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No. Classrooms should be banned from interrupting children's key phases of social development. Either do something useful for other people or learn for your own selfish benefit, classroom learning doesn't accomplish either of those things until you get to University and by that point people should be more than ready to contribute useful things at least some of the time. Still can't understand why University isn't part-time while people work as the default.
Mass transit eliminates the energy problem. Two far away cities connected to each other via high-speed rail might as well be next-door-neighbors.
> If I teach a baby the word "tank" by pointing to a picture of a sunny tank and the word "forest" by pointing to a picture of a night forest, the baby could be correct in deducing "tank" meant day and "forest" meant night.

I am not at all sure this is the case. It is possible that humans do primitive statistical classification on sensory signals only at very shallow, subconscious, levels of cognition, but not at levels they normally use words for.
"the users of drugs are not bad people, but rather the victims of bad people (the dealers)"

Why need a user of drug be a victim of anyone?

There's a difference between drug use (which can be constructive, or at least not harmful) and drug abuse. We should not equate the two.

Drugs (especially psychedelics, but also cannabis) could be hugely beneficial to people when used constructively. When people benefit from such constructive drug use, they should be thanking those who provide them those drugs, and not putting those people in jail or demonizing them as "bad people".
> . I don’t have the time to go into detail at the moment

Maybe stay out of philosophy then?
So my point stands. The question continues until we have perfected realtime interstellar communications. Until we can do that we cannot be sure that someone else isn't out there just ahead of our perceptions. If that tech never happens, the search must continue.
They should care if stupid VCs going bust is correlated with other leveraged positions in unrelated sectors.
>This is unsustainable

On what basis do you make this claim? I would have thought the opposite to be true.
Or maybe different people have different keyboard preferences.
It's funny. I had a nihilistic mindset and found Nietzsche afterwards. I guess we're similar. Therefore I didn't had the chance to have any resistance to his ideas.

Recently I've dropped out of college, I was lonely in school and even nowadays, had several relationships that didn't last long and were painful. I've endured the pain of existence until I was able to comprehend it. I still feel this suffering every time I choose to feel.

I'm 20 years old now. I know how to help myself, but maybe there are things you want to say to your younger self. Maybe I can invite you to see this as a chance.
I make a big deal about my keyboard because my work and life are completely mediocre so I need something else to make me feel special without actually putting in any actual effort. I also have strong opinions about design, coffee, movies or pretty much anything that can be consumed without effort.
What mechanism causes this deflation for commodities and basics? How much of the economy is basics?
I think GP is referring to the Gnome Virtual File System (GVfs) [1], which has a number of pluggable backends, one of which being Google Drive. I've used it lightly and it seemed to "just work."

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs
> Why should anyone else worry or care?

Big, bad investment decisions have systemic effects.

In any case, the worry about scooters is overblown. They are an experiment. If it works, we gain a new transportation mode between walking (uncomfortable), cars (cause congestion) and mass transit (expensive).
This would be a good question for the recent Scott Aaronson's AMA.
I don't disagree with this article. I think they lay out some concerning trends, and possible reasons why they might be occurring. The New York Times published a similar analysis in February [1], and I've played armchair economist with these points for a while.

But it's remarkable how different two pieces of reporting can be around the same basic metrics. For most of the past year, the story as read on mainstream outlets has been that unemployment in the US (the U-3 metric) is historically low, and outlets contextualized this as "the economy is strong", which people are left to interpret to their own devices. And the complicated interdependence of factors, like how tight labor markets drive wage growth, how we're simultaneously showing signs of a tight and slack labor market, and how wage growth drives price-inflation or the other way around, makes the impact of a "strong economy" difficult for the average person to conceptualize.

The reductionist view is that for large segments of the society in the US and Europe, rising cost of living are interacting adversely with their low gains in real wages. There's broad overlap between the people whose budgets are most crunched, and the people whose anxieties caused them to bring into power anti-globalization, domestically-focused administrations. It's ironic, then, when metrics whose correspondence to real workers' observed conditions are being touted as measures of success.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/01/business/econ...
Glad someone finally called a spade a spade. Next, Bitcoin please.
Or three times that many homes in Europe. US power usage shouldn't be used as a benchmark.
There’s a trend being used to legalize drugs: market then as medicine.

However, as we’ve seen with marijuana, it’s not regulated like medicine. It’s sold in what closely resemble head shops and called medicine with a wink and a nod to be used recreationally. It’s a strategy that circumvents the moral argument against recreational drug use, which I believe exists for a good reason: we don’t want society continuously drugged like Brave New World.

So if it’s really medicine, which I don’t doubt certain circumstances, then it should be taken seriously and the manufacture and prescription should be regulated like other medicines, and not just a facade that masks the normalization of recreational drug culture.
What's really interesting to me is this same thing can be applied to adults too.

