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I don't really see "exploitative capitalism" as being a problem for Bezos. As our current president has pointed out, it's just smart business. In our current political climate that will probably be lapped up by someone.
Are you specifically targeting better career opportunities?

Now is as good a time as ever to be a seasoned Full Stack engineer. Pursuing an MS and shifting specialties seems very expensive.

Despite all the support other commenters are giving, I believe you should be very hesitant about making such a career shift.
Also, by weeding out price-driven projects, you are weeding out ignoramuses who do not know the value of a good freelancer or the reality of their project’s scope. I kid you not, one of my developers told me a story of a client from Upwork asking him to build a me-too Google search engine...
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That's a totally valid point of view to have.

I used to be the same and care a lot about objective comparisons but I realized when I just listened to those I usually regretted my purchase. For me personally, the subjective things like feel, design, UX are way more important so that's why I now prefer anecdotal opinions because things like UX can't really be measured.

For example the Fiesta ST was car of the year and very highly praised by critics, but when I test drove it, I felt nothing. I instead preferred a car that was much worse but for whatever reason I liked it and in the end isn't that what's important?
That'll be a great addition to the book.

Can I also recommend Yaron Minsky's talk on OCaml, specifically the part where he talks about "making invalid states impossible": https://youtu.be/-J8YyfrSwTk?t=1079

I've found this to be the single most valuable programming technique I've learnt.

Richard Feldman dives deeper into the topic with a lot more examples in https://youtu.be/IcgmSRJHu_8?t=73
Can I have some of the verifiable evidence of your anti-Chinese propaganda from the last 10 years? You seem adamant that there's an abundance of it across the globe and that it's so pervasive over the past 200 years. I'd love to see just some of the recent bits.
We only have a few percent more food production than humanity needs, if I remember correctly. Roundup and other pesticides combined with fertilizer increased yields ... it doubles and triples them, and it prevents famines resulting from sudden insect plagues, which were common (as in every 30 years on average) for most of human history.

If these numbers are even close to accurate, eliminating roundup and modern farming would kill BILLIONS of humans.

I would love to get more accurate numbers, but what do you intend to do about the little "humans need food" issue in general ?
The basic point and shoot camera tests are fascinating. A cursory glance shows the Pixel 3's camera the best of the bunch, sometimes by far.

That said, as an iPhone user it's annoying to see Apple purposely hobbling itself with its overly aggressive (re: terrible) image processing.

In this image, for example:

https://images.anandtech.com/galleries/6731/A_iX_IMG_0308.jp...

The cobblestone ground is literally left unrecognizable, a shame considering the sensor is capable of so much more.

Since iOS 7 we're able to shoot raw, and Apps like ProCam show just how much better our sensor can be if it weren't for all that blurring.

If you shoot with an iPhone I highly recommend using RAW, your shots will easily match the Pixels excellent results for basic point and shoot detail.
You need to look again. I use Nubia M2, it's fast, the battery is great, the screen is OLED, 64GB space, and it's crazy cheap. The downsides are - the camera is garbage, and Android is 6.

Google maps opens and is ready to use in 2-3 seconds.
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My understanding is that that's an optimization for space and only used for much older commits. Pack files aren't needed in or present in every repository. They're more an archive than part of everyday usage is my understanding.
And yet now days, cross plat development for any other imaginable combination is possible.

Apple is the lone hold out here.

But they also have no reason to change.
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I personally find Gmail and Drive to also be superior offerings. The only problem I have with either is privacy.

Gmail's integration with Drive and Calendar are really nice. It's a very mature web email app besides all that. It's not hard to find other email solutions, but in my experience they lack the polish and integration that makes Gmail so valuable.

I have been looking for a good zero-knowledge cloud storage solution that fit my requirements for a while. All of the alternatives I've tried have severe limitations or unresolved issues.
What about the humans who eat that food ? Should we kill them now or just let them starve ? (there's only a few percent more food than needed, so ...)
DCA also has a "perimeter rule" in place, which forbids flights between DCA and airports more than 1,250 miles away, unless a specific exception is made.

http://www.flyreagan.com/dca/dca-reagan-national-slot-perime...
On https://crystal-lang.org/ "Fast as C, slick as Ruby".

