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I don't understand why Google keeps getting brought up as a possible purchaser of Twitter. I just don't see it as either a synergistic or a defensive purchase.

- Google already has two-and-a-half social networks (Youtube, Google+, Blogger) if you don't count their ever-relaunching chat apps (Hangouts, Allo, Duo)

- they don't need Twitter to innovate, they don't need them to stay relevant, and they don't need Twitter's presence on phones because they (Google) are likely also present on mobile devices

- they are still the leader in display ads, Twitter is distant third behind Facebook [1], and Facebook has absorbed most of the growth in the last year, but now that AOL and Yahoo have merged (both now owned by Verizon), it's possible that Twitter is fourth behind them (I'll try to confirm with sources)

On a defensive purchase:

- Facebook, Amazon (Twitch), Microsoft, and Verizon are Google's largest threats in the social/ads/attention space; Google dwarfs them all except Facebook. As I've said above, Verizon is the up-and-coming ad network and they stand the most to gain by (approximately) doubling their share, but even if they do so they still won't be a meaningful threat to Google in the near future.

- Snapchat, despite being a serious threat to Facebook (mostly to their subsidiary Instagram), isn't actually a threat to Google -- it infringes on next to no capability that one could enjoyable do with Google's services. This remains unchanged even with Google's new phone-number-bootstrapped chat and video apps, Allo and Duo, which exist primarily to compete with iMessage/Facetime and WhatsApp

- Someone with the most to gain from buying Twitter would be a relative outsider who wants to enter the social space, or get access to influencers and their valuable ad draws. In my opinion, these are Verizon, Amazon, and Yandex. I've posted about this before, here [2][3].

[1] (2015) http://www.dmnews.com/digital-marketing/facebook-twitter-to-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12083561#12083975

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913828#11914620
Stick a broom up their ass, and they can sweep the floor at the same time.
Pretty easily. Restaurants have lots of purveyors, tips and inventory that isn't trivially tied to sales.

Embezzlement and money laundering is pretty trivial and prevalent.
As far as the moderation goes it is both pretty well moderated and the moderation staff unlike Reddit isn't involved in the "politics" of a specific subreddit.

Reddit moderation tends to boil down to camps and high school politics pretty darn quickly where it's more common than not for moderators to push their own agendas.

This is overall a pretty broken moderation model which only really works on private forums.

You need to have a "professional" (joblike) moderation where the moderator enforce rules rather than opinions and philosophies.

On the other side of the spectrum you can have a "detached" core-rules only extreme violations level of moderation which what makes places like 4/8Chan work even tho it seems that they aren't moderated at all.
Explicitly ranged integers as seen in Ada are also very nice, there’s no reason that traps should only occur at the 32-bit or 64-bit boundaries.

Pascal had that. Somehow it got lost.

The formal verification community ignored integer overflow for far too long

Well, we didn't, back in the early 1980s.[1] But I had that argument with other people in the formal verification community.

I once wrote a paper called "Type Integer Considered Harmful". (Unfortunately, I've lost this.) This was back in the era when there were mixed 16-bit and 32-bit integers as machines transitioned to 32 bit. My position was that it was the compiler's job to size intermediate expressions so that overflow couldn't occur there if it wasn't going to occur in the final result. Overflow in the final result should be detected at run time or proved impossible.

Here's what that means. Consider

uint_32 a,b,c;
a = b + c;

Overflow of "b + c" implies overflow in a, so we just have to check for overflow.

uint_32 a,b,c,d;
a = b + c - d; // ordered as (b + c) - d

Overflow of "b + c" does not imply overflow in a. So the "b + c" sum has to be done in 64 bit.

uint_32 a,b,c;
a = b * c;

Again, overflow in "b + c" implies overflow in a, so we don't need a bigger intermediate value.

uint_32 a,b,c,d;
a = (b * c) / d;

The "b * c" term needs to be 64-bit.

uint_32 a,b,c,d,e;
a = (b * c * d) / e;

Either we need 128 bit arithmetic, or refuse to compile this. Some expressions you just can't do right with the machine hardware. The user could write

uint_32 a,b,c,d,e;
a = (uint_32(b * c) * d) / e;

which means trapping on overflow if "b * c" is bigger than an uint_32, and
the compiler must generate a 64-bit product for "uint_32(b * c) * d)".

