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Agreed, mostly.

Money and effort spent on reducing the use of single use plastics, would be better spent recycling plastics in the western world, improving traceability for plastic containing waste exported to the third world, and improving waste management in the third world.

We don't really need to stop using plastic. There are much more urgent problems, including not dumping plastic in rivers and the ocean. Trying to avoid using plastic hardly helps the environment. There are much more useful and urgent things we could be doing instead.
>If a poor person acts in a self destructive manner, it is not societies fault, it is their own.

Not really, and for sure, not always.

And inversely, if a rich persons acts in a great manner, it's not necessarily some personal greatness behind that.

Society can make it easy for a rich person to do the right thing, and hard for a poor person to do the right thing. Even when it comes to taking care of themselves.

It's like Anatole France once wrote regarding the law: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Gym and healthy eating is great when you can just eat something fancy and well prepared, and spend 1 hour every day after your office work. Not so easy you're a working stiff juggling 12 hours of work a day, with not much salary to show for that, coming back to a miserable house, and just wanting to eat something and go to sleep for the next day.
I am not clicking a quora link.
If they're getting paid by the hour with no bonuses, you might be doing the caller a favor. Gets a nice break in silence.
Do people get human robocallers from people who aren’t scammers? I don’t think I ever have encountered this kind of situation.
But it's the same old hardware in the clearance section of their website. We want an updated version of the iPhone SE, the so-called SE2, with new internals. Not to mention, some promise that iOS updates will continue to be supported.
Oh, and another thing. Knowing a word is not a 0 or 1 kind of situation. More often than not if you're not sure about some word you're able to successfully guess some of its meaning or at least a sentiment associated with it.
> When you start with nothing, and you want a lot, you end up getting exploited by a system that has major leverage over you.

So the carrot, or the stick? I suppose the carrot is the better alternative, but it's reasonable to be mad at a system that holds you hostage like that.
I mostly agree with everything you've said. However, I'm using a 2012 Retina Macbook Pro, 1st-gen retina, and it still holds up really well. One of the best future-proofing purchases I've made, which usually I don't care about. Also, the iOS app store is one of the largest gaming ecosystems in the world.
Are students really comparing their work against the scores generated by these tools to game the scores lower because they're worried about being punished for false positives?

That is, pardon my French, fucked up.

Beyond that it's egregious that any academic institution would allow the success of students/researchers/whatever to hinge on scores generated by a black box algorithm that hasn't been rigorously proven as very close to 100% accurate. There should always be a human in the loop, and if we don't have enough humans for that then I think we have a problem that goes beyond automated plagiarism checkers.
Yes bundles were awesome, especially for trips. Inbox will be missed. I understand not wanting to develop two email clients but why create it in the first place if what made it successful is not brought to gmail? (Clean minimal design, swipe done, bundles and probably more)
Yes it has, I live in Romania, in a village, the things got better since the garbage collection was made mandatory(though the locals complain about having to pay), So I am fine with EU forcing "civilization" on us because our politicians are not interested in this things.

Anyway my point still remains, if we can reduce the plastics in our countries by using bamboo,paper,glass,metal or better alternatives why should not do it because some other country is polluting more. Similar if China air pollution is huge then I still care that my local air is clean.
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The problem with helmet laws is that it then means if you kill a cyclist who's not wearing a helmet, people (even erroneously) apportion some blame to the cyclist.

After all, why don't drivers wear helmets? Head trauma kills plenty of people in car crashes.

Give it time, and eventually you start seeing people picked on while they're walking, too. Our minister for transport wants to make it illegal to walk at night without wearing a high vis vest.

https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2017-10-03a.1396&s=t...

Maybe instead of forcing everyone to dress like clowns, just don't hit people with your car. Also, note that the safest places in the world for cycling (Netherlands, Denmark) have very low helmet usage. They DO, however, have presumed liability laws, meaning that the operator of the more dangerous vehicle is presumed liable in a crash.
So... basically a Lisp machine?
We essentially already did and the # of hours is 40 per week.
> Its ingenious how the highest skilled individuals only step in for the trickiest part of the surgery, but the simpler tasks like getting to a heart are performed by lesser doctors or nurses.

Having observed a few major surgeries in the US, this appears to not be a unique practice and doesn't explain the pricing difference.
Google Call Screen on Pixel phones is pretty amazing and entertaining. Get robocall, just run it through that and you get real time voice to text with options on how to respond.
It's so sad that years of brainwashing made you think this pile of bullshit. The way we organize society and the economy IS UP TO US, to find a model that serves our happiness and fulfillment as humans, not the other way around.

