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Are the lawmakers uninformed on the real effects the drugs have?

Maybe to some extent.

Do they know but they can't take a 'pro sense' stance because of (irrational) fears that they'd get booted by their constituents?

Perhaps. If so, it would be the result of decades of successful propaganda. See below.

Are they influenced (lobbied) by powerful players to resist pouring more money towards research or being more open to moving towards legalization?

Yes.
Been doing html/css/js for 8-10 years; but because I don't know react or angular I apparently have no frontend experience when talking with recruiters.
It's not the same, of course. In the past, citizen/government relationship was the only social hierarchy in town and not offending people in the hierarchy was a matter of life and death.

Eventually, we replaced it with many little social hierarchies, like employee/employer, but social hierarchies nonetheless. Now it's only a minor inconvenience in life to make any of those little emperors angry.

However, that said, the arguments for free speech are the same. People should have freedom to speak truth to power and this freedom is beneficial. This includes freedom to speak truth to the outsiders of the social group in which the hierarchy happens to be. And it also establishes the boundary where that social hierarchy can extends its power.
Fitness app gives anyone names+address for 1000s of soldiers and secret agents
Of course it's different to sell yourself into slavery, but it still asks the question: are you in favour of "the freedom for individual workers to contract as they see fit", or are you not? I'd say that the qualitative difference between longer and longer work weeks ("freely contracted", as you might say) and slavery tends to zero. The fact that you need to work 60 hours a week to get you and your family ahead is precisely the problem that the law is trying to solve - and any social law, for that matter. It's a worker's rights law, set amidst late capitalism in a modern "democratic" country, as such it will target two things: allowing employers to keep employing people (but not excessively) and allowing employees to survive (but not "for nothing"). This is the goal of any capitalist mode of organisation, and this is but a tug of the rope in favour of labour rather than capital, but capitalism is characterised by the endless tug here and there between capital and labour.
"Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS."
Usenix 1999, by Charles D. Cranor (AT&T), Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD).

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.ps

OpenBSDs involvement here is conveniently missing, arguably GitHub may not have ever existed.

Also of note, despite the paper being presented in 1999, AnonCVS was operating as early as 1995. Other projects were still putting tarballs on FTP, no read access to source history.
It fascinates me that the idea that we’re missing so much feels revelatory, but only because the authority figures of these fields presented their theories based on surviving available evidence as definitive and complete. It is a byproduct of how we assert our ideas that the idea that we are working with an incomplete picture seems mind blowing.
How are these robots a threat to the children?
CVS indeed has the problem where you can inadvertently tag only a subset of the files you shipped.

But it did also let you check out files as of a particular timestamp, which could be more reliable.
I find it hilarious that you offer a google product to someone who’s concerned about spying.
I ordered three of these last week to build with my nephew and niece. Shipping was quick to Canada and done with DHL. Looking forward to putting these together and hoping they might spark a bit of interest in programming or hardware in the kids.

Does anyone have any links to programming tutorials of videos that kids might like about this platform?
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>On the writing side, the main issue is that literate programming tends to tie your writing into the tools that support your literate programming. This can make collaboration on a document difficult if the people you’re collaborating with are not as sold on the tools as you are. The moment you need to work with a business person who prefers to use Google Docs to share a document, or a university department that insists on receiving drafts as Microsoft Word documents, you start to face the pain of exporting to those proprietary formats. Like many issues in software development, this is really a social issue: for literate programming to work, all of the writers need to agree on the tools being used.

I've used org-mode at work and this was actually the strongest selling point. Using pandoc and massaging the org-mode reader to map better onto the pandoc markdown ast I could export to pdf, html and docx (!!!). I had production code + prose sent to the CTO as a word attachment in an email and she loved it.

The tangle comments also meant I have a workflow to share the code as regular code with the rest of the team and use git to see which code sections they changed. There wasn't enough traffic to justify writing an un-tangler that put their code back into the original document but it seems like a very interesting problem.
Fair, I upvoted you because that's a wrong interpretation of what you said.
Don't forget monotone, which can be thought of as git's direct inspiration. The main difference being that monotone was painfully slow, while git was blazing fast.
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In fact I think the psychology behind celebrity endorsements and advertising is particularly interesting and there is a lot to talk about.

