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What's wrong with enthusiasm?

It's bad when enthusiasm can be abused to defraud investors or customers. But that's not really what's happening here. The NASA guys are not trying to scam anyone, they're spending a bit of time and money to run some good-faith tests, just in case the universe can still surprise us.

I'm not saying the "emdrive" is likely to work--it's almost certainly not going to change physics. I'm just saying I can't see the harm in folks getting excited about the possibility. It's essentially hope--hope that we'll get to experience some of the amazing things we tell stories about, stories like Star Trek and other sci-fi.
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I disagree. I read a bit of the rant and didn't feel like reading the rest: its not short, its not to the point, its full of language that, despite not being directed at me, made me feel bad.

The "rewritten" version is short and to the point. Its clear and it uses neutral language. I read it and immediately understood what the issue is with the proposed code and why the changed code is better.

So for me, the rewritten version was many many times better because I could actually understand it without having to force myself to read something long and horrible.
Effing cold though... and right when UK weather had got a bit more tolerable for us Meds (thank you, El Niño!)
Using Go is a Google acquihire hedge. :)

I think that someone building a product on Rust is taking a very long view and has to make an investment in the development of the language or they are at the mercy of the changes and lack of libraries.

But seriously, why not Nim?
Here's somethign a little stale. Gate's company is looking into it:

http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/07/23/bill-gates...
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Ubuntu rules cloud instances elsewhere? I almost always see the choices as CentOS or RedHat. But that might be my myopic view cause I am always just looking for those right off the bat.
Changes in landscape and colonization by various plants as glaciers retreat is a very, very well-documented process. The vegetation changes in the picture shown are unambiguously due to the retreat of the glacier.

Global changes aside, it takes awhile to form soils that will support plant life. Near the foot of a retreating glacier, you'll always have till and moraines. If they've been recently exposed, they'll always be bare. It takes a few decades for forests, etc to get established.
1) Even if all payments into the Social Security trust funds stopped today, they'd have enough cash on hand to cover payments for 37 months. (see https://www.socialsecurity.gov/finance/)

2) Assuming tax collections for Social Security remain at the same level they are today, the trust funds won't run out of money until the year 2034. (See https://www.nasi.org/learn/socialsecurity/future-finances)

So there's a gap between what they're collecting and what they're paying out, but "will be a problem 20 years from now" is quite a bit different from "living paycheck to paycheck." And since the Social Security Administration doesn't have control over either the amount of revenue they get or the amount of benefits they pay out -- those decisions are all made by Congress, not SSA -- it's difficult to argue that any of this is their fault.
No mention of Albert Hoffmann taking LSD on his deathbead?

https://thedreamatists.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/aldous-huxle...

No mention of anxiety relief during end of life with psychedelics?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/how-psychedelic-d...

Maybe that's under "..many of the other drugs used to soothe patients.. "

Maybe it's just my own wheelhouse and hobby horse.
Because the company is the one who "bribed". I honestly do not understand this thought that a company should be able to do whatever they want, with no consequences, because they're trying to profit.
I understand that, but it still doesn't make the trend any less "real" than trends seen from other drivers of price movement.

To explain a bit more: If a merchant receives fraudulent credit card transactions, he/she could reasonably refer to those as "not real" because once the banks discover the fraud, they have the power to move money and effectively nullify those transactions in many cases.

In contrast, on the blockchain (and off the blockchain for most bitcoin exchanges), that kind of thing doesn't normally happen. Even in Mt Gox's case where they directly manipulated the price from the inside, the people who bought and sold on the exchange still experienced "real" price movement, and as long as they got their money/BTC out before Gox imploded (which is another matter), those transactions and price movements were every bit as real as any other. From the perspective of other exchanges at the time it didn't matter at all whether the driving force for the trend was fraud or completely legitimate behavior.

Finally, if MMM's "net effect is zero" as you say, then we wouldn't be seeing the price movement that we're seeing (and a price "boosted only by the float" is no different from a price boosted by anything else), or perhaps MMM just isn't the primary driving force in the current trend.
The suggestion that it is market manipulation by the Winklevosses related to Gemini doesn't mean that its a result of action on Gemini; an effort to use existing exchanges that can support the volume to drive Bitcoin in a way that would increase public perception of the attractiveness of Bitcoin to position the sales pitch for Gemini as a "grown up" exchange isn't entirely unthinkable.

