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> The problem with your belief is that you are assuming that it's easy to define sexism, racism, homophobia. The reality is that what a lot of people think are ex one of those three just aren't. Very few people are any of those things in any meaningful way.

I don't know about that. People face very real, easily definable dangers and risks from being in a marginalized group, which seems to imply there's more than just a few people involved. Is it really so outlandish to say that many parts of Russia are homophobic, for instance?

On the more obvious end of things, people who have participated in hate crimes or voted for laws that restrict marginalized groups are close enough to be deserving one of the -isms, and depending on the time period, they were not at all rare.

> In fact I would claim that your belief is exactly part of the problem in that you confuse empathy with some ethical/moral idea and end up thinking that you have the right interpretation and can judge whether someone is racist, sexist etc.

You're mixing quite a few things in here in a manner I find worrying.

> you confuse empathy with some ethical/moral idea

Please address this directly if you think I am doing so, because I'm pretty sure I am not. I've laid out my views on empathy and it's relationship to morality pretty clearly in the OP, I think.

> you have the right interpretation and can judge whether someone is racist, sexist etc.

I have to think that. It's my fundamental responsibility as a human to judge whether things are objectionable or not. If I do not do this, the default takes place, and the default is much worse than collective judgment errors.

If nobody had the right, like you say here, there would never be anyone to question the default, and I don't want to be anywhere near the kind of norms we used to have.

Being ill suited to the responsibility to judge good and evil, as we are, does not mean we get to shirk it. It does not make it better to wash your hands, say you don't know, and stay out, because the default does not wait. It will catch up with us, and I know for certain it's not on our side, and it is much worse.
On the other hand I think that's just a misnomer. That because you went through the trouble of writing a schema, it's somehow worse when you're wrong.

But people don't often look at it from the opposite perspective: that when you are explicit about the data in your system, then you can respond explicitly and immediately and actionably when it turns out you're wrong. The alternative is to not know when or how you're wrong.

For example, not having to lift a finger when you're wrong about the data is like suggesting your codebase might be more unintentionally useful after removing static analysis.
Not to mention visiting the county jail each morning, when most interns would just be out getting Starbucks.
It's an interesting award. Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for denying the holodomor, and he was awarded a Pulitzer for his work, a Pulitzer that the Times has yet to address.

The reality that Duranty denied was comparable to the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people died and the Times apologized for it.
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A longboard downhill can easily go over that speed.
Ignoring the BS about coriolis, I think there is something legit here.

Of course there isn't any power to be gained from the vortex. What you would gain is a lot of RPMs from very little head. It makes the system be high speed and low torque. The dynamos would be higher voltage (lower amperage), the wiring and inverters are cheaper with lower amperage, and the structure doesn't have to be as strong since the torques are lower. It might even automatically safe during floods, since too much water entering it would distrupt the vortex and halt the wheel.

It is more like a clever hydraulic gearbox that potentially makes all the other components less expensive. Or am I completely off base? The water is spinning around faster than it would be flowing out, correct?
Or, with the trade winds, about 15 days on anything that can sail/drift downwind. There were similar, well established routes ("just follow the wind") on the Indian Ocean side of Africa done with very small (2-3 people) boats.
This is complete nonsense, and since you’ve said it twice in this thread I’ll respond.

The reason NVidia is used in deep learning is because the frameworks give the best performance on it.

The reason they give good performance on it is because CUDA an CuDNN (which is even more important but I don’t see mention of) work really well and give better performance than anything else.

There are no MBA, just lots of grad students trying anything to get better speed.
I feel the funeral home ought to have said "no" pretty quickly and plainly here. There was no warrant, the funeral home is private property and the cops were there explicitly to try to get evidence from a corpse.

I'm sure it is quite important for the police to do their job, but the funeral home is hired by the family and should, within reason, do only what the family says should be done with the body.

Let the police get a warrant if it's so important.
You basically want a linked list.
Probably because it doesn't need to be fast, and being fast at installing doesn't sell more copies. You've already bought it at that point, and you only do it once.

Installations and uninstallations of software aren't as well tested as most people think, and keeping metrics of how fast you can install or uninstall aren't really a thing for most software. For office, if it installs 10% faster, and saves you a few minutes, would that sell more copies? Probably not. Making uninstall faster? Almost certainly not going to help.

