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Evidence is mixed, and it depends on what numbers you look at unfortunately. I've personally met at least one person that credited the program with kicking drinking. Unfortunately this doesn't really make it any better than a placebo effect (Which is better than nothing, I guess). And it doesn't cure my special hatred for AA (and AA type programs), especially as a court-ordered standard of care.
> I think there's an implicit assumption of cultural superiority in such case.

Actually, at least in my case, it's pretty explicit. A culture that embraces science and evidence-based medicine is objectively superior - in that respect - to one that does not.

I say in that respect because obviously cultures are multifaceted. It's entirely possible for, say, a culture to have a superior approach to evidence based medicine, while having an inferior approach to aged care.
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Atleast give some constructive complaints, hating the UI sounds like a personal rant and not a good one as well when the whole world copies Apple's UI.
> The organisation acquired its own servers, and began encrypting its communication

yikes, sounds pretty sloppy from all sides
And yet, Lehmann Brothers went tits up.
Since the world stopped being completely black and white. (It never was.) And most definitely, medical science is not either.

With every medical decision there are trade-offs. Sure, it's best to walk soon after surgery... sometimes. Sometimes it's too early. And sometimes there are trade-offs like torturous pain that no person should have to bear. Many people might choose to forgo the day after walk knowing that their chances of a full recovery might be 0.01% lower.

It reminds me of the mantra that "breast feeding is best". Yes, according to some studies, there appears to be positive relationship. But what if continuing to breast feed causes a mother to stay clinically depressed. What if she can't handle the every 2 hours and it is driving her crazy and she wants to shake her crying baby. Maybe in this case, "formula is best".

A good medical practitioner works with their patients to communicate the risks and rewards clearly and help guide them to make the decisions that work best for them.
>Google having massive reserves of cash just lying around.

What does that have to do with anything?
Do you think that we'll be able to escape making this tradeoff in the future? I don't think it's unreasonable to think that sanitation and healthcare technology will advance to the point that they can be implemented in smaller communities at similar levels of quality that could be seen in big cities.
They only need to fudge their numbers by a few percent for them to win the majority of impressions. It's not about bidding $600 for a $10 slot, it's about bidding $11 and then pointing out that their internal operator is still profitable after all sorts of internal cross subsidisation.
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>By having made their own scripting language it allows for it to flow better with their engine, at least that's my opinion

>[...]

>I'm sure everyone wants to reuse the millions of Python libraries available but they're not built for Godot.

Yeah, it is one of those tradeoffs you have to weigh up, I guess. After thinking about it some more, I think that keeping Python as an optional, community project is far saner for the core devs. They can focus time on the important part (the engine, UI, etc) and not on trying to get a 3rd-party language to work correctly.
If you use C++ as "C with Classes", it is a fantastic C replacement.

Just stick to 'struct's instead of 'class'es, use ctor/dtor for RAII, pure virtual functions to declare interfaces and single-level inheritance to implement them and, perhaps, an occasional template to replace a macro - and you still basically have C, but it's now far less verbose and more pleasant to use.
> This sounds like a reasonable definition of a hash function, right?

Right.

> So V8 relaxes the requirement that the function be pure. getHash() then generates a random number for the object, stuffs it in some hidden chunk of memory inside the object (what the linked article is about) and declares by fiat that that number is now the hash code for that object's otherwise-intangible identity.

Thanks for writing it out like that, That's exactly how I understood it, it is good to have that confirmed.

I understand why that is called a hash in V8 now, but I feel exactly like ninkendo writes in a comment above:

> You’d just as well call it an “equality checking code”, or name it after any other use case you could think of for a unique identifier. Ruby calls its equivalent construct “object_id” and that makes so much more sense.

But your position is not wrong, this is only about what you expect to stand behind which word, and since I agree that the definition of a hash fits to that scheme this is only about connotations. Thinking of this hash as an object_id makes it clearer to me why this is done and how it could be used (and I'd absolutely use an object_id as input to a hash function, the usage does not have to differ, though that is not done here).
> How can you pump BTC with USDT?

Get people to believe it's backed 1:1 by USD when it's not, so that it is viewed as equivalent to USD but less problematic in regulatory
terms, and then print a bunch of unbacked USDT and use them to buy BTC. To the market, the effect is as if a whole lot more actual USD were chasing BTC, effectively looking like higher demand.
Haha, having worked at Kelkoo when it was owned by Yahoo! so I have to disagree here. The management at Kelkoo really believe Google is shafting them but they used to do crazy things like change the location of the website every time they deploy. They were bad at SEO and blamed Google.
Container Optimised OS also says they don't support use cases outside of GCloud, and it also relies on CoreOS' services itself.

