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As an illegal immigrant? That seems like it could be a considerable disadvantage.

I think that's a bad comparison. Intuitively this might feel less healthy because you are consuming more than twice as many calories with the butter. Double check your intuition on this one. People on high fat diets tend to eat less volume as compared to those on high carb diets for a good reason. Fat is more than twice as calorie dense as compared to sugar.

1 cup of sugar = 201 g. 1 cup of Butter = 227 grams. 201/227 = a given volume of sugar is about 89% as heavy as the same volume of butter.

1 gram of sugar contains 4 calories. 1 gram of butter is about 7.2 calories (a gram of fat is 9 calories and butter is roughly 85% fat + milk solids and water). 4/7.2 = a gram of sugar contains about 56% as many calories as a gram of butter.

4 tbps of sugar = 50 grams = 200 calories

4 tbps of butter = 56.8 grams = 408 calories

Wes Bos' series is nice if you're looking for something a little more long-form/hand-holdy. I have the same problem and was working through it earlier today. Comes with exercise files for each newly introduced concept. You have to provide your email. https://cssgrid.io/

You're being down-voted, and I disagree with your use of the word pedantic here, but I believe your answer is mostly correct. "Browse wrapped" usage agreements are very real and enforceable under certain conditions. At best this is presently a legal gray area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browse_wrap#Summary

Remember, anyone can sue you for anything and it is then your burden to defend yourself if they are persistent and wealthy enough.

"Apparently this problem has been around for years, and one bug report has been closed "won't fix". The issue has been reopened with Bug 11808 - Xfwm: Increase the resize border of window.

The width of the grab area is controlled by the theme." 1

Most people appear to circumvent the problem by using another means of resizing windows.

"As soon as your keyboard-shortcut (in Xfce upstream its Alt+F8) is hit, you can then resize the window by either moving your mouse (no need to click or drag) or use your keyboard arrow keys." 2

1 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/156435/how-can-i-ma...

2 https://xubuntu.org/news/window-resizing-in-xubuntu-and-xfce...

>Bitcoin is no more pseudononymous than if I generate some random PGP keys with fake names and start signing and sending messages with them.

That sounds like a very anonymous way of distributing messages. Bitcoin's anonymity is more like having an unregistered bank account whereas BB (before bitcoin) all bank accounts were registered in one way or another. You don't even need an 'account' to accept a payment, u just need a magic number, though there is arguably not a difference. I feel like you're talking about network layer anonymity and everyone else is trying to talk more basic protocol.

I think the lack of exit nodes has more to do with legal considerations than actual computational resources/willing volunteers. See the tor blog's Tips for Running an Exit Node with Minimal Harassment - https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-mini...

"Suggest creation of LLC for large exit nodes" I'm guessing that this might be a larger barrier to entry for most willing volunteers compared to hardware and bandwidth costs

I've only held a galaxy note (2560x1440) once but it was pretty nice. Resolution is one specs race that I've always been fond of. When somebody finally finds a sasquatch you'll be glad for your 4k display

So the problem is more about the subversion rather than the surveillance. I would agree.

I'd be 50/50 on this point if the camera didn't just up and disappear after an official journalistic entity inquired about their existence...

Then when you consider the (bullshit) form style response from a branch of our own government and the fact that managers at the post office we not alerted to the camera's existence...

As alluded to in the report when they brought up the recent congressional hearings where it was found out that address information on packages had been/is being recorded and stored.... I think the problem has much more to do with the quickly growing trend of extremely subversive surveillance than it has to do with this particular incident or surveillance in general. If its merits were being openly debated by the entities putting it in place then this would be an entirely different story. But when journalistic inquires are met with secrecy and form letters? Go and ask your local police about the cameras on certain corners and I'd bet you're more likely to get a more personable/human answer than was obtained here in this story. Just my take.

Also... I think most people can plainly see the merit in having cameras mounted on street corners if they have ever been involved in a he said/she said style accident at one of those street corners. Not saying it makes it right or wrong but I think it's easier for people to see the merit in something like that where it might actually protect them personally from someone doing something reckless. How often are people genuinely afraid of dangerous packages outside of ticking boxes in movies or ricin scares in the media? I think it's far more likely that the cameras you speak of at intersections would take a dangerous man off the streets (drunk drivers, criminals on the run) before a post office camera. Again, doesn't make it right or wrong in my mind, but it does make it a bigger deal.

"if you can triple your performance, you will require 1/3 of the servers, and your clients will enjoy faster responses"

You're going to have to choose one of those or the other...

I agree with you 95%. The 5% being an admittedly far fetched and idyllic notion that just maybe one day we will design the mythical x86 bacterium and all of a sudden instead of needing meticulously crafted silicone wafers and logic gates... all of a sudden all we need is cheap simple hydrocarbon to grow the world's most elaborate super computers. They wouldn't be faster but more efficient and highly parallel. Like a more distributed version of a brain where bacterial (or whatever) cells take the place of traditional neurons.

