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Just because your idea doesn't make you any money doesn't make it any more inherently moral or immoral.
It puts things at a moral deficit, at least. (In other words, it's not necessarily immoral, but it does mean there's ground to make up)

People are trying to maximize their time and more specifically, the value they get from their time.
You're treating this as not having moral weight/impact. This isn't a neutral statement to encourage.

But are some cheeseburgers more evil than other cheeseburgers?
Yes.

The advertisers are adjusting their "attacks" (quite a harsh word) because the same marketing doesn't work forever. People adjust their defenses. They develop new weaknesses and strengths.
This behavior is most notably seen elsewhere in biology. It's not as positive of a comparison as I think you intend to make.

The companies who produce advertisements and the share holders who pressure those companies are made up of regular people.
System effects are pretty uncontroversially a thing. What one person does in isolation can be very different in impact from an aggregate of people able to bring vast resources to bear is able to do. One person with a gun and a goal is a robbery. One nation with guns and a goal is an invasion.

Advertising would have a better claim at moral neutrality if it were explicitly opt-in. Not You're on this site, so you implicitly give permission to be bombarded with ads, but "Would you like to see an ad about X? Here you go, a one-time ad about X."

The concept of privacy extending to bodily autonomy isn't super-controversial. There shouldn't be an exclusion of the mind from the body either. Minimizing external 'mental subroutines' is a virtuous goal.
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A pre-trial in the court of public opinion? I thought that is the purpose of grand juries. After all, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. (Though not all pork, evidently)

On one hand, it's a massive waste of judicial bandwidth. On the other, it's an effective check on the coziness between AGs, DAs, and law enforcement organizations.
Thus I have learned to pay for software, often dissuaded by "free". The money has to come from somewhere, and "he who pays the piper names the tune."
> more or less in a direct line between the Grey Havens and Valinor.

Elven ships go in a straight line while the sea follows the curvature of Arda.
Nice, reminds me of Ogre Battle (but without fixed perspective).
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0416/
Yeah, that's a good idea too. Kind of WSUS for the home.

The article does say
Windows 10 Enterprise and Education have the feature enabled, but only for the local network.

So at least that's a sensible default for business/schools.
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If one accepts the fact that "meaning" is purely individual - then the scenario of finding the meaning of everything is not going to work across the entire humanity. People tend to disagree on some things, along with the meanings!
There are a couple effects from rain: absorption ("db per km") and scattering (bigger constant in front of your r^2 term), neither are good for FSO. Fog (and since this is airborne, clouds) is the real killer. Imagine taking your nice .1 degree wide laser beam and pointing it into one of those frosted street lamp bulbs so that it now points in every direction, then add to that the attenuation from being absorbed by the droplets. Now, in FB's case, they're doing something pretty smart to mitigate the water problem. Using RF for the ground-air links avoids most of the problems with scattering and absorbtion depending on droplet size and the band you're transmitting in. Hard to beat the bandwidth of FSO, so that's a great option for above the clouds. 60,000 feet should be above most clouds - anything that tall and you'll be wanting to get out of the way in any case.

The LCRD stuff that NASA is doing is indeed impressive. I think that their pointing problem is a few orders of magnitude harder than what FB is dealing with though - if anything we'll see technology transfer in the other direction.
Darn, less opportunity for AirBnb arbitrage.
Correct. I mention utility-scale battery storage for that very reason. Until you have utility-scale battery storage, you burn natural gas to make up the difference. Faster response time than coal or nuclear, less carbon output than coal, easier to move across the country, no radioactive waste to store onsite "temporarily" for decades.

Hydro could help, but in places with almost no water (California/Nevada), it can't be relied on.
I felt similar amazement at Gödel's proof, and even suspect that Penrose must be on to something when he says the mind must therefore not be computable. . . . But the book Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse by Törkel Franzén is very good at explaining that the conclusions we should draw are fairly limited, e.g. that the proof doesn't apply to anything other than arithmetic. I'm not sure I'm totally convinced, but it's a great perspective to dispel some of the more mystical interpretations.
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>There isn't a built-in systemd editor; that's how disingenuous this piece is. Running "systemctl edit <unit-name>" invokes $EDITOR, whatever that is configured to be. Totally normal Unix behavior here.

Well, okay, but the suckless people are about simplicity. Adding systemctl edit seems like a completely unnecessary alias. Another feature for the sake of having another feature.

