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The systematic erosion of public education in the United States doesn't serve anyone in the United States' long term interests, except maybe the religious right (who don't matter that much in the federal government). It just doesn't serve monied interests. It doesn't help big oil, it doesn't help big pharma, it doesn't help the legal or medical professions, it doesn't help finance, or insurance, or banking. So I'm a little puzzled. Who does it benefit?

I share the author's bewilderment in the face of the realization that this is, in fact, terrible for universities, and (seemingly, given what we know) not just weird news spin-doctoring or scare mongering:

"Given the existential risk to American higher education, why didn’t I blog about this earlier? ... It’s simply that I didn’t believe it—even given all the other stuff that could “never happen in the US,” until it happened this past year... Surely even the House Republicans would realize they’d screwed up this time, and would take out this crazy provision before the full bill was voted on? Or surely there’s some workaround that makes the whole thing less awful than it sounds? There has to be … right?"

I'm also confused. I decided that I didn't have the right kind of information to understand what was happening in the Federal government a long time ago, and I still think that, but I find this whole situation very puzzling, because it doesn't make much sense given how I think the world works (which is, of course, a deeply flawed and nearly useless model of the real world).
also BPD here, and also inclined to point out you’re misrepresenting the other as much as he may be misrepresenting you.

those of us who accept our diagnosis and work toward treatment (and it is a small subset) are often deeply aware of the impact our condition has on others. often i feel i go the distance to cultivate the good more than others in my circle because i am so distinctly made aware of my own inhered failings in the social arena.

how may i help you? how may i make your life a more pleasant experience? how may i alleviate your burdens? these are all questions at the forefront of my mind when communicating with humans generally and even more with those i have invested time and effort.

it’s a real effort which i am inclined to point out you may not fully be aware yourself of the enormity of despite saying so. you don’t live in this mind where every emotion is like a firestorm. we may talk of our disorder as a real sickness, as an illness to be eradicated but you on the other end have not felt what it was like to fall so deeply in love that self and other disappear in a moment of self-self knowing. if humans knew all other humans in such a fashion, humankind might be better off.

my goal is to eliminate the poisons and elevate what i know to be good in me. we can get better. i have seen the results myself. please don’t write us off as a population.

i’d urge the mentally healthy to also strive to be even more tolerant, compassionate and selfless than you may already think yourself to be. being human (”healthy” as it were) can be seen itself as a kind of mental condition that one is enslaved to: extraordinary people like the Buddha have made such observations.

we’re in this thing together.
They could make it grant-neutral by lowering the tuition rates at the same time. The universities would receive less money but it need not be "the destruction of graduate education".
One other effect to consider is the housing prices after the bill. Expensive areas might see an up to 10% drop in property values, which would be bad for those who recently bought but should be easily weathered by others who have seen an 80%+ appreciation in the last 6 years.
Amazon seems to almost always be the target of these articles, how about highlighting someone else for a change. For example, drive along El Camino Real next to Stanford University and you will see a long line of campers parked along the road. Many of the people living there work either directly or indirectly for the University. Stanford has literally thousands of acres of empty land where they could build housing for their temporary and low income employees, yet they chose not to. They could at least provide a campground with proper facilities and hookups (so sewage doesn't go down storm drains, for instance). Of course the real solution, which is to pay ALL your employees a living wage, that apparently is crazy talk in The Valley.
The nicest thing about our mythical hologram printer is that supports would be unnecessary for stuff like overhangs and you could maybe even print complex internal structure, depending on just how capable your 3D hologram was. One can dream...
I noticed this when I went into my console the other day. (Ironically, to set up a public bucket for something.) I don't think the UI was bad before but, now, you'd have to be pretty clueless to have a bucket public by accident.
The version of this bill which passed the Senate last night did not end the tuition tax credit [0]. Additionally, tax cuts do sometimes expire after a few years. For example, this info from Intuit indicates that the tuition tax credit in question expired at the end of 2016 [1].

Editing this upon a close rereading of [1]. I'm not sure if that refers to the same tuition tax credit. Any armchair tax lawyers care to weigh in?

But, I have called my representatives and asked them to make sure that the credit survives reconciliation of the bill between the House and Senate, because I don't think that graduate student pay should be used as a bargaining chip.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/30/what-...

[1]: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/college-and-education/d...
Indeed people living in NY and CA are going to feel pain without the ability to deduct states taxes. People are in for a shock.
But those just transpile to JS as well and likely suffer the same problems.
I think that is something we'll have to look out for, because you're absolutely right that a phone plus bluetooth keyboard doesn't mean a good computing paradigm.