The article writes:

> For starters, he says, ask your kid this question: 'What would you do if you didn't have to do anything else?'

I often wonder what civilization would be like if adults asked the same question to themselves and then lead a life where they focused on that instead of being pressured into "making a living".
For newer or smaller firms the SQL approach makes sense. Both because there is less data, and it's less risky to implement. Once the context is fully fleshed out, then it's easier to move on to a ML recommender system. It's also easier to track improvement vs a benchmark.
> The VCs have an answer to all of these obvious drawbacks. "Genius is the only way I would describe it," Jordan Nof, an investment partner at Tusk Ventures who flew to Santa Monica, California, to convince Bird to take his money

Sounds like an over-the-top scene on a comedy show. Really
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Yes, evolutionarily, systems of subjective belief and value are clearly beneficial to humans since they developed and persisted simultaneously basically everywhere
No. The sad thing of life is that I think all lives have the same value but it doesn't prevent me from eating chicken.

It's not what I do to a thing that express the value I put in it, it's what I think of it.

However, my cultural upbringing (and eating habits) favors eating chicken over dead humans. This is conditioning. And an easy position to maintain, I am aware of it but I won't pretend chicken lives have less value than human lives because I eat chicken.
It's probably cheaper and certainly more environmentally friendly to keep building upward in urban centers than to build mass transit to exurban areas. Urban areas already provide significant subsidies to exurban ones via taxes and cross-subsidies - see, e.g., [0] and [1]. The comparatively high cost of living in high-density areas is driven by a combination of those transfers and pricing distortions created by local governments, not by the fact that high-density housing is inherently less cost-efficient (and I'd argue that the opposite is true).

[0] https://medium.com/by-the-bay/financing-suburbia-6076dae990f...

[1] https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/06/cross-subsidies.h...
So a company that plants trees could earn money under this system?
Why are you so convinced that they don't show you any truth?
Things have gotten worse in some respects. Computers get more and more locked down with corporate security bullshit, it becomes harder to get any work done.

Remember when you could quickly FTP a file, toss up a web page, email someone a zipped file. Can’t do any of that now without jumping through hoops.

Computers have become very slow for tasks that used to be fast. Everyone always seems to “waiting on the computer”; that’s screwed up. It should be the other way around.
I had one of those Lenovo keyboards with a Trackpoint until an unfortunate accident involving a cup of coffee. I went with something more ergonomic in its place, but I really miss that trackpoint...

Does anyone know why so few keyboards come with a TrackPoint. Having a trackpoint in the middle of your keyboard saves so many extra movements. Is it because of some IBM licensing costs?
I’ve used sprintly in the past and overall quite liked it, but there were bugs and feature requests in their tracker, untouched for years, with comments like “yes, soon”. Besides the odd few reporting features, it just felt to me that development stopped and stagnated. This is a large reason why I didn’t go back to using it.

Overall, I liked sprintly and am sad to see it shut down, but I’m surprised it survived this long given how it started to feel a bit abandoned. (Sure you could argue if it’s not broken don’t fix it and sprintly mostly worked great, despite some issues being untouched so long, so I don’t think that’s what happened here. I do think it was perhaps a marketing problem not a feature/product problem, but it just gave a very abandoned impression)

I found out about it on recommendation by one of their advisers. I would never have heard about it otherwise so definitely think that it could have been better marketed. Although, with that said, it’s teue that sprintly was opinionated and that most teams have their own opinions that may not match up. For example, I wanted a way of having a pool of tasks that people could choose from rather than strict ordering (eg maybe a priority system where any equal-priority task at the top can be taken, not just the top task) but sprintly didn’t have any way of marking priorities or groups and they didn’t want to add the feature because it went against their strict top task next workflow. I’m not at all saying they should have supported that feature, of course, just how even small differences in opinion on workflow can make the tool less of a fit.

JIRA is the opposite in that it lets you customise it to fit whatever workflow you like, but in the process becomes a complex beast that I dislike using. I at least enjoyed using sprintly even if it didn’t always fit perfectly.

In any case, good luck on future ventures!
I had mixed results like that years ago, it was 'repaired' later on by repeating the stuff you should already know, mostly as a verification, but the people that might not have read what they were supposed to read would have a chance to catch up.

Ultimately, it is of course the responsibility of the student to decide what they want to do. If you don't want to learn, see learning as a side-job, or live in an environment that does not leave room for learning outside of college hours, then you might be in more generic trouble anyway ;-)
How far does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi power go today?
> it's not true and hasn't been for over a century

We just had a Supreme Court ruling affirming states’ anti-commandeering rights [1].