So for bare metal use cases, I'm EOL?
On could argue that even jesus did allow for xeno-theism, given that he argued for giving the roman emperor what the roman emperor was due- and the roman emperors at that time considered themselves basically gods or god decendants.
Associativity of Elvis operator
You can not use partial application with that.
for example
const add = x=>y=>x+y

can be partialy applied like the following
const add3 = add(3) // this is also a function
> Frankly, I'm not sure why Google would acquire RedHat, SAP or Oracle.

Enterprise distribution. Without significant enterprise revenue, Google Cloud will never catch up to AWS and Azure. Nobody can beat Google on technology, but technology alone cannot solve this.

> I'm not sure what will be gain from that. Google probably doesn't care about the softwares these companies provides as it has its own internal alternatives/derivative and Google is not really a software vendor, so it's a bit outside of their core business.

Google Cloud absolutely is a software vendor. They sell cloud services which compete directly with traditional enterprise software. Their services are superior in many ways, but enterprise adoption is definitely not one of them. That is the problem they could solve by buying an enterprise-savvy competitor.

As a bonus, these traditional software vendors are all racing to deploy cloud versions of their software. Because they have massive install bases, they can drive enterprise workloads to the cloud of their choice.

What would make more sense in my opinion would be for Google to have a partnership with a big Enterprise player (or several in fact) and promote it loudly.

They are already partnering aggressively, just like their competitors. I think they announced exactly this with SAP recently.

But partnerships have their limits. Most vendors will not allow themselves to grow too dependent on their main competitors. If they did, they would lose all leverage in the deal, and slowly starve as Big Cloud grabs all the margins. And then we're back to the acquisition scenario.
Would you say Xi is usable for "real-life end users"? If yes, what are the best-supported usecases? If not yet - do you have a plan for getting there, or is it still mostly a research project?

(FWIW, I tried compiling Xi on OSx & opening a large file in it. To its credit, it worked, but there are issues; e.g. horizontal scrollbar is wrong, word wrapping is not working etc)
Once they discovered what was going on they could have had oh so much fun...

“Hey Okumbo did you really sell the Chinese an empty diamond mine?

Yea that mine be empty and full of baaad spirits.”

Ok I’m not the most creative at this stuff but the possibilities could have been endless
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I like how the graph has to go back 100 years to find any sort of correlation between two independent variables. Another quality finding by the Institute of Reddit and WaPo Communications Major Statisticians.
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As I mentioned higher up the thread, pain thresholds vary dramatically. My father has had more than one root canal with no anesthetic because it was cheaper. He said the pain wasn't that bad. He just has a very high threshold for tooth pain, or lack of nerves there.
I wonder if there's a bit of a land grab going on right now to claim as much LEO and geosync spots as possible before they dry up and become too crowded to operate in safely. Maybe a secondary market of orbital slots will open up where current operators sell their huge chunks to new entrants. Just like good old ipv4.
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More Frequent updates doesn’t neccesaraly mean more bugs. It mostly means that they can patch the OS much more quickly and easily.

Also some of these updates are feature updates and many of the updates on iOS correspond to updates to play services as much as they aren’t updates to the core OS.
You don't get to make a "bad apples" argument against unions. It's 100% of the point of unionization that all workers in an industry are bound by its decisions with no recourse. If you find your industry's union to be piss poor, you can suck it up or find a different line of work.

That would be much worse than the current situation for software engineers, where if you find your boss's decisions to be piss poor, you can go get a better offer down the street.
I read the paper long time ago, but if I remember correctly, it does not remove objects, the way it works is it iteratively finds a "seam" - a pixel-level path that goes perpendicular to the direction of resizing - that has the lowest "energy" and removes it. So objects are preserved and "empty space" is reduced.
Any plans to support other languages like C#/Ruby/JavaScript (Node.JS)?
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As if all doctors make correct decisions all the time. Doctor's should be hesitant as well.
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Tenure in this case refers to "time in job" - teacher pay is based on how long they've been working. Raises aren't subject to performance, only the passage of time.
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Fair enough, but how many train wrecks did you have to witness to come to that conclusion?
Not OP, but for me it's the apps. While a good number of apps I use professionally can be used on both Windows and Linux, I prefer using OSX simply because Omnifocus, Fantastical and Spark exist on it. I'm sure there are other people who can use the Todoist/web/web trio or make do with Outlook (if you're in an all-Exchange shop with no CalDAV stuff), I'm just not one of them.

An alternative view is that Linux lacks good GUI apps and Windows blows at the command line (despite Bash on Windows). Windows apps also don't have great UX chops in the areas I'd like them to. 1password on Windows sucked the last time I used it, there's no native equivalent to Omnifocus or Things, there's no great calendar app like Fantastical, there's no great indie devs like Readdle[1] or Nucleobytes[2].