Not that I think its likely, mind you, just that "the action isn't on Gemini" isn't sufficient to rebut that the movement is related to Gemini. I think, though, that MMM still seems likely to explain more of it, and other China-specific conditions may explain more of the China-focused movement. Manipulation around Gemini, while not inconceivable, seems to be a bit more of a leap from the evidence available.
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> I might consider it a basic human right to use curse words, get angry, and come off as abrasive, and in fact I truly do.

This is a common error, but you're mixing up the idea that the government shouldn't be allowed to penalize you for your free speech and the idea that no one at all should be able to react to you for using curse words, getting angry, or coming off as abrasive.

If I think you're an asshole, I'm perfectly within my rights to not hire you, not befriend you, make fun of you to other people, not invite you out on camping trips, "accidentally" give you smaller slices of birthday cake at company parties, write internet comments calling you a doofus, etc.
there is very little programming involved and a lot of social hacking skills.
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The crackpots that go into plumbing exist... it's just that they're not crackpots about plumbing. They still email the other guy about discovering zero point energy and space aliens and whatnot.

The crackpots about plumbing, call the plumber crackpots to fix their plumbing obviously.

I've been trying to find a good barber for years now, last one I went to was a borderline schizophrenic. Off his meds, not on them, don't know. Didn't stop him from cutting hair. Being a crackpot doesn't stop someone from being able to snake a drain or fix pipes.

> What is it about physics where it's apparently failing to provide most of the people in the field with adequate training?

The same thing that's wrong with all fields... the people who go into that field do so because of enthusiasm for it. Not because they're competent at it.

Enthusiasm for physics probably starts when some kid grows up watching Star Trek and whatnot.
Wouldn't work for me, as the {Get,Add}-Azure* scripts are windows/powershell-only. But then again, existence of CLI tools means there's an API. So, with a bit of luck, we might one day see a portable CLI tool (maybe boto3 [1] ported to azure API... one can dream! :-)

Thanks for pointing those out!

[1] https://github.com/boto/boto3
I see your point, but I think the counterpoint is that there is a huge difference between

1. getting a warrant and running down to the book shop to ask them about what a single suspect bought, and

2. Having enormous amounts of data collected about hundreds of millions of people, processed and interpreted, essentially sitting in one place. Whether Google voluntarily gives it up or not is almost irrelevant (as we saw, the NSA is happy to tap Google's private fiber without their knowledge even when Google is cooperating on other fronts).

Of course the government will find ways to be evil if it wants (and I think that we're generally lucky because it doesn't seem to want to with any particular intensity). But that's not really the point here.

It's the difference between having many small, complicated little targets that each yield very little information, versus one conveniently enormous target that yields information on everyone.
Fair enough. I see what you're getting at, and it's indeed the basic way we communicate - by influencing each other.

I thought long about it and I'm still confused at some points, but I ended up viewing the issue through a lens of intent. Am I exploiting people by building a pretty website? Maybe, in a way that my actions cause them to spend more time on it. But if I do it with intention of helping them accomplish whatever they're looking to accomplish, that will be beneficial to them, then it's ok. If I'm doing it to trick them into wasting more time on my site full of half-assed linkbait content so that I earn money through them viewing ads, then I am a fucking jerk.

So no, not everyone is a jerk. Only those who seek to act to purposefully harm others (usually to gain something at their expense). Which sort of fits the very definition of the world "jerk".
> So the majority of people in the UK don't agree with them.

It's also "worth pointing out" that a majority government is exceedingly rarely formed from >50% raw votes.

You also cannot infer that the majority of people disagree with them. By making the subject "the majority of people" you could imply that the British public agrees with no one party. Which would be correct.

But the Conservative Party forms HM Government at present because more "agree with them" than with any other party.

It sounds like you're proposing a system where we're perpetually under a coalition government to ensure that enough MPs to represent 50% raw votes are involved. No thanks.
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With cryptographic protocols that rely on the difficulty of factoring large semiprimes, aren't you supposed to use primes that no one else has used before? If you use the same primes to make your key, then you would have the same key as someone else.
Giving false proofs that GI is in P or a related time class is, I think, a common occupation (see, for example, https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/on-mathematical-di... ); so, if all you know is that this guy thinks he has a solution to the problem, and if the guy is not a mathematician and doesn't have a proof, then the balance of probabilities is that he's probably mistaken (but there's no harm in making the work publicly available, just in case).
There isn't a Noether conservation law corresponding to reflective symmetry, is there? The situation where Noether's theorem applies is where you have a smooth family of symmetries, with one of them being the identity (i.e., the trivial symmetry where you don't change anything at all), but reflections don't fit that pattern.

