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>>In Universities, there is an expectation that no specific category of ideas should be preferred above any other unless it beats out its competition on the grounds of convincingness or support by evidence.

Your claim here is not infrequently made. But university departments frequently hold specific viewpoints. We can see cherished categories of ideas in the past; it is harder to see weighted ideas within the era we live.

>>Learning new theology is quite close to learning anything else, but research is very different!

Classics is the study of what was written and what they meant by it; they can't be polled. English/Literature is also looking at what an author wrote and what they meant by it (sigh: excluding postmodernism). French/German/Latin/etc grammar is looking at what words signify when placed in certain orders. The Philosophy department does not need to conduct experiments or observations. If your criteria for valid university disciplines was limited to their developing new lab or field research, multiple departments are impacted.

>>In fact, there's also a little gap inside the universities, between people who primarily rely on evidence (the sciences), and people who primarily rely on being convinced (the humanities).

Relevant:

https://xkcd.com/435/ - https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-bb61a9b12a5047d3ca4f28...

https://xkcd.com/903/ (the ALT text)

https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/62872775579482112...

http://pintswithaquinas.com/comicstrips/the-error-of-scienti...

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/other/3

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/190
Ya, I'd easily drop $1000 for "unlimited" display space... not to mention the gaming potential.
Get some starter for the price of a stamp:
http://carlsfriends.net/source.html

Or choose from many others for sale:
http://www.sourdo.com/our-sourdough-cultures-2/
To your last point: are the meetings solely text chat based?
You could've also chosen a non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro 2016/2017: Same weight as the MacBook Air, but smaller size, a Retina display, faster CPU, twice the amount of RAM possible and the option for a larger SSD. Downside is of course that it's more expensive than a MacBook Air.
Interesting. Do you have a source for this?
Thanks for the suggestion.

I think what you describe is natural. Don't worry. As you feed the mother dough from time to time that taste will diminish.
The latter - although I've read that it's never attracted the kind of money you see in high stakes poker.
You can also go to many local bakeries. Here in Germany the are happy to give you some starter for free. But I still think making your own one is so easy, it's 14 minutes of time over a week.
Also, just because the screen is 8k doesn’t mean the entire image needs to be rendered at 8k. They could track the eyes and render the focus point at native resolution while the periphery could be reduced (foveated rendering).
Also really interesting. I would be curious to know whether both yeast and bacteria survived in this dried setup.
Careful, the big names running the Linux desktop circus may well go down the same route.

And while Mint is a independent-ish distro, they really do not have the manpower to maintain a fully independent desktop stack.
If you live in Denmark, the Meyers bakeries will give you free starter, just bring a container:

https://www.meyersmad.dk/om-meyers/meyers-virksomheder/meyer...
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Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
The person was alleged to have been committing fraud according to the now retracted story.
Maybe I was to short on explanation here. what I mean is that regarding regulation, both neoliberal and anachistic policies have a 'laiser faire' approach of minimizing or abolishing government intervention. Both do so from widely opposing points of view. Neoliberals see regulations as needlessly restrictive and inhibiting the 'natural' efficiency of the market. Anarchists see regulations as 'protecting the privileged'.
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I don’t know if it progresses to the point of kickbacks often, but ESRI heavily promotes their projects in education in order to lock students into their ecosystem as early as possible.
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I find it funny that this is post is popular because the title includes “an engineers guide.” As a hobbyist bread and pizza maker there are so many amazing resources across pizzamaking.com, YouTube and reddit that have years of community input I’m almost insulted that this is more popular.
I absolutely despise this fable, and I'm annoyed at Bostrom for all the time I've wasted trying to defend my position whenever it comes up.

The story is too simplistic for the point Bostrom is trying to make, even as a fable. It treats the concept of death as a singular thing that ends up being defeated by a literal magic bullet. I don't think a Manhattan Project style effort will ever be capable of eradicating death like this, and I don't think this is an unreasonable position to hold. We've already made incredible progress in improving overall health, reducing mortality, and treating and eradicating really horrible diseases. We already get to live 2-3 times as long as our ancestors. I'm definitely not a Luddite trying to claim that this is enough progress, or that this is how it's meant to be, but you'd have to be willfully ignorant to miss the obvious fact that we're now at a point where the return on effort for cutting edge health research is rapidly diminishing. Perhaps we'll have a bio-renaissance, perhaps not, but even a renaissance isn't likely going to take you to infinity.

