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Yucca mountain isn't a great solution... more of a stopgap really. Besides, how do you convince the fine citizens of Nevada to go along with having the nation's nuclear waste buried under their water table? We're not talking about Native Americans defending a river here, these are actual Americans we're talking about.
I was just being facetious. It was too easy to identify that numbers are being doubled, so I'd contrive something else instead, that happens to be equivalent for the few examples given.
Like with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine ?
Yubico currently sells one at $20. https://www.yubico.com/product/security-key-by-yubico/#secur...

There are competing U2F keys, but I don't know of any competitors that support FIDO2 yet.
Depends if you want an exact multiplication or not

Especially if you have neurons with non-linear response

remember ln(a*b) = ln(a)+ln(b)
The Civil War cost the deaths of 600,000 Americans - 360,000 northern, 258,000 southern. 40,000 of the Union war dead were African Americans. The southern economy was utterly destroyed in the process.

America has already paid a very high and bitter price to end slavery, in the usual currency for freedom - blood.
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in order to calculate reparations you have to show how much better off the current generation would be had their ancestors not been sold into slavery. given the state of africa you cannot show they would be better off. secondly the slave traded ended globally thanks the UK. the British enforced the end of the slave trade and actively fought against Muslim and American slave traders to bring it down.
Try this: http://omswami.com/book/a-fistful-of-wisdom
> They have the same flexibility and operating cost issues that are killing coal

Do you have any references for this?

The common characterization that you hear is just the opposite: nuclear is expensive in upfront investments but cheaper to operate than coal.

In the future when the production mix gets more unpredictable, always-on generation should get a profitability boost. A producer who can promise 24/7 production is in a strong position on a market that is largely based on unertain producers trying to sell future uncertain output to producers whose demand is inflexible.
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> One thing the FDA doesn't consider that I think they should is the cost of not approving a drug. Safety and effectiveness is not black and white when faced with uncertainly.

There is an excellent lecture by Richard Epstein on this topic [0].

tldr: The FDA doesn't allow pre-stage 3 access to drugs because it would, in part, reduce demand to be part of stage 3 trials. However, it's much more complicated than that.

[0] Chicago's Best Ideas: "Clinical Trials on Trial: How Should the FDA Do Its Job?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEhzoh86N9M
You are describing exactly what Google and Facebook and others are doing. With the minor difference that they are telling you "eat that chocolate".
You do realise those “beyond timescales humans understand” substances are already in the Earth’s crust? And the longer something takes to decay, the safer it is. Long time scales are a plus.
No, not at all; it only refers to search and seizure carried out by the government. Whereas the 1st amendment is usually interpreted to mean that, once you've given data to a third party, they are free to publish it. In this situation the phone location data belongs to the phone company.

ECHR Article 8 contains a genuine right to privacy.
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Give away all the value you create at home while you toil away creating value for someone else at work? Why do you miss that?
They mean 15 7-segment LED Display modules (bubble LED displays).
100k/yr excessive? When Facebook's median compensation is 240k? The economics of working for a startup seem worse than ever these days.
I'd recommend this translation/commentary: Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Rama
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PK14SA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Oh boy, I love Te Expanse and didn't realize season 3 was out! Watched the first two seasons on Amazon, just purchased season 3. Gonna be a great weekend.

Without knowing how good season 3 is, I'd say Amazon should just pick it up.
It truly is a terrible thing when people want "less regulation" without pausing to think whether the particular bit of regulation benefits them or not. "Regulation" has become a bogeyman you can invoke to reliably get people rallying against it.
Not very active, but... https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=oblomov
Nuclear reactors won't be politically feasible unless either a) we find a country that will sell us the rights to dump our nuclear waste there or b) launching nuclear waste into the sun becomes economically feasible. I just don't think it's possible to convince the lay American that nuclear waste can be stored permanently and safely (I'm not so convinced myself).

Not sure about a) but b) probably won't happen until all the reactors running today have been retired.
I agree, if they control all these pages they were advertising as then it'd be much more interesting to see what they were showing the people who responded to these ads and liked their pages. A lot of them look like pages designed to radicalise .

It'd also be interesting to see what the official campaigns targeted advertising looked like, including that of related arms length groups that presumably do the dirty work.
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The weather at Hyderabad is too hot compared to previous years. I wonder what is causing for the increase in heat. Global warming?
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Why were Russians doing ads to support democratic cause? I thought it was strongly believed that they wanted Trump to win. Doing some divisive thing to get some sort of twisted outcome feels like far out conspiracy. That bring me to question: how much confidence do we have these are Russian state sponsored ad?
That reads a lot like lewronggeneration, throwing words like "slavery" around to describe machinery which makes travel faster, easier and cheaper just because you don't get serviced like in the Fiftees.

