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securing infrastructure for s/elections/whatever/

My thesis is that the existing rules and authorities aren't the problem, and Congress doesn't need let the NSA have any more authorities. Especially so because the NSA director didn't even ask. They can/should work within their existing orders to secure the nation's critical systems, to reduce the vulnerabilities to a level that the FBI can handle them. Congress pushing to enable government overreach is not the solution.
> That is not addressing the same claim though.

Did you just reply to the sentence I quoted or did you click the links? The tweets are very obviously not limited to that:
https://twitter.com/ehundman/status/1246598376377831425

And honestly, it's hard to go from "this happened via natural selection" to "nobody dismissed this coming from a lab". Even if it's technically possible, surely you can understand why readers' message from this is not "this could have come from a lab".
Though the (misguided)point is that during the "dark ages" things were great elsewhere, calling an Indian invention "Arabic numerals" because that's how they got introduced to Europe is rather Anglo-centric.
It appears to me, the rise was almost exclusively artificial overseas (likely from China) investments. Basically, Canada is stable and the wealthy in China need a place to park wealth (in a diversified way). Best option is foreign land purchases. This has been occurring in largely west coast US cities as well.

The solution(s) are pretty straight forward and I believe Vancouver already initiated a tax on not living in a residence. If the goal is affordability, those policies need to be increased as well as new building efforts (aka change zoning).
And how much more of it is preparation for the effects of global warming? I'm personally strongly considering buying land in Alaska because the land will be far more livable in just a few decades. It makes sense that people around the globe would start preparing in Canada too.
Majority of mortgages in Canada are fixed rate and do not float month to month.

> 73%: Percentage of mortgage holders with fixed-rate mortgages in 2020
Down from 74% in 2019

> 22%: Percentage of mortgages that have variable or adjustable rates
Down from 21% in 2019

https://www.canadianmortgagetrends.com/2021/03/the-state-of-...
I don’t think it’s a good language as the first programming language tbh. Way too many gotchas owing to its early design decisions. Python or even Java are much more accessible IMO.
Japan also had 100 years mortgages. Big crash is 10x price reduction, not 10%.
> the data is yours and it stays on your computer

Music to my ears! I hope more developers go this route and prioritize making quality software over squeezing every available drop of data from users.
Those private US universities are actually free. Their endowments are large enough they can provide 100% tuition aid if you can't afford them. The problem is getting in.
Everything about English is very different just because of its standing in the world. People aren't even that interested in "mastering" other languages. Not just a native vs non-native thing either [0]. You'll see fewer books about style, copywriting and so forth targeting the native population too. People just don't do it as much in these languages and it's not as good of an investment. An American may be as interested in better writing skills as any ESL speaker. Fewer Frenchmen will think French skills are a good investment.

[0] Though this is interesting too. "Natives" of English may be more invested in this distinction than those of other languages. Native vs non-native dynamics are very different in English too.
Socialists are mean because they want to steal other people's property (and often also murder them). The "afford a basic human need" thing is just a smoke screen, as there is enough space to live in Germany.

And if you want them to afford the basic human need to live in central Berlin, then the question again becomes, who will be entitled to do so? Socialists never answer that. Since it will not be the people who actually pay for it (meaning they somehow earned money, hopefully by providing something useful to other people), it will be the people who are elected to the socialist parties and their cronies.

I don't see why "being a political activist" should entitle you to a better home than doing actual productive work, earning money and paying for your home. That's just my feeling of justice and entitlement.

And the buck really stops when socialists start using hate speech ("parasitic landlords") for their agenda. You live in Berlin, you know how it all turned out a couple of decades ago.
It is down for me too, but amp version works:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/betterdwelling.com/canadian-pro...
Well to be fair, even if you weren’t in the wrong at first, a sarcastic response to a teacher does put you in the wrong...
But Stallman would argue that the standard word, if we're talking about 'they', 'them' and 'their', is inappropriate. He acknowledges that these words have historically been used in the singular, but convincingly points out that this merely proves that our ancestors also faced the same paucity of choice for referring to the indefinite singular.

What Stallman didn't employ in his defence, and a fact also ignored by many proponents of 'they' who regularly cite its historical usage as proof of transphobia in anyone who refuses to engage in the practice the now, is that this historical usage was applied when the subject of the sentence was indefinite, whereas the modern call to use 'they' is in the case of a specific, known person. This usage does not have a long linguistic history, regardless of whether the existence of such would, in itself, form compelling grounds on which to continue its usage.
Serbia also has enough supply, because they buy the vaccine from everyone they can (chinese, russian, european,...).

