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I read A Doll's House and Ghosts in high school. Ghosts ends with the main character's son, who has inherited syphilis from his father, insanely chanting "The sun, the sun, the sun, the sun."

That ending is something that my brother and I reference today as an example of how art can become top-heavy and unconvincing (The sun is the "source," which in this case is the father, who has passed his disease literally and figuratively on to his son).

The ultimate problem I have with Ibsen is that his plays feel pre-configured, even fake. He's never searching for a thesis or questioning. He has an opinion to unload (e.g. the sins of the father shall be visited upon the son) and he's decided to use a play to do it. The result feels sterile, boring, lacking in wit, pointless.

I would unfavorably compare Ibsen to Raymond Carver. Carver also deals with disintegrating families, marital tension, poverty, alcoholism and the rest. But Carver somehow feels vital and real. His writing never resembles overwrought tragedy even though there's plenty of unhappiness. You never get the feeling that Carver has the answers or that he's talking down to you.
This is important. The number of times I've seen people in authority lie to justify their behavior is too damn high.
Sloppy wording, yes, bad example, not really. "just" requires you to consider "2" to be the product of all numbers in the multiset {2}. Let "product of primes" mean "product of one or more primes" and it works.
I'm not sure they have less reach. Most people have heard of the chans and stormfront from notoriety. And for one, I seriously doubt an individual comes into white nationalism through mainstream channels like reddit.

What this ultimately accomplishes is that the public gets to be blissfully ignorant about the blemishes, but these people are operating in the same capacity as before without brushing up to challenges as much
A Hungarian community center became an 'enemy of the state' (2018)
Land taxes are a great idea, but they are even less popular than zoning changes.

Almost every housing law has carveouts for small buildings/landlords with few apartments since they are politically powerful and relatively sympathetic.

Advocating for land taxes rather than zoning changes is wishful thinking
I've seen Java code bases with anonymous inner classes in anonymous inner classes. So where is your God now?
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Lol, yup.
I just realized furgoo was being sarcastical (I hope)
> They have no independent foreign policy

Where do you get that idea? Germany is one of the most active countries in diplomacy and is at odds with the US all the time.
"poor sleep had a 1.8-times higher risk"

Yikes.
> First most obvious, how come do pilots trust a system that has these layers of manual security checks with their lives. And second, can't it all be automated?

Conveniently the word "deviance" has multiple meanings, two of which apply here.

The article uses deviance in the sense of "deviation from the behavioral norm" (where that norm is a external process). I completely agree with your assessment that these processes can become cumbersome and a barrier to doing work (at most big companies the process becomes the point and dominates actually getting work done). Automation can go a long way to improving that, both in reducing cynicism and letting people spend their time on the stuff that actually moves the company forward.

However the manual checks in aviation also serve to find unexpected deviation in the shape or performance of the device. The reason the first officer walks around the aircraft is not for exercise but because she may see something "out of the ordinary" for which no test exists -- something that should be straight looks subtly out of kilter, indicating that, say, a bolt on the wheel has come loose and under load the wheel tilts slightly. This kind if check is harder to find in software which uses many fewer humans intuitions, which is why we have code stylebook and code reviews.
This is a really interesting question. IANAL and I am not sure a decisive answer even exists, but here is another thread to pull: Lots of traders work with satelite data to estimate non-disclosed info about energy and agriculture companies: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...

That article suggests that there is a consensus that high tech surveillance doesn't count as inside information, and I can't see why Jane's reverse engineering would be different. There's also an argument that she is publicizing the material, so depending on the order of operations maybe it is public?

A separate question is what kind of trouble you might be able to get into with specific companies due to license agreements. Would love legal take on any of above as well.
At least not me, as I don't use facebook at all, life is good without it.

I have to use google for daily searching, along with gmail, I now migrate my primary email to outlook and my goal is to use google only for searching under anonymous mode, i.e. not all eggs in one basket, to mitigate privacy concerns
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Would this mean no apartment buildings? Many people prefer to rent, and banning that seems a little selfish and short sighted.
> “theater of concurrence,” a genre whose practitioners take for granted that their liberal audiences already agree with them about everything

Bit of an ideological record scratch moment there, so I went to look for an "about commentary magazine" (there isn't one?) and an overview of their work: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/issues/ which is clearly coming from a very ideological place.

Nonetheless the central thesis of the piece is sound; what was shockingly progressive now looks mundane, because society has changed.

