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> 100k+ as a freelancer is significantly more rare

What are we meaning by "freelancer" here?

I'm taking it (as a UKian) to mean "contractor" and every contractor I know is on £100k+ (which is currently ~$129k).
In which case there is no need to nationalise, because by definition if another competitor can be created then the government can create one itself.

All nationalising would do is give the government a leg-up in having an existing user base. In practice government inertia would lead to the service atrophying and becoming outdated and overburdened with bureaucratic controls and costs. Page & Brin, Bezos and Zuckerberg (or someone new) would each raise capital, start their own competing services and in a few years time we'd be back where we started.

This whole idea is so utterly misconceived and pointless it blows my mind how many people here are trying to justify or defend it. Unless you actively regulated to prohibit competing private services, it would be doomed from he start and if such regulation was enforced - literally banning other search engines including Bing, banning other social networks, banning any other online retail businesses, the lurch towards dystopianism would create a very different world to the one we live in. Even China hadn't come even close to anything like that.
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> "When I say that Professor Lindzey’s left shoe is an “introvert,” everyone looks at his shoe as if it were something the shoe was responsible for.

...or perhaps people look at the shoe due to the claim, and they do so in order to evaluate for themselves if Professor Lindzey's statement has any merit or is in fact just bullshit.

After all, either the shoe is "introvert" or it isn't, and the veracity of that claim does not depend on who stated it.

There's a very good reason why the Royal Society's motto is "Nullius in verba" ( literally "take nobody's word for it").

Advocating that the message should be ignore and instead the focus should be shifted to the messenger is just absurd and goes against basic concepts of rational reasoning and even the scientific process itself.

If militants of a particular social cause feels compelled to attack rational reasoning to even be in a position to make a case for their cause then that speaks volumes about the cause.
well they did after they developed a prototype. If you think you can build a prototype fast enough, then I can understand the decision to make the prototype first to have a clearer idea.
>Facebook is a chat/opinion/vanity medium, are we really saying that losing facebook (or whatsapp or whatever) access is a national emergency?

Not a direct answer, but this triggered me to wonder how many relations/connections would be lost because people have no other details of each other than what's on facebook.
Did the same with my first son with all Harry Potter books, which came out as he grew up. When my second son was born he caught up with the early books by watching the movies then participating to our reading sessions. I acted all voices when reading, and we sometimes would re-enact a complete scene all together, improvising lines to fit with the story and acting with any kind of props we could put our hands on.

My sons are grown-ups now, how I miss these times.
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If you don't think irb's are fitting targets for such mockery I'm inclined to be strongly suspicious of your claims to have had sufficient dealings with them. They are the DMV and IRS of research rolled into one. I've never met anyone who disagreed with that, even amongst those who served on them, critically important though they may be.
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It's just slow. Takes a few seconds for the graph to appear.
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I guess people notice more the changes that directly impact them. As significant as the space programme is, it's often just a newspaper headline. Where as hot running water, central heating and convenient shopping affects people daily.
Well, the Quebec government will receive increased tax revenues, but I dont see how that can be used to offset the erosion of community / loss of housing stock.

As for only primary residences being let, Im not sure what you mean - in my city at least entire flats are regularly rented out, for short periods of time over the entire year.
Yep, especially bad on cymbals - always a dead giveaway.
That's not correct.

Initial assumption when reading the thread was that navigating to a data URI would be handled like entry of a data URI into the omnibox and still be allowed.

A small test case confirms that assumption - it works.
I love Graal, have been following its development since it used to be called Maxime VM.
I respect this a lot - if he hadn't, relatives or others would eventually publish his unfinished works (either in an unfinished state or completed by another author). The money is too alluring.
I am not opposed to public ownership of these companies per se. Letting them just go on uncontrolled does pose dangers we are just beginning to understand.

But given rhe massive surveillance and largely uncontrolled data hoarding our governments and their intelligence agencies have engaged in, I do not think handing control of Google, Facebook and so forth over to the (any) government is a good idea.

In the long run, we need to do something, bur I think we need to come up with a better idea.
>China's economy is highly dependent on Western consumption of their goods. If the US went into recession, and Americans significantly cut back on their consumption, which many of them certainly could afford to without going into poverty, wouldn't that wreck China's economy?