Why assume the user is too stupid or lazy to manually invoke vim and then systemctl daemon-reload?
I agree, but it would be much easier to sell giving up on the Spratly Islands to the Chinese population than accepting Taiwan as a sovereign state. Indeed I would not be too surprised if China did the former. The ability to do so gives China a lot of leverage in negotiations with regional or international competitors, just like the US uses the unresolved Taiwan situation as a lever in negotiations with China.
Ah, different communities with different goals. In CS, I've run into Kleene a lot and Wittgenstein never. (Although I'm sure people have heard of him!)
Having a universal set [in naive set theory] is a sufficient condition for Russel's paradox. See Naive Set Theory[1] bottom of page 6. This is why we can have no Universe in any consistent set theory.

Edit: @mafribe makes the point that there are some set theories that can still have universal sets by culling other features that ZF-style set theories have. I was mostly referring to ZF-style set theory (hence my citation). Indeed, one could even make a ZF-style set theory paraconsistent and still have Universal sets.

[1] http://sistemas.fciencias.unam.mx/~lokylog/images/stories/Al...
Microsoft seems to be setting all their defaults to "screw the user". This isn't good. Distributing Windows 10 as a drive-by install that takes over your machine and turns it into a spamming node is really sleazy.

Microsoft is giving away Windows 10. That's a huge problem. It's not a compelling product they can get people to pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows. Microsoft, for the first time, has to claw its revenue out of the user some other way.

For decades, Microsoft has been hard on their competitors and hardware suppliers, and they've had antitrust problems. But Microsoft didn't usually apply pain to their users, who were their primary customers. With Windows 10, that all changes. Windows users, you are no longer the customer. You are the product.

This may not end well for Microsoft, because most of their revenue is in the B2B space. Business customers don't like being the product.
And then there is the Homestuck adventure game, which was originally going to be developed by the Odd Gentlemen (who did this new KQ); apparently they took a lot of the Homestuck Kickstarter money and worked on KQ instead.
Don't try to pretend the Prop 8 campaign was some reasonable, thoughtful discussion of the impacts of gay marriage on society. Prop 8 was a campaign of hate directed against a historically maligned minority, designed to prevent that group from gaining acceptance. The ads implied crazy off-the-wall shit like recruitment of children (read between the lines: homosexuals are pedophiles) and that somehow children being told that homosexuality is OK is a horrible thing.
> This is the exact bull* that good hearted Haskell and Lisp guys have to face and fix because of arrogant people like you.

No. It is not. It takes a lot more effort to produce the code of same quality in php. For one thin, you have to consider that one has to keep and endless list of gotchas and edge cases (yes, all languages have these, but the list is nowhere near as long as it is in php) in mind when writing any amount of php code.

>You can write crystal clear code in PHP that anyone who started with C..

tell me, what does this code do, in php?

$a = array('1' => 'one');

What is the value of $a after this statement?

Answer: It appears that it is creating a dictionary with a string key that maps to another string value, but instead it creates a numerically indexed array with value 'one' stored at numeric index 1.

Do you call this 'Crystal clear'?

PHP is a language that breaks the principle of least surprise at every turn. Please don't say you can write crystal clear code in it, if you are actually interested in spreading information and knowledge, as you put it.
Related: "recursive make considered harmful" (http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf)
Not sure as to the level of sarcasm you intended, but banks already do this[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
I'm not, but I can't see how you cannot study set theory without eventually studying intuitionism.
So there's no requirement that the ISP verify you're using your own CPF? That's a hole in the system which is worthy of ridicule.
Have you seen Victor Rodych's entry at the plato.stanford.edu site entitled "Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics"? Direct link: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein-mathematics/ .
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But then sometimes it might be the case that the truly persistent thing is the derivative and the algebra forced your hand for good reason!
> After hearing through a FOIL request that it would cost the city $50,000 to deliver the building-by-building data (which implies that the city itself does have the data readily available), John, and some peers at BetaNYC, went about scraping the tax bills for NYC buildings to get the rent stabilization information out of PDFs.

> In this new era of open data, you should not need to know how to write a PDF scraper to find a reasonably priced place to live, or discover where you are about to lose one.

I'm having a hard time imagining how it would cost $50,000 to export data.
The video shows me nothing of value. There may be value there, but the fact that there's a video I sat through which shows me nothing useful is a potential strike against you.

