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"bombs and tanks" means something very very different in 2021 than it did in 1942. You have to remember they barely had V2 rockets in WW2...

What actually causes issues for modern armies is relatively low tech guerilla warfare, as we've seen in nearly every war (that any country has engaged in, not just the US) since Vietnam especially, but the hints were there since the second Boer war.

Forget even nukes for a second, I don't think anyone has the stomach for a regular conventional war between modern nation states. We've seen the pictures of what cities looked like in Europe after WW2. Now add modern bombs and missiles. Imagine Shanghai or LA just completely flattened. It's not worth it.
Your role, while technical, seems very much aligned to ad-tech/analytics/analysis. Is that true by any chance? That’s a lot more specialized role that has a lot of value in a variety of industries.
> If memory serves, the nominal price of most video games has not changed in about 30 years.

They have. Mario was $50, games generally run $60+.

The big difference? You don't need to manufacture a cartridge anymore.
I agree with the context of your explanation. Government regulation of money supply is an important issue.

But the author didn't say all that. In that paragraph they say Bitcoin is not a useful currency because the value fluctuates. They did not suggest that what makes Bitcoin fluctuate is the lack of government controls/regulation of supply. They simply say fluctuation is bad for a currency. They then make an analogy to hyperinflation, which I'm suggesting is sloppy given the argument they are making because hyperinflation happens because of money printing by the central bank, which is not what causes fluctuation in bitcoin's price.

For example they could have said "Bitcoin fluctuates because of massive speculation and trading. Fluctuation is bad for a currency". Or "Bitcoin fluctuates because there's no one who controls the supply" Either works for me, not that I agree but at least it's clear. But instead they make no explanation of what causes the fluctuations, and instead use this hyperinflation metaphor which is horribly inaccurate.

That paragraph of the article has a related issue which is they say "The supply of Bitcoin is capped by design, which is meant to prevent inflation". Shouldn't this read "which prevents inflation"? I understand there are all sorts of forces governing the value of bitcoin (speculation, manipulation, supply, demand, miners) but I don't believe "inflation" is one of them. There are coins still being issued but the supply is capped at 21M.

It's possible I'm misunderstanding here and this article actually is well written and I'm an idiot. The article just seems like a collection of gotchas, none of which are well explained. I'm generally pro-bitcoin but appreciate sharp thinking wherever it comes from as no one really knows how this will all play out but we can make good arguments (or bad ones).
> You have a whole load of devs that will simply embrace anything with such a pedigree because it 'must be state of the art'

That seems rather dismissive of people. The devs I know are not sheep.

Now if you had said that we have a whole load of managers that will simply embrace anything because it 'must be state of the art'...
The M1 (ok, in the 7 and 8 GPU core configurations) is in the Macbook air, Macbook pro, Ipad, Imac, and Mac mini...
None of them had nearly the same reach and discoverability as Facebook does. Good luck finding your childhood friend whose name you barely remember through thousands of web forums with primarily pseudonymous users. Meanwhile, Facebook's recommendation engine will just throw their name at you out of nowhere.
Yes, no-one is denying that racial categories correlate to various degrees with genetic characteristics. This is blindingly obvious – unless there are some people who think that ethnically Chinese people learn to have epithantic folds from their environment?

Where people err is in assuming that these sorts of trivial observations are sufficient to show that race has a biological basis. Racial groupings are not biologically natural. They are completely arbitrary from a genetic point of view. That is, there are no sensible biological criteria according to which humans can be grouped neatly into a handful of 'races'.

See for example the following comment regarding sickle cell anemia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28525697#:~:text=azalem... Yes, 'black' people are statistically more susceptible, but that's not because of any property of 'black' people as a group. It's just because regions with Malaria happen to have dark skinned populations.
Third case: Natural immunity needs to be required part of the discussion on any/all pandemic planning.
Facebook might be asking girls where their body image issues came from, but boys/men are not much different.

It's reasonable that if one gender is developing self esteem issue from a social network, then the other gender _probably_ is too.
I dont think it matters in the timespan of our species probable use for this planet.

However. Don't let that stop you from donating to my just launching "venture NGO" to study the feasibility of protecting the earth's atmosphere by wrapping it in a big paper sack: which will sequester carbon, preserve our Precious Planetary Gasses, shade us from the Sun's evil ultraviolet rays and other harmful radiation, and vastly stimulate the economy. We expect to raise $2 billion to commence the first study sometime in 2084.

