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Well what you have is a metaphysics of the logos, of rationality. That metaphysics is 400 years old and is already responsible for geoengineering the planet, and not geoengineering in some good way but geoengineering in the most reckless way you could think possible. It's also responsible for countless other global scale experiments which have been shown to wreak havoc on the planet. Surely it's evident that your metaphysics is deeply problematic now, wait until it's even more problematic as the amount of power we possess grows. The other metaphysics, that of animals and nature, that has a history of millions of years and usually works for millions of years until some catastrophe. The only really good thing about the logos is the potential power to prevent that sort of catastrophe, but also the power to cause exponentially more extinction events on shorter time scales. Possibly even our own. I would say that your metaphysics is totally untested and experimental, where as in the metaphysics of rest of life and dealing with nature of on its terms is time tested and therefore more true.
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When you work on a product that has both internal and external customers, there are two possibilities:

- the external customers get priority because they're real customers that pay real money.

- the internal customers get priority either because they're the "real" business of the company or because they have the right connections

Amazon uses a very tiny fraction of AWS, but I'm willing to bet that their bug reports and feature requests are accorded a fairly high priority.
I think they have to do this, in the UK, under UK trading laws.

It's a bit of a problem because, "this is why we can't have nice things", some people are arseholes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37711091

> "I return half of what I buy," says 30-year-old Alex Demetri, who spends £500 to £700 on clothes each month.

> She also admits to wearing some of her clothes first before returning them.

> It is customers like Ms Demetri who are causing problems for shops, which are "struggling to cope" with the number of items returned, new research suggests.
Sure, and writing the rules to feed to your linter and formatter is where the art takes place now.
We are in business to earn money, give a great service, not to support "spoiled" 1st-world customers, and made a conscious decision not doing this kind of service. Obviously, non-standard sizes are a problem you can't avoid while shopping online and sometimes we can negotiate a return back to manufacturer even after outfits were opened/used, but we can't afford to subsidy customers in this fashion. If they could find a better deal elsewhere, we would be out of business for sure, but we aren't.

Why exactly is this unbelievably damaging to environment is an exercise left to the reader.
Nothing can divert the "for your convenience" consolidation train unless we accidentally trigger some really unexpected economic / instinctual landmines along the way.

So, it's up to us on an individual level to preserve our own humanity. It plucks some discomfort cords in me to see the same trajectory you do. It hurts even more to see society roll over for it. We're corralled and herded to their nearest wedge issue that resonates so we can focus all our discomfort and unhappiness at marketeer sanctioned foci. A few people say things like "huh automation, where's that going to go when there's no unskilled jobs?"

"Nah that's not a problem, job retraining and economics and stuff but HEY check out this buffet of exaggerated wedge issues. Don't the guys on the other side really piss you off? Haha yeah."

Millions of people divided into black vs. white issues where both sides are mostly reasonable people pissed off at the other side's crazies. Crazy is distributed evenly enough to support this system. The ebb and flow of the number of crazies on either side of the issue is balanced with media magnification and non-reporting.

Keep the fight going, never come to any conclusions at all costs.

The psychographics industry mastered provoking conspicuous consumption in the 80s and 90s. Household debt peaked in the early 2000's partially because of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_debt#/media/File:U.S...

I think that over time, so much has wealth and.. potential has been sucked away that it's somehow more profitable for the industry to move on to influencing and directing outrage. "The attention economy" is the new state of things. Too much production for humans to consume it all. We have articles talking about "peak attention". How dehumanizing is that? Your attention and your thoughts have been commoditized. Companies pump it like oil and sell it back to you. We live on a mountain of abstractions that dehumanize us as individuals and stir us all together into a slurry of hardly dissimilar demographic chunks.

It'll be interesting to see what's next.
"WRT private class members, I can understand why this might be frustrating for library writers. But it's just so damned useful to be able to reach into a library and get functionality the library's writer didn't think I'd need, that I'll personally never consider this to be bad."

I'll second that. I'll share my own experience to give some perspective. Older versions of the JDK had an LDAP library that for some reason I can't understand (actually pretty sure it was a mistake because it was changed in subsequent version) specified a File as the type instead of a Stream for its configuration file. There was no way for me to modify the configuration during run time without restarting the JVM. This wasn't acceptable to the software we were writing because it supported multi-tenancy.

What did I end up doing? I used introspection to grab the "private" configuration table (Vector or Hashmap?) and wroten an API around it to allow modification on the fly.

Lesson here is that "private" things aren't really so private and Python style discretionary "private" variables would have required a lot less work.
I can't help but laugh at all the comments about how the appearance of the cat paw ruined someone's masturbation session.
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No, we'd never bill two clients for the same hour. Very few (no?) T&M arrangements where that would be legally/ethically/morally acceptable.

