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There are many ways to start. One way is to follow a favorite subject (for nonfiction classics). If you don't know much about a particular work, skim the book. Don't expect to or worry about getting "everything" from a book. The classics are eminently re-readable. If after 50 or 100 pages it's not "working" for you, set it aside; maybe things will go better later.

Reading groups are a great help. Even one other person to ask questions with, read passages to, and discuss--can help encourage you and add a lot of enjoyment.

Find a pace that works for you and your book. Too slow and one can lose the big picture. Too fast and one can miss key details. Some works work well when read aloud; Shakespeare's like that.
I'm honestly starting to reach the opinion we should all be VPNing our web traffic through Europe so we can pick up more of the benefits.
Almost, they must offer the same experience to those who opt out of the targeted ads and other non essential profiling.

Since profiling is not required for their service to work, they have to give access to the content even if I opt out.
Yes, welcome to 2018, where now we can judge you on a spectrum.
My understanding was that there is compelling evidence for topical application (e.g. how the dentist applies it as well as toothpaste) but not much evidence for water supply.

Do you have a link to the research you mention?
In all honesty, this is an outlook I've heard a lot and never really understood.

In any society, there is old science, modern science, cutting-edge science and then theory. To depict a realistic society of the future, the Expanse must have all of these things, and it does:

People drink coffee and read books and talk to each other on devices that are essentially thinner smartphones. That's their old science.

They travel through space using the Epstein drive and communicate with other planets. That's their modern science. (It's worth noting, by the way, that the Epstein drive itself is impossible by modern scientific understanding; it's actually the "magic" of the show well before the protomolecule is at all explained.)

They encounter ships that can't be tracked doing human experiments of questionable morality in order to produce super-soldiers. That's the cutting edge science.

And, finally, they come face-to-face with something they don't totally understand or know how to interact with, something beyond even what they fully believe to be possible. That's the theoretical part.

Missing any one of these parts, the Expanse wouldn't be as realistic, to me, because the bigger point is that no matter how far we've come, there is always something we don't yet understand. Limiting ourselves in the fiction we create to what we consider "realistic" on the grounds of what we, right now, consider to be absolutely within the realm of understood science is as silly now as it was two hundred years ago (and try explaining how the Internet is a real thing to people from that time, and imagine how patiently they'd explain to you that a network of mathematical rocks communicating via trapped lightening is impossible).

Is the "it can do ANYTHING" nature of the protomolecule sometimes a little rope-pull-ish? Yes. But it doesn't matter, to me, because the way everything else in the show responds to that magic is the realistic part. People try to understand it, or weaponize it, or profit off it, or some combination of all three. The storytelling around the magic is what makes the show realistic, to me, not the other way around. Given all that, why is the idea of glowing blue space alien rock any harder to stomach than hyperefficient fusion drives?
No. From: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/

> Consent is presumed not to be freely given if ..., or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.

It is not necessary to consent to data collection for a person to read Slate's article, therefore walling their article behind a consent button means the consent is not freely given.

In other words - you can't lock a site behind a consent button. Either you provide the site regardless of data collection consent, or you don't provide it at all - period.
Off topic :

If Sixers from Ready Player One had used Gym Retro, the agent would have easily found the easter egg in the ATARI Adventure than the humans; was bots not allowed in OASIS?..or wait didn't Halliday himself became an agent?
You're aware that this is precisely how the web (successfully!) worked before it was taken over by marketing interests, right?
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By contrast, Netflix’s 4K HDR of Altered Carbon (on TV with full array local dimming) was the highest quality stream I’ve seen. Some of Amazon’s Electric Dreams episodes come close. When I compare the same 4K Dolby Vision or HDR show between Amazon and Netflix played on the TV itself, I’d argue Netflix often has the edge.

But the show being in HDR or DV, using extra bits for shadows, and kicking in the TV’s HDR blacks, makes more difference to banding than the distribution.

Not coincidentally, anticipating Altered Carbon and this winter’s updates for Dolby Vision across the industry prompted my TV upgrade. Having been in the streaming video business from 1998, it felt like a milestone to have a TV quality purchase driven by an online show.
Update: The agenda-driven edits of Philip Cross and Wikipedia's response
> In other words - you can't lock a site behind a consent button.

You can't lock a site under European jurisdiction behind a consent button.

I don't see how any of this can apply to Slate, unless the EU wants to start reciprocally start enforcing, say, Saudi law on European websites.
Facebook is based in Ireland ostensibly for tax reasons.

I see them as a very poor example of good things coming out of Silicon Valley...
Great! That opens the door for other startups that ARE responsible with people's personal data.
Unless you're trans.

