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[2015-12-02 09:48:52] - Daniel: http://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/05/how-much-do-the-ultra-rich-give-to-charity.html I don't think it's just those 5, I think a lot of rich people give a lot more to charity than people realize. I'll tell you what. For each rich person you name who doesn't give a lot to charity, I'll name two that does, and we'll see who gives up first.
-Paul[2015-12-02 09:46:58] - Daniel: Well, there is a message board character limit, otherwise I would've listed more.
-Paul[2015-12-02 09:07:38] - daniel: is that snark? ~a
[2015-12-02 09:05:33] - On the other hand I'm not sure that 5 people mean the top 1% is suddenly super generous and looking out for the masses. -Daniel
[2015-12-02 09:02:42] - yeah, i'd go as far as to say that it does happen to a certain degree
~a[2015-12-02 06:42:25] - a: I'm not saying this doesn't happen to a certain degree, and it might even be applicable in certain specific cases to some of the people I mentioned, but it does seem to be a pretty one-sided and overly generalized. -Paul
[2015-12-02 06:41:02] - a: In fact, just this morning I read a post on Facebook by Robert Reich which rails against "The oligarchy is the top 0.1 percent [...] who now possess almost all the power" and that "they essentially rule America – influencing politicians and organizing the market to get most of the economic gains". -Paul
[2015-12-01 22:06:20] - a: I think a lot of people who rail against the 1% and income inequality and capitalism (ie, the Occupy Wall Street crowd and Bernie Sanders supporters) tend to think of them as such. -Paul
[2015-12-01 21:41:46] - a: the democratic party? it's basically what they are running on in 2016. - mig
[2015-12-01 18:03:21] - "it's harder and harder to caricature rich people as greedy, cold-hearted people" who does this? ~a
[2015-12-01 17:49:13] - paul: gates/buffet/musk/zuckerberg certainly have surprised me. ~a
[2015-12-01 16:47:27] - and the efforts of people like Musk to combat climate change (Solar City, Tesla) or just try to do things to help humanity (Space X), I feel like it's harder and harder to caricature rich people as greedy, cold-hearted people who only care about themselves. -Paul
[2015-12-01 16:45:21] - http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/12/01/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-baby-girl-99-percent-of-facebook-shares-to-advance-human-potential/76626078/ Between Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet pledging to give away their fortunes (and Gates doing all he has to combat global poverty)... -Paul
[2015-12-01 11:36:27] - mig: Ah, gotcha. I was probably thinking of the WVU job. -Paul
[2015-11-30 16:57:58] - paul: he wasn't offered the HC job at TAMU. It was for their open DC position. A long while ago (i don't remember when precisely) he did interview for the WVU HC gig. - mig
[2015-11-30 16:53:16] - mig: When he turned down the head coaching job (was it Texas A&M?), I figured at that point he didn't want to be a head coach. A coordinator with his pedigree over the years has to have received offers. -Paul
[2015-11-30 15:28:14] - paul: also I'm not surprised about Shane sticking around but stunned Bud Foster is. He must either really be on board with Fuente (which bodes very well for the future if so) or he's given up his ambitions to be a HC somewhere. - mig
[2015-11-30 14:02:14] - paul: more or less, i suppose. - mig
[2015-11-30 13:50:07] - mig: So we traded Zimmerman for Scherzer, basically?
-Paul[2015-11-30 12:33:13] - http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb-s-market-has-changed-and-jordan-zimmermann-s-contract-is-proof-012403586-mlb.html and off Zimmermann goes to the Tigers. Definitely wouldn't have been comfortable with the Nationals giving him that. Not so much the total $, but the 5-years would have been pretty risky for his (probably) declining ceiling. - mig
[2015-11-29 16:47:39] - D.C. cops made 2,346 pot possession arrests in 2011. They only have made 7 in 2015 (as of Nov. 6) wowwwwww. ~a
[2015-11-29 08:12:29] - mig: I know nothing about him, but it sounds like he was a hot commodity and his record at Memphis seems good. Also nice that he apparently is keeping Foster and Shane around. -Paul
[2015-11-28 19:37:47] - so how about Justin Fuente? - mig
[2015-11-28 08:55:15] - a: Cool, thanks. -Paul
[2015-11-27 11:11:54] - "a pin reset function has been added to allow people to regain access to their wallet if they forgot their pin number. ... after a certain amount of time it will reset the pin number used to access the wallet." either way, if you have your 12 words, you can always restore your wallet. try the reset pin feature first (in case you messed up the 12 words). ~a
[2015-11-27 10:47:06] - nah, not really. you still have the 12 words, i assume? ~a
[2015-11-26 21:22:45] - a: Is it bad if I can't remember my mycelium pin? -Paul
[2015-11-23 10:25:25] - I'm pretty sure that response is contributing to why recent polling unfortunately is more supportive of either restricting/suspending letting in refugees and why 47 democrats sided with republicans on a House bill that would suspend the process of letting refugees in. - mig
[2015-11-23 10:23:07] - paul: the main problem with the Obama response is that while it's easy to mock the GOP silliness and it pleases the rabid base to do so, he's not really assuaging or even nominally addressing the concerns of people who might be understandably nervous about letting in lots of refugees from an area that is closely linked with a recent terror attack. - mig
[2015-11-23 10:06:40] - Btw, I love reading news articles on Trump speeches. The reporters clearly aren't sure how to deal with (1) nonsensical ramblings that don't seem to contain coherent thought and (2) outright fabrications. They try to remain objective ("Trump seemed to possibly be implying...", "there doesn't appear to be any evidence that this is true...") but it sounds hard.
