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> You haven't exactly defined what you mean by "biological reality".

> Resignation to intentions of nature, i.e., statements like these: ["]I am claiming that amorality is morality["] [i]s exactly what I consider naturalism.

I think we have an is-ought problem here.

I am describing what is. Biological reality is 'what is'. I am not describing what ought to be. What I am saying is that yes, morality is subjective, and people (inclusively, taking all peoples throughout history) very strongly disagree on what is moral and immoral.

> everyone agrees on the good or the bad side of it.

That's the thing. They don't, not even close.

> "fashionable social norms" are an approximation, that doesn't mean the thing they're trying to approximate doesn't exist. Just like physics don't cease to exist because our conclusions about it are not always correct.

Are you suggesting moral realism? That is, are you saying that there are, in fact, some kind of moral truths we can discover? How? Through experiment? Archaeology? Reason? I am guessing the latter; if I can be allowed to speculate as to your thought process, you seem to hold something like the Golden Rule as an axiom of moral truths. That is, murder is wrong because, as I do not want to be murdered, it would be wrong for me to murder someone.

But what I'm saying is there is no justification for that axiom (though I personally might prefer it). It's arbitrary. We can construct an elegant system of ethics upon it, but it would be founded in the sand. And thus we discover why, again, throughout human history, there were countless cultures who would have regarded it as the most silly nonsense they'd ever heard.

> I will say there is a big difference between a civilization where the bad is OK and one where it is not. I also know which one I'd prefer to live in. Which one pretty much everyone will prefer to live in.

Most people will prefer to live in the civilization most like their own. Naturally, you and I would most prefer to live in a modern Western society where everyone agrees with us on most points of right and wrong.

> Caring for the weak and our own is a thing social animals do? To a very, very limited point...

I think you would be surprised by animal behavior. They will risk their lives for others. A good example is elephants, who have been known to do everything they can for the injured, even if it's just wait in the same place for them to die, hold 'funerals', and even seek vengeance on those who hurt their fellow.

> At some point, we need to start distinguishing what evolution intended and what we do.

Evolution does not intend anything at all.

> we didn't do that at all for quite a few members of society for a very long time.

Plenty of other cultures did for long periods of history.
'Windows thug'? Please don't break the HN guidelines by calling names in arguments, regardless of how wrong someone else may be.
India has the second largest Muslim population in the world. It is highly unlikely that whatever tone he inferred was from being not Hindu.

Most likely it was just from his British passport.
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I've had a welcome home on my H1-B at SFO, made me feel quite warm and fuzzy. Also had much less pleasant experiences (the immigration officer who thought Europe was being overrun with Mislims.) As a white British person I've never had a welcome home from an immigration officer in the UK, but being greeted in the UK would seem weird.
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"if I had been from India instead of Australia it'd be another 6 years or so before anyone even looked at my application."

For anyone born in India, it would be another 11~12 years(and 6 years for China-mainland born) or so before anyone would even accept a last-step document, even if approved for green card with I-140 approved today.

It is unbelievable and clearly discrimanatory that legal immigrants from India (and China) are expected to stick with the same employer for more than a decade.

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...
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> Shibboleth entered mainstream culture (and when I learned it) via a West Wing episode called "Shibboleth"

The concept of a shibboleth entered mainstream culture many centuries ago; it is a story from the Bible.
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2) the number of devs who drop to "native" is ridiculously small because the problems that require that much effort to optimise is ridiculously small.
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> You never seem to pass up an opportunity to slag us, usually with statements that are factually wrong.

It was a joke, I know you've put a lot of work into improving the site. And I'm usually the one pointing out that thread folding is coming every time it gets mentioned, as it does often, month after month, so it's not as if I don't defend you as well.

>As for features, come back in a few days and review what you said here.

I look forward to it. I seriously do.
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I see, thank you. I was not aware of the title of that paragraph.
India has the second largest Muslim population in the world; it's unlikely that whatever tone he inferred was from being Muslim. More likely is the case that the passport control person saw the British passport and commented on that.

Moreover to state that the immigration officer inferred him speaking English as a sign of class is in itself racist; English is one of the official languages of the country, plenty of Indians speak very fluent English.
Having lived in the deep south, I found racism very obvious to those affected and unaffected by it.

Never seen anything like that in India which moderates societal differences to a very high degree.
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>How can you NOT feel envious?

Because to me money is not everything.

