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"Lead paint, tobacco, bloodletting [..] we ought to remember that the same sentence has been said, earnestly and confidently, about things that absolutely were hazardous."

I've heard this argument before but it sounds really wrong to me. Did anyone ever really say lead paint is absolutely safe? For all of these things I feel people just didn't think about it. They never thought 'hmm maybe if we put poisonous metal in paint (we knew lead was poisonous) it could go into the air and affect the brain development of our children' they just went to a hardware store and bought the paint that was good and cheap, assuming that since everyone else bought it, it would be good. Same for tobacco.
What will happen then? Your post is useless without arguments.
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I think the more important counter-argument is "that ten lines of assembly just barely did one thing; the ten lines of Haskell was most of the program: clearly it will be easier for you to understand a single wire or switch than to understand an entire computer, but that isn't a valuable insight".
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It was already known that lead was poisonous when leaded gas was invented, but there was a huge amount of lobbying saying it was safe by the car industry.
> let two wolves and one sheep elect what the dinner will be

First of all, one important rule of democracy is that you cannot vote about stripping someone's right in democracy (or alternatively, the democratic decisions have to be reversible), otherwise you will get Russell-style paradoxes. The existence (or not) of democracy itself cannot be decided democratically; this is often neglected but nevertheless important rule.

Second, your example is unrealistic. There are far less wolves then sheep in the real world (literally!). In the real world, this is not really a big concern, because you wouldn't want to live in society where are more wolves than sheep anyway.. Almost every social technology (including evolved human cooperation) is predicated on this being false.

Of course, there are other things that are important for society and orthogonal to democracy - as you mention, for example, rule of law. But I disagree with rule of law you're safe from government actions - the state is typically the actor who enforces the law. So I very much disagree with the sentence "Rule of Law gives you a safe life (at least from governmental actions)." I would like to see an example of society where this is true due to it not being democratic; since democracy effectively gives you control over government actions.
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This whole discussion reminds me of seat belt law debate:

Pro-seat belt: "It will save hundreds of lives and reduce injuries"

Anti-seat belt: "What if an accident pushes my car into the water and the seatbelt jams and my child drowns."

Make it the law and put parents in jail. Better yet, since the first confrontation over vaccinations will be when the children are young, put them up for adoption. Lots of vetted, rational people looking to adopt young children.

You don't own "your" children, they are people and they have the right to proper medical care. Proper medical care isn't decided by irrational phobias and fears.
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It means you're against vaccination. If you think vaccination is good (or even just "meh") then I don't think the term can rightly be applied to you, regardless of how you feel about it being compulsory.
Bit rot is the degradation of the performance of a ML model over time. When a model is trained it is learning a set of assumptions about the "universe" and over time the universe changes which can invalidate some of those assumptions which degrades the models performance.

For example you create a model to classify tweets by sentiment and then people start referring to your company as sick and phat which your model doesn't understand.

The bigger challenge is that most models attempt to predict human behavior but humans have the ability to learn and so simply deploying the model changes the universe.

For example your FICO score is an attempt to predict your credit default risk but over time people learn how to trivially manipulate their scores which degrades the ability to use FICO scores to predict default risk.
Is there any research anyone is aware of about a possible connection between movements like these and how Facebook promotes and displays certain types of articles to certain people?

Scaring people is a fantastic way to create and emotional connection and increase engagement do to the fear of missing out on new information. The type of thing that will get you to check your phone every couple minutes all day.

In the back of my head I've always felt(without any information to back it up) that the anti vaccination movement was one of the first real big public health impacts to come out of Facebook and other social applications that serve content designed to cause emotional reactions to increase engagement.

I should add that I do not believe any of this is intentional as opposed to simply optimizing for engagement over time.
Uhh, no. That's because they're homogenous. Homogenous cultures have higher social mobility. Cities like San Francisco and New York for example have lower social mobility than places like Utah or Nebraska.

