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The article refers to Abe's government as "ultra-conservative", not as "right-wing nationalist". I would not say that Abe is nationalist in the normal definition of the word. Japanese politics tends towards right wing, though it tends to be more of an old school conservatism: old money, but with a sense of responsibility towards the people. So, for example, there aren't a lot of services performed by the government and it is expected that businesses somehow voluntarily pay to have these things done. In my rural town the government does not mow the sides road, or trim branches on trees, or maintain the parks. That's pretty much all done on a volunteer basis by local businesses, or residents. There is a big rota and you have to go out once a month and do some work.

Financially, things are conservative as well. Abenomics is literally Reganomics with "Regan" replaced by "Abe" -- trickle down theory and all. And it works just as well as Reganomics didn't too ;-) Abe has also been quite busy trying to rewrite the constitution so that Japan can get into international conflicts where their allies are involved. Previously Japan was only allowed to get into conflicts where Japan itself was under threat. There is some speculation that the emperor only abdicated in order to force the government to do a bunch of constitutional work and delay the constitutional work that Abe had ordered. Abe managed to survive a general election, so if that was the goal it ended up being fruitless.

In terms of nationalism, I don't think that Japan (or its government) fits the definition. There are protectionist attitudes towards food trade, but that is understandable given that more than 1 million people starved after WWII due to the fact that Japan had imported most of its staple foods at the time and got blockaded. There are actual laws that date from the end of WWII that enforce this protectionism, so it's hard to blame the current government :-)

There are, of course, nationalist people in Japan (and even nationalist political parties), but they do not represent Japanese mainstream thinking in any way shape or form. It is very much the loony fringe.
It's my understanding it's sometimes exactly those obvious abnormalities that are missed by radiologists.
After three years moving through 35 countries in Africa, this sums up my experience and thoughts on aid money. I have spent considerable time with a ton of UN and NGO people in many different countries, and heard plenty of great first-hand accounts of how things actually work on the ground.

It sounds great, and the people giving the money really think they're helping. Unfortunately, it's rarely the case.
Their first mistake was making a live-action remake of the Flinstones
This article is from 2012. Title should be marked accordingly.
Rental models are pretty shady, in general.
Go on…
As a person with diagnosed adult ADD, this is one thing I cannot do — manage attention. Medication and meditation help a little, but I probably will never reach the productive capabilities of a regular person. Sigh.
Or "inflammable".

Or "Aural" and "Oral"

Or Ox > Oxen, Fox > Foxes
I also the second approach a lot and it's helped my focus immensely. Sketching things out in comments and detailing / changing as you go along first helps curb that initial perfectionism of feeling like you need to write the right code on the first try. YMMV, of course, but worth trying out.
If you need the money in short-term (2-3 years), I would split it into 2x250K and just park them in online savings accounts which currently give about 2.25% APY.

If you have a bit longer horizon, I would go for VTI.
Why is it that no one in astrophsyics seems to understand that electricity has mass?
I think you are missing the point of that paper. It doesn't sound like it was some forward looking paper but rather an effort to put what we already knew into words. Since then a big row of antibody treatments have entered the market with big success, which in turn means that our current understanding of cancer has evolved. The idea of the immune system playing a big role was not proven back then.
One possible solution: https://libresilicon.com

I don't care who produces the processor, but whoever does must be open, transparent, accountable, auditable, etc. as enumerated above.

Whichever group does this must not be guided by Lawyers who enter into secret agreements. That is, ALL legal aspects of this group must be open the public as well.

You raise an excellent point, which is "how is silicon verified as being the same silicon that was designed?".

Usually silicon is verified through tests at various levels of abstraction (electrical, signal, logical, single instruction, programs, etc.) but none of these directly verify that the silicon produced is the silicon designed.

So, you are correct, that's a very real problem that needs a very real solution in the future...
I would be interested to hear from CloudFlare as to whether there is any possibility of confirming that the URL "https://pipdigz.co.uk/p3/id39dqm3c0_license_h.txt" - fetched by the "license check" code - did at some point return the text "https://kotrynabassdesign.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php". I suspect this will be difficult, or impossible, to verify (I'm not a security expert) and the "license check" code in and of itself (while extremely fishy) only betrays the potential of a DDoS and is not a smoking gun.
Can Braces Correct Bow Legs?
> I'm sure there are plenty of people who can work remotely who would love to live in a place like this, if it were either turnkey or at least if there were some collective action organization.

http://www.tribewanted.com/
There are so many other organizations worthy of donations - UNICEF, Oxfam, Partners in Health, and tons of local NGOs. Maybe it's time for Red Cross donors to look elsewhere, until they clean up their act.
The company's thinking works like this. Your good engineer might have been worth a $15k raise. But once it gets out you can get a 15k raise by just getting a new offer then another 3-4 people will go get offers and asks for raises. This ends up costing the company an extra $60k-$70k to retain your good engineer, and he might not be worth that to the company.
This was the world’s most profitable company in 2018
„There is an 8th habit of highly effective people. They don’t waste time reading 7 habits of highly effective people.“

He got it.
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> Until you remember that to obtain statistically significant evidence that the latest version number of Tesla (or any other firm's) software is safer than the average driver entails hundreds of millions of miles of driving.

