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A national land value tax would fix it. The tax could be phased in slowly so that property prices have time to adjust downward. When it costs NIMBYs money to NIMBY they'll eventually stop.
They'll save us from contrived and meaningless object lessons?

The real test will be if they oppose fascism and bullying that is on their side about something important.
Windows S mode only allows appstore, no side loading. How are Windows app developers reacting to the 30% store tax? Are they raising prices for apps or skipping the appstore and ARM altogether?
Not yet, although this would make a great fit for the new addon mechanism. :)
Someone needs to figure out why the Grand Jury chose not to indict. This man was murdered in front of multiple witnesses. There must have been incredible extenuating circumstances if a Grand Jury chose not to indict.

Edit:

Come to think of it, the likely reason why the Grand Jury chose not to indict could have been self defense.
This is not how you win lasting change. This is how you turn your country into hell. One person should never have the power to do this; they should have to be able to win the hearts and minds of others to impose their will on the world. Movement in this direction is always preferable.

Edit: When you’re using insurgent violence to try to force the world around you to change into what you desire, in which sense are you not just as much of a tyrant?
Intel threatened to sue for its x86 IP violation. The timing is just great for Qualcomm's board who is defending itself from Broadcom's acquisition - release something clearly not going to make a big profit but big enough to be sued by Intel, surely this is going to convince Broadcom to walk away.
F# also handles physical units in a really nice way.
Same with the "this" reply that's so in vogue online in English: "this [is the correct answer]".
I agree and, while not everyone can, I got around it by setting up a small home gym. I have a box I set my laptop on and get some work done between sets, helps to not have to carve out the dedicated time for going to/working out in the gym and allows me to focus on my work and my exercise. There's some start up costs depending on the equipment but they're only as high as you want them to be past ~$100, I spent ~$650 4 years ago on some nice weights, bench, and rack, dropped the gym membership, and can't recommend it enough. Bonus, my wife and kids occasionally use it.
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At the same time that the 996 was a controversial success for Porsche, the 928 was an eventual, controversial failure. Even though I own a 928 I don't know nearly enough about the 928's history to talk about why it failed, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with its rapid departure from the 911's style and layout. My big question is will an electric Harley be just enough, too little, or too much of a change from its heritage to succeed?
> it’s rather sad.

Why?

The antipathy city dwellers feel for "flyover country" is silly, but the reverse is pretty silly too.

I might think it's strange that some people have never gone hiking or camping, but they think it's just as strange that I had never seen a symphony performance until recently.

People just lead different lives, I dunno that one's more sad than the other.
For me it comes down to inertia. When I'm working on a project, I can barely get myself to stop, but when I do stop, it takes some time to get started again.
My trick is: as soon as I finish one project, I open up everything I need for the next project, then start my break. When I open up my computer next time, seeing everything there ready to go makes it much easier to jump right back in. This task switching problem was actually a big motivator behind why we built Workona.
"Always Uncontrollable" might be a better term...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...

The firmware setup shall indicate if Secure Boot is turned on, and if it is operated in Standard or Custom Mode. The firmware setup must provide an option to return from Custom to Standard Mode which restores the factory defaults. On an ARM system, it is forbidden to enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode may be enabled

Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems

Edit: this mainly concerns the deeply-embedded "phone home" functionality that Win10 has, which from what I've read is nearly impossible to disable even if you have full administrative access. With a cell radio, firewalling might not be possible either.
I at least, think I'm being consistent in both comments. :)

Both times I've said people never get work from the people that they help - only from coworkers.

Fifty percent of my income for many years came from engineers and coworkers I worked with while volunteering, and I’m still working with some of them ten years after leaving. My latest client, doing snazzy blockchain work, is from someone I met twenty years ago while volunteering.

The same networks of people-who-know-you-can-get-stuff-done build up regular big companies too - volunteering is just another way to bootstrap this outside of such a job.
Cost gap? You mean, the ColorHug being more expensive than the other alternatives which work better?

Ok, but I'm not sure how that explains it. You'll need to go into more detail.
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Could anyone explain why POP CS is so "obviously useless"? The author says it is "as obvious as it is useless", and never explains further.

As far as I can understand, CS is the top byte of the 16-bit instruction pointer, so sure you wouldn't want to go around changing just that byte. But I feel like I'm missing something because that doesn't seem too crazy out of this world useless to get such a special mention.
What does “unmanaged” even mean? Anyone should strive to have as accurate colors as possible.
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> many think that solar powered planes will enable flying without pollution, which somehow justifies their current flying.

That's an incredibly silly thing to think, where do you come across such people?

