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Guess what? I never thought I'd use that "massive fucking brain tumor" coverage I had. Especially not at 25years old and in great shape, and in perfect health. Nothing about that was fair, I did everything right and still ended up with my skull cut open.

I thought brain tumors were for old people and people who didn't take care of themselves. If you asked me at the time I got the tumor my odds of a brain tumor were zero.

It's not a "personal choice" to get sick. You can only prevent illness to an extent.

>Why should I be forced to purchase something I have no intention of using?

I don't intend to ever use the liability coverage I purchase. In fact, I hope I never have to use it. I don't mind I have to purchase it though because it makes society better off as a whole. I would hope if someone caused me injury they would be insured just the same.

I find your attitude extremely disturbing.

And yes mild to moderate depression can often be treated on your own with lifestyle changes. I'm glad that worked for you (honestly) but not all mental health issues are mild depression.

From what I've seen in my volunteer work I doubt you had severe depression,as rarely can severe depression be treated soley with diet and prayer (unless substance abuse was the underlining cause). Let me ask you, were you able to sleep? Eat? Get out of bed? Shower? Dress yourself? Go to work? Leave the house? Brush your teeth? Get through the day? If so your depression was mild to moderate.

Not that dietary change and prayer aren't useful in treating depression, they absolutely are! Depending on the patient we would encourage both as part of recovery. It's just very few severely depressed patients are able to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps."
I think circuses should use only dogs and horses if they want to use animals. These animals are completely domesticated and can be trained with no cruelty. And they can do more impressive tricks than wild animals, so the only drawback is that they're more common. If people want to see rare animals they can go to a zoo.
This is why the government desperately needs to keep 18F/US Digital Service so they can keep modernizing these sites.
But Silicon Valley should house all that want to afford there? Pure snark but related.
#DeveloperFail

Funny, the page asks for your name, and if you have ' like Irish names, it marks the name in Red (invalid) and doesn't let you move forward with finding out the books.

I tested it with the following names.

James O'Keefe

Mullah O'Mar
Always sad to be reminded how many good people get their careers swallowed up by a corporation. The public sphere suffers.

I have a lot of anger towards Google in particular, who seems to relish in having private resources, secrets, learning and technology that only the annointed may access. I should probably talk to my therapist about that.
I'm guessing you don't have children? Edit: hit a nerve there did I?
Off topic but I found it interesting: the original creator of GIMP is also one of the founders of cockroach labs / cockroachDB. That's a pretty cool resume IMO.
Not much, but 2 years were still enough to cause a major split and kick off Gnome / GTK and push the later from an obscure library used by Gimp to a widely used GUI toolkit.
Queue complaints about how acrobats' living/working conditions are just as poor in 3.. 2.. 1..
I'm assuming by "short term" you're talking geological time, because in the 20+ years I've lived in Silicon Valley, I've seen almost zero improvements to the Mass Transit. I've seen some minor upgrades, but it's still generally terrible. So unless concerted effort and a lot of taxpayer money is dumped into Mass Transit, I don't think anything is going to happen. The simple fact that BART still doesn't go down to San Jose yet, or extend out to Tracy is embarrassing, but it's been talked about for decades.
>The company aims to become profitable by 2018, the people said.

This would appear to reflect a difference in philosophy from Uber [1]. "This will be a monopoly market and we must gain market share now at all costs" vs "This will be a market with multiple big players".

[1] Of course, Lyft does not have the warchest to pursue a strategy that aligns with the first philosophy, so you could say that they must adopt this line through necessity.
30's probably overkill because it works out to 178 bits of entropy. You'd probably be fine with 128.
My anecdote counters your anecdote. I find that the newest members of a neighborhood are the ones most likely to fight new development. The older people care but they don't have as much vested interest because they don't lose as much money.
Regarding history, another simple trick is to increase $HISTSIZE and $HISTFILESIZE, for the defaults are woefully tiny for 2017. I set mine to a million. You could have 100 terminals open and they would still consume less RAM than <insert "native" Electron app(s) of your choice>.
This is good news. I believe that circuses and zoos will be viewed, in retrospect, quite harshly in the future, and we'll wonder why the unnatural confinement of animals was so normalized. I have fond memories of these places as a child, but I went to the San Diego Zoo last year and the animals just looked miserable in the summer heat - especially the polar bears.
This is so incredibly sad. :( My parents used to take me so often in Boston. I hope the performers manage to land on their feet.
My God, I have said that both didn't agree in the terms, Apple wanted turn by turn and Google wanted more user data for giving it.

