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Spoilers ahead for a 30+ year old novel.

What's particularly interesting about this idea of a 'memetic demon' is that the character unleashing it knew all along that it would be/had the potential to be [0] a monsterous thing, and spends a good deal of the first novel both looking for alternatives to unleashing this monstrosity[1], and is ultimately destroyed in the second because he attempts to maintain some sense of self in the face of the overwhelming power of this idea - he wants to be himself, _and_ maintain control of the idea that's swept him into power. This dichotomy is ultimately fatal. Only the one who sacrifices himself to the 'Golden Path' and allows in a very real sense his self to be subsumed by destiny is able to control this bloody, powerful idea.

[0] The idea of a thing that has the potential to be another thing or the potential of a thing in being is defined by a precise word in German and in Greek that I can't remember right now. Aristotle's _Metaphysics_ goes into this question (can a thing that is not yet but will be if the thing that exists now lives rightly be said to be real? Does that future thing guide the present thing? Can it be talked about as if it is real?) in exhaustive detail.

[1] The idea needs controlling because it's in part a techno-cultural jihad. Humanity needs to break out of its ossified structures to grow, but the cultural forces that have the power to do so (primarily religion in the novel) are equally capable of reducing this space empire to a series of isolated planets with nothing but memories of space flight. The protagonists want to have it both ways - just enough entropy to keep the system moving forward, but not enough to bring everything to chaos.
> I'm not sure why manufacturers are obligated to sell certain features without a TOS.

They're not obligated to per se, I just think it's a crappy business practice and I'm glad people are free to call them out on it.
ATA and trucking lobby might have different motives for not relaxing regulation, high barrier to entry is good for them.
Correct, right now this sucks. But it could be fixed in ways that don't involve socializing medicine.
There's been a very well coordinated propaganda campaign around climate change denial. This campaign improved upon the tactics that tobacco industry lobbyists used to deny the connection between smoking and cancer.

In particular, by tying climate change denial to political identity, and casting climate research as immoral for its lying, it created a passionate base of climate change denalists to call into every radio show, to swarm message boards, and to harass those who speak publicly about climate change.

If you can listen to podcasts, the best summary of this is from the Drilled podcast, in my opinion:

https://www.criticalfrequency.org/drilled
You seem to be in violent agreement with me.
You're right that a few people do, although I think most people realise how deeply fortunate we all are to have won to at least some extent a genetic and [entirely separate] geographic lottery.
I looked at your link under "Mismanaged plastic by region" and it says that East Asia and Pacific is 71%:
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#mismanaged-plas...
North America, Europe, and Central Asia combined are under 5%.
A major part of it is just branding. The left gains a strategic advantage by making the right look bad when it comes to climate / environment / etc. For that reason, things are purposefully not phrased in ways that would appeal to people on the right.

And even when the motivation is not so sinister as that, people who care about the topic have a particular world view, and they don't spend the time to figure out how their world-view differs from those who aren't as concerned. What motivates one group is not one motivates another. If climate activists are serious about fixing the problem, then they need to abandon the branding aspect and find language that appeals to those not in their target market. Otherwise it's all just a lot of value-signalling.
I know I will probably get downvoted by this comment, but I find it really interesting that in 2 hours I got 4 downvotes just in this comment and no argument to explain it.

I know downvoting is a tool that is available to us, but it really strikes me when someone is willing to cast a "negative" vote anonymously and most likely with no fundamentals attached to it instead of engaging in a respectful argument where all opinions are presented.
Very clever humorous sidestepping of defending your suggestion that memetics aren't impactful/important.

Here's a second chance: above you say: "The grandparent comment about Memetics being so "impactful" is somewhat like English professors taking credit for the fact that we're speaking English."

Perhaps you're right and they aren't impactful. Could you share how you know how impactful (or not) memetics are, say in the field of democracy. The comment you were replying to above states: "I realized I was getting more emotionally from the memes (which aren’t exactly the sort of memes Dawkins was thinking of) than long-winded analysis of what was good/bad about the episode." That comment touches on something that seems rather interesting and counter-intuitive to me - do you disagree? If that person "gets more" from GOT memes than long-winded analysis, might Donald Trump supporters perhaps have their beliefs shaped by the various memes they consume? After all, I suspect you'd be quite agreeable on the idea that Trump supporters are a rather delusional bunch, would you not?

