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Right. The grandparent comment assumes the world outside the simulation is like what humans think they know about what they think they observe inside the simulation.

But what's outside the simulation could be quite different. And humans could always be mistaken about both what they think they observe, their observations themselves, and the conclusions they make from these.

At best its a matter of estimating probabilities (ie. educated guesses), and even there they're probabilities regarding appearances. It has been argued as far back as Kant (over two hundred years ago) that one can never get to the "thing-in-itself" that is behind those appearances.
The reason the hyperloop is attractive is that it's effectively "flying" at low pressure, which is equivalent to flying at high altitude, which lets it operate effectively like a jet airplane. On Mars you can do the same thing in a U-shaped track because of the thin atmosphere. You would be "flying" on a very thin cushion of atmosphere between the vehicle and the track. That has much less friction than a rail, and so you can go much faster.
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With the nation's current climate it could be much worse indeed. I assure you the vast majority of the nation doesn't know that this is to happen if no candidate gets 270+ and there will be a lot of anger from both sides of the aisle who are both fed up with the current establishment.

Also, we've had no election like this in the modern era, so who knows how different the nation's response will be compared to the response of the nation in its earliest years.
There is no "very illegal" and it was just made illegal in 2010. It's a hard thing to prove and spoofing is still rampant.
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Well, you'd still be "flying" on a thin cushion of Martian atmosphere rather than riding directly on a rail. That makes a big difference.
Its been on my to read list as well. We need more insight into the business practices of big tech companies like FB and Google, that control so much wealth.
Do you know him well enough to shed light on his personal motivations? Frankly, though spies are frequently the heroes in movies, in real life I think there's good reason to be suspicious of that type of character.

If he actually got installed by the House, there'd be widespread unrest. We know he knows that's not a realistic option, because a) reps would never do something that would upset their constituents so seriously and b) if they did, there's a real likelihood of armed resistance. So what's the end game here? He just felt so bad that Utah may go Trump he felt he had no option but to step in and make sure that it didn't go down in history as a pro-Trump state? That's the only benefit McMullin can offer, and it's only valuable if Trump gets elected and actually turns out to be Hitler 2.0. Then Utah can have a clean nose.

In practice the only thing McMullin is doing is making a Clinton presidency more likely. Ross Perot served the same function in 1992, taking ~20% of the popular vote, probably 15% of which would've gone to Bush had Perot not been in the race.

Given McMullin's background as both a CIA operative and an international banker, I think it's fair to ask just where his intentions lie.
Irrelevant to what I asked. I understand the role. And I can safely say I don't want it. What is the top engineering role?
A constitutional amendment needs the approval of 2/3rds of both houses of Congress and 3/4ths of the states. There's no way NPV would get that kind of support. The Republican Party explicitly makes the preservation of the existing Electoral College system part of its official party platform, so 2/3rds of Congress is pretty much automatically not going to happen as long as that's the case.
How do gas pipelines solve the thermal expansion problem?
Not if a) a majority of Americans agree and b) you go to the states instead of through congress.
I like etrade and tdbank. Don't use anyone on this list:
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If you are interfacing with U.S.-based entities or your data crosses servers located in the U.S., you can be sued in a U.S. courts; at best, you'll increase the complexity of the case and the difficulty collecting on a judgment issued against you, but certainly not to the extent that a major corporation like Facebook would be at all deterred.
How does that clobber the global object? Are you talking about `function clearInterval()`? That doesn't go into the global scope.

> let foo = function bar() {}
undefined
> bar
ReferenceError: bar is not defined
And there was that whole "20 million dead during the war" bit. I'd think they'd want to play it safe!

(Edit: I guess that by "they" I mean "Putin and company" -- they have a lot of popular support, but it's hard to say how much is real and how much is self-seeking or the like.)
From a security perspective, there is the least privilege concept.

Why does the VP have that kind of access by default? I understand having a separate account if needs are there, of having some sort of priv-escalation.

In my new job as network engineer, all the RH boxes have SElinux off. I don't get it, nor can anyone give a cogent answer. And up 4 floors, we have a selinux kernel Dev.

I'd greatly like to even limit roots potential damage against users' data (in this case, DBs).
The irony here is he screwed up the HFT algos and that's what caused the flash crash. There is no way his bankroll was to blame. Poor guy beats them at their own game and then gets thrown to the wolves.
Yes, but with my super-rover-transporter system, we can cover 5,400 miles in the same time, with the 600 rovers. I'm envisaging a sort of airbag deployment system (like pathfinder) coupled with a dispenser system that fires a rover out every few minutes as the ship orbits the planet, for optimal coverage.
In this case, CPU-Z want to measure the current CPU frequency using the APIC timer.
Not if an independent organization (think a Corp, not a gov) is the party responsable. They would have no incentive to do such a thing, in fact they would have a negative incentive.

