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This is unadulterated bullshit. The idea that we are supposed to teach each other is science fiction that you just made up.

We need smart people in society so that we can advance. They are the leaders that will help move the needle. If we burden our best and brightest young people with "educating" their peers then we as a society lose out. The gifted children should be free to learn at their own pace so that as they get older they have developed expertise that the regular people will never achieve.

This isn't communist Russia. We don't gain anything by throttling the motivation of gifted kids except making the regular kids feel better about themselves.
Is anyone else facing trouble in updating Firefox from the 'Help->About' dialog? Whenever a new Firefox version is released, this dialog promptly gives me the new release, but this time it has decided to stick to 50.1.0 (while going to the Firefox download site directly downloads 51.0)
Is this post satire?

Your prescription for solving the problem is more or less identical to what Trump has stated he plans to do with respect to trade with China.
Immigration from Paris to London isn't a political problem, though. Immigration from Aleppo to London is.
We spend only 3.5% of GDP on defense. We spend 17.8% on healthcare, 6.4% on education, 4.7% on energy, and a bit over 3% on entertainment.
I agree that the pipeline will decrease fuel costs, and provide temporary construction jobs, however the net will be that the oil businesses will increase their profits and need fewer workers to transport the oil to market. Until workers can share equally in the profits of a business, I think it is dishonest to equate removing regulatory "burden" as pro business. Trickle down economics effects simply do not happen.
Drug companies are still able to make a healthy profit selling pills to millions of patients, the margins may not be as fat but they'll still be there. Instead of us protecting other countries, maybe they would find reason to protect themselves and trade would be the same. I'm sure we bring a lot of innovation to the table, but we don't bring ALL of the innovation. My point is the reason we're taxed so high, probably has to do with the fact that we're out spending everyone else in defense and it makes up a significant portion of where our taxes go.
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Well, in terms of your most popular, Angular 1.x is still slightly ahead... I happen to prefer React + Redux + material-ui.com's components. But that's not the only option. I can see why polymer/web-components may be appealing to some... I don't really get peoples desire to use any version of Angular for new projects though, I just don't care for it.

I don't know vue well enough to comment, but a lot of people seem to like it.
Doesn't the very fact that statistics lie in either direction mean that someone with knowledge of statistics (any scientist would be more knowledgeable than nearly every politician i.e. lawyer that we have today) would be crucial to ferreting out the consequences of gun control legislation, and therefore better able to make an informed decision? I do agree that a group promoting science shouldn't pre-suppose an answer to a question the jury isn't out on yet like gun control. And even if the question were answered (suppose legal guns cause enormous increases in death) there's still a moral question to be answered there, weighing the freedom to own them vs. the destruction they cause. Just like no scientist will disagree that climate change is real and caused by humans; plenty of reasonable scientists disagree on what we should do about it.
Unlimited vacation sounds nice, but from what little I read on it, it wasn't really unlimited. Rather, it seems to be based on what's acceptable at your workplace and how much work you can get done.

Hopefully someone with first-hand experience or more knowledge will elaborate a bit on this.
You mean like the peace we have brought to iraq and the middle east right? Also honestly we could have steam rolled most anyone out there with half the forces most of the money spent on defense is wasted.
Self driving cars may also help fix traffic issues. With fewer accidents, cars able to communicate with each other, and no overly aggressive or timid driving to cause slow downs, an entirely full freeway might be able to flow at high speed.
If NYC, Boston, DC, SF, Philly, all have subways, why not LA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro...
There are a staggering number of high-quality, open-source libraries available for it.
You sound awfully patronizing. The US does like to play world police and other countries do take advantage of this. However if this would not be the case, I'd argue that the other countries would rely more on military alliances like NATO and the world would still be all right.

Also nobody really wants to break loose WW3. Economic warfare is the name of the game today.
> It is absolutely mind boggling to me how anyone can consider more options to be worse than a one size fits all model.

It's pretty simple, really: you're looking from your own, self-centered perspective. From the point of view of the society, it may be desirable to restrict options available to individuals in order to mitigate negative effects of everyone making self-interested choices.

