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> It only deserves respect if you believe the military deserves respect.

Yes.

> The US spends more on it's military than every other militarily significant country combined -- what are we defending against?

If women ran the world, I might agree with you; they seem to be more cooperative than men, and they don't seem to be as driven as men to prove their superiority and establish their power. (I know, it's a pair of sweeping generalizations.)

And certainly there's room for debate about specific defense expenditures, or whether overall we should cut them back or scale them up.

But there are wolves in the world; if you've read even a little history, you'll know that perceived weakness invites predation. A strong military can be a really handy thing to have around — as, sadly, the world keeps having to relearn, often at terrible cost.

Like it or not, the U.S. is the ultimate guarantor of the global order on which so much of modern life depends.

(And it's "The US spends more on its military ....")
You just have to tell the preggo girls that THEIR SHIT*t is not without review. Someone is watching...
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One does not have to assume that order is good, and chaos is evil.

Within a universe of absolute order, there can be no change, and no life can emerge. Within a universe of absolute chaos, there can be no structure, and no life can emerge. Neither is good, or evil, since those are human cultural constructs, and not fundamental physical laws or universal constants. Even life itself isn't necessarily good or evil, any more than a star or dust cloud is good or evil, it's just one of the many possible states that matter and energy can take as the universe inevitably exhausts itself.
I was wondering this as well. I doubt they carry any weight to be honest.

If you want a program that will give you certifications, you may have a better chance of going with Udacity(https://www.udacity.com/) instead.

Hope this helps.
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Beyerdynamic dt770 pros. They won't break your bank and have good isolation. They're decently detailed, comfortable to wear, and pleasant to listen to hours on end. Not neutral, though. Good for bassheads.

Also, you can just buy Sennheiser 600s or 650s with a good reasonably priced DAC/amp and you will get a very good value and can probably just stop there. Satisficing this way is probably the best thing in the larger scheme. Being a can-head is an endless and expensive hobby.
Lawmaking in France is not confined to the president.

If there is to be a tech boom in France, it will be the result of years and years of judicious, thoughtful, policy that makes life easy for small businesses (tech or not); not one time acts of symbolic VC cash investment.

The purpose of my message is to show that French lawmakers are still very far from understanding this. I don't know where in my post you find me blaming Macron for this.
> The consequences of our losses in Vietnam

It's worth noting the US didn't even actually lose Vietnam. When we left, the US + South Vietnam, held 80% of territory and 90% of the population base when the Paris Accords were signed. It was a civil war the US should have never been involved with, the South lost that civil war once the US pulled out. The sole difference, is that the South would have lost it dramatically faster had the US not intervened. The North was in the end more than happy to sign on to the accords, because they knew once the US was gone they could finally take the South with relatively modest resistance.
Where are you trying to go?

First it was that, to understand, we have to "actually return to the complex terminology you're simplifying". I disagree.

Now it is, that we need some common way of communicating. I agree.

But that are two different questions.

> [explaining EM radition in terms of phones does not help]

Nor does explaining EM radiation in terms of oranges. But I'd do neither. I'd first try to figure out whether you struggle with the concept of what a phone is or with the question how it works. Because step 1 in being understood is to understand what you are trying to say, to define the metric you can later use to evaluate your success in your attempt at being understood.
Some I've been using

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Sea-Tac airport has a minimum MPG requirement that vehicles must satisfy in order to do rideshare pickups, and it is high enough that almost all cars being used are Priuses.
Another video which touches more on the same point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkv0KCR3Yiw

(Highly recommend the whole Feynman series, which is excerpted from an interview video called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, which is also spectacular)
This link hit HN not too long ago: https://medium.com/espark-engineering-blog/formal-methods-in... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14221848) (Edit: Ah, already linked within pron's second link... Oh well.)
Also worth mentioning how iPads work in an educational setting. So many schools were so ecstatic to get iPads for students and embrace the future that they didn't stop to consider just how quickly an Apple iOS device can start to feel slow from OS updates designed for newer and more capable devices. The difference is pretty stark compared to a regularly imaged workstation which can last 5+ years.
My Sennheiser HD280 Pro cans

I had those. Gave them to my girlfriend's brother. Didn't like the highs and made my ears sweaty. But I know lots of people who like the sound and the isolation. I suspect that individual differences make a huge difference, and the industry just doesn't have the technology to cheaply compensate for those (yet).
There are alternative earpads made by 3rd parties. It's just a piece of sponge after all.
I thankfully see pretty little 4chan/Donald stuff on HN. The community seems to smash it out of existence.

