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Hey! It sounds like you know what you're talking about. Could you maybe point me to some sources on where one could read up on how military leaders decide to go to war, what set of morals they need to come up with to be able to send people to war or this "jus ad bellum"-concept (never heard of that before).

I would really appreciate it!
Its not financially stable. I have a hard time telling my mom where all my money is going to and I feel guilty every time I go home for family dinner.
Do you think that a country would surrender because your robots won a robot fight? There will still be an army and an occupation resistance movement that will fight your robots and lives will still be lost. The attackers would continue to destroy the roads,train station, food reserves, energy production facilities ... maybe AI is the future but is not better and we should try to make killer robots usage illegal.
> Because people take pause

I generally agree, especially if the bar is "taking pause", but playing the devil's advocate, is this _really_ true.

They pay lip service to it. They weigh the politics of it. But I feel that between the Vietnam war and the 2nd Iraq war we can at least question the degree of their concern.

Project 100,000 is a specific example I'd point to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
"Everyone knows" a lot of things that testing has proven to be untrue. Everyone used to know that the Sun traveled around the Earth.
Exactly. VP9 development is funded by YouTube, mostly. Works great.
If you can't trust a user to identify copyright violations in someone else's work then you probably should blindly host content created by that user either. I think people would learn how copyright works so that they can prove it and earn the right to post on a platform with massive distribution.
This seems like a reach, especially considering I don't personally believe the latter point you're making about IQ tests being neutral.

I'm not an expert on psychometrics, I think all I'm trying to point out is that Feynman performed highly on other tests that likely correlate highly with IQ, so I believe it more likely that there is some confounding factor at play other than this being representative of his actual IQ.

Or maybe that his IQ averaging here doesn't tell us much about which domains he scored highest in (some posit that he may have scored very poorly in a verbal section vs. mathematical etc.).
You forgot about the millions of jobs that disappear in China after factories leave for other countries.

You forgot about the billions of foreign direct investment that actually helped China to get to where it is today, now leaving the country.

You forgot about the real estate bubble in China deflating. The one that has the middle class of China paying for $1M house with their $1300/month income.
OTOH, there is the adage that says that nobody that wants power should hold it - that the best leader is the reluctant one.

He has some magnificent quotes: contrary to the president "with the best words" he was actually a great public orator.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Government_Re...
I have had a couple colleagues out of bootcamp programs, they all had previous careers and decided to make the leap into software.

If they're motivated and okay with the fact that they're mostly likely going to be offered an entry-level position for their first year in the field it can definitely work out for them.
There is several paragraphs in the book about adding way more salt to pasta water.
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If you like that, then you might like surfraw[0].

The main problem is that these don't really obviate the need for a browser, they just make it easier to open said browser tab from the command line.

[0]:https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw
I totally understand the point of view here, and likely agree to an extent, however calling the lack of a tax that has never existed before a subsidy is more than just a stretch, it’s an outright distortion.

I also am not sure that carbon taxes would hit the wealthy in a manner as disproportionate as would seem to make the author happy - everyone drives, and low income earners tend to have older, less fuel efficient cars. In the same way that has taxes are regressive, so would carbon taxes be. The wealthy can simply avoid them by buying EVs and solar panels, while low income earners would be stuck with the tab.
Because only men are to blame for children out of wedlock? I've got news for you - women make choices too. They choose as well to partake in risky behaviors. They choose to act in ways that cast serious doubt in a man's paternity, destroying his incentive to stick around.

Obviously someone has not had enough experience in human relations, particularly in places where the government will subsidize poor behavior.
All consumers will very shortly be paying the price for the fuel that is wasted using inefficient internal combustion engines as a disincentive compared to EVs. Also, consumers could capture the CO2 upon combustion themselves or may not
ever transform the fuel they purchase into CO2 (gas leaking, etc.). Getting rid of the oil subsidies and enhancing those for non-carbon energy sources would be so much simpler and more effective than bickering over what would be the marginally least unaccountable tax for reducing the use of carbon based fuels. The day the government gets rid of subsidies for oil will be the first day I actually consider solar along with any tax rebates. This article is a written by a yuppie. Over the course of just a few weeks, a major fire can pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than California’s many climate change programs can save in 12 months.
It’s complicated. Sure, there is way more space than people if we want it, but a surprisingly large number want to live in the same few places. If many want to live in Manhattan, and they do, you’ve only got Manhattan to fill up and then the prices rise, which they did.
Don't forget AR!
They do in San Francisco. There's the power of the referendum (for instance, Prop C 2016), but more importantly, there's the power of the "community review" [1], with which a dedicated neighbor can stall construction for years by forcing reviews and appeals. The rules in other Bay Area cities are slightly different in construction, but not in result.

