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The data might be out there but it doesn't mean less informed people will ever agree with you and no amount of data or reasoning can ever change their minds.

A better question would be, in this context, why research 'controversial' topics? If it's in hopes of persuading people to your point of view it seems like it'll be a futile effort.
Couldn't you do that without involving cryptocurrency?
There's no rational reason why a PotUS should be tweeting random impulsive thoughts to the world at large. Very few potential positives, a lot of potential negatives. It's pretty obvious that Trump should not be doing this, but alas, rationality went out of the window when he was voted into office.
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"Your view on tribalism as described here is fine, but the tone of the article is not "tribalism is an unfortunate reality", it's "tribalism is normal and healthy"."

It's the same thing.

Compare again to greed or selfishness. An excess of selfishness, avarice, is pathological. But having zero regard for self-interest, being altruistic to the extent of self-denial, is also bad. A modest amount of selfishness is natural and healthy.

Traits are healthy when then form a productive, evolutionary stable strategy. If I am ultra-altruistic, that is not stable because those who are more selfish will win out and become dominant. If people are predatory, that is bad because it leads to everyone bringing each other down. If people are modestly selfish, while engaging in reciprocal altruism, and a tit-for-tat (or maybe tit-for-two-tats) strategy against defectors, that is a healthy, productive, and stable strategy.

The same goes with tribalism. Tribalism can generally be defined as forming a tight bond with a group in order to perform coordinated action. If you avoid any form of tribalism as a strategy, then a group that acts tribally will dominate you. Avoiding tribalism is not an ESS. If you are tribal and predate on other tribes, that is also bad, it makes everyone worse off. The healthy strategy is for a tribe to look after its own interest, engage in reciprocal altruism with other tribes, and a tit-for-tat (or maybe tit-for-two-tats) strategy against other tribes that break the peace.
And, obviously, websites apparently don't want a fast website. Empirically, they want the slow, JavaScript frameworky, image heavy, ad heavy, social media link-ful they have. Unfortunately, as a user, I want their website to be the opposite of what they want their website to be.
Yeah this is pretty much my take (even though I was that person you mentioned)
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Both you and the previous commenter seem to be talking about the polarization of politics as if it's an inevitable feature of human social interaction. But I think that's a little overly simplistic.

The current extreme polarization in the US is new and fairly unusual, in historical terms. It could be an inevitable phase that other counties will reach too, or it could just be a random artifact of the US's history and political system. Very few countries have a voting system that locks in the main two parties as strongly as the US, for example.

The idea that all politics is purely about tribal identity, and that "rationality" is a myth, would seem to suggest that we've never made any real social advances. But I'd count things like the outlawing of slavery as advances.

It reminds me of the extreme view of social structures in science (which Thomas Kuhn subscribed to, if I remember right), that all scientific "advances" and "revolutions" are just changes in fashion as one generation of scientists succeeds another. But each advance does in fact get us closer to the truth, even if we never quite reach it.
Perhaps the US health care system should be focusing more on preventative care. I hear that reduces demand for doctors.

Oh wait, that doesn't make the insurance companies as much money, so that's a bad idea.
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Twitter's popular with journalists for some reason, most likely because it's an easy way to find potential stories and promote their work. This is probably part of the problem - it means that when ordinary users are nasty to them or their friends it's personal, and the same when they or their friends get their accounts suspended.
Microsoft provided emergency funding. It's quite possible that they could have raised the money some other way, though. However, wherever the money came from, Apple would have been doomed had they kept on their original path, so it doesn't seem that unreasonable to claim that the NeXT purchase saved them.
I'm assuming you don't have a GMail tab open. My Firefox memory usage steadily climbs if I have a GMail tab open.
> This is exactly how I'm using Firefox, right now -- 273 tabs open. It's sitting at ~5% of CPU and 450MB of RAM. And switching tabs is instantaneous.

Which platform are you on? Which Firefox version? Stock or tweaked? Any special add-ons? I use Firefox on OS X and it crawls after 10-15 tabs. Consumes many gigs of memory. Chrome isn't any better. It just splits the memory consumption among multiple processes.

I don't remember browsers being this slow on Linux. Time to go back to the magic land.
Can the AMA prevent hospitals from creating residencies with their own funds? I'm ignorant about this, but at first blush it seems like doctors must be a top expense and most companies enjoy employing workers with cheap wages and long hours. Hospitals should be happy to hire as many residents as possible (even if they got 60 hours from them instead of 100). What am I missing?
Most startup employees aren't in a position to accidentally kill someone due to sleep deprivation, though.

