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I don't think jmcgough made such a claim, just offered an explanation for "why is it so taboo to talk about the differences..."
You _could_ introduce the One True Lamport Clock, and as long as you're in its light cone you can get global syncronization, but that comes at the cost of having to learn a lot about patience.
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the most expensive car you can buy is like a 60 year old ferrari, and its definitely under a billion, unlike the drug trade, but op is right that gambling scales so easily.

i wonder how these poker sites are allowed to operate from offshore and take all my money :(
If it's not too much effort, would you mind sharing a photo of the setup? I'm having a bit of trouble visualising it, but it sounds interesting.
I think a lot of the concern for upkeep is simply overblown.

I follow several vloggers, bloggers, etc. Once they've built a basic following, they can do whatever, even disappear for weeks or months, and still have most or all of their followers intact and craving for more content.

I know, because me and tons of others, are waiting for new content from some such people who took huge break times off, and when it appears views always shoot through the roof. And I don't see Subscription counts fall of that much either (e.g. to the point that it makes any difference, e.g. going from 200K to 150K or so). It's easier to just ignore a channel that hasn't posted videos for a while, than to actively unsubscribe (besides, not getting posts is no reason to unsubscribe if you'd still like what they can possibly post in the future).
In the special case of Edinburgh, Ordnance Survey maps are quite misleading about some streets as there are quite a few streets that are actually bridges built between hills - the map gives the topography of the underlying ground not the street - so some streets look steep on the map but are actually built to be level.
Are you implying that whenever more than two people have a conversation on any chat application, the government should have the right to read along, for our own protection?
The layout still needs to make room for the back links, doesn’t it? Thinking of that, with CFGs, you know which edges are backlinks, so you can put the backlinks in in reverse direction, do the layout, and then draw them with the arrow heads at the “wrong” side.

So, yes, I see that it can be useful.
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So, you're essentially advocating rewinding the Internet to pre-Facebook time and continuing from there? I'm all for that. Damn, every time I stumble upon the Google Talk page, with its explanation how participating in an open decentralised world is good for everyone involved, I feel tremendously sad for how things worked out.

Unfortunately, the world decided to go the centralised way. At some point I had to re-work my outstanding papers, because any mention of peer-to-peer or even decentralisation meant immediate rejection. Internet service providers went more greedy, so if you don't build your own global backbone to have some leverage, you need to pay someone who does or you're hosed. Even the laws in place start to strongly reflect an expectation of overpowered centralised platform beneath any communication.

Then, finally, what we ultimately need is to figure out the money flow. People want polished products and that costs money. The centralised platforms we have today have succeeded because they figured some funding. Achieving that in a decentralised world is the main problem we should be looking at. I'm afraid "just slap blockchain on it" is a highly detrimental approach, but I haven't seen anything more serious (not that I looked seriously).

Dislaimer: I'm in Google now, but this comment actually reflects my personal post-INRIA sentiments.
>If we had a referendum on this ("should the police be able to access the communications of someone as part of the investigation of a crime?") I bet "yes" would win.

I highly doubt so, but if so it should be the way to go because there are backdoors in nearly every piece of telecom gear because the providers are mandated to provide LEI capability by law.
Lifetime of the service perhaps.
Well for me, I'm super curious about compiler development, and I think, in the topic of this thread, maybe a chapter on writing a recursive descent parser for JS? building a transpiler? or using lisp as a intermediary with LLVM IR? somewhere where either DSL || "Code is data" and the true advantages of lisp shine through, and I would love that from an experienced lisper. Also if you could go into some use cases for tunable compilers that is seldom elaborated when that is mentioned as a huge lisp advantage! Thanks for giving the community your time in advance!
Cf.-> Arthur C Clarke’s “Technical Error”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error
Schools in my country are well above average then...
Why must we all open our communication just because of a few sick individuals who are already imprissioned or under surveillance?
Social pressure is easy to write off in theory, but it can add extra friction to your life. You might be fine telling the first guy to fuck off, but after telling the hundredth person to fuck off, you might be a bit weary of telling people about your controversial life choice. Even if you don't give a fuck about others opinions, this added friction can wear you down over time - it's death by a thousand cuts.

