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For continued growth we need to embrace Space both civilian and military.
Funding NASA to really get to Mars and a colony on Moon in the long run give the best bang for the buck.

Longevity would help but will also ossify the institutions. There is a reason why the mindshare in the corridors of power view the world as if it is 1991, they are too damn old and do not acknowledge the new realities.
I agree with this, I clicked to check it out and left after it appeared I had to sign up, sure I'm not alone.
Except they (more specifically, ads) pay for themselves.
Yes indeed. I posted them in a logical order
Science is not actually sentient.

I think it was expected/hope for by policy folks.
Easy... you just have to beat the Toyota Corolla on price, comfort, dependability and resale value.
Aren't there any offers for 4g internet?
I agree, the expectation of everyone being able to switch to a programming career is of course ridiculous. Neither should this be the expectation nor should everyone actually get into a programming career. Better to leave that to the professionals, who have chosen this path and have the necessary education to avoid building in the typical traps. Learning programming can take a week, but mastering it may take a lifetime.
Just the fact, that a person can write a little bit of code, does not mean, that it must become their profession.

However, I do think, that people should be able to make use of the tools they have. Learning a little bit of programming can get people going a long way and there are so many learning resources out there, that you can learn more any time you want. (Of course tutorial hell is a thing.) We really should encourage people to become computer literate and to become enabled. There is no reason to keep our knowledge from people.
Descript.com is great if you don’t like DAWs and want an easy way to make edits to your recordings.
It sometimes helps me to remember that resting can be a way of investing in future productivity. A good multi-hour activity, especially one without checking your devices, can have a really non-linear effect on my productivity especially if I have been feeling stuck on a problem. So sometimes the most productive thing to do is to rest :) Hopefully that helps
> no party that could actually win will take the required steps to solve this problem.

Trudeau did campaign on electoral reform, and then went back on his word: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ask-electoral-reform-2021-f...
anecdote: I took Multivariate calculus and differential equations while in high school at the University of Nevada. I was easily the top student in my classes. I had to retake them at Stanford (figuring out how to transfer the credit was too complicated). Despite having "taken" the "same" material before and the fact that the average grade in the class was probably a B or B+, I was below the median in the class on the exams and got worse grades in the classes at Stanford. Of course this is anecdotal, and the University of Nevada is not that great of a school, but no doubt my GPA would have been much higher at a school like that...
Yeah a big screen is only exciting for the first few times you watch a show. Then it just becomes the screen. We used to watch TV on a 19 inch CRT from clear across the room, and we enjoyed the shit out of it. The TV is not what made the show good or bad.

It was cool to go to someone's house who had a big TV, but now everybody has a big, high-res TV. Most people aren't even utilizing the resolution their TVs are capable of.

Just like most people are fine with a Sonos speaker or soundbar (IMO, they sound like any other crappy integrated speaker), most people would probably not care above 1080p.
Having watched the Gladwell talk a couple of times now - I think your experience is really the most indicative of what he was trying to say. Many self weed themselves out of Engineering and into generic liberal arts studies - even though they were top of their high school class in STEM and specifically chose the highly selective school for STEM.

And perhaps not all have the mental fortitude to stick with it in the background like you did - which is a net loss for society.
I think a big - maybe huge and insurmountable - barrier to this is the sheer amount of junk attention sinks and outright wrong information on exactly the same medium that the good, free information is on.
You didn't mention it but I'm guessing he got back and told you the story so you aren't effectively done, it's just more of a hassle if you're unwilling to ask a passing stranger.
I'd say, "the cost to house ones family is included in CPI calculations." That's clear and accurate.

Focusing on subtle technical differences is not helpful for laypeople. Consider if you had a tire that kept going flat, so you take your car to the mechanic and tell them, "something is wrong with my wheel" then having them come back and say, "no there isn't." Because, technically to the mechanic, tires are the rubber part and wheels on the metal part, and there is nothing wrong with the metal part.

That's what people are doing by saying "house prices aren't included" in the CPI. While technically correct, the implication to normal people is that the costs associated with shelter are completely omitted from the CPI.
I think I was looking at a small small flight that went from Ulaanbataar most of the way toward the Altai. I forget where. Anywhere else nature wise you would recommend going?
That's the impression I get from the media. But if not for the media, I wouldn't know anybody was dying of anything. Nobody in any of my social circles have died in over 3 years. Going off what I've personally observed, I've seen no evidence of either a pandemic or the vaccines being dangerous.

To be clear, I don't think it's all made up. Just that it's been blown up, completely out of proportion. All of it.
High cost of cancer care in the U.S. doesn’t reduce mortality rates
Even when you get to the point of fabbing your own chips, how do you know your layout software isn't compromised? How do you know your pattern etcher isn't compromised? Are you inspecting the microscope and validating the billions of connections?