They've said that they've brought in a lot of keyboard shortcuts - for example for accessing the dock applications. It looks like they're recreating the Agenda app too, which was keyboard driven (the best bit was a pop-up month calendar with a press of tab, which folded out to three months then a year with repeated presses, which could be navigated by cursor).

On my android phone, a bt keyboard already has some shortcuts - like alt-tab to application switch, and I think the Windows key brings up the homescreen. You can get folders and files on the homescreen/desktop with 3rd party apps.
I was having similar doubts, but the article states:

"In children, we think slower epigenetic ageing could reflect less favourable developmental progress"
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Understandably most people in high-tax states would be upset by this, but I see it a as a positive overall. This will put more pressure on those states to reduce their tax rates, lest they lose the workers.

Ultimately, I don't think that states like California use tax money responsibly, so the lower the tax rate the better. Democrats will have two options, to lower taxes or lose seats.
I agree with you - MWS should be spun off. It's not part of AWS and the API has many differences (but because there are also lots of similarities, it would probably make sense to build a replacement using some of the botocore utility classes).
The crux of their argument has nothing to do with whether Twitter is a private forum. That is why the suit is against Trump, not Twitter.

The underlying thesis is that Trump (as a government official) can’t pick a forum for public discourse that exerts viewpoint discrimination on participants.

To wit: it would actually be fine if Twitter banned all re-posting, replying and re-tweeting. Then all readers would be treated equally. This is the equivalent of posting on a blog with comments disabled, or delivering a televised speech.

The issue is that Trump is using Twitter’s tools to discriminate among users based upon their viewpoint. That’s what’s not OK. Just as it would not be OK for a local board to hold their meetings at a private country club, where only members are allowed to observe and comment - especially so if, for example, only men were allowed to be members. There’s nothing wrong with having a private members-only club, the issue is with the governmental body choosing that medium for public commentary.
Have you tried termux?
Assuming your paycheck is unaffected by the changes? If you live in a low/no state income tax area, your after tax income will go up. If you live in a higher state income tax area, your after tax income will go down.

Your paycheck may get a little bigger because positive macroeconomic effects are expected. The Joint Committee on Taxation expects GDP to go up 0.8%, capital available for production to raise about 1.1% and employment to go up 0.6%. It's unclear how that will affect a single worker.

If you have money in the stock market, you'll probably get more money. The lower corporate income tax probably means that dividends and stock buy-backs will grow, which is also good for many tech workers. So that may help you.

If your employer makes a profit, their profit after taxes will go up. That would help you if you have a profit sharing or stock compensation deal.

The end of the individual mandate means you'll live in a country where many fewer people will have health insurance, which will mean you're living around sicker people. That will almost certainly hurt you, even if those people aren't your friends and family.
>School girls from Afghanistan built a solar powered robot.

No they didn't. They pitched it. There is nothing built, it is just an idea. An idea which other people already made years ago.

>Yes. That too is news worthy and was covered extensively.

Why?

>But rather than feeling bad wouldn't it be better to celebrate this, promote this and encourage things like this until a time that such things are common place enough to not be news worthy?

Things like what? Fake news being pushed by a progressive NGO and progressives disabling their critical thinking because the story is what they want to hear?
Children of distant mothers tend to develop anxiety and personality disorders. Witness the new king.
How?

It’s a chicken and egg problem.

How do you map a public key to a person?

You will have to have an Equifax like service that will do the mapping.

But then how do you prove to them that you are who you say you are in order to map you to your public key?

Back to, SSN, driving license and what not.

Edit: I don't think having a governmental service dealing with thousands of people every day(lost keys etc..) is something that is going to happen in the US.
There are several companies that handle this for you, though some more effective than others. Evident.io is a big player in the field, though general complaints are that they're too noisy.

However, this is actually what CloudCoreo does - infrastructure security. More precisely, infrastructure security at deployment and continuous security monitoring (Evident only does the latter).

Disclaimer: I work for CloudCoreo.
Most slicers have a "slowdown if layer time less than x" setting too...in Slic3r it is in the filament>cooling tab. That is typically a better solution...but in this case I suspect this machine will have issues running slow..so the best bet is to only print large items.
Clearly I was not claiming that random assignment is un ethical generally, but specifically in the case of assigning the degree of physical affection/cuddling to a baby is probably unethical.

As someone who has been involved in multiple longitudinal studies, although not in epigenetics, I can say that they are more expensive.

