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Science can settle (or at least inform) a debate over how to govern society correctly if you define certain tangible features or goals that a correct society should have. If you agree upfront that a correct society should seek to e.g. maximize individual happiness, or maximize economic output, or whatever, there are scientific arguments that would support one policy over another.

It's also worth noting that a lot of what Aristotle (as opposed to Plato) as well as many of the Pre-Socratics actually wrote about would today be considered scientific topics. Aristotle speculated about physics and natural systems using abstract reasoning. Many of his conclusions are empirically falsifiable and have been falsified. It's simply that empiricism itself as an epistemological tool had not yet been fully appreciated in Classical Greece.
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There's a few factors leading to that. Partly it's just Elixir and Ecto (the ORM used) being incredibly expressive.

Specifically with GraphQL it's the combination of it being self documenting, which allows UIs like GraphiQL to make it really quick to get going, and the fact you end up defining the structure of your data, rather than a few specific ways to query that data. Using that you can then query for whatever you need, wherever you need it, and you're able to compose queries really quickly.
They have been doing this forever it hasn't hurt their brand too much.
Image libraries are exactly where we need rust-style safe code.
Really? I have a very deep suspicion that drugs destroy society by making a majority of people lethargic and unmotivated to do anything in real life.

A case could be made for exceptions here and there (like the child in this article) but I don't think it works so well in society.
May all your enemies be on full auto.

The AK-47 and AR-15/M-16 are products of the doctrine of area fire. The M1 Garrand is a product of the doctrine of aimed fire. WW II was aimed fire. Aimed fire sucked in the jungle wars with fewer open field battles.

Hunting rifles are good for a sniper-based, aimed-fire guerilla action. A battle between farm boys and Marines will be asymetric.
How much one decides to believe a particular statement from organizations that claim never to be able to provide proof is entirely dependent on one's need for that statement to be true. If that statement provides for the destruction of "the other side" people are much more likely to believe it.

>everything the CIA says or asserts is now somehow in question

The CIA is an agency where everyone is taught to lie. They of course call it something else, tradcecraft, but they are, by profession, liars. A good spy knows to trust no one, especially not other spies.
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I know it's confusing when white people are called "terrorist", but the definition clearly fits. If it helps you to understand, think about the Pune/Bombay examples I linked to above (where the perpetrators and victims are all brown).
Serious question: Does science have an answer for what is the right action in a given situation? Is that something we can determine from a study or a calculation? That actually sounds like the perfect question for modern philosophy.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drug-Warriors-Their-Prey-Police/dp/...

This is a good book that shows some of the motivation for a War on Drugs is not in the name of health, safety, security... but the exact opposite. The War on Drugs sorta failed in these aims, so now "terrorists" are the new excuse for a 'soft' police state.
Mods, can someone please change the thread title? I am pretty sure this violates site guidelines on titles.
Afaik, countries are often required to (sometimes "unofficially") comply with a variety of US "customs" before various deals (trade, etc) will be signed.

I completely believe that to control the world, you must control people's minds, and to control people's minds, you must control drugs.
Uber is also run by unelected creeps (see "God-mode"), who will happily sell their data to the government and whomever else is willing to pay. And they can probably force you into binding arbitration before what is essentially one of their employees. Tradeoffs...
I think this article is irresponsible. Cannabis might cause permanent damage to cognitive functions in the developing brain: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/11/marijuana-brain.aspx
Is there hard proof though that the Podesta leak was just a mass fishing by-catch and it was nothing else? It would be trivial for a hacker to place false emails as a red herring.

What I find more interesting than the origin of the leaks is that almost nobody is talking about their content. Little in the US, almost not at all internationally. The only reporting about the Podesta leaks I noticed was that they occurred, and that some people described as cranks were discussing them on reddit - but at least in Germany no discussion of the contents, and in US media not much more. Same for the DNC leaks. The "pied piper" memo, where Democrats were hoping Trump would win the primaries... And how they tried to undermine Sanders - how did that not cause more outrage?
Yeah those Singapore fanboys always busting into daily conversation, spreading their love...?
The article specifically says the talk was "Intro to containers".

You wouldn't give an "intro to DNS" by describing how the attendees can build their own DNS server and resolver, using nothing but Bash and Perl, or "intro to Java" by showing how to create your own JVM.

I'm all in favour of anything that makes people aware that Docker didn't invent containers, and isn't the second coming of Jesus in the form of shitty code.

