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Sorry, it's late and I'm tired of having the burden of proof. This is what I will add to the reactions to the ruling (and to the trial) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Catalonia_independenc... . Several international organizations having problems with the trial, not many international reactions on either side. About the UDI... it was a letdown, that was not a real one and everyone that wanted one was disappointed.

On that "both sides are guilty" I could find all the times the Catalan government has tried to talk and the Spanish response has been "no". It's hard to reach a consensus when one side is so fixed on not taking.

I haven't said, and neither think, that the Spanish police is worse than the Chinese one. But if they can make the comparison it's because the way the Spanish police is acting is quite unprofessional and unworthy of a force acting in a democratic country.

What do we want? Lots of things, because there are lots of "factions", each with different needs. I'll try to summarise the principal, some of which I may not agree with. I won't enter into wether they are real or not, some you might think they are not and I'm tired of explaining the same to different people in different media, I should make a github repo.

* Cultural freedom. Catalan culture feels the constant oppression of centralist Spanish culture trying to reduce it to folk usage, like it has almost done with Galician and Valencian (which is the Catalan spoken in Valencia).

* Our money. Catalonia gives more money than it receives.

* End of corruption. We are tired of the rampant corruption in Spain. And yes, Catalan corrupts should go to jail too, starting with Pujol.

* A future. The young ones don't have a future. There is no money, there are no jobs, the world is being destroyed.

* Improve public services. They are being destroyed, in the name of profit (for friends of the different ruling parties).

These are different things that different people want, there are probably more (like letting the political prisoners out and remove the occupation forces). Some are right wing, some left wing, and most of them would sit well with Spanish people.

This is not Catalonia against Spain, it's not even left vs right, it's up vs down.
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There isn't a point he is trying to get at, because he isn't arguing in good faith.
I doubt that would hold up for insurance purposes. Also, I think it's relatively unlikely that tax inspectors come around and talk to suspected guests, at least compared to the common situation of HOA/lease policies restricting subletting.
God forbid I have some sort of say in how my labor is used.
Sometimes these critiques seem to be complaining that the ai is too intelligent. That’s sort of the point isn’t it.
That would all be true if Go actually were a success. It might be, someday. But it is still way, way too early to say.
Most trucks drive similarly. A Vision Jet is a far different airplane than a Pilatus. Automation is better because the computer is designed for that specific aircraft as opposed to having a bunch of on-call pilots that just so happen to be type rated for that specific plane. And if they aren’t type rated, they are more of a liability. It’s very expensive to get type ratings so that remote pilot concept just wouldn’t scale. A 787 pilot isn’t going to know the intricacies of a Kodiak and besides, what pilot is going to want to sit in a ready-room for a shift for days on end with nothing to do? An incapacitated pilot is so rare that automation is a high enough percentage that it’s a fine solution. There is already a pilot shortage — hiring type rated remote pilots to just sit and wait around isn’t going to be easy.
"I was just doing my job" is not an excuse. It is absolutely not only our right to decide how our work is used in the world, but our duty to make sure we're not enabling human rights violations. I applaud and support tech workers making ethical calls around their work. Unfortunately we may need to put our money where our mouths are and leave employers that refuse to stand by any ethical code, and that's already happening all across the tech industry.
It sucks for most, it is amazing for the rich.
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This is a great explanation of everything in the output of htop and related, but I suggest the author clean up the prose a little bit to make it a bit less conversational and easier to read.
But what will your peers at brunch say if you do not show how virtuous you are?
I'd like to avoid it by not having ICE run something that could even raise the question. They're even using some of the same facilities that were used for Japanese internment.
Much of Buddhist philosophy (the "doctrine of no self") is build around this train of thought...
Interesting claim, but I don't think it's true. Source?
I'm sure these people have varying viewpoints across the spectrum on a variety of issues, but this is a direct contract with a client that currently has a large target on it's back. These employees agree they would prefer not to be a partner. Saying all of those who petitioned share a narrow viewpoint is reductive.
A note for this and other comments below. Hawking radiation is more violent (energetic) for smaller black holes. Galactic black holes emit radiation at a much smaller temperature (roughly inversely as mass) while tiny black holes are very hot and evaporate quickly in a runaway “explosion”. However, note that this is only the temperature. The surface area of the BH event horizon (which emits the radiation) scales as mass^2 — that should determine the number of photons/particles.
There is an even bigger question here.

Is ICE the only thing on GitHub that is morally questionable?

