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Uncomfortable? Definitely not, I'd say. Your judgement may be too harsh because it tries to focus on quite abstract aspects. What about a practical example instead?

There are quite a few (historic) films that I like very much. I'd love to show those to my younger sister or brother. But that one scene where somebody has their throat cut -- there's no way I can show that. But without that scene, it makes a great movie, even for younger audiences.

Moreover, your criticism states that skipping things is always bad. That's not true, of course. In practice, you can make good cuts and bad cuts. And to achieve good results, one has to make reasonable cuts that preserve all the important parts and don't hurt the film. If this is done, it can be a wonderful experience.
That's well outside of what is commonly understood by "one of those pesky free trials". That's some other contract that someone would have to have agreed to.

It would be very hard to convince a judge that you honestly believed, based on reading that slogan, that Privacy.com would somehow release you automatically from any terms of any contract you might sign that happens to involve a trial period.
You are assuming let's plays.

On the flip side, consider if they aggressively challenged every let's play made of their game. Then their game is again profitable. They are showing courtesy and and doing people a favor by allowing let's plays to exist, but are now kindly asking for a favor back.
What was the cost for the monorail again?
I don't really see much of a distinction between choosing which media you view (which everyone necessarily does) and choosing which parts of a particular work you view.
Exciting stuff. I'm a financial analyst and I spend most of my time in Excel because I'm not about to send an R script to our executive team. Everybody understands spreadsheets.

But spreadsheets are terrible at everything except their original use case (small bore financial modelling).

Right now I'm transitioning a lot of my workflow to MSFT's Power BI tools, but I'd love to have a justification for using more R at work. Stencila could be that.
This is debatable - Light Rail isn't always the answer, that is absolutely true, but in many places, it can alleviate traffic congestion, and in conjunction with other ride share services, can help immensely in all forms of traffic.

Seattle has a major congestion issue and I5 is a mess all through Seattle, and you can feel the impact even in Tacoma during heavy traffic.

A well placed light-rail can be extremely effective, for example the Hiawatha line in Minneapolis. It's not a panacea for infrastructure issues (I5 really is just trashed in most places around Seattle) but again, in conjunction with ride shares, it likely will serve a good number of riders.
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You may have misunderstood the project. There is nothing "automatic" in its filtering at all. You do have to adjust the filters precisely, manually, and can switch on or off every single feature.
I pre-ordered it months before release but have been rather frustrated with being able to use it for anything replacing a right analog stick. It's been barely okay for turn based games like civilization but for something like bioshock infinite it feels woefully inaccurate and difficult to get the feel, even after 2 weeks of solid use (including scores of steam link crashes)
Tesla just quietly killed off one of its newest products
Trains are very cool, and the idea of shared public transportation is probably noble, but there is an intractable economic problem. If my wife and I both take the train, it costs twice as much to us. If we drive somewhere, it costs half as much.

Additional issues that need to be solved to make pubtrans competitive with car ownership are scheduling, the ability to bring cargo, and negative class connotation. And this completely discounts the probable arrival of ubiquitous autonomous electric vehicles before Sound Transit even gets to finish this project. As much as I enjoy the romantic nature of trains, I think the Puget Sound is gearing up for a folly of a white elephant.
Cities like NYC and Boston are still enjoying the fruits of investment in rail that they made 100+ years ago. Those self driving cars wouldn't last 10.
He was suffering from schizophrenia and earlier that month shot his friend three times with the taser, according to the friend's testimony at a restraining-order hearing.
>> dating, finding high paying jobs, finding cheap homes and getting rich

You don't get "lucky" with these. They take effort.

Don't think in terms of how much you are struggling.

Think about what other people want. What kind of men do women like in your area? What kind of employees are employers valuing? Where in the world you can get a house for less than $100k? What kind of assets are very cheap right now?

Think hard all the time about all of these things.

That's what I do, like all the time.

I'm in a relationship. I have a 6 figure job. My stock portfolio went up heaps in past year. I pay $400 rent after renting out the other rooms of the house I'm renting for $2200.

None of these were "luck". And I didn't "get" them by working and going to the gym and making applications.

I'm Asian also.
Nobody says you should apply this to political speeches, or sources where the context can be lost due to the cutting in general.
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it is not a lightroom replacement nor a photoshop one. It has really good filters. my wife and bought it.
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Meanwhile, on the east side of Lake Washington, we're busy tearing up all of the track and replacing it with bike paths.
If you drive, it costs the same at best. Cars don't run cheaper when you put a second person in them.
I used to work at the largest merchant acquirer in the US and it's funny to see people claim these features just now making it to the US were signs of innovation lacking within the US. However, the reason these features were necessary outside the US is because the risk model was more severe outside the US; there was no need to implement them here. I have a presentation from Mastercard somewhere from 2006 that showed the dates for mandatory chip&PIN around the world the didn't include the US b/c we didn't need it. At the same time, I had flip phones on my desk from Motorola and Samsung with NFC integrated.