The only way to properly secure your web mail is to etch your own silicon by hand. Everything else is just useless security theater obviously.
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The year is 20XX...
That's called urban sprawl...
Will have to check out that trekking company - how long did you spend in the Altai? Anywhere else you would recommend visiting nature wise?
> taking something that's normally done by national banks, and doing it instead on a peer-to-peer network, implemented by a handful of developers

It's not.

A currency board tied to the U.S. dollar holds U.S. dollars. A board--or ETF--pegged to the dollar holding rubles (or pegged to gold holding dollars or vice versa) is stable under a specific set of conditions. Outside those conditions, in the real world, it's trivially defeated.
Is this of interest to you? https://hackaday.com/2022/02/23/bend-it-like-sonar-beacon-wi...
> Mortgages let you pay 2052 dollars against 2022 prices and that’s under appreciated by the financially illiterate.

Can you please clarify, or point towards additional reading material?
Is it really fair to call any form of cardiovascular dysfunction "mild"?
My immediate thought was "surely, if you talked to any police officer, if not at the station, they would help out? And if not, any library or other public service?"
> Shareholders are not the only stakeholders who should be considered in a company

Sure. (Though this is far from settled.) But saying this was the "original...purpose of a company" is inaccurate.
I am all for discussion. The crusade and their bad faith interpretation of his opinions are piggybacking on the sometimes overly eager cancel culture of today.
Filling up a gas car is faster, but it's really not that much difference in real life usage.

I have a VW ID.3 (an electric hatchback). It can easily do a 100 mile round trip without worrying about running out. And if you go further, the car will just navigate you to the nearest rapid charger if it thinks you need charging to comfortably finish the trip. The car software makes it pretty hard to run out. You get back up to 80% charge in like 20 minutes on a 150kw rapid charger.

Caveat: This is in the UK where things are pretty dense and it take some real effort to run out of charge and ignore all the car's warnings without being near some kind of charging point.
yes, but call it out and you typically get critizied as being some sort of horrible person calling for the US-centric forum to burn down.

https://archive.today/XZ6rW
He is ecstatic just as he approaches the top of the mountain.
we need a gcc 4.7.4 maintenance release since it is the last canonical gcc: last c++98 written in a simple dialect of C.
The bootstrap project may take over its maintenance though.
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Again, landlords aren’t a big enough group or coordinated enough to do anything. There’s no landlord lobby. Homeowners are a different story. It’s them who stop us from building more. But yea, it’s just the market and there’s no conspiracy and landlords are the last people to blame. Your comment on my cognitive abilities is a petty insult and is not allowed on this platform.
> uncharacteristically intelligent and driven

Or they had the right skin color [1].

[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/16/admissions-suit...
When I lived in NYC, I frequently saw these things being used as urinals by homeless people.

I'd rather just walk in the rain.
Theres a comparison here vs other standard PSU sizes: https://hdplex.com/pub/media/image/Product/250WGaN/overview/...
Agreed. Actively trying to harm other contributors (Richard Stallman) is the problem here.
Just because someone might presume that people would “obviously” want small cheap EVs, does not actually translate to reality.

Small and cheap cars do not sell well in the US.

And it’s not just as easy as sticking some cars on a ship and putting them on a lot. There are different regulatory environments around the world which have different requirements. Kei cars are an example of a vehicle designed to very specifically meet a set of Japanese laws at the expense of many other attributes that might make it viable in other markets. Vehicles much larger and more powerful are criticized as being underpowered and cramped in the US.

The top 3 best selling vehicles in the US can fit a kei car in their cargo compartment.

https://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e15/garysewell/IMG_0109.j...
> It's 2022, we have technology that can make direct democracy cheap, easy and secure

Are you from a parallel universe where operating systems, compilers, and software and hardware supply chains are secure against nation-state adversaries?

Obligatory https://cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Reflect...
COVID infections, even mild or asymptomatic ones, can cause significant heart damage: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0

This doesn't mean every COVID infection is going to cause permanent heart damage for everyone. But increases in heart failure, etc. could definitely be from the massive, nearly unmitigated global spread of COVID-19.
The statement from GopherCon was about the alignment of values, and lostgame is expressing gratitude for moral support in a harsh social environment. Why do you frame your discussion in terms of safety when the thread is about the alignment of values and the support of people such as lostgame? Do you think your framing is a better one than what was provided in the thread so far?

Shall we talk more about conference security instead?
I never said it was anything to do with safety. It's a statement against an oppressive move from a government increasingly uninterested in the people it governs.