Languages tend to view numeric type conversion as a named type problem, rather than a numeric range problem. That leads to wrong answers in some cases. The goal is to get the right answer or trap.

If you want unsigned arithmetic that wraps, you would write

uint_32 a,b;
a = (a + b) % (2^32);

The compiler should recognize this as an optimization and do 32-bit unsigned wrapped arithmetic without trapping. The programmer says what they mean, rather than relying on the semantics of the hardware, which might change. (This used to be a bigger issue when we had to support 36 bit and 48 bit CPUs. There are still some odd-size DSP chips.)

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/verifier/verifiermanual.pdf
Title should be: "People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars"
Happily, there's only 24 hours a day; that's the hard limit :-)

The only way out is to have more interesting outdoor activities: horse, skydiving, range shooting, orbital excursions, asteroid exploration and mining. Just saying.

Really do you think playing with a stick and a worm as our grand fathers did was more fun or more interesting than the dumbest iPhone game?
Solar City also can't generate energy at night. Which means to sell energy at night they'd have to stop selling it during the day.

Also energy has a lower price at night. Which means they'd make less money if they stored it during the day and sold it at night.
Arguably, Twitter is worth more to someone (likely an old school media giant) as a strategic platform than it's worth as a business. Twitter has immense influence that it's unable to monetize. Yes, it generates revenue, but that's true of nearly business with that large of a user base; but the real influence of Twitter as a cross-connnect between all layers of society and as a tool for creating trends isn't really tapped into.
Buying corporate debt is not a fiscal decision. If the Fed wanted to do that today, there is no law on the books stopping them.

Fiscal policy concerns how much the government spends, and on what.

Furthermore, you only own a company when you own its equity, not its debt.

No offense, but for someone who seems so worked up about what the Fed might do to us, you seem rather uninformed on the basic facts of what it actually does and how.
I skipped many other multipliers that negate any error in the needed wattage per stall. Top of the list: latitude. Demand will be constant throughout the year, but solar output can be radically different depending on the season. Then, is the horizon flat? If it isn't, then you aren't getting as many hours of sun. Then whether the panels are fixed or sun-tracking (tracking is better but require more space/maintenance). Tracking rigs are also much less space efficient when the sun is low. They end up shadowing each other for much of the day. Access roads, setback from obstructions (treelines) panel output degrading over time, energy losses in/out of batteries ... there are scores factors to undermine the per-acre efficiency of small solar farms located near to consumers. Imho tesla would do far better by building large solar farms in perfect locations and hooking them into the public grid. Panels at the charging stations can be the window dressing.
You are commenting on an article which is all about Musk paying attention to cash burn.
The thing is, there's a lot of gas, which like any other matter, has mass. So, even though a hydrogen atom is the lightest element possible, and we think of hydrogen gas a being light, that's just relative to other things. At a human scale, it isn't possible to have that much of the stuff around. But you can always go and collect a lot of it; in fact if you get ten to the power twenty seven kilograms of the stuff, and put it in one place, gravity will shape it into a sphere that looks very like Jupiter. Or, get 1000 times as much as that, and watch as gravity squeezes it so much it begins to fuse into helium at the centre - you'll have a star the size of our Sun...!
It doesn't work that way though - stability breeds stability; the US is second only to Switzerland in stability and has a much larger float. In some ways the huge number of outstanding T-bills is an advantage, as it keeps the liquidity high and volatility low.

It's rather like the old joke about "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you": the US is only in trouble if its real economy falls behind.

