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Everything eventually degrades into a dictatorship.

Thus we invented advanced concepts to avoid this- like - everyone holds there breath- taxes to milk corroding power accumulating back into the system as a whole - and parliament democracy, which basically consists out of a bonemill for wanna-be dictators, grinding one another to dust in a weapon less fight for power.
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Who cares about chunks of the country nobody lives in?

A high speed rail line to cover the region from LA to the Bay Area or the Eastern Seabord wouldn't be any less a project than when Japan did it. If anything it would be easier since our land isn't all geologically unstable.
"I’d still be skeptical about whether that’s a problem worth spending billions of dollars (and locking up millions of people) to address."

Many people are deathly afraid of illegal drugs, including marijuana.

It may seem to some people today that marijuana is "obviously harmless" or much less harmful than legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco, but that view has only relatively recently become at all widespread. Remember fear-mongering films like Reefer Madness, government anti-drug propaganda ("Just Say No" campaign, "DARE", etc), media sensationalism, politicians equating drug use with crime, and so on -- these things really got people in to an anti-drug frenzy, and marijuana was just one of many drugs in the firing line.

Such moral panic is far from over. It's still going strong against the boogyman drugs of the day: meth and heroin (or the so-called "opiod epidemic"). If you get riled up about the dangers of those drugs, you can perhaps understand how some people used to feel (and still do) about marijuana (and about alcohol, for that matter, which was also prohibited at one point before becoming legal).
If it was only that, what about libraries for handling all kinds of file formats via the OS plugin system?
Kafka's primary use case is as an intermediary for a stream processing system. e.g. to ingest a firehouse of events, make them durable, then feed them to a number of different processors. More common use cases here: https://kafka.apache.org/uses. You _could_ use it's data model to implement a 'job queue', but it's not a great fit for a number of reasons.
Well, the fact that te government subsidized the automotive and oil industries with the Federal highway act in '56 lead to our deprioritization of rail. Had this not been the case, chances are we'd have European equivalent rail, and the small local trolley systems that dotted americas small and medium sized cities would never have been torn up.
They are just as large, but they have 4x the pop. That helps a lot in more ways than one.
For those who think it's because of geography / hyperloop is better technology anyways / any other red herring besides Brezhnevian political stagnation:

It's not completely implausible that, 30 years from now, most of Europe and Asia are connected by hyperloops while the US has built nothing and Internet commentators are arguing that hyperloop is old news compared to yet-unproven teleportation technology, and anyways the population density of the US doesn't support hyperloops.
For the majority of people, the benefits of Facebook's walled garden approach are cheap, immediate and easy to understand. The disadvantages are only problems for a minority. What's more, Facebook can afford to hire a whole marketing team to promote its approach.

Until someone can show concrete benefits for the masses, we will continue in the current direction.
The SF to San Diego or D.C.-Boston corridors alone generate enough economic output to power most countries. It's mind-boggling people append "just" when talking about them like they afterthoughts in the grand scheme of things.
I mean, China is not small either. In terms of doable, there is still a higher density of wealth per square mile in the U.S., even if the population density is less. But at any rate, you don't need to have the entire country be one high speed rail system. You could connect the West Coast from San Diego to Seattle, including L.A., S.F. and Las Vegas. You could do the same for the East coast. And you could have a Houston, Dallas, Austin circuit, among others. No need to do S.F. to NYC for passenger transport.
I don't know why in these threads people always go to great lengths to discount the possibility of this happening.

Facebook A/B tests all sorts of stuff, all of the time. I had 2 or 3 incidents like this happen until a year ago when I eliminated use of their app for good.

When Facebook addressed this question last year, the answer was: "[Facebook] does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed". That's not a denial.
BTW CHAOSnet used a different CSMA-based protocol than PARC Ethernet (which used PUP, also later superseded).
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I am the founder of the GO2CINEMA. I am creating the first website (world-wide, as far as I know) to allow price ticket comparison across multiple cinemas for multiple events. In effect, I am creating Google Flights/ Momondo for cinemas.

Is ticket price that important vs quality of the experience? This is what I get asked quite often. The answer is: it is for some. However, the big picture that I am focusing on providing different metrics to compare venues/ events (screen size, 3d, IMAX, etc) along with the ticket price comparison. The users will find the most suitable event for them, within the price that they can afford.

Is price comparison the only USP? No. The aim is to create the first website in the UK (and eventually across the EU) that allows cinema ticket booking in all of the cinemas. In the EU, we are able to book cinema tickets from the individual cinema websites but not from a single website/ app (e.g. like Fandango in the US or BookMyShow in India).