> Therein, however, lies the source of our latter-day discontent with Ibsen, which is that the people who go to see serious plays today are no longer horrified by anything in A Doll’s House or Ghosts. To the contrary, they sympathize with Nora and her fellow transgressors, and this sympathy cannot help but diminish the impact of Ibsen’s work.

For similar reasons nobody reads Stendhal any more, Tolkein looks cliched and oddly paced if you are exposed to any modern fantasy before reading him, and landmark films like Citizen Kane and 2001 are entertainment only to very specific audiences.
Even Chris Olah uses Inkscape.
(Personally, I prefer TikZ, do to the easiness to change styles in a more semantic way.)

Vide "Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks" https://medium.com/inbrowserai/simple-diagrams-of-convoluted... with an overview of tools for drawing diagrams for deep learning.
> Whenever I hear people say this, I'm really sceptical. Does this mean never buying any products with animal ingredients? Nothing that has butter or milk, no ice cream, never a turkey sandwich or anything with egg or gelatine in it, like candy?

Yes, that's what I mean by that. Anything with animal products I buy from organic shops (which in Germany are required to meet animal welfare standards) or from farms with one of two other animal welfare standards (without the organic requirements attached). The only real exception that I regularly make is buying chocolates that my wife particularly likes. But we're talking about a couple hundred grams of chocolate per year.

It helps significantly that I enjoy cooking and buy next to nothing pre-packaged. I make just about everything myself from fresh ingredients, and the thing I don't come from the above mentioned shops. Things like ice cream, mayonnaise, etc. I make myself.

Do I end up eating some stuff that doesn't meet my standards? Of course. But far, far more of that comes from eating out, or eating at friends' places, etc. than stuff that slips through in my own grocery shopping.
This is true, but I also think the answer is addressing the problem of seemingly all opportunity being concentrated in less than 10 cities. Cities face inevitable scaling limits.

There has always been regional inequality of opportunity, but never to this degree.

A great way to see the problem is to look at where the top ten most popular early personal computers came from. You will see places like Philadelphia (C64), Miami/Boca Raton (IBM), Dallas (TI), and Albuquerque (Altair). These days it would be almost all the Bay Area and maybe one from Seattle, NYC, Boston, or LA metro.
We do get to say that some perspectives are right and some are wrong. Humans are moral agents, we have that ability. And those are wrong.
Single family owners do the most damage to a housing crunch, not career landlords..
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You realize anyone can post anything on reddit? I could go to /r/SandersForPresident and LARP as a violent communist revolutionary, right this moment if I wanted to.
Taxes and loans are cheap in Japan. Anyone with even a modest income in the US should have no problem carrying two homes in Japan.
No, it's objectively dumpster trash. Dig deeper in the linked post and you'll see way worse comments.

There are subjective things and there are objective things. What you're doing at this moment (trying to justify both sides) is intellectually dishonest.

> To them you are the assholes for calling it trash or wanting to get rid of it.

A child might call their parents stupid for not letting them eat candy all day. Objectively the parents are not stupid, the child has a mistaken perspective.

From the perspective of a hypergiant star, the sun is not that big. This does not change the objective truth that the sun is a large object.

I hope you realize you are justifying horrible, vile speech by trying to "see both sides".
Racist online communities aren't difficult to find. The problems brew on the fringes first. Regardless of how they might see it, I think the close proximity to the rest of the public erodes it's power.
They did do it on the ARM windows RT laptops, though that line of products is now defunct.
Entertaining typo/correction for "censer", I suppose?
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And if I want to search for say which of call/apply takes an array, or even confirm what version of php a new flag is introduced, I’m not searching for “$language programming $feature”.

I’m using DDG bangs to reduce the noise from the start and take me straight to a site specific result : `!mdn function apply` or eg `!php preg_split`.
I'm roughly 5 years out of undergrad and my peers from my midwestern private school are already stratifying. There are people who flock to the coasts or get assigned to some midwestern capital for a few years (but with a well paying job and opportunity to transfer to a larger office), and there are those who stayed behind. More often then not the people left behind either didn't finish college or aren't using their degree, got married at 23 and kids at 24, and/or parading a pyramid scheme on instagram. Its a shame because this was a private school with a strong focus on higher education, lots of kids getting great scholarships to awesome schools, but after college its like these people stop engaging themselves to beef up their resume. It's easy to stagnate in the midwest.
Yes that's the point .NET is a 20 year old stack which is great for Microsoft's market cap but maybe not for the rest of the industry
Because there is large a social cost with allowing regular people and retirement investment funds to waste money in scams. I'm not saying that Slack IPO is a scam. I'm saying that if a majority of public companies cannot turn a profit ever then nobody will ever be able to retire, except the Madoffs that we didn't catch.
I usually put it this way:

