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Isn't that s very serious issue? I absolutely agree that journalistic/non-fiction integrity has collapsed in the post-print world, but what can we do about it?

When your choice is Vox or Breitbart, that's kind of a turd sandwich.
IANAL.

However, if a university invents something, it can sell that patent. It won't itself commercialise it. Therefore they are a non-practising entity, but you can see how that encourages innovation.
While socialism/communism were good excuses to concentrate enormous amount of power and dictate every aspect of people's lives, the ideas were never the problem. It's just those concentrating wealth want you to believe otherwise, so they can keep get wealthier and wealthier. It's not that hard to help the poor without a dictatorship, the system is already in place in every country in the world, just one small law and there will be no more homeless, poor and unhealthy, only slightly annoyed and less rewarded rich.
Here's the other thing about administrative costs: Medicare's patients cost a lot more per person than private insurance.

In other words, if it costs you $500 in administration costs and one patient has care that totals $5,000 and another has care that totals $10,000, then their administrative costs are 10% and 20%.

And yet we think that if we shifted more people onto a Medicare-like system, we'd save money.
Cognitive improvement won't be found in drugs or supplements. The answer is in lifestyle change and recognizing the body and mind as one system.
I think that's exactly the right solution. Even if the lines that are drawn are not exactly right, having them clearly drawn will help all parties evaluate their own behavior (and that of others) more accurately.
What's particularly weird about .NET version numbers? They're monotonically increasing, with the exception of .NET Core getting a reset to 1.0 (which kinda makes sense, since it's a different and incompatible product).
I guess I never understood the elitism and strong feelings around programming languages. It's such a strange thing to stake one's _identity_ to.

It's like getting upset that Dostoyevsky wrote _Crime and Punishment_ in Russian. The language is irrelevant - he got his point across regardless. Would the novel be any less important and valuable if it was written in German, or Portuguese, Latin, or Mandarin? Of course not.
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The big danger, IMO, is the sheer frustration that the modern social and economic system puts on the demographic mentioned (18-29 year olds). "Maybe we should start smashing stuff until things are better" is really unappealing when you have a meaningful job, a spouse and children, a house, or are otherwise invested into the system. And when you're frustrated enough to have a negative view of markets, well, the field is ripe for extraordinarily dangerous mass movements.

Millennials are infantilized until later in life and, by and large, haven't been allowed to hold real responsibility until 22 or ever later. The affordability of passing gate-keeping milestones - such as owning a home, or getting a degree, or affording a stay-at-home wife and children - in terms of available opportunities has risen drastically. The divorce rate has risen tremendously, having an unprecedented rise in adults raised in broken homes.

Like, congratulations Baby Boomers, you successfully made housing and education expensive enough that your loans and real estate let you retire off the proceeds of people working to pay off their crushing debt. That just means a generation of angry single men in their twenties working pointless jobs, living with their parents, and frustrated with their inability to fulfill their social needs. If you're not scared of creating this demographic, you haven't studied history and psychology.
I'm sure there's a name for this but a modern day label could be the "Facebook Syndrome", where seemingly endless goals of altruism is at its core, motivated by self interest and feeling good about oneself, to the detriment of the people you profess to be helping.
One of the main problems was the speed with which systemd was rolled out on all the major Linux distros, despite it being relatively immature and very controversial at that.

The second major issue is it growing way out of the bounds of being just an init replacement, thereby violating the so-called Unix Philosophy of doing one-thing well. For a user app to do that is one thing, but for a core OS component to do that just smells way too much like forcing Linux to be more like Windows, which a lot of hard-core Linux users are ideologically opposed to.

The third major issue is that on most major Linux distros, users are not given an easy way to avoid using systemd, no matter how much they hate it or oppose it.

The fourth issue is the apparent arrogance of the people responsible for systemd, and their off-hand dismissal of mature and widely respected unix conventions.

All of this adds up to a storm of controversy that the systemd people mostly brought upon themselves. Had they just been more humble about their creation and waited until it was mature and well-tested and did all the wonderful things they claim it could and should do instead of stuffing what was widely seen as a broken-by-design piece of garbage down everybody's throat, maybe much of the Linux community wouldn't have been nearly so outraged by it.
> A patent is a limited-time monopoly to an idea that you can then extract value from

That's the incentive given to the inventor. In exchange society is supposed to eventually get access to an idea that anyone can make use of.

There's a huge breakdown with this system though--the majority of software patents aren't written in a way that would allow someone to reproduce them. Or as you've pointed out they're so obvious that they would have existed without the patent monopoly grant.