The the entire UX has been tested with countless of ABs tests. I am focusing on creating the most convenient tool to find showtimes.

When is the booking going to be enabled? 2 out of 3 big chains have been already developed, along with 2 other smaller chains. Bookings are getting rolled out sometime this month.

Questions? Suggestions?
Meh. You can take that stance. However, I don't think the OP is going to come across as manipulative if they have been wrongfully victimized by such a situation. My policy has always been and continues to be "open, honest, and to hell with the social implications." While it's not the snazziest social calibration one can aspire to, and it can burn bridges, long term it creates trust and more importantly removes the need to bother managing such petty issues mentally.
It's deployment would definitely affect how cities and other communities grow and also depopulate, so we'd need to anticipate that and prepare for it.

According to rail advocates, it's a good idea to hardwire your city's transportation infrastructure to fixed locations and routes that may or may not serve the population effectively and economically for decades to come.

But only if you're building rail. Roads are right out.
Our adversaries in this debate see government as a hyper-competent, wise dispenser of justice that is nearly akin to an invisible benevolent god and savior.

I don't think your rational arguments will make a dent against their fervor.
The US built a transcontinental railroad in 1869. We built a comprehensive interstate highway system in 30 years.

That argument is bunk.
>I’ve never been able to understand how the anti-weed interests have been able to rationalize the astronomical costs of enforcement and punishment for so long. Even if I went out on a limb and said, “well, it’d suck if TONS of people smoked TONS of pot ALL of the time”, then I’d still be skeptical about whether that’s a problem worth spending billions of dollars (and locking up millions of people) to address.

It's entirely a generational issue in the US. People were fed decades of paranoid nonsense about marijuana from the DEA and other federal agencies, and as a result it was seen as a "dangerous narcotic" like heroin or meth. People who grew up actually using it and knowing people who use it, however, saw through that. And those people are now in power and voting.
I thought this 45 minute talk by Stefan Tilkov was great: https://youtu.be/li3rfBAP_fE
The US has a strong inter-city travel network in the airlines.

The TSA severely limits its effectiveness, so it could be tempting to build a rail network just to bypass the TSA, but there's no reason to think the same screening procedures won't apply to HSR after the first incident (or just threat).
That's a very interesting observation. It hadn't occurred to me before, but I do think there's some truth in that for me as well.
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The interaction between medical technology and specific biological mechanisms determines limits to human life span. Given the sparse nature of demographic data for extreme old age, there is plenty of room to debate whether or not there exists one or more mechanisms of aging that have not been impacted in any meaningful way by improvements in medical technology over the past century, and which, on their own, can produce a very high rate of mortality in late life. That circumstance would look a lot like a limit to human life span, one that doesn't appear to be affected by medicine - but that is only because the right medicine hasn't been created yet.

One mechanism that springs to mind here is the accumulation of transthyretin amyloid, found in one small study to be the majority cause of death in supercentenarians, but which appears to have only a smaller impact on mortality in younger old age - it is implicated in something like 10% of heart failure cases, for example. Can we argue that advances in medicine and public health over the past century have had little to no impact on the accumulation of misfolded transthyretin deposits in tissues, and thus this mechanism acts as a limit on life span? Or do some of these improvements in fact produce an small, incidental reduction in amyloid burden in later life? The evidence to support any of the possible positions on these questions is presently lacking.

Whatever the state of effective limits on life span today, however, the limits on life span tomorrow are determined by progress towards rejuvenation therapies. There are treatments under development that can clear transthyretin amyloid from tissues, for example, such as the work of Pentraxin Therapeutics, or the catalytic antibody development funded by the SENS Research Foundation.
From the article, it didn't sound like the Chinese are exactly generous with sick time. Admittedly it wasn't directly addressed other than by the general "Chinese workers work more hours" observation.
>There is no such thing as "TOS overriding fair use" because they are on separate and distinct tracks. //

I don't know it to be certainly true, if you can cite something solid on the point I'd be happy: however in general there is such a principle, that certain rights can't be disclaimed.

Taking a logical approach - and law is not always logical - Fair Use could be disclaimed, eg in a ToS, then all Media corps would say words to the effect "this work can't be used under USC's Fair Use legislation" and the democratic law would then be subverted entirely.

Per your final para, most people do know infringement (no one 'took' anything, it's a copy) is not allowed [tortuous]. But, Fair Use very rightly allows copying for parody, reporting, education and similar purposes. They also know that no matter what you try to claim about not using images of your product, news and review, parody and education _are still allowed_ (not in all jurisdictions, however).

