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At least in case of mailbox, I would say they were sherlocked by Google Inbox: nearly as good an UI but without the need to share access to email with a third party.

I really never liked that aspect of mailbox and I thus never used it with my primary mailbox, which meant that I practically haven't used it at all.

The moment Inbox came out for google apps, I started using it to the point where it is now my primary means for accessing my mail.
So it would not be a good idea to wait for someone to just summerize this on medium?

Jokes apart ; attention span going down is certainly a concern but do you think we all are getting way more lazier?
Shortcuts, one line stack overflow answers, instant results and 2 min quick fix tutorials are not just killing attention spans but also making us lazy and bad developers.
The thing is, lows are exaggerated for a reason: people like saturated low end. If they heard a flat and a extra-bass headphone, they'd more likely buy the second.
Smog 'Red Alert' Issued in Beijing – Schools and Biz Completely Shutdown Today
This is an investor relations puff piece if I've ever seen one.
Why do we have to keep saving the internet!
I agree with you and that's actually the case here. If these activists think their house arrest is unfair, they can complain to an administrative judge that will look into their case.
How about someone who borrows money and needs their entire check to repay lenders, leaving nothing to live on?
So if I buy an unlocked LTE device from somewhere, I cannot use it on verizon?
If you put a few in the back of someone's head, technically they're not going anywhere either.
I don't think sanity checks are a form of false sense of security. Ideally the way you develop software those types of credentials would never even be in your project but maybe you're testing something and they're temporarily in there (because we've all done that); a warning could let you know you're about to screw up.

Naturally anyone can become dependent on anything designed to assist them. I'm not really passionated about either direction really.
Title seems to have a typo, should be "Ritchie".
INAL nor have I really thought into this too hard, but it seems to me the difference between microwaves and wifi in this particular situation is that microwaves were the incumbents and their functionality was not disrupted by wifi, where as now wifi is the incumbent and will allegedly be damaged by the new LTE-U.
I've been for 15 years. Never understood why new roasters feel the need to prosthelytize, however. But they always do.
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I understand what Mailpile is. It's a self-hosted email web client.

What is Nylas? The website doesn't seem to be written for me, but for PHBs. Apparently you have great business, design, and APIs, but what is it that those things do? Are you an email client? A server? A webmail service?

What makes you different from Gmail or from Mailpile?
Yeah, but now you and your neighbors have trouble using your phones because of the AP. It's a bad trade.
I have to imagine that the movie War Games starring Matthew Broderick helped spur sales. After seeing that movie, I had to have a commodore computer ;) That movie, alone, changed me. I was an eletronics geek and after seeing that movie, I knew the future (for me) was computers.
The audience laughs it up. Disgusting.

Though what's interesting is how passionately the women laugh along with it. That's not nervous laughter from a bout of false consciousness, either.

In fact, on the whole, this is extremely mild. Tabloids, reality TV, talk shows and standup comedy shows are much raunchier today than back then. People like Lenny Bruce actually got into hefty legal issues with their routines, now it's purely public opinion.
Haha, thanks for the feedback. Copywriting was never my strong suit ;) Any tips on how I can improve it?
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There's JMAP protocol (from fastmail.com): http://jmap.io/
Hey neat! My dad helps run another harsh-environment wind turbine company, Black Island Wind Turbines[1].

>Black Island, Antarctica. One of the harshest wind turbine installations in the world. Routine category 5 hurricane winds. Top speeds reaching almost 89 meters/sec (200 mph). Temperatures falling to minus 57 degrees Celcius (minus 70 degrees Farenheit). Marine environments. Super-critical loads. One wind turbine prevails--the HR3, a high-reliability 3 kW wind turbine that Black Island Wind Turbines will soon be offering for commercial sales to satisfy the most difficult site and customer demands around the world.

[1]: http://www.blackislandwindturbines.com/
I just assume evil intentions whenever one of the major carriers is involved in a dispute. I don't know what's in their hearts and minds in situations like this, but I know their history, and to trust an entity that has been abusive to consumers for decades to have good intentions would be silly.

