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This reminds me of a quote from the movie Prometheus - "God doesn't build in straight lines"

Meaning, if you see intelligent stuff being done. Objects moving up and down, left and right in perfect angles. Or if some one wrote up "Hello, World" on the skies its very unlikely its a natural phenomenon.
I agree. Developing one's overall social intuition is ultimately the goal.

I like the mindful aspects you focus on. Mindfulness concepts have been helpful for me as well.
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Of course it's true that a manual version of google/deep-mind should involve informed consent for data being given to a third party - and should also be tested for its effectiveness.

The large group of clerks you describe seems like it could leak a lot of data, just for example.

The thing is neither the Google algorithm nor your idea have proven effectiveness. The "obviously it would improve things so worries over implementation and data control are hand wringing" attitude seems to neglect the fact that all sorts of apparently logical steps actually have turned out to not do the good people expected (Cholesterol drugs being a good example, yes they lower cholesterol, no they don't improve life expectancy, etc)- and also that a good program should be implementable with good data controls, there no reason to frame this as a trade-off.
It's not just x-rays.

I'm currently on holiday in New Zealand and had to take my infant daughter to the urgent care. The total cost was $21 USD (including the prescription).

Back in the US it's $330 for a 15 minute appointment with her GP.

There is no way it costs $1,300/hour to run a GP clinic. Between my employer and I, the cost of family insurance is > $20,000/year and we pay the first $6,000 in expenses. That's similar to the TOTAL income tax of a median household in New Zealand - how are they providing all of the functions of government plus universal health care for the cost of just health insurance?!?

It really makes me wonder about the ROI on taxes in America.
Its also a little hard to believe the systems malfunction theory.

How is it that the systems from various departments of the government. Each of which are totally independent of each other, suddenly all malfunction at once at the same time, and the event happens, and then again the systems get back to functioning perfectly fine?
I wish they'd stopped there. An ICO on top of it makes no sense to me as anything but a demo-net for the EVM backend.
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Comparative: what is the Samsung Galaxy A8 worth against the competition?
Feynman argues for unit tests:

> For example, cracks have been found in the turbine blades of the high pressure oxygen turbopump. Are they caused by flaws in the material, the effect of the oxygen atmosphere on the properties of the material, the thermal stresses of startup or shutdown, the vibration and stresses of steady running, or mainly at some resonance at certain speeds, etc.? How long can we run from crack initiation to crack failure, and how does this depend on power level? Using the completed engine as a test bed to resolve such questions is extremely expensive. One does not wish to lose an entire engine in order to find out where and how failure occurs. Yet, an accurate knowledge of this information is essential to acquire a confidence in the engine reliability in use. Without detailed understanding, confidence can not be attained.
It may be an overall improvement in efficiency, but it's not going to help patients long term. Whoever pays for the ambulances is going to eventually reduce their funding because they're being under used and revert them to the same state they were in before. If that wasn't the case, then they would have already been paying for more ambulances before Uber came along.
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10% of the sea is absolutely huge though.

On land, it's the area of Russia, Canada and the US, completely covered with wind farms.
Just to add in, this is really not ok
Can't speak for the OP, but on my part, it's less thinking, and more a feeling. The unthinking and uncritical wonder is gone. We're looking at all things technological with a more and more critical eye. More and more people are publicly speaking out about the idea that social media and hyperconnectivity are actively harming us.

It feels different than most old ideas that I've seen die before. Yes, of course there's always an inevitable "good old times" moment, but this one... There's something lurking behind it. It's not just nostalgia, it has the roots of a fight seeded in it.

We'll see. Maybe I'm now just old enough that this time, it feels different. But it does not feel like what happened to VHS, or the CD, or land lines, or any number of things that we've declared outdated in the last few decades.
Rate of return from capital probably declines over the long run
Hmm I dont know what CDN or ABS are.
They have to lower prices because their competitors buy the same machines and thy pass on the savings to the customers, xo your company needs to do that as well.

That is the problem with commodity business because consumers dont care where there corn or cloth material comes from. Consumers will go for the cheapest option.
It makes good financial sense for insurers to push the insured to take preventative measures.

An insurer should provide incentive to bring a building up to code to avoid a costly fire.
The option to simply raise prices accounting for the fire leaves out the business of those who cannot afford it: the people leaving in a building that's not up to code.
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Medical is a horrible situation when I've had to use it. The places that take it you pay nothing, but many places won't take it, and many GPs at places that do take it won't take new patients on it.

