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I don't have a well-defined solution, but I think the notion of companies selling shares to people in armchairs who neither necessarily use nor feel the side effects of the product is an issue. To a great degree I don't believe in 100% free market valuation of companies. Rather, I think the people most affected by the company (positively or negatively) should have the biggest say in its value.

There also needs to be some adjustment to that valuation based on greater good delivered by the company. If they killed off a bunch of smaller businesses, that's a negative. If they emitted a bunch of carbon, that's a negative. If they caused injuries or deaths, that's a negative. If they contributed to open source products that enabled other companies to exist, that's a positive.

Carbon taxes are one step at capturing one very small aspect of this "greater good" factor, but there need to be other adjustments as well.

Another vague idea I've had is a hypothetical economic system in which the government doesn't print money (or isn't the only one printing money) but rather money is brought to existence by certain good deeds. Money can also be traded for goods and services, of course, in addition. So while you could make money by selling food or selling phones, you could also literally print your own money (translate: government hands it to you, in a controlled fashion) by sucking carbon out of the environment and proving that you did that to claim your money.
Oh reasonable. Maybe PS3 was designed for same purpose.
> then given infinite time even the infinitesimal chance of spontaneous order will have it's moment.

Does this hold true for a 1/infinity chance event?

Or (not sure if this is analogous) if you choose infinitely many real numbers ~ unif(0, 1), is it guaranteed you will hit every number in that interval at least once? I'm not even sure the question is well-defined to be honest (at least not without making assumptions about infinities that we have no way to show hold true for this universe), but if it is, is the answer yes? It's not obvious to me.
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Lots of differences with the x-59, no wing canards, one engine on the x-59 vs 3 on the XB-1, the XB-1 seems much shorter.

On the plus side the X-59 was developed by Lockheed and one of their advisors, Dr. Johnson was a CTO at Lockheed so there could be some cross pollination there.

That said, its kind of picking nits. If everything's a remix[1] is true, that is even MORE true in aviation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
"You haven't exhausted all ideas, all ideas have exhausted you."
Speaking of hating the future, the all-digital, gigantic touchscreen interfaces terrify me.

I have a 2011 F150 lariat trim truck, and it is not only swanky on the inside, but isn't phased at all by hauling timber, logs or back woods dirt trails that smaller vehicles get stuck in.

One of my favorite features, though, is that there is NO touchscreen. Every control is a physical button or knob, and I can use any of them from touch and muscle memory alone.

I fully expect the truck to survive another 200k miles or so, but dread the day I have to get something newer.
And run Linux too...
If that were really their strategy then they've got a strange way of pursuing it.
> Start local. Which is pretty much how the US is intended to work.

Fundamentally disagree with you right there. Civil rights, marriage equality, and countless other freedoms bestowed on Americans came from Federal action. If Congress never passed the civil rights act, we might still have segregated bathrooms in half of the US today. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with legislating at the Federal level.

> California made non-competes non-enforceable.

Yeah, back when they ratified their common codes in the 1800’s, it didn’t happen in the modern era. If such legislation were to pass today, you bet labor organizations would be behind it.
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> With infinite time will order spontaneously emerge from heat death?

The theory is more that with "infinite" expansion, the universe becomes so spread out as to in spot become emptier than the vacuum energy, and a new universe spontaneously erupts in that low energy locale. In a very small nutshell.
I know where this frustration comes from, so in one hand I empathize with your rebuttal. In another hand, we did have our own social life and status based on having fun with knowledge (sex though, not so easy). We also exchanged activities with nerd groups of other grades whereas socializing with other grades was anathema for popular people (shame on them).

I say envy because there was always one or two popular ones that would circle around us just a bit closer, curious about what could be so fun about those maps and dices and lines of code. A few came close enough to fall in our gravity well. This was all at a time when computers were solely used to type your assignments on.
That's pretty awesome! I have a friend studying Ukranian right now since his fiancee is Ukranian. Are you with a French person right now? I'd love to just make it a fun little activity you do every day. Just a few words a day (N + 1 daily), maybe 5 minutes help with a partner. And make it an enjoyable activity versus burnout grinds.
I think you’ve simply misread what they are saying. They are saying that the situation in which Monty opens a door and it reveals the grand prize, are the set of cases that we do not care about because we have already lost, and can thus discard them.

