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Yes Iran and Saudi Arabia are also exacerbating the conflict. The US has been providing support to Saudi long before the Yemen war began.
Most people don't realize that Boulder is as small as it is. It has a population of 100k that is growing at 1% per year. 60k people commute into Boulder everyday (many from other cities in the county) and this number is growing much more rapidly.
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That depends on the design. In Elon's original paper hyperloop the vehicles have an air bearing.
>So the question is if "Minimizing Efficiency Gap" is what we should be aiming for.

100% agree. I think this can be further broken down into the questions:

(1) What are the problems caused by extreme gerrymandering?

(2) How will efficiency gap minimization alleviate these problems?

(3) What assumptions are we making in (2)? How likely are they to be true? And how robust is the solution to their falsification?

(4) How could this all go catastrophically wrong?

My intuition is that efficiency gap minimization is an incomplete solution and probably should be only one of several factors considered.
How often are districts able to be redrawn? The same crazy shaped map that is valid in 2020 may not be very good in 2025 or even 2021.
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This "Life of Wellington" mentions the capture of Napoleon's traveling library and mentions that they found the works of Homer, the Bible, Ossian (a supposed ancient Scottish poet now thought to be fraudulent), and a work of Voltaire.

https://books.google.com/books?id=pqv_06RS6XcC&lpg=PA536&ots...
On land gifted to them by the government.
What happened to impl Trait? I was quite excited to see it under 1.21 in the milestone predictions thread, but it has since been moved to "horizon".

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rust-release-milestone-pre...
Are they?

AFAIK, passenger trains have priority. However, if the passenger company rents a specific timeslot from the railway and isn't on time, it isn't surprising if there is traffic along the way.

And high speed trains usually require dedicated tracks to operate at full speed anyways.
the js isn't just minified, its been obfuscated (actually adding to the size significantly). it also has the exact same api as coinhive. i wonder what they are trying to hide...
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Completely. Really that Saudi Arabia effort of a 'country' needs to be boycotted for the human rights abuses and attitude towards women.

However the big news in the UK yesterday was about BAE systems not able to keep everyone working and how hoped for orders from Saudi Arabia would save the day.

So the share price of BAE systems and a few death industry Jobs matters more than cholera.
This.

Not to mention, after saving similar (or more) you'll own a home 5x in value.
It was an article about cholera and how it affects people in Yemen.

The Guardian has article right next to the cholera article titled 'Blame the Saudis for Yemen's cholera outbreak – they are targeting the people'.
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Could I posit for a moment that if you're not right out of school taking your first job that you should not accept an engineering position (making an assumption here) at Amazon in Seattle for 130k? If you have experience that number is way too low, even if it's only the base salary. Add 30k to that number, then add in the value of your RSUs that will be liquifiable after 1-3 years, and suddenly your argument stops holding water from a purely economic perspective.

Also, consider what happens to your asset value when your 150k home in Topeka grows at the normal rate there vs a 700k home growing at the rate home values are in Seattle. You could build a very nice amount of equity in the expensive market, sell it and then buy a gigantic/perfect/<insert your reqs here> house back in Topeka in cash and have no mortgage. These markets (Seattle, SF, Denver, ect.) have their appeal even if you don't care about the city life or mountains or whatever.
I'm not Greek although I have a lot of a Greek friends. I taught myself ancient Greek and can (barely) communicate in modern. I'd say that ancient Greek is about as far from modern as Chaucer is from modern English. Even Greeks can't understand it without study, although of course knowing modern helps a ton. Just a few decades ago, all Greeks spoke Demotiki (modern Greek or "people's" Greek) but also learned Katharevousa in school ("pure" Greek, very close to ancient Greek). They don't teach that any more, but some of my friends say their parents can read Plato like it's the morning newspaper. How envious I am of that! :-)
I've found that it's always easier to follow "normal" routes until you know what you're doing. In the US, the equivalent is a Delaware corporation. Companies typically incorporate in the state they operate in when they are small and the owners are more concerned about running their business. Reincorporating in Delaware happens when companies are large enough to hire someone to handle the paperwork.
I'm not sure what you are on about, the prices of SSD dropped by a factor of 3 or so from 2013 to 2016. That's more than HDD. At the same time, SSDs got faster and faster, while HDD speed is essentially constant.
There's lots of discussion of salary vs cost of living. Is there an economics term for this ratio?
They are not responsible and the government is going incredible lengths to make them unaccountable. What they are doing is illegal but fighting them in court is a long and expensive battle.

