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As I have said before with Amazon eating Whole Foods meal kit companies that are not currently ramen profitable are toast. Ramen profitable companies would have to learn how to grow out of their cash flow.

No sane investor would be pumping money into them until they know what and how Amazon would be looking at this market.

I think over next few years we would see a total implosion of meal-kit industry with the exception being whoever operates Whole Foods on a national scale. On a regional level grocery stores and small grocery chains would offer the local meal kit service as for them the costs of expanding into that market locally is tiny.
Yes but you can also track down the original video to prove something is fake. In order to have something truly convincing you need a video of Obama (or anyone else) that no one else has.
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This is why I'm bullish on Litecoin. Already has segregated witness, lightning network, low transaction fees, and a low drama community.
It's not the Gboard, but if the phone ships with it as the default, it's definitely the standard keyboard for that phone.
That's what I've always liked about Sphinx: you can get reference docs extracted from source code, but you can also surround them with more in-depth introduction or explanation.

For example, these are the reference docs to a package I used to maintain: http://django-tidings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.htm.... They're entirely extracted from the source.

However, most of the other pages in that manual are written expressly for new users, organized to teach. The magic of Sphinx is that those introductory pages can link effortlessly back into the reference docs. There are many examples on http://django-tidings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.....

And it doesn't stop at linking; you can also embed extracted docs into the midst of a contextualized explanation. See https://mozilla.github.io/fathom/optimization.html, which is JS code and so uses sphinx-js.

I missed all that power from the Python world; that's why I ported some of it to the nascent JS ecosystem.
+1 for bandcamp. As a plus, they have sane filenames and metadata for the stuff you download. Beatport, for example, gives you a download with the name of the song + a long hexstring. I started using beets.io specifically because of this.
This was inevitable. I wonder how Blue Apron is planning to compete.
Market rate is tricky. Especially for jobs that require less common skills. Some employers, small shops mostly, actively can't or don't bother to compete with the big tech shops on salary even though they recruit from the same pool of employees. They compete on life style, company culture, and other intangibles. If this is done openly and employees know what they are getting into it is a good situation as long as that open relationship is maintained. The employer and employee need to have a little trust and finances need to be open at least a little bit so the employees can see where the dollars are flowing.

It is a difficult position to be in, but I think the solution is relatively obvious. If you think you are being underpaid and you don't have an open line of communication to your employer about your compensation that is the crux of the problem. If you can't comfortably discuss compensation at any time with your manager in a no judgment zone where the employer immediately assumes you are leaving then you and the employer lose. At that point you may feel the only option is a competing offer and the employer may counter, but they will be counting the days until you are gone.

A middle service could help keep things fair, but any employer you would feel comfortable using something like a `my-market-rate.example.com` service report with you probably already can just have an open discussion about compensation without any concern. I could see it being useful in some places where the organization / manager really does just lack information about fair compensation but... that strikes me as pretty uncommon. Managers tend to know far better than employees their value in the wider market and to the organization specifically.

Ultimately, you just have to do your research and if you know you are underpaid you should be able to find employment somewhere else. If you fear a comp discussion would trigger your employer firing you, time to look for another job. If you think it won't change much, time to look for another job. If you think you are close and have a good relationship with your manager, just talk about it. In my experience employees, especially in high tech, are very worried about discussing compensation and how that might be perceived by their manager. In reality many folks that generally like their place of employment and end up where they come in with a counter offer could go back in time 6 months and have a direct conversation with their manager and get a raise (or not, signalling it might be time to move on). If it takes that competitive offer to budge your employer it means they know you are worth more but they weren't willing to give it to you fairly.

Anyhow, that is my brain dump on how these things play out.
Probably for the same reason I don't shop for groceries at Walmart.

Both brand images are associated with cheap crap. I don't want to eat cheap crap.
Do you want to know the secret to making a small fortune in cryptocurrencies? Start with a large one.
A full collection of Dominion and all promos and expansions is thousands of cards plus special tiles and metal tokens, and even the base game alone is very cumbersome as a loose "stack of cards".
I used the google directions API and Twilio to text me when my commute would be longer than n minutes.
Most obvious example is when an enterprise software / hardware startup will have superior product than bigco in their space. However, bigco sales & marketing budget and status quo stop the startup from gaining enough traction for success.
Nah, Overwatch plays on a wide variety of hardware. It's not very graphically demanding, and you definitely don't need a powerful machine for it. Blizzard's stance has always been to get their games on as many machines as possible.
> society doesn't allow a mother to just "do nothing"

Can you back up that anecdote?

