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I'm not so sure, but I would love to be proven wrong.

The issue I'm seeing is that there are many orders or magnitude more potential content providers out there than people are willing to manually validate and white-list.

This might lead us to a situation where only the largest content providers/creators still get access to ad money which in turn will make it impossible for creators targeting a more niche audience to still have a chance in the market.

Case in point: lately I'm totally into science videos on YouTube. From the more mainstream "Space Time" to the now-not-as-niche-as-in-2012 "Cody's Lab".

While the latter doesn't share the former's production values nor budget, it's YouTube ad revenue that allows both to exist and to me personally, both provide equal value.

It concerns me that in the future, if this trend continues, only one of the two will have a chance to survive.
This is an interesting thing they are doing to you. It is like they are testing you, but it can be seen as them taking advantage of you.

Maybe they are testing you to see if you can handle it, but most companies would give you little meaningless projects, but to have you work on company projects seems very odd.

I had to go through 3 months of intensive training AFTER I was hired before my former boss would even let me code within his beloved software program.

I know some companies, like Google and Facebook, spend hours interviewing.. initial phone interviews, flying people out to the headquarters, and giving them various tests, so its not unreasonable to know that they are trying to test your skills to see if you are a perfect match, especially if they are giving you the opportunity to work remotely. They are seeing if you will actually do the projects and complete them in a timely manner. Trusting someone to work from home and complete projects on time is a big deal.

If you are worried, try and research the company on www.glassdoor.com.

You could also just bluntly ask if they are testing you with intent to hire or compensate you for the time you have already given them.

If they tell you not to bother coming back, at least you won't be wasting anymore time there.
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Bubble tea is a tea based drink which happens to have tapioca balls (aka. pearls) in it.

It's popular in Asia and Australia, and originates from Taiwan.

Also called boba tea or pearl tea.
Sorry, I couldn't disagree more. While Jeff Bezos' upbringing isn't exact destitute, his rise from a modest background[1] to extreme riches is evidence to me that the American system still works to some degree. No offense but I think going all the way to conflating this with feudalism slightly discredits and damages efforts to fix real problems in our society such as increasing wealth gap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Early_life_and_educ...
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I'm not coming out in favor of, or against this, but how do you think it would impact lawmakers understanding of what's at stake re: online privacy if this were to happen?
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Each individual advertiser on Google can provide "negative keywords," which are keywords that the advertiser would like to make sure they never show for.

Yes, you're right that buying one's own brand keywords is a defensive move. The idea that Google would show a relevant ad for a competing e-commerce site when a user is searching for "Amazon" isn't scandalous, it's the business model.
On reason, of many, is structural. A rocket's first stage is basically a giant coke can with a big rock (the engines) at one end. It cannot just lay down on the ground horizontally. That type of landing would require all sorts of internal structure, not to mention dedicated landing gear. It probably wouldn't be round any more. Warp a rocket by even a single degree and it will never be good to fly again. On the other hand, the big coke can is perfectly happy to stand vertically.
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I know that. That option is made very clear each time I click on upvote on an old story via an full screen info message. But as mentioned above, I want just one private list of upvoted stories. The changed interface is annoying and less useful. Why not let someone upvote an older story? (maybe without increasing the vote-count)
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Having worked and still working for years fixing other people's code... it definitely teaches you how to code and how not to code. I've seen things that made me question the competency of the programmer, but I've also seen many codes doing the same thing, but written in different ways. There are also those times where you think: "Wow, this code is so poetic!"

So reading other code can surely help. I have seen some Github projects where I would have loved to have used the project for personal use, but I just couldn't understand the coding style, or have had to incorporate my own coding style because I could not adopt the code as it was in the program.
The real question is how long has this been going on? I've seen these campaigns go on for years with worldwide clicks completely unchecked wasting a ton of $$. You can't trust automatic site placement but if you do, analytics will identify it quickly to exclude the loser sites.

This is just complete mis-management of paid media. Fire the agency or internal people for stupidity..
Most do. But companies that are stingy with compensation are stingy with all forms of compensation. Supplemental medical benefits at low-paying Toronto tech jobs don't match the top companies in Silicon Valley, so a Toronto tech worker could easily spend more out of pocket for medical than one in San Francisco.
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half"

-- John Wanamaker
step one: attention to detail, such as spelling.
Didn't Netflix pull their 2nd competition because people figured out how to de-anonymize all the anonymized data? Can you not figure out who someone is by repetitive filtering?
Yeah, I don't buy it. A complex government seems the opposite of a small government (which presumably is lean as well).
It's hard to tell from the article, but I don't think there was any change in Chase's advertising spend. My interpretation is that they are spending the same amount, but restricting bidding to a whitelist of sites.

