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"Why buy something when you can buy more somethings tomorrow":

In anything technology related, this has already been true for a couple of decades now. I can buy a phone, TV, computer, tablet etc today, or I can wait a year and get much more for the same amount of money.

People still buy all of those things because, as others have posted, you reach a point where you just have to or want to upgrade because the alternative is you spend years on old technology endlessly waiting for "just the right time to buy".
Putin is a neo-fascist and an admirer of Julius Evola.
In the case of SpaceX he took very significant risk. After failing 3 launches they made the 4th, averting bankruptcy for both SpaceX, Tesla and Musk himself.

SpaceX has saved the US $millions by unseating a fat incumbent in ULA. The savings could stretch into $billions soon and will grow larger if reusable rockets get certified for national security launches.
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eul requires cookies for authentication. Initially it was decrypting Chrome cookies, but this was rightfully detected and flagged by antivirus software.

I'll switch to Servo in the future, it's only ~20MB.
There are a lot of checks in the US that require a "valid reason", but in the end the people granting those requests tend to rubber stamp everything that goes across their desk, and the only rejections are for people who make errors on the request form.

It might stop a really egregious violation (spying on political rivals for example), but for general public the protection is pretty weak.
Gold is also a pretty good conductor of electricity
noja said: "Give us a github repo and we can build it ourself" and I pointed out that moxie never opposed it when people build the code themselves. I'm not denying that he doesn't like it when people distribute their own builds (F-Droid) or forks (LibreSignal), and I'm not a fan of that policy either. But I understand why he's acting this way. If you read the issues you so kindly linked, he explains his reasons, and they are valid points to make even if I don't like their consequences. It's a pity that as a result, Signal is controlled by a small group of people in Silicon Valley, just like any other software product these days. I would like to have a good native desktop client just as much as you. But that's not a reason to misrepresent his position, or to inject it into only tangentially related discussions.
Whenever someone buys bitcoin, somebody is selling–the same amount, at the same price. That seller can then use those US$ or EUR they got and buy gold.

There's no value "stored" in bitcoin that is missing anywhere else. It's all in your head.
Don't forget the Black Death.
The whole point of robots is to do it better than nature. I think eliminating servo noises should be a priority. Maybe not the highest one.
I use VS Code and enjoy it very much. However, for some reason the git diff visualizer doesn't really work anymore - I have to re-open the IDE to get it to show new changes to saved files. Anyone else have this issue?
Perhaps he means a no installation way to show htop on a web-page?

Assuming you have 'htop' installed, you can pipe it's output to seashells.io via `nc` (netcat) and it will give you back a URL where you can see the output.
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The deficit has halved. They promised it'd fall even faster than it did, but my point stands - democracy is not incompatible with responsible spending.
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I scanned the comment section of a few SpaceX stories on Breitbart (examples here: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/18/elon-musk... and here: https://www.teslarati.com/breitbarts-nod-elon-musk-scary/ ). Even found another one on Zero Hedge of all places ( http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-18/elon-musk-sycophant... ).

I'll be honest, based on the comment section, these articles are not working very well. There's some who agree, but an equally vocal section accusing Ron Paul of being a shill for "old school aerospace" ala ULA, or even accusing that these articles are "pro-Russia".

I must say that instinctively, favoring the aerospace "status quo" marketplace over SpaceX certainly doesn't seem like a terribly conservative viewpoint. I'm sure whatever monied interest is pushing these articles (quite likely either old school aerospace, Russia, etc.) kind of wanted to use Musk's "liberal" views on climate, and general anti-government sentiment against "handouts" and "subsidies", to try to justify their attack pieces. But as far as I can tell, a heck of a lot of people are seeing through the ruse this time.
He funnels less money than his competitors. That's how he wins the contracts.

If you don't want private enterprise to get money from the government, you need to argue one of the following:

* Government should develop it's own aerospace and military industry without private sector.

* Government should stop space research and military should stop launching spy satellites.
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I used to talk with Joe Moore, who wrote the report, every once in a while in a past job. In my experience he tries to be very attuned to the development of technology in the semiconductor industry, but often (1) misses some of the more technical facts and (2) misjudges how players in the market will react. When the iPhone 6s was released, he totally failed to identify one of the NAND suppliers. Nice guy, but I don't think he is any better than an educated layperson at predicting the future of cryptocurrency mining or video games. Joe tends to be good at tracking big ticket things (stages of 7nm development, deal dynamics, catalyst dates, potential M&A targets), but he's a Wall Street veteran, not a young hacker. And he has been wrong on AMD before.
The higher level you go, the less incentive there is. Take things down to a much lower level. For instance consider the ImClone insider trading case. Martha Stewart was a well known (among certain demographics) television personality, was on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange, and more. She risked, and lost, all that and ended up going to prison for acting on inside information. Her total gain was $45,673...