-Paul[2015-11-23 10:04:34] - mig: I haven't been following Obama's response much. Most of the airwaves seem to have been dominated (as usual) with the latest crazy thing Trump said. -Paul
[2015-11-23 10:03:46] - Daniel: Basically chooses and pays for a large part of their insurance. I think any solution that doesn't deal with that fundamental problem is doomed to failure. -Paul
[2015-11-23 10:03:09] - Daniel: I agree it's separate, but I also think it's related. I think the biggest problem when it comes to (I won't say runaway so I don't set off spidey alarms) increased healthcare spending is that people are almost completely insulated from the costs of healthcare. Their insurance pays for most of it and for many people, their company... -Paul
[2015-11-23 09:56:58] - paul: what burns me more on the Syrian refugee is that I essentially agree with the Obama administration, but because the president seems to be more concerned with throwing partisan zingers than actually arguing that there's no real risk of accepting the refugees, that it's turning people off who would otherwise not lean towards the fearmongers in the gop. - mig
[2015-11-22 11:06:06] - Paul: I'm certainly fine with getting people more aware of what they pay and having hospitals / providers not making figuring that out so hard. That seems like a seperate issue currently to me though. Insurance means people don't have to care so they can hide it but I think people would still choose cheaper options if people could easily compare. -Daniel
[2015-11-22 07:48:56] - a: And to piggy-back on your statement, Rand Paul certainly seems like he is trying to lose my vote with all his nonsense about Syrian immigrants. Taken by itself, it's not a huge deal-breaker, but it it just another straw on the camel's back. Hopefully I'll have Gary Johnson as an alternative if necessary. -Paul
[2015-11-22 07:46:36] - a: Consider what I know of your hot button issues, Hillary actually seemed like one of the worst candidates out there. Is there any major party candidate worse on the issues of surveillance, encryption, etc? Maybe a Republican candidate, but I'm not sure. -Paul
[2015-11-22 07:45:21] - a: I care. I hate it when people seem to vote for candidates who really don't match their ideology just because of their party affiliation (or whatever reason, honestly), so consequently I'm always happy to see politicians get punished for the views they espouse (and the actions they take). -Paul
[2015-11-21 11:23:40] - i'm sure you all care, but i'm not voting for clinton. . . . in the primary or the general. she can go to hell with shit like that. ~a
[2015-11-20 20:13:30] - Daniel: Note, both are from the supposedly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, and that first graphs doesn't indicate growth in dollars spent, but cost as a percentage of GDP (so, the increase in dollars spent is likely to be even sharper). -Paul
[2015-11-20 20:11:49] - Daniel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_fraud Even more so with the term "fraud". Is there a more objective term to use to indicate "reimbursement under false pretenses"? If so, I'll use that instead. -Paul
[2015-11-20 20:10:29] - "runaway entitlement spending" triggers a spidey sense for not being objective. Maybe it's a little bit of a loaded term, but I also think it's pretty accurate and objective. Pretty much anybody that's not Bernie Sanders realizes that Medicare spending is going to get out of control in the future. -Paul
[2015-11-20 20:09:14] - Daniel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget#/media/File:Medicare_and_Medicaid_GDP_Chart.png I'm not sure why
[2015-11-20 20:06:45] - Daniel: I don't think it would be a valid hospital model to overcharge to ridiculous amounts and just hope that you can rip off the poor souls who have emergencies nearby. -Paul
[2015-11-20 20:05:49] - Daniel: And sure, I know that sometimes emergencies happen and people don't get to choose where they go, but lots or medical procedures can and are scheduled in advance. In a world where people have some exposure to what they're paying... -Paul
[2015-11-20 20:04:19] - Daniel: That's just one tiny example of where money can be saved in a more free market system (where people actually have some exposure to prices) without anybody having to "lose" health care. -Paul
[2015-11-20 20:03:12] - Daniel: http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/blog/why-aspirin-taken-hospital-can-cost-upwards-25 For instance, right now, our system is one that makes ridiculous things like $25 aspirin commonplace. Any reasonable person would decline paying that at a hospital at have somebody go across the street to pick up a 500 count bottle for $5. -Paul
[2015-11-20 20:00:15] - Daniel: Well, it's complicated and based on many factors (and I certainly don't have all the answers), but I don't think it's right to think of health care as some pie that if somebody gets more of it, somebody else has to get less. -Paul
[2015-11-20 16:35:03] - If we could somehow get those two in sync it would at least be a consistent system that would "work". I'm not sure it would be what everyone would want but I think having those two things be out of sync is part of our problem. -Daniel
[2015-11-20 16:34:25] - Paul: Also phrases like runaway entitlement spending and fraud trigger my spider sense for phrases that are not being objective. I think a lot of healthcare comes back to the question of should healthcare be a right or a privilege? Cause we basically have it as a right given the way ER's work but we pay like its a privilege. -Daniel
[2015-11-20 16:32:29] - Daniel
[2015-11-20 16:32:27] - Doesn't market forces running healthcare have the same issues ( rationing of care, wait times, lack of access to advanced machinery) but just have those for the poor? Like you have to wait till you can afford it? I think that the cosmetic surgery thing doesn't hold for me because the demand for cosmetic surgery can be elastic but demand for regular healthcare is not
[2015-11-20 15:45:10] - a: I liked the idea behind my high-deductible HSA plan that I used to have. Unfortunately, I think those plans need to reach critical mass somehow because it's still virtually impossible to do price comparisons for things like minor medical procedures. Everybody is too used to insurance covering it all. -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:39:47] - paul: i agree with that to a certain degree. honestly, it's what i like about co-insurance and deductible plans: people do go out of their way to spend less money. ~a
[2015-11-20 15:31:50] - a: Sure, Lasik isn't the same thing as a heart transplant, and there could certainly be other variables involved, but doesn't that seem like a pretty dramatic difference? And it makes sense too, people shop around when it's their own money out of pocket. -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:29:52] - a: http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-cant-the-market-for-medical-care-work-like-cosmetic-surgery/ The areas of health care where government is least involved in (and the free market holds the most sway) is the area where prices have been kept best under control (or even improved). -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:28:09] - a: And it annoys me that we have this super regulated industry with government heavily involved, and it's a mess, and somehow everybody seems to think the solution is more government (Obamacare), and now that THAT is failing, people think we need MORE government (single payer). -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:26:40] - a: I'm definitely not saying I have all the answers. I'm just super skeptical that single payer is going to be any better. All the evidence we have of trying it here isn't good. I think it's been a failure in other countries, but I'll meet you in the middle and say results are mixed (at best). -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:24:25] - a: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/02/oregon_study_throws_a_stop_sign_in_front_of_obamacares_medicaid_expansion_118220.html And there's also evidence indicating that all that health care spending doesn't even do much good ultimately. Maybe that's why we spend so much? -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:23:52] - a: But I also think we have higher cancer survival rates. All I know is that the government run single-payer-ish systems that we have in the US (Medicare, medicaid, VA) is a disaster of runaway entitlement spending and fraud. -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:22:48] - to be (slightly) more serious, i'll make an analogy . . . maybe an increase in easy access to guns increases gun violence . . . or maybe it decreases it? really, i doubt anybody who thinks they have all of the answers. ~a
[2015-11-20 15:20:40] - just throwing that out there
~a[2015-11-20 15:20:26] - paul: maybe it's because we don't have single-payer. ~a
[2015-11-20 15:19:35] - a: I think there's a lot of variables that go into health care spending that it's hard to directly equate from country to country. Why do we have relatively high infant mortality and relatively low lifespans compared to other countries? Don't we also have unhealthier diets and higher murder rates? Could that play a role? -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:09:27] - well for sure, they spend *way* less than we do. ~a
[2015-11-20 15:07:01] - a: http://www.wsj.com/articles/vermonts-single-payer-washout-1419293404 Vermont tried to implement a single payer system, but determined that there was no way to make the economics work. Probably because individual states don't have the same ability to go into debt that countries do. -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:06:21] - a: It's easier to make a single payer system look good for a while if you're spending money that you don't have.