I would venture to guess NO. I would venture to guess that all sorts of things on GitHub are used in illicit, illegal, or morally repressible ways.
The universe doesn't have ships it has something that is aproximated somewhat by waves or particles or strings. The ship is a convenient pointer to discuss a collection of particles that whose state depend on each other in some fashion.

It's a handle of convenience. If it points to something useful it's useful if not then not there never was or will be a ship of theseus so whether it's the same ship means nothing.
You're not giving them enough credit. Oriol Vinyals (head of this project) is both one of the leading AI researchers + was highest ranked StarCraft player in Spain back in high school.

Certainly the game is different, meta has changed, etc. But he's definitely not an amateur and is probably in the top percentile of players.
The reality is that speaking is a physical skill similar to any over physical activity. How do you get better at riding a bike? You ride it a lot. How do you get better at speaking? You speak a lot. Verbal communication is something I long struggled with and I used to look for all kinds of solutions but then, one day, I decided I was going to start talking into a microphone and record myself talking about whatever topic I wanted to talk about. In my day job I work at home and rarely talk to anyone, at the time I used to also live alone in a suburb area way on the edge of my city, basically I was pretty isolated and already a bit depressed so my daily opportunities to talk to others weren't very many.

At first, trying to talk for 10 minutes straight seemed very weird. I realized my mouth would get sore, etc, I would sometimes physically get tired of talking and make mistakes in what I said.

After doing this for about a month though I eventually started getting better at it and even posted some videos on YouTube where I narrated. I was also finding that I had less trouble expressing myself and being understood when talking with other people.

This isn't a cure all and it's not going to solve all anxieties related to public speaking but I really believe it can help most people. Many jobs nowadays don't require much talking and some people can easily get by nowadays with much less verbal communication than they probably is used to so I think this approach is something at least worth considering.

As an aside, this has also led to be developing a much greater appreciation for verbal communication, including music, listening to different accents and I have also been learning a foreign language. This isn't strictly relevant to becoming a better speaker but I feel like my approach eventually opened up a new appreciation for language and communication that was completely lacking from my life before.
To be fair this is a natural philosophical position to take in a country founded after a bunch of people left some tea crates where they were on a ship and just moved to another empire's colony
Former masters Zerg here. You are partially correct, but actual high level play involves a great deal of small variations to these cookie cutter strays, and these small variations lead to a constantly evolving metagame. A good example was the kespa league during hots where innovation and strategy played a big role.

It’s just that a lot of that strategy is irrelevant unless you have amazing mechanics - and the difficulty of those mechanics means that you can’t as easily think, plan, or adapt in-game (because your brain is busy)

A big part of the game is thinking about “how do I win against somebody who does that...” between games
This is speculation.
There's a non-fiction book, The Physics of Immortality by Frank Tipler, with a similar premise. Because the universe (according to some models) will end in a Big Crunch, collapsing to a single point, and because information can't be destroyed, then an omniscient intelligence will arise near the end of time with the ability to restore everyone who ever lived.
you may very well make the case that mainstream news suffers from the same disease.

There's an interesting study out there (I'll dig it up later if I find it), that finds that the average American has virtually no influence or voice on what is discussed in media. There is nothing civic or egalitarian about American media or politics any more, it's no surprise that it appears like a cynical spectacle. It is indeed all advertisers, famous people, full-time twitter agitators, and Fox and CNN.

The irony here is I think that the social platforms actually could be used to authentically promote common voices if they were designed with that commitment in mind. If the rules don't change for the owners, I don't see it happening.
Not exactly.

Our definition of what's death coincided with us not being technically able to recover anyone from it. That's the reason it included "non recovery" (e.g. permanence).

Death includes a person having no brain activity, no breathing, no metabolism, no heart rate, no consciousness, etc. The permanence of those things is an accidental attribute of death, not it's fundament (that why we can say: "When you're dead, you're dead forever" or can imagine and write about "Dead coming back to life").

If death is a state characterized by X, Y and Z attributes (today, and for millennia now), then the discovery of a way to revert those X, Y, Z attributes in the future doesn't mean everybody who had then in the past wasn't death.

I'd say that your argument is a nominalism inspired version of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

It's like as if one everybody would call a certifiably "dead person" today (e.g. a buried cadaver) is revived in 10 years due to some technological feat, someone goes to say "yes, but that was not a true dead person", moving the goalposts.

