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Virtually all of the Facebook events I care about are private events among friends. Don't see how this site is useful for those.
Meta-comment: this thread seems to be HN's stoop. There's only 29 comments and we've got people talking about little bits of their lives, where they've lived, their current neighborhoods. It's pretty nice to have this little snippet of semi-off-topic HN.

Is there any interest in a "weekly stoop" thread where people just comment about whatever interesting thing that comes up, nothing in particular? Things people find interesting, little discussions, things people want to know about. The kind of things that aren't really big enough for separate submissions, but could make up a few comments. I feel like that'd be pretty interesting. Has it been tried before?
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The point is that if we elected Trump once, we might do it again. No one is going to trust us on this stuff in the future. China has a "big seat" at the negotiating table too because of their size, but they're not a leader because we don't trust them.
It's not easy to convey that you're joking with just text regardless of the audience. Consider ~93% of the meaning you express is in non-verbal cues. Only 7% is in the actual text of what you write or say.

http://www.nonverbalgroup.com/2011/08/how-much-of-communicat...
> ... and richest countries

That's considering $18 trillion of its debt?
According to this video and based on the UN model, the Paris Climate Agreements would have extremely little effect overall (0,023%) and, I would guess, would cause much financial hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47bNzLj5E_Q
>arbitrarily-imposed taxes

Isn't a progressive tax system basically the opposite of an arbitrarily defined system? Perhaps you can quibble over where each progressive quantile is delineated, but a system defined by raising taxes on those who make the most is not an arbitrary one. In fact it's a system based on determined reason. Just because you disagree doesn't make it arbitrary.
China does severe punishments, but the odds of punishment are low.
As to why he is now the president, it is far from being that simple. Him winning really had very little to do with his qualifications as a candidate.
I may be a bit dense, but does this include only the data stripe already has, or could it be enriched with, for example, cost data.

Because the payment process alone just doesn't include enough data to create relevant analysis for us.
This is hard to believe but it is true[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania
High activity when planning events or gaming sessions, low otherwise. We already did all of our talking and planning in a Facebook group, so this allow us to expand on that without the privacy issues. The Facebook group itself was similar in activity.
The primary impact of pulling out is it creates a situation in which the United States is not a leader and allows for a power vacuum. A vacuum that China is already happily taking advantage of in order to become a prominent world leader.

It isolates the US and allows opportunities for Russia and China to gain clout at our expense.
I forgotten the name but i think an similar service exist for analytic data.
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> The U.S. doesn't need to be involved on the international stage.

I disagree in large part, though I do think the world would be stabler if the USA took much less military action and was a bit more respectful of zones of influence of other countries.

But even if I strongly agreed, I'd think the USA should make an orderly retreat from its existing obligations. Instead it's creating vacuums of power and chaos based on fits of pique by a literal maniac.

> The fallacy here is assuming that international cooperation is going to solve climate change.

It's worked on other issues. And political environments drive technological change.

But, yes, I agree it's a particularly thorny issue, and I wouldn't say I'm too optimistic of its probability of success compared to other international collaborations. But that's something to bemoan, not something to celebrate.
> There is no political fix. Only technological ones.

Technological fixes will not be adopted unless climate-related externalities are internalized into transactions, because of the tragedy of the commons. A political fix is a necessary prerequisite to the adoption of any technological fix.
Obligatory aspect marking is extremely common all around the world.

Right, but usually (except in a few corner cases) this is done with separate helping words (e.g. in English: "to cook up" v. "to cook") which are usually pretty uniform and easy to pick up through osmosis. Such that it generally isn't even taught in grammar courses (and even educated English speakers most likely won't even be even consciously aware this is what they're doing).

Meanwhile in Russian it's a much bigger thing -- the markings are much more complex, and every grammar book and every dictionary addresses the subject.
Yup. Mentioned his college, and posted a picture of him. It would be trivial for any intelligence agency to dox this guy from the information in the article.
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"Why does it have something called 'say' instead of something more intuitive like 'println'."

'say' is a lot more intuitive than 'println' for me. In the former case, I'm telling my program to say something. In the latter case, I'm telling it to... print? What if I don't have a printer? And what's a 'ln'? Line? Loan? Loon?

In other words, 'println' is not "intuitive". The word you're looking for is "conventional" or "familiar", and it's only either or both of those things if the programmer is coming from a different language.

Perl was the first programming language that really "clicked" for me, though, so I'm probably a bit biased there.

(as a side note, Perl has a 'print' as well, which actually predates 'say' by a considerable amount ('say' only became a thing in, what, Perl 5.10?). 'say' is pretty much just 'sub say { print "$_[0]\n"; }'.)

"Then there are worse examples: carp, cluck, croak."

'carp' and 'cluck' are weird, yeah. 'croak', however, makes sense in the context of 'die'.

"There is also Moo, Moose."

