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> I don't read the news, mostly, why bother? It does much more harm than good.

It's weird that this is a minority opinion (I happen to agree with you). Some 20 years ago we lacked the ability to consume even 10% of the news we are exposed to today if we just open Twitter, and democracy wasn't collapsing.

(some argue we are in a worse spot today, though I disagree - strife does not equal inequality)

The cable news cycle combined with social media with the majority of people thinking that their opinion is worth something has led to some interesting results. I expect the next generation of people in the United States to mostly get over this bug in the system via selective apathy.
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The US is critically reliant on creditors rolling their debt. At one point the music will stop. They will then likely inflate the debt away rather than miss a payment but this biggest accumulation of peace time debt in history will end in tears somehow.
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For that to be true you have to have one hell of a selective group of people you follow on Facebook and Twitter. Hacker News is without question the best "social media" site I read and has mostly maintained its quality over the years I've been here.

Reddit, however, is godawful.
I think that is a bad example because there are multiple ways to die from getting shot. So, even though there is not 100% chance that you die from holes in your lungs, there is a pretty high chance that you will die from any complication.
> Liu Cixin himself cites western influences like Clarke

i was not aware of that, that makes sense.

if you are interested to read more chinese science-fiction, check out clarkesworld magazine. since a few years, every issue contains one chinese story translated to english. there is quite a variety of stories there.

greetings, eMBee.
In one sense yes, it's a bit unfair (see the 2008 fiasco with the CDSes)

In another, they don't care that a country's debt go to zero, they care that the titles they have (used to be paper, today it's all electronic - but they have a maturity date, a face value and some pay interest periodically) get paid. If they sold a new coupon to pay that debt they're paying now is not so important (usually)

But then again if the US or Japan/China/some big EU player defaults in a big way that suddenly becomes the least of your problems.
Since you mentioned me, here is my take: I would spend more time using Pharo but it often takes to much time getting things running. It happens too often that I will see a project mentioned in Pharo News, want to try it, and then have to spend too much time getting it running.

There are advantages and disadvantages to image development and I usually don’t even take advantage of image based development in SBCL Common Lisp anymore: I usually have a load file to fetch data I will need and load in my code and required libraries. In the same way, I no longer keep multiple Pharo images around.

That said, it is a large world and you don’t need too many companies and individuals using a software technology to keep the ecosystem supported and moving forward.

I was also a big fan of my Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine, but that was mostly viable because Xerox had one large customer, the CIA. The CIA had a custom work environment for analysts that took advantage of the platform. In a similar way, I can see Pharo as potentially being an integration tool for knowledge workers with interfaces to external tools like MatplotLib and TensorFlow. A highly customized Pharo environment could be effective for organizations that could support a small team maintaining a custom analysis setup.
^^ Christ. This is so accurate AND so depressing.
> 'Guaranteed' sounds a little too strong to me

I did say 'practically guaranteed'. Let's say (for the sake of the argument) there's less than 5% probability there's something yet undiscovered about animal brains/nervous systems, that has qualitatively different computational properties than the current theory of computation says is possible in the physical world.

Does this sound excessively optimistic to you? I would be delighted to be proved wrong on this; it would be like the theory of relatively suddenly shook up Newtonian physics, in the computational domain.

But I'm not aware of any evidence that our models of computability have any holes. If you know of any, please let me know! I am a curious skeptic at heart :)
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What's really weird is that if the USA started inflating their debt away, the value of their debt would drop and they'd need to start borrowing at a higher rate.

As long as the USA willing to increase the size of their debt, that doesn't happen.

For this to continue, people need to keep lending the USA money, so that the USA can pay off their old debts. People are willing to lend the USA money as long as they don't think the USA will start inflating their debt away.

There isn't really a limit to this. Loans to the USA are stable because people keep loaning to the USA because loans to the USA are stable. The size of the debt doesn't affect that equation.
There have been multiple pauses of music and it hasn't really done much to the USD. The argument that the music will stop requires there to be a new conductor and financial instrument that can replace the USD and the role that the United States plays in the world economy. The EUR was the closest thing we've had in my lifetime, if you don't count all the ridiculous goldbug rushes we've had in the last five decades - the same people saying the exact same thing you are, who have been perpetually wrong when compared to any other type of financial instrument such as the S&P500 or more recently, VTI.

