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> The human notion of fairness is fuzzy

... to the point that every attempt to define "fairness" in one (arguable) aspect leads to (codified, inescapable) unfairness in another.
I learned the most by reading and writing about great speeches in high school English. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Marc Antony's speech in Julius Caesar, and JFK's moon speech all come to mind. Understanding why these were effective is like drilling the fundamentals in sports or music. Once you have internalized the rhetorical devices that the greats deployed, you can start to use them in your own writing.
thanks for the report! a fix is forthcoming (looks like some kind of css preloading is tripping up the plugin)
> Java has been around a long time now and machines were a lot slower in the JDK 1.0 days so they were probably considering the poor performance of requiring a minimum Object overhead.

Never mind the machines back when Java was 1.0 — one of the reasons Project Valhalla exists is that "the poor performance of requiring a minimum object overhead" is very much still a significant cost!
While I think things like vision, communication and teamwork, spatial awareness and improvisational ability are critically important and can't be taught (though they can be learned through lots of play), this article definitely shortchanges the amount of physical and technical skills required for soccer / football that can be taught and developed through practice

Good stamina is a prerequisite for being good at soccer / football. Players run 5-10 miles per game and a lot of that is intense bursts of speed with lots of changes of direction and agile footwork -- which is incredibly tiring. A team gets a limited number of substitutions and there are no timeouts / breaks other than halftime. So you have to be in good shape, and that's definitely a skill that comes with practice

Technique / "touch" is also critical and can be developed. The most immediately striking easily observable difference btw pros and less skilled players is that pros touch is just impeccable -- the ball just goes exactly where they want it. It's like a part of their body. That comes with drills and repetition.

If you are in good shape and have a good touch, you'll be better than most players up to probably a US division 3 college level (you can also be good at this level sacrificing touch for intelligence / game sense, speed, or another attribute). But beyond that you need to either have freakish skills / athleticism and good game sense or just really good game sense
I can attest to this. I'm currently working my way through the college application pipeline, and my peers are laser focused on what it takes to get into a good college. Rather than pursuing what interests them, many choose challenging courses just to have a favorable transcript, and standardized test stress is an epidemic. Anxiety about "getting in" to a good school supersedes any dreams of starting a venture or pursuing an option that isn't a 4-year prestigious university.

The disappearance of new ventures can be attributed in some way to this new way of thinking. I've been told that college anxiety didn't exist 20 years ago -- maybe it's time to go back to those days. High school, in my mind, is a time to experiment and find what actually interests you: not to manifest into a homework bot that's dominated by stress.

This isn't always the case, though. The 25-year-old with life experience and a past of experimentation still exists, it's just not the norm anymore.
Isn't it the other way around? When I'm in my early 20s, I don't need a lot of money but when I'm in my 40s with 2.5 kids, mortgage and cars ... then I do.
Any chance there's a write-up or docs on this somewhere?
> Each one of those synapse is a complex, constantly adapting chemical computer which is sensitive to the interaction of dozens of neurotransmitters.

Granted. On the other hand, electric signals can propagate across a chip several orders of magnitude faster than the chemical-electrical signals neurons use to communicate. So while our current path won't lead us to an artificial brain that works exactly like the human brain, it might still make one that's just as smart through pure brute force.

A biologist in 1902 could very reasonably have scoffed at the heavier-than-air flight enthusiasts who pointed at birds as a proof of concept. The biologist could point out that the complex, many-part motion of a bird's flapping wing was far beyond the crude mechanical processes inventors were trying to use to replicate it. And they'd be right. But in a much more important way, they'd be wrong.

I have no idea whether we're on the path to AGI or not, but I do think that "we're not building machines that work exactly like the brain does" is a poor counterargument.
> The single greatest web innovation in the last 30 years was readability mode.

For you. From what I see, everyone else seems to be enjoying the dancing and singing monkeys online.
Seems pretty weak and unsupported.

It can be summed up as "China doesn't excel at soccer because of authoritarianism and because the sport is not well understood by anyone and central planning doesn't help".

Ok, if you say so. Where's the evidence?
The people in life that are most successful are usually the ones that are compelled to do a thing for whatever reason.

