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An ontology of technlogical mechanisms (or dynamics):

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/klsjjjzzl9plqxz-ms8nww

Particularly in economic and policy discussion, technology is just "technology". A black box. In economics, Solow's Residual is described, by Solow, as "the measure of our ignorance" of factor productivity growth influences -- it's quite literally, statistically, what's left over after accounting for labour and capital.

I see a few quite evident classifications which strike me as useful:

1. Fuels. Apply more energy to something, it tends to happen faster. Wood, plant and animal oils, fossil fuels, nuclear fission, possibly fusion.

2. Material properties. Some things are highly dependent on specific material properties. Conductivity of gold, silver, copper, and aluminium. Ferromagnetism. Hardness of diamond. Softness of graphite. Semiconducting of silicon. Fertilising properties of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Many others. Point being, you're now locked into availablity and other properties of that material.

3. Specific process knowledge. What used to be called "arts". Most of what's now considered "technology", from agriculture to zymurgy (though zyumurgy's actually fairly close to agriculture...). These approach theoretical efficiency limits.

4. What seem to be dendritic or web structured aspects. Computer chips and Moore's law are today's classic example, but I'd count communications, transport, and trade networks, cities and urbanisations, knowledge itself, and other elements among these. What they have in common is an increasing rate of progress with greater accumulation, modulo retarding factors.

There are several other elements. Sensing and measurement increase various capabilities -- navigation and fine metal machining come to mind. Symbolic processing, from speech and writing to abstract maths and programming. Organisation -- of people, states, business, and finance.

The final element, and one which popped out at me whilst devising the ontology, was the concept of hygiene or pollution factors. They're a distinct class of phenomena which if not addressed tend to put a damper on further growth, everything from infectuous disease in cities to heavy metal pollution, salination of croplands, traffic congestion, spam and fraud in communications and business networks. It's a superset of common categories such as "pollution" or "disease" or "social breakdown".

Anyhow, that's what I'm working on. I find it a useful organising tool, still developing the idea.
After reading so much about Comcast I vowed to avoid them when I finished school. At my first place I went with ATT, which sucked because of shockingly frequent outages. But at least it wasn't Comcast. Now I'm moving across the country, and I picked among nearly-identical apartment complexes by choosing the one that has a smaller company with cheaper rates and higher bandwidth over Comcast.

We'll see how long I can keep it up.
Yes. Supposedly Oracle recommends such a configuration, but I haven't dug into it much beyond that.
Not just Palo Alto but California-wide....Prop 13 makes dying of old age in the home you raised your children in the cheapest option. Literally anywhere else people move to, even a downsize, will result in higher property taxes

Related to this is the shabby conditions of many homes...the aged can't afford to renovate, but they also can't afford to move. They die in a tear-down
Pomax, I met you in an IRC channel years ago (2005 I believe), used a very early rendition of your book to teach myself Japanese (it was just a Japanese grammar dictionary at the time, written in DocBook), and promptly ended up become one of the many teenage anime fansubbers of the era. I made so many good memories fansubbing anime and made so many friends who I still cherish today, that I thank you for the amazing introduction to this language that I still relish to this day.

Thank you so much for your hard work!
You're more than welcome to explore this yourself.

You are, otherwise, being what the modern English derivative of the Sumerian ansu describes.
I really don't know what that "further adoption" you're talking about because it's on all major browsers. caniuse.com marks SVG support on 97% of clients worldwide.
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It's not a privilege or a right. But it's a smart policy that will make us all richer, healthier, and more environmentally friendly. You can read more here: https://medium.com/b-copy-com-longform-content/why-can-t-tho...
Yeah makes sense. But the article never actually connected the term and the concept. I did a Ctrl-F just to make sure :).
And ZeroHedge assured me society would collapse in 2009...guess enough people don't subscribe to InfoWars
The pressure is on to make metallic hydrogen
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Readability : although I'm not proficient in Haskell it seems to lend itself towards perl-like clever one liners.
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Multi-millionaires? ProfessorVille has numerous Billionaires on a single block.

