skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potentially even more important: a leader (terrible or otherwise) who loses power does not have to fear being murdered by his successor, and can hope to regain power. Thus, they have a much smaller incentive to use desparate (i.e. violent) methods to stay in power.

That's why the true test of a country's switch to democracy are not the first democratic elections, but the first democratic change of power.
> Compared to ruling by force, yes, democracy is inherently good for the people

I don't understand why people here see democratic system as a replacement for ruling by a force. Democratic countries also rule by force in the end. Democratic countries also need polices, guns, armies, prisons, tax inspectors, prosecutors etc. Those same institutions are also the tools for dictatorships, they are just governed in a different way.

(I also think democracy is good, but however in the end both democracies and dictatorships rely on violence to be effective. I think that's quite basic lesson on how society works.)
Too late to edit: just read your above comment again and I see you're just saying breakeven isn't doable. So skip that first wiki link, I think you're not disputing that fusion is doable at a net loss. The links on fusion power and MIT's design are still relevant though.
Finally found a cached version of the site without a paywall

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:u4UoSf...
Some other countries actually use terms like United Statians or North Americans. And after traveling a bit makes the USA's use of 'America' seem arrogant or ignorant.
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This is economically illiterate gibberish.
Consider magnesium supplements. You can get magnesium in a variety of forms: magnesium oxide, magnesium citrate, magnesium taurate, magnesium glycinate.

Each one of those formulas is going to contain magnesium, but the magnesium is bound to another molecule. One form of magnesium maybe be more effective than another for any given individual or condition. Some products are labeled as just "Magnesium" and it's unclear what form the magnesium is in.

Then there's a consideration of yield and purity. If you're making a compound through a given process, it's going to yield X amount of the desired compound, and Y amount of something else (other compounds or unconverted materials). Some of this is going to make it into the end product.

If two companies are using totally different processes to create the same end compound, everything is going to be different.

> I think labeling a generic incorrectly would result in pretty heavy fines.

Who's watching? I don't recall hearing much about generic manufacturers of prescription medications facing much scrutiny.
Historically, monarchy’s seem to be more stable and result in less open warfare (civil wars). The US did not even last 90 years before the first civil war. A rather large number of democracies have fallen and been replaced with dictatorship.

Democracies have other benefits, but stability does not seem to be one of them.

PS: I am ignoring assassinations and power struggles as we have lost 4 sitting US presidents without it being considered a civil war.
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At one point I was strugging with the basics of CRDTs. Someone linked me to this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMMDVphop40

It made a lot of stuff click for me. HTH someone!
Sounds like it would be a big incentive for companies to stay private as long as possible.
Software developers working on open source projects are typically creating value for themselves. They use Go. They fix a bug in Go. Now the Go they use is better.

The Go developer goes to a lawyer and asks for advice. The lawyer's advice doesn't have value for the lawyer. The law the lawyer uses isn't better. This is also why designers are rarely interested in designing for open source projects.

In terms of generosity, as theorized the Go developer's bug fix benefits the Go developer. It likely also benefits Google, a subset of six-figure Silicon Valley engineers, and a few Sand Hill Road limited partners.

In the US lawyers "give back" via pro bono work. The beneficiaries are not corporations, investors, and well paid professionals. When lawyers give back, they often work on the intractable problems of poor people. Pro Bono work is pro bono because it is clearly not in the lawyer's basic business and economic interests.

A lawyer's free legal advice is required by law to meet the same standards as the lawyers paid legal advice. The free tier has to be just as legally sound as the paid tier. This extends to online forums.

Besides, if a person is able but unwilling to pay for legal advice, their problem isn't very serious.
No I work in an office 9h to 12h30, officially at half time (with half pay).

I'm not particularly efficient after lunch anyway, so it's better to just go home, in my case.
There's always the possibility of hydrogen-powered planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines_A2
While it certainly differs from country to country, FDA allows a discrepancy of 20%. That's significant. There have been studies that showed the labels to be off by 25%.

And even if the numbers were accurate, they're still rule-of-thumbish, because human metabolism doesn't simply ingest all energy available in a food. For instance you'd absorb roughly 40% more calories from peanut butter than from actual peanuts (of the same calorical value).

There are more reasons why counting calories isn't nearly as accurate a method as people tend to assume, but these two are really sufficient.
Yes I agree. Assuming that startup is promising and profitable and the offer is lower in the startup (10/20%)
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This is so cool! What a great idea
Wealthy people also like to buy up large amounts of undeveloped land for conservation purposes. I’m not sure why they don’t just say they are jacking up income & capital gains taxes, and getting rid of tax-free asset transfers to non-profits.

I still haven’t seen anyone estimate how much Amazon’s value would drop if Jeff Bezos has to liquidate 6%+ of his Amazon shares every year. Who is even buying those shares? One could claim, well the existing trading volume would support it, but these predicted, yearly fire sales are going to be happening across all asset classes by the ultra wealthy. We may just be switching from paying for current consumption with IOUs (Treasury bonds) to transferring ownership of American assets to foreigners and thus future income.
> For instance, a study by Dr. Hani Miletski surveyed 93 zoophiles (82 males and 11 females). Only 12% of her sample said they engaged in sex with animals because there were no human partners available, and only 7% said it was because they were too shy to have sex with humans. For the females, the main reasons for having sex with animals was because they were sexually attracted to the animal (100%), had love and affection for the animal (67%) and/or because they said the animal wanted sex with them (67%). Most of Miletski’s sample preferred sex with dogs (87% males; 100% females) and/or horses (81% males; 73% females). Only 8% of males wanted to stop having sex with animals and none of the females. Unlike case study reports of zoophilia published prior to 2000, the studies published over the last 15 years using non-clinical samples report the vast majority of zoophiles do not appear to be suffering any significant clinical significant distress or impairment as a consequence of their behaviour.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/why-would-...
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They knew for a fact, without any shadow of a doubt that certain activities on earth are synchronised with activity in the heavens. This does include human, animals and plants. Human women have periods roughly synchronised with the movements of the moon, animals and plants have reproductive cycles synchronised with the seasons and movements of the sun and stars. These are facts. Priests and philosophers used astronomical knowledge to predict changes in the seasons, weather, the flooding of the Nile, to navigate at sea, so they had an extensive skills set in this area.

Given that there are known synchronisations, it therefore follows there are likely to be unknown synchronisations, so the logical step is to start looking for them. Unfortunately we know that if you start looking for patterns in phenomena that aren't correlated, human beings have a proclivity to find them anyway. People back then did not know this, and did not have the conceptual tools to critically analyse evidence to the extent that we do.
The issue here is that Apple has given away an item in the hopes of getting you to subscribe later, but is relying on users making a mistake or forgetting to cancel as opposed to choosing to subscribe. The wording is a bit strong as well, but that's not such a big deal. I would absolutely call this a dark pattern.
The argument is bogus: either way they should be installing doors in each station preventing track access. This is basic safety: keep people off the tracks so they can't be hit by a train. This is also air quality: keep brake dust out of the air in the station.

Maybe you decide automation isn't worth it, but you still want the doors, even if it means hiring someone to open them.

The above was also stated by one of the comments, but it is worth bringing up.
This reminds me a lot of the entertaining piece written by Maddox about taking pictures of the Mona Lisa.
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Myers Briggs, Enneagram, Strength Finders, it goes on and on. It's big money and most of it isn't any better than astrology, tarot cards, etc.
Quantum waves of loops made of strings whose interactions can be represented as the E8 lie group. I call it: hybrid theory. (Or maybe "compromise theory")
If I recall correctly, the Mona Lisa and its room at the Louvre feature prominently in The Da Vinci Code, a hugely popular book and movie.
While not a viable way to actually do things, it is fun to imagine crazy unicorns like WeWork being taxed on their outrageous valuations.
Per-land area US is still one of the largest polluters.
That "you" was in the sense of "one, not in the sense of "threatofrain".

That particular confusion in the English language is probably responsible for a noticeable amount of drama in the world...
For some people, the act of taking a picture enriches the experience, and the pictures one takes oneself are more valuable than the ones you can go find on the Internet.

I guess I don't understand that, either, but only in the weak, "there's no accounting for taste" way that I don't understand how some people want whipped cream on their pie or 3D in their movies.
There's no proof because we don't yet have the framework to prove it; But all of them have been verified in laboratory. They could not be reproduced consistently so those experiments have been mostly ignored by the Community;
Land value taxes, estate taxes, and capital gains all sort of approximate the effect while being easier to administer.

They don’t soak the rich in quite as targeted a fashion though (aside from the estate taxes).
"This article is full of lies" -> can someone list them?
>The Samsung/Oculus partnership seems to still be strong, for now at least.

Gear VR doesn't support Note 10 and there's rumors that their partnership has ended.

The VR industry is moving past mobile VR because it has trouble with user retention. Oculus can abandon Gear VR and Samsung to focus on their own VR solutions from Go to Quest to Rift.

Samsung then is still working on their standalone headset and possibly a next generation Windows Mixed Reality headset
Is that a problem (within reason)?
"Its just a shame that such talent went to aggrandize rich white folk with life-and-death power over millions, because of an accident of birth."

