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I'm definitely in the "prefer to read" camp. A lot of these, especially the more graphical ones (that aren't just fancy syntax highlighting) seem way too disjointed for me. I don't want my code floating around in separate bubbles/windows, I want to see it in-context, and I want to be able to see a lot of it at once.

I do think that visual representations of code can be very helpful for analysis, especially if you can see the code running in the visual representation while you're debugging it. But for editing, I want the text view.

The other thing that looks really handy is the ability to use proper mathematical symbols, when that's appropriate for what you're doing. The point of those symbols, afterall, is to be a concise textual representation of the concepts. The problem is our input tools; a keyboard and mouse are really not suitable for a written language developed for hand-held pens and paper. That might change soon; the latest touch screens might make it possible to have a notebook-sized pad with very-high-precision pen input as a common third input device, next to our keyboards and mice. If that becomes common, languages and IDEs that make use of it might become common as well.
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This is great. Genital mutilation is a wretched practice and should be abolished everywhere.
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So there's regulation of the Internet, and regulation of the gatekeepers. Your example is of the former, a straw man I don't think you'll find any in support of; NN is an example of the latter.

I find it hilarious that so many people have forgotten why there is such good access to internet in this country in the first place. The US government made a deal with the devil (the telecoms) to run copper to every back assward town and county across the heartland. This has proved to be an awful deal, however, there would be no internet outside of the metro areas if not for the big scary government.
The only line in Buffet's quote I disagreed with was "rationality frequently wilts when the institutional imperative comes into play", and this is why.

It would be awfully surprising if virtually all companies had the same problems due to smart people suddenly behaving irrationally in the same way. It's much less surprising that smart people behave rationally in their own interests, but that those interests regularly fail to align with overall company interests.

And I think the pattern you describe is even mirrored on an institutional level. People are quick to mock Kodak for ignoring the rise of digital cameras, but they tend to undervalue the amount of risk that pivot would involve. If you're a world leader in product X, and that gets replaced by product Y, pivoting destroys the value of your expertise and puts you at risk. It's unpopular but perhaps sensible to settle on winding down profitably (the institutional version of a timely exit) instead of pivoting.
My girlfriend is a shift worker and while she doesn't always get stable 2 day weekend (she gets every other weekend off and generally Tuesday and Thursday the other week) but her schedule is reasonably stable. If you are a shift worker and your schedule isn't stable at all then that means your schedule is bad even as shift workers go
This is where as a tech manager you step in and push people the right way. Fun tech is fun, business is business.

C# is a great language, JVM is great w/ Kotlin/Clojure, both of those have tons of web servers.
You might wish to consider how many people in the US make "$150k", and then reconsider if excluding them would be representative.

Also, all the cable providers sell aggregate/anonymous statistics about TV viewership. Because of SDV, they know what channel your Cable box is tuned to.
What is the difference between IoT and “Industry 4.0”?
Yeah so we should not believe the stastics provided by Google and co but believe in nielson etc that have an incentive to show that TV is not dying. I would get the author if he had chosen sources that were not as biased as the ones he stated the other way.
To me personally TV is not dying the old model of subscription TV is dying if I am going to pay for a subscription I want to control when I want to watch the content and not be dictated to by the channel.
We tried this in San Francisco and it gets dragged into some crazy anti-religious fight. It's about the rights of the baby, not about some religion's outdated beliefs.

Children should be free of mutilation, regardless of their religion.
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Even if it didn't, it would increase inflation and decimate the middle class even further.
Isaac Asimov wrote a whole trilogy -- which now stands at some six or eight volumes... -- based on that very idea.
In general, the field is split into imaging research (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, optical imaging) and radiotherapy research. It's a very applied field, the fundamental physics has been figured out a long time ago except for some really niche areas. For example, some people are trying to model particle transport inside DNA itself at the nanometer scale, where the transported particles have very low energies. There's still some physics work to be done there, but it's pretty marginal and the lack of theory in those areas is mostly due to theoretical physicists losing interest rather than the theory being too difficult.

I personally work in radiotherapy, making simplified (faster) Monte Carlo particle transport algorithms for use in treatment planning, and also finding more "modern" optimisation techniques to handle the many degrees of freedom available on radiotherapy linear accelerators to produce higher quality treatment plans compared to what we can do right now. It's hard to define what a high quality treatment plan is without a lot of background, but basically we try to find ways to put more radiation in tumours while sparing the healthy tissue all around the tumour. My "research" is like 95% programming.
Not just companies - but the "educated/ruling class" has an overwhelming number of people who are incapable of basic maths and aren't bothered by it. They think it's "cute" or "funny" to be bad at maths. This attitude is also pretty unique to mathematics. Nobody would have the same attitude about being illiterate.

