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The argument he's putting forth is so incredibly vapid and simple-minded that it's a stunning indictment of the lack of vision of a supreme court judge into the American zeitgeist.

Americans understand the basic concept of the vote. A freaking six year old understands it. There are leaders, and they sycophantically grovel for the favor of the public, which the public gives freely in exchange for the politician promising to give them their hearts' desire. And then the public may or may not get what they want. If the politician cannot appropriately explain the reasons for this, they are dumped and the next sycophant is wrung through.

That's about all they know, and all they need to know, because the people should not have to lobby their government in a democracy, the democratic leaders should already know what the people want and achieve it on their behalf, and in general do good for the people. But that is not what happens in America.

Here, our political leaders don't serve the people. And the people know that. But the people can't do anything about it. And the reason they can't do anything about it is the people voted their way into this mess. Trying to vote their way out will just result in exactly the same thing.

What the former Justice is saying is, the biggest problem in politics and public life is people don't understand how the legislative and judicial and executive processes work. But people do not need to know how this works, they merely need to voice their opinions and vote. And half of the people do vote. The other half don't vote either because they can't, or because they know what the result of voting is.

The American democracy in the 20th and 21st century is an artisanal machine which produces a specific output. Votes and labor go in, and money comes out. But the machine is designed to mostly spit out money which can only be used by corporations and rich people; only a small percentage of that comes out in a form usable by the people. The people know their votes are mostly meaningless, but it is their only tangible method left to express their discontent. So they support the system that produces an awful result because it's the only way they can express that the machine produces an awful result.

I think the people see this contradiction, and I think this is why so many do not vote: it's like complaining that your shoe hurts and then putting it on again to see how it will fit.
I'm pretty sure the point made wasn't that the west benefits from the instability in that region, but that western policies have caused, or at least made worse, that instability. Which one may or may not agree with, but I think one should address the actual argument being made.
> That is, for better or worse, public policy of the United States; it seems weird to conflate that with default.

Unless the conflation is deliberate, intended to suggest that the folks pursuing those deferments and forgivenesses are as parasitic as the deadbeats.
> Companies cannot be soley profit driven if at same time they artifically reducing supply of eligable candidates.

If there is a strong shortage of supply, you can be sure a lot of people will get over their prejudice -- but in labor markets, there often tend to be more offer than demand, so companies can choose whoever they want, without hurting the business whatsoever.
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"At least some of these accounts of the supernatural must be unreliable."

Sure, as with all knowledge, it's up to you to use your discernment, objectively.

"It is purely an act of faith to decide to believe some and not others, since there is no scientific way to validate the claims."

The New Testament documents, at least, contain the plain and often awkward testimony of people who walked with Jesus. The validity of their claims can be investigated according to the historical method, and the textual reliability of the documents themselves can be investigated according to textual criticism, as you know. Above all, this testimony centers chiefly on public, verifiable events (the intersection of Jesus' life with public figures such as John the Baptist and Herod, the trial of Jesus by Pilate, the death of Jesus, the burial of Jesus in Joseph of Arimathea's tomb, the resurrection of Jesus according to eye witnesses, the immediate explosion of the persecuted 1st century church from this point onwards). That is different from "he said/she said".

Further, the faith referred to in these documents is never a blind faith, as people often impute. Rather, it is a faith in a God who is unseen (obviously), founded on a bedrock surety of things heard and seen (eye-witness testimony). The word faith simply means "trust". The question is, are the witnesses reliable? Is their testimony "trustworthy"? Do you trust Paul of Tarsus, a student of Gamaliel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel) and later a converted persecutor? Do you trust his farewell to the Ephesians in Acts 20:13-38? Do you trust Peter, a middle-class fisherman with hired hands? Do you trust John, brother of James, son of Zebedee? Do you trust James, Jesus' half-brother, leader of the early 1st century Jerusalem church?

More than this, the striking thing with the person of Jesus is that he has contemporary witnesses pointing back to him, but he also has the whole weight of the Old Testament documents pointing forward to him centuries in advance, the very purpose for which they exist.

And then you have Jesus' own polarizing words, the genius of his parables, his transcendent teaching ("But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you", "So give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's"), his own testimony to his Father, and his own testimony to his death and resurrection. Do you trust Jesus or was he a fraud? Do you trust Jesus or was he mad? As an honest observer, his life and his own words allow for not much more choice.

