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Blocking certain internet resources has been in place for decades, not constant monitoring.

Schools have started constant CCTV surveillance. Often with flawed AI systems in place. Clear bags and all these practices condition them to value their privacy less, which is a very bad thing.

> Kids in the west wouldn't think twice about accepting the Ts and C's for Snapchat or IG or anything else that includes face scanning tech.

Surely you understand why that's bad, right? What they're taught hasn't been updated in decades, whereas the world around them has changed so much. They're taught as kids not to trust strangers. Why are they not taught to not trust random apps?
You could argue this puts Netflix in a great position. Netflix is going to live or die on streaming. For the other companies, streaming is another line on a P&L doc.
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My experience has been that the easiest method is to to upgrade one minor release at once (e.g. in your case I'd do 1.11 -> 2.0 -> 2.1 -> 2.2 -> 3.0). This has almost always gone quite smoothly, but it is somewhat tedious.

That said, jumping a bunch of releases (e.g. 1.11 -> 3.0) actually often works out just fine, especially if I've got good test coverage. It's just that when it doesn't work, it can be tricky to find out what's going wrong. That's because the release notes are typically written with just a single step in mind, so with a bunch of releases I find myself scrambling to figure out which set of notes I need to read.
The issue has never been whether private healthcare providers should be allowed to exist.

The question is whether a good publicly-funded alternative should be available, to allow everyone treatment for the vast majority of conditions and illnesses that are lethal or significantly affect quality of life.

Most countries that have the latter, also turn out to have much cheaper healthcare overall.

This system doesn't solve or treat every problem, and the US system manages to provide better quality of care in some cases, but there's a serious morality issue here that it does fix. Along with many pragmatic socioeconomic benefits (e.g. healthcare for retirees, early-stage and failing entrepeneurs)
He still does, but it turns out he's not very good at it. His government's policy on cannabis sales is doing more to bolster the black market than its own revenues. Very suspicious, given his past connections to the black market.
Also a lot of harmful and/or combustible liquids are clear like water. Methanol, ethanol, propanol, acetone, benzene, cyclohexane are all highly combustible and colorless. Also concentrated nitric acid or concentrated sodium hydroxide lye are both colorless and cause severe chemical burns.
> Without tackling the obesity/sedentary/nutrition problems the healthcare issue will persist.

Without healthcare system improvements, you aren't going to succeed in tackling those.

But, yes, it's true that there are more problems with US health than the health care system (though the issues in the broader economy that are at issue are very similar to those effecting the helathcare system.)
> If you have the ability to give puzzles, leave some around to be found. Watch for the ones who solve them.

Brilliant explanation, I tried to examine that both reading and experiments. The closest thing I got was state called flow where you lose track of time, yourself and give all of your attention to the task.

But most importantly the task has to be in the perfect place between enough hard for you to give all your attention and enough easy for you to solve it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
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There are important things to regulate to make housing affordable, and as others said rent control is not really one of them. What needs to be controlled is where information asymmetry exists.

Eg. quality control, you can't post-inspect a house easily, much less a high-rise. Also usually with new real estate development there's always some fraud-ish scheming going on. Not just with the safety, but regular consumer protection shouldn't be left to the courts, because that leads to a lot of wasted energy. (So anything from the hardcore crimes of developers taking the money and disappearing to developers missing the completion date and not compensating the buyers, because "sue me", and the obvious after handover warranty.)

Rent control is almost completely orthogonal to the whole problem. If lending becomes impossible people will just become owners and they will pay to banks. The problem is that it costs sooo much to build new units. (Because idiotic density limits.)
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It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0].

Wow. When I was playing with WP I saw this a ton. It was so annoying that I would have to make a point of disabling the phone line home.
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1) Isn't a developer also making an investment when they build these high as hell micro-apartment apartment buildings?

They are but they build and then sell off, developers develop, they tend not to own those units long-term. I believe this to be true regardless of market direction. Generally in the case of condos for sale, developers manage the complexes for a couple of years until enough units are sold off and the HOA takes them over.

If someone wants to run the whole building for rental, they can certainly still do that. You would just factor in that your rent would grow with inflation instead of geometrically when you're planning your building.

2) How do you avoid a race to the bottom in terms of housing quality when you allow said micro-apartments? Do we want a culture where the poor are living in barely livable wage slave pods while the rich are living in abundant villas?

Indeed, that is a risk, however the current solution of not providing these folks a place to live is a punt.

Re: government operation model, I actually agree with you wholeheartedly. Singapore's model where something like 80% of housing is built and managed by the HDB and 20% if totally free-market has worked very well there. I didn't want to bring that into the already-long-enough post as I felt it might distract from my point shrug. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
"We don't talk about the lack of affordable AAPL shares do we? That's insane, it's an investment, we want it to go up. The less affordable, the better!"

I've always found our obsession with stock price amusing. It's the dividend that technically matters (and, with risk and growth potential, what ultimately should be setting the stock price).

When you sell your stock at a gain it just means that, while you owned it, the expectations of future dividends has done up. You're just bowing out of the future returns to enjoy them today.

So, seeing how people need retirement funds as well, expensive [0] AAPL means people can't afford to fund their retirement.

[0] What does "expensive" mean when shares are, individually, kinda cheap? First the fees to play are very high, unaffordable to low-income people. Second, it means that returns, interest rates, are low (price = return / interest rate as a quick rule of thumb).

So yea, we should be complaining that, not AAPL but financial instruments, are expensive!
Isn't that the law in most (all?) states now in USA, that you need a license to possess a gun legally (ie need to be an authorised person)?

This sounds more like, in common with most polls, it shows how the manner of asking a question alters the answers given?

I'd be really interested in how the poll would go without "the police and other", and with using a construction based on "allow ..." instead of "ban ...".
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Or just fix the underlaying issue. Switzerland has 2 million guns on 8 million citizens. Yet no school shootings. Why don't they have school shootings and can we apply the Swiss system to the United States?
> Which bit of this are you upset with specifically?

To me the upsetting part is that these kids must feel unsafe / monitored. Which is exactly what they shouldn't go through in school, it's far from a good start in life.

But then again with all the school shootings I don't blame the security companies, it's a deep cultural/societal issue. It's similar to what happened in Europe in the last few years, now it's business as usual when soldiers in full gear + assault rifles patrol the streets in major cities or during big public events. It sucks but there isn't a perfect answer to the problem.
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So now instead of being able to negotiate my own salary based on my skillset, I’m beholden to union agreements....
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No.

You push all your complexity to your infra, where you end up having an order of magnitude less visibility, way more problems debugging trivial issues, and making your life more difficult for dumb, simple problems that have been solved two decades ago.

Monolithic frameworks are amazing. They have well-designed APIs by people who don't want to waste time upgrading to the latest framework of whatever, and splitting them into actual services is equally complicated provided you've architected them well. And you haven't, it's as much of a PITA as any "serverless" thingy of the day.
Right. Discoverability. And I'd also add, paradox of choice. If you have 20 different ways you could use to automate some things you need (but not all, and solutions only partially overlap in the problem space), you may as well have none. Defaults matter. I doubt we would be able to have a third-party solution reach ubiquity again, the way e.g. Flash had, so having powerful functionality integrated at the OS level would be very helpful, as it would remove the problem of figuring out what to use.
Currently the poor are homeless or enduring multi-hour mega-commutes or stuffing a bunch of people into a single studio apartment. Well-located "barely livable wage slave pods" would be a huge improvement for a lot of people. I agree that the race to the bottom effect is a problem, but I think even the worst-case scenario would still be better than our existing housing situation.
How is that Revanchism? Tibet was kind of conquered 30 yeara ago and the claim over Tibet was a preexisting condition. They already were reclaiming all historical territory.
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ummm, please explain?

Surely the US has by far the highest gun murder rate in schools among developed countries.

EDIT: The down votes are interesting - are you down voting because what I said is not true, or because you just don't like that it is true?
Updates are different from upgrades, though. But if you are saying that we should pay for premium (in order to get the updates, which you are saying we should stay on top of), then I get what you're saying.
No, but they are responsible for not subjecting them to unreasonable policies.
> You opinion on density is just that, your opinion, not everyone agrees.

Sure but curious why that comment is downvoted and yours is not?

Disagreeement != downvote.
> Infrastructure costs increase as you increase density.

