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What do you expect when a laser cuts into your eye?

Joke aside, I'd like to know not just that these things happen but if the person who is experiencing these issues is more or less happy compared to before the corrective laser eye surgery. There are always potential complications to surgery but often times the outcome, including the complications, are positive for the patient. I know one person who needs to rest their eyes as it gets later in the evening/night because their eye apparently swells or is noticeably more difficult to focus due to the way the surgery happens but is generally okay otherwise (my understanding is that the laser cuts a flap under the iris or some part of the eye near the pupil and that cut may not always heal properly, leading to various issues).
That base layer of "involuntary coercion" being "punishing people who steal".
You can install/run the downloadable image in a VM. Lots of people do. We test with VMWare Fusion/kvm/Virtual Box.
> If the risks aren't worth it to you to remove your eye impairments, then don't get LASIK?

Erm... obviously. Hence why it's important to run studies like this to understand what the risks are.
> True, but what is surprising is that there is something "it is like" to be that interior.

I don't know; is there? How do I tell?

I mean, I know what I experience, but I'm not an objective observer. There's evidence that what we perceive as the continuous stream of events is actually assembled in our memory after the fact from various out-of-order sensory inputs.

How do I know that what I perceive as consciousness (and remember, I have no way of knowing whether it's the same as what anyone else perceives, or whether they perceive it at all) is anything more than just wishful thinking? And that's a serious question to which I really want an answer.
Difference: http://www.lasereyesurgeryhub.co.uk/lasik-vs-lasek-vs-prk/

EDIT: did you get PRK or Lasek?
Mail in voting is much harder to attack at scale.

The government mails a form to the address you registered when signing up as a voter. You complete a legal statement with a fairly high penalty for being caught lying. Then you return this legal statement.

There are security issues with this process, but for the most part it's no worse than how humans vote otherwise, and careful message encapsulation designs can make the /cost/ of manipulating individual votes in transit high while making the actual voting form 'anonymous'.

Online voting would only be more secure than this if the message were signed, and audit-able by both the signer and the recipient. This is possible, but it also complicates external review since they would also need to validate the identity of the signer.

At a very minimum a record of /who/ voted (and presumably when) would need to be known as a result of validating voter registration.

Vote tabulation could be separated if the registration validation stage fed a stripped (and trusted by the org) packet of cast votes.

However this presumes that you believe in the security of the /entire/ computing stack from base firmware up through the OS and counting applications. Auditing that is a LOT harder than humans tracking paper; we've had centuries to figure out how to do that in fair ways.
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A long form answer ("Internet Voting: A Requiem for the Dream") appeared in Phrack earlier this year. [1] The author concludes:

1. Internet voting is not compatible with democracy

2. No amount of technology can change this

3. Whom you voted for ought to be secret

4. Who voted should not be secret -- it should be known as widely as possible

5. And who counts the votes, and how, certainly ought not be secret

[1] http://phrack.org/issues/69/11.html
That's a really good point. Regardless of which style of dragging someone prefers, the grabbing cursor is a clear indication to expect "natural" style dragging.

After all, when you press the button, the fingers close as if they are grabbing something in the scene. In real life, when you grab something and move it, it goes in the direction you move, not the opposite direction.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in large part it's gamers who tend to expect the reverse dragging. I think at this point far more people expect natural dragging as used in most online maps and street views, etc.

360cities used to have the reverse dragging, but I see they have changed it to natural dragging now. Try the panorama on their home page for example:

http://www.360cities.net/

But the other thing I was told about gamers is that they don't expect to drag with the left button, but with the right button.

This suggests a possible solution: a left-button drag can use natural dragging, and a right-button drag can use reverse dragging.

The finishing touch would be to have the cursor change to something other than the closed hand when the right button is down. I'm not sure what a suitable cursor would be, but there must be something - anything other than the closed hand. Maybe a four-way arrow?
I think that most people think that starting a walled garden is easier when it's connected to an internet that everyone is always connected to.

The internet is different from the PSTN network that connected you to CompuServe because if Facebook controlled your last mile the way AOL did, you'd need to coordinate with Facebook when you wanted to upgrade to the latest DSL or cable or what have you. The idea here is that once we got DSL and other "run gigabit ethernet over a series of rusty coat hangers that we have twisted together" level technologies, (I think it's fucking amazing that DSL works at all) in one location, one technology is going to work way better than others, and those other technologies might work way better in other locations. In walla walla you might get twice the speed on compuserve, while in San Jose, AOL might give you 4x the speed, if AOL and CompuServe ran their own networks. (to torture the metaphor)

Of course, if you made the last mile technologies like DSL and Cable switch the endpoints of their connections as quickly as you can switch endpoints on a PSTN, sure, that would have solved the problem, too. But... really, that's kind of what the internet does.

