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There is a big difference between pointing out someone is actively acting in bad faith, and taking content they have apologised for and say they disagree with now when they don't act in that way any more.

> Kevin Williamson, formerly of the National Review, was recently fired by The Atlantic for old tweets.

He spoke with the editor who fired him because that was still his viewpoint, not an old tweet he apologised for or regretted.

> Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg forced to conclude that his new hire did, in fact, believe what he said he believed. “The language he used in this podcast — and in my conversations with him in recent days — made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views,”

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/5/17202182/the-atlantic-kevin-wil...

> James Damore, a Google engineer, was fired for making controversial statements about gender science that feminists at the company didn't like.

He stood by his comments, in fact, he doubled down on them.

> Brendan Eich, a software developer who created JavaScript and was a co-founder of Mozilla, was forced to resign as the CEO of that company after making a political donation.

This isn't historic, that's current behaviour.

> And there are many more instances of "repressive tolerance" in Big Tech, which Herbert Marcuse and others have described as a tolerance for 'all viewpoints' which actually contributes to social oppression in our culture.

> The weaponizing of alternate viewpoints isn't owned by any one political faction, it's deployed nowadays by all of them, and it leads to a corrosive and toxic public environment.

Your examples are different things - it's perfectly reasonable, in fact, I would argue a moral obligation, not to accept bad actions and support of abhorrent policy from those around you.

My point was that people can and do change - if any of these people renounced their viewpoints, acted in good faith and changed, I would happily support them in any endeavour. That isn't what happened in these cases - there is a fundamental difference.

Even if this does happen to people on the right (and I'm sure there must be cases of it, as with all things), that doesn't justify the recent spate of cases being intentionally pushed by the alt-right. The particular instance being discussed here is wrong in the same way it would be wrong if it was someone on the right.
Yep.

Reminds me of the old path dependency story about the dimensions of the Saturn booster rockets being determined by the official dimensions for Roman war chariots (and in turn, by the width of a horse's ass). The rockets were transported through tunnels by rail, which used a 4'8 gauge determined by the British, who supposedly based their standard gauge on the width of wheel ruts in their ancient roadways because they were more used to designing horses and carts. Except that the early railways used a range of gauges that were only later standardised, and tunnel widths would have been broadly similar even if they'd standardised on a slightly larger or smaller gauge because the real determining factor in early tunnel boring was to bore the smallest possible tunnel with a cylindrical cross section which could accommodate carriages in which passengers could stand...

And more importantly, the booster rockets were a fair bit smaller than the actual width of the tunnels they were transported through because rocket aerodynamics also favour small cylindrical cross sections. Even if there had never been people called Romans to specify war chariot widths or even creatures called horses, or the US had standardised on 7' gauge also widely used in early English railways, they'd probably have ended up the same size.
I don't known if I have OCD or I'm just a over thinker. Most of the time I must process the words I'm about to say to another person. I have a hard time making spontaneous conversations.
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London is not a great counter-example because it has been a major settlement for at least a couple of millennia.
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I heard the part about water drinking 100 times over but this was the first time an 30% increase in burnt calories was mentioned.

Keep In mind that these just aid the weightloss.

Changing the body is lots of work most of the times (even gaining weight can be)

They key to weightloss is still to have a calorie deficit that is mainly driven by the diet.

(No genetic disposition, condition, or bodytypes will ever be able to cause more energy to be stored than is introduces to the body)

EDIT: The part about protein makes it sound a bit like you burn calories and end up with a negative amount.

"the more protein you eat, the more calories it will burn."

This is basically true but still misleading. The body needs to invest energy in order to digest food.
For digesting protein you need an amount of energy that is about 30% of the calories gained from digesting the Protein.
This is higher than for other energy sources like carbs,sugar,and fat.

If your daily demand is 2000 Kcal And you eat 4000 Kcal in Protein you will of course still have a surplus and gain weight.
The very sad thing is, that a lot of progress could be made without any personal sacrifice. Switching electricity production from coal to wind and solar doesn't really involve personal sacrifice. Long term, it should be even way cheaper for the consumer. So why is there so much resistance to an energy change?