However - here's where safety comes in. As a queer/trans woman, I don't particularly feel safe (at all, really) in the southern states (California excluded, I guess?) - Florida and Texas, especially.

People are actively, regularly violent towards LGTBQ+ people down there. And, of course - it's not the ban - it's the attitude behind it - and the people behind it who are dangerous, and are often violent people with guns.

I've rejected a handful of paid business travel opportunities because they were either in Texas or Florida. It's not worth it on the chance I run into some psychotic anti-gay Christian and their gun, demanding I get the hell out of their city...again. (Yes, this has already actually happened to me...)
There are plenty of examples of companies shooting themselves in the foot by only looking at the short term, but this doesn’t seem like one of them. It’s not like investment in POTS is going to pay off in the long run: rural America is depopulating, most households are becoming cellphone only, etc. There’s no positive ROI for POTS out in the countryside no matter what time horizon you look at.

The actual fix here is that we have to take a hard look and really decide if this is something worth keeping around. If it is, it needs massive ongoing subsidies. The market alone won’t fix it, because the economics simply aren’t there.
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Did he ask a stranger? When I got locked out of my house even the fedex driver who happened to be there let me use his phone to call someone.
I teach on the second floor of a city school where budget issues mean we don't have metal doors to the classrooms (older building, first floor has them). Every room has a metal cabinet though, and so our barricade procedure for the room is to lock the door, slide the cabinet in front of it, then kick out the furniture sliders from underneath the cabinet. Today, us second floor teachers pooled our personal money (near end of the school year in the US, discretionary funds are low) to buy reams of printer paper to stack inside and fill the cabinet, so that it has stopping power for bullets. Office supply store was nice enough to give for cost when they found out what it was for.

I don't mean to set off an arms control debate here, especially since I have a particular viewpoint on this, but I've found among many tech workers there's a certain blindness to ground reality. If you have a teacher or educator in your life, please check in on them this week. If you're well-off, or even not as much, understand that your profession is (wrongly or rightly) valued more than ours, so if you organize and amplify the voices of other roles, it will help immensely.
I thought his posts on how many batteries we'd need to convert to electric everything while maintaining living standards were very interesting.
Same here.

In Rome 1.5 million people a day come to the city to work, over a population of ~3 million residents.

In Milan it's 1 million people, over 1.5 million residents.

Still on average cars are much smaller than in NY or Los Angeles, I'll say that in Rome and Milan cars are much smaller than the Italian average, because parking space is very limited.

The western World is not that different everywhere you go, except some traits of US, which are not that western if you ask me, they are more similar to countries that just discovered market economy and consumerism.
This isn't uncommon. For example, when MIT/Harvard took over edX from the original researcher who built it, they found they didn't know how to build software. The new team introduced this same issue: passwords in log files.

It was fixed much later. You can look over the git logs.

I'm not sure this is so much of a "how good this happen," but a "thank you for being transparent." Most organizations cover this sort of thing up, like MIT/Harvard (and now 2U).

Good of github to announce this openly!
I drive one of the smallest production cars sold in the US in the last 3 decades, unfortunately they only sold them here for just 4 years as they didn't sell well. The original design was made by Toyota for the European market, where it sold well in the City Car category, a vehicle category that is essentially nonexistent throughout US vehicle history. I love my little car, not the least of which because it's extremely versatile and handles well due to the short wheelbase.

I'd love to have an electric version of the car I have now, and I know something similar is being brought to market in the EU, however it'll never be sold in the US. It's not just small cars either. I also love station wagons, which unfortunately fell out of favor in the US in preference to these awful crossovers. The Subaru Levorg is a fantastic vehicle I wish I could buy but it's not sold in the US, instead one of the last remaining wagons on the US market was converted into a crossover (Outback).

When I look at the state of the current vehicle market in the US, it reminds me of some of the opening of Snow Crash, and how everybody drives around in horribly designed minivans. Well... guess what, we pretty much have that excepts it's crossovers/CUVs and SUVs. It makes driving a worse experience on the road for everyone who isn't in a massive vehicle because you can't see through the rolling roadblocks, and they're worse in every case for everyone else in an accident, and they're more difficult to drive with worse vehicle dynamics, and the type of people who buy them are generally the worst drivers (because they see it as insulating them and their family from the consequences of their own poor skill/behavior).

It doesn't have to be this way, but unfortunately it is, and I don't see a way to fix it. I really wish we could legally import vehicles from Europe and Japan without waiting 25 years (that stupid import rule). I would really like a Kei sports car as a weekender and a tiny EV hatchback as a daily, but neither is available for sale in the US unless I want something made in the 90s that's got 100k miles on it.
For anyone else who might get stuck like this: hit up any public service place. Libraries, police/fire station, civic office, tourist info kiosk etc.
Good but tired.

