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The article was quite difficult to read, the point was often lost in historical recaps and relationships between historical figures.

The central premise is wrong, natural theology was dicussed by hume and paley, but neither of their arguments disprove it.

Arguments about 'proving' god using end up being arguments about what 'kind' of evidence qualifies as proof, which is not explored here.

Paley's infinite regression of watches doesn't sidestep God, it moves God into the watch. Paley's argument about a stone being ultimately purposeless depends on knowledge he doesn't have.

The position you can't logically argue to God is JE Schellenberg's non-resistant, non-believer. As soon as you start arguing logical propositions, they have to end somewhere and it's always God if pushed far enough.

Douglas Adams' parody argument is fun, but is just wrong as a serious theological argument.

The 2005 version of intelligent design the article discusses was rejected from schools because it was an undeveloped young-earth creationist style religious proposition. Stephen meyer spent the rest of the 2000s debating phd scientists (buried in youtube) and found they couldnt challenge his claims and he also developed the idea into a scientific philosophy. That's the face of intelligent design the author should be addressing.

It would be better for the internet community to have a wiki-like or myspace-like battleground for theological interpretation so that we can all skip to the most recent developments and see the history of it like a git changelog, without having to endlessly quiz a Dominican monk about the arguments Aquanis conquered.
There were some interesting articles on HN a few weeks ago about doing backpropagation in a machine learning system with physical systems, the particular example I remember was a natural language processing system using a metal plate and sound. Everything that happens in the universe is a computational process. You could build a living computer with enough knowledge about genetics and feedback mechanisms between species and specimens. A living computer doesn't have to be a human brain, or even resemble a brain at all. It might resemble a forest or a fish tank.
Sure. Recessions tend to last a couple years.
> IMO, the Pacific coast states need to reject national health care, create a health-care pact between states that slowly grows larger by adding new states. If another state doesn't want to join, then, so be it.

It blows my mind that they don’t do this. During most of the 20th century, Democrat-run states wanted to tax Republican California to pay for social programs. So doing things at the national level was critical. But now that the states that have all the money are also run by Democrats, that roadblock is gone. California can just tax California to pay for universal healthcare for California. They have no reason to care what Iowa chooses to do.
This article seems to be saying that science and religion are trying to answer the same question, how did we get here. But I feel like that's misguided.

I've always been under the impression that science is descriptive, it answers how?

Whereas religion is deeper than that and aims to answer why?

We can explain how natural processes work, but, and I believe this is a question Aristotle asked with the immovable mover, we'll never be able to get to a root cause of why everything exists and what started it all.

Either the universe is infinite and time has no beginning, or there is a beginning and potentially an end. If there's a beginning, what was before the beginning? If it's infinite, how did it all start? These are the questions that I thought religion tried to answer. Science can (most likely) never answer why. Science is fundamentally based on repeatable experiments, and that's fine. We can use it to build a model of how the universe works, but as of today, we can't use science to answer the fundamental questions about the reason for the universe.
OBS is in my workflow similar to many other people here.

Video Camera -> OBS -> Internet -> nginx server -> HLS -> stream to browsers.
Yeah, chalk me up to the beautiful camp. I think the King James Bible reads like flowing poetry at times, which is something I'd never ascribe to the NIV.
Based on the article it looks like the main reason is due to the amount of trash hikers leave.
One of my university professors helped start CSNet which ran as an alternative to ARPANet for a few years over X.25 equipment. There's a complicated history but it sorta ran until the late 80s by itself until the Internet kind of swallowed everything.

My impression from my professor is that these academic precursors to the Internet were really intended to be centrally controlled by their various committees (as academic efforts usually are). The notion that these packet switched networks would eventually just sort of be run in a mostly decentralized way didn't seem to have occurred to anybody.
For people who think that they're the intended audience of these kinds of guides: do you find them effective?

I learned how to use a POSIX shell years before I learned how to program (outside of a shell, that is), and I've often wondered how to help people (particularly younger colleagues) who learned things the other way around.

My experience so far is that a lot of people get stuck in an "experience trough," for lack of a better phrase: they're comfortable navigating around the filesystem and running basic commands, but struggle with some of the more powerful building blocks that can make someone a real shell power user (`xargs`, nontrivial uses of `find`, here-strings, subshells and blocks, process substitution, etc.).
You make some really good points. In fact, in any system that valued people over companies, you'd expect people to be paid for their services on demand, if not ahead of time.
Premium Bonds in the UK are part of the way there https://www.nsandi.com/products/premium-bonds
FF: fossil fuel. CCS: carbon capture and storage.
Uh oh. Heavy withdrawals at USDT.[1]

Half a billion dollars pulled out today, all at once. Almost four billion in the last week. The market cap for USDT has dropped from US$84 billion to US$63 billion in the last month and a half.

