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> Now imagine a Starbucks with touchscreen-and-voice enabled ordering, no visible employees (maybe one employee, nominally a store manager, working the fleet of coffee machines behind the screens, and doing some light sweeping in the restaurant, etc) and a communal co-working space that more or less preserves the current experience, just minus the baristas.

Then imagine that the notion that your coffee is "crafted" by a "barista"[1] is part of the brand that distinguishes their coffee from my reasonably adequate free office coffee machine, and the barista costs two cups of coffee and a muffin per hour, and makes a point of asking everyone in line if they'd like anything else with that, and suddenly the savings from touchscreen and voice enabled ordering look less massive.

Now that's a fashion that could change, just like most rich people who could comfortably afford someone to polish their fireplaces and silverware every morning and doff their cap to guests nowadays would think such an idea unthinkably pretentious rather than the hallmark of a respectable house, and many of them have learned to actually enjoy cooking. After all, some people actually prefer impersonal service from a kiosk when buying tickets or packed food these days; more if it offers a better queuing system. But the economics are more complex than simple staff minimisation, otherwise the Automat would have killed the fast food industry rather than vice versa. Let's face it, 90% of these venues providing service jobs wouldn't exist if people were a little more willing to sacrifice perceived food quality/image/freshness for cheaper food and beverages

[1]Yes, of course it's a teenager pressing a button. But brand image is silly like that.
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you're making the case for an administrative assistant, which is a very different role and set of responsibilities than a team of executives or managers.
a system where some finance leech buys your future pension for NPV payouts now.

Isn't that called a loan?

I imagine that smart finance-leeches will tend to avoid loaning against 100% of the value of the pension, for much the same reason it's hard to get a mortgage that takes 100% of your income to repay. Beyond that -- where is the problem?
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I did a similar thing a while back forwarding logs from my router to a PiHole server I hacked to receive my router's syslog in addition to the normal DNS logs. I work from home in the basement with no windows and it's constantly a challenge to figure out who is walking through the front door upstairs at any moment (in my house, not an office). Getting a notification that says the hostname of the recently-connected device lets me know if it's my wife, my sister-in-law, or my roommate so I know if I need to come greet them or if I need to put on some pants first.

There's all kinds of use for this kind of tracking.
I love the MCS, but they are not super difficult to brute-force sadly.

Their main security feature is that keys were "impossible" to duplicate. However the SSDev'ers were able to decode and build make-up keys on-the-fly several years ago now. But that still leaves picking the lock a challenge which has not yet been a public development.
So I guess that means we will start to see a <1% libre alternative pop up? FirefoxOS tried. Ubuntu tried. Definitely interested to see who will occupy this slot in the distribution.

The hard part this time is all the closed source drivers. How did Linux solve that back in the 90s?
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It's important to look for actual statistics, milk is a leading cause of food born illness even with pasteurization. Abstractly the risk is not that high however food safty is a major issue: the overall annual estimate of the total burden of disease due to contaminated food consumed in the United States is 47.8 million illnesses, 127,839 hospitalizations, and 3,037 deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/questions-and-answers.ht...
So what limits do you want want put on immigration? What steps would take to prevent people from coming a country like the US or the UK illegally? What would you do with people who are there illegally?

If you like most pro-immigration people, my guesses are A) almost none (certainly no hard caps on numbers), B) almost nothing, C) rather than deport them, instead give them drivers licences and social welfare benefits.

When you take everything into account, their position is that they want virtually no limits on immigration.
Or they might have too short a horizon on measuring the goal. Someone might start contributing later. It's a numbers game. The stable contributor might be something of a unicorn but you have to try to find one.
AOSP may be open, but on its own it is a skeleton of a OS.

Most of the magic in Android today is housed in Play Services, one of two things Google can push an update for (the other being the Play store app) without any dialog or concent from the device user.
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A while back i wanted to write my own calendar to support custom recurrence rules, as well as the usual ones you always get. Custom rules would include things like calculation of Easter and other holidays and events that move about like moon phases.

So the idea was to build a translator that turns something like iCal into a "program". and if you're a hacker, you can write directly in this program :-)

I chose LUA for this because it's compact and sufficient for this requirement.

The other thing i wanted is to be able to write a date and/or a time as words on the end of any event and have the calendar figure it out for. There are so many times that i want to specify, for example, a relative event.

I might extend a cloud payment for 6 months. so i type
cloud XYZ expires, 1 day before 6 months from today.

and things like:
Radisson Hotel, May 27th at 2pm for 3 nights.

Also then terms like "Easter" and "xmas" can be part of the word parser. And stuff just like "beer friday with Pete."

One thing i still need to do is have it set up recurrences automatically for stuff like "Dave's Birthday, next Friday". So it puts in in the calendar, and adds annual recurrence automatically. would be nice.

I'm thinking of open sourcing what i have.
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As a former student I would like to emphasize that it is not about the money. I would have worked on the same project in the summer even if I was not getting paid. There can be various reasons why students won't return or become permanent contributors. For example in my case being a double major in very distant disciplines I do not have the time to contribute when school is on. Then summer I will be working on my thesis at another university which again would leave me little time to make any significant contributions. I am still trying my best to help new people by reviewing requests and making small changes that don't take too much of my time. I plan (hopefully) to get back to contributing on weekends once I am done with school.

For a few friends I have found internships being another reason why they did not go back to their orgs. 5k$ seems like a big amount but it really isn't (even in India!)

Finally, one last reason I can think of is terrible mentors. I have been really lucky to have amazing mentors but I have heard a few horror stories from others.
I would not say: There's tons of those things.

