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So, not to be a troll, but can anyone actually vouch for the legitimacy of this? I don't really doubt it's legitimacy, and it's nice to think that gender is not just a psychological spectrum but a biological one too, but this article is completely devoid of sources.

I was a tortoise until age 7. Being a reptile is a bummer, and my tutle penis didn't develop until age 45. Most people born in CA are like this... Just sayin'.

Okay so first off, the educated people in this country don't care about this stuff. I stopped reading a few sentences in because it was clear the author had some vendetta against the company. People don't just attempt to crucify businesses for no reason. And just to be clear: most of America has no idea what's going on in SV. We're not all wearing google glass to order Uber delivered Big Macs despite what you might think.

Secondly, a lot of Americans are behaviorally conditioned by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes. They elected our President, but they don't represent America (as I assume you don't support Mussolini's ideals because you're from Italy - also check out "The Brainwashing of my Dad" on Amazon Prime to understand the plight of many young Americans dealing with this insanity)

Some people live off emotional editorials. Not to be confrontational, but how worked up you seem to be upon reading this fluff piece in Italy makes me think you're not that far off from a middle-america pleb.

Our media system has been developed to evoke emotion because emotions sell... don't buy into it unless you want to be pissed off.

Also, what don't you like about the Olive Garden specifically? While I was in the process of becoming an engineer, I was a OG waiter trying to pay my college bills. Nobody is calling it Italian... It was developed as an American company. I really don't understand the argument. Americans should just eat wheat, corn and chicken? Sounds a lot like cultural appropriation which is the first sign of fascism.

My curries are not Indian, they're American. My Mole isn't Mexican, it's American. My paella isn't Spanish, my fried rice isn't Chinese, my panang curry isn't really Thai, and yeah, I make a grilled cheese macaroni that might blow your mind. Deal with it.

Food is the common denominator between cultures. It doesn't matter where you're from or who you were raised by, if you enjoy food: you love everyone, because we all have our secrets of deliciousness. Please don't try to make it a dividing factor.

To add insult to injury, people from your country came here, incorporated what they loved about your culture with ours and to you they're 'portrayed as "pizza, mafia, gobbledygook mamma mia".' I don't think this way, and I don't believe anyone I know in this country feels that way.

If you want to generalize, I will too which means as an Italian, you're a Mussolini supporting fascist. However, if you're willing to be an empathetic human being, I will too, and maybe you'll understand generalizations are one of the main sources of hatred that you should avoid.

The author here either has an agenda against someone at this company or an issue with gentrification (an issue all major American metropolises are dealing with). Don't assume some wacko's point of view defines America's situation because Silicon Valley was name dropped. Again: Nobody wears google glass in this country aside from the diluted.

All this and I still can't use Screenhero on Ubuntu? Way to destroy a useful platform for the open source community, Slack.

So what? I still got a 500 error while trying to process an order and when I refreshed - sold out. "60% of the time - it works every time" is only good for Panther scented cologne.

12,900,000 / second - WOW. Too bad the request rate was probably closer to 15,000,000 / second and you just abandoned everyone else.

It's all available on their price list under Machine Learning.

https://cloud.google.com/pricing/list

Since when has a company enforcing their TOS been discussion worthy? Their content policy clearly outlines what is considered "Unwelcome Content" and it seems like the majority of the alt-right thread would be classified as "Violent Content" under Reddit's terms.

I think a much more amusing enforcement of such policy would be for Twitter to ban Donald Trump, thereby also banning the @POTUS account for the term of his Presidency for "Abusive Behaviour" on Twitter such as openly harassing the cast of Hamilton.

https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205701105 https://www.reddit.com/help/contentpolicy#section_unwelcome_... https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311

I know this is beside your point and not to be the Coloradan in the room, but has she tested the efficacy of marijuana to ease her pain? I'm not a doctor, which is who she would want to talk to first, but from my understanding, pot is so harmless that can be taken in conjunction with Opiate pain killers. It's not addictive or potentially life threatening like opiates. There are strains that leave you mentally functional while killing pain. And depending on how much she needs, the retail cost would probably be in area of $70 - $200 a month and would be going to local entrepreneurs & farmers. If you grow it yourself, the cost goes down to maybe $10 - $30 a month depending on your state's MMJ regulations.

