I'm not advocating we force content providers to host hateful content, but I also think it's a mistake to publicly force them to drop said content.
And yeah, I get the difference between government suppression of speech vs private/personal/business censorship... but I didn't bring that up. Since you did, though, my view is that freedom of expression is as much a cultural construct as it is a legal one, and that they reinforce each other; therefore, both are worth defending.
My main point is that driving stuff underground (alcohol, drugs, the sex trade, etc) often backfires. That doesn't mean legalize murder, rape, etc, and there will always be a dark underground, but we should be careful about forcing political beliefs into that space.
Is there any evidence that shutting down drug marketplaces has actually done anything to curb drug use or harm criminal organizations? Everything I've read about the war on drugs, etc, has indicated the exact opposite: drug use increases & criminals thrive. Which is kind of my point about this nazi stuff, it thrives in darkness.
Now we can't mock the posts, debate the facts, or keep tabs on the threat. Nothing will get better; rather, these vile sentiments will fester, and we'll have a tougher time anticipating the next Charlotsville, since it won't be so widely publicized.
That bit is where the context comes into play. Reading it without understanding what's specifically being referenced makes it sound like a standard "women are neurotic and hysterical" sentiment, which is offensive. But then you include a link to what he was actually talking about (which Gizmodo cut out), and suddenly it becomes a dispassive statement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What's that old quote about "I'd rather a hundred guilty men go free than 1 innocent man be imprisoned"?
Hoping that Shkreli gets raped really means hoping that he ends up in a penitentiary where violent and aggressive inmates aren't dealt with and guards let their personal feelings get in the way of their professional duties. And if such a penitentiary exists, who's to say that some of those 1 in a 100 innocents don't go there? I'm not saying that's the actual number or anything, and duh those places exist, but I'd rather spend my hope on the idea that they don't.
If he really, truly deserves rape, then call your local congress-critter and propose a bill legalizing it as a form of punishment for the most serious of the charges Shkreli was charged with. If you're not comfortable with that same punishment being meted out against other people found guilty of the same crime (regardless of any other circumstances, including the blue-moon chance of actual innocence), then fuck off.
I hate Shkreli as much as the next internet person, but let's not wish rape on the guy. "Cruel and unusual punishment" is explicitly rejected by our justice system, the integrity of which is already shaky enough. For everyone like this guy that's "earned it", there's another in that same situation who was wrongfully convicted, and is now being doubly punished.
That statistic is misleading. From another article talking about the same study: 53% are homicides and 38% are suicides, meaning 9% (aka ~117 kids) die from accidental handling.
That's not to say homicides and suicides aren't a problem, nor that 117 kids dying accidentally is okay, but it's a small fraction of the ([VERY] roughly) estimated 22,260 kids that die each year, whether or not you include the homicides & suicides.
My gut says taking all the money put into SmartGuns and directing it towards childrens' hospitals, child services, car safety, etc would give us a better ROI in terms of lives saved.
There are some times when Snipping Tool doesn't work for what you want (e.g. a screenshot that includes a tooltip). I might also want to do some simple image composition, compare and contrast multiple images at the same time, etc. MS Paint is pretty great for all that.
Nope, it's the laptop. I have distinct memories of playing Abe's Oddyssey throughout many a Physics 2 lecture. Contrast with Advanced Computer Architecture, which had me paying rapt attention with notebook and pencil.
As if to say "We all agree to assume that the South is generally racist, but did you also know that the North also has some racism?"
I'm not going to say the South doesn't have a problem with racism, but a kind of "Our shit stinks less than yours" presumption comes across, whether or not it's intended. It's a specific example of the broader issue of cultural elitism, alongside making fun of rednecks, assuming those with drawls are stupid, and calling Californians ditzes.
I myself am not a target of any of these kinds of slights. My accent is (mostly) all-American, I work in the tech industry, and I've lived in and/or visited plenty of different cities/states/countries, so I have the privilege to pretend these little jabs aren't aimed at me. But how's about we stop with bigotry, on all ends? Don't assume black people are lazy, don't assume women give a shit about your feelings, don't assume gay men want to fuck you, and don't assume southerners are ignorant. Such a thing is at best a roundabout way of navigating your foot into your mouth.
None of this really has anything to do with the article itself, but rather some minor phrasing at the end of the summary. Just like CowboyNeal intended.
Let's Fermi this: 324 million Americans, with an average income of something like 60k per year. If we want to provide UBI of 20k per year, then we simply tax all non-UBI income at 33%. The guy making 1 million a year and the guy making 20k a year have the same tax rate, but the former ends up with 687k, while the latter ends up with 33k, and people at the mean break even.
That's all of course drastically simplified, but if it means you don't need to manage unemployment, disability, welfare, food stamps, etc, you can end up with a much leaner program. To add some gross approximation of the difference between 20k in San Francisco vs Montana, you could do this math per state instead of all over the country, with 20k replaced with whatever the equivalent purchasing power is, adjusted each year.
