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As an example, wasn't Einstein a strong opponent to some of the weirder conclusions that would later be drawn by Quantum Physics? Even the brilliant people get stuck at some point (as you alluded to), and fresh perspectives are needed to make progress.

In addition, you don't get to pick who lives on and who doesn't. Think of all the people you would find to be very culturally backwards that would still be alive and hold a lot of power.

Getting to choose to live longer = good. I'm not trying to argue against that. I'm just trying to point out the benefits that natural death provides to society, because these benefits are something I personally plan to think carefully about as the choice to live longer and longer becomes an option.
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400k a year means the selling price would be about 4 million? How're your savings? I think that would be enough cushion to either seed your next thing or help you have the time to study and get up to speed for a 9 to 5.
Is it only because it doesnt fit with your opinions?

I am pretty broad with this.

Do you care to defend the military or football premise?
- i will admit i am extrapolating a little

What is your current position/job if i may ask?
Not all software is the same from a development perspective. Yet it seems our industry often talks of architectures and paradigms, as though they are applicable to all. Our media is filled with "what is best" and "what should I learn next".

Isn't it necessary to at least identify the type of software undertaking involved, in order to determine what architectural and programming approach should be used?
This is from servo codebase
- https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/components/domobj...

Take a look at this. It isn't as simple and clear as C/C++ for example and requires significant investment in parsing and understanding the code.
I can actually see this effect in my flat. I live in a fairly old building; it's been renovated and I really like it, but the location of the power plugs is the same as when it was constructed (except for one room in my flat). This means each socket is located at the entry of the respective room - the result being that I have extension cords all over the place. I especially find this interesting since this means the pattern of power consumption by "normal people" must have shifted drastically in the last 60-100 years.

On another note, the obvious parallels to software engineering tasks seem very interesting. This shows that ideas like YAGNI very much depend on a cost-benefit-calculation that's very dependend on variables like scale and the anticipated cost of changes.
Nonetheless, I agree that it's the best course of action.
>It's not like anyone is going to invent mythology-grade immortality and then chain you to a rock to be tormented by an eagle tearing at your liver.

You upload a brain into a computer and you might have exactly this.
Do the elderly really become conservative and rigid from mere age, though? How much of that process is driven by declining health and feelings of alienation from modern society? How much by the belief that people of significantly different ages can't have meaningful friendships? I have a hard time believing that we'd see the same patterns if 20-year-olds and 200-year-olds saw each other on the metro every day.
Front end doing MySQL? And PHP?

Isn't that full stack?
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On a facsimile reading of the text, it's pretty clear that Kraft has the upper hand. However, there are two wrinkles.

First, the elephant in the room is patent trolls and East Texas. It's pretty much the only reason that anyone cares about the case, and SCOTUS did explicitly ask Kraft if it should matter. The response was that Congress can do a better job.

The more important wrinkle, though, is that the law was amended and an intervening case (VE Holding), not held by the SCOTUS (and thus not binding precedent to SCOTUS) more or less overturns Fourco in its interpretation of the relevant text. This opens up room for unclear interpretation of the text, at which point legislative intent comes into play--and the legislative intent isn't exactly helpful. Kraft argues that the changes to the law in 2011 were meant to clarify the definitions of residency based on the ALI report--but the ALI report also recommended deleting 1400(b) (which is causing the confusion), which Congress did not do.

In the oral arguments, TC Heartland doesn't seem to me to have defended its interpretation well. It basically requires holding that VE Holding was bad case law and overturning 30 years of assumed precedent--which SCOTUS tends to be reluctant to do. On the other hand, TC Heartland did make a fairly compelling case that adopting its interpretation wouldn't bring down the end of the world for the judicial system. Kraft also seems to have slipped up in their defense--but, having the better prior case, it's not so problematic.

Basically, what it comes down to is if East Texas is worth influencing the decision process. There is ample judicial cover for deciding the case in either direction, although the narrow-venue case is somewhat more tortured.
I'm very interested in this topic, but I'd hold off on discussing until the other posts are out. The current post is largely just a summary of what future posts will say, and doesn't cover much by itself.
Why? There's no reason other than wishful thinking to expect that devoting substantially more resources would actually deliver significant life extension.
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. When I read it in the late 90s, I had already read complete accounts of world history and thought myself well-informed on the topic, yet virtually every chapter blew my mind.

The book is about the patterns that drive human history, both the written history that we know and the vast period of prehistory which we have a pretty good idea about these days due to genetics and linguistics. A recurring pattern has been people moving around, displacing less fortunate people. Further, Diamond looks for root causes to explain why some tribes or nations would gain an edge over their neigbours, and a lot of the explanation is ultimately found in technology and animal farming.

