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> the standard Valley tech-bro "government is hella inefficient"

this is not a Valley standard. this is a consistent viewpoint held for many decades by a variety of thinkers. your comment appears to just be shitting on it, instead of offering any challenge to it's accuracy.
How easy is it to leave Zotero? (Either to move to a different paper manager, e.g., Mendeley, or to leave the paper manager ecosystem entirely.)

Can Zotero respect my filesystem organization (à la Lightroom)? I have thousands of papers organized, and don't want to move them all in (too much work, what if I don't like it?), but I also don't want to have two copies of some subset of the papers, which might not be in sync.
Oracle is an underperformer, not an efficient company, mismanaged...list goes on!

I used to want to work there, but now I'm pivoting to smaller tech companies, better growth potential
This really isn't the job of a web browser.
> "By borrowing beyond their ability to repay"

That's a different argument. I'm not arguing the point of allowing them to borrow more than they can afford to repay. I'm arguing the point of allowing them to borrow what they can afford to repay at rates that allow them the opportunity to do so rather than making them pay rates they can't afford for money they desperately need.

Preventing them borrowing more than they can afford to repay is a different and necessary oversight. Nobody should be put into a position of debt slavery. So I agree with your point, I just don't agree with your premise.
I'm more concerned about this looking like it's a whole site thing instead of a link-by-link sort of thing. makes easy for green sites to sneak one or two hit/propaganda piece and amplify their effect.
Yes, we get it. You're the second person to cite that quote in this thread. But the article is not saying there is nothing new to be discovered in (particle) physics.
While it could be argued that WikiLeaks has acted as a useful fool, or that it has withheld publishing information for questionable reasons, it could not be said that they have published much false information.

The veracity of the information they do publish is certainly more reliable than what you'll get from Fox.
On the one hand I agree. I personally don’t need the latest spec to be productive. On the other hand computers are so cheap relative to developer’s salary - you can almost buy a new one every month.
Microsoft has been hacking off bits of dependency on Windows these days in order to push and support their cloud business, to the point I would argue Microsoft is aggressively trying to push people off of Windows+Office and onto Azure+365. Microsoft would far rather you use Linux on their cloud platform over having you use Windows literally anywhere else.

I don't think Windows counts as a sacred cow anymore at Microsoft.
I think it shows plenty of wiggle room. You think all the dollars that go to health spending are well spent? 5k year per capita means that the government spends 400U$S per person for all the health expenditures it has, on top of the 400--700~ a month american spend for PPO plans for themselves without getting government health assistance.

Just pensions and healthcare are almost half the expenditures, 2 things absolutely in the realm of inefficiency.
That begs the question - it assumes that the work in the world needs innovative, agile, and high-performing employees, when maybe the world needs a bunch of people that will dig in and do the stuff that needs to be done.
wow, I didn't know this was happening in US as well, are there any articles on the subject you can recommend?
The problem is how much are you willing to pay for the clean meeting room service? With transportation time and cost I don't see a way to scale that in a manner that pays a decent wage.
What a bad time :|. When i remember correctly, it took over a year to get prices after the disaster.
The US has a more progressive taxation scheme than a lot of other countries.[1]

[1]https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/11/23/american-...
Here's a really nice diagram about how sub-prime mortgages were packaged into MBS (with AAA tranches), whose lower tranches were packaged into CDOs (with AAA tranches), whose lower tranches were packaged into CDO-squareds (also with AAA tranches):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation...

EDIT: and what that diagram misses is that, because the originators couldn't manufacture mortgages fast enough to satisfy the demands of investors/speculators, banks started manufacturing CDOs directly (synthetic CDOs), meaning investors' total notional exposure to mortgage performance could exceed the total value of outstanding mortgages.
The discussion is always around increasing or decreasing the size and expense of the government. So I like that the author is advocating increasing efficiency instead. Doing more with the same amount of spending is a good goal. And I think there are a lot of places the government could be made more efficient.

But, as a staunch capitalist myself, I believe we do need to start raising taxes on the rich. I think the 70% marginal rate on people making 10M a year is a good start, but ultimately more a token gesture than anything meaningful. It won't raise enough money, since there aren't enough of those people.

We need to start counting capital gains as income. No more long term 15% rate. If your investments are kicking out money that you live on, that should be taxed at the same marginal rates as my wages!

The problem of course is that the true rich have influence over the politicians. So they point the politicians at the upper middle class, and say "hey, raise the marginal rates on these people instead!" Pretty soon the narrative is "oh, you make more than 100k a year, that's immoral!" And the wealth divide would just get bigger and bigger.