Interesting links:

https://www.space.com/earth-atmosphere-extends-beyond-moon.h...

and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth

suggests that the changing composition of the atmosphere at ~600 million years is probably a more immediate problem
Your edits have clarified your intent. I thought you were reaching for ad hominem or something by making unsubstantiated claims about my beliefs. “You like Biden”, vs, “You, like Biden”.
Regardless though, you’re still making unsubstantiated claims about my beliefs… I didn’t advocate for changing legal terms.. I was only explaining why “those on the left” feel uncomfortable with the term. My first comment was geared more towards an educational tone rather than a prescriptive tone. I recommend reading it again. I didn’t edit any of my posts.
See, this is why I think language is important. Gonna have to call it here though. Good chat.
But you're moving away from the premise of the GP.
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I just said the same thing ha.

Yeah, it is difficult for people to admit they're at fault.

Blame is justified only when someone is forcing you to do something or keeping you from something.
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Now if Google could do some optimisation of their apps on the Apple App Store, that'd be great. Currently, the latest Gmail update sits at ~328MB, the total of all nine Google apps on my phone sits at 2226MB (averaging ~247MB). It's ridiculous.
> De-orbiting capability is just some extra delta-v onboard, and a de-orbit maneuver coded into the flight computer.

It's not "just" some delta-v, it's the same amount of delta-v as the original perigee kick. Most satellites get their perigee kick from a booster stage from their launch vehicle that separates from the satellite and de-orbits.

Every gram of mass of fuel and engine on a satellite is a gram less of payload.
There’s no paperwork or background check on a private sale, so it’s almost a meaningless distinction.
CRUD is about state, but typically the mutable state is in the database, not the application layer.
I use the lombok plugin with IntelliJ, it eliminates tedious parts of some code.

Some times one needs to create new objects return multiple related items from a function. Or use a collection or array. I think it is unnecessary. Other languages (e.g. go or python) have had this for a while now. I taking a wild guess here LISP probably had it since the 1970s.
This belief is quite common in the Opensource space.

It’s far easier to criticize than it is to submit a pull request.
Blue is a color. Yellow is a color. The fact that green exists doesn’t mean those colors aren't real.
I've been out of the loop with the Java ecosystem, but has the transition from Java 8 to 11 completed where most of folks here work?

I was also curious about large ecosystems like Hadoop and their moves from 8 to 11.
I just recently tried giving a presentation to my department (they're developers, I'm architect) about this stuff and they all just sort of blinked at me. It brought in Little's Law and Kingman's Formula, in an attempt to underscore why we need to limit variation in the response times of our requests.

There are a bunch of queuing theory formulas that are really cool but don't exactly apply if your responses vary a lot like the article describes. I think the assumption is that response time distributions are exponential distributions, which I don't think is a good assumption (is an Erlang distribution an exponential distribution?) Nevertheless, hooking the equations up to some models is a good way to get directional intuition. I didn't realize how steep the performance drop-off is for server utilization until I started moving sliders around.

Our ops team doesn't really follow this either. We're not a huge department though - is this the kind of stuff that an SRE team usually pays attention to?
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Valve (in particular) even pioneered UX in level design—if it doesn't improve gameplay, why let the player wander around trying to find the way they're supposed to go (a situation common even in relatively on-rails shooters of the past)? And just putting in HUD arrows sucks, and those can be misleading. Instead, they use lighting, color choices, and level layout to direct the player's attention and direction of movement, while maintaining the illusion that the levels are part of a larger space.
Awhile ago I wrote a Python library called LiveStats[1] that computed any percentile for any amount of data using a fixed amount of memory per percentile. It uses an algorithm I found in an old paper[2] called P^2. It uses a polynomial to find good approximations.

The reason I made this was an old Amazon interview question. The question was basically, "Find the median of a huge data set without sorting it," and the "correct" answer was to have a fixed size sorted buffer and randomly evict items from it and then use the median of the buffer. However, a candidate I was interviewing had a really brilliant insight: if we estimate the median and move it a small amount for each new data point, it would be pretty close. I ended up doing some research on this and found P^2, which is a more sophisticated version of that insight.

[1]: https://github.com/cxxr/LiveStats

[2]: https://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jain/papers/ftp/psqr.pdf
Oh absolutely, and that's something I'm taking into heavy consideration as I figure out the next move with Apple: I have next to no social clout or network, so if the loudest move I make in the tech sphere is "Apple screwed me", is that all I want to be known for?

I'm not hopeful for any change in these sort of review processes without any legislation changes, but it would be a truly tragic state of affairs if it were to escalate that far.
Making more houses won't solve the problem - there will just be more houses to rent out at vastly inflated prices.

