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Dogfooding is quite important, yeah. Some products, hmm, maybe not. For example, if I work for a dating app, I may not feel comfortable actually using the app myself especially when I am committed to a relationship. I.e. I can't dogfood it because I have no use of the product. In the case of say Facebook, I believe employees use the site internally so dogfooding is possible, even if privately some employees don't actually have a Facebook account. Going extreme, people who are responsible for designing military jet or nuclear reactor, they can't dogfood any of that, only simulation and model testing are possible.
I don't really think affecting how markets work is something I think's a good idea nor do I think it's an optimal path for me anyway. God bless those who do it. The thing is I don't even see fundamental changes to the way the market works is even a good idea to attempt, however incompetently or well, it's going to be a buggy mess.

I'm not advocating anything at all right now, I'm just listening and expressing my own opinions, all provisional.
>I would actually argue that it's not wasting time to insult them, it's wasting time arguing with them.

That's exactly the attitude that brought us Donald Trump. If you mock and delegitimize people for long enough, they'll stop taking the system seriously and just give you the finger in any way they can.
There's one where he gets the scammers to dress up and take pictures to proove who they are ... you can't make this stuff up :) I'll try to find the link.
You'd risk slow and tedious movies.
I did the savings calculator on that site and it said it will cost me more than my current system? I thought there would be cost savings from this? Does it assume I have an AC unit already?
Of course, there's nothing wrong with using the tax code to try to, say, reduce pollution.
The Wikipedia article shows US production dropping 30% from 1967 to 2015. It's a loss, yes, but 70% of the production is still here. What's changed is that China and other countries are producing much more now, so as a percentage of world-wide production the US has dropped. But that'd be true even if we were producing more domestic steel than before.
Did they search for "Riot chat" first? There's another software company named Riot that currently dominates results there despite chat being auxiliary in their products. Hopefully they can shift that in their favor.
Really? The autopilot on my boat will attempt (badly) to go in a straight line, care nothing about speed, and will happily run me into buoys, boats, beaches, bridges, and boulders. If you are foolish enough to attempt to provide a route with waypoints for turns it will throw the rudder over without warning so suddenly that you may be injured or thrown from the vessel.

It's a big world, I suppose there are people that think "autopilot" means "crawl into the back seat and take a nap", but there is certainly a spectrum, and if you try to name something so it can never be misunderstood you will probably end up calling it "NaviaMODE™®℠" and then no one knows anything.
I think maybe you don't understand what autopilot actually does on a plane...but regardless I agree it was a dumb name that made sense to engineers but should have been shot down immediately by marketing and legal.
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I think that there are several thing that brought us to 12. First it is very easy to divide, this is why we use 12 hours clocks and between 2 octave the ear is able to distinguish 1/12 of an octave as 2 different sounds, it might be possible to do better but it would be unpractical because it would be more difficult to found chords that sound good. Arabic music use quater tones (24 quater tones per octave).
> Your criticism comes down to ...

No, those were only the two most obvious, easiest-to-solve examples that came to mind.

With all due respect to you and your Rust colleagues (who have done a lot of impressive work), "we made choices that were not your preference" sounds a little condescending. These are my personal opinions, just as your counterarguments are opinions. We should all able to make technical arguments without resorting to that kind of rhetoric. Of course you made choices. Everyone here is entitled to disagree with them and explain why.

There's a false dichotomy between "hard-to-read syntax" and "no syntax at all" being implied here. It's reasonable to imagine that Rust could have had less terse, but still readable, syntax, even for things like lifetimes.
It has no crash protection. They want to sell many cameras.
Your problem isn't with London, it's with large cities. You won't be any happier in Berlin.
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Something that’s lightweight and doesn’t require heavy plumbing.
I'm not that close with my phone, though.
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TLDR for every piece written about this, it's still safer than a human driving alone, period. When used properly, it's vastly safer, and when used improperly, it's probably still safer but only just...the thing to consider is the kind of driver who's selfish and dumb enough to misuse this kind of thing is a high risk driver without it and would probably still be worse.
Yeah, that's really entirely tangential to the issue being discussed.

Since I know this is a polarizing topic, I feel compelled to note that neither myself nor my girlfriend own a single Samsung product other than a 40" TV.
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Features like these traditionally do not work with Google Apps accounts. Adding your hotel reservation confirmations to your calendar or notifying you of package delivery? Nope. Anything else Google Now could use? Nope. Google doesn't read you Apps account, like they do with the regular ones.
I'm very disappointed with being unable to use so many Google apps. Has anyone recently transitioned from a Google Apps account to a regular Google account? Yup, I'm considering it..
> We should all able to make technical arguments without resorting to that kind of rhetoric.