I'm not a policy expert by any means, but at least on the face of it, it seems reasonable to me.
While I want to agree with what you're saying, there's a subtler phenomenon at play here: We don't have comparable information on Le Pen. For all we know she could literally be a baby killer, and that could be information that the hackers discovered, but their political bias leads them to suppress that information.
In other words, you can't accurately compare something that's known to something that's unknown. A smart player understands this, and can be selective with what they reveal in such a way that others are influenced into making poor choices.
It's something I do all the time in board games with hidden information (trivial example), it's something I fell for last year with the US elections (major example), and unless somebody does a similar hack & release of La Pen's information (even if all it does is reveal that she does in fact have nothing to hide), the people of France are in danger of falling for it themselves.
My high school offered a fairly comprehensive Computer Science program with a focus on Java, with the 2nd year giving AP credit.
My college's first CSE course was focused on Python, which was many/most of my peers' first exposure to programming, but the breadth and depth of the material (excluding the language-specific stuff) was more or less equivalent to the HS material, so I breezed through it.
Depends on the cost of living in that area. If you're talking Washington or California, probably not. If you're talking Texas or Michigan, then probably yes.
From a technical perspective, it's completely acceptable. This build was never intended to be released to the public, and so there was no expectation of backwards compatibility. It produces a new save, which the old build (by definition not patched to handle saves from the future) will then apparently choke on and mangle. Unless the mangling somehow avoids losing any information, or users' saves are backed up somewhere, I don't see what can be done in this situation.
The only thing I can think of would be to hold off on pulling the developer build until you've produced another retail build based on the last good one, with functionality patched in downcast saves generated from the developer build. But that kind of thing would probably have a minimum of something like a 1 week turnaround, which would mean leaving the development build live for a whole extra week.
In other words, the decision to immediately pull the developer build and revert to the previous one probably makes the corruption of saves inevitable. The only hope is that they pull it fast enough that as few users as possible are afflicted.
As for future-proofing against this kind of mishap (which falls in the general case of "Updates Breaking Saves"), you can use a versioning system that keeps saves from older builds around and writes to differently named saves with each new update. That unfortunately seems not to be what was done here...
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I'm not advocating we force content providers to host hateful content, but I also think it's a mistake to publicly force them to drop said content.
And yeah, I get the difference between government suppression of speech vs private/personal/business censorship... but I didn't bring that up. Since you did, though, my view is that freedom of expression is as much a cultural construct as it is a legal one, and that they reinforce each other; therefore, both are worth defending.
My main point is that driving stuff underground (alcohol, drugs, the sex trade, etc) often backfires. That doesn't mean legalize murder, rape, etc, and there will always be a dark underground, but we should be careful about forcing political beliefs into that space.
Is there any evidence that shutting down drug marketplaces has actually done anything to curb drug use or harm criminal organizations? Everything I've read about the war on drugs, etc, has indicated the exact opposite: drug use increases & criminals thrive. Which is kind of my point about this nazi stuff, it thrives in darkness.
Now we can't mock the posts, debate the facts, or keep tabs on the threat. Nothing will get better; rather, these vile sentiments will fester, and we'll have a tougher time anticipating the next Charlotsville, since it won't be so widely publicized.
Good job, fuckwads.
That bit is where the context comes into play. Reading it without understanding what's specifically being referenced makes it sound like a standard "women are neurotic and hysterical" sentiment, which is offensive. But then you include a link to what he was actually talking about (which Gizmodo cut out), and suddenly it becomes a dispassive statement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hammurabi called, he wants his justice system back :P
What's that old quote about "I'd rather a hundred guilty men go free than 1 innocent man be imprisoned"?
Hoping that Shkreli gets raped really means hoping that he ends up in a penitentiary where violent and aggressive inmates aren't dealt with and guards let their personal feelings get in the way of their professional duties. And if such a penitentiary exists, who's to say that some of those 1 in a 100 innocents don't go there? I'm not saying that's the actual number or anything, and duh those places exist, but I'd rather spend my hope on the idea that they don't.
If he really, truly deserves rape, then call your local congress-critter and propose a bill legalizing it as a form of punishment for the most serious of the charges Shkreli was charged with. If you're not comfortable with that same punishment being meted out against other people found guilty of the same crime (regardless of any other circumstances, including the blue-moon chance of actual innocence), then fuck off.
I hate Shkreli as much as the next internet person, but let's not wish rape on the guy. "Cruel and unusual punishment" is explicitly rejected by our justice system, the integrity of which is already shaky enough. For everyone like this guy that's "earned it", there's another in that same situation who was wrongfully convicted, and is now being doubly punished.
That statistic is misleading. From another article talking about the same study: 53% are homicides and 38% are suicides, meaning 9% (aka ~117 kids) die from accidental handling.
That's not to say homicides and suicides aren't a problem, nor that 117 kids dying accidentally is okay, but it's a small fraction of the ([VERY] roughly) estimated 22,260 kids that die each year, whether or not you include the homicides & suicides.
