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The reasoning is that mouse stops the border of the screen no matter how far the mouse is moved, making an effective target that is huge off the screen, so easy and quick to hit. This would hold true even with large screens, unless you dial down the acceleration of the mouse for fine control--as others have pointed out.

But the issue is Apple broke the whole mechanism with hot corners. Now if I move fast anywhere near a hot corner, it gets activated. And now the menu bar near the corners is tiny and hard to hit with a "huge" hot corner right nearby (the hot corner gets the benefit of the inifinte off-screen target). I find the same problems will full-size browsers (with tabs along the top), I'm always hitting the hot corners instead of the top lerpft and right tabs. I guess I can always change my corner settings.

Additional gripe about the top menu in MacOS: the biggest fault I've found is that it can be active for an app whose windows are hidden or that currently have any windows, thus creating a mismatch between what you see (other windows) and what is active (responding to keyboard shortcuts for example).
I don't think that's an accurate analogy, at least at the enterprise level.

Generally speaking, individuals do not make decisions. They may influence decisions or find novel ways to apply rules, but anything organizationally important is written down somewhere.

Typically for legal purposes.
Question for the collective:

As data rates in cables have gone up, designers have resorted to putting codecs into the housing at the end(s) of the cables to keep up. In some cases this has made for connectors that are only slightly smaller than those from the 90’s.

Can flexible circuits switch at a high enough rate to perform these signal processing tasks? I’m imagining building the circuits into the ends of the cable itself (under the strain protector?) instead of the housing. Or do we just wait for smaller chips?
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Just citing one example, there are many reasons why I may or may not want to work in China. This one just came to mind first as it was a major reason one of my employers didn't do buisness there. The human rights abuses are a whole different bag of worms that I didn't want to get into here.
If you have to be able to review any decision manually that people complain about, that is significantly limiting. It means you can only write software to do things humans can do

If you create an algorithm that by pure coincidence happens to discriminate against a protected class then any judge will take a dim view of you claiming to be unable to explain it.

I’d like to encourage everyone, even if just for fun, to insist on an explanation for every algorithmic decision they may be subjected to
I have re-read them and note them.
I watched an episode of Star Trek TNG this morning where they disconnect the microphones in a room so the computer can't hear them.

(the one where Barclay gets zapped with the brain light)

On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money.
Actually even the use of embedded here is somewhat ambiguous. Embedded as in devices, or embedded as in embedded within another programming language. I think it might mean the latter here.
> Whether data is hosted in Russia or the EU it’s at risk of being stolen, exposed, and misused and the liability companies have for that has not changed (there is no liability)

So your contention is that the same risk exists no matter the storage location?

Bad things can happen anywhere. I submit that certain locations are more prone to certain situations. Knowing your information is being stored in a certain location at a minimum gives you the opportunity to deny additional information from yourself (stop using the service).

Since this discussion has regressed to the point where you're essentially arguing that additional information has no utility, and I fundamentally disagree with that point, I'm not sure the point of continuing. We're just repeating our points with different examples.
I keep being dazzled how what's basically "cloud CGI" is such a runaway success. Utter simplicity beats many considerations.

(For those who did not write web apps in 1990s: CGI here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface)
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> I can see the argument the other way around, where the text the user selects should be the text they copy

This is almost never the case for headers and such. New York Times or CNN have fancy logos/headlines, but we don't want to reproduce them each time we refer to the company or specific article - we just want the content. text-transform is a great way to achieve presentation need (bold headlines) without messing up content. Copying - excepting cases of visual copying, e.g. screenshot - should always have an option of content-only copying.
Apple wrote the application, and runs the servers on the back end to support it.

Why shouldn’t they be allowed to choose where they should port that software?

Should they be forced to port it to Windows? Should they be forced to port it to Linux? Maybe they should be forced to port it to plain old analog telephone systems?
You say that like Twitter declaring bankruptcy would be a bad thing
You forget to mention, that this isnt a regulation covering a technology. Its about how a specific technology is utilised in a very specific use case.

The entire debate is, like the name suggests, about the regulations of how personal information can be used in an economic context. Unsurprisingly, some of these use cases are illegal now and existed in a loophole before.

