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Your perception of people repeating this line is very weird to me.

Hanlon's razor is not something you "invoke" to end a discussion. It is not a constitunional law. It is not a physical law. It is not even an informal guideline to guide arguments in the internet.

It is just a clever line you quote to represent your opinion. It is just like to say "occams razor", or "red herring", or any other expression that means something.

I think you take internet debate too serious and give way, but waaaaay too much importance to the words some random person chose to express their opinion.

I read the original sentence with exact same meaning of "i think it was incompetence, not theft".

Why to use this expression then? Because maybe they thought it was a shorter way to express the whole opinion.

You are reading too much into it
Interesting, didn't expect Java or C# runtime startup to be much of an issue after all these years.
That's because the mappings always fail - not so much a concurrent thing as a consequence. (For comparison, you can say everything about Roman troop organization in English, because that's native to how the information exists in the first place. You won't get any "well, actually" about the size of a legion, because it involves words and concepts that everyone already knows.)
This is a good idea, but to make it fair I would add a fee for the applicant that is paid out as a bounty to the successful challenger, or returned to the applicant, if the challenge wasn't met.
Mapping directly into the full gamut of the monitor, the way that almost every common computer did before the whole "color management" stuff even became a thing.

Anyone should strive to have as accurate colors as possible.

No, people have different needs and set their monitors' brightness and contrast accordingly. It's only the mentioned industries which require that accuracy --- and the associated, often very expensive, monitors and calibration equipment.
4chan has always been flooded by idiots. Society around it has changed and 4chan’s beliefs on how to maintain its first amendment rights against a state apparatus that increasingly threatens its existence has gotten a bit sharper in tone, but “Hitler did nothing wrong” is still the joke it always was. There are a few actual nazis on the board, but that has always been the case because nowhere else are they tolerated; perhaps you have the rose-colored glasses? Polite society has also defined classical liberals and anarcho libertarians both as “alt right”, the label is increasingly watered down to mean anything not progressive enough.

Besides, 4chan is still the fedora-tipping site that mocks religious fundamentalists, it’s just progressives have become just as uptight and strict about their sacred beliefs (if not more so), so 4chan mocks them too. Because it’s funny.
Sounds like Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.
But black hole has center, where gravity forces from shell negates each other, which has zero gravity, thus normal speed.
The Linux desktop ecosystem's development model is highly prone to regression, though. I've been using it since Xmms was the most advanced media player. I've seen lots of things fixed, only for them to break again a yeaf or two later.

So sure, things are fixed at an astronomical rate, but that's because things are also decaying at an astronomical rate so there's a constant supply of low hanging fruit
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"Mr. Tory, who has praised the Sidewalk initiative but has not seen the text of the deal, says no commercial agreement could strip the city of its authority"

Seems to fit with your explanation. I'd like to think the mayor would have some familiarity with the details of an initiative like this.
> The crew of a 99.9% lightspeed ship doesn’t experience time dilation until they return home.

That's not true. They see the universe around them moving much faster.

Time dilation has nothing to do with "returning home".
Sexy as always
It used to be that the service providers did massive amounts of R&D. Hell, Bell labs was one of the most impressive R&D laboratories of all time. The service providers just decided that it was better to buy themselves protective laws, and to squeeze out any R&D than to try to actually compete.

This isn't a sign of how important patents are, but a sign of how the extreme rent seeking behaviors of the telecoms greatly manipulated many aspects of the market that they're in.
"Then you've probably never had to plan cooling for a server room."

For an American one you mean
What is important to remember is thst our point of view is not special or “right” in any way. There is a difference between our observation of a process like matter falling into a black hole, and the reality of it. Black holes do “eat” and grow, and that occurs despite the intense time dilation near their surface. The light which returns to us will be redshifted to black, and we won’t see the final event, but it does happen in its own proper time, in finite time. When black holes merge we can detect their gravitational waves, evidence that black holes are not “frozen” in reality.

It is also important to distinguish between the implications of a model black hole formed from the uniform collapse of a perfectly spherical dust cloud, from infinity, in an otherwise empty universe, with no charge or angular momentum, from what happens in nature.
I agree, but remember our science today will look like Norse mythology in 1000 years too.
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From what I understand those loud motorcycles have illegally modified exhaust systems.

I would love it if police would pull people over for their loud motorcycles, check that the system hadn't been tampered with, and if not seize them and revoke the rider's motorcycle license... probably not going to happen though.
> I think there's something to be said that if you REALLY enjoy what you're doing you'll immerse yourself into it with infinite willpower, and most importantly, you'll be ridiculously happy doing it. There simply aren't enough hours in the day when you're highly engaged in something.

