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For me, it really helps if I have a pretense like you say, but for me that pretense is playing games. Pool, darts, trivia, role playing games, board games (the biggest one for me right now), scavenger hunts, murder mysteries, even karaoke I can treat kind of like a game. Playing or following sports (games) can serve as that pretense also, although I don't follow them very closely personally (although it's impossible to avoid Cubs mania in Chicago right now :)

Games have helped me be around strangers and give me a reason to talk to people I would be too shy to talk to normally. Now a lot of those strangers are no longer strangers, but friends, and that's because we played a lot of games together.

I also believe that you can learn more in much less time about the character and personality of a person by how they act in a game (especially games about devising your own strategies and negotiating with people) than you can with most traditional social outings.

Surprisingly video games don't really do this for me anymore. I do still play a lot of them, but I mostly play single player games. If I play multiplayer, it's got to be something in the same room now, which is why I have a Wii U.
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While researching I also found this article: http://hatrabbits.com/why-sleep-deprivation-is-not-the-key-t...

It argues that you should sleep if you are going to do some analytical and logical thinking, and not sleep if you are going to come up with creative ideas. But some come up with creative ideas after sleeping (it was Elon Musk who said he came up with the best ideas in the shower after sleeping), so the area is confusing.
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i don't get it. they are not solving anything, they are just making the housing situation worse. by not providing adequate housing- and office-space the pressure on every individual will just rise and rise.
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For some niche "fun" car, sure. For a mass market vehicle, they would be nuts to increase the number of moving parts by a factor of 4 or 5.
Well if you are writing your own HTML and JS instruments, chances are you do want to hear sounds generated by the web audio API.

Are the users of Safari and Mobile Safari so different that on the desktop its totally fine (as in any browser) but Mobile Safari users need it blocked unless they take action to hear it? I cant think of any reason to single out the users of Mobile Safari with such a feature.
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Keep studying. I hope you have more success in the future.
It depends on the thickness and material of the rope.
A reason to not include water vapor in a list of "greenhouse gases" is its short lifetime in the atmosphere. If you inject extra water vapor there, it rains down and exits the atmosphere in a matter of days, whereas methane etc stay for years --- humans emitting water vapor vs. CO2/etc to the atmosphere has very different relevance for the physics. Of course, the vapor does have effect on the radiation physics, and the fact that the equilibrium concentration depends on temperature leads to the positive feedbacks.
> Pros and Cons to universal income

Some criticism:
> Pros

> - homelessness becomes purely choice. Poverty is less of a motive for crime

Unless health insurance is included and we change how we treat mental illnesses, homelessness will still be a problem(albeit smaller)

> - small businesses can hire people who simply want to work there without giving a competitive wage.

But it will be much harder to find cheap labour if the job sucks

> Cons

> - it will be hard to employ for difficult jobs such as mining.

Well, it will be hard to find cheap employees. Force of the market right?

> - the realestate or rental prices can all increase to just below universal income

We don't know this, if you can survive just on the income in some rural areas, whereas the remaining jobs will be left in the cities you will still have different markets, some of which might have above and some of which might have below ui prizes

> - cost of goods can increase knowing people can pay for them

This is a bad thing? There will still be a market for stingy bastards...just like McDonalds has a market with stingy students

> - the cost of US manufactured goods will increase since companies are now competing with the US gov to provide a competitive wage

...good?

> - may lead to a totalitarian gov if too much slowness occurs

As opposed to the current government trend which is the epitome of freedom and privacy

> My argument against communism has always been "who works?". I dont think that more dependence of gov is as important as decentralization. Of goods as many services as possible.

Those who want more money. This is not communism. This is finally decoupling humanistic society("we don't let people starve") from capitalistic free market economy("the government shouldn't control the economy"). An unconditional income means that you no longer need minimum wages, and even a staunch leftist like me would ease up on labour protection laws(where reasonable...health and safety still apply, but e.g. severance pay?gtfo) After all, it will truly be your choice to work there or not.

> If your local community has a local greenhouse or robotics or etc you can take care, you have a job

Unless there is another guy who does that already.

> Making more time for innovation comes from an imbalance of supply/demand for jobs and who controls them. If you can survive and thrive locally, the more centralized entities will be more competitive with their offers. Rents will only increase enough that people wouldnt be willing to move elsewhere. With universal income, all rents would increase and companies arent competing with local work (where an individual can master their skills), they are competing with the US gov over peoples will to be a self starter.

