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Nah, i was on AnR from ATT, they paid for it themselves. nice try tho.
It's quite acceptable to criticize a dead person's writing. In fact, almost all literary criticism does it. So, definitely don't feel bad.

But, I disagree with the opinion of the work. It's hard to take Wallace's style and content without considering the 90s and its historical and social context. A lot of what you don't like about his writing is actually his point.
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Dude, the "with respect to" clause is a pretty deep idea in calculus that really matters in multi-variate but not so much in uni-variate.

I keep seeing how society needs better math education, whether it be statistics or calculus. Well no shit. Unfortunately those are extremely hard subjects to teach in high school. I'd argue statistics is harder to teach than calculus. In calculus you usually derive things by following the formulas. In statistics there isn't always a formula, logic, or path you can follow.

I took both AP Calc BC and AP Stats in HS and I'll tell you I learned a lot of calculus then and am learning a lot of statistics now (I'm 32).
Characterizing Tibetian Buddhism, practiced by many people around the world, as "a tool of political domination" is, to say the least, a bit of a stretch...

One obvious counter point is that the Dalai Lama, as the main representative of Tibetian Buddhism, is far more interested in political reconciliation than any sort of political domination. There are no tibetian lamas Buddhists that I know that seem interested in political domination. Quite the opposite, in fact. They are generally the most accomodating and open minded people. I know.

Also, I think the quote you are using is misleading for several reasons. First, for several paragraphs befor the exerpt, that particular sutta talks about being skillful with regard to those thoughts, abandoning them, ignoring them, questioning them, and being mindful of them without reacting to them. Also that passage is from a later translation of an early text, and the passage about crushing down or forcing your thoughts doesn't exist in the earlier text itself. This strongly suggests that beating down unskillful thoughts wasn't an original teaching, but was added later by a translator.

One last point, in general the idea of forcing your mind to do anything in particular isn't in-line with Buddhist teachings.
DSL6540s are $10 in 1000 quantity if you're not Apple. If you're Apple or another OEM integrator, you can probably get Intel to give you a pretty healthy shave off that even. $15-20 bucks to make all four ports Thunderbolt is nothing to Apple's bottom line, especially when they can (and probably will) just tack on another $100 to the price to cover it.

This is Apple hardware - even if it's not the best, most advanced hardware out there, it will still fly off the shelves because of the fans/fanboys/startups.
Actually I think their long term plan will be to switch to ARM processors. Probably not just yet though. They have already made their software compile to platform independent code (I may have the terminology wrong, I'm not super familiar with it), which means all current software should be able to run on ARM. You can check out some more in-depth discussion about this topic here https://www.macobserver.com/columns-opinions/particle-debris...
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WSJ gets a pass because the content is often high-quality and, as demonstrated above, it's trivially easy to get around the paywall. Were it not trivially easy, it wouldn't get a pass.
You gotta make them agree to an actual bet before lowering the hammer like that!
My SO went through a similar setup as the one described by the grandparent. Hers was ~15k, maybe up to ~17k by the end of the day, considering food and whatnot. I can't speak for her, but from my perception, the investment seems to have paid off: she's now working at a much lower stress level than before (her previous job was in high stress environment) and her salary and benefits (vacation time, perks like company-provided food and activities, etc.) have improved substantially. The job is also much more intellectually stimulating than her previous job. Given a couple years of experience, which anyone needs when changing a career, she could be making almost double than the cap at her previous job. All in all, she is way happier now than before.
Ditto - especially when I'm halfway through the first paragraph of an article and it slides it down offscreen, so I scroll down to keep reading, then the ad goes away and the place I was reading goes back up off screen. It's criminal.

Further, on my phone especially, I like to read articles while on the train. My trip has cell signal at every stop along the way, but not between stations. Before Apple allowed adblockers in Safari, I'd have about a 1/10 chance of actually getting the article to load before I lost signal. Now, it works great just about every time.
I suspect calculus is less commonsensical to most people than you think :-) That said, I've argued the parent's point for years. Basic stats/probability/economic biases are really fundamental stuff and don't require a lot of complicated math if you don't want them to.

There are some basic calculus concepts that are useful. Area under a curve. Basic derivatives (for finding maxima/minima, etc.). But the truth is that I've rarely used calculus outside an academic setting and I use at least basic statistics/probability thinking all the time.
> So how does your income play into house prices? We had many houses on offer when I bought last year. We spoke with experts and offered slightly below market. If they countered above market, we would have walked.

If the seller knows you are making a million a year, it's a fact that balances against their desire to sell. While their desire to sell could be greater and they might capitulate anyway, they may very well hold faster to their asking price because they know you're able to afford it.

