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Right now I'm writing a document in plain text. Not markdown but org-mode. I could export it as markdown for collaboration purposes easily enough. What I will get at the end is a higher quality document than most Word users will produce but with a minimal amount of effort.

The thing is a document only really contains a handful of different elements. Therefore you only need a handful of styles. What you do is make a template document for pandoc in the format of your choice (e.g. MS Word) and then your markdown/org-mode document can be automatically converted into that style.

The problem with Word is it makes choosing ad-hoc styles really easy instead of promoting the use of styles. It has developed a culture of people who think about text being "bold" rather than text being "a heading" or "emphasised" etc. We teach this distinctionfor HTML and CSS (and it is, to some extent, used) but for some reason still use Word for writing documents.
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Cheers man, appreciate the positivity.

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to check it out :)
But aren't the exceptionally talented(2%) people supposed to win way more than 3%, if we assume talent plays a larger role. It is not a bad output, but not good enough either considering they are exceptional. The paper probably indicates that talent stops becoming the limiting factor somewhere pretty close to average talent, and environmental influences/luck take precedence.

We could argue as to what constitutes luck but I think the core of the paper suggests that talent's importance in success is overestimated, which is rather believable (MY ANECDOTAL OPINION).

Haven't read the paper, just assuming from the articles.
Can you tell me what's the alternative for Youtube? Or github? The alternative should be a real alternative, not a useless replica. For example, I should be able to watch latest movie trailers, music videos, tech reviews, etc. on the youtube alternative. And I should be able to report issues to Microsoft's VS code project.

This is not just about popularity. On the internet, winner takes all. The monopoly is extreme in every type of website/service. If you can't use Youtube, you effectively cannot watch videos on the web. If you are banned by github, you cannot participate in the global open source community.

There are 2 solutions:

1. Break the monopolies.

2. Force them to respect my rights, similar to the government.
> this will only create more jobs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
But is this paper written in faKe LaTeX?

I assume it is, because the author writes "As a non-LaTeX user", but I'm having trouble verifying this by eye otherwise. Which I suppose is the point.
I remember have several things running simultaneously, all at different resolutions and bit depth. Talking on a BBS on one layer, playing Tracker files on another, writing a paper on a third, and the Workbench behind them all.

It was glorious and very productive. Not that it would be super useful but I don't really think we can replicate the same "layer" thing on todays displays.
I'm not trying to nitpick, but I don't think there has ever in the history of man been a system that was fundamentally social and about shared consensus (which is about the most literal definition of money that there is) that would work any other way.

Having some Eminence say "This is what we should do" and then having a wide network of people go and do that is _not_ a problem. What _is_ a problem is if some eminence says "This is what we should do" and having a bunch of other people say "I don't want to do that" or "That doesn't make sense" or "This will be bad for me" and then _having to do it anyway_. That's the issue. Having to get permission for the US Govt before you change how nodes work, that's an issue. Having some dev frown and say "I can't get the majority to adopt my pull request because of stupid Greg Maxwell" is not an issue.

No complex system involving humans will ever get around the importance of human communication and coordination and agreement, and that is not a technological problem to be solved. A system that artificially mandates who those humans should be, or what kinds of solutions they can offer, that _is_ a problem to be solved, and Bitcoin does a nice job of solving it as well as it can reasonably be solved.

Of course, this is an empirical question. I could be wrong, and the data will demonstrate that in time. But so far there is no such demonstration of wrongness, and the chaos and arguing between various factions (e.g., Segwit2x, Bitcoin Cash) are not evidence in favor of that hypothesis.
It sounds like you are confusing the multiple attacks described in the article. The most recent attack in August 2017, the primary focus of the article, was indeed intended to manipulate controls and cause an explosion. The January 2017 attack, part of a string of them, is what you are describing. That one was not suspected of intending physical destruction but, "to inflict lasting damage on the petrochemical companies and send a political message."
link is wrong should be https://google.github.io/xi-editor/index.html
I wonder how many would struggle if it was presented simply a 0-60+70-80+90=? rather than the block of text in the article.