This comes from someone who's used all these OSes as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD for both work and home.

[1]https://readdle.com/

[2]https://nucleobytes.com/
What's the relevance?
But what would you say to a nation militarily imperializing your own over some cultural practice of your own? Sure, you don't think any of your practices are abhorrent, but there are major religions who would disagree over, say, eating meat, or certain animals, conflicts over early and/or late term abortion, etc

What, if anything, gives someone the right to force their subjective cultural views onto others? Are any cultural morals truly universal?
> hotkeys

If you have used Windows since Win95, CTRL+Left/Right is most-likely muscle memory. This hotkey also works in most Linux programs, including Vim and the terminal. It's practically as universal as ALT+F4. macOS does its own special thing. This is by and far the largest issue I have with macOS. It might sound silly, but keep in mind that I get thrown to a different desktop multiple times a minute, completely losing mental context each time, because I am using something that has the same effect everywhere else.

Assuming I could change the hotkeys to something less inane, I still wouldn't go near the ecosystem. I flat out refuse to spend $1700 on these specs[1] (i5 with Intel graphics), when I can spend $1899 on one of these[2] (i7 with GTX1060).

The iPhone is a different story and I might try it.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
[2]: https://www.gigabyte.com/Laptop/AERO-15#kf
Google has had a large data centre in Taiwan for ages. I suspect it's going to be more of a case of HTC staff having culture shock when joining Google.
They want for the deal because, in spite of doing well on the community side, they did not go as well on the business side. Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Kubernetes are very crowded and difficult markets. Being popular with startups is a big advantage in many ways, but it doesn't pay the bills.
> But the solution was always better (more democratic, less corrupt, etc) unions

The core of a union is having an iron grip on the privilege of working in an industry. A bad union can't be sidestepped or replaced - that's the entire point.
Direct links to the relevant introductory papers:
http://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Recommended_Readings/
http://9p.io/sys/doc/
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Characterizing iOS 11 as a mess is a gross exaggeration. If you told 99% of iPhone user's their phone was a mess, they wouldn't know what you were talking about. I would say Android version fragmentation is a significantly larger mess than anything Apple has ever done.

> You just need to look at the frequency of iOS 11 point releases to see what a mess they've created

Another interpretation is that they care more about software quality, and are fixing things that would be left broken by other manufacturers.
What is the domain of your PhD? If it's computer science or mathematics then you might find that ML class on Coursera too easy, way below your level of competence.
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Well the way I understood it, HK doesn't really need to care who they're pissing off, since they're kind of used to pissing off their big brother.
> Apps can host code.

You say that like it's a good thing.
Yeah my colleague has an S8 and it also has this function. It is possible to enable "Immersive Mode" on the pixel through an app and giving it root access through ADB. However it would be much easier if google just made it a toggleable setting.
I’ll never unionise simply because I think it’s immoral to strong-arm your employer when they’re the one to take the burden, and risk of running a company, while offering me the benefits of a stable job. If you don’t like your situation, you can always leave, and find something better, or start your own business.
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> To be fair, this happens with every language I've been associated with, even C. Just look at those people who do metaprogramming with the C preprocessor. It's madness!

To be fair, C++ metaprogramming with templates makes C preprocessor look like an insignificant ant in front of a truck.
All that proves is that ideas can come in from anywhere. Google has a similar list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

It's impossible to say how much input/influence each of these mergers had on the products of these companies. Some of these started products, some of these enhanced them, some of these even replaced them.
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Colleague sitting next to me did this move a month ago (not sure which pixel generation he had). After wow effect passed (1-2 weeks), he started to regret the move.

According to him, there is nothing special on apple device that would justify the ridiculous price (and market seems to be thinking the same, they are down sizing the production due to lack of demand from what I have heard). The price sets the expectations very high, and at the end it's just another cell phone.

Another issue is, the phone is too simple/dumb compared to Android for his preferences.

Can't comment myself, only using Androids, since even 150$ new device offers everything I ever need, and I don't care that much if I damage/lose it.
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Cool app, but have a look at taskwarrior https://taskwarrior.org
It's really embarrassing... for who always call Africans "old friends"
Remember that most (all?) meds have an expiration date so there can also be some product lost due to that.
Alpine for sure.
>prepare to spend a few years without cell phone reception, Internet, and a five-day weather forecast.

Aside from the weather forecast the rest doesn't need any sort of satellite.