I occasionally see MRA/eugenic bullshit here (i.e. "sexism isn't real" and "science supports the inferiority of certain races"), but that's relatively rare. This community seems to be overwhelmingly progressive.

Also, re: that specific comment: I agree with it. It may have been totally beside the point (I didn't read it in context), but it acknowledges that Pizzagate was probably nonsense while saying that it's possible that elites in the US commit heinous crimes with impunity. That has been true before and it could be true now.

Of course Pizzagate is total insanity and/or trolling, and I don't think Hillary Clinton's circle is a likely suspect in terms of sex abuse. But the Catholic Church scandal is a decent analogy: a very respected "moral" institution that completely ignored enormous amounts of child rape. Penn State's treatment of Jerry Sandusky's behavior is another. Not sure why the US government couldn't do the same.
I liked the rest of the article :)
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Unfortunately I'm on an ideologically-bent and rather inactive instance, so I'm not sure if I would do much good here. mastodon.xyz seems to be the "canonical" way to get into the fediverse, though; you can look at the global timeline and then follow people you like from what you see there.
I understand what you're saying, but I still fail to see how all of this translates into not being a team player. That really has nothing to do with this at all. If the interviewer still wants a solution based on the facts as they lay on the table, he can always ask again. The first is answer is still the best answer in my opinion, because it is much closer to a real-world situation and it shows a deeper contextual understanding of situation. It also implies experience.

Anyone can repeat someone on StackOverflow who says that function X really is faster than function Y. That's hardly an accomplishment. It's like asking someone to perform a basic non-trivial calculation out of his head -- why bother?
I agree that critics are far more shrill than they should be. However, there is some basis for their fears of an authoritarian push: significantly high proportions of his campaign speeches used authoritarian imagery and themes. His closest advisors were outspoken for advocating authoritarian viewpoints. In hindsight, he was using that rhetoric aspirationally with no intention of doing the intensely hard work and dedication involved in actually bringing about an authoritarian state.

Indeed, almost nothing authoritarian has emerged; he uses executive orders to implement policies because he doesn't have the votes to legislate it.

As for the lack of zeal for investigating the CIA, the reason should be obvious: very few Americans were the direct victims of it. That scandal would only be zealously pursued if there were no other noteworthy events happening.

It is "whataboutism" for me to point out the lack of Republican interest in the CIA case is similar to the lack of Republican interest in the Russian election interference investigation. I only make that point to underscore the lack of lawmaker interest in pursuing a mostly "suspicious foreigner" set of victims, not to claim some difference of virtue between the two political parties.

I agree with you that the CIA scandal is shocking and unacceptable. It is 1) morally wrong; 2) directly results in terrorist organization recruitment; 3) disrupts trade and political cooperation with other countries.
And still, the rich get richer, the powerful even more so... cutting barbed wire hasn't changed anything. Casts some serious shade on the power of crypto-anarchy to change anything. Anarchy, like libertarianism, are lovely notions with no direct roots in reality. Here's hoping blockchain democratizes and makes more transparent at least part of the puzzle.
My whole point is that Beats will never make an audiophile happy

Actually...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcpIba9SSjE

And this is the same guy that did this...

https://youtu.be/ipZY0qGrA9Y?t=60
"with the help of the French" is an understatement. It was better described as a proxy war between Britain and France.
Lots of swiping to move and zoom objects here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0jmewhXeU. Swiping to scroll is a special case of the concept.

This is from 1995.
Using an RPi for everything is indeed not a good idea! It's a poor choice for e.g a HPC server of a 10G router.

Not using RPi for anything is not a good idea either, it seems.

The RPi (and C.H.I.P., Arduino, etc) have a rather well-defined sweet spot: small-scale hobby projects and study. At this niche, they are a good value for the money (because tools, books, community, etc).
PGP uses RSA, so anyone in possession of an RSA exploit could exploit it just the same, which would make this a doubly-ridiculous way for them to show their hand. I think it's more likely that the issue was the opposite: the FBI didn't think PGP was secure enough, certified correctly for this work, or that they believed there might be legal issues around PGP.
We could not have GPS, and still be trying to fly planes over other countries. I'm a fan of cost reduction, but it is more nuanced than this.
The law specifies that you don't have to use "certified" software if you do your accounting outside of a software system. So they don't "make you" buy a computer; but it is still ridiculous because of how hazy it is. For instance, as I mentioned in my message, if I use Excel for part of my accounting but do the final ledgers by hand, will I get fined if I get inspected?