No, they will manipulate their currency or adjust prices so that more people from China and India buy that stuff. Adding a few hundred million consumers will not be that difficult with those measures.
That's not what they claim though. They claim that significant exposure to US stocks, especially via indexes, right _at this moment_ looks risky since the entire US market is overheated and it requires an active investor to find any reasonable deals, if there are any left.

At the same time, they could be both wrong about overheated part, and lobbying to get some active investing fees, sure, but if you do take the viewpoint of the currently overpriced market, then the speculation claim doesn't seem too bizarre.
To what extend do you all think state-wide direct democracy is a way to improve things? i.e. move a lot of the powers of the representative bodies that have gerrymander-able districts like this to systems where individuals can vote directly and the people's votes are counted, not representatives?
As interesting as this article is, I would also love to know where and how the author of the code learned about LFSRs!

I wonder if they rediscovered the algorithm, knew they were implementing a LFSR or even just solved a particular instance of the problem without ever realizing they were writing a LFSR.

I learned about LFSRs a while ago and wrote a small implementation for ruby as an exercise [1] using a Wikipedia page as reference [2]. But Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992, I'm sure back then information was a lot harder to find online!

1: https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/lfsr
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register
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You'd think if anyone could decentralise work, it would be silicon valley, yet I understand rents in that area are as high as anything in manhattan.
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I don't think it will take that long to have lightweight additive projection glasses with some sort of camera/depth sensor and eye tracking.

The processing power or battery for that form factor will not be there for another 10 years - but offloading processing and power supply to the phone in your pocket via well designed tethering is conceivable.

I think we'll have this in a couple of years, and you'll control it via voice recognition and hand gestures.
As a python package developer, I'd assume that being able to install with pip in user space or in a virtual environment is a standard technique. Why duplicate the dozens of tutorials on the internet?
Well, why should he give up if there is still some money to burn? It will be like, leaving the money on the table? Doesn't make sense at all. I think he's doing everything right.

Obviously, he's really busy with other things while he's posting all this. Probably doing another startup, or just freelancing.
Kafka also wanted everything burned. Imagine what a loss that would have been.
We both agree that it will not get you employed.

You may give a positive sign, there are other reviewers who will give it a negative sign. I'd argue the average weight is negative overall, because of the traditional HR screening most resume have have to go through.
Newspaper comments sections are almost uniformly unreadable. HackerNews is, I think, the only site I subscribe to read comments.
That's not what bread and circuses means.

That expression is a cynical look at the relationship of the individual to the State: so long as my belly is full and I am entertained I'm all right Jack.

“… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses”

So, no, this is not the circus part.
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I didn't say that their audience is not outside of the USA. Feel free to re-read what I wrote.

Think about it like that. BMW sells most of their cars outside of Germany but still is a German company that operates world wide. And this is very true for most big companies today.
How is that solving the problem???
Multimember districts need to be considered. In fact I'd like to see the entire house elected at large in each state. Maybe something like you can choose to vote for 50% of the seats, so a 10 seat state would allow voting for up to 5 candidates.
Sorry, but this is a real question: Why would we know who Scott Alexander is?
> For outdoor assemblies, you'll need approval of the municipal government (and the police can dissolve your assembly, as happened in Hamburg during the G20 protests).

For outdoor assemblies you need to inform a designated authority (which is not the same as an approval) and comply with certain restrictions.
The trouble is that nobody follows the standards. Well, very few do. Not even the browsers are standards compliant.
>Microsoft issued a statement in justification saying that it didn't need a warrant

Microsoft can not get a warrant in any case: they are not a law enforcement agency.
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What's the cost/benefit of them doing that to Target? On the upside they could see what's selling well, what margins they have, etc. What's the net value of that information to their retail unit? I'd say it's probably very small.

On the downside, they could lose their most profitable business unit.

Check out all the audits they go through. If you're an enterprise customer with this concern you can get access to those audit reports and see if it's one of the things being looked at by an independent third party.

Besides, all Target has to do is encrypt the data. Boom, non-factor.
No work is happening in this direction on any known library server. They are waiting for (another) major hack to wake up.
The Graun is ideologically committed to nationalising all the things. It would be noteworthy if they ever called for anything to remain private, let alone be privatised.

Having said that there's a decent case for Google being broken up.
> I learnt a new slang today, thanks!

