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Could someone "in the know" elaborate on what specifically prompted them to contemplate this? e.g. They mention concerns from enterprise customers.

I commend the transparency of debating it in the open, but I suspect it'll get hard to maintain reasonable discourse once the issue hits mainstream headlines and becomes sensationalized.

The suggestion does feel like a giant cudgel. I get there are genuine concerns, and I don't have better ideas to offer. I can't help feeling bad for legitimate future job applicants who will feel discriminated against. I'm sure if a bad actor wants to do something adversarial, they'll find ways around it (like agents in a non-banned country).

It used to feel like attitudes of major world powers were slowly converging (Russia got some democrazy, China started to open up its economy, tolerance seemed to be growing). Now it scares me how fast they're diverging. Politics is seeping deeper into tech, and it's going to get more fervent. Curtailing trade is loosening the ties between disparate cultures (https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/peace-earth-fre...).

The internet was supposed to connect us all and help bring us closer together. What happened?
The payment is non-issue in countries with mobile pay. Or payment using contactless chip without PIN for small charges. Soon non-issue everywhere. All those other things are in apps that modern taxicabs use.
That was probably coming for a long time. USA withdrew from the ABM treaty under Bush: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty
Dealing with operator error is different from having doubts about the accuracy of an appliance. For quite a lot of things done on a calculator, trying to judge whether the numbers seem 'right' is going to be difficult. A more reasonable way to reduce operator error is to key the calculation through the device a couple of times and make sure you get the same answer.
It's hard to discuss articles that are behind paywalls.
I think you mean left shift. The Enter/Return key is also different, though looking at different layouts I have no idea why, as the extra key on that side seems to be present in different places regardless of the actual shape of those keys.
Nothing. Sure the rich business people are bad also in some way, yet it doesn't compare to the actual oligarchs. There is no way to start a competing business with an oligarch's among other things.
Room and board + all living expenses is around extra $20k/year. And you get B.A. in 3 / Masters in 4 years. And there are no 'legacy admissions'.

Still not clear how, if the US had a 'free market' for education, places like U of Chicago are able to compete with such steep prices.
Looks like some sections of "the wall" have been/are being built, though apparently it's feasible to saw through it with $100 tools: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing...
"Yet more loopholes" is what happens when you refuse to think for yourself and instead need to cram everything into tiny, generalising, categories. A better framework for evaluating policy is to ask if their objective is worthwhile and if their mechanism is fit:

Local news is dying/dead in many regions, yet it is essential for the functioning of democracy. Asking people to make informed decisions without reliable reporting works about as well as a thermostat without a thermometer, i. e. it doesn't.

Since everyone profits when others make better decisions at the voting booth, there is a direct argument to be made that the benefit of people subscribing to a local paper goes not to them, but their community, especially since important stories also tend to reach non-subscribers.

Assuming one agrees with that point and isn't part of the all-journalists-are-corrupt-marxist-crowd (or the alternative some-blogger-can-do-it-better-crowd), one would want to find ways to support local news. But direct subsidies run into obvious problems.

Reducing taxes would then be an obvious way to allow journalism to function: Its benefit is proportional to revenue and therefore preserves the market mechanisms.

Books and newspapers actually are exempt/partially exempt from VAT in many countries. But VAT just isn't a relevant factor in most of the US.

You can consider this "just a loophole" in the way that "don't put arsenic on pizza" is "just another regulation".
The author has accomplished everything she wanted. She’s used faked science to push her agenda and sell a lot of books along the way. Because of her progressive credentials, anyone who questions her gets skewered by an army of 2nd grade teachers who eat up the pseudoscience. She’s the math version of “The Secret”.
They have flint experience level to deal with whatever happens right
(Climate) Scientists aren't actually that helpful in proposing solutions, just predicting how screwed we are if we do nothing.

Moving from fossil fuels is actually quite hard. There is nothing to replace oil as fuel for global trade (i.e. fuel for airliners, cargo ships, long-haul trucking). There are tens of thousands of petroleum-based products without an obvious replacement. The environmental movement is still spreading FUD on nuclear (the only non-carbon emitting power source along with hydro and geothermal), preferring to push solar and wind even though those need natural gas backup to be viable.

At this point it's probably more practical to start planning for mitigations to climate change effects.
Or maybe the same keyboard mechanism and layout was also intended to be used on the telegram-sending-device
Only for a small subset of operations, like Blitting - everything else (like 2D accelerated line and shape drawing) was made slower.