Too bad nuclear tech is basically too regulated for any non governmental organization to experiment inexpensively, not to mention the other nontechnical issues.
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The trick is, IMO, when the team does not accomplish things to your satisfaction, you need to be capable of stepping in and changing things, even if your developers don't like it.
So Intel CPUs will be able to perform 16 operations at a time, when Nvidia can do thousands?
Google could and should change their requirement to be that the integrity value for the script must be in their approved list rather than requiring their path.
> The medicine itself comes with an insert outlining usage and side effects in great detail.

Senator Nelson called hearings (1970) when women started dropping dead from their birth control prescriptions [1]. The outcome of the hearings was that the drug companies had to warn their customers that their prescriptions might have side effects.

Eventually the drug companies realized women didn't need so much estrogen to shut down their menstrual cycles. All the old high-estrogen pills have now been withdrawn, but a few women still react very poorly to their birth control prescriptions. Doctors commonly don't consider the role that birth control plays in their patients' problems.

[1] http://swindledandpimped.org/womens_health_a_modern_tragedy/...
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There's a story that I love about Pixar, a Black Swan event, and Toy Story 2 [0]. The gist was, the movie's files were accidentally deleted while still in production, and the backup was corrupted.

Instead of blasting people for mistakes they set about fixing the immediate problem, and then instead of demanding "accountability" from those responsible, they set about fixing the root cause.

A few excerpts from the linked article:

"Aside from the fact that there was immediate chatter about who might have made such a dumb move, the discussion quickly moved right on to how to fix the problem."

"Instead of dwelling on pinning the blame or lamenting the loss of time and effort, the team made sure to alter the backup strategy so that something like that didn’t happen again, and it went about making up for lost time."

[0] http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/21/how-pixars-toy-story-...
Can you show evidence that spoofing is common?
And npm could learn a _lot_ from maven.
> Jr Dev

> Access to production

> With clients that need the service running 24/7

Oh boy... is he used to work on facebook? when i was a jr dev, i didn't have access to production everything went to source control and then tested by my project technical leader and qa.
This ensure that i won't do this things since my changes getting reviewed and tested plus we have reproducible builds that anyone can verify and continue working.

Case in point: No JR Dev ever need access to production ever, period.
He is taking Utah by storm. Small but legit possibility that he wins the state. More likely, he will be the reason that Utah goes blue for the first time in a half-century, by splitting the conservative majority into two 35% camps (with Johnson siphoning off the remainder), making Clinton competitive with ~35% in what has been considered the most reliably red state in the Union for the last 50 years. This election is turning everything upside down.
Good point! People -- including people who should really know better, like government economists -- have been sold GDP as the economy's high score. (Think of Il Sorpasso, when Italy's GDP first passed England's.) It was never intended as more than a best guess, and is one of the many temporary measures for WWII that are still with us today...
> I think it's important that companies like this exist and try things like this.

They're not trying anything at this point, they've raised enough money for at most 5km worth of high-speed tracks (proper 350km/h graded tracks) and no rolling stock.
I've read that story in "How to win friends and influence people"

https://www.google.com/#&q=%22how+to+win+friends+and+influen...
So... are you asking me for examples of CTOs of successful companies who have written tech articles promoting one type of tech because another is bad?

I can do that, if you really couldn't do it yourself. It's not uncommon at all.

Like I said, I don't do it because I don't think it would help. But in some cases, it can definitely help. How many startups use their dedication to a specific (incrementally more modern) tech stack as a perk while hiring? Quite a few, and these often have subtly disparaging remarks baked in. And I've absolutely had success hiring and growing my team by explaining why we use Clojure over stock java whenever possible.
It's like religion in that people like to anthropomorphize wildly. The Cosmological argument ("Define God to be the first cause") becomes "... and that's why God smote a fig tree."

Here, "Huh, the universe might have some funny symmetry" frequently seems to become "the Gods running the simulation we live in will turn you off if you ask the wrong questions", or some other similar wild leap.
It would be awesome if they put a simple text editor in their IOS and web app.
Could you explain? How would quantum tunneling of antimatter be a problem?