[1] https://hoodline.com/2015/11/sf-planning-101-how-community-i...
Meh, maybe it's not that bad. Sure, you'll get the occasional psycho trying to kill his pop-star stalker-victim. But for many high profile people - politicians, mega-corp CEOs, media tycoons - it might be a good way keeping them in line, knowing 'the people' can finally strike back again. For most normal/low-profile people this won't be a profile... since most of us don't have arch-enemies.

(Playing devil's advocate here, so please take this with a grain of salt ;))
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I mean I think this is just where we disagree. Its better to just buy a device and have a couple of bucks go to h.264 development than rely on something like Youtube which makes money, among other things, peddling advertising to children and teenagers, convincing them to buy crap they don’t need. When I was young I thought Microsoft dominating everything was bad, but at least they had a business model where you paid them money for a product. Buy a Pocket PC and Microsoft gets $15 or whatever. I think this new trend of everything being funded by ads and data mining is destroying computing. I’d love to go back to the “bad old days” of companies having to pay Symbian instead of getting Android “for free” or having to buy Office instead of getting Google Docs “for free,” or buy a Garmin instead of getting Google Maps “for free.” This is not how I saw computing turning out, I don’t think this ends well, and I certainly don’t want more of the that replacing models that worked perfectly well before. What’s next, Facebook bankrolling DDR5?
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China's swine flu is caused by trying to substitute soybeans from pigs meal and has caused a big problem. China is certainly paying a high price for boycotting US soybean. Chinese buyers are too afraid to buy US Soybean.. not because the Chinese tariff makes it too expensive but because of the feared repercussions from the government.
Trump admin could target exports of Siri, self-driving cars and supercomputers
Belt and Road: Malaysian government stopped a $20B project. Maldives just called it one-sided. India refuses to have anything to do with it. So do most of the EU members. Media around the world is calling it debt trap

Regulation: deadly vaccines. deadly milk powder. Their citizens then choose to buy foreign goods only

hard work: they are at their job 60 hours a week. but only working 20.
In order to load browser bookmarks from the command-line, I use this shell script:

#!/bin/bash --
f0() {
echo 'select moz_bookmarks.title || '"'"' = '"'"' || url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where parent = 2;' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite
}
f1() {
firefox `echo 'select url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where moz_bookmarks.title = '"'$1'"';' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite`
}
f$# $1

You will need to modify it for your use, such as by changing the filenames. I also made another shell script to load Wikipedia.

However, is also my opinion making many thing which do not need a web browser and can just be the command-line programs.
Yes I have those printed and stored securely, and also my landline set as a backup phone number, but that doesn't really help alleviate my concern of "what happens if I'm abroad and no longer have access to my phone".

I guess keeping the codes with my at all times would work, but doesn't seem like that great an option (paper is easy to lose and easy to destroy). Maybe I should memorize some of them?
Not quite what you looking for, but I found this source insightful regarding how the military think about leadership. Very progressive I’d say, see for example the Gardener’s approach

http://leadership.au.af.mil/sls-skil.htm
Why do you think Black should lose here? Why is Black's position worse than White's ? If your answer is "White has more material", keep in mind that chess is not about material; it is about checkmate.

But, nevertheless, here's an example with equal material where checkmate is possible for both sides, but not without blunders. Who should have to resign here?

http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/?p=--------------------k-...

If you really insist on saying "well yes, they should have to keep moving the kings around aimlessly for hours until somebody's clock runs out", you're proposing a game that is so fundamentally unlike chess that it should probably be given a different name.
With the AI soldier/killer drones the second amendment becomes fairly useless. The government cannot bleed.
It also makes those things more expensive, both for the property those services occupy and for the cost of paying high enough salary to attract necessary staff.

Also there are other forms of tax besides property tax, so governments don’t need expensive property to fund their services.
It's related because that translate feature was disabled for those languages, but Google Chrome decided to disregard that specifically on ProtonMail and send the whole thing to Google servers anyways.
If you think economics is about "laws of nature", then you have a lot to learn about economics.
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I hear there is a whole black market for electric scooter batteries.
Brain zaps lasted for years, we don't always all get so lucky.
> That's not a boogieman. It's a fact.

Nope....

Immigrants are more likely to start businesses than the local population, thus creating jobs. Mostly that's small service and retail businesses. But also Google and Tesla.

