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What concentration camps reveal is that modern people are squeamish about killing.

Consider the Mongol empire. While the Mongol empire had some things in common with a modern state, squeamishness about killing was not one of them. There are cases where they decided a city needed to be destroyed and they took great pains to make sure that destruction was total. Every man, woman, and child they could find was put to the sword (or axe). Depopulating an entire city was a difficult task before carpet bombing became an option. Mongol soldiers were given quotas and expected to produce enough ears to show that they had met that quota. Punishments for not meeting that quota were harsh. Ears were put into sacks and carted off in wagons to be counted. Even dogs, cats and chickens were killed in some cases. There are recorded instances of Mongol armies leaving towns after doing this and then deliberately returning a week or two later, just to make sure they got anyone who had managed to hide in a basement or who was out of town when they were first there.

Consider the Romans. After the third Punic war Carthage's population was sold into slavery en masse and the city burned for 17 days. The earth was salted. There was no fourth Punic war because there were no Carthaginians left alive and free. Let's not even talk about the Assyrians!

Many states throughout history have committed genocide against enemies and many others have persecuted populations within their own borders. Concentration camps are only necessary now because most people won't stand for such atrocities, and states therefore feel compelled to carry them out in relative secrecy. Modern human society is gentler now than at any point in our past, although perhaps navel-gazing and self-accusatory articles like this are part of the reason why, no matter how uninformed they might be.
I think you're putting too much emphasis in heritability rather than the impact of childhood on mental states.
same here using privoxy
Buddy, I feel for you. I really do. I caught this kind of crazy about 20 years ago. But then I got over it.

Yes, a great many people are essentially ruled by the lies told by the rich and powerful. But ferreting out and exposing those lies won't do you a bit of good. The bullshit you are repeating here is likely to be spread and encouraged by those who stand to profit by increased consumer demand for gold, and for disaster preparation supplies.

You took the red pill, and now you think Zion is the real world. It isn't. It's the pressure release valve--the special program loaded to house "problem" residents of the Matrix. You're in an oubliette made of your own thoughts.

It just doesn't matter if the world has a secret emperor supported by a cabal of Illuminati. If you want to survive in it, you get a job or start a business that transacts in the commonly accepted currency, and you pay your taxes--not because they are just, but because you will get beaten, caged, or killed if you don't.

If you truly believe that those who threaten the system are assassinated by it, then who are you to escape that fate? You can play the game by the rules defined for it, even if they are not fair, or you can flip the game board off the table and get dogpiled into a bloody pulp by all the players who thought they had a chance at winning. You're not going to get anywhere by spending your whole turn whining about changing the rules. You'll just piss off the other players as the gamemaster waits you out.

The world is not fair. Knowing it is not fair does not make it more fair. Going back will not move you forward. The unethical asses of this world already know about gold, and have planned ahead to negate it as a threat to their influence. You would be far better off tossing out all the conspiracy theory, and trying to puzzle out some Etherium smart contracts that would obviate the kind of power one may wield by exerting private control over fiat money. Good luck.
It's easy if you try...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats
Vaccines work by previewing a foreign object, that if seen again, the immune system will attack. The big difference in treating cancer is that there is nothing 'foreign' about cancer - it arises from one's own cells. Cancer is an unproductive or even malicious mashup of material already found in the human body, very much unlike a viral or bacterial infection. There are no natural differences in kind that can be detected by an immune system that would not otherwise attack healthy tissue as well.

In this case there is essentially a synthetic sensor designed and provided to the immune system that is precisely tuned in the lab to detect the (very subtle) differences between a cancer cell and a healthy cell.
We have a pretty good understanding of the individual neuron, and we modeled it with good accuracy. We used a very simplified model of it to build deep learning. The problem is the absurd amount of neurons and interconnections that we would have to run to simulate a human brain.

At some point we may find some phenomena for learning that involves some quantum event, but I doubt we have ever to simulate them at the quantum level.
Bellevue is entirely a different city from Seattle. Your office is not in Seattle. From real Seattle the commute would actually be kind of bad (1hr+)
I would personally prefer to do this client side and then just embed the generated policy. Especially since I use several different languages server-side, often not PHP. Of course I can always run the PHP client-side as well :) Anyway, thanks OP!
I don't know anyone who's content to just make the same amount of money (at least those earning say less than $200k). That money usually starts going to things like a bigger house, fancier vacations, better schools for the children, nicer cars etc.
Sir or Madam, I am one of the most emphatic humans I know (on my scale as a pleb). I care for the suffering of all people, and am willing to give up large chunks of my life remaining for social causes. I live below my means so people I've never met can live a better life.

