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So if a cab gets in an accident, then the person who hail'd the cab should be liable? What if it is an autonomous cab? If an automated elevator fails and kills someone, is the person that pushed the call button liable?

This is something that I really don't like about our society, the fact that someone "must" take be responsible. When someone goes on a shooting spree, of course they should go to jail. But if they die in the process of committing their crime, there is almost always an outcry for the next person in line to be responsible.
I loved DragThing. It's what the useless MacOS Dock should have been.
In my experience, it works just fine.

Clojure for the frontend is the best-in-class frontend dev environment that I've worked with. Instant hot code reloading, a browser-connected repl, great debugging tools, and a really nice collection of libraries for getting stuff done. I've never had to use native APIs for iOS and Android, so I can't speak to that from experience, but I know that there's some really nice machine learning work that's done in Clojure[0]. One of the main bits of Clojure philosophy is to just embrace the host platform, and our company has done that very successfully.

I think I agree that there are compromises, but on the whole I've come out pretty far ahead with the tools I get to use. My point, though, wasn't to proselytize for Clojure (even though I do love it!), but to point out that there are ecosystems that have made significant progress towards this idea of convergence, and that some people (me in particular) are very happy to be moving in that direction. I'm excited to see progress on the OS front.

[0]https://dragan.rocks/
Thank you. These are all great questions and things we consider a lot.

> How will you pitch this moving further up-market? Especially where the opex exists that dev costs are less important. And vendor lock-in (or likelihood of existing in five years) becomes an issue?

We believe that developer experience is table stakes now. It's becoming less the case that the CIO buys the tech and hands it to the development team. Developers are more and more making these technology decisions for their organizations. So it's our goal to empower the developers to help champion Cosmic for their team.

> And further up the enterprise scale, the greater the demand for a robust open source community. Is this on your roadmap?

Absolutely, that's why we're continuing to offer open source example apps, extensions, and integrations that can power complex business logic and to satisfy these types of customers.

> Any plans to ramp up the devrel?

Definitely, it's a big priority of ours to stay active in the developer community to listen and respond to use cases, technologies, extensions, and integrations that our customers will find valuable. This is our David / Goliath strategy. When you don't have a war chest to spend on marketing and sales people, you have to be resourceful :)

> And.. wat will CosmisJS look like in two and five years?

We've got an ambitious roadmap, so stay tuned! Simply put, our north star is to provide the most value for our customers by being the best solution in the era of API-first services.
If you think it’s easy, go sit in the passenger seat without talking or using your phone and see how long you can maintain focus.

There are decades of experiments showing that boredom and fatigue are huge problems for this kind of work where someone is mostly idle except for rare events. It’s why the TSA mixes fake images into the stream on X-ray scans so people see things regularly and don’t zone out. Anyone smart asking humans to do repetitive work builds layers of safeguards in to keep people engaged – or in Uber’s case they just hope they can shift blame to the person in a bad design, which worked so far.
The solution "predict which upcoming cryptocurrency is going to be the currency of the future, then wait for the apocalypse and be wealthy" doesn't seem like the most reliable way forward - or even a solution to any given problem other than "I'd like to be wealthy, but I'm not."
We tried our the EdgeEngine but saw major latency spikes. Competition is good but SP also charges for bandwidth and a higher charge per call which makes it unattractive for high-volume usage.
It's likely you will have to stop working 20-30 years before you die, so that's when owning your residence pays off.
The paper author understates the importance of composability.

> While having a tool that supports combining grammars would be handy, I don’t see it as a must-have. In practice, languages are not combined very often.

That was once true, but not any more. Intermixing of grammars within a single code instance is becoming more normal, and in many cases it is now the norm. The inability to accept this new norm leaves you holding a bag of multiple parsers and a large amount of processing overhead with a loss of flexibility on how to manage the entirety of the code. It is a horrid mess to deal with a collection of unrelated and nested ASTs to represent a single code instance.

> If the languages being combined are radically different, then for the sake of the programmer, there will probably need to be unambiguous delimiters at the transitions between the languages.

A faulty assumption that often does not reflect reality.

By focusing on composability first you remove many design barriers that limit or prevent design decisions down the line.

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The fault of many parsers, from a design perspective, are a heavy concern for goals outside of parsing, frequently either a compile step or the shape of the AST. A compile operation is completely independent of a parse operation. Once an AST is created a consuming compiler will execute on it. Keep these concerns separate. Don't force your parser to act as a proxy for the limitations of your compiler.

A flexible and well reasoned parser can return an AST is a variety of shapes/formats. It doesn't really matter so long as the data structure is well reasoned and in a way the consuming application understands.

