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> That's funny, because I was just thinking the problem was the tendency for people to look at an opinion and immediately apply partisan politics to it.

I don't think we disagree here. I think another way to state what you said is that one of the problems is a failure to recognize nuance, a tendency to reduce everything to binary choices.

> Since you decided to deflect the question instead of answer it

I rejected the question because, to me, it implied a binary "is racist/is not racist" choice. After all, when it comes to the media and public opinion, that issue is binary. There's no "a little bit racist," or "can seem racist from some perspectives," or "some people think he's racist but there's room to disagree on the interpretation"--no, when it comes to the media, it's either 100% racist, or not racist at all. And to be safely declared the latter, one must avoid even mentioning certain words and phrases, any one of which means being permanently, irreversibly labeled with one of several different -isms. It's like the media's equivalent of a sex offender list: say the wrong thing, and you're on it for life.

Anyway, if you want to ask a more nuanced question, or clarify what you meant, I don't mind discussing it further.

> I'll just say this: it's really disappointing to me that there's apparently no room to not agree with any major political party.

It's disappointing that it seems that way, yes. I certainly disagree with both, even though I lean toward one platform more than the other.

> I'm watching the absolute mockery that is being made of the front office of our government right now, and I'm extremely disturbed, embarrassed, and pessimistic.

Okay. I've been watching that mockery for the last 8 years--you know, with the IRS being turned into a political weapon; the DoJ being used to incite societal unrest; State sending our avowed enemies, who call for "death to America!", many millions of dollars in cash on a secret overseas flight; the DoE issuing decrees to local school districts, threatening to recall federal funding unless they run their bathrooms a certain way--things like that. Those things disturb and embarrass me as an American.

> The media didn't make Steve Bannon the leader of the alt-right movement, Steve Bannon did.

Sorry, as far as I'm concerned, the "alt-right" is simply a concoction of the media (and Wikipedia is heavily biased toward the left, so I reject it as a source). No one was talking about it before the election season. No one mentioned it during the primaries. It's yet another made-up basket that the leftist media can toss people into whom they want to denigrate. It's basically their pet bogeyman, which they feed with lies and half-truths, fattening it up for the continual slaughter in an endless cycle. In a few months they'll realize that, just as with their constant chanting of "racist/sexist/bigot/deploraphobe", most of the public isn't listening anymore, and then they'll invent a new basket to toss people into.

So, anyway, thanks for the civil discussion. It's more than some people around here are willing or capable of. :/
Exactly, and moreover, it would be an incredible waste of resources not to share. Nice to see an example of the world scientific community being allowed to take the practical approach.
You can 'deactivate' your Facebook account and remain active on Messenger, FYI. I did this.
Why Some Protests Succeed While Others Fail
There is a benefit to countries and to the world when the people pool their money for something big.

Yes there is, at least sometimes. But, the choice to do that should be voluntary, otherwise it's an immoral and unjust situation. And given that the State is - at it's core - a mechanism rooted in violence, this kind of thing is not an appropriate role for government.
Automation will start causing job loss by the millions in 5 years. So no I mean it's a problem creeping up very quickly. Initially it will be less qualified workers, but the fact is that many university grads, say art majors, end up in less qualified jobs (if they exist).
Welcome to the Bin Laden tapes years ago. Remember, the NSA/CIA have tech (they used to say 20) 10 years beyond the public.

Also, I'm pretty sure similar tech is already being used in production on TV already. For example, I can't be the only one who sees all the cgi in the latest BBC planet earth can I?
As a non-American living here, I think it boils down to social attitudes. Remember, this is a nation of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

The general attitude in the US is more like "Everything is a choice" rather than "The Government should do things that are broadly good for everyone". So anything that gives relief to students as whole will be deeply unpopular, but universities charging exorbitant rates and employers using college degrees as a filter for jobs that don't need them are okay, because it's your choice to get into student debt for a degree, or because it's your choice as an employer to use whatever filter you want.

This attitude is really hard to change because practically anyone in the US who is admired or famous is so because of their wealth. All the parents think that their kid is going to be good enough to go to Harvard and become a millionaire. And that is why they pony up the ridiculous fees that keep their child in facilities that are ridiculously good for some petulant 18-year olds.
"The problem with quotes found on the Internet is that they are often not true." --Abraham Lincoln
Probably pretty minimal. The median debt isn't astronomical, it's something they will be able to manage.

(Hard to find a solid number, seems to be around $40,000 for new grads. This is a lot of money, but those grads are typically going to earn quite a lot over their career)
They were definitely better. I'm decently sure that Suarez had a few great ideas, and a wrote his first book using the best one, and was then on the hook for more books.

