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They were making a joke about the fact that in order for a group of people to hold a belief that it is not alright to do something necessary for reproduction for 1000 years that either they are hypocritical of that belief or they are 1000 years old.

The parents are free to home school their children if they do not want them to learn the curriculum being taught. If we let every parent determine the curriculum for all students, well we would never even get the curriculum defined. So what is taught has to be chosen based on what is most beneficial for the children (as a whole) to be functioning members of society, and not on parent preference.

I guess I just see a disconnect between beliefs a person actually holds, and fake beliefs a person says they hold because they are under impression those are the 'correct' beliefs to hold.

I mean it comes down to a definition of the word belief which we seem to disagree on. There are probably only a handful of people in this world for which our differing definitions of belief would provide the same sets of beliefs.

Presumably the people actually having sex believe that having sex is alright, so no one is really forcing their views on them. People don't have to hold the same values their parents hold now for them.

Some also have more sex after that...

I agree, but the people who write head lines understand that including the word 'Startling' increases their clicks dramatically, despite the fact it would of been more accurate without that word added.

Wouldn't it be taking care of an STD or having a baby AND taking care of an STD in many cases?

I believe there is a proof of concept which if implemented would be trillions of time slower, so lets say kinda? 100x slower as is the case with this method would be amazing if they managed to get make it fully homomorphic eventually and keep that speed.

This isn't fully homomorphic encryption though only somewhat homomorphic encryption. Addition and things that can be done with routines that only use addition would be able to be performed on the encrypted data, but other operations would not.

Or at least having skimmed the white paper, and having some background in this, that was my take away.

EDIT: Your explanation of homomorphic encryption is a good way to explain it at a level people can understand just what a breakthrough a workable implementation would be.

And assuming 10 equal payments at the end of each of the 10 years, each percentage point of average return Craigslist sees on that $1 million they earn 55,000. In addition to a getting to presumably write off some portion(all?) of the $100,000 they would be donating each year for tax purposes.

So really they get more than $2.1M value out of this.

Edit: Yes, I realize there is no reason I should assume 10 equal payments over 10 years, given the information available. It was just the closest thing to an 'average case' I could define for a situation like this.

They don't actually say they asked him to stop playing, they say they demanded their coins back.

Basically would be the key word in your description of their actions. As they do not mention actually telling the user to stop playing. They only mention "demanding" their bitcoins back. Demanding something you are at that point probably not entitled to from a user of your service, and informing them that you have decided to refuse future service to them may appear basically the same, but they are in fact not.

"We reached out to Hufflepuff via his bitcointalk forum account and demanded the return of the coins, however this backfired unbelievably hard. "

All you did was swap out one word for another from the sentence, which to me when reading it says 'these two words are equivalent.' The sentence is so vague on its own so as to be true for basically any noun which represents an individual, group, or organization that you substitute in for casinos. Hell it is even true for animals 'There are plenty of cows, and many of them comply with the law'.

How you expected anyone to jump to the conclusion you were talking about the manner in which Nazis rose to power and their eventual punishment or lack there of as being the analogous part is beyond me. Especially since you kept your sentence in the present tense leading me to believe it was about modern day people who hold the beliefs of the Nazi party.

I can see that line of thought being a fine one to voice, however I am curious how you expected others to infer all of it simply from your comparison of casinos to nazis. As when I read it my initial reaction was simply that you were calling casinos nazis, and if I were to ignore this reply I would still see it as the most logical way to interpret the post.

And most countries with a sense of free-speech try to(pretend to, would ideally, take your pick depending on your view of how successful free-speech is) respect the law biding citizen's freedom to hold whatever views they want even if they are ridiculous.

I feel like unless you are trying to troll, it is best to avoid all analogies that compare current events to what would be deemed by many as 'historical evil doers'.

And that was the original model and configuration which was released, since then we have seen variations of model and configuration with up to 215 seats on a 737 according to wikipedia.

I agree I do have more time, I am also traveling at a higher speed because I am not taking as sharp of a turn, and because there are frequently stopped cars at that light while one is turning the bikes moving in the bike lane are often obstructed to the point of not being visible until they are in the process of running the red light while one is turning.

It is not my intent to say whether a "Right-Hook" or a "Left-Hook" presents a greater danger to the cyclist, merely that I find it greatly aggravating to hear someone use the avoidance of a cycling situation in which the driver would be at fault, to justify a situation where the cyclist would be at fault and still be in what I consider a dangerous situation.

Edit: To be honest I have many more issues with other drivers in MA than I do with cyclists, besides awareness of left turns needing to be more widespread among cyclists, I think they are doing as good a job as can be hoped for on the roads around here.

The problem I have most with cyclists running red lights is while they avoid the "right-hook" I often find myself having to stop mid left turn as they run the red light so that they don't suffer a "left-hook" while I have a green turn arrow and they have a red light. I am located in the Cambridge, MA area and am constantly amazed to how many cyclists do not pay attention to when a left turn lane would have right of way through a light.

"To understand how Hufflepuff beat our system, one must understand how our provably fair system (RNG) works."

"Our database had seeds that were both inactive and in use at the same time all connected to Hufflepuff."

To me it sounds like your company simply didn't understand how the system you created worked, it sounds like you merely understood how you wished it to work. Gambling has always favored people who actually understand the system in place, by not understanding the system you yourselves were implementing you created the opportunity for a customer to understand it better than you. What you describe with your database having seeds that were both in use and inactive at the same time, sounds to me like you did not do a good job managing concurrency on records which were crucial to your business.