If you're procrastinating; it's simply an indication you don't want to do a thing. Sure, you can use hacks etc to get the thing done, but at the end of the day, there's no real, underlying driving will within yourself to get the thing done.

Perhaps spending time finding the things you willfully do rather than focusing on the things you tend to avoid might be great way to avoid procrastination.

I get it though. That buzzing lazy feeling of getting some things done but not all the things; or the things you need to get done while lazily avoiding the things you supposedly want to do.

I have noticed in my life that I willfully do some things to completion because I just have an underlying will to get it done.
I got back from a week long vacation and when i got back there were issues on github for open source projects i maintain. I was able to crush them quickly without that "discomfort/fear/anxiety". it makes me believe that those feeling start to occur when we need a break, which is why we are procrastinating in the first place.
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This is not specific to China but many larger countries who are good at other sports but they don't do well at soccer. Australia is very good at Rugby, Cricket but their soccer team is average and they make it to world cups only because of limited competition in their confederation (OFC). Domestic soccer leagues are just picking up in China. They mostly comprise to Chinese players and/or end up with retirees of European clubs (Retired Andre Iniesta of Barcelona/Spain moving to some club in China).
We may discover the stagnant generation-to-generation performance uplift over the past ~10 years was mostly due to lack of competition in the market.
From my private IT support perspective: I hate it!
My "customers" have FF installed and are every time utterly confused missing their favorites on their "Internet Program".

There is so much wrong with this bundling but yes, it's probably still better then IE...
People have done science to answer your last question. In general the answer is no.
I would think the same way any national chain does it.
You mean $5M not $50M.
From the article:

Startups are struggling in this era of rising market concentration. In most industries, since the 1980s, the share of all sales going to the top firms is increasing. Startups may have a hard time competing with these mega firms, which can out pay them for the best talent and sometimes attempt to drive them out of the industry. Previous Brookings research found there are fewer startups in states where a smaller number of companies dominate the market

From Lenin, "Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism" (1916):

This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important — if not the most important — phenomena of modern capitalist economy.
Where is the moral line drawn when it comes to using vague morality arguments to discourage research?
It doesn't work like that ("in some of the other 22").

One crude way to think about it is that particle has a location in each dimension. In other words, position is a vector whether in 3D or 26D or whatever. It's not possible to be "in other dimensions" any more than a normal point in Cartesian space can lack an X coordinate.

The popular sci-fi idea that other dimensions constitute an "elsewhere", e.g. dimensions or "planes" outside our reality, is not what is meant when particle physicists talk about 26D space.
In retrospect, it seems likely that no amount of officer genius could have won the Civil War for the South, but without it, they would have been completely crushed.

Perhaps the entirety of the European continent (or most of the world re: Germany) fighting back meant the war was essentially unwinnable no matter what, but perhaps the successes they did have were due to the process they used.
Agree. This is something .Net does well.
> If you've ever worked on a Python code base that you didn't design and write from the ground up, you would know that these are inevitable, and in many cases encouraged by the language.

I have. Maybe it is "inevitable", but saying Python encourages this is a stretch. Those things happen in other languages, it's just called `null` abuse instead.

> Not to mention, I can actually run the Mypy static checker on this and verify that my code does what I think it does.

Until it doesn't, e.g. at runtime. Type hints are a nice tool, but are not a panacea. They are not the same as variable types. This is probably the most dangerous thing about them. If you want that, Python is not the best choice, type hints don't change that.
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Backend and frontend stack, web design tools, editor or IDE.
12-hour cloud based DVR sounds like a solution for an artificial problem. Do we really need a DVR for what's basically a on demand streaming service?
Does it by any chance provide a shared Chrome version across apps?

It seems possible to have a single (or 1 for every version) instance of Chrome on the system, and Electron apps could use the same one, or tell Electron they need another version and it could download it.

This would I _suspect_ reduce memory usage and app size.
I disagree. The quick answer is to say it is ethical.
Just about every state requires this. No one does it, and it's simply not feasible for any state to go after taxpayers for this.
I got in on an RX 580 8GB for about $320 and it handles most VR games pretty damn well. I was upgrading from an R7 270 so it was a great value and would only need to be replaced if I decide I'm willing to burn ~$1500 for the Vive pro. Depending on what you had before the 1060, you may have gotten a super bad break on the upgrade.

