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This is paraphrased from The Lost World by Michael Crichton. I read it when I was in middle school and it has stuck with me for over 20 years:

"Most people are wrong about most things."

People give advice that is out of date, just plain wrong, irrelevant, self-serving, or otherwise generally useless. The key is to just ignore it and do whatever you want.

Over time you'll figure out what works and what doesn't. And in 30+ years of living, the only thing I've figured out that works is to ignore all the advice I receive.
Does that mean that they will update it twice as often now (Chrome + Android engineers)?
Rocket.Chat allows you to deploy your own instance https://[my_instance].rocket.chat if you go to https://rocket.chat/deploy. [disclaimer; I contribute to Rocket.Chat]
If you haven't read it, this might be relevant to your interests:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

I thought it had some interesting "Okay, so no more scarcity, now what?" plots.
This would, imho, be the best possible outcome of this: libchromeos becoming the underpinning for all Google's consumer OS projects, and then having a distinct userland slapped on top of it. Especially if it meant the device-specific stuff all happens in the brillo/core layer, and we can slap a chromeos, iot, or android layer on top of it regardless of the device.

Want to turn your nexus player into a desktop computer? replace the androidTV user layer with the ChromeOS user layer. Want to turn your chromebook into a media centre? do the opposite. turn an old phone into a home automation server by replacing android with the IOT layer.
You don't have to. One of the main points of Plex is that the media server (the component running on your PC where the media files are) does Just-in-Time streaming transcoding. You keep your files in the source format; they're served to the AppleTV in a compatible format. You jump to 0:30:00 on the AppleTV; the transcoding process jumps to 0:30:00 in the source and renders+streams frames from there.
Hopefully but I am a lot more cynical. I guess they want to start with what they believe is their strongest franchise. The job of the new Star Trek is to draw the audience to streaming, and the series needs mass appeal for that.
I had one, and yes! They were HEAVY. But, they were awesome too.
How do you think elections get won?

They get won by getting the most votes. And how do they get the most votes? Well, by persuading the most people (of those who bother to vote) that your position on the issues is the one that will work the best for them. Getting that message out takes money. And how do you get the money? Well, by persuading the people who give money to politicians that your position on the issues is the one that will work the best for them.

"The most money" and "the most votes" are not completely unrelated, and they're not related only by "money lets you yell the loudest at easily-influenced voters". Campaigns attract money for the same reason they attract votes; it's not surprising to see a large correlation.
Any idea about audio formats? That's somewhat important for more serious home theater setups.
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The IBM mainframe and AS/400 world has been doing something like this for decades, putting a web layer on top of 3270/5250 terminal applications.
Can someone with the app please let me know if you can just autoplay tv series with this app?

Was annoying not being able to do that on the iOS app.
True. I am cautious to say this, but if one of these over valued unicorns like Uber dies then I think the psychological effect would be similar to a bubble burst. It would tight up the capital flow to a great extent even for solid companies
'ubuntu desktop' meaning a very crippled system that only allowed access to Firefox. Which was rarely updated and even then not for long. There were some efforts to patch it up to make a more full system but I don't believe anyone was ever successful.
DS9 has longer plot arcs than TNG. In TNG, something nearly cataclysmic could happen in one episode, and everything would be back to normal in the next episode. Picard is my captain, and TNG is what I think of when I think of Trek. But, DS9's writing was in a different league.

The way the characters and the plot developed together was great. Some of the episodes were uncharacteristically dark for the Star Trek universe (introduction of Dukat's daughter, Garak and Odo, etc.)

In TNG, the only credible existential threat was the Borg, and you really only felt that for a couple of back-to-back episodes. The Borg were awesome, but DS9 had greater sustained dramatic tension.