Shitty public schools are an issue. Everyone has money, but no one pays taxes.

The shrinking middle class is an issue and so is the wealth gap that you can see almost everywhere in the US. For someone from a country that has less rich, but also less poor, this is standing out quite a lot.

Healthcare is not that great in the US, I am not sure why you are saying that. If you do not go to the doctor because you feel it is too expensive, then there is certainly something wrong.

The American Society is an issue. Political Correctness everywhere is harming this country a lot.

>99% of the content I read online seems to be aimed at american people.

Well, if you are browsing American websites, why does it surprise you?

Now, I do not hate everything about the US. I like certain things here and if immigration would be easier, I would probably decide to stay, especially, since I feel very American after all these years being here. All I am saying is that the US is not as awesome as I thought it would be, especially not if one is from a wealthy European country.
FWIW, WaPo itself also changed it. My original title was the original WaPo title (check the URL) and then they changed it, and then y'all changed the HN side to something a little different :)
> In most realms, those with the least ability to pay should receive the biggest discounts. In health care, it is often the uninsured and indigent who receive bills with the full “chargemaster” fee — the wildly inflated prices that nobody really pays — while large insurance companies get the biggest breaks.

This bothers me more than almost any other piece of our system. It's corrupt from the start, with prices being presented that do not have any relation to the price that the parties in the transaction actually expect to pay/receive. So even if we had "price transparency" for medical procedures, it wouldn't really reflect reality.

A few examples of the system at work:

* I have a HSA so I don't put small medical expenses through my insurance. I went to a doctor for a strep throat check and was told that my 30m appointment would be $350 if put through my insurance (and I hadn't hit my deductible yet) or $150 if I paid in cash at the office. So I paid cash with my HSA. Why should there by these two wildly divergent prices? Even if I had no deductible and took the $350 option that just means my insurance company is paying $200 over what the doctor actually wants for the service, which means some other person in the insurance pool will receive $200 less in services down the road.

* One time I got food poisoning in college and because it happened in a classroom and I was unable to really walk/balance the school said I could only leave in an ambulance. So an ambulance was called to drive me the 0.25mi to the university hospital. I waited a few hours in the ER, then a doctor saw me for 15 minutes and no medicine or care was actually administered since I was fine by then. I get a bill in the mail for $1000 a few weeks later, that's $700 for the drive and $300 for the doctor's time. My dad (a dentist) advised me to not pay the bill and let it go to collection. Then a few weeks later the bill collector called me and since I had my income listed as $0 (college student) they said I could pay the bill in installments or just make it all go away for a $300 lump sum (which I took). So just by waiting around suddenly the cost of treatment went down by 70%.

Medicine should not be a negotation. There should be one price for everyone and you shouldn't have to know anyone or pull strange tricks to get the real price. If we don't even know what something costs, how can we begin to drive the cost down?
I'm suprised no difference between american and european metal was found. I feel like they are quite different, but it seems this is not supported by this data.

I found it amusing that Venom and Running Wild are grouped together in the first step. But well, by the lyrics it fits. The rest matches my expectations surprisingly well.
Yes, our actions will be SO important to future generations. I'm sure much ink will be spilled.

The narcissism is real.
What can be done to apply pressure on these countries to speed up the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies? Replace representatives in their respective legislative branches?
I can't comment on the pre-Eternal September Usenet because I only joined 1995.

I wouldn't compare Usenet back then to Facebook, not even to Reddit. If I had to compare it with something we have today it would be HN and Stackoverflow. A place where one could interact with interesting people and a place to satisfy ones thirst for knowledge.
When I wrote my comment above I skimmed through Thomas Lord's essay, found that the
parts I remembered being there were all in their place, pasted the link and pressed "submit".
In particular, I remembered the paragraph from which you quote as written
in a ironic manner, suggesting with a wink at the reader that Lord actually
wrote the post. Now that I've reread the essay, I don't see that at all. I
think in that paragraph he probably says what he means. That, and you are
right about the style.

In short, I retract my claim. Sorry to whoever I misled! My confidence was completely misplaced.
> Can you elaborate? I don't understand what dynamic is being alleged with this often-cited reference to limited residency funding. If there really are (quasi) monopoly profits to be made,

Well, there aren't. There's a bottleneck in the supply, but there aren't monopoly profits to be made, because Medicare acts more like a monopsony. Medicare sets reimbursement rates unilaterally, and medical providers are forced to accept them, even though they don't (in the aggregate) even cover the direct COGS, let alone allow for the overhead of running a practice.

