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Overpopulation right now is not caused by people getting too old, it's caused by people having too many babies. It is also not a problem in countries where anti-aging treatments are likely to be available first and even less of a problem in the rich population that will be able to afford them at first.

On the other hand, the promise of remaining able bodied until you die from an accident might reduce the number of children because you don't have to have children that take care of you when you're too old to take care of yourself.
Combating aging will mainly extend your healthy lifespan.
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I think I'll bite. It does have a headphone jack.
It's on every android device by default; to use any other repository you have to 1) know it exists and 2) know how to get it.

Even if 2) does not require rooting your device or voiding warranty it's 1) that damps on the spread of the alternatives, because people in general don't know they have a choice; because they don't look for the alternative as the problem of "how do I get the apps?" is solved for them right at the start.
The rich and powerful would not allow this. They will be the first in line for anti againg treatment, and also they will be the first who can afford this.

So prepare for some very old rich people ruling the planet who will live much longer than the serfs.
It is injurious. It causes harm. We know it causes harm.

But let's go with your incorrect assertion that it doesn't cause harm. Try slapping one of your co-workers, and then in court saying "but it was a completely non-injurious form of discipline" and see how far you get.
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Related to this:

Elderly Researchers Are a Drain on Publicly Funded Science [ https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2019/03/16/elderly... ]
Really? I'm doing Java contract work for a living (thankfully not only Java) and, while it pays the bills, I'd use almost anything else (except .net which is just Java without the ecosystem). I think the whole Java stack, with its myriad of metaprogramming silos, overreaching build pipelines, outdated HTTP libs and paradigms, absurd class loader configs and layers of module systems, unsound abstractions, and third-party libs, many of which are starting to reach EOL, really stinks and sends you into a world of incidental complexity. It might not be so obvious if you're coding greenfield Spring "microservice" apps or, good forbid, Spring MVC apps in 2019, but believe me it'll hurt you down the road once you need to update your project to newer versions of third-party libs.

The problem with Spring isn't that it's badly developed (it isn't, and usually gives you good diagnostics, though your stack traces gets spoiled with Spring's ugly-as-sin reflection shite). The problem is that there are people who think Spring has a reason to exist in the first place. Spring Boot is a config framework on top of the Spring framework to make it bearable - that alone should tell you to stay away from it.
> limited consumption of animal products

It would be more impactful get three people to reduce meat by 50% than to get one to reduce by 100%. Unfortunately, "meals that don't have a chunk of meat as their centerpiece but that are still far from vegetarian" does not have the same ideological zeal as veganism (speaking in the context of a western industrial background).

When eating out (again: western cuisine), the meat-free choices are getting better and better and I applaud that, but it seems to just get more polarized. In aggregate, either vegan or an ever bigger focus on a meat centerpiece is hardly an improvement. Low meat dishes seem to have a serious branding problem.
Hobby physics nerd here. This thing is mental. I clicked it, saw how long it was, and abandoned. Comments here took me back in and it’s going to turn out to be a real gift.
Meanwhile, from the other link (which also has numbers in the 10s of thousands of tons, not millions):

"Cutting down on the amount of plastics we buy and learning to use this tricky material sensibly is still one of the most effective things we can do to live responsibly, help the planet, and inspire others to do the same. To find out how you can help make a change, check out One Green Planet’s #CrushPlastic campaign!"

Please don't distract by blaming fishing. And please read your own links. Fishing nets are a huge problem no doubt, but looking at numbers, we need to stop single-use plastics.
Some platforms do support JavaScript, but it's hard to keep up with the EcmaScript standard if you are making your own engine.
What do people use for server side analytics? I've seen recommendations for Matomo, Countly and Fathom, but those are all JS based.
Well.. Walmart is a large chain of supermarkets in China, and Costco operate there too, so they're not entirely irrelevant (http://www.wal-martchina.com/english/walmart/index.htm). Fortunately China has like many countries moved to forcing shops to charge for plastic bags so plastic bag waste has gotten a lot less bad in China at least.
Imagine a world where Newton could still contribute, peak scientific output wouldn't be before the age of 35, and politicians would tackle long term problems because they will be affected by them too. That is also what amortality looks like.
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I suspect most of the issues u face exist in other frameworks too. The comparison with scala isnt too right. They are probably 2 ends of the spectrurm for moment i saw scala, i knew its crap. Vue however has a certain beauty in its design, which really isnt too different from react/angular2, but much better syntax. most probably u guys have too many inexperienced developers.
I'm not asking people to treat children as adults.

I'm just saying that hitting a child is always as abusive as hitting an adult, and often more so because the child has no chance of escape.

There are many ways of parenting, and msot of them do not include violence against the child.

This is why hitting children is illegal in many countries.

