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> Just curious, what would be the 'MVE' (minimum viable evidence) such that you would choose to believe?

I'm simply answering this honestly and I'll confess that I'm not a model citizen on this. In any case, I'm too lazy to think about it. That's the answer. It's why I have a bit of an over the top heuristic. But I also think: surely if one is all powerful, that's not an issue.

> How you can you know 100%? That doesn't make any sense.

God is all powerful, God can devise a scheme in which I'll know it 100%. Here's one for you: I believe that humans have powers that are to quite similar to telepathy, not the same though. We call it WhatsApp. That's extraordinary evidence in such a way that I'll know it 100%. Currently we're moving to machine learning inferring brain patterns. We might actually get to real telepathy.

To me that just sounds insane! But it's true! What?! I am the type of person that finds it quite easy to imagine that I'm simply just a human and nothing more than that. From that baseline our modern world is so crazily magical. It would be awesome if God is in that, but it doesn't need to be in its sheer magicalness.

I have one hypothetical reason why a God (or god-like civilization) might exist. That would be the simulation argument. Also, if we're capable of reproducing consciousness and run simulations, then who is to say that someone isn't already running one? What I do believe is that we might have the potential of becoming Gods as a species. We're trying our damn hardest anyway.

If we're capable of engineering anything and travel anywhere, then one might ask if we can create the exact same universe as we are in right now where (if determinism is real, big if) and if we can do that... Well then again, we might wonder, has this happened before?

So interestingly enough, in my mind, the process of science can turn out to be a very very religious endeavour. Or it might be able to completely dispell it.

It's all speculation during my lifetime though. So I like to keep it to the realms of highly reproduced science (aka engineering and to a big extent physics).

But yea, that doesn't say much about the Christian God, or any religion really. Science is my religion, I simply like the process more of having evidence for things than believing a certain book is the holy word and that I should take it seriously.

I'm sorry if I ranted a bit too much. I don't usually talk about this stuff as it is highly speculative and I have better things to do with my time such as focusing on reality.

I appreciate the non-judgemental tone of the questions by the way.
Completely agree, we need to be collecting this data at a national level. And it's a reallly hard problem to properly asses, because there are so many confounding variables.

Nature had a great analysis on the data collection/analysis perspective last year:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02601-9
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While npm comes with node, and bundler comes with Ruby, the governance of these projects/tools are separate from the language.
I think we could go through weird waves of vacant, financialization before rents crash though. People parking cash in real estate that’s risky elsewhere.
These aren’t the businesses that have access to 0% interest. Look at Uber bond yields.
It's funny you bring up remote work. Despite working from home myself, I believe remote working as a trend can contribute to displacement and inequality.

Any job can be enhanced with additional tech literacy, but I don't believe we will achieve a world where the majority of work is telecommutable. Spending my salary enriches the local economy a little bit, but I am taking advantage of a lower cost of living without making much of a major investment. In my current arrangement, I'm not going to rent office space, hire an intern, work with local businesses, or do other actions expected of a small business.

In my "selfish" prediction, some of those employees are caught in a dilemma when lockdown orders are lifted. Spoiled by the potential of life outside of the megacities, they start businesses in their new locales. And yes, maybe these small businesses will lease offices, warehouses, or plants locally. Maybe then we'll see nimble companies competing against the SF/NYC incumbents.

Optimistically speaking, we may even greater diversity in tech, as locals join the workforce and industries that were suffocated by SF/NYC costs find space to grow. In particular, I'm always perplexed that agritech, manufacturing, design, and entertainment feel the need to stay SF or NYC-based.
> Surely people still need to travel [..]

They might not be allowed to...

Data point: I have two vehicles parked outside the house right now, I have purchased exactly one tank of fuel for each of them since the start of March.
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If this is true, then people smashing property is actually the effective way forward. Pressure on property owners should cause them to push elected officials to rein in police forces. I'm not convinced it's true, but it does make me think about the property damage being done in a different light.
> Are we living in the same country?

Overall, the US is entirely to the right of many other places. So even the more liberal places are still "tough on crime". I'm not sure comprehensive reforms will be accepted even in moderate places.