A practical look at how a basic LXC/LXD container operates, would be a better intro to containers. If you want to show people how to do it using basic shell tools, thats probably a follow on.
Just in case anybody doesn't believe you: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...
> One thing that humans have going for them is that they have an understanding of what is going on around them, including in the minds of other people.

I hear this argument often, but I see no evidence for it. It just sounds like yet another flawed attempt to make humans more special than they really are.

I guess we'll see over the next 5 years as autonomous vehicles become deployed.
It's good to hear there are organizations fighting these good fights. ^_^

Which countries do they operate in?
Ok how about: had the car detailed, cleaned and new floor mats. Filters and fluids replaced. Tires rotated. In a super-service place. Paid and went to the parking lot - car wouldn't start. Not even a click. Just nothing.

What could it be? Nothing that was done was related to ignition or electrical systems at all. Yet it wouldn't start.

<spoiler> the new floor mats were too thick. Couldn't push the clutch down far enough, and this manual car you had to have the clutch in to enable the ignition. Just nudged the new mat back, problem solved.
Yeah, I know about that, I just prefer not to use that option because `head -1 > /dev/null` is clearer
> by making a majority of people lethargic and unmotivated to do anything in real life.

Almost all of the drug users I know are highly motivated and very successful people. Even if you include illegal drugs.

Perhaps this is just selection bias at work, but that knife cuts both ways.
America intentionally exported the War on Drugs. It would sanction and threaten to invade those who didn't want to join. Which is the height of hypocrisy given the CIAs involvement in facilitating the drug trade. A good example is what happened with Noriega in Panama.

A cynical person may think that that the modern war on drugs is intended to increase profits for the CIA for things that they couldn't ask the tax payers for.

An extra cynical person may think that the CIA has found a new and much cleaner way of raising money via the tech startup industry.

But you'd have to be pretty cynical to believe that.
I believe the strikers, not the uber taxi drivers, are the ones that are called 'terrorists' here.
> systematically fucking their customers on a large scale

The linked thread seems to be 20-ish people scattered over three years. Does the issue described really happen every time anyone tries to cancel?
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> I'm sure your raging 9-year-old kid would chill out on a strong dose of heroin, too

Read what you've said again; do you realize how completely ridiculous this sounds?

A "strong dose" of heroin, to a 9-year-old who is opiate naive, will obviously not cause them to "chill out." It will cause them to horribly itch, turn green in the face, violently vomit, alternate between pouring sweat and feeling freezing cold, moan and cry, and finally lose consciousness and quite plausibly their life.

Cannabis, even at a very "strong dose," will cause none of this.

As plant medicines go, cannabis is something like a wonder drug at least in the limited sense that it is therapeutically active for a wide array of conditions at very, very safe doses.

There may be no other drug which is a candidate for relief for the symptoms described in the article and for which a trial regiment has such a low cost in terms of risk.

Heroin most certainly isn't one.
Researchers traced the phishing link back to a bitly account that wasn't password protected. When they saw the other links in the account, they were able to decode the email address each link corresponded to. This unveiled that gaining access to Podesta's emails was part of a coordinated attack against the Clinton campaign. See http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john...

The second question is one of attribution (i.e. "Who did it?"). That's harder. I believe it was the Russians, but that's based more on faith in the U.S. and British intelligence services getting this one right than a smoking gun linking back to the Kremlin.
It's also an island of stability and prosperity in a region of chaos and poverty.
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What data would this woman's experiment have produced that would improve this article in a meaningful way?
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That's not the point. Addiction should be regarded as a disease, and drug problems helped with by communities. Instead they are criminalized and stigmatized.
From the author of the mioco coroutine library, there is a new attempt to implement coroutines on top of tokio: https://github.com/dpc/tokio-fiber/ (still under construction, it seems)
AFAIK, In Singapore it's not for possession but for trafficing. The difference being the amount you can have on your person. For possession you only face (severe) prison time and trafficing is a mandatory death sentence.
Well, I at least have empathy. Maybe we could say "some humans have an understanding..."? Nobody was claiming 'only humans' - Chimpanzees clearly have empathy.
'name' is the one worst variable names possible. Its like calling your program 'program', your function 'function'. There is always a better choice.
Right! I didn't know that it would have to be a primitive in the language, and would have thought that functional programming was more of a methodology than a technology.

Wikipedia[1] seems to think that functional programming is a subset of declarative programming. It would be interesting to see a table, or possibly a decision tree, of possible language design choices to see the different parameters by which a language can vary.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
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Yeah, I was just saying that generally, when I need to strip off a header, the header is the first line of the file
> But I still wonder if online CBT was effective for the small portion of participants who did complete it?

