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I'm not really familiar with the details of this whole LambdaConf drama, but your argument keeps showing up on my Twitter feed regularly and I never found it very convincing to be honest. I don't see why hosting an event is necessarily a political act and I don't see why when people say "I don't want this to get political" it means that they're happy with the status quo. People keep repeating these arguments online as if they were self-evident truths and never really explain well (or at all) why these statements are true.

In particular, an argument could be made that someone could find being forced to be surrounded by politics boring and tedious even if they agree with these ideas. If you don't believe me, just read the comments in any political HN post (such as this one); I guarantee you that you will find many of the comments obnoxious, even some of the ones you agree with in principle.
"Don't roll your own crypto" strikes again.
Just put the comma in front of item you're about to add.

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I'm looking at the U.S. and it thrived and built major infrastructure because it could afford to.

A country could tax the crap out of the rich and misspend. No matter what, we should expect and insist on competency. Not this Reaganesque idea that the government is shit no matter what.
Sorry to hear about that :( The first time I took LSD (not hallucinogens in general, but LSD) went sort of similarly for me. Of course a life provides many confounding factors, but I ended up depressed and anxious for about three or four months afterwards. Took me a while to work my way out of it. I still think it was a worthwhile experience, but my symptoms weren't as bad as yours sound. I hope you're making a good recovery.
rampant inequality

You think the US is more unequal than Cuba? I'd love to see what the Castros are worth vs. the lowest paid Cuban.

And in my books, being thrown in prison because you express a viewpoint counter the gov't is pretty damn unequal.
I use this for all my projects now and I love it for its simplicity, it's just great...
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> Visualization is an often overlooked tool in CS

It's often overlooked, because generating meaningful data, that can provide visual insight, is usually very difficult. Right now I'm working on a blog post that goes over how you can use motion bubble charts to track code changes and I use GitLab as an example. You can find a draft of the blog at:

http://gitsense.github.io/blog/motion-bubble-charts.html

Note the blog post is still in DRAFT state, so there are broken links and grammatical errors and what not.

Capturing meaningful data at the Enterprise scale, requires a lot of effort. There is a reason why I ended up creating my own real-time process monitoring system:

http://gitsense.github.io/blog/realtime-process-monitoring.h...

What I'm ultimately hoping to do with the metrics, is create a new way to visual Git logs and improve how we approach complex code reviews and diffs.
That's the thing -- the kind of persuasive talents Hitler had... can pretty much only be used for the kinds of destructive ends he sought.
Can you monetise the content at all? I assumed Medium was the ultimate "Do it for exposure!" content factory - with the difference that unlike most, you can get some useful exposure from it, maybe.

Update: so there's a monetisation API on the way. So - we'll see how those cheese puffs work out.
After some quick speed-reading on Yarvin's blog, I came across this tasteless drivel on terrorism: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.no/2011/07/right-wi...

Even if one takes it to be "just" trolling, I find it in bad taste -- and if one takes it at face value, it's the sort of statements that would make it hard for me to attend an event with him in attendance. I consider myself to have a thick skin, and I generally don't care if nutjobs moan on about violence etc - except for the fact that ABB posted this kind of drivel himself, and based a lot of his mindset around it. So blogs of this kind is part of creating the nutjobs that go out and kill people. Any amount of smug moral relativism isn't going to make me say that I think stuff like this is ok.

All that said, I do support LamdaConf's decision in this case: They set out to do blind submissions, and stayed with that. They've now realized that the idea of a pure meritocracy is indeed a parody, not a real thing -- so they'll end up with a speaker selection process that is "overtly" political (even if they claim the opposite). This is of course inevitable, as no-one gets to "opt out" of politics: the "none statement" is a statement in itself (although not always a statement for the status quo).

I agree that there seems to be areas where "political correctness" has become a form of normative straight-jacket -- the same kind of conservative tendency that fuels bigotry. And I say that as a feminist and a communist/anarchist, and someone that is a strong believer in affirmative action.

Ironically perhaps, I think this is a decision Yarvin would agree on.
For instance, Jeeps with ABS. It's not that the manufacturer is actively doing something to prevent you from bleeding the brakes, it's just that to properly bleed the ABS system, you need the ABS system to activate a certain solenoid while you're bleeding them. This necessarily means that something has to talk to the ECU and tell it to bleed the ABS system. The problem is that that something is proprietary tools and diagnostic equipment that the vendor has no real incentive in trying to make accessible to some small shop or the DIY crowd at AutoZone.

