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> But I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater

You're right, I was intentionally being dichotomous.

> a "meritocracy" where merit is primarily earned by being born into a wealthy family is just smuggling aristocracy into the public consciousness

I agree, to some extent - but would also suggest that this is entirely inevitable. It's a natural desire to ensure your children have the best possible future. This can be accomplished through many means - here we are talking specifically about passing down wealth, or teaching discipline.

Should something be done to stop this? It's at least possible for passing down wealth.

Some would argue that there should be no such thing as inheritance - others would argue that such a policy would ruin the economy, by removing a large motivation of productivity.

I personally think the best a society can do is provide to the best of it's ability, equal access to education - and still permit generational wealth.
i want to stress that i'm not challenging the person, just the text.

> The governing body would not just be there to arbitrate, advocate, or negotiate. They would also be there for promoting training and sharing of knowledge.

this reads like duct-tape solutions. it's always the case that a governing body grows and grows and gets in the way. "it's not just there to XYZ, it also BLAHBLAHBLAH".

a governing body is one possible solution to the problem of people not understanding ethics (or how to figure out what ethics are), that I don't think will solve the larger problem.

a governing body will need to be run by practitioners of governance, and enforced by practitioners of enforcement.

ethics needs to be practiced everywhere, all the time. and a governing body won't make that happen.

people need to be learning about why their activities are "good" or "bad" or "questionable".

in my (simplified version) view: we're not lacking incentive to work (money!), we're lacking incentive to not work (people shouting at us for being assholes for doing asshole work [e.g. bombs, baby killing, evil algos]).

we need to cultivate behaviors of ethical culture... instead we're cultivating behaviors that promote short-term-ism (buy your way to happiness, bomb your way to safety, build your dream home on loan!, opportunity cost services saving us from having to cleaning up after ourselves, trash removal services that vanish things away to faraway dumps we never think of)
Then perhaps you might want to check out some twins studies:

http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/causal_educ_earnings.pd...

and/or

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/19/education/twins-study-show...

I'm going to strongly encourage my kids to go to college.

Frankly if you/anyone is not convinced that higher education leads to increased earnings then by all means forgo college and keep your kids at home.

My kids will have plenty of competition for jobs from those with higher degrees from around the world as it is.
As a host, though, there's little reason not to offer both. It offers the same benefits as bittorrent but a slightly different network, and also canonical domain names using IPNS which would be a nice addition for hosting their content.
They did target false information specifically. Third paragraph of the article:

> By far the biggest change made by Medium is the addition of a section called “Related Content,” which reads “We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform, or cross-platform campaigns of targeting, harassment, hate speech, violence, or disinformation. We may consider off-platform actions in assessing a Medium account, and restrict access or availability to that account.” (Emphasis ours.)
10^28 years is ~10^17 years from now? I think you either typoed or your math is faulty...
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Add to this that everybody there would fall into the uneasy middle ground of being too close for the idle pleasantries reserved for random strangers and too distant and unpredictable to get attached to.
make more money and then give some of it to causes you support.
Cool, China’s not so bad. U.S needs to be kept on our toes.
Even without nuclear weapons, I've got to think that countermeasures are easily overwhelmed, and the cost of a few dozen long-range anti-carrier missiles must be negligible compared to the advantage of incapacitating a carrier (at least for a top-tier adversary like China or Russia), right?
There is no way to contact you if we had any questions . for instance what language are the solution in ?
San francisco has a rampant alcohol culture. I never drink as much as I do in SF.
If the naivety is actually a healthy bit of optimism when taking in information, then that's not so bad!
> What about competition makes it some universal good?

You're criticising a strawman. Nobody said it was a universal good.

I said it was unavoidable (it is intrinsic to the research process), and I said (in various comments) that it's a good thing (i.e. a net positive), including that there's clear historical evidence of this.
"Not trying to put anyone down here, it's just I can't see a lot of economic benefit in a team of 10 engineers modeling the hair of the next Assassin's Creed character... and where do you think this money comes from?"

Errr - doesn't it come from the people buying the Assassin's Creed games? That particularly series earns hundreds of millions of dollars each game, and at least some of that value is created by the engineers modeling the character's hair.
Your app doesn't link to 23andme? I must to upload the file?
It's OK when not reproducing something is a way of validating theories and separating valid theories from the invalid ones. It's less so when something cannot be reproduced because not enough information was shared on how it could be reproduced if it would actually have been reproducible otherwise, or if the information was shared in such a way that is it inaccessible to those who would be able to reproduce it.
He was ardently anti-communist.

