15's have already been upgraded significantly. A-10s have received two different service life extensions. F-18 legacy Hornets are receiving entirely new center barrels. All of this helps, but it's not a long term solution.

Making the F-22 cheaper sailed out the window when the current administration stopped production orders in 2009.

Edit: also, "Cooked tests"? The test plans are approved by the government and are conducted with government engineers participating in every single step of the process, from test design, simulation, planning, briefing, execution, and data analysis. Nothing is passed through as OK until the JSF Program Office approves of it. Please refrain from baseless speculation on a process that you have not participated in or witnessed.
I was merely questioning it from a technical perspective.

I don't much care either way. People want digital content for free, publishers continue to rape the idea of works entering the public domain in a reasonable amount of time. Its hard to feel bad about either party.
> Note that systemd was not pushed to anything

Please stop the revisionist history - it is well documented[1] that Lennart Poettering himself is the one that pushed GNOME to depend strictly on systemd. This was used as leverage against Debian, and became a key reason for several of the votes for systemd in the infamous technical-committee vote.

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/...
To be honest, IE11 has been dealing with the web as well as the other major browsers since there haven't been any major new browser standards in the last two years. Maybe WebRTC, but no one is making a commercial service out of that yet.

With Windows 10 deploying en masse, IE11 is already in sunsetting mode. Windows 10 and Edge is on rolling updates so they are getting new features more frequently. Service Release 1 is out next month and Threshold 2 features update is out by year end.
There are actually quite a few ways to write software on Android for Android, my favorite at the moment being Ruboto (at least when used with the Ruboto IRB app).
this is jaw-droppingly awesome. In hindsight it seems almost obvious that these particular cells would form into these organoids. I suppose that's part of the beauty of science in general.
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> his opinion is that life starts when sperm and egg meet.

There is some evidence that a large percentage (30-75%) of all fertilized eggs do not implant. If every one of those was a human life, your friend might consider this an extremely large public health problem, and perhaps of greater significance than poverty, war, and plagues.
> Replacing the harrier with the same craft is an engineering nightmare.

This is another misconception. The F-35 emerged from a DARPA study in the 80s to create a stealthy STOVL aircraft. The F-35 as designed started with the F-35B. The other two variants were created through modifications to this design.
exactly boats are still used when an automobile can't. Just the same as in low light areas, gravity is your only option. Plus I think gravity is probably a cheaper solution to offer, as the weight can be used from local resources while a solar panel is an added cost.
How The Economist's articles ended up being posted to Hacker News without any warning about a doorslamming paywall.
Congratulations. You've just described the standard method of password hashing. (Well, you've missed the common extensions of salt / pepper, but meh.)

If you pick a cryptographically secure hash that's long enough, you don't need to worry about collisions. The birthday problem dictates that you start getting collisions after ~sqrt(D) random entries. So if you pick a 128+ bit hash you should be fine on that front (128 bits -> ~2^64 entries before a collision on average, which shouldn't be a problem.)

However, as I've mentioned elsewhere, all this does is punt the constant-time problem off to the hash function.
Not a single accident or moving violation ever, I pay 120 a month for minimum coverage because I have shitty credit. What I do on a racetrack under controlled conditions is entirely different than what I do on the road. I keep my stopping distance between me and the car in front of me.
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There is now strong circumstantial evidence about Dual_EC: Certicom had contemporaneous patent filings for key escrow using PKRNG. It is weird that Certicom had a patent for key escrow using backdoored RNGs, and weird that they had a patent for escrow using backdoored PKRNGs, but a contemporaneous patent for elliptic curve PKRNG key escrow?

https://www.google.com/patents/US8396213