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When it come to history I find most political movements to be wrong on both facts and interpretation. Take women's suffrage in the US for example and the relation to shortage in conscription at the end of world war 1. Following liberal writing there exist no relation. According to those writing the right to vote came through demonstrating and women empowering themselves. True or false? Should we interpret it as a victory for self empowerment or as a result of lack of soldiers during the last year of the biggest war the world had seen (also called the war to end all wars)?

An other example: witch hunts. According to liberal writing those where all campaigns targeting the weak, poor and vulnerable in society. Historians points towards campaigns that transfered land and money from the accused families into the pocket of the church. True or false? Should we interpret it as men oppressing poor women or as a form plunder for profit by a religious institution that targeted those with something to take?

Personally I lean towards not trusting political movements when they write about history. Facts don't fit the nice narrative that is needed to gain mass adaption. Usually the truth is a bit from column A and column B and involve multiple events which together create an environment where famous historical facts happened. It is in the realization of those events and the interpretation that we can grasp what actually happened in the past and why.
Without the "it's", I trust.
Read the article - there are several clues, and bounds can be calculated.
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The sound of one hand clapping is that of an argument which none of us can disagree with
> And one of the reasons for the most complicated billing system in the world is for-profit Insurance companies.

Not really. In fact, Medicare is responsible for most of the current billing system, not private insurers.
It's the aggressive tone larded with use of cherry-picked negative aspects of using other languages and irrelevant details, I suspect.
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Missing from this post: no matter how smart you think you are, the future is still unpredictable, because it involves other people and people are mostly gooey and not perfectly rational game theory state machines.
>"The total weight of 26 sheep and 10 goat is 7,700kg, based on the average weight of each animal," said one Weibo commenter.

Those are some MASSIVE sheep. I like that the internet know it all was just as wrong as everyone else. Also that the writer of the article didn't even bother to fact check it.
That is assuming CDMA 2000 is still relevant. You can wonder if anyone using a Flagship Smartphone cares about dropping CDMA support. The world has moved to LTE, and only much more so in the future.
One reason this is likely to be less expensive is that the employees of those companies tend to be well paid and to have had ongoing access to health care. Essential tasks ordinarily done by the working poor are usually outsourced. In the case of Amazon, it's not just things like facilities maintenance and janitorial workers that won't fall under its health care umbrella, it's all those warehouse workers engaged in physical work.

Essentially, the costs will be lower because the new company will cherry pick. And again in the case of Amazon, the tendency to hire young workers also works in favor of lower costs. This is disruption in the same sense that Amazon's pillaging the public purse for its new headquarters is disruption.
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It is so sad that rape is a common war crime in every war since very ancient time. Rape during WW2 was probably one of the biggest crimes after mass genocide. I am familiar with the Japanese’s rape crime but this is the first time I am hearing about this. Allies are no exception.

The psychology behind committing such crime is beyond the “sexual urge” excuse.
I've read that blog post and some of your other posts on HN. I get why the JVM, C/C++, and Go were not fits. However, I have not seen a lucid explanation of why you didn't go with Erlang or Elixir.
It isn’t a solved problem, and no one engineer writes something this complex. The question of how groups of people, governments, corporations and so on can be liable in wrongful death is however. Rarely applied, but settled.
Technically OSM is a database of geographic objects. You can use that to make a map, or to power a routing engine (like OSRM).
Mostly OT: Isn't the phrase "What happens in X stays in X" more closely associated with Las Vegas, which must be one of the most heavily surveilled cities in America? https://lasvegassun.com/youre-being-watched/
Well, the passport cover page png lets you keep your actual passport in a safe place, while having ID on you while you roam around. Very useful in places that have a high rate of pickpocketing and theft.

Also if you lose your passport, you have a copy to show the embassy.

I don't have a travel blog unfortunately.
There is a lot of evidence for large parts of the early bible stories beeing copyied from the egyption sun god movement.
I'm curious: are there any books or movies which feature use of Minitel?
I don't feel the need to purchase every book I read just so it can sit on a shelf in my house when I'm done. So I use the public library unless it's a new release that I want to read right away.
"There's no formula to calculate the age of a ship captain based on his cargo. There's no 'missing piece' here."

The lack of relevant relationship is the missing piece.

Given how much nonsense I've personally witnessed as a math tutor or TA as students shove unrelated numbers through unrelated equations in unmotivated manners in an attempt to come up with some answer, any answer, I'd say it's not any worse a question than giving them one that does correspond to an equation but has too few terms nailed down for a concrete answer.

