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Agriculture isn't the way to riches anymore, but holding all the former farmland is.

Say your ancestor Rich Grosvenor owned the village of Belgrave near Westminster Cathedral and the farmland around it - then just by holding on to it, watching it as it becomes prime urban real estate and living off the million-pound rents you and your children can't avoid becoming billionaires a dozen times over. Then you can proceed to buy and sell the British government and media at your pleasure, having been made a duke and a lord of the realm...
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Facebook copied snapchat with some of the new features in Instagram. Most of the people I know migrated from Snapchat to Insta when that happened.
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I imagine this Apple shipping a ton of phones from China, then Indians ejecting and closing the sim tray, and problem solved, off to the local market it goes! :)
Google photos does this. I just opened Google photos and searched for "food" and aside from a couple pictures of some jack o lanterns (which are arguable, but I don't know anybody who eats theirs on Nov 1st), the results were spot on.

"Unlocks" might not be the right word here.
I personally have no issues with this. Now, if you are in the family raising-house purchasing lifestyle, I do understand the need for permanent work and stability, and wish you the best in finding that field of work!

As for a subcontractor, however, I enjoy high mobility. The client sucks? Stick to it until the next release cycle and work for another one the next week. You like working remotely? Look for a full-time client that offers that, or work for multiple who enjoys not having to pay rent for your ass in their offices.

The trick is to find a company, or consortium, which actively seeks clients and offer them services. This means they are constantly "recruiting" and moving people in-between projects. You don't have to be an employee within said company, you just have to be able to bill your hours to said company/consortium. Having my own company allows me to seek clients within the EU as well as overseas, if I wish to work those hours. It also allows me to drive prices higher than average, since I provide the advantage of "disposable workforce". That later part would be an issue, if I wasn't in connection with such company groups I mentioned earlier.

Your mileage may vary. I have to put it forth that I have no desire for kids, or owning my own house, so that removes a lot of stress and monetary obligations. I understand this is not the norm, though I do not understand why. We have it way better with my partner than couples with kids, and our observations over the years enforced our hunch that people generally start families because they have no idea where they want to go in life. So they try new things, which is nice, but maybe they should start with raising vegetables in their gardens, which is a daily, year-around responsibility. You gotta water and check for weeds, invaders every day, no matter how tired you might feel. If you give up two months in because the kale died due to overwatering and you never checking resources online, or the brussel sprouts never started budding because you never checked that in needs sulfur in the ground, well, maybe raising kids ain't for you either.
Thanks for bringing this feature up.. I had no idea the markdown preview feature even existed!
I was using Rotten Tomatoes mostly as a placeholder for all the movie reviews/discussions on sites like Reddit, niche film-focused communities, etc.

I personally go by the Reddit discussion on /r/movies. It usually tells me if the movie is going to be worthy my time or not
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Imagine this species getting made, I mean don't!
I use this for a custom JSON query tool and browser I wrote for our company (the C# client can load extensions). It's been available for a while. Is this post to spread awareness or have they added something to new to the extension?
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I'm not saying that the above is a great machine, nor is it fully open-source. But that's the goal.

And unless I'm mis-understanding you... Just reversing a lot of the X220 doesn't make it open source.
In this case, I see it as a good sign. Our battery technology has made so many significant advances that you wouldn't have been able to say the same 10-20 years ago. It's not that we're "ok" with degrading batteries, it's just that we're really really bad at stopping it.
I've been on both ends of 1:1s. For a manager, they seem great - a regular meeting, a chance for staff to talk about things. But they're not. They're window dressing. If you need the 1:1 to see what mood your staff are in, you're not paying attention. If you need the meeting for your staff to be able to tell you what they could do with to make their work easier, you're not approachable.

From the perspective of a developer, they are an unwanted interruption, and a great example of the kind of make-work that gets in the way of productivity. You'll waste an hour in a 1:1, plus whatever time it takes to get back to what you were working on, and that is time that you usually can't spare.
There is a lot to like about Node. I had a look a couple of years ago but lack of a definitive library to handle callback hell put me off. How is the situation these days?
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I believe that was for accessibility reasons, ie screen readers.
The connection is that the binary options stuff has basically been mostly booted from the EU/US and is now targetting Arab countries, and is a prime example of Israelis quietly doing business with Saudis
I tried to research this a bit. There have been a few models which have gotten an upgraded battery, so we should start seeing these options.

