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Choice is certainly under-rated and we take it for granted in the Western world.

Supermarket choice is a triumph of capitalism and choice should be celebrated. Consumer choice may have even been a major driver in taking down centrally planned economies.

Boris Yeltsin while visiting a supermarket in Houston:

> Yeltsin, then 58, “roamed the aisles of Randall’s nodding his head in amazement,” wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, “there would be a revolution.”

About a year after the Russian leader left office, a Yeltsin biographer later wrote that on the plane ride to Yeltsin’s next destination, Miami, he was despondent. He couldn’t stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.

In Yeltsin’s own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall’s, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits. Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia. You can blame those frozen Jell-O Pudding pops.

“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,” Yeltsin wrote. “That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.” [0]

[0] http://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-...
I also know plenty of people who find lack of choice debilitating. Ramanujan - an Indian living in the UK was debilitated by the absence of Idlis. (In the modern world, Tesco has him covered.) I'm certainly unhappy in northwest Delhi when I can't find a decent dosa, pasta or croissant [1].

Minorities exist, and some of them really need those choices that paralyze your girlfriend. I think a better solution is for your girlfriend to learn coping skills than for my ex-girlfriend to suffer with Indian shampoo that doesn't work for African hair.

[1] Or at least such things are 1.5 hours away in Khan market.
Any other intepretation requires new, undiscovered physics. You have to make additional assumptions in order for the equations of quantum mechanics not to give rise to many world.
If they can come up with a variant on this that is specific to arsenic, the implications for Pakistan are huge.

http://www.dawn.com/news/356241/lahore-high-arsenic-concentr...
i hate, hate, hate, hate google tag manager

show me a google analytics setup with seriously screwed numbers, and i show you a site which loads GA via google tag manager..

people tend to think that they can bundle all the third party crap into their webpages with google tag manager and that there would not be any costs (to the project, to the user). this is wrong, google tag manager adds a whole new level of abstractions and issues.

my tip: reduce third party crap that you don't need. implement them async into your code. regularly remove crap that you don't use.
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No doubt Barry Schwartz has never lived without choice. He's wrong, and obviously so. Freedom of choice is vastly superior, in every possible way, to the alternative.

A nicer Soviet-era grocery store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWTGsUyv8IE

The stories are overly plentiful of people that were held in low-choice captivity in the former USSR, breaking down in tears upon seeing western grocery stores. I know several people who lived under Communism in Romania, their experience was identical. I'd suspect that very few people arguing against choice, have ever lived in a situation where they were actually deprived of it. They're essentially spoiled brats.
$6m to $1.2b cost overrun. That must be some type of record.
That's too bad. I really like the concept of Google Tag Manager.

Are there are any "tag bundlers" that work? It seems like such a great idea.
And it adds this whole world-collapsing unnecessary machinery that has no practical applications or physical evidence. I myself would prefer Bohmian mechanics if we had to choose a single interpretation. Moreover, it's possible to define a non-stochastic version of the theory (no gods playing dice), which would explain QM somewhat like Classical Mechanics explains Thermodynamics; and it's falsifiable by looking for non-equilibrium conditions (admittedly those conditions will be very hard to achieve).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_non-equilibrium
I'm an in house dev for a financial company - if you really want to "stress test" a financial institution turn off Excel for a week and you'll find all the things you never realised people were doing.
I've been bitten far too frequently to ever believe what the product owners says a process is, there's always a spreadsheet somewhere used to work around the existing system...
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"I found them the most closer to reality." So I guess left-handed people are not real?
The benchmark suited used the STDLIB json parser which is slow as hell. How slow is it? In 2011 there was a proposal to deprecate it, which never happened [1].

Why? STDLIB parser loads the file line-by-line, then copies line by line into a new buffer that joins the strings together. Then the parser is called. The Scala community normally circumvents by using non-standard community developed solutions.

Furthermore JIT vs Compiled language benchmarks are pretty unfair to JIT'd languages. Especially for the JVM which doesn't start to compile sections until >10,000 calls.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/scala-user/P7-8PEUUj...
The idea of re-nationalising the rail network is actually quite popular:

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/05/11/why-do-people-support-r...

NB I just learned about this yesterday - and was quite surprised. In that respect Corbyn might actually be tapping into a genuine change in public opinion.
I switched to Blackberry one year ago after a lifetime of iPhone and I will never go back. BB kills it with the UI and BB Hub- best experience I ever had. I know BB is not hip but who cares. My 2 cents.
I can assure you that there's a whole culture of Americans that aren't loud, but they don't tend to travel the world or congregate in big cities, and aren't much represented on TV except as gross caricatures.
What do you mean?

