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Congrats. First one of these I've seen on here since the rules go into effect today
Do you mean "information technology" instead of "technology"? Because I don't know what you could mean by "technology is mature." Jets are technology, they were new, now they're mature. Same for any technology (including CRISPR, looms, routers, and rockets). Parts of IT are mature, but a lot of smart people clearly think that parts of IT still have the potential for big returns.
Yes, I think we will see a mild increase. I even know some people who started smoking once it was legalized in their state (they were very cautious about run-ins with the law because of family history). I've been smoking since I was 17 and smoke pretty much every day still. However I think what is more important is that it's becoming more accepted and legitimized so that there can be worthwhile and meaningful studies done about the drug and the habits of its users, including driving accident statistics.
This article, from 1984, describes the policy changes that lead to the decline of mental health institutions and the rise of homeless populations made up of the individuals that were a part of those institutions.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...
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As a former Ting customer who was happy with their service, their prices aren't really that great. It's just that most people aren't heavy users, especially on minutes and texts, so your bill looks a lot better because you only have to pay for what you use. If you do use your phone a lot, your bill can quickly become worse than Verizon, etc.
I didn't misread. If you look at my first reply to you I said this:

> 12 months leading to end of 2015: down 12%

Quite clearly I understood what you meant. And then I explained why the fact you picked was misleading. Not untrue, just misleading.
It will be interesting to see how the next couple of years play out. Public schools (k12) in the US don't seem to get what is coming or at least they can't change fast enough.
Perhaps related to the "Uncanny Valley".

Something categorised as one thing, but with traits of another, in this case "high-status"/"low-status" vs "human"/"non-human".

Problem is, while Human-like is a bit more universal, status is very subjective and cultural. Maybe it's better to focus on the feeling of creepiness, as a possible reflection of your/ones own cognitive dissonance, than the objective "creepiness" of an object.
I did it many times elsewhere in this thread already.

For example, this one: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...

Or Nanopass itself, not just as a tool for building DSLs, but as an example of a nice and clean DSL (of course, if it could bootstrap itself it would have been even better):

https://github.com/akeep/nanopass-framework

Or everything you can find in my github repositories (username: combinatorylogic).
> With union = No merit based pay. Protection for the incompetent. Worst and best teacher make identical pay, and both are near impossible to fire.

I don't think any of that is true of all unions. NFL players and Hollywood actors are essentially 100% unionized. Both have highly merit-based pay and have very little protection from being fired.
There's definitely a need if they intend to wield their authority as a police officer. Random people on the street can't just come up and handcuff me and go through my stuff.
Sounds like an attempt at competing against group chat on Facebook messenger except nearly all of my friends are already on Messenger and this doesn't seem to add anything new.
I don't know why you are being so hostile and evasive at the same time. What systems are you talking about. I will tell you if there is a compiler that supports them. That's the problem right? That it will turn out that your obscure systems are very normal and supported. Silly fallacious replies about magic are not constructive. Just answer the question and I can help you.
Interesting paper and... well, expected conclusions. One thing that makes me skeptic about the entire work is that they use different p-value levels for each hypothesis, which is bad practice. The entire meaning of the p-value is to compare it with a previously decided threshold to be sure to limit the type 1 error rate
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Indeed, you can consider x86 to be an instruction compression scheme in which case it is a net win for caching (though minor).

What Intel had for years was a process advantage. Apple would have paid a premium for that. Not desktop CPU premium, but a premium nonetheless. And Intel wouldn't be a distant also-ran in the mobile SoC space.

If you read the Oral History of x86 documents the same arguments almost killed the first few Intel CPUs. The memory guys were worried they'd offend their memory customers and CPUs were not a high volume or high margin business.
Since he said "tech", rather than "technology", I'd have thought that clear.
I couldn't even imagine trying to "fix" a homelessness crisis in SF.

From here in Indianapolis, IN when the whether turns cold for the winter many homeless get out of town, turn to the shelters or other means of general weather protection. While some will just layer up and deal with the cold. I know a "homeless" man that chooses to be "homeless". He loves the freedom of being able to go and do as he pleases. I would imagine SF has many who enjoy the life style. How do you "fix" that? Besides flat out ordinances with police backing...

Very dynamic issue to "fix".
Depends if its like BH foray into uk supermarkets which dint end well.
Did you try to find a subreddit concerning the subject you're interested in?
Over the last 5 years Berkshire has underperformed the S&P 500 Growth

http://amigobulls.com/articles/has-berkshire-hathaway-lost-i...

