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> 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.

Everyone paying even little attention to anything other than US propaganda knew it, among other times, when the US “evidence” was debunked by UN inspectors in the same hearing it was presented. Which the major broadcast media all transmitted live, so if they were watching their own coverage they knew it, too.

> 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

We (those of us who had been paying any attention, at any rate) also knew that much of the senior national security leadership of the US administration that was pretending to be concerned about that had, in fact, actively, vehemently, and overtly supported those actions at the time, and that their later pretense of concern about his past behavior was as fabricated as their claims about his supposed present behavior.
When Austin voters kicked Uber and Lyft out of the city a couple years ago (before the state leg. overruled the city), RideAustin, a local non-profit, sprang up. RideAustin definitely had some growing pains, but now I never have issues with the app, and I prefer to use them because (a) they are local, (b) they do a "round-up" giving program for a charity I support and (c) my understanding is the drivers keep a larger share.

They've certainly suffered since Uber and Lyft came back to Austin, but they have showed that if Uber and Lyft went away tomorrow it would be trivial to fill their place.
Nearly every option you could add to an airplane is arguably a safety feature.
Thanks for making this project!

Here is a ROS discourse discussion on the project where I've shown a gif with laser scan visualization: https://discourse.ros.org/t/rosshow-view-ros-topics-in-the-t... . Thanks for applying my feedback! Love the list of supported messages.
If you move '123' to a field F1 with a picture of 99999, then move F1 to a field F2 with a picture of XX, what will be the value of F1 and F2?

Answer: F1 contains '123 ', F2 contains '12', because both of these are alphanumeric moves even though F1 has a numeric picture.
Once. Do you have a copy of the running report for the Ethiopian crash? We don't know yet.
I don't have a book recommendation for you (what helped me was the standard documentation and about a year of daily dev time), but an observation:

Your team is likely using an overly restrictive tsconfig.json. No-implicit-any, for example.

Make it less restrictive, and you then have typing and no penalty for punting on it until later.

If using an IDE, the effort into defining types is immediately rewarded with autocomplete for API/backend AND client code, and we even export the types for use by a Monaco editor inside an internal app.
Projects like Jupyter have so much potential to empower individuals to understand data and verify claims. But not in their current form. Immediately after the introduction, the author starts diving in to Python and different interpreters and dependencies and then a wall of code. Anyone who's never seen code, much less heard of Python, would be immediately turned-off. Just a tiny bit of extra work on top of projects like this could exponentially increase their target audience and turn thousands into amateur fact-checkers.
I also have a cardiologist.

It takes the form of a combination of very high output training (BJJ) coupled with regular, sustained aerobic training at a high percentage of my aerobic capacity (running and plyometrics).

It sounds like I'm being flip, or worse, self-satisfied - but I am quite serious.

If my heart started behaving strangely, or weakened in some way, I would notice immediately. It would be quite marked. Things that I partake in, and think about, and feel, would suddenly be off.

Or to put it more technically, I am running my body at a much lower set of tolerances where defects are immediately identifiable.[1]

I have a suspicion that my cardiologist is actually better than the apple one, since I could feel some differences that might not yet manifest themselves in some kind of measurable heart output.

The downside to all of this, in the faraway future (I am currently 42 years old) is that "heart trouble" might manifest itself during exercise in a sudden and acute fashion that leaves me dead. On the other hand, the exercise makes that, statistically, less likely.

I also enjoy it very much, so there's that.

[1] https://www.keyence.com/ss/products/measure/measurement_libr...
Let’s talk in 6 months as those packages evolve and diverge. While rails core team does the work of maintaining all the packages as a consistent whole.
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> For instance, they explicitly don't support Trump, but don't hesitate to say "Trump is right about X", or "Trump did well on Y".

Being willing to praise someone you oppose in general when they align with your bias isn't the same as not having bias.
More importantly LLVM-IR isn't stable. It's intended to just be an intermediate between the bundled front-ends & back-ends. There's some limited compatibility provided ( http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#ir-backwards-compa... ), but nothing close to suitable for an actually persisted format.
Summary: to compute (a + b) / 2 and get the best answer for arbitrary inputs, you want:

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±realmax if a or b is ±∞

otherwise compute (a - a/2) + b/2 at higher precision, then round to the nearest float
good riddance. flied with them once. the seat was worse than those outdoors metal folding and stackable seats you see in very cheap beach front places. no padding. absolutely no reclining.

it was a criminal lack of basic ergonomics for the tens of hours you seat on them.
Thank you so much for making this.
To note: been working on Rails for 6+ years.