Grinding for an early retirement before 30.

Full time work and university takes most of my time.

Rest is spent on building side projects which I'm betting on making me money.

I don't have good elite creditionals or connections so raising money is impossible right now.

Too much to learn and do but too little time and lacking in conviction.
Even with that definition it may still be irrational as a student, or at least short-sighted. The further you get in your career, the less it matters which school you went to.

Employers may be interested in your schooling if you're fresh out of school, but after that, they're much more interested in your work experience.

I went to community college and then transferred to an fairly inexpensive 4-year college. In my first job I got a huge amount of work experience and leveled-up to the senior software developer title.

Maybe an employer after that first job would look at me suspiciously for my choice of schools, but they really shouldn't.
> I cannot imagine anyone adding support for all the external types

Indeed, I doubt it that anyone would try to cram handling of very different types, protocols and workflows into one app—other than Emacs, of course. Especially on a phone.

These days, custom protocols are a standard way to call external applications via links. So instead of sticking to Org's standard protocols, one could use those that are handled by applications that the person uses, particularly on a phone. It's actually possible to create handlers for Org's protocols, even on phones, and redirect the links to apps—but it's likely easier instead to use available protocols on phones and override them in Org or generally on the desktop, redirecting to modes and apps there.

Also, variations of the ‘share’ functionality are used nowadays when there's more content than a one-line link—and similarly, with some fiddling it's possible to define custom handlers and workflows for that. Personally I'm using the Automate app on Android.
I had 2 die in family past year. Both rigorously vaxxed. Both sudden unexpected heart failure.
Well, for instance, famously, any multiple-stack machines will have a hard time trying to run C because C assumes a single hardware stack. Although I imagine that currently, in most cases, you'll want to avoid C for software reasons, rather than hardware reasons (for example, you're required to deploy pure Java code, or pure C# code, or want to avoid any unsafe code in Rust, things like that).
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I think what's holding back growth is inequality and the 40 hour work week. Imagine how much economic activity would be generated by fixing those things.
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I would also like if the users are allowed to choose the notification priority, Especially in communication(chat) apps when they send messages to someone.

e.g. 'Delayed' for a meme, 'Immediate' for urgent/emergency and the receiver would receive only the notifications tagged 'Immediate' as push notification and the ones marked 'Delayed' would be a pull notification.

If this is implemented, Then I think chat etiquette can be forced upon just like email etiquette in professional communication. I've been brain-storming this for a while now[1].

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/59-notification-pollution-mobil...
Many people had to make the choice of being fired if they refused the vaccine. I'm not sure that is "being conned" more like being coerced. Even though some employers have walked back or not followed through on those threats, employees had to make the choice without benefit of that hindsight.
Apply a rule of thumb to outliers generally isn't appropriate. While it might be true that generally success rises 2% for every 10 SAT points, that doesn't necessarily mean it applies to Harvard and U Maryland. Especially due to grade inflation. 15 years ago, flagship state schools still harshly curved science/engineering classes to weed people out. While Harvard give you a gentleman's B+.
When you are the creator of the software you can license it however you want. So it is common to have a free software license for the community project and a closed source for the paid version.

Since Neo4j Inc. Is the creator of the software they can license it in multiple ways.

For more info: Business models for open-source software: Dual license

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-sou...
When I tried this about a year ago, it wasn't possible to set up full-disk encryption with hibernation.
It's one "valid" way of complying with GDPR.
> The second reason is that the choice to go to Harvard is itself a smart choice.

It may be a smart choice, but not all smart people who try to make that choice get in.

> The first time I was exposed to people from top-tier universities is when I entered the industry. I was absolutely blown away by the quality difference.

I’ve worked in software engineering with Harvard, Stanford, and MIT students. The only difference I saw was during their first couple of years out of undergrad where the people who went to prestigious schools had more confidence to jump in and solve problems. After those first two-ish years, people’s abilities correlated more with who they were and not where they went to school.
Way back in 1996 at Siggraph, I tried out a "haptic pen". It was a little pen on the end of an articulated robot arm. You held it like a normal pen and moved it around in 3D space. The robot arm would give you force feedback based on where the tip was in space. It was strong enough to completely stop the pen.

In the demo they had set up, there was a 3D model of a car, and you slide the tip of the pen along the surface. The haptic feedback would stop the pen from penetrating into the model so it really felt like the tip was touching the volume of a solid.

Super cool experience.
You may not believe this.....but 1. A single dose can have lasting affects for years to come. It is quite unbelievable, and I would not believe if it didn't happen to me.