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> Congress has only halfheartedly moved away from this system because cable and telecom are the largest political donor groups

The benefit telcos provide Congress are in letting them target employment and benefits. There are few other industries where a Congressperson can reliably create X jobs and headline benefits for their district, specifically and tangibly. That, much more than campaign contributions, explains their clout.

(People tend to vastly over-estimate the value of campaign contributions. They're lifeblood to challengers. But for incumbents, they largely have value in not going to challengers than as a direct benefit.)
The slug isn't parsed, you can put whatever you want or nothing at all in there:

https://www.amazon.com/this-part-is-irrelevant/dp/B084CG43XD

https://www.amazon.com/official-apple-sling/dp/B084CG43XD

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084CG43XD

So it's just an old link. The new name is presumably in new links generated by Amazon.
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This is funny i actually have 2 windows installed one for gaming and one for work, it works excellent.

The gaming setup doesnt have slack/messenger and all those distracting things so when i boot it up in the evening i know im off work.
RNA vaccines could inactivate the genes that suppress cancer
Scientists have virtually unfolded a 17th-century locked letter for the 1st time
Should We Fear Deflation? [pdf]
I'm not OP and I think you're right, but subsidies are not often direct cash injection. It can be bailing farmers out of debt, stripping taxes for slaughterhouse, or even workers compensation for incident on meat plants.
I think young people are more likely to take advice from Tik Tok or Youtube gurus. Social media and influencers have all the power over them. Good luck with the app though!
Yes, but you wouldn't click the "Apply" button on the actual job post (ie, LinkedIn or whatever) and NOT follow the instructions would you? The point was that if you're going to apply, follow the instructions in the job ad.
"Our findings show the need to go beyond genomic analyses in cancer diagnostics, as mRNA events that are silent at the DNA level are widespread contributors to cancer pathogenesis through the inactivation of tumour-suppressor genes."

I think this means that RNA vaccines could inactivate the genes that suppress cancer.

For me this talks to the wider issue of rushing out cures under 'emergency legislation' as the testing is being undertaken on the population at large. These sorts of eventualities have not been considered or accounted for in a testing process that has shrunk from 10 years into just a few months.
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That's a cool experiment, and a well-written article, thanks!

I've had a tiny bit of experience dealing with the visual system in a related but distant field (the feedback loops of visual accommodation and vergence and conflicts that can emerge with stereoscopic 3d - and I wish I had understood and done actually insightful things..). This left me wondering about the important place of vision-based experiments in the theories of perception as well as consciousness. What are your thoughts about that subject? For example, would similar research be doable with other senses just as well, or is that something that we have a harder time grasping or even formulating (due to a certain bias towards vision) ?

edit: I've read the other comment about the double-take so in this case there seems to be some ways to test that out on other senses, but my question still holds when talking about the overall field and the prevalence of vision in this kind fo research
In emacs, M-x global-auto-revert-mode. in a shell:

while inotifywait -e modify -r .; do sleep 0.5; make; done

load up the .dot file and the output .png file side by side in an emacs frame. Every time you save the .dot file, the inotifywait loop rebuilds the output .png, writes it to disk, and then emacs notices that the file on disk is newer than its buffer so it "reverts" (reloads) it.

There's even a bit more you can do, with flymake-mode. With flymake-mode, the buffer you're working on gets saved to a separate filename every time you stop editing it for a few ms. If your makefile is set up right, it will build an output file from the temporary flymake file, so you can have that resulting "temporary" artifact open as the other emacs buffer and get automatic refreshing every time you stop typing.

This workflow works for nearly anything you can edit in emacs, as long as you can write a makefile. I wrote everything in grad school this way.

I think VS Code has something even nicer preview (no manual setup or dinking around in a shell) for some plugins, but I don't know if it's general like this setup is.

Edit: Though, this setup has the perennial problem of anything involving emacs: it's completely single-player. I can't easily collaborate with anybody while using this workflow. I also can't really touch any part of it while I'm on my phone. SaaS web/mobile apps can do those things, so they might be more applicable depending on the situation.
I was thinking about it the other day when reading the original article, and this was the only plausible (and defensible) cause for it not being addressed:

When GTA online was released 7 years ago in 2013, the list of DLC items was probably much shorter, and grew over time. The performance issue is exponentially aggravated with list-length. The list growth was probably bell-curve shaped over the lifetime of the game.

