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I started my militant atheist phase about 10 years ago, then emerged from it about 4-5 years ago as I started to understand enough about the world/universe to realise that much of the true nature of existence is way beyond our ability to comprehend.

That doesn't mean I have any belief in a theistic, interventionist god.

It does mean I have an acceptance and appreciation for the transcendent and the unknowable, similar to what Einstein and Darwin described of themselves.

I'd recommend exposing yourself to the writings of physicists like Roger Penrose and Freeman Dyson, and recent podcast appearances by physicist Eric Weinstein, to understand how religion and spirituality can (and indeed, must) co-exist with physics.

To answer the question in the title of your post: we are so far away from understanding the fundamentals of the nature of reality, that such a question doesn't bear any serious consideration at all.
Do you really feel this way? It seems like a pretty strange world view to think that someone posting a thing they built on a site called hacker news implores you to judge their talent as being wasted, or their project as being useless.

Not only does it seem wrong to judge things people post here that way, anyone out there doing good work knows that the path to doing meaningful work begins with "useless projects."
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The government is either going to have a cash outlay or cash influx as a direct mirror of its deficit or surplus, respectively. If the government runs a surplus then entities outside the government are, on balance, giving it cash. That's like a bribe from foreign entities. But a deficit is like the government outlaying cash. This is necessary, btw, for the US dollar to be the defacto currency of the world. Believe me, if you want the US government to succeed or at least be stable then you want it to keep its status as the defacto world currency.
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Here are the slides for the talk:

https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide#39

The particular slide linked above answers the question "what are the advantages of having their own assembler." Turns out, they'll be able to abstract away the differences across the different manufacturers' assemblers to where they can just feed in the PDFs to be able to support that platform.
At the risk over over-utilizing your metaphore... you still put on bandaids on infections -- even if you're taking antibiotics or applying antiseptic ointment.
Gas is common enough and such a hot button issue that mass fraud like that would be easily noticed on credit card statements and in the tank. It's easy to test, confirm and verify, and can be done by just about anyone. Pull up to the station, fill up your gas canister, and check the price, volume etc.

The places where this fraud is most likely to exist are niche markets and places where it's hard to verify. Walled gardens of software or hardware with few outputs to measure.
While helicopter parenting is a thing here in Germany, too, it is still possible to use your sane judgement as a parent for a lot of things. My daughter is not yet in school (so I am not into a peer group that talks about such stuff), but I see the 7-year-old neighbour kids walking to school without supervision, just as it has been the custom here in my own childhood. I have to admit there are fewer of those on the street (and more accompanied by parents), but kids still have the same freedoms in law that I had. Heck, in anti-gun Germany they are allowed to shoot at shooting clubs beginning 12, doing their first solo flight in (sail)planes at 14 and have their boat driving license at 16. I often critisize our country for its obese body of law, but life of kids is not too much restricted.
Nowadays?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_...
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Over-protecting kids is probably not the main point here. Bureaucrats tend to focus on only one goal: not taking any responsibility or risks. Letting kids being independent is a risk for them, even if this is for their own good. And you can carefully explain to them the case, with scientific evidences, but they are not accountable for anything, and won't bother to change their mind. Because there is a second thing bureaucrats hate: admitting they were wrong.
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Lowndes, Selma, etc are examples of rural towns that no longer generate a product or the related jobs. And the infrastructure costs of each of these trailers is greater than if they lived in more multi-family units.
Thanks for the feedback! I love Avenir, and was using it until I realized it wasn't free. I might switch to Lato from Google Fonts, which is pretty similar, and I'll make the text bigger.
I completely agree with you, in principle, but... taking proper care of a pet is both time consuming and can be costly. Hell, getting my cat food that isn’t single-digit-percentage meat content (they are carnivores and require meat...) costs a surprisinly large amount :(
Hey Man the advice is absolutely appreciated, It's a bit to late to change the association, the internet is forever and so on. But for the most part I don't mind. I would never hide my quirky side from an employer its what's gotten me in the door in the past 9/10 times. At the same time i wouldn't want to work for someone who didn't want me to have fun. Making stupid shit on the side is fun.

It doesn't use porn, it's not dirty or gross, it's an applicable experiment that i did to learn NPM and all in all it was a valuable experience. The fact that it received attention has driven me to actually work on it :)

It would be my hope that any future employer could understand and appreciate thhis
Leveldb is great - but we are already seeing an explosion in system requirements of blockchains. For example, Monero is already at 25gb. What ends up happening is that people who are serious about this, end up having to port the data structures to a scalable solution.
For example take a look at all the questions around "how do I make Bitcoin work with MySQL for larger websites" - https://www.google.co.in/search?q=bitcoin+mysql+site:bitcoin...

