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Given the present state of Africa since decolonization, Africans should in truth be praying for the return of the British justice which ( briefly ) enabled civilization to spring forth on the Dark Continent. A British managerial class and Anglo colonies would be a blessing for the average African.
Are we using the older meds much, like penicillin? I wonder if bacteria eventually lose their resistance to older meds with lack of exposure.
I don't think the car tells the user whether it can handle the road or not. It just sends alerts when it needs help.

Humans are the guinea pig for Tesla. They want this data of their system driving outside its normal bounds. Otherwise yes Tesla would disable autopilot on unapproved roads.
So I think what the article asks for (i.e. to bring some more objectivity into the "alchemy" of code preference) is a great ask. However I agree with you however that his examples feel cherry-picked (and I sense an annoyance at FP). I suppose the most valid case would be to both real world problems and real-world change-requests to those problems.

I tried to make a programming challenge based around this premise: http://alexrohde.com/zennish/index.html#/challenges but it never seemed to interest many people.
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>it's still called "schematic capture" in contrast to "PCB design"

So what is it called when I capture a schematic in order to do some SPICE simulations on it? "PCB design minus the designing PCB part"?

"Capture" in this context means "the act of putting information in a form that a computer can use or read"¹, so I don't see how the phrase "schematic capture" is archaic when it mentions computers in its definition.

¹http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capture
You're right about incentives being wrong, but I disagree with the preference for chronic drugs being a primary factor. In my opinion, the primary incentive killer is that agencies like the FDA will not approve a truly new antibiotic for general use. It gets approved as an antibiotic of last resort. So for the time that a new antibiotic is under patent protection, the company can't recoup their R&D because they can only address a tiny part of the market. When the day finally comes when the wonder drug can be standard of care, it's well off patent and generic competition torpedoes any real profit. Why develop a great new antibiotic if the FDA forces you to keep it locked away? From the company perspective it makes no sense.
I'm with you. Another key benefit of regularly switching is the sheer amount of people you meet who can help you out next time you want to change.
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> If the tech exists, it will be used.

Well this is probably false. Most patented technologies are not used. In fact most of Apple's patented technologies are not used. You are flat out wrong.

> the only use for it is to stop then doing something they obviously want to do

This is also clearly wrong. The patent can be used to stop others from implementing this technology.

Given that Apple has a celebrated track record of using technology to protect its users from intrusive governments, the likelyhood is that they would use this patent for that purpose.
Agreed. And that's the mechanism many consumers want to know isn't employed -- because consumer suspicion is centered on that mechanism -- and quiet use of that mechanism is generally speaking advantageous for the producer.

Producers of food products may benefit in many ways and the consumer may benefit from a lower price and sure in other ways, but the consumer may suffer "because GMO" (not saying this is true, but this is the popular objection to GMO). Hence, the non-GMO label makes sense because it informs the consumer of something actionable that they want to know about, which otherwise they cannot easily reason about.

A great example of this is: how many people really know that oats are never today GMO? The label isn't useful because oats aren't typically GMO, but rather because people don't readily know this -- and consumers want a direct answer to their call to know if this mechanism is at work in their food.

And again, this is not because consumers know for a fact that GMO is harmful, but rather because they perceive it as a poignant risk to their health.

Placebo effect has a negative twin in nocebo [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
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> What I don't understand is why Tesla doesn't whitelist roads where this feature can be used, since the manual sets very specific conditions

I think they want the data of drivers attempting to drive with autopilot on these roads.

Tesla does, I've read, restrict how fast autopilot can drive on unapproved roads, so it appears they already have them mapped out.

They're using customers as guinea pigs for their tech.
1. The article clearly states that when calculating GDP, the yearly average exchange rates are used, not the spot rate, as was used for that sensationalist headline.

2. The pound is recovering, and has already climbed back up beyond the point when the calculation in the article was made.

3. 5th or 6th, honestly, what difference does it make? The point is that they're still a major player in the world economy.
I'm surprised no one has invoked Kant's categorical imperative. It doesn't directly address 'meaning'n but (a) the idea of a moral statement being necessarily true has implications for nihilism, and (b) the discussion in the thread touches often on moral philosophy.
Well, nothing written in that massive quote you've given mentions unemployment as a problem to be managed using fiscal policy, so I think that predicts how well it will really work out.
My plan does not wrap this fee into the expense ratio. For example I hold the same fund in the my 401(k) and in my personal account. I am charged 5bps for both of them.
No it's not more accurate.

