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> No sense blaming individual voters

You're literally restating the tactic, as if that countermands the truth. There is no change unless the behavior changes, which is at the individual level. Why not dispense with the public altogether, if the individuals don't matter? Just leave it to the political parties?
But that means they put a coating on that not only can be separated from the display but looks like it's designed to be. Bad engineering.
Sounds like you're in Europe, do you handle VATMOSS?
I understand the concern, but if you think about it a lot of the old brick apartment buildings that came before also looked very similar. There are tons of older brick apartment buildings with stairs up to a covered entrance, the only real differentiation between them is whether they have bay windows or a flat exterior.

I completely agree that the new, large, flat, monolithic buildings are not very visually pleasing, but I wonder if two generations from now people will look back at them longingly. Maybe they won't last that long.
This happened to multiple reviewers including MKBHD. It must not be quite so obvious as it is when reading about it in hindsight.
Nice bait. Unless by "self-replicating robots" you mean plastic-eating bacteria.
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The retirement vehicles are interesting. The bank managing my pension won't investing my pension in weapons manufacturing, because that would be immoral. Let's ignore the fact that if I show up with a million dollars they would certainly help me buy Raytheon stock, but what if I don't want my pension invested in Facebook. I can't tell them no, they decide what's moral and what isn't.
Rebecca Twigg obviously has a mental health problem that contributed to her path to homelessness. Why wasn't that discussed?
"First identified in the ear of a woman in Japan in 2009 (“auris” is Latin for “ear”), the germ has spread around the globe, mostly appearing in hospitals and nursing homes, where it afflicts people with weakened immune systems."

Looks like it managed to spread without much hindrance due to its immunity. Wonder just how common it'll get since it's so hard to get rid of.
Mass protests? No, there were not mass protests. There was mass spending by amazon to lobby against it. You’re just either misinformed, lying, or astroturfing.
> One of the fundamental reasons why I haven't really bothered doing startups or running a small business myself is the radical uncertainty over health insurance for myself and my family.

I joined a startup once, but it was in Europe, so these issues weren't even on my radar or the company's radar. With government healthcare and government unemployment insurance, it's a no-brainer. The only risk is to your lifetime earning potential. Stay at a solid job with a solid salary, or take a shot at the startup lottery. Your health or your family or your home are just never on the line by taking that risk.

The amount of time and worry you have to spend on healthcare for yourself and your family in the US is absolutely off the charts, and this cost is completely hidden! Time that companies have to spend on acquiring healthcare insurance for their employees is wasted time. Time that employees have to spend on researching the insurance options their company is offering them is wasted time. Time that you spend dealing with healthcare providers to ensure that you're covered by your insurance is wasted time.

In Europe the time spent on this is, for the most part, 0. Companies don't spend time on this. Employees don't spend time on this. But noone in the US seems to regard this waste, this cost, as something fixable. Noone seems to think of the competitive edge this gives EU companies, or want to have the same competitive edge. Why? Why are US companies and US employees just completely resigned to the thought that healthcare just is a massive necessary headache for everyone?
There's an argument to be made that GDP per capita in India will catch up with that of China if this is indeed the case, as made in a recent article from the economist. Although it's important to remember that it won't be strictly because of population growth, it surely plays a part. (https://kyso.io/KyleOS/does-population-size-matter-when-it-c...)
Flip phones are "innovative" now? They've been around for ages. The one aspect of Samsung's design that's supposedly innovative is making a single display that extends across the hinge - that's also the part of their design that doesn't actually work.
Well, if you don't believe in the Catholic religion it would be hard to argue that one should assent to its teachings. But Catholics really do believe that their beliefs should be subject to reason. They wouldn't necessarily agree with reasons why their beliefs are wrong, but they would believe that faith must be in accordance with reason.

As to why the specific teachings of the Catholic church? It literally comes down to "God said so and God wouldn't lie."

"We may point out in this connexion the falsity of the prevalent notion that faith is blind. "We believe", says the Vatican Council (III, iii), "that revelation is true, not indeed because the intrinsic truth of the mysteries is clearly seen by the natural light of reason, but because of the authority of God Who reveals them, for He can neither deceive nor be deceived." Thus, to return to the act of faith which we make in the Holy Trinity, we may formulate it in syllogistic fashion thus: Whatever God reveals is true but God has revealed the mystery of the Holy Trinity therefore this mystery is true." [1]

As to the reasons why Catholics believe that one should place one's trust in God, these have to do with a variety of purely rational, if not always convincing arguments. Catholics believe that the existence of God can be proved with reason.

