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It would seem that your position is impossible to argue. But what about the times when two people do come to an agreement?

I will agree you are right in many cases, but "never" is a strong word.
> There aren't to my knowledge any CPUs with special instructions for complex numbers

There are lots of processors out there besides CPUs. You could even design a new processor or program an FPGA to do complex math. Fast Fourier transforms deal with imaginary math, for example. You can do those in a number of ways, including on a CPU or GPU, but it's not unheard of for companies to use either custom hardware or programmable hardware to meet performance needs.
Toronto is facing the same problem. The signal upgrades to our (puny in comparison) subway have been in the works for the last decade with no end in sight.
> Where is the money coming from to drive this housing bubble?

A bubble constrained to a handful of specific markets within the country. Which, a common theme I hear is that people choose to live in those markets because their income is higher than if they lived elsewhere. It seems that the market is simply correcting on the expense side so that incomes between those locations and other parts of the country even out. If it were more lucrative to live elsewhere, people would.

To put it another way, if, hypothetically, your expected revenue is $50,000/year in Toronto and $35,000/year in rural Manitoba, and your expenses are $20,000/year in each location, you have $15,000/year additional money that you can put into the Toronto housing market. On the other hand, if expenses rose to $45,000 in Toronto, then your income would actually be $10,000/year higher in rural Manitoba. You'd be hard-pressed to not consider moving for a $10,000/year raise.

But the population of Toronto, and similar markets, keep on growing by leaps and bounds, which indicates that there is still extra money to be made there. Money that can eventually be spent on housing.
Finally a sane man in a sea of sycophants! I love coffee, I absolutely do not get cold brew. Its the worst thing you can do with those beans. I read a while ago on a hot day a hot beverage actually helps cool you[1] making cold brew even make less sense.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/07/11/156378713/coo...
I use podcast addict on Android and have for years. It's a little on the techie side with all of its options, but I have it mostly set and forget I really just adjust the speed per podcast which it remembers for you once you set it. I have the paid version which I recommend.
> Also, it was very strange that they cut the transmission so soon.

That's an NRO requirement.
This is the first military payload but they have landed and recovered the first stage several times. I guess the NSA should do more technical demos because no one seems to find this NRO tech unethical if it's coupled with an amazing technical display.

Wonder if they took the octopus of the patches
It also includes enforcing your own acceptable use terms. See section 6.2 ("Don’t advocate bigotry or hatred"). Squarespace should live up to its supposedly progressive ideals. https://www.squarespace.com/acceptable-use-policy/
previous!? why did you leave such a heavenly place?
True story! The landing was fantastic, no doubt, but this footage is a thing of pure beauty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzQpkQ1etdA&feature=youtu.be...
A little blurb at the top saying something like: "inspiration for this post came from...", would probably be helpful.
TIL that you cannot unlist your business from Yelp.
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Where in that article is there a political opinion?
No. You are mistaken.

The National Review is a vociferous opponent of the alt-right, and has been since the beginning of that movement. The National Review is American conservative small government. The alt-right is European-style nationalist big government.

The National Review has opposed President Trump from the beginning for this reason. Its editors, perhaps most notably Bill Kristol [0], has been a leading voice for the Never Trump conservative movement.

[0]: http://www.nationalreview.com/author/william-kristol
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NROL-76's mission patch[0] seems rather mundane. NRO patches are normally a bit more cryptic and bizzare.

I wonder how many people at SpaceX are cleared to know what the payload is. What are the finer points of payload integration in such a situation?

Does Elon even know what his own company just launched?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches#/media/...
Reality is objective, but our perception of it is subjective given our current limited understanding of it.
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Why not allow developers to build their own Macs?

The situation today in completely different than 1995-1996, when Apple briefly allowed Macintosh clones, before Jobs killed the project because they were cannibalizing Apple's high-end desktop sales. Now high-end desktop sales are such a small part of Apple's line that they let the products stagnate for years. Are Mac Pro motherboards really going to compete with notebook sales?
Pretty sure the NRO wasn't want anyone to know which direction and how high up that satellite was heading.
>Also, the wastage of resources is almost laughable. I say this not to be condescending, but because if there is one entity on the planet that is inefficient, it's government.

I'm not arguing for government, at least not necessarily. Although there are cases of the government forcing commodity producers to destroy their excess commodities, businesses by themselves also engage in these practices to maintain a favourable price with regard to supply and demand of their commodity.