Additionally, the law says that any software has to be certified again for any new major version. But in the world of web software and continuous deployment, how does that work? It's kind of a software equivalent of the ship of Theseus - if my software ends up being completely refactored and rewritten over the years but doesn't change major version, do I need to get it re-certified or not?

It's just nonsensical lawmaking done by people who don't understand tech at a fundamental level.
I'd guess you probably have a surprised look on your face :-)
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>In one short story he proposes a kind of reverse CYOA book: A book with many beginnings but only one ending.

Some games work like this (eg Dragon Age: Origins). It's not as mysterious as it sounds.
To some extent that's even true within the NSA.
Have you tried Bitwig? I haven't but I believe it does address a few of these things
Ridesharing companies compete with mass transit.
> It's not a great comparison to Apollo anyway, as most of the cost of the F35 program will be spread over decades of maintaining the planes, Apollo's cost was far more concentrated to a short period of time.

FWIW the $400b figure is to buy the planes, the Pentagon estimates a further $1 trillion to maintain them.
Unfortunately T-Mobile has a noticeably bad network, and I just can't bite the bullet and put up with it. Whenever one of my friends is having trouble getting signal I ask what their carrier is, and it's always T-Mobile.
Following is how I usually prioritize in order.

1. Fix unexpected security issues that may be found

2. Implement features that will result in more new users signing up and paying

3. Implement features that will result in existing users paying more than they already are

4. Implement features that will lower churn

5. Implement features that will save the company money such as more automation to reduce manual work

2 to 4 requires you to engage with your customers and get good at filtering out a lot of noise on what some customers may want but the majority may not. Usually if it's going to make the majority of your customers money or save the majority of them money, it's something they will pay more for.
The U.S. Military is universally good for society & humanity.

(Unless you're ISIS)
It appears to be worth it to pay the entry visa to (PRC) China; Taipei is certainly an amazing city, but the mainland has much more history and tourist opportunities. I hope to visit it one day.
America's Health-Care Crisis???

You mean Obamacare didn't end skyrocketing costs and fix what it purported to? You mean the sole accomplishment of a corrupt President didn't accomplish anything? Say it isn't so!

Now explain why Marxist idiots "need" to "save" it.
Yes, cryptocurrencies could be used by media distributors. But anything that's popular and too expensive will get pirated, and distributed via darknets.
Ok, but even prior to 3.4, in what sense did you mean it couldn't guarantee something was a number at all?
>The code that makes it into The Daily WTF[1] has no peer to many things a catfish programmer sees on an hourly basis.

Hah. Although as someone who did contribute to Daily WTF from my recent job, a lot of the code was much better than the piece I found.

God help you if you don't have a really smart IDE though.
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(A name for the three-way tension you will find a lot: trilemma.)

If you have to budget something, it becomes a soft trilemma: I have 24 hours for work + leisure + sleep, so any given combination will be a point inside a triangle whose vertices are (0, work), (0,leisure), (0, sleep). This structure is called a (2-)simplex.

BTW: a regular dilemma (should I spend or save) is a 1-simplex, and is a simple linear combination asave + (1-a)spend.

Now, this is fun for two reasons:

- You can have (n)-lemmas (i.e. n-fold tradeoff structures) that are modeled as (n-1)-simplices. Actually useful: you can do statistical inference on simplices using the Dirichlet distribution.

- A simplicial complex (basically, a set of simplices) can be used to build topological spaces part by part. This kind of maths (algebraic topology) is a whole "south part of the mountain" climb towards abstract mathematics that bypasses a lot of Cantorian handwringing on the ultra-local structure of topology. Instead, you're computing stuff from the get go -- and indeed one of the emerging machine learning techniques goes precisely from building a simplicial-like complex from data and computing characteristics of its topology.
I'm approaching 50. I can't honestly tell the difference in sound quality between Senn HD598SE and HD650 even thought the HD650 is $200 more (actually $500 more if I consider the external DAC and AMP to drive the higher ohms HD650).
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I have seen several pro sports teams use them to promote their clubs.
I'm actually sympathetic to your viewpoint, but there is a very real difference between hereditary despots-for-life and imperfectly-constitutionally constrained, term-limited assholes-in-chief.
I can't count the number of times I've quoted this exact passage from Hitchhiker's Guide when bemoaning the current state of things. I'm not sure if Adams knew how prescient his words were, but it appears to be true (at least for humans) and is profoundly sad.
I've spent a lot of time in country X. They all want Y.

