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It doesn't matter how they got rich; what matters is what they need to do going forward.

As they say, "past performance is not indicative of future results".

If the ultra-rich do not spend enough, they might begin to undermine the foundations of the economy. Then, if enough people can trace the apparent cause of their suffering to the wealth inequalities, they will start killing and/or looting rich people, possibly without regard to their individual conduct.

So by all means, if you think you're strong enough, go ahead and hoard ever increasing amounts of wealth, without limit. There's a distinct likelihood that your estates will never be besieged by hordes of starving peasants, and that you or your heirs will never be kidnapped for ransom (or revenge) if you ever attempt to travel beyond your own holdings, and that you will never be shaken down by corrupt officials. The less people perceive the systems of civilization to be fair, the less apt they are to respect its rules of conduct. It only takes one pissed-off person to make your life Hell, and there are 7 billion candidates out there just waiting for you to give them a good reason.

We got from the beginning of the industrial age to now by burning coal and oil. But if we continue to do so now, it is likely to eventually make the surface of the entire planet uninhabitable, rather than just Beijing. Responsible people have therefore been shifting to more technically advanced sources--such as wind, solar, hydro, and fission--to meet their power needs. In the same way, people who have grown so rich that they could buy anything they might possibly want must alter their habits to avoid poisoning their own environment.
All of the above is good except for transducers. They are a necessary hack in Clojure because the data is immutable running a large number of functions across changing data is rife with overhead in Clojure. So the hack is mutate the code many times, so you only have mutate the data once.
Literal monopoly is just one extreme example. Anti trust laws regulate more than theoretical extremes. As I said, Apple have enough damaging effect on browsers market, that even if I don't buy any iPhones, I can be affected by that damage. So your suggestion is missing the point. I explained it above, in the comment you answered to.
Oh god, the TAAS.

So, there were three portions: reading comprehension, math, grammar, and persuasive writing. The maximum score for any of the TAAS portions is a 4, with 3 as the minimum passing grade. The first three were ridiculously easy, but the writing portion was a nightmare.

I don't remember all the details anymore, but IIRC you were expected to include a statistic and a quote from an expert in your paper. The kicker? You weren't allowed any outside materials, and you were expected to make up the statistic and the quote. That's right: the assignment was to write something that would be considered fake news nowadays.

I got a 2. I only passed because I got a 4 on the grammar portion, because for some reason the persuasive writing portion and the grammar portion were averaged together to form what they called the "writing" portion.

My year (10th grade 2000-2001) was the second-last to take the TAAS, and we were the last to take only the TAAS, as it was being phased out in favor of the TAKS. The year behind me took both the TAAS and the TAKS, with only the TAAS counting for graduation requirements (they only had to take the TAKS because the state wanted to do a dry run before switching over), and the people two years behind me only took the TAKS. The timeline went like:

* 2000-2001: 10th grade takes the TAAS (my class)

* 2001-2002: 10th grade takes the TAAS

* 2002-2003: 11th grade takes the TAKS (dry run, same class as above)

* 2003-2004: 11th grade takes the TAKS (for real)
Very interesting! What is Cardiogram's business model?
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This is an awesome comment. Maximo is pretty much the gold standard for asset management in enterprise. I don't see Maximo as a direct competitor today, but we'll get there! Watch out IBM :)

While I've never personally used Maximo before, I've seen it be used by several of my colleagues and friends in the industry. Whenever I see them use it, it hurts a little bit to be honest. I have a friend who actually works for LA county and she is their Maximo manager. She basically takes calls from technicians out in the field and inputs it data in for them. I recently asked her to pitch UpKeep to her boss about trying out a mobile solution (apparently IBM stopped developing new tech for their mobile solution for some reason). The response she got from her boss was that field techs are aren't tech savvy enough and the only reason she has a job is because of that. Definitely upset me a bit to hear that, but it also gives me motivation to see how much more there is to improve in this industry.

I think our most direct competitor in the small to medium sized business industry is Fiix software. I think they have a great platform, but I am hoping we'll win out because we are almost fully invested in creating a mobile-first product for field technicians. At the end of the day if field techs input better data into the system, managers will have higher quality, more reliable data to make informed maintenance decisions.

Regarding our product roadmap, we do 1-2 week sprints given the need at the time. Right now we are still focused on making a better tool for field techs. The next big thing on our list is making inventory management within UpKeep seamless. I think we have a great work-management tool, although we are constantly improving, but there are some things on the inventory management side that I think we can improve a lot on. In regards to industry, my background is in manufacturing, but we actually have a pretty diverse market for UpKeep. Right now we fit really well with small to medium sized facilities. Restaurant franchises really love us, clubs, and smaller industrial manufacturing is our sweet spot!

