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> This is a relatively-trivial engineering exercise with any number of safe, efficient solutions.

Your comments here are another great example of how ironic it is to hear the word "trivial" used to describe solutions. Don't you think it's a little unrealistic that your "relatively-trivial engineering exercise" suggestions are capable of successfully tackling a problem so many parties have thought about? Have you considered that your insight is actually failing to account for a variety of unknown unknowns you might have about the NYC subway system?

Look at it this way: why do you suppose your suggestions haven't been implemented yet? Do you think the vast array of parties with skin in the game haven't thought of them (and are thus incompetent)? Do you think they simply aren't motivated to implement them?

I wouldn't be surprised if your proposals are technically sound (especially for greenfield rail construction). But I would be absolutely shocked if the problem is anywhere near as trivial as you're making it out to be.
Lots of 'got to', not much 'how to'. Too bad Aaron isn't around, he actually had executables.
I disagree. I think the primary motivation is you can always lose it all, or at least a lot of it. No matter how much you have or where you put it. The more you have, the more you stand to lose, especially due to macroeconomic shifts beyond your control, hyperinflation, war, etc. That's why what you have is never enough and seems like 3x (twice as rich, plus 1/3 as a backup) would be.
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That is a very nice writeup, thanks Howard!

I have recently become very enthusiastic about using .org-mode, and this looks like a nice alternative to Jupiter notebooks.
He was at Valve for at least a year.
The ease with which China can disrupt our supply chain (in the short term) is precisely the point. Their theft of millitary and comercial secrets is another.

China requires american companies selling or manufacturing in china to divulge secrets and implant chinese nationals (agents of the communist party) into said american companies so they can copy our technology and use state funds to begin competing chinese owned companies. This has hollowed out the American manufacturing base. Fewer qualified American engineers and workers means less military readiness, especially against threats China doesnt want us engaged with. Think Russia.

This process also means that their military will both have a larger industrial base to support it, and better technology to arm it.

The USA is not a tool for the Chinese to extract reasources and knowledge from. We worked hard to get where we are, and they are illegally piggybacking on us by stealing our intellectual property.
Piles of cow manure are readily verifiable but have comparatively little value.
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While I agree with you, especially with the benefit of the hindsight, I used to spend many CPU cycles on SETI, looking for freaking aliens.

It's pretty hard to objectively judge what's a waste of energy.

My biggest concern is that a lot of crypto mining was and still is coal powered.
I'd probably care less if it was all solar powered.
Many therapists and spiritual guides will say that trauma is physically stored in the body. Things like movement, dance, yoga, sounds, etc. help to loosen the body and therefore loosen the grip of these traumatic experiences.

While I've seen and felt the benefits of how healing the body can heal the mind is that phrase "storing trauma in the body" literally true or more of an phrase that just helps people start talking better care of their body?
I don't know where you got your stats from, but Wikipedia says otherwise.

In the most strict definition of poor (living under 1.90USD a day), only 0.7% of Chinese are poor. Even if you go up to 3.20USD per day, it's still only 7%, way less than billion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percent...
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> my guess is they mostly said “this is not novel or unexpected”.

Well, given how widely vulnerable de-identification was being implemented, that seems unlikely.
Yes it's astonishing how Alexander and people had dealings with Kurds who seemed to interact politically with the rest of Mesopotamia much as they do today.
Look into continuation-passing style. Semantically, async/await is much like syntactic sugar for CPS (or rather futures, but at the most basic level they can be thought of as single-shot continuations).

But ultimately, to make use of async, you need async primitives - something that lets you say "do this in the background somehow, and let me know once you're done". Any async/await call should ultimately end at one of those primitives, and it's at that point that another call might get interleaved. If you don't actually do I/O or anything else that can do a non-blocking wait, you're not getting anything useful from async.
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It used to take me that long. For more detailed docs it still does. I'm also way slower when it comes to business justification and executive team arguments but getting better. Practice makes perfect though. 5 years ago it would take me multiple months to write such a doc and I'd get bored constantly. Now I'm much faster. Some of my mentors can do these things on the fly in a meeting and drive consensus easily on stuff they have 0 context on.

I also got better because I had a manager who suggested that I just start writing these things up for a few hours each week. Just like authors who say that you have to write to get better at it, and how you write essays in high school and college even for arguments you don't believe in.

As for scale the process, yes it seems to. We try to review anything that's 3 months engineer time or more with a Sr. engineer from another team. Wider for larger projects. Bring in Principals when you have real quandaries.

