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"Even at the end of the twentieth century, no one would have ever thought to call a truck driver a “cognitive worker,” an intellectual. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the use of machine learning in the development of self-driving vehicles has led to a new understanding of manual skills such as driving, revealing how the most valuable component of work, generally speaking, has never been merely manual, but also social and cognitive"

This is the best quote from the article.
So, lets err on the side of genocide?
I'm not in college, I live as a digital nomad in Eastern Europe. My parents wanted me to go down the traditional path so they made me talk to various companies/agencies to make sure I didn't want to get a normal job and go to school before I left. Your post made me even more glad I didn't go down the traditional path though.
The majority of emissions have been released in the last 30 years. All human emissions prior to that point are less than the human emissions from that point. People were talking about climate change back then. People decided to burn more oil.

The map I included there seems pretty optimistic compared to some others I’ve seen. In a recent paper, “Boaty McBoatface” saw faster wind currents increase ocean churn and aided sea warming faster than expected. I’ve taken this to suggest the current ocean raises predicted are under estimates.
It's weird to speak of literal organ harvesting and the legal fiction (admittedly, an arguably useful fiction) of intellectual "property" in the same sentence. One of these things is not like the other.
Making it two separate project means the library authors have to write two separate libraries using two separate API - the more flexible and easier to maintain (written among others with library authors in mind) function API and the object API that they often have to fight against right now.

That would be a huge problem. Right now they can just use the API they want and it will work for all the users regardless if they use objects, functions or classes.
I'm actually surprised it wasn't lead given the difficulty of melting iron.
Relevant toy pure python library to play with keys/btc addresses https://github.com/mcdallas/cryptotools
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Make a rule, break a rule...
That is a straw man. My point is that it hasn't caught on as a currency. It's fully caught on as an investment opportunity, which is why the value has increased so much every year (except last year, when it crashed by almost 85%!) but also doesn't make it great for everyday transactions.
Absolutely not. If anything their bodies should be protected from any kind of harvesting as to not incentivize the state from handing out death penalties.
Note that Intel has also announced that they're going to use chiplets w/ 3D stacking for newer designs, starting in 2019. So this isn't something that's exclusive to AMD.
Wouldn’t it be worth investigating why they are executed? Given this organ trade is going on I wouldn’t be surprised if their “justice” system is being literally trigger-happy because they benefit from the resulting organs being made available.
Your premise is false, we don’t consider it ethical for the state to execute prisoners.

I’m glad you’re lucky enough to be born in the right place, with the right ethnicity, family name, and religious beliefs. Imagine if you were unlucky enough to get one of those things wrong, and be born to be imprisoned, tortured, and taken apart to be sold for scraps by China.
> I think the only reason they were hated was due to being popular and somehow offending or scaring someone in power.

The idea of not being the highest authority to the people is the scariest thing to any authoritarian power.

That's why they are closing churches, jailing pastors, and rewriting scripture in China as Christianity’s popularity grows[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/china-christia...
Is it completely implausible to believe that people from "a group the communist party doesn't like" are simply less useful to Chinese society than a randomly selected citizen?

I'm not trying to defend China here, but it's futile to condemn an action if you have not made a good-faith effort to understand the rationale. China is a collectivist society - the rights of the individual are always secondary to the rights of the whole. We believe that people have a fundamental right to cause trouble, even if that's detrimental to social order; the Chinese Communist Party don't and a substantial proportion of their population agree wholeheartedly.

Saying "the Chinese shouldn't do this because it contravenes human rights" is like them saying "the First Amendment is terrible because it undermines social cohesion". It's an argument that seems nonsensical or in bad faith, because it's grounded in a completely alien conceptualisation of the role of the state and the rights of the individual.

If you want to make a persuasive argument, you need to address that core ideological difference. Why is your right to freedom of religion more valuable than our collective right to freedom from religious conflict? Why is your right to free speech more valuable than our collective right to social cohesion and stable governance? Why is your right to life more valuable than the right to life of the eight people who your organs could save?

Answering those questions is difficult and uncomfortable, but it's fundamentally necessary if you actually want to promote the values of liberal democracy rather than ineffectually condemning a different political culture.
Let me be clear that I'm not advocating for capital punishment at all, I'm staunchly against it. But honestly, if we're going to decide that we're allowed to kill people in the name of justice, it's arguable that the deceased's bodies should be used to help save lives.
Yes, I would agree there. Though that might also be a sign of an opt-out donor policy.