Also performance is not well understood in many cases of parsing, which is probably why parsers are often intermingled with the concerns of compilers. A parse operation takes time. It also takes different unrelated time for a consuming application to consume the AST. The speed with which a parse tree is generated is unrelated to the speed with which it is read. This is why composability is more important the paper gives credit for.

If anybody is interested I am working on addressing some of these concerns at https://sparser.io/ which is a personal pet project. It doesn't cure cancer or solve world hunger yet (I am just one guy with a job), but the concept does solve some design problems and composability issues associated with parsing.
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For what it's worth, I've been writing Clojure since 2013 and I can count the number of times I've had to write interop code on one hand. And in those cases it was a wonderful escape hatch! That's probably more reflective of the type of projects I've worked on than anything else, but it's my experience and I don't think it's that unusual.
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Also beyond the fee, there is not much flexibility that you could do with the constitutes of an index.

Some of the "no fee" ETFs are also not that great ... such as https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-hidden-etf-fees-are-...
I’d just be happy if Google made it harder for third parties implementing “login with google” to not get access to your entire org’s user list (when the org uses gsuite.)
None of our chickens were taken out by a fox. However, we had a half-dozen ducks taken out by a fox. The ducks had an enclosed area that they were allowed to roam in during the day, but for their safety they needed to be put back in their duck-house at night. I was around 14 and it was my chore to ensure that the ducks were back in their duck-house. One night, around 4:30pm (after the sun had been down for half-an-hour), I realized that I had forgotten to put the ducks in and I ran outside. 6 out of 7 ducks had already been gotten. It's something that still bothers me when I think about it, but it's an experience that taught me to take responsibility seriously. I would say "Sorry for your [chicken] loss", but it sounds like she was, indeed, a jerk.
Stopped reading after being informed that my thinking the word "Eskimo", which the author zerself used, is offensive.
> if you run a full domain you can use emails as one-use affairs

or, if you use a service that lets you generate aliases, like gmail's "+", or a service like mailinator.

The problem is that the attack vector of email addresses is they are sometimes used as a username, and therefore contains more information than what is strictly required (for the purpose of a username). Leaking the "real" email address not only leads to spam, but allows a more dedicated attacker to use that email address as a starting point on a different site, or hack the email address altogether.

And with sites increasingly blocking disposable email addresses like mailinator, or disallowing email aliases, the problem can only get worse.
Sure, but you are also forgoing the addtional rent that you could be earning if you did not live there.
But sometimes new chemicals do cure things. Or at the very least treat them well enough to make life worth living. I'd much rather exist in a world with AIDS medicine than a world where you just die, even if I'd rather have a cure.

I take different medicines that improve my quality of life. Without one I would never be able to realize one of my most valuable potentials. I could sit here and complain that we don't yet have the medical knowledge to indefinitely prolong life (which I do), but at the same time I have the humility to appreciate that being born even a few decades before in the long history of humanity and I would have had a much lesser life.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love for pharma to take a more efficient and satisfactory path, but I definitely recognize how life is better thanks to it.
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60 is just an example number.

The point is that it should be configurable by the driver and easy to enable and disable. Like the parking lights.
Corollary: contemporary humans are a domesticated species, so we are also mentally inferior to our ancestors. This is more plausible than it first sounds, because our superior techniques and technology more than make up for intrinsic shortcomings.
This is a lot of words to basically say the tired ‘my kid could paint that’ thing.
What if the ammunition was faulty, and a case of it blew up in someones car killing a pedestrian next to it? Or a gas leak in the fuel line that dripped onto a faulty underground electric cable, igniting and causing injury?
The point i was making is that such boundary doesn't exist - no one can write everything "on their own".

Therefore, language features to prevent a class of exploits should be a high priority when considering a project.
it can be based on observation, like we do with space..... we don't usually smash suns into each other, we observe what happens and how well that fits our models of what we think should happen.
No, it wasn't there original thing. Last minute hotel deals have been a thing for decades online. Oh, they have an app? That doesn't make their ideal original, nor were they the first to book 'last minute deals' on an app anyway.
It's almost as if different human populations separated by insurmountable geographic barriers in wildly differing ecological circumstances for myriad millennia underwent selection pressure!
> So I don't really see a philosophical difference in imposing universal healthcare at a federal level on a State (pick any conservative state for example) who doesn't want it, or invading another country militarily and forcing them to do it. Both result in the imprisonment or death of people who refuse to be assimilated

Huh, interesting. Well, how about this: let me off you a 2-for-1 deal. You get to strike 2 laws of your choice off the books, in exchange for 1 military invasion of your state. Federal laws, state laws, hell maybe you really don't like your hamlet's zoning regulations, whatever. Your choice. In exchange for... let's say, 10 years of Iraq-style military invasion & occupation (the US invasion of Iraq, I mean, not Iraq's invasion of Kuwait). We've been there for over 15, but 10 is a nice round number. 1-for-1 is a wash, sure, I get that, but 2-for-1 seems like a good deal. What 2 laws would you pick?

