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QE is not resulting in enough growth in the Western world, because there are just not enough profitable businesses for investors to pour their cheap money into.

Supplying cheap money is only one half of the equation to get investors to sponsor businesses: the other half that is needed is businesses with profitable business plans. And there the Western world has a problem: globalisation is moving mainstream business away to cheaper area's in the world. That is not a new thing, and traditionally Western economies have compensated that with new innovative businesses. And although there certainly is some innovation, it is not enough to keep up and keep the GDP growing. The aging populations in most Western countries contribute to that effect because younger generations are much more likely to take risks and start new businesses than the older.
The datasheets are often outdated. See http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100923006778/en/Sams... for an example.
Very different experience with a X1 3rd generation (Broadwell). Battery life is 10h+, touchpad is butter smooth (to my surprise, better under Linux than with the original Windows 8.1), fans are stopped most of the time and the laptop is very silent. All this with Debian stable (more recently testing), so a pretty conservative set-up.

For battery life (and maybe fan noise?), have you installed "laptop-mode" or its successor "tlp" (the laptop project)? Both will tune the system automatically for AC or battery power, and it does make a huge difference for battery life. If you don't use either, you should really try them: the 5 mn installation time will be a good investment ;)

Main issue on my side: I bought it just after it was announced, and Linux support was so-so (functional, but annoying glitches and stability problems). Next time, I'll wait for the new models to be out and will buy the last gen one on the cheap --- there's so little changes anyway nowadays. But now all this is gone, and Linux support is top notch.

Quality ok but not as good as I had imagined: there's now a bit of flex in one corner. Not a problem in practice, I just expected more sturdiness from a TP.
True. But Linus also doesn't disappear for several months at a time. Not to mention that Linus is not the only decision maker in the project. Greg KH maintains the stable kernels (which is ironically where most people get their kernel from).
One thing to consider w.r.t. SuperFish is it was two years ago, and Lenovo did apologise for it. Sometimes you have to keep a grudge, but my opinion on this is it was something that pretty much any laptop manufacturer could have done and they did deal with it. YMMV.
I think it may also be that initially, skeumorphism was used to educated the general public as to the intuitions of the UI, but after that intuition become more and more widespread generally, the UI could turn into a more abstract and minimal form of the previously skeumorphic UI while retaining its properties / placements etc. This abstraction then allows interaction paradigms that cross-cut what is possible physically, or to add more to the now-abstract UI with less noise. Technology is changing of course, but also humans are changing collectively in learning to communicate with it. This is also historically present: at some point typing wasn't a thing, then some jobs did typing, and now typing is a widespread skill and allows interactions at a new level once that is established as assumed on the part of the user.
"it's not possible to get this amount of debt leverage for buying shares"

But it's easy to buy a call options on shares, which is equivalent.
> If drugs were legal to produce and distribute then it wouldn't be a black market and thus violence and criminality would reduce (people wouldn't buy from shady characters; they'd just go to the store and buy it like anything else).

Criminality _related to the import/export/sale of the drugs_. If you think this would be without side effects, you haven't spent much time in an area with methheads or heroin addicts.

And, for what it's worth, it's very easy to purchase drugs from non-shady characters, especially in major US cities (a friend of mine used to text his dealer and a business-casual dressed woman would show up with a wheeling briefcase).

> I don't know any ricelords or any significant criminal gangs that distribute rice. This is only a problem encountered with drugs and other illegal things.

If you use the semantics of "criminal gangs", then you've framed the argument in a way that makes it impossible to debate. Of course "criminal gangs" do "illegal things" (prostitution, substances, etc), that's why they're called criminal gangs. In a country with a stronger rule of law, they're forced to at least have a front, such as sanitation, pay day loans, unions, etc.

> Also, (paraphrasing Milton Friedman), drug users don't report the crime unlike other crimes like burglary or murder because the victim is the offender.

Eh, for casual, functional users. The water gets murky when the users subsist on government services or become unemployed due to substance abuse. The case against legalizing all drugs isn't particularly concerned about a bank teller taking psilocybin mushrooms and sitting in her back yard on a Sunday afternoon.
OP wrote "financial security," not "enormous sums of money."
Me neither. How much of the genuine human nuance is present in today's financial services or any commission driven industry - next to nothing. Every agent/broker is motivated by the highest commission he/she can make, nothing more.
The enormous hassle for me is transferring money in and out of the country. My internet service in Phnom Penh is fairly steady fortunately. Let me know if you need any advice, translations, or whatever while traveling!
The question was: "Why are flash memory prices going down so much faster than RAM?"

Answer: because there are (technological) ways of making it cheaper (and probably slower/less reliable, but not much), as well as economy of scale factors

Why DRAM doesn't get cheaper: because it has to follow much stricter requirements.

The question itself is naive. It thinks "megabytes of memory" are the same thing regardless of form factor

> Would enough people care to pay for speed, reliability and size? That's more of an MBA question and the answer probably is no.

Yes, probably not. Not the masses at least. Unless they buy Apple, they (still) care about this mostly, apart from adapter shenanigans
What is this?

http://prismproof.org/Technical/Requirements/index.html
I can live without eval in JavaScript.
My opinion is that TDD can only reasonably be done if you already know what your implementation must be, which is difficult to do unless

* you have already done it, or something sufficiently similar, before;
* you have formal functional requirements; or
* you have detailed use cases.

Personally, I've recently come to really favor use cases as part of the design process. The mindset behind them requires some effort to learn, but I find them an effective vehicle for categorically separating what an application must do from any consideration for how it might do it.
> there are ways to make caching work. But it needs to be done very carefully in a large system or you risk long-term damage.

There are ways of using caching that are relatively simple to reason about that ought to be evangelized a bit.

For example, many caching proxies expose quite a bit more functionality than just caching, such as replacing placeholders in server-side rendered pages with transclusions (by the proxy) from another URL (which can be part of the same web app). This lets you compose server responses from fragments that have different caching rules, neatly side-stepping many of the issues mentioned in the OP as well keeping global state disentangled.

For example, you can cache most of a rendered web-page with a generous TTL so that the cache only queries the web app behind it once an hour or even less often, and have the proxy insert the portion of the page that must be current, which is also cached, but with a TTL of <1 second and relying on if-modified-since to speed up the usual case where nothing has changed.

The resulting setup is easy to reason about, doesn't have any particular gotchas (unless you are doing a lot of A/B testing), and will absolutely solve the problem of your site slowing to a crawl because 50k impatient users are obsessively hitting Ctrl-R over and over on your homepage at the same time every Monday morning to check to see if that one thing has changed yet. Notably, this type of setup works without having to beef up with more server instances to handle the load, or having to accept a slightly stale homepage being served for several minutes, or even accepting a longer response time for the very first user to hit the server after the content does change and the cache is invalidated and repopulated. All you've done with the cache is eliminate wasted cycles at the cost of adding less complexity to the code than you need for feature-switching.

This approach of fast composition (transclusion or even simpler concatenation) of separately cached values avoids the problem of global state entanglement because the final transclusion or concatenation is simple and fast enough to not (or hardly) bother with caching the final result at all.
It erupted 200,000 years ago, 40,000 years ago, 35,000 years ago, 12,000 years ago, and 500 years ago. We're talking about Campi Flegrei, a volcano in the metropolitan area of Naples (Italy), one of the most densely inhabited areas in the world.
It erupted 200,000 years ago, 40,000 years ago, 35,000 years ago, 12,000 years ago, and 500 years ago. We're talking about Campi Flegrei, a volcano in the metropolitan area of Naples (Italy), one of the most densely inhabited areas in the world. This is a very serious matter.
Not only do I believe that my job can be automated - I've spent years trying to do just that.

Of course, I wouldn't be giving the scripts to my employer, just spending more time doing other things...
Yes, such things are often outdated, but the availability of different memory chips does not change existing hardware. The MC really doesn't support it, there is no way to change anything about that...

I believe there were other chips at the time that supported more than 8 GB (i7-9xxM perhaps), but these are a different die (Clarksdale quad cores, ie. high end mobile chips that are selected desktop chips).
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LLVM IR is pretty close to portable - the issues you mention are an issue with Assembler code as well. Even the examples in the article show the same IR being compiled to different CPU architectures.

I'm not sure I'd go hand writing IR code, though. It's pretty easy to just write C code with vector extensions, etc to produce the IR I'd be after. When I do need to write assembler code these days, it's typically to get access to some privileged instructions in kernel space. Most other instructions are available in C code via __builtin_foo_bar functions.
The point is that the datasheet is now inaccurate. This happened before with 2Gbit DDR3 and Intel had to update the datasheet for the Mobile 4 Series chipsets.
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Github pages. Free hosting. Just fork a Jekyll template and off you go.
This is the classical hn bias. Normal people would like to talk to humans. Hn users would rather get info, plans, etc from houses and eventually buy them and sign the contract using a REST API with a node.js client..
"flushed down the drain"

Oh not this crap again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMeI4uHAFE
A bit of trivia:

- Each MLC cell actually holds one of 4 distinct charge levels, and thus can encode 2 bits. Same for TLC (8 levels, 3 bits) and QLC (16 charge levels to encode 4 bits).

- "3D" when talking about solid-state memory, would usually refer to vertically stacked cells [1], which gives you more cells per square millimeter at the same manufacturing process node. This is orthogonal to xLC.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/23/sandisk_takes_the_bi...
They compete in the mindshare sense. If a company is determined to treat Git hosting as commodity product, they are going to look at gitlab, gogs/gitea, gitbucket, and a bunch of other solutions.

As you point out, you either go with fast vs feature rich.

GitLab is working towards making things faster and easier to install. Is Gogs/Gitea working towards making it more feature rich?

If Gogs market are hobbyist who want to run it on a Raspberry PI, then I don't see GitLab being a threat. If Gogs wants to be solution that larger companies would consider using, then they are going to have to compete with GitLab's, which means introducing more features.

This Gitea fork appears to be a desire to move faster with more features. I've posted this in another response, but this a diff from the point of divergent to the latest commit for each master branch.

Gogs (69 commits with 106 diffs):

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea/gogs-diff.png

Gitea (528 commits with 2,062 diffs):

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea/gitea-diff.png

I obviously haven't gone through a lot of the diffs, but the changes appear to be formatting/commenting like this:

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea/gitea-changes-example1.png

with others adding more functionality like this:

https://gitsense.com/gogs-gitea/gitea-changes-example2.png

No matter what, it looks like there maybe no turning back for both groups. Hopefully this is not the case.
I understand that you mean in qualified in regards to that special moment, but I can't help myself:

According to Christopher Hitchens "The trial of Henry Kissinger", Kissinger was very much a part of the private diplomacy that crashed the vietnam peace deal.

He later negotiated more or less the same peace deal, only 4 (?) years later and with about a million more dead people. If 10% of that book is true Kissinger is a war criminal that shoud be tried in the Hague.
The datasheet says that the IMC only supports 2 Gb chips, which remains accurate. Even a single 8 GB DDR3 module will not work with these laptops.
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Nice to see a non religious post about testing.

Particularly enjoyed the emphasis on regressions. I converted to testing when working on a relatively complex data transformation. This was replacing an existing, scary data transformation process that was hard to test (we'd run new code for a few days and do a lot of manual examination), so I made extra certain to design the new system so it was testable. Catching regressions in test, especially for data processing, is just so much better than catching and repairing them in production.
I got high fever and diarrhea.
No, simply evidence does not pass ESRs filter. It has to be evidence collected by insiders, not outside scientists who don't understand how things function.

There are plenty of studies that show that in collective discussions of womens qualifications are questioned more, but not in a gendered way. Questions like: What was the role of the supervisor in the thesis? are not sexist. That they are raised more with respect to women is.

I could spend an hour on google collecting studies (e.g. a meta study on interruptions [1] the studies on talking time are methodologically simpler and with very clear significance and large effect size, I am not aware of convincing criticism of the studies on the perception of interruptions, e.g. [2], a study that got some attention recently actually had the result that when it comes to interruptions, men interrupt women at about the same rate as women interrupt women, it's just that women interrupt men less Table 1 in [3], etc... again, the literature shows pervasive biases (some strong, some not) of a complex and varied nature). But honestly, I don't see the point, you just dismissed decades worth of studies out of hand. You called these studies anecdotes, but your gold standard of evidence seems to be individual events. When really we are in a much more subtle phase of the struggle for equality.

From your comment I don't think you really care about scientific evidence on this question. Or you haven't bothered educating yourself. Evidence of _real_ sexism is massive, and everywhere. It just doesn't look the way you (and maybe many a SJW, too) maybe imagine it to look. It doesn't show up (usually) in the form of individual events that can be proven to be sexist, but it shows up in social patterns all over the place.

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018802521676
[2] http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.1995.18.1.59?mag=man-...
[3] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0261927X14533197
So thickness and weight are the drivers for this: You can always build a laptop that has the same battery capacity with a detachable battery as you can with a non-detachable. It's just going to be thicker and heavier.
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I suppose the ability to install ECC memory on one's own is still a benefit. Still would be nice for Dell to ship with it, though, instead of requiring customers to buy it elsewhere.
And a handy link for anyone who wants to check out PlayCanvas: https://playcanvas.com
You don't need to use it, so I wouldn't count it as a disadvantage (only the things that come with it, like increased weight).
Why would a web server care where a request comes from?
Ghost + Gumroad (selling products) would be a decent alternative.

Other options are to go with static site generators like Middleman or Hugo for your blog and setting up a shop on Shopify or Sellfy.

As a side note, I have open sourced the code [1] for my shop/blog that is running at https://www.authenticpixels.com. It is written in Elixir/Phoenix.

[1] https://github.com/authentic-pixels/ex-shop
I recommend an APL offspring to someone who wants to expand their horizons, rather than APL itself: K (or a variant thereof), or J. No special chars needed.

J used to be the only freely available, and with better documentation -- however, it is also a larger language. It seems that recently the K dialects (oK, klong, kuc, kerf, xxl) are plentiful, freely available and well documented.

