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No it doesn't. It just implies that everything that causally interacts with the observable reality is physical. It leaves open the door for an immortal soul, it's just that the existence or nonexistence of the soul has absolutely no effect on the observable universe.

The term physicalism was introduced a few decades after we figured out Maxwell's equations. If the philosophers defined it to mean things bumping into other things they were frankly poorly informed about the world we live in.
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

I was thinking at a more abstract level:

> because web pages are extremely parameterized over different content, client sizes and types, user preferences, and data

You've taken this as a given. Why does it have to be like that? If we're defining the standards, we can make the web whatever we want it to be. And I think if your explanation of why it is complicated is the above (and I think that's only a small part of why it is such a mess), then let's modify some of those assumptions to make it easier to simplify.
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Are you sure? Fishing in my neck of the (American) woods requires a $25 license every year, and even the poorest families in my town get them, because it's just that profitable to supply yourself with fish for a whole year.

The money is used to protect the rivers and water bodies from foreign predators and pollution, so that those families can rely on this source of food for decades to come
No doubt! I definitely don't mean to denigrate the project at all, it's an incredibly philanthropic move by LeBron and he deserves every ounce of the praise he's been getting.

I just see a lot of people using the "public school" line as a cudgel to bash charter schools, but charter schools are exactly the mechanism to accomplish something like this for people who aren't revered/rich enough to exercise the kind of influence over their hometown that LeBron did to get them to agree to incorporate novel facilities and practices directly into their district.
It's great to see superstars like LeBron doing something like this. Say what you want about him as a player but you cant knock him as a philanthropist.
Not being able to choose the specific school is a huge deal though.

In the same school system, some of the schools are out-of-this-world, while others are zoos.

If I had the choice between sending my kids to some of the schools I went to growing up, or letting them stay home and watch cartoons all day, I'd choose the latter. At least they're not going to get shivved watching Adventure Time.
In the area where I live, there is a lot of anticipation for a Charter school to open because the county school board is so terrible. There are 6 regional seats for a single county wide school district and 3 of the seats vote against ANY improvements or expense increases. In a tie vote, nothing happens. It's been an issue for years at this point.

There is a charter coming to the highest population area of the county and people are excited simply because it's managed by a state level school board instead of the county.
Awww. That first link silently requires WebGL in order for the animations to work, and doesn't implement a fallback. :'(
> the harder it is to isolate individual teachers as the cause of children not learning on pace and then fire them

The Gates Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the 'Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative' [0], only to find that teacher evaluation isn't an effective way to improve student outcomes.

Maybe there's more to improving student education than isolating individual teachers as a cause.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2018/06/25/5-less...
Great idea, I recently did an opengl project and just getting TinyOBJLoader to work was a task in it self.

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Google Play apps = Android apps don't work on iOS is what GP comment is saying.
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That's true, but let's make it just slightly more complex: Our contract is to swap 10 EUR for whatever it is worth tomorrow in USD according to what "bloomberg.com" gives as the representative rate at 12:34pm.

Now, this is easily codified, but ...

a) Someone could hijack the "bloomberg dns"

b) Someone could hijack bloomberg's BGP

both the above would likely be defended by using https, but CAs have been hacked before, and there are questionable state controlled ones.

c) Someone could hack inside Bloomberg itself to give the wrong rate

d) Bloomberg might have a bug that is struck exactly at 12:34pm on that day, which shows the wrong rate.

All these 4 things may happen independently of our contract - Bloomberg is not a side to our agreement, and other actors might have reasons to try to make it give wrong data.

In "The real world", if the rate is really off (say, half what you expect), you'd look at Thomson/Reuters and Yahoo, realize Bloomberg is borked, and react accordingly - and a court would likely support that court of action.

This is the kind of wiggle room you want, because in the real world, it is impossible to lock down all of these improbable, weird, but possible, outcomes.

Contracts that are so simple that there's no potential need for wiggle room aren't very useful.

In real world contracts, the more money is involved, the more both sides try to protect themselves against such weirdness; and yet, courts are sometimes involved, either because interpretation is disputed (comparable to "code has underfined behaviour") or due to events not covered in the original contract.
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Perhaps by watching lots of home videos on the internet or TV of people hauling massive tiered wedding cakes around, only to drop them or for a tier to give out and the whole thing to fall over?

