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I used to buy a nice looking faux-leather jacket from Zara three years ago. The faux leather layer started discoloring making it look like shit after a year and completely peeling off after a year. Worst shit ever. I learned that I have very little need for fancy clothes, and I don't care about styles. But I learned to buy leather jackets after that. A good (not nice) leather jacket is very much worth the money I paid for. Same for shoes, shoes that are built to last are very valuable to me.
I am a 40-year-old full time student with a kid

One big difference may be: how much quality, uninterrupted sleep can you budget now vs. then?
I don't know if it's true, but the common belief here in Europe is that interstate/intercontinental flights are cheaper in the USA. Flying from Prague to Milano costs around $100 with a low-cost airline, if you wait for a good deal.
Do you have a throwaway email address or can you name a few companies that would be good targets for sales?

I currently work as a software engineer but intend to move into sales in 2-3 years.
I have thought that there could be an IP tax that increases over time, and once you do not pay the tax, the IP in question becomes public domain automatically.

The increase rate could be different for different IP, but typically first few years could be free, and after 20 years the tax should be in billions.

This would solve quite a few problems with IP (orphan works would be a non-issue, and patent trolls would have difficulties operating)

Of course, I think there would be some "small" details to be solved on the international side...
Can you explain your situation a bit more?
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Ah yes, map projections. Time for everyone to complain about why the projection is inaccurate (because all of them are).

The problem with Gall-Peters is that it gives a misleading impression of equatorial regions--it scrunches up the width and exaggerates the height. Humans are bad at estimating area when the rectangles have different ratios for their sides--notice how Africa appears to be the same size as Asia; in reality, it's only ~⅔ the size.

So, yeah, the Mercator is horrible as a projection. Cartographers have known that for over a hundred years. Yet if you want a better map projection, there are several decent ones that are better than Gall-Peters (which is basically the inverse of the Mercator: exaggerate the equator at expense of the poles). Even if you limit yourself to equal-area, Mollweide and Eckert do better jobs of avoiding shape distortion. Outside of equal-area, well, Robinson and Winkel tripel tend to do very well, striking a decent balance between all of the different kinds of distortions.

As a general rule of thumb, any map projection that insists that it depict a globe as a rectangle seems to do very terribly.
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What about remote that will work USA time zone hours? (I work serious question. Considering doing remote next year and wondered if people consider that cos I work better at night time anyway.)
"that sit there eating up cycles"

Sure, about as much as rendering a single glyph of the entire text on the page.

Kidding - I have no idea but if it's just panning it that should be the ball park for the necessary compute load.
This forum post is the closest I can find, although it only relates to the producer's costs. It looks like it ranges from next to nothing for small-budget releases to 10k for cinema releases.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?39633-Licensing-...

The replies to that post include a link to an application page, which also includes options for products which decode the audio. Maybe someone could troll the page, assuming it's automated.

https://www.dolby.com/us/en/professional/licensing.html
I have been dreaming for years of a casino where gambling results are tied to insured events. Risk averse people would meet people looking for risk. I am not sure it is a good idea thought.

One difficulty is the discrepancy in the probabilities of outcome. Insured events are rare and cost a lot. Gambling often cost you a little bit but sometimes you earn a lot.
Can you explain why it's morally wrong in the case you bring up, small costs for catastrophic loss?
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>It's ludicrous extremes like having pingpong tables and games and coffee baristas at work. This is not living "frugally."

If a pingpong table and games are a major expense in your company, you're already dead. A barista is wasteful, unless he/she is serving coffee to hundreds of employees that would otherwise waste company time by leaving the office for a coffee break.

As an engineer, I avoid companies like the plague that refuse basic niceties in the name of saving money. It's a major indicator that it's going to be a miserable environment and you will have to fight tooth-and-nail for every piece of equipment and (even worse) raises/promotions.
Every complaint I've sent has been acted on, every refund I ask for I get. Uber Eats seems to have much worst customer service than Uber in Australia anyway.
I think but owning a washing machine can be indeed a good approach.

The other one is knowing which appliances you have and how long they last.