We exercise faith/trust in the laws of physics on a day to day basis, and faith in the knowledge of the past or present, in terms of people we know existed or exist. We never meet them but we can know them through people who did. In the New Testament documents, it's the same principle as you come face to face with Jesus "the Christ".
OctopusNote – Write documents, save articles and refrence text in the mindmap
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You are insane to believe just as many women as men would want to work on oil rigs. There are many other examples: auto mechanics, miners, movers, truckers, construction workers, jobs on fishing vessels. I didn't "cherry pick" one example. Any gritty, dangerous, physically demanding job that assaults your senses is going to attract more men than women.

Just citing a single lawsuit as your evidence that the opposite is true, and extrapolating that to say "the facts don't match your worldview" is an assault on logic and reason.
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Are these used outside of Japan?
Without millions in in your bank account you wont be starving working for the USDS either.
Even better than Stalin?

Or was your use of the word "inarguably" some kind of code?
He'll get pretty close. The terrain along the shoreline makes the beach in question pretty much inaccessible. It's not unusual in Hawaii to flaunt the law by making public access as inconvenient as possible by buying the surrounding land and removing roads/paths so people who do want access have to trek miles to the beach.
There is a good article about it here: https://backchannel.com/the-final-days-of-obamas-tech-surge-...

"I also spoke to a number of former team members. Publicly, almost all of them expressed optimism that the work would continue: The transition was proceeding cordially, the efforts to reform government IT were bipartisan, and Congress would back their efforts, which had already saved money for taxpayers and delivered services for citizens. But lurking behind every statement was an existential dread that Donald Trump would either pull the plug on one of the great achievements of the last eight years, or worse — he might order the best and brightest to work on projects that violated their moral codes.
If those fears were confirmed, it would mean the end of one of the most inspiring developments in government in years — and a backwards step for a bureaucracy that had for too long ignored the nation’s most powerful tools."
How do you think the USDS is going to change in the next few months since you sit in the office of the president? I'm not asking for your personal opinion of the next administration, but I'm really not expecting a smooth transition. So are you expecting any major changes?
In order to qualify for those deferals you still need to pay 10% of your income. This means factually that all of those people cannot cover their interest with 10% of their income. In my opinion, that should be considered a loan in default.

They can get out from under the loan in 10 years, we still have to pay for it.

It is failed policy to allow college to get to expensive due to inflation of prices through loose lending. IMO, that is the real bubble.
There is an other approach. Don't use constructors at all. Back to good old init() and destroy() functions, and use valgrind with automated testing and coverage to ensure nothing gets lost. Delivered systems with zero downtime that way (7 years and counting last time I checked)
"Don't compromise on your salary."

It's the damn truth. Cash is freedom - cash is king.
"...once he has authenticated his identity as commander-in-chief, using a plastic card ... the president has selected his strike options from a long-prepared "menu"..."

This bit astounds me - it's basically a Bank style chip-and-pin reader, with a menu of nuclear strike options!
Serious question: WHY can't the computer industry do this for USB-C cables and ports? It's desperately needed and shameful that they haven't done this.
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The medical field is very much based off one-off effect estimates, but there's starting to be some pushback on this. I've seen it mentioned several times that there's value to be had in theory from relatively prominent people in epidemiology.
I don't know what kind of Swift code you're writing, but you're very, very wrong when you say "no one really uses it heavily". Pattern matching is in fact quite powerful and is used heavily in any codebase that isn't simply a straight porting of Obj-C idioms.

> The Optional type in Swift gets a lot of special compiler support

Only the ?. optional chaining operator (and technically the ! postfix operator too, though that could have been implemented in the standard library instead of being special syntax and in fact I'm not really sure why it isn't just a stdlib operator). And probably some logic in the switch exhaustiveness checker so it knows nil is the same as Optional.none. Everything else (including the actual pattern matching against the "nil" keyword) is done in a way that can be used by any type, not just Optionals (nil for pattern matching specifically evaluates to a stdlib type called _OptionalNilComparisonType which implements the ~= operator so it can be compared against any Optional in a switch, and you could do the same for other ADTs too, assuming they have a reasonable definition for nil).
It's just a handy way of referring to starring activity that doesn't represent how many GitHub users have intentionally starred the repository; for instance, repeatedly starring and unstarring a repo will register them as an event and therefore be counted in the these results.
OctopusNote developer here.

I am trying to spark some innovation in the information organization field.

Most organizational tools are only ok when working with little information. When your notes database grows up, more and more problems emerge: difficult to navigate and efficiently use that much information.

One thing that could help when working with many documents (or notes) is a text referencing in a mindmap.

At OctopusNote I am experimenting with various techniques to find the right mix of features that could improve human's information processing capabilities.

