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The US is the world's largest nuclear energy producer, and arguably still possesses the most know-how.

Our nuclear energy capacity is five times that of China. We have four times the reactors. And the share of energy we get from nuclear is eight times higher.

Your premise is completely off-base. If the US does nothing for 20 years, China might catch up to where we're already at with nuclear. It's questionable at this point whether China can afford to make those investments to even catch up, given their extreme debt condition, faltering economy, bleeding capital position, and the upkeep costs on the trillions of dollars worth of unnecessary construction they've done the last decade. Simultaneously they have 800+ million very poor to take care of in a rapidly aging society that is already overwhelmed with debt, but has practically no social safety net.

Where is the evidence that China has had a good outcome, compared to even mid-tier Western nations? They have upwards of 500 million 'farmers' earning $1 to $3 per day, because China knows there is nothing else for them to do. Inflation adjusting those incomes, those half a billion people have seen zero economic progress in five decades - and that's starting from practically the lowest base possible.

China hasn't come even remotely close to challenging the notion that Western style governance produces drastically better outcomes for the people. It's not a contest and there's no great reason to think it's going to be one.

The worst managed economies of Europe, have median incomes higher than the bottom billion plus Chinese possess.

China's upward surge was caused by filling out the slack in their vast labor pool. When that surge ended with the great recession, China had nothing else to turn to, and started using extreme amounts of debt to try to keep the good times rolling. The Communist Party hasn't accomplished anything meaningful, rather I'd argue quite the opposite: I think they've doomed China to decades of stagnation via debt, incompetence in leadership, and misallocated resources - the outcome to all command-heavy economies historically.

Realistically the US merely needs to grow at about ~2% to match China's current rate of real economic growth (and that rate is clearly going to slow even more going forward). What advantage does China possess exactly? What is the evidence their leadership system has worked better than if they had had a Western style system?

Their easy growth is long over. Now they have to pay for all that debt, while placating the social unrest that comes from the lack of progress economically, and try to figure out what to do with their bottom 800 or 900 million people that are still considered among the poorest on earth.
Emphasis on 'probably'- energy is a vital problem, solutions to which are subject to unguessable physical constraints. It would be foolish to rely on one particular technology which may somehow turn out to be impractical or undesirable in scale.
The most common example of such logic is multiplying by maybe-zero (transforming a=b into ac=bc) and factoring out a possibly-zero factor (transforming ac!=bc into a!=b).
It is very easy to find sexual release with internet porn. More difficult with a real life woman. And therein lies the collapse of western civilization.
> Array slices will create views rather than copies. This is just a matter of performance

Except for breaking any existing code which mutates slices (unless slices are COW?), and implicit sharing can have disastrous effects on memory usage.
Couldn't we just use the flag Daffy Duck used!?! http://www.gargaro.com/webpages/general/marvin17.jpg
The book started out as lectures notes for a university course on startups taught by Thiel. You can find the original notes at http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup. There is also an EPUB version available from https://stanfy.com/blog/epub-version-of-peter-thiel-lectures....
The reason was obviously hubris combined with marketing spice appeal.

http://nemaload.davidad.org/
I'm not convinced this is an intentional backdoor... Do not attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity
Sure, so why not discuss this one?
Stack Overflow has relatively strict guidelines what they consider "good questions". I also don't agree with them on all counts, which is one of the reason why I'm not very active there (they see many questions I find interesting as out-of-scope, but that has been debated more than enough), but for specific questions they still are the best resource if one gives enough detail.

If you don't like SO, maybe try a python/Django forum somewhere?
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I completely agree with your second point. Being able to easily draw a flag is a really nice indicator of how nice your flag is (eg. is it too complex? Does it scale well?).

Look at the image posted by dakridge: https://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a
Anyone could easily draw that, and that makes it much better than OP's flag.
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When should I use a hash table instead of an association list?
Yeah, I'd say acceptable, and I could get used to it with time. But honestly, it seems to me that every time someone makes a flag for a real-world thing, it almost always suck. Why can't they just hire Michael Okuda, whose work in Star Trek (and NASA) produced really pretty logos and flags?

