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No, it would not have been neat. It would have been incredibly messy. Their life insurance in particular, was mostly shielded by statute, but the remainder of their business would have been fair game -- that would have had wide-reaching implications, both in and out of the financial sector. The collapse of major investment banks that would have inevitably followed would result in many companies not being able to make payroll. That would have exacerbated the already existing problems with the real estate market collapsing, as meeting payment obligations would be more difficult for people, further depressing the values of mortgage-backed securities, as financial companies would have sought to mitigate their losses and cover their reserve and capitalization requirements by selling things at firesale prices.

It would have been a disaster of epic proportions. Would it have been worse than what happened? I don't know -- and neither do the economists who insisted on action. As it was, innumerable businesses not at the scale of AIG were left in the cold to collapse without billions of dollars of free money, and, more significantly in my view, institutions and well-capitalized individuals who correctly predicted the collapse of the market would have been well-positioned to use their assets to buy up undervalued assets (including home mortgages, which, if purchased at fire sale prices, would have made decisions about de-valuing the loans easy, because the effective yields would have been so much higher).
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> Instead you just get a crash if it is null which is worse in my opinion

Only in the same instances you would in Java-to-Java. So the ergonomics aren't improved or reduced. And really, this only helps on returns anyways. Marking every Java param nullable gets you nothing if the implementer didn't handle it well.

> This already happens automatically for parameters to a Kotlin function; check out the Kotlin Intrinsics checks.

Yup, and I don't like it. So even public Kotlin-to-Kotlin calls suffer. Haven't checked in a while, but I would like an option to use annotations only and skip those top-of-method checks.
Agreed. Author should have said "at least 1000" instead of "about 1000"
> There is no such thing as self help.

I think you're being overly pedantic and semantic here.

> It's what you do, outside information can only be a guide. And the only way to truly change is to put yourself in a new situation with responsibilities, and allowing yourself to fail till you get it right.

I don't think they're saying that the outside information is anything more than a guide. Many self-help books encourage just that - to put yourself in new situations, however newly equipped with tools to better work through the new situation. And of course those tools only become your own once you fully live through them, but I think it's a poor criticism to say that self-help books aren't useful or helpful. In that regard no book that aims to share knowledge is helpful. E.g. you should learn to program entirely on your own then, with no books or guides.
I have two DSL lines, one 1 Mbps, the other 2 Mbps thanks to a patented range extender is no longer manufactured because the patent holder got acquired.
While I agree with most of your points, I'd like to point out that it's not necessarily true that prior generations wanted/enjoyed having children. People didn't have much in terms of birth control for most of human history, so having sex would often lead to children whether the parents wanted them or not.
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I would have thought that with all the effort to build that canal that they would have wired it all. it would have been a great opportunity to have done so considering all the effort expended to create the canals and dams.

is there some reason this was not undertaken at the time of construction?
Generally speaking, inter-frame video compression uses an amount of data directly related to the amount that things change from one frame to the next. So while noise like leaves moving shows up as small changes moment to moment, larger changes are still realistically visible.

My younger years spent screwing around with video for a hobby are coming back to me now.
Shouldn't simple linear movement of a scene still compress really well?
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And that is why drones will start landing on tree branches and the poles of street lamps. And why they'll start using cell networks.
You come from a very long line of parents that reproduced. It's a biological imperative to do so (i.e., we think we have a choice, but in fact have much less than we think we do).

To help you understand how absurd your position is, consider if even one of the hundreds of thousands of reproduction "decisions" that are in your line had not been made, you wouldn't be here to express your point of view that it's "just a personal choice."
Correct. You have identified the problem.

The solution would need to happen in less than three generations.
The result seems like it would be very concise code. Identifiers could be very descriptive and still only be a few characters.

Though, I wonder if the varying size of English words makes it easier to distinguish patterns just from the shape of the code.
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Thank you kindly.

I am a person who is very, VERY concerned about ethics. I spent weeks agonizing about if I should cash the checks.

I concluded, MS had treated me unfairly, but legally. I treated them unfairly, but legally.
> ridiculously how Americans are agitating for Oprah as the best chance to save us from Trump

It's actually not uncommon even in normal times for a bried “so and so for President” thing to pop up after a particular speech or event that has large viewership in which someone has a performance which resonates with a segment of the population.