> Once it's proven, I bet many other states would adopt it as well. This extends beyond healthcare IMHO to almost every other facet of law.

Interesting—so you think that the objections to universal health care are that people don't think it'll work?
I took "some of your own money" to mean "an amount you can afford to lose"

Few things teach as well as the "...and it's gone" moment when you're dealing with money you worked for. Better to learn the lesson with a couple hundred dollars in play when you're young than with a couple hundred thousand when you're forty and you think your expertise in <whatever> gives you an edge in <unrelated investing thing>.
Not only that, but economics seems to have suffered (and in many cases largely ignored) many of the methodological and foundational critiques of both its predecessor (as political economy) and its modern incarnation (capitalist economics). These criticisms come from both inside and outside the field, not to mention from a variety of hetorodox (periphery) sources, not limited to neo-Ricardians, Marxians, Post-Keynesians, Walrasian, and even Austrian School.

Every science has its object (that's what Plato thinks anyway) and thus different tools and methods are required for different objects. The tools in the science of philosophy are different to those of biology, which are still different to psychology. This is not a criticism of economics, philosophy, or science, since I don't consider science to be purely the methodology of the natural sciences. The multiplicity of seriously considered and valuable views within both philosophy and economics (there are more examples though) is unheard of in the natural sciences to my knowledge.

To say that economics is a science in the same sense as the natural sciences requires excluding heterodox schools since their methodology leads to different conclusions to orthodox economics. That is to say, we would need to declare one methodology as absolutely correct and all others as incorrect. From my limited knowledge reading around heterodox economics[0], I don't think such an exclusion is warranted.

[0] The likes of Sraffa, Veneziani and Yoshihara, Shaikh, Kliman, Mohun, etc.
Seeing as we're discussing sci-fi, the super predator theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature...) is explored in the excellent Revelation Space trilogy. This series takes a lot less liberties with known physics as well.
Given that Tesla is considered one of the poorer self driving options out there, and the other players in the game say 5-10 years, maybe I need to hit up a bookie in Vegas...
I saw a post on Reddit at the time of this incident, from someone who claimed to be a former Uber backup driver. The claim was that Uber was too strict with regards to cell phones, and that if you were caught interacting with your phone while on the job you were immediately terminated.

I'd like to know how true this is, and if there is a better source for this claim.
Kimpton charges an additional 'resort fee' which is collected directly by the 'resort'. If you book direct, it's quite possible this is included in their price, but IDK.
A competent medicinal chemist can spend a lifetime in drug discovery and never get a candidate molecule out of clinical trials. I learned this from the excellent Derek Lowe, whose blog at http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ is on my daily list.

Quote from an interview[1]: "I’ve been doing this for 27 years, and I have never once put a drug into a pharmacy. I tell people: “If you want to know why your prescriptions cost so much, it’s me.” I’ve done nothing but spend money the entire time."

[1]https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/05/derek-lowe-chemist-blogg...
You mean there are multiple circuits inside the house? Isn't that totally normal? My small bungalow has 24 circuits on 200 amp service, plus a subpanel feeding the shop and sauna.
Hmm...I wonder if the Java .jar in question is doing something funky, since I am running v11.
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> It's so far the best model we have

Is it? According to who?
Economics also has a pretty wide range of subjects. I would argue that something like macroeconomics isn't based on particularly anything (and has dubious value), but certain aspects (some microeconomics, game theory, etc) are somewhat more based on either logic or empiricism.
I live in Asia.
I worked in a place with a big collection of modern art. Initially my impression was “what a bunch of nonsense”. But when you look at it in context, it isn’t without meaning, and is often beautiful in its own way. It is thought provoking.

While I sometimes question the talent required to create some of these pieces relative to other works, it’s difficult to really judge without context. Many of the things that I value in my profession no doubt seem silly or trivial to laymen as well.
I have one, sometimes two cups a day, where a cup is roughly 250 g of brewed filter coffee (17 g of beans). I get headaches if I don't have coffee for a day, though I can tolerate it. So yeah as little as one cup a day can get you "addicted" in the sense that you'll feel withdrawal symptoms.
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Aaron Bady is one of the best writers on the Internet right now.
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I don't think his actions are as malicious as the media portrayed. But that's not why I added my comment.

