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Why have scheduled elections? Maybe a way to ensure direct representation is to give each voter the right to pick her representative, and anybody who currently has at least N votes gets into parliament and stays there as long as they maintain N voters, who can switch at any time.
I used to feel similarly until I realized that the EA movement isn't a hierarchical organization: it's just a bunch of totally separate orgs who have a common philosophy about how to do good in the world.

Sure, OpenPhil funds AI research. But Givewell (who, last I checked, share the same office) has in their Top Charities list, only those that work in poor countries

https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

[2] https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
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When a coworker and I were in Ginza we spent an hour or so wandering around Hamarikyu Gardens there. That was the first time I saw one of the Japanese crows. At first, I thought it was a raven, but it was brazen enough to land less than 6 feet away from me, and I got to see how big it actually was.

It was taller than my knees.

Crows in the Pacific Northwest have this delicate little "caw caw" that they make. It's sort of endearing to me because of the association with home. When this thing opened its beak it was no little bit unnerving to me. No small "caw" passed from its beak, but rather a sound proportional to the size of the thing.

We backed away slowly.
How many of these anti-4chan articles are written by people that regularly use it? I'm guessing zero. 4chan is an interesting site and has better discussion from a broad userbase than reddit or here. Plenty of interesting projects were born out of 4chan, particularly /g/ but the other boards have created valuable things for humans in general, not just internet culture. The positives IMO come from the whole "FREE SPEECH" attitude, that also leads to the negatives. 4chan's soul is in trolling, memes and productive creativity. They go hand in hand.

Try using 4chan and ignore the crap you don't care about. It's exactly like reddit, everyone says stay away from the defaults. In 4chan's case, stay away from /b/, /v/ and /pol/ and you're unlikely to see anything graphic or demeaning beyond general discussion boards...

Projects I know that were born on 4chan:
tox.im - /g/
TurtleCoin - /biz/
NetRunner - /g/
Others mentioned in the article, notably project chanology.

Editing this comment just to say that my point wasn't that toxicity, racism and sexism are okay to just ignore... my point was we already ignore that everywhere else on the internet. Look at youtube or reddit comments. If you can't see how it's the same you're just better at ignoring it on your platform of choice. I'd say it's more concentrated on 4chan yes, and I've probably gotten pretty good at filtering it out myself. But this problem is all over the internet and writing a piece about how 4chan "needs to grow up" isn't much of a revelation. The whole internet needs to.
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Sometimes you are going away for a weekend but want to do some brush up on a tech topic such as react or some specific iOS/ android topic. Is there an easy way to download a bunch of medium or articles and read them offline? does anyone else have this problem?
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I've been there almost as long, and it's true most boards are boring. I like the diy and music boards, for example.

But it seems you're "implying" that if we weren't there we'd be somewhere else the same or worse. I suggest there are many better places we could be. What we do there isn't a function of ourselves alone. We are a midpoint between ourselves and our environment. I would much rather go the playground and kick a soccer ball around or play basketball, but there isn't one around open after dark :(

And I can't stand the egoic virtue-signaling/posturing on fb so I go to 4chan to get a more down-to-earth conversation experience. If i melt down on there, no one cares. My FB world is completely uptight and ready to ostracize on a hair trigger. Of course 4chan is also full of people faking badassery, but it's not attached to individual egos. That's what's amazing about anonymity that moot could never articulate: it doesn't make much sense to lie, because it doesn't really increase your standing because no one knows who you are! So people are much more honest and forthright. yes, that's often ugly, but it's better to know about than to fear it.

Now the part that anonymity doesn't solve is that although the individual ego is dissolved, the way is paved for group egos to form. And as we've seen, especially on /pol/, these collective identities have flourished.
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Most systems do not round-robin by default afaik. They just try the listed DNS servers in order (and resolv.conf will only respect the first 3 IIRC).

DNS fallback is often also misunderstood to mean "fall back if the domain is not found", but it really means "fall back if the name server fails to respond". If the domain is not found (i.e. servers returns a valid NXDOMAIN response), most resolvers do not consult any other name servers.

Round-robin, cascading name lookups, and other frequently desired functionality can be obtained through dnsmasq or similar caching/forwarding name servers.
JavaScript is ubiquitous and acceptable for most of the same purposes as Lisp. It has a much bigger developer ecosystem. The point goes to VSCode.

VSCode has much better integration with the languages and toolchains that people are actually using in 2018 -- Node, Go, Rust. The point goes to VSCode.

VSCode has a modern UI that looks and works like the other applications people use every day. The point goes to VSCode.

With a halfway decent GUI remoting protocol (e.g., RDP, PCoIP), you can run VSCode on machines halfway across the world too. So that one's a tie, I guess. Nobody except retrocomputing enthusiasts cares about terminals anymore; when kids today hear "terminal" they think of gnome-terminal (and some of them agitate to have it replaced with something that can present a richer experience than ANSI/VT100 can).

The sun has largely set on Emacs's relevance. Objectively better tools have come along.
So are most pro-tax people, they're just pro-tax-everyone-else. Our governor is filthy rich, campaigned on raising the taxes on the one percent, and yet none of the taxes he wanted would have affected his trust fund income. What a surprise.
On the micro level, voting is completely irrational. The chances of your individual vote deciding an election is usually incredibly low, so going to the polling booth has a very low RoI. In a practical sense, voting is just a bad use of your time. Anecdotally, it seems that tech people are far more likely to think in these terms.

