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We've entered fuzzy-definition territory; but I'd say it is a stretch of the language to imply Wildberger is a crank. Which you have now done twice with no references.

He is unorthadox in his pushing of rational numbers, sure, but he gets through an extremely large amount of maths correctly. It is well within his job domain reflect on odd academic questions about what happens outside the world of human measurement.
Just guessing, but maybe the CD version is also used for radio play, and needs to be mastered as loud as possible not to lose the war?

I guess special purpose releases don't usually end up on the radio so they can be mastered for people who actually appreciate music. ;)
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I was amazed to not see the handle my scrollbar reduced to a tiny pixel. This list could be orders of magnitude larger.
>It's basically the Breitbart of the left

That's ridiculous.

The Guardian has been a mainstream newspaper for over 100 years. It is not a fringe publication, no matter how much you disagree with everything in it.

I'm sure that says more about your political leanings than it does about the Guardian (as if it even had one unified ideology behind it, which it doesn't).
> Try to get them to talk you out of it

This is a great idea. If I can hear all the reasons against, and still feel confident - that's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

I don't intend to make any rash moves. And I'm investigating other options: working for the civil service, for example, or finding a way into a thinktank. These all appear to use similar skills but don't require the large initial outlay.

> Would you prefer the barrister or solicitor aspect?

Barrister. I do know that's a very competitive path. But I like the idea of working independently and I think I would prefer to work on advocacy. I'm keeping an open mind though.
but on the other hand I am sure that future generations of pratchettologists will mourn the loss.

It might not be a stretch to say that future generations would have the technology to recover the data, if past trends are any indication:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-scrolls-blacke...

As far as physical destruction goes, this isn't even that extreme.
They also didn't collapse till 2008. Then they did.

Markets are stupid.
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> I trust all of them more than I trust the US government

Governments don't deserve your trust. The same goes for business. Trusting either is is a terrible idea, because power corrupts wherever it accumulates. While public and private use power in different ways, they are both a serious threat when they are allowed to act without regular check on their power. The solution isn't to pick sides. Power needs to be diluted regularly, and that happens when government and business work as checks on each other. It is the conflict itself that keeps power from accumulating.

> Can you even imagine how their business would work when these are state entities?

They already are, in all but name. Remember Prism?

> All that information on people all over the world is now in the hands of the US government.

That ship already sailed, unfortunately. I agree that this is a terrifying problem, but I'm not sure how to fix it. However, consider this: right now there are effectively no restraints on that power. Nationalizing/utilifying Google et al at least introduces the opportunity to add regulation by bringing the problem into public scrutiny.
....how does it not?

If you are asking the question: "How does this private market solution solve the problem of government/education/medical bureaucracy being inefficient," then I guess it does not solve the root cause. But trying to solve IRB problems involving that three-headed hydra is not likely to succeed. Going around the system is a feasible workaround.
What nonsense. I have never considered using postgres a hindrance due to migrations or something of the like. If anything, migrations and having a consistent database makes it easier to reason about what you code should do without having to take care of missing pieces of information in noSQL objects that have become stale because of 'speed of iteration'.
>> If that one isn't working, the solution is not to tap in (almost inevitably tight) research funds to pay for a second for-profit one instead.

I am curious: How much do you think private IRB engagement costs?
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Seems weird to me to include snapchat in a list together with antibiotics and cars. And I think it kind of demonstrates your own point.

You did not name any specific antibiotic products, or car manufacturers, because those are not really that significant.

The underlying inventions though are the real technological leaps forward that, as you say, are like air: so common that we overlook them all the time.

Snapchat is just a product, I think the real invention that you overlooked is the internet.
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Background: I am the founder of the rental largest housing site in NL (Kamernet.nl)

I believe that Spain (Barcelona, Ibiza) already have rules in place that limit the possibility of renting out accommodations and require a local license.

The first step for any locale is to establish policy and rules in this "new normal" situation where renting out property (and leveraging tourism) has become very easy and painless. Rules that are enforceable, with sanctions strong enough to limit abuse.

Next, the local governments should be in their right to ask for verifiable users of the platform, but equally of people who advertise in paper media. At the end of the day, a public db with some form of API should be set up by the local government. This db is freely (as in beer) accessible to all housing platforms to check that OAuth(SSN+property id+number of beds) indeed has a permit. Even a calendar could be added (in Amsterdam, the limit is 60 nights per year per house or host / not sure).