We simply let the team bill to multiple contracts. The contract & dev managers were responsible for authorizing the time and ensuring it was necessary/suitable/etc.

A typical T&M contract considers something around 1920 billable hours per year an FTE. 40 hrs a week, 4 weeks of vacation/sick time/etc per year. The typical way to manage those contracts at scale is hire one person per 1920 hours on a contract, then that person works exclusively on that contract.

We didn't allocate one person to a single contract, but fractions of a person - based on how much we estimated any given contract would need a certain set of skills:

"Joe's 20% on Project X and 80% on Y. Valerie's 100% on Y. Bill's 80% on Y and 20% on Z."

Of course, those are just estimates and nothing ever goes to plan - and it's always hard to hire enough good people. As a result, there were always opportunities for folks to do more work - either on their primary contract(s) or supporting another.

It makes the contract management harder, but it provides meaningful benefits to both the team and the clients.
What Reddit specific functionality did they copy?
Reminded me of this essay by the biologist Eric R. Pianka.

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/VanishingBook.html
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The author wants: True private and protected class members (restrained by the compiler), static type checking, interfaces, and he wants to make good use of abstract classes.

The author wants to do Java in Python. He should better use Java! Java has all that, it is significantly faster than Python, it has even more libraries, it is easy to learn, it has great IDEs and a lot of codebase and support. Java 8 even has a sort of anonymous function support.

My point is -- if you use Python then you need to take advantage of its differences, instead of wanting to type code exactly as in other language. Kind of makes me remind of the clever one-liner on "Real Programmers Don't use Pascal":

FORTRAN programmers can write FORTRAN code in any language.

Mind you, Java is my least favorite programming language, but if I wanted to make use of all those features, i'd be choosing Java or C#, easily, no-contest there.
Why would there be any need for a contingency plan?

Bitcoin needs an internet connection to work properly. If you don't have a functional internet connection then you don't get functional Bitcoin either, sucks to be you.
A site which allows you to create your own preseed files via GUI, and then gives you a tinyurl-type-code, seems like it should be a relatively easy CRUD app for someone who wants to get started contributing to debian :)

Could be done third-party, but with official debian support we could get support into the installer to type "install di://g3dz" rather than "install preseed=http://mypersonaldomain.com/preseeds/g3dz" (last time I was doing this for myself, typing the full URL of my preseed file into the bootloader was by far the most annoying part of the process :P)
So, like every online clothing and shoe retailer has for years,since not long after it was Zappos initial distinguishing feature which everyone copied since it was so obviously highly preferred by consumers.

By now, that's about as notable as delivering goods to your door in cardboard boxes.
Are you a professional working in the IT industry, or in industries where LinkedIn has a lot of candidates (e.g. media, advertising, etc)?

I'm asking because I'm curious of how job hunting and networking goes for you without LinkedIn.
How long will it be until employers can look up all the information Google has about me? More importantly, how long will it be until users will be expected to give access to their "likes, skills, and interests" for targeted recruiting? At least LinkedIn is easy enough to keep separate from the rest of my life. Google knows everything about me.
No VPN can reliably anonymize you against government agents so I think the con is a non-issue. VPNs are only really useful when the local network is hostile and/or you want some degree of privacy from the sites you visit.

Anyone with sigint capability is going to figure out who you are with a VPN. (i.e. Government agents)
Swift3 speaks aws4 auth now. The real problem is S3 clients that expect an amazon signed cert. No good way to fake that nicely.
Because in the 20s cans could be pasteurized to a higher temperature than jars could. Black olives in jars were killing people with botulism.

Green olives are pickled, so didn't require such high pasteurization temperatures.
Even with superchargers, electric vehicles are an incredibly poor choice for road trips. Most driving is not road trips, though. In fact, the overwhelming majority of driving is not road trips.
However there is no requirement that the return shipping is free (nor the original shipping ofc).
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It's at the end:

> The whole industry switched to a new standard for the ripe California olive.

> "It has to be heated to 240 degrees. And only a can would tolerate that, physically—you couldn’t do that with a glass jar."

> Eventually, California olives came back. In cans.
As a former Oberon user and a Modula-3 fan, I would rather see the GC being improved.

History is full of GC enabled systems programming languages since the Xerox PARC days, the latest example being System C# for Midori.

Most projects failed more due to political reasons than technical ones.