"'that God, the first cause (principium) and last end of all things, can, from created things, be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason' (Denz., 1785-old no. 1634)

and in the corresponding canon (can. i, De revelat.) it anathematizes anyone who would say

'that the one true God our Creator and Lord, cannot, through the things that are made, be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason (Denz., 1806-old no. 1653)." [2]

Catholics would not argue that you can logically deduce every tenant of their faith through reason alone, but they do believe that through reason, one can deduce enough to decide to place faith in truth of the religion and then chose to follow the rest of the beliefs.

1. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm
2. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608b.htm
I did the same in Australia. When I ran the script to request refunds for missed Express Post SLAs, we were 90% of Auspost’s inquiries for the day and got back thousands.
Specialization. We're already seeing specialized processors take over niches of compute (Googles TPU, bitcoin ASICs, GPUs etc etc). I think we'll see this trend accelerate.
Talking about cost of living is avoiding the underlying point.

Would you rather live in a society where everyone just gets enough to survive, or one where everyone gets enough to survive, half can afford basic consumer goods, and the other half can afford luxury consumer goods?

A significant number of people would genuinely pick the former. Some people really do think the pursuit of equality is just even if it makes everyone worse off.
Ive only seen off brand companies test this out. Samsung seems to be jumping headfirst into the bendable tech skipping dual screen.
They can become former Facebook shareholders. Nothing says they can't sell that stock if they don't like the compulsory leadership regime they originally signed on to.
well... populist can exist in all political spectrum and entities, as long as it's a popular opinion that feed on fabricated or ambiguous information.
I'm pretty disappointed with all of the brand new 3-6 story buildings on Capitol Hill. I get that we have a bunch of rich people whose views might have been impacted if the number of stories wasn't capped so low, but the hill is now damned near part of downtown, and we should have built much taller buildings to reflect that.
> Everything coldtea said was factually correct.

"NATO has been surrounding Russia with bases, and satellite states (using countries like Georgia, changing regimes, etc) ever since the "end" of the Cold War, and they're supposed to just sit back and take it."

Except this is exactly the Russian narrative coldtea is repeating.

"NATO has been surrounding Russia with bases, and satellite states"

Is this a fact or an opinion?

Joining NATO has been each time initiated by the new member state. Nobody has been called to NATO. Quite contrary, there was clear opposition to this and it was not at all certain if any of the new members would ever be able to join NATO.

This narrative like NATO is circling Russia is repeated every day in the Russian media.

It is not Russian neighbors fault that Russia has constantly demonstrated aggression towards its neighbors and willingness to repeat the invasion. Russian neighbors still remember the genocide that happened after the previous invasion.

"They're supposed to just sit back and take it."

In principle, in a civilized world where Russia has abandoned the expansion idea, yes.

Russia has chosen the isolation. Russia and NATO have been partners for long time but apparently the interests of both do not align anymore.

Edit: I agree with your description of the bigger picture.
It's definitely not entirely true.

Western GDP depends on body count growth, but GDP per capita does not.

Japan will lead the way in figuring out how fewer people can hopefully avoid deflationary debt-spirals.

I think notion that growth is dependent on body count is very dangerous, and totally unsustainable, among other things.

We need to look at growth, migration, and fertility as separate issues, each with a different set of consequences.

Upping the fertility rate a little bit, normalization migration (by 'normal' I mean the kinds of migration that exist between equal countries, not mass migration), reconfiguring our dysfunctional social security systems (at least they are dysfunctional in terms of how they are paid for by future generations), changing what retirement means, addressing massive costs of later life healthcare, and changing some of our economic targets.

This problem is as big as climate change in the sense that it affects everything and will require a re-think of some issues we haven't had to think about before.

Japan has to face the issues head-on before the rest of us, thank god they are smart because I think we'll inevitably end up following their example on a bunch of these things. At least they'll be providing us the data points.

The current globalist population redistribution policy, promoted by the UN, literally referred to as 'replacement migration' is going to be a staggeringly impossible thing to implement. [1]

As for India: hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel.

As for Pakistan and Nigeria: it will get much worse before it gets better, they have serious problems.

[1] https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...
Jets cost a ton to operate, in fuel, maintenance and personnel.
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This is the only reasonable outlook on the situation, sadly. People knew who and what Zuckerberg was when FB went public. Investors hoping to ride the hype and then dump him when convenient are the true “dumb fucks.”
Yes, clearly that is what everyone is saying. :-P

Maybe:

- Don't deploy a system that has this many false alerts (and that is what even the TSA calls them, they are not interested in finding dense hair)

- Stop continuing to use this stuff and spend money on it if we aren't seeing any benefit, and are seeing demonstrable harm.

- Don't replace human judgement with blind procedure that must be followed, when that procedure depends on a known flawed technology that isn't providing any demonstrable benefit.

