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Whales are intelligent. They should not be killed by humans who mask the activities as scientific research.

Japan is a great country and a leader on many levels. I speak Japanese. I enjoy Japanese food and culture. The people are very kind and considerate. There are some who are concerned if you stop killing whales you must stop killing fish and other forms of sustenance. This is not the case. The difference is whales are not sustenance and are not something most Japanese would eat or enjoy to eat. Therefore to stop killing whales does not mean we must stop killing the fish we eat to survive.

Cultures evolve and more forward. Japan should move forward and stop killing whales.

Japanese people should not allow tax payer money to finance a new whaling ship. There are more important programs that are much more needed. The subsidies for whaling should end.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/23/japan-to...
And weirdly, they continue to pretend to children of the UK that humans from all over the globe and all through time speak perfectly understandable English.

And don't get me started on the talking animals. British zoological research is unlikely to ever recover if they can't get basic details like that right.
> there are no mayors or city councils getting payoffs here

Don't be naive. Do you think mayors are getting their nice positions on company advisory boards after active duty because they are so capable?
Assuming we could do this, what would be the downside to eradicating all ticks?
> announce all your IPs

That's configurable. Check the format for the config here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/config.md#a...

Keyword being `Announce` and `NoAnnounce`
> It's madness that a multi-billion dollar company doesn't have to help pay for things they get direct benefit from, and frankly it is supposed to be illegal.

Amazon will absolutely be helping pay for things that they get a benefit from. I think you're misunderstanding the exchange that is happening. To oversimplify, it's basically this:

City: We'll give you tax breaks, decent infrastructure, low property prices and a good pool of local technical talent

Amazon: We'll give you tech jobs, lots of tax revenue from the business, lots of tax revenue from our employees and raised property values.

> I'm not allowed to not pay my taxes, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to what Amazon should be paying.

Not paying your taxes and receiving tax breaks are completely different. Do you take deductions on your taxes? Even the standard deduction? Those are tax breaks.
Religion is a oversimplification of philosophy doctrines. Imagine Moses trying to communicate with regular folk his views on the world in a way that Socrates did. It was much more efficient to translate it to a set of stories that impose specific behavior.

The closest religion to philosophy (I can think of) is Buddhism, it is basically a guide to learn about self and the world.
That's how you pass out
He was a pretty good mimic. I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfqiEGYEQoQ and you have to watch the seal to make sure that is him talking and not the crowd.
It's less interesting of a donation to me because the donor studied philosophy there. It makes it seem more reactive than proactive.
I neither use a vertical tab-bar or tree style tabs, so maybe I'd think otherwise if I did. But if so, I'd rather see that as an argument to improve on window management (and yes, it'd require new APIs) rather than an argument for making applications continue to implement their own tabs. But for me that's not relevant, and one of the nice things about being able to fully control the structure of my own editor is not having to worry about use-cases like that.

When it comes to emacs, I don't agree - the multi-window support I added to my editor was something I added explicitly to mimic my Emacs usage with i3wm. It's very possible that it's down to how I use emacs - I tend to prefer to split with ^X+2 and ^X+3, and that pattern lends itself perfectly to doing window splits with a window manager. If anything, i3wm's support for tabs etc., selectively for any window, is more advanced than the buffer/frame management emacs offers.

> Window managers are just unfixably mediocre in this respect because the UI doesn't have access to context and can't differ based on use.

That's just not the case when you 1) have the source, and 2) are able to control the wm via an API that can provide additional context. To be clear: My current support for this is 100% tied to i3wm, and relies on i3-msg to let me choose which orientation to do the split and exec another instance, and my needs in that respect are simple.

It would be harder to get the same flexibility with a wm that lacks an equally trivial API to control placement. Again, a benefit of being able to fully control my own editor (I am slowly packaging up less opinionated parts of it as separate projects - my goal is that "my" personal part of the editor should be reduced to nothing more than instantiating various generic components) - because of the client-server approach, the grand total of my "multi window support" boils down to this ("term" in this case is a local alias for whatever my current preferred terminal is) :

182│ def split_vertical◂
183│ system("i3-msg 'split vertical; exec term e --buffer #{@buffer.buffer_id}'")◂
184│ end◂
185│
186│ def split_horizontal◂
187│ system("i3-msg 'split horizontal; exec term e --buffer #{@buffer.buffer_id}'")◂
188│ end◂
Anybody can gateway the entire IPFS network, so not really. The officially maintained gateway is just one gateway. If you don’t want to rely on it, can run your own.
> Grandpa spouting jingoist nonsense? You slap him in the mouth like he did you for swearing

Do you want to be slapped by young people in the future, when your politics are no longer fashionable?
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> But a HUGE part of such a pact is that the cities need to find a way to punish any city that doesn't join the agreement, such as with economic sanctions. I'm not totally sure whether it would be possible to craft sanctions that might deter defecting from the pact, especially with so much potential upside on the line, but that's sort of what has to happen for the pact to work.

