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Revolutionary France tried creating one not once, but twice: see the "Cult of Reason" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason) and Robespierre's "Cult of the Supreme Being" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being).

And of course the cults of personality that sprang up around Stalin in the Soviet Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%27s_cult_of_personality), around Mao in Communist China, and in various Communist client states around their own local tinpot Stalin would probably qualify as well.

This is the problem with killing God: it's really hard to find a healthy candidate to replace him with.
I would like to see a scattergram of the universe's estimated age over the past one hundred years just to see if we're starting to converge yet or not.
It’s still quite different. In the Bundesrat for example, more populous states have more votes. And unlike in the US, all legislation does not require involvement of the Bundesrat.
But a lot of people do come only family name. I'm not sure if it's different in America, but everyone is using Obama, Bush, Häkkinen etc. Heck a lot of people don't even know their first names here. You can say that it's because they are famous, but I'm just trying to outline there are differences. No one close to them they in real life would refer them by family name.

Putin's passports says Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin yet everyone is using either Vladimir Putin or just Putin, but Russians don't. (In formal letters etc).

The problem is that there are way too many differences alone in the Western world, you can't satisfy everyone's feelings.
The motherboard is not replaced. “Only” the battery, top case, touch-bar, and keyboard.
Supply and demand works there too. There's a finite amount of people with a finite amount of money they want to invest in US real estate. If you create enough (by $ value) real estate for them to buy, they can't buy any more.

For a city to have its real estate bought as investments can be troublesome, but at least it doesn't increase road traffic. So you can have tall, dense skyscrapers with condos all owned by foreign trusts, without it creating parking or traffic problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Yards_(development) seems like an example of this.

If you don't create investable condos, then the foreign money buys single family homes that some family could otherwise live happily in.
Great book. He's also making the podcast rounds.

I enjoyed the term 8 hour sleep "opportunity", that he uses. Much more relatable for me.
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Hello somebodyelse1. We had our commercial reasons to change the lineup. After living this, I think their reaction speaks for itself.
Well, I think reading "holy" books is quite enough to see those flaws, and the media in many places are far too reverent to the regionally prevailing religion; but maybe that's a discussion for a different venue.

My point pertinent to this discussion was that community is important, and thus it's a problem if community is based on wrong or unethical ideas. It puts you in a terrible quandary (consider also Nazi Germany, the Sowjet Union under Stalin, etc.).
So to break it down a bit - https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...

This says that, Going by referral to consultation (not treatment, that takes another 10 weeks), the shortest waits for specialist consultations are 6.7 weeks in Ontario and longest are in New Brunswick (26.6 weeks)

Including treatment times, the variation is 15.4 weeks to 41.7 weeks.
For me it's less about what's "so great" and more about what's not awful.

I need a Unix-like command line environment and Windows is inferior there. Otherwise it's fine (I use it on my gaming machine), but if you look closely you can see it's a huge mess (e.g. the insane state of the control panel(s)) in ways Mac OS just isn't.

Linux is too much work. I say this as someone who has used it for years, still uses it every day, I've compiled my own kernels, etc., but it's just too much work to get everything working perfectly on my personal machine, especially on a laptop.

Mac OS doesn't have many of these problems. I am old, I have too much real work to do, and I need a machine that works and gets the fuck out of my way. I am past the point where I consider fiddling with the guts of my OS a badge of honor and think having a bunch of code up on my screen makes me look super cool like Neo from The Matrix. For people like me who don't need things it doesn't have and like what it does have, it's a good choice.

Now if only Apple would stop making so many dumb hardware choices...
I wish I knew why so many conference attendees requested that such a person be removed from the conference.

Why? Part of diversity means being able to cooperate with people who have different viewpoints and ideologies.

Further reading about this person's aggressive and retaliatory behavior implies that this person has issues that should keep her out of conferences. But, I still think it's important to understand why attendees ask that she be removed.
> What she accused him of doing was entirely false while uninviting her was based on something entirely true.

This is certainly true, looking at the unfolding of the events. Yet, this information is missing in the text, where it seems that the organizers actions were guided solely by the "discomfort" manifested by other participants, that pressured them to reject another invitee. This sounds pretty much "giving in to undue pressure".
Sucks to be the OP but storing any crypto in an exchange is idiotic and literally the first thing on any list of "how to secure your crypto" is to not do it. This shows the OP is just being willfully ignorant.

Exchanges get hacked or are victims of internal fraud at a level that is far beyond any acceptable risk. https://coinsutra.com/biggest-bitcoin-hacks/

If you have any kind of serious crypto holdings, you should either be using hardware wallets or a PC that you only use for crypto. Nothing else.
* Buy crypto, transfer to your PC, turn off PC.
Major security vulnerability on Windows desktops and servers
Well, it doesn't solve the problem of communicating whether you are using the family name or given name, which is an important piece of information to know since it indicates the level of familiarity / intimacy / distance. This distinction is a bit less common for personal conversations in English-speaking countries but important in many parts of the world.