While I’m mildly concerned about it, I’d be cautious to give it much weight unless it doesn't fade in a couple of weeks.
'Desayuno, comida y cena' is how people refer to the main meals in the Dominican Republic, 'almuerzo' is also used to mean lunch but mostly in formal settings. I also just asked a Colombian friend and he says 'comida' is mostly used to refer to dinner, and 'almuerzo' for lunch.

Edit: He also says 'cena' is a more formal, less common way to refer to dinner.
What about EROS and its relatives?

Or Genera?

Or even TempleOS?

Then there are some older systems worth looking at (e.g. ITS, MCP, VME/B, Oberon).

Some ideas: The system language should be the operating system. No need for files if it's image-based, just persistent objects. Atomic system calls. Capabilities instead of access control.
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Depending on the location, if their app collects revenue or is sold in a local then it has a formal presence, and is subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.

I can NOT release an app that violates EU privacy laws in the EU and expect that it will be allowed to be sold after the issue is discovered.

In the case of crypto (what were talking about here) local laws would apply. If china holds tightly on to that ban, if south korea follows suit, and this feature is integrated, then they are defacto violating local laws and may be subject to local laws and sanction actions.
Does this mean the natural ecosystem fixtures are more valuable than people?
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ad 1: `!` in kotlin actually mean "platform type that could be nullable or not". When you add !! to a value of that type, you declare it as non-nullable.
> It's sometimes easy to assume that if something works in sunny California, it will be applicable in Michigan, or Germany, or anywhere on the globe, and for large fractions of the globe this breaks down under scrutiny.

See also the falsehoods programmers believe about various things (not even just addresses):

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
funny reaction: https://mobile.twitter.com/Crawfordtx/status/951659140786552...
Over in Shenzhen, there's the "Window of the world", a theme park that features smaller reproductions of sights worldwide such as the pyramids, Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, Eiffel tower, Mount Rushmore, etc.

It's quite entertaining, and pretty expensive for Chinese standards (180 CNY, about 28 USD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_the_World
...of 1987, fwiw
Are you saying self-help books criticize you because they think it's in their business interest?

Authors may try that. But thankfully, you feeling bad isn't actually good for their business.

All of my data on headlines in my publication says the articles always do better if they are framed in the positive rather than in the negative. I'm constantly telling authors not to say they're out to fix you... rather we're here to help you achieve some positive fantasy of who you could become. Almost any topic could be framed either way. "Stop procrastinating vs. The secret of intense focus."

And I've deconstructed a number of top self help books (Tony Robbins, Quit Smoking the Easy Way, Tim Ferriss). They all use a structure of inspiration and social proof to convince you that the change is possible.

Maybe my favorite example book structure is a book about waking up early called The Miracle Morning. The entire first half of the book is a sales pitch for the advice that comes in the second half of the book. At first I thought it was funny that I was half way through the book and I still had no idea what the steps of the Miracle Morning were. But that sales pitch had wormed its way into my subconscious and that made following the steps a lot easier.

All those authors used positive framings and avoided any negativity other than to acknowledge how you might be feeling about yourself when you decided to buy their book.
I expect image detection in a video stream is pretty advanced these days but I'd imagine you'd need to rotate the image being recorded 3D space to match the plane of the window so you can compare them both? If you know the position of the drone relative to the window, that's doable. Maybe the algorithms are clever enough to account for that these days.

Interesting article - thanks for sharing.
> Heck, Computer Science as a field itself forgets its own collected wisdom every new generation hits the market, and re-invents BS that other eras have tried and buried with another fad name.

But how many of those people who are re-inventing what other eras tried already were aware of what those inventions were? That is, my point is that most often what is re-created is because the re-creators weren't aware of the past.
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Except that's not what's happening. What's happening is that some people are relearning the hard way why those "sacred cows" are so sacred. We've become so used to having them that some people take them for granted and forget why they exist, like the "raw water" people forgetting why municipal water systems exist.

e.g.

"Why do we need all these regulations anyway? It's just statist slavery!"

later

"Ah right, the fraud and the scams."
If React internals is interesting to you, I did a similar write up, but with a different approach. I start with nothing and build a tiny React clone:

http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/react-internals-part-one-b...
See my other comment here, but you would still be subject to local laws and regulations and that may limit or prohibit the sale of your app depending on your features and how they are integrated.
That's not how representative democracy works. We don't put every single issue up to a popular vote, we elect people to advance issues that we care about as voters. If you care about an issue then it's up to you to promote it in the public eye and work with your elected representatives to pass legislation. That may sound idealistic but it is the system we have and it does work.

