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Rehabilitation IS societally useful. However, it does require that the prime focus is rehabilitation rather than punishment.

In my native Norway, rehabilitation has been the focus to such an extent that foreign media come to do stories on the 'holiday camps' prison time is served in.

It somehow works, though. Recidivism is very low. Here's a few examples on how inmates do their time

-Education is encouraged - whether it is to a learn a trade or getting a degree (presumably lectures are mostly followed via teleconference).

-Counselling is available to help you deal with whatever issues landed you in prison in the first place.

-As you near the end of your sentence, restrictions are gradually lifted to ease the transition back into society - lower-security units, daytime leave to report to work, halfway houses where inmates can live a normal-ish life in the daytime but need to observe a curfew in evenings/nights.

-After you get out, you have regular one on ones with the social services, helping you find a place to stay, work, family counselling if required etc.

-Companies are offered part of your pay refunded by the state for a limited time if they hire you.

All in all, I guess it can be argued that our pendulum has swung too far towards rehabilitation - but if the point of prison is to reduce the long-term risk and cost of crime, we're doing reasonably well.
> It ignores the fact that humans progress by division of talent and labour. You wouldn't apply it to physicists, engineers, medical specialists, lawyers, politicians, financial experts, sports, or software developers.

The key point you're missing is these people are selling their labor (aside, maybe, from software developers who could be selling their product).

If you get an engineer to design a bridge they do the work and get paid, no IP rights, no "limited" monopoly, no nothing but a paycheck.

If you get a musician to write a song for you they (and their heirs) get payed for that work for a long, long time.

I understand where you're coming from (that artists should be a protected class so we have "enough" artists) but the days of the billionaire rockstar is probably over.
In this instance the companies aren’t competing, they’re price aligning. As the article points out, a competitor launched their product at exactly the same price. That’s not competition, it’s price fixing.

The article is about how companies are trying to avoid anticompetitive investigations by putting the exact same product in a different box and selling it for less but only to a smaller market.

The definition of socialism is complex and fluid so finding a perfect match is tricky but I do agree that in principle there are many practices between states and businesses that would be, in the US at least, shouted down as “socialist” if they were instead between the state and individuals.
As a non-American this boggles my mind too. Certain things are not meant for the private sector.
Health insurance is capped in Germany. We have the very German word "Beitragsbemessungsgrenze" for that.

Basically, the insurance cost is a percentage of income (14.6%) up to 4,537.50 €/month (gross income). If you earn more, your absolute health insurance costs will stay the same at 662.48€.

Keep in mind that in Germany, half of your health insurance is covered by your employer (by law).

Edit: The above is for the "public" insurance system, as noted in the comments. If you are above the Beitragsbemessungsgrenze, you can opt for private insurance which will very likely be significantly cheaper while you are young. But it carries the risk of steep price hikes which you might not be able to handle later in life (think retirement). And the path back into the public system is not straight forward and might include having to file for personal bankruptcy or similar drastic measures.
Insulin supply is unlimited, is it? A larger market that requires the use of more and more animals is "stable over time"?

Like I said, address the cause of the demand increase and you'll address both the price and provide and improvement to peoples' quality of life.
I was gonna talk about the same thing.
Yes some topics might be black and white, but what about the ones that have a gray side?

There are so many problems that arise, in the same way extremists could gain majority and outcast other people.
This also creates an unhealthy environment in which discussions are not open due to being afraid of being banned.

Expression of the majority over-rules the right of expression and this is not right.
ARM has vendor extension space as well. Intel used that for DSP and "Wireless MMX" in their Xscale CPUs.
I didn't know this was a contest. Can we bet money?
And the idea is that it only has to do it once. If the goal of the government is 2% inflation but the economy doesn't reach this goal because of deflation then the government not only can step in to pay off it's debts, it has to step in to fix the economy.
I doubt it. One of the interesting things about the ad funded internet is that it is effectively progressive. Rich people have more money to spend which makes their clicks more valuable which means the revenue made by ad funded companies comes disproportionately from the rich and yet poor and rich get to use the same exact internet despite the fact the it is mostly paid for by the rich.

I'm sad a lot of the top tier newspapers in America are starting to enforce their paywalls now because we are back to the state where only richer people can afford high quality news.
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I can't find the details, but I recently read of a county sheriff that told a state legislature that if they passed a law that would end up requiring him to send deputies to many homes in his territory to confiscate their guns, he would decline to do so, because he thought that it would be a suicide mission.

