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> Is that really an issue? How does that happen now?

Well currently you don't get unemployment benefit if you're in any kind of employment, AIUI, so my hypothetical "person with six jobs who's fired from five of them" would not be eligible (or would have to quit their remaining job if they couldn't find others quickly enough).
An interesting aspect of Monopoly hate not discussed so far is the analogy with computer graphics / VR "uncanny valley".

Much like a CGI face can approximate a human closely enough to be just far enough off to be repellent, an individual board game can approximate the ideal of a really good game yet end up so far off the mark that it lands in the uncanny valley of dislike.

Most of the general public doesn't like political activism, and the game being invented as a piece of propaganda, more or less, it not going to appeal to most people because its propaganda, and even worse, some of why the game sucks might have been required for propaganda purposes. And that circularizes the argument for the general public, see why political propaganda is bad, it made the Monopoly game suck by dumping to the bottom of the uncanny valley therefore propaganda is bad.

In summary I'd theorize that game appeal follows an uncanny valley curve and unfortunately right at the bottom of the trench is where you'll find Monopoly.
The app starts by showing the login and therefore requires to be registered first. However, on the official website I can listen without registering. An API requirement I guess. A regular user will probably be registered anyway.

But the login looks exactly like the official page. So is this just a wrapper for the website or do they actually add value ?
Obama says he wouldn't run for a third term, even if he could
Curious. When you say "powerful" , in what way do you mean? For what purpose? What i mean to ask is, in what way does it become powerful for you personally?
No problem on my system - Air, 2012, OSX latest
If you call a bank or another entity, that has your bank information on record, and claim to be someone specific, can answer basic questions and knows the full IBAN - perhaps they believe you are who you claim to be. This is social engineering, and it works.
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That figure, thrown in without anything to back it up, seems truly insane. I'm British, but have an ongoing battle with keeping stuff I don't really need (and buying in bulk too), and I'm pretty sure even including all of my fianceé's possessions we wouldn't come anywhere close to 300k items. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of American homes don't contain anything like that number of items, unless you count each individual piece of pasta and grain of rice as a thing.
It's official.
PON is now a thing.
UCSF does not operate at the scale LabCorp and Quest do and hence cannot benefit from economies of scale.
Also, Theranos might not have the option to outsource to one of the big two, and hence operates with the smaller entity, which charges them a "special" fee, given the "special" situation.
In other words: it is a price dictated by business decisions and not based on economics.

PS: The WSJ article is more of an effort by Walgreens to do damage control and try to distance themselves from Theranos.
Most likely their brand took a hit from this association.
(also, it looks like Walgreens loaned Theranos $50mil for this deal)
Top 1% is (based on http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/) >$400k / year income. The billionaires this article talks about are in much, much higher brackets - maybe something like top %0.01

* P.S. based on another source [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2015/01/26/...], it's state-dependent and the highest I see is $678k in CT
This depends on reflect. What's the speed penalty?
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> 5. Use Redux.js

Well, that is not really something every React.js beginner should know. Feels weird to say that a X beginner should learn framework Y since he is probably just interested in X...

> 6. Always use propTypes

Worth mentioning that this slows down your application since React needs to check all the props. Don't forget to set NODE_ENV=production when compiling your production script.
99% of times we need to send proof that we are students, what is interesting is that many companies accept that even if it's not in English. Probably on good faith.

In Brazil, universities can use .edu.br, but we have few universities providing email addresses to students and also, the majority of grad schools in Brazil are not universities but a small college called 'University Center'
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> Tokyo might not have the SV's startup "scene" but apart from funding, it has pretty much all infrastructure a software startup needs, just like any large city in a developed country does: fast, reliable internet connection, a functioning legal system, and enough qualified labor.

I was trying to pre-empt "San Francisco is just as expensive as Tokyo". Yes it is, but it has a lot of startup-specific infrastructure that may (or may not) be worth the excess cost. (Likewise NYC/London/Berlin). If you just want the things you list, you can go somewhere much cheaper than Tokyo (e.g. central US, northern/western Europe - as you say, any large city in a developed country will do).
Had had a good play with that lib earlier on debian, it's pretty cool! Very lightweight (considering) and I tossed it a few pictures of stuff, and it's quite impressive. I particularly liked my eBay shopping history. Didn't like my landscape photos so much, but it's likely to be that it hasn't been trained on any...

