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Conversely, I am pretty much subsidized by other people's vehicles.

Where are you getting that from? Car specific taxes generally don't even come close to paying for roads, especially the roads bicycles are likely to be using. In the US its actually far more likely that you're subsidizing them than the other way around.
I like how in this picture everyone has notepads out and look eager to write down everything the Dear Leader says. I wonder if people there truly believe the rhetoric or if they are just doing what they have to do because they don't want to end up on the wrong side of a work camp?

http://www.rodong.rep.kp/article_contents_en/2016/05/27/phot...
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Blue Coat is rather controversial: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/735941957130817536
That problem is easily solved as well! Just let everybody put in a deposit for a ticket ahead of time and select the lucky winners by lottery. Anybody who doesn't win gets their money back.
Vivaldi features are not that bad, but the fact that this "browser" is only a combination of some extensions bundled with Chromium is a big downside.

Also, not being able to implement more privacy for example fingerprint block is also rather bad. All they do is work inside their extensions related code with avoiding to touch actual Chromium code base.

When these guys have finally more knowledge about Chromium to either enhance it or remove unused parts - Vivaldi UI exists outside of Chromium and they carry all that Chromium luggage around which they also not using at all which means tons of dead weight - then this browser COULD be useful (only when Open Sourcing it 100%) but before, not even worth thinking about it.
> They've created a special class of labor that has all the burdens of both employee and contractor status, with none of the privileges of either.

I'm not even sure that's really the case; taxi drivers were already largely theoretically independent operators contracting with the cab company which provides dispatch, provides the vehicle under a lease arrangement, etc.
Seems like if they sell out, they should give refunds and resell to people on the waiting list.
I argued specifically to points you made. It's intellectually dishonest for you to make intentionally vague claims and then assert that I am arguing against points you didn't make when I respond to your vague claims.

You've proposed nothing concrete but a non-profit and provided no reason why that changes the morality of the action. Beyond that you've just made hand-wavey claims full of weasel phrases. If there are "well known ways" to change how journalists behave, then please enumerate these and clarify why they are better than what Thiel did. If there are "a bunch of ways" Thiel could help individuals harmed by bad journalism, then please elucidate, because right now it seems like you don't have anything real to say.
Name? Maybe. But his hair and apparent good looks got a lot of votes as wel - sadly.
As others have mentioned, different metals and the propensity to work them require differing amounts of knowledge. They also require vastly different amounts of fuel.

Egypt was fuel-starved. Its only arable region is along the banks of the Nile river, a band at best a few kilometers wide, which to this day remains the population center of the country. Wood came either from up-river (rarely), or from other points in the Mediterranean. I'm weak on the specifics, but the ancient references to the Pines of Lebanon bear on this.

Meteoric iron is valuable because it is molecularly pure iron. It's essentially supernova ash -- what's left after the final stages of stellar fusion result in least-nuclear-potential atoms, iron and nickel. It's molecularly pure because it hasn't rusted -- in space, no one can hear you rust, either.

Iron on Earth is rusted in large part due to the early stages of biological evolution in which the great oxygenation event occurred, and with it the great rusting -- oxidation of what was, at the time, pure molecular iron lying on Earth's surface, with the now newly-available oxygen. Semlting is a de-oxidation process.

Many of the great iron ore fields are also the result of biological activity -- early-stage microbial life using iron (I am not sure of how specifically) in its own metabolic processes, and depositing large stratified bands of iron as a result. These ores are 1-3 billion years old. As with other resources, they're among those humans have been tearing through, literally, at an amazing clip over the past 200 years.

Iron smelting prior to the age of coal was performed using charcoal. Charcoal kilns -- you can find pictures online -- are large beehive-shaped stone structures which were stacked full of wood and lit afire. The wood was pyrolised but not combusted, pushing out the impurities. This is close in chemical properties to coal which is, in essence, wood subject to somewhat longer pyrolisation processes, as well as geological formation.

And the modern switch from charcoal to coal (originally sea-coal, opportunistically harvested chunks broken from open seams along the English seashore) occurred as what had been a heavily-forested Britain was exhausting its own renewable wood resource and turned instead to coal. An activity which already by the late 1700s was recognised as unsustainable (John Williams, A Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom, 1789).

Discussed at greater length in William Stanley Jevons' The Coal Question:

https://archive.org/stream/coalquestioninqu00jevo#page/14/mo...
From a guy with the username puffpiece, that's really amusing commentary.
A true fan is probably pissed off already that some rich bastard is in the good seats that they couldn’t get. The idea is to give the true fan a chance of getting a good seat while breaking the economics of scalping.

There is no reason the allocation has to be 50-50. It could be 90-10 where the tickets are basically sold a little over the cheap price, but you have a chance on the night of being in the front row. The true fan is going to dream that they will be the lucky ones.

The group issue could be solved in a number of ways, but the simplest would be to just sell the tickets in blocks and allocate the blocks to the good or to the cheap seats.

Somewhat related to this topic the best concert I ever went to was the OK Computer tour by Radiohead (in 1998 from memory). A couple of friends and I decided at the last moment to go to the venue and hope that we could get some tickets off a scalper. Just as we arrived Radiohead released about 50 extra seats at rock bottom prices (less than $30) via the main ticket office. We end up in the second row of what was one of the concerts of the decade :)
Probably depends on the kind of company.

At a small, technically-focused company where "manager" also means "tech lead", it's very unlikely that being disrespected is synonymous with "being pushed into management", but at a big, bureaucracy-heavy company that follows the Dilbert Principle where people perceived as incompetent are routinely kicked upstairs to get them out of the way, I can see that happening.
In the US, folks buy older, non-suspension mountain bikes, and convert them to commuting use by adding street tires and whatever other accessories they desire (rack, fenders, etc.). The result is a fairly comfortable, utilitarian bike, that's not a theft magnet.
Written in 2008.
> I'm curious how people charge and store these vehicles, since most people in Chinese cities live in multi-story dwellings -- I guess they must lug the batteries upstairs with them at night?

Yep, you carry the battery up to your apartment each night, or just take your bike up. I really wonder how people with those Tesla Model S's I'm seeing all around manage, since parking is so difficult and its usually on the street.
Of course not.

Audio processing is handled by a third party.
Hmmm ... the former head of TicketMaster wants to,

1) Dramatically raise the price of tickets

2) Prevent their transferability, requiring all buyers to buy from TicketMaster (or the equivalent)

3) Incidentally track the identities of all ticket buyers and event attendees.

It's for your own good, consumers.
Link to https://data.gov.uk on that page in fact points to ’file:///C:/Users/mcallister_mj2/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/5P3C0P9L/data.gov.uk’

Oh dear.
That 4-year number is roughly consistent with both the SRE offer I got recently at Google and the SWE offer a similarly-qualified friend got, and we have no super special domain knowledge.
In practice altering the distribution of wealth and income doesn't usually involve taking from A and giving to B. It usually is more taking from the rich and spending the money on free education and the like. You can also put taxes on large estates, give subsidised houses / loans to the less well off and so on.

There used to be quite a lot of that between WW2 and Thatcher getting in in the UK with tax rates as high as 98%. The period of this song https://youtu.be/pzU2owPegHE?t=23s
I, too, have been wondering what the hell they have been up to. Their most recent thermostat upgrade was kind of a joke.
Meh. The streets of Beijing are even busier, the motorist even more aggressive, most of the bike lanes have become parking for cars, and it still seems to work.
> Another huge reason is that China outright banned the use of gasoline powered motorcycles in many big cities; since the majority of people just can't afford a car, the only replacement they could have is electric bikes.

Imagine how polluted the air in major Chinese cities would be if they didn't do this. For a counter example visit Karachi or Lahore and observe the air, both huge population centres that are full of small 2-stroke engined motorcycles and motor-rickshaws emitting blue grey exhaust everywhere.
I am friends with a South Korean man, and asked him about this once. From his experience with North Korean people, he said they really did buy into the Kool-Aid and really did think of Kim-Jong Un as a glorious leader and all that jazz. Not that they are all fanatical, but there's a level of enthusiasm for it all that's really there.
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The efficient solution is to price tickets at the market price in the first place. Even if primary sales weren't dominated by resellers, "sign on at the exact moment tickets go on sale, and hope you're one of the lucky few who snag one" isn't a fair way of allocating tickets to the fans who want them most.

But why set a price at all? Just auction off tickets in the first place. For popular events, don't set a price, just let the market decide. That gets tickets to the fans who value them the most, gives the venues/performers/athletes the money they should have been getting all along, and cuts out the resellers completely.
Success opting out of TSA scanners?
I'm wondering if people are still able to opt-out of the TSA body scanners after the December 2015 policy change. Particularly given the long lines and some airport during the summer months.
The original seller could accept the ticket back (and, for convenience, perhaps provide a remote cancellation process that is equivalent without returning a physical ticket) which makes it available for sale again by the issuer, who could offer a refund to the first purchaser contingent on the ticket being resold.
The WeWork spaces are nice, but when I've visited companies there it seemed WeWork was struggling to fill the spaces. This news would seem to go along with that observation.
Adding a speaker would not take a lot of power.
Let's remember they elected Nenshi
What I have observed is not 10x programmers. I have seen happy path programmers who ship quickly. Their code works in the specific way management has asked and no more. Step off the happy path, and there be dragons.

To use an analogy, management says "Build me a bridge!" So Mr Happy Path does so. It's a rope bridge. He gets the pat on the back, the promotion, and his bridge is now handed off to a "lesser programmer" to maintain.

Now management comes to the lesser programmer and says, "I just want to drive cars and trucks over the bridge. Can't you make it do that?!" So the lesser programmer now has to build a real bridge that can support 18 wheel trucks. That takes a really really long time to do, and it's hard work. Management can't be bothered to understand the details though. "Why is this bridge taking so long? 10x had the first one done in a week!"

Before long, 10x is called back in on the project to "rescue" it because it's so far behind schedule. He gathers the requirements and again builds exactly what management asks. A bridge that can support cars and trucks. How? Well, screw all this suspension stuff. 10x just dams up the harbor and drives a truck across the top. He's congratulated again, and the bridge/dam is handed back to lesser beings again.

Then management wonders why they can no longer get boats out of the harbor...

Just my experience with it though :)
Portland, OR -- T-Mobile is workin' just fine.

Edit: Well, I mean, as fine as T-Mobile ever works anyway.
Are you in SFBA? If so, many tech companies have free (or subsidized) charging stations on their corporate campuses -- so people are recharging at work rather than at home.
By the way "this blathering, fawning, puff-piece nonsense" is what some call an actual prose style. Perhaps you've heard of it (if never actually seen it in person).

I'd almost pay money to read your review of a Franzen or DFW book.
What do you expect from a non native UI which is rendered by the Chromium extensions system? It only can be as fast as the used System is.

So, Vivaldi is nothing at all for people who value speed more than functions. But for people who value functions over speed, i can see that these could be drawn to it.
Nobody knows what actually happened here, and even if he was asked to leave it's very strange to call that "courage". I don't even know what the last sentence is supposed to mean.
That's not a particularly common design. The common designs are heavier looking, eg: http://119.10.46.20:9999/images/T1uxEvBXDT1RXrhCrK.jpg ... the lighter designs have less batteries and haul a lot less.

Note the metal bar around the weak plastic housing, this protects it against falls and accidents. Notice also the fold-out passenger foot-rests. The seat opens to reveal covered storage space: many people use this to keep rain-covers of various types. Inside will be typically five to seven batteries, which last about a year with reasonably heavy daily use. Replacement is about USD$90-150.

I'm curious how people charge and store these vehicles

Most apartment/office blocks or shopping/entertainment areas have someone who 'minds' the vehicles against theft. They also provide power plugs for charging your batteries. At least around here, the fee for such a service is about 1-2元 per day (USD$0.15-0.30). Power is cheap in China... we have vast numbers of hydro-electric dams here in the south-west, and probably state subsidy.
> iirc there were some iot webcams with publicly hacked streams up on a website. either way, removing bt had to be security related.

You can't feasibly stream someone's IoT camera from their home via BT; any kind of hack like that happens over Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections.
So just barely better than a poke in the eye with a stick.
Once again I wonder about the notion of an "independent contractor" class of worker, one where they save up and buy the standard "util-i-car" a vehicle which has a driving/motive unit, and attachable rear units, delivery pod, cargo pod, livery (tax) pod, transport (ambulance) pod, Etc. Along with a supply of lenders/repairs/resellers who lend you the money for your first utili-car, trade you used car or pod, repair your car/pod, sell new pods etc.
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Comment you're replying to didn't say anything about C being superior or not.
I've never deployed on a windows server I'm thinking of my dev box here.

I just install what I think of as standard dev tools. I guess they are not standard on Windows. Hence my pain... I pretty much would have to install cygwin to get something I'd be close to comfortable working with -- at which point a virtual machine is just easier (and then I can install the same OS as on the server I'm deploying on anyway).

Whereas I guess for you .NET core is a standard thing and it is (still) not a standard thing on Linux. Hence your pain.
Sidewalks are a lot more dangerous for bikes than you might think. The problem is cars have expectations on how fast people approach and will often assume an area is clear based on walking speed. Further even low speed collisions with pedestrians can easily send a rider into traffic.
How did Chris Putnam get hired at Facebook?
This is why I had foolishly started my own browser. It is scary to think that the computing experience is limited and defined by one company and its practical monopoly. There should be something which is like Chromium, but more Chromium than Chromium, and enforced by law, and which other browsers plug into, or derive from, so they can't force the world into one standard experience, if it makes sense. (and same thing for Facebook, there should be a fundamental social network which has an API for others to plug into). I don't know if it's a failure of democracy, or if it's better that way. (also, the extension is nice). Anyway, eventually we'll make extensions through the layer on top, by graphical analysis, and then no one can prevent it.
Canada is big. Calgary is one small part, and that guy was exaggerating anyways. Let's remember that Calgary elected mayor Naheed Nenshi, a famously liberal Muslim who is pushing for better transit and more intensification. Iirc, Calgary was also the provincial stronghold of the NDP, a hard leftward swing of Alberta politics against the long control of the Progressive Conservative party.