If technology is able to revive JFK in 2200, would you say JFK is not dead today?
I should clarify I was responding to your assertion that the earth is far past capacity.

~10% of Earth’s land is occupied by humans. Not all of that is arable, but humans have successfully terraformed throughout history and conceivably will become more capable with technological advances.

Malthus is not unique in his prognostications. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968) was more recent and predicted mass famine by the 1970s. Instead, we produce a massive surplus of food each year, although it’s not distributed adequately at present. This happened well after the Haber process (presumably the fossil fuel dividend you refer to) and occurred as a result of improved farming techniques, equipment, and crops.

Thanks to technological developments in the fossil fuels sector (fracking, horizontal drilling, etc.), fears about running out of oil have largely subsided. Simultaneously, advances in renewable energy sources are rapidly reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Already, some electric grids are struggling with capacity — not because of a shortage of energy, rather due to an excess of electricity produced by renewable sources.

Although none of this points to an Earth beyond its carrying capacity, it also does not factor in further efficiency gains resulting from future technological progress. At the same time, we are attempting to develop the technology necessary to access extraterrestrial resources. Given that, even the finite resources available on Earth are not necessarily a limiting factor to growth.
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It does, but it only works in Safari if I add font-feature-settings: "liga" on.
I'm baffled by this statement.

Sure you have a say, you also (likely) have the luxury of having a skill set that makes you able to make these choices.

A while back there was an ask HN post about surviving through the first bubble (2001). If you find a group of engineers of that vintage it is likely that you can quickly find someone who worked putting up adult content. (Note I don't have an objection to the topic but realize that some do and this isn't exactly the most glamorous work in tech).
Has anyone else noticed that there are simultaneously articles that talk about the dangers of not enough people to produce goods and also articles about the risk of AI/robotics being too efficient?
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I had to read through your comment twice to get it. My experience leads me to agree with your idea of letting people talk through their own code. That category of conversations has usually been very rich and telling, much better than one over imaginary binary tree rotation algorithms or a "design a url shortener"-ish question. My favorite part is where a skillful candidate can lead the interviewer to interesting and real problems and solutions, demonstrate ability and both get to enjoy the conversation.
> Should Japan bring in millions of Europeans, which will change the culture and demographics, just to keep the arbitrary GDP number up?

Yes, that’s what they’ve been doing and seem to keep wanting to do. Albeit with Chinese/SEA immigrants rather than European (quality of life is generally much better in Europe, why would Europeans care about moving to Japan?)

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-immigration/Japan-im...
I’m referring in part to your own comments. You said people would be debating the definition of concentration camps then you called a detention center for illegal immigrants a “concentration camp”. It is you who is trying to change the definition and fit it where it’s convenient to your politics.
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Obviously the question actually being asked is "Are people traditionally classified dead actually dead dead?" to which the answer may only be "mostly" rather than "yes".
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All these people are saying is "I don't want people using things I make for (what I perceive to be) evil".

Aside from the compensation, anything you have implied beyond this is just augmentation derived from capitalism and acceptance of the status quo. Saying "I don't like what you are doing with the thing I am producing for you, so I may stop offering you services" is just...basic human communication. I really can't see how there is any more to this?

You speak with such absolute authority ("You have to let certain control go after a point."). However, this story (and others like it) are proof that this is untrue. Your assertion is false.

Just because somebody is an employee, it does not mean they lose all bargaining power / agency. If you are exchanging goods or services with someone else in a scenario where the power dynamic is not entirely one-sided, there is always room for negotiation. This is all that's happening.

Just because you don't care about how your stuff is used, doesn't mean that it applies to everyone.
Can confirm. I did experiments and math about this years ago- overtraining workers is only good if you know you are about to get severely harassed and plan to lose a bunch
How does Prolog relate to more formal languages like Lean/Coq? Prolog (pretty easily) has dependent types [1] as well. Is there something in the language itself that would make it unsuitable as a theorem prover, or is there something it's missing? I'm trying to get a feel for Lean from the vantage of a bit of familiarity with Prolog.

[1]: https://llaisdy.co.uk/2014/05/07/dependent-types-in-prolog/
Several employees have left and made public they left over Dragonfly and Maven projects at Google.
I would think that employees at those companies would probably prefer if they weren't doing business with some of those people, but I think it is much more difficult in cases where there is just a good being purchased through retailers (there are intermediary steps).

