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Switch to Texas in particular and check out the map by metro area.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

Obligatory xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/936/

Prepare to never forget the phrase CORRECT HORSE BATTERY STAPLE!

What surprised me most about this article is that as far as I'm aware, Russia is so far behind the forefront on machine learning research that hearing Putin speak on this subject is like hearing the president of Portugal say it.

I'd bet a rent check on China having strong AI before Russia any day.

I would bet money that North Korea will not first-strike, and the US military will not fulfill a first-strike if directed.

My premises are that North Korea is a rational actor, and their overwhelming priority is preservation of their regime, and they know without a doubt they can't win a war against South Korea - let alone South Korea and its allies.

I still trust Google over anybody, including the federal government.

I thought the author's idea that it is prohibitively difficult to create exploits in a vacuum, and need to know the specific configuration of your adversary's systems in order to be able to attack or counter-attack was interesting.

If you think it is appropriate for your nation to maintain the ability to respond, then, pragmatically, you support either your nation intruding in other's systems or your nation maintaining a weak deterrent response.

"Operation “Nitro Zeus” illustrates this thinking. As Buchanan explains, in the early stages of the Obama Administration, U.S. hackers went on an expansive hunt for “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Iran’s strategic infrastructures. The raid targeted the Fordo nuclear facility that Washington suspected was purifying uranium to weapons grade. But that was not all. The United States also penetrated Iran’s financial, transportation, and air defense systems. The invaders acted in anticipation of the possible failure of diplomatic efforts to curtail Iranian enrichment activity peacefully. They crafted weapons of war even as they strived to avert it."

Data analyst for a health insurer

And if we solve this problem, then maybe we'll still have a technological civilization in 100,000 years to solve that one.

If I had a level 5 autonomous car that was compromised by someone who wanted to kill me, they probably could. Or they could just push me down a flight of stairs.

Ultimately, I am alive because nobody cares enough to murder me.

https://www.xkcd.com/538/

Worse yet - due to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the average driver is confident that they are much better than average.

I saw it the other day when the eclipse came to Oregon, and the population suddenly increased by 25% for a few days.

I'm guessing that if the number of electric cars surged by 25% for a few days, it would be much less of a problem.

[0]: http://www.kgw.com/news/eclipse/gas-shortages-long-waits-rep...

The Justice Department is fighting for information on all of the visitors to the website disruptj20.org, as well as log files on when and from where the visitors logged onto the site, what they looked at, and emails related to the site. The site at the center of the storm bills itself as a platform connecting Trump protesters and "support[ing] the massive and spontaneous eruption of resistance across the United States that’s happened since the election."

The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, subsequently entered into an interesting interchange with a reporter. When asked by Mark DiStefano, a reporter from ZDNET, “Won’t the laws of mathematics trump the laws of Australia? And then aren’t you also forcing people onto decentralized systems as a result?” The Prime Minister of Australia said “the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia."

"in 2010, Assange vowed to publish documents on any institution that resisted oversight... “We don’t have targets,” Assange said at the time."

But by 2016, WikiLeaks had switched course, focusing almost exclusively on Clinton and her campaign.

Approached later that year by the same source about data from an American security company, WikiLeaks again turned down the leak. “Is there an election angle? We’re not doing anything until after the election unless its [sic] fast or election related,” WikiLeaks wrote. “We don’t have the resources.”

Anything not connected to the election would be “diversionary,” WikiLeaks wrote.

I don't think comparing the adoption rate of Nazi ideology in nations where it was historically successful to nations where it was historically unsuccessful is appropriate.

A more equivalent comparison is Nazi ideology in Germany/Austria to Klanist ideology in the United States. The list of US politicians with Klan affiliation is long.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United...

I'm fine with that!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Body_II:_Dark_Forest

[1]: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/stephen-hawking-alien...

Some really shocking lines in here:

…[based upon self-evaluation,] 21 percent of lawyers qualify as problem drinkers, while 28 percent struggle with … serious depression. Only [25% of] lawyers answered questions about drug use… “It’s left to speculation what motivated 75 percent of attorneys to skip over the section on drug use as if it wasn’t there.”

Of all the heartbreaking details of his story, the one that continues to haunt me is this: The history on his cellphone shows the last call he ever made was for work. Peter, vomiting, unable to sit up, slipping in and out of consciousness, had managed, somehow, to dial into a conference call.

At Peter’s memorial service in 2015, [q]uite a few of the lawyers attending the service were bent over their phones, reading and tapping out emails. Their friend and colleague was dead, and yet they couldn’t stop working long enough to listen to what was being said about him.

For a second, I thought this was a post about immigration.

That was impressive, and surprising!

I really liked this: 'I have seen lots of parents do terrible things because they failed to "put their own oxygen mask on first."'

Thanks for writing that!

I googled this, because I did find it hard to believe, and I think you're correct. According to the below source, for example, heating a home in Atlanta, Georgia throughout the winter months costs about twice as much as air conditioning it in the summer months.

[0]: http://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/30576/Heating-or-Cooling-...

That was just France.

Hawaii could make vaccines mandatory, but it wouldn't mean that a lawsuit in Rhode Island about vaccines couldn't go forward.

[0]: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-vaccin...

I love my BMW i3. Am I the only one?

In the last 30 days, I've flown international on 4 airlines... United, Alaska, China Eastern, and Korean Air.

United was easily the worst, Korean was easily the best.

China Eastern wasn't great either - yet it still had better customer service, amenities, and a more comfortable seat and landing.

Except ocean-front property. :) But mostly I agree with you.

I agree with everything you said, if you say "changes the purpose" rather than "destroys the purpose" - change/destruction being a value judgment, but a characterization I would make. I think the author would agree with you, and addresses this as well.

To your question: "Is there any guarantee that getting rid of the notability criteria is going to result in a more meritocratic system?" I think that there are no guarantees in cultural changes, and the best way to be wrong about the outcomes of cultural change is to predict any outcome with certainty. That said, if uncertainty was a sufficient argument against cultural change, then we'd all be hunter/gatherers.

That is a big problem but is orthogonal to the problem the author is discussing, which is "how do I get pages made for things that my community and I care about, but no-one else does?"

I'd like to know this as well.

It'd be better if the author was in this thread responding, but I don't know if they have any relationship to the poster.

I think the argument is probably:

0.) some people have been historically advantaged over each other for non-meritocratic reasons.

1.) one of the ways people have been advantaged is itself in the notability of their actions.

[0]: http://listverse.com/2013/10/14/10-groundbreaking-women-scie...

[1]: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5077952/women-who-pretended-to-be-men...

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324355904578159...

[3]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/are-female-scientists-hi...

2.) Therefore, using notability as a prerequisite for inclusion perpetuates a non-meritocratic historical bias.