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I want to be clear here: nationalism and euroskepticism are also fact-based worldviews.

The difference between the worldviews are which facts are emphasized, shared and deemed culturally relevant.

You can make pretty much any movie "based on a true story."
I would argue that having Part D coverage handled directly by medicare, with the power to negotiate prices, would have a positive effect on prices for Part B medication as well. By having Medicare only provide certain medications, it makes it more difficult to bring proper purchasing power. It would also make it a lot easier on people who are on disability to manage their health. I'm on disability, and when I have a problem with a prescription, it's an absolute mess trying to figure out if I need to contact Medicare, or if I need to contact my Part D provider. To make things more complicated, there are times I need to contact Medi-Cal, because I have a certain amount of my coverage handled under Medicaid.
> So, I just moved on to AWS. More transparency on the platform and more predictable support.

Bad news. AWS is no different. EC2, IAM, whatever will have issues for hours, AWS won't update their status board (to the point someone wrote an extension to show the "real" status [1]), etc. And this is with business support we pay for. You needed to autoscale? Better go make yourself a mojito and wait for the dust to settle.

"There is no cloud, its just someone else's computer" [2]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/real-aws-status/ka...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/i9e6143.png
It is impossible to tune or monitor the Linux networking stack without reading the source code of the kernel and having a deep understanding of what exactly is happening.

No, it isn't.

Sure, reading the source code won't hurt, but I'd wager that most people who have set up adequately tuned servers did not need to read a single line of the kernel's source.

Putting such a definitive statement right at the top of this document makes me feel far less confident in trusting what it says. Is everything in it going to be just as over the top?
Well, I'm a member of the MongoDB is worth quitting over club. I replaced it at a former employer with postgres. Eng waved bye to an endless stream of operational issues, and customers saw better uptimes and much much faster responses.
I don't get it either. Apple graphics support has always been bad and it doesn't seem to have gotten better recently. Blizzard, a company that's always released their games for both Mac and PC, long before Apple even had a particularly relevant userbase was unable/unwilling to put in the effort to release their latest game (Overwatch) on Macs because they weren't able to garner satisfactory performance on Apple hardware.

Some relevant quotes:

“It was a result of not having all the technological support we needed to make the game viable on Mac systems.” says Kaplan, referring to Apple’s policies with OSX. “We have a real love and dedication for Mac players, they’ve been extremely loyal to us and we love giving them Blizzard games.

“But when dealing with the PC, the Xbox One and the PS4 - all of which are extremely welcoming to the technological needs to run a next-generation shooter - in a lot of ways we felt left behind, that we weren’t given the support we needed to make a great product on the Mac.”
It's a safety concern that at least 50 passengers didn't have their seat-belts on!
I wonder if the plan here is to create a market by creating consumers. If enough consumers are present and the govt requires companies to invest money in building industries in India, in order to serve those consumers, they can probably speed up development. Where do they get money? "Quantitative easing"
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> One system for everything else and one system for Apple.

This seems to have worked out pretty well for innovation in the mobile OS market, no?
Check out this link for an example of how to build iOS apps with it: http://www.thomasdenney.co.uk/blog/2015/1/27/nim-on-ios/

Because it compiles directly to C, I've found it reasonably easy to bring into different environments myself, though I've not attempted iOS yet :)

Edited to add: Also check out https://github.com/yglukhov/nimx
Come on, you don't like to tinker with SharePoint Server configuration templates in your free time?
Or just use one of the many devices built for offline cold storage (Trezor, etc).
> It is very unlikely a successful strategy could be based on this [public data]... The claim that someone with 5 months of financial self learning has created an AI strategy that makes a profit 95% of the time.

I've responded to this many times now, and you've ignored me, which is why I don't believe you actually want an answer, so this will be the last time I respond:

Sebastian has not claimed that his strategy will work 95% of the time. That would be crazy. He hasn't even claimed that it has worked 95% of the time –- he specifically stated that if he hadn't manually intervened, it would have lost all his money.

He merely reported that over a limited window of time (5 months) with a limited number of trades (non-HFT) in a bull market, 95% of those trades were profitable. If you break down the math correctly (which you did incorrectly in our Twitter convo), winning 19 out of 20 coin tosses = 1 in 52k. That has surely been done many millions of times, assuming hundreds of millions of trades are made daily.

I'm sorry, but the extreme claim that you're looking for proof of was never made. You are battling a strawman.
So... how was that battery the cause of an https problem?
Everything search engine (https://www.voidtools.com) used it long enough to strongly recommend this.
It would be easier for Intel to buy Nvidia...
> They will all dramatically break when people will have figured the trick in 5 years.

VM's hypervisors have also seen bugs/exploits to gain hypervisor access, and yet they're still here. These things have been fixed, and people did not stop using them.