Whether or not options should be restricted in schooling is a topic for cost/benefit analysis, but as a general point, I don't see anything mind-boggling about this perspective.
It works, how come no one knows about it??
On the flip side, my relatively poor grandparents spent good money in the 1950's on hoarding stuff (clothes, shoes, radios, misc. equipment) in basement/attic spaces, in preparation for the next world war that never came. That stuff was never used, and mostly thrown away after they died, as it wasn't in good condition anymore. That money could have been much better spent; this was pretty common in the generation who grew up during WW2.
“traffic could be significantly reduced by simply enforcing violations for cars blocking intersections” this, a thousand times this
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Java is also AOT compiled and is becoming the favourite language besides C on many embedded platforms.

EDIT: To expand to that remark, although Sun was religiously against AOT, the majority of commercial JDK vendors have always supported AOT compilation to native code, specially the ones in the embedded space.

Also, for how cool all those languages are, there are lots of domains and OSes where Java code lives (AOT or JIT compiled), that they have yet to create backends for.

Examples, embedded controllers on factory plants, Cisco phones, Ricoh printers, Gemalto monitoring devices, Blu-Ray players, car infotainment systems, some GPS devices, military weapon control systems, shopping terminals, Android's fork,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines

It is going to take a while to erase Java from the industry.
I don't follow, are suggesting that the grid would vanish? Or that all power sources would suddenly be unavailable?
I have yet to hear about any movement on those campaign talking points.
Leave. You already did the "nice" thing by attempting to schedule around the release. If the project wasn't a shit-show, I'd probably say otherwise, but given your situation, no reason to stay.
That would be electron.

http://electron.atom.io/
Yes, the author completely misses the core issue: when the populace at large gets tired of getting hammered with elitist & special-interest issues, to the point of being told to actively facilitate what is broadly considered distasteful, they start looking for someone who will restore the mundane norms they are comfortable with.

The following is a list of US populist complaints, which Trump successfully addressed. (Don't up/down-vote based on whether you agree or not with the issues of the list, which I may or may not, just note that the points are important to enough people to vote a Trump into office.) In no particular order...

Facilitation/celebration of LGBQT (most people aren't, and find differing sexualities repulsive). Demands for "safe spaces" while eliminating the only long socially established safe spaces: sexually segregated restrooms. Taking taxpayer earnings and spending them on advocacy of opposing views. Reducing a sense of safety vs crime, while seemingly protecting criminals (this issue dominated by the US "gun culture"). Laying blame/responsibility for environmental issues on those thinking themselves not guilty (say, global warming). Stifling parental preferences in education (Common Core, lack of school vouchers, absolute intolerance of anything hinting of Christianity). Broad/unrelenting accusations of whites & males as invariably & irredeemably sexist/misogynist/xenophobic/racist/etc (say, Hillary's declaration of 1/4 of Americans as "deplorables"). Incredible growth of national debt ($10,000,000,000,000 in last 8 years, doubling all previous debt) with prospect of populace having to pay it. Lack of jobs (need for jobs has far outstripped creation of jobs). Overwhelming regulations, making compliance & cost untenable. Abortion being considered, on the whole, inexcusable murder of children.

Understand that classic US culture is deeply rooted in individual liberty & rights. Basically, taking someone's money to make them pay for something they don't want angers them; they'll put up with a lot, but once "enough!" hits they're prone to taking dramatic steps to end the offense. Also note that the USA is huge, having a broad range of views from coast to coast; what Hillary offered was "coastal" culture, while Trump appealed to "heartland", and with the Electoral College deliberately biasing Presidential elections toward populist views, the large number of central states won the vote.
If you introduce another pipe, that pipe will immediately get saturated.

Not if you price it high enough, which is what makes this all potentially profitable.
The distribution of sin(X) depends on that of X. It can even be made to look Gaussian (well other than the tail).

Your post strikes me as annoyingly pretentious.
nonsense. The people making the predictions were just wrong.
No - but there do exist "survival water packets" - you can find them on amazon and elsewhere (basically small pouches of clean water - think ketchup packets, with clean water instead).
Fair enough, my hope is they will add in road charging on highways which removes any real range issues.