Since other companies have gone down the route of providing streamlined law enforcement consoles, Apple's choice is clearly not one of convenience but of values.
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Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper if you have a dedicated box where you can run your own VMs and add and remove services as you please? So far, running one at base cost with leased hardware costs about 1/10th of any 'cloud' provider out there, with lots more resources to go around. Right now, if want to spin up a new instance, container or process, I can do it locally, in vagrant or on a VM on the dedicated box all with the same config and management ease of the configuration management stack (we use SaltStack). It also works just fine with stuff like GCE or AWS, but those simply are never ever the 'cheapest' option. At best, they are a in-between solution when we need more hardware. It's great for temporary scaling, but of nominal resource usage there is no point in using those services at all, at least for us. The cost of a dedicated box is static, no matter how much you use, and yet it is always lower than the mean cost or 95th percentile of any AWS/GCE kind of thing. For (converted currency from euro) about 100USD we get 16 E5 cores, 92GB RAM, 1TB SSD RAID10, 10TB HDD RAID10 and 8TB transfer on a dual 1Gbit link. For the life of me I can't find any combination on Amazon to match that.
I lent out my copy, but one particularly relevant section compares results from the aviation industry's use of pure-autopilot and HUD-augmented landings. Pilots maintain their flying skills, and get better overall results by staying in the loop with an augmented vision system. Good pilots often avoid full-autopilot entirely, or are forced to abort only seconds from touchdown, resulting in poorer landings. Bad pilots over rely on autopilot, and are therefore under-trained to deal with exceptional situations, resulting in incidents like the infamous Air France crash.

https://youtu.be/4nDdqGUMdAY?t=183
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I've been burned by this when shopping for hardware. Virtually all reviews of new stuff are basically ads.
I was wondering this as well because...pokemon came along...when? After my time, anyway, like late 90s.

And then kind of died down, I think, or at least wasn't a monstrous craze at least.

And now in 2016, does it mean that everyone who was super into them 15 years ago is all for it?

If I think about what I was super into at 10, the nostalgia doesn't go that far today.

I mean I see I'm late to the party here and everyone's already said it's real, but I was just surprised.

Around 2007, for some months there, the world was saturated with articles about Second Life. Eventually I saw an article about how it had come about as a result of hiring a new PR firm.

(Or has nostalgia changed? At least if I imagine giving 1940s kids something connected to that in 1965, it seems like they'd be like "Um, I'm a grown wo/man." But today hollyworld is all superhero movies.)

Bonus question: How long before we grow really sick of hearing about it?
Epicurus had some thoughts regarding avoiding the problems with hedonism while still basing 'the good' on pleasure.
Love thy neighbor isn't what I was talking about, and as someone else pointed out, your interpretation of that to be fellow Christians is incorrect (although in real life a lot of Christians behave how you say and worse).

Similarities between Islam and Christianity are to be expected. Islam is an appendix (The Quran) to Christianity (The New Testament/Covenant), added about 700 AD. And both are appended to Judaism (the Old Testament/Covenant).
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Disease has typically killed more than wars. The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 killed 50-100 million people, several percent of the total world population. By comparison, total military and civilian dealths in WWI were about 16 million.
Well I could ctrl +/-, but then have to worry some slide mid-presentation will still be too large and have to shrink again.

With PowerPoint / keynote and friends, I can be sure all my text will fit on the screen, even if I end up on a stupid 800x600 projector. No HTML framework, except my hacky mess, seems to do that. Maybe resizing mid presentation bothers other people less than me.
It's one of the fastest growing languages out there. I don't think OCaml or Haskell are missing any features of swift but I definitely believe swift to be an much easier to learn language that supports the majority of the features those languages support. It's also more likely to be able to be used on the job than those languages. I'm a big fan of Rust but it's growth has been slow and Elixir is really aimed at a different target than Rust or Swift.
> I hate to play Devil's advocate here, but a traditional car on cruise control will absolutely become a lethal missile if its driver has a stroke.

You're talking worst case scenario. This is a case where the driver was alive and chose to ignore warnings.

> I don't think automation makes that particular use case more dangerous.

It's more dangerous when the autopilot driver can easily misuse the system. Add a few requirements like hands on the wheel every few seconds before shut-off and you'll see this happen less frequently. Someone may still circumvent that measure. Nothing's perfect. There will be fewer people who abuse it.
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> The economics of drug development are partly to blame.