Never mind treating children as adults: how about we treat them as humans, with rights that need to be protected?
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This still feels like ... cheating to me, if that's not too strong a word. If your algorithm for sorting a list involves generating a bigger list and then sorting that, then it's obvious that by recursion, you can make your sort function take forever.
You think the Soviet Union needed help collapsing? It was mostly doing that on their own, Reagan et al just sped up the process a bit.
Russell Jacoby's The Last Intellectuals (1987) is a book about how the humanities and social sciences professionalized and lost their grander vision. Essentially Jacoby claims that gentrification and the expansion of academia killed the figure of the independent "public" intellectual.

Some of the books he holds up as examples of intellectual (rather than academic) engagement are Jane Jacob's Death and Life of Great American Cities, William Whyte's Organization Man, C. Wright Mills' White Collar, Murray Bookchin's The Limits of the City, and Lewis Mumford's The City in History. I think most of these would be good candidates for "undead" status.

A few years ago there was an interesting symposium revisiting the argument in light of changes in the public sphere: https://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/After-The-Last/16
From past articles on Ars as well as some online quantum physics courses from a few years back, there was a lot of healthy skepticism about what the D-Wave was actually doing. I know from the articles here that Chris at least thinks there is some merit to the computer. And in the past few years there seems to be a larger opinion that there is some sort of entanglement working within the machine.
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What I wonder about is the 10x factor here - all of these designs have already been invented and are available for perusal. How many people could come up with something like this with nothing but a knowledge of mathematics?

I sometimes don't even know if I could invent the wheel if it wasn't already invented.
I don't think this is a particularly new insight.

Yes, most retired people suffer if they don't have a life outside of work. Yes, most people do indeed define themselves by work. Yes, automation threatens to undermine or relegate people who have defined themselves by work to the impermanent and transient needs of the middle and upper class (uber/task rabit/gig economy etc).

Given that this article recognizes a (what I thought was) well understood trend, and doesn't present a fix, whats' new here?
You are free to kill yourself when you feel like you had enough. Just because you don't want to have the body of a thirty year old forever, that doesn't mean that you should subject others to the incredible suffering that old age brings.
Interesting. I have to admit I have stereotype and prejudice, any westerner married to Chinese woman is pro-China. I see you have some sensitive Chinese word in username in different community, so I thought it is a Chinese guy in Western country behind it.
Speaking as a KDE Connect user who's heard of F-Droid, I installed F-Droid, then deinstalled it. It was too noisy and intrusive. When I told it I didn't want to replace an app with its version it kept asking again and again, every day at least.

Since then I've head that the F-Droid operators insist on signing all apps themselves, instead of the developers' signature. That's as bad as the TLS inteceptors that insist on accepting an extra CA.

Some people seem to think that F-Droid is obviously preferable to Googleplay. That is, at the very least, not obvious.
Very bored with "documentaries" showing Bulgaria as under developed country with people living in villages, thinking it will be "original". 74% of the population is in urban areas, so showing this village with no roads is really trivial. If you wanted to look into the problem you should have filmed the young people who are living the country and why. Also why you present content which is a few years old without specifying that?
I've never understood the pro-squatting arguments. It's theft, no?
Which ones actually support this?

From what I've tested, T-Mobile and Verizon will both fail to deliver SMSes that aren't originated by the carrier listed in the SMS routing for a phone # (which is wholly separate from the PSTN routing of a number, and can be a source of problems when changing cell carriers).
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That's fine, they'll just rent it to a cousin or nephew for a symbolic price.
SELECT name FROM users;

Users.getName();

The above is "encapsulated" meaning that you need to have done the extra work to write "getName". Encapsulation is a bad solution to a worse problem (changing state).

If you hide information you have to do extra work to get it out. This "extra work" is in tension with a declarative approach which uses general verbs across domains, requiring therefore, these domains expose their data.
Going faster means expending more energy. At some point it won't make economic sense to go faster, even if technically you could. Freeze dried wombs don't care whether the journey takes a thousand years or five hundred, but the costs are very different.
> I’m assuming that you didn’t read the section of the essay where I summarise Shanteau, Kahneman and Klein’s findings?

I did read your summary in the section titled A Personal Take, unless there is another summary? Link?

(I’m wondering if your blogging tool allows a way to jump directly to sub-sections using anchor-links. This would be a time-saver for long-form essays.)
Naturally it is not the best comparison, I would be really impressed to see VS Code fly with all the capabilities that VS has to offer.

Notepad++ and Sublime are instantaneous versus VSCode.
That's what tenured professors are for. Compartmentalized intelligence organizations forever torn between the conflicting goals of oversight and secrecy are a terrible way to fund anticonventional research.
You're imagining Stalin but we live in the 21. century. This century telepathy is going to become reality and that still seems to be the less interesting thing compared to AI, that is also inevitably coming. Do you think these facts won't change anything?
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Yes, I imagine we will create the Borg by accident.
This begs the question, what are the best price-quality ratio cameras compatible with this board?

