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The article is a bit hard to follow through Google Translate. Do these numbers mean the loss in quality is actually audible? Audiophiles can be very zealous about things that don't make much of a practical difference.
I don't think that's always a case of people talking past each other. I will often reply to someone (in much the same way you just did) with a clarification about how some people do predict the market successfully, because even if I charitably assume they understand this implicitly, I want to make sure the literal idea that no one is capable doing it is not spread around like a gospel for other readers.
Hi Andy!

I hope I know you. May I ask - how you know my name? If you have figured out my unusual name from my user name then you are exceptionally smart :-)
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There is a popular theory that most people, or at least white collar workers, are employed in jobs that aren't economically necessary/worthwhile. Because of the way corporate politics incentivizes having more employees and making people busy. This would seem to add evidence to that.
I seem to recall reading that Tew spent up to 20% of his targeted million dollars on PR[1]. Which would suggest that he had a very good understanding of page views being the important ingredient, a good story for traditional media being important (more so at the time) to get there, and more faith in what he was doing than anyone else that had the idea of creating a pure web page billboard.

[1]IIRC it was discussed in Paul Carr's Bringing Nothing to the Party, which isn't exactly complimentary about Tew
A middle ground? No way! Heresy! Either we utterly demolish all social norms and structures and create a top-down designed society, or we enshrine all traditions as immutable for all eternity. Anything else is just a wishy-washy half measure.

In all seriousness...

The optimum in a complex multi-objective optimization problem is almost never at the edge, and nuances do in fact matter. It really feels like at some point circa the 1960s American society completely lost the ability to think in terms of anything other than immutable absolute dogmas (a.k.a. fundamentalism in all its forms) and simplified sound-bite slogans.
That is a very good point, thank you
Every time there is a copyright law debate I think about this: https://github.com/philipl/pifs.

As far as we understand the number pi, every single combination of digit is part of it at some point. So technically Pi already contains a copy of any of your work and your future work even before you think of making it!

Doesn't that make digital copyright laws completely obsolete?

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating pro-piracy or anything. I just think that our laws made in the 17-18-1900's and monkey-patched to these days are not prepared to handle digital matters. We should reboot our legal system. At least it's digital-matter version.
Panix.com allows email addresses of the form whatever@username.users.panix.com ("username" = your usual email address). It's not at all a pain in the ass, I just type it in, it makes a lot of filtering trivial, and I don't think any spammers have munged it. (And if they do... I get spam, which I do anyway.)

(Happy panix.com user.)
I'm not sure it can be done. Maybe part of the answer is for you to give yourself permission to quit a book after reading, say, one quarter of it. Then you can be the judge for yourself. (Or did your false starts carry you that far through IJ?)
>I'm seriously claiming that no patient committed to modifying their treatment plan has ever started that process due to a TV commercial and that the societal loss from doctors acquiescing to patient demands for treatment for Restless Leg Syndrome or whatever other made-up disease far outweighs the benefits from airing said commercials.

Well, originally you said that no doctor could ever learn about anything that they didn't already aggressively seek out due to their diligent efforts to stay in compliance with the continuing education requirements.

Now you're recognizing that it happens but the costs outweigh the benefits.

Could you update your original post and be a bit clearer about your actual claim in the future? I wouldn't want people to be misled.
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My friend also wrote a similar tool in Go. This tool uses Taobao's API to detect your external IP address so edns will not be fixed string.

https://github.com/ayanamist/gdns-go
The pitches can be shot between 15-60 minutes each. These are ballpark figures, keep in mind, and I am sure that some pitches have taken longer. The point is, there's not enough time to make an informed decision.

Production wants to shoot them as quickly as possible, as they are renting very expensive studio space and paying the talent for every shoot day.

Shark Tank is very efficient as far as TV shows go. Some shows, like Big Brother, shoot 100 minutes for every 1 minute aired. Shark Tank is probably closer to 3-5 minutes shot for every 1 minute aired. It's more like a scripted show in that regard. Certainly, all the pitches are memorized and practiced well in advance.