And the camp episodes! When DS9 did silly, they did it up right--with frickin' evil mirror universe characters and tribbles!
Excellent. Used an O2 a lot, and I found those fonts very readable too.
Greater than the sum of its parts
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I asked, not decided. And everyone on the world have a tiny of a right to decide.
Cost of removalist > cost of replacement

Or even worse

Cost of removalist > liquid capital
Am morning person. Must not be a criminal.
what I've been doing for the last 3 or 5 years (in Firefox, which is the browser under discussion in this submission) is setting the following to false:

browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled

browser.urlbar.suggest.bookmark

browser.urlbar.suggest.history

it does not literally stop me from typing in for example "news.ycombinator.com", but it makes it so that I have to type every last one of those 20 characters, which leaves enough time between my (impulsive) decision to act and my (fast and nasty) reward to prevent most instances of procrastination.

(then I put frequently-accessed URLs that do not cause procrastination on the Bookmarks menu and the Bookmarks toolbar.)
Okay, tell me how i can play all my Steam games then (no, not just the Source Engine ones).
Actually, as you can see at their network map[1], the cables are still out. Only the three new ones, upgraded today, are working.

[1] http://weathermap.ovh.net/#usa
This does go a long way to explaining speeder bikes -- the human rider controls the gross movement, but the bike itself does obstacle avoidance. Otherwise, there's no way a regular stormtrooper could fly those through the thick forests of Endor.
<snark>

Wait, there are people who still treat single arguments as reliable guides to truth?!

</snark>
No stress and pressure because nobody asks anything of you as a student.

It's entertainment, not education. It's like watching TLC or the History Channel. I get that. And that's totally cool.

Where things get messy is when people try to pass this off as a replacement for a formal degree.

And as for "learning how to learn...", may I ask how you learned how to learn? Your description sounds very similar to other people who have obtained a formal degree somewhere and already learned how to do that and have a natural drive to get better. I don't think everyone has that. Not everyone values learning.
All the more reason to pull the rug out from under the legacy operators
We have been considering going down that route and releasing Diffd as an open source project while offering a hosted version that is the easiest way to do things in parallel and across multiple browsers and operating systems.

However, we expect that initially most will add Diffd as a manual step at the end of their pipeline. So, it's not like their ability to push code is completely dependent on a third party, it's just another check.

Taking a dependence on Diffd is going to be less risky than depending on a third party for your CI server like Travis CI, CircleCI or CodeShip.
Ideologically, from a single voter's perspective, you're right. But practically, and looking at the entire population, it's not. The first past the post voting system we use will always result in two prominent parties, and the spoiler effect certainly exists.

I've always found this video a good explanation of the problems of our voting system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
It's been done. It wasn't very good.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/21/hp-slatebook-14-review/
so what does this really mean, Chrome-OS will not be "folded" into Android? Can't have a concrete answer after reading it through though.

MS Windows is trying to rule all platforms with one OS, so does iOS, even Ubuntu is trying the same, maybe Google though they need one OS to rule it all as well?
Last time I was at a show it was particularly crowded (no seats) and I started thinking of that video as I stood there waiting for the band. I could see the 3 exits of the venue from where I was standing but I had this sinking feeling that if something happened there would be no way I'd get to any of them in time. I could feel a sense of claustrophobia rising and I had to actively put it out of my mind so I could just enjoy the show.
What's amazing about this telemetry issue and the forced upgrade path is that, at the same time, they're trying to fight the PR problem by claiming that they might soon have a more reasonable FOSS (or at least OSS) mentality, will contribute to openssh, etc., all as part of their new "customer-oriented culture." It's really just a carrot-and-stick, isn't it?
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> "not having to trust Google as an operator, only as a developer (and, open source!), and being able to plug in my own enterprise as root of trust for XXX-OS, with my own choice of backend services too -- which may include google apps"

That's a good idea I wish they'd implement. Basically allow you to choose your own sync/updates server instead of having it hardcoded to Google's.

