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My parents bought me a microwave when I started studying, and I used it for about 22 years until the mechanical knob on the front end came loose. It was a great piece of kit.

I then decided to buy a new one and got a flashy Samsung. It microwaves at best poorly, the food in the center will still be cold by the time the food on the edges of the plate will start to burn you.
OK, everyone hates bad quality, I can relate.

But `shortevity` also has advantages: If most of the consumers would not buy new phones every 2 years, innovation cycles would be even slower.

The challenge is to deal with the waste responsibly: Recycle resources and use renewable energy.
https://youtu.be/l-GsfyVCBu0?t=2866
Very interesting.........
Thanks for link
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I can't provide a theory of everything, but I can predict the future:

- The application paradigm will come to an end.

- All apps will be replaced by a general purpose interactive language.

- We will realize NLP doesn't work.

- 80% of software jobs will disappear within the next 15 years.

- Privacy will be revealed as foolish and selfish.

- Transparency will become the norm within the next 30 years.

- Money will be replaced with a social score/currency. Honesty, consistency and predictability will be the most valued traits.
Mm, perhaps. Brian Mc only joined Uber in June 2015 as part of their massive push into maps. Another senior maps exec, Marc Prioleau, joined in December 2015 and last month left for Mapbox. Two departures after a short time suggests something not right.
Possibly, unless you have reason to believe that they just don't like your implementation, and are lying it to you about their true concerns.

In general European investors are more conservative that SV ones.
During the 19th century, with money more strongly tied to gold, deflation was pretty common. And it seemed like no big deal.

Of course the evidence is hard to interpret. The 19th century was poorer than the 20th. Well Duh. The had 19th lots of recessions and depressions. But nothing so bad as the Great Depression. But also nothing so good as the Great Moderation.

My guess is that moderate anything is fine. But that policy wonks get the heebie-jeebies about not having the monetary lever in "their" hands.
Read the NYT piece again: it cites evidence the trade deficit is a major problem. Of course, since accepting this means admitting that Trump is correct on trade, the authors immediately write-off the evidence by insisting that these jobs would eventually disappear anyway. So can we really blame China?

Unfortunately, the problem is not about keeping any particular job so much as keeping the American economy vibrant enough to create new jobs as the old ones disappear. This requires the economy to operate at full employment, which requires adequate aggregate demand, which requires... well... there's your problem with the massive trade deficit and Chinese protectionism. Put more simply, if the Chinese were purchasing as much from the United States as they were selling into it, there would be a lot more job opportunities in the industries selling to China. Those would drive up wages and create competition to hire those newly unemployed.

Incidentally, it is worth remarking on the fact that China is going through the same pattern of automation and labor dislocation as the United States. The country also has an endemic problem with rent-capture and corruption that works against an efficient private sector. Despite this, the economy is doing much better at job creation largely because of the country's mercantilism: its politically engineered trade surplus ensures adequate demand in the southern export-oriented parts of the economy, while state control of the financial sector serves to redistributes gains from trade to the SOE sector etc.
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> ...requires embodiment, that they have a physical body in space through which they connect to the world. I don't believe either of these are necessary requirements for AI.

This is very interesting. In the human realm, there is the celebrated case history example of Helen Keller, who progressively developed her blindness and deafness over a period of years. She would arguably "pass" whatever tests that were administered for evaluating a strong AI.

However, walking backwards from that, towards case histories where patients were born deaf and blind, they also could pass those kinds of tests. But add more sensory disabilities, and it becomes murkier. Has anyone performed a detailed survey of medical histories? Is there a point beyond which lack of a specific set of senses leads to sapience incapacitation 100% of documented instances in humans? Could that be a promising lead to build a virtual environment that simulates a minimum threshold of senses?
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>then what makes an audio codec constitute an 'invention'?

That it involves not just some singular "let's do an X" moment, but tons of math, hard work, novel techniques for better compression, faster decoding, etc?
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> You say so. But do you think that replacing 5 eggs per week with whole plant foods is not going to lower someones blood serum cholesterol? Because I think it does.

You make it sound obvious but it's does not sound like that to everyone. How is one nutritional healthy food better or worse than another nutritional healthy food?