With smart power outlets the aggregated data across many households comes available. That means that consumer protection programs get a lot of ammunition to hold manufacturers accoutable.
Could this lead to a Linux distro supporting MP4 by default?
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Yeah I figured out you were in Victoria. I'm from Sydney. Expect a possible phone call from the interested party. No idea about rice, which I've only ever seen planted in fields, but a close friend of the investor is a qualified biologist and a cursory web search suggests that rice hulls are themselves an appropriate hydroponic medium for some crops, so perhaps you could potentially save further on transport by going multi-crop and full circle by re-using waste product as growing medium for other crops. Try Rice endosperm iron biofortification by targeted and synergistic action of nicotianamine synthase and ferritin, Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2009 (7), p. 631-644, Wirth et al
It looks like there is no other solution than to criminalize planned obsolescence.
I agree with you, I have been involved in startup and patents, and the feeling was similar. I can add that patents can also be viewed as a "freedom to operate" certificate: lower chances that someone else claims you can't do what you are doing.
It is not just the manufacturer. The large chains in retail have some responsibility in this as well. That same make/model machine you buy at a big national chain store might very well have cheaper components in it than the same make/model at a small retailer because the chain used its negotiating power to drive down the price-point. Well, at least that is what a repair guy told me years ago.
Sure, for example buying heroin.

You have to get through a few steps to agree though! You could disagree by saying that people's "revealed preferences" are their "actual preferences", or by saying that people's utility function after accounting for hyperbolic discounting is their "actual utility function."
Democratize all the things.

Democracy is dead. Long live AI Democracy.
40s ditto.
Having to worry about safety (electric shocks, leaks, fires, short circuiting) when something breaks, hauling big heavy appliances in and out of the house, selecting new ones,... those are costs you have to factor in when choosing to go with the shit that doesn't last. I'd prefer having the stuff that lasts longer for a little bit more money if I had a choice.
If someone freely chooses to gamble/take out insurance, is that morally problematic? I'm guessing you're opposed to the compulsion rather than the actual gambling?
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It was a lie of omission but I'm not sure if that makes it any better. I was hired to work on a new project but it wasn't disclosed that the project hadn't been started yet and has already been delayed for years
Word for word blogspam of

https://intermountainhealthcare.org/news/2017/03/major-study...

with study author credits removed.
Might want to check that, anniversary update simple made many of the previous group policy functions, and API calls, only functional on educational and enterprise versions.
Globes! I'm sure I had a globe in my classroom in grade school and I had one on my desk at home. I'm sure they didn't represent the actual shape of the earth, but much better in terms of visualization.
> The smart is to feed the computer the right way with good data, iterate through different ways the computer can guess a model from the data and finally interpret the final results.

That's exactly how AlphaGo was trained.
And they're designed for repair and maintenance too, since commercial operations care about total cost, not just up front cost.

The same goes for ranges, ovens, refrigerators, microwaves, you name it.
Not surprising. The equator runs under the bulk of Africa, through the middle of Brazil and Indonesia. The Southern Hemisphere ends up containing about 80% water, about half the landmass of the Northern Hemisphere. And about half of the Southern Hemisphere's landmass is uninhabitable Australian or Antarctic desert.

The more impressive fact is that half of the world's population lives in a small-ish circle in Asia: http://io9.gizmodo.com/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-populati...
bitc would be a better name

using a generic word as name would make it harder for search engine to rank your site
I highly recommend Headspace. Its founder, Andy, has guided me through over 100 sessions, the most recent being this morning.
Blogpsam of

https://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/17-03-2...
This is now what happens when you try to post fake news on Facebook
Make remote work the standard option whenever possible. For example, all the paper pushing work can be easily made remote and distributed to rural areas.
> There's a decent argument for drug patents (drugs cost a fortune to develop; makers only recoup losses if they can mark up the cost of drugs massively; competition gets in the way of that), but I'd argue this is a better argument against the whole industry and an argument for more public funding of drug research.

Most people wouldn't go and see a doctor who clearly states that they're just after money, because you know they have tuition to pay back and if they leave money on the table then competition is gonna take it and drive him/her out of business. Public health is obviously a public good, but somehow handing it over to companies with non-aligned interests (eg. pushing some of the dubious drugs to recoup on R&D) is ok.
I replied with my own observations regarding cultural differences based on my own personal experience, which you've sarcastically dismissed as "stereotypes".

Mods: Is there a way to mute/block users?
"The code isn't just old, it's very badly written and has zero documentation"

- Says everyone

Now you learned 2 valuable lessons:

- There's a lot of shitty code that you sometimes have to deal with

- Never put yourself into a state of dependency on a single income source, unless you wish to have the emotions you are feeling now
Because the viability of the industry is predicated on the vast majority of consumers losing money on their premiums. Insurance isn't a bad idea intrinsically, but it's a bad thing when the industry is turning billions of dollars worth of profits
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What on earth are you talking about? These are some of the most off-base generalizations I've ever read.
TLDR: switching to Gall-Peters rather than Mercator projector for the world map. Apparently, jaws dropped, which speaks volumes about the quality of the education here.

https://xkcd.com/977

(The reason for the hate statement next to Gall-Peters is that the Gall-Peters projection has been at the center of not just one, but multiple serious political scandals over multiple centuries. Furthermore, the people who introduced it lied about it, because the primary reason for Gall-Peters is not mapmaking, or education, but "social justice", whatever that means. Exactly what is wrong in 2016 with using a fucking globe or Google maps (which now has a zoomed-out earth view on the satellite section). Also, please don't politicize map projections, or if you absolutely must, Robinson is the way to go)
I'm going through this course, but using Google cloud instead of AWS. I can confirm that at least the first Jupyter notebook works well for me.