I think this is why walled gardens that include the last mile keep failing; the last mile is largely hard based on physical geography, and the walled gardens are hard based on your preferences, which often don't match up with your geography.

I think that's why walled gardens are doing so much better now than they were in the '90s; these days, one set of companies focuses on the last mile, (and everyone has, comparatively speaking, astoundingly good last-mile access) and then a completely different set of companies can set up walled gardens to cater to various preferences, and the people that like that walled garden don't have to share a geography.
3 weeks for you? Took me maybe 6-7 weeks for all of the weird symptoms from my post-op PRK to go away.
Would it help you if they phrased it as "Frenzy helps their clients grow their business by delivering results-oriented digital solutions?"

I do not think anyone working for a 'digital strategy firm' should be the first to throw stones.
This bundle includes the books in .mobi format which might be supported better on your kindle than pdfs.
Results may vary. But I had it about 10 years ago and while the glare/halos are noticeable (especially at night) they're a very minor thing. Would still have done it.
Perhaps feeling is a more effective way to convey information.
Just wondering: if I ran two instances of your application, would I have "guríes" or "gurises"? :-)
the cavity is asymmetric, has EM waves bouncing inside and isn't a Faraday cage - thus generates radiation outside (by Maxwell's classic theory, not virtual particles QM), asymmetric at this. EM radiation, ie. photons, have impulse, so according to Newton's and impulse preservation laws the EM drive should have an impulse in the direction opposite of the total vector sum impulse of that outside radiation.

The impulse is larger than the same energy would generate using visible light frequency photons in photonic drive or solar sail - that is obvious too because they use radio frequencies in EM drive, ie. much lower frequency photons. The same basic math works here like the one for specific impulse, thrust and energy relations in the classic situation of high by-pass jet engine vs. low by-pass vs. rocket engine.

Btw, for current working example of IR frequency photonic drive look up the slowdown of Voyager by IR radiation from its RTG bouncing off the back of its antenna (which is pointed to Earth/Sun and the RTG is behind it thus that IR photons bounce slows the Voyager)
Verified Voting the non-partisan umbrella organization that connects many leading election technology experts (including Halderman the author of the piece; Ron Rivest and Philip Stark -- http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/11/22/election-hacking-audit/) has been in the business of ensuring the integrity of the voting system since 2003. https://www.verifiedvoting.org/about-vvo/
Most of the times I read about this subject I get the feeling that every person in the discussion is talking about different things.

For a prosaic view of consciousness I would recommend the book "Consciousness and the Brain" by cognitive psychologist Stanisas Dehaene. The experiments described in the book do, in my opinion, a good job in delimiting the problem and in facilitating accurate definitions about what conscience is.

We should start there, otherwise we are talking about how many angels can dance in the head of a pin (1).

(1) - Actually that problem has been solved already:
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i3/an...
The left has its own biases, but to equate it with the Fox News/Breitbart bubble is dishonest. To take science as an example, the left has its own set of denialists (ex: anti-vaccers, anti-GMO), but the left has plenty of people who push back against such science denialism. The Fox News/Breitbart bubble doesn't have any such checking mechanism. There's a reason why creationism is popular in the US.
I don´t know why Riot.js (another js framework) don't attract more people. I used it and it´s awesome. Today they launched the 3.0.0 version http://riotjs.com/release-notes/ . Here is a quick introduction http://vitomd.com/blog/coding/hello-riot-js-quick-tutorial-a... I highly recommend it.
That's why I labelled the idea "heretical". I think your explanation is by far the most popular one in science. The idea is that consciousness is an "epiphenomenon" - the "steam of the locomotive". It has no functional purpose.

I'm simply suggesting that we try seeing where we go if we reject this hypothesis and instead treat consciousness as a thing that itself has survival utility. Doing so does cause dualism to creep in awfully quickly, but I'm not really so ideologically committed to pure physicalism that I'm unwilling to take the thought experiment seriously.
Yes it is evil, but it is Chinese government that is responsible for that, not Facebook.

Said every collaborator, active or passive, in every large-scale injustice or abuse since the beginning of time.
That leaves the question of where is consciousness, then.
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Tell me about it. I'm stunned what a hugely amateurish pastime lasik turned out to be. One of my eyes was an entire diopter out and had to be reworked. I get nasty kinda splodges at night (a mere halo would be delightful). And had someone told me my view of the night sky would be ruined forever I might've thought differently about it.
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To make things worse - you can't really verify your vote unless there is a complete paper trail. Basically you can have one of two things - computerased voting machines without denialbility of vote (impossiblity to sold the vote or impossiblity of getting punished for voting wrong) OR paper ballot voting somewhat augmented by computers.

