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I'm sorry, but I just can't disagree enough.

As someone who has read not just The Republic, but much of philosophy from Aristotle through Rawls and beyond... it's been tremendously useful to me academically and utterly fascinating, but of relatively little value in my personal life (with the sole exception of Aristotle). I mean, the Republic is valuable principally as a historical work, not because any idea within it whatsoever is going to change your life. Its ideas are... quirky, to say the least. Also, most philosophy classics are completely inaccessible to the average reader, and make little sense on their own -- only making sense in a much wider context that you really need to dedicate extensive study to.

In contrast, there are "self-help" books that can fundamentally alter the way you look at and lead your life at a personal level -- your actual day-to-day behavior and the relationships you have with people. Just like any genre, there are plenty of garbage ones, but plenty of invaluable ones as well, written by psychiatrists (e.g. "Too Perfect" or "Present Perfect") and artists (e.g. "The Artist's Way") and literary/philosophy types (e.g. anything by Alain de Botton).

Your thinking seems very black-and-white -- in that philosophy classics are overwhelmingly better than self-help for people today, or that a book must either be worth intense study or else is worthless. In reality, most books are somewhere in between, kind of like a bell curve.
This is really great! Two things that could do with improvement:

- The backspace key quits the program. I've accidentally quit so many times after deleting my filter by holding the key down.

- The filter seems quite quick at first, but when I add a period it slows down massively. ie. Search for "xorg", then "xorg.conf", the moment you type the period it hangs for a good few seconds, even though it's in the top level of my home folder. A breadth first search should find it trivially, so I'm assuming it's some quirk of the fuzzy matching.
Fast Radio Bursts from a Spiral Galaxy Challenge Theorists
The company name ("SeaErra") is pretty amusing too :)
Something on Tyler Cowen's blog is a path towards Marxism? LOL

The blog owner (Cowan) runs the Mercatus Center at GMU, which exists entirely to explore free market alternatives. It's funded directly by the Koch family; one of the Koch brothers is on the board.[1]

That said, Tyler Cowen's food blog is pretty good, if you live in the Northern VA / Washington DC area.

[1] https://www.mercatus.org/about and https://www.mercatus.org/board
If only.

The reality seems to be far more complicated. Which you know of course.

So frustrating.
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That's impressive. The scheme opened in 1984, payed for itself in 2 years, can supply 1.7MW, and stores 9.1GWh.

Why is this not being done more?
Natural Gas Use Is Rising. Is That Good News or Bad News for the Climate?
Hacking Diabetes
Obvious difference between the golf course and research results, which justifies different treatment, is that the golf course is rival good.

> Research universities fill a similar role. They are good to have around, even if you can't monetize their research for free. There are other benefits.

I did not claim that the downside of granting patents to universities is so large that universities should not exist at all. Only that it would be better and more just to not grant them patents based on publicly funded research.
The video let them show a 30 second ad which monetizes much better than static ads.

I agree they should have gotten to the punch line and show results rather than the doctor swimming.
Why do you assume that demand would remain constant despite a large increase in density? More density tends to mean more amenities and more services like mass transit, hence raising demand.
Leipzig Glossing Rules (2015)
My $.02 and anecdotal info: As a resident for ~12 years, my own experience is that in the East End (lived in that area for ~9 years) this specific smell is prominent at certain times. Not always, but there are nights/days when it is very strong, usually starting in the very early morning hours. There are certain weather patterns that seem to facilitate this. And yes, (as far as I know) it is most likely emissions from the Clairton plant. It is quite a bit different where I live now, which is south of Pittsburgh proper, and I am not noticing this specific smell. There are interesting weather patterns throughout this river valley area that seem to layer and maintain that polluted air over specific areas of the city.
1. Develop a "value-added" dairy brand
2. Wait for Coca-Cola to buy your business
3. ???
4. Profit!

https://www.fooddive.com/news/coca-cola-acquires-full-owners...
There's probably a stronger argument for "it's just business" than forcing grandma to move out of the house she grew up in because she can no longer afford the property taxes. But, yes for better or worse, it's certainly an aspect of gentrification when the long time family-owned pizza place gets forced out to be replaced by a trendy bar, Starbucks, or a bank branch.
If you own a one million dollar property that appreciates 10% unencumbered and loses 7% of value encumbered then you need to get a lot on your lease to make it make sense.

