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There are two reasons I've seen for objecting to GMO, one unreasonable and one reasonable.

The unreasonable objection, which is probably the most common, is based on the belief that there is something inherently dangerous about GMO.

The reasonable objection is based on the belief that there is nothing wrong with GMO itself since it is just another tool and so whether it is good or bad in a particular instance depends on the user rather than the tool, but many (most?) of the current users do not have the inclination and/or wisdom to only use it for good.

Many of the interests of food producers (I'm including everyone in the chain before the food actually reaches the eater) are not aligned with the interests of food eaters. For instance a producer of a vegetable might prioritize uniformity of size and shape and predictable growing rates over taste and nutrition, because the former directly affect how effectively he can automate production. As an eater, I care a lot more about nutrition and taste than I care about having all of my vegetables be the same size and shape.

We've seen what happens when food manufacturer interests get too far out of alignment with what is healthy and nutritious--just look at all the health issues we have in the US that are reasonably attributable to our poor national eating habits.

> GMO seems like a great idea -- modern human medicine seems to include techniques that are similar to or just-short-of "GMO."

Medicine is highly regulated. You can't just make a new medicine and start selling it. Not so with food.

For a worst case scenario from an eater point of view, suppose you've got organism X and organism Y. These are very different, and cannot be crossbred. Suppose that Y produces something that has health benefits, but that some people are allergic to. X does not produce this substance.

A person allergic to that substance has a simple strategy for staying safe: do not eat Y.

With GMO, in theory some X manufacturer could modify X to include the genes from Y that produce that substance. For most people this would be a benefit--they are now getting that healthy substance from Y when they consume X.

For our person allergic to that substance, this sucks.

Now our allergic eater has to worry about both X and Y. And since GMO foods do not have to be labeled currently, he cannot simply avoid GMO X. He now has to avoid all foods with X. (And if our allergic eater is particularly unlucky, the maker of GMO X does not announce they are doing this, and so the allergic eater first finds out about it the hard way).

Manufacturers like to tout health benefits. For our poor allergic eater, those genes from Y for that substance he is allergic to might end up being put in all kinds of foods.

My opinion is that we should go ahead with GMO, but not blindly. As a first step, it needs to be labeled, and longer term we need to develop some regulations to make sure it is used safely and wisely.
I don't buy pretty produce at the farmers market because I've suspected that a lot of it is just distributors for a long time. The out of season produce that looks picture perfect that isn't quite ripe, just screams large scale commercial grower.

Its the stalls with the ugly produce that I look at, as my own gardening experience, and that of an actual farmer attests. The best produce is the stuff the bugs want to eat. Cut the ugly part off, and what remains is the good stuff.

I also don't buy stuff that doesn't smell like actual food. Its pretty amazing how we have grown accustomed to produce that doesn't smell.
That would be like cutting off an arm because it is bleeding.

Here's an alternative off the top of my head. Each US citizen gets ONE vote no matter where they live. They vote for ONE person no matter where that person lives. The top 33 (or 34 once every six years) become United States senator.
Forgive me if this is a daft question, but, how much effort has gone into analysing the contents of this signal?

It appears we have 72 seconds of data to work with, or is it just completely random data with no pattern at all?

If we did receive an intelligent signal from an extraterrestrial source, what form do we think or hope it would take? Perhaps something along the lines of counting out the first 100 prime numbers?

-Edit- so to answer my own question, there is no actual recording of the signal, we only have the intensity of the signal over a period of 72 seconds, represented by 6 characters, each covering a period of 12 seconds.

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Was going to ask for a TypeScript suggestion, thanks! I wonder how far off the VS Studio setup is from Visual Studio Code as I've been using the latter lately.
Well sure if you want to split CA up into more than just southern and northern halves. My suggestion was only for a northern and southern half.
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Roblox is designed like an MMO. But that also has drawbacks. They charge like an MMO (monthly subscription), and you are beholden to their system/servers.

I don't think I've ever gotten more value from a software purchase than buying Minecraft for €9.95 in 2010.
No I've opted to go with the least moving parts and am not using hot reloading or any runtime transpiling/transformations/etc.

The TypeScript tools for Visual Studio automatically regenerates the .js file every time you save its TypeScript file so it works statically without needing any background process to monitor for changes. So my JSPM doesn't know about TypeScript, it's just loading the pre-generated .js files every time I hit refresh.