What would be fantastic is a way to recover some sort of rough coordinates of what the classification have found.
Theranos operates under the explicit assumption blood Is homogeneous for a large number of markers and that any two nanotainer sized samples will be identical. If they are not, then in principle nanotainers can not work because the sample size is too small.
> national identity will fall by the wayside as they come to the crushing realization that national identity doesn't put food on the table or keep the lights on

You know, every other nation in Europe has a period in history when they were persecuted and being deliberately destroyed, both physically and psychologically. Sometimes for hundreds of years. We've got "killing fields" and battlefields everywhere - please, do take into an account a legacy of more than 2000 years of non-stop, all-out wars - and more than one such a field was created specifically for people of one nationality. On the other hand, almost every single nation in Europe has a (mostly real! but sometimes imagined) "golden age" in their history they can cling to; a period where that nation was (possibly a part of) a global superpower.

Given that, I don't believe nationalism is going to die just because people are getting hungry. I mean, lots and lots of death, torture, persecution, as well as preaching, propaganda, and education didn't kill nationalism - why do you think lack of money would? Some European nations are practically built upon martyrdom and, if anything, it made European nationalism even harder to leave behind, change or even soften a little.

> Europe will start to look more like Canada and the US

I'm repeating myself here, but discarding more than 2k years of history is dangerous when making predictions about the future. Europe already was a melting pot of cultures for a while, back when nation-states were not fashionable yet. A few times, at that, in different ages. Never once did this make Europe a peaceful continent or made nationalism disappear.

US and Canada are unique in that, historically, it's a bunch of people getting together and promising to leave the past behind. That, of course, doesn't take into account American natives, but whatever: that's NOT happening in Europe. You'd have to demolish most of the cities to destroy thousands of buildings and sculptures still, remainding Europeans about just how heinous their neighbour is or just how just was their neighbours massacre. And that's the easiest part, because then you'd have to destroy and eradicate a good part of culture and art. And then, after a couple of generations under heavy propaganda, maybe you'd have a place roughly comparable with US.
Okay, I checked on the details. The verbatim message was "Help! We're being held prisoner in a software factory!". Close enough! :)
The entire article explains what the string is doing there. You don't have to speculate.
I think that you're missing my point a bit with respect to Ginsberg's not being a victim. As I attempted to express earlier, he is perhaps correct about the value of upper-level management in universities (just as some management in modern corporations have dubious merit). When it comes to issues such as the adjunctification of academia or the tuition spiral, however, university professors share in the culpability by commanding 6 digit salaries and lifelong employment. It's not really fair to throw many extremely useful and necessary administrators under the bus when they make a 1/3rd of what a professor makes without any of the job security or power.
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Monopoly is such an underrated game. It's about negotiation and alliances. I think their biggest mistake is calling it Monopoly, implying it was one person killing off everyone else. It might be more interesting if it was called Balance of Power.

It has to be played with around 4+ people. They need to trade favors along with their land. With enough players, the favors owed last long enough to make a difference.

The randomness simply makes negotiation power the main focus of the game. E.g. if you land on a rival's hotel and go broke, a rich ally can pay you premium on your land. You'll realize early on that everyone is either going to be doomed or super-rich, so it's worth being diplomatic really early on.

When someone starts to snowball into a monopoly, they have to start laying low, while the others have to encourage the others to pile pressure. The players have to notice this trend early, at the point where it makes sense to 'blacklist' certain players.

It's a game with about as much depth as Settlers of Catan, without having to worry about too much complexity.
Thanks for this.

I once tried to run a tabletop RPG at a convention based on an agent-based economic simulation.

I ended up coding all night on the night before the game, not managing to get my simulation not to diverge, and running a great game anyway :)
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Yes, Swift should do the same thing. Format on save. So much time is wasted on style guides.
Someone doesn't like HackerNews.
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Summary: The wealthy are using non-profits, charities, and foundations to push political agendas at the expense of taxpayers who are footing the bill because these institutions are also tax write-offs.

The article focuses on these organizations pushing advocacy, but I would also add that many "non-profit" organizations are actually incredibly profit-focused. An early introduction to this for me was growing up next to the Christian Broadcasting Network, a charitable organization that was raking in millions of dollars selling alternative medicines, opening five-star restaurants, hosting luxurious retreats, while also raking in donations from the poor people who would tune into the show seeking god's grace [1].

I see the same thing with Mega Churches, which are springing up like fast food franchises all over the DC-Metro region. These enormous buildings are raking in profits every Sunday while giving nothing back in taxes to pay for the roads, utilities, and emergency services the community provides for them. Taxpayers are losing $71 billion a year in revenues because of these for-profit franchises [2].

