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> You stated that the claim of a Japanese narrative of their own superiority was fiction.

I did not.

> I linked to an article that directly demonstrated the existence of, and examined the effects of, that exact narrative.

You may have linked to an article that directly demonstrated that, but since I did not state that the claim of a Japanese narrative of their own superiority was fiction, whether or not your article demonstrates that is irrelevant.

> Given that you consider that "irrelevant,"

It is irrelevant since I did not say that "the claim of a Japanese narrative of their own superiority was fiction". I did not even say anything remotely similar to that.

> I agree that I will not convince you of your incorrectness

You will not be able to convince me of my incorrectness in saying something which I did not say. Since I did not even say the thing that you claimed me to have done, it is very hard for me to become convinced that I was or am incorrect about what you claim I said. The only logical way out of this conundrum is for you to go back to what I wrote, and notice that I didn't say what you seem to think I did.

> since there is clearly no good faith or intelligent discussion to be had with you.

Now, if you have a new-found desire for an intelligent discussion, the jumping off point for you, to try to make your future discussions more intelligent, is to actually read the words the other person has written, then respond to them. If you respond to something the other person has not written, that will not result in an intelligent discussion. The failure of intelligence here is not the failure of the other person to say something intelligent, but a failure of yours to read the other person's words.
I don't think the quality of a product itself says anything about its current or projected uptake. There are great products that don't do well.

(Just to be clear, I'm not making any claim here about their level of uptake)
This is race trolling. We ban accounts that do things like that, so please don't do anything like that again.

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Centralized is never on the way out. It just makes everything so easy.

I don't like it, but saying that anything centralized is on the way out is just wishful thinking.
He literally writes these things but none of it really suggests your analogy. 'Controller = start menu' seems particularly iffy.
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Exactly. These questions are silly even if you substituted a fully sentient human. Should your butler prevent you from making mistakes?
So the analysis focuses on a single variable: cost, specifically the inflation-adjusted price of one “unit.” (A “unit” is itself sometimes a fluid concept in a rapidly changing field. Consider what “one transistor” meant in 1969, and what it meant in 2005.) So, for example, recasting Moore’s Law to translate computing power into unit cost morphed the familiar “computing power doubles every 18 months” into “transistor costs drop by 50 percent every 1.4 years.”

(Wright's Law is surprisingly hard to google)

source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurem...
What happened to academic philosophy lol.
I think marcosdumay already explained it pretty well.

> I would have described SQL as statically typed because columns are given a type when created.

Both statically and dynamically is a misnomer because it's akin to something more in-between - like a dynamic language which can create, say, an empty list and declare it can only contain integers.

Just quickly though - I believe static typing helps productivity, because you don't have wait for some edge case in your program (in this case infrequently invoked query, since SQL is often embedded in other language) to fail. There are other benefits, like Quickcheck.

I think better term (which would explain the distinction between schema creation and query compilation) would be static typechecking of queries against the schema.

> The issue arises with multiple tables

In general, SQL is quite adhoc in what it lets you do, and anything more complicated you need to resolve with code generation (for example running same query over different tables). It's very hard to reuse SQL code. That's ugly, and functional languages offer a better solution - high-order functions. I think what I really want is to deal with schema (and other things, such as result set) as first-class types.

I think the language should be functional, but also total (every function will finish, no recursion allowed), to make it easy for compilers (query engines).
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The Princess Bride, a 1973 fantasy romance novel written by William Goldman..
> People laughed at Seymour Papert in the 1960s, more than half a century ago, when he vividly talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity, innovation, and "concretizing" computational thinking.[1]

[1] http://papert.org/
> will mean that everyone gets to use the newest and greatest algorithms

There are no such newest and greatest algorithms that are private and covered by patents. This is an illusion.
>There's a reason some ideas are left unexplored by industry.

But your argument essentially boils down to "We haven't yet discovered an effective delivery method, therefore this technique will never work".

Isn't that one of the basic problems facing all clinical genetic modification research? Is it unreasonable to assume that this problem could be solved by some future breakthrough, or does it somehow violate the laws of physics? If so, should we then discard all basic science research in this field because there is no clear route to market?
Google's Project Fi wireless service prefers WiFi whenever it can right out of the box. That coupled with rock bottom prices & the ability to hop onto whichever network you like make it the best mobile provider around imo [just a user, no affiliation]
Import tax from China would solve these issues.
Tesla doesn't announce monthly sales numbers, and Bolt sales are basically terrible.
> Even in the event of another crash specific to the tech industry, I guarantee I'd have an easier time getting another job out here compared to flyover country.