Guess what, the airport isn't winning either if things clock up due too bad UX or missing staff members - so I think it's save to say that they're constantly improving and adapting. Would be way more usefull to provide feedback to the right place instead of make a blogpost rant on a philosophical/society level...
I'm not sure they actually do. The highest figure nuclear proponents have come up with for radiation exposure from coal is about three times nuclear power plants, if you only count the source of radiation exposure that coal and nuclear have in common, and that's for very polluting 1970s-era coal power plants of a type that probably wouldn't be allowed to operate today. Besides, coal power is dying out in the US anyway.
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> In practice, school district gerrymandering has effectively recreated "separate but equal". There is research (cited in the article linked below) that school districts are doing this

Am I reading this wrong or does the article you cite in fact make a point that's exactly the opposite of your claim?

The graph of school district shapes' effect on educational vs residential racial segregation[1] shows that the net effect is to _reduce_ segregation (though not very significantly), and that at the district level, this is true of a fairly substantial majority of districts.

The thesis of the article seems to be that educational racial segregation is overall largely a consequence of residential racial segregation, and that district shapes mitigate this to a minor degree. The article is saying that districts _should_ be gerrymandered, in order to make districts less segregated than the residential areas around them.

I get why you might have interpreted it otherwise: the article is typically poorly-written for Vox and pretty much designed to trick readers into exactly the misunderstanding you fell into. Mentioning that "some" district shapes increase segregation relative to residential, showing multiple cherry-picked examples of same, and then smoothly seguing into advocacy for gerrymandering to reduce segregation relative to the residential baseline is pretty much designed to trap readers that aren't paying attention or actually looking at the graphs. Regardless of your view on the topic, framing the data in the graph the way they did without clarifying that the examples they emphasized are in the minority by far is just dishonest journalism (if you can call what Vox does "journalism"...)

[1] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/qNGjZMngq3CCtBBqkpzpUUa3Ob4=...
I've noticed that DeepMind completely ignores imitation learning area of research. I never saw them citing any of the fundamental papers, despite a bunch of their reinforcement learning ideas explicitly match those ideas that are now 8+ years old.
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We can store it on Earth until the technology is there, we don't need to wait until it breaks down
In no way can Mozilla's actions be taken as a proxy for Google. Yes, most of their revenue comes from Google now, but this is a recent change and there's no reason to think that contract gave Google any control.

Next, Google has already voiced their support for net neutrality. They even have a real "proxy," the Internet Association, pledging to support lawsuits like the Mozilla one.

https://www.google.com/takeaction/action/net-neutrality/
Strict static typing incours a cost at development time whether you need it or not. Being able to develop quickly with dynamic typing and then add static typing checks afterwards is just such a huge productivity boost really exposing the best of both worlds.
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Sad to see it go. I had professional interest to Fieldbook because I had been developing a similar "spreadsheet"-like application intended for radically changing the way table table is processed - http://conceptoriented.com - and failed. Finally, I decided to move this (quite unique) technology to completely different area and re-implement it as a kind of major alternative to MapReduce focused on general-purpose batch and stream processing (mainly IoT and edge analytics): https://github.com/asavinov/bistro

I am curious to see what happens with other apps like airtable, rowshare or zenkit and the whole market. Will they be able to survive as independent companies (like Tableau or Qlik in self-service BI)?
Even in the mid-90's, the only thing C had to offer over something like Turbo Pascal 6.0 on MS-DOS, was portability to other OSes.

Feature wise it was just plain inferior, in safety, modularity, compile time, OOP support.

Apple was on Object Pascal, then moved into C++. IBM was adopting C++ on their OS/2 tooling, everyone was building C++, Pascal and Basic frameworks on top of Win16, later BeOS also went C++.

Then free UNIX clones happened.
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I believe you’re too focused on the example (“Enron”) and missing the point (“The market doesn’t always price in bad news, until it does.”) of the parent comment.
What makes you assume that the first thing he can think of is compensation?

It looks like what they first thought of was to find a place to live, and to try to go back home.

Regarding compensation:

What makes you think that he did not ask for compensation from his owners?

If you read a bit more you will see that they did ask their former owners for compensation indeed.

"Because Cudjo “always talkee good,” the Africans selected him to approach their former owners and ask for land in exchange for their years of free labor."

