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>Good rhetoric is redundant.

I'm not sure you can state that as an absolute. And certainly we can agree there's degrees of redundancy, a threshold that once crossed, is belaboring the point rather than expanding on it.

>I also don't think it's a problem that it "does it really slowly" or that the book itself, overall, has "taken its sweet time".

I've got no problem with the length of the book. I found it moved at a pretty good pace for me after the first 100 pages or so.

As for the length of the speech, how long would it take to deliver those hundred or so pages as a speech? Hours probably? Can you point to an example of a political speech that has gone on that long? It's news to me, but I'm no historian.

>I disagree that "it's a waste of the reader's time".

You're welcome to obviously. Everyone is welcome to their opinion.

>And look, there I went, defending that part of the book.

Honestly, I don't find your arguments compelling though. You made a questionable claim about rhetoric, and showed that other authors have exhibited the same pathology. Coming to defend that part of the book doesn't actually prove that it's defensible, just that you felt compelled to try (as much as any of this is possibly provable).

I think the essay could have been kept to, say, 10 pages and it would have felt like the climax to the book it was intended to be. Rather than some waffling blowhard thinking anyone in the country is going to sit and listen to his 4 hour pirate broadcast.
Pollution is intimately tied to politics because most inhabited property is owned, which means it's regulated by some governmental systems having varying degrees of regulation and penalties for pollution. I have no idea why that has to be explained to you.
Nobody said that heavy metal, tv or rock-n-roll is using very sophisticated method based on human psychology to make people addicted to their product.
They are under state control so much as they are subject to state regulation and law and pressure. At the same time they are controlled they are also really free.

Ya, and it does suck for consumers.
I disagree from a practical standpoint. Personal infamy is essentially free advertisement, up to a certain limit. As long as Elon isn't perceived as running the company into the ground.

He spends a few seconds tweeting and suddenly his name and Tesla is plastered over the next news cycle. Great ROI.
He ties it in well with his Fermi paradox videos. If such a thing is possible, it makes the stakes of the Fermi paradox much higher. We aren't just wondering why we don't see other intelligent life in our galaxy, but why we don't see it in a much larger region of the Universe.
As someone who has an X1, very little of it considered an FRU. my trackpoint died and in the past that meant simply replacing the keyboard, and I've done that many times. They had to have me ship it back for that.
Not sure, but I can use deduction: 1) If induction is valid, then it follows that we can use induction to reason about the world. 2) But we can't use it to reason about the world, 3) so it isn't valid. (Modus Tollens) This is valid, but not necessarily sound. Soundness implies that first two statements (premises) are also true. The second premise is clearly not true, because we use induction to reason all the time. So the conclusion #3, while it follows as a valid argument, cannot be said to be a 'sound conclusion.'
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I completed my bachelors in Computer Science Engineering around 5 years back. I am currently working as a web and mobile application developer. My skill set includes Java, JavaScript, a couple of JavaScript frameworks - AngularJS, React, Node, and a little bit of Swift and Objective C. Of late I feel it very underwhelming and believe that I could do more. I want to move to a more challenging career stream. I want to gain skills to work on something like Autonomous vehicles. A few job listings I checked out mention very generic requirements as C/C++, Linux Systems etc as required skills, and all of these listing are looking for someone with years of experience in this field. I am looking for pointers on how I can acquire the required skills to get considered for these roles. Any guidance will be deeply appreciated!

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Criminals will just hire a botnet, as we can see from all incoming spam email and forum bots, etc. For the rest of us who desire to be anonymous online, there is Tor. Whatever people can do over Tor, they can also do without Tor. You're probably never going to find them anyway, even if you would sue in the first place.

This whole tor vs clearnet distinction is way overblown. Sure people will do more crap if they're anonymous, but if you block Tor criminals will just use something else.
Also I think Horizon Zero Dawn has very impressive vegetation, and it came out last year even.
It's pre-emptive in that it doesn't address any of it, you just says that "this" has been said about other things, supposedly implying that since this somehow refutes even one sentence in the article, making all discussion of any details in it superfluous.

But you don't even have the courtesy to say that, just leave it implied, and then paper that over with some fluff about the Beatles as if that could distract from that. So you "stand behind" stating a triviality and then not saying what you cannot directly defend.

