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It might be reducing transmission losses by 10%.

Ie. trying to prefer supply near users to reduce losses in long transmission cables.

The whole thing seems rather tricky though, because the entire grid right now is run on a market based approach, where suppliers and users bid for the right to sell/use power every half hour. The ML in that case would have to be given to every company to make smarter bids.
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I wanted to learn how to swim butterfly. This is difficult to master on your own.
Ours is super quiet. I wish it hadn't cost so much, but I can't say I regret it.
The R&D process for pharmaceuticals is long, hard and expensive because it needs to pass regulations. And it kinda needs to be like that to keep the safety of people. But most areas of invention are not like that, there are no such strict regulations, or the need for them.
So an idea would be to remove patents as a general invention-protecting mechanism, and replace it with a protection tailored specific to the regulations that cause the problem to be so significant, like in pharmaceuticals. Maybe the FDA could even administer/enforce it.
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Same, in fact I dropped out of college after the first two years (started immediately after high school). I took a few years off and then went back only to find that I was able to learn things much easier, and with less distraction that I had at a younger age.
I'll be honest, it's a little rough. Around late december, the darkest part of the year, I barely see sunlight for a month or two. I'm at work by 8:30, sun rises 10. I leave work at 16:00, sun sets 14:00.

It gets better though, so by february the worst bit is over. It's not really that awful - you really get a physical sense of the year progressing, and in a sense the darkness is cozy. Lots of light in the cities, starry skies in the countryside. Get some solarium tan going and spend a week or two of vacation time in warmer parts of the world and it's not at all bad.
Why? All these data structures are mostly just handles to the actual data, which lines in the GPU memory.
Car:GO is 100% at fault for relying on a service not present in the same country for a vital service as payment. Plus a startup like Car:go should pair up with a start up like itself where they are the main customer.

We need to have multiple options for vital services like payment.
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The fact that animals consume more calories then they give is not a gross oversimplification and is true in every case.

What is a generalization and is not true in many cases is that the meat we eat is produced in environments unsuitable for plant farming.
You aren't alone in that thought. Being privately held the financials are opaque enough that no outsider knows for sure how much of the spend is subsidizing the low prices, versus being used for expansion and R&D.

The leaked data from Naked Capitalism is really the only data outsiders have at their disposal: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver... The use of EBITAR (vs EBITDA) makes it difficult to draw real conclusions, though the fact that they use EBITAR at all is suggestive on its own.
Yeh I'd guess electronic exchange financial time series have a lot of interesting dynamics at very fine detail because of high frequency trading, so it's a very different system than a power grid in that respect. And for the record I regard HFT as mostly being a wasteful activity that effectively amounts to a tax on using electronic exchanges - ok there's a fuzzy line between arbitrage (useful) and full on HFT (which is clearly pointless IMO).
Assuming that the UK does end up with tighter immigration controls from the EU, getting staff in future is going to be harder, even if those already here aren't forced to leave.

Whether those controls will actually make any difference to highly-educated, well-paid, in-demand employees like software developers, I don't know.
I'm impressed by the ability of the press to take any new tech idea and spin that into Apple being the latent dark horse that will win the category.

Off the top of my head I can think of streaming TV, a physical TV set, AI, and self-driving cars.

Is there any evidence Apple has any advantage over the already quite competent, well-funded players who have already demonstrated significant progress in this area?
> The UK has already said many times it wants to take that possibility off the table as soon as possible.

Words are cheap. If they really wanted to do it, they would have done it already. I guess you're also expecting the NHS to get £350 million a week extra soon.
A lot of Norwegians go on vacation during the Winter; not unlike migratory birds flying south! Being able to afford vacation, and having government/employer support for it, probably has some impact on the happiness ratings.
Of course the outcomes of this kind of research are largely dependent on way it is designed.

There is a similar study that finds Latin American countries to be among the happiest. Discussed here:

http://www.livescience.com/50209-happiest-countries-latin-am...
In 2003, the NYT was crucial in generating public support for the Iraq War. They uncritically reported literal fake news provided to them by the Bush administration, and people who disbelieved them were regarded as cranks.

