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>Yet, you've said very little outside of hand-waving about how evil America is and co-signing to deep-state conspiracy theories that plainly make no sense to even the casual observer. But, you love your country, right?

There is no conspiracy about the century+ of imperialism that we have been engaged in. Nobody with even a passing understanding of history disputes this. At least honest imperialists like David Frum and Max Boot don't embarass themselves with an utter ignorance of history - just an utter lack of morality.

>You've then gone on to offer a near child-like version of the world in which the U.S. operates in a magical vacuum wherein liberal democracy is some guaranteed default mode that simply exists irrespective of what the rest of the world does. We simply withdraw from the global world stage and the world order just remains as-is, right? Or perhaps you have a problem with the current world order?

Everyone informed and intelligent who cares about morality, international law, and the well-being of the people of the United States and the world has a massive problem with the current world order.

>And, once the space begins to shrink for the ideal of liberal democracy, how does America fare?

Nobody who knows anything about history would ever consider suggesting that the United States has supported, or supports now, the idea of "liberal democracy". From Egypt to Saudi Arabian to Uzbekistan to countless dictatorships in Africa, to right-wing juntas in Central and South America, we support, and have supported, the most vile dictators alive. From Saddam Hussein to Pinochet, from Guatemala to El Salvador to Honduras to Columbia, the list goes on. Then we can go on to our most recent destruction of Iraq, Libya, and Yemen and our support of Islamic terrorists in Syria to support our "allies" and client states that prop up our global military empire.

Unfortunately your astounding ignorance of history and current events is the standard for people here, which is why the corporate agents of the DC/CIA media establishment have no problem installing all kinds of nonsense in your head. Anyone can see your worldview quite clearly - its the worldview imprinted on the minds of the ignorant by the propagandists who unfortunately run our society. Its easy to fill an empty vessel with platitudes about "liberal democracy" if people don't understand our actual history of overthrowing democratically elected governments around the world, both overtly and covertly, for a century.

In an effort to alleviate a tiny portion of your ignorance, I point you to the person who inspired me to take this handle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Right, why don't we all just keep eating Modafinil or whatever new stimulants, drugs or meds are en vogue, in order to be able to keep doing meaningless jobs in the most efficient manner.
JVM dev here... unfortunately there aren't any great holistic books for modern Java that I can think of. A lot of it is just community learned (e.g. put the XML away, stop making everything a damn GoF design pattern, stop trying to create mega class hierarchies, favor small libraries over mega frameworks).

I will say Joshua Bloch's Effective Java is something ever Java dev should have read at some point.
If you think Musk has a cult, why do the media get a free pass? There's nothing honourable about the media that means they aren't susceptible to the same impulses that the Musk cult manifest.

Or, is the media some sort of holy institution that can do no wrong?
Or the problem where the developers will not know why the AI did something, say an AI decides to do some bad thing, the judge will ask the developer why and the dev will say:
-I don't know, we feed them a ton of input and it worked fine on my machine and without test data so we shipped it
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Considering that you can't just buy a car in Singapore and need to get a permit to buy one, it better should be the best in the world.
I personally feel like and I remember very distinctly that RSS (and Atom Feeds to boot) seemingly hit their peak with google reader and when google reader was discontinued RSS seemed to wane quickly thereafter. I’d be very interested in knowing if hard statistics back this up or not but my anecdotal experience suggests that this is indeed the case
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The Arab slave trade took more slaves from Africa than the American slave trade. Maybe it's really the Muslims that are the cause of Philippine overfishing? Still doesn't make much sense!
Maybe ... just maybe, not being able to "install anything" is the point?

I read so many stories about skimmers on ATMs and other POS machines - that maybe this is a good thing?
>They've decided to compete in the dedicated POS space, yet they continue to compare themselves to tablet based solutions.

How did you get that as a takeaway?
If you want to see the foundations of our society, ask and investigate what create social status. Even at preschool, kids usually arranging themselves into group with a hierarchy. Usually those groups are separated on gender, through at the youngest age group they tend to be a bit mixed and by the time kids hit puberty its almost fully sorted into groups of single-gender. Age 5 to 10 should provide a bit of insight into this process.

What signals is encoded in our society that make one girl to get higher social status among other girls. Similar, what signals are encoded to give one boy higher social status among other boys. In that difference between the two strategies for social status, what incentives has parents if they want their child to have high social status among other children.