Was the election of Donald Trump an impactful event? Did memes have precisely zero impact on the election of Donald Trump (here's one I grabbed at random from today's front page of /r/T_D: https://i.imgur.com/fwvnNfN.jpg Here's another: https://imgur.com/a/TQJvDXr)? (And if it isn't too much trouble, when answering, please explain how it is you know the answer to that question. As a hint, I will draw attention to my previous statement: "...changing one's real-time behavior...". As another hint, as a mental exercise consider how your statement "Yes, image macros can be a great way of getting a point across." can be true, while it is simultaneously true that image macros have no impact.)
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And JD does _not_ have a monopoly on the tractor market as GP was claiming in their nightmare hypothetical.

These are two different things.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." The interesting thing here is the history of the tulip bubble, not another Bitcoin war.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I remember getting that email from a friend (who's still my friend) and thinking nah. Same with friendster which existed pre-MySpace. Folks comparing this to MOOs and IRC are missing that this was one of those first anglings to do what MySpace and Facebook eventually did. IRC and other online environs weren't built to gather users and use their information as raw material for advertisers. Sixdegrees was, it just failed earlier and faster than most.
Alternatively, use Jupyter Notebooks & Pandas for this type of work. It has the same interactivity & visualization as Excel, but is far more powerful and you can reasonably move the code you create into your final product, rather than rewriting Excel formulas into a proper programming language.

I've heard that Airtable occupies a similar space, but I haven't used it enough to recommend it.
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Is there an objective sliding scale that journalists can refer to to avoid making this heinous error? Maybe one that goes like this:

- gaffe

- snafu

- debacle

- fiasco

- ?
>Yes, Argo is very "SDN" under the covers :)

Ha I was reading the post again thinking about how you all did this, and it boiled down to OpenFlow/OVS/SDN magic, or you REALLY went all in on Cisco offerings.

>We're excited to talk more about the technical underpinnings of Argo in the future.

Looking foward to this update, thanks for the response!
Designing Data-Intensive Applications is probably the best O'Reilly (if not overall technology) book of the past decade.
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> What's weird? That we have food stamps for those who are temporarily (at least that's how it's supposed to be) in a bind, yet not everyone uses food stamps? Why do you think that is?

Because it's means-tested?

You're describing a two-tier health system, which many countries operating under a "socialized" model follow including Australia. That's fine, too. The government provides a safety net of basic coverage and then those who want more or whose employers want to lure them with the promise of better care can opt for private care. This would still work if Medicare were an open enrollment for anyone who wanted it.

> Does everyone love medicare? Every doctor I've talked to hates it. It doesn't pay on time, it pays below market rates, it sometimes just doesn't pay at all, it doesn't let the doctors choose what care they think is best, etc.

You can't on the one hand complain about the rising price of healthcare in the US, how it's moving further out of reach for everyone, and at the same time complain that the socialized program "pays below market rates." That's the definition of lowering costs, something the US has to do more than literally every other country in the world. That's a good thing. In fact, that's an argument for the system we're proposing.

> Doctors tell me that the rest of us are all subsidizing medicare patients right now, that if they could get away without seeing any medicare patients they would.

That's kinda hilarious. Medicare patients are the most expensive, worst customers for a medical program. They're all old, sick, dying or about to. That's facts. If the private system had to bear the burden of treating those patients their margins would implode or costs would balloon. The Medicare program as it exists right now is a huge subsidy to the private sector -- especially as it's forbidden from negotiating drug prices like any other sane system permits.

> How is that going to work out when we are all on medicare?

It's going to work fine like it does in every other country in the OECD. It's not like we're proposing something wildly outrageous and unheard of. Every other developed nation does this and has better health outcomes across the board with half the cost.
Well, yeah, sure, but I guess I was assuming people who knew what DRM is, not necessarily the general public--if you didn't even know what DRM is, it's not that surprising you probably wouldn't have an idea of how it would be used.
Previous discussion on similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617073
The Moon is nice, but for Earth usage, extracting on the Moon seems like it would be more energy expensive than on Earth, no?
I like it more than the old fashioned receipt it seeks to replace. I would look at it and it would bring me a small, fleeting bit of joy.

I prefer no receipts at all, but that doesn't seem to be a universal option. So if I'm going to get the paper receipt anyway, may as well have some pleasing design applied to it, and a thought-provoking categorization for me to reflect upon before I crumple and toss the thing. Beats the pants off of the old version.

If I was reading a business plan and being asked to invest, yeah, I'd respond to it your way too. As a "thing that could exist", though, I appreciate it.
I hadn't: I jumped the gun thinking that you were sharing 10 minutes of anti-vaccination propaganda, and offering up ammunition for people who think "Well those guys over there say otherwise, so who knows?" My apologies for that.

My point was that planting the poison pill of "Are vaccines dangerous?" is itself dangerous, and despite the video's good intentions might still apply here.