Looks like we're going to find out soon what assets really back Tether.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
.NET / C# have all of the above, and had them for longer than JS did.

(promise abstraction since 2010, async/await since 2012)
And what’s the secret? Having the government do it can’t be the reason, because there’s plenty of government-run things, such as education and transit, where the US pays more to get less, just as in healthcare.
indeed it is. It's fantastic even.

I wonder who is suggesting this animosity.

My only issue with protonis that too many folks are referring to proton without knowing about wine, which has caused some misunderstandings and misapplication of credit.

I'd like to see it mentioned somewhere prominently that proton relies on wine.
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we are "computationally" equivalent to a turing machine: a tape with symbols on it and a head that reads and writes symbols to the tape according to rules.

the natural generalization of a turing machine to infinity would be a hyper turing machine: an infinitely wide tape and infinitely many heads.

i think language of "god" is mostly expressed in terms of infinities. e.g. pi (most infinite numbers are inexpressible to us, since most infinite numbers are transcendental numbers)

2. The alphabet our math uses is pretty much all finite. What percent of the axioms and theorems that you know are infinitely long? Shouldn't the overwhelming majority of axioms and theorems be infinitely long (and in particular map onto an uncountable set?). It just seems natural given the circumstances.
"Who gets paid before working?"

We are often expected to pay companies either ahead of time or on-demand when purchasing goods and services.

When we sell our labor, we generally are forced to accept a payment scheme designed by our employer that results in us getting paid much later, with the employer holding our money in the meantime.
Sorry, but I'm still not seeing how e-fuels are beneficial without violating the laws of thermodynamics. A plane is going to produce the same amount of CO2 whether kerosene or e-kerosene is used. The only way e-kerosene makes sense is if its production uses less CO2 than traditional oil extraction and refining. Given the relative simplicity of oil extraction, I find it hard to believe this will be the case. Maybe it makes sense in Europe where geopolitical considerations like energy independence outweigh strictly reducing CO2 emissions.
That's a configuration problem, and not hard to correct. Tell him to go into the audio settings, then "advanced audio settings", and add the "sync offset" in milliseconds required to bring the audio and video into sync.

Also, it's likely that his camera is mostly at fault; OBS with my Logitech camera doesn't have any significant lag. OBS itself has very little lag.
Most of the difference is explained by the numbers of hours worked, since the GDP in purchase parity per hours worked is within 10 % between US and countries like France or Germany: see e.g. https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm.

So those countries, implicitly or explicitly, made the choice so substitute income for more leisure. Whether that makes them richer/poorer depends on your perspective.
They added strong typing of tables a few months ago as an opt-in feature, hence keeping things backwards compatible: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
>recent research indicates that a chronic lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer’s

Why on earth do people (you're not alone, I know) prefer to assume that direction of causation, rather than that the underlying condition that leads to Alzheimer's causes sleep disorders too?

It's well known that sleep disorders are associated with other neurological or mental disorders.

I think there is a pervasive disease of thinking where people associate science and smart people with counterintuitive statements, so every obvious relationship gets inverted.

And can you answer the basic question of why sleep is even necessary at all?

Lack of sleep is eventually lethal, and I read a very interesting study a couple years ago that seemed to have a plausible mechanism and stunningly reasonable methodology, but I haven't heard anything about it since then. So I still don't know if it was fake or something, because it seemed like it should get a Nobel Prize. Although it used fruit flies so perhaps it didn't generalize.
What exactly do you mean? If you mean electricity or internet, I’d have to disagree. It’s important for those to be universal.

Water, sewage, or gas, I could kind of understand. But in rural areas, you dig a well, use a septic tank, and have a propane tank. Not relying on city infra.

For services like hospitals or restaurants, rural areas don’t have great access to those.

It doesn’t feel like there is a problem in general like you describe.
Ocenaudio can probably also do that
A problem as old as humankind.

Ideally, one would attempt to tie the user’s livelihood to the platform to keep them engaged.
“Cloud isn't an entry-level job”
It's more than just the title. It feels extremely unfocused because the author doesn't connect the different parts very well. The author starts with a very small focus (email addresses) and then goes on tangents while randomly interrupting with headings like "I swear this is still about email". It doesn't flow.

Which is unfortunately because the topics are very relevant to the modern discussion about privacy, and I think there are ideas in there that are worth telling, but in this form it's just hard to follow
Bash is so painful to use without vi mode (set -o vi).
You could look at the git commit history, and notice how most of the names are wm-de employees.