Unfortunately, this topic, audio quality, is extremely subjective, yes, like someone mentioned in another comment to my original post. But objectively the audio response of Beats are very bass heavy and, in my opinion, the high end response is lacking, but other people really enjoy their beats headphones so thats up to them. Although, the divers in Beats, for the price, are objectively a poor purchase. You can get stronger and clearer drivers in other headphones at a fraction of the cost. I'm not really sure where the last bit of your posts ties in with what I've been saying but I totally agree people will be people, especially when the topic is complex and they can just buy what Harden/KD/etc. wears and be happy.
$35 for two, $110 for ten, etc.
It's great that you stuck to your guns, but there's another ethical path forward: transparency. Many companies already pay third party employees to look at their schedule, so it's not a non-starter. And there are a few VCs out there that understand training costs for AI and are willing to engage with a journey that includes them - as long as the cards are on the table.

What we need is a set of accounting metrics about the cost of training and the rate of improvement, so that VCs can get comfy with how to make projections rather than choosing between buying snake oil and nit participating in the AI Dev cycle.

PS - emphatically not taking aim here at your specific decision, OP. Startups have different opportunities and interests, and these decisions are tough. I'm sure you know better than I do whether the ethical wizard-of-oz model above is relevant to you in particular.
I've taken flying lessons but it's been 25 years since I've done it. The cost even back then was crazy something like $150/hour. I took off and landed all with an instructor not solo. The instructor also pointed out one day a giant purple balloon I would probably have run into if not for him pointing it out. And barfing, lots of barfing.
First, I have no argument.

Secondly, that detail was mentioned because, as I am neither a woman or a POC, my original question was less likely to be coming from a place of personal bias (“talking my book”, so to speak).
You are not forced to host a website despite having a domain.
> There's a certain type of person who's always going to be grumpy about learning something new.

I resemble that remark :). But I hear you, sometimes you have to invest to figure out if something is any good, and one way to do so is to build something real with it.

However there's danger on the other side too--a company with 5 different apps in 5 different frameworks or languages that all have to be supported by a small team of developers. That can't leverage deployment or performance tuning knowledge across apps. Where work is siloed because "Dev X doesn't know golang and Dev Y doesn't know rails". And where you can't rewrite the app because the business leaders wonder what they'd get.
They get singled out because the people that inevitably come to breathlessly defend them won't just admit why they own them: because they're a fashion accessory with brand recognition. It's like people who claim they buy $900 Balenciaga shoes because "they're comfortable." I would bet my own life that they're no more comfortable than a nice pair of $100 shoes from the "non-designer" rack at Nordstrom, but people will fall over themselves defending why they spend what they spend for designer brand accessories.

> They aren't always the best price performance across categories, but they aren't crap either.

If Beats owners admitted this then they wouldn't have become a meme. Unfortunately most I talk to will claim that they're the best headphones on the market, and will refuse to accept that they could have gotten better audio quality from "less cool" brands for $100 or less.
I always assumed the word gap was because of conversation, not that high income earners were reading a dictionary aloud.

That said, are high income earners more available for conversation? Seems like a good question for economic researchers within child development.
CVS was really designed for multiple users logging in to the same server, so that repository access was working directly against the local filesystem. It was pretty fast in that setup.

The network server stuff was hacked in on top.
I was sad when they integrated Alexa into the Sonos One. But it did make the Play:1 cheaper, and there's really not much room to improve on that speaker. Love it. I just hope they keep making Alexa free options.
Wow. The one biggest advantage my previous MBP had over my current Arch Linux + i3 setup on Carbon X1 is the natural support for HiDPI, as I connect my laptop to external monitors all the time (The only other one is the built-in dictionary). Now Apple are going in this direction further and further I definitely don't see myself returning to Mac any time soon, or indeed ever.
Great question. Ideally your marketing email provider would include its own robust CRM or have excellent integrations into robust third party CRMs. All the options the companies I've worked for have used so far have been extremely awkward fits. I'd be interested in how other people are solving for this.
Bluetooth has bad audio quality compared to WiFi, it would only make it worse.
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If you still have the One it’s getting AirPlay 2 next week which solves your issue, assuming iOS user.
Why the fuck would some goddamn swearing bother you, and more importantly, why would you try to get other sons of bitches from indulging in something so hecking wonderful? Frick!
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I like that modern = bloated, ugly, generic javascript; and professional = beautiful, minimalist. And agree!

I consider it unprofessional to rubber stamp SPA as an approach. Yes, it's "modern" but often overkill. I am all about choosing the right tool/approach for the job. 9 times out of 10, that means HTML/CSS and a sprinkling of JS. For all other times, there's SPA.
I've been experimenting with React and ES lately and wanted to see how simply I could do TodoMVC. I came up with this straightforward 200 line app.js with a 100 line "framework".

