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Technological books do not age as well, because technical knowledge is predominantly cumulative.

It's for fields where thoughts are evergreen (basically, anything to do with being human, literature, poetry, philosophy, etc) where this advice matters.

A good modern book on math, or chemistry, or compiler construction has more knowledge than any old one.

A good modern poet is not better than Shakespeare or Homer (and in many eras the poets are way worse than previous eras).
The most effective part of going vegan is incrementally improving the viability of veganism in the markets for groceries, restaurants and culture. I think.
I believe they're referring to Fully Homomorphic Encryption [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_h...
The lack of critical thinking skills is a mental illness.
This brings up a valid point about health technology and "biological age". As (usually wealthy) people are increasingly able to delay the onset of senescence, the law is going to have issues with time defined "age" which represents capability.

For example having to retest every 5 years maybe unneeded if people are living to 125 and remaining healthy along the way.
Sure but that’s not how it works if your search activity is an input to your social score. Looking for information that “doesn’t exist” can have material negative consequences.

I don’t think your “best case” is actually a possible outcome in modern China.
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I vouched for the above [dead] comment so people can see what we're up against here.

> sometimes it is better to invest in making the country rich rather than a tax on diesel fuel.

There are many people who sincerely believe it's better to get rich even if their grandchildren (and the children of others around the world) will ultimately suffer to pay for their cheap diesel.

How much could I pay you to kill the white rhino, golemiprague?
Yeah: plan for long-term personal mitigation. Move to a country with a strong military and rule of law, but geopolitically a place that wouldn't make for an attractive target for invasion. Find a job that's well insulated from climate trends and economic shocks. Aim for areas whose environs could theoretically function on their own in an unfriendly world, as opposed to areas that derive their wealth solely from trade and intangibles.

This is drastic, but there's a few obvious situations in which you don't want to find yourself. You don't want to be a farmer in a high-population subtropical country. You don't want to be a military-age person in a country that's already concerned with food and water security, let alone general resource scarcity. But you also don't want to be a homeowner in a flood-prone location where in a few decades your insurance will price you out, nor would you want to operate a farm, even in a high-income country, in a place where you're already struggling with increasingly severe droughts. Above all else, you don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're ill-equipped to handle crises in the global or local markets as pressures build on struggling populations.

The irony is that the strategy to insulate yourself from the worst of climate change is very similar to the strategy to insulating yourself from every other social and economic ill: be wealthy, mobile if needed, and for your extended community to be self-sufficient if required.
I've heard this argument when there was full blown War on Drugs. Over 99.9 substances are legal, so how can you say it limits your freedom?
Huh? How does Apple play into this?
Likewise we can't ban/censor our way to good parenting nor will it prevent people (not just kids) from finding bad information in the internet.

If anything the kids will stop using Tumblr at a faster rate once all of the false-positives of the censorship stuff blocks basic enjoyment.
As a FF user (and a browser's user in general) I found actual browsers absurd monsters that service like ffprofile only try to mitigate. Few example: any complex enough software offer config files/dir. normally human readable and manageable. I can easily install plugins in Emacs via a simple config edit, same for (n)vim, same for zsh or fish, I can change my OS (NixOS) with a simple human-readable config file. Same for GuixSD, same for services etc in nearly all unices.

On FF however I found no damn simple way to do basic things like:

- install extensions via CLI/wrappers (for instance homeManager), there are some hack but they are not reliable and Mozilla seems to try avoiding supporting such a thing;

- configure preferences, like about:config, outside firefox;

- customize ff themes in a simple manner.

Modern browsers seems to mimic the most closed commercial OSes I know of instead of mimic classic FOSS model and that's a big problem.

Today I can easily automate my entire desktop, but browsers and they demand more and more settings and third parties tools/extensions to be "at least less unsafe" for us users (from firejail/capsicum to cookies deleters, adblockers etc.

