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The same argument could be made for almost everything people might purchase. Just buy what works for you and don’t worry about what others choose to do with their money.
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There are ways to avoid the Thucydides trap, but they don't involve clapping your hands over your ears and pretending everything is fine when it is not. No matter what they like to claim, China is an aggressive expansionist power, and simply ignoring that reality is not going to accomplish anything.
This is soon to be solvable by mounting the cache directory during the build, thankfully: https://github.com/moby/buildkit/pull/442 ("dockerfile: add run --mount support #442 ")
Your post sounds like a diversion story to me.
Not to mention failure to raise interest rates to bleed the artificially cheap money out of the economy after quantitative easing. But you can't find a political party these days that supports doing a Keynesian strategy. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too, as it were.
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“Real Food, Fake Food” was absolutely critical in getting me into a mindset of caring about the quality of my food. That mindset shift has led to 100+lbs of weight loss.
This allows the browser to delay all style, layout, and paint work on attached DOM, and then also spread that work across multiple frames during a commit, reducing jank for the unlocked portions of the page.

If you synchronously swap a large portion of DOM, style, layout, and paint will likely blow your frame budget.
Why not both fund this and pay Amazon employees more?
Avoiding toxic doctors, too.

When young and before I knew better, I had two surgeries that should not have been done. Or, for one, not executed in the manner it was; and it was only necessary because of an unavoidable gap in insurance coverage.

Ha, when I remind myself, the other was necessary because of a string of failures initially culminating in an incompetent doctor and the PT he lauded. Then compounded a year later by a surgeon who'd rather operate than image and then was quite lackadaisical about recovery.

Beyond the topic of doctors, we have so much sugar in our diet, in good part because ADM needs to move corn products for profit. I imagine they've now cornered the market on beet sugar, as well, although I don't know. And the cane sugar growers who continue to lobby very effectively e.g. with the leverage of Florida state and its political influence.

"Modern medicine" is very limited in what it can actually, thoroughly fix. Staying healthy is the bulwark, but with a lot of financially motivated people poking holes in this for their own benefit.
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It was a 5 hour session, but all of the bursts were discovered in the same 1 hour period.

>Initial “standard” algorithms identified 21 FRBs, all happening in one hour’s worth of the observations...Sure enough, the machine learning model picked out 72 more FRBs in the same period.
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"Which shitty business practice? Selling food to poor people to make them less hungry?"

No one talked about that but you. You know that is not what we're talking about; we're talking about the shitty wages WalMart pays, which requires you and I to subsidize their labor costs.

"Or employing them to make them less bored, more purposeful, and to have more money than if they were unemployed?"

This is a complete non-sequitor. They are subsidizing their labor costs by not paying enough, and requiring their employees to turn to public assistance. That is shitty, and pure evil, as is anyone apologizing for that practice.

"Would you like to run a business in an environment where the government is free to single you out for differentially hostile treatment?"

I wouldn't run a business in that manner, and so I honestly do not give a flying fuck about the feelings of any business owner that would be upset at that. As far as I'm concerned, those people deserve to have their business and money confiscated from them in order to repay society for what we've had to do for them.
If you're the kind of person who considers proximity to Vegas a downside, in LA you're far enough away to ignore Vegas entirely. It's not like you're going to wind up there by accident...
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Not using TLS on repos is pretty standard in distro packaging, though in the days of Lets Encrypt it seems sensible to change that.

There may be a comment to be made about using random distros. Alpine was a tiny distro that became super popular despite presenting several problems, docker layers making size sorta not important, and despite the recommended base image being debian.

Probably too late for that point though, and the distros popularity does suggest some of these companies should indeed donate.
There are 12000 foot mountains within 2 hours of LA and visible from most of its sprawl. California has plenty of mountains all over.
This is extreme and very, very far beyond the scope of what I was attempting to discuss.

That's a lot different than simply submitting a PR to change "man" to "person" -- If there's actual physical threats occurring on a regular basis within our communities I'm severely uninformed. No argument, it's bullying and it's wrong.

I suppose in that case, I advocate the underlying message but not its conveyance.
Heck, computer science has the same problem, and probably will as long as psychology, since like every person, every business is different. Replication difficulties follow naturally.
"One evening at the SIPS conference, after sessions had been concluded and beers consumed, a researcher asked Heathers for his opinion of a study that seemed suspicious. When Heathers decided he’d heard enough to render a verdict, he took a few steps back and began to shout.