Or you're doing the family shopping and aren't grossed out by hygiene products.
FWIW, I had no trouble at all using Firefox, uBlock Origin and uMatrix. I regularly run into pages where I have adjust uMatrix's settings, but this one way displayed without any problems.
Encouraging this attitude is childish. GDPR (which has been around for 2 years now) is a way for people to say "ok now grow up guys, we know you like to tinker, but we're getting screwed in ways we don't like and we've given you enough rope". This post is saying "so just don't sell soylent in the US because we're too good to bother passing FDA".

No serious and earnest would/should consider this.

Your work affects lives. Period.
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Wow, so the shelter is basically complaining that it's a PITA to unpack and transport free shit.

When you read about companies that just chuck out food instead of donating it, you can kind of see why.

> In addition to the downtown location, Mary’s Place operates six other shelters in Seattle, serving individuals and families with 680 beds each night. But Amazon didn’t deliver the food to the other Mary’s Place locations, nor did the shelter consistently set aside additional resources to distribute the donations each night, according to four sources.

Amazon is the bad guy because they only donated to 1 of the 6 shelters.

> But Amazon is the fifth-most-valuable company in the world, with one of the richest men on the planet at its helm, leaving little doubt that the company could be doing much more to ensure that its local philanthropy isn’t making life tougher for people on the front lines.

Bizarre hit piece.
Comments are often a side of poorly written code though. Ideallly the name and structure of the program should make the intent and purpose obvious, which eliminates the need for a lot of the comments people leave. Of course this isn’t always true, but if you’re using comments to compensate for bad/confusing code, you shouldn’t think you’re doing “the right thing”.
You have to be aware of the age of these books, and esp. the comments, written in 1910. The books itself did age quite properly, but the lectures and comments not so. E.g. they are in todays standard extremely racist, unscientific and religious, all over in praise of the Aryan race, the superiority of Christianism and mixed in the Jews.

E.g. Vol 51, p22: "The Germans were crude and military; the Latins were subtle and peaceful".

A modern canon would be much be better, such as we learn it in todays schools.
Part of the length/complexity of the GDPR text is to deal with "cool hacks" like this to avoid having to spend money on IT security or to respect user preferences.
In the world of global trade many countries abide by US regulations, e.g. European banks go great lengths to abide by US tax law. GDPR is but one example where this works in the reverse.

There are ways for US companies to be exempt from it, and what slate does is not one of them.

Edit: Digging a bit deeper, Graham Holdings, owner of Slate, have European presence. So they might care to be compliant.
But they clearly rolled out this change in response to the GDPR. If they thought the GDPR didn't apply to them they wouldn't have changed the old behavior of the site.
PureScript (Haskell) and BuckleScript (OCaml).
The corrupt ecosystem around enabling "they can target only the specific people who needs the thing they sell" however is a terrible thing for humanity and targeted ads are a neccesary (and welcome to me) casualty.
I understand the general sentiment, but the two categories you describe seem subjective to me.

For example, why do you consider TypeScript to be a "state of the art in mainstream" worth improving, and Flow to be just an "innovate-slightly" language? Those two projects are very close in nature. And if the key difference is adoption, then why is Dart along with EcmaScript and TypeScript?
Do we know Bezos likes the show? The headline is strange, there is zero mention in the article that he had any actual input into the decision.
> > But Amazon is the fifth-most-valuable company in the world, with one of the richest men on the planet at its helm, leaving little doubt that the company could be doing much more to ensure that its local philanthropy isn’t making life tougher for people on the front lines.

> Bizarre hit piece.

Do you really disagree with that paragraph though? It is not an opinion paragraph, it is just a series of statements of facts. Doesn't seem like a "hit piece" at all to me.
It doesn't seem possible to read this without giving them permission to track and monitor me so no thank you
As a note - this is only one interpretation of the situation. In my opinion, if the privacy policy of a website is clear, then using their service and having one's collected data used as stated is not infringing on anyone's rights.
$950 million? Billion you mean?
Add invoices which contain personal data in the recipient address and must be stored for 10 years safe from manipulation (and then deleted). Combine that with a deletion request, and now you need to delete some data about a customer and keep the rest, which is pretty annoying (yay referential integrity), especially if you're changing existing software, and don't develop from scratch. Of course for the data you can't delete, you now have to restrict access as much as possible, so for every feature in your software you have to figure out if it should use the censored or full data.

Then you have to figure out how much of the order history (up/downgrades etc.) you need to keep so you can keep track of who changed what in case of disputes, etc.

You need to keep track of payments and invoices for accounting and tax purposes, and of course accounting records must be immutable.

