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Javascript is the extension language for the most successful platform in history. A lot of people consider it a horrible language, and yet, here we are.

Ruby and Python both started as scripting/glue languages meant for small programs. At that scale, it doesn't really matter.

When the codebases they were used for started getting bigger and started having longer histories and a need for refactoring, that's when people started asking for more structure.
that's what I was hinting at. Did the designer really think about it or was it just naturally there.
Effectively or not, I expected to see more tax being paid purely because they'd have to pay VAT. Regardless of who effectively pays, they still have to transfer about 20% of all revenue gathered from selling to consumers. So I was curious as to why these numbers didn't add up. I'm perfectly ok with someone telling me why I'm wrong as well, I'm no accountant.
The split I see. Progressive parents are staying in the city and fighting. They're Hipsters, and they are organizing; community events, volunteering in schools, etc.

The ones that are moving to the suburbs are the ones that are bit traditional, not into fighting for social causes.
Here's the picture (hopefully you can access it):

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/07/01/science/01TB-ATOM...

And bonus pic of the machine:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/07/01/science/01TB-ATOM...
Virginia’s ‘revenge porn’ laws now officially cover deepfakes
is there a video of this being presented somewhere?
My impression of what China is doing with the whole BRI is to colonize Africa and bring it under their sphere of influence.

It appears to me that in another decade everyone will be shocked that the Great Firewall encompasses large portions of Africa and Asia. Additionally everyone will be surprised that a lot of manufacturing has become too expensive domestically in China and is now outsourced to Africa.

At least, that is my read of the whole situation.
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Rabbit hole goes much more deeper than that.
All programs eventually turn into LISP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Lucas got Noble prize for proving that market participants game new rules faster then regulators introduce them.

Pseudo-market solutions in healtcare (pricing procedures with ICD and allowing market participants compete) are currently proved as inefficient. Net gain for market participants but net loss for people and goverment budgets.

So my reservation is for carbon tax as gigantic wealth transfer without real benefits to climate. I am not against urgent action on climate.
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Honest question, maybe obvious: Why is the java-scheduler/ thread model so much better than the OS-level one? What does the java one do, or better what does it not do? And why can't the principles which make java-scheduling fast be applied to OS-threads?
I do remember this quant aggregator. And I can recommend it:

https://quantocracy.com/
There're many songs I still listen to, that I listened on my walkman-clone. In most of them I can still "hear" the moment where the cassette stopped and I had to turn it around for the remainder of the song.
History is filled with re-discovery and explanation of things that were blindingly obvious to the generation that came before.
There's already a jobs link there
Which API manager would you recommend?
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Recipe for getting things done:

1. Place every new & cool technology into mental quarantine for 3-5 years.
2. If, after that:
a) the tech is still widely used, and doesn't seem to be getting overtaken by something else
b) you're about to start a NEW project where the tech would help
c) you're not in a rush and feel like trying something new

...then go for it.

Learning complex tech that just arrived is a waste of your life, if you want to accomplish things. It's only useful if your aim is to appear knowledgeable and "in the loop" to your developer peers.
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Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain
No. It describes the mid-90s in Finland, where the author is from. Just because you in the US had cooler stuff doesn't make the author's personal experience historically inaccurate.
> So, it does break gameplay balance.

That is one way to see it, another is to add extra depth to gameplay by introducing secret areas only accessible through gaps that you can only cross if you move diagonally.

Designers often acknowledged these bugs, especially in older games. The classic Tomb Raider games, for example, has several secrets only accessible through outright breaking the engine. One very obvious example is in TR1 a health pickup is only accessible if you keep jumping upwards at a corner of a pillar which causes Lara to move forward a single unit and eventually, due to some collision bug, she teleports at the top of the pillar which is otherwise inaccessible... and the only reason you could know about this health pickup is because due to the painter's algorithm used to draw the level, sometimes under some angles the pickup is drawn in front of the pillar even though it should be invisible.

Also strafe-jumping has been a common tactic in FPS games (especially multiplayer games) to the point where games reimplement it in engines that otherwise work 'properly'.
Beyond good and evil, Nietzsche. Probably his best work and one that will shake up your conception of morality.
Also, the Circardian Code by Satchin Panda.

I have read both recently, and there is a lot of overlap, but the Circardian Code goes beyond sleep into nutrition and execise, as well.
In Western Europe, general practitioners are instructed to prescribe relaxation and not working starting with 3 months up to 6 or 7 months. Six months of non-activity seems to be the average recovery period prescribed after burnout.

However, every person is different. External factors such as family, lifestyle and responsibilities can aid or halt recovery. Same goes for personality and internal factors. I know of cases of burnout turned depression where the person took 2 years to start working.

There is no universal function for how long a person suffers from chronic stress and the recovery duration.

