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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_debate

Policy debate is a formal style of competitive debate, characterized by a high degree of "game" like behavior and, most notably, the act of making arguments as fast as possible, so as to literally make it impossible for your opponent to answer them all.

Mostly its a high school thing, but there are some college leagues.

To answer your questions:

- Winning made me feel smart and cool.

- Never, but I also don't feel I was right either, really. I mean the relationship to the substance of the ideas in the debate is so tenuous. It really is a kind of high speed game of conceptual chess, more than an argument.

- The policy debater takes up and puts down positions like tools. One round you might make an argument you defeated in the previous round. You might argue against your very own position.

- As a data scientist (and a scientist and philosopher in general) I'm with you about truth being important (as far as that goes) but policy debate is much more about developing a facility with ideas. A certain detachment from specific ideas is actually very important to finding the true ones, and policy debate helps you see that.

On the other hand, it does make people cynical. I see a lot of what is wrong with this country in my training as a debater. Its a thing taught mostly to rich kids at private schools and it teaches them to bullshit, which is a critical skill if you're to lord it over the plebes. The world might be better off it we didn't know how.

My view these days is that I'm quite skeptical of strong claims made either way and that I prefer virtue ethics, which say we should focus less on complex schemes to understand and manipulate the world and more on our character moment to moment.
buy a keyboard that lets you customize keybindings. my anne pro cost me probably less than $50 and there are many other (better!) choices out there
Yes, this is a good idea, although I'd like to note there is more nuance.

* `encoding` is what vim uses internally -- the way buffers and registers are stored in memory. Default value is latin1 as you mention, but it will also pick up on the $LANG environment variable. It's more effective in general to set that variable than directly tweak `encoding`. (Mine is en_US.UTF-8 due to my locale.)

* `fileencoding` is the encoding for the current buffer on disk, how it will be read and written. It is translated in memory to `encoding`. Thus you can manipulate files in encodings other than the one used in-memory. (Although if encoding was latin1 I'm not sure how well the round-trip would go.)

* `termencoding` is how the buffer will be displayed to the screen and how the user input will be read. Once again, it can differ from encoding, and will be translated.

* `fileencodings` is an ordered list of options to try when opening a file. Default value: "ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1" when encoding is a unicode value.

If you were editing Japanese text, for instance, choosing UTF-16 encoding would actually make vim use less memory than UTF-8, and would not affect the fileencoding used on disk either.
Take a second to reflect on what you're actually saying:

> "I requested this feature X years ago. (Also, I'm not doing the work of actually writing any code, but it must be super easy to implement, here's some pseudocode. You're welcome.)"

Your implementation is useless; anyone can hand-wave and scribble something on a napkin over their lunch break. It's the details that surface the complexity.

Either way, it's moot. It's not like they can't figure out a for-loop on their own. It's about portioning dev resources for "your favorite feature" and justifying the maintenance cost of this feature later on.

You are not asking for Open Source™. You are being Openly Selfish™
I never understood why the primary concern was privacy. I mean, it gets your information from Facebook doesn’t it?

I’d be much more worried about what they’re training their algorithm to do. Seeing your old self is fun and all, but if you helped the surveillance state or deep fake troll factories, then it would probably be preferable to just wait and see. Of course that’s just speculation on my part, maybe their software will be used for something harmless.
I lost my mum just slightly over a year ago, so I know the feeling. And all I really can say is that I'm truly sorry for your loss and that I hope you can one day look back and remember the good things. I guess that's all that one can ask for when presented with situations like these.

Good luck with everything.
You should take a look at language server clients for vim e.g. coc-nvim. I don't personally used one so I can't say what works or not.

[0] https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
I'm the same way, and I hit the same spot with my desktop OS. I don't need any more individualization than I can put on a machine in 5-10 minutes.

The reason vi(m) is awesome is because it's everywhere and it's (pretty much) the same.
i have ctrl-shift-command-option+hjkl mapped to the arrow keys in any app.(works in tandem with the next config so it's just the press of the caps lock key)

caps+(any other key) mapped to ctrl-shift-command-option+that key(useful to bind to extra shortcuts in an app).

a single just caps lock press alone bound to escape.

and finally right shift + caps lock is bound to toggle caps lock on and off.

works pretty well for me for a long while now.

karabiner elements on macos lets you do all that with "complex modifications" though the config is a bit dumb to do manually as they expect you to download configs from the web.
Yup. I had the same issue with vscodevim which causes me to ditch vscode entirely.
It's really not that close (and not very big, either).
I worked out an out of network surgery center which targeted high reimbursing insurance companies. The standard tact is to lie to patients, telling them not to worry about high deductibles because the surgery center won’t collect on them.

I seen an endoscopy be reimbursed $28,000 from a major county’s government employee insurance program in CA. At a hospital, it would cost around $2,000.