The probability of quantum tunneling is exponential so adding a little more separation or reducing the energy can change the probability from 10^-1 to 10^-100.
I really don't understand Dropbox. For the average user that wants to store, say, a few tens of GBs Dropbox costs $9.99 a month. Nevermind it gives 1TB total, most people don't need that much. iCloud, for example, costs $0.99/month. That's an _order of magnitude_ more expensive.

Whichever way you slice it, it seems like Dropbox's core user base, that pays but doesn't take full advantage of the 1TB is bank-rolling the free accounts and the accounts that max out their paid storage.

I don't know why people put up with it?
Here's a few more:

http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~stamourv/

https://nakkaya.com/2016/06/10/ferret-a-hard-real-time-cloju...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/pubpg/luv95.pdf

http://www.yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yuasa/xs/
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> it had no basis for doing so

Several lower level judges disagreed with you. Although I think that the CANSPAM act ought not apply, there is no basis to claim that this was clearly settled law being ignored to make this into a malicious action.
We loved the focus you get on very few metrics to increase for 3 months, it simplifies a lot of decisions
Not to mention that the US has no business applying its laws all over the world.
Shouldn't this be a solved problem by NASA?

Space shuttles would have similar challenge (actually in reverse) - how to protect sealed air inside a closed cylinder from almost absolute vacuum outside in an environment where heat and cold are extreme; the cylinder being fabricated from overlapping conjoined pieces.
If platform Y regularly releases security updates on Friday, that's poor management by X and I would reconsider using platform Y. 0-day issues of high severity should be the exception.
I don't think the shockwave would explode the tube. The in-rushing air would be equalizing the pressure. It would have a deleterious effect on pods, however. I would equip the pods with airbags that could inflate and act as emergency brakes, which would also compartmentalize the tube. The emergency protocol would be to bring all cars to a stop, then inflate the airbags. If the shockwave is impinging on the car, the airbag would inflate immediately. Then each compartmentalized tube segment would be rescued, with access through emergency access points. (Which could also contain the mechanism that takes care of the thermal expansion problem.)
I'm happy to re-estimate.

What am I meant to be estimating, exactly?
Should we perhaps hypothesize the motive of this simulation, if any? Death seems to be a very important focal point: All living organisms are condemned to their aging bodies, eventually begin decaying, then die. Death of the universe is also inevitable, "Heat Death". Then there are other existential issues our feeble brains have to deal with. Then of course, our Earth is replete with suffering around every corner. Perhaps other terrestrial planets operate differently, for better or worse. You would think our maker(s) should have known the possible outcomes and scenarios before hitting the "start existence now" button, or perhaps it is just part of the grand plan.

You have to wonder: Are these entity/entities sadistic pranksters of some sort?
I'm not a physicist, so I'm speaking as 100% layman, but I can better accept a fixed-resolution universe, where forces have a certain magnitude and beyond them (in either direction, smaller or larger) matter doesn't behave in productive ways.

For a long time, we thought atoms were these building blocks; now we think it's quarks; the Standard Model does a pretty good job at relating all observed phenomena to each other, except for, you know, gravitation, and that pesky observed-but-unaccounted-for thing we deemed 'dark matter'.

A few things about the Standard Model make my head hurt, but the idea of a fractal universe that is infinitely scalable up and down and assumptions about spacetime and forces still hold the same way is truly mindbending that I don't know how to reason around it. So perhaps conversely, can we flip the question and ask, why wouldn't the universe have a finite resolution in terms of matter actually existing and behaving like we know and love?
This is a really important advancement in circuits. We were reaching the physical limits of silicon and it was only a matter of time before we would have to find an alternative to continue the upward trends of transistor performance.
I dont understand why 1 more llayer of abstraction makes a difference. You are a software running on neurons interacting with simulation of outer world.
The mistake was launching something on a Friday before vacation. Wed or Thursday would solve this. Launching on Mondays or Fridays, not a good idea.

So that is another lesson learned in addition to being cool when someone messes up once in a while. In ego driven teams sometimes it turns into the blame game and throwing under the bus, that is not kind.
>approval of 2/3rds of both houses of Congress and 3/4ths of the states

You're forgetting that states can call for a convention[0]. If you need a majority of states to pass legislation, you can get a majority of states to call for a convention.

[0] https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/artic...
Is this really true? What about a self-aware AI? I can imagine an AI that resides on a chip and developed consciousness could conceivably control a camera/robot in the real world and literally inspect and even reverse engineer or repair/improve itself or the hardware it runs on.
I've heard good things about Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan, but I've never actually read it myself
This depends a bit on if there is a VP of Engineering in the company. If so, then the CTO can operate more as a "engineering" role and still spend some time in the code. If the CTO is both managing the people in engineering and setting the roadmap for the technology then the "Distinguished Engineer" is usually the top technical role.

