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That's a short-sighted view of morals in general. Whenever a new technology is made available to the world, you must take the good side-effects with the bad. It's very convenient to only view this from the lens of improved health service without considering that previously unexploitable biological processes that are now in control of 3rd parties.

This research is part of a larger trend in biology where things once thought to be impractical are rapidly becoming possible. Extend these trends decades into the future; are you okay with a world where people can select the quality/type/number of organs for other people? What about the intentional creation of deadly viruses that select for subsets of the population? What about organizations intentionally modifying embryos to create people fit for menial labor? What about people making involuntary clones of others? And so on and so forth with the presently sci-fi topics.

Whether or not most people would generally agree to do such things, the fact is that they become possible. Without accurately projecting the economic factors in play 50, 100, 200 years from now, you can't actually confirm that people won't exploit biological research in this way.

Consider the atomic bomb as a case study. There are immediate positive side-effects that particle physics has brought to the world; but it doesn't simply cancel out the negative effects, nor can anyone alter their severity. After the creation of the 1st atomic bomb, the world is now left in a position where any of the major world super powers can _literally_ wipe out all human life on earth. Millions of man-hours per year have to be dedicated to preventing terrorist groups from acquiring atomic weaponry, and the stakes of political action have been permanently raised.

Similarly, if producing viable human-animal embryos becomes possible, the status quo of biology is permanently altered. Is it for the better? Maybe, but it's glib to just _assume_ it's better.
As well as "Local fishermen and farmers are actually forced to learn the latest solar technology and sustainable techniques provided by professionals from the local Chinese government." I'm not sure if the author is using the term forced the same way a normal english speaker would use it.
>Most people in those countries do not consume large amount of meat

You clearly haven’t been to Pakistan anytime recently
A lot of slaves were prisoners of war traded for western guns. All the more terrible for the reason African slavers were made more powerful thanks to their trade with Western ones.
It seems rent control is popular in many places.

I read recently that people in California think that rent control is a better solution to the housing crisis than building more housing by a large margin.

It startles me a little because if there is one thing all economists agree on (even the Richard K. Galbraith and Paul Krguman kind of economists) it is that rent control is a bad policy.
The very existence of America is a human rights violation, vis-a-vis the original inhabitants and African slavery. Not to mention the multitude of similar abuses those same Europeans caused over the rest of the world. China's violations are certainly serious, but it's just not comparable to the sheer extent of the West's.
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You might be interested in supporting Andrew Yang: https://www.yang2020.com/

All he talks about is the problem of resource redistribution through the means of a basic income, $1000/month to every citizen!
Since you have 2 contradictory comments right now, I’ll add a 3rd that doesn’t break the tie: is $1k a lot to you? If not, it would be a great way to get feedback. If it is a lot of money to you, then there are cheaper ways to get feedback at the cost of more of your time. Good luck!
The phrasing "requires a response" on Letter 6173 is a bit slippery. To be absolutely clear, if your lawyer thinks you shouldn't send a response, you don't have to. And if it's not already blindingly obvious, literally nobody should even dream of sending in a signed affidavit affirming "under penalty of perjury that they are in compliance with tax laws" without first consulting legal counsel - HN pooh-poohing about the IRS just trying to get its money notwithstanding.
With new housing built for optimizing energy intake with three-layer windows and 40cm thick insulation etc, slapping a $200 AC unit in a window seems like a dirty hack to put it mildly.
It is common with centralized heating systems, so perhaps next step is to adapt centralized cooling systems.
Short term I would put my money on moveable outside shades in front of windows, and large green outdoor plants on the balconies.
Would also prefer bright colors on roads and building roofs to reflect light instead of turning it into heat.
Sadly as populism continues to rally across Europe, I cannot imagine this getting better anymore soon. Especially since populism tends to lean heavily towards very short term and shallow solutions instead of long term permanent ones.
Can you expand on this? I'm wondering what your reasoning is for requiring more or less info in either case.
If the untoward event is solely in USD, perhaps, but not if it's in crypto. Exit scams, hacks, rogue employees, etc, could still hit a US exchanges' crypto holdings and the government probably cannot or will not compell a roll back, supply expansion, etc, on a major blockchain.

If anything is actually protecting clients against crypto theft, it's the exchange's privately-purchased insurance rather than the government. Although I wouldn't rely on that for much either as insurers are rarely eager to pay out.
Your modern Fortran book looks pretty good.

I'm always sad that the power systems industry has mostly moved from Fortran to C++ as the Fortran is much easier to read and doesn't make overzealous use of OO principles.