Perhaps I would be talking to "Cheng", but later I would be talking about "Professor Cheng".
What, no Mary Cartwright?
I know with some certainty that US based companies provide source for communications software to US three letter agencies. I think it's strange to expect that a Chinese company would refuse to render the same services to analogous agencies in China.

Whether US companies would willingly insert changes at the behest of those agencies I do not know.
I think that's what they were talking about https://www.tzcld.fr/

(territory zero chomage/joblesness long duration)
Apple Computer was continuously in legal battles with Apple Corps (the record label owned by the Beatles) over staying out of each other’s business (easy for the Beatles, hard for Steve Jobs)

Shipping iPod with Beatles content would have been a really nasty legal knot. Or it would have made the universe implode. One or the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Yup, I'm on an old top-of-the-line 2011 that I swapped out the DVD for an extra SSD. It's spoiled me — such that to replace it I want 16-32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD.
Or we need to split up the US into blocks that have less divergent values. The urban rural divide within Maryland is present but manageable. The divide between urban Maryland and rural Alabama is unmanageable.
IMO you just pointed out the key to selling the work.

Reclassification.
You're dense, I said rather than spending $113b on the illegal aliens how about we spend even if it's a fraction of "one hundred thirteen billion" on the homeless problem. If they're all US citizens then you should feel empathetic to help them more.
US intercepts Russian bombers, fighter jets off the coast of Alaska
Apple offered to buy Tesla back in 2013 for more than it’s worth today – BGR
I have the previous generation NUC, a NUC7i5BNH, as my home computer. I put it in a Akasa fanless case, and it's wonderful — it's completely silent.

I use Kubuntu, since I've been using KDE for 15 years. I use 5% of the configuration options — just by looking, you'd think it was a default install — but I really miss that 5% if I'm on a Mac or Windows.
A Computer Afflicted with 6 Infamous Viruses Has Passed $1M at Auction
he gave you nuggets of wisdom imo.
Failure rate, not typing speed, is the crux of the concern. Additionally, at least for me, is the volume of the keypresses - much louder.
> I switched to a Dell Precision 5530 running Ubuntu 18.04

If you want a desktop experience that comes close to MacOS on Ubuntu, give Budgie Desktop a try; it's developed for Solus:

https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop

...but is available for Ubuntu - you can install it separately, or as it's own distro:

https://ubuntubudgie.org/

Note that the 18.04 LTS will have the older version of Budgie and not the latest; the latest version is available with 19.04, but won't be available for LTS until 20.04 - though I am sure there's ways of getting it installed if you really wanted to.

I switched to Budgie Ubuntu 18.04 LTS after my super-long-in-the-tooth-modified-to-hell-and-back Ubuntu 14.04 LTS install face-planted after I tried to install a new version of the NVidia proprietary driver using a very hacked and patched together gcc setup (something I did for an online MOOC where I needed a greater version of C++ than 14.04 supported - not the smartest thing I ever did, but it worked well for a while, and long enough to complete the MOOC).

My 14.04 install started with a Minimal version, then I built it up from there to a look-and-workalike Crunchbang (#!) system. This was done just after #! ceased being supported (after I had played with it and liked it), but before the community picked up the pieces (ultimately resulting in Bunsen Labs distro).

It worked well, but after it finally fell over, I decided I wanted to go a different route on a new install - and Budgie Linux with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is where I ended up. I couldn't be happier; it allows me a desktop experience that I swear is very close to what I have on the MBP I use at my employer, but I have customized my own way (though I did grab a set of SVGs for a better looking trashcan for Plank). I also had to write a new wallpaper switcher (in python) as I didn't like anything as well that exists. Minor things, though. Overall, it's a great desktop - gives me some freedom to play, but is still beautiful and highly functional.

One thing I'll never do again, though, is install anything that isn't "standalone" in /home or a "deb" package (or something like AppImages); anything that must be compiled from source will either be made into a package to install, or I'll put it on a VM (that's what ultimately led to my old system falling over - too much crap in too many places without any kind of tracking, etc - my fault, ultimately).
Technical Debt becomes really toxic when mission critical customer facing functionality is based on it. Just this morning we received a ticket where cleaning up technical debt caused a major issue for the customer, when we looked even further we realized that this customer relied heavily on the state brought on by technical debt and that resolving this issue will require an even more careful refactoring to ensure that the debt is cleared but the overall functionality is unchanged.