As pretty and traditional as they are, they aren't nearly as practical to cut for a large crowd, especially once it's fallen on the ground, and nothing tops off the single largest event you'll host and pay for in your life like disappointing all of your guests.
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Also to be fair I'm from the midwest US and never heard anyone use the term Xerox in the last decade
Because it was less about principle and more about politics. If let’s say Bernie had won, this would not been raised as big issue.
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To address the elephant in the room: this is a repost, but it's really useful for newer programmers looking to familiarize themselves with the (still ubiquitous) RFC format, and there are always new programmers browsing HN.
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I'm asking about the details, the check-ins, the check-outs processes, the guidebooks they may give you, etc...
Does anyone have a good tutorial or a site that sells a off-grid small kit (600Wish with 1-2kWh battery) with battery backup? I want to get one for my house if its affordable enough as an insurance on top of a generator.
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Personally I think the most important thing about reading RFCs is to do it in the first place. Note that Arch Linux users can install the 'rfc' package to get them in /usr/share/doc/rfc/txt/.
Where does the article say Google employees are holding their tongues?
There's an extension for Org Mode for Visual Studio Code.

https://github.com/ajtoo/vscode-org-mode
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tootone....

There's also an Android app called Orgzly which supports Org Mode files.

http://www.orgzly.com/
> An example of a contract in which it is useful have wiggle room is hiring a company to build a website for you. The best process for building a website necessarily includes discovery and continuous decision-making about what to build, so a long and prescriptive contract that spells out every product feature on day one will most likely result in a crappy final product and/or a ton of change orders and amendments.

The discussion seems to be about allowing wiggle room in an otherwise 'non-wiggly' contract, which doesn't seem to be the situation you're describing. Your suggestion clearly isn't that the long and prescriptive contract should be drawn up and then repeatedly amended, but presumably is rather that the initial contract itself should provide a mechanism for easy changes; and contracts enforced by technology, like any others, can be created in this way.
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This is anecdotal - on my 2008 Macbook (not Pro) and on my 2011 MBP, Windows 8+ always felt snappier than the latest version of OSX (ymmv based on what you do). I have seen other people on HN report similar.
Let's also not forget the methan hydrate deposits on the coasts. Even minor temperature increase or pressure change at depth would cause them to explosively abandon their place.

We have found 3km wide crates in the deep sea formed by such methane deposits going nuclear, I doubt such an event would be pleasant for nearby coastal regions.
> Gestapo-like privacy invaders

Hum, I don’t remember Google actions has led to the slaughter of milliona of people. But, please enlight me.
Interesting. What inspired you to make rig?
Americans call this simply “business strategy”.

The “brilliant” descriptor depends how many millions of dollars they make.
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Let's add responsibility to the discussion

You are free, but then if something happen because your freedom, then you pay

Does it work?
Look at the example code further down: the engine isn't a heavy framework with tons of abstractions between the big systems and the game code. You get to directly access and drive all the individual systems yourself.

The most common "big" game engines don't allow that. There you get a big, quite opaque runtime that somehow will do rendering, sound, physics and networking and occasionally call individual fragments of your game logic in between.
I don't think nuclear will be the only solution, solar and wind may be useful in a post-fusion-energy world.
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Lot's of people truly enjoy nature and aspects of it but also love being able to walk to three grocery stores, 15 high quality restaurants, and knowing that they can get almost anything at any hour of the night. Cities offer something rural areas often do not. Rural areas offer something cities do not.

I grew up on a dirt road in the middle of no where and loved every minute of it. I've been in Chicago for the last four years and love every minute of it. Eventually I'll probably move somewhere like Denver that allows access to both within an hours drive or so.
> The court orders the company to give back the money the contract gave them. They refuse.

This seems to have nothing to do with blockchains; the same situation could occur (and its consequences are important to investigate!) no matter what the circumstances that led up the court order.
Indeed, the fact that only a small amount of staff appear to have access to this project and one of them has leaked it for moral reasons suggests rather the opposite tbh.
Many states, and even local municipalities, have "school of choice" program that, while somewhat restricted, allow children to attend a school they would prefer between districts and many times between different geographical regions. (I presently live in one such state that offers this). There are a lot of factors at play there, but being able to choose the school you want to attend is available in the states.
They could make it self-sustaining by adding some business model to support it. As others have said, maybe buy up and renovate/rent out homes near by driving up property costs (and taxes), or 'encouraging' college alums down the road to give back from their success.

Maybe the model itself proves something on a national level, and the government decides this is the 'future' and earmarks more money for schools like this...