On a LAN you can simply use zeroconf with multicast DNS to do service discovery, like how Apple does with Airplay. Or am I missing some requirement?
It wouldn't.

But calling out e.g. fashion magazines who promote it for not recognising its history, or for celebrating it as "fresh" when it appears on white women, when it's an old, well established style, is another matter.

Imagine the potential for different reaction if said magazines instead went with "we were wrong to dismiss cornrows; here are some great examples" and showed a mix of past and new pictures with a focus on black women instead of, or next to, the pictures of white women wearing them.
This is how I think about it (don't take my word for it, I don't really understand QM)

QM is like lazy evaluation. The result is not computed until someone actually forces it. This is different from the result being computed but you just don't know what it is.

Another way is to think of entangled states is like two virtual addresses which alias to the same physical address. The addresses could be very far apart (similar to entangled particles being very far apart), and their contents are coupled but "uncomputed", until one of the virtual addresses is accessed, faulting in the physical page. At this point, both addresses instantly point to the same contents.
seems like a decent rebuttal but it would be interesting to see the wsj pick it up and respond.
To be honest, I get anxious when choosing a company to buy my rail ticket. Not to mention the whole horrible process of trying to find a suitable ticket. Splitting journey's etc, trying to work out the cheapest route etc. That's in the UK.

And I have a feeling of dread each year when it's time for broadband renewel. I can waste a couple of hours going through the options. Then present choices to my partner, who will most likely do the same.

Agree it's an article about decision paralysis/fatigue, with some tenuous examples/zeitgeist links.
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I feel like i need to make a comment just to re-emphasize how incorrect that statement by FT is.
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Have you tried mpv?
The final quote supports what you say:

“We can open the garage door from anywhere in the world,” she says. “I’m not sure why we’d need to do that.”

But I think there is also some ambivalence about even having the garage door connected there. I think lots of people would pay a little extra for a garage door that they can check from their phone, but it is something that has to be really easy to install and use, and the number of people who would pay is going to drop off quickly as the price goes up.
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I've been using cmus for a few months now. After trying countless music players on Linux and feeling frustrated that none of them ever felt right, cmus was the first one I thought I could get used to. In fact, I think it's the first project where I'd rather contribute new things than try to find a new project where more things feel right. So if I ever find the effort, I'll see about digging through the code and adding a couple things.
To elaborate a bit, Copenhagen Interpretation of QM states that the cat is both alive and dead. It will only settle down on a form, dead or alive, once we observe it. You could read farther on the subject [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation#Cons...
"Who wouldn’t rather choose to lie in a bath of biscuits playing Minecraft?"

Indeed!
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This guy speaks the truth.

I chuckled at that line too. Rocket Internet is toxic and their culture is poisonous. They tend to copy the hilariously worst ideas from Silicon Valley and believe that only hustle and posing will lead you to success.

People outside Germany should stop glamorizing them.
> Supermarket choice is a triumph of capitalism and choice should be celebrated.

And yet they were found to be price rigging in the UK.
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In practice, relying on a clearly defined mathematical problem that is thought to be hard to solve has worked out a lot better than the common alternative of throwing a bunch of random shit together and hoping the result is too complex for anyone to understand.

For asymmetric cryptography there is no alternative not based on math. Even snake oil cryptography mostly deals in symmetric crypto like "unbreakable" ciphers and hashes, because you can't make a working asymmetric encryption scheme by mashing together whatever operations your schizophrenia tells you to.
Magic Leap is just setting itself up for an even bigger disappointment than everyone seems to be experiencing with HoloLens' highly limited field of view. The company is promising the moon here, without making any apparent concessions to limitations of the technology.

If they would just under-promise, I'm sure people would be blown away when they first try Magic Leap. The way they're going, though, disappointment is almost certain.
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I'd like to hear from someone who got fat eating too many vegetables that weren't covered in oils or other toppings.
You are correct. In my country the services are abismal and corruption is rampant. I guess in Denmark there are better morals and/or a sane idealism and services are better.
Culture plays a fundamental role.
Straight TCP connect() support (to an internet hostname) is much more common in embedded network stacks than a zeroconf implementation.
> infinite parallel universes

That's a pretty uncharitable interpretation of it. If you look at the actual physics, MWI is incredibly simple: the wavefunction just evolves as the wavefunction evolves. That's it. There's some amplitude over here, and there's some amplitude over there, and this possibility and that possibility are mutually exclusive etc (with some "weird" quantum correlations, of course.)

