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The obsession with equality is disturbing and, ironically, shows a hatred for diversity. The fact that we're not all the same is what makes the market possible. The obsession with income equality across occupations is also grotesquely rooted in a worship of money.

Differences in income are not a problem per se. If there is a problem, the biggest one is poverty, another is the way in which the ultra-rich use their money to gain power over lots of people. The former is not unrelated to the latter. The discussion should shift away from the self-indulgent paranoia and petty jealousies of upper middle class navel-gazers and focus on these more pressing issues.
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However, it's reasonably proportional to the implications of the ruling.
What's more infuriating is that this explanation persisted in spite of women's gains in the fields of psychology, law, and medicine, just to name a few. The idea that computer science men perpetrated some special and successful conspiracy against women in their field that doctors and lawyers were unable to do in their field is so patently ridiculous as to be on the level of flat earthers.
I am not a lawyer, but...

I hope and suspect that the US courts would refuse to enforce the judgement against Project Gutenberg. A little bit of research shows that for a foreign judgement to be enforced, a country would need to have personal jurisdiction over the defendant.

That doesn't seem to be the case here, at least under the US law that would apply if the judgement was being enforced.

Given all the overreach of European governments over the past few years (VATMOSS, GDPR, and now this), I suspect the time is ripe for something like the SPEECH act, a law clarifies that when a US citizen makes something available on the US, that does does not subject them to the law of a non-US country - and that allows the US citizen to claim court costs if someone tries to register a judgement against them.
Right now all ATC clearances (routing, takeoff, landing) are done by AM radio. So how would a pilotless taxi do this? Drones don't, as currently UAS are physically separated into their own airspace, they also can't fly in instrument/zero visibility conditions.

To share the same space requires either really agile and smart flying taxis that will always avoid legacy aircraft, regardless of conditions, a kind of "smart separation" of aircraft, or we need a new air traffic control system.

Setting aside ATC's automation, even autonomous aircraft has all sorts of unsolved technical problems. The reality today is that the vast majority of flights are not automated at all when it comes to taxi, takeoff, and landings. Most flights use Visual Flight Rules. The landing capacity of airports when using Instrument Flight Rules is substantially less, and there are various technical reasons why not least of which is that there is only one kind of precision approach to landing system, and it requires ground systems, airborne system, and pilot competency and certification. So we need a separate system invented for autonomous systems to do this at scale, while also integrating into the existing VFR and IFR systems for legacy aircraft.

Or someone comes up with a cheap enough retrofit of existing airplane cockpits that this can happen really fast, and just ban all the legacy aircraft from operating in autonmous only space (make it Class A, B and C space). That's sort of a joke because this would be very expensive. But maybe a hybrid pilot with augmented non-human secondary pilot could make this vaguely plausible.

Add in both FAA and ICAO regulations (global regulations apply for obvious reasons), economics, politics, and it's just really complicated. So I have to laugh every time I read "technical problems all solved" and "this could happen in 5 to 10 years". That's something I've heard for 30 years...
IIRC, they stopped selling Chromecasts due to the unavailability of Prime Video on them and/or the unavailability of YouTube on Fire TV.
Even that's not enough, you need a small population, small number of children each generation, and for harmful mutations not to be weeded out. A wild Frog species that has 100 eggs could have regular 'first-cousin' marriages without significant issues beyond infectious diseases.

Humans unfortunately tend to accumulate negative mutations more easily. Though the upside of lack of predation etc is not something I would want to pass up personally.
I am slightly confused why you used quotes around truth because that would often indicate that it is not actually the truth. Looking at your two comments I can not really tell if you think the involvement of Academi in the conflict actually happened or whether you are being sarcastic.

Anyway, I heard about it at that time and the evidence that Academi was active in the east of the Ukraine is rather thin at best. There are hundreds of articles but they are all just referencing each other and there is almost no underlying information. Sure, that would be the goal, to remain as unnoticed as possible, but it seems extremely unlikely that there are not more pictures and videos if 400 mercenaries were actively fighting in the Ukraine, especially given how powerful such material would be if its authenticity was not in doubt.
It was just a small point which might make German think "this is a website that is legal in Germany" or even "this is a website from an entity in Germany". But it isn't, it's a US website, legal in the US and illegal in Germany.
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Are there any US agents in the Ukraine? For example, the US funding of the "Azov Battalion":

"Yet some have expressed concern that some of this aid has made its way into the hands of neo-Nazi groups, such as the Azov Battalion. Last summer the Daily Beast published an interview by the journalists Will Cathcart and Joseph Epstein in which a member of the Azov battalion spoke about “his battalion’s experience with U.S. trainers and U.S. volunteers quite fondly, even mentioning U.S. volunteers engineers and medics that are still currently assisting them.”"