-Paul[2015-11-20 15:02:03] - a: But I think the biggest (generally unacknowledged) problem that tends to get hidden is how it's economically unsustainable. So many European countries are a mess fiscally because of their entitlement systems, and health care is a part of it. -Paul
[2015-11-20 15:00:46] - a: There are plenty of articles on the internet addressing (on average) the rationing of care, wait times, lack of access to advanced machinery and other stuff that single payer systems tend to have vs market-based systems. -Paul
[2015-11-20 14:59:42] - should i take your word for it? ~a
[2015-11-20 14:58:03] - a: I did.
-Paul[2015-11-20 14:57:52] - Something I haven't heard addressed as much here is also the ethical issue of whether it would be right to take money from the (on average) young and poor "healthy" population and transfer it to the (again, on average) older and wealthier "unhealthy" population, since that's what a single payer would essentially do. -Paul
[2015-11-20 14:56:20] - Daniel: True, I guess it's a slightly different (more general?) problem, though. Covering all health care costs for everybody without any market forces to keep prices under control will rapidly lead to crazy(-er?) health care spending. -Paul
[2015-11-20 14:55:30] - paul: who says healthcare in europe has failed? ~a
[2015-11-20 14:06:23] - Paul: With single payer you wouldn't have the problem of only sick people in the system. Thats what I thought the difference was? -Daniel
[2015-11-20 13:39:25] - Daniel: And it seems like there are plenty of examples of single payer attempts that have failed to varying degrees (Veterans Affairs, Medicare/Medicaid, Europe). -paul
[2015-11-20 13:38:45] - Daniel: I'm not sure why single payer systems would be any better. The only trade off would be massive deficits for the government instead of health insurance companies leaving the market. -Paul
[2015-11-20 10:30:50] - I thought single payer could work but all the half assed measures were all mostly doomed (for the reasons given). But since the single payer system got beaten then we are just left with the half assed ones. Single payer would be a big change though. -Daniel
[2015-11-20 09:25:11] - I was pretty skeptical about the assertion given by democrats (and some economists) that a public option would somehow be revenue positive or revenue neutral at worst, now that assertion looks utterly laughable. - mig
[2015-11-20 09:23:50] - And they ran into the problems I would have expected the public option to fall prey to: most of the people enrolled were sicker and costlier than average, and they aren't able to sufficiently fund themselves through just customer premiums (which is why a lot of them are shutting down). - mig
[2015-11-20 09:19:54] - a: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/business/health-care-co-op-closings-narrow-consumers-choices.html we can take a look at the various health care co-ops that are going bust right now. Interestingly, these co-ops were meant to function like a theoretical "public option" in that they were supposed to be an insurance option that didn't act on profit motive. - mig
[2015-11-20 07:36:42] - a: Maybe it does suck (I don't really know), but I've had UHC a few times and they've been about as good as any other heath insurance I've had. Can you provide some objective measure that they suck and everybody hates them? Is it even relevant? -Paul
[2015-11-19 17:38:27] - paul: uhc sucks. everybody hates uhc and they're horrible. so, bad example. ~a
[2015-11-19 17:29:52] - http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/19/big-bad-day-for-obamacare-as-unitedhealth-considers-exit.html Feels like an old topic now, but this looks like the beginning of what I thought of as the real problem with Obamacare. You can't give more people more coverage for less money and still expect insurers to be able to make money. -Paul
[2015-11-19 13:02:18] - paul: from the comments it looks like the NN evangelists do agree it does violate NN. But that just highlights why it's an absurd idea to turn a nebulous ideal into a potentially complicated regulatory framework. - mig
[2015-11-19 12:30:54] - http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/comcast-launches-online-tv-service-that-doesnt-count-against-data-caps/ I understand why this doesn't violate net neutrality rules as they have been defined in the US, but it definitely sounds like this (and the recent T-mobile thing) violate the spirit of NN. -Paul
[2015-11-18 14:26:36] - a: cool, that all makes sense to me. thanks! - aaron
[2015-11-18 14:08:39] - g: apparently i don't need Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC") anymore. yay, upgrades! ~a
[2015-11-18 14:03:29] - sometimes you all make me smile
~g[2015-11-18 13:49:15] - (the test: public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC");System.out.println(DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlite:file.sqlite").getSchema());} (version8) javac -target 1.6 -source 1.6 b.java && (version6) java b results in NoSuchMethodError: java.sql.Connection.getSchema) ~a
[2015-11-18 13:47:07] - mig/aaron: so, i take it all back. -source and -target refers to the language, not the api. anyways, i tested it, and yeah, it failed at runtime when i downgraded the java. so, i point back to the CI solution from before. CI should take care of this for you. ~a
[2015-11-18 13:36:12] - If you can believe it, another fiscal year has passed since you made your gift of Contact Last Gift Amount to Southwestern. When variables don't get replaced! -Daniel