> What's "politically viable" varies massively from place to place.

That's exactly my point. So having any kind of national or federal reform is impossible because Americans cannot agree on anything. Reform from the federal system is needed but any kind of sweeping reform at a nationwide level is impossible.
Most of these are sustained by investment funds that are interested also in the consumer data
> it is unfair to penalize those that have no control including officers that have already retired.

They have more control over the behavior of current police officers than I do.

Believe me, if bad cops start taking money out of the pockets of the rest of the police, actual reform would come much quicker.

Same reason the entire football team has to take a lap when one person is screwing around. That person quickly becomes unpopular.
This used to be a big thing with the pirate party in Germany before they started to wither away a few years ago.

Personally I think this would pretty quickly converge back to more traditional forms of democracy because I think it's unlikely that people directly participate in a lot of decisions and you get back to something comparable to the status quo in most existing democracies.

I think any system that wants to make accurate decisions based on aggregate preferences probably needs to be able to collect them passively rather than actively.
I use Fedora with dnf automatic[1] on all of my machines. Only problem is my Desktop PC, which has a nvidia gpu with the official nvidia driver installed. Every few weeks there is a new kernel version which often only works with the brand new nvidia driver version. I use grub to choose the previous working kernel version until I take the time to download and install the new nvidia driver.

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Tangentially related: Alex S. Vitale's book "The End of Policing" is currently free in e-book from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing

Worth reading to familiarize oneself with leftist views on institution of Policing. Likely some eye-opening viewpoints for most.
I don't think a reinterpretation where anyone is allowed to make and lend as many copies of works as they want is workable though. Like we haven't found another way to incentive producing content.
The thing I don't underwstand is that if a judge is willing to cite QI to make an absurd ruling, why wouldn't they just make an absurd ruling without QI?
I believe they are trying to make it up in volume.
I'm sorry to be negative, but reading that wall of generalized vague text lost me 2 minutes of my life. Couldn't it have come with some hypothetical numbers or scenario tables to contain even the least bit of useful information to take away? It basically expanded the phrase "startups are risky payouts" into a page of someone's blah mental theories.
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There's no reason to be vague about groups, there's exactly two private tech companies at around 35 billion valuation: Stripe and SpaceX.

Do you have any specific thoughts on them?
Unfortunately, this battery still contains significant amounts of cobalt and nickel in the cathode, and battery electrolytes don't tend to be the type you want circling in your blood system - far from non poisonous.

It's valuable research, but still nowhere close to a superior end product.
Star Trek was telling stories of the Cold War in space.
Yes, but those instructions did not work for me. I am not sure if they didn't work because the required previous libraries were wrong somehow (which would just be `dependencies` in package.json), a different version (non-issue with `dependencies`), my python version was wrong (non-issue with `engines`), etc.
and the problem there is that the system is designed to present only 2 imperfect choices, so that the 2 parties can seize and hold power. they'd rather begrudgingly share power with each other than let any others join them in the sandbox. and both parties have been co-opted to serve the wealthy, not the people, hence their imperfection.
People not moving is literally the problem. This is part of a broader negative demand shock in the economy at large. Where exactly do you expect people without jobs, or with significantly reduced income to move to?
i guess the point isn't that they are right or wrong, it's what it takes to even decide that. high paid lawyers will need more high paid lawyers against them with zero guarantee of success.
> Why can't the publishing industry just hurry up and die?

Yeah, let's get rid of all the authors, newspapers, magazines, journalists, etc.

I mean, what does the publishing industry even do? It serves no value! And the gall they have to actually try to protect their work and make a living from it? Ridiculous!
I mean it's basically the same thing as you do with React. You create lens functions more or less to handle get/set over the state object. Solid's setState has a lot more capability than React's handling nested updates with an ImmutableJS or Immer inspired API. The clever part here is immutable libraries already have API patterns to describe mutation so I just apply them here. So instead of spreading everything and cloning you keep the mutation locality for performance but keep the control of immutability.

