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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Entine#Genetics

> Entine is the founding director of the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), operating as the Science Literacy Project, which is the umbrella organization for the GLP, Genetic Expert News Service (GENeS) and the Epigenetics Literacy Project. GLP focuses on the intersection of media, policy and genetics, both human and agricultural.

> Entine has written three books on genetics and two on chemicals. Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution examines the controversy over genetic modification in agriculture.[20]

> In 2007, Entine published Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People which examined the shared ancestry of Jews, Christians and Muslims, and addressed the question "Who is a Jew?" as seen through the prism of DNA.[21]

> Entine's first book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It was inspired by the documentary on black athletes written with Brokaw in 1989.[22] It was favorably reviewed by The New York Times[23] but criticized by others[who?] who said that the subject could encourage a racist view of human relations.[24]

> Entine supports the production of GMO foods, and has criticized writer Caitlin Shetterly after she wrote an article in Elle magazine saying that GMO corn had made her ill.[25][26][27]
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This is rationally the most interesting topic I've ever read.
It's not subjective, this is clearly the currently known most effective way to maximize hapiness and maximizing happiness is the only rational policy: utilitarism.

But there are so many obvious questions unanswered:
I incrementing from one volt to another had significant mood alteration, why didn't the doctor improve granulairy,why didn't they tried e.g

If changing from one volt to another has such a big impact on mood alteration, why couldn't they try floats ? (e.g 3.265 volts)
Also the happiness benchmarcking should be much more rigorous (we're talking about permanently altering a human mood behavior) e.g how much is increased or decreased the response to stimulis such as consuming music, arts, orgasms, or laugh ability.
How much does this affect social behavior, ability to focus, working memory, creativity, etc.
Is the alteration only changing baseline well being or does it affect the propensity of having mood spikes (high low, high up).
I'm just a random guy on the internet,the scientists should have measured all of this.

Other obvious things:
The field should be massively be financed by state research.
The voltage should be dynamic in real time and changeable though a smartphone application.
Philosophers and data scientists should make consensus on optimal strategies (setting a right voltage for a right situation)

Also, the stimulation only affect one brain region, I expect that the recompense system is far more complex and thus we should have as many electrodes as there are concerned brain regions.
Indeed, each with differing voltages.

Deep brain stimulation seems to be the successor of a widely used paradigmatic technology:
Psychotrophs.
Cannabis mostly have the structure of dopamin and thus can pass the blood brain barrier and stick to dopamin receptors.
Here hapiness is controlled chemically not electrically.
So can the recompense system be totally controlled electrically or only a subset of moods states/substates can be controlled electrically?

Also, does the stimulation inherit some downsides of cannabis?

Bonus: Instead of having a dynamically changing voltages in real time but in a continous manner, would it be useful to make rapid non continous volts switching having a "rhythm" like a music?
Could we create new fine grained feelings on demand?
I dont know, I really fear a world where the US blocks all chinese social media, and china blocks all US social media, in the name of 'national security'.
>> If that non-US culture advocates that democracy is a threat to society, or that political re-education camps are not an issue, I would say that yes, we need to keep that out.

> [citation needed]

The "non-US culture" framing of the GP and GGP is ignorant and wrong, but what they say is certainly true with regards to the party and government:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...

> Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a somber, secretive warning issued by senior leaders. Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society.... The first was “Western constitutional democracy”; others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism,” and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/world/asia/china-student-...

> ...students are increasingly playing a key role by monitoring how teachers view Mr. Xi, the party and ideas like democracy. In exchange, they are promised rewards like scholarships, higher grades and advancement within prestigious Communist Party groups.

> Ankang University in northwest China said in an online notice that student informers should formally report professors who spread superstition, cults and pornography, “promote Western political values,” and criticize the party’s tenets. School administrators, the notice says, should respond to each complaint within three working days.
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So...

Children = Happiness - Money

...I knew it.
very few (if any) will install as user, or install to a specified prefix for per-project versions of installs.
Any intern engineering positions?
A curious development I noticed: Chinese dominated parent company in the Caymans or equiv with two subsidiary "sister companies", with one in US, UK, etc, and the other in China. Besides the obvious IP leakage due to Chinese law, what problems do you see with this and how would you approach this issue?
> Private, unregulatable actions are historically large components of social change, particularly for minority groups

I agree but I'd note there's reasons not to maximize that effect universally. Some balance is important; the Klu Klux Klan in the US is a minority group. Apart from that, I generally agree with your assessment of the benefits of the ability to have a private life.
Apple sold 10 million phones the first year it was introduced in a much smaller market with only three or four carriers worldwide.....
I assumed the same thing. Quite the co-incidence.

And yes, Bayard Rustin is absolutely one of the great heroes of the 20th Century.
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Disclaimer: I work at Google.

And even on the smaller service I work on, we go through privacy review.
Generally user-data is coupled to user account identifiers and deleted when accounts are deleted.

This is the easiest, as your retention plan is automatically approved this way :)

All data stores are mapped to retention plans. So you don't accidentally forget something.