Flushing the brakes is fine on every car I've ever heard of. Bleeding air out of the brakes is where it can get more complicated but I'm only talking about cases where air could've feasibly have gotten into the ABS unit. So if you were flushing out some old brake fluid and you managed to drain the reservoir without noticing it, now you have air in the master cylinder and potentially the ABS unit.
Hey lvp3, this sounds like a good case for Fieldbook (my startup): https://fieldbook.com. It's as flexible as a spreadsheet, but with the power of a relational database.

We've had a few real estate offices and property managers use us; you wouldn't be the first! If you send me your spreadsheet I can even get it migrated for you as a demo. jason@fieldbook.com
Could satellite/drone imagery with computer vision could get an accurate count?
Safe to assume that if we applied to both YC Core and YC Fellowship that this email applies to both?
I've found this quote really inspiring, specially for the startup folks:

"No hay tarea difícil, sino hombres incapaces"
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara [1]

That would translate (i think, correct my english if i'm wrong) to: "There is no difficult task, but incapable men"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara
Though I can appreciate where you're coming from, support from the casual consumer equals long-term viability. You need that buy-in if this is going to succeed. I worry that $3/shot film doesn't stand a chance if you don't also have the revenue that comes from the 250 crummy shots at a house party.

Maybe there's a compromise point. Perhaps market a far cheaper ($.50/print) but slightly lower quality film alongside a professional, $3/print, higher quality film. That's the difference between this being adopted by the mass market and surviving long-term, versus being a short-lived boutique medium for wealthy artists only.
I'm working on an application, submitted to fellowship, that will allow people to confess about something and others will be able to comment on this confession.

This topic makes clear that I need really good, and fast, moderation tools
Yes, sorry that wasn't more clear!
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(i have never met Michael Church nor have i ever had any direct communication with him.) I have read a few of his essays and each was thoughtful, tightly reasoned, and clearly evidenced an emotional stake in the subject matter. I'm not sure there's anything abnormal about someone expressing their frustration over X in proportion to their contribution to change/improve X.
Just got mine aswell! haha. No worries though this does not dictate our success. :)
Best luck on your business.
> Why do you think anything with a government stamp is automatically 10x the price?

In general, yes. But not in the best run governments---Singapore comes to mind.

(But even Europe isn't quite as bad as the US. American public procurement---especially for infrastructure projects---is truly hideous and expensive by global standards.)

The Swiss seem a good model if you are looking for how localized government can work.
A narrow vision. Eggs in one basket. But, Apple has used RHEL and Solaris in the recent past much more than OS X. So they weren't even eating their own dog food.

I think what killed Server is the lack of hardware options. It was a goner even with the amazing Xserve. It was never going to be allowed on commodity hardware, Apple didn't sign on to Open Compute, and so on. So the writing was on the wall, and developers saw that.
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Some comments about this:

https://lwn.net/Articles/683345/#Comments
One of the major reasons so much online content is junk is advertisements. When journalists make money based on clicks, they have very strong incentives to produce a lot low quality, easy to consume content. When you profit from manipulating attention, it's hard to resist generating clickbait. It is much easier to manufacture outrage(that spreads very well) than to educate or enlighten.

I think that the best way to fix this is to change monetization strategy from ads to premium content or paid subscriptions. When that happens, the main incentive turns from "quickly produce a lot of viral content" to "create high quality content that is worth buying". It is the easiest, the most straightforward way to properly align incentives.

I was so excited about Medium because it's a platform that had a chance to do that, and I hoped they would. Unfortunately, they have introduced ads as a monetization strategy. Too bad.
Less at stake on this one, but I had a friend in college whose father was a business owner. He was stuck with some database software that all his customer records were locked in; he wanted to migrate but had no way out other than copying them all over by hand. Up until one weekend when his daughter brought home her boyfriend, who dad had regarded as a dirty hippie up until then. Turns out dirty hippie was a pretty good hacker and in the course of a few hours, he wrote a program to export dad's database into a usable format.

Moral: your significant other may not be impressed by your hacking skills, but you might win the family over for life in a few hours.
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Depends on how you define taxes. Also, some governments own assets and use returns from those.

(And just to be pedantic, historically there's also spoils from conquest.)

There's also government debt. I know you could argue that this has to be paid back eventually---but when interest rates are below inflation, that's a better than free loan. (And in theory they could invest in assets that yield even more, instead of just consuming the difference between inflation and interest.)

