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> why is there such strong bipartisan support for keeping Americans embroiled in the Middle East?

Never mind oil, the problem with US foreign policy is that it's run by (a) people with links to the countries involved and (b) money.

So policy about Cuba is dictated by those who fled the revolution and their children, regardless of what might be best now for US-Cuba relations.

Policy is influenced in favour of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, those countries are mostly enemies of each other, so US foreign policy is confused and ineffective - apart from the one thing that Israel and Saudi Arabia can agree on, which is that Iran is Bad.
Chinese companies aren't competitors because the playing field isn't even. For all intents and purposes Chinese companies are Chinese government.
I’m not sure. I really liked Dropbox the way it was up until ~2018 or so. It did its job very well until they decided to bloat it... I think I’ll go with either iCloud (I mostly use macOS and iOS) or OneDrive.
I'd just hope new alternatives would emerge as the old system gets out of the way.

Then we'll see what develops.

Not a selling argument, I know :)
I mean, if only we could radically and rapidly change the values our society, there's a long list of things we could apply that ability to.

But even there, just looking at developed countries around the world with arguably much better values around parenting, I still think we'd end up with most kids in childcare. Maybe not starting at six months, but starting pretty young. I'm biased as a parent too, just in the other direction. There are just too many benefits to both children and women.
Here is a recent discussion about "WTF Happened in 1971?" There are quite a few different opinions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hyh565/wtf_happen...
This would actually settle the whole thing. If these researches are true, companies which can afford it should diversify their teams (old, young, male, female, different nationalities, etc etc.) in order to increase efficiency and make more money. Which researches did you base this comment on?
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Google could certainly afford to implement a stub replacement library as a contingency plan, in case they really would be that worried about it.
I am member of one of these programs, and it's not worth it once you get everything unlocked.
At best you get invited to HQ, but that's it.
* Under usual circumstances
Why we built a product in one of the busiest markets in marketing technology
Social Security was created in 1935. How would you characterize the 159 American years preceding its creation ?
"Part of me thinks that if engineering was offering better careers, we would have flying cars now."

> I was thinking something along those lines, we've had an entire generation of smart people go into finance and create financial innovation that led to 2008 (amongst other, potentially positive, things).
Yeah, I have to agree. I made the jump to Obsidian — the app is great!
That's actually incorrect. Cognitive dissonance means that someone's behavior, attitude or thoughts, beliefs are inconsistent. Or in other words someone participates in an action that goes against his beliefs, ideas, values. Which is exactly what the grandparent post refers to:

> They all have their own stories about how it's okay to exploit weakness in people.

This is definitely inconsistent and in contrast with almost all the above mentioned entities' mission statement and their corporate values.
Agree on the pricing. It looks like a very nice tool but since it's at core just a different way of organizing/bringing together information I can store in other places, at that price point I'd simply improvise with the other tools we had.
An interesting use case of superpermutations is for password cracking on devices that use rolling codes. I recall Samy kamkar using de bruijn's sequence to more quickly find the unlock code for garage doors [1]. Not sure what the difference between the de bruijn sequence [2] and superpermutations are though.

[1] http://samy.pl/opensesame/
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence
I think that's one of the best analogies I've read on this.

I believe especially the unknown biases are a problem. Many companies don't know why they hire less diverse, so they either deflect it (e.g. by blaming universities) or they introduce quotas. Quotas might be the best thing in this situation but ultimately, only finding and rooting out biases can lead to a truly fair process.
Especially since quotas only work in large numbers. Hiring for upper management, in niche roles or in small companies cannot be accomplished fairly with quotas.
Used to be, and probably is still on some of the smaller lines like Bakerloo or Circle. But on the main lines like Victoria and Northern they're all automated now. Often you see the train coming in to the platform and the driver is just sitting there reading their phone/playing candy crush etc.
So, who gets to burn down government buildings, and who doesn't?
> I've always got the impression from their marketing material that the Europeans are selling a product, whereas the Americans are always selling a lifestyle.

A lot of people say the same thing about Harley-Davidson motorcycles. FortNine had a video made the rounds a little while ago:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwxxsPaogY
Would those obese people be better off with bad cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.? It seems like you're trying to avoid outright saying we should just let fat people die as an example to everyone else.
If you were born white and poor, there is a chance that you escape poverty and no one will ever know that you come from a poor background. If you're born black, many will assume that you likely come from a low income household, even if it's not true. You can never change that as long as social class is correlated with color of skin.
> we build them so we don't have to use them

No, we build them so that we are credible when we threaten, can riposte if we are attacked, are less tempting as a bullying target and win when we wage wars (which we sadly still very much do even if it's mostly in support of allied countries nowadays).

