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Some of them, sure. Maybe even most, though I don't think so; all of the people I know who are involved in this stuff are very well aware of Obama's militarism. But all of them? That's just lazy. And wrong.

You don't have to protest every cause to protest any cause. You can even protest things that, taken together, demonstrate you hold ideologically inconsistent views, if you want. That's on you.
That is how a child would behave. You can't quit and ignore the person in charge.

When have you ever heard the advice, "you get what you want by refusing to engage the only people who can do something about it?"
> Time and space does not exist for a mountain.

Time exists for the mountain. The mountain moves through time and is effected by time. The mountain is incapable of perceiving time. Neither can bacteria perceive dimensions, but they are still controlled by them.
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Except they left out the countries with the most known terrorist activities in the us, that happened to be countries with major trump investments, that would be Saudia Arabia and Egypt.
Why? Besides easy deployment (sometimes), what does it offer over desktop applications?
Interesting that they study the "meaningfulness" of previously meaningless music - in a way I see a relationship to reinforcement learning, namely retroactively assigning meaning to recorded but undiscovered information from the environment.

"Information is a difference which makes a difference!"
CGI exists for international viewers...

Who can't appreciate nuanced localized plotlines.
Surely the difference is nearly negligible. With the exception of movies with popular after-credits scenes, I assume people leave when the credits start anyway, and I suspect the employees can begin cleaning when people clear out even if credits are still running.
maybe it has more to do with an institutionalized focus on short-term financial gain, disregard for future generations, and either an unawareness of, or an unwillingness to observe, the precautionary principle.
And now blacks are ed because "shallow understanding from people of good will" led to the situation where more blacks kill other blacks in a year than the entire history of lynchings from the Ku Klux Klan.

A significant number of AA males grow up in fatherless homes.

The entire situation is an atrocity exhibition.
> This doesn't make scabbing any less vile, however... Friends don't let friends scab.

"If you don't actively participate in my exact form of political activism, you're a bad person!"

This is the kind of rhetoric that pushed a ton of people on the fence towards Trump. For some reason, it's a common leftist tactic right now to insist that if you aren't actively engaged in whatever form of extremism the speaker is advocating, you are evil and (propping up the man | part of the patriarchy | oppressing <group> | a literal nazi | etc.). Entirely predictably, this is likely to alienate anyone even slightly to the right of the speaker and push them further right.

Maybe most Uber drivers don't really want to protest in this way. Maybe they agree with Trump. (Probably not, given that it's Manhattan, but who knows.) Maybe they feel like they don't have all the facts and don't want to make a stand based on an incomplete understanding. Either way, attacking them for it is counterproductive for you.
That's an interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.

Another perspective is that Christian and Muslim employees of those companies were told that the management's official policy is that certain aspects of their religious beliefs are wrong. Can you imagine those employees weighing speaking up for themselves vs. their need to keep their jobs?

I've seen employees in that situation, and their morale was definitely not boosted.
The only controversy here is that people like Trump and his voters, including Dilbert's cartoonist, have this belief that if I am Muslim, I have to pay some sort of cost, on account of group responsibility, that if I'm not a Muslim I don't have to pay.

Take this as just one example:

> Now if you want to stay out of the fight against terrorism it will cost you.

"You" here isn't "every person". Because the costs it refers to aren't being proposed for everybody. It refers to Muslims, or Muslims from certain countries. The implication is: if I'm Muslim, I've been staying out of the fight against terrorism. If I'm not Muslim, I've been fighting. So I have to pay that cost. And not until I personally join the light side, no: Until someone decides that enough Muslims have, I still have to pay. If I'm not Muslim, instead, I don't have to move a finger, and won't pay any of those costs.

Everybody has to take responsibility, as you say. That's not what Trump is saying nor doing. Everybody has to consider taking actions that can decrease the problem, no matter what country you were born in. If you're a man, you shouldn't have to pay any extra cost, nor bear more responsibility, on account of terrorists being all or mostly all men. Same with religion, country of birth, or eye color.
I agree that he shouldn't be criticized for staying on, but only if he publicly voices his disagreement in unambiguous terms. If Trump only wants boot lickers, he can fire Kalanick like he did the acting attorney general.

Of course, it doesn't look like that is the case. By all appearances Kalanick is mincing words as he tries to balance the affections of the administration and angry users. My guess is that he is just another spineless think-for-himselfer.
Probably not even then. Plenty of companies are in the automated-vehicle race. A number of which are a) profitable, and b) worth more than Uber. Some of them also manufacture cars and have decades of vehicle experience to draw on.