My point I guess is, the VR stopgap is already over. Expensive laptops can now do some VR. IE, why would I pay between 800-1000 dollars for the vega line or 1080ti line for a somewhat mild improvement? It takes last gen stuff to run VR well, so the profit margins are shrinking
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Define ethical.
Thats why companies like Avalara exist and are doing well. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/avalara (not affiliated in any way)
The kind of people who would ask you to break your morals are also the kind of people who, when asked for a promotion, would say, "What have you done for me lately?"
> Grover Norquist, president of the anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, said in a statement, "Today the Supreme Court said yes -- you can be taxed by politicians you do not elect and who act knowing you are powerless to object."

That doesn't follow. The people being taxed are the people living in that state, and their representatives are enacting that tax. As usually Norquist is making up BS to scare people.
cool, good for you
Churchill is good too. It would be cool to see a website that takes apart great speeches and annotates their meaning and what the author was trying to get across, perhaps utilizing collaborators. Apart from the myriad of academic work which would likely just serve to confuse.
Keep in mind that Stripe only provides automated tax calculations for their Orders API (previously Relay) at this time. You'll have to use a sales tax API to handle calculations for subscriptions and one-off charges.
Ah yes. Use an overloaded term like fascist which has a definition but is thrown around to usually mean "anyone who doesn't agree with me".
What's your monthly charge for just Internet? Optimum just jacked up their rates to an unreasonable monthly bill for me -- over 100% more than what new customers pay, so I'm planning to cut cable and give that a try.
I see your point and am in a similar situation, but I have to suspect that truly educated people who haven't achieved a higher degree are a relatively low number for the purposes of aggregate statistics.
Why is it (or was it) important to separate CSS from HTML?
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I heard it from the guy who had the cops called on him.

The investor didn't direct the cop to anyone at particular, but to the "company." There was only one person at the office that they could get ahold of.

I am fuzzy on the details. I don't know if the arrest happens right then and he was let go the next morning, or in an hour.

He was very stressed at the cop's presence. He didn't know till later that everything was okay.
"I think you have to be a bit of a masochist to use a standing desk alone for more than 15 minutes per hour."

I'll agree to a point regarding the 15 minutes per hour when you first transition to a standing desk, but after that I'll have to strongly disagree.

I've been using a standing desk (Versa Desk) for almost a year now, and I have no problems standing for hours on end - even after running 4 miles before work (4x a week). But, I'm sure it helps that I have comfortable shoes on and can lean from time to time (this helps a lot). I will find myself seated though, when there are long RTFM campaigns, or if there are too many pieces of a trouble-shooting puzzle in play.
There is a really good BBC podcast about it. There are full soccer academy's now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066783g . They delve in some cultural stuff and how they need creativity and individualism in their game and should get over their players having tattoos (they make them cover them up).
The social structure in many cities does not enable sports. If you have a city of millions but heavy pollution, factory jobs with long hours, expensive real estate so no pitches
> American mainstream sports tend to rely heavily on the authoritarian figure of the coach, who draws up plays for obedient players to execute.

Which sports is the author referring to other than American Football? I played volleyball, and the coach had little control over the way a serve would play out other than which players were on the court.
Are mom and pop stores included in the data? What about law firms, doctors offices, mutual funds? I don’t think we’d consider those new businesses to be start ups.
This tends to be why I use testing almost only when the freeze has happened. Much less chance for breakage (closer to current stable)
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Very surprising result. I don't think I've ever heard of a blood test for a mental disorder -- at least, not one that actually works.
And once (or while) the student loan debt clears up you then get a mortgage and start a family - both of which now make you crave a stable paycheck while you get a hang of this house ownership thing and to take care of your loved ones. It's hard to take that gamble when you feel like the world is riding on your shoulders.
> Well, first of all, how do you know I posted it? What does it mean to post something? How does what I posted manifest itself in reality if you aren't there to interpret my post.