I mean, I am far from fully Clausewitzian but force remains part of the way international relationships work.
I have definitely binged out on sugar candy, and felt like I was recovering from a hangover afterwards.
Cool stuff! slice always confuses me. The one example that results in ‘banana’ I had to look twice.

Would be nice to also mention function parameters and a “randomize” button. See for example the playground API of DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com/api/methods)
> Obviously it's impossible for everyone to be healthy at all times.

No, it goes deeper than that. It is impossible for everyone's health to be equal. There is always going to be some very unhealthy people.

Having everyone "fed, housed and clothed" is literally achievable. I can count the people then count the calories, houses & clothes. In practice it wouldn't be perfect, but there is an obvious limit where that baseline can be achieved.

Having everyone "be healthy" is unachievable. In any imaginable scenario within the bounds of current technology and resources there will be a large number of people who we can point to and say "these people aren't healthy and we could do more for them".

This isn't me being obtuse, this is pointing out that "being healthy" is fundamentally a shifting standard changes to be relative to approximating median health outcomes. We can't achieve it as a baseline because as we approach it the baseline will move.
DHS has a limited capacity to do this, given present staffing, funding, responsibilities, and capabilities.

While DHS boasts an impressive headcount of 240,000 employees, the bulk are unlikely to be paramilitary goons of the sort seen in Portland and Seattle, where several dozen troops have had minimal effectiveness in projecting force more than a few metres from the federal courthouse.

Additional requisitions from a deeply divided Congress are unlikely. Where just a single city's police force numbers over 55 thousands (NYPD), the prospect that a few hundreds, or even thousands, of reassigned TSA screeners and border patrol might play landlord-support squad in 100s of cities throughout the US to an ever-growing public resistance is parlors thin.
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> Maybe a nicer neighborhood

This one is huge. Trying to afford a decent, spacious (non-luxurious) home with access a small garden, that isn't an hour+ commute from your workplace, is a true luxury especially in any in-demand urban region. Not having to waste hours of your life commuting definitely separates the plebs from the rest.
The good thing about digital publishing is that virtually no "entertaining" of authors is required of anyone. I highly doubt this 6-page paper in a low-impact Springer journal significantly consumed anyone's electronic or physical resources.

Moreover, only those who specifically seek it will ever be confronted with the paper. No one is forcing researchers to attend seminars or conferences, or otherwise disturbing them. The work is simply made available online for anyone who wants to read it. (Apparently it has already been downloaded thousands of times.)

I disagree with the implication that "outdated", "debated", and "abandoned" ideas should be excluded from publication. The merits of any idea should be determined by endless, open-ended, free debate, without any deference to whatever is and is not presently "in fashion".

Your broader point, about the composition of the academic community and the long tail of elderly professors occupying the limited research positions at universities, is of course a serious concern. Retracting unfashionable papers by older authors is not a solution.
As other people have mentioned both Blender and Houdini are scriptable to quite a deep level.

Blender is also open source. I suspect a combination of Blender, Sverchok and your own code driving them both would be close to what you ask for.

I'm interested in real-time, interactive stuff so I'm doing similar things in Unity. Unity allows scripting and customization right down to close to the metal and the UI is extremely amenable to customization as well. Tools such as Archimatix show how far you can push this: https://archimatix.com/

I'm currently working on procedural geometry and I keep flip-flopping between a simple and fast UI (very creative and intuitive), a node-based UI (slower but powerful) and a purely code-based interface (a weird mixture - powerful, sometimes fast and intuitive and sometimes not). I don't think node-based UI's are inherently bad. It's just hard to make them not suck and I know of very few examples that aren't plodding, inspiration killers.

But code is equally hard to make fluent and inspirational. Discoverability is poor and to do creative "live coding" you need to have a good memory, a great API, awesome autocomplete and a degree of luck.

So I'm developing 3 different interfaces and trying to understand where the sweet spot might lie. Maybe I'll be able to whittle it down to one interface eventually. ;-)

A quick prototype of my "fast" UI is here: http://www.polyhydra.org.uk/media/fastui/ Entirely keyboard driven at the moment. Crashes a bit too much but you get the idea. I'm currently refactoring the thing to be more useful as a code library as well: https://github.com/IxxyXR/polyhydra https://github.com/IxxyXR/polyhydra-upm
Not for the visa I linked but there are a lot of foreigners working construction and assembly lines on other visa types. I think it’s generally managed by some kind of labour company and the jobs are mostly low wage.