Also don't be worried about copying the array that much. I'm doing that in the JS Framework Benchmark and it's still about the fastest with 10k items. The real key is identifying where you don't need to update the list at all just the items in it. That being said you can do an update without copying the array like this:

setState('list', state.list.length, newItem);

Granularity of performance isn't a silver bullet. Being fine-grained doesn't necessarily make everything faster (especially creation). The power is that granularity is arbitrary so it can be maximized to the type of situation, completely independent of component structure.
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With what happened to George Floyd I feel like I can't sit around and do nothing.

I've started a project where I've selected data driven policy options which have been shown to help improve policing in the US. I've evaluated my local police department about which policies they have implemented and which they have not.

Then, I have asked every local politician running in an upcoming primary race to tell me whether or not they support implementing the policy options locally.

My goal is that if I get enough good responses, I'd like to put together a website which showcases each policy, whether or not we already implement it, and then each of the responses that I receive from local politicians. That way voters who care about the issue can decide who they want to support.

My concern is the potential for retaliation or legal action. I'm just some guy, not a member of the press and so I don't have a large organization backing me. I'm not planning on posting my name on the website, but I'm still a bit nervous about it. Is there anything I can do to keep myself safe?

Are there any organizations out there that help sponsor content like this so I'm not as easy of a target for people to attack?
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That's sort of what a corporate entity provides and why people form corporations instead of doing business in their own name.
Linux is open. It's a lot more conducive in letting you know more about what's going on underneath.
Many countries have recall mechanisms, and most of the real world has term limits, and most candidates represent parties who expect to outlast individuals who retire.

Most large firms have management teams staffed by people whose job is deciding (and owning a budget, and knowing rather than doing). And that's in businesses whose scope isn't on the scale of 'basically everything'. Their existence isn't an argument against direct democracy so much as a comprehensive refutation of the argument that informing oneself about decision makers is far more difficult than making every decision
Hmm? The civil suits are for filed for serious crimes.
Be nice if they could patch a kernel bug in macOS with less than a 1.5GB download.
It doesn't really make sense to me who loans companies money in these circumstances. Aren't they the ones always left holding the bag?
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> plowing every dime made over costs into growth

I've been trying to build a mental model around this i.e., what options do companies have to utilize profit?

1. Distribute to shareholders -- dividends.
2. Distribute amongst employees -- salary increase, bonuses.
3. Add it to their pile of cash.
4. Invest in growing the business.
5. Something else!?

Perhaps a combination of all four?

I guess Apple does mostly #3 which is how they are now sitting on a huge pile of cash. Perhaps it's a signal that they don't need cash to grow their business or maybe they don't see how to grow either.

Whereas Amazon genuinely believe that investing in growth is the best return the cash from profit can earn. I guess it makes sense, e-commerce is still about 10% of retail in US alone. So there's a big room for growth.
Thanks for that explanation. It completely reverses my initial view point.
But from what I understand the department doesn't have the allegedly stolen property - the officers themselves do. Which is why the (innocent, I might add) individuals are left without recourse for action undertaken by government agents.
>These “activist investors” have singular goal of short term profits while killing perfectly good companies.

Despite the 3rd party transactions being ethically dubious, Icahn lost a bundle on his equity, so I'm not sure there was much "short term profit" earned here.
1. Community oversight through a board

2. Limit the use of force

3. Independently investigate and prosecute

4. Community representation

5. Body cams / film the police

6. Training in de-escalation

7. End for profit policing

8. Demilitarization of the police force

9. Fair police union contracts that remove provisions within police bill of rights that impose barriers to accountability

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When I first heard of this, I was also quite intrigued. But I wonder if it might actually be vulnerable to some of the darker patterns of human 'social markets' if implemented in its freest form; we already have something that has the structure, if not the character, of a liquid democracy: Twitter. In such a system, people with a lot of allocated votes would end up with considerable de-facto power that would nonetheless be constantly volatile to emotional outburst no-confidence tectonics if you were allowed to re-allocate your vote at any time/the voting distribution was monitored in real time. You'd also almost certainly end up with Zipfian popularity gravity wells where some representatives were more popular simply because they're more popular, perhaps without genuine merit.
A pension is an agreement between me and my employer to give me certain benefits after I retire. The pension fund, established by my employer to pay for my pension, doesn't really enter into it. Its existence is convenient for both of us to a certain extent, but it doesn't matter to me if the fund has a billion dollars or a million dollars. The boss still owes me what he promised either way.