(Not saying startup culture is good in that regard. Just saying it has less of a life-or-death impact on others.)
Oh everything is debatable if you're inclined to debate. But as far as user experience goes, that shitty default (with no way to disable it) on chrome is a pretty one-sided debate.
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or any Google drive document.
I reversed engineered (out of curiosity) the JS/AS code of > 10 solutions of this nature. Wrote bypasses for many (locally, for fun).
How do you make whitehat 100K+/day with these skills?
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Yeah, the article got up my nose as well. I've got a couple of hundred tabs in tab groups in FF, probably about 50 have something in them (the others aren't loaded until I navigate to them). Opening a new tab is instant.

I get a fair bit more resource usage than you're reporting, though...
Thanks for writing that. I can't remember exactly the process we went through, but I remember your post being a significant part of the information pushing my wife from med school to PA school, a decision we're quite happy about.
So "simply what it is" is a reason not to strive for something better?
We've definitely had our share of issues in this area, but we also take them seriously as you can see by the volume of patches that have gone in and continue to go in! With the very latest releases (1.4.7 and 1.5.1) I think we're in reasonable shape on volume mounting. And if you find things - particularly with the newer versions - please report them and we will work to fix them. We found and fixed another edge case recently, which was driven by an unusual real-world scenario (Xen not detaching volumes despite AWS believing them to be detached), and mitigated that. I'm sure we'll continue to find edge cases (and probably a few silly bugs as well), but we're also working on enhanced testing to really stress this area of the code so we can find them faster.
yes, that's what the second half of my comment says.
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> they just avoid reading the comments

This. But usually when the content is good and thoughtful ,(AKA void of controversy or outrage), the comment can be useful. But otherwise frankly Youtube comment is a worst place than reddit itself.
On one of my machines, Chrome has at least a second delay before actually starting to load a page if and only if hw-acceleration is kept enabled.
I have also seen odd delays on other machines on other browsers that were related to hw-acceleration.

Yes, having a great number of intrusive extensions can cause issues, but there is no need to jump to conclusions as these issues can be present without the user doing anything "wrong".
> The first Microsoft apps were Excel and Word for the Mac.

Nice quote otherwise, but this bit is not actually true. Microsoft got into apps via Word and Multiplan on DOS.

Excel and Word for the Mac were its first graphical applications.
"load all tabs" on restart is a terrible default for people who like to have dozens of tabs. I can't see any reasonable argument for it, for those users.
i would totally pay a few dollars a month for an ad free experience on twitter
Inflation rose under Reagan every year.

It also dropped every year. Just so happens it dropped by more.

So if you just ask "Did inflation rise under Reagan?" A very literal answer would be "yes, repeatedly, just not overall."

So you'd balk, "That's not the spirit of the question!"

But let's switch to the spirit of the question.

Suppose you know that Volcker's anti-inflation efforts are almost certainly the most decisive factor in the decline in inflation. Suppose you also know he was appointed to control inflation by Carter. And you know that Reagan later fired him for other effects of this work. So if we're going by the spirit of the question, it appears to the individual on the street to read, "Was Reagan the President most responsible for halting the inflation of the late 70s?"

Once we're reading charitably and trying to make the question as sensible as possible, even then the answer is still probably no. The most literal or the most charitable answer is no.

But, sure, asked to put money on it, most people would give the dumb answer too, because they'd assume anyone who asked such a poor question hadn't given the issue too much thought.

Ok, ok. Postscript and time out. This is obstinate sophistry for the fun of obstinate sophistry. I wasn't of voting age in the late 70s and early 80s, and don't have a strong partisan opinion on combatting stagflation. But you could run this same sort of game on almost any one of these questions. It's not a clean world of pure facts that people are mucking up with their perceptions. It's almost all perceptions on top of everything. In fact, there's even a selection bias in the questions they pick, which have muddy expositions like this. No one just asks "Did Nixon visit China?" or "Did Johnson succeed Lincoln?" Uncomplicated facts are uncomplicated. Complicated facts only appear simple when you're giving the standard answer.
I understand where you're coming from, but this seems an awfully aggressive way to send that message to websites that you presumably like and find useful. Merely blocking ads isn't enough?
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An electric shock is really the best way to describe what it felt like to me.

