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> 1. Every link is NOT compensated fairly. Wages have been stagnant for decades; meanwhile, the cost of everything else (especially housing) continues to rise, sometimes astronomically. $7.25 is the federal minimum wage, and it is impossible to live on.

If I offer you $1 for your banana, and you agree and then we exchange the $1 and the banana, is that not fair?

> 2. Plenty of people are coerced into enduring terrible employment simply because they need to survive.

Are you arguing that 'providing for yourself' counts as coercion? What actor is doing the coercion?

> I get it, Walmart needs employees too, but they should be in a union. It shouldn’t be possible to fire something and hire them back to start them back at the lowest pay grade (yes, this is a real thing they actually do).

Are they agreeing to be re-hired?

> 3. Capitalism doesn’t exist in a vacuum; nothing does. The Randian “well, everyone’s trading value for value” falls apart the minute you look at a $10,000 MRI bill, or a $7.25 minimum wage, or an entire city that’s been destroyed because production moved overseas.

Why? MRIs provide a lot of value! Minimum wage effort provides low value.

> It doesn’t particularly matter how much stocking shelves “is worth”; if you are alive, you don’t deserve to live in squalor and poverty in the richest country in the world.

Why? You're implying that being born in one place or another changes what you 'deserve' as a human being. That's an interesting, but scary line of thought!
I thought they would buy the F-35B model with all the talk of putting them on their helicopter destroyer.
I believe in this encoding scheme, the primer targets would perform roughly the same function as hashtable lookup keys would in a file system. Along the lines of a VFS inode cache http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/tlk/node110...
Do you mean you never graduated college, or that you literally only completed schooling up to middle school?

With respect to well-roundedness: would you say your knowledge is also covers as much depth as your brother’s?
For what it's worth, Southern California is far less walkable than the bay area is. Much of Southern California (San Fernando Valley, Orange County, South LA, ect.) doesn't even have downtowns like you see in bay area communities, just long streets with buildings that have huge setbacks for parking.

At least in the bay area the places where there are shops aren't hostile to pedestrians (although if I recall you do see more of this as you move down the peninsula into San Jose).
Why are you equating races to be first with ideology? I do not see any connection at all.

Also, I think the reasons you give are exactly why you should want there to be races involved, because they will help speed progress. You said they weren't vital to doing the research, and I concede that, but you haven't argued that progress will happen at the same or a faster pace without competition.
Whataboutism isn't when someone complains that Y is bad too. It's when someone asks why you're complaining about X given Y is similar in some way.
Actually it's better than that; he buys uncut sheets of bills and pulls various pranks with them. He ends up paying more than $2 per bill, so it's mainly just to weird people out.

He got sheets of 4 perforated and then bound with a gum binding (like a pad of paper). He then whips out the book and pulls a $2 off of the perforation.

He'll carry larger sheets folded up and then cut a bill out with scissors in front of the person he is paying it to. Apparently he got the secret service called on him once.

http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

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If you want to buy uncut bills you can yourself, but there's about a 50% markup on even the largest sheets:

https://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/2currencysheetsbeptestshee...
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I agree with your assessment, and this is, indeed a very difficult and nuanced problem; And I guess, we have a system that allows for "unmasking" in situations with appropriate oversight: ie. serious criminal wrongdoing, leading to law enforcement intervention, leading to a warrant under judicial oversight: ASS/U/ME-ing that this "system" itself is not corrupted, which in the case of Turkey. . . yikes, or in the case of the USA, given some of the recent Judicial appointments, and law enforcement and congressional oversight (I'm talking Nunes' memo, or even Sessions interference in the Prevezon lawsuit, and Trump having Preet Bharara fired) failures, fucking yikes. . .

Twitter is indeed, an example of the WORST of both worlds - and holy shit man it's bad. I've seen some of the bad actors stage doxxing and outing and extortion events; and catfishing. It's a fucking sewer, that Twitter could fix; but instead of fixing, they post a bunch of fake PR campaigns, and tweak policies that do nothing. It wouldn't be a problem if Twitter weren't actually SO influential to events in the real world. Honestly, it is basically just a game, masquerading as a messaging system, calling itself a social network. (you level-up your character by impressions and likes and retweets). You can script your characters and cheat just like kids used to do with WoW back in the 2000's.
Although aspects of this sort of separation go much further back. Being from "the wrong side of the tracks" is an expression that probably dates to the 19th century. (Of course, that was less of an actual physical barrier.)
The IRS and HMRC are not the police they have more powers :-) ad simply enforcing a warrant is not violence.
Yes. People lose their luster over time. What has changed is the self and ones perspective. What does it say about yourself when you notice peoples faults instead of what you admire in them? The faults were there all along.
Yes, induction machines do draw power in order to establish a magnetic field where as PM machines get it for "free" by virtue of the magnets. Also the torque production at zero speed is almost identical in induction machines vs. PM machines, so this isn't an issue.

