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> Huh? Maybe if you attach objective meaning to the word fair, but you said couldn't be done and would lead to a never ending philosophical discussion.

I'm calling your definition of fair according to that first paragraph an anti-worker definition of fair. I'm not saying that it's objective. My definition, whatever that may be formalized to, may well be an anti-business definition by your standards.

> What do you hope to take away from this discussion?

At this point I'm just trying to answer you. Maybe I'll get more replies to my question, albeit unlikely at this point.
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Look, if we're talking about assumptions, we're talking about probability. I have no idea who you're talking about. I'll happen upon some statistics once in a while, but otherwise will avoid making assumptions because I simply don't know. You asked me for what I'd say was most statistically probable, you got it.

I assume you mean "PCP" and not what circuit boards are printed on, yeah. You're right, I've never heard of a rich person taking PCP (cocaine, fancy liquor, etc. for them, right?) although I'm absolutely unsure of how PCP use breaks down racially. (If you have any source for those statistics, you've piqued my interest in them and I'd love a link)

Again, my guess of "white" was based on the fact that most people are white, and thus most cases of violence (without further stratification) are probably by whites. And what, do African-Americans not get community service? That probably wouldn't have changed my mind, and actually sounds a little bit racist.
Nice, I like the simplicity. Your download function is almost exactly the same as my modification to recorderJS, so you could just grab a copy of that and swap out the download function for your code.
PayPal is the same. I had to close the account and open a new one in the other country.
I've heard rumors of such a word.
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Let's be kind to Verne. He did not know the depth of the Marianas trench.
What are you talking about? Read the article. It's about computer science, not your political sensitivities.
Yes.

I work 70% of my time at home and 30% where I just happened to be :)

But I got the best equipment (table, PC, chair) at home, so I prefer to work from there.
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> Is there a "first bought, first sold" clause in US tax law regarding securities, or is it the average purchase value of your total holdings during a sale that counts?

Neither. It's all specific lots (individual orders). How Coinbase chooses which bitcoin to sell will affect what tax you owe.

With a typical brokerage (e.g. Vanguard), you can configure individual securities to sell FIFO, lowest cost, avgcost, or specific lots. Not sure if Coinbase lets you do that.

Edit: From your example:

> E.g. I buy 10 BTC for $1 and then buy 10 BTC for $50 and then sell 10 BTC for $100:

You could sell the last 10 BTC you bought, in which case you'd owe capital gains tax on the $50 appreciation, or you could sell the first 10 BTC you bought, in which case you'd owe capital gains tax on 9 * $5 + 1 * $9 (= $54, slightly more).
Speaking of sharp knives... there not just for the cooks but the diners as well. You know you are at a good restaurant if they give you a sharp non serrated knife for meat dishes (which they will do at high end french restaurants).

One of the few snobby pet peeves I have is paying ridiculous price at a US steak house (which I luckily don't normally go to anyway) and getting gigantic awkward serrated junk that tears the meat up and shoots juice everywhere.
I do understand the point you're making -- my concern centers around deeply flawed models being used despite their shortcomings because their inherently progressive slant is sacrosanct. They would instead be held up and fingers pointed elsewhere, either due to lack of data or incorrect usage of the resulting advice derived from existing bodies of data (or something more sinister, eg: sabotage by opposition parties).

What I'm trying to say is correcting discrimination under the guise that it's unfair to certain sections of society is chasing your own tail out of boredom -- what's the point? To improve society, or improve usefulness of machine learning-derived data to make radical (but necessary) decisions? Do we maintain our objectivity and move away from "improving society" when it's found to be counter-productive, or do we keep going forward with improving society and hope things get better?

Trying to "break out of the status quo" to produce more a accurate representation of the world sounds great, I'm totally all for removing human biases, but my concern is that it'll be handled badly to mistakenly attempt to benefit certain classes of society (eg: repeat of subprime mortgage crises from 07-09 but much more difficult to diagnose).
If I was just trying to group 3 operations together into a "transaction", a script would seem like the way to go. But yeah, as soon as my "script" got at all long/complicated, I'd take a long look at making it into a module.
Winning sports championships dramatically increase alumni donations and applications to the school.
As a long time lover of Dyn and long time hater of Oracle, this deal just makes me sick.

Anyone have good experience w/ NS1 or Neustar? I need good GSLB for active/active...
While we're at it, the function name `aTypicalDay` is one of the poorest naming choice I've seen in a while. Is it typical or atypical ?
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An ether that can be pushed against is an ether with mass. There's a sibling comment in this thread talking about dark matter as a candidate for an ether and the problems with such a concept.

