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Pet peeve:

> rare earth metals like gold, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium

Not one of those is a rare earth metal. The complete list of rare earth metals:

cerium (Ce), dysprosium (Dy), erbium (Er), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), holmium (Ho), lanthanum (La), lutetium (Lu), neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), scandium (Sc), terbium (Tb), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), yttrium (Y).

Rare earths are also, despite the name of the group, not particularly rare or expensive, and it would never make sense to go mine for them in space. (The short-lived supply crunch that brought them into public eye was caused by the Chinese first effectively subsidizing supply to the point where all other suppliers had to close, and then restricting exports. Since mines take several years to spin up, this caused some disruption until production in the rest of the world caught up. Supplies of REE are found practically everywhere.)

I know that you didn't actually mean rare earths, you just meant rare metals in general. However, calling them rare earths is approximately as wrong as calling C# C or calling Javascript Java. It's really grating.
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If one company will pay you 500k for working 60h/week and another will pay 500k for working 40h/week, then choosing the latter isn't entitlement. It's market forces at work.

If you think developers are overpaid, then just say that.
Just checked your other comments. You really seem to HATE "leftism". You really should think about the fact that you are calling the political direction of many other people "cancer"
And a very large fleet of ships.
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Next step is to rig up some mechanisms to pull the keys down and we have a modern day pianola that can improvise. Fascinating. Should be not too difficult to play blues or other pentatonic melodies, since they lend themselves well to improvisation. Using tabs or music from blues legends such as Stevie Ray or BB King would likely yield some very interesting results.

I find it interesting that we start with teaching AI music the same way we oftentimes start with children, the pentatonic scale, because it's simple and more difficult to play the "wrong" notes.
What must be the most painful part of this is that he's in a weak position having shared custody. A normal parent could just give the middle finger and they'll never have their kids taken away for a single minor behaviour like that. But someone with tenuous custody has to bend over backwards to look like they're doing it right. It seems he could actually lose his kids quite easily because they have another home ready to go to.
Wish more emphasis was on this. The posture, back, legs, sight, digestion... these all deteriorate from extended sitting in front of the monitor and a bad diet.
Sounds good, but working on a laptop constantly makes Forward Head Posture much more likely
Yes, its my impression that the tide is turning, particularly in urban areas that are walkable, and a lot safer than they were 20-30 years ago
As someone who is allergic to dogs, I appreciate that they're not permitted in many places in the US (especially restaurants). Actual service animals, as you point out, are incredibly well behaved, but I've definitely been subject to a fake service animal jumping at my lap while seated at a restaurant. Not my favorite thing in the world.

If people would actually train their dogs not to be disruptive, I'd mind less. But in my experience, most dogs are rowdy, annoying, and don't keep to themselves even after being instructed to do so by their owners.
Either that, or residents could trench and handle most of the work themselves. I've done drain fields before for septic systems (no joy in rocky soil on a mountainside!) with my grandfather, the main cost is the labor.

I get that some may not be able to handle this all themselves, but it isn't a monumental, herculean task. If your home isn't worth a working septic system, then it may be time to bank your paycheck and walk away from it, conditions permitting.

Ugh, this comment has way too much bootstrapper logic, sorry!
Explaining away US healthcare as an artifact of WWII by claiming European countries turned to nation health schemes because of economic ruins ignores one very important counterpoint: Canadian healthcare.

Canada had no wartime ruin, and indeed, excelled after the war by advances in industrialization from the demands of WWII-- much like the US. Actually, Canada got it's universal healthcare because of the efforts of Tommy Douglas and the CCF in Saskatchewan and an entire history of social democracy in Canada that's worth studying. Sufficient to say, I think the author needs to look deeper into the social fabric of American life to see the barriers to socialized healthcare.
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I think what is often missed with values, is the "anti values". Often when I see a list of company values, it looks as if they can have their cake and eat it too. They are not explicit about the trade offs being made; e.g. "more perks (e.g. beer), lower salary". I think if it's hard to find one of these opposing anti-values, then it's not really an interesting choice to make, i.e. at worst it's probably a nice to have.

Last time we discussed our values at work, we thought about what we were trading off and this helped us decide whether they really were important to us.
> Maybe collections of values should be different from collections of references. The sensible use cases for the two are quite different.

I think all existing code disagrees with that. There has been great value derived from being able to abstract over element types.

What you are proposing would double the required number of collection classes and all of its traits, because it would require separate ones for Collection[E <: AnyRef] and for Collection[E <: AnyRef].