I don't necessarily think Google or (gods forbid) Comcast are above criticism, but in this case Verizon is wanting to sell the commons back to us. This is akin to Nestle saying water is not a human right, for a digital society.
there's no separation, you and your brain are not 2 different things. The interface (what most people call "you") is that, just the interface. The real "you" is everything..
I don't buy the comparison of Starbuck's to McDonalds. Starbucks sets much higher standard in coffee than McDonalds does in burgers. And prior to Starbucks nationwide roll out, McDonald's weak coffee in a styrofoam cup set the standard. Yuck

I remember the time before Starbucks. American coffee was some watered down beans with 5% non-coffee filler that had been sitting in an open air carafe on an electric heating plate for the past 3 hours. Yuck

I love my local coffee houses, but 30 years ago there were almost none. You had to live downtown in a major city or in a university town to easily find good coffee. Yes, I am sad when I visit Seattle or the Bay Area and see how many local places have gone away, but out here in rural Colorado I think Starbucks helped grow demand for good coffee and local shops.
Or academia where people think that just because they can get a post-doc (doesn't matter what country), research assistant, volunteer, etc to do work of marginal value (yes, most papers and "research" out there wont move respective field forward at all) just because they have the skills. I think our societies are filled with this level of rot and the more/faster ways people put a flame thrower to such, the better.
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Exactly. By joining YC, the goal is automatically getting acquired. So the parent is solving the problem temporarily, until they become the problem.
Look at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_J...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_J...
One day, in the first week of March, perhaps the 2nd or 3rd, I had driven my kids to school in the morning. While on the way out, I observed a cop issuing some sort of traffic citation to another parent on their way in. This was causing a major delay for hundreds of cars, due to this guy blocking the only way in and out with two stationary vehicles, one being the typical suburban full-time-parent kid-chauffeuring battle-tank SUV.

I may have allowed an annoyed look to appear on my face.

Seconds later, this same guy was pulling me over. The reason? My vehicle stickers expire February 28th. I renewed online late in the month (the shortest month, naturally), and the replacement stickers had not yet arrived in the mail. Fortunately for me, I had the printed receipt of my renewal transaction on the front passenger seat of my car. (The stickers arrived in the mail later that day.)

While walking away, the guy tells me, "Next time don't wait until the last minute to renew." ~Dude. I'm sorry that my timely production of exculpatory evidence precluded you from ratcheting one tick closer to your ticket quota.~ If you're going to be overzealous in enforcing the revenue laws, I don't need to hear any complaints about me paying the full amount and on time.

Next time, and all subsequent times, I will try the "not making your job easier" approach. You can't treat people like moustache-twirling villains half the time, and soulless cash machines the other half, and still expect them to respect you. I know he had an in-car computer that showed him my current registration and insurance status. He probably pulled me over because I gave him a dirty look for screwing up car line, and he wanted to be an extra-big dick about it.

The policing for profit has to stop. Whether its from dubious municipal court fines and fees or War on Drugs grants, the distorted flow of money is rewriting the relationship between police and public. The public is simultaneously employer to and customer of the police. That means that the cop has the burden of being professional and respectful at all times, even in the face of horrendous rudeness.

When a waiter or delivery driver gets stiffed on a tip, they suck it up, maybe post a pic to social media, and move on. When a cop gets frowned at, they swagger up, solicit some respeck for their authoritah, and maybe hurt someone while the cameras are inexplicably turned off. It should not matter whether or not the public gives or withholds respect. Those cops are on the clock and serving customers. If those customers are curt with front-line employees, perhaps it is because the company as a whole has been behaving as badly as AT&T or Comcast.

Just as you may get better results being calm and polite with your customer service rep while on the phone with those companies, you still might get a freakin' Ernestine, not caring about you, because the company is a [local] monopoly and it doesn't have to. In that case, you're better off sticking to your own script and recording everything.
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What we choose as a society doesn't have to be carried out by government. In a basic income system you are still free to start a charity that focuses on helping people with gambling addiction. In fact, it will be easier now because you will have your own basic income to lean on as you get the charity started.
> It's looking like Peet's is primarily a money game, now.

And they weren't before?
When I first saw this post I thought (Amazon.com) came out with a new product called "rainforest."

Anyway, so did the natives breed with the Europeans when they "wiped them out" or did the native people migrate to another part of the continent?
Although I agree with you I'm not sure how it would play out in practice.

I played MMORPGs a long time ago on french speaking servers and the amount of unemployed people playing that game and that had zero incentive or motivation to go work was incredible.

Of course this is an example but not everyone want's to be a productive member of society.
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Certainly is refreshing to see a significant reduction in bureaucracy in an EU state. If the public generally supports this, then I guess we'll just have to see how it turns out.

I don't think there's much else to say but good luck.
When I read this, I thought you were mistaken on the cost of the pods, but sure enough, they cost from $1.00 to over $3.00 per pod (on Amazon).

I can buy Coke cans at Costco for around 35 cents/can or close to 3 cents an ounce. Why would Keurig think that I'd want to pay 5+ times more for the "convenience" of buying a big expensive machine to let me "make" coke at home!?