I had to adapt the aws-install.sh script, but it was easy enough. I ended up using a snapshot instead of a persistent volume, as the monthly cost when you're not running is much cheaper. So I have a script to create a new instance and then restore that snapshot. It's faster than installing the dependencies each time).

Google Cloud has a $300 free trial for new users: https://cloud.google.com/free/

(Disclosure: I work for Google, but have no involvement in Google Cloud other than being a happy user)
By their very nature, borrowers tend to spend money while lenders don't. The total sum of spending in the economy is equal to GDP, so if you care about increasing GDP, prioritizing borrowers makes sense.

At least, that's the basic argument. In practice, what might happen is that the borrowers mostly borrow to make asset purchases in financial markets rather than in the real economy, which is a kind of spending that doesn't count towards GDP.
I've never had a problem with mildew but I also tend to leave the door open for an unspecified amoutn of time once it's done. I'll close it later if I can be bothered but the open door doesn't get in my way so I don't really care.

I also tend to empty it within an hour after it's finished so I have no problem with mouldy clothes or linen. I hang out all of my washing and live in Australia, though, so that may be different since it's permanently a million degrees here and everything dries quite quickly.

I'm very happy with my front-loader. My only worry was that the cycle times were longer when I go 'oh shit, I need this clean and dry in an hour' but it has a 30 min quick wash anyway and then i can toss it in the dryer or hang it out in the sun if it's a hot day. It's served me well.

edit: I also wash all clothes on the 'cold' setting aka what's straight out of the tap. Linen I'll let do at the 40 or 60 or whatever it wants to do it at because it seems to produce marginally softer results but I don't really care either way and prefer to save the electricity on my clothes washes which make up the overwhelming majority of my use.
Check again. Your link is to the list of countries. This is the list of currencies: https://developers.braintreepayments.com/reference/general/c...
Neither do maths, physical laws, etc. I think it is wrong and dangerous to equal Human Rights, which are an ethical decision, to religious beliefs, which are cultural construct much closer to "fictional stories" for non-believers. This new trend in anti-humanism carried by Harari, who is read widely, or Peter Singer, is frightening.
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Because casinos and insurance companies are profitable, and your transaction with them is zero-sum (negative if vice or sales taxes apply).
This is super cool.

I wonder if you could convert it to colour as well, if you changed the rule from a single thread for the whole thing to three threads for the whole thing (CMY). Might be quite an interesting effect since you'd need to sort of "smudge" colours across the image the same way you're essentially smudging the blacks.

Edit: Wait a minute, actually it wouldn't work because you can't combine colours. Put magenta thread on top of cyan and you'd get... magenta.
ASAP(as simple as possible), for the first you consider to pay money expecting that you are lucky, for the letter you pay money expecting that you are unlucky.
You could do something like I did. Here is the MyPost blog: https://mypost.io/post/blog

It is a series of posts and I connect them all together via URL so it looks like one blog, but really, its just a bunch of separate posts.

You could do something similar.

You can style them to however you want it all to look so they can look like completely separate posts or all take on a unique look, as if they are part of a single blog.

The thing that makes MyPost unique, and there are certainly other creation platforms out there that allow it too, is the fact that you can have your own unique URL.

So you could do something like:

b01t-blog-post1
b01t-blog-post2
b01t-blog-post3

And so on.

URLs on MyPost are a first-come first-serve basis, and once you claim a URL, unless you choose to delete it, its unavailable to anyone else but you.

It also is not really public until you choose to share it on your social media or set in the Advanced Options that you want to display it on the MyPost display (at which point-Googlebot would do its thing). (https://mypost.io/display)

Go crazy with it if you decide MyPost is for you. It is free to use. I don't have any plans to charge for it in the future. Posts are private until you decide you want to share them with your following.

It was my first project where I was experimenting with PHP, database, and user input. I still update it from time to time, but it mostly functions properly as it should.
Difference is in the intent.
C is glorious. After a bunch of years screwing around with a bunch of different languages, I believe popularity is an indicator of local optima. C hit so many important points, it became critical. I think it blew its competition away, 40 years ago.

Go people have a point. Haskell people have a point. Their points aren't as strong as c's was, back in the day, so they don't dominate in the way c did.