With these kinds of contracts it feels much more akin to a partnership, so I think the feedback makes more sense. Its odd to me that we question why employees would want to have a say in how their company conducts business. Sure, its a choice for the company to make, but saying it is entitled for the employees to speak out just seems insane to me.
I'm sure you can get something out of very old meat
There may be other reasons Airbnb is unethical, but minimizing one's taxes legally is not unethical.
It seemed like a lot of words to say very little.
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"ICE is currently doing some bad things" is a viewpoint shared by a pretty large group of people. Honestly it just sounds like you're projecting.
Many of the flat earthers I have interacted with are actually doing it tongue and cheek as performance. It is a meme/troll many levels deep if you look into it.
The specific concerns may be new, but the general tactics are neither new, nor specific to progressives; in fact, while the labor movement has had some notable successes with it, the general approach has been most extensively deployed in this country by, and still is extensively used by, conservatives, particularly Christian conservatives, against policies, institutions, art, personages, etc., they disapprove of.

They call it “cancel culture” when it is their ox getting gored, but it is not as if no one told them what the harvest is like when you sow the wind...
I tend to think labor should have more power over what it creates. I'm not sure how an example of being required to work on something they objected to due to economic factors outside of their control is an example that helps your case.
> "narrow spectrum of progressive viewpoints"

Oh fuck off, the way the US government is currently treating asylum seekers and immigrants is horrifying. Only within the bubble of American politics could someone brush complaining about it off like that.
I don't understand wealthy Americans at all. It seems like they want to abolish the concepts of borders and immigration control entirely. I assume it's so they can more readily access cheaper labour, which would explain why poorer americans generally take the opposite stance.
Fwiw, all MAX are already grounded. As I alluded, the "normal" process works pretty well for cracks. If the MAX fleet needs "crack" attention, it will happen.
You can absolutely fake this. There’s a huge difference between coming up with and implementing something vs understanding it enough to be convincing.

Have you actually tested this out?
So why are you baffled by that statement?

The rest of your comment seems irrelevant.
I can see value in diversity, I championed diversity from my senior position at Deloitte. It is illegal to reject someone over something they can't control like gender especially when there is no legally valid reason for doing so. I would be annoyed if my daughter couldn't attend her University of choice because she is female just as much as I would if that happened to my Son.

Our laws, morals and ethics have said, for a long time, that we should not discriminate based on gender, race or a multitude of other factors UNLESS there is a clearly defined and accepted reason for doing so for a specific role e.g. a female care worker to look after female patients. Lofty research around diversity of thought amongst gender balanced teams is not a legal reason for gender discrimination.

If you're telling me that I cannot get a job purely because of my gender, you need a very very good reason why and a vague notion that any given team having more women will make everything better is nowhere near a good reason.

I say this as an author of many papers showing the benefits of diverse teams. Papers that have been published in the trade press, academic journals and Deloitte 'thought leadership' publications.

Your current understanding of diversity if very immature and harmful to the overall cause.
I don't think they make anyone do that. The people who join these programs are predisposed to programming 12 hours a day (or more) in the first place. It's an effect rather than a cause.
The 27k vs 30k number is Qantas claiming they don’t need to inspect their planes yet because their planes still have 300 cycles to go.

Inspection costs money. It might only take an hour to perform the inspection but that plane will be out of service for days.
I got walked from my hotel near RSA Conference one year (Westin San Francisco Market Street) to the Parc 55. As compensation I got a free day, but since my employer was paying, it wasn't much of a compensation.

It sounds petty but having paid for a room, being exhausted from a Pacific flight and being moved to a hotel twice the walk from the conference (important if you're going to be back and forth all day) was mildly annoying.

I'm not 100% sure - but the one time I was walked I had picked the cheapest available room. You know those bullshitty-looking price differences where you can book on floors 9-11 for X and floors 12-14 for X+5? I suspected I had signalled my place on the hierarchy by picking the cheapest room available. Subsequently, especially while on an expense account (sorry, Intel! :-) ) I always picked the ever-so-slightly more expensive room and have never been walked again, even in the middle of conference season. This may be bogus reasoning, of course.
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They are great, but academy is not the breeding grounds of NSO and its ilk.
I would say it’s a weakness but I think it’s shared by most players. A ‘weird’ go strategy isn’t going to involve new kinds of pieces on the board or someone developing a win condition at a place on the board you can’t see.

You can lose a Starcraft game easily if someone is doing something novel and you don’t happen to scout the right place on the board soon enough.
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