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Politicians are already incapable of handling everything of any serious complexity, except maybe for a narrow domain of their own expertise. For everything else, they need to rely on other's advice.

It seems to me that often, those people tend to be lobbyists that just happened to volunteer themselves when the politician was out of their depth. If the politician is any good at what they do, they will consult several experts, but there is still room for significant bias to creep in.

Now the question is whether the average random citizen is more or less likely than the average politician, to succumb to this kind of external influence. My guess is that random selection will yield less people who are only in it for the power, but also less people who are genuinely driven by the need to solve problems within society.
How does that work for people who don't live in the same place all their life?

Do you release your property and get given property in a new city when you move?
> Third, homelessness is on the rise nationwide.

That's incorrect according to "The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress" at https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2016-AHAR-P... . Page 8 has a graph of all homeless people, which has been on a downward trend from 2007 to 2016.
> Price: Within reason, who cares? I don't have a wife or kids or any obligations really. What good is a six figure salary if I have to micromanage what I'm spending on food?

This mentality always blows me away and I am genuinely curious.

Has it not occurred to you that if you spend less, you can work less? (i.e. part time or retire sooner)

I cut things like this out of my spending, now I work a couple of years then travel a couple of years, first time I drove to South America, now I'm driving around Africa.
The lack of density is why I am constantly using "request desktop site" for things like Reddit, too.

Sometimes we don't need a "design" so much as a list of links.
FYI, Mz also claims a certain level of direct and personal experience with the problem.

You might focus more on what you're sure you know, and not what you think someone else does, doesn't, or ought.
If you're not in a huge hurry, give your employer enough time to hire your replacement and to allow you to train them. This will give you more income and you will leave on very very very good terms. That's how I quit my last job, and it took three months. Three years later they brought me in for 3 months as a consultant.
They are supposed to be sent to forced labor to chemical plants and other harmful conditions work (Belarus also has a lot of work to do on contaminated Chernobyl lands, so maybe there as well).

Thing is, bumming is a crime. As far as i know, it is a felony in just about every country. It is just that cops are closing their eyes on this crime so frequently that most people even forgot that it was against the law.
Anxiety at the Gates
Sean Smith's story is so inspiring. It teaches us that if you can afford to work unpaid for 7+ hours per day, 50+ hours per week for a whole year and move to one of the most expensive cities in the world without a job, then you can truly achieve anything.
In Towns Already Hit by Steel Mill Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs
In a market as competitive as restaurants, I can't help but think that making crazy decisions might be your only way to set yourself apart from the crowd.

Having delicious food makes people forgive a lot when it comes to comfort or decor. And just maybe having hideous chairs and walls would help you stand out in the minds of customers.
I think those gold stained resin walls look great, however it also depends on the background wall color. If they don't keep the wall clean enough, those stains would look cheap.

Honestly I'm excited by the crockery and interiors. The chairs don't look comfortable but I would give this restaurant a shot.

What I don't understand is the overzealous budget Mr Tortosa has in this project. In my opinion it would be wiser to spend a lot less on the restaurant and slowly upgrade it over the next couple of months or years.
Also, by the looks of it they could have easily shaved off couple of 10 grand just by properly planning and anticipating the license wait period.
If they need batteries, this cannot be forever. Not even close. Even less if they let the batteries deep-discharge, which dramatically decreases their lifespan.
It still needs to be authenticated. It could be replaced by an attacker public key.
I really admire the author for being able to identify so many types with just a few letterforms. I've had a passing interest in types so I can identify basic Microsoft/Apple free fonts as well as a few common Adobe ones like Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. I think I can identify perhaps at most thirty different typefaces. Anyone wants to chime in on how you are able to be familiar with so many more?
the codebase is really elegant. thanks for open sourcing everything!
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Ideally, I would like to be good enough to get a job at an AI/robotics startup. I already have a CS degree, a decent math background, and am working as an embedded software developer for a large company.
I think it goes deeper than that, or more pointed, it goes to "fatigue" and that aspect is highly underrated in the market projections.

The tech is amazing, no doubt about it, and there's lot's of headroom to make it even more so, but the experience is a novelty that wears off fast and when it does one is left fatigued and that sticks.

The idea of exploring, say, Machu Picchu in VR is cool as can be. Same can be said for 1000s of destinations, but after a few you're satiated and it's human nature to long for what's real.

Like any trendy tech there will some who immerse themselves in it but I don't see people spending huge amounts of time with it.

Here's why... After I've done Machu Picchu in VR I know pretty much what everything else will look like. I want to touch the walls and breath the air and meet the people at Machu Picchu, not just see images of it. I want to be there.