It would be so great if you guys could use a datastore that is setup for scale from the get go.
Yeah it's an NPM module sorry man, it's fairly common on my systems, I can't help out much if they don't have it
The point of parenting isn't to avoid getting criticized for being a "bad parent", or to do things that make you look like a "good parent". The point is to provide the necessary conditions for children to learn how to be independent and successful adults. This involves taking reasonable levels of risks, and figuring out what amount of risk-taking is reasonable, and learning how to navigate the world in general.
This article is one long non sequitur. I learned absolutely nothing.
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Yeah but pornography these days is just a 'Oh der, he has been hacked', weird anime seems to make people more squeemish
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Don't parents sometimes tattle on other parents they deem to be irresponsible, according to their own standards of just what children ought to be able to do by themselves? I seem to remember reading some anecdotes here the last time this topic came up.
My n=1 data point.

I read non-fiction and fiction books in similar amounts, but only the latter trigger binge sessions for me. With non-fiction, my brain usually gets tired after an hour or so, and I feel an urge to take a break. But with good fiction books, I frequently ended up reading an entire series of books over a week, with the only breaks being sleep, food prep, hygiene and the dayjob. Those sessions were more intense than binging TV series, which is something I am prone to do too.
s you say, this seems very wasteful. Now, I don't live in a place where A/C is needed (I have lived in the tropics several times in my life but never had it), but from what I recall it causes the air to be extremely dry! That would mean you can just hang your clothes up and the water would evaporate out of them pretty quickly, no?
$600 for rent and $300 for AC; seems like it would be cheaper to move to a much more modern place.

I'm in downtown Atlanta and paid $900 for AC + Rent until 2 years ago. (*I have the privilege of a job, credit, and the ability to find a place on craigslist)
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Yeah for now, I put in the readme its a WIP eventually i will scrape, maybe the wallhaven NSFW section. Still not sure where i'll take it but i definitely have plans. Just didn't expect people to want it.

Ideally i'll have scraping for SFW and NSFW that you can configure upon installation
Not to mention that in C++ there are plenty of string implementations predating std::string (e.g QT's QString, ROOT's TString)
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I've never done that before! Nor have i looked at it, might be a cool place to take it! Thanks for the advice
In those two cases scientific notation may not be very helpful. But consider that astronomers could very easily be comparing them to many other numbers with a huge range of magnitude, and it makes sense to just use it everywhere. Also scientific notation conveys the real precision where just "1000" could mean "1000 +-1” or "1000 +-1000", which by itself can be even more important than any other reason.
Just on Civ, if you like it I'd highly recommend checking out any of Paradox's grand strategy games like Hearts of Iron or Europa Universalis.

The AI is generally pretty good, although you might see some questionable behaviour from time to time. Balance is another matter though, for the most part the games try to at least start with some historic accuracy so you'll find some nations are just straight up hard to play. For example, if you start WW2 as Poland in HoI, you're gonna have a bad time.
The "Cover Your Ass" culture which results in mandating helicopter parenting is sadly widespread, and not just in Canada.

We need to be ever vigilant to stop petty bureaucrats everywhere from making arbitrary rules and taking away valuable freedoms and discretion. Do what you can at work and in your personal life to maintain freedoms.

EDIT: One simple thing we can do is make a donation to the legal fighting fund established by the writer of this article to fight this draconian Canadian regulation. There are links to the legal fund donation page in the linked article.
Diversity is a smoke screen that sjws use to seize power for themselves and inflict their ideology on the organization with their codes of conduct with prohibitions against microaggressions and unconscious bias like they have at google. You're not fooling anyone anymore.

The ideology is just marxism with the white male as the new villain instead of the bourgeoisie.

If you genuinely cared about diversity, James Damore would still be employed by google.
More important is the focal nature of this specific kind of inflammation. It is also not quite a typical inflammatory response if just messing with adhesion factor and AGE receptor changes it this much.
(Different from even chronic inflammation.)
The way out is to assume the worst: if no source is available, then assume they're hiding it due to it being "bloated, ugly, poorly organized, and with many potential bugs or defects".
Spoken like someone who truly does not hold a high enough appreciation for a good pickle.
You're missing the bits of atmosphere right under (and inside) your nose.

