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Is The Guardian good enough for you?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/25/uk-must-lea...
I note that a motorcycle's selling price is not part of its inherent value, and Pirsig was the one who brought that up. I fully agree that there's a certain type of value that a motorcycle lacks when it doesn't work; but then that screw isn't worth "exactly the selling price" of the motorcycle, it's worth the type of value that the motorcycle doesn't currently have.
If private jets are an alternative you can as well pay Fedex/UPS/DHL to transport the laptop. Insured and cheaper than private jets.
I agree that there's a tricky calculus involved in some scenarios, but I think there's a much wider domain of not-at-fault scenarios where autonomous vehicles should be able to surpass humans unambiguously. Example: an autonomous car being tailgated by a human-driven car, with a stop sign or light up ahead. Different braking patterns have different likelihoods of causing an accident.

Autonomous cars really have to be able to handle these scenarios at least as good as, and ideally better than, humans: there's not a complicated split-second balancing act to worry about.
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The problem with Infowars or any other fringe source, is that they are right often enough. Sure obama didnt turn the frogs gay, but there were plenty of other factual stories covered in a factual way, before being spun into insanity. But you could argue many msm outlets also have very variable scruples, depending on the subject.

Ie. Infowars is generally poor quality, but not always false. I only read it for a giggle on occasion fwiw.
Right. I meant that potentially they consulted lawyers / evaluated the law before making the claim. I have no idea if it is legal in Russia (and they may not either) but the quote seemed to be a statement which if levied at RU; hopefully has something backing it up
Awesome :) Minor nit, the grammar you're currently missing an article. It should be "Cleaning the first 1,000 emails is free!"
I think the book "Book from the Ground" by Xu Bing shows what can be done with an emoji-only format. I found the book on a whim at a used book store, and found it a fascinating "read".

Excerpts: http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/always-pioneer-artist-xu-bi...
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You seem to be missing the nuance. Krugman's over-arching point was that cutting taxes on the rich doesn't boost the economy. His point about Clinton wasn't to say that raising taxes boosted the economy. All else being equal, it makes no sense to assert that raising taxes would provide an economic boost. Raising taxes removes money from the economy; the expectation would be that that would slow the economy.

Krugman's point was that if supply-side economics were true, only cutting taxes should boost the economy and raising taxes should cause a disaster. Clinton raised taxes and what actually happened was that the economy did great. Therefore, the prediction of disaster was clearly, indisputably wrong.
Also, Facebook's recent stock plan reportedly includes a clause that allows him to maintain control of the company if he serves in government:

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/zucks-sure-acting-like-someone...
It's pathetic how he keeps blaming the neighbor without any proof at all. He even claims to have had no complaints, yet the neighbor told him he "didn't like the damn thing".

Seems like the drone flier was the real asshole here. Someone probably got fed up with it and finally took action.

Yes, firing a gun in the air is incredibly dangerous and illegal all on its own. There was no excuse for it.

But there's also no excuse for this guy bothering his neighbors with it just because they can't stop him. Or at least, he thought they couldn't.
Had the same sentiment in my post but got down voted and flagged. Called out the thousands of globalist who will use Google's power to censor content they deem unfit for the public to see. This is a systemic problem in silicon valley.
Well, I got a good book recommendation out of the deal.
Competitors that don't know where Phoenix, AZ is, I suppose.
>To me, that's probably why they care about this so much, because if your kids asks "are dinosaurs real" to Google Home, replying "no" is a big big failure. It's honestly better if it doesn't say anything than a straight out lie.

I'd rather not have Google make decisions like that for me.
Don't google cars drive on a limited number of preplanned routes with a very low speed ceiling?

That is more cautious, but that doesn't, on its own, suggest better tech. That is that the Google cars are actually safer, more advanced, etc.
That would encourage spending, resulting in higher circulation of wealth. I think this could actually have a very positive effect on societies.
Good read. I contacted Solar City about going solar at home and after their hour quote pitch thing they did I told them no as they were too expensive. I now get called at least twice a week to see if I would be willing to talk to them again about the possibility of going solar. This was 6 months ago now.
Nope. Just look at the amount of boards CEO's of different companies sit on. It's staggering.
Informally, sending a question via legal avenues is a good way for a company to go into "Our lawyers will be in touch, we can't say anything more on advice of counsel" mode - if you think a question can be satisfactorily resolved without lawyers (and I'd hope that "can you follow the rules" is a question that most people can answer with "yes"), everything will be more pleasant on all sides if the company doesn't go into lawyers-only mode.