The dental care was also terrible: 2 places only in my city that accept it. Neither would give an appointment for a cleaning and a checkup at the same time, and I never was admitted less than 20 minutes after my appointment time.
Forgive my ignorance, but who are all these people setting up these forks, and who is actually buying the forked currency? It makes no sense to me.
... seriously? What is wrong with you?

If I'm having a stroke, I'm not going to care about anything except getting to the nearest emergency room as fast as possible. Minutes matter in a stroke. The faster you can get basic drugs and a CT scan, the better your chances for preventing serious damage.

I'm still in my 30s and young. Maybe when my body is older and falling apart I'd have a different opinion, but your statement feels really ludicrous and dangerous advice to me.
NYC cabs are waaaay better now that ridesharing is dominating. They used to almost universally keep their doors locked and quiz you on the destination, then drive away if it was Brooklyn or somewhere they did not feel like going. They are actually happy to get a fare now, so they do not treat the customer like crap anymore.
I would also put multiple cameras in each car, and train a network on “car is clean” and the related “car is empty” (you could, for example, ask the customer that just left “did you leave your bag in the car?”)

To signal to passengers that you won’t record them during the ride, give the cameras nice red LEDs when in operation, and be open about what you do.
If it’s anything like the taxi drivers here in Auckland, you have a fair chance of getting a driver with some sort of medical qualification too.
Considering they're raised for meat it won't affect the survival of the species if we eat them.
I don't know, it's fine.
That xkcd affirms that our sense of time and attention, and of quality and quantity, has been messed up like this since the Industrial Revolution. I can't safely presume what Randall's point is, but if it's to show that this is a foolish thing men have been saying without cause since time immemorial, he needs to go back further. Show me someone from 1600 complaining about the fast pace of life and I might buy it. But showing quotes about industrialization, that were written after industrialization, doesn't exactly blow my mind.
> Feynman argues for unit tests

I'm not sure that would be my takeaway from that quote. In the analogy of Unit testing, the test would have found the cracks in the turbine blades. It seems to me that Feynman continuously argues for deep investigation into any problems encountered, rather than (seemingly) ignoring them or making up excuses for why they're not problems.

He regards independent code verifications and testing highly, it seems:

> The software is checked very carefully in a bottom-up fashion. First, each new line of code is checked, then sections of code or modules with special functions are verified. The scope is increased step by step until the new changes are incorporated into a complete system and checked. This complete output is considered the final product, newly released. But completely independently there is an independent verification group, that takes an adversary attitude to the software development group, and tests and verifies the software as if it were a customer of the delivered product. There is additional verification in using the new programs in simulators, etc. A discovery of an error during verification testing is considered very serious, and its origin studied very carefully to avoid such mistakes in the future.

I'd consider this quote a clear argument for unit testing though:

> There is additional verification in using the new programs in simulators, etc.

In the end, it seems to come down to the simple concept of: spending more time on verifying code results in better code. Whether it is through automated testing, code reviews, independent (and competent) user acceptance testing, etc.
A lot of modern taxi services have apps (often written by just a few big shops and contracted/branded out, but still). So you can start to get some of the same assurances from Taxis that you could get from Uber.

Also even before Uber/apps, I never had a problem with calling a Taxi and it not showing up within a few min, and I've lived a lot of places.
> React itself does not allocate a new object, but it forces you to do it yourself: to update the application state, you're supposed to call `setState()` with a brand new state (which is a newly allocated object)

Afaik you don't have to. It just makes things easier since state changes can be detected through shallow reference comparisons. There is even the shouldComponentUpdate() hook to allow the user to detect state changes which did not trigger a whole state object change.
"fairly" is hard to achieve. 500k per year for a good singer might seem fair from my perspective. But the singer who makes millions per year traditionally will not think it is fair for him or her.
Yea, the percentage stated is super low. It might be true, but the data isn't enough to reflect the statement.
Some ambulances are just glorified taxis, others are staffed with EMTs who can do more.

If it weren't for the need to drive in a "non-standard" manner, you could likely save on costs by having an autonomous vehicle staffed by an EMT. The EMT can't also drive the vehicle, after all.
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I agree. 7% is a really low number, and people shouldn't be afraid to call an ambulance just to save money. That's fucked up. Especially with comments talking about strokes and heart attacks. In most western countries, this isn't even an issue.