> evolved mechanisms

Just to clarify - over what period of time do you think humans have developed (via evolution) this trait?
Online mattress startup SIMBA is 'continuously' raising money
Why should I have to ask for a raise from my existing manager before asking for a raise from every other manager in town?

If my manager wanted that, it would have been in the contract [that I have never had as an "at will" employee], and they would have had to pay something to me as compensation.

If I have no contract, I owe my employer nothing. The loyalty I give them is equal to the loyalty they promised me: zero. They explicitly told me I could be fired at any time for any reason from an enumerated list ten pages long, or for no reason at all, if the whim merely struck them one day.

As an employee, that is a big "fuck you" to me from the management, and they should be happy that I even let them know I might quit if they don't do something soon to prevent that, instead of just calling my manager up to say I won't be working there today, as another company offered me a better deal.
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>Since music no longer stops people from switching between platforms, it’s gone from being a moat (especially for Apple, the one platform company that actually had a strong position)

The author might or might not be right on his general position, but this is a bizarro argument. Apple had in fact kickstarted the whole no-DRM thing.

Neither DRM nor their (meagre, since most just pirated and ripped stuff anyway) iTunes collections is what kept people to iOS / the Mac.
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Harder to get access to a centralized payment network though, right?
Honestly, WTF Bloomberg and their auto play videos.
I want to start podcasting so I built myself a podcast CMS/RSS generator https://github.com/gmemstr/whiterabbit it's my first go at Golang so I'm still learning slowly.
The state of Mac gaming is it picks up the scraps from developers generally using multi-platform engines, limping along despite Apple.
I used kubernetes because i already have a cluster running that i use for development. Instead of spinning out and paying for a new vm or app service to host it on (which cost the same basically), i found it makes more sense to create it as a docker image and launch it as a kubernetes deployment. Since we develop everything ourselves and don't have any features where users can upload anything, it works out to still be secure.
Wait, you missed the part where I have to buy your ebook.
You don't even seem to understand what we are talking about (not 1mb transactions) and you're flat out wrong. I have direct experience with a p2p network that I have built, and the problems getting blocks between nodes on opposite sides of the "Great Firewall of China". Really any engineer with an understanding of that system and P2P networks should understand why.

Everyone is trying to scale bitcoin because bitcoin is growing dramatically... that doesn't mean that the "full blocks" and "high fees" we saw recently weren't due to spam.

Please logic.
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>>All you can eat is actually quite specific, but for knuckleheads like yourself it is usually clarified in writing in other places. It's all you can eat while at the establishment..

How am I a "knuckle Head" in this situation, when I go to a buffet I eat a normal human portation of food inline with price I am charged for the meal

I do not eat 25 plates full of prime rib for $5.

I do not abuse business simply because "I technically can because it is in the rules"

I fucking hate people that look for these types of technicalities to exploit in society. These types of people are exactly why there are pages of Terms of service, and why we can not have nice things, because people can not be trusted to not abuse shit.
No, they'd be redefining it to something more analogous to the real world.
Okay, but to really make that point, you need:

a) mechanisms to make the game proceed faster, and

b) to play the "follow-up" second ruleset, where (AIUI) you use something like Georgist rules (the land value tax) where players are supposed to realize, hey, you can't monopolize under the LVT because monopoly rents just get taxed away.
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Corporations are lining up to invest in a 3-D metal printing startup
I installed Bootcamp on my 2017 MBP and it works very well. I am able to play several Windows games using Steam Box.
"I suspect that SegWit2x will end up taking over the network"

What? They had first release like yesterday, the project has released one tarball, no packaging, no very good marketing etc. The biggest marketers seem to be the tinfoil hat opponents who fear the fork so much that they speak about it everywhere.

I don't think it is at all likely that segwit2x client will gain support. Or if it will gain support, it will take years at this point for it to gain any considerable support.

The whole thins is totally exaggerated. People have nothing to talk about, so they will invent tinfoil hat scenarios and discuss those. Bitcoin protocol has staid fundamentally the same for many years and it is pretty likely that it will stay that way.
"But I'm probably wasting my time with you, looking at your comment history you seems to be a typical pro-Blockstream troll."

Is there any need for this kind of incivility? Around here we don't call people with differing opinions a 'troll', we just respect the differences. This could easily have been written as "based on your posting history, I don't expect to change your mind".
Could HTTP public key pinning have prevented this at least partially?
We see this over and over again with OSS projects. That's actually kinda the point. If this split is allowed to happen, I assume that it will happen again because it's being treated as and OSS project (which it is) and not a currency (which it sort of is).
The solution to 1.1 is incomplete - Alice can set p=1 and q=n
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As a Brazilian that grew up on the 90's watching this situation unwind, I'd thank a lot the IMF for helping us. They really did do good at that time.