Which is why I appreciate Apple, Google and Microsoft's attitude regarding forcing automatic memory management on developers for their OSes, to a certain extent.
> above 40 Euro purchase value, returns even have to be free of charge

This was removed from the law in June 2014. Retailers can now say that customers need to pay a carrier for the shipment back regardless of value. Some do, most don't. They can however never charge "restocking fees" or whatnot. The same day the EU Consumer Rights Directive was put in force so all EU customers now have this protection.

(The Fernabsatzgesetz was removed in 2002 by the way. This topic is now regulated in the usual BGB.)
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Yeah, in Canada Kalamata olives can be found in glasses (but black olives are in cans)
what would be signs that this is taking off commercially?
will explore the github repo!
I think Imagination made a decent attempt to bring a MIPS based board to market. The I/O specs seemed well thought out for makers, and the datasheets were comprehensive. It lacked any sizeable community, but there were enough skilled people around at the start to make it useful.

It was certainly one of the most enjoyable boards I've used - the hardware was very accessible, the flash was easy to program, and you pretty much owned it from the first block read from the NAND.

It's a bit of a shame the board didn't get much traction.
The other thing it gets you is the full value of your rooftop solar generation. Many localities have protectionist regulations where the local utility doesn't have to pay for your electricity when your generation exceeds your consumption. The City of Los Angeles, for example, has that regulation. There's no "meter runs backward" after your bill for the grid drops to $0. And your generation credits are calculated month-to-month, so if you generate excess in the summer but not in the winter, you don't get credit for the summertime surplus when you need it.
If you're in a rush, it was because jarred ripe olives caused a botulism outbreak, and only cans could tolerate the 240 degrees necessary to make them safe for consumption.
Nahh, the explanation is there, alright, though nothing supports the "240 degrees" theory (I have to presume they would be Fahrenheit degrees, i.e. 116-120 Celsius, and of course glass can bear that alright):

>The whole industry switched to a new standard for the ripe California olive.

"It has to be heated to 240 degrees. And only a can would tolerate that, physically—you couldn’t do that with a glass jar."

Eventually, California olives came back. In cans.

Even if it was 240 Celsius (which I doubt), glass can bear it just fine.
Agreed. In my experience, while Chinese (particularly those who've been abroad) are of course well aware of the propaganda they're subject to, they're still influenced by it. Just as people in other countries are.

The defence against that is

* a vibrant, strong, diverse media landscape

* an education that emphasises anti-authoritarian, critical thinking (and not unquestioning adherence to dogma).

In my opinion, most of Europe fares reasonably well on both points. The USA sort of middling. China bad. I'm unsure about today's Russia.
Thanks, and what was the reason for pickling one kind of olives but not the other?
$50 minimum for free shipping from almost all major clothing retailers. and no returns after you've worn it.
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Mine is that imgur simply doesn't work much of the time with JavaScript disabled. They serve images. Inline images have been working with HTML for over twenty years now, and somehow imgur breaks them. It's madness!
Will the miners in both partitions able to mine bitcoins parallely? In that case the average number of blocks mined would take a hit?
>> the space moves incredibly fast

What can you cite that demonstrates any change in the merge situation during the last 4 years?
> goal is to help you find whatever it is you are looking for.

Oh, I thought the goal was to obtain incredibly detailed consumer profiles by offering to search whatever it is you are looking for, and then sell targeted ads based on those profiles, in order to obtain monetary profit.
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There's a broad trend in the utility world towards so-called Time-Of-Use (TOU) pricing. Rather than a tiered rate (electricity gets more expensive the more you use it in a month), electricity has different prices at different times of day.

A major problem utilities face is the so-called duck-curve. As people come home at night and start turning on appliances, electricity demand surges. In solar-heavy places, this corresponds with the sun going down and all the solar capacity going offline. To meet this spike in demand, utilities need to fire up new power plants ("peaker plants").

Now, these are huge capital investments that stay idle for most of the day just to turn on to meet end-of-day requirements. Not ideal.

So in comes TOU pricing -- make electricity more expensive during these demand surges.

TOU pricing is already an option in a lot of places. It's popular if you have an electric car (you're going to use more electricity so tiered pricing is more expensive... instead, you can have an incentive to charge your car during the middle of the night at times of lowest demand). And TOU pricing is becoming more common in markets with heavy solar penetration (to combat the duck curve problem).

So, what would a home battery offer? Effectively allows you to load-shift around TOU pricing. Even if you don't have solar on your roof, if you live in an area with heavy solar penetration, TOU pricing makes electricity cheap during the day... charge your battery during cheap times and use it when you come home and electricity is expensive.

