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You clearly have problems reading.

I have said exactly the same thing the entire time, only you kept ignoring it. Or, to be charitable, maybe just not understanding it. Just because you don't understand the words I said, doesn't mean I didn't say it.

Do you need me to quote myself?

Also, I take it you did not ever study physics? If you did you would know this on your own without me telling you.

What I said, over and over, is you can not turn velocity into light directly, you have to transfer that velocity to something else. In an event horizon there is nothing to transfer the velocity to, since everything is moving more or less at the same speed.

I don't know why you can't seem to absorb this. I really don't. It's basic highschool physics, plus I've said it over and over and over and over. In as many different ways as I can think of.

> Apart from the fact that heat and light are kinetic energy.

Are you totally incapable of absorbing information? I know that sounds insulting, but I am serious. You keep saying the same wrong thing over and over despite being told different.

You are wrong. Period.

It's like you have a mental block stopping you from understanding this, I don't get it.

> ... eventually two black holes will merge, which will produce a completely fantastic observation consisting of a rapidly rising frequency (as the two BHs circle each other closer and closer, shedding their orbital energy as gravitational waves), followed by a very loud cosmological pop as the BHs finally collapse into each other."

Back to this, very nice. The problem is that they won't actually do this - time dilation means it will take infinite time for this to happen, so we'll never see this.

Not sure what the point of telling you this is though. If you can't understand Conservation of Momentum there is zero chance you'll understand relativity.

Try this - stop arguing with me. Clearly I'm not the teacher for you.

Go find some other people - show them this thread if you like. Then have them explain Conservation of Momentum to you. Also ask them to explain the difference between kinetic and electromagnetic energy.

Please do that before replying, otherwise we'll just be going in a circle.
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To your first point, of course people "talk their book." It's a chicken and egg problem. And though it's in theory possible for someone to convince the market that the price of something should be higher, it's virtually inconceivable for this to happen in the global energy market, especially if the party in question's financial interests are publicly known. (In less liquid markets, this can become a valid concern.)

Your second point is much more solid. I'd like to see more empirical data regarding people's risk preference across different contexts and magnitudes. Seems like an interesting topic.
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This time is different.
Not "taking things that don't belong to them", "seeing things others don't want them to". The reason it seems strange to you isn't a difference in morals or ethics but framing.
They sell it to whoever pays them highest in a region
I'm out west but love Montreal.
The single EU digital market [1] should go some way to solving this (if the owners want to make it available in the UK/IE then everyone else in the EU can see it too).

But I don't know how that will work with licensing to TV channels, which are still mostly national.

Improved intra-EU parcel delivery will be great, too.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/access/

(CZ is a middle sized country for the EU. Denmark, Ireland or Croatia are half the size, and there are five countries with <2M people — LT,EE,CY,LU,MT..)
jQuery is a dependency of Ember. Angular (at least 1.x) requires either jQuery or its own subset, jqLite. Cross browser incompatibility is still a thing and jQuery remains a very good tool for abstracting the differences.
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I'm really greatfull for the new Fetch API. For now we need to use a pollyfill for it which just uses XHR underneath. Safari and modern versions of IE/Edge are lacking support.
But what if you’re in Arizona? That state’s on Eastern Time, and most of it doesn’t observe daylight savings.
You can see that in the video in the article. The rise and fall of the blue dots over time.

SF housing didn't go bust during the 2001, but there was significantly less leverage in the system and home prices were significantly more affordable.
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Even having the drives may not mitigate issues of that kind. A variety of articles [0] describe unexpectedly (well, to consumers at least) short lifespans on CD-Rs. Lots of CD drives are still around, but you might be unpleasently surprised if you put in a 15 year old CD-R that's been sitting on the shelf.

[0] Google search: burned cd lifespan
Ok cool! Quebec city is smaller than Montreal, but so lovely especially during winter.
It's a bit of a stretch ... but now that it's mentioned I bet that the library of Alexandia did have a hell of a lot of folk tales and fiction from different cultures.
There's also PSYC. It looks promising and stood the test when it was deployed for video broadcasting a few large events.

Unfortunately, it seems that it's in an infinite, self-proclaimed "not really ready yet" phase, and not used widely.
Some useful links... github: https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack ; homepage: http://www.mlpack.org
What real estate and currency have in common, both being asset classes, is that they're a store of value. Currency has other properties (medium of exchange, unit of account) that Real Estate does not. People aren't meaningfully trading real estate as a medium of exchange or using it as a unit of account. So it's not even close to a currency.