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/cassidy_...
Science isn't the problem. It's lay people ingesting their information from dumbed down articles written by professional journalists looking to sell more newspapers or get more clicks. Even if these studies were free and not stuck behind a paywall, your average person will not bother to read the details. Maybe it's human nature to want to be told what to believe. No one has time to do the independent research on every little thing they hear or read.
Could be either. The archetypal paper "Go To Considered Harmful" wasn't satirical, but it was satirizable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
I've never had cause to use one, but isn't this what a Kalman filter is for? Does is not solve this problem without other measurement sources?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
Why these are these not just some mini-states? And how you ensure that some community is not ostracized by some other community of bullies?
Heh, well, it is on GitHub, and there is a history of merged PRs: https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%...
> He recruited about 60 high school football players, gave half of them collars, and measured changes in their brains over the course of a season.

Incidentally, that will likely be evidence of child abuse.
I haven't actually read the The Precautionary Principle, but I'm guessing NNT is in that category.
In a fundamentally emotional argument, you 'win' with empathy

Except you don't actually win. In conceding to their fears with an empathetic approach, you are enabling their delusions. That's the problem with placating unreasonable people - doing so inevitably emboldens them.
just like buying a gun since more people die from guns in the US than the diseases we vaccinate against. The troll is on the other foot now...
Most people get 'rich' slow and steady rather than overnight ...and by 'rich' those that are financially the best off typically don't look like it. They drive a modest car, live in a modest home, have nice but not flashy things.

3 main rules to live by:

1. The easiest way to increase your ability to save (other than a windfall inheritance) is to earn more money. Live a balanced life, but make sure that focus includes a strong career track with 1, 5 and 10 year goals. As has been discussed elsewhere at length, popular culture likes to play up the person that worked at a startup and sold their options for millions. This is very rare (most options are worthless or end up being worth less than the cash one gave up in the form of a lower salary to get them). Most 'rich' people are those that work hard and earn above average salaries over long periods of time.

2. As soon as practical, at every stage of your life live below your means. This isn't practical early on when some people are just scraping by, but once you start earning some real $$ learn from times when you had less $$ and live happily well under your means. If you earn $150k, live like you earn $100k. As one earns more it's fine to spend a bit (maybe you have a somewhat expensive hobby). Saving every penny eating beans and rice your whole life is no way to live. However, so long as you live well under your means you'll do very well. One of the biggest mistakes I see high earners make over and over is that they increase their spending as fast or faster than they increase their earnings. I can't tell you the number of "millionaires" I know that have trouble paying the electric bill some months. Don't fall into this trap.

3. Invest, but do so in a diversified and conservative fashion. Slow and steady is the key. Trying to "get rich quick" is also an easy way to "get poor quick." Build a reasonable pool of assets and invest when the market is up or down, just keep investing throughout your life. The math shows time and time again that people are horrible at timing the market. When everyone was in a full blown panic in 2008-09 the smart person just kept investing. Every $ the they invested is now worth 2-3x. Those that panicked and pulled out or stopped investing missed out big time.
There are laws that you aren't allowed to wear your seatbelts in certain situations; e.g. on some ice roads in some countries (Estonia). Not that this is very relevant to anti vax.
The HANS device is to prevent head/neck damage by restricting movement (e.g. anti whiplash, which ironically can increase the chance of concussive type issues). This device, in contrast, is to artificially retain extra blood in the brain area, ostensibly to provide more of a blood cushion in the event of a high G event.

So I'd say the ideas are extremely different. They both have almost at odds goals.

A big part of the problem of football is probably the safety equipment itself -- the heavy helmets and paddings are exactly why players are smashing into each other at absurd speeds. If the players wore leather helmets it would probably yield a much safer game, however counter-intuitive that might be.

Similarly, the extreme footwear on the field now is a big reason ACL/MCL injuries are on the rise -- they plant with such frictive force that normal athletic movements can endanger these weak links of human anatomy.
> There are plenty of people who won't fly because they're afraid it will crash, despite that being tremendously unlikely.

I know people like this. They don't think their view is rational and they do things like buy plane tickets for their kids.
> Add Snow to Your Website

Sadly, I immediately translate this to "add trackers to your website", whether it is true or not.
I still think that by preferring composition over inheritance things are just simpler and you don't have to trouble yourself with super or with before/after calls.

