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My background is film production, which is an industry that I think has really tested the limits of how many hours a person can work without dying. If a film shoot could work their crew more hours, they would, but at a certain point your crew will die in car accidents on their way to and from set due to sleep deprivation. See a documentary called "Who Needs Sleep?" for more on that.

Thanks to unions in the film industry there are rules about how many hours a crew can work in a day without the production incurring very expensive overtime penalties. For example, once an actor is on set for 16 hours, they hit what is called "Golden Time" and they are paid their full day rate every hour. There's also a 12 hour turnaround for actors, meaning that if an actor is wrapped at 8pm, they can't be called to set until 8:00am the following day (there is a 10 hour turnaround time for crew).

Film shoots are extremely time-sensitive endeavors. You might only have rented a location for one day, so there is a lot of pressure to shoot everything you need for the movie at that location, no matter how far overtime the production must push their crew. This would quickly get out of control if overtime rules were not stringently enforced.

The result is that every day of a film production is scheduled down to the minute before the day even begins, ideally. Night crews and swing-shifts get scheduled, rather than working a crew for 24 hours straight, again ideally.

My point is that it is possible to do time-sensitive, high-pressure, complicated work without pushing people past their physical limits. It just requires tons of planning and scheduling. However the only way to get an employer to put resources into planning and scheduling is to make sure that there are incentives (or disincentives) for them to behave this way. There must be strict financial penalties that prevent employees at banks from working too many hours. A 29 year-old banker getting a $400,000 bonus is not going to tell his employer that he needs to leave the office by 7pm anymore than an aspiring Hollywood actress is going to tell her director that the crew must stop shooting because it is past her bedtime. In certain industries, where jobs are highly sought after and rewards are large, you cannot depend on workers to regulate themselves.
When people get cancer they usually get more concerned about their legacy. Whether denial or not how Steve Jobs choose to spend his last years tells us something. Bill Gates is the real deal when it comes to philanthropy. Not only directly, but by founding the giving pledge with Warren Buffet. They made giving away your wealth cool.

I think people who feel a relationship to Steve Jobs are doing what they are accusing other of, making him into someone he wasn't.
Also, I have to say, sending kids to school abroad is one thing. But relocating your whole family to another country with no plans for them to ever return is quite another thing.

They have plan to earn (or steal) just enough money for them and their offspring to continue living in "normal country" when the time comes.
I don't understand. Why place the order before confirming the prices? Why not just put it on the site and save the text? A service like this refusing to give me a price until an order is placed will make me a bit suspicious and leery from a consumer's perspective.

Why the secrecy on the prices of these avocados? I don't get it.
By pushing the logic into the client. See https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues and https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/40 for example.
Could a very strong laser potentially work for this?
> One is that they see finance jobs as desirable jobs, focus their whole lives up to that point on getting the job, get it - and find it's horrible. What do you do then? Do you go back to all the people who were really proud at your achievements and tell them you're a failure?

One would hope that people in finance would understand the concept of sunk costs. Today is always the first day of the rest of your life. It's better to fail fast than to fail later, because you can get back to success and happiness faster.
A completely neglected key factor is that it costs much less energy to manufacture recycled materials than virgin materials.

'A study ... found that it takes 10.4 million Btu to manufacture products from a ton of recyclables, compared to 23.3 million Btu for virgin materials. In contrast, the total energy for collecting, hauling and processing a ton of recyclables adds up to just 0.9 million Btu. The bottom line: We don't need to worry that recycling trucks are doing more harm than good.' - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a3736/42...
Her email and tweet kind of speak for themselves, don't they?
Huh. Some of that sounds a bit like those "deep dream" pictures from that neural network Google was experimenting with.
> Gates held the entire computer industry back

The industry does this job well by itself, I doubt things would be much different if Microsoft wasn't around.

> What he does with ill-gotten gains

Yet all transactions that contributed to his gains were voluntary.
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Granted, I don't ride a crabon super-bike, as my tastes and budget are a bit more proletarian. And if you want to see today's tech on one of my bikes, you might have to wait a decade or three. Still, an issue is that for many cyclists, there's no clear dividing line between exercise, recreation, and utility. I want all three, at once! All other things being equal, a lighter bike is more fun to ride.
Campagnolo attaches such a code to their wheels: http://www.campagnolo.com/WW/en/Support/certilogo
Sometimes the best conversations we have, are the ones with ourself
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> Google's cars have it.

