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I think if you actually listened to the people making the roads argument instead of reacting to what you incorrectly think people are saying, you'd discover that most of them (myself included) oppose US military spending.

EDIT: Given the things you are complaining about, it seems like we're fairly in agreement about how we would like tax spending to be allocated.

It seems like you believe that removing/reducing taxes is more realistic than reallocating spending. It's a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I can see how this is choosing a realistic imperfect solution over an unrealistic perfect one.

In fact, I'd agree with you if you could separate the issue of taxation from the issue of spending allocation, but unfortunately, you can't. Taxation isn't actually strongly correlated with spending in the US. Historically, conservatives have decreased taxes while increasing spending (largely on the military). If you vote for people who run on a platform of decreasing spending, what you end up with historically in the US is people who cut a few token programs (welfare, for example) and pump far more money into the military than was saved by their cuts, increasing the national debt. The result is that by pushing for tax cuts you actually exacerbate the allocation problems you've pointed out.
Very interesting. The accuracy achieved is quite impressive -- I think it would be lower when the technique would be applied in practice, since the assumptions that are made are quite strong. For looser assumptions (no disclosure about the compiler/optimization level, highest optimization level enabled, larger pool size), the technique is less accurate.

In practice, it might be interesting to give a fuzzier output - the esimated probability that an individual wrote the code for a certain binary. This would help when two programmers (say, Alice and Bob) write code that yields binaries with similar properties. In the current system, either Alice or Bob is picked -- there is no way to express that it might be either of them.
"Such a vacuum decay, however, wouldn’t take place until long after all stars have burned out and the universe has become inhospitable to life anyway. And seeing that most people don’t care what might happen to our planet in a hundred years, they probably won’t care much what might happen to our universe in 10100 billion years."
No, I wasn't accusing you at all. In fact, was agreeing with you. Just that I used a bit of sarcasm by pointing out how it is in here.
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Tracery is straightforward enough for kids old enough to read. It doesn't produce pretty pictures, but it might be a good fit for the older kids.

You might think of grabbing an OLPC machine, making a couple demos with turtle (like, lsystems or something else with knobs that are easy to tune), and giving them that.
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Conservatives are not reluctant they care about the environment themselves but they are reluctant with regards to letting the federal government determine who the winners are and I would tempt to agree with them.

As an example, shale gas did more for US CO2 reductions than any policy ever did while at the same time providing cheap energy and to conservatives, cheap energy is just as important as clean environment some would even claim those two go hand in hand.
Financial services aren't an immovable object like a steel press or a coal mine, they're a bunch of people in an office.

This is the standard argument, but I don't think it's a very strong one.

You can't pick up and move a steel press, but you can build a new one in a new country. Assuming it's a welcome development, that is mostly just a matter of investment money and building time. Hiring local staff to run it is probably relatively straightforward.

Financial services, as you point out yourself, are all about the people. It's an industry built on experience and knowledge. Obviously today many of those people work in the City and live within range of the City. There is also an ecosystem built around the City to support that work.

As far as I can see, nowhere else within the EU currently has anywhere close to that level of capability and established supporting infrastructure. There are only two ways that is going to change: either large numbers of existing staff from the City or maybe other global financial hubs are convinced to relocate to other member states where the new facilities are being set up, or a new generation of staff is developed locally.

Clearly either of those is possible, as is some sort of hybrid. However, I find the most common argument -- that large numbers of City workers will just transplant their entire lives to a whole different country to keep a job -- unlikely. People talk about emigration to the EU a lot since Brexit became an issue, but the reality is that few people have actually done it while we're an EU member state and it is relatively easy, and it could become a much more significant and permanent change after Brexit. That leaves the alternative of building up a local workforce in some new location, but that also means building a new financial centre to challenge the City. At best that is going to take many years, during which presumably access to big finance across the EU27 would be significantly worse than today, and even then it would be a risky endeavour that might never provide the alternative that people were hoping for.

As I said elsewhere, I hope cooler heads will prevail. The alternative to this is that the EU and UK negotiators grow up and realise that continuing relations in this area is hugely in both parties' best interest. If some deal is reached on financial services then the UK financial sector doesn't take a significant hit, and EU27 businesses and governments can continue to rely on the financial services they need with relatively little change or risk. It's hard to see how any plausible alternative isn't much worse than this in the short and probably medium term.
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That's why you should use a virtual number... protect your real phone number and your privacy. Here's a web app I released a few months ago that was made for dealing things like this. https://textmeprivate.com
There are US equivalents.
"This is antithetical to science. If you're promising a breakthrough discovery, you're approaching the experiment with bias."