I'm sure he believed what he was doing was moral, just as the Bush administration thought invading Iraq was moral. That doesn't mean civilian lives instantly exit the equation.
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> It's also important to point out a strong self selection bias in such studies: we mostly deal with those who were overweight and needed to start a diet, so they probably had low impulse control to begin with.

By this metric some three-quarters of Americans have poor impulse control (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#/...), so I think it is actually the other group that is exceptional.
I should note I am fine with lockfiles myself, so I can only speculate as to what RSC/others feel. It is fair to say that lockfiles are not Go—they would be another set of syntax that has nothing else to do with the language aside from their use in package management. So one might argue that it would be desirable to have a solution to Go's package management that was achieved using Go, which are what the module files are written in.
Perfect information is not the case when the AI is reading pixel colors off the screen and pressing keys on the keyboard. This is very like the real-world situation.

As for goals, they are indeed better defined in games. But we can create artificial goals attached to the real life:
- goal: GPS sensor reports specific position
- goal: the camera reports a recognised object in a specific position
- goal: a button was pressed (signal reaching the AI e.g. through the cloud)
While that's surprising, that doesn't quite contradict my point: a firearm has greater leverage.

The main point is that while almost everyone will agree that murder of humans is undesirable, not everyone will agree that abortion is murder (_even_ in the United States), which means that it is not categorically clear that the outcome of abortion is a negative one, while it is clear that the outcome of a shooting is a negative one, and therefore there is a stronger public interest case in applying commercial pressure to sales.
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If you read the white paper, it pretty clearly says that your node will cache files that peers request in order to build reputation on the network. Maybe IPFS doesn't actually do that currently, but it could and the whitepaper says it should, so it is a very valid question to ask.

edit: double checked the whitepaper, and it says "In the case that a node has nothing that its
peers want (or nothing at all), it seeks the pieces its peers want, with lower priority than what the node wants itself. This incentivizes nodes to cache and disseminate rare pieces, even if they are not interested in them directly."
Ah, I realize the “they” in the last sentence is potentially ambiguous; I was saying that the construction pieces aren't in scale with RPG miniatures but with display miniatures that are much larger. I actually agree that the cinder blocks and bricks could still be useful—though “high realism” would probably prefer alternate materials in-scale to out-of-scale but realistic materials; visual realism seems to usually be the priority for high realism.
This is still a major design consideration for developing world mobile apps with webviews and sites, removing box shadows tripled time-on-site immensely for a site I designed for a client.
I like Swype, and continued using it on Android in preference to other swipey keyboards.

But the glory of it initially was that it made it possible to go fast on much smaller screens. I first used it very happily on a Nokia 700 (Symbian Belle phone) with a 3.2" screen that can't have been more than 4cm wide.

I briefly hoped that swipe typing would become popular enough to stall the trend for bigger and bigger screens on phones, or at least make it economic for some manufacturers to provide at least one small phone. But it seems like the opposite happened, huge screens were popular enough to make swiping pointless for most people.
IMO, shuffle is something they did really fine. Unlike PyTorch datasets, TF allows streaming unbounded data. For something like this work with shuffle, it must cache some data before passing it down the pipeline. You specify how much in the argument.

This may not seem useful this conventional training, where you usually work with a fixed amount of samples you know beforehand. But there may be cases where this is not true (for instance, in some special cases of augmentation) - the streaming part is useful but then you must use this caching trick.

But I agree API naming is not stellar, or at least should come with better documentation.
> treating cancer is insufficient motivation

The fact that the US unnecessarily hamstrings cancer research over dubious moral qualms clearly indicates that yes, treating cancer is itself insufficient motivation in this country.
Indexation of content on IPFS thru Atmos (cryptocurrency). Watch this one.... might really be the "killer app" you are all looking for. link : Novusphere.io
> Many teachers we spoke to say they were encouraged to also follow another policy: give absent or struggling students a 50 percent on assignments they missed or didn't complete, instead of a zero. The argument was, if the student tried to make up the missed work or failed, it would most likely be impossible to pass with a zero on the books.

It sounds like the grading system is broken.

Does a zero do the thing that we want it to do?

