VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
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VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2mo ago
Article 25 allows publishing of print media in two or more language versions, one of which must be Ukrainian, provided that all language versions are identical in size, format and substance and are issued on the same day.
Doesn't Canada have similar laws regarding English and French?
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2mo ago
Presumably whatever incentives the mediators have available to them and care to use: adding or removing sanctions and further military aid to their counterparty. "Come to the table, or we will make this more painful than your regime can bear" is a threat that I had assumed was implicitly levelled. Whether it is or not seems less clear at the moment, but Ukraine-flagged warships (torpedo boats, as is tradition) harassing Russian shipping or naval assets outside the Black Sea with some degree of plausibly-deniable allied assistance. Or actually biting sanctions on Russian energy exports.
These haven't happened yet, and may not be on the table, but it at least strikes me that they could be.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2mo ago
I think the norms of this community strongly opposed copy-pasting the same response into multiple replies in the thread. Even if it is an apropos, relevant quote.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3mo ago
I always manage to kill everything I've planted (including an indoor succulent a friend gifted that I keep forgetting to water even occasionally). Any recommendations on getting started gardening as someone with no discernable green thumb, and who lives somewhere with dry, sweltering summers, and the yearly bout with a hard freeze or two?
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
4mo ago
It worked for Elizabeth Warren.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
4mo ago
From a "race is a social construct" perspective, isn't this just code switching? Presumably scoped here to people who ambiguously pass as either.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
5mo ago
IIRC an IBM executive is quoted (in the 1940s) claiming there might be a world market for "maybe five" computers. That actually happened and is what the quote seems to be referencing. Or Gates on "640K" being sufficient. IMO it's one of those "sold a faster horse" moments where someone needed to think bigger about broader applications if prices came down.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6mo ago
Thanks. I suppose publishing a white paper at least opens them up to more serious scrutiny (which I've seen in serious-ish forums like HN). But my initial response is rather skeptical still, though. The encryption methods seem like they should be far more expensive than Apple is letting on [1], and they say they're using this for querying remote databases with encrypted queries. They're less clear on how these databases (for photographic landmarks, URLs, and such) are encrypted in a manner that actually hides the query from Apple. Are the encryption keys different per-device? If so, how do they avoid needing a separate database per device? And if not, it seems there's a lot of trust that they would be unable to figure out which rows matched.
I know Google's approach to similar issues has been focused more on device side ML models. Pixel phones support offline song recognition (I've noticed it's fairly limited to popular songs), and Google Translate can work (in a limited fashion) offline. Why does Apple need to do cloud-based POI recognition in photos? The whitepaper only shows 6 very well known landmarks, but it seems like it'd be easy enough (and secure!) to do this on-device. Given the known computational costs of FHE, it might even be better for battery life.
- Quoting the linked FV paper: "As to whether any of these [previous] proposals is really practical, the answer is simply “no”.... The most recent paper manages to execute one AES encryption homomorphically in eight days using a massive amount (tens of GBs) of RAM memory." That's before their proposed algorithm, but they don't directly seem to claim many-orders-of-magnitude improved tractability.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6mo ago
The last few times I've gotten a new Android phone (Pixel), it's come with a USB-C to USB-C cable (with a C-to-A adapter for chargers) and simple instructions to connect 'em directly, unlock the old one, and agree to transfer everything. Admittedly it missed quite a few apps the first time, but the most recent time things almost entirely Just Worked. I think they may have wireless or cloud options there too, but the cable was simple.
Although the security-minded have complained about some of the changes in, specifically, Google Authenticator over the last few years to support this.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6mo ago
If, despite her skinniness and near-veganism, she's strong as an ox and endures like a camel, then there is no problem with her diet.
I think this is probably a good starting point, but I will observe that there are plenty of professional athletes, even successful ones, who have eating disorders. The term of art there seems to be RED-S these days. For those, the concerns are more "are they getting injured more often than they should" (energy deficiency can cause bone density issues), and, for women, if they are menstruating regularly (hormonal birth control can mask this issue).
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
7mo ago
Is that a function of education time/costs? Employers are willing to take on apprentice welders and electricians, but the educational hurdle for an NP is several years of training before someone becomes employable. Pilots need (preferably paid) hours to hit minimums for airline work. Nobody seems to be willing to hire to train engineers or lawyers either because those are harder to learn (earn licenses) while working at more entry levels.
Is there a way to do C++ without header files?
I wouldn't recommend it as a permanent process, but when I'm sketching things out I often define functions within class definitions in headers. You can almost get to a point where you only have header files, but there are a few caveats (circular dependencies, static member initialization, inlined code size) that prevent me from liking it for bigger projects. But it can be helpful if you haven't finalized interfaces since there is only one place they are defined.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
7mo ago
Definitely some of that. More than a few have been second (or more) generation, and a couple of those have talked about working for their parent's classic immigrant businesses (gas stations, laundromats, that sort of thing), so I don't think their ancestors all arrived with high-tier degrees.
