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I don't understand why this is downvoted so much? A janitor has a wide spectrum of pay in the US and what he describes is certainly possible.

People also forget how good the standard of living can be for tradesmen charging $100-500/hr to reset a GFCI outlet or perform basic plumbing tasks in the US.

This mythical tradesman I describe often lives in a 1500+ sq-ft house and drives a pickup. He takes his kids dirt biking every weekend or goes fishing in his boat. The folks I met in the Google London office have none of these things. Most of them didn't even own a car and had a long public-trans commute home.

The bottom is really hard in the US, but the middle can be fairly good if you are working in the right areas of in-demand employment.
While they don't seem to want to mention the name this is Cliqz.com mixed with Bing.com
Weightlifting is already separated by class. As I understand it, weight alone is not enough to create a “fair” competition. A historical use of steroids changes your body composition so that you have more strength at the same weight, even if the use was years ago. From the article the implication is that the same is true for testosterone, giving male to female transitioned people a unfair advantage (as long as transition was post puberty).
They went mainstream. As soon as your trying to sell kids TV (on Netflix, YouTube, Apple/Amazon TV etc) suddenly your have to be 110% boring and vanilla. No more space for constructive disagreement or controversial content. Just colourful shapes and a laugh track please.
If it returns a temporary, you'll get a compile-time error, as the temporary cannot be bound to a non-const ref. I would prefer "const auto&" as you shouldn't be modifying temporaries, or "auto x{std::move(myWidget.getRef())}" if I want a mutable value and to avoid copying the return value of getRef.
then what about this?:

> On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserts affiliate referral codes when users type a URL of Binance into the address bar, which earns Brave money. Further research revealed that Brave redirects the URLs of other cryptocurrency exchange websites, too. In response to the backlash from the users, Brave's CEO apologized and called it a "mistake" and said "we're correcting".

Seems intentional... Don't insult our intelligence and tell us that this was an "accident" or "unintended mistaken".
>the problem of SimCity

This is the key: Treating, and naming as, "the problem of Sim City". That's an extremely activist lens which presents critiques of a game not as mere deficiencies, but as something that is a societal problem. It tears down Sim City because the activist mindset aims to tear down all facets of society itself.

It is so darn tiring.
There’s a number of incorrect information in both articles so maybe this should not be here. Even the title is not really applicable.

If you paint an image on canvas when it’s not ready, the browser won’t wait for it, the frame will be blank and skipped.
It makes sense that the first version of something like that is going to be expensive, though. And compared to some of the high-end smartphones of today, it wasn't even that outrageous, was it? It was aimed at early adopters, which makes sense. If successful, prices would drop, cheap knock-offs would appear, and more people could afford it.
Is not working hard always a result of lazyness? what even is lazyness? Humans have an inate sense of fairness, if you look around and see people getting more for no clear reason, get a sense the game wont reward you fairly and choose to focus on other things, is that lazyness?
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I would consider Sanders to be a pretty legitimate third party candidate - VT democrats have coalesced around him recently but his initial bid for Senate was pretty spectacular. He managed to ride an extremely popular mayoral career into a state that is extremely dominated by Burlington population-wise. Burlington metro is roughly as large a proportion of the VT voting block as NYC metro is for NY.
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I think he’s pointing out that the “criticism” here is similar to that of a person criticizing a book they’ve never read or even flipped through.
Brave Search supports !bangs ;)
Not only that, but sensing pheromones via the olfactory system is both a very subtle and primal experience.
Luck (and/or nepotism) ultimately decides the success or failure of two equally hard working individuals or groups. In your Olympic medalist example, do you believe that the person that placed 4th and thus did not medal didn't work as hard as the Gold/Silver/Bronze? Or did they just not have the "luck" of having the genetics/life scenarios that are most conducive to winning their respective competition?

Ultimately I think "work hard" is generally good advice to be "good enough" or "above average", but actual success in the scale that you're describing definitely comes down to luck, because everyone in contention is working extremely hard.
"Gender" is larger than biological sex - a distinction that normally doesn't matter. Wikipedia: Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, femininity and masculinity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex, sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender identity.
What's with all these articles where the title says something but then TFA says the total opposite, and yet the article gets a ton of upvotes and no comments?

The author here goes on to say that they don't believe there is any difference in the decoding logic.
Shameless self-promotion but there's also this post I wrote in 2017 if anyone interested in a slightly different take (but a very similar write up to the OP): https://www.samlewis.me/2017/06/a-peek-under-bitcoins-hood/

Cool that this article implements the cryptography primitives, though!

e: Funnily, like the article, I also stored some BTC in a wallet and challenged people to (manually) take/steal it. At the time it was worth $10 USD.. now it's worth $123 USD!
More than I trust Google, yes. Which is what the overwhelming majority of people are using.
What happens when physical sport competition results tend to favor 1 of the n number of genders?