But they seem to have changed their direction recently, and are really insisting on pushing money into unsustainable places. I don't get their new goals, they don't seem to have any stabilizing effects.
Since when does Amazon have an association like that?
Good luck with that, I for one will be dumping any bitcoin ABC or unlimited coins. If it by some miracle ends up as the dominant chain, I will walk away from bitcoin for good.
I run an Azure VM hosted TeamCity/Octopus Deploy combo, with bitbucket for SCM.
It's an exploit that gives a miner a way to boost profits, but in order to do so, they have to mine empty blocks, which is bad for bitcoin because the purpose of miners is to build blocks with transactions in them.
These are market problems that are especially suited for developing nations to be able to solve themselves. I am forever impressed by the ability of local populations to work out collective solutions to scaling and trust problems.

Also, having options is better than not having them. Sure, there's the international wire system, but it wouldn't hurt to give it some competition.
> for Bloomberg to use a 'civil war' hyperbole signals fear from the establishment. Established capital more specifically.

That may or may not be true, but it's definitely a non sequitur narrative. In this situation, it doesn't matter whether or not "the establishment" is fearful of Bitcoin. All that will ultimately matter is whether or not the "winners" of this debacle end up killing Bitcoin in the process, and that will necessarily play out in terms of markets.

>And really, that is bitcoin's biggest threat.

Only if it survives long enough to truly compete at the level of "established capital".
More money may not motivate you to work harder/faster, but reasonable compensation will decrease your motivation to find a new job.

I'm not really sure how this often quoted study relates to retention since that is outside the scope of the study.
I think he means CoinDash themselves could have altered the address and claimed it's a hack - which would make it straightforward theft, not a real hack.
Elon Musk: ‘Robots will be able to do everything better than us’
I tend to believe that it was a scam because they refused to disclose the contract beforehand and there were some people claiming that it's a scam few months before [1].

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1905500.0
like many things in science and engineering, (and life in general) it comes down to this: what is signal, what is noise?

most of the time there is no a priori way of determining this

you come to the problem with your own assumptions (or you inherit them) and that guides you (or misguides you)
It isn't up to just the above parties, but also to the people who actually hold bitcoin. Those holders who prefer sound money will sell on the chain that isn't.
After working in the space for about a year, after being a developer and enthusiast surrounding crypto since the early days of BTC this "bickering among core devs" is nothing new.

Any press or "talks" that say otherwise are either being influenced with serious bias or are simply reporting false information.

I like DLT tech, however, if bitcoin has shown us anything it's that once you solve the double-spend problem you're still left with an even more grotesque problem of governance.

People pick fun at ETH since it has a "single leader", but Vitalik is more of a back-seat conductor than a "grand leader". Also, most arguments of "bitcoin being a truly decentralized platform because our devs are decentralized" can easily be diffused by vaguely looking into how BlockStream operates...

The political shit-storm being paraded by BTC needs to end soon, we really don't need another 2-3 years of douchey BTC core devs arguing on the internet and bad-mouthing any project that isn't BTC.
Core developers never had control in the first place. No one has control; it's weird to see so many people applying authoritarian concepts to an anti-authoritarian system.
GBoard is a brand name of Google's keyboard. The title is thus misleading - its equivalent to saying "Apple is showing ads in iOS keyboard" when actually a 3rd party keyboard does it.
Mobile advertising will exceed $100B–twice the size of print and radio combined
That, and an opposable thumb would put them at the top of the food chain.
My point is that you don't understand what you are talking about and are feeding us FUD based bullshit. And you have failed to give an explanation when called on it, just linking to someone else (also ignorant) as "proof".
Assuming you're using a local SQL Server instance, you can put that online and build out an API and front end independently. Put some serious thought into a C# API and JS front-end. When done right, you can rewrite either of them without impacting the other.
> It turns out that being a monopolist is more fun

...for the monopolist. Everybody else is bored to tears. This makes it a terrible game in its more well-known form.
I am sure it will be a Whole Food Organic Meal kit ;)
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What is the alternative for the nations that engage them?
Please Amazon, do something different about the huge amount of material waste generated by companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. This is the main reason why I stopped using these services, the footprint is just disgusting: plastic bags inside aluminum+plastic bags inside cardboard boxes with more plastic. Please, invent some form of reusable container that can be easily stored and delivered back so we can stop trashing the Earth.
But at nearly every store, the price has been increased for everyone, even cash customers. So why not get my cash back if that's how it's going to be?
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Hi, can anyone help me, please? This code works fine:

var CrossfadeSample = function() { loadSounds(this, {
drums: 'drums.wav',
organ: 'organ.wav'
}); this.isPlaying = false; }

But when I put the external URLs, it stops working:

var CrossfadeSample = function() { loadSounds(this, {
drums: 'http://anothersite.com/sounds/drums.wav',
organ: 'http://anothersite.com/sounds/organ.wav'
}); this.isPlaying = false; }

Thank you.
That sums up bluetooth in general. Trying to use a bluetooth device with multiple devices/computers is a pain.
That is horrible and beautiful, well done.

