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I think that under all forms of government powerful people are going to try to accrete more power to themselves. Difference of outcomes therefore are based in the ability to restrict that.

A benevolent dictatorship cannot exist et alia because a person cannot live for ever and I simply don't know how you could assure that the transition from one benevolent dictator to another when the first one ceases to be competent. For instance, let's presume that Xi Jinping is the perfect president of China. When he dies or retires or becomes too ill to govern, will the PRC be able to select a new perfect president to replace him? or will they choose someone who is inclined to serve their own interests and was able to benefit from Xi's time? This is the ultimate problem of a benevolent dictorship: it cannot assure state continuity and stability beyond the effective lifespan of the dictatorship.

People also tend to become more habitual as they do something for a long time. Politeness and friendships limit them from being able to introduce policies that will benefit the country at the expense of those who have their ears. So it's possible that a governing style which served the state and the country well for many years will need hard revisions. Periodic changes in governor (as democracies have) mean it's more likely the incoming team will be able to retain what is still fresh and discard what is now stale, and they will be connected with different people and therefore not too worried about upsetting some of them. (I think this is a good part of what's wrong at the moment: major parties around the world are connected too much to the same interests, so a change of government doesn't result in as much upset as needs to happen. Votes will gradually transfer from the establishment to the anti-establishment parties. They will be able to upset the entrenchment, but it remains to be seen whether they will do so in the interests of the nation or the interests of an alternative elite.)

As for your last sentence, I think I misunderstand it. I disagreed with you and straightforwardly stated my opinion, and then it seems that you attacked me: it reads like you're accusing me of not being able to handle disagreement. I don't think I attacked you. Perhaps you would clarify it, or highlight the place where you think I "don't take too kindly to disagreement".
I can appreciate we have different viewpoints. I can appreciate that, as a taxpayer, you’re upset. I also see the issues with institutions like CPS (having lived in Chicago proper). I don't believe paying teachers for outcomes when outcomes are primarily driven by influences outside of a teacher's control [1], but that is a discussion for another thread.

I don’t think it’s a secret I’m hard to the left. People first. That’s how empathy works, economic efficiency be damned. Are there issues with how pension systems are gamed? Certainly, and fixes need to be put in place (benefit systems should never have the capacity to be gamed). Should public sector workers have reduced benefits or salaries because the American public has allowed their representatives to hand all the gains to Corporate America? Absolutely not.

We have slowly, over decades, mortgaged the future (at local, state, and federal levels, speaking specifically about the US). The bills are coming due, and everyone is surprisingly shocked. I can’t tell you what to do, but I have gotten involved in politics and intend to contribute to a solution. I encourage you to do the same.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/social-sector/our-insigh...
"Do no harm! unless of course you can sedate your clients forever... then it's a gray enough area that we'll just all get rich!" My heart curls into strange shapes when I think of all the friends I've lost to opiates.
> Meanwhile Walmart has to come up with the $.20 out of their store operating costs, but those costs are an opportunity to cut something that Amazon doesn't have. They could improve the energy efficiency of their stores. They could lay off some greeters. They could renegotiate the lease on their stores against the fact that all other retailers will have to pay the same new tax, which reduces the market value of commercial rental property.

Walmart makes up for the difference profit margins with amazon because of volume. Reducing operating costs at pure profit is already at walmarts disposable: what they could do is reduce the quality of products (worse chain of supply, worse produce, worse items) which is in practical terms also a tax in consumers.

They really are distorting.
I observe that the article starts out talking about closing coal mines and the decline of manufacturing jobs. As a white person, it sounds to me like the white people interviewed for this article face declining economic prospects (understandably of concern), notice an increased abundance of people of color around them, and then feel angry about the people of color. Emotions are of course not rational things, but I don't really understand the leap there.

After all, it seems like racial disparities between whites and people of color still exist, with whites on top (https://news.stanford.edu/2017/06/16/report-finds-significan...). So the real wealth transfer seems to be from low-income whites to high-income whites. Bear in mind, I don't think that's a good thing at all. Indeed, it seems like the antipathy would be better directed at the wealthy, rather than people of color. Or the energy would be better spent lobbying for help transitioning economically away from dying industries like coal power. But somehow this nebulous notion of racial pride gets dragged into the conversation instead. I suppose that's just people being people, but it doesn't leave me too optimistic about our prospects for a more peaceful and sane future.
We don't need more janitors. We need to get serious about fare enforcement. Fence in all the fare-paid areas so people don't blatantly jump over them, and get rid of the swinging doors that people walk through with zero consequence.

