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One suggestion I have is to come up with tools to think about the variance in future earnings.

Let me be more specific: if a person makes $300k/year they may be willing to give away 50% if they know it is going to last 40 years. However, if the job could go away tomorrow and they may end up with a $100k job for 40 years, they will want to have saved some of the money for themselves.

Is there a good framework to think about that situation?

I read a statistic that 50% of Americans will find themselves earning in the top 10% at least one year of their lives.

We just don't know how long it lasts. When should one give it away?

p.s. great superman comic in the beginning. makes the point very succinctly.
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It's fairly crumbly, but I find it's good for pasta sauces.
> It's fairly crumbly

Crumbles gonna crumble.
There was an Episode in Andromeda that dealt with that same thing.

There was also an point in that episode since the FTL method they used was tethered to massive objects and hence only allowed for travel from on star system to another (or from one galaxy to another) the old fashioned non FTL method allowed them to explore many more things than with FTL travel the downside that 10,000's years would pass for everyone else every time they take a trip.
Note that energy efficiency is pretty proportional to performance, so it's very likely that a faster algorithm (e.g. LZ4) would also be more efficient.

(Back when I was working on energy efficiency, people kept trying to invent "low-power compilers", but they kept discovering that the fastest code is also the most efficient.)
Speaking as someone who has tried both strength training and yoga as an adult - I now understand why gymnasts absolutely have to start at an early age, sometimes as young as 6-7; and also why most gymnasts are of below average height.

As for yoga - some people will never be able to do a certain subset of poses without dislocating their joints. And that's fine.

As for strength - height and bone structure also play a huge role. I'll never be as strong as someone who is 6" taller than me or bench 3 plates. And that's also fine.
What can I say? They taste identical to me. Splenda tastes nasty to me, but I can't identify any flavor differences between sucrose and sucralose. Perhaps it's a genetic thing, like cilantro tasting like soap to some people.
The fear about macros in Elixir itself seems a little overblown. Most macros are consumed in the same way you would consume functions or keywords in another language (e.g. defmodule/def/defp/if/unless/etc.). The only one that I can think of that can be problematic is `use`, which is more of a problem with third-party libs where someone might do a lot of "magic", but in general is mostly used to do things like import functions, alias modules, etc. The concern about macro abuse is certainly valid, but I don't feel like it's at all a problem with the core language, but rather abuse by people who feel the need to use macros for things which do not require macros. In addition, macro usage in Elixir is always explicit - you must import/use macros at the top of a module, and the implementation of those macros is easy to find by going to that module definition. It's not nearly as dangerous as say, monkey-patching in Ruby.

In any case, just wanted to chime in with my two-cents. I've been working in Elixir for the last couple of years and have never felt like I've been bitten by macros. Elixir is certainly a bigger language than Erlang, but many of the things Elixir adds on top of Erlang are what make it so pleasant to work with. For example, the reduction in boilerplate for gen_servers which is made possible with `use GenServer` in Elixir.
I'm guessing the real reason the company's not marketing to vegans because there's essentially zero need to market to vegans, and good reasons not to.

Vegans are a relatively night-knit lot. As long as it contains no animal products and tastes good, all they'll need to do is pass out a few free samples at a single vegan meetup and then sit back and wait. Every strict vegetarian on the continent will be talking about it within a week.

Meanwhile, if they do spend much money on marketing it to vegans then they risk locking themselves into niche product status as a result of the public perceiving it as being all covered in vegan cooties.

I know of at least one fairly popular cafe that only serves vegan baked goods, but does not publicly label them as such for that reason.
Here's another from the same report: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/06/the...
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Yep. That and the willingness of some people to abandon parts of the Bill of Rights to 'solve' this problem is frightening. Not subtle, mass surveillance, arguably constitutional things, but massive profiling and harassment.

"The government is totally inept and can't be trusted, but if we granted it all these absurd powers to interpose it between a man and his religious beliefs, it won't at all be abused."
Blood is not the unhealthy part of red meat. Couldn't you market these "blood steaks" to health and environmentally conscious people who want something that tastes a bit more like meat than a soy patty?

