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> Its like having a meeting with too many people in the room. Nothing ever gets done.

I'm not sure I accept the metaphor - visibility is not participation. Too-large meetings are useless because they have too many participants, and everything falls to bike-shedding. Plenty of organizations, from public companies to the Federal Reserve, get things done with visible meetings where interested parties can't speak but do see the minutes. In my version of the metaphor, non-secrecy is totally consistent with small-meeting democracy: we elect people to go and represent us, but demand information about how they did so in order to hold them accountable. (If Congress voted by secret ballot, do you think it would represent us better or worse?)

(The question of information which is harmful to share is a fundamentally different one than a general argument for privacy, and a much harder one. Those cases are real, but it's also true that there's a long track record of government claiming information is harmful to release when it's actually embarrassing or unethical.)

> If we dont trust who we elect to office then thats a seperate issue that we need to tackle on its own.

Great, we haven't tackled it, and without clear information about what officials do it's not clear how we can.

There's never been an era of declassification and leaks where we looked around and said "yep, everything in there looks like it was done in good faith". I'll embrace an end to leaks around the same time they stop containing evidence government bodies knowingly classifying horrible misdeeds.

Hell, I'd even settle for "no war crimes lately", but we haven't managed that yet.
How many times a year does that happen? Now how many times a year do you hear about shitty monitors? Hell, on Reddit alone I see 2 or 3 posts about bad monitors every day
This also depends on someone's body type (are you overweight or fit?) and facial bone structure. Having a well-defined jawline and facial symmetry helps. There are people who look good bald (see: Dwayne Johnson), but it's not for everyone.
> There is no inherent business cycle

Yes, there is. It's driven by individual credit cycles syncing up due to the economies of scale of financial distribution. Borrowing money fundamentally means more income today and less income (than otherwise) tomorrow. That drives cycles.
> "more and more are requiring you to interface with the system in some way, even if disabled or impaired."

In a sort of sick and very selfish way, I find myself somehow glad that blind and deaf people exist and are protected by accessibility legislation. I've often found accessibility features, particularly those in software, to be exceptionally useful even though my vision and hearing are fine.
my guess is that this is not the case, but it's still worth it to handle any situation they can with a robot, or as a consolation, an impatient customer.
How does savings in a bank account help you weather inflation?
We absolutely know the Nazis would have at least use atom bombs on the Eastern front. Whether they would use them on the UK could be up for debate, but arguably they would have used them there as well.

Regardless, the atom bombs were certainly not the worst things any country did in WWII. The US firebombing was far worse. Everyone did bad things in that war.

Stop using your modern sensibilities to judge them.
Yeah. They do have great tools. And I appreciate that link, I never heard of it.

But I think that sort of makes my point. If a company makes world class tools that people don't know about or don't want to use, are the tools that valuable/good? Microsoft just spent $7.5 billion to say "we don't think Team Foundation Server can cut it for the developer population at large". By doing that, they threw themselves into the center of millions of developer workflows around the world. I think it was a great buy for them, and is definitely a strategic move.
It's not popular on the used market because of the $40 million reconfiguration bill. This plane really only works well for Emirates flying people to a few airports.
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Yeah, +1 to this. I'd use a CDN if it wasn't all owned by one company. I run a static site on IPFS, and just have two nodes located in NYC & San Francisco that my local gateway is always connected to.

It does a pretty good job for USA visitors (which is where the majority of my traffic comes from). But it'd be ideal for IPFS to use geo-dns, along with FileCoin implemented so that I can pay for nodes in other countries to have my content pinned.

Also, my site uses Service Workers to cache all of the content + TurboLinks, which drastically speeds up every subsequent page transition. I'm not sure if that's doable if you're using an external CDN like Cloudflare for all of your resources.
While this particular prediction didn't (yet) come true, Krugman is at least one of the few name-brand economists who will admit when he is wrong. He's also got a Nobel in the field, so to write off his textbook as unreadable for a failed prediction seems like a little much.
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Economists have predicted 7 of the last 5 recessions.
I find that hard to believe. In the US you can't market yourself as an electrician/handyman unless you are licensed.

But you can fix you or your neighbors outlets all you want.

The distinction is drawn at being a business vs yourself. But, we still have that individualist spirit, so I could be wrong about other places.
> It's easier to trust Linus than a tactfull politician. That should make us all think.

I can kinda see where you're going with this, ie. the idea that knowing what someone is thinking means you can trust them... but I disagree.

To my mind verbal abuse doesn't mean they're speaking their mind, it means they've lost control.

Based on these blow-ups I'd certainly question trusting Torvalds in any high stakes situation that required tact under pressure... which I would expect to happen frequently when running a country.
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Great article for the first ~75%, but why the abrupt transition to a buzzfeed piece on Trump and the lack of conclusion? The author really lost his momentum there..
This example would be a lot less ironically-unhelpful if 'apropos' were renamed 'help'.
I am in my late 20s and recently lost all my hair from alopecia universalis. It was a shock when it happened, but now I don't think I'd even want to go back. There is zero maintenance, no hair grows anywhere. I only get positive comments on my look. I do work out to stay fit, my face would have no definition otherwise.

For a lot of guys, the slow progression of baldness is a source of anxiety, but now I have it all over with and I don't need to think about it.
It's a real disaster.

People ten years ago did not sign up for a MS github, so why should they now want to stay?
Which is ironic as the self-proclaimed 'King of point to point', the 787, mainly flies between or from hubs.

It's the smaller and more mundane 737 Max and A320 Neo that are following the lead of the old 757 as hub-bypassers.

I also note that no reference was made to the fact that Boeing has broken-up two early, unsaleable, 787s and took a $1.25 billion charge for doing so. Billion.
Macroeconomics by Abel, Bernanke and Croushore is a digestible text.
As cold as the above comment may sound - I concur, there's always a way to earn more.

Perhaps you would need to find remote work or learn another language. Or simply work hard(er). Whatever it takes.
I really don't expect an airline company to actually spend those savings on quality. Just because they can do something doesn't mean they will
By "physics" he clearly is referring to testing the quantitative predictions of models. The first sentence of the abstract:

>"Because physical theories typically predict numerical values, an improvement in ex-perimental precision reduces the tolerance range and hence increases corroborability."

I don't know the historical details but it would appear that since 1967 the NHST virus has proceeded to begin its infestation of physics. Now physicists are acting more and more like psychologists (focusing on testing a null model rather than the predictions of their models; which is the first phase of the illness) and will reap the same consequences of stagnation, etc. Lowering the threshold to 3e-7 instead of 5e-2 just makes this slower and more expensive.

>"To take the IQ example, if you take the set of all people in a country, for instance, and randomly select two sets of 5 people, you will find that their average IQ differs by some amount. If you instead select two sets of 50000 people, the average IQs should be a lot closer (to each other, and to the true average). This is by definition true, since IQ is by definition normally distributed. If that's not what you see, you have a methodological problem."

I'm not sure why you are talking about standard errors of random samples from a population... He was just giving stats 101 background for philosophers so he could get to this point:

"While no competent psychologist is unaware of this obvious distinction between a substantive psychological theory T and a statistical hypothesis H implied by it, in practice there is a tendency to conflate the substan- tive theory with the statistical hypothesis, thereby illicitly conferring upon T some-what the same degree of support given H by a successful refutation of the null hypothesis. Hence the investigator, upon finding an observed difference which has an extremely small probability of occurring on the null hypothesis, gleefully records the tiny probability number “p < .001,” and there is a tendency to feel that the extreme smallness of this probability of a Type I error is somehow transferable to a small probability of “making a theoretical mistake.”
I did! We had a brainstorming. It was initially (during development) called "Shazongress" but we couldn't get that one out of committee.
Off-topic but slightly related question: people with good hair in their 40s what do you do? Do you oil? Shampoo less often? What do you do? Other than genes, what can makes good hair? What can make hair-fall slow?
Logary to require a commercial license when used with MS tech
Socialism is never worth it and has never worked.
I wish the money printing game ended. The longer it goes the rougher the finale will be, globally. 1.5 T USD will push inflation globally.
Fuzzy would imply it's hard or impossible to model it, mathematically. But ask any good biologist and I bet you'll hear quite a bit of confidence that the keys behind powerful speech can be understood. For an engineer without domain expertize, yes it's fuzzy. Armed with the right research papers? Highly likely something persuasive could be implemented.
Not quite so.

I think WSL is a great idea and it also works very well, if we ignore minor bugs and oddities. But the acquisition of github is AWFUL. Microsoft gave the choice of "take it or leave it, my way or the highway".

