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I think there is a difference in principle, but it's not that Democrats have a principle that growing the government is inherently good: it's that they don't have a principle that growing the government is inherently bad, while many Republicans do. Thus, Democrats would consider proposals for spending mostly in terms of their individual benefits and costs, whereas Republicans - at least the consistent ones - would apply those only after starting from a baseline of disfavor. They may still care enough about some spending priorities that they see the good as outweighing the bad: that isn't inherently contradictory, though considering how much we spend on defense, there's certainly room to question whether it's a rational policy overall.
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The majority of my US History classes in high school focused on things like the trail of tears, the pullman strikes, Jim crow laws, Vietnam war atrocities, Japanese internment, our policies towards European refugees during WWII, the watergate scandal, the US invasion of panama, the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima... I learned about all of these as part of a standard public school education, just like all my peers.
Plus you'd be crazy if you thought US media was bullish about Guantanamo, the missing weapons of mass destruction, NSA civilian spying, drone assassinations...

Regardless wether people care about those things(a lot don't), it's part of our education and media. I think the claim is Chinese history classes in china and their media are a bit more rose colored than ours, which is why people don't know about tiananmen square.
Google introduced PNaCl and made it available as a feature any Web page could use, knowing that there was effectively zero chance it would ever become a cross-browser Web standard. That was anti-open-Web.
The silver lining.

"All you talented people in the US, allez, France welcomes you with big arms."
To add to your comment, Firefox people are working to support anti-fingerprinting protection in the browser.[1]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1329996
I think there's a clear difference between an ad that plays sound as part of watching a video with sound, and as part of browsing a website that doesn't have sound / where the ad plays sound over the actual content.
And, to that end, does anyone have any advice?
Oh it's already happening...Just listen to Emmanuel Macron's english statement that just aired a few seconds ago.. he literally just issued an open invitation to all U.S scientist and innovators to "come to France" where he's basically guaranteeing them support.

Wow.. what a HUGE missed opportunity for the United States to not only lead on this issue but to dictate the economic terms of the creation of an industry that could rival that of the Oil industry at its peak when it's all said and done. China recently scheduled a meeting world leaders in which i'm sure they will take the lead. #shame
Curious how the extreme violence of the Chinese response in Tienanmen is responsible for the continuation of the government politics; while the same extreme response in Syria would be responsible for tearing apart the country.

Let me express a doubt about this kind of explanation, that seems more fit to put the blame squarely on the bad guy rather than understanding what happened. When protests turn so easily into a civil war that tears a country apart, it probably means that there are lots of people ready with weapons and military training, and that the government's response maybe hasn't been hard enough to prevent it.
somethings. Others, like at Costco just come in even more packaging. There is a box to contain all your boxes of boxes.
two pairs of shoes is a good idea. thanks.
Yeah, to add some substance to the largely fluff comment I wrote above (I just woke up and was surprised to see someone mention the film), she actually went to school in China, so she is one of the only Westerner's I've ever met who could speak Mandarin natively. One of the unfortunate things is that she actually lost touch with a lot of her old friends due to the volatility of that era, so she had spent much of her adult life reconnecting with the people she's able to find. Many of them are pseudo dissidents now - like Dai Qing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Qing), who we were also fortunate enough to meet.
I have been reading articles in Der Speigel for months now hinting at it. I do not know whether you regard that as reputable or not. Merkel's speech - well she did not say 'we are leaving NATO' true, and she is not Germany but she just said that Europe could no longer rely on the United States and the UK and that Europe would have to make her own defence arrangements in the future. So no. LOL.
Very surprising that they've gotten to the point of actually filing for an IPO. Their business model is overly complicated.

This company reminds me of Webvan during the 1st internet boom. They tried to do everything a market would do plus delivery. They soon found out it was too costly and went under.

What they need to do is partner with grocery stores so that customers can pick up the food or have it delivered without having to deal with UPS or FEDex. One big pain is all the packing. It gives the impression of waste. True or not it's not nice to see a bunch of packing stuff going in the trash.

I, for one,order and pick up a Thanksgiving meal every year from my local market. It's about $10 per head. If they can match that at my local market. I'd be happy to order it. It probably wouldn't be an everyday thing but I'd use it multiple times a week.
Personally, I would be impressed with a company that provided that benefit and seriously consider it. Am I gross for finding that to be an attractive offer?