An ether that can be pushed against is also an ether that has a frame of reference, and that frame of reference is unlikely to be one that is extremely favorable to use of the EMDrive as a drive.

An ether that is in some way massless or frame-of-reference-less but still can be pushed against is a fundamental rethinking of physics.
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And how many published "scientific" studies yield reproducible results these days?

That, and there's the whole neuroplasticity angle, where hitting the spank bank reinforces the neural connections that enjoy hitting the spank bank. Or, pre-scientism: "The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
Why don't you tell me how much you have donated to "the arts" before you demand that everyone else does so.

For context, I give 8% of my humble income to charities that feed the hungry and care for the sick. Is my dollar better spent funding a play that few will ever wish to see?
I would personally be wary of a $0 purchase price since that seems more like a gift to someone reviewing it.
For one thing if you're experienced you get a much better response rate than he got.

I hear back upwards of 60% when I send resumes to positions I am a good match for on job boards.
I said that I was able to use 2.4GHz reliably despite it being crowded. I only switched to 5GHz because I noticed no one was using it and I saw higher bandwidth on it from 5GHz 802.11ac supporting higher channel widths than 2.4GHz 802.11n supports.

In fairness, I had made tweaks to iwlwifi's kernel module options in order to have usable wifi on my laptop. Until a year ago, I was accustomed to have a hellish experience in congested areas until I turned off Bluetooth coexistence support in the iwlwifi driver. That feature would almost always cause severe packet loss on my T520 in crowded environments even when there did not appear to be any Bluetooth traffic.

Anyway, it is possible to get wifi working well for certain workloads in crowded environments. Making it work well in general might require better drivers and better equipment than one might have at first though. For example, I understand that ath9k was a disaster when it was first made, but it is fairly decent now. I ran an AP off an ath9k USB wifi dongle in China at one point and it worked well too. I doubt that would have worked as well with drivers from 5 years ago.

Also, from what I understand, a used Ruckus Zoneflex 7982 off eBay ought to be able to handle just about any environment fairly well. Their proprietary beam forming hardware is special because it attenuates signals coming from other directions than that of the client. The only exception from what I have read is when other wifi equipment is right next to it (e.g. practically touching). Some review of it said that it failed to work until they moved other equipment away after consulting Ruckus. I cannot find a link to it though.

I placed an order with an eBay merchant that I expect to receive soon. $90 per used Zoneflex 7982 (that had a $1099 MSRP when new) is a bargain considering that these still provide some of the best wifi in the world. There are reports of these getting good throughout through multiple concrete walls:

http://www.cio.com/article/2388827/wireless-networking/revie...

A newer version of the midrange model in their product line (that has inferior radio specifications to the top end model) was able to give a cell phone decent throughput from 225 yards away when the (omnidirectional) AP was in doors:

http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/5077/64/

As far as I know, the only better access points are the newer Ruckus models that replaced it. I am really excited to be getting one later this week. :)
Automake is nice if you know how to use it.

It provides a lot of things on top of a simple makefile...

You don't need it to write C, but everything that uses it is not "bad C code".
Sadly, just because you know what the best practices are doesn't mean your university's IT department will let you implement them.

Same can often be said if you replace "university" with "company".

Internal political problems are beyond NP-hard.
The author really doesn't do Jacques Pepin justice. If you have the time, watch some of his videos on YouTube. His mastery of even the most basic of techniques is inspiring, and he cooks in a way that is very different from modern cooking shows.

Also, this page is just shy of 10mb. The UI is daunting and unreadable. Wait, scratch that. After scrolling a bit there was another massive amount of requests on the page. The page now sits at over 700 HTTP requests and 13mb.

Simply scrolling the page creates 20 http requests. What is the utility there? Honestly.
I am willing to post your social media article on my blog
Hi, I have just launched a brand new Twitter growth platform (https://audigrow.io) that is attracting a fair bit of attention. It has only been live for a week! I have created a blog and am looking for folks to help me populate it.

If you have a Social Media Marketing, Twitter, Growth Hacking article that you would like me to post get in touch. I will allow 2 in-content links within your article. Please no spam or spun content. I will only accept original articles (not used anywhere else).

I do not mind promoting other tools or services but please make the article useful not just a sales pitch.

Obviously I am not charging anything I just want honest, good content.

Contact email -> support@audigrow.io
Twitter -> @audigrow
Sounds like what Democracy Earth people is working on: http://democracy.earth/
Use a spreadsheet.
I don't get it. What am I looking at, exactly?
So I've ignored all the chatter of the headphone jack and the MBP and chalked them up to being in a transitionary period both for wireless and USB-C.

