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Yes, woke liberals are bringing back evangelism and the inquisition. Not much good will come from this.
But the idea that religion ever left politics shows where the blindspots are at the Economist.

When the Neocons around GWB sought to bring Democracy to the middle east, there wasn't any good reason to believe it would work. But a de-facto religious conviction that the world would converge on Free Markets and Democracy, which they acquired after the fall of the Soviet Union, drove them into it nonetheless.

When the Bolsheviks embarked on their project of transforming Russian society, they took it for granted that all conflict would cease once everyone belonged to the same class. But there isn't a good reason to believe that humans will ever not be in conflict with one another. Yet, the religious desire to escape from this fact is overriding logic and experience in Marxist thinkers to this day.

When EU liberals decided to implement a pan-European currency... the list goes on and on.

The idea that superstition ever left politics is itself a religious idea. At the Economist, it seems this is what they belief.
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> I'm definitely not a lawyer, but I believe that the court may draw an inference from your silence. You are innocent and decided to remain silent only to have a perfect explanation that fits will all evidence known to the police weeks later. Why didn't you offer this earlier?

this is my understanding of the UK system too (note: I am an american). it's quite different in the US because, among other things, the jury is explicitly instructed not infer anything from the defendant's use of their 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination. even if you have a perfect explanation for what happened, it's often best to just be quiet and let the prosecution fall apart.
It's still puzzling how to argue about life on Venus' atmosphere with the lack of water. It'd be interesting to speculate about pathways for life to synthesize their own water from the available chemicals.
What's their incentive to "abuse" the system, that seems so self-evident to others, but somehow escapes me?

At some point of abusing workers, too many workers will quit and/or regulators will intervene.

From what I can see, other commenters agree that if this really is just a safety measure and doesn't transgress worker privacies in other ways, then it would be OK.

So how about the critiques focus on ensuring that this outcome is achieved? Unless everyone really thinks that no amount of safety is worth any risk of breaches of worker privacy?

To be clear, I'm not making arguments or seeking responses that hinge on Amazon being virtuous and trustworthy; I've been in/around business long enough to know that's futile and that incentives are ultimately what matter.

But I welcome responses that explain what incentive Amazon has to expand this system beyond improving safety for drivers and other road users.
Finite differences is the PDE analogue of Runge-Kutta, and it is certainly used (in CFD for example). However, finite element methods have several advantages:

* It can handle PDEs on domains with complicated geometries, while finite differences really prefer rectangular domains. This consideration doesn't apply to ODEs which are always solved on one-dimensional intervals.

* For any numerical approximation it is important to have convergence guarantees, and as the blog post mentions, the analysis is much more well understood for finite elements, particularly on irregular geometries. Strang and Fix's 1973 book is the classic reference here.
You're arguing a false dichotomy
No, that is not democracy. Democratic decisions, by definition, are made by multiple people together.
Yes, but I'm curious which specific transformations and optimisations were specific to the mainframe culture. C compilers specifically were pretty crude for a while, but there was lots of other stuff going on (e.g. all the work on compiler optimisations for Lisp).

I'm not a fan of the Dragon Book, but I also don't think it held back much (although I'm not an expert on its societal impact). The older editions had very little about optimisations at all.
I broke my 5.25" floppy disk drive attached to my Pentium 166MHz by putting in a rusty floppy disk. I didn't know enough about these drives to fix it. A real shame, as the 3.5" drive still works.
4 vertical 2x4. If they put some lateral cross bracing to keep from going all rhombus it will work. How many sticks do you think are in a wall?
Great tip.
.ideas text file under projects directory, or one directory per idea with info.txt as the document explaining the idea under that directory.
Something critical here is that is really rare for academics to get career advancement out of doing something better, only for doing it first.

People like David Hestenes, for instance, are all about better notations for physics, not a new theory but just something a little better than the usual 'scalars and vectors'. You get the same answers this way, but maybe faster, more clear, etc. Huygens was able to calculate it long ago so there is nothing to see... Move on...

In commercial life it is possible for something 5% better to displace the old, but the 'winner take all' structure of academia means no sustaining innovations.
In the defense of the narrative, they've spoken about Chinese money stashing in real estate in Toronto LOONNNGGG before Covid was even thought of.
Nightly news sermons.
it's paywalled for me
i'm staying up late to see if it changes
Heard NFTs are bad for the environment? Here's what that means
> So you think the data is only relevant to the hypothesis you decided it's relevant for before you collect it

No, the hypothesis is only valid before the data is collected.

> Have you seen the fire sir?" "I have only seen smoke" "But have you seen the fire?" "It's irrelevant because I was only looking for smoke!".