As I understand, both Jetson Nano and Google Edge TPU/Coral Dev Board would work with the same set of cameras, having the MIPI-CSI2 interface. Is it?

Many ML inference applications are using a camera, yet it's close to impossible to find something very affordable.
That sounds like great value
They moved from an UI written in C++ to a Python process that launches a Web based UI.
It sounds rough, and its something US citizens will probably never swallow or accept, but in both Iraq and Afghanistan US is a pure force of evil as time showed. Simple fact - the country and its citizens would be statistically far better under horrible Taliban/Saddam rule rather than under very unstable and increasingly marginal US rule. Taliban would not kill the amounts caused by these invasions in 100 years, and children for example wouldn't be affected. As for Iraq, Saddam would be a blessing compared to hell this country went through in last 15 years since Bush jr. decided to please some powerful people behind Rumsfeld and Cheney.

US lost both wars, beaten by poor guys with AKs, IEDs and suicide bombers. Iraq is more complicated because its semi-functional but Afghanistan is lost cause even according to US military.
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To clarify, if a Senator stood up on the floor and began: “Mr President, when my honorable colleague argues in favor of [some policy], I feel shamed, belittled, and angry.”

... That would be inappropriate, unhelpful, and unproductive. It would be better to engage with the opponent’s argument with another argument than to resort to talking about personal feelings in that context.
I'm a linux user, I've never heard of it and the friction would make me hesitate
The #1 reason I do not recommend Google to work with for anybody. The users are just accidental for them.
I'm from Bulgaria. The stuff in OP's post definitely happens and there are more than enough areas like what he describes. Generally the area around Sofia/Plovdiv is civilized (South-West quadrant). But the South-East is depopulated and if he's going from Romania to Turkey, he'll be passing through the rougher parts of the countryside. I wonder if Google Maps or similar made him take a route off the highway as well. Don't do that. 100% on point about the road police.

I wouldn't blame the EU for these developments though, it's the natural consequence of how our country developed post-Soviet rule. I also can't blame the old people for voting how they do, for them it's life or death. At least the EU can keep some check on the corruption, without them we'd be a de-facto Russian vassal and there's no corruption like Russian oligarch corruption.
No, it's past time for this kind of service to be regulated and taken control. It affects the whole US society, makes people less productive, less happy and less satisfied for the gain of a few.

Why is this a mainly American phenomena? How do you fix this without depending on the old whack-a-mole game of product companies adding features to fight the spam war?

I know that e-mail spam is difficult to regulate and control but other kinds of telecommunications are easier, phone calls being one just by being centralised in a few companies routing them.
Price will take care of that automatically.
Because my mom is not an Android hacker.
You are omitting the fact that genetics plays a huge role in the success and efficiency of your diet.

More than a third of East Asians have a deficiency in one of the enzymes involved in the breakdown of alcohol (aldehyde dehydrogenase). They cannot properly metabolize it.

Inuits have mutations in genes that code for enzymes that desaturate carbon-carbon bonds in fatty acids. This means they can handle diets that are very high in certain types of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.

A mutation of the melanocortin-4-receptor (MC4R) leads to a markedly increased preference for high fat, but a significantly reduced preference for high sucrose food.

So what I'm saying is that blanket statements like "well if I/those guys can do it then everybody should be able to" have no real value. Diets are strongly influenced by and relying on genetics. Since we don't have the same genes we won't handle the same diet in the same way. Linking to statements that have since been withdrawn due to omissions also doesn't help.

Edit. Huh... getting downvoted for saying diet and genetics go hand in hand, with evidence that hasn't been retracted. If anybody was wondering why some people are never taken seriously, it's because they reject reality thinking this will change it.
They'll suggest you use a community forum, and that forum will be full of people who love the product and the company and who have never seen your bug and who will tell you you're holding it wrong or that you're lying about the product and you must be a shil from that other company.
Overpopulation is a direct result of medical progress, specifically penicillin and treatment for children's diseases.
"Prime time for an impact" is kind of an ironic title IMHO.

People already live quite long, so it takes a long time for longevity to take any significant effect.

If a 20yo man became immortal today, he will be 100 in 2099. Who knows what kind of world we'll be living in then?

My point is : longevity is such a slow motion process that its impact on society is not as relevant as the pace of technology in other fields.
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Please, leave politics aside here. I can smell your antiColau feeling from miles away.
I think people in Barcelona may want to differ, rent prices have increased a lot due to tourism and expats flocking to Barcelona, while salaries for people outside the tech bubble are almost the same.

