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Afaik many of the people who were on board to help start gem.coop have stepped back after the recent controversies with Andre Arko, at this point I don’t think it will ever be anything more than a ruby gems mirror
Genuine question: how do you take something which you have already been paying for?
They removed other maintainers access to their AWS account, and one of them had allegedly taken a screenshot of the root password from a password manager and logged in a few hours later and changed the root password to lock the legal owners out. Most of the community has turned on the maintainer who did that, it was extremely childish behaviour.
It's been a while but if memory serves me correctly the controversy at that time was actually about him unilaterally deciding that people at basecamp shouldn't be talking about politics in off-topic slack channels after people started trying to organize support for something he didn't agree with. IIRC something like 1/3 of the company quit at that time
My understanding is that building subways in LA is costlier and more labor-intensive than in a lot of the cities you mentioned, but the subway system is currently undergoing a massive expansion in LA.
The main difficulties are the fault lines: Subway lines have to be meticulously planned to avoid the dozens of faults as well as other areas that are susceptible to major movement.
Wow, this is utter shit. There is literally nothing here.
No wonder he was going 70+ days without being paid.
I thought you were just being petty until I tried to read it. There is so just much context switching without any clues at all to the reader, it is really jarring.
A good friend of mine recently was able to purchase a home in the Bay Area (we're in our late 20's). It has been absolutely fascinating the last few months watching his views towards housing supply do a complete 180 from "We need to build more housing" to "If they can't afford it maybe living here isn't for them".
Correct. But none of those entities are controlling transportation infrastructure in the United States. They're manufacturing vehicles or parts necessary for those vehicles, or controlling the air traffic on a completely separate continent.
The law's intent (not saying that I agree with it) is to ensure that the air transit infrastructure in the United States is controlled by U.S. citizens, not that every piece of transportation equipment worldwide is manufactured and controlled by the U.S.
I'm not sure I follow. I just sat here with my 6S trying various ways of holding it for a good 10 minutes, and I can't figure out for the life of me what you're talking about when you say that you have to hold it lower to double tap the home button than you do to firmly press it. If anything, I find the exact opposite to be true: I need to support the bottom of the phone less when I am simply double-tapping on the home button, while I need to have more support towards the bottom of the phone if I want to firmly press it.
This seems to make sense, intuitively, as well: I'm applying way more pressure to the bottom of the phone with a firm press of the home button than I do when I lightly tap it, even if I have to tap it twice.
What? Who paid for Windows 10? I thought Windows 10 is supposed to be free?
A simple Googling will help you answer this query:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-bank...
It just keeps getting better (or worse, depending on if you invested with him)...
In addition to failing to settle a huge short position, he managed to turn $1.12 million into $58,500 in 28 days.
Contrary to SHKRELI' s representations to Merrill Lynch, MSMB Capital had failed to locate OREX shares to borrow in order to settle MSMB Capital's short sales. As a result, MSMB Capital failed to settle a short position of over 11 million shares of OREX, which Merrill Lynch ultimately closed at a loss of over $7 million. In addition to the losses in the Merrill Lynch account, MSMB Capital suffered over $1 million in other trading losses in approximately February 2011. Based on these trading losses, the value of assets in MSMB Capital's bank and brokerage accounts, not including the OREX losses at Merrill Lynch, declined from more than $1.12 million on or about January 31, 2011 to $58,500 at the end of February 2011.
On or about December 2, 2010, Investor 1 [...] asked SHKRELI in an email about, inter alia, the fund's assets under management and the names of its independent auditor and fund administrator. SHKRELI told Investor 1 that MSMB Capital had $35 million in assets under management and that the fund's independent auditor and administrator were Rothstein, Kass & Company, P.C. and NAV Consulting Inc., respectively. At the time of this representation, MSMB Capital did not have an independent auditor or administrator, and SHKRELI had lost through trading the approximately $700,000 that had been invested by the four Capital Limited Partners. In fact, as of November 30, 2010, the value of assets in MSMB Capital's bank and brokerage accounts totaled approximately $700.
Well, seeing as it's only been 958 days since they promised improved customer service, we should really cut them some slack here..