But arguing over terminology used by a data store? Let's not discuss window dressing patterns while the neighborhood is burning to the ground.

Pick the hill you want to die on wisely. This is not that hill.
This applies to any kind of large organization like states, military or corporations. Individuals don't really see anymore what the organization does but they just play their little role. In such a system it's easy for the organization to do evil while each individual just thinks they are doing their job without being responsible for the bigger picture.

I think this will get worse because technology allows even tighter control of large organizations.
Sure, you can criticize and they can ignore it. Worry about making your own city nice, not theirs. That's the whole point of having localized governments.
Sorry, no clue. You could hop on the Red line to Kendall and ask! They're only 2 stops away from your Harvard office :)
The US federal government has basically standardized, in terms of public health and safety measures, on treating doing those interventions that will save lives if they will save lives for less than $7.5 million on average (it's been going up over time). This is for stuff like lead abatement, public safety commercials, pollution controls, etc.

That doesn't apply to medicine but it looks like this treatment is well worth it compared to the money the government spends, e.g., cleaning up lead paint. And since the number I gave is for an average life when saving a child we should be willing to spend more.
If you can afford to fly international, carry a $2000 purse, and drive a Mercedes, I'm sorry but "not knowing any better" gets a little old after a while.

If race wasn't a component of this discussion there's no way people would be willing to go through the mental gymnastics required to constantly find a new excuse for this being in no way whatsoever the fault of the "public pooping supervisor".

I suspect this same anti-racism-at-whatever-measure is what makes financial fraud so easy as well.
I thought the hard thing in software development was naming things and off by one errors?
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It didn't even work for the USA! We built our power on conquest, slavery, and industrial piracy. Don't know much about protectionism, but even without it, that seems like plenty.
Nothing stops you from giving the sites an alias and storing the actual URLs in the encrypted files.
Frank Sidebottom was created as a fake fan of Chris Sievey's band The Freshies. Sievey had previously released a ZX81 program on a B side that played along with the record, showing lyrics, etc. Sidebottom was a character on the accompanying record for the game, called "The Biz" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biz_(video_game)
I think that's an argument for fewer people doing math-oriented CS courses as "training" for being a developer rather than changing the nature of CS courses.
It's interesting to see how Facebook and Google currently handle P3P

https://fb.me/p3p

https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Ahah, nice ideas!

Another concept in that vein would be to build websites for vets completely for free, BUT have it branded by Royal Canin or another food supplier like that.
It's a combination, where the demand curve never meets the supply curve at an acceptable price for the consumer.

It could be due to being able to obtain a product cheaper from somewhere else due to lower labor costs (happens due to converging standards of living across the world), and it could also happen that there are alternatives, such as other jobs and/or social security disability or welfare that make doing undesirable jobs need an even higher price point to make it worthwhile.
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Doubter here..

a) For AGI - I personally think there is an intellectual limitation in the human to go to this point. Case in point: Dogs can't talk. Arguing the 'inevitability' is to some extent arguing that one day dogs will be able to talk, because why shouldn't they? Will we make 'general AI' close enough to fool many people many times, which is essentially composed of a bazillion cogs wired together and rigged to appear general? probably. But to the level that it meta-tunes itself? no.

b) For your 'engineered brain': If you are mimicking natural intelligence with chemistry, biology, etc, it is a clone - you are still dependant on understanding natural processes which you didn't create, so it is only a clone and not at all 'artificial'.

If you'll notice, the philosophical limitations of 'b' are somewhat the same as 'a' - e.g. copying processes that already exist manually is not the same as creating it from scratch..
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that's easier to remember than 'weather' for getting the weather?
Arguing for not offending others by saying to someone that they seem to lack empathy is gutsy.
IBM offered a day of Watson training in San Francisco about a year and a half ago.
As engineers working with classifications, we were interested to compare the results of Watson to our algorithms, but also look at the API, the communication, the community etc.

It was a classroom nightmare. WIFI not working, Bluemix required for all workshops not working at that time, teachers very new on the topic themselves (one confessed he only knew Watson for a couple of weeks before the training), no announcement, no nice moment to socialize or build up a community, no coupon given to try on our own after, ...