OctopusNote now has a strong technical base and can be easily transformed to various note taking or mindmapping tools based on modern web technologies.

For example:
has a reliable almost-real-time conflict-free sync

has a high performance mind-map engine that can render and navigate tens of thousands of branches without any lag

has a full text search that can search in parent > child relations (for the mindmap part)

has a really convenient document search with tag filter, full text search and instant search

can extract web articles

etc.

There is a possibility I will open source it, if I will find a sustainable business model.

Now imagine what would be a perfect information organization tool that would let you keep, navigate and most importantly use that information efficiently?

Just one condition: the tool must be efficient with thousands of notes.
You can buy them, they are not so common though. Toto are the most common export brand, they have showrooms in major cities.
That's exactly right. And if someone is going to protest Putin, may I suggest that they peruse the following graph: https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+per+capita+gdp+ppp&oq.... That's Putin.
There are studies suggesting that exercise does not totally cancel out the damage caused by long hours of sitting.
s/China/US/, still sounds equally right (or wrong) to me.
AIUI Dispatch is suitable for potentially hundreds of thousands of queues. It doesn't spin up thousands of actual OS threads, instead it intelligently manages a pool of OS threads and multiplexes the queues onto them. IIRC each dispatch queue is around 100-200 bytes in size (while empty).
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>you literally just compared affirmative action to Nazi Germany and the Spanish Inquisition.

No, I didn't. That's your misunderstanding. Go back and read what I wrote. No one is saying they're equivalent. What I did say is that government sanctioned force always comes with an argument of moral outrage, even if what they are doing is undeniably immoral.

I should expect more of these straw man, incorrect, borderline-troll-bait attacks. It's easy to just agree with what's politically correct. It's hard to fight for what's right and this is what you run into when you do.
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Ironically enough though, "hard scientists" wandering into biology and medicine and going "Right, time to show you lot how real science is done..." are notorious for producing really awful research.
Assuming you're the head of your ragtag vessel o' maties, I think it's important to have camaraderie high and communication amongst developers. You can use your code and the language set you're using as a unified force to help your team better support one another. I think it's fine and actually quite beneficial to tell your team mates that they can positively root one another on in their sequestered pursuits of the same code poetry in their fragment of the greater project.

I also think that you can have impromptu "Hey let's learn some new or existing feature." and do simple hang-outs where you all discuss some part of your language-of-choice-for-this-project. Some method name, something that might be very well known, something that is pretty groovy and unknown..etc.

Mainly, you want to empower your (fellow) developers and so sharing with them how to understand or track down something will be of great value. Assuming you are more experienced than the rest of your team, try and have everyone do paired sessions every once in a while (either just making an environment conducive to that or actually exercising it as a time+place). Sometimes you learn the coolest and most brilliant things just watching another person's workflow.

Be patient and let your team members flourish in a space for creativity, and also a deepening of meaningful human contact.
Well yes: touted as 'a better C' but I suspect they've succeeded at 'a better Java'. But it's more fair to say that Rust is a _retry_ at creating a C++-like language organized around concepts of safety and ML-like features ('like C and Haskell had a baby' as one person put it.) You can get _quite confused_ applying C++ concepts blindly in Rust ;)
As far as I can tell, Kudu is dominated by Cloudera. They open sourced it as a marketing strategy.

Is anyone who isn't paying for CDH using this?
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For those who don't know, you don't actually have to use the bidet when you go to Japan. The most complicated thing about toilets in Japan is that the flush button is on the wall sometimes (and the emergency button is often on the wall, too).
As usual, you need to find a way for whatever you propose to be a cheaper and more convenient way to work for both app writers and app users and at the same time profitable to whoever runs identity services. Currently the convenience for users and profitable to providers pieces don't work quite as well in open identity solutions. Hence the widely used ones are all side effects of other services like email or social platform etc.
I can't answer on their behalf, but I do know that the security clearance process generally prohibits non-citizens. You can get a Limited Access Authorization (LAA) in some cases. Given that USDS frequently works on sensitive infrastructure, I think there's a strong chance that citizenship is a requirement.
Yet still no speed improvements, after all these years.
reddit discussion at /r/python : https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/5otufg/django_20_no...
The crates published by the Rust developers themselves seem quite similar to the standard library for this purpose. (But, yes, things like this are not as discoverable as they should be; it is one of many things people are working on.)
If it's surprising to you that there are women who want to work on oil rigs, and want that badly enough to go through the trouble of making a case out of it, then you may need to update your beliefs about what it means to be a woman.
> I just never seem to get there because of the huge volume of decisions (even if the decisions are mostly easy) that need to be made for even straightforward code units.

