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The munition can't be removed from the chain, it's not a benign entity. From concept through design and production through to sale and use, the munition itself is a necessary element in the machinery of killing.

Downplaying the importance of the munition itself enables industrialised slaughter. The arms trade deals in munitions, and is a multi-billion dollar industry.

We can prevaricate all day about words like "defense", about how "guns don't kill people, people kill people", and about suggestions that "insanely terrifying" experiences "will not do much" to people. But language is important here, and you should consider carefully what you think and communicate about the weapons industry.
Even if it is a question of physics that doesn't mean it's an answerable one. There may be impenetrable barriers between us and any supposed higher-order multiverse.

Even in this universe, it's possible to be entirely cut off from regions. What does a black hole look like inside its event horizon? We have models, but it's impossible to measure. On a larger scale, assuming the continue expansion of the universe, the furthest galaxies will eventually be receding from us faster than the speed of light, making them un-observable.
There is no evidence that dark matter even exists other than the fact that our universe is not expanding at the rate we think it should, based on our current theory of gravity and how much mass we can account for based on the radiation currently reaching us (light). I think it's far more likely that our theory is incomplete rather than some whole new class of invisible matter/energy being conjured into existence just to counter-balance our 1) wrong equations and/or 2) wrong observations. So many non-scientists think dark matter is proven. It isn't. It's nothing but pure conjecture.
So how do these branes exist? The fundamental question remains.
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>Any place doing serious ML

Good thing the vast majority of businesses won't need "serious" ML, but instead will require only simple implementations to help solve business problems.
Thanks, I do appreciate the quote, and the clarification on LE.

Why are you against increased intelligence?

I'm not against increased intelligence per se, but I think it's a wrongheaded goal for the times. We don't seem to know how best to use the considerable native and machine-aided intelligence we already possess. I'm not convinced it's translating into better quality of life for all or most. In many domains, solutions are going to be non-technical.

I think a better goal is to prepare against the case in which AI will go on to surpass us once it has achieved our level of (technical) intelligence. (You and I may differ in our assessment of the likelihood.)

In this event, we won't be able to recover the advantage. I think we'll have to argue the case for our value in other terms, such as that we are able to have subjective experiences and relationships, we can emapthize, and can be amazing as poets, philosophers, lovers, and philanthropists.

Maybe it's time to pay more attention to the domains in which we excel at being human.

If AI learns from the de facto "human value system" that it sees in evidence among us, how do we expect to be treated if we become subordinates?

Living by a better value system strikes me as a more important perogative than boosting intelligence, which I view as a commodity market in which we've enjoyed a monopoly. Competition is on the way, and I'm not sure intelligence will seem as profitable as it used to. We need to differentiate and find our human niche.
It's been protested the entire time, just only recently receiving attention
Funny -- but when I drive up to Niagra falls from TO, I do see SITA (now google) Seagate, CA, VMWare and a bunch of other enterprise s/w companies in Hamilton. Either that or they are buying up ad space on buildings close to QEW.
I think the existence of services like that makes the point even starker: There are tools out there that can provide some of the basics, and yet the low hanging fruit still persists. Just knowing that those services exist, and understanding the pros and cons on when to recommend them likely puts you ahead of the pack.
> Sure GenX has its share of amoral people, but at least they had the good taste to lie about it. I mean, that's kind of admitting that morality is important.

If that's your morality then everyone after GenX surely dodged a bullet. You'd prefer someone act like a psychopath rather than admit they don't agree with your moral code.

Equating one nation's laws at one point in time to morality and ethics is just the icing on the cake. Perhaps you still think that African-American men who marry white women or use non-segregated bathrooms are immoral too?
much more importantly, the author is conflating "loan" and "subsidy" which is completely insane.

