greendragon

Works for the Tao Te Ching, and others. You lose something but not enough you can't see the genius if it's there.

For Dylan I'd actually prefer to consider his lyrics without the music since sometimes I can't really understand what he's singing. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLCewTcb-jc)

Time is also traded for entertainment. Parents that care about their children's education make the time even if they have to personally sacrifice something.

How are you defining a superpower such that Russia is not a member and maybe the USSR wasn't one?

Huh? I said otherwise smart people are losing their minds over this election, not that everyone is stupid. Your list underscores my overarching point though: there is incredible motivation from many parties and many parties with resources to see Trump fail, at every stage from the primaries to the GOP nomination to the eventual election in a month, that if there was real dirt on Trump that could make him dance like a puppet (or otherwise be manipulated, or tarnished so terribly), it's incredibly unlikely that such dirt would only be known to Putin.

I don't even think a missile shield is necessarily bad, but it is a little troubling to see the attitude of taking offense that Russia just doesn't do what it's told. Forgetting Russia is a superpower too.

Should other countries have a plan in case of USA collapse? At least our codes got upgraded from a string of 0s... But I imagine there are some foreign officials worried. Russia has started calling America "not-agreement-capable" after recent events in Syria and a UNSC meeting.

You're right, Putin shouldn't stand by idly as America builds a missile shield around Russia to negate their ability to launch nukes...

We already have a deterrent for war with Russia. Russia knows this, I think the US is forgetting it.

Dirt on Trump? The dude's 70 years old and fucking rich, there's no way there is enough dirt only known to Putin that could manipulate him. If there was such a quantity of dirt, it would have leaked beyond Putin, and we'd have heard about it. The most enjoyable part of this whole election is seeing so many otherwise smart people losing their minds and trying to find any way to keep Trump from the White House, disbelieve in his legitimacy if he actually wins, or just plain deny reality.

Schaum's Outlines are also good if all you really need is a refresher, or to use concurrently with learning the material fresh.

2FA seems a modest improvement at best, especially when it boils down to a TOTP secret you can use anywhere. (I have a greasemonkey script that enters my required '2fa' token for me.) With a yubikey form factor it's much better... It's also relatively useless if you already have a strong password and don't re-use it, i.e. a password manager. Sure it may stop someone from logging in as you if they just have your (unique) password, but if you consider the ways they can just have your (unique) password that doesn't really matter.

Contract law has had a good run so far, I expect it to continue to have one unless we kill all the lawyers. Even then the concept of a written will is very old.

Maybe I should rephrase my overarching point since it seems to be lost in the details. Concerns over scamming by exploiting family or in general not doing with your remains what you wanted to have done ought to be the least of one's concerns when making a decision on cryonics, unless there's a serious problem with contract law in Europe. I believe Alcor won't even accept you unless you have an official, legal will about it, precisely to defend against family members overriding your decision, since case law on upholding wills is pretty solid. That suddenly changing in 20-60+ years seems pretty unlikely. There are bigger threats to spend more time modeling. Even proponents only estimate around a 5% chance of successfully being revived, were they suspended today (see http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/03/break-cryonics-down.ht...). I don't think anyone who is signed up thinks they have a sure shot at revival, let alone dying in a convenient enough fashion to be usefully preserved, and the two big cryonics orgs in America certainly don't market it that way. The calculation usually goes that for a modest monthly payment on a life insurance plan covering ~$80k, you have a small chance of cheating death, versus having no chance (barring truly magic-like powers like reconstructing you from others' memories/dna/browser history/etc.) if you die and get buried or cremated the normal way.

This has actually been done for decades with usenet. Every encrypted message winds up on a common list, and clients occasionally scan the list and see if they have a key to decrypt any new message. The metadata is then that you put a message there or that you asked for a list of new messages, though that can be reduced to "you used tor" which until such a message server became commonplace might be better.

Not really: https://web.archive.org/web/20140425185111/http://www.accele...

We don't even need to what-if: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html

All I'm saying is that these scenarios can be sufficiently covered by contracts with the institute you want to preserve you. You can specify that in the unforeseen event of needing more funds to keep you preserved, that you are terminated and buried or cremated in such-and-such fashion without even trying to seek funds from potential relatives or descendants or the government. If contract compliance trust is an issue in Europe, that seems like something to fix first.

Only if you're in a swing state.

HN may be an echo chamber. It is not an echo chamber around tptacek's opinions. A simple counterexample would be almost any law or proposed law (CISPA for instance) that the community gets all "omg this is the worst thing ever" about and tptacek actually bothers to read the thing and usually futilely argues about how it's not actually the worst thing ever.

Because it's low-status and unfashionable.

Maybe you should work on making your contract law more trustworthy then, if you think corporations can just randomly decide to extort your family years later.

What exactly don't you like about ClojureScript? The tooling may be kind of weird (and I believe you're out of date) but once you're set up with figwheel and something like om/reagent/re-frame you start approaching the bottom-up, truly dynamic, interactive approach to building things. Every time I hear stories of "we couldn't scale our JS until we switched to TS" it's always the case of they were developing their JS in IDEs and structured similarly to a Java application, but without having to declare types and having slightly nicer data literals...

This isn't exactly true, since the human meaning of "enhance" is quite different from the evolutionary meaning. For example, iodine (an element, not even as big as a molecule) supplementation at the fetus and early childhood stages can, among other benefits, result in as much as a 13 point IQ increase from a previously deficient region's average. This is a huge enhancement by human standards. Why hasn't evolution found a way to have our bodies produce iodine automatically (perhaps by producing iodomethane like some algae?) at that stage of life, or maybe only by the mother when the child is in the womb or perhaps produced and distributed only with breast milk? Then even if you lack natural sources of iodine you'll still benefit. It should be easy, it's just a single element!

Well even for "simple" things like the addition of a single new element, or a single new molecule, or a single new protein, the details are complicated, and any mutation that depends on a prior mutation to be beneficial has to wait until the prior mutation is close to fixation and is common among the species. Evolution is slow and only cares about reproductive fitness, and can easily get trapped in local maxima and a species can even evolve to extinction. Because of that, it can miss obvious (to human intelligence) low hanging fruit. So I don't think that "evolution would have found it already" argument is very compelling. Evolution is dumb, it's amazing it works at all.