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> This is antithetical to science. If you're promising a breakthrough discovery, you're approaching the experiment with bias.

That's not true. In fact it's probably the opposite of true!

You do experiments specifically because you have some a priori reason to think that this experiment will tell you something interesting. In fact, one of the major ways scientists are trying to deal with the replication crisis is pre-registering their methodologies and expectations of experiments.

Which isn't to say it's not a good idea to do fundamental research, but it's absolutely valid to try and consider where funding should go based on what we expect to get from experiments.

Of course, I think the current process is pretty bad, since it relies so much on theatrics, as the OP mentioned. But I agree with OP here, at least in what should happen - physicists shouldn't hype or over-promise what an experiment can deliver. I just wish we lived in a world which valued these kinds of fundamental results enough to agree to support them financially!
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The decoder doesn't care about the psychoacoustic model at all though, that's all up to the encoder and the decoder just gets some frequencies to play back. The psychoacoustic model is also by far the most complicated part of any decent modern encoder.
Lots of people in the circumstance you describe will have made a good effort to pay appropriate taxes.
It really is a shame that is considered a "conservative" view.

I think a lot of Libertarians are coming around to have a view similar to your's. That the commons belongs to all of us and polluting and destroying it should be punished. Republican's on the other hand seem to thing liberty only applies to corporations.

In fact if you delete the part about wanting big government, I could have almost mistaken you for a Libertarian.

However, if you look at the Libertarian's who do support protecting the environment you will find there are ideas out there to address the issue without a huge centralized government organization like the EPA. Some might require changing our laws and our legal system so it is less of "whoever has the most money wins" but there are ways.

Like all political parties Libertarians have their extremists too (anarchists) but by and large I think they are reasonable people.

Edit: Those people in the Republican party that the media likes to call "Libertarians" are not. They cherry pick what liberties are important to them and what are not based on their moral code and special interests.

Edit 2: My original post has the word "not" where it should't have been. See bellow.
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yes, how awful it would be if you ended up with too much environmental protection
Same here. Even soldering and replacing switches couldn't keep it going. The switches had a thin metal contact that has to bend to close the circuit and it'd just break after little use.
Well I wouldn't call Latin extinct, just dead. People still learn and speak it today, it's absolutely fascinating.

I challenge you to learn more about history. Learn about the history of corporations and how they grew out of colonial enterprises. Learn about Standard Oil and what private enterprise looked like before and after them. There are a lot of devils in those details. When you study enough of it, you can sense a smooth, continuous line of social and legal innovations that threads through all of recorded history, thousands of years.

The Civil War that you mentioned settled many pressing issues regarding the ability of states to assert their will against the nation. World War 2 enshrined international agreements and institutions as vitally important for averting war. It also thrust women into economic importance. All of these events created bedrock principles for the new social order to coalesce around. Once they're set, they're set. Other countries want them and so they do the best they can to try to copy them.

But they're never going to work as well as in the countries that they arose in. Nobody does tributary taxation like the Russians. Nobody can build a single-party state quite like the Chinese, with 6.3% of the entire population in the CCP.
Ah yes, this happens from time to time when you use somebody else's
repositories with somebody else's package retention. That's why production
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(OS upstream, your own, and usually nothing else).
Not sure exactly how biological neurons work, but artificial neurons are just a weight matrix and some type of sigmoid function. Pretty much all a neuron does is perform logistic regression.
It would be if it was public, but most of it isnheld behind closed doors.
EPA could do nothing but spend 100% of that 8 billion on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites for the next 20 years and it wouldn't be enough to cover it.

That's just to cover previously made mistakes. Reducing enforcement is going to keep adding to that list, and reducing safety and quality of life for all Americans.

The vast majority (60-80%, Robert L. Glass) of costs for software is also in maintenance, as any of the classic software project management books will tell you.
As HN has a lot of people who have complicated financial situations and will eventually get one, I'd like to point folks in the direction of what the IRS' typical first play is if they think you underpaid taxes.

They do not send you a threatening letter. They do not throw you in prison. They send you a bill; more formally, a CP3219A. (The IRS says it is not a bill, it is a proposal. In practice, it's a bill you can argue with.)

You can see the not-so-hair-raising copy here: https://www.taxaudit.com/irs-letters/irs-letter-cp3219a-samp...