Source: https://github.com/dosyago-coder-0/rvanillatodo/tree/master/...
Sure, and now git is well enough known to be a good default. But if the choice is no version control or CVS, I'll pick CVS. (If the choice is no version control or RCS, I'll pick RCS, too.)

Note that I realize that you didn't argue for no version control.
Substance of their message? I’m sorry, but when people comment nothing more than “That’s racist”, there’s not much substance. My comment was an attempt at encouraging people to post actual arguments, and not just shout out their feelings.
My first professional coding job used SourceSafe which was lock-based so you couldn't even do concurrent versioning. Everyone had to take turns with the files.
Yes,the handshake is authenticated and can have two way non-repudiation. The symmetric crypto that follows the handshake uses secret key agreed upon during the handhake. because only the client and server know that secret,all messages encrypted with it also have non-repudiation.

I don't get your point about losing keys,is there any form of non-repudiation that does not require keeping secret material secret? Are you also neglecting the fact that revocation is a thing and TLS non-repudiation works by way of a trusted 3rd party?
I was arguing against setting the minimum wage to a living wage. I like the status quo of cities and states raising their minimum wage while the federal minimum lags behind. It's federalism in work.
We also have a weird hangover from the old IE era where people assume you need a framework for everything because the web platform isn’t worth taking seriously.

Modern JS has a ton of things which are supported by all mainstream browsers and combined with CSS, HTML5 form validation, etc. there’s a lot of simple work which can be done with no external dependencies and using skills which last far longer.
It works by streaming the music from the internet. If it's just on a local network, it has no source of music.
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Sounds a bit like the stripe (or is it square) story where every bank trnsaction was humanly done before they got the rights to automate it. I'm not surprised and i find it considerably smart considering all the money pouring into everything with a a machine learning buzzword attached to it.
Why you had to rewrite Ember.js to React? Ember.js is fast, modern and easy to work with. The Ember ecosystem is matured and reliable. It doesn't really make sense.
A lot of this comes from the availability of cheap hype-driven capital. The way it's supposed to work is that AI lets you replace expensive human labor with cheap computers so that a job that might've cost $10 in wages instead costs $0.0001 in server time. The way it actually works is that you tell a bunch of investors that you've got an AI that reduces the cost of X by a factor of 10,000, they give you $100M in capital, and now you have 10,000x the amount of money available, so you can pay the original $10 in wages and worry about how to actually reduce the cost of X by 10,000 later, usually once it's clear that no more funding is forthcoming.

This is not really a healthy state for the economy, but seems to be how every technology wave happens. The real innovation will come when the cheap money dries up.
YBB YBP?

This is some pretty incredible jargon is this widely used, I've never seen it before and needed to look it up.

Is it really that hard to say 2,500 years ago?
I resisted moving from SVN to Git for my personal projects for a long time, mainly because I was too lazy. But conflicts or repos getting into an inconsistent state that required fixing was too regular an occurrence, and eventually I snapped.

I agree that the mental model with SVN is much simpler that Git, and I used SVN on Windows with AnhkSVN and TortoiseSVN, so maybe it works better on Linux
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The difference here is that Beats are not as good as the audio enthusiast equipment, and they're multiple times more expensive to boot! Your comparison would only have been apt if Kikkoman was actually worse than the offbrand soysauce, still 3x more expensive, and people breathlessly defended it in forums and concerts while mindlessly repping the brand with t-shirts and other swag.
> I mean, <table> is still how you properly layout things today, as far as I’m concerned. However, in a rare moment of self reflection, I have to admit that I wouldn’t hire myself to do anything related to the browser.

Extend the moment of self-reflection and ask yourself if you're in a position to give out advice on hiring others.

(For candidates, the implied advice — latch on to buzzwords and be insincere about your actual knowledge — is unfortunately effective in many places, of course.)
Why not use the Kesselman list of estimative words?

https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/bayes/2008-kesselman.p...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_estimative_probabilit...

What I find more annoying in terms of reporting:

The fact that news reporting doesn't distinguish likelihood vs. probability (and vice versa).
I've never heard of many ax related deaths and I'd imagine an out of control chainsaw is far more dangerous than an out of control ax. The vast majority of lumber industry related deaths are due to falling trees. If we took the chain saws away and replaced them with axes and hand saws, far fewer trees would fall. It would greatly reduce production, but I'm not convinced it would result in more deaths. Quite the opposite.

I do get the point of your analogy, but it's really a very poor analogy.