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/06/image-9a...

https://startreklives.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/emblem.gif

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Still, I'm willing to wield current design because solidarity as a species means more to me than petty design issues :).
It looks like a logo of some bank.
I prefer this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terra_flag.gif

Aqua, terra, aer et somniorum.
Quite bike claims made in the post. AWS is the unquestioned standard at my workplace. I am inkling to fund the GCP a try. Do they have some migration doc?
Can ad blockers put an end to the ad tech arms race?
FOIL is the worst offender in my experience tutoring people in math. I recall several instances of people being completely stumped when trying to multiply a trinomial and a binomial, because they couldn't figure out how to apply FOIL.
maybe we will never gain true knowledge of the universe

If you are equating true knowledge with perfect knowledge, this obviously should be considered a straw-man. There is no reason why the rules completely describing universe should have to fit in a human mind. Our brains were evolved to solve the specific context of our prehistoric survival.
Exactly. So much of neuroscience is still in "unknown unknown" phase, and the idea of just doing this massive interdisciplinary project to simulate a full human brain, built on the pile of sand that is any sort of "theory" of full-brain simulation ... it's like dedicating $1 billion to some dude's unpublished idea of proving P = NP. Bullshit should have been called before this ever got off the drawing board.

Sure seems like the EU has it's fair share of incompetent technocrats if you can throw $1 billion at some nonsense any handful of PhDs in the field could have told you was nonsense if you'd just picked up a phone.
Smart roads? In the UK the councils are struggling to maintain the existing roads. there is a huge difference from what would be possible with unlimited resources and what will actually happen in the real world.
You might want to send your concerns to SETI
> My understanding is that with modern compilers, there's no need for 0-based indexing; you can use 0-base, 1-base, or 69-base indexing as you prefer.

It's never been needed, Pascal had arbitrary array bounds (including negative) 50 years ago.

> 1-based indexing is one of the things that helps make Julia more accessible to high-school programmers or PhD students who don't want to learn binary arithmetic.

What does binary arithmetic have to do with anything? And have there been any study pertaining to the accessibility of 0-indexed versus 1-indexed arrays to high-scool programmers which would warrant such an assertion?
Like any project, I'm sure there are many ways it can be improved.

Still, I'd much rather see $1B spent imperfectly on something important - a thousand times over - rather than a trillion plus on the F-35, or so many of the ways governments spend money.
I mean particle test in linked article. iPhone 6S + Metal vs some top video card + DirectX. Of course later wins, there's no doubt about that, I just wonder how big the margin is.
Neil?
I read the title and thought they were talking about the performance of the metal materials in the frame, and not Metal the API.
Offline storage is a great competitive advantage for apps.
I hope by the time this flag is used, space suits don't have to be that bulky.
The porn industry does have some specific practical issues. Probably the most is the reliance on very young actresses. Most start while under 20 these days. People that age are too trusting. They get put in bad contracts and don't know their legal rights.

For example, I had one girl come to me an say that a studio was claiming to "own" her real name, forbidding her from working under that name with anyone else. They had also not paid her. It boiled down to producers knowing they can bully these kids. The secrecy in which most of these girls wrap their work doesn't help. They are very hesitant to complain or reach out to lawyers.
This is related
https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/3md5yd/for_th...
When (eventually...they all do) western civilization collapses I highly doubt porn will be the leading cause. I lean more towards it being bankers, lawyers and politicians.
Volkswagen, IoT, the NSA and open source software: a quick note
I have used PyDoit for various automation tasks and found it pretty useful. The author is very responsive as well and fixes problems in a timely manner. It's a good alternatice to Makefiles and libraries like fabric. Parametrization is an issue of course, but tasks can be easily customized using generators, which adds a lot of flexibility.
How can implicit sharing have "disasterous effects on memory usage"? It will certainly break some code, hence the large amount of warning and the "pocalypse" appellation. Note that this is how array slices work in NumPy and that ecosystem has not collapsed.
Crazy fact I just learned: The V.O.C. actually still exists as the Republic of Indonesia. Unfortunately at the moment it's not very common to put rulers of sovereign nations on humanity tribunals, regardless of the extent of their misdeeds.
Excellent summary, note that the deep trench transistors (aka FinFets) helped with the leakage problem significantly, but heat will always be an issue.

I've speculated that if we could figure out how to manufacture it, we could get electron scale computation out of an artfully constructed Graphene matrix. Basically a tiny Pachinko machine with electrons for balls. But at that scale you're going to need redundancy to get around quantum effects. We know you can build transistors at 7nm [1] but to what end.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/ibm-unveils-industrys...
Same situation here. I find it terrible when I look around a bus or some other public space and see literally everybody bent over their iPhones and what not. (Not only the younger generation, btw, many older people are just as bad.)

That's why I'm always glad when I find other people my age who consciously refuse to be constantly available via WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc. - several I know actually refuse to have a smart phone at all (yes, those people still exist ;-) ).
> I'm sure one could just as easily say that getting the mail is like other addictions, because I chronically get excited at the thought of my latest online order arriving.

There actually are many people addicted to shopping. You can often see them on “Hoarders” or similar TV shows, their homes filled to the brim with products in boxes, unopened.
Since we are constantly broadcasting at high energy and with interesting patterns, I wouldn't worry about that. Everyone who sees this flag is either from Earth or knows its position very well.
I think anything with five or more interlocked rings are illegal in any country that wants to ever host the Ol*mpics.

