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Or reviving dead actors/celebrities. New John Wayne films, new early-Beatles performances. Or personalized films: insert your own family into (insert family-friendly classic film). I hope we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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An ideal employee (in maybe 75% of the positions out there) should only know enough to get his or her job done.
Massive study on the genetics of educational attainment
I was thinking of volume, but if the craft doesn't need to ever be in an atmosphere then that wouldn't be an issue as I had first thought.
It doesn't even stop at hardware exactly (mcu/cpu), it only stops when you assemble the mcu/cpu yourself.
If you consider "fundamentalist" a rude adjective to descibe the said behaviour, what would be a better adjective then?

I don't have anything against that kind of attitude, it's great and I approve those guys though I myself also like to buy software. "Fundamentalism" IMO describes it pretty well and I don't see the negative connotation.
Swamp coolers always work by displacing the indoor air with outdoor air, if they recirculated indoor air they would drive the humidity up until they were ineffective (one pass through my cooler already puts the indoor RH at 50-60%, vs. about 10% outdoors). The difference is that, in addition to replacing indoor air with outdoor air, a swamp cooler can also use evaporation to cool the outdoor air so that this is effective even when it's warmer outdoors than indoors. This does mean that you have to have windows open for a swamp cooler to function... visit a house in Albuquerque and the combination of swamp coolers and crime mean that you'll see window iron or wooden props everywhere so that air can go out without burglars coming in! The blowers in swamp coolers are powerful too, often producing a constant indoor breeze. Mine slams doors if I'm not mindful.

A normal practice for cooling is to run the blower when outdoor temps are lower than indoor, and then both the blower and pump when outdoor temps are higher. Thermostats are available but not very common on swamp coolers, one reason is that independent control of the pump and blower makes them a bit more complicated than an "on/off" behavior, and another is that they take time to displace the indoor air so they work best if you anticipate the daily trends by cooling the house farther than target before temps really climb in the late morning. During weather like we have in Albuquerque right now, lows in the '70s and highs in the '90s, you will run the blower 24/7 but might stop the pump when the house gets cool enough.

I've thought about it a bit and I can't really see how what's described in the article is different from the normal "best practice" for swamp coolers - bringing in outside air, with or without additional evaporative cooling depending on the outside temperature. He refers to the advantages of closing up the house to retain the cool air, but if that's sufficient (and it is for a while in spring and fall) you just turn off the swamp cooler and close the windows during the day, no extra hardware is needed.
Indeed, bankrupt in two years after a high paid career speaks of financial irresponsibility. However, it does seem that in today's world the good jobs are far and in between. The middle class of the 1950's keeps getting squished. And the bridge from low class to middle class is financed by debt that takes often 30 years to pay off (student loans).
Here's what I see: fewer unemployed people around me, but the employed are deep in debt and gradually slipping deeper into it. Standard of living hasn't gone down, but it's financed with debt while interest rates are creeping up.
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FTA it sounds there's reuse of old photos:

> And in 2016, a Tampa area driver was reportedly booted from the platform after charging multiple customers cleanup fees for suspiciously similar looking messes.
A decent SAP client (and not that hopeless Java abomination).
This is the root of the problem. Anyone can get a degree regardless of aptitude. Loans will pay your way in, the school will do everything in their power to stop you from flunking out.
I like your take in general, but these two phrases don't quite go together:

> Trees, forest, wildlife, fresh air, backyards. 5 minutes walk or 1 minute drive to…

Guessing that the number of places in the middle of a forest with a five minute walk to spectacular shopping are quite rare.
Poor budgeting and fiscal irresponsibility are one. Also: getting sick/medical coverage with existing conditions? Mortgate debt on a house that doesn't have equity sufficient to cover costs after sale? Divorce? Family emergency? A combination of these?
Many drivers I ride with already have dashcams recording both inside and outside the car. I could see Uber subsidizing them on the condition they get access to the video.
Why is Tesla so insistent on hitting cash flow positivity without raising any additional capital?

They're sitting on a $50+ billion market cap, it shouldn't be that hard to raise. We're not even talking about increasing their debt load, since $1B of bonds are coming due. Why not just refinance them? Yes, they have a junk rating, but they've consistently borrowed at lower interest rates than comparable companies.

It seems driven by Elon Musk's hubris and insistence on proving shorts wrong rather than sound business strategy.
You are using a definition of genetic causation that is not used by anyone in the field of genetics. It sounds like your definition is "Is there any hypothetical environment where the phenotypic expression of a gene could be changed?" The answer is almost always yes.