Side note: https://livertox.nlm.nih.gov/Opioids.htm

When you're responsible for everything, the weight of the world is on your shoulders at all times. When you're a cog in an accepted system, you aren't singled our for your inefficiencies . Perhaps less gratitude for being a baller, but a lot more comfort in knowing you aren't going to be wrongfully terminated because the CEO has a personality disorder.

I have no idea what publications they're referring to in this article, but here's what you probably came to read:

Article: [Fat, sugar cause bacterial changes that may relate to loss of cognitive function](http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/jun/fat-sugar-ca...)

Study: [Relationships between diet-related changes in the gut microbiome and cognitive flexibility](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452215...)

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Article: [This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory](http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/this-is-your-brain-on-suga...)

Study: ['Metabolic syndrome' in the brain: deficiency in omega-3 fatty acid exacerbates dysfunctions in insulin receptor signalling and cognition.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22473784)

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Also: [Systems Nutrigenomics Reveals Brain Gene Networks Linking Metabolic and Brain Disorders](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396416...)

I think you hit the heart of my concern, even with access to the law, most people need a lawyer to translate the laws into something that can be understood.

Not to mention that the comments to the article prove that when many see one case where the defendant was quite obviously being an asshole and see a law like, "prosecute people for posting nude images to hurt a person without their consent" would just say, "Hey yeah, screw those assholes!"

But there is no mention of the civil and constitution rights quagmire that a law like this can create. Not to mention that most people would likely read this and think it only applies to revenge porn and doesn't have implications to content published in a mutually consensual nature, where the consent was later revoked. Or where a person has their data hacked and leaked and the ex jumps to the conclusion that the content was posted by the creator to hurt them.

It's nice that they protected minors by only including people over the age of 18 in the definition, but to me, the issue is that laws like this allow for potential abuse by former romantic partners and prosecutorial abuse if charges are ever pressed and that isn't at all clear in the way the law is written.

And the article also doesn't stipulate that the damages guaranteed by this law are not only the fines of up to a $10,000 which just goes to the court but also the right of the victim to file a civil suit with a minimum $10,000 + legal fees. So basically, they have created a major incentive for unscrupulous people to turn former lovers in regardless of whether or not they have actually been harmed in any way or had given consent to post the content or whether or not the person charged was even involved with the distribution.

In this case, yeah, the guy needs some reform. But in any other case, all that would likely be needed for a conviction is a sexually explicit video that features both parties with a profile with the picture of one party and the other as the crying victim.

Sir William Blackstone said, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." I believe laws like this are designed to harass innocent people, whether intentionally or not.

My biggest problem with this? As a resident of Colorado, I have never heard of this law.

The article suggests that the law was passed like many Colorado criminal statutes exclusively in the state house, never being asked for, voted on, or necessarily seen by any Colorado resident who doesn't have direct involvement with the law. Furthermore, LexisNexis: "Official Publisher of the Colorado Revised Statutes" has no record of a C.R.S. 18-7-107 code even existing. (http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/Colorado/)

Regardless of subjective arguments of morality, how can people be charged with criminal laws that they have no way of knowing exist?

You're likely not in the minority by being in the group that would look at this case and think, what a load of nonsensical bullshit, this obviously is contrary to justice and is harming everyone much more than the original "offending" act thereby victimizing all involved regardless of guilt or affiliation to the act.

You however would be in the minority if you were upset about the atrocious state of sex laws and their enforcement/sentencing (with mandatory sentencing provisions in most cases) so much so that you felt compelled to support the reform of sex laws and registry requirements (a subject that few would touch with a pole of any length). But you wouldn't be alone.