BART is totally lawless. In the past 4 years, I've had a knife pulled on me, and had someone try to steal my computer. Every day I see dance shows, littering, people passed out on two seats, people blasting music, rampant fare evasion, and drug use at Powell/Civic Center. I'm tired of it and want the system's rules to be enforced.
From what I've seen, it includes lots of non-EV specific things like:

door has huge gap on one side, rubs against frame on other side

panels not fitting together correctly

screwed up weather stripping application
This is only possible because the browser on desktops is "fast".

I try the same idea with Android/iOS. In iOS, all fly, but man... android is super-slow.

I can't believe it myself, so I downloaded several demos of html-based apps and the results hold.

I totally will kill for a webview-like control on android that I could reliable use and be almost 80% as fast as on iOS..

Now I implementing the UI on both, and seriously is harder than I expected... Never imagine the Apis were that bad...
The Google spider has an entirely different experience, when going from page to page on Quora, than what the user does (someone not signed in).

Google hammers any normal site that gets caught presenting a fundamentally different experience to the user than they do the spider. Google is not unaware that Quora, Pinterest and LinkedIn present different experiences to the bot vs the user, they knowingly allow it for giant services. That's the hypocrisy and double standard.
The most important rule to use LinkedIn is to never ever log in. Or if you do, do it on a computer and shhh stop pressing those buttons. Just do the minimal and leave.
Just bro science here, but if tofu had a real effect on the hormones, wouldn't that mean that gynecomastia should have a much higher prevalence in the countries, such as Japan, where tofu is consumed daily?
The Sylvia is amazing. It really is. Also consider a second hand La Cimabli Junior. Both leave the opposition for dead, are easy to work on and have readily available parts.
The moral of this story is that people that own a business must have an estate plan that they have discussed with their heirs. If you don't resolve a plan while you are alive, it's likely your loved ones will suffer.
I enjoyed the social aspect of it. Learning from new people. I use Manton Reece’s service Micro.Blog now and love it.
> Maybe this is just inevitable evolution of the IT industry but I've noticed two things that are alarming.

I was at the Southern California Linux Expo[1] earlier this month, and one of the really weird things was how many people from Microsoft were presenting and attending (I wasn't the only one - Bryan Lunduke, ex-MSFT, did a podcast episode about it[2]). I think the trends you point out are from a lot of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Java, etc people now being forced into the Linux world, because Linux is now the default for new IT projects. Unfortunately they are bringing along their "practices" instead of retraining in good software systems engineering.

[1] https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/16x
[2] http://lunduke.com/2018/03/10/microsoft-headlined-a-major-li...
Still, if someone is not wiling to die for their cause, are they willing to get on a plane that they planted a bomb on and trust that their organization will come through and stop the plane before it takes off?

Seems much easier to just bribe an airport worker "Hey buddy, I'll give you $5000 if you put this bag of "drugs" on flight 1234"
Anecdotally, a lot of people hold Chico at the bottom

Fairly or unfairly, Chico State has a reputation within the CSU system as the "party school".
Generally I prefer specifications too, but ever since the WHATWG-W3C split, it's become a choice between stuff that isn't yet implemented (WHATWG), and stuff that never was implemented (W3C). At least MDN documents accurately what one major browser supports, and includes compatibility tables for others.
But still not as much as private ones. Even the highest, Berkeley and UCLA, have about 21-22% of OOS and international students. The remaining UCs have less than 20%.
> I don't even think something like this necessarily needs to provide native UI elements, rather it just needs to be a more performant, easier to use, smaller, version of electron that could easily be used from any language.

Sounds a whole lot like what you’re talking about https://github.com/zserge/webview
I did something similar, I was a novice C programmer, and had a problem that could have used some `rot` instructions that weren't available, so I used the emit asm flag to generate stubs and wrote the function in asm, it would have taken me ages to do it from scratch, but fixing up the output of the C compiler took about an hour of experimentation.
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Almost all cultures and societies on Earth are living on land that once belonged to another group of people.

According to you, no one on Earth deserves to keep anything they have, because their ancestors took it from someone else.
It seems weird to insist that all future obligations have to be funded with money that's set aside now. To give a small example, it would sound crazy if someone said people had to set aside a fund whose interest could pay all the cost of raising a child in advance.
I find that I must spend a significant amount of time on every new page of technical content to really understand it and soak it in. As I'm reading through any publication I stop after each page and mentally quiz myself on what I've just read just to be sure I'm not faking the funk. It's one thing to understand a concept as you're reading it but I would say that's not enough--you should be able to recall it from memory with the ability to explain it to someone else who has never been exposed to that concept.