I use a lot of Python for process automation and data analysis. If I had to put numerical code in production it would probably be in either Fortran or Julia. My problems with Fortran usually boil down to libraries for certain things like database access. I did a little googling and there is some ODBC support, but it doesn't seem to be very good.
The easy way around this is to find out what journal the article was published in and look at its impact factor. If the impact factor is below 2, ignore it. If it is between 3 and 10, it is probably legit although it may not be the majority viewpoint in the field. If it is above 10, then either the article is written by a very important person in the field, or it is considered to be potentially high-impact but may be wrong. Alternatively very massive consortium experiments are published in high-impact journals as a matter of course.

It is best to stick to the 3 to 10 range though until you know the ins and outs. Lots of Nature papers look exciting and turn out to be wrong. This is a rough guideline that varies by field.

PLoS One is a journal that publishes anything but has a decent impact factor so it is an exception to this rule. There are a few others but it generally holds true.
I totally agree, too little is known about drugs and how they react with each individual's bio- chemistry. Exercise in any form can only be beneficial, I've been through some really stressful periods and nothing like it ( if you can play a sport even better..it will give you a sense of accomplishment that is probably missing from your job). Eat healthy , have someone who can listen to you and support you. And have a plan to get out, could be a year out , but it will give you a sense of purpose.
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It's possible this research has been done, but if so I haven't seen it yet. Basically the reason I feel confident asserting it is that I'm talking very specifically about the stimulus produced by modern displays. I know there's some work by Avi Naiman on CRT displays from the very early 90's[0]. There might be some other work done on low-resolution LCD's, but even aside from resolution it's only modern, high quality displays that have good contrast and low dependence on viewing angle (which affects gamma greatly).

Another place to look is Kevin Larson's work on subpixel rendering, which informed Microsoft's ClearType efforts. But that was done mostly around 10 years ago, when displays also were different. A good representative is [1].

Here's another pretty good paper I found[2], but it focuses more on the display technology than the perception side.

So what I'm looking for is adjacent to general psychophysics results on visual perception, but much more specific to what real displays do. That literature is pretty thin on the ground.

[0]: Avi C. Naiman and Walter Makous. Spatial nonlinearities of gray-scale CRT pixels, 1992

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264485766_Optimizin...

[2]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8fc4/ecc59380f24e363c6a5d6a...
Why is quality of life and levels of happiness so much higher in Europe then (EDIT: compared to other first world countries)?
I don't see any particular reason why the identification process for a corporation should be more stringent than a library card. What is astonishing to me is that both are meaningfully more stringent than voting. In Minnesota for example, all one needs is another registered voter to vouch for them.

https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/register-to-vot...
If you take the worst version of a policy then it is very easy to criticize and get a consensus. That doesn't mean it's not possible to have a rent stabilization policy that can both enhance housing stability without dramatically distorting the market.
Interesting philosophical question - is this discrimination?

What if people trust tall doctors? could that be a factor?
> He did. You didn't listen. He said that we need something beside the government

I'm asking what. By what should governments be replaced? How? What should we do?
US produce is industrial feedstock, not food.

In the Brexit-headed UK there is considerable discussion about this, some Brits don't consider US food to be edible. Phrases like 'chlorinated chicken' get mentioned.

Are those soy beans fed to people or pigs? Same with all that corn. None of it can be eaten, it has to be processed into corn syrup or fake potato crisps. There is no modern marvel of engineering, it is monoculture, as if nothing was learned from the dustbowl. It is also heavily subsidised. Watered by fracked aquifiers. To international tastes it is all bland, adulterated and not really food.

Those exports also put people out of work on the global market so they are not growing their own food, just importing nonsense like American maize.

I am not into Chinese food but I know that Chinese people don't consider U.S. food as having much taste, not even real food.
so it's the robot's dog then?
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Is there a place you can ask technical questions and get answers within minutes of asking?
If I could retire, I would work on my own projects.
"Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture" http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/redesigning-civilization-with...

With integrated carbon-neutral fuel production: http://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com/node/277

> "Alcohol Can Be a Gas!" (subtitled Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century) is an information-dense, highly readable, profusely illustrated manual, covering every aspect of alcohol fuel from history through crops, hands-on fuel production, and vehicle conversion. It's the first comprehensive book on small- to farm-scale alcohol production and use written in over 90 years.
> "They said leaving the EU meant leaving the customs union and single market"

Not sure about leaflets (who reads these?), but the main point that people understood leave meant 'leave the customs union and single market' is correct.

The idea that people didn't understand this is a useful delusion for those who want to undo the result.