I had to look this up, not because I didn't believe you but just to verify and read about the reasoning behind it.

The main point I got is that breaking the speed limit intentionally is done to match other speeding traffic and thus not cause a hazard by going slowly relative to everyone else on a section of road.

Whether or not this makes sense, I find it completely unbelievable that this will be explicitly allowed by regulations in basically any country, as a completely autonomous strategic decision by the car's computer.

Perhaps I could see it being 'allowed' as an option to be manually toggled by a human - in the same way that most current road-legal cars have the capability to reach speeds way beyond the limit and yet remain legal.

The law wouldn't explicitly allow this option to be used, but it of course would be, and a blind eye would be turned in cases where it's obviously not a problem, and prosecutions against the human who enabled the option would occur in cases where it is - in other words how speeding laws are currently enforced.
The More the Merrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_Games

There's some rock throwing in this latest book in the Expanse series. You'd want to read the earlier books beforehand though. (They are worth reading anyway.)
So, a tip for you - Chilean avos are Counter Seasonal. So, when they're not ripe here in CA, they are down in the Southern Hemisphere. ;)

(Avos are so good I just took four camping this weekend.)
The avocados you show on the website are not ripe.
There were a lot of really interesting English social customs that are recorded from that Tudor/Stuart period. Between all the cuckolds horns, shrews, scolds, and conflicts between Catholics, Anglicans and the Puritan/Quaker/other protestant splinter groups, there's a lot of bizarre-seeming rituals that people undertook. Not to mention accusations of witchcraft.

One of the better books I read in my coursework on early modern England was Fire From Heaven, which covers a bunch of this stuff (http://amzn.to/1VzJn8r)

One I came across recently, reading one of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels was the practice of wife selling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom))
Andrew Fulford raises the same point in his criticism of Feser's post - https://calvinistinternational.com/2015/07/14/feyerabend-and... - thus beginning a back-and-forth with Feser which lasts for several posts - see http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/empiricism-and-so... - I found it an interesting read, although I've always been very sceptical of sola scriptura (unsurprising given I was raised Catholic)
Why not just include a bid with your order? If you know you can get avocados for $2 each at the store near you, and you want to buy 10 near-ripe avocados, why not include a bid with your request? Eg. "I want to buy 10 near ripe avocados, can you do that for < $25 shipped?"

If they aren't listing prices, you should take that as an opportunity to haggle and get a deal.
Hey, _prometheus!

What's an email I can reach you at? I'd like to pick your brain about some of this stuff and how it relates to databases.

Cheers!
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I was on Wall Street in the 1980s. Things weren't that bad yet. I was the only stock analyst in a department of ~50 who routinely pulled all-nighters, which was one of many reasons I was considered odd. There was only one guy who definitely flamed out on cocaine, and only a few others of whom debilitating substance abuse could even be reasonably suspected.

And I'm pretty sure that investment banking wasn't all that much worse.
The Python code is mostly clear and beautiful. Just one small wish: please use collections.deque() instead of showing an O(n) insertion into a list using "deck[0:0] = [card]".
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On the local machine that is about to be on fire?
Fair enough but it's mostly just whole foods and quite a bit better than a lot of people's diets.
I get your point, but this thing is many, many orders of magnitude smaller than a planet.
Arthur C. Clarke's 'The Hammer of God'
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Two serious mistakes of character in his entire life, both of which he more than made amends for (which you failed to mention), and both of which took place while he was young and under stress. Not bad.

Now list the mistakes you've made in your life and let's see how you compare...
What I find really curious is that how, at every decade, we were living in "modern" times. We were living in "modern times" in 1950's, in the 1970's, in the 90's and now in 2015. It means that we are living in "recent times" with "recent discoveries", but does it mean anything?

Other thing I have found curious is when people ask things like, "Ghosts? Do you believe ghosts in 2015?", no really, what do we know about ghosts not existing, in 2015 that we don't know in 1900? It is as if people assume that, since we have been searching for things like this for 100s of years, and we haven't found them, they should not exist at all. People seem to assume that we are standing in a room where we can see the bounding walls, when in reality we are standing in a mist with very limited visibility and we have no idea where the walls are...