It's actually more like:

"Have you seen fire at x?"

"There's smoke at Y"

All that means is that something is true about Y, not that x isn't on fire.
I am so much more interested in Venus than Mars. They say the upper atmosphere is much more habitable than the surface of Mars. The density is apparently perfect for floating cities. I wonder why there is not more focus on it.

Edit: here are some interesting links, a NASA concept manned mission that revolves around the floating concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Altitude_Venus_Operatio...

And some general info about colonizing venus, the advantages section outlines some of the reasons I'm excited about the idea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus
These house prices greatly exceed the value provided by a house (basically shelter from the elements, access to employment). An economist would call such margin a rent, and reason that supply would increase to take advantage of the profits to be made.

A bubble is driven by price momentum, which in this case is a result of poor policy (zoning), too big to fail dynamics (what would happen to the pension funds in a crash?), and a blind eye to illegal activity (money laundering).

Supply is going to have to increase to almost illogical levels to temper this momentum. I could imagine a public construction company tasked with nothing but building new towns outside the cities, complete with universities and subsidized employment opportunities, could begin to make a dent.
Ontario isn’t building nearly enough housing for the rate of flux in the economy. We’re 10x behind. KW is a great example, we’re still building too many cul-de-sac subdivisions with 3000sqft houses on 3000sqft lots. We can’t build enough supply that way. It’s also supply geared towards the old university-and-insurance economy not the new tech-priced-out-of-Toronto economy (hello me). This seems sustainable to me, supply isn’t keeping up.

I have a house in Kitchener but also a farm in PEC. The situation in rural Ontario is an order of magnitude worse and certain to crash. I bought farmland (with pretty bad soil) in 2014 for under $2000/acre—basically it’s agricultural value. A one acre lot across the street from me on a similar old farmstead sold for 100x that price this winter. This is not sustainable, I mean our wells go dry all summer. I get high speed internet such as it is through a complex direct LTE setup. This demand won’t last.
I've lived in Spain for many years and speak pretty good Spanish. But there is one thing I still find relatively tricky in Spanish: the correct gender for nouns. The worst is when you're referring to something elsewhere in a sentence just by lo/la, well away from where the noun was, or have to make the adjective match the gender. If you get it wrong native speakers will not fully understand you or at least look at you weird.

For Spanish natives, the "his/her" relationship word when referring to family members can cause problems, since the "his" refers to the other person, whereas su/suya in Spanish refers to the main noun. e.g. "hermana suya" - the "suya" is female because of "hermana" (or "su hermana" the "su" is neutral), whereas in English "his sister" the "his" is male because the other person must be male, the gender of the sister doesn't matter.
I'm a dark skinned person and my skin color changes.
Right to work is not pro-business. It simply reduces some of the extra-contractual powers that labor laws give unions.

These laws are violating the right of business to freely contract, while reducing the opportunity for those who don't have unionized jobs to compete for those jobs. So Right to Work is anti-'exploitation of businesses and outside workers'.
If or when it pops, it will wipe out the savings of most of the country. There are so many folks depending on their house to fund their retirements, that there is no possibility the Government would ever allow a meaningful Interest Rate hike or anything that would adversely affect real estate value. I suspect most Canadians know this and understand it is a sure way to make 20% returns on their money (safer than a Canada Savings Bond). My advice is to borrow as much as you can and buy a house in Toronto. It will double in value in the next 5 years. There is absolutely no possibility the Gov will allow your investment to fail.

For Canadians that can't buy, I suggest you lobby your Gov to force Corporations to implement mandatory WFH for at least 80% of employees (that can). This should allow you to live in rural Canada somewhere and participate in property ownership. The other solution is to sell millions of acres of Crown Land to Canadians who are first time property owners.
Individually I can't say. But you can be sure our government does.
aka Agile Forensics
There has always been lots of support out there for 1st time home buyers, some measures have been clawed back on that front because they are obviously ineffective.

Everything else you cite here seems to be random arm waving in the general direction of capitalism.

The thing about the past was that we built a lot of housing, I think creating an environment where politicians can openly support building a lot more housing would actually address the "capitalism" problems.
I think that might be the only way.
Funny coincidence, I was just playing it last month! It was a bit annoying to get everything running but after consulting the guide over at http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/read-me-ultimate-dar... I was able to get a really great HD experience. But I agree with you, it took me probably 30-40 minutes of fiddling!
I'm classically trained in piano (13+ years) and reading sheet music fluently was integral to practice, but I also have been getting into improvisation and playing by ear over the last few years. I think knowing how to read sheet music and play by ear are both valuable, sheet music provides a visual medium on which to notate time, pitch and dynamics (how precisely to follow the markings of course depends on the genre). It'd be a nightmare to learn a Bach fugue by ear though.