Certainly the last 5 years tells more of a trend than historic performance. My facts are correct and Berkshire has been on the decline for a while, my opinion its certainly not worthy of being downvoted
Having worked for 1.5 of the companies you mentioned I think there is something to be said for and against each side of that. Intel's margins may be higher, but the volume becomes lower and in semiconductor scale is everything. The cost of plants does not scale well and the cost of developing technology nodes is VAST. That is why you see the majority (all?...and I include Samsung in this) of the ARM design shops going the customer fab route.

The issue for Intel is that they seem to have found an unintentional local optimization point where margins and volume are effectively in sync in a way that prevents them from effectively growing into new sectors. I used to joke that every ARM chip you buy includes the purchase of an Intel Xeon in a data center somewhere, but that is now something less than 10:1 and probably more like 100:1.

Now that IBM has divested from their fabrication capacity almost entirely, and they sold it to a company owned by Abu Dhabi, it will be interesting to see what happens with Intel's government revenue share. I could see them working together very intentionally with Amazon and the NSA on projects. I think the purchase and quasi-customer fabbing of Xilinix may be an attempt to go that direction.
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I guess. Not for me, though.
> ...including remembering to check every relevant return value.

To be fair, there are compiler flags to check this. And if not, there are static analysis tools that do the same.
Does everyone get their own email server?
> Anyone know how to legally assign a corporation over to an autonomous system?

Step 1: Lobby for laws which allow legally assigning a corporations over to an autonomous system (or, more simply, laws which allow granting legal personhood to an autonomous system.)

Under current laws, I don't think there is any place in the world where this can be done. The creation of a corporation is an act of government (often, but not always, done at the request of a non-government person through a publicly-available application process, but some are directly created by the government on its own initiative.)
I'm not sure what, if any value this adds.

If I want to bring together a group of people, I have lots of options, from very structured - "I have a Facebook group for the sports team / political campaign I run and want to share information with players, get them to do things" - to the very ad hoc "I have a group of buddies who I get together with once in a while and to save time we've got a WhatsApp group." Both of these work well because they're linked with something I use all the time anyway - Facebook and WhatsApp. If I want to connect with random people on subjects I care out, there are subreddits.

The use case for this, on the other hand, is what? "I'm going to use a specific service that I'm going to have to persuade all of my friends to use, with no real added benefit?". I just don't get it.
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> he doesn't "understand"[1] it

This! is exactly what made tech such an easy investment growth. Mainstream (2008) investors use three things to size a company: Industry and Market, Challenges, Production. Mainstream didn't get it. Underground did. And they were able to get in early on the action.

In virtually every traditional industry, production is simple and easy to measure, like coal mining for example. "See how quickly you can mine coal and compare that to how quickly you are mining coal."

But in Tech, every new product is a different raw material. The market is tested each time a new raw material is introduced. (Nobody knew the first iPhone was going to be a hit until the day the iPhone was sold, and THEN Apple's stock went up.)

For traditional investors, they don't understand what the question is when a new product is introduced (ex. Kevin O'Leary). The user however does understand. And that is what makes an investment a no-brainer.

However, these days, the traditional investors are not investing in Apple because they get the tech. Instead, they are betting on Apple specifically as a machine for tech production, regardless of product. I still don't think they get it.
> A low-end, low-power, low-margin x86 system

AMD A-Series?
This actually does a much better job explaining the project than the website does. I'm glad I have something to show friends/interested parties that is understandable!
So they should test, or really talk about that. It's more about your approach to solving a problem then it is to the format of the language.
Someone recently talked to me about how to handle a multithreaded issue. I showed them how to avoid the problem completely, but they didn't want that. They wanted to know what they figured out last week.
I imagine you wouldn't use it as your sole source of funding, but in conjunction with a more traditional source.
I wonder if Intel saying "no" to Apple re: ARM will go down as the same scale decision as Digital Research saying "no" to IBM for an operating system.
I had no problem reading it on my mobile phone. Did you have any comments about the content of the article?
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The company Articles could require its directors to obey the direction of the autonomous system. And if it doesn't the autonomous system could direct the creation of another corporation with a mandate to sue the non compliant one.
Let's say you're an owner of one of the nations biggest car insurance companies... and the biggest threat to auto insurance are automated cars. Perhaps the smart thing to do, if you're an investor is to hedge your bests by investing in a company that is likely to dominate the sector.

Of course Alphabet would be a more logical path, so this theory might be bollocks.
> File comparison tool is unusable - the relative floating sides make it impossible to see non-trivial changes.

