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I had a similar experience that made me quit my last job, but for me it was being in an open plan office. I just found that I felt constantly under someones gaze, and I couldn't look around without looking someone in the eye. It was a low level stress like yours, and was really uncomfortable when trying to work through problems. For example I find closing my eyes helps me visualise a process in my head, but then someone sat nearby would see that and use it as a cue to talk to me 'oh are you stuck on something?.. yada yada yada'.
Give this a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1eVTy0bBCg&t=115

Its a NASA scientist Dr. Douglas Rowland at the minimum admitting geo-engineering and that there are different types of "chemtrails" and that they have dumped lithium into the atmosphere.
> 30% doesn't seem very impressive

If one launch provider can send you up for $40M instead of $60M for the others, would you ever go with the others?

Suddenly SpaceX owns the launch business.
Agreed that Feynman was at the epicenter of scientific computing; before the Manhattan project, computers were only used for businesses.
"Caldeira said. "I felt it was important to definitively show what real experts in contrails and aerosols think. We might not convince die-hard believers that their beloved secret spraying program is just a paranoid fantasy, but hopefully their friends will accept the facts.""

I doubt they will convince any conspiracy theorists. Often, the opposite occurs, i.e. 'the backfire effect': when they are approached with factual evidence, they end up feeling more strongly about their views than before, despite however wrong they may be.
I came to the same conclusion based on an analogy. Humans learn behavior by reinforcement learning, just like AI agents. Reinforcement learning is maximizing rewards by picking the right actions, given the current situation and internal state.

Now, humans have a number of inborn reward systems, such as connection (belonging, community, empathy), physical well being (food, sleep), play, autonomy, meaning (competence, efficiency), creativity. So the human reward is the sum of the individual "reward channels".

When focused on solving a single problem, there is a tendency to optimize only for part of this multi-part reward function, to the detriment of others. This is the cause of burnout. It's basically suboptimal reward, when considering rewards in all their complexity.

Here is a more complete inventory of basic needs (reward channels):

https://www.cnvc.org/Training/needs-inventory
Yep. They could complement the question with: "Which MBAs have higher job & life satisfaction."
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React is a pretty simple concept (with, perhaps, a complex implementation) reified in a library. It's basically componentized state machines for UI rendering. Comparing it to general "web frameworks" is completely missing the point. Granted, some people do [often needlessly] install a lot of react-whatevers for everything from routing to mysql fetching (yep).

I can see it being replaced by another library with a similar underlying philosophy that just does it better, but I don't really see how the general idea would vanish soon.

And btw Facebook uses it a lot on the web too (not just the often mentioned Ad Manager), messaging (and messenger.com) is basically all React and other components are a mix. Download the React Devtool to check it out, they don't obfuscate the React tree at all. Pretty fun to browse.
A set of 5 stripes of mirrors has the same problem that the comment brought up - losing the _wrong_ two disks loses all of your data.

In this case, going to raidz2 across all 12 disks would give an extra disk worth of capacity/performance with the ability to lose any 2 disks without data loss and going to raidz3 should give the same capacity/performance with the ability to lose any 3 disks without data loss.
Again this is like being "pro-bear" but not wanting a bear to come out and maul your children at the playground.
And one good way of ensuring that the bears don't come out and play is by not destroying their natural habitats.

I don't know what false dichotomy you are trying to point out but it doesn't exist, no serious preservationist or environmental scientists saying "all for X".
We want to preserve what we can do not cause further needless destruction and degradation in the biodiversity of our ecosystem.

Many environmental problems including desertification are cause by us destroying natural habitats including deserts.

If you have a desert more or less contained in its "natural" state providing a habitat to multiple species do what you can to preserve it.
If you have man accelerated desertification that is threatening to turn your arable land into sand dunes within the next 5 decades you should do what you can to slow it down, stop it, and then reverse it.

The only way of fighting desertification seems to be now to actually try to revert the damage you've done to the natural barriers and local environment in the first place.
Sand dunes that have had migration patterns of barely a CM per year now migrating at rates of a few meters per year are not a "natural" state.
pip doesn't even use a solver to determine which packages to install, it just uses the first mention it finds.
I remember the rat (Technorati)

Back then I ran 4 or 5 blogs and maybe 20,000 splogs (spam blogs) and I could never get the rat to index my blogs but it seemed it would always index my splogs.

The absence of vertical specific search engines is a major feature of the 2016 web. Is there some scorched earth policy that suppresses them? (You'll never get an acqui-hire in this town?)
Usually quoting a combination of other conspiracies that turned out to be true, and the 'first they ignore you, then they laugh at you' cliche, like somehow those things add credence to their story.

