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I don't see anyone in that article who holds the views you describe. There aren't even any opinions mentioned in the article, liberal or otherwise. Did you share the wrong link?

It's an article about criminals trying to game the system in court: the disingenuous insanity plea has been a feature of Hollywood court dramas and other movies forever. There's nothing new here.

Here is a nice quote from the article though:

> “This is such a fraught area, and it’s prone to hype and overstatement,”
I agree — I think testable code is generally just better code because it requires the decoupling of dependencies.
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I chose the passage to highlight the gross distortion:

"He was interested in finding out more about the people he conquered, and entrusted a scholar named al-Biruni to write an account of the subcontinent"

No. He was not interested in finding out more about the people he conquered. The biographical works of his time are very clear - he wanted the loot and he wanted to get rid of the infidels and idol worshippers.
Less clickbaity title: Googling Bend, Oregon's ZIP Code 97702 results in an internal server error.
That can be done internally. No open letter required
Just because the US does it doesn't make it right, and it doesn't make it any less concerning for the other countries in the region. Moral relativism isn't a good defense.
This is the kind of nihilistic thinking that has given rise to the likes of Trump et al. But anyway, here's the press release from today's continuation of the Deutsche Seewarte: http://www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/Pressemitte... .
Is having short job stints that huge of a red flag?

I am not 100% done with programming as a career, but it turns out that most of my project stints were shorter and barely lasting a year.

Besides that, there is a huge question mark in the middle of my resume where I was doing contract work which wasn't regular for the time period, but it was pretty interesting compared to going to a soulless Open Workspace! for forty hours a week and put me in constant contact with the local startup culture.

If anything, I'm leaning towards doing remote stuff again, but it's pretty hard to find and I've already sworn off Elance/ODesk.
>Starting investing when your young is so, so important

this is why student loans have made perpetual paupers out of the better part of an entire generation.
You're absolutely right — I just know the iOS dev world best at this point.
It's not Xenon you have to worry about, it's Helium. Once we run out we'll be too heavy and fall into the sun.
String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions
1.Travel,see the world.It will give you more time and perspective to think
2.Re-educate yourself.
Sure, I'll try... but will probably ramble as I try to put a finger on it.

People matter. Community matters. Relationships matter. Family matters. Helping people who ask for help matters. Small businesses that provide a livelihood in the context of relationships matters. My neighbors, my street condition, my local stores matter. Work and paychecks matter. I guess one way to say it may be things that don't scale matter.

Suffering is normal. Health problems stink. I love when medicine can help people. Most health problems seem to be difficult and medicine sometimes can help, but sometimes can't.

Putting people on the moon matters. Putting a tesla in space doesn't matter. Fortune 500 companies don't matter. The stock market doesn't matter. Fake videos don't matter.

More concretely on the list, taking "Education" as an example: "Scalable solutions in these areas should now be doable thanks to advances in brain science and technologies such as smart home devices, wearables, and mobile."
My immediate thought: No way tech helps more than 3%. Education is "solved", just _very_ difficult to do. Quality families with quality teachers and a good professional support structure (esp for disabilities etc...).

Overall as I looked at ycombinators list, Job's quote comes to mind:

"The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t.

That’s going to break people’s hearts.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all."
This is a good overview in the US legal landscape, though it's worth pointing out that the IRS and DOL have differing standards on what does or does not constitute and employment relationship. But I'm actually interested in the European legal landscape here, where contracting relationships generally require the contractor to acquire a certain percentage of their revenue from a separate source. If someone was earning their entire living on Youtube, it would seem to me that these EU laws would consider that person an employee of Youtube. That's obviously not something Youtube would appreciate, and I'm not sure if it's actually the case -- hence the question.
Why exactly should an encyclopedia article about a specific gun model include "gun control, mass shootings, or political efforts"? I can see that sort of content being applicable for the "Gun" or "Firearm" article, but not for a specific model's article.
I can't put up with iOS, it feels like I'm using a crippled feature phone rather than a pocket computer.
Well, that's ironic. Just yesterday I subscribed to a magazine that offers a Yubikey as a free gift. The magazine? Wired.

It looks like this vulnerability is limited to Chrome at the moment. Good to know if using Chrome (or even Epichrome for SSBs) when doing things like online banking.
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It might be a question of whether it matters, given the vast territory they already share (which if I'm not mistaken is already nearly the length of the Russia-Mongolia border).

