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No, matching debt to assets is proper finance theory and practice.

I was referring to "don't use any debt" and "debt is manifestation of risk" and "With great power comes great responsibility" and "use debt for investments, not expenses".
Where's the subsidy? These projects are usually paid for through usage fees, not taxation.

There is a lot of money that will only invest in Triple-A rated bonds. Local governments have the scale, return-on-investment horizon, and political willpower that private ventures lack.

The funding is easier to secure at lower cost because the investment is less risky. It's not a risk-free venture, but (worst case scenario) everyone has to pay double the projected cost and we end up with the standard Comcast bill. I would prefer to send that money to my local government than to Comcast for perpetuity.
Is the back seat the de facto protocol? I always sat in the front. It somehow feels more friendly and personal. But in a taxi, I'll usually sit in the back.
Why would it be doomed? If we had a same-mass black hole in place of moon, not much will change.
It changes the story from "man in the wild beyond civilization for 27 years" that you would imagine from the headline to "reclusive homeless man breaks into homes without talking to the people he spots weekly."
While true, this answer is a bit misleading. There is a minimum threshold for stellar black holes–the ones created through stellar evolution–it's called the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit.
If the star is more massive, i'd describe the black hole as orbiting the star. This matters as detecting such a situation would be more akin to detecting an invisible exoplanet than a fast-moving and bright star.
chevy has 105 years of experience at manufacturing automobiles and huge volume with suppliers. there's no way tesla has anything close to their unit economics
A really don't think there's too much to consider other than the size and scope of a project. A micro project won't need one but the odds that you'll benefit from one approaches 1 quite quickly.
In fact, service in those countries is much better than in the US. I would even say that if there's a correlation between tipping and quality of service at the country level, is negative.
I'm with you. That level of detail is coming soon.
Java could have worked fine in the browser. All feature phones (which are/were almost universally less powerful than a desktop PC) were able to run Java ME applications just fine.

My memory from the mid/late nineties is that Microsoft wanted to balkanise Java with J++ (or was it J# ?) and got into a big argument with Sun, and because of this and the fact they eventually came to own the browser market there was no way they'd embed a JVM in the browser.
Many of the classes you'd write as an Android developer are instantiated by the system somewhere using only those constructors that the system expects to exist. Views, for example, are typically instantiated based on XML layout files that simply reference views by name, without a way to specify a specific constructor to use.
Yup, I'm reading this and thinking "oh my, Clojurescript is SOOOOO much nicer" than jsx and dom js api and whatever becomes "trendy" tomorrow.
I suspect that US producers have higher margins on sugary products because of corn subsidies.
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He made 1.6 million because he deferred his compensation the previous two years. And he also retired and got some money for that. So you're basically looking at what he made for working for 3 years, not what he made in 1 year.

It's still a lot of money but nowhere near what you're implying.
I know its not good news, but it is worth mentioning that the treatment was for an illness which causes blindness, and was injected into their eyes.

It's not like some unrelated treatment was used and caused them to go blind.
If you bother to read it, you will find that it completely demolishes your argument.

Wikipedia summarizes it:

"The case is widely cited or referenced by the anti-GM community in the context of a fear of a company claiming ownership of a farmer’s crop based on the inadvertent presence of GM pollen grain or seed.[21][22] "The court record shows, however, that it was not just a few seeds from a passing truck, but that Mr Schmeiser was growing a crop of 95–98% pure Roundup Ready plants, a commercial level of purity far higher than one would expect from inadvertent or accidental presence. The judge could not account for how a few wayward seeds or pollen grains could come to dominate hundreds of acres without Mr Schmeiser’s active participation, saying ‘. . .none of the suggested sources could reasonably explain the concentration or extent of Roundup Ready canola of a commercial quality evident from the results of tests on Schmeiser’s crop’" - in other words, even if the original presence of Monsanto seed on his land in 1997 was inadvertent, the crop in 1998 was entirely purposeful."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc_v_Schmeise...

In other words, the farmer knowingly collected Monsanto's seeds and used them. It definitely was no accident; he was willfully attempting to take advantage of Monsanto.

This has nothing to do with GMO or Roundup; the seed patent laws apply to all seeds.
First, a small defense of Racket. Racket has a small core relative to its apparent size; most of the bloat is in optional library code. All the fancy special forms for pattern matching, classes, contracts, etc are just optional macros from the libraries, and everything eventually expands down into this rather small core language:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/syntax-model.html#%28...

The default `#lang racket` is a big batteries-included language including all that stuff, but the core `#lang racket/base` isn't very big. I always program in `#lang racket/base` and pull in just the libraries I need. For me the most beautiful part of Racket is this juxtaposition of a small core language and a big extended language implemented through a standard library of macros.