Reason - we haven't solved basic issue of endpoint security yet!
Read the paper - that was the hypothesis presented by the folks at NASA, not me.

As to whether I understand pilot wave qm - I wrote a masters reaearch project on it on it, I studied physics.

As to ugliness, you think schrodinger is beautiful?!
I use orgmode publish to html and then a simple script to upload/sync to s3[1]. Hosted there + cloudflare for CDN/HTTPS. I was hosting the site myself on a linode, but I like this setup much better.

[1]: https://www.rolando.cl/201607-1-blogging-like-its-2016.html
I got LASIK as soon as I could pay for it after getting a decent software job out of school. Found contacts pretty annoying and wasn't interested in wearing glasses full-time. I think it was a holdover insecurity from childhood, associating glasses with being a 'nerd' -- I had worn them since 2nd grade. By the end of college I still didn't like the way my glasses looked on me and avoided wearing them whenever possible.

It's been a few years since the surgery now. The side effects are minor. My night vision has degraded somewhat: halos around lights can make depth-perception while driving slightly difficult, and I can't distinguish shapes in the dark as well. Not a big deal, mostly just slightly annoying when camping.

But I now realize that I miscalculated. I've become somewhat more fashion-conscious since college and now see that it would have been much easier and more cost-effective to actually find some glasses that made me look good. If I knew what I knew now about 'looking decent' I wouldn't have done it.
mv = pq is very well tested.

MV = PQ is true by definition. There is nothing to test about it because it's tautologically true.

Then again, people go astray all the time when they try to fill the equation with causal implications which can be tested.

For example, when people said "Increasing M will increase P" and predicted hyperinflationary mayhem as a consequence of quantitative easing. Those predictions have failed entirely, mostly because rather than change P or Q, the change in M simply changed V instead. (There is a plausible argument that quantitative easing has contributed to asset price inflation, but that doesn't have anything to do with MV = PQ either, because the P in that equation isn't about asset prices.)

Because of these failures, the value of MV = PQ for economics as a science is basically zero.
You are an optimist. About half of what I see reported as news on FB is made up. On both sides.

For example see http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/benghazi.asp for a fact check of widely believed and reported statements about Benghazi.

On the other side, see http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/ for a debunk of a widely shared statement that Trump purportedly made in 1998 about how he'd run as a Republican because Republican voters are so dumb.

Try this exercise. Every news story that you see on social media for a day, try to fact check it. Try to track down an authoritative source. I predict that you'll be shocked at how much stuff we hear that just ain't so.
Election results must be beyond doubt. Clinton, Trump, and all Americans have a shared interest in this. It seems unlikely for the result of the election to change even if one state was hacked, so it's not like anyone's skin is even on the line.

Absolutely no one should doubt that Russia, and many other nations, have the capability to do what people are suggesting might have happened. The only question is whether they did, which would be almost unprecedented: the undermining of a mature democracy's electoral process by a foreign power would be a singular event. (Though, both the USA and Russia have done similar-ish things in the past, but often against immature democracies.)

Russia has shown interest in destabilizing the USA's electoral system throughout the year. The only question is just how far they are willing to go. We have the capability to determine whether they did this time. We should exercise that capability: if we don't, it will encourage our enemies (and our friends!) to do so in the future, regardless of what happened in 2016.
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It's a humble bundle so it would have been unusual for print books. The manufacturing cost is quite high for print on demand vs essentially free for digital download.

But I am with you on the print books. I've spend many thousands of dollars building up my home CS library. Nothing helps me learn better than stepping away from the screens and reading paper in a comfortable chair!
Wire is even worse because the person responsible for design and UX is unassailably high in the company, and doesn't take advice from anyone
> it's frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their individual content.

If you think categorically dismissing sources is a new phenomenon, may i point you to 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' which has been around at least since the 15th century.

Whats worrying is the lack of news sources that can be trusted by people from any political camp.
If we assume that the economic model of CPU manufacturing is essentially

- very large upfront costs in R&D and improved fabs

- The marginal cost for each additional CPU manufactured is, in fact, very low

Then, isn't this pretty much the textbook example of a natural monopoly?

