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> I never really understood why randomness would be needed for free will

For some reason it had to be pointed out to me (awhile back) that being ruled by the rigorous iron fist of science's "yes technically non-deterministic but totally statistically modelable" quantum dice rolls isn't necessarily much better, if any, than being ruled by the rigorous iron fist of deterministic cause and effect.

Ruled by chance or by force of sheer causality alone - at this point, I feel that any useful definition of "free will" probably equally applies (or doesn't) to both scenarios, and won't hinge on quantum unpredictability.
in the grand scheme of things $5000 is not that much money if computer work is your livelihood. Especially considering that if you are a developer, that may be the only equipment or software you have to buy.

Even at a low rate of $100 an hour, I could make that on the side with 50 hours of work.
It's usually not calling free() on the same variable within a single function, although that can sometimes happen. The most common case, I expect, is when two separate data structures both have pointers to the same object and believe they own it, then later end up calling free on the same address at different times.
Aging is the same cell and tissue damage that causes the age-relates diseases you mention. The only difference between aging and disease is how much damage you have, how far the cascade of cause and effect and secondary consequences has progressed. "Aging" is subclinical "age-related disease". There are few root cause forms of damage, but the cascade is as complex as our biochemistry, so there are any number of fatal endpoints and horrible declines along the way.

The only plausible near-future way to remove age-related disease is to periodically repair the damage that causes aging. Nothing else is going to work.

Consider this when thinking about living life to the fullest all the way up until death: if you are so healthy (meaning lacking in damage) that you don't suffer age-related disease, what are you going to die from? Your mortality risk is a function of the load of cell and tissue damage you currently bear. The only way to prevent age-related disease is to have a low load of damage, and consequently a low rate of mortality.

Given today's accident and murder rates, an ageless human undergoing comprehensive damage repair every decade or so would live for 1000 years or more before encountering a fatal happenstance. If you live much past a century from now, I'd have to imagine other technological options opening up that make that number seems small.

On overpopulation, it seems pretty clear from the research carried out on this topic that agelessness will not result in problematically large populations. Wealthy regions are already declining in population growth, and poor regions decline as they become wealthier. The poor are being lifted up rapidly.

See, for example, Demographic Consequences of Defeating Aging: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192186/

It also seems fairly clear that what people call overpopulation now would be better described as some mix of kleptocracy, war, other bad governance, and endemic poverty that in many cases is being addressed at a fast rate in comparison to past history. Given the long list of regions that have lifted themselves up from peasant farming to technology industries and wealth since the 1950s, one has to look at those that haven't succeeded in this, and ask why: it certainly doesn't correlate with number of people.
>> The first order predicate calculus (first order logic) is Turing-complete

Brainfuck is turing complete, does that make it as powerful as a general purpose programming language such as Java?

I'm not criticizing first order logic, it has use cases no doubt. On the other hand there are many cases where codifying knowledge into a we formed KB isn't practical. Some of these use cases are better suited to probabilistic approaches, deep learning, and some are unsolved. That pretty clearly puts limits on the power of FOL.

Also, thanks for mansplaining turing completeness.
Yeah, but nope. Just get xfce, it has similar ideas and it is so much better.
It's a dev board. It's not intended for end users, it's intended for people prototyping new systems based around the SiFive.
To be fair, most Republicans think the tax bill will generate economic growth and revenue not captured by relatively static budget models. But there's no excuse on spending...there's actually little difference between GWB and Obama on spending outcomes.
Tesla and South Australia to install solar in 50,000 homes
Curing aging does indeed need to address degenerative diseases as well, and quite a bit of anti-aging research looks into those as well.

For example, the Methuselah Foundation and Methuselah Fund are working with Leucadia (https://www.leucadiatx.com/), which has a credible cure for Alzheimer's in progress. SENS and Methuselah are also working with Oisin Biotechnologies, which has technology to carefully target specific cells; in addition to working for senescent cell clearing, it can also serve as a component of a cancer treatment, precisely targeting cancerous cells.

So yes, anti-aging research can and will be comprehensive, covering aging itself, age-related degeneration, and the conditions that become increasingly prevalent if you manage to avoid dying of something else before they strike.

As for overpopulation, that's been specifically researched and considered too. Among many other things, if you compare birth rates to life expectancy and mortality rates, you'll find them inversely proportional; people have more children when life feels more fleeting (to improve their chances), and vice versa. And even if that weren't the case, we'd deal with it.