>You can't just create "this benefit directly". How would you do that?

Workers working for themselves, receiving the product of their own labour, without engaging in the tedious exchange of commodities for money. Democratic decision as to how excess product is allocated and whom it is given to.

>government does not have the capacity to guide economic development as a whole compared to the free exchange of goods and services

I don't think we should be saying this as fact; it's useful to remember that central planning does not only come in the form of fixed five-year plans, nor is central planning necessary to rid ourselves of wage labour.

My "bias" may be that I am a Communist (which I find I am freuently downvoted for even mentioning) though I doubt any of us can say we are free of some bias. Having a position on a certain mode of organisation of society is by no means having a bias, in my opinion anyway.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-dairy-farmers-dump-43-...
Easiest to tell with the chicken dishes, and even with the same food source the quality varies wildly. Chefs, amounts of ingredients, freshness and other things still influence things, similar to fast food.

Distribution still doesn't have the greatest online presence, but here's one of the east coast distributors.
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as a non-white immigrant i should say good riddance. but i disagree with this wholeheartedly. no to censorship.
There are guides you can find about how to position yourself.

Essentially, you want your forearms to be parallel to the ground, and your upper arms just resting normally along your sides.

Next, you get your chair the right height. Again, there are guides, but mostly you want your feet touching the ground.

Then you determine your desk height, which is dictated by what's needed to keep your arms parallel to the ground. Desk height, though, is the hardest to alter typically, so you may find that to avoid hassle you end up adjusting your chair height. Not ideal, though.

I'm also 6' tall, but I've never had any obvious problems getting into a comfortable position with normal desks. You shouldn't either, even if you have long arms. Just find the proper setup. I now have a desk I custom-built for myself. I did measure myself first, but I chose a traditional height for the top--something like 29".

For what it's worth, it can be difficult (and uncomfortable) to change your habits in the beginning, if your posture needs adjusting. I'm a slouch and it is not easy to sit up straight for very long.

Good luck!
HP has stepped up to compete with the sealed Mac Mini. Their "Z2 Mini Workstation" is small, has user upgradeable RAM/disk, optional Xeon and Nvidia GPU, and can drive six monitors, http://www8.hp.com/us/en/workstations/z2mini.html
Interesting, looking more into it... there seems to be an expansion of SOX to protect employees. Seems to have been created post Enron.
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Their rule tells them not to debate it with you, though.
How do they plan to resolve the voter intent trust problem?

When a voter makes a mark, the chain of trust between their intent and their voting record is complete. They know that record is an accurate expression of their intent.

When they provide input to a computer, their direct expression of intent is not stored, instead the record consists of whatever the computer understand their intent to be.

If it records anything at all! Their record ends up being a smudge on some input device.

There is no enduring record. In other systems, redundancy and public records help fill this gap.

Banking provides receipts and or redundant transaction records.

If the voting record is public, this would suffice, but a public record comes with it's own issues.

Without this, there really isn't a way for the voter to understand whether the record of their voter intent is both accurate and enduring.
Couldn't, it's a NRO launch which are very secretive. Usually the most description you get out of an NRO launch is that it's for the NRO and a video from the ground of the launch.
>If that broadcast was delayed to you by up to say, 10 minutes...would anyone have noticed or cared?

Depending on the significance of the game in question, a delay of even a few seconds can be noticeable and annoying, because one of my friends on GroupMe is going to make a comment about an important goal the instant it happens.
Do we really need a full tower? Isn't most of the space in a traditional PC "trash can" form factor wasted? The graphics card size would need to change, but it would be great if we could shrink the case and still have all the power of a desktop.
Nice. I've actually found ideas in programming about modularity and complexity to be ways to approach such complexity in economics, physics, social relationships etc. "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" for example is about design in the abstract and often through examples in architecture but the ideas re: the ontology developed help and are helped by similar ideas in structuring software. This is especially the case when thinking about modeling live simulations like video games. In the vein of "Notes," our normal semantics about the "categories" of thought we have like CS, philosophy etc. might be more "categorical" than needed.

Some thing I want to play with more is OS-y scheduling and AI-y thought as ways to think about time management or problem-solving for "humans."
Esoteric programming paradigms
You don't hear about all the times that the FDA actually stopped tainted food products from reaching the market.
the vast majority of fb's usage is in-app mobile. how're you gonna ad-block that?
Reminds me of that old Dropbox "ShowHN" post.