Can this trope die already? I spent a while doing email archival, and let me tell you: anyone who says hats exciting is either on heavy sedatives or lying. Most software isn’t sexy. Most problems aren’t fun. More importantly, your employer is not entitled to excited employees, and you owe your job nothing more than what is in your employment contract.

> If you find yourself fighting doing what you think you like doing, and get distracted easily then maybe you're not really doing what you should be doing.

Or maybe you’re depressed or have attention problems. Or maybe you need a new job, or a way to motivate yourself at your current one. But let’s not insinuate that the only good software developers are the gung-ho excited ones who have a “passion” for archiving emails/administrating databases/fixing DNS errors/etc.

> Why didn't I burn out gaming, when mentally it was even more draining than programming?

Could be because you are intrinsically motivated to game. You do it for its own sake because it’s fun. Psychology says, though, that once you extrinsically motivate people to do something they used to intrinsically enjoy, their enjoyment of that activity goes down. This is just one possibility, though, and I don’t think it’s fair to jump to the conclusion that if you don’t find something as fun as a video game then clearly you shouldn’t be doing it.

I’ll conclude with this. A job is a job. Nobody asks the Kmart cashier if she’s passionate about ringing up items. Nobody asks the dentist if they’re a rockstar tooth ninja. Nobody asks the lawyer if they’re “on fire” for litigating.

OP, if you’re drained after work tasks, I understand; I get that way too. Complex thought is mentally taxing, and frankly, if it’s 3:00 PM and I just spent several days dealing with something complicated, I’d probably scroll through Reddit and take a break too. If your work environment let’s you get away with that, I don’t see anything wrong with it. Otherwise at least start a new task somewhat (new git branch, grab the ticket, etc.) to get something going.
He just needs to get 4% yield per year to double it in 20 years.
I don't understand why people make these Hanlon's razor comments. This doesn't put forth any argument or new information, it just mentions the name Hanlon. As if the fact a pithy saying exists gives it authority in itself. Maybe we should start reminding people to consider Nolnah's razor as well.
I still ride and but stopped riding street because it wasn’t fun being in traffic due to the reasons you mentioned. I still like the occasional back road ride but don’t own a street bike anymore. I ride exclusively off-road now. While I might risk an injury, I’m probably not going to be killed. Off-road riding and particularly motocross has vastly improved my skill level when I do ride on the road. I credit my dirt skills with saving my life on the freeway when someone pulled into my suddenly lane and I locked up the rear wheel (mistake!) on an oily patch of road. Since I was familiar with the rear wheel sliding and being locked up, my reflexes took over and I didn’t panic, at least not until after. I’m not saying that I didn’t have to change my underwear afterwards but I didn’t end up getting run over by the car behind me.

The drop in sales you point out is the recession and crash of the housing market in 2008.
On the contrary, maths are just approximations of reality, not something fundamental to it.
During the Oakland Hills Fire[0] fragments of books and newspapers fell from the sky on us in Albany (north-east of Berkeley). Half- and quarter-pages.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_firestorm_of_1991
Seeing the universe around them is comparing clocks with another frame of reference. On the ship, life at 99.9% and life at 1% of c is identical. By the same token, if you fell into an (inactive) supermassive black hole, your watch would trick the same way into and past the event horizon. You would in fact live inside the hole for hours until you were torn asunder.
And, you probably want someone who joined BigCo when it was YourSizeCo.
> However, in the case of the US there's the caveat that it runs the world's reserve currency, controls the petrodollar,

This is something that is just said and 'known' to be true without people looking into what it means and how big the effect is.

It harms US exports (USD exchange rate is artificially high) but it helps US finances. Generally it seems to have slight net positive effect. By no means is it fundamentally important for US economy. In the normal year, the reserve currency effect is estimated to be between 0.3 to 0.5 percent of US GDP. In bad year much less.

http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/...
> I don't intuitively know what "transmute" is

That's fair, but... it's easily resolved by using Rust/reading the documentation. Humans don't intuitively know what, say, 'float' in C means, either, but they learn it quickly.

Additionally, the non-Rust meaning of "transmute" is pretty close to how it's used in Rust: "To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another".

There's definitely a lot of good in making things obvious to beginners to the language, but there's also always a general collection of "jargon"/symbols one ends up having to learn. Someone's who's a beginner in Rust but familiar with C may spend more time working out what the transmute line means than the C, but someone familiar with Rust wouldn't (and certainly not if they're not familiar with C: they'd have to work out the src/dst order for memcpy).

