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When you alienate the holders of the monopoly on force, and erase avenues of accountability: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

A vocal minority of the public in the Bay Area seem to openly resent the police and make them unwelcome, and the silent majority don't push back. This is what happens when the police (and the truth) are made unwelcome.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin...
by "not accepted" I mean "not published in the particular journal I was asked to review for".
Dang, respectfully,

I concede the point about the snark. In fact this was just my candid train of thought as I read the article, had a hunch, did a google search on an arbitrary choice of the makers in the article and the first result confirmed me. But it does come off as snark and I apologize for it and will do my best to respect the guideline.

No nationalism was intended. I understand, as I hoped we all do, that the exploitation of Chinese workers in these deals is at least as heinous as the crime perpetrated on the end consumer, if not more so. Not days ago there was a front page thread about the conditions the Chinese endure; the poem about the screw falling from the table made a permanent impression on me. The blame lies squarely with the firms that exploit both international labor and their own countrymen to slake their greed. I don't have words in my lexicon to contain evil of these dimensions.

Just which international country doesn't matter to me and is irrelevant, which is why I specifically didn't mention it by name.

I hope you'll consider my clarification and judge my comment in the spirit it was intended. Mea culpa.
I'm sure it works fine in practice, but it's still not ideal if you can put one foot into the street and oblige cars to slam on their brakes.
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I think you may be confusing vague with unclear...

The inclarity, and multiple verticals seems more like an example of Goodhart's law than anything else.

Summarized, the goal of academia is and (for most of time in whatever form it took) is to produce and disseminate new knowledge for human society. Creating new knowledge is what we now call research. Publishing papers isn't a raison d'etre...it's a metric for that.

I'll note that Ernest Boyer is far more articulate on this than I am...
Guns. Every citizen should be armed.

/s

But really people all just need to show up at city council meetings and demand better.
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I don’t think anyone does, but I think that is besides the parent’s point.
Example: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Dead-Redemption-Xbox-Digital/dp/B...
I have had an iPhone since the first one and access to the App Store since they introduced it in the 3G.

I completely agree that prices on Apps have come down but that is just what happens when a new market is created. Supply and demand has to set in. Developers are guessing what people will pay at first and if they find they can sell millions more if they just drop the price to 99c then they might just do that. In my opinion the Apple App Store has had very little to do with those prices coming down.

While I do admit the App Store was incredibly innovative and has ushered in an era of new ways for developers to create/distribute/monetize this stuff it is hard to deny that if there was any competing way to load Apps that the 30% fee Apple collects would stand... not to mention the many practices that developers (and consumers) disagree with that Apple regularly does such banning apps that may compete with their products or somehow upset them.

Edit: I don’t want to come off as overly negative here, I love Apple and their products. I am simply arguing that a little competition here would do consumers good.
Wait, why doesn't guilty party pay the court fees and lawyer expenses?
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No, that wouldn't be ideal - but that's also not how it is.
I’m a big dude, 6’2” and broad shouldered, and even I regularly feel unsafe on BART. I’ve seen tweakers spit on women and attack them, I’ve seen out of their mind bums screaming racist slurs at people in their face, and yet I’ve never seen cops do anything about it. Likewise, I even see BART employees at that window open the disabled stall and emergency exit for homeless people and tweakers to get into BART. If they’d just keep the people out who aren’t paying, they’d fix most of the issues but they don’t even bother. Although, I have seen more cops lately patrolling BART stations (Montgomery and Embarcadero during business hours...) but never seen them in the trains.
San Francisco issuing concealed carry permits!? There’s literally only a handful issued for the entire city. There’s no hope of that changing, short of a SCOTUS ruling.
License suspension is already used a lot. In fact, it's such a deterrent that states started using it for various non-traffic related punishments, such as failure to pay child support or drug conviction: https://www.npr.org/2014/03/10/288587071/reconsidering-drive...
Depends on the County. I think in the majority of counties it is relatively easy, but in the counties that people mostly live, not so much. San Francisco and LA County in particular make it nearly impossible.
And all they do is give parking tickets. I’ve never seen them inside a train in 8 years.
> What's the problem with a good integrated package manager?

The problem is that I already have a better one and things like security patches get back-ported to it. I get to make managing that a job for the distro maintainers but with cargo it's my problem. As a user I have absolutely no control or visibility of what versions of dependencies are in there.

If I choose not to use it then there's not much point to rust in the first place, I have to work with everything through c interfaces.