Titles vary so much company to company though that there's not a one-size-fits-all answer.
Personally i prefer the type of mentor/boss that comes and says things straight, surgarcoating everything isn't good once you realize that everyone could think you are stupid or well starting to find your replacement.
I'm a PHP programmer and it's great to see this because a lot of times I feel like PHP is limiting my ability to move forward in my career. I've been looking for jobs and it seems like having pretty much only PHP, jQuery and mySql on my resume isn't enough to get hired. I've been trying to figure out what I have to do to get noticed - is it worth cranking out a bunch of projects in PHP that won't impress anyone because it's just PHP, or or is it better to learn a language like Ruby and make a bunch of (shittier, because I'm not experienced with it) projects?
I think your concerns about his previous professions are based on Hollywood stereotypes rather than reality, to be frank.

If you want to talk stereotypes, I'd say Evan exemplifies the positive stereotypes often associated with the LDS community -- kind, dependable, patient, hard-working, etc.

With regard to his personal motivations -- he's clearly a patriot, as his record of service as an intelligence officer more than sufficiently demonstrates. I think his motivation is largely to do something, anything, to provide an alternative to the choice between Trump and Clinton. I would likely do the same if I had the same opportunity set that he currently does.
Let me relay a story about people who laugh at and mock other people's work.

My wife used to work as a copy editor at a major newspaper and worked with one of those "laugh at and make rude comments about other people's work" kind of people. The copy editing checks had to be checked by another copy editor before it was allowed to be forwarded to the layout team for placement in the news paper. How the story checkin and checkout system worked was that your submitted checks were anonymous to other team members. So, there was this one guy on copy editing team who openly mocked and call other people's work "stupid" and "idiotic". He could never say the person's name that he was talking about, but since every copy editor was in the same room, you knew he might be talking about your work. Everyone hated the guy and everyone complained about the guy. My wife would say how much everyone just hated working with the guy and he was just one of those people that made the job unpleasant.

Then layoffs came around (Newspaper in the Internet Age). When this guy was laid off, champagne bottle were opened up and people celebrated. You know when someone is bad when there is a "sorry to see you go" bar get together and they are not invited. A strange thing happened though, productivity went up because people felt better about submitting their work for final approval. Less copy editor mistakes, less stress, more learning, more openness and more engaging with other team members happend. Barriers between teams fell and even with layoffs, people felt better.

It turns out that the person who mocks other people's work, make for a crappy work environment. You can be tolerant of failures on technical levels, but failure in personal level should not be tolerated. Be pleasant to work with, or should you should be fired.
This isn't really DNF specific — it can happen with any package manager. Whenever I run a DNF update that is going to affect X or my GNOME session, I run it in tmux. There's not really a good solution _other_ than that, which is why the desktop team promotes the reboot-to-apply-updates approach for the general case. It's annoying to have to do that, but it's very reliable. (Or, if you're more tech savvy, the tmux or switch-to-a-VT thing is just fine.)
Nicely said -- however I would disagree with the claim that our best achievable society is no longer an experiment. To remove beta status and pretend it is an understood phenomenon leads to thinking like the parent's more so than thinking like the rest of your comment ...
Because it's the only cloud provider that has reliable cross-platform syncing solution and works extremely well?

As soon as you try their competitors (Drive, Box, iCloud) you find out just how utterly crappy they are as soon as you need to share files with other people. Dropbox does it seamlessly. Bankrolling free accounts so students can have their thesis backed up is a small price to pay for that.
As I said, I'm not a strong chess player and don't know much about strategies. I think my reading ability is primarily what improved.
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I watched this great documentary on Ramblin Jack Ellis, I highly recommended it, and one thing I learned was "singing pretty" was against the aesthetic of that folk movement.

So, no I don't think he should have teamed up with a singer.
This aspect of their new chips is massively underrated. An FPGA is the future-proof solution here, not chip-level instructions for the soup-du-jour in machine learning.

Edit: which is not to say that I'm not welcoming the new instructions with open arms...
How do you know whether other components (objects, modules) do not keep state between requests? Unless you 1) use language with pure stateless functions like Haskell or 2) delete everything after each request you cannot guarantee that. PHP uses latter approach.

With PHP you can see your program as a pure function whose result depends only on arguments. You don't have to care about memory leaks like you don't have to do memory management when you have a GC. And if you want more performance and less convenience you can always opt into running your own web server.

> Don't use global variables

If you have an object that is persisted between requests you already have some state that is saved.