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It seemed that he was talking about himself or his own family. So I took that as an anecdote. I doubt he relishes bashing his own family but called it like he believes he sees it.

My stance is close to what you're getting at. I don't think they're purposefully lazy most of the time. Though I agree with the OP that some have to be, there's no way. I'm intellectually lazy oftentimes, why wouldn't a discouraged, down on their luck poor person be? Makes zero sense that they wouldn't.

Being paid less and less in my life, while others around me make more, has been extremely demotivating. I can't imagine how the life gets sucked out of people with lesser will-power than others have.

I think it's not a claim that some people simply can't be bothered to go to school and better themselves. They just don't care. It's either stemming from their psychological profile, childhood abuse, or other factors that took down their motivation and self-esteem. They're giving themselves what they deserve, in their mind, accepted their social status.

Many of us do it. I accepted that I'm "working class" long ago and strongly identify with it. Even forgoing clothing that is outside of my class status. I'm a sturdy rural guy that even though I live in one of the largest cities in the US, prefer my blue jeans and work shirts (old fashioned Scottish plaid button ups for a country boy like myself) with work boots (think a black pair of Doc Martens). So I can completely see how others adopt their possibly lower socio-economic status as well. I like mine, it's part of my identity and I'm comfortable in my own skin that way. Maybe they are too, even if it doesn't benefit them.
> I'm happy for other people to take mass transit and leave more road space for me.

I appreciate your honesty. Made me think of this:

https://www.theonion.com/report-98-percent-of-u-s-commuters-...
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Strictly speaking, they can. The period occurs at the end of a cycle, so it's possible to get pregnant on your very first cycle without ever having had a period.

The likelihood of this happening is extremely low of course.
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Is there reasoning to not drive this into the ground, I.e. where profitability for the campaign hits 0?

At a practical level I wonder if you / they are cognizant of an exhaustion measure, if new campaigns are introduced rapidly enough to continue to maintain a 5-10x return, whether the spend is managed to a predefined ROI, etc.

For what it’s worth, I’ve always seemed to drive it into the ground, but those are for short term campaigns. The long term campaigns I’ve inherited have usually already been driven into the ground before me (though the PE firm I was working for bought that distressed startup on the cheap).
That is an amazing explanation of primate pregnancy and menstruation. Another extremely creepy aspect is how the placenta burrows into the endometrium.

It sounds a lot like tumor angiogenesis, doesn't it? Indeed, the fetus sounds like the alien ones in Alien. An unwanted fetus is rather like an attacker. Especially in light of conflicting selection pressure.
It's the "Here is how it works" section of the ad. The wording is very close to the standard "enter your personal details on a shady website to get free stuff" scam. I think that's also the reason so many commenters seemed to believe he was offering something for free.

I'm not a marketer, but it would probably have helped to have the phrase "you pay us" or similar in there somewhere, even without mentioning the price.
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I grew up in poverty. My dad is fortunately able to get tuition assistance through the Native American tribe he is a member of. With that assistance, he was able to graduate law school and become a lawyer. As soon as he did that and got his first job as an attorney, our lives changed dramatically. My fondest memory of that time was buying brand new clothes. That never happened before, at least not that I can remember. I was so amazing to wear clothes that weren't hand me downs that were initially purchased used from a thrift store.

The thing is, even with the tuition assistance, both of my parents had to work double shifts almost constantly to keep food on the table. I have many memories of my siblings and I coming home to an empty house in elementary school because my parents would be out working their ass off for us. Most weeks I wouldn't see them until the weekend. Now, as adults, my siblings and I are now living well enough in middle class.

Government programs and assistance for the poor can fail and can be taken advantage of by people who would rather squander that assistance, no doubt, but that doesn't mean all people are like that. It can and does work, but even with assistance, it is not enough. My dad was very fortunate to have a tuition free ride through law school, and we as a family were fortunate enough not to run into anything that derailed his desire or ability to finish law school. Without that tuition assistance, I doubt he could have secured the loans that were needed. Simply cutting assistance programs will not make poor people to 'get back to work' and dig themselves out of poverty. It was next to impossible to do so when I was growing up and it is even worse now.

