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If I understand correctly you're saying the interpretation I've pointed out is not tenable because it carries classical baggage, and yet we've already observed quantum systems to not behave classically, so if we proceed that way we get a mess.

But the whole point of the alternative interpretation I pointed out is a way of reconciling the observations with an essentially classical world (at least in the sense that there is a single objective reality which exists independent of observation)—do you see a way in which it fails to do that? My understanding is that considering the probabilistic aspect of the theory to be modeling our knowledge of the system instead, successfully accounts for the fundamentally 'non-classical' observations.

It just seems hasty to throw out such a seemingly well-supported hypothesis (single objective reality independent of viewer), if there are two effective interpretations, one of which conflicts with it, the other of which does not. From my reading, the primary reasons for the mainstream physics community having adopted the stance which competes with the 'objective reality' hypothesis (i.e. Many Worlds or Copenhagen interpretations), are historical accident and political, while the intrinsic merits of the alternatives are near equivalent.
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I find the cheapest combination of plane ticket & rental car I can find in countries I haven't been, and then I go there. I don't plan more than that.
I'd say it's a moral panic. The response to this very real epidemic of deaths seems to be to moralize about opioids rather than to look for ways to reduce deaths from opioid use. Thus this is a moral panic as much as it is a health issue.
Isn't that what the 'Hide Post', 'Hide All Posts from X' and 'Report Post' options are for?
Yeah, same for me. I played team sports until 18 or so all year but also found a great virtual friends playing MUDs and going on BBs and mailing lists centered around subjects that I was interested in. Really opened my eyes to a wider world. Then had a chance to strap on a backpack and go explore it. It's actually nice for an introvert - you can be of the world but still anonymous, engaging with other people when you want, withdrawing to read or re-energize when you don't.
> It takes courage to create meaning and love life.

That is existential nihilism.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Existential_nihilism

> According to the theory, each individual is an isolated being born into the universe, barred from knowing "why", yet compelled to invent meaning.

> The common thread in the literature of the existentialists is coping with the emotional anguish arising from our confrontation with nothingness, and they expended great energy responding to the question of whether surviving it was possible. Their answer was a qualified "Yes," advocating a formula of passionate commitment and impassive stoicism.
I wonder what children in Western schools must think as they read Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, etc and look at the Western world around them which is so roundly and loudly rejecting the very basis of their current society.

It never fails to amaze me how many people (even in this forum) can rationalize both an intense desire to deny immigrants or "new" people into their culture and yet maintain free speech and the marketplace of ideas as a necessary thing to uphold for a free and just society.

If free speech is so good because good and true ideas always win in the end, then why are Westerners so increasingly concerned about immigrants (and specifically, in recent times, Muslims) entering their countries? If the ideas which underly their societies are so true, exposure to them in the marketplace of ideas should convert many of these immigrants to their way of thinking, yes?

There is always the excuse that they are different, that they won't listen, that they are too entrenched in religious belief, etc. What an anti-humanist perspective to have for a society which owes so much of itself to humanism. How are immigrants somehow not human enough to have the capacity to reason and be convinced of ideas just as everyone else?

The anti-immigrant sentiment of Western societies is a direct manifestation of the rejection of liberalism. I full-heartedly agree with both the book and this review. There is, right now, a direct challenge to liberalism in the Western world. No country which walled itself up and refused to admit outsiders into its society could own the label of liberalism (in terms of the classical philosophy which underpins much of Western society). Not Germany, not China, nor will the Western world be able to do so if it does not steer its ship straight again.
I liken it to current scientists trying to figure out how a modern motherboard or CPU works by sticking oscilloscopes onto individual circuits. Sure, you can get a readout of the fourier transforms and thus band frequency power of all the little signals going back and forth the little metal circuits and stuff. But it's really a small piece of the puzzle.

To wit - a lot of song and dance has been made regarding beta power in the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's patients (mostly because it is the only place we are FDA-allowed to go in a live human brain). Some ambitious researchers are claiming beta power is the "pathological signal" of Parkinson's disease...whereas it's more likely it's an epiphenomena of deeper computational issues with a damage basal ganglia circuit'
AI profile:

Breadth: Ultra-Wide
Depth: Ulta-Deep
Noise: Very Low
Problem Set: [omitted]
Goal Tree: [omitted]
Residual Block Weight: [omitted]
Server Origin: Testing setup room past [censored]'s Gate Conference Room.