But yes. Evil Google sdcreweed Poor Little Apple.

They had to give ALL the features without receiving anything, who they tought they were?
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It seems like in reality such monopolies are limited geographically. Being the leading transportation service in Barcelona doesn't really get you any discounts or brownie points in Beijing or Cleveland.

In theory such economies of scale would result in various supply-side margin improvements for the operators (cheaper gas, cheaper car washes, cheaper tires, cheaper insurance, all due to bulk purchasing power) but so far we have not seen that happening either.
No what you said was a fantastical falsehood unrelated to owning property in California
Well sure they will fight, but thats not a good enough reason to not do something. Hopefully the state government has enough political capital to deal with the fight that the relatively small population of homeowners will put up.
Ridiculous article, just look at his software selection. It is clearly inferior to what he he's using on Mac, and if he likes, he can use emacs in macOS.
It will not. But looking at what exploits normally do - that would be uncommon and targeted. A lot of common stuff will only drop a stage 2 downloader and try to execute it. Doesn't work - move to the next target.

For most of automated exploitation, selinux is perfectly capable of intervening.
At this point, it's pretty tough to feel good about a circus modeled around 19th century nostalgia.

We all kind of know that we're well beyond sheer domination of all things earthly and bestial. There's not much to revel in, and it's not valuable to teach your children to revel in such displays.

Maybe it'll put a smile on their face, and they'll talk about it for weeks afterward, but there are other things going on in the world right now, and it's probably a good idea to figure out how to entertain our kids more wisely.
> You're getting close to "no true scotsman" territory here.

The free market is an ideal -- I do see where you're coming from. But the market is never free so long as there are corruptible people in government or the framework does not fairly protect freedoms, but does that mean we shouldn't strive to get as close to the 'ideal' of a free market?

For the Microsoft example in particular, they didn't benefit from government intervention until the government "punished" them, by forcing them to provide a more inclusive platform. Makes you wonder if 90% of the PC market would still belong to Microsoft if the government had not gotten involved... might have pushed us toward open source/Mac OS sooner. In the other case, Intel just plagued AMD with legal bills, which perhaps says something about the way our legal framework is set up (can't countersue to cover legal costs), but Intel always provided a superior product so it's a quite stretch to say it was a "malevolent" monopoly. So you're right, neither of those are really crony capitalist examples, but that doesn't mean they contradict my points on market freedom and ill-willed monopolies.

I challenge you to provide an example of a longstanding, malevolent monopoly that did not rely on government privilege.

As to the points on medical care, I assume you agree?
RP Feynman long ago said "Anybody that say's he understands QM is a liar & a fool"

Said, by the master, and that was 50 years ago, not much has changed.
This doesn't tell you how many women are employed as programmers because its one school its one course and further it doesn't account for people that choose not to stay in the profession or whom started out in a practical manner rather than in school.

The National Girls Collaborative Project said that woman received 57% of all bachelors degrees but only 18% of computer science degrees http://ngcproject.org/statistics further some sources say the ultimate percentage of female software developers is even lower, as low as 8%.

Women are succeeding at school but they aren't going into computer science and a greater percentage of them are leaving.

Your belief that there are just as many female developers as men is utterly unfounded and without merit.

The fact that you interact with a lot of female developers doesn't change the actual numbers and the plural of anecdote isn't data.

We have one side complaining that we need to erase the gender gap in computer science, another scoffing and saying girls just don't like computers. It probably doesn't help either case to pretend that there is no gap.
> Hence the loan is only enabling demand.

> The only reason prices change is because supply or demand changes.

We are living in year 16 of the era of government pushing loan prices lower than the market would set them. 8th year since they've been pushing the loan pricing down VERY hard (ie. essentially to the zero bound, where you're only paying for the (also artificially lowered) risk of the banks, admin (ie. people employed to check payment and tax and ...) and a small profit margin for the banks).

While of course it is not really known how high the market would set loan prices, it seems the long term average is 4%. Since we've been below that for a while, let's call it 6%. Add the 3%-4% of risk, admin, tax and bank profit and mortgage rates should be somewhere between 8% and 10%, if you have really good credit.

What would house prices be with 9% interest rates instead of 3% ? That's quite normal a rate for mortgages, long term. My back of the envelope calculation says that they'd be, with the same monthly payment, a bit more than double what they should be, in market prices. Prices should be 60% less, or put it another way houses are 120% overvalued.

At a very optimistic 7% (the long term average), house prices would be about 45% less, or they're 75% overvalued.