Renting houses simply shouldn't be such a profitable endeavor. There have been stories posted where hotels snap up apartment units for AirBNB because those make more money than hotel rooms. That should never be the case.
I can't speak to the delivery aspect, but I don't think you'd even need a Teller Ulam thermonuclear warhead to make a credible threat to a neighboring power. But the delivery aspect matters a lot, obviously.
That's not amoral. It's missing a market opportunity, but conflating that with morality is an interesting way of looking at it.

Businesses don't owe you a product (before you pay for it) any more than you owe them loyalty after you pay for something. They will suffer when someone else offers what you want and you leave. That's the point of markets and competition.
What happened to the space broom/lasers idea. I guess could make things worse if the satellite "explodes".
> And this is why I don't blame the users.

Not even a little? Users aren't brainless, as much as they'd want to make you believe.
But no one would argue that the definitions of "tall" and "short" weren't social constructs, even as the fact of human length from heel to crown clearly is not a social construct.
Your frustration could be lessened by being less wrong.

This very article is titled “experts say booster shots not needed”. Less frustrated people are statistically more likely to get that this means the essential benefits of vaccination have not (or not yet) deteriorated significantly.

As to with data from all age groups, they do so for both the value and the comparison. If you feel the need to split each population into subgroups, you would need continue doing so once you find, for example, what differs from the 20-year old that died vs the one that didn’t. In the end, each person would have their own group, because they all differ. But try doing any comparisons, then.
Not seeing the survivor bias. It’s a sample of about a dozen, 30 years ago, all sampled again now. Different nationalities from different walks of life and backgrounds, colocated for a few years in a third world country.

What I could see is a few layers of selection bias, as in, expat children of expat parents that would work in third world and buy their children computers and put them in an expat middle school.
> I'm sure they had a reason, but in 70 years of vaccines, we've never had a side effect after 2 months.

Have we ever had mRNA vaccines?
> I want a mild case to build natural immunity, which studies show provides better immunity than vaccines.

Do you have a source for this? I feel like many articles/studies I've read state the opposite, i.e., vaccine immunity > natural immunity.
Old ladies in multi-million dollar homes is largely a myth. Sure, there are some of them. But it's absurd to think this is anywhere near the majority. Short Term rentals make up <2% of the market (almost everywhere beside vacation towns) - and they are not a major cause of problems (outside of vacation towns). Multi-million dollar homes are <1% of the market (basically everywhere). Old ladies living in these homes is a fraction of the total homes.

These are just excuses. These aren't real problems.

The real problem is artificially low interest rates, artificial scarcity caused by NIMBYism, low downpayments (backed by Fannie & Freddie), tax breaks for home owners but not for renters, high income taxes, low property taxes, etc...

The vast majority of homeowners are just everyday regular homeowners, almost twice as many as everyday regular landlords. Little old ladies and short term rental operators make up <3% of the market. You can only blame them for much.
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You didn't specify which country you're from. Kinda sad, but it sounds like a warzone and my brain jumped to the conclusion: must be the USA. (Not meant disrespectfully to you, by the way.)
For some things, you can't even sensibly measure the mean. For example, if you're measuring the mean response time for a service, a single failure/timeout makes the mean response time infinite (because 100 years from now the response still hasn't been received).

"Why Averages Suck and Percentiles are Great":
https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/why-averages-suck-and-pe...
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"As a culture we adore beauty, wealth, power."

Don't you mean "as a species"?

Culture is one of the few tools we have to overcome these natural inclinations. Religion, too.
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I fundamentally disagree with a definition of "social construct" that would have to exclude species as a meaningful category.

Edit: but even if I did agree with the definition, if "race" is as useful a category as "species" despite being socially constructed, all of the people calling race a social construct have utterly failed to make the case that we should stop using it.
What if it works the opposite though?

Simple evolutionary biology suggests resistance develops from roadblocks or mechanisms to stifle. We see it all the time in antibiotic resistance, resistance of insects to pesticides used in crops, all kinds of areas.

I don't see a reason this case would be different.
>Quater also means multiply by 4.

Are you making the same typo or using a new word here? Let's get past the typo.

I have never seen the word quarter used to mean multiply by 4. If I was told to quarter something, I would divide it into fourths. When/where were you taught or come to understand that quarter means to multiply. If you quarter something, you went from one item to four items. Is that your understanding of multiplying? You didn't go to 4 items though you went to four 1/4 items.

I just have never in my experience seen quarter mean multiply by 4. If there's something to be learned, I'm up for learning it.
We're apes that compete for status to attract mates.