Even Patty Wetterling, board chair of the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, has stated that "We've cast such a broad net that we're catching a lot of juveniles who did something stupid or different types of offenders who just screwed up.. They are very different from the man who took Jacob" referring to her son who was abducted as a young child.

Speaking of which: My Son, the Sex Offender: One Mother's Mission to Fight the Law (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/my-son-sex-offender-one-...)

In regards to Beats' profits, I believe Beats, much like Apple, is a brand who's value is pinned largely to the guy who's at the head of the ship. With Apple, people knew that Steve Jobs had amazing stylistic and functional taste in products. Because nothing was produced while he was at the helm without first being approved by him, people could trust that each iteration of product line was something they would want by nature, the only question would be whether or not they wanted it enough to pay the premium.

When Steve passed(RIP), Apple took a large hit to their product appeal (which I don't believe has yet been fully realized) because while Apple can still make high quality products, they don't have Steve Jobs, the guru of computer style, there to give his stamp of approval that not only is this the high quality product you've come to expect from Apple but it is also designed for use by humans and "cool".

Next, Apple brought its tastes/decisions into question with the changes to the iPhone design and iOS, the introduction of the iPad mini... a lot of things that beg the question, "Would Steve have really gone for this?"

Enter Beats by Dre, another brand that seems to have its value pegged to the guy who appears to be giving final approval to the products, so much so that he put his name is on all of his products. It has been confirmed that Beats makes great products, so people now trust the brand. They can go into the store and pick up the newest whatever by Beats and can rest assured that it's going to be not only very high quality audio, but it also has Dre's signature that the component ain't nuthin' but a G thang.

Like you said, Beats has profits. There is no real reason for them to want to sell except that they want to get out while they're in a strong position. My guess would be that Dre feels that he's done enough good work and he wants to get out for a boat-load of money so he can start another venture or focus on making music.

There's no real reason for Dre to stay with Beats if its acquired unless it's part of the deal, but if that was the case one would again wonder why the good doctor would be selling the company in the first place. But for Dre, even if he was to retire from the audio component game, his claim to fame would remain untarnished for producing nothing but ultra high quality products. I would imagine the stuff that was produced under him could become collectors items like vintage Nike sneakers. Without him at the head, I see the Beats profits going way down.

It's also funny you bring up the PC/Apple grudge match as I see this acquisition as a deliberate play by Apple against its PC/Android rivals.

Beats by Dre is/was a major feature for companies like HP(computer) and HTC(android). Beats bought out HTC's share of the company to end their partnership, but I'm sure Apple wants to include Beats to their feature list for iPhone and iPad. And HP is one of Apple's most direct competitors on the PC market. Beats is something that HP had that Apple didn't, it was one feature that could be better than Apple's comparative feature for all people knew.

Well that's probably enough ranting so I'm just going to cut myself off. It's 9AM now, must work.

Yeah, honopu and kilburn got it right. My understanding is that transfer measurements are the maximum amount of data your instance can serve up in a month, while bandwidth is the speed at which it can do it.

Its like downloading a 1 GB file to your computer using a 56k modem or a cable modem... the transfer amount will be 1 GB either way, but the cable modem will be a hell of a lot faster due to the increase in its bandwidth. As you upgrade your plan with Linode, your "modem" gets faster, however DO doesn't mention the speed of their "modem" or if its speed is affected by the price level you select.

I notice that Linode talked a good bit about their bandwidth and included outbound bandwidth in their pricing model which DO does not. I wonder if DO has a similar model or if transfer capacity the only thing you have control over.

The complexity for income tax law stems from tax breaks. There are all these different ways for people to pay less in taxes, but each rule for paying less has its own set of instructions and there are criminal and monetary liabilities for filing incorrectly. So it can be said that if you just pay your income taxes as they come and don't claim any deductions, you are essentially over paying in taxes. Another problem problem that arises from this system of tax breaks is that it allows people receive more or less in deductions based on their life situation which is inherently inequitable.

