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> I never edit articles on Wikipedia, so I just looked up how it is done there.

I think you've misconstrued how edit conflict resolution works. There is no "locking" involved.

If two editors both open the same revision of a page and save changes, the second editor to submit changes may encounter an edit conflict. In most cases, conflicts are resolved automatically by the wiki engine. If this isn't possible, the second editor is prompted to merge their changes manually, or to reapply their changes.

This is not a locking mechanism. Having an article open for editing does not lock it for future changes; it just records the revision that you started with to help resolve a conflict, should one arise.
We're getting caught up in pretty meaningless semantics here... but maybe your conflating natural individual self interest with the goal of an economic system? They are different things. Capitalism (the economic system) looks to channel individual self interest towards it's most mutually beneficial ends. It looks to maximize productive output of the overall system by channeling natural individual tendencies.
The optimal solution is likely a huge set of overlapping boundaries each accounting for different things.

Like if easy access to fresh groceries matters, the boundaries for that will not line up with the water system boundary (there could be some interesting correlations between the areas, but a good analysis would have to split out the boundaries to account for each effect).
You're missing a remake of Smokey and the Bandit!
Some days, you can spend the whole day just reading and tracing code and trying to make sense of what it does. After that, implementing a feature or bug fix might involve changing just 15-20 lines.

Hence, taking time to write more readable code may lead to writing code sooner and/or faster in the future.
> The reason the internet grew into what it is today during the 1990s was precisely because it was so free of regulation and governmental control.

And massive government subsidies. In the early 90's, I lived in a region that basically could not get Internet. It was a dark time for me coming from a more urban area. A few years later every small community has been hooked up with broadband -- almost entirely due to government regulation and money.
"McDonald's response to $15 is automation."

Actually it's lobbying. Automation didn't work out so well for Horn & Hardart.
Sorry - Google's profitability is so high that if what you say was true, there would be huge incentive for someone to simply compete on price.

The fact that hasn't happened proves you are wrong.
Do you have numbers to back up your claim?
I also wonder about this. Most places restrict the number of liquor licenses, but I would imagine don't restrict the number of grocery stores. Large and small Asian markets seem to exist in a wide spectrum of neighborhoods.
Heat is energy. Any heat that enters the atmosphere is energy you're giving up.
> Genesis 17:9-14 and Leviticus 12:1-3 do not give Jews any leeway in this practice.
> ...
> laws like this proposed ban are simply a veiled authorization of persecution.

Leviticus 20:27 says it's OK to stone mediums to death - should this be lawful too, or would it also be persecution?

You can take freedom of religion too far - the books of the bible were written rather a long time ago. Judaism has been able to modernise regarding such things as being stoned to death for merely breaking Sabbath, so maybe it needs to modernise a bit more regarding mutilating children?
Healthy food isn't very expensive if you're smart about it (it requires a bit of education and understanding nutrition). I live off of rice, beans, spinach, pita bread, whole grain pasta, peanut butter and the cheapest veggies I can find. I spend about 20$CAD a week on groceries.
>Until inverters are made to be more efficient, this will always be a huge bottleneck for dynamic energy input and output for the solar industry,

That seems pretty unlikely, do you have any literature on that?

Inverters do sometimes become less efficient when there's less power coming out of the panels, but getting <85% efficiency out of an inverter in any common scenario would probably just mean that the install had been poorly designed.

I guess a case could be made for not capturing the thermal energy from the sun with panels and using that, but it's a strange case to make. (Probably about as strange as getting more than Carnot limits out of petroleum. Though if the waste heat is used in, say, steam pipes for distribution in a city, maybe not so strange...)
I think you're misreading it, unless you have reason to believe that you've already given your permission. Either way, the regulation that Trump's EO overturns also allowed you to opt in if you wanted to.
But they are getting closer! :)
It's most likely a confluence of those, and other factors. My default inclination is to look to systemic effects first, though. So, in this case, whatever the specific balance between the confounding factors may be, my bet is that it's weighted towards "food deserts" creating the unhealthy habits, rather than being their consequence. People don't generally have a lot of choice but to eat what's available to them, and the overwhelming majority of what's available in these places is packaged and processed beyond recognition.