So, depends on what you consider recent.
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Proudhon's "What is Property?" is a good read on this. Private property is theft from society.
But they didn't say 'we will'. It wasn't a promise. They said 'let's' - it was a suggestion of what they thought should be done. You've imagined the promise part, and you'd be foolish to accept it as a promise, because clearly the group did not have that authority.
Oops, my bad - my intent was simply to acknowledge that we old-worlders do have a thing or two to learn from our former colonies, too.
Oh, well if one small startup is relocating to the UK then everything must be ok.
The only thing I'm unhappy with about our Miele dishwasher is that I was told if I installed it myself, that Miele wouldn't honor the warranty. We're kind rural, and there's no local Miele dealer. I almost bought another brand instead.
Not only has that been ruled out, but costs to the UK of being outside the EU are currently being estimated at around £60bn/year, so we will in fact have £1.15bn a week less to go around.

Meanwhile NHS bosses are already warning they can't hit the target budgets for next year, and we're about to see the currency deflate to a point where imports - including agricultural produce - is going to rise in price dramatically.

There is a small chance that the EU might now decide to give more generous terms than they have indicated in the past to the UK, and all will be well. That looks unlikely however.
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Keep a close eye on EU data protection/retention laws and agreements and how Brexit will affect the UK's ability to trade with the EU in that way.

Currently the UK's Department For Brexit has stated they have no idea what will happen there.

That's likely to have an impact on any tech company trading with the EU that uses or accesses personal data.
It was a war of the negatives.

Neither side chose to express the positives.

Brexiters were portrayed as small-minded xenophobes.

The EU took the "We won't throw you a bone, what are you going to do about it?" approach.

If there was a middle-ground option it would have won by a landslide.

I don't see large enough majority worthy of this amount of change.
Food in Oslo has improved by leagues and bounds in the past ten years. You'll find it here if you know where to look :)
Heh. If only they mandate to replace a majority of the crappy wooden + single-pane windows they have in most houses, that let all of the heat out and wind and noise in, with normal, double-glaze windows with good insulation, they would cut the energy footprint in HALF, I'm sure...
It was the proposal of the official Leave campaign, headed by Government ministers, one of whom is the current Foreign Secretary.
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Patents are parts of the public record and expire. So it will eventually be part of the public domain. For secrets there is no such guarantee.
Of course these days patents are written in such an obfuscated manner, that maybe they aren't very useful as references in the future.
As a dual Norwegian/American citizen, I would posit that a lot of that has to do with scale (ie, scale is necessary, though certainly not sufficient). The Norwegian government is on the same scale as many American municipal governments! And then you have local governments under that, that are obviously much smaller and thus even more hyper-local than many of their American counterparts. The larger your state gets, the more layers of abstraction and distance you get between the ruling class and the population, the more you dilute the power of an individual vote, and decrease the sense of connection between ruler and ruled.
> Then he makes the point that this requires embodiment, that they have a physical body in space

He makes even a stronger curious claim: That "This realization is often called the “embodiment problem” and most researchers in AI now agree that intelligence and embodiment are tightly coupled issues."

That makes it sound like it is a consensus between researchers, that strong AI requires a robotic body. Which I doubt.
Can you report them to google?
What were they supposed to have achieved?
And another called RoslynPad
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Oh, as a Canadian I fully agree, the exact same thing happening to you is happening to us as well. In Vancouver, upper class neighborhoods hollowed out by empty unmaintained multi-million dollar homes, condo towers pitch black at night, high end sports cars with N (new driver) stickers, horrendous traffic as (speculation) it seems people can buy a driver's license without first learning how to drive, etc.

Popular opinion is that eventually the bubble will pop, but unless China itself pops, I think their economy is so relatively large that "this time really is different", if you don't own by now you, and your offspring, really will be priced out forever. It's a depressing realization.

As for fighting for your country.....as usual, it is the boomers who overwhelmingly own property, and it is boomers who show up at the polls on election day. Voters love making 10% to 30% tax free on their massively leveraged investments, they'll never vote for any policy that would threaten that.
On a similar note, Florida (and I'm sure other states) have laws that prevent government employees and their relatives' mugshots from being public records. [1]

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So what is the approach when package X happens to change their Git path, change to another SCM server, or migrate the project to the next cool SCM tool?

On any sensible package management system, as a user of the said package, I won't need to change anything.
There's a clear and meaningful difference between "not AI" and "not strong AI".

With respect, you are being pedantic.
Maybe a bit too incredible.