When it comes to powerlifting, I would bet on current or former members of one particular gender.
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These kind of issues are really interesting because sports are by nature unfair, but it's been decided to remove part of the unfairness but now some is brought back in with that.
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> someone saying “Jesus Christ, you’re an idiot” would be part of an inferior perspective on people who think that blasphemy shouldn’t be done.

As an important nuance, if the speaker knows that someone will be offended, I think it assumes the views of the offended person are unimportant. That's different, though not necessarily any less bad, than seeing that person as inferior.

I can't anticipate everything that will offend anyone. But if I know someone is offended by something, I certainly want to respect them as people and avoid saying it. If I know someone is of a certain religion, I'd avoid saying anything about it that I wasn't sure of.

> I think it comes down to those views as not being reasonable, but everyone agreeing that being offended by racial slurs as being reasonable.

There's hate speech against religions too, and that's as verboten as hate speech against racial groups. In fact, for a moment I considered using an example of religious hate speech, but that would be completely inappropriate (and rightfully so, IMHO).

Blasphemy is a different matter than hate speech.
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>The article is obviously using SimCity as a starting point for a discussion.

Yes, a starting point for a darn, tired activist discussion. SimCity is not merely flawed, it is flawed in a way that is ruining society, as is most everything else.

> The same could be said about your comment!

Ah, but it is mere tit for tat! You play by the deconstructionist rules, then I am allowed to play by them against your own deconstructions.
I personally think that all children should be raised under a common, secular curriculum.

Then people can send their children to Sunday school or communicate their religious/political values.
> you're hopefully not mutating the request object in Rails in hidden places

You have to, that's how rails works.
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I am not going to post the picture of the Atari 'meeting in a hot tub,' but you can Google if you want.

Thanks for the snapshot of your thinking though, helpful context for the post.
While I agree and it is surprising that multi-level/hierarchical modeling is rarely applied in industry (I used them extensively in academia and industry), dealing with hundreds or thousands of random effects in large data sets, especially in non-linear models, is a computational nightmare. And the benefits may not warrant those nightmares.
Why care about luck?

Luck and the family you were born into are two of the big things you can't change. Doesn't matter how much you acknowledge it, it won't change.

Putting in the hard (and smart) work and persevering is all you can do. It's a waste of time and energy to worry about Kylie Jenner calling herself a self-made billionaire or whether others are just "luckier" than you.

Disclaimer: I am probably a target audience of the article and maybe a bit biased. I was "lucky" many times in my life which allowed me to move from a family income of around $30k growing up, to around $400k solo now.
You’re rewarding people who don’t meet their obligations (but could) and punishing people who did meet their obligations (but were hurt doing so).

No so hard to understand.
Sorry, I explained it more detail elsewhere in this comments section.

mitigations=off works at the OS kernel level to patch out some expensive aspects of what the kernel can do (possibly in concert with the CPU but driven by the kernel). This issue a microcode change that affects the CPU behavior without any intervention by the kernel, so mitigations=off doesn't help.
I think it's better to segment in terms of percentiles.

Biles, Musk, and Phelps are in the top 1% of their professions. They stand out a lot.

The folks in the top 10% are often way more comparable and differences between them are negligible. It takes something special/extra to stand out in this crowd, and for many of them, it's not about working any harder to make it to the top 1%.

It takes a lot of luck/opportunity, and extraordinary natural talent to become part of this 1% group. Which is why their success is not easy to replicate. And it can come from anywhere. None of these people had parents or families in the top 10% of the same profession.
They get it from Bing.
I’ve been meaning to read that!

Also, this post is spot-on. 100.
I guess I disagree that (1) would be especially alarming. Mishandling of lab samples occurs all the time (even with good precautions), everyone knows this, and this is actually an excellent reason to be all the more cautious about whether GoF research should be allowed. Zoonotics are also a fact of life. Ultimately, it comes down to what one's priors are re: what actually happened in this case; it doesn't really matter much either way.
Every successful company is always understaffed, because they're growing faster than they can hire.

Most of them mistake that for talent shortage.
> they have realized that their own current opinions may be wrong

May be wrong how? In the eyes of a future Twitter mob?
> Brave can anonymously check our search results against third-party results

Why are we OK with these free services literally stealing Google results? Could you imagine the backlash if it was discovered that Google was doing the same for its results by stealing from DDG or another, smaller player?
Even in hobbies that are usually seen as male dominated like comic books and video games - you'll find a significant number of women that are interested, though they may be quite defensive due to constantly being pursued.
You are dangerously close to the truth here, but it isn't what the thread is about.
Hi, I'm the post author. As others have pointed out, I'm not a Julia evangelist of any sort, I am just starting to use Julia and I'm very enthusiastic so far.

