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> More than a few people are jumping in without having read the article to simply support that same narrative - better a random white lady than nothing!

There's actually only two people making this sort of argument in this thread. One person claims it outright. The other person is me.

I have read the article. I'm saying it's possible that more children would have died without her care, than with her care. That's just a fact. The article mentions that other local facilities also had death rates of up to 20%. Why would people keep visiting her if there was a better alternative?

> For what it’s worth, for every ridiculous naive fool out to pat themselves on the back, there are people out there actually working -with- local communities to try and build up sustainable improvements to local infrastructure so people can help themselves. Project Alianza is one of my favorite programs in this space.

How do you know that? What do you actually know about Uganda and who works there? Project Alianza doesn't work there.
Ever been in a US jail? Gross incompetence is the rule, not the exception.
> On the post, if Linus is referring to low-end Xeon and workstation non-Xeon lacking ECC, I think it's completely idiotic.

I have said it before, I'll say it again, it is completely moronic that literally all storage and every bus in your computer uses FEC or at least uses checksums, except main memory and the memory bus.
It seems like there's been a lot of space debris floating around lately.
Fun fact: chimps have a better working memory than humans.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A
literally heartbreaking
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>But making zero elements evaluate to falsy is problematic. "" would be falsy as well then.

In Python 0, [], and "" are all falsy. In my experience it's only been useful - why do you consider it problematic?
To the ultra-rich, "other parties" are other ultra-rich people. Everyone else is just an insect. I mean that in the most visceral way possible, the ultra-rich view us with contempt.

edit: This is why Bernie Madoff went to prison and why basically no one went to jail over the 2008 GFC. Madoff stole from his own social class, which is a big no-no.
What i am realizing is that you need to get immersed in something outside of yourself and thus find meaning in life. This avoids the constant "navel gazing" which is the root of the problem. Some examples are;

* A devoted family person focused on family members eg. Children.

* A person devoted to filial duty towards his Parents.

* An ardent follower of a Religion/Cult/Group etc.

* A Scientist/Artist totally focused on their respective areas of study.

Interestingly, i had the light-bulb moment while reading Jack London's novel "The Sea Wolf". Here is the insight from the protagonist "Wolf Larsen";

“Do you know, I sometimes catch myself wishing that I, too, were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight, living is a worthless act. To labour at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me.” He shook his head slowly, pondering. “I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you.” He stopped abruptly, and then on his lips formed one of his strange quizzical smiles, as he added: “It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart. My reason dictates it. The envy is an intellectual product. I am like a sober man looking upon drunken men, and, greatly weary, wishing he, too, were drunk.” “Or like a wise man looking upon fools and wishing he, too, were a fool,” I laughed. “Quite so,” he said. “You are a blessed, bankrupt pair of fools. You have no facts in your pocketbook.” “Yet we spend as freely as you,” was Maud Brewster’s contribution. “More freely, because it costs you nothing.” “And because we draw upon eternity,” she retorted. “Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.”
>> Advances in technology allow people to offer news services and new technologies that previously had not existed

That's the real interesting question. What will they be ?

Some i can see:

- more machines -> more machine maintenance and setup. But it'll be under the guidance of machines(AR, AI), So it won't require expertise, it would only require a medium or low amount of "good hands" skills. So the pay won't be good.

- i would have said more marketing/selling, but given the amount of marketing and tiny niches that exist today, i'm not sure that's the case. And in any case AI will be better than us at that.

If there would be more money( a big if, maybe we're heading for a different equilibrium):

- more money -> more goods being bought -> more jobs on the manufacturing/retail/supply-chain which mostly will be machine maintenance etc.

- more money -> more human based services being bought(basically selling good interpersonal skills, and care).

- more money -> more/better healthcare

- more money -> more travel, hospitality ?

Anybody got other ideas?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20654682
Ouch.

Not saying this should be taken without a grain of salt but I think they argue their point somewhat well.
I think the point is that millions of Americans feel so strongly about gun ownership that they would rather be felons (and 'molon labe' their guns) than give them up.
And the motive would be...he swore a blood oath to commit suicide once he was caught. It was either that or an ordinary political murder.

The idea that this guy killed himself out of despair or whatever is an unbelievable laugh. He was psychologically a reptile.
Yes, but he was already on suicide watch. I would be interested in seeing statistics on how often prisoners succeed in committing suicide while on suicide watch.
>> She needed a blood transfusion. And fast.

The part about the blood transfusion confuses me. How common is that a small "health center" without a doctor makes transfusions? Here in Argentina the nurses only do the invasive procedures after a medical doctor has prescribe it. [1]

In particular, think it's very strange that a small "health center" has stock of blood for an immediate transfusion.[2] Did they make blood transfusion often?