[1] http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/05/opinion-analysis-justices-...
This is great Linux support finally! And in rust! Awesome work man!
Sure, there's a lot wrong with Silicon Valley, but this article (I understand it's an opinion piece) is "an example of everything that's wrong" with Business Insider.

> And what about winter? Not much of a consideration in Santa Monica. But riding scooters in Chicago in February? Seems like a hazard.

> How about using a scooter to get anywhere that is more than a short distance away? An hour's commute? In the rain? Traveling with one or more friends? Carrying groceries? Taking your kids to soccer practice?

> Those considerations make scooters more of a novelty and a niche than something that every person will use regularly, like a car.

Aside from carrying groceries, all of these points are completely fruitless when talking about how these scooters could take of. All of the same can be said of bicycles yet bicycle commuting is growing year over year in metro hubs: https://bikeleague.org/commutingdata
>Was Nixon's complete split from the gold standard a factor at all?

Caveat: I have a degree in Economics and learned about this stuff, but I am not a historian and could probably do well to be corrected at some points below.

Pre-1971, the only way to create more currency was for the president to issue a new gold peg, which caused chaos when people would be trying to exchange USD for gold before the new peg came on. FDR literally made holding gold illegal because of the issues this caused.

What you see pre-1971 to post 1971 is a large increase in the money supply, allowing more investment and higher inflation, along with easier exchange with foreign currency (easier for them to invest here, too). Other factors are the advent of technology making human labor less necessary and a transition to a knowledge economy (fewer employees earning more money). On the other end, due to the end of gold convertibility, foreign steel and the oil shocks were also caused by a move toward free trade (the embargo had as much to do with Israel as it did with a change in oil pricing from USD to gold coupled with a surge in inflation of the USD).
The drive app will sync a folder in your home directory if you are a busy person like me and need a one click 90% solution.

I once synced my whole home directory but that turned out to be a bad idea because random applications put their junk there.
> It should be standardized

No thank you. New York City doesn’t need a federal bureaucracy to be checked into every time a building goes up or a pipeline gets laid. And the level of detail which is necessary for New York would be overkill for rural counties; they have better things to spend their tax dollars on.
Because people need to be located where they are most efficiently utilized in the economy.

Everyone wants to live in New York or San Francisco, but the jobs are going to be distributed around the country.

How are people going to construct a bridge in Ohio if everyone is in New York City?

Jobs are still a local thing.
Yes, I devoured trivia troves like the Straight Dope, the bathroom reader series and predecessors, which for me were the Book of Lists.

It is funny to go back now and see ones which have obvious errors. They will always have a place in my heart, I'm tempted to pick up all the books now so I will have them to reminisce.
Is this the conflict story about the 'afraid-of-AI-people' ? Let me differ kybernetical intelligence - doing exactly and comprehensible what it was told - ideally trying every option, and that fast and, is also able to self-optimize its functions, and which (maybe we read the same books) is based on the same mechanistical thought-schema -where my problem starts...
It is definitely a matter of personal preference. I am a big fan of the Thinkpad keyboards and despise the butterfly keyboards. Apple does still make a full layout version of the bluetooth keyboard though. Though thanks to the built in battery there probably won't be people 30 years from now writing articles about how much they love their retro Magic Keyboard.
Indeed, I'd never heard of this, which is unfortunate as I've previously tried to find something - anything! - in the void between "not so complex as to be unusable" JIRA and "perfectly simple - too simple" Trello.
I guess my follow up is: which is better? Is it better not to pay attention to tasks and imagine other stuff or is it better to focus on the task no matter how trivial?

In other words, should the Maya kids be learning from the Americans?
It's an example where Hanlon's Razor doesn't apply. So if you ever need one to point out the rare cases where this is so, this case would be a really good one to use.
The plastic bag jab is an odd thing to include. It really doesn’t fit the narrative they are pushing at all.

It’s a single use plastic bag ban, and it was pushed to a public vote by the plastic bag manufacturers themselves as an apparent delay tactic so they could sell more bags in the interim and adapt to making recycled plastic bags. Industry and the people had their say.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...
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> I don't understand why so many people are in love with the Model M. I used one for nearly 3 years before switching to a Cherry MX blue keyboard.

Because people like different things. I've grown to love cherry blues, but buckling springs are still my favorite.
All this does is screw the USA even more than it already is. The rest of the world just laughs.
It's certainly not cheaper, for developers, to build highrise aparments in the city than upscale tract homes on tiny lots in an exurb. And environmental impacts and the responsibility for transportation are both externalities easily pushed to someone else. This is what actually happens.
I did notice one thing on my Cherry-MX brown: I was never ever left in doubt if a key registered or not. On my old membrane keyboard, sometimes I needed to double check if it registered
(because I didn't pressed the key quite right), and when I was unsure in a password field, I needed to fully delete it and then type the password again.

