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I've similar impressions.

I think - and this risks sounding self absorbed - that we've become more sophisticated because of the Internet - at least in some ways.

Closer feedback loop because flow of information is higher. You might have thought "this is bullshit" before but this feeling was more widely spaced before when journalism was in print form.

Some subgroups in society like the extremes were easier to dismiss as irrelevant because we couldn't really point to anything concrete representing their existence. This will probably be a downvote attractor but I wouldn't have believed SJWs were real people before the web existed. I'd heard of them before but presumed them the ravings of hyperbolic conservatives.

The number of people in these subgroups isn't large but large changes in society usually happen when the subgroup mainstreams an idea - so appreciating that extremist minority groups are important - is important - that idea development is an ecology and even that policy cannot come from the center. I think this is why when politics stalls support flows into fat tails - normally thought of as a bad thing but it's a survival instinct - this idea is slippery because from the evolutionary view conflict isn't a pure bad - lack of reproduction is.

> A not-uncommon example is "fact" pieces that assume the mental state or thought processes of various public officials with no quotes or really anything to back them up.

I really hate this, I'd call it an allergy! The worse version of this is that most dishonest form of journalism where the piece attempts - inception-like - to insert the thought process into yours. It's not compare and think or think within this framework - it's think like me. For this reason I dislike Fox but I really, really hate NPR.
Might be worth using the |contact| link on the application page. Good luck.
> There are lots of metallic big things on different types of battlefields, like tanks or even aircraft carriers, it would be really helpful for the opposing sides to be able to “evaporate” them. Not sure how close to implementing this as a weapon we are, though, probably not that much.

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And nothing of value was lost?

Not personal to the jobholders, but the market has clearly shown a healthy appetite for hastily thrown together games on every platform. There's no need for artistry or polish or craft.

In the digital age, there's just one big landfill and every eyeball and click is monetized equally.

Just wait until we can synthesize all music and video in a blink.
High DPI support for WinForms has been improved in the .NET Framework 4.8 https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet-framework-early-access/b...
Magnetic fields are generated by currents, not by changing currents. The current only needs to rise that fast to outpace the imminent destruction of the coil from resistive heating.
> Corruption is increasingly rampant in both the public and private sectors, and money is being siphoned off at every step.

This is utter bullshit when it comes to the sort of major public infrastructure projects hinted at in the original post. In fact, what slows things down significantly is the fact that there are so many controls in place to reduce and eliminate this corruption. Contracts that could have been settled with a fat envelope to the brother-in-law of the county commissioner are now handled in a much more open and transparent process. Corrupt profits that could be skimmed by using sub-standard materials are now prevented by layer upon layer of inspection and sourcing paperwork (which all increases cost.) Projects that could once move quickly because unions were weak and safety regulations were non-existent, to the point where contractors could simply throw human lives at the problem until it was solved, now move at a slower pace and with far fewer deaths as a result.

Infrastructure may take more time and cost more, but the cost in lives during construction and after the project is completed are much lower.
Definitely not from my perspective
Microsoft shot themselves in the foot with UWP. It's actually pretty nice to write apps with it (in my personal opinion, anyway). But UWP only supports Windows 10.

Very few commercial products are able to drop Windows 7 support (and like, literally zero enterprise products can drop Windows 7 support).

So, no matter how nice UWP gets, most companies that would still be willing to write a native Windows app are 5+ years out from being allowed to adopt it, entirely because of how Microsoft chose to release it.
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> Don't you find that web & javascript are pretty much a straight denial of your argument ?

You should probably direct that question at Patrick because his original question was kind of based on the premise that the answer to your question is "no".

My personal opinion? No. OMG no. Javascript and HTML are both poorly designed re-inventions of tiny little corners of Lisp. In that regard they are improvements over C. But no. OMG no.

> Even without debug symbols you mostly can do this for C, C++, ... programs

No, you can't. You can grovel around on the stack and muck with the data structures, but you can't redefine a function, or redefine a class, or change a class's inheritance structure without restarting your program. In Common Lisp you can do all of these things.
I'm not saying use the Tor network but rather implement the protocol on a custom, provider-specific infrastructure.
I tend to believe in some of Stephen Krashen's notions of language acquisition. Specifically that there is a difference between learning (being able to remember and repeat something) and acquisition (being able to use it fluently). Also that acquisition comes from comprehension. I also believe that language acquisition is no different than any the acquisition of any other skill. Many people don't agree with these ideas, but I'm laying it out as my assumptions before I start :-)

With that in mind, one of the interesting findings in language acquisition studies is that when free reading (reading things for pleasure), it takes 95% comprehension of the text in order to acquire new grammar and vocabulary in context (quite a bit higher than most people imagine -- which is one of the reason people advance a lot more slowly than they might otherwise).

