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This is insane to think this happened in 2017 in USA. No other modern industrialized nation suffers these many embarrassing train derailments and with no blame/shame in the end. "Thoughts and prayers" my ass from WSDOT and Amtrak.

It shouldn't take a billion dollars to figure this out. even the simplest techniques like proper railway training that they do in Japan would go a long way.
On iOs/mobile, Apple Maps has a much prettier, more usable UI. All the buildings are shown 3d in Bay Area during navigation. Google maps does not show 3d while navigating. From this point of view, Apple offers a superior user experience. That's why I use it.

I switch to Google when traffic is really bad, as I trust its timing estimates more.
But he could own all of Facebook without making it worthless.
Quality content takes time and effort to produce, so it's very expensive. A serious long-form investigative piece could take several man-months, whereas a clickbaity opinion piece can be knocked out by an intern in a couple of hours.

It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If you don't pay, they can't afford to produce quality journalism. If they don't produce quality journalism, you won't pay.
> because other cyclists are also often terrible in their behavior on the street

well yes. car drivers are bad. but cyclists, are too.
in germany, freiburg the cyclists basically drive how they want. which means, they do not care for red light, they cross zebra's mounted on the bike (which is a no-go since stopping for a _fast_ bike is basically way harder than stopping for walking people), they turn left without noticing traffic behind them, etc.

this makes it hard to drive with cyclists. of course most car drivers also drive pretty recklessness.
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Do not that this is a problem nationwide with rail transit. Both heavy and light rail variants suffer the same issue, deferred upkeep. Throw in the elevated expense in deploying such solutions and the money just vanishes. While NYC has issues specific to it many cities slight their bus travelers to support rail lines to the point of changing bus routes to be less advantageous. LA lost nearly four bus riders for every new rail rider because they cut routes to pay for the train.

when it comes to deferred maintenance, if you were to look into the 2015 DOT reports there is nearly a hundred billion dollar backlog on rail maintenance. This is on top of the tens of billions spent building it and building new rail.

the estimates to bring just DC's Metro system back up to maintenance date is over twenty billion.

Just remember in the US most transit rail lines are for the purpose of politicians to cut ribbons.
> Exploit him or her with false promises. FTFY.

Yeah, there's that too.

But let's not even go there and assume that everything is strictly aboveboard. Otherwise we'll derail the discussion, and I think that the cultural aspect is one worth discussing.

I really am talking about "molding him into the employee you want him to be" in terms of getting him to work the way you think is right. As opposed to hiring someone with different ideas than yours as to how to do the work he or she is supposed to to.
You could pay for Wi-Fi on trains! The system exists in Moscow and Saint Petersburg metros, you can either watch long ads or pay $2-3 monthly for ad-less Wi-Fi.
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I bought more than 15 domains related to startups for building something meaningful for startups next year so good ideas and suggestions are most welcome. I am willing to put much efforts to provide value to startups.
Back when we only had shared hosting or bare metal there where some pretty good CGI hosters. So a better comparision is compact fluorescent lamp: incandescent light bulb with a new name, CFL are clumsy and expensive for many things but a cheap and easy way to use less energy. I'm waiting for the LED version.
Why is he paying them in full, one at a time? "7 of you get to enjoy Christmas, Fuck the other 12?"
> But they also are not signatories to the Geneva convention

Where are you getting this from? According to Wikipedia, every member of the UN is a party the GC, and North Korea has additionally ratified protocol I, something the USA refuses to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Geneva_...
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Car drivers are subsidized by the entirety of population. The roads they run on are built by public.
Ah, I thought this was about running your own VPN server in the cloud!
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I think this bit from "Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes"[1] (which is an excellent read) sheds light on this:

> The Borgmaster is a monolithic component that knows the semantics of every API operation. It contains the cluster management logic such as the state machines for jobs, tasks, and machines; and it runs the Paxos-based replicated storage system used to record the master’s state.

So it sounds as though Borg includes its own storage system. As I understand, Google has a set of (very complex) libraries written in C++ that implement Paxos/Multi-Paxos[2], which they have not open sourced.