The subtext here is that these decisions aren't technical. They're pretty arbitrary: "func" vs. "fn" or camel case vs. snake case. There's no science here: there are lots of very successful languages with camel case and lots of very successful languages with snake case.

I certainly appreciate that you have specific reasons for your preferences, but I take issue with the idea that we didn't spend time on the visual aspect of the language.

> It's reasonable to imagine that Rust could have had less terse, but still readable, syntax, even for things like lifetimes.

Do you have a proposal?

There were long threads with different proposals back when this stuff was being designed, but none of them were particularly palatable. The verbosity with anything that wasn't as lightweight as possible turned out to be too much.
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It's not at all clear to me why another country would have their agent publicly disclose his findings to journalists and newspapers before returning home to safety. IMHO, this makes zero sense.
Can they elect to receive a quarter million cash dollars in lieu of benefits? If not, such benefits are not really part of their compensation any more than their uniforms or cars.
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Looking at the amount produced by year it seems like U.S. production has been relatively steady over the last year and not too much lower than it was in previous decades. I think looking at percentages doesn't really tell the full story here, since China's production has increased so much as to overshadow most other countries' output. The "drop" from 25% to 5% wasn't as much due to production leaving the US as it is production not increasing at breakneck pace.
It's not at all clear that Clapper committed perjury. He took an oath long before he testified at that hearing to not reveal certain secrets to unauthorized people, and that oath was backed by laws passed by Congress.

He also took an oath later to testify truthfully at that Congressional committee hearing.

When those oaths conflict, which one takes priority?

Note that due to the nature of Wyden's question, Clapper could not simply say that he could not answer and give as the reason for not answering that it would require revealing classified information, because that itself would strongly imply that the answer was "yes".

Also, didn't Wyden already know the answer to the question? I thought I read that the members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (and also those of the corresponding House committee) knew about these programs. If so, then Clapper's answer (no matter what he said) would convey no relevant information to the Committee. At common law, that would rule out any possibility of it being perjury. I don't know if there is a similar exception in the relevant perjury statutes for Congressional testimony.
Not disagreeing, but is there any hard, independent third-party research to back up this claim? As an engineer, I tend to lean this way. As a father of two, I want to see some numbers to back up statements like "still safer than a human driving alone, period."
Here is a more recent example from history: the use of encrypted communications by the ANC in organising against the South African government.

https://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv0...

You're right that you need to have people on the streets or in office to get anything changed. I think too many people forget this and forgo the slow hard work of street-by-street politics and downticket races.
Vector (+Matrix) is kinda like self-hosted slack/discord with proper history sync across all your devices, file uploads, nice UI, etc.

It's really good. I recommended it to 7 people and every single one liked it, even got 5 of them to set up their own federated homeservers. We're thinking about moving a ~60-people skype group there as well.

Only issue I had is Synapse hogging the CPU and getting laggy with a large room (#matrix:matrix.org with its 4 thousand members). I'm using scaleway's 3 EUR/month Starter VC1S server for Synapse though. Hopefully it will get even better with time.
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This is not an example of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. It is instead an overt accusation that the USA is acting uncivilized with regards to this one issue, and should know better because they are otherwise civilized.

If it were an example of the mentioned fallacy, the poster would have to imply that the USA is not to be considered truly civilized. But this is not what the comment says.
> autopilot: a device that steers a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft in place of a person.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autopilot

I am surprised that Merriam Webster's definition only mentions steering and not acceleration. Telsa's autopilot does have a steering component, so it doesn't seem to be that much of a stretch.
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As someone who appreciates the design goals of both but is a user of neither Matrix nor XMPP for practical reasons (I don't know anyone who is), seeing users of both of these small networks sighing at each other leaves me nonplussed.

An end-to-end solution for interop between the two ought to be insanely high on the priority list. By this I mean it should be braindead obvious if I want to try one of them how to chat with a user of the other. Obviously this is bigger than just the protocol but so what, it's the problem that needs to be solved.

I can't even imagine how working together would not be top of everyone's mind in this space, since chat is all about network effects. The incentives to cooperate are huge.
Yes, but did you learn your first programming language immediately? Because that's closer to the author's situation.
> But I ended up picking Mercurial for the distributed version control system, which we were definitely wrong on that one–should have picked Git.