Someone asked my credentials. I worked on Shark Tank for one season as an editor. I have add'l credits on The Voice and Sarah Palin's Alaska for Mark Burnett Productions. I also worked for 10 other production companies on about 25-30 shows for ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and SHOWTIME. Some of them I don't remember. Some of them I would like to forget, for example, Famous in 12: http://www.tmz.com/category/famous-in-12/
This is like telling someone not to study for the SAT.
Yes, that's a fair point: that does resonate in many ways when mahy people are annoyed with the privileged classes for their economic and social ills. Yet then he doesn't seem to make an arguent any more in depth about such bureaucrats than the false equivalentist Trumpists or British Fascist Right (UKIP) does about such elites, nor does he bring any examples or justifications to bear as to how he and his ilk are better and would improve the world. Yes, governments are almost always crap, and inevitably there are incompetent people in them. And some are worse than others, and it's really not clear what he's achieving here.
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For taxation purposes, traditional tax-exempt IRAs are equivalent to 401(k)s, and Roth 401(k)s are equivalent to Roth IRAs. Whenever someone refers to contributing to one type of account or the other over another type of account, the ones that are equivalent are... equivalent(for taxation purposes).
Uhm, I was trying to explain the joke ....
You also need to be able to afford a down payment and still have a reasonable cash reserve. That there pretty much puts the majority of the population out of play.
Presumably. However it is not in the interests of the other nations or the beaurocracy to have the UK leave.

The UK is a net contributor to the EU. If the funds it provides are pulled then the other contributors must contribute more or achieve less. The recipients will receive less either way.

The UK leaving weakens the EU significantly. It will also weaken the UK, but make no mistake the best interests of most in power are served by drawing this process out.

On top of that you have to remember that many other nations have severe EU doubts. Key amongst them are France and the Netherlands, two large contributors. An EU collapse could occur if either or both of these leave.

Why would they leave if the UK is kicked out? It's an overtly aggressive move against EU skeptics. Aggressive moves have a long history of causing increased support for the target. Refusing to offer good deals once the UK has left will not be viewed as aggressive.
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Nice photos!

> Do not trust "infinity" on your lens, it's not accurate!

It's perfectly accurate on the manual focus Nikkor AI-S lenses I use. Can't speak for other lenses. Of course, they don't do lenses like that anymore.
Actually, she's got a point.

The stuff you don't read don't become part of a knowledge base. Figuring out how to circumvent that in order to learn and think is a huge issue, especially if you want common culture and/or more knowledge growth.

EG: You could read about the nuance of every computer language by every author out there - how does this help you become a better programmer? Alternatively, how do you know when you should read something, especially if it isn't about your language/issues you are dealing with right now, because it could be insightful to problems you will be about to have in general. Multiply by lots of people facing the same choices, and then what?
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> First, there are options outside of engineering that you may like. Second, being rejected by 20 companies doesn't seem excessive to me. It really is a numbers game. I have 10 years of experience and I'm looking a list of 83 places that didn't want me within the last year.

This is kind of a tangent, but I don't understand how the sentiments "it's just a numbers game" and "nobody can find good engineers" can coexist. It seems like the people expressing the latter are trying to simultaneously be beggars and choosers.
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Apple has been pulling tricks for many years to lock down education, but I doubt this was ever described as "weaponizing." Sheesh.
Look for index funds with as low fee as possible (≤0.4%). Who will offer them to you depends heavily on where you live.
It isn't, but if you want to work for those companies you'd better be prepared for it anyways, because they don't care if it's valid for them or not.
I've written up my philosophy on beating the market, which is a little less conservative with respect to believing that markets are efficient and investing in the indices is the only prudent way to invest:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KXfTFYfmhb9Cy5NE0uRuf8Sv...
I'll go along with this.
Thanks for the reference. There are a zillion photo apps, and a zillion paid reviews; it's really hard to get good info on what's worth it and what's not, so I tend to lean on people who recommend something naturally as part of a larger discussion.
Actually, the current prime minister announced that Article 50 wouldn't be triggered until 2017 (at the earliest) in a Hustings about 2 weeks after the referendum.
> And in the case of Turkey, I wouldn't call it a developing country using this definition.

Yes, off topic, but I could've sworn that "developing" was the term used. Apparently, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country):

> In the 2016 edition of its World Development Indicators, the World Bank made a decision that there is no longer distinguished between “developed” countries and “developing” in the presentation of its data. Nobody has ever agreed on a definition for these terms in the first place.

So much for the vagaries of human language! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wouldn't call it a technicality. It's a very difficult issue that could have far-reaching effects on technology and information systems. Currently, many media outlets and Google choose to publish and link to copious amounts of disturbing information and images regarding the Tiananmen Square protests, despite the government of the world's most populous country arguing it to be taboo. I doubt those invested in the issue think that publishing on the topic involves mere legal technicalities.

That said, the EU's right to be forgotten applies to search engines. Not to anyone else. That's why, as someone posted elsewhere, the BBC is able to publish a list of links that have been blacklisted by Google because of the ruling.
Perhaps something related to continuous optimization? I think Oberon experimented with that.
I think his definition of "lie" is very broad in the sense of presenting something to be different than it actually is. For example:

- The show makes it seem like the pitch lasts 15 minutes when it generally lasts much longer in reality (I've talked to a friend who has been on the show that has verified this).