You can also install a distribution of Racket that leaves out bloat like DrRacket, Slideshow and the teaching language packages from the release variants page: https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/6.8/

As to your question, Beautiful Racket appears largely a guide to the language extensibility features that are specific to Racket and not shared by other Scheme systems like Chibi. Things like the `#lang` system, lexer library, and syntax highlighting integration in DrRacket. I imagine you'd get the most benefit out of it by working through it in Racket, and subsequently thinking about how to apply the ideas in other systems like Chibi.
The morality of his actions aside, it's a little disappointing because it's not as if he lived without human contact for all that time, there were always people in the visible distance but he just chose not to engage with them. There's recluses in every neighborhood who live like that. I think I was expecting more of a Robinson Crusoe/Castaway type situation.
Hmm yes, the article didn't even mention it but avoiding (and I might add manipulating) information seems to be a critical part of developing healthy self confidence. Studies on Learned Helplessness show that the difference between an optimist and pessimist (who often has to battle depression and self doubt) is largely how they perceive themselves based on the information they let in as well as how they frame that information.
Jawohl, a business-only chat application just like a business phone
It is hard to handle both private life and business related conversations through Whatsapp. Whatsapp is over-loaded by business chats. I developed a business-onyly chat application for ios and android that helps to seperate business messages from personal life. I hope it contributes your lives.
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Sure, the real world inhabited by the pro's is complicated, but the point is when we're first learning the fundamentals, we assume an idealized frictionless plane.
> Without a GC WASM is very hard to use for regular web development tasks.
I don't get it.

If you're going to target the web and need a GC, why not use hand-written Javascript? (or any variant like Typescript/Purescript if you want additional compile-time checks like type-safety/immutability).
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It still functions perfectly for smaller things too. For instance I spent today starting to get all my ducks in a row to fulfill a comics KS I raised $15k for. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/egypturnash/decrypting-...)
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Tipping is actually to nobody's advantage. It's inconvenient for the customer, sets incentives for the waiter that aren't always in line with what's best for the restaurant as a whole and introduce unpredictability for the wait staff.
Since the first part of your comment is addressed to Sasha I'll let her reply to it, but to address the second part:

There are multiple people involved in the hiring process here at GitLab, specifically several people who handle phone screens and resumes. The responsibility of vetting doesn't rest solely on one person and is actually a pretty collaborative process in my experience. As an example, I was able to vet every single candidate's resume myself for roles I was involved in hiring for.
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Doomed only if the Periapsis is less than the radius of the planet. That would make for quite an interesting setting!
> Do I have to go into "other" to tip less than 20% for being handed a brown bag?

Yes, of course, you go into other and select 0%. You don't need to tip someone for handing you a bag, and prompting for a 20% tip is shameless.
Messiah?
In cities where Lyft operates, which is not many, in my experience.
I get that. It's why I mentioned "next tick" to indicate the changes are minimized to the diff'd elements and batched.

As you say, one can rig up DOM updates through VanillaJS calls that are more efficient than React if you're a clever masochist.

If sub-optimal accesses to the DOM is where most of the time is spent in an application, then using an abstraction like React to manage the DOM really can make the system faster AND more manageable, as you say.
Lyft started out with sitting in the front as the standard protocol (which is no longer the case), but AFAIK UberX has always been back-seat & taxi-like.
Perhaps a "likes" system +1 or +0 would be better? It's a simpler question, and if you apply some basic curving to the likes, you get a more decent score.

Then again, everyone wants that "I ordered 4.9 star out of 5 item on Amazon" reassurance...
Uber grew a lot by aggressively cutting prices to boost demand, but at some point if you push drivers too hard it's going to backfire and ruin the customer experience.
Somebody has to be first to get a treatment. You don't really know whether it will work until you try it. Also mentioned in the article are the cases where treatments worked as they were supposed to or better.

