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Well of course it would, I'm talking about philosophically.

Why should everything be balanced on the backs of the working and middle class if we're talking about architecting a more functional society.

You can believe that "densification" will be applied in-equally as well. Just as it happened to poor or working class folks who were gentrified out of the homes they had inherited, it will move up the 'class' gradient until only the wealthiest own everything.

At some point the practicality of life in a civil society has to trump insane ideologies committed only to protecting 'property rights' of a small minority.
Fertility rates fall as countries get richer - it’s not a coincedense that poor countries have higher birth rates. The biggest drop in global population growth rate in the last 20 years came from massive drops in developing countries like India.
It's just a matter of sitting down and doing the work. There are no tricks, but there are a couple of things you can do to help you build better habits initially.

I wrote a couple of posts about this at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/learn-how-to-schedule-your-ti... and
https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-overcome-procrastinati....
> Psychiatry isn't a science

This is a common misconception. In fact psychiatry were pioneers of the gold standard clinical evidence - the randomised controlled trial. I suppose if you were being ungenerous you could say that they weren't able yo do much other type of research.

Psychiatry is just a specialism within medicine, none of which are science unless you look at the disciplines from an academic perspective. If you want the least evidence-based specialism, you're probably looking at paediatrics, where there is pretty much no evidence for what they do, as it is very difficult to involve children in trials.

Another criticism of psychiatry is that there isn't a laboratory test for any of these diseases, but this is an unfair criticism of diseases that can be clearly defined (see criteria) and causes measurable harm (look at the overall survival of anorexia for example). It is also a criticism that can be levelled at many other diseases. If anyone can tell me what lab test you use to diagnose migraine I'd be interested.

It's unfortunate that psychiatry have this problem. As a specialty they can do a lot of good for people who would otherwise not live for very long - if you've seen someone having a psychotic episode you'll know what I mean.
Yes, I also feel so (why Perl script now)! I hope this tool makes the evaluation of text summarization easier.
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Well, no. But comparing the overall resource demands of iOS 6 and iOS 10 (the first and last iOS available on iPhone 5), it's very clear that the latter is an absolutely pig. Burning through more CPU, RAM and IOPS = faster battery drain.

I doubt Apple is deliberately adding bloat to iOS, but every major version is definitely heavier than the previous one.
> The thing is, Shkreli is a provocateur. He says and does things to elicit a reaction from people.

The word you're looking for is "troll."
The President's cabinet are all heads of departments in the Executive branch. They are advisors and implement policy. The word Secretary in a "Secretary of ___" cabinet title is not at all the same as an "office secretary" where duties might include scheduling, answering phones and ordering office supplies. Not even close.

By contrast he Chief of Staff in the White House is a cabinet-level "Official" and it's not even a requirement that the President have one. That should be an indication:

>"The duties of the White House chief of staff vary greatly from one administration to another and, in fact, there is no legal requirement that the president even fill the position. However, since at least 1979, all presidents have found the need for a chief of staff, who typically oversees the actions of the White House staff, manages the president's schedule, and decides who is allowed to meet with the president."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff
Which article is that from?
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didn't Amazon Lab126 support VISA and relocation ?
Why would I want do download mail I don't want? Because when I refresh my IMAP client or or POP3 my mail from the remote mailbox, the messages are at least partially downloaded, and in my case fed to a local spamassassin daemon. Receiving dozens or hundreds of unwanted mail can cause the time required to process all my messages by my MTA increase significantly, and also spam that manages to make it into my inbox increases the time required for me to mentally process e-mail.

> Ironically, conditioning people to respect the unsubscribe button has, probably, insidiously led to more spam making it into people’s inboxes than anything else in recent memory.

I doubt this.

> Making them eat bad spam rep score is the only weapon we have, to make them treat our inbox with respect. Use it.