Also, the particular crime charged here is that not only are organs harvested from prisoners / execution victims, but prisoners are specifically killed in order to harvest their organs, including a pre-execution check for histocompatibility.

There is a distinction to be made between small scale criminal behavior on the part of the hospitals and prisons, and a large-scale state-sanctioned practice of illicit organ harvesting.
Bitcoin rising in value tends to pull up many altcoins along with it, including GPU mineable ones like Ethereum, Monero and Grin.
Caesium-137 emits Beta radiation decaying to Barium-137, which then emits Gamma radiation. Geiger counters can definitely detect "Caesium radiation".
Go is Java 1.0 all over again.

If it's enterprise adoption ever goes beyond Kubernetes and Docker, expect GoEE and Go Design Patterns to make their appearance.

Worse, since its plugin support is really cramped down, expect any enterprise grade CMS to be built on hundreds of processes.

This happens all the time with simple languages, tons of library boilerplate code.
It's important to realize that this isn't what the Chinese government is capable of, it's what governments are capable of. It can't happen here overnight, but it can happen here. Just look at the otherization and dehumanization increasingly embraced by people across the political spectrum, and dial it up to eleven.

This should give people at least sympathy, if not agreement, with gun rights advocates. While private guns can't stop a powerful government from having their way with us, they can at least make it more expensive. Would China be able to do this as quietly and without civil war if the Chinese people had the same number of private guns per capita as the US?

Many of us quite reasonably believe that gun rights aren't worth the huge number of gun crimes in this country. Others of us fear state actors even more than individual criminals and feel that the high cost of gun crimes is worth the price. Even if you disagree, stories like this should give you empathy for their argument.

If you think it can't happen here, did you think that this country would move in the political direction that it has in the last few years? I didn't. Uncertainty about the social future should translate into humility about the quality of our prognostications ... and fear about how bad it could get, and how fast.
I don’t think one needs to plan on being Facebook scale from the beginning, but I do think there is some consideration of scalability that needs to be considered from the start. Maybe you don’t need to think 10 steps ahead but you should at least have plans for 3 or 4 steps ahead of you don’t want to have to rearchitect everything from scratch in a year.

It might not be strictly necessary to containerize your app, for example, if you’re just running it on a single ec2 instance behind a load balancer, but it’s not a huge amount of work up front and there are some benefits and it means it’ll make it easier to move to ecs or k8s later if you need to.
It's simply the absence of an opt-out system that leads to either organ shortages or forced donations. An opt-out system fixes all of this immediately.
But “we” didn’t see the flaws. It has been a high impact study, and people both inside and outside of academia have been working off the assumption that it is true.
You're supposing that this article won't get published at all or won't be noticed by people citing the original simply because it's in a different journal. That's not what will happen.

I'm not dismissing anything here except the argument that a journal is required to print all counter research to all their published articles
> “The bulge in conservative girls pants is a gun. The bulge in liberal girls pants is a penis.”

Ugh, this is a really off-putting joke. I remember when gun ownership wasn't so hand-in-hand with extreme right-wing views, but this along with everything else seems to be increasingly polarized. Look at how the NRA has changed over the years for one good example.
I just tested this in Allegro CL 10.1: with and w/o the compiler: 15MB and 11MB.
"The protagonist is a nymphomaniac borderline[1] rapist ..."

Yes, Severian is not a particularly good person, but does that make this a bad series of books? I don't think Wolfe is trying to present him as good, which would be hard to swallow. This is written entirely from Severian's viewpoint, not Wolfe's.

In the sequel-ish series, the Long Sun books, the protagonist _is_ a very good person, and he's a marked contrast to Severian.
> How did China get away with this for so long?

There's a busy "organ transplant tourism" going on, from Japan, Korea and Western countries to China. You can be certain that's it's not the poor, powerless from these countries that profit from the murder-for-organ-harvesting schemes the Chinese run in their prisons.
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I just want OP to be aware that if he wants to vote for somebody like Trump for i.e. his 'stance' on China, it's worth noting that the U.S. doesn't really care, it's just posturing, this is not to say I like what China does here, if they're indeed doing it.

