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> I noticed this as a teenager in the 1980s and deliberately tried to 'unspin' stories, but gave up after realizing how much work that was going to be.

This struck a chord with me.

Few specific lessons from school stuck with me. There was one though that was powerful enough that I have tried to not just remember it, but practice it ever since. The lesson was simply to watch the evening national news and pay special attention to words, phrasing, and tone that could sway the opinion of those watching, apart from the facts being presented, then describe what we found in class the following day. Even when seemingly just presenting the facts of the story you can almost always pick out the views of the presenter. The idea was to instill in people how to separate the facts from the opinions of those presenting the facts so one can form their own opinions. You can then also judge how honest the news source seems to be about their biases.

A speech that is described as a "standard policy speech" compared to a "powerful appeal for change" can affect how people think of it, then discuss it with others. Only if we are paying attention to these details can we split out fact from opinion.

Every source of news attempts to influence people. Everyone has opinions and they can come out in very subtle ways. The key for me is how open and honest they are about it. I think the problem we have today are so many news outlets that claim to be objective and unbiased when they are anything but, intentionally. Too many people never had the lesson I did and were never made to realize how much other people are trying to manipulate them, including (especially) those they trust.
I learned how to program in the last decade, and it’d be nice to find a full time job in 2020. I’m have a bunch of smaller nice-to-haves but I’m fairly sure they’re not as important ;)
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Contacts for astigmatism that can automatically adjust orientation through an active (powered) mechanism would be game changing for the afflicted. Current passive orientating contacts for astigmatism are severely limited.
That is not correct. Caste system never existed in India, at least not in the same or anti-humane form as in Islam - like Sunni, Shia, Ahmediyas etc. Caste system was an invention of the British & magnified to exponential proportions.
Happy Entrez user for many years. Please don't break it :-)
I was just expanding/elaborating upon it.
I would just remove the articles. So my version: "California is rewriting rules of internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up". Does it look better or worse?
Pay someone to crack the security.

How much would it cost to pay someone to "break open" my GMail account if I lost access to all my second factors? I'm guessing more than the ~$150 a locksmith would charge me to break into my house. Probably a number of zeroes at the end more.
I don't know all your requirements so it's hard to say.

It is very likely that Rust would be a good choice, especially if the libraries you used have Rust equivalents.
At 65 you're eligible for single-payer, government-supported Medicare.

I'm not old enough to be keeping an eye on the numbers, but it looks like ~$450 / month for hospital (free) + doctor (subsidized) + prescription (pay).
From a purely macro-economic capitalistic viewpoint, there's a lot of evidence that a high level of inequality actually depresses economic growth. This means a very strong argument can be made that addressing inequality is likely to increase both relative AND absolute living standards in the long run.
We have a fair bit of property tests in KAZOO now, using PropEr[0], an open source implementation in Erlang.

Fred (of Learn You Some Erlang) wrote a great book/site[1] on property testing in Erlang and Elixir, well worth the price of the book.

I find property testing is a muscle; the more time I can spend writing them, the "better" I get at writing useful tests. But the muscle atrophies quickly for me, so having the existing tests helps speed up getting into the mindset again.

I think the model checking (proper_statem in the PropEr code) is the real winner though. We can model a part of our system, write state transitions and then test those against both the model and a running system and compare our results. Any discrepancy points to either the model or the system being wrong (which is its own joy/pain to figure out).

[0] https://github.com/proper-testing/proper

[1] https://propertesting.com/
Julia's typical workflow [1] is mainly REPL-based: you test ideas in the REPL, accumulate functions in modules and build larger payloads at the prompt (or in a Jupyter notebook, or using Juno [2] or VSCode). That's a sensible way of working for its main target: scientific computing and number-crunching tasks, where you must often explore and understand your data before betting able to implement real algorithms.

[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/workflow-tips/

[2] https://junolab.org/
Every time you use references in C++ you are "dropping down to the dangerous level".
What you are writing is another version of water/diamonds story. Basically WTF happened that diamonds, which nobody needs, are worth a lot, but water, which everyone needs, costs basically nothing?

The answer was something called marginalism. Well worth reading about, and I can't do justice to it in a few sentences.

Of course marginalism itself requires you to think about value in a certain way, often a very technical way (eg von Neuman-Morgenstern) that makes you forget that there are sometimes contradictions in how we think about value.
I've spent some time getting to know eastern spirituality. I picked non-dualistic tantra as my poison. After that it was easy to see how people can seem so aloof after learning of it (while still being compassionate).