Care to go into a little more detail for those of us who are curious what it is that makes speed limit laws so complex?
The US and other countries have two sets of data protection rules that govern police and security services. One set of rules for residents of that country (e.g. US persons) or domestic data and another much less stringent set or rules for everyone else.
This is going to be generally true of most countries. If it weren't the case, most forms of espionage would be subject to prosecution in the spy's home state.
It perplexes me why they don't shift their delivery period six hours later to start at 15:00 and end at 21:00. That would cover both business and residential hours.
I would imagine that is because the highest margins are made off of next-day deliveries from business to business. They often guarantee these deliveries by 10 AM because many companies are willing to pay extra to ensure that their package is delivered by 10 AM.
Consumers, by contrast, are more interested in paying as little as possible for shipping. Shifting their delivery hours to accommodate a group of customers who aren't willing to pay extra for the service while simultaneously killing off business from their most profitable customers would likely be a poor business decision.
While this indictment makes it clear what he is charged with, it doesn't seem to imply any sort of motive. Any ideas?
Another article on the subject[1] gives me the impression that the goal may have been simply to speed the process up but I'm not experienced in anything related to this..
[1] http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/07/14/374...
This is actually not true as far as fallout is generally concerned -- "air bursts" of nuclear weapons have shown to have a smaller fallout than similar sized ground blasts.
Part of the reason for detonating the first atomic bomb 500m above Hiroshima was to minimize residual radiation in the hopes that US troops could soon occupy the city.
Harvard waives fees altogether for families making less than $65,000. More than 60% of US households have income less than that+, yet only 20% of Harvard's undergraduate class pays no fees. From this we reasonably say that Harvard is mostly a school for rich kids, despite its generosity to those non-rich kids it lets in.
This argument is backwards. Harvard has a need-blind admission policy, which means that admissions decisions are judged solely on merits.
The reason that kids from the > 60% of households with incomes below that threshold don't go to Harvard isn't because of Harvard's admission policies, it's because the college preparatory system heavily favors families with higher wealth.
Most engineering programs (at least in the US) have students sign documents that state that the University will own the copyright to anything that they create in labs or for University classes.
I'm confused how the indictment is considered facts, but the verdict of the case that resulted from the indictment is merely narrative.
They were exonerated from all charges after trial, wouldn't that make the pre-trial "facts" supplied by the DA/prosecutor the non-factual narrative in this case?
Well, Google does read your email to show you better ads. But they never made a secret of that.
I really wish this trope would die already. Google is not a person. Google does not read your emails. Employees at Google aren't sitting there reading your emails. An algorithm scans your emails for certain keywords, and displays ads based off of what it finds. That is not the same thing as reading your emails, and it's ridiculous that a forum like this would fall for such fear mongering.
This. It took far too long for me to realize that noticing and questioning something that others have either not noticed or not questioned didn't make me any smarter or better than anyone else.
I think that a lot of younger, geeky types are always looking for or being told of reasons why they're better than their more socially-outgoing classmates. It's comforting to sit back and feel like you're winning because you see things that other people don't, but what really puts people ahead in the long run is being willing to confront the things which make them uncomfortable.
Chrome supports mp4 on Mavericks (as well as on older versions of OS X).
Yes, but a surface is only two dimensions, and we're measuring a volume (three dimensions). The average depth of Earth's oceans is a paltry 4.3 km.
I'm still not 100% sure I'm not just feeding a troll, but here goes.
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Women tend to feel unsafe in situations in which they are statistically not unsafe, at least when compared to men. In fact, men are overwhelmingly more likely to fall victim to violent crime, including violent crime from strangers.
I googled "statistics women safety" and wasn't able to find anything that pointed to any sort of conclusive study as to where or when a woman should feel unsafe. All I found was page after page of statistics on sexual assaults, rapes, and domestic violence that all seemed to paint the opposite picture of these mysterious statistics that you have been bringing up. For example:
* 12.4% of women had been sexually abused before the age of 15, compared with 4.5% of men, between 1996 and 2005. (Australia) [1]
* Of men who reported that they had experienced physical violence in the 12 months before the survey, 73.7% said that the perpetrator was a male (Australia) [1]
* One in 6 women and 1 in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed rape (USA) [2]
* 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men have been stalked in their lifetime (USA) [2]
* 81% of women stalked by a current or former intimate partner are also physically assaulted by that partner; 31% are also sexually assaulted by that partner (USA) [2]
I could go on, and on, and on. I wasn't able to find any of these mystery statistics that you've been citing to prove your points, though. They all seem to show that it's probably a decent idea for women to listen to their intuition about a guy they find creepy, even if they are not statistically unsafe.
