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I routinely alter almost every contract I receive. It drives a lot of doctor offices/emergency rooms nuts. But they have so far always calculated that their liability will be higher if they refuse service than if they allow me to cross out the part that says I won't sue them if they kill me.

It is a point of amusement to me to see that the receptionist is extremely uncomfortable agreeing to the terms I have come up with in the last five minutes. They don't think it is reasonable for me to expect them to execute the altered contract without consulting attorneys. I point out that five minutes ago they asked me to sign a contract without consulting a legal expert. Their multi-page contract had been painstakingly drafted by a team of expensive lawyers and meticulously tweaked over years. Yet they gave me mere seconds to read it, understand it, and sign it under duress of not receiving medical attention. If they balk at the contract I hand back to them, how can they expect me not to balk at the original contract?

On the other hand, if they refuse to provide medical care because I wouldn't sign away my rights to any photographs that might be submitted to medical journals, they had better be very confident in their lawyers.

Banks, rental agencies, repair shops, etc., on the other hand, can safely refuse my revised contract. Most don't glance at them when I hand them back.
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> Those problems are easily worked around, of course

Ehm... I think you learned to work around these issues so gradually that you don't realize how complicated the mess that you've solved is
I was going to suggest that anyone interested in quality of debate unplug from Twitter entirely and go meet up with some folks for coffee. Or Tacos. Or go on a hike together. Or have them over for board games.
Bonus if these are folks you don't entirely agree with on everything.
> thus increasing the Linux player-base, making Linux a viable target for 1st party titles

Do you think the studios will know? Seems like these would come in as windows sales.
It's confusing on purpose.
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This is awesome and I like your logic. Metrics should be off for every social network by default. All metrics do is breed heard mentality.
> Why is it better than dual booting? Well, it's faster, and you can use whatever backing store you like (e.g. ZFS volumes for snapshots, LUKS encryption, ...), run services in the background, etc.

Any way to avoid dual-booting is also good because if you do your work on Linux, you don't lose state. After a day of work, I sometimes want to play games, and I like it when I don't have to shut down my editor and the image of the program I am working on. In fact, having to reboot is a quite effective deterrent for me.
You don't pay tip for delivery? Good to know, I guess I will only order deliveries when I got to the US becaude I refuse to tip and I understand it won't be a valid option at a restaurant.
The closest thing I can think of is https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/StackAdvice/
That doesn't scale at all.
> So yes, Linux is a valid gaming OS for a non-gamer like me, who actually plays many non-AAA games :)

If I could get the handful of Windows-only games in my Steam library working on Linux, I'd dump Windows 10 in a second.

But they tend to be the old/AA/AAA and/or graphically heavy ones that are unlikely to port/Proton across well.
I always think back to this comment from a Sarajevo survivor: https://www.metafilter.com/78669/What-if-things-just-keep-ge...

World annhiliation is difficult to assess. Local political disaster .. well, it feels closer than a few years ago. But I don't think it will be the big nuclear one.

Switzerland "preps" on a society-wide scale: every apartment building must have its own nuclear shelter, and the mountains are riddled with more military and civilian shelters and stockpiles. They're completely prepared to blow the bridges and lockdown the country if it's required.

Meanwhile I'm wondering what level of "prepping" is appropriate for Brexit. The government alternates between announcing the issue of commemorative coins and announcing plans to requisition ships to deal with the Channel transport fiasco. I've already experiences not having any fresh food (milk, bread etc) in the shops for 5 days this year - and that was down to two feet of snow.

Individualist survival is always going to be terribly limited, and not possible for vulnerable individuals. The best solution is a society that takes the right threats seriously and looks after its vulnerable.
Thank you for your more informed analysis, and fair point. Admittedly, the rest of the suite doesn't tickle my fancy like that one movement does. I suppose I'm a sucker for his earlier, more contemporarily popular (but less profound) works, as my other favorite piece from him is Deux Arabesques No. 1.
alright, can we get the next study to show pigs are more intelligent than humans? shouldn't be too hard.
There is a big caveat. A registrar can not register a domain for more than 10 years. There are no exceptions to this. That means we are trusting the registrar will not go out of business and trust that they will always be able to renew every 10 years on our behalf. There are a few registrars that do this. I consider it to be a form of speculation.
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also each vote cast in Wyoming is worth 3.6 as much as the same vote cast in California. still less than in the EU.
Ubuntu's pronunciation isn't exactly clear to English speakers either.

People needed to be told that it's Ooboontoo and not You-ban-too (or whatever else people came up with).
In a more general sense, I don't understand why we can't define field attributes in ONE spot and have most of the application software automatically just use that info rather than reinvent it in code?

