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That is the million dollar question. Why were there so few police present? (so far I've read that Congress didn't want the optics of armed guards). Why weren't more barricades up? There are a dozen plus failures here, throughout many offices.

Conspiracy theorists would say it was less security to allow for chaos, which in turn gives further justification to pushing legislation / controls that take away freedoms.

All of us will say that it's horrible and just like the rioters, looters, murderers and general agents of chaos of the past year, they made a deliberate and reasoned choice to be a part of the chaos.

What I don't like is that statement that all protestors were part of the incident. Just as all of the BLM protesters weren't a part of the riots, evidence shows the same is true for those that rallied.

The bottom line is based on votes, the U.S. is clearly split on perspectives and each side sees things in a near opposite viewpoint.
I was just talking to SO (non-tech) about this! I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing, but it came up because SO and other non-tech friends seemed to be so impressed by my ability to detect edge cases in everyday things.

I am not a “rockstar” engineer - mostly I just tend to think in terms of truth tables, or case coverage because that’s a huge part of my day job.
> If that violent mob was successful in 'stopping the count' - then it very seriously threatens the legitimacy of Biden being president.

If it just stopped the count, and Congress took no other relevant action thereafter, the Presidency and Vice Presidency would become vacant at noon on the 20th and Nancy Pelosi, by virtue of her office as Speaker of the House, would succeed to the Presidency.

But supposed the Congress (or a sufficient subset to deny a quorum in either House) were detained, and Grassley and Pelosi were killed. Then, when Trump's term expired, Trump loyalist Mike Pompeo (while cabinet members traditionally submit their resignation at a change in administration, they don't automatically leave office) would be next in line of succession with vacancies in the Speaker and President Pro Tem positions.

And, more likely the goal, what if Pence were killed (and probably Grassley, too) but then.Senators were released and a President Pro Tem amenable to exercising the arbitrary power Gohmert suggested the presiding officer would have in the electoral vote count were elected, and presided over the vote count as the Vice President was vacant?

(I do think any scenario results in “two Presidents”, I do think several result in “one President (in some cases of dubious legitimacy) who isn't Joe Biden, and (in several scenarios) is either Trump or a Trump loyalist."
In all of those cases you can just say what you want to say, you don't need to pay for special treatment to put your message in front of an unwilling audience. Restricting advertising isn't restricting speech, it's restricting the ability to pay for special treatment for your own speech.
It’s more about the size of the environments and how much grass and leaves I can support. RTX isn’t really a factor in my case
A blast from the past, and of course the article is quite interesting to read 14 years later. Thanks for sharing this
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I think you mistook my reply.

Politics is all about facts and rationality, if it isn't then it will quickly cause your country of choice to slide down into the gutter of irrelevance. The essence of politics in democratic countries is people trying to self-govern with some kind of optimum outcome for the largest number of people involved.

And the Israel/Palestine conflict would improve lots if people started using facts rather than 'might makes right'.

Politics is only about power in some parts of the world, in other parts of the world people are actually trying to get along with each other.
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Driving a couple hundred miles twice or once a year for dentist appointments isn't that hard. Yeah if you injure yourself badly you're just going to die, but that's kind of expected.
Many people naturally do this. The "I can't wait to grow up and get out of here" trope is universal to basically every small town in America.

Many people with the means to do so also like to leave the city to move to small town America. There's really nothing wrong with either of these life experiences. People's needs are varied, both by person, and by the stage of their life. Living in an economic hotspot is more important to some people than it is to others.
Okay I looked and... I'm not sure why you think this example can't be accomplished with my alternate API. You can compose hooks the exact same way and use them in the outer constructor/HOC function. You can nest said functions to receive incoming props. I honestly don't want to spend the time explaining functions as values and scopes, unless you sincerely think that I'm missing a use case here.
9/11 shook many to their core which lead to the Patriot Act. Now — almost 20 years later — every conversation is tracked, every packet intercepted, 19 years of war overseas, millions killed or displaced, extrajudicial detainment and torture abroad, unaccountable secret government entities.

