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>1) These people are rare in the general population, and demand for their time is likely to be incredibly high. Therefore, they cannot be deployed everywhere, unlike machines.

A temporary problem solved by natural selection, technological augmentation, and increasing incentives. Perfect performers in any profession are hard to come by. Ambitious people still strive to get there.

>2) When confronted with a human being in a sales scenario, people have a chance to be on guard against potential manipulative behavior. When the sales scenario becomes ubiquitous and invisible, it is much harder for people to avoid being taken advantage of.

Because people don't understand technology or sales. In your reality, people should be on guard all the time because sales and marketing were already continuous, even before hidden cameras. In actual reality, most people don't care that much about being sold to as long as the sale itself it not abusive.

> 3) Ethics are not so absolute. Something that is only mildly bad at an individual level can have terrible results when thousands are doing it. (Littering, for instance, or illegal hunting/fishing.) This is known as a social trap, and it leads to negative outcomes for everyone involved.

Sure, but that omits the necessary step of justifying this behavior as being either mildly bad on an individual level or terrible on a mass scale, much less both. It is neither.

Also, I would add item 0: advances in technology mean that surveillance devices will only become smaller, cheaper, and more connected over time. The future you fear so much is, in fact, inevitable.
If by "major legal setback" you mean "was correctly categorized as the thing they are".

It's always been ridiculous to me that America lets companies self-opt-out of the rules and laws, just because they feel like it.
do you really disagree with the idea that writing code, like writing prose, should strive for human clarity? that you should be able to easily understand it without mental gymnastics? that the writer should revise, rewrite and edit the code, and take pride in succinct clarity? because the computer doesn't give a poop, but people do (including your future self)?

you seem to be making ancillary points while being deliberately obtuse about the central one.
I wonder how the results would change if they had considered countries like Brazil, which offers a cocktail of ~17 drugs for free for everyone HIV positive since 1996 (when patents were fought in the supreme court IIRC). Many americans and europeans (also japanese) come here every year to get some of these medicines for a fraction of what they would cost back home.
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Most of us probably have mentally demanding or stressful jobs. How do you approach weight loss without becoming too lethargic or irritable?

Alternatively, what's your strategy to maintaining a healthy weight?
You seem to be willfully abusing the relationship between literature and literate programming. Knuth was being provocative in his paper in linking them, but these are very clearly not the notions Knuth has in mind.

His purpose is altogether simpler. From his paper, the literate programmer focuses on "exposition". He or she "chooses the names of variables carefully and explains what each means", and "strives for a program that is comprehensible... using a mixture of formal and informal methods that reinforce each other."

Literate programming is not there to entertain you. It's there to be understood. Beware the programmer who disdains comprehension of their programs.
Forcing drivers to obtain taxi licenses, pass tests, or be screened only affects the price point for the service. Given that Uber is bankrolled by obscene amounts of investment, their price points are artificial anyway. So, to allow them to bypass commonsense laws out of sympathy is evil.
Uber losing out doesn't mean a complete reversion to "the way things was". Look at Austin - Uber left, and new players entered the arena. The rest of the world has already adjusted to Uber's business model by basically just copying it, without the non-sense that comes with Uber.

Uber isn't the single pillar carrying the transportation world forward - they forced a change, yes, but inertia will keep such competition going. There is no need for Uber and all the baggage that comes with it. It has been shown clearly that others can and will fill any hole Uber leaves.
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With all due respect, I think your grasp of American politics is quite weak. The POTUS has immense power, not just in theory (e.g. the ability to single-handedly launch nukes and basically end the world) but also in practice.

For one, he or she can nominate Supreme Court judges. This alone is huge, considering the SC is the final arbiter in the most important conflicts in the nation.

Aside from that, he or she can issue Executive Orders, which "have significant influence over the internal affairs of government, deciding how and to what degree legislation will be enforced, dealing with emergencies, waging wars, and in general fine-tuning policy choices in the implementation of broad statutes."[1]

The POTUS can also veto legislation passed by Congress. Historically, Congress has been able to override these vetoes only 7% of the time[2], which means the POTUS has a serious amount of influence in the direction the country goes in as well.

And of course, he or she is also the Commander in Chief of the world's most powerful military, and the country's supreme representative in foreign affairs.

Bottom line: POTUS is much more than a "punching bag."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_(United_States...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veto#United_States
I've had pretty good success crowdsourcing recommendations for https://www.findlectures.com by asking offering a weekly email of talks, and prompting people for recommended speakers / conferences on sign-up.

