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The only thing that makes him entitled is learning from history and being able to reason about pretty elementary models in his head.

Why do people with your types of opinion always make it wholly personal, just to try to weasel their way around a subject?

Like, here's another comment you made:

>I like to compare Bitcoin to Land.

Just stop. There is so much fundamentally wrong with that analogy at face value it beggars belief that you are being sincere.
What is 1% if not very rare? Yes there's a lot of celiac folks around. There's a lot of people, period. The fact that there are 3-4 million celiacs in the US does not discount the fact that there are 330+ million folks without it.

There's nothing wrong with describing a rare thing as rare.
By defintion, more than you need is hoarding. He could have distributed (read: invested via donations and grants) more sooner. Why wait til death? Unless, there's some personal "quirk" (e.g., hoarding) prevented him from doing so?

As they say, ya can't take it with you. Why not go with your bag lighter? Why not go you're leaving with seeds planted and growing? Why risk some unforseen legal snafu? Etc.
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My guess is that the soundcard works pretty uniformly well between 100Hz and 15kHz. But the speakers and microphones might not.
Related, I remember reading that Jefferson worked hard to prevent inheritance in fee tail from becoming established in our republic.
Said better. Thanks. Words matters.
Injecting legal definitions into an informal conversation is a cheap debater's trick, annoying, and and hijacks the conversation.
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TIL using multiple pulsars to create a galactic positioning system "is a solved problem."
Not necessarily.

One nice thing about this report is they take into account the low statistics in some of their drive models and represent that as confidence intervals. If you look at the second table, 8TB HGST and 5TB Toshiba have a wide uncertainty due to them having tested fewer of these drives so far. Their data can not yet tell us if the AFR for these drives are significantly different from others.

They do have many of the smaller 4TB HGST and so have tight uncertainty on them and they are indeed low AFR. So if that size is suitable then it's a no brainer choice. But, if bigger capacities are needed and looking at the high confidence limit column, the 6TB and 8TB Seagate models are safer bets.
F1 cars are dangerous things. F1 tracks even moreso (when the race it still taking place). They are going to move very slowly and deliberately, checking and double checking all the safety features of the car. They are going to be very careful moving the driver, to avoid potentially exacerbating an injury.

If, on the other hand, they know the driver is dead in a couple minutes without intervention, some of those steps are going to get skipped (that's what I meant by the "acceptable level of risk" changing).

For what it's worth, I'm a firefighter/paramedic, and have cut many people out of (ordinary) cars over the past decade or so.
I think bias is making you more unfair than you need to be.
I agree that the OP gives good and reasonable examples of what should be doable by a competent translator. I think he is entirely on point about how people fail to realize how shallow Google Translate in terms of what we understand as "understanding" language. My quote about "really understand language" is from the GP -- I was asking him what he meant by that phrase.

I don't think I disagree with the OP much at all. But I was confused because much of his essay shows how Google Translate is getting the most basic things wrong. But then he ends with discussions about what it means for a computer to have true understanding, the type of understanding that can't be achieved with just more data.

It seems to me that the obvious screw ups that Google Translate is demonstrated to make could be alleviated through better algorithm design and data -- I.e. without achieving what Hofstadler argues is true understanding. Just like a self-driving car could be very safe despite having no more deep understanding of driving than Google Translate does of words.
There’s a washing machine sized pulsar detector bolted to the International Space Station that is successfully locating itself with pulsars.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/session...
and https://github.com/EliasOenal/multimon-ng
Hi Michael,

Although we strive to hire everyone who reaches the final stages (it's super time consuming for everyone, you and the team!), ultimately we have to turn away people who are awesome but aren't a perfect fit (at our teeny-tiny size back in [time redacted] when you interviewed, we were even pickier than we are now; I wouldn't read too much into our decision to not move forward).

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If you are interested in perusing some of the past decade of science on this topic, some links below. It is about equally devoted to looking at what happens in induced pluripotency versus what happens during embryonic development, induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells being basically the same thing.

