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I think your post makes an interesting point, but it is telling that you use the word "behaviour" and not "speech." In US law (and I assume many other countries) there is a strong distinction made between speech and conduct. It is not a perfect distinction, and there are cases where the two become inextricably intertwined (threats, fraud, and child pornography to name a few). But the two are handled very differently, and no, for the most part, laws cannot regulate speech (at least not in the US).

Though some cases of online speech fall into illegal areas like harassment or threats, most "trolling" is just run of the mill speech. However nasty or mindless, it is for the most part protected speech.

Now of course Google and Facebook are not the government and are not bound by the first amendment, but you drew a comparison with laws. I think this is a poor choice of analogy as in this case, were google's program a law, it would be unequivocally unconstitutional.
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I see a few problems with this argument.

1. Market share matters, for what should be obvious reasons. Amazon is, in that regard, a far cry from your sole proprietorship fruit stand.

2. Amazon is much closer to Walmart than it is to Apple or Ford; Amazon didn't do retail to support their product line, they rolled out a product line once they dominated in retail.

3. Sure, consumers can go order a Chromecast from somewhere else; just like how users could always download Netscape on Windows. That didn't stop antitrust claims from being brought against Microsoft for their practice of tying, because they were fundamentally abusing a dominant position in one market to assure their dominance in others despite weaker product offerings. And here we are, with everyone subscribed to Prime for the free shipping, and getting an unasked-for set of streaming services bundled with. Which aren't compatible with Chromecast. Which Amazon uses to justify banning Chromecast from its store. It makes the tying of MS years past look amateurish by comparison.
Fair enough. Thanks for the correction and additional information.
I'd use Emacs and the same X11 apps I'd use on a Linux cluster. There are X servers for Windows, though WSL strangely omits one.

If you like Windows apps, why run WSL?
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In my observation throughout key parts of the city the vast majority of new real estate visibly under construction is commercial, not residential. Only on the edges do you see new residential development. Therefore, I would hazard a guess that the supply in the most desirable areas has not increased, and perhaps actually decreased.
I've been in the area for a while and have done both plus standard software jobs.

University/academic jobs do tend to have low pay but do usually have great benefits. The work varies, sometimes super cool sometimes not. It tends to be a mix of people REALLY into what they're working on and people who'd rather not be working at all riding a cushy gig.

Biotech/pharma pays better and if you like the domain can be really cool. The software isn't that much different than the rest of the world for the most part. In most places be prepared to be viewed as a second class citizen as the MDs and PhDs get top billing.

All this said i believe that the bio space is where to be as a software pro in Boston
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I wonder if there might be a global housing crisis in the future. I know the population is constantly growing, but there has been a massive amount of construction of residential buildings world-wide (due to prolonged period of low interest rates, as well as rapid appreciation of existing assets).
Herbs should be treated like speech, freely available with education and stipulation that they be used wisely.
I'm not sure if I'm unique here. I track approximately every half hour of time I'm working in Google calendar. This fits nicely with other scheduled meetings. I usually just copy paste jira ticket number + title. At the end of the day, this helps me quickly total the number of hours spent on each ticket to enter into jira. For actual Todo items that aren't in jira, I use my email inbox. I do something very similar to something I saw posted on HN a few days ago called 'zeroinbox'.
It's not a matter of giving up, it's a calculated choice.

True, the path you described is good, and if I wouldn't have any other options, I would gladly take it. However, I do have other options, and they are more effective, so I decided to go back and focus on them. Doing games at that low margin can't beat those options. Also, it would be a complete change of career path, a quite risky move.
Yeah, what I can't fathom is what they even stand to gain by such a brazen move. They want to be a services company, not hardware. So why are they discriminating between $30 dongles rather than just making their streaming work on every type of device? That's what they want out there, not Fire Sticks.
Because it really isn't about the gambling anymore.
+1 for zipkin

As a Cassandra fan, bonus points that it integrates all the way down into the Cassandra internal request tracing features, afaik the only tracing app/library that does so.
Because the government restricts the supply.
It seems that unless you have a technology-first company, this is extremely hard to retrofit. Agents who join Prudential join an agent-first company that has some back-office technology as a cost center. Commissions and fees likely reflect that.