Whether the numbers makes sense depends on your market and consumption patterns, but as far as broad trends go, TOU is creating an incentive for batteries even on grid-connected houses.
If the latter are paying you "what you're worth" in return for 50-60 hours a week, aren't you getting paid 50-75% of what you're worth...? I think you've been fooled.
On the one hand, I viscerally agree with you because I have some distaste for some aspects of philosophy. On the other hand, we have terms of art in CS that seem equally obscure to outsiders. Have you ever looked at the complexity theory wiki?
Those prices are… pricey! At least the ones at PRQ.
What is modern python?
Given macOS's BSD roots, any chance that it could be also be affected?
> of course glass can bear that alright

Perhaps not in the 1920s though.
What emacs does when pressing the TAB key is fully configurable, and many people do indeed configure that behavior to their own tastes.
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White vinegar can also help when washing clothes that tend to bleed color (e.g. Just-bought dark blue jeans).
Wash these once with white vinegar and the color should "stabilize".
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Uh no, Google is an advertising company. You know the terrible full page creepy ads taking over mobile that make the internet almost unusable and you can't block? Google is responsible for that.

With Google Jobs you're the product to be sold. Only this time it's not annoying ad's, they're offering your employment for sale, your life.
This isn't just annoying, its a dark pattern to get people to scroll their listings instead of going back to reddit. Its one of the more dishonest interfaces I've used.

Worse, it just doesn't do this, it purposely collapses galleries that before would auto-expand, so its easy to miss the expand button and keep scrolling onto other galleries and pics.
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Same thing eh?
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We already waste a great deal of food. Having it too cold will damage food, as will too hot. Older fridges used a sawtooth cooling pattern (on/off) but newer ones, with fancier motors, have might tighter regulation. I'm sceptical of how much energy can be scavenged.

I'm sure with enough IoT you could delay motor start +/-30s across a region to smooth the tip of a load spike, but it sounds very complicated. How would end users be compensated for such a tiny shift in load? Isn't instaneous power demand a martingale process?

It sounds like it would be easier and cheaper to have a few batteries.
Good point. In that case I really don't really even understand how my beer money relates back to my salary.
Amazon's service is not about return policies at all. Customers don't pay up front for the clothes, they only pay once they decide to keep an item.
No, they aren't (but you're free to disagree) and any editor worth their salt can alter how many spaces a tab is displayed with.
How about you explain what on earth you're talking about if you're going to take the time to disparage this product here?
Nothing on the size of ABSL's vocabulary. Is there a linguistics notion of turing completeness? Ie. How do I know if a language is capable of expressing any possible concept ("program")? Is this even a meaningful question?

Also note that ABSL is only around 100 years old, and see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Sayyid_Bedouin_Sign_Langu...
I haven't dug into it, but Wikipedia claims that Make is actually about a year older than M4 (obviously not GNU Make).
I thought this was a joke, but then I see all this earnest, heated discussion over a non issue.
No need to use third-party extensions if you have a Google cloud account. You can download https://github.com/kaneshin/pigeon and just run it from command line - protects privacy and more secure compared to relying on third-parties.
I don't think there's really any other way things could have unfolded. Legacy publishers had to compete with new publishers and many of the old companies were in pretty terrible shape.
Looks like Indeed sold in 2012, for 1 billion. I would bet it would've sold for much much more if they sold it later (at peak "unicorn" hype), but this is easy to say in hindsight.
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Short URLs are nice. Less to go wrong for starting. Slashes, and any non \w character, is potential mistake in sharing, due to copy paste errors, bad decoders, etc. Plus they look nice and can literally be typed out from a screen shot or something.
Linkedin is owned by Microsoft. If you're using Windows, what Google knows about you is (potentially, hypothetically, etc.) a subset of what Microsoft knows about you.
Visicalc?

I recall using a PROLOG interpreter on a Kaypro II under CP/M. Worked neat.

Also i used an ALGOL-60 compiler. In fact, just a subset of ALGOL-60. So, in some ways, a limited subset of a subset of Pascal.
I don't think speed is the real issue.

I still use FF as my main browser, but in the past year I have noticed that more and more sites have started to drop full support of FF, sometimes a button doesn't work, other times it is impossible to log in, or post a form... Bottom line, we are at a point where even if we wanted we cannot use FF 100% of the times, I'm forced to load specific pages in Safari or Chrome from times to times. I'm used to it, but I think that kind of experience must be extremely confusing for the non-dev user, not understanding why a page doesn't work and not knowing what to do. I think it's an underestimated problem that must lead some users to switch from FF and never come back.
Silicon Valley on HBO actually made the opposite conclusion, that tabs are better (Richard did not hire someone because they used spaces). The main point being pressing space bar 4, 8, 12 times etc is a waste of time

I think it also shows where a lot of people get confused, that being in the "spaces" camp doesn't necessarily mean you are pressing the space bar each time