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I thought they would too after reading the headline, given it is supposed to be a 'ransom'. Either the $4k is a 'typo', or these guys are being generous to Choice Hotels.

If they are calling this a 'ransom' then they might as well get hired by Choice Hotels instead. As this is the most lousy ransom I have ever seen.
It's a gray area because "hate speech" isn't a valid concept. 1A already excepts for inciting violence but that's not what radicalized censorship-extremists mean when they use the term. They specifically mean anything that is not canon to their current worldview.
No it’s not strange if you know what Really happened there. On Tuesday night at the HK airport, protesters surrounded two Chinese citizens from main land, searched their belongings, tied them up and beat them badly. It took a almost four hours for the paramedics to get the first guy out From the airport because the protesters tried to block them. The second guy is a journalist. He was calm and fearless when they tied him up. He said to the mob: I support Hongkong police , now you can beat me. Then the beating started. On his way out on a stretcher, he said I love Hongkong. The video has gone viral in Chinese Weibo, people are shocked and angry. And they are so moved by his courage. His words has been shared by countless people. A lot of celebrities has shared on their social media as well. The government does not ask them to do this.

The western media, however, only reported that the police clashed with protesters. So most people only knows a little about what happened that night.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022838...
Who said anything about "nothing else to learn". There's always lots to learn, or I wouldn't have a job anymore. That doesn't mean I spend any real time reading or using other peoples code. Most of the actually interesting work I do involves things for which there are no libraries. The less interesting thing (e.g. a REST service using Spring) do their job just fine and are so utterly boring I can't imagine why anyone would care enough to rewrite the whole service in some other framework.

I do go looking for libraries when I have a need for some functionality, but I don't seek out new libraries to replace other libraries or my own code when the existing solution works. It's the frequent rewriting of working code to use some new tool/framework/library just because it's new and sexy that I find problematic.
It's only worth automating something if there's enough demand to justify the investment in the automation process. If population declines, we may actually see less automation for some things... ...and therefore cost increases.
> ethnically Cantonese

You gave an argument that is factually wrong.

Cantonese is not a seperate ethnic group. They are still Han Chinese.

Also, the Cantonese and Mandarin speakers can still understand eachother without study (although their speech may sound funny to eachother).

The language differences are enough to give both groups their own identity, but certainly not a new ethnicity.
And this week blew off the representatives of the Pacific islands that will first to go due to sea level rise, yesterday your deputy PM said that that wasn't a problem because "they come here to pick our fruit" (forgetting that as Oz goes crispy around the edges there wont be any fruit).

Frankly you Aussies are a bit embarrassing at the moment, time to get your act together
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A thousand times this. I could come up with a whole bunch of arguments in favor of either side, but they all pale in significance compared to this.

What I really wish is that we had better ways to express indentation or alignment than just these two. Or to associate inline commentary with code other than by using either spaces or tabs to fake a two-column layout. Separating content from presentation, including affordances for the visually impaired, is practically a solved problem for other kinds of text. Why not adopt some of those same techniques for the text we work with every day?
The unibody is probably twisted, they would have to put it on a frame pulling machine. I've seen totalled and rebuilt cars have higher tolerance gaps.
It’s because of the realities of the electoral college. The less populated states full of farmers have an out of proportion share of electoral votes.
Quality of life and human agency.
It looks a lot like Usenet with HTML & encryption.

Start there. You’ll probably build something incredible.
I don't know what point you're trying to make. MSL doesn't link with the rest of your program. No matter what language you use for your program, the shaders are written in MSL. For my program if I use Rust or C++ or Obj-C or Swift or a microscopic magnet and a very careful hand, I write my Metal shaders in MSL.
Then didn't test it.
My apologies if I have caused offense. I have angered you here and this wasn't my intention.

One thing I will say is that the prefixes I gave are in general use as descriptive epithets by both men and women across much of the English speaking world, along with many others decribing the male genitalia, with much greater frequency than you will find on here. Personally, I'm with Alice Fraser on this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gioul9PW9B0 - but will cheerfully adapt the taxonomy in future, if I can find better words to use for the prefixes. Any ideas?
oh I don't think that's fair. the view that mathsy things are discovered not invented is hugely widespread amongst many people who know what they're talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about, and I think such matters are invented not discovered. but I do think Haskell is a great language that will drastically improve the quality of maybe even any project that doesn't need c-like efficiency. these concepts are independent.
Tridactyl is a wonderful piece of software. My problem is the assumption that it’s unacceptable for an extension (which has a native messenger) to have the capability to modify Firefox when explicitly told to by the user. I use tridactyl, and plenty of people do, but realistically, the entire audience of an extension that gives you vim keys is highly technical, and can be expected to read the docs. Making the software edit personal files on disk when not asked to explicitly by the user is a breach of my trust model. It’s not as though fixamo is run on startup, it’s something you have to do explicitly. I’ve never run it, nor do I use the native messenger. This reviewer is totally out of order as far as I’m concerned.
> If you like cold summers and fog over much of the city... Otherwise you'd likely prefer the weather in the peninsula, which is sunny and warm almost every summer day.