I share the same opinions as the author so have little to add on the article itself.
That's a good comment and of course there is a list of approved stacks (not random list of languages) and we try to think about future. Hiring people wasn't our only reason and we had technical reasons to go with micro-services and multiple languages, but it was nice perk.
I got a non-STEM degree like that: 5 years with 4h of daily commute. I wouldn't wish it to my worst enemy if I had one.
As a founder of Experiment.com, I just want to say that food is such a fantastic library for small science experimentation. What used to live in cook books and secretive restaurant storage rooms as scribbled recipes has changed because of the internet, we can now try so much more and share it so much more widely than before.

It's mind-boggling how deep these new online communities around barbeque, cheesemaking, or sour beer brewing (shoutout to milk the funk) can get, where at a certain point, there's a scientific breakdown of the variables involved. This sort of food science blends anthropology, biology, marketing, and engineering. It's so much fun.
My 2c would be to have a special notation in your text notes that labels the data you want to study later. then just parse that and combined with anki's cards you can generate decks easily.
that's kinda like the fallacy of composition: what is good for the individual, is not always so good for the economy
Most interesting. As a layperson I have trouble understanding what happens 17:00 to 06:00 the next day. What does it mean to "flag down" if you are still running 911 calls all night?
Is it? Did the percentage of people who cared about Shakrespeare and the classics in the, say, 1800s increase or decrease with each new media?

Because there's always going to be the unwashed masses that want low-quality sensory indulgences.
Profession: Lawyer (Telecom regulation).

Workday (times after 9:15 are generally fictitious. Who knows what's going to happen at a given time on any given day.)

[7:30]: Wake up. Skim news, including industry news sources like HN, and more specialized law/politics stuff like Communications Daily and Politico.

[7:50]: Shower, get dressed (business casual), leave the house.

[8:30]: Commute. listen to a podcast, read a book, or on busy days (or on days when I'm feeling highly motivated) read some work-relevant thing (an FCC document, industry whitepaper, you name it. There's always something.)

[9:15]: Arrive at office. Catch up on email, if there are any I missed on the commute. (Of course, I'm generally reading, and trying to respond to, email at all times, whenever I'm awake and my inbox isn't empty.)

[9:40]: Write. This is usually some sort of regulatory comment or letter.

[12:15]: Lunch with a bunch of coworkers.

[1:30]: Conference call with a client to share intelligence on the status of an issue we're working on. (Usually this means the status of a regulatory proceeding at the FCC, but not always.)

[2:30]: [On good days] Conference call with a client to strategize about a some new issue they're concerned about. This involves the client explaining what their current problem is, and a little on the spot thinking about how I can help them to it under the FCC's regulations. Either they have a new product/service they want to launch with some possible regulatory issues, or have longer term regulatory ideas they want to start looking at (think, for example, Net Neutrality, TV White Spaces, etc.).

[3:00]: Back to writing. Most writing projects take a day or two, so I won't typically finish writing anything on a given day.

[4:00]: Research. Look into legal issues, technical background, or other types of information relating to a new project. Try to become an expert on whatever that thing happens to be.

[6:15]: Record time, in 6 minute increments, all the time I spent working for every client that day.

[6:30]: Head home.

[7:15]: Arrive home. Eat dinner.

[8:00]: Mop up things I forgot to do while I was in the office.

[8:30]: Play video games, read, watch TV, work on side projects.

[10:30]: Read in bed.

[11:30]: Sleep.
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Most of them have their own network, and only in very remote locations do they have to subcontract on top of other companies.
I found a big exception to your blanket statements:

There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%. Three randomized controlled trials have shown that male circumcision provided by well trained health professionals in properly equipped settings is safe. WHO/UNAIDS recommendations emphasize that male circumcision should be considered an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence.

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/
Of course, some reasonable people think that genital mutilation is OK, because being reasonable does not guarantee moral clarity. This is why many reasonable people supported slavery and other abhorrent things.

I can't believe anyone would allow someone to knife off part of their child's genitals (even with anesthesia).