In many (EU) countries, the EU is passively forcing them to use EU backed vacciness and not foreign ones (russian, chinese), while being unable to provide enough vaccines for their own people and even exporting those vaccines to other non-eu countries.
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This doesn't describe what traditional CV approach this uses, presumably descriptor based ones: A-KAZE, SIFT etc. do work well for such scenarios. So both Deep learning and traditional machine vision have their place.
It doesn't say anything about "intent". The hypothesis that the virus was modified in a gain-of-function experiment in Wuhan is plausible.
Title is misleading. The tweet wasn't just voicing an anti-union opinion, Musk was actively threatening employees who tried to join unions.
Home ownership is now very liquid. People buy/sell/move very easily. Foreign ownership is huge and as mentioned, money laundering is now rife in realestate. Prices in London are estimated to be 10% higher due to laundering. I'm sure that it's much higher in higher priced homes...for a while.
I've never yet seen an HSA that's actually advantageous unless you're able to tightly plan out your medical costs for the next year. They're always "decide how much goes in for 2021 in October 2020, then use it or lose it".

Sure, the tax advantage is nice, but it doesn't make up for expecting to be paying $2000 in visits over the course of a year, then (for whatever unexpected reason) paying half that—the extra $1000 just goes away, and with it the tax savings you would have made over years of effective use.
Yes, in France there was a large scale "anonymous CV" experiment, and going against what was expected, made people from minorities or poor neighbourhoods more disadvantaged.

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/04/04/le-cv-anon...
As an economist articles like this strike me as pretty bizarre. Okay, so an asset class is more affordable than it used to be. Why does this indicate the existence of an asset price bubble rather than normal supply/demand dynamics?
For example, the guys at OTOY couldn't care one second about PyTorch, TensorFlow.

https://home.otoy.com/
Heh.

More seriously, I first browsed the textile & inscription images, guessing they'd most likely have color targets.

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010000055

As you can see, they do have scales (of course).

I know nothing about archiving, archeology, history. I'm just guessing that color calibration would be crucial to their studies.

I think you can infer white balance from those scales. And because they're two toned, maybe some of the gamut too?

Not using a proper color target just seems like a missed opportunity.
Not in your test case, but a problem with many HD plans is that they have grown their deductibles faster than IRS rules for the plan to be HSA eligible (currently $7k max single person deductible). So HSA eligible plans end up costing more than HD plans which further complicates the issue.

Of course, leave it up to the IRS to take something that should be a good thing, and put rules around it that make it hard to use.
Alright, I’ll concede I should not have used the phrase “nobody”
This paragraph jumps out at me:

> For our entrepreneurial email senders, we opted to use distinctively East-Asian (i.e., Asian) and Western-European (i.e., White) last names, both paired with common American first names that are distinctively female or male. Asians are overrepresented in the U.S. venture capital space, relative to their fraction of the U.S. population. Gompers and Wang (2017) report that 11% of U.S. entrepreneurs backed by venture capital firms are Asian, as are 11% of U.S. VCs, compared to 5% of the U.S. labor force. Despite this, past audit studies uniformly find strong discrimination against Asians (see Section 4 for more details). Correspondence studies that look at discrimination against both Asian and Black applicants often find that both groups face similar level of discrimination (e.g., Wood, Hales, Purdon, Sejersen, and Hayllar (2009); Booth, Leigh, and Varganova (2012); and Milkman, Akinola, and Chugh (2012)). This bias extends to Asians who do not appear to be foreigners. For example, Oreopoulos (2011) finds that Asians with English first names, Canadian university degrees, and several years of Canadian work experience get 21% fewer callbacks than similar White Canadian job applicants.

That effect seems quite large. Doesn’t that indicate (rather conclusively?) a large amount of pro-Asian bias?
Well, you can test multiple hypotheses at the same time. You just can't decide what the hypotheses are after you collect the data because you can't reasonably determine the correction factor.
It is usually sold at 35€/kg

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I'm sure many of those 75% would be using renewable energy for something more productive
There's so many articles about the Canadian property bubble popping that I'm starting to feel like it's some sort of concerted effort by the real estate industry to cool down the market.

It was just about to pop 6 years ago when I bought my condo. It was about to pop when values stopped increasing so dramatically 3 or 4 years ago. It was about to pop when the COVID-19 pandemic halted most sales. It's about to pop now because everyone is leaving the cities because of WFH rule changes.

But it never does. Prices are still high because demand is high and supply isn't keeping up. Demand is high because our financial laws allow criminals to launder money through housing, and because we're a desirable country for wealthy immigrants. Supply is low because cities have too many NIMBY politicians that are against density increases.

