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Yes, the main contention of the article is that this is unusual. If you think it through: the only way this article makes sense is if that claim is made...otherwise, the US was doing this in the past and it made no difference (which is true).

I think you are taking a slightly expansive definition of ally. You are referring to the EU? A significant grouping within the EU does not regard the US as an ally (particularly economically, ref France bringing down Bretton Woods...the US is the giving tree here, the more you give, the more the EU takes)...and all of the people grousing are the usual suspects (China, Juncker, etc.).

And no, you need to justify an extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence. None of this is even remotely extraordinary (and counter to the fairly obvious evidence of the dollar's position growing...not receding).
> I believe in most other countries jail would have been imminent out of disrespect.

I live in a place where cops are no angels, but no, they won't kick you out of park without being able to state reason. That example is not restraint of cop, that is abuse of power by cops example.

And possibly not first attempt to prevent them what people of different race can do which is possibly why they did not cooperated at first.
For each operation (landing and takeoff charged separately) during curfew: $63 surcharge (plus the normal landing fees) under 12,500# max takeoff weight. $458 surcharge 12,500# or over. After 5 in a calendar year, the 6th and subsequent double.

The sports teams and large jets that are based at the field (and so don't pay an after-hours callout fee to access the ground side of the field) pay it as needed.
I quite like this idea. It seems for now to be fairly simple: I think more "decorations" and higher detail on trees, or whatever, might be important.

It seems that it's only 2.5D though. Have you considered making it truly 3D somehow? There's a surprisingly large amount of extra space you gain with that third dimension.

Also, fun idea: what if the island evolved over time? Like every time you visit, trees grow a bit and some new trees grow next to them, so eventually you get a forest, etc. I wonder what the implications of this would be to remembering things? Would the constant change help, or no?
Believing in self-driving cars is believing in AGI, and if some people find not believing in that “sensationalist” then it all kind of proves my point. I also don’t live in the SV bubble, maybe down there the AGI church is stronger, I wouldn’t know. I strongly recommend Jacques Ellul’s “The New Demons” [1], and Ellul’s works generally speaking.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/New-Demons-Jacques-Ellul/dp/081640266...
Yes, sorry, unprecise terminology. When I say CoreOS I mean CoreOS Container Linux.

Fedora CoreOS is marketed to be a continuation. But it's not a seamless one, it requires manual porting. Detailed instructions don't exist yet, but the list is not that short https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/159. While most people won't be affected by many items, a couple of days are easily burned for understanding, coding and testing. Coding probably the smallest part, but if everything goes without "surprises" in real life, I would be surprised.
To me, it sounds as simple as everybody does what he thinks is best for him:

1. Companies are founded in the big cities, to have access to talent

2. People move to big cities to have access to better jobs

As long as the benefits outweigh the cost, the chances are small that anything changes...
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>My impression is that the so-called offence of "contempt of cop" (i.e. being arrested for being a smart-ass or upsetting a cop's feelings, rather than any genuine breach of the law or peace) is a bit of a North American phenomenon

correlates with my experience as well.
> I wonder how many innocent plead guilty in a plea bargain

Probably a lot more than we'd like to admit.

> just because they don't have the resources to fight the charges.

It's not just that they don't have the resources. It's also a matter of risk assessment because a jury can be fickle. Lets say you have 20% chance of conviction and 80% chance of acquittal. The prosecutor offers you a plea deal for 1 year ( you get out in 6 months with good behavior ). If you choose to go to trial, the prosecutor says he is going to charge you with everything he can and if found guilty, you go to prison for 25 years. What do you do? You have 20% chance of spending quarter century in prison. Or you have 100% chance of 6 months ( 1 year at the max )? I think most people would choose the latter.

> Quite perverse incentives.

In a way. The system incentivizes plea deals because the prosecutor doesn't want to lose cases. So he only wants to try cases that are open and shut and go the plea deal route with the rest.
There are a few advantages.

First is minimalism - it's designed to run containers.

Next is automatic, atomic updates - layers that comprise the entire OS are "pulled" and updated when the host boots, similar to how updates work with containers. Because updates are atomic, they can also be rolled back.

I think there is also built-in support for rolling updates across a fleet of host machines.

I find CoreOS a very interesting proposition, but because it's so different from other distros, there is going to be a learning curve.
I come from small town America and NYC, so I'm jaded. There are a lot of good cops out there who set out with good intentions, but I believe their training is inadequate. In my experience, they do not act as stewards of a community, but rather someone with power who is to be feared.

In regards to my comment of "most other countries," I believe 'most' could be changed to 'many'
What if you have kids or grandkids who have to move away far.
>It's about the same in every country.

