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Part 2 of this application is weird.

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Experimental Assessments

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It seems unrealistic because people would have to make the effort to publish their content on that network to keep it available. Or pay someone else to do so. A distributed approach to this is definitely interesting, but it's more technically challenging and it's not a silver bullet.

The big problem is how to fund a social network that doesn't rely on selling it's users data, IMO.
* Terrible transit.

* Anti-tax attitude

* Limited multi-cultural experience

* Less forward-looking attitude (this is hard to verbally pin down).

With respect to the child, it'll be more difficult in the city. But I want to stress that as a gestalt system, the big city is a better place to live for all of us. If we had the opportunity work out, we would live in Manhattan (but the relocation is a substantial logistical problem at present). Opportunities exist in the big city that are not present in smaller cities or suburbs.
Really? The killer drones couldn't communicate without said network protocols.
Yep, I vouch for Nat Friedman.

I applied last time it came up, and had a good discussion that how I wanted to approach wouldn't quite have worked within the scope of the grant. Certainly no hard feelings at all (it was an oddball 3d scanner, like really weird). I felt that Nat was respectful and sincere. I never got even an inkling that this was some scraping scam or something.

Tl;Dr. I've seen a lot of scams through the years. This certainly wasn't (and isn't) one.
Maybe you should have read the article. Maybe not expensive for a software developer making 6 figures a year, but that's not most people. For people living near poverty levels $1k a year is a lot of money.
To me, that's the question. And people don't realize a lot of who we are and where we are is because our military presence. Atomic bomb anyone?

What gets me now, is how much the US economy and focus is on death and violence. Offensive death and violence. We're bombing people all over the Middle East. And have been for years. Tangentially, I find 'March for our Lives' ironic given the amount of, to me, unjustified, violence and death the US country exports to children and families around the world.

For self-defense only? In an ideal world, yea, invent the meanest things possible. That philosophy still is compatible with a strong military. But then again you have Gulf of Tonkin, etc., so who knows!?

Lately I've been telling myself this whole wargame is a game I'll never be privy to what's actually happening.
There's also their negative ethical reputation from situations like this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil... and quotes around that air and water should not be a human right.
The problem emerges when an actor most become a monster to win, sort of like Mutually Assured Destruction. I think that scifi shorts have the duty and power to show us the paths that certain developments entail. For example:

- Slaughterbots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw

- Last Day of War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJmTeBSEzU
Probably not. There likely would have been some sort of mounting points on the floor or walls to hold it. Also it's not like we don't have writings and paintings from the time. I imagine there's some evidence from there too.
>"...The letter, which is circulating inside Google and has garnered more than 3,100 signatures, reflects a culture clash between Silicon Valley and the federal government..."

If Google still continues to engage in the 'Business of war', would these 3,100 employees walk out?

Would they, then, also refuse to pay taxes to the US Fed Gov (which, obviously spends them, on the business of war)
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Trim tab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tab
Cloth diapers are still around, and better and easier than they were then.
There's a reason why C++ requires the "virtual" keyword on methods that may be overridden...
> Diapering a child now takes about $1,000 a year for an average product.

That doesn't seem right. Are these people buying the smallest quantities possible? You can buy ~300 diapers for $30 on amazon. That's only $360 /year.
Touch Bar had made me consider abandoning MacBooks altogether and move to Linux.
> Mass intentional killing is wrong, pretty much everyone agrees with that

Nope.

Bomber Command in WWII and the use of nuclear weapons in WWII are both examples where you will find nuanced, intelligent debate on both sides of the argument of whether "mass, intentional killing" being wrong or not. What you describe as "hate / pride for his country" ... but isn't that the reason most soldiers kill? That you even bother to call this out shows that you know the reasons for killing people need to be taken into account.

I'm not making a statement on whether or not mass killing is wrong here, simply pointing out what seems obvious: it's far from black and white.
Yea, but how much cultural influence comes back to the military? Internet? Darpa. Hollywood? CIA pitches/vets certain scripts. Modern art? A CIA weapon during the cold war.

The list goes on and on.
(N.B.: I'm on the Debian ftpmaster team, which reviews all new software in Debian to ensure it matches our policies and commitments)

> Does GPL say anything about distributing source via git repositories?

Nope.

> I mean, it talks about "preferred form of the work for making modifications".

This is generally interpreted as a fancy way of saying "source code" — e.g. a minified JavaScript program or something that could be decompiled isn't the "preferred form… for making modifications".

Source for all Debian packages can be retrieved via `apt-get source PACKAGE`, and via sources.debian.org[3].

Historically, the only hard requirement was that all patches be made available as a `.diff.gz` applied against the upstream, although for many years packages have since standardised on using `quilt`[2]. Some maintainers may also use git (and wrappers around it) to make things easier to manage, but quilt is sufficiently straightforward to work with that it's acceptable for most purposes.

