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>Without that, it's impossible to conclude that expression of Gene X isn't environmentally-influenced

Conclusions do not require certainty. Science is about converging to the best explanation, not about unimpeachable conclusions. But when there are no plausible causal paths to explain measured correlations aside from, e.g., gene->phenotype causation, then causation along the available causal path is a valid tentative conclusion.

> variability in adult height, has similarly been held to be highly heritable... despite the fact that the average in many countries has changed on a time scale incompatible with a purely or even highly genetic basis.

I don't know how you can possibly think this supports your argument against genetic heritability. Height has a heritability measure of around 80%, which leaves 20% for environmental factors. There is no contradiction in noting that average height has increased over time when the current best analysis leaves significant room for variation due to environment.

>despite the fact that the average in many countries has changed on a time scale incompatible with a purely or even highly genetic basis.

Nothing you've said demonstrates this claim.

>Your objection to the first is ad hominem

Nope. Emergentism is his avowed conceptual framework, a lens through which he analyzes evidence and draws conclusions. But if the conceptual framework is vacuous, which it is, then that undermines the value of conclusions based on that framework.
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I don't see what worries The Economist should hold about the situation

The readership of the Economist is worried about commercial real estate.
Indeed. I find it extremely ironic how people here - of all places - are sympathetic to this sort of stuff.
It doesn't have a table of contents ...

Anyway, instead of dealing with the legalese, I'd self-publish.
We need a foothold first. The Web 3.0 (4.0?) took all the oxygen out of the room for Web+ technologies, so we first need a healthier ecosystem in which to frame the discussion.
Sounds more like a problem with expectations than where you are sitting.
I don't see how that's different to C++. You will run into the same issues there if you happen to use code that uses some of the various new features e.g. items targeted for C++23, that are already starting to be supported by the newest versions of GCC and Clang. If you're on Debian Stable or RHEL, I believe those are even still using GCC versions that don't fully support C++20.
Keep in mind, that Rust backwards compatibility don't extend to some cases. If an unsoundness error happens, future versions WILL break backwards compatibility.
The fridge I grew-up with lasted 30 years.

It does seem like an industry-wide conspiracy to make "durable" consumer goods last only as long as their warranties. And also, to make money on replacement parts and complete replacements. The "Just go buy another one"-mentality makes me cringe.
But there are.
> I bet outside of their relatively small social circles humans aren't preoccupied with reduction of suffering or altruism in any meaningful way

Could it be that reduction of _observable_ suffering is what many people are actually concerned about, not the underlying suffering as such?

It's OK to buy a burger - just as long as you don't have to watch how it's made.

It's OK to buy a $5 imported shirt - as long as you don't have to observe the conditions under which it was produced.
Thank you for speaking frankly about your dad's situation. It doesn't confirm what I thought, but speaks to the spirit of it in that the presence of private insurance unnecesarily complicated what should have been a simple fee-for-service. Likewise, I'm sorry to hear that your father and other anaesthesiologists, as well as many other American workers across many fields, fell and fall victim to a systemic deficiency in labor management practices. I worked a night shift warehouse job for barely half a year before I couldn't stand the negative effects it was having on my health; I can't imagine doing it for years on end. Your father was paid well, but I imagine that it barely covered the costs of the negative health outcomes he experienced from prolonged and chronic sleep deprivation, as well as limited contact with his family. So many of our businesses are in need of process advancements that would allow for larger workforces working shorter hours, so that we're not putting so much on each individual worker. And as far as healthcare goes, we really, really just need to go to a single-payer system. I'm afraid that our unwillingness to make the decision to make those shifts means that we'll see more situations like this in the future.
You are just just talking in circles to confuse the issue -

The major point is that just because Apple is now able to abuse their control over the ios platform (and now mac too), developers (and consumers) should not be willing to submit to such exploitation.

A smart phone is a general purpose computer, with built-in telephony. We use it like any other computer to do multiple tasks. Developers and consumers have always been free to develop or install on computers in the last few decades before Apple, after its popularity with the ios platform, decided to abuse its control and removed this option after finding a business model to further exploit developers and its consumers.

