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> I mean, this stuff is intuitive for anybody with a sense of history

Intuitive has nothing to do with fact, plenty of factors might heavily influence what one considers "intuitive". For a lot of people the necessity of the death penalty is "intuitive", yet for many societies, it's an absolute no-brainer that such practices are medieval.

So again, unless there is a corpus of studies, all pointing in the same direction, with all the environmental factors completely eliminated using double-blind or other proper scientific methods, we cannot really conclude anything.
So true. As an American who has spent close to a decade living overseas, opening a bank account in a foreign country has become increasingly difficult. I'm not hiding money. I'm not doing anything shady. I have a legit job working in another country and nobody wants to do business with Americans because of FATCA.
Yes it's ironic that he wants to break up Google for being a monopoly but he has no problem with Facebook being a monopoly.

I'm pretty sure that Facebook's monopoly is at least as dangerous as Google's, if not more dangerous.
What HiQ are doing will be illegal in Britain when the new data protection regulations are introduced in May 2019.

You will no longer be allowed to collect and store personal data without content.
Reading and writing files. This catches people out, because on most Linux and Mac systems it defaults to UTF-8, so people assume UTF-8 is the default. But it's based on the locale, so one day someone runs your code on Windows, or on Linux with the basic ANSI C locale, and suddenly writing text to a file blows up.

This is the number one thing I'd change if I were in charge of Python. ;-)
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To add to the other comments, I can't imagine it doing Firefox's marketshare much good for Mozilla to be associated with Verizon...
And we all weep for your woeful efforts to present thinly-veiled bigotry as fact.
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He's on the board of facebook.
> If you're a developer there's no UX reason to go Windows anymore.

I am a developer serving Windows customers, that rely on native UI/UX for their workflows.
Perhaps placing wealth and success above all else is... bad?
As another 20+ (24 actually, 0.99pl15) Linux user let me counter: with the Linux subsystem for Windows there's no reason to wrestle with Linux any more. While Linux certainly works on laptops it doesn't work well. Wifi and battery life are absymal and for me seemingly every other update either breaks the printer half or the scanner half of the MFC device (and if not, then it's time for another bluetooth breakage, you can search Arch forums on how many times BT broke on me). Let's not even mention that I simply can't log into one of clients VPN network as F5 doesn't seem to have a Linux client capable of web login (previously it was a Firefox extension but of course that capability needed to be obsoleted). So now I need to use my Android phone to VPN in and tether it... madness.

For many years (roughly since systemd) I hoped there's a kind of "modern Linux handbook" especially when people come up with solutions to problems seemingly totally out of nowhere but turns out, there's nothing. Some people have knowledge of narrow areas but the entire modern Linux is a frighteningly complex monster. And when you realize your fractions of knowledge makes you one of the experts, that's even worse: when I ask about DisplayLink in Linux, I am redirected to the relevant Arch Wiki page where the meat of the page was written by me years ago...

I set up Windows 10 to my taste https://github.com/chx/chx.github.io/wiki/How-I-set-up-my-Wi... and it's a better world now. Drivers and GUI programs are running in Windows, daemons and CLI tools are running in Linux, switching to a brief game session is trivial.
They should have taken the Latitude 6 or 7 series for Linux laptops. XPS is a toy, the other two are mid-range and high-end workhorses, exactly the kind professional developers and corporate buyers acquire.
And what exactly is intolerant in Thiel's views?
In Ada the (String) concatenation operator is '&' (and of course, no implicit promotion to String there, you'll have to use your_type'Image(your_var) or with GNAT your_var'Img).
Britain funded computing in schools very well from some point in the 1980s until the early 1990s. Lots of good software was produced. Schools had computers, and parents were encouraged to buy them for education at home.

My favourite software was The Crystal Rainforest. I think this was for 6-8 year olds. There was a long story (4 floppy discs in 1992!) leading through a rainforest, solving puzzles using increasingly complicated computer programming along the way. Here's a screenshot of rebuilding a rope bridge using a simplified LOGO/turtle graphics: [1]. (There is a playthrough on Youtube, which has skipped all the puzzles. I think someone missed the point...)

I suspect the general market for software has increased so much, that the money to be made on educational software is no longer appealing. It's probably easier to cut out the learning and sell a game, rather than made a few hundred or thousand sales to schools.

[1] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UoAfDY57L...
It also comes from different life experiences. If I’d made a period product based soley on what I’d been taught at school about women, it would definitely have been a business failure (as I found out by talking to a woman about my idea). You don’t have any way to know how different somebody’s life experiences have been until you ask them, but they’re more likely to be different if the sample set includes more gender, ethnic, nationality, sexuality, and religious diversity.

