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Well yeah, armies didn't really have much else to entertain them back in the day.

We have enough other stuff in our lives to look forward to that we can sacrifice one part of it.

Not that anyone should if they don't want to, just saying I can understand it.
This appears to have absolutely nothing to do with nutrition. It's contamination. People are getting sick hours after eating.
Yes, I can see that in the case of Soylent vs Slimfast, customer choice is driven by what marketing says is the intended use.

But don't be too quick to dismiss masculinity or coolness factors in product selection. Diet Coke and Coke Zero are essentially the same thing made by the same company (the latter having a slightly different "flavor profile"). Coke Zero exists because some men or many men will not order a Diet Coke: it's sissy or uncool. Coke Zero was introduced solely for that reason.
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> But more importantly, Apple could run Twitter at a loss as a data platform around their product.

This is something I don't understand. Pardon me if this sounds pie in the sky but how much does it cost to RUN Twitter without any expectations of profit? It seems like the people here in the conversation have knowledge that I lack about Twitter's expenses. It probably is public information but I can't find anything satisfying from a cursory Google search. Anyone want to help me out?

If Twitter were to tighten it's belt today, how would it's operating expenses look like?

I remember talking to Justin TV (precursors to twitch) folks and they said operating a live streaming site wasn't expensive and that one ad every couple of hours was enough to keep the lights on. I imagine running Twitter should be cheaper except for maybe dealing with SMS providers but Twitter is big enough that it could ask for special treatment from telecom providers to get a favorable rate if not to not have to pay anything entirely.

I understand that I'm asking two different questions here. One is how much it costs to operate Twitter at a profit versus what it costs to run Twitter at all (and I'm thinking like a highly upscaled https://mastodon.social than anything Twitter is today, none of this augmented reality play). I do understand that to make a profit, Twitter must be spending heavily to pour over analytics day and night to find s breakthrough but if you remove the need to make a profit, things should be less hectic, right?
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Why do you have "Never any ... sick feeling" under pro, and then under con "First 2 weeks were brutal. Felt all manner of sick and uneasy"?
Side note: did anyone else notice how choosing "Alphabet" as the name of this entity, while apparently neutral and universal, is actually quite heavily loaded? Who in the world is not using "alphabet", i.e. an alphabetic language? China. So this "Alphabet" name just excludes a quater of humanity. Is it by purpose?
I bet OP meant 1TB..
No, i don't think so.
And of course the biggest cognitive bias: that knowing about cognitive biases will make you less of a monkey in a baseball cap. Just remember that at all times you are probably wrong, and you'll do okay.
And by the time that happens, they have become proper revenue-generating businesses rather than "bets".
Right, but are most developers in the private sector covered by a collective agreement?
Marketing.

I've never heard of slimfast, and if I had I would immediately discount it because I'm not overweight, nor do I eat badly.

Soylent was simply the first product I heard of that did the meal replacement "with everything you need nutritionally" thing.

Not saying it was the first, just that it was the first I'd heard of it.

Never actually went out and got it, but was close because I was at a time in my life where I was too busy to prepare good meals, (between sports, work and my own side projects).
> Twitter puts no intermediary between speaker and listener.

Uh, @Nero
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there are some other subtle references to slavery. Aztec warriors in Civ 6 have a chance when defeating enemies to capture them as workers.
> If you want a new machine because you want the new hotness (and hey, that can be fun), but the new hotness doesn't match your expectations, well, I'm sorry you're disappointed.

This wouldn't be so much of a problem if Apple would just update their MBP lineup regularly. The real issue will crop up in ~2 years, where the only option will still be to get the current (by then outdated) MBP for probably the same price as it is now.
Research is increasingly pointing out that vitamin supplements don't work for certain nutrients.
As far as I can tell, Ensure is just sugary chocolate milk with vitamin pills, ie it has horrible macro-nutrient balance.

Its not like these companies do their own research anyways; its an application of the same nutritional studies everyone else has access too.
That's exactly the alien part, I think. Equating eating to flossing is utterly alien to me. Every meal is a positive thing.
Sure, but it can point you in a direction for inquiry.

Inflation in the Bay Area is around 20% YoY, based on price increases in the housing market.
So you never click on an ad, unless you are shopping. Cool.
Why not shouldn't instead of whole milk?
Soylent made such a big deal of being a "tech company", and boasted about their overdesigned web infrastructure for a business that did two transactions a minute.

What they didn't have is advanced technology on the production side. They write about "sending samples out" to external labs. It's not like they had an automated lab constantly sampling their production line and posting the results to the web. There are production line testing machines for biological contamination and for elemental analysis. About 80% of food plants have in-house testing facilities. What's Soylent got?
This is the Wifi password at a local Thai restaurant.Where are the math wizards?
I mispoke; GDP == taxable transactions. If it was taxable (privatized), it would increase the GDP, whereas if not (as if the government performed and didnt tax it), it would not increase the GDP.
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That's like saying a puddle of human molecular composition is the same thing as a human. As far as biological interactions are concerned, even in digestion, it doesn't appear that molecular quantities behave identically independent of molecular arrangement.
> Some people really enjoy flossing.

