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"Is", "is." "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

— Robert Anton Wilson, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, as spoken by Sigismundo Celine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

Kellogg and Bourland describe misuse of the verb to be as creating a "deity mode of speech", allowing "even the most ignorant to transform their opinions magically into god-like pronouncements on the nature of things".

Bourland and other advocates also suggest that use of E-Prime leads to a less dogmatic style of language that reduces the possibility of misunderstanding or conflict.

Alfred Korzybski justified the expression he coined — "the map is not the territory" — by saying that "the denial of identification (as in 'is not') has opposite neuro-linguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is')."
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For the sake of illustration, there's a simple but realistic example at the very end of my talk at this year's EuroPython:

https://speakerdeck.com/aldanor/pybind11-seamless-operabilit...

(reimplementing rolling_stats from pandas that ends up being faster)
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Original says "my final epistle" which makes more sense contextually. But epistle has certainly been used as a clever stand-in reference to Episode.
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I imagine it could offered as an alternative payment option besides the regular and more expensive. Making it easy to use together with Stripe and potentially as a plugin for popular e-commerce platforms.
Part of what I prefer about Firefox over Chrome is the "Reader View" feature, it strips pages of JS and CSS styling and gives you the raw article so you can view the content as you so desire, including darker or lighter backgrounds, larger font or smaller font.

See:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...

Note: I use Chrome at work, mostly to test but my main browser is Firefox which seems to still feel natural to me. I was a day 1 early adopter to Chrome but couldn't get used to their browser.
Shutting down a club seems just as oppressive. And the definition of 'club' is blurry and stretchy, so it's not unexpected a law against 'clubs' would get abused.
I'm not sure if that's truly normal and if it is, it shouldn't be. My first and only pair of Bluetooth headsets are the Beats X. I chose them because, unlike the AirPods, they stay in my ear and the ease of switching between my devices as the source. Never once had it cut out on me when I'm near my source. It only starts occasionally dropping when I'm 25+ feet away and with a wall in between. I'm not trying to say that Apple's are the best but rather am wondering if there's really that many headsets out there that perform so poorly.
>and being patched into CS:GO this year

Do you have source for this?
I do just wish Valve was doing SOMETHING. Like, even if they just occasially improved the Steam Client. But it basically got one reskin in 14 years.
`is` is also useful for things like detecting cycles for walking object graphs.

But I'd estimate 99% of the times I've used `is` was for comparisons to `None`, and 90% of the rest of times for comparisons to other sentinel values.
Please do:

>The banking crisis might have caused a recession, but what turned that recession into The Great Recession in Europe and the US was too tight money: nominal GDP just fell off a cliff.

Was going to ask what nominal GDP is, but googled it, it seems it is GDP without being adjusted for inflation. Okay.

By "too tight money" do you mean less money available for business investment, or higher interest rates for borrowing it, or something else?

>India was further away from the dreaded 'zero bound' on interest rates, and never had any problem generating enough nominal GDP. (India's problems are with the real part of the economy. So they are producing too much inflation.)

Okay, this second paragraph seems to indicate that nominal-GDP-wise, India was okay, but it was not okay after adjusting the GDP for inflation?
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> So the question that I don't know the answer to: would those couples have engaged each other in meaningful conversation (meaningful to them) had cellphones not existed? Or does the presence of cellphones reveal that a large number of people were never particularly interested in engaging meaningfully with others but would only feign interest when the alibi of the cellphone isn't available?

I would add a followup to that. Would this also mean that more people are together now that otherwise wouldn't, without that crutch?

Not sure I want anything said with that, but I couldn't help but draw the conclusion.
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It was an alien death star. Long abandoned, then captured by Earth's gravity.
This plot may have been originally intended more as Half-Life 2: Episode 3 than Half-Life 3.
Problems off the top of my head:
1) standard bank transfers often aren't instantaneous (idk about Germany)
2) no support for handling disputes etc.
3) banks can simply try to block you if it ever gets traction
4) a lot of friction, no mobile support
5) it's hardly that much better than just having people do the transfer manually
6) you'll have to integrate across many banks UIs

Can you even verify if the transfer really happened based on this csv info?
I think it's just the increasing levels of stress in the general population. People looked forward to tomorrow, and thought it would be good -- people would work less. Tomorrow came and it meant more work, for less relative wealth.
> It just means my "utility function" is different to yours.

Most people include "social recognition" into their utility function.
Spreading the idea that "eating too much beef is 'bad'" might actually alter the behavior of those who want to be "'good' citizens".