And deep down inside I know if I become immersed in (or addicted to) VR I lose touch with reality and there are innate feelings of guilt and waste in that which are inescapable for most of us.
Is the margin that thin even in that price range? I would think the 5% number is for cheaper restaurants but not for higher prices ones.
What I've noticed often with coworkers, and even myself at times, is that management often won't do anything to discourage your workaholic tendencies - but it was never actually an expectation in the first place - just a belief in the employee's head that it's what's required of them.

When I've been through such phases, once I realized that I could set reasonable expectations, it was never actually a big deal. Eventually I even started taking my vacation days, nervous that my job wouldn't be waiting for me when I got back, but that was really all in my head.
This is interesting.

The only way to do it should be to sync your observation to other observers as soon as the observation is made. The other observers can confirm the time then by knowing when they received the information.

Block chain with comments.
"But the feeling of the restaurant is so important to me and I wanted to be 100 percent involved in every aspect,"

I hate to be this guy, but it feels like a perfect #1 example of why startups fail -- he basically designed restaurant for HIMSELF.

I honestly wish him good luck of cloning himself 100,000 times and being happy to eat at his own place and pay for each bill to return $700k of initial investment.
OK, that makes sense. Thanks :)

Interesting that intelligence bootstraps like this. Get smart enough to use fire and that allows you to grow more neurons and get smart enough to make... wheels? Computers? What's the next leap after fire?
Once you go to the voting booth you get assigned a random private/public key pair. To ensure that the key pair is actually random you could let the voter create a seed.

This way, only you know the public key, and you can check that your vote did indeed end up with the candidate you voted for. You may disclose your public key if you wish to do so.
I'm not sure of the specifics and it may not be very easy to get there, but I know Hawaii has a single payer system and a similar climate. It might be something to look into.
"No thanks, I'm driving". Works for me.
To be honest, I like my job, it brings me fulfillment in my life and I don't have a lot of other sources of that (as stated no wife/kids). I'm not really interested in restricting my lifestyle now to hasten my retirement, although I'm certainly not so stupid that I don't save for retirement. I just don't bother to minmax my finances.

I find the type of travel you describe stressful. I also don't like the insecurity of part-time work. Maybe I'll feel differently later, but at age 31 that lifestyle is just not for me.
As the others have pointed out the technical details, the high level difference is that FPGA's are typically volatile and hence lose their programing once there is a power loss. CPLD's have non-volatile memory that allow for hard reseting and so are used in environments that need fault tolerance (factories, airplanes, etc.).
If you make a little money and want to own property you could move to the Midwest.
This doesn't use AVX512 though, and AVX512 is not supported in any mainstream JVM or CPU. It's only available in Xeon Phi, a HPC accelerator card with many slow cores.
It's more or less certain that his investors have the most senior shares and get paid first.
I have a system which computes over an immutable time series and stores the results in Cassandra, which I treat as the source of truth. I think it's fair to call it a DB.
Yes, but evolution is stupid and slow. I don't want to wait 1 billion years for JavaScript to be developer-friendly.
I'd guess using the hotel's name to put the mark at ease was effective
A useful point and one I make in this essay on boosting apprenticeships: http://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boost.... The "College for all, all the time and everywhere" mantra needs to end. College is great but is not a panacea.
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The news here was reporting earlier that the Chernobyl monitoring computers were compromised.

Edit: No link, but it was on ABC (Australia) live news, which is pretty reliable. Here is a less reliable source:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
Necessarily, as none of their models work, which is a natural consequence of how complicated the system is, just like macroecon.
I like larger women. There I said it. I've dated, married, etc. My dating with skinny women never lasted long. I was "Skinny" back in those days. I've gained quite a bit in ten years.
Just mount machine guns and/or a rocket launcher on the Boston Dynamics walker and you'll see a real purpose for it: infantry support. Search and rescue. Right. More like "seek and destroy". They probably got the idea out of Star Wars to begin with.
It seems to be a bit content-free, with pop-up ads, and lacking attribution from what I can tell. However, if no other reference is available, I will certainly look at its information over the various other persons that infest the web with fake medical fiction. EDIT: for example, http://www.webmd.com/lung/tc/tuberculosis-tb-topic-overview#... - if you have never visited WebMD or hit this page using incognito, it will hit you with a pop-up ad within 5 seconds.

