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> This is just tautologically false. IDK what else to say about this particular quote.
Re: the rest of your first paragraph, this seems like a huge double standard. Would you be happy with MIT throwing out every climate skeptic and neo-luddite if only they wrote "advancement of science and technology" into their charter?

Not really. Religion as in organized religion exists to promote a specific belief system. Science has a much different mission in it's search to describe the world accurately. A dissenting view there can potentially be the truthful path.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-key-to-s...

If MIT threw out every scientist who opposed global warming, they'd be little better than a religious college.

> This is why I put special emphasis on a private secular vs. private evangelical comparison. It's fair to both sides.
I'm not sure why MIT has any special obligation to allow free speech that isn't shared by Wheaton. Care to explain?

MIT has an obligation if it wants to present itself as a college that promotes education in general. Wheaton is there to teach people about a Christ filled life. MIT makes it clear they value innovation and groundbreaking ideas and discoveries. There no way to do that effectively without considering as many points as possible.

> Look, secular universities just don't discriminate on the basis of political belief. Outside of a few very niche, very tiny, very not-influential departments, this just doesn't happen either explicitly or implicitly. When it comes to hiring new professors, teaching matters. Research matters. Personal political beliefs do not.

https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/theres-no-pro-campus-censo...

https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/conservatives-are-wrong-ab...

Freddie has written a lot on this subject in general. In fact he's been routinely attacked and DDOSed for critiquing the liberal culture both on campus and in the institution. He's posted some really controversial stuff about how bad the research is in the liberal arts. It's also worth noting that he's hardly a conservative and is quite soundly a liberal.

Money quote:
"And while I think conservative students can mostly get by fine on the average campus, I really can’t imagine going through life as a conservative professor, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Is that a problem? That depends on your point of view. But if it’s happening, shouldn’t we talk about the fact that it’s happening?"

> "My personal experience -- and I think the evidence backs me on this -- is that liberal universities are far more welcoming to conservative viewpoints than the other way around."

I don't know how to measure the merits of explusion/suspension vs. social ostracization. I also have known a fair amount of conservative people at Berkeley due to my efforts to outreach to other point of views in my student days. I don't think "welcoming" is the word that they would use when it comes to liberals and conservative viewpoints.
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> other performance related issues

What are some examples of these?
> I think that "value" is probably some kind of combination of what you do for the firm (e.g. how much money you bring in) with what the firm does for society.

If a female lawyer successfully defends an actual murderer, does that provide more societal value than when a male lawyer successfully defends an actual murderer?
I still don't quite get why people (especially alleged news sources) post pictures of a twitter box, rather than just say 'User NoodleHead on twitter is quoted as saying "I don't like this"'.

This feels like a not-so-gentle manipulation.

Some guy, who might be sitting next to you on the bus right now, said something on twitter, but that's now news because it's got their @IGN, their actual name (or maybe not), a weirdly formatted date string, the numbers '1' and '6' adjacent to icons at the bottom of the box, a 'Follow' button so you can forever be bombarded with more nuggets of wisdom from this person you don't know, all inside a box that doesn't even have rounded corners.
Sure. But tech catches up fast when you trade for it.

And even if we'd left them completely alone, they almost certainly would have kept progressing, albeit significantly slower.
Deactivation still stops people contacting you through Facebook. It works fine for me.
You can't make comparisons like that.

Take a look at the U.S. public healthcare expenditure per capita. It's higher than countries like the U.K. (with fully tax-funded healthcare), probably even Germany. And that's before accounting for private funds.

Again your example is a poor way of comparing things, but you didn't even factor in how much you pay towards Medicare/Medicaid.

Last time I checked, in the UK I pay less towards the NHS and the best private health insurance I could find, combined, than I'd be paying in the U.S. in taxation towards healthcare alone.

All these comparisons between the US and Europe regarding healthcare are useless. The common suggestion that the US would need a 20% VAT or higher income tax to afford universal healthcare is absolutely false.
Nonsense. Patent trolls don't use Facebook open source projects. Either they are completely dedicated to law or they are giants with their own code (e.g. Yahoo/IBM/Microsoft in the article)

This is the excuse. Facebook wants to dominate the small companies who might threaten their business model with patents on future technologies.
I'd be surprised if anyone would think that this is ok for a company of any size.
Child has it. The way this study is written, we're asked to compare more or less the carbon impact of an empty gas tank and the battery pack. That seems a bit unrealistic to me. yes the drivetrain is different and therefore more costly, but when it comes down to it, looking at the examples in the paper, the comparison is between the battery pack and an empty gas tank. That seems disingenuous to the broader point of carbon emissions for the entire life-cycle of the vehicles, which presumably would include use.
Sorry, I don't have any product suggestions. Google for "Grid-tie inverter".