(example calculation: with 3% mortgage payment, a 4000$ monthly payment will get you 1.12 million dollars, at 9% it will get you 0.52 million dollars, or a little less than half. At 7% it will get you 0.8 million dollars, or 45% less)

Hence I strongly disagree with your notion that house prices are determined by supply and demand. House princes are as high as the government can get them, and damn the consequences.
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I don't know about cars, but I had this happen with a boat that I sold in Florida. The buyer is supposed to register the boat. The registration sticker did not expire for another year. So, they didn't bother to pay the fees.

When I went to the DMV a few months later to renew a car registration, they thought that I still owned the boat. They said it happens all the time. I had the bill of sale to sort things out.
Indeed.

I imagine a system where all capital gains associated with land (not the structures on the land) outside of the real inflation rate were captured via capital gains tax.
Have you ever been a landlord? It's a huge hassle (it's impossible to do property management remotely, let alone in a foreign country), and if you have the wrong tenants (an easy mistake to make if you aren't experienced enough), things can end up going pretty badly!
>there is no protection

To my understanding, that's simply not true. What you can accurately say is that with key change notifications turned on, any one* message could be exposed without any means of recourse, but subsequent exposures would require user error.

*Question for anyone: could this apply to a "batch" of messages? That is, could servers hold back the delivery of some number of messages and then the attack could be applied to all such undelivered messages? But once the attack took place, the double check would be displayed on the sender's phone and the notification of key change would appear. My understanding is that the answer to the question is 'Yes'.
Or maybe it's a commodity race to the bottom in each market? Witness how many entrants came into Austin when Uber and Lyft refused to follow new regulations enacted by the city. [1]

You'll argue network effect or mindshare. I'll argue people will hop off a plane and search "<city> rideshare" on the app/play store for the app (you can buy ads for you app in the App Store now, no?).

[1] http://kxan.com/2016/06/02/travelers-guide-ridesharing-apps-...
Some might argue that having an unlimited budget, and nearly a million people working on a project, and utilising 'throwaway technology' would be arbitrarily easier than trying to do it with private funding.

Moon travel is not a common everyday thing now, because the original effort wasn't geared for that - it was primarily to put a man on the moon as fast as possible, before the Russians did it.

If the aircraft industry worked the same way and airlines had to throw away a 747 after each flight, it wouldn't be an every day thing like it is now.

SpaceX are essentially setting up the future building blocks for far more affordable and common space flight now. It is a longer path, and IMO no less difficult than what NASA was doing back in the 50's and 60's.
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This is an intuitive way of thinking about this without diving into the math. Here are the postulates: speed of light (c) is same for everyone. And there is no special reference frame; your physics is as good as the physics of your friend moving away from you in a space-ship in a constant velocity v. Now consider that your friend is actually moving in a spaceship away from you. He has an experimental setup with him using which he measures speed of light. You are sitting at home postulating about his experiment. Consider he is moving at velocity v, so is his experiment equipment. How can he arrive the same result (3*10^8 m/s) for speed of light? You conclude that only way is that whatever clock he is measuring the experiment with is running slower than yours (velocity=distance/time, he is measuring less distance, so time must be less too). Now imagine he is going at the speed of light. (The actual equations breakdown at this point, but you can imagine he is infinitesimally close to speed of light). How is he arriving at c? Only way is time is not passing for him (according to you). Now imagine he is going faster than speed of light. At this point, the equipment he is sending photons with is traveling faster than photons itself! How does he arrive at c? His clock must be running backwards! And keep in mind, your friend in all these cases is happily measuring speed of light as c without any of these conundrums you have. And now you can publish a paper claiming that your friend travelled back in time! Did he really do that in a "Back to the future" kind of way? Perhaps not.
Circus, sure. Zoo, I don't believe it. A lot of zoos perform conservation work, and a lot of this work is funded thanks in part to zoo patronage.
They could make them animatronic.
Switching to Qt would be a bit ironic. Isn't Gimp the origin of GTK, aka the Gimp Tool Kit?
> Personally, that sounds like hell to me.

Vive la différence!

There's never been a time in human history where moving to bumfuck nowhere has been a better or more stimulating option.
This is a really good description of the measurement problem. It takes all the sides of the debate seriously, which is hard for most physicists to do. If you think about quantum mechanics all day every day, you're almost bound to settle on one interpretation as your working model, and it becomes hard to take the others seriously.
Let's forget how this looks like two correlated coins and focus on your question.