Elimination of damaged proteins during differentiation of embryonic stem cells https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1472508/

In Vivo Amelioration of Age-Associated Hallmarks by Partial Reprogramming https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.052

Mitochondrial Rejuvenation After Induced Pluripotency https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014095

Aging vs. rejuvenation: reprogramming to iPSCs does not turn back the clock for somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/sci.2016.08.09

A lysosomal switch triggers proteostasis renewal in the immortal C. elegans germ lineage https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24620

Any Rejuvenation Relevance for Roundworm Reproduction? http://www.sens.org/research/research-blog/question-month-16...
Most developers underestimate the complexity of any project :)

Especially one that becomes a crucial component of a company's workflow (as is the case for bug trackers in any properly run software company).
I'll see if I can find the sources but I saw some comments recently that it was a sham, mostly. He did have high expenses.

Edit: Wikipedia says:

> Kamprad owned a villa in Switzerland, a large country estate in Sweden and a vineyard in Provence, France.

I can't guarantee the prices, but those things should be in the multi-million Euro range. Not quite rapper expenses, but definitely not middle class either.
As long as it's optional, it's fine.

But shortly after it becomes optional, it will probably become mandatory (if previous safety technology is anything to judge by), and then you've got the government having access to live biometric monitoring data of every single driver on the road.
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Yes but if we're using it as a beacon the distance is irrelevant, isn't it? It's been "transmitting" for much longer than 587 years, we're already receiving a signal, and that's what we're using?
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I would expect someone with your train of thought to especially want to buy a case. I'm curious why you take the risk? There are circumstances beyond your control and ability to predict sometimes. Ever mind your own business on the street, and then people in a rush violently crash into you? In order to break your fall, you have to let go of your phone and it falls, and those who made you fall are long gone? Yeah, it hasn't happened to me either. The point is that there are situations you can't predict, and besides that, you can't always be perfect either. I'm certainly not claiming to be perfect, hence the case.
What are your individual incentives and expectations, and who sets them? Who has the power to say "Look, this will be cheaper and better for the business if we spend $50,000 on this SaaS and 3 person-months of dev time integrating it instea of building it in house from scratch"? Are you all individually measured on value to the business and not engineering productivity?

My worry with unmanaged teams is that they work well when the right option, with all the data, is to just let some engineers do the engineering they're familiar with / excited about, and very poorly when that's not the right option. So if you don't know in advance which case you're in, you want someone who's able to herd the cats if necessary.
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Well: the proposal was to split the company into a Windows company and an Office company because they were using the Windows monopoly to enforce an Office monopoly, and requiring everyone to use their browser. Guess what? Today there is no Windows monopoly (certainly not with hipsters and their Macbooks), Office continues to dominate _because_ it runs cross-platform, and nobody uses the default Windows browser.
Ah, when I read "very sophisticated" I was hoping to see something more than images of few stones.

To clarify: for a few days in my pre-adolescent years in India, I had gotten into a quirky habit of picking chipped-stones lying around (which I imagined could be from pre-historic ages). Finding some really interesting shapes wasn't all that difficult.

I'm genuinely curious about how archeologists/anthropologists come up with such definitive conclusions.
With the --noImplicitThis flag set, then the first line will fail to compile, with an error:

'this' implicitly has type 'any' because it does not have a type annotation.

That error can be fixed by specifying an explicit type annotation for this:

function example(this: { v: string }) { console.log(this.v); };

However, the type checking for apply is still too weak to produce any useful errors, as even with the above type annotation, this will still compile:

example.apply({ b: 3 })

The type of apply is currently:

Function.apply(this: Function, thisArg: any, argArray?: any): any

It accepts basically any arguments. In future perhaps they will make this stricter, more discussion here: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/212
It's not just this source; the FBI also formally reported to Senate Foreign Relations that there was no evidence of any "sonic attack". The FBI had medical professionals examining the patients directly. That's presumably the story behind the timing of this story.
Why does uber get to have government regulations on their side when they violate local laws constantly? They have been banned by several governments entirely. https://www.google.com/search?q=uber+banned&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-...
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And the grocery industry is based on making money off people who need to eat. There does seem to be room for ethics there, for some stores or chains cut more corners than others.
I really would prefer not to pay extra hundreds of dollars just so that I don't need to choose the cheap option for repair in order to keep my warranty. But it is what it is.
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I can't agree with this enough.

