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> The original Constitution says that our “unalienable rights” are a result not of secular rationalism, but rather an omnipotent God who endows us with those rights.

No, it doesn’t. The author confuses apropaganda document (the Declaration of Independence, which still doesn’t make this specific claim—it does reference rights being endowed by a Creator, but does not specifically attribute omnipotence to that Creator) with a governing document (which comes nowhere close, making only a vague reference to the “blessings of liberty” in its preamble.)

> To that end, the pillars of American law rest as much on the Bible as on the writings of Enlightenment thinkers.

Even aside from the content supporting this not being in the document in question at all, “As much as” is trivially false; the authors of the Constitution were Enlightenment thinkers themselves, so if it had any Biblical influence at all, it could only be subordinate to and by way of Enlightenment thinkers.

> When it comes to space, “The West” is any place to the West of where Christ was crucified.

No, while it was a Christian geographic reference before being replaced with a Cold War one, the reference was to the geography where the dominant religion after the East-West Schism was Roman Catholic.
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I don't agree with the OP's interpretation of the organic causes, but:

The PTSD seems quite plausible, as either a consequence of the original phenomenon or, yes, even a factor in it.

For an organic component, if any, I prefer hypoperfusion & ischemia.

I wonder if circulation can be impaired by chronic high levels of stress (and the inflammation caused by stress).

If so, I wonder if this can happen selectively, affecting most strongly the areas used most intensively during stressful times (and receiving the most exposure to high-cortisol blood).

I wonder if narcolepsy and/or something like this may work to protect the brain (from whatever mechanisms) during periods of high stress.

If ketogenic diet helps with narcolepsy, I wonder if one mechanism is that burning glucose is a source of oxidative stress...
For whatever it's worth, I generally agree with the post's message but think it is poorly-written satire and found it annoying as well.
I'm not sure, but I think it's about resumable downloads and handling downloading errors.

I practically never download anything large through a browser: I get the link and then use `wget -c` to make sure I get the file, automatically retries when connection is lost and re-established, etc, instead of waiting a long time and then checking the download in the browser and find out it failed a few minutes after it started for whatever reason.

If it's a couple of megabytes, I use the browser. I don't trust the browser with larger downloads.

The "app downloader" may be doing similar things.
Large ruby on rails application. Entire test suite takes around 40 minutes to run, however we use circleCI and parallelize the build so realtime is around 10 minutes.

What makes the build so slow is that the database is involved, if you want fast builds decouple your unit tests from the database. With rails including the database access in tests makes everything easier and you get closer to real-life execution but slow ...
!As shopworn as the term is, this is what is meant by "institutional racism." Racist sentiment is not necessary for people to behave in what is ultimately a racist way.! With the way you put it now, the people living within such systems would be racists taking racist actions based on sound evidence based reasoning. The term itself is also problematic, as no institutions nor race need to be involved for this kind of problem to occur, its simply the most familiar form to americans. Inadequate equilibria is better, but the corresponding the problem xxx would disappear if people weren't idiots isn't productive either.

Just like it is not necessary for the upper class to be more educated, its not necessary for the more educated to speak upper class. But it is more likely.

That such would be enough to stagnate social mobility seems like pessimistic hyperbole to me. Given that we are talking about high value added, high paying, i.e. worker shortage jobs and that there are significantly more demand for such workers than the upper class could provide, meaning, even at worst, such behaviour could only slow down social mobility, not stop it.

If the people who are evaluated are drawn randomly from the population as they claim to in the study, then no. If its a real hiering situation, then possibly yes, though it depends on how the position was advertised. That however may not even change the outcome of the study. In most big companies recruiters are not looking for the best applicant for the job, or atleast have no incentives to do so. They are looking for the easiest to motivate hiring for the job. Similarly, their boss may not have ordered them to find the best worker for the job, they likely asked for a good enough worker who causes minimum issues and who if they cause issues were easy to motivate having hired in the first place. Note that I never claimed that upper class speech meant better at the job, I explicitly wrote academic achievement, i.e the kind of thing which makes for an easily justified hire. Imagine having hired Dr House except without a degree, or a slightly below average doctor with an average grade degree. Now one is plain better, but the other will never get you fired. But thats a whole other problem.
Hey guess what we're doing right now? We're discussing the issues of Crimea, Russia, and China... and we aren't getting political about it. Incredible. Maybe impossible?

