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> Just recently China started to sell US Treasury bonds (they have about $2 bln of them to sell)

China didn't just "start selling US treasury bonds". You're implying that they're offloading their bonds, they are far from it. China sold off an insignificant portion of their holdings for liquidity to bail out themselves. They were facing an economic crash and they were trying to stave it off. They needed cash to do that, hence, they sold a very specific amount of their bonds for that specific purpose.

If they sold all of their treasury bonds, it would be economic suicide because there would be so much unstableness in the global economy that every market would crash, including Chinas. They would probably fall the hardest, too.
It seems quite strange if computing power is really the bottleneck here. What sort of architecture would you have for a weather prediction system where you would spend more on computing power than researchers' salaries?
With your comment, I would think the correct course of action would be not commenting at all in the discussion. But, I guess you don't have anything 'productive' to do.
That is only a single paper though. Now you must replicate and distribute that paper to every person in the company...ASAP.
And the 19 hours one by the same user. coloneltcb really wants you to read this article!
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Who/what are you thinking of when you say it's common? There's exactly one[1] post 1950 Anglosphere philosopher I could credibly associate with the idea, out of literally hundreds I've read: John Searle. And arguably that's a dismissive appraisal of what he thinks (but I don't think his view makes any damn sense, so that's what I'm stuck with).

[1] Honorable mention to Trenton Merricks and Peter Van Inwagen who have strange beliefs that sound a bit like belief in a vital force, but aren't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereological_nihilism

Edit: I see you say remnants. I suppose a lot of this is open to interpretation about what a remnant is.
The Stasi had a lot more than kilobytes of data. It also managed to be far more effective at oppressing people than institutions we know of with petabytes of data.
"Snorkeling is great and you should try it," is a similar statement I might make with no qualifications or equivocation from you. Many pleasurable activities have attendant dangers that you should be aware of before engaging in them. Drugs are no different, except we surround them with the stink of moral judgment and refuse to educate people on how to use them safely.
> anything with that powerful an effect on the mind is concerning.

I find that statement absurd, anything with an effect that powerful should be cherished! Would life be desirable if it were stripped from all emotions, as they too have a powerful effect on the mind? Even if you agreed to that, it wouldn't be feasible as we are biological creatures and not pure rational beings. Denying that our biological self exists, with feelings and all, doesn't solve anything.
The spiritual experience you describe is just another part of the human condition, I don't quite believe that 9 out of 10 people on LSD would become preachers, but I see how it can lead to a better understanding of religion.
This doesn't require superstition, quite the opposite. When you know that those effects are caused by LSD or substances contained in Mushrooms, ferns or cacti, you don't need a higher power as an explanation for this peculiar state of mind. You might however find yourself coming to conclusions about life that other people on similar states of mind (whether induced by drugs or other means is irrelevant here) had before you, and who used the vehicle of religion to transport them.

So yes, psychedelics, as well as most drugs, should not be taken lightly, but banning them is like razing the Niagara Falls because someone might fall over the edge.
I would like to see a decline of "Big water". It astonishes me that bottled water is consistently sold for more than sugar water and not one bottler breaks from the pack and sells it for less. That can only happen with industry wide collusion to fix prices and yet no one in the government does anything about it.
The home page is weird to me (and I have used cvent to find venues in the past): I select a city, and I have no other options. Venue size? Wedding hall or meeting room? No. None of these are options on the first page. Therefore, I don't expect much value from that site.

That being said, I assume you current problem is that no one knows about your site. Can you clarify what the value of your site is? It has to be more than a directory of venues. How does it help me? And who is yout target, businesses, conferences, weddings? Don't say all, unless you intend to serve all of them equally poorly.

Based on the style of the site, it has a modern template, unlike cvent. Maybe you are trying to displace Cvent just like AirBnb displaced vrbo: similar in features, but just so much better looking and "user friendly". If that's the case, it means your target demographics must be younger than the average Internet user. Does that match business admins who look for venues more than people getting married? You need to figure it out.
Java: the expressiveness of an Algol subset with the performance of a Lisp. :-)

C#/.NET being a slightly improved Java and all.

I love interpreters with automatic memory management. I love assembler (sort of). It's painful when the wrong one gets put in the wrong place, though.
> that US foreign policy is so willing to snuff out such visionary leaders.