I honestly question of the numbers are even statically significant, but even if they are, this is seriously fucked up and not something Americans should be proud of at all!
Don't red cities and states tend to have much lower population densities?
Far too expensive to operate a sufficiently useful transit system for insufficient ridership to support it. The density does not allow the economics to work out.
Busses don't get cleaned often, lack modern creature comforts like leather surfaces and music, have distractingly bad noise/vibration/harshness, etc.
So Aussies and Kiwis can live/work in the other country without visas (instant residence) but whoever drafted that agreement really fucked up. Aussies get instant ACC in NZ but Kiwis don't get Medicare in Australia. I remember there were discussions about it on Radio NZ a few years back.

There is a big private health care industry in Australia (for better or worse) that's not employer based (you see adverts on TV), so I'm guessing a lot of Kiwis just get private care in the AU.

But I'm wondering how much it costs an actual Australian resident/citizen with medicare. I know as a non-resident, a doctor cost around $70 ~ $80 (went once in Melbourne and once in Sydney) and I saw a real doctor. That's a far cry from America where you pay $200+ to see a Nurse Practitioner (yes, pretty advanced, but still not an MD).
> reroute in real time to avoid congestion.

Hell, in this ideal future where most or all of the rest of traffic is also autonomous, you don't even need to avoid congestion -- you just "phone ahead" along the route to tell any cars in the way to, well, get out of the way. As long as you don't have standstill traffic (which might actually be something you can eliminate as a general rule with a fully-autonomous, networked fleet), you're fine.
I couldn’t disagree more. This is like saying a tsunami isn’t coming because “Look! The tide’s gone out completely! There’s not a drop of water in sight”

It’s not a case of if, it’s when. These various technologies will eventually find there way into the mainstream for the exact same reason that the Internet did, because ultimately it has a democratising effect that the vast majority crave, even if they don’t think it’s possible yet.
Oh they also have a much more advanced surveillance state, complete with a social behavior score system.
> you have an asset with incalculable worth

Actuaries, national health providers, governments -- generally they all have hard cash valuations for human life.
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> it's lose, not loose

> It can help you lose mundane, petty worries

So, you're saying you haven't been meditating enough?
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What firewall? My Baidu search results don't mention a firewall.
You would travel in reduced comfort for a year, however small the difference, to get the latest samsung/iphone?
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I may try out VLC 3 again.

I had moved to MPC-BE (Media player classic home cinema black edition) due its superior UI and 4K hardware support and dual-device audio-output (PC 5.1 speaker plus over HDMI to TV). And MPC-BE allows one to quickly skip through a movie by dragging the mouse. And MPC-BE can play partly corrupt files too, one can even skip around such files. VLC 2x sucks at all these things, yet it's still better than traditional Windows Media Player or iTunes. VLC 1x was quite good back then, but 2x was a let down and MPC-HC and MPC-BE are simply better for several things. But let me try VLC 3 again, maybe things improved.

> SMPLayer

It's a light GUI over ffmpeg library, so the video playback is great, but the UI looked like a fisherprice toy and it was a rough experience two years ago. On Win64 MPC-BE is a lot better.
There is the moral angle, though. Given that there are today alternatives to slaughtering animals, should we continue to slaughter them just because our society and laws permit such slaughter and murder? Is it moral to get away with saying "Hey, I don't slaughter them, I only eat what the supermarket sells"? This is the nature of questions us ex-meat-eaters and non-meat-eaters have.
Interesting article. I always think it's kind of sad when people who made a lot of money in tech then use it to start predatory lending companies...
In SF, pre-Uber, taxi dispatchers would universally quote "20 minutes" for expected arrival, when the reality was usually 40 minutes to never (where "never" was equally likely as a finite number). I called to complain about this (and other things) so often that one of the cab companies blacklisted me and stopped answering my calls.
Yup... I'm increasingly thinking of them as matrix machines. Pity the movies redefined that word to the general public ;)
CEBR should go out of business

I don't think that's necessary. However, if their entire business model is making predictions like these, which are almost never accurate, then they probably should.

Should Bloomberg stop reporting this type of thing

Maybe, if their "reporting" amounts to an advertisement for CEBR's product without an ounce of critical/additional input. For instance, they could try something like:

"projections like CEBR's have been made in the past. Most recently, [CEBR-like org] predicted China would surpass U.S. in 20XX."
All of those concerns are much more easily addressed individually than by developing a vehicle that drives itself. There is no reason why a 14-passenger 8 ton Mercedes minivan could not be used as a small, relatively frequent bus as opposed to the huge, noisy MAN 40 ton chassis.
Doesn't seem possible to invoke an on-screen keyboard when using Android's Chrome.