>If you are an international company you have to discuss these things

No, you don't. These are business discussions. You discuss the issue, not the politics behind it. You do it professionally because you are a professional adult making business decisions. You leave the politics of it for Twitter on your own free time.

>It's delusional to think you can avoid personal politics completely in a business.

It's delusional and absurd to think that you need to bring politics into any discussion at work.
Read the comment from Daniel Ray under the article. In short, Muse Group seems to be planning to continue their established business model for Audacity and possibly other future acquisitions. That is, offering standalone open source software with optional paid cloud services.
That looks awesome! Shouldn't also be too hard to create a GraalVM native image from that.
It does seem like something a high resolution camera and some neural nets could do, right? Or conversely just put standardized images up on a website and have the public sort them (like hot or not). I’d bet it would become a fun thing for card aficionados to do even.
Irish are a race. Now stop trolling and go watch some baseball or whatever it is Americans do on the weekend.
Documentation can be implicitly managed thorough writing clear, slightly verbose code with good comments, as well as clearly described test cases. It can also live in the project management tools if used effectively. With a good software development process you can have a historical record of the background, requirements, discussions around that feature/component, and how it was developed
You don't just adjust for inflation, you adjust for productivity growth. That being said, $15 is meant to be high. It's meant to give you the ability to pay for housing.

For amusement value: the median house price in Jan 1968 was $163K in 2020 dollars. The median house price in 2020 was $300K. So really, minimum wage should be $24 an hour to bring you into Property Purchasing Power Parity™ with 1968.
Exorbitant rent is a fact of life in major cities
The Pokémon Company doesn't make any money from 10, 20 years old Pokémon cards old on Ebay, the kinds the article is talking about. As far as I know trading card game makers even ban older cards from tournaments in order to sell a steady flow of new cards. So they have no stake in their value.
Former Netflix Executive Convicted of Receiving Bribes and Kickbacks
I am hearing the same. Cases that would have been treated with O2 and dex are otherwise turning into fatalities. There was very little health-system to begin with. Now it’s just a humanitarian disaster.
Why are the bearings filled with pressurized oil instead of being normal ball bearings? All the other bearings in the whole car are ball bearings.
I visited India in Dec 2020, so here's my personal take on this based on what I saw. The first lockdown in India was very severe and it basically made the second lockdown pretty unpopular in the business community, at least initially. The dithering contributed to even bigger second wave.

The reasons behind the lull between the first and the second waves were not entirely clear, and some people assumed that the herd immunity is being reached. Combined with the desire to return to normalcy after a harsh lockdown, it falsely assured people that the worst was behind them. This created the perfect conditions for a bigger second wave.

Finally, the state and every petty official was intoxicated by the powers they weilded during the first lockdown, and they forgot that with great power comes the great responsibility. They unnecessarily focused on tiny things such as fining people Rs. 500 at the traffic lights, while not really understanding the new information on how virus spreads, what are the best ways to tackle transmission and so on. People should have been given the liberty to be outdoors with proper face covering when there was good airflow. They shpuld have known that meeting indoors with poor airflow was the biggest threat. This wasn't communicated properly.

Some government officials did take decisions proactively to save their own district. For example, see here

https://youtu.be/Sa4vCG1oY6M

But unfortunately, this was the exception rather than the norm.
if you build it, users will come.
It's interesting, all the discussion in the immediate aftermath was along your lines of thinking, and then later, everybody else came in to talk and took the side of the company without understanding what had actually occurred. They latch onto the word "politics" and decide it was the 1/3 who were toxic.
Good thing your feelings aren't relevant to... Pretty much anything under discussion here, then.
Dream Desktop
Yes, here's the timestamp URL:

https://youtu.be/Hv3UC4lz3oQ?t=468
I'm a big VirtualBox fan as well and I'm sad to see that Apple M1 (ARM) support isn't really a priority.
What's left for the book?! That was really long and thorough.
I mean if you want to prevent people from being scammed you should do it at the conference itself right? plus it is way more fun.
No, a teenager is not a child.
minimum wage is a crutch to keep the system largely the way it is and trickle some crumbs down to the lower classes to stay a revolt. instead, we need to realign incentives so that labor is on equal footing with capital (e.g., enforce transparency on the labor market). in addition, the tax and regulatory system should be overhauled to actively promote a broader distribution of capital to encourage creativity, wider risk-taking, resiliency, robustness, and fairness.

we need to stop looking at simplistic crutches like the minimum wage (ubi too) as wins, as they further entrench systemic biases rather than alleviate them. don’t let moneyed interests buy us off in favor of these biases for pennies on the dollar.
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They didn't fall for it, they are probably paid for their appearance. Those hundreds of products that celebrities endorse, how many really use them and like them? Like Dave Chapelle said "coke and pepsi - can't even tell the difference, all I know is pepsi paid me recently, so I endorse them"
In case it wasn't clear, I wasn't commenting about the desalination process, but about harnessing the potential solar power in general. In this context, I feel solar panels that generate electricity still have a long way to go to be affordable and efficient.
> - The article Snowden linked is public. Presumably people already know about it?