If society isn't benefiting, there's no point.
same story here as well.
True, however that is one incident and conceivably Teo thought it had served as a sufficient warning and that problematic behavior had been rectified. I certainly think it would have obviously been in Teo's best interest to behave that way.
This is a really good point. One problem I think though is that not everyone will come out ahead in a single payer system. Our system is explicitly organized around the fact that you must pay for care and we have the best and most expensive care in the world. Our system is setup so that those at the top of the economic ladder can buy a level of care they could not get anywhere else. They will undoubtedly receive worse care were the US to switch to a system which diminished the effect of personal wealth.
Wouldn't that basically eliminate groups like the MPEG? They don't create software or hardware, but they license the technology to everybody else. Should they be forced to compete with their licensees?
That's pretty weak.
Some of the introductory material in the resource will fill you in on what GraphQL is.
This is why I've not been so enthusiastic about the systemd project. When I first heard of systemd, it seemed like a good idea: A new clean-slate design of an init system and service management that aimed to address shortcomings of the present common init and service management. And had the systemd project stayed just that, I'd have been fine with it, and may well have welcomed it onto my systems with open arms.

But then it became necessary to subsume udev and syslog and cron and more parts of the system, and each time, the justifications for this scope creep have been unconvincing to me. It comes across as a bunch of added complexity because it'd be nifty and because they can, without stopping to reflect on whether trying to subsume the rest of the OS or forcing tight coupling and integration is a good idea from a design or architecture perspective.
> In the meantime, Americans will die needless deaths from not receiving basic healthcare

No, it's the typical appeal to emotion nonsense that got the ACA passed to begin with. Now that's going to fail before it's even completely applied.
It is not bad thing, it is just how things are, and I suppose it drives progress in the long term. Younger generations picking up slightly different sets of tools, with different tradeoffs and features. This relatively chaotic movement turns into evolution as some of the ideas stick and get reinforced, and that evolution hopefully will create progress. Of course all this takes long time and in the meanwhile we might see both major misteps, and moments of brillance that nevertheless for some random reason get forgotten and buried.
Exactly, regular Visual Studio has done this forever, but Visual Studio Code acted poorly on any language that uses words as block delimiters.

As someone who's done C# and VB for well over 10 years before Ruby I definitely miss a lot about regular Visual Studio. It's nice to see VS Code evolving into a solid alternative for non Windows users while staying light and lean at the same time.
This simplification seems disingenuous. Would switching to single payer solve your last sentence / quote from the article? Aka, would putting the US government in the middle make things simpler and more efficient (and cheaper) for the end user (health care patients)? I can't say I'm convinced.

Compare with the current system, where any given user is still effectively dealing with a single payer -- their insurance provider. Their insurance provider is one level of removal from the health system that has to be paid.

Now, the idea of transparency? That's lovely, and would force accountability and that sort of thing which could potentially have impact. I can't disagree with that. I'm not sure that just putting the government in the middle fixes that either, though.

As /u/frgtpsswrdlame points out, we have the most expensive health care, which seems like the bigger issue that isn't addressed. If we lessened the cost of health care in the US, that would probably be a better start, imo. Does single payer fix that? I would think that private, competing companies would seek out better deals vs a single government entity who couldn't really negotiate, but perhaps I've got that backwards.

I'm not disagreeing with the thought on the whole, I just don't see how single payer fixes these problems.
The paper "The Proof of Innocence" linked to there has a wonderful sentence in the abstract (https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162): "The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California."
Typically I'd agree. I don't mean the text has no answers or is subjective - the text does contain the answers to nearly every puzzling thing within it, if you can see it. Wolfe is an engineer and the pieces fit together. Neil Gaiman has a nice essay on how to read it properly (Gene Wolfe is the favorite author of many famous authors you've heard of):

https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2007/gwng0704.htm

The main character is an unreliable narrator.

However consider all the veils that would have to be cast aside to understand reality:

1. The narrator could be lying to you.
2. The narrator could not understand what is truly happening.
3. The narrator may have mental models which are not accurate.
4. The narrator may be passing on inaccurate information or lies.
5. The narrator may be using words in a way that you think you understand, but do not.
6. The narrator may be expecting you to implicitly understand something that you do not e.g. we make certain assumptions about information because the Internet now exists, something similar exists in the world of the New Sun.
7. The narrator may be using the language of metaphor to describe something that is quite real but not what we think it is.
8. The narrator may not be one person. This won't make sense until you read the book.
9. The narrator could be telling you the truth, but you merely do not understand what he is really saying.
10. The narrator may not be lying at all, merely leaving out information that makes him look bad.

I could go on for many more points. I found thinking of Vernadsky's theories useful while reading it. If reading Gene Wolfe does not fire up your neurons, nothing will.

