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The author is so focused on lamenting California's demise that he's missing what is still here.

I fixed up an old '73 VW westy bus and we've been doing all the things he said can't be done anymore. The cali dream is alive and well, I was out surfing today. El Nino is predicted this year and may spell the end of the drought. Things are looking up, and the solution to the sense of loss he's taking about is to be creative. Go to Kings Canyon or Anza Borrego instead of tourist-trap Yosemite. Its not that hard.
In the show House M.D, Dr. House explained his desire to become a doctor as based on an experience as a kid with the Japanese caste system:

"When I was 14 my father was stationed in Japan. I went rock climbing with this kid from school. He fell, got injured and I had to bring him to the hospital. We came in through the wrong entrance and passed this guy in the hall. It was a janitor. My friend came down with an infection and the doctors didn't know what to do. So they brought in the janitor. He was a doctor. And a Buraku. One of Japan's untouchables. His ancestors had been slaughterers, grave diggers. And this guy, he knew that he wasn't accepted by the staff, he didn't even try. He didn't dress well. He didn't pretend to be one of them. The people that ran that place, they didn't think that he had anything they wanted. Except when they needed him. Because he was right. Which meant that nothing else mattered. And they had to listen to him."

I always liked that little monologue.
Try fracking under his house and he will understand it...
>It takes the entire intellectual edifice of modern radical egalitarianism to rob people of their common sense

It's not just 'radical egalitarianism'. The seemingly obvious explanation that such and such group are poor because they are genetically low IQ does not stand up to scientific investigation on the whole.
gives you complete control of the grow variables: temperature, atmosphere, water and light containment

also allows for stackable modular design meeting different grow needs and encourages experimentation

though i think these sorts of builds are more for scientific grows stead house greening i can say my window tomatoes died because they only got direct sunlight for about an hour a day
Perhaps a stupid question, but, assuming this attack has NOT been performed, do consumer electronics processors slow down in any measurable way within the lifetime of the device? Anecdotally I often have friends complain their computers get slower over time, and I've always written it off as OS level issues, fragmentation etc.

Now I'm wondering if a PC could actually become slower from logic gate failures. No, no. Thats dumb, right?
Mark Zuckerberg delivered his first Chinese speech in Beijing
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Cyber-dildonics, most likely.
Actually his/her comment was anecdotal, in that no one can verify. My comment is a noting a shared cultural understanding that everyone confirm or reject. (specifically: the likelihood of people saying your classmates are genetically inferior is taboo) It's not anecdotal.
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That isn't a good argument considering immigration policies in countries select for successful outliers.
yeah i guess. or just wait it out for nature to respond, and leave the area in a mess. Either way at some point they will have to notice.
Fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXr5jn3haRo
Somewhat OT, but I don't do pain well. Have asked to be knocked out 100% for oral surgeries. A few years back, I had no one to drive me, and the dentist wouldn't knock me out. I had some local anesthetic, and used my iphone most of the operation. "Oh this will be 20 minutes"... turned in to 90 minutes. I videoed several minutes of my operation (is "surgical selfies" a thing?) mostly to keep me distracted from the pain (yes, I still felt pain). Years later, the dentist still remembers me, even though I'm rarely there ("pink iphone, video the root canal!").

Strangely most people don't want to watch my root canal surgery. It's on picasa - perhaps I should put them on youtube...
Article has the wrong title ... "Same as it ever was. Same as it ever will be."

Only, much more of everything. This is, inevitably, for the worse.
I believe the parent's objection was that different seats in a stadium have different value and this is not accounted for in the auction mechanism. I don't know how the university accounts for this but it does add a wrinkle to the auction system.
But electricity is in some sense the highest quality energy. You can easily replace heating with a resistor and combustion engines with electrical motors, where the reverse is usually much harder.
Starting up without doing proper industry research and without having a solid foundation can lead to a personal dilution of one's time and resources that could eat away from what could have been more valuable endeavours in the future. If we're talking about individual success here, then personal waste of time is probably the most significant factor -- more so than the effect the failed startup has on the ecosystem.
The mammal and birds that everyone thinks of first are "charismatic". Mammals, especially the young, look cute to us. (Cuteness appears to be tied to neoteny.) You'll note that the three mammals after the primate quote are bear, squirrel, and whale. Two of the three are on the charismatic megafauna list, and squirrels are often considered cute.

Later on there's "pigs, whales and naked mole rats". Of the mammal species listed, only is an unfamiliar animal, and rarely considered cute.

Too bad more non-cute mammals weren't on the list. How many people think of the promiscuous monkey, or the Philippine tarsier - both primates - as being 'close to home'? What of bats, and the brown rat?

