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A one sentence assertion with no evidence or explanation that casually dismisses a 10 paragraph essay that is well reasoned.

Typical hn. Typical.
I don't ever remember my knees being affected, its just you get a backrest that feels inches from your face.
He passed away some years ago so I'm just going off my recollections here.

His main complaint was that the actual operation used an unnecessarily large cross-service force (largely for political reasons; the Air Force and Army didn't want to miss out on the chance to get involved) when his plan required less than a division of Marines with accompanying air support.

The contingency plans themselves are highly classified, and none of the plans nor the associated maps and whatnot are allowed to leave a specifically secured facility, making this one of the few times in his military career that my dad couldn't just take home his paperwork at the end of the day. In the case of the Grenada plan, there was already an existing plan that is reevaluated and updated with new intelligence, doctrine, etc. on a periodic basis.

One detail of the plan my dad mentioned investigating was a standing tank (i.e. a large barrel for storing liquids) in the middle of a field on the island. The old plan entailed securing the tank and using it as temporary fuel storage, but my dad was suspicious. It turns out the tank was in the middle of a sugar cane field. It was a molasses tank. Probably not safe or feasible for fuel storage.

Even writing this out, I find this story a little hard to believe, but that's the level of detail the military, at least, puts into their contingency plans.
Government is made up of people

If a person in a government position does a shitty thing, hold them accountable

It’s no different than at a job where you “abdicate” certain utilitarian responsibilities to others.

What’s really broken is checks and balances

They’re outdated for modern life

Talking about government as if it is a real thing like a car is silly

Define the roles and privileges and shut down violations

But of course the public in America has been convinced it’s some ephemeral monster come to eat their babies when the big corps and employers that also fuck us are our saviors with “jobs”

It’s a twisted psychosis I’ll never understand
I couldn’t say I share your success, but I too feel like I make myself miserable trying to help the world. I design open source robots I hope will be useful for people all over the world and I operate a discussion site to try to get developers and fabricators together. It does feel like I’m using my skills to have the most impact, but it’s fucking exhausting. I’m on the edge of burn out at all times.
Filthy foreigner? Don't insinuate that I have xenophobia.

Do you not hate the TSA and how difficult traveling in the US can be?

Given how hard it is to travel with innocuous items, no one should be surprised that he had difficulty carrying $58k in cash.
I don’t know why you’d willingly be against competition though. GitLab makes GitHub better, but GitHub makes GitLab better. Why isn’t that a good thing?
I thought the bank was the one that provided the fraud protection, customer service, etc.
I'm strongly considering Julia as an alternative for C/C++.
A few questions if you don't mind:
* How does Julia's GC play into the performance characteristics of these systems?
* What tools does Julia offer for fine-grained control of memory?
* It appears that Julia uses a rich runtime, do you notice it "weighing down" on performance?
* Do you ever feel the need to drop down to C/C++ for hot code paths?
"... all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

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Not the original commenter, but I've experienced

> At 100% zoom level, the type is not rendered with crisp edges. It looks as if someone had applied a mild gaussian blur. Only once you zoom in, the outlines are sharp as they should be.

a number of times.

Running on a 12" (Retina) Macbook w/ macOS 10.13.4 and Preview 10.0 (944.5).

1) Here's a screenshot (100% on left, zoomed in on the right) - https://s3.amazonaws.com/citruspi-tmp/Screen+Shot+2018-06-01...

2) PDF being used - https://cdn.beastnet.works/bfc7d34daac8e7630541d49b591b1b62/...

It also happens within the PDF viewer in Safari - text and icons look a lot crisper when zoomed in.
what I inferred from the other post was that governments are complex... and each government has some things they do well.. and some things they do poorly (not necessarily just re: asset forfeiture). For example one could argue that the US could look at other governments to see alternatives for how to manage healthcare differently (or perhaps even just portions of it)
Also work at Bold, can confirm... good people... Especially Gord here.
They will go after you the moment you become bigger and if you are person running a business one of your hopes is that you won't remain small time forever
It got more bloated... My kids still use an old version to avoid that (they only play with each other so they don't need the latest version that is required to play on most servers online)
Fault from the admin I would say. Updates can be delayed or scheduled. I know that this won't help in the moment.
I should have said "per employee" not "per person" which could be misconstrued as "per household member".

As the other commenter pointed out, why do you think 401k limits are low?
Yes, the computer crunches the transactions, and you get rewarded in bitcoin. Why should Visa be the only to profit from something like this?