I have a separate form on the site to get suggestions, but the email signup one has better quality because it weed out people who want to spam the site with their own content.
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That looks like something a DNN could do.
You've heard of redux-saga, but do you know how it works?
I feel kind of silly writing this, but when I started sleeping more (~8 hours/night) I stopped needing an alarm click. I naturally rise around 0700~0730 every day.

I try to keep other morning activities (web browsing, reading, etc) separate from time in bed. I go straight to the kitchen to boil water for coffee.
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That describes my view of the wingsuit flying to a T.
How much do you like the QC35s? I've been wanting a pair for awhile, but have been hesitant to pull the trigger.
Agreed here. I have compiled probably a half dozen linux kernels in the last 15 years, and especially in college, tried many flavors of linux. So I've historically not been intimidated by tinkering.

But now that I have a career that relies on getting stuff done, and don't have time to play with kernel modules and window managers just to get my computer running in a stable way. I have zero patience with the clusterf*ck that seems to still be the Linux desktop.

I mean, look at this thread itself. When I see I hear all kinds of things like Wayland, Xwfm4, Compton, Unity, Gnome (the only one I recognize), multi monitor issues, tearing? Who has the time these days to deal with all that, unless it's part of their jobs, they're curious college kids, or they're kernel hackers?

I mean, geez, it's 2017. Apple (and MS to an extent) figured these issues out for the most part more than a decade ago. Yea yea I get it, drivers, blah blah. But I simply don't have time anymore to futz with this stuff. I have to get things done and need a reliable machine. And my clients don't pay me to fiddle with my kernel to get nice animations.

It's the same reason I don't build a Hackintosh, although I'm really tempted. SO this isn't an "I love apple" type thing – it's an "I want to get work done and not stare at a boot loader" thing.
We shouldn't have to choose between evil, incompetent taxi companies and evil, competent Uber. And I don't think we do have to choose. If we bring Uber to heel, we don't have to go back to the old way.
Interesting, I had also read she created it. Maybe I missed it in the story, but who did actually create and popularize these silly things?
Besides the movie's premise of psychic surveillance using disabled people and indefinite detention of pre-perpetrators, there was plenty of dystopian elements in that movie, even if the future wasn't specifically a dystopia. The spider bots, the vomit sticks, and the ads:

Spielberg: "The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. they can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing us, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us."

http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/spielberg-and-cruise-an...
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>unsafe, cabs

It's hard to tell if you are being ironic here.
I just pointed out rightly so that he was lying. He admitted he "doesn't care about the truth." You think you're protecting the discourse by protecting these unrepentant liers? I don't care if there paid or not, it's just spam. By enabling it you're part of the spam. I'm going to keep calling out this gaslighting crap, because it's a lie. so ban me or whatever.
Business models need to be "social" now?
I use it twice a day for commute and we're planning to sell the second car in the family. Pickup times are 1-2 minutes, no need to heat up the car during winder months. No, I don't want to go back.
> so, problem 1, the USG already owns CAs and doesn't need supercomputers to get valid certificates

I'm sure it's gotten a lot tougher out there for this kind of thing since the Comodo and DigiNotar attacks. Looking forward to more mandatory CT mechanisms!
Yes, I very much do want to go back to a world without Uber.

They're part of a huge step backwards for employee's rights. They might have a good app, but from all the people I know who've used Uber, they use them primarily because they're cheap. They're cheap because their drivers aren't paid well enough and because they evade taxes. Their appropriation of the phrase "sharing economy" is in my opinion spin to avoid the responsibility any employer has towards their employees.
If you're expecting people to fold their livelihoods instead of sell ads, you may not understand how attached people are to their livelihoods. ;)

Meanwhile, there are some inroads into financial support alternatives to ads everywhere. Google has a "contributor" product (https://contributor.google.com/v/marketing) where you can basically bid against the ads they'd vend to you; instead of an ad running, you pay a microtransaction to buy the privilege of no ad.

It's an interesting idea, but it only works with Google's ad network.
Can't wait for Arch Linux!
I would rather go without it than having it cheat people who are "contractors" for the service . Now that I know how the sausage is made makes me not want it as badly .
> As much as you guys love to hate on Uber, do you honestly want to go back to a world without it?

No. No one is asking for Uber to go away. I just want Uber to follow the rule of law and operate lawfully, just like most of their competitors.

If there are unfair taxi medallion restrictions in cities, remove the unfair restrictions. Uber should never get to just ignore laws they don't like, for the same reason you and I don't get to do so.
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Yeah, that line was surprising to me, too.

