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I think most of what he said is just an interpretation of what the math of classical black-holes says (basically the Schwartzschild equation). This math is uncontroversial and there is no better theory of a black hole, at least at this level of detail.

If I understand correctly competing theories disagree on more complicated descriptions, those that ask different questions or want to describe more details.
The internet is trumping geography. As we live progressively more of our lives online, we interact with progressively more different people. It becomes progressively less important how much trust we have for our meatspace neighbors. Most of us have had oodles of conversations and economic transactions with people on other continents while the people next door remain strangers.

With all of that online interacting, global interpersonal trust may rise, but won't approach Danish levels in our lifetimes. We cannot base our social systems on trust. But we can base them on transparency, which, eventually, builds trust.
First you have to define mass. It's currently "defined" extrinsically, by a piece of metal machined by the SI. That doesn't allow an intrinsic answer definition of a black holes mass.

The answer is kinda easy if I can make up my own intrinsic definition. The mass is the mass of the stuff around the black hole. A black hole is a singular point, it can't have mass, don't be silly.
Don't allow corporations to own patents. Limit their ownership to individual humans.
Some people naturally fit for jobs that require frequent task switching, others don't. It's about reward system in our brain, once you finish a task you need time to take your reward. If a time off is a reward to you then you need a time off. That's kind of natural thing, evolved in us during school times. If a reward means that you can start a new task - then you will happily proceed to it.
You read the title, saw it had OJ in it, and rushed to the comments to rant about it?

Edit: And then you doubled down?

> hahahahaha keep knocking down glasses of OJ fatties !

Might want to be a little more professional when you have your professional website in your profile, Rick.
That is a terrible idea.
Many of my (Hollywood) clients need to do color grading and other accurate color work.

What platforms do they all use? Not Macintosh, despite its reputation for being the platform for "graphics professionals" (it was missing 10 bit/channel color until very recently). And not Linux, despite its use in render farms.

They use Windows 10 and HP DreamColor monitors. That's the only platform that works and works well for people who need to care about color.
I would recommend anyone who has not implemented an interpreter to implement the scheme interpreter in sicp (in any language of their choosing). At heart sicp is not about scheme but about computation systems in general and at that it's the most elegant book I've come across.
"Keep calm and carry on" isn't just a UK thing.

If we let ourselves live in fear, we've lost.
Native will come, just slow and steady.

10 is already an improvement over 9 in what concerns supported AOT platforms.

"Project Metropolis"

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septembe...

Otherwise there are alternatives like ExcelsiorJET.
Technology for many serves the role religion used to play. Like God, technology is expected to always provide.

This is unscientific, as science understands the notion of local maxima, diminishing returns, and so on, whereas people worshipping technology as some non exhaustive resource, don't.

And let's not even go into resource depletion, or the odds and difficulties space travel (e.g. when talking about colonizing Mars and so on), which are waved away because "technology will find a way".

The idea that in this or that large-scale problem technology might not find a way, because it depends on limited resources (our cognitive skills, laws of physics limitations, scarcity of materials, energy costs, etc) is not considered at all, even though it's totally possible. The attitude is "surely, since we went from the caves to cars and the moon, we can go anywhere and everywhere".
"- risks in owning bonds versus stocks."
This article summarizes this point nicely, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-says-famous...
I know the people in charge of OVH coming to the USA. I think "in force" is a DRASTIC overstatement.
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I love this kind of argument. It is of course very simple that every real number is uncomputable -- real numbers have greater cardinality than the integers. So if you had a program (which can be described by a finite sequence of integers) capable of producing each real, you would have a finite integer sequence for each real, contradiction.

Note though that quantum mechanics adjusts this notion of real numbers in classical mechanics. A full quantum description of our world in theory requires only finitely many bits, because the quantum state is finite. But then measurements in quantum mechanics are non-deterministic, so impossibility of perfect prediction is still true :P
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Yes, just the initial support.

There are some additional ergonomic improvements planned for 11, like using them in lambda parameters.
Nobody has a 'Right' to compel payment for unwanted services.
First they came for the guns.
An unarmed populace is powerless against an abusive government.
America was founded because we wanted more liberty. And for many years, we understood that increased liberty came with increased responsability and risk.
People now seem to have forgotten that.
If you want to remain free, it will be hard. Sometimes there will even be bloodshed. I mourn for the students killed, as I mourn for all who have died, advertently or inadvertently, to protect our rights and freedoms. pulp
The Android tablet market is already dead. The only people buying Android tablets are people who want a real cheap device for watching videos. Apple has 80% of all tablets costing more than $200.

