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I think you're right. I run basically the same route every time (varying distances a bit), through a county park that's literally down the same sidewalk where I live. I also listen to the same six or seven songs, changing a few of them every month or two. Most people who know this is my routine think this must be unimaginably boring.

But within a couple minutes, I don't even notice, and I'm just letting my mind drift, sometimes to the extent that I've overshot my turnaround spot by more than a mile just from a lack paying attention

Having experienced this, I can't imagine now going back to the "old way" where I have random songs that differ every time, or different routes that require me to pay attention.

I've often thought the repetitive nature of the same route and the same music actually encourages the metal drift.
Now if only there were a third party app for 'iOS messaging for PC.'
I was meant to go to a festival but didn't get in along with many others because of bad organisation and overcrowding.

There was some legal action, as far as I can tell this just ate the money and then we never saw anything.
The professional leagues all have conduct policies. So do colleges with sports teams. If a player violates those policies and faces consequences such as being suspended from play, how is that not "actual sports content"?

You might as well say that if a politician commits crimes, political coverage shouldn't mention it -- after all, that's not "actual political content", right?
> What if they don't have the money?

I don't know how it is in Japan. But in Spain, there is a fund, paid by all companies, that is used in this situation. It works like a mandatory insurance. If your company goes under, your employees get the money from the fund. The fund name is FOGASA (FOndo de GArantia SAlarial), it means salary guarantee fund.
PTI is good, but they also have two old-school beat writers in Wilbon and Kornheiser who have credibility and talent helming the show.
There is definitely a need for this kind of service. The authorised company repair takes ages and lot of money but I am not sure how this compares with local repair shops who are also fairly cheap (I am not from Delhi so may be wrong on this). What do you mean when you say 5% of repair price?

The site does not look good to me and I find the symbols distracting but probably you will have something different once you launch. Not sure if you want to be app only. I am a bit hesitant on installing a new app for everything so prefer web-based. It would be good to have that option.

Also will you be handling things like adding extra ram, building a custom desktop which are technically not repair but some of us do go to local shops for this.
It's a comparison worth thinking about, either way.
Live stream killing an elderly man, or hanging of your 2 year old kid, or want to target the most volunrable in our society? Facebook.

They keep overstepping the mark and they keep getting away with it.
> EVERY SINGLE customer of yours is essentially your boss for a short time.

A fallacy. The other day I signed an employment agreement and among other unreasonable matter (aka normal employer employee relations in US) enjoyed the bit about their version of extended at-will agreement having the additional meaning of changing the pay, position, and responsibilities "without notice". :)

Your customer may be your "boss" but she is not your employer.
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If the flaw in the crypto of such magnitude is discovered, the exposure of your message history will be the least of your problems.
I work in manufacturing, and sometimes i listen to podcasts, but sometimes i meditate(like tai-chi, attention to body movements) while working.

Meditating is harder(and coffee is helpful), but when successful, is much more satisfying.
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I don't know the answer to that sorry. It's all pretty confusing haha
Twitter getting into 24/7 Livestreaming News
If you want to look up margins by industry, Aswath Damodaran's valuation resources are a good start: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...
Thanks, my Japanese is really bad haha.
I will be honest, I have read this post three times times now and I still don't know what the central thesis is. Initially when I read the post the HN submission was titled something along the lines of "Why the public grsec patches stopped". It's pretty clear that CII is the who, but I have no idea what the author thinks CII did or why it resulted in the end of the public availability of the beta grsec patches.
There's a need in the market, but we don't want to meet it." This is a perfect example of why small businesses stay small, if they last that long.

p.s. In the 90s, before ecomm and digital (music) hit, I had a music+clothing B&M store. If I had that store today it would have tables/desks, host events, etc. That's where thing are headed...
> objects are capabilities

What does 'a capability' mean? People seem to use the term to mean everything from objects to threads.
I used to commute into London from an unremarkable train station that had a remarkable coffee 'hut' on the platform. I was aware that he and his helpers had a 5 a.m. start but their day was not anywhere near as long as the customers with their commutes.

In chatting with the guy I realised he had more money, time, friends, trips to the country and holidays abroad than me. Unlike every other platform coffee place en-route his 'hut' was not part of a chain, the coffee was essentially unbranded. Okay, captive market, known footfall, no opportunity for growth, however, I think that Neville was getting the economics right. He also does customer service and remembers everyone's name. So by the time you get to the front of the queue your drink will be made to your normal specifications already. As well as working back the queue he also keeps an eye on time, so he will give you a wink or a no if there really is no chance of you getting your drink and the train.