Tax law doesn't have to be so complex though. For example, you could just have a simple income-bracketed flat tax that is just at a lower rate than current taxes without any deductions possibly. Or possibly better yet, you could get rid of the income tax all together and just use a federal tax on sales, real estate and money transfers out of the country. Granted, this would give the government more direct control over how much money is being collected on a daily basis and could result in some people feeling like they need to have a party with tea, but assuming we do live in a democratic society, something like a sales tax would be more understandable and visible to everyone (as the rate would be printed on all of their receipts) and it would probably lead to more oversight of the tax by the taxpayers rather than everyone just being concerned with paying less than they are asked to each year without getting audited.

Just going to throw this out there...

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I really know nothing about how android works so excuse me if this is a stupid/impossible idea, but I wonder if someone could make an app-vetting app.

The issue seems to be that you have to give these applications their permissions so they can function, but you really have no way of knowing how those permissions are being used. So you end up just allowing everything and being at the mercy of developers or you act completely suspicious, don't install any app asking for strange permissions and may even fall into these wild accusations that giving Facebook permission to view your SMS messages is like signing over your soul to the devil.

So again, I'm really out of my game here, but I wonder if you could create an app-vetting app for android that monitors and logs internal requests for data (assuming android uses some sort of internal api to handle this) so you could see what apps are making what requests and how much data they're grabbing. And then monitor outbound network traffic to see what put and post requests are coming from the app, how much data is being transferred and where they're being delivered.

Then you would know how much of your data is actually being used by an app and how much of that data is being sent to Facebook. Granted, I'm sure apps like Facebook's are constantly sending themselves data from your phone but the things to look for are the data being sent when the app isn't active or when the request varies an objectively significant amount from the baseline requests.

If this can be figured out, you could then create a database of the results for every app logged and have a security ratings guide for the android marketplace.

If this is impossible, impractical or just plain stupid, I apologize, but it seems like something that SHOULD be possible, so I just figured I'd throw it out there.

I'm not sure about New York but in many states, the victim has no say whether or not charges are pressed against the defendant. It's usually at the sole discretion of the District Attorney.

That being said, this is hardly a triable case as the defendant is 5 years old. The DA would have to prove that the kid knew what he was doing enough to have the culpability to commit a crime, then they would have to convince a jury of adults that a kid should face criminal consequences for hacking his dad's xbox account.

So you already know what you're doing when it comes to code, you know how to learn the things you don't know on your own, and the classes offered by your school don't interest you: don't study computer science.

The one thing I would suggest is that before you drop out of school, test the waters in other fields. Take psychology and sociology to learn how the minds of individuals and the community at large work. Take micro and macro economics and learn how the economy functions and the pro's and con's of different public policy. Enjoy the outdoors? Learn about physics, meteorology, bio-mechanics, geology, biology, organic chemistry....

I mean I could list off different things you could pursue all day but the the point is, college offers you a unique opportunity to try out and get basic understandings of a lot of different things.

Sometimes I think, "Shit, if I would have just skipped school and gone straight into working on software development, I'd probably be making $150k+ a year right now, probably would have a few of my business ideas up and running, wouldn't have had to deal with the debt..." But the thing is, if I could go back and choose not to attend college or to drop out, there is no way in hell I would.

College is one of those things that has a proportional rate of return for the effort you put in. So if programming in college isn't your cup of tea because you are already a superstar, I would suggest you test the waters in other fields and see if you can learn something you find interesting while you're there. If, on the other hand, you are sure that you only care about working as a programmer I would suggest you stop wasting your time and money on something that has no value to you. But I'm sure if you look hard enough, you will find subjects and teachers that inspire you and will come out of the experience a much more well rounded thinker.