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You're saying that capitalism corrupts government by its very definition? That begs the question of the natural form of government that would exist without capitalism.

It seems to me that once societies are big enough to need government, they first reach for something like feudalism, then capitalism. That's a simplified version of Marx. I don't see capitalism as inherently corrupt, but I can see how it has a tendency to become corrupt without tight regulation. It does favour the ruling class, but that's the inherent nature of government - those who put it in place put something that suits their interests.
and yet he's making $15k a month off this project. Imagine the growth possibilities! :)
>Poland is still as functioning a democracy as it was 15 years ago. They elected a party that's a bit on the extreme, so what, isn't that how it's supposed to work ?

dismantling the constitutional tribunal is hardly "a bit" on the extreme. there are two law systems in the country right now - one where rulings of this tribunal hold (in the judiciary branch) and one where they don't (the legislative branch). please tell me how this is democratic again?
Pretty cool.
Particularly the "esc", "esc", "courage" buttons!
If you're using a Virtual Machine, why would you need Docker? I think you can get GPU acceleration in a VM.
If that was the only factor influencing peoples' votes, sure!
In some respects the problem of “too many libraries” is the same issue we have with news headlines, etc.: too much going on, and not enough value placed on curating.

Right now everyone just wants to build things full-time. As an industry, it would make a lot of sense to have expert developers who spend some non-trivial amount of their time just on curating: writing down what actually works, what doesn’t, etc. Maybe a “stack overflow” for software packages. And after awhile, it should become expected that you consult those curated lists first, every time before you build anything else.
In college, I'd try to read ahead (when I was a good student, so about 3 years in), and my lecture notes were a hybrid longhand/shorthand of what the professor presented, organized in a rough outline form.

At work it's largely the same, but now I do a lot of note capturing in org-mode on my laptop, either at the time I'm learning/acquiring information or after the fact by transcribing my handwritten notes.

A lot of things get forgotten, but C-s finds most of it.
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> IIRC, many of these projects came from actual farmers, not design students.

As a designer, if there is one thing that pisses me off about my own field, it is that design students often are not encouraged enough to co-create with real stake-holders and end up just throwing ungrounded high-concept nonsense out there.
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I have applied more than 150 different places but none of them return.

They just sent me an e-mail template starting with "Unfortunetely.."
Note that this is nominal and not real prices:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2016/11/real-prices-and-pr...
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I should probably point out that the vast majority of people that live in cities could hardly qualify to be called white collar elite.
That was a really great writeup of the issue, thanks for that.
Holy shit. I just made a peer comment to yours talking about how I think Trump's campaign used technology really effectively, but I had no idea about any of this.

Any sense for how Clinton's campaign compared on a tech front? I get the sense that similar to the article's description of Trump, she's...uh...not too tech savvy. Was her campaign similarly data driven as his?
Got the same, switched to Chrome, took me a second. Worth it.

I bet this is on the roadmap.
Yes, but that's not a problem for LaTeX specifically.
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as the author of this project, let me explain...

Ahem....

Well there is no good reason. I guess I was curious to see if something that I use every day, like Slack, could be interacted with through the C64.
Figuring out a wire format for a list of channels, then parsing that out into channel names + ids and rendering a scrolling list of channels in 6502 assembly is challenging. Its frustrating. It was fun!

More generally, creating something 'just because' is so rewarding.

Learning, practicing and honing my chosen craft doing something creative is enjoyable. There is always something new to learn and half a dozen projects in my head I want to work on if only I could find the time. Why do some people spend hours painting, carving, or making model ships? Same reason I made this :)

Hope that helps!
I see the proliferation of JavaScript tools as a massive failure of the vanilla js standard library and ECMA. Most of the stuff out there just rebuilds basic language features that would be standard in other languages.

We wouldn't need node, npm, typescript, angular, react, web pack, or most of the bazillions of libraries out there if vanilla js had reasonable defaults.

It's causing horrid fragmentations probably won't go away until js is replaced maybe 5 years down the road.

The best we can hope for is a c++ style solution. A new language that's basically a massive preprocessor on top of the original that fixes as much as possible. My hope is in typescript for now
Yes, both campaigns were strategized around the existence of the electoral college, but that's tweaking at the margins. It doesn't explain a vote difference in the millions.
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"after college" — it's really saying nothing.

In fact, I expected it much higher - it essentially includes the parents' legacy. Considering this, it's dramatically low, right? :D
I agree and I think this theory is absolutely correct, and we're seeing it in action right now.