This worked for me at my first few jobs and it's working for me now in learning complex systems and tactics as they relate to flying and employing military helicopters.

To augment my reading I also use the spaced-repetition app Anki. This has proved invaluable to me and I currently have over 2000 "flashcards" related to my current occupation.
That escalated quickly. Are you sure if Israel wanted to pin an extra-legal assassination on you, they couldn't do so already?
Having no background in even basic high school math has killed me, failing pre-calculus twice now.

Perhaps you needed to start a little farther upstream, even if that means remedial math classes.

For anecdotes: I took the calculus sequence at a community college, and the teachers I had for (differential) Calculus I and (integral) Calculus II were among the best teachers I had at any level. The Calculus I teacher, the late Jack Minnick, was the best teacher I had in any discipline and at any level. He also published some math texts.

The key takeaway from both those instructors is that both had quizzes based on the homework material essentially every class, a methodology that pre-empted my tendency toward procrastination.
I think if someone can foresee that they won't be a benevolent dictator and refuses the office, I don't think that's the same as being a benevolent dictator.

Maybe we're playing semantic games, but Americans worship their leaders in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable. I don't think it's necessary for me to limit my statement in order to participate in your religion.
Hi fellow Chicagoan (now live in Oakland). Thanks for the polite and civil response. Let's teach these Californians how to have a respectful across-the-aisle dialog ;)

It's funny, I'm on an HOA board and spent the entire day trying to figure out our reserve liability, and how to balance it. It's in fact EXACTLY identical to a pension, where you have to put money aside to offset future expenses today.

The main thing is that I hate unfunded mandates. As a voter, I don't mind paying for things even if they're a little expensive. I just wish we'd get honest about the costs. Situations like we're in smack of expedience to the point of dishonesty, where the long-term math is impossibly broken.

I'm seeing this on a micro scale on my HOA. We need to have more in reserves but people hardly even know how to think about the problem, let alone implement concrete policy solutions to fix it. It's softened my views a bit to see how something as colossally fucked as Illinois can happen on a small, person-to-person micro scale.

So yeah nice chatting...my HOA is 1000 people, which is the size of a small city. I feel like a small-city mayor who everyone sort of hates but grudgingly admits does an ok job :)
Unmanned stores first big failure as Bianlifeng pulls smart shelves
Quora is shit anyway, StackOverflow&Co is the superior platform.
Why don't we just put a carbon tax on...carbon?
Can you explain what you mean? What kind of boundaries are you referring to?
I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I actually like W3schools. Most of their infamous errors are gone and they are usually more “to the point” than Mozilla docs, which are a sometimes too prolific and not as clear.
Contact lenses that deliver drugs directly to the eye win health care prize
So your hypothetical native layout is properly factored, but the CSS one isn’t in this comparison?
Once you reach certain good level of Japanese mastery, suddenly those phrases and behaviors you considered very polite and which deeply impressed you, turn out to be jokes, fun Japanese had with you. Or talk to Japanese escapees to Europe that work for non-Japanese companies and hence can have some life for an explanation.
I have a pretty good idea on who is going to decide which person is too stupid to vote in such a society — I mean, you must be pretty stupid in the first place to even consider voting for anyone else than the most powerful party/government, right?
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To clarify, I was only talking about audio formats. Not automagically converting everything to run on the new engine. Doing that would kind of be missing the point.

There is a similar project redoing New Vegas in Fallout 4 (F4NV - I'm not affiliated with the project, just a fan snooping on their progress from time to time) and one of the really important things is that they're making their vision of what NV could be. This means all new meshes, textures, and code - not the old content updated to run on the new engine.

I've written some code for fiddling around with the plugins the engine uses (.esp/.esm/.esl files). The basic structure hasn't changed, but a lot of the records and fields have. Automatically converting them well enough to not need manual tidying up would be a pretty arduous task.

Converting the old code into papyrus would be as well.
Hopefully outside.
I'm not sure if you've ever visited https://lobste.rs, but it actually has this built-in - it caches every post. It's kind of like Hacker News except they've made some changes and added a bit more functionality.
Habitica - if you're into gamification, it's a cool way to build positive habits, daily todos and long-term todos.
PSA: don't click the link to the linux store in the Slashdot article. Someone super dodgy owns that domain name now.
Stack Overflow Publishes Largest Ever Survey
Not only is is industrial agriculture a huge part of CO2 emissions, it's also one of the biggest consumers and polluters of water.
Twitter is great for following popular figures and companies. Users can receive news briefs directly from these sources. Often I will read internet journalism about tweets I read a day after I read them on Twitter.

