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Basic English grammar disagrees. The subject of the 2nd Amendment has always been the People.

Basic English grammar is actually ambiguous. Does "the People" mean "the People as a group" or "each of the People"? In other words is it a communal right or an individual one?

Nobody takes the time to write down or make a big fuss about a settled question...

And the point is that the understanding of what a milita was, how it worked, and the fact that it was a system that had been in place for close to a thousand years. (Having been created by Alfred the Great for defense against the Vikings.)

There is no direct equivalent in the American declarations to the selective Protestant “subjects” invoked in the Bill of Rights of 1689...

I would hope not, given that it's always been a settled question that your religion in this country isn't something the government is allowed to infringe upon, and furthermore, arguments of "legislative Supremacy" disappear when you actually read the bill of rights in order, as the First Amendment reads,

No, it hasn't "always been settled". In fact 1689 was long before the USA existed, and while British colonies then allowed freedom of religion, all but Pennsylvania had official state churches with government support. And within living memory, many of the colonies had had restrictions on what religions were allowed. It was therefore by no means automatic that laws passed in the New World at that point would not follow the British precedent.

Furthermore the British had good reason to have that religious test. At the time Catholic doctrine supported the murder of excommunicated monarchs, they kept track of who they believed the rightful monarch of England was (never the one that the English believed to be their monarch), and the English believed in the truth of a variety of plots both real (Guy Fawkes) and imagined (the starting of the Fire of London) by Catholics bent on overthrowing the English monarchy.

Therefore allowing weapons for Catholics rather reasonably could lead to the destabilization of the government.
I think we're unfortunately fixated on a very literal reading of the famous Turing test (i.e. cleverly emulating humans = intelligence).

Consider language, for instance. Dolphin communication is intelligent, but does not emulate humans well; whereas the computer program ELIZA (1964) lacked intelligence, but was able to emulate humans well enough to entertain many people for quite some time.

Our current state-of-the-art NLP is - after copious research, talent, and computation - able to emulate human language somewhat better than ELIZA. But is it intelligence? There's certainly a lot of complexity involved, and neural networks show some interesting building-block patterns, but the lack of these algorithms' ability to generalize into new spaces, grow our fundamental understanding of the world around us, or really do anything besides pretend to be a human makes one wonder whether our current "AI" is just a (very good) party trick - a better version of ELIZA.
Is the phrase "correctly temporally sequenced" even a necessary phrase? I mean, if you imagine there is a set of them where the "frames" are each at some random point in time or space, then what really changes? It's like if you had a simulation of the universe, the passing of time inside wouldn't have any particular relationship to the passing of time outside because the former is part of what's being simulated.
Correction, the source said "corporation board members" demanded compensation, not foundation board members. The 2018 form 990 backs this up: $0 to board members other than Baker. No transparency re: corp board member comp.
Can't comment on every industry, but in medicine - especially the 'pattern-recognition-specialties' such as formost pathology and radiology - the actual implementation/usefulness/impact of "AI" (ML/DL) has not yet taken a foothold.

Yes it's hyped, but the match between even the current state of DL and what is needed and possible in these specialties is so close to being perfect, and the gain is so close. What is holding us back is regulatory issues and technical implementation issues that have nothing to with the state of DL, just basic IT problems, lack of standards.

Investments may fall back and companies may stop adversing it as "AI", but the impact of ML/DL in medicine will not fall back.

The "AI" we see today is already effective, just not applied at scale.
> ...if NASA wanted to send control signals like transmit on and off, they’d need to run a whole parallel set of wires, which would be expensive.

Why not transmit continuously? That seems to be the problem they're solving, but I'm not sure why that would be a problem.
I clicked it, saw posts from last March, scrolled down, still March, gave up. Oh well.
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It is worse than that. With the passage of the "Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act" California has open primaries (anyone can vote for anyone on the ballot in the primaries) and only the top two get to be on the main ballot. So many times only two Democrats are on the ballot with no Republican candidate at all. Not a good situation in my opinion.
'Equal opportunity' I think is a fairly non-controversial concept, much less so than 'equal outcomes'.

To the extent there are factors which systematically work against opportunity, there's both a moral issue, and a pragmatic issue (i.e. losing good talent) at play, before we get into the more controversial issues of representation and equality of outcomes.
Well, it probably assumes that the 98% are eager to throw themselves in the rat race in trying to become that top 2% or at least closer to them; the fact that they won't get there doesn't mean that there isn't a drive to optimize your career to try.
FWIW Go modules address this pretty well.
Yup. My wife and I were faced with the option of her contributing financially to the home and we pay for child care, or her being an at home mom. If she went to work, she would net $20 a week after paying for child care. Yeah, nope.
If I may be blunt, it seems to lack a TON of features any modern practicing doctor would want. A lot of doctors need the ability to do documentation for reimbursement, and I don't really see any demonstration that this was taken seriously.