I like it. But, I do think you can't fully embrace your strengths until you've admitted your weaknesses. Maybe it's my own biases but I'm afraid of people ending up at a dead end, an unsolvable problem, and not having an outlet because they haven't been forced to lead a somewhat normal life like the people surrounding them. That's an awfully dark place to be in. I think it's important not to let someone get too inside their own world, you still have to try and "integrate" them into "society" but I certainly agree there are better ways it could be done than holding everyone to the same strict/lacking standards across the board.

>Why do it if it feels wrong ?

I may well be mistaken but I don't believe this was the intended meaning in the quote. Do what feels right, that's not being disputed... but what feels right to someone who "sees the code" behind things in life is often very different from what feels right to the average/normal human at this point in time. Like how everyone loves a good comedian but if you ask any good comedian they almost all say you have to be kinda fucked up to embrace that life... I agree with you though, I don't thing it's wrong or fucked up, I think it's just different from the lives that most people believe to be everyone's status quo.

Amish people freak me out. I can't understand why you'd want to limit yourself to that set of strange ideals (roofers with cell phones who play angry birds on lunch break but they have to higher a driver because it's against their weird rules?) but I don't believe they are fucked up or wrong... they're just a quark of this strange existence... I don't want to believe it but I might be just like them if I'd grown up indoctrinated into that life. There is some beauty in every path if you choose to see it.

counter-counterpoint: I bet a large portion of the people you're talking about are genuinely price conscious consumers trying to make the most educated purchases they possibly can. I doubt these people would be the same type that blindly buy an hdmi cable at a 20% markup... how simple is it to compare prices these days online? If you're traveling to a book store then buying through amazon I would bet money that you're probably going to price check that Amazon branded hdmi cable.

I think it's just an evolution. Not every experiment is successful.

"Irregardless is one of those words that is becoming OK to say just because so many people use it."

...literally describes our ENTIRE language. It's kinda what language is... I know "kinda" isn't officially a word yet but I like it and I'm guessing you know my intended meaning.

Don't forget alcohol! Watching people climb up on a pedestal and try and tell me that alcohol is somehow not a drug makes my blood boil every damn time I hear it. I think it's hard to correct these people's thinking because our society drills the very phrase "drugs AND alcohol" into children's brains from a very early age including in the DARE programs in our schools. Somehow everyone is okay with casual abuse of alcohol because they don't think of it as a drug. "What else can you take into your body that fucks you up like alcohol does, but is not a drug?" is the retort I've been using in recent years.

I agree. I think they want to more or less be the apple of more open hardware. They aren't planning to make money off NUC, they're planning to make money off their chips. This is ultimately a strategy for getting more people to want more of their chip. Right now all the slickest devices are arm powered... so many shiny glassy sleek looking cell phones and tables and hardly an x86 in sight... They're not selling $/performance here, that's just a barrior to entry, they're selling a vision and a brand... intel inside

I think the answer might be that for now it's mathematical interest but no one really knows what it might or might not turn into. I think the more of these sextuplet, twin etc. primes that we discover the closer it may be bringing us to developing a grand theory of primes and solving difficult problems like the twin prime conjecture and whatever else is out there. And if we could do that then that would be where the practical ramifications would start to possibly emerge. So for now I see it as just more data that might or might not help spark something in the mind(s) of some mathematical genius(es) one day.

I am in no way an expert and this is just amateur speculation but I wanted to write it anyways because I was (am) wondering the same thing.

I'm with you for everything except n64 games. I don't know what it is exactly but some of the magic is just lost when all of the polygons come into clean crisp focus on the screen. Legend of zelda, mario kart, super smash: all reasons I still haven't thrown out my seemingly 500 pound CRT. Maybe I should just try and induce artificial blur so I can finally rid myself of that beast.

Yeah at least here in America, bet you can't develop just one metabolic condition nudge nudge am I right?

Then maybe you should conciser purchasing a legitimately licensed copy of the ebook set

damn, can I send you my $10? That's at least a $5 joke in any housing market.

if that's true then... wow and hopefully there's a new engineering position opening up at Yahoo right now

There's a fine line between significantly and marginally in the case of a massively well funded organization like the NSA. Unauthed HD is so damn trivial to MiTM that accepting it as the status quo might just as likely force our government to invest a couple extra billions in MiTM equipment next year as it would be likely to protect the masses from the over reaching hand of mass surveillance. Who's to say they don't already use this capability on a regular basis? As long as you're using an unauthenticated encryption scheme you will never know...

> A fringe here and a fringe there and pretty soon you have a whole robe.

I love you

I would speculate that the massive advertising revenue generated by the 'bay probably renders any such 'fun' factor trivial.

I wonder how long until our nation's SWAT teams are equipped with ram rippers and cans of liquid nitrogen.

For real, their dedicated hosting costs are most likely not going to be at all comparable to the ones most people commonly get quoted. Hosting costs go up when your host runs out of a former Cold War bunker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker