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Clickbait? Yes. Interesting article? also yes. The problem with clickbait is it's often used to bait you into reading BAD content or content irrelevant to your interests. Clickbait + good/related content is just clever marketing.
It's pretty good and the team is pretty fun BTW :) <3
Capital investment. Each iteration pushes the cutting edge requiring millions to billions in R&D with enough Ph.D.'s and new findings textbooks have to be rewritten regularly to show what was impossible a few years ago is now a fielded procedure. That accounts for high costs to start with.

Next problem is each iteration into deep, submicron processes uses smaller tooling fighting more physics and noise with ever more sensitive instruments. Figuring out each issue requires lots of expensive tooling and experiments. Those vendors gotta make their money back. So, each tool in semiconductor process can cost millions to tens of millions of dollars. Each are custom built. The fab has to buy dozens to hundreds of these plus recover their investment with profit. They do it in wafers sold mainly.

So, given each market converges on a few players, it's easy to see that only a few players will have the volume to sustain the investments into new tech. On top of it, the nodes seem to double in cost ever so many steps trimming off even more competition. It got down to the lowest nodes that make high-end CPU's and mobile SOC's having only five or six companies fabbing them. Still plenty of work, esp for analog/RF, at higher nodes like 180-350nm. Yet, even an older fab might have to do $10-50mil a month in business just to keep their doors open.

Needless to say, people aren't going to do deep-submicron in their garages any time soon. Most companies with deep pockets gave up on fabs, too. Even IBM is selling theirs IIRC. So, most use a "fabless" model where they design hardware then send files that remaining fabs turn into hardware. There's a few companies that keep their own fabs on mostly obsolete nodes that are still useful to them. Yet, almost everyone else is fabless.
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Sure but we are talking 30 years of change.
That’s where cooperatives could come in – what if the owner-operating truckers would just start a cooperative and own the fleet together?
Because love is more important than money?
> 1) It didn't actually make much difference on our electricity bill. I believe this is because we use most of our lighting during the winter, and the wasted heat from the traditional bulbs isn't really wasted at all -- we just shifted more work to our electric heating system.

The only reason people expect them to is the, IMO, obsolete idea that lighting load is a significant driver of power usage.

> 2) Many of the bulbs had burnt out. I am now very skeptical of all the "20 year lifetime" claims since we've lost lots of expensive bulbs in two years.

Maybe I have just been lucky, but the LED floods I put on the exterior of my house have been working like champs. I used to go through halogen and CFL bulbs like crazy out there. The Cree LED retrofits for my dimmable can lights have also been solid.
Have you tried disabling the apps instead of uninstalling them?

I've had good luck with this on stock roms when you can't uninstall the carrier's apps. Settings » Apps » All » Application Name » Disable

Technically the app is still there, but it can't be launched and doesn't appear in the list of apps.
No, the bans were stupid to begin with and should be unwound. Instead, there should be highly granular electrical billing, if the electric company cares to really bill people properly for necessary overcapacity for that ~1 hour a day when demand spikes. I'd let them charge 1000% surge pricing if they wanted. People will absolutely alter their behavior to no negative effect for people who can't afford it, so long as the typical cost per kW is affordable.
Is a prenup a good idea? Let's examine a well-connected, basement-dwelling money hoarder in his quest to get a regular poor to Touch His Dick.

Oh, what do you know, he caved to her demands!
This your (naive and/or totally fucked up) idea of marriage,
certainly not what marriage is for the vast majority (i dare say) of the population.
182 Million to (re)build a site created in 2014?
Concord.io to unseat Apache Spark?
Actually, Marx foresaw exactly "a renewing demand for labor" (although foresaw is kind of the wrong word; directly observed would be more accurate.) See "Capital".

He also foresaw the shift from manual labor to intellectual property as the essential component in production.
That's a much better point. Consumer demand is paramount.
Sure but disrupting is much cheaper when it comes to technology than when it's about physical space. But sure.
only problem is that is not what happens..

sure robots and factories move to China with no taxes at first..but than Chinese gov figures out to pay for other infrastructure improvements to have things like the USA they have to tax something and end up taxing robots anyway..in fact its already happening
I had a look at the open source SummingBird as a possible way to implement a (soft) real time project I have, because I'm not specially Java-ish and Storm does not seem to play that nice with Scala (I've been told it works decently with Clojure, though, that might have been a solution to my non-Javaness) and it looked somewhat stale.

Ditched it and decided to do it in Spark with Scala (making it a good excuse to learn Scala). With so many real time options popping up and around, deciding which to pick is getting harder and harder.
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I don't think they will grow evenly though. So the target is $200 Billion and Uber alone is "valued" (I agree that this includes preferences) at $68B. So if Uber "just" tripled its value and everyone else went to 0, he would still hit his prediction.

You need one big standout for him to be right.
Probably only the ones that meet her rough demographic profile.
> It was actually published in January, and has just now been picked up by the Telegraph.

The Telegraph article is dated 11 January 2016
I'm guessing he meant Linux.
Ah, I think I've even come across this in the past and forgot about it!

Is $60/TB/month competitive?
Deployment Automation vs. Infrastructure as Code
> I'm (further) convinced that healthy eating and corporate interests are completely opposed.

This is touched on a bit in the Omnivore's Dilemma, people without heavy encouragement otherwise, have a rough limit on how many calories they will consume in a day. As a food company that has sufficient market penetration, you're stuck growing your profits at the same rate as the population. To get around this, you'll either need to increase your profits per calorie (sell less for more, cheaper ingredients, etc) or increase the amount of calories people are eating, through marketing and/or formulating your foods in such a way to encourage more consumption.

I think most companies opt for both, there's a lot of limits/diminishing returns on the making food cheaper side of things, but on the human consumption side, there's a lot of room for growth until everybody is morbidly obese. The bigger you are, the more calories you need to consume to keep that weight. More calories consumed is more money for food producers.
2edgy4me
Nah, I think you've got this backwards. You're the oddball with the practical outlook on the institution.

I'm actually less conveying my own feelings on marriage than I am describing how everyone around me seems to regard it.
Thomas Jefferson lived in a very different time. This is a hyper-connected world with a very complex web of trade and inter-dependencies. Simply putting up trade barriers is a sureshot way of isolating yourself from global trade, when has that ever worked out for anyone?
Actually, Sheetz (think fast food meets convenience store; based out of Ohio and only present in a few mid-Atlantic states) has been using kiosks for ordering food for years. Granted, payment is still at a register manned by an actual person, but it's not like that's uncharted territory, either -- Chili's allows you to pay at your table without needing to hand your credit card over to your waitress.
Where are they going to get the money to become owners if they don't have a job anymore, but still have to support their family?
> CFLs suck, but LEDs are great.

I have both. There's basically no difference, except the LEDs are hot on the base and CFL's are hot on the bulb.

Power consumption is identical, CRI identical, and Cost per Hour (before failing) is basically identical (assuming the hours listed on the package is the truth).

> I fear that the CFL interregnum may have hurt the cause of efficient lighting in general.

It has not. I've been using CFLs for about 20 years (almost since the day they came out), and they work just fine.
> That's a bold statement. Why EcmaScript 5 and not JavaScript 1.4 for that matter?

Because most devices will run most of ES5, very few devices will run any ES6.

Now there are transpilers sure, but I remember a time Javascript was about simplicity and not relying on a complex grunt pipeline + Babel. Now JS tooling is more complicated than Java's only with JSON in place of XML. The irony.
"... linux laptops were being reformatted to run windows."

Microsoft/Windows is a cancer. Ballmer once said Linux was a cancer. He later retracted, after it was well-known Microsoft itself uses Linux.

There's nothing more pathetic than when you see Microsoft's businesspeople or lawyers at conferences all faithfully using Windows, as if there was no other choice, and rambling on about how their products can solve any problem. These are not stupid people, but they are blinded to independent reasoning about computer software.

And then there are the people at Microsoft Research. What a waste (not for them -- they probably get paid handsomely). It is like MS is keeping these minds locked away, so the zombie-like adherence to Windows can persist. Keep the monopoly going.

Microsoft is a cancer on the brain. It creates a zombie-like, tunnel vision of computing. Everything must pass through Redmond.

Microsoft continues to remain dangerous to the future of computing, because they continue to work dilgently to effectively quell all independent thought from being implemented and made accessible to users.

Intent, malice, etc. is irrelevant. Regardless of why they do it, the end result is suppression of non-Microsoft software.

And now hardware.
I think you're underestimating the degree to which "taking unclaimed land is acceptable" is a controversial statement. Talk to the nomads about what constitutes 'unclaimed' land - the entire possibility of shared-use is being overlooked. Property rights aren't theft because you used land no one else claimed, they're theft because you denied everyone else the right to use otherwise-shared territory.
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Doesn't benefit me a lot, five years behind you trying to buy an identical home for 30% more borrowed money.
In today's world? Absolutely.

Divorce is the expected outcome of marriage now, and the man will get nuked in family court. If you have any significant assets you would be foolish not to protect them.
Robot automation can be fun as well.

Bartender on a cruise ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBF7EE2xnN4
It might be back dated then? Or perhaps just slow to publish online?

The url implies March 12.
Did you marry a millionaire while earning only 50K a year?