Concrete example, the number of times Americans assume I have a SSN. Or, on a trip to Kenya, my host assumed I’d know how to say grace before a meal. Or how I came to Berlin and assumed that finding a flat would be as easy as it was in the UK.

Edit: Just realised one obvious group I blindly forgot — poor people have very different experiences than rich people. $2/day absolute poverty, $10/day “you’re doing well by Kenyan standards”, $100/day Harlem average (chosen because it’s what non-Americans think of as a poor bit of America). All different from each other, all different lives from us, even if we don’t call ourselves rich.
This is the MBP I am using! I love it. I tried a new model and returned it after just 2 days.
The vast majority of programming languages return an iterator when you use map, filter, etc. There is usually only one eager evaluation pass at the end that conerts the iterator to a list.

Most languages are capabale of inlining the "next" function of the iterator to generate almost the same code as a regular for loop.
In 2014, Yahoo looked to be in much better shape than it it is today. Sweeten the deal with a scenario that you don't think will happen and at the same time drop off a poison pill to defend against takeovers. Only problem was that Yahoo had to be better than Google at search. I'd say it was hubris, not desperation.
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When an apple falls to the earth, by what process is its potential energy converted to kinetic energy? Gravitational processes alone.

Apple-earth collisions primarily radiate apple sauce, black hole mergers primarily radiate in gravitational energy.

Minor nit: In general relativity black holes are not actually comprised of matter---they're entirely warping of spacetime. Whether that remains true in a quantum theory of gravity is unknown.
Schools don't allow bullying. But the criminal justice system is not well tailored to enforce this rule for a variety of reasons. Instead, the school's code of conduct enforces the rule and it leads to a much better result.
Has Gdocs had better reliability than the average desktop PC, with MS word?

Has Gdoc's made businesses more productive due to co-working on documents together, rather than emailing around word documents?

lock-in? Why do you feel Gdoc's provides lock-in?

How is it a walled garden?
Universities already do that. Simply go to google, type whatever course you want to learn followed by syllabus. Some of the bigger schools have all the teachers list their syllabus on a central page as well. Obviously it is for the benefit of the student but indirectly the syllabus is the outline of the course - lists textbooks used, chapters covered, homework problems etc. To get notes you might be able to find online somewhere.
Sam Altman himself explicitly said they weren't cutting ties with Thiel after the donation was known and they were pressured to do so. It would be strange to withstand that criticism only to silently do so afterwards.
Lenovo did the same in the early days at least, they were very aware of having to produce high compatibility laptops. Not so much for the point of open source but for business usage which sometimes required non-windows OS's.
But sure I applaud Dell. The world should rid of Windows.
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> We cannot really conclude anything.

Great! So when will we stop parading this nonsensical "diversity is our strength" mantra, or at least stop stigmatizing those that point out - as you have - that we cannot really conclude anything?

It has as much merit - and perhaps less, given the studies - as saying "diversity is not our strength".

You see the issue now?
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I'm in Japan since 2 months now, and I see most of the people using in the metro/street using Yahoo than Google. Is Yahoo doing a better search in Japanese than Google? Or are they just better in marketing?

Also, seeing lot of people (also many over 30!) browsing Twitter. What surprised me, I rarely saw it in other countries I've been.
Can someone educate me on one IoT point: devices presumably send and receive traffic over a router. That router presumably has security measures such as a firewall in place to reject malicious traffic. So, assuming a competent user, shouldn't security be primarily handled at the router level rather than the IoT device level? Of course IoT devices should also be secured, but my thinking is insecurity and lack of political motivation to regulate could probably be largely mitigated this way?

That said, I've more or less completely ignored IoT so far aside from passing interest in how easy Mirai was and I've only briefly dabbled in firewall configuration, so many of my assumptions could be wrong.
> Historically, search engine royalties have been the main revenue driver for Mozilla. Back in 2014, the last year of the Google deal, that agreement brought in $323 million of the foundation’s $330 million in total revenue.

So basically Google was/is funding Firefox? Seems weird given the battle with Chrome for market share.
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> you can search Arch

Isn't Arch specifically for users who don't mind things breaking and going deep into internals to fix it?
The advice you quoted is the most valuable of all, in my opinion.

You give "map/filter/reduce" as an example and claim that theses approaches "typically result in passing over the data multiple times". No, since reduce can behave like map and filter, with a proper reduction function you only have to pass over the data once.

