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Maybe in US this holds, but things may be different in different places.

I'm a Chinese living in the bay area. I think people here treat E-mails as part of their daily life probably because most of them began to use it before the mobile internet is a thing. On the contrary, in China where the majority internet users are mobile-savvy, WeChat is the new email. Actually E-mails are only for official communications there, and I don't think official communications can be treated as "social networks".

I'm wondering if the same thing is happening in other developing countries where people first touched facebook/whatsapp before even knowing E-mail exists.
Exactly, it's much more portable than any other electronic comms system atm.
If you want your email to look the same on all clients text/plain is the way to go.
Sorry, but I've benchmarked this recently as part of a project that I'm working on, and JPEG decoding with libjpeg-turbo consumed far more CPU than software H.264 decoding.

The encoding side is very expensive with H.264, but as I understand it a lot of work goes into building the right reference frames so that higher compression and faster decode can be achieved.
HTML is awful enough on the Web, why would you want that in your inbox?
Taking that position also gives you the answer to why we won't see black holes fissioning into outspiralling pairs of neutron stars, or shards of glass spontaneously reassembling into a wineglass that leaps off the floor into someone's hand. The only cost is extremely exquisitely finely placed stress-energy-momentum in the early universe into the infinite past.

If you have no problem with an infinite history of ever lower entropy, then luckily observations to date do not contradict this sort of cosmology, and under time-reversal the "movie" showing the universe crunching into an ever more orderly state forever isn't very shocking other than we arrange our lives with the movie playing the other way, sweeping up broken shards of glass rather than catching rising stemware. Maybe conscious life somewhere else in our Hubble volume arranges their lives in that way, though, unbreaking and unmaking their artefacts and thinking our way of doing things is strange.

Some other questions for you: how far does this cosmology's future grow? Do we get infinite entropy in the infinite future? If we don't have an infinite future, why do we have an infinite ever-more-orderly past? If we have an infinite future, do you suppress fluctuations? Do you wholly suppress Poincaré recurrence? How would you distinguish us here as us here now from a recurrence? Are we a recurrence? etc.

These questions do not seem as amenable to testing with current technology as questions arising from other cosmologies.
The only thing we could conceivably do is preemptively strike NK's line of artillery that spans across the entire country north of the DMZ. They would have to simultaneously detonate without detection though and I don't know of anything that can do that. Maybe a nuclear strike delivered from boomer subs, but that would still give warning. Of course that would get China involved and that wouldn't be pretty.

Here's some info including maps of their artillery range and capability.

https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/how-north-korea-would...
> What do you do in a rotary where you have to cut across multiple lanes of traffic to exit? If the autonomous vehicle waits for another car to give way, it will be there forever.

What do you do in a multi-lane rotary roundabout with trams going through it, and construction happening? (an actual use case from Bremen, Germany).

There’s so many situations they’re not even considering.

Google/Waymo is building a Schönwetterauto, in the metaphorical and literal meaning.
Let's hope so. Otherwise it's either a) incredibly shoddy software, or b) somebody else's stuxnet. Either one of those options are very bad things.
This reminded me of the MacGuffin concept, popularized by Hitchcock, about the need for a goal to drive a the plot of the movie, but it was just a throwaway device used to get into the characters and their conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin#Alfred_Hitchcock). The MacGuffin school assumes that the viewer understands the deeper meaning of the quest or centerpiece, and so can ignore it, but it turns out that many viewers, right or wrong, actually like clever plots and quests... along with great characters and snappy dialog, etc.
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I have recently suffered a traumatic brain injury (tbi) - not unlike what may be common in football, hockey and other contact sports - and not exactly pleased with the medical response that there is no real treatment other than rest, I began doing some research and came across an open letter from a Harvard PhD to the NFL commissioner regarding cannabis and concussions, CTE and TBI. They focus on the CBD heavy variety and suggest it acts as a neuroprotector. Then a little more research I came across an Israeli study regarding TBI improvements in rats using cannabis, I even thought I found an article saying the Israeli military uses cannabis for treatment of soldiers and enemy combatants with TBI but I can't seem to find it now.

I'm not so sure about peds for competition or recovery, but if cannabis is considered a ped by various sports commissions and can be beneficial to brain injury that is a damn shame.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3gqe/the-nfl-sh...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/cannabis-could-treat-traumatic-...
It's not dangerous, but it's smart to avoid looking just before C2. You don't want to kill your sensitivity or get any bleaching. C3, sure, but then don't keep staring.
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Nobody outside of business and advertising cares how annoying it is to write carefully formatted HTML emails.