Doubt this also. A bit of manual vetting of your inbox goes a long way. And also avoiding inserting your mail address into bad websites which will sell them or whatnot, and when including it in text making sure to obfuscate it somehow. Spam filtering is vital, but it can't do all for you.
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Notice you could only make this "summary" by skipping most of the beats in the conversation. Also, I'd say it actually matters tremendously whether Bitcoin becomes legal tender somewhere or remains a marginal element of the world economy that only a handful of true believers buy anything other than weed with.
What exactly are you calling a fabrication? The whole competition or only the achievement of the Afghan team?
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> you're welcome to dig up statistics from that region

Given he specifically talks about a handful of places and contrasts with other regions where people had more children, and has a first hand account, shouldn't you be the one to dig up more info?

Unless you think he completely made up the whole thing? Hopefully it's not that.
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> Unfortunately, my experience with the new Metal-driven window server hasn’t been flawless. I’ve run into graphical glitching on both my MacBook Pro and iMac that have persisted into the GM build, and I’ve seen developers on Twitter posting about the same thing. Most of the glitches seem benign (blinking videos, webpages, or 3D graphics), but some seem serious (I can reliably make Finder windows flip out as in the GIF above, and older Nvidia systems have been running into kernel panics throughout the beta process and into the GM). Hopefully, these are issues that can be ironed out in the first couple High Sierra updates and are not ongoing discoveryd-type problems that Apple needs to walk back.

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This is something you test with unit tests. It should have been pretty easy to discover it. I know most of us don’t have that much cover by these tests, but also we don’t have hundreds of millions of daily users. They ahould invest into this.
>"Competition ensures that companies do not have the leverage to discriminate against particular websites," Shapiro added.

What competition? I've got the "choice" between AT&T or Comcast. Both suck hugely, but in different ways. I'm sure both will not hesitate to force companies to cut them checks to push their bits to my computer.

> It's crony capitalism in favor of web giants like Facebook and Google. That's why they support net neutrality, since it targets their competitors.

How? My company can't afford to pay every ISP for priority access to fast lanes, but our larger, entrenched competitors can.

Maybe it's just my bias, but I only see these kinds of arguments from heavily right leaning sources, and to my mind they miss the mark every time. I don't understand how allowing ISPs to block or throttle companies that don't cut them whatever checks they ask for isn't anti-competitive, and how it could possibly promote competition in an industry full of natural monopolies.
True, but if I know that you have been working on the idea for 5 years, and that you have those hundreds of pages of alternate designs, then even just the end result may be valuable enough to me that you would want an NDA.
And I absolutely agree. My point was that Excel workbooks exist in a no man's land, where untenable practices are allowed by necessity. When we transition away inevitably we add layers of error checking and validations and security controls and processes, etc, that turn a simple project into a monstrosity. But it isn't that Excel was efficient anymore than having the random cowboy coder throw together the most adhoc thing imaginable (but quickly) is efficient.
do Lyft support relocation support for international candidates ?
>"So he fired the CSO, and then those reporting to Sullivan resigned "

Which is not the same thing as actually firing 4 people.

Did you read the parents comment?
That's a discussion that doesn't make much sense.

What do you mean by "more fundamental"? The fact is physics and mathematics treat entirely different subjects. Physics treats the physical, empirical world. Mathematics is the study of formal thought. It isn't meaningful to compare them that way.
It's both.

Large groups of people carry characteristic sets of genes which drive behavioral patterns, as well as culture which also drives behavioral patterns. On a large scale, the differences between Japanese and Mexicans are driven by cultural and genetic differences.

The degree, balance, and nature of those differences is complex and up for debate, of course. But to state that Japanese and Mexicans have no distinguishing behavior-driving genes at all even in the slightest degree is basically the left-wing version of young-Earth creationism.
What's more, Bitcoin is subject to risks your bank account is not.
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Your first arguement assumes that you can choose the door you pick initially and the door with the goat that I will open once you heve picked your first door before I have opened that second door. That is not even remotely plausible.

The second argument is of course correct.
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> It's more silly than it is severe

So, being able to install spying software on any Mac OSX is something silly for you?

