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I think the argument is that we’re better off decentralizing opportunity than increasing density, considering long term sustainability (ie, we have a lot of room to decentralize) and human well-being (ie, mega-cities aren’t great — and get worse the higher density).
How is that not analogous to a wall safe with my journal in it?
They do, because of market size effects and standardization.
Automakers, textbook writers, etc cater to the largest state they serve (or the lowest common of several large markets), then distribute the same version to multiple locations.
In the case of cars, which have to adhere to California regulations to be sold in California, that can drive up the price in other markets due to expensive parts required for compliance and auto-manufacturers standardizing.
It’s also more constructive to explain why people are wrong (eg, why you think car regulations one place can’t impact the price in others) than just call them stupid.
My experience of presenting as female online in video games is I got a lot more attention, help, and outright handouts.
I want to see an actual study, because my anecdata doesn’t match the claimed experience.
And in a way it exploits these people even if it’s their choice.
How, exactly?
Your position is that they’d be better off with a different job, but presumably we’re talking about adults there by choice.
How is voluntary prostitution more exploitative than, say, a construction worker? ...or even third shift at a grocery store?
I mean, if your point is Marxist all labor for pay is “exploitation”, okay — but otherwise, I don’t see how adults choosing a profession exploits them.
I’d say the better part of engineering is knowing how to design in the face of small errors creeping into the project.
Code review is more about determining if you have the correct test cases to cover the algorithm, and a solid architecture for maintenance, than it is about algorithmic correctness.
Code review is a tool to push back on your manager ignoring testing: “Steve requested I add X tests.”
This is made worse by the mobile experience of having every part of the page be some kind of button.
80% of my clicks are my palm grazing the edge as I hold it or trying to scroll and accidentally clicking on some block element link that doesn’t stand out as a button.
There are good reasons to punch someone in the stomach, such as them attacking someone else.
It seems very analogous: unprovoked punches and unprovoked de-modding are both wrong, but both are also needed to stop some kinds of abuse.
And the argument is unclarity about that unclarity is worse than nothing at all?
The motivation for using video review in sports is obvious: to get more calls right.
The writing seems to ignore the very premise, by arguing the existence of edge cases to the edge cases makes any improvement impossible.
Seems the sort of ridiculous navel gazing that earns philosophy a bad reputation.
What are you talking about?
The drafting bank always tells the depositing bank if those funds are available, which is what they did here: it’s how checks work. You would discover the same information yourself, when it cleared or didn’t.
If you take a check to the drafting bank, they’ll check the funds in the account right then and there and either pay you or tell you there are insufficient funds.
All that happened is they did it on the phone rather than through a clearing house or in person, but the exact same information was exchanged:
1. The account number and amount on the check was reported to the drafting bank, which both the depositor and his bank knew from the check already.
2. The drafting bank confirmed those funds were available, which would have been revealed when the check cleared or didn’t through other means.
Having a bank call another bank to clear a check isn’t uncommon — I’ve had it done with payroll checks for the same reason, that I needed to pay rent.
That’s not just the effect, it’s the mechanism of action for chemo — right?
It takes advantage of cancers rerouting blood and being overly aggressive in gathering resources to make those the first of your cells to die as you’re poisoned to death, on the theory that there’s some slightly sublethal dosage that kills only some of your cells (and hopefully, the cancerous ones).
This is using anecdata to dismiss another poster, and isn’t the kind of comment you’d tolerate from others in a sensitive topic.
It’s wonderful that’s been your experience of women, but don’t invalidate what others experience — particularly with a citation free comment.
For those wondering why my comment is flagged: dang engages in political censorship, and flagged my account because of my views. I look forward to the upcoming rules on social media censorship, and the accountability that will bring to dang’s actions.
I get you can’t do all your work on them, but 24 hours of 16 GPUs is $215, using the newest instance type on-demand.
It’s within the reach of many grants to afford a few scaled runs of a technology as a demonstration of behavior at scale.
Universities aren’t always a business, they’re often government institutions.
A state organization is legally bound to offer certain equal rights and due process protections, which is one of the trade-offs of having state schools.
You plot them as ROI or other normalized value, eg by dividing the price of the stock by its initial value.
Then you can compare two stocks by looking at their return at T1 relative to their price at T0. This solves the problem that you’re better off investing in a $5 stock going to $10 than a $100 stock going to $115, since it normalizes it to 1 going to 2 and 1 going to 1.15 respectively.
For switching you may need something more complicated, like looking at the price at Tn divide by the price at Tn-1.
No one pro-gun is refusing a discussion: they’re refusing emotional manipulation, whereby you use dead children as totems for emotional impact, but fail to discuss the actual costs and facts.
As you’ve done here.