I'm curious to know: is this sentiment widely shared? Is git really that much better than hg?
I use the "pin" feature for all my travel information. It's not a complete fix, but it does cut down on the scrolling a lot!
As far as I can see, the general trend of the plot is not new knowledge. There are a myriad of this kind of analysis going on in the background all the time, and what is mostly gained is a slightly clearer picture, with more locations covered, better temporal resolution and more independent measurements to crosscheck with (eg so you can be reasonably sure your equipment was calibrated properly, you did a good job taking the samples and applied all the corrections right - of course, don't just believe everything if the results fit, and don't just throw them away if they don't, but at the beginning it is often not clear what is correct, and many teams tackling the problem increases the quality of the results.)

The interesting thing here is the measurement method, that can now be let loose on other samples as well. However, that also is one further small step to better data, I reckon, no great breakthrough here.

So, it's nice, and the paper will most probably be cited quite a bit within the community, but that should be the level of importance I think.

If you want to talk about acid in the atmosphere.. look no further than polluted cities in eg China. It's straight-out unhealthy for people and the acidic rain is bad for plants and things. So it's a problem for forests and agriculture, and also smaller bodies of water and the life within. On the other hand, the aerosols that form block some sunlight and cool the area down, and counteract global warming, especially in the stratosphere (which is only reached by huge volcanic eruptions, we don't have many of there, just a handful per century). (Yes, this is a proposed climate engineering method.)

(Btw, the oil sand extraction in Alberta, Canada has produced huge mountains of sulfur. The stuff is only mildly flammable, but I can't help imagine what would happen.)

http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/keystone-xl-pipeline.3...
Good background on statistics and sample size. Also relevant is the fact that Teslas are (1) heavier than the average car, (2) newer than the average car in America, and (3) more expensive than the average car. All of these factors are not only correlates of—but actually cause—better vehicle safety outcomes. For more detailed numbers, see http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/14/why-tesla-s... (disclaimer: I am one of the co-authors).
I've been using Tripit for years to keep track of my travel plans. Then I use TripAdvisor for figuring out what to do in places I"m visiting. Not seeing anything really interesting here, other than it being in one place. But judging by Google Reviews on maps which are significantly worse than Yelp reviews, I doubt their travel advice will be remotely close to TripAdvisors'.
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A little off topic but: my wife and I saw Oliver Stone's movie "Snowdon" last night with some friends. Everyone really enjoyed it (great acting, fast paced story, basically a fun movie to watch - recommended!).

I think that Stone took some liberties with historical facts, but everyone else I was with didn't agree with my skepticism. In any case, I would recommend seeing the movie.
Am I missing something with this argument? It's consistently made on these anti-Tesla threads here and on Reddit, but from my understanding an aircraft's autopilot is actually dumber than Tesla's.
You set bearing, altitude, and speed and the plane will adjust to and keep that course—that's it. Some will land in optimal conditions, but they're unable to taxi. Also a great deal of plane crashes are due to "handoff" issues.

So it seems to me that Tesla's auto-pilot is aptly named.
i had to google 'drop-bear'... are spiders under the toilet seat also part of australian folklore or they are real?
Interesting. I'll mull this over. Thank you.
This might be an incredible way to generate cheap energy. I lived in a remote location called Manikaran in Himalayas in India. It is a small town with limited resources but has an incredibly hot water spring. The locals have built pipelines that connect all major establishment with this boiling hot water which is then used to cook, soak and simply bath or heat up rooms.

The motel like place I stayed in had created an exposed pipe network in the room which emitted heat from this water. Don't want heat ? Just close the tap. Less heat turn the tap a little bit :D
Wrong. Upstate New York is extremely stable.
But I'd have to use a car to get around. AAA’s 2015 Your Driving Costs study lists the average monthly ownership cost of a car at $725 per month. Plus there's the time cost: I can't read a book in the car, but I could on the train.
I'm glad you were able to close the case on one of the oldest philosophical problems in existence. I'm glad it was that simple.
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> what if