What utter smug, condescending tripe. The painting in question was painted by Europeans, of a European - Napoleon and his wife Josephine - during the ceremony of them achieving the status of Emperor and Empress having risen through the ranks of the military and secured France's success in war.

Your reductionist, post-modern Marxist and utterly racist take on it is so clique, but I can imagine you feel quite "woke" for having posted it.
Depends entirely on what the tax rates are and what other conditions apply. Pay 1% tax of a dollar, collect $10 in agricultural subsidies?

Besides, for residential property, stemming the unsustainable increase in value is also a desireable goal to make it more affordable.
So... I’m skeptical of the claims that we automatically believe what we hear. Especially when they use Milgram as support.
According to last reports it is selling as fast as they can make them.

Quest is the first VR product that actually has the potential for mainstream success. Phone VR is tedious to use and PC VR provides a good experience but is expensive and only a small percentage of adults want a gaming tower PC in their homes in 2019.
I totally agree. In its current state the IRS makes $4 for every $1 in its budget.
There's about as many participants as in a large picnic. "Draws thousands", probably if you don't know how to count.
There's a few hundred people in those pics.
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Very interesting idea about the notionally-psychotic event/state being part of the experience, and integration being part of the model of a healthy version.

But if that's true, replace "psychosis" in the preceding arguments about the dangers with "failure to integrate the experience".

Same danger, different name.

It still needs to be acknowledged, not brushed away. Frameworks and rituals do not remove this danger. They may alter the risks, but it still occurs within them.
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Alternatively, it could create incentives to develop and use existing property for higher productivity applications.
Someone doesn't understand how healthcare research is done.
Many suffer silently under monarchy's. And democracies require an educated and relatively honest, or homogenous society to function. If people can't agree on fundamentals--even to disagree peacefully--then there's no hope.
Put sales tax on political donations over a certain amount. After all, you're buying a politician.
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That's irrelevant, what matters is absolute production per country, because of politics.
Morally and practically I think the best thing to do is implement a confiscatory estate tax.

I don’t think it’s immoral or particularly hazardous to democracy for individuals to amass a large amount of wealth in their life time.

The danger is when people then pass down these massive stores of wealth to their children and grandchildren who have done nothing to earn it, and yet will be able to use it to distort the political system for their personal gain or simply sit idle while accruing more wealth through rents and interest.

Wealthy people should be able to pass down no more wealth to their kids than would be needed for them to live a decent lifestyle without needing to work, or to continue a family business of reasonable size for another generation, but no more.
That is the biggest benefit. When you already have an automated train and it isn't in the shop for maintenance the cost to run it empty is low enough that you may as well run it instead of store it. This means that people feel more confident in the system overall and are more likely to use it.

That is automated trains eliminate the "what if I have to work really late - how will I get home" problem.
Believe me. We are; It seems ridiculous at first. But it makes sense once you really start looking into it; The thing is that we don't yet understand the nature of the connection, so it doesn't make sense yet; It will in time;
Of course there is a cost in making something part of the language, and the C++ way has always been to put features in the library whenever possible.

Regarding choice of implementation, there are more C++ compilers that support OpenMP than rust compilers.
Not a dumb question. PACER costs some money to maintain, and the fees it charges also pays for the digital maintenance/upgrade of the court system overall. But there's substantial criticism that the fees it charges are still very excessive (10 cents per page, despite the actual cost of storage+retrieval being 1/20,000th of a cent), especially because it's taxpayer funded:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/us/politics/pacer-fees-la...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/pacer-court-recor...

https://qz.com/283772/why-pacer-should-and-should-not-be-lik...
Interesting proposal, but LLCs do not always have shares of stock in the normal way. Trusts, which are another common vehicle of the wealthy, would also be immune from this. You would get a pretty good take from the richest ~10% of people, though [1].

[1] http://money.com/money/5054009/stock-ownership-10-percent-ri...
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Have you noticed anything from doing CBT? Or what has your experience been like so far?

I've done it before, but have been thinking about trying it again, but wanted to talk to others that have tried it.
Perhaps suited for some sets of things, but certainly not for the acquisition, display, or sale of fine china ;) There are many sorts of doings to which the bull approach is terribly ill-suited.
Better autonomous “reasoning” at tricky intersections
I'm not going to weigh in on what should or shouldn't be automated but the trash/recycling industry is generally a pretty fulfilling place to work because you basically never have adversarial interactions with people and the impact of your work is immediately obvious. This is why many people prefer to run scrap and drive garbage trucks instead of flip burgers and drive bus.

