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You don't think there are any political ramifications to the possibility of dividing the world into new categories of "haves" (life-extended and genetically-modified) and "have nots"?
That's not a result of the length restriction; it's how quoting works -- right here in this very comment, I've chosen to only "reshare" one sentence from your comment.
As for the interesting possiibilities that could arise from mixing and matching transcluded tweets: either the mixing and matching are going to be done manually by someone assembling a series of quotes (a process not unique to twitter) or it's going to be the result of whatever order they show up in your timeline -- I think the results of that could be interesting if it was a random process, or if there were any way to influence the order apart from whatever twitter thinks will maximize user engagement.
What do you think about the notion of "the standard you walk past is the standard you accept?"
>They simply don't disagree enough to risk whatever they would be risking by speaking up.
That would make sense under some fantastical rule that exlcuded speech (or silence) from being political whenever "risk" is involved; but deciding to speak or be silent based on a risk/reward tradeoff is still a political decision.
So that's about a 14% growth rate since 2000, compared to Houston's 35% growth in the same time period (3.4 to 4.6 million). And I've heard that Houston even before Harvey had one of the more affordable big-city housing markets in the country.
They've even got a slogan about that.[1]
Except that "neural nets" are only "neural" by a (biological) analogy to neurons.
So he is describing a biological phenomemon by comparison to a a type of machine learning which is itself described by the very same biological phenomenon he's trying to describe.
My father put a freeze on all three agencies when the news of the breach came out. Today, I tried to help him sign up for informed delivery (on the theory that if he did, it would be harder for someone else to do so in his name).
I don't know what impact the freeze had on the KBA, because it showed him a batch of four questions with information that was definitely his (like, last 4 digits of SSN), but then wouldn't verify him; he then got two more batches of questions that had absolutely no relevance, and choosing "none of the above" just resulted in two more failures to verify.
Says who? A language where every single memory access did NOT have the potential to be a buffer overflow would be much more difficult to foot-shoot with, even if it allowed you to sometimes access memory with raw pointers. Just having the ability, as in Rust, to mark code as either safe or unsafe goes a long way towards preventing footguns.
>Everyone who is trying is overshooting and therefore not really writing an adequate replacement low level systems language.
Using Rust as an example again, I don't think there's anything about being able to say "this code right here cannot cause memory unsafety" that precludes "low-level systems" programming.
But I bet they would criticize programs for being written in assembly, if they didn't need to be.
If you could have a language with all the performance of C without the footguns, why wouldn't you want that?
With a gap buffer, you can just move the gap to the beginning (or end -- whichever is closer) of the buffer, and you'll have the "entire buffer" ready for one of those operations.
>are they willing to abide by their role as utility?
I can remember when the conservative position was to support freedom of association, and to oppose regulating private businesses as utilities.
... At the Ramada Inn in Tuscaloosa I sat outside by the swimming pool about five o’clock one afternoon ...
It looks like the illustration at the top is supposed to depict this part of the story, but I wonder why an artist illustrating an event in 1970 would include a 1986 Dodge Ramcharger[1]?
[1]http://www.cardomain.com/ride/422423/1986-dodge-ramcharger/
Do you have any reason to believe that arrogance and proficiency are correlated?
By analogy with Huffman coding, the meanings that are used less often should require more words to express than the more commonly-used meanings. And if you really want to express the meaning "assuming the premise", then you could just say "assuming the premise", instead of insisting on the "precision" of using a 16th-century mistranslation of petitio principii.
FTA: "a concrete floor laid by the Romans about 30 years after the barracks was abandoned"
So the people covering it up were probably not the same as the ones who left in the first place.
Have you ever used a discount that was available only for "new customers"?
EDIT: I see that 'Manishearth pointed out that these are not discounts, but scholarships.
[1] http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/index....
[2] http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/appd.h...
They weren't powerless; it took several class-action lawsuits and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints in the 70's to increase the number of women lawyers.[1] I've also heard, for example from some comments by 'rayiner here on HN, that law schools made deliberate changes to their admission policies
yet for some reason the negative stereotypes in engineering were the ones that took hold and prevented women from succeeding there
Maybe because tech, both industry and academia, hasn't made the same efforts that the legal profession did?
[1] http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic... (p.14 ff)
I came to understand recursion through nested for-loops, though, but that might just be a historical accident. In the summer of 1988 I had written a Mastermind solver in Microsoft Quickbasic[1] for the specific case of 4 "pegs". At each guess, I used for-loops nested 4 deep to build a structure representing the possible remaining solutions (for all possibilities of the first peg, check all for the second peg, etc.) Then I wanted to extend it to work with variable numbers of pegs; after spending most of that summer trying to figure out a loop-based solution, I discovered that subroutines could call themselves and it hit me that I could have a function that took the possibilities already computed for a peg, and then called itself with those applied to the next peg.
So I've always thought of recursion as a way to have arbitrarily deeply nested loops.
[1] Believe it or not, it did support recursive functions!
Nope. According to several sources[1][2], the top 10% earn ~40% of total income and pay ~70% of total taxes, while the top 25% earn ~70% and pay ~90%.
[1]https://www.mercatus.org/publication/tax-burden-among-varyin...
[2]https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
FTA: "So maybe this was a reenactment based on a true story. This scenario, which is where I would place my money ..."
It's just a guess. And I'm not entirely convinced by the argument that (also FTA) "people in Baltimore City don't get prosecuted for a stash of drugs"; because right in the first paragraph, he says "A man was arrested related to this ... he had been in jail for the past 7 months." In other words, even if the police knew they weren't going to get a prosecution, they could have just wanted to punish this guy, or try and get him to "confess", or who knows what.
I think it doesn't display if your profiles take less than 500ms to load.
EDIT: Just tested with a clean profile with the line "Start-Sleep -m xxxx" for various values of xxxx, and the message has shown up with times just above 500ms but not below.
>>Leave yours at the door when you enter a store...if it's not raining anymore when you leave, just leave it there.
A summary: once upon a time, Grand Central Station had AC at multiple frequencies in addition to 60hz (also it had some DC power). In the 1990s it was rewired so that the AC only used the (American) standard 60hz.
I suppose its hard to make sense of if you didn't know that 60Hz is the standard in the U.S.?
Maybe its only one order of magnitude -- if I remember correctly, there were about 300,000 lines of code running on the main processor of the Toyotas that were investigated for unintended acceleration, with functions like "throttle angle control" that took several thousand lines.