Given maybe the idea is to only focus on practice management, well you're certainly then going to want to be able to integrate into major EHR vendors, and well they probably don't have any incentive to help.

As a person who has a close idea of where the current EHR market is (MS in health econ and a PhD candidate in health informatics), I'm not convinced that there's a significant marketshare that hasn't been met by EHR vendors (allscripts/athenahealth/cerner).
Reno resident here. Policy change is something I tend to worry about given there's been a huge influx of Californian "refugees" over past the several years. If California continues its trajectory with housing costs and homelessness, it could definitely "bleed over."

Homelessness isn't as big of an issue here than it is in California (I expect in part because of the colder weather), but housing costs have definitely been affected.
You can do software anywhere you can get a network connection, but if VCs aren't there, then you don't get a job. VCs have to be the first movers on this. So I have a suggestion for any of you reading.

A major reason for SV being where it is, is the climate. A number of studies have been done on this. The best place for high-quality entrepreneurship and general civilization-building is a Mediterranean climate. The Bay is not the only place with this property. Most of coastal California has the same climate. So why don't some VCs move to other places? How about Monterey? Orange County?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate
That millennia long track record contains very high numbers of infant death, and the only thing pushing those numbers down is our ever-expanding collective knowledge of best practices regarding child-rearing.

Women aren't born with innate genetic knowledge of how to prevent SIDS, it's taken generations of studies to figure out causes and develop working practices to counter it.
Screens are wider than they are tall. I hate this obnoxious trend of wasting my limited vertical real estate with so many empty lines (in UI too, not just code). It makes me have to scroll more, which wastes my time, mildly disrupts my spatial orientation and aggravates my RSI. Maybe I'm just a cranky old coder from back when pixels were precious.
This might boggle those unfamiliar with the size of Australia, but they are actually on the same order of magnitude. The area of land under Australia's National Reserve system of state & federally protected areas is 137m ha. The rainforest coverage in the Amazon basin is "only" four times larger at 550m ha.

Both present access challenges due to sheer scale and remoteness. Note that Australia itself is larger again at 769m ha.

Notwithstanding which, the Amazon represents a vastly higher level of uncatalogued biodiversity. The Australian locations have a diversity of biome instead, including some that are quite inhospitable to life.

Since we're talking bushfires and scale, note that Australia's largest ever fire season (FY1975) burned an estimated 117m ha of land, but in remote locations; this season's fires have burned "only" 11m ha of land, but by affecting densely populated areas the the profile is higher.
Sup! Let's hang out again sometime.

Edit: oh I thought you were Scott. We haven't met yet I think.
The AI summer/winter cycle feels to me like something similar to a search algorithm, we have a phase of exploration, which seem to have slower, if any, progress and no one is very sure what's the next big thing so they perhaps start trying many things (the winter "skepticism") and eventually someone finds some breakthrough and gets everyone to an exploitation phase in which everyone knows where to invest and comparatively small effort is required to create progress (the summer "hype"). And eventually all low-hanging fruits are over and the search seems to converge to a local maximum and again larger exploration is required.

So maybe the winter is just as important as the summer. Each winter lead to a summer with different focus points (specialist systems and logic followed by neural networks, bayesian models and SVMs and finally deep learning). And after each cycle we have more and more tools, each more useful than the last. And also maybe the key to avoid this strict cycle would be to encourage more exploration during the exploitation phase, giving full support to both incremental ideals that improve on the state of the art and (potentially) revolutionary ideas that give poor immediate results but create new venues to investigate.

Of course that's a simplification and there are many aspects to it, including data availability, hardware and tooling that can easily prevent brilliant ideas that were had too soon.
This was an unnecessarily aggressive comment, and the tone with which it was made detracts greatly from the intended message.
Like this one?
https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/
Again, in my experience there is very little correlation between how much you pay for something and how rotten it is. And I find the opposite, when you get open source software and it's rotten, you can do something about it. You can patch it locally, even if the maintainer won't accept your patches. If you have a proprietary product written badly, paying money for a support contract will not magically make it a more secure product or guarantee that they will be able to fix your issues.
I wonder if there has been an increase in cases of families splitting up, with one (or both) parents living cheaply in high cost / high income areas and sending money back to families in lower cost / lower income areas?
Remember that US e-commerce sales still only account for 15% of total retail spending. That doesn't completely invalidate your point, but I think it recontextualizes it.
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I'm not going to write what amounts to a tourism advertisement here.