If you ever get one, you will simply call up your accountant and follow their advice. It's less annoying than owning a bank money...

... providing you didn't commit tax fraud.

Here's an example of tax fraud, taken directly from a case where the IRS did, indeed, refer to prosecution: Joe Smith owns a small business. Joe Smith, Inc. paid a Japanese technology company $600k for "technology services", per his tax return.

Joe Smith received a $600k wire from Japan, which he did not declare as income.

Can you guess the nature of the "technology service"? Yep, it was "Mt. Gox, please technologically service me by buying Bitcoin and then wiring the money back to me. Hah hah hah we are so clever hah hah hah."
This is quite an interesting idea! Selling votes becomes risky because the seller can just cancel his vote.
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I would say this a very natural and logical thing to do - with the blockchain storing the history of transactions for eternity, you just need to get some programmers to write some code to cross reference a few systems and leave it running for the years to come, catching people as soon as they make a single mistake. The business case and expected ROI for this project must be the easiest one any inspector ever had to write.
Only a problem if you’re trying to evade paying taxes. Otherwise it’s the same as any other security trading platform.
Which transformations does it provide? Will it improve the image quality?
Oh OK, they were disagreeing with the last part, not the main point. They both at least agree it shouldn't be blocked...
From the comments over there:

> At the end of 2018, the LHC will have recorded a mere 3% of the intended research program. That means that there is 30x more data to come. I think you'd need to see the results of all of the data before you say that the LHC was a bust. It may be. But your claim is hasty.
What about serendipitous discoveries then? Research rarely leads to planned breakthroughs.
its not like the mass community of users get to decide, the people who started reactiflux got themselves on the react docs first and so it becomes pseudoofficial. then over time you just get the benefits of network effect.
The Gateron Clear switch is the lightest linear switch currently available, with an actuation force of about 30g - half that of a typical membrane key switch and 50% less than the Cherry MX Red linear switch. It's not a particularly popular switch, because it's so light that the weight of your fingers tends to cause accidental keypresses on the home row. Nonetheless, you can buy a KBParadise V60 keyboard with Gateron clears. The Qisan Magicforce 68 is occasionally available with Gateron clear switches. Alternatively, you could buy the keyswitches and build a keyboard to your own specifications using a bare keyboard PCB.

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> Most people don't go into science in a completely calm, cool search for raw data. They go into it because they find it exciting and want to solve interesting things or discover "cool" things.

This is true, but as a great philosopher said, you can't always get what you want. If you search for the truth, a lot of it won't be "cool". Some of it will be cool of course: but if you prioritize coolness over truth, it might prevent you from discovering anything at all. A cool lie isn't a discovery.
> the particle physicists are having a blast discovering properties

I'm glad to learn that I was mistaken! As a layman myself, this is really all I want from the LHC: for it to continue to be a useful piece of equipment for scientific experments. From the article, it sounded like the attitude was, "we didn't find anything sexy, so we're done here," which would be a huge waste.
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>This straw-mans common conservative views, though.

Not at all, when conservatives who do come to power always immediately move to dismantle the EPA, as with the current administration. Not to mention that conservative politicians endlessly rail against the evils of the EPA in terms not even remotely nuanced.

I know, I know, "they're not really conservatives!".
> parts per billion versus parts per trillion

It turns out that even things you can't see can be bad for your health. There are some extremely important climate change feedback loops involved.
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> to lift weights that would be impossible to handle by most power cranes in operation today.

TlDr;

Modern construction techniques do not require lifting heavy blocks of stone, so no-one makes a machine to do it.
I'd advise against this space. There've been hundreds of startups trying to do exactly that. Not many successes as far as I can tell.
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Unfortunately I've had the same experience.

1st keyboard: connectivity issues after 2 months, got replacement

2nd keyboard: some keys (4-5 letters) detected two presses when I pressed a button, got replacement

3rd keyboard: same issue as 2nd one, with different keys.

Then I gave up and switched back to my old keyboard.
for the record i disagree with this kind of very tenuous tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. there isnt even an economic incentive here. we should be free to speak our minds without disclosing the presence of vested interest even in super inconsequential cases
Cherry has been around for decades, far longer than the idea of backlit keyboards existed. Obviously at some point that became a thing so they would have added the hole.
> You do experiments specifically because you have some a priori reason to think that this experiment will tell you something interesting.