TLDR: We need to tax wealth in some capacity. There are many many approaches to this, but we need to find a way to actually tax the rich, not just fleece the upper middle class.
That viewpoint just sounds like martyr complex to me. Yes, boring stuff exists and must get done, but that doesn't mean we can't strive to reduce it, and hopefully make it a small part of our lives and even our jobs.
Completely agree. Also, in a way the future is already here, just take a look at Tokyo, the most populated metro area in the world with 38M people and the most advanced transportation systems in the world.

The US should be trying to copy Japan and make an effort to benefit everyone, instead of creating expensive transportation alternatives that only very few will be able to take advantage of and won't solve any real problems except for those people. (I know, US <> Boeing)
I was just asked for the first time the day before yesterday to participate in a one-way video interview. I sent the recruiter an email letting them know I was extremely privacy conscious and didn't feel comfortable recording an interview. I explained I wasn't after an exception, rather that I was no longer interested in the position. How a company handles recruitment and the hiring process is usually indicative of how the company will treat you as an employee.

I understand that company time is important, and that's what they are trying to save, but the lack of respect shown by asking a potential employee to interview in this fashion is disturbing.
The recruiter wrote back, and asked if I would be willing to do a direct Skype call for the interview instead. I'm honestly not sure if I should proceed. (I am more okay with using Skype live, verses a recording, but still don't care for it.) Do I still want to work for a company that views potential employees this way?
A lot of people say they want to cut a lot of spending, but everyone wants to cut different things. Ask half a dozen people what they want to cut and they’ll say things like everything but military spending, or everything but Medicare or Medicaid or SS, and after you tally up the un-cuttables and cut everything else, you’ve still got a budget that’s 95% of the current one.
I kind of wish I was in that boat right now. I made a highly praised window manager[0] for macOS that some people[1] have reported some performance issues with. But I can't reproduce the issue, possibly because I have 16GB of RAM and don't use it all. Maybe I don't have enough Electron apps running and should install Slack and others (I run Slack in Safari when working with clients), not joking that literally seems to be the main environment difference.

[0] https://sephware.com/autumn/

[1] http://brettterpstra.com
Can you actually turn this off on all platforms? I watch 95% of all Netflix via PS4 and I cannot find an option to turn off any of this.
I think one of the virtues of the article is that you can make a case for the fact that the government must be terribly inefficient at achieving its goals, based on evidence from parts of the private sector that have or haven't gone through disruption, without getting into the details of what to change.
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I see no such generalization or assumption in the grandparent comment.
Nuclear fusion won't work, because stars are not powered by fusion. What happens in the stars is that heavier elements capture protons, until they eventually reach lead, where it keeps cycling - lead 206 captures proton, turns into bismuth 207, which decays into lead 207, captures another proton, turns into bismuth 208, captures yet another proton, turns into polonium 209, which either decays into lead 205 (releasing a helium core), or captures another proton and the resulting astatine 210 decays into polonium 210, and the polonium 210 decays back into lead 206 + a helium atom.

Which is why direct fusion of hydrogen/deuterium will never work at expected temperatures and controllable speed, it can only work in explosions, if at all.
Sure--insofar as eventually, once they fail, the tunnels are already the correct size for a standard subway car for actual mass transit that can actually help people. 'Cause the on-street traffic jams they would--not "might", check out donoteat01's stuff for a full breakdown--create are not exactly a better situation.
I dropped Mendely a year ago. Because it kept crashing and they could not resolve the issue. The bug has not closed since then. I was unable to extract my highlights. I tried mucking about in their SQLite dB.

Tried zoetro but prefer using highlights app ad It saves the highlights on the PDF. And you can then export to markdown etc.

Not sure how zoetro saves highlights but I am never going to take that risk again. A years worth of research down the drain.
This is analytics data. Likely won’t bring down the site but delay internal reports and ETL pipelines
I've sometimes thought that the best direction to go here would be flying buses, or trains, and not flying personal vehicles.

Flying mid-range vehicles linking park-and-rides with city centers, or neighborhood-to-neighborhood, makes more sense to me than expanding the existing congestion upward.
The exact opposite approach would be better. You want it to work like a healthy part of the economy, which means companies of all sizes competing to provide better services at lower costs.
What's the motivation for a faster access path to InnoDB: performance?