Not a big thing, but it's a small improvement.
>I often wonder what civilization would be like if adults asked the same question to themselves and then lead a life where they focused on that instead of being pressured into "making a living".

Shorter.

As much as I'd love to follow my heart, I also know that the things I find personally interesting aren't the same ones I'm good at. Alas, it's also in a field where only the very best make any money at all.
The 919 Tribute is actually pretty close to what an "unrestricted" F1 car would look like. Fully enclosed bodywork (which used to be legal in F1 back in the 50's), an unrestricted hybrid system, AWD, and active aero + suspension.

In order for an F1 car to beat this unrestricted LMP1 design it would have to wind up looking more like the LMP1 design than the F1 car it started as.
Don't forget the essential absurdist humor perspective, which is another common misunderstanding by young "existentialists": self-awareness in a nihilistic frame of reference has a strong undercurrent of jovial humor, as in "well, ain't this just grande".
Just throwing an idea out there: how about faking the child's death, smuggling them out and putting them up for adoption in mainstream Brazilian society?
This brings many obvious problems, but seems to allow us to have the cake and eat it too.
Ad hominem. Can you address the issues?
Interesting, are you starting from scratch or building on poppler or something like it? I am writing a PDF parser too and am building on top of poppler to do the heavy lifting.
Civil engineering is much older than formal modeling. Mechanical engineering is younger than the civil one, but still older than modeling. In fact, when the modeling fad came from the study of the sky into everyday stuff, there was even process engineering happening on the wild.

The only reasonable definition of "engineering" that I know of is on the lines of "the art of building stuff". Writing software fits that definition perfectly well, it's just what people call "software engineering" that doesn't.
The question confuses me right away because most Americans are not keeping their kids' schedules full all the time. "Go play, I have to work/cook/shop/whatever." Kids are doing "what they would do if they don't have to do anything else," because they don't have to do anything else.

Maybe the question is more about the behavior of the adult than the child? Parents need to enable their children's interests. Maybe your child really wants to roller skate but can't do it unless you enable them by watching them, because it's a dangerous neighborhood. It's your responsibility to foster their interest by making the time to help them.

Or maybe the idea is that parents sometimes don't actually know the interests of their children? So the point of the question is not to open time in the kid's schedule for their activity (because they're doing that activity already). It's to make the parent more aware of what the activity is?
Efficiency and automation reduces commodity prices.

Just transporting food is a huge cost. Get transport costs down and you reduce food costs.
I am so grateful my parents didn't need to "create space in my schedule" for anything. I created my own schedule (outside of school). That is autonomy, not your parents creating spaces in your schedule.
We are social beings. We live in a society. Being close to others is not a status symbol, it is what makes us, us. I eat at nice restaurants because the food is delicious. I enjoy the culture. I enjoy a wide variety live music. These are not status symbols, these are the essence of a joie de vivre. I enjoy walking to my local shops and boutiques, not for the status but because it is genuinely enjoyable of its own merit.
Wow, this is plagiarism. The code is copied from here: https://github.com/llSourcell/LSTM_Networks
> I would not advise using these great keyboards in open floor plan offices or coworking spaces.

That says more about having open floor offices than having to restrict personal use of the single most important input device in many offices.
The author framed the argument over the last 5 years without reference to the devastation in wages over the previous 5 years from 2008-2013. Their error is egregious. See the last ten years for the accurate depiction of our recent wage growth.

Second point. The demand in the labor force is predecessor to wage growth. In may we saw the demand increase to levels unprecedented since Nixon/pre Carter.

Looking forward toward 2019-2021 we are going to see wage growth unlike anything in recent history!

Wage growth is the only thing that will save the housing market to stave off economic downturn and support the massive iniatives rolled out across industry over 2017-2018.
> Start with food, get a meal down to less than a dollar.

I know food prices vary a lot from place to place, but in the UK right now (at current exchange rates) you could eat for a bit over $1 per day, never mind per meal. I’ll grant you that’s student meals, a balanced mixture of rice lentils and vegetables, but it’s all your protein, vitamin and caloric needs.
Just in case and FYI, a Dokan based driver for Windows:

https://github.com/viciousviper/DokanCloudFS

I guess that using the Dokany to port this new driver to Windows should be relatively easy:

https://dokan-dev.github.io/
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Taxation is theft
> Until the claimed efficiency improvement can be translated to an actual day-to-day cost improvement

I don’t own a car, offload a bunch of concerns into City infrastructure, walk to a corner grocery store, and go from idea to meetings inside a single day, thereby letting me dance circles around competitors who have to schedule a call or flight out.

Cities don’t make sense for everyone. But they do for a lot of people. They make so much sense for enough people, that those people will pay a premium to have everything else nearby.