It's not as though Facebook is coercing people to do this in order to lengthen their careers. People will do it anyway due to a culture that already exists and because they want to; from that perspective, Facebook is providing a nice benefit for people who don't want to compromise their career. It's not for you to say that this decision constitutes "abnormal" behavior - its characteristic of a lot of peoples' rational career optimization.

I'm not claiming it's altruistic, but I am claiming it's a poor heuristic for judging a company.
shipping recyclables from UK to China is still net-beneficial as opposed to landfilling

That's shipping it from the local recycling plant, ton for ton. But the "net benefit" of shipping millions of box of crumbled aluminum and plastic wrappers back to Blue Apron (then unpacking and sorting them)? As if anyone has time for that, anyway (when most of us have time to do the dishes and put out the trash)? That's where things start to look suspect.

The gel packs are reusable,

Yeah, like all those soaps and mini-shampoo bottles we steal from hotels and intend to "use" someday, too.

But hey, it sure sounds nice enough as a little green checkbox on some "sustainability architect"'s slide presentation somewhere, I'm sure.
Lots of cars are worth more as parts, and not just 20 year old ones sitting in the local salvage yard. Individual parts (airbags, ECUs, on-board entertainment systems, etc) can frequently run hundreds of dollars on the secondary markets. Further, most mechanics don't verify the serial number of a part before installing it in a car they are repairing.

As the cars are stolen, its all easy money for everyone involved as the thief doesn't have to make 100k on it. Even a few grand could make it worth the effort. Then beyond the thief and the chop shop, no one needs know the parts are stolen.

In a way its a good sign for tesla, cars tend to be stolen at rates proportional to their popularity. It also means that there must be a functional market for the parts.
> This is especially true in this time where even successful companies drag their feet when it comes to IPO.

That's a very weird statement. Companies are under no obligation at all to ever offer stock to the public.

An IPO comes with all kinds of downsides and many companies simply do not feel the benefits weigh heavier than the downsides. Such as: transparency, SOX, all kinds of restrictions and demands regarding communications, dealing with the SEC (or the local equivalent) and so on.
For established customers maybe not as there's a cost to switching but I'd be very surprised if this didn't have a hit on their signups going forward (once it's GA).
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Let's leave aside if per-capita and accumulated are important metrics or not.

Let's accept that the Chinese are worse polluters than the US.

Congratulations, you are the second worst polluter.

What, did I hear India? Ok, you are just being difficult. Let's say you are the third worst polluter.

What? Did I hear ...? Stop it!

You are one of the worst polluters. Period.

Why do you withdraw?

And yes, you are the worst per-capita and accumulated polluter. In case you were wondering.
Ubuntu no longer has the Amazon suggestions, they listened to the users, and Arch and Gentoo aren't the only alternatives to Ubuntu; Fedora, Mint, Elementary, etc are all fine and as easy to use as Ubuntu.

Why be so obviously disingenuous? Why make excuses for companies to screw your software?

I switched to Linux a long time ago and every time I'm forced to use a proprietary operating system I get reminded that I made the right decision.

I doubt any serious windows users support adware and privacy violations, only the people who invest in Microsoft.
Agreed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Losev is another good example of how circumstances ranging from war to domestic politics have seemingly conspired to keep Russian scientists from earning the reputation they've historically deserved.

The death of Losev by starvation at the siege of Leningrad arguably set semiconductor technology back by a decade or more. Unlike Marconi, Tesla, DeForest, and other prominent poster children of the wireless era, Losev wasn't engaged in a foot race to the patent office with numerous other well-funded competitors. He could have made some incredibly valuable and unique contributions if his work had been better known and supported.

Laser technology, on the other hand, was only "suggested" by the Soviet researchers, not actually implemented. A lot of different people were "suggesting" a lot of different things back then. Charles Townes's biography ("How the Laser Happened") is very much worth reading for anyone who's interested in this stuff.
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A step ahead of James Cameron's Avatar?

Hmm I'm not sure though. Where would all that celebrity goss come from then..
You can calculate lots of interesting things about a face based on this. Including generating a face that people will remember very well because of unique features or one that is hard to recognize.