Information being public doesn't mean the people in the call know about it

> Snowden joined the conference just to call this guy out? Seems like a strange thing to do. Why not just not join the conference?

Because some people have a strong aversion against scammers and use anything in their means to oust them, including using any fame they may have.
If I miss 1 days doses I start getting visual artifacts. Recovery is about a day.

2-3 days and I start to lose feeling one side and can no longer write. Recovery is usually 1-6 weeks.

I had more leeway before catching covid.

Older ones had higher chance of not being effective.
This CNN article seems to support that.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/minimum-wage-inflati...
The theory has been that if you could find a single underlying cause, you could just treat that, and then all the symptoms would disappear in one go. This would also let you treat symptoms that can't be treated directly (you can tranquilise away anxiety, you can't do much about hearing voices).

That theory has largely failed as we can't even really agree which groups of symptoms make which diseases. Hence the constant changes to systems like the DSM.

Full disclosure, I may be bias and I'm also an example: I have Major Mood Disorder. I used to have Severe Clinical Depression. Before that, I had Treatment Resistant Depression. Before that it was just Clinical Monopolar Depression (It's still called monopolar sometimes to differentiate it from Bipolar). My symptoms haven't changed. Nor has the treatments offered. But in the last 10y we've repeatedly renamed, recategorised, reshuffled etc just common depression. God knows what it's like in more complex, less common symptom sets...

The BBCs Life Scientific podcast discusses this very question in this episode if you're interested:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sj7c

The wider series is also very good imho.
Basecamp has long been a sort of pipedream workplace for me, and nothing I'm seeing here changes that.

So I must wonder: are they hiring backend/architecture/management/IT folks right now?
There was that time I licked a few flakes of mushrooms out of the bottom of a bag and about 15 minutes later I felt "slightly crosseyed" and couldn't focus on a computer screen for 7 hours or so.
For What?
The thing is that this advice is not good advice for most startup founders. Founders already have to have a huge amount of self-belief before they have any chance of succcess. That's not a problem silicon valley has. Silicon Valley has the opposite problem - a failure to take criticism seriously, and PG's advice here is just another part of that unhealthy culture.
the real reason is that, no incentives.

your manager will never give you a raise because you wrote nice documentations, in fact, he/she might think you're wasting time for not doing bugfixes or features development.

as long as documentation of code becomes one factor to evaluate the developers, with rewards somehow, things will change immediately.

I never felt doc is a technical problem, it's purely management for this one, it has been neglected for too long.
There are no antimemetic colors.
It should be noted that the authors didn't rescind any licenses, per se. Rather, distributing binary versions of Bukkit was always in violation of the GPL (since the bundled Mincraft code did not have source available). The former author simply started enforcing this. Important distinction since rescinding the license would be a far more legally/ethically dubious action.
Ok, if we do assume those things do fill the funnel, what do you do foe the next 20-30 years while you wait for those changes to pull through? Tell the folks to “sit tight, we fixed it”?
If it were easy to generate the necessary inflation to avoid laws like this then nobody would have bothered with a capital gains tax increase or even with the idea of a wealth tax.

Yes, the number of options are decreasing day by day...
My daughter got her first content claim when she was a 7 year old violinist. Proud father moment.

Dispute was allowed to lapse.

I’m on day 22 or so of another dispute from my son’s violin performance. I don’t see this going anywhere either.
What do you think “new soil” is made of? The original trees evolved in a soil with different composition from the soil we have today (which today includes the consequences of decomposition of... trees).

I mean sure some of that could happen due to a bit of wind, so you’re not at all wrong. But the volume of thick loamy topsoil isn’t mostly tiny rock grains (sand) but a living amalgam of bacteria, fungi, plant matter, plantae, animal detritus (faeces but also cast off skin or carapaces...).

