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Why have the costs for healthcare and higher education been rising so rapidly? This article seems to blame government money and people wanting higher ed, but it doesn’t back up any of its claims.
Outside of the availability of White Monkey jobs (which has dried up recently) niether led a very priveledged life in China. Property ownership was not possible, getting a WeChat, employment and phone # was tough, and they were often ripped off due to being foriegners.

Chinese nationalism has been promoted much more by the CCP over he last 2 years and has turned public sentiment against foriegners pretty severely.
Great, I hope you have a nice day!
For what it's worth, the superb modulation options in bitwig are what lead to me attempting (and failing) to replace ableton with it.
>In some ways anti-intellectuals create space for other intellectuals to get traction when opposing bad ideas promoted by establishment embraced intellectuals.

They really don't, though. At least, not a productive space. Intellectuals are quite capable of getting that traction on their own, and doing so on the basis of fact and evidence, rather than anger and a nihilistic mistrust of order and complexity.

You're putting a lot of effort into painting a heroic narrative of anti-intellectualism and of the harms of "the establishment" and intellectuals "over the ages," but that's a political stance, and one that assumes the anti-intellectuals are filling a necessary role in the ecosystem that intellectuals, themselves, cannot.

I put forth that there is no value to anti-intellectualism. Skepticism, yes. Questioning of authority? Yes. Opposing bad ideas? Yes. None of those are the particular domain of anti-intellectualism. Rather, those are all hallmarks of intellectualism.

The anti-intellectuals are the ones burning down the observatory so this never happens again. They're not helping.
Are you or have you ever been employed by a US intelligence agency?

You seem very skilled at subtly misleading with half-truths. We don't really know what unpublished documents Snowden took, and it is extremely naive to trust the state's allegations. The published info about defense and foreign intelligence was relevant to the American people because it demonstrated that NSA had been lying to congress and our allies. Unchecked violations of our alliances is a grave threat to national security.
It's not just that it relies on some people working for free. It's that others have figured out how to profit from this free donated labour.*

(*No judgements necessarily implied here, merely an observation.)
Whose voice carries more weight when campaigning to reduce fossil fuel usage: the person who profits off fossil fuels and will suffer as a direct result, or the person who has divested themselves completely?

If you have a moral objection to receiving those funds, then just give them to a charity that might actually help.

The way economics works, if you choose to divest yourself in this way, you are betting against the profitable use of fossil fuels, but you are not influencing it (it will either continue or cease on its own depending on whether it stays profitable). You are simply encouraging someone else (who maybe doesn't care so much about the environment) to "take that bet" and profit off your poor decision.
I do it all the time (not to claim I am very smart though). I had to catch myself trying to defend Stallman in this case all day today.

Little picture: Stallman is basically reasonable in his email thread, all the headlines are outright lies which wholly discredit their newspapers/sites

Big picture: he is still a huge creep and should have been gone from leadership positions decades ago

To me it's when I see something wrong being said/done, I want to correct or resist it, even if overall it doesn't matter. Like people who lie about things Trump has said -- which is ridiculous, why not just take one of the many dumb things Trump did say -- I'll have the urge to spring to the his defense and point out how some criticism is irrational or misconstrued. Even though it's Trump. I also found myself correcting misinformation about Louis C K during his shit the other year, though I didn't die on any hills or anything.
> Of course not, it's my position that there shouldn't be such serious consequences for having a dissenting opinion

Do you think an advocate for paedophilia and child pornography should be able to pick up a job in a childcare centre or primary school?
Maybe I am biased because I'm an Engineer but most of the stats I do leans heavily on Calculus and Linear Algebra

A good example is regressions this is quite a common technique I rely on daily and at it certainly helps to have an understanding of slope, intercept etc.

Unfortunately my "Stats for Engineers" course at uni was not great it was pretty much focused on "this is how to interpret ANOVA output from Excel".

I've found looking at some of the more complex stats I've had to wrap my head around like Principle Component Analysis - it makes a lot more sense when you can grasp the linear algebra going on behind it.
I can see how this plan might not work for everyone but as an American who rarely travels internationally this is fine. And if I tried my best I could probably only consume 10-15GB a month so it's essentially unlimited to me.
>how could someone claim any moral or leadership authority when he called for protests and a letter-writing campaign on a subject he didn't know about first hand?

...

>You want to defend Epstein in your own personal life? Go for it; you won't have many friends or colleagues afterwards, but that's up to you. But if you do it as the public face of a well-known activist organization? You can't possibly stick around there.

You criticise him for not having read the bill, yet you rant about him without having read his emails? Where did he defend Epstein?
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If you want to know why Snowden did it, and the way he did it, you have to know the stories of two other men.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon...