From that point we can look at what puberty does to the incentives to maximize social status among one own gender, and the relation to dating. Add a few additional years and they have to pick career paths with accumulates all those incentives into a point where gender segregation really start to pick up speed.
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True that. Plus, there is a great deal of jealousy involved in Musk criticism these days. He has pushed things far further than a lot of anyone in this particular crowd ever will, and there is no indication that the Musk event horizon has any end.

So yeah, this particular crowd here on HN has the potential to let jealousy override rationality, and the more banal human emotions come to play instead.

Personally, I think Elon Musk is an exceptional human being, who has somehow not let himself be limited in his actions by jealousy, hatred, intolerance, and so on. This is bound to make a lot of people upset - after all, humans have a long and sordid history with cutting down the taller poppies.
I don't want it, just saying that it could probably be done.
An interesting case is the US driving Colombia out of Panama when the Colombian senate refused to approve the Panama Canal. The war is considered to have been engineered by the New Panama Canal Company including Bunau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Bunau-Varilla#Separat...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/628408.How_Wall_Street_C...
You can also have a look at Hypernormalization, a documentary by Adam Curtis where he draws the origin of suicidal terrorism to the meddlings of Kissinger in Assad’s (senior) Syria.
well yes and no

https://www.wired.com/2008/10/ten-years-later/
> Even braking to half the recorded velocity would likely have been fatal.

This is not so. Half would have been under 25 mph which is much less than 50% fatal. See http://www.humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm
I don't think "outsized" is a factor here. How invested is the plurality shorter here? Maybe $10 million? One-thousandth, even one-hundredth, of a market position doesn't sound like an "outsized" investment to me.
for balance

https://www.wired.com/2008/10/ten-years-later/
If it's background noise, is it still a violation? Not suggestion an answer, just asking. Like, how (not in all countries) it's okay to get passers-by in your video shot and broadcast them uncensored?
Can you explain the causal link between those rich people's greed and this fishing technique? Is it because rich people enabled dynamite to be produced cheaply enough for them?
Because Theranos used very small samples of blood, when they got diluted, the error margins on the measurements increased a lot because it was hard to get the ratio of blood to dilution fluid consistent when samples are small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram#Applications has explanations and an animation.
I think the point is that he's the CEO of both companies, and some of his wild claims were about building, launching and recovering rockets. Are we supposed to ignore SpaceX and just look at Tesla when considering Musk? You may consider that being a showman, and it was, but it was also showing his ability to delivery on some of his promises of rocket reusability.

Anyone basing their opinion of Musk purely on his role and publicity from one of these companies when they are both so very public is the height of confirmation bias, in either direction.
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Every single history I've read about slavery indicates that the middle passage was orders of magnitude larger and more intense than pre-modern slave systems.

To the first comment: our world is changing. We are leaving the world system that was created around 1500. That said, we're still inside of it, and so social practices as manifestly illogical and inane as concentration camps ("prisons"), national borders, and the burning of carbon continue.
As a secondary (supplemental) hash, I found the Murmur finalizer methods are ok, but you can get better if you use different constants. See my result in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/664014/what-integer-hash...

I measured the avalanche effect (the number of output bits that change if a single input bit is changed; should be nearly 16 on average for a 32 bit hash), independence of output bit changes (output bits should not depend on each other), and the probability of a change in each output bit if any input bit is changed.
Given the most popular use of Snapchat is AR... and it’s fundamental to their user experience. Yes, yes it’s because of AR.
Thanks for the links. Needs to be reposted often.

Hopefully the day will come where we don't have to become grad level psycologists to handle our new info environment. The professions I was thinking about were air traffic controllers, soldiers, pilots, cops etc whose training involves coping with constant high noise environments. We have lot of lessons to learn from them and their training systems.

I have a feeling psychologists("choice architects"), socialogist etc with software experience will soon start making an impact in dismantling some of the misguided pieces of the current architecture.
He's pointing that calling someone a conspiracy theorist is an example of an ad hominem attack. Which it is and was and always will be. Calling someone a conspiracy theorist is talking about a person, not the ideas they are expressing.

According to Paul Graham in his article How to Disagree an ad hominem attack is the second weakest form of disagreement, only a little better than calling someone mean names.

However, in the case of calling someone a conspiracy theorist, I would argue that it actually is an example of name calling as well. It is a negatively charged word. Name calling, according to Paul Graham, is the weakest form of disagreement.

From a logical fundamentals perspective, calling someone a conspiracy theorist has never held water. It can't hold water, unless talking about the character of a person, because it tries to attack the character of a person, rather than refuting their ideas.

Wikipedia, citing conspiracy theory as an example of ad hominem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

It is an error of logic to support that the fact that an ad hominem attack doesn't hold weight means that a thing is right or wrong. The entire point of understanding fallacy is to realize that there is a disconnection between ground truth and any claims reached via their use.