My gut says taking all the money put into SmartGuns and directing it towards childrens' hospitals, child services, car safety, etc would give us a better ROI in terms of lives saved.
After all, users can just download Visual Studio!
There are some times when Snipping Tool doesn't work for what you want (e.g. a screenshot that includes a tooltip). I might also want to do some simple image composition, compare and contrast multiple images at the same time, etc. MS Paint is pretty great for all that.
Nope, it's the laptop. I have distinct memories of playing Abe's Oddyssey throughout many a Physics 2 lecture. Contrast with Advanced Computer Architecture, which had me paying rapt attention with notebook and pencil.
As if to say "We all agree to assume that the South is generally racist, but did you also know that the North also has some racism?"
I'm not going to say the South doesn't have a problem with racism, but a kind of "Our shit stinks less than yours" presumption comes across, whether or not it's intended. It's a specific example of the broader issue of cultural elitism, alongside making fun of rednecks, assuming those with drawls are stupid, and calling Californians ditzes.
I myself am not a target of any of these kinds of slights. My accent is (mostly) all-American, I work in the tech industry, and I've lived in and/or visited plenty of different cities/states/countries, so I have the privilege to pretend these little jabs aren't aimed at me. But how's about we stop with bigotry, on all ends? Don't assume black people are lazy, don't assume women give a shit about your feelings, don't assume gay men want to fuck you, and don't assume southerners are ignorant. Such a thing is at best a roundabout way of navigating your foot into your mouth.
None of this really has anything to do with the article itself, but rather some minor phrasing at the end of the summary. Just like CowboyNeal intended.
Let's Fermi this: 324 million Americans, with an average income of something like 60k per year. If we want to provide UBI of 20k per year, then we simply tax all non-UBI income at 33%. The guy making 1 million a year and the guy making 20k a year have the same tax rate, but the former ends up with 687k, while the latter ends up with 33k, and people at the mean break even.
That's all of course drastically simplified, but if it means you don't need to manage unemployment, disability, welfare, food stamps, etc, you can end up with a much leaner program. To add some gross approximation of the difference between 20k in San Francisco vs Montana, you could do this math per state instead of all over the country, with 20k replaced with whatever the equivalent purchasing power is, adjusted each year.
I'm not a policy expert by any means, but at least on the face of it, it seems reasonable to me.
While I want to agree with what you're saying, there's a subtler phenomenon at play here: We don't have comparable information on Le Pen. For all we know she could literally be a baby killer, and that could be information that the hackers discovered, but their political bias leads them to suppress that information.
In other words, you can't accurately compare something that's known to something that's unknown. A smart player understands this, and can be selective with what they reveal in such a way that others are influenced into making poor choices.
It's something I do all the time in board games with hidden information (trivial example), it's something I fell for last year with the US elections (major example), and unless somebody does a similar hack & release of La Pen's information (even if all it does is reveal that she does in fact have nothing to hide), the people of France are in danger of falling for it themselves.
My high school offered a fairly comprehensive Computer Science program with a focus on Java, with the 2nd year giving AP credit.
My college's first CSE course was focused on Python, which was many/most of my peers' first exposure to programming, but the breadth and depth of the material (excluding the language-specific stuff) was more or less equivalent to the HS material, so I breezed through it.
When I saw that article a couple weeks back, I looked at the headline, then the date, and closed Slashdot.
Surprised to find it's an actual article.
I was using the same pattern as "Russia Threatens Sanctions Retaliation", though it isn't as clear as can be.
Still, more clear than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Microsoft Threatens Windows 10's Upcoming 'Project Neon' Design Language
Shit, you said he name 3 times in your post!
Depends on the cost of living in that area. If you're talking Washington or California, probably not. If you're talking Texas or Michigan, then probably yes.
From a technical perspective, it's completely acceptable. This build was never intended to be released to the public, and so there was no expectation of backwards compatibility. It produces a new save, which the old build (by definition not patched to handle saves from the future) will then apparently choke on and mangle. Unless the mangling somehow avoids losing any information, or users' saves are backed up somewhere, I don't see what can be done in this situation.
The only thing I can think of would be to hold off on pulling the developer build until you've produced another retail build based on the last good one, with functionality patched in downcast saves generated from the developer build. But that kind of thing would probably have a minimum of something like a 1 week turnaround, which would mean leaving the development build live for a whole extra week.
In other words, the decision to immediately pull the developer build and revert to the previous one probably makes the corruption of saves inevitable. The only hope is that they pull it fast enough that as few users as possible are afflicted.
As for future-proofing against this kind of mishap (which falls in the general case of "Updates Breaking Saves"), you can use a versioning system that keeps saves from older builds around and writes to differently named saves with each new update. That unfortunately seems not to be what was done here...
My phone's on fire! Ow!
Guy should go back to making movies.
More people than just the Jews died in the war.
This sounds sirious!