"The sad reality of today’s policies is that going to the inspector general with evidence of truly serious wrongdoing is often a mistake. Going to the press involves serious risks, but at least you’ve got a chance."
A responsible leader wouldn’t have waded into the Epstein issue at all, knowing that any comments made would reflect on the FSF. There is no upside reason to risk the FSF, but Stallman can’t think that far ahead.
> One of the downsides to having a personal site, as a developer, is that some people will expect it to be a professional portfolio and showcase.

I avoid that by not using my real name on my personal site.
Considering the proximity to European markets (and maybe East Coast US as well) and the abundance of potential for geothermal energy in Iceland, I would have thought this would have been a fairly worthwhile thing for Iceland to invest in.

As an comparison, wouldn't this do better that what the Netherlands using glasshouses heated by imported natural gas?
There’s generally very loose discretion to eliminate potential jurors. Often without providing any reason at all.

A prosecutor, given the option and knowledge of the situation, would never willingly have a person on the jury that knows they could totally disregard the criminality of the charges at hand.
He’s been a big proponent of nuclear in the past. Does he still have a stake in TeraWave?
Can anyone give advice about how you built your personal website(s?) while having strong professional interests in multiple areas? I’d be really grateful to see an example.

I have a career in tech and also a career in music. My professional networks in these areas don’t overlap. I don’t think everyone responds positively to the dual career thing, although some definitely do.

Just make two sites and don’t link them? Get a stage name vs a tech name? Create a unified portfolio as a creative technologist?
Can you be specific about which leaks to China or Russia concern you?

Of the "handful of truly knowledgeable parties", most/all of them likely are willing to lie to the American public to avoid treason and illegal wiretapping charges for their constitutional violations.
A project will grow to fill the timeline, and departments will grow to fill the budget
This is the crazy thing about discussions like cost of education or health care. Where does the f....ing money go? Nobody seems to know or care.
The difference being that children can build controllable robots from LEGO kits
Musicians switch to outdoor rehearsal spaces
DTLA is drastically improved from 20 or even 10 years ago
Moreso, if the fossil fuel investments are profitable, you can use the returns to fund more progressive companies than you would have been able to otherwise.
Where "our webcams" are the webcams of non-US citizens outside the US who are of interest to national security.
Drop-out rates are much higher at community colleges, particularly for low-income and minority students. This is kind of a privileged statement to make. Also, the UC system is one of the few that retains a robust CC-to-university pipeline, so it's not fair to compare the opportunities available in California to those in a lot of places in this country, particularly when so many who would take advantage of what you did are priced out of housing.
Did you see the 'Surprising Behaviors' at the bottom? Pretty funny

https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/#surprisingbehavio...
If you are in a leadership position part of your job is making sure people are comfortable associating with you.

Firing someone is not taking their life from them.
it mostly was the case to remove the logo at some point in time :/
Isn't it also for tourism and external investment? Image is important.
It’s a bit more complicated though as oil prices will rise if firms don’t take on projects. This in turn would cause those marginal projects to look a lot better down the road and oil prices for consumers will be a lot higher (which might be a good thing if it lowers fuel usage).

I think this might be happening right now. There isn’t a lot of reserve replacement going on as everyone is focused on cash flow and the capital markets for energy remain closed due to ESG concerns from investors. If so, the prices will rise eventually and new projects will start.
I use a static site generator called Hugo. All my web pages are markdown and Hugo turns them into HTML and applies a theme I chose. Great for if the content on your site is all static.

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When I was in college, prob & stats were taught in one of two ways: 1) Memorization of formulas and rules, in the course for psychology majors; and 2) Proofs, which were taught in an upper level math course.

Neither would be better than trig and calculus. Nobody remembers the formulas and rules unless they use them regularly, and a course that is heavy on proofs would be too hard for most students.

In my view there might be a third way, which is to let the teaching of prob & stats revolve around simulation, rather than by algebraic derivation (proofs) or memorization. What can you learn from a giant bag of random numbers? What if that bag is divided down the middle and given to two groups of students? What can you deduce, when you know something about a set, but not everything about it? Can you make random numbers produce outcomes that are sometimes as convincing as the outcome of an experiment?

And so on. Even to this day, if I think that I've used the correct statistical formula, I test my recollection by feeding simulated data through it.

This kind of exploration could also gently lead students into... coding.
Bill Gates rarely makes controversial statements like this. I wonder if his PR team specifically contrived this statement to distract from allegations re: Jeffrey Epstein.
Ah statistics.

You couldn't fault a layperson for thinking this means that they have plateaued, or industry is in decline. But it's not saying either of those.