Although I agree that selling blood at scale would need clever marketing. It seems like the blood imitation in the article would have similar problems, since it looks and tastes like blood.
Actually, no. I believe Python is exactly the opposite thing, despite preaching some of the right ideas. Python is too low level, and therefore it invites obscure solutions that hides the real meaning behind layers upon layers of low level, irrelevant details. Exactly a tool for the "smart" people, pretty much useless for a reproducible and maintainable development.
Without the 'idea' of data we couldn't even have a conversation about what interpreters interpret. How could it be a "really bad" idea? Data needn't be accompanied by an interpreter. I'm not saying that interpreters are unimportant/uninteresting, but they are separate. Nor have I said or implied that data is inherently meaningful.

Take a stream of data from a seismometer. The seismometer might just record a stream of numbers. It might put them on a disk. Completely separate from that, some person or process, given the numbers and the provenance alone (these numbers are from a seismometer), might declare "there is an earthquake coming". But no object sent an "earthquake coming" "message". The seismometer doesn't "know" an earthquake is coming (nor does the earth, the source of the 'messages' it records), so it can't send a "message" incorporating that "meaning". There is no negotiation or direct connection between the source and the interpretation.

We will soon be drowning in a world of IoT sensors sending context-or-provenance-tagged but otherwise semantic-free data (necessarily, due to constraints, without accompanying interpreters) whose implications will only be determined by downstream statistical processing, aggregation etc, not semantic-rich messaging.

If you meant to convey "data alone makes for weak messages/ambassadors", well ok. But richer messages will just bottom out at more data (context metadata, semantic tagging, all more data) Ditto, as someone else said, any accompanying interpreter (e.g. bytecode? - more data needing interpretation/execution). Data remains a perfectly useful and more fundamental idea than "message". In any case, I thought we were talking about data, not objects. I don't think there is a conflict between these ideas.
That's the default on pretty much every site (google, reddit, etc). Instead, you can cmd/ctrl click the link.
Our galaxy is estimated to be at most around 180,000 light years in diameter.

Even at a fraction of the speed of light, the amount of time to expand and fill the galaxy is still an eye-blink in geologic time. Even in evolutionary timescales it's still an eye-blink -- the Cretaceous era ended about 66 million years ago.

I think the depressing truth is that we are alone in this galaxy. See [1] for Michael H. Hart's extremely compelling discussion of this idea.

[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1975QJRAS..16..128H
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Anarchism is a principled opposition to arbitrary authority. The behavior described in TFA is totally unprincipled grasping at any position of unearned dominance that could facilitate the gratification of selfish desires. It's difficult to imagine a person of this low character cheerfully accepting the personal autonomy of other humans he perceived as lower in power.
Paypal has been acting like this of their own accord for some time now. More than a decade ago a friend of mine sold cold filter bags for herbal extracts online using Paypal. The product was completely legal and didn't allude in any way that it was designed for illegal use (read marijuana hash making).

Paypal decided, about 9 months in, to close their account in a similar fashion to the service here and deny them access to thousands in funds, touting an irrelevant bong sales ban in a state somewhere in the US (he was in Canada). It took years for him to get the seized funds back from Paypal.

I try to boycott them unless absolutely needed.
Yes, you were wrong. Maybe the user was just lending the files to his/her best friends? Or some other kind of fair use... You can't just generalize that all file-sharing is illegal.
When I visit India and eat vegetarian food properly prepared by a culture that has refined vegetarian cuisine beyond "fake meat", I don't miss meat at all.

Much of Western food is only expected to be an accompaniment to a meat dish, which is why you can't just cut meat out and eat the vegetable dishes you're used to when you're eating meat as well, imnsho.
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The Hessian is too expensive and too big.

lbfgs is quite common for eg regression w/o l1 penalties.

MPI is not great at even high hundreds of cores; it's too much work to build redundancy / retry / restart / clean failure in. You really need a framework that helps with this.
Quite hard, in fact.

My own personal experience doesn't matter much, though, because ultimately Elixir is Erlang and obviously Erlang has been pushed extremely hard in production (Klarna, Heroku, Riot Games, etc.).
Ground chuck roast is heavily subsidized; it would be surprising if any fake meat product could actually rival the energy and water costs needed to raise and process beef. So one solution would be to price both more fairly, in which case lots of consumers might be happier to choose the vegan option.
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What about the millions of people who've never written anything on Stack Overflow?
IIRC the nests are made fresh nightly, they don't reuse them often.
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What for though?
Cant you spice something in a particular way instead of bleeding an animal?
I suppose it depends on the product, the merchant, and the cost of the subscription. Certainly, it'd be foolish to give out a credit card to a merchant I do not entirely trust, however, it seems more risky to move cryptocurrency into a contract with a merchant I do not entirely trust (and a contract I probably don't fully understand, even if I take the time to read the code) since a credit card can protect me from fraudulent and erroneous charges that are forfeited if I opt for cryptocurrency.
Wouldn't the biggest factor simply be limited resources? The same reason why the average man was 5 inches shorter in 1750 than he is today.
Why should banks expect to be shut down over that?