It isn't just religious institutions either. I've stopped giving blood to the American Red Cross in favor of donating it directly to my local hospital so they don't have to pay the overhead that comes with Red Cross blood [3]. The DC-Metro area is packed with "non-profits" that are really for-profit companies that pay out their profits directly to CEOs and board members while sending lobbyists to the National Mall to buy expensive lunches for our Representatives.

The article notes that the alternative is the European system of not providing tax-breaks for these organizations--which results in much fewer organizations. It's hard for me to accept that when I think of all the organizations I perceive as doing good in America, but maybe they aren't really doing good and are simply enjoying the good sentiments that come with the words "charity" and "non-profit?"

[1] http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20070327/NEWS/70327037...

[2] http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/how-to-make-71...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/07/business/all-about-blood-b...
I believe that such openness from the govnerment is actually helping you implement a more sound security procedure. If all of that information is well known to be publicly available, there is much more awareness that it is unless as authorisation.
And the user don't care.

They just see the X11 driver allowing them to define their own areas etc on a touchpad, while libinput does not.

As the old "joke" about MS Office goes, 99% of their users use only 1% of the functionality. But they all use a different 1%.

Yet MS products are what has been adopted massively across the world, in large part because MS have a history of bending over backwards to not break user space.

Right now the Linux user space is pulling a "deal with it" move at massive scale, something more in tune with Apple than MS.

This will likely alienate both current and prospective users. Just look at the shit storm that happened when Apple dropped their Xserve range virtually over night.
...is irrational, a response to fear.

You do realize that fear isn't always (or even usually) irrational, right?
Self reflection has rather different effects on me personally depending on the source of stress.

Taking a moment to contemplate during a short term stressful episode (losing a wallet, dropping a plate, etc) I find very useful.

For longer term issues, especially those with no clear resolution, I find self reflection to be negative. One example would be e.g. the state of housing in the UK. I just have to live with that - further contemplation makes it worse.
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There is a huge list of games that "fired" other games like this on boardgame geek:
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/50286/games-fired-other-g...?
Of all the movies Kinski has done I saw Aguirre and "The Great Silence". I really liked Aguirre because it has a more positive vibe to it. The anti-happy-end of "The Great Silence" is also very appealing, yet really depressing.
Nevertheless, certainly one of the best movies I've ever seen. You can say what you want about Kinski, he was a great actor and I highly recommend watching at least some of his movies.
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The comment about chess is just astounding to me:

"The queen, which can move horizontally, vertically or diagonally, is nothing more than a combination of the rook and the bishop, making it an inelegant redundancy."

Whoever stated that has never played chess to the level they should before even attempting to comment on the game.

Chess would seem to me to be one of the ultimate games for humans; it's simple enough to teach a child, but few adults can come close to mastering it.

Even the term "chess master" is a bit of a lie. To be a "chess master", you'd have to know the perfect solution move for every board configuration- forget openings, gambits, tactics- that's child's play compared to truly mastering the game. People called "masters" are just really damn good- not perfect.

In comparison, I am a "tic tac toe" master. I know that I can fail to lose at the game if I try.
Then I'm sure you'll be happy to post your tax returns here, right?
I enjoy this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1FS0OYG08O1UD/ref...

> This book was a huge disappointment. The authors try to draw parallels between the current high-tech/Internet phenomenon and previous "manias." However, their rational is very poor. As an example, they say the Internet Bubble will burst just like biotechnology did. What they fail to mention is that Internet usage and penetration has grown faster than anything in the history of mankind. Furthermore, Internet companies are posting revenues and mainly losing money because it is a market share game right now. Biotech companies, on the other hand, never had any revenue until they had a drug on the market. They only focus on the negatives and don't provide both sides of the story. This type of faulty reasoning is why I believe your money would be better spent on other Internet books.

We are right back to the "share game". Although profits are in a better place, and there do appear to be strong winners today, the companies making money (Google and Facebook) are doing so at the expense of companies who are losing money ta make market share, which makes the whole thing feel like a giant house of cards.
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I'm not a React or Angular expert, but do you really put HTML inside of your JS code? It just bothers me too much. We spent years in early web days learning that code and templates should be separate, yet here we are putting HTML inside of code, which goes against years of practice. Can anyone share their professional thoughts about this?
If, as you claim, black doctors, engineers and scientists do not exist in South Africa and the country is > 90% black, then clearly that is a problem for the country as a whole, and fixing it will improve life for everyone.

