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The prison system mirrors American parenting. They do not see anything wrong with domination.

Then perhaps there is a third category: an act of terror.

If this was state sponsored, is it a crime or an act of war?

Does anyone call it ES?

For my self preservation I don't bike there. I don't want to be the statistic, and there are so many other places to bicycle without dangerous car traffic. Driving in general works out because the people around us can usually compensate for the mistakes that we'll invariably make, and thus avoid (or mitigate) an accident. This is harder for a bicyclist --- a bicyclist can't accelerate away, handle a swipe, recover from a collision, and is harder to see.

You're kidding right? How are pictures of cocks more dangerous than insincerity, lies, trophy girlfriends, mistrust, and narcissism? There is a reason the movie contrasted these elements. Something about American morality.

Cyclicity CDL is nice: http://cyclicity-cdl.sourceforge.net/cdl.php

It works very well in inner-city schools. See The Lives of Children: The Story of the First Street School by Dennison.

I can't imagine that this article was supposed to add value to the public-school debate. Here are two non-controversial goals that children should achieve while growing up: 1. They should build durable cognitive connections. 2. And they should flourish (which has a psychological meaning). The public schools address neither goal. They can't. They actively work against both goals. Most children would be better off without school (since public school is a massive opportunity cost).

I see them very often in the San Francisco area.

Right, so it conveys little info, and is rather funny looking.

They had to widen the columns in the chart to make room for Tesla's growth numbers. What is interesting is that Tesla is right behind BMW and Daimler for the "luxury and sports" segment.

Do you need a PickTORead account to read the original article? It says "read the original" but there is no link. Perhaps it is broken?

An obstacle for Wyden and Udall to use their immunity to leak info is that they would be evicted from the Intelligence Committee as punishment.

Belongs to my employer :(

Also, when I said 'quite a bit', I was thinking about the data-plumbing logic --- not UI and WebKit logic. It doesn't really make sense to rewrite WebKit.

I rewrote quite a bit of the Chromium browser in Go, achieving a 10x reduction in lines of code (I stopped this project before I could reliably evaluate performance). Since Chromium uses a multi-process model, this was pretty easy: I implemented the Chromium IPC protocol in Go (I wrote a Chromium utility to emit a JSON description of the IPC protocol), and then told the privileged and unprivileged Chromium processes to use my Go subprocess rather than the original logic. My Go logic ran on both Windows and Mac OS X.

If you feel comfortable installing an Intel hypervisor on your Mac. I do not.

This type of behavior proves that Snowden deserves asylum, since asylum is to protect against political persecution.

I agree. Governance bodies may take public comments, but for the ceremony and to legitimize the process; they ignore them, and vote as if they never took place. I've seen the same elsewhere, such as at the Menlo Park City School District meeting: they take comments, ignore them, then vote how they intended to vote prior to the public discussion. But think how hard it is to process creative discussion on your feet, particularly when arguments arise that repudiate your position, and you have no way to validate the new arguments or to research them prior to the vote. Whom do you trust? What should you do? It is the process that is broken: votes should not happen immediately after the comment period, but after a period of evaluation of the comments; and then the governance body should have to repudiate the comments or at least to reply to them.

There is a scandal in the sense that the people running the schools earn significant benefits at the expense of the students: they charge the students substantial tuition rates, leaving the students with horrible debt, and a low probability that their education can be applied to cover the debt (more likely, the students' own tenacity will help them overcome the debt). You might argue that the students willingly walk into the trap, but I'd argue that the university has a duty and responsibility to guide the students towards a successful life path, and these days, that would legitimately mean advising their students to attend other schools.

I wouldn't call David Brooks' quotes smears. His whole article, perhaps, but not the quotes. The quotes are pieces of evidence in his thesis, which is that Snowden doesn't participate in a community --- Snowden has isolated himself, and that this leak is behavior consistent with someone that has isolated himself from a community. Brooks' outlook on the world tends to be built on models of culture, community, and psychology, and this article is just an application of those models to the particular topic of Snowden. Someone that writes columns tends to have some models that they've developed, and produces new columns by applying those models to current events. In that sense, he is profiting from Snowden's dilemma, and taking advantage of it --- if what Brooks says is true, then what Snowden really needs is support.

Since everyone is pointing out that he actually resides in Brazil most of the time: that is not by choice, but because the U.S. won't permit his significant other to enter the country. His reporting focus is always the US. He was a US constitutional lawyer before becoming a journalist.

Ninja is awesome

I don't feel that there is anything "wrong," just limiting, because the C preprocessor makes it harder to use tools that walk the abstract-syntax-tree while editing code (or to analyze code). LLVM-based tools are really nice. I don't care whether it is "const uint32_t ..." or enum, or anything else, as long as it is the C/C++/ObjC language.

It is nice to move away from the C preprocessor:

enum { HebrewCharMin=0xfb20, HebrewCharMax=0xfb4f, };

> The don't consider not having to step over homeless people a "benefit".

My daughter really tries to stop us from visiting San Francisco, because there is nothing that she can do to help the homeless. So even though I like the city, I don't get to make much use of it (plus, on an not-unrelated note, the city is child unfriendly).

Making matters even more surreal, the Willows Market in Menlo Park now sells caviar at the checkout counter, nestled amongst the chocolate and other things targeted for impulse buys.

He left out an important reason to know and use SQL directly: you should always be aware how you are using your indices. This goes beyond making an index for a column in the table: you also need to know whether the query will map well to a btree index. Mobile, with its low resources, makes index optimization even more important; apple's Core Data can easily kill your app.

Do you mean East Palo Alto, or the whole valley? There is almost no housing supply in the valley. I have the feeling that engineers are now priced out of the market in the valley. Houses sell to bidders that offer no contingencies, cash, and a price that exceeds a lender's appraisal.

Perhaps you really believe this definition of science. I've never encountered it before, nor do I know anyone that would use this definition. When people operating on a different definition of science encounter your definition, you can hopefully understand that they will be insulted to have what they think is science to be called not science. Whether you meant it or not, it appears as an attempt to elevate yourself (the person passing judgement, by calling it not science) over the study authors. Thus it comes across as contemptuous, and so one starts wondering: why is this person trying to belittle the study? Is there a hidden agenda? Is this person trying to make it look like the scientists performing the study aren't scientists, so that everyone dismisses the results? These are the things that one will naturally wonder about in the context of contempt, even if the contempt is accidental.

> In fact, science is ten studies making one claim.

If it is a fact, can you provide a source for this definition? I've never heard it before, and it contradicts everything that I've encountered to date.

1. It has lots of meaning before replication, which is why people tend to replicate things --- they were inspired.

2. Apparently the first study isn't science. I didn't realize that science was a catch-22 situation.

3. This is so absurd that I feel like I'm being trolled. They have a testable hypothesis: that acetaminophen/paracetamol has a side effect of X.

4. See https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/

It is quite possible for the middle class to move into the upper class. It is just ironic that the desire to entire the upper class is often part of neuroses that make it impossible to enter.