Can those programs be better? Yes. Should we cut them because they aren't the best? Absolutely not. Please.
"I'll give you $100 today if you pay me back $110 next week. And I don't care about your awful credit score." That's over 500% annualized interest, but it's not very unreasonable for an unsecured short term loan to a person with bad credit.
Genuine question: what values count as enlightenment values? And who gets the credit for coming up with these values? I heard Pinker on Ezra Klein's podcast and he seemed to imply that Gandhi/MLK's non-violent movements were the product of the enlightenment. Isn't that a patently ridiculous claim?

I looked up wikipedia to see who the intellectuals of the enlightenment were and it seems many of these people are racists, slave-owners and colonizers who literally thought that Gandhi/MLK were sub-human. Their military philosophy seems to boil down to might is right and their values AFAICT are pretty close to Richard Spencer's. Sure, some of these people were great scientists and politicians, but I'm having a hard time seeing them as moral exemplars.
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yeah but a lot of us have our side hustles or are just individuals. we can likely only afford what the poster did. not millions like some big company
"Applying Machine Learning Like a Responsible Adult", a 30 minute talk from GDC 2017, is a nice introduction to common machine learning approaches and pitfalls for game developers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLsKzkxWpK8
Studies have shown that it would be cheaper to simply house people than the wild hoops they have to jump through.

Helping the poor is big business, which creates a backwards incentive structure. No one is willing to press these companies to the wall, but hey, they can have rewards ceremonies and drive nice cars. They must be doing something great with all those accolades even though more dead bodies are dumped in the bay each year, right?
Unless I'm using a content blocker and can watch the "content" without accepting intrusive ads and profiling, then it's on my terms.
I agree. This is something related to military. China recently unveiled their hypersonic plane. Imagine the number of trials they had to run before the launch. I’ll be surprised if those planes did not pass through U.S at high speeds.
That basically what I did by creating a small video console and making games work on this bare hardware. Having it generate sprites on screen from bare hardware was much more fun that using unity on a pc ...
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My first thought when people talking about self-driving trucks is how easy it would be to rip off a semi truck full of iPhones in the middle of nowhere when there's nobody even on board to worry about.

What happens when your self-driving truck breaks down hundreds of miles away from any of your employees? With hundreds of thousands of dollars of cargo on board?

Every hypothetical scenario you can possibly think of that your truck might encounter needs to be planned for, and every single solution needs to be weighed with the risk of how much cargo you might lose if something goes wrong.

Suffice to say, I personally think even once (if?) self-driving trucks become fully automatable, you'll still be paying someone to sit on that truck around the country, just because the risk of not having someone there may be far greater.
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Eh its a little different. Your analogy would be more correct if we kept adding to the BIOS interface till it got large, rather than starting from scratch.
This is correct, melting sea ice does not lead to a rise in sea level. It’s the melting of glaciers and ice sheets (on Greenland for example) that cause the sea level to rise.
vehicle death rates have cratered over the decades.

http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/VKM-Fata...

I guess engineering-related safety regulations actually work.
> A counter argument is that you might miss out on a lot of the monetary rewards that comes from learning the much desired skill that others don't have the time or will power to tackle in the period where doing so involves a lot of friction

Perhaps it can be argued that one is not in the position to take advantage of such situations. Switching jobs is not necessarily cheap
This is a perfect example of the problem with uneducated opinions about healthcare. Everybody has them, has never even tried to confirm their assumptions with a doctor and will continue to propose all sorts of fixes (see sibling comments) that make zero practical sense and will actually drastically reduce the quality of care.

My SO is a doctor, even here in Europe there are many flaws, but what I have learned over the years is that this system is way, way more complex and effective than people think. If you want to improve it, great! Step one: go talk to a doctor about your ideas. If you haven't done that, don't spread your unfounded assumptions, it only leads to more demonization of staff and systems and doesn't help anybody.
I guess it depends on you knowing what you want. I wouldn't drop money on a spanking new car even though I can afford to and all my peers drive Audis or whatever, but I feel just OK with my over 100k Civic just because I like not having a loan on my head. I didn't get the latest iPhone (still on the 5s) because a beautiful new phone means nothing to me; I'm just fine with a less expensive, smaller and slower model.

