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Who cares about moral ground? I want as few countries to have nuclear weapons as possible, especially completely insane ones like North Korea. If it's immoral to deny their "sovereign right" then hell yes, let's be immoral.
No media attention yet, but Zillow will soon open an office in Vancouver, BC
I have always suspected that the Flat Earth society was a
put-on - a joke. There is a certain very British kind of humor where you assume some absurd position and stick to it with a straight face no matter what - you never crack a smile or break character. The pet store owner in the Monty Python parrot routine is a good example.

I recall when I was a kid, a Flat Earth guy was interviewed on TV after John Glenn's orbital flight. The interviewer pointed out that Glenn could see the round earth out his window and he could see he was passing over the entire circumference of the Earth every ninety minutes and ground stations around the world could track him coming over the horizon and passing overhead and ... etc. etc. The flat earth guy
earnestly explained that Glenn was just circling around the edge - the perimeter - of the flat Earth, don't you see? - all the while making circular hand motions around the edge of the the flat table top where he was seated. I figured even then that the flat earth guy was just putting on the interviewer, daring him to say what he was no doubt thinking: "Oh for pity's sake, come off it". But both of them played along, neither of them let on that he thought the whole interview was just a joke.
It also launched in 130 countries like Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Indonesia. China is held back for now but the keynote said they plan to launch there soon. The prices are pretty much the same in the US - Basic 500/- INR (no HD, 1 screen), Standard 650/- INR (HD, 2 screens) and Premium 800/- INR (UltraHD, 4 screens).

In terms of the Indian market, the price points might be a bit higher but it mostly targets the segment of the Indian population that buys Netflix subscriptions and use VPN to watch the uncensored shows (TV is heavily censored in India). VPN sales are going to take a hit in the India too after this news.
Is this not easy to prove its false? Just take a flight from the southern tip of Chile to South Australia. If the earth is indeed flat, the flight would take 24+ hours. But since they would fly over Antarctica, it only takes ~10.

I suppose one explanation could be that the 747 flight they are in somehow gained the ability to go faster than a F16 at maximum thrust.
didn't realize that, thanks!
Apple has made special efforts to distance itself from PC gaming, doesn't court publishers/devs, and is otherwise a troublesome platform for gaming entirely. Why would they get into gaming peripherals? What version of OpenGL does OSX ship with now anyway? What milquetoast videocard is shipping with the current gen of devices? Things like the Rift require something on the level, on a MINIMUM of the Nvidia 370, which is a near $400 card that eats up watts like no one's business.

The few OSX gamers I know just gave up and run parallels or bootcamp.
It's only inefficient because NAT ruined the ability to publish.
Amen to fountain pens (fine point Lamy 2000 here) and notebooks with really really good paper (not Moleskines!).
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You are STILL confusing the spectator (the convention going crowd) for the spectacle (the otherwise normal human behavior that conventions tend to focus on and amplify) ... What I was saying, not by way of direct analogy, is that the convention itself, the phenomenon, has its own behavioral biases, and so its' the wrong model to start with.
That's very likely. Valve is almost certainly going to release a game that takes advantage of the "roomscale" capabilities they helped develop for the Vive. If they make full use of it, the game may be impossible to port to a headset that doesn't allow you to walk around.

It's not really that different from multiple consoles, what did an Xbox360 and a PS3 cost in today's dollars?
> May be the link to this page needs to change...

Not really, the link points to netflix/in but since you might be out of India it changes to your country.
Netflix and chilli? Terrible, sorry.
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What is the decision? The car will follow exactly the rules of the road. If the car behind it continues to barrel forward, that driver did not allow for adequate stopping distance. In this scenario, that driver is at fault.

Of course that doesn't say anything for the safety of the child, but just as we don't expect humans to be able to account for every single scenario, neither can we require a computer to do so.

For every one of these supposed ethical dilemmas, replace the computer with the most pedantic driver imaginable: this person has literally memorized the driver's manual. Ask that person how they would respond in that situation. That is how the computer would respond. There are no choices to be made: the choices have already been made by the legislators who enacted the driving laws.

I imagine the first set of self-driving cars will require a huge bumper sticker (like the ones they put on learner cars: "STUDENT DRIVER") that indicates this car will not exceed the speed limit and will not deviate from the rules. Everyone else can adapt accordingly.
Nausea, headaches, (and a bad experience) can be caused by things like low resolution and low (max) framerates, for example. Software cannot do anything about those issues.
If you want to create a market for housing refugees, give the refugees themselves housing credits and let companies compete to provide the services. Supply-side-only solutions rarely work.
It would be reasonable to consider that there are many use cases where this is truly a useful product.