If Warren Buffet makes an offer on my house and tries to negotiate me down on price, I'll hold out and even sell to someone else who also negotiates down on price, but isn't him; all things being equal, I'd rather feel like I helped someone out than was taken advantage of. This is among the reasons people with wealth will often use intermediaries to close deals.

> I'm not denying these practices exist, but its always sleazy businesses that engage in them and most consumers end up moving on once they catch wise. Grocery store vs. Amazon for example.

Amazon owns woot.com, which allows them precisely to engage in price discrimination and the benefits of time-scoped deals while simultaneously offering a more "supercenter" experience on their main site. They capture both sides of the market---people who like to feel they are getting a special deal, and people who prefer the simplicity of one price.

(Besides, since Amazon brokers trades between buyers and sellers who are selling at different prices, they don't even practice "one product, one price" on their main site, really. And they have Amazon Prime, which is a loyalty program).
That doesn't always work.

Source: I'm on mobile right now, it doesn't work. Country of origin and/or incognito mode could be a factor.
If the publishing market is destined to stay bifurcated, then it is a sad commentary on the descent of the Net down the same well-trodden path that television took to mediocrity and unfulfilled promise.

There is a market for such data- and analytically-heavy publishing at the very high end. Actionable-oriented industry-specific analysis selling for $10K USD per year and magnitudes higher are purchased in very small quantities by trading firms, for example. Back in the BBS days, I was hopeful that the then-nascent Net would make it easier and less expensive to share, collate and test ideas and data on a larger scale, and evolve publishing to a more live- and continuously-curated ideas marketplace, so to speak. But I suspect you might be correct, and the ad-driven, entertainment-oriented content will crowd out what I had hoped for in a re-proving of Gresham's law for mass consumption content.
>And yet, I'm able to go online and purchase specific Justin Bieber songs/albums that I'm interested in, without having to pay monthly fees to some Netflix-type aggregator.

Almost all TV is available from the same sort of places that sell you Beiber songs for a per episode price.

But even the music industry is moving away from that sort of model. Flat fee is more convenient.
When you need to handle a lot of concurrent connections (from your clients, not to your database), Go green threads are invaluable (better than OS threads because a goroutine requires only 2 KB; and better than callbacks). They are also very useful to express concurrent algorithms.
Almost every year between 1970 and 1996 had more homicides then are there have been + that there are projected to be in 2016.
I just looked into why that is the case and if you hover over the little dropdown carrot for the "3.8 out of 5" you see this:

Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The machine learned model takes into account factors including: the age of a review, helpfulness votes by customers and whether the reviews are from verified purchases.

So a product would just need a small percentage of 5 star reviews in the beginning of the review period.
You appear to be right, although it doesn't make sense (like a lot of things here, so it's not that much of a surprise). How can a nation without a government have an established religion?
Of course anyone can believe anything, but here you go:

https://chemtrailsplanet.net/2015/12/19/another-nasa-hoax-ma...
I had a previous job where the testers would always do that, just report "broken" or "doesn't work" for just about everything.

I eventually figured out that they didn't actually want bugs fixed. They wanted to have lots of bug reports open and the application looking broken all over the place. Why? To justify the jobs and headcount and existence of the QA department. The QA managers would even resist movements towards automated testing, to protect their own turf and the employment of the far-too-many manual testers. I eventually got quite used to the disappointment in a tester's face when he had to close a bug report because it had been fixed.

Classic case of "if you're being paid for a problem, the last thing you want to do is solve it."
I am using statistics that I know to be true about my university (University of Alaska Anchorage). As far as I know UAA is typical for state run universities.

I am having a hard time finding aggregate data online that supports (or contradicts) my claims on a national level beyond what I have already provided. Unfortunately the edit timer has already expired for my comments so I can't delete or alter them. If you can find reliable data that contradicts my claims reply to my root post and I'll be happy to upvote it.
There's a difference between AP calculus in Alberta and British Columbia? :)
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> AppleCare replacement policy if the products do get damaged by being yanked to the floor.

For some reason Macs are the only Apple product not covered for accidental damage by AppleCare. I'm not sure why.

It's not even about margins, the top of the line iPhone costs more than the MacBook Air and it's much prone to accidental damage.
I don't think the books do "acknowledge" that? I mean in particular there's that nice short story where the Culture visits Earth. So the books are set in our present and not the future.
I went to App Academy, and it was definitely worthwhile. I could have gotten the same information elsewhere, but there's a lot of value in having a curated, focused curriculum and a large amount of time dedicated to learning.
I'm sure you "manipulate" your children - in the sense of getting them to do what you want - in a variety of ways, directly or indirectly. It's part of being a parent. You do it because you love them and want to guide them in the right way.

I hope you're less judgmental with them than with other random people on the internet.
This is the average price from my city, which moves in cycles: https://www.accc.gov.au/sites/default/files/fuelwatch/sydney...

