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> they've planning for 30 billion by 2030.

I think you mean 30 million. A city of 30 billion would contiguously occupy a continent.
Can we call them 1 megameter/hour trains?
> Reducing the chance of having to live with the fact that I ran somebody over and seriously harmed or even killed them, that's indeed worth an extra y dollars to me.

If you actually cared, you wouldn't drive at all.
When the city i live in announced they were deploying these readers i got a response from our police chief, he advised me that refusal to install them would result in their department losing some certification that allowed them to remain as independent as possible.
That is an issue that was touched on in one of the Freakonomics books too: increased DUI enforcement has lead to many would-be drunk drivers instead being drunk pedestrians, which is much more dangerous (for the drunk).
Is it really so hard to imagine they lied because people wouldn’t want to participate otherwise, regardless of any actual harm? There are plenty of people out there who think it’s illegal to take their picture or record them in public without their consent. “I didn’t consent to this” isn’t a trump card.

Material misrepresentations are a big part of contract law because they almost always, ya know, cause harm. Not too many people out there cooking the books to make their company cheaper to buy, for example.
What makes you think wealthy Chinese don't live in a separate reality too?
From reading earlier discussions of the quantum computing tutorial, I am pretty sure most of its readers do not even use classical SRS in the first place.
Just ordered a copy, sadly it seems it doesn't talk about hardware drivers, but the info should be good in general.
Non-tech. He was an ensign on a warp-speed spaceship!
This is much less important. A legacy v4-only server can be reached from v6 via NAT64 (which basically works like NAT but with v6 on the inside), so there's no particular need to get rid of all of them.

It's much more important to get rid of legacy v4-only clients, to make it possible to run v6-only servers.
How is it misogyny? Do you work where I work? I feel weird even saying it because it does feel misogynistic but it matches my actual experience at my current job.
>you cannot really remove pixels in an image

I'm unconvinced by this statement. There are many attempts to negate attacks that do so by applying linear transformations, masks, etc. To images. Removing pixels is not novel.

We like to imply that domain knowledge is relevant but after you design a feature vector it all ends up the same.
I believe that it is electric cars alone that doom the local repair shop due to very few moving parts in an electric car.
If I'm not mistaken this is pretty much how ASP.NET Web Forms work(ed). I think Java Server Faces (JSF) uses a server rendered component approach also. The giveaway being the need for a ViewState.

So for a long time this has been a widely used pattern! With today's dominance of (MVC || SPA) architectures I agree it's not as widely known as perhaps it should be.
Imagine those Soviet icbm trucks with two front turning axles and three rear axles. Or even worse the MZKT 79221[1] which was like eight axles.

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> Even the LAN sending is being phased out,

By who? This isn't even almost true.
I seriously recommend any programmer to spend an afternoon with FORTH. It gives you a whole new perspective about how to write programs and use computers.

For me, it was a more intense experience than learning Lisp (besides Lisp being really cool!).
>It's up to citizens to vote in law makers who actually represent our interests...

That just doesn't happen. And that is because the majority of voters do not know who they are voting for or what they really stand for. Voting in the US is more of a popularity contest between two teams, and the team with the most money and the most pleasing rhetoric (lies) will win.
(I'm not an economist either, but I'm also really interested in this)

> What's the difference in theory and practice between UBI and changing the standard deduction/marginal rate? Like if we give out $6k a year to everyone through a $500 check, what is the difference in how that money is spent versus if we increased the standard deduction to where people would pay $6k less in taxes? (assuming that people are in fact paying at least $6k)

You've partly answered your own question. One of the big differences is that people who wouldn't have paid at least $6k in taxes wouldn't get the full benefit. It's also true that the standard deduction is a deduction of your taxable income. Depending on your tax bracket, that's going to reduce the amount you owe by a different amount.

We could instead talk about doing it as a tax credit similar to the Earned Income Tax Credit, but giving it to everyone equally regardless of whether they're working. This would be more like a basic income. If we can pay people the tax credit at finer intervals instead of in one lump sum at the end of the year, that's even better.

The disadvantage is that people would still have to file tax returns. The people who need the money the most are also the ones who are least likely to be able to navigate the system. If it's exactly the same amount of money to everyone unconditionally, then we reduce the bureaucratic burden by not tying it to the tax system.

