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If you suffer, and think that under different circumstances you could make different choices, with which you would be more comfortable, then you don't really have the free choice.

But that's not what I am talking about. I am talking about society where people do have the free choice, and they are happy with it (or at least in correct proportions). Then these are their genuine preferences, and it shouldn't matter whether they come from the culture or biology.
What do people actually mean by "groupthink" here and why precisely is it bad? Everyone drives on the same side of the road and (mostly) follows the same traffic rules and we don't call it "groupdrive".

Surely having everyone believe the same true thing isn't actually bad - nobody calls Maxwell's equations "groupthink" unless they're trying to sell you a perpetual motion machine.
Brilliant. I have found a use case for blockchain thanks to this tool. Who wants to go co-founder on my YC application for...

"Blockchain for nuclear weapons"

Any fan of Dr Strangelove should know that there is a problem with the system, it is not just the president's nuclear football that can bring on the omnicide that the people in CND are so scared of.

Blockchain for nuclear weapons - where could it go wrong?

It is an obvious use case, not a solution in search of a problem. I stand corrected with all my scepticism regarding blockchain. We don't need pesky INF treaties, we can just go with smart contracts and have only the president able to launch that decapitation strike rather than some rogue general.
Exactly. The OP has a very parochial view of philosophy, and what philosophers study.
Google's business model, in broad strokes, is selling user data to advertisers.

Apple's business model, in broad strokes, is charging consumers premium prices for hardware.

As long as Apple thinks the market values user privacy, they are economically incentivized to provide privacy- and security-focused software features that get people to buy their hardware over Android equivalents.

Is that an irontight guarantee? Of course not. Is it a (current) alignment of incentives that means Apple is categorically more likely to protect privacy than e.g. Google? Absolutely. That's also played out so far in practice, between things like app security sandboxing and Apple's historical unwillingness to help law enforcement decrypt encrypted backups — see e.g. the San Bernardino shooter case.
> I think that every citizen being armed would be a good guard for the society's freedom, and thus that it would be worth it.

That would be a pretty big change from them dynamiting and firebombing Greenwood, or taking over and thrashing Malheur.

Somehow I'm doubtful. That's just not how America has used guns ever. And that's not how it uses guns to this day.
My personal pet peeve (or is it peef? ;-) ) is that nearly all imaginary maps fit neatly into a rectangle, making the best use of available space. Sometimes it ends in perfectly straight mountain ranges, long coastlines with no islands etc. Just scroll a bit through https://twitter.com/mythicmaps to see what I mean.
> Let me say it plainly: We know how to produce small portions of software using small development teams—up to 10 or so—but we don’t know how to make software any larger except by accident or by rough trial and error.—Because the software we’re trying to build is too massive—it is simply too difficult to plan it all out, and we have no idea how to coordinate the number of people it takes. Every piece of software built requires tremendous attention to detail and endless fiddling to get right.

I was faced with the same problem when I wrote my first program in assembler. I solved this by making blocks. At the begin and end of each block, I put the requirements and guarantees on the value in each register in a comment.

I work as a IT consultant and maybe my vision is skewed, but I never encountered that very basic level of specification before. At the companies where I have worked, requirements are usually specified verbally, in a loose way. Additionally, OOP concepts are (ab)used, so you there is a lot more state to keep track of.

I imagine that if you think about the structure of the project and specify interfaces of units very precisely (both in terms of what in- and output is allowed, what data types, etc.), this would work a lot better.

In terms of structured working for myself, my background in math and low-level programming has helped me a lot. In terms of working in a team, it has made me aware of how little concrete information is written down, and how much information is in peoples heads only.
I don't think it's really their fault. There are not many funding sources and those few that exist are usually coming from big players (companies, governments, etc.), so you are basically forced to pick a side if you want to do research.

It's not like a researcher in engineering or computer science who can start a small collaboration with a local company and solve some optimization problem for them and publish a paper on it.
Already in Republic

Given that Plato's Republic was written over 2000 years ago, that's pretty weak a claim to progress in philosophy.
It honestly changes the way we work with something.

Biological differences aren't things we can easily change right now. Skin color or the shape of one's fingernails or the length of one's legs. Some biological things have real world things that go with it. Skin color, for example, could put you at greater risk of skin cancer or a greater risk of low vitamin D. One simply accepts and lives with these things and works with them.

