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There is a certain rather loud, rather fashionable kind of "activist" who are if not directly claiming that everything is awful, then strongly evoking symbolism and imagery to that effect. To fix this, they want to take broad, radical action, basically to affect revolution. This approach is indefensible given the actual state of the world, and these activists are either confused about the facts, or cynically manipulating their followers for personal power. If they get their way, things will get worse, quickly. These are the people Pinker is rebutting.

There is also a kind of activist that work towards fixing specific problems, including Gates, but certainly also a great many people of lesser means and public profile, and does indeed improve the world in the way you describe. I have no doubt that Pinker respects these.
Yet.

Right now there are a bunch of little forked differences between them all. Microsoft says they are working to merge all the shell differences into a single project (CShell; composable shell), and the point of getting to a clean core (the "Polaris" codename in this article) seems to be to make sure all the rest of Windows modularly slots in on top of that, and a benefit to that is that you could quite possibly more easily change between which modules are loaded/available.

From the Continuum project, we know that Microsoft finds it interesting to be able to switch between Mobile and Desktop editions as much "on the fly" as possible. Could mean they have ideas for switching between Desktop and Xbox modes, too.
Yes, riot sucks both in its current "desktop" implem (electron indeed) and the web version - tried it about two months back. You can tell there's possibly something worthwhile there though; eventually it may become usable for work.

I found the way the software tries systematically to push the user towards the "official", centralized matrix server distasteful though.
Good. Seeing how XMPP basically came to a complete stall, may be Matrix can progress further.
I'm dubious about the resource point, because prospecting and mining are demand-driven. These kind of resource crunches are happening all the time with new technologies. Supply will follow demand, that may even lower prices with new discoveries or technologies. Even if the price has to go up massively to open up new sources, how many orders of magnitude increase would be required to make a dent in the overall cost of a battery for Cobalt? And then, even if there is a serious hard limit there are plenty of alternatives. You can use multiple other materials as an in-place replacement for Cobalt in Lithium batteries, and there are lots of other fundamentally different battery and storage technologies which work using different materials and principles, which have other resource requirements. The peak Lithium or peak Cobalt idea seems quite similar to peak oil, which was sort of right (in the sense of conventional oil) but in a way which turned out not to be especially relevant.
Sounds like you never touched a solar panel on a sunny day.
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> Is the 40GW of production in China a "tax farm"?

According to everything I can find online the answer is a clear Yes?
Blame those who don't support the idea of IM federation.
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> A number of exchanges don't actually trade $/BTC they trade USDT/BTC

It's even worse: a number of exchanges use a pegged USDT/USD price of 1 and transparently comingle BTCUSDT and BTCUSD markets.
I think this is a really important issue and glad someone is working on awareness. It extends far beyond cars but those are probably the most 'frightening' example. We need to

(1) Admit we have a big problem.

(2) Admit it will be difficult to solve and there aren't easy solutions.

(3) Start working on solutions.

Unfortunately, these steps never seem politically popular. But it will be tough. Except in very rare scenarios (NASA), software security and correctness aren't treated as important in the scheme of things, relative to functionality and features. Nobody wants to invest in actually secure, carefully-audited code. (They might claim they do, but their standards for "secure" and "careful" would be litigation-worthy in any field but software.)

For example, I believe in freedom of software and ownership rights, which seems to mean that I believe people should be allowed to run open-source code on their own cars' computers. But this impacts public safety. How do we develop reasonable regulations similar to those for physical "street-lega" modifications?
State actors have a myriad of options.

I was simply trying to answer the question of why this isn't happening all the time.

If it is happening all the time (a point I won't dispute) then the question is wrong.
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No. You also do not have standing to sue a company for decreasing the resale value of your property by releasing a new model.

There absolutely can be social utility in remedying structural unemployment, but we are not in an economic system where people have a right to wages for work that is not valuable.
B.S.

Gray oversimplifies Pinker's argument and acts as an esteemed gate-keeper, though without the right credentials.

You want to refute an 800 page book, you'll want to write more than 4500 words.

However Gray's not entirely incorrect. Violence is complex and does increase and decrease randomly in the short term. But Pinker's point is the long term.
The thing is when you have two or more pretty unlikely traits as required components of X, X's likelyhood becomes negligible. That's why the weapons of choice for homicidal maniacs are everyday tools like kitchen knives or baseball clubs. Even the use of handguns sugest the involvement of a more purpose-driven kind of homicidal.