The new Nissan Leaf has a larger battery pack, but it's not backward compatible.

https://transportevolved.com/2015/09/11/confirmed-30-kwh-nis...

But they do have a batter replacement option which has better thermal management.

http://insideevs.com/breaking-nissan-prices-leaf-battery-rep...

I wasn't able to find out anything about the Renault Zoe, or Kia Soul (new model isn't out yet though).

But our dealership did tell us that he expects there to be battery upgrades available for the Kia Soul, and this also seems to reflect what others on the forums have heard. But he did say it might be 3rd party options. Supposedly you can upgrade individual cells.

So the picture isn't clear yet. But I think once the market reaches a certain size, there will at least be 3rd party options.
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I vouched this post. I really don't agree with what you say but don't think your post deserves to be dead.
You can write an article claiming almost anything if you include supporting facts and deliberately ignore dissenting facts. The world is full of noisy data.
I think he meant 'just' in the 'simply' sense.
These days you can use: Promises, generators and even async/await.
AWS Lambda is so far behind......
How were they right in apologising? Would you have bought technology from apartheid South Africa? It's not a matter of what the people at the company that developed the product actually think or are, it's a matter of boycotting business with a country that it's doing deeply wrong things.
I don't know much about what causes motion sickness - My only experience was when I was developing a game for the Vive and I manually moved the CameraRig. How hard do you have to try to trick the body? Would sitting so your back and head are upright (and legs bent at ~90 degree angle) be enough? What if you were laying down but sitting up?
JS reaches but of it didn't exist then something else would have taken is place. Even Java 1.0 would be better.
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not when you bundle the openjdk
pulseaudio and similar exist for things like Ubuntu Core which only works with snaps.
In my experience at least 90 % of documentation produced in any organization is just archived without practically anyone other than the authors reading it. Even expensive reports produced by external consultants seem to be used mainly to validate that the work has been done and discarded quickly thereafter.
Considering SpaceX plans to launch up to 100 people at a time to Mars with no real abort possible, I think its quite reasonable to ask them for that level of safety on a system with an abort.
China is getting more expensive and starting to lose jobs to Indian manufacturing though.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I can imagine manufacturing in India has a lot of advantages.
This. If opinions aren't welcome on HN the whole site is pointless.
Can't wait... need me some async await without babel.
> It's become painful to me to listen to most well-intentioned folks debate estate taxes and wealth inequality. So few understand what wahern describes above.

Can you talk us through what exactly it is that we misunderstand, and what the correction would be?
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Maybe I skimmed the article, but my takeaway from this article was that using our abilities to think and solve mathematical problems helps us to live a life of more intellectual resilience.

In my view, this wasn't about doing mathematics as an academic career, climbing up the ivory tower, publish or perish, and all that.

Edit:
I tend to agree.
My intellectual capacity was far improved only after doing first year Engineering Maths & Physics. I did terrible gradewise, but it has helped me visualize, juxtapose mental structures, quickly iterate on different concepts etc.

I should go back to doing something again. Had to do some cartesian products in a data migration the other day, in my dayjob, it was refreshing :).

And as always, this timeless quote from Einstein motivates
"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater."
Add --harmony flag to enable stable ES7 features (or transpile with Babel) and use async/await, it's marvellous.
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"Snaps are Canonical's choice for "cross distro" package management that they are trying to force on everyone else."

How are they trying to force it on anyone?

I understand that there is a Canonical / Red Hat rivalry. But I think language like this adds more heat than light to the discussion which should really be about the merits of the different solutions.
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Of course nothing whatsoever changed in the web ecosystem since 1998.
They don't just have to build it though; they have to build it fast enough to handle their growth. $2B might not be enough (or it might not even be possible for any amount) to build what they need fast enough to not hamper growth.

