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Have you considered the dangers of giving unreasonable people a monopoly on the truth? If you refuse to candidly discuss the truths of the world, people will turn to those who will.

Regarding your autism example: of there were an acknowledged weak link, we could at least have a discussion about it, and maybe do research on mitigating the risk.

But if there were a link between autism and vaccination and your scientific guilds spent decades denying it, and then the truth came out, the public would never trust another damn thing you said ever again. Even if you made a safe vaccine, nobody would take it.

I'm disappointed that after 10,000 years of civilization we have to re-learn this ancient lesson yet another time. Nobody has ever accomplished a net good by slowing the accumulation of knowledge.
What's funny about the JavaScript world is that there are basically two activities that happen: create yet another SPA framework and create yet another "script" suffixed language in which to code and transpile. Nothing is done to JavaScript itself at structural and semantic level. Even the standards seem to focus too much on peripheral aspects such as spread, arrow function etc which are no doubt useful but don't improve the language itself. The language is still as flawed and imperfect as it has always been.

Why don't anyone think of incorporating at least the low hanging fruits for which developers have to migrate to a different language and transpile? What they do add is halfa$$ed, like const. It boggles my mind. I created an experimental framework called JEEP to remedy the sort of things I am ranting about. Jeep has been happening in several iterations since 2015 and before every iteration I checked if the latest standards would make the framework redundant but sadly the need for Jeep only intensified. Finally I posted the 2018 version here on Show and elsewhere and the response was staggering, in that nobody gave a f.ck. I am not bitter, no, really, but just amazed as to what people find interesting and flock to and what they ignore happily. Admittedly, the framework is quite unconventional and needs some reading and experimenting to be done in order to be fully appreciated, leave alone adopt, and it may even be advocating the sort of things that an average JavaScript developer is not interested in, but the sheer lack of even "what the f.ck is this $hit" was astounding. Some stats: collectively there has been over 3500 views but only 2 comments and a handful of likes, stars, upvotes etc. I am sure it will get attention eventually, hopefully sooner rather than later, its been just 10 days yet, but the initial response is something that has made me recaliberate the priority of an average JavaScript developer.
Most of those are not freedoms. How many people actually ask their kids which primary language they want to speak, and which religion they want to follow beforeahead?
What you're describing already happens. The only way to defeat that is with client-side mitigations like uBlock. DNS-level mitigations like Pi-Hole will stop the content from loading if the ads aren't loaded.
Could you elaborate on how it's controlled?
This is the Identity Theft sketch -- love it!
> I've said this here before, the primary use cases of machine learning right now, today, are hostile

Yes. As I think that it is quite obvious the majority of current AI is only superficially designed to help me, while fundamentally they are designed quite successfully to f#ck me and get my money, I have occasionally tried to figure out ways to somehow level the playing field against the current crop of AI, but it is difficult. One of the only tools actually having any effect is adblocking. And if I engage in that, I am blamed that I strip content creators of their income. I guess the fundamental problem is that nobody has any economic incentive to fight against the current AI army, while a large bunch of people seem to actually enjoy getting manipulated (to buy unnecessary stuff or get radicalized to some fringe ideology) by our machine overlords.
Slight change: "having data stolen from them due to outright incompetent security"

It wasn't inadvertently, they made decisions and said "eh whatever"
I'll have to check my data. You are right re late stage studies being most expensive component of drug dev cost in terms of direct costs, but when you account for cost of failure, early stage dev is actually more expensive. Phase 2 failure (drugs that work in the lab and animals not working in people) is the single biggest cost driver. That cost is linked highly to the difficulty of biology and biochemistry (the stuff Derek Lowe often talks about :) and it isn't clear to me how more public funding would address this

Your proposal of having govt fund later stage r&d makes more sense to me that replacing IP altogether but i still think the current situation would be better at getting new drugs approved more cheaply

Reason being is that early stage innovation is tightly linked to what assets pharma companies want. Allocation of venture capital by therapeutic area is very close to allocation of approved drugs by therapeutic area and to big pharma acquisitions of small biotechs by therapeutic area

If government chose which drugs to fund at later stages, that would probably resemble the current NIH grant approval procedures which are fraught with politics and bureaucracy. There are some NIH / govt initiatives now to fund clinical studies (companies I've worked with have applied to two, CIRM and an NIH funded diabetes research group) and the application processes were brutal and took years. And I don't think those initiatives have yielded much in the way of approved drugs
I grew up in Europe where highways are perfectly smooth overall. There are bumps in the city, but you are not really meant to drive fast on those. This is to a point that I have met some native French speakers who wouldn’t know the word for “potholes” in French.
Have there been any studies about the actual consequences of these data breaches on victims (in terms of fiscal, social or even emotional impact)?
Why not work any job first and get your life straight? McDonalds, cleaning, Kirchenhelp whatever.