- Accept that even if you want this kind of tech to exist, it isn't there yet, and you aren't going to "fix it in code" by adding a race variable.

Bottom line is, nobody is forcing us to use these machines / procedures. We aren't stuck with them and have to figure out some way to patch the code or we're all doomed, so we don't have to be so reductive about how we fix it. We could just say, this was a failed idea and throw it the hell out.
> I think they make sense for infrequently exercised routines of moderate complexity that are 100% execution

Yes. There have been several formal studies of this effect, e.g. [0]. Checklists offset skill fade, which is in effect the 'forgetting curve'. Some skills (the classic riding a bike) last for ages, others (a good example being field fault diagnosis) are lost very quickly even with good initial training.

Incidentally, I once made a good camping packing checklist by making an inventory of the contents of my car as I unpacked it at the end of a holiday and the things I'd forgotten were still fresh in my mind.

[0] https://www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/about/skills-fade-literature-...
true but future companies are under no obligation to sell and as facebook's reputation goes down the gutter i would say are even not likely
It's also worth a mention that the Chinese hid the Doolittle's Raiders and got them to safety in face of massive punitive reprisals by the Japanese.
My comment was from the perspective of the stakeholders i.e. governments/academia/spectrum holders, various steering groups/SIG/committees, policy makers, environmentalists, OEM's, chip designers/fabs, banks, telcos et al., who are not only aware of the challenges ahead but have to be fully invested and efficiency matters. [1]

They could adopt the default position suggested by you and do nothing; it will certainly be favourable and indeed profitable for all the incumbents in the short term, but they will only be postponing the inevitable. A new generation of mobile standard is a well-trodden path, from the beginning of 1980's with the advent of 1st Generation of wireless telecommunications and every decade since then. It is without a doubt paved with riches and there will be winners and losers ─ however, the biggest driver has been innovation and not just about the 'win' and to suggest that 5G might fail is pure fantasy.

It is a non-sequitur to compare stand-alone video formats with a constellation of technological advancements, encompassing a multitude of disciplines, which have had a profound impact on us.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nljwtkdHAYw
AMP was what made me abandon Google Search in January 2018 for DuckDuckGo.

Surprising how little I've noticed the change, after using Google Search for over 15 years. I try queries on google.com maybe once or twice a week if I don't find what I'm looking for on DDG. If it's anything media or product related, I feel like I'm on an old, crowded MySpace page. DDG feels more like the old Google.
Unless someone has a medical degree they're not an informed patient - they're someone who has been fed information through pharma PR campaigns to believe they're informed about a topic while only knowing information that would contribute to a private corporation's profit.

It is amazingly difficult to find good balanced information on prescriptions in the US - even doctors have issues.
Netflix execs say they’ll finally start releasing viewership data soon
Eating less fish is something we could all start to do immediately.
API's tend to be too hard for users to understand the security and privacy ramifications of. I don't think any new service today can really get away with sharing private user data via an open API, even with explicit user consent.
You're right. I forgot about the teens. I don't know about Czech, but in Polish the nominative plural isn't used for numbers higher than 100. "1024 bajtów" and not "1024 bajty". If I remember the rules correctly.
I work in phone repair so I see lots of broken phones and many rather... uh, not that bright of individuals.

This will 100% be a problem for consumers. It's easily recognizable as a screen protector, but it isn't = instant problems. Especially on a 2000$ device.
Meshroom has been very fun to work with for what I can only refer to as "closed-shell" or fully convex shapes. I tried my damnedest to collect a good photogrammetry-based model of a flower, and the mesh fidelity I got from my 100 or so photos was pretty terrible... And I think probably because of the leafs and the bowl shape of the petals on top. If I had time, I probably would have separated the flower into distinct pieces (leafs, stem, top of flower) and do more assemblage in my 3D program with discretely generated meshes...

However, stones and plant bulbs came out great.

Edit: After some of the other links in this discussion, I definitely need to revisit this project! Some people have had great success with foliage and flowers it seems like.
Winchester became widely used as an industry term outside of IBM for HDDs.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/10/business/new-from-silicon...
I wish I could come up with a more helpful comment, but, as someone with 1-3 terminal windows dedicated to Sage pretty much at all times on my machine: no, giving up a tenured professorship for Cocalc sounds like a bad plan.
It's a bit more nuanced than that. A lot of the progressive housing obstructionists rent at a fraction of the market rate due to long term rent control (one of the more prominent anti-housing activists rents a 2 bedroom apartment for only $670 a month). Many of said residents are heavily nativist and disdain the "techies" and people from "flyover states" moving to "their city". Blatant nativism is not socially acceptable, so pursuing exclusionary policies under the guise of protecting renters makes it more palatable.
Wealthy land owners? Calle 24 wields a lot of influence and they are mostly community activists.