Imagine a sudden electric shock to the middle of your brain. It doesn't exactly hurt, but it is incredibly uncomfortable and jarring. It is like a momentary jolt of energy and caused me to feel pretty disoriented for the following few seconds. It is definitely (feels like, at least) a physical sensation as opposed to just sensory.
Firstly, parameters are functions. That means that if the function you're using didn't plan for use with parameters (maybe the code predates R7RS, maybe that value was never supposed to be changed), you're out of luck: have fun with your globals.

Secondly, parameters must be global. You can't, say, have a function that depends on which parameters were bound in a parent function. This is because parameters aren't true dynamic scoping: they're using lexical scoping to emulate dynamic scoping. All well and good, but why not just implement dynamic scoping?

Thirdly, Parameters are fiddly to get right. The path to RnRS parameters is paved with the bones of many a construct (like fluid-let) that tried and failed to safely handle parameters, whether it be because of multithreading, or because of those two famous bugbears of Scheme programming, call/cc and dynamic-wind. The reason for this is that all these constructs, at their heart, are changing the value of a global for the dynamic extent of a function. In scheme, as you no doubt know, dynamic extents aren't guaranteed contiguous.

OTOH, true dynamic variables are a lot simpler to get right in the prescence of continuations: a continuation is a copy of the stack, in low level terms. Dynamic variables are bound to the stack, so dynamic variables and continuations should Just Work. The same is true with threading.

In short, parameters are a construct less flexable than true dynamic variables and a more complicated one to implement, to boot.
I got reply from Instagram that they are aware of issue and working on it.
I just use NoScript, and it's astonishing just how many sources some pages use. Just looking at the block list in NoScript for an online-newspaper sort of site, and there'll usually be about 20 javascript sources.
Toll roads are very stupid. The cost of the road is building the road, not driving on it. Even the maintenance cost is predominantly weather-related. A toll road pays the same construction cost and then gets less use out of it because the tolls discourage people from using the road.

Tolls have the pricing wrong. There is no unit cost so the problem is apportioning the fixed cost. A platinum mine clearly derives more profit from the road than a potato farmer, so why should we charge per truck (tolls) rather than per dollar of profit (taxes)? All that does is price low-profit (i.e. more efficient) enterprises out of the market, which is exactly what we don't want.

In addition to that we already have a tax collection infrastructure which is not going away, but collecting tolls would require a redundant toll collection infrastructure on top of that.
Yeah there is lots of literature on this issue and some ongoing studies trying to determine how to reduce medical error during the hand-off. For example: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD...
Or because some people have personal believes, or simply cannot comprehend some phenomenons - by studying the topics you would 'demystify' them and explain them in a cartesian way to the general public
> your browser sucks

Why not all three? The browser implementation, user's choices, and the implementations of each individual add-on suck.

The browser didn't limit the resource use of greedy add-ons (or inform the user of conflicts between them), the add-ons were coded either to do too much, or to perform their function with suboptimal code, and the user is the one that chose that set of software to use together.
Wise words, I think I need to 'figure out the game' myself. Currently on the inside of the tech industry.
That is absolutely a true thing you can say about the media and the election. They came to believe that Trump would not win the election, by being in a bubble where everyone they talked to had the same views as themselves.

But that is a totally different point than, and is actually logically incompatible with, the assertion that they privately believed that Trump _would_ win the election, but expressed otherwise to the public.
My country also set down some laws which those advertisement network ignores. They broke the deal for which those law represent, and they get to live in the wild west for which they chosen.

Give me a advertisement network which takes legal liability for what they advertise and follows local law, and we could start talking about what implicit deal exist when I visit a website. This mean no recording (data protection laws), no malware (anti-hacking laws), fair representation of the product, clear pricing, no alcohol, tobacco or advertisement towards minors, clear indication that its an advertisement, and the other rules that exist in advertisement laws here in Sweden. Tax laws involved are also always involved If there is a deal where service is provided in exchange for goods.
Not really. If we can agree that people respond to incentives, then we should make sure the incentives of how we constitute civil society align with their purpose and that the purpose doesn't get perverted through gamesmanship.

For instance, arguably schools are primarily for education. So increasing the access to and quality of education is probably a decent goal.

For profit systems certainly have increased the access to, but arguably deceased the quality of, and arguably education is only incidental to the true project, which is profit.^1

It's this problem, where we entrust civic needs in private hands and hope the needs are satisfied incidentally.

The problem with communism is that it's somewhat the same thing. Instead of economic capital, they fight for political capital using a similar perversion of incentives.

I don't think there exists a Grand Unified Equation that works for all civic needs and I don't think that the best answers already exist.