Than with a small flat, internet and a computer you have enough to try again a career in it.
Yes, thank you for restating exactly what I said. Catastrophic health insurance is actually the only insurance we should want.

The concept of health “insurance” is a misnomer when it’s used to pay for routine, expected care. That’s just pre-paying for services that you must use or you are wasting money. We don’t sell home insurance that pays out for painting your house or mowing your lawn. Home insurance covers you if a fire destroys your house, pools risk, and is pretty cheap.

Health insurance should cover disaster. Routine care should have a robust free market, where I can shop around for my allergy shot and MRI. This already happens for some big ticket procedures such as knee and hip replacements, where foreign hospitals compete directly with US hospitals, and even domestic competition between states.
Domino’s Pizza seemed to have taken upon themselves to act on that. I suspect that this is because it was the cheaper option for them.
There are severe restrictions on WFOEs. For all practical purposes they're useless for running a domestic tech business.

Really recommend this write up on VIEs and Alibaba: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/2017-imo/Documents/M...
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Casting isn't slow, it's the boxing. A generics List<T> isn't much slower than the non-generic List if T is some class. But if T is say an integer, then you're paying for the implicit boxing and unboxing.
There are variations on this that are more problematic (which I've never seen solutions to).

1) It looks like it takes forever, to an outside observer, for anything to reach the event horizon. So if no matter appears to reach event horizons, how can they (event horizons) form in the first place (i.e. exist in our universe)?

2) While it takes forever for matter to fall in (again to outside observers), it takes finite time for black holes to evaporate via Hawking radiation. So not only do black holes would take forever to form, they seem to have to extinguish before being able to exist (again in the sense of event horizons).

I'm not a physicist, but my speculation is that Black Holes don't really exist, they're just a limit of a process that approaches but doesn't converge to a singularity, which I think is unphysical.
I was anticipating that fixing potholes would benefit all the vehicles on that road and that you would save a lot on vehicle’s suspension.
You're assuming the discussion would be even slightly rational. It would consist of Jenny McCarthy and a bunch of homeopaths telling parents that this is proof that the Illuminati want their kids to have autism so they will worship Satan, or something about equally inane. I don't see much in the way of rational discussion of anything outside small specialized forums like this. Everything is dominated by loud anti-intellectual demagogues.

The thing that disturbs me the most is that this kind of inane BS is making inroads among people that I thought knew better... people that I thought had brains.

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You're right about the last paragraph, but it's mostly not the fault of science so much as our political leadership.

Years ago when we invaded Iraq and then it came to light that there were no WMDs, never had been WMDs, and the whole thing was deliberately concocted, I remember saying to friends that this was going to have consequences with a capital C. I was right.

I said the same thing after the 2008 bank bailouts. Major damage was done to the fundamental trust basis of our society and there will be consequences. I was right.

During the 'oughts the elite of our society stacked their credibility up in a big pile and set it on fire. I wish I had an answer. If they were honorable they would own up to it, but I see none of that. Apparently they decided invading Iraq and bailing out banks was more important than the bedrock trust on which our society is built and they're committed to going down with the ship.
What I want to see out of this or future generations is a culture of never-debts, who responsibly save, invest, and not tie their entire lives to credit ratings, shiny garbage, and what wall street wants.

The biggest con job on the American middle class was the 401k though, how else could people be so fashioned against their own interests than to emotionally tie their future so intimately with how the stock market is doing.

I'm not holding my breath on things changing though...
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Looks like a lot of work per function. Though may be justifiable for security focused distro or library.
Choosing action out of fear of what may come, as opposed to finding a loving solution with an eye to the past, present, and future, is less likely to produce desirable and sustainable outcomes.

If we keep avoiding having conversations geared toward developing mutual understanding and respect vs trying to be right or change other people, we'll collectively regress further.
I have friends who are deathly afraid of flying that would make this choice in a heartbeat.
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Please do watch the TED talk by Zeynep. She actually says something along these lines - that it's not so much a conspiracy but probably an unfortunate side effect. What the system ultimately cares about is that people stay longer on a site if they're fed more extreme content.

