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> The shortsightedness of this article [...] is breathtaking. [...] Celebrating Chinese buying more SUVs, the worst automotive fashion in the last two decades? Yeah, great.

Did we read the same article? There are many consequences for the oil crash. The article doesn't claim to rank all consequences - it just reports on a BofA study about the size of the wealth transfer. It also cites an increase in Chinese SUV purchases. Since when is reporting on facts equivalent to "celebrating" them?
Or maybe it's because your comment doesn't add anything constructive. I mean, even your username is a complaint...
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Actually, the farmland will just move. Northern regions will become more arable. There will be disruption but maybe nothing we can't handle.
To clarify what delazeur meant:

g already means "9.8 m/s²"

Thus, normal gravity is 1g and free fall is 0g. 9.8g would mean 9.8 times the gravity at Earth surface, that is "96 m/s²". You would feel almost ten times as heavy. For reference:

Jupiter "surface" gravity is 25.9 m/s²

Sun "surface" gravity is 274 m/s²
I do the same with plain text.
I find the low tech is very durable, if not such a snazzy experience.
A RAD tool that allows one person to define a GUI and hook it up to a spreadsheet that can do file access, database access, sockets, email, TWAIN image acquisition, and produce an executable or a web app.

Something that competes with and obliterates Facebook by just extending Email. Just present my email in a timeline format, allow me to block people who I don't want to get messages from again. status updates would be CCs to all my contacts or only a database entry to a free, non-siloed server. Instant messages would be either on IRC or XMPP within the same client.

There you have it, buddy. Go conquer!
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I'm not a C/C++ dev, so forgive my ignorance. Is Visual Studio [Community] not the standard anymore?
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USO is an ETF based off of a basket of futures contracts. The problem with owning USO is that there is basically inefficiency when rolling futures contracts and there is a some decay in the price. If you truly want to play in oil, best to use the futures themselves. Futures are the highest leverage instruments available, so be careful to note their size, but there is nothing more risky about futures than the equivalent notional value of stocks.
I own an octa-core chinese phone from late 2014 purchased for 300 bucks, it does everything I need in a smartphone. why would I need to buy a new one?
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Hughes Hoppe has done a variety of research that depends on finding interesting parameterizations of meshes. His papers aren't exactly lightweight on the math, but you may find some ideas there:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/vfd...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/lap...
The texturing just helps your eye "fill in the gaps." As far as difficulty, I just don't know of a general way to do it. The only thing that comes to mind is some sort of iterative approximation or something.
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> And when the Saudis have made their point, they'll drop production, prices will go back up, everything will return to normal, more or less.

When Saudis drop production, they stop acting against fracking. In that case, normal means about $60-$70 per barrel. It's the point where fracking starts making financial sense.
Sounds like a really interesting book! I read the synopsis and the mainstream is sorely in need of a approach that acknowledges the extreme complexity and heterogeneity of an economy. Nothing irks me more than to see Paul Krugman speak of the world as if it can be quantified in a handful of "aggregate" variables and then blame his political enemies any time things don't go according to plan.
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I agree with you about salary. You can move up in salary and title, and the data here seems to suggest that it won't make a huge difference whether you majored in CS at MIT or San Jose State - you need to go to a proper program, sure, but prestige isn't nearly as big a factor as it is in many other fields.

That said, I'm not sure you're responding to my question, which is whether there is a hidden difference in kind rather than in salary. For instance, your background may not matter if you're moving up to what I cynically describe as "mid/senior crud big fixer", and it may be that those jobs pay as well as "mid/senior data scientist" who works in an R&Dish role without looking deadlines or scrum tickets. Even if both earn the same salary, I consider one role to be much more desirable than the other (though I actually do kind of enjoy chasing down bugs sometimes).

Does the MIT grad have a better crack at the more interesting, R&Dish job with greater autonomy, less micromanagement, fewer deadlines? It's a question, not a conclusion (I suspect it's true, but I acknowledge that I don't have the data to support it). If so, I wouldn't say background rarely matters - it does matter, but it won't show up in the numbers if all you're looking at is salary.
This is fascinating stuff. What I find super interesting is that Industry becomes significantly more important the more experienced the developer.

The only thing I can think of that would make this even better is if I could filter the data by geographic region.
That's generally the same in Michigan unless it is a subdivision/residential area, but even then it's rare for a cop to waste the time. It's possible to get a ticket for going 1-5 MPH over the limit. It's described as a "we can find a reason to pull you over for what we want to pull you over for but do not have enough evidence to do so" such as you're having done something suspicious at a known drug house or someone calling about how many drinks you've had at a bar despite you not driving suspiciously. It's crap, but it's common.

Most of the time people receiving the 1-5 MPH tickets are receiving them for violating the speed well beyond that amount (with the actual clocked speed written on the ticket). This encourages people to just pay the ticket without fighting it since they've been given a much lower civil infraction and it makes it a lot harder to succeed in court since the judge knows "radar calibration/accuracy" is much less likely with the written, clocked speed.
Any 'detriment' will be temporary. We all play games with novel controls, and are willing to learn that. Why not a new browser? In fact, something new could get a cult following, if its actually even a little better in any way.