I seem to recall a game (or something) that had a similar logo to this flag but had to be redesigned.
But, if it is to be a "flag for planet earth", it would not need encompass colonies on other worlds, and it wouldn't be the goal of such a flag to do so. If, as someone else suggested, the right idea is a flag for humanity, then your argument works.
Note that while Nearline's pricing is identical to glacier, it's response time is almost immediate, compared to ~4 hours for glacier.
I've been using linux on workstation for last 6 years. I have to run VM with Windows, only when i have to interact with some Microsoft product directly. It may not be ideal solution for every use case, but it works.
> it is not making any pretensions about not being new or about being a baby-step hack

And, with its Kelvin (count down to zero, then freeze forever) revisioning scheme, Urbit admits its own mortality (or so it seems to me). Any change that can not be managed as an intrasystemic, in place upgrade must necessarily - and righteously - detonate the Urbit ecosystem as thoroughly as mature Urbit obviates Unix. Future competitors are thereby encouraged to be equally generalist, thus hardening Urbit against dissolution via tepid, partial reforms.
This article is amazingly full of useful information. I'm just at the beginning of a list-building journey, and I can't think of anything better that I've read on the subject.
"Resume with Monsters" by William Browning Spencer is kind of like a slacker version of Carlie Stross's Laundry Files novels.

And Alan Moore did a lovecraftian graphic novel set in the current era called Neonomicon
It needs more.. pop? ;)

Joking aside, I kinda dig it.
The same reason most countries don't romanticize historical invaders / occupiers. Turns out it's not a cute memory when your people were on the business side of the invasion.
Just less than an hour ago I got 10+ alerts that my monitoring agents on GCE machines are unreachable for 5 mins again and networking is down. I see this at least once a month, separately the cloud SQL has weird outages again about once-twice a month. I also run some real hardware machines in a datacenter and have none of these problems. I am not impressed with Google's cloud.
I completely agree, but it won't stop young men from being used as a scapegoat.
Aptible is hiring senior back end engineers (remote)
Pure utopia man. But, we could make a first step by helping the refugees from middle east and people of downtrodden African nations.
As with these sorts of things, I respect the academic exercise, but they always feel really arbitrary. Like, I could pick fifty different decent symbols and color schemes and come up with something that kind of looked good and might be a good Earth flag in a movie or something. If that's the goal, then the challenge isn't really that hard.

If you really wanted to explore a flag for Earth, you'd engage people from around the world. What symbols are important to them? What colors? How do they want to be seen? What does it even mean to them to have a flag that represents Earth as something uniquely ours? And such. Then begin to distill these ideas down into a flag. Or try to create a process by which an idea could be brought about. And try to get buy-in from all of these diverse people. That's the hard part. The interesting part!

(Also, nitpick about the video: 5:8 != the Golden Ratio.)
Great, give us an Earth flag and we can go stick it in things and claim them! Then we can explain to the local inhabitants how that has changed their situation. We'll need pamphlets in a universal language too.
I'll be glad once this is all implemented. I recently rewrote most of my functions that took abstract vectors and matrices to instead take concrete arrays along with a few index parameters. I did this because I realized SubArrays were making huge memory allocations inside the tightest parts of my loops for some unknown reason. Since I didn't want to spend days debugging that weirdness, I just took the simpler (but cruder) option of passing in the "kitchen sink" to each function.
Those are all either 1) a derivation of the general "starfleet arrowhead" or 2) a ripoff of the UN flag. Most of them are also afflicted with awful outdated-looking gradients.
> Why can't they just hire Michael Okuda, whose work in Star Trek (and NASA) produced really pretty logos and flags?

Flags are supposed to be simple, and Michael Okuda's work has too many details.
Time to leave preprocessors behind, postcss is the future
I'm young, I still find newness exciting. Fortunately I also find history exciting, and one big lesson that has taught me is that it is foolishness to equate "newer" with "better". Often it is, often it seems to be, and often it isn't. The trick is knowing which is which.
So kids are forgoing realworld sex. When did that become a bad thing?

My whole school life I was 'encouraged' to avoid sex, alcohol and every other vice at all costs. Going to a party on a friday night was a bad thing. Sex, whether through disease or pregnancy, would destroy your life. This is still the mantra, although nobody then told me that sex would send me to hell. That part is new. So why are we not surprised that kids today have found something else? Society tells them to avoid sex at all costs. Society is just now winning that conversation.
Good question. You don't need to directly observe every rotation in order to "account" for it. The drift rate for a pulsar is extremely low, so as long as you sync up often enough that the error is much smaller than one cycle you can be confident that you've counted every one even though you haven't directly measured them all.
Found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Five_Rings#Inter...
Don't we have the Olympic flag already?
> How can implicit sharing have "disasterous effects on memory usage"?