Looking back at old emails takes some heart, I'm afraid of the idea as I'd probably cringe too hard.

My Reddit account just had it's "cakeday" which means I'm in the "9th year club" and the idea I have comments from 9 years ago still publicly available kind of scares me. Too the point where I feel motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back.

Old comments on HN I'm not so scared of as I tend to put more effort to only post competent/civil comments here. Plus you can't delete them even if you wanted to.
I had a math teacher at my high school who used python and SAGE to teach us pre-calculus as well as programming, computational thinking and some mathematical logic. He was an absolute genius and I wouldn't be where I was if it wasn't for him - unfortunately the school saw him as a threat to the standard model of teaching and drove him insane before he just quit. I hope he's doing ok.
It's not a generalisation it's a fact. The fact that it set you up well to launch a startup is a fortunate coincidence, period. MBAs not being designed to help people start companies is a matter of historical record it's not up for debate to be honest.
My kids' school has had them for a number of years now. They are all Dell and don't cost much more than $200/unit w/ coverage. Sure, kids break them occasionally, but most of the drops and slams that break a $200 unit will also break a $450 one.
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> Part of living in modern society is some basic minimum standards of quality and safety. Obviously those can be abused, but Seattle simply isn't doing that. 220sqft is a totally reasonable minimum. Requiring every unit have at least a bathroom and a non-bathroom sink is a totally reasonable minimum.

Requiring working fire sprinklers, smoke alarms, and functional electrics and plumbing is about quality and safety. A building with wiring that threatens to cause a fire or one with leaky plumbing that feeds toxic moulds is indeed a safety hazard, just as is tainted meat/dairy. However, minimum square-footage requirements / occupancy limits do not fall into "quality and safety" and only serve to increase the minimum cost of housing.

By mandating a certain level of luxury (and thus, of cost), the only effect is to make sure that people who can't afford it will end up homeless (or illegally subletting, squatting, or some other black-market, unsafe option). It's crucial to note that there is no backpressure mechanism at work here -- reducing housing options for people with the least money will not cause the construction of housing that meets those standards. Mandating luxury does not work without mandating supply as well. Such zoning laws ended SROs and rooming houses (by prohibiting any new construction) and such drastic reductions in the cheapest housing options, of course, caused homelessness crises.

> The goal of banning tenements is to prevent companies from exploiting people and profiting from them -- building tenements actually takes society away from the solution, by wasting land and money that could have been spent on housing.

Yes. Land-owners indeed inherently "profit" from people, as owning land lets them charge rents. But beyond that -- reducing zoning restrictions and occupancy limitations would increase the supply of low-end housing and thus decrease the market power of slumlords (by increasing competition). Giving renters available options they can afford lets them have the option of exit from their current renting situation.

> We could house everyone, we have the technology, we have the capital.

We indeed could, and it's a goal I support. However, creating a minimum standard for luxury of housing units without mandating supply will not get us there. I use the word "luxury" intentionally here -- from the perspective of someone who has had to sleep in homeless shelters, a dry room big enough for a bed and with a door that locks (for which one has the only key) is serviceable housing. To quote Paul Groth,

> a good hotel room of 150 square feet—dry space, perhaps with a bath or a room sink, cold and sometimes hot water, enough electric service to run a 60-watt bulb and a television, central heat, and access to telephones and other services—constitutes a living unit mechanically more luxuriant than those lived in by a third to a half of the population of the earth. As Dolores Hayden reminds us, many of the world's people would consider an American two-car garage an excellent dwelling in its own right.
I will never work for 30.
The current philosophy is pretty solidly in line with the historical Apple design philosophy, so I wouldn't necessarily expect it to change. The iMac is basically today's evolution of the original Mac [1], a single-piece computer/monitor combination with no user-serviceable parts. Jobs said in 1984 that hardware customization is unnecessary to support, because "customization really is mostly software now".

The Mac Pro towers were pretty different, but if anything they were the aberration, going in a more Unix workstation direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
I've had many discussions with people who don't truly seem to grasp the concept of determinism. I think we should never accept a theory that proves everything is predetermined. If the theory is right it doesn't matter if people believe or act in accordance anyway, and everything anybody does doesn't matter. Time does not exist, nor actions and neither do people. Nothing is here or there if it is predetermined. If the theory is wrong but seems right for a while it will lead to less favourable outcomes for those who act in accordance while they actually had other options.