Who does exactly?

Food, to me, represents more than replenishment of nutrition. It represents meeting and understanding my coworkers. Learning more about my significant other or unwinding with this person to talk about our week. Even when it's not a social situation, for me it's a treat. I completed some work and now I should treat myself by revitalizing my body with a substance that tastes good. It's a great motivator.

It's such a fundamental part of being a human being I can't at all relate to seeing it as a mechanical process such as flossing. I can't think of a worse comparison: when you're flossing, you're alone, and if anything anti social. Eating couldn't be any more be the opposite. It's something that all humans can relate to and bond over no matter what your opinions are.

Flossing isn't a part of our culture. Food is a part of every culture.
Much less work than messing with Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Rkt, Salt, Ansible, cfengine, etcetera... it's much, much simpler to build OS packages and keep the metadata needed to build them under revision control (git, Mercurial, Bitkeeper, ...) And as a bonus, it is designed to plug into the change management process from the ground up, and not as an afterthought. (Deployment automation and configuration management are not enough for complete lifecycle management.)
Most use OpenVPN and tunnel all traffic over SSLed TCP. So your traffic goes out to an endpoint server run by the proxy company, and gets dumped onto the public net at that point.
Actually very pleasantly surprised that this version 1 API has this much publicly customizable features. My guess was that this would be locked down in the first new gen MacBooks
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In 4th grade, I got a C in math. During my teacher student grade review meeting, my male teacher told me "it's okay, girls don't do as well at math as boys."

Yeah, so there's this as a reason. I definitely wasn't a good student until high school. I definitely had a bad teacher who gave me an excuse for YEARS to accept bad results in math. My mother still bitches about that guy to this day. I suspect I have a slight learning disorder that affected my ability to process numbers. I mix 6/9s. 7/9s when transcribing numbers. Made homework difficult. Once I got to the point where letters started replacing numbers in homework, I went from a C student to an A student in math and was competing for the top grade in my math classes. Once I learned that I could do the work, I did the work and excelled.

I suspect that this type of bias affected more girls than just me, and these discouraged girls affected US scores.
> Profesionals use external interfaces all the time

Hence the need for the touchbar is further greatly reduced

> It's also not about those "keyboard shortcuts"... There are literally tons of other things we now use sliders, dials, etc for in Pro programs, and which arbitrary speed and "jump to place"

Which are delegated to a tiny strip in an awkward location (notice how carefully everyone is holding their fingers at ~90 degrees to the keyboard) controlled by very imprecise finger movements

> Anyway, let's give it a year and we'll see how many pro's swear by it.

I can agree on that :) We need more actual field experience
I ate bad chicken once and it made me really sick. Once!

Here's a product that one should be skeptical of from the get go - it needs to prove itself as being "real food", and now it's made multiple people sick.

It's like Chipotle, but I think worse.

Doesn't help they named it after a horrifying product from a dystopian science fiction movie either.
Which doesn't support the above description of firing women for the purpose of hiring a new younger crop at lower wages.
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Given the amount of people that are consuming large amounts of this stuff and reporting their progress, I'd have expected any serious nutrient deficiencies to have been reported quite a while ago.
>> Some people really enjoy flossing.

> Who does exactly?

I do! Admittedly anecdotal. I am not afraid to confess that I enjoy flossing.
Not really. Increasing the median by itself does not bring down the pay for top performers. The problem is decreasing variance, which does and fixed formula or transparent salaries are both designed to limit variance.

Personally, I'd never want to work somewhere where my salary is set by a formula of my "experience" level.
Is it really so difficult to make a sandwich?
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Though I'd argue the healthier alternative would be to take a break and go walk to a nice restaurant somewhere, but alas I also fall into situations where you just need to keep on task.
I have two young kids and a startup. The idea that I should view each meal as an opportunity to be enjoyed is honestly a pipe dream right now. I enjoy as many of my meals as I can with my family. But when the kids are sick or I'm running behind and have a meeting, I grab a soylent and I feel like it's a lot healthier than picking up sugary junk or other alternatives.
Did you know some people don't even eat breakfast?
I think a W500 could already handle 16GB.
Even better: custard. Straight from the box.
@timdorr: "Crazy to think that over the last year and a half, more than 50% of my diet has been in the form of liquid @soylent." [1]

So not all of your diet. I very much doubt your ability to refute my claim, given that you did not meet my criteria of not eating solid food.