On the low end in the U.S., Amazon is making a killing with their bastardized not quite "Android" Fire Tablets. Chrome OS based 2-1s are doing pretty well though.

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-android-tablets-future...
Repost but a good one, methinks.. Isn't this line as relevant as ever?

"There is no life today without software," says Frank Lanza, an executive vice president of the American rocket maker Lockheed Martin. "The world would probably just collapse."
So let's say I fall into a black hole. And then four billion years later, someone else falls into a black hole from the same direction. From an outside perspective at a point nearly infinitely far away in time, we would seem to slow until we are right next to each other at the event horizon, correct? Does this mean everything that falls into a black hole crosses the event horizon (from their perspective) at the same moment, a moment which only exists from the crossers' perspective, as it is always infinitely far away from a perspective outside the event horizon?
It is both wet and generally fine for tunneling. The D.C. metro (subway) is almost entirely underground within D.C. city limits (though it runs mostly above ground outside of the city) and basements and extensive underground parking garages are the norm (some going very deep).

The region being looked at is the Atlantic Coastal Plain and a little of the Atlantic Piedmont Plateau. Below the wet marshy bits it's mostly sedimentary prelithified and lithified rock in the coastal plain area and a complex geology in the Piedmont area. The Piedmont area used to be the base of an ancient mountain range that's since eroded away while the Coastal Plain used to be entirely underwater at some period.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_(United_States)
You can have perfect trains and bicycles everywhere or you can invent jazz and snowboarding. You can't do both.

As someone who lives in the US but does business, and travels, in Europe frequently, I would prefer that the immigrants come to the melting pot (the US) and that the European countries retain their distinctiveness.
There are companies still deploying Java 1.4 into production in 2018, just because they don't want to touch their beloved servers.

This is nothing new.
As others point out we did have guest works, we also had Vietnamese boat-refugees, Bosnians refugees from the Balkan wars. The thing is: there was never that many of either groups. So no, Denmark isn't a nation of immigrants, not even close.

Both left and right leaning governments have failed to implement good integration policies. The parties on the left have been to naive and assume that things would naturally work them selves out: They trusted that the people coming into the country would want to learn the language, integrate and become Danes. On the right the opposite was assume, that the policies should be to not let people feel welcome, in the hope that they would leave.

Troublesome groups are let in, because Denmark is legally required to. But the evaporation of trust in others isn't purely an immigration issue, it happens between Dane as well, and that's worse because we're not entirely sure why it's happening.
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> including the water (space-time)

I think you meant to say ether.
How exactly would that work when I work for a corporation who is paying me to invent? If I am successful in my invention, then I just take my invention and run. This would stifle research investment.
Yet the two most successfully desktop experiences among common users, based on Linux, don't expose any details of its eco-system. Quite telling.
> "“But we’re supposed to protect against tyranny! I need the same weapons the military would come at me with!” Dude. You know where I can get an Apache helicopter and a Paladin?! Hook a girl up! Seriously, though, do you really think you’d be able to hold off the government with an individual level weapon? Because you wouldn’t. One grenade, and you’re toast. Don’t have these illusions of standing up to the government, and needing military style rifles for that purpose. You’re not going to stand up to the government with this thing. They’d take you out in about half a second."

https://agingmillennialengineer.com/2018/02/15/fuck-you-i-li...

*Edit: Set link to original military poster.
I suggest, on completion of a major task, you switch to cleaning up after the task. If possible, get up out of your chair to do this -- I find that the transition to physical movement helps this along. It's easier if it's a hardware task -- then there's shelving instruments, putting tried-and-discarded parts back into lab inventory, sweeping / vaccing up metal shavings etc -- but there's also polishing up documentation, tidying up journal / wiki entries, capping off histories, doing a grammar/detail edit pass on comments in code, snapshotting process files, etc. For me, psychologically, it's bundling up the job's result and closing off commitment to it which frees me up to face the next task.
Not really. People were worried about Steve Jobs and Apple. They did fine.

I think Buffet has instilled enough of his values and vision in the company, memorialized in the annual letters, books, interviews. The concepts will live on.
Some CPUs have a 128-bit compare-and-swap (lock cmpxchg16b on x64). You can build a lockless doubly-linked list with that. See for example https://gist.github.com/glampert/c40f2584d2fbc72316e1c8a6ef1...

As to the doubly-linked list in Rust: I think one could add the notions of “allocated block that must have n references to it” and accompanying “one of n references to an allocated block”. That could lead, for example, to code

let p1, p2 = heap::allocate2(elem_size, align);

to allocate such a block with two references. The borrow tracker could then ensure that both p1 and p2 get stored once somewhere before the function allocating the memory returns or get returned from the function, or that both get passed to a function freeing the memory, and never used afterwards.
It's always been strange to me that an island with abundant solar and geothermal resources relies on imported oil for most of their power generation.