They increase much slower than the efficiency gains from having a higher density and the rate of per capita costs decrease from having much more people pay for those costs.
Learning curve is super low. Main benefits are:

1. Performance, it's a wrapper on top of starlette/uvicorn, which brings the performance closer to nodejs (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=...). (I did run into some issues with it though due to the default response validation when serializing large response bodies)

2. Lightweight background tasks (from starlette)

3. Documentation generation from type annotations.

It's a nice tool for microservices but coming from django you'll have to roll your own database management, authentication, sessions, caching, admin and etc. I'm also not a fan of the magic request unpacking using type annotations and prefer getting a request object as is done in django and starlette. IMHO most people would probably be better off with plain starlette and a 3 line decorator to handle request validation and response serialization.
Or they claim no logs in court cases while making them anyways. Thereby creating cover.
That's the vast majority of the problem, to be specific, as that perception is far out of proportion to the actual risk. So address the fearmongering and contextualize how rare these incidents are, insteading of blaming gun owners and further eroding civil liberties.
Education is a right, and imho it should rank higher than guns.
People's views of the world have been drastically skewed by the news industry.

Consider how much news coverage was given to the Las Vegas mass shooting. That resulted in 58 dead and 413 wounded.

Compare that to how much national coverage is spent on car accidents. About 40,000 Americans per year are killed by cars. That's about two Las Vegas massacres worth of dead each and every day of the year.

The news industry thrives on sensation. Politicians don't even wait for the blood to dry before leveraging drama for their cause. The schools are now just mirroring the public's ill-formed opinion. This is all great if you are preparing your kids to be cogs in a surveillance state. It is less great if you care about freedom.
This is absolutely horrible. I feel so bad for your family.

There's already a plethora of studies about the negative impacts screen time may have on early child development and the development of their brains in particular. But even from the observable social aspect, the interactions with our smart devices with notifications always vying for our attention and flashing widgets distracting us, I'm really worried for kids who already have struggles with focus and attention.

I know that we get tired of the "sky is falling" rhetoric, but I will just point out that many aspects of modern life that have become "normal" for us are still bad. Sedentary lifestyle, short attention spans, need for constant entertainment, less time spent outdoors, larger processed food consumption – the health and social problems associated with all of these are just accepted now, and a couple of generations ago we didn't have them (at least, not to the same degree).

Was everything perfect before? No, of course not. But let's not lose the forest for the trees. We can adopt technology and progress responsibly, rather than w=recklessly as we have for the past few decades.
If I'm going to wax nostalgic about what I thought hacking was as a teenager, then I would bemoan the decline of IRC. I know many of us are still on Freenode, but I'm talking about the wild-west days of Undernet and Dalnet.

I met some interesting characters back then. And it was my first exposure to people I would describe as hackers, since there were none I knew in real life. I was friends with a guy who was convinced the military was controlling his brain with microwave radiation. He was an amazing coder, and he introduced me to coding actually.
Even Go is not that bad tbh. It's basically Java/.NET done right, and that makes it quite appropriate for some uses.
> The right to bear arms was paid for in blood and not just once.

And worse, gun restrictions only benefit criminals. There's plenty of people who legally own firearms and protect their homes and their property legally. They also avoid plenty of crime since criminals tend to run when a gun is pulled on them especially in stand your ground states.

They've tried banning everything in England and criminals will still kill people with just about anything. First it's the guns, then knives, then machetes. You can run over people, are you gonna make cars illegal too?

People who want to hurt people also don't care what laws there are, they can buy guns illegally.

Worse yet, depending on where you live, if something happens in your home, it's a lot safer to have a gun than to wait for cops to come to draw the chalk lines on you and your family.
Bullshit, take your apocalypse fantasies home and let the adults fix things.
The law of supply and demand notwithstanding, are there any cases where increased housing supply has been the proximate cause of a decline in housing values?

By "proximate", I don't mean "my home's value dropped more after the bubble popped than I think it should have because [points to new housing]". I mean the housing built as a consequence of relaxed laws directly caused the decline.