A small long-lived slices keeping a original arrays alive implicitly. Oracle recently undid the same optimisation in Java's strings because of that exact issue (which obviously broke code the other way around, code relying on cheap substrings would now take O(n) instead of O(1)). Erlang developers are also warned early and often about that behaviour in binaries.
That would lead to analysis-paralysis pretty quickly.
Just saying.
The opinion piece (that's what it is) starts with an assertion that types make it easier to find bugs. I think the reality is more nuanced.

When types were pushed into the C language (function prototypes, etc), it fixed a lot of bugs. The compiler would prevent you from pushing a short into an int, etc. Because that was a common and hard to debug mistake, this experience increased the popularity of types.

Typing of higher level objects is less useful. When you pass an object into the wrong function, the code usually doesn't even pretend to work (unlike an integer passed in as a float parameter). Also, because objects are so different, it's rare to accidentally pass an object as something else. The only time I've seen that happen is in very convoluted, multi-layered code bases.

We can see something similar in languages like Ruby or Perl, where it's actually kind of nice that you don't have to worry about whether a variable holds a string or integer or whatever. (For some reason, Javascript's implementation of the same idea seems to be a bit more annoying, but that could just be me).

So strong type systems are not necessarily a boon. (Of course, on the other hand, we have Haskell, where the type system can help reduce bugs).
Yet another possibility is to use UN flag as representing earth?

Also any "planetary" space program, as opposed to country specific programs like NASA for US, JAXA for Japan etc, can be under some newly created body, like "UN space program" or something.
Humour is regularly down-voted on Hacker News to avoid the Reddit phenomenon where humour bubbles to the top and pushes meaty comments down. Hacker News has collectively decided that humour belongs on the bottom of the thread. That doesn't necessarily mean we don't like jokes, but it's hard to tell the difference.
Desktop apps for an average user were always a wild west with potential viruses: there was never a curated app store with reviews, which I believe is an advantage for an average user.

Additionally a large class of top phone apps is messaging, which has always been apps even on desktop: Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat, Skype etc.

Also, why would I use maps.google.com on my phone instead of one click Google Maps app? Seems like torture to me.
An open letter to anyone moving to San Francisco for a tech job
It used to be a hassle to get fresh food too. http://yourbrainonfood.com/
Delete economist's cookies.
Serwis RTG
India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies
I'm starting to use duckduckgo after seeing their terminal theme.
Britain had an East India Company first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_%28disambig...

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2014/04/worlds...

It's up for debate who was the first multinational. No doubt both set the bar very high for those to follow, but I do think blackwater spinoff dyncorp with child sex slaves will take some beating, particularly with respect to the prevailing moral climate of the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynCorp#Bosnia_incidents
> I only get a header and a footer.

Maybe your browser is in Fetish Mode?
Ya, but its a little dated now. Any reference to the number of planets cannot survive the next upstart science teacher pushing out a new definition to get himself on the daily show.
If an alien civ discovered that flag somehow, we've probably tipped our hand.
If it's a circumpolar star then it won't set - e.g. Polaris doesn't set here in the UK.
The rings are not interleaved consistently, which is annoying me because there's no explanation as to why.

The middle ring is on top of all the rings, but the two bottom ones.

The right-most ring crosses its neighbours from under, instead of in an interleaved under/over like the other rings.

The top-left ring crosses its neighbours from over, in the same fashion.

The other 4 outer rings are (clockwise) over their precedent, then under their following ring.

I'm curious if it's on purpose. If it's not on purpose, then I'm a bit disappointed that something so obvious wasn't found, when the rest of the presentation and discourses suggest great consideration. If it is indeed on purpose, then I don't understand why it's not explained, and why they made the top-left, right most and center rings different from the other ones.

Anyways, in other cases I'd say I'm nitpicking a whole lot. But this is a flag design, their text appeals to great consideration for the craft of designing flags. I'm a noob and I can notice the inconsistency, so I'm perplexed.
My sister got that book for her b'day because she's into puzzles.

It didn't come with plane tickets to England so wasn't the best gift idea.
Themes : https://duckduckgo.com/settings Themes tab

looks just awesome http://i.imgur.com/0QUmcVa.png
Whatsapp serving as a support group and helping prevent farmer suicides in India
Designing better medical implants-size and shape allow implantable devices to last
tl;dr - a self-promo piece by Oskar Pernefeldt, whoever this guy is.