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> I work on small-scale experiments, a field that Sabine portrays as starved of funding because of string theory. But that's not at all how funding actually works. Generally, all of our boats rise or fall together.

Please could you quantify this a bit? The competition for grants seems to be fierce. It's hard to see how such a competitive game is not close to zero-sum.

The question is: As scientists and civilians,

1) how to we model/quantify the opportunity cost of 50 years of String Theory?

2) What was the expected value of String Theory (what promises were made?). What has been the ROI?

Hypotheses: What string theory did, among other things, might have been:

1) crowd out the market for ideas.

The perception was created by the media and within academia,that String Theory was/is the hottest idea available. Arguably humanity's most brilliant theoretical physicists and mathematicians seem to have been seduced/compelled into spending their lives working on it. Perhaps one might quantify how many graduate students ended up not exploring other ideas because of the primacy of string theory.

2) caused a perception that physics research is cheaper than it is, effectively reducing the cost expectation in the market.

If string theory is the best idea, and it is purely mathematical, then a university or institution could easily claim to have a cutting-edge physics department, not by funding infrastructure for expensive experiments, but by hiring a string theorist. This in turn might lead to graduate students who can only be trained in string theory. Other institutions might be induced to reduce their costs to the level of string theory institutions/departments. If String Theory is the best idea, how do I justify spending 100x more money than the String Theory department in order to run experiments or train graduate students to do experiments or even work on their crazy new ideas?

3) Lowered the standards to which Physics is held.

If the hottest field in Physics is not required to have any relation to reality, and requires no physical evidence by which ideas are tested for almost half a century, then one might convince themselves that physics can be done purely abstractly, rather than as physical science. For the entire field of Physics to be led in this way, is terrifying.
More like duopoly with Adobe Analytics, at least among companies that invest in their analytics instead of just implementing GA or FB Analytics because they're free and never really use them.

Adobe Analytics is enterprise grade though, and is usually only used by companies large enough to have their own analytics department or contract out to analytics consultants.
You would be very hard pressed to find a cloned card + PIN anywhere. That's the holy grail and information like that would never find it's way outside of a team. Think about how easy it is to go to an ATM and use it.. Why would you sell that information for $25?

The rest of it seems fairly accurate based on jstash/unicc/etc.
The quote from your link, from March 1st:

- "CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19," the CDC says. "Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others."

So, March 1, CDC already said: "Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others."

What have we learned since? That even the people who don't show symptoms indeed spread the disease to others. So the advice was based on the false assumption, and had to be corrected.

Where the false assumption comes from? There were other infections where the infected were able to spread the disease to others only once they show symptoms.

What follows from the new knowledge? That the facemasks should be used by people who can spread COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others. Which means: everybody.

And that is scientific process: when you learn something new, you admit to yourself and everybody else that the previous handling was based on the wrong assumption, and you adapt. You don't keep claiming that the Earth is in the non-moving center of the Universe, just because you claimed that before you learned more.

The problem is that the broad population is not only not used to adapt to the new knowledge, it's that the religions and political parties want the people to keep the same "group" identification and fix beliefs, is spite of anything.

Unfortunately, it's also true that there was an aspect of "temporary policy of what is possible." And there was a real, hard and sad reason for that: the whole western world was woefully unprepared, including not having enough masks. A lot of Asian countries were much better prepared, and had enough masks and had the policies that required them in spite of whatever was fashion in the west and had the people ready to follow the policies.
Yeah, for a country this large 10B is snall potatoes
> If you're a business, there is absolutely no excuse to penny pinch here.

Most of these sites offer free shipping to trade accounts with no MOQ as well.

But also you want that customer service as a business. Mouser once sent me a replacement camera at work (university) because they supplied one with the wrong interface. No doubt we have a big order book, but I've had similar experiences with RS as a hobbyist customer - ordered tools which are not up to scratch or slightly out of tolerance - "just keep it, we'll send a replacement".
I'm just making a point that many happy Vim users can relate to.

To me it was pure serendipity. Nano on the other hand wouldn't have led me anywhere.

Apparently that is worthy of downvoting to some.
But I don’t? The borrow checker takes care of that? String vs &str is trivial to get ones head around, usually it’s really easy to decide whether you’d like to pass a reference or ownership, and worst comes to worst, sprinkling some copy/clone etc to get things sorted quickly still yields a binary that’s faster and more robust than something I can whip up in Python...
India is probably China of xx years ago, with a lot more protections. I understand that India is no perfect democracy and corruption exists, but it still wants to act as a democracy.
I believe that in this day and age we probably all need at least two identities: the birth/official transparent, trusted one for official/professional use and an anonymous one for unofficial/online things.