If so, the fact that they don't see an impact in # of impressions means more about the ad exchange's bidding system and inelastic demand (or lack thereof) for inventory on those whitelisted sites.

I don't think this has anything to do with fraud.
Bingo, this.

It also depends on what exactly it is that a given country is arbitraging.

I've been considering China for a few years as not selling its labour or resources but its sinks: the willingness of the country to pollute its air, water, and land, in building up wealth and/or capital.

Other opportunities might be space, shipping access, or the ability to bulldoze through any competing property claims. In that case, say, bulldozing a slum in Mumbai to throw up a frabrication plant that can import raw materials and export finished goods from a factory with a very low labour footprint ... could make sense.

I'm not saying it does, but if you're going to bring automation to a place such as India, then you'd look for a dynamic like that: high-quality or low-tolerance manufacturing, probably dirty, with a high transport need, for which the ability to secure seaport-adjacent property with minimal fuss would be expedient.
It seems the "world's largest" claim is correct by a decent margin, I can't seem to find any battery installation that comes close to the 100MW output and 400MWh capacity claimed here. What is the second largest (that is at least financed and in-planning as it is here) solar-battery farm I wonder? Or is there bigger?
Thought experiment: if you could destroy half of Bezo's wealth with the push of a button, would you do it? (Not dollars, but actual wealth -- imagine he has thousands of houses and you are allowed to legally demolish them with the push of a button).

It would reduce inequality, and increase everyone else's relative economic standing, and probably make many people feel better in comparison.
That's got to be one of the dumbest arguments I've heard against something. So I wonder if the politicians really "fell for it", or they were just looking for an excuse that sounds good enough that they can use to tell their constituents as the reason they voted that way, and not because they took all that money from the lobbyists.
TL;DR Bondholders can go to zero. Special notes will not.

> The government bond traded for SS and Medicare funds is not sold on the open market.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/j...

"Government debt of the United States is typically issued in the form of U.S. Treasury securities. These securities—simply called Treasuries—are widely regarded to be the safest investments because they lack significant default risk. Therefore, it is no surprise that investors turn to U.S. Treasuries during times of increased uncertainty as a safe haven for their investments. This happened once again during the recent financial crisis. In fact, the increase in the demand for Treasuries was sufficiently large so that prices actually rose with an increase in the supply of government securities."

http://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-u...

"The Social Security trust funds are invested entirely in U.S. Treasury securities. Like the Treasury bills, notes, and bonds purchased by private investors around the world, the Treasury securities that the trust funds hold are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. The U.S. government has never defaulted on its obligations, and investors consider U.S. government securities to be one of the world’s safest investments."

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html

"By law, income to the trust funds must be invested, on a daily basis, in securities guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the Federal government. All securities held by the trust funds are "special issues" of the United States Treasury. Such securities are available only to the trust funds.

In the past, the trust funds have held marketable Treasury securities, which are available to the general public. Unlike marketable securities, special issues can be redeemed at any time at face value. Marketable securities are subject to the forces of the open market and may suffer a loss, or enjoy a gain, if sold before maturity. Investment in special issues gives the trust funds the same flexibility as holding cash."

Special issues are literally more valuable than gold, backed by the taxing authority of the US government.
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This is a very low-quality, low-content article. Incredibly superficial and some of the advice is just bad.
Buy aggregate browsing history for users in DC and nearby area codes. Look for browsing of .gov websites that are effectively government intranet tools. Correlate with access to RNC sites, Infowars, FoxNews, etc. While I'm sure you would both miss people and have some false positives, you'll likely also identify many members of congress and their staff.
Being able to pronounce Taleb Kweli is blowing my mind. Absolutely amazing, can't wait to see where this goes.
>Quantum Mechanics requires randomness, because determinism is scary.

Isn't the many-worlds interpretation generally regarded as deterministic?
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Mine sure has. It now reuses the waste heat going out the flue. It's smaller and vastly more efficient. Not to mention near silent.
> Back end web services - The clear winner here is Java with Spring Framework.

The clear winner for what, exactly? The goal posts for "Back end web services" are placed quite a ways apart nowadays and on top of that there are languages that have better IO performance at scale than Java. Java is almost never a clear winner in any one category, while it may be a decent overall choice.