Bottom line, the number of guns in private hands causes many government officials to fear the people. For gun rights advocates this is a feature; for gun control advocates, it's a bug. I think that this is the fundamental divide between the two camps.
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Americans prefer bigger vehicles and are willing to pay more for them
It's just not sustainable though. Who is going to build a 10 million ton vehicle to deliver a 400 ton payload? It's the Apollo model of space travel. It might be a lot more feasible with longer journeys, but is a transit time of a dozen or more generations really going to be attractive?

There are considerable barriers. Just because you can put a number on something doesn't make it practical. To put it another way, what distance between stars would you say would make it impractical to spread between them via colonisation? Where would you put the threshold?
Yeah, much in the same way that you're "almost never" actually being followed...
7 years for something that would have probably gotten him 6-12 months in Europe/Canada.

When are the Americans going to realise you can't punitively punish someone and not reap of profound negative consequences (re-offending, home-breaking etc.).
Go today is a Java 1.4 without AWT/SWT/Swing.

It needs to catch up a lot with Java 12.
It's surely both the sprite-based monsters and the "2.5D" world that justify DOOM's "2.5D/fake 3D" label, though indeed more the latter. (System Shock was a transitional example of sprite monsters in an otherwise full-3D world: https://youtu.be/CGKidgwcalM?list=PLqqLcEJ9bUtNedMdW64WioyV9... )
I think to understand the thought process that lead to this system being implemented you have to understand, or at least see, the layers of fixes and kludges the 737 flight control system has had added over the years.

I came across this last night, it made my head hurt:

https://www.satcom.guru/2018/11/stabilizer-trim.html?m=1
IMHO good advice even when you're not looking specifically at China.

I know some enterprise environments are, not surprisingly, not too fond of 3rd-party scripts, and their firewalls could be nearly as bad too.
Worked supporting 2 of the 13 core internet root NS and the major TLDS and it's safe to say you can't escape DNS surveillance.
I noticed that also, especially when it comes to Google, maybe less with Facebook. Criticizing anything Google and you will get downvoted. I think it's a reflection of how many Googlers are on here.
This is pretty much the whole story of automation of work, running in fast-forward. The robots, I mean compilers, took 90% of the jobs which used to be performed by humans. And here we all are.
0:36 in the video, "all based on path tracing". Easy tell: the soft shadows, volumetric lighting, indirect lighting, complex shaders. Some of it could probably be faked, but it's trivial with path tracing.

About speed: it's still very hard to do real-time, but it seems like denoising algorithms are getting good enough that it's getting doable. Keep in mind that it is a game, so small graphical glitches aren't that big of a deal.
> The internet and its resources are available, yet no amount of reasoning or information gets through to a lot of people.

This is a "normal" thing, there was a HN article about it some weeks back: often if someone has their mind made up about something, often no amount of facts, figures, logic and proof will change their minds. They may even see these things as personal attacks. Facts are, sadly, not an effective way to convince people.

I'm currently reading the book "Never split the difference" by Chris Voss, a book on negotiation by a former FBI hostage negotiator. In it, he talks at length about why traditional negotiation techniques don't work: they assume that both sides are rational and can be persuaded through facts and value propositions. People aren't rational, they're emotional and to get through to someone, you need to get through to their emotional mind. The book then talks about different techniques he's used to do this, but the fundamental foundation seems to be to listen to what the other person is saying -- really, really listen -- and put yourself into their emotional shoes so you can understand not just what emotion they're feeling, but also why. He then uses rather simple techniques: he verbalises the emotions he thinks their feeling and the reasons. This forces the other person to acknowledge them (or correct him if he got it wrong), which has a calming effect, provides you with more information to work with and often makes the person realise if they're being unreasonable. That's only one technique used, of course, but you can see how he's not trying to engage their logical factual minds, but rather find a way to put out the emotional fires going on in the persons mind.

I think these same principles apply when trying to convince someone of anything. If they have an emotional stake in the debate, then facts and logic aren't going to cut it, but talking to their emotions hostage-negotiator-style just might.
If you block Chinese people from viewing your website, you're only hurting Chinese people. The government doesn't give a shit about your website or your users.

The internet is a place that can exist without borders, there's no reason for us to voluntarily erect any.
No, the 15% is just Krankenversicherung (health insurance). There's also Pflegeversicherung (nursing care insurance), Arbeitslosenversicherung (unemployment insurance) and Rentenversicherung (national pension fund).

When I take an average salary (3000 euro monthly gross salary) and put it into a tax calculator, the net salary comes back as about 1950 euro, so the different between gross and net salaries is about 35% in that tax bracket.
I'm not sure how you go from "find the best version of their argument" and see "argue for them"...
If it's the best way to find truth, ego is not relevant in that pursuit.
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Not everything requires a browser...