Yes, if Alice and Bob just measure the spin of their corresponding electron, indeed it just looks like half of a precut coin. But if they want to win the game they will do something more complicated. (side note: To use the typical physicist terminology, this precut coin is a hidden variable - something set inside of the electron even before its measurement.)

But Alice and Bob can do something more interesting, something that permits them to win the game we described more often than 75% of the time. This involves Alice measuring the spin of the electron in a projection different than the one in which Bob is measuring (this is part of the "specific protocol" that I mentioned in the previous post). So while Alice is checking whether the result is h=Heads or t=Tails, Bob is checking whether the result is h+t or h-t. Now the two electrons seize to behave like the two parts of the same coin (and this is what permits them to win the game more often than 75% of the time). Explaining how exactly they use this protocol would take too much space, but you can look it up in the link to the book I provided.

P.S. However, as explained in the previous post, this does not permit them to send messages to each other.

P.P.S. Again, Section 4 of the linked page explains this in details!
Yes, I would agree with that!
> Now that we know we don't need the up and down arrow keys, what about the left and right? Unfortunately, these keys are still needed for single character movements

Don't ctrl-f and ctrl-b work?
> Which will lead to the conclusion that Special Relativity (which was extensively validated) is either wrong or incomplete.

Not necessarily. The simplest relativistic pilot wave theory requires only a preferred foliation of spacetime.

This is seemingly unappealing to most physicists, but recent work has shown that the wave function itself contains just such a structure, so the needed foliation is present in every interpretation of QM.
Yea, but the racist origins are not an explanation why poll taxes are inherently unconstitutional. I feel like there's a step missing in the explanation.
"The animals don't deserve this treatment."

That sounds an awful lot like an opinion stated as fact.
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I bet you're a hoot at parties.
They learned how to train deep nets ten years ago (and are getting better fast as new techniques are invented). As a result, neural nets started taking over.

Big Everything is important, but without the new techniques for deep nets, AI would not be so sexy right now.
That's a really long time. I'm curious what other really long running shows of any type are still going out there.
Basic question here, but what happens when the war's over and the subsidies end? Prices jump by several dollars a ride? Or is there some kind of economy of scale or lower overhead that the winner enjoys?
> "The best zoom lens is your legs"
Apologies for my overly critical comment...

> we have collectively decided that we don't want health insurance to function that way.

I agree this is the case, the problem is that it's not really insurance any more it's a bundle of insurance, prepayment, etc.
Synergistic effects will only kick into effect once they own or at least maintain their fleet, which will take another couple of years. Here in Austria, Uber is still a small niche and it's unthinkable that Uber will be more than a cheaper version of MyTaxi (https://de.mytaxi.com/index.html) within the next years. If legislation allows self-driving cars, that will of course change quickly.
"Raise the bar" is one of our values at Lever, and it applies to the work we do, our own personal growth, and hiring.

Just 4 years in, we are far from done building our culture and achieving our values. In truth, we will never be done; there will always be more room to improve and grow.

Yes, we currently have many younger workers. However, we already do take steps to welcome all workers, such as healthcare plans that include dependant coverage, maternity and paternity leave, and clearly defined work expectations. We also increase opportunity for experienced candidates to demonstrate what they can bring to the team with bar raising interview formats like our engineering project interview and career trajectory interview.
In recent years, Ringling Bros. tried to remain relevant, hiring its first African American ringmaster, then its first female ringmaster, and also launching an interactive app. It added elements from its other, popular shows, such as motorbike daredevils and ice skaters. But it seemingly was no match for Pokemon Go and a generation of kids who desire familiar brands and YouTube celebrities.

I think if they made a great app and some kind of brand phenomenon, it could have gone very differently.
You're right -- 12.25 is nominal, not inflation-adjusted. But inflation was in the range of 1.5-2%, so even adjusted for inflation, the real return exceeds 10% any way to slice it.

I'm not sure what your calculator is measuring -- the date selection has a precision of one month. But swings of 5% in a month are common, so I would not immediately discount the idea that there are endpoint dates you could choose to get a 17% return.
The only way I would fund GIMP is if that funding went directly towards a better UI. It's not worth improving the algorithms given how hard it is to use.
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie has been running for almost 65 years (it's been running continually since it opened in 1952).
While a minority of users may not have ironic intent, usually its use in the context referenced is deliberately ironic; the pejorative use has always been far more common, and it's very unusual for someone using the phrase in any sense not to be aware of that and, if not using it in the pejorative sense, be making a deliberate, usually ironic, reference to that well-known sense when using it in any other way.