This is just a very tortured way to say that we are reaching the other end of an S-curve. An S-curve that any rational person would assume was coming eventually.
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Although the DoD (or War Department, as it was originally called) is part of the Executive Branch, it (for the most part) operates only outside the country. And military intelligence (for the most part) operates outside normal government constraints.

That's how it's always been, throughout recorded history. If you constrain military intelligence too much, as happened in the US between WWI and WWII, and during the 90s, you get fuckups like Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

But on the other hand, if military intelligence (and the military generally) operates too much domestically, then you have (doh) a military government. So it's a delicate balance.

As far as I can tell, the US does not have a military government. However, as we saw from documents released from Snowden's cache, the military does operate too much domestically. It's arguably mainly about terrorism and the drug war. But although there are certainly impacts on civil liberties, especially on some ethnic groups, at least there's apparently not much outright suppression of political and social dissidents. So that's reassuring.
Agree with that, also, but there's no reason why their processes couldn't be just as streamlined.
It was leaked first from when she had a closed session with some business leaders.
The reason people should do it today is because in some places, not including a photo would be like leaving out your name. The likely reason that custom began, which is I think what was being explained, is racism.
Care to explain what was "garbage" about the memo? Word of caution: the memo did not claim that women were worse performers in tech due to biology, or that tech jobs are not and should not be people-focused. These were things stuffed into his mouth by shoddy coverage (the journalist that broke the story admitted that he did not actually read the original memo).
How to gain my Karma point?
T/O

To add keybase this account, I need Karma.
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Financially, mobile games are a race to the bottom and no-one is prepared to pay for anything. It's all nasty F2P and advertising tactics to succeed now.

Also, a complex game like this is not well suited for a mobile game. The mobile interface is just too limited. The constant CPU demands are just too great.
The excitement for gitlab on HN has always been a combination of “open source enthusiasm” and astroturfing. From personal experience, HN is filled with tire-kickers who will hug the crap out of any halfway-usable product that they can “migrate to” for free (and abandon said product as soon as a payment form appears). It’s a misleading signal.

Even on this thread, you can count on one hand the number of commenters who actually say they pay to use the product. The trick is to use that noise to leverage yourself into markets where people actually pay money for things.
Yes, I'm well aware of the arguments in favor. It's just that I don't see it playing out much in the real world. In my experience (on the whole -- there are exceptions), rapid released software tends to be of lower quality.

Even if that weren't true, though, rapid release means a lot more updates, and updates are a pain in the butt.
I was planning to visit Hong Kong before this began but won't now for the foreseeable future due to the actions of the governments of HK and China. I want to visit China too but the rapid development of their omnipresent surveillance state has me putting those plans off presumably forever, which is a shame as I am fascinated by Chinese history and culture.
Value of shares is based both on revenues from holding the share and increase in value as growth. If the superannuation and sovereign wealth and trust funds worldwide (Trillion-dollar investment vehicles) stop investing in something it functionally loses 'gold plated' status and cannot be held to be less-speculative (in reality all shares are speculative but there are differences of degree and the holdings in the long term funds indicate "safer" bets in many cases) and so their inherent value becomes more open to question. I believe this would represent a real decline in value, as their risk changed. It would have to be declared on many people's books. It would remove some liquidity from markets, it would represent the kind of alienation of value which happens when a large thing is held for reasons disconnected from its actual profit. Enron.

Has the value of owning tobacco shares not changed, as a result of divestiture? It is possible the dividend payment had to rise, to offset declines in base share value (for instance)

Gates is making a reductionist statement, I think he has possibly forgotten what people do in the face of changes in perception of value. His friend "the sage of Omaha" very much prefers shares which pay dividends and this may be reflected in what he is saying, since he is not by nature a highly speculative investor.
> he started printing out "pleasure cards" with his contact information and an invitation to fuck on them and wordlessly handing them out to women instead.

Did anyone ever report this behavior to law enforcement? Did anyone try to obtain a restraining order against him?
They need to pick up this turd by the clean end...
I have not gotten the impression anything Jeffrey Epstein related was "sticking" to Bill Gates.
I had a legit use for a marquee a few months ago and couldn't find a jank-free way to actually re-create all of its features. You can get the basics but even that sucks compared to just using <marquee> (heavier, more code).
Yup. And in healthcare most of the focus is on Pharma (which is certainly profitable and gouging Americans but is a small piece of the pie) and insurance companies (which don’t even make much profits), but not on hospitals which constitute around 70% of healthcare costs.
If RMS commits suicide tomorrow, I will cheer and celebrate.
What crimes has Donald committed?
Shareholder resolutions are generally non-binding (precatory) as was the Chevron case, though it's possible to have binding resolutions depending on the state and the company's bylaws.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.14a-8

https://www.axios.com/climate-methane-votes-fail-at-chevron-...
> may mean running more inefficient algorithms, wasting more processor cycles, or transferring more data in general.