I participate in competitive events (video games and card games) where I generally only have 10-15 minute gaps to leave throughout a 15 hour day in a foreign city. I would happily spend $20 to have somebody find the best available food which can be delivered to me and order that food. I wouldn't ever want to pay for an assistant, since I only would need this service 2-3 times per month.

And that is the exact market for Magic+ - people who would happily pay for a personal assistant at that rate, but don't have enough work to benefit from hiring a real assistant. I've spoken to friends seriously about hiring an assistant which would split their time to help 8-10 of us, with us equally splitting their salary. This is a more elegant solution to that.
It's not clear if the JRE6 and the JRE7 are impacted (does the JSSE shipped with them support TLS1.2)? If so, pretty worrying as not supported anymore yet widely deployed.
This is cool. Is the candle-flicker gif based on the algorithm, or the actual output from the LED? Because I assume the LED will smooth out some features. Vice versa, the LED probably needs to be driven with different data to produce the equivalent brightness variation.
People don't realize that the U.S. has the most efficient tax system in the world in terms of what we spend to get a dollar of revenue and that means there is a very low amount of bullshit per mile.

I have gotten just about every kind of income there is at some time in the last 30 years and been self-employed and also made mistakes, or had documents be disappeared by the maid, had customers and publishers make mistakes on 1099s, etc. I'm actually better than average at dealing with paperwork but sometimes when I am stressed I get in a funk where I don't open my mail for a month.

Thus I have gotten real scary letters about how I owe $40,000 (the IRS didn't correctly process the decimal point on a 1099 I got from Wrox press) or I owe $351.82 (just got that one right after Christmas, despite the fact that I paid them $350.82 out of my bank account on Dec 5) I even was late to file my taxes for one year by a year and a half and have sometimes completely screwed up estimated tax payments.

Practically though I have dealt with all these situations and the IRS people have been very nice to deal with on the phone and via mail. Every time I have had much more apprehension of how bad it is going to be it turns out to be no big deal. I have paid fines but these are not at all punitive and if you are in some situation where you really can't pay you can negotiate a payment plan with some write-off of the debt with help from a tax lawyer or enrolled agent.

Back in the 1970s the IRS was awful and there would be horror stories like what happened to R. Crumb, but both Reagan and Clinton introduced major reforms in how the tax system works that greatly improve the "customer experience."

I have seen how they have integrated with the IRS with Obamacare and they have done this in a way that addresses the issue of people having unpredictable income that is actually simple and practical for everyone concerned.

So don't believe the right wing propaganda. The worst administrative problem the IRS has is that they still have a shocking number of people filing fake tax returns, collecting the money, and running. My uncle was working for the IRS and flabbergasted about this in the first few years of e-file and I don't think it has gotten any better.
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Oh, yeah! I just wonder if movie selection is the same, or if in some countries there are more titles. Anyone got information on that?
Pretty good these days. A local ISP - Act Fiber provides 40 mbps for 15$
I think given the Magic business model that they are responsible if the flowers dont show up.

That is the deal right? Pay us and we take care of it.

Not Pay us and make sure it gets done yourself.
That sounds good but I hope the disparity of the effect and punishment is obvious: victims lost their lives because data existed that probably should not have been collected and the people responsible for the leak are alive and will be free in 10-20 years.
Measure your shadow at solar noon, fly south and measure your shadow at solar noon there. (Solar noon may differ from 1200.)

Essentially, just repeat this ancient experiment: http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eratosthenes.html
Ironically, for me, re-reading Neal Stephenson's novels is one of my biggest crack-like time-wasters.
To clarify my point - 4 is when all competitors are pressured into saving on the product itself. It's not just about barriers to entry or stickiness - it can be simply because margins are very low. There will always be someone who will sacrifice yet another value in order to be more profitable, and thus will force his competitors to either give up on that value too, or to get outcompeted.
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More than the bandwidth the Fair Usage Policies (data limits) will be tested. Rumors are that Netflix plans to tie up with ISPs to not count Netflix usage towards their data limits.

It seems another quagmire in the already complicated FreeBasics (Internet.Org)/Zero Rating/Net Neutrality discussions in India.
That's not really a high-end monitor. It's pretty average except for its refresh rate.
The part about the harmonic oscillation frequency in the flame flicker is most interesting:

"The frequency of these oscillations seems to be around 5 Hz, drifting up, and seems to be a fundamental parameter of the flame since it appears to be relatively constant in all observations."

It appears that some (optical) flame detectors work by obtaining the frequency of this flicker: [1]

"This flame scanner also monitors the rate of combustion by analysing the flicker frequency, or the fingerprint, of the flame... Since the flame is always burning back to the fuel source, the flame is always in motion. This motion allows the intensity of the flame to vary across a flame flicker frequency spectrum."