I don't understand this one

> Im not entirely sure the Universal Income is the answer

Not the whole one, and not the last one but I think like our current system it will be good for 50-100ish years I think
Serious high quality engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and operations is some of the few genuine things left for engineers to feel proud and passionate about. Good work can stand the test of time and surpass cynical quick profit hacks.
"Design is the process of going from an existing condition to a preferred one"

Problem solving is necessary for design, but it's not about problem solving. Design is a synonym for fate for a reason. It's about eliminating possibilities and degrees of freedom, a sort of enslavement.
What I've never understood about this: the Outer Space Treaty says "The treaty also states that the exploration of outer space shall be done to benefit all countries and shall be free for exploration and use by all the States.

The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet.[3] Art. II of the Treaty states that "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means"."

This basically means that no one can lay claim to stuff in space. But say there is an extremely valuable metal floating around, and company A wants to mine it. They arrive and start to mine it. Now, company B arrives a year later and also wants to mine it but company A is in the way. According to the treaty, company A can't claim the resource so they can't tell company B to go away, and company B can't tell company A to get out of the way. How does this get resolved?
>I believe you mentioned somewhere "The Jacobian is a m x n matrix containing the 1st order partial derivatives of vectors with respect to vectors." -- Since I have a math background I can understand what you write. But for someone with little to no math background (e.g. a software practitioner) this may throw them off.

This makes sense. However, there will always be requirements to understand any given topic. It is recursive and dangerous to assume otherwise because knowledge builds on previous knowledge. Knowledge gaps for requirements should be an exception handled by the reader, not by the author because it penalizes everyone who doesn't have that gap.

I understand the effort of authors wanting their books to be self contained and inclusive, bringing everyone up to speed, but this brings up awful college memories and students having to wait for the one person who doesn't know matrix multiplication asking a question in a class that is not about linear algebra. This person was the exception and instead of learning it on his own time, he was willing to penalize everyone.

Similarly, in the context of books, this is the reason 600 pages is the norm with the same first 400 pages "bringing everyone up to speed" (100 pages for a Python introduction, 70 pages for elementary linear algebra, etc).

The overlap is just staggering and it is safe to assume that a 600 pages book does not cost the same as a 200 pages book. In other words, everyone is paying the price for the one guy who wants to do the sexy Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Pattern Recognition, but doesn't want to bother looking up the Jacobian on his own. We're paying for the 400 pages we'll never read.

A large percentage of books caters to the beginner/neophyte knowing that being a beginner is a relatively short step for someone who has a long road ahead. There's an assumption of non-evolution/improvement, an everlasting tutorial 0. Imagine how frustrating it would be to have every item in the world being designed for crawling babies and disregarding the facts that they're on their way to be adults.
Why not? Big ropes are made with smaller fibres entwined.
It's not that difficult to obtain two smaller ropes from a bigger one provided that it is big enough.
I was worried that the touchbar will not have any legitimate use. On a bit more serious note, is there anything that this could do that is worth the pain of removing the esc and fn keys from the user point of view? I can hardly think of anything.
I would say Chevy is years ahead because not only are the Bolts they are building today going on sale before the end of the year[0], they have years of experience and billions in assets designed to help them build cars. Tesla says the model 3 goes on sale "late 2017". By then we'll have the 2018 MY Chevy Bolt, which could be just as good or better? Or cheaper?

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-starts-producing-200-mile-2...
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Most ropes are twisted or braided. Cutting lengthwise would cut all of the threads completely destroying the rope.

You could maybe unbraid the rope and deconstruct carefully into component threads and reconstruct into two ropes, Banak-Tarski(spell?) style. But that would be quite involved.
This is a really good point and it shows how good collaborations need a "lead with strength" attitude and why rubberducking works - when you think the problem is not actually that hard and you can clearly describe it, then you can safely delegate its solution. But the thorniest stuff has to stay under your supervision or it won't get done right - usually. But there are just as many "easy problems with simple solutions that you overthink", and then you need a rubberduck conversation to work out why it's easy.
I just met a YC founder and I do think her startup fosters this type of community and builds deeper relationships beyond the typical "transactional" world.

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> When you switch jobs in the USA, you switch health insurance and other benefits.