In this particular case, people are talking about Elon being a conspiracy theorist, because he suspects there might be outside actors involved on the basis of known data exportation, known sabotage, and profit motives. These are examples of things tied directly to the question of whether Tesla is experiencing corporate espionage.
Exactly. Rich people literally put the dynamite in these people’s hands. That is the only plausible and widely accepted explanation for inequality, and kudos to you for advancing it.
I don't think that lesson is wrong. I was involved with the semiconductor industry at the time, and that's how it looked from the inside (and it still does in retrospect).

AMD/ATI in 2011 was still focused on graphics, ignoring the GPGPU revolution (as it was still called back then). In many ways they still haven't managed to turn around.

> On (C), my impression was that bank switching and PAE were poorly supported by Windows at the desktop level. Which essentially made it a non-starter for the primary computer market at the time.

I remember that while PAE was clunky, it did enable (say) running multiple processes on 8-core machines and giving each its own 2GB of memory; It was definitely poor compared to the real thing (AMD64 at the time), but like EMS, XMS and similar "extended memory" systems of the late '80s before it, it was good enough to stop people from moving to a decent architecture (e.g. Motorola 680x0) if it didn't provide backward compatibility.
What's the significance of this article? Is it algorithmically generated by some kind of bot?

If so, impressive. Could be the future of link farm spam.
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I take it David Attenborough didn’t cover this in Blue Earth II?
Safeway and Whole Foods (I believe Verifone terminals) have a blue light over the card entry slot. It's also immediately visible because it's black on grey. The Square terminal is a black void on a black field.
Also no homeless people or crackheads inside
It's because "richness" creates a pathologically competitive social system that encourages this sort of destruction activity in order to get the token that conveys value.
Its also true of long investors: they also do a better job of identifying, researching and flagging top-performing companies than government agencies charged with the task.

The key thing is, motivation. Both long and short investors have motivations to cull the herd.
The problem is certainly not the connection then. What's behind that Fiber? Pentium 60 Mhz?

Works fine here - far less than gigabit fiber, FF Nightly.
I'll explain it.

Maybe not _those_ 8 rich people, but generally Western nations were made rich by exploiting the tragedy of the commons. Oil and other mining are the classic examples.

Why should we expect these poor, poor fishermen to prioritize our poor, poor planet over their poor, poor families when our own rich got that way through exploitation of natural resources and pollution?
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I think this begs the question: how are you defining productivity?
Most of them didn't go to America but it looks like the order of magnitude was about the same for both ~10's of millions. The Arabs castrated their male slaves so they didn't leave a black population for us to notice like America and Sth America have.
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I use LVM and LUKS too. While I haven't encrypted /boot (due to using UEFI) I do have full disk encryption on the remaining disks.

The longest delay is mounting the spinning disks but overall after I enter the password boot takes less than 30 seconds...

I would recommend to check the output of the following commands:

systemd-analye

systemd-analyze critical-chain

These will output the boot times (firmware, bootloader, kernel, initrd, userspace) and the service chain that took the longest during boot.
I think tptacek’s point is that it has to be fraud to be wire fraud. Making a false statement isn’t necessarily fraud, and involving a wire doesn’t change that.
The drivers pay gas taxes, and the majority of the revenue goes to the drivers. Therefore car activity that uber induces is also paid for by the customers that use it. Basic induction. What you are doing is like complaining about amazon or the local grocer inducing truck demand and not paying for the roads.

It's a bit obvious you have a chip on your shoulder about Uber and ride share companies in general.
The idea of Uber Express Pool is set up so that you walk to a designated pickup point, wait, and walk from a designated drop-off point.

So, essentially, it's a tiny bus that makes stops along a route. But with less capacity than a bus and less consistent scheduling and routing.

(To be clear - I am pretty skeptical of the idea of demand-responsive "microtransit" such as Uber Express Pool).
Wasn't every nation? Europe and China have lost almost all their forests. Pre-European New Zealand natives exterminated the giant flightless moa. There was a powerful ancient African civilization that died out because they used up all the artesian water. I'd say nobody cared about conservation until rich people we comfortable enough to stop worrying about their next meal and look at broader issues.
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I think TSLA is a great company that makes great products, but I also think their stock price is over valued right now. It would be a miracle if they hit the 5k cars/week target (I hope they do).
I suspect that if we were living and had easy access to information about any number of people from the past that had a large influence on history, we would find the opinion of the time much less one sides than it becomes after they are gone and their legacy (whether good or bad) has been largely decided by the culture.