But this is because I think nobody should be fired, de-platformed, banned or "canceled" for opinions/thoughts outside of those contexts.

Sure you could be fired from your work if you started shouting your opinions on your workplace. No you shouldn't be fired from your work for anything that happened outside that work.

Anonymity is needed for the sake of free thinking as a shield to any current/future mob that could ruin your life/career for just any reason at all.

In 10 Years you might find yourself ostracized because someone found some 20yo old snippet of code you wrote with "banned words" in them.

I used to think it was an acquired thing that you could have free opinions with your official identity (political or anything) and not risk your livelihood for opinions but the thought enforcing mobs are now everywhere and most companies will bend the knee to their bidding.

And obviously this identity needs to be decentralized to also protect that identity itself from being ruined by the various de-platforming attempts.

These days, I'm genuinely more concerned about the current mob rule mentality than government oppression.
Everything will be okay In the end. If it not, it isn't the end.
Names of people, events, trends…
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AFAIK Netflix has used FreeBSD since 2012[1] and Brendan Gregg only started working at FreeBSD in 2014[2]. So not sure what the point of your statement is.

[1]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-June...
[2]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendangregg/
And worse pay
From Google Translate:

PayPal stops processing domestic payments.

Starting July 31, PayPal disables all domestic payments in Russia.

PayPal will focus on international transfers to / from Russia (s), which account for a large share of PayPal's business in Russia.

Foreign (international) payments always accounted for a large share of PayPal's business in Russia. Having assessed the current state of the business, we decided to focus on international transfers and stop processing internal payments between account holders in Russia. Users, as before, will be able to take advantage of the global PayPal network, with more than 300 million customers.

Transactions related to the payment of goods in Russian stores or the transfer of funds between Russian users will be automatically rejected. You, as before, will be able to send and receive cross-border electronic transfers.

The change is due to take effect on July 31. Users will receive a notification of a change in the User Agreement at least 14 days before.
Some are much shorter than 10 minutes. I saw one in Shanghai (IIRC) that was 10-20 seconds.

Some of them are in locations that are easily identifiable by landmark buildings, which seems a bit scary/creepy.
> Let them pay for training

Mind you they are making a profit, not running a charity
11186171, so I can't say I agree with every point, at the risk of feeding a troll, I have some suggestions and observations. Take them as free advice, which is, of course, worthless.
An opening statement of calling out the mods is never going to be successful. You're cranky and it feels good, but I think deep down you know it's not an effective tactic. I think in this case you're trying to be even handed, that's admirable, but even acknowledging the existence of mods is a faux pas. A lawyer does not address the judge. The judge is there, the lawyer should address the jury. I understand you may not like it, but that's how it is. much like code can't escape the type checker, there are meta-rules to follow.
The vague intonation of "certain political group" is a bit confusing. It winds up being something like soothsaying. Take a stand, say what you mean.
Anyway, I think we only learn things from mistakes. Science is nothing more than a huge collection of mistakes. Or perhaps, cookbooks for avoiding those mistakes. I'll go with Edward Gemming here, "In god we trust, all others must bring data". You got a good reason, you can prove it, or at least show current models don't reflect reality, or you're dumb. I can get on board with that system.
Perhaps, hell probably, some worship science as though it were a god. There are always crackpots.
Bring your data, fix the model.
Install Kubernetes in one command line
$ wget -c https://sealyun.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/latest/sealos && \
chmod +x sealos && mv sealos /usr/bin

$ wget -c https://sealyun.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/7b6af025d4884fdd...

# install kubernetes HA cluster
$ sealos init --passwd 123456 \
--master 192.168.0.2 --master 192.168.0.3 --master 192.168.0.4 \
--node 192.168.0.5 \
--pkg-url /root/kube1.18.0.tar.gz \
--version v1.18.0
This is so true and my experience completely checks out with it.

I started trying out Linux with the usual Ubuntu / Linux Mint distros, but I got so confused by the lack of structure and understanding of what is the correct way to do things - aka what I wanted to understand with Linux, for personal knowledge.

I moved to arch, and ease of use came free: everything you'll ever need is basically on the wiki, no weird PPA to add, nothing on sketchy tutorial sites - just the wiki. Definitely suggested for beginners (yeah the installation can be a pain but it's minimal compared to the advantages)
That's flattering as I'm not a native speaker :)
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Conclusive Argument [pdf]
He did say "obviously theres no civil war at the moment". Why do you feel the need to argue bro? On albanian geopolitics nonetheless, go drink a beer or something.
I agree with the blog that science is about doubt/falsification.