Okay. That's the kind of crap that was in the 1800's, that's still in the 2010's, unfortunately.

Your words sound like something from a grown up bully jealous of their victim's achievements in life.
You might check out this guy's reviews. He prioritizes comfort and imaging over everything else. (Despite what he says.)

https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeosReviews

Often the above guy says the opposite to:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7WtLipHnndkqwSxvL0oyVQ

I watch both.
The M600i was my all time favourite phone, only to be surpassed by the Nokia N9. That rocker QWERTY keyboard was god-damned fantastic.
"catfish" is a type of fish. 100% of people who have ever fished understand this to be the definition :)
Maybe pfSense for your router, with a separate wireless access point.
I think we need to distinguish between charging people money for access to knowledge and charging them for personalized guidance in seeking that knowledge.

I personally believe all textbooks and courses should be free. But if a tutor is going to dedicate an hour of her time to sit down with me and help me learn, it is not unreasonable for her to demand compensation.

Universities, of course, are only able to release MOOCs for free because they make money from tuition, alumni donations, endowments, etc.
I know, right? Personally I prefer to get all my meat from my employer's cafeteria where no animals had to be harmed.
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Okay, thank you. I've only ever thought about correlations informally as a simple relation. I am not sure that use of the word you're describing is quite as canonical as all that, but I don't have a strong math background, and I'm happy to imagine that I might be misusing the term myself.

I'm fairly sure that the basic intuition that I'm trying to describe is correct, so I would welcome an alternate description.
Americans aren't the problem. People are.

Every type of person, whether they be male or female, no matter their skin color, race, or the education and job they now hold are sadly capable of hurting their fellow human being.

Murder comes in various forms. Matthew 5:21-22
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Indeed! They've brought peace and stability to Iraq and Afghanistan, for example. /s
Sure, there is plenty of dual purpose stuff. Think of the Hubble as a Keyhole pointing the other way. But in general money spent on defense is spent in ways that make me wonder if we could not do something more useful with it. And a world with GPS could be more annoying than a world with say better education. And then you might end up launching those GPS satellites anyway, but from a different bucket and a little later.

Piggy-backing stuff onto the military budget that is dual use is a nice fig leaf but it does not reduce the component spent on the remainder: weapons of all sorts, kinds and shapes.
Very good point about reading the room and behaving accordingly. Yeah I am finding it hard to find that differentiation probably, and sometimes I'm appalled that this even happens.
But something objective to back it up would be great, too.

That brain-training game on the Nintendo DS -- the one that had you distinguish two voices saying things simultaneously -- your score on that game is a great way to evaluate headphones for vocal accuracy. Be careful though: the DS can't adequately drive all headphones, so you'll need an amp for high impedance headphones.
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The one that always makes me laugh is when they say it's good because there's no chargebacks. What kind of sucker seeks that property when looking for a means to buy stuff online? Just wire money over Western Union at that point.
I understand. I'm saying that will never occur.

They're not going to ever actually buy all of those planes, and the maintenance cost will be far lower accordingly.

All you have to do is look at the F22 program to understand what's actually going to happen; there are numerous other recent examples of how they tend to slash & burn on ordering however. Ten years out they'll be on to the new new thing, and they'll be slashing the purchase program toward zero accordingly.

The planes are costing $93 million per unit currently, they'll buy less than 500-600 of them across all branches of the military, that's ~$60 billion, give or take $10-$15 billion on cost inflation over 10 years. Then reduce the maintenance cost accordingly for that number versus the laughable former numbers (thousands? ha ha ha).
Any "currency" that isn't a stable store of value hardly deserves the name.
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The sidelining of employee health & safety costs isn't specific to chip-makers/America alone. It's a not-so-hidden benefit of outsourcing in general.

Also, the current political climate in the US (EPA being bled to death slowly) will setup a legal climate where companies' practices that are damaging to employee health suddenly becomes legal/non-issue. It might save a few jobs from getting outsourced, but will leave behind a sick employee pool, with the state bearing the cost of health care.
The manifesto linked an article about QE, didn't it?
I've always heard that while House of Cards might be more "serious" that Veep is actually much closer to real life. Veep has politicians making stupid mistakes on Twitter. Life and death decisions decided on a whims and just absurd amounts of pettiness.