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I used to use VM and Gnus heavily in Emacs, with lots of customizations. I hope to someday move back something like that, because it's just more productive than Thunderbird (and better than various mobile clients, and vastly better than the GMail UI).

Ideally, I'd like to make/use a mail client both very extensible (like we had in Emacs-based ones), and unusually secure from the start (more secure than even Claws can be). There are grander schemes I imagine this fitting into, but a better traditional mail client alone is a great first start.

You can see the approximate day I regretfully moved away from Emacs VM email, due to this data conversion script: https://www.neilvandyke.org/bbdb2tbird/
Open up already. The lockdown has been a sham, with scientists and researchers already acknowledging no difference between areas that locked down and areas that didn’t.

Enough is enough. How much more suffering does the world need to endure over bad models and bad policy.
I don't think we should be opposed to nationalizing education. A common curriculum would help mobility when it comes to families moving across state lines. It would also ensure uniform funding and plentiful opportunities to poorer and rural schools.
Their failure to grow it into a viable programming language did that on its own.
> On May 6th, 2002, the United States, in a position shared with Israel and Sudan, having previously signed the Rome Statute formally withdrew its signature and indicated that it did not intend to ratify the agreement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...
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The US is that strong, provided they don't have to fight in or near China or Russia. No one besides those three even has a seat at the table. China and Russia could probably defend their own territories, but projecting power is an entirely different can of worms.
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Why do you care about a Ukranian gas company's hiring practices? If they want to waste money overpaying for an unqualified board member simply for name association that's on them. Nobody in this country is affected. The better question is what is the current President's unqualified son-in-law doing handling middle east peace talks AND heading the coronavirus task force. Those things definitely do impact Americans.
They are, but at a hyper local level. School districts generally coincide loosely with city boundaries, and are usually funded through a combination of local taxes (usually property taxes, but it depends on the district), state education budgets, and a small amount of federal funding.

Because the bulk of the funding comes from local sources, when a local economy collapses the school district has no backstop, and their funding can get much closer to just the state and federal funds. When states reduce budgets due to those same economic issues, those areas get devastated.
>rather than a one size fits all model that is increasingly being co-opted by political actors to propagandize children with certain views or values

like all of the propaganda about the round earth and the efficacy of vaccines right?
Well that’s because the police became terrorists. And it was already literally a warzone.
Note the .004 overall "Symptomatic Case Fatality Ratio". Quite a few conservative outlets are indicating a true IFR of .26% based on this, instead of the .4 - .6% a lot of recent studies have indicated. Interesting stuff. I think that would indicate we must have had 33000000 cases by 4/29/2020 in the U.S. alone.
A treatment needs to be safe and effective. So far the studies are unclear about the effectiveness, and also unclear about the safety. The retraction of one study doesn't mean it becomes safe or effective overnight.

And despite what people are saying, there are some nasty side effects for people with cardiovascular issues.

It's worth noting that infants have died with accidental exposure.

https://www.pdr.net/drug-summary/Plaquenil-hydroxychloroquin...
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> But today, right now, you can spend 20 minutes to get 174 miles of range at a supercharger.

That's still 20 minutes longer than it should take. And probably around 15 minutes longer than it takes to fill up with gas (which will give you twice the range). Speeding that up makes sense.

(To be clear, I don't think it's reasonable to mandate swappable batteries, for instance; there's far too much innovation and potential innovation in battery technology for that. However, I think it's reasonable to experiment with that, and any other solution that will let it take less time to charge.)
Maybe, but it would require a constitutional amendment to enact. The Constitution is explicit about which powers the Federal government has and everything else is delegated to the states. Education is not one of them.
Depends on the topic and the circumstances of the time, doesn't it?
> common curriculum

You mean something like Common Core? We have that.
I'm not trolling.

Upon rereading his tweet, you are correct that I somewhat downplayed his words.

My point remains - that the strong words of calling mail in ballot fraud substantially fraudulent and calling police killings of unarmed black men a national epidemic are similar in their over-broadening of small-percentage problems.

There were two parts to his tweet-

(The part I have issue fact checking) 1. There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed.

(Part of this seems false - "anyone living in the state") 2. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12652558351245393...
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> What's O365.

I assume Office 365, from Microsoft.
Agreed! It has been my go-to javascript table library for a while. Can't say enough good things about it.