But if we want to be pedantic, we should make some distinction between scientific models/theories and the scientific process. A model is some description of reality. The scientific process is making a model, experimentation, falsification. Statements like "science says x" are referring to models or theories -- the best knowledge at the moment (but people shorten the language?). Learning "facts" are learning useful models which are accurate to some degree.

If you are studying some sort of science like physics, you have to build some intuitions. You need to start somewhere. So you need to learn the various models, but they should be treated as various approximations. Doing science applied to understanding reality, is the formal process of taking some limit in the category of scientific models I guess.

It turns out reality is even stranger than our every day experiences. QFT/relativity are useful models. They seem to capture a lot of information about how the universe works. They are not the end of the game but you need to build familiarity, because you definitely do not start with some deep intuition about how these things work. You can be skeptical but you need to do experimentation. I'm sure the same can be said about ideas in biology/chemistry.

I then wonder what the point of this post is because they gloss over that aspect, and they want to emphasise being skeptical. I feel like this appeals to the pseudo intellectual "rationalist" crowd which if you unfold it, is really just some subtle attempt at dogwhistling.
Enterprise IT already regularly installs their own certs on their boxes to MITM all TLS. The have the means to DPI and shut this down, though they'll need a firmware update for their firewall box.
I know it's inconvenient not to have a body, but we've a responsibility to our share-holders.
Is that 30-40% on all platforms or just desktop though?

I don't have an ad blocker on my phone, yet use ublock origin on my Macbook + Chrome. I suspect this is pretty common, as it's harder to set up ad blocking for your mobile browser than desktop.
You don't really, my theory is sometimes the auditory part takes over mid-sentence, whereas when I'm in my usual visual mode the errors stand out immediately.
The entire idea behind the obituaries is that Apple's whatever will be so performant that ordinary PCs will switch on mass

It doesn't need to and is unlikely to happen en masse. Apple creaming off the most valuable consumers is a problem for everyone else. You can see that in the smartphone market where Apple dominates the profits.
I don't have any problems with numbers or math. But I do have the same issue with time conversion in Dutch. I also have problems with tens. In Dutch you say "four and sixty" for 64, which I find terribly confusing and I often replace it with 46 internally. I tend to read numbers in English for that reason.
Some medical equipment works the same way in my experience. A nurse or I will routinely ask to redo a reading because the value "didn't seem right"

And sure enough that happens about 1/3 of the time regardless of equipment or facility.

So "just doesn't feel right" is something that absolutely happens in the real world. Not taking that into account is sloppy engineering
Please read your history, protectionism enabled the US to rise out of the dirt and become an industrialised nation at the time when British Empire dominated world stage. This is not even a subjective matter.
The culture shock you mention was very real. I joined in 2010 (when Athena was 3 years old) and left 8 years later in 2018.

I remember my first few months unlearning normal Python and figuring out how to build the 'pixie graph', a lazily-evaluated Python DAG suited for calculating financial instruments. It took a while to get your head around this, but when you did it was a very powerful and productive way to building trading and risk management applications.

To get some sense in how this worked, here are two public projects on github with good introductions:

* https://github.com/timkpaine/tributary

* https://github.com/janushendersonassetallocation/loman
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I think in times of crisis (and in general to some extent), it is difficult and non-advantageous to aim SOLELY to be technically correct because not everyone is willing to pay attention to details. I agree that everything you have mentioned is technically correct but people need and look for simple guidelines and thumb rules from expert.

There has been a huge debate about the goal of statistical tests. Is their purpose to
(i) find the truth (the effect you noticed in your experiment and the hypothesis you propose to explain it being true or not), or
(ii) help an experimenter in making a decision what future experiments should they do to get closer to the truth.

I see this same debate re-occurring pandemic times. And I would argue that we must aim for the latter because in the end people want to know: Should I wear a mask or not? The former truth can be sought out in non-pandemic times with well-defined studies that are not under time pressure to churn out a publication.

WHO expertise failed to cut through this superficial chaos of "scientific expertise" to help people make that decision early on.
Thanks, someone hinted to it in a random conversation. Links should always be underlined if they aren't a button or a menu item.
I know this was just written as content marketing, but a more accurate insight wouldn't involve the conversion to uniques at all. On one side you'd have count of unique IPs from the access logs at your web server. And on the other side you'd have count of unique IPs seen by the tracking tools you use.