Not to mention the self reinforcing effects of social pressure - for example, if you're a vegan and you want to go out to eat with your friends, your options may likely be limited depending on the restaurant. If your friend group is considerate, they may take vegan options into account, or you might end up going out less with your friends as a result.
> The Encyclopedia must establish procedures to be fair and inclusive on the basis of race, sex, religion, age, disability, and national origin.

No, first and foremost the Encyclopedia must establish procedures to ensure high-quality, accurate, and concise content. Being "fair and inclusive" is a secondary concern. If it has no users, no one cares whether it is "fair and inclusive".
Edit: Amy Hoy did not mention "training your brain to associate hard work with failure", it was this commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5630618
I've got a lot more than just the hypervisor in the Rust version so there is no plan for that yet. Sorry :\
I wonder why auto trader needs 3,000 domains, is this some kind of SEO tactic?
Maybe, and only maybe, you'd get a no in the US, because of the deeply ingrained hate/distrust for the government. But the rest of the world? Seriously. Maybe I'm wrong but I doubt it.
That's some very concise code golf! It would be interesting in seeing how Forth compiles this under the hood.
Because the differences are small. Insignificant.

If you take some group of 1000 people which has been selected in some way that skews towards intelligence, you might find that the men have IQ 105.14 on average and the women 105.13. Like, wow. You can find groups with bigger differences if you're willing to pick an obscure group, but then you have a bigger but more obscure difference.

If you talk about that you risk attracting the companionship of people who need to get a life, or sounding like one of those people.
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>YouTube's comments are some of the absolute worst I've seen on the web.

For me it's the exact opposite. YouTube's comment are the absolute freer speech I've seen on the web, warts and all. It's also some of the most touching

Plus, because it starts with videos, which are much more universal than a blog post, it's a meeting point for people of all countries, races, religions, views on life, and so on.
That's how it works. The local beat officer is usually invited in. I'm glad no one in my neighbourhood came up with this idea yet. It really irks me that a commercial entity dominates our public spaces to the level of bleeding street signs.

If you live in one of those neighbourhoods you either participate (meaning you are required to purchase an Android or IOS smartphone, and required to register an account with Facebook's WhatsApp) or get left out of the loop completely. So much for freedom to choose.

From what I've heard from people that do live in such neighbourhoods is that these group chats are a constant distraction of irrelevancies spammed by a handful of very active users. Successfully moderated groups of this type seem rare.
> folks I saw who did poorly it was because they didn't realize that you could be both the smartest person in the room and the least capable at the same time

Any advice to deal with this kind of people would be much appreciated. I had a hard time trying to convey basic software engineering practices such as not hard-coding file paths, using version control instead of filenames to manage versions, removing dead code, keeping the code at least moderately DRY, more or less sticking to a code convention, etc. They would use all their reasoning power to refute what they would see as meaningless pet-peeves. It was tiring. I tried to provide pointers so they could find out for themselves but they gave it zero interest. At the moment I've given up.

The simple fact the OP is asking this question here means she or he will almost certainly do greatly.
Bad timing. The hot issue today is overcoming discriminations and social pressure, which to my knowledge dwarf any physical effects. That doesn't mean that these research should not be discussed, but I can understand why introducing a side discussion is frowned upon, because that's not the kind of subtle analysis that you'll get in click-baity links and twitter posts.

In this very particular context, if I had to choose between publishing a theorical scientific paper on marginal physical effects and undermining efforts for a better society having effects on real people, I may hesitate.
Anyone living on $34K in NYC has the option of living like a peasant in China, India, or even poorer countries. If you don't want to emigrate, you can do Peace Corps or other volunteer work and have all your expenses paid for, as well as still knowing that your American citizenship and all your assets will still be here when you get back. Relatively few people take advantage of this option. A very, very large number of people living in those countries are willing to risk everything for a shot at immigrating to the U.S. and living on a lot less than $34K in NYC.

That should tell you something about the relative desirability of these lives for most people, even if the dollar amounts are unreliable.

(BTW, the richest people in China and India are very rich, oftentimes richer than their counterparts in the U.S. - the article said that 50% of the occupants of the Boulevard Penthouses were from China. So that's not really a fair comparison. Take a population of 2.5B and compare it with a population of 300M and even if the means of the former are much lower, the outliers are likely to be higher.)
"Clear, readable, and concise code"??

