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Canada, UK, US and US territories use miles instead of kilometers [1]. So in a boolean sense you are right, but it doesn't really change the overall situation.

Large version of the meme on that Page: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/dd/ac/10/ddac1053fc9560decbfdd5b29...

[1]: https://www.quora.com/The-U-S-uses-mph-What-about-the-rest-o...
New York to LA is 4,500 kilometers so comparing to Paris/Lyon might be just a bit apples and oranges.

Paris to Baghdad is about the same distance.

Cities in the US are too far apart for trains to generally make sense. Trains are for freight.
Ok, we've unduped it.
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1. 6% of zero is zero.

2. 4 years is a lot of time to spend at a company for a high probability of making 6% of zero.

3. If you're an employee at a startup, you're in the wrong job. You're much better off being a founder.

4. Equity is a way to be paid less and to be fired in the first year if you haven't vested anything.

5. Who are you going to sell your equity shares to? It's not necessarily a free market in the startup world.

6. Big companies aren't just the only type of company to be soulless. Wait till you see a small company try to screw it's employees out of equity.
> Relying on nuclear contamination as deterrence to avoid the nuclear contamination of your country

The idea was to rely on giant explosions to stop an invasion. This isn't deterrence, it's a very practical way to stop tanks, infantry, capital ships, etc. What would you prefer, soviet occupation or some radioactivity in some places?

The answer from Greenpeace activists would clearly be "soviet occupation", and I'm not sure whether it's because they know next to nothing about radioactivity or because they like socialism.
Absolutely. Even though it takes a bit longer, I prefer it to flying precisely because I can work the whole time rather than wait in long lines for TSA pageantry.
Damn. Maybe go for "Posh Again" instead, in the bash tradition :)
> A society does not prosper when everyone is paying the maximum amount they would be willing to pay

Actually if someone is paying the maximum amount they are willing to pay it maximizes incentive for an innovator to create efficiencies that bring the cost down for someone. That doesn't of course guarantee progress, because structural barriers and rent-seeking might kneecap that progress.

If people are paying the lowest possible cost for something, then there is not progress, though there might be prosperity. (Generally speaking though social prosperity is destroyed by other things, like subsidies for the wealthy).
I prefer the terminology "vomit" because it is more dramatic, as drama appears to be the purpose of the article rather than actual astrophysics.
Moa were a massive bird in New Zealand, with some thought to be 4m tall - they didn’t fly.
Whilst looking them up I stumbled on the Haast’s Eagle, which hunted Moa. It was huge relative to today’s eagles and hunted Moa. There are accounts from early settlers that may reflect encounters with them.
What advantages does this have over pdb (built in) or ipdb?
Poor UI around client-side certs isn't a law of nature, it's not a priority for browser vendors. It should be super simple. Once you're signed up, the exact same tech that lets a browser show you the green padlock with the name of the site could seamlessly log you in with zero interaction needed, IF client side certs were easier to use (which is within the compass of the browser companies to improve).
To each his own! I found the way the author mapped human evolution into a familiar-but-different life form based on nuclear chemistry just so “far out” that it was a fun read.
Yes, we at them- and thousand mammalian ancestors, trampled by T-Rexes and eaten for snacks- cheered when we made the last omelette of victory. Mammals first!
> Nuclear power has always been tied to nuclear weapons in terms of infrastructure and technology

You mean like the CANDU reactors?
I crave solitude yet I still feel lonely, like I'm missing a tribe. I haven't had a chance to be alone by myself for more than an hour for the last few months since I moved in with my boyfriend.

I went from lonely entrepreneur to my social bar overflowing into the red zone, where any additional social obligation is a sacrifice of me time. I love my partner, he is the best person ever, but he can't be everything, like sharing my passion about period poverty as much as I can hahaha. I have a loving tribe of wonderful partner, family, and friends but I'm still searching for weirdos like me, entrepreneurs that are more interested in building sustainable and ethical business practices than making money. In that sense, I crave solitude but I still feel lonely, like I'm missing out on very meaningful relationships with people with similar goals and passions.
Because they want to discourage heavy usage at peak time, when they are running at, or close to capacity. It's certainly not unheard of for transit providers to do the same thing.
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European tech industry is B2B focused, because it has no single consumer market, like the US. By the time a startup becomes a success in Spain, its copies will be already launched by somebody in France and Germany. In consumer fintech, for instance, UK has Monzo, Germany has N26, and Poland has mBank. Currenly, Flixbus is a major exception to this rule, because it managed to conquer almost the entire EEA long-distance bus market in 5 years, and has just entered the US. Revolut is trying to do the same in fintech.
To everyone, different styling works best, browsers doesn't provide enough option to configure the looks of those tags without having to break other application websites. Also, people often finds popular browser's default look unreadable without CSS. Since most sites comes with heavy styling, users never configure their font, font-size etc defaults, browsers also expect everyone to make heavy use of css or JavaScript, so they don't seem to bother making default decent. For all that, I think it makes more sense to have something different than html.
The comparison was Ney York to Boston.
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I'll give it a shot: Sage is what happens when you build a computer algebra system on a giant pile of existing open source libraries and give it a nice, consistent interface and a ton of starving postdocs to write cool integrations and features.