As a popular video, it'll appear in sidebars more than it'll be watched. I worry that in that capacity, it'll maybe snare a bunch of no-vaccination believers in the honeypot, but will plant the safety question into the minds of many more.

My concern is tempered by the understanding that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation knows what it's doing here, but the choice to make an informative campaign clandestine strikes me as an odd one with potential negative side effects.
> Not according to (..)

I am not sure, searching for "modern" reveals 27 hits and postmodern 14. Also, landmarks dominate the top 10 so i am not sure whether the poll more accuratly tracks the most liked building and not style. A style with more distributed votes would suffer (and, for example, there are more hits for postmodern than for art-deco).
Why have you put council in scare quotes?
> As much as our results help better describe Google’s curation of news, what our study decidedly cannot say is why some sources dominate on Google.

> News source concentration on Google implies an unequal capture of attention and its benefits, including any advertising or potential subscription revenue that might result. If they are serious about supporting digital-first newsrooms, algorithmic news curators, including Google and others, might be more explicit in articulating the inherent design tradeoffs between the relevance desirable for individuals, the diversity desirable for society or democracy, and the fair competition desirable for news organizations.

So, because Breitbart doesn't get as much traffic as CNN, Google must be held accountable?
For me, it's not that heterogenic climate change isn't possible or likely, it's the predictions of what it means that are in question.

CO2 is not a pollutant, and no one knows what will happen with increasing levels.
An interesting study would be to take the population of unvaccinated and count how many are that way due to antivax ideology and how many due to some other cause.

Furthermore, it'd be interesting to examine the measles cases and see what population they come from.

I see an article castigate the antivaxxers and then say most measles occur among unvaccinated populations. Is the article saying the two populations are the same? No solid link is offered, yet the two groups are mentioned together leading a non-careful reader to conclude the antivaxxers are to blame.
I know the feeling... The CDC already recommends getting an MMR shot at 6 months for babies that will be traveling abroad. Unfortunately the measles situation in the U.S. is now that of a third world country, so IMO it makes sense to go ahead and get the shot at six months, especially if you're in an area where there have been cases reported.

Unfortunately the effectiveness of a single dose of the vaccine at six months is only something like 50%, but it's better than nothing.
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Thanks for the report, that looks like a bug. I've passed it along.
> and the Polish church never had and still does not have any means of getting rid of people

Why do you think so? I believe they can be excommunicated. There's a known process around it, even if rarely used.
>a moon base would cost upwards of 20 billion USD.

It doesn;t have much to do with the original topic, but I think you're way underestimating it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ouiTMXuDAQ
Regulation sets a floor for the race-to-the-bottom. Companies could set high standards, yet they usually meet the bare minimum. Improving standards costs money. Unless it's a requirement, it gets cut.
> except for the fairly major problem that links and clicks can be automated, turning that into a bidding war.

I mean no disrespect by this but I'm inclined to think Google knows more about the issue of link and click fraud than you do.
The range of choice in modules was radically cut and the cost of courses was increased considerably.

You used to be able to get a very interesting degree in maths with chosen specialisms in various pure and applied areas for about £3600. Might have been a bit more for people from outside the UK, but not massively.

There's little choice of courses now.
One thing I don't understand is how the pilots can override the operation of the electric trim system by holding the manual trim wheels and yet the electric trim appears to be able to overcome airloads on the jackscrew that the pilots can't.

In light aircraft the design of autopilot servos normally includes a clutch so that the pilot can override the servos. But that limits the force that the servo can apply.

I guess it could have some kind of torsion sensing system which cuts the power to the trim motor but I've been unable to find this detailed anywhere.
That's a very odd spin on this, the "left trying to make the right look bad" comes from decades of concerted efforts from climate change denalists courting Republican and right media, and the media gobbling it up.

Claiming that environmentalists aren't phrasing things correctly for the right to care about the environment is pretty much the definition of tone policing. Republicans could easily take up the fight against climate change on their own terms, but the very very few Republicans that have tried have been shunned by the rest of the party.
Of course, most all Web sites add in third-party tracking through HTTP requests, in one way or another. Offhand, HN is the only site that comes to mind as not doing that. (I've been working on anti-tracking for a long time, and my current hand-edited ruleset has over 10k rules, which I usually have to look at multiple times each day.)
(Learning all the things recommended in this thread would take a few years, and maybe half of them would be useful given you know them, a lot fewer useful enough to justify the price of learning them)
I strongly prefer git merge over git rebase.

Using rebase results in a cleaner history and simplified workflow in many cases. However it also means that when you have a disaster, it can be truly unrecoverable. I hope you have an old backup because you told your source control system to scramble its history, and you don't have any good way to back it out later.