Both of which feature the letters "oo", which usually stands for "object-oriented". Not as obvious as I'd personally like, but once you spot that it becomes clear that both have at least something to do with Perl5's object system.
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Your argument only works if society gets nothing in return for paying taxes.
I think the point was the "America First" policy is antithetical to the idea of helping developing nations. For example, giving aid to combat malaria does not put America First, but it does save lives and build good will across the world.

A great world leader should have no problem using their wealth and power to perform reasonable acts of charity and kindness to fellow nations without an expectation of reciprocity.
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I know right? ...mildly surprised someone hasn't pointed out it was a Hawkmoth. Have a picture of a dead one (apparently)

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That's a great idea. We can definitely look into it.
> The U.S. doesn't need to be involved on the international stage.

Yeah, it really does. The US might be a big economy, but not-US is an even bigger economy.
Congrats to the US, but this is not a fair comparison. This is not a US vs Germany/France thing, this is a US vs the entire world thing. Maybe if the USA would pull out of NATO, that would be fair, but even so... the 2% is a guideline.

The US has released a huge percentage of the total CO2 released into the atmosphere in the past 150 years. Donald Trump is not a believer in climate change, and that is why he wanted out, which is frankly insane from the president of the most powerful country in the world.
Shelter costs very little in poorer countries where the land is worth much less and building regulations and taxes are reduced (and some consumer goods Iranians don't expect to have or don't replace regularly cost more) which is one of the big problems with PPP adjustments trying to assess costs of living in different countries based on a basket of goods. Not that the unconventional method the article uses of scaling median income to suggest it's as high as $16k per year is any more representative. To the extent it's possible to compare the standard of living of an Iranian on UBI with a US standard of living it's probably in between those extremes...
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It is hard to implement a technological fix without political will.

Politcal can reserve funding, can align businesses and academics, can make that technological windfall we haven't yet invented a little mote likely.

What if there is no technological solution, or we fail to find it? Having political agreement and unity to fallback on is a good thing. Even if we do something terrible to the planet, we can mitigate that together, instead of ignoring it or making it worse.
> Without fundamental technological leaps

Sounds like we'd better get working, then? Emissions controls to stimulate private innovation, plus public research grants to help longer-term innovation. We need to set up incentives wherein fundamental technological leaps are the goal.
This makes a lot of sense for Wal-Mart. They are asking employees to opt in to drop off order(s) on their way home for extra money. It supposedly optimizes the deliveries for each employee's route home. It's like giving your employees a little uber opportunity. I wonder if there will be enough employees to make this viable.
The agreement does not even call for European nations to spend 2% on NATO, it calls for them to simply spend 2% of their GDP on building up their armed forces. When Trump claims that the failure to meet this future goal means that they owe the US billions of dollars simply illuminates how little he understands about NATO in general.
From your own source:

"At a summit in 2014, NATO reiterated its commitment to the 2% target. Members that fell short at the time promised to meet their obligations by 2024."

But, again, even in the worst light possible, a country not spending enough on military spending to meet some stated target doesn't compare to tossing out treaties based on a whim.
And this diverts attention from the last N scandals.

Pretty sad to think that humankind was not moved from a dangerous path to cover a pussy grabber.
Repeating this falsehood only demonstrates the extent to which someone materially misunderstands how this works.
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That is true but every country is supposed to spend 2% of GDP on defense, and only the US and 4 others actually do. How Trump handles this and talks about this is asinine, but there is a basis for it.
> remote within US

Is this a hard requirement?
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Really do appreciate your long responses, so thank you and keep doing that.

More parameters than data points shows up a lot these days and not because of non-linearity. Now its common to measure everything you can about an object and then worry later about what is useful. So the situation is few objects but gobs and gobs of measurement for each of them.

Of course now you have a rank deficient situation with an entire affine space for a solution. But thats no good, application wants to find the sparsest point in that affine space in the given basis. ML has tricks up its sleeves to do that in poly time. Its quite unbelievable that this is even possible.

BTW little surprised that you dont talk about Lehman much.

And you are searching for quality in the wrong place. Go for the proceedings of the COLT conference, ICML and read some Vapnik to start.
yeah, I'm really looking forward the browser where I can pay to do the things I do now for free.
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50 comments / at 100 points probably indicates that there's plenty of interest in this product.

Always assume good faith... It makes everyone happier, including you.
Even controlling for the harm to the environment, you have to consider the harm to our foreign policy if we become unable to uphold any agreement for more than 4 years.
The main confusion seems to stem from the fact that the 2% goal (agreed upon in 2014, to be met by 2024) is not "money for NATO", but how much eah member state shall spend on their own armies.