I am no fan of carrying enormous amounts of debt. I critically disagree with the United States economic and fiscal policies of the last twenty years, including most quantitative easing initiatives.

But if you think the AAA credit rating is somehow fake or corrupt, no metric-driven analysis that even remotely resembles fairness would agree with you. Only theories like "the music will stop" do.
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You're being absurd. It's picking fruit, not working in a sweatshop. People from other countries want to do it. Who are you to tell them that they can't?

As long as the immigrant workers have the same rights and working standards as any other worker, what is the problem exactly?

> The strife caused by importing a large population of people who have nothing in common with the existing population is NOT worth cheap fruits.

Fuck off with this nativist bullshit. I am a proud citizen of London, one of the most diverse cities in the world. I love that every time I take a train I can hear someone speaking a different language. I am willing to burn this HN account to say: Fuck your ideology.

My grandparents came to Britain to escape such persecution, people who also talked about the "strife" caused by their existence. I do not come to HN to hear the same thing repeated back to me.
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According to the article, the Jesuits taught local people "blacksmithing, arithmetic and embroidery." The missions seem to have been more about vocational training than about literacy, although I'm sure they tried to teach the Bible as well.
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> CDWs

You mean Credit Default Swaps (CDSes)? [Or perhaps Mortgage Backed Securities?] Outside of the SEC being stupid enough not to regulate these instruments, the government didn't have much to do with over-leveraging of the private sector.

Though the government did give everyone who fucked up a fall from grace rather than what they deserved, which is bankruptcy and the other side of capitalism that our system tends to forget exists when it is convenient.
There are different rules for poetry vs. prose, certainly.

But you aren't writing either.
And even when they do have one, it can be a day trip (or more) to visit. Onsite and courier options provided by other vendors such as Dell put Apple to shame.
> You can monitor Echo itself over your network

No, you can't. The SSL certs are pinned.

You can determine the metadata and quantity of data transferred, but not the contents.
> So they will inflate their debt away.

You say this, but it doesn't work nearly as easily as you seem to think. You cannot just devalue your currency and pay people off with zero effects. And if that was actually a threat, the US would not have an AAA credit rating.
I wonder what this would look like? What would be some ways one could connect different types of AI systems in a loose and fuzzy way so that they can use each others' output in a meaningful way?

I like this line of reasoning, you're basically stating that we have found effective ways of emulating some of the sensory parts of a central nervous system. Which seems intuitively right; we can classify things and use outputs from this classification in some pre-determined ways, but there's no higher-level reasoning.
Which is why ratings play a role.

If Somalia decides they love their goats too much and are not handing them over, their ratings get trashed.
> Math itself is necessarily immaterial, and ...

No, that strikes me as false. Geometry is very material and can explain a good bunch of mathematics. Differential geometry, an important aspect of modern AI, is necessarily symbolic, but that does not exclude its materialistic applications.
The work is definitely great and I have no doubt we'll see new representations used in the future. But at least on the chip I work on, this would be a <5% power improvement in the very best case. For the risk/complexity involved, I would hope for a lot more.
Interesting. I see a lot of criticism for the message of the article (saving money on people dying early), but not any for the methodology.
> you’d need to consent when the ambulance hands your information over to the hospital, and if you’re unconscious, well though luck, then you’ll just have to die

lol nope. GDPR does address this. It's one of the bases for processing - vital interests.

Read here for more if you're interested: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

GDPR is far less vague & excessively strict than people seem to think. It's sensible and pretty well-defined imo. You just need to take a little bit of time to read it and consider how it reasonably applies to you.
This is the point - a constant stream would be easily detected from metadata alone.
That is a very low bar though, any country still functional enough to run a printing press can make coupon payments.

The issue is, if someone lends the US enough money to buy a coffee, it is difficult to see why they believe they are guaranteed to get a coffee+ worth of money back.

The numbers are staggering, the economic growth isn't there. The US has a technological edge and a big army, but at the end of the day it is 'just' a country like all the others. At this point, a reasonable observer could conclude that the political process is locked in to running up debt until the interest can no longer be paid. Neither the Republicans nor Democrats are in a position to improve the numbers.