[2015-11-18 12:07:35] - a: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/sql/Connection.html Java 7 introduced several methods at the bottom, getSchema, setNetworkTimeout, etc... Code written for Java 7 often won't work in Java 6 because these methods aren't available, and code written for Java 6 won't compile in Java 7 because these interface methods won't be implemented - aaron
[2015-11-18 11:26:49] - mig: "java.sql api changes" can you be more specific? which method changed between which versions? ~a
[2015-11-18 10:32:00] - daniel/mig: as i mentioned to aaron, it's still totally fine if you have your CI creating the artifacts. ~a
[2015-11-18 08:56:37] - mig: weblogic uses the weirdo JRockit JRE - aaron
[2015-11-17 16:29:52] - http://time.com/4116676/gop-equal-time-nbc/ i'm curious, how is this FCC regulation constitutional? This seems really similar to the Fairness Doctrine (which although it was upheld in the 80s would probably not survive if it was around today). - mig
[2015-11-17 16:24:58] - almost positive it doesn't / won't matter but I would probably think twice about discussing our config on this board
-Daniel[2015-11-17 16:02:18] - a: if we were deploying on something other than weblogic for the project aaron is talking about, I'd be more comfortable with the idea. - mig
[2015-11-17 15:55:46] - aaron: does the JOPES weblogic configured to use the standard oracle JRE or the weirdo Jrockit JRE? - mig
[2015-11-17 15:54:18] - I think aaron mentioning the java.sql api changes might be a good test. - mig
[2015-11-17 15:53:35] - mig: mmmmmm. yes? actually, i don't know, let's test it! what's an example? ~a
[2015-11-17 15:52:00] - does -source/-target account for API changes post deprecation? - mig
[2015-11-17 14:13:59] - a: i see, that's really smart. that makes sense - aaron
[2015-11-17 13:17:32] - aaron: 1. dev machines shouldn't be pushing jars. that's what CI is for. (imo) 2. javac lets you set "-source" and "-target". ~a
[2015-11-17 12:45:57] - a: i think you're suggesting running on a newer java on our development machines than our client's servers?? that doesn't make sense to me. i don't think you can run bytecode from an newer JVM on an older JVM. in addition to compatibility changes (java.sql.connection's new Java7 methods) you would get "unsupported major/minor version" errors. - aaron
[2015-11-17 12:06:37] - this was back in jdk7 i think. - mig
[2015-11-17 12:05:07] - we saw a really weird jvm bug (in openjdk) where modifying an collection you are iterating through wouldn't always throw a ConcurrentModificationException. That was a fun one because we discovered it almost the last minute before a release, since the unit test we had covering that code was erronously passing. - mig
[2015-11-17 11:13:43] - mig: cool. oh wow, i just noticed that ubuntu 16 has jdk9. ~a
[2015-11-17 11:08:07] - a: yes, jdk8 - mig
[2015-11-17 11:04:21] - mig: version 8? ~a
[2015-11-17 10:59:36] - a: we use openjdk in our delivered vms in production. it's up to developers which one they use when developing. - mig
[2015-11-17 09:09:27] - aaron: try out openjdk 8. i bet lots of your stuff would just work. i keep upgrading java, without talking to the rest of the dev team, and in most cases things kept working fine. i had to modify a few minor things, but this is probably the way it should be: latest/greatest users smooth out the experience for the rest of the population when they upgrade. ~a
[2015-11-17 09:00:02] - a: i'm still using jdk 1.6.0_41 at work, and it still occurs in that JVM. we're like two major java versions behind, i'm really hoping we get to upgrade soon - aaron
[2015-11-16 17:46:03] - your reddit link is interesting. did it get fixed? i can't recreate it today (openjdk 8, 64 bit, ubuntu 15.10). ~a
[2015-11-16 17:34:28] - a: wow okay i did not know that about open jdk, that's amazing. - aaron
[2015-11-16 17:33:52] - a: no, but i've seen the opposite, oracle's JDK has some craaaaaaaaaaaaazy bugs. ideally i want to use the same JDK that our other machines are using so i don't go crazy trying to track down crazy bugs. - aaron
[2015-11-16 17:33:35] - "OpenJDK is the official reference implementation of Java SE since version 7" oh wow, that's news to me. ~a
[2015-11-16 17:32:28] - oh, i guess you probably know this too, but openjdk's source code == sun/oracle jdk's source code (except for a few minor dependencies). ~a
[2015-11-16 17:30:43] - aaron: sudo apt-get install default-jdk ~a
[2015-11-16 17:28:58] - a: weird stupid problems caused by my weird stupid password solution. i think your solution is OK but it's a little fiddly if you're not super comfy with ssh/rsync. i guess the ideal solution is an open source password tool like keepass synchronizing a personal encrypted file synchronized with dropbox. - aaron
[2015-11-16 17:28:43] - aaron: openjdk. i've never seen something that works in sun/oracle jdk and doesn't work in openjdk. ~a
[2015-11-16 17:25:54] - a: yeah, that's one reason i want to use something like lastpass. i'll get an evite message and i can't reply to it because my evite password is at home. or, i'll need to check my saved oracle password so i can download a JDK (grumble) but i have someone watching over my shoulder - aaron
[2015-11-16 15:04:12] - Of course, I didn't change my profile picture for France OR for gay marriage (or any other Facebook thing), so maybe I just hate Facebook trying to tell me what to make my profile picture.