In the event of a tech crash you're better if in nearly any major city outside of SV where even tech companies are based around more "blue chip" industries.
That video adresses a bunch of the issues noted. It briefly shows provisioning, the editor, deployment, issue tracking in action, and the narrator overviews the vision & reasoning. It should be touted more prominently.
It sounds like Foucault's concept of a "discursive formation", basically a Kuhn-style paradigm. Foucault was interested in the social conditions and context that enable certain statements to be uttered, and interpreted as meaningful.

More broadly, Nozick's focus shifted away from logical proof as a form of argument, the hallmark of Anglo-American Analytic philosophy. It seems to shift to a more Continental (European) style, in which philosophers point to patterns, aiming to evoke insights (e.g. Foucault and more recently Žižek).
That is unduly personal. We've asked you many times not to be uncivil on HN. This process may not seem finite but it is, and ends in getting banned if you don't fix this.

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Thanks, but I don't follow how that comment addresses my question. Is it that cost of constructing Cap'n Proto / Protobuf is quite a bit higher than constructing objects defined natively?
Superficially, it looks like an 80's Asteroid type game connected to a vast procedurally generated universe, with a SC2 style hyperspace. But I want to emphasize things that can produce emergence. Like procedurally generated tech trees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w

I want to implement an artificial life simulation system to produce an ecology/ecosystem on which the economic system will be based. There will be trading, but instead of trucking the goods yourself, you'll be nominating and paying for others to transport it. (But if you come along and "ride shotgun" and win battles, your piracy losses will decrease.) I want to let users craft and script everything, then sell/license those to other players.

The power of the players will increase exponentially as they go off into space, but the power of enemies will also increase exponentially, with a larger constant. The leaderboards will be based entirely on how far out in unknown space you can camp and survive.

https://www.emergencevector.com

Right now, the procedural universe and some combat are all that's up in the demo.
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This seems like one of those cases where the amount of heat coming off the subject is so large relative to the actual event, and the difference in arguments so narrow, that there must be some deeper unspoken motivation.

I don't believe the people making these arguments against Tuvel have chosen their position because of those arguments. I think there is some other political/power-oriented motivation, and the arguments are used instrumentally.

Any thoughts on what that source motivation might be? I have some notions but I don't know this sphere in detail.

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Just speculating, one might think the academics want to avoid any change that would weaken the power the social justice race-guilt narrative has to control white men. They're afraid that if transracialism becomes accepted, whites will identify as non-whites to claim their privileges (e.g. affirmative action, argumentative deference, etc).

Just imagine millions of white men identifying as mixed-race and then everyone having to accept that on pain of being called racists or transracialphobic. That's a nightmare scenario for the social justice crowd because it takes away their main permanent advantage in the culture wars: the ability to call people racist.

But... that would seemingly also apply to transgenderism. So why the difference?

Maybe transgenderism isn't considered a threat because identifying as a woman is too much of a jump for a normal man. A dude doesn't want to act like a woman, even if it helps him get hired at Intel. It would ruin his status and sexual appeal. You have to dress like a woman, and maybe even take hormones. It's just too weird. But simply identifying as mixed-race would be much easier for a man to do without changing any behavior or losing status. (Heck, I've met lots of white->black quasi-transracial kids from the suburbs who love gangsta rap... They're halfway there already.)

At the same time, the academics may like transgenderism because it helps to weaken the public belief in traditional gender roles. It's perfect social constructionism: If everyone can be a man/woman, man/woman have no roles, no characteristics, nothing. Masculine and feminine become no more than fashion statements. Transracialism lacks this "advantage" because the notion of racial social roles was already rightly destroyed a long time ago.

This feels like a rough thesis though.
If I'm reading this right, the context still says that one should not give up their rights in exchange for safety. If it was strictly pro defense, he would've taken the money and given up on governance.

Having tax authority is essential for the government, and it shouldn't give it up for the sake of temporary defence money; privacy is essential to citizens, and shouldn't be given up for temporary protection from terrorists.

Prescriptivist linguistics is pretty silly though -- words mean what people use them fo
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I used to sort of laugh at this kind of thing. Ok, people who believe weird things are fighting with each other.