Granted, for a long time now Russia has harbored paranoia about their vast empty East, and that China might one day want to push into it. Russia is depopulating and China is overflowing with people. The comedy of the situation, is Russia having used the ethnic Russian setup premise to seize territory in Ukraine - China could use the same argument in various territories in Eastern Russia.

That said, I don't see Russia being willing to fight over Mongolia. China is already far too powerful and economically capable for them to do that. Russia could never come close to managing to hold off China in Mongolia, I think they know that. And I don't think Russia would be willing to go nuclear over Mongolia, which is what it would take to stop China if they wanted to annex the country.
I'd prefer a more classical model of having a group of volunteers work with semi-independent groups of vendors - along the lines of Debian Gnu/Linux. Rather than some semi-closed Linux + Google+hw-vendor Android.

I like the direction Google one + lineage Os seem to be taking us; even if the baseband are still a problem / back-door.
There is willful ignorance mostly by those profiting. But it's not as simple as "well-meaning liberals". That seems like a re-writing of history when there are plenty of examples from the left protesting these deals.

And it's a bit hard to peg who on the right/left we're talking about as high level politicians tend to blur the line when talk about trade deals. "True scotsman" and all.

Sanders was all over unfair trade deals that hurt American workers. Perhaps he would've done it in a responsible manner? If there is such a way.

Perhaps I'm remembering wrong. It seemed as if the right was all for trade deals until Trump made it popular.
> Google was unable to scale up in Poland for a decade.

AFAIK, the problem with Krakow was not with lack of good programmers, but organizational setup - too many PAs in too small office.
> you cannot possibly predict ... specific circumstances

Predictions don't have to account for every edge case, my point is in the majority of cases the transaction should not take long. Longer drive times is the cost for living outside of the city, but I don't see why you couldn't just do the transaction when you do another trip(e.g. commuting).

> Demonstrably untrue. ... most technologies pose 0 risk of mugging in practical use

Escrow would be useful in this case. What technology has 0 risk for mugging? AFAIK you can force someone to perform some transaction at gun point. Followed back to your home is resolved by being aware of people following you, and frankly if you're transacting large sums of money, the types of attacks that are worth doing is immense.

> Well, most people don't use it,

Unimportant, it clearly has a userbase. Prices correspond with risk, doesn't seem unfair, and users are willing to pay for it.
Strange as it is, centrally planned economies are kicking the West's arse right now. We're busy electing far right faux populists (like Italy yesterday) and giving money to the rich.
If you want the article summed up, read no further than this line;

>But those users didn’t find much information about mass shootings or political efforts. In fact, the Colt AR-15 page made no mention of gun control at all, instead spending over a thousand words describing the technical details of the gun’s various parts.

The Wikipedia userbase is anal across the board when it comes to information being in the relevant location. There are entire pages dedicated to the politics of gun control, and the author of this article seems to think that an article that has always been a technical description of an influential design would be the perfect political soapbox. Although the author's complaints about the NRA article on Wikipedia have a lot more weight, I am still under the impression that he may be misinterpreting what was being said or done, because he obviously seems to have some trouble understanding Wikipedia's (sometimes absurdly) strict scope policies.

It's also worth noting that the author seems to claim that Wikipedia and its user groups are a fairly neutral source in important political conversations. Powerful (in the sense of editorship) far-left user groups have publicly and genuinely suggested withholding information out of concern for the political stance of articles shifting out of their favor. Wikipedia is not "balanced, but only when I agree with it." It is human, and not infallible.
> where we have a monorepo with lots of different languages

isn't that the only reason to use something like bazel?
I considered using it for our go, java, scala, typescript and c# project, but I would've never used if for go only.
Obviously not, since carrying humans on arbitrary dynamic routes for day-to-day errands is a much harder task than driving a known route between two fixed, well mapped points, and navigating remote roads/streets is more difficult than driving on highways.
> Welcome to Google's Python Class -- this is a free class for people with a little bit of programming experience who want to learn Python.

Python 2 still comes pre-installed on most everything. So, why can't someone coming to Python with little or no experience just be welcomed to use what they have for now?

I kid you not, some of these Python3'ers would have a newb bike shed for a week getting a whole Python 3 workflow with virtual environments, etc going before they'd let the person write their first hello, world. They can learn that stuff later, when it matters.
Like the others already explained, "vira-latas" is a portuguese term for a stray dog and the idea that they need to flip trash cans to try to find food.