Don't worry, brain downloads are coming. You bet your ass they are going to ask for a "copy" of your brain so they ensure you are not up to no good.
>> The average user spends more than 74 minutes each day in Toutiao

so many wasted lives
This fails to demonstrate any benefit. The end result, ease of implementation, action flow and performance are the same, with a couple extra abstractions in the middle. What does it achieve?
Valuation is more-so driven by ARPU so all this does is shift ARPU up.

Also, there are network effects. It's unknown whether Instagram would be a better service (to investors) if all (half, a quarter, etc.) fake accounts were removed.
> I wonder why other big players aren't just stepping up and making their own SSDs

There are only a handful of fabs making the required NAND chips. Spinning up a new fab takes years and hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention some serious technological and manufacturing know how. So it's really not easy for someone to just up and enter the NAND market.

I don't exactly doubt that price fixing is happening, but my understanding of current high SSD and even RAM prices at the moment is that there is a serious demand that outstrips the current fabs abilities. Mobile devices are eating up a lot of the NAND output.
As far as I know, none of my colleagues can golf. But I hear that we do have some nice courses.
I heard you like books... so I put a books in your book.
The milestone prediction thread is just that; a prediction. It's still very much coming, just not yet. It won't be in 1.22 either, as that went into beta today.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44721 is the issue you want to track. There's been a lot of chatter in recent days.
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I don't think there ever has been an asset in the history of mankind that has appreciated so fast and so high like this.
There's even 15 TB available for sale today in the 2.5" form factor: https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Samsung-PM1633a-MZILS15THM...

And 60 TB in 3.5": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/seagate-unveils-60tb...

No spinning rust drive comes close.
> At one point someone tried to rush the stage, though we don't know his motivations. That person was beaten, which should have resulted in the arrests of everyone involved.

The person who rushed the stage was Isadore Greenbaum. All he did was shout "Down with Hitler!" and knock down a microphone[1]. He was the only one arrested and was further charged with disorderly conduct[1]. None of his assailants were charged or arrested.

1. http://www.historynet.com/made-in-america-americans-in-suppo...
I recall last I looked at Solaris, it was far bigger than that. Microsoft was even in there (due to Xenix.)
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I think it would be a good idea to make sure the California "high speed" rail program is never funded. It is a terrible idea. As it stands, it would be as slow as conventional rail, redundant with AmTrak, and the most expensive rail line ever built. It would be absolutely devastating for the government's relationship with at least tens of thousands of land owners, hundreds of thousands of home owners, who would see depreciation or outright loss of use of their land (which may hold sentimental or historic value not accounted for, or impossible to account for, in eminent domain assessments).
Wait so are you saying UWP apps can now access the machine they're running on in a sane manner (so, limited only by the privileges of the user who ran the app, without additional limitations enforced by the platform itself)?

Because that was the main limitation of Metro apps, you couldn't really do anything useful with them, you couldn't even access the hard drive normally or edit the windows registry. This is why you couldn't "upgrade". It wasn't an upgrade to any previous tech, it was a downgrade as the platform literally had less capabilities. It is, or at least was, basically a platform for making sandboxed mobile apps that you can run on the desktop...

This is why they clearly weren't (at least Metro, I haven't worked with UWP) an "upgrade" to anything. Silverlight wasn't an "upgrade" to WPF for the exact same reason. It was a more limited platform and you couldn't switch WPF apps over. So MS calling Silverlight or Metro a new version of WPF would have been retarded.
These rules are not limited to National elections. State elections are also based on redistricting. DC is part of the US and has District Elections so these rules will apply to it.

https://www.dcboe.org/election_info/election_results/v3/2016...

So, no you can't dodge the question. And I ask you to draw a DC map with some Republican representation.

PS: AKA draw a map such that WARD EIGHT MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL is likely Republican.
Hah! Didn't watch the entire video yet but I get it.

For sure, that doesn't seem like a hard thing to do. Maybe I will make a tool like that to do live presentations! Looks like fun.

/Me going back to watch that video
If there is a stove-pipe then they are not breathing any fumes.
Good! Part of the beauty of our chosen career is that we can work from pretty much anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. If you're happy where you're at, you're doing it right.

Personally, as a software engineer in Colorado, I wouldn't trade locations either. But that's because of the things CO has to offer - incredible outdoor recreation, 300 days of sunshine, mild winters, decently competitive salaries, affordable cost of living (on an engineer salary at least), and a culture where people prioritize being well-rounded as individuals instead of allowing work to dominate their lives.

Now, the article's headline "The Smartest Americans Are Heading West" is definitely a generalization, but the migration patterns of people shouldn't be dismissed as simple "money-seeking" - one reason trumping all the others fails to address the complexity innate to big personal decisions like choosing where to live.

What we should be asking is WHY people who fit the "smartness" criteria described in the article are deciding to move West - and then using that information to make informed policy decisions elsewhere.
This is what people who are retirement age would have said about SV when they moved there.