Personally I think it's great fun to be able to read music and play a piece you've never heard before, and bring your own life into it just as it is fun to sporadically create the unwritten.
tbh tucker carlson n rachel maddow remind me a lot of preachers. unfortunately, remind me of the bad "hellfire and brimstone" kind not of nicer "goodness and forgiveness" kind.
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> 6% is within the margin of error.

No it’s not. The article has confidence intervals and findings are statistically significant.

Unless you have some nonstandard definition of “margin of error”.

While I generally I agree with you, let’s not come to correct conclusion using incorrect premises, this approach won’t help anyone.
What is your basis for "white guys outperform other groups" in this specific scenario (entrepreneurship)? Perhaps VCs know that women and Asians outperform white guys and hence this bias.
Ask HN: What language would you use to build Bitcoin today?
FYI, you seem to be shadowbanned. You might want to email the mods about that.
hopefully now that he has died, the truth will come out about whether lonesome dove was based on scripts he wrote for bandolero and the cheyenne social club
Good quality wood has very good bending strength for mass. The structure just needs some depth, like there is here.

That's what trees evolved for.
How exactly did the world "smile back and greet them"?
As we might know, Bitcoin is written primarily in C++. This was probably a good choice back in 2009 or so.

If you were to invent/build Bitcoin today, would you still use C++? Or else? And if else, why?
mcmurtry apparently based lonesome dove on scripts he wrote for two movies back around 1970 or so
Not really - in London (and the rest of the UK) over the last few years large corporate landlords have been building huge developments of thousands of apartments, called the "build to rent" sector. It's unlikely all of these developments would have went ahead without them.

Even in the 'normal' development sector, landlords buy a significant proportion of the apartments available from new build developments. I would estimate that 30-40% of the apartments in my building were bought by landlords ahead of the development starting. This adds liquidity to the market and allows developers to build knowing they are taking less risk on selling them when the building is (more) complete.
Yes, I would rather be in the EU. I never wanted to leave. Join Schengen. Join the Euro. Yes to it all! I am proud of England and to be English. I believe in England as a modern European nation.
Proof of work will always be an expensive way to secure a ledger, with little in the way of real advantages.

"Distributed" sounds nice, but it isn't really that valuable in the end.
PR reviews are my favorite part of programming on a team! I've learned so much from both older and younger devs.
I mean we've had these tools for two decades now and yet front-end coding seems fine. There are numerous tools for (eg) mapping UML diagrams to code: I assume you don't feel threatened by those?
If they do, it's going to drive out tech employers from the UK just as employers in the UK primary and manufacturing sectors were driven out or bankrupted in the 1970s after their work forces unionized.
No comments because everyone here is a JS, break it until you make it, sort of developer with no real responsibilities.

Thanks for the downvotes you aspie, racist, and sexist spastics.
You are right. I suppose a fair target to tune would be the cost-of-51%-attack instead of an arbitrary block size or percent fees.
3words: wtf?
Yes, especially them (assuming you're talking about the US here)
Masers don't maser anywhere close to room temperatures.
If the number of dimensions is high enough then pretty much all points are far away from each other so there's no real need to worry about points clustering. You're at a much greater risk of simply missing interesting parts of your space than you are of oversampling any part of it.
Politics, as mentioned above is a big part. QAnon in America has been highlighted, but it's hard not to point out that want of orthodoxy, righteousness and belonging has found a home in people with left-wing characteristics as well. Social justice seems to be a main outlet. The prostrations demanded of certain people, the tone/speech policing, and the talk of boogey-men that lurk around every corner -- all have obvious analogies with religion.
Is there a basis for the positive bias towards Asians and women here? If I have to follow the logic of a lot of statements in this thread perhaps VCs show a positive bias due to experience (better returns)? See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/allysonkap...
You get better with practice.

I had a time where a group of bullies picked up the innovation of using the school administration to harass. So I found myself in the situation of having chats with the principal a few times a week.

The optimal strategy was to courteously deny and be silent. It works over half the time. I’d also use my time waiting around to “charm” the support staff by being nice to them and making myself useful. Eventually, most disciplinary referrals ended up getting lost, as the secretaries clued up to what was happening.
Building the Dolphin Emulator in Ubuntu on a Nintendo Switch
Do you believe there is a distinction between religious ideas, and ideas that are wrong?

