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Isn't this a little like saying that blindly encouraging the consumption of healthful tree nuts is damaging to people who are allergic to tree nuts?

True, that is, but not at all interesting?
Consolidation should write a new loan from the total of the originals. The rate given would be the current rate. For example, when I consolidated years ago I cut my rate by over half because the rates had simply gone down since I had taken the original loans.
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Nice response and I genuinely feel like my outlook on things, as a writer and story teller, is to summarize in a way that either makes my audience think or smile or pushes a button that is uncomfortable!

The concept of TheSkimm reminds me of my buddy who does amateur political commentary on the US 2016 Presidential Election as WhoWinsIn2016 (YouTube) because he is adamant about not being on any side. He takes the "objective" outlook on the contest as just that - a game. He says the main influence was Hunter S. Thompson, who, when at his best, could be "the most truthful and least factual" guy in the room (quote: George McGovern).

There are a couple avenues using the visual plus verbal construction, and I'd give a hat-tip to the Uproxx contributor who does the NFL summaries with drawings. It's good stuff - funny, commentary, and quick to digest. A close second would be AV Club's "Block and Tackle" feature that uses video clips to great effect.

Long form journalism ain't what it used to be, but I love watching evolution happen!
Model/view/misandry et al's continued hatred of HN suggests to me that the moderation approach doesn't punish thoughtcrime qua thoughtcrime, only actually horrible stuff.

If you don't believe me, you're welcome to go look, but it's not an experience I'd recommend.

(edit: It occurs to me that the last sentence is unclear as to whether I'm referring to showdead or MVM; the answer is 'yes')
Fixed vs growth mindset is BS. It completely misses the point. Find a way to play with whatever it is that you want to learn. The more fun you have, the more you'll almost-magically get better at it. No need to have personal pep talks to convince yourself to go bash your head against the wall one more time.

Whether you can learn isn't the issue, whether you do learn -- and how much time and annoyance you have to put in -- is what matters.
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I want to be clear, is the original wrong here geek culture? The context is a bit tricky and I'm having trouble unpacking this.
But is that really true? Companies like Basecamp seem to do fine with flat to modest growth. Yahoo is a good example, too. It remains a top 5 or 10 property with large revenues and modest profits. And yet it's pretty much considered a zombie.
SF-style widepsread rent control seems like part of the problem to me

You raise a good question. What would rent in SF look like without rent control?

Thinking through the process, I imagine something like:

1. Rent for everyone would have gone up over time

2. Renters would have been slowly forced out as rent increases exceeded their incomes

3. However, it's likely that there would have been a lot more units opening up over time. That likely would have slowed the increase in rent.

I'm certainly not saying that a "no rent control" situation would be ideal, but I'm wondering if it's just made the rent situation in SF much worse than it would have been otherwise.
> From communist china to capitalist Korea, when housing is in short supply, buildings go up.

That's great if it results in housing becoming more affordable. People are putting up housing to sell/rent at newer, higher prices. This achieves nothing for anyone except the person turning a profit.
Of course, a ketogenic diet is quite the shock to the system for the average sugar burner. If you're otherwise healthy, it's usually not a big deal. But if you're using insulin for T2D, blood thinners, etc. and it could be pretty dangerous.

People who are on medications should definitely find a good doctor who knows the full ramifications of a ketogenic diet, and how to taper off medications that treat symptoms reversed by a ketogenic diet.
No: the comment was dramatically edited after I responded to it. You're not missing anything.
I agree 100% with documenting what you did when setting up a system/server. I do this (most of the time) and the ability to go back and look at what was done is invaluable. I just wish I did it more often - I something think something is so obvious that I don’t need to write it down and 6 months later I kick myself for being so lazy!
It started off well, until she started talking about mainframes. So her experience is from the 80ies?
Sounds like bleeding edge commentary.
Except that Minecraft bears only a passing resemblance to Infiniminer, and has always credited its creator anyway.
Bam! And that strengthens my argument. I didn't realize they actually had a lisp embedded.
I just shake my head at:

> Since death is inevitable (either on millions of years or a decades scale)

Think of the difference even a single order of magnitude would make. The Founding Fathers would still be here to settle the arguments about what exactly they meant in this or that amendment when the Supreme Court argues guns or personhood, for instance.

They fact that you completely disregard the difference between decades and millions of years because if someone is eventually going to die anyways, it's all the same....just wow.
First, it has billions in sales, not profit.

But I think it's a good example of a company that makes a lot of sales and profits but because it's not growing like some of its peers is considered a zombie or lame duck. It's the 3rd largest in traffic after all!
Ok, all good points.

The other side is that they moved into a neighborhood that has a certain number of houses in it, and parks. And they of course want it the same as what they paid for.
I don't get something.