While I can not say whether the users did anything illegal, the post you have created to call attention to this does not make an adequate case for wrong doing on the users part. However your response does make an amazing case for you having responded to an implementation issue in your software very poorly, and I think would make future users who are aware of this less likely to use your service.

That is just my opinion given the information you have presented, as you seem to focus more on maliciously providing information of the person you are accusing as opposed to proving your accusations that the person in question committed a crime while doing so.

Now it is entirely my personal guess, but back in the day you actually had legroom and seats that reclined on planes. Now that extra room has been taken up by more seats. It is my belief that this condition, could explain a large portion of the time increase. As more seats leads to the combination of more people needing to board the same size aircraft, them needing to squeeze into smaller spaces (get up after sitting if they sat down before someone to their inside), and less room per person for carry on luggage so they sometimes need to find a overhead bin not directly above their row.

As commentators have pointed out security at the gate probably has also increased time, I think number of seats per aircraft could also be a contributing factor.

I think the change from drivers to driver less cars is a large enough one for people to accept and get used to, that it would make sense for uber to have their own small fleets of self driving cars in test cities, so that customers would get used to the self driving car concept in an environment where they could more directly provide feedback to the ones responsible for the car (uber in this case). It would also allow uber to work out issues that may arise from the change. I agree with others who say that this eventually leads to people having their own cars be taxis when not in use, I just consider the idea of uber managing their own small fleet a step towards that.

OK, just cool your jets mister, everyone here is having a pretty civil conversation without you attacking people for 'pushing corrosive ideology'.

And in order to formulate that attack you pieced together quotes from two completely differently messages and people to make your 'point'.

I said they keep people from re-inventing solutions, however it was the comment you actually replied to which else claimed they were too complex.

I agree they are patterns which languages do not yet abstract over, but until languages do I think they are very useful patterns for programmers to be able to correctly recognize as they occur frequently enough that knowing the pattern saves a lot of time and work. When languages can successfully abstract over those patterns, then knowing them will be niche knowledge assuming new patterns cease to be detected by humans prior to their ability to be abstracted by a language.

I have this problem with the PS4s wake word being Playstation quite frequently.

You can easily change it to Amazon if you do not want it to be Alexa. However that is your only other option.

From my experience design patterns are both taught and used as a starting place for solving a problem which is recognized as similar to a problem which was previously solved effectively with in the manner of the pattern. Rarely will the design pattern fit perfectly as the solution, but by recognizing and using the correct one as a starting point for many architecture related problems you can greatly reduce the work involved, in creating the solution.

They keep people from re-inventing nearly identical solutions over and over, and allow for a vocabulary which can express rather complex ideas because fellow practitioners of software engineering generally know many of the same design patterns. This saves time and reduces the opportunity for miscommunication when expressing a more complex idea (assuming the person you are talking to doesn't lie and for instance say they are familiar with the facade pattern, when they are not).

To me this is using them to both get and express a better understanding of a complex system. I am also able to understand code for new projects I am to work on much quicker when I understand the underlying design of the elements. When the elements are designed with a structure that resembles things I am familiar with this process becomes fairly easy.

I see them as things like definitions of 'Suspension Bridge', 'Victorian House', 'Tunnel', or 'Dog House'. Sure we might see a book consisting of very rudimentary definitions of structures like these as being absurd, for the corresponding type of engineer, but that is because of our familiarity with the form these structures take. That familiarity with the form is the point of design patterns in my opinion. And I believe their utility is indispensable should we want to continue building more complex structures in code.

My software engineering class spent most of the semester going over design patterns which are in fact quite useful to learn in school. And then maybe 1/4 of the class on going over the various development methodologies. I agree that a class devoted entirely to methodology would be complete over kill. However I think there is room for getting some exposure to it in school. Ideally before taking higher level classes, where having knowledge of a existing ways to structure your group work will be beneficial.

That statement neither disputes nor supports the statement you made it in reply to. The statement you were replying to was referring to the trend line. That is to say it was referring to the line representing the rate at which the price was changing, not the price itself. You would need significantly more than two data points to make an argument for or against that assertion. As you would need enough enough points to show what the trend was both before the flood and currently.

I only point this out because I assume you misunderstood what was said about the trend line, if you had another purpose for pointing this out which I am missing I would be interested in knowing it.

I was under the impression that California had tiers in place for urban use of all utilities. But I only observed the tier in place for electricity while I lived in San Francisco, so I realize this must not be the case for other utilities if you are suggesting it.

That is lovely but doesn't explain why the mismatch exists between the picture being blue and caption for the picture saying red.

"BIG ICE: Liquid water (left) is composed of hydrogen (white) and oxygen (red) atoms arranged in a nearly tetrahedral structure. Common ice, or Ice Ih (right), shows a three-dimensional network that is less dense, explaining why ice floats on water."

>Then why would it make them unelectable?

Because enough of the public is bigoted and fearful of personal differences that through out history many traits such as Polio, being Catholic, being single, being black, being a woman, being gay, and being a transsexual have been and some continue to be big enough deal breakers to enough people that a candidate will not get elected if they openly have that trait, regardless of how preferable they are to the public's best interests.

People are stupid, and honestly if hiding the fact you have polio is the only way you can get elected and help the country you live in, then damn it you should hide the fact you have polio for the time being. And later when you do reveal you have polio maybe people will become a bit more accepting, and realize how little that really mattered.

What I am saying is that your pure transparency model would be great for a theoretical democracy where equality and rational thought actually existed, but for the world we have, the democracy we have, transparency isn't always best.