As for more readable Python alternatives, indeed, the ‘np.tile’ isn’t strictly required, as Python will add a (1,n) matrix and a (n,1) matrix into an (n,n) matrix by default (I would be happier with an error message here, though).

There are many alternative ways to take advantage of this fact, for example what you have suggested

A = a[:, np.newaxis]
M = np.exp(1j*k*np.sqrt(A**2 + A.T**2))

Note that A is a (n,1) matrix here, which is not quite obvious at first sight. Equivalently, my new preferred alternative is resorting to two reshapes

n = len(a)
M = np.exp(1j*k*sqrt(a.reshape(n,1)**2 + a.reshape(1,n)**2)

which is more explicit about the shapes of the arrays involved. I have updated the post to better reflect this discussion.

In some more complex manual-vectorization cases I have encountered, the np.tile cannot be dropped, and the code looks a lot like my original posting.

Being able to resort to loops, and not even having to think about this manual-vectorization issues is a big plus, if you need to do this very often in your code.

Regards
Correction: "should not run for office"
It will be interesting if it goes this route, e.g. title IV like regulations that end up destroying women’s sports and replacing it with human flesh weights.
True - I misread your post. Your first post was intriguing but the second was dismissive. Surely there's more to be said than data sets are point clouds? Images are points in R^N too, right?
The concept of "laziness" is bulls*t to me - humans have an innate drive to survive, learn & be curious about surroundings, plan and gather resources.

The only way to halt that is by experiencing something out of your control: bad parenting & trauma, burn-out, depression, ADHD. If someone wants to fix their "laziness" they gotta get help for those.
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Elon Musk is the poster boy for being mediocre but being in the right place at the right time, then leveraging power law gains after that. Enthusiasm is not a skill.
He wasn't awful.

OTOH while he seemed principled, he often just seemed to vote along with the Coalition then publicly regret it afterwards - helping them get what they wanted on refugees and then being surprised at how inhumane it all was and the extent that the government reneged or slow-played a lot of the concessions he obtained.
The whole Ricky Muir / preference-whispering / group-ticket-voting issue was related to the Senate which is a combination of both PR (proportional representation) and STV, a whole additional bucket of worms over the plain STV of single member electorates.
I think the comment you're replying to went over your head.
I agree that scenarios two and three are equivalent. But then in three, the fact that we exist is allowed to influence our belief in what the value of a physical constant is. From this contrived example, can't we get to the argument being made in the original post?

The fourth scenario, to me, is the closest to our actual situation. The many universes correspond to our uncertainty about p. It doesn't matter whether they are actual universes and we are in one, or whether they are possible universes and we are in one.

I wasn't sure why you had the number of universes uncountably infinite. Is it because p is a real number? To make this argument, wouldn't you need to show that not only are they both uncountably infinite, but that they have equal measure? We can construct two sets that are both uncountably infinite, but one has measure 1 and the other measure 0.

If the Lucky and Unlucky-Lucky universes have equal measure, there's still more people in the Lucky ones. Only if the measure of Unlucky ones is much higher, then there would be more people in the Unlucky-Lucky universes.

We said we don't know anything about the distribution. But! In my opinion, we do have some idea about the distribution. It's just our prior, from whatever we know of chemistry, biology, etc, about p. We have some reasons to believe it's low. (The arguments the intelligent design folks make.) Then we update that with the observation that we exist. In other words, we start with a distribution over possible universes based on what we know about physics, and the complexity that's necessary for life, and we say that it's remarkable that we are here. But then we update by saying that, of all beings capable of reasoning through this, more of them would be in universes where it's less remarkable. So it doesn't tell us what p is, but it should shift our distribution over values of p to the right.

Eventually, we may get such a clear understanding of how life must have formed, that we could say exactly what steps had to happen and in what order, and how probable they all were, and could determine p exactly, and even simulate everything. Then this argument wouldn't buy us anything. Because the physics is what it is, and p is what it is. It's only because our prior over p is currently so vague, that the argument is interesting.

Anyway, it's an interesting discussion and you may be completely right. I'm certainly not certain of anything here :-)
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Everything can be politicized, which is a good way to stop action on anything. If you want to support human sacrifice, politicize opposition to it.
That's not accurate. Brave offered affiliate link options to users who were searching for particular terms (screenshot: https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image3.png). These were presented to users as a way of optionally supporting Brave development. Our mistake was matching fully-qualified URLs too (screenshot: https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/image2-1.png). When we were made aware of this, we corrected the issue promptly. No revenue was made from this feature either. No user data was involved. No privacy or security was compromised. This was nothing more than traffic attribution as a means of optionally supporting an open-source, free-to-use browser. Read more about this feature at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/.