I think it's easiest to logically consider everything in reverse. Let's assume you're correct, that this sort of thing never happens. So that entails two possibilities. The first:

- No reporters, or individuals with the ability to influence what is written, have vested interests.

I think the above can be pretty easily dismissed as false. But if it's false we can assume at least some people have vested interests. Which leads to the next possibility:

- Those with vested interests choose to never actively utilize their position to further their interests

And again, I think we can pretty safely declare that's false. So it's not a matter of does it happen, but to what scale it happens. And that is going to be pure speculation. Although it would logically follow that the more people that a vested interest in event x, the more common the occurrence of biased media in favor of provoking x would be expected to be seen.
> it's an entirely different set of skills entirely

I'm not sure whiteboarding-style interviews are entirely orthogonal. They are definitely not a measure of real software engineering ability, but I suspect there is decent correlation, enough to give companies a sufficiently low false-positive rate, which is what they care about. The flip side is you have a high amount of false-negatives, and it sucks to be one of the people who end up in that category, because you know you're good enough but you just didn't pass the arbitrary filter that requires that "entirely different set of skills". I've been there, as I suspect most of us have. It's not fun, but it's hard to see what would motivate these companies to change their practices as long as they feel their false-positive rate is low enough.
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Climate change is not denied.

The human contribution and the potential consequences are considered still unproven hyperbole. The cost/benefit of doing something else is an ongoing discussion.
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The average American who "owns a home" moves every 7 years last time I checked. We are a nation of itinerants. Equity investments give better returns apart from political windfalls.
>>Responding to the study, Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “Many observational studies have found adverse effects associated with PPIs.

>>"The most plausible explanation for the totality of evidence on this is that those who are given PPIs, and especially those who continue on them long-term, tend to be sicker in a variety of ways than those for whom they are not prescribed."

Why is this not at the beginning of the article?

I suppose, the silver lining is that the headlines are no longer "X causes cancer", but "X linked to cancer".
"I suspect that if USA never joined the war, it would actually be better off today economically, since WW2 would have proceeded regardless."

Let me emphatically state that I am very much against waging war.

With that out of the way, I must point out that the position the United States carved out for itself at the conclusion of WWII was such that it enjoyed absolutely unprecedented levels of autonomy and control over, basically, the entire world.

It's really quite unbelievable how much of the worlds political and economic institutions were aligned directly with the interests of the US. Without question the economic benefits of that alignment are far and away beyond any possible position we could have had after not participating.
Another way of saying this is that they have preferences about their immediate living environment and express those preferences through the political process, as is their right.
You're right. I definitely don't mean to sound like I was an enlightened graduate student. Nothing ever passed FWE using Bonferroni, so we almost always resorted to using uncorrected p-values with cluster thresholding, with the cluster and voxel thresholds set from using alphasim (which gets the probability of having a cluster of that size significant from a random dataset, given the smoothness of your actual images).

If I recall correctly, all the major neuroimaging packages (AFNI, SPM, FSL) had options for cluster-size thresholding at the time. Along with tools like alpha sim to estimate cluster-level FDR (but I think that ultimately had issues with it's algorithm, discovered only a few years later...).

I just remember thinking that if the salmon paper had a reasonable cluster-threshold, none of the spurious voxels would have been considered in the final analysis.

Granted, several years later, a paper came out suggesting that method would inflate false positives (http://www.pnas.org/content/113/28/7900.full).

I imagine the neuroimaging field, particularly the stats part, has changed rapidly since I left.
Name one company that would exist without the government. Breitbart itself wouldn’t.

It’s an Internet media and several technologies used on the web were developed with government money.

And without government financed primary education fewer would be able to read and Breitbart would lose huge swaths of its reader-base.
Honestly, I can see that being the perception, but frankly, I put a lot more people into the alt-right category. In this case, Richard Spencer is the alt-right of the alt-right. The vast majority of Trump voters have or had no clue who he was. Spencer gains from Trump, and encourages everything he can to move to the right, and is gains the most from notoriety that the media gives him in connection to Trump.
I feel like it went from being a news site for Linux-loving geeks to being a news site for centre-left Apple fans.

