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> a policy that dictates what content gets filtered to users is analogous to a parent forbidding a child from watching an age restricted movie.

Which most people would agree is perfectly reasonable parenting. If there's an argument in here, I suppose it's that a content platform is entering into a paternal relationship with its participants. But that really isn't what's happening when it comes to the relationship between adults and participants on such a platform isn't a paternal one, it's more like guests at a house. Anyone would be perfectly within their rights and might well have reasonable justifications for controlling what kind of media or other expressions are welcome in their home or other environments that are under their stewardship.

There are drawbacks to limiting expression. Your example of the visceral impact of watching violence piercing apathy is a reasonable point. But it's equally reasonable to suggest that the apathy has other sources (there are other causes of psychological distance), that there are diminishing returns to explicitly portraying violence (most people already believe that killing except in self-defense is wrong), and of course there appear to be real negative impacts as discussed in the article.

> IMHO, people should at least be presented with the option to see what is getting filtered rather than selectively suppressing objectionable material lest society remain indifferent..

This is almost reasonable. The problem is that the material itself is only a primary concern. Secondary effects include encouraging other participants to doxx, engage in violent threats, etc. You're not just selecting material, you're creating a set of expectations for how civilized people are.

Perhaps there should be unfiltered forums; I certainly wouldn't stop anyone from creating one. But general social media platforms should probably reflect some norms of civil societies their members are drawn from, as well as whatever additional values their owners may hold.
>That's a very common experience I'm actually surprised to hear that it's ever any other way.

That's a western thing. In the east being smart is cool.
Author here, we don't know their profit, but we estimate that they've spent about $220,000 through 2017, which is fairly cheap if you want to blast 1 billion malverts across the interwebs.
> at the very least you can trade them for "real" USD on kraken (at a few percent discount)

For now. If faith in Tether collapses, no one will trade USD for that "few percent" discount anymore.
Who is the arbiter of whether something is "extraordinary"? You? Perhaps you should do some cursory investigation on published research before being so quick to judgement.
Rasing tuition from $50 a year for baby boomers in the 70s to 25k a year any generation facing a life of indentured servitude when their parents got to be human beings is going to be nihilistic.
There is evidence though.
Do you always look for the worst possible interpretation?
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there is a large set of rules that define what can't be said or shown on radio or TV
Just to add some potential insight. One of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity is that all people are in trouble/broken/sinners/in need of saving. So when you say they feel sorry for you that is actually part of the belief system. Even if you think you're okay they do not. It's not a matter of you being successful or not, but your moral standing before God.

So regardless of your point of view they're always going to act like you need fixing/saving.

That said they may well have not understood your point of view.
Start by automating your tasks. First, you'll get more efficient and less error-prone in your work. Second, you'll reuse your code across tasks and you'll learn when it's a good time to refactor and generalize vs copy & paste. Third, you'll see how many times your programs misbehave, and you'll learn about fixing errors and writing tests.

Everything can be learned in a course or on a book, but creating something that you really need and care about is the easiest way to get exposed to the details that matter.

As for the question, I learned programming in Pascal at 12 so way over 20y ago. At the time I was playing a lot of role-play games and I wanted to automate "battles": rolling dies, looking up tables related to the damage inflicted, etc. I didn't have Internet, I learned from help and a manual.
What's your definition of a crackpot? Someone who researches something varjag has a negative emotion towards?
> Are you saying, for example, that it shouldn't be illegal for someone to put posters up on every street corner in their town saying that Mexicans are all child molestors and should be shot? Where should the line be drawn?

It would be inconsistent with the principle of free speech to sanction certain things from being said in public. Even racist, offensive and blatantly stupid bullshit (like your example) should not be censored.

The reason for this is because, paradoxically, if we assume that people are capable of rational discussion and debate they will eventually see where their beliefs or statements were in error through their reasoning.

To borrow my previous analogy, _hate-speech_ laws are akin to telling a child to: "obey; because I am your father" as opposed to people self-correcting their ethics through open debate and questioning.
I think the commenter is making the point that they have grown to a level unsustainable to deal with the issue of exposing it's users to fake, hateful, or abusive content.
I think calling current thoughts around opioids a "moral panic" is ridiculous.

Much of today's response to opioids is an actual panic given that there is a real, ongoing epidemic of opioid abuse that is killing tens of thousands of people. The number of deaths by opioids more than doubled in 2016 compared to 2015.