If you don't benchmark something and care about its performance, it's unlikely to get better, but pretty likely to get worse over time, as code accretes.

One classic perf bug was in the a very old visual C++ installer (I think it was 6.0). Drawing the progress bar and printing out each filename as it was installed felt good to the user - it was doing something. But drawing that and having to update textboxes took a non-trivial amount of time. The fix? If you minimized the installer, it would run a LOT faster, like minutes faster.

Installers are more worried about correctness, especially when having to deal with multiple OS platforms. Sometimes there are a lot of extra system calls just to make sure things are going well that might not be absolutely necessary all the time, but fixed a bug "that one time." Those kinds of repeated checks, especially to the filesystem, can really slow things down in unexpected ways.
There is a large group of people who are at the mercy of the system. They do not have the ability to be self-sufficient and are reliant on social assistance.

There is now an incentive for the people who control the system to reduce the level of social assistance, because in so doing they increase the number of people who "voluntarily" submit to risky experimentation.

This proposal seems like adding a new option on an individual level, but on a social level it paradoxically leads to a situation where that group has less choice.

It's like playing the game of chicken on a road where the first person to swerve from a head-on collision loses. Paradoxically the winning move is to visibly remove your own choice by throwing your steering wheel out the window.

More choice is not always better.
They stated early in the article that a warrant is not needed because "there's no expectation of privacy for the dead."

I strongly disagree with this, since it's not just the privacy of the owner locked away on a phone, but also the privacy of the people they have interacted with. It takes at least two to make a conversation, and suddenly if one dies then the other's messages are available for collection without a warrant?
But then you get speed wobbles...

https://imgur.com/auUscXX
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Each individual person might be better off having that choice, true.

But setting up a system where this is an option, leads to a society where those people might not have the option of not submitting to experimentation.
> is it morally defensible to quit a (perfectly suitable) internship, due to the grass being greener somewhere else?

Yes, it is. If that company decided tomorrow they needed one less intern they wouldn't hesitate to cut OP or another intern loose.

This is a business transaction. OP is exchanging their time for money and in return the employer is hoping to extract more value from the employee than they put in. If either side of that transaction feels they aren't getting the value they want from the arrangement it's in that parties best interest to move on. The OP hasn't started working there yet and isn't scheduled to start until June, that is plenty of time to find a replacement. There is no shortage of capable CS students in the world.

Additionally if the OP just isn't interested in the work it's not really in anyone's interest to have them there. OP shouldn't be stuck working at a place they aren't really motivated to just because of the timing of the offer. I'm sure any manager would prefer to have an interested and engaged intern rather than just going through the motions.
> Suggesting all boardgames are similar?

Entirely not what I suggested.

Amazon has a large registered user base (who can apply ratings), and only a tiny percentage of those are interested in religious books (or, these days, you could probably say only a v.small percentage of Amazon customers are buying books of any sort).

BoardGameGeek has a user based almost by definition exclusively of people who are interested in board games.

GP's suggestion that niche product ratings could / are skewed by people unfamiliar with the topic doesn't apply so well to niche communities, especially ones with effective moderation.

Disclaimer - I've been on BGG since 2012, own Gloomhaven (but haven't played it), and consequently haven't rated it.
I am not sure how widespread it is, but I have encountered far too many manager/directors who put forth meetings in order to boost their presence if not stoke their own egos. executives holding a company hostage effectively for 90 minute meetings so they can tell their direction, strategy, and more, and witnessed development staffs with far more time in meetings the producing deliverables.

is this widespread or just symptoms of top heavy companies? while I nod my head at most of what Musk relayed far too much seems to be just speaking to head nodding supporters. Many of know this, the question is how to communicate it to those who need to understand they are the issue
I hit that speed regularly on mild downhills. Bombing a hill you can hit 80km/h pretty easily. I think the record is around 140km. Certainly not bragging, as it's not that impressive among downhill longboarders. Just trying to give some perspective.
Concerning the dead man's privacy, it doesn't matter, he's dead. What matters is the appearance of decency and respect in death because it matters to the family. The article makes me wonder if the police walked up during the funeral and messed with the corpse, but I really doubt that was the case.
There is no dignified death. Death ceremonies are performed for the living.
>>Going back to my original comment, I think it's clear that if the TAs felt like you do, then there would be a clear bias towards anti-unionism at Harvard, and we would have to distrust their ability to be impartial.