The quote is from another site linked by Joeboy further down in the comments: https://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon...
not so sure if this number (that of new tpu pods reaching 100 pflops) makes sense. it seems to be higher than many supercomputers. putting 10 of these would reach 1-exaflop, which is _estimated_ (iirc) to be human brain's computation power.
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Yes, correct. I wasn't clear enough.
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Deepmind has an unfortunate history of publishing in Nature for the prestige. Maybe because Hassabis was a neuroscientist and acquired that bad habit. But does it matter in the CS/ML world? I think it doesn't, because a number of people have done it with papers that range very widely in significance (e.g. this is much less significant than the original deep q learning paper that was also in nature iirc)
> Yup, how horrible that people actually want less regulation.

You want less government regulation, in favor of more corporate 'regulation'. That does indeed sound horrible to me.

It seems that some people just hear REGULATION and freak out, without realizing that they rely heavily on regulation every day to get safely to work and not have their house confiscated.
maybe if you are a biologist/neuroscientist. but for machine learnign research, how sure are we?
How is this different from the build in optional types in python 3?
Yes do it. You can start now. Install and launch a text editor and learn how to do a "hello world" in javascript.
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That's largely a myth.

Very heavy reparations were demanded from France after the 1870-1871 war. Guess by who? Germany. France paid in full, quite quickly, despite the reparations being very large and the French economy being smaller than the German one in 1918.

Germany didn't really want to pay and it also fell into disarray due to other reasons, not related to the reparations.
The article touches on that:

> There was concern among “black intellectuals and political leaders” that the book laid uncomfortably bare Africans’ involvement in the slave trade, according to novelist Alice Walker’s foreword to the book, which is finally being published in May. (...) As Walker writes, “Who would want to know, via a blow-by-blow account, how African chiefs deliberately set out to capture Africans from neighboring tribes, to provoke wars of conquest in order to capture for the slave trade. This is, make no mistake, a harrowing read.”

I agree, though, if we want to be more closer to the truth in terms of what really happened back then we need to also focus on how the African slaves really got to become slaves in the first place (most probably as a result of war or rapines).
Thanks for the pointer to this Cory Doctorow book,
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/27/523587179/in-walkaway-a-bluep...

> By my own (admittedly poor) math, it presents roughly ten thousand new, mind-bending and ground-breaking ideas per page. There are words in here that only otherwise exist in insular pockets of the maker/hacker/open source/thingiverse sub-sub-culture. In terms of its geek heroism, epic, generational scope and high stakes (only the survival of the human race, after all, and possibly the cure for death), the only literary comparison I can make is to Neal Stephenson's hard science disaster masterpiece, Seveneves, but Walkaway is more human. More squishy and close to home.
In my experience even family men get frustrated with working at home. Sure, 1 or 2 days per week is fine, but more than that is generally too much.

Work is probably the most common (or even exclusive for some) way adults meet new people, especially people they wouldn't otherwise meet. It sounds dumb when you don't experience it, but after spending a month or two working at home it start becoming apparent that you are getting too detached from society.
> I don't know why Mozilla thinks it's okay to politically align themselves.

Being pro equal access to internet for every party is not politically aligning themselves anywhere else in the world, but in the U.S. where the right-wing has been successfully co-opted into thinking that every bit of regulation is a communist plot to take over Nebraska.
I don't know if you are intentionally trolling but I'll bite.

Independent hacker culture is the exact thing at risk here without government intervention. Else, you'll end up with the fragmented Verizon hacker culture and the Comcast hacker culture and the... Goddess forbid Google / Facebook / Amazon hacker culture, each with its own non-independent thought.

As an aside, Why are regulations that prevent bad actors from damaging society, thought of as unnecessary control in the US (see the other big ___ control issue)?
I remember feeling this acutely when I say a clip from a TV show in the 50s that had as a guest a man who was present for Lincoln's assassination (as a young child). Pretty wild to think that we're only a few short hops from something that's practically modern mythology at this pt.
Actually the authors point would stand even for a perfectly smooth window pane. The point is that as the thickness increases the length scale over which light goes from constructive to destructive interference reduces, and as this happens you end up sampling more and more uniformly colours from a uniform spectrum. At some point our eye can no longer tell that we are only seeing n monochromatic wavelengths of light.

Okay not monochromatic, but very narrow bandwidth peaks
So If you make a lot of money On Uber with your Tesla, they “deserve” a piece of that too?
A deal is a deal, he sold the art up front without any royalty, that is in him and he was in no way cheated, had he done the same deal with 20 other covers of bands that disn’t make it big he would not be complaining.
This treatment is missing an important thing: Sunlight is not coherent over such long distances such as window pane thicknesses. Basically the two reflections cannot even interfere in the case of sunlight because they do not have a phase relationship.
> I write Python in my day job and I _always_ start with types.

