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I'm not sure you understand what a Congressional campaign is like. Outside a few really rich districts, you'll have the candidate, a campaign manager, a media person, someone in charge of fundraising, and people to manage volunteers. Using social media is routine, and everything that doesn't involve money is connected to people's regular accounts.

If you're lucky, the campaign staff will have an analytics person, and they (or the most technically adept member of the campaign) become de facto tech support for everyone else.

Many of the people the campaign staff need to work with will be volunteers who are already task saturated on campaigning, and have no capacity to learn whatever security processes you have in place.

The overriding priorities of the campaign will be fundraising and outreach. Everything else will be subordinate, and anything that makes those two things harder will be ignored.

I don't know what situation your comments are appropriate for, but they will not work for the people we are trying to protect.
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I need something with GMail support for a university account. I have been using Thunderbird, but I would like something actively in development.
Same here. I also use space as my Vim leader, so it feels natural.
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This is a very good comment. Worth mentioning here is that a typical budget for a Congressional campaign is 500K-1M, while a Senate campaign costs 10M, so can potentially put more resources towards IT.
This article rests on the premise that operating a car costs a fixed 50 cents a mile. But several uber drivers have told me the economics work out pretty well for them because they already need their cars, so IMO using 50 cents a mile is an unfair assumption.

Looking at the operating cost of a car is complicated with many variables, but the standard 50 cent estimate is NOT a marginal cost, i.e. you don't actually spend an extra 50 cents to drive a mile. The annual AAA driving costs brochure puts the per mile cost (gas + maintenance) at 14 cents a mile for a small sedan, and 17 cents for a big sedan, plus ~3 cents a mile for depreciation (see "decreased depreciation"). Moving from 50 cents to 20 cents a mile brings his estimate pay from 7 dollars an hour to 12.40.

Brochure link: http://exchange.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17-0013_Y...

edit: to be clear this math is if you already own a car and are driving on off-times for additional income, which (in my experience) is what a large % of uber/lyft drivers do. It's also what Mr. Mustache was doing in his test.
You seem to be arguing that it isn't always possible to detect you are in a simulation, whereas the rest of us are arguing that it could be possible in some simulations.
And there's the psychological stress of sitting in traffic. My mental status takes a huge nosedive when I have a job where I have to commute by car.
I haven't watched the video up to the end, but, how do you think mutexes work under the hood? They use atomic operations. So the cache line thrashing happens in both cases.

Edit: come to think of it, they only use compare-and-exchange, which I guess is lighter on the cache lines.
I'm open to criticism, so maybe pick the worst piece of advice and tell me what it should be instead?
One contract came from a partner of a business I used to code for. The rest were just asking around town, in particular with people who worked in marketing - they knew who needed help growing their business, and would pair me up with business owners who had specific tech problems to solve.
i would also add to "taste" and "nutritional profile", (3) the well being of the chicken, (4) the well being of the factory workers who tend to them, and (5) the impact on the environment where the non-industrial chickens are raised. the more dimensions one considers in the multivariate optimization, the more McD's starts to lose value (geometrically, even).
> First do no harm. We don't necessarily know what works. We have rich folks who are pro UBI and that ticks me off. I don't think it is a good solution. I think it just helps salve their guilt at helping to destroy jobs.

Rich people don't destroy jobs, efficiency / innovation / increases in productivity destroy jobs. Society doesn't need jobs that are no longer required, and it makes no sense to pay people for things that can easily be done by a machine.

Now, that said, the problem you describe is real and it is an issue. But I don't know what a viable solution aside from a properly implemented UBI would be.
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You've heard nonsense. Please read some of the literature on intelligence research (1). Steven Pinker has also written a great book on why the ideas of the blank slate and social constructivism are purely ideological and do not hold up to analysis (2).

IQ is a very strong metric predictor of pretty much every aspect of personal success, from successful marriages to income to academic achievement to interpersonal skills. By no means is the relationship deterministic, but that isn't what we mean by predictors. (Many other psychological metrics, like the nonsensical "emotional intelligence", predict nothing when IQ is included in the mix.)

1: https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Intelligence-Cambridge-F...

2: https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/0...
How many bridge failures are likely to dirrectly affect people in another state or country with different laws and standards for construction without their knowledge?
Which nuclear accident affected all of Europe?

How many bridge failures are there per year? How many people die on average? Can you name one with greater than 150 casualties?