I don't understand what you mean. How do I feel?

>>The idea is to remove so-called "unfair labor practices" from both the employer and the union. So you can't just point to the restrictions on employers and stop there.

The laws overwhelmingly benefit unions. If there were a free market, employers would be much better off.

>>We know that unions exist in a free market and with no laws to support them because history gives clear examples.

That wasn't a free market either. The threat of violence and property damage was what compelled companies to negotiate.

And it was only with the passing of laws restricting employers' right to contract and violating their private property rights that unionization rates began to become substantial, and unions began gaining major benefits for their members.

>>Moreover, people in unions may accept lower rates than those not in a union. Some people would rather have the stability of a long-term job that is not affected by one's ability to kiss up to the boss, and accept the trade-off of having a lower salary for that stability.

We can quantify the market value of job security as well. It has a cost for the employer after all.

The point is that unions result in their members getting benefits/salary that has above-market value.

>>We also know that companies engage in collusion to lower salaries. See the settlement a few years ago where Apple, Google and several other Silicon Valley companies allegedly "illegally conspired to prevent their workers from getting better job offers."

It's pretty rare, and even that case was not an ironclad agreement preventing all competition between these firms for workers.

Moreover there are other solutions to this kind of collusion than laws that effectively rob all employers of their property, by creating rules that usurp their control over it for the benefit of unions.

>>If employers can act collectively, then why shouldn't employees act collectively?

They should do anything that advances their interests, including acting collectively, except when it involves advocating for laws and other coercive measures that violate other people's right to freely contract.

If their unions can survive in a free market without such laws, and without utilizing extra-judicial threats of violence, they have every reason to use them.
Your view point of just using something already hosted by GCP/AWS is probably the default today for good reason. I would break down the reason to not do that to three reasons:
cost, performance, and customization. Lets ignore cost (which is complex) and focus on the TiDB and AWS example.

TiDB was build to operate at a scale for OLTP (scale writes horizontally just by adding more nodes) that doesn't exist on Amazon's MySQL. You would have to you DynamoDB and downgrade from SQL transactions to eventual consistency.

In terms of customization, TiDB is offering something AWS does not: the ability to store ever more of your data in one distributed data store (TiKV) and to leverage that in different ways (query it with TiSpark, and perhaps more projects like this in the future).
It probably does, but to my understanding it’s a QA effect. If you know your work will be reviewed by an “audience” you are likely to deliver better results.
The author failed to achieve is own goal...
When longboarding downhill at high speed you need to put most of your weight on the nose of your board. This will prevent speed wobble completely (may depend on your board.) Source: bombing hills myself
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The trick that apparently gets lost somewhere along the line is that you don't just say "no", you say "not yet, this first" or "can't, but can do this instead" or...

Either give the product owner a reason and a way to work towards what they want, or an alternative that (hopefully) is just as good.
> Even in the restroom!

This line stands out as one sits down.
He’s an engineer on paper, probably not in practice.
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But being certified or not doesn't have anything to do with it—you can misunderstand the principles of Scrum just fine on your own. Arguably, certified Scrum Masters would be more likely to actually understand them given their training. And there's a huge difference between "project manager" and "Scrum Master", and if you've met someone that claims to be able to fill both roles in the same team then they're either misunderstanding Scrum horribly or they're that one rare unicorn that managed to make it work that one time.

(And, in case you're interested, "certified" is the standard term. In case you're not interested, my apologies for bringing it up.)
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This is more or less what I'm talking about. I wonder what possibilities lie with using the huge numerical computation available on a GPU applied to predictive parts of a CPU, such as memory prefetch prediction, branch prediction, etc.

Not totally dissimilar to the thinking behind NetBurst which seemed to be all about having a deep pipeline and keeping it fed with quality predictions.
And yet desecrating the dead is almost universally panned, because of its effect on the living. Is using a dead person's finger to unlock their phone desecration? The deceased's family seems to think so.
Courts have ordered evidence to be collected from the personal devices of the living (with no concern about information pertaining 3rd-parties that may or may not be stored on those -- how would they know?). I don't see how the dead have extra rights in this situation.