To simplyfy, framing a question this way is similar to asking if rights of gun ownership are infringed by outlawing shooting people.
Good luck! As someone who does this a lot, having a "sample" issue (or an issue 1) is a huge help in getting people to give over their address nowadays as people are more wary than ever to do so. We usually produce an "issue 1" weeks before launch now to help with this.
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You do not have much life experience outside of the west, or professional experience in China, but you feel some kind of cultural superiority that roused you to suggest that democratic traditions encourage creativity and authoritarian government discourages it.

Your priors are wrong. I work in the US, public and private grants are shrinking year over year, and anti-intellectualism is rampant. Meanwhile my Chinese colleagues, at the same place in their career, are practically local celebrities and receive unprecedented (in the US) resources to do decade longitudinal research and increase headcount. In reality, China is on the bleeding edge in AI because their government and private industry has the social cohesion to focus on scientific advancement. Besides the vast intellectual capital at their disposal, they can cheaply afford to iterate quickly as the means of manufacturing and production are local.
> People don't really need another city sim.

Why do you say that? There's not really a ton of them out there compared to RPGs, FPSs, etc.
You can be objective in how you present the various ideas and viewpoints that people have on the subject. Rather than saying a viewpoint is right, you explain the reasons people give for it, and then let the reader decide which arguments they buy and which they reject.
Hold up, data scientists don't know why their ML is deciding things and companies are using it to decide important things in people's lives? Sounds like it should be banned until companies can actually explain the decisions and some data scientists need to take an ethics class.
Your comment seems to imply that more expensive cars are more reliable, which as far as I know is not true.
Doesn't the user need to have docker installed to run that one line? That's kind of a big prerequisite
Serverless is nothing more than PaaS - just at a more granular deployment/operation/billing/analytics scale. PaaS has always had a certain amount of lock-in because it's an abstraction, as any abstraction naturally does.

There are also some abstractions like Kubernetes that are neutral yet also managed with extras by all the providers which is a nice middle ground.

None of this is new or groundbreaking other than the silly hype words like "serverless".
Isn't that ruling just allowing news stations to segment certain time frames as news and others as entertainment? They still can't make stuff up during news segments.
> The educational psychologist Bonnie Cramond, for example, tested a group of children in Louisiana who had been determined to have A.D.H.D. and found that an astonishingly high number — 32 percent — did well enough to qualify for an elite creative scholars program in the Louisiana schools.

I did extremely well in tests but was bad with homework.

Here's the problem: many ADHDers have high iq and can easily pass tests but might have huge problems coping with the boredoom of ordinary days.
Non-American in NYC; I read somewhere that ~50% of New Yorkers weren’t born in the US, so being a foreigner is as much a rule as an exception
It's rather cute to so naively believe such practices can be maintained.
What makes you think Republicans care about increases in the efficiency of the free market?
He's just thinking asymptotically. f(n) = n(n-1)/2 = O(n^2).
I'm a cyclist. But get a kick out of the high number of sanctimonious cyclists out there. They feel since they're on the road they're entitled to all of it.

Of course it's not ideal when a car is parked in the bicycle lane, but you can signal and go around it, as other cars do.
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The bulk of Niger's population is in the Sahel, not the Sahara.
Exactly, which is what reveals this particular proposal to be disingenuous.
>What is there in the Chinese Room which experiences the qualia someone who understands Chinese does?

The system instantiated by the book, the man performing instructions, his memory and/or external memory aids, etc. The key point is that there is a new system that produces and consumes semantic information that is entirely distinct from the man. For example, if a question was asked to describe a childhood experience, no experience from the man's childhood would be communicated.
But hardware can be simulated in software.
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Wow, this is striking:

"In 2016, Hillary Clinton won only 472 counties, but they represented fully 64% of GDP. Donald Trump’s 2,584 counties accounted for only 36%."
In Sean Parent's 'Inheritance is the base class of evil' talk Sean outlines an interesting way to achieve runtime polymorphism without inheriting interfaces in C++.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhUE5uUFOA
Who chose the people that worked for him?

Or do you think that the management team at Apple also does nothing?

Much of the board and many of the execs at Apple changed when they bought NeXT. So much so that many people at the time called it a "reverse acquisition."

Jobs was great at finding the best talent. Jony Ive was at Apple long before the NeXT acquisition, and Jobs put him in the right position very, very rapidly. Would the average person have done the same thing? Would the average person have cared nearly so much about design?
There can be hundreds of people in any venue. There can be more than ten thousands in a skyscraper.