If they are cultural or from nurture, it means that as a society, we can change things. It isn't that your tastes are an issue (mostly), but that society notices that, perhaps, men don't spend as much time with children or that women are doing things differently. In these cases, we can do things like start treating boys and girls more similarly. We can teach them similar things in school. In short, we can change how we nurture and change society (albeit slowly in some cases).
As much fun as a 4 GHz Tualatin 4- or 8-core CPU sounds, it would probably take several years of development to make something usable by today's standards.
The best thing about kde connect is that it's an open protocol so i has been implemented in other desktops (eg: gnome made gconnect and it works with kdeconnect android)
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It has research backing each solution and
Microsoft is large, it contains multitudes.

(with apologies to Walt Whitman)
We often talk about "blockchain as a database" but don't clarify what type of data we are discussing.

In second generation blockchains like Ethereum there's a difference between world state and ledger data. Only the Ledger data (record of state transitions) is immutable by design.
Sounds like the NYT is mad that all these internet kids don't want to pay for a subscription.
That's because you are not part of MS Store's target user segment.
More than guns (or in addition to guns), it is important that people know how their government works and make their support indispensable if a ruler wants to stay in power. In other words, increase the number of "keys" like this YouTuber explains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

What I struggle with is how does one make the leap from being a democracy to being a democracy which protects the rights of minorities? This doesn't have to be a gender or race thing. For example, here in the US we clearly don't do enough to protect incarcerated people from {sexual, physical, mental} abuse (by staff or by other inmates).
Not written- more narrated like by national geographic.

"The common hobo travels incredible distance, to avoid the cold and social climate change freezing it to death, escaping the danger like his ancestors before him."
As Wikipedia phrases Harry G. Frankfurt (1969): "A compatibilist can believe that a person can choose between many choices, but the choice is always determined by external factors"

A bit sloppily put, a compatibilist believes a choice is free if the agent making it is not coerced or constrainted, even if the choice that the agent will make is determined.

Different compatibilists approach this as either being descriptive (this is how we tend to actually make moral judgements), or normative (free will is defined in these terms and moral responsibility for our actions follows from that).

Most incompatibilists agree that "freedom to act" is a necessary criterion for free will, but not that it is sufficient.
That's not a UX study. That's a UX anecdote.
Really? The worst privacy suck of a search choice for all of their devices is a "customer-centric" choice?

They couldn't default to the least intrusive? Or rotate randomly amongst the options?
But remember that the scientific method itself is defined by philosophers, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
From practicality perspective, how do you use your personal knowledge base? Do you review it on a regular basis?

I have thoughts of keeping a similar database, but I kept thinking "will I ever use the collected details in the future". When I first started in computers on the Atari 8bit in Australia, I would collect as many of its software as possible, due to its scarcity. Looking back on it, I would ever only used 1% of it. The rest would be sitting it on the floppies gathering dust. I fear that the database that I collect would end up in a similar situation.
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These products almost certainly haven’t failed because of bad technical design.

To use your novel analogy, the only problem with the discount bin title was that it was priced at $20 and called ‘Stuff’.
Congrats, you have then moved into a walled garden inside another walled garden.
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I regularly observe people flipping out because a corporation changed the license of a product to allow them to get more profit and more people being angry about the choice of webbrowser or whitespace character.
We're talking about Snowden, not Manning.
Yes, I think you’re totally right. We’ll end up writing clientside code for phones, tablets, and desktops. A lot of the code can be shared if you use good engineering practices, but if you use good design practices, each UI will be different so there will need to be some custom code for each. It doesn’t really matter whether this code is Swift, Java, JS, “native”, “web” or whatever.

I’d add that that’s the good scenario. The bad scenario is that everything goes the way of desktop apps, where everything just becomes a lowest-common-denominator web page with crappy UI design that doesn’t really use the platform effectively, just because it’s cheaper that way and cheap always wins.
thank you. :') these let's put things that parse complicated file/data formats along side security features is just asking for trouble! :D
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Interesting interview.

"Already in Republic (Plato again!) we have an argument—a clear and compelling rational argument—that even the highest political office should be open to women.'

What is not specified here is the sense of 'rationality' that is required of moral realism. It is not enough that something be coherently deduced from stated premises, because we can state different premises, use different categories, and make different distinctions. What is required is that there is a sense in which we can all be rationally compelled through argumentation to adopt the same premises, categories and distinctions. And that is, frankly, absurd and untrue.