However, there is also an expression (whose origin was also explained) that means "Mongrel complex (Complexo de vira-Lata in Portuguese), which is an expression used to refer to a collective inferiority complex felt by some Brazilian people in comparison to Europe or the United States."[0]

Contrary to what was said here, the term coined by Nelson Rodrigues was not exclusive related to soccer. According to him: "By "Mongrel Complex" I mean the inferiority in which Brazilians put themselves, voluntarily, in comparison to the rest of the world. Brazilians are the reverse Narcissus, who spit in their own image. Here is the truth: we can't find personal or historical pretexts for self-esteem."[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongrel_complex
This looks great. How does it work - are you scraping this data or using an API?
The social contract is between the individuals (collectively) and the sovereign. Invoking the social contract is contrary to any complaint about non-enforcement because signing on means the sovereign can do whatever is necessary to keep the peace. In exchange, the individual agrees to go along with everything except the loss of their own life.
Easy button: Set your spouse's email (or whoever is appropriate) as the recovery address on your Gmail. They should be able to reset passwords on most anything else from there.
I believe there are logical holes in the article posted.

> According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to Mac Donald in a speech at Hillsdale College.
>
> Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. But as Mac Donald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties.

This is saying that while cops shoot more blacks than the population would indicate, we also arrest them at a higher rate. Because they are arrested at a higher rate, we would expect the shooting rate to be high b/c they have a higher-than-population-level-would-indicate interaction with police.

So.. it's unclear as to whether there's selection bias here. Are blacks given disproportionate police contact which increases arrest rate (aka differential exposure)? This would also lead to the same circular logic.

In Portland, Oregon, where I live, there was a report tracking different ethnicities through the criminal justice system called the Relative Rate Index. Article about it: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/02/blacks_... and source: http://media.oregonlive.com/portland_impact/other/RRI%20Repo...

In there, it says the rate of each stage of the prison pipeline is approximately the same across race. So to explain why 4x the number of black people are in the pipeline than the population would point to the pre-sentencing side of the world.
> A more circular orbit of Earth around the sun — leading to years with no great difference between summer and winter — might have also helped doom most of the fish.

Oh man please do not say this without additional clarification. People are confused enough as it is about what causes seasons.
> "Over the next 10 years, he said, we need to attract almost 900,000 new people to the industry.

The pay of truckers has, in inflation adjusted terms, shrunk by more than half since the 80s. They mostly need to bring in more people because their turnover is ridiculous.
The Pixel devices don't really last that long either, and there isn't much progress on custom ROMs due to the weird partition layout.
>>Between 1864 until 1933, thousands of bottles were thrown overboard from German ships, each containing a form on which the captain would write the date, the ship's coordinates and details about its route.

It was part of an experiment by the German Naval Observatory to better understand global ocean currents.<<

Now I wonder: did that actually work to get a better understanding of these currents?
The USPS lost $2.7B last year, even though it has a monopoly on mail. Why anyone would want to give it more responsibility is beyond me.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiririca#2010_elections
Here's a series of questions for any liberal:

1. Should abortion be free and accessible to all women (personal responsibility be darned)?

2. Should rehab be free and accessible to everyone (personal responsibility be darned)?

3. Should healthcare be free and accessible to everyone (personal responsibility be darned)?

4. Should financial assistance be free and accessible to the poor (personal responsibility be darned)?

The part in parenthesis is implied, but every liberal I've spoken with answers yes to all 4. Doesn't matter if you are a smoking, obese, promiscuous gambler by choice, by golly you should be entitled to free healthcare, rehab, abortion services and welfare.
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Sure it should! A lot of us got started when we only had a choice between BASIC or assembler and we turned out mostly just fine.
I don't see anything wrong with that logic. It's not like I'm going to be using code that I wrote while learning in the future. And it's not like learning Prolog (or Python 2) will make me unable to learn other languages in the future.
This isn't that kind of hair analysis - determining which person a hair found at the scene is from. This is looking for markers of drug and alcohol use in hair samples from a known person.
How can you decelerate with a ramjet? Wouldn't your own exhaust push the matter you needed out of the way?
Oh man I would love to be involved in this. Have you had people apply to YC already with ideas in these areas? I'm not familiar with any in the YC portfolio, so they must not have made it. Can you speak to any technical shortcomings of ideas you've already seen (aside from the general cost/scale issues mentioned on the site)?

