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You are looking for justification where it does not exist. California did not need another 200K jobs. Please. We have more than enough bandwidth to handle medical care.

The part you might not see is what Obamacare has done and is doing to the medical industry, from providers on up.

Beyond the fact that we have personally gotten royally screwed by Obamacare, my wife is a doctor and I see and hear everything that's going on. Only one way to put it:

Carnage.

Doctors are quitting. Care is horrible or compromised due to forced cost reductions. Some patients are not seen because they are not worth the effort or the doctors are not going to get paid enough, etc.

Having more people who can be claimed to have insurance isn't a good metric at all. You have to look at what they have and how much it is costing.

Most of people who now have insurance thanks to Obamacare have no clue that they've signed a deal with the devil. What I mean by this is that they have, effectively, signed-over their estate to the government. They are LIABLE for every dollar spent in their care from now until eternity.

Yup. Forget about leaving the family home to your kids. If you get sick and need care the government will own your home and your kids might get nothing after you pass.

This is because they've been shoved into Medicaid and that means the government has to, by law, recover all costs and this means they got their hooks into your estate.

They can even file liens on your home to pay for your care.

Bullshit?

OK, how about we get the truth from the horse's mouth:

https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/estate-recover...

What do you think about Obamacare now? And how about those bullshit 200K workers? Their salaries surely will be added in some form to the money owed by these poor saps who are shoved into Medicaid and now have "insurance".

Obamacare might easily be the largest theft of personal property by a government in the history of humanity. And I don't think I am exaggerating here. I think there are over twenty million people on Medicaid. Every single one of the estates could be in danger of being sold off by the government to pay for medical care.

This is truly revolting. Yet all of these Obama/Obamacare supporters are so ignorant of the facts that they actually think he did a good thing for the country and that Obamacare has helped poor people. Unbelievable.
I feel the same. And I often wonder if the 60 year old versions of ourselves will feel much the same about the crazy, misguided 37 year old fools they remember once being.
How will we get our iPhone 17s?
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You know you're talking about a poker player, right? That's not pure chance at all.
The image is from the German-language article "Stromexport Deutschlands erreicht immer neue Rekorde (aktualisiert)", 7 October 2015.

http://phasenpruefer.info/deutschlands-stromexporte-bricht-r...

English title courtesy of Google Translate: "Germany's electricity exports are constantly growing (updated)".
I'm sure in good time we'll see more advanced slot machines to entice the smartphone generation.

Certainly here in Sweden they've short-circuited that entire process by making the slot machines into smartphone apps so that you can play whenever you want without even having to leave the comfort of your own home
>And failing at it, see the meteoric rise of motorization in developing countries

In contrast to popular opinion, cars are one of the greatest equalizers on the planet.

Before cars, who gets to enjoy a nice Sunday morning at the beach?

The rich with beachside estates. There aren't too many busses going there at random hours of the day.

Without cars, how would the poor get to a national park?

Practically, public transportation only works when you want to go where the crowds are.

If you want to stand out, you've got to take a car.
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There's also pumped hydro - and possibly ARES, if that turns out to be cost effective.
" But it is reasonable to expect that they will get better, and it is reasonable to expect that we will be able to emulate the brain with transistors and on a much bigger scale some days."

No, it's not reasonable to assume they will emulate brains.

Not even the experts are saying that.

They're not trying to emulate brains at all.
> tell me which people you know, in which industries, have outright 'lost their jobs' due to some AI or machine?

I have literally seen a room full of people that lost their jobs because of software I wrote (admittedly, not alone, but still). The software was almost ready by that point and it was quite a disturbing experience that still bothers me up to this day to be honest.

It had nothing to do with AI and was quite a long time ago, but I still remember it very vividly.
It sounds like fun to use Elixir for the entire codebase. I played around with it briefly for fun. My favorite parts were pattern matching and |>. I never got to streams though.

Is the app public? (If you don't want to mention its homepage, I'll understand since it's your employer.)
Millions for a ballot battle sounds way cheaper than paying $250 per car while in a testing phase? Were they planning to use more than 8000 autopiloted cars like this in the near future?

It'd be cheaper to lobby the legislature anyway, I bet they could get their bill out of the Waze and Means Committee.
And I would argue that voting for representatives is far inferior to polling. It's susceptible to gerrymandering, poor turnout and much more.

But if you're going to vote for representatives and Presidents, at least use the Approval vote. The system used in every state except Maine suffers from spoiler effects, and devolves into a self perpetuating two party system that polarizes the population into two camps that hate each other for things that no one person can really change by voting, and deride third parties as a "waste of a vote". Sound familiar?