But this move seems to indicate a fundamental misunderstanding of the Apple ecosystem. Starting with the WiFi in a consumer's house, today, the Apple 'System' provides you with the entire experience from simply using your iPhone/iPad to easily playing your music on your speakers through AirPlay to watching content on Apple TV to backing up your computers via TimeMachine and providing remote access through Back-To-my-Mac.

Further, the devices provide guest and "Mesh" like functionality to have an extended WiFi network -- before mesh wifi technology existed.

All this and easily configured though, most appropriately, an app.

Shutting down this most fundamental base functionality of AirPort to me is a signal that Apple really doesn't want to be in the business beyond iPhones and iPads.

This coming at a time when the competition is actually ramping up providing WiFi devices (Google WiFi) and providing something that Apple has had for years.

It's mind boggling.
I suppose wherever your computer happens to be might count as a temporary office of some sort? Wow, that's brutal.
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No, people assume poor people are less likely to get community service after assaulting police officers.

Further, you pulled poor from thin air so you did make an assumption without evidence.
Hi! I work for Lifesum, their competitor. We have a mostly crowd sourced barcode database connected to our food. That works pretty good actually and people are keen to adding food with correct values and connecting the barcode. Here in Europe products are usually added before they hit the shelves because users get them as samples or similar. I believe that we may have a bigger database than MyFitnessPal because they are very US centric while we have a user base spread out all over the world (including the US of course). Further on, if we presume our database is bigger than MyFitnessPal, we probably have the most complete food / barcode database in the world.
> Then there was Cablevision that turned every router that they provided to people in my area into an access point without permission.

Comcast does this as well - if you are leasing the Comcast modem then you are putting out a pair of APs. One of them is a public Comcast hotspot. I think you can request that it be turned off however.
This Is Not A Sentence, very good, paradoxes as names are fantastic
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The release consists of only 6 commits, 3 of which are merges, 1 is tagging the version, 1 is updating the version.h header.

There's only one actual change, https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/a5d754acb8cfd6d3ac9f26b1...

Source:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/v2_3_2...v2_3_3#diff-02...
It also provides low-income youth an opportunity to get a college degree, and incentivizes kids from low-income communities to stay off the streets and focus on something productive (like sports).

Collegiate sports teams are effectively the same as student tutors, student RAs, student librarians, or any other school-sponsored jobs that hire students. One could argue that they're even superior at schools like Alabama because they provide even more money to be used on scholarships.

Alabama could take away their football program, but they would 1) take away scholarship money from the 30-50 low-income scholarship athletes, 2) take away money that could be reinvested into buildings, facilities, teachers, or academic scholarships, and 3) reduce alumni donations (because unhappy alumni don't donate), which further reduces the funds available to the school.

It's one thing if a school has sports programs that aren't a net gain for the university. But for the schools where it is, any talk of them removing the funding is absurdly ignorant.
I'm not sure you understand my point, because you keep talking about "progressive slant", and I keep trying to explain to you that ML is going to be just as hard --- in fact, probably far harsher --- on "red state" voters.

Think of it in terms of survival bias. ML models that discriminate against the well-educated urban workers that design and deploy them are not going to make it to production if they obviously discriminate against their own designers. Those developers and "data scientists" are not going to notice if those same models happen to deny college admission to kids who took a year off after graduating to work at a factory to help pay for their siblings room and board.
It's anodized aluminium and does not scratch the way teflon does.
For every 1 user they spend $25 on not losing they could get another 10 users in emerging regions that will make them lots of more money in a few years.

The tyranny of being a customer to a company that has 2-3 billion "customers".
There is no reason why modules would be easier to test than scripts. It is probably the opposite.

Modules are great when you want to use Redis as a server for something it does not support, but I would still use scripting for most things.
I'm curious, does every else find this

let persons = names
.map(Person.init)
.filter { $0.isValid }

easier to read than this?

var persons: [Person] = []
for name in names {
let person = Person(name: name)
if person.isValid {
persons.append(person)
}
}

I understand and appreciate the value of compact code, but I find the first one harder to read. A lot of inferred/token based coding is harder for me to mentally parse.
also:

> companies automatically categorize us into junior developer roles

in other words, correctly categorized
How is this different from the whole oh, shipping containers are so ubiquitous, they must be cheap and easy to move, and so let's live in them! movement, except from building materials instead of an ice cold box of metal?

Though I think getting zoning changed for high density is a very good thing.
This is strange to me. This is clearly meant, in unicode, to be 'G' that we all know and love. It has uselessly expanded "the alphabet" (to be western-centric) in a confusable way.