So this leaves me to do what I want. I can get another job, or not. Who wouldn't want this? Its a simple idea, trade computation for social mobility. There are people doing this all over Venezuela right now.
This has hit the front page at least 3 times in the last year. Why?
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Let’s not forget that jQuery was a polyfill that allowed JavaScript Devs on all browsers to code to a common baseline. React is a nice —- and popular —- library for building UIs but it’s existence isn’t an indictment of the laziness of standards implementors for browsers (okay, IE mainly) and god-send to developers like jQuery was.
> I told our team from day one

That italicized word makes a huge difference in avoiding burnout. When a team is right, many things are possible. If it is missing, there is no support for burnout.
They wanted total control over the data so they converted the p2p supernodes to Microsoft servers... now the government can get what it needs more easily.
Maybe part of the problem is a wrong diagnosis. Maybe they don't feel that unhappy. They just have a wrong expectation on how it would feel like, when they finally would be happy for the first time in their lives.
I'll gladly take that, and a government that generally tries to look after its citizens, over one that is downright hostile to and steals from citizens.
Electric cars should solve the "flattening demand" problem, but that will require expanding the grid to cover a lot more parking lots, particularly for apartment/condo residents.
While politicians are notoriously bad at planning 20 years ahead, I wouldn't put it past them to try, especially when that timeframe makes it easier to project the impact of demographic trends rather than merely political ones.
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Regardless of investor accreditation (AI, QC, or even QP), you still can't lie to investors.

Other than minimum levels of wealth, it just establishes different reporting and structures for the investments (usually things like K-1s, non-traded vehicles, and little to no liquidity).

Madoff is a great example of this - he took advantage of his investors by lying to them about results. He went to prison for securities fraud (I'm summarizing here), and the investors pursued various lawsuits to get their money back.

In the Madoff case, JPMorgan was not only fined over a billion dollars [1], but also sued (and settled) for over 2 billion with defrauded shareholders [2]. This was basically for their knowing about the fraud and not informing shareholders (again, a legalistic simplification).

[1] https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/jpmorgan-settles-wit...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/06/jpmorgan-to-pay-26-billion-t...
Although this might not add any value to the general discussion, i feel the urge to break my lurker-silence and share my latest epiphany: end-twenties german compsci-student here. in retrospective, my act of leaving facebook and (obviously in contrast to a lot of other users here) not replacing it with any substitute "social media" account might have had a bigger impact on my life as i would have guessed. Since years, i have been using Telegram, signal, SMS, the gold old phonecalls, email and IRC (my jabber contacts also moved to signal, etc.) and i can guarantee you to have a pretty reduced social life. In a more active phase of my life (a couple of years ago) i still went frequently to concerts with 2-3 friends who would send me routinely emails containing facebook-screenshots etc. ... Nowadays i lead a life most separated from the rest of the "social" world. Of course i still have friends and visit Them from time to time, etc. ... But on facebook i realized my self-consuming habit of constantly checking what other ppl i rarely knew thought or did or "liked". I have to admit that despite this time consuming social media habits i could really lead a reflected and productive life, but to be honest i still put feel time into passively(!) surfing the net, reading and watching a lot of news, journals, trivia, etc. Through other eyes this comment might seem bitter, but i actually enjoy my life without this burden of social media platforms on myself. Are here some other 'conscientious objectors'?
2. Can be delayed.

3. I agree. I don't give a shit about what users do to their machine, but when they launch a DDos to my servers, I blame them for not updateing their OS. In Windows XP history, there were many viruses/trojanes/whatever that were only possible because people didn't update.
If it were true that nothing major was needed until 100k or 150k then car warranties would be of that length.

There are reasons why cars depreciate, amongst which are the fact that they need more money put into them over time.
> governments can't just say, "Well every company does it, so why can't we."

Odd. That's precisely what's happening with GDPR. While the EU governments are demanding that private companies limit collection and use of data, the intelligence arms of these same countries (I'm looking at you, GCHQ) and their FVEY partners are doing everything they can to hoover up and store every single bit of data on the world population, including their own citizens.

And somehow, we think this is fine. An entity with the power to disappear you and render you to black sites can have all the data on you they wish. But Facebook determining that there is an 83.7% chance you are stressed serving up an ad for vacation rentals is completely verboten.

It's absolutely mad.
A lot of the tooling is released under the MIT License. It's kind of hard to say they have ulterior motives when you get the right to fork and keep.
You're not wrong, but my partner's role was only in the videos for the first year and we both have full time jobs outside of this. It helped, but not as much as you'd think, I pretty much did 99% of everything myself.
full derp ahead.
> The customer cost structure although is inverted based on generation, and not on grid fees. He also talked about how the CA govt uses them as a subsidy funding source and that can create a state where PG&E is close to insolvency sometimes.

PG&E has expended large sums on lobbying, particularly against expansion of public power companies into areas PG&E currently serves.

Presumably your friend would explain this has PG&E charitably protecting it's opportunity to lose money, but I think that doesn't quite reflect the reality.
How is asset forfeiture not precisely the system of police bribery and police corruption that we routinely criticize "third world" countries for having?
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Plugin hybrids exist and cover both the use case of commuting on electric and gas for long trips. They aren't zero emissions then but for regular use they are close to it.
No it doesn't.

It still gives them between 6 months and 18 months (whenever the contract expires in 2019) to continue working on this project. They may even finish it during that timeframe. This is purely PR fluff.
No xenophobia insinuations intended. Foreigners have a different view of the US, compared to indigents. We've seen the US portray itself, rightly or wrongly, as simply better, for most of the last century. And now we see this.