[1] The nurses are usually much better finding the vein an the practical part of the procedure than the doctors.

[2] I hope they did a blood group test before the transfusion. I guess they didn't mention this to keep the article short. The test is fast and cheap but IANAMD.
(I want you to know that I'm not downvoting you because this is a bad post, but rather, because I think this being greyed out would add excellently to the joke)
Close, "guns don't kill people, privacy does".
Clickable link. This seems fun (and ridiculous) https://startupescape.com
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What you're describing[1] is only true for fixed-voltage controllers. With a real driver, all motors will behave as I described, even induction motors[2]. The only caveat is that due to saturation and hysteresis there are obvious nonlinear regions where speed or torque can't be increased. Between those two regions, all motors are capable of constant power output. Air-core motors are in theory more ideal, but good luck getting them to behave.

In fact, it's a fundamental property of motors- the power constant. There is a torque constant (rpm/volt), a torque constant (torque/amp) and a motor constant that describes the efficiency of transformation from electrical to mechanical power.

[1]: http://raise.spd.louisville.edu/ECE252/images/L19-18.gif

[2]: http://www.eeeguide.com/speed-control-of-variable-frequency-...

[3]: http://www.motioncomp.com/pdfs/Motor_Constant_Great_Equalize...
Here's another prime python example. The response object in the requests library has a truthiness equivalent to request success. Can easily trip you to with `res and res.content`

https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/master/requests/models....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48347290/why-does-reques...
Extreme morning sleep chronotypes are often familial and not exceedingly rare
>2019/247
>2019/248

Counting them like this is extremely depressing yet accurate.
At least, we've discovered prz's real reason for having the full source code printed. "You want a weapon? I'll show you a weapon..."
Wow. I don’t think I have seen a situation before where Occam’s razor doesn’t help writing off the conspiracy. It seems harder in this case to believe someone in a jail cell on suicide watch kills themselves than to believe that it was arranged (that is, at least “allowed”). It’s suspiciously sloppy.
Electric motors are remarkably good already. Even if it doubled the power for half the weight you still need lug along all those batteries.
#weaponizedstupidity, exported. Using the ignorance defense, no doubt
What a waste. May none mourn this creature's passing, but his particular case represented too many valuable opportunities for him to be allowed to die before trial.

Whoever allowed enough of a lapse in his suicide watch that the concept of him being "found" at all even makes sense should be fired and sued for gross malfeasance.
I had the same reaction. Reminds me of old claims for a 50 mpg carburtor (on cars circa 1970). There's definitely a fishy smell about it.
I don’t know about other devices, but on the AppleTV app on iOS devices, you can search for a title and it will show you all of the places where it is available.
Google Flights is amazing, because... Expedia bought up everything else. (Kayak, Orbitz, TripAdvisor, etc.) I've had Expedia do horrible things to me so I'm dedicated to use an alternative. It is needed to have Google Flights be a great competitor.
I’d say the original code was wrong. anyway catching an exception isn’t tricky.
It's a perfectly feasible exploit to extract 64, 256 or 512GB of strongly encrypted data.
Can we just shut down the Department of Corrections? They are, at best, massively incompetent and negligent, and at worst, massively corrupt and negligent.
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All other concerns aside, this seems pretty unenforceable without going to some ridiculous extremes.
If I was his attorney, I would have advised he negotiate for a lighter sentence in exchange for cooperation around bringing others to justice. Standard practice. He could have gotten off with a light sentence and brought many others to justice. He’s literally done that before.
"Outside of Chiraq and a couple of other places gun violence doesn't exist in any meaningful capacity. You're literally safer anywhere in America outside of those places than Western Europe."

This is definitely not true. Guns are commonly used in domestic violence situations, or just random household accidents, in a way that poses more danger to Americans everywhere than that experienced by the vast majority of western Europeans (except maybe for those few in the equivalents of their "Chiraqs").
The missile (a Titan II) discussed in Command and Control is liquid fueled. The interceptors are solid fueled, so it won't directly apply.

Good book though for anyone interested in nuclear policy and ICBMs.
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I find his stories really cut to the core of an idea with so little excess, as you put it. The ideas he explores are so well chosen too.
I multiply by 1.5 (+50%) and then by 1.1 (+10%). Both are easy and fast to do by head and the total (1.5*1.1=1.65) is close enough.
A big problem I have with things like Google Maps is how it turns me into a peripheral of the system. As the author points out, it not only doesn't expect me to know anything, it avoids educating me on anything.