There seems to always has been a problem of diversity in tech. Yet US has done just ok with males (white and asian) doing this stuff. Ie better than anybody else in the world.

Why is this a problem (something the writer - who is a literature professor, by the way) considers a given? Is there any proof that increased diversity has any effect (except employment opportunities for the otherwise underrepresented)?
Yes, I was trying to address specifically that I think you are arguing a points with is somewhat orthogonal to the current discussion, because both are using similar terms to mean different things. Your terminology is more correct (you are addressing death as a specific concept, and it's inevitability), while they are addressing age extension, possibly to it's logical conclusion a the end of the universe, but using "death" to denote that, when it's obvious there are other causes of death that cannot be stopped.

In other words, I think there is no real difference of opinion, just a difference in terms making it seem so. This appears to have been exacerbated slightly through your flowery description of your point, which I take to be: "Death of is impossible to stop in the end, and giving the false impression that it is may be harmful. That said, if we can retard it in humans to a large degree, that's useful. Additionally, death serves a useful purpose in many systems, so we shouldn't lose sight of this."
>There’s something innately childish about trying to be the king of cars, space, and trains all at once as well. It’s like he’s picking everything preteen boys might decorate their room with.

My goodness me. What an absurd article. The entire article is just ridiculous.
I vouched for wtbob's comment. It's important to air these concerns in public; some participants in debates on this topic quickly resort to censorship. I read the deleted comment, and in this instance, and in this instance, the deleted comment added nothing to the discussion.
Yep that's an awesome feature. I just don't let the young ones play online, but if they want that group experience then the siblings can all play together but not with the public. Pretty cool.
> Cool, so when are you moving?

When someone goes back in time and convinces the dev not to make the house.
This doesn't sound right. The markets are populated with people who will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to outcompete other firms for sub-penny advantages on trades, and, contrary to popular belief, the largest and most successful of those firms are not making so much money that they're upending the finance industry.

So if somebody is making 8% for doing "absolutely nothing", can you explain why somebody else isn't taking them to the cleaners by offering to do the same nothing for 7.9%?
(My apologies about messing up the quotes. The paragraph stating "> If there was a ..." is from you. The previous two paragraphs are from Wikipedia.)
> People are putting up housing to sell/rent at newer, higher prices

Every high-income tech worker living in an expensive new apartment someone who's not competing for existing housing and driving their prices up.

It doesn't "achieve nothing," it's "how markets work."
"The first criteria means the incentive is to get as many students enrolled as they can, "

"but the second one means that no one will enroll if the school's quality falls off."

that statement needs to be qualified, I think. something like "no one will enrol if the school's quality falls markedly below that of its (also private) competitors"

It doesn't need to be the best, just good enough that parents who live in its catchment area have no incentive to travel further to a different school.

"Hospitals work for care when you have enough time to decide and can look up average costs and results. Certainly not appropriate for car accidents or gunshot victims, but it works if you're getting a early-stage tumor removed and can afford to wait a week."

heh. thats a pretty specific use case.

On an almost entirely unrelated note, it would be interesting to see "hospitals" focused on single purpose delivery....literally birth, or early stage tumors etc....

I bet there would be savings available if certain kinds of treatments were treated along a production line.
$0.25 doesn't really seem like that much of a savings...
USSR was terrible in the way it constrained personal freedom and property, but thats not why it collapsed, the grievances of common people had nothing to do with its collapse at all. I believe a large portion voted to stay in the union. USSR was broken up by top cadres so that each can have a personal fiefdom, it had nothing to do with what the sheeple was bleating.
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Student loans have low rates, slow payback lengths, lenient default terms and government assistance. How are they stacked against the borrower again?
Also, subset of engineering.

In the UK, there's possibly much more of a problem with low/status pay for engineers in general than for women engineers specifically.

Clever women with the right social background head for medicine, law, media, marketing, or even teaching - especially at department head level, and above. That's where the real money and status are. There's also not much of a gender gap to speak of, except perhaps at the very top.

If anything, the gap goes the other way now, because boys in state schools are being aggressively socialised by peer pressure and teacher disinterest away from academic achievement in ways that girls aren't.

Engineers often have poor social status anyway. The UK is run by public school types, and they tend think of engineers as a slightly better class of carpenter or plumber. Social polish and family/school connections are far more valuable than the ability to build stuff that works.
Yep. After a minute or so, either the datacenter's backup generators have started, or something has gone seriously wrong and power won't be restored for quite a while.
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How is it possible that you don't see the problem in this line of reasoning? Do you really not?