After the '07-'08 era crisis, it seems a legitimate question to ask why the taxpayer should pay their debts if the financiers seem to get a pass when it all gets too hard for them.
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The authors considered this objection and rejected it. Apparently, the "best" places were already taken by Franciscans, which arrived in the New World maggiore the Jesuits.
Right or wrong - it's one of the only was to implement this at the moment and apple are trying to kill the competition.

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While I didn't start with an OO language, being young and self-taught I hadn't given much thought about how OO was actually implemented. And I hadn't thought about this possibility until I tried to use the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG library from my language of choice.

After filling in the function pointers for reading and writing data, it suddenly dawned on me "hey, this is OO, but in C!".

It was a very influential moment and after that I've always tried to gain a deeper understanding of what's under the hood, so to speak.
Facebook was so much better before it started hosting news sites, and Twitter...it’s just a toilet.

I think the best thing a parent can do for their children now is limit exposure to these sites, and emphasize real-life engagement.
The study compares effects of activity by Jesuits and by Franciscans. Both are Catholic orders so the difference is not related to the religion, but to the focus on education in Jesuits missions
This is addressed in the article. The effect is uniquely found around former Jesuit missions, not Franciscan ones.

> The Franciscans helped, too. The mendicant order had been in the area longer than the Jesuits. It wasn’t expelled. But the Franciscans focused on poverty and health, rather than education and vocation. Valencia found that, perhaps as a result, families’ economic and educational outcomes didn’t vary based on their distance to that order’s missions.
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There should be a number of other missions that were led by orders who stressed a belief in God but not necessarily education the way that the Jesuits do. It would be simple enough to see if the same levels of achievement persisted around the non-Jesuit missions.
This comment wasn't substantive and really just attempts to hijack a sound discussion with a form of divisive reasoning I thought was contained solely within the comments of Fox News.

Arguing that the general groups of faceless people you've marked as the problem do not present evidence when you yourself have provided none is....ironic?

Who are these people you despise so much? Let's find them and make them wear something that will allow us to see them for the enemy they are. Right?

Love is the answer.
>> That is a very low bar though, any country still functional enough to run a printing press can make coupon payments.

This hasn't happened unless you count QE as printing money to pay debt, which would be a pretty serious twist of logic.

>> The issue is, if someone lends the US enough money to buy a coffee, it is difficult to see why they believe they are guaranteed to get a coffee+ worth of money back.

>> At this point, a reasonable observer could conclude that the political process is locked in to running up debt until the interest can no longer be paid. Neither the Republicans nor Democrats are in a position to improve the numbers.

If you think this is actually true, there is a ton of money to be made on the open markets by securing your position with capital. There's plenty of financial instruments you can leverage to back your position.

>> After the '07-'08 era crisis, it seems a legitimate question to ask why the taxpayer should pay their debts if the financiers seem to get a pass when it all gets too hard for them.

This is a legitimate criticism but separate from your other claims. QE is protectionist and massively contributes to inequality (in more ways than just income). I am quite critical of the USG and their economic policies.

Now I can admit that and also admit that the United States is probably the safest credit risk on the planet, primarily due to the hegemony-driven policies we exert globally. You might argue that this is not for long, but I highly doubt this to be true, and the rest of the world acts as if.
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> is never going to be paid back

It will probably never be paid down to zero, but this doesn't matter. The debt is made of individual bonds, which have a duration (usually up to 30 years), and are paid back at the end of that duration. By taking out new bonds.

They are valuable because what else are you going to do with your money, when you have a large amount to safeguard?
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At nation scale, lending money does not work like buying coffee.

ITs an entirely different mechanism. Think of the difference between breaking styrofoam apart and pulling atoms apart.
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I wonder if there’s a way to get the quality of reviews and rankings from Tabelog in the USA - for those who don’t know its the Japanese equivalent service and diners are so critical that most restaurants have 3 stars, 3.5 is an exceptionally good one and 4 and up generally have Michelin stars; I’ve never been disappointed by a decently rated restaurant on it.