If you're a programmer and you've used Mathematica or Maple and you've ever found yourself wishing that you'd have something like that except in a real programming environment, Sage is it. Sage is Python (with some syntactical extensions).
Not sure why that's relevant. It takes O(years) to plan and build one.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-marks-60th-ann...
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I'm not opposed to this view, since I don't really know the European tech market very well, but can you give me some examples to understand better? I'm sure in some absolute sense there is "a lot" of innovation in the European tech industry, but my uninformed impression was that, in the context of US tech innovation, it's fairly minimal.
Yes, and it keeps growing: https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...
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No but they shouldn't single her out either. I don't see him slamming any number of male tech executives who made mistakes.
Not everyone values efficiency above all else.

Not everyone thinks corporations are a net-positive for societies.
This software (and the site itself) is good fun, but you have to build it yourself and feed it good parameters. Unfortunately it is not actively developed (I've been in touch with the author in the past).
Isn't that the standard size for text?
Yes, Soviet strategy have adapted. However, “neutron-protective lining” didn’t properly work; however, tank armies formations were spead out to reduce the possible radiation damage. You are right, however; tactical nuclear weapons were deployed as a deterrent, not as a valid defense option.
I think the big problem is the redefinition of technology to mean 'consumer-facing media applications'.

There's lots of innovation in Europe, or otherwise, Europe would not have a market as large as the US and China. Technology in Europe just simply happens to fall into the pharmacological sector, manufacturing, transport, the automotive industry and others, rather than digital ad-tech.

Moviepass might have generated a lot of shareholder excitement for a year or two, but whether this amounts to deep innovation is in my opinion questionable.

A hidden champion somewhere in the German south that nobody has ever heard of but who underpins global manufacturing seems to me ten times more innovative than yet another scooter sharing app.
That would require Rust to convert all NaNs to a single "canonical" NaN. I don't think it does that, in fact you don't want Rust to do that, since it would make it impossible to do these NaN-boxing tricks by hand.

On the other hand, a CanonicalNaN<T> could be created in the future to allow these tricks, similar to the NonNull<T>/NonZeroU8/etc mentioned above.

(As an interesting aside, for the RISC-V ISA, all floating-point operations generate a single canonical NaN: "Except when otherwise stated, if the result of a floating-point operation is NaN, it is the canonical NaN. The canonical NaN has a positive sign and all significand bits clear except the MSB, a.k.a. the quiet bit. For single-precision floating-point, this corresponds to the pattern 0x7fc00000." So this scheme would work even better on RISC-V, since after any floating-point operation, it's guaranteed that any NaN is the canonical NaN.)
They've updated to remove that language.
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> Anyone who's familiar with the NYC->BOS Acela route will tell you that both the tracks and artificial speed limitations when going through Westchester suck.

If you're from the rest of the world and aren't familiar, maybe this would be a helpful article?
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developing countries - there are no clients, potential clients have no money, there are only global outsourcing corporations who are looking over here for "cheap"

developed countries - dealing with individual consumers is a pain in the neck - documentation, guarantees, consumer rights, complaints, multiple languages, requirements research, various app stores which are entirely US based and controlled, certain transparency as the services portfolio is available publicly. Why bother with these when one can just sell something to German/French/British industries or telecoms, relax, hire some engineers, and implement whatever the minimal acceptable form is? There isn't a problem which cannot be solved during a "conference" of lawyers and sales people somewhere on Balearic Islands or in Swiss Alps, or by a brand new BMW discreetly shipped to a certain address - try solving product/service-related problems in a similar way when thousands or even millions of customers are looking at your hands.

Individual consumers are pariahs in Europe.
Net neutrality reversal could net companies ban ISPs that throttle?
Could ISPs that throttle be refused service by internet companies?

Maybe by teaming up to share information on which ISPs throttle and what their address ranges are?

Perhaps also sharing info about which internet services have banned them, so no internet company feels like it’s alone in banning an ISP?
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I know two successful business owners in Germany and one in Belgium and they all got their much needed initial capital from savings, family and people they knew. Millionaire Turkish real estate investor, doctors, other small business owners - not VCs, not loans, not credit.

That seems really hard to come by in Europe (especially if you don't have prestigious education or extensive work experience), small exception for the UK.