Edit to add: This is not a tech issue, it is politics and the like.
Very interesting, and oddly reminiscent of the shift from fixed-function to programmable graphics APIs, right down to the restricted "worklets" being sort-of-analogous to shader programs.

I do wonder whether "as performant as native CSS features" is setting up unrealistic expectations. Same ballpark, maybe, but I'd have thought native will always be easier for browser vendors to optimize, even leaving aside the language/runtime differences (C++/Rust versus JS/WASM).
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Thank you very much!

I do also think that these two examples are not the best examplse we could come up with. And in no way do they demonstrate why the complete project should be useless for every use case.

The only thing that they show (correctly, I have to say), is that there are some sources where filters and cuts can be harmful.
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But there already exist package managers that let you pin to a specific version like he's saying they should e.g. Maven, so I don't think your link quite applies here.
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http://imgur.com/Lax26Vb - Really?
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This feature is offered by BoA. I am still their customer because of this.
I don't think people are making fun of other people here, we are lauhging at a particular software engineering pathology, that's all. There are important lessons in the story of left-pad library to be learned not only by JavaScript programmers, it's pretty universal, I remember someone asking about API for min and max for Java (not JavaScript) on StackOverflow.
Wow, I feel your approach, just like the parent's one, is way too focused on moral, ethical and abstract concepts in general.

This project doesn't try to create a huge filter bubble and introduce a dangerous approach to education and life.

No, it's just a simple utility to help you make some simple cuts so that you can enjoy the movie without watching the few scenes that were inserted for shock value.
Why can't it just be fun? Here's Trump voiced in an East London accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cA0NM5RAY0
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> I'm just voicing a concern that it might be unhealthy for people to set up automatic filters for stuff they find offensive, across all their film and TV.

And this has never been the intention or intended use case of this tool. So I guess we've figured out the misunderstanding.
We didn't pay any cash.

It's a long story, but there's probably a good blog post in this.
Hey, good catch - "fully compatible" was an overstatement, so we've updated the landing page!
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Tested on a few websites and immediately blocked.
1. Sure, but trying to stamp out every person with opinions you think might lead to something bad someday is, frankly, more frightening to me than Moldbug. What you advocate threatens our existence as an open society.

For social progress to happen, we need people to tolerate unlikable minorities. That's how things like gay rights happen, as 30 years ago, your arguments could have been use to ban a gay activist from a tech conference.

Yes, tolerating unlikable minorities like whatever Moldbug is has risks. But it's a risk we have to take.
you can try it out, I just added a username/password login
Exactly :) Thank you!

And, in addition to that, not only can content be filtered, but it is filtered for you all the time already. This is a chance to take the filtering away from the producers and choose what you want to see yourself. Don't let others decide. Because that is real censorship.
Now, I certainly don't know my stuff here, but are they confusing "open source" with public domain? I was under the impression that the author(s) still retain copyrights under most licenses...
I agree with you there's nothing wrong with cutting out a violent bit of a film so you can share it with your younger sister. I think what I'm uncomfortable with is the idea of set-it-and-forget-it automated filtering. Not censorship in general.

Moreover, your criticism states that skipping things is always bad.

I definitely never said that.
Toronto has a transit system that works like you describe (~10 minute waits), however, most still find it easily worth $600 a month to drive a car so you don't have to spend 20 minutes every day outside in -30 weather walking and waiting for transit.

Furthermore, even if you wanted to take transit occasionally, it's not worth it because the fare ($3 one-way) is almost always more than the marginal cost of driving (gas).

Then you have the signaling aspect (there's a perception that only poor people take the bus).

I don't think anything will change unless car ownership triples or more in cost.
I bought mine on a lark to play with Street Fighter V, and it's surprisingly good for that use case.

None of my fight pads were XInput and I was a little lazy about setting up an XInput wrapper to get them to work.

The left touch d-pad is quite good for quarter and half circle motions, and dragon punches are pretty easy to pull off.

I also experimented with the right pad as buttons. It was pretty good, but where it fell short is that the right pad, unlike the left pad, doesn't offer any tactile cues as to where your fingers are.
> Women who write the software that runs on mainframe computers earn on average 72 cents per dollar earned by their male counterparts, according to research conducted by Glassdoor Inc., the online job information firm.