Again: the answers are in the text, it is not subjective in my experience, but you're going to have to think real hard on many different levels. Your understanding of the New Sun's world will be in flux for the duration of the book. Gene Wolfe gives you the answer, but he gives it once so you have to pay close attention. If something puzzles you, tuck it away and keep reading.
Sorry, but sounds like something straight out of /r/iamverysmart

Do you have any historic evidence that countries with smaller governments are wealthier & more efficient than countries where government spending is a large proportion of the GDP? (hint: it's all the western developed democracies)
It's a fun thought experiment, but we'd never do it.

A free market would look something like this:

1) everybody buys their own insurance in a genuinely free marketplace (this is ENTIRELY not the case now and would probably require significant gov intervention to defeat cartel-seeking behavior from insurance co's. There are good reasons insurance is so highly regulated, only the first of which is that insurance companies are highly incentivized to not pay out since they already have your money, and you can't go elsewhere with your claim.)

2) if you can't pay, you die in the gutter.
Agreed. Why must the two be linked anyway?
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While the pay is different, the situation is the same in England for Primary teachers in "desirable" locations (e.g. good schools, rural and suburban schools). Positions in some areas simply don't exist until teachers retire.
> infant mortality rates (2-3x higher in the US!).

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/why-ameri...

"The researchers compared data on infant health and mortality in the U.S.; Austria, whose rate of 3.8 is roughly average among European nations; and Finland, whose rate of 2.3 is one of the lowest in the world. One of the biggest differences, they found, was in the definition of what could be considered a live birth. “Extremely preterm births recorded in some places may be considered a miscarriage or still birth in other countries,” they wrote. Although the chance of survival for babies born before 23 weeks is low (the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that doctors don’t resuscitate babies born before that point), they’re recorded as live births in the U.S."
Just so we're clear though, the disarmament that we should aim for is to change physics so that nuclear weapons don't work at all, right? Because that's an option, we could change how the patent system works.
I'm curious what you mean by "crappy" - I don't find Basecamp useful for my needs, but lots of people do.

Are you saying you don't personally enjoy using it? Or that you think it's poorly engineered?
TPL abstracts threads away, but not mutable shared memory, nor any primitives used to synchronize access to such from concurrent tasks.
Right -- those factors would be more relevant, specific things to point to than "providers who err in their favor get more money than those who don't".
I've always read that the problem with Medicare is that it's unfair to hospitals because they pay lower than the average rate (but can't negotiate on medicine). Do the savings from lower care costs not balance out the higher drug costs? (From a steady state of 1 surgery can lead to a lifetime of drugs, I'd guess the balance isn't great)
I'm ambivalent. I've left off jobs that didn't really matter, including those of longer duration. It's never been an issue.
Your point is undermined by your links. The first describes a remote network exploit, which is not developed by coöperation or coercion. Exploits take advantage of a software vulnerability to insert additional capabilities (espionage). I think you wanted to find a link describing the process of interdiction, which was implied to exist in the Snowden documents.

The second link is just a public denial by Check Point. I'm not sure why you're implying these companies coöperate with their governments. A discovered back door would destroy Kaspersky, Huawei, Cisco, Check Point, etc.; nobody would renew their contracts with that massive loss of trust.

I do think you raise an excellent point. The actual reality that these companies aren't providing back doors is not relevant when the perception is that they are. The greatest risk is not coöperation, but of remote exploitation of the software. It turns out that there are a few major countries known for conducting network exploitation campaigns, unrelated to the country of origin of the target software. Just as the Stuxnet guys were almost certainly not German, yet they had a vulnerability in Siemens software, and the NotPetya authors didn't exert physical influence over ME.Doc in Ukraine, attackers have little to do with where the software was built.

As long as a government acts "scary", however, it makes companies feel less secure in the software, which affects sales. I'm not singling out software and hardware procurement officers; the "feels = reals" phenomenon is a human condition.
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Why not? The state takes resources from the wealthy and uses them to provide services to the general population. That's socialism in a nutshell.
Who cares? Cloudflare are a practicing entity, presumably with legitimate patents. They aren't necessarily at war with software patents as a concept, just the obvious abuse.
I lived in Italy for a number of years, and the Italian government is no nordic model of efficiency and propriety. And the health care system is still mostly better than in the US :-/

You're right that costs need containing though, and it's not quite as simply as "just" switching to a singly payer system.
Being forced to do something is not something I generally consider to be a favorable circumstance.
Maybe there are some Mossad agents, French Intelligence, Chinese, NSA, etc. also working for Kaspersky. It is a multinational team.
Point two would be a hell of an incentive to get insurance, by the by. Beats the hell out of some candy-ass tax penalty. "Young invincible bet wrong, got caught in some freak skateboarding accident? Sucks to be you. You an organ donor by any chance?"
Anonymity of elected officials.
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>They will undoubtably receive worse care were the US to switch healthcare systems.