Edit: honestly, I'm curious how this mindset comes about. How is it possible to ignore the importance of people being given the opportunity to work wherever they are capable? How is it possible to ignore the impact of being denied access to an incredibly lucrative and glamorous industry? How is it possible to ignore the many ramifications that has on lives and livelihoods?

How would you feel if you were kept out of the tech industry? Would you be placated by sentiments that the industry was seemingly "doing just fine" without you?
True but incomplete. Some of us got interested in scientific fields because we were interested in science (not science fiction). For me, it was a good teacher at a critical time in HS. Not a role model, as I did not and really do not wish to be a teacher. But somebody who opened a door into something that excited me.
The assumption that a neighborhood will not change over 10, 20, 30 years is never an economically-wise assumption.
You're throwing around the term "scam" a little too easily. Berkeley rents obviously have a lot to do with Bay Area rents for the past 20+ years.
While I have no hard evidence for this, I expect we will eventually find that human intelligence and consciousness depends heavily on quantum effects. Thus it will always be impossible to scan and upload a human brain in a way that captures the essence of a person's mind.

Even though I don't think it will ever happen I enjoyed reading the hard science fiction novel "Hegemony" by Mark Kalina. It presents an interesting vision of what life would be like in the far future with mind uploading.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/atomicnovel.php
Author here. Slightly simplifying, a Kleisli arrow is just a function from `A` to `M<B>`, and which is composable, similar to function composition:

Kleisli<M, A, B> + Kleisli<M, B, C> = Kleisli<M, A, C>

Although it is an important part of how the conduits work, it is not strictly necessary for using the library.

Would it help if I clarified that somewhere, or would you rather not read "Kleisli" anywhere in the docs?
80% of German casualties were on the Eastern Front. USSR fought Nazi Germany head on, matching its strength with human resources prior to 1942, and outmatching it technologically past 1942. Submachine guns for every infantryman, a large amounts of good tanks and artillery (including rocket artillery) and passable airplanes led USSR to victory.
> I don't want to blow them on expensive Adwords

As a marketer this bothers me. While I assume I am completely oversimplifying this statement, an ongoing bug bear of mine is business that treats marketing as an expense. Marketing is an investment. It should be treated and monitored as you would your investments. Adwords ads are not expensive, they have a positive or negative ROI/ROMI. It doesn't matter if a click cost $1 or $1,000, its about the following profit you get back from that click. You need to understand how you track + what your avg revenues and margins are. Adwords (and other channels) should never be expensive, they should be positive or negative returning assets.

Your questions;

> Has anyone done this before?
I've on both sides of contracting marketing. It makes sense to pay for specialization if you can earn a reasonable salary elsewhere.

> who do you outsource to?
Depends on what you need? Be careful going cheap. There is no industry accreditation and many people jump in selling promises they cant deliver. ALso yyou sound like you need someone that can advise you as much as 'do as I say' type contractor. Look for experience and someone that can show you specifically why they succeeded when they took of other marketing gigs. Don't go for the cheapest or biggest promise as an absolute.

> What does it cost ?Please share.
As above, you can do affiliate type deals where you only pay for success. Or you may pay $5 to $500/hr depending on what you look for. Try not to go in too light on spend. If you want to spend $500 on advertising anyone decent will cost more than that alone setting up a solid performing campaign. People often test with small amounts, hire some low cost person and then decide 'marketing doesn't work'. You need to do a shotgun type approach where you blast tests across a bunch of channels/approaches, see where the profit pattern is for you to chase. Also when you budget budget a decent spend in addition to a person. I see businesses hire a marketing person and then allocate not budget. Thats a waste of money unless they are literately after a blogger/web developer in one and that's all you want.
"Sustainable" is a very trendy word these days, but the harsh reality is that in most cases it's not up to you. If your business is profitable it will usually attract competitors, and if they are growing and you are not, you will eventually be crowded out. Wal-mart vs. Mom-n-Pop's General Store, in the extreme case.
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I got into computers because they were amazing devices that I could make do things. I have no interest in hardware, other than using it to write software. Tech magazines are reference materials, and as such, aren't all that interesting. Professionally, I managed to combine my academic and hacker interests into spending decades making software that others can use to do THEIR work: solve problems, understand Nature, ...
which is obvious enough just from the muscle atrophied. i don't quite understand why they focus so much on these studies, and by now they should already have a good general idea just from all the men they have sent up.

thankfully it is not hard to build a ship with artificial gravity... you just have to make it big enough and spin it.
I previously owned a Dell XPS-15 from early 2014, The top spec model with high-res touchscreen and quad core i7, and had no end of problems. I wonder if they have resolved the ongoing quality issues that seemed common back then such as coil whine and the amazingly poor battery life from models with a dedicated GPU. The specs seem good though, and the 13" model seems promising.
Your argument seems to be basically: is 2 really a bigger number than 1? We are 1 right now, and the rest of the world is less than 1, so isn't that proof that its better? Show me the studies that prove 2 is better than 1.
It could be, but more commonly it's just a quiet area with fewer amenities for people with more money.
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Confusion arises for a lot of reasons, but cancer definitely isn't a useful analogy to discuss a blog post that starts "Most high-growth businesses..."