How do thick-walled materials have their hydrogen bonds restored?
This process seems rather more involved than regular 3D printing.
I've certainly solved problems with a storage scope before, but not for a long time, and they were mostly software problems rather than hardware problems (ie. using it as a poor man's logic analyzer to infer what's going on with the code via a couple of spare IO pins). I really kinda want one though.
What is 'UK energy use'? The title should tell what the article is about.
This is not true. Modern top loaders, such as Samsung High Efficiency top loaders don't waste water like the old mechanical top loaders. They weigh the clothing, adjusting the water levels accordingly. They also don't have agitators, and wear fabrics less than the spinning action of a rotating drum. For a 2nd story laundry, they are a no-brainer, because the spin cycle (which is much faster than an old-school top loader) results in significantly less vibration than a front loader.

Source: owned a front-loader, several cheap "old school" top loaders, and a modern, High Efficiency top loader. The last one, is the best by far.
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Don't forget the blue passports...
Norway and United States have very similar GDP per capita. The important difference is that in Nordic countries the money has been divided more equally.
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> If a pingpong table and games are a major expense in your company, you're already dead.

I would disagree with such a sweeping statement. There are lots of bootstrapped companies that can't afford such things, nor do they even have the office space for them. This doesn't mean they're "already dead", it means they're doing things differently in the early days and prioritizing other expenses. Not every startup wants to be a VC-funded enterprise.

An established company, on other other hand...
Those urls will change if upstream happens to change to another SCM provider or tooling.

Whereas in any sensible package management system the package names and versions will be unaffected by such changes.
I'm having issues with understanding your wild theories and questions.

First of all you seem to dismiss the problems I described. Perhaps you need to re-read what I wrote with a less subjective attitude. Second you seem for some strange reason think that there is a choice between "pesticide-laced food or malnutrition/starvation". That's a false narrative. Also don't get hung up on pesticides, it was just as an example of lack of education, lack of information, lack of laws, corruption, and other issues that results in a market where the consumer have not got enough information to make a reflective choice.

I don't want to continue down your strange little rabbit hole that doesn't reflect any realistic option or facts of how life is in Cambodia or other similar countries. Given your strange questions I don't think you actually know so much about life in these countries or the issue people face. Seems you rather have some ideological viewpoint that you want to define as a narrative. I can assure you that any solution is not as easy as you think. It's complex issues. So please don't come with any simplistic ideological based statements with questions that doesn't make any sense, and attack me as someone who doesn't want to communicate with you.

"What was everyone in Cambodia eating before the food with the pesticides on it?"

Seriously, what are you expecting from this kind of question? Does it provide any value? Does it provide any argument at all? What are you really expecting me to explain to you from this question?

Oh and btw: Cambodia was a educated country with a functional society until the 1960s. Then USA decided to drop US 540,000 tons of bombs on the country killing hundred of thousands people. This resulted in Pol Pot taking over who then pretty much killed everyone with an education and lots more.
They kind of did that with the Green Deal (helping people finance home improvements which boosted their energy efficiency) - https://www.gov.uk/green-deal-energy-saving-measures/overvie...
We knew for quite a while that the trigger will happen end of March. If you're depressed it's not because of the current news.
Whoah, thanks for the tip!
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No, it's similar to hard plastic.
Exactly what I thought, in some cultures asking somebody if they are happy on a 10 scale ladder, will result in high values because the culture's norm is to be positive. While in some other countries the social norm is to be pessimistic. But in the end those pessimistic countries wouldn't be a good place to be happy anyways :p
I just don't see this happening, for a number of reasons related to the way Apple designs hardware - as unobtrusive, natural extensions of what we already do that you can hold but also toss aside as required.

And also because most of the "evidence" listed in the article has many other, simpler, uses in Apple's "incremental improvement" juggernaut. They can keep adding minor popular (and less risky) features without building in-your-face solutions that have uncertain acceptance.

Bloomberg might well be becoming the new Gizmodo as far as Apple coverage is concerned.
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One advantage could be the sales channel. Through Apple store they can easily get the products into the hand of customers. This might be quite valuable with products which you need to experience in order to understand them.

Apple's share of mobile phone market can be helpful if they want to bring in functionality that requires special features from the handset.

Also if we think about some more down to earth stuff, Apple could become "number one AR vendor" by just putting the features to next iPhone models. If the stuff actually works and if Apple allows, this might bring in 3rd party developers.
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Did the pascal standard include the standard library? Because C does. Doesn't seem like a fair comparison unless both standards specified standard libraries with comparable features.
I'm with you. But also from that video is the correlation where the son has only been riding for 3 years whereas the guy has been riding for e.g. 30 years.

I'm interested in what would the difference be for them to alter a learned skill if they'd been practicing for the same amount of time (so that it's less set in stone)? I'm certain his son would have still been an order of magnitude or 2 faster, but probably quite a bit less than the original number.