The main use-case for these devices is in embedded-applications, for which there are many other operating systems (FreeRTOS and the like).

What you're not going to find is any real desktop-OS support (other than Linux). Its been a while since MIPS had any presence on the desktop. (i.e SGI).
There is an important legal distinction between tax and insurance (in Germany).

If you pay taxes, the state may do whatever it suits with the money. If they decide once day to no longer maintain the public infrastructure using your taxes but instead increase politicians salaries they are free to do this.

If you pay an insurance, on the other hand, you have a legally enforceable right to receive the insurance benefits if you meet the pre-defined criteria for an insurance case.
More like, capitalism is just a symptom of the root "problem" that humans are fundamentally self-interested
You're right that it's very obviously in the definition of the rowds and should be this simple to classify "software consultancy" by definition, but that's not what's out there in practice.

How people use (in this case misuse) the term leads to confusion and the linked article (and the other related ones) starts with this fact as the baseline (we're in agreement) and goes into how/why software shops are doing it wrong/mislabeling themselves, and how you can stop doing that. It seems to be exactly what OP is looking for.
It's true that both Airbus and Boeing have a huge backlog of orders for aircraft at the moment, with a lot of growth in air travel in Asia.

However, the airline industry is cyclical and the current boom might be particularly big because of very low interest rates. Many aircraft are bought and leased through third party companies and everything is heavily financialised (these days, what isn't?). Additionally there are manufacturers (including a Chinese company) trying to break into the short haul market. If there is a large bust there will be a lot of orders cancelled and these cancellations may hit Boeing harder than it's competitors.

A bad knock on internal and external confidence in both Boeing and the FAA could have lasting repercussions, Boeing might find it harder and slower to develop new aircraft if they and the FAA have to rebuild institutional capability and then convince the world that they have done so. The recent investigation by the Seattle Times makes for grim reading: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
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well. lot of programmers in china know how to use the internet "scientifically" (科学上网）, which means "use VPN".

PS: VPN is a blocked keyword, so we say "use internet scientifically"
By "an activist group" I mean people who confuse work with slavery.

People in prison eat what they're given, sleep when they're told, have (almost) no personal property and are at mercy of the administration on many other issues.

Work is one of the greatest things a human being can do. Working doesn't make an otherwise free person a slave.
I see this in action at the parking lot where I work. A bunch of IT guys driving trucks that look like they should be used to work on a farm. I don't get it.
I'm not a fan of Solarized either, but really like Gruvbox. It is somewhat similar to Solarized, but with plenty of contrast and a not-blue dark background.

https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

But looking back at Solarized, I can't see why I used to dislike it so much (low contrast) - perhaps it's because I now have a HiDPI screen which can more precisely render the text apart from the background?
"Aniview denies any involvement and instead says the platform and banner ads and code, which were created by one of its subsidiaries, were exploited by a malicious, unnamed third party."

The Bucket has to stop somewhere...
I would much rather be beaten, banished, or shamed than go to prison. And honestly, I think I would rather die than be locked up for any amount of time. Yet all these punishments are seen as less humane than locking someone in a small room with scary people for years. It just shows how little people can really imagine what it is like.
Even responsible journalistic websites like Der Spiegel (insert comment about Relotius here) run ads like these, where the ads appear like "related articles" underneath serious articles...

And people ask me why I block ads.
I don't see why it has to be a job guarantee. If the government allocates 50000 jobs to correct inflation there is no reason why they can't hire people under any condition but limit the work contracts to 1 year and "fire" unproductive workers and extend the contract to productive workers. It's not like those jobs are supposed to be a life long career. The goal is to help people during the bad years.
The latest Windows update (last week) broke the ssh-agent in WSL. The ssh client will bluescreen your PC if you make a connection with a key loaded into the agent.
Let's check it in India:

Sanofi sells it at $3 (208 INR)
https://www.medindia.net/drug-price/insulin-lispro/insuman-r...

Humalog(3ml) sells at $7 (544 INR)
https://www.medindia.net/drug-price/insulin-lispro/humalog-3...

Humalog (3ml) sells at $94 in USA:
https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/humalog
I believe Humalog is insulin produced by bacteria.

