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Of course it is better to live in a liberal as opposed to an authoritarian system, but this type of thinking (an inherent inevitability of liberalism to win over authoritarianism) breeds complacency and can ultimately be the downfall of western liberal democracy.

There is no guarantee that the system that is more just will win out. That's the reason why we have to do everything we can to make sure that liberal democracy works and to impede authoritarianism in all its forms and guises. The CCP should never have had the amount of international investment and export markets it has had, given the overall strategy of the party to hoard power and crush dissent.
I wrote looking to make 1000x returns, not getting 1000x returns. If I was investing into pharma R&D, I would also be looking for commensurate returns and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Developing medicines is a high risk venture. But the rewards are extremely high also, so maybe it merits the resources of all of society. This is ignoring that US taxpayers already pay for a significant portion of the R&D via universities.
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They were pretty desperate to maintain the 737 type certification, to reduce airline adoption cost. So the question is: are they right, or are they stretching the truth via motivated reasoning?
I know Lehman brothers is still working it’s way through. But that’s a financial institution that innovated too much making things complicated. But that’s more of a liquidation.

We have plenty of experience with airline bankruptcies, and they’re basically all the same.

United Airlines took 38 months. American Airlines, about 26 months. 2 years for Delta.

The problem is the domino effect: a newly recovered airline is much leaner and tends to put the non-bankruptcy filers at risk.
Pity they did not extend the same courtesy to all the descendants of the "Windrush" immigration wave from the Caribbean but then they are just poor black folk.
>But the second issue hits right at the heart of a major societal problem/debate. When we use AI to make decisions about people, will the system become racist--- even with representative datasets?

Yeah this is tough, answering the question of the odds a person may default on a loan will probably reflect historical bias. In fact I'd argue that it should show this if the model is accurate.

The moral issue is what do you do with that information? Do you use that knowledge to improve the outcomes of the disenfranchised or do you reinforce the bias based on the information you have?
And of course: Beijing will label the emmigrants as home-abandoning traitors.
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For those curious, the +'a' after the space is a unary addition operator that evaluates to 'NaN'.
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Just curious, what do you do for a living? Have you ever done professional work where your life is on the line constantly?
I think e-bike technology is going to get adapted to all sorts of new uses like this. I think there's a lot of opportunity to create great vehicles for people that will offer a good accessibility.

https://rootedinrights.org/video/disabled-bikers/

This video shows bikers of many different abilities using many different kinds of bikes and it shows how versatile bikes can be for different people.

I'm kinda curious why it's a quad-wheel system rather than a tricycle. At 2:28 in the video I linked, there's someone paralyzed that uses a tricycle to go off-roading (two wheels in the front, one in back with a hub motor). I'm not saying there isn't a reason for the 4-wheeled system, I'm just wondering what if offers.
The point is that from a journalistic point of view the number of people eligible for citizenship is meaningless without the context of either the population of Hong Kong or of the UK or perhaps the number of immigrants the UK typically sees from Hong Kong and other countries. It's very common in articles to see numbers that have no meaning without context. Either the context should be provided or the numbers should not be mentioned.
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Originally part of parent, split for separable voting.

I feel like the quest for universal equality is like the quest for a universal compression algorithm, futile. everyone is unique, so you can’t equalize people.

The most productive and happy path forward is to think about the individuals (yourself and your counterparty).

It’s not your group against the world. It’s you against the world. And it’s not your group at your disposal, it’s the world at your disposal.
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I believe that is overstating things. From what I gather, it is during specific flight conditions, namely high angles of attack at high airspeeds, encountered during an extreme manoeuvre (definitely not straight and level flight), namely a wind-up turn (a turn at increasing bank angle and constant speed and constant power (note that this implies accelerating descent), rarely if ever encountered during a routine flight).

This is flown to test the stick force as a function of load factor. Now, it is a certification requirement that the stick force increases basically linearly with the load factor ("The stick force curve must have a stable slope" [3]), and that was not given - the stick slacked.

This is what MCAS was designed to address.

From what I gather, a 737 MAX without MCAS would not be certifiable, but safely flyable, possibly with some surprising, but manageable behaviour under very rare circumstances: namely, flying at a high angle of attack with high speed would require you to release some stick force instead of having to pull hard to keep the nose up.

Having said that, the whole saga has revealed so many problems at Boeing and the FAA that I am reluctant to fly the 737 MAX and 787 myself.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...

https://www.scribd.com/document/53095046/NASA-Information-Su...

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.175
Imagine collecting a deposit, not delivering a usable product, and expecting to keep the deposit.
It takes longer for my bluetooth keyboard to wake up and pair then it took for Word to start back in the day.

Also, when I start typing with the keyboard, I have no idea which web page text box has default focus. At least with Word (which I really, really hated), the document body always had keyboard focus.

Also, if I go back to edit a word in the middle of a previous sentence, the operating system sometimes decides I want the first character to be uppercase (and sometimes it doesn’t).

Just now, it took 5 tries to get the damn thing to type a freaking lowercase letter. I have autocorrect disabled, or it would be even worse.

