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We can't keep reasoning about digital age by way of pre-digital-age analogies. The first internet pioneers have died of old age now.

It's time to stop assuming courts and lawmakers are incapable of understanding technology without brick & mortar analogies. Hyperlinks are like hyperlinks, not like phone book entries, and courts will have to rule about lawsuits like these.

Oh that's interesting! I don't find the special effects in those movies laughable at all. In Dr. Strangelove they play only a minor role in the film, while I think in 2001 he cleverly worked around the technical limitations, and used a set and model design that still largely looks (60s style) futuristic, rather than dated.

Compare it with contemporary or slightly newer movies like Planet of the Apes, Barbarella, Logan's run. It's not a standard space opera with space battles, faster than light travel, alien empires and magic space gravity. Sure, the men in ape suits look a little naff, but then I don't see how else he could have done it. Claymation would have been worse, herding actual gorillas not an option.

I tried to phrase it in a way that wouldn't burn all my karma points all at once.

With regard to this movie, I simply don't know if I'm the innocent who cries out that the emperor is naked, or if I'm simply too incompetent and unfit to see it.

Every time this film is mentioned, I'm reminded of the old fairly tale, the emperor's new clothes.

Everyone, absolutely everyone who has good taste and knows something about movie making seems to worship this film. Only those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent don't like it.

Let me then be the one to admit I'll be the stupid, incompetent one, but willing to learn. Why is this film brilliant? I found it unbearable. Half the story is told by an omniscient narrator (a device that simply doesn't work in a film), the story advances at a glacial pace, the protagonist is completely unlikable. Of course the backstory would feel somewhat pompous and dated, based on a 19th century book, but in my uninformed, incompetent opinion bringing this old fashioned feel unchanged to a 20th century medium didn't do either of them any favors.

Kubrick made a number of classics that have either aged very well or become a cherished document of the time when they were made. Can someone please explain to me why this movie belongs up there with the Shining, 2001 and Dr. Strangelove?

German band Corvus Corax recorded a version of this tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-4vF5JYxk

They play ancient and medieval vernacular music on largely self made authentic instruments. Their approach is that at the time, it was probably played by and for young people having a good time, rather than professors in music history, so their shows are loud and energetic.

I think your premise is wrong. Scandinavia isn't as homogeneous as you think, and the UK and US aren't as diverse as you think. I can only assume China isn't as homogeneous as you think either. What it is, is that we are all conditioned to recognize a lot of diversity in what's familiar to us, while communities of strangers seem more or less the same to us.

I remember how relatives from the US visited a central European capital, and were surprised how little diversity they saw. To them Hungarians, Germans, Slovenes, Poles, Russians, Turks, Roma, Bulgarians, Greeks etc seemed all pretty much the same. I remember how I first visited a couple of north American major cities and was surprised how little diversity i saw. To me they seemed all pretty much the same.

You can't lump all of Europe together, they all have their own justice systems, very different from each other. Three terrorists in Spain were sentenced to about 30 to 40 THOUSAND years each.

I'm not from Denmark, but not very far from it. Don't you get civil disorder every time a high profile, widely hated criminal gets off with a sentence that's much lighter than people get in the movies? Where I live, every time that happens, populist and right wing parties rise in the polls. At this time, they're maybe one incident involving a Syrian refugee away from winning the elections. It's inevitable, with so many thousands of them, there's bound to be one who crosses the line at some point.

The US has a different kind of democratic tradition. Some will say they're more democratic, but I think it has a lot to do with the "winner takes all" principle vs. "proportional representation". Deep down inside, it's what a significant chunk of the population wants: "as long as there are still people whom I can't identify with out there breaking the rules, we're still not tough enough on crime". The largest group is the one that gets represented, and doesn't have to share power.

This is an interesting question, and probably related to "why doesn't Silicon Valley hire female coders?" and "Why doesn't Silicon Valley hire coders over 30?"

Two years? I was just wondering if that article was two years old..

What about Samsung, Foxconn, Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, JD.com

How dominant are the frightful 5 outside of North America and Western Europe today?

The article makes this claim:

> "Most top chemists and biomedical researchers have little use for mathematics per se, except in terms of using statistical software or basic calculus. "

Now I never ended up working in the field, but I remember my organic chemistry Msc. being fairly math heavy. Solving the Schroedinger equation for a complex molecule or refining a stochastic simulation model involved a bit more than basic calculus. The whole course was more math than lab work.

Was this article written by someone who never took an advanced science class, or by a mathematician to whom all the math used in natural sciences is trite and simple?

> We're blatently repeating the exact same mistakes as before, the exact thing we frown upon.

I find it enlightening. Why did people let the nazis take the jews away? Why did people support slavery, even turn escaped slaves in, for money? Why did they allow lynchings to happen?

Well, now we know. Now we understand. Maybe we can view our ancestors in a different light now.

When did you have that education though? I think it's very useful today.

There are relevant different design decisions to make that go much further than just a touch screen vs a mouse. You don't want to drain your users' battery or drain their wallet by going over their data limit, you make different decisions about what part of the workload to keep on the client or move to the server.