The headline is a bit misleading because the 3 ladies in question were already going blind. The treatment was supposed to reverse the disease but failed. You could write the same headline about other treatments that are considered safe enough to try: "3 patients killed by chemotherapy treatments that failed to eliminate their cancer."
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Well that's a terrible name for anything.
you're only right in the US centric view of things; it's totally abnormal else where.
I'd say you're correct, but in a slightly more indirect way than many might assume (they might read it as, gov. gives money to company, therefore company has more money -- but they still compete with each other on price, so that doesn't totally make sense). But because corn is subsidized, the food is cheap on a $/calorie basis, which means customers can be less price sensitive, because it's all easier and cheaper than eating a non-corn-based meal. We see this reflected in the fact that cereal (a very generic term for a certain type of staple) is emphatically _not_ a commodity. People have types they like more -- so they can compete on something other than price, which lets profits go up. A good line of research to verify is to compare cereal demand elasticity to e.g. meat, where there are variations people like more than others, and it's semi-interchangeable, but because of price people treat it largely as a commodity.
It seems to me the people struggling with their finances don't have a problem matching debt to assets, it's they have a problem with too much house or too much car.
This gets murkier though because California law declares corporations to be 'quasi-California corporations' if they meet certain requirements such as having principle offices in the state, and then declares that some California corporate law rules apply. Case law isn't clear, so often class votes are held even if not required.
25% is crazy.
With all due respect, the parent to my comment - an apparent employee at GitLab - said "I am the recruiter at GL". "The recruiter", not "a recruiter" How else is that to be interpreted? With whom does the candidate discuss compensation? This one single recruiter, or the manager of the team with whom the employee would be placed? Why does GitLab have a "recruiter", rather than an "HR employee" or "hiring manager"? The term "recruiter" generally means an external non-employee who is financially compensated for each new hire brought on board. "HR" or "hiring managers" are company employees, given a flat salary irrespective of the number or quality of hires. Which do you have?

Either way, the parent comment is full of language that raises red flags to competent developers. Personally, my first thought is "oh hell no!". It's possible that their comment is not representative of the company's effective policies, but when one perceives this kind of reply as an official stance of the company's standpoint, it is difficult to retract.
Great idea. Let's donate to a charity to pay for the fire department. And the police. And schools. And transportation infrastructure.

Wait, what? No charities exist that create these organizations? Oh darn, hoist on the reality petard, whatever will we do? Pay taxes you say?! But no, let's just have smaller government! Nevermind that we will have children with lead poisoning, plant workers with cancers, or zero safety net for the elderly, working poor, or disabled. At least I won't be paying taxes!
Ooh. That does seem a little irresponsible on Google's part, and a bit less funny now. Thanks for the link!
Yes. Robert Nelson maintains the kernel and various accoutrements for the BeagleBone Line, and he is fantastic.

Start here:

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian
Not having to deal with operating a physical office (beyond the bare minimum necessary to e.g. be served with a subpoena)?
I have not seen this in most of Europe. I've seen more than enough times in the US. When I get service where the person just disappears for a long time and never pays attention to the table. I will refuse to tip and write the issue on the check.
There's no legal requirement to tip anywhere and it's money out my pocket and into a strangers (whom I'll likely never even see again). I never tip - for anything - no one should.
> relying on people to be intrigued and then read on

People have an extremely short attention span these days . You have to grab their attention right away and strongly guide them through the buying process. Intriguing doesn't work. It's a sales pitch, not an artistic short film.

You can't expect that people figure it out for themselves why they should buy the product, how it works, why it's something that they need. You have to communicate that very clearly and right away.

And honestly, whoever produced the video should have told you that.
TWC is one of the most dishonest companies I've ever dealt with. I second the fact about lying...absolutely hate that company, couldn't believe how I went through one year of their "service".
Skim read it and it looks like it was a terribly incompetent attempt.
They used STEM cells derived from a different source as to the original claims source, it was to treat a different condition and to top that off the original claim that they based their therapy on was very dubious...

These women need to sue for a quackery and shut them down.
In general people have come to expect that hitting return once in a comment field on GitHub will produce a newline, having been the case for many years, so we try to preserve that expectation. Hence not changing the option being used when rendering comments.

Conversely, they don't expect the same from Markdown files stored in their repository (e.g. I put each sentence in a paragraph on its own line for my blog, for easier diffing and editing). Additionally, we couldn't normalise these documents even if we wanted (to prevent everything breaking by being over-vertically spaced). Hence not changing the option being not used in this case!
it could also include a local agency fed up and finally looking to provide a service Comcast, AT&T, etc refuse to provide/expnad/etc.

In gold rush area along Highway 49 in Califnornia you have two prominent Coop/Local solutions .. Plumas Sierra Telecom who provides service to Plumas, Sierra and (I believe) Lassen county with different broadband options... PSREC has been adding fiber options.

Down towards Volcano/Sonora/Hwy 88, you have Volcano Communications.

In each case, rural communities stepping up where AT&T/Comcast and others step aside. These are endeavors I happily support.
JSX in 201x is like new XML of 200's. I've seen webpack.configs written in JSX. WTF is wrong with people?
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The word "treatment" in the headline made me think that this was some kind of formal study.

But in reality this is literally some Florida crank lab selling a shitty third-party procedure that takes adult stem sells derived from fat tissue, and despite the fact that the "safety and effectiveness of this procedure is unknown, all three patients received injections in both eyes."!!!