This has an interesting dynamic when it comes to perceived performance:

In the beginning, on consoles and PCs - it was already a pretty long load time, but would have been 90s or so on an average gaming PC (I remember this from the early days playing it, on a modest gaming PC with an FX-8150 cpu). This is long, but tolerable for a game of this size. I'm certain that early complaints that it was sluggish to load were profiled and looked at, and at the time it wasn't a 4 minute ordeal to load the json and probably represented a fraction of the CPU time it takes today - not standing out as obviously as in OPs guerilla profiling. Devs put a pin in it and say "this is netcode related, it is what it is"

Over time, the list gets longer, the loading time takes more cycles, BUT, PCs are getting progressively faster year over year as well, with many of those improvements happening at the instruction-level - optimizing for things like, surprise, string scanning. Two console generations are released since, masking the problem on that side. For comparison sake, I just checked and I can load GTA online in about 75s on my Ryzen 3900x. This cpu is probably 4-6x faster in single core performance than the 8150 for most workloads. Again, it's slow but tolerable and by this time it's "yeah GTA online is just a big game and takes a while to load, it's always been that way". Complacency is the enemy of improvement, and things that regress slowly over time are hard for us to notice in general.

Don't take this as a "this is fine" comment, but instead the only reasonable justification I can think of as to why it might have flown under the radar all these years.
In historical Europe, the probability of dying due to skull fracture varied between 2 percent (some places in England), 7 percent (London) and 20 percent (Croatia).

Not to mention early death from famine and disease and other forms of homicide.

The notion that we've got it harder now is wrong on all counts.

There's a case to be made that we've got new existential risks due to technological progress (climate change, nukes, AI), and that's accurate, but tech/civilization will also help us to offset other existential risks (asteroid impact, pathogen). So that's up for debate.
Stable may be correct. But part of that stability was high infant / child death rates and very low life expectancy.
"They provide jobs" is often a euphemism for "they give me money".
The issue here is the brain of test subjects aren’t simply doing exactly one thing at a time. Your ears don’t turn off because you’re doing a memory task in an MRI.

As such it’s impossible to say what subset of brain activity is directly related to some activity rather than some related mental processes.
I had the same thought, but they're both a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)
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You can remove the antenna from a radio and remove the ability to hear the ballgame. That does not mean the game was happening in the antenna.

Before getting hung up on the idea of transmission, understand this is just an analogy: breaking something by removing a part does not prove much at all.
> 1GB symmetric (which in practice has been a true 1Gb down, ~300mb up)

> service was not nearly as good (1gb/50)

Units gore. From context you almost certainly mean Gb/s and Mb/s. mb and gb are weird units that although technically possible don't apply here. GB is possible in this context but probably not what you meant. From context this is mostly understandable, but it makes it harder to follow.
SQL dated back to work at IBM in the early 1970s but it didn't actually find its way into products from IBM and Oracle for almost another decade. I can't say to what degree any of that work influenced dBase. Certainly, the relational model wasn't dominant at the time.
Remember two weeks ago when Oracle software that had been sold and resold multiple times resulted in Citibank accidentally wiring $900m instead of $9m (rough numbers)?

I am beginning to think the claim "Developed in partnership with <BigCorp>" should be seen as a liability disclaimer rather than an asset that adds credibility.
The boys' club has a hard time reaching women's interests. You tend to end up with pink versions of male products when they try. But it's easy to take over existing ones as they become successful.

What tends to happen is that women start products/media that appeal to women, then as it grows, men take notice. They get brought on in management and finance roles, because they have established connections in those fields (where connections are crucial). And too often, that means importing the cultures that drove women out in the first place, in both old and new media.

I hope we get more stories like this, where the women can maintain control. The article points out that they never took VC money. But it's also because they started out moderately wealthy; they were effectively their own VCs.

Female-specific VCs are going to take enormous amounts of flak if they try, but it may be a route to reach whole new markets. Rather than just turning things pink and or making more dating sims.
I hesitate to give people this advice because most jobs have some meaningless tasks. If everyone who has a task like this would leave his job, no one will stay at his job for a few months. But I deeply understand what you mean.
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I don’t trust non symmetric connections advertised speeds in the first place, but 100Mbps is the minimum a family would need for multiple video calls and offsite backups.
If you're concerned about leaving your house due to COVID, the Oculus Quest 2 ($300) has helped with feeling trapped a little bit. I feel like I'm in the environment when I have the goggles on. And the exercise apps have been a great way to exercise in my room (I use Supernatural and Thrill of the Fight)
> But plenty of other countries have those too and manage to not have an insanely complex tax-filling regime?

Citation needed. How can you have a non-complex tax filing regime when you have so many deductions and credits that only the taxpayer knows about or has documentation of?