Also, I don't really see the "more complexity and obfuscation" thrown at "the problem", can you enlighten me?
Apples and oranges. Your bank doesn't issue currency. Your bank could accept bitcoin and run nearly the same as it runs today.
I haven't seen the codebase of MySQL, but it's open source and not "owned" by Oracle. The only reason anyone should want to start over is if that codebase itself was crappy code. I bet it isn't. Implementations of a robust RDBMS takes decades. MySQL is very mature. That doesn't act against it, it acts in favor of it. The better analogy is Linux. I'd be more likely to say "Linux is bad because of age" long before I'd ever say "MySQL is bad only due to age."

There are plenty of examples in the Language world also: Go, Rust, etc. All those new languages SHOULD have built on top of Java, for the same reason Mongo should have built on top of MySQL. BTW, Java DID leverage C++. The Java compiler IS written in C. Mongo didn't use any part of MySQL, but Java uses EVERY part of C.
He was an early bitcoiner. This was an old drive he used for cold storage. wallet.dat was unencrypted in the early days.
> I wouldn't say it requires more thought and understanding

Hear, hear! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnwb
Re. work hours; Right, the Industrial Revolution had quite many work hours, possibly even "peak" hours for some regions, particularly central Europe and the US. However, prior to that, research says "we" worked less than "we" do today [1]. But yes, 1880s were probably peak "worst-time", apart from some notorious companies today :-). And, work-hours should be compared and considered globally, not just the niceties that are found in some parts of Europe, maybe. I think many industrial (slave-) workers in Asian countries like China can be assumed to work far more than what they did when they were farmers or hunter-gatherers or whatever prior society they had, and probably work even more than the workers of the Industrial Revolution, too. So I really think you are comparing German and French minimalist work hours to the "Western-world" worst case, the Industrial Revolution ~150 years ago, without actually contemplating either a global view or considering other times.

Re. being happier; Again, if you try to look back more than 100-200 years ago, things seem to have been quite different otherwise. Just take the Greek philosophers, for examples. They would not have flourished without "time to think", one might argue. Also, is that modern slave-worker in a Chinese factory really happier than his great grandfather was 100 ago? Thinking globally, I think there is enough evidence we might be unhappier than ever - mostly, thanks to globalization...

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
Well, it makes it pretty darn obvious now that Aaron's prosecution was related to his political activities and aspirations, no? I know Aaron didn't like this cynical interpretation of the judicial system, but it seems difficult to argue against it now...
Please note that the GitHub page says "not an official Google product", rather than "project". An official Google product would be something like gmail.
If it has been forgotten than why are we talking about it?

I challenge you to support the argument that your perception that the movement accomplished nothing is unbiased.

The reality is that the movement hasn't ended yet. It was the largest protest in American history and there will be fruits born from that. The opposition party is without any official power in government at the moment so if your expectation was an immediate sea change in policy that seems an unrealistically high standard. Other areas (that carry real effects) are already affected however -- that kind of political expression has many soft power effects. Companies are marketing to that demographic (rather than sticking to non-political messaging), government officials who disagree with illegal policy orders presented to them are seeing and feeling support from a large segment of the population to oppose and resist. Many local governments are seeing sharp increases in community participation at local events. Congress critters are being stalked by opposition supporters, cancelling public speaking events sometimes, their call centers are overwhelmed with dissenting opinions. This stuff is going to matter despite your promises of non-effect.

You frame an ongoing movement as entirely impotent and by doing so you very much ignore the important reality of soft power in government and politics.
Ideally, I think you need to replace both concurrently. Consider Uber for example. They didn't sell the app concept to the existing taxi companies and the taxi companies didn't hire piecemeal staff, it was a complete alternative.

Might not be a way in all cases, but if you offer people a new system (people and software) that is a viable alternative, they will start to jump ship.
Presumably that is also true for people who use Java during the week.
who said that? seriously, the goal of capitalism is to maximize capital however it may be defined!

once serious automation takes holds not all meat popsicles will be of worth equally.. even today humans in US are worth a lot more than say iraq. this will only get worse as haves can have entire production capacity without giving 'handouts' to the poor burger flipper just made obsolete by robot. IMO the time for UBI or such schemes is before serious automation hits so we can scale it up NOT after as it'll be too late then. It rarely happens that people give up power & influence voluntarily.
The SO data is also available on Google's BigQuery [1]

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/stackoverflow
You are right. It is interesting point which does not sit well with normal understanding of self-respect, pride etc.
I remain unsure whether Urbit is a real thing or simply an incredibly long-running satire. Their missives do nothing to clarify this point.
Or we could start funding medical research through our system of universities and the like. We have immense public and non-profit institutions that can take over. Maybe we'll even be able to see more benefit in treatment of rare and neglected diseases that way.

