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Climatic and geographic familiarity is a big thing. My ancestors left the Russian Steppes and ended up in Kansas, by all accounts a much nicer place. They left anyway, and homesteaded in an area of Canada that is quite similar to the terrain they'd left behind in the old country.

They skipped over a lot of good farm land, and ended up in Northern Alberta for no discernible reason other than they knew how to deal with it. The problems made sense to their skill sets, and they did very well.

As the other person said, familial support is darned important, which is why my family went to Kansas in the first place. They had relatives there. It was recent enough that my grandmother has gone there to visit her cousins over the years.

I imagine that successful hunter-gatherer groups colonised over the next hill, or a days walk or two down the river. Probably someone could model that to narrow down prospective digs. I know that the land between the confluence of two rivers was a common place for groups to meet up.

I guess my family also provides a modern example of far colonising. The way they bridged the Atlantic was by sending a few young men ahead to scout out new potential homelands. I suspect that they used this as a sort of social control, and to add a useful function to the young men who were disruptive agents in their society.

In a hunter-gather society, this tactic would be better than straight banishment or death. "Climb that mountain pass and see if there is good land on the other side. Prove the land by staying over summer, and come back in the fall with skins and dried berries".
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> and introduces a lot of accidental complexity into everything it touches

No it doesn't. That complexity is there. What you mean to say is that it makes it more obvious (and far easier to debug) when things go wrong. Manual error handling ... let's just simplify that to "igoring all errors", and if you aren't convinced, looking at a few Go repositories on github will drive the point home.

So all "no exception system" really does is switch the default from "crash on error" to "ignore error". In C, before Java, this caused quite a few disasters with VERY bad error behavior (like silently deleting/overwriting all data, or starting a new data file, which you now get to merge manually with the one it ignored, for instance) ... in fact unix C tools are still (and, imho, justifiably) famous for their "nuke the whole world upon encountering a slight syntax issue" behaviors.

Besides, the Go authors' own tools usually crash (log.Fatalf), but without stacktrace or unwind, on 90% of errors. That's, of course, even worse than exceptions crashing out of the program in several ways:

1) You have no idea what happened. We're back to grepping the source code for the last string it printed and praying you find something. Stacktraces ! GIVE ME BACK MY STACKTRACES.

2) Cleanup does not happen (!!!!!) with log.Fatalf. I repeat: NO CLEANUP WILL HAPPEN WHEN CALLING log.Fatalf. DO NOT USE log.Fatalf if your program has done anything at all !!!!!!!!

The go authors themselves, especially should have gone through the exercise of, at EVERY error check, figure out what needs unwinding (file closing, ...) and then doing the same at higher levels of the stack as well. Needless to say, NOBODY, not even Rob Pike himself, has done that. As far as I can tell, not even once.

3) we all know how these bugs get fixed. By changing "crash out" to ignore. And frankly, given point 2, I will actually call it an improvement.
> constantly running red lights themselves

A motorist runs a red light, it's one stupid motorist. A pedestrian crosses a road dangerously, it's one stupid pedestrian. A cyclist runs a red light, it's all cyclists. I have no idea how that works.
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>I see that UK has trade deficit will all EU countries... they can in fact gain on leaving...

This is an absurd fantasy. If trade deficits on their own made you poorer, the UK and US would have been reduced to third world status decades ago. The Uk has very low unemployment, there just isn't a free labour pool available to move into manufacturing. Hands up anyone from the UK here who wants to give up their job to go on to a production line, or wants that for their children? Forcing people out of better paid more valuable jobs into low end manufacturing, driving up costs for UK consumers, to serve some mercantilist daydream won't make the UK any richer.
Yes, I absoultely agree that cyclists should stop at red lights. But it is not morally equivalent to dangerous driving and we should be more relxed about it in comparison and resist an over zealous response.

More generally we should design urban communities so that things like pedestrian crossings are not even neccessary.
That is clearly untrue. History is just full of bad ideas that has caused the death of untold numbers of people. The problem is that we can’t all agree and people do not move on.
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This isn't the "UK media", this is a university trying to sell itself as doing some cool research / coming up with ideas (which, incidentally, is their job).

If you really want to rant about the media spinning brexit lies then go ahead - you'll find plenty of willing listeners, but at least try and do it on a news story that actually fits your argument?
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Can someone please ELI5 what this does and why/where it is/can be useful?
This doesn't work without a universal moral law, an assumption now deprecated in many circles.
Having lived in Jakarta, Bangkok and Manila, I can tell you that getting angry at cyclists wouldn’t make much sense. The roads are complete chaos in all those places, everything on the road is a deadly hazard.