Agree on the sentiment though...arguing for affordability in PAMPA is a lost cause
That's exactly what the Koenigsegg Regera does, it has three total electric motors in addition to the engine. The one in front of the engine is used as energy conversion and as a starter for the motor. There are two more electric motors on each axle for supplying the initial grunt, while the engine builds horsepower, supplementing the electric motor. The motors also aid in regenerative braking and torque vectoring. There is no transmission between the engine, electric motors and the wheels, relying only on a torque converter, using the entire rpm range of the engine from zed to 250 mph. In addition, the engine has no camshafts, relying on electronics and pneumatics for the intake and exhaust valves. And of course, it has two turbo chargers as well.
Huh? I'm not sure I understand.
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Maybe the trick would be to have two crank shafts, with two pistons per "cylinder" (or combustion space), and run them slightly out of phase with each other to vary the compression....
Good. Quarkslab is one of the most impressive reverse company I know of.
Yes, you are correct. It was a mistake on my end. Thanks for pointing it out. I cannot update the post to fix the mistake. Hope people upvote your post to make sure it stays visible.
That can be a valid specialization, but the bar is higher than most people realize. If you're going to be a specialist in software development, it isn't enough to merely work at a company or three and advance through the ranks. You have to become so skilled at the process of software creation that your knowledge is recognized as universally relevant. You have to be in the top percentile(s) of people who do what you do.

It's the difference between being a middle manager at a tech company and being, say, Rob Pike or Jeff Dean. (Maybe that bar is set a bit too high, but hopefully you get the idea.)
That is why a startup is needed. Airbnb and Uber showed how to get past regulations.
Hey, I think you're being unfair here, attributing a wide range of beliefs to me that I never stated, nor do I believe. That's really unfair. I said in another post: I hear that you're angry, but it's not OK to lash out or claim that I'm arguing something I'm not.

Anyway, with regards to home ownership: I'm personally of the belief that home ownership has been massively oversold as a benefit. I've been in the Bay Area for 25 years, from undergrad to staff engineer at an internet firm. Over the various dot-booms and dot-busts, I saw people moving further from the Bay Area and taking on insane commutes due to the desire to own homes. For example, many Stanford employees purchased in Tracy(!), then experienced massive financial failures when that area depreciated.

I'd like to see Prop 13 die in a fire. Unlikely to ever happen.

So, as you say, you're moving out of Palo Alto because the costs to buy there are too high. However, Santa Cruz isn't particularly cheap nor is it significantly cheaper than my own area, San Mateo, which has a 20 minute commute to Palo Alto.

If you had just said, "$90K/year in an area 30 minute commute to PA", I wouldn't have complained at all. The problem here is insisting on living directly in PA weakens the argument (it's specious) because there is no specific reason for a person to have to live in PA. There are more affordable communities around within 30 minutes commute. I feel like you're insisting that people who support a community must live (and own) in that city. I don't think that's a rational requiment.

Again, none of my argument is based on the systemic issues in the Bay Area (or anywhere with a booming economy and a large number of well-capitalized buyers), which I freely admit is a problem.
The relationship is not usually linear, though. With density comes efficiency in services. Though some of that efficiency is eaten by the additional cost of doing the work.
What do you mean, "allow people to build housing on land that they own". What land? The cost of building housing in PA is marginal to the land costs.
Business relationships are also relationships. The first people a small company hires are the people they're friends with or friendly with. The people who invest in you are more likely to be your social acquaintances or friends. You won't even get a meeting with an investor in many cases unless you have a common connection. Partnerships are formed all the time between people who also are on the same soccer team, etc. People in business also have people they like and that they don't like and that they're friends with outside of work. I have coworkers, but I also go to their BBQs and their birthday parties - they're still human beings. When people are entrusting each other with the fates of their companies, their employees, and their own personal wealth, they need a high degree of trust.

You sound like someone who has never actually had to work in a multinational company before or with remote team members. Anyone who has can tell you that things are much easier when co-workers know each other personally and become friendly with each other than when they're just strangers to you on the other end of the email. It changes how you respond to them.How likely you are to misunderstand them. How likely you are to respond with kindness or terseness. And it changes how you feel about your job in general. When you go into work and you like the people you work with and you consider yourself their friend, you're far more likely to like your job overall and stay there. If you treat your entire work life as a "transaction" then you're far less likely to be happy with your work life.
In high school, I had a poster that said "EAT SHIT-- Five Billion Flies Can't Be Wrong!!!"

Your approach reminds me of that. You upvote things you don't read, because you figure they're probably pretty good?

How about we mitigate this by forcing you to attend Donald Trump rallies until your brain melts?
Sure I'm fine with learning art not to be a full time professional, that's me after all. And if you going in wanting to teach, that's great too. I don't have a fully formed thought here, but more a gut reaction against a world where education and educators is always celebrated without any......sympathy that maybe these people rather be doing something else.
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"Quantity has a quality all its own." (Misattributed to Stalin, probably related to the Marx quote in the paper. https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Stalin&old...)

Some stray observations.