Maybe I just haven't been bitten by the dependencies labyrinth yet.
> She had a very unfortunate run-in with a complacent MD in her late teens

I can relate with this.
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Really intresting clojure and clojurescript seems to be wonderfully designed and with the advancements that's going to take place in jvm I hope it can be as good at performance as java or Go.
You're thinking too logically. It is a human connection you're building with empathy, not a strategy. Play the long game.
Related discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9249913.
As the article points out, weird looking comparisons like `x+1>x` tend to pop up when macros get expanded or functions get inlined.
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> Which is fatally wrong!

I don't buy the idea that there are no free resources in the world. It seems very obviously false, it seems isomorphic to labor theory of value, and leads to logical contradictions (such that value is not monotonic in effort). At minimum, there are other actors in the world that produce value; take for instance a hen producing an egg. The egg is valuable and is produced by the effort of the hen (scavenging for food). Yet we cannot assign this value to any person, it just comes for free from nature.
You want to make it a felony not to give your child a gun by the age of six? :)
It still continues. Almost all web banking sites are out of service
He didn't work to change his opinions at all, if you read the article. He simply came up with a strategy to try to change others opinions in a different way.

This ain't no artist.
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The 0.x videos are a walkthrough of getting the Quake source to compile and run. He goes on to mention that afterwards there'll be a couple of videos on C programming and then the main series will begin after that.
I hoped to make clear this wasn't the sole income for decades. It's meant as a starting point to dedicate myself full-time on my own projects and hopefully make extra money from this work. Since I'm a developer with focus on mobile, I'd try to make several apps a year in this way which would hopefully generate substantial extra income over time.
They're not really "states," but autonomous voluntary regions. After all, if everyone can opt out of the terms of a central monopolistic state, then they cease to be states in the normal sense of the term, since no monopoly on legitimate initiation of force is held and free travel between "borders" is permitted.

This is the so-called "panarchy" arrangement and emerges organically from most forms of anarchism.

Every community is responsible for its own defense, which it can hire out or assemble itself.
It took me a while, but I solved it without any guessing+backtracking.
Excellent points well made :) I think I may well change the description then as you suggest, and once I have clients that support the same API model as things like ZODB then I'd describe it as something like "document store that can also be accessed like an object store" (well, hopefully not that long winded...).
> ended up learning which days were sunny and which were overcast.

The earliest source I can find for this is https://neil.fraser.name/writing/tank/ but it says it "might be apocryphal".
> I like analytics if the price is less than 50ms per request. We use GA and statcounter for analytics anyways.

GA would cost you more than 50ms too. More so than a CDN controlled analytics. But obviously that cost with CDN is an upfront latency rather than the more hidden cost with background loading of GA. So arguably GA's cost is less "bad" than the CDN's cost.

Personally speaking, I prefer the CDN approach as it produces web pages with a lower browser footprint which I think does improve the user experience (though I'm not implying that GA give a bad user experience!).

GA does give a greater breadth of information than CDN analytics though. Often that's the real deal breaker since analytics is usually driven by project managers / clients rather than by the developers.

> Charts that show how much static traffic you saved are nice, but with bandwidth close to free, it's not a big deal.

Oh it's definitely a big deal if you serve high traffic websites ;) I've spent hours working against those kind of reports on projects that were seeing 100k concurrent users. I will say that these graphs aren't so much about judging what bandwidth can be saved but more about judging what requests can be offloaded. The idea being the fewer calls to your origin servers you need to make, the more resources you have available in your farm for generating the dynamic content (dynamic content you cannot cache!). This also has the potential to save you money in server costs (depending on how they're licenced) as well as improving site performance at peak times.

> CDN analytics need to be better than GA at which point I will not only trade off latency but convert to premium all the way.

Indeed. GA will likely always be better from an account management perspective. But as a devops engineer, CDN analytics fulfils my needs. The great thing is that we have a multitude of options we have available :)
Whaleware was created to address some of these issues with Docker.
Default configuration, a definite application init phase, plus internal monitoring and lifecycle reporting.
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Asprin is derived from the bark of the willow tree.