The established precedent is n that a browsewrap license needs affirmative action - checkbox, click-thru/interstitial, etc. - this precedent means nothing written in the license is pertinent, the viewer isn't party to the contract.
What's good about Hyperloop? It's more expensive compared to rail.

HSR is more of a more efficient airplane - spacious & can walk around & get a drink.
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That's already a busy rail corridor. But guess what? It's falling apart.

Millions of people pass through the NYC rail terminals every year, and the big inter-city one is crippled by infrastructure failures and damaged tunnels that connect to NJ. It seems that the NJ government spent Federal $$ provided to fix it on something else.

We're living in an age of incompetence.
Why does that matter? Did the immense size of China prevent them from building high speed rail?

Ignoring that for a moment, high speed rail between major cities and population centers is where it would be most beneficial anyway.
IMO electric and self-driving car technology is advancing rapidly enough that investment in high-speed rail is going to end up like landline telephones -- it had a time when it was useful, but countries that missed the boat will end up doing A-OK without them.

Rail is convenient, but it will never ever be as convenient as having a car take you where you want to be, carry your kids, and carry your stuff around. As soon as self-driving technology eliminates the hassles of parking and clean solar-electric tech eliminates the environmental concerns, ridership is going to tank on all the fixed train lines. It might be 10-15 years out, but I would be shocked if any of the investments made today in rail ever pay off.
Thinnet was definitely a revolutionary advancement. We wired my apartment building on University Ave for thinnet in 1989 (when my apartment was the first POP for the ISP TLG, though the term "ISP" hadn't yet been coined).

After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ruined the driveway between the two apartment buildings, we asked the manager if we could run thinnet under the new driveway they were pouring. He shrugged and said, "sure" though he had no idea what it meant; the cable simply looked harmless. A few years ago I walked up and looked and the cable is still there emerging from the ground :-).

(How times change: people actually sought apartments in that building because it had fast internet built in, yet when they would ask the manager about it he had no idea what they were talking about)
Distributing "fairly" (as in equally) is not what capitalism does.
BLAS stands for Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms.

http://www.netlib.org/blas/

The description of the library is lacking context.
Please don't talk like this on HN.
>You're parroting the official medical position which has not been revised in decades.

Yes, because it's proven basic science.
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I wonder if the USA will ever build and modernize its infrastructure? We're still coasting on what was built 50, 60, 70+ years ago.

Then you travel to the rest of the developed world, and wow, what a difference in infrastructure.
I googled "derail thread".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=derailing%20a...

The act of throwing a thread in a discussion forum off topic, oftentimes so much so that the original discussion is unable to continue.
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What I don't understand -- how is road cheaper? I don't get it -- in Austin TX they are spending years to add a single lane to one of the main highways, along with high walls of thick concrete on either side to help with noise in neighborhood, etc. For all the talk of railway's cost and requiring disrupting existing buildings, we have paved roads criss-crossing all of our residential and commercial districts already. It certainly feels like the same way the government is promoting cars, spread out cities, and suburbia, they could be promoting more densely populated, rail-backed cities.
If you have a welfare state then you need borders and immigration control to keep people from exploiting it.
If your government relies on labour inefficiency for revenue (as a welfare state does) then globalization will impoverish your government, driving up tax rates; and since this is unsustainable, you must inevitably protect national labour.
> ah! you're assuming the work is performed inside the same transaction as the dequeue operation, and locks held for the duration ?

Yes that is the model the linked post is proposing, see the Example.

> While I suppose row level locking technically solves contention, it still feels like we're "asking for trouble" in holding databases locks while clients perform arbitrarily long work operations. There's also practical issues when the work itself is distributed and the original client can't itself keep state around, i.e. it has to end the low level transaction.

Not that I recommend using PG as a queue, but you have most/all those problems with any queuing backend. A problem you may have that is PG specific is that the # of open connections/transaction could become quite large with a lot of workers and PG doesn't play well with a lot of connections, it uses a process-per-connection model.
I think you must have a pretty narrow view of "Americans" if you believe that. Do you think a Shanghaier and a Beijiger have less in common than an Ethiopian refugee in Virginia does with a Hmong in Missouri?
Hey, Saurik, just wanted to extend a huge thanks to the efforts you put into Cydia.