If you've configured React Routing and are saving/reloading Redux state in localStorage on change it's a pretty good dev experience as most of the time a refresh brings you back to where you left off.
I have a great real estate agent. He knew the math equations that HUD used to price their homes at auction, and what percentage of that price they'd take. Our first house (bought in 2008), he suggested that if we waited to make a bid on a house until a certain day, the price would drop, and they'd take 80% of the asking price. He was correct and we made a lot of money by selling when the market came back.

On the next house, he looked at the roof and knew that the house probably had a recalled shingle on it, and we couldn't even get insurance on the house with that shingle. The homeowner was stuck between replacing the shingles or taking a chance that the next buyer would have less attentive real estate/home inspectors.

Twice I have greatly benefited financially by his expertise. I'm not paying him a lot for his services necessarily (although he's great at it), I'm paying him for his expertise.
When in Rome...

If you're that out-of-step with the people around you, you'd be better off just moving, instead of trying to force everyone around you to adopt your mindset. Minorities don't have a right to force their views on the majority, though they do have a right to basic civil rights. But there's only so much change that's feasible: attitudes take generations to change, since you usually have to wait for the people with the wrong attitudes to literally die out.

Also, I'm not saying that eastern Oregonians actually want to join Idaho, I don't know because I don't live in eastern OR. This is just an example. That's why I proposed a referendum with so many different choices: maybe the people there would prefer to join with eastern WA only, and not be part of ID at all.

I would, however, support a tax credit (not deduction) for anyone moving because of redrawn state borders.
Privacy is a fundamental right for EU citizens, it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I read an article in the New York Times about unpublished research. A major company hired researchers to figure out why they had fewer women employees. They found that women quit more than men. Surprisingly, women had exactly the same work issues as men - poor management, lack of work-life balance, unreasonable demands, unreasonable expectations. But women, more often than men, had the freedom in their life to quit - while more men simply didn't have that option.

The company, realizing that the research would require that they treat their employees better, buried the research and started a PR campaign to talk about how they try to hire more women.

So we really need better regulation of companies - so that we can improve life for all of our citizens. I would like to see laws requiring employees on boards, limiting working hours, requiring higher pay for part-time vs. full-time workers, and perhaps required training for all managers for "low power distance" management. Really, I'm for anything that might improve quality of life for our citizens. We live in a time of extreme automation - why are so many of us forced to work in such poor conditions?
Maybe this would help you: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgNotificationHelper
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Modding games is extremely easy these days. I had to walk uphill both ways through two feet of snow just to get some games to work in the early 90s. Buckets of blood, sweat and tears went into my MajorMUD scripts.
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Hmmm, I still wonder what Windows would look like today and Microsoft had chosen the same path as Apple: create an emulation box for old 'Classic' apps, create a clean new system for new style apps.
Yup, if married and you've been there a couple of years. $250k if single.

Still, almost anyone who bought a house a few years ago in the area is sitting on at least $500k in gains. So even if taxes on the remainder are arguably fair from a revenue perspective, they are another constraint on housing market liquidity.
Sure just give them a six figure Bay Area tech job so they can afford to move.
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THis looks pretty interesting. Where do they get their docs (for javascript, etc.)?
Levered people, whether rich or poor, are the ones who are forced to sell. There are always some over levered folks from both ends of the economic spectrum.

As long as you can make your monthly payments, you'll never be forced to sell.
I agree. People in the United States have gone to jail for insulting someone if that someone happens to be a judge, but for some reason everyone is up in arms over a world leader doing the same thing. I think it's ridiculous that I have to sit or stand or call someone "your honor" just because it's a guy wearing a robe that's involved. Any US citizen that thinks what Merkel is doing is wrong should take a second look at their own free speech limitations.

Here's a girl in the United States who had a judge raise her bail just because she said "adios" instead of "bye", and then put her in jail for a month for saying "fuck you": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrRGhvpEjo
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> if the documents are publicly editable per a setting the user controls, this isn't a "vulnerability" either.

These services advertise it as "editable by anybody with the link" not "editable by anybody"

There is an implication that people can't get the link without you giving it to them.
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San Francisco, by itself, has a population of 864,816. The state of Wyoming, in its entirety, has 586,107 residents.
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If you're going to point out an article, you should actually point it out :)

Do you mean this one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/11/where...

Where the map shows that areas up and down the California Coast (not just SF) show longer life for the poor?