What people say they will do and what they actually do can vary wildly.
These are awesome:

http://www.amazon.com/Greenlite-Lighting-13W-Spiral-CFL/dp/B...
So I'm curious -- could a non-fuel cell electric generator (gas, turbine, etc.) make this design perform even better?
If you are looking for "natural" indoor lighting (like for a bedroom or living room), you probably want a "warm"er color, on the range of 2400k to 2600k.

http://go/wiki/Color_temperature#Categorizing_different_ligh...
So what does this exactly mean? That you can link to these libraries and build a new OCaml 'user interface' in C/C++?
We are open to moving to Discord. We used Slack during our private beta and so this is a continuation of that Slack channel.
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> But how is the teacher supposed to know that you are just that smart?

For starters, notice that some kids are doing whole lesson's worth of material in the first 15 minutes and figure out that they have no reason to be at this lesson.

The hard question, to which I don't claim to know a silver bullet answer, is where should they be instead. Recognizing who is wasting their time at school isn't that difficult if you spend several hours per week with those kids.
How about creating federal guidelines under which churches may receive federal and local education funding for using their space as a school 5 days a week.

This would EMPHATICALLY not be vouchers. The funds would only be available to churches that do not currently run a private school.

Get more religious nut jobs out of my child's secular public schools. Reduce class size. Create more teaching jobs. Everyone's happy.
You're right on, and there may in fact be a half dozen more material economic terms which also adjust down the implied $10bn number. Add into that the fact that each round often has it's own set of terms, and you begin to realize that the "valuation" numbers thrown around mean absolutely nothing.
> Florescent bulbs take some time to warm up before they reach full brightness

They've had instant on fluorescent bulbs for a decade now, and they don't cost more. If yours are slow switch to a different supplier.
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Indeed! There are also people who choose to not get married because of tax reasons. I will write another article on the tax benefits and tax disadvantages on getting married. Stay tuned!
The problem with the light quality might be to do with the color rendering:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index

Basically, LEDs have a much more irregular spectrum than incandescents or halogens, so objects may look weird colours under them.
The elites will share their wealth only insofar as it's cheaper to do that (bread and circuses) than it is to keep the proles at bay through force.

What Marx saw as an inexorable trend towards socialism may have in fact just been a temporary consequence of the industrial revolution, wherein labor was especially important and the power of an individual worker was large in historical terms. It's not impossible to imagine a sort of "Neo Feudalism" where a small minority of elites find it cheaper to maintain control via technological force-multipliers than to share their earnings such that everyone is actually happy or nearly so.
It would not surprise me one bit if it were discovered the lobbying effort for such laws were pushed by the very lighting industry that needed a way to compel people to buy much more expensive light bulbs with a higher profit margin.

It reeks to me of the same reasons why we have ethanol mandated fuel in some cities.
Ah, Wawa's adopted that model, too? That must be relatively new. Guess PA likes kiosks for ordering food.
Why can't we apply the same technique to fluorescent filaments?
Color temperature isn't the only thing, CRI is important too (though less so). It's hard to find CRI specs on most bulbs, nobody mentions it unless they have a really good number to brag about (90+).

One thing never mentioned is that LED color temperature will vary over time. It's a two-part system with complementary colors, the LED itself is blue and it's coated or surrounded with a yellow phosphor. The phosphor will dim eventually.

I've never seen a LED bulb that was so slow to light up that I noticed it, unlike some fluorescents that are really atrocious.

I've already given up on fluorescents, if only for the hassle of recycling them due to the mercury content.
What if Nokia 770 also was a phone? History could have been so radically different. I will never understand...
Linux support would be awesome too. Based on our beta, we got twice as many signups for Windows as Linux, so we're probably gonna prioritize Windows support unless we get a lot of sudden Linux interest.
My wife and I came into the relationship with wildly different assets and incomes (both never-married, no prior kids, late 30s).

I wouldn't have considered a pre-nup for the simple reason that I'm wagering we'll be together for the duration and if not, I'm willing to share our familial resources amongst the 4 of us. We're together 10+ years now, two kids in elementary school, wife left a nearly 6-figure science job to stay home and raise the kids. Everyone seems happy with that arrangement.

What I brought into the relationship 10-11 years ago has less bearing on our current financial standing than the support and promotions I've earned since and the investments we've made, most of which are made on paper with "my" money and "my" direction, but are nevertheless "ours" in every sense that matters to me/us.

I've seen relationships that my friends have entered though, where my first thought was, "Boy, I hope they have a pre-nup..."
I'm genuinely curious as to why new products are constantly written in Java. My experience with the language is far from pleasant. Is it because people actually like the language? Is it because there is no other alternative when it comes to solid development? ...?
> The predictor is probably not biased against any particular race - the race_factorAfrican-American:score_factorHigh term is not statistically significant. Or, as ProPublica puts it, it's "almost statistically significant".