What you gain from leaving the building empty is that you can sell to a big guy who wants the whole space. He won't do that if you give him six out of ten units and say "The other guys move out in five years" especially since the other guys will fleece you on buyout.
I'm not saying you should buy a Mac - just recounting my experience.

I was iffy on macs for a long time, but after using a MacBook pro (2019 maybe?) it's reaaaaal nice. It's light and thin, but it feels like it's solid chunk of metal. Battery life is great, etc.

My personal laptop is a yoga y720 15in, and while its amazing too, it just doesn't have the same level of "polish" if we're talking about how it feels in the hand.
This is the correct answer. Often times warrants ask for the moon and stars. You can only hand over what you actually have.
Ransomware - one of the last steps in a breach.
Study finds dopamine, biological clock link to snacking, overeating and obesity
To see the article without their pay wall or invasive trackers: https://outline.com/WLcM9f
In the late-80's to mid-90's, DeLorme Street Atlas USA was one of the best consumer street map solutions. I remember using the DOS version (3.5" floppies, IIRC) on an amber gas plasma Toshiba T3200SX [1] "laptop" or some similar model with the advantage of being able to print out turn-by-turn directions pre-trip but without a GPS module which came later in the early-mid 90's. Surprisingly, I can't find any images of the old monochrome versions on a quick search but you can imagine the jump to the full color CD-ROM Windows 3.1 versions just a few years later. Mapquest took over in the late 90's.

I mention all this just because OP's article mentions the mid-80's Etak system [2] (Nolan Bushnell!) which I'd never heard about and had to look up... and it looked almost like having a Vectrex in your car that ran maps off a standard cassette tape. Pretty wild.

[1] https://www.instructables.com/id/Toshiba-T3200SX-Portable-De...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHCCjlSWbHE&t=2m
Conversely, after the millions of years of evolution, it's not unreasonable to think that creating a more efficient Rubisco could have happened spontaneously in nature by mutation. Our logic suggests this would almost certainly provide some benefit; and yet, nearly all Rubisco enzymes show roughly the same level of efficiency.

To me, this implies some other limiting factor that we don't understand.
This! The idea that nature is balanced is strange since nature changes locally all the time. The issue with global warming is that it is a global change that chances every local ecosystem in such a fast way that the evolutionary processes are not adapting. In many ways, each animal's birth rate is calibrated for its the local environment and how fast it changes. Since if the animal had too many babies too quickly it could die off or if it had too many babies too slowly it can die off. So animals that have survived their habitats for a long time have a calibrated birth rate.

Global warming is changing the rate of how fast local habitats change and therefore NO ANIMAL ON THIS PLANET is likely going to be able to handle the rate of change. Which is why we are in the 6th mass extinction.

In other words, animal life is locally calibrated, not globally and if you change the global system (therefore changing every local system quickly) you will get a bad bad situation.
I dock my laptop because I want a large screen (17" is tiny from a desktop perspective), a secondary screen, and a decent keyboard to type on.

These foldable devices don't solve any of these problems.
Won't forcing property taxes up just force lower income owners to move?

You buy a home in a poor neighborhood. Twenty years later the value quadruples... and now the cost of living skyrocket?

Also, would make retiring tricky.
You do not need a Bloomberg terminal for everything but one for each industry vertical. What Bloomberg did for capital markets ..for.. healthcare...retail etc.
Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
Hi veuxdo, this is a really cool project! Do you have an open source project for the code? Curious what you built this with and whether I can contribute to the code..
Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
He heh, guaranteed child support, in the $ hundreds of thousands range. The Media does talk about the 5 children Elon already doesn't have much time for from his previous marriage.

Nevada Alexander Musk (deceased), Griffin Musk, Kai Musk, Xavier Musk, Saxon Musk, Damian Musk - - - all through in vitro fertilization . . .
It is a massive budget. The residents just keep passing ballot initiatives and spending.

For comparison NYC has a budget per resident of ~$9,500. But don't let that fool you into think NYC has it figured out. The city is nearly $200 billion in debt and will probably go bankrupt if there is another big recession.
Simulated rainbow and how light propagates through a drop of water (2010)
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Spending 15 years writing code for 8 hours a day did the trick for me
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Kendall is one of the only places outside Boston proper. Large parts of Cambridge and Somerville are basically zoned as leafy commuter suburbs with New England small-town charm.
Finally they came up with the interactive book from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the one from the 2005 movie).