Expecting profit-motivated companies to voluntarily choose to pay more tax than they have to is fundamentally doomed to failure. One of the powers of the free market is to encourage the elimination of inefficiency and waste—not that it's perfect at that—and we can't expect to both have our cake and eat it, in that sense.

I strongly agree that many companies should be contributing more to the state for the services that they use. But the way to do that is though robust and clear taxation frameworks, not some kind of general social pressure to pay an arbitrary, 'acceptable' amount of tax.
How quickly, on an astronomical scale, do pulsars slow down? I'd imagine that eventually the changes in rotation would throw off the positioning, and require recalibration. And of course eventually they'll stop being useful altogether.

One would hope a civilization is able to create artificial pulsars by that time, however...
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I could be wrong but I think this is how Apple Pay is supposed to work. (Though a non-proprietary version of this would be fantastic, but this is a baby step I suppose.)
This is crazy. My nearest store is 15 minutes away, and the nearest Walmart is an hour away. Prime would be a bargain at $500 a year for me.
I was expecting an article on make or ant.
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Most teams I've worked on had a tech lead, a UX designer and a product manager. Why can't one of the first two people play the PM role? It's not as if being a PM takes up a person's whole time. In fact, on most of my teams, the PM was also the PM for a few other teams.

Having fewer people wastes less time in coordination.

I understand there would be some situations where you need a PM separate from other roles, but that shouldn't be the default. Just as most teams don't have an interaction designer, a visual designer, an animation designer, and a sound designer — all those are performed by one UX designer — most teams shouldn't have a separate PM.

Is there anything I'm missing?
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Chrome's development tools actually allow saving changes to the JS files AFAIK, or going the other way around, it is possible to debug JS running in the browser from VS Code using the devtools-protocol: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-protocol
The idea that American citizens are not allowed to criticize America and should leave rather then speak is quite authoritarian.
> Without cutting it equally short everywhere?

That was my solution :) Saved me a couple of grand over the years.
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It's not semantic, or a legal definition. It's a very explicit and important difference – 'evasion' is illegally avoiding taxation, and 'avoidance' is legally avoiding taxation.

Messing these two different concepts up helps nobody and just muddles the two issues further. Avoidance is a problem that must be tackled on a global scale; but first, we have to be honest about what it is.
Haha looks like you are rabid Apple hater.

You have been so blinded by your hate for Apple that you cannot even accept that all the companies which you mentioned (you forgot to mention Blackberry) could not adapt to a new revolutionary interface. They were so stuck in the past that they refused to move.

> There are no iOS ones, since you cannot customize anything besides wallpaper and ringtone there, everything locked

Hahah that is the Apple way, you have to live in the walled garden, normal people like that. Of Course you won't understand this point.

I think I finally understood why you dont get it, you are looking at this from your selfish perspective, you are not thinking from the average consumer's perspective. Once you see that you will understand why you are wrong.

Let me know if you dont understand I will help you out.

You are wrong again, how many times have you been wrong. I do have top tier Android phone as well.
"on average" could be added to the headline. There will always be outliers.
On the contrary, it ties in neatly with platforms & programming models that can't just rely on being able to summon up an OS thread at will, but have to self-schedule over a small number of owned threads.

In just about every event-loop-driven, there exists an implementation of Rx (or something like that anyway)
Kuberentes/CNCF governance is completely different than Openstack. There's a reason every major cloud provider is involved in CNCF versus Openstack. You can see all stats for CNCF projects here, i.e., https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/dashboard/db/contributing-compa...

CFF was setup in a completely different way, giving Pivotal a lot of control in the beginning by allowing related entities to have votes and than relinquishing that over time. It leads to a more single vendor controlled ecosystem IMHO.

There's pros and cons to both approaches.

Disclosure: I help run CNCF.
Not really. Corporate taxes and personal taxes are two very different things. Ikea didn't commit tax fraud (at least from what I heard), they just used structures to minimise taxes. Those weren't loopholes, they were made by countries for companies like Ikea.

Companies utilising those structures aren't the problem. It's governments creating the opportunities. Same as with tax incentives for investments. You can't blame a company using tax incentives but you can blame the state/city/region that they created them.
Your clarification is of course correct but the graph of the first derivative would be going down was my insinuation.
There probably would be no need to build anything, since we already can use pulsars for that (XNAV; what this article is about) and the achievable resolution should be more than good enough to be able to use it for navigation inside our solar system (couple km iirc).
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I understand the frustration, but I really think this is an important distinction to make.