Before I read "Guns, Germs, and Steel", I had been under the impression that the world was a fairly static and ecologically stable place until the European age of discovery started uprooting everything. In reality it was nothing like that. Almost every strip of land is inhabited be people whose ancestors fought off other people, and cultures expanding beyond ecological sustainability and suddenly collapsing is a common event.

Runner-up: anything by Hunter S Thompson
A "chip"? So what's your answer to people who get physically ill when consuming alcohol? Don't get a job? Because in American drinking culture, they're going to look bad if they don't drink with everyone else at one of these stupid happy hours.

Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about people who don't participate in American drinking culture and binge drinking.
Samsung and Apple fought over rectangles. Nest and Honeywell fought over circles. Next up, spheres...

But in all seriousness, this is just rent seeking via the patent system.
Without Paywall: https://www.freewsj.com/articles/SB1000142405297020398660457...
Actually immigration was desperately needed by them to rebuild the country devastated by the ww2, that's was the only reason, we all know.

But children born there from those people who immigrated to reconstruct their country weren't considered German until jus soli citizenship be adopted (with caveats) only in 2000.

It is very normal to see in Berlin for example, German born people who aren't considered Germans, neither have citizenship, only because they are children of foreigners.
Just get rid of patents altogether, already:

http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm

(Titled "Anti-Copyright Resources", but in fact contains a lot of material relevant to patents, too.)
That is exactly its goal.
I used to work for a law firm as a programmer/analyst, after that DMCA and changes to patent and copyright laws, it is easy to just sue a small company until their court costs and attorney fees exceed their income and they have to settle out of court or reach an out of court settlement.

Disney and other companies like DC and Marvel wanted the Trademark law to keep getting modified so they still owned the rights to their characters and they would not go into public domain as our founding fathers wanted.

Yeah, this is legal bullying, sort of like taking the competitor and roll them in a rug and start beating them with bats until they give up.
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OK, so apparently one can not copyright one's face.[0] Because it's a "naturally created thing". Maybe one could design a new face, copyright it, and then have it created in situ. But that seems unlikely.

On the other hand, that also means that no other faces can be copyrighted. So with suitably advanced surgical methods, one could change faces periodically. Maybe even on a whim. Perhaps one could apply technology being developed for androids.

0) https://www.quora.com/Can-you-copyright-your-own-face

Edit: Gelatin prosthetics can be quite realistic: http://www.imgrum.org/media/1204871196470265504_2263538440
So, don't have a corporation inside of the US. Okay.

Hey MediaFire, go reincorporate in Ireland, seems to work wonders for everyone else.
And that's why he's talking about nuclear disarmament, right?

No?

Seems that Musk wants to be a superhero that saves humanity, but villains that actually exist aren't cool enough for him.
Minor nitpick: Lee Cheng left Newegg in late 2016 to be COO of Gibson Brands (the guitar company). He will not be "fighting" in his new role. [1]

[1]http://www.law.com/sites/almstaff/2016/10/03/outspoken-paten...
This is absolute madness.

Where this--and other troubling revelations from both the Surveillance State and the Deep State--leads us to is authoritarianism.

Once we're there, nothing will matter anymore. It will be the end of Western Civilization as we know it.
What this article fails to emphasize and report on is the amount of settlement payments and related legal expenses produced by cases filed with the EDT court.

I wouldn't be surprised if they would dwarf whatever remedies are awarded by the court to the plaintiffs.
The first SSDs were DRAM based and pretty fast for the time, see eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Y-MP. (SRAM, now used in CPU caches, was used for the whole main memory on that machine)
It mostly depends on what you want to do. If you want to try to beat the speed of the internet like some of the HFT stories you hear, you're going to want to cut as much fat out as you can. If you are more interested in doing some analysis of historic data where you don't care about speed so much, it's a lot easier to play around with things in a language like R or Python.
I disagree that having successful startups requires diversity. Israel is a counter example.
This article is from 2015 - could we get a date tag on the title?
Yes, compared to most of the previous national currencies; in the U.S. there also seem to be a number of variations of coin heads (for quarters at least). The coins in U.S. are smaller value so it does not matter as much.

The 1 and 2 euro coins are dual metal though, making the counterfeiting much less lucrative. The Finnish 10 mark coins also used to be dual metal; so I think was the French 10 franc coin; I don't recall if others had much security against counterfeiting.
Yes, you're correct, I think we shouldn't discuss this as a gender issue.

IMO you're mistaking correlation for causation. As you say yourself, changing current salary setup would affect both women and men. This is not gender issue and this should be discussed on other points than gender. Making it about gender is counter productive.

Looking at this form economical perspective, as long as we don't have objective way to measure programmer's productivity, I don't think we can get away from salary negotiations.
I hope this can also be used for meat 3d printing.
> Of course, those are "bad" decisions that save a few penny from the builders, and stay hidden until they surprise the building owner with a huge unpredictable cost.