[1] https://twitter.com/timdorr/status/694271673248264192
wow, birds can auto-pilot.

if two halves of the brain can work independently, wouldn't there be a sync problem! I wonder how the brain handles it.
Actually what you're looking for would be a waterflosser. The trick is not forcing yourself to use it, it's not getting addicted to it.
I've been looking around. These look like sub-par options. Horrible plastic cases are a deal breaker. Also the track pads seem to be toy like compared to the macbook pro. I've been waiting to get a new mbp but after yesterdays announcement I'm not so keen anymore. Would love to switch to a linux machine but the hardware needs to be equal or better than the mbp not only in specs but in quality of finish.
Eating a meal takes a lot of time. You've got to prepare it, clean up afterwards, and take your mind off of whatever you are doing. Or you have to order it, and then still usually there's some cleanup and interaction.

The liquid Soylent is about as disruptive as drinking water. That's really useful to me when I'm sucked into a programming challenge or research task. Sometimes I'll go 3-4 days doing nothing but work and sleep. A meal is really disruptive during those times, because I just want my head fully integrated into the problems I'm working on.
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Believe it or not, sometimes being over-the-top polite and accommodating to people gets them to take a counter-point seriously. You just have to wrap it in a lot of stuff about how they're obviously right and you're clearly completely wrong. Once in a while catering to someone's need to be right lets you slip an idea past it.
F3 - In mac that's never used. But there is the CMD+? For searching menu pages. Not even sure what you're referring to with "find" though.

F5 - CMD+R is standard in MAC. I haven't used F5 in years, and I just tried it (didn't work).

F6 - Like TAB?

F9 - Well there is something like this on F3 but I never used it. I can do this with hot corners in mac, way easier.

F10 - Same like above

F11 - Same like above

F12 - Not sure, never used dashboard in osx.

This being said, I am sad for the removal because I use the top row a lot for volume/playback/brightness/esc.
Yeah, I was just trying to point out that it isn't something recent, rather all the way back to early 80's.

For example Oberon System 3 already had something in spirit similar to Swit Playgrounds.
Probably because he intended to mean for that Pro to generally cover the remaining 5.5 months after what one could call the "induction" period. Once he was consistently on the diet and past the transition, having no sick feelings is a good sign that he adjusted to it, and that the initial uneasiness was only temporary, not an ongoing, permanent byproduct of the new diet.
I tried reading Pearl's "Causality" but it was too much for me. Anybody get through it? What did you think?
There's the worse (and very common) case: you decide to buy it, and still see ads about that keyboard you just bought, in case, you know, you'd want another (and even if you did, isn't having it in front of you and liking it more efficient than an ad?).
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I'd suggest that you read research on the topic instead of having expectations. Some things only affect some people. Other things take a long time to develop.
Not sure what the sick feeling they had was, but any diet for me usually takes my system a little getting used to, especially if the food makes you more regular. You and your gut aren't used to all the fiber and it will not feel good at first, but I would bet its fine after awhile.
I'm an extremely fast typist in general (150+ wpm for general English sentences), but I still struggle to accurately hit the function keys on most keyboards without looking or at least glancing down.

To me this touch bar actually seems almost like a no brainer as long as it gets proper support from apps. Removing the escape key I'm less thrilled about but can easily live with. And I say that as someone who lives and dies by vim.

I certainly wouldn't buy a new MBP just due to the touch bar, but I'd view it as a nice add on.
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It's plain to see from reading the comments on here that Apple's graded on a curve, and they've gotten so good at what they do now that people are completely out of touch with reality. Bearing that in mind I think Touch Bar is amazing. Laptops still occupy a very important computing space - having a dedicated physical keyboard -, but this also makes it really hard to make them better. Which is why I was all the more impressed to see how how delicately it augments that laptop-experience I mentioned in such a subtle and nuanced way, yet decidedly introducing a new, patient dimension of interactivity. No, this isn't splashy or in your face "innovation", that would be too easy, but for those of us who have the imagination and can reserve judgement for a moment, this is going to dramatically improve the computing experience. And it's not about this being a "pro" product, hopefully Touch Bar will make it to their whole lineup down the road, it's about them being focused and disciplined in introducing something that people will actually find long term value in.
Microsoft ate their own platform is what it was and then people stopped developing for them. That was one really big reason why the web became a thing. Everything used to run on the desktop. Microsoft quashed that, and then Google came along, made search, maps and mail work. Firefox and Opera (and yes, Safari) circumvented IE; Google pretty much funded Mozilla for Firefox until it came out with Chrome, basing off of Apple's webkit.

It's remarkable that those of us in the Linux world spent so much time trying to unseat Microsoft from the desktop, and what did it in the end was Google and Apple simply working around the Microsoft/Intel (i.e. "Wintel") monopoly.
What "good ideas" has Facebook stolen? It seems to me that the 2016 election is playing out round the clock on Twitter.

