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There was a famous writer once who said that one of his greatest assets was his extreme forgetfulness. Appropriately, I am blanking on his name at the moment, but I'll pop back in here if I recall it. It was a long time ago.

However, his point was something like focusing on rote memorization of detail makes for trite, superficial, and boring fiction-writing, and that you're better off experiencing something as intensely as possible and then forgetting it almost immediately. The idea being that your brain will recall the crucial bits more relevantly and more vividly once they have been yanked back from the fog of utter forgetfulness. I'm not sure how closely related this is to the ideas presented in the article, but for me personally, it became significantly easier to write fiction with a real sense of "immediacy" once embracing this principle.

However, fiction can require a strange sort of learning: it can involve sensory knowledge of scattered quotidian detail. Back when I wrote a lot, things like the discrete texture and smell of different wooden tables were very interesting to me. Or exactly how it feels to be in a room lit by a single large fluorescent light vs other kinds of light. I'm not sure that kind of learning transfers to any other domain, really. But forgetfulness was very useful for it, at any rate. I'm done now.
I was more thinking pictures of the monsters - the concepts of what the monster is. Probably just with given stats of the "a thief is a thief is a thief" type.
> My religious beliefs are . . . in flux

That's.. interesting, I always thought of you as a stern atheist. May I ask you to elaborate how you came to a different position from your past (presumably) atheistic views?
My favorite blogger that touches on these issues is Al Roth (http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com), a professor now at Stanford.

One of the coolest ideas there is the "organ donation chain." Think of one patient's spouse donating their kidney to another patient, and vice versa; now add an intermediary couple, and you've got a chain where more kidneys reach better compatible hosts. Unfortunately, because someone could always get cold feet, a lot of these chains had been carried out simultaneously, which naturally limits the size of such a chain.

So the cherry on top is a "non-directed" starter kidney. With this initial gift of altruism there's a little more leeway to arrange the matches and it's a disappointment but not a showstopper when someone finally stops the chain.

Anyways, it's always nice to think about the stopgaps between now and the sci-fi organ-growing future.
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LOL, true. In my defense it was the first hit in Google.

Judging by the time it took to dig this up, BBC could do with some SEO work:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28342929
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> The standard library is not being frozen as a whole at 1.0, we are only providing strong backwards compatibility guarantees about the language itself.

That's unfortunate. :( Which version will have a full backwards compatibility guarantee?
The article devotes just 3 sentences, in a short aside, to the idea that kidney sales could be encouraged, in an orderly and fair manner, rather than prohibited. (It's the prohibition which creates black market profits and kills thousands waiting for kidneys.)

For more on this possibility:

http://reason.com/archives/2008/05/13/kidneys-for-sale

http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/organ-sales...

Virginia Postrel, a former editor of Reason who actually donated one of her kidneys to a friend, has also written about donor chains and compensation:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/with-fun...
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And vice versa, of course.
Working your way up to store manager has its perks. According to Murray Godfrey a Wal-Mart store manager “of a store in a moderate-sized locale can easily make $200k plus bonuses based on sales.”

Don't forget the other part of the job: scheduling much of the just above minimum wage workforce under you to work less than 30 hours/week so they don't get benefits.
I guess we'll have to disagree as to what constitutes "the FDA". Frances Kelsey was a physician working for the FDA, so although there were internal disagreements on whether or not to approve, the point is, "the FDA" didn't approve it.

My argument is that that situation bred a lot of cautiousness at the FDA after the fact.
That flaw was discovered in 2013.
Most devices in the US are UL listed, but I believe this mostly means they meet UL's in-house guidelines of safety rather than certifying all of the manufacturer claims. (It's possible I'm misunderstanding though--I'd love to hear from an expert.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL_(safety_organization)#UL_St...
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You can get a patent for 'novel' treatments for existing drugs which should in theory fix this issue.
Thank you for these references, these are all good things to know.
This statement cannot possibly be true. If everyone had access to the best education, it would not be the best education.
I study pharmacy in CZ. I know about the categories mentioned and the drugs any US (or western-based) Doctor should know, but also never heard about the Russian drugs that are mentioned.

Very eye-opening article. I remember coming in contact with the Chinese pharmaceutical/medical system through a discussion with a our Chinese guide. After the discussion I was left with the impression that Chinese medicine is still in the dark ages and for some reason doesn't wanna join the 21st century. Then our "History of Pharmacy" teacher let me know that Chinese medicine is as good as ours although their approach is strange to us, works extremely well for them hence there even might be many things worth to copy there. I still remember how stunned I was.
I think it is valid - often hairdressers go onto owning their own salon, and from there rapid income increase.
Software engineers in India are fourteen-thousand-a-penny.