That is hilarious, I'd really enjoy it if Breadth: Ultra-Wide became a meme, it's so nonsensical.
Crowdfunding drive for doctor struck off over six-year-old boy's death
Since you mention Amazon: They do have massive success in Japan, especially over the last few years. Same day delivery got to Japanese cities 1-2 years earlier than in the US I think, at least we got it in Tokyo for a while now. So I think the lack of polish in web design is actually a good chance for disruption by Western technology companies, it's just that you have to get all the other stuff just right to exceed in Japan (e.g. good localization, high levels of customer service, precision in delivery).
Are you being sarcastic? Sometimes it's hard to tell online.
Over-friendly, or sexual harassment? It depends on whom you ask
I am a practicing doctor and I don't know where this is coming from.

Paracetamol and Ibuprofen while they have potentially lethal side effects are incredibly safe and effective in daily practice and consequently are very widely used. Every known drug has side effects and if you ever read a drug insert you would never pop a pill again. In the case of ibuprofen/paracetamol we are careful to avoid use in patients with ulcers, elevated blood pressure, liver or kidney disease, alcoholics or allergy to either drug.

Unlike opioids they don't cause dependence and their anti-inflammatory effect is very useful post trauma. Most patients self regulate their dosage and usually taper down within a few days. Used in combination a more nuanced effect can be achieved with lower doses.

Paracetamol toxicity in particular frequently occurs in the context of attempted suicide, alcohol abuse or mental impairment and requires a huge pill burden 20 - 24 pills ingested at once or about a 6 - 12 pills in repeated doses over multiple days. This is not as common as you would assume.

Surgery without anaesthesia is cruel and abusive. NSAIDS are not always the right call,but given a choice they are a good alternative.

Tldr: they are dangerous in theory but safe in practice.
Perhaps you are thinking of Vector General, Inc. which is located in Woodland Hills? [1]

[1] https://companiesmd.com/company/F01641729/vector-general-inc...
> It never fails to amaze me how many people (even in this forum) can rationalize both an intense desire to deny immigrants or "new" people into their culture and yet maintain free speech and the marketplace of ideas as a necessary thing to uphold for a free and just society.

Welfare. A country can have welfare or open borders, but not both, lest it goes bankrupt.
Ok, cool. However, switching to RDS would have been a no-brainer in the OP's particular scenario.
Google Flights does a pretty good job (though it doesn't cover every airline, it does cover all the ones I use) of tracking my flights and flight prices.

Once I have something purchased (hotel, airline, event plans and tickets) I track the information in TripCase. I've been using that to good effect for years. I think the first time, though, was for work. The company had an integration between their travel office and TripCase to show me all my booking information in one spot. A nice thing here is that I can share out the itinerary with people (and I think, though I haven't done this, just share out partial information). This is helpful because my girlfriend and I can keep everything synced up using this.

I use YNAB for budgeting, so from a financial perspective that's where that goes. I create a category for the trip and subcategories for parts of it. This gets very detailed, but is only temporary (removed after the trip, I do a consolidation of the spending into my generic Travel category so my history isn't cluttered). If I don't have the money yet for the trip, I create goals based on my expectations and then start saving towards it. Like, I have bought my airline tickets and hotel rooms for my next big trip, so they're already funded. But I don't need to, in January, set aside the money for restaurants and miscellaneous spending yet for a trip in July.

For planning the trip, if it doesn't go into TripCase or YNAB, it goes into Omnifocus and through that my calendar. In fact, the whole planning activity usually ends up in Omnifocus too and then details for the actual event get added in later and pushed into YNAB and TripCase. This is also where I make sure I dot my i's and cross my t's by including every detail like double checking I have my passport and that it's up to date, get local currency, inform CC companies, etc.

If it's not in OmniFocus it's in an org file with a similar set of details. OmniFocus is just a bit easier to carry with me on the go. Since work is Windows and Linux only, I generally cover all work trips inside of an org-mode file in the same way I use OmniFocus for personal travel.
Reading this made me a little queasy. Is it real?
That's not what the comment said. Here is the conversation:

Original comment: You can hire lots of humans to work at a normal pace and give them psychological counseling, and spend so much on their salaries that you'll go out of business, and even then they won't catch everything and will be frequently accused of bias.

Reply: Then you should not fucking be in the business at all! What FB does is externalizing the cost onto societies and skimming the profit!

I still fail to see how that is a coherent and relevant reply. It comes across as shouting and venting rather than substantive.
Nothing about to reads like it's real to me. Show the "AI Profile" to anyone that works on building models and they'll find it funny, not sinister.
The other real question with MWI is why you still experience one universe and not a superposition of universes?

How exactly, in moment-to-moment physical detail, do these splits happen?

And as for branching - how are observers assigned among universes?

The MWIers will shrug and tell you observer experiences are distributed at random.

Well - fine. So why can’t the collapse experience be inherently random too, without demanding squillions of Occam-busting unobservable universes?

It seems like the least plausible interpretation. Not only does it multiply entities for no good reason, and assume they can never be observed, but it doesn’t even solve the original problem.

