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>>I'm left in the dark as to what's even at issue, let alone what the truth might be.

Let me try.

India is a big country. And being a tropical heaven, rich with water, abundant sunlight, lack of extreme weathers, fertile soil and perennial rivers was the country to be in pre-renaissance/industrial age world. As you can see with these favorable conditions, it was easy to grow food India. Hence it was a attractive destination for a lot of people to settle/immigrate/invade.

Given these luxuries, India got a massive head start over other countries in the world when it comes to thinking and developing various cultures and philosophies. Over time many people immigrated/invaded India. They bought in their own things, most of which were absorbed in local cultures and have evolved for ages. There fore many religions, languages, festivals, food habits, clothing habits, literature, science etc etc came into being in India. In short the history got very diverse.

Recent one being British rule of India, and before that the Mughal empire. These events have deep cultural, literary, food, festivals and other influence on the masses. And as you can see these are associated with people following religions other the ones that existed in India several centuries back. Now this altered the way country itself is made up of. Every one in India is a minority of some sort, except on religious lines.

Since Independence and in later decades there has been a rise of a political ecosystem, which wishes to assemble a vote bank on the lines of religion. This is of course in direct conflict with the affairs as they are. I mean existing cultural and other aspects(Which are diverse). Since both British and Mughal periods are recent history you can see their influences in every thing from Bollywood songs, to Kurta pyjamas to Chicken Tandoori. And of course if you want people to aggregate on religious lines you want to undo that influence.

I don't know if the end goal is to make people sing Bollywood songs in Sanskrit. But stressing upon the identity that existed several thousands of years back definitely is the goal. If you get to aggregate people under one identity then may be you can make them vote as a block.
I have scoliosis and a chronically screwed up upper back. If I sit at a desk with a bad ergo setup, I will experience back pain within 30-45 minutes. I'm pretty tall, so the majority of desk setups are, by default, too short, and force me to hunch over my keyboard. A good chair helps as well.

Besides that, regular exercise helps tremendously. Seriously, if you do not exercise at least twice a week, I would strongly advise making beginning to do so your highest priority.
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Indeed, a good example of that is the fact that people export very old used cars from Europe to Africa, because due to the much lower cost of repair their value in Africa is higher than their value in Europe (nil), enough to make it worth the shipping!
I'll strongly disagree with this one. After a day of driving I regret it.

I don't own a car so o rent a variety of different ones. The headrest always forces my neck forward. The bucket shape of the seats closes my chest and causes shoulder issues.
Reasonable people may disagree about what counts as unethical, but I don't see any gray in this scenario: if you're convinced that something is bad enough that you need written cover from a superior before you'll do it then you just shouldn't do it. Likewise if an employee comes to you and says "I want to do this thing but it seems smelly so I want written approval from you" you shouldn't approve it.
See also: cost disease[0], the reason why tv repairmen and similar naturally become unaffordable over time, relative to new tvs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
>>If you don't pay the taxes you are supposed to pay, you use public goods without paying for them. This is stealing from society.

Of course, but it's not always the case that tax avoidance leads to someone paying less taxes than the cost of the public goods they consume.

Also, as an aside, technically, consuming 'public goods' (defined in technical terms as non-rivalrous and non-excludable) does not generate negative externalities. What you're referring to is common and private goods, which are rivalrous, meaning one person's consumption reduces the amount available for others to consume.

>>By this logic lead in the drinking water is not a negative externality, because it only in some circumstances generates negative externalities like reduced IQ, death etc

Polluting public waters with lead is always a negative externality because the damage done to the water itself is a negative externality. The water can be seen as property of society, and damage to it as property damage. The increased risk posed to humans is also guaranteed, whether or not that risk materializes.

With money laundering, with some sources of revenue, there is no risk imposed on society at large. It depends on what activity produced the money that is laundered.

>>There isn't demand for art. There is demand for a vehicle for money laundering/tax evasion

And that demand for a private store of wealth for tax evasion and money laundering translates to demand for art pieces. I'm arguing that this additional demand doesn't ruin the market for other art buyers, since economic theory would suggest that in the long run the supply expands to prevent increased scarcity and higher prices.
I wish patents had to argue how much work it would take a peer in the industry replicate their work.

A pharmaceutical company could argue that another company would have to spend millions on research just like they did. A tech company would argue that a talented 15 year old would need at least a day to duplicate their work. Give one a 20 year patent and the other a 1 year patent.
American politics occupies a postage stamp on a continent of political possibility. It is bizarre to argue about left and right when it takes a microscope to differentiate the two. If you don't like "leftward shifts", when did you decide to vote Democrat? When George Wallace was running?
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Take this one, for instance: https://jarbas.serenata.ai/layers/#/documentId/6185347

R$239.50 or $74. That's 25% the minimum wage here in Brazil.