Why do people assume everyone wants nothing but sun sun sun? It's so boring. I like a bit of cold, fog, and rain.
I think the idea is that humanity is basically a pyramid scheme. It takes more and more people to cover the debts and improve the world they received from the previous generations. I don't particularly agree with this viewpoint.
This isn’t a problem, it’s just preparation for the next stage of evolution (AGI). Our task is nearly complete.
Elixir Tasks act closer to a very lightweight threadpool dispatch, rather than the coroutine style of async/await in other languages. An Elixir task doesn't, iirc, share memory with other tasks and won't block if you make it spin.

This makes it a hell of a lot easier to reason about.
Same here. Rust code tends to be dense. It has its moments, but I wouldn't compare it to a scripting language.
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Legit question. Planting, picking and selling are all costs of doing business. Unless "picking and selling" refers to sales revenue which is not my interpretation either.
Only half the city gets that much fog. Sunset/Richmond side of things. We've had fog maybe 5 days this year in Noe.
I’ve never heard of heat pumps being used in say an apartment building that tend to dominate these sorts of locales, but perhaps that’s just because the technology is new and the buildings are old?

Nuclear has super high capital costs that usually must be subsidized by the state (and insurance definitely needs to be subsidized). Not to mention corruption has to be low enough that a disaster doesn’t occur. I can see less developed countries not being able to take this route.
> throwing away all the non-mutated locations in the genome because they carry no meaningful information

How can they claim this with certainty? Maybe the context of any given mutation contains useful information similar to how a word embedding vector contains useful information such as relatedness to other words etc.
You can store food for 20 years. Actually having a 3+ year supply of food would cost less and provide more security than current subsidies.

Also, 51.5 days of excess stocks is not 51.5 days of food on hand.
It seems to me that "half the world's armed forces" is a result of being able to print money, not a cause.
I sometimes wonder if those TV Guide descriptions were intentionally funny and deranged like that because they had such little space to summarize an entire movie. The TV Guide description for the 1985 Cher / Eric Stoltz movie MASK was "A teenage boy has a wild mom and a misshapen face."
This was a traditional understanding, but the decision in Lenz is largely based on the conclusion that "fair use" is explicitly an "authorized use", and not just a defense of infringement. Universal made the essentially argument you are making, and the court soundly rejected it:

"We agree with the district court and hold that the statute unambiguously contemplates fair use as a use authorized by the law.
Fair use is not just excused by the law, it is wholly authorized by the law."

In defense of this (among other arguments) they cite portions of the US code that explicitly refer to fair use as a "right":

"See also 17 U.S.C. § 108(f)(4) (“Nothing in this section in any way affects the right of fair use as provided by section 107 . . . .”"

https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/13-161...

So while your understanding of fair use as merely a defense against infringement may be widely held, and arguably is even the historically accurate position, it doesn't reflect the way that the courts currently interpret the statutes.
It's not their fault every government in the world subsidizes food and makes prices artificially low so it's impossible to farm for a profit. What's your alternative? No farmers because its not profitable? Only enough food being grown where people can make profit from? This isn't a bad system we have now, the subsidies are fairly small and food is really cheap because of it. Those farmers also work quite hard and lives suck in general. Farm subsidies are an example of the government actually doing it's job for once.
What a great idea! I wonder how big the 16mm film communities are in these days of pervasive digital, given the costs of developing film and the risks associated with processing.

What I also found interesting is this site:

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/movies-shot-on-16mm-moonri...