Vote. Support the ACLU. Support EFF.
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I agree that it's a huge fluff piece. That said, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with setting up shop overseas like this. They're not going there and trashing the place, first and foremost. Money is being brought in to the area and the kids are getting exposed to the outside world more than they would in NY or SF schools. It's probably not the worst idea anyone's ever had regarding education.
you are stuрid or what. they will hire a colored or a woman even the white guy is better
+1 for proper use of begging the question
The L4 ecosystem is interesting and there's a lot of activity going on. If you're just interesting in something 'not OSX/Windows/Linux', there's the IBM Mainframe world (you can use the Hercules emulator to run the software) or the DEC nee HP VMS world (there's a free hobby license). Way out, you can run Symbolics Genera in a VM and see how the world would have been if Lisp had won.
Whats going on at Acorns? I literally know people down there. My gig before last was a block from them.
The health care bubble
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Odd. I wonder how many not so thoughtful people think your way and act upon it. To the extent there is a genetic component to "thoughtfulness," or even a trait that can be nurtured by other thoughtful people, is the extent that thoughtfulness will be selected against and disappear.
Indeed, children go far beyond happiness. Your happiness dies with your mortality. What is sacrifice? It is the expenditure of self, as a resource, to achieve...? Whatever purpose.
> We don't use cloth diapers with our daughter, so those go to the landfill.

Isn't that simply a consequence of how people today and in the past decided to solve these problems in general? This issue is not limited to diapers.

> Cows are bad for the environment.

Interesting, so cows are not part of the environment? What separates things from being part of the environment and not being part of it?
For those interested in the variety of uses for hexagonal / hierarchical indexing, Dr. Kevin Sahr at Southern Oregon University has produced an open specification and a number of ancillary research around the topic: http://www.discreteglobalgrids.org/information/

There are several options for partitioning your grid, and the geometric consequences on your index. This overview in particular should be accessible even without a deep GIS background: http://webpages.sou.edu/~sahrk/sqspc/pubs/xuzhouKeynote13.pd...
Of course a squareish grid can also be used to approximate a disc or ring. The approximation is not as pretty, but I don't see how it makes much difference for a query system.
>What on earth do you gain by going through the elaborate precaution of wiping all your devices

Because it's wrong. Does there have to be another reason?

Maybe you've forgotten, but the constitution is a pretty cool and forward looking document. Although the 4th ammend. (for some crazy reason) doesn't apply at the border, it's a still a pretty ideal principal to protect you from your government.

Read it here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fourth_amendment
Essentially all of everyone's ancestors had straight sex; is this good evidence against the existence of people who dislike straight sex?

The point is that your finding it hard to believe that someone feels a particular way is very poor evidence that they do not feel that way, especially when applied to a population.

We know that longtime meditators are able to distinguish micro-expressions in others that reveal emotions that they might not even realize they are having. And they are experts in identifying their own emotions as well. Do you have any such qualifications?

If not, then your disbelief in other people's claims about their experience is likely much stronger evidence of your own difficulty empathizing.
okay so i looked into this: from what I can tell, warfarin poisoning doesn't cause dehydration directly, but it does cause severe diarrhea, vomiting and excess bleeding. From what I can tell, all of those things constitute fluid loss and would lead to dehydration.

maybe the pot growers should provide the rats with some water...
They solved the problem of connectivity but there are also many other problems many related to the data they receive from the sensors. It is probably not enough to simply store or monitor this data. Analyzing such amounts of data could be the next challenge.
Incandescent lights were more forgiving in that regard due to thermal inertia: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/13400/what-invis...
> People don't like hearing "I wish my children were never born", because it sounds a lot like desire to commit homicide.

Of course it does not. What a horrible thing to say!
S2, linked from the README[1], does the same hierarchical subdivisions in squares, with each square having a string ID.

Squares divide into sub-squares exactly, but hexagon's don't sub-divide into hexagon's neatly.[2]

Can someone explain the advantages of hexagons over squares in this use case?

[1]https://code.google.com/archive/p/s2-geometry-library/
[2]https://www.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/ta...
I had thought that the high water use of California's Central Valley almond trees was something that was relatively widely known. I know I've encountered in in a variety of readings over the last couple of years, and I haven't been specifically trying to research it.

