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For those of us, like myself, that don’t realistically expect to read her books,

Your reasons for feeling that way are, of course, your own, and I'm hardly one to tell you to do otherwise. But if I could offer any comment on this, let me just say this: there is a LOT of what I would call "caricaturized misrepresentation" of Rand and Rand's work out there in the wild. If your view on reading Rand is based on what you've heard about her from others, I'd strongly suggest you consider carefully if you can trust what you've been told.

On the flip-side, I'll also say this: while I personally am sympathetic to a lot of Rand's thinking / philosophy, I do think she did herself a mis-service in the way she chose to use the words "selfish" and "altruism". That is to say, her usage, while possibly pedantically correct, runs somewhat counter to the common vernacular usage, and it makes it unreasonably easy to misinterpret her meaning, or to impute things that aren't there, whether intentionally or otherwise.

Just to give an over-simplified example of what I mean... Rand never really said, say, "don't give to the poor". But she probably said something roughly like "don't give to the poor because of altruism, do it out of selfish self interest." To anybody educated in the last 30 years or so, that probably sounds very weird, because we tend to assume that "altruism" means something like "a desire to do good to others, like, for example, giving to the poor". But in her world-view, "altruism" was actually just a facade used to misdirect people and get them to buy into a mindset of subjugating the individual to the whims of the collective (and by implication, the self-appointed, corrupt, elitist rulers of the collective). The latter group of people being what she referred to as "moochers" in some of her works.

Likewise, in today's vernacular the word "selfish" has a meaning that's almost negative by its very definition. That is, to say that anything is done for "selfish" reasons is to assume a lack of charity, lack of empathy, a disregard for the welfare of others, evil motives, etc. But that isn't what Rand meant. When she says do things for selfish reasons, she really means "do things because they're what you, as rational, thinking, individual choose to do, without being coerced or manipulated". A person who holds to Rand's ideas can behave in a way that is 180 degrees removed from what we generally think of as "selfish" and still be acting in the "selfish" way that Rand advocates.

Anyway... that got longer than I meant for it to. I'll just finish by saying that I think most people should consider reading at least some of Rand's works and form their own opinions of what she is promoting, rather than simply accepting someone else's interpretation (including mine).

Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
That's very informative, but it doesn't quite answer the question.

Why are you allowed to have passengers with a PPL if it's so dangerous?

And why does that reason stop applying when the passengers pay?
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I miss Slashdot sometimes, where anonymous cowards were labeled as such.
General aviation aircraft are quite safe. I don’t have data on hand to back this up on mobile, but I’d wager more than half (honestly, more) of those GA incidents are pilot error, whether operationally or maintenance-related. Checklist culture and attention to detail is important, and has reasons for existing.

It’s a perfectly fine hobby if you respect it, and there’s no sense discouraging otherwise qualified folks from flying. GA is already in severe decline.
I actually find it really funny that a lot of SciFi predicts a future where we are actually talented and intelligent enough to create a human-like, sentient being. The reality seems so distinctly far off from that- though I guess that is the point of fiction.
> My nearest store is 15 minutes away, and the nearest Walmart is an hour away.

And I'll bet your nearest Amazon Fulfilment Center is a lot farther away than those. But hardly relevant, either, when you can go to walmart.com or target.com and order the same items, often also for free two-day delivery.

It is fascinating in these comments to see the reductio ad absurdum that Prime membership seems to invoke. People arguing that if they didn't have Prime they'd have to walk to a store.

Amazon wasn't the first online e-tailer, it isn't the only one and surprisingly it isn't the biggest in many countries.
I'm still a fan of technical questions that don't involve low level implementation of code.

Things like "How would you create minesweeper on the iPhone" or "How would you make an app that's Airbnb for dogsitters?"

Just try to see how people would approach the question.
Most of my least fulfilling work experiences we're when I was remotely full time (3-4 years)

it sounds great in concept but in practice it gets really lame after extended periods of time
If you take that stance you also say there is no such thing as free will, since all your actions are some kind of response from the environment.

Not saying that that means you're wrong.
Once again someone many have accused of tinfoil battery being shown to be onto some nugget of truth. He had a medical scare recently, anyone know how he's doing?
Many people ride motorcycles for pleasure in America. Motorcycles are a dangerous mode of transportation (more than cars, buses, etc.), even if you wear a helmet. If you are going for maximum pleasure/risk then, if the pleasure is much higher without a helmet, it is rational to not wear one, if you are riding for pleasure.