Meanwhile, 150,000 people die every day. That needs to stop. That's not a price worth paying for anything.
How Trump's cuts to public lands threaten future dinosaur discoverie
I'm right there with you, until tvtwm. I went with ctwm. The reason why is lost in the mists of time. Probably because another grad student had already set it up, and had shared a nice .ctwmrc
Skype video and audio it's crippled with speed to such extent it's unusable for most of the time

so yeah, technically you are correct, it's not blocked, it just doesn't work which is de facto same thing for end user deciding what app to use

lived in China for many years, it was frustrating I could not talk with my family abroad, apparently too dangerous for Chinese Gov to let me talk with my parents and I am not gonna ask people outside China to install spyware like QQ or WeChat. the saddest part it's unless you wanna completely cut the ties you still need to keep it installed like my wife does (I cut the ties with non VPN folks), any other reasonable option would be freezing and unfreezing on demand which kinda ruins messaging experience and might as well use email
They should ask Kansas how that worked out.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/13/570387479/kansas-2012-tax-cut...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/politics/kansas-tried-...
> I still have trouble with the idea of a $10,000 machine that is permanently married to one monitor and unexpandable. If I'm spending that much on a computer I want PCI slots.

Well lucky for you: you can add four 4K external displays in addition to the built-in 5K monitor. And you have a PCIe bus coming straight out the back which you can use to plug in GPUs, drives etc.

That being said the machine may not be right for you, but a big corporate shop is probably quite happy to have a bunch of identical machines it can swap out instead of fixing them in situ, so getting the user up and running faster.

Supposedly they learned from the "trash can" debacle and have something more cheese-grater-esque in the pipeline for later this year.

Sounds like this iMac Pro is not for either of us. I'm going the other way: I develop all my code in Emacs on a MacBook (not "Pro") and when I want to crunch, do the crunching on a cluster on my network. I don't even need the 10G ethernet the Mac Pro has, and it wouldn't be fast enough to do the crunching I need anyway. Would I benefit from a faster machine? Sure, but I don't want to carry even a macbook pro any more -- this ultraportable is so tiny I can take it anywhere.
Why do we keep designing streets for speed?
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The 519 is a typo or something. The deficit last year was 666B:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-ends-fiscal-2017-with-6...

So 955B is an increase of ~290B.. so roughly half of the increase is from the tax cut.
Personal fiscal conservative. They're just putting that money in their own pockets.
Governments and larger corporations, which are generally a lot more powerful than individuals, ought to be forced to be transparent to individuals, and not the other way around. Anything on the former is welcome. Anything on the latter needs stronger justifications.
> That's the point of youtube autoplay. You leave it running long enough it'll go through all the videos. That's what makes youtube interesting. At least that's what made youtube deep diving interesting before all the censorship.

> You go through enough books in the library and you will eventually find books on alchemy.

This might be true if there were only a finite number of videos _before_ getting to the kooky ones, but YouTube tends to get to them disturbingly fast.
Deficits in dollars aren't scary, unless they cause hyperinflation, IMO.
I use only NearlyFreeSpeech.net (a web host that also provides domain registration), and its planning to do domains by itself sometime in the future. I like its no nonsense and practical policies.
Deep sea divers can’t come up too rapidly because the nitrogen will cause their blood to boil, not for any mental reason.
Pardon my ignorance but why do you call it spamming when you contacted them first?
If you don’t start somewhere then you never start.

I for one would love to have someone that followed me around and cleaned up my mess. Why would you discount that as a contribution?
There are two senses in which we mean "free will". The first is physical non-determinism - "My actions are not decided by deterministic processes", which is absurd. The second, is psychological - "I select my actions for internal reasons". That's trivial, no mystery there.

Maybe when we think about free will we actually refer to cooperation-betrayal strategies between people (prisoner's dilemma) which are essential in the functioning of societies. We want to see ourselves as free to choose our strategy in response to other agent's actions. "If they betray me, I have the choice between cooperation and retaliation" - that's what we feel as free will that counts.
At first I thought you were talking about the Amazon service. It turns out that Amazon has a voice chat service called Chime as well, though it's more narrow of focus than the CafeX system that you are using.
The plist is probably just stored within the Safari bundle, and 1password could look there at runtime.
And for God's sake, ensure the length checks performed at login are the same ones used on account creation. More than a few times have I been stuck at login because my 20+ character auto- generated password was silently truncated to some arbitrary length between creation and login.
No, we're already in fiscal 2018 as the baseline, the trillion dollar projection is for 2019.
>So IMO, currently incurable or intractable things like cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinson's, dementia, are more important.

Classic false dilemma fallacy. Those diseases already receive far more funding than generalized anti-aging research. There's no reason we can't work on both in earnest.