The Copenhagen interpretation's "wavefunction collapse" is just like a Bayesian update -- the wavefunction you're left with is like a conditional probability. Maybe it makes you happy to throw away the "other universe" bits of the wavefunction and normalise probabilities on your own branch, but you obviously don't have to, and any discussion of when the collapse happens (or worse, whether it's a physical process that propagates across the universe faster than light) is obviously very silly business.
What about the Greeks being outraged about the name of the country of Macedonia?
> Supermarket choice is a triumph of capitalism and choice should be celebrated.

Supermarket choice is often largely the illusion of choice -- the same product (substantively, and often literally, made in the same facility to the same specifications) in different packaging
This service seems squarely aimed at mobile users- blocking ads and allowing YouTube to play in the background are two functionalities that are already enabled on desktop (with the addition of a browser-based adblocker). I'll be honest, it took me a minute or two to wrap my head around paying money to block ads on YouTube since I already do that with a browser extension.

Is YouTube really that popular on mobile? With Netflix and Spotify already having mobile apps I don't see many people paying $10 a month for the ability to skip ads and play YouTube music in the background. And as for "exclusive YouTube content" it makes zero sense to have the same monthly fee as Netflix and somehow think that PewDiePie is going to compete with Orange is the New Black or House of Cards.
Why is the title editorialized? There is no serious medical condition here, well unless you count delusion.
I like Plex except the authentication.
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Pretty cool of them to hire the mpv guy. Hopefully they'll continue to improve it.
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This is really nice and all, but only bored billionaires can afford the kind of data plan you need for movie watching. Ripping DVDs (legally) is still much cheaper. And I can store them offline where I want.
That plus the parsing is done in SIMD so even in UTF-8 you're processing 4 unicode points per CPU cycle [1], instead of 1 in most traditional parsers.

[1] This is a board generalization not necessarily true for all SIMD opcodes.
one possibility might be to let beets handle all the music organization while cmus just leverages that to provide different views on that data using beets.

just a separation of concerns really...
Yes, its built in now: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/

Of course a database rollback may loose information from any newly created fields.
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Note that these are mostly benefits for Apple, not for the consumer.

As a consumer, I need a 256GB SSD and 16GB ram. My only choice is to spend $2000 on other macbook pro features I don't need. When I went with a custom PC builder instead (lots of choices - first pick the chassis, then pick the CPU, then pick the RAM, then pick the disk), I got what I needed for $1300.

I don't often bill out at $700/hour (probably the total time I spent on this choice), so Apple's lack of choice certainly wouldn't have helped me.
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But this is not lack of choice. It's lack of availability. Wouldn't one good brand of pasta solve most of your pasta needs? Do you really feel like you'd still be unhappy unless you had 10 shapes of pasta each made from one of three different grains, each available from two or three different brands?
URL looks intentionally misleading, not clicking. Title says "Google" but URL is "googe"

Assuming malicious.
Why buy an electric bike if we can transform that one we have
I could explain it as "More choices increases possibility space and in turn increases effort required to make a decision. And incomplete consideration leaves the feeling that you may have made not the most optimal decision, and both cases increases stress."
I assume you are referring to the mathmatician. It's odd because reading what you said makes me think I'd rather a diversity of product types, but I care less about having more than one of each type. Having said that, Tesco stock a Jamaican stout (Dragon), and for about a year, they didn't stock it. And it intrinsically annoyed me. They did replace with a like product after a while (Guiness version), but I didn't like that.

Which makes me aware that you can get fussy over different brands/tastes. Beer is a good example actually.

There was something that really bugged me about being offered the product and then having it withdrawn, it's replacement wasn't enough.
On the one hand I agree that networking with other founders is pretend work that's easier than the real work of finding customers. On the other, my read of the question is that the goal is to overcome the disadvantage of a narrow network of which solo founding is a symptom. While there are people who can solo found a startup, there are people who can't and among those people some, though not all that should, realize that the first hurdle to creating a probable successful startup is expanding their network to include viable potential cofounders.

The analogy to YC's alumni network would be that YC alumni from different initial companies sometimes join together to form new companies or go to work for successful YC companies based on network effects.

That said, I don't at all disagree that product and customers are in general much more important than networking with other entrepreneurs. That doesn't mean that for some people finding a cofounder isn't a priority or that expanding a professional network could not be more important "right now" for long term success. Logistics also matter...so long as they don't displace head down determination to work like a rented mule.
Hm, looks really cool, but I'm running into issues with it and cw (color wrapper - http://cwrapper.sourceforge.net)

[edit] Fixed - to fix yours edit /usr/local/lib/cw/ping and comment everything but these lines:

#!/usr/local/bin/cw
path /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:<env>
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I think Kimsufi works pretty well. I think their data cap is 5tb a month for about £10, so it's hardly bored billionaire status.