I understand the business and technical reasons for doing this - but Microsoft never replaced GDI with an _approachable_ replacement. Direct2D is nice, but it's very difficult to use from the .NET world, whereas GDI is a first-class library feature in `System.Drawing`.
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I thought that the concept of NodeJS was fantastic. But in everyday use, I found it bloated and many of the libraries of rather dubious quality. After trying to use NodeJS for several projects, I have gone back to using mostly Python based servers with a couple of performant servers written in C. Have experimented with Go, but so far I haven't used it for any production servers.
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The intersting thing is that today's NLP has nothing to do with the manipulation of symbols, as such. Rather, NLP is performed (lately) by neural networks, that learn to optimise the parameters of continuous functions. NLP is possible in this way because by construction, the parameters of the functions to be optimised are associated to the elements of natural language (characters, mostly, but sometimes words). So an NLP "machine" nowadays means a machine that can predict the next character (or word) in a sequence.

Leibniz's ideas on the other hand, of combining symbols to generate and evaluate human language, that's the spirit that permeates Good, Old-Fashioned AI, symbolic, and logic-based artificial intelligence. Today, most NLP researchers would say that the logic-based branch of research, common as it was until very recently, was after all a dead end that did not lead anywhere. It would be interesting to be able to know what Leibniz would have made of that.

Perhaps one day (in the far distant future, when my bones are dust and my memories lost) we'll be able to reproduce the great philosopher's thoughts from his writings and reconstruct his personality, in part or in whole. And then we could pose to him the question: "Master, what do you think of the machine that now houses your intellect"?
Ironically, XP had issues with running legacy software back in the day, as it was the first NT-based OS targeted on desktop computers.
Spoken like a true wildling.
We cannot know the mass distribution that well. We arent even sure about planet-9, let alone things like dark matter halos.
I have already specifically mentioned that I am not talking about center of gravity or handling characteristics you'd find in a sports car. I have already written multiple comments about how you can put weight in a truck to add traction to the rear tires. I have already explained that electric vehicles are heavier but more efficient than ICE vehicles. You basically say similar things to what I said, and then come to the 100% wrong conclusion.

> So basically weight distribution is easy to tweak with batteries

No. You can do this when designing the car, but not afterwards. You want more weight in the regular pickup truck? Throw it in the back. You want less? Take it out. You can't take the batteries out of the electric vehicle. All my original comment said was you can add weight to the back of a pickup truck to improve traction on the rear axle. I didn't talk about center of gravity, or performance vehicles, or even mention that electric vehicles are heavier.

I am astounded by the amount of comments taking something I said, responding to it maybe tangentially and then concluding with "well that's why electric vehicles are better!" Let's just agree to disagree.
For the past 25 years there has constantly been at least one tech company which is perceived in techie forums as so bad that it's incredible anyone would voluntarily use their products.

Those companies have been Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon.

Financially you could have done amazingly well in the stock market simply by buying whatever big stock techies hate at the moment.

(Not saying Uber will necessarily continue this pattern. Even though they have the brand, I don't see how they intend to fix the enormous losses. That's very different from the optimized zero profit Amazon was making for years.)
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As the article states, the current record is 763mph set back in 1997. Wikipedia has the full record progression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record
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For a long time I ran Windows XP x64, which was basically Windows Server 2003 x64 without the server components, that worked great (and server grade patches, becoz they just send the server updates). It was free as well, as they we're testing the ground for x64 OS'es.
Yes, it's what the law says.
I fully agree and something that I have been internally debating for around a year now. My son will (potentially) be going to University in two years, but I have heard, from friends, that the amount of contact hours is dramatically reducing. One friend has a son on a 'foundation' course and he has 4 hours of teaching a week. Another, doing a full-time business degree has 9 hours. My own opinion is that with the advances in technology, the old educational system is outmoded; that of learning from a person at the front and then regurgitating what they have told you in order to prove you know it. That, coupled with nearly 50% of school leavers going to university now in the UK, makes me feel that the quality is being eroded.

Unfortunately, my concern is that if my son doesn't follow the status quo then that will leave him at a disadvantage in the job market. As an employer myself though, I interview a huge number of people who have degrees and who aren't really that capable, so it is very difficult to determine quality.
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This is what they say about it:

> You might say that Gluu’s has just as much business risk. We could go out of business or be aquired by a large company that hates open source. However, from a Gluu perspective, those are risks we understand!

I'm not sure what they mean; to me it sounds like "However, from a Gluu perspective, if we go out of business we don't care about anything anyway, so it's OK!"
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Competition from Linux has become very stiff. For me, Kubuntu 19.10 delivers on all of the promises that OpenSolaris made back in the day. My laptop has two 1TB SSDs in a ZFS mirror. Docker works as you'd hope, creating a new ZFS dataset for each container. I have remarkably good hardware support, everything just works. I'd say that the user experience rivals or beats MacOS or Windows, although at this point I'd say it is largely just a matter of preference.