The reason I say it's a bold claim is that I don't think he even makes the list of worst people on the earth. There's literally people Committing genocide. I would never put Mr. Skrelli in the same category as a murderer.
If they weren't always re-campaigning, they would not be accountable to the people for their actions, and during their statutory final term they would be actively seeking an employment guarantee from somebody once they're out, and that employer will have leverage over them during that two year term.
Epsilon Theory has more, could read other stuff on the site.

Also recommend Ribbonfarm
Except in astro we also make predictions and theories are accepted when predictions turn out to be right (famously with GR, for example). The problem with macroeconomics is that economists are not capable of meaningfully predicting future macroeconomic indicators (GDP, inflation, whatever). This is why it's not an actual science.
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Might be a good idea for statically generated pages, or the statically generated parts of pages, but I’d be wary of adding any more load to dynamic pages.

Do any static site generators rewrite image links as data URIs?
There is a reason for word: Reviewers are used to Word's versioning and change tracking system, where they can suggest edits and the author can accept them or not. My publisher also offered using .prn files but then the reviewers wouldn't have done the full job ... (in the end I cancelled the contract for other reasons, so no idea how well that would have worked out)
Yup. Give me your rough starting location and ending location, one inbound phone number and one outbound and you can probably be uniquely identified.
Strange, because in this thread the closest thing to calling war "wonderful" I've seen is "Sometimes, as sad as it is to imagine, I think you need a good war to refresh a country..."

Things that are wonderful aren't sad to imagine. Nor am I saying anything resembling calling a war "wonderful". I hear a lot of accusations and assumptions of intent with few real arguments other than "war bad".

From where I sit the conversation appears to go like:

Person 1: War bad.
Person 2: War sometimes good in certain contexts...
Person 1: NO! WAR ALWAYS BAD YOU FASCIST COWARD!!!

Shockingly I remain unmoved.
The relevance to this is that you asserted that Republicans haven't given themselves any electoral advantage at all or that, if they did, it accounted for less than 1% of their success, when that cannot be further from the truth.

You said "explain your reasoning", and that's what I did.

No need to get defensive over it and try to pretend like it's irrelevant to the discussion. This is literally the discussion you explicitly asked for. If you don't like the fact that the Republican party has acted in a decades-long effort to guarantee their own power in perpetuity with or without public support, don't get mad at me, get mad at them.
Beyond being supremely irritating, nagware is simply not scalable.

Imagine if every utility, library, or driver in a typical Linux distribution took this approach. :(

I encourage Debian et al. to adopt a "no nagware" policy.
With regard to computer science I doubt many students could tell you the difference between their college curriculum and a trade school, aside from taking extra classes outside of compsci. If you go to college hoping to learn how to code or to learn a programming language, imo you are treating college as a trade school.

Trade schools teach a skill. Colleges provide an education. Those are not the same. With the proper discipline you can teach yourself a skill, and with programming, unlike many other trades, you often have all the tools you need already at home.

* Education - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/education

* Skill - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/skill?s=t

In short a skill teaches you to do something. An education teaches you to make decisions. The number of computer science graduates that cannot make simple decisions about the code they write is stunning, to the point of negligence.

I think the confusion comes from why people attend college. If you ask them the common answer is "To get a better job!". College doesn't get you a job. It isn't job placement or vocational training. Trade schools often do provide those. I suspect it is disappointing to graduate college and still have trouble acquiring a better job.
Why should righteousness have to wait for policy?

Surely there are plenty of old black ladies who lived under segregation--right there in DC! David can treat them to lunch at his favorite gourmet sandwich shop.
I went to a way different private school where most of the sciences were a conspiracy against god and the church. Not all are equal (and most of the “school choice” debate is around govt money to pay for the science is the devil schools)
When I saw that URL I thought you were linking to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature...

which I think is the most memorable and haunting section title of an encyclopedia article ever written.
We have rules about elevators. There are elevator inspectors who regularly certify elevator safety, and they are liable if they falsely attest as to its good working order. The owner of the building is also responsible for maintaining their own elevator. There isn't anything the passenger of an elevator can do to meaningfully affect its operation or safety. I suppose if you knew there was someone working in the elevator shaft and you pushed the button to hurt them, you would be responsible for that.

We have rules about motor vehicle operation. The operator is responsible. If you are the passenger in the back seat of a cab, the driver is responsible, not the passenger. If there is nobody else and you are the pilot of an autonomous vehicle, you have to assume responsibility for your vehicle and its actions.
Most domesticated dogs really are pretty stupid. Many of the smarter breeds, like the German or Belgian Shepherd dogs have fairly recent wolf admixture.
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