Tesla received a 465 million dollar /loan/ which they /paid back/

Oil receives billions in /Subsidies/ that they /do not pay back/

the only slight similarity is that the department of energy loan likely had favorable interest terms, but that would make the financial benefit to Tesla vastly less than 465 million dollars - their benefit would be the difference in total interest over the life of the DoE loan vs a market rate loan.
Ask HN: Mobiles in Workplace/Enterprise
What opportunities /problems to solve exist in the workplace/enterprise that can be tackled efficiently via smartphones. What advice would you give an upcoming mobile developer wanting to avoid the consumer space which derives most revenue from advertising. As a note advertising has been constant 1% of US GDP for the past 100 years [0] or so and can't really compete with Google/Snapchat/FB. Basically opportunities to exploit for someone to make a decent living i.e >100k$ not take over the world or anything
[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-03/advertisings-century-of-flat-line-growth
Before all that. The .signature file in my UNIX home directory, for e-mail. This would have been in 1993 or so.
That's on the other side of the issue. My point was that there isn't anything like a 'proportional electiveness function' for the hours of work people are able to get with employment agreements. I think it looks like this for salaried professional employment: anything less than 40 is very low probability, 40-45 is very typical, and decreasing popularity in bins afterwards 50-60, 60+ etc.

Given that's the distribution, you can't say people won't don't want to elect for <40 for less pay, it's not a really a choice in the current environment.
"it might be the first time in history where computers (since 2008 or so) are replaced because the hardware failed and not because they were insufficiently fast."

You're forgetting two things:

1 - Games

2 - VR

Games especially have a very long history of having a bottomless appetite for more and more powerful hardware every year as they push the limits of what's possible.

VR is dramatically upping hardware requirements, and those requirements are going to exponentially increase as consumers start to demand and expect 8k per eye, full motion, high framerate, 360 degree, 3D, wide field of view, interactive VR -- all on smaller and lighter headsets, ideally wirelessly.
But the article seems to say that the Kodi software itself doesn't allow piracy, it's just software that third parties have written add-ons to, and those third-party add-ons give access to pirated content.

If that's actually the case, then it's hard for me to see how selling the fully-loaded Kodi box is more illegal than selling a computer with an internet connection. After all, there's third party software for computers that give access to pirated content as well, right?

edit: Ah, I guess I misunderstood the article. Some people are selling boxes preloaded with Kodi, and other people are selling boxes preloaded with Kodi+the third party apps, I guess?
Two UK schools trial use of police-style bodycams for teachers
I'm more of a mid-level dev really I would say, I'm a junior dev in title though. I'm quite confident in my code and work more or less autonomously without much issue, but I feel like in order to start moving towards the next level mentoring is a skill I need I'm just not sure where to start. How do you recommend finding high school and college students to mentor if I were to go that route?
Are you prepared to double current taxes?

If not, you need to plan spend less than double what you're currently spending.
Sexy is in the eye of the beholder. Seriously, I think the problem of ML is that it often goes against the so-called principle parsimony, which plays a critical role in statistical modelling. Especially in many areas where the whole point isn't strictly to predict future outcomes, but to understand how things work and to test hypotheses. Understanding leads to better prediction anyways. If you can predict something but you don't know why or how, I would take such predictions with a grain of salt.
That's a fair point, I was complaining about past Urbit threads, which sometimes spend a lot more time on the founder's weird-but-irrelevant politics than on the technical merits of the project. I expect and welcome flaming about why it's built the way it's built! I would so love a big deep thread between the urbit devs and some really smart people who have deep misgivings about its architecture, because the outcome of that would help me decide whether it's worth investing time learning hoon.
Charity water is really great, But I wasn't really convinced until I saw this ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAldTk8dxPY
Is that a statement about Haskell or an indictment of Java, I wonder?
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After a few years of monkeying with the "Cardholder Services" calls, I'm convinced there's two layers of crooks involved. The first layer is the autodialers, they just run through series of phone numbers, and play a recording. I'm pretty sure these bastards don't screen numbers, because I can at least get through to the (Indian) boiler room almost 100% of calls.

I think the boiler rooms are actually seperate organizations/crime clans. The boiler rooms do screen, but not universally. After years of being "Edward Snowden" and giving out fake card numbers that pass the Luhn checksum, only maybe 25% of the boiler rooms cut me off. A few days ago, the "service rep" had a bad headset and I could hear a recorded voice telling him to hang up, which he did.

Even Trump's FCC would have to deal with targeted harassment. That's the kind of crap that nobody puts up with. Besides that, harassment calls probably ruin the NSA's data retention practices, so that just can't happen.
This is not for incoming calls, it's for outgoing calls.
Statements like these suggest that another AI Winter is coming (sooner than 3 years I guess)

"""He thinks even programming is vulnerable to being automated and reducing the number of available programming jobs."""