Instead, I think it should be openly and honestly researched like all other sciences and leave the sportsmanship and team cheering world it currently occupies.

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[1] For-Profit schools may have their place. I don't know much about auto mechanics or plumbing, but I can imagine a certified for-profit program would be a fine way to do this. I can also imagine them cutting costs, paying off inspections, and passing everyone so nobody stops paying the tuition. The goal is to not make ripping people off and cheating them out of an education such a profitable and incentivized thing to do.
It would be pretty easy to add a conspicuous button to "unlock" resources iff they were throttled.

Being generous, I think the average user might actually push this btn once a month?
We should apply a progressive income tax on any capital gains, period. They're income. There's no reason why they should be taxed at the rate lower than sweat-of-the-brow income, except to economically advantage the rentier class at the expense of the worker class (since the overall tax bill is the same, you're just shifting money paying for it between these two groups by applying different rates).
This. A lot of news outlets in Europe actually do that. Only paid subscribers can comment. It's a good compromise. It reduces trolling AND finances moderation.
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>Yahoo purchased a company who was selling video ads that were muted using uncommon AS3 mixer controls.

Thanks for the code above. What was the company name? never heard of it.
We use a wide variety of metrics to compare codecs, not just the usual PSNR metric:

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While none of these metrics are as good as the "human quality" metric, some are better than others, in different ways, so we try to optimize across the board.
(Let's just hope the Cook era doesn't last as long as the Ballmer era - 14 years. It's been 5 years with Cook now...)
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I'm not a first hand observer, but I was certainly around and following the issue at the time. My impression was that a lot of people watching the issue got upset. I never saw anyone from NeXT or the FSF complain about anything. Just like today, there are people who think that Apple are evil because they don't embrace software freedom. Similarly there are people who think that the FSF are evil for not letting people do whatever they want. To be honest, the acceptance for software freedom as a legitimate idea is far more advanced today than it was back then, and you see how much vitriol is spewed about 'zealots' and whatnot.

To be fair, I don't think Apple was ever interested in software freedom. This is pretty obvious from their actions since that time (moving away from utilising software under the GPL). But I've never heard anyone other than developers complain about it. From a business perspective, it makes sense -- a license is a license. You don't want to pay the price, you don't get the license. I got the sense that Apple's management understood this principle completely.

From the FSF's perspective, they got an Objective-C front end for GCC and they were particularly happy about that. It was a kind of triumph because the GPL did its job. Objective-C programmers had a free platform to work with, which never would have happened if GCC had not existed and was not GPLed. One can argue that these days more and more companies understand the benefits of open source development and might contribute large pieces of code willingly, but that certainly wasn't the case in those times.

I would also be interested in first hand views, but from my perspective, it was always a non-issue.
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I don't think it's at all inevitable, nor do I disbelieve that political polarization is new. That said, tribal clustering is as old as time.

Without getting into the whys and wherefores, my main concern is that as we eliminate some forms of tribal clustering (ethnic, gender, class, etc.) we are simply replacing them with other forms, namely political affiliation or wedge issues. Particularly, I'm concerned with tribal clustering on wedge issues that don't affect the quality of work a person might do.
How do you feel about paywalls?
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I don't see it happening any time soon if at all. Companies spend an insane amount of money advertising on Facebook platforms. If you're at all familiar with how companies buy ads in digital marketing, you'll realize how Facebook's targeting is super valuable and companies pay a pretty penny to target specific users.

Not to mention, Facebook is quite the pioneer in tech. React is one of the most used front end libraries and the community around it is super positive.

Then there's VR and their progress in 360 video. The list really goes on with Facebook.
I think a notable exception to this is comments on the wall street journal. They are typically well-informed professionals having reasonable opinions who take the time to write in-depth comments -- not unlike this site, I suppose. And of course commenting is gated on having a paid subscription to the magazine, and I believe there is an additional paid membership that gets ones comments promoted.

I don't know if things are still like this though -- I haven't had a subscription for several years.
I had this too with Zoloft and the doctors didn't believe I was on a high enough dose to experience the side effect. It was bad for a week and was sporadic for another week or two. I was surprised that the doctor was so skeptical about a known side effect. It's not like I was trying to get more of that sweet sweet Zoloft. Medical devices have an incident reporting database that are required to be updated by companies and health professionals. Every pharma product should be subject to the same reporting -- whether the practitioner believes it or not.
Reader mode is such a relief. I wish there were a way to enable it by default.