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In order to build public housing on Central Park the effective value of the subsidy to each of the families that receive housing there would be hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. That’s like buying Ferraris for people that can’t afford public transport. It’s a bad idea for two reasons - one is that it basically minimizes as opposes to maximizes the public dollars spent, and two public transfers are not supposed to be lottery tickets but rather safety nets.
> There's nothing safe about a Cessna 172

Genuine question: is the 172 really considered unsafe, googling "cessna 172 safety record" brings up a lot of articles suggesting it is as safe or safer than comparable aircraft - or are you saying that light private aircraft aren't very safe in general?
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That was, essentially, my point. (Foot resting on the pedal heavily enough that it slips doesn't count as fully engaged, of course).

> I wonder if replacing clutches during the normal lifetime of a passenger car will become a thing of the past

My gut says that clutches wear far more from starting at a dead stop than from any gear changes in motion, so taking rev-matching out of the hands (foot) of the human won't make enough of a difference.
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> As an analogy, consider the average numerical computer program. We often derive the underlying math in terms of real-valued vector spaces. However, when implementing the program on a computer system, all variables are ultimately discrete. A reason for not thinking about our problems in terms of discrete objects is that math just tends to get incredibly complicated as soon as objects are discrete; and that the computational substrate is fine-grained enough (in most cases).

When doing computations that require a lot of precision, one actually needs to consider the fact that floats/doubles are discrete and with limited precision, and handle that in the code. Typical examples may be numerical analysis, physical simulations, game world code (for assuring consistent state for all connected players), and geometrical algorithms.

Fortunately for most programmers, they do not need that level of precision in their code.
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This argument does not hold up. Flip this around and you are the one to dismiss the credibility of a news source because it puts trump on a pedestal. Are you not open to questioning your ideology if someone presents some very compelling arguments despite how much you can’t stand Trump?
> Bringing a new four place plane to market has been cost prohibitive. ... the FAA loosened these rules this week

Is there any independent research that supports this? I've often heard the argument that regulations are too expensive as an excuse for lowering standards.
"Even in SF there are a lot of land for housing! For example, there are hundreds of body repair/tyre shops in SF."

Yeah, well...those places are already in use. And if you want to change that use, you first have to buy the land from the people who are already using it. And that's expensive, because people know what the land is worth. In other words: those auto repair shops are there for a reason. You can't just ignore the reason(s) and pretend that the land is vacant.

It's not as if every SF landowner is behaving in an economically suboptimal way because they're all stupid.
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Unfair and utterly stupid of humanity.
> ... double dilution lowered the concentration of the analytes in the blood samples to levels that were below the ADVIA’s FDA-sanctioned analytic measurement range. In other words, it meant using the machine in a way that neither the manufacturer nor its regulator approved of. To get the final patient result, one had to multiply the diluted result by the same factor the blood had been diluted by, not knowing whether the diluted result was even reliable. Young and Gong were nonetheless proud of what they’d accomplished. At heart, both were engineers for whom patient care was an abstract concept. If their tinkering turned out to have adverse consequences, they weren’t the ones who would be held personally responsible.

Emphasis added.
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> we have come to culturally "accept" a certain number of fatalities each year in commonplace activities, like walking down the street, using a bathtub, driving a car, etc.

I disagree; there are ongoing, successful efforts to make driving, walking down the street (see Vision Zero for example), and many more activities safer. We haven't accepted the risk levels at all.
On the contrary, uninsured motorist insurance in the US is very inexpensive. $76 per year for half a million dollars coverage is typical (current quote from Geico).
If the human drives right into a huge wheel-swallowing pothole, is that "human error" or is it "improper pavement design and maintenance"?

The human should watch out. On the other hand, the pothole should be fixed.

It is probably typical to have multiple factors, making it easy to bend the numbers to one's liking.
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Although that would make members of the FBI bureaucrats.
> will be released when they need to ship them

Does this jibe with your "all other carmakers" comparison? I do know that different models routinely get released at different times (separated by months), but different option packages?

> The only difference between the current cheapest 3 and the $35k model is battery size, which affects weight and the max performance.

And? How does it drive?
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You want the part of the write-up where it mentions he gets FILE_GOOGLE3_ACCESS.

I'm not sure what access that actually gives, but that email thread showing people getting +cc'd on the ticket speaks pretty obviously to the severity and magnitude of the problem.

(Am Googler.)
You're certainly entitled to that opinion. But your assertion is not convincing. This rather is my bag; studying neofascists and their propaganda tactics is a rather in-depth hobby of mine. And the way they rely upon the plausible deniability of "actual context" is why I am happy to disregard it. Literally any other nonfascist ideology, yes, I agree. Not Nazis, not fascists. They're autoimmune disorders and societies and communities erring on caution with and specifically with fascists won't keep me up at night.