Edit: Oh! If you liked Daemon, check out Nexus. Same "problem", different core tech solution.
Short introduction to pytest
I'm still using a Note 3, and have been watching but haven't found a good replacement yet.

It's a great phone. User-replaceable battery, great screen, MicroSD slot, poncy stylus that I never use, hardware menu key (seriously Google, I use the menu key all the time). Still works well and fast enough, if not a rocket compared to this year's phones.

I find it disappointing that 3 years after getting the Note 3, apparently all the phone companies have forgotten how to make a new phone that can compel me to put down the money that I'm ready and wanting to spend.

Basically I want a faster Note 3 with a 6.5" AMOLED screen.

I'd be willing to bet I'm not the only one. How can all these companies be so smart yet so brain-dead at the same time?
I'm curious why we treat student loan debt as being special.

Because it is. If student loan debt was treated exactly the same way as every other form of debt, 95% of rational students would declare bankruptcy as soon as they graduated, since their financial wealth at that point would be negative and their intangible wealth -- primarily the education they've received -- can't be repossessed and sold off. Obviously no lender would want to issue loans under such conditions; so treating student loan debt the same way as other debt would simply result in student loans not existing.

But as a society we're better off if students can borrow money to get training which significantly increases their future earnings[1], so the government steps in with regulations to prevent strategic defaults on student loans. Unfortunately, it's very hard to distinguish between strategic and non-strategic defaults... and so we get the current situation, where some people have large amounts of "zombie" student loan debt.

Ultimately what is needed is a system which doesn't allow for strategic defaults but simultaneously avoids having punitive repayments; many countries around the world are moving to income-based repayments for this reason -- that is, you can't get rid of your student debt by declaring bankruptcy, but your minimum payments won't exceed a formula based on your income (e.g., $5 out of every $100 you earn past $15k/year).

[1] Not all degrees do increase students' future earnings, but academic institutions are very good at misleading students about this. We need stronger regulations here, and not just for the benefit of students taking loans; I think the best approach would be to add questions to the Census about the specific academic qualifications individuals have and then report -- and require institutions to republish -- the average incomes of graduates of particular programs. This would not be perfect, since students entering higher education are biased towards higher incomes whether they get that higher education or not; but it would be better than the present complete lack of information.
I would argue that the problem isn't "if the poor are screwed, bad. If the rich are screwed, ok."

I think the problem is eqch individual is pushed to go to college to find a good job which raises demand of college, which raises price. But those good jobs are barely out there for the graduates. And the college institutions didnt guide people down paths of success, instead gave enough freedom to find their own path to failure.

Now, you have a lot of intelligent hardworking (college is not easy) people who are in debt with a very abysmal perspective on their future. Their debt makes them worse off than working poor because any low income job would simply put them in the black. And the gov has their habds tied because america is a great believer in the free market yet a huge group of hardworking young people are effectively worthless and the coming generations are likely to fall in the same trap.
Spin it: how I created more IT jobs than the Obama administration.
Back in 1999 when I was learning to code (PHP obviously), I was stoked to discover the mail() function. Up to that point I'd only been doing HTML and JavaScript coding so my newfound ability to send emails was a pretty big deal. I asked my friend what would happen if I put the mail call inside a while(true) statement. He said it would run until the server hit the 30 second timeout. I asked how many emails my server could send in 30 seconds but he didn't know. I decided to to find out, directing all the emails to my hotmail account. Little did I know, that my ISP & hosting provider had disabled the default 30-second timeout so the script kept running. A few hundred thousand emails later I was having second thoughts about my poorly planned experiment. The next day I got a phone call from my ISP. Turns out Microsoft perceived it as a DDOS attack and blocked all traffic from my ISP. And so for a day basically no one in my city could access their Hotmail accounts or any other Microsoft properties. Oops.
> Wasn't most of that money repaid with interest?

But how much did it cost to borrow the bailout money at first place ? I'm pretty sure the US government didn't have trillions in cash at that time.
It's true only the rich could send their kids to art school, but there are lots of things only the rich can do. What makes you define art school in particular as something we should pay for everyone to do, rather than a luxury?

Keep in mind that resources are limited -- for a given level of taxation, everything the State spends money on means either cutting something else or increasing the debt (thereby making debt service less likely to be sustainable long-term)
"It was very interesting to get into motorcycle racing, which is primarily an exercise in gauging risk."

Mark you are really out there :)
I don't have numbers but people borrow for associate degrees and some college or to go to Trump U. I would guess most millennials have educational debt and don't have >= bachelor degree.
> Apparently back in the old days you could work a part time job

Even if that was true, it's not the old days anymore. The college I went to is now at 50,000$+ a year with compulsory room and board. Try paying that off with a part-time job and still competing well with your rich peers.