That's why I don't want to participate in this voting system.
Nuclear power also leaves behind waste that is hazardous for between 10.000 and 1.000.000 years ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste ), i.e. has t be stored safely for that amount of time. Most countries using nuclear power haven't even found a site to store waste permanently (e. g. Germany), let alone figured out how to tell future generations to stay away.
IDK about poison ivy, but for automotive grease, Dawn Ultra works wonders even without a scrub.

Like my dad says, "you haven't been proper dirty till you've had to use Dawn as shampoo".

Brake dust, OTOH, now there you need to scrub, preferrably with a stiff nail brush.
Should we also discuss witnesses' recollections during trials?

I remember thinking about that very much when I listened to the podcast Serial. What do we actually remember? I think I only really remember "methods". (neural passageways?)

edit: I was a pain in high school for my physics teacher (and for myself), I never learned any formulas and did everything with dimensional analysis...
Deep work by Cal Newport, great book on how to develop intense focus to be creative/get more done. Highly recommended.

Race Against The Machine - a concise and informative discussion of the impact of technology on employment, income distribution and macro economics. Highly recommended as well.
The laws of thermodynamics have not changed, but try examining a really-really-really-really-really high dimensional phase without getting tendrils/'tubes' that appear essentially random w.r.t. prior conditions. How would you know the direction of a volume of phase space with fairly significant perturbation across all the variables that can change?

A flippant counter-example: eat only carbohydrates with a 1000 calorie deficit, drink 5 liters of water daily- 0 additional calories. How would you not gain water weight? Doesn't that count also?
Sorry but this comment is just incredibly stupid. You (probably) have the right to free speech but you aren't forced to spew bile constantly. You might have the right to bear arms but you wouldn't be forced to carry an AR-15 24/7.
Having the right to something means it can't be taken from you, not that you can't give it up. I worked as a chef for many years and many workers rights (particularly the EU working directive) are simply incompatible with the industry. Does this mean I was unable to work? Did the industry collapse? No. I just signed a waiver each time I started a new job.

c) Is actually an interesting subject and personally I do not agree with having a minimum wage and I feel that the purpose of introducing it was to undermine unions. There is a lot more to say about min wage but this comment thread is probably not the place for it. The rest of your post is, objectively, nonsense.
>Batteries are expensive, low-capacity, and absolutely horrendous from an environmental perspective.

not even close. To store energy melt potassium oxide using that energy - low melting temperature allows for low losses. To produce the energy back "burn" that potassium in a very simple metal-air fuel cell (organic electrolyte, carbon electrodes - nothing "horrendous from an environmental perspective"). Storage by melting isn't suitable for a car or a phone battery, yet there is no issues with it when we talking scale of even a small power plant.
>I realize how livid I would be to find out that the casino had done this to better their own odds.

That's because the casino is supposed to tell you what they're doing. A casino making decisions based on secret criteria is very abnormal. But the player almost always does so.
How about eating?

Do you think people in the 1600s had a great quality of life?

It's the 20th century version of "let them eat cake".
Isn't this already roughly the case due to turnout differences among the different age groups?
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> Ultimately though, this doesn't change the fact that automation is mostly beneficial to capital owners

I think that inequality will increase but not because of owning capital. Rather because this automation will shift demand away from unskilled workers and into software developers, marketing experts, etc. And I do not think that the supply of skilled worker can adapt fast enough, if any.

The good news (for the US) is that China will be the main casualty. In a way the US has already largely paid this tax to automation by outsourcing factory jobs to China. It is chinese factory workers that are going to be automated the first. Some low skilled jobs that couldn't be outsourced offshore like construction, taxis, etc will suffer but I'd argue a large part of the impact is behind us.

Obviously the tax paid to outsourcing is also having Trump at the white house.
Blind NHS patients to be fitted with pioneering bionic eye
Well, compared to solar energy, nuclear power plants produce energy at night and during cloudy weather. And their production is way more regular, you get the same amount during the whole day.
Let me guess: you live somewhere in USA, that took basically 0 refugees (compared to population) and have never been in ghettos that are direct results of this crisis? Sure, they are human beings and they need help, but it's not that simple and it's a trade-off between well-being of local population vs helping others, so finding a balance is hard and not straightforward as "accepting everyone".
This is actually kind of nice. I hate frameworks like Bootstrap that try to make any design / styling decisions. It's my experience that unless you're fine with that out of the box styling, you'll actually fight the framework while customizing it.