The roads where I live now are a lot more orderly, but cyclists get a free pass in a lot of ways. You’ll get a ticket for passing within 5 feet of a cyclist, so you better hope they’re a fast cyclist when you get stuck behind one. I also see them run reds frequently and ride across pedestrian crossings. For a group that makes up about 1% of commuters, they manage to make a disproportionate nuisance of themselves. I’m not an anti-cycling nut, but it’s not hard to see where the frustration comes from.
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No way. Having to program a router in bash seems fun! Send me your old router!
>Sure, it has gotten better, but it is not too far from the good old

So your citation for sticking to their old ways is pointing to some old example? That's not what I was looking for.

>Why aren't the devs clear about using a less distributed architecture for mobile clients?

Because it's not a priority to them; Or to me, for that matter. (I don't IM on the phone)

>I would not recommend it for secure communication until the amount of unknowns is smaller.

I don't see how the likes of Signal or the popular Telegram are any better in that regard. Also, adding more features (your phone suggestion) wouldn't help.
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What is the status of WireGuard in terms of client device support?

The main advantage of IPsec and OpenVPN is that they are either natively supported by all major OSs (desktop and mobile) or there are apps freely available for that purpose.
I think part of the point of clojure is a hosted, small core, programmable programming language can't really die, it would just be dormant and could spring back whenever someone needed it.

It's weird to me when people claim clojure is dying, yet the ecosystem is evolving rapidly and people are making money with it. It's not a model that's easy to starve, it's too lightweight to collapse under it's own load, and there's no way to kill it, so how is it dying?

Mindshare ebbs and flows, but being THE programming language was never clojure's goal.
The pattern I see is no downvotes to replies to YOUR comment (e.g. this one), and no downvotes once the comment is about 2 days old-ish.
Not all bad ideas are so easily brushed off as being "totally laughable". For example a common and particularly insidious one that gets a lot of "logical" people who think of themselves as good critical thinkers is tying IQ to genetics. This leads people down the path of [IQ is largely determined by genetics] => [X impoverished group has a lower IQ] => [Because of their IQ they are impoverished] => [White people are superior].

Looking at that line of thinking it's ridiculous, there are assumptions and a gross misunderstanding of correlation and causation and confounding factors. But if you are not educated enough to see the problems in those arguments (which I think would be a higher level of education required than believing in flat earth) or if you are a little bit inclined to let someone walk you down a "logical" path of fallacies then it's easy to make that leap. And that's an easy argument for a white nationalist to make. It's a lot less easy for someone to refute it.
Depends. If you happen to come across extremist cyclists and at the same time oblivious or even arrogant car drivers, it can get out of hand real quick in Germany, as well.

There is lots of hatred on both sides. Drivers see cyclist running a red light and generalize about those criminal cyclists.

Cyclists take an idea like Critical Mass that was originally supposed to be a demonstration, a traffic-political statement, and don‘t even care about traffic policy anymore, but openly talk about how to disrupt car traffic the most so those „carholes“ get the traffic jam they deserve. It‘s just fun to them, a bit of trolling.

I don‘t see the relationship improve, unless many more „common“ people use the bike. Then they would have much more understanding for the other side when driving a car, and the bike extremists would vanish in the mass as statistical noise.
In the UK there is a specific area at the front (which cars will often decide to stop in) just for bikes to stop, called a bike box. I believe it is safer for them to be out in front rather than pushed to a side, or caught between cars.[0]

In my experience, in an urban environment, it doesn't matter how fast you get moving again, there's another traffic light right ahead

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_stop_line
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>The only danger I see is that Scotland might try to gain independence

Hey , Ireland here, you're completely ignoring cutting our island in two again which will very likely lead to a resurgence of the IRA.

>Third, weakening pound is actually good for UK, the goods they produce are cheaper, so event if imported goods are more expensive at some point this will come to equilibrium.

Yeah and the young generation brexitors have screwed over will be old by then.
In an ideal world where people are intelligent enough to vote for their long term benefit, then what you said is true.

But let's say a country have little care to minority ethnicities. I have the many resources to arrange short benefit to them, such as occasional free dinner for those ethnicities, arranging cheap or free traveling trip for them. Essentially bribe those minorities.