There is literally no reason for introducing this complexity. Go has demonstrated how poorly this idea has worked out in practice.

Additionally, this approach would make it nearly impossible to migrate reference types to value types, because it would break all users of the code.

> Meh, just allow NaN to compare equal to itself. Equality is supposed to be reflexive.

That's a complete non-option. You might not like the IEEEs definition of equality, but this is what it is.
Messing with it would break all existing code using floating point numbers.

> Unboxed primitives don't have identity, only value equality.

Their identity is the bits they consist of, just like identity on references is the bits of the reference.

> They align well with what's being proposed.

What is being proposed?

> We could build the distinction into the language, so for every type you define you explicitly choose whether it's value or reference.

We already have that: AnyRef and AnyVal.

> Scala's already halfway there with the class/case class distinction.

That doesn't make any sense. The case keyword is basically just a compiler built-in macro to generate some code. It is already doing way to much, and overloading it with even more semantics is not the way to go.

> Disagree; comparison is so fundamental to most types that it's worth privileging. Using the wrong kind of comparison is a very common source of bugs.

What I'm proposing improves the consistency across value and reference types so that it's always obvious which kind of comparison happens:

- identity: Low-level comparison of the bits at hand. Built into the JVM and not overridable.

- equality: High-level comparison defined by the author of the type.
I‘m really glad this parent is fighting the decision; no ministry should be able to interfere with personal freedoms when the stakes are so low, basing their decisions on far fetched court cases that have nothing to do with the situation.

As a point of comparison, school kids in Austria typically walk to school or use public transit on their own from first grade (6-7 years old).

In the beginning of the school year, older students watch zebra crossings and block traffic when kids need to cross.
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> A trusted mentor at work with whom you can discuss and strategize other ways to deal with work-related issues.

Sorry but this never works. Once one starts "sharing the concerns" one have couple of months left in the workplace.
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That's pretty common on both sides of politics these days, sadly.
It's amazing an institution as such power, and that they can exercise such power, not based so much on a legal ground as on moral ground. Yeah they mentioned lawyers, but there is no law against what the parent did.
I agree that the west coast left is getting too jumpy with regards to Trump. I'm far left and certainly not a supporter of Trump ( I voted Stein because I felt Hillary to be too wealthy ). Once I mentioned to a family member on the west coast that I thought it was interesting that so many of the smart and kind people in the woodworking community come directly from Trump-land and that it was a paradox that such hateful rhetoric comes from a place that I associate with such intelligence and sharing. And my family member got very angry at me and was unable to continue the conversation.

I find it terrible that when you're only given two options, and both of them suck, choosing one over the other can be seen as such a treason. To me these conversations sound like "You prefer diarrhea to vomiting! I'm never going to sit on your couch again!"
By the time you need to fetch a manager to get them to inquire about the dog, it's too late: the damage has already been done.
I encountered geometric algebra only few weeks ago and it is one of the most interesting, intriguing and elegant things I saw in my life. It almost feels too beauty to be true. I cannot understand why GA is not more popular - especially as it is backwards compatible with linear algebra.

There is very interesting library: https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js
Honestly I'd be far more worried about my kid being hit by a car than being a victim of any crime.

Or maybe they try something stupid (we all did stupid things as kids and I don't expect my kids to be smarter than I was) and wind up drowning in the river or falling off something.
How about we have satellites orbiting asteroids for a piggy back ride and then getting off the orbit when they are near a point of interest? My guess is the gravity would be too feeble.
Well, the thread started with :

> but, I don't think this is really what people want their kids reading […]

This is actually the initial claim, and the Vonneguts quote was a response to this claim.

Parents used not to care about what their children hear or read, until society told them it's bad parenting.
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Has there ever been an effort to ban employer sponsored health care? I bet it would be a much bigger issue for people if they were paying for it personally rather than having their employer shell out.
You conclusively proved that the mere existence of these arguments is offensive to you

No. I realise it may seem this way to someone in the part of the political spectrum you inhabit, where offence is so central to so much, but I never argued or even implied that these views are offensive to me. I do say they're extreme, but extreme views are not inherently offensive. You've picked a fight with a straw man there.

And I'm afraid arguments about austerity are about tax levels. The alternative is tax is borrowing, which is no alternative at all, as eventually that money must be paid back via even higher taxes (to pay the borrowed amount + the interest). You can also do money printing, but that's simply a tax on cash savings by another name.