The baseline price is also related to the wholesale price of fuel, which is publically available.

It seems like it should be possible to forecast prices.
This. Buying low is a negligible loss for a bank if things don't turn out the way they want it to.
This is a really interesting notion. I'd love to follow up with you offline. Drop me an email?
You only display it to risky customers?
Firefox and Safari have built-in reader mode (buttons in the address bar) that clear away page clutter and reformat the text.
Hanson has actually disparaged science fiction in general for purposes of futurism. I don't think he's been influenced by it much.
> I've never heard Trump denigrate Mexicans or Blacks.

Then you haven't been paying attention. He said a judge couldn't do his job because his parents were Mexican. The highest ranking elected official from his own party, Paul Ryan, called it the "textbook definition of a racist comment".
Ironically, site uses rgba(0,0,0,0.8) for the main text. I found it quite hard to read.

I changed it to rgb(0,0,0), removing the opacity.

A lot easier on the eyes.
Consider that the author writes "they point to" which implies it's a universal among MGTOWs. Is it really a tenet of MGTOW belief? Is it likely that a large number of people feel that way? I doubt it. It sounds like an extreme minority opinion.

In fact, if you search for the phrase, you'll find it posted here:
https://www.mgtow.com/forums/topic/why-false-rape-is-far-wor...

It's the opinion of one poster named "Supremo," yet the author presents it as the opinion of the MGTOW movement.

And if you read the responses, you'll find many people disagree with it.

So don't let this single, secondary source make up your mind for you. Do your own due diligence.

Any movement, tendency or idea that seeks to "change things" is always immediately attacked with suspicion. Think of when the iPod or Dropbox came out! It's just people testing the authenticity and sincerity of the beliefs.
The mood among bank staff... everything is shut down by compliance, and if they could, they'd work in a different industry. People I know at banks, anyway.
> The alternative interpretation

And that's even accepting the interpretation of this as old vs. young, which I would need more than 1 data point for.
> I mostly run Windows on my late-2013 15" MBPR

It's safe to say you're not really Apple's target market :)

Personally, I won't believe this OLED thingie until I actually see it with my own eyes, but with the right support in the OS APIs, might turn out to be a shot in the arm for the laptop concept. Imagine replacing the whole keyboard with an ipad-like touchscreen? Sure, abhorrent for a programmer, but quite exciting for everyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the actual long-term endgame, for which an OLED strip is just a trial balloon.
Seriously, why do we need in-depth journalism uncovering frauds like Theranos when we can have free blogspam about personal experiences at coding boot camps.
It was L. P. Benezet, superintendent of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire, who experimented with teaching no math in the first five grades in the early 1930s. See for example https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/wh...
What infuriates me, looking back on it, was simply how much of my time the educational system was allowed to waste. Thousands and thousands of lost hours, some of them filled with pointless busy-work, but many more just squandered on inanity. At least some of the teachers would let you finish the daily penance quickly, and sit quietly in the corner reading something interesting. Too few, though.
If anything it is more pronounced.
> There is literally none on the market that has the keys I want in the right places.

If you're referring to laptop keyboard layouts, I agree. So much wasted space on your average macbook for the scrunched up keys they give you. If you're referring to keyboards in general, well, I disagree. There's a lot of custom options out there for almost every keyboard layout you could ever want.
I had this thought earlier: how about just electing people who don't give in to corporate lobbying. Keep corporate donations legal, I don't care, just actually look at the disclosure forms of where their money is coming from and don't vote for them if you disagree with conflicts of interest. Or if they have PACs that aren't transparent, don't vote for them.

People are unable to make their voting decisions outside of the TV commercials and news articles they read, so I don't have any real hope for this tactic.
Even McMullin posed to win first electoral votes for a third party since 1968
You're implying that having a child magically imbues you with parenting knowledge.
I've considered that "Big Red Son," to use that example again, is intentionally tedious and humorless. Readers expect something titillating, or at least mildly interesting, and instead DFW reflects the mundaneness of the awards show through brutally dull prose. Perhaps, and the original title, "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment," would support this. But at the end of the day, you're just left with an exceptionally boring essay.
What's a full colon? Hard/NSFW to google for that...
You don't NEED an OSX machine (unless you work on stuff that need OSX, in that case probably is your fault). It's like consoles, they are bad for everyone except the console-makers. Don't get yourself locked homie.
So it turns out that for all the pubs currently listed in the UK, the shortest path is 28,269 miles. That's actually pretty doable: were one independently wealthy and heavily beer-minded, one could do it in 10-15 years of hard (and thirsty) work!
Also, Cisco was also running programs in high schools to train the next generation of network administrators.