OP might mean that Real Estate has become a leading store of value, on par with currency, due to the factors he outlines.
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I have a different reaction. I think the idea that you shouldn't be in it solely for the money is a way to protect against the emotional costs of near-certain failure. If money is your only goal, then failure will crush you. If you can point to all the non-monetary things you gained, then you came out on top no matter how the business itself ends.
As far as how much control Netflix retains over its internal vision/strategy in the long run, I'm not sure if there is anyone or any group in a position dominant enough to to swing the the company in a direction counter to its internal mission (http://ir.netflix.com/long-term-view.cfm). I think dedication to staying easy, convenient, ad-free, etc. is pretty critical to keeping the user base happy (beyond just being part of their core vision), and I don't see that changing for any reason for the time being.

It's an interesting thing to watch evolve over the next few years, but I know it sucks for most of the global market with the current catalog disparity. It's hard to say which of the platform or the content are the cart and the horse, though. Do you need the platform to deliver before you ramp the content, or do you need to ramp the content before you open up the platform?
Harvard has enough money in their endowment to easily have everyone go to there for free for centuries without changing a thing.
I don't think you are hearing the argument if this is your synthesis.

The article is saying that from an investment perspective it doesn't make sense to buy a house in SF right now if you work in tech.

It's not saying you shouldn't in general. If you derive a ton of value from buying a house, buy a house, just understand the risks of doing it, and buy less house so that if it goes down and you lose your tech job, it's not ruinous.
Thanks a lot.

Turns out I was subconsciously doing this kind of escalation. I called up a co-worker (who is now a manager in that company). He listened to my request in a friendly way and was willing to write a letter for me.

However, to verify the contents of that letter, he contacted my ex-manager. That put social pressure on him and he replied with the letter.

Gradual (but polite) escalation worked wonders.
Hey, something I know about! I actually worked on one of those research projects in college, programming the experiments. The idea is that there is a certain radius around the focal point where you stop being able to detect changes. I'm not sure what the final results were, but the theory was that you can calculate how blurry an image can be and still be discernable based on how far it is from the focal point of your vision. It was surprising how good people are at detecting changes in a blurry picture that's way out in their periphery.
They don't even need to detect proxies. When you sign up for Netflix you give them billing information. If you are a Canadian customer, they can always show you Canadian Netflix no matter where you are.

Otherwise, if they want to let you travel and take Netflix with you, they don't need to block 100% of proxies. They could probably automate detection of the most common proxies and VPN services. They care about the lazy 99% of people who won't go to great lengths to evade the system.
That really only suits funny people
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Yes, that seems like a huge limitation. Though the 5k iMac is wide gamut, so quite a bit better than sRGB. Are there even (consumer?) displays that have a significantly wider gamut?

http://blog.conradchavez.com/2015/10/26/a-look-at-the-p3-col...
wget -O - http://releases.ponylang.org/buildbot@lists.ponylang.org.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

This is not secure. Non https connections cannot be trusted. It is trivial for a cafe owner to MITM this and now he is generally trusted with your apt-get. BAD.
What is "boxen"?
Yeah, I'll be cancelling my Netflix account when this happens.
At this point I don't think there is a huge benefit in starting another protocol. There are problems with XMPP, but IMHO they're more in how it is organized than in the protocol itself. XMPP has surveyed a huge chunk of the space, it has seen where things are difficult and proposed a solution for that. It is in use by many entities already, with many different use cases (one of the later extensions (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0365.html) is to use XMPP over radios with atrocious conditions: latency in minutes, throughput as low as 75 bits/s. Also, for some reason XMPP has seen some success in military), it has all the benefits of being an approved IETF protocol (one of which being that it will still be here in 10 years, whatever happens). Sure, it's old stinky XML, but it's not like it's a brand new technology where little documentation exists. There are libraries in most languages already.

What we really lack is a bit more guidance: the XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) is only interested in making sure the standard is properly specified, that demands are met appropriately. It's a huge huge job, but for a community of developer it's not enough. There has already been talks to update the suite of extensions that are considered almost-mandatory in a modern IM software; it would also be really awesome to have a reference implementation for each usage (ie one server, one IM client, one VoIP client, one microblogging client, ...) because, like many others, I find tangible code we all agree on to be of very high value.

I fear that other protocols will be created, they will all (or at least a good part) die, and in the end we'll have XMPP, standing there in the waves of protocols, chugging along quietly. People will be mocking it not because it doesn't work, but because they don't understand it (and that will be a fault with XMPP, not with people, because it will remain extremely complex)
Interesting. This happened to me on the fifth and I assumed it had been an isolated glitch. The steps I had to take to make the thermostat work again were quite nonintuitive, and it was frustrating at how little help there was to be found in the available documentation.
Hey Dominic, that was a great story! As a 21-year old who has done some freelancing I felt identified with your story.

