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I am pretty sure Amazon deforestation affects the rest of the world too.

While I don't completely agree with the need of deforestation of the country, I upvoted you because I agree with the rest of the message. Specially, I agree other countries are using the moral superiority card after getting a early start causing the current climate crisis.
> I can't speak for any other countries, but from the American perspective, civics education in this country is really lacking. If citizens don't understand the basics of the American government works, it's very easy for people like Trump to lie to them.

Even worse I'd say is the lack of psychology and neuroscience education. If one doesn't understand the fundamentals of how the human mind works, it's very easy to fall victim to lies from any source, including their own mind.

> A lot of citizens are not capable of separating fact from fiction.

Including people that perceive that they do have the ability. Everyone suffers from it to varying degrees (the specifics of which are not known, despite the patterns that appear to be there), but it is near impossible to perceive in oneself for many interesting reasons, including some possibly significant ones which have been observed but have not yet gotten much attention in the scientific community (who does not know what it does not know, something which may only be perceivable in certain states of mind).

My conspiracy theory is that it is not accidental that we don't teach these things in school outside of specialized programs, because it is a vector that can be used to distort beliefs across all demographics, including self-perceived informed rationalists, and the effects of this can be observed on a daily basis.
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> The intent was to create a republic, not a democracy.

I see this repeated so much in online discussions, and it makes no sense to me. Is it enough to not have a monarchy? There's no actual reason why democracy and republic need to be distinguished, because we're almost always talking about a system where people get a say in how they are governed, not whether there's a monarch.

Nobody doubts whether Denmark, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands or Spain are democracies.

Now to the point about the constitutional issues. Why is it that it's fair for a minority to decide who gets to be leader? To people who've grown up in democratic systems, it certainly seems to be a flaw that it's possible for someone get less support than the loser.

To put it another way, what is having a senate and electoral college that isn't proportional to votes supposed to save you from? Is there a good argument or example of a situation where that made sense?
I would guess that jsonb columns or Entity-Attribute-Value type of schemas are permitted, but if doing something in a grey area it wouldn't hurt to reach out to the company and get permission in writing (or negotiate a license exception.)

Or just pay for their managed service, you probably don't want to be fiddling around with hosting the database yourself. At least everywhere I've worked we used RDS for precisely that reason.
not only shouldn't it be illegal, it probably isn't while the NDA might be illegal (and be evidence of conspiracy)
So what if they leave? The Federal Reserve is in the United States, so is the political power, the military, the banks, the land, the factories, etc, etc, etc. The US government can tax US citizens from anywhere in the world. The government can print or redistributed as much money as they want. A few people leaving a country and taking some gold with them won't matter in the end.
> What I learned from past experiences is to never use analogies. They are almost always a source of distraction, people start to argue about the analogy itself instead of the topic at hand, which is almost always completely counter productive.

As other's have mentioned, perhaps this is only for literal minded thinkers. In Pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini metaphors are identified as the most effective persuasion device. Essentially, take something the audience understands well and use it explain something else.

An anecdote Cialdini provides is from a person who had many years of being the top life insurance salesman in the country. He used a metaphor of "when you check out, your life insurance checks in". The metaphor brought up feelings of abandonment and support in a way that people quickly understood and bought into.
>> Especially given that only ~42% of eligible voters cast votes in the 2016 US elections[0].

>You have that backwards. 42% did not vote; 58% did.

>Still way too low, though.

Yes, you're absolutely correct, and I got it backwards. I need to proofread better.

Thanks for calling me out on this.
They could create a device targeting kids with games, nice controls and everything but it would just be another kind of PSVita at the end with Sony and Nintendo as competitors... It would never be a device competing in the mobile app market.

So yeah, they could do that but it would be pointless.
You're dealing with contracts and licenses. Fishing the internet for opinions that confirm what you want to do is not going to avoid problems.

If it matters, you need to hire a lawyer. Suppose your former employer claims that you acted in bad faith when proposing the MIT license? It doesn't matter if you did or didn't. Your former employer probably has deeper pockets for hiring lawyers.

If you're looking to start a real business, paying lawyers is part of it. This won't hinge on general principles. It will hinge on specifics and the degree of good will involved.

Good luck.
Indeed, to make an even more direct comparison: brightly coloured glasses are very common these days. They seem to be treated like neckties: it's acceptable for them to standout even in very formal situations.
Who will sue the execs Zuckerberg/Sandberg at this point? It's about time.
The financial fraud teams have models of what cash-based businesses 'should' look like. They don't, per se, care if these folks aren't paying taxes (the IRS does, and they have their own models). The Bank is looking more for things like "I'm a house cleaner...depositing $250k+ a year" (possible, but unlikely) or "I've been depositing 2-3k a month for a couple of years and suddenly I'm depositing 10-20k a month".
From what I heard there are some wrinkles to iron out before it's ready for the mass market, but I must admit I have not looked into it closely yet.
The irony is just delicious. It's just like the problem that very small minority of folks on FB have been given a megaphone to spread lies and hate.