Let me help:
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Now if you want to talk about tsunami, that's a different topi, but it's pretty clear why the design, review, and construction of nuclear power plants are more restrictive than even the largest and most expensive bridges (or other civil engineering projects with the possible exception of dams).
No. Your license plate and vehicle description are shown to each passenger. If they don’t match, you’re going to get reported pretty quickly. Also, if your car is dumpy, people will report you.
> never, ever connect UART while the device is plugged into AC!!

Why?
Experience doesn't agree with this however. Pretty much every game engine in existence has a well-tested UDP-based networking stack, without which low-latency game play simply wouldn't be possible. The other thing this statement ignores is that TCP currently has serious issues which I would call performance bugs, so it isn't even setting the bar particularly high.
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Uber insures drivers in the US while they are giving a ride. However, it probably wouldn't cover you if you're breaking your rental contract at the time of loss or wasn't the car Uber approved.

https://www.uber.com/drive/insurance/
> Yet, they weren't around when it came time to make it happen.

Bitcoin XT had a mechanism for larger blocks in mid 2015. There were multiple BIPs and implementations for larger blocks besides that in 2016. It didn't matter much because of the stickyness of the original/default bitcoin implementation which is controlled by developers employed by blockstream, which was always intended to profit off of "sidechains" enabled by segwit and necessitated by small block sizes. (For anyone less familiar, keep in mind the first versions of the original implementation were written by Satoshi and then maintained by Gavin Andresen, one of the developers now on the "outside".)

Segwit2X was a compromise, arrived at through much effort at the Hong Kong meeting in early 2016 and again at the New York meeting in early 2017. It does appear that any compromise was futile and hopeless.
Bruce Schneier agrees so designed his to not have some convenience features like that. Its kind of a pain sometimes but seems like good design to me.

"Schneier on Security: Security of Password Managers" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/security_of_p...
> Do any mainstream languages have a sound foundation like that?

I can think of a few languages that started from a formal theory (e.g., Eff [1]), but none of them are "mainstream". There was a mostly successful attempt [2] at formally specifying C and implementing a verified compiler for it. Standard ML has a very comprehensive spec [3], perhaps the best of any "mainstream" language. It's not quite at the level of a Coq formalization, but also not too removed from it. Haskell is based on a lot of peer-reviewed papers, but there isn't one comprehensive spec for it at this level of formalism. Also, the RustBelt project [4] is worth mentioning. It's an initiative to develop a formal theory of Rust.

> If someone is interested in creating a new programming language, is it worth getting up to speed on proof writing and using that to build the language?

If your new programming language contains a novel idea that you want to have published in a peer-reviewed journal/conference, then yes, I think it is absolutely worth it. It's likely your paper will be rejected without having formal proofs.

But if you don't intend to publish your ideas, it's really quite a lot of work and might not be worth it. Depends on how dedicated you are, and how much you care about things like soundness.

[1] http://www.eff-lang.org/

[2] http://compcert.inria.fr/

[3] http://sml-family.org/sml97-defn.pdf

[4] http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
I think that feeling can probably be split by the fear of being late, fear of being in a bender fender and the general unpleasantness of navigating traffic - so as a professional driver you don't care about lateness and can take a small insurance to reduce the mental stress of being in a fender bender.

won't solve everything, but maybe it can bring the stress down enough to be manageable as a career.
Honestly, that's the same kind of issue that Duolingo is running into. They're talking about offering the languages for free, but they're trying to run as a Business and make profit. Now it's led to a marked decrease in quality (which wasn't all that great to begin with) as they rush courses and throw in adds to compete with free competitors.
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there are literally thousands of lines of code in this repo. This is bull shit.
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Because it's factually wrong. Biology matters, and I'm not trying to bring in concepts like race (which is a total intellectual disaster, since the term refers to multiple concepts that mean radically different things). Many studies do not account for simple heredity, when adoption studies have already shown that traits like IQ and even personality are heritable to some degree (1). There are genetic correlations with intelligence, aggression, etc that are difficult to untangle but undeniably real.

Humans are incredibly unique animals, but you are still a biological machine and your brain is not a piece of magic pixie dust. Without getting into the free will debate, biology does not determine behavior but does influence it heavily.

Edit: I'm not denying the existence of culture or social norms. These matter, but are also undoubtedly linked to the biological machinery of the human animal. Human society is an evolutionary result (2).

Second edit: It's very easy to find evidence that the social evolution of humans is a biological process. Here is one of my favorite papers on the self-domestication of the human species (3).

1: https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/0...

2: https://www.amazon.com/Before-Dawn-Recovering-History-Ancest...

3: http://resources.seattlecentral.edu/faculty/jwhorley/Gracili...
I think one of the reasons that he writes this is that cash in the hand is extremely appealing if you are not in a good economic situation.