OTOH, If I see nice clothes or shoes I definitely do consider getting them if I don't have something similar already, or different enough from existing clothes to give a different look. I won't say no to a road trip, or a weekend trip with my gf/friends. Or to eating at a fancy restaurant occasionally.
Imo, practice is most important predictor in sport only after you excluded all the people who are, depending on sport, too tall, too short, have too small hands, too short attention span, have wrong kind of muscle fibre (white vs red) etc.
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I think "The End of History" gets a bad rap. People say the rise of China (for example) is a counterexample to his theory, as it is becoming economically successful without being a democracy, but with all the clever wordplay Chinese citizens are using online to get around attempts of censorship, it is really questionable how long China's educated and technologically sophisticated populace can be controlled by a one party state.
After having lived in Russia for a bit, I'm mildly surprised that a US equivalent of Marshrutki [1] haven't really popped up in US cities. While St. Petersburg and Moscow have really well built out public transit systems, the urban sprawl and construction of the cities just doesn't allow for access by anything but non-bus-sized vehicles. The tl;dr of the wiki link below is imagine a passenger van that runs a fixed route - you can board or exit anywhere along the route by signaling the driver, and while slightly more expensive than public transit, you get the benefit of flexibility.

Here in SPB the marshrutki usually run parallel to major routes for a bit then deviate to hit residential areas or give fast-access to shopping centers, and combined with public transport you have just about everything you need to get around fast and conveniently. I suppose that such a system would suffer from the same issue of "everyone already has a car" that public transit in the US does, but it's a nice trade off.

(An aside, it's also a thrill ride each time, but when you need to get 10 km in a few minutes and have no care for your well-being, it's the best way to travel)

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshrutka
There is no need for X, you can just use elisp, i.e.: (keyboard-translate ?\[ ?\()

And unless you do need X, I suggest using Emacs-Mac-Port instead of of the official Emacs: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview
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But also, she will have to work a second job because no one gives full time work at that pay level. That's the brutal cost of ACA.
I design and implement system architecture and user interfaces, manage people and projects, plan future areas of R&D, etc. and I still call myself (in conversation) a computer programmer. I find it helps distinguish me from all the talking heads in this industry who couldn't actually build an information system if their lives depended upon it.
If I buy a phone for ~60 bucks there is already Android on it. If I don't care why would I even install another one?
I disagree. He targeted a specific audience linked to manga and anime. It's likely that demographic already knows the kinds of treats this service would likely offer. They just need to know there's service out there that will get them to you easily and regularly.
Unless, of course, you view the increase in force required to turb past zero as a sort of soft stop.
It's the antithesis of good design. But that doesn't surprise me, coming from the company that designed the clusterfuck that is pdf. It's ubiquitously in everything tech, and an absolute nightmare to embed.
in my own personal experience, my primary source of linus news comes from articles being posted about him ranting or cursing about something. i didn’t post those. someone else did, and i read them. normally, i will follow these up with reading about various things about him and linux where he isn’t ranting, but those articles have been my portal to his world. why should i care to seek out more about one who i find is well known to throw e-mail tantrums, flip off cameras as a message to companies, etc.? please send your advice and condescending call for positivity to linus as well. :)
> Steven Pinker uses statistics to argue that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness are on the rise, both in the West and worldwide.

How do you feel about the statistics Pinker uses? Do you agree with his assessment about human progress?
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The Detroit wealthy suburbs are still very rich. Probably some of the richest in the country (Oakland County is a top 10 county of > 1M pop in terms of per-capita income)

But, as somebody who grew up there (and just recently moved out), I would say they’re in the early stages of long-term decline. There’s a complete inability for them to retain millennials. Most of my friends have moved away.

That’s the biggest issue in the Midwest and areas outside of the coasts. Talent retention.
They have no lack of farmland even now. They just have been very inefficient in utilizing it.
And also, many drugs are available as far cheaper generics instead of paying a premium for a 'famous' brand of the drug.

For instance, I paid recently $8.45 for 30 atorvastatin 40mg tablets. Ten years ago 30 tablets of the 'Lipitor' brand of these would have cost around $70 before price-competition from generic drug companies.

What is really laughable is when the parent company with the patent on a drug keeps the 'famous' brand at high cost, and brings out their own 'generic' brand (exactly the same formulation) at a much lower cost. Games drug companies can play!!
No one seems to have said yet: Billions of dollars in immobile port infrastructure made useless and having to be rebuilt further inland
Did anyone get a pop up on the page saying the page was "reestablishing internet connection, click here". I clicked but immediately felt pretty stupid, I never just click on things but this was so... normal. And why would a page and not the browser report this?
The enlightenment's values and luminaries are enumerated in any number of sources on the subject. The rest of your comment appears to be a dubious framing, with numerous distortions caused by feats of time-travel within your modern, progressive mind. Within the past 5 years, it has become a necessity - an emergency - to disassociate oneself as far as possible from people, their ideas, their friends, and their friends' friends, at the faintest hint of la problématique. I like to imagine Gandhi and MLK were more mature, and better able to handle the cognitive dissonance in the human mind.