-Paul[2015-11-16 15:03:38] - http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/got-a-french-flag-on-your-facebook-profile-picture-congratulations-on-your-corporate-white-supremacy-a6736526.html I don't really agree with the ultimate conclusion of this article, but I do think it brings up some good points about why so much more solidarity was shown to Paris vs Beirut. -Paul
[2015-11-16 14:35:23] - a: Its never seemed a pressing problem that I could only log into financial institution websites from home. -Daniel
[2015-11-16 14:34:17] - a: don't? -Daniel
[2015-11-16 14:03:36] - daniel: why not? say you're out in the world, and you want to look at your bank statement. what do you do? ~a
[2015-11-16 13:59:11] - aaron: I only use it at home so I don't need to sync it across devices. I guess I don't log into things that need those passwords from not at home. -Daniel
[2015-11-16 13:56:45] - aaron: the big annoyance with my system is the phone. basically, to log into something from my phone, i have to open ssh on my phone . . . copy and paste is always hard in an ssh terminal on a phone. basically, it sucks balls. ~a
[2015-11-16 13:54:26] - aaron: i can ssh, yep. (i also use rsync as a fail-safe; in case my home machine is inaccessible. it doesn't happen often, but when it does, i kinda need to be able to get passwords). ~a
[2015-11-16 13:22:34] - a: because that's what makes me want to try lastpass. it keeps all your passwords synchronized across multiple machines. the only thing that bums me out is if you want it on your phone it's $12/year which seems insane. $12/yr to provide access a ~10k text file? what am i paying for? grumble - aaron
[2015-11-16 13:21:08] - a: that's a good approach! i think keepass is the same approach, an offline password manager which stores all your stuff on your local machine. i guess if you have to get to your passwords at work -- you either just have them on a laptop, or you SSH into your home PC or something? - aaron
[2015-11-16 12:27:12] - aaron: i made one. basically, it uses ccrypt to encrypt a plain-text file. sure, it's pretty insecure, but i don't have to worry about viruses that use 0-days. ~a
[2015-11-16 11:50:49] - I have used keypass and use it at home. -Daniel
[2015-11-16 11:31:22] - does anybody here use a password manager like onepass, keypass, lastpass, etc? - aaron
[2015-11-16 10:58:52] - mig: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fourth-republican-debate-poll_5647684ae4b08cda3489136c Also, this is what I was talking about with Rand Paul and the debate. Sure, libertarians thought he won his exchange with Rubio, but Rubio came out of that debate with better numbers than Paul. -Paul
[2015-11-16 10:57:54] - mig: http://news.yahoo.com/trump-surges-among-likely-republican-primary-voters-reuters-213521679.html Trump surges (again), although this was before the Iowa meltdown, apparently. -Paul
[2015-11-16 10:39:24] - paul: one penisippi! two penisippi! ha ha, that's great. i'm glad he's still on the air - aaron
[2015-11-13 11:46:51] - a: Yeah, I love Colbert too. A daily show (no pun intended) is hard for me to keep up with (I couldn't keep up with the Colbert Report), but I'll continue enjoying some Youtube clips. -Paul
[2015-11-13 11:46:06] - mig: Wouldn't at all be surprised if he finished 3rd or lower in Iowa. Maybe it's crazy, but then I'm crazy too. Frankly, if it looks like he's got no chance at a top 2 finish in Iowa, I wouldn't be surprised if he dropped out before that. -Paul
[2015-11-13 11:34:54] - paul: colbert is the best. i'm glad he's still doing his shtick. maybe i'll continue watching? ~a
[2015-11-13 11:31:38] - paul: I think what's different about him now is that he's losing what made him popular in the first place: that he's a confidant winner. He sure doesn't look like one in this speech and even his preferred audience is starting to look uncomfortable. I'll make a crazy prediction - He'll finish no better than 3rd in Iowa, and he'll drop out shortly thereafter. - mig
[2015-11-13 11:19:53] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJS0IzZREk It's a little slow to start, but I liked to dive into the absurdity of censorship on network TV. -Paul
[2015-11-13 11:01:58] - mig: By any sane measure, you would think so. But I still can't believe he got away with (and seemingly gained popularity from) mocking John McCain's war hero status, alluding to a female debate moderator bleeding from "wherever", saying Fiorina was ugly, and all the other stuff he's gotten away with. -Paul
[2015-11-13 10:54:40] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/13/donald-trump-begs-iowans-not-to-believe-ben-carson-dont-be-fools-okay/ so again, maybe I ask this at my own peril, but are we finally, at long last, witnessing the beginning of the end for Trump? - mig
[2015-11-12 17:00:27] - mig: You want to be our 4th for some hot HotS multiplayer action tonight? -Paul
[2015-11-12 15:11:55] - paul: that's a very interesting note about the Log Cabin Republican's case against DADT and it's impact in helping end DADT. - mig
[2015-11-12 12:39:02] - https://reason.com/archives/2015/11/12/gay-activists-vs-barack-obama Article is a little long, but this touches on why I've often been hesitant to give too much credit to Obama for gay rights advances. It felt like too often his administration was responding to shifts in popular opinion rather than boldly leading. -Paul
[2015-11-12 12:33:50] - there's widespread arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the apache commons-collections library that's apparently been open for like eight months now. maybe interesting if you work with java - aaron
[2015-11-12 07:06:41] - mig: I guess that's why I'm hesitant, though. He seems to be getting praise from people who wouldn't vote for him anyway. I loved his push-back on defense spending, but if anything, that'll probably hurt him in Republican primaries where it's a contest to see who can make the biggest military and bomb the most countries. -Paul