>applying more of what solved other problems isn't helping but exacerbating current problems.

While possible in principle, I don't see that happening. Installing LED lights doesn't lead to people using more electricity. Driving electric cars doesn't lead to more driving. And it seems that switching jets to synthetic/biofuels won't lead to more flying.

Jevon's paradox does not apply everywhere, just where there's supply restricted usage.

Further, technology is disconnecting carbon intensity and even energy intensity from GDP. The connection between these was an article of faith for prior generations, both from conservationists and economic conservatives, but it is changing now.

We need to rethink plans in light of these changing fundamentals: Jevon's paradox happens many places but not everywhere, and economic activity is going to be disconnected from carbon intensity.
And half of those are Europeans (often other Scandinavians). In contrast, in D.C., the capital of the United States, 52% of the population is of a racial minority that (overwhelmingly) is in the U.S. only because white Americans brought their ancestors over from Africa in slavery.
To me the most powerful balance of this era is represented by apps like http://buycott.com - consumer activism, being smart about where you spend your money. The potential is huge although awareness and probably cynicism mean it hasn't yet become mainstream.
The only thing that seems to make a difference is women shouting to be heard and telling their kids to be less sexist.

Yes it's entirely possible that I haven't expressed this correctly. Perhaps it's more along the lines of the women who pushed the boundaries of what was capable. I think it does take women speaking out when they see that things are wrong. From what I witness I don't see men willing to change the status quo anytime soon.

I honestly think such change on a large scale takes mothers and fathers who won't accept the same level of sexism that their parents put up with and putting this into their children.

Happy to corrected on my points.

As for your comments, personally I upvote them because you add something to the conversation. You have an interesting point of view.
It does.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_purchase_order?wp...
> Those industries don't have the equivalent of a Google or an Apple that can bankroll expensive R&D on the back of massive consumer revenue

What are you talking about? The biggest players in the telecom market report some of the largest profit in the country, both in real terms and as a percentage of revenue. They're just so entrenched that they view any R&D as a cost center if they can't use it to keep others or of the market.
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Ironic that this [0] is the top story at the same time as this article is on the front page.

How can an academic be arguably arguing against Constructivist Learning Theory [1] without mentioning Piaget [2] or Papert [3], from the birthplace of Scratch [4] no less.

The author recommends, "design drills for it" but at the same time deriding project-based learning as simulating work. I cannot think of a better way to encourage stimulus-response coding than, "doing drills". Projects provide context, which provide anchors for knowledge. Projects provide a constant stream of problems with a motivation to solve them, the teacher should be there to guide the student towards the knowledge and skills to solve the problems as they arise.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16453192

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert

[4] https://scratch.mit.edu/
> I'm not sure a few extra apartments in a city of thousands and thousands is going to reduce the value of anything nearby by any appreciable amount?

No shit it won't. We need vastly more housing. But you're just being defeatist if your attitude is to give up if you are unable to construct enough to get prices to drop. You are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Yes. Unsafe code must exist for Rust to accomplish it's goals. Rust is also a practical language, and unsafe is an important part of that. The key is, unsafe is a relatively small percentage of code overall; even operating system projects have a very small amount of unsafe.

> apparently unsafe was just neglected.

I wouldn't agree with this. We work on unsafe things all the time; for example, NonNull<T> was just stabilized. As with any open source project, stuff gets done as people have the time and desire to do it.

> AFAIK, stable unsafe Rust doesn’t even has malloc & free functions.

So, this is literally true, but it's not because we hate unsafe or something. It's because a good allocator API is hard. We've been putting a lot of work into it over the last year or so, and it's actually pretty close to being in stable. The team moved to stabilize it back in October of last year, but some last-minute stuff has popped up.
Also see the 1981 film The Wave[1], the Stanford prison experiment[2], and Jane Elliott's[3] blue-eyes/brown-eyes experiment[4].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_%28TV_special%29

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott

[4] - http://tkam.wikia.com/wiki/Jane_Elliot_-_Brown_eyes,_Blue_ey...
Ask HN: Resources to teach high schoolers to code?
I have a friend in NYC who has volunteered to teach high schoolers programming this summer. She's a public school teacher with limited resources, but she's been given free rein to teach whatever she wants, and asked me for guidance.

Her goal is to get the kids building basic web apps by the end of the summer. It's an ambitious goal but I think it's doable. Some resources I suggested so far:

* code.org for free curricula and guidance

* glitch.com as an easy and fun platform to start building web apps

Are there any other good tools she should check out? Any organizations in the NYC area that could help her? Thanks!
Actually, it's worse than that. It sounds like the researchers looked at the FCC's census-tract numbers and multiplied each by the number of households in each census tract. That inherits a big error baked into the census-tract numbers.