Here's a video where I answer the question of why basic income should go to rich people. I advocate keeping the complexity separate from the cash benefit system and putting all that complexity on the taxation side.

https://youtu.be/ylm1jN9cMRQ?t=430
As someone who loves tunnels, I'm going to write myself a note to try this line when I make my first trip to Japan.
Would be funny if Amazon of all companies would throw up their hands and jam excess junk in a storage warehouse somewhere.
This is a great question. I would say that the "answer from economics" you describe is incorrect. There are some economists who think this way. And they have a term for it: The Quantity Theory of Money.

But the reality is that inflation isn't about the amount of money "in the economy." It's about the rate at which money is flowing through the economy. That flow is the level of spending. To keep prices stable, we have to keep spending balanced with production.

The reason why we can make this distinction is because money doesn't just perpetually circulate through the economy. It flows through the economy like a river from consumers to producers to the financial sector. It's true that money in the financial sector gets "reinvested," but in order for that money to support consumer spending, you have to be able to connect the dots and tell a story about what mechanism is getting money into the hands of consumers.

Basic income is a possible mechanism for that. If we want to, we can continue to use taxes or create jobs to force "existing" money is flowing back into the hands of consumers, but what's the point? Why not just hand them new money instead?

I've written a blog post about this.

http://www.greshm.org/blog/money-does-not-circulate/
Because we rely on data that shows that in most injuries with pedestrians, pedestrian had the right of way. That’s just data. Cars are getting more dangerous, bigger, people are more distracted, and pedestrian deaths are increasing.

Your experience is anecdata. Just look at hard numbers.
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Kind of does. Person who isn't paying attention and walks in the road only has themselves to blame if they get killed. People who get killed because some jackass has decided that they want to answer text messages while they drive is completely different.
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Only 18% of the population live in swing states though. Assuming an even distribution, that's < 1.5 million votes.
If this is taken to its logical conclusion, everyone should drive. Trains are not more efficient than a the average car when measured in passenger mile per gallon equivalent. And trains are much less efficient when compared to a high MPG cars like a Prius.

Whats the matter with the Europeans? Don't they care about the environment?

https://theicct.org/blogs/staff/planes-trains-and-automobile...
People in China that lose their homes to infrastructure projects do get compensated for it.

I think the bigger advantage for China is that the decision to run the track on some alignment doesn’t get litigated and re-litigated for years before construction is allowed to begin.
In general you can't mutate records. Nothing prevents you from making a new one that's slightly different though. It just won't change the already existing one.

In practice this is not actually a problem. It just takes a little getting used to to get yourself out of the 'memory-address as identity' mindset that procedural languages have.
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Yep! pee seats for starters, no bathrooms (hence the pee seats), not grocery shopping friendly (load up the old trunk), weed smell (I think this is more of a 2009 and later issue at least in the West), and then there's the spooky people, knife attackers, the guy that keeps sneezing, late arrivals, early departures (miss the train?)... anyhoo. I think I just about killed it.
"The data, which has been deidentified to protect drivers’ privacy, will allow EFF..."

Cross references won't be easy.
I'm in favor of the government being capable of seeing and viewing 100% everything. 110%.

The infrastructure should be there. If there's a court order or lawful authorization, info should be accessible without delay.

But

The way to do that would be more systems of review for when it's used, generally making the standards more strict, less ambiguous.

But

The problem is there are side effects to changing the law that can give away methods and also put convictions at risk. There's other ramifications we may not know about until it was put in effect, but they could be negative. I bet that's one reason there isn't as much movement in the area.

There was an article in the news recently that right now in USA the case law considers unopened email to be discarded.

GDPR went into effect in EU. That is another aspect that US doesn't a similar thing for (does it need one? I don't see people bringing it up often, convince me otherwise?)

My point is, backdoors are more of a hypothetical thing. The legal framework around them and making them better is more productive use of your time.