(I'm not convinced of the importance of the petrodollar argument, especially given how spectacularly expensive the Iraq war was; it looks more like Cold War "sphere of influence" politics to me.)
re: suggestions:
After submitting the form it crossed my mind that I'd like to be able to identify (sub)comments in a thread that have been made after my last visit. It's a bit time consuming to scan the comment section every time I come back to it anew.

Other than that I am with the "keep it simple"-folks :)
The 15% is actually not as cheap as it looks, because it is double-taxed as it is taken out of retained earnings (which is taxed at the corporate level), whereas salaries are an expenditure, thus the money is not taxed at the corporate level. To the individual, 1 MM in dividends is better than 1 MM in salary, but paying dividends or salary are almost the same to the company and the government. This is why sole proprietorship corporations often pay their owners a salary instead of only dividends (or buybacks).
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Can't anyone say that they bought BitCoin when it was $1/BTC and now they're selling it for $600 or whatever ?
They serve frappachinos and chai tea lattes, so the menu licensed goes way beyond coffee. Food differs drastically between each Starbucks districts anyways.
Well, that's clearly wrong. I would ask for my money back. You spend $100,000 on a car, and the manufacturer can't be bothered to care enough for customers to ensure that there are enough spare parts available.

Someone like Henry Ford, actually used to be a mechanic/engineer that built cars himself. I wonder if Model T owners had problems getting parts!

Visionaries are interesting and get media attention, but I prefer leadership that have personally "gotten their hands dirty." instead of a "business type."
Yes, but fortunately it's rather easy to avoid the backports, wheras I believe it's impossible to completely disable it in Windows 10
There is too much risk built in to the sentencing though. He will basically be forced to take a plea of 10 years and hopefully get out in 5.

I would like to see a situation where the max penalty that can be issued by a judge can only exceed a plea offer by 20%.
That sounds a little high to me - sure, I'd bet it's around 50%, but there's plenty of other things going on, whether it be tax evasion, prostitution, fraud, etc.

Political corruption, for example, is common in the developing world - give your buddy the contract to build a road/dam/whatever, cut every corner possible or just completely fail to deliver, and if properly laundered, there's no way for the government to recover the funds.

And I don't know if anybody would go to the trouble of using a restaurant, but "asset protection" is a thing in wealthy circles, sometimes due to involvement in high risk businesses (porn, file sharing) or just being worried about an impending divorce.
It's called discourse. I know Musk is HN's new Jobs, supposedly beyond criticism and some sort of holy figure to be worshipped, but I personally feel whatever progress he (his engineers and designers that is) makes is worthless if it's in a vacuum of silence.
Check the difference when you change `b` to 1. Then `a/b` is optimized to 1 and not undef. Thus there's an additional `movl $1, %esi`. This is lacking in the example where `a/b` is undef. So `printf` gets passed whatever value is in `%esi`. There is some code that calls main in the binary which is lacking in your disassembly so I can't exactly tell you where `%esi` is from.

https://godbolt.org/g/cEaAVR
The opensource Lobsters - https://lobste.rs/moderations (and my own fork of it with lots more cool features http://www.hackergully.com/) builds transparency into its core.

even the invite system is transparent.

I thought that was very impressive.
I somehow don't really believe this.
I'm often curious how far Google has gotten in answering vague questions like this.

Google's answer is pretty reasonable in this case:

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=where+can+I+get+the+thing+th...

=> First result [Parts of a Toilet | The Family Handyman]

Compare to Bing, which misses the point:

Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=where%20can%20I%20get%20the%20t...

=> First result [Signs Of A Sewer Drain Clog]
You're accepting a random photo from a random Internet stranger which means there is a good chance it is a dick pic, a shock site picture, gore, child porn, or contains misc other unsavory content.
But you still wrote "faster than node.js" and not "faster that most popular npm module" (which aren't always of a great quality or performance-oriented).
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Your status does inform your values, but we differ in values even if we aggressively correct for social status (as well as upbringing, race, and every other factor). This is a 'nurture vs. nature' issue, where Rawls assumed nature was irrelevant, but was incorrect.
I guess you're right. I could have sworn that at the x64 junction, they intentionally broke compatibility with booting a 16-bit real mode OS... But quick googling doesn't seem to support that.
Reading the comments to the story (on the Buzzfeed site), one sees the dichotomy between younger residents and longtime residents. (I've been here about 20 years.)