It's possible to hold both of these positions i.e. being against the Iraq war and not believing that the U.S. really believes in the propaganda they're putting out on it does not mean you had to like Saddam.
What worried me is that actually someone out there believe in this shit.
Yes, China is worse. It harvests tens of thousands of organs from political prisoners. It holds hundreds of thousands of minorities in concentration camps in Xinjiang. And that barely scratches the surface.

The KSA needs to face severe repercussions too, but repression, censorship, and extralegal assassinations are all in a day's work for the PRC.
That was very well researched. I'm sure the whole series functions as a great deep dive into the economic history of the gilded age and progressive era.
Economic value = maximum amount a customer is willing to pay for something. It does not matter why. Usually economic value is little higher than market value.
C appears small.

I doubt even veteran C developers know by heart its 200 UB documented use cases on ISO C, or the specificalities of any C compiler other than the one they daily use, and which features of it are actually part of ISO C.

Unless they happen to do ISO work all day long.
How was it getting things working on your AMD hackintosh? I’m very, very tempted to switch to AMD when the new Ryzen chips land but obviously want to be able to run macOS.
They admitted to having used organs from prisoners with relatively "valid" death sentence in so far that there is any such thing as a fair trial in China.

What is alleged here is much worse: Prisoners of Conscience (and not drug traffickers or murderers) are particularly selected for their histocompatibility and executed "on demand".

Therefor I think these allegations need further proof. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and that's why I suggest a cautious approach to this story.
For a start, how about the observation that ponying up cash for an organ apparently triggers scheduling of the state murder?

"...man in need of a kidney..." "...organs are still readily available in China for transplant tourists with very short waiting times."

https://chinatribunal.com/reading-material/

Matching of donor kidneys to immune system of specific recipients is critical to avoiding rejection.
The thing with that map is it's absurdly optimistic, as it implies a world entirely happy to have entire populations of other countries and continents to move into yours.

The amount of migration, displacement, rebuilding and major wars that would actually get us to that point is unimaginable.

Uninhabitable Earth is terrifying, and convincing. I thought I had a pessimistic outlook on climate until I read that.
postgres. I realize this is heresy to badmouth Postgres here, but it was Postgres (9.0 or 9.1 IIRC).

Had a query that selected from table X joining against view X which selected from view A, and view A joins against tables A,B and C, and table B also joins against a view which uses table A and C.

This was just bad. But trying to explain to non-tech people how bad it is, when "it used to work", is difficult. It used to work when you had 50-100 records. No one ever tested was this would be like with 30k records and 50 concurrent users all executing the same nested/circular view mess simultaneously.

But the fact that it was postgres is kind of beside the point. I don't know of any mainstream DB that would handle this well.

The short term fix was to do this large query once at the end of a process and cache the results; the set of queries in question were happening on a 'dashboard' view which everyone hit all the time. It would still cause problems with concurrency, because when 80 people would go through a process and get 'done' (think timed training exercises), the queries would still all be running more or less concurrently, and still cause timeouts, but it wasn't as frequent, because people tended to be staggered a bit more as they finished.
I believe the death penalty should be abolished anyway. But, disregarding the complexity of the implementation of such a policy, if the government is in the business of ending people's lives, I'd rather it be done to directly help people, instead of in a punitive fashion. If you think about it, the death penalty isn't really a punishment - some people commit heinous crimes specifically so they can be killed.
Isn't this a blatant violation of FTC rules that say all ads and sponsored content need to be identified as such?
Sure, it’s challenging math (if you’re doing pure analysis rather than a numerical computation), but that doesn’t imply that it’s NP-complex math, does it?

Getting all the details in such a model right seems to be the same kind of problem as getting a weather-prediction model right—in that, as you add factors, all your predictions asymptotically approach correctness, with smaller and smaller preturbations.

Those preturbations might cause one or two elements “local” to some part of the configuration-space to be misclassified; but remember, here, that the point is to get a predictive screening test, one that hopefully gives more false positives than false negatives. Any time it says “this molecule might look cool if you made it”, we can just make it and see; and then, if it looks different than we were expecting, we can refine the model with the additional details that make that novel molecule also appear correctly in it.
The fig leaf that we used to justify dismantling the American economy to make short term profit and bolster China was that Communism was the problem, and making money was the pixie dust that would fix everything.
Because the russian boogeyman is so last year, let's invent a new one.
Indeed. Unlike many developed countries which have those big box retail stores available in almost every neighborhood, local commerce activities in developing countries are dominated by smaller businesses, and their stores are often distributed randomly across a city.