For EV applications one of the cool things about induction machines is that they can actually achieve higher efficiency at high speeds than a PM machine. This is because at high speeds the spinning magnets in a PM machine induce losses (so called eddy-current and hysteresis losses) which are difficult to suppress. In an induction machine you are controlling the field directly so it can be weakened at higher speeds with a control loop to directly optimize the losses vs. torque production. This means that there is a trade-off speed at which an induction machine becomes more efficient than a comparable PM machine.

To mitigate this issue in PMs some vehicle manufacturers have tried to do cool tricks like partially demagnetizing the magnets at high speeds to reduce losses, but this is very difficult to do without damaging the magnets permanently.

Motor size is approximately proportional to torque, not power, so you can imagine a small, low torque induction machine that is fast and will have better efficiencies than a corresponding PM machine. In stop and go traffic or low speed travel the PM machine typically has better efficiencies.

Personally I hope in the long run we end up with induction machines in our electric cars. 1) No safety issues with spinning magnets at high speed during an inverter failure, 2) no reliance on rare-earth materials, 3) the control of induction machines is very cool in its complexity and gives an additional degree of freedom on field flux that is only partially controllable in PM machines, and 4) induction machines have longer lifetimes as there is practically nothing to wear out aside from the bearings.
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No computers have ever been programmed via Turing Machines, or built on an architecture resembling TMs(Von Neumann architecture can be described as a register machine). TMs are simply a mathematical formalisation of the notion of computation, equivalent in power to the lambda calculus.

However, most programming languages(including C, Java, etc.) look much more similar to lambda calculus than a description of a Turing Machine - and for very good reason. Have you ever tried describing a TM that encodes even the simplest logic? It is a pain in the ass.

Indeed, most courses on the theory of computation that discuss Turing Machines etc. don't ever expect students to fully describe a Turing Machine. Many times they use a language reminiscent of the lambda calculus to describe Turing Machines.

Just take a look at the definition of Turing Machines on wikipedia and examples of TMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine#Formal_definiti...

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

That resembles no description of programs that are written by humans to run on computer systems, unlike the lambda calculus.
x = 0 and
x = 1.
Therefore by the reflexive and transitive property of equality, 0 = 1.
I thought software distribution would be a no brainer. There are plenty of projects that still have lists of mirror sites, using IPFS would be much better from a bandwidth and security perspective.
I really don't feel like you understood what I was saying. I'm wasn't coming up with anything crazy. I presented a broad category of how long term weight management might be affected by food types. There are many different acceptable theories that are accepted any many mainstream scientists:. Insulin causing fat storage, or sugar blocking the brain's ability to see leptin.

But the specifics don't matter. If you're willing to accept that such a model is possible, then that means that recommending a calorie deficit, even though it's required for weight loss, might be really bad advice. If you tell someone to eat less food, and they keep eating the types of food that cause their bodies to store fat, you might be setting them up for failure.
Who has a mortgage or car payment that is in excess of $10k per month?
Or you could try working in one of the many environments that fit your work style.
Wow, reminds me of the same thing I built 7 years ago :) https://github.com/cheeaun/getSelector.js
Drinking in general is a really bad idea. I use it as a good and clear signal for who not to associate with, personally and professionally. I am all for having more opportunities for drunkards to expose themselves.
6 years and 3 months and I am not even 1/5th of the way there.
I think the main reason we haven't seen many life forms evolving long life spans is that the biological cause of aging may be closely tied to other important things. So it may be difficult to evolve long life without some other disadvantage like slower growth.
Google reports "when you use a Coinstar machine and want to get cash for your coins, they take 11.9% off the top. Basically this is $12 for every $100 in coins you deposit. This number varies from store to store as they might subsidize the processing fee, but this is the standard fee as indicated by Coinstar." Holding a hoard of pennies may be foolish, but paying a 12% fee to get rid of them seems outrageous.

Personal coin counting and wrapping machines and tools are available from Amazon and elsewhere. Many banks will only accept deposits of rolled coins from their customers; they will often supply the coin wrappers. A roll of pennies has 50 coins.

Hoarding is not a good investment strategy. Getting out of pennies is costly.
What is not?
Two of the most productive times in my life were when I had a tiny office to myself and was able to play music on speakers instead of through headphones. I got a lot less ear fatigue that way, and the ambient background music really helped me get in the zone. Having a space to myself certainly helped too.