All arguments about austerity are ultimately arguments about tax incidence.

You also consistently proved that you see yourself as eminently rational

I didn't discuss my own rationality either. Again, you're setting up a straw man and then attacking it. I said I don't share the same axioms as these people without commenting on the rationality of that position (it's possible for two people to disagree on basic axioms without either being irrational).

You keep trying to drag me into an argument about austerity. I have no interest in such an argument. It's much more relevant that Americans realise that the list of 'dangerous topics' that can get people branded evil/kiddie killer/etc is not restricted to race, sex or religion. Tax policy can certainly be included if the Republicans ever actually reach the point of trying to cut government spending.
It is much easier for me to believe that your contrariness is "more ideological than factual in nature", especially as you haven't given any refutations.

My point about the lack of equity comes from Richard Rothstein's “The Color of Law”, concerning how the systemic discrimination against black people in housing before the Fair Housing Act of 1968 contributes to the continued lack of wealth among black people today. How is his thesis incorrect?

Here's part of the argument, quoted from http://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-... :

> Today African-American incomes on average are about 60 percent of average white incomes. But African-American wealth is about 5 percent of white wealth. Most middle-class families in this country gain their wealth from the equity they have in their homes. So this enormous difference between a 60 percent income ratio and a 5 percent wealth ratio is almost entirely attributable to federal housing policy implemented through the 20th century.

> African-American families that were prohibited from buying homes in the suburbs in the 1940s and '50s and even into the '60s, by the Federal Housing Administration, gained none of the equity appreciation that whites gained. So ... the Daly City development south of San Francisco or Levittown or any of the others in between across the country, those homes in the late 1940s and 1950s sold for about twice national median income. They were affordable to working-class families with an FHA or VA mortgage. African-Americans were equally able to afford those homes as whites but were prohibited from buying them. Today those homes sell for $300,000 [or] $400,000 at the minimum, six, eight times national median income. ...

> So in 1968 we passed the Fair Housing Act that said, in effect, "OK, African-Americans, you're now free to buy homes in Daly City or Levittown" ... but it's an empty promise because those homes are no longer affordable to the families that could've afforded them when whites were buying into those suburbs and gaining the equity and the wealth that followed from that.

> The white families sent their children to college with their home equities; they were able to take care of their parents in old age and not depend on their children. They're able to bequeath wealth to their children. None of those advantages accrued to African-Americans, who for the most part were prohibited from buying homes in those suburbs.
Clarification: BeOS PPC uses PEF (because that was the main format MW supported, there was a lot of Apple knowledge in the building and there wasn't a better exe format for PowerPC at the time.) The offshoot of this is that some of the software from PR will run on R5.03. (preview release, for some reason the first 2 public releases were called PR(1) and PR2, with AA (advanced access) being almost PR1, but not quite baked.) One of the things I managed to get working was the MW Java - it was horribly out of date, but it was pretty cool to mess about with.

Intel used PE for R3, then ELF from R4 onwards. So R3 Intel software is not compatible with any other release.

No idea what the Hobbit BeBoxen used.

BeIA used ELF or CELF, the latter being a customised ELF exe format with compression of symbols and stuff like that to reduce on disk size.
But you're so good at tricking yourself that in practice it can be very, very hard to know whether it's your "subconscious" "talking" or your gluttony/lust/greed/pride/envy/laziness/anger.
> but wonder what your plan for "educating these idiots" is

Make them spend time with someone with a real service dog, or organisations that train the dogs.

Let people see the actual work that service dogs do, and the actual needs that people have, and the impact that ESA dogs have on that.
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I live in Edinburgh - practically every bar here allows dogs. To give an anecdote against your anecdote, I can't think of one occasion where a dog in a bar was behaving any way less than perfect. Most of them curl up under the table, and come out when someone walks by and rubs them.

I could make the same point about children, FWIW. Most children are rowdy annoying and don't keep to themselves even after being instructed to do so by their owners. Should children be banned from all restaurants?
Tarsnap deduplicates your data with respect to your data. It can't compare your data with everybody else's data, because your data is encrypted with keys which only you hold.

Dropbox deduplicates everybody's data, so that they'll be able to take advantage when you and someone else both store the same file. (Of course, this trivially means they can recognize when someone stores a file which the FBI has previously provided to them.)
>Illegal immigration, homelessness fueled by liberal/leftist policies, crime, gangs, drug trade have turned the city into a place quite unrecognizable compared to 1960.

Sounds like something that should be backed up by a data point if you're looking to contribute something to the discussion.

