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> To see the religious issue more clearly btw: if England had indeed had a Catholic ruler, it would have been like the Spanish Netherlands...that is the fear that existed at the time.

I think you're overestimating the average US citizen's knowledge of this and how it relates historically and politically to the area. I say this as someone who just had to look up what the Spanish Netherlands was, because at first I thought you were just talking about a hypothetical, not an actual region that existed.
Not sure if a bit of confirmation bias on my side but seems like there is a recent big uptick of layoffs at Silicon Valley companies? Popular ones like Quora, TripAvisor, Ebay, Mozilla, Uber, 23andMe, etc we hear about but among my own network, i am even hearing it from smaller startups & businesses.

Just wondering if it is just me but I am surmising that it seems to indicate a wider systematic.. issue? Maybe issue is not the word for it. Symptom is probably a better description and it feels we are at the precipitous of an incoming storm/crunch/etc.

Please tell me I am imagining things.

Edit: I guess my question is more are all these layoffs an indicator of an incoming recession or is it something more nefarious like the big tech (FAANG) are taking steps to widen their positions while they are still in a "strong" position to do so (e.g. google).
1. You create special effect types for each effect you want to track

2. One example: make sure that HTTP routes that are GET will at most just read the DB, not write

3. I actually don’t like that the type system is where this is going into. I want to have some form of static analysis, and this is providing it.
>"...when a large group of youths came through the parking lot, jumped over the fare gates and reached the platform, where they beat her and stole her cell phone."

I wonder what kind of THIRTEENPERCENTOFPOPULATION youths would gang up FIFTYPERCENTVIOLENTCRIMES and commit such terrible things?
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Yes, and I think both. The Republicans aren't the only ones that put party above principal in votes. I mean ask a Democratic official why they oppose the electoral college, and then ask if they would support getting rid of superdelegates in the primary. And look at the reactions to Tulsi Gabbard's "present" vote in the impeachment. Absolute furor that she broke party lines and subsequent exclusion from debates.
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Are you aware that the Coronavirus is also known as "The Common Cold" and is actually fairly common?

If you take a swab of someone and it comes back as a virus that causes the common cold what response do you expect?

A person gets a cold virus ... what should happen next?

It wasn't until it was sequenced that they found it was a new variant.
Thanks for the research!

And yes... rather worrying...
I thought it was widely known, and in a more general form - don't eat or drink for half an hour afterwards. (i.e. after breakfast, if taken.)
You do not have blue cones, you have violet cones. Well, your “blue” cones are activated starting around 380 nm wavelength, which is violet.
A classic! I’m working on the Culture novels now, which have their own variant (“orbitals”), minus the shadow squares or central star. Can’t recommend them enough, so far.
Don't forget Intel!
85,000 Pieces in Beloved Chinatown Museum Collection Likely Destroyed in Fire
If you've mucked with numpy dtypes, they're shockingly powerful, but this seems like a much nicer way to do it. Great idea!
One way to read this is “Google is serving up ads for what would have been the top search result anyway.” This makes you then wonder, why pay for ads?

Because if you don’t, a competitor will and that is where the article takes the turn into talking about the new layout, occlusion, etc. It’s an interesting discussion about trust and how far Google can push before that trust is broken. However, I’m almost certain I’ve had this conversation a decade ago.
I commented on that, about politics. I had a quora account for about one year and answer many questions, but then it became worst and I couldn't participate anymore.
These are signs of the upcoming global economic crisis. Companies funded by the FED are simply not sustainable.
Yup, and along with the recent redesign it's gone to total garbage.

I think there's an opening now for someone to start a new search, just to take it back to what Google used to be.
This is awesome. I have a version of an old 8x8 IBM font compiled into a pixel font renderer package I built for Go: https://github.com/pbnjay/pixfont

This would be a fun addition, I had started a BDF parser I need to finish...
Some of the literature on the wedge product handles it all under a different set of names. In oriented projective geometry the wedge product is the 'join' operator. The antiwedge mentioned in this article is called the 'meet'. There are some other papers (by Gian Carlo Rota and others) which treat this operation in the exterior algebra directly, which I can find later.