X DevAPI and X Protocol/X Plugin could team up and map K/V style access to the server internal InnoDB API instead of using a SQL service as it is currently done. They could try to do it "transparently" or let you set hints. Whatever is desired from an application standpoint.
Helicopters are loud because the blades cross over the airframe and are powered by turbines. An electric multicopter based design could have significantly lower noise levels.
A stock is still tied to a company that produces something. If 50% of Apple was sold tomorrow regardless of what happens to the stock price in the short term people know in the long term a new iPhone will be released in September and the company will still make money hand over fist. Bitcoin on the other hand only has value because of people buying or selling it.
There's a control group in the form of Europe where overdoses are an order of magnitude lower and have remained relatively stable over the last 10 years at least.
How would that work, because a government can't lay off citizens.
In case anyone from Circle CI reads here:
I haven't had the need for a hosted CI so far so this is all new to me. I looked at the Circle CI homepage and they have a video on the homepage "See how Circle CI works". Try watching that without sound. It's useless. I'm not sure why anyone would create a video like that.

This is another homepage that already assumes that everyone knows what it does and is no help to people unfamiliar with it.
The loss of privacy in this case may not be worth using a public ledger.

In general though, I think it would be an interesting experiment if individuals can hold central bank money directly instead of going through commercial banks.
Tale of Two E-Bikes
This is just like the tired old trope of saying run government like a business and it will fix everything. The government is in fact being transformed by technology. The government funds primary research that is the innovation behind the technological revolution.

It's unpopular here but AOC is right on the money about increasing marginal tax rates over $10 million. The American market is unique and we can support it. All this talk of capital and billionaires fleeing is FUD.
Which almost all injectable will as it's a potentiator and improves locality of effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18979541 shows (with code) how to build and train neural ODEs.
What to keep in mind while buying an international business
I think I'd need more concrete examples to understand this study. What kind of dull work? What dull work was created and what could have changed to make it better?

If the available work is to dig a hole or file papers into a cabinet, how can you possibly make that better?
On your second paragraph you meant Zotero. I just added this comment to make yours more clear.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
There has been selection towards autism and low functioning autism may even be something else. Anyway, large part of it will be because of growing up among "normal" people. Maybe that (low functioning) autistic people would have no trouble using a langauge, it just wouldn't be the same as our languages. You can see it even with high functioning autism who sound odd (as, among possibly other things, tone is heard with the word, while as far as I understand it, neurotypical people hear tone as something completely separate)
I don’t think the burden of proof against dichotomies should be on me. But as a counter point consider the massive amount of economic value produced in commons based peer-production a means of production that seems to flourish despite the world insistence on fitting everything into the market economy.

Regarding the feedback from capital owners I believe a Geoliberal approach to capitalism could counter that.
A job hunt is just selling yourself and dating is selling yourself as a good partner.

Networking events and friendships are also selling yourself, since you can’t possibly give the same time and importance to everyone, so you need to pick and choose.
Bingo. Cognitive skills are compensated at a much higher rate.
Emergency declared in Oregon for measles outbreak in anti-vaccine hotspot
Luckily, CERN is not financed by the US Gov.
I think you do some of that and also raise taxes across the board. MFJ making $75K/yr AGI might get $12K in UBI and an increase of $6K in their taxes. MFJ making $45K might get the full $12K and no tax increase.

I don’t know what the right levels are, but it can’t/shouldn’t be “everyone gets an extra $12K of spending money thanks exclusively to the ‘tippy top’ earners.”
I've heard that, but there are a lot of counter-examples. The colonial wars in China and elsewhere happened in order to force China to participate in trade. Plenty of cases of the U.S.A. invading either to make sure their banks got reimbursed, or to prevent Europe from doing the same.

Plenty of other examples one could give, but the chart on this article (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/why-the-world-looks-a...) may do. Free trade hit a peak in 1913, the highest it had perhaps ever been. The period that followed was not exactly peaceful.
When government projects fail everyone involved walks away with money, not so when it comes to private sector projects. In fact take a look at some of the big consulting firms like IBM, they get paid more when governmental projects fail because they are paid first to implement them and second to fix the implementation they failed at delivering in the first place. The politicians who voted for the project are generally reelected and the cycle continues into the next major project.
It's stunning how many resources we as a species are wasting on something of so little net positive value to humanity as Twitter.
> Quick test: if you create a new namespace and import another file within that namespace, do its contents end up in that namespace?

Suppose in my program "hello" I import "foo"-- which depends on foo/buggy.dll-- and "bar"-- which depends on bar/buggy.dll.

foo/buggy.dll is a helper library that computes a correct value for "foo" but would crash if used with "bar."

bar/buggy.dll is foo/buggy.dll with a single late-night bug fix for the crasher which introduces a regression that will crash if used with "foo".

So does "contents ending up in that namespace" mean that "hello" will run without crashing/clashing?
>having its central bank issue a dollar-backed stablecoin.