The VCS page on the BTS points to the repository for the package. It contains an unreleased version (1.3.3-5), the security update only is a patch on the previous version released in Debian.

The last upstream release was 1.3 (2010), available on GitHub[1]. This is a Debian-specific patch against beep. We'd like all patches to make it upstream, and ensure maximum clarity, but we have limited time, and our first priority is the users of Debian. Sometimes, upstreams lose time, or there are coordination issues that prevent it. (not saying that's the case here)

[1]: http://github.com/johnath/beep/
[2]: https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt
[3]: https://sources.debian.org/src/beep/unstable/
Agreed. And it's a position that I don't think many people realize.
No one knew about the death camps until basically the end of the European stage of WWII.
I tried explaining my 20 year old cousin about FB. Her constant argument was "I don't share anything private on FB". She checks in on FB everywhere she goes. Posts her pics all the time. I could not instill any sense of concern for privacy.

What I could conclude is that the appeal of social is too great to have any caution. Call me a pessimist, but I don't think FB is going anywhere. People will keep using it inspite of the risks. It's like a smoking addiction. It's bad but very difficult to give up.
FYI, something that makes my Hacker News experience much nicer is email notifications when my comments are replied to.

Get your own at http://hnreplies.com/ - built by Dan Grossman
reliable and confidential communication is something that decides the outcome of wars. Coordination of the forces is one of the most important factors in military operations.
Isn't Mastodon more of a Twitter replacement than a replacement for Facebook (which has time line, groups, pages, etc.)? I'm curious to know what's closer to what Facebook provides and is decentralized.
Agreed; they've intentionally nerfed the normal keyboard models - if I was an Apple user that'd infuriate me no end. To call the range "Pro" is a lie.

The biggest problem I see with it is Apple's hate of developers who touch type. Surely there's enough room on that unit to include both the function row and a touch bar? If so, it'd be pretty neat to have for presenting misc information. (It looks nice enough!)

Lenovo tried something similar with their 2014 X1 Carbon (I have gen 1, would like to upgrade to latest). Not anywhere as nice looking as the MBP's touch bar, but equal in that they messed up something good. https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/thinkpad-x1-carbon-2014-s...

Fortunately Lenovo saw the errors of their ways and quickly reverted to what I would say is the all-superior layout of the current model (i.e. the one that went before).
Well it's essentially running it's own processor and display.

It'd have to time out because otherwise it would eat even more of your battery than it already does.
Even though the author doesn't like Hot Corners, I use Hot Corners willingly to enable screen saver & lock. It's built in to the OS and works fine as long as you don't habitually move your cursor to the corner(s).
The vast majority of working professionals have not memorised what the F-keys do in arbitrary situations. (If you don't believe this, you've never worked in as a consultant for a wide variety of companies in a wide variety of professional fields.)

Not only do people not know what the F-keys do, but they have no ability to determine what an F-key might do in any given situation.

Not so with the touch bar. The touch bar will do what the touch bar indicates it will do, which is displayed on the touch bar itself.
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Agreed. NYT is drivel, table scraps us plebes get to the actual game that is being played.

I've called SV the military's generalized R&D department.
It's where they kept the brush.
> Its uncontroversial to state that the US military has committed war crimes and engaged in military campaigns across the world in spite of international law.

I don't disagree with this. The question I'm trying to figure out -- which powerful nation should we look to for an example on how to do better?

Also, are there are any benefits to the U.S. maintaining hegemony as the top military power that we need to weigh in this analysis?

I definitely am not fully up to speed on the details of this debate, but it does appear fairly complex at first glance.
That's their "because we know you'll buy it anyway" factor.
You can hand wash them in a bucket with washboard (though we didn't) and line dry them. We actually line dried ours about once a month to air them out and sun-bleach the cloth. About 30 $5-15 cloth diapers lasts you 3-4 days between washes.
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working on that.
Thanks for the feedback! Some extra context: Since we’re hoping to scale the program one day, we’re looking for better ways to identify scientists we should support. Per the description, it’s very experimental and we’re open to any feedback you have.
The point being that "killer drones" are by sole purpose immoral. You can hardly find a humanitarian use for them, while network protocols are pretty much amoral. You can use them for bad, but also for good.

Please excuse my manichaeism.
> Cloth diapers aren’t always an option.

And here lies the total and utter bullshit. They ARE an option.

At an alleged $1000 a year, a payback scheme on a cheap washing machine would allow cloth and ease the work load on the mother.

The total and utter arrogance people have with disposable diapers blows me away.