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=HI

"In 2015, Hawaii imported 91% of the energy it consumed, mostly as petroleum."

They seem to be working hard on it at least, although I'm surprised that only 20% of the renewable energy production is geothermal. I guess it's just more expensive than solar nowadays.
This sounds similar to a real experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

There is an amazing movie based on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(2008_film)

> While the adults are complacent, jaded, and disparaged, teenagers are ignited, spirited, and take no prisoners. ... Do not get in their way: they will crush you.

This is scary. Do we expect violence?

Also, aren't millennials more pro gun than others?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/12/are-mille...

According to Gallup’s version of the question in 2004, the notion that concealed guns made for safer spaces polled at 25 percent; 11 years later, it registered at 55 percent nationally. The greatest support came from those ages 18-29, at 66 percent, a full 10 points greater than the next highest scoring demographic.
Rights are a man-made construct. People "have" them if society decides to grant them.

In this case, with the right-wing capture of the US Supreme Court, this ideological battle is likely to be lost by the unions, and the Supreme Court will just make up some justification (pardon the pun) for their biased opinion, as usual, and we'll just have to live with it, our opinions on rights notwithstanding.
Have you ever worked in a field where patents are an important part of the market structure? Telecom, pharma, etc.?

I spent my engineering career in telecom, and patents are a key part of the model. 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. They're no unicorns or network effects where you can take a 20% cut on every app that gets sold to your captive user base. Instead, companies pay teams of very expensive PhDs to develop things like error correction systems for modems. They patent those things, use the patents to either extract licensing revenue or, more importantly, keep out free riders who didn't contribute to developing the technology. Then it's all obsolete in five years and they do it all over again.

Markets are good, and patents, as imperfect as they are, provide an infrastructure for integrating expensive R&D efforts (which don't result in tangible property), into markets, in a way that avoids free-riding. And it also results in market structures that are sane. I can just go buy a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip. Broadcom can recoup its investment by just selling me a chip, and count on patents to keep out free-riders. Their business model doesn't require them to make a whole consumer end-product like a phone, or tie their hardware to advertising, to be viable.

In the absence of patents, you get trade secrets and vertical integration. Apple doesn't care about patents because it doesn't sell you chip designs or even a chip, it sells you an iPhone. Google doesn't care about patents because it doesn't sell VP9 or Blink--those are just a means for furthering its advertising business.

Take a step back and think about the business models you want to see more of. Do we need more Apples and Samsungs, which want to sell you a complete end-user product tied to their ecosystem? Or do we want more ARMs, which are happy to just sell you a chip or even an IP core? Wouldn't it be nice to bring back Netscape? Where you could just exchange money for a web browser, instead of going to google.com and it bugging you to download Google's web browser for "free?"
Oh, I did't think of that one. Just thought it was the typical 'Trump is a dictator' musing but you are right, this might be very well about the teens vs NRA show.
The language in the New Testament is not formal, yes, but it's not "street Greek" in the same sense that we mean "street speak" today. At the time, Greek was the lingua franca of that part of the world, basically the Roman empire, so it was used by people who didn't have another common language to communicate in their daily interactions. It's not a slang though, nor a subculture's secret argot.

For instance, today the de facto lingua franca spoken around the world is English. So, if the New Testament was written today- it would be obviously written in English to reach the broadest audience possible.

Now, imagine if the apostles decided to write about Christ's life not just in English, but in the kind of English used in gangsta rap. I have read the New Testament in the original and I can assure you that is not what it sounds like :)
Funny, we had a discussion on Slack at work where numerous folks hadn’t ever seen the Milky Way yesterday. I think many on the east coast haven’t, especially in NYC, and it’s rather sad.
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Maybe we should have a law that allows patent infringement in the case of someone being able but unwilling to bring a product to market?

There are probably too many potential loopholes in that law though. There have been cases in publishing where a malicious publisher buys the rights to publish a book, promising a minimum run of the book, and then setting the price of the book prohibitively high, effectively censoring the title.
Oddly, only 20% of just the renewable generation is geothermal. They might be including biofuels though, and since their generation is dominated by oil right now that might be attractive just for compatibility with their existing infrastructure.

But yeah, this confuses me too.
Maybe read the comment I was replying to? They made the argument that Norway's economic success is caused by the fund. Which it is not. Because the fund is, to repeat myself, "a net negative currently, used to defer the use of the fossil fuel windfall for future times".