It's not - the Constitution was specifically designed to forbid this kind of inter-state warfare (eg things like taxing out-of-state goods differently) and SCOTUS has consistently upheld this (eg Granholm v. Heald).
I don't see how a decentralized cryptocurrency could possibly regulate itself efficiently. How would you go about banning even the most basic manipulations?

Take wash trading. How can you possibly ban wash trading? To do this you need to verify that identity of seller X != identity of seller Y. Even dismissing currencies that actively prohibit this verification (Monero), how do you possibly accomplish this in a decentralized currency?

Even without the identities issue, who is looking at bitcoin governance and thinking that deciding protocol changes with a decentralized electoral system is going to produce anything but gamesmanship and paralysis. Promising newcomer coins Abc will have the same issues once there's real money at stake.

And yes. Manipulation exist in the traditional monetary system. However, regulations raise the cost of manipulation to prohibitively high levels for most people. And yes, congress is dysfunctional. But underneath the chaos we have a set of fairly well established rules, and changing those rules didn't require forking the currency.

The problems with our economic system are political, not technological. What crypto brings to money is superfluous technology and even worse politics than we already have.
It's already going on!

PROHIBITION ON STATE-FUNDED AND STATE-SPONSORED TRAVEL TO STATES WITH DISCRIMINATORY LAWS (https://oag.ca.gov/ab1887)

In effect, this law means that if any member of California government picks a contractor / supplier / conference in North Carolina, then that person has to pay for any related travel out of their own pocket. The idea is that this will hugely disincentize any one in the California government from doing business with companies located in North Carolina.

I guess we'll have to see if there's ever a legal challenge to it.
Online courses don't work, but education can still be disrupted
Philosophy gets a bad rep for the same reason psychology and sociology and applied macroeconomics do: because there is no way to clearly distinguish right ideas from wrong ones, so the field is flooded with junk.
I see nothing here that an inept individual with a 4 year degree and an attuned interest in the industry couldn't achieve within 10 years. Much less if they are motivated and establish healthy habits.

I don't see bullet-proof or laser vision on the list.

Besides, wouldn't you want to know all of this? The bigger your tool set, the better your development.
If you want to see what cheap housing and food without economic opportunity go to rural West Virginia. It doesn't work well. The first steps you describe need to be followed by incorporating people back into the economy.
No, not really: states (and by extension cities) are prohibited under the Commerce Clause from enacting burdens on interstate commerce of any sort unless they're authorized by Congress or they are themselves a direct participant in the market they're actually regulating, and not just a regulator.
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Maybe just lower the notification by a half inch, so that the top of it is below where the top nav links are? Could still, then, be full-width.
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This is a dangerous practice when free diving. One non-intuitive risk is that as you ascend, the partial pressure of the remaining oxygen in your lungs decreases on account of the reducing pressure, and this can lead to a shallow-water blackout. While the decreasing partial pressure happens with or without hyperventilating, the risk is much greater if you have been able to extend your dive and draw down your oxygen reserve. Hyperventilating does not significantly increase your oxygen saturation, which is around 98% if you are healthy, and it does not add more oxygen in your lungs; its effect is to decrease your CO2 concentration, suppressing the involuntary breathing reflex.

http://freediveuk.com/the-dangers-of-hyperventilation-when-f...
> If anything my guess would there’s a problem with lack of predators, like a reduction in possums or something similar.

Indeed the abundance of predators, notably martens and foxes, in some areas has been linked with a decrease in infected ticks.
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1859/2017...
You make it sound like George Hotz is any run-of-the-mill 26 year old, except he's anything but[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
Absolutely, Stranger Things might have been considered a cautionary tale in Anytown, USA during the 80s/90s.
Ah! At last!

Mike: if you're reading this: thanks a million!
now this is an actual innovative answer
There is at least two ways of fixing this. First one is that browsers implements IPFS, and reshares the website when you visit it.

Second would be for paulogr to include js-ipfs in the webpage, so when users visits the page, they also reshare the website (if there is enough resources/not on battery/$other_criteria). Users would send the data for the website in-between them, just verify the data's signature.

Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs on IPFS
Interestingly, Paddy Power currently has Boston at no.1 (2/1) followed by Atlanta (5/1) and Austin (11/2). Most people would probably think that Atlanta and Austin are better suited than Boston or at least neck-and-neck. The total number of talent available from Boston-area universities might make a difference though.