Compare this with traffic attribution in other browsers: open Firefox and begin typing a search query. If you monitor your network activity, you'll find that your keystrokes are not only sent to Google behind the scenes, but those requests also contain an identifier so that Firefox gets paid for sending you and your queries to Google. Brave users were shown the affiliate options before any network activity. Read more at https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/.

As for the question of privacy, Brave was compared to Chrome, Firefox, and more in a review by Trinity College in Dublin, and they found that Brave exists uniquely in its own category as the "most private" browser tested. Read their technical paper here: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf.
Men have a huge advantage in power and speed over women of the same weight; this is uncontroversial. This is not affected by reducing blood testosterone.
> Now I feel it's roughly equal, depending on the query

As someone who is trying to switch to DDG for the 10th time, I really wish I felt this way. My experience is so different. Right now I’m at the “g! Everything” stage. Which comes right before the “give up and just switch back to google” stage. DDG results are seriously so bad. It baffles me.

I really want to remove google completely from my life. Search and YouTube are the only two things holding me back. And neither have any competition that is even remotely close imo.
Was it the `current president` that gave it away?
You were clear. I'm talking about orgs like NPR and FairVote.
Sure, I’m happy for other people to use CF over CDK.

I mostly mean to say AWS doesn’t need a full featured CLI. Devs should just use CF/CDK through a CLI-lite.

That also force AWS to block feature launches till CF supports them.
well I don't really see a way of solving that. I may or may not want to copy the object, depending on the object's lifetime and what I plan to do with it. warning on copies would be a step too far imo. I would immediately suppress that warning.
Sorry, I respectfully disagree.
Censorship is someone else preventing you from saying something you want to say. Self censorship (as something you want to say but do not because of fear of the consequences) is not a thing, simply because you cannot distinguish between the want to utter and the want not to utter and which is eventually winning in your head and the fact that you did or did not utter something. It is a process we call thinking. We choose our words or the absence of them and that makes them worth while.

There is also no opposite to self-censorship: I want to be able to say everything I want without consequence. You say something because you want it to have and audience and thus consequences. Saying you want the consequences, just not the negative ones is saying you want everyone to confirm you are right. Well join the other 7 billion.

The idea of self-censorship is also not innocent because you are robbing people of agency. You actually deny them to choose their own words. The idea of self-censorship requires an external party to declare someone wanted to say something, but he or she is self-censoring, That implies that you know what they think and the absence or presence of words gets filled in with whatever that third party thinks that person wanted to say.
But for 30 years straight?
is RISC-V a closed platform like ARM? is RISC-V an open source platform or not? what does Intel buying SiFive gotta do with RISC-V?
Sure whatever helps you accept the fact you're just mediocre. The world is extremely competitive.
A rational belief in luck probably means one is less motivated and less likely to succeed.

An irrational belief in merit and your own hard work likely helps one succeed.
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I just tried this going between my 2 servers with NFS, as compared to cp, rsync, and rclone. This tool wins by >2x. Great work! ~1.5Gbps vs ~3-4Gbps.
Indeed, including nearly all of DDG's !bangs :) We also add in some others, such as !so for StackOverflow, !gh for GitHub, and !mdn for the Mozilla Developer Network.
I like how we're all debating how we should best choose our masters, rather than how we can vote on the issue directly, like in a democracy.
Just to be clear, calling Biles and Phelps (during his time) the top 1% of their field is the understatement of the century.
I wonder what the data looks like in 2020, it must've been almost exclusively all online, if that. Human behavior has also changed with the lockdown, where everyone was isolated and limited to electronic comms, so I don't think this chart applies to 2021+
You could also, idk, try to improve the system so that luck isn't so heavily weighted.
No, but it does mean that you are likely to use it without knowing when they do start tracking you. Because of course an adtech company will (and of course they will deny until the day they change it).
You seem to deny there is any propaganda or indoctrination happening in U.S. education.

A commenter asked what it would take to change your mind, and offers a hypothetical scenario as a test (which may have some basis in reality, but excludes that from consideration), and you refused to consider it.

Do you think there is any sort of evidence, if demonstrated adequately, that would change your mind? What sort of evidence would be sufficient?
Is it good for society that dating is being monetised?

Does this shift to online partly explain the recent declines in birth rates in the West?

Should we ban online dating, or regulate it?
Being an Anglo-Saxon/Viking word, it's been around since before Norman times. In other words, before 1066, so it's at least 1100 years old.
You were, I did not know about the distinction of IRV as a method of counting votes within the realm of RCV.