I think most people would identify with many avians before identifying with a bat.
Only those aren't well versed in the regional history portend a single rainy season will end this drought. Bring some pleasant relief, which will only help to slacken regulation/thinking/policy.

However after a year the drought will still be - unmoderated and with even worse water policies.

But, if you can afford the water, Cali is still the same - although it's harder to see through the haze of selfie sticks and REI gear.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
These ships carry more cargo than you can intuitively comprehend. Transfer to truck would be impossible, to rail would take too long.
Plants need other frequencies to signal different chemical processes, they don't thrive if just fed blue light.
It's not the "spooky" part that I have a problem with, it's the "action at a distance" part. Things can be spooky or not spooky subjectively, but there is no action at a distance.
Is median really the stat we want to use here? Mean?
I happen to be an adult. Just give me a lollipop and I'll be fine.
i think there is no secret sauce , if your priority is getting into YC over building a successful business you're most likely doing it wrong. P.S im no way affiliated to YC
What about a second rainy season? New extremes are surpassed all the time.
Interesting. I'm not a linguist, but when my brain switches into Japanese mode, I can pronounce their R sound in speech without consciously thinking about it. Same thing happens with the /r/ sound in Mandarin (as in "rén"). Hearing them doesn't require any additional effort, though my brain does recognize that they are different from the English equivalents.
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Are startups better equipped to handle the rigours of 21st-century capitalism
source: https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/658104654396563456
Anza Borrego is it's own unique place. I spent many weekends poking around the various parts with my dad in a old 2-door toyota pickup truck. Many fond memories.
chlorophyll absorption is well documented

https://www.google.com/search?q=photosynthesis+absorption&sa...
Unless they were colluding to increase wait times to get the Nicaragua Canal built and then share the profits (unlikely). More likely is Panama isn't doing this to encourage building the Nicaragua Canal but instead is just doing this to increase premium slot prices.

Could Magic Mountain and Knott's Berry Farm run more roller coaster trains and decrease wait times? Sure, but then there wouldn't be as much incentive for people to buy flash/front-of-the-line passes. I'd be willing to bet the waits are at least partially artificially created to support the flash passes as yet another source of revenue.
While I don't have any advice for an exit. A strategy you could employ to buy yourself more time is to offload all your non-leadership/administrative work onto another employee at the company (possibly hiring someone extra, and moving everyone up a rung on the ladder).

Try to get yourself to a place where you are running the company and aware of what is going on, but doing nothing else than telling people what to do. Maybe you could bring yourself down to 10-20 hours per week? Then you could use the extra time to focus on finding an exit or building the next thing.
Median is less influenced by the outliers.
There's also EXPLAIN ANALYZE which may yield different output than just an EXPLAIN.
Did you finish the article? In the end it seems like the author decides that every generation perceives California that way as they grow old.

He only says the dream is dead for him. Not the new generations.
One theory would be that humans have a biological sense of other. In-group, out-group, etc. People fight for the same resources, preferentially for their genetically similar groups.

If there are 10 people at a table about to starve to death, and only 5 of them are related, it helps their genetic lineage to prefer to feed relatives.

Racism, as an outgrowth of us-versus-them, most likely helped with keeping a lineage alive.
I'm not sure if the vast majority of people actually believe in that. Most educated Americans probably do. But I think there are a lot of people out there who still hold the older outdated incorrect view.
I'm a guy living on the east coast. I've wanted to move to Cali for almost a decade now. As a developer, there are 4 times as many job prospects in California. The weather doesn't hurt either. I bought into the American dream. Go to school. Get a job. Buy a house. Now I'm seeing if I can break even on my investment. I'm hoping the authors opinion is biased.
The US and USSR governments' effectiveness at early space travel had less to do with the ability of public entities to innovate and more to do with the existential threat of the Cold War. Constant fear of nuclear annihilation is not worth the increase in practical government research.

The same can be said of the Manhattan project with WWII. CERN is a valid counterargument, but I think it demonstrates that markets need to be occasionally corrected (to acomodate basic science research in this case), not that markets need to be dismantled.
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While this sounds good on the surface, what do you think his 6 employees are going to do when one founder quits and the other immediately drops to working part time? They're going to leave for better pastures, and OP won't have the opportunity to end things on his terms.
Overall, your message seems to be that we shouldn't try to do anything about ageism. Try to be immune to it (1), or try to fake being young/childless (3 and 5), or get what you can despite it (6). Just as a thought experiment, consider how that would sound if we were talking about race, gender, or sexual orientation. Then (3) is like saying that people who aren't straight and white and male should try to minimize their differences from that "ideal", and (6) sounds like only companies that can't hire enough SWMs need to consider anyone else. Would you also promote skin-lightening or breast-reduction surgery to because they eliminate "obvious tells"?