Periods like 'a year' is just an arbitrary time span. It which is big from human perspective. A 100 year span is big in terms of human existence. It might be a blink of an eye for another being which experience time differently. So I think It is a fallacy to attribute such time periods some kind of absolute size, and make assumptions on that basis..
Yep, seems more like pure fiction without even much effort put into it, just that some things turned out semi-true.
It was neither misogynist nor homophobic. It was, however, a really really bad idea.
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I didn't see the comment but sounds ill-informed. I can walk to Trader Joe's but that's not the point at all. First, it's figuring out what you want to eat. Then finding a recipe. Then getting the ingredients. Then figuring out the recipe since there's so much inconsistency on recipe quality. Etc. Blue Apron is $10/portion which is pretty reasonable. The recipes are easy to follow and fairly healthy. We don't get much choice but have been very pleased so far with all the meals for 6 months or so. I've picked a few which I can now prepare by myself with good results. One of the reasons I like Blue Apron vs Din (even though Din meals are much better) is that I actually do feel like I am learning to cook from scratch.
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Native advertising is a reserved word at this point, signifying advertising pretending to be any other article in a publication, differentiated from the work of the organization's actual journalists only by a tiny disclaimer, if that.

Advertising from a computing platform itself should probably have a name, but not that one.
I skimmed Gruber's piece and it was written with the reverence of someone who understands tech and design, as well as something about Apple. The Isaacson book was massive, so I am sure there are some points to dispute or interpret, however I feel it was a pretty good appraisal given some of the interviews of jobs, woz, gates, etc, reading Isaacson and Return to the Little Kingdom, and general other tid bits. I don't think it was a hatchet job at all but a tribute to the man who had been part of making a huge piece of tech and hunan history. It just underscored that with his humanity. I quite liked it, although Isaacson's prose and depth are somewhat trying. Job's really was a social engineer and he and Woz are both amazing individuals.

Edit: just to add, I think Gruber had some valid opinions, but even if correct, don't really discount the larger corpus produced by Isaacson.
Why the Techno-Optimists Are Wrong
3D real-time debugging and function call structure in Python
Ebay so you get some buyer protection. Direct if you are comfortable.

I don't follow the scene much anymore. For specific recommendations, spend some time reading the (many) forum threads in http://forums.roadbikereview.com/bikes-frames-forks/
Your call. I'd change it now before the business grows. Besides, a more generic name would better support expanding your offerings beyond avocados.

Fruits and veggies available at most markets suck. Quality and taste is horrible. Sell quality produce guaranteed to taste great and people might beat a path to your door. Just don't call it what you are calling it. "Ralphs" could have been a plumbimg company. Pick something less descriptive and more brandable.

Like it or not the hispanic population consumes a lot of avocado. Don't get off the line with a name that diverts a huge chunk of your potential audience from your value proposition. It's a mistake.

Free advise, for what it's worth.
It seems tabloidish, and I'm surprise that WSJ ran it. I expected a more diplomatic discriptor: "According to leaked documents."
What does a venture capital firm’s operational budget look like?
San Francisco's last gun store is closing
There is some super nice rock throwing in this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prador_Moon
The thing that scares me is anything which eliminates the fissile isotope production as a step. Everything else is essentially trivial and could probably be done covertly or brazenly by a state or even a well resourced non-state actor.

Fission-free fusion is probably not realistic at this point (but, if it were developed, would be terrifying), but I think the technology curve for some form of laser isotope separation is disconnected from "special nuclear stuff" and much more "advances in mainstream science.

I'm completely amazed there hasn't been an openly documented theft of either nuclear materials or weapons and subsequent nuclear declaration by a new state or non-state. It seemed self-evident that would happen post-USSR collapse. I suspect some combination of luck and extremely good work by the IC in both Russia and non-Russia had a lot to do with that. Plus, the states most likely to want the weapons already had other pathways, although it's always possible something like the Pakistani or NK or Iranian program "launders" stolen material through some other more overt pipeline, using a "completely working, honest" enrichment process to cover for it. But the isotopic mixes are identifiable, so we'd know once they detonated where material came from.
The buck stops with the shareholders.
In this case, wouldn't any risk of a butterfly effect causing an asteroid to hit us be offset by the chance of a butterfly effect accidentally deflecting an asteriod off of a colission course.
I figure the main difficulty lies in the "economics" part of "home economics". There's a huge efficiency difference between "cooking every day" and "only cooking occasionally". The only way to benefit from cooking at home is if you accept the ongoing cost of keeping essentials stocked. Then, you have to accept that you're going to waste a considerable amount of money and time while you're learning to cook. When I started, it sometimes took an hour or more to get food on the table because I hadn't figured out mise en place. Then, when I did, I ruined more than one dish because I lost track of things and something got overcooked or burnt. Finally, I've had a certain amount of food go to waste because of bad planning- perhaps I bought too much for the week, and then went shopping the next week without keeping the existing "stock" in mind.