Source: Me, I was there. But also a quick google search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDn0MvcHQ4
World-wide more people die from the "side effects" (i.e., obesity) of too much food, than not enough food.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-28/more-people-die-eatin...
from a "which has greater social liability" the title makes sense, in that the circumstances are counter intuitive.
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If you trade an asset, any costs you have in the transactions are deduced (real estate agents fees deducted from house selling price, fees/commissions when buying selling stock etc) and you are only taxed for the net. I wonder if taxes from mining coins are for net gains? That is, can you deduce the electricity cost?
That really depends on where you're comparing Europe to...
How often do we play this same game, though? If a 1Km size asteroid seems to hit the Earth about once every 500,000 years, it would seem like they would pass this close to the Earth only once every 32,000 years or so.

So either the 500Ky figure is wrong, or we've been extremely lucky to witness a once-in-30Ky event, or we're missing something.
Why is it so hard to build in California, anyway? And why is it so hard to change the reason it is hard to build?
Funnily enough, Rick “dismantle the DOE” Perry championed the building of interconnectors to allow the development of wind in Western Texas, he even paid for it as a public infrastructure project!
LA native....not to mention that a good bit of the central and northern part of the state is heavily forested with pine trees. During pollen season I once sweeped my porch and filled a five-gallon ziplock bag with the yellow pollen. It makes life miserable for those of us with allergies.

Baton Rouge does have some refineries and chemical plants (Dow) on the river. The only good smelling plant is the Community Coffee facility.
I'm an ex-smoker. Generators of fossil fuels have managed to generate some very impressive narratives and all on a par with the tobacco industry. As a long term consumer of fags (30 years), I managed some pretty impressive feats of woolly thinking.

When I gave up fags, that was for me and my immediate family - I smell better now and might live longer and my lung capacity is still improving. Giving up on fossil fuels is for humanity as a whole. Do they (all of humanity) actually give a shit enough to make you want to change?

However, we should do this and I will start with a hybrid and then move to a full 'leccy only car when the charging time and range suits me. I won't save the world and it might still get a bit hot around here but I'll have a very quiet car.
Can you cite an example of a rent stabilization policy that doesn't dramatically distort the market?
I'm downvoting all the comments about "my country" without saying which country that is.

No useful discussion can result from comments like this.
It says "significant" amount of info for a library card. Yet every library I've ever registered at just needed a piece of mail with your name on it. That's it.
i hate doing dishes too, and have to do them by hand since i'm an apartment dweller without a dishwasher. i've been waiting for this countertop, instant-heating dishwasher to be released: https://myheatworks.com/pages/tetra-specs
Previous president of Ukraine was a literal power hungry oligarch, who engaged in war, war mongering, censorship, propaganda, fake comments trolling bots, policy washing through his international friends, fake-fighting of corruption to gain power over judges, ordered raids on opposing media and industries, switched politics to right-wing to ride the propaganda machine he tried to create, etc. New one is a freedom of speech supporting businessmen, not an oligarch, who found himself fighting him and the whole establishment through utopian/dystopian political tv shows over the last five years. And newly elected parliament has plenty of people who have no ties to the establishment or fought the last president too, like the head of the most active organization fighting against internet censorship (pretty successfully) who joined the new president's party.
Perhaps the question should be how do 1B people feed themselves despite the government of China.
This is because economists are shills that collect their paychecks from the rentier class or their cronies. People that actually understand markets and business don't work as economists, they are too busy getting rich by trading or creating.

Unearned income is obviously a net economic drag. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any, I want to retire some day too. In fact in German the word for retiree is "rentner." The problem comes when there is a permanent rentier class that simply extracts rents from the working economy. They are parasites. Most of the valid criticisms of capitalism are actually just criticisms of excessive rent-seeking. And that can exist under any economic system.
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NIMBYism, and NIMBYism, respectively.
Look at the ribbon of purple offshore!
Yeah, the experience probably varies a ton across the industry and even within orgs. I'm sure most people around here who've been in tech for a while can tell stories about both types of company.
Mozilla should partner with Libreoffice to make their web version a polished competitor to GSuite.
The part of Red Plenty about Raisa Berg’s contentions is totally mathematically illiterate and unsupported.
Primus, the people with the 20 million dollar Malibu mansions don't want their view spoiled by a 20 story affordable housing tower. So they use ecological impact studies and similar tools to enforce an impenetrable NIMBY shield.

Secondus, the people with the 20 million dollar Malibu mansions are the ones who pay for the politicians' campaigns.
Ignoring your initial tone, I see what you're saying, and agree these aren't identical cases. Though it should be emphasized they only payed out to the victims because Iran brought it to the international courts and they wanted to settle. They never, as you said, apologized, or even thought they had any legal obligation to the victims. Feels like your splitting hairs with "Russia denies involvement" as being dramatically different -- both seem like terrible events that neither super power really feels responsible for despite being the ones who put those weapons where they were without legitimacy.
The rest of the world?