On the other hand, if the laws of physics are invariant under reflections then they are also invariant under rotations because you can make rotations out of reflections. So you could say that conservation of angular momentum is the corresponding conservation law. But (so far as anyone knows, I think) the laws of physics really are rotation-invariant and conservation of angular momentum really does hold.
https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch09_Three_State_Solution....
Like any topic/skill, it can be learnt, but only if you spend significant time and effort by doing projects, exercises, asking questions (stackexchange, etc.). It's very important to pay attention to fundamentals and thinking from scratch rather than mastering a laundry list of tips/tricks, because fundamental ideas can be composed in different ways and adapted to a new situation. The fundamentals here would be probability, statistics, linear algebra, optimisation.
StumpWM sort of gets you a dynamic interface. Use the Scheme(ish) shell (http://scsh.net/) and you can get ...kind of dynamic.

Then there's the obligatory mention of this guy who took it to the next level http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager....

Plan9 + ACME had an interesting 'editor/OS' integration, especially for the time, where you could highlight text, invoke a mouse click action, which would send it to a shell, and return the result on a new-line within your editor. Having everything exist as a file with an addressable file descriptor really made the platform powerful (too bad the licensing was horrible until recently). It's not homoiconic as a proper LISP-1 would be but still an interesting approach.
The interreGNUm is over! Hail the new maintainer!

As part of his first edict, a Code of Conduct may happen:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg00...

He also hangs out in #emacs in Freenode (username: johnw), which makes him seem very approachable in my eyes.
No problem, I'm sure I've responded after similar misreadings many times.
You can avoid the TV License Fee if you only watch BBC iPlayer, or stick to things like Netflix.

It basically applies to any TV being watched as it is being broadcast at the time so you are liable to pay anything if you only watch shows after they have been aired.

Myself I tend to watch Netflix, some iPlayer and 4OD stuff and I do not have to pay anything.

That doesn't stop them sending letters once in a while to check though.
I would agree with all your sentiments expect Drugs Inc and Underworld Inc. I don't think its designed to scare old people and the people on the show are not made up. Its a documentary. You take from it what you will. In fact I find the show to be sympathetic to both sides of drug and crime problems we have.
Are there any quality ML courses (of norvig or ng quality) that uses python or java.

I would love to learn ML concepts, but I really don't have the cognitive bandwidth to learn a new language, which I most likely will never use in my day job (Python, ruby,java).

When I last looked, most of the top quality courses use some variant of proprietary tools or MATLAB, but production code is in python or java (with R sometimes).
Common Lisp allows for stack allocation and offers many more data structures besides Lists.

What I am missing here in regards to the likes of Allegro Common Lisp, for example?

Never used them, hence the question.
yeah, reminds me of sama post about this being debt not VC
> Why blame the company, instead of the individuals that voted for these representatives that are essentially getting "bribed".

Out of the three actors (well, one is a heterogenous set of actors, but still) involved (company, reps, and voters), only one is not engaged (at least, as far as this transaction goes) in a corrupt act.

So, while certainly they would be well-advised to impose some accountability at the ballot box for the corruption, they are the least to blame for the actual corrupt act (unless, of course, evidence is presented, that has not as yet been, that they should have expected that the particular representatives were more likely to engage in this kind of corrupt behavior than the alternatives they actually had when they elected them, and they elected them anyway without legitimately supervening reasons.)
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Yes - you can see thier archives. Here is an example :
https://signalvnoise.com/archives/001050.php
TV licenses are an excise tax on TVs. If you own a TV capable of receiving broadcasts, you have to pay.
I'm the author. You posted this comment 3 hours ago, before I deleted any comments.

I've since deleted 3 or 4 of the worst ones, but left up ones that disagree without being overtly abusive.
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Sounds like the plot of silicon valley.
The idea is not that expansion per se is bad. Taking VC money to expand is. If you can expand fast without using other people's money then great.
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What is wrong with Breitbart?
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Diacetylmorphine is probably the best opiate analgesic modern medicine has. British ambulances still carry it as a first-line drug for acute myocardial infarctions. It's an anxiolytic, a wonderful painkiller, and dilates corony arteries. It's not as widely used as it probably should be because of the feat of addiction. Recreational heroin drug use is dangerous because of the illegality - you don't know what you're getting. The varying levels of purity have twofold danger - increasing the risk of overdose due to getting a more pure drug and using the larger dosage you became accustomed to from the less pure stuff, as well as the risk of the substance used to cut the heroin being harmful in itself.