Do you really need to be explained all the reasons California is a desirable vacation destination for the entire world?

Living there without spending your time outside is missing the entire point.

Many people live there just for the tech industry, and simultaneously complain about the high cost of living. Well, if you spend all your time at the keyboard indoors, you should shift to remote work and leave the state. Because you're paying to live in the funnest place in the nation, don't blame the state for not taking advantage of it.
If you want to get solipsistic, you do not, regardless of whether the physical world exists, experience a piece of paper or anything external directly.

Assuming conventional reality and physics is as it appears, "you" experience a model of a piece of paper that is constructed by your nervous system (part of your brain presumably) in response to all of the sensory information that you get. This incidentally, implies that consciousness cannot inhabit the whole brain, because if there is an observer, there must be something to observe, but it cannot be reality, because reality has to be mediated somehow.

So I guess I've disproved solipsism?
If the cells are truly a commodity, the only thing in-sourcing gets you in terms of profit is the opportunity to beat the market on demand prediction (that is, you may over-spend on production and not actually benefit from your capacity predictions).

There's a similar effect with the component properties. Really, you are looking at the properties per dollar spent, so if you take a wrong term, in-sourcing costs you relative to the market.
> If the product is sealed, authentic, and there's no damage to it, it's hard to see why any consumer would care about any of the alleged differences in quality control.

If I understand you correctly, the only differences in quality control would be if there were quality control tests that these units failed after they were sealed. That seems... quite unlikely.

Alternately, there were quality control tests that these units failed, but they sealed them in the standard packaging anyway. That also seems unlikely.
Ah ha! I was wondering why the fit check app started to tell me I needed to change my ear tips. Sadly, I'm already on the big size ones. I've summoned memory foam tips from Aliexpress. crosses fingers
> it basically requires a completely separate (re)write to properly take advantage of.

Why? At a higher level of abstraction, you can dispatch simd instructions at the max width available. At least, that's how I work with vectorized code. Still see gains on avx512.
You want to make an ERP vendor (better: the ERP implementation consultants) sales rep nearly slip into a coma thinking about the giant boat they're going to buy with the commission check? Tell them "we're a special snowflake company with our own magical business processes, and we need you to adapt your software to our business. Because we know more about business than you."

You probably don't. And even if you do, adapting your business processes to how the ERP does it will probably make things like inter-operating with other vendors and managing compliance much easier.
Sadly, Canada won't let you in unless you're young or rich.
great job.
Does "No Code" just mean having a UI? What I mean is the examples it gave for "No Code" look like regular Saas companies so I don't see what's the difference between something labeled "No code" and a regular software product that you use a UI to do things since the code is abstracted away. The majority of web based products don't require the user to code so "No code" seems like a buzzword more than anything.
I've been to plenty of neighborhood meetings. The "issue" most of the time is a personal anxiety over change. Why should society cater to that?
I can confirm. I used to live in Kawasaki in 2010 and I regularly visit Japan from California for vacation and business. The morning rush hour is relatively short (roughly 7am to past 9am) but intensely congested due to the fact that most companies start work around the same time, and lateness is verboten. However, the evening commute is not as sharply congested, although it can still be standing room-only on the trains. The evening commute begins as early as 5pm but could last until the last train, typically around midnight. This is not only due to people working overtime, but also due to coworkers and colleagues going out at night for drinking and other activities. This was a regular occurrence for my colleagues and me back when I was interning at a Japanese company a decade ago in Kawasaki.
That does not sounds like IT jobs, it sounds like most jobs. In every sector, I'm sure you can find employers who are more flexible than others. I work at a software company and there are single parents leaving early or coming in late or both due to raising their kids. Consider finding a better employer.
BTW, people will probably hate this, but my last codebase differentiated line continuations by simply double-indenting the next one. Not touting this as the "right" way of doing it, just suggesting the author's conclusion there's no other solution smells a bit insular.

public function __construct(
string $publicDirectory, string $configurationFile,
PageParser $pageParser, PageRenderer $pageRenderer) {
$this->publicDirectory = rtrim($publicDirectory, '/');
$this->configurationFile = $configurationFile;
...
}
I don't know what you mean by a "just-so" story. Can you expand on that?
That’s not really true. Market values are based on total cost of ownership, and higher taxes reduce the value or value growth.

Your taxes go up, but so does your debt service. I live in a secondary market of a very high tax state (NY). My effective property tax rate is about 1.8%, almost double what you see in NYC. But... my housing value is much lower. My home in NYC would be well over $1.5M, and is a fraction of that. It’s better to pay the tax.

