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> Objectivity is a kind of ideology? This is objectively false ;)

The number of things that can be said universally objectively is so vanishingly small that it's not even worth considering them for the most part.

> Assigning desirability to that which we perceive as rational is a kind of ideology?

No. All people will label what they perceive as rational as desirable. The issue is that 'what we perceive as rational' is almost necessarily based in our underlying ideology.

> In this case, can something so universal that it's surely biologically hard-coded be considered an 'ideology', esp in the context of the article?

What are you claiming is biologically hard-wired? First-order predicate logic? Propositional logic? If it's hard-wired, why are there college classes dealing with introducing the topic?

Moreover, the existence of languages that are unable to express first-order predicate logic indicate that it is not hard-coded.

Finally, given the variety of human language, it does not seem clear that you can make these claims of 'biological hard-wiring' without justification.

> Choosing to reason rationally instead of ideologically is an ideological choice (or perhaps even a choice motivated by the kind of ideological reasoning discussed in the article)?

Can you please explain what system you use to reason rationally? Can it add two numbers together? If so, it has an ideology behind it (see the incompleteness theorems), as there are statements in your logic that it can never prove.

If your system is incapable of basic arithmetic, then I question the value it has in everyday problems.

> Something else entirely?

The constant claim I see on HN, reddit, and social media in the 21st century of people claiming to act 'rationally', via movements such as lesswrong, rationalwiki, etc, is that such motivations are not ideological. However, it is clear that they are ideological because they often elevate what amounts to first-order logic plus the scientific method as means of discovering truth. First order logic with the law of excluded middle is unsound, and the scientific method as a means of establishing truth is based in the notion of an unchanging transcendent reality (in other words, a shadow form of the Abrahamic God). If this is how you want to approach life, you should be aware of your own implicit ideology while doing so. Claims of 'rationality' are simply dishonest (note, I'm not saying they're wrong, just dishonest).

If we're being honest with ourselves, we all have an ideology, a way of explaining the world, and if we're honest with others we will not claim that we're being 'rational' without first explaining our ideology.
Each time I hear something about breaking down tickets to things that can be done < 1 day you end up with an unorganized pile of tasks, that someone thought must be done in a short amount of time.
Usually this happens in stark contrast to the lack of a prioritized list of (meaningful, valuable) things to do.
It would be a fine choice, (and the document layer is) but the most performance sensitive parts of the entire system when you take it as a whole are already written in Flow. Writing it in C++ entirely would take a lot longer.
I've been wanting to build a legal IDE for ages, it makes no sense that lawyers are stuck using Microsoft Word with lots of bolt-on plugins rather than a VSCode / Sublime equivalent.
this is the age of humans. nature will have to sacrifice to support us
Hopefully, that'd be because the majority of restaurants are including a service charge with every meal, and not because the waiters have become inured to their techie clientele being chiselling niggardly prats. In circles I move in, being a bad tipper is right up there with shoplifting, dog-kicking or vandalism as a moral failing, and how one treats service employees a touchstone of one's character.
> For binary-trees it's because of the issue I mentioned.

No it is not — I removed that program before I replied.

(Refresh you web browser cache).
How can you pull the plug before you try marketing it? People won't just magically find your app, you need to put it out there.
They haven't (as of 2018 at least).
Old news, but I'm still not a big fan of TOR, primarily because they've conflated the difference between anonymity and privacy on a network. You can't have it both ways. Either I can provide guarantees about the integrity and authenticity of traffic happening between your machine and a destination, or I can provide an unprovable, probabilistic claim that it's "anonymous".
Hence "virtually all". You're absolutely correct
You need to wait a bit.

Anyway.
I'm sorry. I forgot for a second that I don't want to take part in these kinds of discussions. Tesla, in this case.
You can have your faith.
Apple map sucks on non-MacOS... no idea why DDG chose them unless its prep for acquisition. you can use CTRL+MouseWheel to zoom in/out.
My favorite example of this is when someone says "Nobody knows X." As though your own ignorance is as good as everyone's ignorance.

Somebody might know X. And they might know X for all the right reasons. But they probably didn't tell you those reasons, and you probably wouldn't believe them or understand them if they did.
Don't forget CommonLisp Recipes by Edmund Weitz. Best Lisp book in years.
Yep, very annoying, especially for people who use trackpoints.
Currently working in a kanban/pair programming/tdd project and it is indeed the best that can happen to you. Plus pair programming spreads knowledge extremely well.
The platform has more far reaching use-cases than being used to replace legal contracts, and written contracts can have "bugs" just as smart contracts can.
Two important newer Common Lisp books worth mentioning:

- Common Lisp Recipes - http://weitz.de/cl-recipes/ - the de-facto go-to book on practical Common Lisp usage, for people with at least basic familiarity with the language.