With that, just like your experience, the key to teaching is to ensure that the student comprehends at least 95% of what you are saying. The only way to ensure this is by constantly testing their comprehension with a two way dialog. Once a very high level of comprehension is reached, and once enough repetition happens to remember the thing, you will acquire the knowledge.

It is incredibly difficult to do this unless you are teaching 1:1. There is a special technique called "circling" that you can use to teach language to a larger number of students and it worked extremely well for me. I still can't effectively do it for more than about 10 or 15 though. If you think in a 45 minute class, if I have 15 students, then each student gets 3 minutes of my time. It's not actually surprising that classes of 30 or 40 basically impossible.

Quick note: I'm no longer teaching, in case it is unclear from the above.
My only hope and concern is whether these companies produce actual technology and benefit for society, or if their plan is to dump all of the risk at an unreasonable valuation onto the public markets to make their returns. Uber is an example, where yes, they along with others highlighted a market exists - and helping disrupt the status quo (shifting less efficient, more expensive systems, with modernized and potentially less expensive) - however they're not dealing with the indirect costs associated with less expense in this case, such as are drivers earning enough now to survive in the current structure of the economy - and what happens to drivers, as well as other workers, once we get closer to fullest autonomy possible?
The contract has been renewed several times, IIRC 2006 and 2010 Reference: (in Estonian) https://tehnika.postimees.ee/4358415/gemalto-kaebus-politsei...
> On the web, you can't, because every call immediately gets you into overcomplicated minified libraries that you can't change anyway, assuming it doesn't go into a remote call entirely.

This is true if you go to a production website and try to start debugging. But it's untrue for any modern development environment. The minification comes later and even then, source maps are first class supported in browsers, mapping the minified code to the source.

It's funny. In my experience the web debug tools are some of the best of any language/environment I've experienced.
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Unsophisticated Individuals certainly can’t invest in private equity, but I’m curious if there are similar rules against a pension fund or other such collection of unsophisticated money having high risk assets in their portfolio.
This decision was made and become deeply entrenched long before Python came along. Python is pretty good, but even it is constrained by the decisions that went into the design of C, since Python is implemented in C. Its underlying data structures are C data structures. Its memory management is C memory management. The GIL is there because C.
Pension funds probably wanted higher yield for lower capital.

Why should a young founder/company/employee subsidize the lifestyle of the retired ?

Capital is in the same competitive market as labour.
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Read about Solid yesterday and was super fascinated by the idea of Pods and since am solving a payment solution, I saw it would be a kickass solution for payments.Now solidPay is out but sadly it's confusing, how do I begin implementing it
Winter is not horribly dark and boring in Scandinavia unless you are super rich. It’s equally dark and boring for everyone. And virtually everybody in Scandinavia can afford to travel south to sunnier places for a few weeks, if that’s what they want.

I’d say proficiency in English and quite wealthy populations is what matters.
> When generating fields this large, the coil's destruction is guaranteed

Is this due to resistive dissipation (heat)? I was under the impression they used superconductors, for which this problem does not exist, but I'm probably wrong.
The applications lie not in the magnetic field directly, but its usage in research, allowing us to develop better technologies. By knowing how a material or structure behaves in such gigantic fields, we develop a better understanding of it, which then gets applied in the real world.
I have become interested in Dafny after reading about how they are making an effort to reduce annotations[0].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04023
Mikhail Erements at Max Planck is using diamond anvils to crush hydrogen at 495GPa to obtain a theoretically predicted room temperature superconducting metallic hydrogen solid. The pressure generated by this electromagnetic implosion experiment is of the same order of magnitude. Plasma inserted in a liquid metal cylinder which undergoes EMFC has been talked about as a potential fusion generator since the 1950s with little experimental success, due to engineering limitations.
Ok, so this is an article referring to some other reporting, which was somehow sourced itself. Suffice to say that factoid should come with significant uncertainty attached.
So when I turn on the light at home, what is the increase in current typically, order of magnitude?
There's also Qt which they used for OneDrive
You get some Bitcoin and send it to a URL, then it will be in your wallet, or so we hope.