I was around in the 80s, and this isn't just some "cyclical response". Take a look at any of graphs of opioid deaths or overdoses - there is no cycle, just something that is shooting up and up and up.
Comcast isn't a monopoly either. An incumbent need not be a monopoly to have distribution advantages.
The Conpenhagen interpretation is flat out wrong by any reasonable philosophy of science. You can choose many-worlds interpretation, or pilot-wave theory and either one would give you a consistent, simpler explanation of what is going on then some mumbo-jumbo hocus pocus about consciousness and observation of cats in boxes, with fewer assumptions to boot, and no paradoxical conclusions that require religious like mysteries to explain.

Yet for inane reasons the Conpenhagen interpretation is still ALL that is taught to the next generation of physicists, who in turn teach it to their students. Only the weird physics students (like me) who go "wtf?" in class and refuse to believe the teacher go out and learn pilot-wave theory (my preference) or many-worlds interpretation to re-inject some sanity into the world.
I also feel that InfernoOS deserves better recognition and interest.

From Inferno OS page [1] :

>>>..As this is part of the underlying system, all applications gain these benefits automatically. 9P runs over various transport protocols including TCP/IP.

9P was originally developed for use with Plan 9 from Bell Labs. A simplified subset called Styx was used in Inferno for a few years, but now Inferno's protocol is exactly the same as 9P. Some manual pages and older papers still refer to Styx.
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I think major constraint (or advantage, depending how you look at it) -- is that you can only use GO-like programming language, Limbo, to develop for it.
No other language runtime is supported.

[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/design.html
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> it costs only $39 to upgrade to 1080p

I don’t understand why anyone thinks it is a reasonable decision to buy the coarsest low resolution screen available for actual work purposes. Bravo, you saved $40 once – and pay with years of low productivity.
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I agree. Out of curiousity, how have you found the meaning in your life?
There's an important distinction here which is often misunderstood. The loss of interference is due to the photon (really, light wave) interacting with the detector. That results in an entanglement, and it's easy to show (mathematically) that interference is lost.

That's not the difficult part. Any physical interaction that causes a correlation between the particle's state and some other state (effectively making that thing a detector) will cause this. This includes air molecules, which is why we have to isolate the systems very well.

After interacting with the detector, the particle+detector system is still in a superposition of two states (corresponding to the two slits). When the particle hits the screen, the screen gets in on the entanglement. At all times there are (effectively) two paths, including when your body and brain interact with the experimental setup.

So why do you see only one result?

One answer (the Many-Worlds Interpretation) is that you don't see one result. One "copy" of you sees this one and "another" sees the other. Another possibility is that there really is some particular event that "collapses" the wave function, but AFAICT people mostly use this interpretation for practical reasons, bypassing the philosophical conundrum.

Or, if you insist that you you sees only one result, but you still like MWI, then the question becomes: why did I end up on this branch rather than another one? But any explanation would have to come from outside the system (the multiverse) more or less, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an answer.
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Google Maps currently shows it on the Spanish side of the border for me (despite that fact that it's France's "turn" for a few more days). I suspect this sort of detail isn't worth bothering with, but it is interesting...
There have been 11 US school shootings this year. Is it time to arm teachers?
In my opinion, people are using USDT to dodge the price swings that occur in the market. I don't know that USDT represents a fundamental underpinning of the price of Bitcoin, for instance. Coinbase had over a $1 billion in revenue last year, alone, so Coinbase is probably responsible for tens of billions of USD deposits on ETH & BTC markets.

Yeah if USDT crashed it might cause a big hit on the market, but not worse than anything else we've seen. 30-50% drops are fairly common in this market.

In the mean time, I think other stable coins (like Dai) will continue to grow in popularity. I've read Preston Byrne's article, but I've also read Dai's white paper and I think that they have a fine model to build a relatively stable coin, not a perfectly stable one, mind you, but a relatively stable one that trends towards $1. For those wishing to hedge their bets against the swings in the market (the great bulk majority of the USDT market) I think Dai is a great alternative. We'll see as it matures, it's still early days.
Unless you're denying that drummers are musicians, it's my impression that beats are a kind of music.
I understand. Thanks.
I don't understand how high avocado prices could cause Chipotle to loose money. Guacamole is an optional add on why wouldn't they just raise the price of the guacamole to reflect the market price of avocado or use avocado futures to hedge their price risk.
Is there not?
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>but that'll require power source and some interaction interface.

Oh, I dunno - here's an RFID transmitter which only uses 2 pins on an ATTiny, neither of which are power or ground:

https://trmm.net/AVR_RFID

Okay, technically the power source is the external RFID reader and the interaction interface is hardcoded, but that would work fine for something like a crypto key.
Should paper manufacturers be responsible for the content that’s printed? Should ink manufacturers be held liable for what people do with it? Should the post office be held liable for messages being mailed? Remember — Facebook is voluntary. Nobody is forced to be there and if there are uncomfortable messages to which you are being exposed, turn it off. Sign out. Quit using it.