And... the algorithms didn't work at all. The sentiment analysis was classifying as really positive the sentence: "I wasn't happy at all by the service" due to 'happy' and 'all' present in the sentence.
Now try hosting a blog that critics the Chinese government.
Well, kinda. Those are supply problems, but the supply is low because the wages are poor.
You could try to implement a Piketty-style tax on capital. Of course, this would mean that the middle class gets lower retirement savings, but if we're living healthier and longer we can keep working longer. This, of course, assumes the bulk of the middle class wants to live healthier and longer, even if it means having to work harder.
You have to back test before punting a single penny in the stock market... for me the idea to invest or trade anything without back testing the strategy with 20 years of data is pure gambling...
my point was that you could buy a suit for the $20 prior to 1933 and with the same coin today still buy a suit. The currency was stable, so it protected a person's savings.

You hear all these horrible stories of elderly people having to choose between food and medicine. Prices keep escalating, and these elderly people live on fixed incomes.
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I grew up in a small city in south central US. Although in the south, this city only had 1% black population, which is unusually low. In the 1920 a black man was pulled out of jail by a mob and lynched (hung from a rope, killed). He was later determined to be innocent. The black population left not longer after this incident.

I currently live in a city where children regularly die from drive by shooting. These children are always black, in poor or lower middle class neighborhoods.

Although you say they don't, words DO have power. Maybe they don't for you personally, but the fact everyone isn't like yourself (shocking isn't it?) indicates to many, myself included, that we should conduct ourselves in a way that's inclusive of those not like us. It's easy really. Just don't be a jerk. Edit not saying you are, but if someones ancestors were slaves, and the IT dept sits around talking about masters and slaves, how would that make you feel?
Your examples are poorly chosen, but the general argument that government regulations exist to protect entrenched business interests is nonsense. Regulations exist for consumer protection, and regulatory compliance is highly unlikely to be the biggest barrier to entry in any business category.
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I'm probably the only weirdo that thinks this, but if you support byte-addressing you'd better as well be happy with byte-alignment. Atomics being the only place where it's reasonable to be different.

Which brings me to padding. I wonder what percentage of memory of the average 64-bit user's system is padding? I'm afraid of the answer. The heroes of yesteryear could've coded miracles in the ignored spaces in our data.
Looks to be about twice the cost of the M60 on AWS, but you should get quite a bit more performance out of that system.
The list misses the most important deficit of shipping containers as housing: lousy dimensions for human habitation. Yes, a person can live in a shipping container because the ceiling height is adequate and the width is adequate. Same for a prison cell. Given other options, and architectural porn aside, people don't choose to live in shipping containers for similar reasons.

Surplus shipping containers as housing is closer to junkyard cars as housing than it is to a solution to housing problems. And probably worse from a practical standpoint. Old cars are water tight and already upholstered and have electrical wiring and lighting and come with operable doors and windows with ergonomic operating mechanisms...and their cheaper and more abundant. What they lack is bodies attractive to the architectural porn industry and plausible deniability that a proposal for mass shipping container housing is worse than Pruitt-Igoe.
The link talking about a remote exploit has nothing to do with back doors. Claiming it does belies a lack of expertise (which is fine) or an intent to deceive.
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> Personally, I think it'd be better if people joined into polyamorous groupings

If you want to accelerate western societal collapse, this is the way to do it. What would likely occur is the richest will have a large number of wives and children causing huge amount of tension and unrest in a society.

The problems this causes are likely why monogamy is such a strong factor in the major world religions. Societies in which there is a massive imbalance in the opportunity to have offspring is ripe for turmoil.
It's pretty "lame" to push established projects to make confusing terminology changes to address whatever words the "peanut gallery" is upset about this week. Try not to be so "uppity", "guy".
Not really, actually. I took a quick glance at their homepage during research. But seeing that they're commercial, not a free project, and requiring sign ups and upgrades for most things, I wasn't really interested in exploring this further.

By the way, I thought that they would mostly do terms for social integrations, such as Facebook like buttons, widgets, etc. This is the thing that got the least focus with the project that I did. So I didn't realize they have 600 modules (whatever they are and do, exactly), as you say.
It was mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
Your “widespread” modifier gets you off the hook, who can say how social contract adjustments play out when they go mainstream.

But the polyamory community doesn’t look anything like polygamy. Like, not at all. More like polyandry, but most polyamorous folks I know have a single primary (and that primary lasts way longer than the average married couple, in my personal experience) and the rest of the business sees women finding multiple partners much more easily than men.