“Yes, but the math...” isn’t a defence because there are plenty of situations in physics where technically correct solutions are discarded as unphysical. Why make an exception here?
The exact methods of authentication are simply "out of scope" for the ActivityPub standard itself. As far as I understand simply for bureaucratic reasons. In reality there's already agreed upon mechanisms for doing this.

Each actor has an RSA keypair. Server-to-server requests are authenticated using HTTP signatures (that's a different spec), so you know a delivery is legit and on behalf of which actor it is. For messages that are passed directly between origin and destination there is no reason to believe the sender has tampered with the message (SSL is a prerequisite anyway). For messages that are about other messages, such as reblogs, you would not trust the sender, you would look up the message by its ID on its origin server instead. This is always possible because ActivityPub prescribes IDs to be resolveable URIs. There's also another method to verify the authenticity of a passed message, called Linked-Data Signatures (that's a different spec). It's a way of signing JSON inside JSON, it's a bit of a bother to implement though (To make sure the signature works regardless of how the payload is re-formatted or re-ordered in transit, the JSON is "canonicalized" using RDF)
Don't forget that the US still tops those rankings.
It has to be perfect. People will be enraged if they can find any example of it not working. The human brain only understands examples, not rates. Facebook is now an all-knowing god that cannot make mistakes or not know something.
> If you are doubtful of the usefulness of pain management while receiving a filling, you can try it yourself.

What do you mean by a filling? Just for a minor cavity? I've never received local anesthetic for a minor plastic filling, just for root canals/crowns, and the pain has never been a problem. This seems to be common practice where I've gotten dental care (Sweden and Japan)
There was no reduction, it was intended as a pointer to one data structure some TSDBs are using underneath. I would bold and highlight the "etc" present there for you if the markup allowed it.

I hope a reader would become interested in what an LSM tree is (and perhaps as importantly isn't)
Is it the phone or is it Facebook?

If you have 500 friends, your feed is dominated by the 5 friends with spectacular stories about their stupendous lives.

Continuously comparing your ordinary life against your feed naturally makes you feel bad about yourself.

And being on public display 24x7, with the pressure to perform for your audience, in a never-ending struggle to keep up, must do incredible damage to the psyche.
When I was a kid you could purchase codeine cough medicine OTC in my U.S. state (it was same deal as you describe for Australia -- the patient would have to sign a register so the pharmacist could make sure you weren't buying five bottles a day or whatever).

Nothing works as well for a nagging cough as codeine and terpin hydrate. Nothing.

Unfortunately, you've got to go to a doctor to get it nowadays.

Instead, most people use OTC stuff with DXM (which doesn't work as well, is an abusable drug in its own right, and is quite likely more toxic than the codeine).
Strava fitness app inadvertently reveals US military training routes
The other bizarre and ludicrous thing about the constant "ask your doctor" refrain: how many US adults have a personal physician whom they see regularly enough to even be able to call the person "their doctor"?

I'm willing to bet most people have a more substantial relationship with the barista at their local Starbucks than whoever happens to be on duty when they need to go to the doctor.
You see this in real-world UX in Japan too. Almost every travel guide to JR railways and/or metro says some variation of "press the button on the top left (ok, I forgot which button) and a guy will pop out of a hidden door, and help you buy a ticket"

Or, their ATMs. Amazingly confusing at times. Yet, no Japanese seems harmed in the making of this situation.
Safari displayed the video, but blocked it from automatically playing.

And I agree, it's a terrible impression. I don't know who keeps thinking user hostile stuff like this is acceptable.
Qubes would make for a great startup and, given the time, prob a very successful ICO.

I was positively and at the same time negatively surprised reading about the 30k users. All issues/obstacles reported don’t seem so unachievable if one can imagine to focus on one specific hardware platform and with a good marketing team. I understand this is beyond a research project, but it would make for a great startup.
I really like it. Their websites feel more authentic, alive and direct.
Sounds like this came from 4chan which runs the following disclaimer

> The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.

> Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
Machines for creative enablement (not human replacement)
I check google flights, book them when they are cheapish and look for somewhere I could see myself staying for a night or two in my destination area. Couchsurfing, last minute hotel booking and AirBNB for accommodation. I don't really plan much for what I am doing apart from catching up with/meeting people.

Planning a but that involves convincing a friend to tow a trailer across Australia for me and decking out my motorbike for camping off of.

My holidays are all winged. If I put too much effort into planning them or can't just relax and take my time it doesn't feel like a good holiday.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238322
To me the problem seems somewhat self evident.

Children like to think they're special. Parents of children like to think their child is special. And we're doing more than ever to try to convince children that they're special. But reality is not so kind. The vast majority of people, by definition, are not special and never will be. The internet emphasizes this truism. Whether your personal desire is intelligence, strength, beauty, music, or some other skill - the internet will emphasize that, even for your age, you suck.