Could there be a different metric, that doesn't weight a zero in a way that knocks students out like in an elimination tournament? What are the goals of grades? It seems like they are structured to rank students in a competition. That's great for the winners. But what do you do with the loosers?
I think you misunderstood what he was saying. The school claimed they had a 100% graduation rate by retroactively claiming students that failed their senior year were juniors. Nothing really wrong with making students repeat grades until they pass, but doing it in such a way that you advertise a 100% graduation rate when 100% didn't graduate is deceptive.
Actually having two competitors is what causes the most bloodshed in the world. War by proxies erupt and they play chess with other people’s lives.
TLDR: What's keeping it back is Web standards. Extensions cannot initiate TCP connections and there is no IPFS network made of (possibly hybrid -- both protocols) nodes that are able to use WebSockets instead of TCP.

The js-ipfs daemon can only fully run on Node.js where it has access to real UDP/TCP sockets. (I don't see this as a clear proclamation in their readme, so don't take this for granted)
The converse is that having one supreme superpower is better for world peace because there's nobody to compete with them militarily. Therefore there's only one power that can decide to take military action (the superpower). This is because the weak players won't start a war because they will get crushed.

However, if N > 1 powers are on equal footing where starting a war does NOT mean you get crushed, now there's N > 1 actors that can start a very large war. And that may have compounding effects where likelihood of war isn't just Percentage * N, but instead some exponent of N because the increased likelihood of war itself increases the likelihood of war.

One country misusing its power is probably less destructive to humanity than superpowers militarily fighting (i.e. number of deaths/problems caused by US wars since WW2 is substantially less than deaths during WW2).
Agreed. Let's hope that the people running our military have a more reasonable mindset...
Arguably, we've either automated or made self-service a lot of the things that you'd have historically had to talk to a customer service rep about. The problem is that, with a lot of companies, if you do need to deal with a human, it's at least as bad as it ever was.
Top down is how were got where we are. Even now most zoning single use.
Please, tell us all how you really feel about the poor. Do you think it's the curse of a bad mother when she is no-fault evicted and they live in the streets for a stint of time?

sounds like you want the caste system and the untouchables back.
Thank you dude!
I don't doubt that that really deepens your appreciation, but I think even through repeated watching you can come to appreciate the game more. To give the most obvious example, someone without a lot of familiarity with football would probably be confused about why they were go back five yards behind where they were after the last play instead of the last place they got to because the penalty system isn't obvious to a neophyte (in soccer terms, consider how many people are baffled by off-side calls if they only ever watch a few games during the World Cup every four years).
I'm completely cool with this, because
-All platforms have the right to exercise editorial discretion, and
-Those people are awful, and
-This will only drive the adoption of censorship resistance platforms, which I'm generally in favor of.

Free speech is important, but people too often forget about the freedom of association, and its inverse the freedom of non-association. And Medium should have the freedom to not associate with the alt-right any other conspiracy theorists if it chooses to.
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In principle, yes. In reality, look at how they use their power. You don't see the US taking territory and resources at gunpoint from Mexico and Canada, like China in the South China Sea. You don't see parallels to the Taiwan situation. Let's not pretend that communist China acts with the same level of integrity in the world as the USA. Not the the US hasn't done many questionable things, but by and large the US has invaded countries and brought them democracy and freed their people from dictators. China would do the opposite if they could get away with it, look at Nepal, Hong Kong.

I spent 10 years in Panama, where although many people still resent the US invasion, chiefly over the loss of life - the country is unquestionably better off today for it.
Hi, lauren here from Mux. It was a private deal negotiated through a broker and escrow agent. The price only gets higher if your company is successful (maybe why eshares just changed their name to Carta), so better to lock in a deal early (with the bulk of payments down the road).
I would argue that the Japanese justice system has either to accept that the hospital violated this man's right to enjoy his parents' money, or to rule against inheritances at all.
You're right; I don't think anyone here is arguing murder isn't real. The argument is that murder is not an objective truth, but rather a subjective truth. This doesn't mean we shouldn't care about murder, just that murder is a conceptual reality.
If I intend to make a non-Amazon purchase I always sign up for the newsletter and then use the coupon that inevitably arrives a few days later. I have a separate email account set up just for this.
Er, "The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

Perhaps NK shouldn't have been the aggressor and gotten a bunch of citizens killed... How many South Koreans do you suppose would rather NK had won?
It's mostly for show, like the proverbial dust-covered xbox.
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We have an interesting community here so it would be nice to get an idea of people's backgrounds. What you do, how you got to where you are now, how you found HN, etc. Maybe reading about other people's life paths could inspire others.
21st century Japan is most certainly in "The West."
The skeptic in me struggles to believe an office full of adults is excited about mini cinderblocks...
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Arguably, things like DoNotPay are a response to 24 ("A buffer against bad customer service")
>“We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform, or cross-platform campaigns of targeting, harassment, hate speech, violence, or disinformation. We may consider off-platform actions in assessing a Medium account, and restrict access or availability to that account.”