Age should not be the one bias that's still acceptable, and that we can't talk about fixing. Advice about how to live in an ageist world might be pragmatic, but telling people to accommodate it at all costs is practically the same as condoning it.
I don't think we agree on what "autonomous" means. Preprogramming a flight path to follow doesn't meet the definition of autonomous nor does autopilot following waypoints.

Autonomous, at least to me, means the drone takes off, searches out a sight ("drone, fine me a bridge and take pictures of it") and then makes the decision to fly to it and perform some kind of action whether it be photographic/videographic/some kind of monitoring (commercial drones) or a kinetic action (military drones).

Basically, when drones get AI then I'd personally consider them to be autonomous. YMMV
Zumper/Smartasset has the average at $4650 for a 2 bedroom:

https://smartasset.com/mortgage/what-is-the-cost-of-living-i...

Only marginally less shocking. As for your question, the median is used in questions of affordability (data from StreetEasy, Zillow, Elliman, etc.), rather than the mean.
Oracle points patching firehose at 154 vulnerabilities
Pass phrases can be a problem because they are attacked using dictionaries just like words are. Choose carefully.
I think he understands that -- for example, "Confusing one’s own youth with the youth of the world is a common human affliction...", "I have also noticed the friendly crowds jostling my elbows at every surf break and on the shockingly long lines below Yosemite rock climbs. These people have as much fun as I ever did, loving the only version of California available to them.", and the last paragraph. His first impression is dark, but he basically concludes it's not that bad, and that his negative perception versus his nostalgia is part of a cycle that every generation experiences.

He kind of mixes the natural issues (drought) with the human ones (increasing population, re-development). I'm not so sure the two categories will work out equally fine in the end, but I don't live there so I don't really have any skin in the game or knowledge of it.
leeks -> leaks,
salves -> saves
Yup. Particularly important in the markets where many people actually live/move to/can find jobs (SF, NYC), because they have incredible outliers on the high end.
> The first thing I do on a new Windows laptop is swap the left alt and ctrl keys to match the way it was meant to be

This is frustrating. I grew up on Windows machines and remember having frequent discomfort from overstretching my pinky to reach the left control key. When I first began using Macs a few years ago the first thing I remembered was thinking "Wow using the command key is so effortless!". Now I've had years of typing with zero discomfort.

I just bough a Surface Book and was dreading using a Windows keyboard again. So I searched around a bit and most recommended swapping control with alt to match the Mac keyboard like you said.

1. Why do I have to use third party software to swap alt and control in Windows?

2. I know there's some historical reason why control is the primary modifier... but here we have Microsoft developing ergonomic keyboards for 20 years and no one thought, "gee wouldn't it be more ergonomic to put the control key where the alt key is?". If that's too extreme, at least provide a simple software setting to change it!

We have companies spending $500-$1500+ on ergonomic chairs. I wonder what percentage of those using Windows machines have used third party software to swap control with alt (or caps lock). I bet less than 1% - because it's not simple for the average user. I don't know if frequent overextending of fingers leads to any serious problems or simply discomfort like I had, but it seems like such a simple thing to fix. Start releasing keyboards with control and alt swapped and provide a simple checkbox in Windows 10 to revert it for people who want the old behavior. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but hey they were brave enough to reverse the scroll direction on the touchpad and deploy that to every single OS X user AND they provide a simple way to revert the default via settings. /rant
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This is great news for adoption rates on tablets and the mobile market in general. I'm excited to see what it does for purchases on small android apps as well
Why do they have to know that he's working part-time? He can still show up to the office, but focus on other things.
I imagine it's a common theme of distraction lessens the perception of pain (including emotional pain), and most electronic devices - games, phones, etc - are incredibly distracting.
I don't think a list of practical tips for dealing with the reality is condoning anything, anymore than telling people to wear a bulletproof vest is condoning getting shot. I've posted stories about ageism previously. I don't think you'll find me 'condoning' it anytime soon. Example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/your-money/unemployed-and-...

I am realistic about it, though. I think it's something that we're going to have a very, very hard time dealing with. More obvious ones - like the ones you've listed - have been hard enough so far, and the struggles around them continue daily. Age? Yeah, that's going to be seriously challenging to combat. I'm all for trying to fight it, I just don't see the likelihood of good results anytime soon.
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Wall Street profits from Silicon Valley's growing illiquidity problem
retard-nigger.
Fraisier thinks he's clever.

Ask any 1st year engineering student, you fucken retard-nigger.