There is no branding, no lifestyle to be sold, just what you want for your commute. Prices are not overly cheap but certainly not expensive for London. So you pay a fair price for a fair product.

His helpers are family members as well as his daughter's friends. So it is a team of two on site with his other half dropping off supplies. Despite the dawn starts they have nothing to complain about, job satisfaction is high.

I respect the business acumen and hard work that goes on at this particular owner operated place, it is a business I want to support. I don't feel I have to though, I would buy from the nearby Costa if that was the only option and pay the 50p surcharge with delay.

I don't believe Neville is waiting for Starbucks to buy him out for millions and I doubt that he cares that his kids go into the business, since he hasn't even 'expanded' to the other platform yet - 'branched out' - I doubt he wants to take on the world with some mission statement to deliver excellent coffee (with everyone's names remembered). There is no romantic love of coffee, the business is just what it is, there is no struggle, it is all under control.

Edit...

P.S. What happened to Slate, why are they no longer a thing?
I wonder how people in the US are still struggling with this obvious notion that having a good rest is important, not only for the "quality of life", whatever it is, but for the quality of work itself. Here in Europe, this is regarded as self-evident.
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>The Japanese has plenty of opportunities to surrender but they kept fighting and fighting and fighting.

It's odd how this is portrayed as a negative aspect of Japan's militarism, when the Allies were fighting the same war with the same attitude.
Also: the sports themselves starting to get savvy. MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL all have their own television networks, and MLB is setting a strong example of how to do a streaming sports service right. In fact, ESPN has announced they'll start airing one of the MLB network's daily shows and massively scaling back their own daily baseball show (which will now only air once a week).

Add in rumors that the NFL influences its schedule to give ESPN less-desirable games for Monday Night Football, and the NBA strongly favoring TNT/TBS, and what's left? They can't run Sportscenter 24 hours a day.
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"Because of cord cutters" seems awfully accusatory here. The real confounding factor from the article is that ESPN was being subsidized by fees from customers who don't watch the channel, but still were paying high bundled fees compared to other channels.

This is shifting to them receiving fees from those interested in their programming, which seems much more reasonable in concept.
It also works with audiobooks. It's especially great if you can't find the time to read books the traditional way.
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" The next line about walking being easy tells me you live in a flat area with no obstacles."

But it is pretty easy once you get muscle built up and get used to the obstacles. I live in a mountainous area. I climb a fence daily and go over a bit of land with no concrete path - though admittedly everyday walking is on concrete most times. Going out into the countryside doesn't make it any more difficult.
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I'm experimenting with building a subscription based social network: https://postbelt.com - basically to entirely step over the 'you are the product' problem and offer the type of social network I actually want to exist.

Check it out if it sounds interesting!
Change is not imposed from outside. It's just that increased wealth and trade in the end always results in increased liberalism, tolerance and freedom.
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Thanks for your feedback, indogooner.

By 5% of repair price we mean that you've to pay just $0.25 as a service charge if the repairing cost was $5 or Rs. 5 if the repairing cost was Rs. 100

The website is obviously not the final piece and we'll be developing a more professional and simpler one.

We've seen this a lot that people are usually to busy or too lazy when it comes to getting their damaged products fixed and those products remains damaged for a long period of time, so the idea is to take your damaged products and get it repaired for you so that you don't have to go out yourself for such tasks.

Your advice on going both web as well as app is great and we'll surely take it into consideration.
Elon already responded to this concern: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/824300186834898945
That doesn't really do anything to assuage my concern. Crypto bugs are discovered in software all the time.
Worthless article.

>be smart!
>be careful!
>never give up!
>eat better!
>be confident!!!!!
>just do it XDDD

Most uber-saturated, trite type of information out there, adds nothing new nor tries to.
There are a quadrillion almost identical articles all over the internet, spewing the same empty rhetoric.
If there is any overlap between people who are interested in traditional sports leagues, and competitive Starcraft/League of Legends fans, it has to be very small.

To be honest, I think that the more big-tent ESPN tries to go, the more likely they are to fail. There are periods of the year when nothing is happening in the big four US sports leagues, and Sportscenter becomes unwatchable - I'm just not going to tune in to watch highlights of the XYZ Open tennis tournament, or some golf tournament, or whatever other extra-niche sporting event is occurring in those months of the year.