The optimizations our minds have found for such complex tasks are amazing.
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I'm always amused that "know" seems to instantly associate with "memorise" as opposed to "be aware of performance and associated tradeoffs"
Benevolence doesn't make a global leader. Having your fate intertwined with that of others makes a leader. The USA has always had a desire for self-sufficiency, and an economic approach that views any gains made by other countries as a competitive loss.

It is not to say that the USA is a terrible country, or that it is 'evil' or anything so silly. It is simply that the USA does not want a global leadership role, appears uncomfortable with it thrust upon it, and approaches global treaties as something it should either accede to or reject rather than change.

The Paris accords, ought to have heavily influenced by the 'global leader' so the preeminent power would view the treaty as one that benefitted its world view. As it is, the US world view is absent from the Paris treaty---why is that? I'd say it's because the US abdicated its leadership position to the point where European interests and American interests no longer seem to align.

> The US isn't doing a great job, but if American power gets rolled back, are you ready for Russia to come rolling into Eastern Europe?

I think it is a mistake to completely discount the military and economic power of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. One should remember that historically the German military alone was enough to overrun Russia to the point that the Eastern Front was the site of the most horrific battles and loss of life of the entire war.

> You ready for the Chinese to invade Taiwan? The US is the only thing preventing that.

This is a bit of a tangent. Taiwan is a small island off the coast of the mainland whose government considers itself "Real China" and the far more populous mainland to be the 'rebel forces'. The continued existence of Taiwan is because China finds it useful, not because of any US intervention. If war sparked out, the USA and Europe would likely do the safe and sensible thing by treating it as a civil war within a nuclear power.

All these tangents boil down to "What if World War 3 breaks out?".

I hope for all that is good that WW3 does not break out between nuclear powers, and if it does that the USA will finally stay out of a continental conflict that is nowhere near its borders.
Energy consumption is one of the largest costs of every human activity, there is already incredible incentives for everyone to reduce consumption. Energy efficiency has increased for every country despite the lack of a common political framework. [1]

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Can you get a Tesla serviced anywhere other than a Tesla dealership? Does anyone do this? Seems like it's going to be difficult to consistently sell $100k of Tesla parts for even 10% of their value.
Except that the Tienanmen response might have prevented such a short term civil war. History has shown that China was on the right track, it's very hard to imagine they could have done any better since 1989.
Mozilla wants to move away from XUL to using HTML though...
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Maybe this doesn't hold as much water now, but compared to most countries, the US is pretty light on ethnic nationalism. I trust the US as a hegemon more than most countries.

>The US isn't doing a great job, but if American power gets rolled back, are you ready for Russia to come rolling into Eastern Europe?

Jesus fucking Christ I am not ready, and neither is Eastern Europe. I think everyone remembers what happened last time Russia was in charge over there...
Yeah, there's not really a guaranteed-valid buffer concept in Go. Even if you have valid UTF-8, you still have to iterate over it to e.g. rasterize glyphs, and iterating over possibly-bad UTF-8 is no harder than iterating over known-good UTF-8.

If you want to compare to other UTF-8, validity alone isn't always sufficient. You often have to e.g. normalize anyway, and normalization should fix up bad UTF-8. Again, a guaranteed-valid buffer type wouldn't win you much.
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Ok..?

The point is whether you actually have X or can convince someone that you have X. In most cases, convincing is enough, as that means you effectively have X in regards to the person doing the judgement.
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Time waste alert. I had three interviews that all went well and was asked by the recruiter to provide dates and travel information so they could book my travel for an onsite. I provided these and never heard back from the recruiter or anyone else. Completely unprofessional if not disrespectful. And yet here you are posting the same roles.
I like what you are saying a lot. But I really dislike that you sign your posts.
I've had ads on Windows lock screen ("Get fun facts, tips, tricks and more on your lock screen"). I was fairly sure I had turned this off, and it was weeks before I saw an ad (replacing Spotlight background), but once I did see an ad, I wrote my own program to set the lock screen background and stayed well away from the MS Spotlight.

Spotlight itself is an ad for Edge; if you want more information on the photo, it'll pop up in Edge, not in your default browser.

