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What you're missing is that the sort of harassment in question isn't nasty names and unwanted messages on Facebook, it's using every piece of available information to stalk and threaten the physical safety of the people in question. To the point of finding out where people live and following everyone they know personally who has a social media presence and posting things like, "Jane is at the bar downtown tonight, I hope someone kills that slut."

Celebrities deal with this sort of thing by hiring bodyguards and other personal security teams. An average person cannot have that kind of protection.

I honestly wonder if people would be so dismissive of this if they were subjected to the same levels of harassment that some people are getting.

I think that'd actually be interesting in the way that Hitchens allowed himself to be waterboarded to see if it was really all that bad. Y'know? Put up or shut up.

But not the scaredy cat way that Hitchens did it with a safeword and all. You'd have to commit to it.

I don't really understand key base. Is there a more elaborate explanation of how it works somewhere?

Woah. It's crazy how similar the air frame design is to all of the 5th gen stealth fighters being produced.

Sure it will. GCE just runs containers.

Eh, they just need to invent that fingerprint refresher from Men in Black.

As an ebook consumer, the single biggest reason I don't buy more ebooks is because I have to spend time and energy figuring out if the ebook has DRM or if I can remove the DRM afterwards.

Also, I spend time thinking about the fact that if I ever move to Kindle, any epubs I have won't work regardless of DRM.

I can't speak for other readers, but this is why I don't buy or read books as much as I used to. And I used to read a lot of books.

I'm downvoting you for implying without evidence that the author is responsible for a backlash against you. You are not contributing anything to discussion.

There's a lot of stuff like that around. The covers are usually much different compared to interior art. Like, Headlopper which came out last week. Clean lines, bright color, minimal detail. Here's an example from an interior spread: http://andrew-ross-maclean.deviantart.com/art/Head-Lopper-2-...

It's a series on testing durability claims in distributed computing workloads. It's a good name.

That's nice, how about 14 bit depth raw images in your pro series cameras though?

I mean, the 12+7 images look fine most of the time, but when you're paying close to $3,000 for a body, there should be no compromises in terms of IQ.

Containers are pretty flexible (unfortunately?). They can be used as a stop-gap to everyone jumping ship to Nix (we can only pray to god) somewhere down the line in that they let you get some decent isolation properties out of existing package management.

Since you can pretty much use any config management system you like with containers, they also play nice with that too.

There is one other ancillary benefit in that they enforce a little bit tighter process isolation than you might get if you just installed a bunch of stuff on a given server. So that lets you do things like overcommit available resources (put more on the server than it can run at one time, but stochastically, it can probably handle) and it helps ensure you have "livestock" and not "pets" (servers configured automatically, repeatably, and with no concern with their demise rather than servers you need to baby).

They're pretty much just a (mostly) handy abstraction for a bunch of things that you probably want to be doing but is exceptionally frustrating to set up piece by piece.

Lol, they'll end up buying this thing just in time for the next major operation to be in a flat urban environment with narrow passes.

It's a weird analogy, but it makes sense in the context of the paper's authors' statement:

> "The most important implication that we wish to claim is that the proposed scheme will provide a new perspective for understanding the information-processing principles of certain lower forms of life," Kim, from the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics' National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, told Phys.org. "These lower lifeforms exploit their underlying physics without needing any sophisticated neural systems."

Hahahahah fuck off

"They (Native Americans) didn't have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their 'right' to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent."

Yeah, I was riffing on the idea of finding a favorable municipality for business reasons and actually running your company where you actually want to run it.

Although given the history of this sort of thing, I guess it'd be more appropriate to call it the Maryland Shuffle.

This seems ridiculous.

The East Texas Shuffle

Hey, cool, trough of disillusionment!

That means we're like a year away from it being boring and just working, right?

I meant one that could be created by hand, but that works for ones made by printer.

Seems like a more durable solution would be making an encoding of the alphabet that's easier for machines to read.

Most interesting part of this is that you can link functions together in the following fashion: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/codot

I'm not a J expert; does anyone know if there are any other functions like this in the language?

In my experience building backend apps, unit tests are way more effective at catching logic bugs than end to end tests.

End to end tests are great for catching connectivity bugs though.

One small correction: Mesos is a scheduler. It doesn't natively ship with any end-user framework to access the scheduling though (you are supposed to write your own framework which uses the Mesos API). Marathon is a generic end-user framework for accessing those functions and runs on top of Mesos.

I think it's also interesting to note that Mesos can be used as the Kubernetes minion scheduler backend. And for very large collections of compute nodes, this is reputedly a good choice (though I don't have any personal experience to back that assessment up).

https://github.com/mesosphere/kubernetes-mesos

I think both parts sound like they're written by a thirteen year old. First with the force of mind of someone convinced they are right and know more than everyone else, and then with the uncritical eye of someone who accepts everything. Two sides of a thirteen year old unable to reconcile the irrationality of human existence in a world made of matter. An adolescent who cannot accept the contradiction of worldviews that makes for a balanced life.

I don't know about the others, but the thing that Crunchyroll does differently than Netflix is that it's a lot more like the Steam of Anime. Prior to Crunchyroll, it was extremely common (still is, I think) for fans to simply download fan-subbed versions of content and the license holders wouldn't see any money until they were able to sign a deal with a distribution company that would later sell a series on disc.

Crunchyroll provides the immediacy of fansubs but with legitimacy and sees that license holders get paid something where they weren't getting paid anything.

Additionally, the type of content that Crunchyroll provides isn't necessarily something Netflix would go after, in that it is released on an episode by episode basis (in line with air dates in Japan) rather than all at once (as is the typical Netflix model) and that there is rarely dubbing (which most, though notably not all, Netflix anime has).

That said, Netflix has been seriously expanding their anime efforts. I really do wonder if Crunchyroll is going to be able to keep growing as Netflix expands its presence more and more.

All that said, the one thing I'm really not sure of is how long Netflix can continue to do more and more licensing deals and original content without increasing its subscription cost. In that respect, I think the iTunes model is a lot more stable (and I'm perfectly happy paying for close-to-airtime delivery I get for the shows I do watch through it).

My only gripe with paying for that content is that the price premium seems to be pretty high on iTunes given that the content has revocable DRM (then again, Apple is more likely to be around in this space for a long time than any of the other current players).

In summary: I think you might be right, but it's definitely a pretty dynamic situation. Hope it goes well!

I think it's interesting that just the percentage stated makes it hard to comprehend intuitively.

That is, restate the question with a different end water percentage and the answer is immediately obvious:

> You have 100 lbs of Martian potatoes, which are 99 percent water by weight. You let them dehydrate until they're 50 percent water. How much do they weigh now?

And, of course, it's pretty easy to get "2 pounds", but your brain is pretty fixed on the numbers all clustered together in the other example.

You know what's actually kinda interesting? There's going to have to be an independent flash file player in order to view a lot of content that was produced when Flash was king. Like, I mean a lot of games and videos are going to be strictly inaccessible without downloading a tailored piece of software to specifically view them. Think about all the other common file formats that your computer will just open for you now. All those flash files are going to be basically in the dustbin.

Snowcrash and a bunch of Ted Chiang's works seem to be in a similar but possibly unrelated vein.

Are you 100% sure that the appliances were more reliable?