Bostrom obviously expects pushback, as he spends a considerable fraction of the fable "defending" his effort from "critics." But he doesn't understand his critics or their criticism. In the story they take the form of caricatures of luddites, penny-pinchers, and ignorant religious fools.

I absolutely support continuing research in health and longevity, but we should be realistic about the effort required, the real possibility that seemingly promising efforts will fail, and what we hope to achieve. Eradicating cancer is a fantastic goal, but it's really fucking hard, might not work in the general case, and isn't likely to increase best-case longevity by a huge amount. After cancer no longer kills you, something else will.

Also, it would be nice to not be accused of being some sort of monsterous death-worshiper whenever I express this view.
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You have to know that the Bavarian police was in charge of this case. The Bavarian police is known to be incompetent extraordinaire.

It was obvious that this was an artifact. I mentioned this long time before the case was "solved".
https://www.metafilter.com/73462/Onewoman-crime-spree

What is the biggest achievement of the Bavarian police? Being so incompetent in the 72 olympics so that the GSG9 special forces were created.
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Maybe if they release all job application files, we can search for science beyond the Standard Model to explain this asymmetry.
The intent is important because it becomes the lid on the project. Without it, it is far harder to stay on track and make meaningful progress in finite time. In a good company everyone involved knows the risks that may make the schedule and budget slip and acts accordingly. Done right, the pressure does not rise unduly shortly before a milestone. It should rise earlier, but also to a much lower level. And a good manager will know when enough is enough and move the deadline before it becomes too stressful.
You didn’t also change that other group policy that take precedence in certain situations over the one you changed.
I agree but I do like the fact that it's written in Markdown and hosted on GitHub. I don't know many recipe books that allow for issues to be raised and that accept pull requests ;)
You are not the same person as a year ago, it is perfectly possible for a person to try and censor their past opinions.
I am no fan of ESRI, but if you are serious about map cartography in the long run as part of your career you should probably learn ArcGIS. In almost every way QGIS either matches or exceeds ArcGIS (discounting the hideously expensive extensions) except for cartography. The out of the box cartographic tools in ArcGIS remain unrivaled.

Most serious cartographers (NatGeo, NYTimes, etc.) that I know of will do line work and maybe some/all labeling in GIS and then export the vectors to Photoshop/Illustrator for the finishing.
40 hours isn’t the standard. France does 35 and gets better productivity per hour because of it
Wait, wait... there's no salt in the sourdough?
There's a thought that the only people that can mentally hack capitalism and the stresses that come with it are a very few number of people, they often becomes owners of companies or directors. The rest of us have to follow the system to work and earn in it and dont always subscribe to it's ideals. That's why I like her courage to use the word brainwashed, something American media think only happens to people of other governments.
Regulation is the core task of the EU, more or less its reason to be.

There are many squishy goals the EU has, but its core and non-squishy task is to create and take care of a common market among all member states. That relates to boring and straightforward things like tariffs (just don’t have them, duh), but also to other trade barriers, like differing regulation between different member states. (If a French company can’t sell their wine picker without modification in Spain because of mutually exclusive regulation in the two countries then that’s a trade barrier and the EU aims to get rid of it by harmonising the regulation in France and Spain and all the other member countries.)

As such the EU also takes over the continuing duties of regulating companies from the member states. It is no surprise that much of what the EU does relates to regulation, since that is its reason to be.
> That wasn't an aspect ratio point, it was about the stereoscopic requirement of display headsets.

Regardless of what's being shown, if the unit can display that many pixels in a row (possibly bifurcated), I don't think it's out of the question to refer to it that way. From a device-centric perspective, it's more accurate. From an "end-user that will use it primarily as a stereoscopic headset display" it's less accurate, even if that user may not be able to see all of the display space at once anyway(?).

> edit: Actually that's not quite right, even if you forgo a stereoscopic mode, the same content has to be shown to each eye. It's not like having dual monitors on a desk.

It's not the same content if used for 3d. It is very similar content tough (possibly verging on being identical in what I suspect are rare instances).
Applying considered and appropriate effort to anything will tend to improve the thing. Its why we have smart phones and cities today.

It's not an absolute; I've seen good software lose its quality with inappropriate and ill-considered effort put into it, but that's not the norm.

More concretely, each of the previous three Tesla car models have improved steadily over the years.
Baking is a surprisingly geeky thing to do. While cooking is more about knowing your ingredients and tasting as you go, baking absolutely requires strict adherence to a recipe.