The trade off is really writing time to communication effectiveness. If you find yourself having the same slack discussion more than 2x, maybe it should be in a document.
> we need to act

What actions are you suggesting?

And keep in mind that any action that reduces standard of living will cause deaths, and ultimately more emissions because people won't have spare more for environmental causes.

So bearing that in mind, what actions are you suggesting?
The places that remain "left behind" by globalization even to this day share a few things:

- not on any reasonable trans-Asia transport route, so no incentive for outsiders to invest in roads/rail/other transport infrastructure

- politically at least somewhat isolated, so no visa-free travel for most foreigners

- sparsely populated, preventing easy widespread wireless Internet access

- no major exploitable natural resource that would attract a rush of foreign investment

This basically gives us: the Central Asian SSRs (except Kazakhstan which has rich gas resources), Afghanistan, Iran, frontier regions of Pakistan, Myanmar (rapidly changing now), Bhutan and a few others.
The problem with fibers is interop. The moment you need to do some FFI, especially FFI that involves callbacks, things get a lot more complicated, since code you're calling into/through doesn't have any of that fiber magic (and, depending on how you implemented yours, it might actually break it).
Yes, or even the fear of dropping a status or income level can be enough motivation for some.
Have you tried CBD? I run a CBD company (https://tryplainjane.com) and many of my customers are people with chronic pain. I'd love to send you some free product if you're open to trying it.
I used to work at ConsenSys which recently laid off 13% of their workforce and I can tell you first hand they are a mess internally with senior leadership burning through cash. The company has zero management and favorites are left to do what ever they want. No wonder there is a crash, it was all one big ponzi scheme.
Concrete example right on the Dart homepage: https://www.dartlang.org/
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When it's 6 degrees Fahrenheit and you're wrangling a toddler outside and trying to catch a city bus, a watch is much more practical. I still wear mine, and it doesn't satisfy any of your criteria. It's just practical in conjunction with a lot of activity outdoors in winter. Won't drop it in the sewer drain or the woods, can't be flung by toddler, doesn't freeze and malfunction like the phone, can be operated while wearing mittens, can easily be looked at while biking.

There's a good chance you've chosen the tame environment you bemoan!
One comment I read somewhere is that with increasing wealth you lose the ability to make sense of the numbers anymore. What is the difference between 50 and 100 million in an emotional sense?

The fear of losing it all, however, stays the same no matter the amount, and so the urge to keep accumulating doesn't go away despite a rational view that would recognize that 100million is more than enough.
Yeah, I always cringe at those, before I got a Smart Watch, I was a loyal user of the Seiko V - its an inexpensive mechanical watch, very durable, classically styled, and in my opinion, a more reliable time keeper than a Rolex (for much less money, and with much less brand status).
Yah I've seen it before and personally I know someone who had success with a shotgun but I would prefer something guaranteed by society.
If I had to guess:

Github added the feature to their platform, but it didn't go upstream. Gitlab sponsored the dev-hours to rewrite the feature and actually push it upstream
Part of me thinks this story is made up just to scare people. Why would it be public info if they were actually trying to catch people like this?
> Those suspicions have always been extremely poorly grounded.

I am really quite ignorant on the issue, but they seem to me like reasonable suspicions when Tether’s purported “audits” are anything but.
Now you just go on Taobao and you can buy fakes that are completely indiscernible from the real items and costs $20.

If you realise that a lot of the time the fakes come from the same factories and use the exact same materials as the real products, then this makes a lot of sense --- the only difference is where/how it's sold, and whether the original brand owner gets its huge profit.
The idea behind the phrase is that when a ton of speculation money is flooding in to a market, you should make money by proving services to the speculators, not by speculating yourself.

Creating mining hardware is actually more speculative than an exchange, because you're picking winners and losers based on what your hardware can accelerate.

Selling pickaxes to miners has been used to describe platforms like CDNs or game engines like Unity. The fact that there is something called a miner in this context is a red herring.

