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Health insurance costs and education savings. I'd like to hang out my shingle, but steady employment with health insurance is needed for my family of 4, along with savings for kids college and my retirement. It's all a risk mitigation.
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So are you saying we should do away with legal gender only to have de-facto legal gender used for all sorts of things like sports or insurance policies? Who's going to standardize those determinations if it's not the government?

If the government's standards aren't good, and are in fact simply "genitals at birth", then that needs to be fixed, but as far as I can tell that's not true, at least federally or for the state I checked. If you transition, you get a court document with a doctor's statement certifying it, and you update your gender on your official documents. Right? There probably need to be different legal standards based on the purpose the gender is being used for, too. Being a trans woman shouldn't allow you to compete in women's MMA, for instance; there's already been an instance of that happening and it was a disaster.

What concrete problem or injustice are you trying to correct? That people can't decide to change genders for a day, or decide they want to be officially recognized as the opposite gender before they transition? Is that a problem?

People seem to want [biological] sex labels to mirror how they present themselves to others, instead of mirroring (as closely as possible, based on the reason the gender label is being requested) the underlying sex characteristic / hormonal physical reality of their body. That strikes me as a problem. In the limited situations and cases where people are asking for [biological] gender and need to know, how you present yourself ceases to matter. If they don't need to know, they you can use whatever label you want. Same with your name, or your date of birth, or anything else. But it's almost always pointless to informally declare your gender, because anyone interacting with you is going to pick up on what gender you present yourself as (whether verbally, in temperament, or physically). Labelling yourself other than your biological gender isn't needed for enlightened, tolerant people, and will only antagonize people who aren't comfortable with the whole trans/non-binary thing.
It benefits a lot of farmers actually.... it's just not "enough" for everyone. The whole system seems so propped up by various systems that I'm not sure what a relatively simple one would even look like.

Not to say I disagree with incentivizing food production at home altogether.... it's just such a mess.
I don't think MIT should be anywhere near these kinds of things after the whitewash re. Aaron Swartz.

They stopped being 'cool' and they won't get that image back by pretend stuff like this.

http://swartz-report.mit.edu/

Having Aaron win the Disobedience Award would have been a fitting punishment, instead they took it to the max.
Why you should switch from Fedora to what ever you want urgently
From the last IBM acquisition, they said they will let the Open Source community untouched! Wrong they are saying that the best part of RedHat (Fedora) which is its lab from years now will be release one by year.
They demonstrate, IBM demonstrate once again that they just don't understand what Open Source is and that is why you should seriously get your balls in your hands and get away from that!
May the source be with you!
Your loss. Aside from that comment, it's a fascinating article. I'm actually going to poke at writing some Fortran now.
What Is Serverless – Part 3: Kubernetes and Serverless
Right, but nobody is using their Playstation to do their banking, nor is Playstation in control of 40% of the world's app share.
"I was treated like and criminal forced to cut most of it down."
By the city? By the state? In what location?
How to balance full-time work with creative projects
So zero proof just hand waving.
PoS doesn't actually work. The wastefulness of PoW mining is what keeps the network honest, without the waste there is no incentive to stay on "the main chain" (i.e. prevent an accidental or malicious fork) since it costs nothing to "mine" every possible chain.
I think what bugs me most about this situation is that Apple develops an innovative product and an ecosystem for it yet people outside that ecosystem or even those who voluntarily enter it want to use the power of the government to force Apple to bend to their wishes, in effect to take Apple's work and investment and decide how Apple is allowed to use and profit from it.

Nothing forces me or anyone else to buy an Apple product. Why not complain about any similar system them, from consoles to even Steam. Or is the threshold that there are billions of dollars at stake and therefor lawyers can profit from it, state AGs can make a name for themselves, and such?

Too many people feel entitled to tell others what to do even when the association is purely voluntary and this is just wrong
I also feel like they've changed search so much for profit purposes that it's impossible to find certain things without receiving pages of irrelevance. I've been using Google since the early 2000's and it's so easy to tell Search has dropped in quality. Certain words & phrases I know would produce legitimate useful search results in 2008 will now just pull pages of unrelated ads.