And those capsules look big (which is probably because there's so much sugar in soda, they can't make them tiny. Probably about 1/4 the size of a 8 ounce can of coke.
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If there is a greater demand for units than supply, price is set by the top N buyers. If you boost everyone's spending power above that price without increasing supply, market forces will tend to raise the price until it's affordable only to the top N again.

In housing, this means that you can boost people's spending power to help them afford rent, but you also need to build more units or you're just going to fuck everything up.
Ah, ok, that makes more sense.
DOesn't look like you really know why, but you're just asserting

I think it's fiscal conservatives who are against it, and many Democrats as well. The "left" doesn't really exist politically in the US.. what you have remaining now is the non-rightists (mostly corporatist Dems).
Not for me it doesn't:
https://i.imgur.com/S5bjDuf.png
What is Caribou? If they were as bad as that, why are you surprised Peet's would shut them down?

If you want good espresso, make it at home. The equipment pays for itself after a few years of not driving out to get espresso on a regular basis.
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Basic income takes a huge amount of power away from the government.
I never suggested anything like this. What I meant to illustrate was a condition where a landlord could predict the amount of rent they could charge given the cost of living and expected minimum income. If a tenant was getting minimum income and wasting it on booze and such and came up short for rent, you could kick them out, knowing that a more responsible tenant could fill the space (unless you have like 0% vacancy)
SYAC: The panic is actually in Windows-land regarding Microsoft's tiny footprint in the mobile space, but the author posits that it would be bigger news if this were happening inside Apple.
The pancake primes are nice on smaller cameras. They're also high quality. The only downside is that they aren't quite as wide angle as I'd like. (Typically 40mm equivalent whereas I'd prefer something closer to 35mm.)

On the Fujifilm X series I mostly use the 18-55mm (~28-90mm equivalent) plus the pancake. I also have a wider angle lens. You go much more telephoto and you start to lose the benefit of the smaller camera.
Do I match the description of a serial killer? If I do, then perhaps a visit to my house is warranted. And if I'm a serial killer, and, depending on the method of killing, perhaps they have to believe that I'm armed to the teeth. Coming to pick me up could be dangerous for them. Now, their measured response involves an unannounced SWAT.

I don't see "Serial Killer" levels of scrutiny in this story. I see the right amount of scrutiny, but with a precursor of a cop getting his gun hand ready in a situation that doesn't call for it.
> Well the good news is that LTE-U appears to be for the 5 GHz band

I worry that it could make the 5G band look like 2.4G looks now. I too like the idea of a piece of spectrum used mainly by consumers or small businesses and not saturated by the big commercial gorillas. If today they are desperate enough to consider running their precious services on the wild unregulated bands then sooner or later they will be desperate enough to squeeze every last bit out of them.

Another thing is that once they are allowed in and their bottom line starts to depend on WiFi bands, they will fight to the death to stay there forever and only grow.
Ah, yes and no.

First you need to ask the question: "why was a basic income instituted?"

It was instituted to buy votes, of course. But why were people's votes for sale so cheaply?

During Rome's ascendancy, the citizen-soldier institution sent hundreds of thousands of Roman men out into the world on military campaigns. As their successes grew, so did their terms of military service.

In turn, this lead to the collapse of the farms that these men used to work in order to provide for themselves and their family. These farms were purchased by the patrician class, and worked by slaves.

Within a few generations, wealth inequality in Rome was so bad that most of the households that had previously been small landholders were reduced to urban poverty.

Some Roman politicians did attempt to address this stifling inequality (such as the Gracchi brothers). After the Senate repeatedly murdered such "class traitors", the compromise of bread and circuses became the Senatorial (and later, Imperial) solution to the problems that the Senatorial classes had themselves caused.

Universal income in Rome was a symptom of a completely dysfunctional society. Rome collapsed because its working classes ceased to work, but its working classes ceased to work because its ruling classes ceased to rule for the benefit of the many. Rome was brought down by its wealthy elite.

If modern Western societies really are analogous to Rome (which they probably aren't), then universal income may herald the collapse. However, if it does, then this collapse will have been ultimately precipitated by the aggregation of power in the hands of the wealthy.

In any case, pointing the finger at the Roman poor is a historical trend that was conjured by Rome's ruling classes to justify their own positions (think of all the howling about the "welfare poor" by the well-off in North American society today) and later by conservative British historians to justify the lopsided distribution of wealth and power in their own society. Rome's poor built the Roman Empire.
I don't have any problem with people who want to support a minimum basic income with their own money. The moral issue begins when you force others to financially support your scheme.
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Word of mouth.