Another case in point: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0UG0H720160102
Part of naturally-abundant lead is Pb-210 (Wikipedia says 'trace', but from my low-background colleagues many talks, Pb-210 is a persistent problem). Pb-210 is part of the uranium-thorium decay chain, and it has the longest halflife (22 yr) after thorium.

If someone refines lead, it pulls out almost all of the impurities, except, of course, lead. As Pb-210 is chemically almost indistinguishable from the rest of the lead isotopes.

If, however, someone many years ago refined the lead, much of the Pb-210 will have decayed, lowering the backgrounds. This effect is important enough that even 50-100 year old lead of reasonable quality is worth expending considerable resources to salvage. One group in our lab spent a couple of people-years removing mercury from contaminated 50-100 year old lead .

The really precious stuff is ancient Roman lead, detailed in the article, that was submerged beneath the ocean for millenia. Not only has the 210 contamination decayed almost completely, but it has been shielded from cosmic-ray re-activation.
I never got the brain upload style of immortality. I desire myself to live eternally, not a simulacrum or copy. What you're describing is a fancy way of creating, and then torturing, an AI.
I am not a profi coder, mostly a self community coordinator, but am with Rebol and Red since its beginning, so I do remember, what was said, and what not. As for the optimisation, recently a generated exe is kind of cca 4 times slower than C, if I remember correctly. With optimisations, it was said we should get into 1.5-2 territory, whereas anything below such numbers, would require quite extensive work. Please Red gurus correct me, if I remember it incorrectly ...
very frequent repost (at least 5 other times in the past 72 hours), and pure click-bait to boot. It is not heart tissue and it does not beat.
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All unions, as a general concept, tend toward corruption. Just like corporations do. The concept itself is flawed. But flawed does not mean it shouldn't exist.
Hm, I have mild astigmatism as well, but I've never explored whether or not I could get dailies. Good to know.
> But I don't think pure FP is really all that complex. It's mostly just different.

I can't help but think that people who say this, yourself included, just don't deal with the problems that I face on a regular basis.

I write a lot of games and game engine code. I might have 60 dynamic objects in the game, each of which with its own behaviors, state and physics. Object oriented code means that the functionality for each object has both inherited and specialized behavior.

And when you're working with those dynamic objects, the "information hiding" aspect of OO programming can be very useful. Some objects have a member variable; others have an accessor that pulls the value out of a child class. I use that to good effect in my current game.

Or I might be parsing a map that I need to iterate over a rectangle in the map. But sometimes it's a hex map; ever tried to iterate over a hex map? Saying map.iterateRect(iterator, x,y,w,h) or equivalent, and not having to know whether the map is rectangular or hexagonal is very nice.

Functional programming is great when you have a lot of generic functions that you can apply to lots of different kinds of data. Object oriented programming ... is good for UI and game development, and anything else where the functions you're writing are very tailored to the data, where polymorphism can map well to the problem, and where you have lots of variations of kinds of data, but fewer (or less complex, or more specialized) things to do with the data.
Basically, smoke is composed of two components, gases and particulate solids. The gases leave your lungs when you exhale, while some of the solids remain, and cause cancer and other bad things. The concentration of particulate solids is many orders of magnitude greater in tobacco smoke than marijuana smoke, which is why the smell of tobacco smoke will persist in an enclosed space for years, while the smell of marijuana smoke completely dissipates after only a few hours.
Yeah, terms like "machine learning" and "AI" have basically become buzz words which, to most laymen, probably encourage the idea that we're on the cusp of creating Data from Star Trek.

Unfortunately, the reality is that.... sorry... it's mostly just statistical algorithms based around regression and intermediate calculus. State-of-the-art "deep" neural networks are not really anything like the absurdly parallel, asynchronous biological networks that power our neo-cortex - rather, they're basically an application of matrix multiplication designed to "learn" a function by iteratively minimizing an error value using gradient descent. It's still very unclear what, if anything, this algorithm has in common with how a human brain actually operates. It turns out that these kind of statistical algorithms can work pretty well when you have petabytes of data to learn from. But we're still not anywhere near the unsupervised learning capabilities demonstrated by a human infant.
The singularity cult is real. The geek rapture will occur when they blog about someone else making God in a Box hard enough to drown out the normal charlatans. Please fund their blogging, it is the most impactful way you can spend your money.
I don't know a single person in the german tech industry who gives a shit about where you are from, did you ever live there at all?

It doesn't seem to me that immigrants are welcome in the USA either as a whole (disclaimer: i am german working for a NYC company), but the tech community is different there, more open and interested in what you can offer instead of how you look.