At least for me the problem is that when i get a block of text like that i get distracted from the math by scrutinizing how everything is worded, in case there is a trick question.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by "looked horrible". I've found some of the MD to PDF plug-ins for Atom were acceptable for short documents. For bigger ones, I'd probably want more control over formatting, and would go via pandoc.
Well, markdown files are just plain text, so you get the git integration 'for free'. As for 2&3, this is why I author documents in HTML: about the same level of complexity as MD, but far, far more powerful. 1, I'll give you, is an issue, just one I don't even run into (I tend not to be editing documents so huge that they demand a ToC).
This approach is what I have sometimes been using. It works OK and I can style my documents with CSS. But there are little things that bug me, like headlines on the last line of page N and the paragraph starting on page N+1 and header/footer lines generated by the browser.
I hope you really mean "emigrants", so smart people leaving their home countries, leaving the aging population that was not capable of going abroad.

And I think people downvote because they assume you mean "immigrants" being stupid and thereby decreasing the average IQ in countries with lots of immigrants.

The second statement I would also downvote, but until I'm convinced of the opposite I assume you mean the first.
Call it circumstances you can't control if you want.

People don't choose which country they are born into. They don't choose the quality of their primary education, whether or not their parents vaccinate them before they catch one of those sorts of diseases. They don't choose any disease (cancer, genetic defects, etc) for that matter.

There is a whole range of things most people don't choose. To be a violence victim or in a car accident, for example.
Most people can't choose whether or not they will be eligible for an inheritance that makes them better off financially - nor do they choose an inheritance filled with financial obligations.

Sure, some opportunities are the sort that one can do things to make them more likely and choose to take them, but a great number are quite random to the individual and completely outside of their control. Just because they have cause doesn't mean they aren't what most folks consider "luck".
> Also what would help this is that the Markdown was standardized and would have these features included out-of-the-box.

There is technically a standard Markdown dialect called CommonMark. The main problem with it is that its specification is example-driven and there's lots of places where things are up for interpretation, but for the most part it achieves its goal. What it really needs is standardization of extensions like tables, diagrams, etc.
Any finite computational system can be implemented as a lookup table in the manner that Searle suggests. But that's not essential to the argument. You can imagine that the man in the room is following instructions for simulating a (finite approximation of) a Turing machine, or any other computational device that you like.
@matte_black

There's a big component in American culture at least, that assumes that the success in life is due to talent. It provides an excuse for inequitable distributions of resources, for example, by justifying the distribution as a natural consequence of individual talent, skill, and hard work.

This study shows that this cultural assumption is not true, that talent or hard-work alone are not enough to achieve success, and much of success is down to random events.

I think talent and hard-work along with ambition better prepare an individual to take advantage of these random events but without fortuitous providence, they aren't enough to provide success.
for me this is very weird. While being employed by a company the code you write is theirs, so what happens if I move to another company and reuse code from my brain?
Also do they understand how amazingly complex it would be to do code checks for similarity of code?
I have never understood why proposing, rather than analysing and modifying, laws is considered more important. Every so often the UK House of Lords gets in the news for “wrecking amendments”. There is enough power in each domain that I am comfortable with only the MEPs being directly elected in the EU, and with leaving the Lords unelected in the UK until (like this will ever happen) there is enough time to replace them with a carefully thought out alternative.
I would bet the average time to turn off the gas line to a random house would be more than 10 minutes. Probably much more.
> a copper list that completely defines the display, microsecond by microsecond, scanline by scanline

Sometimes even less. IIRC, some of the attempts to get around the chunky/planar problem for rendering Doom-likes took the approach of just drawing the whole screen in one colour and changing the palette definition of that colour on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
Their website claims that they're in 80 countries. Iirc it started in Mexico.
What is your gold standard here? I can only assume you're comparing to hand-written LaTeX. But if that is a feasible option for you then you might as well stick with it. Using something simple like markdown is really a compromise for non-TeXnical-typists.
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Somebody in another thread pointed out that much of the security community laughs at Linus. That says less about him than about their own insularity and inflated sense of self-importance. Attempts to defend CTS only show that his reciprocal contempt for them is well deserved. When members of a community act in stupid or toxic ways, it's very important for other members of that community to be first to censure them, lest they lose their own credibility.
what about for(var i=0...) ???
The EU has passed similar(ly destructive) policies in the past, like the GDPR. This would be perfectly consistent with their standard behavior.
I've used a "Portable Python" distribution, that bundled CPython with PyCharm and PIP.
Unless you're picking from a list of options, at which point Google becomes utterly useless to me.