"MIT says my car can do 1 million RPM."
You may want to grow thicker skin. People joke about all kinds of inappropriate things in private. It's often a bonding experience. If I were to tell you something that I don't necessarily mean, but would harm my reputation if it were to get out, it's a form of a secret. If you reciprocate, often we would feel closer.

There are a lot of reasons to get upset in this world, and a lot of things to get upset at. If this is something sensitive to you for personal reasons, I get it. Otherwise, you should probably just accept that people aren't going to always conform to your view of perfection.

I joke all the time with my family and friends that I'll kill them if they ever repeat something I say in confidence. It's tongue in cheek, an obvious over-exaggeration, and often used for humor.
The most compelling part of Tor is it's without social networks, ads, or javascript. A thin presentation layer makes content or functionality the prime focus.

No third party SSO or share widgets and no need to upload a picture or give your legal name.

The userbase of each site is small enough to be an open free-form community and the volume of content (especially because things like reposts and social media don't really play) is pretty manageable and non-repetive!

Most sites are run by volunteers who aren't under the pressures of a VC round but instead just want to keep the community going. sizes are generally > 10 and < 1,000.

Worrying about convergence, SEO, "download our app/sign up for our email" dialogs, html5up pitch pages with marketing fluff, fade-to-black video ad overlays --- all that modern cruft is completely absent. It's so refreshing.

Tor's like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxqfgIDvEY [CBC Archives: The Internet 1993].

To quote @ 2:10:

"One would think that if you're anonymous you can do anything you want. But people have their own sense, you know, of community and what we can do" he goes on... "If this is the only way they can talk to somebody, this is how they'll do it."

THAT web - the anti-establishment one - it's called Tor - a tool for the human spirit.
The film ruined the ending.
Since 9/11, the threshold for being considered national security has gone down significantly, too much paranoia. Of course the private businesses, in this case O&G companies, trading exchange and trading firms, benefit from certain assets being declared of national security importance as the cost of securing get transferred to the government and taxpayers.
>the number 4 sounds sort of like death

This is actually true in all the major Asian languages, surprisingly. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
It depends on what your definition of fair is, that's why I had it in quotes. Clearly you think it's fair to just focus on features you specifically are interested in.

My implication was that I don't think it is. I think you have to highlight the differences between two things and then based on those differences, explain why you think one is best. If all you do is highlight the things you like about one without talking about where it differs from the other, then you're presenting a biased view, IMHO.
Friction and Work
Reminds me of why I was so happy to leave school debate and focus on math and computers where arguments were productive;, and how sad when I realized how relevant school debate nonsense was to actual political and legal reality (about the same time I realized that I should drop out of law school because I cared too much about finding logical answers to questions)
> This is, inevitably, for the worse.

Why?
Used to be the statists/Keynesians like Krugman just ignored the Austrians. This is progress.
Oh, yeah, I totally know that others don't feel that way... I'm aware of the fact that some people identify as a particular gender, that some people think being religious makes sense, or that some people like cucumber.

I just have a rather hard time relating to those people.
TLDR: you kids get off my lawn.

I mean the author admits this multiple times, that he's nostalgic for "1960s California" out of nostalgia rather than any actual reasons it was better.
Yes I did. I'm probably his age (in my 40s), so not the 20 somethings he thinks are the next generation of California natives that are still stoked. Some of us don't get jaded in older age like he describes but rather keep the dream alive by taking a slightly different path less traveled; that was my reaction to his article -- a bit of creativity and planning can take one to amazing places rarely visited in this state. There are many vacant beaches below cliffs, trails to discover, mountain peaks to camp on, pools below waterfalls and cliffs to jump from, many volcanic hot spring pools to soak in, just requiring a few miles of hiking...
There is a plant using molten salt storage in Spain since 2009 if interested;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andasol_Solar_Power_Station
The whole SQL vs NoSQL is misunderstood (most likely to the silly name). It is not about that Relational (SQL) database was designed in a way that is hard to make it distributed. It's all about what trade offs are you ok with. If you want ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability - if you are not sure, then you do want it) then you go with a relational database. If you are ok with data not always being consistent, or sometimes even lost (for example sessions, statistics, user tracking etc) you can use NoSQL.

There are also databases coughMongoDBcough which claim to have it all, but in reality they have neither[1][2].

[1] Performance of single instance: http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-blog/marc-lins...

[2] Scaling out: http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/themes/datastax-2014-08/f...
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Been seeing this announcement frequently recently. Thank you!

Of course, you could also collapse subthreads automatically (like reddit) when a comment gets downvoted very low) instead of policing manually.
It's strange how they always identify "Darknet" as Tor. There are other darknets like SIPRnet, JWICS, etc, and basically anything non-government groups want to spin up for their own purposes.