""Give me a B!"

""B!" the assembled scientists replied.

""Give me a U!""

And here we see how more bullshit gets started. Deciding that something sounds bad means it is wrong is exactly the same error as deciding that something sounds good means it is right.
Despite the imperfect technology, I'd bet that if we could somehow make all cars autonomous today (with current tech) and network them all together, it would drastically reduce both accidents and fatalities.

The vast majority of accidents by human drivers are caused by basic neglect, not tricky edge case situations. I think it's hard to really comprehend just how bad humans are at driving. It wouldn't take anything close to a perfect autonomous system to do better--just having "drivers" that actually pay attention to their surroundings all the time would be a massive improvement, even if there were occasional bugs and glitches.
> If I were to take a contrarian view of this, I would ask: "What is the difference between Google censoring search results based on the public security laws of China, versus Google censoring search results based on the copyright laws of the USA and EU?"

> Why didn't this researcher resign over the 2nd instance?

Because they're obviously qualitatively different to a significant degree. Only one is viewpoint-based political censorship.
Not abashed myself to admit giving up on Jest around the 1/3 point, and Eden at 1/4.

Hemingway's strengths are high rhetoric, and European politics of the 30's. Wallace: deep journalism in essay form.
Great book, while on the Carnegie rush, I followed that book with How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In Germany:

~ 40% meet the requirements to go to any university (for a long time this was primarily through finishing the Gymnasium, the higher-level high-school path, but nowadays it's half and half this vs other paths, most of which end with a big set of exams and an overall grade from those)

additional ~ 10% meet the requirements for a "university of applied sciences"

Universities are allowed to set a grade limit from the exams for individual majors if they'd be oversubscribed otherwise, with some adjustment for time spent waiting for a spot and other criteria chosen by the university (activities outside school, existing experience, introduction letter, some invite candidates for interviews, ...).

If there's a limit like that or not is really mixed. E.g. at the university I studied at, some CS-related majors were limited, others weren't, chemistry, physics and mathematics were unrestricted but "bio sciences" was restricted, ... Some university institutes allow fairly heavy oversubscription and "solve" the problem by hard required exams in the first year - good for people with bad school grades but skill in the field, annoying for those that misjudged their skills. Changing majors isn't as common as it was as far as I know, but still something that happens quite a bit, especially early on.

Medical fields are a special case and centrally managed, so you don't apply to an individual university but to a central authority (and give them some preferences where you'd like to study), with again a lot of priority given to grades.

Private universities where students pay for classes exist too, but they're a niche thing.
While I am still waiting for my Tesla Model 3 SR, I browse the Tesla forums and find it amusing (or maybe just sad) that Tesla is charging $5000+ for Full Self Driving (FSD). Owners are paying for the future possibility that the car will be "conducting trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat" [per Tesla Model 3 ordering page].

I think some Tesla owners are even expecting that their car will go self work for Uber over night, generating the user income. Other customers seem to be paying the fee, yet they are just leasing their car. Will these leasees ever see any significant FSD features?

This article gets it right that self-driving is way, way off. It will be interesting to see what and when Telsa delivers to its customers who prepaid for FSD. I think Tesla already settled a lawsuit with some owners over self-driving fees and associated delays.
> Google has been very consistent in showing its bias for an open, connected, free world where quality information is accessible

I guess that's why they've been working with China to create censored sub-internet?

> It was formed by immigrants,

It was formed by Page and Brin, only Brin can be classified as "immigrant" and even him not of his own volition - he was brought in the US by his parents when he was 6.

> Nothing you’ve said points to the fact that they’ve actually silenced “non-left” news.

If by "silenced" you mean completely prevented access, then yes, Google does not have this power. Fortunately, almost nobody does. Biasing the picture, though, is another matter. US politics as it is now is often balancing on results of pretty close elections, and couple of thousands of votes thrown either way can do a lot. Google has access to data about billions, including vast majority of people in the US. People at Google are not shy about proclaiming at which side there are, and some also not shy about declaring they utter lack of respect and tolerance to the other side. Maybe there's a line they still would not cross and that line is way before it could influence any work decisions - but how exactly we can know that and believe that?

> And having worked there twice, the culture I observed is such that they’d never want to do such things

Are you sure that your acknowledged bias did not make you miss the willingness to suppress views that both you and your peers vehemently disagree with and hold despicable?