I imagine I could then basically make any modifications to my own personal Chrome OS fork and have them stick.
To maybe make the distinction clearer: UX and "interaction design" generally are more like what people think of as "game design" than what people think of as "graphic design." They're about choice-paths, affordances, reflexes, flows, etc.
Based on the 64-bit code included in the main Firefox tree which has not been considered stable enough for release builds by the Firefox builders. Firefox has had 64-bit compilation capability for a long time. I think Firefox 42.0 - these builds are uploaded now to mirror for tomorrow's release - will be the first time they do an official release version. Note that until they are announced, you shouldn't start using these builds.
Great idea! I hadn't thought about the autocomplete feature making it easier to go to a website - but you're right! I'll try to a way to reduce it's effects in a future version.

I think it'd still be a good idea to leave auto-complete on for useful websites -- you've taken care of that by adding those sites to the bookmarks =)
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it is illegal to sell stolen or fake merchandise in the United States. Anyone selling fake Rolexes is committing a crime and could also be sued

Huh? Now I'm worried. Are you telling me that the Rolex watch I paid $30 for, that I bought from a street vendor near Times Square, might be fake? Oh no, the horror! /sarcasm

I don't think that Rolex is too worried about this. Nobody would mistake a $30 watch for a real Rolex. And, give it credit, my fake Rolex worked for a year or so. It probably just needs a new battery.

Besides, you can't sue a street vendor. They're what's known as "judgement proof".[1]

And as to police action against them, the de Blasio administration seems to have adopted a laissez-faire attitude about all this stuff. If they're willing to allow squeegee men to operate with impunity, they certainly won't care about novelty watches being peddled.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_proof
He tried lobbying for sensible copyright legislation. The problem was campaign finance. Hence the pivot.
Emergent structures have the property of being possible to generalize about and simulate to some extent by simpler means than the modeling of their most fundamental components. When this is not the case, it means the large scale result of the fundamental components is chaotic.

But if such a chaos were to characterize any given scale of any universe, intelligent life at that scale would be impossible. When the author asks, "How can the same sorts of simple equations keep appearing at every scale of nature that we look for them?", my (perhaps simplistic) answer is that if chaos were to entirely characterize a given scale, that scale would be too remote from ours to be observable. Chaos would be the barrier to observation.

So, I would venture that emergence as we observe it in the universe is not that surprising or miraculous, but inevitable. Though I may be wrong and/or not the first to provide this "explanation".
You can consider a "lack of an electron" as the same thing as an "Electron hole quasiparticle".

The problem is this only holds 100% true in the abstract thought and specific mathematical frameworks (and their formulas) you are working in.

While you can do the math, and get the right results, it does not necessarily make it real outside of the human brain.

The majority of quasiparticles are just another way of looking at things. Some are totally human creations, others are combined effects, and some emergent phenomena.
Does thermite count as a basic tool?
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I don't hate Insurrection. It's totally watchable, which is more than I can say for Generations or Nemesis. It definitely has its positives. It has by far the best writing of Data in any of the movies. Picard's love story is pretty well done. I just don't find it quite rises to the level of the four "actually good" movies. The plot only makes sense if you squint really hard.

First Contact did have its fair share of stupid (Borg queen, UGH). I just thought the plot made way more sense than any of the other TNG movies.
Why would you want to get it tested? Why not just wait for the EPA to test another 2015? I'm not sure what information benefit you'd get from commissioning your own test that would offset the time and money it would take to execute such a test.
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> Forget to provide paper in toilets

War is hell.
In my humble opinion, React docs oversell a lot of things. The point about the DOM mutation being a bottleneck is valid, but there is no magic.
How Do Plastic Bags Get into the Ocean?
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I steal the content of all of our conversations to gather more internet points.
The Supreme Court's job is to decide what laws are legal, not what they think the law ought to be. Deciding what the law ought to be is Congress's job.

Do you suppose that nine Supreme Court justices might have considered and already dismissed your three-word argument in their lengthy decision on the subject?
your linke does not open. missing www.
I care about the ethics. But I'm also honest enough to admit that $1 million is very tempting.
It's rather off-putting.
It would be interesting to see this broken down by gender. My hunch is it's hitting men harder, but I'm curious if that's reflected in the data.
That's basically the technique I use when I'm at a show in a really full pit next to the moshers. Having your elbows jut out lets them poke into people who are getting to close and lets you maintain a little bit of breathing room.

