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Why would anyone take that bet? We can't even do this to a mouse let alone a person. He's 70 years old, so maybe a decade or decade and a half left before he kicks the bucket. We're certainly not doing 'brain uploads' anytime soon, if ever.

Heck, we can't even replace most organs and essentially transhumanism boils down to a brain replacement. If we can't make a spleen or a liver, we aren't making brains.

>Then why the opposition to school choice?

Because 'school choice' is a loaded political term for defunding the public school system these people depend on so that the money earmarked for these systems gets handed out to private or charter schools, thus leaving the public system in a worse place, especially when the public system must take the worst students while charters can dismiss them. In other words you're socializing your losses and privatizing your winnings.

Even then, the "opposition" is more like healthy skepticism. Even in liberal Chicago we have a charter school boom and thus far the results aren't impressive especially when you consider they benefit from the 'cream of the crop' issue defined above. They can dump the low performing students onto CPS while enjoying the test scores and metrics more motivated students or the students without learning disabilities or the students when more involved parents can produce.

But no, we're not going to defund CPS entirely overnight and hand out its budget in its entirety to charters. That's not "opposition" that's sane thinking. And yes, if charters can't deliver the goods and if they cannot deal with the worst students or improve them, then they have failed and shouldn't be subsidized by the taxpayer. My tax dollars shouldn't be an entitlement to those with experimental and untested educational theories who can fill out an application to create a school. You have to earn it by showing your methods produce results - with all the kids, not the cherry picked one. That's what they currently don't seem to be able to do. Even then we still give them money hoping they do someday or that the added competition creates a stronger educational dynamic.

That said, many charter schools are just a ploy to get taxpayers to fund weirdo religious schools. A lot of charters are extensions of churches/mosques/temples or ethnic groups (often with religiosity as the main motivator). That isn't exactly the education revolution you're looking for here in many cases.

> It's largely been the political left in the US which has had control of large urban areas.

Control of what, exactly? Inheriting a broken series of communities from the weight of the history of slavery? Let's remember the US's history of slavery and Jim Crow did to these communities and how hard the urban north fought against it while the south reveled in it.

Also let's remember northern urban African-Americans didn't live under the constant threat of lynching like their southern counterparts did, so the conservative handling of black communities was far worse historically and a lot of the northern urban systems were overwhelmed by southern migration to the north to escape these very social issues! Its like chasing jews out of your country than laughing at the jewish ghettos in the country next door.

>Poles and Italians were able to increase their average IQ's to parity with the US as a whole in that period.

People without a history of being slaves here and, of course, people with white skin. This isn't apples to apples.

I really think you're missing the forest for the trees here in some hamfisted attempt to blame everything on the bogeyman "of the left." You can't just dismiss racism and the legacy of the Jim Crow era as a non-existent factor in the lives of black communities.

As for progress peaking in the 60s lets remember how Republicans treated blacks during and after the civil rights movement. Its no coincidence.

Lee Atwater on using blacks as society's scapegoats to push for tax cuts and other unrelated policies by driving race hate as much possible in he GOP's Southern Strategy.

You start in 1954 by saying ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘Nigger.’ That hurts you. It backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states rights and all that stuff and you get so abstract. Now you talk about cutting taxes and these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that’s part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract and that coded, we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. Obviously sitting around saying we want to cut taxes and we want this, is a lot more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell of a lot more abstract than nigger nigger. So anyway you look at it, race is coming on the back burner.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Also, 1895 isn't that long ago. These aren't exactly writings from ancient Greece. Lets remember this was a couple years after Chicago's 1893 fair where a lot of what we consider modern was ushered in, albeit slowly. And in this period books like War and Peace and Dracula were published. I view this period pretty contemporaneous to modern American culture in many significant ways.

What AVs use this? I keep hearing horrible things about AVs but little proof. I know Tavis from Google finds bugs and AV in rare cases can reduce security, but that's a far cry from them embedding FOSS projects to save time. For AV companies writing a rar parser is a single-day activity, its hard to believe they need this app.

The few places I've seen 7z used is in installers where the input is known (installer archive in 7z format) and I'm assuming signed in many cases so you can't feed it random inputs. I find it hard to believe Sophos and Symantec and Trend are copying and pasting 7zip.dll into their apps.

As it should!

SEC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE

Works fine with just http. Click save on the left for the actual pdf.

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581

Fun metadata as well, this pdf was generated 18 years ago and uses the ancient PDF 1.3 spec.

>The "you're the product" labels us as sheeple.