To be clear - just because some exploitive business practice has gained ground, doesn't mean we developers and consumers have to continue to accept it as some kind of new normal practice. If you don't think the current practice is abusive and exploitive to developers and consumers, then please present your argument for the same as that is what we are discussing here.
I haven't downvoted any comment in this thread, but I think the parent post was a low-effort oneliner that didn't touch on the arguments made by the comment it responded to, and as such doesn't meaningfully add the conversation (even if it were correct).
Almost all of those things -- all you mention, and most of the "lots of other things" -- are within (or firmly attached on the outside of) the engine itself, and are swapped out as integral parts with the engine.
Gopher seemed to have a healthy (if small) adoption for years after it was declared dead. If Gemini becomes a Gopher+, then it has a strong chance at staying around.
Yeah, I hate the $×t argument because generally it only factors in your $ and t. The impact to others and other secondary costs are frequently not included.
Theres a huge difference between the statements "Lots of humans eatanimals for sustenance and there is a tradeoff between the value we derive vs the suffering of the animals" vs "Prove that I should care about suffering".
That's a facile understanding of efficiency. For example, many animals that we eat are dramatically more efficient at absorbing or consuming certain nutrients from plants than we are: Iron, Calcium, Zinc, B12, EPA, DHA.

If adding a step in a supply chain always introduced more net inefficiency, we would never own things like cars or televisions. The complexity you introduce by shortening the supply chain makes a whole host of things completely infeasible.

There are plenty of food sources that could work well for humans without an animal in the intermediate supply chain. But humans aren't about to start consuming their bodyweight in switchgrass or zooplankton just to get a handful of nutrients that only animal sources can easily provide us.
All I can do is share my experience. I do find it weird how many people who have never interacted with TJ have developed incredibly strong opinions about it (so much so that several of my friends regularly receive hate mail from strangers who don't live in virginia).

> the point of these schools is that you put all the best of the best in the same place and network effects happen and push them to even higher levels of achievement _outside the classroom_.

This is the difference between you and me. I don't believe that the existing system admits the most meritorious students. Tons of people insist that I hate education and that I want to sabotage the most qualified students. But I don't believe that the test, with its entire cottage industry of prep (my parents were told that they should prepare for TJ when I was five), actually admits a more capable group of students than alternatives.

The reason I believe this is that I've seen this happen in earlier education. I went to an accelerated program starting in 3rd grade. It was wildly inequitable. After noticing that there were some schools that literally never sent a student to the accelerated system, my parents looked into it and discovered that the process was clearly not evaluating merit but instead admitting people who understood how to navigate the application structure. Relatively small changes in the process rapidly made things much more balanced geographically and the changes have stuck. Students who enrolled in the accelerated program from the previously absent schools did not fail.

I also think that the culture of prep damages people. A ton of my friends who are TJ alumni now share stories (well over a decade later) of how TJ was the most toxic learning ecosystem they have ever been in. These are people who are now faculty members at top universities, founders of successful startups, and more. The bulk of my friends from high school believe that they should have focused less on competitive schooling and spent more time on other things. Replacing bridge and drama with math competitions causes more harm, in my opinion.

TJ is also not the only place to get an accelerated education in northern virginia. If a student wants to partial differential equations in high school, most high schools in the area have attachments with George Mason, which enables access to these curricula. In fact, TJ does not offer those courses to high school freshmen, so the students at TJ that want to do what you say are stuck going to Mason anyway.

I also think that there are some extremely qualified students who'd be much better served by the IB programs offered at nearby schools. AP is just truly awful, in my opinion. You take smart kids and crush them into rigid curricula rather than letting them explore. All of us got deficient humanities educations at TJ.
This barrage of anti-wfh rhetoric from the economist is getting tiring
On the other hand, a job that is 'good enough' can make you too scared to make the jump to leave. Then you get paid less, learn less and it becomes harder to make the jump if the job stops being 'good enough'
- an alternative spelling for shard, which is the normal spelling in the archaeological context. https://www.etymonline.com/word/shard, https://www.etymonline.com/word/potsherd

- “beer bread” is the result of lazy phone keyboard typing. But also, there is such a thing: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6717/beer-bread-i/ , a form of quickbread. The crumb is usually a bit dense but it’s certainly not bad with stew.

- Bread beer, on the other hand, is called kvass. Though very unlikely to have been drunk by medieval Sicilians, it tastes pretty good, especially the kind with raisins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
The Yankees play closer to 90 games per year there but your point stands.
Anecdata aside, they are one of (if not THE) most reliable car brands
Who is nedbat?
I can imagine a PhpBB alternative written for Gemini very easily, both on the posting and reading side. 1024 character post limit is plenty for a thriving discussion.
It goes back longer than that. What's confusing is leadership and management continues to believe they hold all the cards. As if there's no demand for the skills their people possess. They often say "We can't find good people" when they should be asking "Why are best people always leaving?" That lack of self-awareness is what drives the turnover rate.
Singularity has a C++ microkernel actually.

https://github.com/lastweek/source-singularity/tree/master/b...