In Switzerland, you'll switch accident coverage and probably the pension fund. Still some work, but not as tedious as what I imagine the situation in the US to be like.

> Go hunt for another job with a negative signal on their resume?

Both parties are free to end employment during the trial period. Maybe the candidate didn't like the work environment? Also, the future employer stands to gain an employee pretty much immediately as opposed to wait for the usual 2-3 months(!) notice period. Finally, unemployment benefits in Switzerland are fairly generous (70% income over 20-ish months), which mitigates the risk to candidates somewhat.
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Yeah, I totally agree. There are really two ways to find a job, what the OP describes and, as you say, via professional connections you've built over your career. If you can get a job you like through professional connections that is hands down the way to go.

Personally, with the exception of my first job out of school, I've always used the professional connections route. I probably couldn't get a job doing what the OP describes to save my life. Luckily, my reputation is such with prior employers and colleagues that I could call any of them up and they would go out of their way to hire me.
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> Signal is unusual because it combines cutting edge cryptography with consumer friendliness and is actually successful.

You do realize that since last year WhatsApp actually uses the Signal protocol?
How often do you drive on a trip lasting more than 4 hours? I'd guess about zero to four times a year?

Because realistically, unless both your starting point and destination are on the same highway and there's no traffic, 200 miles will take 4 hours without breaks.

If you can then stop somewhere with fast charging for your Bolt, after a 30 minute break (that you probably should have taken anyway), you have another 90 miles of range.

If we take an example, LA to SF is 385 miles and cursory googling says the quickest route takes around 6 hours by car. In a Bolt, you'd have to stop for charging for an additional ~90 minutes. This is only 20 minutes more than what people on the Tesla forums report needing to do the trip in their Model S P85.
> the ability to forget what you did a few years ago to be able to blame your opponent for doing the same thing.

The ability to claim two completely different things (i.e. saying a very close vote is a reason for a recount vs "if I loose it's due to cheating") are the same thing is also very helpful.
> Funny that the article points out the circus of 2000 with the endless Florida recount, especially after everybody went after Trump for not saying that he will respect the outcome of the election.

We were talking about recounting a county or two of votes. The election wasn't under contest. Gore conceded when it was clear what the count was. People are going after Trump because it's (widely assumed based on his own words and lack of qualification and historic understanding) worrying that he won't accept a clear outcome.
I've been working on a reimplementation of the LastPass command line client lately and while I was also a bit surprised when I found out that the login URL was "https://lastpass.com/login.php" I didn't really think much of it.

In the end the server side of things is really not critical since it only stores an encrypted version of the blob. Sure, it looks a bit sloppy, but if it works...

The real weakness of lastpass is and always will be the clients, in particular those browser extensions that can update in the background and are difficult to audit. But these browser extensions are also the reason I'm not using something like "pass" or even a custom GnuPG-based solution. It just works on any machine regardless of the OS without any hassle.

So far the C code of the CLI client looks decent enough. Not amazing but nothing really stands out, besides maybe the key derivation algorithm they use: they query the server for the number of rounds to use when deriving the keys and if the server replies "1" they fallback on a single round of SHA256 salted with the username. It's probably some kind of compatibility mode but that seems rather weak to me.

If somebody compromised the server they could have it tell the client that the number of rounds for any client is 1 which will cause the clients to send a "simple" SHA256 of username+password which will be a lot easier to bruteforce than the default 5000 rounds of PBKDF2.
Can you explain how low rates make tying up equity in a home risky?
Because it probably won't happen. Just like the idea that "charity will step in", history gives us evidence against it
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Actually - much more:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1996.E2.80.9397:_Apple_me...

Apple paid $429 million in cash, which went to the initial investors and 1.5 million Apple shares, which went to Steve Jobs, who was deliberately not given cash for his part in the deal.

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Is that true for all database systems? I would think those using MVCC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contr...) would work fine with COW because they do not generally overwrite data.

On the other hand, the dumber your file system, the meore r database has over what happens on disk. Thats why databases may allow storing data on disk without using any file system in-between.
I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla opened up their network to other vehicles for a fee. Obviously that might require some retooling but according to Musk, he wants us to move away from ICE vehicles no matter what it takes or who gets us there. If this is true he has to know that a proprietary charging network is really not acceptable.
I absolutely agree with the premise that solving somebody else's problem or getting an outside opinion is highly beneficial because it allows you to approach a problem with a beginner's mind.