To more directly answer your question: the fund is the sort of level-headed strategic genius that only a sane country like Norway could pull off. Compare Alaska.
Interesting thought. I suppose it depends on whether you believe in the dividend irrelevance theory or not. Who can put money to better use? You or Warren?
I fully agree with this thinking in general, countries don't lose because other countries are growing, quite the opposite.

However, in the case of the US there's the caveat that it runs the world's reserve currency, controls the petrodollar, and is able to strongarm other countries into accepting its domestic banking laws (through the likes of FATCA).

That situation is unlikely to persist for the next 100 years, which is going to be disproportionately bad for the US economy.
segmentation is the closest feature really, and it was thrown out for 64-bit AMD64

That was one of the "big things" with the 286 and protected mode, and enhanced even further with the 386, so it's a bit ironic and sad that it can't be done in 64-bit mode --- and I'm sure it could be done in a backwards-compatible manner if AMD chose to (double-wide descriptors seem to be a reasonably popular thought), but it feels like a lot of the decisions made with AMD64 were more just to spite Intel than benefit anything or anyone else.

Related: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=25
Always park all of your projects downhill by noting down the next concrete actions before putting it away. When you then switch into a project there will be a clear and immediate todo to perform, that serves as the hook for retrieving the context from your brain.

I find that a 10 minute break followed by a clearly defined action item is usually enough to get me going.
I think I know the expression, yes :)
Many people would like to see open hardware succeed, so they get annoyed when they watch yet another open hardware company sell a broken product, which inevitably leads to bankruptcy, and then starts the “Linux will never work out of the box” cycle anew.

We’ve seen this play out dozens of times since the ‘90s, and the startups keep making the same mistakes.

They should at least read their predecessors retrospectives, and strive to make different mistakes.
Great article and discussion on it here for anyone trying to build something similar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10266103
"You can see this with, for example, the griping from Californians about how unfair it is that they're forced to subsidise other states which aren't the economic success story that California is."

While it is indeed true that California is a net-tax-contributor to the United States, it's fairly new that this is a point of contention or a "gripe" from Californians.

A much more prevalent complaint, in my experience, is that Californians pay the same ~50% in taxes that Danish people do, but have much, much worse public policy and infrastructure outcomes.
Why aren’t most CEO founders replaced then? It seems more often then not, they remain with the org well past 100s of employees, regardless of experience or skill set.
To the best of my knowledge, coal consumption reduced eventually, and exactly technology apparently did play some role.
First they came for the fully automatic guns and you just rolled over and let them take them.
I don't know, this is sort of like the people who didn't like the Eiffel tower. Seems rather subjective?

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-23/news/mn-722_1_eiffel-...
Most current teenagers aren't Millenials.
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Young people are more willing to "rise up and fight The Man" than ever before, to be sure. The problem is, now that information is easier to spread instantaneously across the entire globe--and we carry devices that let us access this global information network in our pockets at all times--people are more prone to groupthink than ever before, and one's political beliefs are more directly shaped by social circumstances than ever before. Many young people express desire to fight for various causes and will make all the social media posts in the world in support, but once they get the dopamine hit from feedback to said posts (likes, retweets, replies, etc.), they feel that they've done Something Good, and call it a day, instead of actively engaging more directly with whatever causes they're supporting. Critical thinking is becoming more and more discouraged, especially in educational settings, as outward expression of such is increasingly drowned out by overemotional responses. I'm not sure what to make of all of this, but it seems overly simple to say "the teens will save us" just because they're more likely to "resist."
If the app uses the system TLS libraries for comparing certificates, you could just make the appropriate API always return "true". In-memory patching avoids affecting anything else.
Modern ACs are powered by AC, but they run IGBT inverters to power a brushless DC motor. So you could build ACs to run on straight DC, but they would be a special application (so expensive initially).
What do you mean? As far as I know the major tax reform by the right-wing parties was the "work tax deduction" which makes taxes less flat. (The deduction is capped at roughly median income). Top marginal rates have been largely the same since the mid '90s.
Would love to hear the background of what brought you to these towns. Sounds like an adventure!
For some reason I'm thinking game theory now.
Your AR-15 is not going to defend you against a drone strike. The idea you could fight the government with privately owned weapons is completely laughable, and the entire notion comes from an era long before tanks and missiles and nuclear bombs made the entire concept ridiculous. If you want to fight an abusive government you do it through the power of an organized populace. You can’t force an entire nation to live at the barrel of a gun.
About that new antidepressant study (neuroskeptic)