And don't forget true sine wave is not enough, it must also voltage, and even more important, phase, match.

You don't need anything specific to any particular electricity provider.
That's pretty fair where you have it.

The argument would be how many hours does it take to manage. If it's very, very little - it might be worth more.

I have bought and sold a few businesses. Even getting six figures is actually high.

My business broker always said take away loan repayment before putting a number to it. They always calculate from 80%
loan - before establishing a price. So they would take $95k (I will make it 100k) and pretend the buyer takes on an 80k loan. They would estimate payments as maybe 8-10k a year.

So they would take $95k - (8k for loan services - fake buyer situation ) and say the remainder is the price. In your case it would be $85 - $87k.

Hope that helps.
His comparison of wetland absorption and rainfall is comparing apples to oranges - if his numbers are accurate in the first place; which given the lack of citations and a piece that clearly is trying to prove a point, I think is an unreasonably optimistic assumption.

His scaling of the costs to a personal budget is also misleading (not terribly so, but still). Individuals have buffers that are proportionally much larger than those of large organisations; and if indeed you encounter a setback that's larger than you can absord you usually have a whole network of contacts to help you mitigate the effects. Conceptually: relying on your neighbors doesn't work so well when your neighbors were hit too. The comparison isn't crazy, but it's a little misleading nevertheless.

If the core premise of this piece really had value, then city of houston should be comfortably able to cover the bill without undue burden, and not need support from texas or the federal government. That does not appear to be the case.

Also: note that the estimates of damage almost certainly only include straightforward economic damage. That's of course an absurd proposition; much will have been damaged in houston that has value to various people but simply isn't trivially measurable. Losing family heirlooms, pictures... your house... does damage beyond the trivial value of the object.

Finally: even if it turns out the damage is merely 10s of billions and not hundreds (as he's implying), then it's still reasonable to assume it's worthwhile to mitigate that damage. Just because you can deal with the setback doesn't mean it's best to ignore the risk.
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Yeah, totally agree on that. The worse part is that you can't offer a solid argument without being called biased by the other side.

I think this is one where you just have to call them wrong and tell them to do one if they disagree. Hate speech just isn't something that we have to accommodate, nor do we have to give credence to the arguments for it.
Oh, ok. /s

If you had been, you wouldn't be handwaving away legitimate concerns over the system of healthcare. Considering you didn't even address any of the points I mentioned, I have a feeling you have no response.
I picked up Messenger Lite when I was in Fiji. My phone isn't very good and struggled with normal Messenger.

With Messenger Lite, not only does it take a lot less space, it's a lot faster, and feels less bloaty. It's a lot like what Messenger was a few years ago, nice and simple.

I don't want to use Messenger to play games, or send giphys, or any of that other rich interaction stuff. The only thing I miss is the ability to send a pin of your location to someone, which is actually a really useful feature.
I also get this quite frequently. I setup a Facebook page for a side project of mine that I hope to turn into a sort of side business and I wanted to make sure the name didn't get taken. I get notifications almost EVERY SINGLE DAY that my page won't be visible unless I add more stuff to it. I literally got 3 emails a few days ago, in the same day, saying the same thing for my page.

I feel forced to use Facebook to keep up with friends and family but I absolutely hate using it the entire time and I try to avoid it where possible. It's just amazing how spammy it's gotten and how their popularity continues to just go up.
Wow. I asked in another post what people were ready to pay because of all seems like such expensive tech. To me it's worth maybe $2-5k in a new car (so 5-10%) because I usually don't mind driving. I could picture myself choosing between the sunroof/stereo and L5 autonomy...
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A very good heuristic is to compare their total $ costs for purchase and use, and then think about what sorts of externalities that doesn't cover. I've found over and over again that $ cost pretty much equals energy and therefore pollution cost, less the externalities. But the externalities are really super important, and of course, engine efficiencies and where in the cycle the energy is liberated from it's chemical bonds is important.
Your conclusion is entirely unfounded. Returning the same result for the same input does not in any way refute the claim that it's random. It could just as well seed the RNG with the input or any number of other implementations.
Pretty big exception. No universal suffrage; not a proper modern democracy. They're pretty new, really.
As soon as I bring up any website using this plugin and its constant stupid popups ("Amy in Georgia just bought these socks!"), I just click the back button.
You still haven't explained what a "preponderance of evidence" looks like. You keep doing blanket refusals that the liberal threat to free speech is overblown.
Same. Full deletion, and it's been amazing.
...and there's no doubt that warm ocean temperatures are a requirement for hurricanes; so making the assuming that a warmer waters overall nevertheless won't affect hurricane frequency and intensity is at the very least weird enough that you'd want evidence of that.
As someone with years of experience writing interpreters, this seems a rather sloppy solution to a straightforward problem. There are two canonical solutions, and he uses neither:

1. The first canonical solution, which the author even describes, is persistent environments. Unfortunately, this requires passing the current environment as part of the recursive pattern, which means heavily modifying the existing code. He doesn't do this because it would require revisiting too much.