This is basically just a different way of saying that Monty looks behind the door to be sure to only reveal goats.

Yes, the probability of wins will be different in these two scenarios, but it doesn’t affect the conclusion: when Monty reveals a goat, you should always switch.

Edit: if you believe I am the confused one after this comment, I will go make the simulation as you suggest.
This view isn't merely bland, conservative, and patronising. I find it downright abhorrent, being the kind of sentiment at the roots of every organisation that ever excluded/demoralised the folks that didn't talk, look, think, or behave like some cookie-cutter template.

There is no assertable "fact" that diversity of expression, or the expression of preferences and identity, extends from immaturity or ideology. On the contrary, it is a mark of organisational and civilisational maturity, and willingness to embrace ideas, that such self-expression is possible, accepted, and encouraged. The qualifiers I'd suggest instead are heterogeneity and imagination, and there is no trend to buck; the world is, and always has been, full of complicated, imaginative people.

When I am very lucky, I even get to work with them.

Sans identity, the individual is a puppet, and sans creativity, humanity is cosmically uninteresting.
> therefore when they switch, they are choosing between one wrong and one right door, every time, regardless of what came before. (p=1/2)

I get why you intuit this - I had a lot of trouble with it at first as well. Common sense is lying to you, however, because you are still dealing with the original odds (1/3 vs 2/3). Monty's choice is always to choose a Goat (probability 1.0), therefore his effect on the probabilities will always be with a weighting of 1.0. You end up with a probably spread of (1/3 * 1.0 vs 2/3 * 1.0).

Therefore it is always in your interests to choose Monty's remaining door.
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I'm sorry, what planet are you guys on where gamers don't want attention-grabbing hardware? Not on the one with the rest of us where all "gaming" branded stuff has garish lighting I guess.
I think lqet's point is that if it's just recounted as being thrown into a situation -- you've picked a door, and Monty opens a door, and it's a goat -- you don't know if you're in a world where Monty always picks a goat or one where he just happened to be lucky. In the second scenario, it doesn't matter if you switch.
For games that require low latency, such as twitch shooters and (traditional) fighting games, a wired connection is indispensable. I don't think the "hardcore" platforms will ever remove it.

Regarding Nintendo, while they've never shipped a console with an Ethernet port built-in, they have supported it since the GameCube (Broadband Adapter); the Wii, Wii U, and Switch all accept standard USB Ethernet dongles. Use of these adapters is somewhat widespread on the Switch, particularly for Mario Maker and Smash (although this is more due to Nintendo's incompetency with netcode than inherent latency in Wi-Fi).
The latter sounds worse. :o
Maybe re-program your brain to desensitize it to whatever the source is.
Anything really. Maybe the bear cam? Anything else?
Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed “opinion leaders” and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies.

That's overly diplomatic. Charlatans take people's money, like a snake oil salesman. This bad advice will make you sick, and could kill you or someone you care for.

Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences.

It's involuntary manslaughter, and yet some 90% of Republicans still intend to re-elect him, as if all of this incompetency and negligence is either a good thing, or at least not unacceptable to them.
But it's still good for a step, no? I definitely agree that one cannot learn a language to the point of fluency from just studying rules like this, but the material is helpful I believe.
Key observation: you lose when switching the door only if your first pick was winning.

Your first pick had 1/3 chance of winning. So switching has 1/3 chance of losing. Thus it has 1 - 1/3 == 2/3 chance of winning.
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I don't understand your point, could you expand it?
So we do not have to have a decade of a case that could be rendered moot with a single act.
>They're smart people and these are not hard concepts.

