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Could anyone here recommend me something that actually talks about how genius mathematicians and others go about thinking about problems? I've read Hamming's "You and Your Research" and really liked it, but I would love to see similar things by other thinkers who might have a different take than someone like Hamming.

I don't see why this should be expected of any company honestly. If I want to price for the country that I'm trying to sell to, why should I be forced to care about or focus on a market segment that doesn't matter much to me?

I think it probably will, it is just a matter of time before political actors use this kind of thing to invent dirt on someone. We are probably going to get into an era where everyone deepfakes every politicians voice saying all sorts of wacky stuff and passes it off as real.

"Oh why is the quality bad? I was recording it secretly on my phone in my pocket that's why it is muffled and sounds off" Will be the explanation for all of these, it will come to such a head that politicians will be able to say anything they want to people, racist, sexist, genocidal, whatever, and continuously claim that it was merely deepfake, and thus not their opinion.

People will invent world events out of thin air with deepfake footage and audio. If the CIA cut off the internet access of a small island nation, and create a bunch of deepfakes of a politician stepping down, whilst covertly doing operations on them how would anyone in the west ever know it wasn't real?

This was my initial thought as well. While farmwork and other aspects of rural living is wildly complex, when you have everything pre-setup for you it is easy to learn everything you need to know from an early age. OTOH, when your modern parents leave you with no setup direction for you to follow, and you have to invent your own direction, it takes much more time to build toward that.

Imagine a kid living in the suburbs that wants to do this sort of independent farmwork and self sustaining life from scratch without family support, vs a the child of a farmer.

It was meant to be 3 separate lines, I made a formatting mistake that I can no longer edit.

I would say yes, but only in the form of a new language with differences from the older forms.

Scheme -> Racket Common Lisp -> Clojure ML -> Haskell

If perl followed this format and did a rebrand that is essentially the same thing, they would be more likely to pick up traction. Perl just in the name itself gives me a certain connotation. Typically the older variants of languages for the most part die off, while the newly branded ones gain traction, but carrying on the same basic mission. This last one is particularly sad to me personally the Standard ML ecosystem is still to this day incredibly robust and production-tier, and yet it is very much a dead language.

Can you go into what a 'security seal' on an EEPROM consists of? It is just a tamper resistant sticker or plastic of some sort?

Yeah I hate articles titled like this, I immediately went to check if Thomas Dickey had passed away or something. If something so simple and easy to use, isn't broken I don't know why people continuously think they need to redo the wheel.

This kind of discussion really gets on my nerves. EVERY single type of smoke is carcinogenic. Period. There is a famous study of a sample of boy scout camp councilors/leaders who are non smokers having as much of an incidence of lung cancer as smokers. Why? Because they are constantly standing over campfires inhaling the smoke. There are similar studies about how bad incense is for your lungs.

No smoke is safe for you to inhale.

Could anyone recommend similar guides for other cities? I've seen a lot of these for the bay but this is the first that I've ever seen for another city.

I absolutely disagree, you are making a major incorrect assumption about why I have the opinions I do. I readily engaged with SJW activists and helped organize/participated in numerous events and protests. I know EXACTLY what they are like, and it isn't propaganda that causes me to think of them in this light, it was being around them and trying to work together with them in common cause that caused me to have this attitude.

Normal people can hold social justice opinions and go about their business normally like you say, but these people are not at all what I'm talking about in this discussion. And yes I would say that the general population is NOT chock full of the type of SJWs I hung out with in college. I would know.

Cite me a statistic if you want to convince me otherwise.

The lack of granularity in America is honestly extremely annoying to me, different states or cities generally have wildly different "white" culture, traditions, commonality, and attitudes. It is often more hidden or subtle and less overt or surface level like it is in Europe.

Equally annoying is when people attempt to define 'African-American' as though it was one homogeneous entity of experience. The experiences and struggles of a young black man in NYC is vastly different from the struggles of a young black man in rural Alabama.

This is the core problem with social justice, which I support. When you have a very real problem, eg that some groups live their lives in a situation where they must police their speech and actions to fit with the dominant white male cishet culture. This is a problem, and should be noted and acknowledged. Do you not see that having as your solution "force everyone to act fake and robotic, just like excluded groups/cultures do around the dominant culture" just expands the problem?

This robotic speech is incredibly socially isolating, you end up with communities isolating into their specific groups not out of racism or sexism but because it is the path of least resistance. People in general don't want to expend time or energy learning the rulesets that each subgroup needs followed to feel included and safe. This goes for non-privileged groups as well, isolating themselves from other non-privileged groups. When going into a situation unknowing can get you shamed and called out, the path of least resistance that does not result in a negative outcome is not engaging with other groups of people unlike yourself. AKA the opposite of what our stated goals are. People don't want to act robotic, and they don't want to isolate themselves.

This is really interesting, I think this is how the general population views social justice and other activist issues actually. It seems to be a similarly structured setup where we implement a byzantine list of things that people of privilege are supposed to keep track up, starting out as a list of good intentions that then spirals out of control. Afterwards nobody is real with anyone anymore and we are simply left with a system where most social interaction feels like a robotic scripted attempt to follow the rules of privilege.

I think this is missing the point though, I've taken an upper level Statistics class, most people here with CS degrees have, but that doesn't help me understand whether a sociological study has a faulty component in its methodology. This is compounded by the culture of not reporting full data alongside papers, and the culture of writing papers in terse language.