Unicode maybe should have been three dimensional, with "concept of G" in the 2D space, and "ways of representing G" behind G, along the third axis. All ways of representing G, whether little capital, capital, lower case, would or at least could equate to conceptual G in the 2D space.
Great idea, but the design would have to be significantly more attractive for me to use it for most of the things that would immediately spring to mind.

That's a solvable problem, though - grab some top-flight themes with appropriate licenses and you're probably good to go!
Isn't it disingenuous to use an outlier to make a point?

UoA made significantly more money than any other college team (some of which lose money). So using them as an example of why college sports is a net gain rather than a net loss is extremely (and purposely) misleading.

Plus even UoA spent $47 million on arena expansion in 2006 and then $65.6 million on further arena expansion in 2010. So it isn't like the football program doesn't have debt it has to repay the school (and incidentally many arenas are never funded from the programs that they house).
Adding a row about the update situation of device would be nice.
1. Updates promised untill X year
2. Only security patches, etc.
The problem with this kind of thing is this...

If its going out when it rains, its likely wiring on your house, not plant. Its probably past the point of demarkation (where you become liable for the line) ... 99% of the time this is the case (ex phone field tech)

You just raised enough attention to make it worthwhile to soak up the cost of replacing YOUR line for you...

Congratulations, you may have joined the ranks of entitled people who use public pressure to whine their way into getting what they want...
IANAP but I would think such a cage would cause WiFi to reflect internally, causing as much if not more trouble than noisy neighbors.

The "real" solution is for people in dense apartment buildings to just turn their damn Tx power down, but that's a prisoner's dilemma if I've ever seen one.
Ha ha. If they use HipChat and Skype, then it is a bit like we are "outside of the office" ;-)
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As mammals we are fundamentally social creatures, and if we can't socialize then we become anxious. It's built in - you need to be a part of the tribe/pack/village/whatever because over many years of evolution, going it alone wasn't a successful survival/reproductive strategy.

There are hacks to mitigate some of the negative effects, which pre-date FB et al. You might carry a photo of a loved one, and that's enough to trigger that part of your brain that craves contact. You might have a pet or a "companion animal" as they are called these days. Children (and some adults) have meta-pets - stuffed toy animals.

FB quite deliberately leverages these urges - it is designed to trigger all the fear-of-being-outside-the-tribe that evolution gave you. Why does it tell you that all your friends are at an event, say? To make you feel like you should have been paying more attention to FB so you could have gone too..
I dunno. iTunes is close to malware in my book.
In case anyone is looking for replacements: Ubiquiti makes some really great professional grade stuff (in regard to design and hardware).

I would recommend pairing a couple Unifi AP AC Pro Access Points (with a maximum throughput of around 1.3Gbps on the 5Ghz band) with a Unifi Security Gateway and for most scenarios you will be done and probably never look back. If you really are into networking you could also take a look at their EdgeMax series which has some router features the more simple Unifi products do not provide (like a shit ton of routing features, and the ability to hook it up directly onto a fiber cable using the provided SFP port)

Take a look at https://www.ubnt.com/ if you are interested. Hope this helps :)
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
See you're not listening. The previous person told you that you were assuming someone's race (actually it's not even race, you were assuming the gender as well), and you're just talking about your little links you found online.

It's ridiculous how you're talking about "open mind" when you're so closed off that you don't even realize you're the exactly the problem you're trying to defeat.

No one is denying that online abuse is a massive problem.

The point is that behaviors like yours--not even realizing how much of an offensive statement you're making online--is the core of all problems that you're claiming to help solve. If you really care about this, ask around people with open mind if what you said here is acceptable.
Because if a sports program brings in $100m of revenue and a school has 50k kids, that's only about $2,000 per student. Tack off the sports costs and you're looking at maybe $1,000 extra per student, but instead of offering discounts, they may 1) invest in their trust fund for future growth, 2) pay down their debts to reduce the lifetime interest payments and save money down the road, 3) Roll the money up into more scholarships or 4) invest in infrastructure. None of those things directly lower the immediate cost for other students, but add tangible value to students and the institution.
If you choose to take a deduction, it's on you to keep the relevant documentation for that deduction for the period proscribed by law, generally 3 years. It's been a well-established principle of tax law for several decades, and there's really no excuse now that records can be easily and trivially digitized.
That is actually a good analogy. Thank you for that.
Sure but what your are really saying is it'd be awesome if the election results were cryptographically and anonymously verifiable by the voters. Of which the block chain is merely one solution.

How do you get valid voting credentials to nontechnical voters such that they can anonymously vote and verify?
A spreadsheet is an interesting thought for juggling status of a bunch of different projects. I'll try that, thanks!
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> I wonder if that $50 will end up being hundreds owed in some kind of late fees/etc.

No. Penalties are proportionate.