Then they relabeled every bathroom in California as being "All Gender." What does that even mean? There are two genders. Sometimes, people from one gender decide to identify with another gender. Fine. Men who believe they are women can go in the women's room and vice versa. No need to invent the concept of "all gender."

So now I no longer find this funny. I read about transracialism and now I am worried this is also going to become mainstream and I am going to get publicly persecuted for questioning that as well.

America has lost it's mind. Really.

When do we actually start pushing back against this and begin saying: "No, you can't be transracial, that is a dumb idea and this is an idiotic thing to even entertain and I am not going to allow you to pretend this is real science."

Now would be good.
Please don't post ideological talking points to HN. The combination of that and lack of other substance in the comment amounts to trolling, as this subthread demonstrates.
Gender balance is a good thing for the economy and our future as a nation. With that in mind, it makes sense to "promote" fields to women where they are a minority and promote fields to men where they are a minority.

At the same time, while we address the imbalances, we should be careful not to scare off people by making things sound worse then they are. Welcome people rather than shame people into acceptance. It's not easy and will not happen overnight.

Keep in mind, women can do quite well even in societies where women are exposed to greater patriarchy --India, Russia, China. It would seem clear it's also a cultural issue --i.e. as a culture women don't see (to use a phrase) "STEM" as a necessary ticket out but also it's not ingrained yet as good or cool enough to make people _want_ to go into those fields rather than say social sciences.
Surface products would probably do better if they were sold world wide.
> The point of advertising is to convince people to make purchasing decisions that they wouldn't have otherwise made, which is almost always damaging financially.

That's not really true. People purchase things because they decide that the benefit is worth the cost. Advertising makes people pick one brand over another when they already plan to buy something, and it helps sway someone's decision when they're not sure if it's worth buying. It also brings their attention to products that they wouldn't otherwise have known about. But this sort of advertising is almost never "damaging financially", unless you think the act of buying something counts as financial damage.
wait... transRACIAL?!?

how is that a thing?
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Having grown up near Cleveland, I'll take the weather of San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, LA over that of Cleveland.

The weather is what keeps me in the SF Bay Area despite the traffic congestion and high cost of living. Being able to bike to work nearly every day of the year goes a long way toward making up for heavy traffic.
Why is it so difficult to simply give credit where it's due? There are plenty of countries that take huge amounts of assistance that fail all day long. Would you also attribute American success to the spoils of war, colonialism, Manifest Destiny and African slavery, etc.?
> Fanatical resistance by the military, both due to their own racist ideals and out of the fear for self-preservation drew the war and the surrender out longer than it needed to be.

That doesn't seem to be what you were originally arguing:

> It's odd how [Japan "fighting and fighting and fighting"] is portrayed as a negative aspect of Japan's militarism, when the Allies were fighting the same war with the same attitude.
I'm not sure how it works exactly, but Google's own cellular company, Google Fi, promotes the fact that they use WiFi when available, even for phone calls, but can switch quickly to cell when needed. Phone calls are not interrupted when switching. I especially like this setup because my cellular reception is poor at work, but I can use my employer's WiFi to receive calls and data. Phone call clarity is better on WiFi than cellular but sometimes there is a bit of lag that reminds me of calling overseas using geosynchronous satellite connections in the 90's.

Great prices also. Since I'm almost always using WiFi, the $20 a month for global unlimited text and phone calls with a $10/gig data rate means I only spend about $25 a month for my smartphone service. You can only use a subset of Google phones, but I find my Nexus 5x fits my needs. I also always get Android updates right away, if I want to install them.
I run windows 10 on my macbook 12" because it works 99% of the time. And battery life is better.
I agree but would say a 300 mile range is where the tipping point will be for most people, unless we have a much more dense supercharger network. I haven't been driving anywhere near 300 miles in a single day in the last year and I wouldn't expect to do it without one stop at a gas station, restaurant or rest area. But 200 miles is well within what one does in a strech without stopping, and I've probably done 200 miles in a single day 10 times in the last year.
Terry Myerson demonstrates a PC management app which streamlines setup at around 24 min into the video at http://event.microsoft.com/MayEvent/. The demonstrations look promising.
Maybe if there was a system where consumers could identify the wares as manufactured themselves. Like a "legitimacy" rating system
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>Given billionaires running their own space programs it makes me wonder why there aren't more billionaires running biologic research companies.