The police pension funds work the same way. If the Minneapolis police pension fund was sued tomorrow and wiped out, the city still owes the police their pensions just the same as before. The money to pay those obligations has to come from somewhere. I suspect that it would come from the city.
Very insightful. Parking money in Bay Area real estate still seems like a good idea.
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What percentage of them become police because they enjoy power over others?

This statement seems like a false bias to me, particularly given that pretty much every policeman/policewoman that I've known personally have been humble and good people and became police either on a desire to help people, or just because it was a paying job.

My evidence is anecdotal, but what is your evidence based on?
Most other countries have a police-police, whose only job is to prosecute misbehaviours of the police.

Anyone can make a complaint to them, and they will investigate, and if they believe the law has been broken, can prosecute individuals (in a regular court) or fine police departments as they see fit.
My brother showed me a while back that he could reset his screen time on an app by deleting it and redownloading it from the App Store. It’s incredible how badly designed this feature is.
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> I’m too poor to afford free games.

I'm stealing that line. (And thus contributing to your continuing to be poor. Sorry.)
But it's not _quite_ that.

An anti-slapp law provides a short-circuit motion to dismiss. But the legal merits are still evaluated–just much earlier. An anti-slapp motion basically says: "Even if everything the plaintiff said were true, it's not legally actionable so end the case now".

Qualified Immunity is insane because it doesn't require a legal evaluation of the case. Qualified Immunity (practically) says: "because this exact fact pattern hasn't been tested before, the officer couldn't have known it was specifically wrong. Since the officer couldn't have known it was specifically wrong, we don't need to go any further".

That means, a case dismissed because of QI doesn't even end up demonstrating that the fact pattern was legally wrong!
The article used the word "some" multiple times, which is why I began to wonder about it. Weasel words are kind of a trigger for me.
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Based on my time in the federal government, hacking that bureaucracy is quite a tall challenge.
These aren't feelings. This is about feedback loops. Effectively what is happening is that a minority number of cops are horrible, but because the garbage collection apparatus of PDs and our legal systems are broken this violence occurs without accountability.

Our police force has had it's immune system stripped away.

Qualified immunity, lack of independent prosecutors and police unions make this a multi angle problem.

Imagine every place you've worked (if you've done that) and the larger the company the more likely you are to have one or two scary psychos that you just try to keep off their radar, now imagine that coworker has qualified immunity, a state issued gun, police union backing and a blue line to back him up... you aren't going to antagonize that guy, at best you'll avoid him, and he'll go out effectively unsupervised or with someone who won't stop them, we need external processes to get rid of bad cops so police have a better work environment.

Police reform is the most pro human thing I can think, whether your a cop or not.

https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/workshop/leo/l...
I don't know that we have to stick with the old ways, but more importantly, it's depressing when technology is limited in this way. This isn't even morally arguable technology like genetic manipulation, this is simply a post-scarcity situation made, um, artificially scarce. It's never the right time for change; if some companies had their way a post-scarcity world would never arrive ("now is not the time! Think of the economy!"). A Star Trek world would never happen because copyright holders wouldn't let it happen.

It's depressing when people argue "but libraries can only lend as many physical copies as they have" as if this was a good thing about books instead of an accidental limitation.

Actually, that's the concept I was looking for: accidental limitations. It sucks when publishers and media companies seek to turn accidental limitations into mandated limitations, as if they were a law of nature, and when the technology could rid us of said limitations.
So the planning commission denies a permit for an addition to your house, diminishing its value. Or grants a permit to your neighbor, to the same effect.

One approach would be to have the judge say, "actually that addition looks fine to me, the commissioners shall pay you the corresponding value out of their kids' college funds."

Another would be, "I'm not the planning commission, that's their decision to make, unless they've acted outside the bounds of their charter, tough shit."

Qualified immunity is essentially the latter.