There's a whole literature category devoted to taking the caricatures of historical people and expanding them into much more complex and realistic depictions of the people in question. Frankly I think it's amazing that so many people can't imagine a complex person with competing goals and motivations when considering public personas, when this is true of literally everyone alive.
I think the real story here is what does a person do when they've accomplished so much, that the jealousy levels around them are so damn high?

I mean, I read this thread to gain some insight into what other technology/innovation people do when it comes to dealing with subterfuge and sabotage - and so far, there's nothing in this thread besides jealousy, vitriol and intolerance.

Its very telling when a technologically-inclined in-group starts to eat its heroes. We truly are cannibalistic, as a species, at heart.

Jealousy/envy, distrust, degradation: these seem to be far more powerful forces than sabotage and subterfuge. I wonder if there is any concerted effort to foment such? Sure seems like it.
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It's very hard to do and very very expensive. An Indonesian company tried to build a Youtube competitor: https://vidio.com. I know many friends who work there. From their stories, we can assume that it takes a lot of smart people and a lot of money to build one.
The cost is also far less than transit. If we judged Uber by the same standards that we judged local transit costs, they would be ahead by quite a bit and fairly profitable. You could even increase the take home that drivers took and still come out ahead.
I have been using Meetup for the past month and I'm pleasantly surprised.

Besides the even thing, your group also gets a discussion board, mailing list, photo sharing and a few other tools.

The cost might be a barrier to the adoption but I'm hoping it will grow more
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That also holds for Java ;). The difference is in the targeted execution model.
> This map, while pretty, is fractionally as useful as a flattened stretchy-grid-auto-layouted hairball. It lacks basic features like being able to _zoom out to actually see the whole volume without rotating_, l

I can zoom out and see the whole volume just fine. Don't select a specific system, use the mouse wheel.
It works exactly as I expect a star map to work and it looks beautiful.

> Meanwhile, the core gameplay systems have, by many fans perceptions, degraded in quality, and prior deliverable dates have been slipped to levels that would get me fired in my position.

I really have my doubts that the people who cry the loudest are really "fans" or even pledged. There are real problems (e.g. the deliverable date thing, which they now reigned in a bit by doing a new feature release every three month), but many of the so called criticisms are just crying wolf or repeating old accusations which don't even fit anymore (see one of the posts below which states that they add stretch goal after stretch goal with new money ... there hasn't been a new stretch goal for a long time and they made clear that there won't be. All new money goes to existing targets)
> My mother taught me to flip all pro-nouns to female

There are languages where pronouns are not gender-red, they are neutral and you see the same results.

> I've come to realise how gender biased the world is

A lot of it is due to biology itself being "biased" and a lot of society evolved to accommodate those sex differences.

I think tech is over glorified and is presented as this boy's club where everything is amazing, ignoring the downsides. I don't think most people would find it fun to maintain a legacy financial application or to work every weekend to finish off the video game because the publisher refuses to adjust the release date.
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it seems to me that x86 assembly is the less readable kind of assembly. i always found powerpc set more thought through.
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I'm not at all interested in the Musk cult factor, but I think that all the critics are far too easily blinded by their own position and fail to see the incredible results that have already been attained, in spite of incredible odds against.

Musk may tweak peoples jealousy buttons - and I truly think that jealousy of him personally is behind a lot of the criticism - but on the other hand, there is so much progress behind him that its almost ridiculous to hear the critics pulling hard on whatever loose strings they can find.

I mean, the criticism may be warranted - but I think a great deal of respect and honest attribution is warranted, too. The statistics as to what has been accomplished as a result of Musks' crazy ideals demonstrate that, sometimes it seems, to push the human species forward you have to be a little crazy, outside the norms of the collective. ITT, people who haven't yet recognised this fact ..
The copyright notice was fake, I was the one who typed it up originally and removed it so people don't think this actually came from blizzard.

It will be interesting to see what happens on Blizzard's end. I won't be surprised if the repo gets DMCA'd. It's not a big deal to me either way, I did this for the learning experience.
It's Descent through and through. It's great.
Maybe in the bay area, where investment in public transit is abysmal. When I've visited cities with good public transit I've never felt the need for Uber/Lyft.
Java is very fast too ;)
This is not a remake, it's a 'spiritual successor' due to the devs not owning the IP rights.

It feels just like descent...
I think the poster may have meant proper nouns rather than pronouns?

(Well, I mean the "builder" part of "Bob the Builder" may need to be flipped in some languages, but I'd assume there aren't that many women named Bob, so...)