A small, lightweight framework that focuses on the very basics, avoids styling and frees me from repeating boilerplate code in every project is most welcome.

Milligram looks promising in that regard. My other alternative was Corpus: http://jamiewilson.io/corpus/
Unknown mushrooms though, should really be your very last recourse, only if there's really, really nothing else to eat at all where you are.
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I got curious after reading your comment, and it appears that even though the max rating in wine scoring is 100, the min value is 50. So it's /50, really... still relatively accurate(?)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_rating
Well, Germany replaced its nuclear power plants with Wind turbines + coal/gas thermic power plants.
>The RMBK reactors at Chernobyl are of an irresponsible design, with no containment, graphite moderator and a highly positive void coefficient. Combined that with human error and zealotry and you have a recipe for disaster. Russian VVER PWRs on the other hand have excellent track record with no accidents whatsoever. Your country has at least two gen IV reactor designs with pasive cooling and negative void coefficient.

It's much easier not building a reactor than trying to shut it down when it's discovered that they don't keep standards.
I agree. Nuclear fission power seems to be associated with a negative learning curve [1][2]. This means that as the newly installed capacity goes up, price per unit actually increases. As solar is already becoming competitive and is experiencing a positive learning curve (costs going down rapidly as production expands) it would be pretty silly to invest in nuclear at this point.

[1] https://thinkprogress.org/does-nuclear-power-have-a-negative...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
MGM should cast Sinbad in a movie titled "Shazaam! 2" just to really fuck with people.
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I think it's important to point out that papers like that usually are pointing out statistical pitfalls (and often provide solutions), but they don't really cast doubt on fMRI as a tool for measuring brain function.
Exactly.

This realization you had is precisely one of the reasons for which I was very vocal in a recent thread [1] about a startup that wants to (watch out, projectile vomiting coming) make manufacturing "orders of magnitude" better.

The problem with a lot of these ideas is ignorance of what real product development and manufacturing entails in the context of real-life applications, regulatory constraints, liability and more.. They think that because you can iterate code fast while sipping a latte at Starbucks the same "logic" can be applied to manufacturing and, voilà, "orders of magnitude" better manufacturing.

Reality, as you have come to realize, is often far more complex that machining a few pieces of metal, throwing together a microprocessor board and writing code over a weekend. And every industry is different.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13177786
blatant |ˈbleɪt(ə)nt| adjective

(of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly: blatant lies.

Volkswagen weren't blatant about it. They kept it a secret. If they were blatant about it the way Uber is, they would be publishing their true NOx numbers and saying "yeah we know these numbers aren't allowed by emissions standards but we're selling it anyway"
Time to invest in firearms. Apocalypse is near.
The stuff about europe on the donald and related places is totally crazy IMO. At first it was a joke, one europe earned after merkels public invite. But then it slowly creeped into mainstream media and now is used by politicans in the USA and even "documented" in propaganda material.
Turns out all the real devs are kinda busy and don't have a couple hours a week to help all of us people who make their lives miserable..
I think this is spot on. I think this is the best explanation of why more democratic systems tend to work so much better for governing large groups than other systems. It's not that large groups make good decisions, it's that the more accountable politicians are, the better they tend to govern.

This is why I think direct democracy isn't a good idea. I suspect it would be far better to work on reducing corruption and increasing accountability of our representatives than to have people vote on policy directly.
> There is no reason to trust a certificate that's older than a year, for instance, there's been more than enough time for someone to reverse engineer the keys if they wanted.

> Cryptography does not work that way.

But it kind of does. Imagine if we were still using certificates signed with DES and MD5 hashes because they were available perpetually. Certificate expiration at the very least means that whenever you renew you're keeping up to date with whatever vulnerabilities have been exploited in the past 3-5 years.

It also keeps CRLs short and concise as those certificates that have expired do not need to be included.
One of our cats has managed to perfect saying something that sounds awfully like a distressed young child crying "mum" - I'm immune to this but it upsets my wife!
1990 child here. To avoid a lengthy block of text I've deleted it all and decided on a short sum.

While I can only speak from my own experience, many of my friends and colleagues (EE) have left the country already. There are lots of good arguments on both sides and plenty of stories to each end. That said, it comes to this, the people in my generation with real skill are leaving. Not all of them, but enough that it's becoming noticeable. Maybe it's always been this way, maybe not, needless to say my sample size is low so draw conclusions at your own risk. That's just my two cents on it (in reference to what it is like for under-30's).
This matches observed data, eg. Areva EPR plant cost estimates have (amid major media controversy) risen from ~3 to ~9 billion € as construction has progressed.
>I don't see how Ivey and his friend aren't committing a blatant fraud.

