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There seems to be some conflicting information in the article, I don't understand how these quotes line up:

"...prices for lithium-ion batteries have fallen fast — by almost half just since 2014."
"But for the most part, according to a BNEF analysis, the costs of new projects would need to drop by half in order to be profitable on a wider scale in California, and that’s not likely to happen for another decade."

The prices for the batteries dropped by half in 2 years, but it will take a decade for them to drop by the same amount again? What am I missing here?

Also the chart seems to indicate the cost was $273/kWh to build a plant in 2016, but then they say "While Tesla declined to provide its pricing data, the similarly sized Altagas project was expected to cost at least $40 million, or $500 per kilowatt hour." I guess the costs unrelated to the battery cells themselves added another ~$230/kWh in costs?
The ACLU has not defended the Nazi cause; the ACLU has defended the cause of free speech and peaceable assembly, even when those speaking and assembling peaceably are themselves Nazis.

The distinction is quite critical.
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> Its a shame Apple gets away with stifling browser competition and forcing everyone to use Webkit.

It is.

There are also some simpler steps to start with though:

Apple could allow people to change the default browser on iOS. There are plenty alternatives to Safari. Let the people choose.

Apple could expose more WKWebView APIs so that browsers can actually do more interesting things and compete at a feature level. WKWebView is so extremely limited by Apple that the current iOS browser landscape is very boring.
Yep, it was especially bad because IBM had the gold standard for drives before that point. They were more expensive, but you paid for the reliability, so people got really angry when they started failing regularly.

From what I can tell, they fixed those problems and went back to the high quality but slightly more expensive drives of old. The most interesting part is that Backblaze still buys mostly Seagates, simply because they are easier to buy in bulk and have a better price. Even though they fail more often the failure rate isn't bad enough to be a problem. Also, Seagate's failure rate has been decreasing as they release new drives.
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That would only work if you'd expect these events to be frequent enough that you wouldn't have to short for very long or else the costs of your short would outpace any possible profit very quickly.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We wrote a bit about this in our SMART Stats blog post -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/.
Don't start a company until someone asks you to
Try changing your user-agent string. It looks fine in the text-based browsers I tried.
Don't have a device to test, but i suspect you could always use Firefox for Android on ChromeOS going forward.
I've had the exact same experience with American doctors. What is that? These people are supposed to be scientific thinkers. They've had years of biology. But I've never met a doctor who applies the scientific method, or cares to. They are a fundamentally uncurious bunch.
> I also don't see any facts on which you can base your corruption claim.

The Canadian government hides most everything from it's citizens, especially when it comes to China. Statistics on real estate transactions using money from overseas are considered none of our business. People operating illegal hotels out of houses while not paying taxes on revenue? Just fine. Egregious tax evasion? No problem. Buying citizenship, driver's licenses, etc? A-ok.

All of these things are happening, but none of them are considered "facts", and you certainly won't ever see any facts if the government refuses to enforce the law on certain subsets of the population.
Technology creates massive consumer surplus. I'm not sure if you don't know what that means, but it means exactly the opposite of what you said.

For example: Apple sells an iPhone for about $750. This phone contains the equivalent of (roughly) $3,000 of disparate technology from the 1990s, including a cell phone, camera, tape recorder, etc. Not only does it contain all of that for less money, all of that is better quality than what was available for that $3,000 back in the 1990s.

That is deflation and consumer surplus in action. The consumer can spend a fraction of what they would've in 1990 for a better product.

Another example: Apps on the App Store. Everyone expects everything for free because there is so much competition enabled by technology. The marginal cost is roughly zero, so most apps are free. If most of the gains were being kept by the producer, apps would cost a lot of money.
What would make more sense?
It's not immune to bluffing, it's just better at it than humans are. Bluff too much, and your opponent can just call you whenever he has a strong hand, winning more often than not. Don't bluff enough, and your opponent can fold whenever you bet, knowing you probably do have a strong hand.

Find the right balance, and your opponent can't exploit you. With no-limit hold'em this is extremely complicated, and until recently the best humans have always beaten the best bots.
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I appreciate your concern, but I also think it's misguided to dismiss the ACLU because of this single issue: it's not something they focus resources on. They're not actively campaigning against an individual's rights to bear arms. They're not even vocal about it. Gun rights or anti-gun rights are not what many people think of when they think of gun rights issues. You gotta pick your battles, and find allies where you can.
Well, think on this.