Plus, obviously, a population increase also drives demand. In fact, for every job that somebody has, exactly one job was somehow created, on average.

In your theory, the US could radically lower unemployment by simply splitting up.
Thank you for sharing that. I'm curious if the anger - or what I'd more call as irritability - is in part caused by something else, however where withdrawal is perhaps amplifying it.

Have you ever been tested for food sensitivities? Do you eat wheat? And what may seem like a strange question - do you remember having ear infections as a child, were they painful at all? Likewise, have you had any surgeries or injuries in the last 10 years or prior?

And for a fun question I could ask what your astrological sign is to see if irritability is part of your natural demeanor. :P

Feel free to email me matt@engn.com
AI researchers over romanticize their robot AI technology. They don't know enough about wars. Morality is something we talk about outside of the battlefield.

It is not going to be your robot army fighting a human army. Instead, it will be your robot army fighting another robot army, perhaps less sophisticated.

They'll supplement their disadvantage with humans. You want to be the army with more advanced robots. Otherwise you'll need to put humans on the line. Always better to equip yourself with better fighting capability.
Keyword: theoretical.

We are coming out of an ice age from over 10K years ago, and the rate of temperature increase has been slowing on that scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record

(Hint: don't worry so much about zooming into the 1970s to today, which is less than 0.01% of the time span of a larger trend.)

Pollution is a problem, yes. Go to China and talk to them before you lecture me about paying carbon taxes in Any City, USA.

But when it comes to this theoretical warming, we are likely to be a spec of noise in the overall trend of the planet doing its thing.
Use `make` to save time
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To be more clear;

The lack of diversification in employment makes the residents as a whole more vulnerable to the next sector based bust (see dotcom crash).

If there is a larger supply of housing then more properties will be put on the market in such an event. This could exacerbate any fall in prices or result in a large number of abandoned properties which can be pretty damaging to a neighborhood.

We get a sort of similar effect here in Australia. A mine opens in the outback somewhere and prices rise rapidly in the nearest town(s). Then a whole heap of new housing gets built to meet the demand and make some profit. One day resource prices fall, the mines cut back on operations, and suddenly there is a housing oversupply and the whole local market falls pretty harshly.

If you were a local resident who lived there the entire time you would probably be feeling pretty shortchanged by the end.

The correct answer is probably to build some new housing supply but definitely not as much as the peak demands.
On one hand it's in the acronym command line interface and on the other

"was wondering if anyone had any solid recommendations for applications that one can use in a terminal window" it really looks like he meant to express console apps not cli I think you are correct.
> The bigger you grow, the easier it gets

I guesstimate it's easier to grow until start hiring, and hit the point where you can no longer directly manage everyone who works at the company. And if you've never hired & managed people, being new to having employees is it's own kind of adventure!
It's related because it's being reported by a user of ProtonMail into a ProtonMail forum. What you say about it being relevant to just about every page is definitely true.
Correct me if I'm wrong and/or out of date, but isn't rote learning still the heart and sole of their education system? That's great if you want to churn out factory workers but it's not going to cut it if you want to lead in technology and innovation.
This is a really interesting document. I literally cringe reading it. At first I thought that I'd really like something like this document but with less random quotes, less facile language, less cheer leading, less fill in the blanks, etc. But then I thought... I wonder if I am reacting this way because this is exactly what I need to be reading. What if the way of thinking espoused by this document is precisely why I never start a business? Maybe it's the fact that I roll my eyes and completely disregard what people are saying when they start talking in this fashion that I haven't actually done anything.

Food for thought.
What is it that motivates you to be a bootlicker for the rich?
The Bush that, like Reagan, talked down the (non-national-security, non-law-enforcement parts of) government.

That is, George W. Bush (the 43rd President) more than George H. W. Bush (the 41st).
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My latest job search (Oct-Nov 2018) involved 6 different companies all requiring quizzes or live coding (I only applied to 100% remote jobs). I got "code an elevator controller", "code a number guessing game", "architect a analytics system to handle 1M data points for under $2k per month on AWS", "build a react app to let users pick a timezone and display the current time in it", "code a tic tac toe game", and "build a reusable dialog box component". With each exercise taking about 2 hours, it was a significant chunk of what could have been billable time. One company made an offer (the number guessing game one), which I accepted. In the end it was my open source project on github that won them over.
> everyone drives

That's certainly not true. In some areas of the country, yes. But carbon taxes would not be particularly regressive. And--frankly--the entire point of carbon taxes is to reduce the production of carbon dioxide. At some point you have to actually stop people from using it, whether or not it makes sense economically in the extremely near term.
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Who buys a $500 second hand scooter when $1000 second hand cars are available?