Evasion is solved by rigorously enforcing existing tax frameworks. Avoidance is solved by closing loopholes. They're two different problems—although they share some things in common—and they require two different solutions.
A regular manager is better than an amorphous product manager.

If your manager tells you to do X, it's pellucidly clear that you need to do X. That's the person that does your evaluation, can fire you, can maybe get you a raise or a bonus, that approves your vacations. If you think it is a bad idea, you can argue that with your manager. But at the end of the day, if you aren't convincing you are probably going to do X or start looking for a new job. On rare occasion maybe you can take the risky step of going over your manager's head, but it is unlikely to end well.

If a product manager tells you do X, is that an order? suggestion? request for a favor? If you don't agree that X is a good idea, what are your options? What if the product manager for product A tells you do X and the product manger for product B tells you to do Y?

I understand that companies on the one hand don't want a rigid system where cross functional teams communicate with each other solely by going up across and back down, but on the other hand don't like to have e.g. a programmer managed by someone that's never programmed. But a dotted line on an org chart are the corporate equivalent of code smell -- a problem waiting to happen.
Yes you can. Move to a country with low/no income taxes.
The hypocrisy is that IKEA is now registered basically nowhere, technically in the Netherlands, but definitely not in Sweden.

How would you feel if Apple would keep portraying itself as an US company after moving its HQ to China? :)
A related article at National Geographic with a bit more depth, https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/maya-laser-lidar...
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Ah, gathering data to train ML picker bots? Ie reverse kinematic the arm (shoulder, wrist, elbow) movement? Very interesting indeed.
If you aren't seeking out the loopholes that apply to you, then you are paying more in taxes than you are legally required to.

"legally required to" does not incur a balancing test between what is practicable vs the time it takes. If you're a regular, mid-income citizen, then there isn't likely to be a good ROI on hiring a dedicated accountant to find you loopholes. If you're making $200k a year, and you save 10%, hooray, you've saved $20k through tax avoidance, but since a CPA's average salary is ~$60k, then you'll have lost $40k. Perhaps there's a middle ground where you could employ a CPA for a finite amount of time for them to find you the obvious savings, and many people do. It's how companies like H&R Block exist.

If your income is $2,000,000 a year, then it is cost effective to hire the guy who can save you 12% a year vs. the guy who can save you 10% a year, even if the 12% guy costs 10% more, because while 10% guy saves you $200k (e.g., worth the $60k salary), while the 12% guy saves you $240k. Even though his $66k salary is $6k more than the 10% guy, he's saved you $40k more, which nets out to an extra $34k.

Anyway, I'm rambling, but what I'm hoping to illustrate is that many, many Americans routinely engage in tax avoidance by hiring a tax accountant that finds them deductions. The fact that Ikea does the same is not cause for scorn. The fact that it is mathematically stupid for them not to do so does not mean that it is practical for you to do so. Everyone's situation varies.
Unfortunately no more fluff than actual analysis frequently seen in Bitcoin circles - All TA based with RSI, MA and whatnot.
You could support that by pointing out what you feel the actual innovations involved in Bitcoin hardware are.
Yeah, I see your point and I've been on similar teams. But I think you're:

1) Drawing a lot of conclusions from a single data point (the project you were on)

I've been on teams like the one you're referring to as well. I've also been on teams full of great people who needed someone to manage all of those things. Some teams are better at self-organization than others, and I don't think it's a fatal flaw for a team not to be capable of that (to the extent that a business requires, anyway).

I've been on many more teams full of excellent people who were incredibly relieved to have someone else do all the organizational work, even if they themselves could've done it quite easily.

Organization is overhead. Your team lead was likely filling in the role of "product manager" even if it didn't seem like they were (and in fact, the great ones sometimes make it seem like they're not doing anything at all).

2) Misinterpreting my point

The article's suggesting more specialization, whereas it seems like you're arguing for less. The article is suggesting that the role of "product manager" should be split into multiple roles, whereas it seems like you think the role should be subsumed by developers and team leads.

Team organization becomes exponentially more difficult if your team is composed of many different roles and specialists. That's what I meant by "herd those cats".