And the "eating cholesterol gives you high cholesterol" statement is in the same league as "eating fat makes you fat". It's not necessarily true and an oversimplification.
Here's a sort of random generator of random sex.

https://gist.github.com/stemid/3058437

I always imagined I'd like to see a version with a much larger database that constructs random sentences for passphrases.
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When adding an attachment in Fossil, if the attachment is syntactically similar to a structural artifact (such as a manifest), then the attachment is compressed prior to being hashed and stored, thus making it very dissimilar to a manifest and incapable of being confused with a manifest. Hence, it is not possible for someone to add a new manifest as an attachment and have that confuse the system. Furthermore, there is an audit trail so that should an attacker discover and exploit some bug in the previous mechanism and manage to get a manifest inserted via an attachment, then the rogue manifest can be easily identified and "shunned".

Users with commit privileges are granted more trust and do have the ability to forge manifests. But as before, there is an audit trail and rogue manifests (and the users that insert them) can be detected and dealt with after the fact.

Structural artifacts have a very specific and pedantic format. You can forge a structural artifact, but you will never generate one by accident during normal software development activities.
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That is very true. We have a vehicle that is now.....13 years old from new, 300k miles on the clock, and it runs perfectly fine. The wishbones need replacing every 4 years or so, and we had to replace the compressor once. But other than that, no mechanical problems as such - and it's a hugely complicated car, with a massive V8 engine, adjustible suspension, automatic all terrain control, 3-zone AC etc etc. All of it works(ok, the CD drive doesn't, but I don't recall the last time I wanted to use a CD). I think I replaced the bulbs twice, as the Bi-Xenon bulbs last around 5 years of daily use(and over here you have to have lights on 24/7).

And then I remember my dad telling me that if you bought a new car in the 70s, if it wasn't a Merc, the best thing you could possibly do was to take it into a garage and get all hoses checked, bearings greased, nuts tightened, and then maybe you would have a trouble-free car for a year or two.
What is the alternative?
I just re-learned skateboarding. I spent a lot of time skating in my late teens (37 now), and was decent at it. I noticed three things throughout the learning process this time around. First, there is so much more information available today than when I was a kid. YouTube videos alone could keep me busy for years. Then you add in the GoPro and my phone, and you have an entirely new world available. The one downside here is that I find myself edging towards "paralysis by analysis." Less doing, more thinking, which I never experienced as a kid. Second, I'm forced to take things a little slower because of my age and reluctance to get hurt. This means I've gradually progressed through the learning steps, which has resulted in a stronger foundation than I had as a kid. Third, and this is the big'un, I see angles I never considered before. I'll never be confused for a smart person, and I've always been one step away from "getting it" when learning most new things. Now that I'm older and more aware of what it takes to "get me there" I can better create that learning environment. Example: There is a very subtle part of the tail "pop" in an ollie that I just never fully understood until I started skating again recently, but this time I "got it."

(I realize this falls more in the "relearning" than "learning something new" category, but I've typed too much at this point to bail.)
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Wait? Schools still use Mercator?! Gall-Peters is even worse!

And the reason was social justice? How how the reason being science? The Robinson and Winkel projections are much more accurate. The planet is spherical, not rectangular.

This is about as idiotic and anti-science as teaching Creationism and Intelligent Design in schools.
It's all talk. This is why you should never ask someone "would you buy this?" When you're demoing your startup idea. Everyone will say yes. Say "I'll sell this to you for twenty bucks." And see the different song.

Like all the people who chat shit about not having account support for their Google account. Tell them to get Google Apps and they all go quiet.

Except for that one guy who complained about Google Search limiting. Which is reasonable.

Almost anything is available for a price. None of you want to hear it, though.

Ten thousand blogposts about how you like quality won't work so long as your revealed preferences are different.
The problem with having to provide a source is that the majority of "fake news" type stories, even the ones that are true, come from anonymous sources "close to X" or "within Y". It also means every Onion story will be capped.

Something at a publisher level, where the publisher themselves is given a fake news rating, rather than individual stories, might work, but even that is full of difficult to solve issues.
Oldest fridge, 1928 GE - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357737/Oldest-known...

Longest mileage, 1966 Volvo P1800 - http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/g121/million-mile-club-...

I'm sure there are lots of other examples. Simple, mechanical, solidly built. No gimmicks.
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I'm guessing HN has killed this? I see a load of filters I can't change as well as tiles with placeholders instead of data...
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If that were true, the article is useless – because nobody ever said that AlphaGo was 'strong' AI.
Some of the control boards can be repaired, see https://youfixit.eu/en/ I did this after an electrical surge blew out a component.
That's a weird mentality to think of a killer as a "dumbass" and a "huge dick" when your own job is to kill people. Does it matter if they're Americans or Iraqis? They're still people.
But adult homosexual relationships in general are fully consensual. It is increasingly harder to make that case as age gap increases, and while we should be empathetic towards the adult we also must be empathetic towards the child, who still may have a nascent view of what should be expected of them from others.