I am not a trained medical professional, and I don't have time to be scrutinizing and reading background literature to gain a full understanding of the context each specific study has within its sub-field. I don't have access to whether these conclusions are generally accepted or are commonly disregarded for some technicality in the methodology that I didn't understand. Me personally, I can't be an expert in everything all the time, and I can't waste my life gaining a full breadth of understanding of every topic. I rely on extrapolations to do this for me, if those extrapolations are commonly faulty, I won't pay any mind to them.

This is an objectively good thing, most statistics don't actually tell most people anything interesting about the world. They don't aid the average untrained guy in the street in gaining a better understanding of the world around them. They are bombarded with opinions that are based on contradictory studies and statistics all day, this is bad in politics and sociology but medical statistics are probably the worst offenders.

Wine is good for you, chocolate is bad for you, cholesterol is good for you, wine is bad for you, red meat good for you, Fluoride bad for you! I could find you a statistically significant study supporting any conclusion I want right this minute. Since that is the case, why should the average Joe believe any of them? This is made even worse by news articles and popsci blogs not even linking to the source papers, so avg Jane can't even investigate further if she wants to.

I think that realistically, the only person who could fabricate a repository commit structure in a way that wouldn't be clear that is what they had done, would be someone who can program. If I am taking a working program, and slowly breaking it up into pieces starting with tests, and simpler components, fabricating the addition of new components each commit. That is work in my opinion, only an actual programmer could falsify, and if they are an actual programmer they would have actual repositories.

This is such a ridiculous framing, so in your opinion by this logic, if Xi was democratically elected by a free and fair election, and then proceeded to ban memes via a legislative branch that would be perfectly fine? I think what the UK is doing is equally shameful. This kind of "its ok when the west does it" type of narrative is why when I talk to Chinese students about censorship issues they can consistently point to Western censorship of topics with smugness.

"Oh but those things we ban here are anti-PC, so we are offended by them", sounds eerily similar to, "Oh but those things we ban here are anti-CCP, so we are offended by them".

So, you would be surprised, Chinese law itself is actually extremely comprehensive and large. I would argue that Chinese law is nearly identical in scope to most Western law. There are laws on the books enshrining freedoms, and many which allow the people to hold the state accountable. All this with the humongous caveat that courts and judges will often not enforce laws as they are written, so just because China might have stringent environmental protections on its books, getting a judge who will actually allow such cases is difficult.

The law is structured in such a way that the judges and courts have a great deal of freedom and discretion about which laws to enforce when, and can decide not to enforce laws at specific times. This is seen as a strength of the system, in that it prevents a lot of obtuse bickering over minor details of legal interpretation. The judge can do maneuvers like saying "The spirit and intent of the law was this, doesn't matter what it actually says" and this is legal. So yes the Chinese state probably does have protections for this sort of thing, but they probably never enforce any of them because of rampant abuse.

I would gladly move to any country that did not have this police ability in a heartbeat. There is no level of security that can justify to me anyway, even the most mundane aspects of our policing activity.

The problem is that police don't actually make anyone safer, they simply create order for the state after something has occurred. I have never once called the police and had them actually do a single thing to help or solve the problem I was facing. Yet I can recount countless instances of them harassing me for nothing? Why is that? Maybe the fundamental notion of 'secure vs liberty' is flawed if we aren't actually provided with more security.

I think that this is a very old perspective on Hong Kong, whilst before it was an integral part of their economy, now that is much less the case.

As this vox article states correctly, Hong Kong used to make up 1/5th of their entire GDP. But with expansion and growth in cities across the country, it is now but a minor component of their economy. In the grand scheme of things it isn't a large enough chunk of their economy that they couldn't afford to lose it. Especially not if the balancing act is, bomb this one city and regain political stability vs massive instability for the greater entity.

[0]https://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6857567/hong-kong-used-to-be-1...

When I saw this I was expecting a anti-racist angle. Something like "In SV the white mans bias in machine learning stops minorities from being hired, yet here in Africa... "

I think that the point of the gray area is to differentiate themselves from the kinds of things that went on at 8chan without getting banned. None of them were technically illegal but many were abhorrent regardless.

I only clicked this so I could say this same thing. I'm glad I'm not alone in seeing this as a completely ridiculous juxtaposition between wanting decentralized communication while using a horrible centralized service. This author should start with creating a static blog or something.

I think that a lot of people who work on deadlines like this have learned how to incorporate this into their products overall structure. Think of games that have to be released on a proper timeline for a specific holiday season. Now instead of trying to meet those deadlines, game developers are putting out a minimum product and releasing updates, patches, and missing portions of the game in chunks after the official purchase/release date. Whether this is successful or not is up for question, but it seems to be one strategy for coping with amorphous deadlines.

This is the real question, I would like to see VCs here commenting on investments they made that were not through their network.

In what year though? I feel like a lot of VC's have adopted this trend of forcing you to befriend random people they have funded before, to introduce you in. Not because it is actually a good method, but because they saw a few popular VCs were doing it and jumped onboard.

Extremely interested in an answer to this. I've tried many of the things that people recommend and while I don't have any hand injuries from typing yet, I would like to avoid them. The suggestions that people typically recommend don't seem to do much of anything for me, I can't feel a significant difference when I do the carpal tunnel stretches and when I don't.

They won't see another penny from me. I assume a large amount of people will feel the same. Can't wait for Stallmans next project, I will be donating to that instead.