Why? I use a lot of services knowing that they are spying on me and selling my data. In those cases I think the service is worth it.

You don't need to be some kind of sheep to make this economic decision. The sooner people realize that we truly are the product in these circumstances (and other non-online activities) the better as they'll be more educated in respect to what they're choosing to be part of. Sugar coating it or bringing up its complexity doesn't really help. That saying is perfectly valid as-is and should be a message worth promoting. Hemming and hawing about it not being totally accurate doesn't seem to be helping things.

Its obvious NK is a client state of China and Xi clearly wanted to solve his problem child on his doorstep who is bringing the US/Japan to closer China's shores. Its also a signature achievement for him and will help cement him as a 'great' leader, not just a savvy and bloodthirsty political player.

Also, security. If you were a local you might think of beating up the tired guy coming out of the woods with a big heavy box. You'd have to have other people there to provide security at the least.

NY State is not the federal government. This is like asking what the US's military is like and having someone describe the Illinois National Guard.

Long story short, this all going into the Civil Penalty Fund:

In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act and the Bureau's Civil Penalty Fund rule, the Fund can only be used for two purposes: to compensate eligible harmed consumers and, to the extent that victim payments are not practicable, to provide funding for consumer education and financial literacy programs.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/payments-harmed-con...

I'd argue that the US, especially in tech, doesn't suffer from "credentialism" like countries like India do. You can go and become an IT professional with zero qualifications and if you're good you can move up the ranks. In other systems you need to have x degree, x certification, or be part of x union, etc.

One of the US's biggest advantages is that low regulation environments help build a meritocracy of sorts as long as obvious corruption is curtailed.

Try being a French tech startup compared to the US and tell me how bad the US's credentialism, education, and regulatory processes are. I think we have it easy and a lot of our culture rewards and encourages 'free thinking' at least for now.

>Russiagate stuff too for some reason

Because its one of, if not, the biggest story in the world right now? I mean, of course its going to occasionally top /r/politics and /r/worldnews.

The president and the highest levels of the GOP are directly targeted in an investigation that has brought 20+ indictments with several guilty pleas with apparently more to come.

This is a bit like saying the news in 1974 was too focused on Watergate.

Not to mention, the big selling point with AVs is that they use LIDAR which is superior to human vision. So where's the LIDAR data? Why didn't the car see this person using its non visual sensors.

I think its a given that visual only data is pretty lousy for AV purposes. You have too many issues with it.

Thank you for this. All the smart-ass comments on the other site linked was really starting to ruin this for me. There's this wonderful beauty on display here and the response on the boredpanda site is low effort stupid jokes? Come on.

It drives me crazy that popular brands of soy and almond milk don't have vitamin D. I've long moved off real milk because its really calories dense and gives me gas. Now I'm missing out on one of the few easy sources of vitamin d.

>and my overall wellbeing improved greatly.

Just a counter-point. Vitamin D didn't help me with SAD. SAD seems only addressed for me by a proper full spectrum lamp for 30 minutes a day in the winter.

Well, it was Iceland circa 1902. It had a ~75,000 person population and was fairly isolated from the world. This run may have been as little as few (couple?) hundred books. I could see such a small run being ignored for a long time. How many of those weren't disposable weekend reads that ended up in the trash within weeks/months? I imagine once the initial novelty wore off, no one cared and Iceland's small number of Icelandic readers guaranteed that their version wasn't going far.

I also imagine some Icelandic people knew they had a different version, but Iceland, up until recently, was just a backwaters of Denmark. It may have been an amusing anecdote between Icelandics and the Danish or English who read the true version. Maybe an inside joke between a couple dozen people? Not enough to make the international press. Now its just a historic novelty on the smithsonian mag blog, not exactly the front page of the NY Times.

Again, a slight social hit that is completely excusable (no investor is perfect) is a far cry from losing your home, savings, car, job, etc like a middle class person would have.

> Stoker could, for example, have sent Valdimar an older version of his story

Back in the old days, I could see happening as purely a mistake and considering how global communication worked then I can certainly see this not noticed for quite some time. Stoker's publisher could have grabbed the wrong manuscript and sent it out. Considering the Amazon reviews claim that the second half of the book is, at best, a rough outline, then I'm guessing this is probable. It sounds like an unfinished and abandoned work that somehow got into production.

Software devs aren't sysadmins, I imagine most of the people involved here never have been responsible for actual production physical servers before and never had to use one.