No matter what, it's an enormous advantage to not have to work while in college. I know I wouldn't have done as well if I was working simultaneously, since I was still stressed out as is.
The idea with the man-in-the-middle attack there is that the words would be different, say Alice and Bob want to talk but Eve MitM-ed them, as she always does.

Alice sees "pink elephant salad" and Bob sees "piano lamps". They say the words, Eve has to reply in Alice's voice to Bob with "piano lamps" and then respond to Alice with "ping elephant salad".

However then Alice makes a joke wondering if elephants like to eat pink salad. Bob will wonder as perhaps he wanted to remark how so few people play pianos these days. So Eve has a bit of a harder job if say instead it was just "1234" vs "5678" being said.
The irony of attempting to "argue" with my point is incredibly hilarious. I would suggest suspending ideological preference for a moment and re-reading my post.

It's about trust and human nature. Not nitpicking details to try to "prove" you are right. You will never win what you are trying to win like this. Ever.

But since you asked here is a sample:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-w...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/donald-trump-w...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donal... (the implication being of course that Trump is tied to racism).

Now lets oppose the outrage above with the treatment of Hillary's behavior.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/27/us/politics/wh...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/hillary-clinto...

Look guys... it's not an ideological thing here. But you can't behave like this and have people who support a different ideology take you seriously. That's a simple fact.

When this happens people will get their information from elsewhere.

Last I have to say about this. Think about it or not. But I don't intend to argue.
Give some sort of limit - 10/20/30 years? - and some sort of max% of income - 10%?. If the loan isn't paid off by the end of the limit at a max % of income, then the loan can then be discharged by bankruptcy.

This already exists in the USA. It's called Income Based Repayment and the outstanding balance of loans and interest is forgiven after 30 years of making payments capped to a certain percentage of income. There is a tax penalty that may or may not still exist in 30 years.
>deeply offensive

Grow up. You're not special because you were personally offended, or offended for someone else.

>racist comments

There may be something here, anecdotally, but that term has been used so much by the "Sickle Brigade" that the accusation has ceased to have any sort of impact to me online. Oversensitive, repugnant people use their brand of social justice to abuse identity politics and shit all over discourse themselves. Everything stems from racism according to these privileged liberal arts majors.

I only need to point to the story on HN the other day about all of the progressive blogs that repeated incessantly that Trump is "openly racist" to make my point.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
https://www.abqjournal.com/888311/protest-helped-to-create-p...

Those sort of people make it really hard for me to call myself a liberal. And after all, it's only fair that they start banning vitriol from the sickle brigade as well.
If he was that good he wouldn't use Matlab/Octave to teach his class.
Sorry to hear that. It seems to be working fine based on the couple hundred others that have signed up this evening, so maybe try again? If that doesn't work, hit me up via email (listed in my profile) and I'll see what I can do!
Downvoted for ...language, I guess?

I dunno, when faced with a somewhat troubling and frankly just bizarre concept like described in the OP's article, I think a recaction of "WTF" isn't exactly off-base...
I feel for meteorologists. They absolutely have the rest of the world beat on the discrepancy between modeling complexity and ease of observable result.

"Well, they said it would rain and it didn't..."

So, from me at least, thanks for all the hard work!
It's not that they aren't factual, it's that they direct the nation's attention. There are millions of newsworthy stories, but only some are published and the NYT seems to be the source of that focus that then leads the whole mainstream media around by the nose.
> the 4-momentum is conserved

In standard relativity, yes. But not in your hypothetical "relativistic system where momentum is conserved but energy isn't". You said such a system was easy to imagine. I simply pointed out that, easy to imagine or not, such a system doesn't work. Nothing that I said about 3-momentum being conserved in one frame but not another applies to standard relativity where the 4-momentum is conserved. It only applies to the hypothetical system that you claimed was easy to imagine. I don't understand why you keep talking as though my comments about 3-momentum being conserved in one frame but not another referred to standard relativity.

> It doesn't "go somewhere".

By "go somewhere" I simply meant energy can get transferred from one part of the system to another. I didn't mean that total energy wasn't conserved (in standard relativity).

> change-of-frame is not a necessary part of conservation laws.

It is in a relativistic theory, since the principle of relativity requires that the laws of physics, including conservation laws, must hold in all frames.

> The claim that you can observe conversation in one frame but not another is absurd.

For standard relativity, of course it is. But not for your hypothetical system.

> The laws are affine; they hold in any frame or none.