Everybody knows the famous story of how El Mariachi was made, but I was surprised by some of the other films in the list (eg. Black Swan).
> the S&P500 outperforms leaving money under your mattress

This doesn't conflict with the efficient market hypothesis. The S&P500 also outperforms 'investing' in blackjack. No one is claiming that holding your money as cash is on the efficient frontier.
This is more what I’m concerned about. Does this only affect mainline FF or dev/nightly as well?
That could absolutely be true, but what difference does it make? I’m asking genuinely. To me that’s the how we got here, not what we do next.
> the goal needs to be to get China and India onto Natural Gas

There is plenty of coal in India but not so much natural gas. Economically speaking in the short term it does not make sense for India to go with imported natural gas.
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That is an interesting paper, but it does not seem to have much relevance to the claims you have being making, as the distractions were mostly linguistic; they all had a linguistic component, and only the synthetic OSPAN task, designed to be difficult by combining different types of distraction, included a mathematical component as one of its concurrent distractions. There was no subset of experimental subjects being distracted by problems of differential calculus. (Even if you think calculus would be at least as distracting as the linguistic tasks -- which is actually a debatable proposition -- that would not mean that this paper gives any empirical evidence for that thesis, or for the thesis that language comprehension is, in general, a low-level capability.)

from "Again I am talking the minimum threshold..." to the PS, you appear to be trying to perpetuate the tendentious tactic of only comparing simple linguistic tasks with arbitrarily complex tasks of other types. As I pointed out previously, poetry may be complicated, but that does not mean that every other language comprehension task is simple.

The PS merely seems to be backtracking from the certainty with which you previously presented your case.

I have an additional question about this post [1], where you say "being able to do differential equations and simple conversations but not complex conversations means simple conversations are lower level", which at least strongly suggests that complex conversations are on a higher level than simple conversations. Moravec's paradox, applied to this case, would imply that understanding higher-level (complex) conversations would be computationally simpler than understanding lower-level (simple) conversations. Would you agree with this, or do you think it is an exception to the paradox?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708362
> make the same wages y'all do

As SF? Are you making, say, over $400K in Atlanta?
I wish this were always true.

There is also the scenario where the “senior developer” just outlasted everyone else. They started when the company was small, didn’t really know what they were doing then but because they have built relationships with the right people and no where all of the bodies were buried - because they buried many of them - have an outsized influence on the organization, whether they are good or not.

Then you have two things happen. All of the talented people leave and you have the Dead Sea effect and the “senior developer” is nothing more than an expert beginner.

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
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Creating a formal system, an artificial language, is not a mathematical discovery and it has nothing to do with "math things." There are interesting "math things" one can discover about Python, but no one would take you seriously if you say Python was discovered rather than invented, and no one who knows the history of logic would take seriously any claim that the lambda calculus was discovered. The person who invented the lambda calculus said it was invented in the very paper he presented it, so no, the people who say it was discovered do not know what they're talking about, at least not on that matter.
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It can be as fast as C++ whilst at the same time suffering from none of these bugs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkgszkPnV8g
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Plenty of people complain about corporate welfare all the time? The current administration is the far from small government/low spending so you can't expect it to come from them, unless it somehow benefits some of the mega-firms who have tentacles into the government, as is tradition at this point. They can't wait to raise the debt ceiling even higher.

I entirely expect the next administration will similarly be full-bore on corporate welfare too, especially if we have a recession. Just like the last one did.

It's now been totally normalized after the big banks paid TARP back after they used it on M&As buying up smaller weaker banks with cheap gov debt that few other financial companies had access to in the down market, which also had nothing to do with the original TARP plan but thats another story. Pretty much everyone brings up how they paid it back so it's totally okay for a select few billion-dollar companies to get bailed out with treasury loans and grants every time their industry tanks.

At least these are a direct consequence of gov policy, not indirect like pushing the idea of mortgages to every person and low interest rates.
I agree, the one thing we could and probably should change is the diversity of crops we subsidize. We want food stability, but we don't need to base that stability on pure corn syrup.
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Ok, call me naive, but I hoped this was how he made a visual photo based off radio waves bounced off the moon somehow. Doesn’t sound possible, but then that’s where the title sent me!
For all we know, we're the brightest light of consciousness in the universe. (Hopefully not, feel free to prove me wrong). Expanding this consciousness seems a worthy goal.

In terms of "killing" the Earth. It's not really possible for us to do (yet). We could surely kill humanity but we cannot possibly eliminate complex life from Earth.