In the FCC's numbers, if you have a census tract wherein one household has access to AT&T, one other household has access to Comcast, and none of the other households have any access to any ISP at all, that's a census tract with two providers. I suspect there aren't any census tracts where the situation is quite that extreme, but I suspect many "competitive" census tracts have at least some households that actually only have one option.

That said, at least census-tract aggregation is better than the zip-code level aggregation that preceded it...
I didn't take it as disdain exactly. More like a meant-to-be-funny turn, almost self-deprecating. I doubt the author actually feels disdain for slavic languages.
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And it works incredibly well for them.

It's almost as if trying to centrally plan for dozens of drastically different types of societies and regions isn't efficient, or as effective as a smaller, actually representative government or something. Just ask the USSR.

Maybe we could break up the US into some sort of territories, so like-minded people could gather, and govern themselves based on local needs...
Because it’s not the Kalishnakovs doing the work here; it’s the beliefs and convictions of the people holding them and the sway that those beliefs have on the people around them.
Its also a problem for warranty related reasons. Those eBay sellers who sell an item, will only have to reimburse $1 if the item becomes damaged. Same with $5 item + $5 S&H but different proportions of price and therefore severity.
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Granted this is an extreme case but large, complex critical systems need a certain amount of stability and upgrades across Java releases are not quite as easy as just touching the servers.
This is how it works in Germany. Patents aren't transferable in Germany, even from employee to employer, but you can licence them to your employer.
There are for-hire physicist you could pay for consultations:

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-f...
Reminds me of the Golden Age Series book 3 The Golden Transcendence. Lost humans using the power of a black hole to power amazing things.
> positions of some knots

Optimal knot placement, though seemingly simple, can be a gnarly problem due to degeneracy in many cases. Anecdotally I've found quadratic splines to still be somewhat tractable with exact methods, but polynomial splines with cubic or higher orders can be tricky, especially when they are large-scale.

For derivative-free optimization, you can sometimes get speedups from just adopting a embarassingly parallel algorithm like Particle Swarm. These types of stochastic algorithms aren't necessarily algorithmically better than Nelder-Mead Simplex, but they can explore a larger terrain in parallel, which may help. If you can find some parallel stochastic code, you should be able to spin up a VM on the cloud with lots of cores to help you search the space.
It's funny because the point of the long now and the 10,000 year clock is to encourage long term thinking and planning which leads directly to thinking about these tough long term problems rather than the next election or next quarter.
Here in Minneapolis we have a logistics practice for Amazon a buddy of mine works for. He mentioned sort of offhandedly that Amazon has already maxed overland and air shipping capacity in the 48 states. The BNSF investment seems even more brilliant knowing that now.
Honest answer: I'm 68 years old.

I've seen the drug war, surveillance of US citizens (the two things you listed), the slide of America into oligarchy, and a host of other issues that I care about get worse, hardly believing it could be possible even as it happened. Yet here we are.

As a driver of change, withholding taxes doesn't seem to do much in our time. Didn't shorten our war in Vietnam. Didn't deflect the savings & loan crisis in the 80s & 90s, nor the financial crisis of 2007 - 2008. People who commit tax fraud become easy targets for Draconian civil and criminal penalties, and it's really hard to scale that strategy up to where it might be effective.

The IRS only has a right to demand what's legal. So I favor aggressive tax minimization (pay the absolute minimum the law allows), which is not tax fraud. I contribute my tax savings in hope of improving governance at all levels, and to other causes (shelters for battered women, etc.).

But I have to say, the rapid increases of regulatory capture, surveillance, and wealth concentration, along with the 2016 Presidential election result have eroded my optimism. Gerrymandering + electoral college = effective barrier to honest government. Like you, I don't see effective peaceful means of change remaining, those means having themselves been captured. It's not good, and I don't have answers at present.
Also reposted several times.
Arrogance isn't a fallacy in reasoning. Rejecting a belief because it sounds arrogant is particularly stupid kind of vanity.
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Why do you think they’ll change the ingredients? They own a number of organic brands already.
The foundation claims that Anathem was inspired by this project:

http://blog.longnow.org/02008/07/21/anathem-and-long-now/
I took your top-post as meant to be funny, because of your username; I laughed anyways.

Similarly, I took the author's "disdain" for slavic as not-real, but rather a meant-to-be-funny turn to avoid a detour into Romanian as the point of TFA was ultimately that the yeses in Romance languages generally derive from something like "this".