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_event&category=SPECI...
The normal consensus in the free diving community is that meditation is more effective that hyperventilating, there is more to gain by reducing your heart rate than by increasing the amount of oxygen in your blood, hyperventilating tends to raise the heart rate

In my experience most people can hold their breath for about a minute if they push out of their comfort zone and, with a modicum of practice, three minutes is attainable.

For me, being able to hold my breath for three minutes while doing nothing, translates to being able to swim underwater for nearly a minute, or reach a depth of about 45’ without weights.
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probably, my wife had it, and she received doxycycline. She felt terrible for days, not fun. Fortunately we discovered the tick, and later the "bullseye" quite quick, so we hope that it exterminated everything.
This is my biggest gripe with hardcore self-made/individualist evangelists. Pretty much everything anyone has ever achieved was because of the hard work and determination of thousands if not millions of geniuses and craftspeople whose work enabled the future.
Been a loyal AMD user ever since my first laptop which had an Athlon64. They've always given me great performance at a fraction of the cost of Intel.
Can definitely relate. My only "solution" is to disable notifications for any non-essential applications. Facebook for example.
You contradicted yourself there. It is legal, and therefore they are not getting out of their legal mandates.

The American tax code is far from perfect, with the scales favoring whoever can afford the best tax attorney. With that said, i think you are grossly oversimplifying the issue. The corporate tax rates (before the recent reforms) were the highest in the developed world. Amazon has every right to negotiate where they move their offices.
The comparison to bribery is, as you describe, inexact. Bribes are principal-agent breakdowns between the governing and the governed. Tax breaks for large companies don't fit that description. They are closer to an anti-competitive preference for large companies.

The problem is this anti-competitive preference counterbalances geographic incumbency bias. It's difficult to say which is worse--Amazon getting preferential treatment over a potentially-rivalrous upstart or the Midwest having no fiscal tools with which to fight coastal dominance.
Mostly Eclipse, sometimes Emacs.
A few years ago I was using Adium, and clicked on my girlfriends named, "Jenn" and said, "Hello sexpot!"

Except that's not what happened. My friend James logged in, a moment before I clicked and his name replaced hers where my mouse was. I absentmindedly typed "Hello sexpot!"

Well, we laughed it off eventually... but yea.
And orca are not really whales. They are big dolphins. The name "killer whale" means "killer of whales", whale killer ... blame the french for that swap.

I downloaded a bbc show called "wild wales" expecting an epic doc about the sea. What i got was two guys in a camo tent feeding peanuts to squirrels. Language is hard.
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Me too. Grew up in the country (running through cornfields etc) in SWO and never had a single tick or even thought about ticks. Then this year my son picked up a small tick in McGregor Park on Lake Huron which thankfully tested negative for Lyme. The areas around the shoreline of Lake Huron seem particularly bad these days.
The law you posted prohibits the state of California from requiring that any of its own employees travel to a discriminating state, excepting a very broad list of essential purposes. I don't see the contractor thing you're referring to.

You also seem to be describing a case where California is a direct market participant (they're paying the contractors). States are allowed to discriminate in favor of their own citizens (or, I guess, anyone else) when they themselves participate in the market.
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Only the first 1 out of 4 years of a CS/EE degree is relevant to most professional software "engineer" degrees. That's why Mathematicians and Physicists have O problem joining the field.
You can learn programming as a hobby as well as you can learn philosophy as a hobby, as long as you have foundational critical thinking skills
This would be a nice visual cue for sure.
Agreed. As should Norway and Iceland.
I wonder if anyone who has received an https://aigrant.org will make their way over to aifund
> I’d be hesitant to share time in front of a screen though, video games don’t seem to be real interaction.

I'm curious why you think that video games aren't a real interaction? This strikes me as a statement someone unfamiliar with the medium would make. I don't understand how you could make such a broad and generalized statement about a medium that offers a variety of games that practically encompasses every other entertainment medium out there and allows for interactions that are almost impossible on any other medium.

Your statement is about as ignorant as someone stating that baseball or soccer don't offer meaningful interactions because from the sidelines it looks like a bunch of people either standing 25 yards away from each other moving occasionally, or at the sidelines sitting next to each other staring at people in the field.
This is definitely an annoying problem, but I don't like the solution. Rather, they should just ignore the tap for a 250ms or so to allow people to process what they want to do.
Swipe left Siri suggested icons used to render, then move around depending on your location, the last time you used the app. Similar UI, totally maddening, and that changed in a recent release.

I'd prefer a setting where you would be notified after you returned to the home screen. I'd like to finish the thing I'm doing before getting a notification. Maybe you can accomplish the same thing by turning notifications off, and just swiping down every once in a while?
70% of americans live paycheck to paycheck. There is no money to put into an HSA - let alone to put into a savings account.

Medicare for all is the only sense making option, truly. Insurance doesn't make sense in the context of healthcare.