The solution to this problem does not involve changing a single policy, i.e. rehabilitate / be more lenient on practicing pedophiles, but a change in societal perspective as well as a more rational approach to age of consent laws in the US. After that, we are left with only problematic pedophiles, often repeat offenders, with whom it is a lot easier to make the decision to lock up as long as necessary for their safety and the safety of others. By removing uncertainty and doubt we can focus on real, abusive criminals and rehabilitation could truly be realized because of the large decrease in cases.
I have once contacted a CEO via Instagram on a different matter (I offered him some ideas) and he was very open and asked me to explain him in detail via email. We've even met and he thanked me numerous time for being direct with him and for my approach and analysis. I've also once offered one company to work for them because I was passionate about their product and as I was growing tired of waiting for an answer, I started following them and the founders on all social networks. Now I am invited to work with them. Point is, don't be afraid to reach out to them on their personal social networks or mail, admit why you admire them and maybe talk about their achievements a little. And then get what you want.
That is the exact feeling I get when I read about any sort of public register. They seem to be predicated on the fact that the people on the register will never, ever change during the course of their lives.

Granted, some won't rehabilitate, and will be habitual reoffenders, but as the article shows, many are once off offenders or just made bad choices as a kid or young adult, and don't really deserve to be marked for life. I just wish there was more evidence of the judicial system at least trying to differentiate the two groups rather than place everyone in the same 'too hard' basket.
"I hate your negative sh*t". I tend to be pretty negative, but this phrase makes me laugh every time, so I irresistibly become a little bit more positive and motivated.
When I went to the first semester of engineering school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, there was a class called Engineering Professional Development 160: Introduction to Engineering.

One of the early class sessions was a lecture from a guy at a power tool company, making some kind of jigsaw or handheld cutting tool.

He explicitly told us, paraphrasing, "You don't want to make your product too reliable, because people won't buy more of them, and you won't make as much money". I was horrified, literally looked around at my classmates to see how horrified they would be, none of them were. I ended up majoring in philosophy.

Of course this site is dedicated to the idea he expressed, so I am not looking for agreement here, just relaying what I consider an interesting historical fact.
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Don't know why LG does that when Miele only has a dedicated compartment containing the bare motherboard + service manual in plastic bag
Yeah, this sounds prone to malicious abuse, mostly because of the subject matter. I've heard of occasional malicious use of Youtube copyright claims, but in the case of fake news on Facebook, the same system seems like it would devolve to Breitbart readers and Mother Jones readers dogpiling each the other source's articles to limit their reach in the short term.

Come to think of it, that might not be the worst thing in the world.
there should be a ride sharing app that gets it's money from the city's congestion budget and reward those that pick each other up.
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Hey guys - for some time our startup did organic link building and technical seo. We ranked for a year approximately as our closest competitor. Since the end of 2016 he is increasing the number of incoming links massively by adding bridge sites. These have keyword heavy domains and keyword heavy content with all links pointing to their site.

Contrary to seo consultants opinions we've ask ("don't worry") this (for all I know) works for them. They have now left us quite behind in rankings. As we are still not a known b2b marketplace brand and depend on seo this is hurting.

Ahrefs/Semrush does not report other large changes in their technical seo or link structure beside this massive buildup of bridge sites.

What would you do? We don't want to engage in the same tactics, should we?
Travis is destroying Uber and his ego is so big, he won't step down which would save the image of Uber somewhat. What a trainwreck, I deleted the app and quite a few of my friends did as well. What a disgusting company and the way it's being run is just gross negligence.
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I thought about this too while reading the article.

I would be willing to bet, however, that net the energy cost of assembling, shipping, running, and ultimately discarding 3 or 4 "energy efficient" appliances is greater than the energy cost of owning one the more reliable older "less energy efficient" models over the same time frame.
You mixed two different things. If a person wants to shoot heroin -- or in this case eat bad food. They should be allowed to. It only affects them.

Murder takes away someone else's right.