The weird part of this story to me is that it is somehow newsworthy. Is it truly such an oddity in China that this made it to international news, or is there a heavy dollop of our local media basically turning off their critical thinking when it comes to China or Japan and boggling at anything, no matter how mundane?
Technically you can edit OSM yourself and correct routing errors like that. The problem is either in the data (which is easier to fix) or in the router code (which is harder to fix, but even filing a bug with an example is helpful).
Of course not? Try register an account with a 2012 birthday on Coinbase? Did you even read? I bet not?
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The cost of insurance is largely driven by the underlying cost of what you are insuring. Unless they are able to lower the cost of care significantly, the price difference between a non-profit and for-profit is marginal.
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"It's your time, and if people are willing to pay, you can charge whatever you like."

Yep! It also helps, for those of us who feel bad charging "high" prices for work we like to do, to not think of ourselves as being paid for "the work". I know a lot of artists who are lovely people and could sometimes be persuaded to do an event for a low fee because they are doing something they love. Then one of them got the advice to think of what they are being paid for - it's not that you get paid to spend an hour on stage in Utah one Saturday. It's all the BS around doing that - traveling their, committing in advance no matter what comes up you will be there and do a good job, having to ignore your family and other responsibilities to get good at your craft. The general disruption and unevenness that it brings to your life to be a freelance anything. If people value your work enough to pay you what you will accept for ALL THAT BS just to have you there, great, you have a career now. But, as they say, the performance is free. It's all the other stuff they have to pay you for.
Given what I know of Pony, WhatsApp and Erlang, it reminds me of WhatsApp's decision to write their backend in Erlang.

And it is a risk - big whoop, you've written production code in Pony. Good luck doing that again elsewhere, or hiring someone competent in it. I don't think it's quite hip or popular enough to be very useful on your resume (but I could be wrong).
It seems to be a strange thing, that when charged enough, customers seem to be less fussy, less demanding and happier with the results.

The worst customers I've seen, everywhere I've worked, are the ones being under charged.
Personally I'd be surprised if it doesn't still exist within the next 20 years. I don't think that much has changed in regards to how much political power this industry has. Just because the people are starting to get on board with single payer doesn't mean the politicians are going to care.
I think I could help answer this. The cost of computation has gone down so much that its just a fraction of the price for your whole genome sequencing. The cost comes from preparation, reagents, and storage. Illumina sells their own reagents, so the cost is really dependent on them. We've worked really hard to get the computation cost of genome sequencing as low as possible, and we just passed a major milestone last year.

Source: Software Engineer for a well-known non-profit sequencing lab/center.
We see (or are forced to see) ads on Google, Facebook et al. is because they are free to use services for consumers. Eventhough that bother some us so much that we use all sort of ad blocking plug-ins at our disposal to stop seeing those pesky ads. I pay for my Amazon Prime membership and for every product I purchase on Amazon.com. Last thing I want is getting bombarded by obnoxious ads. while shopping for my next two-day delivery of Topo Chico water bottles there. Unless Amazon decides to roll out a steeply discounted Prime membership program, I would be a very unhappy customer seeing ads on a paid platform.
I haven't yet. It wasn't a priority, so I stopped looking into it. I did find this forum thread though: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269884

I tried tweeting @AWSSupport, but they just referred me to the scheduled tasks docs that I had already read.

I suspect the issue is that I set up my tasks to run in Fargate mode, which I didn't realize at the time was brand new. Maybe it's not compatible with scheduled tasks yet.
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I don't think that would work. First, nobody wants to drive a taxi. Unless it was really cheap most people would just get a lyft and not worry about following guidance from their taxi. Second, most of the people at risk of dying from a malfunctioning self driving car will be people outside the car. Third, how are you going to convince regulators your car is safe if you're making concessions like that? The government is a slow beuracracy and won't take kindly to halfway solutions that will force them to do things over once things are actually ready.

And as pessimistic as I'm being, I don't think its that bad of an idea. I just wouldn't put my money on it.
An acquaintance works in in the oil industry and they can have tens of thousands of people working on projects costing tens of billions. This looks like a similar scenario.
Not all trials are criminal. In fact, the vast majority are civil. To expose elected politicians to criminal liability would completely stymie them: laws are routinely struck down for all sorts of reasons, and it would be almost impossible for a single parliamentarian (who usually has a staff of two or three, max) to foresee all challenges.

I know this "Snooper's Charter" evokes strong feelings, which makes it a bad example.

The courts also have enough power already to make their judgements stick. Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the US, and it didn't take any jail sentences to make that right a reality, even though roughly 40% of the population are vehemently opposed.

To see a particularly crass example that comes close to your fantasy, see Joe Arpaio, one of the very few politicians to actually defy a court long enough to be convicted of criminal charges.
you are doing what libraries should be doing, especially for books they intend to throw out.