I heard established surgeons say that some surgeons would purposely perform shoddy hernia surgeries to require further surgeries. Or add more procedures etc to inflate the charges.

They’ll bill as much as possible, using billing codes in the most strategic ways. Insurance companies would then reimburse 15-20% on average.

The entire system is flawed and opaque so it’s hard to know who is exploiting who.
> The ability to write is unique to humans

Yes, and this is crucial. It's what allows us to operate as Turing machines.

I was reminded of another distinguishing characteristic of humans by a recent event [1]: we tell stories.

http://news.mit.edu/2019/patrick-winston-professor-obituary-...
It sounds like scraping is a big problem for you guys. What kind of outfit is it, if you don't mind me asking?
swapping ; and : is a must for me at this stage from sheer muscle memory... trips me up every time i run into a new setup

so I've saved my .vimrc to a gist and I just curl it every time I remote into a new environment

https://gist.github.com/airstrike/e361d94dbe4bb90f4fe6ff4418...
Some sites offer certain select articles for free and put the rest behind a paywall. Or only make articles accessible via a referral link.

There are options beyond what we have today. Abusing an API loophole to detect incognito browsing was never the right answer.
This cries for blind taste tests.
The “Liquidity Problem” for Cryptocurrency Exchanges
> How is this getting intruded upon?

The connection is still encrypted the whole purpose of certificates is to verify with WHO you are connected with. In the Kazakhstan case the government by installing a root certificate has the ability to impersonate gmail.

> More importantly, suppose I checkin to a hotel in USA as I usually do and use the hotel's wifi. Would they be able to intrude into my connection to https://gmail.com?

If the site you visit is over https you can be relatively certain that you are indeed establishing an encrypted connection with the domain owner. If it's plain http anyone sniffing in the same wifi can see and mess with your traffic
Bing Mobile Friendliness Test correctly renders JS pages. Fetch as BingBot does not currently. I logged a support request through Bing Webmaster and got a reply that their engineering team is working on it, so I would expect Bing to crawl JS sites just like Google in the near future.
There's an interesting reason for this related to the ASCII table and bit shifting, but I can't find a description of the exact mechanism for it. H and [ are in the same column as escape and delete respectively, and control shifts the bits in the character codes by some amount. Maybe someone smarter than me can elucidate.
I'm still trying to figure out why my health insurance company paid $600 for a dermatologist to spray liquid nitrogen on a wart for 10 seconds.
If democracy needs to be temporarily compromised to save the planet, so be it. The dogma of universal suffrage should not be our top priority (not that we currently live by it anyway!)
The Future of Web Games
Yeah that's not true... Amazon's net income for the last quarter (ending on May 31 2019) was 3.561B, while Walmart's net income for the last quarter (ending on April 31 2019) was $3.842B
This is a good point, though Spotify hasn't been without its bumps. It has lost money almost every year and substantially reduced the total amount of money artists receive from people listening to their music. Artists have been forced to find alternative revenue streams to remain solvent, and it has taken a hammer to the "middle class" of musicians.

All of this has been great for the consumer since we get cheap music, but if we want to port the same system over to shows/movies then we need to think through the implications of reducing the total amount of revenue that content creators get from people watching their content. Where are the alternative revenue streams? You can't take a TV show on tour.

It's definitely possible, theoretically, but I'm not sure it's possible at a price point that people actually want to pay. Making video content is orders of magnitude more expensive than making music.
True, I have spoken to a lot of people and there seems to have been a lot of political propaganda in every Netflix / Hollywood movie / show / even music videos. I am so tired of the ideology shoved down the throat that I stopped watching anything these days. I just want a good story.

I fear it will get worse because of the vertical integration and monopoly of the entertainment business, they can keep making bad movies and people will keep watching them because there's no other choice, in turn increasing the monopoly.
The alternative would have been opt-in instead of opt-out.
Everything excluded by default, except what robots.txt allows you to index.

Naturally, Google didn't want that.
I’m not super familiar, but from a cursory google, it looks like crossbeam is the rust equivalent?
Doctors prescribed them, so who cares?

I personally think we should just be able to buy any drug we want at a convenience store, but what do I know?
Or check out DVD.com (old-school Netflix) if you’re looking for selection. It’s way better for movies and TV shows if you’re willing to wait a few days.
You have to be crawled and rendered first
Instead of thinking about how they are both back in touch, why not assume a step further. They are in touch, and they are hoping that you are doing _______ with the most passion [in which they have yet to witness ;)].

Now fill that in and use it as adrenaline to accomplish your next (big, relatively) feat.

Your thoughts?

