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I believe Weiner's first volume was Ex-Prodigy. I love his story of how his dad liked to pick wild mushrooms for dinner and how he (Norbert) was never sure if he was going to wake up in the morning!

How creative to think of writing such a thing! But von Meumann is a big enough intellect and personality to sustain it.

Good point

And the ACLU famously defended the right of Nazis to parade through Skokie, Illinois.

If every black pentagon shares a face with 5 hexagons, and every white hexagon shares a face with 3 pentagons, can you determine the ratio of hexagons to pentagons?

(I haven't solved this problem, but I think it is doable.)

Still no joy... maybe something on my end

Or, less dramatically, that the law needs to accommodate capitalism in ways that it is not wont to do.

So anonymity of written speech is toast. We should, however, strive to preserve other forms of anonymity. For example, donations given to political causes should be kept confidential. Let protesters wear masks up to the point where they break the law.

When I follow that link there's nothing there.

The inclusion of a captioned picture of the University of Southern California (USC) implies that it is a state school. It is not.

thanks

I remember being in a staff meeting at the aerospace firm that I am now retired from. I made a comment along the lines of, "Steve is a really good programmer (speaking of an engineer, not a software guy)" . One of the younger engineers piped up: "Well, we're all really good programmers."

Just to say that one way that a lack of humility expresses itself is with the notion that we are all of us equally gifted -- and it just ain't so. In the realm of technology, people like Musk and Andreessen and (include your favorite left-leaning mogul here) really do know more than the rest of us, and what they have to say on many things is newsworthy.

Has NBC News ever referred to anyone as a "far-left leader"?

From June 2, 2020.

Even the lefty Guardian knows that the adjective is "female" not "woman".

Upvote for kindly attempting to de-escalate. But the olive branch was rebuffed.

Not only that, but the only reason I have to think another human possesses consciousness is that he or she is so much like me in other respects.

As a conservative living in California I am, of course, not a big fan of Newsom, but I am impressed by how he has taken the "move fast and break things" page from Trump's playbook. Love him or hate him, Trump has rewritten the rules for politicians. In the new world order, elected officials who keep their heads down and move at a glacial pace will simply not get re-elected.

What an inspiration to excellence for each one of us!

I enjoyed this post. Thanks

Isn't Vevey, Switzerland where the Lindt Chocolate Company has its headquarters?

He seems to have dodged the consciousness problem.

The implied analogy is limited.

Anti-gun folks argue that since so many people die as a result of handguns, they should be banned. But despite the fact that in car/bicycle crashes the cyclist inevitably gets the worst of it, no one is seriously calling for the elimination of automobiles.

To be clear, I personally did think that electrons had a non-zero mass, so my bad.

Cancellation is about a self-appointed minority taking malicious action against someone for an action or opinion for which the law itself does not specify a penalty. No one should be cancelled. And no one should be downvoted (or worse) on HN.

So the mass of the universe would suddenly become infinite?

The Pre-Crime Division

I like your explanation of why "agent" is entirely the wrong term to use. But "clanker"? It has such an ugly sound to it. What's wrong with plain old bot?

"That’s the main thing good tutors do differently. If motivation decreases, they switch to lighter content, or even transition into non-lesson conversation. If motivation increases, they ramp up the difficulty of the lesson."

I would say that's reasonable (but not optimal) if we're talking about an adult client who is footing the bill himself or herself. But in the case of, say, high school students, parents don't like that kind of laissez-faire ambiance.

Prefer "Chinese".