> To offset the millions of dollars they pour into research, clinical trials and the FDA approval process, pharmaceutical companies aim to develop blockbuster drugs, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases. An ideal candidate would be used by millions of people every day for the rest of their lives, like pills to keep cholesterol or blood pressure in check.

> Antibiotics won’t pay the freight. They should be prescribed sparingly and only used for about a week.

Hmmm. Natural selection of humans, in an environment partly controlled by Pharma.

Pharma needs lots of patients that consume a drug every day for life. (I take three of them, plus an arguable fourth.) People who take one or more of these drugs are valuable. Such people who live longer lives are more valuable.

By not discovering low revenue new antibiotics and making them available, what we're left with is people who take daily drugs for life, and somehow survive or avoid bacterial infection.

I want to believe that no one in Pharma has thought of this.
In general antibiotic resistance is lost when it doesn't confer an advantage. In some cases resistance to antibiotics costs cells energy they'd much rather be spending on other things. When the antibiotic is gone, cells without the energy tax can outcompete ones that do and divide quicker. The population then reverts to sensitive cells again.

Even in a hypothetical case where a random enzyme mutation confers resistance with no real obvious cost or side effect to the cell, unless there is specific environmental pressure to keep that mutation, it can easily revert in subsequent generations.
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Just grab a cheap Chinese clone off of Ebay. They're pretty much completely functionally identical in my experience.
Sure, but the person I was talking to wasn't talking about data loss. He was talking about asset seizure by the state. If they're going to seize my 401k they're just as likely to size my rental property.

And ya, in apocalyptic scenarios the value of assets could swing wildly. I've seen Mad Max though. I'm not buying gold, I'm stockpiling guzzoline.
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Really??? I did not know this. I shall investigate. Not helpful for me personally today but maybe at some point down the road. Thanks!
Nice work however it seems to be difficult to configure. I spent over an hour this afternoon trying to setup the application with no luck.

tried using example configs from your wiki but none worked. I'd suggest providing a basic default file rather than linking to users' examples.
> Formal validation are perfect for when you know exactly what problems you're solving.

Or you're at the point where formal validation is a requirement.

There's nothing stopping one from using any of these tools as design tools. I'm working on a problem to check whether items delivered by a single producer on a FIFO queue with N workers can guarantee all work items will eventually be attended to. I could just write the code for that but I'll never prove the system works that way. The best one can do is gain confidence that for the prescribed scenarios it will work. You can get good coverage and use all of the tools we know to release something others may decide to use... but then you'll be fixing your errors after the fact when they are discovered and reported by your users. Or in the case of a system as large as AWS you may find that obscurity is no longer a comforting buffer... 1 in 100000 becomes a frequent occurrence.

update: There's nothing preventing you from only using formal methods on the critical parts of your system where a high degree of reliability is useful. One does not need to formally verify everything to gain the benefits.

> But if your customers aren't actually engineers themselves, formal validation is unnecessary and inefficient.

I think it depends on the difficulty of the problems you address with your software. If you're just sorting some lists or making system calls you might not want to bother. However if you want to guarantee consensus in the face of delays and partitions you'll need more than code to make any strong claims of efficacy. And if the public interest relies on your system I think it's necessary to serve them in the best capacity using the state of the art tools.

> Does your team know TLA+? Is it an efficient use of their time to learn it?

No. They could pick it up in a couple of weeks if necessary. It is an efficient use of their time: fewer bugs at scale means less downtime and less time spent chasing errors that slipped through.

> Are a bunch of TLA+ beginners going to crank out properly written software?

Are a bunch of beginner programmers going to crank out properly written software? There are different levels of experience and skill on any team. With training and diligence even beginners can learn to adopt the skill and ability to recognize when and where to use high level specifications and how to abstract systems into mathematical models they can test and prove.

Until then I suppose we have to live in a world where security breaches are common and the recall rates on cars will continue to increase as unreliable software continues to cause failures, lives, etc.
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Were they though? Outside of the 69-71 era there were only a dozen or two per year. How many of those could be prevented simply by locking the doors and not giving in?
I've had significantly more damage done to my belongs because they were searched than what terrorists have done.
The parent said "depending on which you subscribe to." There are millions of people who believe the phrase you quoted. So it is a counter argument, regardless of its objective true-ness.
except you're wrong. elite institution bias is very strong in tech as in other professions. MIT, CMU, and Stanford name recognition has a huge impact and the recruiting pipelines (lucrative paid internships resulting in outrageously high pay for first-job-out-of-college) for elite companies is the way the game is played.

maybe tech is mildly more open-minded than say, the law profession, when it comes to elite institution bias. let's not fool ourselves and pretend it isn't a thing though.
>Well, the Internet became just that medium, but Castro never deemed fit to give access to the citizens of his country. He and his comrades are just too old to get it.