It's also not like other wavelengths are reflected right back, but when the atmosphere can absorb them, it will also emit them. (Radiation tends to be symmetric like that.) Conversely, the emitting panel will absorb this radiation, until equilibrium is reached.

That means that you need to use wavelengths where the air isn't literally glowing, if you want radiation cooling to work at all.
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> If you really want no-ops deployment, use something that requires minimal amount of ops, like ElasticSearch. Just give it an obscene amount of RAM and it'll work fine for ages.

I can assure you this is not the case if your indexes are very large and their number is constantly growing, and/or clients are doing very complex queries that stress the system.
You have to step back from the whole concept surrounding wireless communications, and really weigh the fundamental principles at work to consider the realities of the universe we inhabit, which is totally weird and doesn't at all stand up to ideas one might consider "normal" or reasonable.

The idea of wireless communication is only just a little bit more glamorous, because it's really the only thing that will assist humanity as part of space travel. And because we know light signals have pretty high fidelity across vast distances of (mostly) empty space.

But, solid state conductors, even if not purely contiguous due to repeaters and amplifiers, still seem pretty rational, when you start to think about what conductive transmission mediums actually do, especially as compared to emission filaments and diodes as broadcast signal sources.
FWIW I don't think the point is to compare reputable v non-reputable -- after all, perception is truth in politics. I think the goal of the tool is to highlight the perceptions but not to sort through the realities. There are great tools that do that (i.e.: Snopes/Politifact) but people 'in a camp' aren't generally interested in a truth that doesn't fulfill their prophecy.
I've got something that listens to other devices (ACPI buttons, etc), but nothing that touches the touchpad. It's also a driver that's specific to the model (the main driver won't handle 3 button devices), so it's not like it shouldn't have undergone testing on the laptop.

I'd still suspect synaptics, as it's probably not checking its input properly. As no other device has problems with this.
It's probably not very common but it has definitely happened:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-so...
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The one prospective test to be run in humans (interventional study) is if we have some potent AGE formation inhibitor and what that would do to prevent obesity.
People working on SENS might be the ones to ask (esp. GlycoSENS).

Expensive to run of course.
The positive claim being that coarse language hurts children, yes. This is the positive asserion that needs proof.
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Shouldn't you end the open shame tag with </shame> and then reopen with <shame> after your shameless plug? Right now it looks like a shameful plug.
To me it seems like you're changing the meaning of these terms. HN has lots of users who work for lots of different companies and of course they're free to (and do) share their genuine opinions just like anyone else does. That isn't astroturfing nor shilling nor PR. Is the effect the same? I doubt it, but that's just a point of theoretical interest.

Do people make accusations of actual fraud (astroturfing, shillage)? You bet, all the time. That's why we added a site guideline saying not to.
No Man's Land? I'd assume that's a typo, but you speak of it as a separate case.
yeah, i've got JS framework fatigue too. wait, sorry, wrong thread.
I have a dog allergy and I would like to clear up a common misconception. Shedding dogs are usually worse, but hypoallergenic/non-shedding dogs can still cause allergic reactions. The difference is that there are less allergens in the saliva, fur, etc than a normal dog but there are still allergens. In other words, hypoallergenic dogs are a solution for mild dog allergies, emphasis on mild.
It would be helpful in these guidelines to make a clear distinction between changes that result in "code not compiling" versus "code behaving differently".

It seems like the vast majority of cases you've enumerated are in the category of "code won't compile". Perhaps some have a knee-jerk reaction against this, but to me this is kind of incompatibility seems much more preferable to the other, especially if the update required to the code is trivial and obvious.
Babies and small kids do a lot of the same, and small kids will scribble on walls with crayons and potentially more permanent markers. Should people pay extra for that too? In American society, pets are considered close to family in a lot of ways, and that ought to reflect in everything.
Not between eastern and western part imo.
America's got its own share of issues wrt this topic:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/living/feat-maryland-free-rang...
In US common law, fraud requires that the victim bear some sort of loss (injury), and there's none in this particular set of circumstances. So existing fraud law isn't generally sufficient to cover this particular set of circumstances.
You could pre-train the network to understand a multitude of styles. It should then be able to pick up and continue a particular style very quickly.
The counterpoint is, however, that the 'risk' is real: while most parents wouldn't hold the ministry accountable for minor risks, 'most' is not 'all'. They're doing CYA for a reason, not because they get jollies from it.

It's the same reason why politicians say nothing of substance anymore. In the olden days, the occasional slip-up would slide. These days if you say the wrong thing, you can spend weeks or months defending it, and it can even cost you your job.