I'm in favor or innovation, even in user interfaces. Otherwise we'd not have automatic doors (which had remained unchanged for 2000 years) or windows that slide up and down. Or TV remotes.
It didn't "not work" but neither of my kids have gmail accounts so they can't see the calendar on their devices.

I just thought there might be something a little more vertical/family-focused.
Anecdotal again, but if it helps anyone else - my SO used to suffer with regular migraines, but since taking daily magnesium they have completely gone away
I suggest you read http://www.examiner.com/article/wikipedia-s-new-editing-soft... (especially from "His name is Oliver Keyes"). Our herald of sensitivity was previously known for outburst like

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[12:19:50 A] <Ironholds> thank you

TBH, he looks more and more like a troll, and pretty talented at shit stirring. And removing people like that from your projects is best done early.
I fooled around with it a while ago. Made my screen rotate based on accelerometer measurements: https://github.com/roevhat/tpRotate/
> Based on the simulation results, we estimate that a 10 percent increase in gasoline prices will generate a 0.22 percent increase in fleet fuel economy in the short run (one year)

> We also find that sustained $4.00 per gallon gasoline prices will generate a 14 percent long-run increase in fleet fuel economy relative to 2005 levels, although this prediction should be interpreted cautiously in
light of the relatively large out-of-sample price change considered and the Lucas critique (Robert E. Lucas, Jr. 1976)

The strength of the effect of oil prices on fleet efficiency is 0.0022 over a year. I would consider that extremely incremental. Meanwhile, we observe a 22% decrease in total car sales over the 2007-2009 period due to changes in disposable income and household wealth. [1]

So I would still argue that gas prices change the fleet efficiency mix around the margin, but that purchasing decisions are driven primarily by changes in income, government policy, and social norms.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2014/files/20...
Reminds me of this recent article where the author attempts to do just that: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time-...
Regarding your question at the end - I firmly believe that doctors and day-to-day medical professionals traditionally despise discussions regarding supplementation. This his extremely anecdotal of course, but there seems to be some kind of 'wall' - probably on purpose - where medical professionals believe that only the knowledge on the inside of the wall has merit. This can be seen in the marketing/'re-evaluation' of opiates like Oxycontin, where once the establishment type leadership said it was okay, a lot of doctors started writing up scripts with this encouragement, and now the US is in the grips of a horrible addiction crisis.

It's not that medical professionals don't appreciate healthy living - it's that I frankly don't believe they're trained to promote healthy living. Rather, they treat symptoms. Some things are easier to figure out than others, and anything outside of the 'wall' is more often than not viewed in a negative light.
The $100 dollar barrel was a huge mistake, if the price was engineered through cartel maneuvers. It launched shale oil but, much more importantly, it made solar cheaper one decade ahead of time.

The solar energy cat is out of the bag[1], it will forever loom over oil.

[1] http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/striking-chart-sh...
Yep -- tablet makers biffed by not building in 2-year obsolescence. "Consumers" are much more profitable when you can tell them when to "consume."
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I went to Stanford. It doesn't get me promotion. But it does get me interviews. So indirectly yeah I earn more because of it, since I'm in the short list for many job applications.
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I was disappointed to see it was OS X only, but having written several GUIs (single and cross platform), I understand the trade off they made.

It really is one-platform or web, and web is not for everyone (least of all programmers writing notes about their code at work.)
yep, you're right! sorry...
there's a way to edit link?
> So however you find it, just a couple of hours of, say, having a conversation where you don't feel like the worst loser in the universe and the nadir of civilization, that just shows you something about life.

It really would have been nice for me while i was a child. yes. i should have been given ketamine as a child. my depression was so bad for most of my life that i could count the days where i didn't feel depressed, didn't feel like a leper or a zombie going through the motions of life, and it protected itself: at some point i just stopped acting out my terrible feelings because it seemed like it only caused trouble with the adults and alienated me from my peers. that became a feedback loop that prevented me from expressing depressive sentiments for over a decade. if i could have been functional enough even for one week to clearly explain what was wrong to someone, maybe the structural defects in my life that caused my depression could have been ameliorated.

but that's all hindsight. i want to live in a world where no child is left to wallow in their depression. i don't know what you've been through and (maybe still?) go through, but it sounds awfully similar to what i deal with. i wish you didn't have to.
That's really a figment of IDC's decision to count Microsoft Windows tablets and 2-in-1s as tablets when the tablet format is usually more incidental than essential. (1)

It also means that IDC's PC industry numbers are also misleading. If somebody buys a Windows 2-in-1, that gets counted as a tablet and not counted as a PC. This makes the PC market decline look worse than it really is.

(1) "Pure" Windows tablets -- ones with ARM chips that didn't run traditional x86 software -- crashed and burned.
I haven't done exactly this myself but exporting all of your notes as HTML would be a start. The header has all of the metadata about the note.
unless you're dealing with sufficiently large integers computing the intersect between a line and a plane with any robustness is impossible on modern computers with float or double. sometimes when you intersect meshes that have nearly coplanar faces, the intersection might shoot vertices near some infinity because of division inaccuracy.
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From the abstract:

> "Dietary deficiencies of magnesium, coupled with excess calcium and stress may..."