So, IMHO, what you need to fear is not a hacker going homicidal. Rather, it is the raise of a black market of "assasination thru tech"; specially if there's enough separation of labour so that unethical but otherwise non-violent hackers can enable the efforts of conventional assassins in order to accomplish their grim deeds.
While favorably classifying waste certainly helps the coal industry I'm not getting on the "more federal power will solve this" bandwagon.

We'd also have a lot more wind farms if it weren't for environmental regulations. A group of people with money can stall a project by taking them to court over environmental impact and compliance with regulation.
How does the user know that the file is open? Also, Is it consistent across network folder renames too?
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> Autonomous vehicles should not communicate with each other. Waymo's cars don't. Most of the schemes for "car to car communication" are motivated by marketing or surveillance, not driving. Aircraft systems don't communicate with the ground much, and when they do, the uploaded data is very simple. (It's common in commercial aircraft to hardware disable maintenance functions unless the "weight on wheels" switch is on, indicating the plane is on the ground and parked.)

You seem to be out of touch what happens today. Car2Car or Car2Infrastructure is about as aircraft to aircraft communication is used in TCAS. It is about what car (object) is at which position, so that collision may be detected as early as possible to prevent them.

Also next generation cars will have their maintenance modes locked down as far as possible. OBDII will be closed down as far as possible. All those dongles, which are hip right now, will be rendered useless. But of course the tuning scene has still a lot of incentives like in the past to thwart all this and to reverse engineer. It will be a cat-and-rat game like it always was.
The reason it's called a “patch” in software
The simplest response to this is: they are going up at a massive rate.
My assumption is that it's more of a "sprint milestone" codename for the MinWin/OneCore "next phase" than an entirely new project. (It was also rumored to have the milestone codename "Andromeda" recently, and I wouldn't be surprised that they switched to Polaris to avoid Google's similar codename.)
He did, but the corporate tax cut was funded partially by giving less preferential treatment to debt (only being able to deduct 30% of the interest) and Dell was taken private with tons of debt. The takeover of EMC added tons more debt.
This appears to have come before the recent 30% Solar panel import tariff. Can anybody else confirm that the bids that include solar would not be possible today?
This is all theoretical right now, but I'm more excited about a world where VMs are treated like containers. Application orchestration at the VM level instead of at the container level. Reduced attack surface (no unnecessary OS components). Fewer moving parts = easier to reason about.

There are still a lot of kinks to be worked out. For one, what is the debugging story when you can't SSH onto a VM? Or do you compile into your application something analogous to SSH? If so, does that mean you're bringing in much of the "unnecessary baggage" that makes unikernels so compelling in theory?

I'm excited, but cautiously so.
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I just tested it and it appears to work on my system.

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There's another variable here: clothes are immensely cheaper today. It was much less affordable to own a huge batch of clothes at all back then.
> Autonomous vehicles should not communicate with each other. Waymo's cars don't. Most of the schemes for "car to car communication" are motivated by marketing or surveillance, not driving.

ehhh, cars shouldn't be communicating with cars they can't see. but i'd like to them to communicate over free space optical, aimed at the level of other vehicles. brake lights could be modulated to contain current braking force, and reason for braking. turn signals could contain the destination lane. head/tail lights the current speed, and target speed.
If I remember correctly, Redshift became more cost-effective over Snowflake the larger your compute got.

Snowflake would just run an EC2 instance in the background for compute, and the very largest EC2 instances were more expensive to run than a Redshift cluster of similar power.
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I was responding to your own comment

>In a case where one could get some sort of inconsistency because of different library versions, you restart the applications.

I am envisioning the same scenario you replied to!
> unfortunately, I think short works much better for independent content producers

I agree, that size video is great for independent producers. But there will always be demand for large spectacle productions, and for the foreseeable future, those will cost large amounts of money. Simpler distribution won't—can't—help with that.
It's hard for me to really know what status.im is. It bills itself as an OS, but it's not because it runs on iOS and Android. Is it a separate app store and platform? Is it a collection of apps? Is it a library or a set of protocols?