- The show makes it seem much more dramatic than it actually is by overlapping dialogue, rearranging and timing reaction shots, and using music (to the extend of fabricating a conversation)

- The show makes it seem like an exact deal is made in 15 minutes when there is much more involved before and after the show
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That depends on the country. If citizens are obliged to carry an ID, any finable offense, no matter how small, can trigger the more severe offense of not being able to show ID. When subsequent research leads to the discovery that one doesn't have an ID, it can get you locked up or kicked out of the country.
It's not the movement that triggers that, but rather the "with high energy" part. It makes no sense in context, and the hippies I know love to use "energy" in nonsensical ways.
Why do you think that conversation couldn't have happened on another social network? Specifically, I find that the character limit always makes any actual discussion very hard on twitter. Anything deeper than pop culture and I don't have enough space.
> Uber is a bad investment.

So the VC's might lose money. But if the central bank is aiming for a bigger picture, Uber and Lyft have been great improvements on the market/society/efficiency overall. A car picks me up in 1-2 minutes, instead of the 10 minutes a taxi used to take. And it actually comes - taxis in SF have always been unreliable.

And instead of most cabs driving around aimlessly empty half the time burning fossil fuels, now you have the majority of Uber cars carrying at least 1 customer (sometimes 2 or 3 with UberPool/Lyft Line) most of the time.
> Well, originally you said that no doctor could ever learn about anything that they didn't already aggressively seek out due to their diligent efforts to stay in compliance with the continuing education requirements.

Hmm.. maybe you misread the original comment?

I specifically said no patient will learn something from a TV commercial that their doctor/nurse/pharmacist aren't aware of. It wasn't a comment on the infallibility of medical education but the uselessness of pharma advertising.

Of course knowledgeable patients can improve their own care by aggressively researching whatever condition they might have.
I can imagine that only Mark Cuban has access to that information as they are private companies. Mark definitely seems to have the entrepreneurs interests more in mind, but they are all "sharks."

Do you trust a "shark" who claims to have your best interests in mind? If they are good at what they do, yes. All the way up to the time they don't have your best interests in mind.
Your point about comp is really important. In roles where I felt I was not paid enough, and the pay was not life changing to begin with, I definitely valued my work/life balance more. In roles where significant changes in quality of life came from the job or comp, I pushed myself harder if it materially improved my outcomes.

That said, if your goals are financial independence, everyone needs to do a real reality check as to whether their current job (or even career path if you are junior) will ever let you reach that with your target lifestyle. I know people who love what they do, but the reality is I can't see how they could ever retire with what they earn even with a relatively frugal lifestyle.

On the flip side, I have an ibanker relative who would be on track for financial independence in his early thirties if only he didn't live an ibanker lifestyle.
This is a joke, right? All those "articles" which are just quoting tweets are worthless. All that does is speak to the laziness of CNN and MSNBC.
This kind of reasoning always makes me think: "What a childish way to deal with this. Please be an adult, and don not use revenge, punishment or scare tactics. You are affecting a lot of peoples lives !"
Yes, it puts a large number of people out of play--but not software developers.

That's why I recommend it to them.

You can find deals for $100k where you put down $10-$20k. Which is a lot of money, yes, but I know it's possible, because I saved that much in a year as a SW dev.

And then you can have cash reserves of $5k or so (which could be 401k or something else.)

Even a Heloc could be a cash reserve if needed.

There are ways to make it work.
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There are already libel laws to address lies much more thoroughly than making Google's job harder.

So-called right to be forgotten laws are as futile as DRM. I believe culturally we will adapt to the availability of this information. We can change our opinions about whether evidence of poor choices a long time ago means a candidate would be a poor hire. But the information still being available allows us to make more informed choices because maybe those poor choices a long time ago, along with more recent information, is relevant. The candidate knows this evidence exists and can contextualize it and/or compensate for it with evidence of better, more recent choices.
This looks somewhat like a bounty for dragging up dirt motivated by a dislike of somebody's politics.
I have worked in telco and had to fix an issue with a circuit once, so ended up auditing the in/out circuits to which I found a few that were somewhat undocumented and further enquiry was basicly, you do not touch those. reason for auditing was issue with video link and was looking for a spare circuit to negate a older bit of kit that I suspected of inducing the odd bit error. Which for networking is not going to be noticed but for video, visually impacting. This was about 20 years ago.