Putting Nazi shit on things you own is a sign of tribal identity and that tribe exists to break our norms and kill us once they have the chance. On one's own head be it. This may catch up some dipshits who want to offend people. But...y'know? That's OK. Don't be that dipshit. Don't play with Nazi shit.
> There are people that appreciate the handling and the performance they get driving a BMW.

My brother was a panel beater and most of his friends mechanics, when growing up I was always told the worst car you could buy was a BMW, they were for people who like to think they have money, but more often than not those people are paying off the car, but it costs more to maintain the car than it does to buy it.

Personally if I had the money for a BMW, there's plenty of other cars that are nicer, better performing, and better handling, than a BMW. But I would rather just buy a Toyota and drive it till i died. Those things are cheap and last forever.
Yeah...

No.

There may not be 'balls' here, but this is definitely the most hilariously bad way for Facebook to handle this.

What this is REALLY saying is this:

A) We here at Facebook aren't really about connecting people. We are about marketing, and ad delivery in order to generate revenue.

B) The goal of keeping you connected and communicating with your social graph is so unimportant to us, that we are either technically incapable, or otherwise unwilling to provide service to customer bases that we cannot monetize.

C) We will hold onto, and continue selling any data we have already collected about you, that we really never got informed consent from you on, because we told you it was about us connecting you, and you didn't read the fine print.

So either accept, or here is a copy of your data. Excuse us while we sell what we already have. Ciao!

This will NOT earn Facebook any "Good Faith" points in the court of public opinion, and is adding further fuel to the international fire of "how far will contract law be allowed to usurp fundamental rights?"

Popcorn time indeed!
tl;dr

> The FSEvents framework relies on a single, constantly running daemon process called fseventsd that reads from /dev/fsevents and writes the events to log files on disk (stored in a .fseventsd directory at the root of the volume the events are for). That's it.

> "The FSEvents framework, in turn, can only tell its clients, "Something has changed in directory /foo/bar/baz."

> Clients of FSEvents are expected to then scan the directory that has changed in order to determine what, exactly, happened (assuming they're interested in that level of detail)."
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"know that p" clarifies the sense of "know", i.e., to know a proposition.

The symbols "q" and "p" here stand in for propositions and "that p" is common parlance. Its not about introducing variables.
There's a good episode of PBS SpaceTime about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs
It doesn't look like a deadlock; turning off interrupts prevents the preemptive scheduler from running. Without a timer interrupt, the only way the scheduler would run is if it's invoked to put the process to sleep during a blocking syscall or explicitly with sched_yield(2), pthread_yield(3), etc.

If interrupts are off, the the PoC program might wait forever for "hits > 32" if never testfun() never detects a "hit". Giving up after 1M bust loops ("cycles < 1000000") should prevent this from happening... but... I wonder...

gcc -o test test.c -Wall -DHIT_THRESHOLD=50 -DNO_INTERRUPTS

Without -O0, some optimizations are still enabled. Could a modern "clever" optimizing compiler assume that the speculative "hit" never happens and therefor conclude that "cycles" is only used after the loop when it is "guaranteed" to have the value 1000000 and "optimize" the loop into something like

/*long cycles = 0;*/ //DEAD
while (hits < 32 /*&& cycles < 1000000*/) { //DEAD
// ... rest of loop body, maybe?
/* cycles++; */ //DEAD
pipeline_flush();
/*}*/ //DEAD

and the sprintf() into something like:

sprintf(out_, "%c: %s in 100000 cycles (hitrate: %f%%)\n",
secret_read_area[idx], results, 100*hits/(double)(100000));

I'm probably worrying about nothing. Or at lest I should be worrying about nothing, but with the current trend of "clever" optimizers exploiting everything they think is provable, I'm no longer certain. bleh
Not mentioned here - the imputed cost of easy eviction on rental prices/ability to rent. I’ve lived in tenant friendly cities (NYC) and landlord friendly cities (HOU). And guess what, its way easier to rent an apartment in a state where it’s easier to get evicted. Perversely making it hard to evict a tennat can make the hurdles to be being able to qualify for an apartment to high for many people. I’m not saying that there should be no protections, and as a renter i would prefer to have stronger protections, but with those stronger protections come costs....
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RSS link to free full-length reports from the Intercept.
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> the rental is worth it for the ability to tell them

Tell them you want to cancel. You'll be routed to the cancellation department, which is greatly empowered and incentivized to ensure you don't cancel. I have to do this about once a year, when Spectrum/TWC randomly adds $40 to my monthly internet bill.
Not really up to that level, but a 96yo neighbor rang on my bell for some tech support. The dude was sharper than a lot of 50yo persons.