Part of the problem with modern farming is that parts of the economic process treat the soil as an inert matrix (just as road bike manufacturers justifiably (in their case) don’t spend time thinking of the road as part of the bike system).
> switch to rust

All roads lead to...
Making a program is not illegal, as long as it's not circumventing anything. If it were, SEND A DMCA. FOLLOW THE LAW.

The API was public, authenticated, documented and intended for third party developers. Even if it was reverse engineered there is still legal grounds for that, as seen by the YouTube-dl situation.

If there was any law-breaking, it would be the people downloading scores and MuseGroup for distributing them.

Repeating what I said below:

Even if musescore-downloader was doing illegal things (and I would argue it wasn't, since there was no circumvention of anything), the law should be followed by both sides, no excuses. That means sending a DMCA instead of a threat.
It’s not disguised. People who care about their schools openly look for high quality schools and know what it costs.

You are free of course to watch your own children yourself. It is after all, your responsibility.
Is there a clone of these not in github? Please share it so that we can keep them in a different repositories.

Risky to keep these exclusively in Github.
same here.

i am a big fan of film music. i made a small piano reduction of a favorite piece and uploaded it to youtube. i wasn't even mad when i saw the copyright claim within hours, since i run no ads.

i was however baffled and somewhat proud that my efforts were not in vain, and that the algorithm thought my poor interpretation was close to the real thing.

i do not defend the algorithm though.
Don't you think your theory requires evidence?
The Marginal Advantage (2007)
Not really. I can give countless examples of mediocre products with no marketing doing super well because the market really needed that product.
> They are trying to replace ... a damaged resistor

Is that a common failure mode? I know caps pop willy nilly. And protection diods. But resistors?
I’d be curious to know what percentage of the cost is the packaging.

Also, a link to lab results would be great. The article (but not the official website) says it removes some heavy metals. I wonder in what concentration, and which metals.

Also, how does this compare in cost to a softener + carbon + uv/chlorine?

Anyway, this looks like a fantastic technology. Thanks!
I agree, for me it wasn't obvious that the icon theme can be changed.
When you have a child you rise to the occasion. I have way less doubt about how to live my life after kids than before kids.

I will say it takes a huge amount of support. Knowing what I know now I would not recommend having a kid without a partner and supportive family. But that goes without saying. Most people who are single parents didn’t plan to be.
One, it's possible the API was being used illegally. If that's the issue then that should be what's discussed, but let's save that for up thread.

Two, the DMCA seems to not apply here, if this is a Chinese citizen enforcing legal rulings against another Chinese citizen. That is a perfectly valid situation to call the police, in any country. The message getting relayed through a third party (Musescore) doesn't really change it.

Three, this argument is going around in circles, I think a great option would be to contribute to the author's musescore alternative: https://github.com/LibreScore/LibreScore
Diataxis[1] (mentioned on here recently) and ADR[2] massively helped me to create clearer docs. The Diataxis framework really helps you create something that could bring a new developer on board quickly, and ADR helps ensure the thinking behind architecture decisions is easy to understand.

[1] https://diataxis.fr/
[2] https://adr.github.io/
> True, Blender really exploded when they re-designed the interface.

So this must be what happened... over and over I've heard about people switching to Blender now, even many professionals. I tried it many many years ago and found it, quite honestly, awful.

I guess I should download it again and see how things have changed.
> how about at least a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment

to me, this part sticks out like a sore thumb. a 1BR where? I make well above the median wage for my area and I can't afford a 1BR anywhere near the place I work. literally no one would consider me to be poor. a 1BR, coming with a private kitchen and bathroom, is a luxury for a single adult. it's not at all an efficient use of housing space.

a more reasonable threshold would be a private bedroom with space for a desk.
> The trust problem is trivial to work around with a script to slice the loot into small lots

Yeah but the BTC fee problem isn't trivial. When each "small lot" costs $20 to transfer, your Lambo very quickly turns into a Hyundai
I guess I’m missing the part which indicates this is obviously a scam.

I don’t know why people are attending this conference, but could anyone actually be getting value out of it?

If so, then it just depends whether you find this conference ethically defensible, or not. Seems like people could differ on that.
Management has the power to say that something isn't good enough and make it a priority. They also have the power to hire employees or consultants if the current team isn't capable of doing it.

Project management _definitely_ has the power to dedicate time to fixing performance issues.

Metrics can be gamed, but certain metrics - such as time to interactive, and time to fully loaded - are fairly well in line with what users actually care about. Even if they're gamed, a project manager can say, "This still feels slow to use. Dedicate the next (sprint|cycle|month|whatever) to performance work."