RIP PW
Any comparisons with aerogel?
I completely missed this because of skimming. Almost jumped the gun on subscribing. Use the pwned password API a lot. (I use the email-based one not at all.)
> They got into content creation and they're now deep in debt despite their massive subscriber base.

I've found that while Netflix has some decent original content - the overwhelming majority of it is garbage and totally uninteresting.

Sometimes I feel some of the Netflix Originals where mothballed from normal venues, so Netflix picked it up, failing to realize why nobody else wanted to produce it in the first place.

As just an example, I was a huge fan of Arrested Development - but continuing that show where it left off after ~10 years of not being on air... it just didn't "have it" anymore...

And... when I search for a movie, it seems about 90% of the time they don't have it. Instead, they recommend a bunch of Netflix Original's that totally aren't what I'm looking for.
Most attacks are done via local file access. Ship things over an API.

EC2 -> S3 bucket with only write access and versioning enabled.
EC2 -> EFS and it's a rotating set of 7 with 7 different security groups that rotate.
Perhaps their recommendation engine is working as designed, but it's tuned for some other metric besides maximum viewer enjoyment. For instance, rankings might be influenced by the royalties they pay, or the likelihood that you'll recommend a Netflix-only show to a non-Netflix-subscribing friend.
> "How does that show any such thing? Unless you're defining someone with dementia as "not a person"."

Are 17 year old people "not persons"? Of course not. Who is talking about non-personhood?

We currently forbid 17 year olds from voting (while allowing them to sign up for the military..) but where are the objections when a 75 year old with dementia and the mentality of a 5 year old votes? The 17 year old is unquestionably more qualified to vote than a senile pensioner who thinks Jimmy Carter is still in office and forgets to walk to the bathroom when nature calls. That's the case even if you disregard the "skin in the game" argument, or even if you somehow convince yourself that democracy is more important than bracing humanity for catastrophic climate change.
>I genuinely think I could write a better recommendation engine.

They'd have paid you for it back in the day :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
I signed up for Netflix because the original (maybe too good to be true) premise was that I'd be able to stream basically everything in one place. The key is that I came to stream shows that I already watched but which had no home on the internet.

Now Netflix is a place to watch shows and movies made by Netflix. So it's like HBO, but more quantity and less quality. My favorite "comfort food" shows like The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, etc are slowly leaving the service.

So I find my Netflix account collecting digital dust most of the time. More and more I find myself liking YouTube TV. It gives me mindless channel flipping, live sports, and the cloud DVR gives me a pseudo-netflix where I have every episode of all my favorite shows ready at a click (I just need to fast-forward recorded commercials).
Do you seriously expect someone will go the length of covering all the Ford logos in a car movie?
That is the thing about product placement ads, when done correctly, the ad is part of the content.
This guy doesn’t seem like a fraudster so much as an honest practitioner trying to make his skills available to people. Did he injure anyone?
This is basically describing exactly how I've been stuck at my current job that I hate for the past year, although instead of 'attending a lot of weddings' it's 'planning our wedding'. Something is always coming up, and I keep putting off doing what I need to do to prepare for and land that next job, especially with the insane technical quiz hurdles thrown up at pretty much every job interview nowadays.

At this point we're less than two months away from our wedding now, so I'm pretty much just saying "let's get past the wedding and then I can get the hell out of here". But that's still putting it off.
R&D is not just "research", it's also "development". All money spent on engineering work count toward that 16 billion.
Potentially, this means that people wanting to go "off the grid" (or who had already done so) can be identified using old photos.

If you have any old photos of yourself anywhere on the internet, or even in your offline gallery, you will be traceable.
For sure. I recently started watching HBO Go more and I realized that 90%+ of the shows on that service are excellent. On Netflix it's like 20% tops.
Metapoint: I could not imagine a worse format for this than a series of tweets. It's like an anti-usecase.
Which fermented foods do you overdose on when you go through this process?
My guess is that after the GitHub acquisition, IBM was afraid Microsoft would buy RedHat to gain more control of Linux. I'm kinda surprised MS hasn't bought Ubuntu, but there's probably no hurry - we're still in "embrace".
'Urgent' vs. 'important' is useful but incomplete.

Though it's not without its flaws, Getting Things Done by David Allen is at the least a good starting point to personal time management.[1] I also recommend Thomas Limoncelli, Time Management for System Administrators, which addresses specific requirements of many tech workers (programmers too).

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do

From Allen, particularly, the notions of different levels of task (he uses flight/elevation metaphore for Immediate to life-long goals), and of regular review. Information capture without review has very little value.

My first problem with the genre generally is that it seems to presume everything can get done. Actually, no, it cannot, the attempt will burn you out or kill you (see the FT burnout article I'd submitted earlier: http://archive.is/OQSTS). But your planning/tracking system may well (and really should) help you discover your pace, rhythms, limits, and warning signs.