Let's say I just don't agree.
CoinMastery is quite good, although more focused on market analysis. I think Unchained gets great guests but I cannot stand the interviewer's style.
The US doesn't have 500 million out-of-work children of peasant farmers to resettle in cities in the next 2 generations.

My guess is that if we re-zoned the Bay Area and replaced 1/4 of the current single family homes with 3-to-6-story apartment buildings we could cover several decades of regional housing demand and push housing prices down by 50%.
That's actually something I like. It makes most users' PCs much more secure. Also if absolutely required, OS upgrades can be deferred by up to a year.
Media companies have a comfortable, decades-long business relationship with cable companies.
Immigration =/= breeding.

High fertility rates usually mean:

- People are having more children to provide manual labor.

- People are getting together with each other because they don't have as many distractions from the modern world.

- People haven't been taught safe sex or don't have access to protection.

- The culture of a region hasn't caught up with the times.

High immigration usually means:

- The nation is a desirable place to move to.

- Successful immigrants to that nation are bringing valuable and useful skills.

I agree with your point that adding more people strengthens the economy when most of those people are contributing to the GDP (and weaken the economy if they consume more than they produce), but I am bothered by your absolutisms ("This is completely false" | "Most nations become rich by 'adding bodies' [...] and nothing else"). High immigration is a symptom of an already strong economy, and high fertility is often a symptom of a developing economy.
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I used to recommend https://learnpythonthehardway.org to my friends who are interested in Learning Python. Today, I came across the site and it doesn't have free HTML read-online option anymore.

If I'm not wrong, Paid version provides videos, pdf while free version allows you to read content online. Is that changed recently?
Around half of Americans own stock. http://news.gallup.com/poll/190883/half-americans-own-stocks...

> my impression is that in Europe most people have no clue about investing their money besides buying a house. Hell, most of my peers in my generation barely have any savings.

If there are more Americans in the stock market it's probably because the American social safety net is very weak.
But can you decide what is necessary for your library's users?
I saw that image popping up in my twitter feed, but I just assumed it was a parody :|
Python offers programmers great power but with great power comes great responsibility. You can program like a bull in a china shop if you're not actively practicing principles such as those espoused in this checklist. On the other hand, be cognizant of your company's culture. It may not be acceptable that a release is delayed because the code isn't principled enough. "Make it work, make it right, make it fast" is an old programming adage that is still practiced by many people. Make sure you know what principles your organization follows and what the consequences are if you try to make things right before you ought to or are expected to.
Craig Federighi is the software guy, succeeding Bertrand Serlet and Avie Tevanian as VP in charge of software. He's only been at Apple since 2009, though according to Wikipedia, he did work at NeXT in the 90s leading WebObjects.

He's very charismatic and charming in the keynotes, but maybe he deserves some scrutiny for Apple's recent sfotware problems? Though some of it has to be the yearly cycle of releases and the pressure for glitzy features every Summer and Fall.
Like several other people in this discussion, you point to the deflationary nature of Bitcoin as a positive. I do not doubt Bitcoin would be deflationary if widely used, but what I do doubt is that an economy that converted to a deflationary form of currency would be anything other than miserable for most people.
In your program, you have to classify all cases where the host picks the prize on his second selection as 'passed', and put them aside. This affects the result, as in all those cases the subject had picked one of the wrong boxes, so you have biased the cases you actually consider towards those where the subject originally picked the right box.
I wouldn't call it "hidden". If someone expected that to work, or couldn't figure out what the article example was doing, they just haven't read the documentation for 2 common functions. In fact, last I checked, always using the second parameter of parseInt was considered good practice.
"If prices forever stay low, then consumers ALWAYS benefit, right?"

Not necessarily. The system is much more complex than simply "low prices = good".