I think the US is at the last stage right now. Which very oddly means, North Korea is now closer to democracy than the US is.

Hear me out, I think the US is going to have to go back through all the cycles before going back to democracy. Whereas a country like North Korea is further along the cycles.
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Do you have a source for the mobile version of Angry Birds using Flash? My understanding is that only the web\social version of Angry Birds uses Flash and the original iOS mobile version is a native app using a few third party libraries (Box2D and Lua).
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Is it just rule-based, or are these "weights" being used to train a classifier, ANN, or some kind of genetic algorithm? Nothing wrong with the former, if it works for ya - but the latter would be interesting, too!
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Caveat, I'm not the CEO of a company, but I feel like the priorities in this are wrong (but maybe I don't strictly prescribe to the SV/startup mentality). At first, especially if you are technical CEO, it makes sense to build the product either alone or with your CTO/co-founder. However, I wouldn't consider this a "first job" because while it's necessary at the beginning it isn't the job of a CEO. For example, this post says, "Delegation should not be a word in your vocabulary." This is really not true; good leaders and those who get lots of things done are the ones who can delegate extremely efficiently and who can trust those they delegate to do get the job done. In my opinion, building the product is maybe 10% of the job of a CEO, even in the beginning. The 90% of the job is actually building the company, building the brand, getting the word out, delegation.

I would say that the first job of a CEO is building the company, the second job is building the product. If I have time after all of my other priorities were done, then I would help with the product (as in commit code, create or collab on a design or product workflow, etc.). The title CEO isn't just a random arrangement of letters: sure, it's fine to be part of the product in the beginning when there's only a couple or few people, but once it moves beyond that (and not at the 20 person level like this post says) the CEO should really trust that the CTO and the product team can do their job while the CEO handles all the other non-product aspects.
I'm pretty sure the real purpose of a PIP, everywhere they are used, is to build up sufficient documentation to fire someone.

Of course it is. As I was telling coworkers this morning, any time I've had a direct on a PIP it's to do the hoop-jumping paperwork to satisfy HR. I've already decided I don't want that person on my team. And to be fair, that's because I've already tried "performance improvement" (regular 1:1s, goal setting, the like), and concluded that more of it isn't going to turn a bad fit into a good one.

So, yeah, if you find yourself on a PIP best start polishing that resume, because you're not long for that company no matter what HR tells you.
Ah, someone who just learned about "Godwin's law". How cute. But no, I didn't make an argument either way or compare anyone to anyone else so you need to recalibrate your meter.

I'm just saying that without standards, whatever they are, you'll accept anything.

And "it avoids civil war" isn't a justification because in some cases we'd be better off if the entire country in question burned itself to the ground in an internal struggle rather than inflicting it on the rest of the world.

> did you think Hitler was a conservative?

Wow you've got a Hitler fixation. I wasn't really talking about him, just our tendency to elect bad people and how in retrospect the fact that they're legally elected is no justification for what they end up doing.

No, I think he was a sociopath who threw the jews under the bus for convenience. And his policies didn't fit any right-left divide because neither liberal or conservative is a codeword for genocidal.

If you want to continue this line of thought, an interesting question to ask yourself is "If I put Hitler's words into the mouth of those the candidate preferred by the self-identified conservatives, and the candidate preferred by self-identified liberals, which group most-supports those misattributed statements?"
You're just missing the Red Boots DLC. Makes everything perfect.

Warts and all I really enjoyed wasteland 2
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Only 1 CHF a cup.

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I've only read the blog post you linked and scanned the current license. I don't find anything unusual in them for a proprietary license.

Most of the cited examples in the blog post are common standard language used in license agreements. I'd say the interpretation of what they means is idiosyncratic. One could argue that the clauses were not nice, but that's a different argument to the one presented.

Their current Eula you linked is pretty short, I'd probably argue with the indemnity, but not unless I was paying enough money that someone would care. Average legal fee to discuss a license ~600 USD an hour, their license is 2,500 USD. Most people have tougher license terms in their office lease!
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I suspect they hit similar issues with the delayed AirPods, easy for software to blow the speaker off. Maybe Tim Cook finally took a look at these issues with the new MacBook Pro before its launch and decided to kill its car project. Joke aside, I think 2017 will be tough year for Apple, as it is likely we will see a Made In USA iPhone, which will either eat into its profit margin or many will finally realise iPhone is way overpriced. 2017 will likely hit recession for US and globally, judging from history which happens the year when US political power shift from Republican to Democrat or vice versa. This will made no-buy for many for the 10th anniversary new iPhone 8.