The meet operator is dual to the wedge product. Presumably the 'antigeometric product' in this article is along the same lines, but, like the geometric product, much harder to make sense of than the meet itself. I tried for a long time to find a good interpretation of the meet. It roughly corresponds to finding the intersection of two linear subspaces (the wedge product roughly corresponds to their linear span).

I personally think the geometric product is the source of all the bafflement, and the real interesting object is the wedge product. I hope to write up a solid argument about this someday but haven't had the wherewithal.

(I also suspect the geometric product is usually defined wrong! A product (xy) (x) should be y, not -y, the factors should cancel left to right in both terms. Afaict this simplifies a lot of formulas.)
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I used to be quite active on Quora, but have noticed a decline in content and ux quality - seems like they are trying to 'growth hack' in a way that is not benefiting users, e.g.:

- Links to other questions open in new tabs

- Most content is not shown unless you login, they are really trying to push being logged in and their mobile app

- Answers with images seem to be ranked higher (even if poor quality)

- Clickbait-y questions and answers

I hope they can return to quality since in the beginning it was such a great resource - it was awesome to be able to get answers from domain experts, celebrities, etc... and the site was very usable.
Yes and no. Per Wikipedia: "The common cold is a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. The most commonly implicated virus is a rhinovirus (30–80%), a type of picornavirus with 99 known serotypes. Other commonly implicated viruses include human coronavirus (≈ 15%), influenza viruses (10–15%), adenoviruses (5%), human respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses other than rhinoviruses, human parainfluenza viruses, and metapneumovirus.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Viruses
How many organized shilling posts for DDG are enough, @dang? isn't 3 in the top page within 72 hours enough for you or you people too get paid for it?

I am really not surprised that this journalist, just like most who get paid under the table, shilled for 3 of the most disgusting tabloid-tier tech companies of our time with the most aggressive marketing and astroturfing techniques in one article.
> Your hard-line position that all ads are bad, always, is laughable.

This doesn't seem especially civil.

> If you search for "cheapest gasoline" it's not unreasonable that an ad for an electric car might be interesting.

Interesting to whom? The parent comment doesn't want to see ads. So no it's not likely to be interesting in this context.

> Or if you search for "Orlando hotels", an ad for generally less expensive hotels in Kissimmee (the next town over) is more valuable than a perfectly literal result.

For me, personally, no I would find that to be an annoyance.

> And if you search for "k8s cluster deployment tools" then you probably want as many ads as possible, so your evaluation doesn't fail to include a comprehensive set of options.

Again no, I would want 0 ads in that case. Have you read about k8s cluster deployment tools? It's hard to find any useful information because even the results that aren't literally ads are fluff blog posts with little content. I don't want the fluff posts, but I can comb through them. I certainly don't want the ads.

> Perhaps you're saying I already know about electric cars and Kissimmee and kubernetes, to which I'd respond, yes, probably via ads.

There are ways to learn about things without someone paying for the right to say them at you when you don't want them to.
NextDesk/XDesk is lying, and you can determine this by reading their own webpage carefully. Quoting from it:

> Here’s what the Wirecutter writer of the article said:

> “I don’t part with that kind of money easily, but after seeing all the desks out there, I bought a NextDesk Terra.”

> The Wirecutter ultimately said: The best electronic adjustable height desk is the NextDesk Terra.

> Also important is what the Wirecutter said about another desk, the Ergo Depot Jarvis Fully desk (later name changed to Fully:

> They are noisier and clunkier. It’s a more basic technology, so it’s cheaper.

> - The Wirecutter Writer

Except if you follow the article's link to the web.archive.org version of the review (captured 2014-01-06), you'll see this is what the Wirecutter actually wrote:

> There are two cheaper options that I looked at: ErgoDepot, and VertDesk. These are cheaper desks first and foremost because of the motors. The expensive desks hide their motors in the legs, they work quietly, and they become something you almost forget about. The cheaper desks instead hook a motor to a rod that attaches to the other leg on the desk, and as the motor runs, the rod turns. These are motors that you notice. They are noisier and clunkier. It’s a more basic technology, so it’s cheaper. That’s how the desks can cost so much less.

That is, they looked at a desk from the company Ergo Depot (the company is now named Fully) - they did not look at the Ergo Depot Jarvis.