A metaphorical one, I mean.
Ahh the old "legacy of empire" justification for mass immigration. The great French WWII leader Charles DuGaul gave up colonial posession of Algeria specifically to prevent migration to France. The cheap labor addicts in the European establishment dont care. Also, not Iraq, but France's bombing of Libya at the direction of the US is what started the migrant crisis. So yes, this is very much "invade the world invite the world" here.
That doesn't work forever. At some point, the opportunity cost isn't worth it or you need to start liquidating.
Nothing is determined beforehand, you use what you know to try and guess what will happen. How can you look at it all, and my comments, and not think that the outcomes I’ve described are a very good guess? It doesn’t have to be definitive. GW is not definitively proven. All you need is to show that there seems to be a chance that something really bad will happen. How have have I not done that? What link in the chain is ambiguous to you?
Out of curiosity, I challenged myself to come up with a way to set Bootstrap’s primary color to purple using CSS variables. Then I figured that with variables it's easy to make a dark theme and integrate it with the new `prefers-color-scheme` css api.
What makes you think I haven't attempted to use all the available resources yet? I'm seeking the next best solution after rationally doing all that could be done.
What exactly do you think phishing is?
Am I missing, where is the AI in this? Or are we being more broad here?
What I took away from Adam Curtis's film HyperNormalisation is that the internet didn't cause these issues, but it is to blame for us not being able to do anything about it.
Some people enjoy making money. It shouldn't be a surprise that very rich people got that way because they enjoy making money - and why should they stop?
Context is important.

The post it replies to says it "may offer a treatment for autism in mice." The not-at-all vapid statement is that one should be cautious in that even if it works in mice, there are many examples where this did not transfer to working for humans.
Not all cryptocurrency has no purpose. To me the “store of value” has always been a copout due to Proof of Work based ledgers painting themselves into a corner and being unable to scale to support enough transactions to support real payments. So all people can so with eg bitcoin and ethereum tokens is speculate.

That is changing with the next breed of cryptocurrencies like Stellar and EOS. Take for example https://intercoin.org (disclaimer: working on it). It is explicitly designed to solve real problems, and the applications are listed in the video.

I consider Bitcoin and Ethereum to be the myspace and friendster of the industry.
I think there was a lost book by Archimedes that may have been about constructing these, called "on sphere-making"

It mentioned the archimedes sphere in the story

"Rehm suggested that it might possibly be the legendary Sphere of Archimedes, which Cicero had described in the first century B.C. as a kind of mechanical planetarium, capable of reproducing the movement of the sun, the moon, and the five planets that could be seen from Earth without a telescope—"
You're assuming they didn't just put a little rechargeable battery in the vacuum too. Id assume people weren't doing drug deals while people were shop-vacuuming. Id definitely want to be able to film while it was off.
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> How do you know it has different causes, when the causes of autism have not been enumerated?

A couple of reasons. One is that I'm struggling with it my whole life. Not a cosplayer, but actual high IQ individual who suffered a lot as a child in some social shithole. Almost like in popular movies.

Another reason is that I have studied some literature available and psychology in general. I could see other people with similar symptoms, I could see their parents and could identify who is the carrier, etc.

Current consensus, especially in the context of today's SJW madness, is disconnected from reality and what is. Autism is clearly genetic, it runs in families for generations, it usually carried by pretty women and it is more common in rural areas all over the world. These are obvious, easily testable facts, embedded into cultures.

Now who are you to fuking lecture me?
I spent 6 months living and backpacking through Southeast Asia in 2010 and even then, I'd say my experience was very similar to the article in the OP. Yea, there was Lonely Planet, but hardly anyone carried one around with them since it was bigger than a brick. And even those who did use Lonely Planet books, it was because every hostel had a LP book in its communal library that people would flip through while sitting at the hostel bar.

As for internet/cell service, it was mostly the same story. You could get cell service if you really wanted, but it was usually pretty costly and I don't think I met anyone who actually did buy it (I did for 1 week just to see if it would be worth it - it wasn't). Everyone seemed to prefer to use the hostel bar as the place were people gathered to use WiFi. And even just 8 years ago, WiFi in most parts of SEA were nowhere near good enough to do things like video chat, and in some places it wasn't even good enough to do live text chats. Some communities (esp. in rural areas) didn't have internet at all. An email every few days was the best I could do with most of my friends. Infrequent contact was pretty well understood then too, at least among the travelers I interacted with.

When it came to getting around, some people had maps that they'd printed out and carried with them, but I'd say most people relied on word of mouth and asking other people for directions and arranging rides.

