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To understand Thiel, I think you have to look at how he is a dark inversion of his philosophical mentor, Rene Girard.

Girard's primary thesis is that human desires are imitative, but we refuse to acknowledge this through a repeated, romantic lie about how our desires for an "object" are authentic vs. being rooted in imitation of another. This dissonance leads to periodic eruptions of violence that are themselves too imitative and escalatory, and which are only resolved through redirecting the violence onto a scapegoat:

"If two individuals desire the same thing, there will soon be a third, then a fourth. This process quickly snowballs. Since from the beginning desire is aroused by the other (and not by the object) the object is soon forgotten and the mimetic conflict transforms into a general antagonism. At this stage of the crisis the antagonists will no longer imitate each other's desires for an object, but each other's antagonism. They wanted to share the same object, but now they want to destroy the same enemy. So, a paroxysm of violence would tend to focus on an arbitrary victim and a unanimous antipathy would, mimetically, grow against him. The brutal elimination of the victim would reduce the appetite for violence that possessed everyone a moment before, and leaves the group suddenly appeased and calm. The victim lies before the group, appearing simultaneously as the origin of the crisis and as the one responsible for this miracle of renewed peace. He becomes sacred, that is to say the bearer of the prodigious power of defusing the crisis and bringing peace back."

Girard's solution to this problem is a kind of atheistic Christianity. It's essentially incumbent on each person acknowledge the truth of these structures in human society, The innocence and subsequent false deification of scapegoats (relative to the origin of mimetic violence), and walk away from them by modeling themselves after the example of Jesus' disciples.

What I think Thiel instead calculated using this philosophy is that scapegoats are the true origin of political and economic power in all forms. Since humans want to believe the romantic lie about the sincerity of their desires, they'll willingly accept false idols and their promise of transcendence through human sacrifice. Allying yourself with a political movement based on these principles is a path to wealth and power.

By the way, this is Girard's definition of Satanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard
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Yes, most certainly. I prefer it over dvorak too - much more comfortable and balanced (see my other answer in this thread). Add an ortholinear keyboard like a typematrix into the mix and it's the best typing experience I've managed so far.
A fantasy of mine is to throw cigarette butts back into smokers cars when seeing them toss them out at traffic lights and in traffic.
The EarPods have a completely different shape. No idea of they'll work for you.
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Yeah, I get why it happens and I don't have any solutions, but it is another problem of Hollywood's own making.
I once switched to DVORAK, but then I noticed I couldn't easily do ctrl-z, ctrl-x, ctrl-c and ctrl-v, ctrl-s, ctrl-a with my left hand, so I switched back. (Maybe some combinations are possible, too lazy to find out ;))
It's worth considering Python asyncio as well for this type of work https://magic.io/blog/asyncpg-1m-rows-from-postgres-to-pytho...
YP thinks that perhaps pg_basebackup is being super pedantic about there being an empty data directory, decides to remove the directory. After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com

My heart honestly goes out to YP. This is a terrible sysops _oh shit_ moment.
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If you work out a way to model the performance of your own systems based on these benchmarks, then on the way you will discover what is wrong with them. Or switch to Urweb for all your future sites, I guess?
If you're willing to put your Chromebook in dev-mode, it doesn't necessairily have to be a remote IDE. You could also use a Linux distro from within a chroot [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
[2] https://github.com/drinkcat/chroagh
Once a taxi service gets enough drivers in the city here in Russia, it becomes highly preferable than random on-the-road vehicle. It automatically means that you get more precise (or even fixed) billing, pretty clean and decent cars, and drivers are motivated to not bother you in any way, because taxis usually have quality feedback that makes driver 'priority'. Going directly to the road is a last resort, even if you're already outside. It is not much for a physical safety, but service.
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I live in Vic, but I was reading about NSW laws dealing with this problem...

From an SMH article...

"Tenants who create too much smoke when barbecuing their lamb chops or sausages on unit balconies could soon face fines of up to $2200 under proposed changes to strata laws. The same goes for smokers if the smoke from their cigarettes or cigars drifts into neighbouring units."
That response assumes that "unwanted pregnancies" are the only reason a woman would want an abortion. There's plenty of medical reasons why it would be necessary.
Well, I think that the most important question you need to as yourself is why do you want to be free from the cube? Unfortunately, happiness might not be enough of a motive. Getting free would talk you plenty of work, giving up some fun things you do right now for the possibility of a great future. The problem here is if you WHY is not strong enough, it will be easy to give up and not complete the small actions you need to complete daily to stick to your goal. Once you have your why strong enough ( usually, this means that it's for a greater cause than just benefiting yourself) then you can focus on the strategy to get you there.
I hear you, yet I believe the substance is still there. The technical details are still very strong around here. My SO tries to read this site to understand me and is flummoxed by 98% of the content :)

Part of the questions in a hacker/entrepreneur's life or at least expert developers, are concepts like, "how to interface with civic society." As "wizards," we have a lot of power, and using it wisely and responsibly is an important way to sustain our power and create the harmonious world we all want.