Growth hormone influences height, imagine a world where everyone's level of growth hormone is regulated. Suddenly all of these growth hormone influencing genes no longer have any effect on height. By your definition growth hormone does not genetically cause height because of this hypothetical. You could see how using a definition is both incredibly restrictive as well as almost impossible to measure, and therefore not a very useful definition.
First, it's fresh, drinkable water, delivered to people who need is, is precious. Not just "water". Second, 7 billions of people who drink and bathe and eat water-dependent food every day and a space mission with a few tons of distilled water every now and then are on completely different scales.
>How do you go from director at 59 to filing bankruptcy in fewer than two year after losing your job? Fiscal irresponsibility

This is a very entitled and selfish statement. The act of simply existing is very expensive in the USA, and if you have children or have unexpected medical bills that can be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, you can easily eat through all of your savings very quickly and not be able to pay back debts I'm sure they could pay before they were laid off.
Aren't ratings fully hidden from the driver? Unless they only had given a single ride that day, how would they have known who to retaliate against?
I think the FAQ has a strong self-defence purpose. See the last question covered, which is probably the first one people care about:

> 3.7. Could this kind of research lead to discrimination against, or stigmatization of, people with the relevant genetic variants? If so, why conduct this research?
I second this, some brokers even pay a decent interest rate compared to banks.
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Isn't that a less likely scenario? Or at least, a subset of the possible compromises, meaning you have materially improved your security in _some but not all_ cases. I don't disagree that it's best to not have TOTP in 1password, but isn't it still _better_ than not having TOTP at all?
IRL you can choose worlds only by denying possibilities, afaict. In a world where adblock is not an option you have to make a big change or tolerate.
Sure, if you're a big enough customer, you can have access to (relevant parts of) source code, and various forms of preferential treatment. I've seen his firsthand. This is the norm with big vendors that are on the market for many decades, and not going anywhere (e.g. Microsoft).

If you are a smaller fish, you have fewer of these options, because they just cost money.

Of course it's often cost-effective to quickly start using a piece of commercial software or SaaS, e.g. Slack or Gmail, as opposed to hosting your own chat or email with opensource solutions. As with any software where you put your important data, you need to know your way out, and a way to transfer these data to different software / SaaS. With email, it's reasonably easy; don't know about Slack. With open-source solutions it's usually reasonably easy, too, and it's easier to find, or at least to produce, a migration tool.

In some cases, there's just no free alternative; e.g. if you are writing a PC game, you can't realistically stay away from Windows.
Sorry, all the Miami Herald original article links came after I made these comments. I was going off the info mentioned in the Gizmodo article. The original article def paints a bit of a different picture.
Then see it only as "surprising and major change, negating the previous unique selling point, makes people unhappy".
> Do you also think EU stance on Brexit is also "out of spite"?

The EU is probably better off with the UK in it, which is a difference there. But yes, cutting the UK off from various forms of "soft Brexit" or "a la carte membership" is mostly a tactic to discourage others from leaving rather than strictly about the current deal.

I don't think we disagree.
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is there are resource like this but for computer networking?
If only we had some kind of decentralized consensus system that could help us formulate truth on a societal scale...
> it might be in Africa's long term interest to have this happen

A common thread in peaceful nations’ origin stories is a historical figure unifying disparate tribes and enforcing (usually by force) a common language, body of law and national identity. This drives internal economies of scale while reducing the tendency for disputes to escalate into violence. Lots of tiny, fragmented African nations isn’t a great outcome for the continent.
Well, I would be more than happy to buy a decent Linux IMAP client.

1. I never heard about your product
2. Can I use it as a regular IMAP client?

I am waiting for a linux version of this:

https://www.ivelope.com/invite/RunItUpTheFlagpoleHackerSeaCh...

(shitty invitation link that gets me ahead in the queue)
Just thinking out loud: was this maybe an UberPool ride, and the other passenger(s) submitted a complaint and mistakenly selected "other passenger" rather than "driver" in whatever menu they have?
i'm not sure that's a valid argument. cars have a clearly tangible benefit above riding horseback, even early automobiles. what's the tangible benefit to a decentralized system like this other than twitter/facebook/social media company not owning your data?

the parent comment to my initial post said the absence of censorship, but anecdotally the kinds of people i've seen going to "censorship-free" alternative sites are the kinds i don't particularly care to associate with. voat.co being the "shining" example
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> What I do believe is that the psychopath - empath spectrum is a true spectrum in that everyone is on it, unlike the autism spectrum, where most people who think they're on it are really looking for some kind of framework to order their life around and so just about every sort of social maladaption gets lumped under that label.