I wish it would just pop so we can all get on with fixing the root problems.
> I use social media for information, not to be turned into a money-making asset for those I follow.

can you describe what you use as sources of information on twitter? Can't be any traditional media outlets because they also want you to pay.
It is more complicated than that. Advertisers are customers too and advertising creates incentive to use Amazon and enter into larger deals with Amazon that ultimately lower prices for customers. Additionally, revenue from advertising can go directly into funding supply chain innovations that result in an even better customer experience. Amazon doesn’t typically do anything unless the total downstream impact is shown to be positive; while customers do get annoyed with ads, they appreciate the nice things ad presence provides for them to a greater extent on average.
Thanks for the breakdown.

"(probability) becomes very high towards the end of their life."

This is, ultimately, what we want to know. At what age do they start to die of old age? Oldest living vertebrate is interesting, but I think it's mostly interesting because of what it says about the species?

Is it possible that a large vertebrate doesn't have an old age point, where probability of death is very high?
Each PEG generator promises a revolution but only burns a car.

I was disappointed with how they do operator precedence; they use the usual trick to make a PEG do operator precedence which looks cool when you apply it to two levels of precedence but if tried to implement C or Python in it it gets unwieldy. Most of your AST winds up being nodes that exist just to force precedence in your grammar, working with the AST is a mess.

For all the horrors of the Bell C compilers, having an explicit numeric precedence for operators was a feature in yacc that newer parser gens often don't have.

I worked out the math and it is totally possible to add a stage that adds the nodes to a PEG to make numeric precedence work and also delete the fake nodes from the parsed AST. Unparsing I'm not so sure of, since if someone wrote

int a = (b + c);

how badly you want to keep the parens is up to you; a system like that MUST have an unparse-parse identity in terms of 'value of the expression', but for sw eng automation you want to keep the text of the source code as stable as you can.
Use it or lose is an FSA.

HSA is basically a retirement account that lets you early withdraw for healthcare related expenses. There is no 'lose it'.

Side by side comparison here: https://www.investopedia.com/insurance/hsa-vs-fsa/
Yes that is what I mean by allocation being handled by the compiler.
Cooling technologies just move the heat around. A datacenter produces a lot of heat that is then subsequently moved out of the building. Capturing that heat shouldn't be too difficult because it passes through central AC or central chillers.
>> The solution(s) are pretty straight forward and I believe Vancouver already initiated a tax on not living in a residence. If the goal is affordability, those policies need to be increased as well as new building efforts (aka change zoning).

Wouldn't simply ONLY building new buildings/housing be more effective? This way, the wealthy can continue to purchase, but the investment would become worse and worse in returns and essentially provide subsidized housing to renters. This is somewhat the case in NYC where rents are far lower than ownership carry for identical units because the units are sometimes treated as stores of value.
Can't you look at any bubble and call it supply/demand dynamics?
> how extraordinarily effective capitalism is

At transferring wealth from hard working well-intentioned individuals (and those who must compete with them) to hustlers, yes.

You repeated your narrow point about the group of college educated individuals growing, but as far as I can tell that doesn't actually address skohan's much broader claims about healthcare, housing, and education. Can you address those as well? "Look over there!" isn't an argument.
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I guess my point is that by including government payments in calculation of income inequality they are legitimizing the use of government payments to reduce inequality.
It's rational for people invested in bitcoin to try to justify its wasteful architecture.

I sympathise with the need to break off governments and giant like Visa and MasterCard.
But we need to be better than them before transitioning.

Btc is pure speculation and fomo
I tried the webpage, and I got

> WebMIDI is supported in this browser

Do I need a MIDI wire to connect the piano or the page can heard the sound? (Sound recognitions looks very difficult.)

It would be nice to add some example with a graphic in the paragraph about labeling the scores for non musicians. (My wife plays the piano and guitar, but not professionally. I understand the that D♭ is somewhat equivalent to C♯ in a piano, but using the wrong one in a score is as bad as an unmatched parenthesis. But don't ask me the details.

I was going to ask if you support DoReMiFaSolLaSi, but it looks like another rabbit hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_note#12-tone_chromatic...
Where do I find intraday historical data for stocks?
It's all just beyond ridiculous.

I make more money alone than both parents did at my age. And I cannot afford even 1/3 of the house they bought when they were my age. And not some Toronto house. Just this thing on the edge of Waterloo. The house is worth 1200% what it was in 1989.

Luckily remote work allowed me to move to rural Ontario but even here prices are exploding. At this point I'm expecting my house to be worth a lot less one of these days, but I think it inevitably will appreciate in value long term.