I am rather surprised you truly felt offended.
> They don’t overturn tyranny. Arguments, beliefs, and convictions do that.

Try that against the Mexican drug cartels and see how that goes
See also: "Is truncating the Y-axis dishonest?" https://twitter.com/rshotton/status/865951825463312385
Every large visual effects studio runs on linux, with hundreds of linux workstations at each one. Color sensitive work like lighting and compositing has been done for well over a decade on linux. Artist workstations are calibrated and every major computer graphics application has support for look up tables.
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C# had cool stuff way before JavaScript, but it feels like it doesn't get the credit it deserves because there aren't enough hipsters using it. </rant>
None of those even vaguely hint at 100hr work weeks or anything even remotely like that.
You're contradicting yourself, and I can't figure out why.
I agree. Wind machines are a landscape blight, as well as being massive bird choppers. Solar on all south-facing roofs and consideration of altering designs to create nice south-facing roof faces is where renewable should be accomplished. So long serene rolling hills of grass and wheat; hello nasty looking tech.
I am the author of the comment you were replying to, so I assume I'm reasonably familiar with what it says and does not say. I did not say that Norway's _economic_ success is caused by the fund, that's silly. I was replying to a comment suggesting that comparing a country to Norway in the context of increased social cohesion and we could just cargo-cult whatever they're doing is simplistic, because their situation is different, among which a trillion dollar sovereign piggy bank.
No source code :(
After reading this Linux rant and seeing how Apple is systematically marginalising its Pro customers, I'm actually inclined to believe you. Windows might be a pain for John Doe sometimes, but Microsoft also makes sure an insane amount of obscure professional features (like color management) keep working.
Worked for me, and clearly for others.
They are ignoring it. No sane person is going to use windows s.
It had a nice way of solidifying certain (especially functional) programming concepts for me. However, one potential either annoyance or advantage to the book, depending on your perspective, is that it at times teaches relatively simple programming concepts by using what could be considered more difficult math problems.

For example, finding a square root using Newton's method and implementing the Fermat test in Lisp. Such problems could either be seen as fun or annoying depending on your background and/or enjoyment of learning this type of stuff in addition to programming concepts. They do tie in together nicely, it's just something I'd mention for someone looking into studying the book.
Over the past 2 years TIME travelled the United States to document how drug overdoses are killing over 64,000 Americans annually.
I think you're attributing a point to me I'm not actually making? I am not saying "the US could not have done so", I am saying the US did not and Norway did.
We definitely looked at this one first - alpacas are arguably more popular as well (although, according to the data, llamas are much easier to identify).
Note that there's also the "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy" which is, such as the SEP, written by professional Philosophers.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/
Cool idea. I will try this combination soon. For someone who has not been following the projects, NextCloud vs Owncloud? Which one should I choose now?
Would you agree that the breakage between 1.4 and 1.5, 1.5 and 1.6, 1.6 and 1.7, 1.7 and 1.8 is not comparable to the breakage that Jigsaw alone introduced between 1.8 and 1.9?
I'm a colorist. Many of us do use windows, many use OSX, many more use Linux. Every major color critical application supports many types of LUTs and color management.

Further, HP Dreamcolors have tons of problems and aren't considered solid for color critical work (but are fine for semi color accurate stuff like intermediate comps etc). Color accurate work is done over SDI with dedicated LUT boxes handling the color transforms and the cheapest monitors being $7500 Flanders Scientific Inc 25" OLED panels.
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LevelDB is really cool but I have to admit I still struggle with the variety of datastores where the design of your keys have such a huge influence down the line. I remember using the Node variety (levelup/leveldown) and seeing all kinds of weird patterns when dealing with ranges (using \xff as a marker for the end of the range) and how to access "groups" of related data.

How simple it is to setup and get going is still extremely appealing though.
Did you just assume my color space preferences?
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Excellent points. I stand refuted and corrected. Wonderful.
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The point of the article is to say that using "this" in English as an affirmation is not a new phenomenon at all, and really, not wrong either (would we say it's wrong to say "oui" or "sí" or whatever is used in various Romance languages? no, we would not). That's a fair message to lay people and experts both.
Which two are those?
The EX3 and Spyder are not good probes. The cheapest quality probe I know of is the xrite i1 display pro. Everything below that is basically a toy. I've never used a ColorHug though so I'm not sure how it stacks up.

As for software, DisplayCal is actually very well regarded in pro color and considered one of the only serious three choices, the others being CalMAN and the big dog being Light Illusions.