One supply-side fix for that is to send more people to school to learn these skills. One demand-side fix for that is to make sure that the people who have those skills get jobs.

I can well imagine, that after decades of being systematically excluded from these positions, the transition will be hard. Unlike you, I'm not rushing to blame the current government for the impact of decisions that were made many years ago.
I completely agree with you. Will try to revert back to email/password based login.

Cannot remove login as then the features of social network will make no sense. Thanks for the feedback.
In the spirit of "reading philosophy backwards" [1]:

Peirce is spot-on about "force"—in the 138 years since this essay, there has been no progress on the question of "what is force?", but huge progress on the question "what mathematical relations do forces satisfy?". Peirce must be writing in opposition to someone's unsuccessful attempts to describe or define the nature of "force". (But who was that?)

I'm less convinced about "hardness". Today we'd be happy to describe the hardness of an object even if it never came into contact with anything, whereas Peirce writes, "There is absolutely no difference between a hard thing and a soft thing so long as they are not brought to the test." But maybe that's because we conceptualize "hardness" differently from Peirce? That is, now we think of hardness as an intrinsic property that can be deduced from the structure and chemical composition of an object and measured on something like the Brinell scale (1900), whereas Peirce is thinking about it as a partial order based on something like the Mohs scale (1812)?

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philoso...
> Monopoly is such an underrated game. It's about negotiation and alliances. I think their biggest mistake is calling it Monopoly, implying it was one person killing off everyone else. It might be more interesting if it was called Balance of Power.

Ironically, Balance of Power is an actual game, and it's single-player.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_(video_game)
I’ve hoped for a long time that SoundCloud would release an alternative to iTunes to capitalize on the many podcasts on their platform. iTunes is such a goddamn POS, and I wish a private company would take up the challenge, at least when it comes to podcasts.
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The example that is used to show the case for the library can be written as https://play.golang.org/p/tuhGjqZlu0 . This is simpler than the code with the library.
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There's some interesting complications to the idea of an underlying Cartesian ECEF coordinate system as physical reality. For one thing, gravitational distortion (Earth tide) changes the shape of the solid part of the Earth by ~50cm twice a day. This would be a huge unwanted effect when doing high precision surveys, but it's removed when producing coordinates in the international terrestrial reference frame. If you have a nearby reference station which shares the common periodic motion this is relatively easy. If not, the software needs to be aware of the periodic motion and remove it explicitly.

I'm constantly amazed that the whole system can be made to work at such high precision - sub 10cm from a moving aerial survey platform with decent gear. There's rather a lot of correction factors to get just right when pinning a consistent coordinate system on a squishy rotating blob like the Earth.
Yeah, great counterexample. I was thinking, "but continued fractions... that rings a bell..." -- couldn't figure out what seemed off about it, though.
It's not a hash since it's reversible.
But you don't need a web browser...
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In this case, her gender and her looks are actually relevant, since most VCs are male, and it would be naive to assume that VCs are completely immune to the influence of a young, attractive woman.
And what they found was... nothing? This is a strange article, you keep thinking they are going to tell you something interesting. And then they don't. For example, they have a map showing that helicopters took the same routes: it's almost as if people are flying to and from the same airports and there's some sort of plan in place for where they fly. Who knew?

Chartering a helicopter flight from Zürich to Davos can cost as much as $10,000. We built our helicopter-tracking rig for under $200.

Is that supposed to be some weird juxtaposition?

Almost feels like this entire article is a justification for them being able to expense the cost of building an ADS-B set up.
I agree that Soundcloud is a great place to find unknown artists and new music, just as MP3.com was 16 years ago. Perhaps it can be larger than Spotify in terms of users and VC money that it can attract. None of these services will be valuable businesses as their revenue model is fundamentally flawed and the competition runs essentially the same business on much lower margins.

The largest music streaming site on the web is Youtube and it charges nothing for the service, nor generally admits, that it holds this distinction. The consumer will pay, but very little, when there is a free alternative.
Well, you may gain increased security on your Amazon account..
Gilmore's reply seems to be in the context of a thread that had discussed the DES chip.
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Public domain is part of copyright law. In addition, it is very western-centric to assume that all jurisdictions have as liberal public domain law as Western countries. CC0 means that works will be put in the public domain (or as close as possible) in all jurisdictions. The only negative of CC0 is that it permits patenting of CC0 works, which is quite a weird thing to explicitly allow.