Uber made a grab for dominance based mainly on brand (plus massive subsidies). Foolfoolz is right; this suggests that the market just isn't particularly sticky. Brand isn't enough.
It might be worth visiting a Zen center in your area to meditate with monks. Meditating alone, it's harder to focus.
It's impossible to say what the vote count would have been had the rules been different. There are a lot of potential trump voters in very populous states that likely stayed at home.
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This is spelled out in her letter: she's not convinced the EO is lawful and she invited being convinced. Instead of sending Stephen Miller over to provide a compelling argument in favor of the EO, or assign a special defender for the EO, she was fired. That's legal, but comes with political consequences, as both law and history indicate.

And I just saw a clip from March 2015 of Jeff Sessions asking Sally Yates during her confirmation hearing as deputy AG whether she would stand up to the president if what he's asking her to do is not lawful, and she stated she would. And now she's doing exactly what she promised she'd do.

What smells, sounds, and looks like politics, is having a political operative placed on the NSC as a regular attendee. And having an executive order providing no credible improvement to national security by the estimation of numerous national security experts and over 100 career diplomats at the State Department. Distilled, it's an EO that appears throws meat to an anti-Muslim nationalist base at the expense of refugees, global opinion of the U.S., and visa holders in the U.S. needing renewal inside the temporary ban who now are at risk of deportation primarily because they're Muslim. But it also puts the president's own agenda at risk by putting a spotlight on his impulsiveness, and leaves him open to political distractions and even reprisal.

At best this EO is clumsy. At worst it's intentional. Either way it's totally self inflicted distracting nonsense of the administration's own choosing. Yes he promised to do something like this, but he promised to be a bigot and break the law, and I think that's a campaign promise he could just not keep. So it appears to be rather intentional and clumsy.
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That dreams returning thing has a cool name too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REM_rebound
What exactly do you think is sponsoring H1B? The company just pays a one time fee for applying for your permit which is negligible compared to how much engineers are paid. They don't have ongoing expenses related to work permit.
LSD has a very wide receptor binding profile, see Table 8 of this paper:
http://www.maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/2008/2008_Passie_2...

It also does bind to dopamine receptors, which is why it's more stimulating than other psychedelics.
Wrong is wrong. Silly hypotheticals don't change basic ethics.
Maybe you should complain about them getting in late?
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I think you ignored his point or misunderstood. The majority of NYC already is on their side.

It would be like MLK advocating for equal rights protests in a majority-black church.
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And it works fine. I've been using Flywheel since 2013. Their software started out rough, but now it's solid. It may be a bit more expensive, but the average driver I get has been driving in SF more than a decade, so they're knowledgeable and competent. Plus I know they're insured and properly regulated.
Unfortunately, there's no real testing. Just pictures.

Antenna testing is usually done in a big open flat space, with gear that can measure field strength. Do this some place where you can't pick up any other WiFi signals. Some WiFi gear lets you read signal strength from software, and you need something that can do that. There are some videos online of people measuring antenna patterns at ranges of a few feet, but that gets you strange near-field results. You need distance for this, like a hundred feet or so. The antenna is usually placed on a nonmetallic turntable that can be rotated, and the idea is to generate a chart of signal strength vs. angle.

Here's an test of a "cantenna" in a real antenna testing facility.[1] He also builds one with the same dimensions out of copper sheet, for comparison, and also compares with simulated results. Antenna design used to be a black art, but now there are software tools to help with design and evaluation.

The ARRL Antenna Book has good advice on how to build antennas cheaply.

[1] http://www.antennamagus.com/blog/593/pringles-cantenna-measu...
We need oil.
People like their modern society built on oil.

The Saudis have too much leverage over the American political establishment.

The proper way to deal with them would be to nuke Mecca but that won't happen.
Regulation of a private service does not obligate the operators of that service to offer it, unless those regulations specifically require it.
This reminds me of Kurzweil's explanation of dreaming, as offered in "How to create a mind" book. He claims that during dreaming we experience random, uncoordinated activation of synaptic links and some small portion is recorded in memories. It is only when we recall our dreams that we infuse meaning into them, building a structured and sequential narrative around random stimulus so that our mind can make sense of these memories.
If you happen to be a quiet place it will likely be easier to concentrate without the rain sounds. "Easier" in this sense is a bit relative, however. An environment with fewer external distractions will lead to a selection effect where you "catch" yourself more frequently and return back to the breath. Thus, you may feel like you're not concentrating well, since you "keep getting distracted." It's kind of like the Dunning-Kruger effect of the beginning meditation :)

On the other hand I find music and background conversations especially distracting and like to listen to pink-noise or other non-varying noise sounds to make concentrating easier.
We're reading the same story and coming to different conclusions.