I mean, the US government has warehouses of data with the most inane things about people and then they can't manage to store books before throwing the physical copy out.

Damn.
It's a little unfair to blame sixhobbits for this, since they pretty clearly stated "... whoever set it up ..." was responsible for the assumption.
>Generally Transparent = MP3 LAME @ ~ 128kbps. That is the good old standard.

Says who? And which version of LAME? That encoder has seen huge improvements over the years. We should not define audio transparency by an outdated and flawed format. We should define audio transparency by whether it is distinguishable from a lossless source or not.

But yes, a modern version of lame (3.98 or newer) will be transparent around V5 VBR, which is ~130kbps. BUT -- and this is a huge twerking 'but' -- the MP3 format suffers from pre-echo. There is nothing you can do about it. It is lessened at higher bitrates, but you can never completely get rid of it. There is also the problem of the SFB21 defect, which can severely bloat the allocated bitrate on content that is heavy in high frequencies: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=LAME_Y_switch

Newer formats such as AAC, Vorbis and Opus do not share these limitations. I don't know where you read that AAC is worse than MP3, because that is simply objectively false, as shown by every listening test you can care to dig up. Did you mistakenly use FAAC (probably the worst AAC encoder out there) or something?
> As a provider why accept a lower price from insurance when the gov't is providing a backlog of people at predetermined prices?

This isn't even an option on the table. Private insurers are generally required by law to pay more than Medicare does.

And besides, Medicare reimburses rates that are below COGS, so providers charge private insurers more in order to make up the difference. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to accept Medicare patients at all; they'd literally lose money on a per patient basis.
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I'm not sure what the correct psychology is. Add together 'shell shock', depression, a continuous fear of impeding death, repeated exposure to unimaginable horrors, separation from home and family for years at a time, and despair at ever reuniting with your loved ones. I wonder at those able to endure all that, and end up anything like normal.
> A prediction was made that Bitcoin would go well, and it did, but the fact that it went well doesn't mean that the prediction was rationally founded.

This just looks like a naked assertion to me.
I’d join that company. First thing I’d do is properly line item every coded expense and expose it to the end user, and compare it with averages of other providers. Expose people to where they are being ripped off and where they can get better prices.
Well, they have to at least be able to solve the problem, and being able to explain a solution is an important skill in its own right. Unless you are researching thought processes, or you are a Hardy working with a Ramanujan, the distinction you are making does not matter a whole lot.
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The Soviets were quite open about aiming for world conquest, starting with Europe. They tried it first in 1920, but Poland miraculously defeated them. WWII was another attempt (had Hitler not attacked first, Stalin would probably just attack Germany within a short period of time) - first Poland and Germany, then France, Spain, Italy, UK etc. It only stopped at Poland and Eastern Germany that time because of strong backing of the US for the Western Europe.
Yes, if you were willing to shell out 1000 bucks for the test, and if the bacteria was in your bloodstream (unlikely). If you swabbed, cultured, and sequenced, it'd be a better test.

I've personally used the oxford nanopore to diagnose malaria subtypes from ~1ml blood draws. Though it took awhile to do so, well beyond clinically relevant time periods. Our best turn around was about 2 days for sequence, but analysis takes much longer.
Those are issue with the process or a mistake in the process not in the result.
First - I spent a good amount of time with Pony attempting to make something similar to Wallaroo (on a much smaller scale), and it seems I hit the same problems as you re:FFI. Does it worry you that creating idiomatic C wrappers in Pony feels 'wrong'? Are there ways to make it better? After all, young languages especially are very dependent on wrapping C libs for basic functionality.

Second - from what I can tell, Wallaroo Labs are now one of the main contributors to Ponylang. How are your experiences from writing Wallaroo affecting language design and direction?
>If our own library will not preserve books about our own local history, then who will? How can this source material ever, ever be reconstituted again? How can anybody in charge have thought this was a good idea?

Think about this the next time you see a ballot measure about cutting taxes.
Good outcomes don't have to be expensive. Europe spends half what we do per-capita on healthcare, with similar (and often better) overall outcomes.
After my wife giving birth last year, I would say there is quite a bit of room for improvement. The whole billing process is such a mess when you receive different bills from doctors, the hospital, labs, etc. It seemed like the bills rolled in for months afterward, some going through insurance and some not even being billed to insurance.

Happy to have insurance after I saw the total bill, but man is it a huge headache.

I hope they figure something out if we never make it to a single payer type system.
It is a welcoming move. I hope they make it available for public sector as well. I would be more than happy to have my prescriptions delivered using Amazon Prime same day/2nd day service.
Labour under Corbyn look much more like a government than the Tories, frankly.