(please note I'm not advocating for the method here ; although I certainly see how it could work, I have no idea how much it actually does)
To be fair, chinese do exactly the same since 1950, when they invented and polished the modern polyculture systems based in seashells, ocean kelp, and crabs or fishes (and a similar freshwater version since thousands of years ago). Culture of marine filter feeders is not exactly breaking news for spaniards, french, dutch or japanese. If you can't resist the urge to invest on them, remember that GreenWave is just another company doing the same as thousands of current asian and european companies. Would be not much different than claiming that a californian company invented wine in 2017.
These seem to be the best on the market[...]But they haven't yet launched

How can they be "the best on the market" without having launched?
PushBullet app for Mac should do that: http://pushpal.arjones.com/pushpal.html
That's pretty much saying "it is the way it is", which

a) is not even true, see floating point numbers

and

b) will be obsolete with value types.

Needless to say, there is pointless confusion created by Java's design, and there are better approaches available.

All you have to do is to adapt the semantic model from reference equality vs. value equality to identity vs. equality.

Identity checks whether the "bits" are identical, irregardless of whether the bits are "references" or values, and equality is a user-defined operation.

"Foo" equality "Foo" // True
"Foo" identity "Foo" // Only true if they point to the same "object"
123 equality 123 // True
123 identity 123 // True
Double.NaN equality Double.NaN // False
Double.NaN identity Double.NaN // True

Which symbols you pick for "equality" and "identity" is largely arbitrary.
> I don't really see what the rest got to do with my post.

I'm pointing out that, in my experience, Valve are not this rebel revolutionaries you make them out to me. To me, they have become just another lazy, greedy company who wants to do the least amount of work possible to make the most amount of money possible.

> The vive, hardware, was a full product when it came out. Not half arsed

Wrong. I enjoy my Vive, but it's barely more than an internal engineering sample. For the price they are charging, it's too uncomfortable, the display is way too weak and it lacks polish in general.

Given that, Valve could have chosen to dramatically subsidize Vive to make sure VR becomes the revolution they claim they want it to be. I would personally have much less to complain about if they sold it for, say, $200. Make no mistake, they could easily afford that, they chose not to.

Instead they invested more in gambling & cosmetics sold with microtransactions in their 3 existing, old games (Dota, CSGO, TF2) and the only new game they've announced in a decade? A trading card game, like Heartsone, set in Dota lore. Wow, truly revolutionary indeed.

> The fuck you expect? They've promised 3 full games, they're not just gonna shit 'em out.

> Do you want them to half-ass it or not?

They have also promised HL2 Ep3 in ~6 months after Ep2 released. After waiting more than a decade for it, forgive me if I don't put my trust in their promises.
Registering any of these boxed games on Steam got you access to all of them: HL, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic. + some Valve made mods: Quake DM, and Ricochet.

That's a pretty good "carrot" to use Steam if you ask me.
Probably because they can. Monzo have said they aren't going to add charges where they don't get charged themselves (such as EU payments currently).
Basically trying to save face after making inexcusable and amateur mistakes. They should just fess up and say, hey we suck at fucking everything, but we wanted to take your money anyway, now we cant even do that. boo hoo.
For anyone looking for, you know, the actual icons which are apparently not visible from the linked site on mobile:

https://vmware.github.io/clarity/icons/icon-sets
There's a difference between saying 'anything nasty' and calling for physical action against individuals. Content on that page called for violence against individuals, including members of the police.

I'm not saying I disagree with your argument, but "don't say anything nasty" doesn't represent the facts accurately.
It's a good and short read, and I accept it as closure for what I always thought was a very well written series.
I don't practice nor learn languages. I prefer concepts. I get "the book", skip the very first chapters that only talk about syntax, go straight for the unique features that make the language interesting (for a Clojure book, I'd go straight to protocols, agents, etc.), wrap my head around them and then maybe skim a popular repo hoping to read some idiomatic code.
Here's the blog post announcing the effort if you want to see behind the scenes: https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/08/22/government-launches-login-gov...
The kind of fantasy you're describing isn't an equivalent good. People buying lotto tickets are fantasizing, amongst other things, on not being dependent on the largesse of others.
We use different files for "soft" requirements, dev/test requirements, and a freeze.txt containing all production requirements and then we default to installing from freeze.txt but can update from the other files. It's similar to this[1] but generating the freeze.txt in a temporary virtualenv.

I've started using an generated offline cache and PIP_FIND_LINKS to remove the dependency of pypi for known installs in one project as well, will be interesting to see if it turns out to be a good idea or not.