There was no way for me to associate with the move so I was gone from github after 10 years.
Seems to be mostly fixes and incremental improvements. Here's the only breaking changes I see in NEWS:

. Removed support for BeOS. (Kalle)

. Removed support for ODBCRouter. (Kalle)

. Removed support for Birdstep. (Kalle)

So, if your customers are still using BeBoxes, you might have a problem.
I worry the human operators will hold it against me. The quality of assistance they provide may be biased by how irate and short tempered they think I am, even if I was just putting on a show for the robot.
Something is missing from this reaction: AI.
MS is buying a privileged access to billions lines of code with their history and corrections. In 5-10Y times most code will be produced by AI and the simplest way to train a AI system is to to have access to data. That's what they bought, data. Unfortunately this is another step towards more concentration in IT...
We don't even need a cure for cancer, we'll just not re-materialize the tumors. Brilliant!
No, this is absolutely false. Provide me a valid study.

Any one of the persons here claiming finesteride has these side effects, I need a study supporting this.
I find that men around me are more judgmental of my baldness than women
I wouldn't just assume that AirBnB increases property utilization.

Most the full-time airbnb places in my neighborhood seem to be vacant most the time. So I'm not sure it's a way to increase property utilization so much as it's a way for people who move out of town to cover the cost of hanging on to the property even though they're not really using it anymore, but without taking on the same legal obligations that renting the house to a full-time tenant would incur.
I have a question about the federal funds rate that I haven't ever had a good explanation for. It is: To what extent is the fed funds rate set to match market demand, and to what extent is it controlled completely independently of market demands? If anyone has a good answer, I would appreciate it a lot.

To flesh out my question a little further, let's say that the fed decides one day to change the fed funds rate from 1.75% to 2%. They put the bonds up for auction and find out that they were only able to auction off the allotment of bonds at an effective rate of 1.8%. Is this typical? Or is it usually the case that the bond buyers will quickly hoover up whatever rate they are given?

Maybe a more formal way to put it- is the elasticity of demand for these bonds low enough for the fed to have complete control over the fed funds rate such that they can set any interest rate they desire?
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Wealthsimple. Done.
He didn't call anyone an asshole. His insults were reserved for the arguments and the standard itself.
On the user side, most of that can be stored in the resource section (for PE format executables, so Windows only for all practical intents and purposes). It has annoyed me many times that no such thing exist in Unix land (ELF, basically), and instead I have to rely on 'bin2hex' style tools and store that data in the data section.
The point of a CLI is to be able to write programs to handle complicated interactions between applications with ease, and by default. A gui doesn't have a pipe.
> If the C standard says: the following construct is undefined, then as a compiler writer you have two options: you try to figure out what is sensible in this context, or you do something crazy that conforms to a literal interpretation.

Not exactly. Rather, the compiler is not constrained by any particular behavior of the construct which is said to be undefined. So if there is an optimization that changes the meaning of the undefined construct, it's all fair game, because the construct was not defined in the first place.
As you may have expected, Terra doesn't approach this from a type safety perspective. The generated code is of course type checked, but the metaprogram is not. Instead the goals are productivity and performance. And along those axes I have to say it does remarkably well. I've built or been involved in building a number of compilers, I've never seen any other system that has made it as quick and painless to build a system, and get competitive performance[1] out of the gate.

[1]: And just to be clear, when I say competitive, I don't mean with C. I mean with hand-tuned assembly and/or vector intrinsics. I regularly get performance with Regent that you simply can't get in a C compiler without writing vector intrinsics by hand.
Then why comment on this thread at all? This is like someone making a thread saying "How do I do X in Swift?" and I come in and say "I only know Python, so I have no idea LOL!".

Was the point of your comment to just complain about being a dev in Greece?
Interpersonal interaction on #lesswrong is just wasted time that you could have spent praising the coming machine-god so it won't kill you.
The US did not break an international treaty. It was a "deal" from Obama, which he never put in front of the Senate to actually become an international treaty... Likely because the Senate would not have confirmed it as it was.
That’s literally what affirmative action is.
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I have to concede that I still talk in this now outmoded manner. I have to make a conscious effort to switch to modern gender neutral language (eg. they) when speaking or writing to anyone outside my family and friends.

> English language changed to expunge the ambiguity.

I think it's more accurate to say it adopted different ambiguities. The use of 'they' can create ambiguities of number, and just switching between he/she leaves the same ambiguity (is the gendering intentional or not?) albeit in a gender balanced way.

As a side-note, 'he' was used to refer to people, who could be regarded as interchangeable (man or woman) and 'she' was reserved for 'uniquely individual' things, which is why countries and ships (as two examples) are referred to as such. At least, this was may understanding when growing up and I've never lost this habit.
Link to a post on ACM Queue about the benefits and ramifications of automating as a habit: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520
Hah chatbots. What a joke that trend was... I’m just surprised the hype lasted as long as it did
Often the time invested in writing an automation script far outweighs the time spent doing it manually, even when you account for every time the script will ever be run. And it can still be worth it if the script never makes a mistake that human might.
There is also `man -k`. -k of course is short for "apropos". It's all very logical and intuitive.