Time will only tell whether the existential threat of free speech is real, but my best guess in “no”: people are still in shock of recent events, but over time it will be clear that giving up our freedoms in a rash reaction to a crisis is not the right decision.
My comment wasn't about paying for formats. It was about designing formats. The zip format is extremely poorly designed. See linked article above
Docusarus looks good.
I don't think eliminating private insurers is a panacea. I just think that the nature of incentives and negotiation between hospitals and insurers has resulted in plainly ridiculous chargemaster prices that harm uninsured and underinsured patients (including those who are "out of network").

Public disclosure and reputational price-indexing as well as regulation of emergency and regionally-monopolized non-elective care would help a lot, but backing the train up on decades of broken incentives and profit-optimized behavior is no small task.
Not really. If you are running a car repair shop or hospital, it’s difficult to derive ongoing value from the cars/people you fixed up in the past. The tricky thing is that code shops hold on to their code and often code shop managers vastly over-value that code and under-value the domain experience built up in their employees while fixing up that code.
Just picking a nit, but it's not multi-core that JS can't be used; Node has some solutions for leveraging all your cores (multiple node processes, basically. PM2 and its ilk). It's specifically CPU bound problems, where the benefits of JS' concurrency model can't shine.
It is obvious you're choosing to selectively argue. The riots made attempts at government, people stormed buildings in Seattle, many others. The bottom line is, you are choosing to argue one side is horrible the other is just. I am arguing that both sides have been horrible. Until you can acknowledge that the same actions have been occurring for a year it's not worth engaging further.
> We worked at a startup that leveraged autonomous blockchains to transfer money from naïve investors to slightly less naïve twenty-somethings.

What does it mean to “leverage autonomous blockchains”?
> physical phenomenon of short-term aging as a route to detecting hardware Trojans

Does anyone understand how this is supposed to work? As near as I can understand it, the idea is that an IC with a trojan horse will behave correctly for some period of time, after which it'll flip over to doing something surreptitious. (For example, the IC might generate random 256-bit cryptographic keys for a long period, but then switch over to always setting 200 bits of the 256 bit key to a known value to make it easy for an adversary to break.) The short-term aging tries to accelerate the period in which the IC is behaving correctly, and get it to switch over sooner to its trojan horse behavior, so that the test bed can detect it. Is that the idea?
Are there enterprise contracts that do not have provisions under which the supplier can end the relationship for cause?

I have a hard time believing the lawyers for a supplier would let them sign a contract that requires them to provide service to a customer under any and all circumstances with no way out.

Edit to add: if you stick servers in a colo data center instead of signing with AWS, doesn’t the data center contract give them the right to evict you under certain circumstances? If you lease office space, doesn’t the lease usually have terms under which the property owner can evict you for cause?
Thanks for this question and answer -- I recently learned about both xpra and x2go, and was wondering if this was related, like a generalization of it or something.

Now I think maybe this is a good answer for some remote visualization applications.
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I wouldn't think of different things in starcraft, or many sauce pans, as context switching.

Instead, if you were to play a different strategy game for 30 min, or prepare a speech for 30 min -- that'd be a more real & problematic context switch.

(I've played starcraft btw, and cook food with many sauce pans.)
Is it really worth even considering if it works or not? Nobody should have to change their names to escape childhood surveillance
> The state only reached 2 million reported cases on Christmas Eve.

It’s now over 3m. In less than a month.
A firm like Pivotal Labs (which, I just discovered, is now VMware Tanzu Labs, which is frankly the saddest thing I have read all day) would have a dataset and a good enough understanding of the assumptions in their Pivotal Tracker software to do good research here. I'm almost certain that they have internal papers that are far beyond the state of the art, so to speak, in the broader academic literature.
> Who would be President on Jan 20?' - if the vote to approve the electoral results on Jan 6th were not completed [...]
Bonus points if you can tell us how the 20th Amendment clarifies that for us.

Nancy Pelosi.

Amendment XX: “The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January [...] If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified."

3 USC § 19(a)(1): “If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.”
I tried to fix my car with sound arguments and correct premises once.

It’s what you don’t know that you don’t know that matters.
> This is a huge risk, and new business models will emerge to help mitigate this risk

There is always a risk when you build your business on a platform then blatantly ignore the contract you sign. Most businesses will mitigate this risk by actually reading and following the terms of contracts they enter into.