I guess it's true in a sense (see: Vanitas art) but usually in the service of deflecting the idea that we actually end. Less "how can anything in this life be important when you stop existing?" and more "how can anything in this life be important when there's an eternity of unimaginable bliss and continued, but changed, eternal life ahead?"

The point of much religion is that there isn't an end, in a very real not-metaphorical sense, which makes death qualitatively different than if there is.
As an european, I disagree strongly. Uber has improved my standard of living significantly. However has to be noted that taxi regulation varies greatly from country to country.
Yes. Just like individuals should be expected to act in a socially responsible manner, so should corporations.
In retrospect: No. Prior art.

They abused the system for their own gain, while at the same time "retarding the development of aviation".

"The Wrights' preoccupation with the legal issue hindered their development of new aircraft designs, and by 1910 Wright aircraft were inferior to those made by other firms in Europe. Indeed, aviation development in the U.S. was suppressed to such an extent that when the country entered World War I no acceptable American-designed aircraft were available, and U.S. forces were compelled to use French machines."

"The lawsuits damaged the public image of the Wright brothers, who previously had been generally regarded as heroes." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
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Pretty close to 10000 hours to get good at something?
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Actually for QBotix it was the other way around: the robot was designed to reduce the cost of solar trackers (instead of a motor on each tracker you had one robot that moved around to adjust each tracker). The problem was that the cost of PV fell so far that it was cheaper just to deploy more, use a fixed frame, and not worry that your panels were never really pointed directly at the sun.

I had hoped to read the QBotix page to see what they said but like others I got a 503.
> That little ditty is also very likely why PNG has zero uptake in visual effects and CGI.

The main reason why CG studios can't use PNG is because both renderers and compositors always output pre-mult images. Yes you can choose to un-pre-mult them after rendering, but the native result of a blending operation is always a pre-mult color, regardless of the input sources. Unpremultiplied blending still results in premultiplied colors.

Since everyone knows that un-premultiplying (dividing) is to be avoided at all costs, it means you can't render or comp something and then save the file in PNG.

> Associated (aka premultiplied) alpha is the _sole_ means to embody both occlusion and emission.

I would suggest avoiding thinking of image colors as emissive. That's a material property, and using RGBA to encode material properties is only something you'd do if you were stuck in a weird fixed-function pipeline with no choice, or if you were really really low on disk space. Otherwise, emission colors go in their own separate emission channel that doesn't have an alpha value.
Indeed.

mov esp, 0

"Move 0 into esp".

Seriously, X86? Who came up with that?
>1) Drop self driving cars completely. YOu aren't getting there first, second, or anywhere close to third, just partner with a car company and call it a day.

And lose all investors.
We won't need to go to a world before Uber since the business model is out there now. The core concept is great (and in fact it already pretty much existed in places with well-regulated taxi industries) and doesn't need a giant market cap or billions of dollars to operate, that's only needed for hubristic plans to reinvent transport that also don't need Uber to happen.

It's a bit like Tesla. Tesla has turned electric cars into something cool and edgy, but if it were to go under tomorrow it wouldn't even slow the pace of electric car adoption.
Fluent in what?

The video is all eye candy with quick cuts. It doesn't show anybody doing anything. The discussion indicates that Microsoft wants to bring back pens, since finger-pointing is so low-rez. They also have that new movable knob input device. Both of those give tablets more desktop-like attributes.

Part of the idea is that you can write on anything. Didn't Apple try that once about 20 years ago? I think it was called "Ink".
Heh. My problem is that I am so damaged that when I become friends or find girls that care for me unconditionally, I devalue that relationship because it feels un-earned.

Something that comes un-earned to me has no value.

This extends to my relationship with myself. I'm hard on others so it only makes sense that I'm hard on myself.

This is what happens when your parents get divorced and you're raised by a shitty step mom. Not that my own mother was that great to begin with (cheated on my dad etc.)
> It's high-cost low-risk.

The history of the airframe industry is filled with huge bankruptcies. It's a very volatile, high risk business.

> they're just reinvesting it

And that's exactly what the proponents of the short-term profit theory complain that businesses are not doing.
I don't understand this -- what's to prevent an Uber driver from just quitting if he's underpaid? Do you also avoid stores that pay their employees minimum wage?
Does not need thousands, the article says they did only 40 hours of flying for this experiment at least
Honestly, I don't even get why nowadays this still happens for mostly static websites. I'm never going to go with namecheap.
There are some (rare) occasions, when private members drag new dependencies that you don't want the user of your class to know about.

You can also do "pImpl", which is similar, if not worse, in terms of boilerplate, but doesn't allow DI.