I'm going to go listen to Mission Statement now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
There comes a point, though, that we end up abstracting discussions out so much that they don't really mean anything any more. Facebook posts and TV shows are not really equivalent in any meaningful way except that they both use data to download and take up time to consume.
Some cable companies run it
The secret shame of the middle-class isn't their credit debt, it's that they are poor decision makers. The author completely glosses over this, only dedicating a single line to the elephant in the room:

> "I made choices without thinking through the financial implications"

That's it. Full stop. You bought a car without having a stable job. You bought a house way outside your earning ability. You bought fancy clothes and gadgets without having the cash to pay for them. Don't blame credit, you did this to yourself.
It depends on the product and the person. Google Music has saved me money. I listen to quite a bit of music and was averaging about $200/year on buying CDs. Now, I average about $50/year + my $120/year subscription.

As bonuses, I get my catalogue easily sync'd across devices, easy access to new music, and youtube ad-free.

I don't mean to discount your view, I just wanted demonstrate that there is a rationally minded market for these services.
I seem to remember such TOS being ruled illegal many years ago.
pretty sure LTC doesnt have lighting sidechain
"Netflix, of course, is a TV company, in the context of this conversation - it isn’t using content for leverage for some other platform (Spotify is the same, without the commissioning). But Amazon clearly is using content for platform leverage - as something else to speed up the Prime flywheel."

I don't get this part, Netflix is producing original or buying exclusive content which it tries to distribute globally. The same is true for Amazon. Who is this not competing with the best content for its service?
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Very glad to see this isn't Gboard as it's what I use on my S5, but dear god, this has got to be crossing the line, right? Keyboards, as commented, are the Holy Grail for data mining.

If one more thing starts popping up ads on my phone, I will go back to a Nokia.
> Is it just that SegWitX2 is considered too rushed?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6h612o/can_someone... and https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hkuze/greg_maxwel...

and a long-term view i guess https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6h612o/can_someone...

more broadly-- although with less explanation-- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support
I do not believe for for a couple of reasons:

1. Even with Prime you are looking at a two day delivery and in the world of Amazon, two day is not always two days.

2. We are a NOW society. We are not willing to wait for something to arrive. There is a reason the stores you reference are called convenience stores. In short, people want what they want when they want it.

3. Sometimes you NEED something now; a missing ingredient, a drink, a loaf of bread. Sometimes need overrides price.

4. The busier we get in life the less a number of us plan ahead in order to wait for delivery of something. It is difficult, even for the planners to remember everything.

5. Life is just that, life. It throws us curve balls and even the best laid plans often go astray. Sometimes you just have to pivot.

6. We are creatures of habit.

7. Not all areas are served by Amazon in a timely fashion. A large portion of the population still resides in areas that are rural without the benefit of Prime shipping, etc.
Sounds like you already know. The Core devs say that SegWit2x is too rushed (and I tend to agree), but it's also putting forward a new client that could become the default over Core (btc1), and a potential refresh of the dev team.

This is less about the tech and more about the politics, at this point.
I wouldn't say Amazon does at all. Even their cheaper stuff, like AmazonBasics, is pretty solid. The companies on their marketplace, on the other hand...well, I dunno how effectively other people really divorce Amazon from "Amazon sellers", so maybe the earlier poster has a point.
IMO, not Vitalik's
> I think over next few years we would see a total implosion of meal-kit industry

I don't think so. Meal kits are a niche business fighting against mass market competitors already so nothing changes with the Amazon entry.

If anything having an established player like amazon advertising meal kits increases market awareness and gets people interested.

No one is going to have a monopoly of the food business, ever. It just doesn't work that way.
Ethereum is up 17x in 4 months. So uh... popped aint the right word
I think it's reasonably certain some alternative network with these kinds of features will emerge, validating authenticity of the contents origination was a known requirement of theoretical networks , because it's hard, both technologically, but more fundamentally the sociopolitical aspects are mind boggling, loss of privacy, trust in the state, etc etc, this will take a while to resolve, but someday people will be looking back and laughing :)
I often refer to this gem on salary negotiation: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/