Obtaining such a function entails fully understanding and measuring all factors and dimensions involved in burnout. And that would merit a publication in Nature.
I doubt that anything like that will become standard curriculum. Some conclusions and effects might become common knowglede, but the mechanisms and theory not.

It would have to be taught in high scholl, and even then not everyone have a complete high school knowledge. People don't generally know Newtonian mechanics unless they are physics undergrads or graduates. You need calculus to get it.

I would argue that Newton's theory was more complex because it required new math. Einstein didn't. The math was already there, and he managed to incept his idea without it. Riemannian geometry just simplified description. It's similar to Maxwell. He had electromagnetism in over 20 equations, then some lad whose name I forgot, made work and closed it down to four, that again 99 percent or more people don't know, though they govern nearly everything at our scale. Touch, vision and chemistry is described by them. I can come with only two things that are part of everyday life, that lie outside. Gravity, in the part that makes us stick to the planet, and atomic energy, though that's fast trasformed back to EM domain. Everything else seems to be far away, except for the fact they make things stable, but we don't harness it.

To me ingenuity and creativity are essentially the same. It's the abilty to have those insane ideas, perhaps genius is to pick important ones to ponder upon. I think we agree, that scientific breakthroughs seem to be based on making up grander picture, where what you physically see is some kind of special case of generally opposite rules. One of the greatest example is the idea that movement is generally self sustained, seems crazy here in the atmosphere, where the 1st theories said, that it requires force and work to keep going. Something we all experience.

Well, that's a long tought-chain. Hope someone's find it interesting.
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Facebook may be 'pivoting' to something worse
The lightweight threads(fibers) are actually not threads on the OS level, they just behave similarly. As such there are no context switches etc., which are slow.
I have one too, and I agree it's an amazing device, but a while ago I discovered it had seized up and stopped working - the fast-forward and rewind had been dodgy for a while, but both of them had finally given up, and playback had also failed.

I replaced the belts, which got playback working again (see picture here https://twitter.com/chris_cannam/status/1043961675114840070) but ffwd/rwd appeared to be victims of a seized pivot which I couldn't get moving. So it plays beautifully once more, but still can't wind.

Might be worth checking that yours is still going ok, in case lack of use is a factor.
The objective of carbon tax is to give incentives to market participants and let the market to the job. In my opinion it will result in creating huge wealth transfers with much real benefit to the climate.

I would rather side with Naomi Klein that capitalism proved ineffective in solving problems of this scale.
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Factory-pressed CDs are really durable. I have CDs from the 80s and they still work fine. Now CD-Rs... it depends what you buy. If you used some cheapo brands then yeah they would fail. Otherwise they were also fine.
Your opinion is close to the truth. But in a psychology there is an alternative viewpoint. It is the concept of rationality is a wrong and oversimplified, not the human mind. If we see some behaviour as irrational, it means that we do not understand why it is good to behave this way.

It works for perception research: when science needs to explain an illusion and why people are subjects for it, to be able to explain why people see or hear "wrong" things, or why this "wrong" things are not wrong at all, is a good science. Often times science use a very artificial setup for an experiment, the very setup is tuned so that people start to make mistakes. Take Ames Room as an example[1], it is artificially created environment when participant have not enough information to be sure, and his mind make a mistake. But mistake of the mind is a great achievement, if you try to do better with an AI, I suspect you'll end with the same result. Mind take into a consideration a lot of details, for Ames Room to work reliably, experimenter needs to draw skewed windows on the back wall, that would look as rectangles after projection. So the setup is highly unlikely a priori and mind makes a good bayesian decision that the most probable explanation is two people of different sizes.

For cognitive biases we also need to be wary, because the process of creating the right experimental setup could include a lot of tweaks to make people's decision process "to fail". Scientist needs an effect that could be shown with a statistics, so he/she tweaks setup until it works.

It leads to a conclusion, that if cognitive bias lacks explanation why it is a rational thing, we cannot say that this bias is a "disease/ailment".

[1] https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Ames_room
I don't see what's civil in what's happened...
Good answer. I doubt however that Libra's terms of service will allow purchase of "real" crypto - just like I doubt they will allow purchase of drugs, porn, or malware.
Like the one built with Chinese money in Kenya? It's so under-utilized that the government passed a law that certain types of cargo has to be transported by rail, even though trucks are cheaper. In some cases that means merchants in Mombassa have to load goods arriving in the port on rail cars, send it to Nairobi, then bring it back again.

Belt and road is costing the Chinese a fortune and it seems they're beginning to realise a lot of it is being wasted. They recently refused to fund a planned extension of the railway in Kenya. There has been a lot of fuss about the port in Sri Lanka that was repossessed by China, and theories that this is a deliberate strategy. That doesn't look like it's actually the case, so far it's the only example of that happening.
Yes!

Especially since the first two books are a collection of short stories that are super accessible and self-contained.
But, again, you have to be in a position where you can afford such policies. I'm perfectly ready to hear that Norway and California can afford it, and France can not.
> I'm questioning why FB and the member parties didn't just support an existing solution/infrastructure.