'People are free when they are unconstrained and can act as they will to act.'

Again, the argument depends on (i) that you accept the post-Hobbesian account of negative liberty, and not the Hegelian account of positive liberty, or the neo-Roman account of liberty as freedom from domination, or the various socialist accounts of liberty (and again, whether we do goes back to the first point viz. what premises we start from, and what categories we use); (ii) and upon specifying what it is to be 'constrained', especially whether this involves mental, and not just physical, interference.
Yeah, your gun is very helpful against trained soldiers with hi tech equipements and drones. And not harmful at all in your daily life.
So you lock cmd in compat mode for all eternity because there are batch files that use such things?
My experience in Thailand was when I went to restaurants catering to tourist the food was bland/less spicy. Compared to eating at a food stall catering to Thai workers
There is also a "Loudness War" factor in any of popular modern recordings. The dynamic range standards are simply put terrible, despite studies claiming the importance and necessity of keeping the levels good enough.
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Turn off JavaScript and refresh the main page once you're logged in. You should get prompted to either enable JS or click through for basic HTML mode. Once you're in basic HTML mode, you can click "Set basic HTML as default view" at the top if you like it.

No need to use HTTP instead of HTTPS.
Pretty much. You build an mowner, it's going to mown. If you give it more horse power, it's going to mown more. If you make it autonomous, it's going to mown everthing it can. The mowner is nor good or bad, but it still hurts if your foot is the way and the safeguards were badly designed.
Yeah but I think most people are equally cautious than when looking at research funded by tobacco companies. I don't really trust researchers who have an agenda.
> I've seen this type of behaviour become more prevalent especially within the last 5 years or so

It's much older, but previously you'd see it more in the desktop space.

As for the server, an interesting thing happened: the proprietary software used to follow similar trend (I'm talking to you, big fat database vendors), with some open-source projects behaving the same. But people are not stupid: you realize you win by serving your clients fast and that very often speed is more important than functionality. Hence the success of projects like Nginx or Redis.
I have an anecdote which I found quite interesting:

Last week I got to meet my cousin’s daughter for the first time. It was a family dinner and after everyone had eaten she pulled out her barbie dolls to play with. Since I‘ve been on HN for a few years now and this is not the first time I came across this topic I asked my cousin: Why does your daughter play with barbies? Did she choose the barbie doll or where they given to her?

My cousin, confused at first (because remember people: Most people don‘t really care that much about this stuff), answered: I think she chose herself, or maybe grandma gave one to her first.

So this could be it: The little girl might be free to choose as far as her mom is concerned, but is she _actually_ free to choose because she got influenced by her grandma first? Who‘s to say?
Who knew fungi could be so creepy?
You are confusing 'scientific theory' with the term 'theory', which is far looser, i.e. a system of ideas.
KDE Connect is just one of the greatest tools ever. What I really did not expect is that it worked out of the box without any shenanigans to set up. Great job!
I think the idea is that your culture can enslave you in an idea of who you want to be, which isn't really yours, but rather your culture's. The idea seems to be that this identity has been forced on you, and isn't really yours.

But isn't this basically what much of life itself is about? To really figure out who you are? Because you are not born into a vacuum but into a number of overlapping human subcultures. And one of the main tasks in life is to figure out who the hell you really are and what you really want, and also how you change over the years. Only then you can find your vision of where you want to continue your life journey onwards.
What crime are we talking about? Because the surveillance programs have been sanctioned and overseen by all three branches of government. In other words, they were perfectly legal government programs.

So Snowden didn't actually whistleblow any crime. You may argue about the public right to know about these programs, and I would be friendly to that view, but Snowden stole much much much more than that, took it to China and asked us to trust him when he said he destroyed that data (though he changed his story quite a few times)... that's why he is a traitor.
This is a general claim about the highly educated. People with degrees are much more likely to be atheist, hold a coherent view about free will, and believe in consciousness without being able to explain it.

This isn't evidence of philosophy making progress, because atheism among the educated is a scientific and cultural trend, the debate about consciousness is primarily an ancient fight about definitions, and believing in consciousness without being able to explain it is certainly not progress in any productive sense.
Interesting, most of the data shows the opposite effect to what you may be implying:

http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girl...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/scandinavian-gender-e...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Countless more articles if you google
Thanks. No, no further plans at the moment. I just wanted to see what a program in L2 might look like.
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Why do you think this? Philosophers don't write dictionaries; they write huge, creative and systematic theoretical treatises.