But it’s a complicated and open scene, YMMV.
At least 4 of those photos are heavily post-processed. While they may look nice without the post processing, they would not look anywhere near as nice.

I struggled for years to make good photographs until I learned to post process well enough. For an average viewer, the difference is one of "side glance and ignore" and "wow, great photo".

It's instructive to look at photographers who post their originals. Even ones that appear to show an "interesting angle" can be quite distorted to show just that angle (as in if you travel there, you will never see the nice angles you saw in the photo).
This is rather misleading. What you are seeing is not so much the decline of marriage but rather the success of anti-gentile policies implemented by Israel designed to control non-Jewish populations.

The Jews want small ethnic groups filled with willing sex slaves. The Jews want to break up marriage so that the non-Jewish populations are filled with sexually available single people.

The Jews want to turn the world into a fucking zoo.

Literally. A fucking zoo.
>These are numbers for Q1,2017, placing a total of Rift, PSVR and Vive at ~750k units

Combined with the sales from last year, that's almost precisely the 1.5 million units I mentioned sold of the major 3.
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> A thing a was quite successful with, was redesigning existing old websites

Ah, that's an interesting idea. For each vet in the area we checked if they had a website or not, so you can imagine we saw a lot of such website. And indeed a lot of them are terrible. Reaching out to them could work.
I'm from Europe and I don't understand why 'brand new' would ever be a desirable thing in buying a home. Both the video and you said it as if it was - is that common in the US and Japan?

Where I live in England you want a house that's as old as possible in most cases. Older houses are usually in more desirable locations, with better space around them, and far more character.
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More documentation libraries the better.

I myself have used https://esdoc.org/ and it was wonderful.
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I'm down with that. I just cynically expect that only the part that favors businesses gets delivered and the other stuff gets ground down to nothing over time. Just look at what's happening with the AHCA and Net Neutrality right now.
Not really. Typically there were reasons you would stick with older generations, such as M60s having very poor fp64 performance. If you want fp32, it gives a bump over the K80s currently in there. However, the P100 would have been the most logical path since it doesn't cripple fp16/32/64.
There are all kinds of little SaaS products veterinarians need that their traditional PMS (practice management systems) either don't provide or would require a $5-digit upgrade to get it. Some thoughts:

- vaccination expiration reminder emails over SMS

- appointment reminders (and follow ups) over SMS

- ability for pet parents to fetch their own vaccination records via web portal

I work in the pet services niche and the girlfriend is a Vet Tech. There are all kinds of opportunity in this market. My contact info is in my profile. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat!
It doesn't say they're the same, just that they're correlated:

> The decline of marriage correlates strongly with reduced fertility rates as well.

Further, it looks at the data in aggregate so there can be lots of "but I.." comments without invalidating the data or the affecting the analysis.
It depends on the information provided to reach them. I usually try to make contact in a verifiable format; business email, at work number, etc. if these options ar not available, then I will usually speak with people on the phone and ask that they text or email me a copy of their business card for future contact (because it is something tangible I can put with my notes, etc.).

I have even met individuals for dinner when I have been filling an executive position.
>Talking as a semi-pro (I've put in some money into cameras and lenses and spent a good bit of time on photo editing), this is a bit underwhelming. For landscapes (which this seemed to focus on), I've found that opening up the Windows photo editing programs and clicking 'enchance' or Gimp and clicking some equivalent already gets you most of the way there in terms editing for aesthetic effect.

First, semi-pro means you've made money through photographs - not spent money.

Second, I heavily dispute the utility of those "Enhance" filters. They often do make a photo nicer, but they never make great photos.
I'm not sure humans prefer "actual experiences" every single time; the business models of Facebook, Amazon, and Google depend on that not being the case.

Back when the internet was still low-res and slow people said the same thing about it: chatting, buying, and researching with a computer is an undesirable compromise. That's where we are with VR.

Anecdote: I fondly remember the days spent hacking AOL with people online, being ostracized and punished by people around me for not having "actual" experiences like going out and playing sports. These people now spend countless hours on Facebook and Instagram. Now apparently I need to be more social with actual people (on Facebook) instead of hacking with fake people in fake virtual reality.
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> Everything that Arthur Schopenhauer wrote.

Though you're probably good just skimming over anything he had to say about women or non-white people :p

Even my 19th-century edition of his essays comes with a prefatory warning.
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