These are all huge stumbling blocks- especially when it's so easy to just order take-out, which will at least be consistently edible, with the added bonus of not resulting in wasted ingredients.

What ultimately turned it around for me was when my girlfriend and I decided to fully commit to cooking at home, and went and spent $150 on groceries- but instead of buying ingredients, we bought pantry essentials. Flour, sugar, baling powder, baking soda, cornmeal, table and kosher salt, seasonings, potatoes, rice, pasta, and so on. Not to mention an initial stock of perishable basics: onions, garlic, lemons, limes, milk, butter, eggs, and cheese.

While it left a dent in our wallet at the time, it turned out to be a game-changer. We found that it was immensely easier to plan meals, because we already had half the ingredients of any given recipe.

This is a huge societal problem, in my opinion. I'm a pretty privileged dude when it comes down to it, and I was able to absorb the inefficiency of not being able to cook at home while still eating pretty healthy food. Furthermore, I was able to get over the hump of figuring out how to cook on my own, because I had the resources to absorb the inefficiency of learning how to do it.

What about the folks that can't?
Nice demo! And thanks for the code reference. :)

It seems very tightly coupled to Lux; it would have to be re-implemented for ThreeJS, StackGL, MathBox, Pixi, etc.

Gamma and glslify are great ways of modularizing GLSL. I don't feel that modular WebGL is a solved problem, though.
Podcast about IPFS with Juan Benet: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/08/25/interplanetar...
Why it doesn’t matter that YOU don’t want self-driving cars
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That's amazing! Thank you for the tip :)
So you agree that it's sometimes considered an insult? Isn't that bad enough?

I like your candor, guard-of-terra, and I think you bring a valuable perspective. I don't want to see you banned. Please try to hear what I'm saying about the way you express yourself.
It's an idea as old as Xanadu, which predates the web by decades:

http://www.xanadu.com/

But see also:

- BitTorrent's Project Maelstrom

- GNUnet

- Tahoe-LAFS

- MaidSafe

- MojoNation, the technology that inspired BitTorrent

...just to name a few.

The problem with these systems is they don't provide a whole lot of compelling benefits over the regular web, and generally provide a worse user experience.

Solving the UX problem is the real hurdle to adoption.
>> Why the secrecy on the prices of these avocados? I don't get it

> We do text the prices upon confirming an order, it depends on quantity and location.

If you are really that price conscious, you probably shouldn't be using SF-based delivery services (or be living in SF) in the first place.
They need to address this. I hope Google doesn't feel that blocking trackers is like "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".
I made this to automate some tedious tasks when I am playing a game. Read pixel values from the screen -> compare with the preset -> make decisions.

Draw feature was added to help me collect presets and build the automation.
So you're saying that although user growth is slowing, bandwidth growth is accelerating? I'd like to see your figures for that; although I'm sure that bandwidth use is growing, I doubt it's growing faster than it was 15 years ago.
I meant to imply that, but I guess I wasn't clear enough.

I hadn't realized 100 hours was the norm though. That is a significant increase over 80.
The law doesn't allow you to speed, and tickets you if you do. The law does not require your cruise control or throttle block you from speeding if you choose to do so. Yes, you need it to not be a hazard to traffic (as you would be at 65mph on I-280) but also because if you don't allow it, then people in a hurry will switch to manual driving to go fast, thus reducing safety overall.

It's not "allowed" by regulations. The regulations simply don't speak to it. But in Canada, for example, speed limiters in cars were found to violate the constitutional rights of drivers!
European or African butterflies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Harlequin%27s_Moon

suspended animation interspersed with patiently building a habitable environment out of asteroids & comets.
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