Most people, I don't know, I can't speak for them. But I know not by the professionals who diagnose ASD here in my region. Because other explanations than autism get carefully evaluated via their own knowledge on the matter (at least 4 eyes, including a clinical psychologist, though possibly more), heteroanamnesis, and statements by a family member/friend to verify.

> Autism describes a specific sort of brain misdevelopment, psychopathy / narcissism / cognitive empathy / poorly-developed empathy / neurotypical / sensitive is something everyone can find meaning in.

I like this video [1] explaining how someone with autism can get overstimulated.

The thing with autism is: not two autistics are alike. They all have different issues, and might have different issues on top of autism, such as depression, anxiety, or ADHD (though the latter can only be diagnosed in childhood). That's also why I found it so very interesting to meet other people with autism from my region. I also feel less lonely that way. I go every month to a group of "fellow sufferers" (for lack of a better word in English I can think of).

As a final word, I can recommend to be very careful with psychedelics. For me, cannabis specifically, has triggered a few psychoses. Although the most severe one was due to stress.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgDR_gYk_a8
as a result of their ability to pay more though

Well, not really, not for maybe 10 years now. If you joined Goldman as a fresh graduate you would be an Analyst, which means 2-3 years of 80-100hr weeks for good but not amazing pay. At any big tech offering RSUs your overall compensation will be much, much better, as will your general quality of life. But Goldman still gets 4000 applicants for every opening because people figure it's worth it for the doors it opens down the line.

Government simply can't afford to pay or select that much

If the government could put together a programme that opened doors - not through corruption but by a reputation for producing capable, hard-working people - people would go there too. It's not dissimilar to why some (many?) people do a 4-year stint in the military - GI Bill and the prestige of being a veteran after.
Russia didn’t make me vote for trump tee
Warren Berger was interviewed on the FS podcast about this topic. It is worth a listen. The title of the podcast was Improve Your Life by Improving Your Questions
Even though Bloomberg has pronounced Tesla dead on more than one occasion, I’m still not convinced their recent troubles are big enough for the short sellers to make their money back.
+1 on Inner game of Tennis. Life changing book there.
Somaliland is a customer of mine; I build national software and Somaliland is my second oldest customer. It’s cool to hear about their continued success on Hacker News. I like to think I played a small part in it. I hope that one day they achieve their dream of independence.
That is a very field-dependent experience, and probably unusual even in your field. In many STEM fields, there is essentially zero chance of obtaining a TT position directly after PhD.
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I definitely agree that is the case for most people. I initially tried tackling this problem (general population fitness tracking), but quickly found that its much more difficult and requires much more resources to solve. And so I decided to pivot and started designing this app for my specific niche (lifting enthusiasts who enjoy tracking). I think this is a stepping stone for me though, I hope to take what I learn building this to eventually try and automate (through app intelligence, motion tracking, better UI solutions, and some other cool ideas I hope come to fruition) the process as much as I can. And although I know many solutions currently exist on the market, I hope that one day I'm able to eventually work on, design, or be part of a holistic solution that is able to solve this once and for all. Thank you for the kind words on the design of my app though, I'll keep working on this problem ;)
Maybe the driver sensed that you were going to give him a bad rating and decided to get out in front of it and make it into a race-based issue?
I completely agree. There are very few paid software for which we don't already have a FLOSS software that can compete with it. Linux users are normally good at finding FLOSS alternatives to paid softwares.

Another thing that author can do is to compare Linux home users sales results with Windows home users for any of their product that is available for both platforms. Sales would be similar as long as Linux and Windows software marketplace for that area is same.
I'll look into those, thank you!
The only way water would be fuel would be via fusion of the hydrogen portion. Of that it is only currently realistic to use the portion of water that contains deuterium which is a relatively small portion of all water on earth. Also fusion would produce a large amount of power from a small amount of hydrogen, so it would have a small impact on earths water supply. So yes we should use it if we can.
I took Ambien for four months (the sort of period it should normally be used for...even that pushes the upper limit) after a very loud and public event kicked off by severe sleep deprivation and stress.

It worked wonderfully. I'd take it and lie down and quickly fade off to a sort of sleep. I say sort of because apparently it isn't really a sleep, and doesn't have all of the benefits of sleep, but it was far better than the narcolepsy I was experiencing.

