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Unfortunately, this is even more true in college. Policy debate teams are well funded at universities (the policy team at mine has a 6 figure budget) because they essentially conduct research writing cases on gun control, drug policy, healthcare, etc. I compete in British Parliamentary Debate in which no evidence packets are allowed in the round and the resolution is only revealed 15 minutes before the start. The consequence is that argumentation and persuasion take precedence over pretentious motermouthed screaming comparisons of Harvard studies vs Yale studies that only exclude minorities and women from the activity.
These articles pop up once in a while, and it always makes me grateful for my high school debate experience. New England private schools don't compete in NFL, they have their own league that's federated with some other private school leagues from around the world. Spreading is banned, essentially on the good, old-fashioned, "we know it when we see it" standard.

I readily admit that for most people, it's not so simple as, "you want good high school debate? Simple! Just go to Hotchkiss or Exeter." (schools that cost $50k/year) In theory, there's no reason why other leagues and schools could not ban spreading and put down a rhetoric-forward, comprehensive debate format. The catch, it seems, is that none of them have successfully done so. It's probably a culture thing-- the New England prep schools have a fairly large community of teachers and students who know how their debate format works, who know how to practice and judge for a less formulaic format. It's not obvious how you would create such a culture out of nowhere, and you'll get little help from New Englanders, especially the prep set, who are famously provincial about education.
"If we built our software more slowly and carefully but also with higher reliability and fewer issues with security, privacy and so on, would we really be worse off?"

Probably not. Personally I often enjoy the Wild West attitude of a lot of software development but on the other hand this industry has a really short memory and reinvents the wheel every few years. So yes, it would probably be a good idea if we held ourselves to higher standards and adopted best practices that often have been around for a long time.
They do, but we're targeting Intel HD quality graphics, not gaming-oriented NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.

That said, even Intel GPUs can often deal with large numbers of draw calls just fine. It's mobile where they become a real issue.

Aggressive batching is still important to take maximum advantage of parallelism. If you're switching shaders for every rect you draw, then you frequently lose to the CPU.
Hey,

I am actually interested in the details. Though my situation was different, I actually lived in a van for 5 years.

So:

- How do you manage having no home address? Do you use PO boxes, do you have relatives who provide you with an address for administrative tasks (taxes, ...)? For me, I used my parents' address.

- Winter is coming! How do you plan for cold weather? Gas heater? And while going to the toilets or showering outside is great in the summer, it is much less fun during winter. Water tanks freezing may also be a problem. Winter was a bit rough but manageable in southern France, I can't imagine Germany... BTW, a heated blanket is a great ally, though it uses a bit of power.

- Your van is clearly a RV. RVs are not always welcome. Didn't you have too much trouble finding nice places that are also van-friendly? I suppose you also need internet coverage, access to grocery stores and laundries, a fresh water source and waste water disposal, etc...
It's even older than that. I remember it from back in grad school (ca. 2009) when Facebook and social networks in general were hot subjects in academia.
During the FTC investigation it came out that Google started with a goal and then kept changing the questions for raters until they got the data they wanted. Apparently they needed the rater data to approve the search algorithm.

There is a sweet spot where results don't suck and are better than Bing so users don't leave and ad clicks increase. Personally, I am 100% sure Google has found it.
> Basic, decent, somewhat cross-discipline education is the cornerstone of civilization.

Totally agree. This can be done by 8th grade. In fact, it was mostly done by 8th grade in the US until about 100 years ago.

> But getting everyone reasonably literate and 'through high school' - is probably the #1 thing any nation could do to improve the standard of living in their citizenry.

You say this based on what?

In every high school I have interacted with (usu. as an observer or researcher), high school is largely a holding pen for those who are not college bound (and even for many who are). There is very little education happening in the classroom since the content is largely decoupled from the learners' day-to-day existences (both present and perceived future).

The course content is largely college prep or reheated versions of middle school curricula. The main focus is usually on some sort of preparation for a test (of questionable validity) that the school will be judged on.

As I have mentioned before, schools (esp. high schools) serve most HN folks and their communities to a more or less acceptable standard. The other 70% of the (US) folks... I really don't think so.
> I don't mean to sound patronizing and teach you about your own continent

Thanks for your self-awareness, you are mostly wrong. It's not entirely your fault though, since gp generalized by saying "here in Africa" as if 1 billion people in 54 countries are a single amorphous blob.

> Those resources are mined, extracted and sold but profits go to a small caste of wealthy warlords and/or corrupt leaders.

There are probably less than 20 "warlords" in only 2-3 countries out of a billion Africans, and they likely control a region less than 1% of the total landmass. You are right there are corrupt leaders, but most of the profits do not go to them (as they are small-fry); they go to Western (or Chinese) multinationals, and perhaps even to your retirement fund.