It's still the best, but the profit motive is harming the amazing work that Google once did.
The thing with such hardcore engineering stuff is that there are very few places one can learn them at, but they are also very very cool
There's a huge distinction between right in fact and right in policy.
Not really. Spotify and Apple Music both have to pay record labels and other rights holders. Spotify’s profits on a subscription are likely much less than 30%. They would go bankrupt if they tried to match Apple Music’s App Store price.
No, it's actually racist to give latin americans preference over the millions of asians, europeans, and africans that also want to move here.
That's the closest thing to a thesis I could get out of it. But the real question is, can you scale up the rat-in-a-maze monitoring of physical activity based on simple inputs involving binary choices in a solitary setting into anything meaningful about the much more intricate system of a human brain making complex decisions about abstract concepts in a complicated social mesh? I'm not sure the author's willingness to make the leap that human language is just meaningless noise is justified based on being able to interpret the physical meaning of a rat's brain activity.
Removing the 3.5mm headphone jack was pretty rent seeking-- they hoped you'd buy the AirPods instead. It wasn't deliberately stated, but it would be in poor taste for them to state it as such.

The headphone jack removal wasn't comparable to past deprecations, like removing the CD drive from laptops -- which provided a significant new amount of space in the chassis.
>>* Entrepreneurship is dying in America and it should concern us all.*

One angle: A lot of stuff is moving online. Good luck with Google, Facebook, Amazon having their own interest$ etc being gateways to your site. Most people will not make it, so why even try? Risk vs reward.
If that bit about "self-loathing" refers to me, you are way off the mark. I have no reason to feel guilty about collonialism. I am Greek and my people never egnaged in it. Instead, we were ourselves enslaved by the Ottomans during the time that other Europeans raided far away lands, killed their people and nicked their stuff.

Put that in your assumption pipe and smoke it.
The unexpected effects of the HIV prevention pill
Also, I started /r/fortran as a joke and then it was taken over by actual FORTRAN programmers.

I had the same experience with /r/cobol. Programming languages never die...
This is very interesting.

I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death.

Is it possible to pull off something like this?
Therefore, Bitcoin isn't decentralized, each node has an owner.
I think I'm going to start learning Mandarin next semester

Not because China is more structurally sound, because its not, but the opportunities - partly because of the inefficiencies - seem massive on mainland and greater China

I just want to know what people think about anything, out there, from their perspective.

I was in Australia and a young blond woman in college was on her social justice kick, talking about how horrible the US must be, and it was funny to me because her perspective was so limited to civil rights abuses and valid healthcare and education inequalities.

I told her "yeah but none of that would apply to you".

Because she doesn't know about the socioeconomic component, and the heavy correlations to the demographics of socioeconomic brackets, and the history of those demographics, along with the accessibility and strength of legal defense, if you can afford it.

and I bet China is the same way or similar, especially if you come to the environment with a bankroll already.

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Argumentum ad populum. Are you really going to generalize as well?
The most shocking part of this to me is the last line:

"The City of Helsinki is Finland’s biggest employer with around 38,000 employees."

Is this common for governmental organizations to be such large employers? Even in Europe, this is surprising to me.
> - iCloud free tier is 5gb -- not enough for even a casual phone user with 1 minute 4k 60fps video (option on iPhones for 2-3 years now) takes 400mb.

To note, there are a plethora of apps offering to backup users' photos and videos ... Google, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
In other words, you are giving an excuse to Apple, based on the current handicapped anti-trust practice by the courts.

I don't see it as a valid excuse. Apple are clearly damaging the industry and market with their behavior. By blocking major features in their browser and banning all other browsers, they are forcing others into supporting their specific requirements, because otherwise they won't be able to reach iOS users. Examples like trying to sabotage DASH for video streaming by not supporting MSE on iOS are quite obvious.

Anti-trust was intended to prevent such kind of outcomes. But it was diluted to the point of being practically useless, allowing the likes of Apple to run amok with their monopolistic garbage.
Exactly. You have to be willing to walk.

It's not even a high-risk proposition, given how many other amazing opportunities are available to virtually every knowledge worker at Google.
Because it's cool as hell.
> that's exactly what the government's job is: decide what's best for people.

Wrong. The government’s Just is to protect life and liberty and ensure a legal framework for the enforcement of contracts. It’s just is most certainly not deciding what is best for people. Protect my rights and otherwise stay out of the way.
One component is the fact that it comes out of the box on a great many hosting providers and it's part of the old "standard" LAMP stack. You don't have to set up any reverse proxy crap and the architecture is simple enough - you access a .php file which is really just HTML with some embedded code and it interprets the file. The concept couldn't be any closer to JavaScript which I suspect has attracted so much attention from beginners just because it's everywhere on web clients, just as PHP is everywhere on web servers.
“We don’t do Star Trek”: How NASA landed on Mars, unlocking a new era of science
18-19 years ago, I didn't switch to Lisp because of macros.

I was hooked by the list representation: how cons cells can be treated as immutable to implement list operations by always allocating new cells that are garbage collected.

I was hooked by the uniform syntax: good-bye ambiguities requiring associativity and precedence rules.