Windows installed a bunch of sponsored apps / icons when I first installed it. Xbox, Skype, Groove, Money - they may all be owned by MS, but they're still crapware as far as I'm concerned.
Exactly. If US's as a superpower can flip-flop every 4 years, then any promise it makes in the long term is not trustworthy. A country loses its vision, cannot lead the world. And it will be ludicrous to have a country with severe infighting to determine the future of your own country. That is just too much of a fantasy.
It's... it's not that Facebook itself is the issue. It's the resulting network effects and how you interact with people while still on it.

For example: not being on Facebook means you actually have to keep in touch with people to know what they are doing. That sounds like a "duh" moment, but it's also key to how FB is replacing real social interaction with "social interaction".

The knock on effects of this are deep, because without it you have to have meaningful and importantly intentioned social interaction with people.

That changes things.
> It's great for all the obvious reasons (less timesuck, less compulsion to endlessly scroll your life away, no notification interruptions). The frustrations are real, though. Primarily it's around events and photos.

I was almost done with college when FB suddenly became a cross-generational phenomenon and started being about more than photo sharing and event planning; I still fondly remember those days.

The one advantage I would add is the rare occasion when someone needs to get in touch with me easily: I've had extended family who lives on the other side of the world get in touch with me through FB on short notice when they were visiting my city. I could definitely imagine that some of these cases wouldn't have happened without Facebook, since they would be required to 1) know that I happened to live in this city and 2) go through probably three separate people across different continents to get my phone number. This is infinitely harder than searching their FB friends for my city and going "oh dang! wutbrodo lives there now? I haven't seen him since we were kids, I should reach out!".

That being said, all of the 90% downsides of keeping Facebook are, to some extent, within your control. I won't pretend that I'm congenitally immune to them, but all it took was a little discipline and a little time and it really wasn't that difficult to avoid the timesuck/endless scrolling/notification issues.

I've never really been able to relate to the idea of completely deactivating Facebook and losing the 10% benefits, with the possible exception of the few people who have a completely insurmountable psychological compulsion to use Facebook. This is especially true because of all of the levels of FB exposure you can have without going all-or-nothing: Chrome extensions to remove the newsfeed, disabling notifications on your phone, only visiting FB on the web and not the app, etc.
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Solar, wind, EV and now even electrical storage are being jump started with tax credits.

Were. At least if Trump gets his way:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
That's not what a strawman is. I never said that such a view was wrong; I said that it was a philosophical point over which we would not be able to agree. Note that I was not directing the argument to something I could knock down; I was trying to identify a potentially terminal issue and "agree to disagree".

I was also communicating my view of what was happening. And I'm glad I did, because you are correct and it was a mistaken view. You never implied "dangling prepositions" as a problem; that was something I had in my head which you hadn't said.

In the end, I think we are stuck in a hole that Wikipedia actually summarizes quite nicely, so I'll just quote it here. The topic is the use of the terminology "phrasal verb", emphasis is all original:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb#Some_notes_on_ter...

"The value of this choice and its alternatives (including separable verb for Germanic languages) is debatable. In origin the concept is based on translation linguistics; as many single-word English and Latinate words are translatable by a phrasal verb complex in English, therefore the logic is that the phrasal verb complex must be a complete semantic unit in itself. One should consider in this regard that the actual term phrasal verb suggests that such constructions should form phrases. In most cases however, they clearly do not form phrases. Hence the very term phrasal verb is misleading and a source of confusion, which has motivated some to reject the term outright."

I think I'm sitting squarely in the latter camp described above. My analysis is that these are not phrasal at all, and so I think that's where this debate is actually sitting. (And conveniently, that quote also directly indicates Germanic separable verbs as alternative terminology.)

So, to summarize, I think this is one of those fine times (that seems to happen so often on the Internet) where we saw some sort of disagreement, but were really agreeing on everything but terminology.
Tesla forbids any unauthorized party from even seeing a repair manual for the car, except where they're legally forced to by "right to repair" laws. (In those jurisdictions, they charge a high price for time-limited access.)

But, bear in mind, the difficulty in getting access to Tesla service or parts outside of the official methods is what makes the parts so valuable: There's almost none on the market to begin with. Those who need them (for whatever reason) will have to pay big to get them, since competition isn't driving down the prices. And most Tesla owners can obviously afford it.
In Germany it's tax free if you where holding them for more than one year. A person can also move to another country where they don't care so much.
And this constitutes evil for you? A really aggressive robots.txt?
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