Things were moving that way in the 80's it appeared, then OOP came along and overzealous practitioners declared RDBMS and tables as an official evil. Sure, different screens or reports may need different subsets of such fields, but filters can be built to sort or filter different "views" as needed per usage point. (OOP is good for some things, but not others.)

I'm tired of retyping or mass-replicating the field wheel. Let's return to table-oriented programming and data dictionaries. It's a D.R.Y. sin. Code is NOT the best place to store most field info. (RDBMS can also store navigation, screen, and menu info, but one thing at a time. 90% of typical CRUD could be done in a declarative sense.)

You are welcome to disagree; I encourage spirited debate.
Humans != worms

(well, ignoring the figurative worms, who were not in this study)
This looks fantastic. In particular, the focus on many-class classification is important, it's a common real-world task that is often overlooked. I have some suggestions:

More types of baseline accuracy measure would be useful, eg. accuracy, and micro and macro f1 with unbalanced classes.

It would be very useful to know inter-annotator agreement for the manual classification and human performance for the task of identifying the original subreddit. I'm not a huge fan of creating artificial categories when natural ones are available. In practice there will be a real difference between the 26th and 27th league of legends subreddit, it might be some subtle topical focus shift or something political or tonal.

Is there some kind of standard measure for trading precision and recall when classifying in a hierarchical class structure? That is, you start predicting general high-level categories and move down to the most specific class you can get to before confidence falls below a threshold? Then the evaluation measure gives you more credit for getting lower down the tree (rewarding information gain in the class hierarchy).
It'll probably get a non-blocking option. And some games need TCP anyway.
Short article touting the idea of "delayed gratification" and "will power" in order to satisfy your future self. What is interesting is how possibly counter-intuitive the gratification equation is. It's fun to think about the compounding effect of both strategies suggested in the article. If the "short-game" is repeated doesn't it become your "long-game" strategy?
I'm not using Proton, but using regular Wine+dxvk (for DX11 games).

dxvk[1] is an amazing project (it's translating D3D11 → Vulkan). With Vulkan finally landing VK_EXT_transform_feedback[2] and Wine and dxvk using it (Mesa has it in master for radv, and there are patches for anv; Nvidia blob has it in beta), games like The Witcher 3 can be played on Linux perfectly, without graphics distortions.

1. https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

2. http://jason-blog.jlekstrand.net/2018/10/transform-feedback-...
I totally agree with this comment; it would be great to have an honest discussion around the proposed laws.

The law is supposed to prevent re-publishing of content with minor attribution ala Google News or this type of thing[0] from Boing Boing. The proposed law states specifically that "the act of hyperlinking" is excluded[1] and even says that "insubstantial parts ... (for instance very short excerpts)" would not be against the law[2].

[0] - https://boingboing.net/2018/09/10/at-insane-speeds-moto2-rid...
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...
[2] - http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018/...
Linux being open source and gpl licensed is a problem for anti-cheats.
I took a Feldenkrais class once. The combinatorial quality was nifty but I'm not sure I saw how it was fundamentally any different from a dance or martial arts class. Teaching all permutations of movement is certainly not unique to the Feldenkrais curriculum.
Many of the older games that have problems running under Steamplay also have problems running under Windows 10 (for similar reasons). Another group of games that don't currently run under Steamplay require some form of additional DRM. Once that's supported, most of those games should work.
If you save 15% of your (post-tax) income every year for 43 years, you can live off of market investment returns for essentially forever. Assuming you started working at 22, that's a retirement age of 65 with no government assistance.
This punctuation is very ironic.
"He acknowledges there might be stigma attached to the word 'prepper' but stresses it is just about being prepared – whether that is for the armageddon or just for a flat tyre is up to the individual."

In the US, at least, I recall the term 'prepper' coming along relatively recently, as a softer, more friendly-sounding replacement for the previous term, "survivalist," which had acquired a connotation of "irrational, paranoid gun hoarder type."

Is this a case of the "euphamism treadmill" in action?
Same here.. but keep in mind.. xboxes also keep the kids out of the games you play, and when they do manage to play in games you're in, they're either get aim-assists (which sucks but ok..), or they are getting wrecked by wasd/mouse players.
As far as I've seen, there was never any proof that Microsoft chose the Windows 10 name for that reason. I find it especially unlikely considering Vista broke even more recent compatibility.
This narrative that it hurts the poor is just not true. You get a prebate for basic consumption. It only hurts the poor who spend beyond their means on luxury goods, which is a hopeless situation anyways. (hurts is a poor term, because the cost of goods might not go up at all even with the tax included due to reasons stated elsewhere)

If anything, it allows the poor to pay less tax and save more of their paycheck if desired. It puts the choice in their hands.