It is possible for a newer version to contain a new bug that would increase the accident rate significantly, but given the existence of realtime collision data, that seems like the sort of thing that would be caught and corrected rather quickly, before it would dramatically affect the long-term average. So you have a probability of being the unlucky first person to encounter a new bug, but unless the probability of that is significantly higher than the overall probability of being in a collision for some other reason, that's just background noise.

Moreover, it isn't an unreasonable expectation that newer versions should be safer than older versions in general, so using the risk data for the older versions would typically be overestimating the risk.

> And for that matter that the "average driver" accident rates are skewed upwards by the number of incidents involving people who you'd never, ever volunteer to be driven by [in their state of intoxication].

That doesn't help you much when the intoxicated driver is driving a vehicle that hits you rather than the vehicle you're a passenger in. You presumably would prefer that vehicle to be self-driving rather than operated by the aforementioned drunk driver.

> In the mean time, the human heuristic that a car which tries to kill you by accelerating at lane dividers isn't safer than your own average level of driving skill in many circumstances is probably better than trusting exponential curves and the Elon Musk reality distortion field.

The somewhat ironic thing about stories like this is that whenever they discover something like this, it automatically becomes the focus of engineering time, both because a specific problematic behavior has now been identified and because not fixing it is bad PR. But then your heuristic is stale as soon as they fix it, which is likely to happen long before any kind of true driverless operation is actually available.
Although it makes me feel a bit petty to say this, I have to admit that I am feeling a lot of schadenfreude. The terror of extremely privileged people on being "assailed" by "low lifes" has a touch of dark humour to it I think.
Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro
Do you think your choice is representative of the population?
At around 7 minutes he goes into Hanna Barbera's "Limited animation" including a surprising reference from Dextor's laboratory to the cheap animation style and that animator Chuck Jones called it "Illustrated radio".

The video puts the 80s era of licensed properties/toy cartoons (GI Joes, Transformers, etc.) as the first thing to really challenge HB due to the , and that during that time HB struggled to adapt and compete and that the Smurfs seemed like their only success during the era.

He says they had a revival after being bought by Turner in the 90s and making decent cartoons for cartoon network but were ultimately absorbed by WB animation after the companies merged.
Yep. Looking for something "side-project worthy"; something that can be build in a reasonable amount of time and generate an interesting revenue stream. I don't mind which market but am specifically looking for a niche, a piece of inside knowledge you have that we can exploit together :)
This is the anarchy road. I am with you on this one. Power corrupts. Hierachies enslave. We need a more horizontal society. We need more decentralization.
I love to see people reimplementing existing tools on their own, because I find that to be a great way to learn more about those tools. I started on a Git implementation in Rust as well, though I haven't worked on it in a while: https://github.com/avik-das/gitters
That is the right way to build a hobby project of this magnitude in my opinion.

Rapidly MVP as much as you can do you have something usable. Then go back and refine the warts as and when they become a nuisance.
Depends who you ask. Also some sites use a SaaS model with API key for back-end access. They claimed license keys were stolen.
“Last year we had some serious problems after someone obtained a huge list of license keys and downloaded all of our products. The keys and files were then distributed on their file sharing site, which has since been taken down (not by us, ironically!). The drop tables function was put in place to try to stop this at the time.”
I'm a chinese speaker, this new era name sounds kind of weird. When written in kanji, the previous nengos (meiji, taisho, showa, heisei) makes sense, and you can kind of tell the message it tries to convey. It just feels weird to me to concatenate "rei" and "wa" together.
ElephantSQL does, for dedicated plans.
Squarespace vs. Wix vs. Weebly vs. WordPress: Which Is the Best?
http://tribewanted.com
Same with the Swedish Red Cross. A couple of scandals showing poor use of donated money. Huge salaries to board members and also a previous "CFO" was a criminal and sentenced for embezzlement.
Instead of donating to feel good, wish it was easy for people in rich countries to buy someone a cow, change the roof, pay for a kid's school etc etc. Things that costs as little as a few hundred dollars but can change a life.