I'm surprised that people keep trying to direct-air-capture. I was under the impression that the carbon content (as carbonates) in seawater was much higher than in the atmosphere.

I believe the navy has had some initial success in transforming marine carbonates in to petroleum products, which they will probably use as fuel, but I can't wait for the day when we have reverse oil wells pumping carbon back in to the ground..
It is disturbing because China did not hesitate to kill 10000 of their own people in 1989 on a shoestring budget, and faced no consequence. Who knows what they would do to Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.
"Quickly" in this context is probably still weeks, and you could carry a little backup system to kick it into higher orbit in case of trouble. But really, low-flying com or imaging sats are probably parts of large, "cheap" constellations and meant to be of limited lifespan.
Well, it knows where it wants to go to. Arrival is not guaranteed. This may still be more than you and I know about ourselves, though.
"I'm not sure why length of rule should play such a large part."

Look to all of human history and you'll find your answer.
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Of course it should! That's how I got started programming 17 years ago. I never would have started programming if the first thing was to find a language and pick it. I absolutely started programming because there was a language there.

(In this case, it's both javascript and c, on linux, and VBA on Windows. I use none of those today but that doesn't matter!)
Are you washed out of programming in general, or just working for employers? You could take some time to work on your own projects to see how you like it. It's probably going to be zero income for a while, so if you're prepared for that, you'll be ok. After a while of that if you start making small amount of income, you may decide to continue down that path. And when you do, moving to a low living cost area (like Chiang Mai, Thailand for many ex-pats/digital nomads) might help also.
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I'm surprised you think carbon removal from the atmosphere is relevant.

Just from a physics perspective, a dollar invested into substituting coal burning is likely to be many orders of magnitude more effective than first burning the coal to CO2, diluting it to 400 parts per million in the atmosphere, concentrating that CO2 back to some high percentage, maybe turn it CO2 to some higher density form of carbon again etc.

Every step requires a lot of effort, capital and energy.

The best way to store carbon is coal. And it's already there, in the ground.
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I've given this a LOT of thought.

I have several storage arrays of data (about 100TB currently). I've amassed every family photo I can get my hands on. Important TV, Movies, Books, Audiobooks.

I'm working on software to annotate the data and provide a "guide" of a sort of a "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer".

I'd like to be able to hand my daughter a hard disk or whatever the equivalent is-- of everything that was important to our family and to her intellectual development. In the case of my untimely death-- I'd like her to have a chance at avoiding some of the lessons I have paid entirely too much to learn.
As a trivia point, one of the tweets that got Quinn Norton fired from her NYT editorial gig was a manual retweet she did of a John Perry Barlow tweet that contained the n-word:

Her explanation: https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/963594118747361281

The original tweet: https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/3760544030

There was plenty else that Norton tweeted that was problematic (including another time that she used the n-word in a debate to rhetorically quip that "terrorist" was an equally stupid word), but I was struck at how easy it was to misread those pre-official-RT tweets as actual original tweets from the retweeter. And many of the people dragging Norton over that tweet may not have been around back in 2009.
How many of those pension funds are adequately funded? (defined as "could pay out the already earned benefits for all current benefit holders without any future cash infusion")

I think you see them holding fixed income and cash equivalents because they need current cash and future cash deposits. (They're pretty damn close to Ponzi schemes in a lot of cases.)
Hey Folkhack. Nice to see you on this thread. I posted a link to my retirement calculator here too. It was always fun discussing design with you.
It's important to remember that it's average return over long term.
There can be long dry periods.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/^SP500TR/chart?p=^SP500TR

SP500TR annualized return between 1998 - 2011 was just 2% (before inflation)

If you bought AMZN (Amazon) in 2000, you had to wait until 2010 before
the price recovered.

It's important to save over long time and reduce risk before retirement.
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Now that you've had seven years in the workplace, do you know what you'd like to learn? Education is wasted on the young. People with your experience, finding the right skill or trade or subject to study, can find it truly fulfilling and satisfying.
> print as a statement rather than a function call? That alone should be enough to make the decision I'd think.

I seriously cannot tell if this is a joke or not.
Does anyone feel that this is more oriented towards String processing? Not a general purpose Python class.
Throughout "western culture"? No, I contend that such a sentiment is particularly prevalent in the USA. Countries in Europe, Canada and Australia among others, do not share such a view.
What about Python3's unicode handling is botched?