Also remember AOL server with Philip Greenspun?

http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/bootcamp/week1/week1
I see this as well. Students particularly. The Air got popular when the price dropped. Initially, everyone also criticized it for being too expensive and underpowered. Look at this thread and tell me it doesn't sound like they're talking about the new Macbook:
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/why-is-the-macbook-air-s...

My speculation: No upgrade for the Air but I think they'll announce a new lower price for the new Macbook as well as somewhat upgraded internals. They may lower the Air price a bit and keep it around or perhaps kill it outright. Everything about the Macbook seems like it's made to replace the Air apart from the price.
This is a really narrow minded and judgmental perspective. I hope some day you encounter more diversity in your life and have more empathy towards others.
The same, I imagine. For instance look at how big the Cuphead team [1] is, or the work conditions conspiracy with Sausage Party [2]

[1] http://studiomdhr.com/cuphead-team/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Party#Controversy
Whether or not simulations are actually the people they're copies of, or people at all, is irrelevant to the question Hanson is looking at, which is "What might we expect ems to do?".
There's a third-party solution for this, or at least one was working on it.
It's nice that people don't give up their heritage to make a few extra dollars.
> Why does WSJ get a pass?

At least in this case, the WSJ article looks like it's the primary source for this story:

https://www.google.com/#tbm=nws&q=%22Tom+Malafronte%22

The other hits that come up (right now) are foreign-language articles and/or cite the WSJ.

More broadly, my guess would be the WSJ is tolerated because it often has interesting stories that aren't covered or covered well anywhere else (and we're all fairly adept at avoiding its paywall).
"The new Macbook Pro is widely rumored to have a fingerprint sensor."

Wouldn't be happy with this carrying an mbp around with instant LEO access ~ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fingerprints+iphone+fbi
For anyone who can't ready this article, search for 'Tom Malafronte' from your mobile and read the full 'AMP' version. Thanks Google!
> As a VMware developer, hehehe, you're funny.

You seemingly missed my comment about Apple machines not being developer-oriented. A developer isn't Apple's target user.

> As a user of a modern web browser, yeah, 8GB by default isn't going to cut it anymore

You're clearly exaggerating this by quite a bit. Everyone knows modern browsers consume more RAM than ever before, but 8 GB's is extreme.

(Anecdotally, I tend to have hundreds of tabs open across multiple windows for weeks-on-end, and never have hit 8 GB's consumed by Chrome or Firefox, usually in the 1-3 GB range, and that's when I start to get concerned some tab has a broken script running).

> 32GB is not even outlandish. It's a simple upgrade.

Not really. If maybe 10% of their customers will use it, why include it? Especially right now when Apple seem to be in this kick of removing everything except exactly what they anticipate most of their users need.

> Apple can charge a fortune for it since it's "memory down" instead of DIMMs

I assume you're referencing the chips being soldered onto the mobo instead of being removable DIMM's - Adding way more RAM than necessary today may in fact preclude "upgrade" revenues later when Apple releases a line-up refresh in a few year's time (when average Joe might actually need 32 GB on his laptop).

> Why wouldn't they do it?

Because 32 GB is overkill in 2016 for majority of their customers. "Upgrading" to 32 GB today prevents them from doing so in the future in another line-up refresh (when 32 GB might be more reasonable for the average Mac purchaser).
I would say the vast majority of their money comes from grants (I'm guessing here). I got an email from them at the end of 2015 asking me to donate $3 but when I saw that Sal Khan was pulling down a salary of $550k+ I was completely turned off by it. In fact, I actually emailed Sal and asked him (the email appeared to come from Sal himself) but never got a response.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what organizations like Khan Academy do, but I find emails like this a little misleading, "there are only hours left in 2015, and we need your help to raise the money that we need to keep innovating and offering new learning experiences in 2016 and beyond. If you’re able to pitch in, we’d really appreciate your support before 2015 is over."

Granted I am picking on Khan Academy a bit here, this is how most nonprofits function.
Would be neat to have the Help Tab as a slide-in window of sorts, so as we're getting started it's very easy to just glance at the shortcuts instead of having two tabs open
I always found trig and geometry to be the most interesting and useful part of math. It maps pretty well onto real things that you might have to do. Maybe this is more relevant in the rural area I grew up in, but geometry and trig is really useful when you're trying to do carpentry, or figure out if you've got room enough to chop down a tree, pathfinding on a map, etc.
> Contrary to most belief, most men are not terribly impressed with a woman's ability to have a career. They're more interested in having a life partner that you can share burdens with.

I can't speak for "most men", but personally I find lack of ambition to be a huge turnoff when I'm considering whether I want to try and enter a relationship with a woman. You state that men are more interested in having someone with whom to share their burdens, but how is someone supposed to understand my career ambitions, concerns, and mindset when they have none of their own?