Worst off, Apple is likely to create a third iPhone model which is highest end, premium and meant to milk more cash. Apple still think all its fanboy can tolerate its strategy of high profit from RAM add ons. It is likely due to political thingy the next 4 years will make Apple hard sell to convince users that iCloud is safe.

TouchBar and Retina ID is making the MacBook Pro hardware more complex. But how long will finger print tech last before the next tech take over? They are making something that is not applicable for other Mac models such as iMac (so you build a TouchID panel on the side of the screen?), Mac Pro and Mac mini. I believe Apple is retiring Mac Pro and Mac mini next, but will need to keep iMac due to sale volume. Someone please tell me how feasible it is to implement Touch ID on external keyboard? This whole thing does not look like holistic design to me, something like how you need to turn back the Apple MagicMouse in order to charge.

Which top tier computer manufacturer other than Apple is selling 3 year old computer hardware? I hope Apple will never use the word 'magic' in their ads anymore. I hope Apple has the courage to adopt USB-C for its iPad and iPhone. I hope Google will lower Pixel by $200 dollars. I hope Google will develop its own Linux notebook for its own employees and then the rest of the world. I hope Microsoft will develop a version of Windows on top of Linux core and file systems. Or the Surface group just buy Canonical. I hope Facebook will have an App Store for us to run React Native app or something like WeChat mini app over the web.
0. Remove/disconnect the power LED.

1. Consider powering the sensor via a GPIO pin that you set high when you want to take a reading rather than connecting it to the positive rail.

2. Research whether your chip can be easily put into deep-sleep mode (the -01 boards require a jumper wire to be soldered to one of the IC legs which is not super-easy to accomplish).
I am still disappointed that smart phones lock you out of your own device with such limited control. why aren't we able to set access levels for all apps? I remember having this sort of access on rooted android only.
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I don't have time to contribute but the wikipedia page on NHST[1] used to be pretty good about refs. A lot of the stuff pointing at controversy/history has been slowly removed the last few years... it still isn't too bad though. Anyone interested can also try looking through old versions. There have been thousands of papers published on that topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_hypothesis_testing...
I thought the isometric interface was a strength. It lends a solid feel to the game, without the clipping you have in Bethesda's 3d environments. I also think the freedom from clipping was a huge part of what gave Minecraft it's feel.

It also makes exploring more efficient, as you can search containers and interact with objects and characters a quasi 3D world without the need for 3D rotation. Which I think is important for the kind of game Fallout is.
Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I clicked on that link. What exactly is going on there? It looks like people are paying hundreds of dollars for a different skins for the gloves for their characters? Is that USD or some sort of in-universe currency?
I guess you mean "For real?" as in "Is this really a primality test?" Yes, it is, and Krumins describes how it works in the post that I linked (http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-regex-that-matches-prime-n...).

Essentially, although it looks complicated, it's the simplest possible idea: it's just trying factorisations, with the `(11+?)` part being the factor, and the `\1+` part insisting that we repeat that factor. It is of course wildly inefficient, and limitations in the backtracking engine mean that it can give false positives for large numbers (http://zmievski.org/2010/08/the-prime-that-wasnt, also linked from that post).
Have you looked into whether this is legit on legal usage? You appear to be using noun project icons in these logos, and afaik most logos on the noun project are creative commons with attribution (and I confirmed by selecting a few logos with icons which matched this license on the noun project site).

It doesn't appear that you provide any attribution at all to the icon creators wherever you display the icon, and I have no idea what license you deliver to the end user (I haven't went through purchasing a logo - knowing that you're just sticking some text with a noun-project icon doesn't strike me as worth it, honestly). Are you in the clear to be displaying these icons with no attribution, and are the users that buy your icons clear to be putting it on websites and business cards without attribution?

I haven't even looked into whether your font usage is appropriate, can you clarify that as well?
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These are great questions, but in the end they are ones that the left didn't bother to ask when they dropped a principled support of the first amendment for "hate speech" as intimidation, in particular on college campuses as enforced by the US Justice Department. Personally I am against criminalizing flag burning, but for the purpose of highlighting hypocrisy I would like to be the first conservative to cite Karl Popper to argue for it: tolerant societies have a right to be intolerant of intolerance. Burning the flag is hate speech and intimidation based on rejection of our shared American values, and shall be banned.