There are cases you can make up in your head of a single mother working two jobs and still not being able to get a loan for a cheap washing machine / not allowed in the apartment, but this is NOT what this article is talking.

If you want more time watching GoT feel free to use disposable diapers, but don't bullshit there are no other cheaper options.

In other funny stuff there is quite a market for upscale reusable diapers embroidered etc that cost $100's each.
It's actually quite scary if you think too much about it - what we 'see' and 'hear' and 'feel' as our nice neat comprehensible rectilinear 3D world with directional audio and consistent textures and shapes etc. is nothing like what's "really" there, there's just a 2-way mapping between our model and "reality". All that's really there is an invisible hot soupy sea of quarks fizzing around at ludicrous speed.
> absent any legal requirements (which bars and casinos may have), isn't it better from a business perspective to get some money off them before they go bankrupt?

Not necessarily.

Suppose your customer has $500/month in disposable income. Then you want $500/month from them. $1000/month is bad. It means they're borrowing money, and every dollar they borrow they not only have to pay back, they have to pay interest on -- at the crazy high rates that people with bad self control have to pay. All of which comes out of the $500/month you could have had from them going forward.
Yea, Leonardo da Vinci was a military engineer at one point.
I actually tried this a while ago, and found that the audience also had to use Beaker to access the content. That's a huge barrier if current browsers don't support this.
IMO Turkey has mostly failed now.

However, I'm not saying I'd want them a civil war, just that it failed despite doing everything "right" it seems.
What you say about "your country" kinda legitimates anyone saying that about "their" country, too. There's plenty of arms dealer selling to all sorts of sides, are there not? And generally speaking, at best soldiers defend against invading soldiers, at worst they are invading or "just" murdering some or a lot of civilians.

Remember when the cold war ended, for a while, but military budgets didn't exactly collapse? Isn't that "funny" how that works, and how we have no problem realizing that in other contexts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)

You make war profitable, you will have more war. The details are trickier, sure. Slogans aren't enough. But if you don't even have the will, don't worry about finding a way.

> I doubt they would be happy to live in a world where the U.S. has a weaker military than countries like China or Russia.

Yeah, nevermind the big nations all having their go at weaker nations, and the US wars of aggression, under exactly that pretense. No, it's really that the every last person in that huuuuuge industry -- shoveling tax dollars into gadgets that can be used to defend, to destroy, to enforce resource extraction as well as for domestic control -- wants to look out for you, because you have the same nationality in the passport. It's the children on non-Americans that get labels like "fun-sized terroris", American children have names. Those lines could not ever blur.

Yes, you can't just unilaterally disarm. But you also can't keep hitting others (and yourself) while gearing up even more, at increasing rate, while subverting self-determination of others and intellectual honesty of self at every corner, and then say "it just happens to be a dangerous world, I'm just reacting". The people you're just reacting to say the same thing, and the people who sell you and them that lie laugh all the way to the bank, and should there be need for it, they won't share their bunker with you. They'd sooner share it with Russian and Chinese war profiteers, so to speak.
I don't know why you'd think I'd be surprised that MailChimp has customers who use it for its purpose, which is marketing.

It seems you're saying that MailChimp should be entirely neutral and should let you promote anything you want, and they disagree. MailChimp does not want to allow cryptocurrency promotions. Cryptocurrency promotions have negative externalities. That's not collateral damage, it's the entire point of their decision.

Whether they are "equivalent to ICO scammers" doesn't enter into it.
What is at stake ... ?

Certainly we know by now Earth's resources aren't infinite ... So I pose to you what could come from Pandora's box should choose to open it.

Wisdom an Experience come from aging, where do we go, and how do we grow, if that aspect of life becomes irrelevant?!
I've used BetterTouchTool to create named touchbar buttons for some of the functions I use semi-frequently in Jet brains IDEs. Things where I don't have the keyboard shortcuts memorized. So I have "Declaration", "Find Usages", "Rename", etc... I find that quite useful.
No source but I believe that's a big issue. If you don't have money, you can't buy at scale (or store/transport it). Though here it isn't that much (relatively) like say buying bulk beef vs store bought.
I think that's a great idea. And I support it. But something inside me says it's idealistic and not in touch with a baser human nature of something akin to a 'dog-eat-dog' mentality.
Interesting to see 2 books on electronics. May I ask the nature of your work?
>In other words, doing your job is personal and, as long as you do it honestly and work hard, you should not be faulted for doing it as requested by your employer.

This sounds remarkibly similar to the "superior orders" defense given at Nuremberg [1]

(Those who gave it were hung from the neck until dead.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
The problem is with FEE, that as think tanks go, there isn't much thinking, and just a lot of trope repetition. They make AEI seem like RAND.
I don't like using fingerprints because my fingerprint is literally left on the reader. Anybody with a scotch tape can get a copy of my fingerprint left on the reader or the screen. That's like writing down your password on a post-it on your monitor. Anybody dedicated enough can then make a fake finger that can log in.