Red Cross should shunned by all, no TV time during emergencies.
Finally, dynamically typed programming in Haskell made easy
I've tried many different things and I finally have a solution that (I think) works for me:

It's Emacs' Org-mode in combination with Org-pomodoro

- First, using org-capture I would create an org heading with a description of the problem. If there's a Jira ticket I would attach the ticket number (I have a trivial elisp function that converts a regular number into a complete jira-ticket link)

- Then I would start a Pomodoro cycle. If I'm on a Mac - it would create an OSX menubar item with the title of the heading (using Hammerspoon). Org will "clock" me in for the task for the next 25 minutes

- I just realized that I can probably even programmatically switch Slack to "do not disturb" mode while Pomodoro is active

- Activated Pomodoro cycle is like a sacred ritual for me. I do not pick up my phone or check email or (if possible) even talk to anyone. After Pomodoro is done I would take a break, check email, get some water, etc. If I can get done 5-7 pomodoros during a day - I consider it a very productive day.

- Org records everything. At the end of the day I know: exactly how long I worked on every single story, the number of pomodoros I did, notes that I took while working on each story. Whenever I changed the status of the story from "todo" to "in progress" and back to "to do" or when I flipped it to "done" or "canceled", reasons why the story was canceled, etc.

And this is all done with a minimal context switching.
people should just give money to bill gates. he gets things done
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Unless your host system isn't linux (like in this case)
This concept was explored in a "Twilight Zone" episode:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734611/
But the Dutch have it as well and no one goes on and on about it.
That's based on having experience working with Perl?
There was also the Lobby Shootout done on an earlier version of the Max Payne engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E14Kt1ynvic
Computer has a longer history than what you think.

"The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwait: “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.”"

https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2015/the-etymology-of-the...
The example in the README bumped off Dan Abramov. Good riddance!
“Carl Fricke, a board member of the Lucas Valley Estates Homeowners Association, which represents houses nearest to the Lucas property, said: ‘We got letters saying, “You guys are going to get what you deserve. You’re going to bring drug dealers, all this crime and lowlife in here.”’”

It’s amazing how grotesquely uninformed their ideas are about low income people. Oh, you live in Marin and you think people who live in low income housing are “drug dealers” and “low lifes”? We have to take Carl Fricke at his word about these letters, but if true shows just how ignorant and even racist people can be even in so-called “progressive” areas.
The others also have big moral and corruption problems. It seems, like in the general society, that the problems comes from the higher management. For example, the last Oxfam pedophile scandal...
Though it is brought up any time there is a discussion about the rules and hoops IRBs make researchers jump through.
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You're not bothering me! But I only saw this reply by accident. If you want to be sure to get an answer you should email us instead (hn@ycombinator.com). Just keep in mind that we can't always reply right away.

There are two problems. First, the term "authoritarian dictatorship" is not as well-defined as you seem to suggest, and carries a pejorative meaning which is separate from any factual information it does contain. Second, the comment was too short to convey much information in its own right. When people post pejorative, low-information comments about inflammatory topics, that's flamebait, whether or not they intended it that way. I'm sure that driverdan had no malicious intent, but intent doesn't protect a dry forest from dropped matches.

I can understand why you would be frustrated by this response if you look at the comment as an atomic, standalone thing. But comments on internet forums aren't standalone. They're prefixes of the subthreads that follow from them, and commenters are partly responsible for what follows from their comments. Certainly they are responsible for following the site guidelines, which distill much of what we've learned over the years about how to comment in ways that don't lead to degenerate subthreads.
> Well nobody is saying that any language is wrong or not

The Academie have done something quite similar. Infamously, they argued against protection of regional French languages.

And I agree that they’re not arbitrary but only because they have always been dead set against imported words. They have a conservatism that has become more and more anachronistic.

I can’t say I have an issue with them, because they’re entirely ignorable, but there’s a risk that they’re seen as pathetic and that that view reflects poorly on France.
Wow. I have never thought about it that way. But now I read it, I will never be able to not think about it that way.

Thanks for that nugget of wisdom.

Personal "fun" fact. I now get about 28% more then when I startet 4 years ago. That is quite a hefty increase and something to be very happy about.

But on the other hand, due to a change in my role I now have insight into how much others in my company doing the same work make. Often with way less senior roles. And I can see, that they got hired at a lower level for about what I make after 4+ years in a more senior position.

So now I feel insulted, because I know - even after having risen in money, that I am still being not payed adequately.

For comparison: I am talking about 1/3 less then others in my seniority level. That equals about what intermediate colleagues two levels down the ladder make.