It's not
This is the first blog post in a series of three about Neuroevolution and the open source landscape of the field. While this first blog post addresses the fundamental concepts of neuroevolution will later entries focus on the Tensorflow-Neuroevolution framework and showcase practical example code and library usage. I thought and hoped that HN may enjoy it.
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My personal opinion changed to "let's not panic yet" once i had a look at the history of predictions made by this field in the past. This field has been making apocalyptical predictions "coming in the next ten years" continuosly for more than 70 years now, and so far nothing has been verified. To be honest, i'm talking about media coverage trying to alarm the population (as well as public speakers). It's very likely real scientist working in the fields are much more careful than media, as it is pretty much always the case.
Oh, I forgot one! The OS is read-only while the host is up, which is a big security and stability benefit.
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So how do drivers stop with long stopping distance?

They have signals to tell them “stop”, they have speed limits posted, they have route knowledge. All detectable by computers, even without changes. Fast trains have in cab signalling in any case.

They have no decision about where to go (signal box sets the points/switch track), they have no decision on when to go (signal goes green)

The only bit which may need human input is the “ok to depart” notification when all the doors are clear at a station.
https://boingboing.net/2018/03/11/capitalist-ideal.html

"Singapore is indeed a country where rich people run pretty much everything and where the finance sector holds primacy. It's also an autocracy run by a dynastic series of strongmen who have expropriated 90% of the land on behalf of the state, which owns nearly all the nation's housing, and whose sovereign wealth fund has a serious stake in most of the country's significant businesses.

"Singapore is a template for what China hopes to become: a state that uses surveillance, selective law enforcement, and claustrophobic control over individual behavior, in tandem with market systems, to create wealth and (above all else) stability -- perpetual rule for the people on top."
Eastern Europe, Russia - be nice and respectful to the police, otherwise it’ll cost you time and sometimes can hurt
If you do it in the correct order, first massively reducing car traffic and then separating it, the costs should be manageable over time. The point isn’t to do it all at once or overnight. This has the “side” effect of making cities a lot more human friendly even before doing anything to separate traffic while still reducing the complexity of navigating the city FSD.
Will training really turn assholes into stewards of a community?
I think it's scary that there's a western democracy that has a 3x more repressive justice system than that of the USA.
Agreed on pricing, most low end smbs that have very little mentions may fit with this price point but if they have so little mentions is it even a pain point for them? Whereas bigger companies likely have the pain point with a lot of mentions, so they won't have issues paying due to how much bigger the pain is.
And as I said - and as you'd know if you ever listened to the programme, it's focus is neutral, and normally directed on British organisations.

Your argument seems more based on a personal dislike of the BBC than an actual understanding of what this programme actually does.
Isn't that an example of functional local democracy? Why bother make your town a mess in the name of growth.

In SF's case the external pressure just was to huge and they should have given up long time ago keeping it a low built city.
The rationale behind not making it a tax is making it politically independent. If it were a tax any government could decide to just allocate the funds to other projects if they didn’t like the way they are portrayed on television. I’m very happy that it’s not paid for with tax money, otherwise we would just have uncritical state media.
Yep, have been reading for 15 years and it has only got really bad over the past few years (imo, it started before Trump).

I actually wouldn't say it is about having an official position either. The OP really isn't about liberalism vs illiberalism...politics/finance are inseparable and the US is the guarantor for an open financial system. The article ends up arguing for the position of Iran/Russia/China (and the illiberal voices within the EU like Juncker) who extract from the system without paying in. You can't respond to illiberalism with liberalism. Imo, this is a fairly obvious aspect of international relations that, in the past, the Economist rarely missed. But since the switch in editor, it has become: our goal is Trump bad, let's write an article that shows this so we will get there any way we can.

It isn't only Trump though. In other areas, writers dispense with liberal values whenever it suits (which is increasingly common these days).
Their risk analysis therefore probably concludes that the present LIKELIHOOD of an invasion AND a successful occupation is too low to worry about.

That's the difference between the paranoid and the rational.
What happens with the issues if the free slack “removes” old messages?
A bit like the Sony minidisc? It was poised by Sony's tight claws on it.
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Weird, I missed the part where they torture people in Canada.
There's a lot of comments of the form "I tried getting into Ruby and it never clicked" that I want to respond to.

I think that if you're just writing a script to solve a math problem or automate a task, there isn't really a strong argument as to whether you should use Ruby, Python, bash any other high level language. You should probably use whatever you're most comfortable with.

But if you're making an application with a database, RoR is an extremely powerful tool. And this isn't just a case of Ruby having the best library (in the same way that Python has the best scientific computing library). It's a case of the library functionality and the language playing together really well.