Of course the compensation and working hours aren't as good as the six figure office jobs most people here have but dealing with refuse is pretty decent compared to other jobs of similar pay.
Or a play to increase stock price?
The 13k figure is accurate. Lead leaking into water from solder erosion doesn’t follow a constant, predictable level. The lead breaks off at intermittent rates into the flow. Please refer to other comments and sources for more.
Is there reason to think that typical good practice isn’t sufficient to manage the risk of lead exposure in distribution plumbing? (Basically pH management and water testing by the water authority and cooking with cold water by the public.)
Indeed, I would say the system is cheating.
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The evidence that doctors and compensated by drug manufacturers unethically? Or the evidence of regulatory capture?
I see it being regressive and encouraging small farmers to sell out to large operators who can more economically scale production.
Why trust experts right? The people know best.
If we go on a tangent and debate leadership, I agree that the current crop of leadership examples are pretty bleak around the world. What makes a good political leader? Are there examples in the past of objectively good leaders? Is it always at the expense of the neighbouring tribe and what happens when your hood is planet-scale?
IMO one of the super important things is not struggling with your feelings. Feeling inadequate is a natural process in sucking. It's a self-defense thing to keep your standing in the socially competitive atmosphere of human social dynamics. It's telling you that you look silly and you're taking a risk in doing this.

And that's okay! It's part of it. Comfort yourself with other things while you do the difficult thing of leaning new skills. That's sort of the whole process of self improvement.
The following paragraph:

"On 30 October 2008, the first accident resulting in a death occurred at Rathenauplatz station. A passenger fell onto the track as a driverless train approached the platform. The train was unable to halt in time because of the short distance to the fallen passenger and limitations of its braking system. Even if the same incident had occurred with a manually operated train, the driver would not have been able to halt in time either."

from that page is completely without a source.
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Yay politics.
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My commute used to be ~40min by car (stop by the gym for an hour) then ~2h by train in the morning, and then ~2h by train and ~60+min by car in the afternoon not withstanding accidents or delays which happened nearly weekly. Toss in a 20min shuttle ride to get from the train to the office. Now I work for the same place but from home. The car rides were audiobooks (mostly sci-fi and fantasy with some dips into non-fiction). The train rides usually involved a small amount of HN time, then working on the laptop or sometimes talking through ideas with coworkers as they joined the train. If not that, then audiobooks. Rarely, I'd play an offline video game. My shuttle rides were mostly Hearthstone.

I can't imagine dozing off during an audiobook I like. I'm more likely to miss my stop (being overly captivated) than to zone out. I can't count the number of times I would get to my stop at such a cliff hanger that I couldn't wait to get back on the train in the evening (though I enjoyed being in the office and my work).

Maybe you can try shaking up what you are listening to. Not everything is about raw productivity. You need to take time for yourself. This so happens to help increase productivity during normal productivity hours.
You are exaggregating. The current reality demonstrates that
1) nobody goes to jail
2) the corporation ignoring privacy rights gets a fine
3) everyone moves on
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Wow, why would the browser allow HEAD request in the first place w/o explicit confirmation from github server with CORS
headers. This is very strange.

It also reminded me of why "match" was removed in the first place - http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/04/whitelist-your-routes-ma... - you could route any POST request via GET therefore bypassing CSRF checks still getting inside the controller.
I don't understand how these things somehow result in there being no difference between the US and China. Of course it's an imperfect system.

Try handing out flyers about civil rights in Washington DC and then try it in Beijing.

Of course it's easy to criticize the electoral college but look at the results of direct democracy recently, Brexit, the initial rejection of the FARC peace agreement in Columbia. There's a reason representative democracy is prefered to direct, it's just difficult to get a balance. Odds are that the Electoral College will be gone in my lifetime.

Is the authoritarian Chinese system better? Of course not.
The motivation is to check off items on the "Top 10 Things To Do In Paris" list, get a few selfies to prove to peer that they've been there, and move on.
If the crowds at museums and galleries hosting tourist traps such as the Mona Lisa were indicative of people's interest in art & history, documentaries on the same wouldn't be the virtually niche product that they are today.
Please don’t let facts get in the way of a great narrative!

Here we have the Paper of Record saying they want to blame kids’ suspensions on a year’s exposure of barely elevated lead levels in water — levels which by the way probably put the average Flint house in the 90th percentile, but surely not the 99th percentile of houses nationwide. But national statistics don’t make a good story, you need a lens to present it through. So Flint might be that lens, but this is the media getting high on their own supply.
Absolutely. There will be no Science and no Mysticism. Both will fade away to give light to a new awareness; This time is still far way. It won't be in our current lifetime;