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That is easy to say, but it doesn't work that way. Your mind knows what you wanted to say and assumes it said that. Even when you read your writing again you know what you meant to say and you will skip over the bad grammar.

Note that this same problem exists in spoken speech. Someone will ask a passenger to "please adjust your window out" which makes no sense. What they really want is adjust the mirror out, but the brain knows rolling down the window is part of the task and confuses all the parts. Even when asked to repeat themselves they will repeat the same nonsense sentence without realizing it isn't doesn't make sense. (this problem was more common 30 years ago before power mirrors where the driver could adjust the mirror himself)

The only solution I've found is to sleep on it. Tomorrow I'm sure I will find a some grammar errors in this post, and likely something else that doesn't make sense. I just read over the entire post now though and I don't see anything wrong with it.
Writing well doesn't mean you're smart, it just means you've put some effort into writing well. It's an exercise in empathy and consideration for one's readers, and crafting tolerable sentences with reasonably-normal usage is just the start of it. Ensuring you're writing something worth reading, with every sentence and every word, is another. "Bullshit written by ignorants" tautologically falls short of that, however fit their writing is otherwise.
‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'–Management Is
Fully agree and I'd expand the point to cover communication in general. Explaining ideas clearly with text or voice is one of the characteristics that I've noticed in high-functioning engineering teams.

I did a talk[1] a few years back about my experiences helping a team to improve their communication skills. What surprised me was the emotional complications that prevent people from communicating effectively.

[1] https://vimeo.com/134601419
Did you follow the Snowden case? In early interviews he talked about working for the CIA and in order to coerce a senior official, they got him drunk and then had the cops arrest him for DUI. Then told him if he didn't comply, the DUI charges would end his career. Can you put 2 and 2 together here?
Real world arguments include comparing radiation exposure from coal, gas and oil exploration to the nuclear power.

When you extract gas for the turbines from the ground, it's not just hydrocarbons. The scale of hydrocarbon use makes even relatively small amount of radioactive materials comparable.
Sure, it might be the case. But given that we're talking about how even with debt bondage people aren't making good choices, there's reason to think it's no better.
> The development of a strong education and research system.

Are you talking about the 5-10 top universities? On average Europeans have by far and large better educational system. It's not even comparable IMHO. On average Europeans are much better educated and that has to do with the fact that education is part of state-funded welfare in most European countries, while in the US education is expensive and only a small minority can afford it.
Malaria is a leading killer of humans. 212 million cases in 2015 alone. 70% of deaths are young children. (who stats)

Not to mention other diseases spread by mosquitoes.

Im down for trying.
No, the iCloud second factor can come over SMS. That's not the same thing as your iCloud password.
And as a follow-on comment rather than an edit...

There's nothing smarmy or dishonest about sales. Misleading sales is bad sales. The best salespeople are focused on fulfilling the customer's needs, not selling the product. The product sells itself once the customer understands that it fulfills their needs and offers them real benefits relative to the expense. And expense isn't just money. It's time. It's risk. It's learning curves.

Customers often don't understand their own needs very well, so a big part of sales is helping the customer understand their own problems, in order to provide valuable solutions.

The engineer who can really dig into requirements, really get to understand the customer and help the customer understand their own needs, and then offers a working solution, with clearly stated benefits and clearly stated costs, will do far better.
I got rid of my first post college car 2 years ago. I had that car 15 years, so I definitely beat the odds. I've never understood the desire for a car to be more than a source of transportation. Some people seem insistent on extending their sexuality with a car. Others feel that having a different cars makes them a better person, but these are just externalities. I feel like the bigger reason students leave the US and shirk responsibility is because they can.

They took a degree that doesn't pay as much as they'd expect, or maybe they are just poor planners that don't care about the future. These are exactly the types that you would expect to take on high risk behaviors for smaller rewards. There's nothing wrong with that, except for claiming that it was the only option they had. Certainly they (and many others) have plenty of options. Some have the habit of making poor decisions until they paint themselves into a corner.
In a past life I helped optimize >$1b of online transactions as a CRO professional and learning to objectively "write well" could be quantified in two ways:

1) Message Density - there's a great quote attributed to Mark Twain that nails this "If I'd had more time I would have written you a shorter letter".

In practice Jeff Bezo's push to making executives build "4 page memos" for meetings outlines this idea clearly: "the reason writing a good 4 page memo is harder than "writing" a 20 page powerpoint is because the narrative structure of a good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what's more important than what, and how things are related"(1)

2) Message Accessibility - Making your message broadly accessible is a good forcing function to writing clearly. An easy "hack" in this department is to utilize the "gunning fog index"(2) which is a structured way to estimate "the years of formal education a person needs to understand the text on the first reading" and there are many tools online that can spit out a score.