I grew up on the Great Plains, in the largest conurbation for hundreds of miles in any direction. I was literally surrounded by farm and ranchland. That area is classified as a food desert — a phenomenon I'm shockingly confronted with every time I fly home to visit the folks. Based on the conversations I've had with folks living there about this stuff, they (broadly) aren't even aware there are alternatives, or those alternatives are outright mocked. (Imagine growing up as a vegetarian when you have multiple relatives who ranch...)
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>undervalued

I think this is arguable based on the meaning of "value." For example, what I would say are the "highest value" channels, i.e. educational, review, informational etc are not getting as much payout as "Spiderman and Elsa Sit On Eachother's Heads" or "man blows out his microphone screaming at minecraft" videos. I mean, capitalism, yea, I get it, people like Spiderman and Elsa more than learning about stuff.
Right, absolute minimal effort required. The company was literally created as a way for uber to acquire stolen IP. They knew they'd never be around long enough to face a lawsuit, so just grab something easy to rip that's ​somewhat relevant and won't result in an immediate lawsuit.
Being made to use technologies you don't like at work.
I support strong net neutrality backed by Title II oversight of ISPs! Why did you make this so hard?
Sounds awesome! How'd you fall into this lifestyle? Did you use capital from a previous career in Software to purchase the farm, or Family/Relative related?
The problem, I think, is that sometimes the chemicals come first and other times the emotions come first.

Both can lead to a self-reinforcing downward spiral, but trying to fix the wrong half is likely to be ineffective.
This isn't OK on Hacker News no matter what you're responding to.
Thank you for this information - seems to be so - just tried a VPN from Canada and it only shows the email that I entered. However I still would like to disable it on the off chance that someone in the future messes up. May never happen but I'd like to not take that risk. Thank you none-the-less as that has eased my mind a little bit.
>at nearly USD1T.

At today's prices. Do you really think oil demand will continue for the next 50-100 years at this level with all this investment in renewables? We're currently at a price slump close to pricing from two decades ago.

Its a little presumptuous to think oil will continue to have this value.
I have heard one time that life expectancy sometimes varies by decades even between households!
That sort of forking model really doesn't work for prose. Making a fork is easy, but merging those changes with other forks to combine improvements rapidly becomes impossible -- especially if anyone tries to perform any sort of large change to an article.
I think that's only true if you're already familiar with Haskell-like languages. Elm-html is conceptually close to React/Redux so you basically have to learn it either way. Even knowing a few functional languages already it took a while for me achieve a basic level of competency with Elm. On the other hand someone who knows Java can pick up JS in an afternoon.
So what?! They are operating within the constraints of the market. Before the vulture capitalists swooped in prices were very reasonable for 30 years, the previous owners chose not to exploit their monopoly, then these two increased their efficiency.
I support strong net neutrality backed by Title II oversight of ISPs.
The New York Times’ digital business more than doubled in the past six years
Taxes are paid by the corporation before they pay dividends. Paying dividends does not reduce a corporations tax liability.
It would be nice if we knew what constituted "rejected" when they were making the diagram. Are they taking into account Carnot efficiency, line loss, the efficiency of light bulbs to create light instead of heat, does heat loss from light bulbs count as waste in the winter time when the heat is a desirable side effect, etc..

We can guess what rejected energy meant when this was drawn (presumably, Carnot efficiency was taken into account, since that's the most probable explanation for the very low efficiency of transportation), but it's hard to interpret without knowing for sure. (I assume the LLNL has a document somewhere that breaks this all down, but it would be nice to have more details in the article.)
Do what I do and put all your formulas and methods into a spreadsheet. This a) gets back some of your geek cred, b) makes it trivial to scale the recipe up and down, and c) makes it easier to share recipes with friends if you use something like Google Sheets. I also make many different breads, and found that with a spreadsheet I was much better at putting notes for next time ("try with 15g less water next time"), updating my method ("a cookie sheet on the bottom rack of the oven helped prevent scorching"), or adding links to a bread I want to try in the future.
I've heard of a couple studies that say that the unhealthy eating is a result of consumers in the area not having either the time and/or the money to make better decisions. If you're working 2 jobs you may find yourself less able to make healthy decisions. In my more self-imposed case, I know that I wasn't able to eat healthy while pursuing an EE/physics degree while working an engineering internship. I was either sleeping or working and there was rarely time to prepare my own food or even go to the grocery store to get the ingredients.
I met someone working for the city of Oakland who was researching similar things here. She pointed out that life expectancy in the 'flats' of Oakland was 7 years lower than in the 'hills' of Oakland. That geographical boundary mostly separates the wealthy from the poor (though areas of the 'flats' are rapidly gentrifying). There are also other factors, such as proximity to pollution from highways and the ports, crime rates, etc.
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Sample-size-based variance is a nice nit to pick, but it doesn't really seem to match the data presented in the article. Outcomes are strongly correlated in adjacent counties across the map, which is not predicted by sample-size (which would produce uncorrelated noise, in inverse proportion to population density). On the other hand, there is substantial correlation between the given geographic distribution of life expectancy changes and geographic distribution of wealth, as observed in the article.
You can also find an experimental PubSub system in IPFS [1]. One example use is peer-to-peer chat, Orbit [2].