I recommend everyone to once in a while try to debug Clojure code written by somebody else. Afterwards you will understand that this is a write once, read never language. It is an unmaintainable mess of overly clever recursive subroutines. It has some nice experimental ideas for concurrency. But basically all useful ideas are also available in Java nowadays. I wouldn't waste my time on it.
Indeed, the premise is just wrong. It's not as if organisms cannot process biomolecules of the other handedness. There are enzymes called 'epimerases' and 'racemases' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimerase_and_racemase) that convert stereocenters.

While it's true that a mirror cell wall would be a barrier to being broken down, there's nothing that would fundamentally stop the evolution of a suitable degradation machinery for it.
I'm sorry but I don't think they're just as open at all.

And I say this as a huge fan of all of your work on Graal and JRuby and a proponent of the Java platform.

Contributing to Graal isn't just getting a commit into a GPLd project. It requires you to allow Oracle to ship it in GraalVM EE.

I have no problem with dual lisenced code nor begrudge the business model, but this is distictly against the spirit of the GPL.
I'm curious about the principle of these laws. [Later Edit: not Australian specific, something that can be applied anywhere]

If the only way to convict a suspect would be for them to self incriminate during testimony should the 5th amendment be waived?

How many other rights should be cancelled because they prevent law enforcement from having an easier job?

Banning guns to make doctors' jobs easier is out of the question but banning privacy to make policemen's jobs easier isn't?
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I wish I had watched that video two years ago! I learned all of that the hard way, and it took lots of failures.
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They can still work, with a few changes and worse performance.

The clock is not used to say that the time is exactly the same on all nodes, it is used to guarantee that if two events have timestamps whose difference is larger than some threshold they can be ordered reliably. You don't need an atomic clock to do it, for instance CockroachDB only requires NTP, but of course, the smaller the error margin, the faster the system is.

That being said, given that speed will be limited by the distance traveled by information and the speed of light, I suppose those systems won't have much edge over purely causality-based ones. In other words, CRDTs will rule Space :)
>Maybe, and only maybe, you'd get a no in the US, because of the deeply ingrained hate/distrust for the government. But the rest of the world? Seriously. Maybe I'm wrong but I doubt it.

If anything the if the US has a trust problems with the government then it should be a yes rather than a no.

But anywhere else in the world there is also little to no chance that the population at large would be up for denying the government the ability to have lawful intercept and lawful access to any protected resource during an investigation.

In fact you might not want to deny them that right at all because it would essentially shift the majority of the evidence to circumstantial eyewitness testimonies.

Because why stop at a phone call? why should a government be able to search your residence? open a safe? read a diary? open your computer?

And if you deny them all that then what happens? sure at first the legal system would be in a transition phase where much less people might be convicted because under these new restrictions the prosecution won't be able to meet the bar required for conviction but fairly quickly as soon as conviction rates would drop the legal system would bounce back up and get used to the reality of less evidence and this isn't a good place to be.

Any development in forensic sciences and investigatory techniques has prevented innocent people from being charged and convicted just as it helped to convict the guilty (don't get me wrong I'm not saying it's perfect or that mistakes are not being made, but DNA for example had to exonerate as many people that it helped to put in).

So I'm not entirely sure we want to go back to the days where people were judged in court based on how many character references they could provide.
He's not criticizing the mathematical model, rather the application of this model to modern human society, which is something that nobody ever claimed. Straw man and a bad one at that.

He does have some arguments but math is nowhere found, making this a joke of a refutation.
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Three answers to this.

1. Look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949340 for a more detailed account of what happened. This specific story is not a case of taboo, it's a case of attempting to publish something that's not science in a science journal, being of course rejected, and reframing the rejection as a taboo.

2. It can be discussed, but this kind of discussion invariably attracts people who are not there to discuss, but only to impose their political/social views. Some because they feel that it's a good opportunity to attack women, some because they feel that the conversation is going to end up being an attack on women regardless. In either case, it's pretty much guaranteed to degenerate into anything but a meaningful conversation.

3. Also, it took us millennia to accept that maybe women are just human beings, after all, and some people still can't accept that, so maybe our society just isn't mature enough yet to have that conversation.