As a workaround for the time sensitive issue we literally copied the old code and overloaded our class so that the customer runs the old code while we develop a robust fix.
When I was a child, I was told by my 1st grade teacher that math was important because when I'm a mother with a wonderful husband, I would know how to do fractions and measurements to prepare cakes easier.

I would have loved to hear stories like this instead.
>Eligible models are listed below.

MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

>Note: No other Mac notebook models are part of this program.

Sigh.
Comcast reportedly expanding into health care with new smart speaker
Speeding Up Ruby MRI with Rust
One good analogy is how the chefs in the kitchen clean up there table right after they are done with a dish, If you do not clean up, There will be a delay in the next dish and the time to make a new dish increases exponentially and the a dish is never delivered within a reliable time interval.
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro, and "luckily" the anti-glare coating failed. There is a free repair program for the screen appearing stained, and replacing the display panel replaced the integrated display ribbon cable that had also failed.

I don't think dust is the cause of all the keyboard failures. I had been using it as a desktop computer for over a year. It isn't in a dusty room, and the computer still spends months without being opened. Furthermore, sometimes on waking a key will be stuck in a pressed condition, such that I can't successfully enter a password to log in. Pressing all of the keys doesn't reset the state, but force rebooting does.

If I do use the MacBook Pro's keyboard some of the keys intermittently fail to detect presses, but because there are both problems with keys being stuck engaged, and keys failing to detect presses, I suspect that the switches have some flaw where they can generally degrade due to heat rather than only dust fouling the contacts.

Anyway, I haven't yet had the keyboard replaced, because the failure is still intermittent, and I'd like to get a fresh keyboard right before selling it, sometime after a teardown confirms whether this new model is really likely to be less error prone, or maybe after a more thorough redesign for Ice Lake chips in the 13" model later this year or early next year.
Who's going to stop them? The international police?
Was it replaced for free because it was under warranty? If so, wasn’t the webcam under warranty?
We'd considered it, but partitioning hurts other things like turning a single row query into # of partitions look up.
I just had the top case replaced in my 2016 MacBook Pro 15, and they used a top case from a 2017. The tech confirmed that they use the 2017 top case for 2016 models, but the 2018 top case isn’t compatible.

The 2017 does have changes vs the 2016 to make it quieter and less clicky.
I also had a similar feeling after finishing the book, this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmCTmgavkrQ made some good points, mainly finding problems with the axioms so it convinced me that the conclusion in the book is probably wrong since the axioms are probably not true.
I guess the reason I initially made the post was to challenge the ideology. It feels unfair, but I realized only a few minutes later that the discussion wasn't going to be useful. By that time I couldn't delete the post anymore though.
I think reversing names was only ever something "official"/"respectable" translators did. Names that came up in a more casual/fan-based context first have stuck with Japanese order.
Mine is the early 2013 maxed out and also runs like a champ. The battery is going bad, so I'm glad you posted how much you paid for it. I'm really not looking forward to an upgrade.
I didn’t get it until I bought a new keyboard and starting working on it. You quickly realize how uncomfortable this keyboard is.
I don't mind it (though as I commented elsewhere, the volume of the keypresses is a bit louder). I think most of the complaints are aimed at reliability however, which is a bit scary on a $2000+ machine (even though I had to replace the SSD, the keys on my 2013 MBP are still as good as day 1)
Something to listen to on the commute home, thanks.
I always assumed all 50 states were that way. Based on your comment I found that Nebraska is the exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Legislature
Well, there is the rather prototypical category Set. So I would not say it gets rid of sets.
Agreed that I wish they had embraced, extended, or extinguished the Touch Bar. A larger offset from the top row of physical keys, a physical escape key, some form of accidental touch elimination, and/or a taller display surface would all be useful changes.

WRT to an external keyboard with it - in addition to making keyboards more expensive and proprietary, the Touch Bar is powered by the T2 chip, which is not just used to power the Touch Bar and TouchID, but for system functions like boot-up.

Even with these features removed, dynamically paired TouchID sensors would be a change to Apple's security model (which requires a hardware/data reset to pair a new TouchID sensor for security reasons).
Make the Leap from JavaScript to Purescript
Cant get email alerts from the SEC on each filing or filer.
The internet I grew up on didn't charge money for IRC, Blogspot, forums, mailing lists, Stack Overflow, etc. I'm now in the 1% due to the skills I've learned from free sources, and I pay it forward as much as I can.

I have yet to encounter a "premium" medium article that really made me think or change my views. Their auto-Google login, paywall, and other dark patterns are annoying at best. Given their actions and how I value their content, I think Medium is the worst kind of walled garden.

The Medium model is hot garbage, and I hope it dies.
> this is a part that's pretty much guaranteed to fail (unless you basically never open your laptop.)

I have a 2016 MacBook "Pro", and every single part has been replaced (thanks, Apple Care) except the bottom plate.