Without offending Redfin agents (my last two real estate transactions were through Redfin, so I'm obviously a fan), with Redfin one is dealing with the site first and "some disposable agent they've assigned to handle my case" second. It's unlikely that many in real estate world, driven by egos and projected success, would succumb to a role of a simple customer service agent.
In my case, I don't think lower nicotine would have increased my smoking because I believe it was the act of smoking I was addicted to, not the drug. I'm sure nicotine had some effect on my quitting, I doubt I'm a special snowflake, immune to the addictive qualities of a substance. However, if nicotine is the only reason someone smokes, they're going to smoke whatever it takes to get their fix. Even without nicotine, the act of smoking anything is harmful. The more of that they do, the worse off their lungs will be. If anything, I think more nicotine per cigarette would be better.
Not sure why the exact details of state of the art research is relevant here. Obviously that definition of RL is dumbing it down, as I'm sure Rachel knows, but the point is simple - teaching a computer to do something specific a human can without explicitly telling it whether something is good or bad, but rather have it learn on its own.

The latest research in RL isn't getting us that much closer to AGI. We can't plop a robot into the real world and tell it to use RL to learn everything.
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I love this frank response from the safe manufacturer:

'... speaking to Wired magazine earlier this month, when the team demonstrated its method on a smaller safe, a spokeswoman for the safe maker said: "In this environment, the product accomplished what it was designed to do."'
In my personal experience it seems that many parents give their children iPod Touches with the mistaken belief that the children won't be sexting and such without a cellular network.
So many people in SF leave their house keys in those 3 digit combination locks for Wag dog walkers. Something like this could crack that in seconds.
i use it occasionally. not using debugger neither the database tool as they don't fit well into my workflow. it has a great wordpress support, what is something i really like about it. could be a bit sluggish on less powerful machines though
what exactly do you need and what is your budget?
I think you should be fine, especially considering you have some functional experience. In the second chapter of the book, the author goes over Elixir from scratch. By the end of the chapter you should have a working knowledge of the language. Even beyond this chapter, the author takes time to dissect and explain the more complicated looking code. It really does feel quite approachable to anyone with a few years of programming experience.
Every apartment I have lived has a mailbox. Not only accessible to USPS, anyone can use it.
Unlike airplanes, AGI possesses agency and the ability to cause widespread harm and damage in today's computer-penetrated world. So if we wait until it is invented, there is no guarantee that there won't be danger or even catastrophes. Wouldn't you even agree that there is a 1% chance that AGI is possible and that it could harm us once invented?

Also, the goalpost for identifying something as a challenging cognitive skill worthy of the name AI is moved almost every time we make progress so people keep denying that we are closer to AGI. AlphaGo is the latest example.

Some AI researchers and CS people believe that Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is AI-complete, i.e. once we solve it we basically solve AI in the sense of AGI. I do not personally believe that--There are certain human cognitive skills that are not required for NLU. But I do think that solving NLU does bring us closer to solving AGI.

Let's say someone makes progress on NLU. What would be the minimum level sufficient to convince you that AGI is possible? Why minimum? Because we don't want AGI to be right at our doors before starting to prepare.

* Would getting 80% on Winograd Schema be sufficient?

Other suggestions are welcomed, including by others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge
Or you could just call it what it is: a monad
Somebody dumb enough to leave a key to their house right next to their house in a city like SF deserves to get burglarized.
Do-notation strikes again.
The true reason for the war on drugs was to be able to attack blacks and anti-war demonstrators, according to Nixon' domestic policy advisor:

At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Why not use Linux? Same price point advantage, and even better than mac for development because you can develop on the exact same distro you will use for your server.
Well they edited the title so this isn't as tongue and cheek as it was meant to be. The original title was something like:

"Wasabi - a faster, better clone of S3?"

That's why I see others quote the original in the reply.
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> If I open a fresh-fruit stand and refuse to sell the Chromecast and I being anti-competitive? How about if I grow my own fresh-fruit and refuse to sell yours in my stand?

Analogies are limited but to play along, it's as if you own the largest supermarket in a place that only has 3 orchards (assume you're isolated from the rest of the world), and you own one of those orchards, and ONLY sell fruit from your orchard while refusing to sell fruit from the other 2 orchards.

Those other two sell directly to the customer (and to small grocers) so they still survive. But they miss out on the customers that come to the supermarket and might have otherwise bought fruit from those other 2 orchards.
Tried it on my iPad just now.

No sound. Really that kills it right there.