I think all experiments are began with some premonition of what to expect. For example Michaelson and Morley very much expected to measure the speed through which earth would pass through aether ... except they couldn't. An the results pushed physics toward theory of relativity.

I disagree that's it's an entirely bad process to bankroll experiments based on unproven promises. This is exactly how the Manhattan Project happened. The physicists promised that it was very likely they could create a very large explosion, but they did not know if it would bang or fizzle. So, the US government began a huge industrial scale operation to enrich uranium and to assemble the bomb. The first atomic bomb explosion was very much empirical science that was bankrolled by "unsound" promises.

In this sense going beyond LHC would be kinda ground breaking - big budget science with absolutely no clue on what to expect. It's how discoveries are made, yes, but I'm not sure if any large scale scientific project has been funded without at least some clue on what to expect.
I don't think you want to live in a society that doesn't grow.
Justify it with the benefits of previous activity.
Hi! I'm the author of org-brain. I'm happy to see there's an interest for it. There's a screencast of me explaining it, which might give a better overview than the documentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EGOwfWok5s
I think you're just being bitten by the availability heuristic here. It's seemed completely ubiquitous to me since around 2014.
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If all things in life were fair there would be no need for wars, and certainly no need for trade wars.

But this trade war is one that we have needed to fight for a long time. Let’s do this.
That’s what I was not grasping. We were too poor to have a computer until I was 16 (in the 90s) so I missed that era. Thank you!
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Lax environmental regulation is picking winners.
Protect them with what authority and with what resources? Everyone raises their own militia against bad actors? What if the bad actor owns half the land in the region and all the guns?
Most of the people who own poorly insulated buildings do not just have thousands of dollars laying around to insulate them, regardless of how good the ROI is. It is far more a lack of money than lack of education, many poor people are fully aware of the money-saving opportunities afforded to people with access to more capital. And of course many people live in rental properties where the landlord would pay for the insulation to save the tenant's money on HVAC bills- the economic incentives are not aligned at all.
Which is very computer-science-y approach, and totally uninteresting at that,
because the (?PARNO) syntax is still embedded in the same regexp engine for
any practical purpose or distinction.

If you didn't know, a regexp engine with capture groups is already stronger
than what in formal languages theory is called "regular expressions".
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Its not that i personaly votet for building the LHC. Its not that a higgs discovery changed my life.

I don't think that politics are influenced by this at all and building something like an even bigger LHC, ah come on every physicist would love something like that anyway.
Commons isn't just land. It is anything that is shared publicly. Roads and the oxygen you breath are two examples.

Both of those examples mentioned above are right now being heavily polluted.

The tragedy of the commons is essentially this: The cost of me polluting the air by driving a car is much less then the cost of me not polluting the air and walking 20 miles to work instead. My pollution contribution to the air is minor when compared to walking 20 miles and therefore by choosing to drive i am acting logically. The phenomenon ghe theory addresses is that when everybody does this the aggregate contribution to pollution ends up destroying the commons.

Therein lies the tragedy: groups of people acting logically in picking the lesser evil end up destroying the commons.

Why do people even argue about this theory? It's readily apparent if you drive a car or use any form of non renewable energy.
as a recent burnout recoveree, it is possible at this point you have already lost a significant portion of your reserves and capacity to recover. You need to make immediate changes which allow you to recover energy. Burnout recovery is painful and you do not come out the same person.

If you are having a hard time sleeping or have unexplainable pains and aches this is your wake up call to act, your body WILL stop you at some point.
I use a regular expression maybe a couple days out of the year; it seems they don't come up very often in real-time biomedical algorithms engineering. I'm sure most embedded programmers feel the same way.
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People said, our plans were expensive.
We increased it by 10x.

Result - Much higher revenue, sales team/customer service is happy as customers are now less demanding. The engineering team is happy as they get more budget to play with.
I am not aware of any such plans. There is a supported API starting with Java 9 http://hirt.se/blog/?p=870 but it is "JDK" (Open/Oracle JDK and derivates) specific and lives in the jdk.jfr module and package.
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> Increasing fines for the 1% can solve at most 1% of the speeding problem.