Same with Rose Pak. Sure she maybe owned property, but she didn’t derive her power from it.
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> “I’ve always seen the barbershop as a place where people are talking and where you’re having conversations with people about your life,”

Exactly why I hate getting a haircut.
Weapons reveal how this 5,300-year-old ice mummy lived – and died (2018)
> generally receptive to increased taxation
I am sure all of those people with broken phones are appreciative of how "bold" Samsung has been in releasing this phone early.

Personally I prefer the Apple approach with new products e.g. iPhone, iPad, Watch which is to have largely perfected the hardware before shipping but release it with MVP software which they aggressively improve.
Why care if dishwasher is empty?
> By why does bidding have to happen in the first place? Because there isn't enough supply. If increase of supply matches increase of demand, the price doesn't go up.

Housing isn't as easy to create as normal products. There's a multi-year lag time to get new housing built. Here in Seattle we just had a number of high-rise luxury apartments open right next to Amazon's HQ within ~6 months of each other. As a result, rents in the area flatlined for a period. It was a good thing.

Those apartments were initially conceived probably ~3-5 years ago. 5 years ago AMZN was a $150B company, now it's worth 6x as much. If you had a time machine and could go back 10 years and look at how fast Amazon would grow in the 2010s, you'd absolutely invest massively in housing. We didn't have one, instead housing prices skyrocketed along with the rise of this one company that dominates our local economy.

> probably because the fallacious belief that well paying jobs causes costs to rise is generally more prevalent among so-called progressives

Are you trying to argue that Amazon's growth has no impact on the cost of living in Seattle? How is this a 'belief' thing? There is a preponderance of evidence that the rise in the tech sector in Seattle has dramatically increased housing prices here.
>You are more likely to see 10 men to each woman

So you are saying India's new-born gender divide is 91% men and 9% women?

Abortion based on gender is illegal in India. Most (all?) gynecologists in India won't reveal gender due to this until a certain stage (20 weeks) in the pregnancy after which abortion is illegal (requires court order).
This author's assumption that the extravert's experience is the default really grates on me.
Am I wrong in stating that onion traffic is watched more heavily than non onion traffic? And honestly it's never the message itself that is watched but the metadata, or so they say. So as long as they get your metadata, and it still seems reasonably possible, nothing has really changed.
The article says that it may be the fastest:

> At the end of February, a team of computer scientists at Aarhus University posted a paper [ https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10935 ] arguing that if another unproven conjecture is also true, this is indeed the fastest way multiplication can be done.
Sony, Sharp and Kyocera are not off-brand companies.
> We might soon learn that the Russian Collusion story was mass hysteria in hindsight.

What we know is the actions of the sitting President of the US didn't rise to the legally provable action of actively working with a hostile foreign intel agency.

Everything up to that point has been proven and made public. The Trump Tower meeting, Trump Tower Moscow negotiations, Manafort giving polling data to the FSB, Wikileaks/GRU, etc.

If ALL of that happened and no one reported on it, the news media would have truly failed.

The story has yet to be written.
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> The difference between China and Russia is 77x.

The population of Russia is ~146.7M [0]

The population of China is ~1,403M (~1.4B) [1]

This makes China ~9.6 times larger than Russia.

The US is ~327M [2], which makes China about ~4.3 times as large.

It's a big difference, but not as large as 77x.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
They probably vote in the best interests of other people. They possibly even sell the votes... (Is that illegal?)
Daimler and BMW's car-sharing service reportedly hacked – up to 100 cars missing
A few years back I met with a few engineers working for Wipro. They were designing the dashboard electronics behind the new BMW 5 or 7 series. I was shocked to find that out at the time. Found some news about it here in case someone is curious on more info: https://www.wipro.com/newsroom/press-releases/archives/wipro...
It's always been the case that the majority of new construction hews to whatever style is currently in. It's more expensive to vary everything up and commission unique design languages for each building, and constructing housing affordably is more important than providing eyecandy for passers-by.

I live in East Village and it's basic five floor brick walk-ups everywhere.
It's a valid point, if a bit grumpy: The big deal about smartphones is that in various different ways, they were able to replace the mechanical with the electrical, and replace physical design with software-based design. (Don't like where that button is? Tweak the code. Type of thing.) Adding a hinge is in some ways a step backward. I also agree with your grandparent comment though, that it's a bold idea and a neat gimmick. (EDIT: ...if it worked!)
I meant NEC, not Sharp.
> Taiwan is in China

dude, NO IT'S NOT.
and also please don't bring this sensitive political topic to a technical-based forum.
It's like arguing Israel and Palestine, or who should own Kashmir