The link in your post is "https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=9-0VRWAYxoM". Change it to "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0"?
Link is "https://www.youtube.com/shared...". Try changing it to the normal "youtube.com/watch..." link? Probably a bug.
Hm, I can't reproduce. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, FIrefox 50.1.0. What distro/version of Linux?
Makes sense. The Backfire Effect at work: when people's beliefs are challenged, they get stronger, as a psychological self-defense mechanism.
I thought The Onion was satire?Trump’s victory, which defied the long-held conventional wisdom about the prospects of black-hearted candidates, has been described as a watershed moment for the nation’s millions of black-hearted Americans whose overwhelming support buoyed his run for the presidency. Encouraged by the possibility of one of their own occupying the highest seat of power in the nation, black-hearted Americans reportedly turned out in record numbers in all 50 states, propelling Trump to a historic victory.
mk I haven't made any changes recently. Do you have any idea what could've broke it? I can try to look into it this weekend, if you don't.
The technical term for that form of government is "Tyranny".only some people should get to elect our leaders
That we know of.If Hillary Clinton wins the U.S. Presidential election, it will be the first time in history that two U.S .Presidents have slept with each other!
I can respect someone who honestly doesn't believe it will work. But I think they're wrong. Conservatives regularly make the argument "it just won't work in the US, we're too big" (despite countries like Sweden having vast swathes of frozen wasteland). But you know what? Colorado is about the size of any given European country, and with a strong tech economy. I want to see what happens. Worst case scenario, we can repeal it if it explodes, and the only thing lost is some spending money from a few well-to-do middle class people like myself who can spare it. But, practicality notwithstanding, as a Christian, I'll almost always vote for social things. I believe Jesus' #1 physical ministry was to the poor. I don't have to tell you, there are countless verses in both the Old and New Testaments commanding helping the poor. And some pretty dire consequences for not doing it in Matthew 25. When I lived in Texas, most of the Conservative Christians I knew used the argument, "It's not the government's job, it's the church's job." You know what? The church isn't doing its job. And at the end of the day, I don't care who does it, as long as it gets done.
Historical trivia: on July 30, 1974, The Washington Post published, with Dr. Seuss' permission, replacing Marvin K. Mooney with Richard M. Nixon, the entire poem. Ten days later Nixon resigned.
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I can trump top that. We're trying to get a Single Payer System here.
I think so too. I just felt like ranting. I'm not sure I agree. Hypothetically, what if it were possible to statistically end 99% of homelessness, by passing laws forbidding individual help (presumably along with laws for institutional help)? Of course, it's the classic question of Deontology vs Teleology, and people have been arguing about it for hundreds of years.I think the author of this piece agrees with you.
Homelessness is a problem, but my interaction with a homeless person must transcend statistics because I am human and so are they.
[citation needed] [citation needed] [citation needed] You know what? They might be right. But if you're going to pass laws making it illegal to literally feed the hungry, we need to see comprehensive, peer-reviewed, double blind studies. Not anecdotes from some random guy who pretended to be homeless. As well as commensurate laws to provide the acclaimed long-term help to the same number of people. Otherwise, you're just another Randian monster.“Street feeding programs without comprehensive services actually increase and promote homelessness”
“If you give cash out on the street, generally about 93 percent of it goes to alcohol, drugs and prostitution.
We’ve done a lot of research
Someone stole his vowels, apparently.
Yeah, we've known about that for a while. I'll try to get to it. Just made an issue so we don't keep forgetting. Have you seen that on a post that wasn't badged? Badges add a dot.If you go to global and click one of the varying circledot options, the list of posts which appears all seem to be posts with one more circledot than the one that you selected.
I'll see posts with 8 circledots but which say 7 people shared, and if you click to see who shared, you'll only end up with 7 names
Arc is simple the way the Rabies virus is simple. And with the same symptoms: delirium, hallucinations, and raging, violent behavior.
https://arclanguage.github.io/ref/ I do not recommend learning it. If you want a Lisp to learn, Racket is a good choice. Arc is a terrible, poorly documented, poorly supported, unreadable language, whose primary goal is to save characters at the cost of comprehension. Which is lunacy. Characters are in far greater supply than comprehension.
The US is culturally divided by population density, urban vs rural. People talk about "The South", but even Dallas votes Blue now. While 40% of California votes Red—the rural 40%. The US Senate protects the States, while the House protects the simple majority. But there's little danger of Montana being oppressed, since they line up with the Big Red States; while 40% of Texans have no vote. It seems to me a more legitimate system would be a bicameral setup like the House and Senate, except replace the Senate with a chamber which provides a vote irrespective of population density. Something that protects the vote of both Rural Californians and Urban Texans.
Ah, you're right. They appear so infrequently, I forgot. Oh yeah, there's a Russian superhero film coming out next year I'm hopeful it'll be more creative than Hollywood. It could hardly be less.