Already incorrect if that 1% of the population commits more than 1% of the speeding offenses because the fines are irrelevant to them.
You drive a car. Everyone drives a car knowing that the exhaust pushes toxic fumes into the air. You do it and i do it. What invisible hand is stopping this? The evidence is right in front of your face.... you don't need a life time addendum to free market theory to show that it is wrong.
Do you know whether Flight Recorder will be a non-commercial feature in Oracle JDK 11 and later? The reason I'm asking is because AppCDS which was a commercial feature in Oracle JDK 8 and is a non-commercial feature in OpenJDK 10 will still be a commercial feature in OracleJDK 10.
Algebraic data types and ML-style modules are non-negotiable.
> My previous go-to for frontend was TypeScript, but it wore me down

Yes, coming from Scala.js it feels like TypeScript constantly tells me little lies (i.e. that the runtime type of the typed type is not in fact the type in question, but something else entirely). A powerful language with plenty of interesting features, but there are better options out there if strict typing is of interest.

No choice in current project, Angular essentially requires TypeScript. Editor support for TypeScript (via VS Code) and JS interop are, however, excellent.
Having tendon issues in my wrists, I would love a linear keyboard with gentle push down force. Or at least just gentle push down force. Any suggestions?
They also have the whole world except the USA to expand to.
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There is no exponential when it comes to renewables. The only source of energy we have that provides exponential is nuclear but unfortunately, there is a lot of pushback although it's both greener and provides more energy than wind and solar can ever do.

Furthermore, while they are renewable to they are also unreliable and need to have backup sources which makes them unfit as a enegy base. Remove the subsidies and you will see just how problematic they are.

And then we haven't even looked at the problem with producing them, maintaining them etc.

http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/topics/encyclopedia/so...
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We have a vast history of negative experience - your experiment was performed historically, and failed. Regulations didn't just appear - they arrived often because of often vast weaknesses or failures in our systems; whether moral, ethical, physical, or judicial. I lived then and things had gotten bad and individuals suing (for nuisance) was not practical - it literally took the power of a government to force change upon those both innocent and guilty.
Capitalism, to seem like it's working, requires such theft of public property that it's even considered an inept and devious act to...

> pass an online sales tax [law].
Adam Smith's invisible hand idea was in the context of nail factories operated by maybe ten people, and with logistics chains maybe spanning to the next village. It would be very efficient in finding the best nail maker in the close vicinity. Or, the best monopolist that burnt down or purchased all competing nail factories.

Efficient markets NEED an efficient government to put down ground rules and enforce them.
Maybe. But it could also mean the Standard Model is some sort of dead end. There are a lot of observed phenomena it doesn't explain, and absent new discoveries there's not much consensus on where to go next.
You can provide low cost or free insulation (including fitting) to poor people.

This is one way to make welfare payments more effective. People are spending their money on food, and not as much on heating.

If you live in a country with denationalised utility companies you can get them to pay for this from the profits they're getting after denationalisation.

But, even when you do this you find people have different reasons for not accepting the offer.

The UK "Nudge Unit" found that the thing that drove more signups to loft insulation wasn't just free insulation, but offering a free loft clearance service too.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/may/02/nudge-unit-...

> For years, by offering financial help to insulate people's lofts, thereby reducing their energy consumption and their bills, successive governments had been trying to give money away – and failing. But in 2011, the nudge unit realised that money wasn't the problem. What held people back was all the clutter that they knew was stored up there.

> So in a trial, people were offered not subsidised insulation, but subsidised loft clearance – with unwanted items being taken to local charity shops – on the condition that they got the space insulated afterwards. The scheme cost people more, but they loved it, and uptake rates tripled. If the insulation was subsidised as well, it became a fivefold increase. Another approach was less successful, but equally revealing. When offered a still greater discount for every friend or neighbour they roped in, people took no interest. You cannot put a price, it appears, on being seen to be a loft-botherer.
Maybe it's a huge team, so there are multiple individual signatures and it's tough to track down heterogenous signatures.
200+ A circuits in a residential home really makes a point for 400 V three phase (where the same load would be ok with a standard 63 A circuit, which is still a lot). [1]

However, when more and more people try to have fast chargers in their homes for EVs, then not only the residential installation poses a problem, but utilities would need to rebuild ~two layers of distribution to accomodate for a 100-200 % increase in residential power consumption.

[1] Not just because high currents are more difficult to handle properly, but also because you need a lot less copper.
AMD has usually used Ashes of the Singularity as demo to show how well a game can run with DX12 or Vulkan multi-GPU.