The police should have gotten a warrant, just like in any other situation.
Snap will be dying to get its hands on this new HD streaming technology
Are there docs or examples of how to use this somewhere? I love Redis and I love using Go so I would be interested in trying this out for hobby projects and it would be helpful to have some documentation/examples.
Yeah, there are two aspects that keep me from ditching Comcast at my apartment. Burning through the data limit on bulk downloads that I'm happy to run overnight when it's not congested, and ping, which is the harder one to fix. But it's not _that_ bad on T-mobile, so if it weren't for the data allowance problem I might be willing to suck it up.
That's a good question. Other big factors in operating expense are load factor (i.e., percent of seats filled) and weight. The A380 is in trouble because it measures poorly on the preceding and in addition can only fly out of hubs with specially modified gates. The 747-8 seems to be largely a freighter with production down to about 1 a month.

At this point it seems unlikely we'll see another big aircraft design program any time soon unless a country like China decides to do one for status reasons.
Well, not really. It would be nice to be able to query the latest state in an efficient way, model relations and data constraints and have transaction handling etc as we are used to with traditional databases.
Mortality rate is a side effect.

Survival is the intended effect, but that's much more of a binary thing.
Whether the dead should have the right to privacy is a contentious issue but I think it is indisputable that accessing a dead person's phone violates the privacy of others who had been in contact with him over the phone. He could have private photos, texts, emails of his friends and families who would not want those to be accessed by someone else.
Correction: AWS does have this kind of strongly consistent, scalable OLTP database in Aurora.
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Sharp internal corners are hard period. CNC milling machines have the same issue -- the usual way to to just use a smaller end mill.

You either need some type of punch or an (actual) shaper.
We respect certain rights of the dead because we will eventually join them.
I think it might be too strong to say the things you are doing are bad just because they hurt other people. Thats what tradeoffs are, like firing people, for instance. I would write more but basically I think its too strong to say that most people are not like this or perhaps its too strong to say that its morally wrong to doing something harmful to someone.
Unsolicited advice: Not everyone is into sacrificing money to avoid bullshit security theater that has been going on for 17 years.

Trains have the beauty of being able to go to the station, hop on the train, hop off. No wait or lines. I've had great trips taking the subway to Union Station then a train to San Diego. If trains were more affordable, widespread, and faster, it'd probably help the US immensely.
The typical speed of Phoenician ships under favorable winds was about 4.5-6 knots, and these relied heavily on rowing. Without oars, you're looking at 3-4 knots. 4.5 knots is still about 30 days from the Canaries, and keep in mind, that's the shortest time it would have taken you to go west; the eastbound trip would have been travelling at less than a knot (fighting both current and trade winds).
This is a little bit of a tangent but I was just listening to a program on NPR about baboons and their relationships. Specifically, the toxic effect of being the alpha-male. While I couldn't catch the whole program, I did hear they mentioned that while baboons have tumultuous lives surviving, mating, and dealing with alpha males, they do have a small opportunity for friendship with one another. One of the surprising findings from a study on baboons was that the baboons who were friendlier/not alpha-males tended to have more offspring than the alphas. A case of nice guys winning and friendship being more meaningful than dominance.

Here, I'd gander that it's less about game theory and more about evolution of a cohesive unit. And that's my baboon tangent.
I know this is like a "you can get something as good as Dropbox by just running an FTP server" thing that you see on HN occasionally, but if I wanted that, I conceivably could just run a VM on Azure/AWS/Digital Ocean and SSH in for development with NeoVim. I guess the interface wouldn't be as streamlined though.
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How exactly would that come about?
I love this paper too.
From someone who had to google that:

http://highexistence.com/culture-is-not-your-friend-terence-...

>McKenna saw modern culture as a sort of engine detached from the interests of the individual and serving the manipulative, power-focused agendas of various institutions and wealthy individuals.

That said there are quite a variety of cultures out there that you can choose to be part of. I'm currently in a yoga culture area and maybe as a counterpoint to "demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work" I've hung a bit with landlord types who have bought a house, do it up buy another etc. If anything they tend to suffer from the opposite problem of not being very occupied much of the time. Plus awkward tenants - nothing's perfect.
I hope you understand that you can use secure primitives (such as ECDSA and AES) to build insecure protocols.
> There is now an incentive for the people who control the system to reduce the level of social assistance, because in so doing they increase the number of people who "voluntarily" submit to risky experimentation.

That's quite the logical leap there. And is one that could be made about literally any effort to help the poor, so, i'm not quite sure you've made your point.