So that means you disagree with the judge?

>I keep reading here that there is no shame in business making money, so how else would that work for the gambling industry?

If we ignore addiction, there's no shame in running a casino. But if you play with fire and 100% agree to something with full competency, don't complain when you get burned.

>What if it had been a scheme to defraud a tech company?

Then that would be fraud. This isn't.

>Using a weakness in the system to extract millions?

When the weakness is condoned by someone that should know better, and they agree to it over and over again, and the terms of the agreement are honestly being followed, then yes they should suck it up and fix their process for the future.
Immigrants, boomers and technology are convenient scapegoats for declining wealth. Technology is particularly favored in the media because it sounds vaguely plausible if you don't look too closely and being anti-technology makes you look ridiculous.

The 0.1% and their media naturally aren't going to blame themselves, or their trade agreements, or their lobbyists, or their wall street.
I don't even want to know what nuclear waste disposal projects like "Onkalo" cost us over their corresponding lifetimes...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...
If only you could build a valuable product with nothing more than a list of email addresses.
I'm still trying to figure out the ideal lifestyle.
When you work remotely, it gets boring after a while not being able to socialize.
When you have to go to work every day, it gets tiring commuting.

I'm thinking the perfect mix is to live 1.5 hours from a big city where the jobs are. Go to the office if needed once/twice a week. Do the rest remotely, enjoy living in a house instead of a cramped appartment.

Is anyone doing this?
>How about computers that can program themselves

We've done that. Starting with the first language after Assembly.
Garbage collection requires a garbage collector, which reference counting doesn't have or need. This is true for both academia and industry.
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I think the argument they are trying to make is that every Tesla owner should get a permit.
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by David West Reynolds. Good account of one of humanity's greatest technological achievements.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16072775-apollo
I hate typos, and can't edit the comment anymore. The last sentence should read:

So I'm happy with this progress even though it may seem slow to some people or that Firefox isn't keeping up with Chrome (the latter is meaningless for my use since Firefox and its extensions provide a lot more).
Actually Germany is a net exporter of electricity.
I am also 37. My political opinions as a twenty year old weren't wildly different. I have become more pragmatic as I've realised just how hard it is to get anything complex done and how many cognitive biases people have but I'm also worried that I might be losing something in not feeling that idealism.

I distrust people voting according to their opinions rather than "ones borrowed from books". In many cases younger voters vote "better" (at least according to my views). The Brexit vote, or US presidential election, for example, where older voters appeared to win the vote whilst trusting to their emotional experiences rather than the evidence. They certainly seemed less well informed for the most part.
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I presume you're trolling, but I still think it worth pointing out that no science proves causation. The scientific method, for example, only rejects null hypotheses--that is, alternative explanations. Scientists and society writ large come to tentative, qualified conclusions about causation by assessing, among other things,

1) consistency with observed phenomena, especially
consistent, multi-dimensional correlations
2) predictive strength, including accurate and
precise predictions (direct or indirect) coming to pass
that demonstrate the explanatory power of a theory
3) lack of alternative, more persuasive theories

None are necessary and none are always sufficient to cause us to tentatively adopt a theory of causation. But the stronger the evidence the better. Note that all three are, strictly speaking, categories of correlation; all are circumstantial. Therefore all science is fundamentally based on correlation. There's always the possibility of some kind of hidden structure or alternative explanation; you cannot rule out all such possibilities, only a subset. You select a working theory, if at all, from among the remaining, proposed explanations by heuristic and probabilistic methodologies.

If you reject climate change because it doesn't prove causation, then you're literally rejecting all of science. There is no scientific theory nor any kind of empirical "fact" that you cannot cast doubt upon in such a manner.

I won't even touch your other points.
This live map of CO2 emissions for electricity in Europe shows that France has some of the lowest emissions in Europe. Click each country to see the energy mix that produces their electricity:

https://electricitymap.tmrow.co/
So do you know for example when they exactly ended NT 3.51 updates?
For some perspective on the current 'success' of France with nuclear power:

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711087-electricit-d...
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That design seemed so promising. The first plant, in China, was supposed to come on line in 2013. Current date is mid-2017. The original structural design was revised for better earthquake resistance. Then there was some big problem with the coolant pump manufacturer.
That's true and I don't think anybody disputes that fMRI is a good way to measure brain function, but (1) the improved statistical methods you talk about are often not adopted and (2) brain function is at a different level of abstraction than cognition and emotion, and making inferences about the latter based on the former is really hard, and would still be hard even with better statistics.