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Companies have only done research after WW2? Can you cite something for that, or is it your own view?

My recollection is that the entire industrial revolution was based on innovations that came out of the private sector. Or, is the distinction you're making one of teams vs individuals? The size of teams needed to make new inventions has gone up over time I'm sure, but companies led by an inventor with other people working for them on developing the invention certainly predates WW2!

That's basically what the US model already does, and it leads to ever growing tuition fees, and people far over their head in debt before they even leave university.

That's because western society convinced itself that people had to have degrees or else they'd be useless and unsuccessful for life. In the UK universities are basically all taxpayer funded - the so-called student 'loans' are all from the government and aren't structured in the same way bank loans would be, so it's essentially public funded, and people end up in lots of debt there too.
startup time: not sure it's good ux to wait seconds for every command...

lumo/cljs is instantaneous
Every so many days we get a submission on how difficult it is to get a TT faculty position at any university, let alone a top one. We keep hearing how saturated academia is.

So why the concern here?

What will these PhD students gain by staying, when it is so saturated? It appears this is more about tenured professors not being able to pump out papers as easily as they could in the past. For them, the students are merely tools to do so.

As someone else commented: Where is the student's perspective in this piece? Many, many PhD students, if given a much better prospect at a TT position at a university, would reject large salary offers.
>and we had to participate in a World War to get out of it).

I think it wasn't participating in WW2 that got the US out of the depression, so much as everywhere else being completely fucked by war, with the USA being basically the holder of the best production setup at the end of the war, and therefore able to export an absolute fuckton of product to help Europe et al rebuild.

I suspect that if USA never joined the war, it would actually be better off today economically, since WW2 would have proceeded regardless.
That's an awfully backhanded and snide way of insulting someone. Counterproductive? Why, because you don't like the point they're trying to make?
There are systemic shocks that you're sweeping under the rug.

If most people in a state is underwater on their house and they declare bankruptcy there is a real economic erosion that occurs. Foreclosed houses get looted, depressed people stop working, already stressed state finances break under the burden of further aid applicants.

By saying they'll just "modify their behaviours" you're essentially saying they'll just "go on welfare or become homeless on the street".

Most of America is not ready for the next recession, and it is coming at the worst time, when Baby Boomers are starting to strain the retirement and healthcare systems.
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No, the response "why would he work for you" presumes that knowing how to build a product after acquiring VC funding would include the skill set or interest in acquiring the VC funding.
Go with a hosted solution: CloudKarafka, Aiven, Heroku Kafka, Eventador are all available. First one has a free plan too. Disclaimer: I work with CloudKarafka.
That's all very true, but can you point to an alternative? If you were a small team with few resources, and you wanted to ship a cross-platform desktop app, what would you choose?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0-calculus

One of the links from that article : http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/jeannette-wing/pi....
I don't see pricing or an API from DeepL that could be classified as a 'service'. Am I missing it?
It's going to be difficult to fully inflate our way out of the coming national debt crisis. When debt service becomes too much of a burden I expect that policy makers will also choose some sort of technical default where Treasury bond holders are forced to exchange their current bonds for new ones with lower interest rates and longer maturities. Many other sovereign states have taken similar measures.

Proposals have also been floated to require that retirement accounts such as IRAs and 401(k)s invest in Treasury bonds. That would give the Treasury a guaranteed debt buyer at whatever interest rate they choose to offer. All in the name of "safety" and protecting peoples' retirement accounts from the risks of the stock market of course.
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> Predictions are available for iOS and Android apps that include the Analytics SDK

Any plans to have this work for web apps?
Big Tech and Amazon: too powerful to break up?
From what I've heard from a friend who works for Apple, it's more than skin-deep, they have a strict internal culture of user privacy. It's difficult to get permission to report any kind of user data or to bypass the sandbox, for example.
> It is completely irrelevant whether physical pages have been actually allocated to back the the virtual pages that are committed

It is in fact the only relevant thing with memory; physical memory is the constrained resource. If you're constrained on swap space, you're going to spend the rest of the year swapping.

Overcommitting is neither here nor there; a failure to have a backing store for memory (whether in physical memory or page file) will result in OOM, but nobody is actually worried about OOM. Editors and systems lose responsiveness long before then. The failure mode from apps using too much memory is swapping, not OOM.