The scripture tackles this head-on, more or less attributing it to the chaos of the universe, and that there is no notion of good and bad.

Eventually it goes on to share some examples, but they all follow the same pattern: if someone committed murder out of passion—and you were ready to judge them for it or offer them the death penalty—could you absolutely, unequivocally, certainly say—without any doubt–that you would not do the exact same thing in their shoes? In their exact circumstances, their state of mind? With heir psychosis or their grief or their desperation?

If you were to physically embody that other person and their consciousness, would you know better than they did?

The answer is always no.

In that same vein, you have your deeply metaphysical counter-argument to the point you're making.

Do you support the death penalty? Well, what if you committed the same crime and got put on death row?

Do you support censorship and authoritarianism? Well, what if the opposition gets into power and uses that against you?

There's no notion of it being wrong or right; it just challenges how happy you are to accept it as a fact of life and not just a temporary advantage in your favour.
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Is he not eligible for Medicare? I thought even the pricier Part C plans would be less than $8k for a whole year's worth of premiums + the out of pocket maximum
>You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

You do know that drug crimes existed pre-Nixon right? Were drug offenders before Nixon not political prisoners too and only after Nixon were drug offenders political prisoners? Since Nixon's administration admitted to using drug laws to break up specific groups from organizing...does that mean only blacks and hippies were political prisoners of the drug laws and all non-blacks and non-hippies just regular criminals or were the political prisoners too even though the Administration had no issue with their politics?
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>"Wealth" is a measure of relative living standards.

No, it is not. This is like saying wealth is a measure of how fancy your car is. Correlated, sure, but calling it a measure is inaccurate at best and at worst an attempt to eschew nuance in favor of ideological conformity.
If you think regulations around baseball fences and insurance arent huge, you have never taken part in little leauge, much les a major event. The amount of litigation surrounding baseball is staggering. Your analogy is unfortunatly, more apt tan you meant for it to be.
Yes, it does. It requires that the drone be internet connected or, with almost exactly the same risk/hassle profile, that the base station within 400ft of the drone be internet connected. That's a crazy requirement, and a crazy extra risk.
It's a pricing model in line with extortion

This common attitude is why I fear that we won't see true cures for anything, except perhaps from government labs.

This class of HepC drugs (Solvaldi et al) are cures. Not chronic treatments, but cures. The developer only has that one course of treatment to make all the revenue they ever will on that patient.

So what happens when they are told that they can't charge prices commensurate with the result? They'll abandon a cure model for treatments that have ongoing chronic purchases to provide revenue streams over time.

Imagine this category of HepC drugs being marketed as a $999/month regimen for life rather than $50K for a one time cure. They would face far less friction. Happy now, consumers?

This is why new antibiotic research was abandoned, by and large.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/counterfactual

> Contrary to the facts; untrue.

Your claim: "the first [police were] the Bow Street Runners".

Not your claim: "the first police force in an English speaking country was the Bow Street Runners"

The fact: The Bow Street Runners, created in 1749, were not the first police force as there were at least one other police force before them created in 1667 by King Louis XIV in France [1][2].

Your claim is contrary to the facts. i.e. it is counter factual. Not sure what about that is unclear to you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police#Early_modern_policing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_criminal_justice#In...

Also I would ask for a citation for your claim that the derogatory term for cops started before or with the Bow Street Runners but if we were to, colloquially speaking, face the facts, then it is not likely that you would be able to produce such a citation... you could always prove me wrong though.
My feeling has always been that no matter how you decide to allocate resources, some people are going to be 'better' at winning the game we design than others; maybe they have some skill that is highly valued in the system we set up, or they are lucky, or have connections, or have a higher drive succeed, or whatever else might factor into success.

Instead of trying to figure out those factors and mitigate them so everyone has an equal chance, why don't we just say fuck it, and tax the winners more heavily? We don't know why you were able to win in the system so well, but since you did, you get to contribute a lot more to helping the people who don't succeed in the system. Give a universal basic income, tax the winners to fund it, and call it a day.
Why not just limit drones to class G air space? Even in dense locations this gives plenty of room to fly in. This also restricts drones from flying too close to airports. This is unrestricted air space anyway.
I find the idea that employers should have anything to do with healthcare quite revolting. Healthcare should be a deal between you and the government for which you should pay taxes. This and some other reasons are why I cannot fathom living in the US under 250K a year.
I don't think people are that wary about giving their email addresses. If you're solving a problem for them, they'll probably subscribe.