I believed something similar could happen within 1-2 years of learning/writing AI programs (more than 12 years back). I believed it so much that it consumed most of my weekends as I took on the Genetic Programming approach. Yes! computers can write programs - BUT trying reading those. Eventually after spending hours or days, you will be able to read those programs and you might find a simple "hello-world" program represented by a complex mathematical equation. Good luck trying to get such program fixed by humans. Imagine an experience decoding deep-learning-neural-nets.
However, that is black-box from a programmer perspective.

From a business/management personnel perspective - the code is a black box anyways. When they get NNs that can generate required software, they will replace the people-manager with a NN-manager (who is a programmer btw!)
It is there, even more than once
> The boxes are specifically marketed for copyright violation, sure.

Not only that, they're specifically configured for copyright violation.

Assuming these are the Android TV boxes from China, these boxes don't come with vanilla Kodi.

They come with Android apps whose specific purpose is to get copyrighted content (like Showbox), and the pre-installed Kodi comes with a pile of add-ons that do the same.

On a vanilla system, a normal user would have to go get those apps and add-ons themselves.

The Android apps (apks) are easier to find/get than the add-ons for Kodi. You need to know the locations of the repos to get some of the shadier add-ons and that involves legwork that would likely be daunting for non-enthusiasts.
> It's too simplistic to blame this on government regulation. The rest of the world also regulates utilities, and far from all of it has the crumbling water infrastructure problem.

I'm not blaming the fact that government regulates utilities. I'm pointing out that using government regulation to simply drive prices lower is bad in the long term. Government regulation can work when prices are set at levels that balance investor incentives and consumer welfare. Doing that is really hard.

When the U.K. privatized British Telecom, it created a regulated monopoly (now BT Openreach) that owned the wires into peoples' houses. They spent a lot of time and intellectual energy into determining how to set BT Openreach's rates. As a result, that monopoly is more profitable than say AT&T (even including AT&T's lucrative wireless division). Unsurprisingly, BT Openreach has aggressively built out FTTN in the U.K. whereas U.S. telephone providers have been trying to limit investment in their networks.
When Earth's magnetic field reverses (it's periodic and we're overdue), it does not protect from solar radiation for a while, making the outdoors toxic and destroying most electronics as a result.
Your example of Netflix having only half a season and then having to add a second subscription service to watch the rest is a straw man.

It feels more like "I already pay for Netflix, so why do I have to pay anyone else for content Netflix doesn't have?" That's a bit like asking why you should pay for CNN and HBO. Basic cable should come with ALL the content, right?
Great article, specially regarding the type of optimisations that were applied.
Supply and demand don't only flow in one direction. Oil demand is absolutely responsive to price (and thus supply), in the form of energy users turning to alternative sources of energy, focusing more on energy efficient machinery, using less energy (driving less when the cost of driving rises).
> just like broadcast TV

You've conveniently skipped the mention of ads that require interaction, which is far worse.

> $2-$3 it would cost you to go ad-free

It appears to cost $12,and apparently only removes ads on some shows... so, no.

That's a hell of a sense of superiority you've got yourself there kiddo...
This is very valid. But I think there's _also_ an important symbolic goal here.

"This pipeline was moved because local communities feared the risk to the water supply. So the company felt it was appropriate to move it into the tribal community area."

"Water risk to white people? No no no. Water risk to Native communities? Well, we can live with that."
I know people on both sides. I have relatives on both sides. I was pretty neutral until the latest round of reporting and looking at what's going to happen this spring with the flooding. The long term business impact on all reservations is problematic.

Interestingly enough, I trust my relatives and friends words more than yours.

Soros is the biggest, and yes, the money spent here is a major drag on the state.
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If you are running the program with `cargo run` that takes the same --release flag. Could be the machine difference though.
I don't believe your statement of intent, by the way. No matter what rationale for H-1B visas exists, the primary purpose is to increase supply and lower wages. And it's worked marvelously! Unfortunately, it's not Pareto Efficient, so there will be complaints.
An easy way to demonstrate the truth of the "paid protesters" claim is to show any way one can sign up to be a paid protestor. I have been doing some unpaid protesting and wouldn't mind a check, to be honest.

Until then: FAKE NEWS!
And to get even more pedantic, it's even worse than that alone implies because switching power increases with the square of voltage.