There is a scaling issue but my point stands, that demand & its growth are stable and predictable. These are companies with at least 5 & 10 year plans, so they’re able to match production to demand long term.
Nope. There are side effects. And some times they are worse. But most times they're better than the disease. Good luck being manic with psychosis without meds.
Are there delay slots in modern / 64-bit MIPS? I've heard they're only really present in very old MIPS
"Glass, which reflects everything around it" except the character standing in front of it! It seems like it is over done but not done properly. I know it is a demo but still, its trying so hard!
I was looking forward to reading the technical breakdown here:

https://chybeta.github.io/2019/03/16/Analysis-for%E3%80%90CV...

But I could not without my fans blasting and overheating my laptop. The page is using js to continuously render a moving background.
This isn't specific to ads. It's a problem either supply chain in every industry. It's why your clothes are made in dangerous sweatshops, why your electronics are made by dumping toxic chemicals in rivers, and why your chocolate is farmed by child slaves.
The hardest part for me was learning how to spot good clients from bad clients. Reading the "Win without pitching" manifesto"[1] transformed my business (I'm not affiliated in any way).

"Breaking the time barrier"[2] is also a good book I wish to have found earlier.

[1] https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/the-manifesto/

[2] https://www.freshbooks.com/fbstaticprod-uploads/public-websi...
I'm not sure the normal distribution or avoiding reversion to mean fallacy are trivia though.
If Ubuntu on WSL would have paste by right/middle click and copy on select (or better if Windows had this in general!) I wouldn't use putty anymore.

Still a nice terminal is very welcome, a good dropdown terminal (with bash/wsl, not powershell) would be really really great.
I'm definitely on super thin ice with C -- C++ is the surer bet. To be fair, there are also people who have been working tirelessly to improve C++ so they're not getting left behind either.

I do think eventually it could replace C though -- because rust with `unsafe` blocks still has the possibility of being safer than C. This could be a boon to security critical software, as long as the performance margin isn't too hard. Shops that have found ways to write safe C will likely never move (they don't need to), but new ones might pick rust where they might have picked C otherwise.

BTW, the embedded support in rust is really impressive for such a young language: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust
>This was very surprising to me: I wouldn't have expected the mixed signals response to come so naturally, and need explicit practice to learn to suppress.

It's called being playful. Of course it comes naturally.

We're not Hilbertian axiomatic language machines.
> On the other hand, Quake (1) was an early pioneer [1] of real, actual 3D

The Quake rasterizer with its overlapped divide for perspective correction is a thing of beauty and possibly my favourite piece of code ever. If there's anyone out there who loves optimisation and hasn't read Abrash's "black book", it's well worth a read.
Having wrote a book on this, I kinda agree. But it's not the people, and it's the job. It's whatever you're currently doing. My belief is that a key skill in the upcoming century is to be able to sort whatever you're doing into those two categories and automate those things that fall into your first category, organization as machine.

In fact, if you look at most of the waste in tech development, it's people continuing to do this first category of work when they should be working in the second category. (Insert long rant here about the importance of everybody being able to automate things in order for this to happen.)
Yeah, could be, but there are a LOT of similar articles out there that have been able to “cherry pick” to show the same problem. After a while cherry picking becomes the harvest.
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Technically that is discrimination. Discrimination applies any time two different groups get two different outcomes. It's a term that is used in economics without the negative connotation of things like racial discrimination.

Senior discount at the diner? That is literally called price discrimination, look it up.
Your own link shows that Norway has less than half the recidivism rate as the US.
There's a difference between consuming products that are funded by ads, where you can just it out of the product, and add that pollute public space.
>What kind of heartless monster trains kids to be as literal as possible all the time?

A "modern" parent who has read too much for their own good.
Less than 10% of prisoners in the US are in a privately run facility: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
Thanks for your feedback, very helpful. We're fixing the first two points as soon as possible.

Regarding additional data: yes, you can add a header or a subheader.

We don't have a function yet to send a permalink, but this is something that we're thinking about. How would you use this? Share the link with a friend so he/she can view the image? Or would you use the permalink to continue editing?
you are absolutely right.

Stackoverflow use Google CDN. The one to be blamed is the chinese GFW. but it will be much better if they do not use google service. Maybe they do not bother to serve user in china.
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You are the first person who has said they prefer politics over TV shows on Facebook. I definitely prefer TV shows.
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Hmm. I believe the two trade examples are testable (and as claims, the former false and the latter true).

The other two I will grant you, and I thank you for providing them.
I run a company that, among other things, provides a service for GMail users that depends on mailbox access. We did have to jump through a few hoops to retain our status with Google recently but I'm scratching my head to think of exactly what IFFT is talking about in this post.
Television commercials are fundamentally more coercive than radio commercials, so should we all transition back to radio just to avoid those small additional coercive factors? No, of course not, there are benefits to television that are more important than those factors.
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