If you're going to have a video, show actual utility beyond "enter your plugin's name". Show structure, show management screens, show ORM code, show... something of actual usefulness.

I'm browsing the docs and this looks like it might be useful, but anyone just watching the video definitely won't get that.
That approach has the downside that you can't have water jets or multiple layers of caves with lakes above each other. Most "voxel"/block-based games allow blocks to be filled with different levels of water and then have rules to spread it around.

2 Examples:

In Minecraft, there are source blocks and normal water blocks. Water spreads from source blocks towards the lowest point in the area and loses one level (from 7) each step. If you put water source blocks close together, new ones spawn between them. Water just "evaporates" after a few blocks: If you dig up from a cave with flat ground into an ocean, water will spill to the ground and flow 7 blocks. But that makes it easier to handle for players.
Example: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Das_Waterfall.png

Details: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Liquids#How_liquids_work

Dwarf Fortress on the other hand has infinite water sources that also have pressure, so hitting a water source with a tunnel will fill your fortress up to the level of the source block, because the water spreads infinitely and also can go up bends. FUN! (Especially if you hit one with high pressure = producing a lot of water. First thing you notice is that the frame rate drops to slide show speed, a few frames later there's water everywhere)

If you block it off, it remains. (vs in Minecraft plugging all source blocks makes water disappear)

This is a more realistic approach, especially if the speed at which the sources produce water is limited and they are only used at the map edges to simulate inflow. Or one could look into finite element modelling and other fluid simulation techniques and try to adapt them for game usage.
"What do we know about Tom Bombadil? He lies."

The author fundamentally misunderstands Tom Bombadil, both in terms of where he fits (or doesn't) into Tolkien's mythology, and in terms of Tom's literary purpose.

Tolkien deliberately made Tom an enigma: "And even in a mythical Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally)" (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, No 144, dated 1954).

The following are three suggested articles that are far more intelligent, subtle, well-researched, and balanced in comparison to km-515's rant.

Mark Fischer, The Riddle of Tom Bombadil: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/t/tombombadil.html

Steuard Jensen, What is Tom Bombadil?: http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Bombadil.html

Gene Hargrove, Who is Tom Bombadil?: http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html
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(my background is freelancing on sites like odesk.com and elance.com)

Could someone explain what kind of contracting work is talked about here? With examples of products, type of work, technologies, etc?

How much of it applicable to US?
Neither of which allow the US to make 200 mile exclusive economic zone claims under the UN convention on the law of the sea that they otherwise wouldn't be able to make, so they're hardly relevant to the China case.
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Yes, the author seems to assume that:

proof_of_breach <-> proof_of_benefit

You are arguing that it could be the case that:

proof_of_negligence -> proof_of_breach
proof_of_negligence -> (proof_of_benefit v ~proof_of_benefit)

in which case there could be a contradiction.

However, there is probably an argument that:

proof_of_negligence -> (proof_of_benefit v ~proof_of_benefit)

is wrong and that there actually is a rule:

proof_of_breach -> proof_of_benefit

For example, if someone is negligent, we already know they received a personal benefit (eg. reduced cognitive load, received compensation for work not performed, etc.).

To show a logical incorrectness, you need to show an `x` where:

proof_of_x -> (proof_of_breach ^ ~proof_of_benefit) v (~proof_of_breach ^ proof_of_benefit)
Supposedly, the hard-to-spot option not to use Express Settings reveals another, equally hard to spot option later on in the install that lets you set your default browser to something other than Edge.
In a sense. But it's interesting because naive set theory appears so simple and natural: it's a concrete example of how human ideas that seem platonic and inviolate can actually be inconsistent.

So it's less like finding a bug in a software framework and more like finding a bug in your understanding of how computers can work.
Are you just charging money for the existing free templates that other developers have made?

- https://github.com/DevinVinson/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate

- https://github.com/hlashbrooke/WordPress-Plugin-Template
I'm going to advertise a YouTube video. It's just over 2 minutes in length and shows one reason why some people dislike advertisements of any sort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LIrN-5PQo

>Advertising is selling ideas.

More often it's advertising products and in a way that's manipulative.

>The companies who produce advertisements and the share holders who pressure those companies are made up of regular people. Those people are trying to maximize the value of their time just like you are.