I've literally spent 10 minutes in a "SMS, WhatsApp or Hangout" "SMS" "SMS, WhatsApp or Hangout" loop before, trying every inflection I could think of.
Anything involving the stock market is far from simple. And "don't spend money on stupid things" is more class signaling than financial advice. Who decides what is "stupid?" If it's important to you, why not estimate how much of an impact the purchase will have on your budget, and decide based on that? That requires math.

I dunno, I do arithmetic in my head just about every day. I can't imagine engaging in any sort of business transaction without that skill. Even just going to the grocery store, not being able to round, add, and multiply, means you're always going to be surprised at the cash register. I'd much rather know how much I'm going to spend before I get to the cash register so I don't look silly asking them to put things back for me.
Again, what have you expected? https://medium.com/multiple-personalities-order/how-to-be-th...
Org-mode can do all of those things.
Internal/external. So presumably there would be a higher risk of France, Germany and Britain going to war with each other if it wasn't for a trade agreement and customs union?

Despite them all being NATO members, unable to by treaty, with the whole NATO organisation geared up to enforce that?

How exactly would your scenario play out? I'm genuinely curious.
> This seems like an entirely hypothetical flaw in direct democracy whereas you only have to glance at the news to see that it's very non-hypothetical for our current system of representative democracy.

Not a very “hypothetical” flaw. If it was up to the majority to decide, interracial marriage likely would’ve been illegal into the 1990s: http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...
I completely agree with everything you've said. I think that an interesting way to gauge the accuracy of the model without doing major empirical research is to create models where talent is the decisive factor, and then compare which model's assumptions better capture what we know about the world. My guess is that for a variable to be a decisive factor, it must correspond to excessive control over others, thus not matching our colloquial definition of talent, but rather of power.
Depends on what "worth more" means. From a purely monetary standpoint liquidation that might be true. But giving VCs who are likely already rich more money vs. taking away peoples jobs isn't always the best way to "repurpose" money.
Relatedly, you might enjoy knowing of the Mandela Effect.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mandela_effect

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/
I've mostly switched to Dropbox Paper for writing work-related documents (and I think that product has some, "oddness", that I'd have difficulty explaining to a non-technical person). It seems to follow markdown syntax. I find it great for general writing tasks or creating documents I want to be able to refer back to, but it's probably missing some of the publishing & formatting features people get from Google Docs & Microsoft Word.

I'm not a huge fan of MS Word myself, but in the limited experience I had, it's very difficult to get people to move away from it. I'm kind of feeling like this is the kind of thing that software developer see as an obvious improvement to let people know about, but miss on the fact that there isn't a huge amount of friction on the problem this solution solves.
People are mixing "solving arithmetic problems" with "solving arithmetic problems without paper or calculator". Furthermore, GP's example mixes "can't calculate price per pound" with "Can't read a line graph". The former is okay, the more I advance in graduate training as a mathematician, the less I'm able to do mental math. The latter is bad.

There are good reasons for teaching mental math to children, but for adults, really, calculators exist. If you can't calculate price-per-pound with a calculator, you have a low IQ (can't translate a simple written instruction to pressing buttons on your phone) and should be elligible for government aid. But if you can't calculate discounts, compound interest, read graphs, etc -- these can be taught.

Should be taught. For example: banks could condition debt renegotiations to attendance to special financial education classes for adults. Governments could incentivize banks to do so by picking up part of the check for reduced debt.
> does not prove there is no point to Rust.

I didn't say anything along those lines. I said that it's up to developers to make their programs safe.

Defaults matter, no doubt. But they are not a silver bullet; greater base safety can even cause people to become lax when thinking about safety, resulting in even bigger problems. Why do Python developers accept and parse untrusted pickle objects? Because Python is safe, and they don't have to think about what's going on under the hood.