> And yes the climate is harsh. Especially the heat literally makes thinking hard.

You are overgeneralizing to the point of being wrong - you probably are thinking of the Sahara. I have no idea where this "Africa is hot" trope originates, but most of sub-saharan africa has moderate temperatures[1]. Some regions receive snow every winter[2]

> In a way Africa is similar to Russian Federation.

In a way, Africa is dissimilar to the Russian Federation. It's 54 countries, has 2000 languages and is far larger. Larger than China, India, US, and most of Europe - combined![3]

edit: more ranting

I am continually surprised by HNers commenting authoritatively on Africa without first interrogating the source of their knowledge. Imagine a guy in Italy declaring all that's wrong with Silicon Valley based on what they've heard in the news and seen in pity-party ads by SV NGOs. "It's the existential fear of earthquakes that makes them short-sighted. The gentrification is real bad too"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa#/media/File...

2. https://www.ceres.org.za/see-do/winter-snow.html

3. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/africa-is-...
>you can't buy/rent movies on Google Play, Amazon, etc. apps on iOS

Isn't that a choice Google and Amazon make because they don't want to pay Apple's fees for sales going through their marketplace? If that's the case, it doesn't seem anticompetitive, since everyone is charged the same fees no matter what. Google and Amazon just don't want to pay it.

Same thing as the Kindle Store, you can't buy Kindle books through the Amazon app but you can buy them through the browser. Because if you buy them through the app, Apple takes a cut, but they don't through the browser. So Amazon made the choice to not sell books through their app, even though many other merchants sell digital goods through their apps and pay Apple the fee.
At my company, we'll never use GitLab because it just plain sucks.

Since you're asking though, here's one thing you can do better: Stop spamming HN with your irrelevant nonsense.
> Why does a government structured around the economic activity of its voters suddenly become tyrannical and dysfunctional when when most of them are no longer productive?

Because those people wield the power in the relationship, by virtue of the fact that they can stop working and disrupt the system economically.

This is, I believe, the author's point: political power follows economic power, over time. The two can diverge temporarily, but over the long run this tends not to be stable, or has to be maintained by force with much attendant unpleasantness.

Historically, I think this checks out. The combination of market(ish) economies and representative(ish) democracy that exist in most Western states evolved alongside the increased economic power of industrial workers, starting in the 18th century. Marxist theory takes the same ideas and runs with them further, hypothesizing inevitable conflict when worker-labor is alienated from the economic gains it produces. Neither of these two systems, which basically dominated the 20th century, would have emerged under conditions of agrarian peasantry. (And in the early Soviet Union, which basically blundered into Communism by mistake -- Marx had always thought it would emerge in more-industrialized Germany first! -- the peasantry was largely either forcibly transitioned into industrial laborers or exterminated, since they had no place in that political-economic system.)

But even in a democratic context, a "vote" is fundamentally meaningless; it is at best merely a suggestion. Underlying the idea of democracy is always the question of what the citizenry will do if the government decides to ignore the vote. Governments that depend on economic activity which citizens can disrupt through simple nonparticipation have a vested interest in keeping those same people happy and productive. Governments that only need to worry about armed insurrection can employ more draconian methods.
Geo-replication in Apache Pulsar, part 2: patterns and practices
Yeah, well, guess what? If they're your neighbors, they have as much right to live in peace as you and your family do.

And if you have an issue with (as the parent you agreed with) their language, clothing choices, tattoos, then frankly, you need to do something about it - and "encouraging people to keep a watch on them", calling the police for suspicious behavior (where "suspicious" is this vague hand-wavy synonym for "I don't like them") is not it.

And trying this emotional appeal to "well, my family's safety is more important than some rando's feelings" (your exact words) is BS caging your words. Maybe you should move then? Much as you'd like them to move, and are trying to make it uncomfortable for them to be around. Hint: you have no more right to be there than your neighbors do.

And lest you suggest that maybe I need to be exposed to more mental illness, violence, sociopathy or otherwise, like you say you have, to come to a 'better' understanding / enlightenment, well... I deal with all those things, all the time, working in EMS as well as IT.
I honestly don't understand what any of this has to do with inclusion. Maybe the aim is to de-emphasize competitiveness, directness, and individual responsibility, which is fine if that's the kind of employees you want to hire. But is there strong scientific evidence that women lack these qualities compared to men? What if you'd like to hire people with the qualities of, say, the Williams sisters of tennis fame?
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You're defending a made-up (mis)interpretation.
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I couldn't even imagine how you feel about vinegar.
Huge surprise that this article ignores the most important movement in policy debate (and LD) over the last 20-30 years: a shift from policy to critical debate, which is focused less on abstract notions of 'nuke war' and more on critically discussing and analyzing social issues.