Seriously. We fired one programmer for $100k, and instead hired 10 indian software engineers at $10k a piece. They are not exactly great programmers, but they are hungry (literally, we banned lunchtime!), and they work long hours.

Good times!
The big debate is whether the FDA should approve a drug as being "safe and effective", or whether it should just declare a drug "safe" and then leave it to doctors to decide what they use. The later is what most of the world uses and what reformers want the FDA to adopt. Moving to the later would not have done anything to prevent the Thalidomide tragedy.
And is still applicable today...
Do check out org-mode, then. It is surprising how far that tool has been extended.

Many of these features are actually under the label "reproducible research" nowdays. There was a really good talk given on this at a pypy convention a couple of years ago.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dUkyn_fZA
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That sounds like an event I will be first in line for.
...and lawyers, and legislation, and patent portfolio, and many other events that doesn't even touch a "free market".

You do know that at the moment the US gov't is deciding if 2 or 3 national ISPs is enough competition. Where are all the other upstarts? Effectively locked out. How? If you showed up early enough you were subsidised in deploying infrastructure. If you showed up a little late that is no longer an option to you.

So yes, continue being naive about how those market forces rely exclusively on cash.
I swear i thought this was just a smart way to train a learner, get a large group of people to identify colors but this is just too fun!
The drug industry is very different from other industries because of generics. The FDA has an approval pathway that allows you to say "my drug is identical to that other drug". Also, many states have legislation that requires pharmacists to fill Rx with generics. Marketing won't do a whole lot to help that.

If the same thing happened to the tech industry, it would work like this... you create an awesome new gadget and a competitor creates a copy. The gov't certifies this copy as "exactly the same". When you go to purchase the fancy gadget at the store, the clerk automatically gives you the cheaper copy without even asking.

Again, not something marketing can help a whole lot with.
But under our current economic system, what you can afford is tied to the value of the goods/services you produce. If we find ourselves in a future where 90% of the population produces nothing, then 90% of the population can afford nothing, no matter how cheap.

Obviously there is a utopian solution, where most goods and services are so cheap to produce, that most people have essentially free access to them.

What is worrying is the dystopian alternative (and probably inevitable adjustment period), where only a tiny fraction of the population is "valuable", and therefore has access to all the benefits of cheap automation, while the other 90% have no value (economically speaking).

We also tend to forget that we live in a sort of intellectual bubble. Just by being able to hold a highly technical job, you are probably already in the upper 90% percent of the intelligence spectrum. 80% of the world's population has an IQ of under 115; and half the world's population is under 100 and can barely grasp any form of abstract logical thinking.

If the vast majority of jobs in the future require high technical or intellectual aptitude, then the vast majority of the earth's population will be left with nothing to do.
I know the dog walking statistics are in the ballpark for San Francisco at least since I know a few people who do that. Regardless, I do generally agree with your point of view.
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The problem lies in the so called social contract each society wants to endorse. Either people face drugs as social goods (social economical model) or as goods (liberal model).

If drugs are social goods then, in theory you put the well being of the masses above anything else.

If drugs are just goods to be marketed, then there's no need to bother. Either the financial aspect is lucrative (e.g. reasoned) or you can't have legal access to the drug.

ps. The fact that the US has the worst and most expensive health system in the world of course, says something about healthcare.
All they needed to write is a collision detector detector!
carbocation, I know of the Ott lab's work on regeneration (or rather, recellularization) of explanted organs[1].

Do you know of other pioneering work in the field, or similar efforts to follow?

1. http://ottlab.mgh.harvard.edu/?page_id=205
I made it simply as a rendering experiment and spiced it up with music. I would never enter this into a demo compo for sure :) It was fun though!
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To back up your statement: Back in the day my buddy created "greedtube.com" and received a Cease and Desist within 48 hours.
"The FDA" would be taken to mean some quality of the organization - a regulation, a standard process. It was not. It was a single stubborn person, working off little more than a gut feeling, and going against standard practices of the organization.
I discovered the redirect behavior about 6 months ago, which generated a lot of controversy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7190952

Interestingly, some of the arguments then were "What did you expect from a free startup?" and "Who cares? You still see the image."