The above quote is one of a few very odd sentences in the article and on the whole it's extremely low-quality content, in my opinion.
I think you're overlooking the broader point I'm making by focusing on that one line. The point is that if Toronto had the same tech ecosystem as to say even Seattle or New York for salaries ranging between half to two-thirds of their American counterparts, I'd reasonably certain Canadians would opt to stay here.

Yes, the investment community has a broader effect on the startups within the city. But I'm not sure they have as significant of an effect on large tech companies setting up research or dev centres here. And ultimately, having the powerhouses here helps to retain talent probably greater than having hundreds of startups in the $10-50 million revenue range.
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It this not usual in the US? :O
> Joe, though, discovered that Intuit had been very busy lobbying against ReadyReturn - meeting with lawmakers, giving money.

How the hell do Americans not think that this is BRIBERY? Are you kidding me? It's one thing to "talk" to politicians, it's another to tell them to vote a certain way and then giving them money". For crying out loud. Sometimes the U.S. can be really backwards* compared to other modern societies.
+1 for the c programming book, would love to see it in it's current form too.
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Why destroy? Why not tax it and use it?
1. John Deere is right and protecting themselves and trying to be risk averse.

2. The farmers are rightfully indignant about being locked out of their own machines. Farmers are risk averse too.

Never the twain shall meet.

It's the tech and scale that is wrong.

The field of ag isn't suitable because of the nature of work especially during harvest.

Maybe all smart machines should only be leased out. It is logical but that would never sit well with farmers because that is trusting someone who doesn't understand farming.

'Smart farm machinery' isn't useful unless it can be repaired by 'the cloud'(as it were).

Your life will/can go on without your iPhone. Without farm machinery(800-1000 acres is a 'small farm'), you are toast. The farm is toast. Income is toast.

Although, I wonder how farm insurance treats smart machines.

Smart farming machinery isn't really all that smart. Yet.
You're right. My guess is most "anonymized" data is lazy--stripping out obvious identifying information. There are quite a few cases where you can pinpoint users from correlating to publicly available data. CGPGrey posted a video today showing a layman's example with Social Security Numbers[1].

One cool thing I heard Apple talk about[2] was injecting noise or subsampling to help mask individuals. Although, I don't see that mentioned in their public page on privacy[3] or their whitepaper[4].

[1] https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus

[2] https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-co...

[3] http://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/

[4] http://images.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Adobe VoCo does something like that. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw
I think the only value it sought to add was to point out that the source cited was, in fact, a tabloid. I don't mean that in the sense of "it's a trashy, tabloid-like article". It may be that, or it may not be. But what I can say for sure is that it appeared under the masthead of The Daily Mail, which is, literally and uncontroversially, a tabloid.
It's far too simplistic to say, yes or no.

If you are inclined towards self-motivated improvement and if you have a good internal monologue where you are able to be real honest with yourself and your own failings and limitations then reading good code opens up the possibility that you can apply the things you take away from it to your own code and become better.

Good code isn't a gold ticket, it's always on you.
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Should I care? I don't buy into personality cults.
Manually updating you network settings after connecting will do the trick.

Use --script-security and --up if you'd like to script the DNS update and have it run everytime after you connect
MacOS (we are talking about Xcode) is using the SI definition though. 10 Mega should be 10 Million.
A script based on another of his stories,
“Understand,” is also in development.

How in blazes do you make a movie of a story that happens almost entirely in the guy's head? And what on Earth did they do to the ending to make it mainstream-palatable? That said, I sort of feel like the author buried the lede, with this one. It's one of my favorite stories, and I hope they do it justice.
Peter Shirley's "Raytracing in One Weekend" e-books are a nice resource for people who want to do this themselves from scratch.
Hmm, no. Each per-year saved amount is compounded by the same multiplier k after N years (assuming the same interest rate), so if you start with 1.5x more, you end up with 1.5x more.
It's in the interest of some member states to give the UK a better deal than the deal that is in the interest of the EU. Whether this nets out to EU offering something less bad that the worst possible remains to be seen.
I understand your point, but it's not nearly as bad as an actual regressive tax. I would support a flat tax over the thousands of loophopes that exist now for rich and wealthy people any day. As the system works now they probably pay even less than what they would pay under a flat tax system.
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I would assume the term "missed call" is both obvious and universally implemented (as in phones show the message) but I could be wrong on that last part for a few places I guess.
In a static fire the rocket is "tied down" to the ground. Do you know how the stress profile presented by this differs from a real launch?
>you want to get really clever, the Wiretap Act also makes it illegal to divulge the contents of electronic communications without the parties’ consent, which arguably includes browsing history.