It does seem to be quite a different story now. I've been back to SEA often in the past 8 years and each time I am surprised at the changes. The "banana pancake trail" has hit the mainstream, and the tourist infrastructure has grown to match. Buying a prepaid SIM card with unlimited data seems to be the first thing people do when getting off the plane in SEA. Hell, my cell provider (T-Mobile) gives me free data in every SEA country without even having to swap SIM cards. Uber/Grab is used for getting around in many places, totally removing the need for maps or asking directions. And you can get 4G coverage in all but the most remote jungles.
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Interesting point of view, although crypto market has proven irrational most of the time. But indeed liquidity tends to bring the price closer to the real value, which is much lower than the current traded value for most of these tokens.
what do you mean, no one will do anything

the yellow jackets are out rioting, killing, and dying to protest what they see as unfair

the prime minister has already agreed to suspend the gas tax for 6 months, and will need to make further concessions or else risk being ousted/replaced
I have no idea why people are worried about misinformation. The information that actually made an impact of the election was all completely true. Nobody except a handful of extremists took seriously things like pizza pedos and etc.
They can’t afford to buy houses anywhere, especially not California.

The previous generations are going to be well and truly screwed when they figure out they can’t make their millions back that they invested in the California housing bubble.
Yes! You can actually do this on the blockchain right now: buy DAI on a decentralized exchange (or mint your own DAI by opening a Collateralized Dept Position), then lend it out for interest. (Last time I've checked, the paying interest rates were very attractive). The tech is still very experimental, but has been functioning well for almost a year, despite this year's deep crypto market crash.

I also think those who think crypto is only useful for speculation or crime are very much stuck with the 2013 opinion of it.
Not really. I made that choice. I also run/ran the exact same setup on my Debian machines. Could use my wife's machine as an example. Runs Arch, uses Plasma for a WM and never has any problems.
he was a minister of finance for 5 months or so. i dont think he did anything substantial while in valve
seems like with the collapse of crypto prices they see no room for growth in the near future except to open the flood gates to any coin with even a bit of value. It seems kind of desperate, but is there a downside in this for them? Apart from their own infrastructure costs to implement.
Neck problems made it inevitable, after a traffic accident several years ago. I'm okay walking, pretty much, but not sitting.
>what do you mean, no one will do anything?

>>Every time I hear politicians say how they know what needs to be done, but they will get voted out if they try. I don't believe this is true.

I meant we all know that no one will do anything about climate change, because whenever anyone proposes something with an actual effect people come out "rioting, killing, and dying to protest what they see as unfair".
That could just come down to Apple's cycle. They tend to do one release with a lot of features, then one release for stability. The precedent was set with Leopard and then Snow Leopard, repeated with Lion and Mountain Lion, and so on.
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> How this is related to humans?

Feel free to experiment on humans first before trying mice.

> What is autism in mice in the first place?

Social behavior, measurable effects you would also use for diagnostics in humans etc.

> What kind of fucking degenerates are "studying" or "modeling" a cross-species "mental" disorder???

People who are smarter than you, obviously.
The arguments suggesting Bitcoin has an intrinsic value of $0 have rational, evidence-based premises, like the notion that Bitcoin is technologically inferior to some of its competitors and the lack of its use as a medium of exchange. You can't generally say that about the arguments in favor of Bitcoin, though I'm happy to hear counterexamples.

The "store of value" argument doesn't mean anything. Beanie Babies, tulip bulbs, and Hummel Figurines are also "stores of value".
Just a simple game I made to keep myself occupied on flights and on the metro. Still very much a WIP.
What this article seems to be missing, as does most of the comments here, is the distinction between software engineers and architects. Everyone likes to rip on the “architects that do no real work”, but this is exactly the problem and architect solves.

Their job is to understand the macro picture, the user’s use cases and the business use cases, and be technical enough to then digest that all into tickets of small chunks of work such that the software engineer can implement the right thing. It is the architect that holds the context and hopefully passes the right amount of that context through the ticket.

In the author’s metaphor, it would be the architect who would design the electric and water grid and decide which houses go where and who will build them and how. And then monitor the whole project and change things as issues come up.
> such peaceful downtime before wifi and all that

How did wifi change that?
The Interpol guy is a good example.
One would think that a metric country would adopt "k"/kilo as the indicator for thousands and "m"/mega for millions.

Still I suppose it's better than sussing out whether someone is British and using "long" billions.

(in most of the world, "billion" = 10 to the 9th power; in older British usage still sometime seen, "billion" = 10 to the 12th power, and 10^9 is "thousand million")
> IntelliCode uses machine learning to train over thousands of real-world projects including open-source projects on GitHub.

Is it legal to use a bunch of open-source projects in what looks like a proprietary plugin?
let's not be so down on cow manure. Sure in small quantities cow manure is an inconvenience you wipe off your shoe. But in very, very large quantities it's an extremely useful argricultural material you can build a business around. (fertilizer)
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