Right now I am at a stage, similar to the one you had, where I am thinking "Ok I've been paid to build stuff, that's cool. I've acquired programming and business skills which are really valuable. But now I want to build a product that's missing in my life".

Any advice for a younger folk with a similar career path as yours?
Neat. Does that apply to cars and houses and food as well?

The work has already been done and paid for, after all.
That's certainly how I do it. I find it very helpful to get a review of my changes, particularly before I begin on the next task.
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Top tier (and/or Ivy league) schools tend to have fairly generous financial aid packages, so this is a less shocking proposal than it might otherwise seem.

Disclaimer: not a Harvard grad
The definition of what is and is not a subsidies is extremely difficult to agree on, but many studies show renewable subsidies are large relative to fossil fuel subsidies. From Wikipedia:

"On March 13, 2013, Terry M. Dinan, senior advisor at the Congressional Budget Office, testified before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives that federal energy tax subsidies would cost $16.4 billion that fiscal year, broken down as follows:

Renewable energy: $7.3 billion (45 percent)
Energy efficiency: $4.8 billion (29 percent)
Fossil fuels: $3.2 billion (20 percent)
Nuclear energy: $1.1 billion (7 percent)"

(If you add in more items than the CBO does, you'll get different numbers, but this rapidly gets problematic. For example, in the US, R&D spending is not taxed, and can be deducted from gross revenue before calculating a tax bill. For some people, that means that the US subsidizes R&D for fossil fuel research, but since the US subsidies all R&D, I don't feel like this qualifies as a specific subsidy to fossil fuels. If you disagree, then renewable and fosssil fuel subsidies start to look more even, but nuclear subsidies dwarf both of them.)
I remember when it was announced - I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. It was announced in a smallish room, maybe about 25 people. At BarCamp, if I remember how it worked, everyone who showed up was required to talk about a subject. It was as community-driven an event as any I've ever been to. Lots of amateur presenters.

There was a guy there that John Resig had shown jQuery to the night before, and the guy was just raving about it. And when John showed off jQuery, it just was damn impressive.

Wish I could remember more, its a bit of a hazy memory now! :)
It sounds like I misread you.
This part is actually the one that is in the core of XMPP, so it doesn't work in theory, it just works everywhere (as long as administrators have allowed federation, of course).
This is precisely when and why I made the switch to mint.
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I use SoundCloud for exactly this.

Discovery of independent music, as well as remixes.

I have a huge SoundCloud playlist that I keep adding to.

I also use Spotify. Another huge playlist. More music I like.

I hate having to choose when I really want to mix the two playlists.
Which undermines creators' reach if that middleman imposes on them some restrictions, such as not using other distributors which ends up in this geoblocking and such. In the competitive digital market, such middlemen with exclusivity restrictions should not exist. The fact that distributors have such a sway that they can impose limitations shows that competition is poor (i.e. there aren't enough distributors or they have very uneven influence).
That's the same point I'm making! The protection and respect for law and due process is the only long term solution.
There's actually some excellent points in this for designing products, especially onboarding and default experiences. Too much effort to get to the actual work/core experience will tend to result in lack of use.
> I do not hear the "necessity is evil but we have to live with it". If people are not willing to prove their worth to the community and being scrutinized they should gracefully resign and admit they are not fit for the mission.

Great, so now they've all resigned and we're back to the start with no idea how to solve traffic congestion in a city with a bridge.

Best ask StackOverflow.

> Trying to access the documents ... they are not public domain, open licensed, nor indexed.

You have a long day ahead of you if you want to rant about non-open licensed academic papers
Off topic, but I propose we stop calling "unicorn" startups unicorns and instead call them zebras (based on the phrase "if you hear hooves, think horse, not zebra").

Unicorns are called unicorns based on the presumption that they don't actually exist. "Unicorn" startups exist and there are enough of them that calling them something imaginary is evidently wrong.

It would also make them sound less appealing (they're not magical and when it rains you may come to realize it was just a donkey with stripes painted on it all along). Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
> I don't know when everybody got so entitled that they were willing to go through whatever means necessary to get access to content otherwise unavailable to them

Why is it entitled to work around discriminatory behaviour based on country of origin?

If I went to your physical store and you said "Sorry, no Mexicans, we only sell to American residents" I wouldn't have any issue getting the products through another channel.

In fact hopefully my actions will help ruin any attempt at making a profit by engaging in such scummy discrimination and so I actually have a moral imperative to get the products through another channel.
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It could probably be abused in the way you describe. But I'm not sure it encourages it. I think it's a clever idea and seems like it could be handy even if you do nice, tidy commits.
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So how do you use any of those sites without the scripts working?
Wouldn't you use modulo 10000 and then avoid that error?