I was charmed by the empty list being nil which is also Boolean false, and the convenience of (car nil) just returning nil: the resulting code looked slick and elegant to me.

I thought it was great how you can just quote any part of the syntax and you get an expression which gives you that syntax as a piece of literal data.

Eventually I learned about defmacro, too, by which time I was productively using Lisp.

I learned about backquote before macros: wow, how great, I thought: like "foo $bar" string interpolation in the shell but with actual data structure.

I got into Lisp not because of some online hype about macros, but because I happened on a copy of Stuart Shapiro's Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach and worked through that. Now that book can be downloaded in electronic form.

One thing that charmed me was the Common Lisp read-table driven dispatch. Knuth's TeX does something very similar. I imitated Knuth's idea in a macro preprocessor that I wrote in 1999 called mpp; the preprocessor was able to redefine its read syntax by re-assigning the categories of characters. When I discovered that Lisp has a character-categorizing dispatch table as the basis of its scanning, I was really bowled over: it was something I had already liked to the point of having implemented it. (Today, I'm not so hot on read tables any more; my TXR Lisp doesn't have the feature.)
Let me copy/paste my reply from the same discussion yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531650):

There's another "solution" to this paradox: if we assert something we are guided by a set of "conversational principles". For example, asserting "X implies Y" if we know that X is false is inappropriate. If X is false, "not-X" would be the appropriate assertion.

According to this theory, there's nothing wrong with the truth-functional meaning of "X implies Y". We just need to take into account what is implied by asserting "X implies Y", rather than e.g. "not-X", or "X and Y".

Same with disjunction: "X or Y" is true if we know that X is true. However, if we assert "X or Y", it is implied that we're not certain that X is true, otherwise we would have used "X", which is the simplest way to convey what that fact.

This is known as Grice's Pragmatic Defence of Truth-Functionality.
I live in a pretty rural part of town (off of a dirt road that leads to the main road - across the street: it's back to your usual 120,000 people city), so nothing but whatever grows naturally. Some of my neighbors raise goats and sometimes they ask us if they can graze on our yard. It's nice.
The bigger problem I have with Greenpeace is that they started campaigning against renewables here. Lots of dis-information about windmill parks and how solar wasn't feasible anyway.

The whole thing turned into a self-perpetuating funding circus with relatively little real world impact.
It seems like with all of the price/production data out there these days it would be easier to decide what to grow. Or perhaps that data is not accessible to the average farmer?
Strangely I've been reading the opposite should be occurring: https://www.uvm.edu/gund/news/global-warming-more-insects-hu...

Global warming should be increasing insect metabolism and their populations.

I think it's very possible that we actually don't know what's happening, or if our solutions are making things worse as we try to engineer nature back to what we believe to be the "natural state." The only thing we can do is try to be as clean as possible, but I often wonder if what we find as solutions now are just going to cause massive problems in the future. There is no way to really tell.
Let's find out, shall we?
What’s the advantage of sticking to the new Fortran? Is it substantially compatible with legacy FORTRAN codebases and systems, despite having significant advances as a language?
The Commit That Cost BitPay Their Reputation
The gap between rich and poor keeps increasing, the development of wages over the last few decades is GROSS. It's shameful. Yes, once again people in their despair got whipped into voting for a wolf in sheep's clothing, but also once again their despair is ignored.

Trump is a symptom, not a root cause. I was convinced he's a fascist nearly a year before he was elected, and even then was already annoyed by the circus around "what will he say next?". Then he did get elected (which I by the way considered to be a punishment for the popular support of Bernie Sanders... one thing is sure, the next president will just have to be a polite human being, and a lot of people will cry tears of joy and eat out of their hand, "progressive" now got reset to "not utterly mad"), and it go so much worse, instead of fixing their own mistakes, people just point fingers at him some more. He's a giant distraction.
I know every trick because I researched many times, but they don't work. Most of the times the bluetooth just disconnects on its own right after connecting, or hangs during 'connecting'. Such a pity that these famous earbuds fail at their basic function - of producing sound.
That’s a new feature. I am talking about bug fixes... I reiterate: big difference.
The article doesn't mention it but Sellafield used to be known as Windscale
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
That is all industries. Tech during the tech bubble in 2000 and the recession in 2008. Oil and gas along real estate is the same way.
Not plant a vegetable garden in the front yard?
But you can keep them secret and selectively reveal them to auditors, etc. Just like they do now, when they reveal them during a recount.
Thank you for standing up for what's right... :) If only more individuals & businesses stood up against militarism in our communities!
> Google is well known for suppressing search results and banning people on YouTube etc. based on political ideology.