The last President to shrink the NSA, CIA, etc was Jimmy Carter. Every other one increased it. Reagan got them into arms deals with Iran. Bush Sr, former CIA director, was a staunch ally. Bill Clinton expanded ECHELON, tried to regulate cryptography (remember the Clipper chip?), Bush Jr passed the Patriot Act, Obama expanded the NSA and in pursuit of leakers filed more acts under the Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined.

At what point can we conclude that the problem is bipartisan? Of all prominent nominees this time around, only Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz said anything against the continued expansion of the surveillance state. Of all prominent nominees for 2012, only Ron Paul spoke out against the surveillance state. For 2008, only Kucinich and Ron Paul spoke out against the surveillance state.

If Hillary Clinton were an isolated example, then your point would be good. But she is not. She squarely represents the political mainstream.
Nothing is immune to bluffing.
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Nobody is saying that "border restrictions" are fascist.

It's jeopardizing rule of law which reeks of fascism. This weekend, the rule of law was jeopardized though the:

- surprise invalidation and revocation of visas; people who had followed every law were still being detained and deported

- detention of permanent residents

- refusal to follow court orders

We could instigate far more stringent border restrictions (maybe no new visas to anywhere) and I wouldn't call it fascist. It's the implementation (without warning or judicial oversight) which is fascist. We're supposed to have 3 branches of government, not a dictator.
There is more than one form of monopoly... horizontal (a single resource controlled by one entity) and vertical (a single entity renders significant control through an entire vertical.

Now, it can be argued that Apple has enough of a vertical stranglehold that anti-trust rules can apply. It doesn't have to be an absolute monopoly to violate anti-trust law.
It's easy to poll high support numbers for things like "border security" if you avoid the details of what that means. For decades, border security did not mean explicitly banning the entry of all people coming from certain countries based on a campaign promise of religious-based discrimination.

I'm guessing that if you polled the approval of "ban all Muslims, including legal permanent residents", you may end up with lower numbers.

EDIT: this doesn't even mention that, at a certain point, it's necessary to draw the line at fundamental rights that cannot be voted away. Thankfully we have organizations such as the ACLU who fight to protect that line.
Since an iOS device isn't a general purpose computer (you can't compile and run your own programs) many people don't appreciate the difference.
There is no reasoning with people who don't use reason. Banning abortion would result in countless problems and if people aren't willing to do the research to understand that .... downvotes are indeed required.
Yep, totally agree. Didn't want to get too in-depth with that, otherwise the article would have been a lot, lot longer.
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My phone died unexpected yesterday morning (unrecoverable random hardware failure). This means that if I hadn't bothered to make backup codes a few years ago for my google account, I would have been locked out of signing in through the authentication app (installed only on my phone) and through text-based authentication codes, because I use project fi and I don't have another compatible phone that I could put my sim card in.

Just a reminder of the frustrating situations that some of you might find yourself in if you use 2FA the same way I do.
> You're not allowed to ship a interpreter that interprets code that doesn't come from insider your app.

That is not true. Many apps do this. Games have been doing this for a decade. It is not a problem to do this. Apple has never made a big deal of that. Only if you are trying to build a shadow app store.
Thank you, Peter, for clearing that up. We were all waiting for your rational and level-headed insight to know what to think about these sorts of matters. The language of the EO mentioned religion, but obviously if you think that's not what was meant, that's not what was meant. Now we can all sigh a breath of relief and go about our lives. What would we do without people like Peter?
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What's the relevant US code? I was just searching through legal resources for an answer, and this was the first one I found.

And there are no legal guidelines to whether you are allowed to be a federal judge of any kind. The same is not true of prosecutors.
> Since you have many years of data, do you explicitly factor the observed the failure rate patterns of particular brands into cost models when buying drives?

Sometimes. We do take it in to account but if a hard drive that costs less but fails more comes around and the failure rate in our environment is within some "tolerance" we'll get that drive, even if we might see some more failure. So we do use the data to inform our purchasing department of the "future costs" of drives, but a good deal's a good deal :)
Thanks! I'll have to look into it. The reviews aren't very promising. :(
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Hmm, why is it surprising that AI is good at poker? The way I see the game is that a bad poker player will just hold a model of his hand in mind. A slightly better one will also hold a model of his opponent's hand. Even better one will also model his opponent's model of himself... and so on recursively. And who's really good at recursion? Computers.
Not that many comments. Here is what I would like to say, I love how you structured SuperHi as a both online course and 1-1 mentorship. That way people get best of both worlds. To me that says you care about what you are doing and your customers. This is important and will enable this business to be viable long term.
I have found the current education methods to amazingly effective. I can literally sit down and choose any subject of interest and become well versed in it with not much more than a time commitment. And since you can get up to speed on a whim, you can stay as current for job market purposes as necessary. In fact, my current educational interest of the past several months, which wasn't even career motivated, has already generated one completely unsolicited job offer.