More interestingly, I think we have a burden placed upon us by our own development. It's quite likely that any complex society of our state required easily exploitable energy in the form of gas and coal. Now the reserves accessible by primitive technology are all but gone. These reserves take tens if not hundreds of millions of years to form. If humanity dies out, another intelligent species may not even have the potential to rise for a long time if ever again.
You can actually repeat the Basics course infinitely - 10 free sessions. I do one per day, it’s always fresh thanks also in part to the varying “clouds in the sky”.
There is a documentary called king corn which basically showed that all profit in the corn industry is basically from subsidies. Without the subsidy, corn is not profitable to grow in the United States. Also the bigger beneficiaries are actually larger AG companies that benefit from being able to buy artificially low value corn to make their products. In essence, the corn subsidy is a welfare program not for the "family owned farm" it is for large corporate food processors like coca-cola, pepsi, cargil etc.
> Killing a living, breathing person is nowhere near choosing to not make a new one, morally, practically, legally or in any other sense.

I don't think anybody wants to have the abortion debate right now, so let's not.

> choosing not to have children (and I don't think that's a reasonable way to expect people to try and address climate change) is not population reduction. It's population control, if you like.

The fertility rate is already below the population replacement rate in developed countries, so having fewer children than the current baseline is a (further) population reduction.
The Great Irish Famine was systemic problem, not a logistics nor corruption problem.
Thanks. Helpful. My question is, in this example:

result = await server.getStuff()
second = await server.getMoreStuff(result+1)
print(result)

`await getStuff()` MUST terminate before `await getMoreStuff() ` begins. So this chunk alone is analagous to synchronous code, unless we're in the middle of a spawned task, and there are other spawned tasks in the executor that can be picked up.
Excellent point. This is something we have talked about internally a lot. Early on, we are really testing whichever people we can get but when we move into a full clinical trial we are definitely going to design the study to be as diverse as possible. That is why we reached out to Curebase, to make sure the professionals were involved.
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Democrats also do the same thing except it is just different industries. Republicans will subsidize corn....democrats will subsidize renewable energy etc. This basically how each party does the political spoils systems. Only way to make it stop is to overall stop funding the system. Vote for lower taxes etc.
Possibly. While I'm definitely sympathetic to the idea that social science (at least as it's actually practiced) is relatively soft, I don't know how we'd go about discounting it all. Seems to me like we'd be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

At the very least, I don't know what we could do differently, short of improving the practice of social science in various ways. The questions it would purport to investigate (i.e. social questions) are of course critical questions, but I'm not sure how we'd better answer them. More specifically, I'm not sure how we'd better answer them now. Sure, maybe if we had some Grand Unified Theory or even sufficiently sophisticated computer models. But we don't have those. (In the case where we did have them, it seems almost tautological that social science as such would have participated in their creation--but I digress.) What we've got now are social questions worth asking, and an admittedly imperfect practice of answering those questions. What do we do now?
Why is Australia part of a Pacific Islands Forum?

Some small Pacific Islands are part of Australia and Australia also provides aid to some of the Pacific island nations.
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Bangkok and Jakarta tried walls, didn't work mostly. Indonesia also tried forced relocation under "transmigrasi" and moved about 3,000,000 people. So it can be done but Bangladesh would be ten times this. Takes time. Better start soon, national guard would come in handy. Best not in an election year maybe.

What do you think? Maybe just sell 'em all stumps to raise the house and anti malarials
This accounting, while pointed, aligns with most of the reporting and the facts of the case.

I spent some months at Oberlin years ago in close contact with student organizers there. Nothing about this case is too surprising. It's a boring town with arguably the nation's most progressive politics and many students looking for something, anything, to organize around.
I'm sitting in a Rust talk at a conference right now, and the speaker has slides comparing the syntax to Ruby/TypeScript/Python. "You already basically know Rust"

A lot of the fancier stuff is very different, but there's fairly close parallels to most of the basic syntax.
I've spent my entire life in a purple island surrounded by red. It's someone else's turn.
I hope the EU or someone else would address this invasive behavior on the part of ad companies. You know a billboard, a TV ad, text ads, it’s all good. I wanna buy things, I want to know about some things people sell —and people can make a living delivering ads. Fine.
But this eternal descent into insidious psychological manipulation to get people to buy things they don’t need which adds to planetary stress by a ‘don’t be evil’ company has got to stop.

I’m a fan of early Google. I don’t know when but they jumped the shark with this nonsense.
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I very specifically said that iMessage is a small example of a general pattern of exclusion. (But yeah, people of color are less likely to use iPhones. I thought this was well known.)
> Most farms are owned by Cargill or Monsanto.

No, they aren't. Seed companies like Monsanto don't generally own commercial farms. Most farms buy seed from a small set of firms like Monsanto (well, Bayer), and sell to a small set of firms (I think Cargill and ADM are in this group.)