About "older generations rejecting change", that old, dank chestnut... conveniently ignoring all the changes welcomed with open arms by older generations, too, and all the young people who think this stuff stinks. It's a fake narrative to skirt actual argumentation. More importantly, resistance against these methods, as well as the people who rationalize them, is just as much "progress" as is inventing and employing them.
That's actually a good point, better than the usual blockchain fetish nonsense. But two points...

First, that requires a new Constitution, throwing out our existing representative democracy and starting over with a new model.

Second, not everyone agrees direct democracy is a good idea. Adding a layer of focused expertise in the form of representation is arguably a very good thing.
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For me, “chat” can be so frustrating that I literally log out of it to get work done.

First, there has not been single message better sent in chat. Every single one should have been an E-mail, especially considering:

- I am usually trying to finish something and random chats interrupt me.

- People essentially ignore “status” (“I can see you online” = “I can send complex questions out of the blue and expect an immediate response”).

- Any history/information becomes fragmented: instead of being collected in one place (E-mail), it is split up or lost entirely.

- Not all chat clients are good. They screw up formatting. They have lousy UX in other ways. I want the full power of real communication in E-mail.

There are also wrong assumptions made. I saw a friend get basically scolded by an upper manager for not attending some stupid conference call, which was “communicated” to him via offline chat message. Well messages don’t always deliver. Talk to people or, you know, send reliable E-mails.

So the only solution is to “hide”: log that stupid thing out if you need an hour of uninterrupted work.
1. High energy music.

2. A programming environment I've mastered.

I find it's very difficult to enter the flow state if I'm not listening to the right kind of music or while I'm learning a new platform, language, or framework.
It probably depends on the community and the journal but I was a reviewer for a journal (not blinded, not CS) and in my experience a good paper is everything, credentials are nothing. I read quite a few papers from university bprofessors who had hardly a clue of statistics and research design and didn't care to ask an statistician and submitted shitty papers and were rejected. As a reviewer, I was really happy when I got to read a well written paper with no really obvious flaws.
As a psychologist, I would say if you are experiencing recurring depression, meeting with a professional is the best next step. Here's a short guide on how to find a therapist if you're not sure how to begin.

https://azimuthpsych.com/articles-and-ebooks/how-to-find-a-t...

NAMI https://www.nami.org/ also has a lot of great resources both online and local to you.
You've managed to combine religious flamewar and nationalistic flamewar. Those munitions aren't allowed here, and we ban accounts that set them off.

No more posts like this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Without a preferential reference frame, that's a nonsensical question. You can define your velocity to be arbitrarily close to C just be defining in relation to which inertial reference frame.
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Yeah the ratio 10:1 seems reasonable from my experience, and the order-of-magnitude difference is consistent with the 80:20 rule of software engineering that states that the last 20% of work on a project take as much time as the first 80% of the work.

There is a really cool tool called `gource` http://gource.io/ that allows you to visualize the changes in version control systems like git and hg. I highly recommend you try it on some of your projects---it can help you see who did what. I bet you'll find some surprising things when you watch the history of the project... which parts were done first, which things are new, etc. Is there a genius colleague on your team that wrote the whole thing? Who are your colleagues with good work ethic that consistently push solid bugfix commits and refactoring all over the code base?

Here is a sample run of gource on the .tex source code for my linear algebra book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlfrPRe-BeM here is a more interesting one showing 5 months of git's git history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMC3g2Xy8c
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Make sure you understand how a journal article is expected to be structured. This varies from field to field. In my field (not CS), it looks like this:

1. Introduction. This not only lays out the problem you're addressing, but also locates it in the context of previous work. This is important for a few reasons, not least that the people reviewing your paper will probably expect you to have cited them there. But also, it shows that you understand your work in the context of a broader scholarly effort to advance your field. If you think your work is truly novel, you probably haven't done enough reading to find parallels in the literature. The introduction should also briefly state your results -- this isn't a mystery novel, you're not saving up for a big reveal.