"More is Different" is also the slogan of the Nanyang Technological University annual conference on complexity. There are some phenomenal presentations there, many on YouTube.

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ias/upcomingevents/complexity12/Pages/...

Related to the issue of emergent phenomena is:

Polanyi, Michael. "Life transcending physics and chemistry." Chemical & Engineering News 45.35 (1967): 54.
You're right in one sense -- all government (in)actions should be considered, not an "interference" per se, but a choice made with at least some understanding of the consequences on society.

As for the problem of interfering with the market... One issue is that a well-functioning market depends on the idea that price captures all information. This is central to the idea of the "invisible hand" guiding individuals to arrive at the correct level of supply to optimally satisfy demand. When government actions set prices, the market participants no longer receive the correct information. In turn, the market will arrive either at too much supply (and waste) or too little supply (and unsatisfied demand).

In the case of housing, the government usually takes action to set prices for some homes lower than what market forces would arrive at. Therefore, the market will under-supply and some folks who want housing will not have it. The answer is to either allow prices to move without intervention or for the government to subsidize the supply of housing.
The thing about getting rid of prop 13 is you'd price out a lot of residents that bought a long time ago for something they don't have a whole lot of control over. If you thought that gentrification is bad now, churn in residents would got through the roof. Not to mention that you wouldn't solve the issue of shorter-term investments in land, or investments that include new constructions.

Honestly, the real issue in the bay area is there isn't enough housing, period. To solve this, build more housing, or build more infrastructure to enable people to live further away, or both. However, residents in the bay area have always been opposed to things like that.
Having been in academia myself, I remember "learning" how to write articles by reading other articles. With the exception of one briljant prof I had, most other professors would expect you to write in that style, and if not, that would typically be reflected in your grade. I don't even think this is intentional, they probably learned to write articles the same way.

I remember that the best written articles are typically also from tenured professors leading the field they were writing about, and who would not need to worry about bad peer reviews or other ways their articles would be assessed. (Which leads to the question of they became tenured because of their great communication, or if they are finally free to communicate normally now that they've reached a tenured position)
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I share this feeling , esp. when each third party lib wants to introduce some variant of <$../<>).

But I've found some of the more common symbols end up being how you think about your code when you become more versed.

The big one is <$> for fmap. If you have some functor/monad/thingy, you'll often be like "I have this pure function that I want to apply to the inner value of my functor", and <$> is the perfect analog to $.

The high abstraction level of Haskell makes reaching for these really tempting and easy. And the alternatives are verbose and harder to read in many situations.

compare "capitalise <$> readStrLn" to

do val <- readStrLn
return capitalise val

(though "fmap capitalize readStrLn" isn't too bad)
Not to be nitpicking, but light years is a measure of distance and not of time :-)
It didn't when we were looking. We didn't see a single property come up on the downtown side of El Camino. We would have liked that, but we didn't see it. And also $2M would also not have been within the band we were looking for.
$2.7M house in PA -> $1.2M house in San Mateo. less than 30 minute commute (it takes me 20 to go from SM to PA on a moderate traffic day).
Which countries do you think handle housing well? Any references would be appreciated.
if you're a classical musician you're going to either play in an orchestra, which pays OK, depending on the notoriety of the orchestra you get into...or you're going to teach, which pays better for the most part.

keep in mind that if you're a classical musician of professional-level skill, that means you've devoted your entire life and a shit ton of money towards the pursuit of getting good at one of the hardest skills on earth. i've been programming for 3 years now, and i've written a 3d renderer, all sorts of websites, fluid simulations, a photon mapping renderer, etc, etc..i still don't feel like i'm that great at programming, but i feel pretty confident in my ability to write programs that work and aren't ugly. after 3 years.

after 10 years of playing the violin you're pretty much a novice.
We'll kill the golden goose and eventually companies will leave. They can't afford to pay workers 3x the competitive rate just to support housing costs.
> I actually grew up in a McMansion. I always thought it was a great house. We had a pool, and two concrete lion statues guarding the front door. Thinking back on it makes me cringe. How could my parent's buy a house like that? It oozed with tackiness.

If you’d grown up in a normal-sized house (maybe 1000–1800 sq. ft., depending on family size), you’d also have thought it was a “great house”.

Kids in general tend not to question their natural environment much. There are some amenities (electric lighting, hot showers, indoor plumbing, washing machines, telephones, HVAC, ...) which make a noticeable difference to quality of life compared to growing up in a wattle and daub shack with a dirt floor.