Humans are weird
> With a toddler, there is no good reason.

Um, where are you getting that from? It makes the toddler happier and more comforted, and in this case (and probably most cases) the parent also.

And, even though a toddler or young child won't tend to wake up as much as a baby, they still do a lot — bad dreams, loud noises, earthquakes, etc. — and having a parent right there next to them is a lot different than not. It can be the difference between them going right back to sleep or sitting up and screaming and then being wide awake for an hour.
Co-slept with both kids here. Full nights sleep every night. Nobody harmed.
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We do this too. Two giant mattresses on the floor! Great to know I’m not a pioneer.
Those old land rovers rust like crazy for people who go to the beach and never wash their car after, the salt water (even when you drive near the beach and not on) causes major rust.
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Ideologically, I’m inclined to agree with you. However, last year I read the book mentioned in the parent comment, The Chickenshit Club.

One of the central arguments laid out in that book is that ultimately it is a “gentleman’s code” in the legal world that leads to fewer prosecutions of corporations and individuals executives. The author of that book obtained DOJ memos and conducted interviews with several career prosecutors.

The general takeaway is that US federal prosecutors are inclined to “see the humanity” in corporate executives, and ascribe potential criminal behavior to negligence instead. After all, high powered lawyers and C-suite executives went to the same handful of elite schools, and are likely to run in similar social circles. This is complicated by the fact that the US Department of Justice has two tracks: career civil servants, and political appointees who are often part of a revolving door from whiteshoe criminal defense law firms to government. The political appointees oversee and have ultimate discretion on what cases to pursue and against whom.

The incentives for prosecutors to take cases to trial, as opposed to settling, are also not there. Federal prosecutors cherish their “win rates”, and extracting a settlement from a corporation counts as a win, which in turn helps career advancement. Take a case to court, and if 1/12 of the jurors are unpersuaded, you’ve lost.

In all fairness to George W. Bush’s presidency, his DOJ was given political cover and the necessary resources to prosecute Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and Arthur Andersen. Both corporation and individual executives were held accountable with financial penalties and heavy jail sentences.

The Obama presidency on the other hand, featured former criminal defense and corporate law firm lawyers leading the DOJ. Many had no previous experience of working as prosecutors, and it showed painfully in several botched prosecutions.

The problem of “chickenshit” prosecution in this country has long predated Citizens United, and several conservative presidents have done a better job than their liberal counterparts of holding corporations accountable, and vice versa.

Corporate money may well add fuel to the fire, but it was by no means the catalyst that got us to where we are today w.r.t. unpunished corporate wrongdoing.

The book is really worth a read, and goes into far greater detail.
Oh, my God. Never do this. Never suffer their retention specialists. If you want to negotiate your bill, you use Twitter. (Comcast's social media team at corporate HQ won't give you the runaround the goofballs at the regional support centers do, they have different incentives.)

What is this, the dark ages? o.o
> and the queries you put into the start menu.

I've long suspected this but couldn't prove it. Aside from the privacy implications I've found it makes windows unsable. Basic operations can take several seconds and if you're on an intermittent connection (which developers never test on) the menu can be frozen for over a minute.

> however, it's much more difficult to opt out of Microsoft's tracking -- so many people depend on Microsoft Office or other Windows programs that I can't fully switch to Linux.

This comes up a lot but I think we need to change how we think about it. Yes there will be pain and yes there will be things you could do before but can no longer do, but we need to treat it like ripping off a bandaid and embrace the pain rather than hope to mitigate it.
It has been argued that pretty much all cars have brakes that are more powerful than the engine, and thus there ought to be no way for a car to truly run away.

On the other hand, it has been claimed, and seems reasonable, that in some cases, applying the brakes moderately against a car running at full throttle leads them to overheat and fail, and then there's no way to stop.

I feel like a manual transmission could be a safety device in another way - if you can pass the threshold of shifting for yourself, it may limit how impaired, by drugs/alcohol or dementia etc, you can be while still driving.
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The news of the suspension brought about the cost of Bitcoin diving by 20%. The organisation found that it had “lost” in excess of 850,000 bitcoins, which, at the time, spoke to more than 7% of all the bitcoins available for use.
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Yes, they are metaphors. However, they come out of prior assumptions and they are used as input assumptions for later work. The equations are simplified mathematical characterisations of the experimental evidence. Certain simplifying assumptions are made to create these equations. Theories are an attempt to clarify what is believed to be happening and are always based on some kind of simplifying assumptions.

Often, it is difficult to take a step back and take another long hard look at what the evidence is.