Everyone in an "area" is not necessarily a narrow scope.
No, it's always their fault. /s
Their interpretation of "free market" is one where companies can do whatever they want, not functioning market as in price transparency. The same could be said for health care. They always talk about the market but as patient you have no market power since you don't get any prices and I haven't seen any Republican effort to address this.
Are you suggesting that Mastodon has a better system for identifying harassment, spam, and spam accounts? Or that, given that they're mostly friendly early adopters, they haven't yet encountered the problem?
There's significantly less randomness now. Less disease, more economic mobility, higher standard of living, and more safety nets then 150 years ago.

The only way to succeed when the odds are disadvantageous and out of your control is to make many attempts.
Depends on the skill. Low-quality tools can interfere with effective learning and thwart budding passions.
It's straightforward logic.

Serverless platforms increase convenience.

Throwing them away decreases convenience and increases developer time to learn and launch.

Many great inventions, like writing, automobiles, all increased convenience.

Throwing away inventions that increase convenience, decreases convenience.
NYC still has automated red light cameras... well known to piss people off. So I would say experimentally you are wrong.
I've often wondered this. You could write a set of generic webview based apps (say, Windows 10 and MacOS to start) and a small js library that would allow cross platform access to low level apis, even just a few at first like file dialogs. React native is sort of like this.
>I would be surprised if brains were able to maintain quantum coherence

Are you hypothesizing the mind is entirely self contained within the brain and independent from the rest of the body and it's environment?
The original author shouldn't have done linear calculations but exponential.

That said: the longer that it takes to get that exponential; the more there is in the atmosphere.

I wonder how those curves compare to linear and where break even is...
Every time this happens, the same people magically transform from saying “What, are you paranoid?” to “What, are you naive?”

The NSA’s surveillance dragnet is a very different situation because they are a government agency, but you could see the same exact phenomenon happened when the Snowden revelations came out.

“Do you really think the government cares enough to log all your phone calls? You must be paranoid.” became “Well, obviously the government does this. How could you not expect this?” in the blink of an eye.
After reading the comments here it probably boils down on what you focus. If you see the entire work pointing out the unsustainability of exponential population growth that will come to an halt either by positive or preventive checks, then you will probably not call him wrong. If you focus on his view that people will probably not be able to get the fertility rate down to sustainable levels and that a Malthusian catastrophe is therefore probably inevitable, then you will most likely call him wrong. But as I said before, I didn't read much of his work and therefore I might have a misconception about what points he actually stressed the most.
For reference, there was an article here on what it takes to track a million cell phones in real time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803443
People donate through what are known as charitable gift annuities. It's a tax minimization and income strategy.
> specific physical properties of the brain will turn out to be important for consciousness.

But we do know something about the components of brains and they don't seem to exhibit any features that cannot in principle be computed.

>But everyone in this domain is guessing.

Sure we're guessing, but Searle goes further to rule out potential solutions based on assumptions of specialness of brains.
The problem I’ve seen with throttling is that the ISPs tend to allow traditional Speedtest sites to be unthrottled, while carefully “shaping” the speeds to other sites like Netflix.

So, you need testing tools that accurately mirror what you would be doing with those other streaming sites.

Oh, and the actual speedtest sites frequently lie to you abou the speeds you’re getting. But that’s a different matter.
I don’t think this is a valid fear. The cost of a state issued license is considered too high to be fair in use in a much less important area of society, voting.

Ownership of a gps enabled tracking device? No chance that is ever cheap enough to be considered required to own as evidence against incarceration.
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This holds true for Japanese companies outside Japan, my wife was working as a developer for TOTO Mexico and they had a lot of personnel rotation because of these differences, mainly the meeting culture, it would often get in the way of the work and people ended up quitting or getting fired. It was however a good experience because of the high quality and standards it kept up with the product.
a first step where the question is treated and discussed without possibility to answer.

How would you enforce this - would you try to enforce it? If there's any kind of comment box, you'll get people posting answers in there, if it's amenable to a short answer.
> This new world driven by the constant emphasis on differences rather than on commonalities is exhausting, frankly.

I know this is technically off-topic and I'll likely be down-voted for an "Amen" post. But, Amen.