Is this a problem with the blockchain community? Repurposing long-established words for their own use ("crypto", "os")?
Not all Europeans, just Germans.
I still don't think top hiring bars will lower if supply increases ( and they shouldn't). ML is a hard field with a lot of complicated math - you can definitely teach a focused individual to use it in a month or two and hire them - but, on paper, they're still not going to stack up against masters/PHDs from top schools who understand all the math involved, are able to expand the toolset as needed, have proven experience tackling research problems, etc. Just my two cents.
Not too many walls will stand up to being rammed by a Bobcat or other small skid loader, and those can be easily transported by a pickup truck and a trailer.
I agree! Fail fast, I don't know how many times a 3D Print has failed on me after half a day of printing, pretty depressing. I've had some spectacular failures on my laser and cnc machines that barely phased me compared to losing a print.
If Tether is not legitimate, wouldn't Tether holders sell their Tether for BTC and other crypto assets which would increase the prices of crypto assets?

Does it matter if Tether is not backed by USD if none of the exchanges will let you trade fiat for Tether anyways? What if people just want to believe that its backed by USD?

What if Tether not being legitimate is already priced into BTC?

Wouldn't the supply of Tether need to be orders of magnitudes higher in order to be a systemic problem to BTC and other crypto assets? Its market capitalization isn't even 1% of the total crypto market.
>Honestly, it feels like a pretty big bubble.

You think?

https://i.imgur.com/Lly8RAI.png
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I wonder why did you get that impression about XMPP, for me it's quite the opposite. Have you seen https://conversations.im/ ?
Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see an indication of how much storage they are talking about here. The problem with renewables is still intermittence, and geographic dependence. Solar does no good at night, and there are days the wind doesn't blow. The costs of storage for that bulk application still don't seem to make sense, and I don't see it addressed here. The Tesla battery replaced power on the order of seconds, which is still a success, but not enough.

In general, solar has been great for reducing peak demand, since it has highest output during the middle of the day when electricity demand is also greatest. Not clear how much farther it can go, though. Wind may be able to replace some, but wind isn't strong everywhere.
In fact, there's quite a lot of practical and interesting insights into relationship, finances, discipline and more, for example the book of Proverbs is full of literal advice on dealing with family, children, marriage, business ethics. The letters of Paul to the Romans and Corinthians contain very interesting thought provoking statements on love, relationship, respect. Even if you remove faith completely from the picture you can definitely find very interesting content.
I say unlimited because concurrent reads were basically a non-issue for Snowflake. You could have as many users reading from the same table as you wanted.

Meanwhile "Redshift enforces a query concurrency limit of 15 on a cluster."
http://blog.blazeclan.com/what-is-amazon-redshift-11-key-poi...
A subsidy is a government cost and likely needs more approvals than A tariff which is a source of income for the government. One was accomplished with executive order while the other would likely have to go through congress.
>And according to something I read from the US Dept of Energy, one of the big reasons for that is reckoned to be over-regulation.

Yes. This is non-negligible part of the problem. There's lots of regulation and that plays right into the hand of the incumbents (utility companies) who can use that regulation to make it harder to compete.
This is similar to what you've said, but I'd say the issue is more that it becomes more advantageous to use them if the same people who would normally levy sanctions against you have all disarmed. Currently there's little risk of North Korea actually using nuclear weapons. If they could do so without nuclear retaliation, it becomes a much more likely scenario. Even if banning nuclear weapons makes it much more difficult to obtain them, the consequences of someone obtaining them become much worse.
Totally Agree. I was not assuming broadband capability / cell service for my hypothetical (also traditional comms may be limited in remote / classified environments) but that's definitely another reason to have a personal device. Comms with family would be critical if they are possible.
const { for, class } = this.props

Will crash. It's just a bit inconvenient (and inconsistent for beginners) having to write:

const { for: forHtml, class: className } = this.props

Some react-like libs do allow it, but the dom api takes offcial precedence, so it's all fine. It's just that HTML in general was made without taking all the things into account we demand of it today. It wasn't even made for imperative inflating, so the dom-api faced the same troubles.
None of that information can be trusted, so maybe it's better to not even bother.
How's Kraken doing? They have a market for USDT/USD, and claim they will do a wire transfer to a US bank for $5. Do they actually deliver on that? Or do they stall and make excuses?

It would be worthwhile for some trader to deposit a few hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin with Kraken, convert it to USD, and order a wire transfer. Repeat this every few days to see how well the process works.

(In the real world, when you order a wire transfer from a stockbroker, the money gets transferred within hours. Even for big amounts.)
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> Microsoft says they are working to merge all the shell differences into a single project (CShell; composable shell), and the point of getting to a clean core (the "Polaris" codename in this article)

The clean core is Windows Core OS; Polaris is the desktop-specific composer on top of CShell and Windows Core OS and is also used in this article as the name of a UWP-only Windows edition incorporating the Core OS/CShell/Polaris-composer stack.
No it has to look vintage, but has to also be modern and cool.
That's insane. It costs a couple hundred dollars a year to update aircraft Instrument flight GPS maps (and EVERYTHING is expensive on an airplane), it's galling that automakers would deign to charge so much for a product that almost all of us have available for free on our phones.
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"The global average IQ score is rising by about 3 IQ points every decade."