Well this is true for all languages! You need to think hard for every decision you take with languages like Ruby or Python. Things like how will this look like after a year, will the junior developer be able to extend it, will there be data races and so on.

Rust just enforces you to do this. And it makes life much easier when you don't need to worry about some silly mistakes you made, because the compiler will catch them.
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I think this is a good point. If you're going to take options in lieu of part of your salary, they should for fairness be options on preferred shares, because you're effectively contributing cash.

Of course, nobody gives employees options on preferred shares.
It's hard to talk in general terms but Memcached is threaded so you can saturate your CPUs without requiring multiple instances, and Redis has more advanced features both from the POV of programmer API facing and operations. But if we want to zoom on Reddit itself, the fact of using data structures and changing caching paradigm to really use Redis the proper way, that is, storing metadata in Redis and not just only in their main DB, I suspect would provide a very big boost to Reddit. For some reason Reddit always has been an "anti Redis" shop. I'm sure they have their good reasons, and btw I love Reddit too much to complain, whatever they do to run it, I don't care as long as they provide such a wonderful service to the community :-)

But... their use case is IMHO one that you can accelerate tremendously by using Redis. I ran the most popular Italian Reddit-alike site for years, and I wrote a simple Reddit clone that uses Redis so I had the opportunity of exploring the problem a bit.
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I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. I think the counter arguments (haven't read the entire thread yet, and probably never will) often engage in abstract thought experiments, which are often very simplified models with tons of unspoken assumptions... rather than dealing with the reality on the ground. Which is often really ugly for women and minorities.
> I could absolutely be atypical; prior to using Go and Rust as my main tools, I primarily wrote Scala.

I'm not saying Rust is easy, but I have also a long Scala and some Haskell background which made it easier to learn Rust. For me the hardest part was that I've never really wrote any proper C++ or C, although I could read them quite good. Refereneces and RAII caused some gray hairs, the type system not that much.
I wish I had more upvotes to give this answer!
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THe quote is :

>the west got better at the expense of the rest of the world

"At the expense" means that there's a link.
The registry existed under Obama, but it was created in 2002 after 9/11, partially suspended in 2011, and fully suspended last month [0], though it looks like it remains to be seen whether the suspension will be undone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Entry-Exit_R...
The folks that are renting don't have that tax advantage.
Ah, got it. If you're a student you can apply for a permit that allows you to work part-time. But I don't know if a part-timer would count as an employee of the new company.
So they watched Why him?
All over the globe, plants are growing into strange, circular patterns
No, that's the price of oil. Anyway, to use GDP as the prove for how good a president is, is nonsense anyway. Eg.: https://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=venezuela+per+capita+....
Reading PeopleWare was a revelation for me, in that cliques and politics are inevitable (it's human nature). It's a company's responsibility to put processes & structures in place to create a _better_ workplace by removing artificial leadership and cliques (in-groups).

The idea of a 'flat' organization is laudable, but in practice it is usually a massive failure.
Because what's the incentive?

In this case, the incentive was pressure from the Government to make life easier for tourists coming for the Olympics.
have seen similar stuff in the more upmarket hotels and condos in China
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The advertising industry (which includes general media) have a lot to answer for there. They've been "programming" 2 to 3 generations now to just buy stuff and pay attention to people making the most noise for attention.

Not having had a TV in the house for over 8 years now, I was reintroduced to the world of free to air TV during our Christmas holidays when we went away for a month and stayed with friends who were avid TV watchers.

Been that long since I had seen a TV advertisement, and I was astounded at the how banal and low brow most advertising is these days. I seem to remember a time when ads were clever and creative, but the ones I kept seeing with monotonous regularity were nothing more than quick sound bites ordering people to go buy junk or watch more crap. Everything was really disjointed and jarring to me - I actually came across a couple of shows that I wanted to watch, but they never seemed to get started - every few minutes there was an interruption telling me what else I "couldn't miss" watching, which are just more shows that will in turn have interruptions to watch other shows. Oddly, my friends who owned the TV didn't seem to see a problem.

Really makes me wonder if TV audiences these days are just conditioned to have such a short attention span and are used to being forced fed suggestions like this. Or perhaps they are so hardened to it that advertising companies have to just blast short messages to them with all the subtlety of a drone strike?

Time for humanity to take control back over their time and attention, otherwise it will just be "All glory to the Hypnotoad"...