I'm only bringing up residency funding to explain that the AMA has nothing to do with restricting the supply of doctors, as is commonly (mistakenly) believed. But the real topic that OP brought up was the costs of care, and the supply of doctors isn't really relevant to that topic either, because providers' earnings only account for 10-15% of total costs of care.
You seem to be constructing an argument like "if suffering is not immoral, then you must also think that torture is moral". That's a straw-man argument. It is a perfectly valid position to assert that inflicting suffering is morally wrong while at the same time rejecting that all suffering is morally wrong.

When someone says that something is not immoral (or evil), they can be arguing to things: either it is moral, or it is amoral (i.e. is not affected by qualifications of morality). The GP is arguing the latter: that, in the context of nature, suffering is an unavoidable consequence of competition for life. Is the lion evil for targeting the weakest wildebeest? Is toxoplasmosis evil for disrupting the fight-or-flight response of its host?
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Yes. I think it very much depends on where you grew up. I am from a wealthy European Country, so some things turn me away more than it would others.
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My main issue is that this is mostly raised in relation to 'GMO' crops, which seems arbitrary. We do it by cross-breeding, sure, but we've also been doing crazy stuff like mutation breeding for decades (blast tons of seeds with radiation and chemicals and see what shakes out). That's considered 'non-GMO' by, for example, the EU. The whole thing feels like a false dichotomy.
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Here in Canada, I can't just get an appointment. I must wait 20 hours at the emergency room to see a doctor. If I want to see a specialist, there's a 6 month wait.

Is it the same in the US?
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You are using quotation marks as if though I said those words.

quote (kwəut) verb
1. to repeat the exact words of a person as they were said or written.

My point was about not giving the user enough information to make an informed decision yet demanding a decision anyway.
I would love to write a similar article of my own. It has been 13 yrs of being in US, paying high-bracket taxes, raising a family, buying a home, befriending tons of wonderful folks, contributing to the community and generally being a good citizen. It might be another 2 to 4 years.

Although it is hard to complain and I feel I have gotten more out of life here than given back, I often wonder what it has done to my psyche of not being at "home".
> Java used to have the opposite problem. It was doing too much at the "Java bytecode" level, such as string manipulation - so they added more "complex" opcodes written in C/C++ to speed things up, significantly.

Where'd you get that idea? It's because of advanced JITs that Java got a lot faster.

- former JVM hacker
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026276 and marked it off-topic.
For a long time -- until Andy Wingo took over development -- Guile was kind of a joke of a Scheme. It was horrendously slow and buggy, and it was updated very infrequently. Since Andy took over, it's quickly become one of the better choices for Scheme. Guile 2.0 is solid and reasonably fast. The 2.2 release is shaping up to be even better and even faster. Andy has done a great job with it, and he keeps his blog[0] updated with a lot of interesting posts about Guile internals and development.

[0]: http://wingolog.org/
It wasn't a million miles away from what HN and Reddit are today, or perhaps more select sites like LtU[1]. People used their own real names, and even real physical addresses and phone numbers(!), partly because most had access through a university or company which might enforce[2] that, but partly because the risks were low and/or not well understood. I spent many, many happy hours reading through postings on comp.unix.wizards when I should have been working. Oh and nobody ever top-posted (yay!)

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

[2] Very loosely - it was possible, indeed simple, to spoof postings.
Yep, you're right! Good catch. Here's an exception I captured,

[Unexpected Exception] [com.bamnetworks.registration.types.exception.UnexpectedRegistrationException] Caused by [java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException: Task scala.concurrent.impl.Future$PromiseCompletingRunnable@213cefb1 rejected from java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@78721c64[Running, pool size = 2000, active threads = 2000, queued tasks = 5000, completed tasks = 5842]]"

And looks like com.bamnetworks owns the MLB.com android app,

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Well, fake money is well done when it looks as good as the original :)

Just for saying I did not invent the lisp/scheme obsession directly from his web page[1] :

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't know what it means for a programming language to be powerful and elegant. Once you learn Lisp, you will see what is lacking in most other languages.

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
It may be the case that you've got Good Style, for whatever reason (inherent gift, good training, school of experience), but my take ( personal experience/view only ) on the two languages is that C style largely falls out of data structures[0], and Tcl out of action-directive (commands). I think of Tcl as a long lever where a small amount of code lifts a lot, either by composability[1], or leaning on heavy-lifting extensions, but very command-oriented none-the-less. By comparison, I feel my C more often is centered around structs.