It also means that a large number of people could actually afford medication, doctors, etc. I have friends who can't afford going to the doctor, can't afford medication, so go without. Their quality of life would greatly improve by them being able to get into the system.
What people seem to be missing here is that based on available info it seems Microsoft isn't officially supporting Vulkan either. Sure Nvidia and AMD have released drivers for Windows that have Vulkan support, but we're talking about a web standard that would need to be implemented by browser makers and if Microsoft isn't going to use Vulkan, then what do they implement as the backing for this new standard in Edge? Probably DirectX. I think the idea is to sort out an API that would be compatible between all three due to Microsoft and Apple _both_ not wanting to officially support Vulkan over their own platforms in their browsers, regardless of the support at the OS level.
The argument for direct cash transfers (not really UBI, but a predecessor of sorts) was that, there are already millions being spent on subsidies and other welfare schemes, and only a small percentage of them actually reach the needy.
This could be a silly question but did they screw up due to timezone differences if any ? I deal with clients all over the world and I always specify what timezone I am talking about. I never say "how is 11 AM". Instead, I ask "How is 11 AM Eastern?". I also add if possible "I know you are 4 hours ahead of me...." to ensure that they pay attention to the timezone.

If not the timezone issue, then it could just be a mistake/sloppiness on the recruiter's part.

Should you correct him ? Yes, definitely. Say that their scheduled time is not on the suggestion you sent earlier. But if it is ok with you, accommodate anyway. Either way, don't read too much into recruiters. They are just a way to get into the company. If you like the company/team, don't worry about the recruiter.
A horrifying proposal based on the assumption that servers and network are the end-all and be-all of everything.

"Commodification" is a thing, and Xilinx fits everywhere, not just in places destined to have no profit. In fact, their best markets are the new ones with no pre-existing specialized chips available to replace FPGAs.
That's an interesting idea, but sumptuary laws have a history of being widely evaded and hard to enforce; I'd refer you to Fernand Braudel's Structures of Everyday Life, dealing with European life in the 1500s-1700s.
My point is, would it really be as simple as just financing these missions, i.e. is money actually the limiting factor? I was under the impression that (a) the political situation in these locations and (b) actual boots on the ground to secure these places are what's limiting the efforts. Furthermore, this doesn't seem to take the economic situation under consideration. Say you've set up a well run refugee camp in Jordan, with all the safety and comforts needed for a few hundred thousand Syrians or so. Now what? Syria will take many years to be a safe home for them again, if ever considering that Assad seems to be fully regaining control (which again is due to a lack of concerted military intervention as far as I see it). Most Syrian refugees certainly want a way to join the economy again, and Europe still seems their best bet - so a well run camp may smoothen the process, but I'd argue they'd still show up in European countries sooner or later, with roughly the same funds needed.
But that's the great thing about BTC... all you need to accept them is a computer, and all you need to know when you got some is an ISP.
101 mentions of Vulkan so far
If that thing has a BOM cost over $20, someone is doing it wrong.
Was there a convenient picture of a panda for the waiter to point to in reply?
Refactor code to handle spot loss and then go with much larger spot instances??
And LiquidWeb's support is "heroic."
Have you examples?
Related reading re. Vulkan

"What a WebGL2 successor could look like and why it can’t be WebVulkan" - https://floooh.github.io/2016/08/13/webgl-next.html

See also the the author's sketch of a next-gen web graphics API on top of WebGL (https://floooh.github.io/2016/10/24/altai.html) which is (perhaps unsurprisingl) broadly similar to the sketch given the article (minus command queues, shader libraries, ...).
Bloody hell that quote is ambiguous. "Dying" refers to playing tragic roles in Shakespeare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kean), not WW{1,2}.
Now what're the chances of that...

In all seriousness though, sorry to hear he passed. He's done a lot of good work and was still quite 'young'.
So it does. I still find this disunion of UOM disagreeable, in the way that "in thousandths, take 300 grams of acetaminophen twice daily" is troubling.
As the Watergate scandal taught us, the cover-up is almost always much worse than the obvious alternative -- publicly admitting the mistake and making amends.
It doesn't matter how well-built your house is, if you build it on limestone in a flood zone.
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Out-of-order execution always has the same answer that would occur from a single threaded perspective. There's no "thinks the result would be the same" about it - the result is the same.

You get into trouble when you:

1) assuming ordering to external peripherals (e.g., memory mapped I/O)

2) assuming stores/loads are happening in a specific order (e.g., other threads either pre-empt or are simultaneously running) causing data races

Your response makes it sound like a compiler could reorder functions like:

x=5;
x=add(x,5);
x=multiply(x,10);
printf("%d", x);

and you could expect to get either 100 or 55 as an answer if you didn't use fences. That's not true. The answer will always be right (100) no matter what OOO, speculative execution, etc happen.
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They simply redirect funding from existing welfare scheme to this type of scheme, particularly the least enforced, most corrupt and inefficient scheme.

