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Maybe someone else who speaks the language or someone who wants to try with Google Translate could help out.
I also get the impression from the lectures so far that Startup Engineering isn't covering databases to any real extent, whereas the article covers MongoDB.
There was a doctor and two nurses on duty at the time. The doctor had to be quite resourceful: he checked my vitals, took, developed, and interpreted the x-ray, and then set the broken bone. I gather the doctor(s) onboard also wind up serving as the primary care physician for all of the staff on board, too.
The facilities themselves were quite sparse, and with somewhat dated but still functional equipment. The x-ray used film, after all. He also wound up using a spoon from the dining room as a splint, because the ship didn't seem to stock small splints.
My understanding is that shipboard medicine has advanced considerably since then. Some cursory Googling suggested that ships are routinely equipped with satellite connections to doctors on shore, ecgs, defibrillators, and the like.
[cue jokes about mixing systems of measurement]
The law (ITAR[1] and the Arms Control Export Act[2]) wasn't designed to keep home-milled ArmaLite parts out of the hands of US citizens. The goal was to prevent someone like Lockheed from doing something like selling stealth fighters to an adversary without checking in with someone first. It's basically written as banning the export of military technology to foreign countries without the proper paperwork.
Apparently, to the folks at the State Department, stuff like PGP[3] and plans for a 3D-printable gun count as "military technology" and putting it on the internet counts as "export". That's pretty different from the ATF deciding that a lower receiver without holes in it doesn't need a firearms dealer for a transfer.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Export_Control_Act
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R...
[3] http://stason.org/TULARC/security/pgp/99-Appendix-VI-A-State...
"If you use Crash Alert, in the event you are in a crash, we may share your location and personally identifiable information with emergency responders and your emergency contacts."[1]
In Egypt at least, the Muslim Brotherhood had a number of pretty significant advantages compared to liberals and secularists. Whereas Mubarak basically crushed secularist dissent, he seemed to tolerate the Muslim Brotherhood (on a very short leash) for use as boogeymen. They were also able to organize in mosques, which were more or less untouchable, whereas nobody else had such a safe place to organize. Finally, the Mubarak regime was largely secularist, which tainted other liberals by association.
The end result was that, after the revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood had a very well-organized political network ready to go, while everyone else was going, "Hmm ... time to form a political party. How do we do that?"
"Terrorism is ... violence - or, equally important, the threat of violence - used and directed in pursuit of, or in service of, a political aim."[1]
Certainly this is political, but I think it's a stretch to call releasing stolen tax returns violence.
[1] Hoffman, Bruce. _Inside Terrorism_. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Print.
Really? I know it's controversial, but that's pretty much what CISPA is supposed to help with.
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For example, I'd argue that it's a positive thing that Lockheed couldn't sell F-22s to [insert violent autocrat of the month] without some very significant reviews.
Stratfor and KGS both offer free access to a limited set of their analysis.[2,3]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_intelligence_agency [2] http://www.stratfor.com/ [3] http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch.aspx
You could probably find a used astronomy tripod (used to hold a large telescope and then position it precisely) that's out of spec for astronomy use but that would hold your laptop just fine.
And that belief stems largely from the status of the US as the sole superpower (at least for now). That's the point I was trying to make. I just didn't do a very good job of it.
I probably should have just picked an example of the US exercising diplomatic power, because that's much more intuitive to me than currency markets are.
(Thanks for patiently correcting me, by the way.)
Since I gather you probably know more about monetary policy than I do, how's this logic for an explanation of the benefit of reserve currency status?
* Things (like oil) on global markets are traded in USD.
* That means countries need to accumulate or exchange for USD in order to buy things.
* This both increases the value of the USD and means the US Government can issue bonds at lower rates than they otherwise could.
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These benefits are, in essence, virtuous cycles that give the superpower a advantages on the world stage just by virtue of already being in first place. Think of it like compound interest, or a really big ball in Katamari Damacy, only for geopolitical power. That is, the US can arrange things in its favor to make it more powerful just because it's already quite powerful and no other country is.
As an example, the United States Dollar is the de-facto reserve currency for the rest of the world. That means that the US can purchase things without having to first go through (expensive) currency exchange, giving the US an economic advantage. The reserve currency status is also a major factor that also allows the US to borrow money pretty much at will.
Similar arguments can be made about cultural, military, diplomatic, and other power.
That means that countries aspiring to be the superpower have the deck stacked against them. So when, despite this, China overtakes the US, the US will have an awful lot of catching up to do. It's not fighting for food in the streets, but it would be a fairly serious blow to the US.
Actually... could you outline your process of finding the designer? What was the workflow like? Did you send him your .nib files and let him go to town, or did you send him screenshots, or what?
Have the rules changed? Or are these libraries just for practice problems?
The article says, essentially, that a basic strength and conditioning program is the way to go. The GP says that picking a sport that makes you fit is the way.
To add another opinion, that ties the two together, to the mix: think of the fittest people you know. To a person, they're probably obsessed with their chosen sport (which may be soccer, or bodybuilding, or weightlifting, or running, or ...). These people live and breathe their sport, and when they're not doing it or training for it, they're thinking of how to get better at it.
At some point, thinking of how they can get better at it is probably going to lead them to doing, well, a basic strength and conditioning program. That's because squats and presses and the rest of what the article outlines are still about the best the exercise world can come up with for almost all the athletes out there.
(For what it's worth, I'd strongly second the recommendations of the article for Starting Strength and Olympic-Style Weightlifting. They're both fantastic books.)
Can you elaborate on what's wrong with the system?
My institution was ACM-affiliated, but I'm not sure that matters either.
Watching that video and reading his story quickly put an end to my complaints of "but I need a nice ergonomic keyboard to be able to work at all!"
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-C5-vIim8 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shun_Fujimoto
Further, in the US, once you have a net worth of a million dollars, you qualify as an accredited investor, opening up a plethora of new investment opportunities to you.[1]
I'm being really pedantic here, but you actually can't. There are actually uncountably which are impossible to solve with an algorithm. There's a (by necessity) incomplete list of examples at: [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undecidable_problems
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(Thanks for the citations. That's awesome, and I wish more people would do it.)
I'm mildly colorblind myself, but I haven't tried them to see how they work. The thing is, mild forms of colorblindness really don't affect everyday life much, so I can't see a point in treating it in most cases.