EDIT2: An under-rated site is the Merck Manual. Their corresponding page for the consumer edition is thus: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/infections/tuberculosis-an... .
I learnt C, C++, Shell scripting gnu makefile creation directly on project. When I did my degree I only knew C just for sake of passing. I was directly exposed to writing device driver for I2C and SPI the very first day and someone just dumped a 1GB of technical junk on my PC which include some APIs of RTOS I was supposed to work on!
But I would say that that was really a steeeep learning curve... I am amazed and surprised today when I look back from where I started 13 years back :)
Urgh, it's too late to edit it but it should say "scattered across the rest of the evenings ", not all in the same night...
(Some) Details:

Hotels in a major metro area have apparently been targeted by someone calling rooms and posing as hotel staff. It's been pretty effective, or so I could conclude not just from seeing a friend fall for it but from seeing the actual letter printed by one of the hotels (dated over a week ago) to help patrons get out of the charge with their credit providers.

Withholding details until I've been cleared to provide more. I frankly have no idea how common a practice this is; I just thought it was a creative way to rapidly establish trust with hotel patrons.
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What happens next? (a word on AI and jobs)
If you view the new Google "News" from a desktop browser with a narrow width (well, narrow for these days--1024 pixels, so I can actually have other windows on my screen), the "content" takes up about a third of the page. The other two thirds is wasted.

Even within the "content," tremendous amounts of space is wasted, and less information is present than before.
Physicists definitely do care about those things, they can just put off figuring them out because they are useful in the meantime.

Just like mathematicians can turn the results of 'unsolved problems' into axioms and go on with their lives.
A grey background was dingy when Material Design was introduced and it's still dingy today. The previous News design was much cleaner. With some tweaking it would be much preferred to all of the superfluous cards.
Yea, but the baseline for that _type_ of beer is pretty low so the shittier ones in that part of the market can easily reach 3.5. Many of the fraternities at my (large, public) university would bulk-buy 2.5% beer.

This is in contrast to the baseline that the parents claim would imply, in a market supposedly "overwhelmingly" skewed towards stronger craft beer.
Is there a public link for that?
Fire led to agriculture and metal working, which in turn led to society and war. The rest snowballs from there.
I think there's a bigger problem the article is getting at, that people are kind of missing or downplaying, which is the culture around math skill acquisition and ability.

It's obvious this guy had a love of math and ability in it, from his majors and subsequent events.

But it's also actually not that unreasonable for him to start second-guessing himself when he struggled with math earlier in life.

I do think there's this idea that if you're good at math and have something to offer in it, it will show early on regardless of life circumstances or mentors or role models or whatever, that if it's not immediately obvious that you're a mathematical genius you should forget about it.

"Realizing a test you took in elementary school needn't define you" is actually a nontrivial thing to overcome in today's society, maybe even especially in STEM circles.

Sometimes I wish STEM culture was more focused on sharing the joys of STEM and trying to be as open-minded and inclusive as possible, instead of brandishing it as a competitive tool.
See also https://www.sharedrop.io/ (WebRTC-based AirDrop clone)
Far more helium airships have wrecked than hydrogen airships, even counting only before the Hindenburg.
I had to go down a small rabbit hole of my own ignorance here.

My initial thought was that since JS is the target environment for a LISP compiler, it would necessarily have to be more flexible and "powerful" (whatever that means). With a bit more thought I realised that that's not the case.

Thanks for the prompt to look into this more, and learn :)
Ok, we've replaced the title above with a grammatical one that we ripped off of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651524.
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That he learned calculus when he was younger doesn't really explain how he so easily transitioned into mathematical physics after a liberal arts education.

Calculus is relatively basic compared to grad level work in that area.
Funny, just the other day at work I was trying to explain to someone what an FPGA was and I used the 7400 TLL example and said imagine if you had a crate full of TTL chips and you could put them all onto a single die, arrange them with the most common ones in little module called LUT's and then be able to cross connect any input to any output using a memory type array. The guy I was explaining it to was familiar with TTL from school and immediately the light went on.
(a) you are missing the point, this is as much to say that home purchasers were more likely to be wealthy in 2006. It isnt a valuation that is independent of time or context, and couldn't be a measure of human 'intelligence', whatever that means. And (b) just leads to a tautology, which again is my overall point: IQ measures things that are valuable in a specific context and time period, designed by members of the same group.
The most profitable restaurants are typically the ones with cheap food. It is counterintuitive, but true.
"A fire department permit worker told Tortosa that it would take him two to four weeks to even look at Robin’s paperwork — or, for $536 ($134 per hour of overtime with a four-hour minimum), Tortosa could pay for him to look at it right now."

Can someone please explain to me how this isn't extortion and bribery?
If you want the basics of an answer, there are plenty of sources, including a good Wikipedia article on sprawl.