Our goal for UpKeep was to really streamline the request process. We hear from a bunch of our customers that they are tired of receiving a request via email, phone call, text message, whatsapp, what the so many different ways! So we tried to consolidate that all into UpKeep. A requester can open up UpKeep, go to the requests tab, and hit the big "+" button to create a request, they can set up email forwarding so emails they send go directly into UpKeep, they can go to a URL that links to the company's UpKeep account, and more!!!

Anyways, thanks so much for your comment and thanks for the plug on the Maximo LinkedIn discussion group! Would love to chat more and hear your experience with Maximo and your thoughts as a Maximo user and what we can do to improve!
Can't they just pay boringCorp Ltd. in Bitcoin for use of their "bussiness solution" (that is managing your infrastructure or providing the bitcoin transaction platform). The boringCorp Ltd can cash out for ActualMoney(tm) and I'm sure there is some way of accounting to get that money back to where it needs to go.
And I'd be happy to not have customers who are so extreme with their viewpoints, to be honest. If you have that kind of extreme negative reaction and would rate an app one star for asking you for help in promoting an app that they otherwise like, then I'm sure you'd be likely to express other entitled attitudes about how the app should and shouldn't work. People like that tend to be a support nightmare.

I'm not really anonymous here anyway. Check my profile. It points at my company web page. Feel free to never download any of my games. Please.

FWIW none of my games follow this pattern. But apps live and die based on ratings. I've had people rate my app one star simply because it was a paid version, and the Google return policy at the time was 15 minutes. So the review? "I can't judge whether this app is good in 15 minutes, so I'm rating it one star in protest." [1]

My fledgling, otherwise 5-star app that never even had a single review ask, with its measly ~5 reviews or so, now was pulled down to 4 stars because of one jerk. Who likely downloaded the app to pirate it. Yes, he almost certainly pirated the paid version; it showed up shortly thereafter on pirate sites. And his complaint was specious since I had a free demo you could also download.

We're not talking about voting for a politician here. We're talking about encouraging the people who like an app to vote for it; as I mentioned, the people who hate it already are motivated to slam it. So you're telling me that it's a dark pattern to encourage people who like your app to rate it, and to help the people who are having trouble with your app? Then you have zero empathy or understanding of the life of an indie app developer.

[1] EDIT: Actually, my current app under development is explicitly designed to not care about ranking in the various stores. And it will be Cordova (or similar) based, so I won't need to "reset" the reviews when I push patches to the app. But I don't promise that I won't occasionally ask for a review, so please feel free to blacklist my company and not download it anyway.
> We've seen the crackdown on gun shops

The issue with firearms sales seems to be at the payment processor level, not the credit card issuers. The big names (e.g., Authorize.net) categorize firearms sales as "highly regulated industries" - even though they really aren't.

There are payment processors out there that specifically work with FFLs (Federal Firearms Licensees, a/k/a gun stores), but they charge a couple of percent higher transaction fees, and they just seem a little skeezy. A lot of them also service the adult industry.
It can't be zero trust relationship - if you pay taxes and elect representatives, you trust they will not just do whatever they like with it and ignore you but do at least something useful to you. Of course, I would agree that people in general place way too much trust in government right now and that's why it was allowed to grow to current metastatic sizes and become so dangerous. But it does not mean it can function with zero trust - some trust is necessary, just not too much of it.
If you watch Noam Chomsky's 'Requiem for the American Dream' on Netflix it talks about how the heads of all these companies used to be engineers but at some point all the finance/MBA type of people started dominating these positions. This also happened in Washington and now essentially the whole world is owned/run by Finance/MBA types who focus on short term earnings instead of value creation.
If those sites are using more than 10% of a CPU to do it, then they've made a catastrophic error, and I'd be glad for Chrome to protect my battery from that.
1) Conclusion from a well supported theory (not a fact, but pretty darn close). It's only an approximation, though: what's the albedo of a heterogenous body and doesn't it depend on temperature?

2, 3) Simple conclusions from (1).

4) Fact... sort of. It needs a precise defintion of "mean surface temperature" that makes sense in the face of the equation in (1). Shouldn't you take the fourth root of the mean of the fourth power of temperature? For practical purposes, this is called a "ball park number".

5) Plain wrong. The correct coclusion is that either (a) the theory presented in (1) is wrong or (b) one of your inputs (R, A, sigma, S_0) is wrong. Turns out the value of A is wrong, and the simplistic idea of albedo is not good enough for the theory in (1).
It's not about market share of phones, its about market share of browser engines. Apple controls 100% of the market on web browser engines on the iphone.
Business would like to make their goods as profitable as possible, they have never shown any willingness to pass on savings to customers.
Smaller schools have less educational diversity. Suppose you want a gifted and talented education, but also want to play baseball. At tiny schools that may not be an option, but at a larger school you can have upper tier classes and a wider range of clubs.