But yeah, of course, having people actually use and pay for your product is the ultimate validation.
There's a new book out by an econ prof with an Italian sounding name that is very relevant to this. It revisits economic ideas about value and reminds us that the path we're down, completely subjective utility value, is possibly not how we ought to think about it. Of course neither is eg labour theory of value, but it sounds like there's some in-depth discussion of the historical idea of value in there. Totally forgot the lady's name.
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The counterpoint being, the FAA rules will kill the chances of a future where there would be huge drone fleets in the sky
There have been published research in widely peer reviewed medical journals, for example:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

Main points being that brain activity and cognitive tests have shown that kids with excessive screen time use exhibited negative results. Granted these tests likely refer to unattended, non-interactive screen time which is slightly different than this particular app's situation. But the general idea and question of screen time is relevant.

Also anecdotally, I have a young nephew and niece who's parents recently instituted a screen time purge for weeks at a time -- ( parent is an MD and recently attended a conference where research showed similar negative impacts in children's brain development after screen time use ). They've seen less hyperactivity, less meltdowns and improved listening and behavior. Again, one example, so take it for what it's worth.

Raising kids is a time consuming, challenging endeavor for most people, and everyone's experience is going to be unique. So, to each their own. And I'm someone who grew up with NES and after school cartoons. But even given that, I intend on leaning towards caution in this respect and limit screen time as much as possible certainly towards the younger age spectrum.
This sounds like a great idea. Take away the ability to freely enter into contracts with other people and come to a mutually agreeable price. Rather, replace that with top down price controls.

Never been done before!
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Two things that stick out to me:

1) The timeline graph is very cool. However I thought clicking "download csv" would give me a CSV of all the search results, which I was very excited for! I was sad to see it only downloaded a CSV detailing the number of results per year, not the results themselves.

2) Search history (found on the "advanced" search page) is something I am usually against, but on a site like PubMed, it's very nice to have. Great job implementing that in a clear and usable way. I recommend linking to it from somewhere on the basic search page... something like "View your search history" which will also help them discover the advanced page once they land on it.
The MS Office suite is far more user friendly than the alternatives.

I still use Libre Office on Ubuntu and I wonder why they chose to be so different. It would be great if they could completely copy MS Office in UI/UX, but there's probably some kind of copyright there right?
While that is a horrible thing to say, I wouldn't disagree. I also saw some rather worrying couples when I was living in Saigon.

That said, some Asian women also just look young even at a surprisingly high age. I recently had Germans mistake my Asian mother in law to be my younger sister.

But sure, it is a big plus that in Saigon the $2k in retirement money pay not only for one person, but for an entire family. So if you're old and lonely, that might be a very attractive reason to go.
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Learn to consistently enter and remain in the 1st jhāna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism#The_ru...
They offer unsub because they are legally required to.
>it's relatively easy to catch the guilty party due to the short range of the transceiver

There are lots of GPS-guided drones that don't need to talk to a transceiver mid-flight.
> Blue collar jobs are easier to put a number on

But still very far from easy. The standard story here involves a shoe factory in a communist country of your choice, who met their quota by making only left-foot size-3 shoes... You can plug any particular hole, but the general problem remains.
Sounds like an urban legend. I am Polish and have never heard of such operations.

Also, why bother with breaking in, if you could just drop an infected USB drive on their doormat.
Isn't Rust right now (1) still a niche language (2) terribly slow to compile (3) a bad fit in the first place since I don't actually know the language and (4) still immature?

As for libraries, the most important ones that I rely on deal with the loading of .wav files, writing of midi files, decoding of mp3s and fftw ( http://www.fftw.org/ ).
The reason people care about inequality is that under capitalism, it's the measure that best tracks with quality of life in the lowest standards of living.

Why is capitalism relevant? Because the driving economic force under capitalism is that the rich (capital owners) want to get richer (earn returns on their capital investments).

Why doesn't a rising tide lift all boats, in practice? Because that doesn't maximize return on capital. The people who financed development and operation of a hospital get the best returns on their investments by pricing things out of reach of those with the least. You don't maximize area of a rectangle under an income distribution curve by making the lowest point of the curve the top of the rectangle.

Perhaps the best way to think of it is "a rising tide lifts all boats, but some of them aren't lifted by as much as the water level has risen." Not quite as snappy, is it? It does get the point across, though. Inequality functions as a measure of how many boats aren't keeping up with the rising water level.

