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I think sometimes we abstract society too much. As always, remember that society is just large numbers of individuals. So why might you decide you want to help people in this sort of situation? It's reasonable to speculate that Musk may have had some of the following major motivators, for instance:

1) It's a fun challenge to try to solve, particularly when traditional solutions seem to be failing.

2) You get to help some people.

3) It's great publicity for you and your companies, particularly if you succeed in an out of the box way.

And other people would have of course have had radically different motivations for why they chose to get involved. There's no grand overseer that found it reasonable to 'spend' or risk a life. It all comes down to completely subjective views, motivations, and value systems. So if you want to know why what any given individual would do is something they would consider reasonable, you would need to ask them. There is no right or wrong answer. In this case the diver's motivations and value determinations convinced him that this was a reasonable spot to risk his life, and he died. I expect he had no regrets and so it was, all things considered, a great way to die from his perspective. By contrast, it would be a terrible way to die from the perspective of many others. Nobody's right, or wrong. It's just different motivations and value determinations.
He did impede rescue efforts if the people on location had to spend even one second on thinking about some half baked solution instead of the task at hand. Why did he do all his stuff in public attracting a lot of attention away from the people risking their lives instead of working on it quietly?
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I used to be an Instacart Shopper and I'm currently taking a web development bootcamp in Manhattan and now I'm on track to make more money than my parents ever did, which is a win in my book. I will do everything I can to make it the next step to the "Inner Party", but what if I don't? Does that mean I "lost at life" if I only end up Upper Middle Class? This author is trying to push a neo-marxist victim ideology onto anyone not in the "Inner Party", and it's insulting. I am not a victim of anything, certainly not some impenetrable "caste system".
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Maybe they would look for cool spots. I assume you would only run into problems where the key was the same temperature as your finger.
Well my first thought was, wait, what if this is a trojan horse? Like, what if a big evil tech giant was behind this and this started all 100% ok but it was/is a trap? And even if it’s not a current evil tech giant behind this, what if fathom becomes google over time?
If all you deploy are fat jars to a few nodes, this is overkill and will increase complexity for no good reason. Yet, I predict that most K8S deployments fall into this range. If your devs are bored and want $tech to play with, at list this won't be as damaging as introducing an overly complicated programming language or something.

Fo heterogenous deployments and with a lot of nodes, this standardizes everything and thus reduces complexity, instead of increasing it without adding any value.
Checked his Twitter feed, he talked with a few persons about their gear and how to help with pumps, power etc. So the sub wasn't the only thing he did.

And yeah, he probably doesn't have all the domain knowledge needed, but I reckon he had some help. Example; the 6 or so people seen on the video when they tested the tube.

I really can't see why people are bashing him. Yes, he was public about it, but he also created something that seems to work, and if it's a prototype, that prototype can be used for further development. It feels like nothing speeds up R&D like a crisis.
There are prisons and there are jails and detention centers. I've been to jail more than once and jail is essentially 3-square-meals-a-day with library and exercise yard access and otherwise a softcore joke that just wastes your time. Prison means you could easily die, get raped, get beat up regularly, and has little in the way of fun and games. They are very different situations, at least that's what I was told by some of the people I met in jail who had been to actual prison.

I seriously doubt they put kids in places similar to adult prison. If they do, the USA is just another shithole 3rd world country.............
If you're a current nuclear planner in the UK/France, you're planning for the distinct possibility of the US being a no-show in terms of nuclear umbrella. (Or any assistance)

The US has lost and continues to lose huge amounts of credibility over the last two years. The damage is bad enough that even if we fix the current problem, any reasonable person will assume that we'll just repeat a similar wave of stupidity at some later election.

Combine that with the fact that Russia is actively trying to cleave Eastern Europe from Central Europe, and you really can't propose unilateral disarmament without also suggesting Europe pledge fealty to Putin.

Disarmament requires stability. We (the US) shat a giant orange turd onto that idea.

And not only is disarmament not happening, as non-proliferation policy continues to crumble, nuclear armament will more and more move to smaller states who need a credible threat of "Well, then we'll take you with us" to larger regional forces. After Iran gets there, the next Domino in that region is likely Turkey.
Let's not forget that the coach was the one who led them into the caves in the first place.
yes he is a polymath genius whether you accept or not

haters gonna hate
> Instead of destroying working APIs.