Is this statement correct? I was under impression that while the per-country averages are mostly rising, the global average is going down.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-S...
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
Can you link real world data?

Are externalities (CO2 output) taken into considerations in your unsourced REAL WORLD DATA!!~!
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The store usually has nothing to lose. In most cases, the ATM in small stores isn't owned by the store: the ATM owner pays them a fee for having it there.
I saw this first-hand in the Philippines. The women had to spend so much time washing clothes by hand. It's also a reminder that it's not over, there are still huge amounts of people around the world yet to benefit from these inventions.
Why act like the world isn't getting better if it actually is?
Note that coal is also not a dispatchable power source. Mostly they're base load plants [1], best case they're load following power plants [2]. No way for them to respond quickly to demand changes like natural gas, hydroelectric, or batteries can.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#Coa...
Some UWP apps offer mod extensibility (Edge extensions are the most prominent, but a couple UWP games have community mods and more are supposed to happen down the road), and Microsoft has shown interest in supporting general UWP application modding/patching, but haven't yet solved how they want to support that (and still try for security/reliability concerns; not just let it be a new malware vector).
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Dickens was the most popular entertainer of his time. Shakespeare was widely popular as well. Both are considered too difficult for most audiences now days. Can you imagine a writer like Dickens being the most popular in contemporary America or in the UK? Our most popular figure is Kim Kardashian.

And my point about the Church was not to say that religion is all good, but to point to the fact that people are disconnected from communities. UK just hired a Minister of Loneliness. Its a serious issue.
>There are U.S. solar panel manufacturers who were suffering due to the flooding of the market by Chinese imported panels

That's a loaded assertion at best. There were some solar panel companies that failed, but many that did not. According to the Solar Energy Industry Association, these two manufacturers failed because of poor business decisions that left them making products that the market did not want.

There's zero support for the notion that it was "Chinese" flooding, there were manufacturers from many other countries that were meeting the US market demand were Suniva and SolarWorld failed.
I bet you have lots of friends.
Agreed, but many times you need to be super explicit about the main channels, otherwise people just...forget and/or can't keep it all in their brain because some folks are bad with checklists.

It's stupid easy to leave an Apple Watch or FitBit on your wrist walking around a secure location (as evidence suggests). Big signs required to avoid these kinds of risks.

The signage required just to get people to leave their bloody phones outside a room is incredible - and they still err. Social Network training is already provided as well to avoid these kinds of social engineering risks, and yet... well, just search LinkedIn I'd imagine.
Interesting fact..if you put a pinch of salt under your tong you will see and almost immediate rise in BP. This tactic has been used for decades as a home remedy to quick revert the effects of spell of low blood pressure.
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Bitfinex will likely be forced to sell bitcoin on USD markets to get dollars so they can buy tether to prop the price up.

So prices on bitfinex will go up as prices elsewhere go down.
> What if Tether not being legitimate is already priced into BTC?

Then that would be evident in the difference between USDT/BTC prices and USD/BTC prices and, would either also be directly reflected in the USDT/USD price or there'd be a huge arbitrage opportunity.
Wouldn't it be great if such a thing existed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid
This would incentivize black hats to frame innocents. And black hats strike me as the type of people that would be able and willing to run with it.
They did it before with solyndra.

That was before solar became an existential threat to coal and gas.

Obama had some fairly close ties with oil/gas despite him trying to tout his green credentials.
I'm super curious about how the storage market will develop. Renewables as a whole have been competing on the open market with other sources of energy for a long while now, and competitive pressures have been driving innovation and bringing down price there for a bit, but renewables + storage are still (relatively) new as a significant market player, and my (admittedly naive) impression is that while renewable energy providers are starting to bid on projects and incorporating storage, there's room for a serious second-order market of different storage technologies competing for renewable providers' business that's only just getting off the ground.

Seems like there's still a lot of room for innovation there. Certainly there are startups exploring variations in this space (lithium ion, but also flow batteries, pumped hydro, compressed air, flywheels, etc., etc.), but I don't think any of them have realized the economies of scale necessary to be competitive yet. No reason they can't though.