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These advocates are paid in proportion to how bad the problem is. They're advocating in this way to ensure their income isn't interrupted by solving the problem they're being paid to fix.


As opposed to Dignity Moves, which has no financial interest in this situation?


This is pretty great - One feature I really liked from go was channels and the ability for goroutines to communicate with each other. Anyone know there a pep open for a similar idea in the python world?


You can get channel-like behavior using async/await and a custom event loop. I wrote a little example[1] that has a bare-bones implementation of this. I used it to translate the prime sieve example from Go[2] almost directly to Python. The code uses "message = await channel.receive()" to mimic Go's "message <- channel". Instead of using "go func()" to fire off a goroutine, I use loop.run(func()) to add the PEP492 coroutine to my simple event loop.

It's not an efficient implementation - it was really meant as a proof of concept that you can use async/await in your own code without any reference to asyncio.

[1] https://gist.github.com/vrajivk/c505310fb79d412afcd5#file-si... https://gist.github.com/vrajivk/c505310fb79d412afcd5#file-ch...

[2] https://golang.org/doc/play/sieve.go


Did they seriously spoil the ending of breaking bad in the first sentence?


The real lesson here is that, whether or not it's morally acceptable randomly drop a spoiler into an article, you probably shouldn't do it because it's an instant derail. We're not talking about the content anymore, now it's about the spoiler.


In five years I'm sure it will be like "spoiling" the plot-twist in Empire Strikes Back: no one will ding you for spoilers because the plot will be common knowledge.


Right -- in five years. Just like nobody will ding you for telling them what happens to Romeo and Juliet, or that thing about Darth Vader, because by now it's assumed that anyone who cares to experience that thing un-spoiled has already finished.

The last episodes of Breaking Bad have only been on Netflix for about 6 months. It's completely plausible that people who decided to start watching after the series reached its critically-acclaimed ending might still be a couple seasons shy of the ending. Hold your spoilers for another 3-6 months to be safe.


Did someone seriously down-vote that I merely pointed out most sites don't consider ESB's plot-twist to be a spoiler anymore?


Thanks for the heads up. Due to sunshine and summer I'm stalled out 3 episodes into the last season. I've managed to avoid spoilers so far...


They tried to spoil Breaking Bad but hey got it wrong.

spoilers:

WW didn't die violently because of anything about the drug business. He was dying of cancer and chose to take risks that would have had him die violently no matter the outcome. The specific business he was in was immaterial.

In the end he died from his own bullet, but not until he'd asked his former partner to shoot him dead and been turned down.


IMO it's hardly a spoiler. The ending was a poetic inevitability.


I feel like the title should include a warning.


Kind of upset right now too.


Who cares? The show ended over a year ago.


I've never been so happy to have skimmed an article :-)


Seriously! I'm in the middle of watching it too; What total BS!


Seriously. Thanks a lot, jerks. Well, I guess I can cross it off my to-watch list.


It is still worth watching. It's about the journey, not just the destination.


Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.


No python support?


Or Forth support?


Or Go or Java/Scala/Clojure. I would hope these are on the way. I would think Go would be uber easy to support.


Not yet, it's definitely on the top of our priorities list!


Yeah :/ I think it's on the roadmap though.


I think we're all in agreement that increasing the diversity of viewpoints going into a decision will lead to an overall stronger result.


Yes, that would be possible. Thought on the other hand, women are supposed to be like men (equal?), so where would the diversity be?


In this context equal does not mean the same.


My Great-aunt didn't make it out of the camps. WW2 isn't a gray area by any honest interpretation.


The Russians weren't the enemy in WW2. In fact, their contribution greatly affected the outcome of the war.

Axis and Allies are good names if someone is being historically accurate.


They started out as enemies of the Allies, then they became enemies of the Axis powers when they changed their allegiance. And when they were pretending to be friends of the Polish people under Nazi rule, they intentionally failed to show up as promised to help out with the Warsaw uprising so that the Polish uprising leaders would die and not get in the way when they instituted communism in Poland (I saw the new "Warsaw Rising Museum" this past summer). Brings to mind the phrase "with friends like these, who needs enemies?" But to set clearly set the record straight, the Russians were indeed the enemy at some point no matter which side you were on.


The Soviet Union was always a US ally during the period of the war in which the US was a combatant. With 26,000,000 or so dead, [1] it is hard argue that they put any lower value on lives in Warsaw than its own citizens.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtrafbat#.22Trampler.22_mine-...


Russia definitely did not promise to help out with Warsaw uprising and actively discouraged it. Uprising was a coup by Polish leaders to liberate Warsaw before Russian army arrives to be in a better negotiating position after the end of war. Soviet Union was under no obligation to help anti-soviet elements to fight Germans - enemy of my enemy is my friend is true only up to the point.


I don't know that you can back up your first sentence. I'm pretty sure the museum in Warsaw claims that they did plan to work together. Also, the museum shows part of a TV show from after the war which served as Soviet propaganda. The TV show rewrote history to say the Soviets fought alongside them. My Polish friend is in his mid-30s like me and explained how they were still showing this old TV program when he was a child in the 80s. Now he knows it was a lie.


Tell that to the Poles, the Finns and other nations that were invaded by the Russians. Only after Germany invaded Russia, Stalin decided that they are an enemy that should be dealt with.


"greatly affected" is a bit of an understatement.


Gray area in the sense that it actually offends some people whereas most people just shake their head.


Hopefully this will soon be added to django core - it's one of the goals as part of Marc Tamlyn's kickstarter to improve postgres support in django.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mjtamlyn/improved-postg...


This was a little harder to find than I expected:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16555779

"These findings demonstrate that female facial appearance holds detectable cues to reproductive health that are considered attractive by other people."

Found via http://asutriplehelix.org/node/99 which also cites some other related papers

EDIT: I really, really enjoy finding cases where something I assumed to be true is questioned on the grounds of scientific correctness. It is always a wonderful opportunity to bring my thinking closer to reality, no matter if my assumptions are true or false.


I'd be a _little_ careful turning "detectable cues" into some kind of axiomatic understanding of attractiveness.


It's no wonder he has such trouble socializing. When you wear self loathing on your sleeve like that, people will respond accordingly. It's wonderful to want to make a better world, but when everything you say, think, or do needs to be excused and caveated you can't help but internalize that.


The ember docs have improved immensely over the past few months - they're currently significantly better than the angular docs.


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