Microsoft and Oracle have removed CAS and JAAS from CLR/JVM respectively as they have failed to provided the software isolated model that was expected from them.
Slashdot indeed exists, but its comment section is complete garbage and the news are less and less about science and technology and more and more about politics and nerd tabloid style journalism ("You wouldn't believe what Linus Torvalds said on the Kernel developer mailing list!").
> then I will do suicide

It's very difficult (to commit suicide) and you'll likely still not do it, then.
Google changed YouTube monitisation so that videos had to be over a certain length to make money. Short to the point videos mean that the creator gets zip, so padding with unnecessary crap is the way to big bucks.

So it's totally, 100% Google's fault that there is a majority of pointlessly long videos on YouTube
I'm wondering if this should be made part of the runtime at all, and not instead e.g. enforce this by JS compilers/minifiers/style checkers: this is something that's relevant at development time, but not at runtime
>Have you actually experienced a long period (year or more) with no obligations like work or school?

I have. And have had no problems filling it with the above activities. My folks are retired and don't seem to be having much trouble finding creative projects and enjoyable things to do, like hiking and discovering new things.

Honestly I thought my dad would be a prime candidate for the type who gets so used to chasing the rabbit that they have no idea what to do once they retire. I'm glad to see that isn't the case.
It’s not unobtrusive on mobile :(
Apple's issue is that unless the code is open source, the documentation is the only thing available to the "outside of Apple" audience.

If the documentation for the "outside of Apple" audience is not good enough without access to the source code, then developers feel it and the overall result is that Apple suffers as a platform.
I think that stopped being the rule in the 1970s; if not, at the latest in the 1980s.
That's like saying math leads to totalitarianism (with a small t because that sounds more scary) because some people assume its universal and will therefore kill in its name.
Both Markdown and Gemini's markup are missing some semantic tagging useful for screenreaders. The disabled should not be second-class citizens in any new web community.
Your response is a non-sequitur. Even if it was true, it doesn’t change anything about the ad-hominem I pointed out.

> that appears to ban teaching that Florida had slavery

Does it? Can you quote the part that bans teaching that Florida had slavery?
Can you elaborate on the key combinations thing? Is it just for jumping around in the video or is there more to it than that?
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This looks pretty good. In regards to your Substack / Buttondown comparison I would also take a look at Revue which seems to excel at curated newsletters.
I had no idea that the creator of d3js is also the co-founder of Observable! Now this move makes a lot more sense. I'm starting to believe this may be another case where the creator (rightly so) wanted to find a way to monetize his popular open source project. It's a shame this happened. I don't blame him, but the broken open source business model.
You have to count the time in traffic in the efficiency calculation.
For short to mid length posting, it should be probably enough. Long-form content could be handled by e.g. uploading posts via SFTP or IPFS. As a bonus, the user can also download all of their previous posts and take them elsewhere if they want to jump ship or export.
Does the original study attempt to account for the once-a-century pandemic occurring at the same time?

Seems like one should be careful drawing conclusions about remote work from the last year's data.
20 k miles = 32 Mm, not 45.
Honestly I think the downfall began with lack of no-script support. JavaScript is a great addition to add interactivity, but it is an obvious win for commercial interests.

It would be nice if instead of websites being forced to display cookie banners, what if they were forced to support plain HTML/CSS only mode? Not only would it increase privacy and prevent things like Canvas fingerprinting (oh wait, that’s what commercial interests use), it would also put content first.

JavaScript began as a way to add dynamism to HTML which CSS now can handle by itself.

What we need is a web framework that provides good fallback modes.

My challenge to folks: try to use HTML/CSS only to create interesting and dynamic websites which focus on content-first. And give that content good printer-friendly support :)

And for monetization, sell a product on there of some kind. Provide something useful. Don’t hide behind a barrage of ads. There’s always another way!
Their argument is a cultural one, not a technical one. Technically, they’re the same, but culturally, C++XY takes time to see adoption, but Rust 1.Y tends to be adopted almost immediately.
> I deliver value to my company on a continuous basis and if taking a nap in the afternoon means I work an hour or two in the evening