Commuting on a motorcycle, you should wear a helmet. Pleasure ride on the weekends, maybe not. Let the person make the decision. Seems good to me. America.
Couple of km up the hill, outside of Lausanne. Apparently had a nice view of the lake though.
White-box cryptography. AFAIK, all attempted implementations got broken, but it's still an active research area.
Not sure why that study needed to be done, as it proved nothing. You can imagine yourself from above without actually having a camera 8 feet over your head.
interesting to see that it's a clever parse from the html results of a player's career page
This is why the `deep_dup` and `ice_nine` gems live in most of my projects.
Isn’t the Mac dev forum protected by a pay wall?
>The total value of all gold ever mined would exceed US$7.5 trillion (wikipedia)

Approx number of bitcoins 16 million (21 max - 1 to go - 4 lost)

So to be equal btc would have to hit about $500k each
> I see your point but a perfect safety record doesn't preclude overreacting to fairly minor infractions.

But is it overreacting?

All systems of regulations are imperfect, but FAA regulations are the product of decades of work by very, very smart people. As a whole, FAA regulations are hugely concerned with what seem like 'minor infractions' because 'minor infractions' are often enough to start a chain of events that leads to major accidents. This is especially true as experience increases because experienced people are so much less likely to make major mistakes that they have to be concerned with the small chinks in the armor of safety.
Well, direct contact. DDG gets data from Microsoft, the small grocery store buys from large distributors of Big Ag products, etc.

That said, the "buffer" they provide can sometimes be nice.
Agreed for Google, but what are facebooks "dozen shitty [messaging] apps"? They own Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram. Pretty much all relevant DM vectors apart from Snapchat and twitter.
eeerm... Yeah, like Facebook (it's the actual name)

(best to just spell out the obvious)
It has a view of the lake, but isn't actually close to the lake.
If we are speaking only seconds on max power, ultracapacitors will do a whole lot better job than batteries.
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This links to a lot of good stuff

It's interesting that the argument in the main article there seems to be "Rand should not be taken seriously - as an academic philosopher". That is not the same statement as "Rand should not be taken seriously".
It's really unfortunate that Facebook was allowed to buy WhatsApp. This could have been good news, and maybe it still is since end-to-end encrypted messaging apps may not enable the same data abuse as Facebook's social network. Still would have been nicer if it was a separate entity.

Also, pretty insane Instagram numbers. Now that is a service I really don't get, yet considering how many people use it, it can't just be being too old.
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I've found Ruby to be faster than Python these days; it's node.js that beats it, for obvious reasons. I don't think JS has fewer problems around mutability and and monkey patching though.
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You need to log the hours in the US, really?

In Canada I just did 4 hours with an instructor and then went for the test and bought a car. Most people drive around with their parents for 8 months on a permit but you don't have to log anything or prove that you did it, you're just not allowed to drive by yourself.
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How could this be inconceivable to you? With all supplier and customer data codified into a standardised structured format, you’d instantly have a ”social network”of all the firms operating at various stages in a value chain, and probably the best model ever of how the whole economy is composed in detail. You’d get the bills of materials, ’recipes’ for just about anything anybody produces; you’d get their profit margins from the controlling modules, you’d be able to estimate the risk banks are exposed to by aggregating the loans they give out to companies and estimating the default risks of each and tot the up.

Forget knowing what executives google... you’d have a real-time fingerprint of the whole economy, ready to be explored and monetized.

This would be... terrifying. Imagine if google discovered that (oh, I don’t know) some firm supplying parts into the Pixel product line had high margins on one of those items, and decided to play hardball to push it down. Suppose Google discovered that one small firm competing with it depend ended on another customer for most of its current revenue, and Google decided to focus its ’competition’ on changing that key client’s idea?

It would be a nightmare.
Uh... I'm sure every paragraph there is a red flag for most peope on HN. I know it is at least for me, and I own guns and was an Eagle Scout.
You can still experience "free will" without invalidating the materialist point of view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_model
I think this is a case of finding a topic community.

In other words: If you are a macOS dev who uses AWS, Unity, or Swift, then find an AWS, Unity, or Swift community and you’ll find many people there using macOS.
Are helmets a legal requirement in your country (Australia, I see)?

As a former and future rider, I always wear a full helmet, but people have the legal right to ride without one.

