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I don't understand why this is being downvoted. I would love if metric were used universally, but I don't really see any difference between that and wanting a single language to be used universally. In fact, the cost of different languages is certainly much higher than different systems of units. Converting between systems of units is just trivial arithmetic after all.

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Sweden has no inheritance or wealth tax.

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I have always been very careful with git histories and often rewrite/squash them before final review/merge. Often my rewritten histories have nothing to do with the original history and commits are logically/intuitively separated and individually testable.

That said, very few people seem to be like me. Most people have no concept of what a clear commit history is. I think it's kind of similar to how most people are terrible written communicators. Few people have any clue how to express themselves clearly. The easiest way to deal with people like this is to just have them squash their PRs. This way you can at least enforce some sanity at review and then the final commit should enforce some standards.

I agree on rebasing instead of straight merging, but even that's too complicated for most people.

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Identification often isn't ever checked when flying within Europe _today_. They just check your ticket.

That said you're certainly not getting near any gates without a ticket in Europe these days either.

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The fact that it's still used in many places obviously means it's not unbearable. Besides if you're bothered by the dust you can use the water cleaning methods described in this very thread. It's not perfect, but I would take a chalkboard over a whiteboard anytime.

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I enjoy using chalkboards so much more than whiteboards. Other than the chalk dust, I just can't understand how anyone would prefer whiteboards over chalkboards.

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The irony is that if Tylenol use in pregnancy actually does increase the risk of autism, RFK's destruction of trust in the government's scientific process will probably just push that sort result back. He's a charlatan and totally unscientific regardless.

Luckily for those of us who care, there are private and foreign government organizations who still take healthcare and science seriously. Unfortunately the only sane solution seems to be to ignore the US authorities on this for the time being.

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> But having a persistent notification to turn on iCloud is good for the user so they don’t lose irreplaceable pictures.

Are you saying it's not okay for a user to decide they just plain don't want it? Why shouldn't be they be allowed to dismiss it permanently?

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Then I think you just don't have much imagination. I have recovered files in /tmp after turning off a machine by booting it back up in single-user mode and accessing the data before it would be cleared in during bootup. Given that "turning off a machine" can also mean "the machine lost power", I can definitely see why people would be surprised by this change.

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I can't speak for the other poster, but I like the idea a lot. Having tools with specific purposes means I can avoid using my phone for everything. No matter what games I play to remove notifications/interruptions/etc. it's always a distraction and easy to be distracted from whatever I originally intended to use the phone for.

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SBF’s actions caused more damage than many violent muggings. If /u/kbos87 would support letting dozens of muggers to go free to (say) halve SBF’s sentence, then I take the argument seriously and will rescind my positions here so far.

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I think treating petty criminals so badly and going easy on white collar criminals is barbaric. A third of his life is nothing compared to the damage he caused. I find it incredible that you would feel sorry for him.

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> Most americans are happy with their employee health plan. Why would they go on strike?

I'm not sure if your claim about most Americans being happy with their healthcare is right or wrong, but that doesn't mean it can't be significantly improved nor that it compares that well internationally:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2071992/

Personally I'd choose the Swedish system over the American system any day. The US healthcare system is probably one of the main things giving me pause about moving back to the US actually.

edit: Americans perception of their healthcare is kind of interesting actually:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/327686/americans-satisfaction-h...

The US has long spent much more per capita than the rest of the world and has had worse outcomes than most (all?) comparable nations. Americans are good at rationalizing away this sort of thing ("we can't have better healthcare because we're fat"), but that's always just seemed to me a psychological defense mechanism more than a rational argument.

But yeah I guess you're right that Americans probably won't go on strike because they're happy enough. I can't really understand why they're happy enough, but I guess they are.

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What 3rd world country do you live in where kids can't walk to school or the bus?

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How can you call it "wasted" when it's up to person preference. You do understand there are people who prefer being awake early instead of late right?

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I thought what you were saying was crazy, but the etymology of "noon" interesting:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/noon

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noon (n.) mid-12c., non "midday," in exact use, "12 o'clock p.m.," also "midday meal," from Old English non "3 o'clock p.m., the ninth hour from sunrise," also "the canonical hour of nones," from Latin nona hora "ninth hour" of daylight, by Roman and ecclesiastical reckoning about 3 p.m., from nona, fem. singular of nonus "ninth," contracted from *novenos, from novem "nine" (see nine).

The sense shift from "3 p.m." to "12 p.m." began during 12c., and various reasons are given for it, such as unreliability of medieval time-keeping devices and the seasonal elasticity of the hours of daylight in northern regions. In monasteries and on holy days, fasting ended at nones, which perhaps offered another incentive to nudge it up the clock. Or perhaps the sense shift was based on an advance in the customary time of the (secular) midday meal. Whatever the cause, the meaning change from "ninth hour" to "sixth hour" seems to have been complete by 14c. (the same evolution is in Dutch noen).

From 17c. to 19c., noon sometimes also meant "midnight" (the noon of the night).

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Of course the meaning of the word centuries ago doesn't really matter much for what people think about the word today, but it's interesting none the less.

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Yeah the attitude doesn’t really make any sense. How does the license preclude them looking at the code? They can even download it, compile it, and even run it _without_ accepting the license. They only need to care about the license if they decide for distribute it.

CogitoCogito

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Why talk in such generalities? Look at the github repo. There are only three committers to Casey's repo. I'm sure Microsoft could manage to contact them. I'm also quite sure that Microsoft has the money to entice a commercial license if they so wish.

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Are we actually in disagreement? I could just as well describe math as "deciding where and at what level to allocate partial structure..." in the same way. Mathematical researchers also build intuition over time allowing them to see certain big picture ideas more easily.

If I really take a step back and re-think this whole thread, I'd say the main different between mathematical researchers and programmers is just incentives. Funding and output are just fundamentally measured differently and the work is done very differently with respect to cooperation with others.

Still I'd say that the thing holding back mathematicians from being good developers is simply that research mathematics does not provide development experience.

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> Being good at math requires being able to solve problems whose solutions often do not have any practical uses or whose practical uses may not be clear to you. This is very different from how software problems should be approached.

I don't really agree. Being good at mathematical research requires recognizing the "core organization structure of a system" and solving the "core problem at hand". I'd argue that it's essentially the same in programming (and business) as well. The main difference is that a mathematical researcher is able to ignore non-pertinent information, while in practice those issues (usually) need to be dealt with.

That said I wouldn't say that PhDs (math or otherwise) make great developers. Their skill in development is a result of experience in developing software within the software industry and not something they gain simply due to "being intelligent" or by working on their on on their POC research implementations. But I'd point out that it's basically the same for professional software developers as well.

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