I looked forward to taking Ambien because it made the sleep process so effortless and nice. I renewed prescriptions and would actually think ahead to the moment when I got to enjoy an Ambien.

Then my insurance stopped covering it. The price is quite low, but it was a flag to me that I should probably stop: The system had said that I'd hit the limit of what I should take.

So I stopped. That was it.

Never had sleep walking. No weird phone calls. No "Walrus". When I took one I always did it with the intention of sleep, and immediately preparing for sleep.

So that is my counterpoint, I suppose. Real sleep is far better, but as an actual sleep aid, especially in high stress, it...works. Should anyone abuse it for other purposes? Absolutely not. Should they try to use it for a high? No, of course not.
> The main problem with that idea is that you have to find some language to describe the design, which often ends up being an implementation, and when you look at the invariants that must be maintained for correctness, it's difficult to deviate from that implementation substantially.

Can we please stop repeating this line? It was false 50-60 years ago when garbage collection and register allocation was invented. It was false when yacc was built. And it's false today.

The gap in detail between specification and implementation is huge. If you can change a function without changing its callers, then your program has some slack between the assumptions placed on that function and its implementation. From low-level performance things like changes to improve cache locality, to high-level ones like scheduling of data pipelines, there's a lot of space for synthesizers and search-based software improvement tools to work with.

So, are you curious about program synthesis for floating-point accuracy? Have a look at Herbie.
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I think about this a lot. I've always been a bit concerned with pricing myself out of the market. I've never really fought particularly hard for pay raises, but I have kept up my education and experience and my pay has risen pretty consistently, putting me in a very comfortable salary range. But I still consider the possibility that the bottom could drop out completely and every employer in the US could collectively decide that programmers aren't worth what they're paying us and find myself settling for a lot less than I've been used to. Before I got married and had kids, I organized my life around that possibility - I never put myself into a position where I _needed_ the paycheck I was getting. Since getting married and having two kids, though? My wife and I both make high salaries and we're still barely breaking even every month. It's all disposable stuff - lots of vacations, eating out several times a week, a handful of extracurricular activities for the kids; all stuff we could cut out in a heartbeat... _if_ she was willing to. Honestly, I'm not as worried about potentially losing earning potential as I am about convincing my wife that we have to make some cuts if we ever find ourselves in that position.
Full disclosure: I have attended multiple presentation on this paper by some of these authors, and I'm doing a PhD in quantitative Genetics. So I like to think I have something to add. But I'm not an expert on educational attainment, so correct me if I'm wrong.

The 11% of variance that can be predicted using the current information of a fairly bad genetic predictor. The predictor is bad because many cohorts used in this study do not share all their information, but only share so called summary statistics. Which are combined into a prediction model. If all the individual level data is available, it becomes possible to get a much better prediction model.

In addition there are ways to estimate how much can be predicted from genetic information, a term called heritability.
Heritability can be estimated from so called twin studies. Where twins who are genetically identical (monozygotic) are compared to twins who are not genetically identical (dizygotic). In this way you can measure the environmental effect (the variation seen in the monozygotic twins) and the genetic effect (the variation that is seen in the dizygotic twins compared to the monozygotic twins). This is, of course, a gross oversimplification, but can provide reasonable measures of an upper bound of what can be explained genetically
For most traits this upper bound is around 0.5 R^2, and I believe for educational attainment a bit higher, but I could not find it in the paper or a quick google search.

Another factor in this case is that there are unmeasured genotypes which can explain some extra variation. There are also solutions for this. Which are able to explain the upper bound of what can be predicted from the data at hand. For instance meaning that you can find 80% of all the genetic variation using the genetic measurements that you have.
But you often need individual level data for this. Something which cohorts are not often prepared to share.

Another complicating factor is the heterogeneous nature of the phenotype: educational attainment is different per country. So it's hard to say what's really being measured. It's likely very different in France, compared to say The Netherlands. Due to the differing nature of their educational systems.

Personally I'm morally conflicted by these studies which measure intelligence.
It's very interesting to see the practical outcomes from the paper. I've seen an example where it's well powered to stratify high educational attainment and low educational attainment individuals for social science studies. But I'm of the opinion that this may be a slippery slope towards misinterpretation, as we currently see in the whole IQ business. As well as too strong an emphasis on being 'smart' in certain social groups.

We know Intelligence (or whatever is being measured) is heritable. But I'm not fond of the implications which people attach to these studies. Even though I know people are going to act on it.
For the earliest examples of this, I'm going to look at certain east Asian countries where ethics may be very different compared to the western views.
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