They were selling these online from shady resellers at least ten years ago. A friend picked one up and told me he could jam some phone calls on the train, depending on carrier and frequencies used I suppose. I think it broke a week or two later and he tossed it.

Second link from google:

http://www.jammerfromchina.com/categories/Mobile_Phone_Jamme...

Mobile FF is built on versions far behind the desktop FF. Give it time.

>, so he's adopted a strict diet with the hope of making it to 2045 and living forever.

He'll almost be 100 then. The chances of a man reaching that age are pretty slim.

Not sure why people pay attention to this guy considering his expertise is in tech, not medicine. His analogies are often mockingly simplistic (no Ray, cell phone adoption rates have nothing to do with medical research and longevity) and seems to be the standard bearer of the kooky futurist stereotype.

I feel my life got a lot easier when I dismissed guys like this and accepted a more dignified idea of dying.

VR will succeed because it doesn't involve a whole suit to make work. That's why the Vive and Oculus ship with only two controllers and a HMD. No glove or shoes to be fitted correctly, put on/off, cleaned, etc. This is also why the Vive Tracker won't ever go mainstream for gaming. People aren't sticking 3 large sensors on their body outside of edge uses cases and now you have 5 things to remember to recharge. If good full-body tracking comes to mainstream VR, we'll be doing it with cameras, not wearables.

This is absolutely the wrong way to go about this. Its clear that Hyneman is trying to ride the VR hype to sell motorized shoes, which sound more interesting to me as a mode of transportation than anything having to do with VR. Especially if you can put in Segway-like logic in them to help with balance.

On the flip side, considering how long walks are most people's only form of exercise its probably a bad idea all around like those hoverboards or that new mini-segway. If I bought any of these I'd be cutting a lot of calories I'm burning and lowering physical activity drastically. Short range travel should be by foot and losing that will just make our obesity epidemic worse.

Not for left handed people. My primary hand is better/closer to the top row. My non-primary handle struggles with the keypad, especially if I don't use it very often - which I don't.

Worse, if you're on a laptop a lot then this habit is kicked out the door. Enabling a numpad on the keyboard is less efficient than just using the top row.

This is from 2012 and old news in the Vive community where we try to use USB2.0 to avoid these and other issues. There's a few 3.0 chipsets/configs/layouts/whatever that cause serious 2.4ghz interference and that can affect motion controller latency, wifi internet connections, etc.

Of all the frequencies to interfere with...

Also people like to talk about their interests and work. I don't see a lot of my own writings being about profit. My interest in them existed well before they helped me get into this profession.

Thanks, pre-caffiene thinking at work here.

The numbers look more reasonable now, but ultimately its a hard sell especially when Apple doesn't actually need to make a profit for its accessories, but you do. Even then, what's the market look like for this without an Apple. I suspect not very large and its Apple's own marketing efforts that have gotten people interested in these tiny wireless earbuds anyway.

Is it so hard to sync up bluetooth headphones? I've done it once per headset I bought on my phone and it was a simple process. Children do it everyday. I suspect Doppler Labs failed to thrive for other reasons.

I just stopped by their site and saw their farewell message. I could 50+ people in the photo. That's 50 salaries this startup had to absorb every month. If we assume 100k real cost per head (recruiting, pay, benefits, etc) then we're at $5m per month on salary alone. If it took 2 year from idea to product, then you're in the hole $120m. If you sell these headphones with a markup and post-everything margin of $30 per set, which seems reasonable, then you need 4m in sales to break even. That's a serious amount of sales to push through.

>the low income, unstable jobs, low literacy, blue collar jobs or are already on social support.

The few times I've been to a casino, I was really surprised by the crowd. It wasn't exactly Casino Royale. Just a lot of people who came off as lower class to me (clothing, speech, mannerisms, etc) and/or retirees, who also weren't exactly living it up. Heck, I even saw a woman slyly shove a $5 prime rib into her purse for later. The entire steak too, and without a ziplock or anything. She just shoved it in there to eat later. She was also wearing a bedazzled sweater with a pair of dice. I suspect a lot of these people end up identifying with a 'casino lifestyle.'

There was also something depressing about the slot machines that had cute cartoon characters on them. I wonder what the emotional and intellectual age of the people playing are. They seemed more like children who have yet to have the maturity and education to understand risk and financial security than adults.

>This industry is highly regulated

I imagine its regulated like most regulations in the USA: by the whims of the industry itself. They'll tolerate gambling hotlines and will fund them because ultimately that keeps real regulation away. The same way cigarette makers tolerated labels but, of course, were never pulled from store shelves.