I don't dispute that Trump at one point said "Muslim ban". Giuliani appears to indicate that Trump knew this was illegal in the form that it was literally said it on the campaign trail and that Trump called him up and asked him to figure out how to implement what was meant, not necessarily what was literally said, in a legal fashion -- "seriously, but not literally".

>It is clear that in this executive order, the intent and desire (Muslim ban) is imagined, then the subterfuge (the focus on law) applied, contradicting your original point

No, it doesn't contradict my original point at all. It is clear that Trump meant that he wanted to exclude terrorists, not Muslims. If the goal was to exclude as many Muslims as possible, they did a terrible job, because they completely missed the countries with the 5 biggest Muslim populations. The raw populations of the banned countries add up to about 140 million; even if we assume 100% of those people are Muslim, which they aren't, that still leaves more than 90% of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims potentially eligible for entrance to the United States. And the whole thing expires in 90 days. Not a very effective "Muslim ban".

This goes back to the same thing as the campaign. Seriously, but not literally. Trump said Muslim ban on the campaign trail, that is not in dispute. The issue now is whether he really meant a literal ban on Muslims, or whether he just meant a ban on the bad guys that are blowing us up.

Based on his EO, it appears that he meant the latter, but of course there will be people who refuse to let go of their narrative and assume the former because it makes it easier to justify their outrage.
> T-shaped skills

Ahh, the universal sign of someone who worked around IBM.
There was a thread recently, maybe on reddit, about a facebook group or somewhere people give away ec2 or azure credits to people who want to do HPC or deep learning or whatever. But i can't google it.
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1) clear your mind of the chatter

2) soon you might have euphoric experiences. Go past them

3) learn what enlightenment is. Head towards it

4) find other like-minded people to meditate with (at a Zen center, for example)
That are implementation details. The point is that apparent determinism of the physical world has no implications for free will considerations and cannot be used as an argument against it.
Stop getting your talking points from biased news too.

What he is doing is legal and within his powers as the President.
>Anything that can be done to eliminate the latter practice would help the "good players" in this particular arrangement.

There is no such thing as "Can't find in US" none of the tech jobs are specialty occupation in that sense. You can always hire a java coder and make him learn PHP. The whole notion that you cant find a person to do your job in USA is completely false.

Getting someone from abroad always beens better at same cost or comparative at lower cost.

> worked for and know of several individuals who have had to train H-1B visa holders to do the job they were scheduled to lose in two months (or lose their severance pay).

What did those individuals do ? jumped off some bridge ? Barely. They must be doing jobs somewhere else and chances are they are actually doing better in life.

Do you think Facebook,Google, SnapChat and other startups would find same quality of people at same price if Comcast and ATT were not outsourcing their billing services etc. to Indians ?

Just increase H1B limits to where it stops mattering.
Reminds me of my first few years in NYC (late 90s, early 00s). It was nearly impossible to get a yellow cab to take me to Brooklyn. There were plenty of nights where I would get into the cab, tell him my intersection and he'd sit there exclaiming "No Brooklyn! Get Out! No! No Brooklyn!". My place was literally a mile and a half away. Happened more times than I can count. And if you told them where you were going before you got into the cab - forget about it; your success rate dropped from around 50% to about 10%.

And then there was one time when I dozed off as we were crossing the Williamsburg Bridge. I woke up about 20 minutes later and we were somewhere near Coney Island (I lived in Bushwick, exactly a mile from the bridge. Coney Island is the other side of Brooklyn). I told him he could take me where I originally said for half the price on the meter, which was still more than the usual fare, or let me out without incident. That was a painful subway ride home that morning.
This is religious proselytizing.
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you're going to use Lyft, when it's a direct investment of both Peter Thiel and Carl Icahn? Both very, very close associates of Trump and actually helped him win the White House?
No, people protest against things that the media manipulates them into protesting for. The inflammatory language has been scandalous at best. The media didn't encourage people to protest when Obama and Clinton proudly funded a wall between the US and Mexico in 2006. But now we've had "No Wall" protests in quite a few places and traditional leftists making right-wing supply side economics arguments against renegotiating NAFTA... yet another thing both Clinton and Obama campaigned for in 2008. Make no mistake, this is the butt-hurt media's doing.
The name is Structures.

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To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy.

To know your enemy, go read /r/The_Donald on Reddit. Learn their tactics.
So far as I can tell, this is still his view

Which is in direct contradiction to the claims that it's not a Muslim ban or has a religious component. Whether or not this is the right thing to do, denial of the intent on the part of supporters or the administration bothers me.

our government's priority needs to be the physical safety of its citizens, and we should not be willing to trade this safety for the comfort (or even lives) of non-citizens.