When I donate to a charity, they don’t report my donations directly to the IRS (nor should they - we don’t want the government to be collecting data on everyone’s charity giving). I have to collect the letters they send me at the end of the year and total my donations in order to deduct my charitable contributions. The government never even knows what charities I donated to unless I’m audited and they ask for proof.
Jack Dorsey’s Square is acquiring a big stake in Jay-Z’s Tidal
I'm afraid I'm a nano guy. Though, I have never given vim a chance so maybe I should spend an evening with it.
Are all food items necessities? I don't know, maybe? Are ice cream, trans fats, soda, candy, filet mignon, alcohol, etc. not luxuries?

I empathize with the position that any tax on a food item will disproportionally impact the poor. And I agree, everyone should have a baseline level of housing and food accessible to them regardless of their circumstances. But if a food item has huge negative externalities, surely we should do something to limit its appeal and consumption, right?
Pretty much every single family property in Silicon Valley is waiting to get torn down and replaced with a 3-4 family property or more.
VBA in Excel got me interested. It was very easy to build GUIs that did simple things. That started me off with a magnifier and registry cleaner application (way over scope for my skill level) and kicked off my interest in development.
Agreed. My first instinct was the same: *scanf is never the right tool for pretty much any job.

I learned this 20+ years ago. As far as I'm concerned it should have been considered deprecated along with gets; it was considered dangerous in the early 90s and probably before. Not sure why people are still using it in the 2000s+.
Thank you - that is what we are trying to change!
Sadly the outbound preferences will be going away too it seems.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lqtecn/update_to...
FYI, the Costco capital one does not support this.
The Chinese room argument certainly only exists to muddy the waters. The whole premise is a misdirection by having a human execute a Chinese-speaking program by hand, then asking if the human understands Chinese, completely ignoring the fact that is the program that is responsible for the behavior, not the human. That would be like asking if neurotransmitters understand Chinese instead of focusing on the brain as a whole.

Philosophical zombies are a bit more interesting. However it flirts a bit too much with dualism in assuming something indistinguishable from a human can lack some "qualia" that a real human has. A more useful perspective would be from a human brain simulation angle.
>analog reality.

Quantization would like a word with you.
*nix.
thanks, bookmarked.
I'm enjoying 900Mb symmetric from G-network for 48GBP / month. It's been pretty good so far although I wonder if it'll get slow as more people join.
> There is no freedom of opportunity without societal context. I am, as a man, legally free to wear a skirt in my country, yet I've never done and I've also met almost none who did - because of the socials costs this would incur. And skirt wearing is obviously 100% culture, 0% genes.

I see...

You need some serious twisting of the objective reality and ignoring a lot of things to arrive at that "skirt wearing is 100% culture" conclusion. But if you do believe that then of course it's easy to see how the rest follows from it.

I do not see it at all the same way.

Skirt wearing, as well as other clothes, especially "beautiful/sexu" clothes, is very related to the sexuality of people and the differences of how that sexuality plays out different in males/females. It has physiological differences, visual differences, ideological differences, practical differences in sexual selection, etc. To say that all that is just societally constructed is basically the same as saying "gender is purely a social construct", which, IMO, is 100% military-grade bullshit. It is used by ideologs to split the society and promote certain political agendas, it does not come from science.

I can imagine a society where it would not be about skirts per se, but it would be about some other very similar piece of clothing, that would similarly demonstrate female features, and signal things like health, sexual proclivities, sexual availability, age, sexual preferences etc. Those clothing pieces would also talk to the same centres in our brain that understand beauty, symmetry, healthy body shapes, etc. Most of those things are rooted in biology or deeper, even if there is a thick societal layer of covering on top of that.
One cool feature of this password manager is that you can save it to a file and it will create a self contained application that includes your encrypted vault, all in a single html file that you can use offline, save wherever you want and use however you like. I used it for many years myself but always wanted to improve it and share it with the world now I finally managed to finish it.
The Era of Audio Creators Has Arrived
For comparison, in India I pay 54$ a month for 1Gbps symmetric broadband. On speedtest, I get about ~700mbps download and ~800mbps upload.
Yes! We informally referred to this as the "double-take phenomenon", and our hunch is that this is exactly what is going on.

During my Ph.D, I would often spot this on my way to the lab. I would be seated in the subway early in the morning, and suddenly realize that the name of a station had just been announced, but that I hadn't heard it. Then, it was suddenly like I had heard it -- as if the trace sensory signal in auditory cortex had been isolated and amplified by my attentional system, before it fully dissipated.