[1]: https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/a-better-pip-workflow
When and how do one come to think that it is a good thing to let kids watch YT videos ? I used to wonder this but I think now I know why.

I barely watch any myself so I really don't get the hype people seem to have for videos. But my boyfriend watches more YT than I do, and follows channels I don't get the point of. That's actually the moment I realized my disinterest for browsing channels and watching videos was maybe not so common after all.

Also, what's the problem with banning it altogether ? I don't see one, other than the disapointment that compromise didn't work. But of course a 5yo can't have the self control some people never even reach during their lifetimes anyways.
Particularly worrisome here is the potential for a raid on a pretext, ostensibly the main reason for the raid was the presence of an anonymous threat against the police.

The only way to deal with anonymous general threats against authorities is to ignore them. The potential for abuse of such threats as a fabricated pretext is simply too high, as is the number of idiots.
Is there a reason an illustration is allowed and a photograph isn't? Why would you prefer a version of events warped through an artist's mind and hand OVER an exact picture?
Yeah thats how mentorship works.. you give your support and encouragement, but you take care of yourself first and foremost, and dont go down with a sinking ship. Parents do the same, they help their kids, but if they still turn into little shit bags, parents will kick em out on their ass eventually.
The super budget phones like the E4 are pretty bad, but you can get a pretty decent camera on a midrange Android phone. I've got a Moto G5 Plus that is a pretty solid phone with a decent camera(only real short coming is very low light). That phone is $230 for the base model, and I think it's about $40-$50 less if you get the Amazon ad supported version(which I think the aforementioned $99 E4 is).
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Apparently the fact that the site had administrators (i.e. more than one) made it an association. By that definition a newspaper, TV network and anything else are associations too I guess?
https://freight.uber.com/

Seems Uber is looking at tapping into the larger logistics market itself
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Yeah, OMS is consistently better than Google in Germany (or at least where I looked), but this site still feels better.
I wonder where the theory that government spending is simply free actually comes from, that somehow when the government spends money (or enacts regulation or taxes, same thing) that the cost is somehow magically not that everybody has to work more and/or harder to achieve those things.

But it's sure becoming a popular theory.

Also: I think what you're describing might be the broken window fallacy: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...
ROOT https://root.cern.ch/ provides Python bindings through its PyROOT functionality. It builds the bindings (ROOT calls them "dictionaries") by parsing your C++ using their "cling" interpreter based on LLVM. As far as usability, ROOT is a big package but once a given it's rather easy and non-intrusive to create Python bindings for your C++.
By that definition almost anything is an association.
linksunten.indymedia is a widely known platform of the German Antifa. During the most recent weeks many texts glorifying or whitewashing the Hamburg G20 riots were published there. Texts can be submitted by any anonymous person, however the website owners decide whether they leave it online or not – so there is reason to see responsibility under law.

I wouldn't be surprised either if it becomes accessible again just after the German federal elections in 4 weeks.
What about working for 2 years then taking a break to work on side projects and travel for a year. With a high income you can do this; essentially working 66%
Seems to me that it's only the minutiae of the hypothesis that are in question - unless I've misread the article, the overarching theory that an impact of some kind caused the moon's formation is still the working assumption, no?
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All in all, if I may, something not entirely unlike the Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
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Or, install pip-review.

https://github.com/jgonggrijp/pip-review
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I saw some code like this:

def update(): Try[Unit] = {
parser.parse(...).map(result => updateState(result))
}

And I thought it was abusing the map() call for side effects. However, it is still shorter than writing it out as follows:

def update(): Try[Unit] = {
parser.parse(...) match {
case Success(result) =>
updateState(result)
Success(())
case f@Failure(_) =>
f
}
}

So I didn't have a strong opinion either way since semantically both do the same (and in the case of Scala, the first one is potentially more performant since it relies on the JVM doing virtual dispatch as opposed to calling unapply() and matching, not to mention potentially less garbage being generated).
> Wrong. I enjoy my Vive, but it's barely more than an internal engineering sample.

It's sturdy as fuck though. I don't think you're giving the design enough credit for what they were trying to do with it. Function over form

> the display is way too weak

It was literally the best display available for mass production at the time. And they've even tweaked it to be brighter than it initially was (compared to the same screen, in the rift)

> lacks polish in general.

What kind of polish?

> Given that, Valve could have chosen to dramatically subsidize Vive to make sure VR becomes the revolution they claim they want it to be. I would personally have much less to complain about if they sold it for, say, $200. Make no mistake, they could easily afford that, they chose not to.

Yeah or they could give it away for free. Or pay you to use it.