Almost the same with cars. Elecrical cars are a thing. And yes, while electric cars are different from ICE vehicles, this is actually a good thing. Why would people line up for Teslas, if they didn't provide the better driving experience? Of course, prices have to come down and so they will with larger production numbers. But switching from ICE to electric might be a noticable switch, but hardly a personal sacrifice either.

We have the ability to reduce our cabon footprint by 90% by just throwing existing technology at the problem. I fail to see why we shouldn't do that.
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I had OCD (compulsive hand washing, obsessive food hygiene beyond normal, obsessive about which things touched my lips or hands)

It was tiring. Frustrating. Depressing. It felt like a disease that ruled my life.

A change in circumstances distanced me from unrelated stresses in my life and the OCD disappeared. It seemed that it was a manifestation of unrelated stresses.
> Because the fossil remains were found in deep waters where coral typically can't survive, the researchers suspect that the reef drowned due to rising sea levels leaving behind the newly discovered fossil structure and a small section of living coral, which was able to stay in shallow water.

Not related to the mechanism that is killing the Great Barrier Reef, which has survived sea level changes.
I have no idea what you're talking about.

I think you should at least know the basics of the topic you're discussing before leaving nonsensical comments.

Everything you're saying is completely wrong.
Mine is the ability to distinguish between public and private. You can do what you want in your home, but in public you should show consideration. The current decline of manners is manifesting in a switch whereby people are expected to demonstrate manners by ignoring mannerless people doing private things in public.
>presenting themselves as the last bastion of objectivity in the trump era... Nothing could be further from the truth

They seem fairly objective to me. Can you suggest any other news sources that are more objective? Re Sarah Jeong - ok they have a columnist who dislikes Trump but that's hardly a very rare viewpoint in the US these days.
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There is no article but there is a paywall instead. Before you make your self-conceited, complacent argument make sure you don't render yourself stupid next time.
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A bit of fearmongering IMHO; these carcasses are what in a few thousand (million?) years will become oil. The process of dead sea creatures accumulating on the sea floor and getting covered in sediment is nothing new.

Ironically it's humans pumping up these carbon stores (oil) and burning them that's causing all this.
Has anybody tried this on a modern system? Does it still work?
I’m unsure of the connection you’re making in this context. Are you suggesting that the solution is to live more sustainably once most of modern society is destroyed?
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Just another reason for big Agriculture to create more GMOs. /s

This would really be amazing. Honest concern... How does the fertilizer industry fight this? There are billions of dollars a year at stake here. Nobody faces billions of lost revenue without a fight.
Well, today no neural networks can't do things like creating new knowledge. I encourage you, however, to check out GAN's, Neural Networks that can produce new and original results, that is to say, they can generate faces and digits, which do not exist. Also, there are neural networks capable of producing music, poetry and using style transfer they are able to transfer painting styles. So, I think that the future looks promising for the area of Neural Networks, but there is still a lot of work to do
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Well many cities have implemented express lanes which raise and lower prices depending on traffic patterns. metro Atlanta has added them with a new reversible express lane; I believe it is elevated its entire length; coming online in a few months.

the problem with any well designed road system is that the people who need it cannot guarantee their needs don't change. this is especially true where both parents work. where a residence might have had a good commute when bought changes in work location can upset the whole process.
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It happened 2 months ago, here in France. A kid died in the accident, and it was not a software problem. And there are tons of elevators out of order, on a daily basis, and more often for mechanical reasons than for software reasons (now obviously, the software part of an elevator is less complex than its mechanical part, but still).
"this is a part of human nature ... We a stupid apes who want more, more, more at all costs."

That's not part of human nature. There have always been people who've renounced much of the world and made a lot of sacrifices, even to the point of giving everything they own away and dedicating themselves completely to helping others. At times there were even mass social movements in that direction.

It's just that we're going through a period in history where some people are particularly selfish. Many of these people are unfortunately in control at the moment, or have undue influence on what happens. But there are others who are less self-centered and are even actively working towards constructive change, even at great cost to themselves. There always have been.