Allen shares my general disdain for computerised trackers. I've settled on bullet journal and index cards, mostly, though I'm still developing my system and tuning it.

Another issue is that many "tasks" really aren't; they're goals, aspirations, large projects which have not yet been analysed, assed, broken down to subtasks, and/or abandoned. Even apparrently trivial items can take far longer than anticipated.

Your personal community -- at work, home, social, commercial, political -- has a tremendous influence. If you are constantly facing opposition or at best apathy to even basic goals or needs, any progress will be exceedingly painful. Changing environments is almost always easier than changing peoole, though if you find the situation unchanged even in new environments, consider looking at yourself and how you respond. My first approach is generally to try to work with or accommodate others, but I'm getting far quicker to push back and demand what I need to function and succeed. That's often the only thing that works.

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Notes:

1. Though in fact took me nearly ten years to get Getting Things Done done, no joke.
It's got big radioactive warnings on it, so it should be pretty obvious to the thief, if he wasn't already familiar with the construction industry:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SENTINEL+880&iax=images&ia=images

Costs about $15-20k: https://irss.ca/product-category/shop-by-brand/qsa-global/88...
I’ll just chime in to say that Algolia runs on an home-made C++ engine.
[I work at Algolia]
Having a runaway hit isn't just about creating it, but also successfully maintaining it. Strachan abandoned Apache Groovy only 2 years after creating it so he doesn't really count. Unfortunately he let in someone without any programming aptitude into the Codehaus despotry, and was eventually eased out with stirred up conflicts like the one over builder syntax in Dec 2005. He even had his commit privileges stripped from him afterwards.
Bulk emailing notifications to all affected addresses would be a deliverability nightmare, and would require manual intervention at most ISPs to prevent these messages from being blocked, which said ISPs may or may not be willing to do.

Just think of the number of clueless users who would mark such a notification as spam, and the number of old, dead addresses, some of which are now spamtraps.

edit: clarify bulk vs. individual notifications
Can't tell if "people operations" used at many tech companies is better or worse.
>The entire system is flawed and opaque so it’s hard to know who is exploiting who.

Doctors are by far the highest paid career in the USA. Surgeons are paid enormous salaries. Its pretty clear who is winning.

I know there is a complaint that medical school is very expensive. If we offered free medical school for cutting salaries in half, I'm pretty sure doctors would prefer to keep as it is.
Well Netflix is now big enough where what their CEO want and what middle management chose to implement will be different things.

On tech side despite all their tech wizardry I get this feeling that this company is overwhelmed with Java design pattern types.
On business side it's full of too clever by half folks who would think every user hostile feature is great if it improves some bullshit metrics.
Is RFC 8478 still compatible with the newest library releases?
I only ever "knew" him from the OCW lectures on Youtube, but he seemed like a real class act. And certainly a major contributor to the advancement of CS and AI. He will be missed.

R.I.P., Mr. Winston.
The Tech Principles from the Financial Times
I use coc-nvim and can attest that it is really good. I used to use YouCompleteMe, and while that plugin is really powerful it's also overly complicated and breaks a lot.
It become more or less just a catalog, often times spent close to an hour just trying to find something might be interesting (not totally shitty), and that's pretty much it: couldn't find anything, just browsing their catalog, with time wasted.
A 1950s colonial mindset which said nothing good could come out of this country, and everything good would get invented in either the UK, or Germany or America.

As an Australian who left the country owing to a perceived lack of R&D opportunities far later on, in 2001, and had never heard this sentiment articulated, I found this quote very interesting. It is a shame that, even to date, stories behind the many Australian inventions are not taught in Australian schools. We are responsible for so many interesting things: wifi, samba, rsync, Wikileaks, TCP half-open scanning, rubber hose cryptography, plastic money, wave-piercing multihulls, power boards, ultrasound, pacemakers, feature-length film, photolithography, refrigeration, permaculture, plain tobacco packaging, swim briefs, medical penicillin, bionic ears, electric drills, winged keels, plastic lenses, inflatable emergency rafts, New Zealand, etc.

Perhaps the Australian government is to blame: having been outside for so long, looking in, it seems they (especially one of the two major parties) consistently de-fund, de-nature and over-regulate the educational and cultural sectors of society while failing to provide viable avenues for R&D to retain talent in the country. Their biggest 'program' seems to be reducing tax on large-scale R&D expenses ... perhaps not realising that the very nature of Australia's economy makes it a terrible place (~zero supply chain, very high costs, very small market, no VC, miles from anywhere, timezone unique in the English speaking world) to perform most R&D.
BBC TV sci-fi series 'Out of the Unknown' aired a pretty decent adaptation of the story at the start of Series 2 on Oct. 6, 1966. (It -was- online at some point.)