Of course, this only worked because the work I was doing during those times also required very little coordination and communication with other people. I'm introverted enough that if I have my own space but need to get out of it to talk to someone, I'll find myself procrastinating doing that.

Having a shared open plan office makes it harder for me to focus, but easier for me to interact with people. I'm not sure if that's a net win for my productivity or not.
Yes, but what is "bad"?

Maybe I find it despicable that I can't scam you out of money if you happen to be dumb enough to let me. There are actually cutlers int he world that are "shame on you if you get scammed"

That is the entire problem when you talk about ethics at all beyond a few truths that 99% of people can agree on.

So one could argue not following any law becomes unethical -- and the only ethical thing to do is follow the law until it is changed, which puts us at a interesting juxtaposition -- that sometimes you have to be unethical to be ethical!

This will always be the hard part of making rules or laws on things that are so subjective such as ethics.
Because value is not added equally along the chain.
EU Directive 1999/44/EC sets minimum of 2 years for consumer products, and requires that for at least the first 6 months the seller has to prove that the defect did not exist when they sold the product, afterwards it switches to the consumer. National law is allowed to specify longer periods, and does in some countries.

Note that it is the seller, not the manufacturer, on the hook for this.

I don't know a good english summary, but here you can at least find the full text of the directive: http://www.kapitalmarktrecht-im-internet.eu/en/Areas%20of%20...
As with their other suppliers, they do send announced and unannounced inspections and they do take action when the inspection reveals issues.

Apple is under a magnifying glass at every step of the supply chain even though they are the same as used by their competitors. They take this very seriously.
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I think visualization can be a helpful tool to understand the data. I have seen some DS's get caught up in visualization for visualization's sake which I think can be wasteful.

I definitely think a solid mathematical understanding helps to build quantitative and critical thinking skills which are very key in data science.
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Added to that list should be hobbies because otherwise I can only pick two from that list.
Nevertheless 25.000 to 40.000,- USD profits per year without spending a lot of time on it sounds nice.
It's not illegal to know where police are, even if it may be illegal to operate a radar detector.
>It does seem a little odd that every comment about Rust gushes about its progress and stability without discussing any downsides.

Doesn't seem odd at all.

First, a lot of people commenting about Rust are enthusiastic recent adopters that haven't seen much of the language, including any real ugly sides yet.

Second, it's not entirely true, almost all Rust threads mention the steep learning curve, the slow compiler, and other issues such as the variadic generics (or lack thereof to be precise).

Third, we have seen the same "early adopter enthusiasts seeing it all rosy" circle for RoR, Go, Node, and Mongo, nothing out of the ordinary here.
I guess the problem comes when the tool is so good that it no longer requires the worker who uses it, i.e. automation.

When all jobs that can be automated are automated, where are we left? As a society?

Do we argue against automation because it destroys jobs? Then you're into government-paying-people-to-dig-holes-then-refill-them land.

Do we just let the majority languish in poverty while the owners of the capital continuously concentrate their wealth? That's no way to build a future, or a healthy nation.

Do we say everyone gets "mincome"? That's pretty-darn socialist, which is something many Americans have... extremely strong feelings about.
Most ICE cars are equipped with ECUs for various subsystems
I would've hired a new executive instead.
not a lot better mores law does not apply to battery tech no matter how much the electric car evangelists would like it to be so
It didn't strike me as snarky at all, and it's also not obvious considering that many people want the police warnings so that they can break the law. Apparently complying with laws is seen as optional by a lot of folks, and the result is mass deaths and injury.

Police and red light camera warnings in Waze always struck me as both encouragement and enablement of deliberate law breaking.
Have you tried working in an actual library? Most public libraries have WiFi these days.
I have worked in several co-working spaces, and this is remarkably similar to my experience. The last one I was in was very loud with people making sales calls. I am currently renting a desk in a friend's small startup office, and it is so much better.
Don't most people opt for something called Tokyo? I don't do Rust much, but even I have heard of it by now...
I think the “problem” is that ethical questions and nuanced thinking generally get in the way of “getting things done”. It seems that the software/startup/disruption community glorifies moving fast, shipping an MVP and then iterating on improving measurable metrics. None of these are conducive to dialectic and thinking carefully about consequences. Heck, the popularity of weak/dynamic typing and REPL-it-till-it-works shows that many programmers today aren’t willing to reason about effects even within their own code... leave alone societal consequences! Nothing wrong with that style of programming as such, but I think it’s a symptom of the ratio of thinking-to-doing that many find comfortable.