Before it is claimed that the poor don't pay tax now anyways - that is only true if you consider gross income to be representative of financial status. You can make an above U.S. average salary and still be poor depending on where you live. This system does not discriminate based on gross income. It's like a no-limit IRA that you can withdraw from at any time.
You can set the new tab page url with the ADMX templates and set the homepage button to be the newTab page - https://getadmx.com/?Category=Chrome&Policy=Google.Policies....
Especially on a hybrid/commuter bike, with panniers or a backpack, dirty drivechain, flat pedals and tires that aren't pumped up all the way.
There is something very wrong with the conversation if Twitter says they want to fight hate speech and immediately people jump to the assumption that anyone who voted for President Trump will be censored.

If I say "hate speech" and Trump voters think I'm talking about them, that is a very big problem. Is there no nuance between "Trump voter" and "person who spreads hate speech"?

Somewhere in the minds of the people who are afraid of Twitter's hate speech rules, they themselves believe they are engaging in hate speech whether it's true or not. And since the US doesn't have any legal definition of hate speech, it's up to society to create and enforce its own rules. Twitter banning Alex Jones and Roger Stone is just society's way of saying that the message they're spreading is not acceptable in society.

Like you said, two opposing viewpoints can benefit from having a reasoned discussion. But hate speech is not a reasoned discussion, it's a one-way communication, generally against people who cannot defend themselves. Conservative or liberal viewpoints are one thing. Hate speech is something completely different. Again, if I say "hate speech" and you immediately think "Trump supporter", we're having two very different conversations.

At any rate I don't think either of us are getting anything productive from this conversation, so I'm going to back out. Have a nice day.
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Tough sell for investors.
One way of looking at it is paying for mindshare. Sometimes companies want your brainpower only focussed on one programming problem. They might not want you at work, thinking about items in your side project.

Focus is a big deal. Doesn't make it right but it's the only business justification I've ever heard that actually seemed legit.

At the same time, there should be an expectation of compensation to give something like that up.
There is a popular TED talk which argues in part that improved technology and training is key to modern records. Bannister is mentioned briefly at 3 minutes in.

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_...

The speaker notes that Bannister ran his mile on a cinder track and claims it degrades performance by 1.5% compared to a modern synthetic track.

Cinder tracks do look like they would be quite soft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NGgiMDHjKM

This site claims that British cinder tracks were mostly crushed brick rubble. They required heavily spiked shoes.

https://theolympians.co/2015/07/01/the-last-of-the-cinder-tr...
Losing your money when you lend it stupidly is only fair and responsible, too.
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Having a menu to choose which OS to boot into is less reliable than faking all the hardware in the world?
Even if quic would bring along an unreliable stream option: The browsers Api still only expose http semantics via xhr and fetch. So those would need to get extended too.
Yea until quantum computing is mainstream...

Kidding, kidding! Im just being a troll :D
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"unless the attacker finds a way to escape the sandbox, which is among the toughest things to do, the system remains safe."

How was that determined xD.... wtf. There have been trivial sandbox escapes for most sandboxes in existence...

stopped reading there >.> pure speculation on how effective this thing will really be in the first paragraph, casts doubt on the accuracy of the rest of the information.
Modding is also lacking on consoles (limited on some). Fantastic to see Valve etc doing this, I imagine it's the last thing keeping a fair few people on Windows (certainly for me if I can get a fair portion of Steam games on Linux that's it for the Windows partition). Old classics like Everquest I might need to look at GPU passthrough if VirtualBox supports that now).
So all I want, personally, is to pop any disc in my console or hit a shortcut on my desktop and just have it work, every time, out of the box.

Me too, I game on windows, and that isn't exactly what I'd call my experience ;)
While HTTP/2 has very clear advantages in many areas, it's losing out on some major HTTP/1 advantages that have allowed it to last so long. Most importantly: Simplicity. One can create HTTP/1 server in just a few lines of code. It's the same sort of reason AT commands are still used over simple serial devices.

While a lot of the modern web is great, it also has drawbacks that should be looked at very carefully: A simple HTTP page from yonder can still be rendered just fine. A modern page can't be rendered properly a year or so down the line. We need modern protocols to solve modern problems we've created such as huge pages with tons of links and back and forth traffic to many servers. While I think work needs to be done in both directions, I don't know what we really need to go so far as to push down yet another HTTP/x protocol this soon. HTTP/1 is going to be used for quite a while still, HTTP/2 solves a lot, and where it matters (ie: dealing with specialized servers) QUIC is already and has been in use.
Ah that sucks. I'll have to read through it.
Not here. I've seen significant performance improvements from HTTP/2 across dozens of small sites.
Couple of UX/IA things:

- There's no hover effects on your links. This makes the top level links (Business, Discussion + Analysis, and Letter from the Founders) look like they're not clickable, especially because they're treated so differently than the rest of the links.