Then write documentation describing all the ways you process data and ensure you have a valid updated data privacy contract with all your service providers.
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I feel like the GDPR is working for me to help prevent companies treating my data like it belongs to them.

I guess I'll have to check under the bed for my missing billions.

> Also with targeted ads you don't have to hear/read about products you will never care for a moment in your life.

I don't have to look at irrelevant adverts at all because I use an adblocker. Something I started to use because of the battery sucking CPU fan abusing privacy invading toxic wasteland that is the online advertisement industry.

The tech industry in general, and online advertising companies specifically proved over many years they couldn't be trusted to look after people's data and privacy, so forgive me if I don't shed a tear for the shitbags who now have to stop exploiting me and my family's data.
Same. Refreshing though.
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Antisocial? The media tried to link D&D to satanic murders for years.
I am not big on poetry, but the only poem I have read in school that truly impressed me was written by Heinrich Heine: Die Schlesischen Weber[0] - unlike all the poems I had read up to that point, it was genuinely angry, aggressive and political.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silesian_Weavers
it almost comes across as if they want to be operating as a subsidiary of Amazon instead of receiving donations.

I wonder how many donations/etc they get from other places and how it's handled.

Logistics with donations and NGOs has long been a headache, though. This isn't a new thing.
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How likely is a man reading Cosmo to care about tampons vs cups relative to the average man?

How likely is a Cosmo reader to be a cis man?

Alternatively: How likely is a Cosmo reader reading an article about menstruation to be interested in a female hygiene product?

The death of tracking-based ad targeting doesn't mean you have to show the same ads everywhere like an animal. You can still make the ads contextually relevant. And you don't even need to disguise them as native content (which, btw, is illegal in some EU countries already).
Oh, boy. This will be fun.

To the (many) people in this comments section who seem unable to read, here's the conclusion of the study:

"Community water and salt fluoridation, and fluoride toothpaste use, substantially reduces the prevalence and incidence of dental caries (sic) (Jones et al. 2005) and is acknowledged as a public health success story (Easley 1995). Our findings must be confirmed in other study populations, and additional research is needed to determine how the urine fluoride concentrations measured in our study population are related to fluoride exposures resulting from both intentional supplementation and environmental contamination. However, our findings, combined with evidence from existing animal and human studies, reinforce the need for additional research on potential adverse effects of fluoride, particularly in pregnant women and children, and to ensure that the benefits of population-level fluoride supplementation outweigh any potential risks."

This is a preliminary study that doesn't even try to establish a causal connection between water fluoridation and intelligence. It suggests an avenue of future research. It's not a license to assert whatever fringe beliefs you want. The evidence is that water fluoridation is safe and effective. Maybe future studies will change that, but those studies have yet to be done.

We should all be skeptics. Dismissing the consensus in favor of conspiracy theories is not skepticism. It is blind credulity.
Perhaps not an emphasis on story-telling, but definitely on role-playing. Back in my red and blue box days, and through years of 1st ed, the emphasis was on immersing yourself in character. Stories emerged from the setting and characters, but the focus, the fun, was about pretending to be a dwarf, elf, or wizard within that fantasy setting. That was layered on a game that was fundamentally about puzzle solving and resource management.

Later editions seemed to lose that, turning characters into game pieces and focusing far more on combat, tactics, and optimization and leaving less room for the roleplaying.
Since a couple of years, I use the Himalaya Herbals Indian toothpaste, with fluoride from natural sources only, and I heavily endorse it.
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> it is just a series of statements of facts.

It is a selection of facts intended to present an act of philanthropy as a PR liability. Systemically, it is why most restaurant groups throw food out instead of donating it. The latter should be the default move. But if donating invites more criticism than disposing, guess which one is incentivized.
>Wil Wheaton can never atone for Wesley Crusher, so there's some common ground.

I know this is more or less a Trekkie meme, but to be fair, Wil Wheaton didn't create Wesley Crusher or write his lines, he just had to make due with being Gene Roddenberry's Gary Stu.
The authors of the paper wouldn't claim to know. They measured levels in urine and have no idea where that fluoride came from.
But how will all the startups who need to sell your data stay in business? /s
> Those remaining can force personalized ad compliance by virtue of their reputation

Hm? I don't see this happening. Under GDPR you have to offer the same service 'without detriment' if the user does not want personalized ads. Most people would pick this option as long as it is clear to do so. I don't think reputation makes much of a difference. As far as I can tell, they could become paid subscriptions more likely.
I have never, ever, ever seen a single reputable source to support this claim. As far as I can tell, this is just something that people blindly repeat to justify their exploitative business models.

On the other hand, there's quite a lot of evidence of successful businesses operating on a subscription model because they provide a good value proposition. Which leads me to conclude that your claim is simply false.