This means that this congressman was paying for someone else's meal, which is in itself an act of corruption.

And even if that's not the case, most Brazilians can't afford a 40 BRL meal on a regular basis, so why should a politician be able to do so with our money?

If you dig deeper into other reports, you can also see congresspeople spending public money in sex shops and clubs, for instance (https://twitter.com/cuducos/status/840882495868530688).
Thanks for a thoughtful response!
To be fair, with CREATE/DOES> you can make them do any lookup you want easily. Well, as easy as anything in Forth.
We'll probably see an evolution from sitting desk to standing desk to walking desk to mechanical bull desk.
Right! I forgot to mention that. You can totally skip the entire point-in-polygon for interior cells. So good.
It has been my hope for the last few decades that a laptop manufacturer notices this and offers a laptop with a screen that can be raised without being detached from the keyboard. Having a screen in so close proximity to a keyboard makes zero ergonomic sense.
At the time, asm.js was the standard for high-performance web applications, and Google decided to go with a format only they used, with no backwards compatibility to any other browser, ignoring the back then WIP WebAssembly.

And despite using a simple compiler backend to compile their native code to NaCl that also allows support for asm.js and WASM in a matter of a few days (entire game engines have been ported that way), Google has been going for months and still kept it Chrome-only.
Perhaps your site is just really slow?
It only matters for your first job because it's your only credential. If you keep it above a 3.0 you should be fine. If you're below that then just make a couple portfolio projects to impress interviewers.
> ie there is no way you can work on a laptop in a cafe 6+ hrs a day without getting chronic back problems.

This is the dirty little secret of the hip modern agile coworking 24/7 hackathon startup/freelancer/diy tech lifestyle. Our sleek streamlined unibody laptops are amazing tools but they are horrible for our bodies.
In Mountain View, I’ve seen the USPS fake attempted delivery on packages at least 50% of the time, to a business that’s open from 7am to 7pm. I’ve heard this isn’t the driver so much as the postmaster gaming their stats from the office, so they don’t fall below SLAs with Amazon packages for instance.

Not sure the reason exactly, but incredibly aggravating to get an email saying they attempted and business was closed when you’ve been sitting there with the door open all day.
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I follow only couple hundred accounts and the same problem exists for me with retweets.
> Everytime I have been to a zoo I have seen the saddest animals around.

I grew up with zoos and circuses. I rode an elephant and had my photo taken with a tiger when I was around five years old. While I’m glad to have touched these animals, I find the idea of captivity cruel today. One of the saddest things I have ever seen was a solitary rhinoceros endlessly pacing before a crowd of slack jawed spectators at the last zoo I will ever visit.

This is what documentaries are for. Zoos have educational value, but the expense is too great.
I always hated zoos for this reason and have always tried to avoid them. It makes me sad. Can't believe animated movies are being made about how animals are having fun staying in a zoo.
This quote also completely forgets open source and non profits exist and provide things.
I believe this already exists. http://tldr.guru/
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Proper desk height, proper chair height.

I'm 6'4", so nothing 'standard' even confess close to being ergonomic
I think a nice addition would be familiarity with the OSI model. It can be really useful having an understanding of it, at least a rough one, when trouble shooting network issues.
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Filter/map/reduce are ubiquitous ideas from the functional world, which in turn are ideas drawn from mathematics. Math has pre-existed many of our programming constructs, so in that sense, nothing was really invented as such.

To me, what LINQ offers is a very nice orthogonal DSL that allows programmers to express these thoughts. The underlying constructs are universal, but one could argue that LINQ itself was invented. LINQ was apparently guided by category thinking [0], which makes it fairly elegant, but in terms of expressiveness it is probably similar to SQL. It's all set theory underneath anyway. Unlike SQL however, LINQ does force the SELECT statement to the very end of the query expression, which makes IDE auto-complete work better due to avaiable context. :)

I first had the realization that most data manipulation operations on list-like or table-like objects were actually just glorified set operations (and there was a certain universality to them regardless of query language syntax) when I read this quote [1]: "The turning point was a conversation with Erik Meijer. He told me how categorical thinking guided him in designing LINQ, and explained how category theory brings out a simple relationship between various kinds of databases. The diagram below comes from a paper he wrote on this. It turns out that so-called No-SQL databases are in a categorical sense co-SQL databases."