Living in or near Toronto isn't even a possibility anymore.
The manufacturing unions surely have nothing to do with the engineering and design of the vehicles.
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Thanks. I’m going with JS since I write JS fairly competently and I’d like to be able to help them. I just learned a long time ago and don’t know the latest best noob resources.
Chinese and Indian cultures suppress female H1B applicants in systemic ways that the US can't influence even if it wanted to.
> The solution(s) are pretty straight forward and I believe Vancouver already initiated a tax on not living in a residence. If the goal is affordability, those policies need to be increased as well as new building efforts (aka change zoning).

And there instantly came ads for services to keep appearance of home being occupied on https://www.vansky.com/ =D

Basically, property owners pay those guys to go and live there!
My condo's value has gone up by 58% since I bought it 6 years ago (compared to the sale prices of the same unit on lower floors).

A 30% crash would be good news.
I live in Toronto and have to say the real estate prices here have been the puzzle of my life. They are going up even now, still under lockdowns and significantly reduced immigration in-flow. Tiny unliveable condos bought to rent out lost a few percents, everything else keeps going up
Not sure how this narrative plays out in Canada, but given that it's raised in California but doesn't pass the laugh test I don't have much hope for it. Not only is such foreign ownership rather limited in terms of the % of total units it affects, but this would really only drive up housing prices if not only were these investments being made but that the investors for whatever reasons were leaving the units empty and/or converting them from being residential and thus actually taking them off the market and putting upwards pressure on other units. But this is nonsensical and basically never happens, and I don't think you're seeing skyrocketing vacancy rates in any of these "overheated" housing markets.
> are there unambiguously African-American names?

The part you quoted seems to say exactly that: there are unambiguously African-American names, but they are associated with low-class, low education backgrounds. Which might confuse the statistics as then the choice would not be purely about race but race and socioeconomic status.
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Sure, when you get the evidence let me know.

Speculate all you want.

I’ve never heard of the escapes. Perhaps we watch different news sources and you spend a lot of time reading different stories.

I’ve got 55 years of hearing about viruses jumping from animals so my priors are different.

AIDS, SARS, swine flu,...

By the way, the last thing I want to be shown is some random sight on the Internet as evidence. Climate change deniers live by these sites
For being sarcastic. You shouldn’t be punished for everything at that point.
Just like it happens with software development, in some specific contexts nobody needs to know who you are, what you identify with or what you do when naked for your results to be considered worthy of evaluation or compensation. Focus on letting your product shine and be free to be yourself in total privacy, it's an advantage many persons unfortunately don't have.
I think with Covid making remote working far far more accessible for a lot of jobs there's going to be a pretty big growth in smaller cities and communities outside of Toronto/Vancouver over the next 10-15 years. My partner and I moved out of Toronto two years ago and bought a detached house for far less than the cheapest tear-down bungalow was being marketed for in the city. In the last year several friends have moved out of the city because house prices are too expensive there and the area we're in has seen house prices go up a lot. This seems to be mainly driven by people in the 25-40 age range moving out from Toronto.
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> I’m not sure about mobile phone cameras though.

How could they? They have no physical shutter.
> the wealthy in China need a place to park wealth (in a diversified way). Best option is foreign land purchases.

Why is this the best option? Are wealthy Chinese forbidden from buying foreign stocks?
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Not to be too pedantic, but the $200B is Bezos, not Buffett.

Regardless, taxing the weathy can feed poor children by literally funding programs like food stamps.

The covid payments are effectively unfunded, and taxes are the primary source of revenue for the government

We're going to need to pay for these programs somehow. I'd personally be pretty happy with a lot of inflation, give how much my house cost, but I dont think that that would be the best solution for the country as a whole.
>I have never visited an eye doctor but I get my specs from an optician.

You sure? At least where I live, you get an exam from an "eye doctor" (typically an optometrist) when you get a prescription. An optician fits and sells glasses. Ophthalmologists are M.D.s who have broader latitude in prescribing medications, etc.
I am amused to see this machine on HackerNews in 2021. I wrote the original Wikipedia article about it, 17 years ago.

Some years later, I got to play with actual hardware thanks to the Binary Dinosaurs collection at a retrocomputing fair in Croydon UK, and mentioned to its owner that this was the first time I'd seen one, although I wrote an article about it. He regarded this as typical for Wikipedia... :-/

I'd like to see more on why the author of this emulator decided to start completely from scratch, since there are multiple other Z80 emulation cores and so on out there, and were even back in 1998.

https://vzalive.bluebilby.com/emulators/
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5 year fixed 25 year amortization is the standard safe mortgage people obtain here.

Though I believe a lot more people are using insured high ratio mortgages given how low the rates are.