This is something that has already been written about a fair amount; is it really fair to expect him to "do his homework" for the counter to your claim when it's based on what is, to some, common knowledge? Moreover, the poster that you had already replied to above included two links to articles about the cost (in water) of growing various things. If you feel the need to "check the numbers", I think the burden might be on you to go find them.
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) http://www.eugdpr.org/ is approaching. Nobody seems to know what exactly to do.
I agree that the tooling is getting better. Some of the popular libraries are still figuring out the right patterns to apply to make them more "Kotlin friendly". Tools like the Checker Framework [1], JSR 308 [2], and compiler plugins like Traute [3] can also help with the safety issues on the Java side. Kotlin is beginning to understand these more, and some of the basic annotations are supported, but the tooling is only going to improve with all of the backing that Kotlin currently has.

[1]: https://checkerframework.org/

[2]: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308

[3]: https://github.com/denis-zhdanov/traute
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> I mean, who of your friends or family actually said that Oprah should become president?

Several people in my social media circles almost immediately after the speech, before any media traction from it.

Since then, several more, often reposting/sharing/retweeting others outside my circles.
Well, a handful of tech companies are some of the most valuable companies in the world right now, a few of them thanks to what was then the untapped power of the internet(Amazon, Google, Facebook), Google and Facebook not only are huge companies but they can also influence elections and public opinion.

There is no question that there was a bubble, but the value of the internet as a platform for building businesses now far exceeds what people expected it to accomplish in the dotcom bubble.

I'm not saying cryptocurrencies will have the same fate, but it's not impossible.
Is every face a hexagon?

I thought to cover a sphere you had to throw in at least a few things that weren't hexagons. Euler and all that.
Social Security is one example of the young subsidizing the old. Medicare is another. Old folks homes are another.

Seems to me there is ample evidence of the young supporting the old.

Consider what your aged life would be like if everyone suddenly elected to not reproduce. What would it be like to be 70, when the youngest person is 60?

Clearly, the young support the aged.
This may have just made my production cluster WAY faster! ;)
In the less dense areas the most economical solution for great connectivity is definitely mesh networks. They are even being deployed in very rural areas at a very low cost! http://owni.fr/files/2011/09/Building_a_Rural_Wireless_Mesh_...

Obviously there are better (commercial, prepackaged) mesh network solutions
Regarding a more decentralized web, I recommend this talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8740-the_internet_in_cuba_a_stor...
Yes, I can experience a forest. With more than just my eyes.

I also smell (the trees, the flowers, the mushrooms, the soil) and hear the birds and the insects and feel the ground under my (bare)feet and taste the raspberrys ...

This is the forest. Doesn't matter if I can't feel all trees at once, I still experience 'the forest'.

(oh and btw. visiting a forest can also be quite unpleasant, like when there is a storm and trees are falling around you and there is no safe shelter)

So ... this was maybe a bit nitpicking, but I still wanted to say it ;)
There are definitely tangible health benefits. Giving birth and breastfeeding reduce the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The protective effect for breast cancer goes away if the woman becomes pregnant when she is older however. Pregnancy also reduces the risk of multiple sclerosis. For most of human history however, the dangers far outweighed any benefits, with maternal mortality being a major cause of death.

There are probably many other fascinating things going on as you highlight.

I should add that there could be selection bias going on - perhaps those that have children have existing social, economic, psychological and health attributes that also predict successful ageing.
Very frequently people call up a broadband provider, get told there is broadband at their address, then they get told later that in fact it is not. Thus it's not clear that providers have a real handle on this at an operational level, never mind a synoptic level.

As for left v right, it's true that adjunct faculty who teach English are rabid leftists because they are working four jobs that are 60 miles apart, have no health insurance, qualify for food stamps, etc.

One reason you see so few rightists in conventional academia is that they can go work for places like the Manhattan Institute, Hoover Institution, etc. and get paid much more, not have to teach, not deal with the rat race. There is a continuous drumbeat of reports on how there is no broadband problem in the U.S. that is funded by the industry -- these don't get much attention outside the trade press because normal people know that students camp outside the school some nights because they don't have broadband at home.
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The way a library OS normally works is that you compile your OS+App on one machine and install it on another (virtual or otherwise). What I'm suggesting is that you compile on one machine and then reinstall your OS on the same machine, and the result is still able to do this trick.
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