People don't really go into business if the idea has not been tested by someone else, and that's a shame, and one of the reasons why the US is so far ahead.
Having done both startup/agency work and working as a "cog in a big machine", hands down a "cog in a big machine" is far better for someone early in their career, looking to build good engineering habits.

1) Most startup code is hot garbage.

2) High caliber engineering practices rub off on you. - Surrounding yourself with talent and writing software is the best way to be good at what you do. Being in a small startup, that is almost certainly not going to happen. The numbers just don't allow for it.

3) Don't underestimate the draw of a major player like Google on your resume. - Before working for one of these companies, my LinkedIn mailbox would get maybe one or two messages a year from recruiters. Now my problem is making sure to politely decline all of the messages I get in a timely fashion.

4) A hefty sign-on bonus, HEALTH INSURANCE, and in most cases bonuses or stock offerings normally come as part of the deal with a Google offer. - Do you want a house, car, education, children, retirement? If you answer yes to any of these, a company like Google will give you a great financial foundation to work from so that once you've established yourself you can take more calculated risks with a much better safety net.
FWIW, I don't think we have ever run gas lines to individual homes in large scale here in Finland, and we are obviously in a heating-needed region.

Natural gas is 7% of the total energy consumption here (https://www.stat.fi/til/ehk/2018/01/ehk_2018_01_2018-06-27_t...).

There are 30.000 homes that have gas connection for cooking, but that is a small fraction of the ~2.700.000 households in Finland (
https://www.gasum.com/en/About-gas/natural-gas-and-lng/Use-o...).

Gas is used for heating, but it is mostly via CHP (Combined Heating and Power) plants that heat water in a district heating network ( https://energia.fi/en/energy_sector_in_finland/energy_produc... ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating ).

For single detached houses, for new houses the most common main heat sources are ground heat (52%) and air heat pumps (18%). with other options being electricity (8%), district heating (9%), water heat pumps (8%) and wood (5%) (Finnish: https://www.suomirakentaa.fi/omakotirakentaja/laemmitys/laem...).

As for existing single detached houses, the most common sources are 44% electricity, 21% wood, 16% oil (Finnish: http://www.stat.fi/tietotrendit/artikkelit/2018/uusiutuva-en...) .

Energy consumption in households by energy source, type of use, type of building, GWh: https://www.stat.fi/til/asen/2016/asen_2016_2017-11-17_tau_0...
Really good video, thanks for posting.
Yeah, and then the single big player in US can pick off each European country with time. The small players in each country will have a hard time when the force of a USA-wide company tries.

Happens in other businesses as well. McDonalds, Starbucks etc.
Re 1) AEs are still a neat base for more advanced and very useful architectures; visual semantic segmentation uses a similar architecture that adds 1x1 skip connections, LVAE/beta-VAE are useful for anomaly/fraud detection even today. AEs give us a pretty cool way to do customizable dimensionality reduction as well, so PCA/ICA/t-SNE/t-UMAP/etc. might not be needed in the best case.
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The author isn't trying to be cute. Those are literally the terms the scientists use..

« These as-yet theoretical clumps are thought to be shaped like blobs, tubes or sheets, and are named after their noodle look-alikes, including gnocchi, spaghetti and lasagna. »
How is that politically directed piece by the NY Times to the contrary?

The U6 is back to where it was in 1999. Wages are growing at the fastest pace in a decade, with a labor market that keeps getting tighter, driving wage gains faster.

The poverty rate and homelessness rate are both near record lows. The poverty rate has contracted rapidly in the last several years. That's due to the dramatic improvement in the job market over the past decade and a vast expansion over time in the US welfare state / social safety net, which is paid for by taxes from an aggressively expanding economy.

Since January 2010, the US has added a Germany + France in terms of economic expansion ($6 trillion in GDP), while only adding 16m in population.

US manufacturing, which is a critical supplier of decent blue collar jobs, has been persistently adding jobs for nearly a decade (1.3m manufacturing jobs added over that time). It's the first sustained period of manufacturing job growth since the late 1990s. It was widely proclaimed to be impossible that that could occur.

If you want to bolster the conditions for the bottom 1/2, you do it with jobs, wage pressure through a tight labor market, and a strong social safety net paid for via taxes from a booming economy.
In general, 4 years of school is worth 4 years of work experience. The problem being that, without 4 years of school, it's hard to convince anyone to hire you and get 4 years of decent work experience.

Additionally, it's harder to get jobs at larger and more bureaucratic companies without a degree. This is because of risk. If I'm a hiring manager, and I hire you, and you do a good job, everything is fine. If I hire you and you're a disaster, there will be a review as to whether there were any red flags during the hiring process that were missed. If "doesn't have a college degree and sufficient work experience" is found, it'll be used to make me look like I was sloppy for hiring you. If no red flags are found, it'll be chalked up to "there were no red flags. This was just bad luck." and everyone moves on. Knowing this, I probably won't hire you even if I think you're a good risk because it's not worth the risk for me.