To be clear: this was not a test, this was not a study, this was literally three old ladies being sold on a completely unproven "stem cell" procedure by a Florida for-profit clinic.

And apparently there are 100s of these clinics being run all over America with essentially no evidence / clinical trials / etc behind their treatments:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/05/49137294...

I remain stunned at the things that are heavily regulated in America vs not.
I was really hoping that Tesla and Toyota would form a partnership to build and service the Model 3. From a purely business point of view, I think this would have been a huge win for both companies.

Despite the success of the Prius, Toyota made a decision to focus exclusively on fuel cell technology and wasted 10 precious years. They lost that bet, and now they need access to Tesla's superior EV technology to catch up with the competition. Tesla has no experience with the formidable supply chain and production issues involved in building cars on a large scale. This is one of Toyota's great strengths.

Unfortunately, there seems to be some bad blood between Toyota and Tesla management. I suspect this may have prevented consideration of such a partnership.

(Disclaimer: I just decided to sell my modest investment in Tesla stock.)
Electrons have been caught disappearing and reappearing between atomic layers
James Gosling stated multiple times that the only reason Sun didn't sue Google and Jonathan made that public announcement was the state of Sun's bank account.

Just search for "Google slimmed Sun".
> I'm just perplexed when they say they're losing money (or making so much less than minimum wage that they may as well be) but they keep on doing it instead of stopping

Most people don't drive Uber as a job. It's a second or third job. Make-you-own-hours is what makes that possible.

> If they're not just blowing off some steam with hyperbole, they would literally be better off staying home on the couch.

I mean, ditto for payday loans -- you're better off not having the money. Unless you actually need the money to make rent. Then you're screwed.

Uber is better than payday loans, but if you're depreciating your car at a faster rate than you're making money, you're still up against a negative expected value.
I was in a situation where I was getting takeout from Applebees's several times a week for a few months. I didn't tip in those situations, since I walked directly to the door, grabbed a box, and left. After 2 weeks, as the door closed, I heard the waitress complain "that guy never tips." I was mortified; I hate having that sort of bad reputation, deserved or not.

No one likes tipping, but it's become a moral issue. Something transformative has to happen in America to change the situation.
Depends on the arrangement they have with the taxi company. If they're supposed to share a percentage of each fare with the company, then it may not be fraud in the strict legal sense, but they're certainly violating the contract they have with the taxi company.
I don't know how big a Black Hole Moon¹ has to be to bend light visibly from the planet, but that would be a wild thing to watch!

¹ Definitely my next band name.
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This may work for a young, single person. I'm a Toronto native but I work remotely for a Toronto-based company after moving to SF several years ago. After having a kid, SF Bay Area becomes pretty unbearable - I've lived in the mission, Redwood City and Burlingame over the years - education expenses, commuting times and rent all add up. Even with my wife being a successful tech sales person and my decent but non-exceptional salary.

We moved to Lake Tahoe recently and it's been really nice - remote working is the best of both worlds. If you're a good engineer and can deal with working remote - it can be a great decision. Regular trips back to Toronto for work are a bonus - I get to see my family regularly.

I'm sure Waterlooser has become cooler since I last visited 15 years ago, but I suspect it's still not really comparable to downtown Toronto for a young single person. Maybe better for a family. But that wasn't the salary/living situation being compared.
OneDrive isn't quite as good as Dropbox, but it's good enough for my use cases - and it costs as much for a five-user family license that includes Office as it does for one Dropbox account.

I ran both in parallel for nearly a year. I've cancelled Dropbox.
I've been using Uber (mostly UberX, after it was launched) in SF since mid-2012, and have easily taken at least 1000 rides. The closest I've ever had to a tip solicitation was one single ride when there was a (tasteful) tip jar on the front seat center console.
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Here in AU the Federal Government is considering allowing access to superannuation (compulsory retirement fund paid out of your wage) to first home buyers to help with a deposit. An interesting opinion piece[0] discusses how this might be construed as a ponzi scheme.

[0] - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-16/super-for-housing-depo...
I was a diehard FreeBSD user around the time of the fork. Everything is just so well documented, the layout of things is sane, there was just so much order for a newbie like me. Eventually I moved to Linux but am still fond of *BSDs.
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I have always viewed debt as a promise of future labor.

i.e. if I have debt now, I must go to work in the future to pay it back.

Because I have no debt, I don't have to go to work, and can spend the next two years driving around Africa.

I'm so passionate about saving money I even wrote an e-book on how to do it: http://theroadchoseme.com/work-less-to-live-your-dreams