Software is unique in that it gives us the flexibility to fix bugs after shipping, unlike any other engineering field. Over the last few decades, we seem to have gotten increasingly carried away with emphasis on that feature. Also has to do with the incentive structure encouraged in SV.
There is a great paper from Jeff Dean on using the TPUs for more traditional CS functions.

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub46518.html
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This is easy to fix, you report a map problem in Waze and then follow up on a computer and mark that this turn only allows turning right. If needed you can provide this picture.

I already fixed several intersections this way.

That's assuming the problem is indeed with Waze and is not just asshole drivers. When I am in scenario when Waze made me make an illegal turn I report the map issue, turn the way sign suggests and wait for Waze to come up with a new route, so I'm surprised that no one did this yet in your area.

What's the intersection?
This is 100% the truth. I don’t know why it’s so hard to recognize different people have different working preferences, there’s no absolute correct arrangement. HN (rightfully) shoots down “anecdata”, but on this issue everyone’s fine with a sample size of 1?

don’t just shout your preferences at everyone else, it turns these threads into useless repetitive noise.
He is talking about China and Russia.
IQ, conscientiousness, and parental social status are probably the three biggest determiners of success, presumably none of which are being controlled for.
> 7. Colleges and universities are ground zero (and a symbol) of a (newish) culture that loudly, strongly, and explicitly rejects and condemns much of the rest of America; and especially the type of American that stereotypically would read the WSJ.

Do you read the WSJ? I can’t really take your point seriously if you’re using it as an example of what the “left intelligentsia” condemns. Yes, it’s not the NYT, but the WSJ is mostly consumed by people in the group you’re talking about. In fact, they are the WSJ’s primary readership.
How many thousands of times per day are copies of software downloaded over transoceanic links when many hundreds of copies of that same data exist already in the user’s own county or even building?

These efficiency gains are real; major distributions should adopt this ASAP.
So... competition > ethics?

Ethical software with less competition seems better than unethical software with more competition, eh?
That's different. Storage is 'in use' when you're using it, period. But when you have a dropbox subscription and you don't use your storage then that should not be charged imo.
SF isn't a real city but pretends to be. SB 827 will make it one.
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Sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying that "costless/riskless" is part of the "actual" definition? That's what your first post said, but this one citing Wikipedia appears to suggest you think that is misusing the term in a pejorative sense. Though, in fact, that quoted you pulled form Wikipedia is from the same source that I cited in my previous post as an author claiming they invented the term at least 5 years after it was already in use. So I'm not sure we should take it to be at all definitive.

Either way, I think you can use this idea pejoratively with or without that part of the definition: Dropbox says they support the community and these stated values, they drop some money on it and go back to doing whatever else they were doing that ignores these values. That's "signalling virtues" (by some definition) that you don't actually live by, except when it suits you to signal them.

(Note, I don't know enough about Dropbox to say that they are not actually living by these virtues.)
> and meanwhile we pretend western society is mostly meritocratic.

Japanese society is much less meritocratic than US society. They prize conformity far far more than the US/Europe does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japanese_culture)

This result is actually entirely expected given their culture.
Globally distributing the Internet Archive.
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Regardless of what we call it, it's not helpful to defend Google by saying Apple is worse. It doesn't contribute to the discussion. Just deflects.

Now if someone was bringing up Apple to draw similarities between what they do and what Google does, or to make distinctions, I can see how that would enrich people's understanding of the issue.

But that's not what happened in the comment in question.

If we're not careful, this whole thread will be a pissing contest between Google and Apple fans. And we'll forget what's really important (the fact that companies are trying to claim the open web as their own territory)
Is Japan part of Western Society?
> The way I see it, I have another 30-40 years left in me before my body gives out, and I'm going to spend all of them without having the kind of friend I had from 19 to 31. I don't really know how I'm going to deal with that.

Most people try to find this sort of friend in a relationship.
This happened in Japan. You can't get much less "West"!
Let's put it another way: why shouldn't workers try to hold back and/or destroy any sign of automation? Why should they not vandalize any attempt at using technology to make things more efficient? There are way more of them than there are innovators or CEO's, either one.

The reason is, the same reason that everything else in society works: we all have a stake in this, because if society is better off, we are all better off. But, what if when more is produced, I don't get more, but now you have more to push housing prices in my neighborhood out of my reach?

Society, and especially free-markets, rely on widespread support. A society of 50% thieves will collapse; a society of 10% thieves will probably not do much better. You need broad consensus to maintain the conditions necessary for a free market and innovation. You don't get that broad consensus, if all the gains in productivity go to the top.
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