I can't actually remember why I started baking bread. But when I first started the product was horrible. I would let the dough rise in a warm place and "make it big" as quickly as possible. For me the rising was just about CO_2 so it made sense. It took me a long time to realise that time is a crucial ingredient. You want the rise to take more time, not less. The difference is astonishing.

I never had much luck with sourdough but I actually prefer the taste of "fresh" bread anyway in the French style. Sourdough is in fashion right now but don't think using cultured yeast gives an inferior product!
The payment service I use (Pin Payments) can include a random value in the payment card narrative, allowing you to hold delivery until the cardholder authorises dispatch with the correct code.
I have recommended (open-source) Cakebrew [1] to non-technical people.

It offers a graphical user interface to interact with the Homebrew repository.

[1] https://www.cakebrew.com
In C, a function pointer is typically just the address of the first assembly instruction in that function. Invocation is typically done by an instruction that does a subroutine call to that address stored in a register.
Excellent article!

We've been baking sourdough bread at home for about a year now. When the starter is done, baking bread is a lot less work than when using yeast. The work is spread over a few days but there are no laborious processes involved.
It only took 66 years from the Wright Brothers flying at Kitty Hawk to Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Healthy skepticism is warranted, but outright pessimism is not.

We have many great challenges ahead of us as a species. It’s important to keep in mind our priorities and how we’re allocating our resources, even as it relates to curing aging/death.

Sidenote: I enjoyed that the CGP Grey animation of this fable cribbed off of Kennedy’s speech kicking off the space race to the Moon.
I consider this good news.

May I recommend an article by Taleb:

The Precautionary Principle
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5787.pdf

Contrary to some of the posters here, I don't think there is STRONG evidence that neonicotinoids are causing this but there is some evidence. Bases on the Precautionary Principle it is a good idea to ban this kind of pesticides for now.
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Though I like this new regulation and I live in the EU. The EU creates a lot of useless waste and red tape, just look at the EU cookie law
Excactly. You mentioned a good point. It's a different kind of taste simply. However you can replace the yeast in any regular recipe with sour dough.

I failed so many times. But usually there is a good explanation to why your baking failed. I love it, you really have to use your brain.
One doesn't even need to go that far back to find relevant examples. The head of manufacturing at Spacex recently started that no two Falcon 9 cores were built identically.
She is on-the-nose about the upsides, but doesn't talk about the downsides enough, IMO. It's tough leaving friends and family behind. Also, the creature comforts! They don't have Costco or Trader Joes or good diners in Europe. Knowing where to buy things, knowing the language (the worst thing is navigating phone trees in another language), knowing how the various systems of which you are a apart work. You realize how much knowledge has seeped into you, almost by osmosis, that you take for granted, and now it's gone. New knowledge will seep in, in time, and meanwhile you must be okay being ignorant, and therefore at risk.
How much of the credit card debt is eventually written off as bad debt?
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Did you by any chance keep it stored near the TV?

It was not that rare for insufficient shielding to cause machines to start misbehaving from static electricity from the TV. Which would tend to cause lengthy repair shop stays as they didn't find anything wrong, eventually put it aside, tried it again later and found the problem had vanished.

I had that happen with a C64. The C64 was reasonably well shielded, but that one was stored right underneath a 26" TV and it wasn't shielded well enough for that, and after a while it started having weird lockups, and now and again it'd start "typing" on its own. Took us several annoying repairs before we realized what the problem was.
You can buy packs of frozen yeast from most bakeries.
No mention of salt in whole page. That is a huge omission. It's not even bread without salt. If you follow this recipe it will taste awful. Use salt if you want your bread to be like bakery bread. And there is no "salt to taste" in baking. 10g per 500g of flour is a good start but the point you add it is important so check a proper recipe.
My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum clone called HC-85 (presumably an acronym for Home Computer). These were very popular in Romania in during the last years of the Communist regime.

I remember seeing a Sinclair Spectrum and thinking how much more elegant it looked (the HC-85 was bulky and rather ugly).
I think it's more about preventing aging than diseases. There are a lot of people who are "monstrous death worshipers" because they want to cure cancer but not aging. They see cancer as a problem that's worth solving but old-age-death is part of being human so they just don't care about it at all. Even criticizing rich people for trying to prolong their own lives.