Without a college education, you'll need to work for small companies who are willing to take a risk on you. You'll also have to accept really low pay to offset this risk until you've built a decent resume.

All of these things might be better than accumulating student debt. Depends on where you live, what the job market is like, and what connections you have.
Potential energy is mgh.

Nothing to do with electricity or temperature.
Does this have in-cab signalling? Britain built 140 mph capable trains, but experience showed the existing 125 mph was the maximum at which a human looking out of a window at coloured light signals is truly effective and so they're operated at only 125 mph.

(Trains on High Speed 1 from London to the Channel have signals displayed inside the cab like a TGV so it's safe to go faster)
I grew up in Detroit and though I no longer live there I visit often and I'm excited by what I'm seeing.

The money quote in that entire piece:

"If you want to see an entire population rally around the question “What can the future look like?” watch Detroit."

There are experiments going on in Detroit that you just don't see anywhere else. There's a smaller difference between the elites and the average citizen. I've got some friends who are struggling entrepreneurs but who've gotten on boards running things by choosing merely to become engaged and having great ideas.

In other cities I've lived it's just the elites and everyone running things knows everyone else and it's difficult if not impossible to break into that group. These elites often are self dealing and stand in the way of progress.

Detroit's different, it's fluid as to who has power. I for one am excited to see what gets done.
I can answer on #5, your written English is excellent. I am an American who has worked as an engineer in many countries, and am a bit curious as to why this is true. When I worked in Japan, the education system there required years of reading and writing English and I never had any technical difficulties at all with the written English of my Japanese co-workers. I found this to be generally true in most of my engineering work around the world.
What I do instead (given the excellent sibling replies about how it's not that simple) is store the value in a `u64` and then provide a method to decode it into a non-layout-optimized enum. Since that enum is not stored anywhere but the stack, it can be optimized out if the decoding is inlined: https://github.com/rpjohnst/dejavu/blob/a768ce515b3a110542aa...
I like to think of it as an experiential stimulus maximizing function. Intelligent people may find it more stimulating to stay “closed-loop” but I’ve seen people open up to a great extent if/when they find something/someone with higher stimulus potential.
Our parents built the internet, our generations turned it into something useful for the masses. I believe we are witnessing the same situation. Our generation created the blockchain but it will be the coming generations and the progress of technology which will find utility.

The blockchain doesn't "belong" to our generation just like the internet didn't "belong" to our parent's generation even though they created it... #Blockchain #cryptocurrency

We have too many endless debates about whether it's good or bad, a scam, to energy intensive, too much skepticism, too many scars from believing in media-hyped utopias or dystopias just to see them fail. The coming generations will adopt it as if it's the most natural thing in the world and find ways to utilize it we never thought off because they will be defining what has inherent value to them. If you don't, believe that you have never experienced how the art market functions or never heard kids discuss the latest skin or emote in Fortnite...

Culture drives what we consider inherent valuable, not pure logic or academia or Adam Smith. The blockchain is made for the digital culture and what will be considered valuable (and thus per definition scarce) within that domain for reasons still to be seen.

The blockchain is a protocol, protocols are infrastructure. The primary value of the blockchain protocol is its ability to remember which is what gives it it's "physical/atomic" properties. It's not decentralization as many believe as that was already solved with the TCP/IP protocol.

So you can say it's like TCP/IP with a memory.

This also means that it's much harder to take things from the physical world and apply the blockchain as that can still be compromised.

So instead of where it will shine is in things that are created in the digital space. Crypto Kitties, Money, Digital Pokemon Cards, Documentation, Identity, Marketplaces with digital assets etc.

Everything that has inception in the digital world.
If it truely was a problem, the peering agreements would not be for peanuts.

I paying my ISP for a connection to a peering point, why should they be able to charge Amazon or Netflix different rates than Steam or Dropbox for the same total number of bytes transfered? I’ve already paid my ISP for both up and down transit to the peering point.

The service provider (Netflix, Amazon, Steam, etc) also pay someone for a connection to a peering point (or undergo that expense directly), so again, why should they have to pay my ISP for traffic that is already paid for by me and them?

I distinctly see the lack of a free ride anywhere in the system as it currently stands.

I pay my ISP for a 1 gbit connection to a peering point, I buy a 100mbit 8k HD video stream from a streaming service who is paying someone for transit from their datacenter to the peering point. Both sides pay the peering point mainenance fees. Where in this is someone getting a free ride?
Definitely going to show in "Science or Fiction" in next weeks SGU...
I'm not downvoting anything, just trying to figure out what you are trying to say. Can you give names to the multiple vectors of time?
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