That would involve people coming together and nuancing what the types of privacy are and whether it involves US people, foreign countries, drug dealers, etc.
According to Elizabeth Warren's book "The Two Income Trap", two income households are less financially stable because you've doubled the odds that someone in the household will become unemployed. Unless you live on one income and bank the other, having a lifestyle that depends on two incomes is less stable than depending on just one income. Of course, you don't have to be married to be a two income household and spouses who don't work outside the home exist but the default for married coupled does seem to be both work fulltime, which is financially less stable than having just one spouse working.
Cars in the EU have aspherical mirrors that work like this: https://i.imgur.com/rJI3UR0l.jpg . Much like a stick-on but less unsightly. These are pretty good, but they're not installed in the US due to some archaic regulation or another. The Ford system with an inset towing-style mirror is great too.
Another great support feature ruined by marketing assholes (GoDaddy text alerts)
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There's a difference between being readily identifiable and actively surveilled.
Pedestrians always have the right of way. At least in some jurisdictions.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you're not a huge dumbass if you do it with no regard to common sense.
I didn't mean to be so harsh here: it's more like the pain that classical singers feel when they hear vowels pronounced "incorrectly" on the radio :-)
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I wouldn't say that's necessary.

I've been in a senior role for 5 years and I somewhat recently interviewed at Google for an SRE/SW position with basically no prep (did maybe two practice exercises) and passed it no problem. I turned them down for a variety of reasons, but if I were to interview again I might even spend less time practicing.

It's true, however, that at some companies, performance impacts leveling and compensation, so there's surely value in being (possibly even over-) prepared.
I meant more for the emotional side of things.

I really do think an ability to agree to a process you’d go through if you are wanting to leave could be useful.
I don't think I disagree with you in principle, but since you are linking in the windows socket library already, isn't there built in support for SSL (`WSASetSocketSecurity()`, etc)?
> a tool to plant CP on people's computers.

This tool is not described in the article you've linked. Do you have an additional link for those of us who want to read more about this?
It seems to me like the symbolic value of children's book late fees vastly outweighs any actual monetary incentives or benefits to the library. They're a lesson to kids that, yes, it's bad to break rules, but you don't have to feel anxious and guilty about it forever--if you make up for what you did by paying the fine, you're forgiven.

For this to work, though, the library has to walk a very thin line. The fines have to be large enough to feel significant to a child (setting them at $.01 would send the wrong message for sure), but also small enough that they'd never actually cause problems for a family trying to pay them. I don't know if it's possible to achieve this, especially in places with high income inequality.
Fair enough. I’m curious to see — one of my friends is big into women’s health and she recommended it.
Vonlane by chance? If so, that company is great. I cannot recommend them enough to people. There was a rocky bit in 2016 for them and I am so glad they survived and are growing their routes and times.
I found it to be pretty bad when I was there.

Not as bad as the conservative media makes it out to seem but still bad.

Had my drink knocked out of my hand by a couple of guys,had to buy boots because of the human feces, saw smashed in car windows daily.

Im super tolerant but that felt like alot.
I think one of the differences is ability to think long term vs attachment to this quarter’s or this year’s bonus.

Short term thinking is really destructive and limiting.
Yes, you even managed to build Crossrail, which is a huge project by European standards. It shows that even within a city of so expensive property, if there is a will, proper infrastructure can be built.
That just compiles like normal code which is obviously a win in many scenarios but there can be a few downsides. The first is that it can quickly devolve into template/generic hierarchical madness (assuming the real example was a bit more complex then the example), this is more complex to maintain than a DSL parser. The second is users will get crazy meta programming error messages, especially in c++ where you can get some multi page ones. You're probably unlikely to get non-tech people writing these tests but you will get people that want be able to untangle that mess, like QA and interns. There are a few other little things too, like the original including the '$' sign making it clearer what is a monetary value.

Personally nearly every time I write something resembling a DSL it's not for production code though and tends to be written in shell script or awk and will only translate to something like sql.
> You have to run the numbers here. On the one hand, perhaps a bit more crime, some of which horrible. On the other hand, the privacy of everyone.

It's not just a matter of "many small harms > few large harms" though. Not having privacy can lead to severe harms.

If the bad guys break into a system that allows them to effectively wiretap everybody, now they can snoop around and find blackmail targets. "I know what you did, have sex with me or everyone will know. Or send money. Or give me your employee access badge."

Results: Rape, financing child sex trafficking, facilitating an act of terrorism. Or any of the less visceral but nonetheless widespread and significant consequences like major financial fraud or corporate espionage.