Houston seems like a good case study as it lacks zoning and vast swaths don't have deed restrictions, either.
A good public healthcare system actually puts money into trying to address those problems, as does the government who pays for it. A private healthcare system may be a little more... ambivalent.
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Strawman fallacy. He didn't say anything about having pictures of heterosexual couples. Some people consider overt display of affection in public to be obscene in general.
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Yet another indirect "green" tax designed to steal money from unsuspecting citizens by making them pay more for electricity.

From a comment above:

> In this case, a coal plant needs to run fairly continuously for decades to be profitable

While this makes coal plants risky, renewable plants which wouldn't ever be profitable without artificially imposed prices or quotas, can get insured without issues.
Yes, we added support in our Resource Manager (a fork of YARN) for AMD GPUs and ROCm. It works fine with TensorFlow, and our benchmarks should at ROCm 2.10, the Radeon VII's performance for RESNET-50 is just a few percent lower than the 2080Ti.
If you install our open-source platform, Hopsworks, using TensorFlow on Nvidia or AMD is exactly the same experience. We handle the complexity of installing/configuring drivers/libraries.
> The majority of the world still has, to my knowledge, for-profit health care: Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland , Sweden and Italy all have at least some form of private health care.

While private health care exists in all of those countries, and in some of them it's a significant part of the system, a lot of what exists isn't actually _for-profit_.

For instance, in Ireland we have a dual public and private system (primary care is private unless you're old, very young, or low income, private hospitals exist as an option), but most of the private system is either outright non-profit (most private hospitals, the statutory VHI health insurer) or is heavily constrained by the existence of the non-profit portion and regulation (private insurers have to compete with the VHI, and are not allowed charge risk-based rates for most customers).
Wouldn't the world simply increase population where this is still the case even if we build more housing though?
Already did. I never realized how bad I had it.
Having spent many years in prison, there is a weird level of comfort experienced in a highly controlled environment. When the CCP falls from power, the Chinese people will feel just as uncomfortable and worried about being found in the wrong place as a newly released prisoner.
I think "Go full Braveheart" was used for humorous effect. Would "go full Trainspotting" have passed your correctness meter? :)
Yes and no.

The first fault is that even the studies done by Purdue prior to release did not indicate anything close to the 1% addiction rate they advertised, it was more like 8-12%.

The second, most Oxycontin users who aren't well off eventually move to heroin, because the effects are very similar, and the street price for Oxycontin is much higher. Ironically, where Marijuana was demonized for a nonexistent gateway property in the original war on drugs, Oxycontin was actually demonstrably a gateway drug for heroin.

There's a very well researched episode of the podcast "Behind the Bastards" hosted by Robert Evans that drills down exactly into all of Purdue's dirty little secrets surrounding Oxycontin. Once you realized just how many numbers were fudged, how many studies fiddled with, it becomes clear just how much had to be made to go wrong in order for this epidemic to really kick off. It's quite damning.
Then why are there so few of them? You can't buy these things anywhere, despite being priced at a volume level. Something doesn't add up.
Yep. I work on a codebase started with 1.4 and we're on 2.2 now, and almost all of that was straightforward. The biggest difficulty was migrating from South to Django migrations, and that was only because we did it between real releases on Django's master branch (we don't do that anymore!).
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I don't think this confusion is unintentional. It's a classic fascist tactic to muddy the definition of words, phrases and symbols used by their opponents in order to force the conversation into emotional arguments. You can't have a rational argument when nobody agrees on the definition of the thing you're arguing about.
Anyone working on or contributing to Matlab/Intel care to comment on this? This seems to be a pretty blatant attempt at manipulation.
it's not as easy to get guns in switzerland as in the US
> Do we want a culture where the poor are living in barely livable wage slave pods

At least the poor would have the choice between the barely livable pod in downtown, or a house 2 hours commute away. Currently they can only choose the latter.
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Wouldn't they make more money by you watching less? Also, there is no reason they couldn't have a decent website, just because they also didn't have DRM.
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That’s not an official map. This was:

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1...
Do you really need a citation for AMD not having the fab capacity to supplant Intel?
What do you mean? Transport, considered to be the time it takes to get to your relevant destinations, has been objectively worse in pretty much every suburb I've lived in.

A 15-minute drive at maximum speed still takes longer than a 5 minute walk to the supermarket. Most suburbs end up experiencing traffic jams, with no option of foot traffic, subways, or other alternatives.