Suppose I build a road. I would also have no idea what people are transporting on that road: maybe they’re moving drugs or sending stuff to terrorists, as you say. And it would be absolutely ludicrous to hold the road-builder in any way responsible for activities on the road.

At some point, a service is just a service and it should remain firmly bounded. Yes, bad people exist. No, we shouldn’t screw with every little thing just in case bad people use those things.
More details on their developer blog: https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/message-buttons-and-...
There are places in the world where cattle production is the most efficient (and really only) efficient use of resources.

Very large herds of cattle on extremely large areas of semi-arid grasslands mimic the buffalo that humans eradicated. They take few to no resources that aren't already there, and they actually support the ecosystem.

In some places cattle suck down resources that could go to other more useful places (grain, water, etc.) but in others they're the only way to gain anything from the land, and they protect it from desertification.
If it's listening on a socket and spins up on a request sent to the port that socket is bound on, for all intents and purposes, it is running and enabled. This is the same behavior as old inetd-based servers.
But that's just it; I would have thought the NoMethodError would have been around the missing "respond_to?" - like it was in 2.2.3 - not around a missing "begin".
Because it is extremely easy to conceptualize and implement, and it works (usually poorly) with few assumptions.
Intriguing. I wonder then; does this mean our spacefaring descendants will be smaller for the very reasons outlined in the article?
"If you feel the direction a project is going in is not to your liking you can always quit."

That's not true.
Real income for even the top 5% has been flat since 2000:

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/charts/census/hous...

Yes, the upper middle class hasn't been hit as hard as the middle and the lower classes (particularly in social ills like illegitimacy, which has gone critical among lower and middle class whites, in particular) but it's idiotic to say that the upper middle is thriving.

College costs, medical costs and housing costs are all skyrocketing, the children of the upper middle class are entering an economically uncertain world where what were previously solid paths to financial security are suddenly precarious and intensely competitive.

And, believe it or not, some of us upper middle class folks actually care if the rest of America is doing well, and don't feel like we are thriving when we are watching reasonable, hard working middle and lower class folks sink into poverty due to our feckless leaders.
Beyond Meat's ground beef and chicken strips are the closest I've had to "I had no idea" meat alternatives, but even though the flavor is pretty much spot-on, the texture is always just a little bit wrong. It's a very tricky problem, and I'm inclined to say that it's a better idea to sell things as "not meat, but delicious in their own right" instead. See, for example, Chipotle's sofritas - which are the most heavily seasoned / arguably most flavorful protein on the menu.
Plenty of low-carb things that aren't meat and cheese. Avocados, nuts, etc.
What about hardware buttons that would change behavior based on context/app and provide the same? Nice arcade style yes/no.

I remote in often or work from different desks so this wouldn't be for me...
Without digging into it, the Calendar stuff looks like a strict improvement over Erlang's tuply handling of dates, times and timestamps, which are all tuples with three numbers. This can be confusing/problematic, and something that would benefit from typing to avoid mixing up Dates with Timestamps, say.

Can anyone who knows both confirm?
Wait, that is someone saying devs were ignoring best practices. Of course people get sick if their eyes say they're flying around and their body says they're sitting still.

That's the game devs fault, not the hardware or system.
Just realized someone actually read my comment!

Situation was basically a table rendered in prose format. I can’t recall the precise verbiage, but it read something like:
In 2015, the requirement shall be 0.05%. In 2016, the requirement shall be 0.7. In 2017, the requirement shall be 0.09%

Very subtle typo which, had it been treated as The Truth of The Text would have bankrupted anyone attempting to adhere to the regulation.
One potential problem: the heme that they're claiming gives it flavor comes from a genetically modified yeast.

It's a GMO, and people who're vegan on principle often don't like that.
There are plenty of people who just can't play first-person 3d games without puking. They didn't get used to it, they just avoid those games and the market doesn't care. Even games which could be modified to prevent motion sickness typically aren't.
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I understand it's the default, but why? Why not add `target="_blank"` or some javascript to open in a new tab?
Sugar specifically is showing signs of being incredibly bad for you and yet is added to most of the "diet foods" instead of fat (which is showing signs of being less bad for you then people say).