That rope example though clearly shows a caveat with that approach. In an ideal, abstract world that solution would work. However, in the real world this solution obviously doesn't work because you can't cut a rope lengthwise without the rope coming undone.
I understand and accept your point, but still want to quibble: the vast majority of Americans will never do this.
I've seen this as well. Other peoples problems offer an escape from my own. There isn't any pressure to solve them so there is definitely a different feel to them. There is also choice, if I hear about 5 other peoples problems, I may have insight into one or two but not the others and I can devote my spare cycles to the promising ones.

One approach for getting your own work done may be to think of your future self. That's who you're doing it for. This also gives less immediacy to the problem in addition to distance. "Older me is going to really appreciate this 3 months from now."
No nation can lay claim to stuff in space. But that does not rule out that companies can, and I guess disputes between them will need to be resolved by international law?
Nothing stops anyone from getting your master password, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Firefox etc..

The thing here is motive and incentive, LastPass has not motive or incentive to handle your passwords in an unencrypted form, it has no motive or incentive to want to know your master password ever since both of those things are just a huge liability for them.

Every password manager, every browser, every OS, every hardware can be backdoored and compromised by their maintainer/manufacturer in a way nearly impossible to detect even in some cases if the source code is fully or partially available, heck how many people ever verify that the package they just grabbed via the package manager was built using an unaltered version of the source code?

To function you need to have some level of trust, you can try to add additional security measures e.g. like not storing highly sensitive passwords in a password manager but even then really depending on how you maintain those passwords you are likely to increase your risk rather than reduce it.
> If it's really a web application you're after, then get ready for some complexity.

I beg to differ. In many cases it is perfectly acceptable to build a web application with most of the logic in the server, and comparatively little scripting in the client. Not everything has to be a one-page app / SPA with lots of scripting and the complexities of client-side state.

There are also many cases where a SPA is really what is needed and then you indeed need the complexity of a SPA. (And even without being a SPA a frontend has plenty of room for complexity)

tl;dr what I'm trying to say here: Know your requirements.
True enough. True enough in that many designers need to toss off their pretensions and embrace the idea that they are problem solvers first and foremost. And design, whether for ads, product, or UI/UX, is not some dream career where you get to have have a steady paycheck while maintaining the creative freedom of a studio artist. If most people find your design difficult to use, or it causes them visual discomfort, then it is a failure and it needs to be re-thought. Design is somewhat subjective, but not that subjective.

(By all means, maintain an artistic practice. I do. Just don't make me, as your boss, pretend that you are Rothko when you're at work.)
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I noticed a similar phenomenon in my days at school.

When solving problems on my own I was reasonably successful, but in class when I found out - or someone mentioned - that a particular problem was extremely difficult and/or no one had managed to do, I do exceptionally well in it.

As for an explanation to this, I have no idea. It maybe has something to do with the fact that if I fail at the difficult problem then a lot of people have seen me fail at it, but that's just guesswork.
Yes, it's sensible to take on some debt to invest in actual projects, such as infrastructure. Those have a positive ROI.

But: low growth in western countries is here to stay, and it's not sensible to borrow billions every year without reducing structural expenses. You're borrowing from the future, with no money to pay it back. That's just pushing the bill to the next generation, e.g. look at what happened to Greece.
There's no point in having the Electoral College in the current state.

- If it's meant to stop the mob from selecting the wrong person, it's not working. Most people would find it unacceptable to vote against what the voters voted for, so in that sense it's largely ceremonial.

- Most states are closer to 50-50 at each election than 100-0. Yet all the electors have to "vote" for the marginal winner.

- You might as well have a Parliamentary system like in Europe if you don't vote directly. Vote for MPs, the MPs pick one among them to be PM. That way you at least know whoever is elected can govern.
Except in a fair market, if a developer managed to get all but a couple holdouts, those remaining would likely be able to command higher prices as they would have leverage. ED robs then of the extra money they could have made, and it can be considerable.
It's completely broken and should be overhauled to a straight popular vote.

Does either major party endorse such a change? I have only heard it from minor parties...
> "text": "{{$jason.find('#about h2').text().trim()}}"

Yeah, you can only get so far being declarative. Miracles don't happen.
"Churches can be full of the most hypocritical, judgemental, and gossipy people."

So in other words, humans. They are full of humans.
But you were on the gold standard then!
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