2. Methods. This section describes the new thing you did or made. What it is, how it works and why. You're still going to be putting a fair number of citations in here, but they'll be a good deal more focused than in the intro. Often I see people citing their own research group's previous work here, because you're building on something the group already did.

3. Experiment. This section describes what you did to evaluate your work. This description should be detailed enough that somebody else should be able to repeat your measurements.

4. Results. This section should have the most figures and the fewest citations in it. It describes what happened when you did your experiment.

5. Conclusion. Here you explain what it all means and how it ties back to the broader scholarly effort to advance your field. Where the intro states your results, the conclusion restates them and puts them into context. The conclusion also usually talks about future research directions suggested by the work you've presented.

A lot of grad school is about learning how to write papers like this.
And more recently, UK police have discovered that surveilling crowds with facial recognition software produces almost entirely false positives, even if the software is supposedly quite accurate at picking out criminals. Not that they care or plan to stop using it, of course.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/uk-police-say-92...
Quad9 was founded by IBM, PCH (Packet Clearing House - they operate a lot of smaller countries' authoritative dns), and GCA (Global Cyber Alliance), but it's a standalone Non-Profit. https://quad9.net/about/

I prefer to use them over Google and Cloudflare since their whole non-profit mission is DNS.

They also offer a 9.9.9.10 service if you don't want the "Security block list" (I don't like blacklists I don't control).
The more important question is with an Alcubierre drive, how do you decide which direction it was traveling. Since it is traveling faster than C, you can pick a reference frame where it goes frame A to B, one where it disappears from A and arrives at B instantly, and one where it goes from B to A.
Would love to see other examples of this!
I wonder what really counts as manipulation?

Maybe you walk by an ice cream store and you think "I should get some ice cream". If the ice cream store wasn't there, you wouldn't have thought that. I'm sure someone could talk this up as "convincing you to want things that you otherwise wouldn't have wanted."

Maybe this is more of a problem for some people and a liquor store? But the advertising can just be: the store is there.

So much of advertising is attempting to remind people to think of things they already like, even when it's not physically present. It's a much easier sell than getting someone to try something new.

I can just mention Twitter and some people will think about checking to see what's new on Twitter.
There is nothing magical about having a PhD of course. I've reviewed a few papers (for journals) from non-traditional sources, and also had some more direct submissions. The common issues you run into are

1) The work is sloppy and/or has obvious errors.
2) The work lacks clear context (i.e. citations and framing - "why should we care").
3) The structure is not idiomatic.
4) The writing is not idiomatic.

The 1st one is an easy rejection, but the next 3 are harder. If you are submitting through conventional editorial boards, you have to understand how much unpaid work it is to do a good review. If your paper is difficult to place in context, it's harder. If it is done in a non-idiomatic way it is both harder to understand, and - fair or not - reduces confidence (which means more detailed verification needed).

I agree having a "traditional" collaborator can help, not because of the credentials so much as avoiding issues 2-3. It also will help to read a large number of well written articles. At minimum, if you are thinking of publishing your own ideas you should have read every core/significant related paper done in the last decade or so, and as many of the other related ones you find interesting as you can. That will help you with both issue #2 and with improving quality.

If it's in an area with an active preprint server like arxiv, by all means submit there. If your idea is interesting and you've called it out well, you should get some feedback.
Is it me or does this rant sound like "bad stuff happened but a phone was involved so it's the phone manufacturer's problem".

Our kids get into an agitated state when their devices have to be taken away but why is the fault of "tech industry"? IN the past it wouldve been "video games" or "TV" or "D&D"... just whatever the scapegoat du jour.
What I do is simply check if CF-IPCountry header == "T1" and block those from being able to register accounts. T1 is Tor.
We have an explanatory theory of how stars have worked in the past.

But we don't have a justification, other than induction, for believing that that theory will remain valid into the future.
I had exactly the same issue when moving to Linux from macOS.

Certainly in the Gnome Terminal on Ubuntu I've been relieved to find out that C-c is still SIGINT and you can get copy using Ctrl-Shift-c. Ctrl-Shit-v to insert.
>With electronic voting, the counting is done by machines and the mechanism is obfuscated and unverifiable.