There's a list on https://crystal-lang.org/docs/ that is less tongue in cheek.
The food we eat and the air we breath all depend on living things - on the ecosystem that we evolved to live in.
Pragmatically, why would anybody need anything but git nowadays?
If your putting it in the stock market or loans, doesn't it increase the supply of such things, thus making the return less and making people have to work harder as a result if 'everyone' did this?

As far as I can see, it only applies if the cash is inert in a bank account not being loaned out.
If anything, a higher-density city should be more amenable to bicycles. Standard passenger cars are tremendously wasteful of physical space. You can fit half a dozen bikes in the road space that a car in the city requires (meaning, including following distance). Then there's the amount of space they take up when they're idle, and the extra space for them to maneuver past each other safely.

The mass of automobile usage has completely warped our civic spacetime in this country. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with cars per se -- they have important uses -- but they certainly don't help with density of all things.
I do agree they are usually far from "Mission:Impossible" style security that OP seems to have in mind.

To be fair to OP, average regional DCs have better security than cell towers.
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Maybe. They could probably redact the 'how' details. And even if not I wonder how many of their methods are truly secret.

EDIT: typo
Even if they don't retire early, good on these folks.

They will at least be able to take time off when they want, or self-fund an opportunity to be their own boss (which, at 48, I am convinced should be everyone's goal).

Another alternative is what I call the "slow burn"...work at brutal competitive jobs to build up a nest egg, then just "peace-out" and go work something mindless to keep a little income or maybe secure health insurance, while using your nest egg for life's big expenses
Meat is made, inefficiently, true, from grass. Where grass grows, it is generally so because nothing else will grow there.

So in a lot of places you can't swap out meat for, say, corn. It's meat ... or nothing (well, grass, which I guess you could make plastic from but little else).

All of agriculture is also pretty inefficient btw. From the sunlight to calories (before any processing) there's ~1.8% efficiency.
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ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier
On that same "blocked" page there's also this:

Would you like some tips about avoiding DNS blocking?
Take a look at our practical guide about VPN and DNS blocking here!

Which links to this (in swedish): https://www.bahnhof.se/press/press-releases/2018/11/01/bara-...

Google DNS and its IP addresses are mentioned, so they are probably enforcing just DNS blocking.
You'll probably get more info asking this on /r/machinelearning or maybe ai.stackexchange.com

Also, where have you already looked, and what did you find? In what way was that inadequate / what more are you looking for?
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We do a terrible job of capturing all the externalities that come from that low density. Low density requires much more infrastructure to serve it, and gets subsidized by the high density areas further in. If all that was captured in the actual costs of living in those low density areas, you might very well decide that low density was too expensive, and that you preferred high density areas instead.
So simple yet so effective - to a point.
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> Discriminating against someone because of their employer sounds like a very dangerous precedent to set.

The court employees are still free to surf Bahnhof's web site from their own Internet connections. They don't discriminate against individuals, they block traffic from an institution.
Why “iota”?
I personally avoid the bike bridge and take the long way around. It's a gimmicky solution. There are always pedestrians on the bridge, mainly due to bad integration in the preexisting infrastructure. Busy rush hour bike commuters and clueless tourist on a narrow, fenced off, bike lane is not a good combination.

The article even hints at the real interesting story about bike infrastructure in copenhagen - the super bike lanes. But I guess that the bright red snake brings in more clicks.
Was using wi-fi calling an option?
> Each figure should be an individually published entity which contains the entire computational pipeline.

I agree in principle. But, for the experimental sciences, we need better publication infrastructure to make this practically possible.

For example, consider a figure that summarizes compares, between several groups, the mechanical strain of tensile test specimens for a given load. Strain is measured from digital image correlation of video of the test. Some pain points:

1. There is a few hundred GB of test video underlying the figure. Where should the author put this where it will remain publicly accessible for the useful lifetime of the paper? How long should it remain accessible, anyway? The scientific record is ostensibly permanent, but relying on authors to personally maintain cloud hosting accounts for data distribution will seldom provide more than a couple years' of data availability.