This micro-level rationality leads to a big problem on the macro level. People who see politics as a matter of principle aren't likely to be swayed by the low RoI of going to vote. They'll exercise their democratic rights, come hell or high water. You end up with an electorate that is disproportionately driven by principles and ideals rather than pragmatism.
I can second that. Rackauckas DifferentiaalEquations library is pretty much peerless out there. And it is enabled by Julias blend of features.

Edit: It's just amazing to have genuinely lightweight abstractions in your language. I could make Python code fast, but it precluded using much of the language. Switching to Julia has vastly simplified some of our code. If not for Julia we might have ended up going for C++ (or Python+Rust) but I can take a scientist with little knowledge of programming and get them productive in Julia in a fraction of the time it would take for C++ (or Rust).
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Sorry. It didn't seem so bad to me, just a bit too much pathos maybe, as I wrote. I didn't want to spend more time rewording my comment. Of course the second paragraph is only my opinion. Just ignore it if it bothers you.
Note that GiveWell is sticking to its original mission of evaluating charities based on scientific studies and isn't recommending AI funding.

However I'll push back on this. If it's okay for the government to fund basic scientific research where the benefits are long-term and unpredictable, why not private individuals? Or are you saying research shouldn't be funded at all?
Any platform? Like the terminal on my server?
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I can't provide details re: where/when/who of course, but all of these are functionally equivalent to things that have happened. Reality tends to be a bit messier than these scenarios but not in a way that fundamentally changes anything.
Fascinating, the first time I heard about this phenomenon is when this amusing video [1] was doing the rounds. Apparently it's a seasonal issue largely linked to them being particularly aggressive in their defence of newly-hatched broods. What's weird though is that in certain magpie-swooping zones, the swooping is selective [2]. It seems quite accepted that corvids can recognise faces and otherwise identify individual humans, but what makes it single out people that haven't attacked it is a real mystery.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGGTcYfrEZU
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/28/when-mag...
Although not for the faint of heart, the work Thorn does is incredible. I highly recommend anyone who is looking to transition to a 'higher, real-world' impact role to look at this!

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You’re right.

It’s a weaker position for Facebook though. Instagram is much more vulnerable to competition from Twitter, Snapchat, and YouTube than Facebook is.

Facebook is super defensible. No other company has a network like that. If interest shifts from fb to ig then Facebook’s moat is a lot smaller.
In a civil suit there is no guilty party. There may be a liable party.
Long term investment isn’t speculation. That’s why we call it investment.

Yeah, if you are dumping money into a bubble hoping to cash out at the top, you are taking a major risk. If you’re investing long term in an asset with literally centuries of history of growth, then you’re probably going to be okay.

And realistically, what’s the alternative? I guess government bonds?
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You can very easily deploy Julia in supercomputing centers via singularity containers (assuming the SC center supports singularity).
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As I understand it, this was the rationale behind the courts' decision to prohibit LinkedIn from banning people from scraping public profiles.

Basically it was anti competitive to grant certain privileges to major players around 'public data,' but to block smaller players.

No telling if/when ramifications from that decision (last year) hit existing anti scraping measures, though.
When you say 'dying' are you referring to civilians or soldiers? No civilian supports killing by drone in their home town. Drone targeting is often indiscriminate and always unaccountable. Because drone kills are anonymous to anyone but the killer, it allows soldiers to act invisibly by remote control. And now we want to give that responsibility to robots? That'd be a truly terrible precedent for future warfare.

Would you be OK with your local police enforcing the law at 1000 feet? Using a rocket launcher? That's what we're asking the people of Afghanistan and Iraq to do.

No company that actually believes in the maxim "Don't be evil" would participate in such a technology, much less promote it, or worst of all, lead it.
But why would I be running anything other than Linux...
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I used to organise a local user group - it was free to attend, quite small, and we averaged maybe one meeting every couple of months. I wanted to put it on meetup.com for more visibility, but $10/month feels like a lot to pay for something so small and non-commercial.
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> there are already anti-scraping solutions on the market that can detect its usage based on a variable it puts into the browser's window.navigator property. Thankfully, we have developed a solution which removes the property from the web browser

Does anyone know what exactly the property in question is?
I mean, I'm me, so I want to write Clojure. I haven't tried ClojureScript -> clasp to see if I can use ClojureScript. Does Google Apps Script document exactly what the runtime is? It looks like Rhino from some of the failure modes, but I don't know the exact modern JS features it supports.

The huge benefit to GAS IMO is that creds never hit my disk.
> Isn’t this just a statement that you disagree either with the relative probability of an AI-related disaster or the relative degree of harm it could cause?

Yes, but the point of this movement is that they're supposed to be evidenced-based and maximising ROI. There is evidence for the existence and threat of global warming and drug-resistant bacterial. When you move away from charitable efforts whose effectiveness we can directly measure, you're not doing EA any more, just regular emotional/value-based charity.

I do have different values and feelings about such non-evidence-based charity, and I think theirs are morally repugnant, especially when they claim to be doing EA.
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