[2015-11-11 20:42:39] - paul: fair enough. Though i think it's interesting he's getting acknowledgement from outlets that tend to be hostile to him that he had a good night. - mig
[2015-11-11 16:20:57] - mig: In short, I don't think the glowing reviews are going to indicate much of a surge of support for him. It would be nice, but I don't see him gaining much support until Trump/Carson drop out. -Paul
[2015-11-11 16:19:44] - mig: Maybe buying some time? It seems to me that he's getting glowing reviews for two things: (1) Catching Trump's ignorance about the TPP (which isn't likely to endear him to any Trump supporters) and (2) Mixing it up with Rubio over military spending (which also seems like it could lessen his appeal to the Republican base). -Paul
[2015-11-11 16:14:30] - paul: rand seems to be getting glowing reviews from last night's debate. Turning a corner, or at least buying some time to outlast the other guys? - mig
[2015-11-11 14:55:57] - a: I'll check. -Paul
[2015-11-11 14:23:35] - works for me! are dewey and xpovos down? ~a
[2015-11-11 14:22:10] - a: 9pm okay? Or is that too late? -Paul
[2015-11-11 14:20:38] - paul: i'm not sure how i broke it, honestly. it happened a couple of years ago, and the symptom was pretty bad (computer would crash). so, i pulled out the card and put in an older one. anyways, i got a new card, so i'm good to go for thursday evening! ~a
[2015-11-11 13:52:36] - http://www.phonedog.com/2015/11/11/i-want-love-binge-net-neutrality-concerns-leaves-conflicted-feelings T-Mobile wants to (essentially) give people more "free" data, but some people are upset because of Net Neutrality. -Paul
[2015-11-11 13:52:01] - a: Sorry, you're right. He did. I forgot. We could try playing HotS this Thursday evening. Is your GPU fixed? How did you fry it?\ -Paul
[2015-11-11 13:19:40] - oh dewey did respond. ~a
[2015-11-11 13:16:18] - hots is fine too. what day did you and andrew want to play? i'm surprised at dewey though . . . i thought he loved sc2. ~a
[2015-11-11 13:05:16] - a: Thanks! And nope, you and Andrew were the only two to reply to my email. I don't own LotV yet (still haven't beaten HotS, although I did complete two missions earlier in the week). I wasn't sure if everybody was going to get LotV so I wasn't sure if we would be playing that or HotS. -Paul
[2015-11-11 12:51:09] - paul: did we decide on a day to play lotv? ~a
[2015-11-11 12:49:48] - paul: sent you a few bits. again, not enough to spend. but enough *TO HAVE*. ~a
[2015-11-11 11:10:32] - a: I believe my public address is: 15tCGd8qkikfe3b3cpz3MUQoj8HWya79BN (assuming it is case sensitive). -Paul
[2015-11-11 11:08:57] - a: Checksum! That's the word I was looking for. Thanks.
I guess having multiple unique ones and the checksum explains why it's so long. -Paul[2015-11-11 11:07:08] - paul: yes, it changes. yes, you have unique one*s*. right, they don't get re-used with other people. yes, there is a *huge* checksum that completely prevents typos (32 bits of checksum). if you have a typo, the checksum will be wrong, and the address is invalid, and so you can't send money there. ~a
[2015-11-11 09:30:42] - http://qz.com/546523/bloomingdales-creepy-new-catalog-suggests-drugging-your-friends-this-holiday-season/ Finding it hard to believe this creepy ad managed to get past any kind of focus group testing. -Paul
[2015-11-11 09:29:42] - a: It changes? So I don't just have a unique one? I assume they don't get re-used with other people, though? Is there something (the specific word is escaping me now) to prevent a typo from causing transactions from going to the wrong wallet? -Paul
[2015-11-11 09:18:08] - paul: yep, that's right. (btw, it changes, but you can give any of those addresses out to anybody you want and your wallet will get the money) ~a
[2015-11-11 09:10:53] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/10/rand-pauls-right-that-liberal-cities-have-the-worst-inequality-but-it-doesnt-mean-what-he-thinks/ "But big cities with vibrant economies should have wider income inequality — it's a feature of cities, not a bug." I actually think Rand would probably agree with this article saying he's wrong. -Paul
[2015-11-11 09:00:24] - a: Is that the thing that's like 30 characters long and is next to the QR code? -Paul
[2015-11-11 08:28:26] - paul: yes. anybody with those 12 words can take all of your money in that wallet. keep that in a very safe and secret place. you can paste your public address here though. ~a
[2015-11-10 23:16:35] - a: I've got my twelve words now. It sounds like I'm supposed to keep them secret, though. -Paul
[2015-11-10 16:48:09] - btw, did anyone know a DNC debate happened on friday? It's almost as if the DNC doesn't want people to watch these things... - mig
[2015-11-10 15:16:44] - Is this what tolerance is supposed to look like? - mig
[2015-11-10 14:59:33] - there really isn't any other way to word this - these protesters are fucking bullies, even if they may be right about the former university president. - mig
[2015-11-10 12:45:57] - paul: so, i think the students are right that there's a problem with race issues specific to yale, and the professor is right that culling free speech/freedom of expression isn't the right answer. and they should really work together to try to come up with a better answer instead of arguing - aaron
[2015-11-10 12:39:53] - paul: i think it's kind of typical for people around college age to see a problem, and think "i know how to fix that problem" and just not really understand how unfeasible their fix would be. but, most college students are smart enough not to misconstrue that anybody who disagrees with their solution also disagrees that there's a problem - aaron
[2015-11-10 12:29:49] - aaron: Yeah, I don't know which side is "right" or more reasonable, all I know is that some representatives of one side is doing a really bad PR job which makes me dislike that side.