Another poster posted (as a dog-whistle) a link to Towson JR, the first team of black women to win the national debate championship. Policy debate is an incredibly privileged activity at the upper levels - costs of traveling to tournaments on both coasts, hiring coaches, subscribing to Lexis Nexis, etc, limits competition to only the most affluent. The author of this article went to a "pr-Ivy" with a $70 million endowment. That's some privilege to complain about - he even humblebrags about it: "From winter to spring, in settings as grand as a Harvard lecture hall and as cramped as a boiler room in a Salt Lake City public school, [...]". Flying to Alta (so sorry their campus isn't as nice as yours) isn't cheap or something everyone can do!

Also, since everybody rants about spreading - many critical teams do not spread, or are at least under 300 words per minute. There is a growing recognition and acceptance of the privilege it takes to spend an hour each night doing speaking drills.

This is a much better article about the state of debate: https://www.salon.com/2014/05/13/%E2%80%9Ci_was_hurt%E2%80%9...
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I did high school Policy debate for three and a half years. I last judged a debate round five years ago.

1. Spreading is definitely a thing in Lincoln Douglas now as are the wonky Mead 92-like arguments. It’s even easier to spread now that we can flow on computers (which was just beginning when I left in 2005, so I learned how to flow on paper. I still use this format for interviewing people.)

2. People were complaining about the “diminishing intellectual integrity” of debate when I was doing it over 15 years ago, so I’m going to guess that things haven’t changed as much as the author is making it seem.

3. Crazy arguments aside, debate is the only academic sport I can think of that teaches you how to: 1) formulate coherent arguments, 2) defend those arguments with facts instead of opinions, 3) learn how to speak in front of people (sometimes lots of people) and 4) make do out of nothing (we often debated in classrooms, even in tournaments held at colleges).

Debate changed my life. I met people from all sorts of walks of life, rich and poor alike. I debated against and amongst people from all races that believed all sorts of things. If there is any activity that can solve for the notorious achievement gap problem, then this is it.

I learned about rock music by rooming with a guy at Catholic during debate camp. (He introduced me to Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan. I was hooked since.) I had my first serious relationship through debate. God, some of the best memories of my life came through debate. My first flights? Debate.

I was devastated when my school (Bergenfield HS) dissolved their debate team during my senior year. We had one of the best Policy and LD programs in the country and often beat out much wealthier schools than ours (though we had nothing against Texas). Most of the folks that joined our program did well later on in life: a few doctors, a few lawyers, etc. I’m positive that I wouldn’t have the life that I have now had I not said yes to my future captains asking me if I argued too much at home and needed an outlet.

My coach had a huge falling out with the school and called it quits (very difficult decision for him; he was homosexual and was often prosecuted for it). No other teacher wanted to take up the program, which made no sense to me initially but after dating (and eventually marrying) a teacher made a ton of sense (this was likely a labor of love for my old coach that didn’t pay the bills; no other teacher had that passion). The football, basketball, baseball and golf programs went unscathed, of course.

I tried to start a program at Stevens, but scheduling made it really hard. College debate is no damn joke; it’s practically a sport in its own right. People have failed out due to going too hard on debate. The most I could do to get involved was by being a judge on the weekends, but even that got difficult once I started getting into serious relationships and working more.

If we have kids, I will definitely nudge them to try debate.
> This was because if a team “dropped” an argument by its opponent—if it did not respond to the other side’s claim—that argument was conceded as “true,” no matter how inane it was. Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was “spreading” (a combination of “speed” and “reading”), where debaters would rattle off arguments at a blistering pace. Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)

This is a failure of the "game" rules, provided the intended outcome is something other than this (as it surely was/is). Making a game with winners and losers and any kind of objective scoring system out of something resembling a real activity is really hard to do without distorting that activity until it no longer resembles what you wanted it to. It'll happen as soon as someone who's willing to consider only the rules of the game in constructing their strategy comes along, and easily crushes all their competitors while making the whole thing un-fun and entirely unlike what was intended.

It's unsurprising that the attempt to fix this (Lincoln-Douglas style) ended up with similar distortions of the spirit of the competition becoming the only way to win. Designing a game like this is hard if people are playing to win and not playing for some other purpose (i.e. they're not willing to wholly voluntarily and with no fuss take fewer points than they could to work toward the common good of maintaining the spirit of the event—at which point you've introduced role-playing elements, basically)
Google's policies are a big part of this problem. Ad code and tracking code ought to be in an iframe, where the code can't snoop on the surrounding page context. Google insists that their ad code must not be in an iframe. That gives the lesser players an opening to insist that they, too, should't be constrained.

