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Unfortunately I'm not aware that minimization of civilian casualties is a US military objective.

Not to put too fine of a point on it but even a basic search on the topic would yield a ton of official policy doing exactly that.

There is explicit guidance and long history of minimizing civilian casualties as a goal within the DoD, and such guidance is codified in multiple legal documents under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Rules of Engagement and international treaties.

To wit:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/0...

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/...

This is also taught as a basic tenet in introductory courses for new Military Officers. One example here:

https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/TBS/B130936...
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> Earmarks are orthogonal to corruption.

Only in theory. In practice, they are 1:1 - You initiate pork A here, I help you add pork B there. You own pork B company, I own pork A. We both win money, forget the constituents.
> Python is used for web servers, and is slow

What is the specific context for this? Serving concurrent users? Or raw processing?

If it's the former, there are ways around this. If you'd like to replace Python for this, I'd look at something like Go rather than Julia.

If it's the latter, Julia might help, but there are a bunch of tradeoffs to consider. Julia is a language that was primarily designed for numerical computation.
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The slut categorization is Correct. There is no such analog as a slut for males. Females choose the mating structure not men. A man is not able to sleep with unlimited women, yet most women can sleep with unlimited men if they desire.

Mistress has multiple definitions and is more a social construct than something you can see in a picture so I'm not sure how they come to a conclusion on that one. There do seem to be lots of BSDM style photos in that set which makes sense as that is the only discreet physical definition of a "mistress"

"foolish woman" Usually people say "idiot guy" but that comes up with Television which is often referred to as "Idiot box"

"Honest Woman" is defined on their site and seems to search accordingly. Also it is a common saying which probably matches the expected results of most searchers.
Synset: honest woman
Definition: a wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time); "he made an honest woman of her".

The classification seems to be based off common speech usages and seems to be adhering to them.
Euhm. Google, as demonstrated at maker fare, is making drone tech that has plenty of military applications : Google Maps/Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5jj6gBKGK8
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You also shouldn't be holding goods as those can be stolen and services can always be done cheaper. Jaunty tunes are the best investment one can make
I grant you that, it is effective at getting page views and ad revenue.
Your first paragraph is something I think about from time to time, but as you point out, we're not to the point where it's a problem.

Right now we're in a competitive market where we select for emotional impact and marketing prowess. EA, for me, is about moving to a market where we select for effectiveness. We should, once we have the resources as a movement, include funding for experimenting with new organizations.

FWIW, it's worth noting that Givewell.org (the EA organization I pay the most attention to) includes "room for more funding" as a major decision point in its recommendations. Funding is a constraint for most organizations, but they recognize that dropping a hundred million dollars on a small organization isn't always the best thing, even if that organization does the best work.

> The example they give - volunteering at a soup kitchen - is one such example. Say giving to the homeless is effective, but volunteering at a soup kitchen is not. Someone still needs to volunteer at the soup kitchen, even if it's not many people.

80000hours.org talks about this some, mostly in the consideration of working in direct service vs. earning to give. Part of this is what you're passionate about -- if high paying professions would make you miserable, working in direct service might be for you. Part of it is opportunity. Not everyone is cut out to be a lawyer/doctor/engineer.

I do disagree with "someone still needs to volunteer". Someone needs to volunteer or get paid to work at the soup kitchen. If the choice is between having a doctor spend their time volunteering, or having that doctor donate an extra $100k/year, and $40k of that paying someone to replace the missing volunteer time, the soup kitchen is still up $60k, and will probably get better results from having someone experienced doing the work.

In the way we traditionally evaluated charities, this would be a worse outcome, because the overhead just went way up. One of EA's main things is to stop worrying about overhead. When I buy a car, I want the best car per dollar, not the car from whoever pays the CEO the least. When I buy good, I want the most good I can get for my dollar.

I disagree with other EAs in a ton of areas, but what makes us EAs is that one principle.
I can't see how this protects people. You can evaluate risks all the time you want, but unless you have exceptional security team, you won't get your situation improved beyond what's already been established in the industry. Unless you think about companies leaving their databases facing the public without password - but then I still can't see how GDPR would help there.

Requirements for post mortem actions are quite sensible though, but given arbitrary rules that is likely only going to be a cash cow for the governments, as even a second of the delay is undue.
> Just because an economic insentive exists, doesn’t mean people will exploit it.