I.e. in such a case, if the market was spread out over more suppliers, would the customer in the end pay more due to the vendors amortizing the R&D costs over fewer units sold? Vs. the current situation where customers are paying monopoly prices to the incumbent vendor.
These are great questions. We have a Gnome shell plug-in to move files into sandboxes while an application is running. Certain applications also have shared directories (e.g. "Downloads/TorBrowser", "Documents/LibreOffice"). This is a UX work in progress though, neither of these are adequate, though together they're workable.

re: Applications and network access: we have an application firewall, unique to Linux-based OSs. It's basically Little Snitch for Linux. There is a screenshot here:

Keep in mind that the project is very young. We are just getting started, tbh. With questions like these you should idle in our IRC channel where we talk about all of this stuff: OFTC/#subgraph.
I could get both threejs and babylonjs to work without a single issue; anyone with even the slightest of experience on game engines can do so effortlessly in minutes. Yet no amount of experience with either library will make their performance issues go away.

Have you profiled any of them? They take at least an order of magnitude more CPU than required in the best of cases, not even counting wasted GPU bandwidth/cycles. Heck, babylon.js sets its active texture unit by string concatenation - I can't think of a less efficient way to do it.

Have you seen any other graphics engines to add weight to what you're saying? I spent a full week in both project's codebases to try and optimize them before giving up; like I said, both architectures cripple performance from the ground up. They're very naive implementations of very old ideas that haven't been used in game engines for at least a decade.

Don't be so quick to imply a lack of experience; it very well might just be the Dunning-Kruger effect at work.
I just got custom wavefront LASIK done at Stanford, and I'm very happy with the procedure.

Yes, I see halos at night, but they are "there" -- they don't bother me at all. If anything, it's like the overused HDR bloom effect in video games in 2005. I can still see and drive perfectly fine at night.

They're also going away. It's been a week since my procedure, and they have been going away every day. It can take 3-6 months for vision to stabilize.

I didn't want to wear glasses, and now I don't, and I'm happy.
If you live in the Bay Area, check out the Pacific Pinball Museum (aka Lucky Ju Ju) in Alameda. Flat admission fee and all pinball games are free play.

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Just checked out exocortex.com, have you taken any look at the Hololens? For instance, Vuforia is working on selling catalog items using 3d models built in Unity [0], but perhaps you could use HolographicJS as another target once it matures [1].

I'm working in AR in a different space but as a longtime JS developer I would love to see this all come together.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6CpD4hVmqc&feature=youtu.be...

[1]: https://github.com/lwansbrough/HolographicJS
Agree, I did mine around 8 years ago, and I have halos around street lights when driving at night. I'm absolutely still glad I did it, and I would do it again if/when my eyes ever get worse someday.
I wonder how this compares to similar, but different procedures. I had PRK done 7 years ago, and it was probably the best $4000 I ever spent. It went perfect for me - no new issues. However, I did it one eye at a time, just in case!

PRK differs from LASIK in how the top layer of the cornea is removed. In LASIK, a flap is cut and peeled back, then put back in place at the end of the procedure. In PRK, the top layer is scraped off and has to grow back in, a process that takes several weeks and can be somewhat painful.
As much as I'd love Intel to produce a competitive GPU, they've proven time and time again that they can't compete with Nvidia or AMD. This is kind of like saying Intel should have just made the iPhone CPU. If they can make gains in AI with CPUs without having to worry about building a competitive graphics pipeline, it could be a huge market boost for them.
The act of voting also need special protections. Too easy to buy/force votes otherwise.

Mail-ins are already problematic in that regards.
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Mainly for the neocons, but also for neolibs, I trace much of the willingness to disregard the consent of the governed to Leo Strauss. I have been saying it for a while, but essentially what is going on is the people in positions of power have decided that we the public are just so stupid we couldnt possibly comprehend the realpolitik things that need to be done, so they say one thing in public, and then a completely different thing once behind closed doors, usually at some think tank or institute or another.

I think I have finally found the root of this problem though, in that any person who is currently in government and has taken the oath to the constitution and signed the required affidavit, that advocates the position that the people do not deserve or need to be informed because they are "too dumb", are technically in violation of their oath of office and therefor should be subject to removal from office and confinement or a fine, as is prescribed by law.

The constitution is the supreme law of the land in the United States, created to protect, not to establish, our natural rights, and the entirety of it's power comes from the governed, the people. Any attempt to subvert that or casually dismiss that by any means other than constitutional is a violation of law.

Of course the people with the power to decide to prosecute are mostly compromised so it's unlikely to happen at the current moment, but with a sea change in public opinion and involvement with justice through it's elected officials, this might not always be the case.

I think a key point is to start getting rid of incumbents across the board.
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