Answer: People who want them.
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The right to bear arms was given to humans who happen to live in this so-called freedom loving country. It was never given to autonomous non-human entities. So while the military may develop robotic kill squads their non-military use is illegal. Unless the treasonous Supreme Court doubles down on their treason and give the right to bear arms to AI, by considering AI to be a digital person with rights. It could happen. The Supreme Court judges have already shown that they're fully capable of making decisions that favor big corporations over us the people. Why not autonomous bots? After all, big enough corporations are pretty much autonomous (as they follow profit above all and do so regardless of who is in charge of them).
Many other programs use make, and so I use make for compiling those programs. For my own programs I do something different (unless it is a modified version of another program that already uses make).

For programs with a single file, I might add something like this at the top:

#if 0
gcc -o ~/bin/program program.c
exit
#endif

For programs with multiple files, I will write a shell script to figure out and compile everything (but use stuff like the above to compile each individual file). Although, I should probably make a better way, later.
Can anyone please ELI5?
"Clean energy could feel as all-American, cutting-edge, rugged, reliable, resilient, and tough as fracking."

Feel, schmeel. Clean energy must be -thought of- as manifestly the only rational option ... one that is decades behind where it needs to be ... one that is an urgent priority.

The future of all life on Earth is at stake. We waited too long, and now it's too late for PR, too late for 'gentle easing'.
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A more charitable reading is that military organizations are structured so that everyone but the very top leadership follow 'duty', i.e. orders, without thinking about the morality of their orders (I know that in principle they're supposed to refuse unlawful orders. In practice, we have fairly mixed results on that front. Not to mention the fact that a great deal of barbarism can be perfectly lawful in war.).

But as anyone who's been in an organization of more than ten people can attest, what the leadership says it's doing, what the leadership thinks it's doing, and what the organization is actually doing are three very different things. In most organizations the mismatch usually just ends up in money leaking everywhere and stupid things being build. In militaries, all sorts of atrocities can happen, and this is amplified because the boots on the ground and the cogs in the machine are trained to not think too hard about the ethics of their actions. So I think that quote is a perfectly reasonable take on the matter.
First off, Google employees are the outliers even in SF. Second, there are many situational factors that make a huge difference as to whether 300k leaves “a whole lot of disposable income.”

The simplest is families living on one income. In most of the country this is easily achievable if you can break six figures, but in SF housing is priced for two full area incomes, so if you want to make it work with one parent at home you either have a relatively small and ratty apartment (compared to housing stock elsewhere) or you spend $6000+ per month on housing which takes a dramatic bite out of that $300k you’re taking about.
I wish I knew how to effectively communicate to people not to copy paste sensitive data into translate.google.com whenever they need a translation.

Even some dedicated translation apps that you install on your desktop actually upload everything to a 3rd party server for translation. I would love a list of local-only translation software that were close to as effective as the various online options... or even online but with a good data policy.
Capitalism != Corporatism.

We have a problem with corporatism not capitalism.

Please learn the difference.
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trying to answer a nagging question: what problem does Kubernetes really solve and who actually has that problem?
That's half true at best.

Capital gains are reported on your tax return as a form of income. The rate at which they're taxed is up to each jurisdiction. For federal taxes, long-term capital gains happen to be taxed at a lower rate than other income. For California state taxes, there is no such distinction - all income, including capital gains, is taxed on the same progressive taxation schedule. So for Californians, getting paid in stock options usually results in lower federal taxes, but no change in state taxes.

Now, where it gets interesting is with local jurisdictions. In California, cities and counties are not allowed to collect income taxes. However, San Francisco does collect payroll taxes. Paying your employees in options could reduce the amount that counts as payroll, but only if the stock options are increasing in value quickly. If your employees are getting all of their money from you, the city gets its cut. If your employees are getting some of their money from you and some from the stock market, then the city loses out on the latter portion - but most employees should consider that a bonus and negotiate pay primarily based on current value, so that shouldn't matter too much in the long run.

What the city (but not the state!) definitely misses out on taxing is capital gains on wealth already accrued. When I make money on investments (not so much this year, but hypothetically), the city doesn't get anything from that, because there's no payroll involved. The feds get some of it (at the reduced capital gains rates, assuming I've held for a year); California gets some of it (at the full income tax rate); San Francisco gets none. But again, that story is only for investment income on money I already had, not for new stock compensation.