There is also this: "In the course of a little over four minutes, the two American diplomats exchange ideas about who ought to be promoted, and who ought to be demoted, by the United States inside Ukraine, which is suffering through a difficult and even violent political dispute over whether Ukraine will tilt east, toward Russia, or west, toward the United States and Europe. Let it first be noted that it shouldn’t be surprising that Nuland would come off as a would-be imperialist or game player. If anything, she’s long been the neoconservative inside the Obama administration." (https://www.thenation.com/article/not-so-secret-ukraine-phon...)
I fly a piston engine airplane that seats 6 and gets ~15 miles per gallon at over 200mph. If I slowed it down, I could probably get it to 20mpg. That’s pretty competitive with 6-pax cars, so the spread may not be as much as you’d first imagine.
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If the drone is autonomous and electric motor-driven, at least the human labor cost and fuel cost are taken out of equation.
Yes - Israel used this rather famously on ex-Nazis that they "extralegally imported" from around the world, even though a) the accused was not an Israeli citizen, b) none of the victims were Israeli citizens at the time of the crime, c) the crimes did not occur on Israeli territory. In most other cases those would be major jurisdictional issues.
They should be as worried as the US that Russia is planning on launching a massive nuclear missile attack. Or Iran or North Korea.
Don't forget her title as US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.
Reality for a lot of people: economic reasons. Even in the bay area.

You simply can't raise children in anything smaller than a 3 bedroom apartment or house. Furthermore, because of groceries and driving around, they effectively require a car. On top of that, at least one of the parents need to sacrifice most time between, say, 5pm and 8pm every day. More than just that before they go to school (and this will put strain on the relationship, for obvious reasons). I mean, perhaps if you limit yourself to just one you might make it work with a 2 bedroom place, but ...

So you need a lot more stuff, and you must work less ...

There's massive rewards too, of course, but ... you have a lot of people that really want children, but realize it would destroy them. If you're wondering why people don't have children, imho, mostly that question is answered if they invite you to dinner.
Most speakers of German don't live in Germany.

There are roughly 200 million German speakers in the world, but only 82 million residents of Germany.
Amen. Recently bought a car that came with XM Sirius, and I've rediscovered a lot of old hip hop from the late 80s and early 90s. Nothing like pulling up to an intersection blaring Jump Around or Fresh Prince (before he "became" Will Smith lol)
ATC clearance API? There's a startup idea...
These sort of cases will be decided on by a judge. You'll at the very least have to make your decisions sound reasonable.

But yeah, these loopholes do exist nonetheless. The GDPR has been reported on as the most lobbied law in the history of the EU. It scares Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al.
Amazon is a very smart company that invests heavily in research and development to stay ahead and loved by people.

Amazon will continue to stay ahead of monopoly calls as long as they don't make moves like this. Monopolies can benefit for some time such as AT&T with software/labs/modern applications (C++) wiring for telecom, Microsoft with Windows desktop and getting people on the internet, Apple with the smart phone, Amazon with online purchasing, Google with search, cable/telco providers and broadband access etc. But once these companies start pushing too hard on the monopoly levers, blocking competitors, actively breaking competitors products/software/standards, blocking out fair markets, then they start to have problems and maybe will get broken up. AT&T was broken up, Microsoft got slowed considerably resulting in Apple/Google rising, Amazon and Google need to keep it fair or else it will get more and more heated.

Moves like blocking competitors or competing products, rather than just making better products, are troubling and signs that the some people in charge there are taking cheap ways out to gain short term advantage. Capitalism only works well when there are fair markets and competition, otherwise it is big fish oligarchies of companies that works for noone controlling everything.
Yes, like the google TPU and pixel visual core
> Don't you consider a website in German, accessible from Germany, which looks totally legal for most Germans as some kind of legal presence in Germany?

No.

The site is created in some set of locations, and is hosted on servers in some set of locations. If none of those locations is in Germany, Germany has no personal jurisdiction.

(At least under US law, which is what counts when it comes to enforcing judgement against someone in the US.)
All websites that are not intentionally blocked from specific regions by the website operator, a government or internet service providers are available everywhere in the world. English is the world's most spoken language. In effect, most websites are international websites.