All FB has to do is tone down the engagement algorithms. Put up a bunch of invisible walls.
If you buy a 4 million dollar property with 5% down and you go bankrupt it’s your own fault for being over-leveraged If you can’t do the downturn, don’t do the leverage.
Hi there! Thanks, we're really keen on Notion ourselves and building the expertise in it for quite a while already.
The pricing is $3k for the whole package, split into three payments.
Good idea with the demo! We have some components, maybe we could show these off. Also planning a Youtube series on Notion productivity setups, so some of that may appear there
I wanted to like Imba, but could not find simple hash based routing for static sites (ie, no server side magic). Wonder if that is still the case.
The PC also had no MMU or OS overhead.
I appreciate that. Thank you.
I can just picture a gaggle of google employees jumping out of their seats: "They used the wrong word for it! Their argument is invalid!".
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Really nice, thank you I'm keeping it.

One section that may be added would be about interpolations. I think the formula I implemented the most is a * p + b * (1.0-p), i.e. a simple linear interpolation, which is also an extrapolation when p is not in [0..1]. Obviously useful in graphics and animation but also every time you want to give the user a non-binary choice.

A lot can be said on that topic: bilinear, cubic, smoothstep, etc...
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Courts are made up of humans. Good lawyers put time into jury and judge/jurisdiction selection. Good firms hire former court staffers that know the judges presiding over the case. It's not meant to be easy to game the courts because it's a privilege.
>food choices are something we can more immediately control

A great deal of evidence suggests otherwise.
I saw the first one and didn't click; the new one made me click. To each their own I guess ;)
Once you are no longer twelve, life's too fucking short to spend forever configuring your new graphics card unless you have explicitly decided that being A Gamer is your hobby.
Not always. Computed gotos can be faster, because it can relax some restrictions that the switch statement can't amke. Most VM implementations, including CPython, use computed gotos for a not insignificant performance improvement.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Python/ceval.c...
Potentially. It depends on the facts of the case as well as the guarantees around execution and torture'

But in any case if the US wants suspects extradited from western countries they should abolish the death sentence and stop torturing prisoners.
somewhat tangentially to the main point of the article:

> [this is your brain on drugs] "Firstly, makes no sense seeing everyone loves fried eggs. Secondly, this is how my brain looked when trying to start a "bleeding edge" tech company."

but... you undermine your own point! you just said everybody loves fried eggs, so shouldn't your brain looking like that with bleeding edge tech be a good thing? you just said it's a good thing.

I'm pointing it out because it's two of my pet peeves, (1) people attack the analogy, screaming "fallacy reeeee" when they disagree with the overarching point, then they embrace the analogy when they agree; it shouldn't be that way. The analogy is always a good thing, it's a metaphorical tool for conveying a point of understanding and it's not an argument in itself so it can't be a fallacy; and (2) people, young people especially, reflexively feel the need to endorse drug use and more broadly, decry any puritanical notion, to the extent of willing suspension of disbelief that porn, drugs, gambling, and addictions to dopamine might actually not be all that beneficial a use of your time. (I realize that's a complicated sentence; I'm trying to "weed out" the stoners)
These theories aren't necessarily at odds with one another. Could very well be a combination of both MACHOs & WIMPs among other things...
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It's not going to be a few apps and they might not even be a few stores. It's going to be a bunch of stores with varying rules and conditions and bars for quality and selection of apps. I'm not interested in that because I don't trust other companies to do the right thing. If you're interested in that, you can use Android. No one is forcing you to use iOS.

Also, there is no reason to believe any percentage is too high or too low. 30% is what Apple has charged since day 1 when it had no position whatsoever. You will need to explain exactly at which point in time 30% became problematic.
Exactly. It's not a news program, it's a podcast for entertainment. It kind of takes a special kind of something to believe anything otherwise. Go read a mathematics textbook if you want authoritative news.
Quote:

> In fact, 2006 was the high water mark for democracy in the world, with the percentage of democracies peaking that year at 57% among states over one million population (Figure 1), and 61% of all states. 9 Since then the proportion of democracies in the world has gradually declined, to 55% of all states and 48% of states above one million population.

So you are in opposition to even the simplest provable fact provided in the article. And you wish to replace a statistic you don't approve of with... made up measurement? You then bring up that somehow, measurement of liberties would have a scientific basis? Liberties are not a physical quantities. They choose indicators and measured them. You chose to no indicators and simply stated your political bias.

