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Oh ho ho. Next you're going to be questioning the "race to AI". It's like you want to be forced to read articles about raccoons with distemper, instead of buzzwordy tech FUD pieces, on slow news days. Is this what you want? Is it possible, dare I say it, that you might even want want us to lose the race to racing? Why are you rocking the boat?

Having saved myself a headache earlier by parsing some HTML with regex, I'm appreciating this post. On the other hand, if you don't obey dogma, it may impair the delivery of your cargo. Everything is a tradeoff.

I also wonder about this. I think some benchmarks are in order, with checks for the impact of escape analysis/copy to heap.

I agree this seems low. Both housing and additional expenses. How do I know if I'm the victim of an hedonic treadmill?

tl;dr: they had nice jewelry, so it wasn't really dark

I don't understand why people feel the need to whitewash this, aside from a preexisting religious motive or mindlessly being contrary. Civilization went backwards after Rome fell. It took centuries to rediscover and reincorporate those parts of Western culture.

I worry that too many people secretly want to go back to being serfs.

It doesn't really matter what you or SciAm think Kuhn believed, I'm telling you that the humanities faculty have used him to cosign the most outrageous anti-realist ideas imaginable. If you don't believe me, just take a class and find out!

Kuhn's a realist... someone needs to tell the Humanities departments this because it's definitely not the interpretation they've been running with!

I suspect they're the exception, although they may be including stock options or could even be nonsense, this being the internet and all.

On the configs I've seen, "killswitch" is a few lines that tell iptables to stop sending when the connection drops. I don't know how tunnenblick does it, but this might actually, and I'm not joking, be a job for applescript? Since it looks like wireuard doesn't do killswitch on its own. http://krypted.com/mac-security/command-line-firewall-manage... might be a starting point.

The real question is, where can I get some hott wireguard swag?

Well the postmodernists certainly cite Kuhn in support of their anti-reality drivel, but the real problem with Kuhn is that he was just wrong.

There's a mature science, where knowledge is limited but accurate, where new findings cause a recontextualization but no paradigm shift, and the previous knowledge is preserved within its new context,, and immature science, where people are doing things wrong, reaching conclusions with inadequate evidence, and stuff gets thrown out during a "paradigm shift", i.e. when they start doing mature science.

Examples of mature science are physics with the incorporation of relativity and quantum physics, which preserved Newtonian physics, or biology, where the human genome project revealed that there were 1/3 as many genes in humans as was previously thought, at which the field barely batted an eye and shifted in a heartbeat to looking more at gene regulation. Clearly, these are huge changes in the fields, but they don't rise to the level of a Kuhnian "paradigm shift" since the old knowledge and vocab and understandings were preserved.

What's an immature science? Probably the social sciences, or those areas of other fields where there's reproducibility problems, p-hacking, and other dysfunctions. To the extent that these fields have overarching paradigms, they may suffer a "paradigm shift". But in mature science, there just aren't any paradigm shifts, in the Kuhnian sense, happening, because a mature science has sufficient evidence in hand before generating a "paradigm".

Kuhn was wrong. But "Paradigm Shift" is a flashy phrase and it captured the zeitgeist of the time it was written. At this point, anything that helps tame this pop-philosophy-of-science phenomenon is not unwelcome, especially because, yes, Kuhn's writings are supporting anti-realist postmodernist trash, without being especially misread.

This is a tragic decision on Dropbox's part. The service's popularity is a product of it being stable and running everywhere. If they start pulling back compatibility, where does it end? Even if this change only impacts a small percentage of users, it threatens everyone that their compatibility may be revoked.

Dropbox is violating their philosophy as a universal solution and squandering their key selling point for some small cost savings. What a horrible decision.

I think you're confused. When poets talk about "enrichment" they mean spiritual enrichment.

I guess the question is whether selling targeted ads counts as selling personal information under this law. My impression is that it doesn't, which makes me wonder what the author was thinking. In fact, this will be worst for the smaller companies that don't harvest, target and serve all in-house, while the behemoths will be untouched.

>GMO is largely about implanting resistance against herbicides such as glyphosate or genes for the production of pesticides like the BT-gene. Both are there to support pesticide heavy monocultures of which we are seeing the negative effects unfolding.

Except the BT gene is exactly the opposite of a pesticide-heavy monoculture. The point is to make spraying unnecessary. Do you usually just invert the reality of things that clash with your preferred narrative?

>Most of the food is still farmed by poor small scale farmers, which are often more efficient than large-scale farmers.

Curious about this claim, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_productivity#Sour...:

  Some sources of agricultural productivity are:
  -Mechanization
  -High yield varieties, which were the basis of the Green revolution
  -Fertilizers: Primary plant nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium[5][6] and secondary nutrients such as sulfur, zinc, copper, manganese, calcium, magnesium and molybdenum on deficient soil
  -Education in management and entrepreneurial techniques to decrease fixed and variable costs and optimise manpower
  -Liming of acid soils to raise pH and to provide calcium and magnesium
  -Irrigation
  -Herbicides
  -Genetic engineering
  -Pesticides
  -Increased plant density
  -Animal feed made more digestible by processing
  -Keeping animals indoors in cold weather

I don't think any of these correlate with smaller farm size. Do you have any sources?

Ed is the standard text editor https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

You should remove all the non-weasel words, since the weasel words are the only true ones in these cases.

>just because some people are buying the product for bad reasons (e.g. virtue or affluence signalling) doesn't mean it's all bad

It's a mixed bag on the gluten free thing, with more availability of GF foods but the GF label not meaning crap to a real Celiac sufferer anymore.

But nobody has an a1 allergy. This is just making the fad without the medical condition existing at all. So in this case, no, there is no benefit, aside from redistributing wealth from the feebleminded to the "job creators". Some people think that's a good thing.

Hopefully you guys are doing some due diligence, because there's no way for a user to have "evidence", no matter how canned and repetitive and glowing the comments above are. Obviously common sense doesn't cut the mustard here.

Wow, they're literally creating demand for a product that serves no purpose by "glutenizing" some harmless milk protein and selling "gluten-free" milk. Shameful.

And the irony is that milk has a component, lactose, that is legitimately indigestible for large numbers of people. It was gluten before gluten was gluten, except not BS! But products already exist for that, so they're glutenizing milk because, let's face it, a sucker is born every second and it ain't cheap sending kids to college these days.

Godspeed A2 milk, may the impoverishment of your customers reduce their propensity to procreate!

Preemptive edit: the stealth marketing is so so thick in this thread! Yuck!