But on the other hand, the government shouldn't be subsidizing heroin or food.
I think he means that he gets the pleasure of having/using a BMW compared to a gambler who also gets the pleasure of gambling. Both are forms of entertainment and both cause you to lose money.
Just wanted to send a note to icantdrive55 of the sibling comment: your comment is dead for some reason. Looking through your history, you seem to have a long track record of making on-topic, non-glib, non-ad-hominem posts, so there's no reason you should be getting downvoted. But almost all of your posts are dead from downvoting (I guess?). Either someone has a vendetta against you, or an algorithm has gone rogue. Either way, might want to ping the admins and see if they can fix this.
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The SLA is 100% relevant. If Braintree had an SLA that stated (hopefully clearly) that they would only be offering support during US hours then there'd be little standing to complain from a contractual standpoint.

No doubt this would be a questionable business practice on Braintree's part if true, but clarity around expectations from each party is pretty fundamental to the question at hand.
The table itself may be cheap, but the office space for it is probably not.

EDIT: Not that I'm saying it's not worth it, just that there are more costs to consider here.
Great questions.

Today all witnesses are run by main developer. A hub on the Byteball network can push witnesses, if users trust a particular hub they can check a box to pull the witness list, this is just user-friendliness.

The witnesses are supposed to be selected by humans by talking, like a popularity contest. There is no automatic protocol-selection process aside from described below.

Each user/transaction is allowed 1 mutation in the 12 list, so technically there can be more witnesses than 12 in the network, but only 12 selected in each transaction.

Then, when enough transactions have replaced same witness with a new one, the stability point, ie best parent, can be advanced and next witness can be replaced. See the whitepaper for more details on this advancing of "best parent" in the Main Chain. Like a snowball.

The process is user-driven, the costs to replace it by malicious intent is too high due to transaction fees, the limit on 1 mutation and hence slow time to actually replace all of them or a majority is also to ensure human herd-behaviour doesnt make bad decisions.
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I understand the concept of the lasting good equipment. I understand how more efficiency, electric and mechanical, are good for an overall solution. That's all great and good yet all the optimizations in the world and you're efficient technology are still creating tons of fn trash. Lets fix that.
Now we have exploitable IoT appliances that can brick on the next update. But really, who the heck needs to check facebook on their fridge?
This anecdote seems to be crafted to imply that exchange is why you didn't major in engineering, but it doesn't outright say that.

Did you really not major in engineering over that exchange with your class?
In terms of population, china is on top. India is second after China. Both are bigger countries. They should try to control their population
Not a theory, but my "model of everything" is the network (or graph). I've never found a concept I can't understand in terms of nodes and edges
In Go one can use template library to add custom generics using already known syntax. Essentially it will be Go source with familiar template annotations. Surely it is still a non-standard language, but the setup is trivial and extra flexibility of custom DSL may suits some projects better than hypothetical Go-with-generics.
Yes because insurance is instutionalized by for profit organizations that do not care about well beeing of those that buy insurance.

Where church, family can be more down to earth and driven by moral obligations towards person that needs help.

That is how I seen stuff working in asian societies, if you are not helping your fellows you quickly find out that no one will help you. Where for profit institution has all incentives to not help or help as little as they are obliged. They also can spend more on legal help which will protect them from spending. Predatory insurance companies are not insuring people who are likely to get sick. Family or church will provide help despite they know that person will have expensive treatment.

Sad thing is that more and more people find themselves with no close family, organizations, because of how society in western countries (cities) develops.
Maybe of interest:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08734

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00837
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you send gliders with fuel as cargo (by mass driver) and when you need to send a rocket to space you send a tiny one with just enough fuel to meet up with a glider to refuel on the way
The converse can also apply. Energy efficiency means less energy converted to heat, noise, and unwanted movement. All of which can contribute to wear and tear.

This is why people sometimes describe hard drives as "spinning rust".
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"Beating the Averages" is also a good read.

I read these essays for the first time a some years ago at a time when I was being assigned to a Javascript project and, much to my own surprise, had gone from ridiculing the language to secretly kind of liking it. At the time I had been working with Java for 10+ years and Javascript had always been regarded as this inbred cousin from Kansas that you didn't really want to be seen in company with.

Anyway, reading Graham's essays on computer languages helped me understand that Javascript was actually one rung up the abstractness ladder compared to Java, and that the language that I had always considered to be limited was instead extremely flexible and hence, stronger.

BTW, a curious thing about Graham is that he measures the strength of a language by how many features it shares with Lisp. Hence, no language will ever surpass Lisp using that yardstick.
You obviously have no concept of marriage or the cost of an education for your kids. Life insurance is there to make sure your families life isn't utterly ruined. Your suggestion is to leave the spouse forced to marry someone rich fast and have the kids work at McDonalds.