> If you can get bug-free programs for the same upfront cost as buggy ones (and my whole argument is that we can, but don't)

This sounds like a massive market opportunity. One then wonders why absolutely no one has exploited the opportunity. There's something missing here.
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On Android I've found that the volume that the phone thinks the AirPods are at can get out of sync with reality, the result being that Android's idea of full volume is actually very quiet. (Perhaps I tried to change the volume before they were fully connected?)

Re-pairing them from scratch fixed this. Might be worth a try.
Addition: why would a truthful fact be downvoted?
I don't even get if you're trying to make a point. I'm french and for all my life a doctor appointment has never been higher than 1 euro. All important operations are covered and i could not even tell you one that's not exept plastic surgery (and maybe lasik "in some cases").

I'm not even sure the txation in france is higher than in the US.
I had the professor too. I couldn’t understand him either. Somehow scraped by with a D+. I probably should have retaken it.
> The code is more important than the prose.

This is not the position of someone programming in a literate fashion. Their contention is that prose and code are complimentary. Code explains what the program does, prose explains why it does it that way. They work together to paint a coherent view of your program. With just code, a newcomer reading your program and understanding it 100% is still left with many questions unanswered.
Incorrect again. The fact that you can go onto any apps review history and see evidence that people are unhappy with updates that break their stuff is exactly the definition of empirical evidence.

Sorry, but none of your badly formed, hand-wavy reasoning has proven that wrong. Also, nobody is arguing that "the majority" think something - I'm arguing against your completely anecdotal and un-evidenced claim that it "rarely" happens.

What evidence do you have that it rarely happens? None that I can see so far...
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Ember.js follows similar principals than Rails. Modern, matured, great ecosystem. You can move really fast with a Rails API and Ember.js frontend. Really, really fast.
So he spends what looks to have been a substantial amount of time carefully disassembling and commenting on the manufacturing processes and material quality of two speakers, without ever even looking at the actual speaker cones and housing at all? Seriously? I kept waiting for there to be SOME discussion of the actual speaker itself, and even went back and re-read, figuring I must have missed it... but no. Nope. He actually managed to do a teardown of two speakers without ever actually looking at the most important bits. Wow.
I'm not trying to say that most places do that analysis. I was just trying to frame it in the sense of "it's already been decided, and if you're wanting to work there, you have to hope it was done competently." It's far from that case that every project using React is all fad-chasing. Sometimes the new thing is actually good.

I agree with the lack of analysis portion being a common thing, but that's something you have to work out for yourself as a part of the process. It's not as if React is the only faddish tool over the years - I'm sure there are plenty of older projects that are only using jQuery because it was the new hotness. And even more that were initially done with jQuery, but would probably work better with React if it weren't for the Lead's disinclination to learn a new framework. There's plenty of fad chasing, but there's also plenty of bull-headed resistance to new tech.

The question of if React or jQuery or Vue or whatever is the best framework to use for a specific company or product is tangential to the question of if someone with only jQuery experience can be effective on a team with React as its core tech. The decisions have been made at that point.
In both CVS and Svn you can just check out from a local directory. For a couple years I used CVS for my private local repos where CVSROOT was sth. like /my/cvsroot. Same is possible with Svn too.
These decisions don't touch upon the listing of corporate information. Unless a private person operates an AS, this is not an issue for the things you mentioned.
No. That's not even the claim by the prosecution.
There is none I'm aware of, but there are some quotes though :) I think we have justified text because of historic reason, it doesn't make much use on the web since it's a totally new medium.

> Are you saying that you can't be sure how it looks and therefore you can't justify it?

No, I'm saying it's unpredictable so we should avoid using it, while left aligned text is the default that works best in any circumstance.
I’ve worked with ZigBee, Bluetooth and Thread. Using IP traffic over Thread was great.

ZigBee is moving in the same direction with DotDot, but I found Thread’s agnosticism (in regards to application layer traffic) to be refreshing. Bluetooth’s mesh is very, very immature, at least what they have released so far.
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After 5 draws and 2 loose, the pattern is clear :p
Nice one though :)
I'm going to make a stab in the dark and suggest it's an SF Peninsula CC; College of San Mateo, Foothill College, DeAnza, or Mountain View.

Places one is likely to have wealthy ex- Wells/Oracle execs lieabout.
On one hand I think this is really neat. On the other this is why I have never taken front end development seriously enough to spend any real time learning it [0]. From the get go it always seemed like the rules were arbitrary and involved lots of guessing to get things right. I know this isn't actually true but it felt true enough early on to poison my mind to it.

[0] Not something I'm proud of and I know front end development is serious business so don't @ me.