In the U.S, you kind of know ahead what brands of retail stores you will be able to find a product, as opposed to some other countries where it's a lot more difficult to locate them due to the lack of specialized retail stores.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record I must point out that AI, neural
networks, machine learning, Perceptrons, algorithms and deep learning are not
interchangeable terms, any more than "maths" is interchangeable with
"calculus", "trigonometry", "geometry", "algebra" and "arithmetic".
Unfortunately this article is typically using such terms as synonyms and,
while it's probably meant to help the lay reader understand a technical
subject, will only manage to confuse the issue further.

It's clear that there is intense interest in deep learning and machine
learning in the last 7 years or so, but, especially when talking of "AI", it
is important to remember that the majority of work in AI has _not_ been on
machine learning, but on inference and reasoning, and using symbolic,
logic-based techniques (including Bayesian reasoning, as in Solomonoff's
Inductive Inference) rather than "statistical" methods (in the sense that the
term is used in AI to mean everything from probabilities to calculus).

Finally, there are historcial inaccuracies in this article. For example,
Rosenblatt's Perceptron was not "the first machine-learning algorithm' as the
article says: Arthur Samuel's self-playing checkers agents and Minsky's SNARC
are two systems predating the Perceptron by a few years and research on
machine learning techniques like Markov chains goes back to the 1910's.
> this is a two sided coin

Tangibly, sure, but not really. Iran followed the nuclear agreement, the U.S. violated it and has been openly escalating ever since. This does not mean Iran is an angel, but it does mean the U.S. is the aggressor here.
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The minority of voters voted for Trump. Statistically you’re even less likely today to find his supporters. I’m more than happy to criticize my own country, its actions, its leaders, and the people that enable them. In case you haven’t noticed a lot of Americans don’t hold their government in high regard.

Feel free to keep shining the light on those abuses, we need to remember them and learn from them.

Now, what about China?
"U.S. abuses and provocations, (Iran?)"

I don't consider getting our drone bombed out of the sky and backing down from a missile strike a 'provocation'. It's much better than our previous administration's idea, which is to give them money to go away and hope they don't use it on nuclear weapons against us.

"The U.S. doesn't really care about human rights, or its own abuse of them"

Sure it does. There are stories every month about people in our military getting prosecuted for abuses. I don't think I've heard one story about this happening in China or Saudi Arabia.

"so you'd be voting for posturing"

It's not all or nothing. Nothing the US is doing even compares to the horrors of China. It's good to have a candidate against this.

I seriously doubt this will ever happen. Trump is the only president that would even broach the idea of punishing China. If a Democrat gets into office in 2020, it will be business as usual and the problems will be kicked down the road, like they have been with Iran.
Whataboutism is called a fallacy for a reason...Suggesting a wrong isn't wrong because of others actions of wrong is middle school age moral logic at best.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Opt-out system fixes the forced extraction of organs from dissidents and prisoners? Please, do explain how?
«hundreds of Chinese scientific papers might be compromised due to their reliance upon thousands of unethically sourced organs.»

This is like saying that theses people died or were killed, and now some dumbsters will take away even the slightest hope that their death was somehow useful for the rest of us.

If I were dying in a concentration camp from the experiments of Doctor Mengele, knowing that my death would contribute to the progress of the science would have been a consolation for me.
Communism promised to provide equally well to all people. It's considered to be very much a failed experiment.

Early settlers in the US promised to provide for everyone. When freeloaders eventually ruined that deal, they changed it to "If you don't work, you don't eat."

Every time this has been tried out in the world, it works for a small group of committed, like-minded people. When it is opened up to "anyone/everyone," they inevitably have to come up with rules to account for free riders who want to take advantage.

Another real world example: When Spanish Conquistadors sent large quantities of silver back to Spain from the Americas, it didn't make everyone in Spain rich. It merely fueled inflation.

That's what happens when you add money to the system without adding goods and services: Prices go up.

The current UBI experiments are so limited in scope that the conclusion is akin to saying "People with kindly rich uncles are better off than people without such." But when it stops being a small group of privileged experiment subjects and becomes everyone, the conclusions drawn from the experiments won't apply anymore.