You seem to have an almost hysterical reaction to this story. Why are you so sensitive? Did Nazis and violence and Red Brigade terrorists and Communists and racists and Islamic extremists not spread their messages effectively before Facebook? Has the rate of violence from these groups increased since Facebook?

I don’t have stats in front of me, but I would argue that violence, terrorism and hate has decreased since Facebook. Sure we hear more about it now, but that’s a result of media penetration and not an actual increase in incidents. I would invite data that suggests otherwise.

One might argue that awareness of hate groups has increased because of Facebook thus leading to increased marginalization of their ideas.

Blaming the medium for the message is fascinating. The disease of hate and totalitarianism spread quite effectively before Facebook. We might argue that Facebook has actually reduced such things because it provides a marketplace where ideas can be evaluated and either accepted or shunned much more efficiently.

Banning the communication of ideas doesn’t stop the communication of ideas. We learned that from Solzhenitsyn. We should encourage more openness, less censorship. Sunlight disinfects.
Agreed, if you look at things like global warming and nuclear war, Artificial Intelligence - being inundated with these types of things can be pretty depressing. There's not a lot of sources of Hope for children these days. Blaming it directly on phones seems a bit like tunnel vision.

That being said, it might be wise to control access to this type of information until your children grow up and get better context / moral code to deal with such things.
Instead of arming teachers how about using webrtc to bring the classroom into the home? Its less money to give every kid a chromebook than to buy guns, ammo and weapons training for every teacher.
Yes. The chaos part is where management fails to appreciate the time and resources to make things fault-tolerant. :)
Nazis and jihadists aren't that bad. They're just people promoting their political ideology. That's everywhere. Look at gangsterism - it's a major cause of murders in the US but it's glorified and promoted by rap music. Communism is arguably worse than Naziism but it's not treated with the same horror.
Prices have also increased because the Phytophthora Root Rot fungal infection has killed off whole avocado orchards in many areas.

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r8100111.html
That's not what the article claims:

> Chipotle, a Mexican-themed restaurant chain, said that “historically high avocado costs” were a big reason why it posted disappointing financial results last year.
>That's a western thing. In the east being smart is cool.

I thought it was an exclusive school thing. The Americans I know who went to exclusive high schools seem to have had very different experiences. I even know several people (who went to a 'special' highschool for 'gifted' children) who claimed that they enjoyed high school more than college.
For those not aware of the context of the article, the Cane Toad was imported to Australia to rid the Sugar Cane fields of an infectious beetle.

As the numbers multiply, there is a constant battle to find a way to rid the country of the foreign invader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia

Rumour has it that after all the impact the Cane Toad has had on Australia, it never had the desired effect of eating the Cane Beetles.
Redox OS borrows a lot of concepts from Plan 9, and iterates on them in some places.
I'd challenge that. Given that there are serious security architecture differences between Windows XP and OpenBSD systems.

For starters, Windows XP has always optimized for "plug random hardware in and it Just Works" while OpenBSD aims more at "what is the minimal number of services we can have running in the base image."

Sure, OpenSSL vulnerabilities found in the intervening time will still affect both, but we're still talking orders of magnitude difference in RCE vulnerabilities.
Thanks for digging that up - I made a couple of comments on that thread. I remember Vector Graphics fondly, but I don't remember knowing about their female-dominated management structure. I only knew they made good products.
What do you think disappointing financial results because of Avacados is claiming then?
Income and money are weakly correlated to happiness.
1366x768 actually sounds appropriate for a 12" screen, but I guess moar pixles is better.

1920x1080 is kind of high resolution for 1x mode, but maybe fighting bad scaling is better than nothing.
Demand curves are downward sloping. Guacamole and main items on Chipotle's menu are complements.
If you're targeting known hardware, and the OS provides all the functionality you need, there's no reason to overengineer things.
Median household income in her city for her age group is about $80k/year. $100k/year puts her in the top 35% or so of all households, but probably not “rich” by local standards under a typical definition of “rich”.

When someone says “that guy is rich”, “oh what a sheltered rich guy who can’t understand the struggles of the rest of us”, etc., I’m imagining someone who eats expensive restaurant meals 5 times a week, vacations all over the world, puts their kids in exclusive private schools, maybe owns a sailboat or a small plane, buys luxury cars, etc... Someone who can just afford to buy a house and put 3 kids through college and save for a modest retirement seems pretty solidly “middle class” by most standards. You might have a different definition.

Obviously if you compare to rural peasants or developing country factory workers, $100k is a very high salary, but compared to working professionals in urban California with a similar amount of training and experience, state university professors are at the low end of salaries.
> The Conpenhagen interpretation is flat out wrong by any reasonable philosophy of science.