NATO is a military alliance, not a seperate army.
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This is awesome. I spent a summer in high school at LIGO Hanford (Washington), it's so cool to see positive results starting to come out of it.
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I saw one serving senior officer on twitter comment "this must be what suez felt like to the brits"
I can think of 2 positives in this:
1. It provides validation to your idea. Your job is somewhat reduced to validate and find a product-market fit. Remember, it's not a zero-sum game, there is enough room for both of you.
2. Use your competition as a baseline for your product/service. You can use the gravity/momentum from competition to catapult yourself to higher velocity or get sucked-in.
> Why does it have something called 'say' instead of something more intuitive like 'println'.

"Say" is a common English verb that fairly directly communicates the action performed (with a bit of metaphor, sure.)

"Println" is, well it starts out with something which might be as good as "say" and then has some extra opaque consonants glued on the end.

The latter is only "more intuitive" from the perspective of someone whose used languages which happen to use it in the past.
Well, countries agreed to spend 2% of their GDP by 2024. Furthermore it's not (yet) obligatory for member states to spend all budgets on armed forces but e.g. on humanitarian aid as well. Nato is supposed to act as an organization of defence but as an organization of shared values to guarantee piece. http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/news/nato-funding-explained-...
same with google. i think it is moreso just that a lot of people in the community respect the companies and want to work there. not as much employees themselves.
Just tested with facebook comments and this seems to not be true. I cut the internet and tapped the "show more" and it failed to display.

It didn't even make sense from a layout perspective. It was a comment with one reply, and in place of the reply, was text that said, "show one reply".

Maybe they're doing it to drive analytics.
But do all dead butterflies get into that pose? I'm sure some of the ones with more natural looking poses are dead too.
Not if they mimic the size/styling of, say, images in the articles.
Countries were already on track to contributing the requisite 2% of GDP to defence. What Trump doesn't get is that you can't just turn around on a dime and do it. It's a medium term process to determine how to spend such a significant amount of money.

What Trump did whilst overseas was though drive a stake of fear into the hearts of Eastern European countries who are genuinely fearful of Russia.
Empirically speaking, very few people care about those things. And, given metcalfe's law, their opinion pretty much doesn't matter.
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One could write an analogous article about birds. In painting the 435 images in The Birds of America, John James Audubon probably shot at least a few of each species. And then stuffed and mounted them.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon#/media/File...
Those agree with him. The 2% is an aspirational goal. Here is an actual quote from the Economist article you linked to:

"At a summit in 2014, NATO reiterated its commitment to the 2% target. Members that fell short at the time promised to meet their obligations by 2024."

It is not 2024.

Here is the actual NATO statement from the 2014 summit: http://www.nato.int/cps/ic/natohq/official_texts_112964.htm

Here is the actual text of the relevant portion of the statement:

"Allies currently meeting the NATO guideline to spend a minimum of 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defence will aim to continue to do so. Likewise, Allies spending more than 20% of their defence budgets on major equipment, including related Research & Development, will continue to do so.
Allies whose current proportion of GDP spent on defence is below this level will:

halt any decline in defence expenditure;
aim to increase defence expenditure in real terms as GDP grows;
aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade with a view to meeting their NATO Capability Targets and filling NATO's capability shortfalls."

Whoever told you that NATO countries were failing to meet their commitments was lying to you so that you would support them politically. Consider not trusting them.
I don't know much about the technical side of this, but isn't this what onion routing is for?
Boat sovereign state. He can be president too.
> President Trump has effectively destroyed it in a mere four months.

Trust takes years to build, seconds/weeks to break, and forever to repair.
Ballsy move. I strongly suspect this could jeopardize the massive federal subsidies that keep Tesla afloat (and probably Solar City, too). $7.5K per car (which essentially amounts to a 10% per-unit discount out the door) times 84K cars is $630M.
Yes. Countries debt is an asset, it's not like household debt. US Treasury Bonds are a bedrock of the global financial system.
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Running a data warehouse is a full-time commitment. Tons of real businesses have no software engineers.

This is a great-looking product.
Appreciate the heads up on the browser issue. We'll look into it. I think you're really going to like what's possible with Maker. Stay tuned for new capabilities throughout the year as well!
I'm certainly willing to pay if it means producers don't have to bug me with patreon links and shitty ads at every opportunity!
Brave is wonderful. Whenever I encounter a site with bad advertising, or a paywall, Brave skips right around it. I really like the idea the browser puts forth that you can have some say over where advertising dollars go. It's a little clunky but hopefully that will get better with time.
All countries in NATO have promised to spend 2% of GDP by 2024, yes.
> I normally find that people outside of the US are not so nearly informed as they think they are about the driving dynamics of US politics, especially when it comes to things like "why do people vote the way they do".

I'd be more than happy to bet that they are typically a lot better informed than you'd guess and that the reverse (Americans being informed about the dynamics of politics in other countries) would be dramatic.

Keep in mind that whatever the US does the world is affected so American presidential and mid-term elections are followed the world over by people who have absolutely no way to influence (well, that's the theory at least) but who will very much be on the receiving side of whatever the outcome is.
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