I had to google it to see what "lerping" was supposed to mean, and the whole experience was too disappointing. The lerping and tweening slang appears to be a reinvention of basic concepts (parametrization) derived from ignorance and poor math literacy. It appears that some people failed to pay attention to intro to calculus courses and decided to just come up with new names for tired old concepts.
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Perhaps it's the online identity part that needs public infrastructure protected by legal constraints? Let the free market piggy-back on top of that platform then. Same thing goes for loyalty cards.
I'm sorry but this is exactly the mentality that will drive us into a herbicide apocalypse. Farming food for the population is not a game. Stop looking at farming as some sort of equation on how to turn acres into dollars.

The measure of good farming should not be yield per acre, but nutrient density and food safety instead. It's completely upside down at the moment.

Do you think his grandfather would have cared about "competitive advantage" in favor of dropping the standard of produce quality? No. His grandfather had exactly the mentality we need in farming, which is quality before quantity.

You as a farmer are responsible for the health of the people you feed, and the health of the land and its ecosystem.

This mentality that everything has to be turned into dollars in the most efficient way, will lead farmers to sell us chemical bricks packaged as food if they just can get away with it, because..you know..it's efficient.

Think about that for a moment. When the only measure is dollars, you sacrifice everything that is important for humans and the planet in favor of profits.
Are you seriously trying to claim that AMD felt compelled to invent a whole new CPU architecture just because you believe it couldn't implement FPATAN right?
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Would this qualify as an addition to this list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_work
The hospital allowed them to have pencils and apparently had no issue with it. Presumably patients fill out forms with pencils all the time. Even the IRB failed to complain or notice this "danger". They never complained that pencils were too dangerous, just that it didn't meet the arbitrary signature requirement that it be a pen.

And you say this is the most ludicrous requirement, but it's actually the least. After all it's not entirely the IRB's fault, they didn't ban pens in the hospital.

But it demonstrates exactly what is wrong with bureaucracy. Maybe one bureaucracy with one set of arbitrary rules could be tolerated. But once you have two interacting they can create contradicting and incompatible rules. One bureaucracy bans pens, the other bans pencils, and you end up with a world with no writing implements at all.

I'm sure the regulation sounded entirely reasonable at the time. Someone had to put together a set of rules on how to get consent. And they think pens are supposed to be the proper way of writing a signature, because banks require you to sign checks in pen. Because long ago people would erase checks written in pencil and commit check fraud. At no point did they ever consider the history of that rule or that it doesn't make much sense applied to consent forms. At no point did they ever consider that there might be a hospital somewhere that bans pens for whatever reason.

And I can't blame them, why would they? You can't anticipate every possible edge case. This is a website made up of programmers, we should know that better than anyone. And yet at no point did anyone with common sense come along and make an exemption for that rule. When rules become fixed and inflexible they do things that weren't intended by the rule writers.

And every single thing in the article is like that. Some rule that might not be so bad or make sense in isolation. But combine it with 10,000 other rules, and total weight becomes overwhelming. And as a result you get a bunch of people misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, and god knows what else since doctors can't do the research necessary to find out.
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Yeah that's fair - making sure macros are not totally off makes sense.
> "rational trigonometry" is more accurate, and that's a concrete claim with is 1) easily verifiable and 2) wrong.

I do not see how it is easily verifiable. Rational trigonometry, as I understand, does not use angles, so it is not clear for me how to use it in a lot of cases. I belive there are ways to do it, but it needs some research or reading Wildberger... So, its not seems for me as "easily".

> the bizarre claim that "we count in base 10, which only has two exact fractions: 1/2, which is 0.5, and 1/5." There's so much wrong with that, it's hard to know where to start.

To my mind, it is just imprecise wording from Wildberger side. Or maybe it precise in his rational way of thinking, but we, accepting irrational numbers, see it imprecise.

I belive, that he meant to say, that 1/2 and 1/5 is some kind of "base" fractions and all fractions that can be written presice is `(1/2)^m*(1/5)^n`, where m and n are non-negative intergers. And to write precise is means to write in decimal representation. I cannot see any other explanation of Wildberger words which would not imply that Wildberger just plain stupid, which is improbable.