If we were going for maximum safety for transportation, uncaged motor transport would be prohibited.
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I was wondering about that, but even if I'd read it in 2012 I would have benefited more than when I finally found it. And seeing as this is hypothetical, why not "books I wish I had read if they had existed earlier"..
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I agree, there are patterns (as everywhere in nature), but they are highly probabilistic because they are noisy due to randomness.
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Not a book, but still it was an important point in my life.
So would you allow me to chop up someone you have decided is unconscious? If the answer is no, why?
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There are a bunch of us at http://chat.coreint.org
> In the US, teenagers need to log tens/hundreds of hours driving under their parents’s supervision (on a learner’s permit) between the instructor driving sessions and the official road test.

There is no US rule and the state rules vary considerably, many states have no logged practice hours requirement, and it doesn't
doesn't seem like any are in hundreds of hours; I think 65 is the maximum and most with a requirement are 50 or less.
They’ve put ads in my fb messenger and damn them to hell for it. I’ve actively stopped using it now.
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I guess it would be more responsible to report the bug to the contract author first. Perhaps they will let you take it as a reward, and you'll sleep better at night and won't have a moral dilemma ;-)

Seriously though, nice find. What would be a way to defend against this?
As noted, that's a shell-specific artefact, which makes me shudder thinking of DOS's command-specific globbing.

And not all bashes support this -- Debian (and I suspect Ubuntu, Mint, etc., based on it) disables this option at build time.

You can get something fairly close via netcat, though IMO that also shows some of the weaknesses of the approach, which is that you're not interacting with a web page, say, so much as you're talking http to a socket. Not that there aren't times when that isn't an entirely sensible thing to do, but if you just want to read stupid stuff on the Wobbly Wobbly Wibble, it's a bit too thinky.

(All of which I'm sure schoen knows far better than I, though others might not.)

The idea of talking protocol-based stuff through something that looks vaguely directory / file-ish, and which could do sensible things with HTML (or audio, video, data, messaging stuff, email stuff, crypto stuff) and through which utilities and utilities would have access without needing to be specifically adapted to handle the cases might be interesting.
Well I still haven't seen a modern chat application which gives all the IRC features. Its like they have deliberately removed all the good features.
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per passenger mile yes, but not per trip
On the other hand, professionals are more efficient, and you can impose rules on them, as to minimize the suffering. My family is from a rural area, and the stories I've heard of inexpert killings are horrifying, certainly worse than using the wrong levels of CO² or similar.
The hard part is coming out with an interesting and discussable definition of free will that doesn't smell like the mind-brain duality, which is just a term for spirit.
"We aren't expecting abuse to be a major problem."

Oh ... dear.
They used to be decentralised. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Gtalk were all based on XMPP and they all deliberately switched off the federation feature, then changed protocol.
> Russian propaganda.

I'm going to pick this part of your comment out specifically since I largely agree with the rest of it.

People have said there's a lot of this going around, but I struggle to see what they mean. What propaganda, specifically Russian, do you mean? I see this kind of baseless conjecture much like I did back in the Cold War. The "communists" or "Russians" were just around the corner kind of nonsense is eerily similar to what people are claiming these days.

So really, if you have any actual proof do enlighten us with it.
Your view of rigorous language is debatable. In wittgenstienian sense Language is its use. So one might argue you are playing different language game (aka legal language) in a informal conversation game in a internet forum.
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There are no provably secure white box crypto implementations. It's actually debated within the community _if_ one can even exist.
The strangest NDE I've heard of was a woman in Seattle who had been totally blind from birth. During her NDE she could see, but she had no concept of how to "see". She reported that it took her awhile to understand what she was seeing, how to understand and distinguish colors, that that blob was a person and she now knew what people looked like, etc. After her NDE she was still totally blind (of course) but was able to describe things that only a sighted person could know. Freaky.
From Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?", right?

At least as you've stated it, that's a circular definition.
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It's considered a valid way to dispose of excess missiles under disarmament treaties like START.
> being able to get orders fairly deterministically in a couple of days

Seriously, this is one of the wonders of the modern world. Going elsewhere means not only wondering when an item will arrive, it means wondering whether the item will arrive at all. A 5% difference in price just isn't worth the necessary contingency planning.

A couple of times now when shopping elsewhere I've had orders deliberately delayed so that I would call and they could attempt to upsell me because they weren't making a good enough commission on the price as advertised. Life is way too short for these sort of shenanigans.