There's a reason I hoard data. Data becomes inaccessible too frequently.
Elon Musk replied to the BBC report here:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016684366083190785

Direct quotes from one of the dive team leads: "please keep working on the capsule" and "it is absolutely worth continuing with the development".
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[edit]: Ah, I notice now that the firefox in stable is too old anyway. Oh, well, never mind then :-)
I'm sure that could be done using Proxy Authentication? Either way, you should suggest that feature on their Github.
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I thought naming things was one of those aspects of the job which can be nice and entertaining. It's easy to remember, where is the harm in this?
I love those use cases myself! However, you and I are by far not the mainstream audience. Hate to say it, but the ipad/ipencil ecosystem is too expensive for the average person. To your point about sustainable pricing, bulk of the money is going to Apple in this equation, rather than to developers building on the platform.
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And killing off compatibility with a significant portion of games that were released (via removal of 32-bit support and just general AppStore churn due to yearly subscriptions). Meanwhile even old Win95 targeted games run on Win10.
I don't think it's naive or oversimplified. If you don't pay for the product, then someone is paying for the product - either it's taking a loss (venture capital burn, self hosting), another person is paying for it (donations, freemiums) or your data is being used for profit.

If your data is used for profit, you and your data is what the company sells to other people. By definition you are the product.

Whether that's a bad thing depends on your view, but to me it means the product I use is skewed towards the needs of the people who pay, which often have demands that aren' in my best interest.
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The case against patents has a moral dimension as well as a utilitarian one. This article is about the latter. Stephan Kinsella makes a good argument for both [1]. Ideas are free and can't owned.

In a way, enforcement of intellectual property rights infringes on physical property rights. If you come up with a process P to assemble certain kinds of physical widgets together, your claim on the patent for P prevents others to use those kinds of widgets in a certain way, even when they own those widgets fully.

[1]: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0
[0] is the first source that popped up on a quick googling; the US alone spent 18 billion dollars between 2002 and 2014 on food aid (to hungry children and such).

[0] http://www.humanosphere.org/world-politics/2014/10/united-st...
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> For this to work, it would require government co-ordination

Renault and the French government are discussing exactly this.
Yup, but he still did it. Doesn't that count for something?
This may have been true at one point, but I don't think it's true anymore.

https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Interesting aside: Google Analytics customers are required to prominently state that their site uses Google Analytics. I suspect many, if not most, customers don't do this.
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Talk to ICANN. It wanted to cut out registrars trying to comply with the law.
is this trustworthy ? how it is free and does not collect user information. so what it gets for providing us this service for free ?
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Aren't surface covers $100 though ? So that would be a $500 (400+100) in total.

And some pens are $40 though not everyone needs the pen.
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This might be a little advanced, but I'm writing a Maven plugin that verifies pgp signatures on your artifacts going into your build. The motivation for me was that almost no one checks signatures! We all should be doing that to prevent hostile bytecode from getting into our systems. So this plugin automatically does it :)

I could use some assistance writing unit tests and hacking on missing features.

https://github.com/exabrial/pgp-signature-check-plugin
>> In my experience 10" is too small for a laptop. 13.3-14" is perfect and still quite portable.

These things are so variable from user to user-- speaking for myself only, 13.3-14" is too small for me to use as a daily driver.

On the other hand, I also have an original Surface Pro, and the small screen is usable for me when not being used as a daily driver.

If Microsoft didn't think there was a market for the Surface Go, I highly doubt that they would have made them.
Not if your bike gets serious miles on it. The rate at which I got through gear cables and outers before DI2 was quite extreme. To keep good shifting I'd have to change the both at least every 2 months, and ideally do a strip down and deep clean on the derailleur.

Not to mention the constant adjustments of cable tension as the cables stretch.

With DI2 I've not adjusted or stripped down for a good 2 years and I still have perfect shifting.
I don't understand what you mean. They removed the paper money the explicit said "this is good for one silver dollar and can be exchanged at the US Mint at any time" (those were called "Silver Certificates" and look a lot like the dollar bills around nowadays, without the promise. Now it says "backed by the faith and credit of the US government" (or similar) ....so "backed by a bunch of hot air" basically.

HUGE DIFFERENCE.
I don't really get what was the problem on creating your own queries though. If the ORM layer sucked you don't really need it, queries and object mappers (if you needed some kind of typed objects) is powerful enough without making you have to learn the ORM's quirks and gotchas.
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> In-place upgrades from Container Linux to Fedora CoreOS will not be possible

...