Ruby statements look more like natural language statements than those in other languages. This is a really helpful design choice when you're building a crud application. In that context, you're not thinking about X, Y, -Log(X + Y) or whatever.

You're thinking about a new customer, or whether some old customer is a member? of some mailing list, etc

In a weird way, it's similar to how Haskell users love the fact that statements in Haskell are mathematical truths. In the case of logic programming this is a handy feature to have. In the case of writing the business logic of a CRUD app, it's handy if your statements look like natural language statements about the underlying real world objects whose representation you are reasoning about.
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Those are all very good points, and exactly the sort of useful analysis that this programme normally provides.
Actually, people of Crimea are happy to be part of the US.

This is either a typo or some next-level tinfoil hattery...
>> a bit of a North American phenomenon,

My limited experience/awareness of Eastern European countries - you do not disrespect the police... oh boy, you do not :O
You could easily get put away for "contempt of cop" here in Australia. This goes double if you are the wrong sort of person to talk back to a cop: e.g. indigenous. For a while there was a holy trinity: "disorderly conduct" (anything they wanted), "resisting arrest" (when they grab you randomly) and "obscene language" (when the person says 'fuck this').

Maybe things are better in NZ but I would not experiment with "contempt of cop" here in Sydney unless I had a nice clear schedule and didn't mind spending a bit of time behind bars.
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> > How long ago is that?

> 1973.

> From http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/maclisp_fa.... , "This reports the results of a test in which a compiled MacLisp floating-point program was faster than equivalent Fortran code. The numerical portion of the code was identical and McLisp used a faster subroutine-call protocol."

> Original article: https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machin....

To add some more detail, the public description MACLISP floating point code being faster than Fortran, was published about 7 months before public unveiling of UNIX and when C was just taking more solid shape in it.
I have a 93 year old colleague. I think it says a lot about my employer. They value people and experience.
> the media never mentioned the notoriously bad state of French prison

The do mention it all the time.
Could you please provide some evidence that the More or Less programme is state propaganda? AFAIK the presenter[1] is quite reputable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Harford
On the flip side, I learned low-level programming in rust, and am thankful that $bigcorp uses modern c++ so the initial gap was smaller. Rust is still better though.
The EU might want that, but just today my company collected and passed the personal details of a number of EU citizens to colleagues without their consent.

Since the company doesn't do business in the EU, the GDPR can go get knotted.

PS. My gay mates have also not decided to go straight just because Uganda outlaws it.
It worked great on Safari. On Chrome the islands were not showing up.
There should definitively be a VR app made from this!
You have to make sure to join in the bay area though. Offers in my local office are typically for 1/11 the initial equity of offers for the same level in Mountain View, San Francisco, or Sunnyvale, and I was not permitted to speak to any hiring managers in the US after seeing a four-day exploding offer from my local office.
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> The ability to put bases, air support of all kinds, intelligence, drones, etc. pretty much anywhere is basically beyond most of Europe. When a war broke out on their border (Libya), for better or worse there was an intervention. Obama reluctantly agreed and didn't want to play a lead role, but without US drones, AWACS, and electronic warfare, special forces on the ground, the UK and French fighters wouldn't have been able to do anything at all. This is actually quite a good demonstration of how specific capabilities are huge enablers of others.

I'm not sure this can really be considered an instance of "protection" provided by the US. As far as I remember, the Libyan war was more of an instance of civilian unrest that the government was equipped to and on the verge of dealing with when American intervention toppled it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...), thus causing the present state where no one faction is strong enough to control the whole country. In fact, it is hard to think of any protracted armed conflict on Europe's periphery in the past two decades that was not either directly instigated or least comes with a strong case of having been surreptitiously promoted by the US.
I wonder if there are PR firms that have been hired by high-profile individuals to disparage the Japanese justice system.
I am completely the other way. Coming from Java, I am finding modern C++ pretty amazing tool for design. There are some amazing compile-time API's I can design which is impossible in other languages. Maybe the shiny will wear off after some time but so far I am loving it. I am truly looking forward to C++ 20.
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And i think that’s the crux of the problem on this particular issue : people are told the situation is alarming, and they see absolutely nothing alarming on their day to day lives.