EX: My high school had a swim team and a chess club. We had almost every AP class, lot's of general ed, even some handicapped students. When they split the school a lot of that was lost.

IMO, it's the disruptive students that need to go not the gifted. Unless your talking boarding schools even NYC does not really have enough exceptionally gifted students for their own high school.
I suspect one reason is the schleppiness of implementation. Healthcare is hard enough to navigate as a doctor or patient.

Another is the existence of edge cases. While not quite as bad as self-driving cars, they still require human review.

One radiologist I spoke with was under the impression that his field was going to disappear in the next n years. I don't think that will be the case entirely, but it will change.

One reason why image detection is ripe for this kind of "disruption" is that some of the highest paid medical fields (dermatology, radiology) basically employ expert image recognizers.

On the other hand, I'm not sure what percentage of health care costs goes toward employing doctors directly, but I don't think it's huge compared with the rest of the facility and equipment and administration cost.

The real benefit will come when people don't have to go in to the doctor at all. Which makes the smartphone "take a picture" aspect pretty sweet.
> Naively compiled C/C++ is fairly easy to reverse engineer (I say this from a lot of experience!).

So I assume your position on reverse engineering Python bytecode is that it's trivial.
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One novel way to think about the First Amendment is that it constrains two specific actors.

1) It explicitly constrains the US Government.
2) It implicitly constrains anyone who approximates the coercive power of the US government.

#1 is self-explanatory.

#2 implies that, in the US, anyone who attempts to use overwhelming coercive power of any form to silence speech tends to get looked on poorly by the law.

If Fetlife has a fraud rate that approaches normal and the banks cut them off anyway, it would be an interesting court fight.
With server header bidding and native ads, you can add ads with a better user experience. But this is still a nascent area of ad tech.
Cashless is fine as long as a decentralized, open alternative is available.
> It's things like uber, public transporation, car shares, things that get cars off the road.

I agree about some, but Uber? Doesn't Uber do the opposite of take cars off the road? Every Uber (or Zipcar) ride is a missed opportunity to take public transportation. (Where that would have been an option.) Plus, extra cars are on the road between rides.

Uber and ZipCar may take cars out of people's garages (remove the need for car ownership) but that's a different thing.

I live in a city with a good subway system. My co-workers and I can ride it for free because our company buys us unlimited passes. But I see them still paying for Uber rides themselves out of laziness for trips they could use public transportation for.
I got that read via "[...] you probably deserve to lose access to FetLife.", "everything you do is a political act", "everything you do is a political act in bold", "You are saying 'please eradicate kink and make me unemployed'". etc etc.

Its shaming, forceful, and trying to use negative emotions (fear specifically imo) as a call to action.

I am not commenting on if the justifications are valid or not, just the tone.

I think aggressive, passionate calls to action are pretty great! However I don't feel that being a downer is the best addition to a call to action!.

Political inaction might very well be shameful, however it doesn't mean that shame must be seen as a point to capitalize on like that.
I've unfortunately been on all ends of this -- in gifted programs throughout grade school, until high school, where I missed out because my parents (and myself) didn't know there was an application process.

Conveniently, that was the only chance to be in the program for the next four years. Miss the deadline between middle and high school, and you can't take the advanced classes (which were the only way to get >4.0 GPA), you can't participate in Model UN, your network is restricted to the "regular-tier" crowd. Incredibly exclusionary and really screwed over some people.

I feel that offering yearly or semesterly applications for a course of study transfer would solve a lot of those problems. Capable students who want in will get in, struggling students who want in can study up and get in after a few tries (no reason to reject dedicated but slow learners), and students who don't care just won't apply.
Google doesn't wipe the slate, to my knowledge. Has that changed?
Indians (most unlike me) are a creative lot, the longer you take to implement a change, higher the amount of black money escapes, and smaller group knowing about the secret, the better
Disclosure: I also work at Ionic

So start up time is something that we are very focused on at the moment. Especially on the PWA side of things, TTI (time to interactive) is exceedingly important to ensure a good user experience. We are working on a few things at the moment but most likely the first one to hit is gonna be code splitting. So with code splitting, instead of shipping just one big bundle you will be shipping smaller bundles that are lazy loaded based on routes. This means that when the app first loads only the first bundle for the first view in your app will have to be loaded, parsed etc and then the other bundles will be lazy loaded. With this setup the browser (or webview) will never have to parse and load a huge bundle all in once, it will instead only have to deal with smaller bundles. This should give a pretty big improvement as parsing javascript is slow in every browser. From my testing on a moto g each MB of JavaScript in an ideal situation takes about 2 seconds to be parsed, so reducing the amount of JavaScript the browser has to deal with is a very fast way to get better load times.
What isn't? The question is not what is, the question is what isn't?