In terms of old people, the answer depends. Usually people sell because they cannot maintain the home, want to be near family, or have medical issues. I’ve never heard of anyone (other than a farmer) who moved because of property tax.
The Cray-1 used bipolar ECL (emitter-coupled logic), which was very fast but power hungry. Thus, the Cray-1 needed to be immersed in Freon for cooling. You can think of ECL as differential amplifiers that steer current down one path or another.

RTL (resistor-transistor logic) is entirely different. It was used in the Apollo Guidance Computer because that's all integrated circuits gave you at the time, but it's not very good. (The inputs affect each other because they are only separated by resistors. Even diode-transistor logic is much better.)
Speaking of genetic diversity, interestingly, the grove in question has none whatsoever.

In the gorge there are perhaps 100 clumps of trees, but genetically there could be as few as one or two 'individuals'. This is because each plant has multiple clumps of trunks. The plants basically clone themselves, which makes the entire population extremely precarious in terms of disease.
There were anti-Californian campaigns started in the 1970s in Oregon. SNOB (Society for the Native Oregon Born) was started in 1979. It's been going on (in the PNW) for a long time.

The Wiki article on Californication has some dates that suggest it's been a known phenomenon since the 1940s! [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californication_(word)
They also said "suburb", though.

While many congressional districts in the city proper are dominated by Democrats, the suburbs usually go to the Republicans.
I imagine it could really be optimized as it would only need to pull from a dictionary with 100 words or so
> It's the most important ISA extension since, well, I'm not sure: a long time (probably AVX and AVX/2 combined would have a similar impact).

IMHO the most important ISA extension since AMD64 was AES-NI, which moved a major consumer of CPU time into the also-rans.
6-week vacations aren't that uncommon, which is a scenario I would expect to encounter if I was DO. If that email doesn't get seen for 6 weeks it definitely shouldn't result in all backups being deleted. Beyond that, it's not unreasonable to imagine health issues or other external circumstances putting someone out of commission for 6 weeks (or even more, making it quite subjective).

All in all, from the moment of non-payment to the moment that everything you have on their servers is gone shouldn't be less than 90 days in my personal opinion. If that raised the cost of my backups by a few dollars, so be it. The backups are there to account for things I may not have been able to consider.
I think it's still a form of sexism to assume women are the ones who need to care for a child.

They're definitely the only ones who can breastfeed(at any practical rate anyway).

One may, of course, elect not to do that, but it does make a difference for the child.
How is a jungle primary different from no primary and a free for-all-election with a run-off? Is the latter also corrupt?
You would’ve eventually received an automatic refund (or the product!) even if you did nothing.

Amazon really isn’t trying to screw you here, they’re just being transparent about a likely delivery issue and offering you the opportunity to cancel the order.
I have no idea about the specific people here but common reasons: missing skills/experience in the founding team. Sometimes something quite focused such as "have run a public company".
Non-working mothers is a modern anomaly. It used to be a sign of wealth for a man to have a non-working wife. That is why the newly affluent men of the mid-20th century wanted it so much. They came out of the great depression, fought a great war, and wanted a wife at home. You should not judge all of history by this one era.

The work of child care used to fall on the entire extended family. The nuclear family reduced the flexibility in raising children. It was further reduced by a lack of work-life balance for both fathers and mothers. When women started working (again) the lack of flexibility fell on the mothers to fix.

In my own life - I worked, my mother worked, my grandmothers worked, and my great grandmothers worked. I had flexibility through daycare, my awesome husband, my awesome mother, and my awesome employers. I know they are all awesome because when my daughter (a software engineer) faced the same issues, her employer was not at all flexible. She quit work to stay at home with her three boys. I have a bunch of engineering friends who faced the same issues as my daughter. I originally thought they left the workforce out of choice and now I know they did not.
Well, as it's not the ultimate defence in law courts (though I'm sure one day somebody will try it), I still can not resolve it with the arrow of time, hence by expanding it as I outlined in another reply I was able to resolve that aspect, at least from my perspective and that's the crux. As perspective is and could very well be Boltzmann Brain and with that you are right if you factor in sensory aspects. It's just the whole arrow of time aspect.
Wow, the number of failsafes in aviation is genuinely comforting
Surgeons, McKinsey management consultants, partners at big law firms, etc., are all tiny slices of much larger, lower-compensated workforces too.

And considering how many tens of thousands of engineers the big tech companies have each, the top slice in our industry isn't that small.
need rooted ?
I don't disagree.

What I'm saying is that there is a lot of low hanging fruit to pluck. A 1 billion dollar solar plant could generate revenue to fund research while cutting emissions. A 1 billion dollar solar plant wouldn't eliminate all carbon output, not by a long shot.

It's a real action that could be done in less than a few years.

Until we get to a point where more solar doesn't decrease carbon output, more solar is the way to go.