But yes, the pay sucks for coders outside of Vancouver and Toronto, and there the insane housing market makes it not worth it anyways.
I have to wonder if this is the result of cargo-culting Steve Jobs' personality, without the corresponding vision.
Well, long term this may be healthy for the economy and unemployment. Hardly polite conversation, but this allows infrastructure upgrades on a massive scale, which implies employment of many and an increased cash flow for the region.
I'm a year-round bike commuter in the upper Midwest. I also use my bike(s) for errands, recreation, etc., though I own a car for longer trips.

These days I'm seeing a growing number of e-bikes on paths that were designed as bike infrastructure but are multi-use. My view is that they'll be OK so long as the behavior of the riders doesn't get out of hand, which we'll find out when the accident statistics start to pile up in bigger cities. For now they're relatively few in number, and the riders tend to be quite courteous.

I'm supportive if it increases demand for bike infrastructure and awareness of bike safety.
Is there any smoke damage? I would imagine that would be incredibly expensive to fix.

Glad to hear you're doing well.
The Obama comparison resonated with me - not in the specifics like policy, or how left/right they are - but in spirit, level of excitement and general sexiness. Obama after bush feels alot like Trudeau after Harper.
Why would Vivaldi's email client be open source when the browser isn't even?
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It's still supply and demand, and by withdrawing supply, brokers will drive prices up further regardless.

The solution is to go back to the old days:

1) have only live, in-person purchases at authorized retailers and list all sale locations clearly.

2) limit ticket quantities per-person and per-turn-in-line.

3) PDF ticketing must end. It is a HUGE vector for fraud. Not only does it make duplication easy, it makes outright counterfeiting via modification easy.

4) (when needed) earmark the seats with buyer information and restrict entry to the actual buyer (e.g. use the purchase credit card, or photo-ID if cash purchase)

Now, brokers could still hire people to get in line, but there is insufficient payoff with a per-turn limit: the broker would end up with a lot of scattered pairs (assuming limit=2) of decreasing quality.
I work for Microsoft in Beijing, we are pushing for charging pylons in our garage now; we just did a renovation and completely forgot that!

They should really figure out home charging also, however. The problem is that most people don't buy parking spots in their apartment garages, and even if they did the garages don't have pylons and there isn't much will to put them in. Having to drive to work to charge is a bit of an issue on the weekend! But I guess the people that own Model S's are rich since they are around $120K here, maybe they all have villas in Shunyi or other places in the suburbs.
And yet, Canada turned down help from Russia and the US. Then went around and hired 300 firefighters from South Africa that have no experience with this type of fire or equipment (they said due to lack of water, they use sticks to beat the bush fires). I understand it's more of a social help program ("Working On Fire" job assistance), but still it seems bizarre.

Or maybe I've been reading the wrong news sources and there's more to it? Cause it seems unreal.

Edit: Some sources:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2690570/trudeau-criticized-for-ref...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-fire-so...
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>stripped down browsers you see these days.

You mean, "browsers".
The problem is this forces everyone to know the market really well. That's one thing for a recruiter but as actual salaries are often hidden it's a serious information assemitry for most people. And many people especially women really undervalue their skills.

Most people are much better off to simply ask salary ranges as the first question for a recruiter. Don't put it off and don't waste any time. Approximate location should the next question as again it minimizes wasted effort.
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also...

http://subprotocol.com/system/cloth.html

https://github.com/subprotocol/verlet-js
Probably not. It's really safe to ride a bike in China anywhere at anytime. Many cities in the US you'd be subjecting yourself to random beatings by strangers.
Also the intentional lack of parking. Even if I would get a car I wouldn't have where to park it (or it would be very expensive). The US mandates parking which prevents high density benefits and increases building costs.
If I lived in London (only part of the UK I've been to) or most cities in Europe, I doubt that I'd need to rely heavily on a car. Between the Tube and walking, we got where we wanted/needed without much hassle.

As an example closer in size to where I live right now: Heidelberg, Germany. Trains made it easy to get between nearby cities. Streetcars and such made it easy to get around within the city. Walking and biking were both pleasant and common. Population density didn't seem much higher than in my neighborhood, but useful businesses (groceries, bakeries, etc) were in easy walking distance from our hotel.
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