(Press Run > tap into input box to begin typing - no keyboard presented)
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I guess you never tried to get a taxi in SF, then. Pre-Uber, attempting to hail one could leave you standing in the street for several tens of minutes, and calling a dispatcher would get you the universal estimate of 20 minutes, which in reality would be 40 minutes or more, assuming they actually showed up, which was a tossup.
> At one point my physician was ordering lab work and kept asking if I wanted any additional lab work of my choosing and this just seemed absurd because on private insurance I would never consider lab work to be discretionary.

From your perspective that's great, but it's still another sign of the system being broken. As soon as you involve cash flowing between multiple entities, it just becomes a massive cash grab. The physician seemingly knew they could take advantage of your cover in that instance. That in itself seems problematic.

Note: I'm not from the US, so there's probably an aspect of Medicaid that I don't understand. We have a more sane healthcare system :)
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I listen to audiobooks all the time(while jogging in the morning, while doing chores, while eating, during the commute, every free minute I'd waste otherwise), write my thoughts down in a journal, write articles for a blog.

I'm still not excellent, English is my second language and I often do make mistakes, but I've made huge progress simply by reading and writing a lot.

Also, some people will disagree, but I think that tweeting is a very fun and productive way to practice concisely articulating your thoughts.

You can also combine these ideas: listen to audiobooks, take notes, and share the most insightful things you've learned on twitter or blog.
So many warnings about importing bitcoin private keys into other software in order to claim.
> The system works if your net worth is somewhere above $5 million. For everyone else it's just the mechanism that sends everything you earned back to rich people right before you die.

Must be above my net worth! Sure I can afford to pay out of pocket for everyday medical expenses, but cancer or a heart attack would probably destroy my finances.
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actually, while you could replace google search with bing or duck duck go, what would really destroy the world is the sudden absence of gmail/google docs/android updates/youtube, all of those things could be replaced, but it would take more time...
Semi-related: there's a startup in Denmark [0] trying to do this for parcel/freight transportation. I'm not sure how well they're doing, though.

[0] https://www.badabring.com/ (link in Danish)
From what I read about WWI (not what I learned at school in France), high ranking officers were terrified of insubordination and thought that the lack of result was due to a lack of motivation from the soldiers (and not the fact that germans were the first to massively use machine guns which completely changed engagements).

Some soldiers were court martialed pretty much randomly just as a mean to terrorize the soldiers into obeying orders.
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This really made me think. I suppose I could have done the same. It just makes me sad when people who have a great life are upset because they compare themselves to the Jones. And while family wealth never explicitly came up, complaining about a new $30k car at age 16 is a close proxy for family wealth.

I also wasnt trying to complain about others being wealthy, or talking about it. I didn't feel like I didn't belong, as the article seems to hint at. Perhaps I shouldn't have felt compelled to explain myself.

The points I was trying to make were other people assuming everyone is wealthy should be irrelevant to your academic success. People assuming anything about you shouldn't stop you. If that is what causes you to not pursue higher education, then I would say that is on you. Secondly, you aren't always going to be among people who are exactly like you. In fact, I think this is an important part of college. Partly, this was a rant against what I see as lowing the expectations for young adults. Life is hard sometimes, excuses won't help.
Usage is low enough and destinations are various and sparse and distant enough that sufficient coverage to be useful would be prohibitively expensive, while incredibly under-utilized. You really need something more on-demand that will take you door-to-door.
arcimoto, I would describe it as soylent of transportation (though it's even more niche than soylent),
it's basically an electric three wheeler that can do highway speeds.
soylent optimized for meeting nutritional needs of an invidividual with bare minimum of fuss,
three wheeled elecric "motorcycle" meets need to get somewhere (as cheaply as possible) with a sort of bare minimum of safety XD, while meeting a "nutritonal" value by being electric and a more natural form factor for majority of driving thats done.
So are you saying that a Walmart employee can choose to work for 7 years and then retire? Hardly believable.
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Right, but 5% is quite terrible when you're sitting around wondering if the car will ever show up, and if they quoted 20 mins, should you call again after 15 or 20 or 25 or 60?
Well this can happen when you keep a very old architecture for a long time and only add new features while keeping backwards compatibility forever. Even then switch to 64-bit involved several missed opportunities to clean things up properly.