It's definitely the metric that counts for the kinds of businesses Andreessen Horowitz cares about.

Microsoft and Yahoo are particularly confusing examples, because they are both very large companies who enjoyed a lot of first mover advantage, but were started almost 20 years apart. And then ended up as very direct competition, before settling down as symbiotic partners. If you really want to use an example from biology, you should look at gut bacteria.
This comment contributes a lot to the conversation.
It appears you received a response here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3od733/structural_an...

You do indeed misunderstand the point about execution composition. Chain loading is indeed configuration-related, not service-related. It's a much more flexible and visible method than internal structures. Delegated restarters then can be deterministic as they reuse process management.

C/R solutions don't require special integration, that's the point. They work on unmodified processes, unlike readiness notification. This is I think a reasonable trade-off for the potential decrease in reliability, as the feature comes with a double advantage of startup optimization and then readiness notification is generally not that critical, in light of regular Unix process semantics. C/R is also constantly improving and reasonably stable for base use cases these days.
It may even just be a SKU for guaranteeing certain spec tolerances requested by Nintendo, or a minor variation in final trim specifications.

@tanakah (Twitter handle) might know something about it, since he wrote one of the earliest NES emulator implementations.
I'm not sure I get why "Moments" are any different than putting a hashtag into the search box and hitting "Live". The only difference I can tell is there are a bunch of auto-looping 3 second video thumbnails when I view "Moments" on Twitter.com

So for me, it's another swing and miss. I'm in the Android beta so I get early access to new stuff and the past 2-3 new features haven't interested me at all: the "While you were away" just gets in my way as I try to scroll, the weird lockscreen "Highlights" tweets are poorly done and unwanted.

The only new thing I've liked is that one twitter account that you follow and it DMs you when a bunch of people you follow all share a tweet or follow a new account; that is actually okay and feels like I'm being summoned to check something out that I'll actually care about.
The Economist? Scientific American? The New Yorker?

Are Time and Newsweek even being published anymore?
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> Why is this a problem

First-order logic: if (A AND ~B -> ~C) AND C, then (~A OR B).

The persistence of the gender gap in technology despite decades of effort to "fix" it is an annoying refutation of the blank-slate theory of human nature on which the entire worldview of many people, particularly gender activists, rests. In other words, if it's simultaneously true that tech is gender-imbalanced and that there is no systemic discrimination involved in this gap, then groups of human being might have innate differences, and acceptance of this fact has far-reaching and upsetting consequences.

Therefore, there must be no gender gap or there must be systemic discrimination. Since the existence of the gender gap is obvious, there must be systemic discrimination, and the pundit class has been on the warpath trying to uphold this narrative and cherry-pick evidence supporting it.
What is your exact definition of advertising for this universal ban?
In other words, correlation DOES imply causation right? And any evidence to the contrary is a conspiracy theory by the 'pundit class'.

Gender bias towards a given domain is a generational problem, like racism or homophobia and so on. Changes do not happen overnight, and because they haven't happened over night does not imply that 'white or asian men are innately better at tech than the other 95% of the population'.
> While I have no hard evidence for this, I expect we will eventually find that human intelligence and consciousness depends heavily on quantum effects.

Agreed, seemingly simple processes like photosynthesis cannot be effective without considering the quantum weirdness at play. Certainly the human brain, one of the most complex systems known to us would also heavily rely on something so foundational as quantum majesteria.
Disagree. In decades past, an acknowledged gay character on a prime-time show would have resulted in advertiser boycotts.
Insane is probably not a useful word in this context. Is it possible that you are suffering from an illness? Of course it is. The internet is not the place to seek a diagnosis. Make an appointment with your primary care provider or a qualified mental health professional. There are a number of illnesses that can manifest themselves in ways archaically referred to as mental. Just keep in mind that everything that happens in your brain is chemical and electrical. If you are having a psychotic break, and believe me I do not mean that as a pejorative but simply as a medical term then you need qualified medical care. When asked, a schizophrenic patient will say when they began to hear voices they were as real to them as their friend talking from the next room. I wish you the best of luck. Get help. If you need treatment, get healthy. These are tough issues. Hang in there.
Lotus didn't make the engine for the Elise. The 'platform' is the chassis/suspension.