So you were out of town then for the record breaking heatwave where Paris saw temps of nearly 43 degrees and the ministry of health recorded nearly a thousand heat related deaths countrywide?
Comparing US and German law systems, plea bargains are really undermining the law system. No proof beyond reasonable doubt is necessary, because most people cannot afford a full trial. It's back to the middle ages, into the debtors' tower (pay for your own accommodation there thank you very much), work for our companies prisoner (and never vote again). As plea bargains were introduced for "efficiency" (convenience), I am not sure if they could ever be abolished again.
The firearms are not enough. The Mukti Bahini were heavily assisted by members of India's Research and Analysis Wing. India provided weapons, ammunition, logistical support, and many of the refugees who volunteered were recruited and trained on Indian soil. Months before the revolution had even started Indian spies fabricated evidence linking Pakistan to the 1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, which India used to justify a ban of all Pakistani flights across its airspace, preventing Pakistani carriers from resupplying East Pakistan by air. Indira Ghandi herself was basically a foreign ambassador for Bangladesh, traveling the world not only to drum up political support for the cause, but to also to justify India's impending war with Pakistan to the international community. India and the USSR went to bat for Bangladesh at the UNSC, and India was the first U.N. state to give Bangladesh diplomatic recognition. Bangladesh also had many allies among warsaw pact countries such as the GDR (East Germany), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union, during the war. All of whom supported the cause in some way, be that medical services for wounded soldiers, diplomatic/economic support, scholarships for Bangladeshi students or other things.

That's what separates Bangladeshi force from 99% of NRA wingnuts: training, organization, support from foreign allies. Because of these differences, I do not expect a similar international response to occur in the event of a civil war in the U.S. And I think such is ultimately what will make or break an insurgency.
Fedora CoreOS is read-only?

CoreOS Container Linux is not. But changes are not persistent over redeployment. That's nice for quick testing and development, but of course fatal should you do it in a production system. And of course not ideal for security.

Disclaimer: Edited for false claims. Hope, it's correct now...
Any recommendations on study path for this? Not due to the money/remote aspect, but rather I have genuine interest in these things specifically.

Would a curriculum like this be at all valuable: https://uh.edu/data-science-institute/education/tutorials-co...
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It's quite common, because a departure route and the missed approach are both designed around the same terrain/obstacles and often use the same navigation beacons.

The way to solve it is for ATC to provide alternative missed approach instructions. So they would say something like "Quantas 123, go around, turn left heading 250, climb 2000ft" knowing that the departing aircraft is going to make a right turn.
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In my experience, the majority of C that is used is actually by people who think they're working in C++, because they were taught to use manual memory management, raw pointers and other such C-like constructs. Some keywords about classes were thrown in towards the end of "C++ 101" or whatever they learned from, and away they go, writing C with classes like the last 30 something years never happened.
There are no cross-platform APIs for something as simple as "blit a bunch of pixels to the screen" anyway, so WASI is pretty much free to define its own.

I'm sure over time, and if desired, WASI will get a set of higher level platform-wrapper APIs for rendering, audio, input and networking, but the requirements are somewhat different from traditional "native" APIs, for instance, compatibility with web APIs is useful. So we'll probably see the WebGPU API for 3D rendering, instead of Vulkan, D3D12 or Metal.
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Once upon a time, a rising tide of economic progress would lift all boats in all communities all around the country.

Nowadays, we're in a bizarre reality where a 200% productivity gain among the average worker nationwide means a 1500% productivity gain in the top 10% of counties, coupled with a 55% productivity loss in the bottom 90% of counties. (Numbers generated randomly for illustrative purposes).

One would expect that productivity-boosting technology such as computers, robots, cell phones, and various forms of automation would increase productivity for nearly every person on every square inch of this planet. That is no longer the case, and it is something I plan to study in depth at a later date.
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but after upwork, where do you go? i haven't yet found any online project site that would be any better.
Note that JPL had many people using Lisp - in fact, it was C++ that was relative newcomer.
I agree it's missing a MIDI export button.
Same with the Scottish central belt. There are plenty of good jobs up here. Part of the reason for the London centricness is that relatively few people realise just how many good jobs there are outside of London.
If you're not from the UK, you won't have heard of the Daily Mail - it's a tabloid rag, known for spewing hate, xenophobia (often borderline racism), and outrage, pandering to people's insecurities and using them to whip them up into a frenzy. I find it to be a destructive force in the UK.

I find the notion that it has resulted in anything positive at all in the UK, to be quite ludicrous.
Although they might not buy regularly a lot of Vans especially now with the huge delivery to end users market. The van is the public's face of the company.

A scruffy delivery person looking hassled as long as not rude or disrespectful to your goods and turn up when expected most don't care about. As they know otherwise they will end up paying more for delivery...

But a smoke belching van will get people commenting from my experience.

At least in the UK people don't care much for the reg number (age) of a companies vehicle. But will size up a companies entire environmental policy on the eco credentials of the final step.