>Leftism is a cancer, and a road to third world culture, paved by good intentions.

You've given exactly one point, with no references. When you jump to extreme conclusions such as the one you're making, that undoubtably creates a 'cancer' you're speaking of because it puts down any intelligent discussion. Without that, how can you or I be informed? I would argue that extremes such as that are what contribute to a political climate where its more important what party or political idealogy you belong to, than what you're actually saying.
> If every thing is taught as a cookie-cutter process to follow its not surprising that people associate math with blindly following processes.

A hammer and a chisel are tools. You can use them to shave a bit of wood off the door, or you can use them to carve a beautiful sculpture. You can do neither without knowing how to use them.

I agree that too much of maths teaching is "here are 100 quadratics, go solve them" - which is obnoxious and dull. But "blindly following process" (matrix multiplication, change of variables/base, sum to infinity etc) happened throughout my degree and is a component of higher maths as well. Heck, most of the proofs I remember use "tricks" that any mathematician is expected to just know.

I sure as hell don't think children are taught maths well. I remember being taught how to take the derivative of x^2 without the teacher bothering to show where that came from or what it really meant. Heck - children are given the quadratic formula to memorise and basically told "it's magic, learn it" instead of showing them how you can trivially create it by completing the square.

But mathematics does involves a ton of following some process or other to get the problem into a format you can do something with. Probably by following a different process that you've done before. I'm not sold that you can simply eliminate that aspect.
In Switzerland kids often walk to Kindergarten (age 4/5 and up) alone. At least I know I did (okay it was only like a 5 minute walk in my case). For school in can't remember anyone ever being brought by their partents. (Probably excluding the first few days of course).

So this quote

> the Ministry had checked with their lawyers “across the country” and the Attorney General, and determined that children under 10 years old could not be unsupervised in or outside the home, for any amount of time

has me really like WTF.

Edit: A bit more background now that I'm thinking about it. It's completely normal for kids in Kindergarten to go there alone, the first day each kid gets a reflector thingy(?)[0] they wear to walk there so they can be seen easily while crossing streets. Every morning you see a bunch of little kids toddling to Kindergarten, I've never really thought about this being different anywhere else.

[0] https://www.max-der-dachs.ch/files/shopimage/photo/8/vga_leu...
>"In American society, pets are considered close to family in a lot of ways, and that ought to reflect in everything."

Not it should not. Dogs are not people! And they should not have the same rights as people. What a ridiculous statement that is.

This whole idea that regular non-service dogs should be allowed everywhere a person is seems to be a product of the ever-increasing narcissism in our society.
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Oh absolutely. but if we're talking about crimes, it's much more likely that my kid would get robbed on her way to school rather than kidnapped.
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Not to mention shoulder, arm, and wrist problems from typing on a small keyboard all day, with your head down.
I was in a similar situation, although I got more than 3 hours of sleep. I don't think 3 hours of sleep per day is sustainable, you have to find another solution. Any work you do on 3 hours of sleep is probably not great anyway.

I don't know your specific circumstances, but I used low dosage Armodafinil and Melatonin before with with success to get by with little sleep (didn't keep track, but I think at least 6 hours per day). If you are in the US you will need a prescription for Armodafinil, but if you explain your situtation to the doctor it is easy to get one. Armodafinil can be imported cheaply from India. Melatonin is over-the-counter.

Hang in there and good luck!
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I think I would call that one of the latest signs. The signs mentioned in the article are much earlier indicators of chronic stress conditions, since they also work on someone who is somewhat in denial about their condition. Speaking from personal experience, the biggest problem is that you really don't want to admit to yourself or to others that you're suffering from chronic stress.

Indigestion, lack of sleep, headaches, frequent colds, etc. are all symptoms, but people will get several these and still treat them as if they were separate issues, rather than being caused by a continuous release of cortisol and other stress hormones: "Oh I can't sleep, better start using melatonin!" "Oh I'm constipated, better eat more fibre and start the day with yoghurt!" "Oh I have a headache again, better take some paracetamol and drink lots of water!"
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Thanks, didn't know about that.
So is good parenting.

When did we get to the stage where people need things to fix issues they create. Pets help, but not if you can't afford to keep them at the expense of a happy household.

Dogs make people happier and emotionally better, not denying that. So does earning $70,000+

But if your poor your can't just earn $70,000+ and the same as keeping pets (they are easy to buy though)

I'm happy to work to a future where everyone get both of those though.