[0] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2024658

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/applied-category-theory/
Yes, that's exactly what the response letter (https://d1snsxh2hr65cz.cloudfront.net/docs/2018-03-01+Bombac...) says.

I don't get how patents like these are allowed through in the first place. Seems like the US patent system needs a big overhaul.
Government officials don't give a fuck about it. At all.

No one beside themselves has the power to declare any of their spendings as illegal. So they could, for example, declare they spent $190 dollars on burger and fries for one person, and nobody can do anything about it.

Operation Serenata may tweet about it. Some people will read that and complain on twitter, and life goes on.

Our current unelected president was recorded talking about killing people to stay in power, and nothing happened. People in high-paying government jobs are tricking the system to get paid twice and nothing happens. Politicians can vote on their own pay raise, which they do many times per year, and nothing happens.

None of these big things have consequences, so something as small as someone spending a bit more on lunch is so irrelevant that they don't even care to try and hide it.
How did human survival somehow come to depend on manipulating and exploiting people?

Two things you don't seem to be considering:

1. Maybe most articles simply don't need to exist.
2. Basic income. Or literally any other way of earning a living.
Great point.

Also per the production environment. The key is having the same machine learning libraries available in both the development and production so you can plug the model in with little problems with dependencies. For this reason most folks that will go into production, particularly web applications, will tend to both develop and implement in Python, Java, etc.
I've had severe, 2-3x weekly migraines most of my life (I'm 30) and in the last year I've managed to virtually eliminate them. Posture turned out to be a big part of this. Some of the things I've done that seem to have made a huge difference:

- Sit closer to the edge of my chair - I'm a bit shorter than many are designed for. I keep a small cushion between my back and my office chair. It keeps me sitting upright and helps my legs form right angles with themselves, with the floor, with my back, and be well-supported. With my back supporting itself more, I don't slouch as easily. If you're also short, also look into foot rests so your feet don't dangle.

- I've spent some time messing with arm-rests but my current office chair can't get to quite the right height and I haven't found a good solution (don't want to buy yet another chair). The only migraines I've had recently felt connected to spasms in my shoulder, so I suspect that's still my weak spot.

- Raise my monitor up, big time. It's actually at eye-level if I look straight ahead, not just at a level that seems normal for looking at.

- Work out more. I just bought a moderately heavy kettle bell to build some strength and get my wriggles out. A few
times a day when I walk by, I'll pick it up and do a few lifts in each arm, do a couple of back exercises. Not directly related to posture, but I'm sure it helps, and also helps with some related issues. Any moderate exercise is probably good.

- Massage therapy every 6 weeks or so - often timed to be right after I return from a business trip or some other very stressful time. Now that I'm used to this, honestly I don't need much of an excuse to go :) Again, not directly related to posture, but if you're suffering from the problems related to bad posture, this could help to while you're figuring it out (since I'm sure it takes some experimentation for most people).
When using sin and cos in graphical programming, I wish code completion for them came up in the context of a triangle and unit circle so I wouldn’t keep referring back to Wikipedia.
>Humans have been riding horses and camels since practically the dawn of history

Heh, riding a horse or camel, even traveling slowly, is nothing like sitting at a desk — it’s a workout in itself.

Me, I prefer extended work with a laptop in bed or on a couch. So far, so good, but wrist braces also help, mainly since I do all sorts of bizarre contortions otherwise. On the other hand, I also type less and perhaps think more than many other engineers I’ve seen...
One thing I realized after starting Pilates was that before I didn't have good posture not because I didn't remember to sit correctly but rather I didn't have the muscular strength to keep my body on that position. With a weak abdominal core, you get fatigued from sitting straight and quickly relax to lean on the chair, putting strain on your spine which lead to back pains.

You need exercise to have a healthy muscular strength to hold your skeleton properly. When you achieve that sitting straight is not the burden it felt before.
> For some reason I can't quite put my finger on, some experienced game programmers are reluctant to use atan2() and prefer the dot product.

It's because atan2, along with all the other inverse trigonometric functions, is incredibly slow. On a GPU, sin and cos may be a couple of cycles, but asin/acos/atan/atan2 may be upwards of 30 or 40.

Often times, angles are best avoided when possible for this reason. Normalized vectors end up faster and simpler in many cases.