For any end user, email is the universal communication mechanism.
It's worse opsec to needlessly crash into other ships...
There is a direct and educational correlation that can be drawn between South China Seas, tulip bulbs, stocks in 1929, dotcom stocks, Beanie Babies, subprime housing, Bitcoin, etc.

Time and time again some financial instrument has become unmoored from it's intrinsic value and lax regulation allows speculative money to pour in, some early adopters get rich, the financially naive jump on the bandwagon without understanding the underlying instruments, they get spooked and the entire thing plummets back to it's fundamental value (which may well be zero) leaving some with fortunes and some with nothing. Bubbles appear to be a natural occurrence in a lightly regulated market economy and typically follow a very similar pattern.

I think that Bitcoin can be both a speculative bubble and a potentially world-changing technology. The dotcom bubble is a fine prior example - huge classic speculative bubble, also radically changed how we are all now living.
There's also testing kits you can buy and most of these markets the customers are posting results of the tests and blood work to verify the source is legitimate. It's actually a quite reliable and honest economy because of how much scrutiny people have over putting vials of oil in their bodies. It's an interesting market dynamic considering it's completely unregulated and illegitimate.
Thanks, I think someone linked to that here the other week, but I didn't have a chance to go through it at the time. It's very well done, so I'm glad you supplied the impetus to revisit it. :)
Which seems a little bit like training wheels for a starship. But it has its fans.
There's a fundamentally wrong view of the way algorithms are written implicit here. Take for example a recommendation algorithm for porn. It's not written by some programmer expressing his tastes in code, like he would in language, it's written by analyzing the tastes of lots of people. If the result is racist - maybe people prefer black men and asian women - then it's because people's tastes are racist, not because the programmer is racist.
This is super neat! If it weren't for the FAT limitations you could make one of those SD cards that fake their capacity actually "contain" a file as big as the misreported capacity.
I think you'll find a lot more push back on using HTML in emails at all.
I dont ever see the ads because I have multiple layers of ad blocking at the network, PC and Browser Level...

if a Ad gets through I spend some time figuring out why then ensuring it is blocked going forward
Same with India and WhatsApp
And if still confused after reading that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragon...
Thanks for clarifying.

These tools do, however, have an important place in saving practitioners time and energy on the "knob-twiddling". It's a little like robot-assisted surgery: the robot doesn't actually do the surgery, but it makes the surgeon's job a whole lot easier.
At work we do 2 week sprints and have a checklist of things to achieve for each sprint. For side projects I like to be a little more explicit, but I guess that comes down to how I plan projects. I'll say I want to complete X controller or component rather than vague functionality.
Maybe the founder should hire or involve a senior manager as a mentor, long before they reach X employees. The mentor can say: "I see what you're doing here, but here's how a larger company does it, and here's why."

I worked for a company that came within inches of imploding at around this point. I noticed that even before hitting that size, they were already going downhill and losing people. So maybe an issue is that a company doesn't do anything different at 40 employees, but the employees get less willing to put up with it, especially if they feel that they're not sharing in the rewards of the company's growth. And the new employees who are coming in, don't share the same "startup fever" and personal loyalty to the founders, that propelled the early employees.

A mentor might be able to see this happening and steer the founders in the right direction.
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I was intrigued, so I just looked at the "Inside Premium" plan -- $10/mo for one newsletter?? You can get a digital subscription to Washington Post and NYT for basically half that!
Nah, just the unicorns.
No; this is like stealing the product. If you don't like a product you just don't buy it (meaning, don't go to their website), you don't go to the their publishing agency and throw rocks at their windows just because you don't agree with their profiting methods, it's really simple.
Meh. I hear robots will be taking those jobs also.
I didn't intend for my statements to be absolute. I could have thrown in some seem tos and generallys but I felt like the "at least in my case" covered it. I've spoken to older people who are very aware of what's coming and/or already here. It's just not the common case. I'm not making a hard assumption; It's more like a branch prediction.
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er, given the specific example used, I would expect the wizard to say "look, you know exactly what the cards are, why don't you buy your own sorted deck of cards and staple them to the floor of your tent. Then when the king gives you a deck, just put each card on top of the matching one, then scoop them all up together in order." to which you would of course reply "but my tent is too small!", and the wizard would say "then just put down one of each number of one suit, plus the other 3 aces. Then pile all the cards on the aces first, just by matching suit, and finally take each of those piles in turn and do it by number."