Now if I'm going anywhere I don't know well, I try to take some time and at least look around the map as I would with a paper map, so that I can contextualize things. And if possible, I'll use Google Earth to get a non-map sense for position and visibility of landmarks. But I'd love to see Google Maps work toward educating me as part of what it does.
>Oy

I see what you did there.
I thinking he would have been under some kind of regular watch and in a room with no sharp corners, no cables, no belt, ...

It’s going to be really interesting to hear how it happened.
Those IEA renewable projections are comically wrong every year:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsX2rpPW0AIVORG?format=jpg&name=...
Geospatial data is different from statistical data. But how?
That is called the anthropic principle. The universe doesn't owe its self-aware passengers any answers. It just is. It's up to us to characterize it, and following logical paths that require baseless assumptions such as "beginnings" and reasons for relative constants are not fruitful. You could give up when it gets hard and just say "the reason the relative constants are what they are is magic" (see: god of the gaps). That doesn't change the fact that there is a deeper connection there that a more complete model would explain the constants. Is 9.81 m/s^2 a constant of the universe? We have are empirical constants that fit into our mathematical models. There is more work to be done.
T1 no, T2 yes. Because T2+NAND as a combined setup does the same as the SE in iOS devices. Heck, it basically runs iOS.
Selective view based on in house languages.
In Huntington Park, it's probably already gone!
China has chosen not to engage with this president and expects the American people to make a wiser decision in the next election round.
Morris Worm.

About 70% of CVE reported exploits are due to memory corruption.

Living with the remaining 30% would already be a huge security improvement.
Are repayable escape rooms possible? Surely, some of owners thought about that.

The way I would imagine that would be better than to have puzzles that can be switched from a real puzzle to a "trap" puzzle. A trap puzzle would be a red herring especially designed for people who did the original puzzle.

For example, in the the original puzzle you have to find blue stones that arrange to a specific pattern that correspond to a code. The trap version would be a few completely irrelevant blue stones that would be unlikely to grab attention to the people who didn't do the first puzzle. For example they could be used as dead weight for a scale-based puzzle or as rubbish the players has to look through in order to find the real clue.

The idea loosely comes from Danganronpa. An kinda escape room-like video game. The sequels tend to play with players expectations, sometimes confirming them, sometimes to turn them against the player.

Edit: I realize it is much easier said than done. However, non-replayability looks like such a big problem that I guess that it could be worth making a lot of extra effort.
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Sadly, most jails and prisons in the US are state or city controlled, and wildly worse than Federal facilities. This happened in one of the "better" places.
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It has a two-speed transmission, which should help with high-speed performance. https://insideevs.com/news/343827/porsche-taycan-2-speed-rea...

But one of the advantages of an electric car for me is the possibility of no (variable) transmission. I don't want clutches that are constantly wearing down as I drive. For me this is not about money or maintenance headaches, but about elegance.
I've had this exact situation, I was looking for a place in London and i was close... real close.

I ended up giving a homeless guy £5 and asking him to walk me to where i needed to be (i still missed my coach home and had to book the last one) it was less than 100 yards from where i was.

This would have given me an instant bearing on the area and a direction to walk in.

I since have been back and it took me two goes to find my route (walking round a massive building to find the part i needed)
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I'm quite happy to bash the rich, but I think they have a legitimate concern here. Freeways are for long-distance travel past areas. Surface streets are for local travel in the area. When Google Maps tries to throw me onto surface streets, I mostly don't let it do it, because I think a bunch of people zooming through somebody's neighborhood is rude and often dangerous.
If this guy attempted suicide before, shouldn't there be a permanent camera affixed to his jail cell (beside having a guard watch him)? If that is the case then we should have the video footage of his suicide even if the guard slacked off?
Reminds me the movie The Game with Michael Douglas.
http://lucidscience.com/pro-basic%20spy%20transmitter-1.aspx

That takes me back.. that looks very similar to something I built out of an article in an electronics magazine article in ~1987.

I do remember it had remarkably good sound quality from such a simple circuit - it basically sounded like "professional" broadcast talk radio. Lots of fun spying on siblings etc.
individually would be prohibitive, but specifying a different set of plates on each order from the supplier shouldn't be too hard. The printing is done digitally anyway, as long as the cuts don't change it should be trivial to specify a new pattern.

disclaimer: I have very little idea about the details, I've just advised startups that got clothing manufactured offshore.
Because a well known creep with a $B doesn't already explain it? Instead we postulate an extra hundred horrible people all keeping a terrible secret... that also have terrible OpSec so they pay people off all the time.