Relevant anecdote: I recently wrote some code to compute normals in 2D and thought I would be clever by encoding the normal as an angle to save space. It turned out that the atan2 call at the end was so slow that it outweighed the cost of everything else I was doing several times over. Lesson learned…
CORDIC is cheap and fundamentally simpler than Taylor series since it works on the essential principal of unit circle rotations that the trigonometric functions derive from. It isn't just a close enough approximation.
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For me it was associating (sin(r), cos(r)) with a direction (on the unit circle), instead of with a triangle. After that, the relation with a triangle where the longest side has unit length is obvious.
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Cost opaqueness is Amazon's MO around services. AWS is a huge offender.
Not just weak, but no password at all, for the root user.

And the problem returned a week after the 'fixed' it.
+1 on wall slides. Recently ended up in physical therapy for back pain, undoubtedly due to excessive sitting / bad posture. These were brutal the first couple of times but after 2 months I have a much better range of motion and noticeably less pain / stiffness
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I don't sit except when necessary. I can do that because I'm looking for a job. It's been a few months and I noticed my bad back condition drastically improved out of sudden. I promised myself to never sit again in front of computer at home. I Currently have my PC next to bed.

Standing desk is not a solution. Standing for long periods is less healthy than walking. Ask any barber about occupational diseases. They'll tell you there are issues with knees and blood circulation. Ask any person whose job involves standing for long periods of time, like a shop clerk.

I do 40 minutes of core exercises 4 times a week due to my bad back, and it's helping a great deal. Recently I started incorporating the ultimate back exercise - pullups. But I believe the long term solution is a chaise or a very horizontal recliner, like a dentist's chair. Obviously you're NOT going to get something like that installed at a typical job unless you're the CEO I guess.
"If you're going to go down, take people with you."

Best management advice I ever received. They mean, always partner with people above you when a decision with consequences has to be made. And as others have said, confirm in email. Make sure you have a public trail that can be followed.

This advice is valid even if you're at a great company with great people because one bad decision and people will try and save their own jobs before they worry about you.
If you really want to improve your posture get really bad asthma and run a lot at fast speeds. The rest of the day you are in recovery and when the pollen or arosoles get really bad you will probably be spending a good portion of the day in a casual asthma attack. Today was really bad as I had to limit myself to a 14 minute two mile and that left me utterly exhausted.

Good posture at this point becomes involuntary, provided you remain awake, as you are casually trying to focus with minimal air intake. Your body will naturally right itself into the most rigid form that benefits pulmonary relaxation at the cost of other muscle systems, particularly as the bonchial muscle systems approach muscle failure and your asthma symptoms subside.
I find not leaning back when doing a physical activity like typing helps. So that means I lean a little a bit forward. This takes more energy but reduces strain put on the joints/muscles that are tensed while typing.
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It didn't fail, it was shut down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262
Hah! Please no.
this is on the front page, please check for duplicates before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16524313
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Get Emacs and Neotree[1] and start hacking. You'll learn a Lisp, and you'll have a working demo in under a week.

[1] https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree
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With an ergodox keyboard.
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You're thinking about meal prices on richer countries.

I am a software developer, so I get paid more than the average Brazilian. And I spend 14~18 BRL (4.3 to 5.5 USD) on a good meal regularly.

39 to 75 BRL is very expensive to our standards. The restaurant I take my wife on our anniversary costs 60~70 BRL per person.

Someone spending close to 75 BRL per day is the equivalent of eating every day in that nice restaurant you go a couple times a year.
As someone descended partially from Jews from that area, calling the attempted rewriting of some very personal and painful history "hype" strikes me as malicious and insulting.
I’m all about the lean back. My chair is always positioned as low and as far back as it goes. Takes pressure off your spine. Distributes weight over the entire back rest, instead of just lightly touching it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15939377/ns/health-health_care/t/e...
I used to have debilitating back pain. I saw chiropractors and got frequent back massages, wore a lifting belt at times, invested in a high end tempurpedic bed (which I recommend), and stretched daily. Besides the bed, the most useful move was a proper chair. I have an Aeron that I love and recently suggested the same for my brother, who also has frequent back pain. Whatever brand you choose, proper seating is invaluable.

https://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/office-chairs/...
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What?! How'd they get that black-and-white picture of me? :)
I'm a physio, and I'm so happy you were given good advice. Indeed, backs are strong and don't get damaged by sitting. Find a sitting position that's comfortable for you, because indeed, every body is different.
Recommend 5x5 stronglifts ... not because it's a particularly good program (it's not - it's too easy to burn out early), but because it's a good resource to learn the main lifts initially. Lots of photos and explanations all in one place to make it as easy as possible for the new lifter.

https://stronglifts.com/5x5/