My first job: my high school CS teacher knew I was good with computers anecdotally. (He heard second-hand from another staff member that I had looked at another student's buggy code, written in a language I had never seen before, and identified and fixed the bug in a few minutes, before I had ever taken a formal CS class at the high school.) One of the teacher's former students had a small business that was hiring people to do some one-off data entry work over winter break and asked if I wanted to give it a go. (I said yes.)

Boss liked my work ethic, and offered to hire me back the following summer to work on their C#/ASP.NET code base (even though I'd never coded C# in my life).
that's sure to ruﬄe some feathers.

(see what I did there)
Introduce money?
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It's free and opensource.
https://github.com/01org/IntelSEAPI/wiki
Please speck up which features do you need?
Or you would like to contribute?
Neither. They died.
If I understand the timeline, this interview is either before his love affair with LSD, or right around the beginning.
>Our first problem is lack of cheap energy. Energy purifies water, moves it to where its needed.

You're probably picturing desalination/filtration plants and pipelines here, but for millions of years this task has been amply and efficiently performed by plants, fungi, and soil organisms. This explains why mountain streams are so clean... unless clear-cutting begins.

Natural systems prove it's possible. The trick is to use those same principles to design and organize a human-serving ecosystems for us to inhabit (as opposed to the human-destroying[1] systems we currently employ to grow food, source water, dispose of waste, etc). Just the techniques of rainwater harvesting, contour earthworks, and guild planting are sufficiently powerful and flexible to create a zero-input food system (ie no inputs except for sunlight/air/bedrock).

[1] You can substitute the fashionable euphemism "unsustainable" here, but I feel this term is more honest.
The point of a universal wage is not to stop people from working though and not living in a big city removes almost any chance of working in most European countries.
It could be worse. I still have relatives using POP--across multiple devices!
Honestly most startup backend systems are not amazingly engineered or something to be proud of, so I would guess that the code would need some considerable work before releasing it to the public if that is what they chose to do. Even after release, the project would need considerable support to get it off the ground (helping the first users, accepting contributions, establishing the project community and leadership). Simply dumping the code on Github with no instructions and leaving it to rot is not particularly useful.
It's ugly.
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It's important to keep in mind that Marriott International (with a few exceptions) doesn't actually own the hotel properties themselves -- they're franchises.
I don't think Keurig qualifies as a startup. Their k-cups have been around since 1998; the company since 1992.

Coffee is a consumed by many daily; Keurig is undoubtedly the most popular single-serve brew solution. It's likely that more drink a cup of coffee from a Keurig machine than wake up in a Marriot bed or turn on a Nintendo. Their users are always buying consumables; hospitality and entertainment media is typically purchased far, far less frequently. (and good or bad, Keurig's DRM is designed to help them squeeze out more licensing)

Marriot is getting squeezed by the many hospitality options and AirBnB; Nintendo is the #3 console and is getting squeeze by mobile gaming. Keurig however, is by far the most available option for single-serve in most grocery stores and in places where you buy the machines.

So yeah, in terms of many business metrics (market share, consumer loyalty and access, etc), they're not in the same realm as Marriot or Nintendo.
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The pods are awful. My friend, who buys lots of useless stuff, has described the Kold as "the most useless thing I've ever bought."

A mini-fridge + 20 cases of Coke is cheaper upfront and in the long run.
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Thanks for the link, I didn't know about construct!

A colleague of mine recently developed a similar (from the looks of it) library, in Python and Javascript:

https://github.com/jfjlaros/bin-parser
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It is almost always coupled with eliminating all other financial forms of the social safety net.
Ok, we added "testing". "Considering testing giving" is terrible English but amusingly reflective of the contortions headline writers subject stories to.
Are you aware that Sprint has 40 MHz of spectrum in 90 of the top 100 markets? That's far more than any other provider.

It's entirely Sprint's fault for not building up a reliable network (of course it's in the 2.5 GHz band) on what the FCC has given them.

Edit: Maps of the relative amount of spectrum for U.S. LTE providers is here (Sprint leads the way):

http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/2015-how-much-...
No, I know why. I spent a bit of time in the 90's doing the whole political thing. Programs and no-direct money were very important to the left (for the US definition).

The right has its own issues with the concept of a lot of the programs.
As a kid, when my Dad was laid off I got discounted school lunch by buying and redeeming colored plastic tokens. Took me a while to figure out the other kids saw using them as a social stigma.

So, yes, kids and adults will still be able to associate higher cost goods with higher social status. But changing benefits to cash instead of alternative, restricted currencies like food stamps will lessen the opportunities to identify and stigmatize those who are struggling financially.
Also, being able to choose to work, even if just to be able to consume more, would have a positive impact on mental health, IMO.
I recall reading about this some in the book 1491, which is quite interesting, and talks about how the Americas were prior to Columbus.

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