From that link, it appears that the "flicker frequency" would be related to the exact fuel source and possible fuel/air mixture ratio, as the "flame is always burning back to the fuel source".

Some other information about flame frequency-flicker: [2]

"Under normal gravity conditions, the flames have a well defined oscillation frequency which is inversely proportional to the square root of the burner diameter, D, and to a good approximation can be written as f » 1.5/D½, with D given in meters."

So, it would indeed seem that the flicker frequency is related to the particulars of the candle, its wick, etc.

Very interesting article!

1. http://www.coen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HydrocarbonWo...

2. http://www.dantecdynamics.com/flow-characterization-of-flick...
This is awesome news.

Now if only BBC's iPlayer would become global and allow us non-brits to pay for it (effectively subsidizing the TV license maybe?), that would be heaven.
I've taken to logging out of facebook on all of my devices. When I really want to check something then I log in, check the thing, and then log out immediately. Oh and I don't know what my password is, it's saved in my password manager so that adds an extra step.

I've also set up facebook notifications to send me emails for calendar invites and private messages because I'd feel like a jerk for missing things that are actually important.

All of this has worked incredibly well. I definitely spend less than 20 minutes on facebook per week.
Basically, he's just coming out and saying that he's doing what almost every other highly visible, busy person is doing.
I think your premises are mistaken on several fronts, I'm annoyed by your (mis)characterizations of LW and Eliezer, and I disagree strongly with your conclusion...

but your comment helped me actually understand this position for the first time, so thank you for articulating it.
"For one monthly price, members around the world will be able to enjoy Netflix original series including Marvel’s Daredevil and Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Narcos, Sense8, Grace and Frankie, and Marco Polo, as well as a catalog of licensed TV shows and movies. In 2016, the company plans to release 31 new and returning original series, two dozen original feature films and documentaries, a wide range of stand-up comedy specials and 30 original kids series -- available at the same time to members everywhere."

This implies to me that their original content is globally available, while licensed content will still be regionally restricted (and I don't see a way they could do anything else). Unless I'm missing something in the announcement?
Well, the Russians are a convenient threat, but they are compatible with us (in terms of views), reasonable, and educated people. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey are the real enemies of the Western civilization and I can't believe we allow them to be our allies! I personally don't know much abut North Korea, and although it's definitely a threat, I feel that all this is just a show.
I think we'll get to see just how compelling the Netflix original catalog is when we see global customer numbers.

My understanding is that Netflix doesn't have streaming rights for most of the content that isn't theirs internationally, and that was the biggest barrier before.

My guess is that uptake will be slow, but the great thing is they just keep creating more content, so it'll be more compelling every year.
> The problem here is if developers will be able to make money creating quality experiences for Oculus if the userbase is tiny because no one can afford one. The user market is already being fractured by the different units available - if I develop a game for the HTC Vive (which supports room tracking) is it easy or even possible to port the experience to the Oculus?

The Vive will be as expensive and likely more expensive than the Rift.

> Developing a high quality gaming experience is EXPENSIVE, and AAA regularly do not recoup their costs even when they're being offered to a huge user base

Oculus has already paid for a number of Rift exclusive games. Expect them to keep doing that.
Not having kids is the best lifehack I've ever heard.

What's remarkable to me is how content both those with and those without children seem to be with their respective choices. (I know, a massive generalization, from purely anecdotal evidence.)

Disclaimer: in my 20s, with no kids... yet
On a technical level, sure, this is reasonable.

But when someone goes out to gamble/play DFS, they aren't looking to diversify their bets in order to minimize their chance to lose. The base use case is "Hey, I have a few bucks, I'd like to place a quick bet for kicks, and maybe I have a chance to beat some other like-minded folks". Before DFS, you'd just grab your buddies and make an impromptu bet, and that's that. The implicit expectation is that you're playing with other players like you. And that is precisely what the DFS advertisements promote: you are expanding your pool of for-fun players by orders of magnitude. I'm going to the site, kicking in a $20 every few weeks, for the entertainment and possibility of winning. I'm not going to make 20 $1 bets because that isn't...fun.

The disconnect comes from the fact that DFS pit you directly against top-ranked high-rollers, who are not just schmoes off the street. Sure I don't expect to win. But I also don't _expect_ to be playing top 25 players in the world who are playing with thousands of bets.

That issues is covered in depth by the article, but from the looks of your post, you just seemed to stop reading after the 'gambling addict' bit. The last paragraph covers this:

"At the start of the N.B.A. season, a couple of friends and I started a friendly league on DraftKings. Every night, we draft teams, watch the points accumulate and make fun of one another for our picks. On the first of each month, we pay one another what we owe. One of these friends creates N.B.A. player performance models. They help him escape the cynical demands of his job as a corporate lawyer. To date, I am down $350 to him.