Recently (post-$50M), I've seen this behavior when clicking random imgur links on the web from unaffected sites, but have been unable to reproduce it using spoofing tricks.
In a more polished version, you'd want to make it clear that the passphrase is not necessarily the password used to log into your email account...

Seems like a really good idea. :)
I don't think it matters whether the full standard library is marked stable. What matters is whether the portion of the standard library that you're using in your particular app is stable. To that end, we have a lot of tooling to make sure that you can stay within the stable parts of the standard library if you wish. Version 1.0 will have enough of a stable base for most apps.

Freezing the entire standard library in one fell swoop would freeze design mistakes, and delaying 1.0 until we're sure about every last symbol in every last library would delay 1.0 for no reason. I'm confident in our approach.
I've had this idea for ages, but other than Twitter (Geus was working on popped.at, but it seems to be down again) I was told that real time was not possible with the other services. If Buetol wants this to have real value then real-time PLUS being able to define a location by polygon or radius for an accurate stream is required.
Yep but it's extremely cold in the winter. I'd take rural Southern Japan or maybe rural Taiwan, as other very safe, cheap and well serviced areas.
> we could see Orwell picture of Germany was incomplete [...] [It's] not that he promised suffering, but that he promised that suffering will end.

Looks to me that it's what Orwell described in that excerpt (at the end of the essay):

> at this moment “Better an end with horror than a horror without end” is a winner.
Maybe it will get finer and finer detail until one day amino acids are joined and you can print a steak.

Then oeople can brag "My HP e5000 can print a steak in only five minutes your Epson SP2300 takes 15 minutes."
> I'd rather have less MP if it means a better noise profile

In that case, you want the A7s. For some reason, there are three variants of the A7: the standard A7, with a 24 megapixel sensor, the A7R, with a 36 megapixel sensor (the R is for resolution, you see), and the A7s, with a 12 megapixel sensor, but better signal-to-noise ratio, and so low-light performance (the s is for sensitivity, you see - no idea why it's lowercase when the R is uppercase).

> and AFAIK there is a a fair amount of parameters affecting image quality other than the sensor itself.

I suppose the biggest one is the lens. The A7 doesn't have a big range of lenses yet, but there are a few made by Zeiss that are apparently very good.
Mein campf is ... well, it's rambling. Think one of those internet "we didn't land on the moon, climate is bad, boo immigrants" texts rambling. The quran is rambling too, but of a different kind. "you must do X, you can't do Y, he must do Z, if you do A, B and C you'll be rewarded". It'd be fine, but it's 50 freaking pages of that. Why are you claiming "boring" is an unfair assessment of this ?

I'm unsure what the definition of pamphlet is, but the communist manifesto definitely exceeds what I'd consider length limits for pamphlets.
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Glad to see new projects coming across to BEAM, and exploring the world beyond Erlang, but of course worried an influx of ill-disciplined Ruby Brogrammers will just see a tool to take things Erlangesque-web-scale!!!

Let's hope that can be resisted. As long as we can avoid the disease of Ruby Gems creeping over, it may just be ok.
Silly sensational title. The theory has to be nuanced if anything, not challenged.
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In Europe there are some ex-minery towns that went from 100K+ to a few thousands. I know a couple personally. However, they are very different in that services and safety would be abysmal. Yubari sounds like a place I'd love to move to if it wasn't so extremely cold in the winter. Hokkaido is quite extreme and by looking at its location in the map this town might be even colder than Asahikawa, which is serious stuff. Siberia-like extreme cold.
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I taught my younger sister (20 years younger than me) to touch type pretty easily when she was 8. I gave her a keyboard with blank keys and convinced my mom to make sure that was the only keyboard she could use.

Then I pointed her to the BBC typing practice website. She learned in about a month out of necessity.

She's almost 11 now, and she can touch type close to 60 words per minute.
But you can't "just repeat it until it succeeds" because there's a deterministic chance (1/128 in the case of the cards) that a De Bruijn cycle occurs more than once in the same sequence. So to just repeat it until it succeeds you would need to keep rearranging the sequence until you eliminate those redundant cycles.. which obviously doesn't work cleanly because now you have to encode those rearrangements somehow.
It's things like this that point out that the author a) can't write effectively and b) doesn't know anything about pharmacology/medicinal chemistry. Why are people going nuts about an article written about a very advanced subject that's written by a non-expert?
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> Soviets invade Poland, which is later split (October, 1939)

Wrong, soviets invaded on 17th September. In October most fighting was already done.
"Different elements" is a hard sell on this post, because aren't they sequentially increasing protons, neutrons, etc? How can you not have elements on one periodic table vs another?
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I felt cheated when I discovered that Windows 3.1 with Video for Windows would play all those Win95 movies identically.
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Given that they clearly did not have the church on their side, isn't that a massive conflict ?