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub44843.html
[2] https://research.google.com/archive/paxos_made_live.html
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"Ah yes, and lightning will certainly hit the same person again and again."

It did though. Again and again.

Will it keep doing so ?

Possibly, possibly not.

I don't think anyone can make a reasoned prediction one way or the other.

Common sense about Bitcoin flew out of the window long ago.
If you have >2 children, chances are the oldest can ride his/her own bicycle (especially if the infrastructure provides lots of safety)

Also, see https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/tag/children/
I've had a lot of those same objections since I first heard about Bitcoin.

Ironically, I've been looking to buy some Bitcoin in the last couple months to trade for Sia, because I was thinking about setting up a storage node that can earn enough to pay for my own cloud backup needs.
I worry that the "culture" argument has dangerous implications if true, as it can be used to discriminate on so many grounds outside of age: gender ("If I'm with a bunch of my bro's, why mess it up with a girl?"), race, language, disabilities, etc etc.

I thought the "hacker culture" would be supportive of the idea that "if you can do the job well, let's work together on solving interesting problems," rather than the cliche "would I want to grab a beer with this person?"
Might be an absurd proposition, but according to their website, the publisher is a non-profit called NautilusThink, meaning it's eligible for the Pineapple Fund (https://pineapplefund.org/).

Now I don't know what the odds are, but considering there's about $79m left, I'd say they aren't too far from the odds of the potential acquisition talks coming through.

It won't solve the underlying issue, but it will make possible to at least think about better ways of solving it.
In the case of it flipping back on, you're at the whims of bugs - just like with all software. If there's any organisation I'd trust, it's Mozilla - if only because if they make mistakes, there is a lot of pressure for them to correct this (case in point: Looking Glass).

Note that Mozilla pushes code without explicit consent for all parts of it all the time - they're called software updates. The problem in this case was that it was for a potential feature that very few people cared for, and that it showed up as a scary extension in the extension list. That definitely should not have happened, but it's not a privacy violation.
The server is down, could somebody reupload the pdf?
Some jobs should require licenses, or better: exams, some shouldn't. I see no problem deciding that on a case-by-case basis. And as long as the test is not too expensive to take, why not have a hairdresser exam?

The thing that is a barrier for immigrants, in most places, is that they don't get work permits.
It would be EPIC to see it
Louvain-la-Neuve also has an interesting take on this. Like Ghent it's a student city but it's also a planned city, and was built as a "two-levels" city, buildings sit on top of a huge concrete "slab" and topside is completely car-free, with roads & parkings downside.

Not having to "burn" any surface on carspace makes the city pretty inherently walkable.

One issue is I don't remember the public parkings providing electric plugs for EC.
Also, as an alternative to massively complex edge compute, read up on the Vary: header: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.4

(Caveat: it's an appallingly vague spec, and Vary is frequently badly implemented, or not at all).
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> the driver cannot constantly monitor what's coming from behind when making a turn

Correct, which is why the common style of crossing is pretty much a death trap for cyclists. A much safer design moves the cyclist crossing so cyclists and cars only ever meet at 90 degree angles[0]. Doing so takes no extra space.

[0] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Kg0XZ0K-3U/Uv98VQ-H6lI/AAAAAAAARK...
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I meant that more as a description of people who don't understand finances. Anyone who knows anything realizes that a tax return is returning you your own money. But some people treat it like a windfall rather than a restoration of their own property.

Those kinds of people are the ones that don't think far enough ahead to realize that what's being taken from them, retirement, is much more valuable than what's being given to them, a small tax cut. But anyone with an actual retirement plan should be furious because those programs--that we've paid into for our entire working careers--will be supplying us with significantly less than they would otherwise.

Yes, we've known that Social Security isn't going to be enough on its own ever since Bush II replaced all the money with IOUs, but until this tax cut, there was a reasonable expectation that those programs would survive in some form and augment our 401(k) and IRA accounts. Now, we're basically on our own. And with the Republican unwillingness to deal with health care, we'll likely be left to fend for ourselves in that area...convenient since that's the most expensive part of life when it comes to medical expenses.