However, I'm not sure that longer life correlates strongly with "quality of life" (as someone who watched a loved one undergo long slow decline and live about a year longer than he wanted to).

A homeless person that barely manages to eke out a living on the streets of SF may not be happier than a homeless person in Detroit that largely lives in shelters in Detroit, even if the SF homeless person lives longer.
I am talking about a specific kind of privacy, for example for non-search engines right to be forgotten in the sense of deleting accounts for example does make sense.
What you're actually calling for is to completely remove the Senate since what you want is exactly how the House of Representatives is structured.

Also due to the fact that the wealth of the nation is centered in many of these urban centers I'm probably more worried about them wielding too much power in our current era of money/lobby dominated politics.
> The original PINs were sent in the mail and in order to retrieve it you had to fill in the AGI from the previous year's return, not those credit-bureau challenge/response questions. It seems they created some vulnerability there, but it wasn't always like that.

The same information many people hand out as part of loan applications when they are asked for their tax returns as well as the IRS and other places. Hell, I had to do it in March and my AGI for 2014 is in god knows how many people's hands.

Once again, that is a username and not a password.

1) Passwords are secret credentials possessed by one trusted party, yourself.

2) The hashed representation of which is stored by the opposing party for verification.

You keep listing publicly available authentication factors which are effectively usernames, just like a SSN.

If you need me to clarify further, I can. I'm just genuinely horrified people treat these things as confidential because they are not.

I feel this is alot like my conversation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447435

People, even IT professionals, seem genuinely ignorant of the fact this data is essentially public knowledge and it simply requires a small amount of [potentially illegal] effort to acquire. They then go and build authentication schemes based on this information on the assumption literally no one on the planet is a criminal.

That isn't "security" for anything that involving real money.
I wasn't suggesting that everyone would behave ethically, just pointing out that it's not ok to poke around on a cafe's network like that.
Cross-platform development is bad now.

I mean yes, I totally agree that the late 90s were really bad for portable C++ development. You couldn't trust the compilers, you had limited faith in the libraries, rewriting the container classes yourself and falling back on C idioms were commonplace. Man, we really had no idea who owned which pointer back then.

But there was a sweet spot around 2006, when with C++ and Qt4 you could reach every major desktop platform with a single codebase with essentially identical UIs bar the detailed widget rendering, and you could do it using code that was still largely acceptable to work with. I did a fair bit of successful work that way.

Then the iPhone came along, and a platform explosion, incompatible managed-code platforms, many different input and output devices to support, more variety in UI design styles, the world of walled gardens and having to recreate the UI layer again and again for each company's devices. Now that's settled down a bit, and instead we have the paralysis of choice among piles of UI/back-end languages and frameworks all with their own tradeoffs.

Still, at least C++ is a nicer language now.
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In addition to the early publications, I would also recommend section 2 of T. Gilray et al.'s "Pushdown Control-Flow Analysis for Free" (POPL '16) as a slightly higher-level introduction to AAM [1]. It's the cleanest presentation I've seen to date.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03137
Use opebox + compton and tearing goes away.
Analytics Analytics Analytics. Shortened urls automatically have very decent analytics making it WAY easier than setting up UTM params or other campaign identifies.

Add a "+" to any bitly or goo.gl link and see what I mean.
https://goo.gl/forms/9fA366pQ1f+

I use goo.gl to see how many people click a link I share on facebook too.
NY City has more than half of the congressional districts allotted to NY state, so yes.
The staffing industry market is close to $150 Billion. The largest technical staffing firm does over $8 Billion itself. It is a big industry.
fcrackzip?

https://github.com/hyc/fcrackzip
I think all these proposals (and there have been a lot of these) relate back to a central problem in human relationships: Dunbar's Number. Principally, once you are beyond that threshold in terms of politics (and it need not be exclusively people, you could sacrifice some empathy and have families count as units, or even local neighborhoods) your influence on representation dramatically wanes.

Not necessarily because of ill intent, but because you become just another number to whoever "represents" you.

My personal philosophy is that one day we will conclude that the best way to govern is to treat it like we treat most things. Find someone in our community who we think best represents our collective interests, elect them to some council of several neighborhoods, who elect someone from their body to represent the community at the county level, who elects someone to the state level, so on. In practice, I would imagine that each level up you go, the less time you would spend at that level - ie, a national body would behave a lot like how infrequently the UN convenes, and even then it should be mostly to adopt laws from more local governments into the collective one when they have overwhelmingly popular support.