> Most collections/array I process have trivial number of elements (<100) and you get virtually no benefit from writing optimized code.

That is true for all other advice given in the original article, but not for this: A reduction function only needs one input element and the aggregate/result so far. This function then does not care whether it is called in the context of list or vector iteration, it will happily work with elements read from a stream or any other potentially destructive iterator. The benefit is obvious: Write & debug once, document and never touch the code again until the actual algorithm implemented there changes.
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It's not for everyone, but I don't think you're including the cost of employing someone to manage the hardware. If you're a scrappy startup that is willing to do whatever it takes to keep costs down, or a giant company that already has an in-house hardware team, then it's more expensive.
Just because an individual opines on something doesn't somehow turn it into a sudden irrefutable fact. And that wiki article is completely devoid of examples aside from giving a number of other views on the topic - in which literally every single one disagrees with him. It's no different than arguing that the key to solving violence is violence. Wrapping a layer of specious logic around it makes it no more reasonable a suggestion.

It's interesting too in that I think everybody can see that violence inherently breeds violence, yet many remain blind to the fact that intolerance too breeds intolerance. We have two ends of political extremism today. The many things they have in common include the fact that they both are completely intolerant of the other side as they consider the other side completely intolerant. And as the mutual extremism grows, so too does the self righteous intolerance. That's going to end well...
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You put the quotes because you disagree with him though.
Keep in mind that much of the art you and I value exists because of these wealthy people. The middle-class doesn't want art. Even if it does, it can't afford to pay an artist the rates he commands.
Got the XPS 9560 from Costco, which they sell at the max configuration (32gb ram, 1tb SSD, 4k touch screen, nvidia 1050) for a few hundred dollars cheaper than Dell, and it's a beast. Got Ubuntu running on it without too much trouble, though it required a bit of tweaking. Only thing that doesn't have a driver is the fingerprint scanner. I'm extremely happy with it so far. Have had no stability issues at all. Only real issue is not the laptop so much as Linux with patchy software support for 4k screens. I run Xmonad as my desktop so I have to configure several things manually to work with HiDPI.
Nice to see you here, I've been a long-time subscriber to your channel!

Another great channel for electronics basics is TheGreatScott: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mIxFTvXkWQVEHPsEdflzQ
Anybody who owns real estate isn't concerned with foreign buyers. They help keep prices for real estate higher which amongst real estate owners creates additional wealth. For people who don't own real estate, those higher prices make it more difficult for them to get into a home so there are positives and negatives in this.

That said, I think the old "unoccupied houses" thing is way overblown. It presents the most ugly side of foreign real estate ownership so that people who are priced out of the market get angry at all of the foreigners buying property. Even if you removed every unoccupied SFH (single family home) from the market, prices, generally, would still be rising.

It's sort of like saying that the reason that a car costs so much is because the demand is high based on too many families owning more cars than they need. It gives people a target for their dissatisfaction with current auto prices but really isn't the main issue and even if you solved for that issue it wouldn't dramatically impact auto prices.

But having a target for your anger is a wonderful way to distract people.
Yes, because normal people will use whatever default search engine that comes with the browser. That means more ads money for the search engine.
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> one of the biggest attacks on freedom of the press in recent history

Not even close.
Now that you mention it, I've used fabric before as well.
I didn't feel as much of a disconnect between local and remote commands as I do in Ansible somehow.
Nevertheless, it is once again, its own syntax somehow.

You say that scripts are brittle and I am not sure where to stand on that issue.
What are the biggest problems you have run into with shell scripts for configuration?
Wont they have a naming/versioning problem?
This is exactly how ethnic nationalism in America becomes normalized. Reminds me of the kid who protested in Charlottesville explaining that he wasn't a racist, he just really hated mass immigration and the ensuing diversity after 1965 (which was when immigration became accessible to non Europeans..).
'maybe a bit from genetics' ... I understand that we should have a dream to achieve anything we like besides our genes but it's False.
When taking a controversial side, it's important to be calm and make cogent arguments.

It's hard. Especially when it feels like people are going out of their way to misinterpret or frame you. But it's worth it.
Meeting deadlines, getting paid, whether anyone will ever care about the code, again, etc.

I also try to be a 'craftsman', and I try to pick work where that's an option, but I find that in practice, more often than not I have to care about various 'other metrics' at the detriment of craftsmanship.