We don't have a clear winner right now. Different languages bring different things. We are in another exploration phase of languages.
I've been researching thermoforming polymer materials for the last few weeks, and there is a well established category of materials known as PLA.

Polylactides (PLA) or polylactic acids represent a relatively new group of thermoplastics for packaging applications obtained from renewable resources. In extensive tests the functional and thermoforming properties of PLA are compared with those of other polymers. They are a biodegradable/compostable polyester manufactured from plant based resources. At 60°C and relative air humidity of 80% PLA will degrade completely after 60 days.

PLA's properties make it suitable for various thermoforming applications, particularly cups for cold bevarages and trays for fruit and vegetables. To produce high-molecular PLA, a process is used that is sustainable, solvent-free, and environmentally friendly.

PLA can be obtained from cassava, corn, maize, sugar beet, sugar cane, wheat, or agricultural byproducts containing natural plant sugars.

Although PLA has been known for more than a century, it has only been of commercial interest in recent years, in light of its biodegradability.

While PLA is one of the most promising bio-basedplastics, its main disadvantages are high price and unsatisfactory mechanical properties.

My understanding is that thermoforming is however only really utilized for sheet-based PLA material with essentially non-convex configurations. Also, it tends to degrade over 60 degrees celsius.

I wonder how this process and its output differs step-wise, limitation wise, and in terms of resulting material's mechanical properties. From the sounds of it, it's essentially a layering process and too early to judge limitations, though a small temperature range could perhaps be expected.
You could also listen to or read the book 10% Happier by Dan Harris. It's motivating and extremely funny. I recommend the audio book[1] which is narrated with the author's booming newscaster voice.

I happen to own more Audible credits than I can spend. If anyone wants to listen to the audio book, email me and I can give away around 20 copies. Contact info is in my HN profile.

[1] http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Development/10-Happier-Audiob...
But that text would be preordained by god, and as a result predictable.
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Not mentioned is that life insurance began as a form of gambling during the Civil War; but the original form was the reverse of the modern idea of insurance: soldiers formed a pool and the last man alive (long after the war, presumably) would inherit it all.
Anything under $300 is a cheap roundtrip from where I am. We can often fly to europe cheaper than to the other side of the country.
No, only occasionally.
> and have paid the tax penalty for foregoing Obamacare

Gambling with your health...
This is a form of wishful thinking. Miners, and only miners, determine what goes onto a blockchain. Non-mining nodes are just database replication slaves and message forwarders. Unless you're a miner, your node doesn't matter.

Who will buy and sell an altcoin does matter. That's where liquidity and prices come from. But that's independent of who is running a node.
By shell, I mean window manager.

I'll try and look up the bug.
Insurance companies generally pay out more in benefits than they collect in premiums.
My friend who takes Kratom for his severe anxiety also suffers from the same amplification effect during withdrawal. From his discription, "unbearable agitation and electric bolts".
I'm taking 1tsp/6hr daily but will typically stop taking it entirely when I can get the inflammation in my back down and the pain subsides. I've never really experienced more than a couple of days of what I would describe as mild agitation and unsettled feeling.
I can' t even compare it with my opiate withdrawal symptoms of years past: 14 days of electric body, vomiting bile, uncontrolled bowls, violent chills and spending half the day in the tub and the other half in bed with a high fever, and etc.
So you're not alone in your experience, and I always wrote it off as Kratom's actual metabolic action not being really well understood, and why I always think the comparison to Tramadol is better than other opiates.
It doesn't say that the wear leveling is not present inside the box already. It could mean rewriting the whole storage 30 times a day effectively.
“Inn-sewer-ants,” repeated Rincewind. “Tha’s a funny word. Wossit mean?”

“Well, suppose you have a ship loaded with, say, gold bars. It might run into storms or, or be taken by pirates. You don’t want that to happen, so you take out an inn-sewer-ants-polly-sea. I work out the odds against the cargo being lost, based on weather reports and piracy records for the last twenty years, then I add a bit, then you pay me some money based on those odds—“

Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett, page 45

That's the passage I found googling. It actually goes on and compares insurance and gambling. Highly recommended book (as is almost everything by the author of course)
No, the starting point is that Google doesn't require a Vulkan capable GPU on Android 7 devices, thus leaving everyone that cares about the size of customer base to keep using OpenGL ES.

If the engine needs two rendering interfaces, the effort is exactly the same as OpenGL ES + whatever else.

Unless you are suggesting game developers should be happy to sell only to LG V20, Samsung S7 and Google Pixel owners.
What was your role in the industry and how did you come to your current view?
You don't have any friends or family who sincerely believe in patently stupid claims on FB, like Hillary Clinton being a Satanist and/or serial killer? You're quite fortunate, but I assure you there are large numbers of people who genuinely believe in complete BS.