- Land of Lisp - http://landoflisp.com/ - introduction to CL + overview of some more distinct aspects of other Lisps (often portable to CL as a library), teaching by means of writing small games; quite... peculiar.

Also, if someone wants to start with Common Lisp, then Practical Common Lisp (PCL) is usually the book for it. The entire book is available on-line for free: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/.
I like both FastMail and Protonmail. Take note of where the infrastructure is hosted for both however, if your privacy concern is one of nation-state actors.
It’s not just the monarch butterfly. Entire ecosystems are collapsing throughout the world as insects disappear followed by the birds that eat them and on and on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarm...
Oh, standard and boring. I pray every single day for it. And please let ReactiveX and css-in-js die too, these are a real pain.
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/emirates-air-line/
Ok, I’ll draw the logo!
It feels like when you learn that Ticketmaster also owns most of the scalping services and your chance of getting a good ticket is zero unless you're willing to go to the scalpers.

Basically the good stuff is reserved for the rich because they are rich.
I always understood it to be more of the automating of contract fulfillment.

That's probably not the universal take. My take is there is a place for automated smart contracts, and a place for traditional contracts. For instance, you can hardly prove beyond any doubt that a package was delivered successfully and so payment can be dispersed. Too much room for fraud there. But for many other digital services I think it would work out fine. AFAIU it's been working quite well for microgrid projects.

(Specifically smart contracts and ethereum as a whole, not really the DAO. Don't know much about that)
yeah, while that's true, a manufacture like amazon or apple is much more likely to update your device since they are still hoping to sell you content. You think your offbrand Smart TV is going to update past a couple bugs? They already made all the money they are going to make off that TV and they are done.

Still have to trust the manufacture for that to work, but at lease you're not just left wide open there. (I mean you still could be, but it seems less likely with this model). And, if it doesn't stay up todate, you can toss the box and plug in a new one.
This could be expanded to include Israel/Palestine disputed areas as well. Very interesting.
Just for the sake of extra data I am in support of the systematic extinction of mosquitoes. There have been studies to show if they were removed entirely it would have minimal impact on the world while at the same time saving countless lives.

And I'm also optimistic about the biosphere for the next few million years. The world will go on until the Sun burns every living away after going into it's red giant stage. But that is several billion years off so we're good for now.

At the same time I think we have the capability to care about other species and hubris to believe we can shape our existence. So I want to change our ecosystem to do less damage to the current biosphere.
As I pointed out, children get their nature and their nurture from their parents. And I don't know how you can reconcile the success of the environmental movement in the developed world in the past 5 decades with your position that somehow people caring about the environment doesn't have any real world effects.
Has been in production far longer than any other open source solution. Runs at scale across Yahoo, powering even Ad systems, with live configurations pushes. Everything you need for highly available product. It also has capabilities to be used for more complex uses cases around AI.
Smart TVs can be left unconfigured and not plugged in via Ethernet.
I'm with you, contrary to 99% of other websites that's a fair use for a SPA.
I'd rather see an investment. Maybe by providing a really good deal on maps[0]. Seems like this is a win-win for both. Apple wants to focus more on services and DDG gets a bit[1] of validation by being able to provide Apple maps.

[0] Obviously I have no idea if this is the case.

[1] As if they needed any.
If you write:

scp server:readme.txt .

"readme.txt" is still shell code. Most shells will evaluate it to the string "readme.txt", but scp on the client should not make assumptions of the shell used on the server.

If you write:

scp server:'*.txt(oc[1,10])' .

A server that's setup with zsh with extended globs is going to return the newest 10 .txt files. If scp is written with an expectation of basic globs, I imagine it would try to match the files that have a character-by-character literal extension of ".txt(oc[1,10])". That means no file is ever going to match. You could say, "well, add recognition of zsh extended globs". Ignoring how complicated that really is because there are glob options that allow you to embed arbitrary zsh code, you're limiting the implementation of scp to work with only particular shells. scp should not be a barrier to me implementing my own shell, with it's own syntax and using it transparently. The current scp doesn't care about what shells you use where. It makes little to no assumptions of the tools you use, and that's cool.
You contact your country's foreign intelligence agency.
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I'd imagine it'd follow the same rules of a faulty traditional legal contract. If the wording of the contract is wrong in a traditional contract, are exploitations valid? Does the decision depend on context?
No, it will only require the public key (which is public) to impersonate the server. It won’t be a MITM but it’s still bad; see e.g. the bug in this very article, or if (god forbid) you’ve set up agent forwarding. Or if you do e.g. a git pull from github on a fresh comp, it can serve you bad code.

Asymmetric key is not a solution to the problem of users blindly trusting hosts without checking the fingerprint. It’s a UI problem.

