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> I know when the right rails against "identity politics" this is not what they mean, but as a progressive, I feel that this sort of identity politics gets in the way of building a coalition large enough to make progress.

When stated motives are questionable, look at the outcomes and use those to infer what the true motives were.
How much storj you wanna bet that Gordon Hall guy is the only person in the world who understands the entirety of Storj? Scary.

What relation does he have with the project? He's not even listed on the team:

https://storj.io/team.html

There was a $30MM ICO which ended May 25th. The price of ETH was $177 at the time. Not bad! Dropbox’ first seed round was only $15,000.

I don't get it. Don't understand why people want to get a lot of money, put a ton of pressure on themselves, and then put out a shoddy half-baked, half-finished product. You see this with almost all software now but the cryptocurrency craze has made it endemic. People who have shown nothing are getting 30 million dollars in funding. Shouldn't you earn it first? Isn't that healthy?

You guys don't need $30 million dollars to do stuff like this. You're lying to yourself if believe you do. This is $30k effort. How about putting your head down, shutting your mouth, building something great, and then showing the world? Is that crazy? You can only assume these people are more about $$$ than what they are building.
If the Waffle House is closed, it's Time to Panic (2016)
You can't use GPL code in non GPL software.
Went to diner for breakfast and ate it.
I don't see how it would be "convenient", since it doesn't seem necessary that an animal be conscious for us to require ourselves to not harm it out of a moral concern.

Babies are either unconscious or have a very low degree of consciousness, but infanticide is still morally abhorrent.
> Which is absolutely true, but no one (basically) is doing it.

The UK continues to meet its reduction targets set in Kyoto in 1990, and its reductions are so massive that it now uses less CO2 per capita than it did in 1900. The UK also has had one of the highest per capita economic growth rates over that time period in the developed world, higher than the US for example. France really has no need of cuts, because its per capita CO2 emissions were already so small (about 4/5th lower for each individual than in the US or Australia). This blanket statement is incorrect.
As much as Skype did.
Re: Amazon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
> What format is the information provided as? HTML files with graphs? XML files (gasp)?

PDF: https://hayvan-storage-wordpress-master-studiowien.s3.amazon...

That's Max Schrems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems) with his 1222 pages of FB data.
Thanks, we updated the link from https://www.gizmodo.com/2017/08/facebook-figured-out-my-fami... but kept the .com site.
Thank you for your work on Flutter! I tinker with it during weekends like this and despite it being my first go at mobile development, I feel productive programming in it.
I don't use WhatsApp. Most of the people I know don't. People have appeared on my suggested contacts when I have no other connection with them.

Clearly Facebook uses many, many sources of data.
> Maybe this would be a good time to propose a new "test pilot core" for cars, made up of perhaps some elite drivers who don't work for any car company.

Yes, having more neutral testing programs like CA's standardized testing would be nice, particularly if the tests were mandatory for all manufacturers.

I'm surprised there isn't a national testing system in place for that, but I guess it is our system to leave most control to the states.
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> ...everyone is shaken off their complacency and is compelled to actually coordinate their shared activities...

Some of this is trivial to delegate to a combination of tools (official calendaring tools) and people (admins). It's strange, really, that we don't expect technical contributors to delegate non-technical things more often.
As someone who isn't a vegetarian (and who feels guilty eating bacon if I start thinking about it too much), I can't help but to wonder if eating meat will be considered the "barbaric" practice of this generation for future generations. I'm sure previous generations didn't consider their barbaric practices to be such at the time.
While the particularities may be interesting, much of what's said isn't surprising (though for Cartesians, it may be, and the author does throw Descartes' name around a few times). There is a great deal of confusion about this subject and a number of philosophical errors in the comments (w.r.t. language, religion, qualia, zombies, etc). For those who do want some perspective, I recommend starting with Feser's introductory book "Philosophy of Mind" [0] as well as a series of blog posts he's written on the subject (such as [1] and [2], as well as a blog post with a long list of links on the subject and related subjects [3]).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Beginners-Guide-Edward-Fes...

[1] http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/04/animal-souls-part-i....

[2] http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/08/animals-are-consciou...

[3] http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/05/mind-body-problem-ro...
> find the process of fixing type errors quite enjoyable

I, myself, would rather be creating new functionality than fixing a litany of type errors. In fact, I'd rather go to a meeting than change several hundred instances of 'duck' to 'waterfowl', 'avian', and 'ugly_duck' (knowing that I'll probably have to go back and change it again later).

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I can't find the transcript or quote, but Jon Stewart said that all the work he does and all the voice he has doesn't have real power; it's the politicians that have the power. He likened his crusade to get the NYC first responders health coverage to the movie Ghost where Patrick Swazye spent a ton of energy and effort to the point of draining him for hours to just move a penny a few feet.