That doesn't make their actions moral. A person robbing me to maximize the value of their time doesn't justify their action.
2.6 Wittgenstein's Intermediate Critique of Set Theory
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein-mathematics/#...
the lease agreements for these apartments state that you cannot use AirBNB and analogous services - otherwise they can evicted you - and they do ...
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IIRC, Bill Gates famously sent a memo amounting to "you've got to be kidding me" regarding user experience

Wasn't that about microsoft.com? WRT the download page? I don't recall anything about him bashing an actual desktop product. If I'm wrong and you can dig up a link, I'd like to read it. The "trying to download xxx" rant was classic!
Why do people panic so much about this?

It has been shown time and time again that price floors or ceilings very rarely help a market be efficient. Quite the opposite usually.
You can do structured programming in QBasic just fine. It didn't require line numbers and had all the necessary tools like functions and procedures, for and while loops, blocks, user-defined types, etc...
What can we improve about GitLab? It seems to fit your requirements. It has issue tracking and task assignments. If you want an idea board please consider using something from https://about.gitlab.com/applications/#scrum-boards

GitLab CI would not cost you anything and works like Travis CI https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/

If there is something wrong with GitLab for your need I would love to find out.
If that were the case, wouldn't the author support the kdbus work? It seems like they're not a fan of that, either, given the (misleading) complaints about systemd's support for kdbus.

Edit: phrasing
Would that not be against the interests of the US neoliberal elite, who in turn have enormous influence on the USG?
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Your response is implicitly an acknowledgment and approval of previous US actions as well... I don't think we can deny that these things happened. The West has the privilege of saying it happened in the 1800s and brushing it under the carpet.
I think you're responding to a strawman version of Eliezer's writing advice. He's never claimed that rational, goal oriented characters are sufficient to write good fiction. His "(first) Three Laws of Fanfiction," for example, list these rules:

You can't make Frodo a Jedi unless you give Sauron the Death Star.

Originality isn't easy, but it is simple: Just don't do stuff that's already been done.

The premise of a story is a conflict and its resolution.

With that said, a story is much more interesting if it contains characters that respond to their world in a manner reminiscent of actual people even if it would be more convenient to the author for them to act differently. Lawrence Watt-Evans is a good example of an author who writes such stories.

I think Ted Chiang is awesome too, but his stories tend to be too short to really get into character choice that much. They're more about serving as vehicles for interesting ideas.
Yes..you figured out that you can't win with these people.. whatever you do they are going to complain. They are not interested in any constructive criticism.
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The story is an early example of why the future can't get here fast enough. Within a decade we'll all be wearing smart watches:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...
I guess I don't see the contradiction you see. Parenting is stressful, and definitely can cause unhappiness. But it is rewarding. That's not a contradiction; they're separate axes. (The author discusses this when making the square of rewarding-vs-enjoyable).

I guess you can claim that the feeling that it's rewarding is a false rationalization, but... I'm not really sure how you'd argue that. "You only think it's rewarding, but it's not!". I'm not sure how you could demonstrate something like that.
Did you steal your doc design from http://laravel.com/docs/5.1?

http://www.outsourceappz.com/docs/wordpress-plugin-orm-plus-...

Certainly looks like it...
Windows 10 is turning out to be a giant bate and switch for the average user. Most people will not even suspect that their bandwidth is being leached, their information is being sucked from their entire computer and their whole OS is left wide open to whoever microsoft deems worthy.

The entire thing feels like a gigantic violation by taking advantage of the average person's ability or willingness to deal with all the added complexity.
> Yeah he was the most mysterious

I agree about mysterious, but the first claim of the article was that he's unpopular.
It's amazing the amount of people who immediately cry hoax. Someone raised a good point about taking money from locals and bringing it to Europe/America/China, but clearly this isn't breaking the law of physics.
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It goes away if you have an office job too, as you can just have packages delivered to your office during the day. (Unless your company has a really grumpy receptionist.)
My last house was built in 1949, and the original toilet was working perfectly. The water quality there was far from good.

Calcium deposits are what toilet bowl cleaners are for.

According to my local Home Depot, a utility-grade toilet is $79, and the cheapest Toto Drake is $189. That's more than twice as much.

If you estimate that there's roughly one toilet per person in the United States, an extra hundred bucks per person comes out to 30 billion dollars wasted for each replacement cycle (except in the very limited areas, like California, where these things actually make sense).
Ads in solitaire? That is too far.