But hey, the 0.01% got it rough and need some tax relief, right?
It seems that PostgreSQL is missing from this cheat sheet. Does anyone know why?
"What if only a few percent understood the proof, but managed to "prove" to others that they understood it by using this knowledge to unlock other difficult problems?"

Check the Terrence Tao comment below the post (also posted by someone else in here).

I think if those who claim to understand the proof could use the techniques to proof other things, or even to provide new proofs of known results, the level of trust would immediately go up dramatically.
could be ISPs trying to improve user security generally to prevent lots of their customers becoming DDOS zombies resulting in more contention & customer complaints.
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Have you ever looked at industrial-grade hardware? You know, stuff that is actually certified to work for years on end in the worst conditions imaginable? If someone asked you, how much do you think a 12V power supply costs, would you say $5-10, because that's how much they go for on ebay? Try a National Instruments 12V supply - it's about ~$1200 for a power supply slightly larger than your phone charger. Why? Because it's certified to work in -80C and +120C without failure, in environments where explosive gases are present and in very high humidity environments. You can't use consumer hardware in industrial/commercial environments, and for a good reason.
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Everyone needs to pay taxes if they don't want to have the police kick in their door and drag them off to prison. Most people don't have an unavoidable need to evade taxes.

Using bitcoin to move around assets and evade taxes presuposes that it has a value. It cannot be an explanation for the value of bitcoin. As we've seen from all the altcoins and bitcoin forks, crypto-"currency" tokens are not exactly a scarce resource. You can create an infinite variants of them, or an infinite copies(forks) of the same blockchain. There is no fundamental reason(i.e. you can't tell just by looking at the properties of the token) why Coin A exchanges for more USD than Coin B.

Some of these tokens can have some intrinsic value, when the coin is set up in such a way that you can "redeem" them for computation time, data storage, content etc. Then it functions in a way similar to an accounting or point system. But beyond this, the price of cryptocurrency tokens is propped up by nothing more than speculation.
Kind of a misleading title. I had assumed she had done serious study of actual philosophy in her older years. Learning why and what she learned might have been interesting.

Instead this is a story about when she was 20, didn't know anything about philosophy, didn't care, and basically just wanted to learn to be an interesting conversationalist. And for some unclear reason she decided that paying for a philosophy coach was the way to go. Nothing about what they actually discussed is in the article.
Leprosy is the classic disease where the most visible deformities are due to a lack of feeling pain. The mycobacterium is thought to attack the long nerves of the arms and legs, which results in the patients being unable to detect damage - resulting in burns, infections and loss of toes/limbs.

One of the problems of treating chronic pain is that it doesn't just involve pain nerve fibres, but also the cerebral perception of pain. Patients who have had amputations can have a 'phantom limb' syndrome, where it seems the cerebrum has remapped it's input somewhere else. They can also get phantom limb pain - which given there isn't a limb or nerve fibres shows how difficult it can be to treat chronic pain.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198614/
AI is second best though.
This was a good read, thanks.
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> I regularly read The Register (UK), Economist (UK), The Atlantic (US), The Grauniad (UK), Nautilus (US).

This is basically three monthly magazines, one fortnightly and a daily newspaper. That’s a fraction of my load in the days of print — I was regularly getting eight or nine magazines a month, on student money.

I don’t want to make assumptions about your financial situation, but your argument is one I hear a lot — “I can’t afford all that!” - even from well-paid people.

I don’t think it is a case of “can”. People certainly can afford to pay their regular reads. I think the problem is more that people’s expectations have been changed to expect media for free, and maybe carry a load of 2-3 subscription charges a month for things like Spotify or cloud services.

This is a big, big expectation change from eg the 1990s.
As if you couldn’t rob someone with a knife.
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If you want more exercise, don't run red lights. Not trying to accuse anyone, just saying. The stop-and-go makes it much more exhausting.
With an attitude like that, nothing in your life has to do with ethics.
If ebola were to incubate in pigeons and only prove lethal to humans, that could be more widespread.
I don't think the phenomenon you described, as some new thing specific to this age, is in any way real. If anything, the things you mention only reflect the new choices we have. Going over your individual examples:

> We don't want to wait for the food to be properly cooked, we want it now, so we go for fast food.