With their constant crying wolf and manufactured outrage, the US media has all but neutered themselves.
I'm enjoying wallabyjs with jest and vscode. It's quite fun having feedback from test execution always available in the IDE.

I don't have a long build step for my codebase (compiling typescript just takes a few seconds and incremental is instant) -- but I do avoid lengthy deployment cycles -- deploying code to aws lambda takes quite awhile.
Exactly. The problem is not Dogma A or B, but rather the use of any dogma as a crutch in determining if code is readable.

Here's the thing... code is either readable and maintainable, or it's not. You don't evaluate the readability of code with some kind of dogmatic checklist. You just read it and see if it makes sense.

Dogmas are good for rules of thumb, which are mental shortcuts with safe error margins. Shortcuts are helpful in that they provide cover for knowledge gaps. But they are a short term solution. The long term solution is to develop adaptable instincts that provide better guidance than any dogma or rule of thumb.

Looking at dogma this way, as a shortcut to cover knowledge gaps, its no surprise that adherence to dogmatism appears to be inversely correlated with programming experience. Newbies who haven't seen many contexts will cling to dogmas. But as they gain experience, they find situations where dogmas don't necessarily yield the best solution. Slowly that experience develops into instincts, which replace the crude dogmatic ways of thinking. But instincts only come with experience, and nobody is an expert in every domain, so dogmas have their place. But reliance on them should be a temporary solution, not a long term guiding principle.
>We raise animals against their will

To be fair, I don't remember being asked either.
I worked on a 'sharing economy' service writing software. We had a project that boiled down to "we've found a legal way to start skimming tips without the users realizing it". It was technically legal. It was completely unethical. It was bullshit.

I called management out on it, said that I did not want to wind up like a "rogue engineer" at VW when the shit hits the fan, because I felt our upper management would gladly throw us all under the bus. "Don't worry, this is all perfectly legal within the contracts". They didn't understand the difference between "this is illegal" and "this is unethical".

I quit the company. I won't put loyalty to a company head of ethics, morals.

These VW engineers? Maybe the executives were the big fish who made the call, but they were the ones who agreed to make it happen. They are just as liable, in my view.

(I hear the project was eventually canned. The users who were beta tested on it immediately realized what was happening and threatened to quit.)
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This is misleading. I hope if anyone here is in the process of choosing, they will consider that making these contacts would likely not be that difficult. Reason is, the type of contact determines the difficulty.

Building a high quality sales contact list and network is extremely difficult, it can take decades. It's not uncommon for salespeople to be hired mostly on the basis of their rolodex.

Conversely approaching someone to ask for career feedback is much easier. In general, people don't want to be sold something, but they don't mind helping out an up and coming person in in the field. It can even make them feel good they were respected enough to be asked.
I thought you can't link to GPL Software in non-GPL software?

Shipping an unmodified copy of git and calling it should be fine even in proprietary code, no?
Even converting all of those sectors to electric/renewable, you don't remove all greenhouse gases, you cut them down. In the case of personal transportation we see estimates of ~53% reduction in carbon footprint. I don't know what the improvements would look like if all utilities were forced to go renewables but we would certainly see large increases in price.
A different question is whether consciousness is something desirable in machines. As an exercise in playing with that question, Peter Watts' fiction is hard to beat.

As one distillation he presents goes, first-contact comes about because of our emissions being noticed. But the reason for the contact is the content of the messages - intelligent but not-conscious beings receive them, find them difficult to process because they are mostly self-referential silliness only a conscious mind could worry about, and conclude they are informational attacks.

Maybe machines shouldn't be conscious, because consciousness is a waste of resources.
The engines, though, absolutely
The valley spirit never dies;

It is the woman, primal mother.

Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth.

It is like a veil barely seen.

Use it; it will never fail.

~Lao Tzu
If you look at the big European cities, real estate is expensive wherever there is an acceptable train or subway connection to the city and prices fall sharply outside of these zones.

Self-driving cars will equalize this and it's a good thing. If you can take an affordable self driving taxi to the city you don't care about train connections any more and the key factors for choosing a home outside the city will change.
But that is a "next" step, unrelated to cars being driverless, sharing fleets (normally human driven) do exist, and they do actually work for some uses, but still they are either on the road or in a parking.

Let's play it another way, let's assume that no self-driving car exists but that all humans (with the exception of those making a living as a driver) can afford a third party human driven car for all their movements/commuting.

This could be either an enormous fleet of Taxis (or Limousines) or Ubers, or each household having one or more cars and a corresponding number of employed drivers.