Or maybe they just get more donations from wealthy people who want to help. Either way, I'm sure there are ways to offset the costs and keep it going long-term.
I'm the exact same way
I'm not trying to champion anything, I'm speaking my mind. I don't expect the NYT to change because I'm writing an HN comment. If market forces or legislation are insufficient to force companies to respect user privacy across unrelated domains, then I'll rely on my own setup: a Pi-Hole VPN for mobile devices, and uBlock Origin for desktop devices. I happily whitelist domains with non-intrusive ads and respect for Do-Not-Track.

But more to the point, you're presenting an argument which implies the NYT is a business which will be beaten by its competitors if it doesn't track users through their unrelated web history. I don't think that kind of tracking is an existential necessity for the NYT. It's not their core competency. Their core competency is journalism - if they are beaten by a competitor it won't be because the competitor has superior tracking, for several reasons:

1. Journalism is not a winner take all environment,

2. Newspapers were surviving in online media well before this tracking was around,

3. The NYT already has sufficiently many inefficiencies that if they actually cared about user privacy, they could trim the fat elsewhere so they wouldn't have to know to within 0.001% precision whether or not a user will read an entire article just to be profitable.

I really don't think this is too idealistic. It's not like I'm saying they need to abandon advertising altogether. I don't even have a problem with the majority of advertising. It's the poor quality control and data collection that I take issue with. All I'm saying is that they don't need to do what they're doing to be profitable.
ZeroTier. It's excellent for your use case.
I strongly suspect that 80-90% of the bloat and slowness is due to the ad/tracking parts. Yes, there's bloat with modern web/js tooling but even React and Angular (I think the heaviest of the modern bunch) are on the order of hundreds of kbs gzipped over the wire, and the benefit they give is better ux. "Old web" was fast/bare-html but not great for nontrivial ux.
Weddings are inherently a party, so it's not surprising that some are extravagant. What world do you want to live in where there is no extravagance or anything extra?
I was looking at Jenkins a while ago. All samples were for git and PHP, JavaScript and others. .NET, TFS and windows just felt like second class citizens. You can make it work but I feel that the main work is done for things other than .NET. Same for AWS.

C# is a fantastic language, .NET framework is good but in my view the ecosystem is too weak.
>My god...where is your shame?

Do you have no sense of your own hypocrisy? I am certain you have 0 qualms in using and buying Chinese manufactured products, or buying services and products from companies that operate in China. And yet here we are with you lecturing from your soapbox on who should be or shouldn't be ashamed of their actions. Look to yourself first before moralizing at others.
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It's a configuration error, not a OVPN bug itself. OVPN's configs are just so obfuscated that it's difficult to find the error.
The other part is that contracts are built on civil trust, not technology. I don't think blockchain will ultimately be all that useful because it doesn't solve the trust problem.
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Fair enough, my interpretation of a thin game engine is a thin abstraction over the mechanics of the game... but now that I think about it, this is exactly that...
> for illegal content that everyone agrees should not be visible? Like CP?

If everyone agrees it should not be visible, no one will be posting it; filters, censorship, and moderation address disagreements.

Further, even if there is a broad consensus that, say, “child pornography” should not be available, there are disagreements over what constitutes child pornography.
Some of the great writings are not in a dumpster but right in front of our eyes if only we knew it. A copy of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations sitting in front of everyone until 1974, in the hands of the director of the conservatory of music in Strasbourgh and then in the hands of a professor of music, it had in the inside cover fourteen canons in Bach's own handwriting, elucidating Bach's architecture like never before. An Italian visitor chanced upon the score and suggested these were Bach's own handwritten lines ...
Why do you need to track user behavior across unrelated domains to achieve any of that?
I'd say your comment is not constructive: you're asking me to name all the solutions, otherwise my observation has no merit?

I'll expand a little. Let's take a single example: developing a single page web application.

To know how to do that, I need to learn HTML, CSS, JS Frameworks, web pack or whatever. Linters, preprocessors, package management ....

Contrast that to building flash app where a designer could use a GUI to produce a beautiful interactive app in no time at all.

Yep, we all hated Flash, but in terms of accessibility to creators, it was beautiful compared to the mess we've made.

A little off-topic but good for perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
Some recent rules appear to have caused basically all rewards credit cards in the UK (other than American Express-issued Amex cards with a fee) to be withdrawn from the market - particularly those offering airline miles.
Yeah, that is exactly what the problem is. If someone finds something against HN rules here, should voice it in the comments. Having not more than few negative comments (I counted 2) and sinking that fast could only mean it is opinion based flagging .
pff why does the image have to be 6.8MB, in PNG?
I am also interested.
IANAL: My understanding is the same as @halfastack's.