For anonymization there is some logic which ensures the smallest slice is small enough that users can't be identified.

Now, all of this is generally and of course there are exceptions -- but these are a lot of work to get. You need to have good reasons to get exceptions, it takes a long time. So if you want to ship on time, you delete data when it's no longer needed, etc.

Exceptions are usually when it would hurt another user to delete something shared, for example..

Sure, incompetence can happen. But Google doesn't have a lengthy record of security holes, data leaks or privacy issues.
(I'm sure you can find a few, but my point is that this isn't Yahoo)
It's not that simple:

"Children play a part, too. A recent working paper published by NBER finds that children increase the happiness of European parents, especially for the first ten years. Parents become less happy, however, if having children causes them to encounter financial difficulties. It follows, then, that happiness bounces back for financially-stretched parents once those children become financially independent, but decreases for those parents that enjoyed their children in financial comfort."
The reason for it were bad decisions made in older version of python. The problems were:

- conflating text with bytes, python had no way to tell whether given string is a text or bytes, because in 2.7 was the same thing.

- introducing unicode as an unicode type, this essentially made the problem worse because in addition to mixing text with strings, they added extra type to represent text, which was optional and some people used unicode some didn't.

- a cherry on top was implicit conversion, so if you passed unicode type where str was expected python implicitly converted it, and vice versa

This basically resulted in people writing a broken code in python 2, code that worked fine with us-ascii, but randomly blew up if there ware some non standard characters processed.

In python 3 instead applying another fix, they decided to do it correctly from the start. So str (Guido actually regretted he didn't called it text) is representing text and bytes are representing, well bytes. Python 3 also does not do implicit conversion as well.

I actually think they could perhaps help with migration, by adding to 2.7 one more import to __futures__ that disables implicit conversion and then treat bytes type as a distinctly different type than str. That could help people fix their code in 2.7 before migrating it, but anyway it's already too late to do it, also there is a hack that you could disable implicit conversion in python 2, but it showed that stdlib also relied on it heavily, so fixing that maybe was not worth it.
Zuckerberg's recent testimony indicates FB does something similar with "shadow profiles". Those "people finder" and genealogy sites have also been doing this for years. My _guess_ is that it's not explicitly illegal so it's fine unless you break some other law(s) in the process (acquiring data illegally, defamatory profiles, etc.).
I wonder how many fuel is burned to power servers and browsers to constantly encrypt and decrypt data which could be transferred much more efficiently unencrypted.
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It's sickening to think of music and art as something that is great when its restricted to only be meaningless.
I mean, for 99% of the packages in most distribs, that’s how it works. Someone makes a cool binary, someone else packages it up and submits it to their favorite distro’s package manager.
Source about babies getting so much joy just by looking at their parents?
This seems unlikely or at least hyperbolic.
The most effective privacy tool is to realise that every tool is potentially compromised. The only reliable secret is one kept inside your head.

The best life jacket still has a non-zero failure rate. Don't want to drown? Don't go swimming.
>You may think you have a product but you don't.

I absolutely agree with everything.

Here is the thing, total side topic - but Fitbit's product is really excellent!

The packaging of the PCBs, the operating system, the tech, it's all really impressive.

I know that means nothing in the larger scope, Google bought them for their data and mining potential.

But the product is actually really cool. It appears to be simple, but when you deep drive, you can run your own javascript code on your own device, and serialize the data with packages like CBOR for export... This was done a micro that's running an RTOS made in C on an extremely constrained resources device.

I've always been impressed with Fitbit.
Nice. Remember the days when IT professionals would exclaim that this was a bad idea?

Seems like it's cyclical thing. DNS over HTTPS is now the big bad technology.
With the right tooling, I find it a lot more productive than the C++98 I learned in early university. A lot of memory management patterns are easier to write/maintain, and more fine-grained tuning for performance is still available to you if necessary.

Bjarne Stroustrup writes "Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out." and I think I can see elements of that language in newer and newer editions. It's nice to have both the new and the old in the same toolset, although sometimes I look at Rust and I think "this might be better in a newer manual-memory language".
While the US doesn't hard censor media like China, I'd agree there is something of a soft censorship/ignoring of many topics. And, if you think about US based hard restraints, there are certainly onerous restrictions with rules attached to financial services imposed by the US into foreign nations.
Those aren't being enforced, either! It's not hard to find tweets deadnaming or misgendering a person.

They're taking a fully US-centric approach, treating abortion as a political topic - see https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted... . You can't advocate for abortion in Canadian ads. Which is insane, considering abortion is fully legal here. Going down that list, it's "things that are controversial in America". It's absurd to apply the same policy globally.
We're going to need the scramble suits from A Scanner Darkly.
Would you please stop posting political flamebait to HN? You've unfortunately done this repeatedly.

If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make your substantive points more thoughtfully when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I used to joke that I was going to have "stty erase ^H" etched on my gravestone. It's probably been 25+ years since I've last needed to type that, but I can still hammer it out crazy fast. Sadly, that muscle memory is taking up neurons that'll never be used for anything else.
I recently watched a video on why you should hire a managing company if you rent to tenants. One example they gave: say you rent your place to someone because you met them and they seemed trustworthy, you just broke fair housing laws in many states and can be sued because you wont be able to provide objective criteria on why you didn't rent out to other tenants.