Why not use the flatcar-linux model?!
no stupid

MD is higher because anyone now can be professor and make research but to have a renaissance make like fokas a doctor first then a mathematician is a great thing
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From your comments elsewhere in this discussion, your motivation seems pretty clearly to be to defend Elon Musk by inventing the spectre of things he might have done, but very likely did not. And at the same time pretending to be impartial about it.
is there some way to have a diving mask that can see in murky water? something like night vision - only it identifies solid objects and maps them for the diver?
One of the things about these kinds of emergency situations is that the major media attention can cause harm by making people be too helpful. In most emergency situations, there's already a surplus of unskilled people on the scene who can help; the lack is in people with particular skillsets and materiel.

Granted, Musk probably is thinking he's providing relevant skills, but the concept has several potentially problematic things (most notably, the fact that you're basically doing an underground canoe portage and the fact that spending extended periods of time in a claustrophobic space is likely to be panic-inducing for the children). It doesn't sound like he fielded the advice of anyone who had actually had experience doing cave diving or caving rescue to figure out what problems are likely to come up. Indeed, from the response of the Thai coordinators, it sounds like the general sentiment on their end was a politely-worded "go away, you're not helping."

So while the sentiment of trying to help can be positive, this attempt does feel like it crossed a tad too far into counterproductive territory.
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This dovetails with the case for enterprise open source quite nicely.

We continually make more and more complicated things. The time in which we iterate also decreases. I can see the argument that patents were useful at a time where an iteration could take decades or more. However, I'm sure we're well past the point of usefulness for any patent system.

A lot of decision makers in companies are stuck in the mindset of trade secrets because that made sense at one point. Your company made a widget. Your goal was to make that widget better than the other widget makers. You (at least believed that you) had some breakthrough that made your widgets better and continued to make widgets in that style for years without much change. In that time, you protected how you achieved the breakthrough. Patents helped with this.

Today, a lot of the money is not really in creating widgets. It's in creating digital recreations of widgets (e-widget) that accomplish the same task [0]. You don't pay much overhead per copy of e-widgets, so prototyping and "mass production" is fast and cheap. You can iterate at increasingly faster paces. It is not worth it to you to protect how you differentiate your e-widgets once it comes out [1]. You're already working on the next version. If you spend a lot of resources on protecting how you achieved your previous iteration(s), you are doomed to fall behind [1].

Once a company falls so far behind, it makes more sense (but only in the short term) to double down on your protection efforts. This is how we end up with the cable company ISP situation in the US. It is easier [2] to fight in the legal system than it is to a) spend on the R&D to improve your networks and b) actually roll out those changes.

These are just my observations. I have some ideas on solutions but obviously don't really know what would work. I doubt any one thing would work for every company, but I know (long term) a lot more are either going to need to adapt to a more open mindset or continue to spend more and more to protect their closed mindset. The latter is probably more likely for the foreseeable future.

[0]: Realistically, the real money is in trading investments in potential value of creating digital recreations of widgets, but that's a different conversation. At some point, you usually have to create the widget / digital recreation, so we'll continue to talk about that.

[1]: Unless you're a patent troll.

[2]: Cheaper.
how is this different from startups failed purportedly at 99% rate? It's only faster
> Proper turning/bike lane design and prioritized space for cyclists takes good care of this. In lighted intersections, stagger the lights so bikes have priority.

At the one intersection I'm most familiar with, a separate bike light almost always results in the driver becoming confused and causing a near crash. I've learned to wait a few seconds to avoid being hit.

> Make bikes do hook turns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_turn) instead of using the cars' left turn lanes. It's significantly safer and doesn't require bikes to cross traffic lanes.

That takes signficantly longer, as you're guaranteed to sit through at least one signal phase. Again at my favoritist intersection ever, hook turns are what are marked but only newbie bikers use this technique. Everyone else just takes their chances doing something radical so they're no better off.
>I'm not sure about that; higher birth rates are associated with poverty, not wealth.

Who said anything about wealth? That sounds like a red herring to me. In any ecosystem, with any living organism, a population will increase until it reaches the limit of its food supply.

>Also, I feel that these appeals often suggest that we should be OK with letting some unspecified Other die for the cause of environmentalism when we would clearly not accept this for ourselves.

And I feel like your appeals are more interested in virtue signaling than actually having a meaningful discussion.