You're kidding, right? Economic views aside, these men were monsters who, combined, were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. These were not great men. They were monsters. I'm not going to call Charles Manson "charitable" and "soft-hearted" because his social views are liberal, the guy is still a monster. That's what he is, first and foremost.
> "is there anything fundamentally difference between life and non-life objects" is answered by scientific advancement

No it isnt. Science has only made one candidate for the meaning of "fundamental" trivial (in particular, that the physical substance of living things is the same substance of non-living things)- there are many other senses in which living things and non-livings things are fundamentally different. For example, all moral agents are necessarily alive. All non-living things are necessarily not moral agents.
It almost looks like the nuclear and hydrogen bombs were a "Jewish revenge" (Teller, Ulam, Szilard, Rabi, von Neumann, ...). Even Fermi was kicked out of Italy because of remote Jewish connotation of his wife. Entire Europe, not only Germany, shoot itself in the foot at this point.
The World Wide Web. Yep, plenty of antecedents, I personally start with Vannevar Bush's Memex for the idea, and there were many attempts with varying levels of un-success, until Tim Berners-Lee put together a winning, massively network effects positive solution.

Which, along with search engines, have resulted in significant, qualitative changes in information publishing and access; in the '70s (or perhaps earlier) Jerry Pournelle was looking forward to the day when you could quickly find the answer to any question that had an answer, and this is one of the biggest steps towards that.

To the point I rank it near computers per se; from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_purpose_technology):

General-purpose technologies (GPTs) are technologies that can affect an entire economy (usually at a national or global level). GPTs have the potential to drastically alter societies through their impact on pre-existing economic and social structures. Examples include the steam engine, railroad, interchangeable parts, electricity, electronics, material handling, mechanization, control theory (automation), the automobile, the computer, and the Internet.

This was the step that made the Internet into a "monster". So even if it only counts as one invention, it's as big as many of those preceding GPTs.
How do you mean? They had effective bombing fleets and even their V2s, which had their problems, but still offered unmanned, long-range delivery.
Imagine engineers drawing landscapes and calling art dead. This is what we have with the naive popularises of science today.
Having spent multiple decades in big technology corporations (now out of that and in startup world), one thing I started noticing towards the end is the dilution of power of Execs’ due to information becoming freely available to all and sundry in an organization.

These are strategic level information (the technology trend, shifts, competitive landscape etc.) to information on company metrics which are now freely available publicly and it can be argued that even Exces’ would not be aware of all of these info (blogs, analysis, leaks and even things like anonymous public forums where employees speak out - not limited to ‘Glassdoor’ and its ilk).

Few decades back none of these information were available to an average joe employee, they were accessible only to Execs - strategical knowledge through paid researches, consultants, high paid industry advisors etc.

At that time information WAS power, Execs’ would take decisions and employees would follow, they had no room for doubts as they did not have any information with them which would make them to think critically.
However, now things have changed so drastically that today a young employee is much more clued in to technology trends, shifts and competition than an old world clueless execs’. If you throw in jaded middle management in this mix, the scenario gets even more ugly.

I guess this liberation and accessibility of information is going to play a very big role in coming decades as to how organizations gets shaped.
Just take some time next time you're in a supermarket and walk down the cereal aisle, it's just incredible. It's all sugar and carbohydrates in colorful cartoony boxes meant to appeal to children. Just a cup of cereal has many calories and people and children eat huge bowls of this stuff.

So I think an anti-cereal campaign might also help. I often wonder what would happen to national obesity rates if cereal aisles in supermarkets just disappeared overnight.
Being able to have an objective discussion of the appropriate uses of one technology over another is very productive. I, in no way, said anything contrary to that. But meaningful discussions are rare because they devolve so quickly.
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Ah, I guess it depends on what you mean by 'equal'.

But I also think that's probably less of a fact than you think, depending on what you mean by it. There are certainly some people identified as being 'Caucasian' who have darker skin than some people identified as 'African', for instance.
Definitely. It's hard to say how things would have been affected had the US not had the store, though.
HAHA! I see what you did there! But you missed my point.
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Speaking as a physicist, I in general like this article, however there is a nasty technical point to make, which is that if you actually use distance units to measure time, we look like the "inanimate object, simple pattern", not the "living object, complex pattern." Moreover the "death, disintegration" slide is not going to be what you look like unless you happened to be in the vicinity of a bomb at your death.