2. Open data hosts that aim for permanent archival of scientific data do exist (e.g., the Open Science Framework), but their infrastructure is a poor match with reproducible practices. I haven't found an open data host that both accepts uploads via git + git annex or git + git LFS and has permissive repository size limits. Often the provided file upload tool can't even handle folders, requiring all files to be uploaded individually. Publishing open data usually requires reorganizing it to according to the data host's worldview or publishing a subset of the data, which breaks the existing computational analysis pipeline.

3. Proprietary software was used in the analysis pipeline. The particular version of the software that was used is no longer sold. It's unclear how someone without the software license would reproduce the analysis.

Finally, there's the issue of computational literacy of scientists. In most cases, the "computational pipeline" is a grad student clicking through a GUI a couple hundred times, and occasionally copying the results into an MS Office document for publication. No version control. Generally, an interactive analysis session cannot be stored and reproduced later. How do we change this? Can we make version control (including of large binary files) user-friendly enough that non-programmers will use it? And make it easy to update Word / PowerPoint documents from the data analysis pipeline instead of relying on copy & paste?

If any of these pain points are in fact solved and my information is out of date, I would be thrilled to hear it.
As a former government contractor (and employee), I can say having the tech teams nearby is an advantage. Personal relationships should not be underestimated, even when building software for the government. If anything personal relationships are even more important as there’s a high likelihood that non-technical people will be making the decisions on what and how you build the software.
But they only need to find one such developer; no need to employ the whole Internet.
Isn't this really bad for a capitalistic system? You need people to spend money and buy things that aren't just rent and basic food.
I don't believe Full Stack is a real thing. I also believe you have probably been doing distributed systems even if you think you haven't.
I think the context matters here. The ISP is demonstrating the dangers you've pointed out in site blocking by blocking a site that opposes site blocking -- that's genius. Why wouldn't people cheer? Clearly this is indicative that the ISP wouldn't support any kind of block in the future, even for material that doesn't support its views.

If your argument is that this should be put into law and enforced, I imagine this ISP would also agree with you.
Can I see your evidence of this? Because what I stated actually has evidence. There's explicit proof of people in America moving to China. There's explicit proof of Chinese students coming to America to learn. There's explicit proof of us creating deals with the Chinese for manufacturing. There's explicit proof of Americans and Chinese communicating. There has never been more Chinese - Americans in the US.

You however hand-wave my whole post away and say it can't be further from the truth with no evidence. You also say that the average US citizen actually knows very little about China. I would argue that's inaccurate. I would say that Americans have never known the Chinese better. All people are able to be manipulated into accepting views that do not reflect reality. I'm not sure how that still supports the belief that was stated above that Westerners know little about China. What mysteries do Westerners not know? Their brutal concentration camps have even been in the news recently. Their hacking attempts have been in the news forever. Their party's takeover of the government and potential lifetime dictatorship has been in the news.

You seem to be implying that everyone in the US are dunces.
I think the idea is preventing tracking a user between different Tor Browser sessions, not within the same session. When Tor Browser opens, it opens at a default size, regardless of computer. So there's no way to differentiate between different Tor Browser users who don't manually change the window size.
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> Interesting. Some time ago I had the ongoing debate with a colleague on what it meant to be full stack.

Yeah, that's what makes this term a poor one IMO. It's not at all clear what it means. I've always taken it to mean "not merely Javascript."
There’s always the ‘analog hole’. Someone can take a screenshot. Probably won’t unless you are egregious about something. What this should prevent is someone going back in time and digging through your stuff for something embarrassing, if they weren’t associated with you before.
He's a likeable fellow, doesn't ham it up too much.

I watch very little video, broadcast TV nearly gives me hives listening to their anxious desperate voices, but do not mind an occasional Marques Brownlee video. Actually kind of soothing ...
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Look here's the issue. In people with chronic pain, there's a medical issue.

Treating the medical issue ... is very expensive (I believe spinal operations would be pretty common).

Giving them opioids ... "treats" the issue. Cheaply, even though yes, these people are from that point on dependent on opioids. They are of course addicted FIRSTLY because they went untreated, and SECONDLY because the medicine is addictive.

Eliminating one of those reasons for addition is pointless.