> I think Rust has achieved a great thing, but I wish it were like, 50x simpler

As others have pointed out elsewhere many times: what would you remove? The core of what people complain about in Rust (lifetimes etc.), is also core to achieving it's goals. All of those core features are pretty orthogonal and fairly minimal.
I don't think it's a problem at all for places to be culturally or ethnically homogenous. I would say the primary advantage of integration and diversity is that no culture is perfect in every way, and cross pollination allows for the best parts of each culture to be recognized and used. That being said, cultural exchange relies on a decently high degree of overlap between cultures to establish kinship and trust. There are definitely cultures which are so different that they cannot exist well in close proximity, and so it's inefficient to try to force them to.
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It's interesting to me that your Dad was a complainer with a short temper and you were unpopular in school. That's my upbringing too. I share your low empathy trait, although that's something I'm actively working to improve as I get older.

However, unlike you I couldn't classify myself as a social enforcer.

My Dad was the guy who would call someone out who cut in the queue, or approach somebody who's hogging all the things that he feels should be shared fairly in a social environment, be that the bowling balls in a bowling alley or whatever.

He would ask for things in a restaurant that they weren't capable of providing. One example in recent years was that they forgot to include the tomatoes in his full English breakfast. Rather than accept that the tomatoes would be there in a minute, he asked for a refund on the tomatoes. He wasn't kidding, and made the waitress awkwardly explain it wasn't policy to do that.

He'd ask for discounts on EVERYTHING, no holds barred, everything was up for negotiation. He was a salesman after all...

My Dad was one of 7 kids in a small house in East London. So he learned the hard way to make people respect his wishes.

As such - I endured 100s of toe curling experiences like these between the ages of 6 and 16. Most of them I've managed to block out but as a collective they all still haunt me.

I'm super assertive at work, I'm a Managing Director for a twenty person strong software company so that's no issue.

However, in a social environment it's unlikely I'll call somebody out on queue cutting and I'll go out of my way to be kind and polite to waiting staff in restaurants. Having endured that in my youth I now find those circumstances completely unbearable.
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Feynman's lectures were delivered to an audience of graduates and faculty who had signed up for an introductory course because Feynman was teaching it. Reading the Feynman lectures without the math background will end up confusing you horribly - I know this because I've found them not-exactly-light reading even though I already (supposedly) know what they're about!
A good comparison of what Google's probably looking for here is what Disney managed with Disney World: A special zone that exempts them from a lot of regulations, or allows them to set their own. Similarly, of course, Disney was hoping to build a "city of the future" there. The difference is, Disney got permission to do this in the middle of nowhere (literally swampland), and Google's hoping to get this authority inside a major metropolitan area.

I watched a video recently on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWOc-cjfY0 ("Disney World's Private Government", 8 minutes, decently informative)
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The only hope is that someone finds a local vulnerability that can do the same thing as rooting Androids or jailbreaking iDevices, and that may happen if these become popular enough.

...although calling that "Administratoring" just doesn't have the same catchiness to it. ;-)
I only became aware of it after seeing the edit war on Wikipedia. It may not be the reason for downvotes but it's apparently a controversial topic among some people.
The difference is when you call something a "red herring" you also point out why. Or if you invoke "occam's razor" you simultaneously propose a simpler explanation. Whereas Hanlon's razor comments like the one above literally do nothing except say "Hanlon."

Anyway, I don't think me and GP are alone in being irrationally annoyed by this cliche.
An exorbitant privilege? Implications of reserve currencies for competitiveness
Very much depends on the season.

Also on services at that town being open.
> That's an incredibly silly thing to think, where do you come across such people?

How do you avoid them?
A 30-year amortized non-callable loan is much less risky than insurance float. It's also much less risky than a margin loan (which is at a correspondingly lower interest rate - best margin loan rates for small balances is roughly 2.6% at InteractiveBrokers, last I checked).

"Don't use leverage" is good advice for people who do not have the skills and experience to properly manage risk (which is to say, over 90% of the population). The proper answer is something like a long explanation of the Kelly Criterion, risk of ruin, how to evaluate the very fuzzy notion of your own career's job security and social safety net, and a ton of other factors.

Circling back to your question about a mortgage, though - just don't become "house poor". You want to have free cash flow above monthly expenses. Outside of that, on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage basis, feel free to borrow and invest literally every dollar the bank approves you for. Especially if the loan is single-action or your investments get funneled into creditor-protected retirement accounts.
The primary reason is that there needs to be a strong incentive to get back to work.

I know quite a few that have been on the unemployment safety net for years (which appears to be quite a normal duration), and while it seemed to care for them very well, a growing depression appears to be standard once you end up there, which kills motivation to get out. I would assume that this is due to one likely already being very vulnerable and at least halfway depressed when unemployment hits you.