Up and down arrows. They will take you to the next change, regardless of how small. Start at the top and hit the down arrow until you've reviewed all the changes.

> No graph view to see branch dependencies

The log does the same thing, just in a different visual format.

> No exporting a commit from history into a zip file

If you mean as a patch, you can do that in the log. Right-click the commit and select "Format Patch".

If you mean the whole repo at the time of that commit, you just have to do it manually by switching to that commit and creating the archive yourself. If you host your code on GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, you can just do this through the GUI of the host. I'm sure there are CLI tools that automate the process as well.

> No changed line count for quick look at where the significant changes are

This is definitely missing from SmartGit. I review 100% of changes and force my team to commit as atomically as possible, so this wouldn't be helpful for me.
An interesting concept, but I'm not buying the hype.

At the end of the day a bunch of people bought shares in a company (or did they? Legality is weird) with the special condition that in addition to owning a share of said company they also get to vote on what the company actually does, and even submit proposals for what it should do.

Oh, and they also bought said shares with cryptocurrency. Magic internet money guys!

Admittedly I think enabling this kind of democracy in a company is a bad idea. It might actually wind up being less nimble than an actual corporation because of the extra consensus required.

Meanwhile, even though one might assume that the shareholders might be more informed than "the common mob", they might still propose and vote on more misses than, say, a corporation where new products and services are proposed through an informed internal decision making process that ultimately ends in the CEO using the information at his or her disposable to make the final decision. In a good corporation, bad decisions are self-correcting, in some cases leading to such extremes as a leadership shuffle.

By contrast, who's to blame if the DAO votes on a proposal that wound up being a miss? How do they learn from their mistakes so it doesn't happen again?

And I'm sure there are many other issues, but those are at the top of my list. I'd rather a company be run by those most capable, rather than the crowd.
The article didn't say that it's safe at all - just that the measurement of THC in the blood doesn't tell you if someone is impaired. If someone knows they are high, they're probably at much more risk than the people with THC in their blood discussed in the article.
I'm not being hostile at all. If such a thing exists as I believe you described it, I would find it to be magical and would love to use it. I would even pay for it.

And I'm not being particularly evasive either. I gave you an example which fits my situation perfectly. I'd prefer not to reveal the names of the actual systems I need to build for, since it would fairly uniquely identify me.

Are you willing to work with the hypothetical I put forward? Or are you dodging that in favor of attacks on me personally?
Source: https://github.com/JoelOtter/kajero
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My version of "taking a walk" is swimming laps.

My finest work is accomplished in the pool, going back and forth. Been a swimmer all my life, and if I don't get at least a swim or two in each week, things start to turn to shit. It's my meditation, and despite being the most boring thing on earth for some people, it's one of my favorite things to do.

Many introverted mathematical minds would love it, but you gotta learn proper technique to be able to really get into a good careless rhythm. I highly recommend it.

It's a thinking man's sport.
You're right, I shouldn't have used an absolute language. There is also the issue of voter apathy so yes, a 51% attack might be worthy of a try for a wealthy enough adversary.

In terms of the split, if the community broadly agrees that there is an attack, then I don't see it having a long-term detriment. However, as you said, if it is more 'stealthy' then it would be harder to detect and correct.

All that being said, I think there is a theoretical safety mechanism in place. Whether that will work in real life or not, we'll wait and see. I am sure some good lessons will come out of this in either case and the next generation of applications can improve upon some shortcomings.
The analogy is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling
Thanks, it was a lot of work getting ready for launch. Will be writing a post later on all the things you need to do to get live with one of these campaigns.
Guilty? That sounds lovely
And small bets rarely materialize into anything useful. They end up being great marketing, and worth the cost in the marketing spend so others think you are being innovative while you continue to do the same stuff you always have.
The stock is trading at a discount to earnings and probably not even that huge of a premium over book value (relative to its peers). Incidentally, it's probably (still) the most valuable and venerated modern consumer brand on earth.
I'd say personal contact rather than a mandatory field will garner more helpful responses...since my response to a mandatory field might be "because you disrepsect my time with things like this here mandatory field" even though I'd already decided to drop the service for other reasons.
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>walking across the United States

Long back I had read an article or series in National Geographic about an American who did that - walked from coast to coast. Great story.
> The DAO isn't actually worth 120 million.

I you tried to sell all Apple stock in a single day it would also sell at well below market rate- Does that mean Apple is worth less than its market cap?