If the US switches to mostly single payer, but still allows for private insurance and private doctors to exist, the wealthy will probably have to pay more to access them, but they'll still be able to access them.
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Yeah, i never implied the Pokemon GO server was stateful (and it definitely isn't) in the way that other MMOs/FPSs that require persistent connections are. However, you can't say that it isn't a "game server".

I looked through comments to see if anyone had pointed it out and didn't see anything. Figured maybe you'd be interested to know that Kubernetes was used for something so massive. My bad.
I can't speak to the entirity of your question, but the last part I will address: "is there no good GraphQL-server/implementation for PHP"

There are 2 good PHP servers:
https://github.com/Youshido/GraphQL
https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php

It seems like the majority of the graphql-php community has rallied around the Webonyx implementation, including myself for my WPGraphQL project, a free open source WordPress plugin that brings a GraphQL API to WordPress (https://wpgraphql.com)

As the maintainer of WPGraphQL, I'd be interested in adding a section to the HowToGraphQL resource specific to using GraphQL with WordPress, but haven't had any official discussions with the maintainers of the project yet.

There are also implementations for Laravel and other projects, using that library.
It will take some time until that question can be answered. For some it will likely matter a lot, e.g. engineering or HPC applications that rely heavily on dense solvers. however, even for non FP-heavy workloads (like integer-heavy stuff say databases) the wider SIMD with the new mask and blend instructions [1] _could_ make a significant difference. Still, in many cases significant difference will likely be seen only after careful tuning!

Also note that Intel is refining their pesky market segmentation game: the full 2x 512-bit FMA/cycle is only available on high-end CPUs, only lower-end it's only 1 FMA/cycle and you still get the extra AVX512 clock throttle hit [2]!

I really like the fact that AMD stayed away from such devil-in-the-details feature-based market segmentation!

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/avx-512-instruct...
[2] https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Inte...
This is a really interesting model. Can't wait to see how it works out.
Hey! That's actually a pretty common misconception people have about GraphQL when they first hear about it - however, GraphQL definitely is not a Graph database (as is Neo4j). In fact, it's not even a database technology, despite sharing the same suffix with SQL!

GraphQL is a query language for APIs - so, the closest you could get is to say that GraphQL is an API technology! It defines a specific request/response-format for client-server communication that's extremely flexible, simple and efficient. GraphQL is also independent of the transport protocol that's used (though mostly that's HTTP today).

If you have a good idea about what an API is, you can read the second chapter of "How to GraphQL" where we highlight technical differences between GraphQL & REST: https://www.howtographql.com/basics/1-graphql-is-the-better-...
Either: Linus's behavior is fine and this is expected in the FSF community

OR

We burn all those MLs into the ground.

Terrible culture in these projects is basically how everyone is conditioned to interact from the top down. We can't pick and choose which assholes are okay and which are not. We either push back on all of them to make a more professional environment or we accept this is what we want.
That is exactly what I thought - it seems to follow the exponential decay. A quick and dirty graph with logarithmic scale on price: https://imgur.com/a/90a4p

Pretty much a straight line, except for the Thailand hiccup.
Externals also often only have 1 yr warranties vs 2, 3, or 5 for bare drives in my experience.
> I was also trying to make one point: all math is built on arithmetic operations if you dig down to first principles,

I am a newb at this stuff, but I believe (basic) number theory actually builds on recursive structures, and then uses induction to make statements about behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms#Addition

What is interesting is how the same approach works for analogous structures like lists - because of the monoid abstraction.
I see. So, the choice is essentially :
A: <Capital> from which the startup can pay legal fees OR
B: <Capital> + <Legal Fees> where the Capital is probably less as VC firm is probably accounting for Legal fees separately.

Even then, it is interesting that the optics of this doesn't bother investors.
I'm in the same situation, my handwriting is illegibly bad, even by myself - the main reason I don't want to improve it is that I just don't use it, haven't for years, it'd be an incredible waste of time and effort. There's no motivating reason to do it except for perhaps some very abstract learning benefit - which hasn't to my knowledge even been proven out in the software engineering or computer science field, where it arguably makes the least sense.
Are they sure it is the earth warming it and not just the continuation of the lapse rate[1]? How much warmer is it at the bottom? If it is 5-10 C warmer that could just be the atmosphere getting thicker.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapse_rate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics