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> That's generally handled by having a cart with a garbage bag attached that comes by, and having people opening their food on the small trays provided.

Considerable effort has already gone into making food service efficient. One of the few reason I can imagine to unbundle food is to have fewer flight attendants. But now you're suggesting they should service the passengers in a random rather than sequential order, as not everyone would want to eat at the same time. A tray doesn't really solve the problem of the person shaking their protein drink (which hopefully stays in it's container), the person having to grab the third thing from the over head storage nor someone spilling their to go coffee over you. Food service is efficient. It comes in bulk, everyone gets served, everyone eats, everyone throws things away, done.

> Yes. It is called a "post-security food court".

"Amenities" like food courts and shops is a big reason why airports are annoying. If it wasn't for trying to get you to buy overpriced things airport entry would be as efficient as airport exit and not some IKEA style maze.
* Swift/Objective-C requirement. No more HTML/JS/CSS only.

It almost sounds like they want really fast extensions they can confidently distribute on iOS...
Saving money amounts to producing some wealth without consuming any wealth in exchange (generally because you expect your savings to conserve value, and therefore get the right to consume without producing some time later. Like all bets and promises, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't)

That's good for the economy when there is a lack of supply: plenty of people willing to buy stuff while nobody wants to make those stuff. When there's a lack of demand, it doesn't help. When there's a lack of demand, you need to make people consume more, possibly by delaying / alleviating the expectation that they produce something valuable first. This consumption is expected to allow creation of supply. That's the principle of a Keynesian stimulus.

The problem typically associated with massive unemployment is a lack of demand: there are plenty of unemployed people who would like to produce and consume, but they can't find anyone willing to buy whatever they might produce.

Put another way, UBI is a way to raise the velocity of money, the amount of commercial exchanges per amount of time occurring in the economy; saving lowers money velocity.
Just signed up there, I'd be interested if one gets going. Thanks.
I feel as though I am falling into this right now. I graduated in Spring of 2016, and started working full time a week after that.

I started working for the same boss that I interned at (different company) - and it has been awesome thus far.

Although the subject matter of the stuff I work on it pretty boring I still have fun with what I do. It's pretty crazy how much experience you gain from just doing your job.

I still don't get a ton of sleep and I generally fall into what you described above.
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> The amount of work it would take to create a legal code which is internally consistent and always yields an agreeable outcome is not feasible.

Is there something you can cite here? The infeasible thing to me is refactoring a pre-existing lawbase into something formally verifiable; if we could throw it all away and start over at the constitution, it might work.
Part of the problem with Las Vegas is there is nothing else out there for hours. You have Reno (which has a nice little startup scene and a Tesla gigafactory), but there is just nothing out there. No other cities nearby, no Pacific ocean...
Am I the only one who's never had any issues? 7 years so far. Just replaced my latest one because work got me one. They both run great, except the older one has some fan issues but never anything that prevented me from using it.

But then again I rarely install new things, only have a few base programs I run routinely, and reformat regularly.
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I was expecting a kiosk machine, kind of disappointed, but its still a cool project.
> Those seats mean that despite paying more than most people on the plane, I'm not stuck in a middle seat most of the time.

The MCE seats also serve this purpose.

> I'm willing to bet that people with similar flying habits to me provide the majority of profit for an airline as well.

Well, because it encourages people like you to keep their "status," and people without "status" now have to pay extra for a regular seat, it probably benefits the airline. But it is another fare class that the airline invented to make more money, much like the basic economy fares discussed in the article.
I was responding to both. I simply do not agree with the idea that, if they were required to bundle these services together at some set level of service, that this would somehow make airlines unable to increase the prices. What I suggest is happening here is that the airlines would have increased their bundled prices, but aware of how price-sensitive flyers are, and how many of them are willing to forgo extra services, they've decided to unbundle instead.

I mean, what's stopping them from just raising prices for bundled services? Nothing, besides competition. The fact that these services can be paid for separately is not some way for them to "get you" somehow, it's just unbundling.

Yes, there's theoretically economies of scale for some things. But there's also a lot of potential advantages to pricing specific services - especially for things like luggage, where capacity per passenger often has hard limits. If there really are economies of scale, I suspect the airlines themselves will find them more effectively than blanket regulations requiring a particular service level.

How is the iPhone an example?
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All of that is argument for saner, more evidence driven regulations, not getting rid of regulations.
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To reiterate what I've said before: I hope that after a last gasp of pseudo-innovation/rewrites-for-marketings-sake that the tech industry can figure out how to become a more incremental, polish and improve culture, more akin to craftsmen than randian heros.

It goes to the very heart of the industry, though: our self conception, so it would be a very hard transition.
Robots won't replace humans on a one-for-one basis. One human could be replaced by a hundred tiny robots or a factory with a hundred workers might be replaced by a single big robot. We already have single robots that can do a task hundreds of times faster than a human so how do you tax them equally to human work?
It's roundly ignored, because dark foreignors are easier for politicians to scape goat.
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> And voilá: the internet - well, the ones that are still serving a viable miminum HTML without JS - became instant.

I've been using umatrix for this effect. I have some sites that unfortunately I need to use JS on. Sure, some sites fail to the point of not even working, but overall, I find sites faster, more user friendly, and more responsive than pre-umatrix.
Chatbots are a fancy name for when your API is accessible through some well-known IM service.

They come with all of the monetization issues of APIs, but they're surfaced in an environment where you have no pre-existing relationship with the client, and you can't even charge them for access.

This essentially limits the business model to where you give away the chatbot and make money some other way; or you recognize you have no business model and do it anyway.
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Are you planning on having a feature to pick a range of days, so that I can seen what expired over the last week?
They're called buses
What happens to your apps if you stop paying the annual fee? Will they be removed from the AppStore? Will there be no auto updates on them?
The idea of Alpha and Beta testing comes from the days when most software was designed from formal specifications and passed to testing after production and then to quality assurance and finally to customer acceptance. Today, most projects lack that sort of waterfall process and the 'best practice' is to talk to potential users while developing the product and to put very early versions of the product out in front of people as soon as it is possible.

Thinking about a user driven waterfall:

potential users -> alpha testers -> beta testers -> product

Paralleling a product cycle:

mockup -> minimum product -> release candidate -> general release

The purpose of milestones under the waterfall system was to organize projects. There are other and more flexible ways to organize projects that have seen a lot of progress recently.

Good luck.
Probably the same as they dealt with it in every other decade of the past century that people worried about workforces disappearing overnight due to technological development, women entering new areas of the workforce, immigration and outsourcing: by paying unemployment benefit to people whose jobs were very gradually replaced and ignoring the doomsayers who insisted - despite all the evidence to the contrary - that in aggregate humanity wasn't ingenious enough to find new things that other people would pay them to do.
Pretty light on details, even the website of this company itself. The claim of being able to feed 150 people off 2 acres (about 1 hectare, for those of us who like to think in units that make sense) is a pretty wild one. Maybe you could grow potatoes with [150 x 1700 x 365] calories in them in a climate where you can grow year round, but that's surely not what they're insinuating in their marketing pictures.
How about this one, a shirt with reflective material on it! https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588156
In that case they'd have to go back to their home countries to find work.
he stepped over the line a little by becoming personal (not in a nasty way - hot etc). instead of shrugging it off and moving on, people decided to get offended. and then they ganged up wielding their anonymous downvoters. THAT is rude and uncivilized.
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> I was provided free food on my train ride from London to Brussels

Which class were you in? IIRC they only give free food in the upper classes, not the basic one.
I would like to know "am I above the ___th percentile for any timeout metric" right now vs. last week / month / etc.

I am just getting started with Graphite and wondering how to do this across all of the timeout metrics at the same time on the same graph. (It would probably be an all-or-nothing scenario but there is a chance only a portion of the system is affected by something...)
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A median says close to nothing about repartition. That's not a fact that you can use in a logical argument against your opponent's claim about repartition.
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>Before the update, going to page 100 in a textbook would consistently get you to the page labeled 100. Now it takes you to the hundredth physical page, which thanks to the cover, toc, etc. is probably not where you wanted to go.

Goto page has never worked reliably for me, even prior to the update.
The whole point of the patent system is to make sure ideas aren't locked up so we can advance as a society (something the Copyright office has forgotten), so once they expire they are in the Public Domain forever.
Unlikely. Volume of voice input for Siri probably is still orders of magnitude larger than those Alexa or Google Home handle. It also does so internationally and multilanguage. Once you start looking closely advantage is not really that big. Google, Alexa and Cortana also mishandle queries and they might excel at some tasks but fall short in others. Still a lot of room to improve for everyone, Apple included, but I would argue they are all in a very similar situation.
I suppose it's a step up from "honest Ponzis". https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/ethereum-smart-contract...
It's also funny how some of those "luxuries" were originally part of the base service to make everyone's experience better and by removing them, now everyone's experience is worse and costs more. Primarily: checked baggage exists as a system to get baggage out of the cramped main cabin and into simpler, dedicated storage with marginal and reasonably efficient load/unload times. By charging fees for any checked baggage (as opposed to excessive checked baggage as used to be the regime), the airlines incentivize a lot more people to try to cram every thing they can carry on into the main cabin. This results in slower loading/unloading times of people because all the carry ons fill the bins quite inefficiently; many peoples bags wind up in bins that aren't easy for them to access for them to unload; some peoples bags won't fit at all because there has never been enough room in the main cabin. The airlines now have to compensate for this by asking for volunteers to gate check bags for every flight, which is a waste of everyone's time involved, and still not as efficient for anyone involved as simply checking bags up front like airlines originally were planned to do and airports were planned to handle.
Maybe an actual stack language like Forth could do so? The stack overhead of calling a word is a lot lower to begin with, and ColorForth for already has tail call optimisation[0]. More advanced concatenative languages like Factor[1] or Kitten[2] might be able to perform more interesting optimisations.

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?TailCallOptimization

[1] https://factorcode.org/

[2] http://kittenlang.org/
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2017, when "really simple" is a jQuery plugin. ;)
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This is really weird, I began working on a similar project recently, although I tried to implement all of the audio processing and rendering client-side using canvas and ffmpeg.js. Kept running into memory issues though. Using a MediaRecorder was going to be my next step.

One suggestion: on the export screen, you provide two options. I would add some text that clarifies what quality basic and full HD are (or how else these two options differ).
Seems fine: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.torproje...
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I should have done my research. I assumed since Kotlin has large support it has been around longer. Thanks!
>"Food service is efficient. It comes in bulk, everyone gets served, everyone eats, everyone throws things away, done."

Great. If an airline finds that it is more efficient that they bundle food with the ticket price, then more power to them. I just don't see why it should be required that they do so.

>""Amenities" like food courts and shops is a big reason why airports are annoying."

I am sorry that you are annoyed by food courts. On the other hand, I suspect that the fact they are usually full of businesses suggests that many people patronize them and find them useful. Again, I'm not sure what the proposed solution is. Prohibit airports from having food courts?
I like the idea of services like Prismic and Contentful, but yes I find them overkill for smaller projects.

For larger ones I'd be worried about being tied too closely to a company which may or may not be around in a few years - I'd probably look to open source project instead.

For example Drupal has good user and content management features, and with D8 there's more interest in 'headless' Drupal, where it becomes an API backend to custom front-ends.
The mention of "around 10% or less" is based on a 2005 paper, and even in the past ten years there's been a lot of change in computer architecture (the machines used in the paper were mostly ultrasparcs, and they write "Note that for the (pentium 3 system), we could find no problem size for which Strassen’s is faster than ATLAS’s").

See also : https://www.quora.com/What-algorithm-does-BLAS-use-for-matri... https://github.com/flame/how-to-optimize-gemm/wiki#notice-on... http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~flame/pubs/GotoTOMS_revision.pdf
I see this guy post a link to his newsletter almost daily :/

I tried to read some of them - but as you had mentioned you have to subscribe. I'm assuming he gets a kickback of some sort for a subscription.
Huh? Americans don't have a cultural aversion to using world class public transit when in a place like Tokyo. They have a cultural aversion to altering their cities in the radical ways that'd be necessary to build a functional public transit. They call this NIMBY.
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If you use legal methods to reduce your tax burden then that would make you as much of a "tax evader" as Apple.
First, this was not about marketing (wasn't even advertised or meant to be known): it is about using a new common lib for PDF between iOS and macOS.

Second, the rampant rewrites are as much an issue in FOSS projects as they are in the industry (and in fact Microsoft for one, besides introducing the occasional new API has been careful with backwards compatibility to the point of paranoia).
So you are saying that the exact same thing could not happen on the apple store or whatever it is called? Except then your extension would be disabled _AND_ you'd have lost $100
How do you know it's not the same for the rats? :P
Apart from the subway and bus systems in New York, we have the 10-seat-car-on-a-fixed-route system too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_me...

Most of the time in NYC when I take a cab, it's because there isn't sufficient subway or bus coverage for the route I want: either I'm going to/from somewhere deep into Brooklyn or Queens where it's a 10+ minute walk to the nearest subway (and I'll need at least one transfer once I'm on the subway system), or I'm trying to take some particular trip across Manhattan that requires multiple transfers and is much faster by cab. As you'd expect, the trips that aren't well-served by subway are rare, but they do exist.
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I think mostly people are offended by the waste of having a very complex sales contract - understanding and negotiating terms is a lot of effort for all parties, and may well add up to a higher cost than what's saved through pricing efficiency.
Using floats to represent monetary values. It "works" 99.9% of the time, until it doesn't. Dammit, Flex.
Not confirmed it was because of transition, but the core software that handles the ambulance service in London went down just after midnight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38482746
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http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/henglein/papers/hengl...

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f425/7af9221ca7fe21dc84a049...
Turns out that Nintendo's Mii avatars were inspired by medieval Japanese dolls
How trade creates wealth: "Trade is made of win" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0gGyeA-8C4
No kickbacks for subscriptions. Eventually I'd like to have them up on a page too, but mostly I want newsletter format, and current email software doesn't let me easily put up emails on the web. And I don't have time to do it manually.
Jean-Martin Fortier, in Quebec (not known for its balmy climate), successfully runs a 200-family CSA on 1.5 acres, which is an even higher level of intensive cropping than this box proposes. No, not everything can be grown on 2 acres for 150 people, but you can grow all the vegetables needed.
Apple machines have been producing vaguely corrupt PDF's for years. I've had downstream Linux tools print messages like 'this pdf is broken. Please complain to the developers of the software that created it: <apple library name>.'

Also, figures often render as black boxes on other machines (it embeds figures with alpha channels where it shouldn't), and so on.

Still running 10.11 on my laptop, but I noticed that the pdfs are super blurry on cinema displays. If you use the mouse to drag the image, it renders nicely with proper subpixel hinting. When you release the mouse button, it does a second antialiasing pass or something, blurring the edges of the fonts. This doesn't seem to matter much one way or another on retina displays, fwiw.
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And yet basic things like being able to zoom in to see the name of a street aren't there. I want ~5 things from gmaps, yet it's filled with crap I personally don't use (maybe enough people want the other features that it's worth it). I wish we could go back to the days of toggle-able features for websites.
A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there; pretty soon you're talking real money.
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Hint, if you start off by assuming the person you're disagreeing with is so uneducated that they need to "look up communism", you may not be responding to what they are actually saying.

Case inpint: communism is nothing like basic income. With basic income, you always are rewarded for working: people who work are paid in addition to their basic income. If you wish to disagree with me, please tailor your disagreements to what is actually happening, not straw men.
People seem to be very upset at both WaPo and the US government, more than a few calling this "propaganda." However, it should be noted that it wasn't the government that said this was Grizzly Steppe, it was the utility company (Burlington Electric). It wasn't the government making exaggerated statements to the press, it was this private company. I think this is more likely a case of someone handling security for this company over-reacting after hearing about the Russian hacks of the DNC than overt propaganda.
In the "Symbol" font, it's a dot. https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f0b7/fontsuppo...
Somewhat related to my https://requesthub.xyz/, but both face the same problems:

- they must ensure high availability if they are to be expected to be used in production system, which is difficult

- they must offer some guarantees (or some form of custom domain thing + open-source), because if someone points all his webhooks to an external domain and that stops working in some months nobody will be happy

- I pretty much doubt anyone is going to pay for a simple service like this
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You must have trouble filling out the activity rings on your Apple Watch.
What is wrong with only wanting to pay for the services which you consume?

I want to fly in a bigger seat, with checked luggage and a carry-on, eat, and have an alcoholic beverage or two. If someone wants to be on the same place with a single bag, the smallest seat, and not eat or drink, they should absolutely have a much cheaper experience than me.

That's not classism, it's common sense. I shouldn't get free drinks at their expense.
I would say corn, then potato. But you're right, the startup isn't being all that forthcoming with details and it's likely their claims are (greatly) exaggerated, or perhaps, from a purely "well, technically..." point-of-view.

There's an excellent article that champions the calories-per-acre metric by WP: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-defense-of-...

In the calorie department, corn is king [..] corn averages roughly 15 million calories per acre [..] wheat comes in at about 4 million calories per acre, soy at 6 million. Rice is also very high-yielding, at 11 million, and potatoes are one of the few crops that can rival corn: They also yield about 15 million [..] Broccoli yields about 2.5 million calories per acre, and spinach is under 2 million
Ive tryied to train a chat-support bot with data- the biggest challenge was ironically - the read the documentation, one answer- one link answers.
You can expand all the answers , but the web is incomplete, readable text and direct pointers are rare- so you end up with whole wikkipages in your answers.

Using NN, you migrate your problems into filter tooling and data refining.