Because you seem to be claiming that politics has always had ideas that are wrong, and that all of these wrong ideas are somehow the same as religious ideas, aside from them both being wrong.
I studied theology for a few years before giving up religion entirely. The most disappointing aspect of 'modern' Christianity to me is how few of its supposed adherents have bothered to consciously choose a system and learn more about it, or even try to understand the one(s) they were brought up with.

The trend seems to be that people first decide what's most personally appealing to believe, then label themselves whatever fits with their in-group, with almost no attempt to connect the two. From a philosophical perspective, there is a lot of reinventing the wheel (poorly) going on, and very little recognition that carefully thought out frameworks which considered every possible angle and relentlessly sought internal logical consistency have existed for hundreds of years.
The Four Horse-thems of the Fox News Apocalypse? (Edit: boo, your edit ruined my great joke).

Seriously though, Q-Anon has to be number one.
Nothing in your comment would come close to refuting Amazon makes more from ads then AWS. Read the article.
The 50k limit is easy to circumvent. Anyone who's anyone in China has a Hong Kong bank account. They then hire a tour bus and a bunch of poor elderly people and each takes 50k across the border and deposits it into the HK account. This money can then be invested however they see fit.

Before the pandemic this was not an uncommon sight.
Interesting, I never even heard of it.
No thanks, delivery would eat all my data allowance.
Ofc I read it, but the "article" barely manages to make a point with hyperthin facts (AMZ disclosures). The Benedict Evans chart (Amazon: more profit than AWS?) answers concisely, making the "discussion" rather pointless.

> However, we can make an informed guess. Google’s core business had 2020 operating margins

> To repeat - this is just an informed guess, and ads will of course change other things

Lots of handwaving to support a strange theory for no apparent reason other than to portray Amazon as evolving into the same business as Google (a pretty face on an Ad business) for a greater narrative. This feels like establishing facts, with a weak foundation, to reference in the future.

OFC this kind of information has been talked about before:
https://marketingland.com/analysts-say-amazons-advertising-b...
and now Amazon has figured out how to maximize by focusing on other "big brand" items, rather than the ever pitiful mom-and-pop (https://www.innovell.com/it-is-just-amazon-advertising-but-w... - all sponsored focused) but the market is only so big (eyeballs). If AMZ is only 10% of retail, it doesn't make sense to have the same spend as on Google or other retail-focused (Target, Walmart, BestBuy, etc).

I just don't see how this made a good case.
Well box86 actually supported running wine since a while ago, which means you can install x86 wine and use it.
Is it? Is it really "nuff said"? Cuz I have no clue what you're talking about. From my perspective, a lot more needs to be said.
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Yes. But as an energy storage company you don't care whether anyone will be needing it later. Only thing what matters is if and for how much you'll be able to sell it.

If you have no way of selling it it doesn't matter how much it is needed.

So you will set up energy storage company only if you know you'll be able to sell energy you store later at high enough price.

Form the point of view of the economy it doesn't matter what will happen to energy. And economy is not just direct effect of physical causes. It's separate system that to some degree is synced with physical world. But not all that much. Much of our wealth is locked up into capital that is being gambled to get more capital without any connection to physical world. And when those connections occasionally crop up it might even be dangerous like in the case of global food prices recently when investors figured out a new game using food prices for them to gamble. You probably think that crypto is one such dangerous connection, but I believe it might be a beneficial one.

Crypto is not an electrical battery. It's economical battery. It turns energy, potentially any amount of it, into value. Even the worthless energy, that is produced when conditions are excessively good for energy production.

The beneficial effect of crypto is that it is variable load that can turn any amount of nearly worthless localized energy into globally transferable value.

You can use the value later to purchase energy (and energy generation equipment) anywhere else.

As such it incentivises building energy sources that might generate a lot of excess energy on peak production, like windmills or solar panels, or that are too remote to transfer their excess energy to places where it could be utilized.
Woah, MountainProject is a owned by REI. I wouldn't have expected this from them.
Sold my house in Woodbridge, North of Toronto. To a unmarried couple from China studying at University of Waterloo for 1.85M, no home inspection nothing... Paid over ask. It is all about the wealth fleeing from China and nothing else
Hey, that's quite interesting. Just tested it here with alacritty and was able to get data from a remote server into the clipboard. The downside here is that it did not seem to work immediately from inside tmux, but a quick search shows that there are ways to make it work. Also found a vim-plugin[1] that would allow it to work from inside vim as well. If I can also find a way to pipe random commands to it, it might indeed work better than clipper for my use cases. Finally, there is the added benefit of removing the need to forward the local UNIX socket over SSH, which I find to be a bit flaky. Thanks for sharing it!

[1] https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank
I was suggesting to add to the blog post an screenshot of the problem and the fixed version.
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