Also, by buying from Google, they hedge against lower than expected growth too. If growth doesn't meet expectations, while they're still obligated to spend the $2B, they can re-sell the services for likely close to cost, given they'll be getting a discount.
If you're an Apple user and you want Apple to consider improving the performance of 10-bit channel 2D bitmap blitting performace (as this post seems to demonstrate is poor), file a bug report with Apple about it at https://bugreport.apple.com. They'll probably mark your bug as a duplicate. They've indicated in the past that duplicates are how they accept votes from the community about bug importance. Every vote counts.
apt packages are so stable because it takes so much effort and time to make them. For example, a new apt package may be pending just because enough time has not passed since it was created.
That was what irritated you most? Granted, that sucked, and I'm happy I played it when multiplayer was not necessary. But it is just exactly like said in the interview: The ending voided all the promises the games made before. Mass Effect 1 and 2 set up such a big universe, so many decisions you could do, and then came the third game and it all came crushing down. The spider-aliens you freed? Just a few points in a score. Killing the kronyan leader? Another will take its place. Siding with humanity over aliens? Get the same points in red instead of blue. And that for every decision, nothing had any meaning. That killed the whole series' purpose, and that irked me most.

And it was not only that the game promised it, the developers promised it. They literally said "There will be no ending where you choose between button 1, 2 and 3. All you decisions will influence the final outcome". And what had the game? Button 1, 2 and 3, and your decisions had no influence whatsoever. Liars.

I'm not at all interested in ME: Andromeda. I'll never play another Bioware game again, till they deliver a proper ending for ME3. And no, the extended video they delivered later on is not enough. Not even close.
"Expanse" is nice, especially setting, but could be so much better with less talking (which isn't believable anyway) and a faster pace. Comparing it to Firefly is almost ridiculous.
A society that does not produce enough offspring will go extinct and be replaced by one that does.
I literally lolled at this comment.

I assume this is sarcasm...just want to verify :)
This has a 99% probability of being absolute nonsense. Looks more like 30 years of anecdotal evidence and hearsay. Try find a credible source with actual numbers.
In this case, failing to cooperate would almost certainly have led to him being detained as a potential runaway, and returned to his parents, or if he refused to provide any information at all, taken to the police station and turned over to Child Protective Services. In this particular scenario, it seems that cooperating was the best approach.

By all means enforce your rights, but make sure you know your opponents rights too, and choose your battles carefully.
If both x and y are true for a person then he is definitely qualified.
Yeah, some of the stuff in this thread is crazy. Are all these people new or what? Not too long ago, running on bare metal was the only serious option (shared hosting is non-serious). Cloud might offer some conveniences (just because AMZ and friends have made it so easy to give them more money), but the alternative is not that hard!
I am super pleased that VS Code exists, works on multiple platforms, and is apparently a first class project at MS Dev. Like some other devs, I ran as far from Microsoft as I could many years ago... but now it seems they are trying to be more open, or less protectionist/monopolistic.

I used VS Code (starting at v1.5) for a couple of projects (on my Mac), and I found it quite effective and very performant. The performance, particularly the interface latency, is a big complaint I have with other "fat" IDEs. And while my hands still try to do some Vi commands and a lot of Emacs commands, I found the keyboard options for VS Code acceptable.

This is as close to a Thank You to Microsoft that I have uttered in a long time. I hope they keep up the good work.
You don't just click the .exe

You first have to open a browser, then find the sotware's website. Then find the download page, then download it. Then open explorer to where the .exe was downloaded. Then double click it. Then click next a bunch of times. And if the software's dependencies are not bundled in the installer, then you have to redo this whole process again.

On Linux you just open your terminal and execute a single command.
That is a brilliant aphorism. I shall make good use of it.
Ah, one of those Gartner studies that companies buy from 2015, yet we don't see them on the stores.

When we do happen to see one, if it is a store we visit regularly, what we see is the same device on display being discounted to death until the store finally manages to get rid of it.

I must have seen around 5 like that, so I don't get where Gartner is getting their values from.
Or a dog running infrastructure on FB ;)
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On the contrary, it is staggering that a result is still present after 30 generations of splitting the family wealth.

Even on the assumption that the rich only have 2-3 children, a billion-dollar inheritance should be diluted to nearly nothing after 15 generations. And with the 4-8 children that were usual back in the day, in less than 10 generations.

Having such a massive difference that it can be traced by very low-powered population statistics after 600 years means that the effect on having a head start in terms of wealth is enormous on your potential to stay wealthy.
I would echo everything the other people have said, and add one more: it's like a secret superpower.

Look on the strength training as grinding out some tasks in an MMORPG to level up an ability. +1 strength every 2-3 months.
Old car dash instruments are often upgraded the same way. They use new parts to drive the original indicators so it all looks correct, but is actually accurate.