There's a big difference between saying, "This experiment will tell me something interesting" and "This is the interesting thing that this experiment will tell me". The former is what you're describing, the latter is what I'm objecting to.
Also smug is less specific than knowledge, it's more about thinking you're better (in some or all ways) or more well achieved. The opposite of humble.
I appreciate the sentiment same as you, but it is not quick to learn, because you'd either stop short or basically learn, well ... patterns, some for different usecases and categorize many different patterns that achieve the same, while the typical pupil has problems with simple arithmetic, calculus etc. already. So the question would be why the patterns aren't abstracted behind a nice composable gui [1]. Not to mention the confusion around the various ever so slightly differing applications.

Also, you don't wanna spoon feed students, they'll never learn to fish. You would indeed have to go as far as implementing a regex engine or implementing I don't know, a certain finite automate in regex. I'm kidding but all you could realistically achieve would be the usage of a catalogue like command-line-fu or stackexchange unless the whole thing fits in a broader cs syllabus/curriculum.

[1] lrovocative statement: sed and awk are breaking the "do one function and it well" idea of unix.
I'm very much in favor of free movement of people, capital and goods, but would like to point out that David Ricardo himself had to caveat his free trade argument:

Ricardo recognized that applying his theory in situations where capital was mobile would result in offshoring, and therefore economic decline and job loss. To correct for this, he argued that (i) most men of property will be satisfied with a low rate of profits in their own country, rather than seek[ing] a more advantageous employment for their wealth in foreign nations, and (ii) that capital was functionally immobile. [1]

I definitely did not learn this in Microeconomics when we studied comparative advantage.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo
They're both basic climate physics, and not related to short-term fluctuations.
I read the article not only the title. i would also recommend you to read the article.
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Yes it does, due to the structure of the environmental laws.

In a libertarian system, you’d simply ban pollution (I.e. ban the externalizations of environmental costs), and then let the market and the courts hash things out. If a company was found dumping pollutants into the water, people would sue them, and the costs of all of that would get properly priced into the company’s products.

But the environmental laws are all about the various ways in which companies are allowed to pollute. Companies can dump poison into rivers, so long as they conform the EPA limits. Those limits are, by design, not set any “correct” level (as above, the “correct” level is zero—forcing the externality to be fully internalized; from an economic efficiency point of view, all environmental externalities must be borne by parties to the transaction, either the company or its customers). Instead, the limits are of a “best effort” nature, and a “how to get there from here” nature. For example, the law requires air polluters to install “the best available control technology” on smoke stacks. What does that mean? Well, that requires continual review and revision.

The EPA doesn’t exist to enforce laws that prevent pollution. It exists to manage all the pollution that the law allows.
Oh, I am with you 100%. My go to example were flight simulators. The plain colors, filled vector, no shading, no textures, fixed palette were the most beautiful to me. I don't think even now the best graphics beats the imagination of that. The same goes for NES 8 bit Mario. The pixelness is great, even compared to the latest Mario, which is a really, really good game.
> You pitch "The best automated way to do X!"

> in actuality you have a horde of people doing the work

> There is nothing wrong with this

um in what universe does "technically legal in the US of A" equate to "nothing wrong with" ?

using legality as a shortcut for a moral compass is putting the cart before the horse at best, but very often argued out of laziness or pure self-interest at worst. it's a narrative that causes people to stop introspection and think about what is actually right or wrong, instead going for the much, much easier choice of what is legal and what is not. not easier because the legal system is simpler than ethics (it usually isn't), but easier because the choice is made for them.

and as your post demonstrates, once the choice is made, it's easy enough to conflate legality, lawfulness and judgement with morality, rightfulness and justice.

but once you poke at that distinction, the argument just falls apart.

there isn't "nothing wrong with this".

all you're really saying is that it's probably not illegal.
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I’ve got from good sources that in Canada the RCMP is (...was several years ago) already doing exactly this. And it’s very easy to do since the exchange in question requires ID to create your account.
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Well, alternate uses of the money is the whole problem.