That being said, Grid.js looks like a nice upstart project. I will have to keep my eyes on it
Dont be silly, they use twitter.
"On the hook" means that while taxpayers are shouldering the risk, they are also the ones enjoying the reward.

I for one would not like the entire country to descend into violence and madness. I'm willing to pile on debt to avoid anarchy.

The government is the lender of last resort because they can print new money to dilute old money. That's a high risk high reward lending scenario.
There is. Its just not official.
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This is the first I've heard of it. Apparently they had another product called Currents years ago. Is this the first instance of Google re-using the name of a cancelled product for a new one?
Same, and don't get me started on Ad-sense, kicked out by Google who claimed I was clicking on my own ads?!? They owe me tons on money, they know it because they sent me a stupid voucher at my home address to spend it on double-click, LOL... it was 14 years ago.

Since then every-time I have the opportunity I strongly oppose any business I work with to move to any Google cloud service and I was pretty convincing so far in large corporations, and I will continue to do so.
How do you know that the binary you run actually corresponds to the source code you read?

EDIT: and would you then also review every commit to make sure nothing bad gets introduced? No, at some point you have to place trust in the vendor, the developers, independent audits, etc.
Bee swarm? Small, lightweight, fast drones with no projectile weapons, just a foot long sharp narrow blade. Kill by swarming with precise diving stabs, detach the blade if it gets stuck.
At least in my province (in Canada), "non-teacher personnel" included all the academic support staff for learning disabled kids and academic assistants.
It will, but the Scala3 launch date is still up in the air so I can’t give any concrete promises as to when
When email providers were tacking garish ads onto emails from our friends, the easy extensibility of Emacs made it easy to add email ad blocking. :) https://www.neilvandyke.org/sigbegone/
>Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?

The US's definition of National Defense is actually playing world police for corporate profit. With that in mind it shows that they are superficially similar only.
Five years ago there was the widespread belief that in 5 years most cars would be self driven. This was in fact the main reason for investors to give Uber extreme high valuation. As we see in this case, and many others, technology doesn't advance as fast as some of us wish.
Dropbox is working on its own password manager
The aggressive liquidity taking strategies cause wider spreads and shallower books as liquidity providers are forced to quote wider and smaller to avoid those adversely selected orders. This essentially is a small tax (or rent) collected from all other market participants.
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When you or your loved ones or your friends are devastated by the layoffs and shutdown. When you are hurting and frustrated by everything that’s going on.

Just remember.

It’s the Chinese government that did this.
It doesn't, logically, know who sent messages either.
You realize this is exactly the same as how schools are funded in Canada, correct? You have provincial funding, not federal funding.

>Public schools are the responsibility of individual provincial departments of education and funded mainly from local and provincial taxes, with some federal funds.

https://www.justlanded.com/english/Canada/Canada-Guide/Educa....
But that is exactly the problem. City dwellers know about city problems. If it's up to city dwellers, they may vote to fund things like public art in lieu of critical infrastructure like irrigation or government weather infrastructure because those things don't seem necessary when you're living in a metropolis, but are vital when you're a farmer.

Or, what if city dwellers choose to do things like burn fossil fuels for convenience and pay no attention to changing weather patterns, etc?

We shouldn't require our required rural brethren to become activists and lobbyists in the city just so the interests of the land can be surfaced.
Determinism.

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.ht...

We're making great strides into software being completely deterministic. The Bitcoin project for many years has had completely deterministic binaries and a ceremony process for GPG signing the output with many individual parties.
This just places even more burden on teachers to do everything. This is like keeping the troops but removing the supply lines.
> You've already segued effortlessly from noise to dynamic range

And you're showing your ignorance by not realizing that noise is the main determinate of dynamic range.
The translation is as described:

"There are multiple valid solutions for a given problem"
iMessage is end to end encrypted by default. Perhaps not as strongly, but it's a good default to begin with.
That's because if you know anything about education, you know it's about human relationships as much as it is about pouring knowledge into empty vessels.
> where almost all human knowledge is available online for free

And it has been so for nearly 20 years and changed very little. MOOCs are a failure as people will not finish them. Online certificates carry no weight with employers even if people do.