Still, if the way the city/economy works there is a need that 100,000 people move from point A to point B in a time range between 7 and 9 in the morning and that the same number of people go back from B to A between 17 and 19, the same amount of roads (and the space occupied by them) will be needed.
Well...im not really sure why a nuke hasn't been deployed yet. But for me the protests allowed me to learn the significant difference between an atomic bomb and a nuke. I always thought it was just a larger bomb.

Protests helped me realize what people dont say anymore: one nuke will cancel the species.
> ... a number of philosophical errors in the comments (w.r.t. language, religion, qualia, zombies, etc).

I feel like this is, intentionally or not, aimed at least 80% at my comments :)

Would you mind giving me some quick pointers on what the "errors" are? I can assure you that, though I may well be wrong, I have read several books on philosophy of mind and many more on cognitive science research. Despite that I'm struggling to see anything I said that would have been controversial at the time I was taking those courses in university.
I'm aware that a fully general invariant checker is impossible, but there are still type systems that can catch a lot of errors in practice. If dynamic modifications have to be taken into account, that makes the problem more difficult, but not necessarily impossible. Even though there are changes that can't be checked at all, those can't be too common, or humans wouldn't be able to handle them either.

I'm not sure why you think that the checking will be painful, it almost sounds like you think that it would be done by the programmer. The whole point of type systems is that they can be checked automatically, so the programmer is prevented from doing something stupid.

Dynamic languages already allow all kinds of modifications that might or might not break invariants or introduce subtle incompatibilities; a type system would only make it safer.

It is also not just a matter of "stopping the program and fixing it". Suppose you are writing a game, and during playtesting you encounter a bug, where something is stuck in an endless respawn loop. In a dynamic language, you could look at the misbehaving code, develop a fix, and immediately observe its effects. This allows you to quickly iterate until you have found a solution that works. Compared to a "stop, fix, retry"-cycle, it's simply going to be faster, even assuming you can reproduce the bug reliably (maybe using some kind of input replay).
> If you want your wife to be able to use it, you get her added as an Authorized User and she gets a new card with the same number but her name and her signature.

Yea.. but who do we get her added with? Because, as i said, we tried that. We called to get her added, see what we need, etc.

They said nothing. They literally said anyone can use my card, and it's assumed fine until i dispute it later.

So we literally tried to get her added, but couldn't - they said it's not needed, and that was that. This happened for both cards, lol.
mistyped and left out 'renewable' grid electricity. In my defense, I have norovirus right now and my brain is currently flowing towards a water treatment facility somewhere.
> If you kill a couple of people you go to jail or might even get executed. If you kill 1200+ you get early retired on a comfy stipend.

This falsely looks like a good point.

Cars kill a lot of people by virtue of accidents. Does that mean cars are a bad thing? You see, just because something inevitably kills people in practice it isn't automatically a bad thing. What you need to balance it with is the good it brings compared to the alternatives.

Your point makes a comparison between killing a couple of people for no good and the effect of cars and their exhaust.

Your point is bad.
The problem with this industry, software development, is that it didn't yet get that programmers are beginners for a very long time. Like the human child, it takes 20 years of programming experience to mature a programmer and before that he's just a child.

Let's assume I'm right here for a minute. If most programmers then are intermediate programmers, what kind of advise needs most to be given knowing businesses needs to run? The ones that do "damage control". There is no issue with that, it's ok to do damage control.

Let's take some example. "readable code". Yes for an intermediate programmer it is a good thing if the code is not too dense because those code tend to draw all the programmer's energy when he tries to make sense of it. But as the programmer get experience, he can read more and more dense code to finally be able to get in a glimpse what looks like obfuscated code to others. For a mature programmer, the important point not readability, it is for the code to be as small as possible which generally tend to produce very dense code. The mature programmer draws on his abilities to understand obfuscated code to write even better code.

"write a test first" (beside the fact you're here actually asking a beginner to solve his code problems by writing more code which is at best controversial to me). A mature programmer don't write a test first, he thinks that way already - and yes he delivers code that has less than a percent failure rate. Now, some code may require unit tests, I'm not saying this is wrong in every situation, it's just not right in every situation.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is: I wish we have a way to finally make a clear distinction between good advises for intermediate programmers and what is actually mature programming because it's very different - the mature programmer gonna make the function as big as it make sense to be, he isn't gonna artificially break up his body into small functions to make it more readable: he can read the code already.
There isn't one single reason for avoiding use of GPL software that is true for all BSD variants.

Requiring OCaml in the base operating system could equally be a reason to avoid this, whatever licence is used.
You can only assume these people are more about $$$ than what they are building.

Bingo.
Over medium time scales people switching to smaller vehicles won't really show up as additional demand and thus won't drive any increase in supply.