That's a horrific mess.
I'll try it out. vim is my main editor, so it will be a bit of a learning curve to get used to emacs :)

As an aside, I have tried out gnus for reading the git mailing list via gmane, but I found it very slow in threading messages (when compared to Thunderbird). I don't know if notmuch/mu4e has the same issue though.
I've never been on a tumblr that wasn't adult..

Also, I believe on mobile you "had" to use their app if you wanted to see 18+ content users.

So they were indirectly promoting their app with nsfw content...
Optimization for engagement is actually quite scary to me: because the effects upon the user (beyond engagement) are literally meaningless. If the system can burn out your mental health while increasing engagement, it can and will make that choice.
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Given that it's now open source, you can compile your own. They have provided x64 libs for at least the last few years though.
This sort of stuff furthers my resolve to give my kids dumbphones and PCs with no internet access until they're at least 14 or 15, with plenty of education beforehand. For example, at school we got taught about anorexia, body image and coping strategies in junior high. If they need to get online they can use the family PC in the living room that's in full view of everyone.

My observation is that what I can only call information operations on Tumblr are very similar in form to various groups retweeting divisive political memes on Twitter or other social media. Most likely it has been freelance individuals with some sort of sexual fetish, not an organization, but still. It's not normal user behavior to be constantly re-posting and mashing up memes all day long every day encouraging pre-teen girls to be anorexic.
God damn it, I want to know these numbers for people that have a legitimate prescription vs a "fentanyl" death from someone who bought an illicit drug that was laced with fentanyl.

there are a lot of people legitimately in chronic pain who are turned away or get the run around because we're cracking down on the wrong thing.
There haven't been as many technical books passed down through the ages, has there? Do they just end up obsolete, or do people just not talk about them and I've been missing out?
would old be something like: implementation is no longer relevant (the software itself is obsoleted), but the idea is seminal -- a basic conceptual building block upon which current systems are implemented? Example: Lambda Papers (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lambda_Papers)
episode 7, our blue planet, in the planet earth ii series is some of the hardest television i have watched. i actually couldn't finish the episode. maybe this is hyperbole to others that have watched it, but it's unbelievable the effect that humans have had on earth and on our fellow flora and fauna.
This is one of the few cases where the words are very useful precisely because they're the originals.

Many of these (e.g. techne) are verbatim latin/greek terms and are probably used just as they are, in other languages.

You're talking about an intellectual endeavor (philosophy) which is VERY old.
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Why is Mozilla trying to replace components of Firefox with Servo, rather than trying to complete Servo as a full and compliant engine? I.e. it looks like browser.html is not very usable, since Servo itself is quite behind in actual features support compared to Firefox.
It's much worse...

2/ Most of the policies designed to help women actually hurt them. Positive discrimination usually ends up being much worse than doing nothing.
Does SpaceX still need Elon - compared to what - for what?

Does SpaceX still need Elon to control ownership of the company as opposed to selling to "average" investors in order to colonize mars? Almost certainly.

Does SpaceX still need Elon as the CEO as opposed to the "average" other CEO they could hire, to profitably launch satellites into space? Almost certainly not.

At least we reach theoretically answerable questions with this sort of construction, but I don't think we have enough information to answer any but the most obvious versions such as those above.

SpaceX's biggest moonshots, if they keep succeeding and Elon keeps leading, are yet to come.
This is definitely true, reducing animal products of any amount helps tremendously. I did not intend to scare anyone, framing veganism as the goal is easier just because the vast majority of people can do it.
Skycfg[0] is hermetic and deterministic. Evaluating a Skycfg configuration file can't execute local processes or access system properties such as the current time, so it can be treated as inert data similar to a JSON or YAML file.

This important for Stripe because we have lots of internal security boundaries. A rich configuration language that can't break out of its sandbox is useful when a highly-trusted system needs to expose a subset of its power to less trusted agents.

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The ones I'm thinking of (eg. NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ, etc) are all username/password.

What kind of paywall are you thinking of?
Without knowing the game: Some kind of replay/recap feature maybe or physics in cut scenes.