(1) https://slab.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy...

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index
They are left leaning according to mediabiasfactcheck and gender discrimination is a heavily politicized topic. Their agenda is also about clicks; gender discrimination claims will generate more clicks than a science article
Yeah, it is, and that's where things get interesting such as logistics, economics trends, risk assestment

At the moment the US is going through a natural gas boom, companies many times have a serious over supply of it, and they are releasing it into the atmosphere, the Bakken Oil Fields at night are quite literally visible from the International Space Station[0] because of the colossal amounts of natural gas flares of companies burning excess natural gas. All of that is simply wasted energy, and extra CO2 and unburnt natural gas that enters into the atmosphere

One of the reasons why so many coal plants in the US are going through hard economic times is because they are being undercut by both solar, wind and stupidly cheap natural gas turbines [1].

To build nuclear plants today in the US, would be an horrendous economic decision, because those would instantly become stranded assets that would need to be bailed out by the general public via overly expensive electricity bills. In the meantime, gas is just so readily available that's being burnt on an unimaginable scale, all of that energy could be simply packaged and used as electricity.

In the meantime in the rest of the world, most countries are already divesting from big bulky centralized energy sources, simply because of how expensive they are. They just can't compete with cheaper renewables with a assistance of natural gas, and in the long as prices fall even further run those natural gas assistance plants can be replaced with batteries.

In short, what I advocate, is simply Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. If we have nuclear plants already built, use them, but dont build more, if a country is experiencing a surplus of natural gas, use it, and please dont burn it as waste.

[0] https://geog.ucsb.edu/why-are-night-lights-in-north-dakota-v...

[1] https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/05/07/natural-gas-and-wi...
I'm not sure why you're splitting hairs on this. GP is merely addressing your "extreme pessimism" but now for whatever reason you're either arguing semantics or showing some kind of cognitive dissonance.
You don't think not mentioning any of the other problems with nuclear energy hurts the argument? Are we really going to ignore the problem of containing spent fuel?
That's a risky stance for HN. I fully agree though. The arguments for nuclear always seem to ignore the human element which is the main risk factor.
I find it curious that articles on the student debt crisis never mention that information.

Be honest! You know exactly why they didn't mention these things.

News today seems to be: 1) figure out what you want your article to be about and make sure it's an attention grabbing headline, preferably outlining a negative situation, 2) do research on the issue, 3) filter out any information that runs counter to your headline, 4) write article with the remaining information even if it's not an accurate representation.
Yup. Anti-signal-signals are a thing. "I don't want or need to care how hard it is for you to understand me, so I'm not going to give any thought or effort to making it easier for you" is certainly a kind of signal.
I think, in my experience, that there is a middle way which Ive seen the very best use (and try to follow). Fundamentally it is not about how much you write but how well you communicate.

There is a difference in people that rattle off sms-style one liners every time, and those who know they only need one line to communicate fully.

My experience is; the former style almost always leads to an email chain where one party steadily extracts information from the other, like pulling teeth
These companies then lobby the government, asking to be relieved of the fines, because if they go down, so many workers will be out of jobs, and that they will comply (pinky promise), so the fines should be lifted to help these innocent people...
Types of people to avoid having in a startup
For "most MacOS-like experience" and "willing to compromise on FOSS philosophy for practical convenience in GPU-related work", I recommend taking a look at Pop!_OS. It's System76's take on Ubuntu with Mac-like UI tweaks and proprietary Nvidia drivers built in.
If you don't want to be tracked, improve your life yourself please.

So much of violence, I think is a request. World! Show me something I don't know.

It is up to the cultured to answer that request. To limit violence, not create it.

All that's missing is a role for the hobbyist, the local presence, down to the individual of what those sensors do, and what the response is.

Every dollar spent stopping you from descending into barbarity and rampine killing is a dollar not spent on metabolic timing of phytonutrients.

Make humanity great again.
Of course, don't praise being smart. How is it praiseworthy? But do tell they are smart.
In the US university system there are undergraduate requirements called distributional or general education requirements. The breadth of the courses cover humanities and arts, social sciences, and other classes under a Liberal Arts category. I wonder if there are similar requirements in other countries. Does an undergrad degree, say in India, have an apples-to-apples equivalent to an undergrad in the US with respect to the distributional requirement.
You're making a counterpoint to something I did not say.

I'm saying that taking the loan is no longer ever a mistake, because you can expect that you will never need to pay, if you wait long enough: hence "where taking a loan you have no intention of paying is not a mistake".