In hacker form, we're seeing a number of approaches, such as aiding the ACLU (YC), isolating oneself (Thiel), try experiments (UBI). This isn't going to be the place with clear, obvious, simplistic answers. We're independent hackers and we are experimental and it helps us and the world to discuss results and tactics in gentleperson fashion.

THAT SAID :) I acknowledge your plaint about how quickly many stir to rage. Emotions need to be leveraged carefully. Allowing (and inducing) emotional states to cloud unnecessarily can be highly counterproductive to progress. I see this on nearly all sides of the discussions. I hesitate to say circumstances have warranted it, because I agree we all need to keep our heads on tight and dig deep into the facts, listen to one another and find that common ground.

In the W era, there was lots of talk about bipartisanship, crossing the aisles and also technocratic methods to achieve unity and comprehension of civic process. I know technocracy is not primary, but I would love to focus some attention toward that as a stepping stone for national harmony. Even those websites that turn your zip code into your representatives communication are a great step in the right direction. Let's keep it up.
All of the above, plus:

Taxi drivers, at least herearound, have mandatory rest periods, which are very strictly enforced. I know that for a fact, since my girlfriend used to drive a cab. Even if you adhere to your rest period (and can prove it), but don't have the paperwork straight this can lead to hefty fines.

There's nothing stopping your friendly Uber driver to drive you around after two back breaking shifts at the factory.

He may even quaff a couple beers, or three, before starting his "Uber shift". Something which is an absolute No!No! for a licensed cabbie. They have very stringent zero tolerance rules when it comes to booze. Your Uber driver does not.

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but imagine that this situation is quite comparable to a lot of places.
This Graal/Truffle/Maxine etc effort is going on for a decade or so, I think. Some folks first at Sun and then Oracle are trying to prove that Java is low level/performant enough to write JVM runtime/compilers etc. I believe this effort is still not production ready. Meanwhile Oracle has put some bits on github, and other made closed source to see if some business can be generated out of it.
From my experience, the aoss wrapper works pretty well. I had the UT99 Loki/UTPG port running with it with no problems.
I myself initially added my name to the document in various parts, this was later changed to just initials. I specifically told my colleagues it was OK to keep it in the document. I have no problems taking responsibility for mistakes, and making sure they don't happen ever again.
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bike commuting every day I am exposed to a lot of litter, from my perspective the vastly most common litter is drink containers, coffee cups in the winter, soda cups in the summer, there is really no contest, it's by far the largest amount. Plastic bags are next, then those disposable flossing plastic U-shaped things, and then all sorts of other things.

I so wish that 7-11, starbucks etc. charged $5 deposit for every drink container they sell, ah one can always dream...
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Seconded on checking for sleep apnea. I'd wake up every night after approx. 4 hours with severe sweating, palpitations, tingling and numbness in hands and feet, acid taste in mouth, disorientation.

I was tested for everything under the sun. EKG, stress test, echocardiogram, blood workup, blood sugar monitoring (diabetes?), Holter monitor, xrays, .. on and on. They showed nothing. Several of the doctors tried to gently broach the idea of "stress" perhaps being the cause. But as far as I can tell I'm mentally healthy and a low stress guy.

I went through years of doing my own "research". I suspected everything from heart valve infection, to kidney disease, to lyme, sleep apnea, to some exotic virus. 8 years of nightly misery and soaked sheets.

I suggested apnea to the doctors several times but it was waved off because I'm thin.

I even had an ENT specialist put a camera down my nose looking for something "structural". Nothing.

And yet, after getting a CPAP my symptoms have all but disappeared. WTF? I felt my doctors were caring and competent. How did they blow this so badly?
"When you do it you're an idiot, but when I do it it's because I know what I'm talking about"?
Nothing, its totally legit to kill people, if there is a cellphone among them, that might belong to somebody opposed the US. Hence the awesome success and ongoing love for US in those areas. Which is easy to counter with more drones, I guess.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-st...
I'm French, and AZERTY sometime drives me crazy.

Braces and parenthesis aren't logically placed, characters used in coding languages aren't easily accessible in general.

And I've generally concluded that I should install games in English and switch my keyboard layout to QWERTY when/if I play. Plus, mods usually are in English, and I hate when there's a word in French and the next is in English.
>The issue is finding people with appropriate scientific and industry backgrounds.