I will choose to appreciate the more rigorous of the two.
You need a more specific question; they did discover and use steam machines.

But you probably have a particular use in mind. And once you realize that, you can ask "would steam engines have been helpful to the Greeks in this context?"
Democracy means rule by the people. When you elect leaders, you're not ruling - you're choosing who rules.

I don't think people are questioning the merits of democracy. I think people are questioning whether the US truly is a democracy.

I'd love to see a shift from voting on leaders to voting on laws and projects. The idea that one person could represent hundreds of millions seems impossible to me.

Participatory Budgeting [0] is truly democratic. Citizens get to vote on how their tax dollars are spent.

I hope that current backlash against our system of government leads to more democracy, not less.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/shari_davis_what_if_you_could_help...
>What happened to the idea of free-speech and countering bad-ideas with better ones?

Go on Twitter or Facebook, or 4chan, 8chan, Voat or wherever you can find these crazies, and try to engage them in rational debate, and convince them their ideas are bad and yours are better. Let us know how that turns out.
Yeah, next time I'll just type out the question. However, given that it's starting to look like OP ghosted the conversation, I'm increasingly comfortable with the originally-unintended rude undertones of "?"
I agree with you that the employers exploiting the workers is the core problem. My disagreement is that you can't blame undocumented immigrants for taking the job, they're just trying to survive.

>how [undocumented immigrants] can stay in the country (and even get benefits, send kids to school, etc.)
"Immigrants taking benefits" is a big misconception pushed by right wingers and others with anti-immigrant sentiments. Getting any kind of government benefit of significance in the US is hard even for citizens. If you don't have documents they'll laugh you out of the office.

I hope you're not suggesting banning the children of undocumented immigrants from attending school would somehow be more fair. Pretty clearly they didn't have a choice in the matter.
"Living on an island" is an allusion to Randism.
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Storing JSON or EAV-format data do not require DDL access, and are commonly deployed in many settings, from product/SaaS analytics, IoT, IT/APM monitoring, and others.

That's actually one of the reasons we tried to frame it in terms of interfaces as well.

(Thanks for the question/interest!)
That's exactly the problem with analogies. It fools people by falsely parading as a valid argument.

Edit: The use of a life insurance salesman as an example is hilariously appropriate given the scam that whole life insurance is and how many people are fooled into buying it.
It is not as simple as you think, and there is quite a bit of people cannot be healthy with such diet.

> Many are also passionate about it because there are other benefits that come with it - no longer needing to kill sentient beings (you probably wouldn't eat your dog, so why eat a pig who is of equal awareness and intelligence?)

Plenty of "sentient beings" are killed for crop farming. I am not even sure meat eaters cause more deaths than most vegans, specially if they are not pbd.
Its not broken, it’s just not designed to do this.

A pdf file is a program that outputs pages you can display or print. There are no more restrictions to the format.

That’s why without some artificial intelligence you can’t edit or reflow the contents.
fwiw I find the arch approach the best tradeoff of practical and useful. Usually when I go to a distro wiki, I'm not really going there to learn in-depth what it is. I'm going there because I have a problem or a question. So having low-structure (easy to contribute to), high-signal (too much low-interest clutter info tends to contribute to documentation decay) tidbits seems to work out well.

I particularly like that if I have an issue, and I figure it out, I can just pop a quick line in there. h4:"Issues snafucating while running nvidia proprietary driver". Body: "you get this error message. <snip>. This is due to <snip>. Run this command to fix it." And it's already at the quality that people expect.
Yet code is meant to conform to specifications. Removing the specifications doesn't make the code any more clear.
Thanks for the refs. Until I digest them the following pair of anecdotes will have to suffice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan#Etymology

> 'Malays had informed him the ape could talk, but preferred not to "lest he be compelled to labour".'

For more literate sandbagging, in Oflag XVIIA (POW camps actively discourage itinerance): https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~michor/leray.pdf

> "Recteur Leray lectured mostly on calculus and topology. He had succeeded in hiding from the Germans the fact that he was a leading expert in fluid dynamics and mechanics (a mécanicien, as he liked to say). He turned, instead, to algebraic topology, a field which he deemed unlikely to spawn war-like applications."

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For a certain period (when the lifestyle was actually militarily superior) roaming worked well for steppe peoples.

I doubt there'd be much theological overlap, but do the BenOp people ever think to look at what the least english-dependent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_people already practice?

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> Analogies illustrate a concept

Effectively illustrating the right concept is, in my opinion, the hardest part of communication. Analogies are powerful because they're intuitive illustrations.