> the cheapest, most basic of utilities, rice, beans, and the occasional leafy green, and health insurance

I'm sorry to hear that, I suspect that I'll need to be housing my brothers some time in the next decade too, so I can feel that. Is there some problem with SNAP and Medicaid that's preventing him from taking them? Is housing just so costly where he lives that he's insolvent despite not being below the "poverty plus" lines for those programs?
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
I agree. We can write smsque in a slack channel and "its ok", but it's not OK to write like that in a document sent to customers, in a wiki that explains how a piece of software works and will stay there for years or in an email aimed at winning an argument. Those would be detrimental to the company and to the developer.
I don't think this is really being "against GMOs" though, what you're really against is IP law surrounding GMOs. It's like saying you're "anti-film" just because you don't support the MPAA. It's attacking the wrong target and giving people a bad taste regarding GMOs even though they have the potential to do great things for society.
We use https://www.rsync.net/ because they can guarantee our data does not leave the European Union. Then http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ in cronjobs.

https://www.backblaze.com/ is US-based.
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Some atheists are opposed to killing adults.

There exists at least one that believes one's right to life is not an absolute moral principle, but predicated upon a reciprocal respect for the rights of others. Thus, it is morally acceptable to kill an adult that violates the moral compact for human rights, or threatens its continued existence.

Without a religious mandate, there is no guarantee that any single atheist would share any specific belief with another atheist, other than the one that defines them as a class--that either supernatural entities do not exist, or they exist but also lack the authority to be considered gods rather than ordinary persons, morally equal to all other persons.

As a fetus does not yet possess a capacity for moral reasoning, and a pregnant mother likely does, I find that fetuses do not qualify as people, and have no inherent rights, possessing only those derived from their relationship with their mother, and from any other persons who may have a contractual relationship with her.

So in a contest of rights between a fetus and its mother, I believe the latter has exclusive and uncontested right to do anything she likes to the former, to include destroying it or editing its DNA, and no state has any interest whatsoever in interfering. A uterus is the exclusive property of the woman; the fetus is incompetent to lease, and has no squatter's rights. The only other persons who might even have standing would be the biological father of the fetus and any persons in an implicit or explicit reproductive contract with the mother, such as a marriage or surrogacy agreement, made prior to pregnancy. And none of those could restrain the actions of the mother; they could only sue in civil court for remedy following a breach.

As secular moralities go, I'd expect vegans to oppose abortion and gene-editing, and libertarians to oppose any form of state control over those. No others come to mind that have principles coherent across the entire class with respect to unborn fetuses.
The fun part about expat life is that the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion often puts your adjusted gross income at below zero, which means income based repayment plans have a zero payment while your income is that “low.”
This comment needs more visibility. Everyone is stumbling by this stuff and missing the context. I got a spat of emails about organizations leaving Medium and was like "okay whatever", but then I discovered that basically everything is now paywalled.

I had a subscription to Medium in the past, and if I knew they were paywalling articles in general, I would have canceled right away.

The point was for me to publish writings so they would be generally available (and not get bogged down in details). It seems that's no longer offered. The idea that someone would hit a paywall trying to get to my articles is infuriating.

I hate everything about this. We're constantly bombarded with unwanted sharing. I get advertisements based on websites I visit, and there's nothing I can do about it. My activity is just free for the taking for advertisers. But heaven forbid I try to share something constructive to the rest of the world.
For a project this magnitude, I think they should build a spare telescope or two to account for launch failures. Or is it not how the space industry operates?
Being smart is inherently good. It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
Why is it undervalued? because you decided it's so?
It's extremely valued, and even specified as a requirement for most positions (either explicitly or under "communication skills").
Nope,

WinUI roadmap

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...

React Native for Windows rewrite on top of WinUI

https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

Announcement done during last month's BUILD.

UWP is live and well as Win32's successor.
Yes. Until someone maliciously removes your disclaimer. That wouldn't be your fault, but impact is the problem, not fault.
If you're working in a bubble self reflection is definitely important. If you have colleagues hopefully they will help you.
Dear Unity: please get a floating license server that runs on Linux!
Merkel’s Address at the Harvard Commencement 2019
Commenting to read again.
I wish, for the future, that we'll be able to extend the (healthy) human life span. Imagine being able to start a new, education heavy career later in life. Heck, you are pretty much locked-in whatever you do if you're already in your 30ties.
A good tutorial is it own documentation and good documentation is its own tutorial.