Every time I bring this up it gets shot down (e.g. now -3 votes), and every time I wait for someone to put forward an actual counter argument. Unfortunately, no luck.

SSH is broken and it needs fixing.
Why exclude WWII? US entered WWII via a false explanation of what caused the Pearl Harbor attack, and support for the war was kept aflout by propaganda.
The apps are part of a marketing plan, and I personally doubt that devs didn’t have fun building them.

My kids gleefully get to “drive” my Tesla using the steering wheel to play Pole Position. They snicker when we goof around with the whoopie cushion.

It’s hard not to be positively influenced by something that gives your children joy. I appreciate that there are these bits in the software which are whimsical that my family can play with.
> Maybe nothing worth shipping back to earth

Helium 3 is certainly worth shipping even at a premium.
I think you might find this interesting in future perspectives. What you're thinking about having real impact or consequence is the extinction of "keystone species".
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/keystone-spe...
Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't appear be that great in this case. The image is supposed to be a 128x32x3bpp image, so that's 12,288 bits / 1536 bytes, plus whatever overhead for the image format. The article says the compressed data is 1500 bytes. So, er, not much compression.

The png file on the page of the same data is 741 bytes. An uncompressed 4-bit bmp of the same data is 2250 bytes.
I mean we did have 3,000 people die from airplanes being hijacked and flown into buildings - the TSA didn't exist before then. Unfortunately our gov't is like an overreacting immune system inflaming the entire body and causing unnecessary damage to functioning systems.

edit: Also Canadians in here, let's not pretend like CBSA's shit doesn't stink
Are you capturing these folks from FB through email sign-ups? Have seen a couple local news orgs successfully get people to visit their site directly by investing in email.
"I didn't do anything! I just XYZ"

I think they just want to disclaim responsibility so you'll be the one to blame. Mechanics deal with that a lot too.
I understand and I'm trying to troll you but if you need desktop features on your software why can't you just build a desktop app?
>If someone hacks your webcam, they probably installed a keylogger as well and helped themselves to whatever files you have, etc

not to mention they're probably recording everything you say, which is probably more valuable than pictures of your face.
Another bullshit label. I prefer working with normal people you know? Back in my days coders managed to produce good code while eating pizza and not dealing with retards.
so many popups
Teslas get regular OTA updates. They sometimes fail, but they've been remotely patching their vehicles for years.
You’re right, the progressions are beautiful! Do you know how they are generated?
They are autonomous, but sometimes have unintentional outcomes. Same goes for written contracts. Sometimes they're poorly written/worded and loopholes are found.
Can you explain how the op is suggesting that?

From my reading, it seems OP is saying that these types of articles need to include the broader context if they're to do any good in educating their readers on the issue at hand.

No context interpretation: 'China is the devil we need to stop!'

With context: 'China is one of the devils we need to stop!' (natural follow up: What is the common source of these devils?)
Would DDG improve apples AI work? Google seems to be ahead of Apple with smart assistants, maybe that only a result of bad privacy policies on Googles part.
Sorry about that, we had a brief issue with our proxy, it should be working properly now.
...only if the lid is closed. great for if you're not using the laptop, not so great when you're currently using it.
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>The United States has a threat scoring system automatically scoring political, social, economic, and other "risk" data into municipal police departments so that these people can be monitored and managed without a warrant.

This wouldn't be surprising if true, but do you have a source to verify this claim?
whatever works is going to claim to have been inspired by rationality

Everything that works turns out to work through rational principles subject to the scientific method, enabling improvement through engineering, often enabling the creation of wealth.

Funny that.
Tends to take 12 years for a programming language with traction to really take hold. Maybe 4-6 years for the language to reach maturity so long as it was well-designed and implemented; given early adopter feedback is present. Smart Contracts are best served with a well-typed, highly safe, and formally verifiable language feature set. You need confidence that the smart contract will operate without error once deployed. Implementation-wise I expect the ideal smart contract language will have a robust typing system with functional programming defaults where state is largely immutable and highly explicit. Probably some variation of an ML language.
"living really well" is highly subjective,

>5 billion people now have a mobile phone connection, according to GSMA data.

Per https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/13/5-billion-people-now-have...

That alone should be an indication people are living quite different now than just 10 years ago.
The butterflies are dying is definitely the start of a disaster / apocalypse movie.
Yes it is confusing but that's what Free software means in the original incarnation when Richard Stallman coined it: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
> It's a fundamental limitation of the benchmark game, particularly regarding Lua.

It's a fundamental limitiation of language vs language comparison.

See "Apples and Oranges" —

view-source:https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
How to give her space and win her back
I'm still kind of shocked lead acid is faring so poorly when it comes to grid storage. One of the oldest (the oldest?) battery chemistries, well understood, really cheap, mostly safe, simple, durable, serviceable, recyclable. (sidenote, submarine warfare was, for decades, powered by lead acid)

It's chief disadvantages are low power density and low power to weight ratio, neither of which matter for grid storage.