Part of the reason measuring memory usage from a process stats perspective is so hard is because some memory is more important than others; in particular, access patterns matter. If a process is starting to swap, whether you see a cliff edge in performance, or a more gradual decline, comes down to the access pattern. The working set concept approximates the "frequently used" quantity of memory, which is why Task Manager uses it by default, but it's subtle since it's not a simple function of allocation.
well this must be one of the most useful comments I've ever seen. not sure how to use it yet but it must be useful one day!
If I ever get to the point where I'm in charge of a large-scale hiring process, I absolutely want to use name-free resumes, to reduce gender and racial bias, plus other steps that are effective as I learn them.

That said, the African-American candidate pool in America is so vanishingly small that subtle tech bias at hiring time isn't the issue - the heuristics to filter them out started before they ever finished high school. (This has actually been a point of interest for me for a long time. I mentioned elsewhere a friend who has terrible spelling but a very successful career. He also happens to be black, which has been something else to overcome. We've talked for years about ways to encourage more black students to go into IT, which we both believe is a route to middle-class success with substantially less racial animosity than they'll face in other fields.)
It’s called Zones (on illumos, prev. on Solaris)
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Do I understand it right that if I want to purchase some pizzas over time that pay 1 BTC each, I make an account with the pizzeria where I put 10 BTC that I own, each time I buy a pizza, the transaction is added to the lightning ledger, and if one of us wants to settle the thing for whatever reason after four pizzas, a transaction is transmitted to blockhain where I get 6 BTC back and pizzeria gets 4?

I do not quite see how that increases the real world capacity by orders of magnitude. I mean if we assume that people actually spend their money to quite a few different places and everyone would require a significant overhead of a single transaction to be committed for unspecified time. Further, it requires a minimum of two transactions on the blockchain fore each lightning ledger, so if I buy pizza today, and need to close that ledger to buy a sandwich tomorrow, that brings three transactions to blockchain. Of course, you can optimize this, but still, orders of magnitude sounds optimistic.
If you poke the hole in the correct place, the balloon does not pop. To be specific, that place is in the neck of the balloon, where the skin is thickest after being inflated. Alternately, stick a piece of tape over the balloon, and poke a hole through that. Or pinch the balloon at the antipode from the neck, poke a hollow needle through the fold, and leave the needle in place.

There is always a way to bleed off pressure relatively safely. There is not always a way to do it without bankrupting your entire economy. I don't even know how those balloon solutions translate to geology, but they feel like they could be expensive--from tens of billions to trillions of dollars.
If "emotional labor" is the next frontier for feminism, feminists clearly have not paid attention to how the needs of labor are subordinated to the needs of capital
> "No gods or kings, only man" is a Bioshock reference that pops up sometimes in those parts.

Which in turn uses Ayn Rand's philosophy (Objectivism) as the basis of the fictional (failed) society in Bioshock.

(Compare with this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/207108-at-first-man-was-ens... )

Ayn Rand and her philosophy are quite popular in right-wing circles (and incidentally, largely denounced in academic circles).
This article makes a solid point, but I wonder if it's another case of fighting against popular connotation just like the word "hacker". Once an idiom gains popularity it doesn't matter if it's completely opposite its intended meaning, the populace wins (eg. "literally" or "I could care less").
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I think emotional labor is real but the cited article is, to put it politely, lacking.
You will not find someone neutral and middle-aged enough here. Also quite boring to read the whole thing.
I ran an outgoing firewall on ios from about ios5 to ios8 (FirewallIP -- jb only). I lament every day since ios9 (and not jailbreaking) about its loss. Its a killer feature that apple should implement.

Many apps connects back frequently -- sometimes every action I take. Enough!
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Not even mentioning ISIS was created by the CIA. The US is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, but private internet megacorps are the biggest threat to freedom of speech. They're both pretty bad threats, just in very different ways.
>People absolutely will raise pitchforks when they no longer have housing or food.

No they won't, they'll sell the pitchforks so they can buy their next meal and a particularly roomy cardboard box.
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>I wish we had a media environment where about a third is pro-musk, a third is anti-musk and a third is neutral.
The same with trump/obama/clinton, politics, technology, business, globalization, economics, international relations, etc.