Now I am elected to become a president. How do I get more resource to bribe minorities? I just receive donation from the rich and just set law to benefit them. Those law will get me donation and let the rich suck more money from the minorities. Now I have those dirty money in hand. Since minorities are living in a more challenging environment by my policy, those minorities will even more welcome my bribe and continue to vote for me.

Now you may ask, why are those minorities can't read news? Why they can't listen to the other side that may benefit to them? Firstly, minorities have very tough environment and they don't have education and even time to think about their future. Therefore, they just vote for whoever is familiar or whoever give free gifts. Secondly, a government could control the propaganda and paint those opposition as destabilizing country and blaming them as enemy and reason of their miserable situation.

It's not a hack, but a flaw. Democracy assume all people care enough about politics to understand the implication of each policy. If people don't have time resource for this, then it is pretty easy to spread propaganda to paint some enemy. People in poor condition just want to find someone to blame. And people trust the one who could bribe them a little benefit.

Of course, there are no better alternative than democracy, but people just too focus on their living and care to their own short term benefit. Long term benefit is difficult to promote since no one knows when will this be effective.
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Sure, but what % of the drivers habitually go faster than the listed speed limit? In the parts of the US I live in, the difference between that number and 100 is imperceptible, especially on the roads with speed limits on the lower end (~25 mph).
There's a job called "pre-sales engineer". I used to do it.

I went out with salespeople or joined their conference calls, and assessed:

- what the customer actually needed

- whether we could do that for them

- and if so, which products or services would work

Sometimes a pre-sales engineer provided technical credibility by talking to the customer's engineers and figuring out what they are doing. Other times, I provided technical credibility by saying that we didn't have a good solution for this project. Getting to No early prevents everyone wasting their time.
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Obviously, it's much better to ban porn and make the whole world know about it rather than reduce poverty or corruption.
Don't trust any machine learning algorithm that you haven't faked yourself. You can make random noise mean anything you want.
Why do Cyclists get to be special? Where I live, the same rules apply for cyclists as for drivers up to loosing your drivers license for biking drunk (including biking ban).

A bike can do a lot of damage and harm once it goes beyond walking speed and even at walking speed it can be quite dangerous.

I get that not every cyclists runs the red lights but those that do are a clear danger to traffic safety.
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Stopping in front of cars is done to gain the best visibility. That's why cities are introducing bicycle boxes at intersections. A bicycle is alway slow to get moving, unless it has an electric motor, that's why cyclist hate stopping and will sometimes cruise through a stop sign or red, because it feels safer than trying to pick up speed while cars are revving behind you and trying to squeeze by.
We have that, too. And I don‘t really understand it.

I mean, bikes accelerate much slower. So what realistically happens is that bikes weasel through cars and the right curb to the front, distribute themselves over the whole width of the lane. And when they get green they... have to go over to the right side again (single-file!) and are being overtaken (usually with little room) by all the cars.

I‘ve just read the article you linked, and the HGV aspect is a good one. But in my home town, those bike boxes aren‘t on streets with real goods traffic, but on residential streets.
>The right response is to ask how and why Trump won and address the problems, ideas, and arguments that led to it rationally.

Absolutely.

> If Jones' BS is more "viral," then more rational thinkers need to learn how to play the viral game.

There's an inherent danger here. Viral media is in many ways a short-attention span, high time preference sort of game. It's probably not conducive to a high level of discourse. It is IMO a race to the bottom, much the same way fast-food restaurants compete. Eventually, you need to open up a Whole Foods or two.
I am of the assumption that in the US ISPs no longer have to deal with net neutrality. So why would large hosting companies have to?
Makes me think of the positronic brains from Asimovs books.
Not much, but I'd rather hear the pros and cons of Brexit discussed here than on most of the rest of the internet. At least here there are some clever people and the moderating system works well.
That argument is certainly true, but it applies to nearly everyone. Almost no one is politically well-informed enough to be sure of what’s in their long-term interest, with most people not understanding for example economics or environmental issues enough to take an informed position. So politicians frequently resort to short-term fixes, such as tax cuts, to keep people happy and voting for them. If more of those short-term fixes benefit minorities, that still isn’t worse than if they benefit majorities.
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Well this is a though one.
There also is not enough information provided.
Lets assume hes a regular employee.

Apart from the obvious that the employer absolutely has no right to demand a password, Code written for the company does not belong in a private repository.