Then of course there's the binary bloat. All-in-all cargo is just putting developers needs before users.
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How is this story related to these political movements you're describing? The events in the article seem like the usual robberies, unrelated to any political cause.
Just wanted to add there is a bridge for Linux but it's in beta. You just need to email them at bridge@protonmail.ch and although it sucks there is no full text search most of the attraction is that your emails are not indexed in plain text.
Suppose it depends on what street you are referencing.
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It seems like the Bay Area is going through what New York City went through in the 1970s and 1980s.
Tegmark's criticisms were actually shown to be wrong
Is there a tool to compare 2 or more images to check which layers they have in common?
I haven't been able to check yet, but does anyone know if you are allowed to use this process to propose new laws or clarifications of laws more substantial than simple typo fixes?

"You" as in you, a citizen off the street proposing a new law? Unlikely. You could use it to form the basis for a ballot initiative, I would think?
Taking someone's license for not paying child support has always struck me as stupidly counter-productive, if you want someone to work and actually be capable to pay their child support.
I feel that surveillance in the form of Little Sister (https://medium.com/@chaostheory/little-sister-14bf095d3441) will be even more prevalent if not ubiquitous. Decent megapixel cameras now can be bought for about $25. Between the crime that you mentioned and the rise of petty crimes such as package theft, many people are willingly putting Amazon's and Google's eyes both inside and outside of their homes.
Furthermore: "Photosynthesis is shown to be quantum mechanical" - well, yes, just like everything else in physics, with the possible exception of those issues, like black holes, where gravity is dominant. The quantum-mechanical basis of chemistry has been included in high-school chemistry curricula for at least half a century, so it would be quite remarkable if photosynthesis were a exception.

While it is possible that the human mind has no classical-approximation explanation, the equating-of-ignorance argument, stated in the article's subtitle, is no reason to think it is so (and quantum mechanics is much better understood than the human mind, anyway.)
Monocropping field corn to feed cattle has always stood out to me as a big one. Monocrops are inherently vulnerable, beef is a luxury good not a necessity, and the total input for a pound of beef is extremely high compared to most other food items. I haven't personally done the math, but I understand beef production enjoys significant subsidies at multiple steps.

Another topic, a common desire among ecologists is to incentivize more natural habitat at the margins to support native plants, insects, and birds. It's fairly simple, easy to measure the cost & implementation, and the goal would be it would ultimately be better for everyone, with healthy predator populations and so forth.
You make it sound like people are just hammering the keys hjkl at random to explore a directory. This certainly isn't the case for me. It's probably the case that this file manager just isn't for you, but have you considered being a little more careful and deliberate with your keypresses? I can't see this being a problem for most users.
All of California is a victim-disarmament zone. The criminals arm themselves freely, the strong have free reign over the weak, but the law-abiding citizen is prohibited from carrying a weapon that makes them, in a fight, the equal of any criminal or strong-man who wants to harm them.
Schwab is great especially if you're a US citizen working remote abroad.
I'm familiar with First Republic. It's a nice bank. If you never leave the Bay Area, and the most complicated things you do can be accomplished at an ATM.

My needs are more... complex.
There's open commenting? I've never seen the back and forth of the review process be published. It should be published.
Like I said it seems like the local governments in both these places which share the same politics, are involved in actively holding back the local police force from doing their jobs.

Is it not reasonable to hold the local government responsible for safety on the train? Given their track record for asking the police to be hands off, isn't the prevalence of unchecked crime in trains, crime on campuses and crime on the streets consistent with that track record?
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The latter can be easily done in a few hours by inspecting the image layer metadata.

Every layer understands the command it was run in the Dockerfile to create itself. Just look at `docker history` and have a look at the "CREATED BY" field for human-readable output of the layer metadata, or depending on your graph driver have a look in /var/lib/docker/image/overlay2/imagedb/content/sha256. From there you can reverse-engineer a Dockerfile.

For layers that were not built using `docker build` (e.g. `docker commit`, OCI-compatible image builders), re-creating the exact command that generated that layer is much harder to do. The only information most tools will give you might just be the diff itself.
> I'm not saying that it diminishes any of his accomplishments

It does, very few parents can afford to give a 100k loan, that's a massive leg up most have no access to.
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> -Elimination of stupid policies like 'issue lengths' The article either should be or should not be published...saying there isn't space in a given issue is insane given that >>90% of article access is online.

I'd prefer to keep article lengths in place. It's easy to write a lot of text (as quite a lot of high school students understand), but it's challenging--and very important--to be able to convey information in a very concise format. The process of trimming down the text to squeeze it under the page limit is very useful in getting the ideas contained in it to a more refined and easily-understood format.
> Where they got this idea, I don't know ...