The point of my mentioning "what is a photon?" is that we make certain assumptions (as per your operators, uncertainty principle, etc) which we don't step back from and see if there are alternatives. Even trying to get a handle on what the uncertainty principle means gets us into a philosophical quagmire. Our view of the "quantum realm" is coloured by a huge amount of background assumptions, including the "intuitions" of those investigating the subject matter.

There is an oft stated saying: "The science is settled" over some matter or another. Yet, the whole point of scientific endeavour is that it is not settled, we are still investigating (or at least should be).
Ooo! Lemme show off this CLP(FD) solution to the "Zebra Puzzle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle that I made after reading the "Logic Puzzles with Prolog" chapter:

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I watched the first video. In the interview, the ambulance union head says they go to the so-called "no-go zones". That is, they aren't literally "no-go zones". This is in line with calling it a "problem area", as the Snopes article uses it. This is not in line with legostormtrooper's claim that there are areas which are "refused public utility service".

The union leader also says there are non-immigrant neighborhoods which are also no-go zones.

Reddit is blocked here, so I can't read the second link. The URL includes "head_of_swedish_amulance_drivers_union_nogo", so I assume it's the same person making the same statements.

For a real "no-go area" I would expect it would be easy to find multiple sources that confirm that ambulance, power, water, sewer, etc. service workers are not able to enter.

You write "the number of reported rapes has increased markedly" and give a link to bra.se.

These are the same statistics discussed in the second Snopes link I gave. Quoting now from https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/crime-sweden-rape-capital-... , which quotes from the original report by Sweden’s National Council for Crime Prevention:

> The question posed on sexual crimes in NTU includes a wide range of crimes. It can range from minor events [like] flashing and groping, to very serious incidents of rape. Those who say they suffered must therefore answer questions about the severity of the crime. The responses show that in 29 percent of cases [have been] a more serious form of sexual crimes, says Emelie Hambrook, investigator at the National Council.

That is, the graph you linked to is not for "reported rapes" but is for "sexual crimes" in general. Snopes goes on to write:

> While Brå noted that the broad category of “sexual crimes” had increased since 2012, the same was not true for rape. Another Brå graph shows that reported cases of rape (represented by the purple line below) did not spike suddenly after the influx of refugees in 2015 – instead, they dropped from 6,697 in 2014 to 5,918 in 2015 (about the same amount as in 2009).

And while the numbers have increased, they appear to be more due to changing standards of what "rape" means, including "As from 1 July 2013, the sex offence legislation was again made tougher; among other things rape was expanded to include cases where the victim reacts passively."

This seems to be in line with jaha's description of your "anti-immigration tirades", that is, it appears that you are misinterpreting information with a view towards strengthening a presupposed anti-immigration viewpoint.
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This comment was confusing to me because it's super-positive and doesn't mention the article, so I thought the article itself is also positive. However:

"Sixteen weeks into ownership, we've had so many issues with our Model 3 that we started a shared Google Doc to catalog various warning messages, necessary screen resets and general failures."
"We put down a $1,000 deposit to get on a two-year waiting list for this car and it's falling apart."

Disclaimer: I work in automotive for not Tesla.
Say No If you want to be successful
Do you know who said “NO” every day?

The Legendary Steve Job

Don’t believe me?

OK.

Then,

Well!! do you know who is the most successful Industrial Designer of the modern age?

Ans: He is John Ive

He is one of the people who is credited for the Smart Phone that you use on an everyday basis.

Well, iPhone Users Should thank him.

He is the head of the design at Apple Inc. and he worked directly under Steve Job.

Do you know what Steve Job used to ask him?

John Ive once said,

”Steve Job use to ask me each day what I had said NO to.”

The reason behind it was simple..

And it's the life advice which John Ive follows and has learned from Steve Job:

You have to really focus. Just do one thing. Aim to become best at it and Say NO to everything else which is not related to your aim.

Think, “how many times a day you say NO to irrelevant things?”

Because Warren Buffet has also said,

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

So, Start saying NO.
I just moved to Japan, and it's fascinating that connotations (including my previous) with Japan are "High tech, futuristic, efficient" when in reality it is, "slow moving, traditional, and (frequently) inefficient." I can comment more as to why / how.

This woman is not only fighting cultural norms of the _world_, but also Japan. Software engineering, in general, lags so far behind the rest of the world, save robotics. It's starting to change, and I'm glad that people like Wakamiya-san are preventing the creation of a 'conventional software engineer'. Seriously, the field needs more role models like Grace Hopper to idolize rather than our current trend of Jobs, Gates, Woz, Knuth, etc.
It would still be deceptive, connecting proportions of two different groups, and implying a moral value which would not be implied by a more honest comparison.