I remember a few years ago I learned that I had been tying my shoes wrong my whole life (tying a granny knot instead), so my shoelaces would come loose at least once per day. It took me a few weeks of practice to manually think through the hand movements to make the new know before my brain got used to just doing it without thinking about it.

I'd imagine that as a child it should have been at least 10x easier to re-learn.
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But is it non-trivial net of the expense of gaining it?
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Assuming export volumes fall - which is the likely scenario - then we should see Sterling fall relative to the Dollar.
This is not considering any external pressures on Sterling however.
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And how are people supposed to develop for this new technology if they haven't released a Mac pro for nearly 4 years, and graphic card support is well behind Windows?
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I do know from personal experience that being open (like super open) about your feelings, and in particular, complaining about one's personal condition, is a bit more muted in Norway vs. say, USA.

But I guess one could argue such an attitude might actually make you happier, in addition to merely appearing happier on reports? Who knows...
Oops. I thought Newmarket, Auckland. But I agree with your basic point.
Depends; the input data set could be massive, incorporating things like TV listings data (half-time kettle surges are a huge part of our power consumption profile), weather, publicly listed events, perhaps scraped from websites and so quite dirty.

I can see this transitioning quite easily from a 'we can sanitise this data ourselves' job to a 'screw it, let a massive neural net figure this out' one.
I know that "Go vs Rust" has been written about before. The perspective I wanted to take with this post was to examine specific ways I think Go could be improved.
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It's pretty obvious. Gambling by its nature creates a situation where the "game" is there to induce a biological response where you're either rewarded or punished asked on your performance.

Insurance is different -- its there to pool and quantify risk. That's why we don't have people hopelessly addicted to buying car insurance. It's not there to give you a rush.
i think this can all be solved with a new social media tool, which takes human nature into account and is carefully designed and evolved to direct thought into certain patterns... but who designs the software???? That person will have great power. Really you need a tool to make building software accessible to many more people.
Can we build a space elevator with this?
I didn't think I'd live to see the day people are upset with Facebook for not having more influence in the content they see. I understand the reasoning, and know it's not that simple, but still, it just sounds so backwards
That makes a lot of sense though, a bigger fridge can have better circuit and insulation and will have a significantly larger "cold inertia".
I'd love to see the results... I've never been so baffled in my life, looking for a "normal" flat in London and looking at horrible prospects that cost a fortune with windows from a century ago. And when I asked about that, they were all saying "oh, but the house is listed! Can't change the windows unless X, Y, Z". Whatever.

We can put people in a rocket and take them to the moon but we can't replace windows and make them look identical to the previous ones but with all of the modern efficiency. Because oh well, the building won't be looking exactly like two centuries ago or something.

Completely crazy, let me tell you... :(
I agree with that apart from gun laws - happy to see any hard data on that, but so far none - terrorists don't buy their guns in gun shops.

you have whole industry, more in US than elsewhere but it's present in every country of people doing target practice, hunting, having guns for their home protection. millions of people worldwide.

banning guns just takes them from hands of common citizens while ever-more-and-more oppressive state is being more and more militarized. I get the perspective of the state - total control and dominance over its population, like it or not. but I am on the population side, same as rest of us.

even as a foreigner I find US constitution a great idea that shouldn't be compromised on, especially in these difficult times.

what EU did recently - ban on various guns and overall more restrictions is stupid. just look at Switzerland - the most armed and most free country in the world. I am not claiming whole world should take them as model for everything, but west should for most of things, since they really work, already proven.
Citation? Is the cost estimated by all the same people who said that a No vote would immediately tank the UK economy, even before the official Brexit? It grew instead.

The problem with pronouncements like that is we've repeatedly seen economists and independent bodies be heavily politically biased in favour of the EU and seem to heavily exaggerate consequences and costs.

As someone who is disappointed by our exit, I still want to see a reasonable assessment of our chances and frankly a lot of people like the IMF, etc. increasingly look like little more than shills for the EU political elite who are desperately clinging to their federalisation plans and need those bodies to tell other countries in the EU that the consequences of even considering an exit is dire.
I read somewhere that students who were earlier planning to go to wall street are now heading to IT. That explains the assholes in big shot companies.

I got into IT for the sheer love of programming. I am someone who is detail oriented. I have observed "detail oriented" as the key issue I have with the assholes is that they don't care about the details. Their approach is to throw 10 things and see what sticks. They are very impulsive and very impatient.
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