Anyone on the left who disagrees with this argument? Re-evaluate your own principles then, in a way that doesn't assume "my values are right and yours are wrong" in the context of a democratic republic.
I'm really interested in ML, so I'd like to try my hand at an MS at minimum - getting into an ML team should be pretty difficult without specific domain knowledge. If I don't like it, I'd just go into industry directly afterward.
I like this hypothesis.
> I would say that the first job of a CEO is building the company, the second job is building the product.

The problem with this is you don't really have a company until you have a product to sell. And not all products can support companies. The roles in the company have to orient around the product. Product has to come first.
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Very impressing, hits the sweet spot for projects that need a logo but don't have a big budget. A few comments:

* I skipped picking symbols and it generated a logo with a monogram. I wanted to get rid of this so I looked in the Symbol menu and was frustrated not to find it. I eventually found it in "Layout" but that's not the first place I thought to look.

* There's a lot greyed text used on controls, which is both hard to read and makes it look like the controls are disabled. e.g. horizontal scroll buttons, uppercase/lowercase toggle, text input boxes

* Logos on the preview page load slowly/inconsistently at times, leaving the sample images blank. Perhaps use loading indicators or don't show backgrounds until logo is ready.

* reloading the page loses your work (oops)
Gotta agree with ya. There's been times I've wanted a logo or something (mainly for just playing with an idea), and I really stink at artwork. Sometimes I can get something passable out of inkscape - but it is rare.
Just read this article and I think it brings a bit more perspective:

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-n...

Open source farming hardware is the right way to do it.
I wonder how it compares/relates to https://minio.io

Can it run on minio, for example?
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Just wondering, have you been keeping these in a list waiting for this opportunity, or did all that just come out of your head?
Some feedback:

I love the UX/UI - but I cant tell it where to put the color/font selections and it only previews with "COMPANY NAME" instead of actually updating with the company name and slogan that you asked me for in the beginning on the selection process...

So - I don't know if I like the selection based on that because I wanted the reverse of what it offered (I wanted orange letters with grey background - but it only gives me orange bkgd with grey letters...

I would also like a bit better control over the location of the icon.

The "saved logo" update pop-up is confusing as when I go back to logo - it doesn't always hold the design I selected...

Otherwise this is impressive and awesome... I'd like to use it.
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Clinton speaking against torture because it's ineffective even though Salon (and I!) would have preferred she'd publicly made the case against it for additional reasons doesn't make it any harder to figure out which candidate one should vote for if they want industry to write regulations, the executive branch to torture people, and the rich to pay even less in taxes. False equivalence is fun until, say, the 2000 or 2016 elections happen.
"But they don’t know how to talk about ordinary people."

Riiight... because Americans who live in urban areas aren't "ordinary people". Hey, I bet they aren't actually "Real Americans" either.

</sarcasm>

In case it isn't already clear from the subtext in the OP, I'll make the point plainly: the rural/urban divide cuts both ways.
If you want to display documents, sure, I agree. If you need complex UIs, manually updating DOM without any kind of abstraction is definitely not a right choice.
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By working a couple of days a month in addition to $300k, he could have a big 5-room house, car with full time chauffeur, maids, electricity, broadband internet, clean water, all 6 of his children in private schools.
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IMO, Democrats are STILL speaking to the plight of the poor far more than the Republicans are.

The problem is, whether through 'natural' forces, the destruction of union power, etc, most of the "we fight for the poor" is about implementing social programs, and, at best, the minimum wage.

But most people don't want handouts. Most people want to be proud and find value from their work.

The Republican party doesn't show more interest in this than they have in the past, but neither does the Democratic party.

Trump can appeal because he can tell them they can have THEIR jobs back. THEIR past glory. Something they were proud of. This is very different from telling a 50 year old "don't worry, we'll send you to 6 months of 'retraining' and you can start your career over in a minimum wage job -- but don't worry, it'll be the NEW minimum wage, $1 higher than the old one!"

Now, obviously Trump can't deliver on his promise. But then again, neither has anyone else, and at least his promise is appealing to them.
Max Tegmark! I love his book "Our Mathematical Universe". This video was a lot of fun to watch--I'll have to watch it a few more times before I understand it though :P
Lua is amazing. I've used it to reimplement an API served by Python and it was consistently twice as fast i.e. half the time to serve a request compared to the Python framework in basically the same code.
The article is trying to present a certain abstraction. It is not 100% true in any particular company, but over a wide swath, I think it makes sense.

I think the title is catchy, but not in tune with the message of the article. The article would be more accurately titled "The role of the CEO in the first three stages of a company's lifecycle".