Most contracts state that everything created during working hours belongs to the company.
This means that he is in quiet the trouble if he writes on code for other companies when he is supposed to work for his employer.

In this case they have the right to demand access(not by demanding the password though)

An alternative would be to provide access using the means provided by GitHub.

The "boohoo my company is evil" narrative is understandable.
But lets not forget that this situation would not exist , if all was handled correctly by the employee.
It's equally illegal for soldiers to kill non-combatants.
Mildly chaotic behaviour is a perfectly normal thing for a densley populated urban area. And that chaotic behaviour is true of absolutely everyone. Drunk pedestrians walking into the road. Kids wobbling on their bikes or walking out into the street without looking. Getting cut up at roundabouts when someone is in a hurry. All these things are perfectly normal and suprisingly safe, except when you add cars the the mix. Then suddenly you need hundreds of rules to do the most basic things. And Oxford is a perfect example of a city centre that is completely inappropriate for cars. The roads are simply not designed for it, and there are thousands of chaotic normal people in close proximity. That is what causes the conflict and frustration.
IIRC the two road users tended to break the rules in different ways, so it's unsurprising that as a pedestrians you might be more aware of one class than the other.
As a daily cyclist I commonly see parents with strollers on the bike road. For my bike road to work there is a down slope followed by a sharp turn, and there the city planners have made a temporary combined bike road and pavement for the last couple of years during construction. It is very common to see strollers during there, people in wheelchairs or groups of small children.

The city seems happy with endangering people. Parents seems happy with endangering babies there. No one has ever been charged with endangering of children, and I have never seen anyone stopping a parent with a stroller and telling them that they are endangering their child by walking on a bike road. If anything I also see an increase of strollers during the time when the road is full of ice. The order in which the city clear out snow and ice is roads > bike roads > pavement, and parents with strollers do not want to walk in snow. Given the alternative most seems to pick the bike road.

Other fun participants I have seen on exclusive bike roads is 4-5 year olds learning to bike with training wheels. Just like with strollers I always give them a bit extra distance when passing them, which might explain why there has been zero deaths or injuries from bike hitting strollers or young children even through those are common sights on bike roads. If one wonder the cause of that I think one just need to check the average speed of bikes in a city and the reaction and braking speed.

I am sure if a parent would take a stroller and walk on the road against car traffic then social service would have a very strong opinion about it. That would actually be unsafe behavior and traffic records support in every way that bikes are safe and cars are not. Being more concerned about a three-year old being hit by a cyclist on the pavement than by a car on the road is flying against statistics, and I would say actual behavior. Would you honestly say that your reaction to a parent walking with a stroller on a bike road would be identical to a parent walking with a stroller against car traffic on the road?
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There was one scene in errr, Designated Survival where they made a very overt show to display a BMW remote start function (via smartphone). It didn't even have any practical use for the episode, the dude just stood a few feet outside his car to start it with his smartphone because ???????
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This is in Asia, which doesn't really share the same pop culture tropes. I seriously doubt this would ever fly in the West.
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It sounds like you describe something which is irrational.
I think most 70+ year olds do not have five TVs.
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Let me guess, this can’t happen in Julia because memory is always initialized? Sounds like a performance hit if you know what you’re doing, so maybe you can use uninitialized memory in Julia and run into the same bug. Perhaps Julia makes it easy to use LLVM sanitizers? But you could’ve done this with your C code as well.
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Yeah, this is what I meant, but that sounds insane to me.
Yeah - but I guess it could help understand things better that may lead to further advances and so on.

Science is so unpredictable that we shouldn't restrict progress just because it feels 'creepy'.
>Absolutely, but expecting your partner not to cheat on you is not asking for perfection hence the legitimacy of demonizing them.

I see humans as fallible. So, i am ok with my girlfriend sleeping with other guys.

She isn't my prisoner anyway, I've no right to to restrict her from fulfilling her fantasy as long as she isn't hurting anyone, i am fine with it.
I'm not saying one model (national companies) is always better than the other (private ventures). But I was trying to show that it's mostly a management issue, the MTA seems to be terribly mismanaged, while its French counterpart is not that bad. Even though it has its own challenges.
I’m aware of that, but high performance, fat vector AD would be done with eg Theano or PyTorch, not autograd.
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> must be (nominally) independent from a candidate.

It sounds a lot more effective than it is. In practice it’s a non issue.