Also relevant: https://membershippuzzle.org/about/
It kind of makes me want to throw away the Internet and start over from scratch.
And if presumably not OK, is just a "piss off" message OK?
Minsky thought that consciousness is pretty much just a meaningless word, and that it's more interesting to divide it into pieces that you can work on:
https://youtu.be/AO7F0n2Dclc?t=20m13s

These are nice lectures in general, too.
On the first point again DRM is foisted on Apple against their preference. We’ve seen what an unholy mess multi-vendor DRM systems look like from the debacle that was “Play For Sure” with every vendor blaming all the others for nothing working properly. Can you really blame Apple for not wanting to wade blindly into a quagmire like that?

Secondly, you can absolutely use other services on Apple devices such as playing music bought from Amazon in the Amazon Music app, or using Pandora or Spotify. I use audible on my iPhone, and there's a perfectly usable kindle app. Apple Music works on Android, and you can transfer music bought in iTunes to any other device. Sure there are some limitations, there's no native iCloud client for Linux and it's support on Windows through iTunes is limited, but eh. There's a limit to what I think it's reasonable to expect them to do to make life more tolerable on other people's stuff.
I think people are upset (perhaps now rigthly) that fluoride was added to public water supplies and most toothpaste. It's one thing for you to be able to seek out toothpaste. It's another for it to be pushed on everybody.
Nim. I just finished developing a forum using the Karax SPA framework and it's been a great experience: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum.
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It is cheaper to block the ads and tracking scripts.
if by "work" you mean writing code, that's a small part of what I'm referring to. 10x faster is the speed at which the possibility space is scanned.
I don't agree with your analysis or analogy at all. Donating can be dangerous and it is important to recognize that and address it. It is on both the citizens of a place to vote for politicians who will make laws that makes it easier for restaurants to donate. A corporate giant like Amazon should take donations serioualy and carefully.

I don't understand at all how this is anything remotely like a hit piece. Have some compassion for the homeless who everyone here, Amazon and the newspaper, are trying to help.

Could Amazon do more, as the quoted paragraph suggests? Yes.
> It's a very European thing to think of the E.U. as the indispensable center of the world.

Huh? Culturally, that has absolutely not been my experience - quite the contrary.

In the case of the GDPR, it's simply a matter of "if you can't respect our citizen's basic rights, then we don't want to be doing business with you".

That has nothing to do with considering the EU to be the 'center of the world', and everything with setting the conditions for trading with it. You can either take or leave those.
I don't think it was "the shelter" complaining as much as a few people who worked for the shelter, who may have their own bone to pick with Amazon.
Was the anti-fluoride movement ever not based on scientific studies?
I don't think it's a hit piece, so much as it's https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
Code only captures the what and the how, comments for any complex routines can capture the why. Obviously overuse is probably a red-flag, but in my experience code alone doesn’t always capture enough context in any sufficiently complex system.

I get your specific comment may be a bit sarcastic, given the ancestry - but I make this one more for younger developers I see that don’t always filter that ;)
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> The free market has no incentive to solve the problem

My New York City neighborhood's commercial association felt incentivized to solve the problem. It finances outreach, education and relocation (to shelters) efforts to keep the neighborhood pleasant. In any case, a large part of the problem is created through voters enacting silly housing restrictions.
I’ve worked at shelters and commissaries, and this is pretty much the norm. I’ve met some amazing people who would spend their time working through stuff like this joyfully, because they remembered their goals instead of turning into entitled complainers. Yeah, it sucks at times but the alternative is a lot worse.

If you manage to wade through the article to the end, they even point this out, illustrating it with a different charity who appears to either do a better job or have a better mindset and experience about food collection. Sounds to me like Mary’s Place should spend some time learning from their peers rather than lashing out like this.
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Ask HN: What is so different between EU and US govt?
I only have my own experience and understanding of the world to go by as evidence for this presumption, but I'll ask the question anyways:

What is so different about EU vs US that the EU govt tends to lean toward protecting its citizens and US govt tends to lean toward protecting its corporations?

EDIT: I'm mostly looking at this not to define the types of government in each region. I'm more looking at this from the human nature perspective. Why is one group of people more interested in protecting citizens and the other more interested in protecting corporations?

Obviously neither government is exactly the same now as it was when it was started. How did one group of people evolve their government to be more interested in protecting people, and the other evolved to be more interested in protecting corporations?
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Affordable housing is not a hard problem to solve, unless local government dirven by NIMBYs, places roadblocks on developers and high density housing development.
Came here to say this. PureScript has innovated enough to influence both Haskell and JavaScript. It is certainly a solid language in its own right