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Wow. Thanks for contextualizing this goal. Great example.

Beautifully said. I was appalled to realize the shallowness of the author’s methods. Then upon this sandpit they attempt to construct the un-caveated thesis: “Napoleon is the best general ever”.

Is WAR even useful for comparing agents with different numbers of data points?

Yeah. I think the creator could have benefited from posting more documentation, videos, and examples of what this thing really looks like in practice.

When the documentation is so sparse it begins to feel a little like vaporware.

“Western problem” yikes.

To write off the economic successes of the west under the guise of “problem” with western culture is deeply problematic. If you were to use this tableau to jump into an argument against societies that are captilistic and encourage the chasing of material wealth over the informal, beautiful moments that make humanity interesting you would have a much stronger case. I think we would all benefit if you were to sharpen your position, as there is something deeply intriguing about your point.

With that said, I also find issue with content of your argument. Economic success requires efficiency in all aspects of a business. A lack of punctuality that permeates a society to the point that it effects business strategy is problematic.

Thanks for saving me a click.

You actually make a really interesting point here. Advertising has permeated nearly every segment of media consumption. An interesting example is articles like this, and “reviews” of products that are actually paid adverts where the “reviewers” get kickbacks for every referral that leads to a sale. [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/3065928/sle...

I had no idea such a device existed! These are really quite cool. Do they actually work as well as advertised?

What a phenomenal piece of journalism. If anything, I think a piece like this can expose the limits of statistical analysis to the unfamiliar. They made a very thorough analysis of something rather boring, all without making untrue statements about the limitations of each approach. I enjoyed this a lot.

A great book on the subject of the decline of Western superiority is “Has the West Lost it?” by Mahbubani [1]. He gives a fantastic overview of the stalling of the West following the confirmation of the allegeded superiority of the West’s “rational governance” following the breakup of the USSR.

He discusses the concurrent rise of Asia’s economic prowess and that the west must internalize that they have “lost it” before they can beat strategize for the coming decades.

My favorite portion of the book states that the most important event that happened in 2001 was not the terrorist attacks on 9/11, but China joining the WTO.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Has-West-Lost-Kishore-Mahbubani-ebook...

They are talking about the article itself. You wouldn’t want to click on this at work because of the picture of the naked erotic dancer featured.

Can you go into detail about what things changed in the rewrites that enabled this reduction in RAM usage?

I think it’s this very consistency that make using the JetBrains family of IDEs so painless. The power-user keybindings are equivalent across all of their products. The standardization make picking up a new language the hardest part about a new IDE instead of having to learn a new tool AND having to learn a new language.

I just learned a powerful searching tactic! Thanks for the tip!

I am not being sarcastic. I lived in Shanghai from June of 2017 --> January of 2018 and the pictures you see in that photoset are truly remarkable and thoroughly unrepresentative of the situation on the ground. There are certainly some subway stations at certain times where there are lots of bikes crowded around the stations, but there are also crews of people constantly redistributing the bikes.

Also my intended message in my comment is that companies should indeed pay for the usage of the sidewalk. Users of the equipment should furthermore be forwarded the penalties they incurred on the company's behalf through bad parking behavior.

> Yee, noted how he’s heard from seniors and people in wheelchairs who are “being imperiled and inconvenienced because they are having to navigate around scooters and bikes.”

This is one of the more unconvincing statements in this article. The massive convenience win that shared bicycles, scooters, cars etc bring to cities is well worth the "inconvenience" of them being parked on the sidewalk.

I think SF needs to go the route of Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen etc and designate MANY, MANY bicycle parking zones on the city's sidewalks.

As long as the companies are decentized to allow their machines to be a public nuisance (fines), they will pass on the cost of poor parking behavior to whomever actually place the scooter in a dangerous / rude / thoughtless place. See the "Mobike Score" [0].

I hate the rhetoric that the streets are being vitiated by shared transportation. There are simple fixes to these problems.

[0] https://mobike.com/us/faq (Mobike Score)

Thanks for this really nice comparison!

The final video [1] has a pretty compelling argument for the conversion to self-driving cars happening quicker than expected:

Chen shows a picture of Easter morning in NYC in 1900 and asks the viewer to play "Where is the car?". After several seconds he highlights the one car in the frame surrounded entirely by house-and-buggy carts.

He then shows a picture of the Easter morning in NYC in 1913 and asks the reverse question: "Where is the horse?", as there is only 1 horse visible in the picture.

Obviously this is a carefully selected anecdote, but this is a really compelling argument that forward progress will be faster than expected.

[1] https://youtu.be/YSdspVJgSFE

It would force the organization to its knees in my opinion. Unions for work in showbiz are ridiculous in that they restrict people to members of a specific union; e.g. All adjustments to an actor'a appearance must be done by the appropriate member of the cast, insofar as a sound guy couldn't brush a hair off of the shoulder of an actor.

Imagine the same craziness applied to which kinds of code you would be able to work on. I don't see the need for crippling the actions that enable our employers from innovating quickly for what amounts to more beaurecracy.

In fault-tolerant distributed systems, yes; undoubtedly.

100% agree with you here.

I feel like Ready Player One has a better presentation of haptic suits in VR environments.

Medium to large Django projects were the first times that I began to see the power and usefulness of decorators. The most useful one I've used was a decorator to require certain JSON parameters in a POST and optionally specify a list of possible parameters. Makes the API code logic infinitely simpler, especially if you write some custom middleware to handle / report API errors. The code is clear and declarative, and errors are handled gracefully all in one place.

I'm not sure that calling it faulty is exactly fair. I feel like the attack is actually pretty brilliant, and has been non-obviously "vulnerable" for years.

Very relevant if you want to include China in your user base.

This is a truly unbelievable oversight on Amazon's part. Bad UI is almost certainly to blame for something so silly.

Wow. Clay Bavor is one of the most articulate speakers that I've ever heard. He delivered a talk with an extremely high information density so cleanly. I really just want to hear this guy talk about things more.

Wait. What are you talking about? This seems like a noteworthy story.

Not quite. North Carolina for instance has decriminalized carrying small amounts of Cannabis.

The map in this article is particularly illuminating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decriminalization_of_non-medic...

Thanks for the great analysis.

Percentage changes are a scaling factor against the previous number. 1-(new/old) is how it should be calculated. So even though they are comparing two percentages, they can't directly subtract them (new - old). Percentages describe _relative_ change.