- Plus signs are often used to hide nested content, especially in navigation trees like you have here. If these are simply links, they should look like links.

- Once you're in a section, there's no breadcrumbs or active styling in the header. Because there are so many links, it's hard to know where you are or create a mental model of the space.

- It might be helpful to add previous and next navigation once you're inside one of the nested pages, instead of requiring people to go back out to the main page.
To quote something attributed to Leon Trotsky, "You may not be interested in culture war, but culture war is interested in you"
Yea I prefer email for these things, so I can filter it appropriately (e.g. only show when I am interested) and refer to past announcements. You cannot do either of those, especially the second, easily with a browser tab thing or homepage.
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>How is removing hate speech conductive to anything but hiding the issue.

well for one, it makes it a slightly nicer place for the victims of that hate speech.
the sandbox runs as system and redirects things where it allows by its policy, catchign all the lower privelege requests and where allowed converting them to requests to the lower system. So now you just have to exploit the sandbox process instead of the av process. i'm sure someone will do it sooner than later :')... it always ends in tears these things.
>When was the last time that you caught a significant bug with a test?

Tests only really catch bugs when you're refactoring the implementation of something while trying to keep its behavior the same. You're right, in many ways, tests exist to be broken. But they still serve their purpose. They either break because you unintentionally changed behavior and need to fix your code, or because you intentionally changed behavior and need to change your tests.
1.) It's not hyperbole. Innocent people on gab.ai are now cut-off from discussion with each other because some loon happened to post on their site.
2.) "distancing yourself" is the same as taking a political stance.
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Right, fortunately Ubuntu has enough marketing behind it that most people who know Linux already know how to pronounce it. SUSE's marketing is more limited in that regard.

In 2006, Ubuntu was a ridiculous name. Then Canonical's marketing kicked in.
At least for real estate contracts in the US, both parties have to initial each of the alterations and amendments to the contract that typically come up during negotiations. I doubt a random line crossed out in a contract would hold any legal weight in court unless acknowledged by both parties.
> A modern page can't be rendered properly a year or so down the line.

Examples?
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Basically every time that POSIX makes a guarantee which is difficult to fulfill performantly in a distributed environment.

* Some directory operations require an atomic update to 2 different inodes, confounding sharding strategies and requiring some form of global synchronization.

* write() -- write syscall guarantees that when it returns, the filesystem will serve all future read() calls appropriately, with the contents of the write. This matches up poorly with big streaming writes -- in order to fulfill the spec, you need all these giant pockets of latency waiting for an ACK from the remote host, instead of just streaming it all and getting one ACK at the end.
One commonality is that eberything you mentioned is a site that specifically gathers people around a common topic/interest. Twitter puts everything together, so the tweets from the hardware hackers I follow are mixed in together with joke accounts. This is one of my biggest pet peeves with all social media, I just don't understand why we haven't figured out anything better than usenet for keeping interests separated.
The post mentions not getting great results with OpenAI Transformer. I haven't tried that, but using a similar framework, ULM-FiT, I narrowly beat the fasttext benchmark on a 250-class dataset we use internally. I will follow up with how it does on this data set.
Oh no, don't promote tech like this until you're retired yourself - THEN you can vote for this kind of tech to make the generation then supporting you and your retirement work longer!

(that's what's happening in Europe with the age of retirement being raised left and right. I mean it's just in e.g. Greece but where I live it's gone up by 2 years because there's a slightly older generation that are now all retiring, and the system is based on growth - that is, a younger generation paying for the retirement of the older one - instead of on saving, which causes the system to collapse unless they make people work longer.
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10 bytes, or 80 bits, is cutting it, but realistically fine for now if it's actually random. The problem isn't that it's 10 bytes, but rather that it's 10 bytes of _ASCII text_. English prose is only about a bit per letter (!!!). If you randomly select 10 base32 symbols: each symbol has log2 32 = 5 bits of entropy (as opposed to the full 8 it ought to have if it was a randomly selected byte), and 10*5=50 is insufficient :)

To understand why prose entropy is so low: if I tell you the sentence "Old McDonald had a" then you can predict the next word with approximately perfect accuracy. Clearly, if they were random they would be independent.

If your threat model includes quantum search, you need twice as many bits. (I'm intentionally ignoring that HMAC-SHA1 only has a 160 bit output space.)
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> I think it's fundamentally a better solution. edit: (for desktops).

Not really for Linux users who don't want to use Windows.
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Where do you cross the line between delayed gratification and the deferred life plan? Is there an article about that?