I actually keep my hands in more of the "secret service stance" rather than on my hips so that if I'm pushed suddenly I'm more likely to have my arms available for balance, or grabbing/pushing people so I don't fall. Having your arms at your side is not good when you get pushed very suddenly because usually your arms get pinned to your sides and then they're completely useless.

When things get really tight, I put my hands together in front of my chest (up by the sternum) and put my elbows against my sides. That forms a triangle and protects from the front and sides. Again, the hands are up and available so that they don't get pinned when I need them most.
"In a similar vein, if one were so inclined, how hard would it be to make a modern city come to a grinding halt?"

Resilience of cities is an interesting topic in certain quarters, "The City as a System: Future Conflict and Urban Resilience", (David Kilcullen) And a great talk done at google by the author.[1]

[0] http://gt2030.com/2012/07/18/the-city-as-a-system-future-con...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVUI9U4WQ6E
How much time do you have to spend setting it up, maintaining it, documenting your set up, etc? While OSS has no upfront costs, it does cost in terms of dev and admin time.
Excluding Blacks from Juries
No it doesn't.

Yelp

2013: -$19m; 2014: -$10m; 2015: $36m

I can keep up with that very modest shift to profitability just fine. For example, a boring chicken company, considered a low growth company, produces faster earnings growth than that and nobody seriously has a hard time valuing them. Nobody would claim you can't value said boring chicken company because their earnings are growing too quickly.

Sanderson Farms (SAFM) net income

2012: $54m; 2013: $130m; 2014: $249m

They're currently trading for six times their last full fiscal year's earnings, and perhaps seven times 2015 earnings. They're growing earnings radically faster than Yelp. Yelp is doing anything but growing earnings too fast to be able to keep up with it.

The idea that you can't value growth companies because things change too much, is nothing more than an attempt to get investors to pay outrageously high multiples for the same earnings they can get elsewhere for far cheaper.
Not being entitled to something doesn't mean the government can just prevent you from it.

You do in fact have the right to speak to a large audience, if you can find one willing to listen.
Yes Ashkenazi Jews are found disproportionally in professions where having a high intelligence increases the probability of success, however, no one really knows why. It is possible that it is genetic (I would be surprised if there was not at least some genetic component), but it could also be cultural.
For Mapper consider using PythonMapper by Daniel Müllner ( http://danifold.net/mapper/ ). The UI is touchy - I use it mostly via scripts only. Mapper is pretty simple to implement (just a series of well understood pieces - the magic is in the interpretation/understanding what you've done). As an example consider the kepler-mapper project ( https://github.com/MLWave/kepler-mapper ). More lines of code are used for calling out to the d3 visualization than implementing the core mapper algorithm.

For my persistent homology calculations I always use Dionysus ( http://www.mrzv.org/software/dionysus/ ). Rumor has it a much improved parallelized version will be released soon.
No, Windows 10 does not generally log keystrokes.

The one and only place that things like keystroke logging are mentioned in the privacy policy is in the context of interacting with Cortana and the related search service, where the phrasing is similar to "things you enter here get sent to us, and we log those things."

The vast majority of the Windows 10 privacy concerns are mitigated by turning off the Customer Experience Program stuff and never turning on Cortana.
I don't think people / companies really have a 'right' to pollute, so as long as the standards are possible to meet at reasonable costs I don't see a problem.

PS: Low end torque is really just a transmission problem. X(1) power at Y(1) RPM > X(2) power at Y(2) RPM.
The original tests that broke the scandal open were some grad students who borrowed cars to test them. I'd be happy to help in such an effort.

I'd also like to know if I purchased a fraudulent vehicle ASAP so that I can figure out next steps.
this looks neat, and you can self-host it too.
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