Radar is super tiny and hidden beneath my right hand, I could not see it, and I sure couldn't see any dots on it.

Upgrade UI is way too tiny to use. And hidden beneath my left hand. I tried stabbing at it a couple of times and I ended up upgrading the option above what I actually wanted.

Game Over is really unceremonious. It doesn't tell me that if I get back in it'll keep my upgrades. I buzzed around for a few minutes and have no desire to go back in.

Focusing the controls on cardinal directions and diagonals felt really really limiting when I have a virtual thumb stick to use. I never felt like I was aiming in the direction I wanted to, or moving. I have also played a LOT of twin stick shooters, I dunno if this is trying to be one or not.

No sound.

No world. I mean how about trees I can lurk under? Just an endless plain full of boxes and tanks. I guess that's more than Slither.io has, that just has player snakes, but...

No real distinction between tank levels, and what about all that tank type selection mentioned in part 3? I never saw that. I just had a tank. A tank with weird sluggish controls. And no sound. Seriously sound does more for games than art, get some sounds in there.

Or just take that super solid net code and prototype four completely new games on top of it in a week apiece. Programmer art and stub sounds.
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I'm an alumni of one of the big accelerators. We have had long internal email threads about Amazon strongarming smaller ecommerce startups with mandatory stock warrants as a precondition to sell anywhere on amazon.
For example, amazon will force a startup to give amazon a warrant to buy 10% of the company at a discount.

They have frequently tried to figure out what customers ultimately want and SHUT OFF accounts of sellers on amazon ... and gone and listed those products themselves.

Amazon is extremely famous for arm twisting anti-competitive and anti-startup policies.
More traditionally known as the slide rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule
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Because it runs Linux binaries and not FreeBSD binaries instead.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck..."
I grew up here, it was a very ideal place for families. More suburban than sf (population of less than 5k) but didnt feel like sprawl either. We played in the streets, can't do that in most of sf. Although to be fair this area theyre talking about isnt really in brisbane anyway, its on a industrial stretch.
Defcon is always raising the bar.
Right, intent matters, so if host-homeboy knows he can profit then he's in on the graft. Your logic reminds me of people who try to defend themselves in court without any legal background.

The outcome of your hypothesis, legally speaking, is that the person thinking they're winning is going to lose their fucking house as an accessory. Game, set, match IP infringement.
Sure, but that's why we use frameworks to begin with, to create such abstractions. My point was the main attack vector many web apps suffer from are merely due to frameworks that leave too much to the developer. Abstracting page to page linking, as Seaside does or as this very website's Arc framework does with callbacks kills that vector by changing the very nature of what links do.
How do I find a UL-security-rated safe? Does it matter if I don't bolt it to the floor?
Everything in Australia is more expensive than it should be, unfortunately. That's what we get for being the geographical arse end of the world.
I'm not sure if you knew this, but newscientist is a long-running magazine with heavy international circulation.
I respect him for coming out and addressing this. There have been a lot of right-wingers accusing Patreon of bias but the policy as described seems pretty fair. Patreon could end up getting sued if someone commits a serious crime using money raised on their platform. It makes sense for them to have standards in this regard. The devil really is in the details of enforcement.
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I have been thinking along the same lines lately. Issues like addiction and poverty are complex, multicausal and cannot objectively be blamed solely on the individual. Still, we have to consider what a person needs to believe in order to act in their best interests. I cannot imagine a situation where someone overcomes addiction or poverty with a victim mindset. Ultimately, you have to believe you are still in control to some degree even if it's only enough to accept help. Social mechanisms like shaming seem useful as a reminder that regardless of your state you are still responsible for yourself. I understand vulnerable people like addicts need help but I don't think always seeing them as victims of circumstances is the right approach.
No, we do know what Fair Use is it's just that people like to claim it as an excuse when it's not valid.

CASE IN POINT: Mike Masnick. That sonofabitch is the most ignorant loud-mouth "I ain't never made nothing creative so everything is Fair Use" sinkhole asshole since Nick Denton.