It's an intriguing world.
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>I and a lot of other progressives take issue with it because it is trans-exclusionary and continues the long tradition of mainstream feminist demonstrations or expressions being explicitly for a white, cisgendered audience.

How is a public gesture, worn in front of everyone, supposed to target... actually, whom? The most intersectional possible audience? In fact, why should we rate the progressiveness of the message on which audience it seems to most precisely target, rather than assuming the audience (as ever, for politics) is everyone?

Instead of complaining that gestures aren't precise enough, we can acknowledge that this one gets its damn point across and talk about the policy question. Rape: for or against? Assault: for or against?

Personally, I'm against on both.
It all goes well until the machines terminate Ms. Butler's pregnancy.
I think medicine will over time morph from a field generally perceived as an intellectual one, to a largely humanistic one, like nursing. Most people, especially the HN crowd, vastly underestimate the importance of the human touch. A doctor who possesses this can make a huge difference, but sadly the are outnumbered by those who do not.
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I really like your comments here, but some of them leave me confused / unable to respond.

What do you think I saw in the OP's comment?

> doesn't actually rebut anything about what the OP said

I mean, I wasn't trying to. I said that explicitly.

> but does try to lower the visibility of his views
> does attack an entire class of speech on the grounds of "divisiveness" and "destructiveness" (unitary thinking).

I mean, yes? But it sounds like you're confusing divisiveness with disagreement. I wouldn't quite say that Mikeb85's comment is trolling, but it's getting close enough, and yeah, I'll attack that category of speech on those grounds.

Your entire post is an excellent example of disagreement without divisiveness, and is constructive to the HN community.
> The NY times also deliberately ignores the positive outcomes

The amount of unaccounted income in cash is 6%. You can definitely have positive outcomes but the costs outweighs the benefits. It's like using an elephant to kill an ant.
Man, the Hawaiians got that beat for courage. They had smaller boats, no magnetic compasses, and they still managed to find some tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific by ~900CE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia#History_of_the_Polyn...
Thanks, but not really willing to actually spend money on anything Sony ever again. :)
The article read more like the author has serious beef with the ADL because they don't support legitimizing the fringe Hamas Palestinian government and wants a new Pro-Palestine Jewish group that will be more favorable to a 2 state solution.
Is remote working an option?
Tell ya what, give me a few hours to unwind from my gig this morning and I'll see if I can't get my old server actually up and online and port-forwarded. If I can (this assumes I actually have spare ports on the router) I'll send you the link, as I see that No-IP just sent me a renewal notice for the game's domain name anyways.
Ok, I will bet that you don't even believe that there are intelligence differences between people, right? Every person is equally capable and it all comes down to whether you give them enough opportunities and resources?

EDIT: I'm saying 'who cares' in the context of deciding whether to set up a gifted magnet school or not. You shouldn't decide what is good for a child based on your pet theories about who should or should not have a yacht.
Ahhh cool. I should keep more of an eye on that list. :)
Standard installers are usually written using some sort of toolkit which usually has limited APIs. It could be that the antivirus does things that these APIs can not revert (just guessing).
I'm typically a keyboard and mouse gamer but I do really like the steam controller. I played psychonauts with it all the way through (having used keyboard and mouse the first time I played it) and I loved it. I didn't do massive customization but I did play with it and I have so far been impressed how good a lot of the default configurations have been.
If that is the case, public education does not exist to educate children (or at least this is not its primary goal), but rather exists as some sort of bizarre redistribution program. High IQ parents are then expected to feed their children into the hopper for the gain of others.
Their smaller number does mean they can expect mass propaganda to target mass audiences, and that they have to speak up for their own interests to be heard. I don't go around complaining that every single non-Jewish progressive or leftist demonstration has somehow failed to include Jews simply because I don't see a Magen David on most signs about racism.
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You know how whenever there's a terrorist attack, Republicans are the first ones complaining that "good Muslims" aren't out there speaking out and condemning it? Why aren't all the "conservative scientists out there who want to shape the Republican party into something better" speaking out and condemning their party's continual assault on science?
I'm not an actual potential customer, but my 2¢ is that I was impressed when I saw Hilton and Chick-Fil-A. (Came to report the same issue, but on Safari.)