Really, I like the idea: we know how to solve a lot problems with irrational numbers, but does it possible to solve them without irrational? How far mathematics can go without irrational numbers?
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They can force Facebook etc. to hand over the data anyway, so it does not seem like much would change in terms of the threat posed by governments.
Largest companies by annual revenue[0]:

WalMart Stores (US) - $485.8bn
State Grid (China) - $315.1bn
Sinopec (China) - $267.5bn
China Natural Petroleum (China) - $262.6bn
Toyota Motor (Japan) - $254.7bn
Volkswagen (Germany) - $240.2bn
Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands) - $240bn
Berkshire Hathaway (US) - $223.6bn
Apple (US) - $215.6bn
Exxon Mobil (US) - $205bn

None are the big three. Should we nationalize Toyota and Volkswagen also?

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/07/20/revealed-worl...
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It is not so cut and dry. Here are different scenarios:
1. Public companies - They are driven by the need to enhance "shareholder value" and stock prices. In case of stock market crash, they will go back to the drawing table, re-assess their spending and cut a lot of projects, anything they deem to be not "critical". It can range from a cutting edge project, for which they don't see a pay off real soon to mundane stuff like support.
2. Startups - There are not many out there which are consistently profitable. Some of them need influx of money to keep running. A crash will cause a severe cash crunch.
3. Private Companies - Some of them might have their customers/suppliers being affected a lot.

Unlike what people like to believe stock market crash is not only about stocks. It affects a lot of things. Major one of them being money supply. Many people rely on Overdrafts or current accounts, I am not sure if that is what they are called in US, to run businesses. After crash businesses are put in a lot of pressure to up keep their accounts and run near real time cash business, something which affects a lot of things.
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Personally, I agree emails should be sent in two versions. However, there's a trend of sending just HTML. This article was written some time ago https://litmus.com/blog/best-practices-for-plain-text-emails... and latest comments will also promote the idea of dumping plain text.

Regarding marketing emails, I mean every automated email sequence. Like, you definitely get receipts and stuff over email. And those aren't written by hand.
Can you give a bit more information about where (in the geographical sense) Google Maps is inferior to [unknownCompetitor]?
> "really hot and just starting out/new up and coming language or framework"

As a consultant this strategy is very smart, very stupid for a company tho.

1) Consultant goes to company and sells his new hot tech stack that is just released.

2) Company buys in and pays a lot of money.

3) Consultant now is locked himself a nice position because nobody wants to deal with this technology and he is the only expert they can get.
It seems to me what we really need then is some other kind of litmus test that indicates a quality recording, without having to waste a ton of bandwidth and storage to get it. Are there other things to look for that also tend to correlate with quality? Newer formats maybe?
As a non-american, I'd be 100x times more scared of these giants being owned by the US gov. Actually I'd completely stop using the services of the two of them that I still use. I'll take a nice faceless profit driven shady corporation any time over a foreign government.

Heck, what freaks me out the most about Facebook is that they act very unlike any of the classical profit driven corporations... which may mean they have other more dubious interest than "just profit". Profit-drivenness is in a sense "pure" and "fair"... when something is state owned/controlled it becomes infused with ideologies and these are known to make people do way more stupid and cruel things that the thirst for more money (hint: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol-Pot and their followers where not profit-driven!)
And stop calling it base 60. It's clearly a mixed base, call it base 6-10.

Calling it base 60 makes it sound like they have 60 different digits which would be insane.
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I think it's quite easy to see the benefit of the author's study and their frustration is completely understandable - however, I can't help but feel that much of their frustration was simply because the rules impeded their progress, not that the rules were actually useless.

My major gripe whenever there is a long piece that decries the bureaucracy of various regulatory boards is that the complaints tend to be about how the bureaucracy is a personal inconvenience. Some of the gripes I'll absolutely grant; pen versus pencil and inflexibility for giving potentially violent persons a weapon probably needs some sort of leeway, but I think protectionary measures absolutely should be a brick wall; a surmountable one, sure, but only as a result of you actually trying a bit and demonstrating that your intended actions aren't going to do exactly what the regulation is trying to prevent, and that should be on the researcher using human participants to demonstrate.

The idea of easily avoidable and mutable regulatory functions seems contradictory - that is, a researcher shouldn't be declaring what should and should not apply to them. This isn't fear that they're Hitler and going to inject people with nastiness, it's fear of the dumb mistakes that every human makes and our often poor ability to predict the outcome of certain actions. I get it - they want to help people and the regulations are inconvenient for them; but having gone through many IRB processes myself, it's not insurmountable in the least bit, much less anything the author listed.