I was reading the parent comment and some of the other comments about the mental model of a beginner. I suppose if you're first exposed to Rails and start using 'scaffold' it can generate a ton of code you'll need to grok. But once you understand the nuances of writing Rails its much faster and cleaner to just create files and go about your business. There is only 1 thing I ask Rails to generate for me and its database migrations; it handles adding the timestamp and placing it as the end of the folder, thats not something I care to think about myself.
> It's already worse than television ever was.

You have a myopic view of the internet. I don't use any social media. Unless you consider hn or Reddit that. And I run ad blocker. I spend most of my entertainment, educational, and social interaction budget on the internet. The internet is ducking amazing. I could never publish on tv. I could never consume what normal people published, unfiltered by FCC /network execs/advertisers.

The internet is not social media. Social media is "the masses", the mainstream. And regardless of platform those always suck, banal, lowest common denominator, and manipulated for profit or power.

Checkout of the mainstream, not the internet.
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Beyond Compare (Windows)compares Drives, Folders, & Files. Very fast and flexible -- both of which are important. Can also be used to copy files, to synchronize folders.
We are doing Rails/Vue. Both sides are pleasant to work with. I prefer working with Vue, but don't see any reason to remove Rails from the backend.

(but yeah, ActionCable was a no-go. We use Pusher instead)
Yes, there are registrations in university admissions, which is the one I used. It does not extend to private employment. Regarding the resentment part, yes, people have resentments against reservations, though now even higher caste groups have started demanding reservation - this means the community will call for strike, stop trains, buses to get the attention of the government. OBC reservations in India were started in 1980 after a similar country wide strikes.
Yes but I always contribute the max to get the most tax reduction. I like paying taxes less than I like paying doctors.
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I did link to an overview of much of the current state of the science. You linked to a pop science article written with the impartiality and professionalism of a Breitbart article, though it does in turn reference something meaningful. Here [1] is the actual report from the NAS that that page references. They comment directly on our little discussion. Page 513: "FINDING: Not having government regulation of GE crops would be problematic for safety, trade, and other reasons and would erode public trust."

It also goes into detail on the problems with "weak" regulatory regimes. I put "weak" in quotes as any genetic engineering specific regulatory regime would be stronger than the US' reliance on self regulation. For instance in one study referenced (page 194) scientists ran a typical regulatory test (90 day whole food study) with rice that was genetically engineered specifically to be toxic. And indeed it was toxic. But over the standard 90 day test, no ill effects were found. This is a quite a serious problem.

And the one final thing I'd hit on is that much of the research on genetic engineering is driven by the companies that stand to profit from proving everything is safe and beneficial. Similar to how at one time nearly all science on e.g. leaded fuel was driven by interests that had a motivation to prove that everything was safe and beneficial, and so that's exactly what they did.

The NAS paper when discussing rat studies mentions, "Some found no statistically significant differences [from consumption of genetically engineered feed], but quite a few found statistically significant differences that the authors generally did not consider biologically relevant, typically without providing data on what was the normal range." later emphasizing again after discussing various dismissed abnormalities detected in rodent studies that "There was no presentation of standards used for judging what would be a biologically relevant difference or for what the normal range was in the measurements." In other words statistically significant differences were simply completely dismissed as "biologically irrelevant", without ever defining what would actually be considered biologically relevant. That's not good science, to say the least - but it's the typical pattern in much of the research for GE products, which tends to rely heavily on direct or indirect industry funding.

And, I think you'll find your view that negligible regulation is acceptable to be something very few outside of those directly connected to the genetic engineering industry would find satisfactory. The only reason more people do not voice concern is because they're generally completely unaware of the lack of safety inspections for these products. This state of 'regulatory subterfuge' is itself reason for a significant degree of cynical skepticism. You want to regulate? Ok. You don't want to regulate? Ok. You don't want to regulate, but strongly imply that you are? That's not ok.

[1] - https://www.nap.edu/read/23395/chapter/1
No. Your solution works and makes people happy. That's fine
Even some "public" hospitals are really good. e.g. Tata hospital in Mumbai, They have had equipments and cancer treatments, which are even considered state of art in US. Like DOTATATE scan and lutetium therapy has been available to so many people in India for more than 5+ years now. Only 2 hospitals in Mumbai have it Jaslok and TATA. And TATA charges are so low , its a blessing for all the people who have been able to get treatment. Experience both healthcare system. India is cheaper which means every one can get access to cheap medicines and medical treatment. US obviously will fare better.
"guilty after two year arrest"

how many here could continue to fight for innocence, true or otherwise? I certainly couldn't for monetary reasons alone, let alone psychological ones.
Must have been pretty dramatic if they suddenly canceled all flights rather than winding down the company. The article doesn't exactly make that clear.
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>Ask any Graying Tech Worker, whether (s)he wants to recommend the same career path to his/her kids. Ask why they don't recommend the path.