It is also my experience that K is less frightening to most people - J uses e.g. curly braces independently as operators, which looks a-priori broken to most people (rather than just unintelligible like K does).
> Tax evaders from USA are safe.

No, the USA forced Swiss banks to open up their administrations to the DOJ already in 2013.

https://www.justice.gov/tax/file/631356/download
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Jekyll/Hakyll for blogs. They are both very customizable, you can write Markdown, and since they produce static pages you have one security worry less.
> The IR is highly unstable, especially the text representation, which is basically just a debugging tool.

It's not guaranteed to be stable, but it's not "highly unstable" either. Not too many breaking changes have been introduced in the past few years and it's unlikely that you'd hit those parts when hand writing it.

Not that I'd recommend hand writing LLVM IR.

It's a shame that we don't have an actual portable IR, which would not be tied to toolchain version or contain target specifics. LLVM IR can't be used as such for a portable IR, which is why we've seen efforts like SPIR-V (Vulkan GPU IR) and WebAssembly (IR for browsers), both of which are very similar to LLVM IR (and a lot of work was duplicated).
If this is for a client that can't manage a static site themselves, then I would probably look into splitting out the content editing part. For example services like https://www.datocms.com/ let you publish to a separate static site generator.
Maybe by using currying/partial application?
I found it to be amazingly expensive (I was there in 2013) but a phenomenal place to explore. Made amazing friends and loved the city but don't miss the $44 burritos.
BCN would be my answer.

Lived there for 6 weeks this summer. Hard to say how it will look in 10 years, but it's an amazing place.
And if you read http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/core-... , it does not say anything about 4Gbit DDR3 either.
See, I don't really agree with your comment re: workflow. At work, I see Maya artists using 3D Studio Max and artists from both those camps using Modo. They ALL struggle when switching between programs. NO program is automatically easy or comprehensible - artists have their muscle memory and changing that takes real work.

It's true that some programs have a slightly better import path into e.g.: games engines, but "slightly better" not "perfect" or amazing better than others.
The X1 has soldered on memory. And non-user-serviceable batteries and hard drives. (My 1st gen X1 carbon used a very
non-standard hard drive.)

The T460 has hot-swapable batteries, real memory slots, and
standard SATA disks. (but I wish is was a NVMe disk)

I picked a 460 over a 460s because it seems a lot more servicable in the future and I can easily replace worn out batteries.
synclient PalmDetect=1

That should fix the palmdetection problem. If not, also do:

synclient PalmMinZ=0
1000 _willing_ owners, one presumes.
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Corrected this. I think they are more powerful but less mobile?
Another one, just leaving this here because it's a nice table of a variety of gender differences in speech, based on a solid meta-study:

https://books.google.de/books?id=nWf0AwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA68&ots=Z...
Ugh. When I think about how much I know, and how long it took to learn, and how hard it was to learn, I have to say I would be daunted if I had to start again from "this is a bold tag", which I did in about 1998.

You just need to maintain a frenzy of non stop learning and write huge amounts of code for the next X years and you'll be OK.
Custom CMS in PHP. That's what I always use for everything.
I very much doubt that.

When you open a bank account there they'll go to very great lengths to make sure you're not from the US and you don't fall under FATCA (forein account tax complience act), and if you do, then .. well, you usually can't just open an account there, but there are branch offices of course that are ready and willing to do business with people and entities associated with the IRS, probably they are a bit more costly though.
This would be my answer too.

I liked the beach vibe, but the actual beaches in comparison to some are sort of "meh." That said, the BCN mix of options puts it in my top 3 cities in the world easily.
And additionally a non-problem with the ThinkPad line, which is far less susceptible to this sort of tomfoolery.
It depends on your skills/needs.

Do you want to customize everything with ease? Do you have someone who can maintain the security of your blog and eventually add new features later?
=> WordPress on your own hosting

Do you want to use a very classical theme? Do you want a complete service with no skills required and no maintenance?
=> Wix or WordPress.com

Do you want to customize everything? Do you have someone to maintain the blog on a regular base?
=> Jekyll on GitHub or on your own hosting

Shall you need to sell things online with the blog, WordPress can be augmented with Shopify, meanwhile Wix has already this feature.
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Melbourne, Australia needs to be on your list.

Pros: Most livable city in the world. Great startup scene. Phenomenal transportation options. Great universities. Fantastic street art everywhere. Amazing food. USD vs. AUD is quite good for USD right now so it is pretty affordable.

Cons: Internet not blazing fast. Beaches elsewhere in Australia are much better (it is on a bay = no waves).
Add the Big One in SF, the 180ft tsunami of Vancouver, the global warming acceleration, the halt the Gulf Stream and the Yosemite explosion, and 2017 can be awesome. Or 5017, which is geological times is the same.