2. The second canonical solution, which you would find in any modern compiler, is to uniquely rename all the variables. His "resolver" traversal has ample opportunity to do this, and would provide a far cleaner solution (with less space overhead than his expr/scope depth lookup table).

Instead, the author creates a stack of environments and annotates variables with information akin to de Bruijn indicies for scopes. Compared to the alternatives above, this is over-engineered and inelegent, plus it complicates reasoning about scopes far beyond what's necessary.

As an aside, this assertion is also completely absurd:

> Shadowing is rare and often an error so initializing a shadowing variable based on the value of the shadowed one seems unilkely [sic] to be deliberate.
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The subreddit was literally named /r/fatpeoplehate.
I think one of the more interesting things in this article is that I read this line, and it sounded 'normal'

"I can appreciate the businesses paying for posts keeps the big blue ship afloat"

It seems so natural, until you think about who used to be called "Big Blue"..
Can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, because from what I’ve been reading that’s the problem: millions of cars out of commission, and there is no practical public transit option for a large number of folks.
Not sure why I'm being downvoted. A price cut might net you more sales from existing customers, but you don't get a 25% jump in foot traffic without people being told about the price cuts (whether thru paid advertising or word of mouth/earned media)
The surest way to get a fat person to change his evil ways is by public shaming and cruelty. When has that tactic ever failed?
Some additional data (and comments) From the previous post about the system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478 here.
I agree that Harvey was not nearly as bad as it could have been. In fact several people that I spoke to (who themselves could document) would likely argue that the Army Core of Engineers caused more damage than Harvey did... that is, their home didn't flood until after the water releases from the dams.

That said, the amount of fellowship and effort being put together by the communities in Houston is a most definitely a picture of what it looks like to confront challenges head on. Seeing a flooded neighborhood filled with people working together to strip homes and start the repair process (even if they didn't have insurance) was downright amazing.

Kudos to Houston for sticking together and being good neighbors to each other.
I'm talking here about a developer API that is extremely flexible and extensible. Even one-liner contributions can have bad effects, and virtually all contributions I receive "work" at a superficial level and if they provide tests the tests usually pass. "made it through testing" is a low bar, the bigger implications of a patch need to be considered.

Examples of PRs that "work" exactly as intended yet are the wrong way to solve the problem:

https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/pull/381

https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/pull/382

Here's a large PR:

https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/pull/365

that after lots and lots of back and forth I finally merged with lots of edits from me at: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/commit/7d3da6f850dca54b...

...aannnnndddd - after all that work and testing, it was wrong! Fortunately someone caught the mistake within the beta release:

https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/issues/4072/mysqldml...

if I had released that fully and the whole world coded to "mysql.insert.values.bar == 5", that's broken API since it breaks the values() method. Backwards-incompatible fix required.
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I wish there were a disaster militia, with something like quarterly weekend trainings, with some FEMA sponsorship but still independent. It would be fun to practice ham communications and boat rescue anyway, and a little bit of practice could have a huge impact when the shit is truly hitting the fan.
That last bit... I completely agree with. Innovation is driven by emotion. In my case, it is usually frustration that the thing I wish existed that doesn't yet exist. I then make it for myself. I write a patent application for it and it's granted, but I don't make enough money to pay the maintenence fees. I do the project and it's successful, but I can't pay for advertising or whatever to keep it afloat for the few years it would take for it to gain enough traction with enough people. Or I get people to agree to a service trade and they don't up hold their end of the bargain which is sometimes video recording and editing, sometimes assisting, and sometimes other things I don't have the resources to do myself. I think doers without money are trapped in a cycle too.

I don't understand writer's block—or at least I didn't until I read your last couple of paragraphs. I'd never thought of that problem before and I appreciate your laying it out so clearly. I do think it is important to enjoy the basic mechanical process of creative whatevers, especially if those whatevers are business ideas. As an artist, I generally think of an idea as great if it is one that is not justified by the labor it takes to produce it. These ideas are what art is all about for me. Take an Andy Warhol or a Sol LeWitt or a Peter Halley... or any filmmaker who has a crew for example... they have the great idea and hire others to execute. Others are inspired to execute because your idea is great or because they are in great need of cash. Either way. I don't know how this works in business, but I thought I'd offer another perspective in the interest of sharing and learning. Thanks for your comment. It made me think about why someone would want to be a fill-in-the-blank enough to try to go through these motions and fail because they just want the identity. But then there is a solution there-- those people need to think about why they want that identity, and if in fact, that identity is actually desirable and why. I think their answer and a tweak and motivation might be found there.
Rubber Hose Cryptanalysis?