Maybe if the procedure involved branding the Playboy logo into the genitalia (with anesthesia) it would be easier for people to see how barbarous it is.
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They got $50 million from the government as a carrot to switch
my wife and I dont "watch tv" and I dont have a facebook account but we watch a lot of tv shows on hulu netflix and text and use signal with family and friends. We are wierdos..
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> I'm too young to consider my savings as retirement

Why do you say that? I started saving for retirement at 16, and have never considered it anything but.
Maybe it's one way to ask for clarification on the problem?
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I also noticed that behavior with my account. I would unfollow all my friends, so my news feed was only posts of the pages I liked. After a couple of days, posts of my friends would start creeping up again in the news feed.

That was when I decided to deactivate my account, and it's been the best thing so far. The account deactivation form is scary, Facebook practically begs for you to stay. I don't miss it at all.
It's worth noting that male circumcision in the West is a relatively recent phenomenon, established in the 19th century by quack science and promoted by British and American doctors and industrialists as a way to discourage masturbation in boys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_male_circumcision
Well, parents are allowed to mark their children with musical taste, their political views, their habits, their values. These are also irreversible.

Parents are allowed to feed their children the way they want, to take their children to spots where they might get a disease, to pass on their own diseases to their children.

Parents are allowed even to pass on their genes, which may contain horrible psychological tendencies, to their children.
ISPs are not natural monopolies though. In the US they are self-made monopolies that over the years pushed for enough regulations to completely thwart competition. Compare that with the most competing ISP markets, like Romania, Ukraine, Russia, where most people can choose from a few ISPs and up to 10+ in densely populated areas.

So, net neutrality is an attempt to fix regulation problem with more regulations. Which obviously cannot work for long, they are too big and have too much influence to push regulations that benefit them. At some point this could cause enough problems to become a political thing and new people in power would be forced to actually take action against them.
> Help me to understand how freedom of speech was attenuated, prior to Net Neutral, or how was it ACTUALLY threatened? Why couldn't I have published my own blog or editorial site, now or in the future?

You can publish your blog all you like, but you need people to be able to route to it and have bandwidth to download from your server. If you don't have an agreement with every ISP (not just the ones you already pay access to) then they could simply say, no sorry we're not going to route to your content or say "OK, we'' route to your content but you get 2kbps on our network".

> Why wouldn't other Internet services step into the void, to fulfill a demand? Perfect example: As in China, the Great Firewall has caused a boom in VPN / tunneling technology, to fulfill a consumer demand for government-free access to information.

Many ISPs have total monopolies enforced by law in the US. You cannot create a competing ISP.

> Any honest person would refute the assertion that "investment in innovation would dry up." There will always be wild-cat investors seeking huge multiple returns and willing to dump stupid cash on a bunch of white dudes in hoodies.

To get funding you need users, if users can't access your site to begin with you don't get any users.

> I do, however, think that revenue-sharing concepts that include the transmission companies, modeled after the cable monopolies of olde (cable cutting is killing that model) could be a suitable alternative to todays two-tier model (transmission vs. content).

These already exist, these are the companies you peer with.
Another way to phrase this:

> Have you considered adding the IntelliJ family of products? If so, how come you didn't include them?

Same message, less hostile. Also, it's worth noting that OP is not the author of the blog post, so your question might still fall on deaf ears.
At a typical 'Ballroom beginners class', there will be no-one there who can already dance (i.e. if they were already great then they'd be in the next class up, etc). But also most people will have two left feet : Happy klutzes all around, without needing the excuse of alcohol to feel liberated. And there's always something to talk about... People are there just to have some fun, but don't feel the need to go 'CRAZY'. It's a nice atmosphere. Perhaps go for an icecream afterwards :-)
They're not, on any point (especially when you add "reliability" to the list--I've played the "upload a multi-gigabyte file over mobile" game before and paid for it in drop-outs!). There might be a day, ten or fifteen years from now, when I can do three-quarters of what I do today over a mobile link, but it certainly isn't today. It's so prima facie silly that it verges on bad-faith argument.
You merely iterated history, how does NN actually result in any of what you just said?
I live in the Wilmington, Delaware, area which, according to this article, is the East Coast hotbed of robots-replacing-workers.

