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kizeron China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

The big difference is that in the west, the public is the judge of your social standing... NOT the government. The government is an institution of power. Imagine the IRS targeting people with a low social points level because they might be more likely to cheat on their taxes. People should be able to say whatever they want and be judged by the public, but not parented by the government.

kizeron China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

It's fine if a business judges you on all the information they can get; for example, in hiring new employees, etc.

But the government is not an institution that should be rewarding or penalizing behavior that is within the bounds of law. Obviously, you get -10000 points let's say if you commit a felony in the US. But you don't get +5xp for praising the government or being a good neighbor, or -5xp for being rude to a waiter or something. That's like, a few orders of magnitude of closer government behavioral management.

kizeron China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

Uh, no? People who know you or the person associated may judge you negatively, but the US government will not penalize you and affect which public services you can use.

It's a tremendous difference...

kizeron China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

????

So it's fine that one of the government's responsibilities is to track each citizens social score, instead of it being implicit in the judgement's of a person's peer-group?

Yes we all play some kind of "status" or "reputation" game, but the difference is that we can determine ourselves what is socially right by finding the right audience. In China's case, your only choice of audience is the government. You are forced to play instead of being a willing participant in your relevant social stratum.

kizeron China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

Healthy and subject to a "social credits" system. I'd rather be morbidly obese than have the government force me to play a social status game.

kizeron I put all my personal data on eBay

The idea of selling information you choose directly to advertisers, intentionally, is much healthier than Facebook / Google etc spending tons of time inferring shit about you.

kizeron Zero-Overhead Tree Processing with the Visitor Pattern

Looks like the pattern effectively linearizes the hierarchical structure. So you can stream or iterate over the ouput of a visitor run, as the author said.

Could one just implement an iterator on top of a tree structure? This would be similar but be imperative right rather than declarative as you would not provide a “callback”, but pull out nodes directly.

kizeron Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus

Didn't know about that. Thanks.

kizeron Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus

Thanks! That page took like 45 seconds to load, haha.

kizeron Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus

Reap what you sow, Europer.

Seriously though, is GDPR compliance that difficult? What does a news site have to do to comply?

kizeron Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus

Can someone copy and paste the whole article into a comment?

kizeron The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org

Sad news. Hopefully a replacement will fill its place and provide comprehensive public access to our government broadcasting network's archives.

kizeron Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals

Good for him. Thankfully I'll be living in placid Seattle where the kind liberals are, surrounded by beautiful nature and a society grounded in a cannabis induced peace.

kizeron A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign

If the rules he's using are being followed correctly, and if the information he is posting is well-sourced, then your only other course of action would be to petition to change wikipedia's rules.

"Well-sourced" is not the only criterion. I could edit a page, citing credible sources, and still distort it by including implicit, one-sided interpretations of those sources results/contents.

Also, if the rules do not have, in short, "be objective", then yes, we should petition to change wikipedia's rules.

kizeron Solving dynamic programming interview problems

Step 1. ur problem graph better be a dag

Step 2. ur sub problems better overlap

Step 3. time to table dat dag

Step 4. solve ur problems and build ur table graph the way a dag would : to-po-lo-gi-cal-ly

kizeron What if JavaScript wins?

I agree totally that most will do fine without, but the parent comment cited the fact that few devs know about bytecode/jvm to support not knowing wasm. But descriptive statements don't imply prescriptive statements. So just because most have no clue, doesn't make it "right", or able to be used as justification.

I wouldn't call myself a Java dev - I mean I know Java like 99% percent of the world does - so I may have a terrible perspective on this anyways. Although knowing the basics of how Java source code -> running process would certainly help any Java dev.

kizeron A SQLite Tutorial with Node.js

I think that the DAO should abstract more away. It shouldn't simply allow SQL input - that defeats the purpose.

kizeron Manufacturer 'make worthless' users devices after some stolen from a warehouse

I had to re-read each sentence three times.

kizeron Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte

I see... speaks to my ignorance on language.

kizeron The myth of ‘mad’ genius

By that I meant that I haven't proved to be a genius so far. If I were to become a Nobel laureate in the future, people would see that I was a genius in retrospect.

kizeron Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte

I did not know that Unicode itself was variable length. That alone nullifies motivation to use codepoint arrays. Why would they do that??

kizeron The myth of ‘mad’ genius

Good that you're better. Maybe try to work lightly (2 hours a day) on a project someday and see if you can complete it without herculean focus or dedication.

kizeron Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5

I'm getting like 3 fps over here. But the graphics are neat!

kizeron HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

Yes - the SEC (government agency that regulates securities) is behind it. It's supposed to teach people a lesson.

kizeron The myth of ‘mad’ genius

I can't discern your point. Are you saying that there is some kind of "equality" since the geniuses are doomed to suffer from mental illness?

kizeron The myth of ‘mad’ genius

I think I behave in an eccentric manner because I was raised by two liberal parents and am an only child. Although I always made friends just fine. I'm bright, but no genius. At least not yet. I often feel somehow that the eccentric behavior and intelligence are the result of a latent property, like some kind of general freedom of mind. Also I have (will inherit) some assets that generate money on their own. So I guess I can "get away" with it.

kizeron Hacker News Points Inflation

:( I did not know.

kizeron Hacker News Points Inflation

Our beloved HN is experiencing unrestrained inflation. Paul Graham, please insitute austerity measures immediately!!!

kizeron What if JavaScript wins?

I think (hope) that Academia, or individuals, would still be able to churn out "original" languages if there were no immediate need in industry.

kizeron What if JavaScript wins?

But... Java developers should have a clue how bytecode works in the JVM. Otherwise I agree.