And what if it isn't?
MPL2 requires that you make available the source of any changed files. Apple builds its version of LLVM off of a patched tree, and given that they're not particularly open about even the base revision of the public LLVM repositories their stuff is on, I can't imagine they would be happy having to publish those files publicly.
What I learned upon reflection on travelling widely is that the best stories, the things that I remember most fondly were the worst things that happened to me. Like being three quarters way up a mountain and getting hailed on in July. It definitely wasn't pleasant at the time yet it was a grand adventure!
No Wifi, No Data, Taxi took you for a "ride", Goats in the street, Grumpy hotel manager, Flamenco music ...Yes!! This is definitely Barcelona, Spain!! ;-)

C'mon Google!
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We literally live on a ball of molten iron and we've barely tapped this potential. If anyone wants free energy it's down there, bubbling away, just waiting to be harnessed.
> The author glosses over the criminals charged with death penalty easily and goes into depth about his and his staff's personal experience and their moral burden/PTSD, the distress they might have felt.

I think that is pretty much expected with an article titled "What I Learned from Executing Two Men".

> Being an outsider, it's something I notice a lot in American media - a tendency by law officials (and soldiers) to lament about their suffering while not paying enough attention to the people who are the real figures of the tragedies (death penalty, victims of war).

But there is damage on both sides. No one disputes the suffering of those who are killed, but it's a fairly recent development to study the suffering of those on the other end. I think it should be studied so that we know what we're asking people to do (be it an executioner, soldier or first responder).
Almost everything we do that initially seems like a good idea stops being such when we start doing it at scale. Burning fuels wasn't a problem at the eve of the industrial revolution. I wonder what ecological issues will hit us globally as we scale up geothermal energy use. E.g. I've read somewhere that people putting too many ground-exchange heat pumps in a small area can cause problematic cooling of the ground. Right now it's probably only a problem for the energy efficiency of the pumps themselves, but as we scale up, I worry about unintended environmental consequences.

Wikipedia seems to have only basic numbers up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy#Renewability...

The first sentence of that section says that "geothermal power is considered to be renewable because any projected heat extraction is small compared to the Earth's heat content." I'd like to see some estimates on how much of that heat content is available on the depths we're drilling down to (as opposed to the contents of the whole planet); and again, trees were a renewable resource too, before the industrial revolution.
I searched the article after reading it and then reading your post. I don't see anything about financial cost in the article except the line "despite the cost" which is not necessarily talking about financial.
I only disagree with your last sentence. There's no way to perform a careful analysis of option A vs option A+B while maintaining the assumption that they are non-overlapping sets. Simply reading the answers proves that assumption wrong. Thus, it seems way more likely that the explanation is a lack of thinking/analysis... i.e. intuition. People are answering the question they expect instead of the question that's in front of them, because that's easier: http://lesswrong.com/lw/9l3/the_substitution_principle

But you are right, we can't know that from their answers alone. There are numerous possible reasons for picking the wrong answer, so further experimentation is required if we really want to know why.
For low barrier to entry products like facebook, dating sites, etc, I think companies are smart enough to build internal facing development only environments - so as a developer you won't be "using" the dating site, just using/testing/dogfooding the internal "dev" dating site that has maybe a million robots and all the employees, contractors, partners of the company.

If you haven't set down ground rules with a partner for working at a place like that, it's not a technical issue re: dogfooding, but a communication issue with your partner.

For things like military jets, nuclear reactors and the like, many times companies hire ex-military jet pilots (test pilots like for example Chuck Yeager), and former nuclear power plant operators, or even university profs who developed/calculated the nuclear fission equations in the first place (ie Manhattan Projected hired basically all nuclear physicists in all universities in the US for the effort) - they also do "testing" - which could be a form of dogfooding.
Drug abuse is far less common in Singapore, to take one example, than Western countries. That would suggest low activity.
The company I work for, and specifically the product I support, came out with modular "apps" that can be installed to enhance the functionality. This came out about a year ago, and while the number of apps is pretty impressive for the niche market the product falls into, none of the apps were terribly useful or complicated. There wasn't a huge incentive to actually care about the app market, let alone download and use any of them.

So leadership made the decision to dogfood our own app environment. Any new features that are not part of the core experience or modifications to existing features are now apps. And guess what? We found some limitations to our app infrastructure, corrected them, and now we have a (again, relative) ton of high quality apps. Turns out no one was making apps because the experience sucked, until the developers found that out first hand and course-corrected.
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I already acknowledged, in my post above, that of course you shouldn't have a "shitty" lease.

My point is that (along with all the other boxes one should tick in starting a restaurant in a cutthroat market like NYC) -- and in particular if your goal is to run a business that's actually thriving, and not just marginally surviving -- it's not sufficient.
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