The latter tend to give all kinds of arguments about why owning a car is necessary, including safety, convenience, and cost. And they may be right -- for them. They live in the hills of a relatively remote area, like La Crescenta or Burbank or Chatsworth, and have Sunday brunch at some place in the Valley, and drive to Costco to fill up a freezer and a garage with goods, and drive to their dentist, doctor, and gym across town as well. It's a whole series of decisions, and it locks down tighter and tighter.

But newer residents are showing that a different way of life is possible, by making all these decisions differently. It's fantastic. It has changed the streetscape a lot, as various local enclaves spring up to offer services within walking or cycling distance, or near to transit.

But the gap between these two lifestyles really makes for some major disconnects around subjects like housing development along thoroughfares, density of development, parking, and bike lanes.
Thanks for your feedback. The name was inspired by a Goethe quote: "Live dangerously and you live right." It's less about being risque as it is about being willing to put yourself out there and try something new - even if you don't know what the result will be.
It is hard to understand the true magnitude of the war on drugs because it likely lead to sentence inflation of all crimes.

At this point people are being sentenced to decades for crimes they previously were sentenced to just years for.

The entire situation is disgusting.
This was very different from my own experiences living and working in LA in the late 90s and early 2000s. The buses were a joke, the Metro had terrible coverage, and the traffic was consistently terrible.

FWIW I was living near Arcadia/Covina and commuting to Santa Monica. What area of LA did you live and work in to have such a nice commute?
Think I replied in order but after the 3.5 I couldn't successfully rate or be rated for the next 2 images. Working now, and love the concept, great job!
What's ironic about this? Computer Science is the study of algorithms, not the study of whatever language is en vogue today. For the latter, you attend Coding Bootcamp.
Sorry to hear about the 3 month delay and provides some insight in the construction of luxury cars at least Lexus. Auto manufacturers were warned that the propellant for the airbags was dangerous and were warned by other airbag vendors who refused to use it to save a few dollars per airbag and lost the contract to the Japanese airbag vendor.

I wonder if other luxury brands such as BMW, Mercedes, Audi, used these types of airbags. I'm guessing not.
Yep. And Argentina did the same in the 90's and they made 1 Peso = 1 USD. And it stopped hyperinflation.

What screwed up Argentina (big big time) was having state size go completely out of control and grow and grow until deficit couldn't be grown anymore and debt either.

After that crisis (2001) 5 presidents in 1 week, currency devaluation and a populist new president took office, then his wife (the Kirchners) and they almost became what Venezuela is today.
When you say indirectly, you gotta make the connection for it to be an actual argument. Something like "when the government has a list of every gun owner, they could stop a popular revolution because (X insert here)".

You can't hand wave it into being. I don't see the connection to a registry at all. So you're an evil dictator and want to kill that revolution, what good is a list of 150m individual persons? What good is the mapping from "identification number" to "gun owner"? Is it important which "guns" participate in the revolution? Can anyone tell that?
Another case of antiquated laws losing touch with current realities. Are people really that naïve to think that a few handguns or rifles will matter against a government with superior weaponry?

This isn't the 18th century anymore; handguns and assault rifles won't stand up to tanks and jets.
The Takata global airbag recall is a big exception. It affects many (most?) major automakers. Lexus had no control over the availability of spare parts in this case.
But they're currently running up against power companies that are trying to not let them sell energy during the day either. If they can store it (cheaply enough) then their product becomes viable again.
I don't see how it is viable to launder through a restaurant

Some simple peer benchmarking of %cash vs %credit card transactions or looking at spend on produce vs revenue would likely show suspect operations quickly - I was talking to an auditor recently about similar benchmarking they do as standard but can't remember the context
The author in 1885:

"People say that we should train people for factory jobs, but everyone I know is gainfully employed in agriculture, and we don't have any factories where I live."