When you replay a series of inputs, you want the accompanying physics to come out the same. Solvers that use randomness in your engine will either need to have their RNG seeded with the same value or have the rng removed.

Another thing causing problems might be how your engine handles time or when it iterates over objects in a specific order relative to how they were added (might not have preserved that order in your snapshot).

There's many things that can go wrong.
Agree and was thinking that in the future, this snarky article will seem in poor taste, representing a time when fixed identity began unspooling.
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> Doesn't it still depend on CUDA for hardware acceleration?

Assuming by hardware you mean GPU acceleration, then yes. It's not really a push for Cuda usage, most games that use physx don't use the GPU acceleration (not everyone has PhysX cards, and those that do are usually busy using the GPU for rendering), so in practice for 99% of use cases, it is open.
SpaceX has accomplished only a few percent of their stated mission: "SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets"

There's still so much work to do.
The difference is that impact of normalizing behavior is completely speculative, but search is a real product that can benefit people. Any business with China normalizes their suppression, but I doubt that the people who oppose Dragonfly have a problem with how many of their parts in their smartphone were sourced from China. Conveniently, Dragonfly doesn't offer anything to Americans, so that just crosses the line of what's "evil."
IMO, without sarcasm, people, not browsers makers, should ditch modern "web" to came back to local application with networking enabled.

We need to regain control of our systems and data before being all slave (without even the need of a strong power) of few corporations...
The infra for that job had far too many moving parts to make that feasible unfortunately. Multiple fibre providers, satellites, microwave relays, etc etc. The L1 guys would be on the phone alot in the event of a serious incident. Even today there still needs to be humans in the loop, I don’t see that changing.
Crypto and Climate change: Just how bad is mining for the environment?
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Corollary: work at/for people/places that reward this.

You will do yourself no good if you optimize for the company but in ways that management doesn't care about. For better or worse, companies are little command economies and the things management cares about don't necessarily correspond to what's actually good for "the company" (the shareholders?).

Been there, done that.
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I prefer to interpret this as "Classic" vs "New"/"Green" content; it depends a lot on the depth of stack for a given subject and how much is in the "old generation" of garbage collection.

Some fields would entirely lack classic books and thus must be viewed with a wider net that includes the precursors. In that case it's obvious that the classic work of the precursors to the new language/field/idea contrast to all of the current works.

In other fields there may have been sufficient refinement to include well regarded works among the classics.

As a brief note: this article is the first time that I've come across the idea and I find it a refreshing proposal for expanding perspective of thought and having a rigorous world view. I do worry that in the rushed modern era there is not enough time afforded to do things the correct way.
> become a vegan or vegetarian

I really, really hope synthetic meat explodes in popularity because I've tried being vegetarian and I'd really rather not.
> I want to run a container. Should I use ElasticBeanstalk? ECS? Fargate? EC2 with Docker?

Depends on what you're trying to do... I find that dokku goes a long way if you just want to coordinate a few things on a small scale. It's also relatively easy to put 2-3 instances behind a load balancer and just doing blue-green deploys that way. Elastic Beanstalk was also pretty easy with a simple Dockerfile in place. In terms of having a modestly flexible service layer.

I can't speak to the rest, but I just tend to avoid friction as much as possible for as long as possible. I'd rather have a good enough solution that I can work with quickly and not have to spend a lot of time/effort on over more complex solutions.

I don't know what Samsung did with the stuff that was being done by Joyent, but theirs was always an interesting approach in my mind.
Does Google censor results according to how I want it to (SafeSearch) or according to how my government wants it to?
Legislation is going to do absolutely nothing except maybe kick the can down the road a little further. (And at the cost of causing economic stagnation in developing nations).