There are even kits to replace the guts of old car radios with modern stereos while preserving the controls and dials and their function.
Having tried Elementary OS, various versions of Fedora, Suse, and even Mageia and Bodhi (e17 desktop), I have never found a compelling story away from Ubuntu's overwhelming advantage in online resources for non-greybeards like me. Last night, compiling mesa, with all the weirdo dependencies, this was brought home to me as half the time as I typed in an obscure package that I had to find, Google was autocompleting it with "ubuntu" appended on it. Says it all. And in my mind, snap is already gaining massively more mind-share than flatpak and everything else and that's why it's almost certain to win. And that's a good thing. It's good because Ubuntu does desktop awareness better than anyone else, in my opinion, and of course, half the battle is community building. Not just the tech.

That said, I will hand it to Fedora on ARM, where I use it quite extensively on dev boards.
It s going to be tremenous success. I ve never even seen the app, let alone used it, but its the times we live in.
Whole standard api is still using callbacks so you would need to write your wrappers around it to not use callbacks.. And async/await is not solving anything because your definitions of fuctions will still need callbacks/promises under the hood anyway (unless you use libraries that do it for you). I like how Go solves that, gorutines and you write your code as it would be normal sync code.
Yes. Despite all their tests, they still have monthly bugfix releases, often fixing years-old bugs.
I run AOSP on my phone, without the Google stuff. I was using FFOS for privacy and freedom reasons and I'm not giving up.
That's most likely because the html formatter doesn't support to format range/selection but only the full document.
The link should be changed to the medium article directly. This getliner.com wrapper makes it lag a lot and is horrible to read on mobile. (Safari, iPhone 7)
Does either require an exclusive? Why can't you use both?

You can then do some tests (e.g. show both, but in random order; or show only one, randomly picked) to validate (or invalidate) your suspicioin that Amazon would have a higher conversion rate.
There is a V8 API to expose Promises directly from native modules, and that can eventually be used to make async functions first-class citizens.

async functions using promises and generators under the hood is a good thing because it allows easy usage between the two forms.
The async library has been a definitive resource for years.
Nice article, but I get nginx error on every picture which kind of ruins it a lot.

But I find the article intersting as I have no issues talking with people uknown to me. When I was a kid I had huge issues with talking in front of others or even stating an opinion in a smaller crowd. Today however, it is the reverse and I am happy about that. One day as a kid I simply decided to start talking to others because I was tired of the scary thought of being rejected. I think social interaction is simply a skill that can be learned like most things in life and I think this article points that out perfectly well.
doesn't really apply to me, but I was excited to see the author of this post. REAPER is simply an amazing program for music creation, and a great price.. I use it every day for many years now. He coded WinAMP back in the day too !
I'm in favor of inheritance taxes as I see it as taxing income of the inheritors. I don't see any rational reason why income from this one source should be exempt of taxation.
Async/await is a really wonderful addition to JavaScript !
> Use system CAs instead of using bundled ones

Does this make the npmrc config for cafile redundant now in my MITM environment? The amount of projects that just can't handle the CA or worse, a proxy setting, is very irritating.

Will we not have to make a separate config for every app that also bundles node (e.g. vscode) or anything that uses node to get a file (vue-cli, node-pre-gyp, etc)?
I love the pace of Expanse. It really gave time for the plot and mystery to grow at what felt like a more natural pace. Any faster and it would just feel rushed and forced. For me they could have slowed it down even a bit more and added more scenes of diplomacy and intrigue.
Ha! Nice! (After all the system used is a precursor of midi.)
Yes, the OP does claim authority, by stating his opinion as a plain fact, without knowing anything about it other than the publicly available information, and at the same time labeling a company that has raised 2.6 billion and has 100+ employees as complete idiots.

Good discussion would have ensued after a statement like "I wonder why they don't build out their own infrastructure because at this scale it is usually cheaper to...".

I could imagine that with this big a deal, they could get rate reductions that get the cost down to a comparable level to building out your own datacenters (at least 2) and hiring qualified ops people.

It might very well be a bad move, but you really can't say unless you know more.
What an unreasonably combative response.

Next time just say "sorry I don't have hard evidence for this opinion on hand". Nobody expects you to know everything but they do expect you to treat people decently.