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Given the history of previous U.S.-sponsored coup attempts against the Venezuelan government, and given that the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela was responsible for running guns to right-wing death squads in Central America in the 80's, and given that the "outside interventions" in Iraq and Libya killed hundreds of thousands of people and left those countries as smoking husks, I'd say the appropriate time for an invasion is never.

Incidentally, the Venezuelan government is not refusing aid delivered by genuine humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross - they were refusing "aid" delivered by agencies of the U.S. government, on behalf of an insurrectionist leader currently attempting a coup d'etat. This refused aid was later burned down by the paramilitary arm of the rebels.

Imagine that the Iranian government declared that it was recognizing a random U.S. congressman as the legitimate president and then demanded that the Revolutionary Guard be permitted to deliver aid to this congressman's new government. That's basically the situation
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I think you're confusing procedural with functional. Modern Javascript has some support for functional idioms, but C is as far from functional programming as you get (nothing wrong with that, of course)
Doug loves to reminisce about that battling ships game; if I didn't know better I'd think he was prouder of that tournament than of Cyc itself ;)

> And do you still accept candidates ? :-)

If you mean job candidates, then yes, we definitely do!
Sorry, Nader can go hang.

Nader splitting the Democratic vote at a crucial point when they were under active attack by the GOP in the form of Rove, DeLay, Gingrich and others is an unforgivable crime.

We needed to fight back THEN, not after 15 more years.
we give countries millions in aid for "humanitarian" reasons without expecting much back, you think we wouldnt be interested in getting our hands in one of the biggest oil reserves in the world? And actually there is nothing to give back directly, the very act of overthrowing the current gov which is the cause of their misery is their aid. Its like removing trees that are blocking a road because you plan to sell them. Your actions have good repercussions even though they are done according to your interest.

The people cant rebel because there is no one with enough cojones or brains to do it. it sounds harsh but it is true. "venezuelan rambo" tried to revolt and even though people supported him through social media, they simply were not willing to die for the cause so the government stamped him out. Besides even if there was a successful revolt the probability of another maduro/chavez rising out of that is high. I am convinced the only way we fix the world is literally by controlling it. We are the only ones doing society right. sounds harsh and not politically correct but its time to leave behind beauty-parlor chitchat and get real with ourselves. the only reason why the US shouldnt directly do it is because we would set a bad example for countries. We couldn't judge Russia with the same yard stick we measure ourselves with
I go for a short walk at the end of every hour. I have found my fitbit pretty useful in reminding me to do at least 250 steps every hour. The number might be small but i usually end up doing more than that once i get going.
The US government seized Venezuelan assets, then started sending US military to the Colombian side of the border. On top of numerous sanctions, calls for military revolt, dictation of who is president. Funny to see Bernie Sanders to Trump to the US press shaking their finger at Maduro and the US deciding who is president, then the US press goes back to bemoaning Russian involvement in US politics (of course the US NED interferes more in Russian elections than Russia ever did in US elections).

Of course the UK seized Venezuela's assets too. Macron took a break from sending his goon squads to assault the yellow vest rural working class of his country to make maudlin statements about how Maduro treated the Venezuelan anti-Maduro protestors who are shooting and burning people to death in Caracas. "Populist" Italy was lambasted for preventing an EU United front for endorsing a new US/EU selection of who should run Venezuela.

Meanwhile Brazil has Lula and the opposition locked up in prison, Obama backed the military coup in Honduras, presidential candidates assassinated , not the endless articles in the western press about problems there though, other than Hondurans are fleeing the chaos to the US border - then they appear on the US news.

It's amusing to see the Macron yellow vest, Brexit/Corbyn, Trump/Bernie western nations, being overwhelmed by their own increasingly angry working class, performing some good old fashioned imperialism, to the maudlin squawks of liberal cheers.
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This is from an analysis from January last year when Trump announced additional sanctions on Venezuela:

"An even more problematic idea driving current U.S. policy is the belief that financial sanctions can hurt the Venezuelan government without causing serious harm to ordinary Venezuelans. That’s impossible when 95 percent of Venezuela’s export revenue comes from oil sold by the state-owned oil company. Cutting off the government’s access to dollars will leave the economy without the hard currency needed to pay for imports of food and medicine. Starving the Venezuelan economy of its foreign currency earnings risks turning the country’s current humanitarian crisis into a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/12/why-more-sanctions-wont...
Except that Ember is one of the heaviest front-end frameworks in terms of file size. Heavy file-size = more work for your mobile phone's CPU to deal with.
I have found the TouchID to be similarly unreliable. It's possible thought it's a mixture of different human factors (iPhone TouchID is easier to touch the same way every time) and more immature hardware.
Violence is chaotic, so usually doesn't work in anyone's favor. But a very bad regime might be deterred from imposing some of the worst policies on people if they are armed, because potential chaos could topple the regime.