Still the question of how we reconcile our sense of ourselves as speech-act-performing free-will-having conscious-feeling observers embedded in a changing world, with a relativistic perspective which says "there probably isn't one constantly-updating 'present' because a 'present' can be any hyperplane between two light cones, and therefore we can never have any physical basis to choose one as the correct one," is one of many really important philosophical questions that I think are important, though not really my domain.
This was so much fun to read.
It may exist to a greater extent on some college campuses than some corporate campuses.

At college you can choose to work on whichever topic you'd like and discuss it with whomever you would like.

At a corporation, many people are simply told what to do and if they deviate from doing what they were told, are fired and/or treated poorly.
Yeah this seams to me like a repudiation of the whole idea of .NET, as a multi-language system. They may add support for F# later, but by that time, the damage will have been done because the message is clear: "use anything other than C# or VB at your own peril".

Currently F# is completely shut out - it can't even be used to make libraries to be included in these kinds of apps! That makes it more dangerous career-wise to use F# going forward, lest your team get wedged into a position of having to rewrite one of your libraries because of your choice of using your "pet" language. Not good for the career.

The whole point of bytecode is to make things like this language independent. Big failure of vision to let this group do such a hack, IMO.
I'm not an expert, but nuclear bombs are heavy. I'm seeing the warhead capacity of a V2 rocket as 2,200lbs. Little Boy was 9,700lbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
Question: why the hell do people use CSVs? Use tabs, goddammit. Documents are littered with commas. It's trivial to parse a TSV with awk - not so a CSV. There is literally no reason to prefer CSV to TSV, and yet it seems the former is the default for many people. Why? As a guy who parses text files all day, I never ever want to see a CSV again. End rant.
Hmm. Solid point about cost/benefits. I'm sure more could be done to improve the benefits of NASA inventions. As for that solution, I wouldn't know where to start. I just think when it comes to modeling, who would know better than NASA (or other space programs)? They have data from various planets and moons, that might help improve our models here on earth.
Alas, the Swiss version of Algol lost out to the New Jersey version :-(

Bounds checking and non-nullable references are for wussies, after all. That, and a worse-is-better C compiler is easier to implement and thus more "available". (like Joel Spolsky said "Go ugly early")
The things you are talking is correct, Two technology should be just technology , but in real world I don't think so , companies tend to sell their technology as some kind of magical power and revivals wants to show other companies technology is just crap .

But what you are saying is mostly true in academia or ideal world , but not in reality .
I have visited the Atomkeller Museum, in Haigerloch. As far as I can remember what you can see on the picture [1] from the article is almost everything there is to see. At the entrance is a glass box with a slowly ticking Geiger counter but that's it. Basically it's a small rock cavern with a hole in the ground.

[1] http://cen.acs.org/content/cen/articles/93/i39/Nuclear-Foren...
Well, technologies don't battle (except in the marketplace, which often shows the success of both), but some engineers battle over them. Meanwhile, wiser engineers are calmly choosing their technologies based on their suitability to the task at hand, instead of starting arguments over an all-or-nothing mentality.
do not believe that tyranny of the majority is some ideal to strive for

You know, it's kind of funny that direct democracy is commonly derided as "tyranny of the majority". Is it not the case that all democracy, without separation of powers and a legal civil/common law framework to define boundaries, would be tyranny of the majority? But, those things are not exclusive to any political system in the slightest. In a direct democracy like Switzerland, the cantons operate within limitations set by federal law and any cantonal law which violates boundaries can be struck by the Federal Supreme Court.

This is, of course, not to idealize Switzerland. They have many issues, including ongoing mass surveillance through Onyx and files collected by EJPD, they were among the last to grant women suffrage (federally in 1971, but the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden didn't budge until 1991!), they maintained a system of indentured child labor called the Verdingkinder well into the 1970s, the median adult income is lower than in the U.S., etc.

But if you really examine it, democracy by its very nature entails, to some extent, a tyranny of the majority. However, directness allows for much more flexible and reactive amendments and proposals. It's not too expedient, but unfortunately we can't rely on philosopher kings.
Do those in charge actually want accurate predictions? The hurricane is going to go where it is going to go, the model has no impact on the realworld path. If we know the path with certainty then those in the path can take appropriate measures. But what is we enjoy those measures and want to do them regardless of where the storm will actually hit?