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If far more men than women were graduating from college; if men universally received far lighter prison sentences than women for the same crimes; if young men were earning more than young women; if women had zero reproductive rights beyond "don't have sex with a fertile man"; if women were overwhelmingly more likely to fall victim to violent crime, including (but not limited to) murder; then would you not make a public, loud, brave scene about how unfair life is for women?
This obsession with a perceived unfairness between the genders is starting to get creepy. What man has zero reproductive rights? If you don't want to have a kid and aren't sure if she's on birth control, use a condom for fuck's sake. It's not rocket science.
The study that showed young women earn more than men also showed that women in the same industry with the same degree level earned less than male counterparts, and that their wages tended to stagnate or fall after having kids.[3] It is assumed in the study to be related to the fact that a significantly higher percentage of young women hold college degrees.[3] If it bothers you this much that women with degrees earn more than men without degrees, maybe western society isn't the best choice for you. There are plenty of countries where women aren't even allowed to go to college. I'm sure you could earn more there as an uneducated man than most women.
While it's true that a majority of murders are perpetrated against men, an even larger majority of murders are perpetrated by men! The FBI's latest data on murders in the US shows that 22% of murder victims are female, while only 7% of those that commit murder are female. It's clear from those numbers alone that a male murdering a female is at least twice as likely as a female murdering a female. Had enough yet? How about this: of the 594 cases of murder where a spouse killed their opposite gender-ed partner in 2012 in the US, 84% (496) of the time the victim was the wife, not the husband.[4]
None of your complaints regarding the hardships of males due to females have ANY MERIT IN REALITY. If you're going to pontificate about facts and statistics, at least cite the facts and statistics that you're claiming to be the basis of your opinion. You sound like you are spiteful towards women in general and grasping for reasons to justify your malice.
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[1] http://www.domesticviolence.com.au/pages/domestic-violence-s...
[2] http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet(Nationa...
[3] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870442110...
[4] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/c...
At first I thought this was a joke. What a strange article. Just because Yelp's reviews can be analyzed like baseball statistics doesn't make it a proper treatment of the data. It's not even a good analogy; one set of numbers is a concrete measurement of a player's performance, while the other is an aggregate of people's opinions of the quality of a restaurant, not just it's burritos.
It'd be one thing if Yelp set out to gather and aggregate people's opinions of burritos, but Yelp raters consider many other aspects of the restaurant, such as wait staff and cleanliness. I see no mention in the article of the author accounting for this in the adjusted burrito ratings (even saying adjusted burrito ratings makes me feel like a tool).
Are you trying to say that you have felt threatened, unsafe or like you were going to be alienated because you had to friendzone a female? Because I can't say that I have. And I honestly have a hard time believing that you have either.
I wasn't being snarky, but you appear to take this subject much more lightly than I do. That's fine. I was being serious about what I said. The commenter above mine was either or troll or someone who actually thinks that men have it harder because of the women's rights movement. If it's the latter, he needs to know that it's not an okay attitude to have in our society.
I'm not a hyper-affluent white male, so unfortunately I'm not just confirming his hypothesis.
I have a sneaking feeling that the #YesAllWomen thing might have gone a bit over your head.
It wasn't because more women died. It wasn't because of the plight of the western woman. #YesAllWomen was a more-or-less spontaneous response to the killer's motives. It was because the killer thought that he was entitled to get whatever he wanted from any woman he wanted, and wanted to make them suffer for depriving him of what he felt he deserved (sex with beautiful women). While most men will never go to that extreme, all women have experienced some form of punishment from a male for denying their sexual advances.
If you can't see why society would respond to that the way that it did, I'm not sure that a western society is appropriate for a person with your worldview.