The magic sauce for them might be cultural; though there’s definitely room for a better (probably nonlinear) type of reviewing system in the market given how bad quality Yelp reviews are in comparison.
Russia, Mexico, Brazil, etc., have or had more readily available natural resources. The US, unlike the Spanish viceroyalties relied more on agriculture and trade than the Portuguese and Spanish colonies who stuck gold in the Americas. Japan is natural resource poor yet it’s the worlds third leading economy. So thats not the main driver.
They always pay back any individual loan because they can get a new one to cover the expense. That's what the rating agency is judging, whether they can in one way or another pay back what is due.
The sugar tax has already resulted in many different beverage companies to reduce the amount of sugar in their drinks in the UK. Personally I think stopping government corn subsidies (that are used to make a dirt cheap sugar substitute in the form of high fructose corn syrup) would be a much better way of doing it, but obesity is such a severe issue that we need to do something about it.
Xerox Parc fits your question, but the interesting parts of Bell Labs, i.e. the ones we use today (UNIX, C, etc) wasn't any "fundamental research" either.
> Each of the 2-8 main CPU cores (...) has its own private cache (bigger than most computers’ RAM up to even recently)

That sounds odd. I take it the author is not talking about the L1, L2 L3 caches, as they are typically only a few MB in size? So what is meant by this statement?
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it's not for everyone, but we use a Donor Advised Fund for anonymous giving:

https://www.schwabcharitable.org/public/charitable/home

You donate the money to a nonprofit run by Schwab, and then later you can tell them to donate it to any tax-deductible nonprofit, one time or on a schedule, and to either include your name with the gift or not.

We like it for (a) commitment (it's easier to set a goal to give X% of your income if you can just fire off one check every month) (b) simpler taxes (c) anonymity (d) fun (it feels fancy, I guess).

Fees and convenience are both kind of a wash -- it's cheaper than credit card fees, and it's nice having one place to manage donations, but the interface is pretty clunky.

Downsides are the high (for us) initial buyin, hassle of initial paperwork, and being limited to tax-deductible recipients. I definitely think someone could build a better interface around the idea of online banking for donations.
> any country still functional enough to run a printing press can make coupon payments

Only on bonds in their own currency! Argentina would be in a much better position if they could print dollars.

> 'just' a country like all the others

For this to be a problem the US has to fail in a way that doesn't bring the rest of the developed world down too
> lunatics

Oh you :)
No, a computer of course is a person who performs calculations.

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Technically possible? Sure. However, it just makes zero economical sense for them to do so. Sooner or later, they would get caught (reverse engineering, ex-employee, ...).

Now, if the device were to get compromised, it would be an entirely different story (and this is why I don't have one, despite trusting Amazon in that regard).
Alcohol probably, but this would be mostly due to violence. Smoking has an area-of-effect that is purely based on how close you are to people smoking.

Smoking in the center of cities on the street should be illegal (like it is in most of Australia), because it causes harm to complete strangers.
> The products, which include such flavors as chicken-and-waffles and mango, would be mainly relegated to sales online, at sites where the agency hopes to impose strict age verification to ensure that minors could not buy them.

"Strict age verification with online sales". I would very much like to see how this is supposed to work.
"The degree to which the founding fathers were religious is debatable. It would appear to be singular achievement for men of actual, deep faith to resist the temptation to recreate the sort of intertwined state and church typical of the time"

Considering that the sectarian violence of the English Civil War was still fresh in their minds, and that many of the States did have different official state churches (e.g. MA:Puritan, PA:Quaker, MD: Catholic), they all made a pragmatic compromise to prohibit the congress from establishing a federal religion or interfering with the state religions of any of the several states.

As an example, the original MA state constitution, written by Adams, makes the Congregationalist church the state religion, and guarantees state funding to construct a church in each town and pay a Congregationalist minister to preach there. That's why there is a quaint white wooden church in the center of each town in MA and ME (which was part of MA at the time).

Jefferson might have been a deist and his Democrats have always been more aligned with the spirit of the French enlightenment and revolution, but the Whigs/Federalists were most definitely not.
I hate that cultural thing where actions like this are treating as something good to be glorified - while simultaneously threatening them with jail.

What about not overreacting either way, teaching them right and wrong, legal and illegal too and punishing them in age appropriate way without involving cops.
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