It's not surprising that it was taken from him. That's exactly what corrupt, bullshit officials do the world over. That's what most of the world expect; that powerful people take what you have. There was a time when the US asserted it was better than that. When the US asserted that a man was free to be about his lawful business. Those times are gone.
Those devices only take you so far. They are consuming devices only, similar to a television. People still have and use normal PCs and will do so in the future. (Notebooks included of course)
I actually completely agree with you (Enlightenment Now by Pinker provides excellent data backing all of this up). Our collective pessimism is actually a major problem I think.

But to clarify, when I said “sure it’s bad now” I meant that in the context of the current military leadership.

Unfortunately I can’t really defend that argument much further given that I don’t necessarily agree with it (it was just speculation on potential counter-arguments).
1. From http://fex.belwue.de/fex.html, it looks like the software can't be any older than 2006. Looking at the source, it uses things like rel="prefetch". The style is just an explicit aesthetic, then, like that of Craigslist.

2. Some of it could, yeah. Torrents make it easy to share files directly from your computer to a peer's. FEX solves a slightly different problem, though—the asynchronous "put the file somewhere, then let the peer get it while your computer is offline" use-case. It's somewhat cumbersome to use torrents for this (though possible: you and the server join the swarm, the server leeches from you, you leave the swarm, the peer joins the swarm, they leech from the server.) But, if you do use torrents that way, you won't [by default] get the "auto-deletion of the server's copy" property that FEX has.

(You could probably match 99% of FEX's functionality with a torrent client running on a server + a daemon running alongside it that can control the torrent client through RPC; but I don't know of any attempt to build such a thing.)
Microsoft is a big company, that's a different team with a different set of leadership. The guy in charge of Windows stepped away. Windows 10 is the last version of Windows basically. Not sure if that means someday they may release a distro (crazy I know) but it's interesting nonetheless.
If there's truth to it, without understanding the govt's rationale about this, it looks about as un-American and un-capitalistic as it gets.... goes against the grain of who we are as a country.
I’m sure Trump’s trade war rhetoric will fix that.
Do we have different ideas of what boilerplate is? Almost everything in assembly is boilerplate because there are no advanced, built in features. (Sure, modern x86 assembly is a complex language with many advanced builtins but they are generally meant to express solutions in the x86 domain, not the business domain.)
They already have a bunch of tooling to make it easy for users on VSTS to ship their software to Azure, but VSTS users are probably 100% already in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Buying GitHub and then adding tooling to make shipping from GitHub to Azure easy (and the obvious choice) would help them push Azure more to companies not currently using other Microsoft products.
>whole sample to determine bins, including validation sets.

well thats not random or arbitrary just wrong.

>And in the end you want to invest based on the model.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Either you determine a model and hyperparameters (which includes the bins) is correct enough of the time via testing on out of sample data or even synthetic data or you are talking about a determining what to do given a single observation, which I would assume you give it to the model and ask it what it thinks and the bins are part of the determination (as done here in the article with softmax output) of what to do and given you've done the testing you should have a level of confidence about the outcome of acting upon the models output. The bins aren't a post processing step, the post processing you might do to trade recall for accuracy might be to expect the bin to have a stronger signal (class > 0.5 or something maybe and otherwise ignore), all of this is "the model".

>Arbitrary bins aren't that helpful if some of them combine desirable and undesirable results

Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like you are making the case that there are models and bins which would have only good outcomes (and those are the only useful ones)? Am I misunderstanding something here?
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Giving the government the ability to seize assets without any sort of hearing or due process, with the burden on the individual to prove innocence with the assumption of guilt, is obviously a bad thing. I can only imagine that it was implemented to fight the drug war.

If you agree this is a bad result, and the situation has affected lots of people, then you agree that the government is capable of doing wrong.

So you should agree that expansions of government power should be treated extremely skeptically and with serious concern.

I do not “dismiss the idea of government” and I opened my post by saying so. I’m saying that we should try and limit the government’s power by default and try not to elect and empower lawmakers who believe otherwise.
Investment banking is one, another is corporate law. It's incredibly difficult to get a job in either field without a degree from a top school, with top grades. Google hires lots of people with degrees from state schools (or without degrees!). That's not the case at, say, McKinsey. Neither job inherently requires a degree from a top school, but it's almost a prerequisite to get the job.
Couple of thousand fines in a city of 8,700,000 seems sensible to me.

Not everyone values free speech quite as highly as the USA. It's important, sure, but it's not live or die. There are limits and spreading vile hate speech is one of them.

I also like the complete focus on the free speech aspect, completely ignoring the "we actually deal with racists here" aspect. How narrow minded.
Bojack has been like a remote group therapy session for me in this regard. Especially leading up to the season 2 finale with that running scene.

Bojack isn't hilarious. It funny sometimes, but it mostly feels important. Like work. Rewarding to watch for having done the work.
Only if they've changed the definition of the word "perennially".
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I've mentioned this a number of times, some of Microsoft's open source tooling is under the very permissive MIT license. In the case of GitHub it just means competitors will rise up and replace GitHub. Remember when SourceForge was the GitHub of the day, and then it became bad, and finally it's acceptable with the new owner. People will outright ditch GitHub if evil is truly done to it, but Microsoft doesn't want that, they'll do everything they can to not screw up GitHub.