Can you cite the instances where the individuals in question were calling for violence on Medium, even considering off-platform communications which apparently they're now policing?

Personally, I wish that leftists would stop wearing liberal's clothing. Free speech is free speech. "Disinformation" is a weasel word, and so is "hate speech."
If you want breathing space get out to real space. I own 8 acres in the middle of nowhere. Suburbs don't give you enough space to enjoy the rural lifestyle, but you are spread out too much to enjoy the advantages of living in the city.

Of course there are not that many affordable lots with land near any jobs.
Recent events suggest this will not end well.

From what I can tell, Voat was intended to be an alternative to Reddit. It wasn't supposed to be aimed at any particular group of people. Then Reddit banned Coontown, and many white supremacists and other bigots switched to Voat. As a result of the influx, Voat now features a shocking amount of bigoted content. I don't think this was the intention of the creator of Voat, but it's what they're stuck with now.

If you really care about free speech, and you make a clone of Medium to allow any kind of speech, this is a probable enough scenario:

1. The non-bigots will be split. Many of them will just stick with Medium, but some die-hard free speech supporters will come to your site.

2. Unfortunately you'll probably get a sizable majority of the bigots, because they think Medium is waging war against them. They don't actually care about free speech, they just want a place where they can spew hatred and slander.

3. These bigots will post a large amount of bigoted content to your service.

4. Eventually the free speech supporters who are non-bigots will get tired of fighting it, and they'll go back to Medium

5. Now you own and operate a site that is pretty much just bigotry, which probably isn't something you want your name associated with.

6. Some site will ban a couple of bigots, and a person will recommend building a free-speech centered clone of it, and some idiot will tell you that it's a bad idea because of Voat.
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> The carriers are deterrents, not weapons.

If its not a weapon, it can't work as a deterrent, either.
As a recent graduate of an American college, I don't see it as giving me a "well rounded" education. Thanks to advanced courses in High School, I didn't even have to take a writing class. There were maybe 4 or 5 out of over 30 classes through my entire career that weren't directly related to my CS degree
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I just messed up the math. It should be 10^19. Either way it'd be an unqualified success.
I would have totally used this as I had the same issue as well and tried multiple different apps before settling in to BetterTouchTool to basically cover all the shortcuts and much more. I got in back when it was in Beta and still paid for it afterwards, because of continued support/development.

The other thing to think about if you make this a paid app is the price point and utility. The one thing I dislike about a lot of Mac Apps like this, which provide some simple functionality, end up discontinuing development if there isn't much revenue or if the developer gets busy. So when the OS updates or something breaks or it doesn't work with a new model/hardware changes (Ex: Touchbar), there's no support or updates. (This is something that I factor in, looking at what other things the developer has done or supported in the past, based on the price point for the app ($1 vs $10 etc)
I only see it this way since the advent of bad-faith actors who exploit anonymity to take an opposing viewpoint as a provocateur, in order to stir up shit and discredit a valid movement.

This tactic is not new. But in the context of media, it has really taken root, and it's become so incredibly destructive that I am not certain that there is a workaround for this problem; and I feel as if the very foundations of our modern civilization are under existential threat, as a result. And from my point of view, I'm honestly not pushing hyperbole. The Socratic method has been rendered almost completely useless.

I've got a soft-spot in my heart for our Founding Fathers and how they accomplished their goals of Liberation from the British Monarchy.

I'm virulently opposed to the methods of the Mercers, the Kochs, Brietbart, their various operatives, LLC's, think-tanks, and affiliated networks of organizations who seem to be driving towards destroying our country and turning it into a feudal thugocracy.

And TBH: I would never post something like this using my real name, because it sounds like crazy tin-foil hattery, and I value my professional reputation.
I've been following the development of IPFS for the last few years and I'm getting the impression that it's fizzling out. Maybe Protocol Labs are working on Filecoin now (that's what's bringing them money), but they never really finished the pubsub implementation and js-ipfs still can't run in the browser because there is no IPFS network that communicates using WebSockets and not TCP/UDP.