This is not how you interpret p-values. Not attaining statistical significance (insofar as you think that that's a good measurement to start with) means there isn't sufficient evidence to confirm that a factor truly makes a difference. It is not proof that no racial bias is present -- to prove a negative with the same 95% confidence we expect elsewhere, the analysis would need to have 95% power to detect the bias if it did exist... and unfortunately it just so happens that interaction effects always have lower power for the same sample size than first-order effects.

The author also accuses ProPublica of cherry-picking numbers but then picks the one number from the entire article that is least convincing (one of the numbers on predictive accuracy of the algorithm for black vs. white people) and ignores the other statistics about predictive accuracy that are mentioned in the article.

Do I necessarily want to defend ProPublica here? I dunno, I haven't gone through the analysis they did for the article in depth. I also like the author's note that statistical models are often wonderful tools for reducing human biases and (in this case) reducing racism. But ultimately I do feel the author is being very hostile when ultimately his rebuttal is pretty feeble.
I've tried plenty of LED bulbs and so far they've all been rubbish. The light of 2700K bulbs is definitely whiter than incandescent bulbs. Stuff in the room is not the right color. In addition, the bulbs seem to "flicker" and/or make strange noises when dimmed. Good thing some shops in smaller towns still sell incandescent bulbs.
That would be the case if valuations were independent of each-other (Which is a bit of a stretch even in a truly efficient market, like the NYSE.)

On the other hand if, say, AirBnB and Palantir have a dismal IPO in 2018, that will likely bring valuations down across the board.
This looks good. Can it go beyond Drupal projects?
Good points. I still use LEDs outside and they last a very long time. I suspect it's because they stay cool, which extends the lifetime of LEDs. I'm also not as sensitive to light quality for outdoor lighting.
> but it does sound from your checklist that a lot of those qualities could eventually be automated

Totally. But the current generation of dead-reckoning-and-maybe-a-bit-of-very-simple-sensing style of control for grinding/tamping/steaming/pouring won't be sufficient. I would be unsurprised if substantially improved sensors (perhaps even vision) are necessary before we see computers over-taking the best baristas in an abssolute sense.

And unfortunately I don't think there's much demand for that sort of investment for the reasons outlined in other posts on this thread (even if robotic baristas could smash the human competition in coffee making, they still wouldn't displace the neighborhood coffee shops.)
But in our culture isn't it also assumed that the marriage will end someday? I once overheard the mother of the groom saying how much she loved her new daughter-in-law and thought that she would make a great first-wife for her son!
What if we don't need your robots?

I mean, the Fed can conjure trillions of dollars of investment capital out of thin air, I think 350 million people have a fair chance of choosing to operate a magic building that makes their lives better.

Which is ultimately what we are talking about. Should we operate highly automated factories and how should we divvy up the benefits from them?
It's coming from Amazon. They literally know what I purchased because I purchased it from them.
There you go. Set the "sales" tax rate on a luminous efficacy sliding scale. The lower the efficacy, the higher the tax %. It'd have to be some kind of wholesale/manufacturer tax, at least in the U.S., so that it's reflected in the sticker price before checkout.
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It's easy to do the science behind the light quality from different bulbs, but no one seems to bother doing it. You just need to print a graph of the spectrum that the bulb emits and compare it to whatever your favorite bulb is like. Would love to have this information available on the box, but of course that would make comparison too easy.

Instead we're stuck with a simplification where a very high-dimensional property is reduced to a single number, and even that with low precision since few LED bulbs have emission spectra that resemble a black body.

http://www.gl-leds.com/led-bulbs/img/b60-led-bulb-spectrum.j...
Yet you can build those supply chains easily in Germany – all the factories to produce the parts you need are already there.

Germany, in fact, is in the business of producing the machinery that is then used in other countries to produce your phones, tanks, ice cream cones.
Who says divorce is the expected outcome of marriage? What's the point of getting married if that's the person's mindset?
Timely post as just today I got engaged to my girlfriend. We will definitely go for a prenup, I want to avoid a 15 year long divorce battle like my parents had at all possible costs.

I have created a subreddit for people interested in discussing prenups: https://www.reddit.com/r/prenup
CFLs take longer to come on, don't reach full brightness immediately, are less efficient, don't last as long, and contain mercury.

I don't know what your personal statement about using CFLs for 20 years has to do with my fear about the cause of efficient lighting being hurt. Your own preferences don't necessarily reflect those of people in general.
"share whatever he makes during the marriage with Susan" - my understanding is that you need to share not just what you make during marriage but also the assets you had before.
Literally one of the biggest ecommerce platforms on the planet (Amazon) doesn't do it.
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