I’ve heard people say this for many, many professions, not just tech. Lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, politicians, architects, bankers, etc. maybe once someone spends a career inside an industry it has just lost all the glamor and they only see it as mundane work.
As far as I can recall, Uber used to be a service where you could rent professional drivers to drive you around with big black SUVs, and Lyft started ride-sharing, which Uber shortly followed with Uber X.
Sure, but it seems like it'd be valuable to make the FISA court less rubber stamp happy, no? Gosh, maybe even require corroborated evidence before requests are granted.
The downside to all of this, in the faraway future (I am currently 42 years old) is that "heart trouble" might manifest itself during exercise in a sudden and acute fashion that leaves me dead. On the other hand, the exercise makes that, statistically, less likely.

Actually depending on your condition and your activities, it’s entirely possible that the first warning you’d have is dropping dead. I’m also not being flip or self-satisfied, and I also have an anecdote to share. A good friend of mine who was a serious tennis players, and later an equally serious swimmer and runner got his “warning” about two years ago. He was at a conference and complained of feeling a bit ill. Then he experienced sudden cardiac arrest and despite an AED on premises he died.

He wasn’t much older than you, was in perfect shape and ate well his whole life, saw his doctor and had good lab numbers. The “far future” you imagine is hopefully just that, far in the future, but it might not be. Like a lawyer as their own client, don’t be a fool and pretend to be your own cardiologist.
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Idea of “decentralized” brain perfectly explained in Michael’s Gazzaniga book “Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”. He’s the first guy who makes experiments on split brain and found decisions making center which works like telling and explaining machine. Recommend.
Man. I've been working in Flow/TypeScript for the last couple years, but for a long time my comfort zone was Java. Now I can't imagine going back to a world where every non-primitive type declaration was potentially null, and there was no way to mark it otherwise. Who ever thought JavaScript would end up having a more type-advanced ecosystem than Java?
"Our voluntary attrition rate for women engineers since 2016 is still zero." -- impressive
they could meet half way maybe.
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and more importantly, will anyone be indicated by the lack of process that allowed data to be copied for the 20years the article tak about? or the OS backdoors that allowed "russian hackers to steal his personal information" from a NSA top hacker (i.e. not your average joe, like you and me?)
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Right, I also want a machine that magically makes me lose weight while I sleep, while not affecting my sleep and costing $5 ... that doesn’t mean it’s mechanically or physically possible with current technology though.
I agree with your devil's advocate.

Not to downplay Lyft, though... Lyft started in 2007, two years before Uber — and so was doing ridesharing beforehand. Uber snuck in with a taxi model that was legally gray which opened the doors.
The author demonstrated this live at Homebrew Robotics Club last night. It was among the best live-demos I've seen, with the presenter simultaneously talking to the group in an entertaining way and running the demonstrations.

Very cool stuff!
How do you make that conclusion based on that data? Lyft's total operating loss is greater than all of their sales and marketing expenses! And I'm assuming all their promos and specials fall in that sales and marketing budget, so if they cut that budget their revenue would tank.

Honestly, I like Lyft as a rider, but this feels like a total pump-and-dump. I predict their stock looking like Groupon's trajectory at best.
Don't see why KP would be affected by that directly. KP doesn't eat the cost of the uninsured.
Note sure about that. Only around 350 737 Max 8's had been delivered by the time of the second crash.

How many models of car have a 1 in 175 total loss rate?
Kerala is but one state out of many. Kerala is probably the only state in India with a public safety net. How many states names can you pull to exemplify your argument besides Kerala?
Chinese devs seem to hit there breaking points.
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003771/chinese-developers-pro...
The performance comparison matters if you start comparing nginx, and maybe even the Go/Rust frameworks, but it absolutely blows Rails out of the water for performance without sacrificing any of the high-level abstraction goodness that makes Rails appealing. No reason not to move to Elixir unless you cant hack functional programming IMO
I'm pretty sure it was Officemax in Christchurch I went to when I was there to buy a prepaid phone sim card.

There were so few sales people there that it took about 15 minutes standing at the counter to actually purchase it. The whole counter was completely unattended for that entire time.
"Actually depending on your condition and your activities, it’s entirely possible that the first warning you’d have is dropping dead."

Yes, that's exactly what I said.
TL;DR: it doesn't quite work[1].

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>Portamento is a fairly standard feature

On monophonic synthesizers.

There's no standard on how that would work with polyphony (that would be pretty much equivalent to polyphonic pitch bend). With your trick, you'd still need to specify which note goes to which new note with portamento/glide, and there is no standard for that.