So I went from feeling being treated good to being treated unfairly with more insights into what everybody around me gets. I love other countries (think Norway) for making this information public, as it gives a clear lever for everybody to demand fair pay.
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I often use the same argument against various ORMs and similar abstractions ;)
Interestingly, the drug-resistant cancer cells are also less "efficient" than non-drug-resistant cancer cells. This can be exploited by the "drug holiday effect" - give patient drug number 1 - resistant population takes over, change drug - non-resistant population wins again and drug number 1 works again

https://www.nki.nl/topmenu/about-the-nki/news/drug-holiday-e...
I know this sadness. However, one thing which has helped me has been the opportunity to work with supremely effective people. It somehow lifts your perspective or shapes your intuition. Somehow monkey see monkey do also works for monkey see
high-level executive function and execution. I didn’t expect that. I thought it might just make the sadness worse. But immersion helped.
That is literally our choice. Human volunteers as first test subjects or animals. There aren't any other choices besides putting drug research in stasis.
Oxfam was literally banned from Haiti due to staff exploiting locals for sex after a natural disaster.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/timeline-oxfam...
Not surprising but still concerning news.

Given the increasing orthodoxy of non-chinese search results, I think Google is developing in a wrong direction and that it needs more competition.

Funny, but Google has indeed turned its most important service to something that serves selected content.

In that case it should really be responsible for its content in my opinion.
I think it was donated to them.
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This seems like an April Fool's joke.

The complete lack of any other information is suspicious.
The accident rate comparison wasn't between miles driven by humans vs. miles driven by technology, it was between miles driven by cars before and after the technology was made available, and the accident rate went down. The only way that happens is if it does better than humans at the thing it's actually being used for. Which means that even if it's only used in clear conditions, it's doing better than humans did in clear conditions -- not just better than humans did on average.

It's plausible that it currently does worse with adverse weather than humans do with adverse weather, but I'm not aware of any data on that one way or the other, and I wouldn't expect any since it's not currently intended to be used in those conditions.
This appears to have mostly the # in common with C#, since this is mostly an extension of C, like C++ or Objective-C etc.
Completely random inspections of product in any stage of the manufacturing process by third parties is a good idea.

I don't know the practical reality of any company permitting that, but it's a good idea. Some future chip manufacturing group will hopefully do that.

Audits of any form at any time by any party should be permitted, rather than denied.
Fair with 2) and 3), but for 1), it's actually easier to buy X in bulk from an on-line wholesaler (especially if X is food) then it is to make a SMB business to stock it again. This may be a privileged position, but my favourite products disappearing from local shops is what made me discover that if I can afford one X every couple days, I can afford 20 X on-line, delivered; hell, it sometimes actually saves money.
This would be quite an accomplishment for one person in six months.

I am skeptical.
¿Porque no los dos? Because it's a terrible area to plop down dense housing in that location and leave it at that. Lucas Valley is just that disconnected. The challenges aren't insurmountable but there are much better places (such as near the Civic Center SMART 'station'), but even those places run into the legendary Marin NIMBYs.

Were Lucas to also propose requisite biking and transit improvements it would be another story (and increase the scope of the fight by a hilarious magnitude).
Japan reveals name of new imperial era will be 'Reiwa'
> For anything longer term, I'd recommend finding the right bsed command and then using -t flag to get the Perl translation.

That could be a part of the readme!
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My boss is the boss of 30 people and he can't really tell in detail who is doing good work and who not so much. The bar is higher than that.
I hope not. The article is dated April 25, 2018, which seems way out of band for that.
Just like C grew accidentenly from a language created to bootstrap compilers and JavaScript was a hacky 10 day solution.
Why does it need to be military? IIRC, Australia sent police, specialists as part of post Iraq war efforts.

US could send in fact send non military; engineers, etc, but it will viewed with local suspicion and may make things worst (assaults, sabotage by either side or third party). Even US is suspicious of foreigners building US infrastructure (ie Huawei).

When there's so much distrust of US by Haitians and US likewise doesn't trust Haitian government with funds, there are quasi government organisations such as UN: https://www.un.org/un70/en/content/70ways/index.html

Even they have had issues in Haiti.
Yeah, there's not a lot of point in having the python layer. Perl excels at these kinds of things. I'm guessing that the original developer just doesn't know perl well enough to implement that part. Which is not to denegrate his work, but this could easily be a drop in single file perl executable if someone does the actual (not that much) work.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. It's true, but the path to develop is littered with corruption, inefficiency, and general learn-from-mistakes policies.
Presumably there will have to be a proper medical trial with a declared up front hypothesis and double blind testing?
It is submitted by the very same user.
English speakers themselves are quite capable of sorting this kind of thing out for themselves without waiting for the deliberations of the appointed whose decisions they'll probably ignore anyway - as do the French, one gathers. Life and English are both messy but we muddle through.