Why not just issue dollars?
Modern dining philosophers
That's so strange as far as I know wikileaks has a perfect 100% track record of sharing real information. Why would they give CNN/Fox green checks and not Wikileaks?
I don’t know why you were downvoted, a lot of CompSci research is funded this way, including some of the things a few of us enjoy today (internet.)
For what it's worth, more affordable consumer goods are way more important to the everyday blue-collar folks who tend to not be the readership of this forum. If you're making six figures, you care a lot less about a thirty cents a pound price difference of ground beef, and can afford to care about the concentration and centralization of the retail industry.
Plus, when that cheap laptop breaks or gets stolen, I can easily replace it. A $100 x200 in my bag and a $2000 dev server at home/work is much less of a risk than a $3000 MacBook Pro in my bag. It's nice to have all the power you need in your hands but it's also nice not putting all of your eggs in one basket.
Deaths of about 40 horses discovered near Santa Teresa blamed on extreme weather
I disagree. She got a loan secured by an asset. If I own $100k in stock and I want to get a $80k loan secured against my stocks, let me.

If I can buy a $550k property for $500k (with no cash down), with the lender not risking much when it gets repossessed and sold, let me.

If the collateral is there, it's fine.
How can you recommend Dart when it has globally nullable types?
Naturally I have a severe bias when answering this question, but I think it's quite good. If you give it a shot, be sure to build the latest version from master or one of the recent betas - don't use 0.15.2.

https://repology.org/metapackage/sway/versions
I get that, but this seems like controlled opposition.

Moreover, once you give in on this, what's Google going to do next? Use APIs only in Chrome that Mozilla needs to implement only after they're made public in Chrome by literally looking at the source code? There's always going to be a lag if that's the dynamic, so there's always going to be the perception that Firefox is behind.

Moreover if Firefox adopts it, it makes it more likely to be adopted by Apple too, since Google's now not the only kid on the block to support it and now you turned it into a de-facto standard.

Mozilla already partially caved to Google in pursuit of the "best browser" as perceived by the average user. That was on DRM. Now I say partially because at least they made it opt-in, but so they caved and next Google came up with this thing.

If you going to keep paying ransom, you're going to have a lot of hostages.
> Kids and teens have very short attention span, when you say let's create a space shuttle they want to do it ASAP.

So we teach them how to rein that in.

> not every kid wants to design a space shuttle, some wants just to dance, others draw graffiti, some others just sing or even reading a book might be more satisfying for some.

Dance: choreograph the ceremony before and after the launch.

Graffiti: design the space shuttle's logo, branding, and marketing.

Sing: see dance line above or other vocal needs like recording audio instructions for procedures or status updates on the mission.

Reading: prepare a flight manual.

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The space shuttle is one example. My point is that adults need to apply creativity to generating multiple options, not just trying to make everything a one size fits all solution. Take some of the folks who write Hollywood scripts and have them create interesting projects for learning. Hell, we could even take movies and use those as our foundation (makes it fun for the kids and parents).

If this is something you're interested in working on, shoot me an email: me@ryanglover.net.
The planning of Soviet prefabricated concrete housing was definitely ideological as well as economic.

Bauhaus was a bit more idealistic, you're right. There was a notion that building large numbers of minimum houses was the only just way to use scarce resources. There was a housing shortage, and building for the Existenzminimum was seen as the Pareto optimal thing to do (anything more costly/luxurious would be unfair to those left waiting).

The best critical book I know about this period is by Hilde Heynen.

https://books.google.ie/books?id=hGFZl9sHIhUC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA...

BTW, flat roofs have a bad reputation because of problems with the timber rotting due to condensation in the wrong places. With proper use of vapor barriers, a modern timber flat roof should last as well as the alternatives.
A huge part of the autistic traits comes from the fact that others are too different and won't show up when you are not being ostracized.
fun video! it doesn't take much vibration. (or he's just an incredibly loud screamer.)
But why should you have to care, why not just sum(range)? Or

@threads for i in eachindex(object)

and let the details about how many cores be written once, correctly, elsewhere?
I am terrified of Microsoft going this route, since they make my OS of choice. I could expect Google doing this kind of stuff, like deciding what sites I can visit or what people I can contact using Gmail (examples that have yet to happen, but wouldn't surprise me), but Microsoft? They've always been uninterested in politics, or so it seemed. What if they decide to push this kind of political stuff in their OS?
We don't have a VueJS generator in OpenAPI Generator (https://openapi-generator.tech) yet. You may want to play with the JS client generator to start with and we can work with you to create the VueJS generator.
Yeah, I understand it too; We're currently being squeezed by MS licensing in GCP (but it's basically free in Azure!).

This is the cost of lock-in.

Personally I'd rather have the expertise on staff than pay oracle (and microsoft) for this shitty behaviour.