Do they really mean mainframe computers? If so, that is a tiny and unrepresentative portion of all computer programming. If not, it's a hell of a typo.
Well, personally, I didn't predict that kind of response. So let's try to resolve the misunderstandings.

> I'd rather not give any kind of support to those who demoralize women.

This is not what this tool is about.

Movies are filtered already. Not always, of course. But depending on where you watch them, they are. Stop others from censoring the movies for you. Get the full uncensored version and decide yourself what you want to see.

This is not more filtering, but less filtering, usually.
I Am Not A Necromancer, but I believe the process involves some sort of blood sacrifice and, in some cultures, a certain amount of chanting. Dancing may also be involved, or at the very least the rattling of bone talismans.

Hth.
Yeah, because splitting R&D into short term and long term commercial impact worked so great in academia. /s

The valley of death is directly caused by this mindset. R&D in the middle doesn't get funded because either side thinks it's outside of their scope.
From the article:
" GCC can't be used because the GCC version of std::thread has copyleft licensing provisions in it"

This is not a claim I had previously heard before.

There are a couple other head-scratchers in there:
"never heard of lvalue/rvalue distinctions as defined by the C++ 11 language designers? Then don't try to use C++ 11!"

This seems a little odd because lvalue/rvalues have been part of c++ since day one (in fairness, c++11 does add rvalue references, but still)

I had not previously heard of DMC, and based on this blog post I'm not really that impressed.
I think he means per person.
> AFAIK people don't post "let's watch" videos of movies.

Many people do post "blind reaction" videos for various series. They're quite popular; many "reaction" channels have tens of thousands of subscribers.

In those, the reaction is the valuable contribution; it can be fun to watch something you've previously enjoyed and see how others react to it.
Traffic exists because human drivers form a compression wave. The car in front of you accelerates, then you accelerate, then the person behind you, etc. Every time someone taps the brakes, they create traffic behind them. Self-driving cars would presumably synchronize, allowing all of the cars to start moving at almost the same time and move in unison at high speeds.

Also, people don't feel safe driving at 60mph in a densely packed road, so they don't. This should be no problem for a computer, so you could have a densely packed highway but traffic still moving at very high speeds. Basically, flow velocity could remain constant as the highway becomes more congested.

On city streets, your car would route around traffic light timing, in coordination with other vehicles, to distribute traffic and prevent unnecessary stopping.

Edit: One caveat worth mentioning is that these optimizations would be most effective if a road is 100% automated cars, though maybe dedicated lanes are a good transition mechanism. Once the safety benefits are clear, I think adoption will be very fast. The societal cost of car accidents is absolutely massive.
Yeah I don't know if goodwill is the best term. I think of "goodwill" as sort of an intangible inertia that comes from positive recognition - in people's minds, media, etc...

I think losing reputation and volume with the start-up community is probably very costly. An interesting thought is they might not have a viable alternative? If their cup is already too full, they have to cut back somewhere. Providing good service, at scale, while also growing rapidly is debateably impossible.
Exactly. Furthermore, you don't need to build life from scratch. That's wasteful. You'll just set yourself back years, possibly a decade or more, trying and erring until you get to roughly the same place as the stripped-down bacterial genome at which Venter and his colleagues have arrived.

Venter isn't explicitly trying to create life from scratch; he's trying to find the minimum viable platform from which to harness life for various useful purposes. Starting from the proverbial "pile of unrefined rock" would accomplish nothing but scoring a few vanity points.
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How do you vouch for someone? I can't see an option - is it like flagging?
As a young person new to computer science who was originally very curious about crypto, I can say that all the admonitions against "rolling your own" is intimidating people from entering the sector. When I'm shown a gigantic tome on the topic and then told even if I know it inside and out I better not build and use anything from it for real, I figure I may as well go in another direction where if I do anything worse than the best I'm not committing a heinous mistake.

So, compared to many sectors of computer science, much more patience and willingness to toil for years before creating anything of use is required.
> Same ballpark, maybe, but I'd have thought native will always be easier for browser vendors to optimize

It will be. And things like the CSS Paint API are based on APIs that are poor matches for GPUs (but are easy for browsers of today to implement). I expect that those who are looking for Houdini for performance reasons will end up quite disappointed.

More broadly, I have seen the "replace the native implementation with a JavaScript implementation for better performance" idea tried many times, and I can't think of a single time it's actually worked.
To all the people dissing this plan from afar you have no idea how bad Seattle has gotten in the last three years. Over 100k people have moved into the metro area every year for three years.