For those who don't know what I mean, the funny commit ids that git produces are a hash signifying the current state of the repository AND the complete history of how you got there. Every time you rebase you take the other repository, and its history, and then replay your new commits as happening now, one after the other. Now suppose that you rebased off of a repository. Then the repository is rebased by someone else. Now there is no way to merge your code back except to --force it. And that means that if your codebase is messed up, you're now screwed up with history screwed up and no good way to sort it out.

That result is impossible if you're using a merge based result. The cost is, though, that the history is accurately complicated. And the existence of a complex history is a huge problem for useful tools like git bisect.
Institutions such as public schools and the Boy Scouts that do not require celibacy have had very similar problems. So have some Protestant churches that allow their ministers to marry.

The John Jay report done on clerical sex abuse in the USA didn’t find the percentage of abusers in the priesthood to be significantly different from those in other professions.

The impulse to cover up is not limited to the institution of celibacy by any means.

Unfortunately as a catholic I fear this is a ticking time bomb for many non first world churches. The church here in the US only put into place decent zero-tolerance policies in the late 90s and early 2000s and many churches in other regions have failed to take matching action.
That's a red herring, the MCAS issue has nothing to do with the type rating. MCAS is not something the crew was even supposed to be aware of, even less trained on, so no effect on type rating at all there.

What it may cause problem with is the certification of the plane as such - MCAS was required to correct the behavior of the plane in high speeds/high thrust and high angle of attack situation where the new larger engines made it difficult to bring the nose down (and avoid stalling).

However, that's not something that cannot be fixed. Airbuses fly full of similar augmentation systems and there is no problem with them, so it is certainly doable.
I agree with mrzool that sound methodology is as important as the results themselves, if not more. As for becoming fluent as an adult, I learned my first words of french at age 30 and became close to fluent after 6 years in France, but never lost a bit of an accent...
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That article suggests that all of the work in Europe and the Americas is spitting in the ocean and that we need to lean on Asian countries a lot more to literally clean up their mess.

A lot of effort spent on paper straws and reusable bags could probably have a lot more effect in funding the creation of basic sanitation services in Asian countries.
Vaccination doesn't solve the problem of infected people bringing in measles from outside the country.
This same research was discussed in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16399756
>“And in 2019, when you hear people complaining about Bitcoin and warning about it, what you are hearing are the voices of people in 1637 saying: you shouldn’t be involved in this trade. You’re the wrong person, you don’t know enough.”

Why would you torpedo a good article at the very end with such a stupid paragraph?
> one has to be very careful about the actual amount.

And limits/process on how/if it can be raised. Otherwise, it's likely to devolve into people literally voting themselves an ever-increasing share of money from the treasury...
The extra attachments aren’t cheap (and feel like they should be included in the starter pack or at least the customer should be able to choose their one attachment) but I’m sure that being able to feed yourself again would make almost any price worth it for the people who suffer from the various conditions that result in a tremor.
Investigation of QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency debacle turns up $28M in assets
No, I'll say that group blogs are a legitimate thing, and sometimes they get big-ticket interviews, and every once in awhile they even break a story. But that doesn't make them news organizations.

I'm not saying that sites like Breitbart should be buried (boycotts, though, seem fair game). I actually like Talking Points Memo every once in awhile. But I don't use blogs as my primary news source and Google shouldn't promote blogs as if they are.
I mean, if there is a geological process that can bring stuff up from 6km depth then we're all dead anyway - the layer of impermeable rock above it is not called that for no reason. And with the half life of some of the elements in the waste as long as 100k years yes, it's ideal if it's buried and forgotten where no one can get to it. Irresponsible is storing this stuff on the surface - if the civilization collapses and no one is there to look after these containers they pose mortal danger to anyone finding them even in thousands of years. But no one is in danger from stuff quarter of the way from the Earth's mantle.
Next time drink some water before rage-speech.

I have 2 kids and I never asked for help from the society to raise them. "The day you'll have kids" - lol, ridiculous that you think you are much older and "wiser".

And I answered about old people who can't work anymore in another comment, you were too lazy to read before blaming. There's a huge difference between people who can't work and people who are too lazy to work. Society should not encourage laziness. If only skill person learned is how to pack items into a box - should learn more.

And one more time: all communists are imbeciles, without exceptions.
I'm not a bass player, nor am I into jazz. But I'm a long-time subscriber because Adam has such a complete knowledge of music, and is able to express it so clearly it is pretty much universal. I've learned quite a bit from his videos - something guitar players are loathe to say about bass players. ;)
> Opinionated diverting public funds to religion schools

This one is pro-consumer, not anti consumer.