Formally, neither the (US) legal code nor the zlib license says that you need to contact a violating company via some particular channel. A company is a single legal entity, and if you've contacted them somehow, you've contacted them, and they're now willfully violating the license.

Practically, abuse@ seems wrong; that's likely to reach an abuse department (which is just a specific support role that's empowered to do a specific subset of tasks), not a legal department.
Thanks for the explanation and the video!
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For those who enjoyed "ZenATAOMM", I found another in a similar vein: "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work"

"...author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a wonderfully articulated call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world."

https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp...
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As long as there's one country in Schengen which is not affected it doesn't make sense. You could just drive to that country and fly from there. Unless it's based on different security procedures. But in that case the US could give that information to the affected countries so that they can act instead of being banned.
I think there's an interesting question here that I haven't really seen discussed: Is it the responsibility of Google/Facebook to filter out "fake news"?

Obviously both of them already do some content filtering for illegal content etc. but where do we draw the line? Personally I think it's unfair to be blaming them, considering they never claimed to filter this type of content. Also, if it is decided that they should be responsible, how do you determine what is and isn't fake? Seems like a dangerous thing to be in charge of.

edit: since it took me so long to finish typing this, everyone is now asking similar questions. whatever
My Biology professor wrote the textbook he used in his class. And on the first day of class he gave each student who had purchased a new copy a cash refund on his author's royalty.
Not that I would be likely to shoot at anything, but if I were shooting down a drone, I'd probably use a 12-gauge filled with birdshot. Assuming the shooter in this case chose similarly, then falling projectile damage is extremely unlikely. Possibly some eye injury if it landed just so, but looking at the sparse terrain this drone was flying over (if representative), it's hard to say whether or not shooting at the drone was dangerous per se.

Edit: Looking at the image[1] of the affected drone, it doesn't really look like a BB from a shotgun. It still could be, but it does look more like a .22 hole to me.

[1] - https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Photo...
> Did he pick a new belief system?

No, not a particularly belief system. He just made a FB post stating that "religion is very important" to him. Previously, he was on the record as stating that he was an atheist.

He'll prob embrace Judaism - that will probably fly a bit better with middle America than Bhuddhism.
"leek"

What is this, The Onion? :)
Sure! I'll change that now. Check back in 5 mins.
Lot more regulation.
Because any HN discussion that mentions the W-word will inevitably devolve into discussion of the controversial man
There is never a general consensus on pretty much everything. Today's news problem is less with verifiable facts, and more with interpretations of facts. If I was a politician and someone snapped a picture of me reading Mein Kamph, and then I was in the general vicinity of some nutjob, most opinion hosts are going to forge ahead with a narrative that aligns with their ideology. Pretty much all of the popular shows on CNN, MSNBC, FOX are filled with these kinds of idiot know-it-all blowhards.
I often wish there existed a 'student course materials bill of rights'. At a minimum, it would require professors to indicate which version(s) of the texts are acceptable, and would require them to provide this information ~2 weeks before the start of the term, allowing students time to order used books online.

The current-1 edition of a textbook, purchased used on Amazon, is often 25-50% of the cost of the new textbook in the college bookstore...

Of course, open-source textbooks would be even better.
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That sounds more like you mixed in humanism, which is not nessarrily inherent to globalism. Globalism is usually tied almost explicitly to economics and trade. They are related, but distinct.
I'm not sure I follow your argument here... it seems to me that you would be getting three independent signals on each eye, thus the perception would be effectively a 6-dimensional color space.
I'm pretty okay with the shoe being on the other foot with regards to literal fictionmongers like Alex Jones on the Internet.

The problem isn't that Infowars won't be ranked highly for news queries, the problem is exactly what GP said and what you glossed over: SV/academia people, who are overwhelmingly left-leaning (by location if nothing else), are not impartial arbiters of factuality.

And it's not like anyone is, but only the SV/academia types are getting input here.

That is a problem.