The question is how to get more people to act constructively and not passively accept what's happening. Education, discussion, and consciousness-raising are all great ways to do that. Disempowering narratives about limitless consumerism being an inevitable part of human nature are not.
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Well, the accuracy of the network depends on a lot of different parameters so we are not always sure that the network will converge that is indeed true, however, I do not see any problem using an existing technology that works, make easy for normal people to use it and enjoy the benefits for it. Neural Networks aren't, indeed, a universal algorithm but they work pretty good so far in my opinion
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Well, what is the verdict? Was there anything interesting in the source code? Does having it publicly available matter at all?
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Yes they note that in some instances the roads preceded the cities. But when they do analysis there is no effort to seperate cases where the cities preceded the roads.
I have been hoping that we could use CRISPR or something like that to make perennial nitrogen fixing wheat. Making cereals into a perennial and fix their own nitrogen could be huge.

I also presume it may not happen for a very long time as most of the big seed companies would be presumably very against it.
As I said, the lender might get burned.

OP appeared to be talking about trying to take advantage of predatory lenders, and my point is that the borrower would usually be harmed more by attempting to do so than the lender, whose business model can typically accommodate a fairly high default rate.

Consider balloon mortgages, which are structured to encourage the borrower to pay all the interest, then, if they default on the final payment, the lender repossesses the property. In the lead-up to 2008, when prices all around were rising rapidly, repossession could look almost as attractive a proposition as getting the principal back, or possibly more so, and it made it easy to sell the risk in the secondary market.
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>One point you might have not considered is giving up the characters might open-up a whole new world of internationalization of Chinese which would have a status similar to English nowadays

On the contrary, using Chinese characters makes the language more accessible to other Asian learners, due to many having some degree of formal study of the writing system. And in countries that don't use the latin alphabet, pinyin is no more useful than chinese characters--and if a person actually devotes time to studying, likely worse.

Having learned Japanese, after about a year of study, it's quite easy to guess the meaning of a word just by knowing the meaning of at least one character. As a native English speaker, there are still words that I encounter from time to time and I can't possibly guess what their meaning could be even with context.
The worst thing about this is the timing. There is a political storm in Australia over what is being seen to be done to save the reef. In a nutshell the Prime Minister just gave away 444 million dollars of taxpayer money to an organisation of 6 people without any due diligence. Turns out they are all ex bankers and oil company people.

The organisation didn’t even apply for the grant.

Sadly this has become a highly political thing and because of the current state of politics in Australia where your team must do the opposite of the other team (little bipartisan action in the last 10 years with fallout being carbon taxes, welfare, NBN) nothing is likely to be done until the current government is voted out. Even then with another change its likely to start all over again.

It’s a horrible state of affairs and sadly while a lot of Australian’s are outraged our politicians are beholden to other interests so nothing will be done.

If you want more background reading I’d suggest a quick look through the Australia subreddit, keeping in mind that the majority on there are very left leaning.

Some links of interest http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-09/barrier-reef-foundatio... https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/t... https://www.2gb.com/ben-fordham-takes-environment-minister-t...
keep it simple..Start with cutting out processed sugars and carbs/bread/rice.

Maybe sub with alcohol sugars if needed.
> This is a value judgement, and a tedious one at that.

Yes. Discrimination is a value judgment and tedious one at that. We are agreed. Not sure why you support discrimination though.

> If you want to encourage women to have children, you need to create an environment where it is equitable for them to do so without being unduly penalized.

Actually, we already know that "equitable" society leads to lower birth rates. The more equal the society, the lower the birth rates.

> Again: if your approach worked then Japan would not have a birthrate decline.

You missed my point. It's not my approach. It's japan's approach. And I'm against that.

If you had paid attention, you'd realize that I am against discrimination, no matter what the ends. I don't believe the ends justify the means.

I just offered japan's rationale for discriminating against women, just like you offered your rationale against discriminating against people in the US.