When someone with a PhD in the relevant field, 6 or 7 years of professional programming experience and several successfully shipped products under his belt starts learning something new, he's a junior at that new thing.

Junior level is when you know all language features, and are starting to learn the ecosystem of tools and libraries.

You're probably much smarter or more dedicated than me if you feel this level can be reached in a much shorter time.

The problem is that C++ is a language where the "top 150,000 most essential things to get you started with C++" is a volume that spans several book shelves. Even Bjarne Stroustrup allegedly rated his own C++ skills at maybe 7 out of 10. If you start with C++, you're committed to a multi year project, that's what it takes to advance from novice to junior level.

That's usually because some local player bought the (online) distribution rights for your country for content from major studios before Netflix moved in. Where I live, Netflix has some children's shows and some local stuff. If I want the same choice as Netflix in the US, I'd have to get subscriptions to half a dozen local online video stores. I expect most of those to go out of business in the next few years, and things to consolidate to just one or two players, one of them being Netflix.

> In the EU, net contributors seem to have something awfully close to an effective veto regarding minor issues,

Do you have a source for this? I never got this impression. Some countries have proportionally large influence due to their size, namely France and Germany. Some others due to the high quality diplomats and politicians they send to Europe, such as Belgium and Italy.

Some countries actively sabotage their own influence in the EU, by showing nothing but hostility and obstruction (UK), or by using the EU as a kind of retirement plan for politicians and diplomats that failed domestically (Netherlands). Always echoing the German point of view should not be seen as "an effective veto", it is essentially an attempt to stay in favor with their formerly close, powerful friend to the east, who has been getting less and less interested over the years, as his attention shifts towards the East.

It's really their own $75k they're saving...

Is that really considered smuggling? If the whole 12 week treatment costs $84000 in the US and apparently $336 in India according to the article, you could take a nice vacation to India with your family, get your bottle of 84 pills there, and save $75k to $80k. A smart insurance company would cover it.

Did you read the whole article? There is no reference to paper currency, the cash strictly refers to coins.

But you're right, it's not exactly clear what he means there:

"When the Roman Empire fell apart, there were no coins in circulation, just gold. But you didn’t pay taxes with gold. What the Frisians did was reinvent cash. Not just coins, but cash—money you carried with you in order to do business."

I'm pretty sure the Frisians weren't the first to mint coins, and if this refers to a new kind of use of coins, it's not explained in the article.

"What I learned from losing $200m"

It looks like a blank page to me. Is the site down or is he trying to tell us he learned nothing?

Welcome to twitter. It's completely unclear to me why anyone would use it, especially after writing a book about how using it wrong can get you fired and ruin your life.

Maybe you're right, but I know a couple of people irl who get so much done, it's like they have more than 24 hours in a day. I asked one of them where he gets the time (despite having 4 kids), and it mainly just seems he sleeps less. Some people really manage to get by on 5 or 6 hours of sleep.

Ever since a family member was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I've been paying attention to reports like these. Every other year, there is a paper about a major breakthrough, and surely a cure should be just around the corner any time now.

Every few years there is a paper that claims that we now finally know what causes the disease, and every time it's something different, and every time you never hear of a followup.

It's about 3 decades later now, and as far as I can tell, there is still no actual progress in the way of treatment. An alzheimer's diagnosis still means the same as it did in the 80's or in the 60's for that matter.

About this cure that is just around the corner. It came too late for my grandparents generation, it came too late for my parents' generation, it came too late for my generation, I wouldn't be surprised if it came too late for my children's generation. I don't believe in it any more.

> The Greeks work the longest hours in Europe but anybody who has been to Germany and Greece would probably tell you that the Germans probably work harder.

I've been to Germany and Greece, and I don't really concur. Germany is rich, so more people can afford to work part time or at least reasonable hours. Time off is a luxury, it's just a fact of life that the poor have to work longer hours than the rich.

The average productivity has more to do with money than with how hard people are working. Someone who sells a $1Bn credit default swap deal with a few mouse clicks is far more productive than someone who spends 16 hour work days digging a trench with a shovel, but which of the two is working harder?

EU standards reflect the reality that diesel engines are far more common than in the US, so they are less strict with regards to NOx emissions to begin with. About half the km (or miles, or furlong) driven in Europe are on diesel.

Diesel gets better mileage and tends to be cheaper than gas (depending on local taxes), which can make a significant difference with the high fuel prices in Europe.

The oversight is also much more fragmented because it is less centralized than in the US. As I understand it, the oversight is left to the member states, so manufacturers tend to shop around for the most lenient one.

Maybe imagining they have imposter syndrome is really another case of the Dunning–Kruger effect making the incompetent overestimate themselves :)

The CPU architecture shouldn't be a problem, as it's the primary target for iOS apps.

I haven't gotten it to build yet, maybe I should read the manual, but I'm a man, damnit, so I'll do that once I've tried absolutely everything else.

Try to compile it and see if you can get it to work?