We get this idea from basic fairness within the rules of the larger system. Clearly, there are private companies that make money from publication of those papers. It follows that in a fair arrangement of some sort, they would have acquired the necessary rights from the original authors for some compensation or profit sharing agreement. That they don't actually do that is indication that arrangement is not fair.
Why would they use the short names in URLs? I thought they make sense only for file names.
You can overwrite vtable pointers, but you're further restricted to calling another function of the same type signature.
Depends on the country. In some countries they're the same agency.
I don't either, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let some scummy BART thief rob and assault me when I have a concealed carry permit.
When you're a kid you think adults know what they're doing and that for any issue there are people in charge who can and do make sure everything works out. The biggest thing you learn by growing up is that this is most definitely not the case.

Sometimes the person at the wheel is just winging it, and often there really isn't even anyone at the wheel steering things.
They are paid, just not by the journal, they're paid a salary by their university and one of their responsibilities is peer reviewing papers.
What are avalanche forecasts used for? And who uses them?
It does in the sense that it totally protects the stack and doesn't allow creating new executable memory. Control flow can be manipulated, but then only via changing function pointers to other functions of the same type
What computers actually have is literally just an arbitrary offset to catch null pointers.

They then also have ways to mark pages as read-only and such, but they don't burn a bunch of pages on this for NULL pointer catching. They simply just don't map anything before the program offset.
GPL skips the issue due to the PR having to be GPL to even be published. AGPL might be an issue though? Would it need to be explicit?
Still, GPL.
If your "productivity" leads you to drive dangerously, you're damn right we want you to be lazier. If you kill someone, or injure a child, the benefits to society from you pushing yourself too hard will be negative. If they aren't already.

Don't want to be "unfairly" fined? Drive within the rules.
Wow. I knew that nasa did a bu ch of tests with dogs. Some lived way longer than I would have expected: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/196600...

I never knew a person experienced this though.
ah thanks! Yeah these are super interesting
Depends on who you are asking, which is the problem. Everyone’s frame of reference is different on the matter and I’m convinced the only reason pornography can exist in the US at all is because it would mean changing some part of the First Amendment. Even if I were opposed to pornography, I would be unwilling to open that can of worms.
I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s been getting me down lately - how everyone is just doing the same thing. Echoing the same thoughts (while ironically patting themselves on the back for their perceived intelligence in doing so). Taking the same selfie pose in the same location with the same expression of how exhilarating the experience is.

I’m currently prepping for an interview at one of the big tech companies. It’s hard to push aside the thought that I’m a nobody who at best will spend years nipping at the toes of the hyper privileged individuals who are no more capable than me (in theory), yet who, because of their birth rights (parents, wealth, connections, etc), are in a position of power where their subjective desires will dictate what I do and say with my life (at least 1/3 of it, including the 1/3 where I’m unconscious). It’s even harder to think that as time goes on, this paradigm will only grow further. Just thinking about the updates I’ll make to my resume to pass the test, and how I’ll have to squeeze in the right buzz words all while displaying a cheery demeanor as though this is all a favor to me - it saddens me. And then I consider how in 5, 20, 50 years this whole process will be that much more nuanced and invasive...

It’s not the future I saw in youth. It’s the opposite. I thought the world was one where work produced more for everyone. More wealth, more comfort, more freedom. But it seems inevitable that in a finite space with an ever growing population, that’s not going to be the case. It’s a constant struggle for power. It’s not always the same individuals and groups driving it, but the result is the same every time.

Thank you for the write up. It resonated deeply with me.
> It is the difference between having a crop to sell, and going out of business and selling off your farm.

Thinking outside of the box, I think this is the problem we should aim to fix.
on a tangent...

"caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare"

I've been meaning to read kafka one day. Is there a title in specific you would recommend to start with?
There are many perverse incentives in this system, but one that tends to be overlooked is the incentive for faculty to publish in predatory journals. It's not that most want to publish there, but when even 3rd tier schools require their faculty to publish a certain number of articles a year under pain of not making tenure or an increased teaching load, submitting work to an undiscriminating journal is the easiest way to check that box.
I love the idea of WebAssembly in the browser, but what's the point of using it as an universal module language everywhere else?