If you scroll down later in that snapshot, you'll see a mention of the Jarvis - in the comment section, where someone notes that it's brand new.

So, the Wirecutter did not review and could not have reviewed the Jarvis at the time they made those quotes about it being "noisier and clunkier," because it didn't exist yet. The Jarvis was released after their review. (That also provides a legitimate reason for the Wirecutter to have put a "hold" marking on their review, commenting that new options had just come out.)

The Wirecutter's official response to NextDesk/XDesk agrees with that timeline: "When we changed our top pick in February 2015, we did so because another company had entered the field with something nearly as good but for half the price. ... We still recommended the NextDesk product when there wasn’t an affiliate relationship, up until February 2015."

And if you look at the Wirecutter's February 2015 review, also from the web.archive.org link graciously provided by NextDesk/XDesk, you can see that they have several positive things to say about the NextDesk Terra - but the Jarvis is cheaper and almost as good overall, and better in a few ways. Look back at the 2013 review, as quoted in the article, and you can see that they're clearly unhappy with the price - they only think the Terra is the top pick because there aren't competitive cheaper options.

Another hint - the old web page for the Jarvis, http://www.ergodepot.com/Jarvis_Desk_p/jrv.htm , has its first web.archive.org snapshot on 2013-11-05. The review that favors the Terra is from 2013-08-29.
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I believe at least 50% of attraction is spending time together and learning about other person. That would explain why flings with secretaries are so common.
I sort of figured this out by staring at a number of large computer monitors at night - with blue light filtering - and still finding myself unable to sleep. Yet the article mentions that overall light intensity is also important.

Now at night I turn off most of my lights, dim the ones I keep on, turn on a lot of light only as needed, and use a laptop/phone/e-reader. Such an arrangement also I think leads to you naturally engaging in less stimulating things at night. I'm trying to replace my light fixtures with ones that aren't as insanely bright and blue as a lot of modern LED light fixtures are.

I'm also trying starting off my mornings my staring at intimidating arrays of monitors while shining a very bright SAD lamp into my face with my window blinds drawn.

I can't really tell if things are working yet, or if it's just a placebo, but I feel sleepier.
While Alex Jones was undoubtedly wrong on that one, I believe the source of his misinformation didn't come out of nowhere. Which is exactly what the parent comment was trying to illustrate. Take a few pieces of truth, fill the gaps with wild imagination and emotionally charged responses, and you get Alex Jones and his content.

Back in the 90s, US Air Force Research Laboratory was indeed working on a halitosis bomb that would do exactly that - turn those impacted by it gay.[0] As far as the wikipedia page goes, it seems like they didn't succeed in producing an actual halitosis bomb (and I have zero reason to believe otherwise, but I bet some Alex Jones supporters might disagree with me here), however it was included on their 3 pages long proposal paper for possible nonlethal chemical weapons. Which proves that there was some research on it and that the intended purpose of the hypothetical "gay bomb" was to use it as a nonlethal chemical weapon.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
The beginning of the great fall...
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Thermal packaging!
This is a horribly edited Wikipedia article yet it is such a delight to read.
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How that plays out depends on the person, and since we're talking about random strangers here, it's really quite unpredictable.

In my experience I've come to prefer being completely anonymous in public. The communities where I've been more outgoing and developed a rapport with strangers, it's only become a burden.

I don't want to have to say hi and explain to people I don't have time to talk when I'm going through the grocery store, or just getting work done at a cafe. It's annoying, and depending on the person, they can appear really quite defeated or offended even, by being denied the opportunity to socialize again.

I've also found that relations are in a better place as complete strangers vs. "ice broken" but with denied interactions more than once. The former is a clean slate, the latter is actually in a worse than clean slate form. You've gone from clean slate to actively rejecting the contact after seeing a bit of what's behind the previously closed door.

Being social with strangers is great if you're extroverted and want to prioritize those interactions in your life. Otherwise it can really be a can of worms. Now I only do it when I'm traveling, since I'm confident I won't see those people regularly. Even those interactions can be problematic, people often want to exchange contact information and meet again, and get offended when I refuse.
I have recently interviewed at one of the largest, oldest educational institutions in the US, and also interviewed at one of the largest tech companies in the world. Both of them used the phrase “want to work at a startup?” in the job descriptions and both hiring manager said something along the lines of “we have a great startup culture”.