Electromagnetic induction is expencive and less efficent, but visually more apealing and fewer weather related issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Electric_Vehicle or various forms of direct connections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-level_power_supply or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit_current_collection

However, if electric becomes the norm gas is going to have the same issues as there are ever fewer stations.
> Remember when nearly the entire business media predicted that if Trump was elected the stock market would crash immediately?

It was rather amusing yes. I stayed up late during the election night watching NBC (it is my new comedy channel, alongside Fox and friends).

So after showing a blue map for months reporters were in disbelief and shock, almost in tears. That didn't last long. Because around midnight or so the mood lifted. It looked like after-hours trading and overseas markets were headed down. So just like that the sadness turned to optimism and they printed out a few graphs (because as we all know if it is printed on paper it becomes official) and were telling people how they were right, they predicted a massive crash. There were insinuation of people losing all their retirement money. Etc, etc.

The amusing (or tragic, of course) part is after failing to predict the outcome of the election, they turned right around and with the same confidence were talking about a total economic disaster.

Of course market shot up even higher next day than before.

It is interesting that they would rather want a total crash of the market justify their prediction of Trump.
No matter what you think of them as far as policy goes, two of those three have ended up being very dominant politicians in their nation and time.

Margaret Thatcher is near the top of most historical rankings of UK PMs in most surveys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Prime_M...).

It's probably too early to tell whether Merkel is considered "good" or "bad" from a historical perspective, but her term as chancellor has been quite influential, enough for many publications to describe you as "de-facto leader of the EU" (and for Forbes to name Merkel as the 2nd most powerful person in the world in 2015).

Obviously the converse exists, but Thatcher and Merkel seem like good examples for reasonable, well-educated scientists doing "great" in politics.
I understand what you mean, however I don't really see medicines and banking (in general) as luxury products.
That ship seems to have already sailed.
I think AV Comparatives are independent -- at least they were when I last had to read up on all this several years ago.

At the time (2010ish), they even had a few reports where they showed that pretty much all the AV products were quite bad. Either they failed to detect a large portion of real malware, and/or they were a huge drain on the system's resources.
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I'm looking to start a side project and was wondering if there are any tasks that you'd like to have automated for $5/month?
America today manufactures far more goods then the America of 1970 did. Yet, American manufacturing is dead as a source of jobs.

Even if the factories come back, the jobs won't.
I'm sympathetic to your point, in general, but Switzerland is hardly a good example:

> when America develops drugs for them,

"Switzerland is home to many pharmaceutical companies, including very large groups, such as Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche. In 2013, 41 life science companies had their international headquarters (and 29 more their regional headquarters) in Switzerland.

The pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland directly and indirectly employs about 135,000 people.[1] It contributes to 5.7% of the gross domestic product of Switzerland and contributes to 30% of the country's exports.[1]"

> protects them from harm,

"The Swiss Armed Forces (German: Schweizer Armee, French: Armée suisse, Italian: Esercito svizzero, Romanisch: Armada svizra) operates on land, in the air, and in international waters. Under the country's militia system, professional soldiers constitute about 5 percent[citation needed] of the military and the rest are conscripts or volunteers aged 19 to 34 (in some cases up to 50). Because of Switzerland's long history of neutrality, the armed forces do not take part in conflicts in other countries, but it does participate in international peacekeeping missions.

Thousands of tunnels, highways, railroads, and bridges are built with tank traps and primed with demolition charges to be used against invading forces; often, the civilian engineer who designed the bridge plans the demolition as a military officer. Hidden guns are aimed to prevent enemy forces from attempting to rebuild.[14] Permanent fortifications were established in the Alps, as bases from which to retake the fertile valleys after a potential invasion. They include underground air bases that are adjacent to normal runways; the aircraft, crew and supporting material are housed in the caverns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry_in_Swi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Armed_Forces
For sure - I've always wondered what the theoretical maximum of a road system is vs it's practical maximum.

That is, how many cars can a system accommodate where the cars drive perfectly, vs how many cars driven by humans a highway can accommodate.