But the FT232H breakout from Adafruit is great and the cheapest. But they do not offer .NET support on Windows and FTDI does not either.

Here is one of my experiment with Adafruit FT232H breakout in C.
https://twitter.com/MadeInTheUSB/status/848799047632773120
Here is a fun little boardgame that models this interesting chunk of history.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/156501/greenland
Nuclear power policy in the ’80s caused low birth weights after coal stepped in
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They would probably enjoy "Alone", if they haven't seen it yet. (A dozen people get dropped off on separate parts of Vancouver island, and have to survive the longest to win prize money. No help, total isolation, and they have to film everything themselves.) One of the better done "reality survival shows" I've seen; sort of like a batch of Les Strouds (Survivorman).
I just gave a book to one of my friends. Can someone write an article about how I'm creating an "Amazon killer"
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i still don't understand why she in first place admitted guilt for something she didn't do? is this really common procedure to admit something you didn't do in US?
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What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them?
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That's definitely a problem, but a fairly disjoint one. The fields with the worst oversupply problem oddly enough largely don't have the problem of this kind of metrics-based research micromanagement. It's hard to get a philosophy professorship, but when you do, nobody cares about your h-index. That's partly because there's less (almost no) grant money, so universities don't care that much about research metrics in those areas.
I didn't say anything about purity, which is always an impractical concept. I did mention unity, which is probably just as impractical. "Inclusivity" maybe.

The important things about both democracy and the rule of law is that people are willing to acquiesce to decisions not in their favour because they recognise the fairness of the process and have a voice in it.
And like calling them a car company, it is incorrect. Tesla is a clean energy company. Their products to date (including solar city merger):

1. Electric cars, released to be more affordable with each iteration, with the idea being for full level 4-5 autonomy

2. Solar panels

3. Battery Storage

4. Solar roof

5. Electric vehicle charging network

The one thing all of those involve, is electricity. Solar panels (or roofs) are massively more attractive with battery backup, but batteries are too expensive, so they built a Gigafactory to make them cheaper. By doing that, and building their own solar panels (the smaller solar gigafactory in buffalo, ny) they bring the price of solar down, which encourages more people to buy solar with battery backup. It also encourages utilities to purchase large scale batteries which make large solar panel installs more viable, and the trend continues... Elon has been quite forthcoming in his master plan part one and deux that he wants other car companies to compete with him so that more electric cars are on the road.

TL;DNR: Tesla is an energy company, and Elon wants more companies to "compete" with Tesla as it simply helps him realize his vision of a clean electric future faster.
that seem pretty unusual instead of trying to make police fix their systems
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Ha. Spend a few years supporting Adobe software and then come back to tell me you think they can pull off an operating system.
> But there is a hierarchy to this just like everything in nature

do you truly believe that everything in nature is hierarchical?
Wow, that's awful, sounds like a blatant cash grab! You're basically guaranteed money from everyone that calls, there's no incentive to have enough drivers to cover demand.

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It's been my experience that, when calling, I've never waited less than 20 minutes for a cab and often have waited an hour. It's amazing that taking the bus is quicker than calling a cab. Once I actually was unable to even get through. I was in a small hotel lobby and the owner offered to give me a ride instead. Later on, in another hotel lobby, I paid it forward and offered to give a lady a ride to the airport when she was having trouble getting a cab on the phone.

I guess my point is, for all its flaws, Uber is still better than a taxi in less populated areas....
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We can look at this question as asking whether the product of (p-1)/p for all primes p goes to zero. Taking the log, this is the same as asking whether the sum of log((p-1)/p) is unbounded. log((p-1)/p) = log(p-1) - log(p), which is less than -1/p (greater in magnitude).

The sum of the reciprocals of the primes is unbounded (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence_of_the_sum_of_the_r...). So the sum of the logs is less than the negative of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes, it is unbounded as well. Therefore the limit is 100.
As a medium scale business user (<50 employees) of Office365 at one of my companies, this is so much better than buying the old model of Office license that it's obvious this turns profitable. Between the always updated, the no up front payment, the ability to easily change your number of users, ... It's simply a superior solution in every way for me.

I also use G-suite at another with a lot less people (3), and it also has a lot of advantages, although I admit that while for my personal use I ignore the whole "will Google keep supporting this", I try to make as little as possible of my business rely on service Google might close, and have on occasion built our own, admittedly inferior internal product for a functionality that we had in G-suite but that is so core to our business that I wouldn't dare depend on it and risk being caught off guard (prototype before self rewriting was a google forms to sheets to processing pipeline, and super super simple to put in place, but are you going to bet on Google keeping forms going five years from now ?).
Still, I would definitely recommend it, as the tools are great. And this is the only time ever in my (short) business decision making life that I was scared of Google closing something, I still very much trust them for services I pay.
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I always hoped for a more 30%/30%/30%/10% distribution, with two big proprietary players, one FOSS one and a bunch of other more experimental or niche systems. Guess that hasn't happened so far. The only place in technology where I remember three big and roughly equally powerful players was the console market, but only for a while.

Would be interesting to find out details about these dynamics.
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I think it depends on how slim, the mentors have to take out time from their own projects, so you'd have to detract that from the gain. You'd also have to factor in maintenance on new code produced by GSoC students that don't stick around.

Honestly I don't get why people are upset, the explanation from Bob seems completely reasonable. If the OpenBSD developers don't believe that they see sufficient result from their work, then nobody is forcing them to participate.
Agree entirely! However, Google still has a lot of work to do to put some sort of order in the lower end of Android devices like reducing fragmentation, offering a more unified experience for users and making sure that new devices are not shipped with obsolete hardware and software. Android One, for example, is a great initiative that desperately needs to go global.