Now, I haven't read the paper, but my guess is that the next objection is "but the king keeps switching the suits! Yesterday, they were diamonds, today they're little squiggly sketches of soft-serve poop! Which he pays me well enough to not think too hard about!" and the wizard would go on to explain that as long as you ask what the suits and numbers are in advance, you can make piles for them. Or something.

Sorry, usually I try to read papers before commenting, but I've gotta run -- I hear that whining noise that usually means my poop dispenser's jammed again.
Sometimes, problems are inherent. Especially in a systems language.
I don't believe there is any conceptual correlation between X being a pyramid scheme and the price of X fluctuating wildly. "Pyramid scheme" is an actual term with a fairly widely-understood meaning. It doesn't just mean "any thing I don't like."
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Nope, actually the most significant risk to Bitcoin specifically from the Chinese government would be an effective block of all Bitcoin-related traffic between China and the rest of the world. This would lead to about 50% of mining power being in China and about 50% being outside of China, both "networks" happily continuing to mine blocks (albeit a lot slower) without knowing about each other, thus confirming entirely different transactions. The market would effectively be crushed by such an event, since the whole point of the blockchain is to have a stable, worldwide consensus about the ownership of every single Bitcoin, which isn't the case anymore if there are two independent networks which both claim to be the "real Bitcoin" (important to note that this is entirely different to the situation between BCH and BTC, where the forked BCH chain is clearly considered to be a "different" chain from BTC by all relevant market actors and also by the software due to different rules for block validation).

If the resulting havoc doesn't let Bitcoin prices fall to zero, the chaos produced by the inevitable blockchain reorganization after the government lifts the traffic block would definitely kill it. Depending on which chain was lucky enough to get more blocks, one or the other suddenly becomes irrelevant, and thus all transactions approved within it are purged from history. If the traffic block is timed intelligently, people and/or organizations that rely on the immutability of the chain have already performed actions as a result of Bitcoin transfers, such as crediting user accounts on an exchange, which effectively enables double-spending of these coins on a large scale. This could only be prevented by immediate ceasing of all Bitcoin-related action in case of such a "net split" event, which isn't easy to do and which in itself is a huge market disruption.

I consider the likelihood of such an event to be rather small, as I assume the Chinese government to have a vested interest in Bitcoin (indeed I assume that certain parts of it have been active participants in the game of cryptos for quite a while, and even without this, there are the proven interests of the Chinese mining economy, whose participants hold large sums of coins and physical values tied to their mining operations). But nevertheless this is a possible threat with much worse consequences than simply having a little bit slower block times.
I managed a remote team for 18 years. One thing you might think about is that a lot of communication just doesn't happen naturally between remote folks. For most of that 18 years everyone was remote, we had some office space but even then it was a minority of local people and only a couple of engineers were local.

Communication is necessary between devs to make chunks of work in flight come together nicely. When you are all in the same place, you go to lunch, these topics come up, they tend to get sorted. Yes, one could argue that every chunk should have an architecture document down to the last detail, we didn't work that way, it was too slow.

When you are all distributed someone has to make sure that all the work in flight is going to come together nicely. That job fell on me as the manager and the main driver. It was a shit ton of extra communication. I had to know where everyone was and whether they were on track. Sometimes my people would self communicate but a lot of the time it was on me to know and get them to talk to each other.

By and large, it worked and worked quite well. One thing that was critical to it all was code review. We built our own system, it was a web interface to a database and repo per chunk. You could walk the diffs, comment on them, all in the web or you could clone the repo, toss in some fixup commits, push it back. The review system remembered you and had a way to show you only the diffs since the last time you reviewed this chunk. It was fairly easy to use and useful, people liked it. And it helped immensely in getting the chunks to land in the tree in good shape.

I can't say if other managers have had to pick up the communication slack for remote people, maybe that was unique to me because I was management and sort of the "dumb" architect (my people were smarter than me but they had to push stuff through my brain, much to their annoyance from time to time. The upside was that the system was pretty consistent, it was done by a bunch of people but it felt, mostly, like it was done by one guy).