It saddens me that so many of us are willing slaves to a dehumanizing system of oppression.
Right, and then continuing the thought who wants a 'dumb' joke? That's no fun is it. So let's forget the whole thing.
> > I don't believe manufacturers should have to build things to be easy to take apart, to be replaceable or upgradeable, or anything else along those lines.

> Why not?

Because,

1) I personally don't care about this.
2) More important than 1, I don't think the law/government has any business deciding this. The market can decide (spoiler: it already has).
One Chinese I talked to said there are two reasons that can play into this pressure. First reason is that the grandparents probably had the same situation themselves, they were raised by their grandparents, so now they have a urge to take the parent role themselves since they never were that close when their own children grew up. Second is the age aspect, they want to do this before they get to old and tired.
Easy to say when you're salaried. Not so easy when you work for hourly wages. It's not as though pay would suddenly increase by ~20%. Also, 40 hours / week is already a decrease from what it was ~100 years ago.
We're just upping our standards, so up yours.
I think there's an Emacs mode for that.
I once thought about W3W like a DNS. Registered companies and businesses could purchase a "number plate" e.g. "jakes.superior.plumbing" and then keep that number plate on a subscription basis, much like owning a domain name. If the business moved address, the geographic coordinates could be updated in the back-end so that "jakes.superior.plumbing" always resolved to the correct location. This, I thought, would be a great monetization strategy and beneficial to many businesses. Even for folks who live in e.g. Dubai or rural areas where there there has been no proper addressing strategy from the municipal side, to be able to purchase a "name" of 3 words or whatever, in order to be found easily - would be hugely beneficial. Furthermore, instead of the 3 words being hard-coded to a specific cell on a world-grid, you take the name with you. If you move house, or move business, just change the coordinates and keep the name. I did mention this to W3W management when I spoke with them in past dealings; they brushed the idea off as useless because they didn't have the means or capacity to maintain a changing directory of names/coordinates. Or perhaps they just thought my idea was silly compared to their approach of dividing the world into trillions of cells and giving each cell an identifier.
Isn't that kind of a moot point now that WASM would allow for effective DRM? Also, wasn't DRM proposed 6+ years ago? Meanwhile, WHATWG is run by Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla. Would you feel the same if Wikimedia decided to join WHATWG instead of W3C?
I say drastically different because no one pays the complexity tax of increased automation to deal with something that isn't important. In this case, to the certifiability of the airframe.

I understand your caution against overstating things, but I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. If you think about the consequences of doing basic maneuvers in adverse conditions (weather/load/engine power conditions), you rapidly begin to get into areas where what seems minor would get into uncharted territory without a working MCAS.

It is a different plane in terms of manual flying. The automation non-withstanding.
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Plus Codes have little application outside building addressing. If I tell you I'm at 4CFM+JW, come get me, you're going to be pretty helpless, because I didn't include the city.

Want to shift a little to the east? 4CFM+JX works, but 4CFM+JY? Whoops. How about north or south? Maybe there's a way to do that, but I haven't found it yet.

How about upping the precision? The size of the square is maybe 4X the W3W grid cell, but not aware of a way for plus codes to achieve a smaller cell.

I'm not out here to bash everybody else's solutions. They're all pretty good, particularly when you limit them to particular applications. Mine just happens to be a slightly improved approach, and slightly less full of drawbacks than everybody else's.
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Could humans be considered to be a Gödel machine? If not a human, could the entire humanity considered as one entity be considered to be a Gödel machine?

On a different plane could evolution qualify as a Gödel machine as well?
There are also substantial health implications to eliminating plastic cutlery, cups, etc. We may be largely oblivious to it now and we may fail to see the connection between the cutlery going and an uptick in illnesses after the change.

The California bag ban slightly preceded the uptick in "medieval diseases" in California, which has since spread from Southern California to other cities (possibly by homeless people leaving California and taking their diseases with them). The uptick in such infections is generally traced to lack of sanitation among the homeless, but the idea that the bag ban is an element tends to get dismissed because "we can't prove it, man!" basically.

I was still in California and still homeless when the bag ban was instituted. Following the ban, my sons and I saw more homeless people digging through trash cans, probably for free bags they could use for various purposes. I never did it, but some homeless people use plastic bags as a toilet substitute. They poop in a bag and take it to the nearest trash can rather than poop on the sidewalk.

If you are digging bags out of a trash can to have a bag to poop in because you no longer have ready access to free new ones and 10 cents per bag is a financial hardship for you, well, it shouldn't shock anyone that there is an uptick in disease.