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3397#issuecomment-261...
[2] https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit
Absolutely, yes. I've honestly never understood why on earth parents would do this to their children, rather than letting them make the choice for themselves when they reach adulthood.
Probably something outdoors since he's watching 'parcs and rec' lol
No. The problem isn't with advertisers wanting to avoid controversial videos. The problem is with YouTube's classification of what is controversial. Their definition of controversial does not match what advertisers think they're buying, partly because of the intractability of trying to classify the billions of videos on their platform in real-time.
FWIW, when this was new it got a lot of pushback in a related Reddit thread. Might be worth digging in if you're seriously thinking about it.
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This was definitely a pain point for me when I experimented with Elm.
exactly what i was looking for! Eureka!
Fellow composer here - I completely agree, and I suspect the great classical composers often felt as much, that their own musical ideas led them in a totally different direction than they originally intended.

My personal feeling about Eno's approach is that it almost deserves a different label than "composing" - maybe "incubating" (you know, like a startup incubator). For me, and I suspect for a great many music lovers, "composing" implies a process that may be evolutionary to some degree but is still overseen and directed from beginning to end by a particular artist. Contrast that with the case of traditional music from $REGIONAL_CULTURE where the process is more truly evolutionary as songs are passed from one generation of bards to another.

(I don't mean to say that Eno's approach to making music is somehow less legitimate than any other. It just seems better described by some other word.)
There are people who make money with ASMR videos, people making money eating old military rations, etc and posting it on YouTube. I am not saying these are viable career options, but are examples of 'jobs' that seem absurd but exist because of recent technology

Web design, coding, app design, site reliability engineers , debugging, user interface testing, so many new jobs
Indeed, here is Charlie Munger w/ Jason Zweig:

On firms like Berkshire partner 3G Capital, which takes big companies and streamlines them:

I’m sensitive to the issue of cutting costs, which usually means a lot of people losing jobs. Rich people end up getting richer and a lot of people get fired. But ultimately, I think we don’t do the world a favor by employing more people than we need for companies to run efficiently. On the whole we advance civilization when companies run better.

http://jasonzweig.com/a-fireside-chat-with-charlie-munger/
Watson won ‘Jeopardy,’ but IBM is not winning with artificial intelligence
> Net neutrality is fundamental to competition.

so, I won't get 20 times faster youtube. fuck that net neutrality.
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Consider: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/24/467984297/episo...
There's a lot less fires than there used to be, might not be the best career to change into.
In the past 10 years or so, the notion that unhealthy eating and food deserts are related has been refuted in multiple articles and studies. Here are links to some of the more popular ones.

[1] NPR "The Myth of the Food Desert": http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132076786/the-root-the-myth-of...

[2] New York Times "Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity Challenged in Studies": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of...

[3] The Atlantic "Do Food Deserts Cause Poor Eating?": https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/food-de...
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In a CNBC Millionaire Survey it can be observed that a majority of millionaires polled, representing the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans, described themselves as middle class (44%) or upper middle class (40%)... Estimates for the size of this group [upper class] commonly vary from 1% to 2%, while some surveys have indicated that as many as 6% of Americans identify as "upper class." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_upper_class
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It's very common in India.
Yes. Highly Undervalued. I look forward to the weekly videos from my favorite Youtubers almost as much as my favorite big budget HBO/TV shows. I'm fairly young (24) but I'm not exactly the audience that most people picture when they think of people who are really into Youtube.
:-) At the time Google was pretty reasonable about people doing what ever it took to become more productive. And it wasn't exactly 'hard core' playing, it was simply a tool that provided the necessary engagement motivation.

Not unlike processing all of the works of Shakespeare into bags of words and n-gram vectors and correlation maps to get a handle on how you can slice and dice documents for search. Nobody expected the time spent slicing and dicing Shakespeare would generate useful work product, but it did help train you so that you could generate useful work product.

And like the Shakespeare exercises, once the benefit was realized you moved on.
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A couple of reasons for it.

I was wasting my time in evenings on useless stuff and was mentally drained to do any productive work.

I need to change the type of industry I work in, so I feel the solid block of time in the morning with a fresh mind is the best time to learn new skills.

Also, I am single and got divorced last year. I found myself wasting time, contemplating mundane things, reading psychology forums in evenings. It was not helping me get out of the hole I was in. So I changed my schedule.
My impression is that Uber simply can't afford to not be the absolute first in driverless taxis. They're burning money to stay in the taxi business. Their entire business model relies on keeping the price somewhere in the range of what it is now and not paying a driver.