Linux still lacks the multitenant security guarantees of Solaris Zones but this isn't so bad. Hard multitenancy is a problem that only concerns a fairly small subset of people and even then, there are solutions. You can do hard multitenancy with Linux containers (namespaces/cgroups to be pedantic) if you start restricting the system call table. There is also Firecracker[1] which obviously isn't as efficient as Zones (because it uses VMs), but is proven in production and does provide additional security guarantees.

The technical advantages of Illumos are outweighed (or rivaled) at this point, in my opinion. When I show people things on my laptop, I always end up talking about the desktop cube in KDE or my neovim/tmux/zsh setup. Due to ZFS snapshots and the power of zfs send/recv, I expect this system installation to last for years to come. No more reinstalls, we're good, this operating system thing is covered.

1: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...
>Thinking you will know the day and hour of your death is extremely bad estate planning.

I never claimed the contrary.

The prudent thing to do is to use Bitcoin for its intended purpose: electronic cash. Convert from fiat to crypto as needed, not as a store of value.
You would still likely need sophisticated equipment to read them. Psycho-Pass explores some aspects of that question.
Is there a date of publication for this post and updates? This list may seem comprehensive to an outsider but it could be a drop in the bucket since the list was last updated-- possibly years ago.

I recommend checking out class-central.com, one of the first MOOC aggregators, for an updated collection.
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Also film industry.
They are doing exactly what is expected of climate scientists. They are not policy makers, they gather and process data to build predictive models. Now they are scared of what they predict. Why require that they also come up with solutions, before sounding alarms?
Sharing the misery to rest of the kids however is hardly a solution.
During the late 90's stock market boom, the CEO of the biggest bank in Finland made the company bottom line to match his personal phone number as a joke.

Getting first two numbers right was the hard part :)
What statistical model is this?
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With the human population growing exponentially, its a certainty that we will breeze by the 1.5 degrees limit very soon.

People don't want to give up their cheeseburgers, all excuses are good, and the level of misinformation that goes around the topic of climate change is through the roof.

I'm glad Greta is contributing to informing the general public of the consequences of their choices but people don't want to hear it will take a lifetime to change the behavior of even a small amount of people.
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Keeping them together would not improve tier 3 lives a bit (besides providing more targets for bullying), but would hurt tiers 1 and 2.
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I thought it was a misconception that Shakespeare added so much new words - him being a prolific and very popular writer, and with much of his corpus surviving to this day, his works get cited whenever there's a "first use" mentioned somewhere.

The fact that one of his plays is the oldest written source where a word was seen for the first time in written form doesn't mean that it wasn't in common use before that; indeed it could mean the opposite – because the spectators of his plays should be able to understand what the characters are speaking, not leave befuddled in need of translation.
Why not skip the middle man? Just patent patenting.
Dismissing opinions because they are allegedly victims of trolls is a far greater problem in my perspective.
Yes I agree the signaling mechanism of a standard uni degree. At least in IT I see this changing where employers, I have worked at at least, value experience and a portfolio of work more than a uni degree. Also as so many people have uni degrees the value is diminished compared to 50 years ago. What if you just learnt the skills you needed in say 1 year at 20% of the cost online instead and still had a “degree”?
I agree, all those distros should call m selves "Illumos distros" (like (GNU/)Linux distros do).
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Hm, but to me it seems like Uber is getting more competitors not fewer. Bolt for example has started competing with Uber in more cities and the traditional taxi companies are getting their shit together in some countries.
This is an unintentionally good thing: The paris accord:

* was non-binding

* guaranteed that no nation would be challenged or monitored on it's emissions reporting

* allowed countries to just set their own targets and how to meet them

* contained no penalties for not meeting even those targets

It was an agreement for everyone to just do whatever they wanted.

Almost 20 years after the Kyoto was signed and we're no closer to an actual agreement. Worse in fact: Paris is held up as if it matters, it fools people into thinking something is being done.

It's not.
I just looked at some numbers and you're right, it does seem like I exaggerated. If you choose the lower weight range for the 3 series though the difference ends up being 14% heavier, and obviously you can choose difference cars to compare. But you are right, 1/3 seems too high. Maybe half that would be more accurate.
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I mean...doesn't that kind of presuppose you have to make the computation to begin with? It feels like circular reasoning to me.

You could also just...not compute trillions of random sha256 hashes.
Are there any compelling papers or presentations on the impact and science of climate change? Virtually all reporting presents/qualifies it as 'what scientists say'. Since the convention in journalism is to create doubt for the reader by phrasing something as 'person says' I find these articles easy to ignore.
This made me laugh purely with shock value, but it made me laugh a lot.