And that's just blackmail. What about the suicides of people who get doxxed? Or the people in violent relationships whose abuser is in law enforcement or in a criminal enterprise that has compromised the surveillance apparatus? Or the mental health epidemic which results when people know their communication is exposed to people they don't trust to see their true selves and then self-censor into performance-art conformists riddled with anxiety and loneliness?

Privacy is about keeping perverts in law enforcement from reading the sexting that should only be between you and your spouse, but it's also about keeping the country and the people safe from terrorists and foreign powers, keeping victims safe from abusers and allowing people to satisfy the human need to be themselves in communications with people they trust.

Privacy isn't a trade off against security, it's a necessary component of having security.
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I feel lucky to be able to `grep` a word from a directory of files and tend to always find my scratch notes on a topic.
Yeah, I've been hearing about that for 10 years.

-Me 8 years ago

Also the new route is a joke. The high speed rail was originally supposed to run from Dallas to San Antonio, and Austin to Houston.
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>How do we balance the need to fight child abuse with privacy?

Well, one place to start is with the realization that 99% of molestation comes from people the child knows. Encryption doesn't affect that pipeline at all, so the gov't shouldn't be worried.

I'd also remind that probably effectively 100% of physical child abuse and violence also comes from people the child knows.

Surveilling strangers can't have anything to do with dealing with any form of child abuse, except the extremely rare case where strangers have been able to find each other and create a subculture with which to provide evidence that exists on Facebook's servers. That's a pretty specific and narrow set of conditions.

I'm not saying Facebook allowing government surveillance on their wires can't produce some hits, but I'd be extremely curious to learn of wider implications and costs that are proportional.
I visited about a year ago now and I didn’t have that experience at all.

Stopped in at City Lights, bought a couple books, went for lunch, and walked through North Beach to the pier. Walked along Embarcadero to the BART station there and had a great (albeit short) layover there. I saw a few people who appeared to be homeless. No more than I see in Toronto or Hamilton—but I can’t speak to what kind of measure that is anymore.
> The distribution of points in a point cloud

Would you have a canonical name for this distribution ? If you try matching log likelihoods, what parametric family does it resemble ? Briefly, given one of the canonical two dozen (uni/multi)variate distribution, one can create new distributions either by location-scale transform, mixtures, or say by using a k-param EFD family. So if I pick a k-param MVN ( multivariate normal with k means, k sigmas & O(k^2) correlations, I can create new distributions all day long by tweaking these 2k+k^2 params until cows come home. Brittle inference engines such as CNNs trained on a specific family with specific (hyper)parameters will fail once the distribution changes significantly, though visually the changes will be imperceptible.
Your recursive merge function will blow the stack for large inputs and it will be slow.
This is a bad idea. A library is supposed to be stocked with books so that patrons can indulge their curiosity browsing. People can't browse library books that are sitting in the homes of other people for months.
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You could do some heinous, heinous stuff the Web Forms and UpdatePanels.

Interestingly, Blazor seems to be reviving the whole idea. With SignalR, it is actually not completely insane to handle events with the equivalent of code-behind.
I think Wikipedia would benefit from your contribution!
Wealthy Chinese people can't control what the country does, wealthy Americans certainly have the option if they wanted.
Forth programmer from the late '70s here. It was great for self-contained "smart" instruments. (I worked on a magnetometer at UCLA.) But, unfortunately, I never had occasion to work with it again.
But, it was definitely one of the most "out there" languages I ever used...
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Communist China issued invasion threats when the UK proposed introducing self-government in the late 50s and early 60s.

https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-still...
Perhaps much of what you describe can be attributed to Scala being a multi-paradigm language. As with other programming languages of this nature, supporting multiple paradigms can be both a strength and weakness, depending on those whom use it and their expectations.

Whether this is right/correct or wrong/incorrect is left as an exercise for the reader ;-).
That obviously varies drastically by city. In this case, DC and Tokyo have airports close to downtown and connected by subway. And these airports could connect you to the entire world of course, rather than within ~500 miles (reasonably).

And the only reason train stations are downtown is due to historical reasons. If you had to make a 35 track train station today in your average American city, it would very likely not be downtown. Even in China these train stations are often on the outside loop of the city.
Shanghai-Beijing route is 350 kmph again, they think about the ways to increase it up to 400 kmph.
> In America, all we want is “drill, baby, drill”

Actually, it is much easier to build a pipeline, now that I think about it..