It's not just a case of 'bureaucracy gone crazy', but also of 'we demand too much of them'. The stereotypical example is that teachers used to just teach, and now they need to be nurses and social workers as well.
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Have you or now planning to switch to an alternative ex. Vue.js
And even if that argument wasn't true, it doesn't have to be - it just has to convince the court that it is.
Cmon it's a restaurant. Just eat the dog...
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I agree. That point specifically made me distrust the site's categorizations: just read the headlines from Washington Post vs New York Times and it's obvious which one is more exploitative/clickbait-centric.

I hope that's something that can be fixed though, because I do love the idea of this site...
I think it's cool that you can go look up the code number and know exactly what the law is and what it requires you to do. Surely that is less police state than a board just screaming penalties?
The last 15 years has also seen an economy that has underperformed on GDP and wage growth. And while labor force participation has dropped, the unemployment rate is below historical average.

That's not an economy that looks like it has permanently automated away net 4% jobs.

That's an economy that looks like it automated away some jobs, created more new jobs, but companies can't find workers to fill them.
Entertaining blogpost. And reading the 2006 comment thread below is also pretty entertaining. All of the comments seem to be about ten years old. Most of them tend to agree that Microsoft seriously botched this feature. But there is also a very vocal minority who argue that Joel is a moron who should shut up and the thing that makes Windows so great is its flexibility, and all those 15 menu options make sense, and people should just shut up about their Macs and deal with the fact that Mac has just a teeny weeny market share.

Well, fast forward to 2017. MacBooks are all over the place. And when trying to shut down Windows 10, I'm faced with just three options: Sleep, Shut down, and Restart.

Vista really was the nadir of Microsoft in terms of UX, no matter how furiously some people contested this back in the day. And Joel was spot on.
At least in Menlo Park, CA, I'm seeing more kids walking to school. You can now drive down a road that passes three schools around 3 PM without being caught in a traffic jam of SUVs queued up for kid pickup.

I wonder if computer use is helping. I used to see kids struggling under enough backpack for a weekend campout. The backpacks seem to be much smaller now. Maybe more content is on tablets and laptops.
From that perspective, I see your point. I think Angular had an optimal sweet spot for the scope of applications it was good at building. Once you went past that point, it became unwieldy. I don't think you should chase something that's merely 12-24 months old if you're working on production code for a big product. But to some folks, using Golang or Node.js is considered "hipster" even though those technologies have been out now for many years and have proven themselves at scale at large companies. I wouldn't have suggested using Node in 2010, but in 2017, it's a mature choice. And letting your team use something like Go or Node over Java isn't going to kill you and you may very well see productivity gains and recruiting gains.
> Why shouldn't my generation decide "lets reduce the value of the dollar to 10% of it's current value, and lets put a massive tax on assets to redistribute to working people

Reducing th3 dollar's value will me1n that your imports will be ten times more expensive..
And for the tax, it will mean that all the people who can invest abroad instead of in the US will do it before the tax is applied..
This is Mexico you are talking about. A country with a per capita income of 9700 Nominal USD. India's per capita income is 1800 Nominal USD.

So you can imagine the difficulty involved in training oneself for the imminent new world which is going to be shook up by automation. The rich keep making money hand over fist because they can afford to invest in this future while the only thing left for the poor is either a quiet handout, or a life of crime and insurgency.
> crash into your recliner for another three to four hours,

Sure it's lazy, but I'm asking myself how it's even possible. If you work full time as in the example, how do you even squeeze in that much TV watching between family and various chores.
Ding ding ding! This is the first fact that everyone I know in SF that abuses ESAs 'licenses' whips out.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/13/open_source_communi...
That's just an artifact of the visualization; the point of view is above the north pole of Florence, which points decidedly away from Earth (probably +/- a few degrees from normal to the plane of the ecliptic).
Déjà vu:

http://heronjournal.nl/56-12/1.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jun/29...
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RealClearPolitics https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ has done this sort of thing for years. Every other headline is sourced from conservative or liberal news source.
This appears to be the wrong law to be citing.

I believe the ADA is https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/chapter-126
Howis this "20% energy savings" product different from their original "all passive" pitch[1] from 2014?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/green-tech/solar/passive...
Bureaucrats have little stake in this but see high risk to their careers so they want to play safe. Only way to affect change is to somehow convince them that this is good for their career. Or get lucky enough and find the one person who believes in and cares enough to push the issue through the system.
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