“I’m emotional about something that might happen to my child, look at these dead kids!” while refusing to address their point — guns used for self defense and civil freedom — isn’t having a discussion, and isn’t a way to reason about a complex trade off in society. It’s using dead children as a grotesque banner for your emotional manipulation.
Maybe if you want a discussion, try having one?
Yes — their engineering development principles can’t be (or haven’t been) used to successfully design and deploy a well understood technology like a website that can handle small spikes in traffic; why should we believe they have useful advice for more difficult projects?
“Physician, heal thyself.”
But working on “more important” problems, particularly abstract ones, while the basics fail is precisely the complaint about architects:
They’re so busy with their “more important” issues, that the whole thing fails in practice.
If they truly had organizational wisdom we could utilize, why don’t they deploy it themselves, to keep their website online during small spikes in traffic?
If their work can’t even be applied to their own organization successfully, why should we believe it will be successful elsewhere?
Am I reading wrong, or is no remnant in the middle of a black hole formation region?
It looks like “direct black hole” is on both sides of “no remnants”.
The same arguments apply to programming — but many people entered the field when JS became easy to fiddle with in browsers.
UI is important in terms of cost slope, and easy UI allows people (like GP) to dabble — even if they aren’t going to make a masterpiece (or become professional programmers).
Your comment strikes me as incredibly elitist: we should want anyone who wants to dabble to be able to, even if they don’t meet your standards for “good art” — just like we want people to have access to scripting languages, for their own purposes, even if they don’t meet our aesthetic preference of “good software”.
They still make dumb panels, eg.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LW4G71Y/
I did precisely what you suggest: buy a TV and hook a streaming box to it.
The thing you learn in Security 102 is that you should encrypt passwords in HTTPS anyway, because so much of your middleware will assume fields aren’t secured, and will happily log them — that while from a theory standpoint, password-over-HTTPS is fine, in practice it’s a liability due to organizational issues.
You can securely send plaintext over TLS, but it’s best not to when avoidable — precisely because it’s inviting the disaster above.
The NYT calling others out for fake news is itself propaganda: the NYT routinely engages in fake news, but is fighting to portray itself as reputable while others engaged in the same aren’t.
Like when the NYT completely blew the Covington story, due to its institutional animosity towards white people:
The New York Times, sober guardian of the exact and the nonsensational, had cannonballed into the delicious story on Saturday, titling its first piece “Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March.”
They were forced to print a retraction less than 24 hours later when facts contradicted their racism.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must...
OWS failed to get a seat as a reward for their protests because they had no one to give a seat to.
Otherwise, a protest at that scale generally results in political power of some form being ceded — but how can you do that for a disunified, leaderless movement?
That’s ultimately what brought them down as well: they took on every issue, so accomplished nothing — and eventually fell to infighting as people who wanted to advance racial and gender issues disrupted the movement by seeding conflict between members.
I’d argue that we saw automated propaganda at least three years ago — and there’s a case Facebook et al have been engaging for at least a decade.
Arduino is lightyears more accessible than PICs a decade ago; it’s never been easier to use a free or OSS tool to design a board and have it mailed to you.
There actually used to be a every Sunday workshop where you made one from scratch in 3 hours (including board fab) with a grab bag of components to populate with — within the past couple years. (That shop closed due to lack of patrons.)
You can’t modify simple electronics as easily — but how many people built their own drones in the 80s? I’d guess RC cars and drones have about the same number of DIY whatever, and that we’re not seeing a fall off (because of difficulty — availability and community are different issues).
The simple truth is most people don’t care and don’t want to manage their stuff all the time: I make my own electronics, but my laptop is still Windows with minimal config. My desktop is parts and Linux — but only because I needed it to mirror what I do at work, as a test bed. The company itself found data centers to be too much fuss, and lifted-and-shifted most of it to the cloud.
Why don’t I bother? Because fighting the laptop constantly to keep FOSS working (and secure!) detracts from my time building my own electronics (or other forms of living life).
If you really care, our failure to create broader technical skill is not technical: it’s social.
We allowed RadioShack to be gutted, we allowed ”hacker spaces” to be priced out of business as cities grew, etc.
Women have been earning more degrees than men since 1978.
For the past forty years, there have been no male-only advancement programs, and (nearly) all sex-based funding has been provided to the majority sex, to advantage them in any field where they’re not currently dominant (and sometimes, just to advantage them in general).
It’s a willful and generational-scale violation of Title IX: that kind of sexist favoritism of the majority is blatantly illegal under discrimination laws.
For forty years, feminism on college campuses has been a majoritarian, sexist power movement — and now it’s spreading to the workplace, as a generation of entitled women graduate and demand the continuation of privilege.
Okay, I accept your analogy.
Where do you have legal authority to do a vigilante culling of your neighbor’s herd, because you decided something about them merited it?
What percentage of products, in general, do you believe are “accessible”?