There is no way, none, that this won't be used against factual news with a conservative bent. I'd wager my
entire net worth on it.

Eropple, please stop deleting your comments. You've done it twice now, and it makes having a conversation very difficult. Many of us are using a notification service and so your words remain in email inboxes.
I own a drone and am acutely aware of people's unease about what is essentially a flying camera.

The surveillance implications of it being disallowed to disable an intrusive drone are worrying - while I'd be v unhappy if my expensive drone was shot down it is a worry if that was completely illegal. The snooping realities of drone/cameras in the wrong hands are pretty bad, from burglars scoping out targets and peeping toms all the way up to state spying on citizens.

I don't have any answers on this, but it seems our legislation is suddenly very out of date...
You have to buy a new Macbook and if you don't have your own insurance, you'll be paying for it out of your own pocket.

Here's United's liability clause, showing that their liability is around $500 if they lose your entire 50 lb bag, but if you lose just a laptop, good luck proving that they are liable... and if you do, maybe they'll give you $18 for your 3 lb laptop:

For international travel to which the Warsaw Convention applies (including domestic portions of international travel), United's liability is limited to approximately $9.07 USD/CAD per pound up to $640.00 USD/CAD per bag for checked baggage and $400.00 USD/CAD per customer for unchecked baggage.

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/baggage/liab...
> The outfall is that it led to bad PR for self-driving cars.

Bad PR? Example? I haven't seen much negative spin on self-driving cars in mainstream coverage recently. If anything it's been highly optimistic while still being honest by mentioning the difficulties the companies are trying to overcome.

I don't think people are under-estimating the challenge here, even the layman. But the potential ROI when it does work would dramatically be safer, environmentally friendly, and efficient with human time.

Given the current state of driving is highly dangerous, we'd benefit from iterative progress towards self-driving cars, ala what Tesla is doing. Controlling risks doesn't have to mean holding tech back until it's perfected.
Anything not backed by sources? And again, the article doesn't say they are "removing" fake news, Google's just being more pick with their "rich snippets". If something is controversial, then you probably don't want to have Google straight out saying "X is true" or "Y is true", unless you have strong evidence about either.

In the actually search results, I get to see a dozen links with probably varying answers, but for something like Google Home which only reads the top one, I'd rather get no answer at all than a potentially wrong one.
The real question is whether it is appropriate for a government to be using weapons of war against its own civilian populace, in direct violation of human rights and constitutional prohibitions.
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Ah, sure. Is the complaint that they make that readily available to some set of people? It'd be silly to not expect them to have rider history in general
Only if it can be proven. That's why vehicle firmware should be open source, so the public can know exactly what kind of risks they take.
With all due respect you were a consultant for 8 months at Returnpath and know nothing about why that deal didn't happen and you certainly weren't important enough there to know anything about the equity structure of the company. Returnpath is also a data company that buys companies for data collected from services provided to the user. Ask Josh Baer. That's why they bought his company.

Also spreading unfounded rumors about data storage practices you know zero about is really irresponsible.
Exactly this. College books is a scam but the $500 you pay a semester isn't the reason college costs $50K per year. This seems a PR move to say they are trying something but like most things.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -Upton Sinclair
I thought it was unnecessary as well. I assume Bloomberg knows their audience and if that's not something their readers know I guess it makes sense to include it.
The large print says to keep your hands on the steering wheel and be prepared for the autopilot to fail or disengage at any time. I don't see how this is promising a self-driving car?
Stuff that's from conservative-leaning sources can be accepted just fine, so long as it's anti-Trump. So for example really dubious claims from Louise Mensch, a conservative who thinks Russia is involved in literally everything, are fairly widely accepted. Likewise, people were quite happy to take Glenn Beck at his word as soon as he came out against Trump. It's bizarre.
c2.com ("Pattern Portland Repository's Wiki" or "WikiWikiWeb") is the original Wiki and where the term "Wiki" originates. It's been running since 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb

Have some respect!
They already use these bomb detectors on some bags with random checks. Apparently these scanners can detect any residue of explosives. Why not make it compulsary for all laptops? Should be impossible to transform a laptop into a bomb without creating some residue.