Looks like Calcium may be part of the problem, not the solution. Although it is perfectly possible that in your case you had a Calcium deficiency and benefited from extra Calcium. If nothing else, this highlights the fact that people are different!
I agree entirely with your first paragraph. I didn't realize how much I wanted a tablet until I had one, but my current tablet is almost 4 years old and I'm not in any hurry to replace it. Compare to me just having gotten my 4th smartphone in a bit under 6 years.
How is this supposed to create more creditworthy borrowers?
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>It would be impossible to have "a better life for everyone" without economic growth. //

Can you go in to this more - for example I have a better life now on half the wage I had before, less means but more of the non-material blessings of life (time with family primarily). It seems if there was wide scale emulation of this that outputs in the [UK] financial system would decline but happiness/fulfilment would increase.

>That is considered "growth" to an economist, yes. //

Is there a name given to such metric generally? If GDP goes down but leisure time increases and leads a increase in health (and reduced health spending) then generally economists would refer to that as "economic growth"?
I've created a few campaigns with this, great for onboarding SDRs quickly.
>But the growth problems of Japan is largely an illusion and myth caused by population decline.

The piece that many miss when discussing Japan's high quality of life despite lack of growth is that in order to maintain 0% growth over the last 20 years, the central government had to borrow and spend nearly 10% of GDP every single year.
The originator of the notebook UI is Mathematica if I recall correctly. You can try the web version at [1] - it doesn't quite have the elegance of the desktop one, but is a much better notebook than Jupyter in my experience.

[1]: https://lab.open.wolframcloud.com/app/view/newNotebook?ext=n...
My SO used to get regular migraines, but since taking daily magnesium they've completely stopped
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It's really just that most nutritional supplements have either low-quality supporting data or contradictory data. The hype surrounding the field of nutrition is not matched by its benefits.

This is not to say that there is no future for it. Rather, it is to say that there is a huge future for it, because at present the field has little to offer backed by strong evidence.
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> This shouldn't be a massive surprise

Except for the "economics" "institutes" which extrapolated the first-year sales onto the next 20 years and were adamant that tablets would soon™ replace desktop, laptops, phones, cats, and, finally, hydrogen atoms in the sun, because somehow "infinite growth" and "crash" are the only possible business models.

Same crap as with the netbook "boom" that was supposed to revolutionize EVERYTHING!!1 for about a year.
Is there anything supporting that school of thought? I think the evidence shows otherwise: http://www.aei.org/publication/what-makes-a-terrorist/
Their climate will become more arable... However, northern soil tends to be very nutrient-poor.

Also, the southern hemisphere will have no such recourse.
Good catch, I think you are correct!
Agreed.

I built a simple data table component for a company I was interviewing with a while ago [1]. At first, I placed the pagination controls at the bottom because it felt like the natural thing to do, but later I discovered that the UX for navigating between pages with different number of items (or larger items spanning multiple lines) felt rather sub-par because of the variable height table making the pagination controls shift up and down from page to page. Moving the pagination controls to the top (fixed position) makes navigation feel completely effortless in comparison.

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Awesome, thanks. I'll check that out.
I think a lot of people have also been burned by utterly crap cheap tablets. There are thousands of sub $100 tablets, and I don't think any of them are worth while. Some are downright off-putting in their uselessness and lack of speed. I figure there's a subset of super-non-techies out there who've bought one of these at TJ Maxx and have now sworn off all Android tablets.
How many mg magnesium do you take and when do you take it?
Yeah usually gets messy. E.g. the Babel author's experience
I use QtCreator: It's pretty solid and has good and fast code completion.
So their physical death is faked, but they are effectively dead to the community because of the breach of trust.
looks great, but desktop app are so 2000! I would start working on a web version if I were you.
But then what? What do you do with someone who has done that?

Report him to his local police? Collecting money on that basis is criminal fraud in lots of localities.

Otherwise, ugh, yeah, not much you can do besides serious shunning.
Neither do phones now on MOST us carriers. Now we have 2 year leases.
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Hmm.. It's not worth it for me right now. I am using supervisord which works brilliantly
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I think so, depending on how you define the word.

If it includes "intense dislike," I think most people have those. Exes who cheated on them, friends who did terrible things, etc.

If it means "people you'd go out of your way to cause harm to," then it's probably not as common, but certainly it's not unheard of. My brother has been attacked by 3 men, and harassed by a sheriff (separate incidents) for dating the wrong woman--I imagine things like that are pretty common, though I don't have any in my own personal history.
I realized I am so pavlovian conditioned to expect bullet points regarding an open source javascript framework at the other end of the link, that I had to read the article twice just to make sure it was about something I could drink [where "drink" is not a javascript package manager].

An article as refreshing as an espresso.
They must have a very persuasive pitch. They've raised nearly $1.4B without publicly revealing any kind of product.
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What would be some of the improvements making slack native? I don't have many problems with the current one other than it is quite large.
The netbook did change laptops to be smaller and (Windows) cheaper then they were before they came out. I bought my wife an EEE netbook and it was super cheap at $499.