I don't have the studies handy, and you can find studies that say either way.
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Frank Asch's books George's Store, and Milk and Cookies.

Also Robert Munsch's Love You Forever. Warning, make sure tissues are nearby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z-oBkgJ4Ow
It's not extreme, it's normal and healthy to exclude abusive people from groups. Your position, keeping them, is the extreme one and it's abusive to those whom he abuses. You're concerned about a slippery slope that doesn't exist, your position is based on fear of a possible bad future rather than the reality of an abusive person actively hurting people in the present. If you support someone by continuing to employ them, when they are known to act this way, you are complicit in their abuse.

Forgiveness applies after someone is accountable for and have changed their behavior; it has no relevance here.
> There are team players and there are solists, it's rare to find people that can be both.

I think you're trying to fit human beings, which are extremely complex creatures, into an artificial black-or-white definition. I would even argue that no one in the world is exclusively a soloist or a team player. Most people, if not everyone, adjust their attitude to who they are dealing with.

For example, a given individual may be a soloist on one team, but a team player on another team, based on the experiences they have had on said teams. They also may be a soloist when dealing with someone they don't respect, or a team player when dealing with their boss. Just examples.
Say I want a personal domain and have the MX not be Google or Fastmail, how complete is the implementation of these standards on major email providers' SMTP setups? Would I need to do thorough research or is it reasonable to expect it to just work in a, say, European SMTP hoster's configuration?
You only way to get salmonella or E.coli on vegetables is if it has been exposed to animals or animal extraments.
Url changed from https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4p52qd/new_paper_..., which points to this.

The paper is at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~loiluu/papers/oyente.pdf.
> If computers had to be interacted with in ways that resembled programming - like a UNIX prompt - then people would be more used to the way computers actually work, with functions and parameters instead of icons and settings menus.

Yes. That's exactly how it would be, for whatever small fraction of current computer users were able and willing to adapt to that paradigm.

You're absolutely right about the separation between people who understand how computers work and people who only use them. Your second sentence in this comment is a brilliant example of the "echo-chamber wizard" school.
I take it you don't like the historical revisionism that Texas is doing to their textbooks. "Some slaves were treated excellently by their masters..."
I'm beginning to wonder if you have.
Out of the set of mean eaters who this market would target, I really think the subset that thinks about or considers omega 3 and CLA in their meat is minuscule. I'm a very health conscious omnivore and honestly didn't even know there were omega 3s in beef. Guess that's another excuse for me to eat hamburgers...
It's cruel to take a human's blood without their consent, even if done painlessly.
If that's the case then I'm confused as to where the cryptocurrency comes in. A security deposit works just as well with fiat cash as it does with cryptocurrency and in your example there is no money exchanged at all.
Thanks! We're on it.
There is about as much lockin as Groupon.
Does buying a one-hit wonder game company ever work out?
To present the other side, I lived in India a long time and vegetarian cuisine there always left me unsatisfied. If, for some reason, I had to eat a vegetarian meal (say I'm going to a Brahmin wedding), I'd just eat meat before I left for it because the alternative was to be unhappy.
Yes, it absolutely is an improvement over erlang-style tuples IMO, and it also vastly improves the interoperability story between the stdlib, date/time/calendar libs, and database libs.
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I'm flagging this because of the terrible popup. If I submit a (fake) email, it still won't let me read the article, but rather redirect me to a page demanding even more info!
This is not a Elasticsearch focused book. Rather, it is using ES as a tool in order to provide an concrete and practical walkthrough about how to achieve semantic relevancy in real world application. It is not concerning too much about the engineering side of ES, e.g. Master/Datanode or replication that kind of stuff, but more on the quality of text search.

As the author has put, you could use Solr but will still find this book relevant(sorry) to you.
That Quora post would be very convincing if I didn't own a VR device, but I don't know how to reconcile it with my own experience. Either I and all my friends (and a few thousand people online) are superhuman, or there are some important technical difference that the author is missing.

Thanks for the link though, that's a perspective I hadn't heard before.
I think regular human size can vary a lot by level of resource consumption - the principle being the larger the mother, the larger fetus and so the larger the resulting adult.

Obviously, if a height increase/decrease trend continued for a while, one assumes genetic variations which aided this would be selected for but it seems that the change itself doesn't necessarily need genetic as such.

See height increases in Japan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/01/world/tokyo-journal-the-ja...
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