This seems to contradict what you said earlier in the same post, that "change of frame is not a necessary part of conservation laws".
To add to that I would argue that if we made sports optional that could also make college cheaper. Not everyone wants to go to a school for the sports team they want to get an education and get out in the real world.
lol, guess I have to rename my WIP minimalist chat application
University of California Replaces American Workers with Foreign Nationals
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'member xanga and Livejournal?
IMO, yes and no. While they make efforts to sound fair and reasonable, the "fact-checkers" and "truth-o-meters" are quite biased. Before the election, they were basically stumping for Clinton, making it sound like Trump was the fount of untruth while she was a mere trickle of truthiness. How wonderful to be the self-declared arbiters of truth!

As I said, it has been claimed that 3 million non-citizens voted, and a lawsuit is pending, so we shall see.

If it is true, then obviously that is a significant problem, and obviously Clinton would not have won the popular vote. And obviously that would vindicate the Republicans' efforts to institute voter-ID laws, and it would condemn the Democrats' repeated attempts to prevent such laws, and basically implicate them in election fraud. (Not to mention the Scott Foval videos.)

And that is one of the issues surrounding the repeated claim that Clinton won the popular vote, and the implied problem.
> The average user downloads less than 3 apps per month. Half of US smartphone users download zero apps per month.

Why is this at all surprising? It's not very often I have more needs in my life that an app can helps solve.

>60% of apps in the Google Play app store have never been downloaded.

Again not surprising. How many of these apps are crappy wrappers for a website anyway?
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General education requirements in American universities serves the purpose of getting people up to the level of academic high school students in Europe or Asia.

We could get rid of it, but we'd have to fix high schools first. This would likely require admitting that a focus on academic subjects isn't appropriate for everyone. In many European countries, a majority of students go to trade-oriented secondary schools and the minority that goes to academic schools leading to university have to study quite rigorous material in secondary school. That's why their university programs can focus specifically on individual specialties.

For example, the French academic high school diploma (called Baccalauréat Général) is normally considered equivalent to at least a year in a US university.
I can't promise this won't eat your lunch and pee on the floor but I've added a Ceph backed to preserve:https://github.com/cholcombe973/preserve I'll be adding integration tests with checksums to verify integrity this week. If anyone wants to build another backend I'd be happy to merge it.
Are you kidding? IIRC satoshi mined huge amounts of Bitcoin before anyone else knew or cared about it.
Wow, that's about $200,000 over 4 years.

Yeah, I agree it's high. I just think if loans aren't easily given out like they are then colleges would be forced to lower their prices.

Yeah, I feel if you really want to master something you need to do it full time. Just seems like the whole system is screwed up as it is right now. Plus if you got a job at McDonalds and went for a PHD in physics they still count you getting a job even if not in their field as part of their success rate. I feel it's totally misleading.

I don't know if these young people even know what they are getting into. My mom says to just file bankruptcy if it doesn't work out, which isn't true. Many people falsely believe that.
You can't be arrested for not paying debts. You could probably still visit the US as long as you didn't intend to work there.
"Second, with the above notes in mind, remember that Intel’s strength even with its own accelerator, is that there is no funky programming model—it’s CUDA versus good old X86."

Now, please show us non-trivial use cases where recompiling "good old X86" to Knights Mill architecture yields satisfactory performance?

To get good performance you need to ensure your code makes good use of Knights Mill vector instructions (AVX-512*).
> It means that people who don't do tertiary education, or who do a trade, don't subsidise those who go to university.

Well, an interest-free loan is certainly a significant subsidy, as is the direct government support of NZ universities. But I agree this is less subsidy than some European countries where higher education is essentially given away for free.
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The cost was very low, treasury rates dipped below 1%.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
I just want to point out that anybody currently in the United States government who has sworn an oath to the constitution and has signed the required affidavit would be in violation of their oath of office if they advocate the overthrow of our system of government, which includes casual dismissal of our national sovereignty via globalism, and therefor subject to the penalty of removal from office and confinement or a fine.

This to me is the crux of the matter. If you attempt to hand wave away national sovereignty via globalism or even as pdog says regional globalization, you effectively are advocating traitorous policy (unless specifically called for via constitutional means of alteration of the constitution), not only that, but if the US was to embrace that method, it would lose legitimacy as a government. I don't buy for a second this hullaballo about inevitable globalism. Yes, we have global markets that all effect each other, that's not disputable, what is disputable is that we should allow that excuse to further undermine basic principles of national sovereignty, or further, to undermine the national sovereignty of other countries via imperialism wrapped in banners of globalism.

https://youtu.be/RgcdRCWEt4Q?t=5097

Keep in mind that's a Larouche video, so retain a skeptical view.
It's not even possible for a consumer connection to handle the firehose.