I still love their article on setting up one's own mail server. That was probably the high-water point for their quality.
It's funny that the people who tout WWII as the US's recovery gloss over the fact that "war socialism" was put into play and that people suffered rationing and a near command economy in the US during the war years. Company profits were limited, etc. I'm not a fan of any of those things, mind you, I just find it fascinating that destruction leads to those kinds of outcomes and not only that, but many people look back fondly on those times of absolute hardship. My parents were kids during WWII and they have mentioned all kinds of stories about collecting newspapers and metal and so on. They all wax nostalgic about a time when 50 million people were killed. Makes no sense. Nothing in the human condition, when dissected, makes any sense though.
Well at least they're consistent in communicating it badly!

At least for the kimsufi line, you still get the old price if you renew in November. Guess who just renewed for another year ;)
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We don't just spend money on consumer products and food. We need more health services, research, water, education, affordable housing and much more. None of this is free, all of it is dependent on people making money producing this stuff. No demand, no stuff.
Thank you, thank you so much for pointing out this. Really appreciated!
And that's one of the things done by companies in other businesses, who don't seem to have the same sorts of hiring problems that software companies do.

I'm an electrical engineer, and I've never been asked to design something from scratch in an interview. I have been shown existing design drawings or products and asked questions about them, which leads to various discussions. What we do in interviews is talk, both about what the company works on and about what I've worked on.
Wasn’t that a response of one of their Chinese offices being hacked with the intention of corporate espionage?

As far as I’m aware, from a privacy perspective, Google never had moral problems doing business in China. They’re just using it as a convenient excuse that makes them look good.
If you're on a Mac, try Command + Shift + 4 to take a screenshot with a crop tool that's saved on your ~/Desktop folder.
Aren't they fixing that with NATS Streaming Server?
Yeah row names are another good example. I've never used them, so I would be inclined to leave them out. But I'm not sure what other people use them for.

Maybe they are used for fast lookup? In other words, its like an index? If you want to retrieve a particular row, it's usually an O(n) scan. But maybe row names are like a limited kind of index and you can retrieve by name in O(1) time.

I tend to follow Hadley Wickham's model -- column labels are essential, but I'm pretty sure he would say row names are not in the model? I haven't seen it addressed actually.

If I'm understanding correctly the transition matrix example, I think data frames and matrices are vastly different. And it makes sense to have labels for every dimension on matrices, but not data frames.

What language are you implementing your data frame library in? I'm curious about both the API and the algorithms. I looked at Hadley's newer dplyr code, and it's mostly in C++., as opposed to plyr which was mostly in R.

Are you a R user? If I were doing this (which I may but not for like a year), I would probably use Hadley's API and model the code after his. I'm curious if you have any criticisms of the way he does things.

FWIW the summary of using indices is that it changes the computational complexity of an algorithm -- and O(n + m) algorithm can be turned into O(m log n), and this makes an orders of magnitude difference in running time. It's not small difference. I've used this to good effect in real programs.

It's more like data preparation than analysis, but that is a big part of what people use data frames for.
> It's funny so many of my colleagues kid me by saying "emacs is a great operating system but it lacks a good editor" without ever trying it while I'm using emacs without a problem for the last 6-7 years and people around me changing their editors every year

I thought only the vim users used that refrain. vim users are also unlikely to switch to a different editor.
Would you blame Apple for the current state of the web? People in general prefer the free option.
Can you explain what you mean by the latter point? Despite claims by the Breitbard crowd, the NYT goes out of its way to maintain an "objective" stance, to the point that its criticized for creating a narrative of false equivalency. For example, it's been widely criticized for its role in the run-up to the Iraq War for uncritically presenting the position of the Bush Administration and its allies on the dangers of Iraq and the need for the war.
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Unnaturally concentrated power always opposes coordination outside of state-managed structures - greater consolidation leads to greater oppression.

> Soviet Unions brutal authoritarian communism ... is the only practical form of large scale communism as per history

This is wrong. The USSR started as a socialist republic, but Stalin turned it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The USSR was as communist as the DPRK is democratic (that is: not at all)... their failings are the failings of a dictatorship.
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Indeed, anything can be piped in, i.e.

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