The wealthy are coming and they are going to take a house. If you build nice new condos, they’ll happily take them. But if you don’t, they’ll buy up run down duplexes, evict the tenants, and convert them into McMansions instead.
Actually, I had a hell of time clearing a paper jam just the other day. Had to completely rip apart the duplexer. First malfunction in years. Definitely one of my better tech investment. Colors are better than I expected. Output is so much more professional looking compared to inkjet.
He didn't have any "logic"...?
Can this be used offline?

That is, where does the data live?
Lots more people happily choose to live in NYC than in SF.

Clearly NYC housing structure services 10x what SF does.
I think a better comparison would be if Vader supported Pride week on his planets and promoted gender neutral toilets for his employees. Something that's morally right not just nice like cake.

Regarding Facebook, I enjoy using it, its better than Twitter for less toxicity.
Yes. Who knows if the reason all the comments above you are pro-suppressing minority views is because that's how HN feels or because people are suppressing minority views?
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This is so frustrating to me.
First of all who is to say what constitutes toxic? For instance, a drug related subreddit I know of was banned. There, people discussed harm reduction and chemistry of novel compounds. It was amazing and very useful for people. But that got banned.

Second- no of course this isnt effective. Its effective at removing people from the platform. But it is not decreasing "hate speech" (which is nonsense newspeak anyway) its just pushing it out of the mainstream. And for those of you making the argument that it is reducing peoples exposure to hate speech which stops its proliferation... Nonsense. In a free society everyone gets to dicide what they do and don't believe. You cannot control peoples thoughts by reducing their exposure to the bad thoughts.

Good people will not be convinced by bad arguments. Bad people will be bad either way.

I hate this so much and reddit is not NEARLY theplace it used to be. Now it is a liberal echo chamber which is all too happy to collectively shout down any divergent thinking. It was alwaysthat way to an extent, but it's so bad now that I finally had to delete my 6 year old account.
LVT for the win.

It's been proposed first in california in 1890, as a solution to homelessness and poverty. So Im not feeling confident that will happen.
Specifically what I said was that they are worthless until you get to see the cap table (which most startups will not show you.)

Stocks are shares in a company. Imagine you have a box with money in it. And I tell you you get 4500 parts of this box. But I dont tell you how many parts there are total -- you see the numerator but not the denominator. In that situation it is impossible to discern the value of your 4500 parts since you dont know how many ways the money gets split.

It gets trickier, because cap tables also have liquidity preferences. So you can have 4500 parts of the box. And another person can have 4500 parts, but their 4500 might be worth a whole lot more than your 4500 because there are different classes of stocks. It isn't uncommon to have one class paid first, in whole or 1.x greater than whole before the next class gets paid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidation_preference

Oh, then there is the actual business -- there is tons of business risk. Even if the business does well, it may be in the red and the future of the company (and worth of your shares) are dependent on successive rounds of funding and their implied valuation. You get a down-round and you might be wiped out.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/downround.asp

Even if everything gets well, depending on the classes of shares of decision-makers, you can end up in a situation where the founders/board might have an incentive to sell at just an amount where they make out well but employees get wiped out.
Case:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/technology/when-a-unicorn...

Or Levandowski's side startup where the company got sold for just enough for Levandowski to make out golden
https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando...

The Net-Net of all this is: stock options are not worthless, their worth is based on a formula with a dozen+ variables, almost none of which you know the values/ranges/distributions for -- and a formula where many combinations of theoretical inputs result in zero value.
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You also open yourself to the possibility that the sensor gives a false negative, which is more disastrous.
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All at once? Could be an accident but could be collusion
I find this extremely hard to believe.

I disagree with white supremacists, anti-vaxxers, and people who defend sex offenders.

I also disagree with think that JSON is more readable than YAML, that C++ is a good language to teach beginners, and that Apache is more user-friendly than nginx.

Only one of these groups is "toxic" to me. But just "people I disagree with" is not an accurate representation as to why I find them toxic.

i.e. They cause actual harm to the general public.
Apart from the initial cost construction and maintenance. Are there cost of Fusion in terms of cost/W? Or do we get Free, limitless Energy?