How many mathematicians can you let loose on long-standing physical problems (qualitative dynamics of the large-N body problem, the freaking turbulence motion of fluids, etc.) -- at some level of "big bet" that frees them from staccato publication pressure -- with the money spent trying to find gluinos or some such ill-developed theoretical construct?
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Most electric cars won't need to be charged from empty to full everyday.. If someone drives just few miles a day, they will be able to either do trickle charging with solar panels, or do full charge on weekends where the car is mostly sitting idle. And if you're traveling on weekends, you will use superchargers, which might be powered by solar.
Maybe it’s time for a paradigm shift in particle physics as Thomas S Kuhn once predicted

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>The vast majority (60-80%, Robert L. Glass) of costs for software is also in maintenance, as any of the classic software project management books will tell you.

What's the purpose of stating total costs when discussing monthly costs? Of course maintenance will end up costing more in total if the maintenance period is much longer than the development period. The per month cost is still much lower.
> In the brain, slow conductors make it hard to have a synchronized clock signal. This rules out digital coding,

But clockless processors exist, although they are not particularly popular.
It's not so much that humans have limited lifespans, it's just that corporations have profit incentives to offload costs. Treating toxic byproducts is massively more expensive than dumping them in the wilderness, and if management doesn't live near the dumping ground they're less likely to care about the costs. There's even a name for this type of behavior: negative cost externalization.

There are even situations of negative externality[1] where the value of the externalized costs exceeds the profit gained so that the net productivity to the nation is negative. Since the company never need pay those costs and they're applied to society as a whole, however, the company is still motivated to do it.

I wonder what Adam Smith would have said about the tragedy of the commons.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative
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Then there was the London to Birmingham railway line, built largely by hand, which was supposed to be more work by less people in less time.

"Peter Lecount, an assistant engineer of the London Birmingham railway, produced a number of - possibly hyperbolic - comparisons in an effort to demonstrate that the London and Birmingham Railway was "the greatest public work ever executed either in ancient or modern times".[4] In particular, he suggested that the effort to build the Great Pyramid of Giza amounted to the lifting of 15,733,000,000 cubic feet of stone by 1 foot (say, 450,000,000 m3 by 0.3 m).

The railway, excluding a long string of tasks – drainage, ballasting, and so on – involved the lifting of 25,000,000,000 cubic feet (say, 700,000,000 m3) of material reduced to the weight of stone used in the pyramid. The pyramid involved, he says, the effort of 300,000 men (according to Diodorus Siculus) or 100,000 (according to Herodotus) for twenty years. The railway involved 20,000 men for five years. In passing, he also noted that the cost of the railway in penny pieces, was enough to more than form a belt of pennies around the equator; and the amount of material moved would be enough to build a wall 1 foot (305 mm) high by one foot wide, more than three times around the equator."

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Good. Pay your taxes you nerds.
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> Parts of America was like this. Most of it was not.

Sure, but that's a little like promoting the election maps that focus on land areas instead of populations.

Sure, rural Colorado was still in pretty decent shape in the 1970s. A very large proportion of Americans live in the parts of America that were like this.
That's pretty bad:

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C <- C 'w' / 'v'
"""

Stack overflow

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> I guess the main draw for me to any given language is great libraries with great APIs. Python has those, Javascript has those, C++ has those, Rust... not so much yet.

Well... what makes (especially) Rust libraries great is the relative absence of bugs. I can use a Rust library and have great confidence some ugly bug won't bite me later on. The developers of the libraries you (don't) mention continuously struggle to achieve the same property.

So in a sense those libs are not at all great in the same sense that a Rust library is!
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And CNN did this? Oh my gosh it is so out of character!
Thanks for the encouragement. It's a very good idea about IoT companies. I'll definitely give it a shot.

You are right, I'm based in Europe now (moved to Geneva, Switzerland from other EU country).

I'll try to follow up in an email in a couple of days after I digest what others suggested in this thread. Thanks again!
> That the commons belongs to all of us and polluting and destroying it should not be punished.

Did you really mean should not be punished here?
When I was a student, I learnt OCaml and loved it. Unfortunately there are very few opportunities to work with these kind of languages. So I tried my best to use some functional featured to the languages I work with, mainly JavaScript, and more recently Typescript which I really like.

I started to look into Elm and might fall in love with it soon enough, if so I'll try my best to make my coworker love it too :)

Tldr: OCaml in my dreams, Typescript in reality, probably soon to be replaced by Elm
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