For instance, it's hard for me to imagine actually blocking food aid from coming in to hungry people. The people waiting for that food may get desperate and violent. If enough are armed, the ensuing violence and chaos might topple the regime.

So Maduro might have been worried enough not to block the food aid if more Venezuelans were armed.
Didn’t Alan Kay coin the term “object oriented”?
DragonBall Z fanfic: Honor Trip

Cell changes allegiance. Kind of a rationalist fic that I rarely see anyone else talking about.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4746383/1/Honor-Trip

(Like most fanfics, it is unfinished, but at least the first saga, as in, the main storyline, got finished.)
PyTorch and Tensorflow are not that different, particularly with TF eager.
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The author isn't saying efficiency doesn't exist. The thesis is "We believe that if technology can make some aspect of our lives more efficient, we’ll get back free time to do the things we actually find meaningful."

Of course things are more efficient now. But the real question is-- does that make our lives better? Is an efficient vacation a better vacation? What would an "efficient" vacation look like (the idea sound gross to me. Getting lost and overwhelmed are part of the fun for me).

Simply put, efficiency taken to a logical extreme is bad and we should acknowledge that.
This really doesn't work and it's a disservice to mention it. Every time someone has tried to withhold binaries other people step up within hours to provide them (whether that's a good thing or not).
Either you tell your objects what to do, which means they have mutable state, which means you are programming in an imperative way.

Or you get values from your objects. You need getters for this, but you can guarantee immutability and apply functional programming principles to your code.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. At the end of the day, you need values.
You've obviously never had children.
I think side projects and businesses are a great way to learn and have an interesting life, so I am usually doing something outside of work. My friends write plays and do standup which sometimes pays. I used to teach swimming after work because it got me to the gym and I could develop my communication skills.

Currently, I have a hobby map business that generates some money (https://www.wellingtonstravel.com/). Recently I created a matchmaking app for people who travel. It's not making money yet, but I expect it to be able to generate income too (https://www.fairytrail.app/).

I believe it's about finding what interests you first. Money is a nice bonus.
What does floating the title mean? Is it never registering it in your own name and just letting the next guy do it?
it is wrong view
It will reach balance. We went from all bad to all good, which was necessary to reintroduce the drug into a society that irrationally rejected all aspects of it. Once it has settled, we will be able to talk about its problems again.

My personal pet peeve is hearing there is no addiction. I sold pot for years and some of my clients were definitely showing all the signs of addiction. My guess is that as humans, we can get addicted to pretty much anything as long as we can use it to cope with the hard parts of life.
Speech even without thought is still free speech. You would hope that the most thoughtful speech would be easily recognized and followed in place of its opposite. However, free speech does not exist in a world where only one group decides what is thoughtful speech.
It would be interesting to know the fraction of totalitarian governments that are socialist or communist. You could probably compile something based off [1] cross referenced with governance style. It is not clear to me that socialism is over-represented in the authoritarian set compared to the non-authoritarian states, but I haven't gone through the list rigorously.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Similarly psychosis is strongly linked with marijuana usage. In a certain portion this becomes chronic. It depends on genetic predisposition to developing it, but for those with certain genetics (and you can't know until it happens to you) you can develop it and in a certain number of cases it's a debilitating life long condition that will ruin your entire life.
You misunderstood my post. I said I haven’t seen a useful getter abstraction. Not all data access is via a method nor is it always abstract.

I specifically object to the useless abstraction, not the boilerplate (boilerplate is cheap).
We do everything with https://www.deepdetect.com/. Small team and targeted applications, this may not apply to all needs. The time from dev to prod is very low though.
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That's what he claims but there's zero evidence besides his own word.
React with class-components is very OOP.

Hooks are closer to functional programming, though (but were released only a couple months ago)
Would you mind expanding on what ETFs are you holding and your strategy for (if any) rotation?
The complexity of internal combustion engines and their emissions control seems to support the idea that perfectly reacting two substances is very difficult even when all of your machinery is working nominally.
I used to love the "US out of North America NOW!" graffiti.

But maybe that was AIM, not Weather Underground.
You get immutability for free with Clojurescript which is a bigger win than types but if you must have types there's Clojurescript spec now:

http://cljs.github.io/api/cljs.spec.alpha/
I'm not sure I'd agree that it being a Wednesday is a "just is" sort of thing. The point in time is a data point (on the time axis, if you will). A function then needs to place it in a calendar.