Wouldn't the first country achieve this be in huge / leap forward advantage? Especially for a country like China with lots of Production and Exports.
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Without getting into the numbers, this is the right approach:

Some people argue Property taxes vs Land Value taxes thinking it is roughly the same, and that althought it might change tax structure it wouldnt change rent prices.

But thats true if you look at it statically: dynamically, you make poeple in single family homes want to abandon them and sell them to developers, so you naturally turn an enemy (nimby) into an ally (sell for developers).
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Chill. If you want to go overboard just advocate for nationalizing all land.
This may be easier in the UK as your healthcare is not tied to your employment.
I think one term for it is Creeping Normality.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality
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Land tax is calculated based on local rents, not state-wide single numbers.

LVT long time proposal is that most of the value in land rent is due to government spending and another activities positive externality.
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Over a period of time, it becomes quite challenging to manager open risks and prioritizes. I wanted to explore how other people are tracking open risks? Which system do you guys use, is there any standard tool that is more efficient?

Thanks for the help.
I saw the post and i think its interesting. Glad to see different kind of discussion compared to reddit or hn.

In the prespective of the child, the parent might be stupid. Even in the perspective of other parent, some parent might not consider it stupid.

This just show "large" is relative.

I'm not justifying horrible, vile speech because I disagree that the speech is horrible or vile.
I do a fair bit of scanning but these days scanner apps on my phone are just about good enough.
Check to see if your House rep or either of your senators is on an appropriations committee. If so, tell them how you would like to see the appropriations for the Department of Energy, DoD, and other departments change in Fiscal Year 2020. (The FY 2020 bills could start getting passed in the next couple months.)
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I'm not convinced that "good ideas will naturally win over bad ideas" applies to twelve year old children. My assumption is that a sizable contingent of tweens explains the tone of many of the internet's worst places.
If you got rid of your facebook account, they will find another way to contact you. And then they are also more likely to leave facebook, or at least use it less. I had people complain when I dropped whatsapp and say that they wouldn't be able to get hold of me if I stopped using it. I just told them it crashed my phone too often and then they found other ways to contact me.
they can't be a rival to the US when their defense is provided by the US and they host 50k US military units (vs. 250k currently active units in the whole japanese army).
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Wouldnt then our “green renewables” also not be green due to their production lifecycle as well? Plastics, batteries, fiberglass, rare earth metals, cobalt, etc
Whether Facebook should be paying people to work or not, the decision should be made by Facebook and those people voluntarily, not imposed on them by the government. If some people think they should be paid for the work, they should refuse to do it for free...the fact that in such a case other people might do the same work for free instead doesn't still entitle the government to dictate the terms of a voluntary relationship.
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Yes human are moral agents and at the same time every human are different. What one called "wrong" might not be wrong for other.
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I think for every 100 people who talk about Vaughn's "Challenger Disaster" there are maybe 2 or 3 who actually read it.

Like many books in sociology it comes at the problem from multiple perspectives (in different chapters) such that you can't really hold the author to any one clear conclusion.

Big picture, the space shuttle was "unsafe at any speed" from the very beginning. It was estimated that it had a 3% or so chance of blowing up on any flight which turned out to be just about right in hindsight.

One point of the book was that the Space Shuttle had many things wrong with it: they had a committee who's job it was to review all the safety risks and decide which ones they could accept. "Normalization of deviance" was not a bottom-up matter of bad practices, but a formal part of the organization.

If things had gone a little different with the O-Rings then perhaps the "Challenger Disaster" wouldn't have happened, but then it would have been something else. I remember in the early days the thermal tiles were falling off, but after they had done a few flights they convinced themselves it was OK. It was the Columbia disaster that proved that they weren't OK and couldn't ever be OK.
Also known as the boiling frog.
This was a really good reminder of engineering wisdom.

Over the year I find myself and my team (civil-structural engineers) doing even more and more riskier designs. Things we wouldn't have considered OK during our early years. We do get review and approvals from seniors, but maybe their acceptance is also "normalisation of deviance" as described in the article. Sharing it with my team.
Sorry but when you justify giving abhorrent statements like that a platform with perspective, please keep in mind that this absolute definition of free speech is not reflected in the whole world. Posting something like that in Germany would likely get you at least some sort of lawsuit and from my "perspective" that's a good thing. We as society can certainly discuss where the specific line is that needs to be crossed but I'm sure we can defend free speech without giving rise to radicals and people that actively advertise killing people because of their race, gender, or religion.