-Paul[2015-11-10 12:28:41] - aaron: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/09/a-clash-between-administrators-and-students-at-yale-went-viral-why-that-is-unfortunate-for-all-conce I thought this line encapsulated the issue pretty well: "I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain." -Paul
[2015-11-10 12:26:48] - paul: in other words, i think i'd side with the calm rational guy regardless of what side he was on, as long as he were expressing himself calmly in a sea of angry idiots - aaron
[2015-11-10 12:25:43] - paul: admittedly though i think i'm prejudiced mostly like you said, because one guy's rationally explaining his viewpoint and 10 people are shrieking and barking nonsensical sound bytes at him, "it offends us!" "what about the swastika!" "shut up, you don't get to speak!".... if the roles were reversed but the sides were the same, my opinion would differ - aaron
[2015-11-10 12:23:57] - paul: i just learned about it yesterday, i thought the original 'inflammatory' e-mail was the most telling thing about the whole debacle. who could conceivably be incensed by this? - aaron
[2015-11-10 12:12:26] - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/putting-the-i-in-ipo/309255/ old news, but it came up in conversation today -- mike merrill, a software employee who sold shares of himself for $1 to allow friends to dictate his life decisions - aaron
[2015-11-10 11:47:00] - a: alternate viewpoints, which is always a red flag to me. -Paul
[2015-11-10 11:46:44] - a: Honestly, I don't know nearly enough about the situation (I still don't really know why the President had to resign or how widespread of support the boycott had). I don't know how much of an expectation of privacy people can have in this instance, but it does appear (and I stress "appear") that the protesters don't have a lot of interest in hearing... -Paul
[2015-11-10 11:39:17] - seems to be a pretty classic clash: privacy vs freedom of the press. i'm not even sure which side to be on (in general or in this specific case). tell me how i should feel, paul. ~a
[2015-11-10 11:11:59] - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/university-missouri-protesters-block-journalists-press-freedom.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 Anybody been following the news from the University of Missouri (and Yale and some other colleges)? -Paul
[2015-11-10 09:48:58] - i think george lucas was clever long ago. he made some pretty awesome shit in the 80s and 90s. then . . . that seemed to stop some time in the mid-90s. ~a
[2015-11-09 21:14:01] - the problem - George Lucas couldn't have been that clever, or could he? - mig
[2015-11-09 16:52:57] - That theory is crazy. If its true its half amazing, half lunacy. -Daniel
[2015-11-09 15:11:39] - Aaron: Maybe, I think it's just wishful thinking, though. Yoda was goofier (at the beginning) than a lot of people remember, I think, but I also think that article was downplaying some of the totally stupid things that Jar Jar did too. It wasn't all just accidentally destroying droids, but also stepping in poo (like you said). -Paul
[2015-11-09 15:00:24] - paul: i saw that theory! i thought it was fun, although jar jar was much more comic relief than yoda which is why the characters weren't more symmetrical to me. who knows, if george lucas had had 2000s-era CGI technology in the 70s, maybe yoda would have stepped in poopy and electrocuted his tongue and stuff... and we'd all hate yoda too - aaron
[2015-11-09 14:06:26] - https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user Fun Star Wars theory. -Paul
[2015-11-09 10:09:04] - Daniel: Hard to beat RTC for variety of pretty nice places. -Paul
[2015-11-09 09:57:21] - I don't think he is picky, he eats most things and travels a lot. I was thinking Reston Town Center would be ok and not that hard for Andrea to come meet us either but if someone has a better suggestion I'm certainly open. -Daniel
[2015-11-09 09:43:28] - Daniel: What kind of food does he/she like? -Paul
[2015-11-09 09:29:59] - Good restaurants out near Dulles? Cousin randomly in town and able to go to dinner near ish to Dulles tonight. -Daniel
[2015-11-08 07:26:42] - a: Ah, sorry. I wasn't sure when Blizzcon's opening was. I just assumed it was Friday. -Paul
[2015-11-07 12:00:47] - paul: negative-ish. they're still up 10% in the last month. 10% again the month before that. in fact, they're even *up* in the past 5 days. being down in the last day is just a blip. monday, on the other hand they will likely (i'm guessing) be down again compared to the market. ~a
[2015-11-07 08:26:37] - mig: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AATVI&ei=7_s9VrmKLteQmAHP8pgY I don't own it, but it looks like the immediate reaction is negative. -Paul
[2015-11-06 21:59:05] - paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYNCCu0y-Is as does this. - mig
[2015-11-06 18:10:39] - does anyone own any activision/blizzard stock? I'm curious about the effect Blizzcon's opening had on it. - mig
[2015-11-06 16:05:51] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxoz13Bthc Looks about as good as can be expected. -Paul
[2015-11-06 13:50:56] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-accepts-challenge-to-health-laws-contraceptive-mandate/2015/11/06/5556d6da-8400-11e5-8ba6-cec48 hobby lobby part 2? - mig
[2015-11-06 13:47:51] - paul: yeah, that's the problem, it's have to be someone at the mid-high tier at this point. Maybe there's a bump if Carson's drops out, which he might as his propensity for making shit up seems to be catching up to him. - mig
[2015-11-06 13:47:47] - when you're in the leftmost tab, there's a "create backup" button at the top. ~a
[2015-11-06 13:41:35] - a: I installed it, but don't know what you mean about 12 words. -Paul
[2015-11-06 13:41:25] - mig: I was thinking something similar. I'm a little surprised he survived and Christie was dropped. The good thing is that he should have a pretty solid floor, so there should be nowhere to go but up. Not sure who dropping out would benefit him the most, though. It's probably Cruz, which isn't going to happen. -Paul
[2015-11-06 13:22:40] - paul: did you install mycelium and write down the 12 words? ~a
[2015-11-06 12:06:09] - paul: i kind of feel like Rand is done if he doesn't get any sort of momentum after next week. He just barely qualified for the main stage. Unfortunately, he probably needs people to drop for that to happen, which I don't see happening. - mig
[2015-11-06 11:59:06] - http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/05/chris-christie-in-big-blow-to-his-campaign-is-cut-from-main-debate-stage/ main stage for next GOP debate narrowed down to 8. - mig
[2015-11-05 12:43:36] - mig: I would consider it a badge of honor to have Harry Reid denounce me.