Can you give some examples of this?
But paper is extremely inefficient? We can do so much better using cryptography and electronics
Can you name 10 AWS product logos?
Data Science is not about a mess of tech debt and unsupportable plumbing
Right, due to Sony's, Nintendo's, and Microsoft's complete lockdown of their app ecosystems.
It is known as the declining rates of profit. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit... )

An oversimplified explanation would be that each buisness has an incentive to undercut their competitors and by doing so decline the profit margins for everyone.
Exposed Elasticsearch database leaks Urban Massage customer data
So is there a Ratfor2018?
Finland has a national health care system where most health care workers work for the municipalities. Add to that teachers, social workers and that covers most of it.
Lawns are a major soil conservation and labor saving measure. They have a lot of qualities that suck but the alternative is more costly and requires quite a bit of work and skill. Any dummy can maintain a lawn or hire folks to maintain it for cheap.
I've been using my ASRock Z97 Extreme 6 for about two years now and it's been very reliable for me. I ended up building a few systems for friends and went with ASRock for those (one a Z77 for an older 3rd gen Intel, another two was for Ryzen builds) and those have been solidly reliable as well.
Try "Stop Stealing Sheep" [1] or "The Elements of Typographic Style" [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201703394

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0881792128
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Yes, the federal government is the US’s largest employer.
Agriculture was the main driving force of the world economy for eons? It was a stable source of food and income for families and communities for generations. How is that not a golden-age?

As for boom and bust - agriculture is like investing. You may not make much in a year, and you may lose money in two or three, but over the course of your lifetime, you accumulate wealth (land) and prosper. The issue, at least in my area, is that property is just prohibitively expensive. I am by no means in a hot area of the country, but the price of an acre of land has almost tripled in the last 15 years.

Also - that so much of our food is produced by so few individuals is an incredibly recent development, like less than 40 years recent development.

I'm not really sure what all that adds up to, but I'm sure it's something.
Small solace it'll be but Chapter 12 bankruptcies are a lot more more flexible and the debtors more likely to complete their plans than the Chapter 13 and 11 option afforded the rest of us.

See http://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/bankruptcy/bankruptcy... for ex
So essentially pairing Firecracker with Lambda will reduce Lambda down to a simple trigger that can spin up one of these VMs where before Lambda ran the code?
Look up for jobs in weather agencies, climate research, ocean model research and computational physics.
Large businesses have long been more efficient than small ones on average but they often could not customize their products and services to cater to each locality or niche very well.

Advancing technology has enabled a greater economy of scale as well as mass customization beyond what was possible, thus increasing the competitiveness of large businesses.

Examples include customized shoes from big brands, e-commerce recommendation algorithms taking the roles of local shopkeepers, IT systems reducing the costs and increasing the effectiveness for managing far-flung enterprises.
Or you could buy any other Bluetooth headphone, use the adapter they included for two years or use the included headphones.
As a counterpoint, I'm in my 40s and I'm moving in the opposite direction. In my younger years, I'd be annoyed by all of the 'fluff'. These days, I rather enjoy it, at least for some kinds of stories.

It might be because it's harder for me to remember things as I get older, but if I learn something with additional context, it's more likely to stick.
GM's investment in Epic Provisions nearly tanked the bison industry
> It was about calculating a risk (probability and impact) and then making a decision about what to do. That's not rational - that's in the end a political decision.

Wait, what? How else are rational decisions made?

Fukushima was commissioned in 1970s, and was negligent. As were DuPont's actions with PFOA, the Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon. Nuclear is not special in that regard, it's just an easier target for fear-mongering.

Look, I'd be happy if all (non-medial) nuclear reactors were replaced by renewables and turned off. But compared to fossil fuels, nuclear power is not the worst idea humans have had.
Comparing the price of milk and Canada versus the US isn't a 1:1 comparison. Canadians pay much less in taxes to support their dairy industry than Americans due to supply management in Canada (i.e. not producing more milk than needed, paying for that production through subsidies, and then wasting it). So, in-store higher dairy costs in Canada are closer to true production cost than in the states.

There are a lot of other factors here too, one being that during the 70-80s American agricultural legislation focused much more on large scale farm operations than Canada and as a result it is much harder for small farmers to get by in the US.

Regardless, even with all other factors being equal dairy costs would still be slightly higher in Canada since due to generally higher taxes and higher farm wages.
You can audit a small percentage, verify with the original voter it was accurate, and get a statistically significant result about the accuracy.
> Further, the US is not great because it’s progressive.

This is true:

~(p ^ q) -> ~(p because q)
the way i see it, firecracker is more flexible but cloudflare workers isolate is faster. amazon can't afford the limitation of Isolate hence this project.