At one point, ESPN was farming that kind of stuff out to ESPN2, along with trick billiards competitions, professional bowling, and what have you, but has instead decided to triple-down on hot takes and outrage.
Yes I usually try to stick to the current language's standard library as much as possible --- and then for DB or other interop/protocols not already in there, there's typically the canonical mature library or binding in place. Other stuff where libs/modules may exist, I often prefer attacking the small sub-set actually required myself manually. This may not always work out and one cannot always be sure beforehand how well it'll work out, but especially for the things where you only need 10% of the actual functionality and some framework's/lib's focus is mostly on "the other 90%" (in terms of perf / stability / bug-free-ness), on balance I end up with "more LoC written & to maintain but less time spent now and going forward". This approach can definitely fall flat on its face occasionally when just by writing the 10% you thought you needed, you only at the end slowly realize the rest will need to be pulled in after all. That blows. Not a very common occurrence imho tho
I use a simple can of beans and place a board on top and balance on it through out the morning. During lunch I eat the beans but this leaves the problem of not having a sturdy can to balance on.
I'd probably try the /setlength command, but not consider that I have to adjust the invisible /textheight. Then I would wonder why it did not work.

With HTML, at least I have the inspector to see where bounding boxes are. With latex I'm blind.
The two examples you give are very different. I would argue that you are, indeed, very incorrect.

The purpose of scientific theories is to be able to make predictions about physical systems. Fundamental theories are based on some postulates (assumptions; in mathematics, we would have axioms). Quantum mechanics is based on a few postulates (which are expressed in very mathematical terms, like "Physical observables are represented by Hermitian matrices on a Hilbert Space H").

If the theory makes incorrect predictions, it is deemed to be wrong. If it makes predictions that cannot be explained using "common sense", then non-specialist come out of the wood work stating that it is obviously incorrect, that specialists simply do not understand.

For the expanding universe ... we have a theory (Einstein's Theory of General Relativity) which has been extremely well tested in all kinds of scenarios, and has always been found to make correct predictions. Your phone's GPS would not work if it would use predictions from Newton's theory rather than Einstein's.

The Theory of General Relativity can be thought as a set of 16 equations of the form:

(aspect of geometry of space time) = (stress-energy-momentum content of the universe)

In simplified terms, the left-hand side of these equations relates to the observed expansion of the universe. The right-hand side of these equations is what type of "energy/matter" we observe. We find that simply including baryonic (i.e. "normal") matter that we can see by looking (using telescopes) at the sky leads to inconsistencies with the observed expansion. If we include different type of energy/matter that we cannot see (i.e. dark), each obeying precise equations of state, we can have predictions that are consistent with what we observe. Thus, we use General Relativity + observations about the expansion of the universe to make predictions about what is the energy/matter content of the universe.

What you see as a failure, I see as a success of G.R. as it makes predictions about what is found in the universe which we did not know before, and had no way to know simply using the tools we had.

"Fun fact": many years before modern neutrino experiments nailed down the number of "normal" light neutrino species to 3, using General Relativity and known nuclear physics, one could use the observations of the ratio of light elements (He/H, Li/H, etc.) produced in the early universe to make the prediction that the number of light neutrino species had to be equal to 3.
This is true, but at the same time, I think economic growth is the only modality to achieve significant improvements for a populace without a LOT of people dying. If say capitalist rebels tried to take over in China, we would have seen the worst civil war ever.
Can't you just, like, make it free and just add very dumb ads, and few enough to be worth it ? Nobody (meaning mainstream people) will pay.
Are you saying ISIS should also be left alone and America not try to stop them

Absolutely yes, I'll say that. ISIS was created by the US bumbling about in Iraq, just like al Queda before it was created by the US intriguing in Afghanistan. But I don't expect the US will ever learn that bombs are the clumsiest of tools for shaping human history.
A free market is not a market without regulations, in the same way as a free society is not a society without laws.
That's why they didn't say "Iff I don't pay for the product [...]"
I don't see ESPN's content as politicized.

It isn't.

A simpler way to explain what you're getting at is: if reporting is about someone the viewer identifies with, or an issue the viewer sees as relevant to/personally affecting them, then they see it as fine. But if it's about someone the viewer doesn't identify with, or an issue the viewer doesn't see as relevant to/personally affecting them, well, that's "politics".

Thus: male viewers see it as "political" to cover women or issues affecting women. White viewers see it as "political" to cover people of color or issues affecting people of color. And there is some research to show that even small amounts of representation get perceived as a much higher percentage, by an audience used to zero as the baseline representation of people unlike themselves.