Some parts are incomplete. This service isn't ready. From the Paywall page:

> Process

This is a work in progress
Good answer to "What's the difference between LEAN, F* and Dafny?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46010923/whats-the-diffe...
Unpredictability is an inconvenience. Django and Flask does feature reliable protection.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/csrf/

https://flask-wtf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/csrf.html
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That's not true. The super rich are taking luxury vacations and spa trips.
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Yes it is. Also for Hindus it's based on seasons(Auspicious months). During season period there could be 4-5 or more marriages a month, sometimes 2-3 happening on the same day.

For distant relatives no gift is expected, but people do give cash(1000rs avg). For close relatives it's mostly gold. You are supposed to return equal or more than you received for your sons/daughters marriage. It can average 8gms of 22k gold (cost upto 30000rs) which is not a small amount.

Also all of these varies between states, religions and caste. For e.g no one expects dowry in West Bengal while in neighbouring state you are expected to give hefty dowries.
It's all because Steam allows to distribute any games, which was not possible before.
That’s exactly how the Web was at first. I clearly remember downloading Mosaic in the summer of 1993, a few months after its release. I clicked around for a few minutes, but quickly ran out of content. So I went back to gopherspace, which was rich and endless in comparison.
> Where would you need 1000 T which basically makes everything metallic evaporate in it's vicinity?

Hmm, does that mean it would evaporate a Faraday cage?
Is this group associated with Coinbase? Did they get permission to use the name?
Samba de Gafieira is like Argentine Tango, but happy.
He doesn’t have to have a reason beyond being as flawed of a human being as the rest of us, he thought there must be more to the human condition than just physics and it wasn’t necessarily had to be backed up by rational thought anymore than any other religious or pseudo-religious belief.

Issac Newton also believed in things we would laugh about and heck even back then were considered a laughing stock by scientists https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_stud...
These are python converted exercises not solutions.
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That's one of the things we (Scrimba) are trying to enable dev teams to do seamlessly these days:
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This. This thread is killing me. This might be the only comment so far to even consider women as having agency. When you give women control over their own bodies and equal enough rights to support autonomy — so, treat them like people, basically - it turns out they don’t want to have so many kids, because growing and birthing humans is incredibly taxing and traumatic. The trauma, in particular, is weirdly something that people don’t talk to young women about, and that often remains hidden from view. Reach a certain age (as a woman) and get alone in a room with other women of a certain age and the stories are absolutely harrowing. Of the women I’ve known personally who have given birth, all but one had PTSD from the experience.

I am, frankly, dreading the replies to this comment, as the thread already tilts heavily towards the sort of dehumanizing abstraction of women’s rights that often precedes more explicitly misogynist arguments cloaked in utilitarianism, so I will just say that if you consider coercing women into traumatizing and often debilitating situations to be an acceptable “cost” of a hypothetical economically optimal birth rate, I do not consider you to be capable of engaging in good faith and will not respond.

I would also suggest that concerns about “birth rate” or other abstracted metrics are often a screen for concerns — from men — about access to sex. I mean, in the context of intensifying climate change, a decreasing birth rate is not really our biggest problem as a species. It might actually be an asset.
I meant 'created' one torrent. Where? TPB.
Well that is cool. Thanks for sharing.
> Regulation has a tendency to be repealed if the public or government loses sight of why the regulation was passed in the first place. On the other hand, companies usually want regulations repealed by default. This tension between opposing forces must resolve itself, and it does in favor of companies because not only are they constantly applying pressure against regulations, but the public is often allured by the fact that many regulations lower potential levels of economic growth. Therefore it's more likely than not that regulations be repealed in the long run.

The evidence suggests the complete opposite: It is harder to repeal regulations (including bad ones) than to introduce them. By default, the number of regulations on the books will tend to increase over time. In particular [0]:

> America’s underlying regulatory problem long predates the 44th president. Between 1970 and 2008 the number of prescriptive words like “shall” or “must” in the code of federal regulations grew from 403,000 to nearly 963,000, or about 15,000 edicts a year, according to data compiled by the Mercatus Centre, a libertarian-leaning think-tank. Between 2008 and 2016, under Mr Obama, about the same number of new rules emerged annually.

> The unyielding growth of rules, then, has persisted through Republican and Democratic administrations (see chart). Several factors explain it. First, Congress has neither the staff nor the expertise to write complex, technical laws. So lawmakers happily let experts in government agencies fill in the blanks. What Congress does write itself, it writes sloppily. In 2015 the Supreme Court found “more than a few examples of inartful drafting” in the Affordable Care Act. One such error nearly saw the court strike down crucial parts of law; only semantic gymnastics saved it. The “Chevron deference”, a doctrine from a 1984 court ruling, gives agencies wide latitude to interpret laws when they are vaguely written. (Neil Gorsuch, Mr Trump’s nominee to the court, is not a fan.)