The business model you are referring to is called having a legal department. Most businesses do.
There is a lot of injustice in social care. Forced adoption is a thing some countries like UK, where children taken from families even if parents committed no crime or no actual harm done to child. Ruling is often based on a social carer opinion and prediction of a possible harm.
What is Kafka if not a message queue?
This is more of a capturing of current state than a full blown documentary. I still learned a lot about amazon’s logistics.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2qanMpnYsjk
The graph about the curves (escitaloprame, sertraline) seems like a joke. The curves bending upwards indicating that everybody will be worse? Looking at the raw data (points in the graph), there is really no indication for that and if I were to see that I'd prefer the raw data.
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It's a pretty common theme in what Bezos says, no? Here's some examples: https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-succes... has some of such quotes:

> "Failure comes part and parcel with invention," Bezos wrote in his 2013 letter to shareholders. "It's not optional. We ... believe in failing early and iterating until we get it right." Three years later, he added, "Amazon is the best place in the world to fail."

Or:

> “As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle,”

Now, I'm sure that doesn't apply to AWS, and your culture is totally different. You're an enterprise product with real contracts, real commitments, and making real money. You're not the Groupon clone, online pharmacy or whatever that grocery service *Amazon killed today* was.

But if we're accepting that Amazon's general trigger-happiness when it comes to failed consumer products doesn't extend to AWS, why does Google Cloud not get the same treatment?
Looking at his tendency to switch wives for a newer model is clear evidence that he has a lack of respect for the women in his life. But there is little evidence that his policy positions disadvantage women.

The travel ban was not something I see as racist. It was nationalistic and popularist. There was a terror threat and Trump actioned a broad travel ban to make his voters feel protected from that threat. Did it actually protect anyone, probably not. Did it unfairly disadvantage huge numbers of primarily Muslim people, yes it did. But the intent had nothing to do with them being Muslim, it had to do with their perceived link to terrorism. You could argue that it was racist to ignore the rights of all these foreign nationals but I think Trump's position was that he only cared about Americans. He was a strong nationalist but in my opinion not a racist.
To me at least that was an impressive amount of working your butt off for something you believed in.
Did you know that UNICEF defines "orphan" as a child with at least one dead parent? Globally there are estimated to be about 15 million "double orphans", and 90% of them live with extended family. Of those that don't, frequently there is extended family or at least known families of their own culture/ethnicity/country who could take them in if given financial support - which is not only cheaper than adopting them from the US, but doesn't cut their ties to home.
Aside from that, more than 90% are over the age of 5. Almost none are actually babies, and of course children orphaned at birth may have inherited AIDS or have other health issues due to whatever killed their parents. Adopting a healthy foreign baby from the US is more likely than not to involve some form of human rights violation just to make them available to you.
https://www.soschildrensvillages.ca/orphan-crisis-sub-sahara...

https://www.unicef.org/media/orphans
Essentially you're talking about roughly 33% or so of the American electorate, that's bound to get some downvotes, I wouldn't sweat it, note the good guys, upvote them where you can and stick around to stop it from sliding away even further. And yes, it is annoying. Also: typically it corrects itself in the longer run, so don't take a snapshot like this as the end state.
> Here is a link with a bit of info about them

Thanks for the information. This is still only in certain places (I notice you mention tourist destinations--yes, that's the kind of place I would expect this to be done), not "everywhere", and it certainly doesn't mean that you or I as sober drivers can relax and believe that we are not still at risk from other drivers possibly being drunk. But I agree it does go beyond only enforcing the laws when someone has already made a mistake (unless you count "driving into a visible DUI checkpoint when you know you're drunk" as a mistake).
More and more developers these days give their work away for free and create a Patreon. I don't know if it would work in this case, but if enough people got wind of the idea, perhaps it would at least equalize. Not all brilliant ideas are meant to be businesses, so why not give users the options to support something they find useful? You can easily thermometer the demand this way, and if there's a [community] need that you are fulfilling, supporters will show up. You can always hide more advanced features behind the Patreon subscription levels, too. It sounds like what you are really after is a community that vets health knowledge, and this could be one cornerstone of that.
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I don't think the article's argument is that Pinker is a bad writer or doesn't know how to write for an academic audience; it's that Pinker is missing the point when he tries to tell others how to make academic writing better.