Carl Sagan's 'Demon Haunted World' book from the 1990s is a fascinating read on how the world is obsessed with conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.
But, but, water is a dangerous chemical, which has been used for societal control forever!

Reply with a self addressed envelope to receive your free tinfoil trilby.
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They recognize that. From the abstract of the linked article:

Our goal is not to sway those already convinced that there is a secret, large-scale spraying program—who often reject counter-evidence as further proof of their theories—but rather to establish a source of objective science that can inform public discourse.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/084011
This is a bit of a cheap example, given that Java getters and setters are something of a programming language punching bag at this point, but I really did write them, and I really did get frustrated by them!

...then don't write them if you don't need them. It's perfectly possible to write relatively concise and straightforward Java if you just ignore the massive quantities of dogmatic indoctrination effluent that abounds in that culture. Not everything needs to be an object. Not everything needs to have an API. Not every "best practice" is to be followed. Not every new feature needs to be used. I have some pretty amusing stories about that from the time I (briefly) worked in Enterprise Java...

Yet very few new programs are being written in BASIC, and lots are being written in Haskell.

You would be surprised how much Visual Basic and its variants are still being used.

That said, I never did "climb the ladder of abstraction" much, because the few times I tried, there just didn't seem to be any clear advantage in terms of productivity. I don't consider abstraction as something to be applied whenever possible; it's closer to a last-resort method used only when other approaches to simplifying code fail. And as programmers like Fabrice Bellard show, abstraction != productivity (he works mainly in C.) As someone who also stays relatively low in terms of abstraction levels, may I suggest the author of this article try Asm ;-)

To paraphrase someone in the demoscene who shares much the same viewpoint, "Some people look at a problem and see objects, models, layers, APIs, and other countless abstractions. I look at a problem and see a machine executing instructions to solve it."
So you do agree that some conditions of the environment will have negative consequences, or don't you?

You rhetoric style makes it really difficult to have a rational conversation with you.
As long as you're using Python 3, pip and pyvenv are bundled with Python. Pip is also included with Python 2.7.9 and later for Python 2 users.
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I've run into several issues with global installs because the Ubuntu maintainers have decided to make changes to libraries I want to use.
py2exe works well for me. It's no Windows installer but packaged in a zip file is good enough (for my use case at least). The only annoyance is the need to install some Microsoft C++ redistributables on the client side.
The Mini is sadly neglected and has always been overpriced. But hey, we're talking about a company that removed all the ports from one of its computers and is now about to peddle a music-centric phone with no headphone jack.

They may not want customers for ANY of their product lines, and hopefully they won't have any if they're going to keep degrading them with idiotic design decisions.
Bookmarking, some nice ideas here
The upvote triangle is proof that the Illuminati exist!
I've been using it for a year. Works great. One of the most thoughtfully designed and complete bits of software I've ever run into.

I'm especially delighted with it's self monitoring and the status change email messages it sends me.

That it includes webmail and gives me a nicely featured DNS server only makes it a touch more awesome.

I run it at Digital Ocean for ten bucks a month. I support family and friends. My email does not pass through google or microsoft servers and that makes me very happy.
I guess they want to get rid of the deep-thinking reflective introverts.
> "We wanted to establish a scientific record on the topic of secret atmospheric spraying programs for the benefit of those in the public who haven't made up their minds," said Steven Davis of UC Irvine. "The experts we surveyed resoundingly rejected contrail photographs and test results as evidence of a large-scale atmospheric conspiracy."

Not that I disagree with their expert opinions, but this is not a scientific record. This is not a hypothesis with reproducible experiments that prove or disprove the hypothesis. This is the aggregate opinion of many highly-educated people.
Maybe of interest as well is this talk by Kristen Meghan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_P5KWSXZF4

Down vote me into oblivion but at least give these talks an opportunity before doing so.
The biggest problem with apt-get is that the available versions of a given software tend to lag from the actual releases by a fair bit. Moreover, you probably don't want to install a certain package using apt-get and another using pip (not all might be available using apt-get).

easy_install [0] installs remote packages (similar to CPAN for perl). Obligatory reference: Why use pip over easy_install? [1]

[0] https://wiki.python.org/moin/EasyInstall

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/why-use-pip-over-...
Costs per launch include fuel (trivial at < $0.5m), rocket (say $30-40m of which first stage is 3/4) and recurring costs like employee time, refurbishment, test fires, barge rental, range costs etc (significant maybe 5-10m?). Musk is prone to talking about the far future as if it were tomorrow and within our grasp today. If you count medium term as 3-5 years (I'd call that short term), there is no way they're getting an order of magnitude saving.