The problem is usually worse with analog gear, where oscillators are commonly assigned to keys via a round-robin scheme. So enabling polyphonic portamento means that even if you play the same chord over and over, you'd hear the notes slide! Not quite what you intend.

So while some polyphonic synths have portamento/glide in poly mode, lack of support in the protocol means that it acts unpredictably: you only have control of where the notes are sliding to, as a set.

You can see the problem very clearly, using Behringer Deepmind 6 (6-voice analog with poly portamento) as an example here[1].

At this point, you break out your polyphony into voices, put each voice on its own track / MIDI channel, and pitch bend / portamento that (and record separately, if needed). And then you have the ROLI solution. Which is not compatible with any other MIDI controller.

As I said, MIDI is hackable enough to allow one to do pretty much everything, but it's going to be non-standard. And standards and defaults matter.

For that matter, that's why we have MPE[2], which is an extension of MIDI, but it's very, very new (2018-new).

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9cvMCHgB2s

[2]http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/mpe.html
The trouble is "we," the developers aren't the tech industry making the decisions. The managers, who once were full time developers, are making the decisions. I can say hey let's use this stable, mature tool, but which catches enthusiasm more? That or the guy drooling over React and all the complex mystery JS libs saying it's the best thing ever?
His book “human” is also very good
The Intel community tries to predict and monitor international events and persons of interest. But none of that requires perfection. More false positives wouldn't be a problem if CIA or NSA could predict even ONE significant international uprising before it happens. But in 75 years of trying, they never have. So there's no reason to believe they ever will. Perfection be damned.

The reason Intel dragnets exist is that politicians always feel compelled to do SOMETHING after a domestic crisis, even if they know the ensuing compromise of civil liberties will accomplish nothing toward preventing the same crisis from recurring. But voters who don't pay attention (and don't really care) are appeased by bold reaction (and the thought that bad guys can't keep secrets from US). A symbolic knee-jerk usually violent reaction all they really wanted (like invading Iraq).

Frankly, after 75 years of 99% fruitless and increasingly expensive machinations by the OSS and CIA and NSA, all of us who are paying attention know know damn well that US Intel agencies really don't accomplish much that's useful to peacetime national security. That is, unless Intel's unblinking eye is turned toward targets who are of personal interest, domestically like MLK or PETA, or internationally like Saddam Hussein or Manuel Noriega. Then politicians unconcerned with due process like Nixon and Cheney can freely use that intel to attack their personal "enemies of the state".

30 years after the end of the cold war, THAT's why domestic Intel agencies continue to exist. All of the US military services have their own Intel agencies for use during war. They don't need the CIA or NSA. Only Presidents do. And IMHO, for all the wrong reasons.
MacBook is supposed to be a no-trouble-device. You just buy once, sit back and enjoy for rest of the life.

Removing USB ports certainly didn't help. What's the point of a good battery life. If I've to carry connectors everywhere, I'm okay with carrying charger as well.
Perhaps the best thing would be for it to meet the ambulance half-way or 1/3 way, to minimize time to reach paramedic care.
That's how capitalism works?
Or the effect could be that Lenox Hill Radiology discovers it's getting a ton of MRI patients, has utilization above 85%, and can now afford to get another machine. A group doing a thing well getting more business is typically not a bad thing. Yes, if it's a loss leader then bad things can happen - but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

"Personal Responsibility" is just "making the market actually be a market". Markets are great - but situations where the person paying isn't the person choosing or receiving the benefit tend to be horrible in some dimension.
They do, and this has largely been regarded as a hole in the type system.
The first "network programming" I ever did was a GFA Basic program that talked over MIDI between two STs. Long before I ever saw a real networking protocol or a "null modem cable.". :)
This can be issue with any service which you are using
Chickens are big, messy, and smelly. They're also painful when they're mad.
True, FL's note-slide is proprietary, but you do get some degree of pitch-bend (not sure if you can do it per-note without hacks) because of the mod wheels on keyboards

MIDI CC messages are a bit more flexible, but you're still limited to "[Channel#] [CCCode] [Value]"
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You live in a place that is so detached from reality in the rest of the world. Don't forget that. And consider how much you're paying for housing compared your parent ever did, and if you're still happy, maybe you should start wondering what kind of world you'll leave to your kids... Sorry but not sorry.
You placed that possibility in, and I quote, “the faraway future” and all in the context of your fitness regime being an early warning system better than a cardiologist. Even taking your post with a generous helping of charitable interpretation, it seems Ill-conceived.
It would have been nice if they had shut down more gracefully, though, since there's currently hundreds (if not thousands) of people stranded across the globe…