But no one actually wants to believe that or take that possibility seriously since no official health organization has announced that this is an issue.

Meanwhile, I have seen articles that suggest the CDC is actively downplaying the uptick in diseases like hepatitis. They aren't aggressively issuing public health warnings and putting this into the news. It's been slow to get press and the problem gets downplayed as largely an issue for homeless people.

From what I have read, a lot of antibiotic resistant infections are bred in third world countries with poor plumbing and the like, then inadvertently exported via travelers. But, hey, the US and Europe can both readily get in on the action by banning all the disposable items that help make modern life less dangerous than life in a third world country. Let's go with that plan.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/medieval-diseases...
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We tend to overestimate the impact of technologies in the short term and underestimate them in the long term. The Internet visionaries overestimated how rapidly the Internet would change the status quo. Instead the status quo came and colonized the Internet. The night is young though, and we have generations coming up right now that don't know what one-way broadcast media even is. The printing press took a long time to totally transform society, but transform it it did. Society changes much more slowly than technology.

I personally think we are living through the "Empire Strikes Back" period -- a period where the conventional powers (political think tanks, advertisers, ideological and state propagandists, etc.) have learned to attack the Internet using its own systems (social media, forums, memes, etc.) and the Internet hasn't yet learned how to defend itself. This is probably peaking now with "peak social" and the explosion of hip and effective social media based state and political propaganda. I don't know what "Return of the Jedi" will look like, but I think it's likely coming. Some of the problems that need to be solved are technical but many are just a matter of people learning how to mentally filter BS in the new Internet era.
So in your world, if you’re willing to be X amount self-destructive or accept X risk, you’re also willing to accept X + Y risk or self destruction regardless of how large Y is. Got it.
Maybe she can sense or feel? This article didn't explain it in detail, what is the tolerance of pain, is it just skin or muscle. How does it even affect the sleep cycle since muscles don't feel fatigue? She could've broken many Guinness records but she didn't.
>They could have chosen to be honest “The Iraq war is a fantastic opportunity to plunder the wealth of a nation, therefor as Economists we support it”. Instead they got onboard with selling a war based on false premises.

You're suggesting they knew the premises were false at the time. They very likely did not know that at the time; nor did any of the major media outlets.

Yes, they all, including the Economist, could've given the war much more scrutiny and skepticism from the start, but that's why they're admitting they messed up every time they mention the Iraq war.

You also have to consider the politics and atmosphere at the time: most people in the country (regular citizens, politicians, newspapers, everyone) supported the war and truly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We all already knew he was a brutal despot who had no issue using terrorism and WMDs against civilians in the past to achieve his goals, so it's not like his having WMDs in 2003 would've been the most shocking revelation in the world. It just happened to be untrue.

This is a massive collective mistake, not just something the media screwed up. The media certainly played a big part, and the media definitely needs to be held to higher standards than regular citizens do, but the blame can't be placed solely on their shoulders.

>Instead how about retroactively analyzing what really happened, what mistakes the Economist made and why, and publishing that outside of the paywall?

I agree that's a great idea. I think they should do both (a full retrospective + disclosing they supported the war when they mention it in the future). They could even hyperlink "(which this newspaper supported)" to point to the analysis.
This sounds like my life. I come from poverty and now I make decent money and my company doesn’t request this. I have really been trying to figure out how to turn it off, or at least down. It’s very hard. I get depressed and a bit paranoid if I’m not martyring myself for work.
Most of these old workers were young when they called it a 'Young industry' and I expect all the old workers around in the 90's just shook their heads about this being a young industry. Most of the really big discoveries were done, documented and in some cases patented in the mid 1970's. That's 45 years ago.

We are not so young, and I think a lot of the ills in our industry can be attributed to characterizing us as young. It isn't that young. We know better about any number of things, and we excuse it as youthful indiscretion.

Most of the software activities we do today were laid out in the late 90's and those involved stealing a bunch of ideas from older discoveries or other industries's discoveries in the 70's and 80's. It's all old. We've just been refining execution and improving tools (painfully slowly for my tastes) for the last 20 years but it's really the same stuff.
> "why the F35 and not gripen"

Among other things, this question seems like a simple misunderstanding of prices.

The unit cost of the F-35A is $80M, while a top-end Gripen costs a fairly similar $60M. When Denmark did look at buying the Gripen, it requested upgrades to power and payload (already satisfied by the F-35) that could easily have made up the remaining price gap. Maintenance and flight costs are substantially higher for the F-35 also, but that's relatively manageable for a country that doesn't expect regular deployments and a large supply of spares for their fleet.