That doesn't make them subject to the laws of every country. Most legal systems do not accept the standard the German court used and require a more significant physical, legal or economic connection to a country before a website may be subject to its laws.
> Right now all ATC clearances (routing, takeoff, landing) are done by AM radio. So how would a pilotless taxi do this?

That is the status quo, but FAA has been trying to move to an automated system forever (they were testing ATD-1 in KMWH as of last year) https://www.aviationsystemsdivision.arc.nasa.gov/research/ta...

Most likely they will have to set up special flight rules for unmanned taxis.

It also helps that rotor-driven vehicles don't need the runways the way the airplanes do - any large parking lot next to the airport could be designated as UAS landing space.
Interesting! I'd never thought of cousin availability as a factor.

But....is it actually possible to average much over 2 children for very long? I mean, that's a population boom.
Nit: Kissinger was actually tried as a war criminal in Spain under the principal of universal jurisdiction. Assuming he did not visit Spain he was immune to actual punishment, of course, but "winning" did not make him immune to being tried under that legal principal.
For a second I thought you were talking about Paul Graham
I'm a woman in tech. Google used to have a page somewhere where it told you what it assumed about you from your habits. It was 100% confident that I was male until I started searching for pregnancy stuff all the time.
Sure, you know what I mean though.
> Good luck with that.

Well, depending on the books, it may be easy to download the books online without buying them...
You're not addressing the point of the NYT article I posted:

'In terms of general risks in life it's not very high,' Dr. Motulsky said. Even at its worst, 7 percent, he said, '93 percent of the time, nothing is going to happen.'

Is there a statistically significant difference in defect rates? Yes.

Is it a very large difference? None of your reply addresses that point. The doctor in the NYT article says no.
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The problem is that these players are just so big, that's why we read about. The poor little shop down the street that is bullied by Amazon has no way of voicing their problems. Maybe it's just me, but I have been avoiding making Amazon the first stop when I buy something, and it's difficult because they are so omnipresent. But once I bought a painting from China which never arrived, probably counterfeit and Amazon never reimbursed me. Since then I am not a big Amazon fan anymore and stories like this make me wonder what options there are to bring a bit more diversity into this market?
Well with Chrome going headless there isn't a whole lot of place for PhantomJS anyway. Or is there? What is it still good for?
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The best theory is based on the fact that males can have an unlimited number of children while females can only have one every nine months.

Hence, being an extremely sexually successful male is much more rewarding for the propagation of their genes than being an extremely sexually successful female.

Thus, males evolved to take more risks than females since there is a much bigger payoff for them: if a male can become an "omnipotent king" he can father children with every woman and spread his genes a lot, while a female "omnipotent queen" still can only make one child for every nine months.

Hence, males have more variance, meaning that the top in any field are very likely to be males, but also there are going to be much more men who are extremely unsuccessful.

This also means that women are probably better off on average, since psychological (as opposed to genetic-propagation-related) utility is logarithmic and thus reducing variance is advantageous for the individual.
Google doesn't run those images through a pixel-level ConvNet, Google's algo uses a combo of the HTML info surrounding the image and the image's popularity. Running every image on the web through a CNN would be computationally infeasible

ConvNets for image classification (like what the article is about) often achieve better-than-average-human performance
Upvoted for sharing it.

But, I don't like the reason :). I've seen too many people who think kids are property that God has given them to rule over and that doesn't end with healthy kids usually.
> illegal where?

On the internet, where project gutenberg is located. The argument put forward, that you repeated, implies just as much that someone could be prosecuted in a Chinese court for publishing a harsh (to the point of being illegal in China) criticism of China named freexinjiang.com, at least if the site included a Chinese version. And that, since it refers specifically to a Chinese province/area, would have at least some nexus to China, whereas Project Gutenberg has zero connection to Germany.

Arguing the connection by language (the fact that German-language books of note exist to be digitized does not imply a connection to Germany the country) or Gutenberg's biography (what does the nationality of Gutenberg the historical person have to do with anything? Is shakespeare.com subject to uk laws?) is insanity.

> I really didn't know [.us isn't commonly used]

I didn't realize how this might not be intuitive to people in other countries, so...

The U.S. mostly invented / was the testbed for the internet. It's standard in the U.S., and for almost any English-language website that's not seeking to be tied to a specific country of origin, to use .com .net or .org. I get that people in countries where English isn't official or where they're targeting the country's population as visitors will prefer .cc tlds either to indicate that their site targets that country's residents, or targets people who speak that country's primary language, but .us is not at all the norm in the USA; .com .net and .org generally serve that purpose, and .us is a distant fourth [1].