Let us not forget that many a spare fiber was laid in the internet boom, unused and classed as dark fiber. But in government and telco's of the time and to this day you will find no single person working on the entire network to the stage they deal with there part and somebody else deals with there part. you can easily end up with unnoticed and ignored links for security.

What I'd be interested in is what about Russia, China and other countries, so much about the NSA and yet more is known how they operate in contrast to other countries security collectives.

But kinda gets down to presuming they see everything and with that, more right than not.
The various auto injectors work slightly differently. Rightly or wrongly the FDA expects doctors to instruct their patients in the specific auto injector they prescribe. This prevents pharmacies from subbing out other brands unless they are functionally identical.
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firstname@lastname.com - works

variation-on-first-name+servicename@lastname.com - works

variation-on-first-name@lastname.com - black hole.

Give friends #1. Give services #2.
This guy is peeved about politics and he has a new class of people he wants to blame for it.

His description of this class of people is odd and improbable: some sort of foppish Englishmen who have contrived a way to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Now, there are some things he said that are more generally applicable. Particularly: "Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite." I'm pretty sure he just put himself in this class, no matter how hard he tries to deadlift his way out of it.
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Except with digital content you must make a copy of it to transfer it as your sale. For that matter, you must make a copy (in some cases several copies) in memory simply to play it. Without any right to copy you have no rights at all.

Luckily for everyone the actual law is pragmatic. They don't set out some set of philosphy and then enforce whatever is concluded by these axioms being applied. The rules can be made arbitrarily to mitigate practical harm and neither the "but every number is technically in pi!" or "only rights owners have the right to control copying!" have any real world weight.
A certain personality type sees failure as the only sin.
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Funnily enough, I've yet to see him do that. The logical next question is obviously "so what are these other people for?".
Chanting the word HU 5-minutes every day will probably do more for you than those services. And it doesn't cost a penny to learn how to chant it.
No, you get convicted in absentia (assuming there is enough evidence that you did it) and then you are essentially forever a wanted criminal who still has to do some jail time.
Consider that it can be easier and often more rewarding to be a good software engineer in a non-software field than a good software engineer at Big4 - you can make major contributions to other fields even as a mediocre software dev because you're not 'competing' with the best of the best. Take up a position as a software dev in a field that has not yet been eaten by software and ride the wave to the top.
Last year I moved from 1.2 miles away from work with a ~10 min. door-to-door commute whether I biked or drove, to roughly a 16 mile 30-45 min. commute each way (depending on traffic) in order to buy a house, get more space, etc.

I desperately wish I had my old commute back, but am making the sacrifice for the time being and enjoying the gorgeous drive home on 280 as the sun sets while listening to some relaxing music or podcasts.

That said, the car maintenance costs have gone up, gas has gone way up, and my free time has gone down. Those are all real costs. I did the math on them before the move, but the real cumulative impact of the reduced free time was something that didn't really hit me until I was doing it.

If only non-engineering jobs had as much flexibility with remote work.
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I thought this way originally, but in the United Kingdom over the past few years there has been Operation Yewtree, which has in multiple instances called out a well known figure as being a child-molester, only to have to retract due to incorrectness (or correctness, and lack of evidence), and it has ruined a few careers.

I think the Internet should be able to retain veritable truth (and obvious satire) only, if there's clear evidence that something on the Internet is untrue and not clearly satire, then it should be possible to remove that information because it is potentially personally damaging.
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Are you referring to the 1975 vote to remain in the Common Market?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Commun...

...do you think there should have been a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty?
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It took me 6-8 months after college to figure out the job search/interview process. Once I figured it out, I had no problem.

It sounds like you are running into problems with performance anxiety in interviews. Fix that.
Yeah, you're pretty much stuck. Come to think of it, there's no reason you should be. Asking someone to commit to something like military service before trying the (degrading) training is total BS. If they think letting people leave in the middle would loose them too many recruits, they might actually have to start training people humanely.
> in a country without libel laws.

It may be slightly futile, but I do believe it's a step in the right direction.
Writing software is hard, and far from everyone can be real good at it.

It also takes time to become good at it. I was pretty useless the first three years of my career.
Not a bad investment plan. I do real estate. Earn around market medium and will have initalt investment to pull out or give to children at my will.
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I think he's criticizing a problem rather than proposing a solution. That's fair, as far as it goes. If you want a concrete proposal for making things better, well, you're going to have to look somewhere else, because it isn't here.

I don't think he and his ilk are better and would improve the world. They'd just be intelligent people who are idiots on different subjects.
I just started and have had all good experiences, would be very interested in real horror stories too.