We're also at the point where transistor leakage current matters. All transistors leak a tiny amount of current even without switching. Alone this might only be a few µA, but pack enough of them together on a die and that might add up to hundreds of mA. Combine that with higher voltages so the chip can run at high clock speeds, and the fact that leakage increases with temperature (which will be driven by higher voltages and frequencies), and all of a sudden you have a feedback loop which can cause you to burn a few extra Watts before you've even done anything.
Some scholars believe that Matthew and Luke were dependent on earlier sources. This proves that the Gospels were "edited over the centuries?"

You've pointed out one case where some scholars believe some information wasn't included. However, Mark is right there along side it with that information. Nothing was lost. It certainly wasn't the result of various edits over the centuries.

Also the supposition on Matthew's motives is just that, supposition. If he were synthesizing multiple texts and other oral sources, he likely wouldn't reproduce them all in their entirety.

And why are you citing wikipedia as a source?
> This reminded me of a dream I used to have of getting into the car, opening up the Chrome developer tools, and using Javascript to drive.

An aside.

Reading some of the hilarious comments here I am inclined to think they could be compiled into a bestselling nerd comic
Well if it's any consolation I don't think it's inevitable, just something to watch out for. In this case I think the problem and solution domains were poorly mapped.
The new license grant to others is nicely explicit on what permissions are granted on an unlicensed repo vs the old vague "you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories." Note that you CANNOT legally edit your fork of an unlicensed repo. That would be violating the original repos copyright.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service-dra...
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> Every single Advantage patient is enrolled in "oringinal medicare" parts A and B, the only difference is those parts are administered by private insurance

Again, it seems you're confused about what Medicare Advantage is. Medicare Advantage essentially replaces all Medicare coverage - parts A, B, and (usually) D. So no, Part C patients are not enrolled in Original Medicare in any sense. They are enrolled in Medicare, but not Original Medicare.

> Yes it's good but is has nothing to do with insurance creating the market conditions that created the drug coverage,

I'm not talking about drug coverage. Medicare Advantage provides a superior (in every measurable sense) way to obtain Part A and B benefits than Original Medicare does. That has nothing to do with drug coverage.

> its law and subsidies.

It's not a matter of "subsidies". Medicare Advantage is not subsidized by the government. The government pays private insurers a fixed amount that corresponds to what Original Medicare would "receive" for each patient, but that's not a subsidy. And when we say that Medicare Advantage outperforms Original Medicare on cost, we're saying that Medicare Advantage is able to achieve better outcomes for the same amount of money.

If you think that's just a fluke, then look at Medicaid. The same pattern holds with Medicaid, where privately managed plans again consistently outperform the government plans, even though the array of requirements differs widely.

> especially when you already minimized >80% of the patients get mandated drug coverage.

The drug coverage isn't "mandated" for Medicare Advantage patients, any more than it is "mandated" for Original Medicare patients who enroll in a Part D plan or a Medigap plan. Medicare Advantage patients who don't receive prescription coverage can get a Part D plan just like Original Medicare patients can.

Maybe you're trying to say that there's a beneficial selection occurring, but that's also wrong. Part D is well-segemented

That argument would basically boil down to "Medicare Advantage is only better than Original Medicare because most Medicare Advantage patients receive drug coverage", which makes no sense because (a) the same companies provide Medicare Advantage and Part D benefits (and oftentimes using same plans), and (b) Medicare Advantage provides superior coverage and quality (and at a lower price) when compared to Part D enrollees with the same prescription coverage.

Honestly, the existence of Part D is, if anything, proof positive of this effect, because it makes it so easy to tease out the difference between receiving Part A/B coverage through Original Medicare and receiving equivalent coverage through Medicare Advantage.

> Though it will become clearer as the insurance continues to consolidate and Medicare patients will only be able to go to doctors, hospitals and pharmacies owned by the insurer, because that's where it's going for Medicare Avantage patients

That's the way the entire industry is headed as a direct result of the ACA. But even that's still a lot better than Original Medicare where patients struggle to get appointments at all.
So shoot yourself in the foot and hope to fly? No, the tech will be ready when its ready. The production tech is not ready. Free electricity will always win in a free market, so there is literally no radical fight needed, or wanted. If you actually want influence, buy teslas, build solar panel building machines, refine electric motor and storage tech. Shutting down the infrastructure that gets you there is asinine and counter productive.