As a college professor, let me assure the author that statistics and programming is not a standard part of an eighth graders program. In fact, the ones I teach have passed the 12th grade, and most are woefully unprepared in algebra, statistics, probability and programming.

For me, understanding slightly advanced math (the type discussed in Taleb's Fooled By Randomness) helped me realize that Financial academic math is complete B.S. (in its use of the Gaussian Dist. in non-Gaussian processes). Yes, that's how learning more math has benefited me: it helped me discover how math is used to support complete B.S.
As much as I hate LinkedIn, I've seen a lot of corporates using it for discussions & posting long form articles & case studies. Typically in legal, manufacturing & Fortune 500 marketing. LinkedIn has a lot of Facebook-esque features now.

But if you're not excited by conversations about legal implications of safety harness design or improvements to cardboard box manufacturing processes, then you probably wouldn't enjoy LinkedIn....
If you're digging in the ground anyway, why not multiple fiber strands, and as many empty tubes as you can fit in there too? The digging is what costs (at least here in Denmark), not the materials.
As a fellow German I'm surprised at that. Given the amount of negative comments about the name I recognize that English speakers have a problem with the name, even if I don't understand exactly why (no one complains about Cuba Libre). For us Germans: pronounce it French, Spanish or even German if you like and it will roughly sound right.
Glad to hear it's working again. Sounds like maybe a bug with float ratings, I'll check it out. And thank you!
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The reality is that this is putting the very people whom guns are supposed to protect us against in charge of their regulation. The second amendment is there not for hunting or sporting, but rather to maintain a state militia, literally a state-level military:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

You can see this underlying (and, to many modern folks, uncomfortable) reality being admitted to implicitly when they go after long guns first, despite the fact that long guns account for a vanishingly small amount of total gun crime. Long guns are excellent for challenging an overreaching central government, however.
I use most of these in order to function in society. That does not preclude me from not wanting them to be tracked. As you so neatly pointed out the alternative is to not live at all.
>Believing that it's work 1-5 trillion dollars by 2050 to reduce 2100 temperatures by 0.05C?

Don't worry, the exodus coming from rising ocean levels is going to cost way more than 5 trillion dollars. And not distributed over 35 years.
I'm not arguing that we should use submarine style cables for base stations, but so you know what's possible: those cables (about 1 inch diameter) routinely do terabits per second.
If you're at the point where you're offering explanations as to the source of your cash, then it's too late. You're being investigated and that's what you want to prevent. Also, how do you sell BC for physical cash?
Meanwhile fslr, spwr, jks, csiq all sit near 52 week & longer lows.

The stock market thinks that solar power won't happen -- or at least the next year will be rough for solar due to a drop-off in demand.
I was indirectly hinting towards this through my posturing. Much of our concepts sentience and intelligence strike me as egotistical and conceited.

After all, on the scale of galaxies do our efforts amount to much more than noise? Are we to planets all that different to bacteria on us?
not so easy. Went to Italy for 2 weeks, had some of the worst food of my life for the first 8 days. Finally asked for help on FB and got a few good suggestions from friends.

> The problem is 99% of people don't give a shit

This is especially true in the USA, at least according to "The Culture Code" https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Code-Ingenious-Understand-Peo...
And hope those same power companies don't notice them trying to sell it at night?
You are trusting Hitler and Stalin to keep the Internet free.

http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/18/net-neutrality-nonsens...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#Arguments_again...
Amazon and Starbucks spend a lot of money to hire highly competent tax attorneys and other staff to minimize their payment of taxes. Instead of complaining, countries need to pay more money to hire even brighter people to write better tax laws. Citizens of these countries need to elect officials who will do the hiring and not have obstructive laws that prohibits the payment of the large salaries and fees necessary to hire these competent people.