FWIW I'm struggling to come up with a good example of where the line between data and functions is clearcut, except perhaps when the data describes a function: an SQL string, some code that'll get eval'ed, etc.
> In one creepy experiment, the scientists implanted electrodes in a mother rabbit’s brain, took her young litter off to a submarine and, when it was deep below the surface, killed them one by one. At each synchronised time of death, the mother’s brain reacted.
BTW the foundations generally explicitly do not fund development; they're more for marketing. (I know LF employs Linus and Greg KH and such but that's like 1% of Linux development.)
...even if the cop did have a reasonable belief that they were being threatened with deadly force, they would also have to believe that there was no way for them to escape the situation.

Not that there is no way; just that they reasonably couldn't. Like, once someone has drawn a gun on you.

People must generally retreat if they can but cops generally can't retreat -- they have to serve the warrant, perform the arrest or find the briefcase, whatever it was they were dispatched to do.

And even then, most state's "self defence" laws require that the defender not be the instigator of the situation.

Being the instigator isn't really a clear criterion. Consider the case where someone trespasses in my home, and I approach them and tell them to leave, and they draw a gun on me. I am the instigator but it's a situation where I can (and often must) defend myself. If we flip it a little bit -- I am robbing someone's house and they draw a gun on me -- then I am not acting in self defence if I draw a gun on them. They key ingredient is whether I am acting lawfully.

The issue is not "who started it" (which would be tough for the law to deal with) but rather if someone is doing something lawful in a place where they have a right to do it. Police can lawfully approach and detain people and generally badger them in a far wider range of circumstances than other people can -- and indeed that is part of their charter, that's why we have them.

If police are acting lawfully and someone draws down on them, they are in a self defence situation.

----Edit for background follows----

California is a "Castle Doctrine" state. One is presumed to be acting lawfully when one acts against an intruder on one's real property (home, business, &c). In other situations, there must be a clear threat of bodily harm. https://statelaws.findlaw.com/california-law/california-self...
That’s ironic considering that Erlang was designed for telecommunications.

But I think statefulness is the right context between the two.

Why do you think Go would be more maintainable?
Maybe because a "racism" thread will inevitably turn into a political shitstorm. There's thousands of other places to discuss politics.
Isn't a method call a message, and the return value a message back? Or is it that "true OO" must be asynchronous?
They are not refusing food aid, the Red Cross etc. have been let on all along. The US announced the Venezuelan government had no sovereignty over their border and sent "aid" trucks in, which were blocked.

Incidentally, "humanitarian aid" is how the person the USA convicted as a criminal - Elliot Abrams - sent weapons to contras in and out of Nicaragua.
Those aren’t abstractions... Also, I’m not arguing that you can’t contrive an abstraction around a getter, I’m arguing that it’s useful to do so (so please spare me contrived examples!).
The economy is predominantly private: it is the sanctions hurting the economy. I refuse to defend Maduro, but he is the peoples’ choice. Yes there are anti-Maduro rallies, but there are also pro-Maduro rallies the media conveniently ignores.

Meanwhile, the idea that the US could help without putting someone right wing in place that happens to benefit the supply of fuel against the interests of the people of Venezuela like Guaidó is absurd.

If you want to help the people of Venezuela, end sanctions. This is an economic siege and we are seeing the consequences.
I get that "what don't I get?" feeling all the time. Overengineering is basically an epidemic at this point, at least in the JS/front-end industry.

My guess is there's a correlation between overengineering and career success, which drives it. Simple, 'KISS' style code is the easiest to work with, but usually involves ditching less essential libraries and sticking more to standards, which looks crap on your resume. Most interviewers are more interested in whether you can piece together whatever stack they're using rather than whether you can implement a tough bit of logic and leave great documentation for it; so from a career perspective there's zero reason for me to go for a (relatively) simple 100 line solution to a tough problem when I can instead go for a library that solves 100 different use cases and has 10k lines of documentation that future devs have to wade through. The former might be the 'best' solution for maintainability but the latter will make me appear to be a better engineer, especially to non-technical people, of which there are far too many of on the average team.
Anything below 1% is not showned in France, maybe it's the same in your country.
Caddy's source builds are still working; just took a couple hours for me to figure out and update the instructions.
Nonsense. Sanctions kill. It's like withholding food from a person who is already hungry.
none of my coworkers use it

This sounds like the root of your problem. If you want to do FP, and none of your coworkers want to do FP, then your problem isn't really the language.

If you're in a Java shop, maybe start by evangelizing FP rather than a totally different language/platform? It's possible to do FP in Java, and (IMO) it ends up pretty reasonable. But it's not the default habit for J Random Java Programmer, so they need training.
It was. Criticisms like this led to implementing hybrid-OO systems. Those are what we now call OO. He’s talking about Smalltalk, Self, that sort of thing.
>Imagine that the Iranian government declared that it was recognizing a random U.S. congressman as the legitimate president and then demanded that the Revolutionary Guard be permitted to deliver aid to this congressman's new government. That's basically the situation

No, it isn't. The situation is that a despot is in control of Venezuela and it has failed in its contract with the people to provide the basic services required of government, so it is no longer a legitimate government regardless of your rationalizations of the situation.