But this sounds efficient.
Sabtier doesn't make H2, it makes CH4. You'd need to convert it at about 300degC with a catalyst (so that takes lots of energy). Then the byproduct would be CO, whilst that isn't a bad direct greenhouse gas it interact with hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere. Hydoxyls ineract with other greenhouse gases to reduce their power, so it would have no net effect, if anything it could be worse. Just combust the CH4 directly, it's got better energy storage capacity anyway.
Agreed that weakening religious ideology is good, but disagree that it’s uncorrelated with changing politics. A large part of evangelical political backlash is explicitly rooted in the disappearance of religious symbolism and language from American public life. Exhibit A would be the absurd furor over Starbucks cups not saying “Merry Christmas”. The current intensifying political divide has a lot to do with devout Christians feeling insecure about their diminishing societal influence and the author manages to completely ignore that glaringly obvious fact.

The interesting argument IMO is that current secular ideology seems to trend toward “ignore all religious holidays” or “remove all religious symbolism from society” when a perfectly rational and arguably more populist alternative would be to include and celebrate them all.
While I agree that Libera is New Freenode and Old Freenode is rapidly dying a death, this whole episode has soured me mightily against Freenode as a whole. This should never have happened in the first place and the blame for it lies squarely at the OldFreenode/Libera admin's feet, not whichever outside actor took advantage of it. The admins are an "old boys network" - not chosen by the community, or elected, but simply in-group appointment - and while Rasengan is certainly a loose cannon, I have seen enough chatlogs to note that "the admins" are not innocent of power-tripping and favoritism either.

If I were starting an IRC channel for a free software project now, I would put it on OFTC, which has a real governance model with elections and - mysteriously - also manages to be drama-free.
I’ve found remote work is hardest with time management, specifically when I have lulls in the day where I don’t feel particularly focused.

At the office I would have gone to the cafe or for a walk outside the building (downtown), had a short break, and gotten back to work.

When I try that from home it doesn’t work well. I’m fortunate to have a home office with a door I can close. But if I leave that room I’m immediately in my home space, full of distractions. If I walk outside it’s a neighborhood, and unfortunately as part of the pandemic I moved to a more suburban locale so the walking is abysmal. More often than not I end up giving up on work for several hours, which leaves me with work I now need to do in the evenings or on weekends.

(The move to the burbs was done so I could have the office that closes… but losing the walkable neighborhood was a huge hit and I’m not sure it was a net benefit.)

I also miss the motivating effect of seeing my coworkers in the morning. There are plenty of days working from home where I just really don’t feel like getting started, and maybe I won’t start till 10 or 10:30 in the morning. This just means more work that I need to find another time to do. By contrast, knowing I had 9:30 stand up in person, with people I liked, usually with coffee, helped get me moving even on days when I initially didn’t feel like it.

The last drawback for me is the lack of commute. I had carefully arranged my life so that it was a 15 minute bike ride to work. That was perfect for me, and really helped me mentally transition from home to work mode. I’ve tried doing an “out and back” in my new neighborhood, but it doesn’t work, I think because I’m not actually going to a different place. Ie the bike part wasn’t the magic, it was the physical move from home to work. The bike was just a way to make that an enjoyable transition.

All of this adds up to a feeling that I’m always working and always needing to find time to squeeze in the next 3-4 hours of focus since I haven’t fit that all in my 9-5 box as I used to. The only real payoff I get in exchange for this is some increased flexibility scheduling appointments and what not. But, on the whole, it feels like it’s been a bad trade for me.

Finally, lest anyone think this is just because of the pandemic not being “normal WFH,” I worked full remote for an agency for three years (long before the pandemic) and had the same struggles then.

Everyone is different, and I think there has been an under supply of remote and WFH jobs in the past. I know that for some, none of what I’ve said applies, and WFH is a blessing. So I hope (and expect) that post-2020 it will be much easier for anyone who wants full-remote to have lots of good jobs available to pick from.

But as for me, I am really looking forward to getting back to office work - and advocating hard for offices with doors that close, to make that environment even better :)
But rust is a compiler, i.e. a dev tool.

It's not a problem of running rust code, you always can run any "latest" compiled rust code with Debian Bullseye. Only for building the binary do you need a up to date version.

But this isn't uncommon for a lot of projects which might require up to date build tools for them to be build.

I my opinion, and I know many do disagree with me, the problem is the idea of pinning dev-tools when releasing a distribution and expecting this to work well. In my experience it doesn't, and it's not limited to rust or web-related things where it doesn't work well.

(Like e.g. I don't know how often I had to install newer versions of clang, gcc, C++-related build tools, python related build tools, system dependencies, java etc.)