Quite often, missing those sorts of improvements isn't a big deal. That depends on the nature of the software in question, though.
A PWA can be a good supplement to an existing application, but only in certain contexts could it fully replace.

We (mostly my colleague) implemented one for a mapping application that was previously browser based online-only.

It allowed you to download what you saw on screen, +/- a series of zoom levels. It also brought a lite functionality of the main app over.

People were using it for reference when they went out into the field. We had people adding it to their homescreen, as it was more accessible to them that way, but we had to have a little guide on how to do so.

Most of our users are older folk in government posts, so stuff like that needs a help guide in our context.
> It was still a good learning experience that eventually led to other profitable ideas.

Anything you want to share?
We use InvoicePlane, it integrates with Stripe and multiple other processors, tracks whether an invoice has been sent or viewed, and handles recurring invoices well.
The problem is if you’re an activist investor you’re not going to buy a bunch of shares and then tell them to stop trashing the environment or else. You might not get support from other investors and your shares would drop.
I think the answer to both tends to be "administration costs"
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They do read HN, but you'd be hard pressed to find one that shares your view, as they have insights that you and others outside the IC do not. Despite being on the inside Snowden lacked that insight. There are not enough resources to keep tabs on the foreign terrorists, let alone random Americans, or even random XYZ country people. It is not a free for all in the NSA, there are many restrictions and protections on what people can do, how they can do it, and who they can do it to.
Didn't know that. I guess I keep discovering new things about RMS.
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> Rust-Powered

> Brings the best-in-class speed and safety of Rust, to make your prompt as quick and reliable as possible.

Having it written in Rust does not magically make it "quick" and "reliable", AT ALL. Slow algorithms, logic errors, or anything that constitutes "shitty code" that would make it not quick, and not reliable (whatever this means).
Trump to eliminate California’s car emission standards waiver
Nope, there is 100% still a cafeteria. They renovated a few years ago, restored the exhibits, and it’s now pretty nice again. The food’s good (like, throwback cafeteria food good, not “good” good. Get the meatloaf.) There’s also a tiki bar on the top floor. Unfortunately in an annoying LA trend the door to the tiki bar is hidden behind a mirror.
Pls no Kevin Spacey ;c
https://www.startupgifs.com/tags/your-contract-has-been-rene...
Based on the price comparison tool they have, their prices are 4 times Lower than Amazon, Microsoft or Google Cloud!! I would think that people would flock to this platform.

I'm bookmarking it, that's for sure.
There is support for Keras with MXNet[1], however you need to install a forked version of keras, `pip install keras-mxnet`.

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/keras-apache-mxnet
there is probably, legitimately, a market for this
"Culture" is just a set of practices and assumptions that have been internalized - talking about where they came from is anthropology/history. You can certainly have conspiracy theories in there, but you seem to have confused those with any explanation at all.

(As for shaking hands - it seems to be pretty well established that it is a way of showing that you aren't going for a weapon - https://deepenglish.com/2014/07/handshake-history-listening-...)
The following is the quote from RMS found on page 16 in the document posted by vice https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...

"We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates."

The following quote posted on righteousruminations blog does not appear in the PDF file posted by vice. Here is the quote from the blog -> "it might not be so terrible if a 73 year old * an underage girl if he didn't know she was underage and being coerced." (I removed the curse word so this post doesn't get blocked)

I assume the quote by the righteousruminations blog to be an opinion and not an actual quote from RMS.
The messaging was clear. I believe I have a good grasp of what your service does.

The look of the website suggests it’s a paid service but I don’t see pricing anywhere. It has a “get started free” call to action, but for all I know that means “free trial”. If it’s a free service, you should say so and explain how you’re able to offer it for free; if it’s (going to be?) paid, you should also say so even if you haven’t decided on the exact pricing.

Since it’s a tool for Twitter that will require access to one’s account, why do we need to create yet another account to use your service? At the very least there should be the option to register/login via Twitter oauth.

There’s no information on the website if Javascript is disabled. The page is so simple, it could be just HTML and CSS.

The chat widget is annoying.
How is this just semantics? If they have to do things over, they might just reach a different settlement than paying individual people $X. Or heck, there's always a chance they won't agree and will have to battle it out in court. Or maybe something else that I can't think of. It might be likely that they'd come up with a better payment, but it seems far inevitable to me.