At this point the word is meaningless to me. If anything I have noticed that “we are like a startup” is really code for “we are incredibly disorganized and chaotic but for some reason we are proud of it.” Any time something went wrong with one of these companies (was late to a meeting, forgot to attach something to an email, etc) the excuse was "sorry, that's just how it is working at a startup haha!"
This has become my disillusion with most services in America, not just public transportation. Although public transportation serves as a good example.

There is absolutely no reason the government can not provide an effective service that serves most people well, but there is a belief among the wealthy and those convinced they will be wealthy one day that nearly every single service the government provides is better provided by someone super wealthy running a for profit business.

It would be fine if it was a truly competing view point. Bureaucracy can in impede fast growth to better ideas. But most of those people in the US decide that the best way to to prove their point and gain wealth is to purposefully implement bad policy so that the government isn't even a potential floor level competitor.

Post offices around the world provide many services to their citizens including health insurance. Public transportation is a pleasure to use in Asia vs rush hour traffic even with crowding. Yet taxes in the US are extremely complicated and potentially expensive despite the government knowing all our nearly all the information needed to file for most citizens because corporations and those seeking to prove a point the government should not tax them have purposefully made it complicated and seek to make it complicated.
I don't think anyone will be confused... seeing as it's also the name of about a billion other things (Pre-Firefox, I still remember you!). I feel like "Pheonix" is the second most common project name behind "Matrix".

And on a less nit-pick-y note if the author is reading this - the project looks really fun and is certainly going to take up a chunk of my weekend!
I'm pretty sure YouTube moderators know how to read and use the Internet.
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> Many physicists believe that GR, as well confirmed as it is, can't be the final fundamental theory of gravity because it's not a quantum theory. But nobody has yet found a quantum theory of gravity that (a) is consistent with the rest of quantum mechanics

It was my (lay) impression that we believe general relativity cannot be the final fundemental theory of gravity because general relativity itself is not consistent with quantum mechanics. Whether general relativity is a quantum theory or not is beside the point; we want to have a theory -- any theory -- that is consistent with itself. Right now we have two separate theories (general relativity / quantum mechanics) that can't be combined because they conflict with each other.

Obviously, that in itself doesn't prove that the problem is in the theory of gravity, but it does prove the problem is either in the theory of gravity or the theory of quantum mechanics, and we have to be getting one of them wrong.
Food-stamp recipients and folks on social security are completely different classes of citizen. Firstly, we expect the food-stamp recipient to eventually get off of them and start providing for themselves. The social security recipient has paid into the system their entire life, and they are now entitled - by virtue of having lived long enough and paid enough in - to start withdrawing the money they've been coerced into depositing.

Interestingly enough, most economic studies of social security show that putting the same money into a low-risk index fund would've netted more gains, plus that money would've been available to the person with far fewer 'strings attached' (vis a vis able to be withdrawn earlier if desired, descendants/spouses able to withdraw in case of untimely demise, etc). Coerced gov't meddling, again, has proven to be the more-painful economic road to go down, as opposed to letting individuals choose what to do with what they've earned.
> The problem, otherwise, is that it stops making sense for politicians to be honest. Because why bother, when everyone is going to yell "liar" or "kill the corrupt bastard" at you, completely independent of any actual things you did?

No, that is the Nature of the profession and merely a perk of the job. I'll never understand what compels Humans to want to rule over other Humans, it seems altogether like a defect of Human Social Order; so, no I don't accept your politician-apologists position, if you don't like being seen as a corrupt crony of the State, then find a more honorable job, there are plenty more. These people are not the bastion of Social order, and are often exposed for their predatory behaviour, especially when they fall out of favor of the Media; but that is some how excused because its part of the 'legislative process.'

The world can do with less politicians, I'm sure we will cope.

As for the Bakkt CEO, I'm not sure what to make of it... I'm one of he few people in my social circle that is completely detached from the circus people call modern politics--it doesn't amuse me, it actually makes me despondent to think this is what modernity has afford us in order to maintain the illusion of civilization/society when we can and should do so much more as a Species in what is the Greatest period of Human existence.