I seek, and have yet to find, a venue where folks regularly embrace commonalities, much less celebrate them, while together seeking solutions to society's ills from politically-competing perspectives.
> It is not a third-world dump hole but it is a not a first world class country either.

I'd be interested in hearing what it is that you find in first-world countries that you don't find in Lisbon. Genuine question.
I still use a version of FORTH as an embedded debug tool, have done for several different CPU architectures over the years. I wrote some extensions that help to offset the "double edged sword with no handles" danger, such as local methods, call/return prototypong (basically formalize=ing the conventional word definition comment, which I also snag as is into definitions as a help string) that garuntees stack frame handling on entry and exit. Also wrote an auto-translater for C wrappers of function calls and struct definitions to get symbolc interaction with the code being debugged. Really speeds up behavioral debugging (Real Time systems have to be runnig to diagnose, not halted and flayed open on the operating table like breakpoint debugging does).
Searle's argument depends on our intuition of the distinction between syntax and semantics, but this distinction seems very outdated to me. It's an easy intuition to have in 1980, but its hard to defend in 2018. It's true that syntax itself isn't enough for semantics, but syntax is a component of a system that recognizes semantics, i.e. low level rule based operations that in aggregate entail semantics. So to say that because computers operate based on syntactic structures means the computer can never understand semantics is just a mistake on many levels.
I once used an app to record my location, which I'm sure was in my Google account. It mis-recorded my location to be in the centre of a park in the town I was in the middle of the night, but I was actually at home asleep. Needless to say, it crossed my mind if this data could be used as a false positive in any investigation if they got hold of all people recorded as being in that area.
No, I don't think that's it.

I think OP is referring to "NEW YORK TIMES CO. v. SULLIVAN" where the Supreme Court placed the bar of something being libel as the accused having 'actual malice' which is in itself is somewhat slipperly defined as having knowledge that they were lying, or recklessly not investigating what they were publishing.
The time working remotely worked best for me, I spent three to three and a half days a week interacting with coworkers, meeting, troubleshooting and identifying problems. Then on fridays I sat in a coffee shop coding like mad to address one or more of the things I learned by talking to people.

My code (central library six products used to interchange data) was good because I saw it reflected in the experiences of my coworkers.

To experience that I had to train people to interact with me when they got stuck. I needed to be absent one day a week so that I had an opportunity to do something about what I learned. To execute the plan I had built up all week. Almost half of the code I wrote all week was done on fridays. But it was often the most useful.
Interesting. Truth be told, I remember when it was simply him on YouTube. I guess to carry on, one would have to go for 3Blue1Brown to get the fundamentals of university math.
That's one thing to bugs me in the US with a lot of products. The price you actually pay is often vastly different from the advertised price. I don't really care if there is some additional fee they have to pay. It's their cost of doing business. Maybe I should start a business that advertises everything for free. Then add management fees, sales tax, cost on loans, employee payment fee and so on.
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As I cannot reply to squeegee5 comment I'll reply here:

So, because I don't have the right experience I shouldn't voice my opinion, in a way that suggests I am willing to be proven wrong? I never said I was correct, I said this is what I think and wanted to know what others thought. I never claimed to be qualified, I actually implied I wasn't. It seems you have more experience in this area than I, so I learned something from your comments. Again my issue with your comment isn't that you're telling me I'm wrong, its that you are telling me I am racist
None of that was magically delicious.
Admittedly, my reply was lacking necessary detail. The parallel I was trying to draw with OPEC is that, in order for a cartel to work effectively, each member has to adhere to the rules established by the cartel, sometimes to the short-term detriment of any individual cartel member. With OPEC, this means strict controls on the output of oil. In good times, each member seems to keep production in line with the OPEC established standards, but the minute any stress is added to the system (primarily dropping oil prices), all bets are off and we see individual members increasing their production to maintain short-term cash flow - you essentially said this same thing in your comment.

It seems like your proposal would establish a cartel-like structure related to corporate tax rates. I was trying to point out the inherent fragility of this type of arraignment, especially in the EU where there are many stressors between member countries.
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> Wouldn’t an honest Republican administration be in favor of price transparency

Sure, but not enforced by the federal government. The theory is that the free market will take care of everything. If the market values price transparency, then companies that don't practice it will lose to those that do.

Of course, appealing as this theory it, the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn't actually work. But the Republicans have never been keen on letting data interfere with ideology.
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