Why? Is there a formal proof of that claim?
That's how I've seen it, definitely. At my old job it was at the point where you could tell who was pissed off at what time by seeing who'd been working on their LinkedIn profile... and after a company-wide announcement, everyone would update within a day or two.
Seeing as their latest earnings were fantastic and $INTC popped 10% in day, I'd say insider selling was a poor choice. I'm always skeptical of articles like this (especially from French sources). Oftentimes they don't do the due-diligence and research and instead prefer to just publish articles that incite outrage and get clicks.
Nope, still doesn't work. Here's a dump of the console log in case it's of any help: http://ix.io/ER9
Secret underwater base off the coast of Japan? https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#11.26/142.44901/38.34858/ho...
I have no advice, but you have both my sympathy and respect. Seriously good job looking after your boy! If you ever need someone to talk to/get a pat on the back from, my email is on my profile.
Well, by using blockchain, you make whatever you’re doing infinitely cooler, thus attracting higher quality talent who can then do a better job moderating content.

Alternatively, I bet we could find a way to use a middle out compression solution to make moderation problems smaller.
Only the third study would be open to that criticism. Which is fair, except that it’s unreasonable to ignore the context provided by the other two.
The dynamic switching is one of its fundamental problems because I don’t like peripheral vision distractions. Fortunately, the bar can be configured to be static.

It’s amazing how little movement it takes to catch your eye’s attention (one reason why ads are almost always annoying if they have any catchy color or move in any way, even if they’re not in your face).

Therefore, I don’t want the icons on the keyboard changing how they look. I’m probably not looking at the keyboard, I’m looking at the screen and that just makes me look at the keyboard again.

And sadly, it’s not like you even need a Touch Bar to have dynamic behavior in every application; function keys are already dynamic.
The split tally (used prior to paper money) used a similar method with wood to create a primitive distributed* ledger:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40189959

*if two nodes counts as “distributed”
There is more - a lot more - to nihilism than Nietzsche.
parent comment said "that's not what the article claims", which (if you want to be nitpicky) is correct because the article reports a claim made by the company, without explicitly supporting it.
>I would be very hesitant to tell someone that they should just let the pain "guide" them, because I have no idea what it is like for them.

You should be hesitant, unless you're a doctor.
I use it to show intent, as functions I mark as inline are those that, pre-C99, would have most likely been a macro. I prefer the inline function over a macro as it prevents a certain class of errors and you get some additional type-checking that macros lack.
You are projecting anecdotally your own situation and extrapolating in a somewhat irresponsible manner. Statistically it is shown that these prescriptions do lead to addiction in a frightfully large number of people. Being "uncomfortable" and "stressed" is a part of pain and it's an important signal that you need to take it easy. If pain is to the point where you can't sleep and heal appropriately, than I can see where it might be used. Even then it's important not to confuse general insomnia with pain induced waking.
Just yesterday I finished up a biography of Claude Shannon that I recommend to anyone that ones to learn more. It briefly covers this as well as ton of his other "toys" - https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Informatio...
I would try switching to a flip phone but the problem is I want a cool modern flip phone not something that looks vintage.
The mistake in this line of thinking is in the tacit assumption that a quantum system possesses a certain property prior to or independent from a measurement. It does not. Anything we measure is essentially an artifact of the measurement process itself, and the randomness of the result comes from bringing together two incompatible worlds - quantum and classical. All we are left with at the quantum level is wave-functions; but what matters for us is, of course, what we can experience, being ourselves classical, and QM has so far provided us with a perfectly good way of finding that out.
Thanks for posting that. Can you reconcile these two parts for me though:

"It accounts for the apparent contradiction between
quantum theory, which says that entropy is conserved in unitary transformations,
and the apparent increase in entropy that arises from the randomness in
quantum measurements."

And

"randomness is not an essential cornerstone of quantum
measurement but rather an illusion created by it."

So is it random or is it not, in your view?
>35% of all households in San Diego make at least that much (something like 180,000 people), and the percentage is significantly higher if you only look at mid-career professionals.
Fascinating. And the fact that it's entanglement makes it information and thus not subject to space/time constraints.
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Whether or not there is evidence of this particular thing is irrelevant, because this subthread is about whether skepticism is just as irrational as blind belief when confronted with unsupported claims.
I had your experience at ages 6-9 in Alaska. The only available dentist had moral qualms about using novocaine.

The resulting aversion conditioning kept me away from dentists until I was 36, when my then-girlfriend coerced me to see a dentist. I needed lots of work, all of which was done using novocaine.

Pain control is part of good professional medical practice. If a practitioner puts you through gratuitous pain, find somebody else.