There's always going to be some of this kind of thing in everything. I'd accept the concentration of it in social media (TikTok is probably the worst of them) is not healthy, but the issues themselves are independent of the medium of the time imo.
I never thought I'd see an unironic invocation of panem-et-circenses[1], especially with regards to a sinofascist regime.

It is extremely incorrect, untoward, and downright harmful to draw parallels between the CCP and, say, Busch Gardens.

In a theme park, run by a corporation, I understand that the proprietors of said park will not: drag me to a detention camp; do the same, or worse, for the unfortunate souls who share my relation; imprison and enslave millions of ethnic/religious minorities; make extremely aggressive overtures against other "theme parks," to the tune of building artificial land to claim (in whole or part) the international commons.

[1] https://www.mccc.edu/pdf/arc141/Bread%20&%20Circuses%20(Pane...
The CDC seems dangerously close to a no-win scenario.

Present truth and facts backing policy: Not managing public perception correctly.

Tell public what needs to be done but omit details: Conserve N95's with "masks don't work" all over again.
I think what the article is trying to say is, yes, there is a behavioural (psychological) component. But there is also a metabolism (physical) component too that is not getting enough attention. (Your own example highlights this well - when you were younger, you could eat more, and / or perhaps lose weight faster too, but now your body's metabolism has changed and you put on weight more easily). For e.g. thyroid imbalances can cause someone to put on weight, and can be addressed medically. The author believes there may be many other similar factors at play behind someone's obesity.

I partly agree with the author. But there is another factor - we also know that processed and / or junk foods definitely contributes to obesity. Yet, many obese people refuse to change their diet. If obese feel that they can't do without 1000 calories in their diet, why can't they eat 1000 calories of vegetables instead of 1000 calories of processed food? If gut bacteria plays a huge role in the kind of food we like to eat, then the author has a solid case ...
The most plausible explanation [1] is that China is insulating its domestic economy from the coming global financial reckoning, by cracking down on excessive financialization, etc. Either the US Fed will hike rates (taper QE) and crash the financial markets like never before, or they will continue to kick the can down the road with increasingly negative rates and the USD will 'gradually' become worthless. Regardless, the correct play is to limit exposure to the USD system, and historically "closed" societies have the advantage here.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_circulation
> Nobody in power is popping the property asset bubble in the UK any time soon. It's a sacred cow.

It's a bad mad, especially considering how much the Tories have relied on there being homeowners. Their whole thing is that that group is the sensible middle, who work for a living, but also appreciate that suppliers of capital have limits.

Odder still to not protect flat owners with cladding (I'm not one, FWIW). Higher-density housing is happening, and you've just told your next cohort of supporters to a) never invest in this asset class, we will render it worthless, b) never vote for us either, even as homeowners we won't support you.
I wonder, though, if body image issues tend to manifest differently in boys and girls. I suspect that we're somewhat better at spotting girls' issues than we are at boys'.
A modern definition of "species" generally gives a set of objective criteria that you can use to determine if two organisms are the same species (such as "can they produce fertile offspring"). Is there any definition of race like this? Genuine question, I don't think I've ever seen a definition of race more specific than "a collection of people with similar physical characteristics" or something like that, and I can't find one now. There's lots of definitions of what all the different races are, but none of what a "race" actually is.

Is there any definition of race where, given two people, you can apply some criteria to determine whether or not they are the same race? The criteria can't be "look at the definitions of each race and categorize the two people" because that's circular, how were those particular categories chosen? With species, you can determine that a bird and a fish are different species without knowing what birds and fish are.
Let me qualify: I don't see it as "chasing promotion" per se. It's more like laying the groundwork, in a "dress for the job you want" sort of way. Basically, it's a lot easier to argue for a promotion if you let your boss know of your intent/career goals, and then you show progress to the point where you can say "look, X and Y can vouch for the fact that I'm already de facto doing a lot of what's expected of that role"

For leadership level, that typically means having valuable working relationships with other parts of the org that your current role might not necessarily require you to interact with.

In my experience, typically first promo might happen at around 2-4 years of tenure (basically whatever is considered enough time to "prove yourself"). Further promos might be more difficult, as they might involve carving a path via some sort of org restructuring.
A more accurate view would be that it really is both.

It's a social construct, but it's not fully arbitrary, being historically (and currently) used as a proxy for ancestry, and thus genetics.

>That we divide not based on actual genetics but visible markers makes it a social construct

This is going too far towards the other end. Physical characteristics stem from genetic variations, and consistent patterns in appearance are often linked to some shared ancestry. It's not the end-all, but it's hardly without cause either.