We go for fast food because it saves time. When I opt to order in instead of going out for lunch, or grab a burger from McDonald's en route, I do that because eating is mostly instrumental. I don't want to eat at that point, I have to, and the sooner I can fill myself up, the sooner I can get back to doing the things I actually care about.

Fast food, and food delivery services, allow people to choose to spend more time on other things, when those other things are more important to them. The same people will enjoy a finely cooked meal on a different occasion, when they prioritize it.

> We don't want to put in 1 year of work to learn something new so we can feel that we achieved something, we want it now, so we play a game where we can 'win' in 30 minutes.

Spending a year on learning something to just get a quick feeling of achievement is a very stupid way to go about it. Videogames are better for that. Learning is better for getting long-term feelings of achievement, and to actually gain knowledge/skills that you can use for something. And again, it's not something new - our generation wastes time on videogames, previous generations wasted time playing soccer, cards, darts, and doing tons of other quick-reward activities.

> We don't want to build a relationship and eventually end up being intimate, we want it now, so we go for 'one night stands'.

One-night stands exist for as long as humans are humans. Nothing fundamental changed, only the hookup methods evolved with population density and available communication tools.

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> Then you ask yourself... is it weird that the economic system works the same? That the software industry works the same?

Nah, they don't work the same. In them, the actors are not driven internally, they're driven externally. People write shitty software, or sell shitty products, not because of their need for instant gratification, but because of market pressures. A fast hack sold by your marketing team can be a difference between you getting $100M contract versus not getting it, or getting your product on the market first versus a week after your competitor. Market economy, because of all its efficiency, is what creates the culture of suck.
I found I was reading a few Atlantic articles here and there so I thought sure why not support journalism and sign up for subscription. Signed up for print and digital.

The whole experience was awful.

After three months I never received a single print copy. The only digital edition I could access under android was the one that was freely available anyway. I couldn't access the premium content. For that I had to go and download the PDF which is quite suboptimal. The IOS app wasn't great either.

(EDIT: I should say that I was back and forth with their "support" numerous times about my issues before I took the decision to cancel)

In the end I cancelled, but it took a few goes to get in touch with anybody about it... I figured out how to do the cancellation myself on their "site" but even then had to go through some third party fulfilment agency to get the full refund. Promised me a cheque. Cheque never arrived and eventually I kicked up a stink and they just refunded to my credit card.

Good luck to them I suppose. They do some great long reads and those writers have to be paid. Hopefully this paywall signals transition to a more solid commercial framework ... totally put me off them though.
BuzzFeed have a superb investigative team. This year, they broke the story of the alleged assassination of 14 Russian citizens on British soil and a subsequent cover-up. Six journalists were credited for the piece and it's clear that they spent months on it.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/investigations
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-1...

Inside Housing revealed that tower blocks were being fitted with unsafe cladding months before the Grenfell Tower disaster. They uncovered the issue through lengthy reporting of previous fires in high-rise buildings over the course of several years. This obscure little trade magazine has won a shower of national awards for their doggedly determined investigative work.

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/inside-housing-bea...

There are hundreds of superb investigative journalists working for local and regional newspapers, doing crucial work under severe constraints. They're underpaid, underresourced and underappreciated, but without their work, all manner of injustices would go unreported. Numerous national scandals have been identified because of the work of one local reporter, doing the dog-work of sitting in courtrooms and knocking on doors.
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Aluminium recycling is actually has lots of ecological benefit. It uses about 95% less energy to recycle aluminium than it does to produce it. In terms of subsidies to recycling you've chosen the item that would always be recycled no matter what.
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Seems par for the course for the company that's always mixed data and metadata.
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Click bait!
As the scandinavian saying goes, "there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes".

Of course it can be hard to know/find good clothes when you have not grown up in such a culture.
Consider me excluded. :-)
The Americans are notorious for it though, especially anything to do with invading a country or justifying killing a bunch of innocent people.
I'm getting SSL errors on that link: it is presenting GitHub's wildcard certificate which obviously doesn't match.

The site is accessible as plain http (or https if you skip the warnings, of course).
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