> Second, America’s division of powers makes it easy for interest groups to defend any one regulation, tax break or policy. That forces administrations to solve problems by taping yet more rules onto whatever exists already, rather than writing something simple from scratch. Over time, this gums up the system, resulting in what Steve Teles of Johns Hopkins University has dubbed a “kludgeocracy”. This explains, for instance, why over half of Americans have to pay a professional to fill out their tax return for them (in Britain, for comparison, most people need not even complete one).

[0] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/03/02/too-much-...
In this day and age, languages, frameworks, and libraries that deal poorly with parallelism deserve criticism for it.

Yes, competent engineers can work around these problem given time (e.g. pivoting from thread-level to process-level parallelism), so it wouldn't be fair to entirely blame nodejs for the problems, but that wasn't the vibe I got from GP.
We could talk all day but sadly I must go to work to obtain those calories! ;-)

It's always fun talking with you though and I appreciate it.

I'll make one point though.

> Removing selective pressure, possibly another.

I think this one is underrated - there is a strong incentive for us to want to believe the removal of pressure is a good thing - then call that problem solved - it's a black box we no longer think about and close shop on that.

You may know of Mike Rowe - the blue collar jobs advocate.

I think he and David Krakauer are often saying something similar - which is that a loss of contact with the tools in our brains which solve certain problems can (sometimes) produce stagnation as individuals and society - it gets us flying away from Musk's 'first principals' beliefs.

The whole video is worth watching but this short segment illustrates the point:

https://youtu.be/pi7h6nmkvAM?t=1900
DDG works well for me in 90% of cases. Sometimes when I am searching an obscure technical issue I revert back to Google. However the biggest feature that is missing for me is custom date range searches. Google has a "1 year search" and a "custom range" search while DDG only goes up to 1 month. It would be helpful when I am searching for more current information but need a bigger range than 1 month.
The signup link is a 404, and most apps haven't had commits for years. Where is the current documentation?
Poetry is great! To me, it seems like there should be more software folks interested in it. I definitely see a few parallels.
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You probably would if the Solid websites actually explained anything about how it works, rather than being filled with ridiculous marketing speak. I'm honestly really disappointed that TBL is obviously OK with this.
> This really doesn't change the status quo at Tesla at all.

It just subtracted $40mm from the status quo and, moreover, will likely have negative repercussions on the company's ability to raise capital in the future.
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Tim Berners-Lee has been talking about the Semantic Web[0], which is what this grew out of, since 1998. If you can see RDF's use in Solid, it's not like he's just getting on the hype train just now.

[0] - https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html
> What's the successor to the book? And how could books be improved?
> What's the successor to the scientific paper and the scientific journal?

I think the answer to both of these looks something like a text- and figure-heavy Jupyter notebook distributed with a Docker container and embedded datasets.

The point being that books and papers introduce people to certain datasets, then teach how to gain insight from them. This would add the ability to interact programmatically with the data and equations being presented. I’m talking about technical textbooks here specifically.

I don’t know what the successor is to the scientific journal. I’ve talked to a lot of people about this and every time I’m less convinced it can be disrupted. It will require a coordinated international effort.
GDI+ does.
Touch input is perfect for consuming, horrible for creating.
Most countries have laws limiting the scope of the activity of it's spies. In this case the headline covers wether this latest activity did break one of those laws:

> UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International

There's a lot of law that limits the activities of states in general, and when government oversteps these bounds it's a big deal because when they continue to do it you risk the foundations of the state itself, allowing for authoritarianism, dictators etc. etc.
A larger economy is more diversified, diversity will create a regression to the mean. And sheer scale creates momentum -- it takes a lot to accelerate and a lot to decelerate.

Less diversified economies show wider swings. Australia rode on the sheep's back for most of a century, these days the country's fortunes closely track the prices of coal and iron ore.

Still, from indicators like number of public companies, market capitalisation and so forth, the USA's economy is growing less diverse at the moment.
For a magnet to be used as propulsion, you'd need something for it to pull or push against.

Finding a likely target seems impossible. The way magnetism drops off with distance means it would only be useful when you were already there (or just starting out).

Also the magnetic field in this case is only lasting a tiny fraction of a second, which would be an issue for propulsion.
leave aside the article.. it's done its job..: just read the comments in this thread. my oh my