We have promising prototypes of self driving trucks. We don't have such models for education.
Oh fuck off with this xenophobic bullshit.
We can look at light from old parts of the universe and understand the chemical composition at that place and time the light came from, and how it was moving relative to us (i'm guessing most people will know about red shift, not everyone will, it's essentially if something is moving away from us, the wavelength gets stretched or in other words the light gets redder.) We've seen examples, where light (ok space) is bent by a heavy mass and we've seen light from the same source arrive to earth via different paths. This approach with the black whole might allow us to do the same thing, but with light from the same object coming to us via an enormous number of paths, and having left the object at enormous number of different times, allowing us to simultaneously observe light from same object over millions of years

If you could collect enough photons and crunch them, you can imagine being able to reconstruct a map of matter moving and changing relative to the black hole over time. No idea if we can really do this, but its an exciting idea
Yes you have to treat facebook as hostile malware. This is the only way and it isn't close to being fully effective.

The question was did you sign up for this? Did you give informed consent for this or did you not?
It was the first network-available supercomputer, beating the Cray-1 by nearly 12 months.
post like it's 2003?
You wouldn't believe this if you didn't grow up in a stable home.
>So even if you had a system that could accept English, nobody would want to use that because it's difficult to express precise and clear enough descriptions in English

Yes but in the future this can be solved by the smarter AI.

Essentially that what a lot of developer do, they turn other people idea or english description into working code.
It's almost as if pedagogy is a deep and rich field and you can't as easily absorb information without the guidance of a knowledgeable mentor. Who would have thought?
Except, the janitors and / or lunch servers can be hired within a couple weeks and don't require training. Teachers are harder to hire because they have expertise, unions, and have years of experience.
You can build the source locally, then compare the MD5 hash value of your build to (1) the hash value they post publicly for their build and (2) the actual hash value of their build once you download it.

Assuming all three match, you know that the binary matches the source.

Someone who is more technically inclined can probably go into more detail on this.
A large majority of the current US government is made up of things outside the constitution as written. The underpinning of most government agencies is the commerce clause, and even then there is a question of whether Congress delegating to administrative agencies is constitutional.

For example, the FCC, the FDA, the FAA—these powers aren't in the constitution and I'm not saying that because there weren't cell phones or airplanes in 1789.
I live in San Diego and this is sadly just more of the same. Public schools cut non-essential programs and then PTAs in upper and upper-middle class neighborhoods raise money from parents to add those programs back to their specific school. When time comes to vote on taxes to increase education budget, they are confused, as the public school system in San Diego is working great for them and their community.

You shouldn’t be able to tell the income level of a neighborhood simply by looking at a picture of a public school, but in San Diego county, that is absolutely the case.
they tend to be on busy streets or corners where people can stop fill up and leave quickly - as I mentioned above electric cars just don't charge that fast, no one in an electric car wants to sit watching people gassing up - better that they leave the car for an hour and do something important in their lives - it really is a different way of thinking about how you use a vehicle
Key management is still centralized and controlled by Apple, so they can still MITM communications by messing with the key exchange.

iCloud backups (enabled by default) are not end-to-end encrypted.

So while it's technically E2E, in practice you get very little protection from it because it's broken by design.

I still use iMessage because of the user experience, but let's not be fooled by their misleading E2E claims; it's all just marketing BS.
School district boundaries depend on the state. All school districts in Texas that actually run schools--except for one--are completely independent of cities and counties. Their boundaries are completely unrelated to city or county boundaries.
and the stock market is still on a tear...
I think they were being facetious.
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> Why would you think they don't? I'll admit this is a massive sweeping generalisation, but as a rule, urban voters tend to swing left and that mostly correlates with environmental advocacy.

This is ridiculous. The correlation of left-leaning and environmental advocacy is relatively new. Or rather, conservatives ignoring conservation is a rather new thing. Many of the first conservationists, and the reason we have things like national parks, and such were rural conservatives.
I politely disagree. This is no longer true.
Isn't this analogous to cutting IT budget when there's no problems?
Yes, however, the Loom project is still some years away and the Java standard library will need to be extensively revamped to support this. I see this easily a decade in the future.
Does it really make it less of a problem if they had a separate domain for corporate and it was only the user content going down? Serving user content can as well be part of a service’s core product and registrar induced downtime is a big enough problem.

Building and running anti-abuse tech works in proportion to the money put in. Can a small player really compete with Google’s anti-abuse investments? No. Save for a couple of exceptions, this means Google could always find abusive user content in its clients’ domains that the clients themselves couldn’t catch. I am not suggesting small players should be able to freeride Google’s anti-abuse capabilities, but if leads to enforcement and downtime of this sort, there needs to be a better protocol for the client to be able to respond or it paints a very anti-competitive picture.
>So do you think putting a link to more info next to a presidents tweet is “forcing” people to learn

No, unless you force somebody to put that link.