Or are they concerned that people use batteries as bombs? In that case you could just use several phones instead.
Can you find this notice in their distribution? I have looked in their client UI and in their client tar.gz but I cannot find anything. I can however easily find my project in there (I would think the license would be nicely placed where the sources are).
I think you're making it too black-and-white. It isn't that there's no motivation if there's a safety net, or even UBI. It's that there's decreased motivation.

Even then, I'm not sure it really matters at this point. I'm astounded by how fast things are changing throughout my life. If that slowed down, I don't think it'd really be a bad thing.
Heh, in my country we had state funded open source textbooks. Then right wing took over and they scrapped everything just like that.
It's better than assaulting the owner of the obnoxious thing. That would certainly put you on the wrong side of the law; but shooting the thing out of the way might be an acceptable way of defending your privacy. The courts haven't spoken, sooner or later they'll have to.
> It's pathetic how he keeps blaming the neighbor without any proof at all. He even claims to have had no complaints, yet the neighbor told him he "didn't like the damn thing".

Nothing pathetic. Theory of least surprise. He stood near the position the thing was shot. No one else was directly visible. He is armed. He didn't like the drone. Is this proof? No. Is it pathetic to assume it? Also no.

> Seems like the drone flier was the real asshole here.

And you know this because ...?

> But there's also no excuse for this guy bothering his neighbors with it just because they can't stop him. Or at least, he thought they couldn't.

Yeah, because it is a good idea to allow any idiot to do whatever he wants if he doesn't like something.
Consulting depends on the depth and quality and relevance of the consultants professional network. The measurement of each of those is "do they lead to good consulting gigs that pay well?" And by 'pay well' I mean that the checks come quickly and clear and are large. Generally speaking, nothing else matters.

The idea that consulting is working for one's self can be a bit misunderstood. Yes, a consultant works for themselves in the sense that they don't get twenty paid vacation days a year and an iPhone with unlimited data and subsidized health insurance. But a consultant works for their clients and does what they want and has no bureaucratic excuses for not doing so. When the client likes green, it's green or something better and when the client likes ponies, it's a pony or something better. And here the only measure of something better is by the client and the consultant is responsible for showing them the thing they think the client might find better and the consultant has to live with all those times that the client still wants a green pony.

My random advice from the internet is don't quit a day job until the contracts are signed and retainer checks have cleared.

Good luck.
The definition isn't difficult: the dissemination of news stories that are known by the author to be false, or something, would work well enough.

The problem is identifying the fake news, which isn't something people are going to ever agree on fully. You can use a reputational test, which works well for keeping out the Alex Jones-level stuff, but it's not going to keep out stuff like like mainstream media promulgating stories about Al Quida working with Saddam Hussein, or Iraq having chemical weapons, or something.
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And 100 years later humans still do stupid things in traffic (not to mention they also "crash" - fall asleep, get strokes, whatever). Why does a computer driver have to be flawless when human drivers are anything but?
There's a huge difference in being "inconsiderate", and being a dangerous criminal, shooting a drone like that.

And yes, I said dangerous. If the drone had landed on someone, that someone could be dead.
I've read his Mythical Man Month book, including parts of the anniversary / silver jubilee edition, but it's been a while. A couple of questions:

- Was the toolsmith idea about some people in the team building tools, that others in the team use for the project? - and if so, what was the benefit cited - specialization?

- What was the second system effect about? I know I can google, but interested to read your take on it first.
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There is a lot of hand-wringing about the exact definition that I think is mostly unnecessary. Yes, there are a fair few edge cases, but most of 'fake news' is pretty easy to spot. Examples include the Pizzagate nonsense, the Bowling Green crazyness, anti-vaccine insanity, Race-war baiting, Holocaust denial, etc. Those last two probably make up the lion's share of easy to spot gibberish, but I'm not counting. Likely 90% of 'fake news' is that simple to catch, even to those who are medically mentally handicapped. It's the last 10% that all the worrying is about, as well we should. But don't think that the large majority of 'fake news' has any credence whatsoever.
> It really astounded me that we had to pay a third-party for-profit company to get access to our homework.

Isn't a publisher a third-party for-profit company? If you need to buy a book for a class to read and do homework in order to pass the class, that's okay right? So, why is it wrong to expect someone to do the same thing digitally?
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