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No, I don't have it wrong. Compression means it's effectively using less of the range and the dynamics could be represented with fewer bits in an optimal encoding. All the levels may be used in track, but it's more biased towards the high end.

To help you understand, imagine 1-bit audio. What would it sound like? For each frequency, you can only have a single volume, i.e. it's maximally compressed.
except the pixels are in a linear framebuffer, the fizzlePixel(x, y) function has a multiplication by 320 in it to calculate the address in the buffer.

so you could skip both the modulo and the mul if you go straight for obtaining a random shuffled framebuffer index.

unless maybe fizzlePixel does additional bookkeeping for some purpose.
And if you do need more, there's commercial solutions:

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

https://www.citusdata.com/
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Your reply is not the whole picture. Compression reduces the effective number of bits of resolution.
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I honestly would love an iTerm2 port to Linux. Having the panel splits being actual tmux panes is amazing
You think the Guardian is communist?

Haha, it's a left-of centre paper. They are not even close to genuinely socialist publication like the The Socialist or the Morning Star, which if you read I imagine would give you a heart attack.

Do you think the Daily Mail is a moderate publication?

I find the ideas people have of left and right so pointless and hilarious. It's just childish sports team politics.
> make sure any ethical issues have been externally vetted, so on and so forth.

Sure, but the complaints of the IRB mentioned (and the auditor) seem to be far beyond ensuring practice is ethical. Instead, they seem to focus on following process only for the sake of process.

Why should the consent form have the title of the study? Why should the consent form contain a list of risks when there are none? What is wrong with having consent forms signed with pencil when pens aren't allowed.
Why should the data integrity plan require periodic review (i.e. why should we have a data integrity plan -
integrity plan).
These are all indicative of a bureaucratic system that places too much emphasis on 'process', losing sight of 'outcome' in the end.
Kotlin is also a "non functional language" but does tail recursion optimization via tailrec keyword
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I thought about that- and then it hit me. If you showed someone from 1750 a supermarket- the indentured delivery boy/girls of today would be instantly recognizeable to someone from that time.
Human automatization was the "High"tech of olden times.
Sometimes we advance.
And sometimes we regress.
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Anyone else having issues with EDITOR=code ? It seems to open the files blank.
Could easily have been a drive that had been in his main work machine for quite some time. He no doubt had the good sense to have backups on other local drives and remote services[1], but this could still be his primary store. It isn't like holding the text of books in progress is a task that needs the speediest of SSDs so if that drive just kept working why would he replace it?

[1] presumably these have also been purged if his wishes were so written or interpreted, probably by more conventional means[2]

[2] the bulldozer being used for this one drive for ceremonial purposes
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This is basically what scifi authors do all the time. They think: what if this technology existed, what would society look like then?
Sarcasm? There has been interviews with him where he discusses his "writing equipment" and like many authors he preferred a basic system that kept mostly out of his way. I mean it's just as easy to write a novel in Word for DOS* as it is in the latest software and hardware tech, so why would authors want to waste their time always running the latest tech when it's a distraction from their day job?

* I'm not advocating people write novels in DOS. Just making an exaggerated point that since the medium is text only you don't need to be upgrading frequently.
Universities and the government providing all the software doesn't sound like a great situation.
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Hah, so cynical. No, this is just how audiophiles describe anything. Even their floorboards.
I think the real solution here is just in learning more about your problem domain and teaching yourself to think ahead better. To borrow the example from the article, if you know that you're working with a small domain and auth will only differ in the parameter names and URLs, then it's ok to generalize like in the first example.

If you want to be able to build something that works with any bank ever, then you need to think from a higher level: you have a login operation that creates a session, and then a fetch-statement operation (that takes the session as a parameter), and so on, and those are your general building blocks that make up your interface.

No, you may not get it perfectly correct, and you may need to rethink and refactor at some point if you come across something different from what you could imagine. But that's not really a big deal, and you shouldn't be so afraid of refactoring that your go-to strategy is to always copy and paste similar code everywhere.