>A democracy ruled by an ignorant majority winds up as authoritaria

If majority wants authoritarian then authoritarian it is, thats democracy.
A dollar of debt is a dollar, but equity can be borrowed against
Even shorter term I'd like us to move away from local property taxes being used for local schools. The state government should have a statewide pool of money they allocate to schools based on enrollment numbers, cost of living. This should be sufficiently funded such that teachers can make a living wage in the local school district.

Those who don't like this can still send their kids to private schools.
if you repair an apple part, you should be required to, like, sand off the apple logos? this makes sense to you, really?
National Defense is a luxury good until it isn't. Moreover, it is not something that can be purchased on short notice.
> Could someone not make the same argument about the national defense?

> national defense

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

I'm not as against military spending as some people, but almost 800 billion dollars is too much
Setting aside the specific merits of education funding; it makes no sense for any government spending to follow transient economic conditions.

If anything, we want government spending to be inversely correlated with economic conditions, so it should go up during economic downturns.
How do you know the compiler actually compiles the source code to the binary you expect without injecting backdoors? How do you know that the hardware actually follows the instructions in the binary as they are specified?

How do you know you're not living in a computer simulation in which the operators can access your data without any backdoors whatsoever?
This seems like a rather odd excuse for a violent racist attack on a black man. I'm sure plenty of KKK members got off on 'legal technicalities', but that doesn't make it right.
That's giving them a LOT of credit. I'm not buying it.
Yup, I can relate - I started as a system hack, ported unix for a while, designed Mac plugin cards, graphics chips, CPUs, compilers, crypto for settop boxes, lots of embedded code, voip DSP flows, wireless, more CPUs .....
If both parties disable iCloud on their phones, does Apple have any way to read messages sent via iMessage?
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I’m curious how much this correlates to police shows on television. At best, they are romantic depictions of policing. Even the “gritty, realistic” ones like “the shield” or “the wire” don’t really convey the complexities of how policing culture (both internally and with the wider community) varies even from neighborhood to neighborhood. In all likelihood you have no clue how your community polices.
Just watched Bryan Caplan give a talk about how the majority of our education system's resources are spent towards a "signaling arms race".

What once required a high school diploma requires an undergraduate degree. What once required an undergraduate degree requires graduate school. Most of your time spend in school is learning skills that the labor market cares little for.

Not wholly convinced by his conclusion that entirely defunding education is the path forward, but it's a perspective I found very interesting!

Here's the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZylJp-pHo&t=495s
We have plenty of promising prototypes. The original MITx / 6.002x had in the nineties rate it as being as-good-as or better than in-person.

OLI before that had good prototypes too.

The low-quality junk came in scaling. Part of that had to do with culture and people (business people took over from academics). Part of that with economics (people didn't shop on quality). Part on difficulty training. Etc.
I don't know if I'm that smart but I suspect I am a lot smarter than you.
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I'm annoyed by people who don't actually read what is actually written. I never "boosted a conspiracy theory"; I was explaining why self righteous, ideological twits feed the conspiracy theory by playing into the reasons why people believe in them.

I'm annoyed by people who can't divorce their absolute, unshakable belief that their oh-so-exhaustively Googled faux-expertise from how actual humans are interpreting what is being said. Because, you spent so much time becoming an "expert", you can't possibly be wrong.

I'm annoyed and Google-experts who think anyone who says "maybe you're looking at this the wrong way" turn into Donald Trump and accuse them of not just being wrong, but of "wild accusations" and "boosting conspiracies" and the rest.

I understand this far better than you. You are the problem.
You've cherry-picked that sentence, though. Given the entire context of the article, I would argue that one should interpret that as a case of unclear writing, and not something that is intended to directly contradict the definition given in the second sentence: "The goal is
to define a datatype by cases, where one can add new cases to the datatype and new functions over the datatype, without recompiling existing code, and while retaining static type safety (e.g., no casts)." (emphasis mine)
Just to be clear software assessment doesn’t only happen at the source level. It happens at the binary downloaded at the device.
And what about the instructional aides and other staff that do have significant training? And what about the web of relationships formed between the staff and students, including those between the janitors, lunch servers, etc and students? And what about the capacities and institutional knowledge that staff have about school operations?

Schools are complex operations, made simple only by those who don't understand them.