I don't think providing a stable and independent, but unhealthy environment helps those people. We have tried to ensure progress by forcing people to go to a job center every day, but if they're not motivated for a job, they won't get any. It becomes a chore that just contributes to a pointless living.

The secondary reason is that it is expensive, and paid by the employed. Getting people employed fast means more money to support when there is need.
>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.

That's for rendering, where the OS and Desktop experience doesn't really matter, and the cheaper it is the better.

Few pros do the actual editing and color work (where the decisions are made, not the rendering part) on Linux.
Yes indeed. Not only is it possible to overload + but Haskell's type system has absolutely nothing to say on the matter.
> Yes, I know, civilized people don’t use ‘sleep’, because that is a waste of CPU

I'm not sure what language the example is in and don't really understand the script.

That being said: In most languages sleep just is a wrapper around the system call with the same name. Again for most current and common operating systems this doesn't waste CPU cycles because it just puts your thread of process in an inactive state. Other threads or processes can use the CPU during that time.

That doesn't mean calling sleep with a small argument repeatedly is a good idea because it causes two context switches per call which might be an indirect waste of CPU cycles.
Horrible title, bad press coverage. For a better press repost of the same paper see "Two-Way Communication Is Possible with a Single Quantum Particle (sciencenews.org)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16446782
That's not right - Linux is used on desktop workstations as well. Check out the discussion in this recent thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7zms77/gnome_2_spott...
Actually, a lot of us that don't work in the design space would be perfectly happy if our monitors simply had close enough to the same white between our dual screens. I absolutely do not care how color accurate my JavaScript code actually is in my editor, I would love to have the ability to manually tweak the balance so my monitors more or less render the same.

Right now, Linux just can't do that consistently. Most of the existing solutions want me to buy a very expensive color calibration tool that I can't justify or afford.
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Being well is motivating, but being in the welfare safety net is not. It is stable, unhelpful, and those there are commonly depressed. They get stuck for years like that, and some don't make it out.
>No, people have different needs and set their monitors' brightness and contrast accordingly. It's only the mentioned industries which require that accuracy --- and the associated, often very expensive, monitors and calibration equipment.

Except for accessibility reasons (e.g. high contrast for the visually impaired), there are no "different needs" that dictate that people should see colors rendered falsely compared to their reference if they're not in the creative professions.
It's not so insidious as you suggest (from your link):

VMware chose not to support 64 bit virtualization until AMD reintroduced (optional) segment limits on later models of their Opteron and Athlon 64 CPUs. Intel never implemented 64 bit segment limits on their EM64T/Intel64 CPUs, because their 64 bit processors soon implemented VT/Vanderpool, which also worked around the problem. So this is why VMware requires a certain model and stepping of the AMD CPU line or a VT-enabled Intel CPU in order to support 64 bit virtualization.

Intel was the one that dropped segment limits, AMD added them in later...

It sounds more like advances in hardware virtualization yielded better solutions than a bunch of additional segment registers and slow context switches. It's only now that we realize without those you can trick a processor into fetching memory it shouldn't and that the only viable software solution has been to effectively implement separate page tables and enforce copying between their stack contexts at the user/kernel boundary anyway (so we're back where we started with slow context switches).

In theory, you could mitigate specter by running every process in its own hardware virtualized address space, right? It's just much more complicated to do that because you'd need to move the kernel to the hypervisor ring or rewrite everything to communicate entirely using a shared physical resource like a network interface. If VT-x allowed shared memory regions with ownership restrictions (does it?) you wouldn't even need to do that.
I enjoyed that article, thanks.

I want 1 year of expenses in cash, 2-4 years of expenses in bonds and the rest in stocks. Then I will have the courage to wait out (or buy into) the inevitable stock market crashes. This is my ideal retirement holding--while I have labor income is a different story.

I don't buy bonds for the return, I buy them for safety of principal. So, the risk of lower return is absolutely acceptable to me.

PS Please don't take investment advice from random people on the internet, definitely including me.
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Using the float shares the solvency risk with borrowing, but they aren't paying 4% on the money.
....That's the "only" real difference?

Google came out when I was 15.
Napster came out when I was 17.
Wikipedia came out when I was 19.
The iPod came out when I was 19.

I think you can appreciate that spending your entire childhood without all of these things and then suddenly there they are is a real difference from someone who got them when they were 6 or 7.
They are. And one of those construsts is to not be compelled to pay people who do not represent you. Far left and right arguments against taxes aside, I think everyone agrees that you shouldnt have to tithe a church you do not attend.