I think all people should be treated fairly.
Though it is also true that we right now produce above 5000 kcal per capita according to FAO. Well above individual calorie needs. "To support our consumption" may be, but the configuration of our current consumption itself is problematic.
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The main customer of an ATM is the bank owning it. Not sure if "customer" is the correct word, let's say "owner", as opposed to "end user".
You can’t defend Uber by reference to Uber pool when most Uber rides are not shared. If you want more busses that’s cool, they really help but having a few cars with a couple extra passengers occasionally does little.

That said if you want to limit Uber to always using Uber pool you are going to get strong objections.
It depends on what the ROI and risks are. If you spend $100M a year to earn $1M in net profit, and your business is completely dependent on advertising and/or has declining subscription revenues then that’s terrible. There are much better ROIs to be had, so an investor would be better off investing elsewhere.

Also, reporting faces heavy legal, travel, lodging, equipment, and food expenses and those don’t end up in the asset column in case of a sale. I guess the articles and copyright would help, but it doesn’t seem to be worth much.
Um, "leak" the existence of a doomsday machine? Isn't the whole point of a doomsday machine that the other side knows you have one?
Dedicated lanes are a requirement when there's a lot of congestion (and that congestion would block public transport). It's completely unnecessary for most rapid bus lines, especially outside of cities proper.

> Only half of the route is in exclusive lanes, which means the half the time buses will be fighting traffic.

Half dedicated is enormous. How much traffic is there to fight in Utah outside of SLC?
But but but... if I do something so timing-sensitive that the improved swap-performance is going to matter, maybe I should just stuff my machine with enough RAM so it does not swap in the first place?

Don't get me wrong, it's cool that it's possible to use Video RAM as a swap device. But I don't see the practical value.
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I recently watched Google's internal leaked documentary, The Selfish Ledger [1], I think it has a really interesting perspective on this. Halfway through, the user is able to make a choice between two competing products, based on their preference (let's say it's reducing CO2). This is actionable because the supply chain of the product is available through public, transparent ledgers.

This is a faint idea, but what if we could achieve better collective leverage / incentive alignment through something like this? We already have brand boycott campaigns based on similar notions of environmental awareness, but I think there's a finite energy for being aware of these.

On an individual level, we have small economic influence. Collectively, we [can] have leverage. If we are effortlessly aware of both, there is that "visceral" daily experience where the lines are drawn between our basic split-second purchases (meat vs. vegan mince) and their impacts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUSZfEBTwRc
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This is just my opinion, but things change. Change is not necessarily bad.

If smaller newspapers cannot make it, it means they don't offer a good enough service to justify their existence. If they were good and provided value, people would pay for it (like they do the NYT).

Given the dismal quality of many small publications--possibly caused by the need to bring people via search engines--I welcome replacing them with independent content creators. Independent content creators often make even a lot of money via Patreon because people like their content and support them, and often the quality and level of knowledge is 100 times better than small publications that are only interested in clicks.

For instance, see the coverage of solar roadways, Hyperloop and many other science-related topics by specialized publications vs. the debunking videos made by youtuber Thunderf00t. While those publications will just have interns write copycat articles to bring in clicks, he's an actual scientist that looks into/debunks the topics at hand with a unique point of view, and actually covers the news critically. I'd much rather give him $5/mo. to keep producing good content then the "professional" newspaper $0.50/mo. to read their crappy content or even worse be bombarded by ads if I visit their website.

Of course, independent content creators will not take a plane to go cover a war or cannot afford to spend 2 years without publishing an article to do investigative journalism, but I think those publications that provide that value gets recognized by people and those will rightfully stay alive.
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Looks like the range is compiled in.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5a8b16409240bc95d95f...

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/6f663594bc5ee087cb15...

From the man page:

> Dynamic users/groups are allocated from the UID/GID range 61184…65519. It is recommended to avoid this range for regular system or login users.

It looks like you will have to compile systemd with a different range to behave well on your system.

Edit: Apparently the UID allocation is randomish:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/7426028b7a649bdfa473...
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My goal is to be able to incentivise any activity. The idea is that I want to be the Stripe for rewards and loyalty.

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Chinese is the oldest script still in use today in a relatively unmodified form.

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> Software can never truly replicate <thing>.

I've heard this so often that it lost all meaning to me.