Its not like its 100% exclusive, but the majority of wikidata engineers are wm-de. Operational responsibilities are a bit more shared.

Also i hardly would call it a vanity project given how popular it is.

I also dont recall wikivoyage having that much to do with WM-DE.

If you want a source, i guess you could look at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Plan_2... but its a little light on details
I wonder how many conversations fail when someone rejects the use of reductionism or emergence (or both) as useful tools. (and/or misuses them)
You can use "FixPhrase.encode(lat, lon)" in the browser console.

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Yes, because what we need is more gerontocracy. People should instead just make peace with the fact that their purpose in life is to reproduce, die within a reasonable time, and hand the world over to the next generation.
The Nissan Leaf is the most underrated car in the world. It's perfectly suitable for a vast majority of the trips Americans make by car and it's ridiculously economical (especially if purchased used).

I don't think there are any rational reasons why it's not the most popular car in America.
> Google offers a lot of free services.

Google offers services that you don't pay for in cash.
This is bullshit.

WMF has its issues, but "unmaintained" is over the top.

There was actually a time i would have agreed with this, and there are still under-maintained parts, but since the recreation of the platform team, i don't think its a reasonable position anymore.

[Disclaimer: i am ex-wmf contractor]
Does it work better for some languages over others (e.g. C++, C#, F#, Python versus Go, Ruby, PHP)?
How exactly does incessantly repeating yourself, in situations where the compiler is already perfectly aware what you're supposed to say, a "detriment to mental agility"?

And how does it make books and learning resources outdated and useless? Old code still works exactly the same as it always did.
It appears this was launched in March 2021

https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-finally-asking-big-tec...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Enterprise#Re...
Remember, anyone can comment here. It doesn't cost a thing and doesn't even require a valid email.

Think about that before you go off on your hobby horse about whatever stereotype you despise the most.

Anybody you could find on reddit or anywhere else can comment here if they find it and want to.

I think it was years before I even knew who Peter Thiel was, and I've never been to California in my life.
Ok well that's a bad assumption. Atmospheric capture is basically impossible (at scale) due to the size of the atmosphere and the density of carbon within it. Atmospheric capture is not something I'd bet the farm on.
Billing is the original sin of healthcare. EMRs (excluding the VA’s old MER VistA) were not developed to improve clinical workflows or outcomes, they were originally conceived to improve and streamline billing. This orientation has massively contributed to the overhead that EMRs like Epic and Cerner introduce.

On the startup and health improve lament side, billing is the rock that so many great ideas break on. It doesn’t matter if the model or business improves care or reduces cost unless it will make a provider more money.
> None of the atheists I know…

Anecdotal and unfamiliar with the literature.

>How strange that science can’t be neutral because someone…

That’s not what the article implies in the slightest. Nor is it why science is unable to be objective.
I’ve been meaning to play around with this!
Now fingers crossed for somebody to make DALL-E 2 generally available! (or for somebody to hook me up with a referral code or whatever :) )
Pirate bay is a much smaller scale than wikipedia.

Their approach to legal is to basically just get arrested, which is an interesting approach.
There is no money in preventative health care.
Well easy they should use German.

More seriously, English is such a terrible language for this, because it's so full of ambiguities.
Fun fact: at 50 GWEI it currently costs about $1800 to store 1MB of data on Ethereum
Yeah, he's making that up.
Love that book. I got this sense reading it like I was there.
I remember using pc pursuit - I think it used something like x.25 to allow you to access modem banks in other cities to connect to BBSs there.

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit
I was hopping it was Aussie slang... Like Build a rails app in one avo..
Walmart is too. They’re opening up health clinics.
There might be some supply-demand parity but price will take care of it. It is just like any currency exchange or border transfer but without the regulations and tax. Eg. USD is more widely preferred than Thai baht but there is a still a large market for exchanges and money transfer.
Copying over a small amount of wikibooks isn't really forking in the hard sense.

The hard part of making a real fork of wikipedia is scale of the entire thing, and traffic level the original gets.
I’m a bit confused on the choice part. Can you explain?

I think if someone can afford better, private care they should be able to. For example I would probably go to the universal healthcare family doctor but if I need a specific surgery I would like to be able to go to the best care I can get.
I worked at Amazon from 2001 to 2006 (and I'm older than you are by a decade).

I made an $8M mistake in 2006 selling all my AMZN stock options because I figured that AWS would never go anywhere because the costs were ridiculous and self-hosting should always be cheaper.

The only thing that Amazon did was do everything cheap as fuck. They didn't use fiberchannel or SANs and didn't pay EMC or VMWare a dime. The engineers and managers that gave of a whiff of trying to empire-build were generally fired.