The awareness of this sort of thing perhaps isn't inherent; it comes with experience, but I don't think the take-away is to shy away from general functions. I've found that it makes things easier in the long run to think in terms of high-level operations and interfaces that you implement. Clean APIs aren't just for customers; you should architect your own "internal" code in the same way as if you intended to make it a public interface that random people could use. There's certainly a pitfall in trying to make things too generic, but after a while you develop an intuition around finding where the best balance lies.
Isn't GRR Martin famously writing on a DOS computer ?
I think the important thing is that it's a form of deceit. It's not about the value to the public vs the value of the person's wishes: if you don't intend to go through with the wishes or believe there is a good chance that you will not be able to, then you should recuse yourself at the point of the request (or as soon as you realise). Deciding to stay involved and make your own choice is simply duplicitious - it completely defeats the point of having the legal power. It wouldn't surprise me if someone could sue the executor, since they are clearly acting against the best interests of the person.
You're both right. Cost pooling and betting are two ways of thinking of the same thing. If anything, betting is closer to marginal thinking than cost pooling, but the two are not exclusive viewpoints.
I attribute my professional success as a system administrator in no small part to attending USENIX LISA conferences.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17

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If you have a single "view" and you're moving stuff around in it, that makes sense for a single page app. If you have multiple views or multiple objects that each take over the entire page when you look at them in detail, that should not be a SPA and you'll just infuriate users like me by hijacking the browser's navigation facilities and slowing down page loading by trying to go the SPA route.

Too many sites' admin panels are like that. And don't get me started on single page econmerce or content sites.
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Well to be honest his more recent books started to be more dull in a way, although I respect deeply his work, especially with the earlier books, but maybe the alzheimer started to have an effect also on his writing. I've read most of his works until Snuff or so, but those 3 - 5 books before that just really didn't had the same magic anymore, so maybe it's for the best.
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I agree that advertising should be nationalised and Facebook is a particularly good target.
Advertising makes capitalism more centralized; whoever has the biggest budget gets all the customers.
Having worked for both big corporations and small companies in the tech industry, I'm certain that big corporations are less efficient overall; I think that they are successful in spite of their innefficiencies because of their advertising power.

Centralization reduces the number of people who have wealth (increases inequality); there are so few of these people and their money is in such high demand (and they have so much of it) that they are effectively incapable of investing it efficiently - Their investing bandwidth is all used up (they are spammed-out with investment opportunities).
If wealth was more spread out, more people could be investors and they would have more time to really think through and consider opportunities and because they would have less money on an individual basis, they would be much more careful about their investment decisions.
How does fraud get to higher moral ground?

Or are there no boundaries, limits and barriers in the battle against prejudice.
Used all those and been happy with them, until I found ranger:
https://github.com/ranger/ranger
It would float (thus be useless), melt quickly in any non-arctic waters, and would take a ridiculous amount of energy to make.
Not the first. maybe not the best either, but they are executing well and monetizing. That's what matters.
You can't see the text at the bottom?

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Total cash: $48 billion.

Industry: technology.
I don't think it's silly at all. Why help find another branch of a competitor's business? Do you not think that Amazon doesn't use money generated by AWS to help expand their retail business? I'm actually shocked at the number of companies that use AWS even though Amazon is a direct competitor. Netflix comes to mind.
A simple solution is to treat these companies as telcos.

We could learn something from history. See e.g. the Mann-Elkins Act (1910), [1]. And the telecommunications acts, [2], [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Elkins_Act

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
These are the sites that I have came across:

1. China Tech Insights: https://www.chinatechinsights.com/

2. All Tech Asia: https://medium.com/act-news

3. China Tech News: https://www.chinatechnews.com/

4. China Digital Times (Sci-Tech): http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china-news/main/sci-tech/

5. technode: http://technode.com/
Where do they find so unprofessional webdesigners..?
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I wonder if there are maps of predictions of that.
Yes this one; the one that even the hardware designer refused to acknowledge until reality check hit.
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What's the opposite of a Pratchett novel? If it were a matter of losing this then Pratchett fans and experts would presumably not mourn. However now consider the case of an almost-but-not-quite Pratchett novel. Though this is not-a-Pratchett novel, it is deceptively and misleadingly not-a-Pratchett novel, because it still resembles one. It therefore stands the greatest chance of leading fans down the garden path and distorting the overall body of work.
>I use Julia a lot for shell like scripting.

That seems absurd.

$ time julia -e 'print(1+1, "\n")'
2

real	0m0.996s
user	0m0.664s
sys	0m0.367s

$ time python3 -c 'print(1+1)'
2

real	0m0.160s
user	0m0.080s
sys	0m0.033s

Almost a second just to print a number in Julia. This makes it unattractive for shell scripting. Startup performance is an open issue in Julia and smart people are working on it (I hope); but it's not there yet.
You don't think clean running water is a big deal in sparsely populated areas?