MoodGym and Beating the Blues have some evidence behind them. NICE was recommending Beating the blues because they have some evidence of efficacy for it.

Maybe there's a simple fix. Something like Flo to keep people engaged with it, or some kind of gamifaction.

http://www.health.org.uk/flo

Or maybe Recovery College combined with online CBT?

http://www.health.org.uk/recovery-college
If you're building disk images with blank space in them (say, for an 8GB EMMC, but your root is only 2GB) you may want to use bmap-tools [1] [2]

This way only actual data is written to the device, blocks of zeros can be skipped.

1: https://lwn.net/Articles/563355/
2: https://github.com/01org/bmap-tools
Constantly banging your head off an iron bath also interferes with brain development; this is a clear case of trade offs, not only medical but also legal and social. I don't think any reasonable mother, probably including this one, would suggest giving cannabis to an "average" child; but this is far from an average situation and so in all likely hood will require a non average treatment.
I suppose one big advantage is that the protocol isn't specific to any transport, so you can embed it where you want to. QEMU, for example, uses 9p for virtio pass-thru filesystems from host to guest. http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
>But it's clear that the parents are forced to overmedicate for fear that the child will act out when "coming down."

That is not at all clear from the article. There is no talk of withdrawal. If you take away pain meds and the pain comes back, that is not withdrawal!
Thanks for pointing out. I'll read about it. :)
Notification priority could be something we do relatively easy. I am not very well versed in the ML/AI space, but with all the resources on the internet, I am sure I could figure it out. That sounds like something that could be a truly unique feature for us, thanks for the input!

Right, everything is entirely up to the user.
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My parents used to own a textile factory that employed at one point over 100 people. The business stopped being competitive and eventually was closed down with production moving to places like Eastern Europe, India and China. So I think a lot of those production jobs have already been destroyed in Europe and North America. Automation is an opportunity for manufacturing to move back closer to the creative and consumer ends of the businesses.

I get your point and I do agree that if a revolution like automation happens too fast, there is potential for social shocks such as high levels of unemployment and worse. But, as you state, the decoupling of the production from labor is actually being naturally throttled down by a scarcity of... labour. And that may buy enough time for society to adjust since education and training are taking longer and longer these days and no shortcut has been created for human learning.
I'm not talking about a momentary outage. I'm talking about, e.g., citizens trying to return home after a crippling cyber attack that leaves America offline.
No, I read it as "online CBT effectively useless" (Addition of this programme did not result in benefits).
It can if you define desired goals or outcomes.
Are you saying resources get hurled into space when we use them?

Also, value can increase in a finite resources environment. For example, my iphone is worth a lot more, and is a lot more useful, than the materials it's made of.
I haven't seen it in practice, but OOM is conceivably recoverable in certain cases (e.g., exponential vector growth with large capacities fails on a 32 bit system, but switching to linear growth as a recovery strategy succeeds in allocating sufficient additional memory). But OOM errors aren't the only type of errors that you can get in ctors. Disabling exceptions makes all those errors either fatal or your class invariants become silently broken, which makes exceptions and RAII kind of a package deal in robust software.
There are 3 possibilities:

1) Russia hacked the election

2) Russia did not hack the election but the intelligence community wrongly believes they did

3) Russia did not hack the election and the intelligence agencies don't believe they did but have decided to lie to the American people for their own reasons.

Some of the reasons to believe they did:

[1] They had the motivation

[2] They have the capability

[3] They have done similar attacks in the past (as has the US)

[4] Russian linked hacking groups like Fancy Bear have been tied to the attacks

[5] The choice of targets and leaked information appeared to benefit Russia.

I think there is enough evidence to point to Russia hacking as the most probable explanation.
I call hyperbole. Millions of deaths? Do you mean by overdose? Are those the fault of resisting the spread of drugs?
In this case it seems more prudent to worry about whether this kid is going to cut his jugular when putting his head through a window.
This is not a very good article. Like a lot of writers in the Lesswrong-rationalist sphere, the author is very smart and describes her thought process in great detail, but has too many erroneous premises and ends up with wrong conclusions.

I understand her conclusion as "people study old philosophers, not to learn about their views, but to learn about their thinking techniques". In contrast, I would say that the primary reason for studying old philosophers first-hand is to properly understand philosophy.

(I wouldn't start by studying the old philosophers - I would start by reading modern summaries, especially those that focus on the actual philosophical problems. Study the old philosophers only if you want a full understanding).