You cannot give these people nothing. You can't actually treat them (that's WAY too expensive). So what is your suggestion, exactly ? You can't leave them untreated and in sometimes incredible pain.
How are those not synonymous in this day and age? The point of freedom of expression is not inhibiting the right to an audience or explicitly interferring in the marketplace of ideas in civil society. Saying that Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, et. al face any actual injury or diminution in service as a result of hosting pernicious speech is absurd, especially in light of the role of Chapter 47 in the history of the freedom of the Internet.^1

And let's be clear, this isn't a case of the use of a service depriving other more worthy parties of using said service. It is Shaw's comparison between apples and ideas.^2 And it is attempting to tear down a universal principle to make it accountable to shifting tastes and moral fads which makes everyone guilty eventually.

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1 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

2 - “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
No - they are ahering to the first principle of capitalism - take care of yourself!
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I think that you are just exhausted, and you need a major break from work. Two weeks is not enough. I recommend you find am all inclusive vacation spot or tour and spend three weeks there. The all inclusive aspect is critical because you need to free yourself from making stressful (e.g. monetary) decisions. Just relax at some place like Club Med.

If that's not possible, even a few nights away from home will be helpful.
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> Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting.

Fyi, impeach means to hold a trial not to kick them out.

On this point I have to disagree. Democracy does not work well in foss communities and can easily be hijacked and makes it to easy to foster strife and divisions. I like the traditional foss way of being led by a BDFL where if you disagree with leadership you can "Just fork it".
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Lets not mention the torture program, which the current head of CIA took part.

Or the "humanitarian" invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia and Syria without UN Security Council mandate. Especially Lybya, which is much more democratic now with it's slave markets.

Or the protectionism that goes against the WTO treaties.

Or by weaponizing the dollar, which is supposed to be the world's reserve currency, by the means of sanctions.

Should I mentions the use of nuclear weapons and napalm against targets with dense civilian population close by?

China, Russia and the US are all draconian regimes. Some target it's own people, other target people overseas and others target both.

The difference is that one has holywood at it's side to show them saving the world time and time again from aliens, metheors and vile russians / nazis. And people just treat the US government as the good heart kid that makes a few mistakes.
Thanks for the feedback! r/machinelearning folks didn't have too many places to point me, they seem more interested in functional and statistical methods. ai.stackexchange is a good idea, i'll dig around there

I've been reading most recent conference reports and journals, working my way back from well cited papers like deepminds review last year, but there doesn't seem to be conclusive work seriously being done here.
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Yup. They put out a press release explaining how to do it, and on the PR stunt blocking page they put up for elsevier.com they have instructions as well.

But they didn't include a link to the instructions on the court mandated blocking page =(
Ok, but you still need people to buy things. If they're only saving, there's no demand for products. Capitalism requires people to consume.
I distinctly remember working with grad students in 2006 whose project was "collaborating with Nokia to make super high quality cameras in cell phones".

At the time, I laughed inside and thought, "ha, it's gonna be tough to beat a D2Hs and a decent set of lenses."

I was very wrong. Image sensors have come a long way incredibly fast.
Don't forget the cookie cutter restaurants, properly styled and stippled to create an illusion of not just being yet another bland chain.
All of his/her comments in this post are seemingly only there to stir up people. There's no evidence behind the things they're saying other than a hand-waving attempt at minimizing China's bad faith actions by saying others do similar things. When arguing that someone who is 10/10 bad is equal to someone that is 4/10 bad you have to really reach to equate the two and not see the nuance.
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A good candidate for what?

I've been through enough interviews on both sides. The only thing that will tell you anything of importance is paying candidates to perform real tasks.

If doing algorithms on a whiteboard is part of the job; then sure, go for it. But I suspect very few of the really good coders out there would make much of an impression in that setting.
> I saw a girl afflicted by hyperalgesia and the itching and it was terrible. The solution was to take her off of the morphine, but she wouldn't consider it. Paradoxically, she resorted to self harm to control the issue.

You know, why did she take morphine in the first place. That's the big missing link here. People's actions make sense.

If, for instance, she had a hernia and couldn't treat it (too expensive, even with insurance, or just no insurance), that would explain her behavior. Same with any other painful or degenerative condition, and in fact quite a lot of untreated conditions.

More generally that is the problem there. Addiction, yes, but in the sense of psychological addiction, not substance abuse. If you're in chronic pain you've either got the willpower of an olympic athlete or you're "addicted".