And even then you wouldn't be able to map this quotient to human behavior. But you would have an upper bound on how inaccurate your analytics tools are.
In this analogy Unix is Russia so still a valuable skill to have.
India censoring local environmental groups websites
I think we should be careful with conflating being a "sane" politician with a scientific education. I don't think Merkel seeming more "scientifically sane" has anything to do with her scientific education. If anything it has to do with the political system of the countries in question. In fact Merkel certainly got into the position she is in, not by following scientific advise, but by being an extremely talented "Machtpolitiker" (a politician who knows how to play for power).

She was actually well known for never taking any clear position and it was even a bit of a running gag, how she would never say anything that would position her so that someone could attack that position. The 2016 refugee crisis was the big exception. She is also a very strategic thinker and it is known that advisers in the CDU essentially looked at the democraphics of voters and showed that if the party does not take a more liberal position on gay marriage, the environment etc., the party will be irrelevant within the next 15 years.
>"Nobody is enslaving anyone"

You're dead wrong. So you DO incorrectly believe that slavery is over and done with.

I already presented you plenty of proof. Can you prove otherwise?
You need to know what it claims it does and proven examples when it does not work. Then the opponent should present examples when it works reliably.
> python2 and python3 in one process

This would have had me running screaming from the building
Don't be. You are talking about the folks that pulled this off: https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019.pdf
I'm curious what you see as the fundamental conflict here? Looking at my own European country, these are things we work on optimising at the same time, and I think we often do better at both than the US.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by anti gov't though, I just mean having laws and mechanisms that protect privacy
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> it seems they've picked a favorite and decided ?

It doesn't look like this to me. India's population is within 50 million of China but has double the growth rate. Even if the GDP per capita (nominal or PPP) is about half of that of China, it still has a huge potential as a market and it never received enough attention. Companies are starting to see that potential now. We shouldn't anthropomorphize company decisions, they are generally purely pragmatic. There were money on the table, it doesn't imply India will be the biggest or most profitable market or production center.

While domestic consumption in big markets that demand local production will be satisfied as such (so an Indian iPhone might say "Made in India"), companies will still supply other markets with products coming from the factory that allows them the highest profits (so a US or EU iPhone will likely still say "Made in China").

> it's not exactly a straight forward process or something you'd want to have to do often.

Designing and building an iPhone are also not very straight forward but if it's profitable companies will do it. That's why so many companies still operate in China despite the chicanery.
I York in C#, Java, and Go and I mostly use a combination of these modes. I will usually take some time to design a feature and write it out almost entirely before even the first compilation. Then, I will usually start a compile-run-debug-edit cycle to fix all of the off-by-one type errors, cover missed cases, the occasional wrong assumption etc.

I don't think typed vs untyped languages really makes a huge difference if you're designing code this way. The difference comes when the compiler can actually verify your design, if you don't compile it doesn't really matter what the compiler can check.
> connected to the govt

May I know exactly what sort of connections are we talking about it? Big business families have always had some relationship with politicians in India but they were less evident 2-3 decades back then due to then governments' incline towards socialism.
Probably all of them. The guy has a valid point, in Russia you can't even run a canteen or a pub without having to pay off food/health and fire safety authority - they can shut you down based on imaginary violations. Now imagine what happens when tax authorities, immigration / visas and foreign investment is involved.
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Exporting relies on the destination markets being open, not yours.

Domestic markets were kept relatively closed in order to foster development of local industry and companies.
> Even if that’s true then it remains a failing of the Linux ecosystem that they were unable to understand how to configure it correctly or that the defaults did not work as well as the FreeBSD ones.

Or alternatively they just did not put the time in. No defaults cover all use cases, almost all software I have ever used in high load applications needed some tuning, this includes Solaris, MySQL and MongoDB among others.

> But I don’t think it’s the case as they’ve put a lot of work into hiring some of the brightest minds in OS development, including Brendan Gregg

AFAIK Netflix has used FreeBSD since 2012[1] and Brendan Gregg only started working at FreeBSD in 2014[2]. So not sure this really shows they knew what they were doing when they made the choice to go with FreeBSD. It could be they did but I still would like to something more than just Netflix's choice to back the claim up. Many more companies choose Linux.

[1]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-June...

[2]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendangregg/
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It was accompanied by nationalism in all of those cases, however.

Also don't forget the Prussians, where Japan got it from.
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