But many of the modern engines have started splitting their render tasks so that some can be put onto additional GPUs (or physics tasks, or animation tasks, ...)
Physics research has got to focus on commercially viable fusion, that is the most urgent environmental and geopolitical problem facing the West if not the entire world.
> A the treaty power is another clause, so sure, you can do a lot of things that aren't enumerated powers (but that aren't prohibited!) by signings treaties.

The Tenth Amendment says that anything not explicitly granted to the United States is reserved to the individual states or people: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. I.e., it prohibits any power it doesn't explicitly grant.

I think it's pretty obvious that the United States can't take power from the states simply by signing treaties with foreign powers, rather than being given those powers by the states and/or people.

> No sillier than the winning argument in Gonzales v. Raich!

Which was terribly bad law.
Wait, what makes the EPA a left thing? It was proposed by Richard Nixon.
You are so right! How could you possibly go out of practice in real-time biomedical algorithms engineering when you might use them one or two times out of the year?! I must have missed the memo where all those strings are encoded in a patient's hemodynamic signal.

There are few people more frustrating to algorithms engineers and embedded engineers than people like you who think you are the only type of programmers out there or that the programming you do is somehow superior(despite largely relying on math you learned at a decent secondary school).
Not much I can disagree with there, except that apart from labour and safety standards none of what you describe is in any way unfair. Being poor and willing to work for less money isn't cheating. Meanwhile, as they develop and labour wages rise and the pool of untapped labour dries up, the bargaining power of workers in China and elsewhere to get improved wages and conditions also rises. We can see that happening in China now.

It’s indisputable that China has used many protectionist manoeuvres to hamper and limit foreign participation in Chinese markets, but western countries have been willing to accept that in return for having access at all. If we want to renegotiate that position fine, and maybe judicious use of tariffs and restrictions could be a useful tool to use to prompt serious negotiation, but that’s not the same thing as just flat out hitting the nuclear button and going for an all out trade war, which is what seems to be happening.
Who is talking about lax? You can set rules for what you will allow and then have the market find solutions that can live up to that. Nothing lax or picking winners about that.
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As I said before, resource management is first and foremost a matter of correctness, so performance is neither here nor there. While you don't need manual resource management for data structures containing values, you do need it for various types of handles (files, network connections, you name it), which a GC cannot guarantee it will collect at the right moment. There is no reason why you couldn't have GC when it makes sense, and deterministic reclamation where it is required.
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Governments, armies, and interested parties, have been doing this for millenia.
While I do agree that you should be able to do experiments for experiment's sake, and to just "see what happens" so to speak, projects like the LHC and the fusion reactor projects are all multi-billion projects; that's a lot of money to be spending on something where people don't know what to expect.

But yeah, experiments, especially nowadays, are to prove theories, not to push breakthroughs - in fact, given the higgs boson was already theorized, science could already use it. Not sure what the LHC added to that besides proving it exists.
I feel like the author is nitpicking here. 7% of genes didn't change but 7% of genes exhibited different "genetic activity levels" ? What does that mean ? Not being a biologist, it sounds to me that .... genes changed...
I'm in the UK and hold the GBP products, so I'm unsure sorry.
Being conservative used to have some meaning. The EPA was established by Richard Nixon, of all people.

If you care less about other people than Nixon, you should really ask yourself: “?How far have I strayed from the pack?”
US Treasury rates have never been higher relative to the Eurozone
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Some people are actually working on that. For example, Ice911 is testing high-albedo sand: http://www.ice911.org/

Arctic researcher Peter Wadhams has been advocating geoengineering. His recent book A Farewell to Ice is a grim but fascinating read. Here's a short piece he wrote for Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-la...

Other proposals for increasing arctic albedo include using wind-powered ships to seed low-altitude clouds with seawater, injecting sulfur dioxide to high altitudes, and actually making more ice by using millions of windmill buoys to pump cold deep water to the surface. Here's an article on that last one: https://asunow.asu.edu/20161222-solutions-asu-scientists-pro...
What are the benefits of the LHC again? I mean, the benefits of spending billions that all of us can notice in our daily lives?
The claim being made is that 7% of his DNA changed, not his genes.
The goal was to emulate what https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild started many years ago but take it alot further. Adopt will provide completely open transparent infrastructure as code (and infrastructure) for folks to build OpenJDK. We've got Red Hat, IBM, Oracle and SAP + various JUG's participating and I expect it'll become the common build farm for Java going forwards. People are also more than welcome to clone the whole thing and use it internally!