It was (and still is) super cool.
I've never heard of anyone paying $80k for a c-section out of pocket, and I know a lot of people that got them. Hell, my wife had to have 2 and the total bills were around $25k, and we paid around $2k out of pocket after insurance.
sure, some earnestly believe the election was stolen, but that's probably <1%.

most realize that, regardless of belief, saying it was stolen (and reciting the popular but dubious evidence) is how to keep the issue at the fore. they do so because the result was painful and want others to share in and console (even remedy) these feelings of loss. this attention and response is worth the relative deception in their personal calculus.

we all exaggerate this way from time to time in our social interactions. a significant part of our brain is dedicated to detecting and countering (and creating) deception for a reason.

a similar phenomenon happens with pro-maskers, where the practical utility of masks is actually pretty limited in time and (social) space. most vocal advocates don't really care/know if they work (particularly when and where they work); what's desired is (public) compliance, to soothe fears and anxieties, hence relatively forceful affirmations of belief around them (this has a negative net effect, because it takes away critical mindshare from distancing, which is much more broadly useful and effective).
I would say that, on the whole, Frued's influence has been more harmful than anything.
Most US federal and state taxes can be computed by a rules engine. The big annual challenges are: updating the interviews, QA-ing the rules/engine, fed/state rule-making delays/defects, and ensuring that required printable forms are pixel-perfect replicas of their government-published sources.

For tax year 2017 (a pretty typical year), there were over 5000 Federal/state forms/interview scripts to be updated. This requires a seasonal army of tax accountant/developers to update the app "content." It's not uncommon for providers to be updating forms/interviews well into March (when filing opens in January).

Source: worked for a Turbotax competitor
Alinea is also a three-Michelin star restaurant in Chicago. I don't think names need to be 100% unique, but in the case of targeting wealthy investors - I'd assume they're one of the most likely groups of people to already think of "Alinea" as a restaurant. Plus, Alinea is involved heavily involved in tech via Tock.
I wonder if they are real.
Crazy, I get 1gb up and down for $70 a month. It’s a shame Google Fiber didn’t continue to grow, they’re such a great internet provider.
> control information

On their websites. You keep leaving that out. Facebook can't control what goes on Twitter and vice versa. But the government has power over both. That's why it's bad for the government to do it.
Here in Brazil i pay something around 30usd(170 BRL) for 200/200 + cellphone with no caps.

Local ISPs are great for competition.
Yeah let's continue to cram more and more people onto Earth to the point that we have to continuously lower our standard of living just to fit them all. But I'm the one who's misanthropic?
The brainstem is a state machine.

Happy and alive? Or Not happy and alive? Depends on the sum of the signals for hunger, respiration, and pain from the body.
The simpler explanation is that we probably have a flawed understanding of what the CEO role entails at these companies.
>If you reject philosophy, you reject science.

It doesn't take that much charity to interpret that what the original poster was saying as, "I reject the subset of philosophy that is not science, on the grounds that the subset which is science has all of the value," a legitimate position at least which is not tautologically false. I guess the reason why one thing being good could make another thing bad would be that time spent using nonscientific philosophical techniques to answer questions incurs an opportunity cost, that you are not using scientific techniques to answer them. Or even that trying to answer questions that scientific techniques can't solve incurs an opportunity cost, that you could be answering other questions that you had a chance at solving. (That would be a consistent belief if you thought that nonscientific thought couldn't make progress on questions, even if you conceded that scientific techniques could not make progress on all questions.)
Maybe Nova if you’re on a Mac.
Oh man, this brings back memories. That game was a great tactical shooter back in the day. Sadly my PC was unable to keep up with the higher requirements required by it's updates.
Actually this is a good path to becoming vegan/vegetarian for some people.

Eliminating all the meats as options for core components of dishes all at once is a radical and major change.

Eliminating just a couple of them, ie beef or red meat, getting used to it and probably learning a couple veggie main dishes to replace the variety makes the next step easier.

Then cut back on a next meat or dairy item once the first step became normal. Repeat.

This worked for me, and at the start I didn’t even think I’d go all the way. I just wanted to stop eating red meat since it seemed the least efficient.
Hadn't heard of the VELDT board that this design targets, but it looks like it's based on the Lattice ICE40 which means you can use the open source yosys/symbiflow tools.
I always figured it just meant Troll as in the fairy tale creature who are notoriously not nice.
I find it helps to stick to an office-like routine even when you don't really need to. Like do actually wake up on time, take a shower, perform normal grooming tasks, get dressed in professional clothes, make breakfast, and get online on time.
Makes you wonder whether you ever thought not having a baby might be a sensible option.
Blink and you'll miss it !!

Oh the nostalgia. Linkers were exotic at the time. Before I discovered Blinker, I got to use Exospace that was shipped with Clipper 5.3. A lot of old goodies are still availabe at the The Oasis mirror at https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/ftpgenrl.htm
> Could it be because "not looking for work" was the result of more "natural" forces (disability, old age, etc) in years past?

This is my guess.

My interpretation is that the concern is that COVID is leading to more discouraged workers than would be expected under normal circumstances, and so the top-line unemployment numbers are now understating or failing to reflect a critical impact of the pandemic.