Also the wikipedia page states that because of the German (pre-nazi) agreement with the vatican that was seen as lending legitimacy to the nazi government, this rebuke by the pope was seen as a great step forward for German catholics, lending legitimacy to an already existing opposition amonst catholics which was then publicly and violently suppressed ...

I'd be interested in hearing more.
Uh, if anything, this challenges tabula rasa. But I don't see how it's such a blow to Darwinian evolution. Or am I missing something?
This is the "but it was never implemented correctly" argument. To the rest of the world, I assure you that Soviet-style communism definitely qualifies as socialism.
I remember reading this in the economist a long time ago: http://www.economist.com/node/8173039 It advocates a market-based solution.

At the time I thought it made a lot of sense. I still think it does.
"I wrote Hextris way back in 1990." -- David Markley

http://www.hextris.com/

Kind of misleading to use the name "Hextris" for what looks like a very different game. The original Hextris is 2D falling blocks exactly like Tetris, except that the world consists of hexagons, and so the pieces have six rotations. I played this like crazy for a brief time in the mid 1990's.
> Small town poor boy makes it big can create some assholes.

A lot of them came back to Newfoundland and the feeling is pretty much the same. That province is going through an oil boom of its own and the influx of yuppies, crime and condos is excruciating
I am not surprised at all. Whenever my leftist friends bring up the "poor" who cannot find a job I ask them if they know how much does a dog walker make and why is it so.
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Specifically the undeveloped part of the brain, is believed to be the part that evaluates risk. Meaning that 16 year olds are less likely to account accurately for the consequences of their behavior.

There are advantages to this for society and for the individual teenager. But there are disadvantages as well--they are more likely to commit crime, are easier to convince to go off to a foreign land and fight in a war, and take unnecessary risks when driving.

The inability of teenagers to fully comprehend the risks and consequences of their actions leads me to label their judgment "fundamentally flawed."

>When we treat kids as rational beings capable of mature reasoning, they are more likely to act as such.

I agree to an extent. But there are many circumstances where this isn't the case.

In a situation where the consequences of failure won't destroy the life of a teenager and those around him, sure treat him (or her) like an adult. But there are times when parents have to step in, exercise their authority, and protect them (and those around them) from themselves.
It's probably because they've been signing NDAs
Thanks. We changed to that from http://torrentfreak.com/visited-pirate-bays-peter-sunde-pris....
I would say both are morally equivalent.
Yes but it'd be insanely easy for a company like UPS with the data it has to:

- Give you a preprogrammed recommended stop route.
- recommended stop route can auto-adjust throughout day based on variables like traffic etc
- the only time you have to "look anything up" is when you need to manually change your recommended stop route.
- and that could be done via simple voice commands

I really find it hard to believe UPS doesn't have some kind of great GPS like this for most of it's fleet.

Delivery routes in lower density parts of the country are going to be huge geographic areas too unlike a SF or NYC too.

They supposedly use software to determine how to store packages in the back of a truck efficiently, I can't see how they wouldn't throw their same weight at navigation.
It's called transgenerational epigenetics. It's been observed before. It's nowhere near what Lamark proposed. For that matter, we are already way beyond Darwin who never even conceived of DNA. This is just another nuance.
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I'd expand that to include any third party plugin that executes live code. Flash and Java are just the two with the greatest penetration and the worst security records.
I've seen it in rural Greece and Australia.
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This is more Hex Puyo Puyo than Hex Tetris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo_(series)#Gameplay
This is an argument often used by teachers to shut down debate, but what you forget is we have all been to school. We know what goes on first hand, everyone does.

So I hear teachers whine about their long hours, but I remember perfectly well that "teaching" consists of putting a video on then going outside for a smoke. For the same pay as the guy who actually does a lesson.
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Truly, the most relevant work I've seen in a long time.
Being more concerned about fire safety than surge suppression, I've always been bothered by the cheap construction of the outlets in most of these products. So, for a while I've only been buying the TrippLite isobar and industrial/hospital-grade products.
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