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Yes but the all-encompassing rhetoric about regional political stability is just dog whistling about oil price stability [1].

[1] Alan Greenspan

I don't believe I referenced qualia. The problem of language is an emergent phenomenon just as the utility of language is. I don't believe in subjective essentialism either.

That is EXACTLY the stance that Chomsky is challenging here. Don't get me wrong, I think the probabilistic view has truth value and is a powerful predictive tool. However, I don't think it captures the phenomenological properties of the act of language based cognition. See my cousin reply referencing Heidegger.

I did not reference linguistics literature, but philosophy literature (a distinction worth making because they are approaching the problem at different levels). I've never been good at the 'language problem' elevator speech, but how is it possible that we can capture the full power of language while using language to describe it? Language is a technology that allows for the production of concepts like 'probability' or 'apple'. Language as a tool is so fundamental to cognition that it becomes difficult to separate the two. Heidegger's Being and Time explores that line of thinking, and Derrida loves to play the game of "well that means you can't say anything!" Both have provided me with insight into what "magic" is referencing here (rather than your fairly pithy absence-of-evidence reference).

How do you approach Heidegger's or Derrida's arguments that 'language is complicated, something magical must be going on'? Will you allow for no qualitatively different meaning to language than probabilistic associations of sounds with objects?

Anyone tried to find themselves in the publicly available UAV surveillance data? https://www.sdms.afrl.af.mil/index.php?collection=csuav

Bureaucratically it is easier to fight the most recently approved violation of privacy than an older one. The budgets are less entrenched, and the programs are under higher scrutiny for internal reasons. The EFF would strongly agree that there is no difference in loss of privacy from manned or unmanned surveillance. One is just easier to fight.

The production of news content -- like aid to the destitute or the military -- might be an obsolete business model but is still an essential social good worth protecting.

I'm amazed and pleased at your self awareness and honesty in this thread. Thank you. If you could give some thought to the responsibility (and unique opportunity) us normals have to fight oppressive structures from within, I would personally appreciate it.

From that perspective, I think you are confusing "empathize" with "understand". If you empathized, you would be more likely to be more concerned with the needs of others than your weak preferences.

For all that is lacking, the features that MSVC does support (lambdas, auto, std::move) are extremely valuable tools. There's no excuse for not implementing variadic templates or template aliases yet, but there's no reason not to jump onto the existing features.

intelcc is great, with error messages significantly more clear than gcc or msvc (not as good as clang), and solid performance. But it is more expensive than msvc and I don't believe there is a free version like visual studio express.

Very few Zynga employees were from Austin, many are from CA/NY.

You might be interested in this annual compilation http://americanalpineclub.org/p/anam

If the reddit admins want to shoulder the same burden as the government in regards to free speech, I still believe in community self-policing of reddit by users. The admins won't shut down assholes, but neither shall they shutdown shaming of assholes.

Regarding point 1: You are absolutely misguided. I have no obligation to defend them disgusting things until it is the government that is prosecuting the speech, rather than the community.

We have a moral obligation to protect free speech from government intrusion.

We have an equal or greater moral obligation to personally confront the KKK, and sexual predators in order to enforce moral standards within our community.

The government's job is to make sure we both get to speak, and don't kill each other over the disagreement. The first amendment has nothing to do with protecting KKK members from public shaming and expulsion for the views they profess.

I don't think it is useful to frame this as forums drama (which it certainly is on the surface), but as community self-policing. Yes, /r/politics, /r/atheism and Gawker are pretty similar, featuring shallow identity politics in easily consumable outrage-of-the-day snack packages.

But /r/politics and /r/atheism aren't the targets. Did you see /r/jailbait, /r/upskirt, /r/CreepShots, etc before they were taken down? Do you really put child porn, upskirt photos, and trading strategies for creeping on unsuspecting women in public in the same moral ballpark as shitty journalism?

/r/ShitRedditSays is right to eliminate these communities from Reddit and shame the participants. Sexual predators need to be confronted globally in any forum they are present in, and community confrontation is exactly what most of the offenders need. The presence of Gawker in the affair is a small price to pay to help reduce sexual violence.

Another lesson from Fortran is to include arrays as a native type in your language. Intel continues to push their Fortran compiler whenever you shop for their numeric C libraries with some convincing benchmarks. https://speakerdeck.com/u/multicoreworld/p/james-reinders-in...

I imagine that the less concrete requirements on the UX make it more difficult to negotiate design decisions via pull requests. Typically OSS code contributions don't include design changes (e.g moving proven core components from shared state to a message queue for aesthetics), but bug fixes or very concrete feature additions which are easy to reduce to tests.

Yes. I switched to Chrome for a while because of performance, and for my use cases, they are back close enough to parity. I would also recommend Aurora, which gets newer features faster, but is much more stable than the nightly binaries.

If you find yourself in the situation of the calculator-assuming woman, where you feel like you've made a comment that touches on cultural sensitivities, use the moment as a learning experience. Instead of leaving the awkward air, ask them what they are thinking. "oh sorry haha that was a weird assumption, what is it?" Asking to be educated is pretty much the opposite of the mansplaining / whitesplaining that is so painful to the author of qu33riosity, and is almost universally welcomed. A little humility goes a long way.

What conclusion were you looking for exactly? It was an empirical recounting of events, peppered with an analysis of why the events are so frustrating for the author. Did you expect The Essay That Ends Racism?

I don't the USA following Japan here. The US is more amenable to immigration and less amenable to providing universal healthcare that can afford a several thousand dollar personal robot.

Coming from a c and python perspective, I'm amazed that you even can specify which ruby to run it with. Either its a compiled binary, or you call the interpreter with the code object as an argument. What is the design impetus for mixing scripting and executable styles this way?

Early first.last@gmail accounts had firstlast@gmail reserved for them. Google stopped doing that a few years after launch.

Are any of these articles criticizing Apple calling for the government to forcibly open the AppStore? No. We are making demands as Apple customers.

Appeals to some evolution-determined human nature fall flat for me. The greatest thing evolution endowed humans with is conscious reasoning that can overcome our cognitive instincts. You will see even great humans revert to their instincts when situations are dire, but the project of civilization is to eliminate those situations.

Trying to frame _every_ human goal as a form of greed/self-interest/winning is tautological. There are substantial differences in the way humans experience altruistic, compassionate self-interest and individualistic, combative self-interest.

Certainly we can experience varied social arraignments emphasizing different negotiations between every individual's self-interest. When one's argument considers the vast history of human societies and reduces them to all to self-interest enablers, is it saying anything at all?

Stifling of political opinions by a media corporation is no less censorship than actions undertaken by a government. You can check the dictionary, there are plenty of non-governmental definitions.

Which also has nice links to the specs for each feature.

If food safety was prioritized above profit they could afford to hire employees that aren't idiot assholes.

Death threats aren't the only thing a government can do to reduce the reliability of the press. Whistle blower prosecutions, contempt of court charges for journalists protecting sources, NYT shelving articles until after elections, the tiptoeing the white house press corps does as to not lose access, etc. All of these indicate reduced reputation of the press in the USA.

The US of Murdoch comment was a brash characterization, but how does rehashing the state of Russian press address the idea that US news sources lack reliability? All news sources should be treated with skepticism, Russian or not.