You end up with each layer representing more and more localized interests, and since your base unit of elected official will always be someone elected with social relationships to most / all of their constituents, corruption is much harder to see take root. Have each constituency able to impeach at will, and you can have fairly long or even no term limits, and they will replace bad actors with good ones until they find the best person to represent the majority.

I imagine a system like that would also factor social mobility, it lets you move where the local politics are in your favor and you would see the gradual accumulation of optimal policy where people prosper the most, which would naturally over generations grow in size. At the national level, you can probably use split partitioning of districts and a re-balancing every census to account for these migrations and growths. That means gradually the best communities gain influence over time.

It also has the added benefit of letting everyone cut off higher-tier governance wherever they disagree. You can organize countries based on regional commonality and the borders would be organic with which districts want to participate in which city, or which county, or which state, or which nation. You would almost certainly see similar borders - in the US for example - that these maps demonstrate in the OP because common cultures would align. The only thing missing after that is open borders for migration, so people can freely travel to places whose ideologies align with their own.
I think golden rice has been around for at least 20 yrs now.[0]
Also serious question, What evidence do we have for "toxic in very subtle ways"? I wasn't aware that this actually exists.

[0] http://www.goldenrice.org/
Funded by something, not necessarily someone.

As automation replaces larger portions of previously human-held positions, it could either be taxed on behalf of or socialized for investment by the basic income receiving communities.

Granted the ideal scenario for that is a long way off, but the incentives don't have to be.
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> This antiquated representation makes less sense than ever and harms our democracy by under-representing urban populations.

The United States are a federal republic, a federation of fifty states, not a unitary government of 350 million people. The Senate is where the States, not the people, are represented; the House is where the people's Representatives sit.

Abolish the 17th Amendment and have state legislatures appoint Senators.
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There are more platforms today, but the tools are much better. Maybe it's a wash.

In terms of platform sprawl I feel like we're back to the 1980s when there was Apple II, Mac, IBM PC, IBM clones (not always compatible), TRS-80, Commodore 64, etc.
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I've never heard this before. What would be an example of somewhere you don't want to go? I've never clicked a shortened URL and had unexpected results.
Why isn't that a good example? It shows in the United States there are people that can arbitrarily add months to your jail sentence for insulting them, or simply send you to jail if you happen to do it while being in the same room they're in.
Portland doesn't cost nearly as much to live in as the Bay Area.

And you do realize there's other places in the country to live, right? There's tons of moderately-progressive cities across the nation that don't cost that much. Austin is a pretty good example.
Is there anyone who doesn't think it is in one?
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Yes, of course. Representatives are assigned at 1 per ~700,000 ppl.
Inefficient? Yes. Unsustainable? No way. We've been farming the old-fashioned way for thousands of years with exponential increases in population. If that's not the definition of sustainability I don't know what is.

Also, modern cultivation techniques can strip the produce and soil of essential vitamins and nutrients. So yes, in some cases, the "inefficient" and "unsustainable" farms yield more nutritious and eco-friendly foods.

The notion that these facts are purely a fabrication of marketing companies is total bullshit. There's tons of research out there supporting this (nb4 WHO SPONSORED THE RESEARCH??), you just have to look for it.
> Each US citizen gets ONE vote no matter where they live. They vote for ONE person no matter where that person lives. The top 33 (or 34 once every six years) become United States senator.

So, we'd be ruled by American Idol winners? That doesn't seem like an improvement.
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> Spheres would cause a major issue - the laser would need to strike the centre of the circular visible surface.

> Otherwise you'd end up with the light bouncing of at angles other than pi, which would direct the probe to the side.

No, because these lasers won't be focused to a point smaller than the size of the satellite. I'm not sure what the waist will be, but presumably it's much larger than the mirror.

The real reason these are sails is because they maximize the momentum transfer per unit mass. But unlike sails on boats, this force can't be transmitted to a displaced payload using tethers/struts, so the payload must be dispersed and integrated within the sail itself.
They form the same labor market though. Fewer startups puts less pressure on the price for hiring engineers.

You don't have to many any assumptions about advertising dollars (the vast majority of which come from outside SV) to see how a startup slowdown will also have an impact on all engineering salaries.
Far less safe because you use a password in combination with a userID so to crack someone's account you must have their login name and password. Six characters are six characters, easy.