That explains the useless part at least. As for joyless, I think the huge number of apps designed to give you that constant burst of something, ostensibly dopamine, that gives that feeling of joy (and more importantly from their perspective, addiction) is something that I think will have, almost with complete certainty, unforeseen consequences. Look at casinos and you see people that who are 'happily' inserting their pennies and pulling the rod - yet they look, and mostly are, completely miserable. Their addiction we consider negative because money is directly involved, yet is the addition to notifications, numbers, and all the sort of bells and whistles modern social sites use to trigger addiction truly that different? If anything, the insidious nature of it all makes it seem even worse.
Not really. I think this phenomenon is well documented at this point. How else would fake news spread so easily across social media? Everyone has a couple of crazies in their social circle, and they will broadcast false statements as facts. Due to a human cognitive quirk, we lend more credence to propositions we hear from multiple sources. The "crazies" that already believe in nonsense already do this on reflex. And so the crazy spreads, even to otherwise reasonable people.
Wow... I had this same thought... While stoned and drunk out of my mind in Amsterdam...

It all boils down to information, information storage, and information processing. Draw a closed surface around any region of space. Information enters the bounded region in the form of light, fields, pressure waves, particles, potentials, etc... This information bounces around a bit, interacts with the matter and stored information within, and eventually, some information leaves.

Happens with empty space, a rock, a person, anything. Who is to say that this process has any more meaning when a brain is involved...
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Yes. I use OpenBSD on both my desktop and laptop daily, I also use it for my home firewall and personal server.

Full disclosure: OpenBSD developer.
The vast majority of kids don't realize what money means. I mean they do in the abstract sense, but they tend to be naively unrealistic about the future. What's $70k of debt per year (paired with compound interest) matter when they'll be a millionaire in a decade or two anyhow?

--Edit--

Interesting, people didn't seem to realize this was true. Here [1] is a study from Gallup on peoples' views on wealth. There is a strong inverse correlation between the number of people that expect to become "rich" and age. For ages 18-29 it's 51%. That decreases down to 8% by the time people are 65, which is still unrealistic.

That study is from 2003, yet its results have been replicated with minimal change in other more recent studies as well (though not from Gallup). It's part of the reason that education loans are simultaneously so overtly predatory, but also phenomenally successful (from the point of view of lenders). Young people are completely unrealistic about their chances for success and so the implications of taking on mountains of debt with often poor interest rates, when you're young, is something they cannot accurately assess.

[1] - http://news.gallup.com/poll/7981/Half-Young-People-Expect-St...
It's not about the data, at least not yet.

The goal is simply to burn cash to get big enough that they can threaten AMC and Regal to do a rev share.

That's it for now. If this works, then the data might become valuable. But for now it's just a race to scale up before the cash runs out.
Thanks for your comment.

You’re coming from a more informed position. I haven’t read the books.

> I think a lot of it comes down to working as little as you need to to make as much as you need to fund the lifestyle you want

To me this sounds like having a job. Because while I haven’t read the books, things like geoarbitrage just sounds like an entitled Western pipe dream harkening back to colonialism. It’s 2018, everything is global, everything is changing rapidly. Where there are arbitrages, they’re not for solo entrepreneurs to exploit, they’re for megacorporations. Honestly it’s pretty 19th century to think people in India or Asia will work for us and won’t wise up and support our “lifestyles”. It’s a pipe dream. A good developer in India or Asia knows his worth.

I’m sure some people can pull off this lifestyle, but it’s snake oil to suggest this is even remotely turnkey, approachable to anyone. You have to be the motherfucking man, the boss of bosses, to make this work for you. You have to be great on the phone, charming, intelligent, creative, visionary even. So what I totally don’t understand is why such a person who could pull this off would simultaneously lack ambition and interest to grow their business further, because the kind of person who can actually execute this sort of thing would not look for work life balance, they would continue kicking ass and taking names in the global market for the sheer fun of making more and more money and being awesome.

That’s why I think all of this is a scam targeted at tired people. If a person wants work life balance they should find a decent job.
I mean, all this is a fancy way of saying "I made a map where high income tax counties and states are red and low income tax states and counties are green."
I agree, but maybe we're projecting? We didn't have to think about it, it was a given that we'd move out and rent somewhere and eventually buy a home, only for the poorest in society would this be unattainable and much of the rest would be covered by social housing projects.

Many people in their 30's and 40's are now finding out that this isn't the case and it's talked about a lot, so teenagers are more likely aware. There's also a better chance that they're coming from a family that has never owned a home.
In a liberal society speech should be free in every way.
Though I'm hesitant, I'll bite. What has Trump said that you'd consider hate speech?