Can someone explain why I am ignorant here: Is it not just feasible to open source and open access everything with only obfuscating voter identity as a hash? That way people can voluntarily make public their votes for third-party investigation?

Note: I'm not saying this is better than paper voting. But if voting is to be electronic then this seems like the best model?
Most people should feel like pawns based on this definition. I am inclined to agree though.
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Not GP, but my guess is ban evasion.

Someone gets banned from bad behavior, they create a new account. So you IP ban them. Then they switch over to Tor and keep making new accounts from anonymized IPs and start disrupting the forum by spamming it with slurs. The only solution is to ban Tor.
So you don't think what I said is true? That every form of entertainment targeted toward young people for the past half a century has had the same rhetoric attached to it? Were you alive in the 80s? Do you remember that D&D was accused of causing Satanism and causing teens to commit human sacrifice? I'm seriously not making that up, it happened.

The entire thesis of the blog post is that tech companies are "ruining" our children by employing psychologically manipulative product development. My argument is that this has been happening for ages and people continue to grow up as regular human beings.
It's nauseating that an important topic like this one gets headed of with cutesy deflection from someone with a nick that's a homophone of "gas the jews".
A kind of "if cookie exists in this format that indicates session then..." ?

That is interesting.
>Criminals will just hire a botnet

... if Tor proves ineffective. If not, then they'll definitely use Tor.
This shouldn’t be necessary. We changed our handling of Tor so long ago that I’ve forgotten how long go it was.

If you are using the Tor Browser Bundle you should not see a CAPTCHA. If you do please report it to us.
Location History is my biggest pet peeve with Google and nearly got me to switch to iPhone. After getting a super creepy "Here's Where You've Been in the last Week!" email that (a) wasn't accurate and (b) I never opted into, I disabled Location History.

However, the number of things this breaks is frustrating: Google Fit requiring it makes some sense, but most of my Google Home features refuse to work without Location History on. It's incredibly frustrating when a physical device is artificially limited for reasons beyond a consumer's comprehension.
This doesn't require remembering which specific video you watched, an abstract classification would be enough.
Wow, funny to see this here. I'm halfway through Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley, a history of phone phreaking, and the Bell System Technical Journal plays an important role, as you said!
> I occasionally see papers that are pretty obviously coming from industry where it's pretty apparent that the authors just have no idea what a contribution entails.

My advisor is in PL too, and he's commented on the exact same thing. Every time he's on the PC for a conference, he's able to pick out a couple papers that he's confident are written by non-academics. He says it's a combination of the lack of thorough knowledge on the subject (attempting to present an idea as novel when it's been done before, but under a different name) and the writing style (not academic enough). It seems that these are things OP should definitely look out for if they want to successfully self-publish.
This was clear from the beginning.

I've had team members quit a few years ago to join GE Digital, lured by crazy salaries. Too good to be true.

For GE, this was a spreadsheet initiative. Some SVP added a few lines to spreadsheet, opening headcount for a few thousand people. Same SVP would lose interest a few years down and would simply delete those lines again. Nothing more to it, this is corporate 101 on this level (see Siemens, HP, others for the same stuff).

Sucks for people that adjusted their lifestyles to those salaries, but it was clear, from the beginning. Hiring a ton of mediocre talent with top pay always mean trouble.
Back when I was making games (and game engines), whenever I had to render text, I used freetype to render to a memory buffer, and uploaded that as a texture. Two triangles / one quad per "label".

For this use case, where text labels don't change that often or are that many, the approach suggested in the article (two triangles / one quad per glyph, and having to do kerning by hand) sounds unnecessarily complex.
> Doesn't going paper-only make it difficult to switch to alternative voting systems like RCV

It makes IRV (“RCV” is an annoying name designed specifically to obscure other ranked-choice methods) impractical, particularly for large electorates, if you want to avoid machine tallying, but that's a reason not to use IRV, not a reason to avoid paper ballots and manual tabulation.

A simply tallyable ranked choice method like Bucklin is amenable to manual tabulation. (And, compared to IRV, getting rid of loser elimination reduces the degree to which IRV produces undesirable results and makes the system easier to understand.)
Only for different spacecraft, so it only really matters for some planetary bases. A single spacecraft is still processed in a single thread.
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