It depends of the project. If you write a lot of flask/django code, writing the types is not that worth it except for a few functions/methods.

> Without types, if I have the code `a = foo(x=1)` then I have to hunt down the source file for `foo()`

No, you just hover the function and get the help() out of it in most framework and libs. Again, if your code is mainly using a well define, documented and popular framework/lib/api, that's not a big deal. And it certainly doesn't require YOU to add types.

Or if you write a program that is contained in 1 to 5 files top. Not use for types.

Or if you are writing your program in jupyter.

And you most likely copy a snipet from the doc anyway. After all, if you see that the function you want to use return a AbstractTranscientVectorServiceFactory object, you can't do much with the information without the doc anyway.

But let's be real, most functions in Python are named pretty explicitly, and return things that you expect like "iterable of numbers" or "file like object yielding utf8".

Types are particularly useful in the cases if you are in a big project with a lot of custom code or in a domain either very complex or that you don't master very well. They are a good for of safety net and documentation at the same time.

But they come at a cost and it's a good thing to be able to choose.
Okay, here's an unusual one that hasn't been mentioned yet (and I'm completely serious with this suggestion): Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance. [1]

Musk is a polarizing figure, no doubt, but what really struck me, at least as presented here, is his vision for the future. That he's not working for money or glory so much as to save the planet and the species. That's a pretty big goal, and a tremendous service to humanity.

More than any book I've read recently, this made me stop and reflect on my own life and what I'm doing with it. I work, primarily, in entertainment, which has its own value, and I try to make a positive, if small, difference in the lives of people around me, but ... nothing like on the scale of what Musk is doing.

This is a pretty indirect suggestion, and nothing in the book advocates this sort of introspection, but it was my profound take-away. Who knows? It might have a similar effect on you.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25541028-elon-musk
Offering a trial position wouldn't help you in negotiation and may reflect a lack of confidence/skills.

I can relate to the trouble that you are going through. I usually volunteer for onsite interview as that helps me present a version of me at work. I communicate like i would while i am in the job. This also helps you adjust yourself by looking at people and environment.

In case you want to put your best forward through work, try researching on company, build a small project around the space and publish in github. take feedback from friends or senior colleagues on this project.

Good luck with your search.
Do you have any credible affirmative proposal/suggestion

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The single biggest problem with repatriations is that slavery in the US did not exist in isolation. It existed in West Africa before and existed afterwards. It existed legally at all times in human history until quite recently.
Never pay for education (for yourself). OK, for your kids.
This is a really cool guide, can somebody point me in the right direction for ressources for using this practically, prefering not isolated (like: 10 Steps to master HTML) but rather a more holisitic project? Really struggling to find something like this
Italy runs actual slave plantations using migrants. There have been a few cases that made it to public perception recently. Not that it gets discussed much...
I just tried both mypy and pyre for the first time. Pyre immediately found two actual issues, but mypy found a thousand possible ones. Maybe I just need to configure mypy better.
Then they need to find a better business model
In an age where many don't have a second choice for an ISP

Where ? You have trouble in the US about that but in Europe we have plenty of competition
American people seem to underestimate the damage and risk of anything they are doing. Producing tons of highly-toxic, highly radioactive elements with a lifetime of several the factor humans are living on earth and not the singles clue how to contain them safely even for a decade!

Sure – why save energy, why invest in renewable, energy. Because we have it and we can do it.

This arrogoance towards the subsequent and already generations of today makes me unbelievable angry.
What if those laws reinforce the power of bad corporations it was supposed to crush down ? Oops
The water in my city sure as hell isn't pumped by diesel power.

As for the rest, that is due to historical reason, back when those networks were established, we didn't have the electrical grid and power available. We do now.

The main reason they still use diesel is because it's cheaper to keep the existing gear running, rather than replacing everything. Electric trains are so much more efficient (in modern kV systems), it's not even funny.
Amazon isn't stopped doing A and I would say thet they are still more known as A company - average person on street probably don't know AWS.
That said, I am sure there is good examples company doing A but abondoning it to more profitable B.
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The whole notion of the article is that taking time off is wrong.
No, it is not.
For what we know, the person taking time off could be sick, mentaly or phisically.

The author of the article needs to be more humane.
This is one of these things that would be cool if it had 100x the userbase...
You're seriously comparing thousands of dead people favourably to thousands of displaced people?
No – nuclear is not "clean" energy. It's one of the messiest form of them. And coal is "clean" neither.
Yeah I know what you mean. The purpose of this post is to evaluate if the service is in a demand.

It sounds like people like this :)