We can already run most popular languages pretty much anywhere, and I imagine at better performance than WebAssembly, no?
Someone could just do that every time that problem occurs; commit a new if-statement, close the ticket, and upper management says "Look at how much work this guy gets done! Now there's our star programmer."
As long as that's all they want.
I don't think that's a good idea. Seeing you have some cash on hand is a signal that you are more well-of and they might be more incentivized than they were previously to take your bag/wallet/etc. Basically there's no incentive for them to stop at just taking that extra cash when they can take that and whatever else they were planning to.
The problem is the preceding if clause. You say that you do this if you find it uninteresting, or if you have no expertise in the field of the paper. Both of these are qualifiers of you, not of the paper, so indeed it seems harsh to punish the authors for the bad referee selection of the editor.
Exactly—OpenStreetMap would get more contributions if they had more users. People want to help others, but it's not clear how contributing to OSM does this when so few people use their website.
This is why it's hard to get support for public transit funding. People don't want to take public transit if they will fear for their lives, or be surrounded by drug addicts and mentally disturbed people yelling at and spitting on other passengers.

BART trains and stations are like this on a regular basis; Muni has the same problems but not as bad. I've seen this kind of thing happen on Caltrain late at night also, but much less often. I have never, ever seen it happen in London or anywhere in Japan.

It's easy for people in the Bay Area to believe this is what all public transit is like, unless they have experienced better systems elsewhere. Why would they want to use it, or pay for it with their tax money? It's safer to take your own car, or an Uber.

I'm a big fan of public transit, especially trains, but it's just never going to be improved in the Bay Area if people don't feel safe.
May not be what you’re thinking of, but there’s the frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
I feel weird about reading sci fi for free online. I feel like its unnatural and that it should come from used bookstores like god intended.

I miss used bookstores, most of the big ones in my city have closed down
Some machine learning conferences use openreview.net for this.
You're confused. Faking it is still doing your best to meet your own knowledge and standards. No one is going and just trying to fuck it up.
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I'm pretty sure my needs are just as complex as yours. I run a venture fund and have a dozen accounts with them. It's just that anything I need can be done remotely. I've gone in branch (to deposit large amounts of cash or to order $2 bills) maybe 3 times in 10 years.
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I don't think most "lawn care professionals" care whether they use a rake or a blower, because they get paid hourly, and their wage floor is set by other economic factors. They use a blower because the company employing them tells them to, so they can charge less and make a higher margin by being able to cram into each day more visits to lawns whose owners are sufficiently inconsiderate or powerless to accept externalizing the noisy consequences of this cost-saving measure onto their neighbors' eardrums.

The IDE analogy is a bad one, as the consequences of using an IDE are not visible to the consumer. A better analogy would be, people in a lawn care forum complaining about pop-over ads on lawn-care websites, 300 MB app installs to browse lawn-care store catalogues, and lawn-care online storefronts that double-charge purchases because they had the temerity to click the "back" button. And they'd be well within their right to complain about the negative externalities they must suffer as a consequence of rushed software development owing to mismanaged "agile" timeboxing and dark UI patterns designed by paperclip-maximizing sales teams.
First off, I'm almost positive the "political movement" is Antifa. No need to beat around the bush.

The alleged connection, if I'm reading GP right, is the shackling of police due to political pressure, and a more general breakdown in law and order. I'm not sure the Bart police are restrained from above, as it could also be a lack of resources that prevents them from patrolling the trains on foot. But a growing disrespect for the law does seem to be occurring in West Coast cities over and above what is happening elsewhere.
Ah, it’s good they used varchar, at least now you can store everything in those columns.

And there’s a multitude of ways to soft-delete too!

This is much better than some schemas I’ve seen.
I’m no subject matter expert, but I think what brd was saying is that farm subsidies are hugely distorting to the agricultural commodities market, and that leads to inefficient capital and resource allocation, which in turn causes misalignments between overall consumer wealfare beyond monitary means and spills over to hurting the health of the general public.

How much of this is true I do not know, but based on economic theory such negative externalities are possible.

You can’t ignore at the fact that the US is much more libertarian than Canada and the EU when it comes to business regulations. And we all know what happens when governments are too business friendly and not addressing market failures or safeguarding public interest.

Ask yourself this, what percentage of your operational best practices are invented/peddled by the industry vs truly independent research?
I don't see it. Crime is up on the subway, so you think this is part of a politically motivated strategy to "[hold] back the police force from doing their jobs"? The article says they have a lot of vacancies. Maybe they can't find people who want the job? Maybe their budget for policeman salaries doesn't fare well compared to the area housing prices? I could think of quite a few possible reasons for a rise in crime before getting to the idea that this must be some leftist plot to help the criminals.

A track record of holding police back from political protests isn't relevant. There's no political group supporting these robbers.