I suggest you listen to the questions and responses of some of the justices because it's evident they have no idea of what code declarations are.
The pitch is presumably that it's the cheapest way to play. In fact MS looks to be pretty interested in chasing that same streaming dream as Google Stadia and others are.
It kinda does, though. The "Trump's DOJ" investigation into these matters is not over. In fact it's barely entering its active phase, with declassifications etc. Charges won't be pressed until after election at this point, but there certainly will be charges. Yet if you only watch CNN, you could be misled into believing that the Obama FBI was beyond reproach and it's all over by now.
> I felt the same relief when I saw the email and my calendar invite

Were you not panicked at all about losing your job and income in the middle of a recession?
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Awesome, I'd love to help you pick up some of their Chines!. I really enjoy learning it, and there's just so much magic and history in each word and phrase. It's fun learning with a partner if done right. I knew an American/Chinese couple that burned themselves out by trying to go "only talk Chinese" for 2 weeks.
Having written prod code in asm, fortran, pascal, c, c++, java, basic, objc, and swift, I'm weary of arguments about better languages. But what is inarguably true about Apple (and before it NeXT) technology is they are not afraid to jettison what they decide is behind them, though it may linger a long time. Swift and SwiftUI is clearly the path forward.
I think your theory has been pretty well proven with the huge online polyglot community who learn foreign languages regularly as a hobby, as well as other adult language learners like diplomats, random expats etc. You can even look at institutions like the US govt defense language research institute who give specific times to learn specific languages for a native adult English speaker.
For sure. It's a small fraction of the population whose first instinct to prove themselves right is to do which also has the possibility of also proving themselves wrong.
Engineering is a question of conflicting design goals and it seems obvious they've privileged performance over size.
First I am not defending big rich companies. If anything I am complaining the government is not doing enough in the right direction to improve the proportion of Americans in tech jobs.

Every H1B petition from American companies is precisely saying the same thing: they need that worker to run the company effectively and they had no other choice.

I suppose each count of the petition ever made is legally binding. Should this be another such anti-trust lawsuit you mentioned, it will be very big! I don't think they are joking this time.

Those H1B workers contributing to the state of the art technology are not replaceable anyway practically should the US want to innovate within its jurisdiction. Companies hiring for these positions are not declaring a ceiling on the number of positions, at least to pubic.. so anyone qualifying their interview gets the job, to large extent if not all the time. But fewer Americans study STEM or apply to those jobs meeting prerequisites. These companies consistently publish in media that they have shortage.. and the H1B petitions point they had no other choice.

Those H1B workers in IT consulting earning somewhat lower wages are easier to replace but still practically hard. Their petitions tell the same story: they had no other choice.

The right policy framework I believe could work is first making the foundation stronger:

- Heavily subsidize university STEM tuition for Americans next 5-10 years.

- Encourage them to pursue STEM in school. There is no way one focuses on English literature in high school and shows interest in engineering at university.

Then there might be enough talent pool that creates local companies and give strong competition to Indian IT companies.

How many home-grown IT companies are there in the US? What's their size and valuation? The pipeline must be fixed from the beginning.. not just at the end.

With enough local sellers could the competition from outside gets weakened.
SCOTUS interpretation of an act is case law.

With a single legislative act, we need not worry about this or anything else, modulo constitutional issues which can also be fixed via amendments.

No, it is not obvious that API is a "functional thing" covered by existing law by the mere fact that SCOTUS has taken it on and it was a case to begin with.

I'm not sure why a trivial act of congress isn't the first thing we jump to rather than risk ruin. All the act needs to do is clarify what copyright means.

A copyright act for the digital millenium, if you will -- you can call it DMCA 2.0 :)
This sounds amazing.
That’s indeed what happens when the host picks at random (the hypothesis in this subthread). He has a 1/3 chance of showing the car. If he doesn’t, the car is behind any of the other doors with probability 1/2.
You can start thinking in the second language before you have fully mastered it.
What pitfalls did you run into? From what I heard, the learner often expects the other person to become their personal on-demand language teacher. And then patience burns out quickly. I think it works if the learner is committed to self-study but only relies on others for a bit of reinforcement, clarification, and practice.
I think if you really read over the article, you'll see this is wrong. If not, tell us on which step you disagree with the author.

A more common re-telling of the story:

Monty has 1 million doors, with only one car behind one. When you pick a door, Monty will always open 999,998 other doors, all of which show goats, leaving one other door conspicuously closed.

Do you still think you have 50% chance of being right by sticking with your choice?
It might be semantics, but it doesn't matter if he knows or just always chooses goat.

Reordering the sentence makes it clearer. "In all games where Monty chooses goat...". The premise creates a subset.
There is also this documentary that includes interviews with Penrose himself: https://youtu.be/FVDJJVoTx7s
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you can have arbitrarily good convos over a few pints on the weekend... some of my best ideas were first written in the back of a napkin
Well in that situation it's still beneficial to switch, unless the probability of being in the first scenario is exactly zero.
Sweden’s voluntary measures were/are likely followed better than the patchwork of measures in the US. I’m not sure they can be used as an example of anything that’s possible in the US.