Enjoy being retired in SV 2.0
We've updated the link from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-dev/2XHgXJtIb..., which points to this.
It cuts both ways; talent is harder to find in regions like Topeka, so that means much less competition compared to places like Seattle. It also means employers will work harder to retain decent employees compared to tech hubs where talented engineers are plentiful.
Well, yeah, but a great deal of said cultural abundance assumes you've got a pretty strong familiarity with the Bible and a few classical authors. You're gonna be losing a lot from a pretty big chunk of Western art up the Moderns or so, and still quite a bit after, without that foundation, so by skipping out on that not even that large set of works you're giving up on serious engagement with most of Western art. It'll be a minefield of confusion and things you miss without even knowing they're there. Summaries and retellings won't cut it, since good references to those works will lean on nuance that's not usually present in "bare bones" or cultural-osmosis versions of the tales (the linked article covers some of this, in fact), to the point that making such references that assume only a kind of pop-culture understanding of these things tends to be a mark of poor, pseudo-intellectual, trying-too-hard art.

As far as things to skip due to an abundance of choices go, those are perhaps unwise ones to avoid, if some part of the other "paths" you'll walk include pretty much any other areas of Western art.

Maybe you decide your "path" is 19th century French literature. Guess which two bodies of work are foundational to that? OK, so you just like sci-fi. Well, there are the Bible and the Classical writers again, at least in the better stuff. Medieval studies? Yeah, obviously. Film—like, pretty much any of it that comes from the West and has artistic value? Oh god, yes.

Well screw all this, I'm gonna focus on Arabic or Persian works. Oh. They have significant cultural ties to the Greeks too, thanks to Alexander, so I'm back to that again.

Fine art. There aren't even words so I'm safe there. Oh, wait, no I'm not. Damn. Music? Ugh, there's Achilles and Abraham and Aeneas and all the rest. Philosophy? Nope, too much of that assumes the same common, smallish set of common experience as everything else.

OK, fine, I'm so over this, I'm just gonna play video games. This Deux Ex thing is supposed to be good for some reason, let's start there. Oh... oh no... not again!
They did not vote to succeed and there was only one referendum.
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> Our paper proves that in some cases, it’s impossible to get a small efficiency gap without drawing bizarrely shaped districts.

Italics mine. Is there any reason to believe that any real life situation would fall under their impossibility? The key is to get a system which is good enough to prevent gerrymandering for the world that exists, not for any possible world.
Branson's business model is selling the right to use the Virgin brand to other companies. The article doesn't say he made an investment. It is rather more likely that they paid him.
As usual, the XKCD has a grain of truth, but also sacrifices clarity in favor of zippy punchline impact...

You don't need to cite a study to determine lots of things. Reasoned debate, or logical discourse are enough.

Scientific authority is great for the physical sciences, but poor for other areas of inquiry. And soft science is rife with bogosity, non-reproducibility and misrepresentation.
For an improvement on the "1 seat for every 10% of the vote you get" system you mention, take a look at the system Cambridge, MA uses for their at-large city council election [1]. Citizens cast ranked-choice ballots, and through an iterative process each of the 9 councilors are elected if they receive over 10% of the vote. (Excess votes for winners and votes for candidates below a certain threshold are transferred in each iteration.)

[1] http://www.fairvote.org/cambridge-massachusetts-elections-a-...
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In my experience, exercise was helpful, but mostly only after I realized what I could learn about myself from it. Primarily, it allowed me to better understand and manage 2 types of “automatic” thought processes that I have constantly:
(1) Intrusive Thoughts - unpleasant thoughts that pop into my head
(2) Motivated Reasoning - mind trying to draw logical but untrue conclusions in line with my current feelings at the time

As an example of how the 2 may combine in normal life, an internal dialogue might look like this:
(1) Intrusive thought: “I can’t accomplish this goal”
(2) Motivated reasoning: “Because I’m a failure and I’m worthless”
The most insidious thing is that these motivated conclusions feel so right, feel so self evident.

With exercise, similar thought processes will arise. The difference is, because you are dealing with a simple physical task, there is the possibility of immediate physical evidence to demonstrate to yourself your intrusive thought, and the reasoning for it, are simply wrong.

The analogous thought processes during exercise might look like this:
(1) Intrusive thought: “I can’t finish this workout”
(2) Motivated reasoning: “Because I’m not in good enough shape and it hurts too much, I can’t take it, I need to stop”
There is a point where I feel like I want to stop, and at first it seems so reasonable to stop, to not overwork myself and hurt myself. But if I push on past that point, there is a realization “Huh - I’m still here, I’m still doing this, I thought I didn’t have it in me, but irrefutably I did because I am here still doing this after I thought I was done.”