Most people buy government debt out of their own volition even at these low rates. (And if it's foreigners buying it, there's even less direct coercion via regulation involved.)
They're just designing some flexibility into it. It's pretty much an everyone wins situation.

The cheapest fuel may vary country to country for a variety of reasons. Building an engine that can burn whatever (most diesels, with a little extra engineering work can burn whatever) is just killing a lot of birds with one stone. You can tell your customer that the ship will run on whatever so so that they can always gas up with whatever is cheapest and when they want to sell the ship down the road it'll likely be able to run on whatever is in vogue without expensive modifications. You can turn around and tell the media that it can be run on whatever is cleanest if that's what the owner desires. Since industrial engines aren't competing for peak power/torque numbers losing a little bit by not optimizing for a particular fuel isn't a meaningful downside
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The ship won't need to stop for sleep if you run it on METHanonl(TM). Its teeth will rot out pretty quick though.
"But the conference wants to have an air of professionalism"

There is very little chance Yarvin would get past the HR department of any client I can think of, are there professional environments you can think of where his reputation wouldn't cause significant difficulties to participation?

I'm not sure an argument from professionalism is the appropriate one. More if you have a club you can invite whoever you like, and if others are not comfortable with the members they can choose not to attend.

I'm sure John De Goes is earnest, the risk is that his conference may be attended solely by similarly earnest people who look precisely like John De Goes, and for whom emotional assault is unverifiable and incomparable, hypothetical.
My guess is that the authors wanted to ensure they could encrypt a full disk quickly.
I like it. seems simple enough. Im going to think on this . Thanks for the suggestion.
I just meant that despite the exceptions like you that are doing awesome, the typical high school educated person makes less than a college educated person.

Hahah sorry, I'm not crazy smart or exceptional! I work really hard, and that's it. I mean to say that for most people, they aren't like you. They can't succeed like you. I got incensed over the article and wanted to tear it down because I'm so disenfranchised with European "dream education" and see anything against conventional us education similar. Anyway, I think you made the right choice presented with what I have. You seem to have had the skills to make it without a degree, and that's amazing. I'm not sure I would have made it without having UW get me noticed by companies and tell me what I need to know. I feel like most students are more like me. Anyway, I don't want to tear you down in a fit of passion. You seem like a cool, successful, guy, and best luck with your court case and even more with drumming (I'm in marching band at my uni hahah).
Here's my comparison of React.js Fundamentals by Tyler McGinnis, and Learn React.js: The Basics, on Lynda.com.

https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2016/04/react-tutorials.a...
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The coffee shop owner probably wouldn't be prosecuted, but he would likely still be investigated.
I've been enjoying Trader Joe's Pound Plus chocolate for years ..

... but just found out that it is one of many chocolates tested with positive results for lead and cadmium.

http://www.asyousow.org/our-work/environmental-health/toxic-...

If this is true, i'm in deep trouble :(
Yes, of course, obviously.

I would not associate myself with, say, someone who in their off time writes long diatribes about how my ethnic group is lazy, incompetent, undeserving of legal rights and fit only to be exterminated or enslaved.

I'd be a fool not to shun this person and encourage others to do the same, however nice and pleasant they may be in person.

For one, social shaming can, occasionally, be an effective way to change behaviour: it's a short hand for "your opinion is wrong, because all these respectable people say so". For another, I don't have the time and energy or personal obligation to graciously engage with every single person who may be a complete asshole.

What you describe is not a new problem. To quote Karl Popper,

>Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I'd have called you tinfoil crazy until police raided one of my rental properties because a tenant was suspected of dealing drugs. One of the other 3 tenants (not suspected of any crime) had a friendly pit bull about a year old, wouldn't harm anyone, which was promptly shot 3 times in the abdomen right in front of its owner as police approached the property (and died).
Why do you bring in the unequal distribution of newly created wealth when I'm talking about average people being better off decade over decade? Seriously, if I have a glass of water in front of me and you are thirsty, do you lament this unequal distribution of water? No, you ask your waiter, find a drinking fountain, or obtain water some way somehow. The people on the way to the top, and the ones there actually providing a net benefit to society, just figured out a way to create an unequal benefit for themselves and whomever was without whatever they were offering. They didn't look at any charts that told them their net wealth vs others was too high. If someone uses "free" public services to generate some of their wealth, then we should charge for those services and subsidize those who can't afford them. We can afford Subsidies because wealth is not a fixed pie! Let entrepreneurs create wealth and tax them in a way that promotes more wealth creation.
Yep. I certainly disagree with that conclusion. There are a wealth of awesome talks by awesome people out there. If Yarvin was excluded, his slot would have been filled by an equally interesting, equally informative talk not by a racist.
There is no reason to assume that the same physical rules and limitations of our own universe apply to the universe that is simulating us. Our universe could be a drastic simplification of the "real" one, indeed this simplification is the kind of potential evidence the article mentions us looking for.