It's basically the same from my very own experience, your whole argument seems non sense to me, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne for example are one of the most diverse cities i have ever been to especially when i compare it to South East Asia where i currently life.
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I hear that R/Python's role in the project is initial modelling and testing. You train trading algorithms in R or Python, then deploy them in a C/C++ algorithm for speed.
I feel like this could also use DNS for backend or devops
Hey, another Sydneysider here (currently based in China), did some early implementations with LXC, eg. https://github.com/globalcitizen/lxc-gentoo (in US) and talked with the IBM guys at that time.

Nitpicks: About ~9min in your talk on a user namespace slide you talk about device creation restrictions implying it is linked to user namespaces but I am pretty sure that is the device cgroup's job and it's possible to bugger that up if you're not careful. Similarly at 19:50 or so I believe the statements about things not working only apply to some container systems, eg. IIRC mknod can be allowed and controlled on a per-major:minor basis via the device cgroup.

Another security area I looked at was docker grsec incompatibilities, eg. https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/20303 though didn't get closure despite suggesting what IMHO seems a decent fix. Meh.

Re: ~32:50 + crystal balling: My personal impression is that the whole container based infrastructure / development trend will continue to snowball in to larger devops solutions that automatically secure systems in many ways (via cgroup configurations, kernel security toolkit policies such as syscall and device whitelisting, readonly path lockdowns, network traffic and bandwidth restrictions, etc.) over the next few years. Existing tools like atime, fsnotify and network traffic dumps should make this pretty easy. IMHO it should be a natural progression for obtaining low hanging security enhancements currently unused due to configuration complexities. It will be basically enabled through decent workflow (ie. CI/CD + testing), and may result in a "safe CFLAGS"-like set of aggressiveness presets for new services. Thought this out and implemented to some extent while at Kraken (~2011-2015). (Now working on a more hardware/mech eng. related business and am not longer spending time in the area. Down for a drink next trip though, email in profile!)
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First, I don't think any of those greats had such a specific vision as this as an inevitable future:

"functionally merge with our engineered system in a symbiotic way and then probably see the extinction of the human species"

You can probably find quotes that will confirm your belief, but from a neutral viewpoint there is no such consensus between these people about the future.

Secondly, even if there was, we have 60+ years more experience than they did with these systems, and we should be able to make better predictions than they did.

There are many potential future outcomes, and it's reasonable to think about them and to try to mitigate certain possibilities. It's not reasonable to say that a certain outcome is inevitable and you know what's going to happen. We just don't.
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Wow, you are unfamiliar with retail. Sure, you can probably steal small things, but repeatedly stealing larger objects (book size and above) is generally a pain in the ass. Hence why Costco & Sams Club make better targets than average stores, its much easier to throw something in the cart of high value and slip it by.

Booster bags will be a major issue for Amazon's stores if they ever launch this.
In a hypothetical world where evolution doesn't care about morals and therefore doesn't make sure to only create differences in morally insignificant features, how would you be able to tell what is "systemic discrimination" and what is the state of genetic differences across groups?

Is the second also systemic discrimination? Can Joe the Down syndromer talk about systemic discrimination in having no chance at being the POTUS?
There's no free lunch when it comes to genetics. If it was possible to be a lot smarter without negative consequences then we probably would have evolved it already. Most likely there are some downsides such as increased risk of depression, autism, schizophrenia, etc.
Yes, a message format. What I would add is, that today ppl are using JSON, not realising, that it is de-facto a Rebol, or at least strongly inspired by Rebol. Well - who wants to use cryptic formats anyway, right? :-)
Isn't it a general principle that, if two provisions are contradictory, the more specific one counts?

I also don't think it's quite fair to characterise anything but textual originalism as "interpretation through the lens of policy decisions". In this case one could, for example, argue that that an interpretation which renders parts of the law completely useless (1391 in this case) is illegitimate, at least if the act that created the ambiguity could have also eliminated it. it would also seem proper to err on the side of the earlier legislation simply as a mechanism to encourage better legislation.

I wouldn't even agree, but it's usually the conservative argument that judges shouldn't try to fix laws when they're poorly drafted (c.f. the last Obamacare case at SC).
A lot of israelis come to Berlin btw. and vice versa - there's a whole kind of exchange from .il and .de tech workers, not too ure why but i think both sides find the other side interesting.

A lot of people in Berlin i know are tech guys from tel aviv.

http://www.jpost.com/Metro/Start-up-Berlin-472928 seems to be quiet a common thing.
The boy in question was 5, at that age he don't care about girls yet. Girls his age don't care about his dancing.

Yes, girls want things that belong to girls. But grandma won't buy boy lego even of kid wants it and ask for it. And definitely not randomly for birthsday or something.