That's why so many people care about it. It's the same thing as your goal, but bundled up as an aggregate and easy to track, instead of involving hundreds of subjective measures. No measure is perfect, of course, but it's a lot harder to game than something like the CPI is.
Is there a big disconnect between buy and rent prices? My brother was living in a nice area for a few hundred dollars per month just a few years ago.
I'll label your sequence of 2, 3, 4, 2, 2 as 2a, 3b, 4c, 2d, and 2e, respectively. Although the exact configuration around 4c was not decided, 4c necessarily provided all of the mines for 2d, leaving 2e open along with the squares above and below 2e. Therefore, the game expected you to choose 2e, the squares above and below 2e, and the square above 2a, before you were allowed to take a guess.

This is such a cool version of this game!
3D CAD software is light years behind in the open source ecosystem, but competing with Solid Works or Auto Desk is a enormous task... Although Blender seems to be catching up in 3D animation!
Supporting open-borders and using taxpayer money to bribe illegal colonizers to illegally vote for them, which resulted with getting Trump elected
I don't understand.. noone's trying to get hired here, Rob is a well known guy in the ecosystem and I'm just a developer with my own agency.

What's your perspective?
Learn French.

Set up a blog w/ something more sophisticated than WP. (Probably wagtail)

Improve my webdev skills on Python/CSS/Regex/Docker/Azure.

Run more. Drink less. Sleep more consistently.
> k doesn't have

Yes it has.

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Manual.... for OK (the K interpreter in iKe)
I'm in the UK too and it's been great to have so many local contributions in this thread. I'm an enthusiastic walker (rambler?) and am always looking for suitable clothing - not just for walking holidays, but for everyday, keeping warm, dry and comfortable in variable weather and rain (lots of it this Christmas!). Whether a stroll, hill climb, birdwatching or taking a dog for a walk, getting sweaty or wet is what I'm always aiming to avoid.

> Maybe it's because of our climate in the UK

I do wonder if our climate is a bit "different" when it comes to outdoor clothing. Are we more humid and damp than most of the USA and Europe? They do great gear, but it often seems to assume a different environment (the alps) or different climate (sun for X days, then rain for Y days). Gear for us, given the small range of temperature variations and fast changes in the weather, seems to have different requirements.

Thanks for recommending EDZ in another comment. I like the performance of outdoor clothing but often don't want to look like an outdoor enthusiast (because I merely walk a lot, and also want to blend in in towns).

Can you recommend any trousers that keep you dry(er) in showers, or dry quickly once wet? I got caught in a squall on Exmoor today and soaked through. Stayed warm in no small part thanks to a Trespass AT200 fleece (ridiculously cheap for the performance) but warmer legs would be nice. For torrential rain there's overtrousers, but I'm not a fan outside winter (too hot and sweaty).
But you're not consciously choosing to ignore it. You're handing your conscious choice over to an opaque algorithm and telling it to ignore anything it deems "similar" to some content, via however the person who programmed the algorithm decided to define "similar". That is the opposite of a conscious choice to examine and reject information.

> Do climate-change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and flat earth supporters also have the same right to present their side of the story too?

Yes! They do! You don't have to read it or agree with it, but of course they have the right to express it. Freedom includes the freedom to be wrong.

The Internet is not your home. Walking around the Internet with filters hiding information from you is like walking around in public with blinders on and headphones in. Sure, maybe it prevents you from feeling uncomfortable sometimes, but sooner or later you're going to get blindsided by a speeding car you didn't see.
You're right, but I inferred there was more in the OP's list that this list of points. They mentioned D, Swift, and Kotlin Native (LLVM-based). The fact the OP excluded the JVM-based Kotlin (its best supported platform) made me think that an additionally implicit requirement was the production of a small stand-alone static executable, like D, Swift, Nim, and Crystal are able to do.
That's closer to what my peers are spending. They are outliers, though, living in a developed country, working well-paying jobs, almost all tech nerds. I have a hard time imagining that the world wide average or even a national average for Australia is anywhere near that. That said, I haven't found any non-paywalled comprehensive survey data on the subject so I'll leave it at that.

This seems promising, in case anyone has an account: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283334/average-smartphon...
The ducks-as-cats part threw me too. Either they are ducks or they are cats dressed as ducks. "How many ducks are cats" doesn't make sense.
Really want to push my bass playing into "primary instrument" territory this year. Will probably just spend a lot of time learning Gary Willis/Tribal Tech songs, and other great jazz fusion players.
There is very little. It seems that the legend of the 'Nazi Mystic' is at best overblown, and at worst mostly an embellishment by modern cable-tv 'History' programs only loosely based on fact, often bookended by bigfoot, ufo, and paranormal bullshit.