I think that this statement has been proven wrong countless times throughout history.
How does this affect exit nodes?
Corrected link to growth role: https://angel.co/openland/jobs/370594-growth-manager
> as soon as the data about visits come in

How does this work, exactly? You are eliding all of the important details that require more information than just "My webserver reported a visit".
It's a pilot program, hopefully others will follow suit and increase the amount forgiven.
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Kind of unrelated: when I click this link in Firefox, it seems to erase the history for the current tab, and the back button doesn't work. It looks like it works in Chrome though. What is going on?
Then you must be doing something wrong. I, always, speak my mind. This sometimes backfires karma wise but on the long run i think it was minimal.
Of course they are. And we knew engagement dropped significantly last year before the Cambridge Analytica happened. I found it weird how so many people still believed Zuckerberg when he said the scandal hardly affected them. As if Zuckerberg would never try to be misleading with the facts.
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It doesn't specifically state aviation. Is it covered under one of their certifications?
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> They could get everyone to open up a god damn firewall port if they wanted.

No. They couldn’t. That’s the paradox. Together they control the client software running on just about everyone’s computers and phones… but they have very little control or influence over your random IT administrator running a corporate firewall or middleware box, who’s decided to block everything but 80 and 443 for “security” reasons. They don’t even have much influence over the vendors of those devices. Witness Chrome having to roll back TLS 1.3 support after initially deploying it, because BlueCoat and other vendors’ proxies were dropping all TLS 1.3 connections [1], despite TLS 1.3 having been many years in the making, and theoretically bring fully backward-compatible due to making use of the TLS version negotiation mechanism. In that case the relevant vendors did eventually release software updates, but only after Chrome forced their hand by unintentionally breaking all SSL sites for users behind those proxies – including Chrome’s own self-update server, so those users couldn’t even receive the rollback update! I’m sure that’s not an experience Google (or anyone else) is eager to repeat.

Besides, for the sake of privacy, it’s best to limit the information transmitted in cleartext over the Internet to the absolute minimum – and that includes what type of service is being accessed. Why should an adversary intercepting traffic get to learn that for free from the port number, when that information could be transmitted as part of the encrypted connection instead? (Yes, the adversary might be able to figure it out anyway through traffic analysis, but at least that has limits and potential countermeasures.)

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20170311013249/https://bugs.chrom...
Why take that trouble when they can do it directly using Tor without running any exit at home? Also for instance Bogatov had an alibi when that happened.
Mentioned on page 2 multiple times as the closest competitor. But they get something like 1/20th the monthly miles Waymo does so they’re only close in relative terms.
I don't understand why you are responding to me in such a condescending tone, but thanks anyway for the discussion.

I'm well aware that P vs NP is a very hard question (I have studied quite some complexity theory, although I am a bit rusty), I'm saying that it does not seem as fundamental (or interesting) to computer science as people believe it to be.
Thank you. The scammer aspect is exactly what I was getting at. Without allocating any given user's donations fairly across the sites they have individually visited, I don't see how it works. It'd be susceptible to massive click-fraud.
If you read the article, one of the proposed solutions is a craft that is basically the drone version of a V-22 Osprey. Tilt rotors.

Probably not as efficient in terms of battery Wh consumed per km of flight (with a given payload) compared to the Zipline drones, which are dedicated-purpose fixed wing aircraft. But considerably more efficient for cross-country flight than a pure VTOL design drone.
What is the false about that dilemma? That's exactly the situation. We may overcome it, but it's certainly possible and likely even probable that we'll just wipe ourselves out.
> I suspect, but don't know for sure, that most charities experience diminishing marginal utility for each dollar received after some point.

This is absolutely true. If you're a charity and your primary activity is distributing anti-malarial bed nets, once you have enough bed nets to meet demand, your going to have to move on to other activities that won't necessarily be exactly as effective as the bed nets.

In a contrived thought experiment with "perfect" information about the effectiveness of activities, EA would suggest a "Greedy" (algorithm) style of allocation. For each incoming dollar, you send it to whichever activity has the greatest utility per dollar give, and repeat that for as many dollars as you have.
Won't those providers be tempted to set the "breaking news" flag on every post, just like they do on their TV news channels?
Wow, that's really disheartening and resonates with me personally. I think it is a disgusting inefficiency of our economy that hiring is still a high-school popularity contest rather than a judgment of merit.