Can't wait for iOS to have the deniability factor of having different passwords unlock different things :)

For the sensitive stuff, have periods of time that require several computers to solve cryptographic challenges in order to unlock the phone. Some of which may be your friends' devices. If they don't hear from you and your intended hosts in a certain amount of time, phone stays locked.

Or one of the devices can be an NFC or Wifi hotspot in a certain area, and one at home. If you don't reach it, phone stays locked.
This caught my eye; you got rid of your phone? Genuinely curious, what was that like? Do you not have a phone now, at all?
What a blast from the past. Katrina hit during my senior year of undergrad and I went and refreshed that very same blog each hour for a day or two following along with events as they happened, as he saw them. Was an amazing perspective at the time.
Out of curiosity, which electric vehicle do you drive?
I use quite a silent phone since years. It's permanently in airplane mode with wifi activated. I can still chat, browse, navigate and so on. It's pretty useful.

Since we cannot secure the silicon, we need other technical means to build up trust. A devices like this is a good step in the right direction.

I don't think people with access to hardware or other backdoors would only use them only in a WW3-level crises. It's not unreasonable for journalists to defend against these threats.
Nearly all laptops, desktops, and servers sold in the last decade have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) which is in fact a HSM. You need drivers and utilities to use it but it's there.

TPMs generally aren't fast enough to do RSA signatures a on busy webserver though, but they're wonderful for protecting VPN certificates (tools for managing this are built into windows Group Policy, I imagine it's very painful on Linux)
Well done by the author for starting something and getting in to the affiliate marketing hustle ("My work is supported by affiliate commissions."). Seems like he can do the same thing to himself (whereby he works less on this project because it seems stable / he can do what is needed in less time like his original job) and scale up / work on another project now. That would be clever then, that's the real thing to admire here I'd say - the self-propelled snowball technique.
Future-fstrings: a backport of fstrings to python before 3.6
> your evidence of the oldest oral tradition is not very strong as there are only four major points on the compass. The likelihood of chance and cherry-picking is high.

I think the point is that the palms are introduced (not native) more than their cardinal direction (i dont believe they were using a western compass at the time so as to have four directions)
Lots of things we see as innocuous online would seem really weird, clingy, abusive in other contexts. Imagine if every time you walked into a store before you even looked at anything someone steps up right into your face and says "Sign up for our newsletter!" Then you walk two steps and someone steps up to you with a phone in their hand "Hey, call your friends and tell them you love our store! We'll give you 5% off!" then a couple steps later a marketer comes up to you "Hey, our advertising department wants your phone number so they can call you up and just say something to you a few times a day!"

I just want to buy a damn pillow! (Don't forget to review it, your opinion is important to the world! And the manufacturer would like to know how useful it was to you but won't do anything if it wasn't!)
Wifi mesh seems obvious but at 2.4ghz or 5ghz too limited in range.

I was thinking 150Mhz~ MURS like Gotenna for a few miles range.
The Corps released water presumably because they were afraid that the dam might fail if they didn't.
Right. StartPage.com delivers Google search results in privacy. Plus, it offers a free proxy with every search result so you can visit websites through StartPage anonymously, too.
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A casual visitor wasn't terribly likely to see counterpoints and ridicule on those parts of Reddit, though, because they banned them with an iron fist. FPH in particular was very consistent in banning anyone who empathised with its targets or questioned any of its dehumanization or its tactics. It was essentially a safe space for hate.
Whole Foods customers did expect to receive "premium" food at a premium price, but even the richest of them were starting to notice that it was so significantly higher that they would shop elsewhere for at least some of it. Lowering the prices to the point where they are still higher than everyone else but not godlike is a return to the premium feel.

Tech analogy: Apple's stuff truly is much more expensive than most other stuff, but not so expensive that it's completely out of reach for upper to middle class incomes.
On the other hand, where does speech stop and actions start? Where does liberty stop and mob assault start? Are death threats covered by freedom of speech?

Freedom of speech is an important right and necessary part of true liberty, but the people in the situations in question aren't exactly engaging in reasoned debate.

Speaking of which, "only want liberty for themselves and those they approve of"? Really?