But again, how much of that is just because May has been such a disaster?

Corbyn's Labour might look like the government-in-waiting by default, but that's partly because they've got very good at either not committing on controversial subjects or having policies that have a very visible upside that they've promoted while they gloss over serious downsides. None of that will be sustainable if they actually form a government.
How much runway should you target between financing rounds?
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Kaiser Permanente was originally just for employees, so, you know, it could go somewhere.
> Yet again a UK court has ruled the government’s extreme mass surveillance regime unlawful

Except that's not what happened. Not legally anyway. What happened is that the Court of Appeal ruled that a Parliamentary Act did not contain sufficient safeguards to be compliant with the Human Rights Act.

So there's, at least, 2 problems you've got. One is that it's not, technically, government legislation. It's the Crown's legislation as enacted by Parliament. Secondly, and slightly less importantly, the Court of Appeal isn't the final arbiter here. One can either argue that it's the European Court of Justice or, and this is where it gets fun, Parliament.

Now, you can of course make a case for banging the Queen away. It's not like that hasn't been tried in the past with some of her predecessors. Or you could make a cases for locking up some or all of both Houses of Parliament. Or they could enact an amendment to correct the problem.

Of course, if it turns out that anyone was actually affected by the legislation as it stands then that should be dealt with as a matter of urgency. While the internet happily chunters on.
>If Apple took their Macs away from Intel compatibility I doubt I would buy a new one and it would put into question the ability to maintain what software library that exists for the platform.

I'm not sure there's much reason to be that tied to the chip anymore... When you load up MariaDB on your Fedora box the commands to install it and run your software are identical whether it's Intel or ARM. Apple of all people just like (for example) the Linux community are perfectly capable of writing device drivers for each processor architecture and once that work is done really what else makes a MacOS machine on ARM vs Intel any different than a Linux distribution found on multiple architectures?

Particularly since Apple focus so heavily on positive customer experience I can't help but feel they'll make it as painless as possible. Most likely it's not a concern at all.
I suspect Bitcoin will leave many unhappy "investors"
Apple's CPUs win benchmarks, but a lot of this is more down to economics. They're making CPUs for a single client, themselves, mostly for the high end, and they don't need to make a profit on them.

Qualcomm probably could make better CPUs...but it needs to sell them for a profit, and they might not fit into all phone's physical size or power budget.

So, Qualcomm ends up making somewhat lowest-common-denominator chips. Economies of scale make it difficult to make a run of super good chips when Samsung uses its own in many markets, Apple uses its own--the world of high-end smartphones outside of Samsung and Apple is just too small.
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i only know from learning about it, but round manhole covers prevent them from falling through the hole by consisting of a curve of constant width. Another example is the Reuleaux Triangle which is a viable shape for manhole covers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle
Impressive, but can he run DOOM?
We are not in a “post-fact age”, no matter how much some people want us to believe we are.

What does that even mean anyway?

It’s just as bad as the term “fake news”.
State-space is less relevant to regulatory and servo control loops (which is the majority of loops out there), and more of interest in advanced control systems.

Of course, in Masters programs, you are already expected to know basic PID control.

Graduate courses that cover PID control tend to focus on intricacies like loop pairing, RGA, etc. PID control is an eminently practical field of study, and has many interesting facets like bump transfers, split range control, etc. There's a lot to learn about PID control that is non-theoretical.
not exactly a great logic question
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The problem with huge potential upside arguments is that they are equivalent to Pascal's wager, which pretty much no one today takes seriously. And, if you accept them, you have to also accept huge potential downside arguments, which (along with accepting some other dubious premises that are popular in the "rationalist" community) lead you to Roko's Basilisk.
That is an issue - my house is full of books. Which somehow I don't really mind. So not an obstacle for me.

What IS an obstacle is having to read a book on a schedule. Having available to read only new-ish books on popular subjects. Getting fined many times the cost of the book if I break the rules. Guilt when I mislay a book (I left a library book on an airplane once; the library never replaced it).
What a crock of bullshit.
Allies? There were as bad or in some cases worse than Germans. And it's not surprising that they killed and tortured Polish resistance fighters- after all they attacked Poland just two weeks after Germans did.
Don’t focus on the noise, %99 of the ICO’s are scams. Same goes for a bunch of alt-coins. There is a difference between changing the world and improving the world. Bitcoin is already changing the world, anything else is just about enabling blockchain technology to decentralize responsibilities. Like enabling AI to reduce human effort. In other words, it is just another buzz word that attracts a lot of investors (at the moment).

Welcome to the tech world.