I worked a sales job for 5 years that I acquired through a University career fare. After 5 years, my team and I were fired for political reasons, because another manager and his team wanted to assume ownership of our customer base and product line (large corporations do this).

Over the next 9 months of sales interviews, I was denied from about 20 face to face interviews with absolutely no explanation as to what I was doing wrong.

It wasn't a failed background check or anything blatant-- middle managers repeatedly denied me round after round.

It wasn't until I took an interview with the Founder/CEO of a 5 person firm that I was immediately hired on the spot and praised for my sales acumen and personality. Wtf??

My point here is that it's not the fault of your candidate-- it's the fault of the people you are putting him in front of.

Barrage him with simulated behavioral interviews. Coach him on how to be more "likable and normal" (yuck).

But ultimately, once you've optimized for those things... get him in front of better people who are deliberately and specifically looking for talent, not sociability.
Guns, Germs and Steel had an interesting theory that as societies increased in complexity and size, warfare became more likely to take place away from the main population centers and therefore less damaging. Two tribes go to war its pretty easy to end up destroying every piece of infrastructure from both so there wasn't a ton of investment in it when we were just tribes.

So not so much surviving warfare as much as an increasing capability to control it so it took place away from the productive infrastructure. A pattern we see to this day.
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Obviously not EVERYONE is. I think it’s pretty clear that I mean most people are. Do you take everything literally? I doubt that strategy works well in the workplace or life
I went to see Upgrade last night and they played some facebook apology tour ADVERTISEMENT (because that's what it is) before the movie. Just ridiculous... "we care about your privacy"... yea, not really.
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What numbers are down? lol.
Did you miss the part where exit node operators are getting arrested?
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Cruise and their recent $2.2 billion investment was definitely mentioned. The article even claims them to be Waymo’s biggest competitor.
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One of the best points the book makes is the surprisingly cynical views towards altruism which prevail in the US.

This comment echoes something I have felt for some time. I feel that aspects of the US economic development which root in 'self reliance' have encouraged this. Ayn Randian world views?
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From the article:
> That leaves Cruise, which got a $2.25 billion cash infusion from Softbank on Thursday, as seemingly Waymo's top rival.
> Cruise has begun testing its cars at significant scale...
It's more correct to say that the "society" is the most adept at warfare, because warfare is largely when two groups compete, not individuals.

And yes, societies which are better at warfare tend to also have better agriculture, tools, etc, to support their military machine.
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Public transit in cities that aren't SF is not 'uniformally abysmal.'

One of the reasons for it, is that in cities with working transit, both the rich, and the poor, newcomers and decades-established people take the bus/train. When people with influence are using public transit, it stops being shit.

Pointing at Muni, and saying: "Look, you fools! Public transit doesn't work!" is a bit like pointing at Somalia, circa 2009, and saying: "Look, you fools! Rule of law doesn't work!"
I have a feeling it is gradually more and more known as Node.js, so maybe the name will propagate back to the web community.

EcmaScript has never caught on, for a number of reasons, some mentioned in earlier comments.
Care to actually back up this claim with some numbers? As someone who buys reliable used cars (Hondas), maintains them himself, and owns them for 10+ years at a time this doesn't seem to be true.

For just the depreciation cost of a new vehicle one could purchase every home auto repair tool they would likely need for a very long time.
second the reco- the most interesting thing I learned was the decision of whether or not to indict is pretty much the whole thing; the vast majority of white collar criminals never make it to trial, only the ones that don't negotiate a settlement.
Can you elaborate more on this statement? "On the other hand I think DDG is the Sprint of search engines."

I've been interested in switching to DDG for a while but as a former Sprint customer, that statement scares me but maybe some explanation from you might understand your opinion better.
Has anyone?

They’ve bought 82k vehicles recently. They’re clearly up to SOMETHING soon.

That was a large chunk of the article.
I agree with you about it being exciting, but Waymo haven't actually ordered the minivans - the press release says up to 62,000 minivans, so the actual size of the order is not clear.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/31/waymo-orders-62000-fiat-c...
I'm putting those in separate threads to be upvoted if people like them so that they might rise to the top on their own merits. I'm adding them as I peruse my bookshelf.