I've yet to find anything that packs a bigger punch than screenshots annotated with MS paint paired with concise description.
I don't care if you write "you" or "u". I do care a lot about clear definitions in technical writing. For example, someone could mention a "system". What exactly does he mean? Is it synonymous to "the servers" he mentions in the next paragraph? Or is there an important difference?

Even worse if people do not even read the text and only look at the diagrams. Hours of meetings could be replaced with minutes of reading.

Even worse if people do not write text at all but only PowerPoint diagrams. What is the meaning of the boxes and arrows? Is it consistent?

Maybe the responsibility should be placed on the readers as well? They should demand better writing.
My first reaction to this is that the climate has changed since then. The use of the Espionage Act and nonjudicial targeting of reporters and leakers has been on the rise for a few decades; it's not just Assange but Thomas Drake, John Kiriakou, Joseph Wilson, and Barrett Brown. If James Bamford published the equivalent of Inside the Puzzle Palace today, I'd fully expect him to face prosecution. The softer reaction to the Panama Papers had less to do with protections for responsible publication than with the leaker never being caught, and the near-total absence of notable Americans.

But honestly, saying earlier leakers did fine also seems pretty selective. Deep Throat did fine because he kept his identity secret for 30 years. Woodward did well because his publications forced Nixon to resign, producing an administration that wasn't being directly harmed by the leaks.

Before Nixon's resignation, those associated with leaks suffered quite a bit more. Daniel Ellsberg had his medical records stolen from his psychiatrist's office. When Nixon thought the Brookings Institute had Vietnam files, he ordered their office robbed and later planned a firebombing to enable an FBI raid; this was apparently preempted only because the Pentagon Papers were published. Other reporters and editors were regularly targeted with tax audits for criticizing Nixon. Martha Mitchell was kidnapped and sedated to prevent her from discussing her husband's role in Watergate. Many of the people targeted most heavily, for instance for FBI harassment and break-ins, were activists instead of reporters, but Assange's place on that continuum is hardly clear.

It does seem excessive to claim that this was an inevitable outcome. But I don't think the recent or Nixon-era experiences of leakers justify any belief whatsoever that responsible leakers face less retribution.
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Where's globalization when you really need it?

What if these US students could have earned an equally useful degree for one quarter as much money by attending an accredited college in China, India, Ukraine, Mexico, Russia, Ecuador, Thailand or some other nation where all the costs are lower?
None of the solutions you propose scale cost effectively as replacement of nuclear power.

We can't even recycle lithium for batteries cost effectively yet.
It's a bit fuzzy whether people from CS backgrounds acquire this skill organically, but the style guide / format of the x-pager docs felt very familiar to scientific publishing.

The main value of it felt that enshrining factual objective information and basing all discussion around that.
I recommend the following book on a regular basis to those in newly minted leadership positions.

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Works-Communicate-Effectively...
No they do not. I've seen a LOT of smsesque text that come from all sorts of different people who i'm 100% they are not trying to "appear dumber". I do not know why people do it, so i assume laziness. Smart people can be lazy too.
I've seen several stories about this, and people usually become teachers in other countries. I think many of them picked their degrees with an intention of becoming a professor, only to find that job unobtainable.

So why are they unwilling to enter the US education system, which has been suffering from a shortage of teachers for years. Are teachers in these other countries better paid? Is the certification in the US that much harder? Or is our public education system so shitty that virtually no one is willing to return after high school?
Absolutely. A couple that my wife and I are dear friends with are both in the medical profession. Nuclear medicine and pediatrics. They spent the first 8 years of their careers in NYC, establishing themselves / their careers. He's now in SoCal and she's in NorCal. They have 2 kids. They anticipate that they'll be split up for a couple of years in this manner because of their work situations. He's flying back and forth to be with his family. He's tried to get positions near their new home but he's either over-qualified or he's not getting bites.

They have to play networking and social games with their careers to a level that is well and truly beyond anything my wife and I have ever had to deal with as software engineers.

My wife and I have board game nights and that qualifies as networking. We're playing board games with folks from FAANG companies, triple A video game developers, interesting start-ups, etc... who I've met through this group. Our friends in the medical profession can't get away with something like that.
Most people don't keep their browsers up to date, let alone their OS. I'd say using FF is rare enough that switching to a chrome based UA would help.
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> Also, vaccines can run horribly off the rails. One cannot mutate into a pathogen, as you say

The live polio vaccine absolutely can. Before polio was largely eliminated, it didn't really matter, but once the risk of getting the wild-type virus dropped below the risk of getting it from the vaccine, it stopped making sense to use the live-attenuated vaccine.

http://www.virology.ws/2015/09/10/why-do-we-still-use-sabin-...