A UBI would be much easier to audit. Your problem might be identity theft or the creation of entirely fictitious person.
It's a horrible product
Rumor has Intel will be letting a few folks from Europe go. They were supposed to be a part of the larger actions taken last year but due to European labor policy had been delayed.
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Agree with everything on this list, especially the focus on rest, and walking on breaks (physical distraction vs mental).

I've found the latter especially helps to 'reset' when I start to get a bit fuzzy. I think its a combination of the Gruen Transfer coupled with forcing myself to snap out of whatever I'm spinning my wheels on.
I would not disagree. It is just that financial wherewithal to have this implemented is not present in India. Also here is the experiment conducted in India for basic income[1]. Results were promising but it is too small a experiment to be conclusive.

1. http://isa-global-dialogue.net/indias-great-experiment-the-t...
Someday I hope to understand what urbit actually is :-)
Then which vendors do you care about from the Microsoft ecosystem (which this thread is about)? Vulkan is supported by Nvidia, AMD and Intel, I think this covers >99% of the Windows landscape. Windows phone? or Xbox? Hololens?
Someone else mentioned that they don't care about Nvidia and AMD both advocating for Vulkan because I'm personally not interested in the big desktop PCs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)#Compatibility

In addition to Nvidia and AMD, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Qualcomm (!!!), and ARM support Vulkan. Hardware wise, there is absolutely no problem whatsoever.
Microsoft doesn't need to support Vulkan, because Windows is flexible enough that GPU vendors can expose other APIs like OpenGL or Vulkan without Microsoft's permission.

It's a very different situation to macOS, where Apple are the sole gatekeepers of the graphics stack and nothing can ever happen without their direct support.
whoops.. Would have been impressive if it wasn't a typo, should have read "tiny basic"
Some of us have more significant medical expenses than others. My prescription medications alone would be $2k/month if I had to pay it out of pocket, and that amount's pretty set in stone. The alternatives, which I've tried, don't work for me, or make symptoms worse. Shopping around wouldn't do anything for me.
I just can't be bothered to go around this today since we're not going to agree anyway. On altruism, I was thinking of a specific comment you made a while back about being rationally focused on your interests, reproductive ability and descendants (qua biology rather than social attitude, but I think it's consistent with your expressed libertarian viewpoint. I don't remember enough to successfully look it up right now.

I think this encapsulates a key difference in our worldview:

As for things like maintaining an excess supply of medical pros to handle crises, if that's necessary I don't think it should be provided via random inefficiency. It should be explicitly planned in.

I used to think that, but now I favor a little general random inefficiency because we don't know what we don't know. My inclinations are utilitarian, but sadly my ability to predict the future is limited so I systematically distrust my own utility calculus.
Wow I'm surprised to see ExtJS on a list of "most used" anything. I mean don't get me wrong it's great if you want to prototype something quick that uses data but for a great UX / real application it's dreadful to use IMO.
That's not correct. At 33,00 ft, Mach 0.9 is about 600Kts, the altitude charts don't go high enough for Mach 0.9 to be 358Kts - by that point yo haven't enough air to transmit sound.

And if you're implying that 358kts indicated could be 600kts actual with the right tailwind - that's true, but it still wouldn't be Mach 0.9, as the speed of sound applies only to airflow over the airplane. No matter the tailwind, the airflow will remain subsonic.

If this weren't the case, passenger liners could go supersonic with a 200kt tailwind all day long...
From the wikipedia article, wow, what a depressing story. It sounds fascinating, but I'm not sure I can take it at the moment. Thanks for the tip.
But Microsoft isn't supporting Vulkan in Windows either, so why is there only a fuss about Apple's support for it? Both companies have competing API's (Direct X and Metal), but Apple is the only one getting flack for it. Why is that?
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>The MITM proxy cannot present the client certificate to the server, since it doesn't have the corresponding private key.

The MITM proxy is operated by the same department that has root on all the endpoints it's intercepting. If necessary, the "endpoint protection" product will grab the private key, or just scrape the details of the browser session from the browser's memory rather than at network level.
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And how!
Some lid switches are broken:

https://who-t.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/libinput-and-lid-switch...
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Or they raise their prices to get money out of a smaller pool of subscribers. Medical care has a pretty inelastic demand curve.
Well, you can run it and it does things, which effectively puts the question of "real" or "satire" into our hands. At this point, it is what we make of it.
Why is "very few people care" an argument _against_ privacy solutions? There are so many niche markets in this world. Not everything needs to be a billion dollar business.
In my opinion, that's what's wrong with the world. Chasing tech, pick something solid and stick with it. I have seen developers barely get decent in one language only to drop it and learn a new language. Picking up the basics of a language is easy, but it's knowing the nuisance that separates the professional from the amateur.