> It’s antithetical to their world view to silence political viewpoints

It's not what it looks like on the outside, at least. Just throw in "it's ok to be intolerant to those bad outgroup people" and you're in the clear. I don't see any hard commitment to free speech from Google. Maybe the people you've encountered that have this commitment are not actually those who dictate the policies?
I mean, that's sorta the point of the talk. Did you watch it?

> This sounds like it is just going to trade one set of problems for another.

Sure, that's exactly what a tradeoff is.

> what substantiates the claim that it is generally superior?

I don't think the claim is that it is always superior.

Oh, and I would see this refactor of a decoupling. The issue is that, if you’re trying to process Players in certain ways, the fact that the name and health are coupled together in a single struct is an issue. This pulls them apart.
Yup, a popular JavaScript framework requires JavaScript.

Why is that a problem? I understand disliking tracking or disliking parallax sites or disliking realllly slow loading sites.

But the web is a whole lot better today. I can upvote a HN post without having to click submit and get redirected, I can see a dropdown menu without it being cluttered, I can use rich editors when writing content, and overall I can interact with sites in a way that was impossible 15 years ago.

Do some people abuse JS? Sure! But the web is a much better place today, especially for non-technical people, than it was 5 or 10 years ago.
It's pretty much a given that they'll be intercepted before they reach legal Alaskan airspace, and a dead certainty that they would never manage to reach the contiguous United States.

However, I've been told by people in a position to know that the actual game is to attempt to intercept the Russian planes before they get within cruise missile range of Anchorage.

The USAF doesn't always manage to do that.
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> Therefore it is nonsense to be outraged by what Google is doing.

I think you missed an important implication, from the context.

> Google are having zero influence on <limiting> China's totalitarian government
Thank you for this valuable advice. I always love to learn more about programming.
Travels - Michael Crichton, got me into travelling, the outdoors and an interest in inner travel

The hobbit - came with the adventure game that my aunty had on her c64 got me into computers and reading aged about 7

Fear - Thich nhat hahn, read repeatably during recent hard times. Might need to re-read again soon...
I also found it ridiculous how he says users are better off without 3D Touch. IIRC, some functionality can only be accessed through it, so certain features have no way of working on the SE or XR.
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It’s by definition stuff that we don’t know about, so we can’t exactly go looking for it.
"I am old, older than thought in your species, which is itself fifty times older than your history. Though I have been on earth for ages I am from the stars. My home is no one planet, for many worlds scattered through the shining disc of the galaxy have conditions which allow my spores an opportunity for life. The mushroom which you see is the part of my body given to sex thrills and sun bathing, my true body is a fine network of fibers growing through the soil. These networks may cover acres and may have far more connections that the number in a human brain. My mycelial network is nearly immortal, only the sudden toxification of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can wipe me out. By means impossible to explain because of certain misconceptions in your model of reality all my mycelial networks in the galaxy are in hyperlight communication across space and time. The mycelial body is as fragile as a spider's web but the collective hypermind and memory is a vast historical archive of the career of evolving intelligence on many worlds in our spiral star swarm. Space, you see, is a vast ocean to those hardy life forms that have the ability to reproduce from spores, for spores are covered with the hardest organic substance known."

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It's interesting to me that he touched on something that I think is still in the learning loop... that "semi-autonomous" isn't going to work. You can't have a car that does most of its own driving, but then calls on a human when it winds up in an emergency situation. How do you get the person's attention? And how do you get them up to speed? Part of the ability to respond to emergencies while driving, as a human, comes from already having the mental model of your non-emergency environment. If you get pulled into the emergency, you have to construct that model, and it takes time, and it's hard to do under the influence of adrenaline.

Stuff that puts a human in primary control, but then assists, though... that's pretty awesome. Emergency braking and lane assist tech is terrific. I'd love to have a car that just warns me of hazards when backing out of a parking space while mostly blind. Even if I'm doing the backing out, just a warning of oncoming cars/pedestrians would help. (Better yet, that's a great place to have the car do all the driving for me - just get me out of this parking space, and let me take over).
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> people need to take personal responsibility

Whenever someone says this I assume the opposite; America is not a place of uniquely irresponsible people.

People have had cashflow issues since the dawn of cash, often mitigated by complex family informal credit systems.
It depends on whether you want to stay grounded in real-world physics, or if you want to spin off on flights of fancy.