Moreover, barring any sort of miracle cures or quick-fix hacks—any scenario where humanity realizes technological progress sufficient to master the human body, is one where we can probably make short work of any overpopulation concerns.
One of the primary reasons I don't like posting here or on services like you describe is because I cannot delete anything. Maybe you've enough users who don't care about that but it should be taken into consideration that many people will not participate.

You'd be therefore trading direct communication for archived communication and I'm not sure that's more valuable.
whatsapp calls are blocked or unusable already for years

trust me I tried when I lived there, messages work but forget about video and audio, only international service which worked was Skype but even that fails most of the time, so your option are obscure messengers and less known webrtc sites
First, make sure you can build and run this code. Open Source is usually good about this. Next, pick a path and start tracing through the code. Let's say there's a GUI at the front and DB at the back. Find a simple form and trace the "save" button all the way back to the DB. Finally, just start making some small changes.
NFL Losing Big Chunks of Its Target Audience
Greater transparency for users around news broadcasters
Agree with comments re: books are invaluable sources for one to experience, learn and empathize etc.

But it's so true that the entire trend amongst my peers (and the greater North American) attitude towards "life hacking" and "self optimization" is becoming overkill. This is an article I recently read that articulates really well on this whole cultural focus of "how to succeed" books:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ours...

Some quotes:
"In our current era of non-stop technological innovation, fuzzy wishful thinking has yielded to the hard doctrine of personal optimization. Self-help gurus need not be charlatans peddling snake oil. Many are psychologists with impressive academic pedigrees and a commitment to scientific methodologies, or tech entrepreneurs with enviable records of success in life and business. What they’re selling is metrics. It’s no longer enough to imagine our way to a better state of body or mind."

"There is a great deal of money to be made by those who diagnose and treat our fears of inadequacy; Cederström and Spicer estimate that the self-improvement industry takes in ten billion dollars a year."
I use uBlock Origin, but it's pretty easy to bypass: host ads on your own site. That's how ads worked in other forms of media for ages.

How about providing a meaningful service and request adequate compensation? Paywalls work fine for quality content. There's tons of proof that people are willing to pay for books, games, movies, and music. But by having a paywall, you lose out on search indexing. You can't have your cake and eat it.
Except the psychometric traits that activists most want to be a product of nurture often have a genetic heritability of 80% or more.
They had the MazdaSpeed3, which didn't look nearly as polarizing as the current CTR. Granted, neither did the previous Civic Si or Type R.
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See peterspy reply.
Yes: "meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing." (definition #1 from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gibberish).

If I can extract a reasonably accurate understanding from a paragraph, then by definition it's not meaningless nor unintelligible.
Elon’s flame thrower stunt feels like and ICO
> Look at the Xerox Star, it had everything the Mac had (and more) years earlier. The difference was in its price.

You might want to learn more about the history: the work at Xerox PARC was enormously influential but it wasn't happening in a vacuum:

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html

“Finally, as several authors have pointed out, there were actually two visits by groups from Apple to Xerox PARC in 1979. Steve Jobs was on the second of the two. Jef Raskin, who helped arranged both visits, explained that he wanted Jobs to visit PARC to understand work that was already going on at Apple. The Macintosh project had escaped the chopping block several times, and Raskin had tried to explain to Jobs the significance of the technologies it was incorporating. By showing that other companies considered this kind of work exciting, Raskin hoped to boost the value of the Macintosh's work in Jobs' eyes. Unbeknownst to Raskin, Jobs had his own reasons for visiting PARC: Xerox's venture capital arm had recently made an investment in Apple, and had agreed to show Apple what was going on in its lab.”

In particular, pay attention to the details about how much work went into things which might have started somewhere like PARC but required significant work developing affordable and reliable designs, coming up with design metaphors and concepts to make the GUI consistent and appealing to use, etc.

Bruce Horn wrote a nice summary years back on all of the refinements which went into things we now take for granted:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

Similarly, look at something as basic as dragging which took time and better mouse hardware to mature:

http://www.nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Retrospective...

Again, this is not to dismiss the work which the Xerox team did but simply remember how much was left between an amazing prototype and a mainstream product. Our field is very prone to not taking UI work seriously and it's resulted in a lot of allegedly superior products being passed by.

> At the time, nobody needed convincing that GUIs would be great to work with, they needed convincing that they were worth the price.