Our liabilities, in terms of industries ripe for automation, include the chemicals sector (DuPont is headquartered here and is our largest for-profit employer) and the pharmaceuticals sector (AstraZeneca is our third largest for-profit employer). We also used to have several large auto manufacturing plants, but they all shut down during the study period, and those displaced workers struggled to find new jobs. Nevertheless, the unemployment rate has more or less reflected the larger U.S. rate, which has slowly dropped since the Great Recession.

Obviously, a lot of people in the software industry are worried about what will happen if their jobs become automatable.

I just heard a talk at the Open Data Science Conference that addressed this worry, and the speaker's basic point was that the people who are most at risk are those who are resistant to change, or who can't cope well with change. Robots and automated processes are still very much in the "highly capable of performing task X" stage. So, while you can construct a specialized robot that's very good at doing one particular thing, we humans remain the supreme generalists. That may one day change, but for now, automation, by and large, replaces tasks, not people.

Granted, if you're a person who only knows how to do a handful of tasks, then you're at risk. But if you are able to change and adapt to new tasks that aren't (or aren't yet) automatable, then you'll be able to continue to stay ahead of the automation wave. At least, for a good long while.
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The reason healthcare costs so much in the US is insurance. When insurance pays for everything patients don't care how much the medical providers are charging, and patients don't care if medical providers are providing unnecessary services. When somebody else (i.e., insurance) is paying, the individual consumer is encouraged to consume without any restraint. When all consumers behave this way, providers are able to charge high prices, which in turn causes insurance premiums to go up. (Look up "tragedy of the commmons").

The solution is to make the consumer participate in driving costs down. One employer I know of has an excellent solution to the problem: Make employees pay 100% of the bill up to a certain amount, such as $6000. That's a large amount, but the employer then contributes a large amount to your Health Savings Account (HSA), such as $4000. This amount is for you to keep regardless of whether you have any health bills or not. (This money can be used for medical expenses only, either in the current year or in the future). This means the max you will spend out of pocket per year is $2000. How does this encourage the consumer to scrutinize medical spending? Because the first $6000 of medical spending in a year is "your money". This is money you'd be able to keep in your HSA if you didn't have any medical expenses. This gives the consumer a strong incentive to reduce costs, question charges, avoid unnecessary services, and so on.
The hallways of VC offices are littered with corpses of startup founders who did have a better app than Google, but were shown the door, because: you don't want to compete with Google.

I should know - I am one of those corpses :-)
Will you ever need to join X on Y?
The stark job loss by industry infographic is quite somber, across those manufacturing industries. Everyone likes to quip "Relevance: gotta retrain to remain" when it comes to automation, but people fail to realize the implicit costs of doing so at an individual level (the time commitment and energy required to face this anxiety all the time).

The rate of "innovation" has grown so fast, that we may very well be at a place where your retraining itself may not be relevant by the time you are finished being retrained.

Robots are meant to serve one purpose- cost reduction. It was the case that Robots replaced monotonous tasks, but it just seems like that inchoate stage in robotics is over. Software seems to be aimed directly at doing much more than that- It's not a coincidence that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are both trendy right now and revolve around "thought" in their respective monikers. Once these data scientist achieve their goals... what's next? Won't they be replaced by metarobots too? A traditional supply and demand framework doesn't apply here where retraining to meet the demand is the solution to one's labor woes- it just defers the problem until the next "retraining."

I don't have a solution, but we should remain vigilantly aware what the end goal in Robotics is: Providing capitalists with more ways to accumulate capital, at the expense of our labor.
What if someone thinks you should be abolished and vote to do that democratically?
I am pretty sure this isn't true.

The advanced glycation end products from overcooked/burnt meat have been shown to, but not meat itself.
Infrastructure which everyone else has access to.

Without net neutrality that isn't guaranteed.

It's difficult to compete with Google. But imagine competiting with an ISP owned version of Google who owns the last mile to all their customers.
Haha my pleasure!

That's what we do. Especially for inside sales.

Outside sales is mostly the same thing, unless you have great accounts. Only difference is you sit at your house and not your desk.

And you also do fake travel and bill it to your credit card for points, and wait to be reimbursed by your company, who think you are out like actually visiting customers lol

Some people do great work and are very skilled but the rest of us are benchwarmers
Germany was build out of different german speaking principalities. Germany was problematic in the 20th century but the problems were against its neighbours, not within.

And then there are those 13 ex-colonies, now 50, which dared to want an ever closer union. They had a civil war, yes, but since then secession seems to out of the picture.
Even those numbers don't exactly scream users don't care about compatibility.