In terms of what I said about prior evidence, I was coming from a cognitive psych background where we do not typically deal with record-based data. We deal with participants directly. It is expensive and time consuming. Longitudinal studies usually follow cross-sectional evidence.
What does GIS mean?
Did you read the article? It's not about a high-paid engineer working at a big 5 tech company and living in an RV. It's about people who can't afford homes and work temporary jobs around the country because our economy has failed them.
Most young people don't make enough to pay a lot in state income taxes, don't own a house so they don't pay mortgage interest, don't have a professional job that has all sorts of tax-free benefits, don't have kids and aren't married so they can't use many personal exemptions, etc. The tax bill cuts corporate taxes while raising taxes on middle/upper middle class people. That's consistent with taxes in Germany, Canada, the U.K., etc.
If you enjoy this, I recommend http://www.radioiss.com. It adds a human dimension to the image.
figure out what publicly traded companies mine it and do a margin buy

mining companies usually trade on a multiple of the commodity in any event, so you don't even really have to do a margin buy
why would they drop?
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They'd have to have it on a line.
1. You're right and I originally had "downvoted", but after returning to the main thread and only being able to see who posted and not what they posted (in this sub-thread) from there I changed it to censored.

2. With regards to here, yes you're correct. If anything I should be calling the people in question out for using HN like Reddit (i.e. I downvote that which I disagree with).
Judge overturns delays to startup visa implementation
All security is a disaster everywhere. In case you weren't paying attention, Apple (arguably the world's wealthiest company and widely lauded as a security-conscious firm) just shipped their operating system with a blank root password.
It hit me a while back, what I saw a dog slow and absurd can be seen as more opportunities to fix shit when (and it will) happen.
Polyglot programming communities
Is there any slack/reddit/whatever community or resources (newsletters etc) where people discuss general concepts about programming languages?

Any related conferences other than Curry On?
DRF has stated that they don't wish to be brought under the Django org, as they don't want their releases tied to Django's release timeline.
There is still unfixed IOS 11 introduced bug [1] that kills notification screen which requires powercycle to fix.
Some users hit it multiple times a day.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/message/32638979?ac_cid=tw1234...
Is massively raising taxes on graduate students actually going to help matters?
I get the frustration of the author on grandfathering in mortgages for interest deduction, and you could certainly argue it’s for the benefit of boomers at the expense of millennials, but isn’t it the only sane option? Otherwise the tax bill could effectively be putting people with existing mortgages (not an easy thing to get out of) in a serious bind. It kind of seems a bit unfair.

Though I will admit after writing that out, that it’s probably not really that different than other taxes - if you plan your financial life around a certain tax situation you have to understand it could always change.
I wonder about the loopholes this creates.

Will this transfer residential real estate ownership from individuals to corporations?

Eg, since buying a home becomes even more expensive in the bay area because of property tax and mortgage deduction limitations.

But now, corporations (who have more cash from corp tax reduction, and more leeway with deductions) start purchasing real estate and then offering to rent it to employees as a perk.

Has the additional benefit for corporations, of keeping employees from leaving (since leaving the job means losing your housing)
>Democrats will have two options, to lower taxes or lose seats.

The Republicans in Southern California, New Jersey, and Upstate have two options, to not vote for the reconciled bill in the house or lose their seats and the house majority.
Thank you. I wonder why they don't list this in their setup.py
>this is most likely going to be a significant raise in your tax bill.

SALT changes will cause a 1-1.5% percent decrease in after tax income for those making 150k-250k per year, the magnitude increase on taxes is not especially significant.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/30/16557554/...
Since all 3D stress/strains are tensor quantities (even for purely linear models), MEs project them into principal axes so that you can see their angle and their peak tesnsile/shear stress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_stress_tensor

Look at Mohr's circle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohr%27s_circle

Within an object the stresses and strains (and principal components) vary as you move through it. That's part of what makes predicting failures and effects of thermal expansion so complex, etc difficult even ignoring nonlinear effects and failure modes (e.g. crack propagation).
Why? California, New York etc are net donor states that contribute tens of billions more to the federal government than they get back, while other states like Alabama get $2 for every dollar contributed. SALT was part of tax code since the introduction of federal income tax in 1913.

For all the right wing complaining about welfare and redistribution of wealth, and states rights, they're more than happy to accept it when they take blue state dollars.