This is similarly incomplete: cost was a huge factor but you also forget how hard it can be to recognize the benefit of a big change like the GUI. That exact attitude was not uncommon dismissing things like bitmap graphics and sound as frills which distracted from important business. When I got started in the 90s you could still find people complaining about GUIs being slow, etc. and otherwise ignoring the difference in how many more people could use a GUI or how long it took to learn a new task.
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The notion that advertisements pay for websites is entirely fabricated. Recent research shows massive amounts of fraud with the involvement of the ad industry which eats through the money flowing through the ecosystem. See https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/ad-industry-insiders... and https://blog.confiant.com/uncovering-2017s-largest-malvertis....
Why would 1Password need a copy of this? They just need to implement a similar feature for their own Safari extension.
A nice read on the hubris of unsustainable development. Having grown up in area with fights (legal and physical) over water, the tragedy of the commons is all too frequent.
Compare the rate and causes of death of people aged 18-35 to people age 70+. How many 18 year olds die of dementia, heart disease, Parkinson's, even the flu, compared to those aged 70 and up? By curing or even just slowing down aging, you would drastically reduce the initial chance of contracting a large amount of age-related diseases.

That's not getting into the non-morbid negative effects of aging: reduced mobility, slower cognition, memory problems, etc.

Concerning overpopulation, in all major Western countries, we currently have fertility rates below replacement - if it weren't for immigration, our population would be declining. With immortality,
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Because cleaning it up would waste time I could be spending learning other things, and I don't want people looking at it to think I code like this when I'm getting paid to do it.
Under 10.12.6 running Safari 11.0.3 (12604.5.6.1.1), no file named WBSAutoFillQuirks.plist exists anywhere on the file system. The closest named file I found is WBSPasswordGenerationRequirementsByDomain.plist which is found under /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/SafariShared.framework/Versions/A/Resources/

I've posted its contents here - https://pastebin.com/iPY6gLSC

There's a separately named WBSFormAutoFillKeywords.plist.
The article says 955B for this year 2018. 666B was for 2017.
The idea that you can invent a crypto currency, mine the earliest (and therefore easiest-to-mine) tokens yourself, build a business/community/market, then get incredibly rich strikes me as incredibly shady. In theory it's not that different from founding a company, selling some of the shares to investors, keeping "founder shares" for yourself, then growing the company. But somehow it seems much shadier?

I guess the difference is: in a company an investor can look at a cap table and say "that's a reasonable number of shares for the founders to keep" whereas the coin "investors" can't know how much of outstanding equity belongs to the founders.
A rough hypothesis: Having a heated bed might have some mildly theraputic (though probably placebo-driven) properties, in the same way that people report beneficial effects from heated massages.
Fraknoi's Universe, Episode 1: The All American Solar Eclipse (audio)
If fixing 'aging' can fix these issues, or if an aging fix is a side-effect of these issues

That's true practically be definition. A "cure" for aging would mean that people who are 60 years old would have the same health profiles as people who are 20. Which means much less susceptibility to serious diseases and much improved quality of life. (And saving trillions in medical expenses as a side effect).
One of the points of racing is to find out creative solutions to such engineering problems, which may later filter down to road vehicles. Example of technologies which had their origin in formula 1 include traction control, KERS, automated manual transmissions.

>racing such a computer-controlled car without a good way to interface with them seems untenable.

Seems like a nice challenge for the hacking community, and again racing might provide the right narrow focus and motivation to get the job done.
Would you say the primary reason to be in wework is that it's month to month?
And now the Netherlands, a tiny country with but 18 million people, is the second largest exporter of food in the world.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-...
This is the first episode of a new podcast series featuring famed astronomer Professor Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College). Length: 49 minutes.
And how is this assertion evidence that epigenetics generally and this study in specific, which posit heritability of various things, is really a diabolical plot to put some activist's evil wolf in sciency sheep's clothing?
On the other side of this, I remember a time when you could just download a dump of the registration data and do whatever you wanted (good or bad). Now it's like pulling an arm and a leg to get access to even fractions of the data.
> intractable things like cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinson's, dementia are more important [than aging]

It’s impossible to solve aging without solving these age related diseases, does that help?
I didn't say anything that isn't true. Technologies save us tremendous amount of effort, even ones that we take for granted. It's not hyperbolic to point that out. I'm not exaggerating anything.

But feel free to point out where I am exaggerating.
Plenty of Apple diehards have complaints about the iMac Pro, and Apple's market share has not 'continued to grow' as the original poster claimed. It's hovered between 3-8% of the PC market for many years.
A _lot_ happened in direct relation to WW2. It was kind of a big thing... so unsurprisingly there are a lot of things to talk about from the early/mid 1900s that have some relation to that war. That's not exploitation, that's history.
For a pre-revenue or just recent revenue product, that’s exactly what valuation is based on. In a word: team.
There's a good moral here. Everytime they had a question, they asked their users. Users don't lie.
Not as interesting as in-depth documentaries on the Donner Party.

(source: personal experience. yikes!)
I feel like serverless is only benefitial for low volume / low traffic workloads.

The only other perk I've found is that the serverless billing model makes it easier to estimate costs.