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That's a good description of where I'm at, and I keep wondering if maybe the definition most people are using for "consciousness" just doesn't match mine. The longer I meditate, the less consciousness matters to me; it seems totally clear that I become aware of things after they've already been generated elsewhere in my brain, and that awareness is just a kind of self-reflection which maybe helps with higher-order planning or whatever. I'm still open to realizing I've missed the mark--especially because so many prominent meditators seem very focused on (or even enthralled by) mysteries of consciousness. Until then, I'm really struggling with why people would try to elevate this subjective experience to a fundamental aspect of physics.
What are some examples?

If you’re referring to app platforms I think the answer is simple: Don’t build a business on another company’s platform if they have a terrible reputation and a history of screwing businesses like yours.

The other thing to consider with platforms is incentives. Platforms where your company doesn’t improve their bottom line won’t care about screwing you. So Shopify and their partners have mutual interests (both increasing shop’s profits), but Google doesn’t with its plugins and browser extensions. Facebook apps didn’t make Facebook more money so they had no problem getting rid of them and destroying businesses.
Not if the customer ordered plain pizza dough
I read 'california plant' as a euphemism for weed. Do these really cramped titles also read very ambiguous for native english speakers at times?
Only if you care personally for the kids. Pick up a history book, filled with famous persons who had lot's of kids, but they were raised by family and staff.
If a user doesn't know about it, he probably has the browser set to his native language, which resolves the issue before it's an issue.
He's saying I'm selfish for being upset that my freedom to meet people as I please is being restricted, for thinking of my own mental health and wanting to see people anyway. I'm responding that we're all concerned with our own well being. We live in a society where some people earn more than others. It's selfish to accept to get paid more. It's selfish to have a big apartment when there are homeless people out there, etc.

You could be giving more money away and spending more time volunteering... But if you volunteered on top of your full-time job and gave all your money away, you might burn out, get into a depression, etc. There's some selfless sacrifices that you're not willing to make. Does that make you selfish? Is that bad?
It doesn't matter what you think. You are a drone. In 50 years, you will be extinct.

And please refrain from voting. What right do you have to a say in your nation's future if you openly shirk any investment or responsibility towards it?

Work, tax, disappear. As you were, drone.
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For the permissions, you need to do that with ClusterRoles directly in k8s.
If your school was like mine, they only required 2 or 3 semesters of math or science courses for people in arts programs.

Skip calculus 1, then you can take statistics or discrete math and then maybe biology to round out your requirements.

So long as you didn’t take physics, you wouldn’t hit anything that required calculus in science.
You are making several false claims, most notably:

> We're talking about a "flu" that has, in a matter of weeks, completely overwhelmed every single health system in the world.

Many health care systems have been well below capacity throughout this. This includes most of the US (e.g. California), it includes places that have not shut down (Sweden), and it includes places that have reopened weeks ago (Georgia).

Despite these easily verifiable facts, many people believe as you do that health care systems are being overwhelmed everywhere. Maybe because the media is painting this picture by only focusing on the few places where this is actually happening.

This is hysteria.

It is blinding people from seeing the real, measurable damage wrought by the policies being enacted.
No they may not well be.

IIT is pure sophistry - some years ago Scott Aaronson showed that using their definition of potential for consciousness electronic devices employing certain kinds of algebraic error-correction codes have it - meant as a reductio-ad-absurdum of IIT, apparently its promoters have decided to try and own the absurdity.

In other news - nautil.us is an utter garbage chute of an outlet, the new-science-journalism equivalent of British tabloids and I fully expect them to publish a psuedoscientific apologia for astrology or an evolutionary theory supporting the existence of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster - post-Darwinnian cryptozoology anyone ?
You did not have to, moment.js is just a wrapper around the dozens of inbuilt functions provided by the Date object.

Why could you not have used Date.toLocaleDateString() or Date.toDateString() or Date.toISOSting() or any other of the inbuilt functions outlined here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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On one occasion, Google offered a reasonable amount of money to do something I had basically no interest in. On another occasion, Google gave me a 4-day exploding offer for way below market. So I didn't work for Google so far
I could have sworn yahoo finance or some other stock/finance site had order book available ( though it may have been a delayed version ). But I can't find it, maybe they shut it down or maybe I'm imagining things. If you have a brokerage account, it might have it depending on your account level/type. Else you would have to pay for it.
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Yes, please. I don't mind even if you set it it by location, but at least provide me a way to change it manually. I live in a north African country, but I get the currency set to south Africa (looking at you origin) without the ability to override!
https://www.google.com/preferences#languages
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Gee, this is what subsidized looks like? Must be a lot cheaper than the tuition in other countries that don't have nearly as many international students :)
It does become a problem depending on their POS vendor deciding to flag prepaids, I've seen several dislike this because of the ability to modify transactions afterward / tip or something of the sort, for the restaurant industry.
Exactly, it's a mystery.