It's the development cost where the F-35 comes in at more than 10x the price of the Gripen, which is largely irrelevant to small buyers ordering a finished product. Denmark did end up contributing to the F-35 development costs, but only about the cost of another plane, $110M. And in return, they stand to compete for parts-development contracts which wouldn't have been available for the Gripen.
Tear down that wall!

....WSJ!
Thank you for your paper.

It was a worthwhile read and it filled in a lot of details I didn't notice about the crash also affirming the criticism I hold of the process of software development -- where all of the decisions are deferred to the magical 'algorithms' without considering what who writes the algorithms and how decisions about them are made.

The more persistent problem would be how artificial intelligence is used to increase 'engagement' while also fueling hate, and is an example of programmers and their managers not listening to social scientists and journalists.

When planes goes down it's the case programmers and their managers don't listen to engineers and people on the ground.
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that's a bad attitude. You need to punish the ones that don't and reward the ones that do. It's the people that talk like you do that gave us Steve King, Mitch McConnel, Paul Ryan and Donald Trump, the most despicable and corrupt political class this country has ever had.
>It looks like we just disagree. I do believe that is often society’s fault, and that it’s usually just a lazy way to absolve one’s self of blame or moral duty to act, or to justify that it’s OK to take political action that tacitly increases harm to the poor because it’s “their fault” they experience the circumstances they do.

Apparently people believe the poor to be not just poor, but also an inferior race.

They're poor because they are inferior (lazy, lack self-discipline, self-destructive, etc).

After all, they used to say much the same things for blacks and women back in the day too. We got better than that, but in progressive cycles it's still acceptable to say those things for the poor these days...
I noted the "we don't need to make the three versions identical" comment.

Yeah, you kinda do, if you want to keep the price of an individual airframe down.
That's interesting. I have no experience with motor control issues, so that comes as a complete surprise to me.

Eating involves fine manipulation of the cutlery to load it with food, and then hitting a relatively small target surrounded by things that you really don't want to, say, stab with a fork if you miss that target.

I'd have expected that if one has good enough motor control for that, washing cutlery in the sink or a dishwasher would not be a problem, as all the movements required for washing seem to require less accuracy and consistency than do those for eating with the cutlery.

So, clearly, I'm missing something about the mechanics of motor control. Is it because almost all movements involve several different muscles, and so that if one has different levels of control issue with different one that you can get some movements are impossible even though they don't require much precision, and others are possible, even with tight constraints, because even though they involve the same body parts, they differ in the contribution required of each muscle?
> The media attention on the new campaign, however, drew the eye of a local farmer who remembered the first téléphone Garfield appearing after a storm in the early 1980s, when he was a young man.

> He also knew the location of the container - in a secluded sea cave accessible only at low tide.

So they've been dealing with this mystery for almost 40 years and this guy knew where the problem was coming from the entire time?
Did the free markets ended slavery in US or under-age working? I remember many good things had to be forced with laws and not let to be decided by the big companies.
I suggest using a dedicated Google Voice number for this. I have over 300 voicemails and texts from recruiters and they keep coming, even though my number hasn't been listed in years.
No comments on your take on why they did not hire you but just curious who can override the hiring committee at google?

Seems weird they go through so much trouble hiring and it still comes down to one person giving their ok?
No, they just escaped it to avoid death (e.g. during the Vietnam draft).
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Can someone explain to me how spoofing is even possible and why it is allowed? That’s what I’ve never understood about this whole thing. Does it has any legitimate use?

Robocalls would be much easier to address if you could block/report the actual number they come from.
I agree, but not everybody sees it like that. I have seen companies talk about how they hired more people of a specific gender or race and increased their diversity with respect to gender or race. I have never ever seen a company ever talk about how they hired more older workers and increased their diversity with respect to age.
> Bottom right; barely 5% of the world population is equal or richer than the average US citizen.

But GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income or wealth, it's a measure of production of a country. Since it not a measure that can be applied to people individually, it seems ambiguous what it means for a given person in the world to be "above a given % of US GDP per person."

US GDP per capita in 2017 is about $60k. What does it mean for an individual in the world to be "above" this? Their personal income in a year? Their total wealth?

My best guess is that this graph considers a person "above" this if they live in a country that has a per capita GDP above $60k (at purchasing-power parity). So really it's a comparison of countries and their per capita GDP, weighted by population.

So I think the bottom right is actually saying "5% of the world population lives in a country that produces more per person than the US." It doesn't say much of anything about how rich individuals are.
Probably some truth to that.

Also likely the reason you'll start to see a shift over time in Facebook and Google's business models. They won't just allow any old thing on their servers any more.