If people downsized in large numbers it might even move some buyers away from new large vehicles (if the anticipated resale value of large vehicles dropped).
My experience with Ingress back in the day bears this out. That game would cause certain phones to reboot due to overheating, and others to throttle down so low they were worthless for playing.
Not sure about showers and cooking while they are driving.
An easy way to test this article's hypothesis would be to sit down with the old hands who help organize these protests - let's say, some of the old former SNCC and Black Panther types advising the younger Black Lives Matter organizers, and ask them if they think a series of demonstrations are the means to change things. I am pretty confident, because I have spent a lot of time around organizers of different colors who go back to the 1960s (or 1930s) that 99% of the time, they are going to say no. It's a very easy way to falsify this hypothesis. I mean, you might get this reaction from some 16 year old who has come to their first demonstration, but you would rarely get it from someone seriously involved. New Yorker articles about such matters usually have some flaws, but this one is much worse than usual as he didn't do a very simple thing to falsify his hypothesis.
You got it backwards. Put out a shoddy, half-baked, half-finished product and then get $30 million.
Cats do, in fact, snack on deceased owners. Whether they enjoy it, I can't say.

When I had a cat, I'd fairly frequently wake up with her staring at me, sitting on my chest in the "breath stealing" position. I always imagine her inner dialog being something like, "Morning! Are you dead yet? Can I eat your eyes? OK, not dead yet. Scratch my nose?"
Very cool, thanks for the heads up.
As the author of the article, I can only speak to my personal experience.

One vital detail: I used to wear CICs(completely in the canal) hearing aids for a while before switching to BTEs (behind the ear), so I was used to being able to talk to my hairdresser during an appointment. I didn't want to lose that, so I resorted to solving the problem.

I've also known my hairdresser for a good 7 years so we've built a bit of rapport. She knows what to do when I come in for a haircut. I take the hearing aids out completely while my hair is washed, and put them in after. When I put them in, I move the hearing aids from their usual "behind the ear" position and just let them "float" in mid air while my receivers are in. This way, the wires are as far as possible from any clippers or scissors. Sometimes I just gently pull them down and away while she's working close to them for extra assurance.

I also verbally remind her every time to be careful around the ear and sideburns - just as an extra precaution and my peace of mind. Honestly just talk to your hairdresser, explain it to them, and they'll usually be more than happy to make this a good experience for you.
Great apes too.

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/05/clever-puzzle-solving-or...
I currently live in East Melbourne (~15 second walk from Hoddle Street) and pay through the nose for the privilege. And yet a few years ago lived in one of those big Victorian terraces on Hoddle just 50 metres away, where a mate and I paid AUD $240/week each for the entire place. What you say about the disparity in property value caused by the road is spot on.

Funnily enough, a little while back my neighbour made the exact same point about Hoddle Street - in (say) twenty years the property values are going to see a massive shift because of changing technology in our cars. However I think it will be the move to electric cars that makes the real difference. No more fumes, no more grime covering every surface, far less noise. Add in reduced traffic because of self-driving tech and suddenly that property will be worth a packet.
replacements over ten years means replacing cars at end of life. Additionally, 90% of a car's total life cycle CO2 emissions are due to fuel use[1], so its actually very quickly worth replacing a car. With the current grid it's between 30-60k miles, with a fully green grid it's as low as 7k miles.

[1]: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life-...
You wouldn't have to maintain two sets of build systems. You write one cmake file, and it generates unix makefiles or visual studio projects. As a windows developer, I groan whenever I find a makefile..
More like Tautology 101: Circular Reasoning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utnPEbDNbrE&t=24

Jeff Speck: Autonomous Vehicles & the Good City 10 rules
Sounds a lot like a classic "submarine PR piece", with all the right references and even one spicy one (Mike Tyson quote).

"At the other extreme are publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Their reporters do go out and find their own stories, at least some of the time. They'll listen to PR firms, but briefly and skeptically."

I thought HBR was also relatively immune from printing such vanity pieces, evidently not.
This is only for San Francisco. It would be nice if we could get that mentioned in the title, this is a more significant piece of info than the list of sources.
I'm a US citizen. Banks are very nice when you know everyone who works there.
By my accounting it comes out to 1.7-1.8% of global CO2 and even that article says it's ~3%. That's pretty negligible in the scheme of things
It's rather selective in what it doesn't consider, namely nations and culture. To oppose neo-liberal policies with Keynesian economics doesn't get you very far in explaining the state of things. Was Bill Clinton a Hayekian who rejected the "dashing and socially connected" Keynes? Slight of hand.

But I liked the article overall and think it's a good starting point for discussion.
Are you asking why people take $30m in uncollateralized funding and release broken software instead of taking $30k with some (albeit very little) governance and attempt to release quality, value creating products?