So wouldn't it be illegal for sites to sell visitor information (email lists)?
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Selling under normal market value is not an act of violence.

Using robots instead of human employees is not an act of violence.

You have a very strange world view. Are your clothes hand-stitched? Was the electronic device you used for your post painstakingly constructed by hand? Do you think it is fair for some things to be automated but not others?

Perhaps you think that it was bad to selectively cultivate a variety of wheat that could yield more tons of food per acre? Or maybe you think it is just wrong for a farmer to use a tractor? Should they water a hundred acre field by hand with 1 gallon buckets? That would mean more jobs!

What is your opinion of all these auto-mechanics who have displaced stable hands? Should cities use thousands of laborers to spin manual generators to feed individual street lights? Modern power plants are taking peoples' jobs.
How would you make the hydrogen though? Does it suffer the same criticism as your original comment?
> That there is no real mention of them when talking about prolonging life makes me shake my head - living at 200 with destroyed joints and a mind which is failing due to Dementia or alzheimers doesn't sound like much fun to me.

Indeed, cartilages and joints get damaged because of prolonged usage, and not just aging. If we were to live much longer, we would have to also tackle how to make such factors less a problem to maintain an active lifestyle beyond age 100.
There is some false reasoning here. While Canadian per-capita income is lower once adjusted for currency valuations, Toronto's per-capita income is higher than the Canadian average, and thanks to significant wealth disparity, there's plenty of people in Toronto earning better than Silicon Valley wages.

The economy can absolutely support those higher salaries. The fact of the matter is there aren't many jobs of that nature in Toronto right now, but if there were, I don't see reason to think the pay couldn't be competitive.
There's a fair argument that what the industrialised world has now is a wage economy based on Veblen goods. Though to what extent I'd have to think.
This. So much this. People don't know what the hell they're talking about when it comes to nuclear power, but it doesn't stop them from talking about it as if they were experts.
Good content can be many things.
IPs don't matter. SNI tells eavesdroppers the exact domain you are talking to.
Gee, I wonder if Chase buys display ads on NYT...
Look no further than the news in Congress last week. Devin Nunes' claim is that he saw conversations where names were masked, but it was obvious who they were about.

When doing this procedurally, it's amazing how few data points are needed to pinpoint a specific person.
Could anybody here comment on the differences between spacex's engine, and the engines on the space shuttle?

Shuttle boosters are solid-fuel, so they can't restart, can't land, and were ditched in the ocean and refurbed. In contrast the 1st stage of spacex rockets can land itself.

I was under the impression that SpaceX was trying to make the first re-usable rocket stage, but I've recently found out that that isn't true. The space shuttle already holds that title.

For certain values of re-usable. It was pretty much stripped and refurbed for each mission, at enormous cost. The costs of spacex are orders of magnitude smaller.

I'm also kindof curious why they decided to go with a vertical-landing-design,

This design works everywhere, not just earth.
My grandpa worked for Westinghouse as an electrical engineer. This news really bums me out.
It turned out that parachutes are great for soft uncontrolled landings, but if you want a soft controlled landing you need some form of propulsion. So if you want propulsion why not use the main engines, and since you are going to use those formthe soft controlled landing why not use them for the descent too.

At this point you have traded several tons of parachutes and many more points of failure which could cause loss of mission (parachutes are complex mechanisms) for a smaller weight of fuel and exactly the same points of failure as a rocket always has. Then SpaceX added grid fins, since purely propulsive landing was not going to be anywhere near accurate enough.

Classic example of working to your strengths, where the greatest strength of a rocket is acceleration along its primary axis :D
On the other hand, confusing pricing can be used to get people to spend more. My local supermarket sells lots of produce as £X/kg and £Y/item. People buy a bag with three onions in for 65p instead of picking up three onions from the box right next to it at 75p/kg.
It's a lot, but it's objectively not ridiculous.
That was just a fact. Q.E.D.

(What did you mean by Tex?)
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No offense, I was just pointing a general fact. =)
Vastly different, but the most likely point of failure is the moving parts, as tested in the static fire.

Other parts that failed had been successfully used in flight so a "dummy launch" would have provided no certainty other than "everything worked this time."
You're confusing capital with annual income. You can't buy a country for the value that it produces in a year.
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They conditions in station elevators are usually such that I could not imagine using one if it wasn't physically required.

Underground station bathrooms, if they were ever built, have been locked down since 9/11. Elevators have substituted as a private, out-of-the-way place to attract the worst of the worst in terms of piss, shit, and homeless people in various stages of crisis. Kind of degrading that we expect/require people with disabilities to use them, really.