I always thought I was naturally unathletic; I was never good at sports and hated exercise until I became an adult. Looking back now, I realized the only reason I was unathletic was because I believed I was, and my power of belief made it a reality.

As I’ve grown older, the intrusive thoughts and motivated reasoning are still here, but where in the past they stopped me dead in my tracks, now I have learned to see them for what they are and not let them define me.

Everyone has different experiences, and I mean no disrespect to anyone who hasn’t found value in exercise; I believe there are many ways to learn these types of lessons; for me, it just happened to be exercise, but it could have been anything.
One key advantage of redux-saga is testability-- since sagas are essentially functions with their arguments passed in by the saga middleware, it is easy to inject mocked dependencies in a test environment.
Just to double-click on container technology, why do you think it took so long for this technology that was built into Solaris to become mainstream with Docker?

I think VMWare deserves a mention here? And the terms OS Virtualization vs Hardware virtualization do as well (Ctrl-F doesn't find them.)

For awhile hardware virtualization (VMWare) was more prevalent, but it's more complex and has more overhead than OS virtualization (containers). That is how people solved the problem of having powerful machines and small workloads (or workloads with a lot of variance).

Although historically it might have been that hardware virtualization actually came first, in IBM mainframes. In the Unix world I guess OS virtualization came first.
So don't get fired or start looking for a job when you see the writing on the wall.

It's not rocket science.
> I get to use the technologies that I like, some of which aren't very mainstream, and also I really like the developers I work with.

So in other states, people have to use technologies they dislike, and work with people they dislike? Sounds dreadful.
Since those are just for argument parsing, should we not also include the extra code that the kernel run in order for proper execution? With that we can even include additional stuff like apparmor adding code to protect against exploits in True.

I suspect that each invocation to True, regardless of implementation, spend in average a large amount of unnecessary cpu instruction for practically every OS.
This was my first thought, too. The article starts out with, "Three cities in Colorado...," but goes on to discuss Metro Areas, which I think means "Boulder County."

Boulder County includes almost all of Longmont (a city of ~90k in which I reside) as well as another 100k+ in smaller towns and unincorporated areas; that's all Boulder County, but the majority of that is not considered part of Boulder the city.
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>When I was interviewing at Crystal I was told that Gex was to be the next Sonic. It was to be a huge hit, the newest mascot, one of those titles that inspires all kinds of merchandising like toys and cartoons, pens, pencils, notebooks, underroos, ...

Gex certainly felt like it was designed by a marketing team rather than a game designer with a vision. You could always tell by the "edgy" renders that would show up on magazine covers and the like. It never really appealed to me.

On the upside, the Gex 3 engine was used as the basis for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, so at least we got that out of it.
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That's really strange, mind trying again? It's working on several machines I just tried
Wasn't there some speculation that Glacier and co actually use optical media, not tapes, for their storage? Does anybody know?
1) Because splice(2) requires either the source or sink to be a pipe. The source is a regular file so the sink has to be a pipe.

2) Because the example Rust program(s), emulating yes(1), had no [simple] way to measure throughput except by piping to another program. We can't fairly compare program A that writes directly to /dev/null with program B that writes to a pipe even if program A can measure its throughput.

2a) What jwilk said.

3) For some reason I thought that glibc had optimizations to elide fwrites to /dev/null, and some of my code was using stdio (e.g. for the final trailing bytes less than the pagesize). I could've sworn either glibc or bash did this, but I can't find any mention of it, now. I realize it would be crazy difficult and ugly for glibc to do this (because of dup2, etc), but glibc does alot of crazy things, and in any event I didn't bother checking beforehand.

Mostly it comes down to fairly comparing benchmarks and kernel facilities. Otherwise, yes, those would be classic examples of Useless Use of Cat.
I wish there were layman-friendly guides to building furniture and a nationwide initiative to pair home improvement stores with tool libraries. If you want to save money and have quality furniture, building it yourself is the way to go, but good luck if you don't have your own wood shop.

You should be able to build most modular furniture using two power tools, some jigs, and raw materials. It's sad that this isn't a common thing.
> whenever it rains heavily in southern china everything floods because investing in basic drainage isn't sexy enough.

Same thing happens in northern China also :-)
Their definition of fake is too limited, and they ackowledge that and then rely on it anyway because there isn't an agreed upon definition of fake.

That is very strange, given that there are already better ways to determine if the accounts "will provide value to advertisers", and that is by raising the bar a bit more to look at the account's recent likes and activity.

just because an account has less than 10 posts or is private doesn't mean that they aren't actively engaged humans. that is the root flaw of this analysis.
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