'Outing' Benjamin Franklin is not even a tiny bit like outing Harvey Weinstein, and 'outing' historical figures as racists and sexists is practically content-free, since it's no secret. If social justice enthusiasts continue down the path you seem to be alluding to, you'll wind up burning every book written before 1970, and plunging us into another dark age.

If this is not the answer you wanted, my only suggestion is to try to pose your question more thoughtfully.
good graphics. but I don't see why we go to Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus on this. Its an area of active debate.
Missing a /s ? If not, what did you think the 'S' stood for?
Nothing to see here folks, we're just "displacing" 15% [1] of the world population. What could possibly go wrong?

[1] number invented for brevity.
A good approach might be to just produce videos and integrate them with the blog until you hit something that looks like a system and relatively viral. Then with that content go to the ad networks.
I've enjoyed the talk up until the liquid helium part.
Documents like this (like traditional books) on technical subjects need to be read very carefully, requiring a time commitment that is large relative to the length of a human life or career. Also, they have a huge amount of overlap with other similar documents, so critical choices must be made about what to try to read.

It would be nice to have a high-quality and widely-used set of community ratings for such documents. E.g. a place where

- new documents can be added

- they are categorized (automatically should be doable) according to subject matter, level, etc

- some sort of community voting system (perhaps augmented by automated scoring by well-established predictors) scores each document for its utility/recommendability, in each of the subject areas that it covers.

Does anything like that exist for arXiv?

Do people put general expository material on arXiv? (E.g. lecture notes, textbooks, etc).
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>Swarm is interesting but it’s for small storage for smart contracts; it’s not a general purpose, low-cost storage option for storing terabytes of data.

Swarm is intended to do exactly that.

IPFS, atm, does not store terabytes of data. If I were to just dump in my data, it would be unusable within the hour as there is no incentive for nodes to keep those terabytes active and around.

> You’re not going to take a snapshot of Wikipedia on it, for example: https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/

Swarm already hosts static websites, snapshots of wikipedia are feasible.

>IPFS is designed to replace HTTP, not run on top of it. While it shares some similarities to BitTorrent like using a DHT for content addressing, it’s really a different thing.

IPFS does not address dynamic content properly, IPNS is way to slow to allow websites on the scale of google to operate sensible. I doubt IPNS could handle a decently sized subreddit in terms of activity.

IPFS is unlikely to replace HTTP since both protocols address different problems. However, as it is usable today, IPFS is little more than a cache that can store some data for a bit until nobody is interested in it.

>They didn’t raise $257 million from their ICO and VCs to pay volunteers using consumer-grade equipment; they’re clearing looking to disrupt the cloud storage market: https://www.coindesk.com/257-million-filecoin-breaks-time-re....

Last I recall, Filecoin is not IPFS, it merely works on top of IPFS. You may revie your argument and replace every occurence of "IPFS" with "Filecoin", in which case it would still compete with Swarm, Storj, etc.
That's a terribly self limiting mindset.
As another comment mentions, there is a gzip'd variant available that comes under 6 KB.
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> how exactly are you supposed to encourage compliance from people who can't afford to pay fines and penalties?

This seems to imply that financial punishment is the only thing that people will react to, and also that compliance is solely a matter of deterrence. I'd argue both are false.
You could easily convert tickets into community service etc. Social shaming has made people "compliant" in all sorts of situations for millennia. Handing out a speeding ticket to someone without considering if they'll be able to pay it (i.e. without considering if the punishment is appropriate TM) is making things worse for no good reason.
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Repacking the display is near impossible because there’s no frame around the display and everything is glued which means trying to open you nearly invariably break the screen.
No doubt. This is why I think we need some sort of mandatory class-based reliability certification for a society of increasing IoT reliance. Not mandatory as in "you need to certify as at least class 3" but rather "you need to certify as some class of your choosing and clearly mark this on your packaging." The certification process should probably be cheap and flexible too. Maybe even let manufacturers self-certify the lower classes with heavy fines for abuse.

That way, it would be more clear to the customer why the product with the physical stops and manual overrides is more expensive.