All these articles featuring all the good things that Barcelona is doing are just marketing...
I was surprised how much meat people smilingly throw away in NewZealand - when I was asked to "just throw it in the trashcan" around 30dkgs of perfectly delicious and cooked meal I simply refused and walked away.

My muscles were literally blocked to make that movement of my arms, swiping a plate of meal to the bin. Around ~25 other people did not have any problems with it, so I guess the problem is in me.
Don't have Sublime installed, but just tested VSCode vs Notepad++ on my computer. While Notepad++ was, maybe, half a second faster opening to a empty text file than VSCode, VSCode was a couple of seconds faster opening a large SQL file.
Why not just make multiple HTTP2 connections then?
“He summarises by saying the only good reason to design a programming language (I assume he means a radically novel language) is to shape your understanding of the problem. No regrets of being the only user of his first language, Datalist, because the point is that it shaped all his later thought in his research.”

I don’t design languages but I speak and write (iterating between different forms) for much the same reason. Thoughts made concrete in some way are much easier to manipulate. Programming can be much the same.
Very interesting article, I would love to have it in a portable/printable format (e.g. .pdf) can anyone help me out ?
It takes the same amount of energy to accelerate at any speed in space. The limit is our determination really, it is possible to visit our nearby star with ~200 hydrogen bombs
I personally have no problem with this. I’ve worked in this space in health care and understanding how these metrics are used.

It’s no different than running Webtrends on a website. Companies want to know how people interact with sites and the methods as to how they arrive.
the point is to create self-sustaining colonies that will travel into the unknown for probably hundreds of years before finding appropriate planets to colonize.
My main computer is a laptop with a Intel UHD Graphics 620 card :) Having a small card like this to speed up training would be so cool.
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> Pretty much everything in the GDPR document is untested at this point, and whether government or corporation, quite a lot of cases are going to have to be argued before the courts.

Why would a law be needed to be argued in court? There's been various improvements related to privacy already. Various big (national) companies have been ignoring the GDPR (disallow visitors unless they agree); this practice is now being investigated. Simplified: Netherlands asked the EU to clarify if the practice is ok according to the GDPR or not. There's been no court case. There has been discussions between companies, government as well as the EU.

See https://tweakers.net/nieuws/146391/privacywaakhond-onderzoek...

The purpose is improved privacy, not fines.
Fdroid maintainers require shipped apk's to have 0 non-free components. The only way to ensure that is to build the apps themselves (so that they can verify code and control dependencies). This means that they can only use their own keys.
Doesn't farmed fish undo some of the advantages of eating fish? The big advantage of fishing over farmed meat is that we do not feed fish food grown on fields that could have fed people (which is a big part of the reason why meat is so economically inefficient). Fish just roam the seas and we scoop them out, with very little investment on our part.

Of course the fact that fish is such a relatively efficient source of food is also a good reason why we should take better care of the oceans. We can't eat fish if they die to our pollution. We also can't eat them if we hunt them to extinction. Sustainable fishing and cutting back on our pollution are vital to our food supply.

For anyone not aware yet, MSC is a certification for sustainable fishing and ASC for sustainable farmed fish. I eat no fish anymore that doesn't have either of those two certifications. But that does nothing to stop this kind of pollution.
The German constitution mandates that (property) ownership brings obligations for the public good. Ownership is a construct secured by society, so society as a whole must at least partially benefit. As such, keeping a building empty can be considered theft, too.
I can see us giving this to astronauts travelling to remote stars or for a colony on mars where savings could be made by not sending new people there.
It's the first Lisp I've seen in which numbers don't evaluate to themselves. In fact, it doesn't even have a number type. A number-like symbol is just a symbol.

I now wonder whether this was the case with McCarthy's Lisps as well.
Apparently you can use it for just server logs; see: https://matomo.org/faq/log-analytics-tool/#faq_16303.
Yes, they are a thing in Europe too. It's not just to do with entering numbers in "sketchy" websites. It's who resold or leaked your details, what apps you have installed on your phone, or if you were just unlucky.

They are trying to get vaguely smart too - whereas before a number would call from quite far away, so you could assume it was a robocaller. Now, they can be close to your location, which is a bit spooky.
Which may or may not include automatically killing people via drones.
Anti-aging: the last nail in the coffin of Social Security
It doesn't take the same amount of energy to accelerate (and later brake) to 0.5c as it does to accelerate to 0.1c.
> it’s on every android device by default

Amazon tablets do not have the Google Play store.
I wouldn't mind a web based UI if it didn't mean less functionality, more bugs, and a worse user experience.
The ribbon was built in large part based on telemetry. Say what you will, but it does it's job very well, provided you approach it with an open mind.