It's incredible how many people still think mobile phones are using satellites! It's a ground antenna, connected via copper or fiber to a wider network of... antennas. If you call abroad, 99% chances your call goes through a submarine cable which is again copper or fiber.

Same with Internet, unless you really are in the middle of the Amazon forest, or (live in country side in the states)
When I buy/sell bitcoin on Coinbase, am I considered part of network? Yes the transaction will be part of the blockchain but I am not participating directly rather using proxy (in this case, coinbase for it). This is what I meant by powerbroker.

Second, to my scaling point, In order to be a part of a network one has to maintain a complete blockchain on local server/computer. This is something just not scalable in practice for 99% of people or the use-case... so regardless of the intent there will be an emergence of powerbrokers....

So using the internet analogy, yes internet is decentralized but who owns the backbone (att and few major players) will be the case for blockchain.
That's only recent. Post Jobs.
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Sounds incredibly similar to Phil Libin's project: https://all-turtles.com.

Phil Libin is the ex-CEO of Evernote.

Maybe there's room for multiple players in this space, but I imagine the name recognition and bona fides of Andrew Ng is going to suck the air out of All Turtles.
They really aren't that bad... in fact, they're pretty useful. Source: your everyday C++ programmer
China also built the UK government network hopefully the UK, the end result is also likely similar despite the UK paying quite a bit for it.

On the works here is for China to build the next generation of nuclear reactors in the UK let’s see how will that turn out.
A good, but difficult question - it's difficult to quantize complexity. Both languages have aim that their users can have much as much control as possible, even if it entails complexity in the language desing.

Perhaps one answer could be, that much of Rust's complexity arises from the concepts of 'borrowing' and 'lifetimes' and how they are encoded in the language.

In C++, complexity much of the complexity arises from the copy/reference semantics, and the possibility of overriding standard behaviour. You need to have wider context to understand local code. So you need to understand how the C++ works on quite a low level and you might need to know more specifics on your C++ codebase than might be the case in Rust.
I already pointed out that you pay the other half of SE tax, but that’s at most 7.65%, and since SS is capped, for many high-income self-employed workers it’ll be less.

And yes, you pay income tax, but no more than you pay as an employee, so it’s not relevant here.

In fact, you now almost certainly have a huge advantage if you’re self-employed: in addition to being able to write off more and save more for retirement pre-tax ($55k), you now get a 20% deduction of your net profit if your taxable income is below $157k single / $315k married, which most self-employed folks will be.

Healthcare is still by far the biggest cost difference most people will face but even if you add all these things up, they don’t represent anything even remotely close to 50%.
Not one single thing you wrote would be considered basic usability for 99% of smart phone owners.

> Many Android apps are more mature and have more features than iPhone equivalents.

Lol. Ok. Even the most ardent Android supporters don't claim that Android's app ecosystem is nearly as mature as Apple's.

> Slow handsets after 1.5 years

Slower handsets after your battery has degraded enough that your phone risks shutdown, thereby prolonging the life of your device and ensuring it's available when you need it. Easily resolved by getting a new battery.

> planned obsolence.

That's blatant lie, and you know it.
If you’re not affraid of risk, why not start your own company.
That’s crazy, but very few self-employed software devs have more than $5k of office furniture.
Is that the same as the term "Dean" that's used elsewhere?
Don't promote non-Mozilla products via your web browser. It's a conduit for content, not a content showcase.

Come up with an idea of "browser neutrality".
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of Mozilla doing this in the first place, this is why open source is great. Can you imagine getting this kind of transparency and humility from Google or Apple?
Coinbase is required by law to verify after you reach a certain threshold (not a very high one either). So they will let you sign up with a bank account, but once you start using the account a bit, they will freeze your account and want all kinds of ID.
A $180k income with a maxed 401k in California is around $8500/mo in take home. Servicing the mortgage alone would be $4728. With maintenance, insurance, etc. you're pushing 70% of your take-home dedicated to housing. That's not "comfortably."
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Very interesting topic indeed !

Me and two other researchers have published a paper[1] using Valiant's Probably Approximately Correct learning to learn regulatory Gene networks, which can be interesting if you want to dig deeper !

If anyone has questions on the topic, feel free to ask, I'll keep an eye on the thread.

[1]A. Carcano, F. Fages, and S. Soliman, “Probably Approximately Correct Learning of Regulatory Networks from Time-Series Data,” presented at the CMSB’17 - 15th International Conference on Computational Methods for Systems Biology, 2017, vol. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 74–90.
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Which generation?

And, what about graphics/adobe suite?
>Like, I'm curious what drives the demand for homes in the ~$2M range in the bay area, if it's not the general software developer who's able to afford it.

The margins. The actual numbers of homes turning over at such prices is miniscule.