[0] Show me your code and conceal your data structures, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your data structures, and I won't usually need your code; it'll be obvious. -Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar

[1] http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/Tcl.htm#M10
Around the time leading up to the TCL war, Lua was peacefully and quietly born in a manger at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

"In 1993, the only real contender was Tcl, which had been explicitly designed to be embedded into applications. However, Tcl had unfamiliar syntax, did not offer good support for data description, and ran only on Unix platforms. We did not consider LISP or Scheme because of their unfriendly syntax. Python was still in its infancy. In the free, do-it-yourself atmosphere that then reigned in Tecgraf, it was quite natural that we should try to develop our own scripting language ... Because many potential users of the language were not professional programmers, the language should avoid cryptic syntax and semantics. The implementation of the new language should be highly portable, because Tecgraf's clients had a very diverse collection of computer platforms. Finally, since we expected that other Tecgraf products would also need to embed a scripting language, the new language should follow the example of SOL and be provided as a library with a C API."

http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
Can somebody explain why authoritarian governments are even allowed a vote or membership in the UN?

What does it matter what a few elites at the top want for "their" country, when millions of their citizens usually want the exact opposite?

I doubt that many citizens in the 15 countries that voted against would agree with their leadership on this matter, for example.
I don't think he was offended, just pointed out that it happened.

That said I found the original joke quite un-amusing and I think it didn't add much
I highly recommend Zeke Emanuel's "Reinventing American Healthcare" which covers the current status of the US healthcare system and the many reasons about why it turned out the way that it did. It's fairly comprehensive for a primer but is very accessible.

If I remember correctly, the book covers the question you're asking directly. I don't have the book handy otherwise I would summarize it for you.
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What you mention as irony is of course nothing new; it's similar to what is described e.g. by Popper as paradox of democracy: the possibility that a majority decides for a tyrant to rule.

However, that there's a paradox is no reason to not acknowledge that Western democracies have the best human rights situation and personal freedom in the world, and giving control of the Internet to authoritarian, populous regimes would be bad for us all.
Why is a simple CPython implementation such an important requirement?

Portability? Make the JIT optional.

Ease of maintenance? Get a small team of experts to maintain it on behalf of everyone else.

Openness to beginners? That would be nice if possible as well, but CPython's job is to run programs rather than to educate.

A JIT needn't make the grammar, bytecode or threading model more complex. It would make data structures and the implementation more complex, but do you not think that's worth it if Python could be twice as fast?
I think this has a flaw. Considering that you will be presenting the end user with multiple options and the choice to only select one, the user can simply spend 4-5 seconds to select each option one by one until they get it right - Does not really verify that the end user indeed read the article
I don't see why it wouldn't be feasible for a site of any size. My only concern is running into issues with hammer. I was unable to mount my hammer partition after I filled up the drive. Not sure if it's a virtio bug or something that would affect actual disks as well, but that's something to be careful with.
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The kind of mobile ad blockers that work on the system level require root permissions afaiaa. Meanwhile, uBlock Origin is available on Firefox for Android, but being a Firefox extension, does not have the possibility of blocking traffic in other apps.

The amount of people who have rooted Android devices are probably far lower than the likely-also-low number of people using in-browser ad blockers on Android. For iOS devices, the number of people with jailbroken devices I would guess to be lower in relative percentage than on Android. I don't know if even just in-browser adblocking is possible on iOS at all without jailbreaking.

Anyway, point is, while ad blocking might be relatively wide-spread on the desktop among all people (why else would media bother to spend valuable developer time implementing ad blocker blockers?), in-app ad blocking probably is much less common and that's what fb benefits from.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026182 and marked it off-topic.
In my experience, the vast majority of human reasoning can be assigned into two categories:

a) that which justifies doing as their instincts say

and

b) that which justifies acting in their interest as determined by their instincts.

Humans are animals. We happen to possess an extraordinarily tool for abstract reasoning. That tool is mostly used for rationalization and not as an oracle of truth. We are all creatures of biology. Most everything we do is about getting food, shelter, performing sexual displays, and various forms of social signalling and jockeying.
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Use bookmarks feature. At least Chrome and FF allows you to sync it between different instances.

(Personally I use pinboard.in and would happily recommend it but I don't think everyone need it.)
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