Or the "underage girls" were actually fembots designed in an underground lair by radio controlled sharks?
> Hell, 8chan is already back online.

Where do you see this? I checked their Twitter and normal URL, and they sure seem to be currently down, and no indication that they've been up since the last set of deplatformings.

Regarding the rest of your post, I get the feeling that you're being intentionally obtuse in order to avoid the point. No thanks on debating with that.
Does this mean that the case will be immediately dropped since he was the only accused?
The problem, in my experience, is that for one legit fact usually there is a lot of actual fake news thrown in, along with context free facts, in those communities. This causes a lot of people believe false things and keep repeating it to others. A form of brainwashing. Also people who assume someone's guilt and then work backwards towards showing it, while ignoring other signs.
Ah, yes. The old "I have more right to this road than you" argument.

The apps don't increase congestion, piss-poor infrastructure does. Apps spread it out.
I disagree with this rationale (not with your specific explanation, with the rationale)

You can make your types be interpreted as True/False (in Python at lest) as you want. The issue here is that a date should never be "false".

> that's a rule that's really easy to internalise and reason about

Python's rule is simple, it's JS that came up with confusing rules.

The issue here are types that are inconsistently false (and I disagree with the Python module on that)
Epstein’s case shows why all those “Pizzagate” and other similar conspiracy theories seemed believable, no matter if they were fake.

The current political crisis is the crisis of trust.
FTA: "The cost of encryption is “ultimately measured in a mounting number of victims — men, women and children who are the victims of crimes, crimes that could have been prevented if law enforcement had been given lawful access to encrypted evidence,".

By the same reasoning, had the shooter ran away because he drove a car faster than police ones, we should ban all sports cars then?
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It would be interesting to learn the technical reasons for choosing PHP to implement a Dropbox clone.
Here we go again.

This will not work for many reasons, most importantly:

- Key escrow or government-enabled crypto doesn't work

- Creating classes of encryption doesn't work (Excluding a group and not allowing them to use the same crypto as another group)

- If someone is going to do something unlawful, they will use something else that isn't accessible by the government; take away phone encryption and they will simply use something else

Unless those points are solved, the whole 'should we allow it' discussion is pointless anyway.

Tacking on to that: most of that stuff doesn't work because you can't really physically enforce it; it's an intellectual barrier which due to the way we can simply talk to each other as humans is super easy to circumvent. This was tried with export controls, but that didn't actually work for the information itself; only for commercial products.
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Google Maps isn't preventing you from using it or Earth to spend your own time educating yourself. But sometimes you don't have time and you just need to get from point A to B, or you'd just prefer to spend your limited time educating yourself on other things rather than geography.

But I'm genuinely curious: what would Maps look like, for you, if it "educated" you? You can already look at the route and pan/zoom around it to understand it however much you want, and different zoom levels make it clear what are major vs minor roads.

I'm struggling to imagine what automated "education" that comes along with directions would look like in some way that could be scalable/automated and interesting to the general public? Is it a brief description of the endpoints of each road, or tourist attractions or cities passed along the way, or population levels, or the name of the mayor, or what?
> every ICE has very narrow areas of RPM×torque that give you acceptable efficiency (typically those with high mean effective pressure). You could totally get away with three gears and still get to 150 km/h, it's just that it will be a lot less efficient.

It isn't that narrow[2]. Engines with fewer gears aren't particularly less efficient, they're just MUCH slower. Look at a map of gears[2]: the top gears are in the efficient range, but the lower gears are only there to allow you to rev the engine high while accelerating. In the ratios you gave, you could cut out 1, 3, 4 and only use gears 2, 5 and 6 and be able to get around fine- you start in second and then shift up as soon as you're rolling. You'd have a much more efficient car but you'd be incredibly slow.

[1]: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0c6c45106b28601fc1aef4...

[2]: http://www.posterus.sk/wp-content/uploads/p12975_02_obr02.pn...
A runner's way of converting miles to kilometers:

1 mile = 1609 meters.

3.1 miles = 5 kilometers.

6.2 miles = 10 kilometers.

...

26 miles, 385 yards = 42.195 kilometers.

100 miles = 160.9 kilometers.

Sorry, that's as far as I've run.
> Someone over there should immediately ship him 3 or 4 badass systems.

The last thing someone on a $10m/yr salary needs is a few “bad ass” systems that they don’t have a use for.
How does a guy on suicide watch kill himself? This is a massive failure of Justice.
I typically recommend it for someone entirely new to programming. I don't know where else to point them for something that gets down to the meat of conditionals, repetition, and functions and applying them to data structures with as little distraction.

A book isn't the only option, certainly.