For instance, I have some savings, so I can keep the wolf from the door, and I have friends and family so I always have a place to stay and at least something to eat. I won't freeze or I won't starve.

Cash on the barrel every night is extraordinarily appealing to those who have to buy antibiotics for their kids right away, or who have to make the rent that day.

I've never driven Uber, but I am given to believe that they settle up debts every day. Just like why waiters/bartenders like doing what they do. They get a fistfull of cash every day.
I'm not so sure. People with life insurance still opt for medical insurance. :shrug:
Add an interface to Caffe or Torch and this could be even cooler. I wanna try this out. Looks like a better prescheme from s48.org
That's Mister Money Mustache's writing style. I don't care too much for him myself either but he writes for his audience.
> I feel deranged pointing this out, but hiring triple the headcount you need to run your business is not a progressive social value. I don't know what it is.

From an investor's point of view this would not be ideal. Having said that, from a broader societal point of view, it's less clear.

Put it this way: as an investor, I am going to view a business that has 1 employee (on $100k) and $1m in profit much more favourably than a business that has 10 employees (on $100k) and $0.1m in profit. From the broader societal point of view though, the second arrangement could be better.
fwiw Newegg is also going down the path of turning into a "third-party marketplace".
the last thunderbird release was two days ago. it's not getting fancy new features but it IS getting bug and security fixes, so if it suits your needs there's no reason to switch.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.5.0/releasenote...
Ugh this article was so frustrating to read. To say “oh look a nazi website can’t find a hosting service” == the internet is already not neutral is such a straw man argument. Even if hosting services were censoring everything it clearly doesn’t help the problem to allow ISP’s to censor what traffic goes through their infrastructure on top of that. This article misses the key point of NN - it’s that ISP’s already will not have competition due to high barriers to entry (case in point Google is even winding down their fiber investments). To compare ISPs to Facebook, G and amazon is apples and oranges - it currently takes very little upfront cost to host a website and “compete” with them. Their monopolies are purely because they provide good quality services that consumers want. ISPs on the other hand have zero competition in most areas and are natural monopolies due to the amount of money (and lobbying) required to build network infrastructure. Using that power to force people to use their services or pay a fee to access others is classic vertical integration and shouldn’t be allowed.
When I ask where there are coming from it's rarely from around the bay, usually Stockton or as far as Reno and coming for the weekend.
The hot hand "fallacy" has actually been under a bit of a revisionist assault lately. An example (from baseball): https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baseballs-hot-hand-is-r...
TLDR: there is a hot hand (in baseball pitching, anyway), but you have to be very, very good at statistics to see that, or else just a big baseball fan. If you have just pretty good statistics, and you don't have a baseball fanatic's intuition, you can (erroneously) conclude that there is no (pitcher's) hot hand (in baseball).
The main issue is that it uses that same suffix no matter what connection you are on.
I'm thinking 20 cents for car depreciation, 5 cents for tires, 10 cents for gas, 10 cents for insurance, another 5 cents for misc maintenance costs, the IRS 50 cent estimate isn't bad.

These numbers are very difficult to align with the prices advertised by the rental companies for Uber and Lyft drivers, which are usually claimed to be about $200 per week: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/5-ways-car-uber-lyft/

For example, Hertz's site says they charge a base of $214 a week for Uber drivers, including unlimited mileage and insurance, but not including taxes, fees or fuel: https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/misc/index.jsp?targetPage=Ube...

While it's possible that the rental companies are losing money on these rentals or that the undisclosed fees are much more than the rental cost, I think the more likely explanation is that your estimate is inaccurate. Do you have another explanation for the discrepancy?
This is exactly all the pain points I had with node. Left it about a year ago, Forever.
in that brochure, average total cost per mile is $0.5646 @15k miles per year. I think you're looking at the operating cost per mile, that doesn't include stuff like insurance, registration, and financing. page 9, look in the middle of the green section for the cost per mile - page 8 has the row name you're looking for.
Having custom behaviors for specific sites is a terrible practice. Browsers are complex enough as they are without an extra layer of hacks.
Must have been quite a gravy train back in it's heyday. I could never figure out how they employed so many people and what they all did.
But how can you draw a conclusion if you have conflicting results from both placebo controlled studies mentioned? One with a significant difference, and the other without.
There are two major problems with the sharing economy that most people don't mention when they write articles about it.

First, the overwhelming majority of gigs don't teach you any marketable skills whatsoever. So over the course of your contracting, you may as well be unemployed. This hurts most people's chances of finding gainful employment, and ends up being a massive hidden cost above and beyond car maintenance and similar expenses directly related to running the gigs.