> They have also promised HL2 Ep3 in ~6 months after Ep2 released. After waiting more than a decade for it, forgive me if I don't put my trust in their promises.

That's fine, but I don't think there's any reason to think that they're sitting on their thumbs when they've said they're actively working on 3 projects.
Note that it's not just write vs read, it's write vs read + branch.
Sounds about right from my experience working at Klarna.
I think a new Half Life game would be the perfect opportunity for Valve to showcase their virtual reality kit. So far there are no blockbuster VR games and the Half Life franchise (Portal included) has a history of being very innovative (e.g. HL2 using a physics engine for the narrative, HL1&2: story told through level design). There is a lot of potential to use immersive virtual reality to enhance the story telling.
>One of our goal is to provide web developers a sort of small and handy environment that mainly focusing on creating API servers or microservices

How does it explain the motivation behind creating another language? What were the reasons the developer/team behind goby thought existing languages/tools didnt help? My questions are also about how different goby vs ruby is, or goby vs go. I also question if the language is dynamically or statically typed, etc which are bare minimum I expect in introduction.
I would say that a picture isn't an exact replica either. The photographer chooses what to photograph at what time and with specific framing and with a particular set of features on the camera. A photographer makes choices just like an illustrator does. So a photographer is still warping a version of events through their mind as well.

One photograph of a person crying or upset could be used to represent then entirety of a trial. Imagine if that one moment is published in a newspaper. The person would be immediately assumed guilty in the court of public opinion.
What happened on that site was straight down illegal and was tolerated for far too long. They shared instructions for making weapons and explosives, publicly shared personal information and called for attacks against the state and individuals.

Right wing organizations have been shut down for far less and extremism on both sides should be treated the same way.
From my understanding of the economics of the majority of US beef cattle, they are fed a diet composed largely of corn and soybeans, which grow on land that could otherwise produce varieties of the crop edible to humans. They are grown in CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operafion) lots and produce huge amounts of waste. This is in contrast to the more 'expensive' grass fed cattle that does indeed eat plant matter otherwise indigestible to humans. Our food system is designed to produce food in massive industrialized systems that trend heavily towards requiring massive inputs and producing massive waste outputs.
The easiest would be to first give cython a try, as it can provide a nice performance boost at a minimum effort in some cases.

If you just need to bind simple number crunching functions, you may also write a small library exposing them with c linkage, then access them using ctypes.

For more advanced usage, you will probably benefit from using a binding framework instead of using the python c api.
Not necessarily, you can buy adds and get random visitors for testing purposes that way. Also you can write a better explanation, so that people don't feel tricked.
It will probably last in my opinion. Just look at cars. They are, for the most part, commodities too. A lot of people pay 2x-10x the price of the entry model. They all get you to from point A to point B. People will pay it, but possibly a smaller share of people.
> Code leaks in updates to some of their newer games reference "hl3"

My assumption has been for years that "HL3" is as much a joke inside Valve as it is outside of it.

> Gabe Newell talks about

This was six years ago.
> calling for physical action against individuals

They weren't raided for making true threats, but for letting the site become a "lawless realm" and/or for "sowing hate against different opinions and representatives of the country", charges so vague they could apply to almost any online forum or uppity news site.
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Sure, but this isn't unsafe code. Code using this library isn't written in an unsafe block, right? You just use it like any other Rust library?
You seem like a good person to ask the question that's appeared on this thread already a couple of times: if the business produces "passive income", why would you want to sell it? I.e. if you put little-to-no-effort into running it and it gives you an income, surely you would (in the long run) lose money by selling for a lump sum that bears any relation to the business's income.
The most boring category is interesting... I might fall in to that category. Any advice to be "less boring"?
Color me skeptical. This sounds like an example of mutual masturbation on the policy level. Everyone leaves feeling good because they think they have done something useful.

Economist Michael Hudson writes: "The great Roman historians Livy and Plutarch blamed the decline of the Roman Empire on the creditor class being predatory, and the latifundia. The creditors took all the money, and would just buy more and more land, displacing the other people. The result in Rome was a dark age, and that can last a very long time. The dark age is what happens when the rentiers take over.”
Credit card signatures are intended to be verified on the spot. That's why the back of the card says it isn't valid until signed. The cashier was originally supposed to compare the signature on the card to the signature made at point of sale to verify the CC holder's identity. https://consumerist.com/2014/07/19/10-answers-to-credit-card...

Of course this doesn't happen, and for good reason too since the signature made on a resistive touchscreen ends up looking nothing like that on the credit card.
What a whining bitch.