I think this quote from your original post better shows the profound misconceptions that you have about the Castro regime.

The internet is not tightly restricted because the "he and his comrades are just too old to get it". It's restricted because the free exchange of ideas and facts is a threat to their brutal dictatorship. Because all of their heads would probably roll if it ever collapses.

Napoleon and Caesar are now academic history. They are not combatants in any ongoing conflicts, nor causing any ongoing suffering. The Castros, meanwhile, are still exporting their "revolution" to other places (Venezuela is a very visible victim) and those who suffer greatly at their hands are still with us.
I built a similar proof of concept a few months ago https://www.aesopwolf.com/simpleslide/
Google has a completely different strategy. They're aiming for 100% automation via a more gradual testing process before making any sort of automation available to consumers.

I believe their thought is that the closer we get to complete automation, the less likely a driver is to remain aware. We're only at roughly 10% automation right now and drivers are already taking their eyes off the road. When we get to 90%, humans will have an even tougher time retaining attentiveness. Watch their talks to be sure.

Google's self driving car group gives some awesome transparency reports every month, including details about every accident [1]. It's like they're ready to become their own company.

Fortune had a good article critiquing Tesla's strategy vs. Google's and other car companies' [2]. The author says Tesla is being defensive and resistant to public critique. Other companies expect pushback from the public and incorporate that into their product offerings.

[1] https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/

[2] http://fortune.com/2016/07/11/elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-c...
How much damage is done to searched bags, and how many items have been stolen by the searchers? More or less than the damage a terrorist would cause? I'm trying to say that searching bags is more expensive and more disruptive than you are trying to argue
They're good evrn for exploration if you're using formal specs. Reason is good ones knock out errors due to English ambiguity and inconsistencies. Z, Navy's SCR, B method, and Statecharts were all used for these purposes with success. Executable specifications did even better for exploration aspect.

Current research is taking it further with code generation from specs like AADL, UML, and especially SCADE/Esterel.
Hammerspoon is another one worth mentioning, uses Lua:

https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
It was ~20 years ago, so I don't remember all of the details. The main things centered around what we have all read and heard about. Lack of freedom and political dissidence landing people in prison or worse.
Wouldn't it be bad for the same reason that it's bad for residential? Residentially, it feels unfair to get priced out of your home due to forces outside your control. I can't help feeling bad for a local mom and pop store getting priced out for the same reason. There are tons of little local downtowns that are rapidly going from small stores to rows of Gap and Abercrombie as landlords see opportunities. This would just exacerbate that.
Taxis are way better than cabs in New York City, especially Manhattan. When you order an uber you get someone one block away but instead of being able to run and catch him you have to wait half an hour for him to go around the block. Meanwhile you can stick your hand up and get a car to pull over within one second. NYC cabs even take NFC.

the other thing is that uber drivers are all amateurs who are new and probably got some kind of payment incentive. taxi drivers in NYC are much better, much more aggressive drivers who can get you around town MUCH faster
Doctors are learned professionals, and they have a professional responsibility not to prescribe ineffective medication. Importantly, antibiotics come with their own substantial risks. A whiny patient is not a good reason, and I've never met a doctor unwilling to turn down a whiny patient. It's only at the margins where a whiny patient can cajole a doctor, such as to increase dosage. Plus, whining is one piece of evidence used in diagnosing, and if the doctor has others reasons to believe there's something substantive, whining can nudge him along.

The _crux_ of the issue is that doctors prescribe antibiotics for viral infections because the diagnosis is usually only based on a cursory examination. Their time is expensive, and you can't spend an hour on every patient with a cough and a fever. Furthermore, viral infections often precede or are concurrent with bacterial infections. So doctors are making a rational decision when prescribing antibiotics, and it's not even clear that this decision is globally suboptimal because bacterial infections are not uncommon with a cold or especially a flu.

If we're serious about overprescription of antibiotics, we should be heavily investing in improved diagnostic equipment and processes. For example, rapidly scanning mucus samples for viral and bacterial markers. The fact that we don't appear to be doing this suggests that either overprescription isn't actually a problem, or that we're not thinking seriously about the problem.