Only thing missing is the LCARS-esque interface to Wikipedia and custom case with the book cover look to it.
They should be able to pull liquid CO2 or dry ice out at some point during the cooling process. That could be fed into a carbon recapture system.

I wonder if using this system for both carbon capture and energy storage is more efficient than using wind or solar to power carbon capture and charge batteries directly.

The energy to crack the CO2 into carbon and oxygen is probably the same either way, but concentrating atmospheric CO2 is energy intensive, and direct carbon capture would have to do that anyway — probably by cooling down a bunch of air, then releasing it. Perhaps another way to think about it is that carbon capture will create a large “waste” stream of cooled CO2-free air; perhaps converting that air to liquid is better than wasting the energy it took to cool it in the first place.

Either way, as the price of renewables drops, the problem of stranded/excess capacity will only grow. The atmosphere is way past the point where we need to use that capacity to pull CO2 out of the air.
> We're raised to think that wealth correlates with happiness but it clearly doesn't.

Studies show it does, to a degree. Once you hit something like $70-80k the satisfaction levels off.

It's one of those hygiene things -- not having it will make you (or others) miserable, but having it doesn't mean you're good or happy.
There is a fascinating series of videos on YouTube that describe the US Navy analog fire control computers. I had no idea such things existed until I came across those videos.
The 4th Amendment SPECIFICALLY stops unreasonable searches stating the exception is with a warrant asking for specific things. They had such a warrant in this case.

Just because you hate Google doesn't mean that the warrant is invalid or the search is unreasonable here.

Jussie may have committed a crime. They have the right to investigate.
> Windows still isn’t a touch experience that I’ve seen anyone use in the wild because the bulk of its utility is with legacy style Windows applications that demand precise cursor movement and keyboard shortcuts. Every single person I’ve seen using a Surface Pro at coffee shops has been using it in “laptop mode.”

The reality is that the keyboard is still the best way to transfer large amount of data from your head to your hard drive.

Touch in Windows is great, I love it. I use it all the time. It's another tool, like the mouse. If you took it away then I'd be pissed. And just like the mouse, it doesn't replace the keyboard.
Robotics MS programs generally have a lot of physics and mechanical engineering prerequisites. If you want to be on the software side, you should look at embedded and firmware technologies.

It sounds like you’re looking to make tools for marine scientists more than doing science. You don’t necessarily need an MS for that. A lot of those companies are relatively small. IMHO those types of companies want generalists who can learn fast and get things done.

You might consider attending a trade show or conference like: Oceans, OI, Ocean Business to meet some companies.

There are a growing number of research vessel Yachts. Paul’s was pretty much the first. Ray’s is one of the latest. Ocean Xs new ship is pretty awesome. I was on board at the yard around the time they gutted most of it. Super cool tour! Great team too.

Certainly These types of vessels will contribute to science, but they are still toys for rich people. This has both pros and cons for science.

I’d be happy to discuss more offline if you want.
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When you limit building, the most expensive forms of building get built first, and existing buildings go to those who can pay the most.

The only other way to deal with the mismatch of shortages is to have waiting lists or lotteries. Both of those are used for subsidized housing in SF, and the lotteries are ridiculously lopsided, to a tragically comic degree.

The only people who benefit from the shortage are landowners, and boy do they take it in.
I'm thankful that someone else wrote this comment so I wouldn't have to try and figure out how to put it into words. This list sets off minor alarm bells for me as well.

I guess part of it is that I look at some of these goals as being kind of naive, for lack of a better word? Measuring worker productivity is a good example -- if I were to try and sit down and think hard about why companies aren't moving quickly, I would say that the problems I see are related to unnecessary scaling, focusing on the wrong business goals, overcomplicating solutions and infrastructure, and an overemphasis on measurement to the point where Goodhart's Law can't possibly not come into play. I'm not sure worker productivity is a real problem that's worth prioritizing over more basic questions like, "how can businesses make sure they're building things that actually solve real-world problems?"

It's very hard to describe. I keep on seeing things that seem very very vaguely "off" to me -- sometimes that I think it's the wrong prioritization, or that there are actually already people working on the problem and the author doesn't seem to be aware of their work, or that the problem is actually more complicated than the author seems to believe it to be ("mechanisms for better matching" is a particularly strange simplification of what makes relationships work).