> I thought all third party contributed changes are licensed separately, with the contributor still having all rights, unless they explicitly say otherwise.

That's true, but it prevents the project owner from changing the license unless either the contributed code's license is compatible with the new license, or all contributors consent to the license change. That is, going from MIT to GPL is fine, but GPL to MIT is not.

Projects concerned with this frequently require contributors to sign a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) where the contributor gives permission for the project to use the contributions and relicense them in the future. E.g., Ubuntu [1].

[1]: https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/contributors
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You talk about a mobile app as if your solution is opt-in. I think of preventative medicine as what the single payer national healthcare service does. Putting politics aside, it's a matter of motivation and recognition of anti-delayed-cost (it's not delayed benefit, it's delayed you get to continue your life). Glossy things like the once a day apps I've seen won't cut it. It has to be basics like a leaflet that makes people want to make a new habit. A PDF for your preferred book reader?
Opera were offering something like this for a while. With the support of a browser and HTTP proxying it's not a problem, the SSL terminates at the proxy and is re-encrypted under the proxy's SSL.

Many web services will take an uploaded gif and turn it to webm before showing it, e.g. Twitter.
Ah, gotcha! Yeah, those are... somewhat more treacherous, to say the least :) Haven't tried Foote Crossing specifically; maybe one of these days when I have a day to kill.

If you ever feel like exploring a bit further south (and if you haven't already), try driving around on the Long Valley / Dog Valley / Henness Pass roads. Really fun way to "commute" between Truckee/Loyalton/Verdi/Bordertown. Absolutely beautiful out there, too. Come similarly-prepared, though.
If it was March last year, you wouldn't have wanted to run anything marked "only works in Edge", particularly if you were using Win10 on VMWare - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/hack-...
From an outsider perspective who does not know much about what has or is going on at Google, I was always under the impression that Sergey was the main "don't be evil" guy.

Could this development be a sign that some of the power of the founders is diminishing within Google and has transferred to e.g. major shareholders?
Also, pretty much anything Bret Victor has done.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4&t=11s
That might be true, but to establish that state we'd have to kill off the native grazers. People tend to forget that before we had vast herds of domestic cattle in the western plains we had vast herds of bison, antelope, etc.
That's a tough question to answer because "charter school" doesn't have a very specific definition. It's just a publicly-funded school whose charter opts it out of some number of the regulations that apply to typical public schools in the same jurisdictions.

In some states/districts, they're basically public schools that have an external partner. I taught at such a school in Baltimore. In other places, they're more or less completely independent of the district that funds them. Anywhere on that spectrum, you can cherry-pick successes and disasters.

But certainly, they have introduced a great deal more complexity and ambiguity in the discourse of education. Much of the negativity towards charters comes from a skepticism that is difficult to fully inform. So people are forced to take the shortcut of deciding whether they are for or against "charter schools", broadly speaking. Fact is, not everyone has time to become an expert, in order to hold more nuanced opinions.

I prefer to frame the debate around the "school choice" movement, which is broader idea that districts should work more like marketplaces or laboratories for education. I'm very skeptical. For one thing, the "choice" that results isn't free and isn't equally distributed. For another, it tends to centralize the blame for poor outcomes on poor performers in the district, rather than systemic issues. Yet, most of the poor performers are the very schools that have the highest risk students, because these are the same students unlikely to have the agency and social capital to effectively exercise their choice.
Fantastic story, thanks sharing. Wonder who discovered this first? One of those strange human achievements. Also, we should call you Danny.
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Except all we know is that:

1) It was in a market area.

2) It was well built.

3) It had cubby holes that probably held scrolls.

That's all. The rest is speculation.
I don't think these examples retroactively alter the financial terms of a contract. Rather, I think they invoke the contract to retroactively alter the financial terms of the transaction. But I do agree we want to be able to do that, and mediums that disallow it are less useful.
The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. Will this project be derailed? I’m betting not.
It's funny because your concerns are exactly like that of Bush Sr's advisors in the article.

He's also one of the villains.
Yes but with the difference that without blockchain the corporations bank will then do the deed and push the money back on court order. And if not possible the company will (to my knowledge in german legal code) be dissolved, assets sold and the profits go to the other side until the damage is covered, which is usually not the case and the winning party still looses money.

With blockchain there is no bank and if the company doesn't want to, the next option is nuclear as above.

With blockchain there is no way for the party to obtain what is rightfully theirs other than to nuclearize the other party.

Without there are options because banks and other intermediaries can intervene and correct.
what was the incorrect information?

Natural childbirth entailing a female orgasm?