Not that I'm worried about someone pulling this spy operation on me but if my laptop is lost or stolen, I won't have the peace of mind.
no, theres no benefit in them knowing as its highly unlikely they will understand
It's a good question, but often the answer is "we had a stay at home mum that had time for all this stuff", which I think could be the answer here (I don't know if cloth diapers are time consuming or not). Older solutions might be perfectly viable but no longer practical because of cultural changes.
I would like to hear the complete list :)
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1. Most/many drugs have side effects. A “cure” for aging would have to have a very weak side effect profile as it’s not a terminal disease in the short run. 2. Clinical trials for aging would take a long time to run and be quite costly. 3. People are trying to cure this and quite a bit of money has been put into curing manifestations of aging (think all the Alzheimer’s companies or Unity Biotechnologies.) it’s also just really hard science...
From the World Health Organization:

> "Although aircraft cabins are pressurized, cabin air pressure at cruising altitude is lower than air pressure at sea level. At typical cruising altitudes in the range 11 000–12 200 m (36 000–40 000 feet), air pressure in the cabin is equivalent to the outside air pressure at 1800–2400 m (6000–8000 feet) above sea level. As a consequence, less oxygen is taken up by the blood (hypoxia) and gases within the body expand. The effects of reduced cabin air pressure are usually well tolerated by healthy passengers."

http://www.who.int/ith/mode_of_travel/cab/en/

While the NY Times blog link earlier in this chain of comments had a recommendation about reducing cabin air pressure to 6,000 ft, I question how useful that is, since for those susceptible to altitude sickness, 6,000 feet is going to be enough to trigger symptoms for many.

These next two articles are not devoted to airline travel per se, but about high altitude related sickness.

From "Preparing for Safe Travel to High Altitude", by Paul Anderson, M.D.

> "High Altitude Illnesses (HAI) include Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE), and High-Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE). The symptoms of AMS are typically felt by most people when they arrive at a new altitude, but the symptoms are usually self limiting (e.g. 1st 3-5 days at high altitude). The exact mechanisms of AMS remain unclear, however symptoms tend to be the most prevalent 1-2 days after arrival at elevation. The most common symptoms include a headache, gastrointestinal upset, feelings of fatigue, dizziness, and sleep disruption. ..."

http://www.mayo.edu/research/documents/preparing-for-safe-tr...

From "Altitude-Related Illnesses", Mayo Clinic Preceedings:

> "... An estimated 30 million people are at risk for altitude related illnesses in the western United States annually. Many cases are unrecognized by the victims and by their physicians who may attribute symptoms to viral illness, “hangover,” or fatigue. In addition, commercial airline travel exposes passengers to a cabin pressure equivalent of 2,500 m and allows them to travel rapidly to high altitude destinations such as Aspen or Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where they may be exposed to even greater altitudes.

... The rate of ascent and a prior history of altitude illness are the major determinants of a person's susceptibility to altitude illness. Aerobic fitness does not correlate with the likelihood of acquiring AMS."

(See especially the symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness in this article.)

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)6...
I know I’m just one guy, but I was planning on an upgrade before they released it and I did not, in fact, buy it anyway.
We cloth diaper too (3 kids, a two and a half year old potty trained for about a year now, and 5 month old twins). Personally, I find disposable diapers to be way more disgusting than cloth. With cloth, you rinse it out and the majority of the gross stuff is down the drain. With disposables, you end up with a garbage can literally full of poop. Its like having a mini pit toilet in your house.

We have also noticed, like you mentioned, that cloth diapers are easier on the babies' skin and makes potty training significantly easier.

For anyone who is reading this and may be interested in cloth diapering: Get some quality covers and then buy a ton of flour sack towels. They make the best inserts. Super absorbent, cheap, and unfolds to a single layer, which means they get cleaner and dry faster.
The engineers in both cases are not essential to the outcomes. Engineers or craftsmen, or any other workers execute tasks put forth to them by society that gave them birth and education. Any person in the society has some influence, but clearly more influence is the hands of the leaders and organizers.

But, there is power in organizing, or unionizing, for collective bargaining.
So youre saying we need another messaging app?
This is sadly correct.

Pacifism isn't viable when some of the biggest countries in the world are run by totalitarian regimes. Objections to participating in the military industrial complex are a luxury of countries verging on global irrelevance. The proclivities of the West to engage in self-flagellation over these issues are well known to and exploited by less liberal regimes. If only it were not so, but I don't know what the alternative is, just as the physicists in the Manhattan project saw no alternative.