mr_tyzic

I'd add "compilers", but that would spoil the Hawking joke.

Manuscript: https://datascienceincontext.com/manuscript/

Download: https://datascienceincontext.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/...

See also https://twitter.com/qualmist/status/1477415225271808001

More on this:

https://notlaura.com/is-css-turing-complete/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-co...

Described at https://twitter.com/NPCollapse/status/1301814000255217664

Hydraulic integrator would be a better translation.

Ayn Rand sure did though.

> It's ludicrous that we in this country can't have modern infrastructure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkf2MQdqz-o is a survey of American domestic and foreign policy that goes into this question. The speaker is a distinguished US diplomat of the post-war era, who also served as Nixon's Mandarin interpreter when he first went to China. His short answer is that for interlocking reasons that make it hard to change, military spending is the only kind of stimulus spending that's politically feasible in the US, and infrastructure spending hasn't yet been able to break that lock, though it needs to.

The answer of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, which few (in the West at least) would now argue was wrong.

The point is that all the same arguments were brought up against the previous anti-apartheid movement (the one in South Africa) at the time, and today almost no one would argue that those sanctions (and boycotts and divestments) weren't justified. Least of all on the basis that they "hurt, not help" the oppressed population. So this objection to the same tactics now is unconvincing.

> Ironically movements like the BDS actually cause Palestinians who work for Israeli companies to loose their jobs.

This argument was often made against anti-apartheid sanctions on South Africa. The answer was that it was for the oppressed population to decide.

By that argument, if you're grieving the loss of a loved one, deciding whether to marry, struggling to write a novel, or even fixing a bug in a computer program, you have a disease. All those presumably have some biochemical correlate.

No proof, but I meant an implicit "even if you assume that" at the start of the comment.

It's an investor's job to be so foolish.

Everything in the mind is biologically mediated. That doesn't make every mind problem a disease.

In terms of their reporting, sure they are. They're at the liberal end of the spectrum but well within what Murray is talking about.

You present that as an objection, but merely repeat what he said.

But there are many more low-quality ones to complain about how the shortage is a myth.

Maybe because something like this comes up a lot.

Clever predators don't force anything.

Probably because he isn't really like that.

Chomsky wouldn't say that at all. His critique has always been primarily of liberals.

What's popular in S.F. right now isn't that, it's hipster food with locally-sourced ingredients. It's pricey and complicated, but well made. The people doing it care about their craft. It does lack the old-fashioned quality you're talking about, though.

Naively, nine markers sounds like a lot. How high is the risk of curve-fitting?

I think you're just making that up, and that it trivializes the real trauma the article is about.

The extreme isolation described in this article bears little resemblance to "working on projects", so the connection seems spurious.

Those are stories about what idiots other people are. Not as interesting, and predictable after a while.

Good debugging stories, like the OP, are mysteries.