I'm a bit jealous of the younger generations, as these methods were primitive/not available when I was younger. I could have learned so much when I had more time to learn it. The old school system I grew up with was quite ineffective, but thankfully we've improved the options well beyond those days.
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Yeah, I'm sure if you're a Big Donor that's one thing, but that's not what I want to do. Was just curious if by saying you're a donor on your phone call whether it might make a difference.
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Is that OSS? I'm sure people would love to try it even if it involves sideloading and such.
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Editing also tends to create a lot of huge temporary and intermediate files that will eat up disk space in a hurry. 188TB is a lot of space, but nowhere near unreasonable for someone doing video work. Plus, as other people have mentioned you need to account for filesystem overhead, redundancy (RAID), backups, TB vs. TiB, and so on.
Traditional web of trust has private keys for everyone. It's already decentralized and secure.
Babysitting a single child is economically very inefficient. Its something teenage girls can do while they watch tv. A full grown adult with skills is worth considerably more to society working than babysitting.

Its not an economic necessity that both parents work, the incentive to do it is extremely large and probably pure conservatism had been keeping it at bay, if at all.
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It was an executive order in violation of law. That seems like exactly the kind of discretion that an AG has and should have.
You're right that "cause" is not quite the right word, but they have literally defended Nazis (a decision I absolutely applaud).
I've been using Quiver (http://happenapps.com/#quiver). It's for Mac but I think it does the job. Although links are not created wiki-style, they are kept when you export your notes to HTML and they don't break when you change the note's name.

Quiver is also propietary but it is possible to create other scripts to export the notes (https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format).

In any case, I'm also looking for better personal wiki solutions. So far, there is no clear answer. At least for Mac.
>but the affirmative action one is pretty damning

The supreme court agrees that affirmative action is constitutional (within certain bounds), see the recent Fisher v. UT case, or Bakke for the original example.
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I live in KC, 130K is a GREAT salary. I think almost all tech jobs top out at low 100's here. But that is a very good living here. Er..I mean... kansas city sucks. DONT come here. Stay away. There be dragons. Its polluted, crime ridden, and full of RSTS/E machines.
There are already a bunch of these actually. I think cofounderslab is the most well known but there are a bunch of others.
Personally I'd stick with learning ML and be poor for a few years :-) You'll be setting yourself up for the next 20 years instead of the next 2.

In the long run I think ML will explode, whereas strictly web technologies is either a race to the bottom that's highly competitive, or a never ending hamster wheel where you're chasing the latest framework.
I mean, it depends on what you're selling. But probably not.
The ironic thing is now instead of having to load 40 images, you're loading 40 different JS libraries to get the job done.

I'm still not sure if we're better off yet. . . .
You can install other browsers on Chromebooks through the Play store, through Crouton, or by replacing Chrome OS with any OS you like. People generally don't because if they wanted to run other browsers they probably would have bought a non-Chromebook. But unlike Apple, Google gives you plenty of options.
If this was true, salary increases would follow suit. Biotech is not a well-paid industry, especially considering the level of education required. Ergo, we have way more people than we need in this industry already (yes, business owners probably disagree).
I'm having a difficult time imagining a scenario where an energy company in Houston or a tech company in Austin needs to search overseas for candidates with skills who aren't worth multiples of 130K/yr in value.
Education which help creating people ready for the future is not education but to educate yourself dare I say in almost anything as long as you become really good at it.

The last thing we need is a bunch of people who have learned the same things, references the same books and inspirations. (yes there are obvious exceptions but even within those the landscape is normally so vast.

The first thing we need is people to start taking education on by themselves in todays world there is no excuse.
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> I agree. And some men want to be stay at home dads, and sometimes both parents want to work, and sometimes there's a single parent who's falling apart trying to do everything. I wish we could agree that all those choices are valid, and allow some social safety nets that make it possible.

I think it goes back to what you said first. We need to agree on some core values.

I don't want any more of my money going to people who mocked the MSNBC host[0] when she said "children belong to the collective". It seems pretty obvious to me. If we are all paying for your children, I better have a say in how we raise OUR children.