They charge $60m, so it's unlikely ever to come down below 20m without 2nd stage reuse, and say around 5-10m even with full re-use in a few decades. Best case they could probably get it down to 10% of current costs (90% saving) if they manage full re-use and cut down on recurring costs a lot, but for now 30% is pretty impressive.
I'm surprised to see this article in 2016. I thought chemtrails were debunked decades ago.
AMD PSP has access to all the hardware in your machine. Now, whether the software running on it has drivers to control your ethernet hardware is another question, but if you could answer that, there wouldn't be a trust issue with these kinds of binary blobs.
What this means to me is that my olive oil will be three times more expensive.
> The destruction of natural habitats can also have a negative effect on human lives

Simple question: do you concede that in some cases keeping the natural habitats as they are might be worse than changing them, in terms of loss of life over the long run? If I can't get a yes or no on this, I don't think there's much point in continuing the conversation.
In other news, 76 of 77 atmospheric science experts continue to receive access to government grants and facilities by touting the company line.
It's not if you compete with Facebook, it's if you engage in patent litigation with Facebook.

This is a Mutually Assured Destruction clause for patent fights, nothing more.
I'll be writing another blog article about this in a few days. I'm installing Splunk at the moment to see the metrics myself!
I'm not an environmentalist, and again I don't understand how you define "good or bad", you seem to operate on so basic/childish terms that I'm honestly starting to suspect your engagement is nothing more than clever quasi trolling.

We have very little ability to gauge the true impact of environmental changes so far we've learned that for the most part any manmade or man accelerated change has in the long run an adverse effect on humans and the planet as a whole.

There is no conflict between humans being the geoengineers they are trying to stop adverse changes to their global habitat that can threaten them, while wanting to preserve natural habitats that serve as a home to countless other species.

Most people think nature is pretty nice, and well pretty pretty, screwing it over needlessly especially considering that every time we do it gets worse for us is what most of us by now came to define as "bad" because it has a negative effect on our civilization.

On the other hand if you say make an argument that we found the cure for cancer but to make it we need to harvest every blue belly turtle in the planet and cause the species to go pretty much extinct I don't think many people including me would have much of a moral objection to it since while I do feel bad for the blue belly turtle (I made this species up, it might exist but i don't know :)) the positive effect on human civilization is most likely going to outweigh any negative effects the extinction of this turtle will have on the environment.
My response was carefully tuned to respond to pyre, not you, so I don't feel the need to reply to this. Just politely letting you know...
You can do the same things in Java land as long as you have used a build system written in the last decade such as Maven or Gradle, you can just as easily pull down a git repo and run mvn package
It prefers to use its own DNS server because email DNS is tough. However, it provides the information to do it. While it probably took me a couple of hours to figure it out, I now have a DNS template at my registrar that makes it nearly automatic. That said, where I don't need the performance of a hosted DNS system, I let mailinabox take care of it.
You may be right. I am not at all knowledgeable about airworthness certificates. I did assist with supplying engineering documentation for flight clearances, but those are not the same thing.
There are people that still believe the Earth is flat. You will never, ever, change the minds of these believers.
If your setup worked under classic you didn't have to setup your VPC and worry about internet gateways and routing all of that stuff. It is better to use VPC and if you have a newer account and in fact you don't even get the option, but some of us have instances that have been running without issue for 7 years and don't want to reconfigure what is working.
DigitalOcean is just as susceptible to surveillance as Google or Microsoft.
I haven't had too many problems of this kind, but it does start becoming very painful if you work with GHC.TypeLits. It becomes very annoying using unsafeCoerce to "prove" to GHC that (a-1)+1 ~ a and other such trivialites. I realise solving these in the general case require the type checker to be equipped with a fully fledged SMT solver, but what I find really annoying is when GHC.TypeLits lacks the mechanism to solve simple contraints that you can get for free by lifting a simple inductive Nat type.

For instance GHC doesn't know that + is injective, so can't deduce that given a ~ m+1 and a ~ n+1, m ~ n.
Well if you must :)

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=212
Ooooh how exciting! I like that a lot. I can find this out myself, but what do they plan on doing with existing Groovy plugins for gradle pipelines?
You've correctly identified that he wasn't a perfect person, congratulations! Is this your first fallacy, or just the latest in a long and ugly line of them?
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Has anybody actually used this? It looks pretty interesting, but how would you get it up and running for a particular country without entering everything from scratch? Is there a way of bootstrapping the simulation for particular countries or regions?
I am interested in what the ethical argument against hacking them back is, unless it is simply 'hacking someone is on the list of things that are bad.' My attitude is basically one of 'implicit consent' - if you have done something bad, you have given implicit consent for something similar to be done to you. I like the symmetry, as it simplifies the argument, just as the Golden Rule does.
If we're going to throw around bad words, we need to get them right, and your definition isn't it. "Cannibalising" is used pretty narrowly in business to refer to when a new development in one area hurts sales in another, and the new product fails to increase the market size enough to make up for it.