Twitter may have done nothing while Facebook rustled their jimmies, but that doesn't mean Twitter can't stop doing stupid stuff and start executing.

Who considers Facebook a media company? No one.
Yah none of what you said matters to actual photography pros or graphic designers.

Camera raw files haven't been increasing in size faster than Moore's law.

They can get by fine with a laptop. The Mac Pro is overpowered for them.
And I see no evidence that Soylent paid any attention to basic things, like what you need to also eat in order to absorb the necessary nutrients. While Ensure has more sugar that I'd like, at least it's not totally ignorant.
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From christianmunoz's comment:

Copied this from another comment of [his] on this post, but it answers part of your question. From the FCC fact sheet[0] on the decision:

> The Order prohibits “take-it-or-leave-it” offers, meaning that an ISP can’t refuse to serve customers who don’t consent to the use and sharing of their information for commercial purposes.

So at least they can't cut you off entirely if you don't consent/opt-in.

[0] http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016....
Surely cleaning up after cooking is almost always a chore, no matter how delicious the food was?
Agreed, though it wasn't very long ago that growth was valued much higher than profitability. Maybe our opinion is (slowly) evolving? Perhaps growth-by-all-means is a perfectly valid play in an extremely network-effected market, while other markets might be better served by focusing on profitability?
Can you please expand on how they are different? A powdered bean or powdered rice contains the same macro and micronutrients. Perhaps the quality of the fiber would be different?
> 15" version is not even an option because it doesn't have Esc button and F-buttons

As for the Esc-button, they've added an option to macOS Sierra where you can map the modifier keys to Escape. Very useful to have Caps Lock mapped to Escape.
So keeping a gun for protection makes one the same as a member of ISIS?
That's a high-risk approach, because big referendums have a lot of downsides. They are expensive, polarizing and put a lot of responsibility on the average citizen, who is expected to both understand and balance correctly the tradeoffs on the table. In some societies that is really too much to ask, but I don't know Iceland well enough.

Experiments are important too, though. I would be watching really closely what happens if the there is a real tilt towards the Pirates.
I think that's actually unique to primates (who do/did sleep in trees).
Java can run in a few hundred KB, and is actually used a lot by electronic manufacturers.

There are quite a few manufacturers that have been replacing their firmware with such versions of Java.
I can taste the difference between Diet Coke, Coke Zero and the new Coke Zero - Zero Sugar. Diet Coke has the most artificial sweetener taste, while Coke Zero Zero sugar almost has none.
Also, note that all of this can be done without meat.
An AI that interacts with humans by language should get offended otherwise it will get abused by humans (see what happened to poor Tay, the chatbot). It makes more sense to emulate the human way when dealing with humans.

If, in the future, AI's access to computing resources would be tied to its reputation, it might even have a real reason to get offended about.
...you're joking, right? What a ridiculously narrow view.
This is awesome, I am currently building something very similar i call "probably", which is a chrome plugin that tells you if a site/story is either "probably true" or "probably bullshit".
Not in any supermarket I've been in, 4 and 6 pints are the commonest. Maybe us northerners aren't trusted with metric milk yet!

Only time I see litres is some of the niche brands (like Cravendale and branded organic) in bigger supermarkets, or 500ml in corner shops and some garages. So they can charge more. Presumably people compare 2l price with 2.3l / 4 pint instead of £/l.
Exactly. Missing out on Twitter means missing out on an irreplaceable segment of current events. That is what makes Twitter the platform valuable.

To keep its current users, let alone grow, Twitter needs to focus on being the best possible place for people to find and post that kind of information.
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From people on the other side: sometimes I'm like "ugh, even drinking smth seems too much distraction, don't wanna loose this focus now, an IV-cathether port that could just pump the right stuff into my veins, triggered automatically by sensors knowing my dietary intake history and pooling blood concentrations of things from me, would be so awesome now" :)

Also, deciding what to eat is a huge chore and mental energy drain for me... especially since I like constant diversity and novelty even in food. If I could afford to have a personal chef that would be trained to "always surprise me" and occasionally I could just tell him smth like "uhm, that salad looks delicious, but I'm too lazy to eat it, grind it up into a shake please so I can slurp it on my way to place X or while coding" it would rock!
Ahaha ahaha... No, no it's not. I can't imagine you play any 'serious' games. Hell, even WoW, a game which is well supported by the developer on OSX, plays like crap on my $2600 MVP.
Isn't Soylent equivalent to a supplement in essence? It's a base diffused with certain nutrients. Why is this different than a sandwich and a vitamin in terms of nutrition? Or even more, how is it different from a vitamin?
I love how none of these charts use 0 as a base for the y-axis. Lies, damned lies, statistics...