If it is common for the communication load to be higher on the manager/architects when dealing with remote people you might want to think about that. It doesn't really scale, you are taking what should be a web of communication, lots of sideways stuff, and making it more centralized. My people did complain that I was the bottleneck, I don't think I could have made that model work for a much larger team. I'd have subdivide it like Linus does for the kernel.
It's way more like, what if I'm pouring red colorant to the rivers, and I know the colorants make absolutely no damage to the river but activists still try to destroy my business because they strongly believe so.
So yeah, I find your counter-argument depressing as well; because its not about who is right or wrong but the one who believes themselves in control to determine being both the judge and the executioner.
After installed this extension silently attacks networks, and you think people is gonna care enough to jump to the next best one... because you think they are constantly reading about the moral basis of the blacklisted ad networks? ...right? You are more delusional than expected and I hope ad networks start pouring money into permanently banning users of this extension from all major websites.
General rule of thumb for the US, the worst form of printed communication is typically the more official business savvy one.

Probably some correlation to your observations.
That's right. If you have $100 sitting in your chequeing account to invest, better to invest it now.

Most people get paid biweekly or twice per month, so it would make sense to just invest when you get paid.
I think for me the think that it really drove home is that the sun is really really really really bright.
Please look at my comment above on Accidents vs Recklessness. As an example of a group that is well trained, follows procedures and plans properly, take the Golden Knights skydiving team.

They had a handful of deaths since they started in 1959. And their worst accident was a fatal aircraft failure, which is technically an aircraft accident, not a skydiving accident.
For text based communication SMS absolutely dwarfs email.
Sorry, I mixed up the global and national numbers.

Thanks.
Yes, also, one of the ways that PED's work is that they allow athletes to step up their training volume and intensity. This accelerates additional wear and tear on the body beyond what one would see with "non-superhuman" levels of training.
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If you are doing unskilled labor, you know the kind eligible for overtime at all, you or your employees are text message and Facebook. And the Facebook part is a big maybe if they are also under 30 and not that impressionable.

Oh that have an address or two. Apple gave them one. A utility company gave them one. But its an afterthought
What options even exist outside of ex in that case?
> there's a lot of pressure toward using the big providers, and that's dangerous

This is true and you mention this in other posts. The resounding answer to "how do I run my own mail server" is "don't" and that creates a dangerous environment where we abandon a previously working and useful decentralized part of the core internet because corporations do not accept our individual participation.

This is a form of censorship and I really don't know the best way to approach it.

If a message is signed with DKIM there is a statistically insignificant probability that it is not from the asserted sender. Every MX should block based on content and behavior after initially accepting based on sender validation (SPF/DKIM). It seems like we need an email advocacy group to fight the long fight and tighten the screws on individual companies with overly protective policies like comcast and att. Perhaps even working at a federal/eu policy level would make sense.
You mean for the assassin or the scientist
NTSB, i think, no one takes the blame. For example, if the error is something like "Mechanic didn't tighten bolt to appropriate torque."

So, what's wrong? maybe they forgot and need a checklist item? Maybe the reading on the wrench should be recorded in the log? should there be a second person that verifies?

They know they ask a lot of people, and it has to be right, every time. People get sick, tired, distracted, whatever. we're people. People are the least reliable part of the system.

I think blame only falls to a person when they've lied. Falsified a log, claimed to do something they didn't etc.
I think it's less about outside regulators than organizations/individuals optimizing to cover their own asses. I assure you, I'm not in the "gov'ment regulators ruin everything" camp.
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Emacs can do this with Ruby, Python... Hell, you can get it to eval buffer, region, line with anything that'll accept input and return a useful output.

The ease at which one can get any language (or I/O machine) to play along with this workflow in Emacs is astonishing.
"Go into history class and the teacher says, 'Open your computer. We're going to go to rome.com and we're going to watch an archaeologist explore the Catacombs this morning in real time.' What a learning tool that is!"

I think that hints at the error. Computers aren't made for the "read/watch this thing" model. When we used computers in school it was to research some subject, answer some questions and that worked great.
I don't understand why this seems to be getting so much attention. There are plenty of small image datasets around, and wide recognition of the issues with MNIST.

I see no evidence at all that this particular dataset is better than MNIST. None of the issues they themselves list with MNIST are discussed with relation to their proposed replacement.

The benchmarks they provide are entirely useless - sklearn does not claim to be a platform for computer vision models. A quick WRN model gets 96% of this dataset (h/t @ajmooch on Twitter), suggesting that it doesn't deal with the "too easy" issue.

The images clearly don't deal with the problem of lack of translation invariance.

On the downside, they don't have the same ease of understanding of hand-drawn digits, which is extremely helpful for teaching, debugging, and visualizing.