Just don't use these techniques unless you can prove they're needed (e.g private members drag new problematic dependencies, #include <some_volatile_header_file.h>).
Breaking an RSA public key consists of two phases. The first phase is massively parallel and indeed doesn't require much storage.

However, the second phase requires solving a massive set of linear equations and requires a more conventional big computer.
Hey Gary, I love what you have done with find lectures. I use it quite often actually to find material. I am thinking of perhaps making a newsletter for this project saying 'what is new' in the mind map. What do you think?
Then tell people why you think so. What real value do you think is achieved by allowing CBP to arbitrarily poke around cell phones being brought into the country that are not at all hidden?

How much liberty from unreasonable search and seizure do we have to endure for the infinitesimal possibility that some good will come from these searches, you know, just like all the good that comes of TSA searches (I know for a fact I've taken pocket knives and multitools and hammers through airport security on multiple occasions).

Yes, you can argue that, legally, at the border, there are different standards for reasonability and a requirement thereof. But I'd like to hear a cogent argument for why that is, and how that plays into the need for such a thing.
Nobody is trying to micromanage people getting into other peoples' cars. The issue is with one company that bends and breaks laws as they like, spending shit ton of VC money on getting away with it.

If the Uber story makes me angry at governments in any way, it's because how inefficient they are - Uber should have been kicked out of Europe within months of showing up. That they're still able to operate here is a disgrace to the rule of law.
Have the duress password also activate the various sensors on the device and start shipping data to the internet. TSA agent's face, everything that's said, etc.
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Sure am! :)
Except doctors are a rather unique intersection of income and education. What % of people with the equivalent of PHD's make 200+k/year without also being doctors.

You could hypothetically say Top Investment Bankers do cocaine at rates similar to people making 10+Million per year, but the sample size of people making 10+ Million a year is tiny and a large chunk of those people are investment bankers.

PS: The other issue is showing population A is different from population B becomes harder as you decrease population size. With 1 million people 0.5% can be significant with 5,000 people 0.5% generally looks like noise.
That reminds me of how Zimride works. The other differences are that with Zimride, rides are scheduled ahead of time, and there are no requirements to be a driver. It strikes me as much more true to the ride sharing spirit than Uber or Lyft are.
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Uber? yes. Other ride hailing companies that aren't run by sociopathic technolibertarians that think the laws don't apply to them can go ahead and pick up the slack.
This is how Uber is going to train it's self-driving cars, isn't it?
The worst features of Uber are more of a testament to the lack of labor protection in the US than anything wrong with Uber per se. If we had single payer health care, automatic employee protections without ridiculous loopholes, and so forth, then Uber would be fine. Amazon, Walmart, etc. are all built on the ability of US companies to avoid paying people a living wage.
> As much as you guys love to hate on Uber, do you honestly want to go back to a world without it?

Why is the choice about going back? I want to move forward into a world with driver-owned Ubers (aka platform cooperatives). I like ride hailing apps, I don't like how Uber is a vehicle for VCs to extract rent from drivers.
Not "social", just "people-friendly", or "not antisocial".
Not being a jerk, but why do you not mind? I don't break any laws and I mind enormously.
What does that even mean, "as a European"? Europe's a big place and I can name at least a few cities which benefit from services like Uber.
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> It's easily conceivable at this point that Uber could IPO well under its $50+ billion private valuation.

It's almost like stock options are monopoly money 99.9% of the time
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> If you use names like Logger instead of ILogger, you don't even have to change all the names when you refactor to an interface!

But you want to, that's the point. You're making a drastic change to your code base, surely you want to inspect every place where that type is used.
I wonder if they stop at the first phone they find. I picked up 10 cheap android phones at $5 each from the grocery store recently, would carry one of those in my pocket, put the "real" phone in a more difficult to find location.
What's so bad about taxi unions? The drivers make a decent wage and the profits are kept locally among numerous small businesses. Is it really better to make the system more efficient, just to have to gains shipped off to billionaires in California?
Yea, I'm really comparing two disparate issues here. The aircraft cost, for previously certified airframes, ie. the C172SP, as opposed to an SR22 or something, is almost entirely liability liability inflated while avionics are more heavily driven by certification.

This is why the experimental market is doing so well right now. No need to pay for either :P
Obviously opinions about Uber and usage frequency vary, but it's a matter of fact that the quality of Taxi service in most European countries is better than in the U.S., and the ubiquity and affordability of public transport means that there is little actual need for Uber for most people in urban areas BEYOND convenience and luxury needs. And while those of course are total legit, they (in my eyes) shouldn't be the main driver in shaping legislation which will affect everyone.