My wife worked in biotech. It's very easy to find people with the appropriate undergrad and Master's degrees. It's hard to find someone with a postdoc in exactly what your company does. Unfortunately, the firm wanted to do exactly that: any advancement required going back to academia for a very precise degree/research program. There was no system of internal training or advancement at all, and as a direct result, the firm is (still) chronically understaffed, chronically overworking its employees, and frankly not at all a good place to work.

Thing is, that's your problem as a biotech firm, since the doctoral and postdoctoral job track was never meant to produce workers for industry. You really ought to just take people at an earlier stage of their career, train them for your unique needs, and advance them over the years. While doing so, you should also provide competitive salaries, reasonable hours, and job security.

Oh, and respect for basic safety. None of this "if a chemical fire starts, see if you can put it out before pulling the fire-alarm" crap I've heard about.

Lastly, if we're going to talk xenophobia, why should a firm in the Northeastern United States receive visas to hire a Serbian postdoc (educated in one of Europe's many cheap, publicly-funded university systems!) instead of hiring and training up an undergrad from Nebraska? Are Nebraskans less deserving to "immigrate" to the Northeast than Europeans?

Or are American firms just trying to leech off other countries' public education systems while not paying into making the American system comparably cheap and accessible? How come the undergrad from Nebraska has massive student-loan debt, while the European postdoc has been earning net income since grad school?
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These people aren't "foreigners" they're naturalized citizens. The criticism isn't that there's too many of them, but too many in leadership and wealth positions. That is racism in a nutshell regardless of how you Trump types want to spin it. So Asians can't own businesses or "too many" but whites can own an unlimited amount? Oh ok.
> if they would have had their PRs and Issues in git repositories, too

Well, perhaps a git repository isn't the right persistency structure for non-code items like issues and pull requests. That a git repository is a good structure for document-like entities (like code files) and tracking changes/versions, doesn't mean that it's a good choice for highly-relational or highly-dynamic objects.
As a Canadian, I'd move to Mexico if I was paid the same as I'm making now. Of course no company would be happy to have that happen ;-)

Plus, I'm already used to going to Mexico in winter for a week on a beach, and Mexican food is delicious.
Agreed, mostly. Also I love your pun.

I recently switched back to doing Java almost 100% of the time and have been using IntelliJ. There are definitely a lot of Java-specific features I use very heavily that I wouldn't be able to get without a lot of of time and plugins in Vim. But sometimes I hit weird bugs that highlight the relative complexity of the core, and I often feel frustrated by how light-weight it isn't (granted, I've tried some other Java IDEs and it's amazing by comparison).

But I used to work more with various scripting languages, and my gvim setup just couldn't be beat. So light-weight, but easy to set up again if I needed to. Still able to navigate code structures, debug without context switching. I often did something with a partner that amazed them, because they couldn't do it with their IDE; my favorite thing in the world is the look on someone's face when I select a rectangular section of text and change the indentation without affecting the stuff on the left. It was incredibly productive for years. I still occasionally go back there when I'm working in a single Java file, because the vi emulation mode in IntelliJ isn't quite there and I can manipulate the raw text so much faster in gvim.
>What, you become the richest, most powerful country in the world?

No you do that during world war by being the only country left with with virtually no damage to factories/infrastructure due to geography.

You then use that to establish a global hegemony.

And even then it only enriches the top of your society.
A big change I've seen in the US is the "class" aspect of smoking. Smokers (outside of a bar environment) in the US come across as lower class, at least among white folks (can't speak for others). Not sure how this came about, but it's effective and one of the reasons I never picked the habit up from my parents.
I can try as well.

> If I'm dismissive it's because we've had a lot of field tests of socialism throughout history, as well as in economic studies, and the results are always poor.

While this may sound like a no-true-Scotsman argument, the most prominent example of a failure, USSR, has quickly (within a few years) moved off course from socialism to totalitarianism and state capitalism [1]. There were never democratically governed workplaces in the Soviet Union. This happened for a variety of reasons, including constant military threats from capitalist countries that naturally pushed the population to rally around autocratic leaders. Same is true for many others. There were successful-looking democratic attempts as well, but those were crushed by capitalists pretty quickly.

North Korea's full official name, for example, is Democratic People's Republic of Korea. However, nobody is seriously arguing that democracy doesn't work because North Korea is democratic. However, the same logic somehow fails to apply to communism.

> It's a dangerous mindset to not examine critically because it is a slippery slope towards communism, the most inhumane type of society responsible for the most deaths in human history (much more than religion).