If Trump refused to cede control, our inflation rate was over 100000%, and there were rampant food shortages and electricity failures then I hope there would be a revolution.
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> See comment above, it appears to be automated.

That's correct: if a comment either (1) gets too many more downvotes than upvotes or (2) gets flagged, it's automatically killed.

Also, users can "vouch" for a dead comment or article to bring it back to life if they believe it has been wrongly killed.
I think many folks tend to mean "highly addictive" and "everything else" when actually saying "addictive" and "not." Stuff in the latter category can, indeed, be addictive to a baseline level or thereabouts (likely to small numbers of people; it would be interesting to see if "addicts" blur the categories more).
In response to your last sentence - I completely agree. If you ever notice that there’s some behavior that you often perform in response to some difficult thought or physical pain - carefully consider whether that habit is helping you or hurting you.
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It depends on the definition of success for the involved parties. It doesn't always mean full captulation.
I’m a physician (epileptologist)... Started out comp sci and made the switch to medicine to help people. Currently doing programming/academic medicine roughly 50/50; the former has yet to provide any significant money or grants, but it’s still enjoyable and comes in handy from time to time for research endeavors.
>> No, it isn't. The situation is that a despot is in control of Venezuela and it has failed in its contract with the people to provide the basic services required of government, so it is no longer a legitimate government regardless of your rationalizations of the situation.

That's up to the people of Venezuela, who by and large have continued to stand by the Maduro government, which is why the opposition has resorted to attempting to incite a foreign invasion to seize power.

It's really pretty disgusting that you're so callously willing to condemn the Venezuelan people to the horrifying fates suffered by Iraqis and Libyans after the United States destroyed their countries. It's not your decision to make, it's not the decision of the United States government, and it's certainly not the decision of a cluster of Reagan-era war criminals with long histories of supporting right-wing Latin American death squads.
The trouble with Typescript is that the corporates have gotten their hands all over it as a means of turning JS into Java. TS turns lean, functional JS into an over-engineered smorgasbord of classes, interfaces and general OOP nonsense. JS was designed primarily as a functional language.
That's very insightful comment. I'd never thought about it that way. Thank you.
Ever heard of the halting problem?
I think you mean horse stall mats, which you can find at Tractor Supply, etc. 4’ x 6’ x 3/4” vulcanized rubber:

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/4-ft-x-6-ft-x-3-4-...

The ones I have (I used a few in my home gym) were made in Canada. I’m surprised any of these come from China.
You are correct, I think his sentiment still has a great point though when looking at it through the eyes of ownership being of the few, and inheritance tax being overlooked in the UK in some cases.

Especially seeing as royal family wasn't the greatest fan of him.
I wonder though, seems like the fact that they chose a general purpose object classification implies that face detection still works.
I didn't claim that Venezuela is a "true socialist" country (because no such thing exists). I am just saying that socialism is the perfect cover for a terrible government like the one in Venezuela, because it's the quickest route to immense power.
> blame the US

The US seized $1 billion from Venezuela, sent the army to the Colombian border, and is calling for the Venezuelan army to revolt.
This article is spot on. Engineers increasingly define the course of our daily lives, and they've been taught, almost universally, that efficiency is not only a value in and of itself, it is the highest value we can pursue. But we're all destined for the grave, and if we truly want maximum efficiency, it follows that we should promptly kill ourselves. Clearly efficiency cannot be our only guide, and I think the current technocracy has gone much too far down that dead-end.
Thanks for the recommendations! All those areas you mentioned in relation to mathematics do deeply interest me - and while I have rudimentary background in linear algebra, stats, and calculus (college 101 stuff) - tackling some of those higher order math concepts will probably be an uphill battle. I think I'm interested enough to at least find some material and try it out! :)
Hacker news.

jk ;)
I'm not so sure. Beating children when they speak in their own language seems violent to me.
The largest phone seller in Africa comes from China,with more Chinese coming
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Even if he did, a taser is not a lethal threat. Cops don’t have any right to use lethal force when they are not so threatened.

People have a right to use lethal force if they reasonably believe they are so threatened. We don't require people to be able to read the label off the side of what someone is pointing at them, to know if it is a genuine Glock or a Tokyo Marui replica.

As long as people are willing to pull guns or gun look-alikes on armed police and similar forces, there will be death by cop.
Doesn’t pattern matching lead to either more verbose code or a duplicate code? Most of the time?