Fair Use is alive and well. Idiots who try to wear it as a defense cloak get what's coming to them. I know the right lawyers to dail up if I ever need to, but I haven't needed to, because I'm not Masnick.
If AWS was running "$1/month shared hosting" I'm sure they'd have better uptime too. Apple and oranges.
Actually, it was predicted a lot further in advance than that. The Canon der Finsternisse [1] published in 1887 shows the predicted track of the upcoming 2017 eclipse [2]. I think I read once that the author, Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer, only calculated the start, middle, and end points of each eclipse, which is why the track in [2] is a bit off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Eclipses

[2] http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/History/History_files/C...
Thanks for sharing. This is news to me. I haven't ever seen a bad review of B2 over the internets. Can you elaborate further?

How stable is Wasabi?
In your logic, is their any way Bezos can demonstrated the editorial independence of the Washington Post?
I'm a Microsoft employee, but never tell them that when I go to the local store to get an idea how they treat everyone else. I've returned a few things and been shocked at how good and fast the service is.Basically it's Sorry! Here's a new one! Bye!

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Sorry, clarified that only B2 egress is cheaper. Wasabi storage is cheaper at .0039 vs 0.005
I had not heard New Relic was using it
I think republishing someone else's work without permission them is morally wrong, but offering a taxi ride is only wrong insofar as it is illegal. One is a good law protecting content creators, the other is crony capitalism. So I think there is a difference.
Oh, we're in complete agreement about meritocracy. I call it a fairy tale engineers like to comfort themselves with [0,1]. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough about where I agreed with you. And rereading your original post, I might have misread it a bit, and I think we are very much in line.

And thanks for the story. Manager definitely sounds like a clueless / regulator type for worrying about such things. While at the same time, "Justin" hasn't done a very good job of making himself trustworthy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978841#10980628

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14169245#14169748
In "Philosophy and Social Hope" I think he addresses what you and probably a lot of people see as a contradiction.

He supports the Western views of democracy, the rights of individualism, etc and points to the success of the western world as having to do with the result of these ideas being whiled embraced. Yet, you're right, his views are also very Nietzschean. So he can't say that the success of these ideas is because of something "innate" or "universally metaphysical" behind them. They simply were tools that were used to yield certain historical results.

It's been a while since I've read any Rorty, but I'm nearly certain that when he is talking about this he uses some language about "fate" vs "luck". Where we like to think that it was the fate of these western values to produce great societies, when really it could be, from an epistemic viewpoint, just luck.
It is designed to trick people into building robots to open it? :-)

More seriously though, I consulted a friend and neighbor when buying a safe for my home. This person who owns a locksmith shop and is a registered locksmith (and has been for > 20 years) asked me to look up the median response time of the police to my address. Since I live near the police station it was fairly small. He said you only need a safe that can last 15 - 20 minutes and you will need to anchor it so that it can't be easily yanked out of your house. Any professional thief will skip it and it may keep an amateur working on it long enough for the police to arrive and arrest them in the act.

That made a lot of sense to me.
What about all the houses with doors that won't stand up to a sledgehammer?

Or unbarred windows.
I get that. The amount of energy "created" by the AC is the amount that is consumed (electricity). However, AC is also a heat pump, displacing the heat in the air inside a structure to the outside of it. If you calculate all the inside AC air space in New York City and figure out that volume and the amount of the heat displaced, what local affect does it have on the air temperature on the sidewalk?
There's a big difference between forced and unforced entry.
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That's a decline of 1/3 in the last 3 months so I'd say significant in any sense of the word.
Maybe go look at actual successful twin stick shooters. For instance playing that made me want to cleanse my palate so I pulled up Assault Android Cactus, which is everything this is not: it's a super cute game with local co-op, multiple characters with very different play styles, and a nice little selection of power ups.

Make some bots that run around in obviously non-tank skins. Weak but numerous, clearly different. Throw in some bosses that require multiple players to destroy. Those two things would make it more amusing when it's empty, AND have a reason to bring friends in. (Name the bosses, keep them down to only a few on the map at a time, if even more than one, keep track of who kills them, hand out medals for doing so)

Right now it's way too slow for this but some kind of Chain Combo mechanism always helps shooters have depth - once you have the basics down you can start chasing high chain, maybe have score multipliers, maybe start showing a visual effect for people with a chain going and offer bonuses for taking them down. (In it's simplest form, a chain combo usually starts happening when you quickly kill several enemies without taking damage; every time you kill an enemy start a timer counting down for a second or three, and if it hits zero then you lose your combo. Play a sad noise when this happens.)
You can do whatever you want at your business but in principle it shouldn't be against the law.