Being on Twitter is like being at an on-call press conference with all of your subjects of interest 24 hours a day. It's actually pretty bad ass. It's not all heavy with prose. It's heavy with meaning.

Unlike my Facebook network, which is almost entirely composed of friends and family, my Twitter network is composed of prominent figures, projects, and companies in which I am intensely interested

For example, I am an American and I have a passing interest in politics. I follow the President of our Great Union, who is an avid tweeter. I prefer to interpret the news as it happens, through my own unique filter and perspective. Later, I read how others interpreted it. It can be a fun contrast and I prefer to be ahead of the punch, so to speak.
Do you realize this would tax people for breathing?
> By 2020, China’s AI industry will be “in line” with the most advanced countries, with a core AI industry gross output exceeding RMB 150 billion (USD 22.5 billion) and AI-related industry gross output exceeding RMB 1 trillion (USD 150.8 billion)

And I'm confident the goal will be reached. Incidentally, much of the software that today is classified as "just software" will be called "AI".

Not that it's different from elsewhere, of course (I saw screenscraping being called "AI"), it's just there are government incentives to do so.
> Tesla isn't even at 2000 cars a month

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

Current rate of 700 cars/week * ~4 weeks/month = ~2800 cars/month.
The Young and Brash of Tech Grow a Bit Older, and Wiser
"The CSU system is the budget/value offering to young adults with a good blend of trades/liberal arts with a focus on practical applications."

They also provide a cheaper way to get the bulk of your first two years' credits in place before proceeding to a "four-year" university.
Perfectly sane reason for not signing up with Twitter.
> The Manual Actions report lists instances where a human reviewer has determined that pages on your site are not compliant with Google's webmaster quality guidelines. Google's algorithms can detect the vast majority of spam and demote it automatically; for the rest, we use human reviewers to manually review pages and flag them if they violate the guidelines. Flagged sites can be demoted or even removed entirely from Google search results.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824?hl=en

Specifically mentioned on that page is "Redirecting users away from the image on the site when the user clicks "view image" in Google search results" as an example of "image cloaking behavior".
Show HN: What Technologies Are Associated with Highest Salaries US? 2015-2018
Slader.com also has solutions for pretty much every problem in a mass published textbook
I agree generally speaking. Quora has raised $452 million in venture capital. It's incredible frankly. There's no actual sound business model there and never has been (which is why eight years later they still don't have a functioning business and are living on VC, while being subsidized by Google abusing its own search policies).
There’s a fast-growing interest to create something like this in the Rust community. An unofficial working group led by a Mozilla employee is being formed:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/thoughts-on-rust-guis/6894...
My thought is put a carbon sales tax on things that use carbon based fuels and use that to subsidize alternatives.

So, diesel and gasoline powered cars are taxed. Gas and oil burning furnaces are taxed. Raise the taxes high enough to make alternatives worth it on a capital basis.
These two things are very different:

>why on earth you want to be President?

>he should not be President of the United States
From the article:

"Imagine if today, iOS or Linux had built-in libraries of code that allowed anyone to build a social application that didn’t require cutting a deal with Facebook or using their APIs,” … “[With PLATO], the API was in the operating system and it allowed any app to be social.

… Term Comment … allowed users to leave feedback for developers and programmers at any place within a program where they spotted a typo or had trouble completing a task … the user would simply open a comment box and leave a note right there on the screen. Term Comment would append the comment to the user’s place in the program so that the recipient could easily navigate to it and clearly see the problem, instead of trying to recreate it from scratch on their own system … “If you were doing QA on software, you could quickly comment, and it would track exactly where the user left this comment. We never really got this on the Web, and it’s such a shame that we didn’t.”
LinkedIn requires logging in because the Supreme Court rules they couldn't really stop us from scraping public profiles. Forcing us to login makes it easier for them to control who has access to what content.
It resonates highly with the kind of bureaucracy that Germans have to put up with.

Therefore it wouldn't surprise me if this scene is most popular with Germans and others nationalities only regard it as a funny, exaggerated sequence. Whereas for Germans it hits close to home.
All I see is that the geologist says you need to test both the water from the machine and from the source, but he or she still never posts what the source results were nor directly claims that their results were zero.