-Paul[2015-11-05 12:06:11] - paul: careful now, we hear any more of your Koch praising, and pretty soon Harry Reid will be denouncing you on the Senate floor! - mig
[2015-11-05 11:55:59] - Daniel: http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/joe--koch-bros.-not-blindly-giving-to-gop-in-2016-558931523583 I think I references this interview a few days (weeks?) ago, but apparently a lot of progressive groups are upset over the "fawning" interview that an MSNBC show gave to the Koch brothers (this is a panel discussing them afterwards). -Paul
[2015-11-05 10:15:44] - well, there's no perfect user-friendly solution for that yet. i can still answer your question though, if you'd like. A. an etf or stock (gbtc). B. trezor or ledger (hardware wallets) C. "bip38 cold storage" (aka) "bip38 paper wallet" made from an offline computer. personally i've done mostly "C" and a little bit of "A". all of A, B, and C have major issues. ~a
[2015-11-05 07:59:05] - a: Where would you suggest I keep bitcoin amounts of over $500, then? -Paul
[2015-11-04 17:26:02] - paul: to manage your expectations some more, i wouldn't suggest keeping more than (say) $500 on a computer or phone. because viruses/hackers that can irreversibly steal bits are real. ~a
[2015-11-04 17:23:24] - well, i think so. it depends on what you expect really. make sure you write down the 12 words for real, and make sure you keep it in a *safe* *safe* place. i know half a dozen people IRL that have lost serious amounts of bits. ~a
[2015-11-04 16:20:58] - a: Downloading it. I assume it's fairly straight forward to set up? -Paul
[2015-11-04 14:19:22] - if *you. ~a
[2015-11-04 14:00:18] - that's not true. you held 100k bits on paper for a few months. anyways, like i did with xpovos, if install mycelium on android, and write down the 12 words, and send me your public address, i'll send you a few bits. ~a
[2015-11-04 13:44:46] - a: I do not own any. My exposure to bitcoin is still null.
-Paul[2015-11-04 13:22:53] - i assume you don't own any gbtc, right? ~a
[2015-11-04 13:22:05] - paul: correct. gbtc's price is *loosely* tied to bitcoin's price. (it's set up like a gold etf, where there is a fee, but unlike a gold etf, there isn't as active of an organizer buying/selling the underlying asset to keep the price in-check with said underlying asset. i can go into more detail if you'd like) ~a
[2015-11-04 12:38:29] - mig: I'm so torn on Dusty Baker. By all accounts he's a good manager with an impressive resume... but I'm still super worried about his reputation for ruining young arms (Strasburg isn't young anymore, but what about Giolito?). -Paul
[2015-11-04 12:37:17] - a: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/03/bitcoins-price-jumps-more-than-70-in-one-month.html Is this why GBTC is doing so well? -Paul
[2015-11-04 12:35:36] - mig: My guess is they go with Foster, but I'm also surprised he hasn't been poached by another team. Honestly, I feel like sometimes people overstate the correlation between being a good coordinator and a good HC. They seem like different skill sets, and I worry about the Peter Principle with Foster. -Paul
[2015-11-04 08:33:18] - daniel: that's expected. it was just added to unicode last week. it won't show up in your fonts for a year or so depending on which operating system you're running. ~a
[2015-11-03 16:25:19] - http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html smart reply - a deep neural network that responds to an e-mail - aaron
[2015-11-03 14:01:54] - except on the lowballing part. The Nationals were unequivocally wrong to do that and they don't actually have as much leverage as the writer would imply. What would they have done if Dusty Baker had told them to fuck off and refuse to be their silver medal? - mig
[2015-11-03 13:50:34] - http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/11/3/9663674/nationals-manager-offseason-dusty-baker-bud-black i'm trying very hard to convince myself this writer may be right. - mig
[2015-11-03 10:18:13] - a: I don't see the symbol. I just see a square. -Daniel
[2015-11-03 00:02:57] - paul: the bitcoin symbol was added to unicode (â‚¿). i'm actually very surprised this happened. ~a
[2015-11-02 17:21:28] - g: interesantes was the only new word there. "por que" was said a few times. and "muy" had been used a few times before too. ~a
[2015-11-02 16:58:09] - g: i sometimes ponder paul's jaywalking weirdness. because . . . he has a second weirdness where he ignores other people that tell him what to do for safety reasons: "don't stand up on the roller-coaster" he likes to ignore that rule. i think this makes him an authoritarian. he only wants to be told what to do by the government. ~a
[2015-11-02 16:54:15] - g: paul is crazy. ~a
[2015-11-02 15:37:04] - ah yes, Texas A&M. - mig
[2015-11-02 15:35:43] - xpovos: For HC? I thought he turned down a DC gig at some SEC school a year or 2 ago, but I don't think he's actually been offered to HC anywhere. - mig
[2015-11-02 15:30:38] - mig: IIRC he was offered a position at one of those he interviewed with but ultimately turned it down; either because of loyalty to VT, or Beamer... or for other reasons. -- Xpovos
[2015-11-02 14:53:01] - But I more or less agree, he's certainly earned the opportunity. - mig
[2015-11-02 14:51:50] - paul: you argue with me quite a bit about jaywalking, cause you always refuse to and make me take forever to go anywhere... ~g
[2015-11-02 14:49:58] - xpovos: the only thing that'd make me nervous about Foster is that I would have thought he would have gotten an HC gig at some point from somebody (he was publicly interested in the WVU opening some years ago), and he almost never turns up as an interest whenever a coaching gig becomes available. It makes me wonder if there's a reason for that. - mig
[2015-11-02 14:23:45] - mig: Foster or outside. I don't think Shane gets it, and I don't really want him to. I'm not sure how Foster would handle the transition to being the head coach, but he's earned the opportunity at least, in my opinion. -- Xpovos
[2015-11-02 13:26:42] - with the spanish sentance... ~g
[2015-11-02 13:26:04] - mig: im guessing that you just had a few new words... ~g
[2015-11-02 13:22:35] - I guess everyone has heard the Beamer retiring story. So, who is the next VT coach? Shane, Foster, or should they clean house and get someone from the outside. I'm inclined they may go the former, but the latter could yield some interesting possibilities. - mig
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