Oddly, they never seem to realize just how much "politics" had to happen to create and maintain the situation in which those other people and issues weren't considered fit to cover or even mention.
Springer retracting 107 papers published in Tumor Biology with fake peer reviews
You are correct re the Powerwall and Powerpack confusion. I had gotten the information off of the Wikipedia article and accidentally combined information from the two tables.

That definitely changes the cost/weight/power equations.
> Yes they do. Specifically: to advise members of the public on the treatment of the functional characteristics of traffic signal timing - page 7, lines 3 and 4.

That's only asserting that he communicated his findings. It's not asserting that he did so under false pretenses of being a licensed professional engineer or any other kind of regulated or certified traffic authority. The board could make the same claim against any average Joe who does some math relating to traffic and tells anyone else that he thinks there might be a better solution. There's still nothing in the charge leveled by paragraph 14 that narrows its scope so that it doesn't apply to everyone who makes a complaint about a traffic light that is more specific than "it sucks".
I guess pickup & drop off service for repair would be a good addition.
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Kudos to the leaker. I am quite happy to contribute to a patreon page or the ACLU or whoever that makes sure these whistle blowers are taken care off.
http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/

Watched it last night and I think it's very relevant to this discussion.

Now I don't think its Facebook, the company that has these scary social side effects, it is the concept of the 'social network' itself that's dangerous.

Facebook is just very good at promoting and monetizing it (and of course it's also a technological marvel).

Give everyone a voice ? Nice idea in theory, but one bad apple ... what about a million bad apples ?
That doesn't read much different from a security/DRM feature list of the latest Apple, Google or Microsoft operating systems. I'm sure the North Korean government also only has the best of intentions for the safety of their people ;)
My experience with inference-based programming does deviate some from that model. Data is scattered throughout a knowledge base in individual data points & statements, and only the current ephemeral binding set is the organizational glue that gathers the data together for operation.

Structs and OO by contrast could be considered as premature composition. ;-)
Ah thank you - now I know.
I can guarantee that pretty much EVERY business owner has at one stage, or more than once, had to work extra time after hours for no compensation in order to resolve a customer issue or fix a bad situation. Sometimes even do the job of another employee who is unavailable.

One of my customers owns a multi million dollar food wholesale business with nearly 50 employees, and recently one day he had to drive the delivery truck himself to one particular defence site to meet the terms of their contract because one of his drivers called in sick and everyone else was out.

If that doesn't constitute change of pay, position and responsibilities "without notice", then I am not sure what does. Granted, not a permanent or a legal change, but they have (and will exercise) that privilege over you from time to time.

I've run my own business for over 30 years now, and many time the very survivability of my business hinged upon just a single large customer making their payment on time or renewing a massive contract.

Pretty much the same as if you had a boss and your future employment hinged upon getting this particular project just right.
OCaml with HardCaml (http://www.ujamjar.com/hardcaml/).
As it turns out the engineers are good at business.

Using your established brand to propel a new product is business 101 and building a whole web of closely related products is business 302.

The synergy between their many major products is quite astonishing (though it is not public knowledge).
I cant tell what you are responding to in the initial comment?
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And it's open source to boot!
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I understand how FB changed certain societies, but what worth did it give to Americans?

I'm being completely honest. I signed up years ago looking for the one who didn't want me. The perfect person I pined for in my twenties. That's the only reason.

I found her, and she had 439 friends. Fishing for compliments. Just someone I didn't recognize--on so many levels.

Maybe, the worth was I finally stopped thinking about her?

Other than that--I'm not sure what it provides. I'm older, so maybe that's what's wrong?
Audible 2x during any walk or mindless activity means you can easily get through a book a week without any lifestyle changes. Literally has changed me life.
All kids feel worthless at some time. This is evil.
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I would suggest an idea review - limiting the number of connections for a free account - this won't fly. You are solving the problem, that is well known in the tech world, but you are not solving problems of average users.
The idea I had is to let users monetize their own data, as in by default there are no ads or tracking, but if you choose you can turn them on and get paid to do so (and the site takes a percentage of that money). It could easily grow into a platform for users to monetize and sell other types of content that they create too, like photos, videos, stories, etc.
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I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one - every since I read Red Mars I've loved the idea of colonising Mars even though I'm completely aware that rationally it is a completely daft idea.

"“Maybe it’s a little early… Maybe the time is not quite yet… But those other worlds – promising untold opportunities – beckon. Silently, they orbit the sun, waiting…”

Right - I'm off to watch Wanderers a few times...
Thanks for you valuable suggestion, desaiguddu.

Either I have failed to describe the idea clearly or you might have picked it wrong.
Pickup & drop-off service is basically what we're gonna do. :|