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"I think that as a culture ... We're society of " - you consider humans to be a single culture, a single society?

"just because he wanted to have sex with his wife" - it had been a while. He didn't shut down the global economy, just forced people to participate in it in person. Snake Plissken shut down the global economy.

I'm seeing this in London with the influx from Europe. I've come to the conclusion that the sacred concept of diversity, handled ham-fistedly, is more like the power of the atom, very useful, and very dangerous. Lose control of the balance and you have a problem. A little random noise is beneficial, but too much, too fast creates subculture conflict. There's a very slow integration speed limit which is ignored.

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". I agree, but think that the laundry is dirty, and that with all the vested interests these systems change far too slowly for it to all be over in a decade or so. I'm hoping more modestly that Europe's economy will be more stable in a decade.

http://hackeurope.eu/ - looks like it's on holiday.

Seriously?

"...we understand some programmers do... ...we continue to think about it... ...This remains an open issue."

I stopped reading. The further I got the more the article seemed to be complaining not about channels but that Go isn't a functional language. That's right, it isn't.

"...incapable of admitting problems..."

From the Go FAQ:

Why does Go not have generic types?

Generics may well be added at some point. We don't feel an urgency for them, although we understand some programmers do.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

And Spanish Marias. I understand it's the result of General Franco forcing it.

They're allowed to innovate after the first season. Agreed not much to do with F1, and wondered if it wasn't intended as a way for racing to get around Bernie's control of F1.

We've been educating and cracking down for decades. I'm not suggesting an alternative, rather an additional tool. I think a bomb might be quite educational. I would be happy with peaceful monitor drones, thermal imaging cctv, a DARPA challenge for autonomous vehicles to fly over reserves and locate poachers, maybe tag them, or dart them, then alert authorities, but that has far less chance of happening than military training exercises with an added benefit.

Edit: I have more to say.

AI monitoring is needed because the areas are too large for people to watch. Is a geostationary satellite able to scan a large reserve for people, or are numerous cameras closer to ground level needed? Securing the reserve boundaries - how far away are we from forcefields? Towers with some sort of array of detectors monitoring the boundaries, broken beams? Radar? Lidar? Seismometers? Pressure sensors? Money often talks louder than education, as does short-term mindedness over long-term. Education hasn't stopped murder, burglary, mugging, rape, ... if it does stop poaching, it won't be any time soon. This sounds like the opportunity for challenges which techies like to solve. My knowledge of technology is unfortunately too broad and superficial, as you've probably gathered, but someone's surely got to be tempted.

My laptop's fan has has hit overdrive and beyond.

I'd like a rover sent to snap Olympus Mons.

Can drone practice take place on poachers?

There was also WIG. I was writing WAP sites in '99, incurring pretty large bills while developing and testing. The company had a very close relationship with the mobile company so fortunately we just got them written off.

Reminds me of living on the ground floor next to a planty area in Malta. I was killing around 18 mosquitoes every evening, and discovered they fly through keyholes. Next flat was on the third floor.

I'll be taking a look at that, thanks. In London I find the majority of diversity has little integration, instead each nationality gathers in a location and forms an insular "community" mostly detached from the others, which seems to miss the point. I've met people who've been here for 20 years yet can't speak English due to that insularity. Members of nationality X walking 25 minutes to get a nation X pizza, rather than the Italian pizza five minutes away, only buy nation X products, only from nation X shops, nation based employment, nation based music lessons, and so on. Some preference, practicality, or nostalgia is understandable, but it's beyond that. There's polarization, which worsens when there's some form of stress. There's no discussion of it because because there's fear of accusations of racism in what's become a sort of racism witch hunt. The UK news has recently been filled with news of a Pakistani child sex grooming gang, but the media seem to be referring to them as Asian, which not only is sufficiently vague that they may as well be saying that they're from the northern hemisphere, but it also strikes me as even more divisive to be categorising an entire continent. Ethics and ideologies aside, I'm interested in the mechanics and where it can and where it is unlikely to succeed.

A stay of execution.

Is it expected that I respond to the throw-away account of a down-voting anonymous coward?

Citizen's income is no fantasy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

The replies against you suggest solutions on an individual level, as in the problem being one of too many concepts for the individual. I suggest the problem is not too many concepts for the individual, but for a team.

Are they including web traffic?

"The Tata Global Network(TGN) has Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific data transfer capacity of one terabit per second." http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/2/13043.html (Two years old)

I expect if you tell everyone how it's done you'll then attract a bunch of people probing it thinking they might know a way around the restrictions. Not knowing where to start, they don't bother.

Good point. 10% of infections are from people who have both ebola and flu? Seems initial ebola symptoms are/can be flu-like, so presumably healthcare workers might be casual around newly infected.

Needing some education here. They took a pig's heart, dead, injected it with metal, and are impressed that this showed up in an x-ray? Gunther von Hagen with metal?

I haven't read the article yet, but I know what you're talking about. Articles and documentaries almost always discuss natural selection as if there were intention. Even if they demonstrate that they know what they're talking about, they go on to use inaccurate language unsuitable for conveying filtered variance.

Agreed. Having to wear headphones is unpleasant. I can't work unless I have crap on my head, and I have to listen to music? Ridiculous. Shortly before I left my last position the new manager arranged the seating so that the most communicative people were in the centre, for ease of access, so the majority of the noise was right in the middle of the workspace, constant, and inescapable. Productivity destroyed.

The outgoing people you meet will have met many people, including crazier than you. The crazy people you meet might think you're normal, or be happy to have met another crazy. I was stalked for a year - I bet I wouldn't think you're crazy.

Grass mud horse - I went to Wikipedia, thought I was going to see an animal: The Grass Mud Horse or Cǎonímǎ (草泥马), is a Chinese Internet meme widely used as a form of symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China. It is a play on the Mandarin language words cào nǐ mā (肏你妈), literally, "fuck your mother"

Yes, an indicator of ease of renting would be great - lease lengths and bureaucracy.