It's indirectly related to computer programming, but a study was done in Europe which showed that crashes in AWD vechicles were, on average, much more severe than 2WD vehicles. Why? Because of the added stability of AWD, people drove faster in adverse conditions.
But there's no representation on the EU standards bodies at all, and realistically there are two kinds of standard manufacturers tend to care about: US (mostly UL) and CE.
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> Sure, the Oric may not have the latest and greatest titles, but at least my kids know how to put a picture together with nothing but a few characters, an editor, and an understanding of hexadecimal

Some kids don't want nor will ever care to put their time to use by programming on an 8-bit architecture. Some won't even care to do it on current gen architecture, and that should be alright.

I could be misreading your tone (hope I am), but some people value experience rather than creation. Creators are not superior to consumers. Putting down others, especially children, because they'd rather play some shovelware mobile release than create something is distasteful. We may be technically inclined, but we aren't gods.
I agree that Markdown is great and all but

* File size. Not a big matter now-a-days but single text file can store many times more information than a binary file.

I don't think the author knows what a binary file is.
Trying to translate it into a handwritten message length instantly runs into the problem that handwriting is all over the place. I guess another way to think about it is 160 characters is roughly 32 English words.
As far as I can tell, the only advantage Siri has over Google Assistant is its integration with Wolfram Alpha. If you ask Siri "What is the angular diameter of Mars?" it will tell you the current angular diameter of Mars. Google Assistant can't do that. Apart from the Wolfram Alpha connection, Siri is inferior in every way, IMHO.
Emacs is going to be just as obtuse for your everyday business analyst as LaTeX
I've spent the bulk of my career on content-driven apps, ranging from basic CMS systems to platforms that manage workflow of large, complex, legal documents. And I can tell you that while Markdown works for basic formatting of short documents, it falls short when you work with people whose entire lives revolve around long documents with complex formatting. (Attorneys, policy writers, etc.) A UX that exposes markdown to that crowd just isn't widely accepted. And that is before we even get into actual features like TOCs, headers, pagination, margin control, nested tables, etc.

Now, the benefits of Markdown listed in the article are all true -- but also only loosely tied to the UX of the actual document authors and editors. If Markdown supports your formatting needs, sure, it is a good storage syntax for your content, fine. But don't make attorneys, policy writers, etc., use it. I'm not saying MS Word is the only answer either, but I highly recommend that people find/modify/create a more robust editor for your authors.
I would say that family has an extreme selfish gene. While I have extreme dislike for all of them, I don't know I would call them degenerates.
Failure is a real possibility when you try do something difficult and /or game changing. Failure isn't good but it's ok unless you want to be forever mediocre.
If you are the only one editing your documents, and if you have a workflow that which needs nothing more than what Markdown provides, this is well and good. But in the business world, particularly legal and finance, this is rarely the case.
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"pandoc --toc" puts a TOC in when creating pdf files. You can also use "--toc-depth=XXX" to select how many levels of headings you want in the toc. page numbers also get added automatically I think when using the book docclass.
We do a lot of large design/spec documents so we really make a lot of use of that.
I'm pretty proud of the careful preparation I did that led me to be born in the Netherlands.
Alva is an opensource project worth watching. It's working towards being platform-agnostic.

https://meetalva.io/
I believe you can only use the IP address with HTTP, and you might value HTTPS for this
If you bookmark it then your browser will autocomplete when you type “scihub”.

If you bookmark the Wikipedia article as well then you have autocomplete for “sci-hub”.

So then together you have autocomplete for both.

However I predict that the Wikipedia article will outlive the site OP made. It’s a fact of life that most sites (including a bunch I made myself so it’s not meant as any form of criticism) don’t last very long, either because the owner forgets to renew the domain or they’ve lost interest and don’t want to pay for it, or their hosting provider shuts down (don’t think heroku will anytime soon though), or the server they are hosted on has a disk malfunction (probably heroku customers will not suffer from that since I think heroku has a redundant storage solution in place), or the site gets out of date in regards to either the runtime on the server or an external API that is being used.
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Duties & Responsibilities:

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Good old Randall Monroe has come up with a theory in his What If series (it's in the book) whereby it's almost safe to touch one with your bare hands if it's immersed in a liquid which your hand is more buoyant than, but he counsels that it's probably not a great idea...