You cannot build a stablecoin on crypto-assets that have limited issuance.
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Kotlin coroutines, as well as js and c# async/await, require us to change declaration of calling function. We can call a "suspend" function only from a "suspend" function, which in turn can only be called by another "suspend" function. So if I change some of my functions to "suspend" everyone upper in the call stack should be changed to "suspend", which is not always possible because that may be a 3rd party code.

That's not necesserily a deal breaker, but that's the difference.

For Java there is Quasar lib, which introduces async/await through bytecode instrumentation. It's by the same authors who work on the project Loom currently.

I don't use it because:
a) the project web site feels a bit abandoned; I guess they concentrate on Loom now
2) I need analogues of wait/notify, sychronized, etc which are used in this code and not provided by Quasar; Quasar only provides lower-level primitives. One either need to implement such constructs on top of Quasar, or reimplement the logic. So it's not a drop-in replacement.

The project Loom aims to be mostly a drop-in, in particular fibers will support synchronized, wait/notify, etc.
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Not so sure because it also holds for highly rule-abiding countries like Japan, the Netherlands, Germany etc.
Not only that, but they know to delegate. Especially in the military; a general doesn't command the troops, they command the people one or two ranks below them, who then distribute the load.

I see a lot of 'flat' organizations where there's one person having to manage 50+ people, which IMO is just too much responsibility, especially if they have multiple roles (financial, personnel, strategy, etc).

The first thing that anyone needs to learn if they grow into a leadership position is to be able to delegate instead of doing things themselves / micromanage. That is difficult for e.g. software developers because doing the work itself (writing code etc) and doing it well was what got them there. In a lot of cases.
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You know, it's the same as with financial advice. Good financial advice is good.... except if absolutely everyone applies it, then it becomes a disaster. Fortunately, there's no risk of that happening.

Same here. No matter what you do, leave others to try the cool new stuff & get burned by it & work to fix it (when/if possible). Stay informed, but don't be an early-adopter. It's sound advice - though it wouldn't be if everyone applied it. Fortunately, there's no risk of that happening.
If I had to choose one book to save from 451, I'd definitely choose this one. Also rereading it is very rewarding experience, I've read it at least 12 times.
Apex Legends is good for improvisational gameplay that doesn't involve memorising building patterns. Also it's free!

The tactical opportunities in a fight that are available to a team with a gibraltar and pathfinder vs a gibraltar and pathfinder.. huge. Where does the shield go? Is claiming the high ground worth exposing yourself to the airstrike?
Getting whiplash reading this. What’s the upshot?

Following over 3 decades of gradual but uneven increases in sea ice coverage, the yearly average Antarctic sea ice extents reached a record high of 12.8 × 106 km2 in 2014, followed by a decline so precipitous that they reached their lowest value in the 40-y 1979–2018 satellite multichannel passive-microwave record, 10.7 × 106 km2, in 2017. In contrast, it took the Arctic sea ice cover a full 3 decades to register a loss that great in yearly average ice extents. Still, when considering the 40-y record as a whole, the Antarctic sea ice continues to have a positive overall trend in yearly average ice extents, although at 11,300 ± 5,300 km2⋅y−1, this trend is only 50% of the trend for 1979–2014, before the precipitous decline.
I'm sorry, I want to be respectful to most people, but the tone-deafness of this comment was really upsetting. I read your comment and I'm really struggling to find words to help you grasp how flippant, disrespectful, and frivolous it is. You fly over in a jetplane and have a thought about how it's all fine. You utter a dig that they aren't eating nature quite fast enough for you to care. You treat the extermination of vast quantities of species and habitat as nothing--it's all fine, because it's so big. Or something. But you are murky about how big it all is. Hours of flying, it costs you no effort to zip across. Out the window it's just another screen, just another selection in the menu of movies to watch on your shiftless, bored existence.

"Things Aren't All That Bad After All"--indeed. Just like carbon emissions weren't all that bad 40 years ago (compared to today!). And little by little, while people look the other way, gobble gobble. There's no undoing the destruction of pristine rainforest. It's really important that we stop it now; not when it gets down to 20% or 10%--now.
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Inner Engineering by Sadhguru. For me it was an unexpectedly transformational when I read it 6 months ago.

Unlike the stoicism books that teach you to condition yourself to be unaffected by external events, this is a method for taking charge of what goes on inside the body and (in my case) in the mind and emotions.

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> To be honest I don't understand why the west is not building roads and rails in Africa.

They have been. A lot of the tarmac and bridges in West Africa have been funded by Europe.
They needed a way to transport the beer from Laguna, South of Manila throughout the Country. The roads are bad, and still are. The toll for the TPLEX rivals 3-7$ for barely 20 miles. There is no other alternative.