I agree though that it completely ignores all other causes of death and the incremental improvements we're making. We'll still get hit by cars even if we don't age. I see that more as a lack of detail than an important problem with the story.
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Apple gave it a specific definition. It means you can’t see the pixels, and for the average human, you can calculate it per a given screen distance.
Very cool. Any interesting uses for this? I want to develop a 'cognitive debiasing' ML system. It will take real time spoken languages and parse it syntactically to output a dibiased version of the input. Let me know if it have any resources or insight on this. Thanks!
My bread has increased in quality so much by (a) mixing the ingredients (without the yeast, or with only a little bit of the sourdough starter) the night before (i.e. making a poolish), and (b) taking a full day to prepare: you knead a little, let it rest for a couple of hours, give it a few turns, rest, etc. As a result, the bread is much more flavorful, and the flavor is more delicate: not too sour, not too sweet, and you can chew it and feel the flavors develop.
I think chess is an appealing game because it's touted as the sport of the brain. Once one knows the rules they imagine they have the same chance of winning as anyone.

The truth is chess performance depends tremendously on training, practice and number of games played. At my first job as a software developer they had an internal chess championship which I joined expecting to be beaten badly (there were programmers who were participating afterall), even though I spent most of the previous summer playing chess in the local park. I won that championship, positioning myself as a "smart guy" within the company. I don't think I was actually smarter than them. I barely had more exercise.

I think that these chess variants can cancel most of the training one has and level the playing field, making that chess game a brain game again.
Maybe someone can clear this up; when I get into the US on vacation, my fingerprints and iris are stored. Then when I walk from the plane to customs there are a ton of cameras, they scan my passport (which has biometric info and my photo), then they take a photo of me. This is not the same for citizens? I would imagine it would be quite easy to figure out who is who with all that info? If Americans never fly, do they not have biometrics on these people?
Your claims clearly don't mach Wikipedia:

Specifically, Bavaria had no reports of crimes committed by the Phantom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

"It was found that the contaminated swabs all came from the same factory, which employs several Eastern European women who fit the type the DNA was assumed to match. Bavaria, although a region central to the crimes, obtained their swabs from a different factory. They had no reports of crimes committed by the Phantom."

The cause for all DNA detections was: the use of sterile but not DNA-free cotton swabs:

"the laboratory results were due to contamination of the cotton buds used for DNA probing. Although sterile, the swabs are not certified for human DNA collection."

The Wikipedia article lists the locations of the crimes, obviously these swabs were more widely used, and they even weren't used in Bavaria.
Why do you think the main issue is "can" and not "why on earth would you want to"?

I remember a very poignant New Yorker cartoon, with a bunch of elderly gently WASP-ish looking folk and one whispering to another: "Money is life's report card".
EDIT: nevermind, I misread the post

that same act

I think what jack9 is saying is that it's not the same act.
It doesn't matter that they're not at the os level, they're notifications you'll get on an Android phone as delivered straight from the factory.
As a self-proclaimed libertarian, this is the first thing that came to mind: we need more people like her! The more people we have who feel this way and start leaving/fleeing the country, the greater incentive for the society to correct itself in order to minimize the losses.
I am afraid your sourdough in the pictures is a bit unconventional. It did not raise as much I expected. Did you use a Dutch oven?

Also some useful links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Breadit/

https://youtu.be/yg5nLQVg4VY
Exactly. This strategy has been used by people since we first invented bread. I always think we should use it, it's ready for the taking.
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This story will be updated as more details emerge...
The other thing you'll want for custom map making is OpenStreetMap.
Can't agree more! With all respect to Alacritty, I find Kitty easier to install/update, having more features and at least comparable performance (as it also uses OpenGL for rendering). Overall it seems a pretty mature product and the author is very responsive to Github issues.

I'd like to see it more in these terminal-related articales and discussions...
Wait, you think the dragon is... death itself? Is that actually what it's supposed to be? I supposed that it was something more like climate change due to hydrocarbon fuels or something of that nature. The story clearly depicts a world where the dragon did not exist at one point, but it then showed up and society adapted to it. That never happened with death.

I also figured that a large part of the story was unrealistic in the way society was presented. It depicts a society which is entirely cowed in its approach to the dragon... and yet is capable of a wholesale overturning of literally generations of worldview on a dime. Humanity doesn't tend to work like that. A more realistic take would have had the dragonologists fed face-first into the dragons maw so that society could avoid facing the notion that not only had they been seeing the world the wrong way their entire lives, but so had their ancestors, and it had cost them countless loved ones while they simply quietly accepted it. Those who are invested in irrationality generally react to damage caused by the irrationality with doubling down, not backing off. Especially with a whole room full of people lamenting all the people lost to the dragon, the last idea that is going to gain widespread popularity is "all those deaths were for nothing."