On the other hand, having an extra 6 miscellaneous rooms to store random crap, giant walk-in closets, 4 bathrooms, a huge home theater, or supersized bedrooms makes only a very slight difference to anyone, except insofar as it signals to the neighbors that you‘re rich and gives you 3x more cleaning to do.

My parents who grew up in families with 5 kids in tiny 3-bedroom 1-bathroom houses in the 50s thought their houses were great. I’m sure they would have appreciated 1–2 extra small bedrooms and an extra bathroom, but it wasn’t a big deal.

The much larger problem with McMansions is that they tend to be in suburbs with huge distances between places and streets actively hostile to pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit. Absolutely everything requires a car ride to get to: friends’ houses, the park, school, grocery stores, little shops, cafés, restaurants, the library, the doctor’s office, concert venues, museums, etc. Such an exterior/public environment is incredibly constricting for everyone, but especially for kids, the elderly, the disabled, and the poor.
Not in my experience. Or put another way, if you take someone with an MBA or a masters in engineering, neither of them intrinsically has more management skills or training. (IF colleges are teaching "management skills" they are not doing a good job of it.)

Yes, many engineers do not want to be managers, and unfortunately, too many non-engineers want the power. This is a good thing about engineers and a bad thing about those non-engineers.

I've seen lots of good engineers who manage, but almost no business people who are good managers of engineering.

I know that what you're saying is a popular perspective, but so is the idea that we should let wall street manage our retirements and real estate is always a good investment. Some of this perspective is self serving.
Sure, Korean is phonetic, and so learning it phonetically makes sense, since you won't be forced to re-learn it again to be able to use your knowledge. Speaking from experience studying Korean, though, attaining a useable vocabulary through rote memorization is dramatically harder than if you're familiar with the 한자/漢字 words are derived from, for exactly that reason - even though hanja's not used directly so much in korean, we started studying it in the third semester of Korean class, and it was helpful, though I'd agree maybe a bit excessive there.

Games that use a strict hiragana character set are readable by natives because they're already fluent in speaking; they're unnecessarily difficult for non-native speakers, particularly since they tend to only have the bare minimum of separators between words. After living in 4 prefectures, working for a small Japanese company, and dating a native speaker for roughly a decade, I still find those games hard to read - it's just hard to identify the shapes of words, like reading English with no spaces; you have no choice but to guess where the boundaries are and sound everything out syllable by syllable, because everything's written differently from how you'd see it anywhere else.

If some people want to put off kanji or memorize phrases from a travel guide, that's their prerogative, but not teaching the compositional aspects of kanji, and leaving students to fend for themselves after selling the idea that it's all rote memorization (and seemingly to push this implausible ethnocentric dream of the language one day being exclusively romanized) is just a disservice to the students, as it was to me.
One flaw I'd point out after working with Purescript a lot is that Haskell's "IO " is very large, to the point of not meaning anything.

printing to screen? IO

network connections? IO

launching the nukes? IO

You get this weird effect of having pure code, then _all_ your effectful code inhabiting the same types. Though this helps make you write more pure code, when you do write effectful code, it's not nearly as safe as one might want.

Purescript's effects is a nicer granular mechanism.
Backyards are extremely convenient, as opposed to walking/driving to a park, when you have dogs and/or small children.
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The article is about things that impact professionals (thought they also beginners). For better or worse, experienced Haskell users can read the one liners just fine.
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Tools and ecosystem coherence, basically. We have infrastructure technical debt and...factions.
I'm running my own mail server for a couple of years now. I'm using postfix and dovecot. I have SPF and DKIM set up and I'm using spamassassin, roundcube.

Setting up a working mail server is one of the biggest challenges because so many components are involved these days and you need to make them play perfectly together. I'm against using out of the box VM images / installers because then you don't understand whats going on under the hood. Mail servers are these kinds of beasts I would suggest to understand as best as possible before letting it loose on the world.

Its like with security. There is no "Just press this button/Just install this software and you are secure" solution - There is no easy and convenient way to run your own mail server without getting really involved with it :)

Just saying this as a warning for everybody who has this thought. I've been through it and my mail set up is running for 5 years like a charm now. But it was a steep way to get there :)
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As I've pointed out elsewhere on this post, you've setting up a ton of requirements that can't be met. While I appreciate that you want to live in a "walkable area", that's pretty much the first requirement you should drop. That's a "want to have", not a "must have" in housing. Like I've pointed out elsewhere, you're setting up specious arguments when you insist of a bunch of details, like living directly in PA, living directly in a walkable area, being able to bike on the streets in your neighborhood.