Of course, that requires a certain amount of conceptual innovation - but so did Shakespeare's plays, and that doesn't mean that Macbeth is, in reality, just a very odd dictionary.
But it's assuming equality of outcome is what's best. Personnaly, i'm glad i can wear big shorts and not small suits. What makes it harder is that some people don't know what they need and just look at the neighbour's plate and require to have the same.
I sympathize with the general idea however this specific question isn't very representative of it.

Signals 9 and 15 and much more well known by their respective value than their symbolic name. They are everywhere in program output and log files and if those things are your daily work then you recognize this whether you want to or not.

It's like if you have touched computer code in any language then you probably know that 65 is A. Not because you have useless trivial memorized but just because it figures every time you look at string values for some reason. In one sense it is useless trivia, but on the other hand a programmer who never stumbled on ascii codes must have lived in an unusually insular bubble.
this use case is actually quite funny and probably one day a reason for there being some bypass for this functionality which can be exploited/utilised :X most governments still demand LI capabilities after all....
In what way does it need to scale?
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/25/majority-of-u-s-consumers-...
Snowden as well. He promised he destroyed all the data that had nothing to do with internal spying programs when he landed in China but before he defected to Russia. And he must be telling the truth because he said he's telling the truth.
This seems a qoute from the Introduction of his History of western philosophy [1]. But I think the next sentence is important too:

Almost all the questions of most interest to speculative minds are such as science cannot answer, and the confident answers of theologians no longer seem so convincing as they did in former centuries. [...]

To such questions no answer can be found in the laboratory. Theologies have professed to give answers, all too definite; but their very definiteness causes modern minds to view them with suspicion. The studying of these questions, if not the answering of them, is the business of philosophy.

But I’m surprised that he considers that “all definite knowledge ... belongs to science.” Science, at least physics and astronomy, by definition, accept that their type of knowledge is provisional, always, and not definite.

[1] https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/51485/in-whic...
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Swift has easy access to pthread mutex and you can do that.

serialQueue.async { // Critical section } is GCD's way of doing the same with the added benefit that the calling code does not have to wait.

Problems in the parent code could be solved by using a mutex instead of GCD in this case. The code _has_ to wait for the access token to be loaded and not blocking does not make sense here unless you also introduce some kind of Promises.
This isn't going to earn us any friends, but I agree with the contention, at least, that there is something to the theory that we'd be far less likely to suffer endless criminal war (as is the case now) on the part of the military-industrial complex, if we were indeed all armed of our own accord and thus responsible for our own defence at an individual level.

It does, at least, put a citizen on equal footing when it comes to understanding the responsibility of using a weapon, at all, to defend something or someone. There are many who say that responsibility is too heavy, or too hard, or should not be born by the individual .. but in this day and age there are too many well-armed warriors with the ability to destroy the very weak, and destroy they do. Daily.

One of the key means by which war-fighters get away with atrocity is when the weaker, non-armed civilians from which they must recruit and supply themselves, allow them to do so without oversight.

An armed citizenry defuses the source of military-industrial corruption: the secrecy by which the effects of war are kept from a weak-willed, easily manipulated, public.

If we knew what it was to fight a war, we'd be doing less of it. As it stands now though, the people of the nations of the western coalition are living in a putrid fantasy as to what their military are doing, in their name. And seem to be fine with it.

I wonder if it were so easily placed on the board, as it were, if we had a means of reigning in our military masters that was truly effective. In place of technological war-fighting might, it seems the only thing we have left is the light of truth on their secrets.

So, while the notion of 'arming all the citizens' is an extreme, there may be something less extreme in the idea of 'uncover all military-industrial secrets at all costs', which is .. after all .. kind of a similar basis by which one might defuse the complex.
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Bravo, this is a huge deal, more to likely follow, it rather seems a secular shift is inevitable at least in some manner. One wonders where this will end and what it will mean for classical publishing. In my experience, incumbent industries are more powerful than we'd imagine, and I'll bet that rather than witnessing classical publishing overturned, we'll just arrive at some kind of new equilibrium.
"Theory" is a much broader term than "scientific theory", which is what you're defining. For example, in mathematics you have the "theory of natural numbers", or in art you have the "anti-essentialist theory". These aren't required to be hypotheses about the real-world. Rather they are like frameworks or languages which enable us to discuss and explore complex structures.