Sure, you might overwrite some files, but at least you wouldn't brick the thing.
You don't have a need to watch current TV shows.

You really don't.
No Backdoors but UK Government Still Wants Encryption Decrypted on Request…
Flip it around: Akrasia is the state of having flawed judgment about one's values. Of course the part of the brain that can speak always speaks highly of itself to the detriment of all the other bits of brain. The important thing is to convince all of yourself that something is worth doing. Telling yourself that you should do something is as persuasive as someone else chiding you to do it. Yes, the verbal, "planning" part of your brain has convinced itself, but it is also self-absorbed and treats the rest of the brain like its footstool.

For an example, "I should lose weight" is a ridiculously abstract concept to most of your brain. Your talky bit thinks it's saying something concrete: "Get that number on the scale down", but it hasn't actually said enough. It's a half-baked aspiration, not an activity. "I should exercise" is better: It prescribes an abstract activity that would accomplish the goal. It's still terrible though because it's still abstract. What is the value of exercise in the abstract? You don't experience exercise in the abstract: how could you possibly judge whether it is rewarding or not? How can you decide to "exercise" when exercise isn't even a real thing?

"I should run" is even better: You know how running feels. You can feel good running, and you can feel bad running. There are actual experiences and knowledge to draw upon to determine the value of running. Still: Not enough. Should you be running all the time? Verbal brain is being awfully sloppy, and has the gall to blame the rest of the brain for its mistakes. "I should run tomorrow in the morning for 30 minutes when I wake up." And we have arrived at remedy #3 which is called implementation intention. Honestly, what other intentions are actually intentions? If you're not planning concrete actions but abstract classes of actions, you're daydreaming, not planning. Verbal brain likes to talk about how important obligations and commitments are, but avoids doing the work of translating its precious thoughts into something intelligible to the rest of the brain.

The verbal part of your brain is easily convinced: By its own words. It doesn't even know what it has convinced itself of but it is awfully satisfied with itself. You, the ensemble of brain bits, are obviously skeptical of such a gullible entity. When you experience satisfaction or gratification for doing something, that is real knowledge to your brain; you learn what is good and what is bad. Of course you're going to prefer real knowledge over the ravings of an imbecile about the great rewards of not-even-a-real-thing.
Probably because the justification goes as far as "I'm doing something some random megacorp doesn't want me to do" - and the average person could care less what a bunch of faceless millionaires (most of the time) think about what they do.

Let's just throw the legalistic argument out in advance. It holds as much weight in people's minds as the speed limit does.

Availability is part of it yes.

Another part of it is respect, and the media industry has a systemic problem with showing any to its paying customers. Those in charge have yet to realize that all the DRM, all these systems serve to inconvenience people who want to give them money in the first place - and I think the idea that people can be chided into giving due deference to the whims of huge corporations when said corporations won't even do something as simple as sell usable product, is just a bit backwards.

Yet another part of it is practicality, and XKCD says it better than I can: https://xkcd.com/488/
Google Closure also satisfies these, no?
The premise is that you should consider your broad life portfolio, and with sufficient reflection, most people would probably want to diversify their life. Have written about this before:

http://www.snow.ventures/blog/2015/12/10/diverisify-your-lif...

And yes, everything is connected, but connected to different degrees. That's just an input in how you think about your risk.

We cannot entirely escape system risk (insofar as we are all part of one big system) but that doesn't mean we can't diversify away from out exposure to individual systems (bay area tech for example).
> So who has control?

The shareholders who appoint the board who appoints the CEO.

> Why are we(the shareholders) paying the top CEOs if they cant control their company?

No CEO has 100% control of their company.

> Why should they be rewarded for hurting us?

You should have picked better. Like any employer, you are responsible for the ultimate cost of the actions of your employees. The title doesn't magically change that.

> How do cultures get established and reinforced if not through management's expectations and actions?

You should have the Board fire the CEO if you believe the CEO is the problem. It isn't like shareholders have no recourse.

Ultimately, the Board/shareholders are the CEO's boss. The buck stops there as far as who is responsible for employing everyone at the company [including the CEO]. Simply because you want a scapegoat doesn't change where the power rests.

> I think all of these questions point to the fact that we are letting those reaping the benefits abrogate the responsibilities.

Yes, shareholders push for profits before other factors and have abrogated their civil responsibility by not picking differently.

Instead, shareholders pick people that they think will maximize their personal wealth.

Similarly, the C-suite is heavily compensated in stock and destruction and/or value loss of said stock impacts their personal financial decision directly. If you truly are concerned, you can always "lock" stock compensation for N years to keep the CEO from selling it so short sighted decisions will bite them on the ass even after they left their post.