I wanted to double check so I googled it and found this, looks like there’s new visas for things like construction: https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000459527.pdf
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Culture fit isn't necessarily negative. I've worked at a company that tried to create teams as diverse as possible (not by skin color but by education, experience, prior experience) as part of culture fit. If your culture is to believe that content can be taught on the job but experience cannot, diversity definitely is culture fit.
Oh come on - plenty of other countries also had this spirit and capability until they were shut down by the US. At one point the UK for example was ahead of the US in many areas of aerospace, and so after direct threats from the US projects were canned, blueprints and jigs destroyed etc. The US detests a level playing field situation and often delivers inferior products when such a situation accidentally emerges.
Yes. This I can wholeheartedly agree with. Which makes me sad, because it means social and news media usually works against fixing the issues which most of us agree should be fixed. Instead they focus only on the things which keep us all discussing, forever, how evil some tiny minority is. We've DDOSed our ability to get things done.

On a tangential note, an important skill in this environment is simply ignoring people who want you to be angry rather than constructive. "X did Y! Bloody murder!" → Ignored. "How to ensure Y never happens again" → Let's hear it.
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I suffered a brain freeze at an interview once. My brain freeze was not caused by anxiety, but rather the Office Dog wandering into the interview room, sitting down on my feet and shoving its snout firmly between my legs.
Collective action is predicated both on a unified front in response and a strike fund to support pickets.

In this case, housing assistance would mitigate any individually targeted evictees.
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> Heck, if Trump managed to do that, it would seem to be reason enough to vote for him if you care about being anti-war - the progressive left be damned.

No, it wouldn't.

Co-opting a political position is about rhetorical positioning and has no necessary relationship to substantive policy.
which then begs the question: if you spent your whole life working more, and focusing on getting more money, assuming that you can retire in your 50s, can you REALLY stop working?
or will you depress yourself because there's nothing else to do?
retiring early seems great on paper, but at what cost?
Your attention is a scarce resource. A basic point here, is that rage eats your attention for breakfast, and by cost of opportunity, bubbles you into your tribe. By cutting out rage & related weeds, you can actually expose yourself to a significantly larger, and more diverse set of viewpoints.

Conflict as a regulation tool might have worked for our evolutionary ancestors, where resolution can be swiftly found and incentives re-aligned; however, if you reward conflict, the modern machine can generate an endless supply of it, on the tap. The correct solution is to shift the incentives, and reward with your attention the kind of stuff you want to see growing.
So they aren't using the MLS?
What about the legacy you leave after yourself? Be it invention, great article or a book, children who are better than you, or great businesses or non-profits.

If everybody thought about "just ending in a coffin and everything is pointless", humanity would've ceased existence long time ago.
I use Google Pay every single day in Denmark. My wife uses Samsung Pay every single day in Denmark. It's hard to see what people use when they touch their silicon and glass rectangles to the terminal, harder still when COVID-19 distances are mandated in all stores here.
It's absolutely "pant's on fire" level of misleading to label a fairly reasonable attempt at root cause analysis as a goal by anyone.

I can say "the rise in house prices before 2008 appears to be mainly the consequence of permissive loan policies by banks" without meaning that I think either high or low house prices or permissive or non-permissive loan policies are good or bad.
I see this quite differently. Yes returns on capital have blown up, while working and middle class incomes have stalled. This is a real issue and is driving a lot of problems across the developed world.

I just think the factors behind this are somewhat different from the usual class war rhetoric - on both sides. I think the first effect is the introduction of hundreds of millions of workers in developing countries. China obviously, but also South Korea, Taiwan, also India particularly in financial and IT services. This has created a lot of downward pressure on labour prices in the developed world.

I think another effect is the property market sweeping up huge swathes of individual wealth and income. By and large there's a limited stock of desirable property. We all need a place to live, and when we have families and children we want the best home we can afford for them and us. That means increasing proportions of our wages have been spent in a bidding war against each other over the available housing. Certainly here in the UK this is a huge problem. Massive state subsidies to help new home owners get into property has just exacerbated the problem, hugely inflating the price of low and mid level housing particularly. Preferential tax treatment of property investments (in the UK anyway) also encouraged huge numbers of people to invest in property and become landlords.

I'm no economist so maybe I'm overestimating these shifts because I've seen and felt the effect of these factors personally, but I'm convinced they're having a considerable impact. On developing world labour I'm not sure much can be done about that, these people deserve jobs as much as anyone. I think things will even out though, I go to China regularly and wage growth over there has been staggering. As for property prices, it's about time we took a close look at the tax treatment of whats essential rental income and also inheritances. I think there's a shift needed favouring income from labour over capital. Don't get me wrong, I'm a thoroughgoing capitalist, but there's an imbalance there that needs redressing without resorting to class war eat the rich crap.
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I was not actually talking about the totality of Google's verdict about AGPL. For some projects in some companies it might just be the right license to use. Rather, I was talking about the particular example of Google Maps and PostGIS.