Say you have an island that has enough resources to feed 100 people. 30 settlers move there. In a few years, the population grows to 105. There isn't enough food. People die off and the population is down to 95. There's enough food to go around, so the next generation the population grows to 105 again. This process fluctuates indefinitely.

Then someone takes a boat out and discovers a nearby island. This has enough resources to feed another 100 people. There's enough food to go around, until the population reaches 205 people. Now there's not enough food again and people are starving. Repeat indefinitely until we run out of islands.

There is no solution to "solving hunger" that doesn't involve controlling birth rates. Anything else is just pushing the problem back. Nobody has to die. Simply making contraceptives as ubiquitous in third world countries as they are in developed countries would probably solve most of the problem.
Since it's not clear from the title, this is a paper by Leslie Lamport (of TLA+ and Lamport Clock fame) about using mathematical notation to describe algorithms.

Editor's introduction: In this column, Leslie Lamport makes the case for using the language of mathematics for describing algorithms. He argues that students should learn to think mathematically when writing code and programs.
The column is a special issue and collaboration of the distributed computing column and the education column.
Enjoy!

Abstract: The need to handle large programs and to produce efficient compiled code adds complexity to programming languages and limits their expressiveness. Algorithms are not programs, and they can be expressed in a simpler and more expressive language. That language is the one used by almost every branch of science and engineering to precisely describe and reason about the objects they study: the language of mathematics. Math is useful for describing a more general class of algorithms than are studied in algorithm courses.
The downside is that in a few years, most of those references will be 404.
Actually, I believe that other people were exploring the options of drilling a rescue tunnel from the surface. IIRC, there was even the beginning of projects to make a usable tunnel launch site for such a rescue tunnel.
I was wondering which quote you were talking about. I found "A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic".

There as Quote Investigator article on it, it is again a much older quote. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/
What you call the "whims and woes of the market" others would call market efficiency. Being a government employee myself, and dealing with multiple state and federal government programs in my personal life including my mortgage, I am fully on board with allowing the market to better serve the needs of people making their own decisions with cash in hand funded collectively by every citizen of this country. Which, by the way, if not called socialism then I don't know what is.

Also, UBI by its very acronymm is Universal, meaning everyone gets the same amount. That's the only fair way to do it, and would negate criticism of cash recipients being "dishonest and lazy." Yes some pay more than others, but that's simply a re-implementation of our current progressive tax system.

I think it all basically comes down to your view on government - can they do the right and best thing, or can the individual make better decisions for themselves. By disempowering the invididual, you may even the outcomes, but you disadvantage those who would most benefit from achieving more in life - which in turn, benefits society.
It's not necessary.
The simplest thing to do is to build a fat jar.
It's like people dying in slot canyons from time to time. Most of the time it goes well but if you get rain at the wrong time you are done.
This seems like as good a thread as any to mention one of my favorite unrealized enterprises: Patent Trolling for Good (PTG)

The idea is simple: take the traditional model of a patent troll, but alter the settlement terms to create a cascade that ultimately ends or significantly reduces the exclusive ownership of facts (aka IP).

Patent Trolling for Good acts like a traditional Patent Troll in that it takes any IP it has and aggressively uses it to make claims against other firms/entities.

However, instead of just seeking cash, PTG offers two options:

- Pay us a lot of cash

- Join PTG. By joining: 1) all of your IP can be used by PTG to sue others and 2) everyone in PTG has automatic rights to any IP held by others in PTG

And of course, anyone is welcome to join PTG at any time. You don't have to wait to be sued to join :)

I've brought this idea up with VCs and lawyers a few times across the years but I've never gotten any bites. If anyone was ever seriously and credibly interested in pursuing it, I would give such an entity any and all IP owned/claimable by LBRY (https://lbry.io) and potentially a small amount of initial funding as well.
I sent a custom application describing my past. UK universities can liberally assign credits for previous experience.
That depends on the place. Depending on the workload, if you have lots of salaried folks with work that is variable, you're getting a cost savings on acquisition and picking up some morale. Buying that $200 part may also result in spending $3,000 in labor for the bureaucracy process.

If everyone is always engaged with some other activity, and you're hiring people to do miscellaneous tasks, that's a different story.
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This is not true. There is a difference between all the other HHMI fellowships, professorships, etc and the HHMI investigator position. The latter usually requires ~5 years of being a professor before you can even apply.