From Wikipedia: "The therapeutic properties of willow tree bark have been known for at least 2,400 years, with Hippocrates prescribing it for headaches"

"By definition, alternative medicine has either not been proved to work, or been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine;" (From Tim Michin's poem "Storm")
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"The analysis of the respective ages at adoption of a vegetarian diet and onset of a mental disorder showed that the adoption of the vegetarian diet tends to follow the onset of mental disorders."
If you want to make this a standard I recommend making a RFC for JAMP. (Then again they have docs, this would just make it seem more official.)
What the ever loving fuck are you talking about? The Chinese are corrupt as fuck -- especially with regard to their work in China. The Chinese money flowing into Africa is no more or less 'corrupt' than the Western money. The real difference is that the Chinese are expecting a much bigger return on investment than the World Bank et al; thrice in terms of money, resources, and political influence.
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I'm pointing out the fact that this person is playing mental mind games to justify the SO's point because he is head over heals so to speak.

I read the full article, and your comment furthers my point. The author is playing on both sides of the fence. It's like my SO for example, I hate when people chew with their mouth open I find it a little disrespectful and yet she does it and I don't find it disturbing. My preferences and beliefs are strayed because of my love for her.

This is basically a blog post explaining how someone can have an affect on even the strongest of beliefs solely because of emotions....no matter how ridiculous. Powerful stuff.
Got it, ok. Thanks.
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For more (and better) counter arguments, start with this thread (which was about one particular comparison with Facebook Connect: possibly click to see the parent for context) and then follow my chain of earlier comments I link at the bottom of that one (which were more general, going into the flawed assumptions in Persona about email).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243172

(By the way, I am going to try to avoid wasting even more of my life arguing on Hacker News about the benefits or lack thereof of Persona, so I am dropping these links here to maybe seed discussion among others, but I am going to attempt to avoid ruining my Christmas Eve by forcing myself to never look back at this particular thread again ;P.)

Also, for anyone wondering if I have anything credible to say on this subject before bothering to read any of this--and maybe to the one person who downvoted me from 3 points to 2 points, which I noticed as I fleshed out the "I will hopefully leave" message ;P--I have run a service with tens of millions of users that only uses federated login (though accounts are optional, so I "only" have just over ten million accounts on file), and have been staring at this space since 2001, when Microsoft announced Passport (at the time, I even was thinking of starting my own single-sign-on service, but was a naive college student ;P).

(later edit: I found another old thread on this subject that I am going to add here as an edit, mostly because any other way of adding it might cause me
to see if there are any responses to this comment ;P. At the time, to this new link, there were two responses I hadn't bothered seeing and responding to: one from someone who insisted upon comparing the fundamental bug in Persona with an existing "worst practice" (as opposed to any of the better alternative options), and one who seems to be in left field assuming the value of a Facebook account is based on whether the user updated their email address: the point I was making is that Facebook isn't actually tied to email addresses, as they "understand" the problem inherent in relying on them for anything, and so users do not run into any of the issues that Persona not only doesn't solve but actually makes worse. Regardless, yeah: even without reading any comments from today I am already spending way too much time at this ;P.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250301
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There are over 300 independently available email spam blacklists. The people who run these blacklists hate email abuse. How much do you, the entrepreneur community, hate abuse by investors?

Hard working founder finds investors who pretend to ‘give him a chance’ while taking control of the company behind the scenes... Have you heard this story? Investors have the right to get a return and know what is going on in a company; they cross the line when they force their agenda, treating entrepreneurs like employees.

Entrepreneurship is not just another job. For starters, it is less financially rewarding except for a few unicorns. Entrepreneurs blaze their own trails because they are on a journey of self-discovery. When investors meddle and take control, they are restricting the freedom that entrepreneurs work so hard to create. Investors have an advantage in lawyers, money and time. Entrepreneurs have few tools to fight back. What if there was an early warning system for entrepreneurs to check before accepting investment?

This early warning system would look a lot like an email blacklist. Instead of a server’s IP or domain being the primary key, the blacklist would key off the URL of an Angel List profile––or better yet a LinkedIn profile. It would cost $35 for an entrepreneur to submit an incident report. Multiple incident reports can be filed by an entrepreneur against the same investor for multiple bad deeds.

Even better if this was on the dark web so that investors couldn’t use abuse the legal system to make entrepreneurs stop sharing the truth. I could just see investors (who are the ones with the money) trying to bury this system in legal motions knowing that the entrepreneurs can’t afford to respond.

If anyone has the technical chops and desire to build this, I say go for it. Let me know when your first version is ready, so I can file my incident reports.