What you're describing is a zero (or negative) sum game. Liquidity extraction isn't on its own a wealth generating action (although what you do with the liquidity will very often be, that's typically the motivation for extracting the liquidity), but otherwise it has no relation to what you're describing.

Interactions (whether accurately described as competition or not) between separate units (such as two different governments) can't be "cannibalisation", since neither is "eating their own". However, it certainly can be zero (or negative!) sum. I suppose you could describe certain actions of a single government as cannibalising one part of its population's well-being for the benefit of another, but that's really out of scope here.
Considering theres 81 home games between April and Sept, thats a lot of "terrible", during the only nice(weather-wise)months of the year there.

What did they spend on the "Big Dig"? 20 Billion dollars all said and done? "They" of course being the US tax payer who paid for it, not just Mass residents. Seems like that money might have been better spent on public transit infrastructure. So typical.
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Negative consequences for what species? Negative to humans - better for rats and cockroaches. Honestly, from biological point of view Homo sapiens and Rattus norvegica are just different species, but it seems your views are quite biased to favour only one, is it not?

@oneloop. HN does not techically provide me reply link, so I reply here - Sure thing. I told you earlier, I am based on oxydation as a life form. Remove oxygen - I die. And speaking of desert - me and you will die there too, being left in the middle of it. So what?
Has the concept of "unconscious needs" been scientifically characterized and validated? The term seems to be used with some frequency in the literature, but mostly mentioned in passing and not as a central component of the phenomenon being studied.
I didn't get in to Vue until 1.0, after I hopped into a project that had it. Being a backend guy first, I bristled at having to get my head around Vue to make fixes to this project- it was a mere half a day later that I felt quite comfortable with Vue and the different hierarchies, events, and propagations. Maybe because I walked into a half decent already written project or because I have experience with Angular, React, and Backbone I was almost there already on Vue.

It's to the point that I pretty much have started my last dozen projects with Vue, whereas it would've just been HTML5 + whatever as I needed and it would've been a hodgepodge.
Well, you SHOULD understand. I'm speaking in term of "loss of lives over the long run". Your words. More "loss of lives over the long run" is the bad alternative, when an alternative exists of less "loss of lives over the long run", which is the good one.

You seem to be writing your responses as if I were claiming that "it's ok to trash the environment", or something, which is not true (see my other comments in this thread).

Anyway, I'm bored, sorry.
I had a very similar experience where I actually dreaded going into the office because I knew my productivity would fall off a cliff. I slowly found myself accepting the day would be a loss with pointless meetings and other distractions, and got into the habit of doing my "head-down" work later once I got home. My wife pointed out how stupid that was (and frankly, unsustainable) so I pretty quickly jumped ship to a different company with a much better office design/remote work policy where I felt a lot more comfortable.
To be fair to them, a scientific record is in many ways just the aggregate of the agreements of the practitioners of [insert experimental / theoretical discipline here] who agree that a particular set of data and theories seem to be well-formed. So, scientific record is an aggregate opinion, backed by data. Sometimes the data are experiments, but these experiments require peer validation, or else any old crackpot wcould have their theories accepted. Other times the scientific consensus is less-well-backed by experiement (String theory anyone?) sometimes correctly, sometimes not. This is how induction works!
Indeed sir, I'm glad you share the wider concern. There has long been established (and denied by the establishment) that there is an undeniable link between consumption of this 'dangerous chemical' and death in humans. Conspiracy if there ever was one!
Those theorists are quite irrational, but what I find most ridiculous about a lot of them is not the theories themselves, but the idea that they have the ability to actually fight back.

Sensationalists like Alex Jones assert crazy ideas such as the government tainting our tap water to perform mass mind control and yet at the same time spread this message that they can resist against the upcoming "New World Order." With chemtrails specifically, on YouTube, you'll find videos of people spraying vinegar bottles outside when they see airplane contrails outside, believing it to be some sort of deterrent against their effects. If I believed that the government was capable of shit like super-effective mind control and all that other shit, I'd pretty much believe there's no hope for the world and recline to live the rest of my life in a bunker somewhere.
For humans.

So you do agree that some conditions of the environment will have negative consequences for humans, or don't you?
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