It might be that the marginal advantage of not having a driver on the highway section of truck delivery is not large enough to justify building out a trucking network. They'd have to establish relationships, buy trucks, service the trucks etc. all of that would be time and money that isn't going into their big bet.
As an improvising musician, I think "composition" is viewed very narrowly, through a classical lens. In classical music, the performer's duty is merely to interpret the piece as closely as possible to what someone perceives to be the composer's intent. But in improvisational music, the composition isn't an explicit instruction for performance, but rather a framework within which the performers are free to move. It's a set of constraints, agreed upon.

I don't think that's either architecture or gardening. It's more like community-building.
> The content likely was not attractive

That's our assumption. But all we can do is assume; nobody seems to have a way to verify those assumptions. It appears that the content creators can't even see what category their content has been assigned to, WRT advertisements, to make changes to regain their revenue.

Content creators are the ones feeling the pinch now, but we'll all be poorer in the long run.
Yes. And for people in my field (Software), salaries are also generally lower than in US. However, if you have a family, overall life is much cheaper in Germany.
I can always make another dollar. I can't get back the minute that just passed.
It's not that it is not complete, but not entirely as powerful as Haskell which inspires a lot of how Elm works and looks like. The creator/maintainer of elm doesn't believe they're required.
I worked in the industry for 20 years, at all kinds of software companies. If I can help it, I'll never work at a company again. The single most frustrating thing is the extent to which programmers are forbidden, by process, from being programmers and doing programming. Even after 15 years, and with "senior" in my title, most of the time (not all of the time) I was constrained by process to make tiny, incremental changes, adorned by a ton of very low-utility process. My day to day work was seldom different, and often more tedious, than the work I did in my first year in the industry. Management considered every code change to be a risk, rather than my profession, and everybody had to work to the lowest common denominator of capability on the team.

Now I work for myself and actually do programming all day.
Should that matter, to the viewer?
Is there a one-liner that I can point to git, so it'll display the amount of lines updated? Caveat: it has to ignore days without commits (weekends, days off).
There might be multiple options that the federal government would respect:

* https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title5/html/USCODE...

* http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=904990

Legally, I can't think of a case where it's been tested that didn't lean the government's way, so who knows?
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I think it's fairly obvious that in a discussion about advertising, and how they are feeling the pinch of advertisers leaving youtube, in this discussion value is based on advertisers, since they are the ones paying.

This interpretation seems to be supported by the supporting statements included. Their value to you might be entirely different.
I would imagine that it's not just convenience stores. I frequently ponder the fact that the grocery store closest to me is a marque of a US conglomerate (I live in Canada) that manages to have "low prices" by just treating Canadian stores as part of its US logistics chain—almost all of its products are shipped here from the US, rather than locally produced under US brands. And that includes things like baked goods and produce.

Thus, everything perishable in that store is either much "older" than you'd expect (i.e. it will go bad very soon after you buy it), or is pounded with preservatives—the bread, bagels, muffins, etc. all sort of have this uniquely-bad "springy yet doughy" texture: the sort of texture that I associate with Wonderbread.

Within the same distance there are local bakeries, produce markets, butcher shops, etc. that sell good stuff. But I don't doubt for a moment that certain families ignore those and go straight for the "everything shipped from far away" supermarket for all their shopping—and are having different health outcomes because of that.
When I look around at the pro market that need fast machines I see people working with 3D/CAD, video and sometimes sound and pictures. At least here in The Netherlands almost all those people are working with Windows or Linux based software. So they already get a new video card once in a while and add memory and disk space when needed.

I just think that the pro market for Apple became so small because normal computers are getting fast enough for most pro people.
For example photo editing works fine on a Apple laptop even with very high resolutions and a lot of layers.

So I can imagine that Apple just doesn't need a pro desktop anymore because the market became too small.
This application of RS is identical to a communications RS code. Same idea: you want your data to transmit accurately over a lossy media. Just, in this case, the media is aging disk instead of radio.
There doesn't need to be a merge. Just pick the most promising version and edit it to create a new version. The old version sticks around. An add-only data structure.
My argument is that maybe we shouldn't judge the impact of raising minimum wages in late 2010s using data from raising the minimum wage in 1999 because there have been significant advances in automation. I am not making an argument on if we should or shouldn't raise the minimum wage, only commenting of the relevance of data someone used.
>Sometimes you will even see the profile pic

if it was your account
Eating only potatos isn't healthy, why would I emulate their diet?
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