But, supposing .us were the primary domain used by U.S. organizations, even if Project Gutenberg didn't use .org but instead used a generic TLD, it would still have zero to do with Germany.

[1] It's actually 6th, behind .xyz and .info, but those two probably have a higher percentage of spammy junk websites and email domains, so .us might be fourth in domains that aren't junk ecommerce advertising sites.
the aerial shots made me wonder if there will be telephone pole/stoplight or building mounted cameras to augment sensing capabilities in dense areas.
They did publicize videos of their cars handling abnormal events. See https://youtu.be/Uj-rK8V-rik?t=25m.
Which is why the skies are so safe. It's not about limiting access. FAA licencing is one of the more liberal aviation regimes across the world.
Eh, python 3 wasn't really fundamentally different from 2, it just had some breaking changes and aside from that was an upgrade.
It almost feels like that's there so it ranks in the search results for "Chromecast"
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I disagree? I don't think things will deteriorate quickly enough that it will be an issue on the current-gen hardware, but we're discussing the capabilities here, and why people may be skittish about giving these companies an unconstrained inlet into their homes. Technical plausibility does not necessarily imply there's a likelihood of deployment, though I think there would be if the right political circumstances came about. We're talking about the abilities of the devices and the ease of misuse, not whether Jeff Bezos fancies himself a future evil emperor or not -- only Jeff Bezos knows that!

All existing Echo models, afaik, are easily capable of being deployed and utilized for these purposes. I don't know whether a remote firmware update can change the wake words that can activate the device or not, but other than that, there is no good reason why this wouldn't happen other than just nobody has done it. From a technical perspective, this kind of use is completely plausible.

Whether or not the political will to exploit this capacity en masse will arise or not is a different matter, and I'm not really betting one way or the other on that.
But then German ISPs will be ordered to block the content in Germany. I don't know what's better, at least now the gutenberg.org frontpage is still accessible and theres an explanation which wouldn't be the case with an DNS block.
This looks great!

But not entirely clear when looking at the site, what would be the pricing to classify say 20,000 images from 20 different folders?
I have a number of comments for this article. I thought it would be helpful to explain where I am coming from.

A good place to start is what happened after WWII ended. The world was divided between two great powers, and what you would expect to have happened, given the past history of the world, is for this to lead in a decade or two to a massive war between them.

So why didn't that happen? Basically because of some extraordinary economic, technological and governmental changes that had happened over the preceding several centuries.

For thousands of years tribes and states had engaged in regular warfare. This was because they were based largely on agriculture. Even in empires, most of the people still were peasant farmers. This lead to warfare in two ways. One is that populations would often grow too large for agricultural output, the other was that the wealth was in the land and so the way to gain more wealth was through conquest.

The industrial revolution, based on modern science and technology, and operating under free market economics, lead to some radical changes. Radical increases in agricultural productivity, and in addition health advances lead to lower population growth. In addition, the main source of wealth was now industry, rather than land. And one consequence was the rise of democracy.

Nonetheless, warfare persisted. But nuclear weapons radically changed the logic of warfare, and made it suicidal, rather than an often-rational choice. And so we have had a remarkable 70 years of peace.

The problem is that Russia has never really adopted to the new era. Politically, it is authoritarian, rather than democratic. Economically it practices crony capitalism, and one consequence is it is very poor at technological advancement, and depends far too much on natural resources for wealth. And with respect to international affairs it thinks we are still back in the old era where great powers continually try to conquer each other, both for wealth and to eliminate military threats. And so it is pursing a policy of trying to gain back every part of the empire it lost when the Soviet Union collapsed.

I feel sorry for the Russians. Putin is taking them down a path that will lead to stagnation and maybe violent conflict. And, alas, Trump doesn't see this at all. That's because he is himself very out of touch with the realities of the modern, post-war era, and mistakenly thinks Putin is an excellent leader.
Maintaining systems already built on top of PhantomJS.
I think Evan is too protective of the language to let anybody else maintain it right now, the first step would be for him to realize that he should give it up just a bit.
All of this except Django, overkill for many small and mid sized projects. I use a lightweight Bottle/uwsgi api to get json into _underscore templates. Up and running in ten mins :)
That’s cool. I think I’ll try Tony Blair as a war criminal tomorrow in my bedroom. It’ll have the same practical effect.
Two alternatives:

Headless Chrome with Puppeteer: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

Firefox-based Slimer.js: https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs (same API as Phantom which is useful if using a higher level library like http://casperjs.org/)
This is both racist and illegal regardless of the point he's trying to make.
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