Also, this whole ‘locked up’ straw man is growing tiresome. There is a large gradient between locked up and going out like there is no pandemic.
Because it was a stock market term describing hot tech stocks, and Microsoft wasn't hot at the time.
What’s the equivalent in dried material?

I have 2g-equivalent vials. I tried about an eighth once, which is about 250mg. That worked really well but just for a day or two.
I'm trying Servo builds. Oof. Most of the web, even my own very thin no BS pages are not loading perfect. But! Servo is improving. Maybe my Rust skills can improve so I could even contribute.
> the on-board SSD of the PS5 with hardware compression should load at 44Gbps

You sure about that number? That would be close to 2X faster SSD than Apple uses in new MBPs and they are already insanely fast compared to most SSDs. Would love a source if you have it.
I would not say it is a flaw. I think it is a reasonable implicit assumption that there is only one round, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
> If you want to be in London at 9am, you’re leaving NYC at 2am-ish for a supersonic flight. (1h transit to airport, 2h at airport, 3h flight, 1h transit to London)

I'm not sure what you mean - that gets you into London at 2pm not 9am (2am + 1 + 2 + 3 = 9am New York = 2pm London.)

To get into London at 9am you'd need to leave New York City at 10pm (9am - 1 - 3 - 2 = 3am London = 10pm New York. Which seems fine you're doing it overnight no days lost? You'd not get tons of sleep that night but you're not wasting a day either way. Could leave at 8pm and get two hours's sleep in the arrivals lounge!

And leaving at 10pm instead of 5pm as you have to now makes all the difference because it now isn't interfering with your day at all! That was the goal wasn't it? Makes it worth it?
How to build the next Google: all good results these days are within communities, and Google search has become useless for most of these searches.

So don't build a search engine: build a "rotten tomatoes for X" where the sources for each X are "the top N subreddits/communities/editorial-sites/forums for X".

For example, supplements: examine.com, reddit /r/supplements /r/nootropics (long tail ones), wikipedia, etc.

Then, final piece: make this aggregator site also a community (ala reddit/hn) where people vote on the results rankings, but also vote on how other people comment on them. Because you can lock down user accounts quite a bit (have high bar for registration with lots of verification for voting permissions), and you have a quality indictor for the users themselves (users voting on users), you may get much better results over time as the community sorts out who are legit and who isn't.

I'm not saying any system is immune to optimization/spam, but it feels like Reddit, HN, SO, Wikipedia at least prove that if you want good quality content, rely on a community. Why not extend the model to search itself?
If he picks at random (the hypothesis in this subthread) there will be (one third of) games where he doesn’t show a goat.
Maybe it's field specific. In my subfield of physics, I've collaborated with three other groups across the US without any fear of people running off with our work.
I found that mine seems to be mechanical. If I drink out of a water bottle with a straw, it is typically worse the next day. Also, if I drink alcohol, it makes me clench my jaw and my tinnitus is bad the next day.
Yeah, anyone can learn a language quickly. I'm not sure how much the old brain affects it or at what age it cuts off. But people that put in the time or are in the right environment can pick up a language in months. Polyglots do it all the time, and they aren't geniuses, they just found methods that worked for them and have fun with it.

I just don't think there are popular good methods out there. The most successful is complete immersion, but that's extremely hard to be in that situation. Most people want to learn a language for fun. People first default is to rely on Duolingo but everyone I talked to don't learn anything from it even after using it for hundreds of days.

I get by with Anki, but definitely helps to have native speaker nearby to help and practice.
> There was a Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas that shut down because it didn't get enough numbers. So I'd be wary of assuming a project like this would be a huge success.

Wasn't it also pretty far from the strip?
> It’s just a matter of setting your user agent to say you’re running Chrome.

This is the real clincher - websites discriminating against Firefox often don't know why. I assume it's because they don't want to be liable for using their software on a browser they haven't tested on. Or it's just the good ol' Google search on Firefox mobile thing, i.e. "we'll gimp it for no particular reason!"
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