Anecdotally, usually when I feel this way about an article or topic, I come back later and find that it hasn't aged well. I pay more attention to these feelings now than I used to.
So what would the unintended consequences be for changing property tax to be a percentage of the actual annual rent for leased or pay-to-stay properties, assume a statutory minimum rent for vacant properties, and stay with assessed valuation times mill rate for owner-occupied properties? The property tax assessed in this way would be deducted from income, to avoid double-taxation.

The desire to minimize the cost of owning a property should create an incentive to ensure a residence is occupied by at least one person who can pay, so the statutory minimum would probably be set such that renting at below-market rates would be slightly less costly after taxes and insurance than the tax rate for a vacancy.
Ruby Plants (seemingly formerly known as Plants for Thought) were originally a storefront for succulents. I found an interview with people involved here [1].

[1] https://www.sublimesucculents.com/plant-for-thought-online-n...
S/MIME didn’t have one less footgun: it had roughly the same footgun. The fact that GPG prints a warning isn’t the footgun, the footgun is the fact that decrypted plaintext was returned even if the MDC check failed.

The point of considering each thing that could have prevented an attack is clear, and is a central part of threat modeling and defense in depth. Those concepts aren’t really controversial. Thinking critically about the parts of a system that can contribute to adverse results, and then applying mitigations and avoiding pitfalls, is a pretty core part of basically all engineering (software and otherwise).

The bus analogy (if I hadn’t left the house on the day I got hit by a bus, I’d not have gotten hit) would, in a threat modeling context, be accurately identified as both ‘definitely true’ and ‘low probability’. Yes, leaving your house is dangerous, for a variety of reasons. But the relative danger of leaving your house vs not leaving your house is more questionable (staying inside the house is likewise dangerous), and the probability of leaving-the-house causing hit-by-bus is low. But a security tool returning plaintext despite a MAC fail isn’t like leaving your house, it’s like looking both ways once you’re already crossing the street. GPG warns you there’s a car coming, but you’re already standing in front of the car. A dexterous human could potentially dive out of the way, as an end-use implementation could discard the decrypted plaintext when it sees the MDC warning, but a root-cause-analysis would still rightly suggest that you should be looking both ways before crossing, rather than during.

Taking this thread in aggregate, it’s interesting to me how the goalposts keep shifting. The original thrust was “There were no real weaknesses in the OpenPGP standard or the GnuPG implementation of that standard”. When pressed, your position shifted to include “Even if the GPG implementation and/or OpenPGP standard had of been entirely broken, this is still mostly the email clients fault.” You’ve now further shifted to questioning why we should even worry about whether GPG could be better (“What point is there in considering each and every thing that could of been different that would of prevented the attack?”).

I don’t understand the rigidity with which you refuse to consider the possibility that GPG could have better handled this kind of threat.
The "mimikatz" problem (aka memory protections on the lsass.exe process) has basically been solved by Microsoft, they call it "Credential Guard". It works by doing some trusted boot stuff and using the hyper-v hypervisor to protect certain regions of memory from even the OS itself.

It's pretty complicated and requires server 2016 or windows 10. More info here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-p...
This looks like the kind of product that shows up all the time in marketing materials but isn't actually useful for real work.
> Rust came to be to address the issue with security and there is not really an alternative.

What does Rust have to do with security? It's not even compliant with any modern security standards (at least not that I'm aware of).

> I have no idea what I would use D for.

This makes no sense. D is a general-purpose language, just like Rust, Nim and Go (and it does concurrency better than Go, IMO). It just happens to be the best general-purpose language that I've ever used. The language gets out of your way and lets you focus on solving problems in the domain you're working in.
Seeing the cytoskeleton in a whole new light
Also, capitalism itself needs to be guided, or it will escape and ruin the rules until it's no longer capitalism, except in name only.
I'm 80% in favour of this change. JSON parsing is tedious and this looks like it will help pretty cleanly on something that rubyists do quite frequently. I could also see myself using this pretty frequently elsewhere.

That said, I do see some minor drawbacks:

1. I personally find the case statement in ruby confusing. It uses === which I find hard to use without stopping and thinking.

2. I don't understand why the bitwise or operator is being used for the pattern matcher or. Was it not possible to just use `or` itself?

3. Deconstruct keys reads a bit weird. Easy enough to understand and remember, but I can imagine being new to ruby or programming and finding the pattern matching pretty hard to follow.
More screen real estate.

For example you could have a laptop screens that opens horizontally, a normally positioned keyboard, and almost double your usable screen real estate on the road. Akin to this: https://odditymall.com/slidenjoy-laptop-slides
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