I watched one of Pinker's lectures on writing, and thought it was mostly fluff, full of snarky "look how awful this scientific writing is, ha ha."
Also, the author completely missed the fact that different people react differently to different treatments.

It's basically akin to looking at Google Analytics and trying to predict what your next website visitor will do. You'll have an idea of what someone's going to do, but you can't perfectly predict it.
It's something that Ibram Kendi has pushed back on: https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/anticapitalist-sponsore.... But he does not represent the Black community, despite the amount of media he gets.
What if, like parler or what happened to Alex Jones, there isn't 'oodles of places' to go, because silicon valley acts in a coordinated-like fashion?

Is it censorship then?
While I tend to agree, the research we environment demands this nonsense. Also, they have to start somewhere to set a record to get future funding. Should probably do more survey studies of what data exists and where the state of things are then suggest new studies and seek funding for it.

Short of large and completely government funded development projects, I think it would be a struggle to get data. Few businesses would be willing to offer up development processes and surrounding data due to potential IP lost. Any organization that has good processes have it in their interest to striffle others from discovering how to improve theirs or learn from the success of others.

Part of the issue is that academia largely just doesn't pay for software development which they can leverage as an accessible cheap data source, it's done as a completely privatized exercise. Any research that requires highly protected commercial processes is pretty difficult to get any traction on unless you're inadvertently rediscovering the same processes (from my experience).

With that said, I feel like the amount of empirical data you'd need is going to be incredibly high, much if it not even currently being collected.
I just want to point out that much of the things that supposedly justify sending kids to foster care, actually happen just as much (if not more) in said care of the state. There are major issues with lack of oversight of foster parents. I just didn't see this mentioned thus far and thought it relevant.
Speaking purely of the headline... imagine saying that in a client meeting: your own learning is the real gem, the working code is a potential side effect that the client may benefit from. Imagine saying it with a fully straight face, deadpan, and not backpedaling on it.

Clients are worried sick that their businesses won’t exist unless they make the right key technology investments. They are worried they will be looking for a job if their contractors can’t deliver. But as long as the contractors learn enough, it’s all good.

Again, speaking specifically of the deliberately provocative headline
Statistically speaking, isn't it sound to throw all the papers into the mulcher and see what comes out the other end? We do use the term "outliers" a lot in statistics, do we not? I understand that the quality might not be up to snuff for some, but won't the law of averages take care of that?
Plenty of smart people have died in childhood for reasons completely out of their control, which makes them pretty unsuccessful by any metric.
I can still hear the sound when I see the word “Sosumi”
> Which civilization in history was safer?

"Safer" in what respects? Personal safety?

The US is 94/230 for countries with highest intentional murders per capita.[0] St. Louis and Baltimore rank 9 and 11 as highest murders per capita by cities across the entire world.[1] US ranks 14/116 with the highest rapes per capita.[2]

There are plenty of governments and societies safer than the US with regards to personal safety.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
[2] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violen...

> Tell me you criterion of safety and your example, let's see if I need to be corrected.

You are aware you're the one who made the argument that the US is the "most safe civilization ever existed on the face of the planet", and you are not specifying what the criteria you used to evaluate that?
This is a very easy exercise: instead of cowering while letting other people take risks in his name, President Trump walks over to the Capitol. With him at the head of the column, many more people storm the building (the Capitol police likely don't put up a fight because nobody told them to fight the President), they occupy the building and take representatives hostage. At this point in time there is no longer a democracy in the US. What happens after that is anybody's guess; by my lights, probably the military leaders don't the President, their troops mostly follow their orders, they retake the Capitol, restore power to Congress, and install Pence as President, followed by democracy being restored not long after by a quick 25th amendment or impeachment and removal. But it would be plausible that some number of the military's leaders choose to back the President instead, or that an insufficient number of the troops follow their orders, resulting in either a successful coup or a protracted civil war.

The only thing that saved us from this was Trump's cowardice.