It seems to me they are not really designed to be moved, or used in an environment with, you know, particles and such. Plug it in once, put a transparent dome over it, look at it, and you'll be just fine.
I cut some of this out before hitting publish, but I had originally included more about the emotional and status anxiety of posting publicly, reputation management, and the risks to self posed by the way these platforms work. I ultimately cut those things because I thought they distracted from the overall idea and it's something we already hear so much of. I definitely wouldn't say this analogy is 1:1 with Liu Cixin's original, but I do think there is a real fear to poking your head out online that isn't that far from the original dark forest concept.
That's because Jack is an English name he chose to be widely known by. If he had kept his given name as a primary form of address we'd probably see him colloquially referred to as "Ma" or "Ma Yun".
I remember that. Seems like a simple idea, but at the time seemed about as doable as cold fusion.
That sounds awesome!

However, I don't quite see how the volunteering is connected to your startup.
Gmail mistakenly sends 'New Device Sign In' messages to users
Not really a good counter example as "Jack Ma" is his English name (i.e. not his legal name, not the one printed on his passport. more like a nickname that can be easily remembered by westerners).

If you google his legal Chinese name, you will find that it's never "Yun Ma" in English media. Instead it's always "Ma Yun"...because he is a big shot.
I hate my MBP arrow keys, but unless I'm doing a little work from home or in a meeting I never use the keyboard, instead I have a full size apple keyboard that I love and use with the macbook in clamshell mode hooked up to a dell 4k.

I'm probably not buying a new macbook pro for a long time... it's just not worth it to have such a high end machine that I use as a glorified traveling mac mini.

For my next work upgrade I am requesting a linux laptop.
Why not just use Windows then? If you really need *sh and command line tools, just get WSL, msys or cygwin.
Dave Lee made a video about the Core i9 (now previous generation) that thermal throttled almost immediately under load. The throttling was so terrible it actually performed worse than the 2017 MacBook Pro.

https://youtu.be/Dx8J125s4cg
It costs a couple bucks but Wipr does pretty well and gets regular updates.

Another nice bonus to content blocker extensions like these is that they’re just JSON rule lists that Safari compiles into bytecode and runs against pages as they load. The extensions are barred from access to everything, meaning they can’t be bought up and turned into Trojan horses.
Even a business class jet requires two pilots.
> with eventual impacts on human vision correction (e.g. LASIK, esp. for people w/ major astigmatism)

That's really neat! I'm a beneficiary of this - with both nearsightedness and major astigmatism, I was told by the ophthalmologist that did my intake for LASIK that there was a non-trivial chance that the surgeon would decline to perform my operation (luckily he was in a confident mood). I went from completely non-functional without glasses to seeing 20/20 in one eye and 20/15 in the other.

While the benefits are diffuse, it's easily one of the top most impactful experiences in my life. It's akin to the feeling of successfully refactoring away a mountain of legacy tech debt that had been getting the job done but bogging you down. Getting rid of the tech debt feels great, but removing the cognitive load of even having to factor it into any decisions anymore just makes things more pleasant.

It's interesting to learn that, indirectly, I owe that to Regan's defense spending.
What will stop rural Alabama from devolving into a third word country? Or do you still expect the successful urban blocks to pay for the backwaters blocks, but now without any input into their political structure?
after many years of MacBook Pro I recently switched to Lenovo x1 6th + Ubuntu and never looked back .
Those blocks are supposed to be states. The states and population (senate and house) are supposed to both have to agree on something for it to pass congress, which is a high barrier by design, since it affects everyone. You have state governments for things people in a state want.
this is usually a communication problem from engineering. you have to be able to describe the impact of the risk and benefits and make a business case for it. no one cares if you want to upgrade a framework. but if you are going to improve customer trust by using a newer version of something and result in less bugs / downtime it sounds a lot better
Best is to do what symphony orchestras have done. All auditions are done behind a screen so you can be judged purely on your talent. You are not allowed to wear shoes to the audition because we don't want to judge your foot steps into the room. Just your instrument (which might be borrowed!) - and possibly your choice in music (or possibly not).

Of course music is easy to do blind this way. It isn't clear how you judge technical people in a fair way in a 5 minute audition. (see plenty of previous discussions here on white board coding)

Music also has high numbers of minorities going into it in the first place. The number of females who start a technical degree program is very low, and this is reflected in the graduations numbers (I understand females are more likely to drop out of the program as well, which needs to be addressed)

Failing that, what lawyers have done is a possible answer.
Open source has a clear definition. The kind of license you want is not compatible with that. It would be a valid software license, but not open source.
What do you mean by "it doesn't run any Lisp code"?

For what it's worth, both Wikipedia and the official Clojure website call Clojure a dialect of Lisp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language), https://clojure.org/)