My commute times changed noticeably over the course of one year. It went from consistently 30 minutes over the 90 bridge to consistently an hour (we're talking 18 miles, door to door).

This thing should have been built in the 70s.

My wife and I actually moved back to the Midwest 2 months ago after living in Seattle for 8 years, despite my comfortable Senior Engineer salary, because all of our closest friends moved away in the span of a year, because they could no longer afford to live in the city (none of them worked in tech).

I wish Seattle good things from afar, and it will always hold a special place in my heart, but I'm glad I'm not living through these infrastructure growing pains that should have been addressed years ago.
> I think what I'm uncomfortable with is the idea of set-it-and-forget-it automated filtering.

You see, this is not the point of this project and has never been intended or supported in any way.

> I definitely never said that.

What about this?

> I know it seems very reasonable, inviting people to choose what they want to censor for themselves... but it just feels wrong. I'd much rather someone didn't watch my film at all than watch a butchered version. [...] Not a good attitude for life.
Yeah, I was a user. It was called Private Payments and went back at least as far as 2000.

Here's an interesting article from 2000 [1], declaring it basically unnecessary because cards were safe in transit. Some of the quotes and rationale are hilarious. Definitely from the pre-breach-of-the-month era.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/2000/09/08/mu4.html
The officer of the watch would be expected to plot the position on the chart every 15-20 mins so even a DR position would probably have been accurate to within ~10 miles.
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But it's kind of disturbing that the class name is hiding that convenience from us. How are we supposed to know that it is not an inconvenient...?

It all starts getting really weird with Spring Data interfaces: a whole DSL written in camelcased method names, as if Spring deliberately turned a joke into a feature.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/4bsn5a/google_...
Can you be more specific? How fast are traditional trains? These are intercity trains we are discussing, right? The S1 is being used where you would have a subway or light rail.
I very much doubt that they do it in the exact methodology I described but I assure you that market participants do this.

There is probably published material available on 70's and 80's hedging techniques but now that they are known the market converges. The problem with what you're asking now is that anyone privy to modern strategies would be sued out of existence for divulging them. A successful hedging strategy is very much classified as a trade secret.

The only thing of value a hedge fund provides, if it does indeed provide any value, is it's investment strategy. There are no perfect hedges because they'll typically be arbitraged out of existence but the logic that goes into hedging is the reason liquidity preferences exist now.

The finance industry has a wholly different outlook on things than normal people so I understand the confusion here, it took me a bit to fully grasp why and how to do things even once I was immersed in the industry.

Also, I should emphasize here: the theory behind the concept looks pretty but in application the assumptions can completely obliterate the success of the investment. The book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel covers a lot of the finance industry from an academically rational perspective.

If you read that book you'll take away the counter point to everything I've said here. Which is, there is no evidence in advance that a hedge fund can successfully hedge. After the fact, survivor bias may mislead us into believing that what appeared to be a sound strategy may have just been luck.

At the end, the challenges to hedging aren't obtaining the appropriate instruments or taking on the risk, these are problems that all major financial entities are comfortable dealing with. The challenge in hedging is that you don't know how accurate your assumptions are until the hedge is complete.

Essentially when crafting a hedge you are playing a binary scenario (A wins and B fails, or A fails and B wins). The problem is that the input assumptions also need to hedged, and then you have assumptions on those hedges, and so on.
I help run ReCharge a billing platform for ecommerce stores. We have thousands of ecommerce stores using a variety of processors. From their experiences I have seen the following.

If you process less than 80k a month:
Use Stripe their API is the best and they just innovate faster than everyone else. Love these guys!

If you process 80k - 250k a month:
At this level support becomes a bigger factor and unfortunately Braintree just kills Stripe on this side. The below forum post alone shows how much people hate Stripe support. I know their fixing this area but its really hard for medium size business to work with a processor without phone support. Braintree literally picks up the phone in minutes while sometimes Stripe takes days to get back. This is killer when your dealing with thousands of charges a month.

https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/payments-shipping-fulfilment...

If you process 250k+ a month:
I hate to say this but I would seriously look at Authorize or one of the traditional processors. They just provide the best rates and you have to factor how much the cost savings is worth with the increase in implementation pain.

I want to emphasize my feedback changes depending on the type of business your in and how quickly you need innovate/ change your processing. Stripe is really moving fast on new innovations which is awesome. But you have to realize basic merchant processing is a commodity so your paying a premium for non commoditized things like a great API. Also things like a great API are becoming commoditized. Stripe is smart and their launching new non commoditized features like Atlas/ Platform Functionality/ ACH etc. The only thing you have to ask yourself do you need these new innovations or just traditional merchant processing.