You made a lot of difference in a lot of people's lives, rock on.
I'm actually very skeptical about Hyperloop, but it seemed a good way of getting my point across. USA doesn't build stuff not because of technological viability but purely for political reasons.
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I think the problem with defining Mathematics is that everyone interested in defining Mathematics has a tendency to cast an overtly wide net such that nearly can be considered some form of Math. Wikipedia's definition of math (in the article) seems to have the same implications as wikipedia's definition of philosophy ("Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems") in terms of scope without the confidence to say it in as blunt terms. Philosophy can get away with it because it is the historical ancestor of most organized mental endeavors, but the math page can't seem to admit it.

Speaking of Wikipedia, it's well-documented that first link in many pages is the parent of that subject, and that the great ancestor of nearly all pages is "Philosophy" [0].For instance, Delaware is a US. State which is a political entity which is an entity which is something that exists, making it the subject of Ontology (study of existence) which is a subject of Philosophy. Mathematics however is partly the study of quantities, which can exist as a magnitude which is, of course, a subject of math. This means, nearly all of WikiProject Mathematics is determined to stay detached from the rest of human knowledge (admittedly based on this one, anecdotal and inconsequential metric).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...
I'll comment more on racism in the south, but in my opinion the best formulation of the problem is: "there are systemic, bad cultural norms".

If you look at it this way, then punishing every incidence is critical if you want to change attitude towards them (albeit in a contextually-adjusted severe manner, of course).

But for people just "following how things are done", the disincentive is chance_of_being_caught * punishment_for_being_caught.

If only the second term in that equation changes as a result of the current push, then I feel like it just creates more inequality and doesn't change the underlying problem as much.

So yes, punishment for all to some degree that's more than a wrist slap.
People keep on forgetting the immense density of America across it's East Coast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

The northeast corridor accounts for 60M(!) people in the United States and yet the rail options are expensive and slow. it still boggles my mind that flying from Boston to NYC was cheaper by flight than train.

While the US is geographically immense, the population is actually concentrated pretty well. Obviously rail doesn't work everywhere but if we had rails serving the Northeast Corridor, Texas (Austin, Dallas, Houston), California Coast (San Diego -> SF) we would have lines serving highly trafficked and dense areas.
You can eat it anywhere.
Here they are not referring to intra-city transport. Self driving people movers make sense within a city.

Inter-city transportation is a different problem. I think high-speed rail makes a lot of sense. It's energy efficient and land efficient and probably time efficient as well.
I was a friend of Trey back then and I remember him explaining this and thinking "wow, that's some good debugging!"

You'd be amazed at how many people tell Trey that this story is fake. Ugh. There were plenty of witnesses.

Trey made news recently during the flood of negative United Airlines stories:

http://www.newnownext.com/how-united-airlines-almost-ruined-...
100k webpages were never a thing for the amount of content that we are able to serve these days. Consider http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ as an example. The HTML document alone is 795K. Website such as this would immensely benefit from progressive loading.
Not to mention high-risk activities like driving a car, downhill skiing, skydiving, or scuba diving (or various "extreme sports") which are perfectly legal but can easily kill you, cause brain damage, paralysis, and sometimes inflict the same or worse on some innocent victim.

Few if any people will heap extreme moral outrage on people who engage in such risky activities, but if someone dares light up a joint or god forbid consume some other illegal drug, they're a dirty druggie who should be thrown to rot in jail, where (if they don't get killed outright during the raid on their home) they are likely to suffer rape, torture, or other human rights abuses. On top of that they face having their home and other possessions confiscated and a felony keep them from getting good jobs for the rest of their life once they're released (if they manage to survive jail).

Can you even imagine anyone suggesting such a fate for someone who merely chose to drive a car or ski?
Author of PostgreSQL SKIP LOCKED feature here. I gave a talk about queues in PostgreSQL covering the question "why do this in a database", for what it's worth:

https://www.pgcon.org/2016/schedule/track/Applications/929.e...

Mostly the same arguments made by commentators here.

SKIP LOCKED exists in several major RDMSs. We borrowed Oracle's syntax and MySQL has just done the same. The Gray transaction processing book calls it "read past" isolation.
Every time I hear or read something about the US I realize the country is in many ways far behind Europe. When it comes to healthcare (in terms of accessibility), education (in terms of cost), infrastructure, etc, America seems to be doing much worse than these countries. Yet, ironically, America still leads these countries (and the rest of the world) in most other spheres.
I use ipinfo.io mostly to see my own public facing IP address and for me, it's 2 reasons:

- I somehow can remember that domain. I don't have to google "my ip" and dig through weird domains that change all the time

- The design is clean and simple. Not too many information, no ads, loads fast.
Works with Google too, even capitalizing the movie correctly.

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