Historically, heroin was used by people that WERE holding down jobs[0].

>According to Dr James Mills, a historian who has traced drug use through the 20th century, they tended to be doctors or middle-class patients who could afford to sustain a habit.

Additionally, if we were to legalize heroin's use, we could sell naloxone packaged alongside the heroin. Naloxone, if you're not familiar, is an opiate antidote that is extremely effective. This would greatly reduce the chance of an overdose having fatal effect.

As I've noted with meth elsewhere in this thread, I'm not suggesting anyone go and pick up a drug habit, but the vast majority of the dangers related to heroin (and most drugs - though obviously stuff like jimson weed is just plain bad for you...) are related to the illegal nature of it, and even those inherent to the drug itself can be mitigated much more easily in a legal setting

[0]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4647018.stm
It does. I remember Google being the victim, not a perpetrator.
> In the UK even if you do not watch TV at all (live or recorded) you have to pay the BBC Tax / TV license fee under certain circumstances.

This isn't true.

You can quite happily watch iPlayer or 4OD or Netflix and not be liable to pay the license fee as long as what you're watching isn't live or being broadcast at that very moment.
I think many founders echo his motivations. The one that he implicitly suggests is misaligned is:

I wanted the best odds I could possible get at attaining the tipping point of financial stability.

And that this is due to the corruption of investors. So I guess the takeaway is that if you raise money, choose your investors wisely.
There are solutions to this problem (e. g. ZeroInstall [1]), but the distributions don't support them, since they want to keep you vendor locked-in. Guess why Ubuntu is developing Snappy and not using xdg-app [2]? Also purely functional package managers exist [3], distributions just ignore them. It's hard to use something not based on deb or rpm these days.

[1] http://0install.net
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps
[3] https://nixos.org/nix/
The little pile of bitcoins I had laying around from a couple weeks ago has doubled in price. Should I spend them now in anticipation of a bubble bursting or wait for the price to possibly go up?
IANAL but I've been chewing my way through the ~300 pages of the published draft bill. What catches my attention is that the bill appears does not appear to sufficiently constrain the Secretary of State's powers to oblige a "telecommunications provider" to render technical capabilities deemed necessary to "assist in the in the implementation of warranted activity".

Here, the definition of "telecommunications provider" seems (to my understanding) so broad as to cover any provider of an online service, paraphrasing section 193:

"Communication" is "anything comprising speech, music, sounds, visual images or data of any description" and "signals serving either for the impartation of anything between persons, between a person and a thing or between things or for the actuation or control of any apparatus."

And a "telecommunication service" includes "any case where a service consists in or includes facilitating the creation, management or storage of communications transmitted".

Section 189 titled Maintenance of technical capability allows the Secretary of State to make obligations on telecommunication services including (paraphrasing again):

* relating to apparatus
* relating to the removal of electronic protection applied by a
relevant operator to any communications or data
* relating to the handling or disclosure of any material or
data

in addition to requiring them to "provide facilities or services of a specified description"; the specification apparently being deferred until notice is served on the service provider.

Conversely, the Secretary of State is required to consult before serving a "technical capability notice" and section 190 lays out a number of considerations for the Secretary of State including "technical feasibility", "likely cost", "likely benefit" etc.

But other than these apparently very weak constraints, it appears to provide carte blanche for the Secretary of State to demand new technical capabilities of any service provider for the warranted access and interception of any user data they store or transmit.
That's to prevent fraud against Ebay sellers. In the scheme described in this article, the Ebay seller is the one committing the fraud - the seller they're defrauding is some other online store, and they're paying via credit card.
John Wiegley is the author of (completely awesome in my opinion) use-package for emacs https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
Of course it makes difference! Have you really thought this through? If there isn't anyone in the truck hijacking will skyrocket.
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My physics education topped out at special relativity and statistical mechanics so I'll take your word for it.
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He doesn't understand Chinese. When you said "ugly number" this is very important to the Chinse. They will push the price based on what number they are attached to.

If the price is 314.44 they will push it to 316.88 because that is the number they like, and if they dictate that price it is like they have created their own luck. At least this is my philosophy dealing with Chinese and watching their buy patterns.
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Hi and thanks for developing this library! Could please document a bit better the options that reproduction and mutation take?
Cheers!
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