Maybe once humanity has finally mastered the fine art of polite, meaningful conversations on Twitter and Facebook, things will be better :)

edit Reworded a bit.
it's all about the edges of distribution though. If equality of the means mattered, countries across the world would be very similar economically, which unfortunately is not the case.
This calculator adjusts for cost of living: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/

Earning at least $55,000 per year in the US with a household of one adult puts you in the top 1%.

$32,000 puts you in the top 3.4%, which is still pretty good.
It's ALL about the edges? What does that mean? What are the edges, and why does nothing else matter?
good signs, about a billion dollars per month on model3, and production rampup would continue.
If you're new in town and want to go to location X, what is better? Glancing at the map and immediately grasping that the street is up a hill, or looking at a probably unfamiliar topographical map and possibly spending 5 to 15 minutes learning how to read it? I'd kill for a map like this for any hilly town I'd visit, and I know how to read topographical maps
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E.g. do you want a real eye opener?

In a monogamous society, given that Darwin's observation about increased male variability holds, when partitioning by desirability, women in the top half will have access to males with desirability greater than their own, while women in the bottom half will only have access to males with desirability worse than their own.

Go figure.

(There's a lot of assumptions here but none of them particularly unrealistic).
They explain that in the article (the second sentence) - as well as the regular autotrader domains, they host sites for specific dealerships too, which are presumably just a rebadged version of their main site.
These mirror organisms would need a plethora of mirror microbes created for them if they were to be able to do things such as digest food.

It would stand to reason then that some of these mirror good microbes would eventually evolve to become mirror bad microbes?
It is taboo because things like IQ matter, economically. In the past, height and brawn would be seen as equally significant discriminators, but we have grown over that as cultures. In the future, AIs will make us all equally dumb and intellectually lazy, then we can get over it.

Another thing is the sciences which deal with these matters are highly politicized. It's always been hard to establish facts on empirical results alone because they are not purely sciences, they keep a lot of "art" in them.
Yeah, I'm skeptical. Not only would they have to say that while facing strong incentives to do it, I've also been told by a former high roller that they happily brought multiple prostitutes to his suite at a time. He'd decided that his former lifestyle was not a path to happiness but shared some wild stories of what the casinos will do to keep customers like his former self happy.
Ah okay, we have it backwards. I'm saying that people would allow LE to intercept communications everywhere in the world except in the US!
All of it. I'm not familiar with OpenJFX but JavaFX has always been in the GPLd OpenJDK.
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I agree it's not rocket science, it might be harder because we're dealing with human behavior.

The Salem witch hunts happened with full support of the "local authorities" to run investigations, interrogations, trials, and hangings. It was not for a lack of administration.

Next month when there's an article about a corrupt official extorting farmers, are we to say "at least farmers can't communicate or organize without authority oversight?"
"good" is hard since org is text-centric and all mobiles have no keyboard except of virtual crap... However Beorg seems to be an option, personally I use Android with Orgzly and I suppose they are substantially the same, not-so-comfortable to use but enough to sync note&TODO...
> If it is then we should just publicly say that the government shouldn’t be able to tap phones regardless of what technology they are using to communicate.

They can tap phones, and should be able to tap phones, along with VoIP, video calls, and mail. But while privacy isn't absolute, their ability to wiretap communications with a court order has never been absolute either, merely opportunistic.

These are opportunities they don't have available to them, and it needs to stay that way.

They should not be permitted to set aside all other concerns just to keep that wiretap and search ability in the cases where it comes up, because it simply isn't that important compared to all of the problems they will cause in the process.

People, including whistleblowers and political dissidents, even in the U.S., will be harassed, threatened, blackmailed, or even killed as a result of their tampering, and the government itself will misuse those expanded access powers, just like all the others they've publicly or secretly obtained.
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I think i misread the original comment you made then :)
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This is the "REST vs GraphQL" debate in a nutshell.
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Bear in mind that this is an Australian law, so the 5th Amendment isn't involved. I don't know much about Australian law, so I don't know if they have an equivalent right within their legal system.
I agree. "yes" votes in referendums are quite rare in Australia. There'd be much political mileage to made campaigning against it.
The lawsuits were only there because Google published the entire contents of all scanned books.

But I guess making available only the index would fall under fair use. IANAL though.