Everything else is just a half measure. Healthcare makes zero sense as a market; it is completely busted.
While laudable, it has some ego trip elements - he's not only thankful for the "mind discipline" his training endowed him with, but wants the department to bear his name. Really, a philosophy department named not after a famous local philosopher or distinguished scholar, but a wealthy financier that happened to study there? It a telling sign of our times.
> Also, even in the event of everything in LEO blowing up, we can still launch to farther orbits / other planets.

It'd be risky though, since you have to cross LEO to get there (unless you're willing to pay the extra cost of launching to absurd inclinations and correcting in space).
Oooo that's a great idea
I don’t mean sound curmudgeonly here but I haven’t turned on notifications in nearly five damn years. They’re universally annoying.

I miss shit all the time but idc
And the alarm , which fails to wake me up, or oddly wakes me up ~30 minutes later. And the random "reminders" that i get from 487 days ago.
I'm glad you've been so selfless. That doesn't mean the Federal government is going to do the first thing about homelessness. Nor does it mean elasticity of demand has the same slope in all markets.

The city of San Francisco is in a unique position of having resources and political will to try new policies. I'll cast my vote accordingly.
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Why would a startup launch a product that is not confined to startup users on PH? [not sarcastic]
For Java: NetBeans

For everything else: emacs
I do this too but not for this reason. I just find most notifications are annoying/spam.
Except they never enforce those rules.
Times have changed. Ticks in the old days weren't all that prevalent and/or carying Lyme. It has worsened after habitat destruction (less wolves and other big predators, more deer that act as tick breeding ground, more mice that act as Lyme reservoir, more migration).
Even with a last update time on the page, how would you know whether that was really the latest update? You'd also need to know the update schedule.
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Did you hear about Facebook’s Drastic news feed changes?
Its actually a huge issue. Please read the original post.
That's the theory, ut in practice most people give not to charities for others but to schools/clubs/churches they are a member of, so it's a form of nongoverbmental State/Local taxes.
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Greedy realtors would want this to happen in their city as it will inflate property values and fill their pockets deep. They certainly can influence city officials (via campaign funds etc.) to throw tax incentives at Amazon which will come from the pockets of tax payers. It would be interesting to have city wide referendum where constituents get to vote on such matters.
Thanks for pointing out tick cards to me.
For those in Canada MEC has one [1] which is half the price of the same card on Amazon.

[1] https://www.mec.ca/en/product/5050-423/Tick-Remover-Card
Walter Bright's response is the parent of the comment in question. This one seems aimed towards the top level commentor's response, which advanced from the pained venting in the first comment (which I understand and can sympathize with) to a much more assertive tone.
> we're thinking of shifting operations to mainland Europe

More like "we need to know what the legal regime will be for import/export of goods and services will be in a year's time, so please get your act together before we have to assume the worst".
Frankly, I disagree that mathematics should be its own degree at the undergraduate level as well.

Let me clarify: I think people should be able to become philosophers, just like they can become mathematicians. But I’d advocate for changing the undergraduate curriculum - move proof-based mathematics into a targeted graduate degree, and emphasize computational mathematics like calculus and (linear) algebra, but make them core components of a much more generalized degree. Add in language and logic studies that borrow significantly from philosophy.

With very few exceptions, you’re not doing research mathematics (i.e. being a mathematician) without significant graduate study. Similarly, for majors like philosophy that are “watered down” until graduate or postgraduate work, I don’t think they should be eligible for targeted degrees at the undergraduate level. This would have the added benefit of 1) delaying time to major decision for college-aged students and 2) keeping their options open for eligibility to targeted graduate degrees later on, by limiting the number of prerequisites. You don’t need undergraduate number theory to do well in an early graduate number theory course. The 300 and 400 level philosophy courses you take in an undergrad setting will mostly not have value on paper, so in my opinion we should shift them to the degree that has value on paper.

But at this point I’m pontificating about the education system, not philosophy in particular :)
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I hear you. The issue is that those "Recruiters" who just spam you are not the ones I am talking about. I actually have worked with recruiters who are well connected in the industry and hire only for positions that are a good fit for the candidate. I have found at least 3 jobs in my past using those "good" recruiters. So I know that they work but are very hard to find. Needle in a Haystack.
Why’s Nvidia’s margins so high in comparison? Given the technology and patent portfolio I’m surprised that someone hasn’t tried to take them over.
Great point. Business as usual. I guess the downsides were heavily subsided by the fact that african countries don't really have much to gain from it nor do they (meaning their leaders) have any will to do so.
The easiest is probably through a stock broker. Futures are risky (typically highly levered, though less so for BTC) and they usually make you have a decent chunk of change before they'll give you access.