Doing things cheaply and simply is magic is that the industry does not seem to understand.

And now what Amazon has built on top of its own simple infrastructure is grossly complicated, which makes people feel like its impossible to compete with them since they'd need to build something grossly complicated as well.

It should be simple to run your own in-house "cloud" by doing things very simple and cheap and scalable and responsive to the business. Just have a CTO with a vision and the willingness to aggressively fire the fuck out of anyone spending too much money or putting up barriers to getting shit done (ITIL).

Apparently doing this is more difficult than quantum gravity though. So everyone uses AWS.

Don't get me started on containers and Kubernetes...
My understanding (probably incomplete) is that a lot of the loans were short-term "flash loans". Being that the term was quite short, they're more akin to payday loans. If you were to compute the loan on an APY basis it would be usurious, but since it's only for a short period the total amount paid is small.

Collect many of those short-term high-interest loans into a single bucket, and you have a longer-term high interest facility. Like being an LP in a credit fund. So there is a fairly high fundamental yield. Not 20%, but maybe 6%.

Second, as the GP mentions, they were also using their marketing budget to pay an unsustainably high yield to excite and entice investors. So on to the 6%, add another 4% of VC money.

Finally, they were underestimating the risk of the underlying loans defaulting, thereby causing them to overestimate the APY on the pool. That brought them to a place where they thought they could pay 20% instead of 10%.

There might be more to it than that but that's what I understand.
It is a click-bait title. Judging from the first paragraph it is a book review and the author of the article was conflating the Internet with the web. Scanning the rest of the article, it looks like the author tries to prop up their claims by arguing that the social aspects of the Internet had their foundations in BBSes. Even if this is true, it isn't what most people mean by the origins of the Internet as infrastructure. (Though it probably isn't true. Even for social elements that didn't originate with the Internet, one has to consider that there was more to the online world than BBSes and the Internet anyway. Even then one has to consider that things popularised by BBSes probably found their inspiration elsewhere, including from the Internet.)
Not quite true, 1/3 of energy may be from cars and household electricity but it doesn't mean the rest 2/3 are from industry. It's mainly from heating. And for heating there is a solution in form of heat pumps and energy-efficient buildings.
> You’re basically describing options.

Well, with vanilla options, you'd need a basket of options to both reasonably closely replicate performance of a broad index (the "responsible vehicle" part) and also a small percentage of the time hitting a big pay-out. Presumably, you'd want mostly short-duration at-the-money calls on a low-fee broad-index ETF (so they often end up owning the ETF), and a small number of deep out-of-the money puts and calls on volatile micro-cap single names to get that sweet sweet irregular reinforcement dopamine hit.

This is not investment advice.
Thanks I needed the laugh.
Once you have universal healthcare, it’s still going to be hard. You still have a lot of clever providers trying to extract as much money as possible from the system and an insurer that needs to find out what the right price and cost/benefit analysis is. It’s super super hard, and the US is not used to do that.
FFMPEG also requires a command line which makes it completely unusable for nearly everyone.
I'd be beating down their door if they offered a model that swapped the keyboard for a d-pad, circle pad, and buttons.
"verbose" and "expressive" are on two different axes. Go is neither verbose nor expressive, for example, while XQuery is both verbose and expressive.
My personal theory is that its a mildly better bulk api, with that less being a needed thing, but more a way for big org to justify "donating" by paying for something.
You wouldn’t want to hold 10 year bonds, way too much duration risk. 30 day T-Bills is what they’d want to hold to minimize risk.
Has anyone spent more?
Yeah, I think when you start trying to cram that much stuff into a single number it will end up misrepresenting reality.

People like the simplicity of single numbers for comparison, but it is about as sensible as describing a personality by a single number.

I think I would rather show the median value for a variety of variables. Not everything makes sense to turn into dollars. How do you turn health care into dollars? What you pay for it is not a true reflection of the quality.

US tends to look good when things are turned into dollars and a lot worse when real world metrics and outcomes are measured such as health, happiness, safety, stress, life expectancy, leisure time etc.
Just remind them of Warren buffets 10 year bet on index funds, and he made that right before the 2008 collapse. Still won.
> Of possibly greater moment is that it leaks

It leaks very readily, it ignites very readily, it burns with a wide range of air:fuel proportions, it burns with a high flame speed, and it burns hot.

Hydrogen is ... not a good choice for something to reticulate widely around the world.

Edit: That's leaving aside its low energy density. You need three times the volume of hydrogen as natural gas for the same quantity of heat, so existing pipe networks are unlikely to be useful.

Global warming potential is off to the side of all this.
points to Banana699's comment beside yours

By pulling your head out of the sand and paying attention.