Well, no promises. I haven't seen it yet. But IMO Benedict Cumberbatch is a good actor, so that should help. I'd agree, the Fantastic Four are one of Marvel's weaker groups. That said, Marvel characters tend to be more interesting than DC. Hm. I'm anxious to recommend, when I have no idea how much what you find interesting lines up with what I do. Hollywood in general is terribly lacking in creativity, and there aren't many indie superhero films, and certainly none for Marvel or DC. But I'll give it a shot. I thought the new Ant Man movie was really good. I went in expecting it to be mediocre, and it was fantastic. Especially if you like millenial snarky dialogue. I don't know anything about the Ant Man comics, though. In the movie, the character development wasn't off-the-charts, but there was a good bit of redemptiveness. It was especially good if you like the type of science fiction that describes how things work (like The Martian). They spent some time going over how all the Ant Man technology worked, both the shrinking and the controlling of ants, which I enjoyed. If you like that kind of thing. As my Superman rant mentions, Justice League Batman is good, if you like that kind of explaining applied to tactics. There haven't been any good Justice League live-action movies, though there are a few decent animated ones. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. I don't know which movies you've seen... I like Iron Man, as I said, for his arrogance combined with his mechanical genius (I'm an engineer). It makes him an interesting anti-hero. And Robert Downey Jr does an excellent job portraying that character. In Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt also does a great job portraying the goofy-but-virtuous Star Lord. It isn't really true to the comic character, but if you're looking for movies, it's a good character in itself. The other characters in Guardians are relatively deep as well. Rocket Raccoon has a fantastic backstory which they only skim the surface of, and which significantly shapes his character (which the movie does portray well). I'm hoping we'll see more of it in Guardians 2 next year. Likewise, Star Lord has a lot of backstory yet to be covered, that Guardians 1 did a good job introducing. Green Lantern is one of my favorite DC characters; but don't see the live-action movie. It's terrible. If you really want a movie to redeem DC, there are several animated Green Lantern films which are okay, one with the Green Lantern's backstory, and one about non-human Green Lanterns and the history of that universe (Green Lantern: Emerald Knights). The Daredevil character is good too, but the 2003 movie only did a mediocre job presenting him. I've heard the new TV series is good, but I haven't seen it, so I can't say. Mystery Men is good. It's a 1999 indie superhero comedy, about a team of misfits with janky powers. I found it funny enough, as well as doing a good job realising the struggles of misfits and nerds, and how they grow, learn from each other, learn to get along, etc. As a nerd myself, I found it relatable. If you're open to graphic novels, I highly recommend Superman: Red Son. It's an alternate universe where Superman's baby spaceship lands in the USSR instead of the US. It's a great "what if", where Superman's innate goodness is combined with Communist upbringing. It's a fascinating though experiment, and does a great job redeeming an otherwise dreadful franchise. On the subject of graphic novels: Neil Gaiman's Sandman is also phenomenal (as are the offshoot novellas about Death). Sandman takes place in the Marvel universe, but the Marvel superheroes have almost no part in it. It's a massive exploration of the life and psyche of Dream, one of the foundational deities of that universe. Dream's sister Death is another foundational-deity, and almost as interesting as the main character. You may have noticed a trend: DC animated movies tend to be much better than their live action ones. Marvel are reversed; I can't think of a single animated Marvel movie worth watching. The 2007 Doctor Strange possibly being the exception. There's also a radical difference in screen and comic depth. Most comic books have exponentially more depth than films. For example, the many Wolverine movies show off just how much depth there is to his character, but they're only mediocre at presenting it. Marvel has poured an incredible amount of depth and history into that one character. Actually, all the X-Men have deep backgrounds and characters, but there are so many, the films don't have time to go into any of them. I like superheroes for the same reason I like any mythology: they personify our humanity. Everything that makes us human, is personified and clarified into singular characters: hopes and fears and dreams; virtues, and vices, selfishness and charity. Everything that makes us human, distilled and bottled and written down, for ourselves and others, to read and understand, and hopefully use and learn from, to live better.So far you have convinced me to go to the cinema to watch something
guidance regarding proper superheroes
thenewgreen If you're interested, since you commented on my original Superman rant :)
The big site cost is paying for memory, because we currently load everything into memory. The SQL database doesn't directly fix that, but it makes it possible to load data as-needed. Once we actually do that, we'll be able to pay for hosting with less memory. It's not quite as easy as it sounds. Changing a data field to load from SQL where it's needed is easy. The problem is, the code currently assumes data is cheap, and will do things like load that field for every post ever, just to get it for a single post. That has to be fixed. But we'll get there.
Should be fixed.
Should both be fixed.
Got it, thanks!
As far as the API goes, the data necessary to make logins and serve private data is there, we could do it now. It just isn't on top of my priority list yet. We don't need everything in SQL, we could start making endpoints today. When I say "dispatch", I simply mean taking HTTP requests and sending them to functions. It's much simpler than it sounds, especially in Racket. In fact, the existing API is already doing it. These two are related. The same SQL Views are necessary to get the data for both a new app and the API.