I think this relates to the current discussion. You don't need an explainable model for what cereal you choose, but you need a 100% clear one on what tenants you choose, who you lend to, who you hire, etc.
Can anyone point to some good resources that teach how to code around data and not the other way round?
It might have US based personnel/assets that are incorporated in the US but wholly owned by a foreign company
And this has nothing to do with programming.

Imagine Einstein alive and denying climate change. Would you apologize every time when you are referring to the theory of relativity?

P.S. Sorry, if you don't agree with the apologising comment and were just informing about possible reasons.
Try to compile any post C89 code with a C++ compiler to see how far you will go.

And even then there is stuff like implicit conversions or the ?: operator, whose semantics differ between C and C++.
By encrypting all traffic, you protect sensitive traffic better because an adversary can't tell sensitive from non-sensitive communications.
Your proposal only works well for US ASCII users. What if I want to manage multiple ISO-8859 encodings in conjunction with 7-bit ASCII? Maybe I also have some EUC-JP multi-byte text to deal with. It becomes an intractable mess without explicit encoding management. Someone will absolutely end up misinterpreting encoded text as bytes and cause all manner of compatibility and security issues. Having a Unicode string type forces this to be dealt with even if it is inconvenient when taking in data from outside the Python environment.
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Wait, but if I know the story well enough, Trump didn't say that Biden might have offered Ukraine $1B. He simply said that he promised. And as far as we can all know, Biden promising $1B to Ukraine isn't a fact. Is it plausible? Sure. Can Trump suggest that it's a possibility? Of course. But had Trump suggested that Biden might have given $1B, people could judge it for what it is - an assumption. Instead, he presented it as fact, which it simply isn't.

It seems to me that truth isn't so hard to find when one actually looks for it.
Sorry I may of missed your point? As a lot of right wing commentary (not saying that you are right wing) suggest when talking about LGBTQ they bring up child pornography alot. Why are you doing so as well?
> Is there actual hard data out there that suggests that Python provides significant benefits over a statically typed compiled language?

You are asking for hard data on a badly defined question. What kind of benefits are you talking about? Does learning curve count? Does speed of development and prototyping count? Does lack of build/compile cycle count?

If I want to run analysis on some data or play around with a machine learning model or actually do any other "I just wanna see what happens" type of experiment, python provides a lot of advantages over a lot of other languages.

If I want to create a simple set of REST style fetch-from-db-and-return-JSON APIs, python is great. There are other options, like Go and Node, but Python is pretty good.

There are other scenarios like this, but these two are the first ones that come to my mind.

I am currently working on a medium sized python project (about 25K LOC or so) and I am starting to think of rewriting some of the key pieces in a compiled, statically typed language for better performance and maintainability. But I feel that at this size and smaller I still have the benefits of quick development cycle.
Does GDPR cover generated insights about that data?
It's not true. Amazon tracks which seller sent which product.
How hard would it be to make a mobile phone with this?
We should have all gone to Coub, but for some reason Americans don't care for Lukashenko joke videos. Go figure.
Not to rabbit-hole too far on this, but in the Next Generation, civilian families are also aboard-ship. However, that's almost certainly modeled as "military families and contractors," and the analogue to modern life is some autonomy is understood by those groups to be given up for the privileges of direct military support (i.e. you have to abide by some policies set by the military when you're granted on-base housing).

But we're talking a fictional universe, so best not to unpack this bad analogy too far. ;)
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1. Just so we are clear, after having gone through 5 "lifetimes" of fitbit and probably 15 across the family, one thing I can tell you is that the software is buggy with no end in sight. Fitbit could definitely use better software.

2. If Google didn't integrate their Auth, the same community will be complaining about the lack of compatibility.
Everyone in here yelling about google stealing their data but it's ok if china does it: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/huami#section-overvi...?
The Catalan parliament, which works based on laws on which the central government does not have nothing to say, required a large majority to pass important laws. The independentist government decided to ignore that law and go on with it, ignoring the advice of their own layers. They know not even half of their population wants independence [1], and they still decided to declare it based on the results of a referendum that, independently of how bad the police actions were, cannot be taken seriously.

If you think that not allowing a minority to impose their ideas on a majority is not democratic, then I do not know what democracy is.

[1] This report is by the (independentist) government of Catalonia, and clearly says that according to their polls less than 44% wants to leave and more than 48% wants to stay in Spain: http://icps.cat/archivos/sondeigs/dossiersc2019cat.pdf?noga=...
I moved to iOS to be Google free. Have been happy with my Fitbit until I read this news and went through this exact sentiment. Happy to be part of a vocal minority.
I wonder how much metal is spent making door locks. Eh, probably better leaving all doors unlocked.

I wonder how much steel is in a banks safe. Eh, better leave the safe open.

I wonder how much time people spend typing in their passwords. Eh, better remove passwords from all sites.