Clearly, a lot of people do not see it that way. Why should we have tax deductions for people to have children? Why should we have tax breaks for people to put money away for their children to go to college? I for one support an end to these tax breaks. Lets send a clear message: If your children are your own and do not belong to the society, then you can raise them by yourself. If you can't afford to do so, we'll simply put you in a debtor's prison.

[0] https://youtu.be/sjczwQOnMqg
There are also some things you could debate about religious freedom there too, but I'm generally in agreement.

However I'm not just talking about that, I'm also talking about them defending civil rights for everyone, not just those on the left. They used to be very good about this, standing up for protesters on both sides for example, but now I'm not so sure.
Are we finally at the tipping point where everything you build, will be built with JS from soup to nuts?

Houdini looks like its trying to do just that.
>Raise the minimum wage to $20/hour. Watch as "serious economists" lie

appears a bit of a strawman argument. Googling "$20 minimum wage" the only thing on page one is an article explaining the obvious that people would lose jobs if you did. http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/02/20/why-shouldnt-we...
I've been trying to learn more about synchronous programming languages for a while now. Will definitely look into this.

Does anyone know how I could get my hands on Lustre or Esterel? They are not freely available, or are they? Also any good books or resources are very much appreciated.
Reddit AMA from the live match:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5qi3i9/we_are_profess...
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It says the cost of the project needs to drop by half not the cost of the batteries. It could be that the cost of batteries is only a small amount of the overall cost. That is what you see with solar, most of the cost comes from installation.
More that MS was using their marketshare in operating systems to get the upper hand on the competition in a related area (not sure if that area was web browsers or web servers though, as the whole intranet thing was going on back then).

Now if Apple made it real hard to play any content from ITMS outside of Apple products, that may be cause for concern. And they did get slapped on the wrist about ebook pricing.
I believe the poster meant a machine-learning system blowing up (catastrophic trading loss) due to a black swan event that the system wasn't trained to deal with.

Knight's blow-up was a process/sysops failure, not due to their strategies going wonky.

[As a side note I believe their core strategies were human-analyst designed, not ML based, but I could be wrong.]
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Yet we don't see daily headlines declaring "Coca-Cola machine sells cans of soda to humans without interaction".

I'll stand by the premise that this is clickbait, centered around a marketing event from McDonald's, loosely gathered on paranoia about replacing fast-food workers with robots.
> "AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event"

Why's this an argument against AI run hedge funds? Funds run by humans also blow up due to black swan events.
I prefer the two dimensional grid with 'authoritarian' on one axis and 'social conservatism' on the other. It does a much better job of defining the factions within the two dominant parties in the US.
It also reminds me of "Pantou the dog" [0] from Brass Eye [1] (created by the same person as Four Lions), which successfully duped several British celebrities and politicians. That particular episode caused media hysteria when it came out.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=RcU7FaEEzNU&t...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/30/brass-e...
This library started out as DB and model layer utility functions for Metabase (https://github.com/metabase/metabase), and after a couple years of improving them we think they might be useful to others too, so we've spun them out into a separate library :)
> They are an unqualified, categorically "good" organization

hahahahaha someone doesn't know their history.
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Not quite. This was merely a simple deployment mishap due to repurposing a flag which triggered deprecated code paths that should have been gutted out.
I agree on the second paragraph. In general, one cannot decree a better world. It must be a conscious decision for people to work towards their ideals. Authoritarianism cannot fix that and even a benevolent AI overlord would be limited in its ability to manage production and allocate resources as a means to make life better for all people.

In general I am dismal at the ability for overthrow to enact lasting change. It often descends into a brutal struggle to keep newfound power, which becomes more important than the ideals themselves. The American Revolution ("All men are created equal") failed to end slavery, among other shortcomings. The French Revolution was a bloody mess that was only pacified by dictatorship and monarchy. Haiti, most tragic of all, was the only successful slave rebellion and they've been paying for it ever since, both as a result of foreign meddling as well as by greed and power-lust from their own leaders.
I feel like this is a serious error in Apple's strategy. By enforcing stagnation you risk platform flight, namely Progressive Web AMPs (PWA + AMP) that load instantly (AMP - Accelerated Mobile Pages) and run and behave exactly like a native app (PWA - Progressive Web Apps) that removes all friction and user drop off associated with normal native apps.

I said it before but the #1 threat to all native app vendor is Google Chrome. As it's capabilities break through the native app turf, so will the smartphone user's demand for the most powerful and flexible browser on the market (Google Chrome) and the hardware associated with it (user perception is superficial influenced by marketing).

but yeah as long as celebrities go around with an iPhone, they are going to have that luxury brand tied with it.