Citations needed here. Putting aside the fact that no countries in history have actually been communist yet, most claims of "millions deaths under communism" are pretty dubious, counting many deaths without establishing causal effect. For example, Chinese famine deaths are counted as directly caused by communism. If the same methodology were applied to capitalism, you can count many more deaths throughout the world until today -- famines, starvation, easily preventable diseases in capitalist Third World, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
That makes little sense. Of course it wouldn't scale in the same way for legacy clients that can't be optimized.
Apparently the "source" must have been something like this:

http://www.dx.com/p/updated-version-fidget-cubic-toy-for-foc...
> There is a reason why we exterminated apex predators

Ignorance of the massive economic value provided by the role of superpredators, greed and also tradition.

The effect of wolves on pets is not so simple as "but wolves will eat our pets". The real pet killers currently, apart of cars of course, are Leishmaniosis, Lyme disease, Ticks, etc... Wolves could help to keep under control some of those, and of course will kill lots of coyotes, saving the life of thousands of pets each year... Cats for example could be much safer living in wolf territory than living among coyotes.
More Macs...sure. There was a new MBP released after a long wait after all. The question is...was a bigger increase expected.
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This is actually implemented on Linux/glibc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI

You can compile C/C++ programs using this ABI, and get all 64-bit benefits without 64-bit pointers.
I almost automatically closed the tab because it looked like a paywall. Why do I have to click "Show full article" to see the article on the page for that article? O_O
This is also killing me, I've switched to DVORAK a few months ago and I'm up to speed, but missing these shortcuts can be pretty painful at times, especially with cut, copy and paste.

I have adjusted to doing Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert, Shift-Delete, I just have to constantly refrain from doing Shift-Delete when handling files, but it's still not as comfy as the QWERTY shortcut positioning.

Overall I'd say it's still worth it, the positioning of the punctuation marks is better and my fingers travel a lot less.
I believe this book may be relevant to your post: "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front"

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Want-Do-Illegal-Stories/dp...
I could have been clearer. I meant that setting up docker for his use case i.e. a single 'standard' web application, is relatively easy. Especially if you're using something like Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. At least, that's been my experience.

You're right that docker can become very complex e.g. dockerizing and orchestrating mariadb with galera for high availability was not pleasant.
Montana resident here - I'd much rather the BLM own the land than private entities. Private entities shut down access for not only motorized vehicles and hunting, but bicyclists, hikers, and horse riders. Even grandfathered trails which are supposed to remain open and accessible are illegally shut down, sometimes with nasty traps (like wires strung across the trail and chest or neck height).

Not to mention, the BLM maintains those trails and the surrounding land. The forest service does not (it will close trails instead of making changes which make them safe for the riders and the land), and the private entities certainly do not.

Some of the public land being sold (which also occurred under the Bush administration, as an aside) is right next to public parks, where lots of wild animals and other fragile ecosystems are in place. It would suck to watch the land around Yellowstone national park strip-mined for a few ounces of gold.
The problem there though is not in allowing non-techies to easily install certs, but rather in incentivising cheap hosting companies to provide it by default, with zero configuration. Many companies are already doing this, but they're still in a minority. Making HTTPS "the norm" is hopefully the road to making this an expected feature from those hosts.
Colemak here, switched something like 6y ago. I was training with few programs to learn to touch type properly (my qwerty was touch type level but bad, wrong fingers pressing wrong buttons etc). The one I used to most on Mac is called Type Fu, but there are many others. I trained for ~10m for some time while using qwerty normally. I made total switch when I could type 40wpm on Colemak. After 2 weeks it was 60wpm. Very happy with it.
It doesn't look like that's the point. It looks like the point is to have a good starting point for further studies that will use the same codification for surveys and questionnaires so that various studies can be compared.
I've tried a few times but given up each time. I learned to touch type QWERTY at age 13 and use it at well over 100wpm. I'm in my early 30s and I think I'm stuck with it now.

Even after living in Germany for ~10 years, I still buy and import US keyboards and laptops so that the enter key (and backslash) are in the right place. (It's not just mapping - the physical buttons are laid out differently.)

I read about these people who switched and it seems totally
impossible to me. Months of slow typing?! Ain't nobody got time for that.
> Live in Halifax

Yeah but that Atlantic Canada winter. Brrrh. Nope!

> Or Ottawa, or Montreal, or Quebec City, or Kingston, or Waterloo

These all experience winter. Although skiing does make up for some of that, and in Ottawa you've got the Rideau canal.
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Actual walled gardens are very pleasant places to be. It is puzzling that detractors of a thing would analogize it to something that is so nice. Maybe telling? I don't know.
You may have a point if this order is seen in isolation.

Put into context with the new administration and how they acted since the inauguration my application of Occam's razor would lead to the exact opposite conclusion of yours.
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