I really think the whole "It's not Rocket Science" cliche would be better suited as "It's not Biology".
> There's something to gain by adding functions as first-class objects, but I don't think rethinking it from functional foundations would help.

So what other approach to designing a declarative language do you want to take?

I propose total functional language because it's extremely simple and systematic approach. You add your primitive types, primitive functions, primitive type operators (like algebraic types) and voila - you are pretty much set. That way, you get lot of reusability which would be hard to do in an adhoc designed declarative language. And a very uniform syntax as a nice bonus.

My question is not rhetorical. Building declarative languages based on typed lambda calculus is very well understood.
In every society, some people have to learn the lesson when someone makes a mistake. Who learns the lesson?

Who learns the lesson when someone makes a mistake?

You're just going to make people look down on professors.

They're going to look like poor, abused animals.

Not human beings.
> Many beaches I consistently saw heaps of guys surf casting.

You can easily observe locals fishing in the river(s) running through Shanghai. The fact that they do it doesn't mean those fish are safe to eat.
My parents had always been helping me buy things online. I lived in the middle of nowhere, so online shopping was my only way to buy things I wanted. The freedom to do this by myself without asking them every time was a huge step for me, coming of age. If you're American, I guess it's like driving a car for you. (I still can't drive).
Would you please stop posting ideological rants to HN? They're destructive of the thoughtful discussion we're hoping for here, and we ban accounts that use the site primarily for this sort of argument, regardless of ideological flavor.

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Plenty of Tesla owners don't agree with you, but that's OK: 100% of drivers don't have to agree for it to be a tipping point.
Definitely. To get anywhere near profitable you need to have the right people and to be in it for the long haul.
For me list comprehensions are a godsend. I believe the loop logic is much better expressed in a single line of code than multiple lines of for or while syntax. No intermediate variables too. Now, this is becoming a common feature in all young languages, but the first time I encountered it in python a decade ago, I was on cloud 9. It is still one of my filter criteria when deciding if a language is worth investing in.
Totally. There's also that. Sexism against men. Why are men more often antagonists? That's not representing the microstories of our lives in a balanced or faithful way IME. Also, it's a fictional world. You can represent it however you choose.

Don't forget the sexist violence against men that is every major war. Millions of men murdered. For what?

I'm critical of a lot of claims of apparent discrimination, but the examples of sexism I see that are clear I really want to speak those loudly.
I wouldn't mind having to recharge frequently. I mind the anxiety about whether I'll even be able to recharge, and how much of my day I'm going to lose waiting for access to a charger.

The 1-2 EV stations in modern garages might cut it while there's hardly ever even one EV parked there, but if adoption outpaces charger installation, they're in for a rough time.

If just three people are in line for a public charger, each needing 30 minutes with it, that's a 90 minute wait.
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You are old enough to know better than that. No difference between Ivan Allen and Shirley Franklin?
And you think the new CTO, John Allspaw, was less of an OSS fan?
Is there any aggregated stream of information giving you information of vaccines and cures as they come in?
If you have any ideas about how to do this to improve the compression please submit a PR!
That's why I had the (replace by magic numbers) in parenthesis. There may be some number where you can still attract legitimate sellers but is high enough so people taking a risk to just peddle junk will turn a loss on average. The only way you get rid of the junk is to make their expected profit less than zero.
I've had to wait as long as 15 minutes for a supercharger -- do you have a different experience?
No, I run rhe browser at a much smaller percentage of the screen - perhaps 60%.
speaking strictly about science, the community of science has never been in a time like this. To be fair, there have been 'arguably worse' times, but the difficulites of those eras were imposed on the scientific community from without. What is happening now is all from within.
Yep, I found this with the Fidget Cube.

I heard about it after the Kickstarter closed, "aw chucks". A few months later I found the parent company was accepting purchases but wouldn't ship for months more, I bought one anyway (over $20!). Then a couple months later I came across knock-offs on Amazon. I forgot I ordered the authentic one, so I bought one on Amazon for $10. It arrived promptly. Then this week, I got the original cube in the mail--It took so long I totally forgot about it.

And honestly, I like the knock-off more... (granted, might just be a timing bias.)
What industries is AI expected to be so useful in, and what for?

Serious question. I'm interested to learn more.
I watched SG but I read the timeline reference in terms of "Community". I.e. this is the darkest timeline.