I think it's probably more of a big deal there than in towns / cities because they at least had communities where utilities could be shared. If you live miles from clean water that's a good percentage of your week wasted walking to and from the nearest well / whatever with buckets.
That's an interesting example of where personal wishes cross over the 'corporate' boundary. The person is subsumed by the job and unless they display huge self-restraint it will be difficult to separate personal notes from their corporate thinking.

Presidential diaries would be another example, or a CEO's Rolodex.
Holiday cottages have been rentable for decades - my family used to get brochures for them in the 80s, we stayed in Cornish villages for 2 weeks a year when we had the dogs.

These still continue - I used cottages.com to rent a cottage in Wales last week. That tourism is what drives the local economy.

Sites like that (others are available) have city locations too, I've used similar sites to book in Rome and Berlin

Air bnb's key feature, like uber, is its global reach. I've used uber on 6 continents because it's always the same. I don't use it in some locations due to safety considerations, but in most cities it's far easier and nicer (compare an uber with a manhattan cab where you are force fed adverts and have to "tip" a driver who probably won't even take a credit card.

I've never risked airbnb stay though - came close when I spent a month in singapore, but too many horror stories, and I had my family with me. Didn't want to have the police evicting us in the middle of the night 2 weeks in, found a proper managed appartment. Singapore really doesn't like airbnb as most housing is government owned (to keep prices affordable), and you have to be a citizen to live there. Prevents the country turning into something horrible like Dubai.
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Having tabs is a big reason for a lot of people that use a different file manager in Windows, at least for the people I talked to about this.
You know, there's this simplistic view about the left - that it's only interested in taking things that other people have created, forcibly, and redistributing them.

I wonder, where that simplistic view comes from.
first of all, I wanted to correct that the eu never said that google is a monopoly. second I actually said something wrong.

basically there is no "european law" (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-making-process/overview-la...).
Basically they create directives, regulations and make decisions. The countries than need to comply them as a law.
However if any nation does not comply they will get "punished", but most of the time the punishment is a joke, so that's basically the biggest problem of the eu and that's what happend in your case.

Btw. what I basically meant with my text had nothing to do with the above. It's just that the Monopoly word under law means that Google would be the only market participant, which of course is wrong and the EU never said "monopoly", they only said Google has market dominance, however most news outlets written monopoly, which in fact is wrong.
Btw here is the official text: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-17-1785_en.htm
You can even look up what different news outlets written about google, they claimed google as a monopoly, which is nowhere stated by the press information.
> There is a chance he could get away with precomputing an atan2(x) table in memory and then just reading the values off the table.
Quick as lightning, and an old trick, probably invented in the 1950s!!

I actually tried this for cos and sin lookups, and lerping between datapoints.

It was actually slower than the builtins!
I'm currently testing 'rclone' with the backblaze b2 backend (+crypt).

Seems to work OK so far. Won't be as cheap as their unlimited plan but I'm OK with that.
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>have the appropriate retirement target set, along with the proper level of acceptable risk

You make that sound so easy. It's not. None of the maths of retirement planning is hard - but the actual decisions really kind of are.

For example, I've got 10% in corporate debt. Is that more or less risky than Equity? What's the distribution? What's the correlation? How does it compare with Reinsurance, or Property? Is property strongly correlated with the stock market at the tails, or is it a diversifying asset class? Does my passive fund hedge currency risk? Do I want it to? Is private equity a good or a bad idea? Do I want FTSE ALL or FTSE 100?

How about looking at risk appetite. What is the most time it could take for my retirement savings to recover to inflation adjusted parity after a crash (I feel like 15 years is the historical max, but it's a vague memory). Should I look at risk in terms of retirement income or retirement date? Do I expect Annuity rates to improve (e interest rates to go up) or should I mark to current rates for planning purposes.

I think about the amount of context that trustees for DB pension schemes needed to make investment decisions that were sound, and I can't help but wonder how we've ended up with individuals making these decisions on their own.
I've long felt that outside of fees Diversified Growth Funds (Multi Asset Funds?) are a pretty good place to "inactively" manage retirement savings. After fees I'm less convinced. I suspect the Australian model might be closest to what I internally model as best?
I thought Unseen Academicals was his best book.
Agree - 'annotate' isn't rich enough. My bad.
I believe the parent might be referring to the myth about attack of signal falling "between the cracks" of digital sampling. This is debunked in the video linked elsewhere, in the chapter titled "bandlimitation and timing". I might be wrong about the parent poster's meaning, though.
They got money. So?