I'm pretty upset at this because despite the relatively high rates of state and local taxes in New York, i have no qualms paying them. Services such as the Department of Environmental Conservation, social services, state parks, education, arts and culturals are effective and well funded compared to most states. I don't think we should be punished for this.
The mortgage interest thing does impact young people though. While they can't buy houses now, once they do have the financial ability to do so it'll cost them more than it cost their parents to buy a house.
Is there a reason that a separate symbol and term are not used for this different form of summation?
> I was in a years-long relationship with someone with BPD, and eventually what I realized is that time doesn't strengthen anything with them. Nothing builds up over time, there's no foundation being built, you are always one instant away from being nothing to them.

i’m sorry for your experience but this is also patently false applied as a general statement to “us”. you’re not helping the situation by putting all of us over “there” where there is always one instant away of you being nothing to us.
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>falls heavily not only on the high-population coastal states but also on the younger demographic within those states

Coincidentally the very people who voted for Hillary.
The House version of the bill eliminates the student loan deduction for graduate students. This will be resolved in conference so it is still very much on the table.
> but specifically in the case of assigning the degree of physical affection/cuddling to a baby is probably unethical.

Alright, since you refuse to think, I'll give it to you for free: do an intent-to-treat design with incentives for additional cuddling for either the parents or hired helpers like nannies, or passive controls; as no infant receives less physical affection than they would otherwise, no one is hurt by the randomization and it is not unethical, but you still get a causal effect. (Not all of them will use it, and the ones who do, the difference will be smaller than if you could remove cuddling, but that's merely a matter of power.) Such designs are often used in economics, and are applicable to many topics where randomization is considered infeasible for 'ethical' reasons: if you have a limited supply of X, it can be allocated by lottery; if you want to measure the impact of health insurance, surely this is unethical? How could you ever study it? But no, you have limited Medicare funds, so you simply allocate by lottery. Charter schools, lead poisoning, vaccines, basic incomes, daycare, enrichment programs, cuddle subsidies etc. The winners get the additional treatment while the losers serve as baseline controls, finessing the ethical problems. As it is usually the case that there's not enough money to deliver the claimed-beneficial intervention to all possible beneficiaries, it's quite a general strategy.

> As someone who has been involved in multiple longitudinal studies, although not in epigenetics, I can say that they are more expensive.

I didn't say that they weren't, just that they were only somewhat more expensive, and they can be done cheaply in a number of ways. There are considerable economies of scale in these things - look at the UK Biobank.
Geographic information system. Dealing with maps, etc.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/contrib/gis/tutori...
It is need based -- it goes to the students least in need!

/s
My choice of word was unnecessarily pejorative. I agree.

Though I would say that it's the stretch to say it might 'need no further changes' if it doesn't work with the latest version of python.
Because buying property becomes less lucrative and requires more money with no mortgage interest tax deduction. I'm not sure anyone has modeled an accurate demand curve, but in theory this will impact housing prices.
This makes sense now that you say it. Whatever it is, it powers my Pi very well :)
> It seems a CoreXY or H-bot design, I always believed that the issue with this design (like any cartesian design) is with the limits of acceleration and "drag" of (relatively) massive parts

there are enormous multi-ton machines which can move faster than tiny little delta printers.

delta printers are good at maximizing speed when you have constraints like price, noise, weight, "fits in my home", "uses single phase residential power" and "cannot literally tear my limbs off". don't confuse the constraints of consumer printers with the constraints of industrial machinery, which is what it looks like these folks are trying to design.
Couldn't the universities just appropriately price the graduate school tuition instead of pretending it's worth tens of thousands of dollars a year and then giving it away for free?
An uneducated society is easy to manipulate — easy to convince that climate change isn't real, that evolution is a conspiracy against religion, that creating a social safety net and investing in public education, health care and modern infrastructure is a bad thing.

I hate to turn social issues into black and white, partisan debates. But anti-intellectualism and the denigration of education is a uniquely right-wing phenomenon in the U.S. It's used often by the Republican party here to criticize "elites" and is employed by a long list of other power-hungry demagogues throughout world history [1].

Isaac Asimov wrote a column in January 1980 in Newsweek that describes this phenomenon in the U.S.:

> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

I encourage everyone to read the full column [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
[2]: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_C...
The two quotes you picked out don't do it justice.

> After being asked, the technical support worker gained access to Grant’s locked server pen, plugged in a laptop and then manually gave the fraudster access to Canadian Bitcoins servers, where he cleaned out a wallet containing 149.94 bitcoins, valued at around $100,000.

That's just mind-bogglingly stupid.
Map a public key to a person (in cases where that is even desirable! Which is not most of them) using the web of trust.
After long battle with ALS, man who helped inspire ice bucket challenge dies