EU tops rankings for quality of life and standard of living every year. Sprinkle in some canadian, Australian Japanese and new Zealand cities an there is your top 50.
Simplify the question: why can’t the vast majority who don’t trade in any instruments at all have pre-filled tax forms they can sign online, like in many other countries?

That stocks and some types of deduction means it needs amending to be “optimal” is pretty clear.
This varies extremely across various states and cities. If you live in new York city for example, to incoroerate an llc, you need to take out a section in a news paper to say you created an llc of name so and so, every day, for like a week, within a year (if I remember right) of your incorporation. Across three news papers too.

If you go "OK fine, I will incorporate elsewhere, like Delaware", then NYC views you as a foreign investor and mandates you still do the news paper thing.

Here is the kicker though, the news paper you are allowed to do this in vary based on county. You live in queens? That's a solid few thousand dollars. Brooklyn? Also a few thousand. Staten island? Less than $300.

If you do not do this then the enforcement mechanism is that when you get sued, then a court can take back the corporate veil perk of your llc (llc is void so it turns into a sole proprietorship I think) and go after your personal assets if you loose a lawsuit.
My experiences with the IRS have been nothing but positive over the years. They were always polite and clear in their positioning. They either made corrections in my favor or sought more information to identify what if any additional taxes I owed due to a mistake in my filing.

What I suspect is happening here is that the IRS is figuring out how to prioritize it's investigations. Sign or don't, it only determines when you are investigated. Once they've identified a holder of bitcoin it's likely that an investigation will be forthcoming.
There is research about perception of physically printed lines, done by e.g. print photography companies decades ago.

There is plenty of formal signal processing analysis of the aliasing artifacts at different angles created by grids of pixels.

The ImageMagick folks did a bunch of experimentation about resampling filters as used in arbitrary transformations of existing raster images. https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/nicolas/ – of course what looks best depends significantly on (subjective) preferences and on what the source image is.
Why would you link the leftist policy of rent control with populism?
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Pixel and voxel are not commensurable. A pixel is a display hardware concept. A voxel is more comparable to a texel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texel_(graphics)

Texels and Voxels can be square/cubic, such as in video game applications where it is accepted and exploited as a fundamental esthetic: worlds are textured with tiled mosaics which reveal their square unit when approached closely, and ditto for worlds made of voxels.

A voxel as a sample of a solid, for instance from a computed tomography, where the fidelity of the reconstruction matters, is subject to different requirements.
Name one consumer software company from the 1980's that still exists, besides Microsoft.

Just down the road from me is Frontier, which was founded by David Braben. He was working on the original Elite back in the early 80s, and although Frontier didn't come along until a decade or so later and doesn't strictly meet your condition, I'd argue that it's a good example of a successful consumer software business and has got there by producing a sustained track record of successful products. A few years ago it was listed on the stock market, but by then it had already managed almost two decades as an independent and grown to hundreds of people.
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I also have both a robovac and some smart bulbs, but my experiences differ a bit:

1) I push the clean button on my vacuum when I'm leaving the house. Wireless connectivity wouldn't add anything for me.

2) Siri actually works really nicely for bulbs because it functions locally. As a non-iPhone/HomePod user, I'm stuck with Alexa, where every bulb voice command has an obnoxious delay for communication to the Amazon mothership.
As opposed to..? Letting the market handle it? That worked wonders about a decade ago.
Because powers that be want control more than they want happy, well-fed, even productive population.

Ask any organizers of international food programs. In most cases local authorities will demand that they, not the international do-gooders, distributed the food. When they get hold of that food, they keep it under lock and key and distribute in a way that supports the existing power / social status structure, not in a way that helps most hungry people. Some food could even rot unused, but not given away to the hungry.

The problem is not a lack of food. The problem is that certain power structures emerged on top of traditional food-deficient economy, perpetuate it to stay in power, and can't be fixed by injection of food from the outside.
Aparting from political views, it does depend on types of questions are asked to some degree.

Like 'Do China have cars?'

Questions without basic googling. Well, even this type of questions, there are still many people who try to answer it by statistics.
This comparison is stupid. Corporate registration is explicitly public information. Librarians are notorious for the fervency with which they protect the personal information of library patrons.
There are several XDDs that drive this; fad, resume, and other driven-development methodologies.

"Implemented site in X" may not help either users or operators, but may advance the developer's career. Or evenmerely provide the developer the impression it might.