While I can sympathize, I'm also concerned with the personal liberty issues and apparent disregard for the rule of law, which seems threatened by the blocking of permanent residents and the firing of the AG when she questioned the constitutionality of the EO.

Sam Harris, who's been outspoken on what he considers the proper role of profiling and discussing honestly the threat of jihadist terrorism addressed the Executive Order in a blog post you may find interesting. Here's a quote:

I think Trump’s “Muslim ban” is a terrible policy. Not only is it unethical with respect to the plight of refugees, it is bound to be ineffective in stopping the spread of Islamism. As many have pointed out, it is also internally inconsistent: It doesn’t include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, or Lebanon, any of which has been a more fertile source of jihadist terrorism than several of the countries Trump named.

https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/a-few-thoughts-on-the-mu...

His take on the situation is one that results in him attracting flak many sides. In the post, he's pretty damning of what's been described as the "regressive left" as well.
Stop distracting. Blacks don't kill other blacks for being black -- but KKK did and hate groups do. MLK's quote about protest was relevant not for race reasons, but to illustrate that the insistence of order and the vehement resentment of unrest is not a passive stance, but a conscious ideological, statist one.
You're cherrypicking examples. Plenty of companies went under for cheating, e.g. Enron. Also if you think that these companies offer no consumer benefits but profit only through cheating then you're a fool.
You're not wrong. Women entering the workforce instead of staying home to mother children has a detrimental effect on families, despite receiving praise as social progress.

It's good for corporations because it doubles the labor supply, lowering wages for both men and women. States love it because they receive more income tax, since household work was previously untaxed. Families, especially children, are getting the shaft.
What's interesting about the study is that they're not looking at whether LSD actually helps to unlock deeper meaning, but rather they're looking at whether LSD increases the subjective feeling of meaning having been unlocked. I think it would be even more interesting to see how the former correlates with the latter, both with and without LSD.
I prefer no nuking of anyone or anything. Move off saudi oil. We've been doing it for years, actually. The latest way to get away is electric cars.
TiddlyWiki is quiet flexible. I've rearranged a lot of stuff in my setup.
When my car was in being diagnosed they put 40(!) miles on it then told me that it was impossible that they did any engine damage, even though they cleaned the intake ports which involves removing the intake manifold and media blasting the parts they claim were damaged and would cost $15,000.00 to fix. They also claimed it was impossible that they caused the wheel damage that wasn't there when I dropped the car off "because there are no curbs here".

Right, because car dealerships are always built in perfectly smooth fields and you put 40 miles on it using a treadmill. /s

They also told me that if I brought the loaner car back with less than a full tank they would charge me $5.00/gallon(!!) to top it off. They put 40 miles on my car and didn't reimburse me.

Franchised dealer service departments really are the worst. I am very impressed with the engineering and build quality of my BMW but the service is so bad the rest doesn't really matter. I hope Tesla is able to improve the level of service and forces others to do the same.
Honestly I'm not sure that uber and lyft could have coordinated a strike in the timeline it sounds like they were given, short of disabling the app or something.
The H1B visa program already has different pipelines for different countries and education levels. Even if it didn't, that it does, there's no reason they couldn't be implemented.

The bucket companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon or Microsoft are trying to hire from is the highest skillset. The supply is so short that starting salaries out of college are 6 figures; the situation is gentrifying the whole Bay Area. There's no way random shady company X can abuse any of these candidates, nor treat them like slaves, rather the opposite.

The other end of the H1B spectrum, these companies aren't interested in hiring. Their shareholders wouldn't want to spend a dime lobbying to extend those buckets.

I know all this from my own experience going through the process.
>Motives matter

Judicial interpretation generally takes the opposite tack, reading law according to its "plain meaning" rather than an imagined/assumed intent, to prevent just such bias and editorialization as you're displaying here (which, obviously, can be extremely damaging when mingled with governance).

Impute whatever intentions you wish on your favorite boogeymen, it doesn't change the text of the law under which Americans are governed.
The Tacoma is still there? That's what I'm buying next time. According to all the studies, the reliability is still there too. It's all probability, doesn't make it a tank or bulletproof but Toyota is still the best bet other than Lexus.

The models don't change much because that's a part of maintaining quality and reliability. The US companies are kings of constant rehashing and quality suffers. If I want a cool car I'll buy a Dodge Hellcat or a Tesla.. otherwise I'm going Toyota next time. Tip of the hat though to Kia (and Hyundai), they've really been giving everyone fits.
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