That said, I personally have not invested/speculated in the DAO because I just don't see it as a good opportunity.
But the point is that at the very beginning of their company, Amazon was most definitely NOT profitable. They took in a huge amount of investment money to be able to grow their business quickly - exactly what all these other companies are trying to do.
In fairness to marcoperaza, this is partly a problem with the term "homeless". It is ambiguous, and in a way that can cause problems in meaningful discussions.

San Francisco has a number of problems with "homelessness". Our most visible problem is a very serious one - there are a lot of alcoholic, drug addicted, and mentally ill people living on the street, some of whom are prone to erratic, aggressive, and violent behavior. There is also a large and less visible problem with people who are not addicted or mentally ill, but who are in difficult economic circumstances and who are having great difficulty finding a safe place to sleep. These two things are related some of the time, but I don't believe that they are simply two sides of the same coin, they also exist as acute if not orthogonal problems.

I appreciate that "homeless" was, at least in part, intended as a more humane term than various derisive terms like bum, vagrant, and so forth. This I am in favor of - regardless of how you feel, I see no benefit in derisive terms, I don't think it requires a derisive term to express an opinion, even if it's an unsympathetic one. But while it's a mouthful, I do think it's probably more descriptive to say that SF (and other cities as well) have a serious problem with "mentally ill and/or addicted people who live on the streets" when discussing that specific issue, rather than using the blanket term "homeless" which encompasses much more than this.

The story about the couple having sex in a tent on a busy street with the flaps open while a pit bull stands sentry, or a person getting chased around by a crazed man with a sharpened screwdriver - well, I hope we all know that there exists a large population of of people who desperately try to maintain appearances (and sanity) but are actually in pretty dire economic circumstances. You don't necessarily notice them. The two situations call for very different solutions.
That product page is the mobile version. Here is a better shot: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0042SNCGA/ref=oh_aui_detai...
Long-time writer but first-time author here! Looking forward to hearing some feedback.
Even at their worst, T-Mobile is worlds beyond AT&T and Verizon. That's not really a very high bar to clear, but I'm a lot more comfortable after switching from AT&T to T-Mobile. It seems like every month I was fighting with AT&T's billing department over the same stupid issue.
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Shareholder to Kodak: Screw that. We need to make earnings next quarter or I'm selling. Don't miss your earnings by even $0.01/share or you're toast.
Every native compiler does this. There is nothing magical about it. Obviously the platform has to be supported. That's why i asked what the platform is. The idea that you are the only person running a system is absurd. Even the most obscure platforms have thousands of active users. Your hypothetical can not be worked with, because it is a concrete question. Is your platform supported or not. Very simple. And again, if you want to have it generate C, then do so.
I'm a big ethereum fan but I agree 100% with your analysis.
It being written in Go doesn't make "just pull the latest code from master from my dependencies at build time" a good thing. They should use vendoring and pin tagged releases.
I wonder if that's from colonial usage, 'clart' is a Northern English/Scottish term for muck, attested since at least 1808:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UGAJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=fr...

it's most commonly used as 'clarty' now here:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-word-of-the-week-clart...

Jamieson's etymological dictionary suggests south germanic 'Kladd' as the origin of the Scots term.
"Pro tip: there is also a difference between having a beer with dinner and chugging vodka shots all night long. :D"

True, which points to the fact that it would be useful to have a well-understood BAC-like scale for marijuana usage, especially as the drug becomes more and more legal to use.

Clearly there's a difference between having one beer and driving an hour later compared to getting behind the wheel while nearly passed-out drunk. Lots of people have a decent approximate sense of what 0.08 BAC is when it comes to alcohol consumption, but everyone who is "high" is just "high" without some sort of well-defined scale.
Those seem like valid suppositions, but I do think you're missing a big variable.

(I think) you only take into account the US Market but the emerging world is late to the party and should represent a big piece of the pie. It hasn't reached majority tech adoption nor is it no longer hip.

That said, I also think its a loosing move because of the downwards trend in AAPL stock- bit that's only layman's conjecture. I guess it depends for how long they want to hold it.
Why cherry-pick 5 years? Just look at their performance since inception. It is clearly laid out in their 13F. The company has trounced the S&P over such a long-term it is pretty incredible actually.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2015ar/2015ar.pdf

1964-2015, the S&P500 returned 11,355% and BRK returned 1,598,284%.

p.s. not downvoting you, just disagreeing.
I wish it was odd, if anything it sounds pretty normal when companies change top line strategy in a broad scale, and then have to spend the next year figuring out what the hell that even means, and how to do it.
> If pot is proven to not affect your driving to a measurable degree

What??