“Yes, yes, yes,” Harber said when I told him about this league. “That’s how it’s supposed to be.” "
3) Press/Media

It's low hanging fruit, the public eats it up. Also people can be very intelligent but not have done the research in the field they are commenting on. Elon Musk and Stephan Hawking aren't AI PhDs.
Very unlikely... I can tell at least there were differences between Canada and USA when I had both.
They said it themselves - "Our algorithm is trained on the pictures of the BLINQ community that is mainly based in Switzerland. In other parts of the world the perception might be very different."
This would be the second big US tech company expanding into Vancouver as of late, that is fast-growing but also its employees well (the other is Tableau Software).

I actually found the job postings on Linkedin originally. The Node.js position was classified "entry-level" on Linkedin but the posting is asking for 5+ years of software experience and 2+ years of Node experience.

By comparison, Amazon only asks for knowledge of compsci fundamentals and the software development lifecycle, and experience in one or more modern programming languages, for their SDE I positions.

I'm also a little disappointed there are no internships, at least for the time being.
The linked full list of countries and territories where Netflix is now available https://help.netflix.com/en/node/14164 does not show all the 130 countries.
Where is Netflix available?
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/14164

(from the article)
This is good news. Netflix is only remotely usable when you can hop between different territories after you've watched the three new titles that get added each couple of months.
I'd guess they would have made a big deal about it if they were able to offer the full selection in every country. The fact that it's not mentioned suggests there are lots of per-country restrictions.
Honest question, what are commercial interruptions like in India? Here in the US it's almost unbearable once you get used to Netflix/SVOD. Streaming has permanently changed what I'm willing to watch and commercials are a killer.
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parenscript is quite low overhead; it's approximately lispyscript with common-lisp macros instead of whatever lispyscript has (it looks like some kind of pattern-matching style; there's only one macro example on the lispyscript documentation and the link to an article about more details is dead). In any event if you know lispyscript you can probably translate my code; it took me only a couple of hours to write the initial react version, and another 45 minutes or so to translate to mithril.
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The sudden spike in babies caused by "...and chilling" is going to put a serious strain on the world's resources. :(
I think it's far more of a threat than any of those things. Nuclear war isn't inevitable, and wouldn't destroy the entire world, just the countries at war. Even a ridiculous world wide nuclear war would leave tons of survivors. Volcanoes and meteorites are so unlikely they aren't even worth mentioning. Superbugs would have to be intentionally engineered by a malicious group with a lot of resources, and so are very unlikely.

AI is inevitable. It's very likely to happen in our lifetime. And it's very likely to kill us all. And explaining every reason why I believe those things could fill an entire book, so I seriously recommend reading Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom.
I don't think that even AAA level models are good enough for VR. They have the "uncanny valley" effect -- they're close enough to looking good that they just creep you out and throw of that "presence" feel you're looking for. I think it's going to be a long time before you see human faces in VR.

So everybody, even the AAA guys, are going to be putting you into environments like cartoons, space and buildings rather than natural environments, and the people you interact with are going to be in vehicles or space suits or avatars or anything to avoid having to model a human face.

So, ironically, AAA budgets probably aren't going to be a hugely limiting factor, at least in the first wave of VR games, in my opinion.
That map hasn't been updated.
Germany has less than the US one for sure. Missing Attack on Titan :)
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Please elaborate on your random example, being "pension funds".

What pension funds are you talking about?

Are you talking about AP7 (Which has two funds, one equity fund and one money market fund)? (Swedish: "Sjunde Allmäna Pensionsfonden" English: "The 7th General Pension Fund").

I would caution you to be less general and provide more specific statements that you back up by facts. Currently it's hard to realize what you're trying to convey and the provided documents aren't solidifying what you're trying to convey either.

Speaking of the provided links, here are some context of the documents:

1) The "konkurrensens_konsekvenser_pod_2.pdf" document is in Swedish and has the title "Konkurrensens konsekvenser" (English: "The consequences of competition"). The document is 279 pages.

2) The su.se link is a press release from SU (Stockholm University) with the title "Pressmeddelande: Sjuksköterskors arbetstrivsel försämras efter privatisering" (English: "Press release: Nurses work satisfaction worsened after privatization") and it's announcing an article published in "Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 82, 45-65" by Falkenberg, H., Näswall, K., Sverke, M., and Sjöberg, A. (2009) by the name "How are employees at different levels affected by privatization? A longitudinal study of two Swedish hospitals" (Article in English).

3) The "McNulty_InterimReport2010.pdf" document is in English and has the title "Rail Value for Money Study: Interim Submission to Secretary of State – September 2010". The document is 28 pages.
Unless something has changed with this announcement, the us version is crippled in the netherlands (which means shoving all my netflix traffic through an ec2 instance, but whatever)
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