Why? I'm legitimately curious. Why must all issues be represented with equal coverage? Does this apply to all issues?

Should moon-conspiracy theorists get one-third positive coverage?
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Because you can buy more with a deflationary currency tomorrow than you can today. So the tendency would be to not buy things with a deflationary currency and instead buy things with an inflationary currency.
I want to write a blog posts of words that's become meaningless. Trolling, political correctness, diversity, unicorn, etc.
I mostly agree, but he still makes some good points. For example, "Give your interview to current employees".

One of my coworkers and I often joke about how we'd never pass our current hiring test, and yet we're among the highest paid and most productive people at the company. I've expressed this to the hiring manager and he still thinks it's a good approach. They have literally said they want more people like me... so they brought me into the hiring process, but I disagreed with them on almost every candidate, so they brought me back out of the hiring process. Some people don't know what they want out of interviewing a candidate, they just go with the status quo interview and assume they're going to feel good or bad about someone based on their results.
> Could you please define what you mean by "metaphysical entity"?

This confirms my impression that you have no idea of the philosophical terms we are using.

> I, as most people who would label themselves atheists, don't accept the proprosition that a god exists. I also do not accept the proposition that no god exists.

Then you are agnostic, not atheist. Again, you lack even basic understanding and terminology for the topic we are discussing.

Anyway, I don't care, you can accept or reject any metaphysical proposition you want, as long as you don't feel all smug and superior for your metaphysical choices or non-choices.

And as long as you understand that other people's choices deserve the same respect as your choice.

I would gladly continue this discussion after you have studied the topic, and at least you have a basic understanding of the philosophical concepts we are using.

Please don't waste mine and your time (as I won't reply) unless you know the definition of "metaphysical entity", "atheism", "agnosticism" and so on.
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> If all the media seems to do is praise or criticize, then I know something is wrong.

This is an odd baseline. I'm pretty sure most media criticize animal abuse and praise people who help others. If something is (mostly) objectively good or bad for most of the world, I'm not surprised that media will agree on that. There's no need to always have a devil's advocate, especially not a third of the media.
I'm not sure your hypothetical is as clear cut as you think it is.

> ... be very diverse? Certainly.

Very diverse?

Okay, for the sake of your hypothetical let's assume that this antifa member has a different educational and socio-economic background to the KKK member. Otherwise they're just differ on one axis and may be identical on every other.

Let's also assume that this anti-KKK person isn't Daryl Davis, who has talked around 200 KKK members into hang up their hoods by engaging with and befriending them. He's an unusual case.

> Would this team be productive? Unlikely.

What's the timeframe? Can we assume that these people have rent to pay and need this job?

Social capital models indicate (and experimental evidence supports) that people in diverse teams feel like they've been less productive (despite actually being more productive). Reduced social capital makes people less comfortable collaborating and more willing to disagree, but the flip-side of that is reducing group-think.

Think how little group-think would be evident between these two individuals, they'd disagree on everything. Yes it would be uncomfortable, but they both need the job so there's a limit

But let's go national with this pairing hypothetical. Southern Poverty Law Center estimates KKK as 5-8000 members. Assuming 8000 and that antifa is similar and all are working-age, that means that in a US-sized of 320,000,000, maybe halved to focus on working age adults, you'd be lucky/unlucky to see many (if any) instances of this type of pairing. Even assuming that all 8000 were paired directly against a mortal enemy that still only represents 0.01% of the total pairs. Even if we assume that each organisation has 100x its official membership in sympathisers that's still only 1% of the pairings (and remember we cheated to make sure they were always matched up).

If we can't assume that these people need their job then that narrows these numbers (and hence the probabilities of occurrence) to include people in well-paid positions or with inherited wealth, or who would rather be homeless than work with someone they disagree with politically.
If his concern were really nothing but spending then he'd be an enthusiastic military budget hawk too. He isn't.
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I am not sure if you had seen comparisons like this [1] or not but it has some important points when comparing these two. But I would say it also depends on how you are gonna use the streams. For example, if like us, you are going to digest the streams using Spark I would say Spark's API is more mature with Kafka (unless you have switched to Spark 2.2 and higher).

[1] http://go.datapipe.com/whitepaper-kafka-vs-kinesis-download
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