It just seems to have all the hallmarks of traditional industrial solutions. But, of course, lithium ion has the same advantage ubiquitous silicon semiconductors have- massive, massive economies of scale and endless R&D dollars.
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I couldn't put it better. I'd be happier if we stop thinking that every single website on earth must be a SPA.
I was just commenting the other day about when I was a kid, you'd drive somewhere in your car and you'd have to scrape the bugs off your windshield. I drove about 700 miles a few weeks and not one bug. Something is wrong.
I know something about complex control systems (MPC implementations). There's a lot of trial and error involved. Breaking the task down into small composable tasks is definitely helpful.

There are definitely many tight feedback loops that are necessary, whether they are 2 weeks or longer. Things get tweaked all the time, especially in production. There's stuff that don't show up in testing, and there's cases that cannot be anticipated. There's definitely some control analysis to identify default tuning parameters, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The design tuning parameters are only initial values -- they are tweaked online while the plant runs.

There's an upfront spec but that spec only provides guidance. The real world will often surprise you. There are elements of waterfall at play, but the entire process by necessity cannot be waterfall.
We Got Two Warring Fyre Festival Documentaries in the Same Week
Mostly because it's theater instead of security.
> Spinnaker is an open-source, continuous delivery system built by Netflix and Google

Politely correct me if I'm wrong...isn't Spinnaker originally a Netflix system, having nothing to do with Google? Unless perhaps the author is alluding to open source contributions by Google after the tool went open source?
So you're going to just remove all capacity for electricity generation, plastics, chemical feedstocks, etc etc overnight?
What about http://news.mit.edu/2015/shockwave-process-desalination-wate...?
> That may seem like a feasible way forward but you can look at what happened when France took a step in this direction. They've since stepped all the way back and the protests are still ongoing.

Except that in the case of France, the proposed tax really was an austerity measure masqueraded under the idealogical tazer of Save_The_Environment (a classic, these days): in fact, only 15% of the tax was actually going to the budget of the ministry of ecology.

That said, I largely agree with you with regards to who should bear the costs of these things, but in this case, the social consequences are such an unexpected gift that I would urge Washington politicians to attempt such a move :)
And they call us V4 countries anti-european and backwards-thinking. I guess the western Europe is in for its own taste of full blown totalitarian socialism.
I think this comment hits the mark; making a voice assistant to help a nonagenarian who thinks it's time to get ready for school, or to send out invitations for a long-ago child's birthday party, is a distinct challenge.
Before legal travel to Cuba from the US you just needed to not use an ATM which apparently would work. They had no problems making sure you would spend money there and accommodated Americans to not get in trouble.
Former bankers who are now dead.

A billionaire once donated to my local food bank; that doesn't make the food bank financially independent.
A platform that is renowned for sanitising the world around us to fit their agenda, invests in news outlets. Is anyone else seeing the problem here?

I am glad I left that platform.
In China all companies do this. Not having Apple there would not make things better for any freedom-loving Chinese, someone else would replace Apple and do exactly what the Gov wants.
It only seems to affect some stations (the ones I frequent at least), I've always assumed is due do an additional API call to the banks system on top of the normal Oyster check, but it's certainly slower than Oyster even when it's not this slow.

I haven't tried with a different bank though, so it could be bank specific.
There was no such thing as a European Union in WWI and II, which the discussion is about. That's why I don't understand how your comment is relevant here.
Everything is easy when it is easy.

Why do we even need written contracts? Isn't your word good enough?

When things go sideways is when you need a legally sound contract.

For example, if there was a dispute, every overbroad term in this contract will be fought over in court (this example has words like 'everything' and 'any reason' figuring out what these words mean in court will cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. And, after you pay all your legal fees, a judge will decide what you meant.
Real legal contracts are invalidated all the time for not meeting the basic requirements of a contract:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/contracts-basics-333...
> At least up until they want to share a specific section

Which is why I hate automatic pagination unless some sort of anchor or direct URL to a section is made (prominently) available.
War within the EU is really really unlikely. A successful part of the EEC/EU is integrating the economies of its countries to such an extend that war becomes economically un-viable.

Nowadays war between France and Germany is close to as absurd a thought as a war between Calafornia and Texas is. It's not remotely comparable to 1900-1950.

Russia is the largest threat for European countries, but currently an attack on a NATO member seems unlikely.
Geologically we are.
I'm casually wondering what the ecological impact of just dumping it into the Great Salt Lake or the Utah salt flats would be. Both are already so toxically salty that almost nothing is able to live there.
The eternal September reference is an accurate one.