What a storm might be approach the executive branch of the local government goes into emergency mode. Emergency funds are spent on preparations. Some government workers are sent home. Schools might be closed. Evacuation orders may be issued. Town mayors and, importantly, state governors all go on TV to talk about these preparations. The local executives get to do their lord-and-master thing. If the storm hits, they looks like heroes. If it doesn't, they still look like dutiful public servants concerned for the safety of their public. Some people enjoy a good disaster rehearsal, especially if they get to be the one in charge.

Imho the private sector, specifically the insurance, travel and tourism industries are the ones who want accurate models. That isn't to say that prediction should be privatized. The government is probably in the better place to handle forecasting. But the demand on politicians for better models/funding arises from industry, not any noble desire to avoid widespread emergency declarations.
We used it recently as a kanbanish/scrumish board for a recent development cycle and it worked out pretty well. We had separate boards for each sprint, and a backlog board that contained some broad-swipe categories. It would definitely be nice if it had better integrations with fogbugz (which our team also uses) or other bug tracking platforms, but I imagine it would be challenging to do that and maintain its extreme ease of use/simplicity.
List of states with limited recognition
Eiffel is probably another "other" Pascal/Modula descendent.

Java beans uber class invariants :-(
> If it's made-up, it's a trite and rather artless attempt to yank at your heartstrings.

Should we consider all fiction works in this way?
> What friction?

> apt-get install $PACKAGE_NAME

Desktop Linux is a lost cause, except for hackers' workstations. For any application targeting the general population, these days we should probably assume a mobile device, which means either the app stores or the web (or both, if you can manage that).
Ad hominem would be discrediting your story because you don't have a brain. I'm just amusedly pointing out that the logical conclusion of your story is simply that you don't have one. Offensiveness doesn't come into the picture.
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For each algorithm, the images are sorted from best (on the left) to worst (on the right). So if you look at the middle region of the graph, you see how they behave on "median" images.

Another way to view the graph is: the area under the curve corresponds to the total disk space needed to store a large corpus of images in the given format. So obviously lower is better.
It becomes about race in a post colonial country where race and status are deeply intertwined; saying it is about status doesn't mean it is not also about race.
Well, I did the reading for you, and the answer is no. The control was a Sierra Leonean and the test was a white American. Page 8 on the paper (click one of the links above).
Will automated cars solve the problem? Or will automated cars make people more willing to put up with long commutes since it's then a passive activity and they can do something else in the meantime, making traffic no better and causing a net increase in energy usage? Seems like it could go either way—people often talk about how they'd rather sit 50 minutes on a train than do 30 minutes driving for that same reason, but if it becomes 50 minutes with everyone in their own car then we're worse off.
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There is a very good reason computing power is the bottleneck and it is because of how the weather has to be modeled. Weather models simulate the conditions in the cells of a lattice that is overlaid over geographic areas. To improve accuracy, the cells need to be shrunk to smaller sizes as they have been for a long time. However, every time the size of the cells in the lattices are halved you need 8 times the computing power to perform the calculations of the 3D space. Because of Moore's Law, it takes many years for it to make sense for weather centers to upgrade their infrastructure and see significant improvements in their predictions.
Here's a link to a static HTML page, it might load faster (sorry) http://brutalism.rs/logo.html
Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Becomes Alphabet’s ‘Do the Right Thing’
Likewise. "Docker CLI from the browser" or "Docker management from the browser" would be a better description.
And the physicists and mathematicians that stayed where either unable or had no interest in building an atomic bomb. Here is an excerpt from what Hans Bethe wrote about Heisenberg[1]:

The best proof of his lack of interest came at the end of the
war. Heisenberg and about ten other German nuclear scientists
were interned at Farm Hall, a country estate in England. All of
their conversations were secretly taped. When the news of the
Hiroshima atomic bomb was broadcast, these scientists could not
believe it. When they recognized that it was real, they asked
Heisenberg how it could have been done. His first attempt at
explanation was totally wrong! He hypothesized something like a
nuclear reactor, with the neutrons slowed by many collisions
with a moderator.

[1] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/Bethe....
Do you really believe this is the same as soviet repression of freedom of speech?
> I can just imagine what would happen if this occurred on Bart. You would probably either be ignored or people would record you on their phones and upload the video to Facebook.

That's not my impression. (Unfortunately I can't think of an actual counterexample.) I think people everywhere tend to help out. I imagine that when Americans are reluctant to get involved, they feel they don't know what to do, and they're afraid they'll be criticized or even sued for supposedly making things worse.