Also, once you are used to real time "in stock/out of stock" status, shopping at a physical store is an exercise in pure frustration. There are only so many times you'll buy crappy alternatives to what you actually want so that you don't "waste the trip" before you stop making the trip.
You can't do it using a 2x2 section, but you can using a 3x4 section. Still, that doesn't require looking at the entire board.
>Natural language philosophy constitutes legitimate dialectics, not pedantry. In the former you add precision by first synthesizing an agreement of terminology and introducing relevant definitions.

What you describe is not the only view of language. If you are not being pedantic, you might consider the Wittgenstien's view on how language is like a game.

So there are different classes of language games, and one can argue that legal one is not the one being played out in a internet forumn. Legalism is language of courts, derives its meaning from its use to resolve disputes. So deriving the meaning of ethics as used in normal conversation language game from legal grounds is being pedantic.
totally logged into my account for the first time in like 16-17 years. can't believe the service is still up and running, and that I haven't changed my default password since then... lol

73117649 :D
My first thought. Though not appropriate for sharing in HN discussions, little toleration for humor.
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You've stated that there is a payback. There isn't. It's a money sink, and the only way that such a project is justified is mainly by state funding (public service contracts, state-owned corporations, etc)
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There was the whole sub-industry in late Soviet electronics industry focused on reverse-engineering chips obtained from Western countries. Physically photographing dies, restoring logical schemes, reading microcode... I guess the skills, methods, equipment used for that could be useful for modern farmers - and others trying to actually own what they've bought.
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Absolutely insane, it is an irrational risk NOT to wear a helmet.
Here are some cdc facts:

* Helmets saved an estimated 1,772 lives in 2015.

* If all motorcyclists would have worn helmets in 2015, 740 more could have been saved.

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Wear your helmet. Do it for yourself and your family, and never tell anyone NOT to wear a helmet. Seriously!
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How much would the total weight be for the lidar equipment? I wonder if drones would be able to significantly reduce the price.
As deep as it needs to be to allow people to accept lab grown meat.

The equivalent of conscientious vegetarians of the future may be those that only eat lab grown human meat, of their own grown cells. Me-steak is the meat of the future. Of course, genetics probably means some of us taste better than others...
And by now not even the caller app, or the phonebook app, or the calendar, or Homescreen, or settings, or search are open anymore.[1]

Everything now requires Google's proprietary services

Oh, and Google prevents OEMs from cooperating with Amazon.[2]

As result, Android is almost completely controlled by Google.

And you call that "open"?

________________________

[1] To disprove this, please find me the full current source code of the Google Dialer, Google Contacts, Android Nessages, Google Calendar, Pixel Launcher, and Google Search apps — all these used to be open source in Android 2.3.7, if you find me the full source code of their current versions, I'll take this point back.

[2] See the ongoing Antitrust case in the EU against Google
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LIDAR data requires precise location-information of the scanning-device, otherwise the data you collect is at best useless, and at-most wildly skewed. This is because all the points are in-reference to the location of the device. A faster traveling vehicle inherently means less-accurate location measurements.
Can anyone explain this? I kinda missed the point - "people doing a job only use the tools at hand, but engineers can not do the job and go off and build a better tool?"
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Except spelling is a popularity contest with the one in largest use being considered the way to spell it.
Or skip the article and just read the comments! :)
The next phase will be nearby events happening now apps. I want to meet with real people in real time.
10 years ago I would routinely go to facebook and see friends saying what they were planning to do and make plans with them. Facebook served a real purpose in college (we got it my junior year iirc).

Now its nearly all trash. People bitching, posting memes, sharing slideshows, etc. The only thing I go there for is 1 specific local group and even that is pointless because there is a discord.

Facebook is essentially dead to me, and certainly dead to all my younger cousins 15-19 yos. I feel like I must be missing something, because I have no idea why anyone would visit. It's so negative and low quality.
I think an important distinction is whether the response to stimulus is hardcoded or not, and the degree to which it's not. Saying simply 'stimulus-response' makes it sound like a reflex like pulling back your hand when you accidentally touch a hot plate. There's a world of difference between an automaton that always reacts the same way to a given stimulus on one end and on the other end a deeply learning mind that can store memories, create internal models to predict stimuli, maybe even 'rewire' itself to change what effects future stimuli can have. Sure, you could say that the latter just reacts to stimuli over a greater period of time (e.g. experience is just old stimuli still being reacted to) but to do so would be to gloss over the enormous difference in nature and complexity of such systems. And unless you believe in a metaphysical definition of consciousness, then somewhere in that complexity gap is where consciousness arises, so it seems hardly like something to be glossed over.