Although I suppose being skilled at managing these various metrics could in itself be considered craftsmanship. And perhaps that mindset helps a bit with not getting utterly depressed at some of the shit I'm forced to deliver...
> windows handles it in its stride

Windows has serious bugs with multiple monitors as well. I switch the second monitor often (usually once or twice a day) and often it would have problems like blank screen on one (or sometimes two) monitors, whole system locking up, HDMI sound device not showing up so I have to play sound over laptop speakers instead of monitor/TV speakers, etc. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

I tried using Linux, Windows and Mac and they all have bugs regarding multiple monitor setup. If everything works smooth for you, you're just lucky that your usage doesn't fall into "corner cases".
Also consider Apple's "Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift)" tutorial. That's how I got started on Swift and Xcode.

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Anything spinning in an asymmetrical way (e.g. two bodies orbiting each other, but not a single body spinning) loses angular momentum as gravity waves. This is true whether it's two black holes or a tumbling dumbbell.

In addition to that, the ultimate merger of the black holes releases the incredible amount of gravitational potential energy that existed between them when they were separate bodies.

No mass escapes the event horizon. These are black holes after all :)
You're implying that a painting has any inherent value (it does not). Just like everything else in the material world, it only has contextual value.

Before the 1900s, aluminum was valued more than gold. Today, it is one of the cheapest metals around. Nothing changed but the context in which we were able to extract it.

In the case of this painting, the context is what makes it valuable - the last known privately owned painting by a name nearly the entire western world recognizes immediately.
Yahoo Japan is a different beast from the rest of Yahoo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Japan
The problem is that these rules should apply in sequence to a given feature or flow, but they're instead applied in sequence to the whole product. So what happens is: they make everything "work", then they spend the next two decades pecking at making it right, and making it fast takes a back seat.

Corollary: interaction latency, power consumption, and other performance characteristics should probably be part of "make it right", and "make it fast" might not even be a value at all.
> yelling fire in a theater

Just googled this. Thanks for bringing it up, I hadn't heard about this case before.
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Do you have any evidence to back that statement up?
If you wanted to illustrate that, you should not have written “shown (a priori and a posteriori) that multiculturalism and ethnic diversity erodes trust and causes social strive.”
ARM64 was released on Debian and Ubuntu 5 or 6 years ago.. Why has it taken RedHat so long? They were part of the same ARM server club.
Assume I temporarily freeze all other thoughts and fully accept that there was such a thing as 'election interference from Russia focused on dividing the left', that would be them tossing out their one in a lifetime chance to get a massive foot-gun against their interest instead.

More than any high level official, Clinton has a sparkling track record of financial pliability towards Russian interest. A 0.5 million speech for Bill Clinton to a Russian bank was pretty much all it took for 20% of US uranium assets. With insiders like Tony Podesta, a Clinton presidency is like a Russian wet dream. Even Clinton campaign's internal self assessment of their own candidate's relative strengths and weaknesses highlighted her being pretty much a Russian agent as being one of her top vulnerabilities as a candidate.

Clinton has her share of hawkish tendencies but only to countries that are principled and didn't bribe her. Unlike the Republicans that are the original neocons and empire builders, Clinton wasn't ideological. Weapons, chemicals, anything was for everyone, Algeria, Egypt, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda, anything was for grabs for cheap.

Another Republican would have been far more damaging for the Russians whereas a Clinton presidency would have been an extremely rare opportunity.
Is Dell still offering those? I cannot find anything.
For example this dell page has no current offerings:
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I think there's a spectrum from graphical games to full programming. Games can be designed which can explore problem solving, debugging and programming.

For example "Human resource machine" is entirely visual but if you happen to click 'export' you get a very basic assembly language style output. If you never clicked export you wouldn't even realise you were "programming", you were just solving the problems on screen. The game does at time explain the analogies used. If you prod the people they'll describe linked lists but such understanding isn't required to progress.

Moving across the spectrum a little there are games like TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O which do involve programming but with very small instruction sets and graphical debugging and feedback.

These aren't aimed at children so are more complex than would be suitable for children but what I'm trying to get across is that they don't specifically teach programming. You won't come out of it knowing python or C. You won't know about stacks or function calls. But they do teach problem solving and the run/explode/debug loop of getting an instruction set to work on different sets of data.

By being games they gameify the process of wanting to reach acheivements while also solving the "what do I build?" aspect of more freeform/creative programming learning which can often be a dead-end without a sense of aiming toward a goal.

I think a Human Resources Machine style game aimed at a younger audience could be greatly impactful on teaching a programming mindset.
> I believe that black hole mergers are dark in the entire electromagnetic (EM) spectrum.

Now that I think about it - yes, of course. It's why they are called _black_ holes. ;-) facepalm