(Seriously though, reading the manpage for man is where I first learned about apropos.)
[Edit]:

I have just read AirBNB’s response, stating that they ARE cancelling reservations, in a rolling 10-days-out fashion.

The linked [cntraveler.com] article is wrong. So, paulsutter is right, it is disingenuous for AirBNB to have allowed those bookings knowing the law would go into effect on June 15th.

And I personally am screwed, crap.

Leaving original for posterity

[pre-Edit]:

Huh? Did you read the article?

They specifically say that existing reservations are not cancelled.

Good thing for me, too, because I have three different existing AirBNBs booked in Japan after June 15th.
Over the course of a few years taking Propecia, in my late 20s, I completely lost my sex drive.

When I started taking the drug, my doctor warned me of possible side effects. I figured I could just quit if that happened, and things would go back to normal. Eventually, they updated the labeling to say that side effects can persist indefinitely.

I’ve talked to men who have been on it for years without experiencing side effects. I cannot say for certain Propecia is the root cause to my symptoms, there’s really no way to know for sure, but I experienced a radical shift while on it. Taking a powerful but poorly-understood drug that rewires your sex hormones isn’t a decision to take lightly.
I think that if people get a 10% cut in the ticket price, they'll happily sit in a box with no windows and no substitute for windows.
>What you said is true, but I don’t like it.

Deal with it.
I had never heard of Octopus merges, and wondered if they're the reason why the GitHub mascot is Octocat. Turns out they are!

http://cameronmcefee.com/work/the-octocat/
If Google starts building weapons, wouldn't one want to turn up with something a bit more effective than a sledgehammer?
> Uber is already has incentive to keep the surge pricing reasonable -- not only do they suffer from spoilage, but if a driver clocks in during the surge and doesn't get a rider, he's less likely to clock in during the next surge.

I disagree. Since Uber takes a percent of the price, it's in its best interest that the surge scales fast. 5X is unreasonable, it should be capped at 3X. It's not like the Honolulu Uber drivers would multiply as the surge increases, the service is already maxed out and has become first come first served.
Got a TensorFlow up if anyone has the data because I'm curious: Heroin addicts who commit suicide by violent means vs. intentionally O.D.ing.

I ask because Anthony's wife is one of Harvey Weinstein's accusers.

https://archive.li/rxIHn
I think so, yeah. The networks were already there; if they had the foresight to see how FB would eat their lunch, they potentially could have integrated customizable user profile features w/ a "wall"-like functionality into the chat platform, and nipped FB in the bud when it was still perceived as a white-collar walled garden (a rep that persisted for a couple years even after they opened it up beyond EDU). "Facebook is for college snobs; Yahoo is for everyone!"
As a linguist and software engineer I can't imagine someone doing serious NLP without ever having studied [concrete] syntax trees and such. It is easy to impress people with some tokenization but it's n-grams that are really useful in the real world, as is understanding syntax trees and all the interconnections possible inside them so you can NLP the shit out of real world text/speech, instead of simple examples with a tagger (and a good, carefully crafted for a demo like Apple's, trained set of tagged data). This is a good summary article with very good links nonetheless.
The Blended wing concept has issues with evacuating passengers quickly and safely enough - nothing to do with windows.
The poster's sentiment is correct is saying that it's a good idea to have low-risk resources available as a safety net. However I'd say having physical things like items you know you'll need in the future, or food storage, would be more valuable than having cash. Inflation wouldn't hurt the value of a computer or food you already own. In the other hand, I would imagine investing in gold would be a good idea as well.
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Over the past year I've decided to do something with my savings, rather than have it sit in a Dutch bank, getting far less than inflation in the country I live in now.

I've sprinkled the majority in a selection of Vanguard's ETFs 80/20 stock/bonds, heavy on tech stocks and the rest in a 70/20/10 split on large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap.

A little (more than) play money is in crypto. I've been successfully algo trading crypto for fun, largely through triangular arbitrage, and investing in some of the projects that I think will have an impact. The "investment" part is in a basket of 20 or so coins weighted by what I expect their chances are to succeed in their sector within the next 2 years, rebalanced monthly. I built the strategy with a tool I've been working on with friends in our spare time: https://nazcabot.io