You have to understand what philosophy is. It's studying the fundamental nature of reality and our thoughts about it. When you get down to fundamental issues, there are often a very small number of plausible answers, and much of philosophy is extrapolating the consequences of those answers. These issues are timeless and still relevant.

The pervasive modern belief is that philosophy is mostly meaningless word-games that can be dismissed, and science should be the basis of everything. But collecting more observations of reality does not help answer these questions. Furthermore, without knowledge of the implications of certain answers, you easily wind up advocating positions that don't actually hold up. (E.g., many people think neuroscience has disproved the existence of consciousness, when all it has proved is that consciousness is closely related to the brain).

Like Katja, I used to follow Lesswrong-style rationalism, but after studying different philosophies I concluded that Objectivism made the most sense. (Whatever you may have heard about Ayn Rand, I recommend evaluating her views for yourself). Leonard Peikoff gave an excellent and comprehensive course on the history of philosophy from an Objectivist POV: https://campus.aynrand.org/campus-courses/history-of-philoso...
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upvote for the interesting idea. To your knowledge is there any IDE out there with such a feature?
To understand concurrent programming in Clojure, at least you should read [1]. In general, the symbolic STM (Refs) is not often used in Clojure programming. Atoms (a wrapper of the Java AtomicReference) is much more lightweight and is used in most cases.

[1]: http://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/concurrency_and_par...
Judging programs by looking at the words in isolation is about as effective as it is for any other form of writing.
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Indirectly. The protest will follow from unemployment combined with the huge income divide. These will be the results of automation, but the protest will focus on the inequality.

Perhaps some countries (kinda like France at the moment) will take action to strengthen job security by legislation, those countries will lose out economically though.

(gotta append this with stating this is guesswork)
So, it works like medicine for some cases, and you say now everyone grow in their backyards? Doesn't make sense, though I'm not against it.
The problem with modern philosophy is it rides the curtails of physics and other sciences. It basically exists to explain the phenomenon the physics cannot (think schrodinger's cat).

Ancient philosophy was all intertwined with science because the philosophers were the scientists. Ancient philosophy still has its place in teaching readers how to think better and more rationally. And I think modern philosophy will increase in value as we build more intelligent machines.
She walks up to it but doesn't get there (yet -- it doesn't sound like she's read much philosophy yet).

All other disciplines have split off / descended from philosophy (not just in the case of western/Greek philosophy) because "philosophy" essentially just means "science". I say "disciplines" because I mean the formal study of action; thus I include Engineering in this (the Greeks recognized a difference between tradecraft (techne) and theory of which modern engineering is the amalgam). She clearly hasn't yet been exposed to this (she writes, "The story I hear about philosophy—and I actually don’t know how much it is true—is that as bits of philosophy come to have any methodological tools other than ‘think about it’, they break off and become their own sciences."). This is precisely true, yet wrong!

Think of it as abstraction: chemistry and physics broke off semi-independently; they are clearly highly related disciplines; yet trying to work with chemistry solely at the subatomic level would be a disaster. Likewise biology and ecology. I can very well believe that there are very interesting quantum sensing phenomena involved in how, say, a group of pitcher plants lure insects, phenomena which are very important to the integrity of the rainforest; yet trying to save it by working at that level would be futile.

It's better to think of chemistry, physics, ecology, and religion as technologies (trades) and work with them. They practical use has shifted from the brain to the hand. These fields still have useful roots in philosophy and can make valuable use of "traditional" philosophical tools. For example it's clear that almost all (but not 100%!) of the arguments against worrying about anthropomorphic global climate change are made by people who have a very limited understanding of epistemology, which is probably the most important subject to understand for anyone in the practical sciences.

Which brings her to the second part of her answer, which she also gives: "...suggest that in physics students are maybe missing out on learning the styles of thought that produce progress in physics.... might partially explain why Nobel prizewinner advisors beget Nobel prizewinner students." Well, umm, yes. If you study under someone who works on "X" you'll become skilled in "X". If your goal is the areas in which the Nobel committee award prizes, yes, this can help. But the problem is broader than that and applies to all disciplines. If you want to become a master craftsperson/artist like Noguchi, you should study under him (except he's dead) -- not to duplicate his work but to understand how he thought.

This is no different in programming: we read others' code to learn how to think about programming. There are still many gems in the old literature, overlooked by cultural stigma.

In fact the characterization of "old" is a misnomer. In my professional life I have frequently had recourse to Wittgenstein, Heidigger and Plato (sorry, I don't like Aristotle) and they are not only useful in shaping my direct work but when discussing it with coworkers -- essentially this understanding itself forms a techne.