EDIT - Unless you meant consuming from mobile, in which case I pretty much agree.
1972 marked the change from Gross HP to Net HP ratings.

Before the change, they would test the engines with no accessory drive, not even a water pump, use headers instead of a full exhaust, and adjust the carburetor/ignition to provide the best numbers per RPM on the dyno instead of reflecting what the engine actually did in the car.
Because too much choice seems like an intuitive negative heuristic, because it contradicts the fundamental Nature's way to avoid redundancy.
Perception is reality. I'm not a psychologist but if someone is fooling themselves into thinking they're consuming a better product, so much so that they actually pay a premium for that product, who are you to say that it's not "substantially" better? The connection many people have in consumption is very personal. Imagine someone telling you their spouse is better than your own in all objective criteria.

I've heard (although can't verify) that products were differentiated in the Soviet Union by where they were made. So essentially, the consumer would have a choice of "factory 1 shampoo", "factory 2 shampoo" and so on. Meaningful? Sure, but seems silly to me.
I liked it. Honest and quick read on how to present yourself.
I'm definitely not a bored billionaire. $50/month for high speed in Canada (which already has awful rates!) and it works fine.
I'm a bored millionaire and I can afford it... Jokes aside, what are you talking about?
That may be true where you are. In the UK I'm paying £17 a month for unlimited 4G data.
That doesn't really explain the mechanics of the splitting process.

It's "And to explain this, we postulate that a whole new universe appears fully formed out of nowhere, with an identical history but a distinguishable future, because it does."

I suppose it's possible. But it doesn't seem very parsimonious - because you effectively have to double the energy in the multiverse for every distinguishable quantum event.

Does conservation of energy not apply in the multiverse? Are universes - as many as you need - free at point of sale?
Other companies swamp you with choice. Hotpoint washing machines come in loads of different forms. And I'm sure for most people, they don't really care. I'm not quite sure about the logic behind this. Have you a better chance of getting more products on the shop floor?
There were no big flaws in Bayern's game that day. Arsenal sat deep specifically to shut down what muller and lewandowski could do, but I wouldn't call that exploiting. In fact Arsenal didn't really 'exploit' or target any aspect of Bayern's game (it's hard to find flaws against "top top class" teams anyway), they were just really well disciplined and played some really good high tempo counter attacks. The lay-low and counter attack was just a good gameplan, not really an 'exploit'.

But Bayern still mostly dominated and played really well. Arsenal's goal was mainly due a horror error by Neuer, he really should have caught or punched that. (Yes it's a set piece so anything can happen, but other than Walcott's header, Sanchez's chance and Giroud's late header from a corner, I don't really remember many more threatening set pieces, so Neuer should have really dealt with that, especially after the Walcott save.)

The only 'flaws' that Bayern had were that they didn't finish. Costa should have scored. Lewandowski should have scored maybe twice even though it was a quiet game for him by his standards. (Sanchez's mistake was what lead to Costa's chance on goal too.)

That last goal by Ozil was really just more of a case of Bellerin being a freak surprisingly right at the end of the match rather than Arsenal specifically exploiting anything. Arsenal was not high pressing (as a team) on that play, it was just a mistake (slow pass) combined with the incredible anticipation and speed from Bellerin (not to mention the desire to bolt into the box rather than jog to the corner flag).

In fact, you could clearly see throughout most of the match that Bayern was the one that kept wanting to target Nacho. Which was pretty weird because if they did their homework, they should have known how massively impressive Nacho has been recently.

> This has been slowly changing the past few seasons however.

And despite all of what I just said, I am acknowledging that Arsene isn't as 'old-fashioned' as he was maybe 5 years ago. Because that comment was more of an observation in general of the post-Highbury era, not literally the past few days when it's obvious that there's more to Arsene's game nowadays.

If you wanted to use a recent example anyway, the game against United would have been a much better example imo (league games is generally when you should be 'exploting' anyway, not in the cl, because you should be expecting anything in cl games, just because of the occasion). You could clearly see that Arsenal specifically targetted United's slow midfield by high pressing on them (Walcott's and Ozil's workrate was impressive). And they were basically one-twoing their way past Bastian "cannot run no more" Schweinsteiger the whole match.