It's also basis for humanism, since if nobody has consciousness, there's no reason to keep humans around.

So it is existential, untestable and unprovable.
I'm using Rust, so no double frees and no accidental forgetting to call free(). Of course you can still have memory leaks, but that's true in GC languages too.
I have the same experience, I use exclusively English to search and read the internet (and also set English as the language on all my devices, forcing it also on my wife's phone, not least because it makes it easier to search for error messages and related solutions).

That said, I found it sufficient to switch Google to English and I didn't have to ditch that search engine just because of that reason alone (you might have other good reasons to do it though).

I think I used https://google.com/?hl=en to set the language; but since it remembers that setting honestly I have no idea if it's still the way to switch languages
I agree with this. There are similar arguments that you cannot prove reality is real. Sure, but how does that help us solve the energy crisis or world hunger? It is philosophical musical chairs. Aristotle and Plato investigated how to live a better life.
You must have stopped reading at that point because the comment went on to talk about using the location to select a regional dialect only.

Your browser's language is set to English. Do you serve UK, US, Australian or Canadian English?
I don't agree with the main idea of the article, communism never worked, we always have had capitalism and always will be. Unless some socialism happens or something in the near future nothing will change. Also people think technology is good, I don't think that. But imho I can't survive in the woods alone
No, I wanted to get results which doesn't mention vscode and it worked just fine. Try "pandas" and "pandas -python"

If on some rare occasions I don't find what I want in Google, I just assume either my mental model is broken or the topic doesn't exists. I also try other engines in same cases, but when I'm that lost it doesn't help, I change something else.
Many of those departments are not necessary, at least not at their current sizes. Not everything university admin has tasked itself to do needs done.
I feel like the biggest money drain for any community website is not server or development fees, its moderation and community management. You cant just stick up a php app on a vps and let it run forever for $3/month. You have to hire people to remove spam and to read user reports to remove rapists and creeps from the platform.
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Say bitcoin was the single tax. Then people would just not use bitcoin. That's why it wouldn't make for an effective tax.

Land is always in demand (the economic term being that demand is inelastic) since everyone needs it, and it is the source of all material wealth (agriculture, energy, commodities). Thus it is an effective tax.

I have yet to hear an argument for an alternative to land that is more sensible to tax.
There's like five comments with this "huge salaries for administrators" theme. Is that some political party's talking point? Did it feature in some Netflix hit?

Because I can't quite see how it's an actual factor? If we're talking deans and university presidents, the numbers are just too low to make a difference for universities with tens of thousands of students. Plus, obviously, some Dean of Harvard Law might be earning millions but would still be underpaid relative to what they could command in the private sector.

If it's "administrators" as in "lowly" bureaucrats, how do they have the power to be given salaries beyond what's needed to attract them in the marketplace? If we compare their relative level of education with your average San Francisco Javascript coder, are their salaries still too high?

Speaking of COBOL: University IT staff, which would seem to be among the categories of "administration", is almost stereotypically underpaid compared to the private sector. Staying within the PhD comics universe, graduate students, postdocs, and other non-tenured faculty often have to fudge the numbers to delude themselves into believing they make more than minimum wage. This would also seem to disprove any theory that universities are particularly generous or incompetent when it comes to labor exploitation.

Beyond that, it seems strange how you are linking these two issues, of administrative salaries and foreign students. There is absolutely no reason to believe that money coming in via these students is different in any way to, say, grants or patent royalties or donations from alumni or really any source of income.

Foreign students pay more than their relative share of costs. Thus, they lower costs for everyone else. They take nobody's spot, but allow for more (subsidised) US students to attend.

This holds as long as an additional $1,000 made from foreign students does not, on average, result in admin salaries rising >$1,000. That would seem to be a pretty safe assumption, and I doubt anyone can come up with a plausible mechanism for why it should not be the case.

It really seems to me like you have two rather specific grievances, the choice of which I can't really explain except that I have a tingling sense they might have distant roots within the same corner of the ideological spectrum. And because these are your associations when the topic of universities comes up, or because you believe it helps to validate each, you've drawn some connection between the two.