Google's army of lawyers say: If PostGIS 'this' => Google Maps must be 'this'. And the author says, 'no, that's false'. Someone must be wrong here. And if I had to place a bet on which side is more likely to have gotten it the way a court of law might interpret it, I'd put my bet on a bunch of people with law degrees.
It is pretty clear that you are not using the same definition of value as the person you are responding to.
Sound like most other shorttermist problems we are suffering, i.e. climate change, debt, etc.
How can it be annual recurring revenue when they've only been going for six weeks and they have a 30 day free trial? Surely you need to know what their churn rate is going to be before you can consider it to be recurring?
Not many heavily pregnant people will be out doing strenuous exercise!
Nevermind the 3 causes they are looking at.

I think that this is very likely due to removal/lessening of the impact of doctors on what is a natural process. If doctors are less involved, things take their natural course without problems.

Let's not forget, that the third largest cause of death (higher than covid) is iatrogenic death:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-induced-iatrogenic-disord...

There is, in fact, a strong case to be made for closing doctors, hospitals, etc down, in order to increase the populations health!

EDIT - I don't know why my comment is being downvoted. I think I'm making a rational, reasonable argument! If you disagree, no problem! But perhaps state why you think what I'm suggesting is wrong.
You’ve been provided with links to an article from a credible source, a paper, and a video, and you say you don’t believe any of it. The physics of this effect are both well known and easily demonstrated. What level of evidence is required in your mind?
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I've had some good recommendations from https://movielens.org/

Also, if you like a particular movie/genre then it's best to google for similar ones. People tend to recommend 'if you like X then you should also check out Y'. I've found this to be a decent indicator.
Thats not the coronavirus, thats life... in the end you are surely dead ;-)
I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 noise cancelling headphones, didn't have to install an app at all and the noise cancelation on them is absolutely incredible. Along with the amazing sound quality, they're the best headphones I've ever owned.
Well, I'm done engaging. It's fairly clear that we have incompatible worldviews, which is sad, because I'll bet we could find many things in common.

I sincerely wish you the best.
I would argue that the people signing up to Roam have a short-term outlook on their data when they shovel their words into a blackbox. Notes are the maybe the most important thing to have a fungible, exportable standard behind.
I agree that the arguments he made are not supported by evidence, but this is our judgment of his paper, not a reason to retract it and prevent other people from reading it.

The fact that the paper is written in a scholarly tone is obviously relevant. If it was spam or "junk mail", or some sort of violent sermon or political philippic, then of course there is no reason for it to stay online. But it's not. It's obviously a real, genuine academic paper.
> willingness to take risk, thirst for innovation

They are basically the same and it is a result of different attitudes of capital providers. In Australia, you have more conservative financial institutions and no venture capitalists -> so companies must take less risk.

Related to risk is also innovation. If you can take more risks, you are more willing to purchase product and services, that are not quite ready, but can help you move you further even as they are. If you cannot take risks, you will purchase only products and services, that have already proven their usefulness at other companies. Thus crippling the ability to innovate around you.
The difficult challenge is that the skills aren't uniformly distributed, because the discrimination goes back way earlier than the interview. I remember how aggressively hostile the general culture was towards girls focusing on "geeky" pursuits like computer hardware and software when I was a kid, and that's been amplified into self-perpetuating disparities today as those things became more important. It's obviously influenced the perception of interviewers as you've described, but education, training, representation in media, etc are all essential.

Much like the other problems in the article, there's no obvious villain, and it's a long process to change a deeply flawed system.
Adding 1000lb on each side makes the initial values a rounding error. If you correct your hiring practices to be equal, eventually you do have equal as people churn through the workforce.

(Note: Not disagreeing with bringing it into balance quicker, or making statements that it should be done this way)
> Probably because they aren't saving enough to be able to weather bad times, because a serious medical issue may ruin them, because no matter how much you save, housing, college, and medical costs will grow in tandem, and because despite official unemployment being low, most employers aren't willing to compromise on worker-hostile policies.

Noting that this was in 1997, this is basically the same point Greenspan was making - he is speculating they felt insecure and so weren't willing to do things like go on strike. It seems a reasonable theory although it's difficult to test if it is correct or not.

Either way, it most certainly doesn't indicate that Greenspan saw this insecurity of workers as a goal.
It's not that hard to qualify, it's the equivalent of three years software engineering experience with some side study.

It's more a case of someone who has one year of writing JavaScript shouldn't be writing on the theory of software development.