Markets are an ecosystem, if you allow one retailer to dominate, they will exert control. That could be by hiking prices, or it could be by picking favorites among their suppliers, deciding which products are "suitable" and so on, and by squeezing suppliers, possibly to the point where the result is stagnating quality and innovation, as suppliers race to the bottom on price alone.

Quite apart from consumer political issues of having such a dominant presence in the market. Eg, if they refuse to serve you for whatever reason (or serve you badly, perhaps with "custom" pricing), you are disadvantaged.

The consumer ultimately loses in this long game, and it should go without saying that enabling a monopolist, even one with low prices and supposedly a focus on "customer satisfaction" (though is that merely a vector for dominance?), is likely to end badly.
> "These changes will make building free software projects and communities harder, perhaps impossible."

How/Why?
To be clear, as we are all in agreement that the correct answer is the same whether the question states the host has knowledge or not, there is no doubt here that the question, exactly as stated, is unambiguous and has one correct answer. If someone chooses to use faulty reasoning in solving it, they have made a mistake as surely as if they had made an arithmetical error in calculating the odds incorrectly. Mathematicians and philosophers, in particular, are supposed to know how to be rigorous.

I think this has wandered across the threshold into "if they were asked a different question, they would have given a different answer", which might be true, and, if tested experimentally, might throw some light on why this problem seems unreasonably baffling, though it would be hard to find sufficient suitable candidates for this experiment (maybe among schoolchildren who have shown they have a good grasp of the relevant statistics).

Personally, I would guess that people are led down the wrong path by causal intuition - i.e. "opening the second box makes no difference to where the prize is", or perhaps by an intuition that the choice to switch or not is as random a choice (i.e. over uniform odds) as their initial pick. I realize that at this point, these guesses have no more evidence for them than does the hypothesis that people are being misled by language clues.
Increased wealth comes from automation. From tbe beginning the colonies had a labor shortage compared with over populated Europe making the cost of labor expensive pushing people to automate and improve manufacturing processes such as standardization and interchangeable parts.

The policies for rapid immigration was because of the high cost of labor caused by the scarcity of labor.
Could be. But the threat also moved slow and never really became a real enough threat. Also, I believe Googe was ultimately pushing for speed and availability; price and NN less so.
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If the host could open a door with the money behind it the correct response would be to switch doors anyway.
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The host never opens a car door because the host knows where the car is. The host always opens a non-car door and gives the player a choice to make the situation interesting.
>publicizing what happened to me would no longer be terribly helpful.

To you maybe; what about everyone else?
Such "habits" are customary behaviours for getting a task done. The Innovator's Dilemma sees this as key feature of sustaining innovations, that might be technically revolutionary, but don't require any change in customer behaviour. It is an economic moat or enduring competitive advantage for them.

But when an innovation requires a change in customer behaviour, no such advantage applies, and the gates are open to new entrant. The book calls this disruptive innovation (and is the source of that term).

The companies listed all become successful due to such innovations.
But it's not a solution to a problem. It's a solution to a symptom. We do this all the time and then wonder why we waste so much time revisiting things.

Or. You can "accept" NN in the short term knowing it's going to cause a negative reaction in the market. That tension will build, the market will become more aware, and then demand the problem be addressed and solved.

The point is, the current solution being proposed by so many actual keep the powerful status quo intact. They win either way. Is that a win for the rest of us? I think not.
Incredibly my El Capitan -> High Sierra update went smoothly and fixed the abhorrent wifi problems I had had forever—however that was the only reason I wanted to upgrade. macOS has not been evolving for a while. I miss the Leopard days.

iOS 11 on the other hand was more of a downgrade to beta on my 7 Plus.
I've never used public Wi-Fi, and don't see why one would really want to, if they have a data plan. If you don't watch videos outside, 2-4GB suffices monthly (2GB monthly costs me ŧ27/~$6, with an educational discount, and I've never used it all up). If you do video conferences outside, you probably would have the income to buy a larger data plan. It's just not worth the risk. Maybe things like Facebook consume people's data plans quickly so that they're always looking to find free wifi?