If you want to stay in real-world physics, at the moment there is no reason to expect any civilization to use anything other than electromagnetic radiation for communication. Other than the low speed of light, which is a characteristic of the universe that it does not seem to allow any faster-than-light communication so it's not specially a disadvantage for EM, electromagnetic radiation basically has every characteristic you're looking for in a communications medium, and there's little reason to believe even an advanced civilization would use something orders of magnitude worse on numerous dimensions simply because maybe they can. This is for much the same reason that we could transport everything in our civilization by people carrying things around on Segways, but we don't, because why would we deliberately choose something suboptimal?

If you want to go off on flights of fancy, then anything is possible, but there's no way to say anything useful about it.

The "grounded in reality" answer is subject to change as our understanding of physics improves, but at the moment I wouldn't say there's any particular reason to expect this answer to change much. Even on the crazy fringe frontiers of real science, I am not aware of any candidates for communication any better than EM.

Most of the whacky ideas proposed as alternate methods fail by orders of magnitude vs EM. Might you be able to build a better neutrino detector than we can? Maybe, but it's still easier to build EM detectors, and EM emitters, by a lot. Gravity waves? Why on not-Earth would anyone spend the massive, massive amounts of energy required to do that, very klunkily and with very low bandwidth, when for literally a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth the energy expenditure you could use EM, and get higher bandwidth to boot and better reusability to boot? Quantum entanglement and teleportion are non-starters, because they both require a conventional channel to work at all, and the best tool for that communication is EM.
You can configure it to output to S3 and the mechanism for that is easy to configure and has fault tolerance.
True enough. The number of incidents went way down during the period between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin, though.

Since Putin has been in power, the number of incidents has jumped back up to near Cold War levels.
I agree it should be required reading in college. However, it has one glaring fault: it doesn't provide many tips on motivating yourself to take personal interest in others. We geeks like gizmos and logic and stuff, people bore us.

It's like a health book that reveals eating more vegetables and whole grains, and getting more exercise is the way to better health. That's useful info, but the hard part is motivating yourself to eat such and exercise often enough.
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I do somewhat agree, especially for the half-time, there is a discontinuous change in the amount of value of this program if it doesn't cover 4 years vs. it not covering living costs. It probably doesn't solve everything but it's much better than the lot most people in the US have with respect to college access.
Mass transit will always be viewed as the lesser option where it is the lesser option.

In cities that were designed or entirely remade to support the automobile, the automobile works better than everything else. This is almost a tautology, but it's remarkable how often it's overlooked in this discussion. If cities were re-designed around transit (with more density, smaller roads, and more space for alternative transportation modes), then transit would work better and cars would be worse. †

In summary, yes, obviously cars work better in cities designed for cars! But cities that work well for cars aren't a natural feature of the universe. It took a lot of work to get them to look like that.

† An important implication of this is that transit will never overtake the automobile in low-density, sprawl-heavy cities. Transit use is high where the transit infrastructure is good and driving is painful. Both things have to be true. ††

And the tension here is direct. Sprawl-heavy areas can't support good transit infrastructure and high-density, pedestrian-friendly areas are awful to drive in. A choice for one is a vote against the other.

†† This is why arguments about the superiority of cars based on revealed preference are usually spurious. If you put a light rail system in a town built for cars, then people will keep using the thing the town was built for. But those people are revealing their preference for cars in an environment built for cars. Where the built environment is different, people behave differently.
Everyone knows this, but they also know that the market will remain irrational longer than they will remain solvent.

Main question for me is how well do previous indicators of this kind of activity predict the CURRENT state of things. Which fundamental cascade effects have we missed? Most of the time the things that cause the crisis are not the contagion problems you predict (obviously). If I could see it, I'd be hedging :)

If I had to guess, I'd say more like the Savings and Loan crisis than 2008, but I'm an optimist.
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That's exactly where my mind went when I read the link... whatever we do, don't answer the signal :-)
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Even if a sufficiently advanced civ out there is using something like quantum entanglement, they mostly likely didn't just jump from smoke signals to quantum entanglement. So we might be catching signals from the say 500 years while they used radio waves.
> I'm not sure we scramble fighter jets every time they do.

They do.
I think the next downturn will prompt the investigation for new indicators to measure economic health. What does the number of food assistance enrollees measure if the government makes it much harder to receive assistance? What does the labor participation rate matter if you have millions of low-wage workers completely miserable (and from my experience, start abusing drugs because of that misery).

I'm just blowing steam here, but it feels like the economy and it's measures has been decoupled from a large segment of society.