From my brief experience with neural networks, they work very well for some kinds of tasks but you never know why they calibrate themselves this way. One of uses of neural networks that impresses me the most is Keldon AI, the free (open source) app for Race for the Galaxy board game. Traditional game AI is notably bad with "fuzzy logic" - when you're unable exhaustively calculate everything, and your opponent is just getting some cards. Well it turns out machine learning doesn't care about that. It cares that if it has X cards in hand and you have Y cards in hand, and the table looks so and so, playing card Z has C chance of landing a win in the long run. Or something like that. And it works! But if you look inside the rftg app, you'll just see piles of numbers. Just weights. SO when you play against it, you see what it played, but you're never sure why, and it can't explain itself. Zeynep actually talks about this, but in more sinister context. For instance deep learning algorithms are eerily good at detecting bipolar people. They can take advantage of people with various mental disabilities and disorders. Think of the consequences. What if this is used to create your personal profile and share it across shops you visit.
Javascript is becoming the next c++, what a mess. I can now write a function in about 10 different ways.. In all their efforts to fix it, it only becomes worse. Loads of fancy new features (mostly copied from Coffeescript), but the basic type system is still not fixed!

I miss the simplicity, readability and power of Coffeescript. -> function without context binding, => function with binding. That's it! does?.this?.prop?.exist, nope still not possible in JS. Ah well, the community hates CS and loves all the amazing new features of ES+. Until you look at a random codebase out there of some outstanding JS dev's utilising all the latest features. One big mess of conflicting strategies, unreadable code, poorly documented, bloated, etc.. etc.. But hey, we're using promises, reducers and spread operators everywhere, we're super smart!

When will the JS community start improving on the quality of the code instead of adding new language features, tooling, frameworks and so on? Try to think of better names for your identifiers to start with, using an intuitive naming system throughout a large codebase so it becomes actually readable. No, will not happen, too boring I guess.

I'm writing Typescript now to pay the bills. Adding even more complexity, it scales so well, mainly because you can use the 'any' type. Said enough?
Yes, the C# approach relies on JIT. IIRC for Java they decided backwards compatibility in the JVM was more important than doing it the C# way.
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Just to add that the mMellotron inspired the innovative looping ‘choir’ effect on 10cc’s I’m Not in Love.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/26/10cc-how-we-ma...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_in_Love
Does the OB work follow BLIS and libxsmm? There's been at least some discussion of avx512 trades-off around them and the authors would probably advise. (Not that there's a single "avx512"...)
A lot of firms (maybe most?) which buy this data actually don't care about that much as long as you can otherwise demonstrate the data is valid. If the data is predictive over time, it's valid, and most firms will happily accept that demonstration (with the proviso that they cease working with you once the data loses predictive value).

The reason the apps use those SDKs directly is because there's a hierarchy of resellers. The app developers themselves are lazy and typically want the SDK functionality which is provided free in return for their users' data. They're not always in the business of selling data themselves, they're just ambivalent.

Then the SDK providers abstract their own involvement in any particular app while still getting data.
Lina Khan is a rising superstar in antitrust/policy circles and the next Democrat in the White House should appoint her to the Supreme Court so she can start to undo Bork's Chicago School influence on antitrust doctrine.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember-2017...
However irrational the discussion, it'll be worse if a real conspiracy to suppress the truth is exposed.

Besides, part of the reason the Jenny McCarthys of the world get traction at all is that trust in scientists among the public has declined, and this decline stems directly from "science" telling the public things that are demonstrably untrue.
SEC disclosure timeliness requirements since it affects financial outlook at the very least. If they can't even be heavily punished by public institutions for at least that, how can they be expected to punish when given more breakable rules? Or, as the EU erroneously thought, does the US really believe the lack of punishment is due to legal handcuffs instead of political will, resources, and lobbying? More paper will not magically turn handshakes into arrest warrants.
That is not at all true.

You don't go bankrupt when you are late paying back a loan or miss payments or even default on a loan completely.
Have you explored a social impact bond funding model for such people?
I knew what it was before I clicked, but I still watched it to the end. He was a really smart guy.
Or just use a train.

Like if you want to travel from Moscow to Vladivostok (6 days) you'd better use this: http://thegoodlife.ru/image/962-mv.html + separate dining car.

Traveled on these, quite interesting experience. Definitely it is a good time to think where you are going.
That's a fair change. I didn't love the use of "inadvertent" there and was struggling for the best single word adjective to use. There was definitely significant negligence on equifax's part.
I like the recommendation system. It provides content that I'm interested in and I'm surprised over how "fair" it seems given what I'm interested in watching.

Maybe Youtube can provide a choice of algorithms. For example, if somebody wants a more curated "socially acceptable" experience, they could opt-in.
You mentiones mostly methodologies,those can be taught. Enjoying the method or process is the personality aspect.

I am of the opinion that you can be taught to enjoy just about anything.
I am fond of videos showing people's trips in Antarctica. This tendency exposes me to flat-earth videos ALL THE TIME. No matter how many pleasant tourist videos I watch, I still get flat-earth videos and even occasional hollow-earth videos. (the flat earth view includes the notion that the Earth is a disk with Antarctica as the outer edge).