I remember reading once that the limitation on speed of light could be a performance optimisation. Isolating each "light cone" of local spacetime allows the simulation to be distributed and run on separate compute clusters, because it limits things to local interactions rather than universal ones.

Things in superpositions only becoming "set" after observation... that is just lazy evaluation. It's fun to think about.
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Advertising as a business model is destroying the things we love. Nobody wants addictive content. We want informative, enjoyable content, but that's not profitable. Page views are profitable, and page views require addiction.

Turn on your ad blockers. Destroy addiction as a business model. The only content that will remain will be subscription-based, commissioned by crowds or individuals, or written for free. It will be better.
But that isn't manipulable by someone standing in line, so it is effectively random. You can't determine exactly when the tsa person will press the button.
I got mine too. Hehe. I applied for both the core and the fellowship programs. Does it mean I was rejected by both? I just got one email.
I know you're being facetious but seriously... what a way to easily ruin someone's life. This system needs reform.
Thanks for that. It made me think of a comment Cash makes on another live recording, about singing "a song written by someone right here at Folsom". Unfortunately, that wasn't Haggard, it was another inmate, and it appears he didn't fare as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Sherley

"Glen Milborn Sherley (March 9, 1936 − May 11, 1978) was an American criminal who became a country singer-songwriter after his song "Greystone Chapel" was made famous by Johnny Cash in 1968. Sherley wrote the song while in prison and it was performed by Cash at his Folsom Prison performance, later released as the album At Folsom Prison. Sherley was on the front row, unaware that his song was to be played.

Sherley subsequently wrote and performed a number of other songs. However, despite help from Cash, he was unable to adjust to life outside of prison, eventually committing suicide at the age of 42."
Got rejected! :D
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The new Ford: Tesla.
Can you explain by what is meant by a functional API? Functional as in functional programming?
I backed this study on Walacea, you should check it out if you're interested in this research getting funded whilst governments etc play catch up

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Edit: watch out for this study's results soon:

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This absolutely true and I've heard it discussed in cooking shows about Miami. Thousands of cubans fled to Florida and started mom and pop restaurants, the people who stayed had to make due with meager rations and the culinary culture died.
How would that be possible? You can't compare across brands, because as you said, some are successful because they're a popular brand, which would affect CTR and open rate too.
There have been a few of these tried before. I actually bought one and a few cartridges of film a few years back. I took it to a few parties and out one night and it was a lot of fun taking pictures with people.

Result? After the novelty wore off (and it did so quickly) I went back to using my phone to take pictures.

If I were them I'd recognize this and either adapt my marketing to focus on niche retailers, tourist destinations and the holiday seasons.
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Lots of states make their auto mechanics get licensed.
Of course Hamilton will cut parts of history short, modify some and embellish others. It's a work of art that has to cram 30 years into around 3 hours of musical theater. Hamilton was probably an elitist, he also was probably not as strongly against slavery as the musical implies. Then again, the musical doesn't really talk all that much about his views on slavery either, just a few mentions here and there.

Historical fiction need not be 100% factually accurate to powerfully inform. I have read more actual history about this period because the musical made it so compelling than I otherwise would have.

In the end it's remarkable how much of the history it gets right (beautifully summarizing the complicated negotiations around the creating of the national bank for example), and how it shows two sides loathing one another and fighting through energetic political discourse eventually found a way to compromise and/or move on in order to build a nation.

Today we have one political party that seems completely unwilling to compromise and another that's heading that way. Nobody wants to accept defeat, nobody want to accept half-a-loaf to keep things going. We should remember that this country was founded on sometimes good and sometimes terrible compromises, but the country moved forward as a result. Yes the worst ones eventually were resolved by blood, and we're still handling the aftermath, but without compromise we'd never have had the chance to figure out which were the better angels of our nature.
The answer I felt for "Why" was just another question: "Why not?"
IDA is the industry-standard binary disassembly tool. Expensive, so used over (dramatically) cheaper competitors like Hopper mainly by people whose company pays for a license :D
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