But since neither is particularly well-tethered in reality, they really don't have much support to offer each other.
It's been really interesting(and frustrating, I'm trying my best to not argue lol) to see some people so intensely defend their selfishness online.

Pretending to be psychologist for a second, I wonder if these people know it's wrong, but trying to make them selves feel better about it. Otherwise if you truly think you're in the right, why defend your self so intensely to so strangers online
Yes marriage is loveless, children are a drag, nothing really matters.

I hope they had your favourite flavour of Kool-Aid, at the very least.

I don't respect their sacrifice. I pity their foolishness. I loathe their selfishness. I'm frustrated by their ignorance.

If they want my respect, they can raise a big and beautiful family of wonderful people for my children to share our nation with. No career or activism can come close to that contribution to society; consciously and deliberately avoiding it is always a terrible waste.
That's marketing!
You make a good point. As for me, its really hard to think of consciousness as real because it's similar to other things I'm forced to observe while previously I used to think I was somewhat in control. So I think thoughts or awareness are just like external forces making whatever happens from all the previous forces.

I guess I'm wondering if we would still think we're conscious if we someday prove we're no different than a character in the video game the Sims. We currently think of the characters in the Sims as not having a conscious. But I guess we could be wrong if electrons somehow had a state being received and from everything that's happening in the universe for making it experience similar to what we do. Thus, the theory of panpsychism. But to me that just seems like consciousness is an illusion in the traditional sense because awareness has always felt like requiring more than a video game character being controlled by external forces.
And even if one person is after the same gender, they wont just assume the other is without asking.
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Interesting. I always suspected this to be true but not the extent, especially the overall profits generated by food delivery cos. For e.g. one of India’s largest delivery co reported a loss that was double the revenue! [1]

The other way to look at this is to think of it as a global capital transfer mechanism, from the super rich to the “real” economy. Sure, it is not sustainable in the long run but while it lasts there is significant transfer of capital which appears difficult to otherwise do, thanks to resistance to capital taxes. I really do not know what to make of the incentives for fraud though.

1 - https://yourstory.com/2019/12/foodtech-startup-swiggy-loss-r...
By default browsers get that from the OS, and that was typically set on first boot. It's a very reliable signal.
I believe it's similar to smart phones being produced by humans at the other end of the world who live in bunk beds, have 10-12 hour shifts and barred windows + nets below so they don't jump out trying to kill themselves. Most people at this end of the world are not okay with those conditions and do not tolerate them if they know about them. But put a suit at Apple and another suit at Foxconn between the consumer and the producer and they don't know about it. When it comes out, people are appalled and Apple & Foxconn have to shift strategies or face consumers shunning them. Tillable are those suits.

Land owners are not in the business of maximizing profits at any cost, but if you approach them with a much better offer for their land, they don't see the ways how you're able to afford that offer, much like the smart phone buyer does not know why it doesn't cost $100 more. When people profit from something, they are usually not too concerned with the details and accept that things happen that they wouldn't allow if they knew about it, by turning a blind eye (blinded by the profit, you might say).
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Did you ever actually meet an astronaut through couchsurfing?

The weirdest stay-over that I ever had was a Korean religious pilgrimage who mistook me for a monk because apparently one had lived in my apartment before I moved in.
But Amazon isn't intentionally trying to lose money here.
A girl I met on Tinder used CS to find interesting people and have sex with them. It seems like something men and women have been denying but engaging in for centuries.
I like to imagine 20 years in the future we’ll see articles posted on HN, or whatever the cool kids are reading by then ;)

... articles with titles like:

“Slack in one Ruby statement” a la https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23208431

More seriously though, Spotify and Slack are optimised to intentionally be huge time wasters, so it makes sense the organisations that produce them don’t care about performance / efficiency.
Don't assume any language based on your location. It's a personal preference whatever language you want to use, please respect and allow for me to use the language I am comfortable with.

There is only so much EXCEL formula translation I can cope with pr. week.
"Intellectual property protection and national security have long been intertwined. For as long as espionage has existed, spies and agents have tried to steal and copy foreign technology."

What I want to know is:

"Which country copied/stole/appropriated (use whatever languaging makes you feel comfortable) the wheel from which other country, first?" <g>

"Intellectual Property Theft", you gotta love it...