I can't watch the pleasant tourist videos of Antarctica before bed, in case I fall asleep and the automation shows me a stream of flat-earth videos.

The link here is just the word Antarctica. The flat-earth view has nothing to do with viewing penguins or pleasant scenery.
Sincere question: when I read this article, it had this sentence: “Unwilling or perhaps unable to accept that a woman wrote a breakthrough legal text, they keep talking about bearded dudes.”

Is “dudes” acceptable in NYT’s style guide now? The term seemed incongruous either way.

To reiterate, I am only asking about the term “dudes” and only quoted the whole sentence for context.
You people are no fun.
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The likelihood of a feature being functional is usually based on two things: its hidden complexity, and how frequently used it is. HW ray tracing suffers on both of these counts (for now). It won't be truly common outside of major engines for years, and it hides a lot.

Any developer who is in the awkward middle ground of building their own technology without the resources of a major engine (both in terms of manpower and in relevance to hardware vendors) should expect everything on the bleeding edge to be partially or fully broken, often with no timely recourse. I'm not faulting the vendors too much- the software x hardware situation is absurdly complicated, and spending limited driver resources on a smaller company's use case instead of, say, Unreal and Unity, doesn't make a lot of sense.

But if you're one of those smaller companies, you pretty much have to build the fallback implementation first using common low level primitives that have been tested a million times across the industry. If you don't, your product simply won't work for many (and sometimes most) users. Even when their hardware is supposed to support it.

And speaking from unfortunate experience, the up-front cost of building the fallbacks is often less than trying to make the fancier things work consistently, even though the fancier thing is ostensibly doing the work for you.
No it's not. You can be behind on payments without filing for bankruptcy. You can have a debt sent to collections without filing for bankruptcy.

There are all sorts of cases where a person is not trustworthy with money that do not show up in the public record. That's why credit bureaus came to exist, and although their business practices and data security leave much to be desired, I understand why they exist in the first place.
Is it similar to parenting?
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There is a --diff option that works if the rows and columns are both exactly aligned. But this post makes me think about adding functionality to match by row key and column name, possibly via the "diff" join (current diff join is more like an "xor"). If you have ideas in this regard I'd love to hear them!
This is a trap. You can't just say "well the wins are worth it at the moment" and not consider what happens when someone else - possibly with antithetical values to yours - inherits that power.
For a relevant JIT library, see libxsmm, once submitted here with no take-up.
In the given examples, it is. But I agree slices are complex in Go, probably the most complex thing for newcommers, and the main reason why I wouldn't recommend go as a first language.
I'm also not a physicist but I think I can guess a plausible answer to these?

1. Because if you don't have a black hole yet then there is no event horizon to prevent you from falling in and creating one. I think the event horizon wouldn't form at exactly the same point whose crossing would finally increase density enough to create it, so this shouldn't be a problem. (Although, again, since the event horizon doesn't exist yet, I think it might still not be a problem even in that case?) I would also expect that quantum fluctuations can also inject matter into a black hole, just as they can remove matter from it.

2. Again, they wouldn't take forever to form -- see above.

I'm pretty sure black holes have been observed indirectly, so the idea that they actually don't exist would require a pretty rock solid alternative explanation!
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If you define the grace period in your contract, and they are a little late with a payment, punishing them for what you agreed to seems counter to the contract.

If they fall outside of the grace period, you should have a legal means to arbitrate and make it public record.
He sounds smart enough. He can articulate well and can use a PC.

If he is any reliable and ask for help locally, he will get it.

There is more to it than his text.

There are homeless people out there with alcohol addiction or other hard drugs. Schizophrenia untreated etc.

How homeless and helpless is your situation when you still can write a blog post?

Don't get me wrong, people should get/need help but people are not "just" homeless and something is missing in his story.
Catching one russian spy? That’s not even worth the hardware cost of the cameras installed in the UK.
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Not to mention how rare it is for SF to have fewer than several microclimates operating at the same time.
Also, is there any indication that anyone has problems with the paper because it was published by a woman?
At least I expect the way forward will be ISP giving them for free. The price difference for an ONT / Modem or ONT/Modem + Wireless Router are minimal.
>* Unwilling or perhaps unable to accept that a woman wrote a breakthrough legal text, they keep talking about bearded dudes.*

I wish they would leave these comments out. If they wanted to protray the opposition, they could have printed some of their arguments. Maye the accusation is true but you can't just make accusations and move on. It's not something that should be treated that lightly...
then how is OP a 'slave' if can simply move india. Slavery implies having no control or freedom.