Heck, you can’t even reliably guess which direction a mouse wheel will scroll any more.
A quick Google shows common usage of "Public Company" in US publications, in the manner described by GP.
The government they made the contract with didn't even exist anymore. The Qing Empire made that contract with the UK. Independence or just keeping HK in the UK both make at least as much sense as giving it to a country that didn't even exist when the contract was formed.
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Interesting point, and a good reminder of how anglocentric the computing world is in some ways. Do localized IDEs typically take this into consideration?
In theory perhaps, but in reality when the choice is between two Empires, people have often embraced the one that they perceive as less harmful to their interests. An independent Hong Kong was never a realistic prospect.
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> Turkey is not a democracy?

It's a democracy in terms of the electoral process, mostly... at least historically. Flawed, but the people select their leaders by election.

It's not really a democracy in terms of political culture and rights. Very weak free speech, right to organize, right to assemble, freedom of the press, etc. They jail a lot of journalists, on charges like "subliminal messages announcing the military coup."
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If it helps patients to recover faster, it does make a huge difference by having more beds available in the hospital.
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"YouTube Premium" is a subscription service that allows users to disable ads on the entire platform (plus a few other minor perks) for a flat monthly fee. I guess it's actually $12/month, not $10/month. That subscription fee supplements the platform and creators for the lost ad revenue.

I meant that they could continue to offer YouTube Premium as a way to disable ads on all channels and support premium subscriptions for individual channels as an alternative for users who might not be interested in buying YouTube Premium just to support one or two channels.
Better than being ruled by communists, that's for damn sure. That was my experience, anyway.
$50/month is the full price for the most complete bundle. Adobe has a student price at a lower rate that I can't be bothered to look up just as you couldn't be bother to look up before making your comment.
Yeah but that's like the old quote that the stock market successfully predicted nine of the past five recessions. Sometimes, in hindsight, it might have been the right thing to do. But most of the time, when you look back at what people on HN said we needed to action about immediately, it would have been an absolute overreaction. You can't know which of the two situations you're in beforehand.
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I bet the residents of HK are going to bed thinking that tonight.
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Ask more? The book is expensive. If he lowers the price, say to $10, the sales will probably increase 10x.
cheers :)

for line counting - indeed a good point and clearly required for the examples -

After time, eyballing this becomes a skill. For things that fit on a screen (~50 lines or so, give or take) I'm usually correct 1st time or within a few lines. I can check quickly by moving the cursor (20j to go down 20, 20k to go back, repeat if necessary to get the line count)

also as others have pointed out, I might not be doing the best/optimal thing for some of these, just some examples of how I do things that popped in my head :)
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Do you have a citation for reporters and scientists being de-badged and escorted out of the Asilomar conference (I'm always curious about the history of molecular biology, and this is new to me).

BTW, Watson didn't ignore Franklin- her name is listed in the W&C Nature paper as providing data. What he said in his book was much worse than ignoring her.
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From what a friend has said to me, the situation is fairly similar to the discrimination people of colour face (slavery, jim crow, segregation, economic mobility, interracial marriage, lynchings, human right violations) and what native americans face (land rights, economic mobility, cultural assimilation and destruction) ... except this is in the asian context with added peculiarities. The distinction between the classes is made by the last name and skin colour like how you would discriminate between italian, spanish, irish, german, danish ... on the basis of their name as people look similiar despite all of them being clubbed under "white" and "christian".

On paper discrimination shouldn't happen but IRL it does everywhere.
Thanks for playing along with my hostile invitation :)

The great argument I wanted to make is that if there is a finite supply of a drug, only enough for 20% of the sick, selecting which 20% gets it doesn't cause more people to die. It might select who dies in deplorable or admirable ways, but the death count is the same.

But you're making a different and better argument.

I agree that your scenario would be terrible. But I don't think it describes what Gilead is doing. According to posts here, they're allowing generic manufacturing in poor countries, and India doesn't even respect drug patents to begin with.
> There's no other board in this range because the other chipmakers aren't subsidizing their boards or ecosystems in this fashion.

Can you elaborate on this? Who is subsidising the Pi, and why?
> making it behave like a regular 737

Not really. Without MCAS, the plane would not have been certifiable. (So, MCAS does make it more similar to the regular 737 in that it is certifiable, but that was not the only reason.)
The RockPro64 has an x4 PCIe slot. The 2gb model is 60$ and the 4gb one is 80$. Add ~20$ for accessories and you have a nice little board that should be faster than the RPI and has more features.
I'm greatly inspired by his work. It seems magical for game design.

Game engines like Unity also let you tweak a lot of things interactively, but more by making those things be assets rather than code. But I never really liked that style. (For that matter, I don't like CSS being separate from the page content either.)

So I want Dynamicland for robots.
Helpful hint: I find it very telling to mentally replace “up to” with “at most”. It’s the exact same inequality but sometimes (though not always) totally changes the emotional tone of a piece. The other thing is it never ceases to highlight the need for a lower bound. I think journalists (whether deliberately or unconsciously I cannot say, besides it isn’t relevant) use the term “up to X” to simultaneously proclaim the worst-case scenario AND use it to anchor your expectations (basically you become convinced that the worst case scenario is the most likely outcome because that’s the only information you have, whereas if you tell yourself “up to X” you immediately ask yourself “yeah okay but starting from what?” and the lack of knowledge is at least made explicit).