> I typically see analogies used to support an argument, which analogies don't do

Yes and no. Analogies communicate concepts, and concepts support arguments. Analogies neither support arguments nor fail to support arguments; the concepts they communicate do that.

They're hard to use because they can be distracting: if you choose the wrong analogy, you may illustrate an irrelevant concept, rather than the one you mean to. That's why people argue: you mean to illustrate [concept A], but what pops into the receiver's mind is [concept A] AND [concept B]. So now you're not on the same page about what was just said.

Look at the cheerios example: how may related-but-not-the-same examples have popped up in the comments? It's a bad analogy: it needs to be much more narrow and specific.
Exactly that. E.g. in case of Hibernate ORM, the corresponding Quarkus extension will take care of having the persistence.xml being parsed at build time, registering entity properties for reflection in native binaries, making sure all needed resources are added to native binaries, etc.

They also curate the right set of matching (transitive) dependencies for each library, you just need to add the Hibernate ORM Quarkus extension, without having to think too much about versioning. Also they integrate different APIs: e.g. when having the Kafka Streams extension and the MicroProfile Metrics one, you'll automatically get metrics for your streaming pipeline.

Disclaimer: Working for Red Hat, contributing to Quarkus a bit (Kafka Streams and Debezium outbox pattern extensions).
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A bit of a side question, but how slow would it be if we were to query the data without using a time-based approach? I.e. "select * from obj where parent_id = <x>" --> Imagine we had billions of obj and a few thousands matching "parent_id" added randomly during the last 5-10 years. Would there be an index on "parent_id" or would it need to read every hypertable for such a query?

Basically, I'm trying to understand if Timescale is /only/ useful for timeseries or if it has good-enough performance for other use-cases.
The song "Sign o' the Times" has always really captured the feeling of 1986/1987 for me. The AIDS crisis. The Challenger explosion. The Star Wars project (and the backdrop of the Cold War). And that year, on a beach in France, late one night, I stood on something sharp that left a puncture in my foot, and worried for a long time that it was a used needle.

In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name

By chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same
> Apple doesn’t even have 50% of the smartphone market.

It looks like they command between 33% and 46% of sales in the US per quarter. [1]

That's a lot of people. Many of them use their iPhone as their only computer.

> It sounds like you’re an App developer so perhaps it would be more honest to just explicitly state that you want to make more money

I want freedom back.

I have projects that make zero money that I want to run. I also don't want to have to have an Apple SDK license or write it in their chosen technology or be required to follow their stringent UI guidelines because my audience is niche and doesn't care about that. My time on this earth is too limited to jump through more hoops.

I also don't want to have my app deleted because I'm protesting them.

Dealing with Apple is like living under an authoritarian regime. We don't have any choice but to deal with them because of the power they wield.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/620805/smartphone-sales-...
I would appreciate if you could point to some actual data (number of SARs per year in country, false positives...).
There are two different components to that. Would it be politically possible? And would it be effective ?

The answer to the political feasibility question is a straight no. There is not going to be political support to redirect DoD funds to direct stimulus payments to the population. We can't even agree to print new money to pay for more stimulus checks. This basically kills this conversation until at least November.

Whether it is practical is a more difficult question to answer. You were the one who brought up the whole economy is a circle of life idea. That DoD money doesn't just disappear. It goes to buy good and services and it goes to pay people. Abruptly stopping those payments would cause economic problems just like stopping people from paying mortgages. I would even bet that the multiplier is higher for DoD spending than mortgage spending based on the recipients of the money. Would this mean that DoD spending is better for the economy than mortgage spending? I honestly have no idea. Although I do agree that this country should reduce DoD spending and increase spending on social problems long term, it isn't as easy as making an immediate transition in the middle of a pandemic.
Yeah...there's not a COBOL program running someplace saying IF DEPOSIT IS EQUAL TO 9999.00 THEN FLAG-IT. There's some pretty sophisticated machine learning work being done here, and all the major banks these days have a data science team working the problem.
A worse time for developers means worse apps, worse apps means less-happy consumers. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Now I thought someone was establishing a Hitler youth somewhere. Well I guess the Gen Zers on TikTok beat them to it, with little research as usual.

Who would have thought that TikTok had more younger white supremacists in training than Gab? Astonishing. /s
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Yet you continue to use it. No reason for them to change. Anyway, I agree it's naive to think their replacement will be better if it's just another corporation behind it. The only real hope is a decentralized open source solution.
We weren't discussing the extension system. Workspaces are a core feature of both IDEs. Still, that's an interesting fact!
This article is about them, it makes sense that would be the focus.
Yeah for sure. I found the post I made about it (01/24/2014) but I am going to have to dig through my messages/HD to find the screenshot. I'll post when I'm done w/ work