Second, because you make so little, you also save very little, if any, for retirement. Since saving for retirement is all about compound interest, people who run gigs while young instead of looking for full-time employment are in for lots of pain and discomfort later in life. In fact I suspect we're witnessing the creation of yet another underclass, consisting of people who will probably have to work until they die. Lots of Baby Boomers (who were unfortunate and/or made poor choices earlier in life) are already in this situation and it will only get worse.

As an aside, one thing I don't get about the gig economy is how the workers can afford health insurance. I assume most don't have any, or they are on their parents or spouses' plans because even the cheapest plans are really expensive and I doubt your average Uber driver can afford them.
I suspect a large number of college students have Uber-eligible cars.
> A player with a hot hand is one that is feeling especially focused and confident for a specific period of time

Yeah, like Kay Thompson dropping 37 points in 1 quarter and not missing any shoots. Even himself seems confused about what’s going on.
I don't think a business is incompatible with the idea of "doing good" at all - Etsy's problem wasn't that it's impossible to "do good" as a business, it's that the founders no longer owned the company completely, and the new owners were more interested in profit than doing good. If they had been a bootstrapped marketplace that never took outside funding, they'd be perfectly capable of continuing to put their mission at the level or even before profits.
>My takeaway was he pretended to be a furry nazi for a while and discovered a bunch of idiots believing in idiotic shit then had to write a bunch of idiotic shit about his 'traumatic' experience listening to idiotic shit.

She said something the nazis didn't like, then there was drama including threats against her. She didn't back down, and kept her position. She also read in some of their chats. (If they let her in or someone send her logs)

Then she posted that text about nazis trying to infiltrate nerd cultures like the Furry fandom (which she is a member of).

So, you completely missed.
But at least you tried?
Looks really good. Might give it a shot. What's the concurrency story?
For starters, Google Translate has had a Chrome advert for as long as I remember.
Thanks, I didn't realize how small most campaigns were, and I can see why it wouldn't be something where a third-party could set up to provide the services - way too cyclical.
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I really want to like Carp but I somehow feel that the Rusty memory model does not fit the Lisp philosophy... all the borrowing story comes from a basis mutability.

I wish for something more Clojurish based on immutable data. Then one can exploit the power of inferred type linearity/affinity to transparently build safe "transients" and other cool stuff. Maybe some day I should write such Lisp myself on top of my C++ immutable data structures [1] :-)

[1] https://github.com/arximboldi/immer
One more thing.

Uber is pouring huge amounts of money into this business. And it's not profitable.

I shudder to think what will happen when all the subsidies are removed. If you don't have any assets besides a clean driver's license and a recent car, you got nothing coming.
It sounds like arrays are mutable in Carp, so it doesn't feel like Clojure to me.

As far as I understand, Clojure is also not big on macros, while Carp appears to be.
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I would say it was rather irregular that my grandma, who has been dead for several years, thought net neutrality was such a burden on society that she just had to reach out past the grave to let her opinion (that happens to be verbatim the same as many others' opinions) be known.
Unfortunately, at this point I am just too comfortable with Chrome's inspector. It might seem like a small thing, but I have a dozen other 'small things' to familiarise myself with every day, so reacquainting myself with Firebug is likely to never become a priority. At this stage it'll take something stupid on Chrome's behalf to encourage me to make a move.

Having said that, I might start using FF as my non-work browser again.
How many native English speakers would read your writing if it was not in English. I’d guess close to 0.

So the question becomes do you want any readership from native English speakers or not.

Side note, my wife was formerly a PHD student in French literature. She was kinda annoyed that she was encouraged to write papers in English. The reasoning was to gain a larger readership.
If I did I wouldn't have said what I said...
I think you're missing

5) Because it is hard to find a reliable 2nd job where the hours do not impinge on a 1st job, especially when low-wage/unskilled jobs tend to schedule in ways to make having a 2nd job difficult (e.g. not consistent, last minute changes, etc).

6) Because it is harder for some to find as many unskilled jobs as most due to their age, race, or education.
Sweet! I'm going to make a note of these companies and in three years get hired when they decide aborting Excel was a huge mistake and need to unfuck their non-excel system.
Sell the farm. I have friends in farming. The ones who own farms will do pretty well in retirement. The ones who farm rented land have to combine farming with any other source of income that they can scrape up. One of them farms, drives trucks, and is a moderately successful bandleader. His dad is in his 80s, and still works on the farm.
A small step towards that is Smart Contracts built on Ethereum.
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+1 for "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors". It's a long read, but it has completely changed the way I approach programming.