The general response is "it creates problems" -- traffic, congestion, auto-centric neighbourhoods (which are poor places for children, the elderly, the disabled), and pollution.

I find more compelling the case laid out in the StrongTowns blog, by Charles Marohn, over several articles, that sprawl 1) costs more in the long term and 2) ultimately creates an unsustainable expenses-to-revenues balance.

Suburbs developed with cars, when cheap gasoline and asphalt made distance, rather than height (as in New York City) cheap. Homes were dropped on quarter-acre lots, retail centralised, and (in the US model) land use generally restricted to single-use: a lot is either commercial or residential, and industrial uses are kept widely separated.

Before that, cities were dense, because virtually all movement was on foot, by hand-cart, or, if you were wealthy, by a horse-drawn cart or carriage. Cities were also limited in size, because everything that went in had to come out, and that also generally happened by one or more of the above means -- no electrical sewerage pumping substations. Cholera and typhoid were killing tens of thousands of people per year in mid-19th century New York and London.

Space means you need more of everything: power lines, water mains, sewer lines, gas, cable, internet, streets, ... And maintenance for all of the above. At the same time, densities are too low to support intensive use -- think factory or even office jobs, or dense retail. Reliance instead is on moving people to retail centres -- built at a remove from either housing or city centres.

If you've got the resources (and cheap fuel), the spread-out life is ... relatively pleasant. If you cannot afford a car, or have had your licence revoked (drink driving, tickets, in some cases a penalty for failure to pay child support, or miscellaneous infractions), or can no longer drive (blind, disabled, epilepsy, ...), not so much. Transit options are almost always poor, and options such as walking or cycling not well supported.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
That's what you get when you don't use std::vector.
Not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage

You're asking a lot of nickel alloy blades turning at 15k-19k rpms.
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> Many people have spent their whole careers on it and have died without making significant progress.

I wonder... if there are entire domains of technology that simply -cannot- be achieved without AI – machines building and improving themselves.

We have already seen problems that simply cannot be solved within the lifetime of humans or in terrestrial environments, like telescopes in space vs. those on ground, or crossing long distances in "generation spaceships.."
This Startup Wants to Make Your VR Experience Even More Realistic
Biologists start sharing unpublished work–oh, the horror
Sounds like Dukto: http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

Supports Windows (XP and up), OS X/macOS (10.6 and up), Linux (packages for Ububtu and Fedora), and Symbian. Ports available for iOS, Blackberry, and more.
This is a fantastic example of how to do math/science journalism right. It's not afraid to get into the technical details, but everything is explained so that someone without much math background can understand.

The human interest stuff is also great; just enough to give you a full picture without the padded-out feeling that a lot of long-form journalism has. Great all around!
So I collect telephones.

I'll often catch stuff like this when watching period-set movies or TV shows.

Mad Men deserves credit though - in six years they made one mistake - they had a set with a modular plug in it at Don's house (and it wasn't even a modular plug, it was an insert that could be replaced with a modular one on a G-Type handset).
I translated food costs to my income per-day, after taxes/rent.

The choices were:

* 1 work day allocated to making/eating 20 personally made meals a month

* 2 work days allocated to eating 20 professionally meals a month.

Factoring in time, variety, and the fact that professional meals taste better than mine - yes, I absolutely eat out most days. I'll pinch pennies on bigger items like car insurance or rent, but food was simply a good cost-benefit trade off.

YMMV; cost-benefit is subjective.
The US has intervened in geopolitics time after time, and US companies own an especially high percent of world-wide wealth. It's hard to argue we're actually isolationist.
Seattle is doing better than SF or NYC at building housing but is not doing well enough: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut...

Many personal preferences have shifted to living in cities and knowledge workers (not my favorite phrase but useful here) are more productive in them. Yet many cities' zoning codes from the 70s restrict development and drive up prices: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/r... . We ought to quit doing that.
I think the overuse of the word "problematic" is a result of this dilemma. I think any popular synonym would have it's meaning appropriated by people who man different things when they use it. Being specific is all we've got, I guess.
For me, it's the exact reverse. :) I rarely buy a lunch that I couldn't have made better myself, for less money. But then again I also find cooking fun, whereas for others it's a time sink.
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No, I'm saying reality is party. For example, in the US, accepting that climate change is real is "liberal" (in the US usage of the word) and denying climate change is conservative. So if a newspaper reports factually and responsibly about climate change, the newspaper looks "liberal" and partisan.
Wrecked, yes, but they probably didn't burn like a torch with people jumping out of them to avoid burning alive.
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maybe domesticating other animals such as horses, pigs, and cows?