What sort of spin bike are you using? There is a reason serious cyclists (both mountain and road) use "clipless" pedals. The name is historical: it refers to cycling shoes with a cleat that locks firmly into the pedals. For very maximal force efforts, track cyclists then often add straps ("clips") even now.
I've seen spin bikes with the hardware to optionally connect to cleats (usually Shimano SPD mountain bike cleats) on pedals that can also be used with regular shoes. But sometimes they just have flat pedals.
There is probably also something to be said for good technique. Are you having trouble at high cadences/efforts specifically or more broadly?
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
8mo ago
If you look at the national level, it would seem that white emigration from Zimbabwe and South Africa fits this description, but I doubt anyone would describe it as such in polite company.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
8mo ago
there's complaining in the UK
The UK is particularly notable because it's famous for rotten and pocket boroughs, where entire MPs were dedicated to districts with a handful of voters. Granted, those were largely resolved by reforms more than a century ago, but it seems to me the allocation of roughly equal population districts in the US was a reaction to that. And people still complain about the FPTP system in the UK, because the presence of more third parties changes the representation dynamics.
I look forward to reading your effortpost! It sounds interesting.
EDIT: that Foreign Affairs article seems pretty reasonable. Thanks for the link!
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
9mo ago
I could see myself doing that if it was already in written form. If you asked me verbally, or I looked somewhere else, it would be verbal, though.
Definitely an interesting exercise.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
9mo ago
I will admit that the emergence of AI may finally give some interesting answers and maybe closure to philosophical questions about how introspective and abstract philosophy and mathematics are. As much as (some) math claims to be proof pulled from the ontological ether, can the concept of, say, prime numbers be explained to an intelligence with no real-world sensory inputs? Does the notion of counting make sense in an absence of things to count?
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
10mo ago
American citizens are arrested abroad for crimes that are not crimes in America all the time, and beyond some vague consular action that occasionally partially (but not wholly) limits a sentence the US is often fine with it.
Sometimes. But sometimes it causes minor diplomatic incidents: the Executive Branch pulled at least a few strings to get Brittney Griner and Evan Gershkovich home. Or five US citizens imprisoned in Iran. The State Department presumably has some judgement in terms of what they consider "wrongful detention," though.
I'm not sure exactly how I'd tie the concepts together, but somewhere here is the difference between spending that money on, I dunno, a bottle of fine wine and drinking it, and spending that money buying capital assets to make bottles of wine. Intuitively to me, it seems like the latter is "better" even if both nominally contribute to (immediate) GDP equally.
But you're not wrong that if we all spend all our money on vineyards and not finished bottles, the vineyard isn't really a productive investment either. There's probably a Russell Conjugation here: "I buy and experience valuable cultural institutions; you spend money on fleeting entertainment; and that guy over there is a drunk buying wine by the case." And maybe someone's culture values paperclips.
I'd be curious if Real Economists have words for this concept.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
10mo ago
I have wondered if replacing income tax with a tax on expenditures would fix some of these questions. Sure, the rich might accrue huge bank accounts, but money isn't actually useful until it's spent. Something like a flat percentage (or maybe progressive) on anything over the computed cost of living for your family. Sure, this has its own questions: does buying investment assets count? Does it have a negative version of the EITC? Can you pro-rate multi-year expenses? I think you might be able to balance timing expenses pretty reasonably with cumulative lifetime values (math: a conservative vector field, although we could do this with income tax already). How do you deal with cash tips?
Maybe it's more bookkeeping to track expenses, but those are starting to be almost entirely automated systems that could make this feasible. But I'm also not really sure it's a better system, just a different answer to a problem with no ideal solutions.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
11mo ago
why Israel is obligated to continue giving free food water and electricity to a population that enthusiastically showed their desire to rape and murder civilians
This is one thing that gives me pause when people advocate for UBI: I'm sure it could be done better, but our examples in the world of populations that are entirely supported by unconditioned aid seem to, by most objective metrics, fare really poorly (see also Haiti). At some point, it seems like having at least a bit of skin in the game incentivizes thinking on something other than how to destroy the hand that feeds. There is probably an interesting dystopian novel to be written there, somewhere.
Not that the existing systems are otherwise perfect, either.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
11mo ago
Serena does have four Olympic Gold medals for the US, but Phelps has something like 28 total medals. There is something patriotic I can't quite pin down to getting the national anthem played so many times.
On the other hand, the 1980 US Hockey team gets lots of press and movies, and comparatively little goes to Eric Heiden who won the other five American gold medals that year. Sometimes I can't explain the zeitgeist well.
There is presumably some point, which admittedly might be beyond Mars settlement, but I suspect isn't fully, at which a fully closed system becomes viable. For the ISS, it's easy enough to ship up food, oxygen (water) and replacement parts with a couple of months notice. For Mars, those timelines get longer and it is at least worth considering whether you need a full set of replacement parts, or the equivalent of raw materials and a machine shop (common on larger oceangoing ships), or whether a closed-loop environmental system (CO2->oxygen + calories->CO2) makes sense. I'll acknowledge it might not, but a Mars settlement needs to be self-sufficient for at least a few years without Earthside supplies.
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