It's amazing, because all of Silicon Valley stands on the shoulders of pioneers; on the shoulders of giants, but not once in those silly interviews of the latest successful founder, who's only a kid, do they ever, ever thank all of the people that made all of the infrastructure that made their present day business able to function... people including, but not limited to: Boole, Tesla, Turing, Shannon, Von Neumann, Atanasoff, and others too numerous to count.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_s...

Also, most so-called intellectual property "secrets" -- usually appear in some form or other in academic papers way before they are snapped up and patented by some multinational company, some multinational company who is usually not the original researcher or researchers.

Which brings me to another other point... usually the multinational company profits more, way more, orders of magnitude more, than the original inventors/researchers, who might not (in some but not all cases) be compensated at all...

So now the next question is, who stole what from whom, when?

a) Did some other country, i.e., China (or whoever) steal intellectual property from another "Country" (which are actually corporations/corporate interests in that other country)?

or

b) Did the corporation that was "stole from" -- steal that intellectual property from the original inventors/researchers? (You know, via legal means, paying someone a pittance and calling it a "fair deal" is still stealing...)

or

c) Did the original inventors/researchers steal their idea from ideas that were already floating about in the academic community and in previous academic papers, in that field of study?

Who stole what from who, when?

?

That's what I want to know.

And I also want to know which country stole the wheel from which other country, first... <g>
I’m responsible for a few repos, probably the most famous one being github.com/stretchr/testify.

My solution is that as much as I love open source and the community I’m in, I do not let it get in the way of work and family.

I’ll only contribute when I have spare time. Unless I were to be paid for it.
I used to host couch surfers in Denver. Everyone I met was amazing. Had a couple from Jamaica stay a few days and taught me how to cook jerk chicken. Then I hosted a group of 5 from Australia which put me up when I visited them. I hope something replaces this site.
It's as if the author hasn't ever really encountered scientific precision.

Take this for example:

"Most of us constitute a property-less underclass only able to survive by servicing the needs of high earners."

Who is "us"? In the USA, over 60% of housing units are owner-occupied. Hardly property-less. Hyperbole much?

But then to presumably provide support for this, the author goes and cherry-picks something:

"A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that over the next 10 years the occupation that will add the most jobs is personal care aides, not health workers but aides who bathe and clean people. The dependence of the ruling class on the vast sector of servants..."

Could this BLS statistic be because the boomers, a large cohort, are getting old? The author makes the caregivers seem like servants to the "ruling class", not people taking care of the elderly who really do need the help.

Another example:

"Universal Basic Income is an untenable survivalist approach. It promises just enough to keep those in the hinterlands going and barely enough for urban renters to handover to their landlords."

Let's just dismiss UBI, a complex topic, with two sentences! Why prove anything when you can simply assert plausible-sounding things?

And then you have stuff like:

"Such groupings reproduce their lives in common, yet the commons they reproduce is necessarily small, local, and in some sense exclusive and elite, exclusive insofar as their numbers are necessarily limited, elite because the aspirations are culturally specific rather than widespread."

Huh? Am I just too dumb to understand?

I could probably find more examples.

There might be some interesting ideas in the article, but it's just obscured by all the BS.
On the basis of assets, this might be the case. Could you expand your argument? Goldman counts about 1T in assets on its books whereas Alphabet claims about 273B, but I'm not quite sure that that all means. And very different than market cap.

On the basis of market cap, this is not true (but might not have been your point):

* Berkshire: 410B
* JP Morgan: 261B
* Bank of America: 186B
* Wells Fargo: 96B
* Citi Group: 87B
total: 1.040T

* Apple: 1,333B
* Alphabet: 1,373B
* Amazon: 1,200B
* Facebook: 600B
* Netflix: 200B
total: 4.708T
It's unfortunate that there are flamewars here but this is big news and it has dropped off the front page now. It would be sad if HN was no longer a place where relevant news like this could be discussed, just because it relates to China.
I'm in the exact same situation and it is terribly infuriating! As a good thing, this has somewhat forced me out of google search and now I get to enjoy duckduckgo which does not seem to pull this kind of shit on you.
What details?

> The investigator said in some states fraudsters need only to submit someone’s name, Social Security number and other basic information for their claims to be processed.

This is the problem, a complete lack of security. Why doesn't the US use an electronic signature supported by a digital certificate as we do in Europe?
"The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism", by a bloke named Goldstein, may have something to say about "neofeudalism", but I haven't been able to find more a few fragmented chapters...