A few big site operators should push back against Google on this. The New York Times and CBS, for example. They use Google Publisher Tags, but no Google ads, so they don't really need Google on their pages.
You mean does Google Sheets suffer from the same vulnerabilities? IMPORTXML is a Google Sheets function and isn't in Excel.

My php-based xlsx parser is about 100 lines. If you don't need time series you can save almost twenty lines. Strings cost about ten lines. Even still, whilst it may not support every string-type or every time format, it is more reliable than any CSV parser...
I don't know how bad it is at the high school level, but it does get worse as you go up to the University level...

For an example, take the 2014 CEDA Championship Debate held at Indiana University -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8

* It seems that all the original videos from the above have been removed (from youtube), only clips are available.

For those that are interested, a response to the criticism of the above "debate" was made that is itself cringe-worthy and difficult to watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pij5Sg4_DY
I agree. There was no need to insult your audience, and it is a career-limiting move in the long run. The Internet has a long memory.
got a 24" LG 1080p monitor in the van that needs less than 20W - doable with a small extra battery and 100W solar. the 4k monitors from LG are quite energy efficient as well (<30W)
Emacs Lisp is not a declarative language, of course, but this kind of declarative logic - regular expressions which parse shell command output and apply hidden text properties or keybindings - is common in Emacs. dired does it, as does magit, and all modes based on comint, as well as just normal M-x compile.
It's not just high school debates that end up like that. Most matters of opinions or incomplete data devolve into stupid arguments when it gets political.
I disagree. Only after I clicked on your link did it occur to me what you were trying to say.

I think it's a stretch. If the word is that taboo to you then what do you call those striped tail critters who get in the garbage? Rac--n?
Also has a worse UI and setting up iOS testing is a major pain.
The fasting craze is proof that self-denial is the new indulgence for elites
Former HS debater, our district desperately needed judges for districts last year so I've judged in the past year. Speed-reading is a problem in Policy, but I don't think it's spreading and not to PF especially. At least where I live, judges are broken out with the most sophisticated going to Policy and LD and Public Forum gets who ever is left. When I did PF it was totally normal to have a HS Bus Driver or some freshman's mom as a judge. In that environment spreading and weird arguments could actually make you lose (although so could a judge's hard biases.) Once you made it to semis you might start to get former LD/Policy debaters as judges and so you might speed it up or adjust the rhetoric/evidence. But that's what made PF so fun, you had to read the audience and adjust and you only had a month of practice and a few four minute speeches to do it.

Maybe I'm insulated because I went to a midwest high-school who didn't care much for the elite tournaments but we still managed to do well at nats.

EDIT:

>High school debate today is basically an intellectual game, not an exercise in truth-seeking.

That depends on your perspective. I'd say the judges learned some things in my debates, would they have changed their minds? Probably not, because 16 year olds just aren't that convincing to most people. It's like that bear joke, you just have to be better than the other guy. But what about my opinions? They may have never changed in the midst of a debate, but case-building is definitely an exercise in truth-seeking. Debaters get more out of it than judges but that'd be natural, they're the ones poring over all the evidence and picking out the good bits. Being adversarial with yourself as you write an aff and neg is far more enlightening than any other approach I've found.
OAuth, 2FA, a control panel to manage OAuth tokens, and decent app policies fix this problem. A user should never have to enter their password other than the first time they're setting up their phone. Very preventable.
Um... I don't see why that matters. It isn't like this is the country of choice for a lot of folks. It is cold and dark sometimes. Things are expensive, and sometimes there isn't a lot of choice at the stores - especially in the smaller places.

I'm an immigrant in Norway - I'm from the US. A lot of folks I talk to are Norwegian, spouse included. (I'm in Trondheim, so there is much more diversity here in the city). Like everywhere, there is some anti-immigrant sentiment if you look in the right places.

But mostly, I feel included - that goes along with the general values of the nation. Heck, the kind gives speeches of inclusion. The linked speech is a common example [1, english subtitles]. The local school has messages saying "people are different, and that's OK" and "just because people are different, we still include people" (not direct translations).

Having a homogenous society doesn't matter so much when the society tries to be inclusive as a whole. That doesn't happen so much in the US, even as a citizen.

Edit: The US isn't even the most ethnically diverse place, so I fail to take that as an excuse. Both the US and Mexico are more diverse. [2]. Also, forgot to link the speech above.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQtLxYde-rw
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/16...
And they attract the kind of people who want to be on the HOA Board.

Much like some people suggest that we should choose politicians at random, and that merely wanting to be one should exclude you from being one, the same should be said for HOA Boards. The kind of people who relish that "authority" are the last people who should have it.
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