I wonder if this analysis has been done somewhere.
I absolutely agree. Your point about Samantha Bee reminds me of a podcast that Malcolm Gladwell did recently about satire. In it he criticized SNL's portrayal of Sarah Palin back in 2008. Tina Fay's impression of her was funny as hell, but it mostly made fun of the way Palin talks and her attitude. If you already dislike Palin (as I do/did) it seems like cutting criticism.

But the problem is that her mannerisms aren't really whats bad about her. And Trump's alleged kinks aren't whats bad about him. Its easy for his supporters to defend him and say that either it is not true, because there isn't any public evidence that it is, or that there is nothing wrong with a piss fetish. And they are right. There is nothing wrong with it.

Heres the podcast in case anyone is interested: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/10-the-satire-paradox
Maybe scientists should first set their own house in order.

* Reproducibility crisis - http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-...

* P-hacking http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-err...

* Prominent scientists criticizing those who find math errors in their works http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13077658/sta... (There are few facts more basic than math, and one of the scientists actually used the words "methodologic terrorism" to describe this effort)

* Not publishing raw data so others can analyze it http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/08/16/sc...

These issues, especially the last two make it seem that a lot of scientists are not fighting for the facts, but for their own academic position.
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It can last for a surprising amount of time, if a third party provides sufficient subsidy, a tolerable payment plan, and in the end agrees to eat much of the cost nominally borne by the borrower.

I forget which economist said it: "unsustainable things can go on for far longer than you'd expect, but then they stop far faster than you might anticipate."
Nah, he has the Falcon 9 for that
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I mean "big brother" is already watching everyone via "freeway traffic cameras" Public transportation is what I'm pushing for.
Every time I visit LA I wonder how the rich and famous survive there. The traffic is so maddening, I just can't think of any "Pro" that would counter the Con of traffic. And I live in OC, where traffic is bad enough already.
Floss is useful for things other than cleaning teeth; it's fairly strong, lightweight, and you can get a lot for little money. You can use it to tie up things, as a wick for a candle or oil lamp, sewing (in a pinch), etc. Basically, get a small roll for your bug-out bag, make sure it is unflavored and waxed.
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I have been lucky in my career to become an engineering leader/manager without having to go and get an MBA. But I still have the same concerns for continuing the climb up that proverbial ladder: what if I want to become the head of a large department? what if I want to become a CTO?

The raw truth of the matter is that it seems that having an MBA is likely the same litmus test as having a B.S. in computer science. Perhaps one can skirt around that requirement if they have a PhD in a particular subject matter that is the new sexy thing. But I still question if I should simply get an MBA, or focus on getting a PhD in research I am actually interested in.
Yeah... so I agree that's confusing. It's akin to:

def x(y=[]):
y.append(1)
return y

for z in range(4):
print x()

For your case, I recommend using partial functions, which were created for this type of issue. I think it's also cleaner than closures where x depends on an outside context.
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What magical place do you work that allows for this level of engineering quality?

> all code is reviewed and unreadable code does not pass

Sounds quite nice.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Having lived in NZ, kiwis are a fiercely egalitarian society. Looking at pretty landscapes in solitude doesn't strike me as a great living.
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Power density I can see. It would be harder to get the heat out of larger cylinders.

But how could the 2170 possibly be less energy dense? You have more active material per unit casing, so it almost certainly is more energy dense, based on geometry alone. Add the fact that you will have fewer connections, and the pack will be more energy dense as well.
At what point will CPUs out parallelize GPUs and will we be able to move vidoe rendering back onto the CPU?

I see that as being something I'd very much like.
I find that using the SCSS/Less source for bootstrap is less fighting... the layout/structure is pretty easy to use internally, for the most part, everything I need for creating additional controls starts from variables and utilities.
> The Swiss model does seem to scale. The population has scaled from 6.2 million in 1970 to about 8.2 million today. GDP per capita also went up significantly during this time, and outpaced GDP per capita growth in the USA.

While that is certainly adorable (and, seriously, good for them!), "scale" in GP is referring to: "Will it work for 450M people at the same time?" -- or in China's case: "Will it work for 1.3B people at the same time"?

GP posits that in a large liquid world, big enough to support the Ch or SG populations, they will both do well, but that it requires this large external world to pull it off. If the model WAS the external world, it wouldn't.