What we really need is investment into clean energy solutions. Investment is not going to come by robbing a percentage of GDP as a "carbon tax."
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Just on google, children are a few clicks and a word or two away from hardcore porn. I agree that a parent who gives their child open internet access has to accept their kid will probably see disturbing things before they’re ready, or strictly restrict and monitor everything. I’m not even sure how feasible or reasonable it is to try.
Are any of these an option at the Vancouver office?
Because neither of them actually work that way?
What is the "office mode" on Apple TV?
I am seeing K8s ecosystem repeating Borg's own history of configuration churns. It's just there seems so many configuration tools for K8s now, which seems a much worse situation than Borg (started with only one configuration tool).
There are no old books in computer science, because it is a new field, but already the effect that Lewis talks about can be seen...

I think we know what the classics are. If someone's name is in all the textbooks, it's probably worth looking up their original works. Turing and Shannon come immediately to mind as people who are more often read about than read, despite being quite approachable.
This was life-changing for me. I wanted to learn about spirituality through a different lens than the Catholic upbringing that constrained my mind and the rampant "spirituality is synonymous with Christianity" that I find in the U.S. I went out and read a handful of ancient religious texts from all of the world. This led me to see that throughout the course of human history, tribes from all over the world have espoused the same truths about the nature of reality (non-duality). I don't believe I could have reached this knowledge by reading derivative works alone.
Because words have meaning and none of those things are arbitrary.
> If all sources of information in China sucked, and citizens knew about it.

This is wishful thinking. The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. 70 years later communism still sucks, yet in China it endures.

Being born in an ex-communist country from the Warsaw pact I can tell you ... the only reason USSR fell was because of hunger. Without hunger, which is a primal instinct, human beings can adapt to everything else. In other words, for as long as China's economy is strong, their political system has virtually no opposition, censorship is part of politics and this isn't an issue that the population can vote for.

China blocks Internet sources that aren't filtered via their firewall. China also blocks many VPN services. They also use tactics like making foreign online services unbearably slow. That Google is or isn't doing business in China has absolutely no consequence on the Chinese' ability to search for unfiltered information.

> If all sources of information in China sucked

The problem that you're not seeing is that in order to assess whether something sucks or not, you have to have an alternative to compare it with. In absence of an alternative, this scenario will not happen.

So while I agree that Google shouldn't go to China, because it would be against our interest for obvious reasons, trying to frame it as not being in the interest of the Chinese people is wrong, possibly dishonest.
Tumblr has been repeatedly valued at around $0, and I believe Yahoo did a huge write down at one point. I think they know this will kill the site and that's intentional. Tumblr has never been successfully monetized for various reasons, and occasionally generates bad press. It's sad - the "old internet" is quickly dying off. It basically leaves image boards, non-default Reddit, and SA.

I've heard a lot of people are back on Usenet these days? Discord really doesn't do it for me.
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Those who are against racial interbreeding will be huge #meToo proponents simply because it will obviously have this effect of drastically increasing the risk of interracial relations, it'll become more like it used to be, the threat of legal violence will re-justify the male fear of approaching a woman he's attracted to. Only the violence wont be another man with a club like it once was, but the state being wielded as a cudgel by women and racists in influential cultural positions.
Ab initio structure prediction has nothing to do with directed evolution. It doesn't enable it or make it better. Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that depends on scale and cycle speed -- huge numbers of variants are screened rapidly against an assay during each round. Ab initio structure prediction adds nothing to the process.

You might argue that you could then predict the structure of the best variants, but predicted structures are all but useless for drug discovery.
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i think the important difference with age is that there are hard legal implications that go along with it, that SHOULDN'T exist over the dimensions of sex and race. The one that flies out at me is retirement or senior benefits. There may be some options only available to people of color, or women, but not as widespread as the implications of age. If this passed, could I become 65 and start withdrawing my 401k penalty-free?
You're right.

The answer to that is that people should not be able to change their gender--unless something gets invented that can change your chromosomes--but if they can then age and race should be allowed, too.

If anything, because by changing gender you can get all sort of advantages if you become a woman:

- tax cuts if you start a company
- retire earlier
- you win at sport competitions
- about 1000 other things

If I feel like [insert minority], why can't I change my race and get the same benefits?

If we have to be abandon common sense, we should be coherent.