I feel like you are not questioning the message but the way and the "tools" used to convey it. ("what are words?" "what does it really mean when you say X?"). You want to start the discussion by questioning the (supposed) common middle ground of understanding that will be used for it. This way, I think, you kind of refused to try to give an answer to your parent.

I don't claim the anyone can "know truth totally and completely". But, conceptually I think there is. In a particular point of the universe at a particular time there was a specific particle there. Or wasn't. It couldn't be and not be. Subjectively it may seem one thing or the other. O even both. But it was either there or not.

And how do you deny the truism "The Universe IS"[0]? If you deny it you face a paradox because how can you call it false if false doesn't exist?

[0] By "Universe" I mean everything that exists, existed and will exist. Concrete and abstract.
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Like minority groups having equal rights? That's been making a lot of people uncomfortable for a long time.
But it's not the same device, in removing your old operating system you've removed the device keys keybase uses for encryption.
That's similar to the US. I think a lot of it just comes down to the number of kids that grow up playing a sport i.e. the talent pool. In the US lots of kids try playing soccer but most focus more on baseball / basketball / football / hockey. Whereas in countries where soccer is the main sport the talent pool is larger and you have tons of talented kids who've been playing for two decades
I miswrote my original comment, I didn't mean to suggest anyone thought that meditation was bad. Just that someone who is probably more justified to write on the subject, had once wrote that it was bad and he still talks about it.
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This did not happen to me, but I worked with a coworker who built one of those who's been arrested sites that forces you to pay to get your results removed. This was one of the very first ones.

I and just about everyone who found out lost all respect for him.

To make matters worse I find out the idiot did it for $2k to prove to the owners that he was a badass dev.

Sold his soul for $2k.
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There are articles online that claim the opposite. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
By that measure, if I am driving through a state, and I don't like their gas tax policies, me paying tax on gas that I had to buy while driving through is also taxation without representation.
I didn't have. But how do you parse it without Lua? Is a parser library available for mainstream languages?
This is an excellent point at the lower end of this age range. I do still think there is something in the fact that today's tech companies have very high profit-per-employee numbers. This allows them to pay higher skilled workers more money and those people become less likely to leave and start something on their own (a financially risky choice). It's possible that golden handcuffs (equity, etc.) are pushing this number down as well.
Just use "they" or "she/he" instead of "she"...

The typing isn't hard, the hard part is keeping yourself from making assumptions about who people like to date. There's much more than a "tiny off-chance" that people are queer, at least where I'm from (and probably at Intel HQ too).
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It is so significant of a claim that brings the question...does norquist know how sales/use tax even works?
But if you don't support it, are you liable for collecting more tax than required? How do you "not support" it? Just reject purchases from people in TN during the holiday?
Nitpick: Australia is in the Asian confederation, not Oceana. Still, Asia as a whole is a weak confederation.
Why United States doesn't dominate soccer?
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I follow mostly professional photographers on Instagram and vertical is extremely rare orientation for a classically trained photographer. Portraits and sports are probably the exception. Newspaper photographers too, based on the assignment and layout of the paper.

Somewhere in the least year or two, social media "experts" and influencers started ranting about how "vertical gets more interaction and clicks on Facebook because of mobile viewers" and that spread over to Instagram. I don't buy it.

Maybe when the iPhone was tiny the real estate had a bigger impact. But social media stats are starting to seem more and more like a sham to me.

Paper is a vertical format by default, yet we choose to change it's orientation to match the camera for print, not make the camera match paper (in most cases).

It's extremely interesting to me though. An entire market of people that want less of a sense of place, more of their own torso, by using a camera in a way it wasn't designed so they can publish to a temporary medium in a low resolution that will probably be gone in X years time.
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> Which sports is the author referring to other than American Football?

I mean this pretty clearly refers to Baseball as well.
How does this fix the behavior of consumers misusing recycling bins?
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> You write enough system software in functional languages and you realize you just traded one set of headaches for a different but equally infuriating set, and that most headaches are sociological aspects of teams writing code, not just isolated gifted engineers separately writing perfectly idiomatic functional programming designs.

I feel like I might know what you mean, but I'd be interested if you could elaborate. (Also, isn't OCaml multiparadigmatic?)