That is if you believe in free will. I don't believe in free will (surely it's impossible) or determinism, but rather in chaos with (maybe) some reinforcement by deterministic systems (such as our brains). Our actions powered by constant rolls of the dice, at our birth, in our brains and on the surface of the sun where at this very moment photons are being released that indirectly animate all human life on earth.
This is my experience of tooling up for a new job, I'm building a fast developer desktop which will be running Linux but we still had to sort out a license for Windows and Office (which will be virtualised) because while I can do my job completely on Linux the rest of the company is stuck emailing spreadsheets and stuff around.

I can't see that changing for a long time, I think people continue underestimate how hard it is for average adults in the workplace to jump around platforms, we are programmers (mostly) we are comfortable picking up new software and platforms as and when we need them but it's a classic case of "what applies to me applies to everyone".

That 50yo who is awesome at his job but 'useless' (by our metrics) with computers is still awesome at his job.
How about Apple create a "Custom Hardware" program ala their Developer program and basically charge $99+ a year for a legal install usb image. Then they can skip building a Pro and concentrate on the portables and iMac they like.
Yes I certainly do, you are better off today in almost every measurable way than any other time period. Life was really hard, and usually really short.

Life expectancy is up 50 years from 1000 years ago, childhood mortality is at its lowest point in history, education rates are at their highest, global poverty is at its lowest.

None of these are positive forces to you? What time period would you prefer?
This is irrelevant to my point, just to be clear. Whether they're effective at creating founders is debatable, whether they're designed to create founders is not.
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A fun way to get people to donate money to wallets you control. Kind of like Million Dollar Homepage, but without any pesky guarantees.
There is a lot of opportunity for Apple to still make a design statement with a tower. One that people willingly display. The key is that is not only does it need to look good but cooling fans need to be deathly quiet. Then offer it up in aluminum or black enclosure.

Dimensions are pretty much locked down by what types of video card technology they wish to support, really would love a new solution that doesn't use the typical slots we still have today.

With regards to the mini, my only beef was when I wanted to integrate with my home theater white boxes just don't fit. It had to hide.
Levarage. Enginners are generally upper middle class. Being in the middle class alone gives you vastly more freedom (ergo power) than someone who has to actively care for his needs (as oposed to surplus). More importantly, their education is above average, which is not the same as institutional education (but still somewhat correlated), meaning they'll have a better ability to analyse of what's happening, better comprehension of how change (positive and negative) happened in the past, etc. Relative leverage is relative freedom and awareness.
And generate some modest revenue for a side project. It looks like he's made around $1500 so far.
Murder is illegal as well, yet you still hear about murders. That doesn't mean that the police aren't effective. Public health laws prohibit restaurants from storing raw meat at room temperature in the kitchen. Inspectors routinely find violations, and remediate by fining or even shutting down the restaurant.

Likewise, the FDA and USDA regulations are both largely effective and provide a common compliance target for producers and manufacturers to achieve. Sometimes there are issues, and the government has the ability to fine or demand recalls to protect public safety.

Many of the systemic gaps, especially in meat production, are a result of de-regulation where the USDA/FDA lost the ability to recall tainted meats and can only request voluntary compliance.
6'2" guy here with long limbs and shoulder problems.

Sitting and typing on a computer is unnatural, and causes shoulders to roll forward. There really isn't any other cure other than stretching, doing yoga, and performing strengthening exercises.

It's unfortunate, but many in our profession choose to ignore the cons of being mostly stationary, often involving a bad posture, for most of our working day.

Here's a pretty good resource for addressing a lot of the bad posture problems and corrective exercises:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/36r854/a_while_ago...

Direct link to excel sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EgKFYKjUIzpc_ZG_uRg1...
> Like 1 in 4 coffeeshops has removed plugs and wifi.

I'd say this was true for in Toronto and NYC for most of the past decade. How do we know anything is changing?
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As a counterpoint, people would make poor-man objects in ancient Fortran by using array indices instead of addresses to reference the object. And you could use integers and lots of conditionals to represent polymorphism. You'd have to ban all sorts of things to lock out developers from making their own custom object systems.